Straits Echo, 19 September 1914

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo w V'.\ iii'xs NIC Lb OF 2-VENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY- VOL. 12. $24 Per Aoiran PENANG, SATURDAY, l»th SEPTEMBER, 1914, Single Copy, 10 cents No.
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    • 1245 1 CEMENT! CEMENT!!! ••TIGER BRAND. a Best and Cheapest on the Market Highly recommended and used by the leading engineers, contractors and builders. a Large Stock» Held By TIANG LEE CO.. Penan* V Kuala Lumpur. Now On Show. Lagonda Cars BANKS. 3 THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY 11 H.P. 4 cylinder water
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    • 35 1 2 Drink Dog’s Head Guinness Stout. S 3 i 7 VL a r m Sole Agents JIANG LEE V Co., at Penang <& Kuala Lumpur. The Doctor advisee and recommends, It is nourishing, invigorating and strengthening.
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  • 1987 3 [The Eleventh Instalment or thksi Notes Appeared in the Echo or September 12.] A herd-boy, watching cows feed by the roadside, talked with me while I had breakfast. Twelve years old at least he was, had never heard of Dorset, vaguely understood there was a place called
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  • 60 3 The following ties have been fixed for Monday, the 21st inst.: Single Handicap A. A P Cameron vt. H Waugh. Single Handicap B. R L Cuscaden vt. E Reimann. Single Handicap C. G E W Motion vt. E Lewis. Ntw ComerB. J Tryner vs. A C Elton.
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  • 20 3 The following tie has Lean fixed for Monday, the 21st inst Single Handicap. Owen vs. Southam (final).
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    • 259 3 WESTMINSTER TOBACCO Co., Ltd., LONDON. II WESTMINSTER” CIGARETTES. TURKISH A.A. A NEW HICH CLASS CIGARETTE, BLENDED FROM THE FINEST TURKISH TOBACCO. PACKED IN AIRTIGHT TINS OF 50 CIGARETTES. OBTAINABLE AT Messrs. Pritchard 8 Co, Tong Joo 8 Co. Tiang Lee 8 Co. How Hin Leong 8 Co. And Other Leading
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  • 101 4 fubliihed daily (except Sunday» and pnbiio holidays) AT TH* CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. V No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. r*ic*. Daily Local »24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. v Mail Edition (Po»t Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 580 Printing Departnent 343 S B.— All buainaa*
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  • 543 4 The letters from our Canton correspondent, which we think are a true reflex of public opinion, indicate a distinct cleavage between North and South. China. What the points of division are, and some of them are controversial, ,we will not pretend to discuss. But it would appear that China,
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  • 688 4 President Wilson has offered bis good services as mediator to bring the war to an end. But we doubt whether Great Britain, or any one of the Allies, is at this stage of the war prepared for concessions. Germany staked everything on a superb piece of bluff.
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  • 321 4 Mr. David Graham wu in town yesterday but left bj the evening train for Ipoh. Mr. H. Bichard haa been suffering from a sharp attack of fever. e Mrs. Watson has forwarded to the trustees of the Prince of Wales’ Fund at Home £4,000, a first instalment
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  • 147 4 Levy for Pri>e« of Wales* F«a4. (From Our Own Corretpondent) Singapore, September 19. At the Singapore Cricket Club Annual Meeting Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule, who was presiding, said it was a shame that Singapore had no Junior Social Club but that the present was not a
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  • 47 4 Mr. W. J. Hodge, Hon. Treasurer, sends us the following further list of contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang: Sept. 17 Balance 96,792.70 18 Khoo Kongsi 600.00 Khoo Yu Eong 100.00 Balance Sept. 18 97,392.70
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  • 66 4 15th Stthdat aftm Teihitt Sept. 20. 8-00 a.m. Matins 8-30 a.m. Holv Communion 5- 0 p.m. Sunday School 6- p.m. Evensong and Sermon Hymn 172 Praise to the Holiest Psalm CIY Hopkins Magnificat Attwood 46 Nunc Dimittis Tonus Peregrinus 66 Hymn 266 Lead kindly Light 142 To
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  • 131 4 Service» will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Nortbam Road, to-morrow at 9 am. specially for children, at 6 p.m. Public Worship for all. Subject of Sermon at evening Service by Rev. William Cross, m▲. “The Souls’ Deliverer.” Hymns (from Church Praise) 3, 256, 27, 423, 494.
