Straits Echo, 29 September 1914

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  • 38 1 Straits Echo >‘AILY UliftM. LB OF EVENTS. CICCIJLAI NO THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST 60N1&ALO i VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PENANG, TUESDAY, 29tH SEPTEMBEK, 1914. Single Copy, 10 crnts No. 225
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1415 1 gj CEMENT! ••TIGER CEwaNT! BRAND. Best and Cheapest on the Market Highly recommended and used by the leading engineers, contractors and builders. Large Slocks Held By tiang lee CO.. Penang Kuala Lumpur. iiiiipriiiisamaiiniiiiHi □■H£KEXCu»2]HMlaanaaKa!aK Now On Show. Lagonda Cars BANKS THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY 71 H.P. 4 cylinder water cooled
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    • 34 1 Sole Agents: TIANGLEECf Co., XVruwo A Kucda Lumpur. l'B’ IIBKBMIBRIIag a s a m o A The Doctor ad risen and recommends. It is nourishing, invif orating and strengthening. jnojs twuuinj ptan s.Soq jurjq
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  • 665 3 Satisfaction is to lie felt that the effortf of the journalist# of India have succeeded ic persuading tho Indian Government to repeal its decision to restrict the re-to!«*gmphing ol London Press messages. The announcement by our Simla correspondent published in these columns on unday—of a restriction being imposed
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  • 174 3 Viffonoos Criticisms by his Fellow Members o» Parliament. In tbs House of Commons a few wee\cs ago. Sir E Grey, in reply to Mr. Keir Hat die, stated that the German Ambassador in London had worked to tho end for peace, but real authority iu Berlin did
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  • 35 3 Wednesday, September 30. Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. 1 Selection The Scarlet Feather Lecocq Iwo Step Alexander’s Ragtime ...Berlin d Waltz Amoureuse ...Berger Dance In the Shadows Finok 5 March A Frangesa Costa
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  • 1088 3 Where is the British Overseas Army, and j of what does it consist, is one of the mili- tary matters that the Censorship rightly declares shall not be revealed Never has there been so rigorous a control of all sources of inform itiou as in this war,
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  • 297 3 Superiority or the French Artillery. An optimistic article by Colonel F. N. Maude appears in T.P.'s Weekly. Colonel Maude, who is one of the greatest authorities on strategy in this country, gives reasons for his opinion that the French army will eventually sweep all before them, and that
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  • 361 3 End or Scouting Cruises Orr the Philippines. Narrowly escaping capture aud with two ragged holes iu her stern as a memento of a thnliing chase, it is reported that the N D L. Princess Alice ploughed her way into Zamboanga at 3 o’clock on Monday morning,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 39 3 Remember the Name. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar* ’’hosa Remedy i 8 the best known medicine ’or diarrhoea, dysentery, colio, cramps or Pam» in the stomach. You may need it *>me time. For sale by all Dispensaries aad Dialers.
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    • 78 3 TOWN HALL, PENANG. Mr. Mrs. Wright-Motion’s £*4 G 4 i a I. Jill Ist 3rd OCTOBER. 1914. AT 9-15 P.M. PUNCTUALLY. The entire proceeds will be given to the PRINCEof WALES’ WAR FUND. BAR OPEN IN HALL. TOWN BAND. SMOKING. Admission: $l. Bar tickets $1 per hook of 10. Programmes
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    • 677 3 TU Undernoted Steamers will be JuHtched, if circumstances and weather aermit, trci <PeMB* as follows: This Time-table is subject to alteration without any further notice. THE EASTERN SHIPPING CO.. LTD. N. Y. K. Japan Mail Steamship Company L e. s EUROPEAN LINE A Fortnightly service is maintained between Yokohama via
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  • 97 4 fibliahed daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Enicr. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone No». (Echo, 586 Printing Departnent 343 N B. —All bu«in*s» communication* ihonld
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  • 498 4 When millions of men are fighting along a battle front extending over two hundred miles when one side has had choice of position, has strongly entrenched itself and mounted heavy artillery on the most commanding heights when this side knows that anything but an orderly retreat to within
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  • 874 4 Mr. C. E. Gordon Budge, of the Revenue Survey Office, Perak, who has a commission in the army, is leaving for Home this week. Mr. A E. Kershaw, Inspector of Mines, Larut, is about to be transferred to Kampar, and Mr. C I. Robinson will take his
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  • 317 4 To thi Editor of thi Straits Echo. Sir, It is to be regretted that after having, in the midst of War, devoted daily columns of your most valuable space to a partisan account of a domestic case of absolutely uo public interest your reporter is either
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  • 512 4 Yesterday evening the pupils of the higher classes of St. Xavier’s Institution were assembled for the announcement of the winners of the Scholarships and Medals. The Rev. Brother James, Visitor of the Brothers’ Schools, presided. Before reading the list of winners he paid a fitting tribute to
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  • 322 4 HALF YEARLY MELTING. THE LATE SECRETARY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. September 29. At the half yearly meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce the Hon. Mr C. W. Darbishire, who presided, paid a warm tribute to the services of the late Secretary, Mr. T. W.
