Straits Echo, 10 September 1914

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo ,ui.v ;u CF Ei :sis. CiRCULATiNG THWUOKOUT TfiC STRAITS, TH£ FEDERATED UUY STATES ASD THE FAR EAST 68NERALLV. VOL. 12. $24 Pet Annua PENANG, THURSDAY, 10th SEPTEMBER, 1914, Siam’s Copy, 10 cents No. 209
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    • 1194 1 CEMENT! CEMENT!! ••TIGER BRAND. Best and Cheapest on the Market Highly recommended and used by the leading engineers, contractors and builders. Large Slock» Held By TIANG LEE; CO., Peaaag V Kuala Lumpur. a BCinssAtDfs. Now On Show. Lagonda Cars BANKS. > t Chartered Bank of India, HonjLiong S’ Shanghai Australia
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    • 24 1 K V: Eg 3?, r-i O <2 O The Doctor advises and reoommenda. It ia nourishing, invigorating and strengthening'. Dri&k Dog’s Held Guinness Stout.
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  • 644 3 JaFANEBE PEERS ON THE SITUATION. Writing with reference to Japan’* ultimatum to Germany, the U»<ka Atahi remark» that the very fact Japan has add rested an ultimatum at this rather eleventh hour shows her anxiety to •ecura tranquillity in the Far East by all peaceable means. The ultimatum
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  • 345 3 ■mce the Eusso-Japanese war the term Baltic Fleet has come to convey anything but flattery where naval affairs are concerned. Nevertheless, the quadrous and flotillas which Russia has in the Baltic mar, if properly handled, play no mean part in the preseut conflict, especially if it
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  • 599 3 Letter from Mr Edoar Warwick. Mr Edgar Warwick, the proprietor of the Court Cards, in a letter from London to an Ipoh friend writes as follows We are at this moment anxiously awaiting the announcement of the declaration |of war, and if this occurs I think we
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  • 234 3 We (China Times) understand that Mr. A. Splingaerd, a well-known local Belgian, has been granted the rights of a Oal Mining Coucessiou bv the Chinese Government, in what is considered the most favourable portion of trie well-known valley of Mentcukou, situated twelve miles west, of Peking which
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    • 293 3 8 C ZJC ALLEN DENNYS Co., Penang. PROPRIETORS OF THE PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SALES HELD EVERY TUESDAY Under Ike luspieem of THE PENANG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSOCIATION. RUBBER bought or «old by PUBLIC AUCTION «r PRIVATE TENDER. FORWARD SALES ARRANGED. RUBBER traDthipped and insured to any PORT at
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    • 124 3 thamjcrl&ii’s Cough Remedy. This remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whoopirg cough. It has been a favourite with the mothers of young children for almost forty years. Chauibei Iain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. It not only cures
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    • 281 3 An up-to-date Plant and Stock Under European Management. RIBEIRO Co.. Ltd. 5!, Beach Street, Penang, PRINTERS STATIONERS, KEECHUN PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO, 22A. LEITH STREET. Business Open Day and Night. Developing and Printing for Amateurs Night Photography—A Speciality Quickest Despatch. A Large Variety of TUCK S POSTCARDS on Sale. MM***M*»OE3SEE&!SISSBHISHI3S:2SWW*MM r o
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    • 528 4 ii Huttenbach Bros. 8 COMPANY. i 5 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: A. E. G. ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations Speciality. AGENTS FOR: HE STERLING TELEPROIE SO., LTD. Ltarge Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations
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  • 1049 5  -  (Bt a.v Expert.) In tbo course of the present war DenI mark and the Kiel Canal will probably play la very importmt part. In the Kattegatt, I the arm of the sea which separates the I Danish mainland from the Swedish peninIsula, lies the group
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  • 527 5 Albania is a problem of intense political interest flavoured by a spice of political danger, says Mr. Ĕ. J. Diilon in a long r article in the Fortnightly. “It was set before Europe by way of warding off a > greater and more perilous problem which would,
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  • 404 5 Two Houses Looted in Bin<3apoke. Says Tuesday’s Jf.T.: Last Saturday night was au exciting cue for the residents at Balestier Road, for revolver shots and the shouts of an excited crowd kept things lively there from 8 to 9. Two houses in that r.jad were raided by
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    • 833 5 < LI (/> a Li O' -J < u LJ 0. if) m z < < X u m o in CO nr M ■y .scp,TCrt WHISK.Y oo r-* m 50 SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT" I» «r> IT** V h mm 5 u «MSSs*s 4C^=ri \V' m m JAMES loimuom