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  • 651 4 broken out in Konigsberg. The Colonel Von Reuter of Zabern fame U been killed. hM e The Germans in France are running a fa 9rt of ammunition. e e The Germans have entered Klobusk Russian Poland. lB e General Pau has organised another French Army at
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  • 1822 5 THE BATTLE OF AISNE. FURIOUS FIGHTING. LORD KITCHENER’S STATEMENT. MORE ABOUT THE HELA Reuter's Special War Service.] R*ciiv*n 19th or Sept, at 9-40 a m. EVENTS IN FRANCE. TERRIBLE FIGHTING NEAR SOI9SONS. London, September 18. Correspondents saj tbe hottest fighting during the German relreat was at Soissons. It
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  • 492 5 The Torpedoing of the Hela.” London, September 18. Seamen at Harwich in describing the torpedoing of the Hela state that the submarine came to the surface at half past six on Sunday morning and sighted tbe enemy within range The submarine dived and discharged two torpedoes at interval-?
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  • 66 5 South African Desperadoes. (Reuter). Johannesburg, September 18. The Jackson gang of desperadoes, whose pursuit led to the shooting of General Delarey, took refuge in a cave in East RandThe Police summoned them to surrender the gang offered to give up their arms to Jackson’s wife. The latter,
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  • 34 5 (Reuter.) London, September 18. Sir Edward Carson has married Ruby, j daughter of Colonel Stephen Frewen and I niece of a former Independent Nationalist member of the House of Commons.
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  • 54 5 (Reuter.) London, September 17. The remits in the final of the Imperial Challenge Shield were as follows In the Senior Competition St. Anne’s College, Bova Scotia, headed the list with an average of 93. In the Junior Comi petition the Crediton Boy Scoots were tep with
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  • 723 5 ANNUAL REPORT. The annual report of the State of Brunei, which ia signed by Mr. F. W. Douglas, says The Revenue amounted to 1165,982, as compared with SI 40,847 for 1912, an increase of $25,765. About $12,000 of this under Licences is, however, a paper entry as
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  • 193 5 Chinese journalists including the proprietors of the newspapers in Peking met on September 3 in the Building of the Press Association, and the meeting was called bv President Wang, Editor of the Kintginshihpao at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Wang read a
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  • 578 5 (From Our Kuala Lumpur Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, September 17. The incessant yapping of the Pekinese dogs at the Pekinese tala.ee Dog show recently held in the Royal Hospital Gardens at Chelsea the other day irritated the nerves of the spectators vide London papers We are told iu Holy Writ
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    • 119 5 I’m Trooper Teece, of the mounted police, A force which rates second to none And if smartness may count for the man and his mount,” Then Constable Teece is the one,” My mode is the best for a speedy arrest, My grip can resistance endure, If a cold or a
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  • 977 6 ills Excellemct’s Speech. It was a workmanlike body of civilian soldi"r« that assembled on the Drill Hall parade ground on Wednesday afternoon for inspection by Sir Aithur Young, K.C., C.M G. llis Excellency has always evinced the g e&test interest in the Volunteers; he ha- never
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  • 818 6 (From Our Kuala Lumpur Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, September 16. So much has been said and written upon the vexed subject of prices of goods since the war broke out that your correspondent thought that a morning would not be wa»ted in Kuala Lumpur’s favourite meeting place the lounge
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    • 72 6 r’^yrrcr^-^/T^waLr-rmaa*’-For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Groat Peppermint! Cm re Is. 6d TO LET. 7ROM the Ist October, 1914, COML- POUND HOUSE, No. 63, Northam Road, lately in the occupation of Capt. S. R Perkins. For particulars apply to 17-9-U 579 KENNEDY Co. r positionTjnrivau^d^ IN 0 LONDON. ENGLAND.
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    • 1388 6 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LTD. (APCAR LINE). The steamers of the above line maintain a regular service between Calcutta and Japan and are intended to sail from Penang unde» Foe Singapore, China Japan. For Calcutta. For Freight or Passage Apply to A. A. ANTHONY CO., Agent». Telegrams:—Anthony. *-6-12 2520
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  • 453 7 Instances Whir* Siheino ii Permitted. Wbat boat» are we justified in capturing P Which may be sunk P These two questions, together with a third relating to the use to which prize» may be put, are beiag freely aiked at the present moment, says a home Ti
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  • 268 7 Extrava«ant Estimate» of Mobilised Numbers. Very extravagant estimates are published of the war strength of European armies, says the Daily Telegraph. On paper the great Continental Power» can dispose of vast horde» of men, but in actual fact that number» that can be put in the field
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  • 263 7 Kiaocbou, August 27. Chinese arriving at Kiaocbou report having heard firing at Tsingtau yesterday. Other Chinese say that the British and Japanese men-of-war fired a few shots to which the forts replied. German reservists from distant parts of China are still passing Kiaochou on their way
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