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  • 77 4 At the Penang Chamber of Commerce Rubber Auction to-day, 34,991 lb. were offered for sale and 12,053$ lb. were sold at the following prices Smoked Sheet 70 to 90 Plain Sheet S 80„ 81 Unsmoked Sheet Plain Sheet 67 „i 78 Fine Pale Crepe No. 1 Dark
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  • 43 4 (From Our Own Correspondent). Jpoh, September 29. Chief Inspector Flood, charged with retaining for himself portions of sauis given to him to pay rewards to informers, has been found not guilty by the Ipoh Magistrate and has been discharged.
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  • 234 4 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, September 29. Sixty-nine houses, practically the whole village of Sungei Besi, were burned down this morning. The fire broke out at 4-30 a.m. The alarm was given in Kuala Lumpur at 5-30 a.m. The whole of the houses were
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 89 4 PRITCHARD 8 Co SOLE AGENTS FOR ROVER CYCLES POWDER FOR THE BEST SUBSTITUTE fOT ACETIC ACID Samples and Prices on application to THE GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY, LTD., Penang, Taiping and Ipoh. B 1 m SB is*S, Ic 'iStn i c r\ m i ihe Best i i ji ;!j 111'
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  • 1078 5 CHOLERA IN AUSTRIA. GERMAN GHOULS. TSINGTAU. (Reuter's Service.) Received 28th of Stept. at 6 pm. (Copyright TrUgr»m. EVENTS IN FRANCE. Paris Communiques. German» Hurrying Up. London, September 28 A Paris communique issued by the Ministry of War at eleven o’clock this evening says From the night of the
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  • 2441 5 R. M. S.S. MEDINA." (From Our Special Correspondent.) Mediterranean Sea, August 18th, 1914. Although the Medina was forced by the course of events to call at two ports Bombay and Malta—not included in her original itinerary and was considerably delayed at all her stopping-places, she arrived
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  • 149 5 The second public meeting of this society was held on the 28th instant in the Free School Hall (kindly lent by the Principal). There was a large gathering of members and their friends, before whom Mr. Mahomed Ariff, of the Medical School, Singapore, delivered a lecture
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  • 328 5 I The following picturesque stories appear in t he Manchuria Daily News: —Gov. MeyerWaldeck, upon receipt of H.G M. the Kaiser’s decree to the Kiauchau garrison, proceeded to the headquarters of the Third Marine Battalion in the Bismarck Barrack on the Monday and conveyed the Imperial
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 194 5 MOTOR CAR, Studeboa,ckers, in first class condition 51,400. CEMENT BRICK MAKING MACHINE, new, makes 10,000 Bricks a daj with 3 men price 5400. CEMENT ROOFING TILES, as used on Wearne’s Garage, stock on hand and m*de to order. 575 per 1,000. JOSEPH HEIM, ’Phone 661. 2, Railway Building 29-9-14 595
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  • 794 6 Annual Report. Tb« following extracts are from the annual report of Selangor for the year 1913, which appears over the signature of Mr. E. Burnside I —Revenue and Expenditure. The revenue collected dunug tbe year amounted to $15,561,395, an excess of $3,768,444 over tbe estimate! revenu# and
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  • 45 6 The following ties have been fixed for Thursday, the Ist October Championship. Cameron r«. Bennett. Single Handicap A. Rogers F N Syer. Single Handicap C. Fettee ve. W Motion or Fitzgerald (Final.) Double Handicap A. Hall and Hargrave vs. Selli and Forrest,
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  • 742 6 [The Union Jack has been hoisted by an Australian Naval Expedition.] Herbertshohe sounds quite familiar. 1 remember having quite an experience there, 1 some years back. We were on our way from J Australia to the East, and the steamer 1 (N.D.L) had stopped over, a day and night,
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  • 182 6 hina is to have a national anthem. It has been composed by one of her most prominent statesmen, Mr. Chang Chien, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. There are three verses. The music has an appropriately Oriental flavour, and the anthem promises «oon to become really the people’s