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    • 37 5 Rt'numbz- the Name. Chamberlain's Co.io, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Kemtdy is the best kaown medicine tor diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps or pains in the stomach. You may need it some time. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 63 5 As we got into camp, blankets were damp. And the turf in our tents was mere mud Hungry and cold, we felt we’d been sold, And we thirsted for somebody’s blood. But Corporal Kent, of our tent, Primed us up all our woes to endure. Gee 1 we all gave
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    • 326 5 WESTMINSTER TOBACCO Co., ltd., LONDON. “WESTMINSTER” CIGARETTES. TURKISH A.A. A NEW HIGH CLASS CIGARETTE, BLENDED FROM THE FINEST TURKISH TOBACCO. PACKED IN AIRTIGHT TINS OF SO CICARETTES. OBTAINABLE AT Messrs. Pritchard 8 Co. Tong Joo 8 Co. Tiang Lee 8 Co. Hew Kin Leong 8 Co. And Other Leading Stores.
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  • 97 6 fnblished daily (except Sunday* and pablie holiday*) ▲T TH* CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. .Trick. Daily Local $24 per annum. Out station... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANO.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 S.B.— AH business ocmmuniotiOß* shnald
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  • 476 6 We read from Home [exchanges that the Boy Scouts have offered their services to the Government and that they will be able to render excellent service we do not for a moment doubt. The movement is only some six years old, but it is rapidly conquering the
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  • 257 6 Mr. Lloyd George touched on a very significant point during his reception of the deputation of Municipal delegates which had petitioned him for help in raising funds to meet distress. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in lending a sympathetic ear to the deputation’s petition and promising
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  • 465 6 Once again this war is beginning to demonstrate that Providence is on the side of big battalions. The French”, as the Straits Times pithily summarised the situation, have not failed as fighting men; they have only failed as fathers of men.” We want not only trained men
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  • 400 6 Mr. C. W. Barnett, the Chairman of Ayer Kuning Rubber Estate*, Limited, arrived in Taiping on Tuesday on a visit to Ayer Kuning Estate. Colonel Bob Love, formerly advance manager of Harmston’a Circus, left the Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, on August 27th, after an illness of three
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  • 109 6 Wky the Dutchman is Rsspceted, London, August 15. Germany is securing food supplies through Holland hence her anxiety not to violate Dutch territory. If the allies reach Cologne this avenue will be closed, and the only possibility that would remain for Germany, in the maintenance of her
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  • 106 6 We read in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce that, representations having been made to the British Shipping Press as to the undesirability, in the national interests, of publishing information of the movements of certain vessels owing to the European War, their pages do not contain
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  • 167 6 lbs. Alma Estates, Ltd. 11,500 Bukit Toh Alang Rubber Estates, Ltd 8,000 Cluny Rubber Estates, Ltd. 14,213 Kinta Kellas Rubber Estates, Ltd. 14,000 Kuala Kangsar Plantations Co., Ltd. 30,600 Kota Bahroe Rubber Estates, Ltd... 24,994 The Shanghai Klebang Rubber Estate, Ltd 5,400 Tbe Sungei Duri Rubber Estate,
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  • 53 6 LOCAL RECRUITS INVITED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 10. Mon from the Straits and F.M.S. who are able to ride and shoot and have a knowing, of military training are cordially invited to join the colour*. The Editor of the Straits Times has been requested to receive their
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  • 118 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 10. The Straits Times learns that Shanghai has proposed to raise a self-contained fighting unit of 300 mounted infantry men, armed with Maxims, from the East. They offer their services to Government to asaiat the Expeditionary Force. It ie proposed to equip
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  • 134 6 On Saturday, the 19th inst., at the Town Hall, under the immediate patronage and presence of the Hon. Mr. A. T. Bryant Resident Councillor, Major Borton and Staff. Major the Hon. Mr. A. R. Adams and the Officers of the Penang Volunteers, Mrs. Herbert Cooper and her
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  • 358 6 1 The following was the result of the play for the President’s Prize: Mrs Hoefeld 59 62 65 66=252 t Miss Warham 63 66 69 70 =268 Mrs Crichton 65 70+71 71=277 Mrs Martin 64 68 72 76 280 Mrs B Ross 66 70 72 73 281
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    • 99 6 PRITCHARD 8 Co. SOLE AGEMTS FOR ROVER CYC Y-> 'WL POWDER FOR a THE BEST SUBSTITUTE FOR ACETIC ACID Samples and Prices on application to THE GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY, LTD. Penang, Taiping and 2poh. TI u t r i a ?E< m s. k STERLING LINES. v •> H ft';
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  • 1459 7 GERMANS IN FRANCE. TWO DAYS’ FICHTINC. ALLIES’ SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. [By Submarine Telegraph] Received 10th or Sept. at 9-30 a m {Reuter’» Serviee.J Events in France. Right Wing Retiring. Copyright Ttlegram. London, September 8. A Paris communique says the enemy’s right wing is retiring in the direction of Marne
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  • 195 7 St. Leger Probable*. (Reuter.) London, September 8. The following are the changes in the list 1 of probables Courageous (Watts), Orangeman (Walter Griggs), White Lie (Saxby), Ambassador (Bullock). Puy/ondu and King Edgar are nonstarters. Bettino:— 4 to 1 against Peter the Hermit, 9 to 2 against Hapsburg and
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  • 346 7 Three distressing, but yet minor casualties, are reported to British ships by the use of mines by the Germans, who seem to have made a speciality of this form of warfare at sea, and have strewn them broadcast in the North Sea. The Amphion, after having
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  • 222 7 The outbreak of war with Germany was received in London with impressive calm. Towards midnight Trafalgar-square, Whitehall, Parliament-street, and Paoliamentsquare were filled with a solid mass of people. The excitement reached its height outside Buckingham Palace, where a vast crowd had gathered early in the
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  • 547 7 DISOBEYING ORDERS. Before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel in the Second Court this morning Rasid f. C. 545, Puteb, P.C. 168 and Mat Hass&n, P. C., 672 were charged with disobedience to orders by leaving the Quarantine Station without permission and using a sampan to convey them to
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  • 219 7 To the Editor of the Straitt Timet. Sir, —As a humble subject of our Most Gracious King-Emperor, I venture to write these few lines The subject I desire to call attention to is that of house rent. In the present state of affairs, the landlords should consider it
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  • 85 7 An acute famine in paper has set in not only in England but also in Franco and Germany. The evening newspapers showed signs of the stress of the time. Thus the Evening Standard has been reduced from twenty pages to twelve and the Pall Mall Gazette from twelve
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  • 555 7 September 5. i Press Bureau reports situation in France practically unchanged allies’ position well maintait ed German movement appears to be developing in an eastward direction. Trustworthy information received that seven damaged Gorman destroyers and torpedo boats have roached Kiel; others understood to have
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  • 208 7 The following circular letter ha* been sent to us: Dear Sir, A telegram has been received from the Executive Committee at Batavia informing this committee to the effect that the above Congress and Exhibition will be opened on— Monday October 19th, 1914 Exhibits The Malaya
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  • 86 7 Obituary. (Reuter.) London, September 9. Sir John Henniker Heaton is dead. [Sir John Henniker Heaton, K.C.M.G. the Postal Reformer, was born at Rochester, Kent, in 1848 and was the son of Lieut.Colonel Heaton. He was an Australian land owner and newspaper proprietor. He carried the Imperial Penny Postage Scheme in
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  • 2383 8 An Expert Estimate. Oue of the most interesting reviews of the political tlevelopmeat of Chin* under the Republic is to ba fouud in an article by 1 Bevan, m a ll b, in the newly issued volume of “The China Mission Year Book,” says the National
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  • 162 8 Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 25th August, 1914 Present Dr. G. W Park, Deputy President. P. T. Allen. E;q. Quab Beng Kee, Esq. F. Duxburr, Esq. Yeoh Guan Seok, Esq. Johu Mitchell, Esq Absent Lim Eow Hong, E*q. 1. The minutes
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  • 120 8 Messrs. Guthrie Co. in their weekly report dated Tuesday, September 8, say Advices from London indicate a steady spot market but this was not reflected in the bidding at the Auction held this morning, demand except in the case of one or two grades beiDg very poor
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  • 24 8 The following ties have been fixed for to-morrow Ladies Double. Mrs Ebden and Miss Mahler vs. Mrs Neubronner Miss Liebert (Final).