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 501 6 Rs. 3,300 F. O. B. rACTOBY, DETROIT. Complete with Westinghotwe Stertiag and Lighting Equipment. .I DETROITER Literally and absolutely, the finest ideals of two continents have now been combined in one motor car. The result is a new type the first pure streamline body with the first actual long-stroke, high-speed,
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    • 42 6 Ma sat weeping iu the kitchen, And the bailiff in the ball Was a-smoking and a-striking Nasty matches on the wall. Men had rolled up all the carpets, And removed the furniture But daddy hid the cabinet Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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    • 519 6 THREE CASTLE MAGNUMS. A Urge hand-made Virginian Cigarette. Tobacco and blending identically the same as the famous Three Castles Cigarettes. j..- 'OU -i >e MAGNUMS' Three Castles *tj Cifiarettes|f gjigk w \\T€€ Callles fob n LA "'Jlfli.M.yTUr.-tif. '.>'v LA "?■■■■:,4 i (Vi U4 rn WD H.OWills Bristol London 1 i
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  • 1349 7 Bt Spibcbb Lii*« Hd«iii in Reynold't Newepaper.] When war breaks out the ordiuarj public k generally allowed to wail for year* before learning who really b gan it. In 1870 the world imagined that the French began the Franco-German war because France declared war on
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  • 417 7 Mr. Le Feuvre writing in the Mining Nevs saya: With the world-war an actuality and ita period and consequences absolutely beyond the conception, let alone the foietelling of mortal man, the time has passed when dealing with individual miues aud their merits, save as a very
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 165 7 ChambcrUitt's Couth Remedy. This remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup aud whooping cough. It has been a favourite with the mothers of young children for almost forty years. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. It not only cures colds
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    • 41 7 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 good for summer diarrhoea in children. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 59 7 Chronic Diarrhoea. Are you subject to attacks of diarrhoea Keep absolutely quiet for a few days, rest in bed if possible, be careful of your diet and take Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This medicine has cured cases of chronic diarrhoea that physicians have failed on, and it will
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    • 314 7 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d. Government Notification. TENDERS will be received at the Hon’ble Resident Councillor’s Office, Penang, up to noon of the 10th October, 1914, for the following works To supply, deliver and pile on the roadsides, 2" granite road metal, granite chipping», 2"
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    • 54 7 THIS IS IT WATERBURY’S METABOLIZED Cod Liver Oil Compound TASTELESS ODORLESS «TarWO C.< Uc o-aa The latest scientific preparation of COD LIVF.R OIL. Does all that is claimed for it and supersedes the old-fashioned emulsions which upset the stomach. Highly recommended by the medical profession. or ALLjCMEMI STS MHfWimHiiDmnmmmiHTtinitTTTmTTTTTr^tHTTHTTYTutrTTtrmTv.Ti^ Price
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    • 180 7 Rheumatism. Hava you ever triad Chamberlain's Paiu Balm for rheumatism If not, you are wasting time, 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 affl cted parts and you will be surprised and
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 825 8 Guardian Assurance Company, Limited Established 1821. Subscribed Capital i£2,0\).*,00 Total Invested Funds upwards of G,460,(KX Total Annual Income over 1,180,000 fTlHE undersigned have been appointed 1 Agents of the above Company at Penang, and are prepared to issue policiei of Insurance against loss by tire at thl ©west tariff rates
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