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  • 22 8 The following tie has been fixed for to-iuorrovr Single Handicap. G E W. Motion Jr ra. J D Fettes.
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  • 42 8 To- OAT, 21bt Day of 7th Moon. Crown Cinema, Chulia Street. Straits Cinematograph. Penang Road. George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. To-morrow 22nd Day of 7th Moon. Crown Cinema, Chulia Street. Straits Cinematograph. Penang Poa! George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road.
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  • 1262 8 In one of our articles at an earlier stage of the war we said that it was easier for a j M >od to sweep away an obstacle than for an obstacle to stay the Hood. At Charleroi, j i the French obstacle to the German flood
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    • 139 8 Rheumatism. Have you ever tried Chamberlain’s Pain Bairn for rheumatism If not, you are wasting tim**, as the longer this disease runs on the harder it is to cure. Get a bottle to-day, apply it with a vigorous massage to the afll’cted parts and you will be surprised and delighted
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    • 42 8 Treatment for Dysentery. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by a dose of castor oil will effectually cure the most stubborn cases of dysentery. It is especially goo 1 for summer diarrhoea in children. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 372 8 For Chronic Ghost Complaints, WooiJ-.' Groat I Cwrc, Is 6d NOTICE. A LIST OF APPLICATIONS for public A*. house licences for tin, year 1914 to be considered at the meeting of the Board of the Licensing Justices on Wednesday, the 23rd September, 19!4. may be seen on application at the
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    • 1764 9 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LTD. (APCAR T.TNF). The steamers of the above line uuainta a regular serriro between Calcutta and Japan and are intended to sail from Penang unde* Fob Siwoapobi, China A Japan Fob Rangoon. For Freight or Passage Apply to A. A. ANTHONY A CO, Agents Telegrams:
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  • 787 10 It is no secret that the Admiralty hare extensive arrangements with certain shipping enterprises whereby merchant vessels may be taken over by the Government in the event of war and used as transports or auxiliary cruisers, hut the details are only publicly known as regards the Cunard
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  • 713 10 Stbatkoic Positions. Although Germany’s possessions in the Pacific are few and unimportant from a commercial standpoint, she holds (remarks the Melbourne Age”) several strong strategic positions within a comparatively short distance of Australia. During recent years Germany has been gradually but surely strengthening her position in
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  • 208 10 Etil War Dats. How a great European war would affect the internal condition of our own country was stated some months ago by Major Stewart L. Murray at the Royal United Service Institution. His prophecy is interesting in view of the developments of the past few weeks. It
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    • 1204 10 Plain truths on th« subject of Health are the only, acceptable pronouncements» Exaic* i grrated statements end by contlio Ing no one—rather do they crente suspicion, and *lve rise to doubt, lhit yon may safely listen to universal opinion. The public hare for lone known the value of Beeeham’s Tills
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  • 466 11 The landiu* of British troops at Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, and Havre is by far the most remarkable feat of this war, so far. It kuocks in smithereens all the arguments of the blue water school” who use to prove to tha British public regularly that invasion—the
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  • 309 11 The production of chickens and eggs in Shantung is not a business in which any oue engages to the exclusion of other work. The millions of eggs which are produced daily in this province are the collections of a dozen or less from ench of the numerous
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  • 87 11 Friday, September 11. Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. 1 Overture Under the British Colours Kling 2 Polka I Love You Audres 3 Baraar of the Rsal Port and Musical Thought Espinosa 4 Waltz The Paradise Zacarias 5 March The Cadets Montero Saturday, September 12. Golf Club, 5-45 to
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