Straits Echo, 12 October 1914
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Title Section34 1914-10-12 1 Straits Echo 4|i.v CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PENANG, MONDAY, OCTOBEK, 1914, Single Copy, 10 cents No. 23934 words
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Advertisement1058 1914-10-12 1 CEMENT! CEMENT!! ••TIGER" BRAND. Best and Cheapest on the Market Highly recommended and used by the leading engineers, contractors and builders. Larfe Stocks Held By TIANG LEE CO.. Kuala Lumpur. IQllllliDKtaifclliail Now On Show. Lagonda Cars ]1 H.P. 4 cylinder water cooled engine of high efficiency. Body flush s de1,058 words
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Advertisement18 1914-10-12 2 DRINK WHISKY RECOGNISED BY CONNOISSEURS AS the LEADING BRAND ON THE MARKET. SOLE AGENTS: KATZ BROTHERS, LTD., PENANG.18 words
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Article954 1914-10-12 3 Ghnibai. Botha’s Patriotic Spkrch. Capetown, September 9. At the evening session of the House of Assembly General Botha moved the following resolution: “That this House, fully the obligations of the Union as a portion of the British Empire,respectfully requests the Governor-Gene»»! to convey an humble address954 words
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774 1914-10-12 3 WHY “IMPREGNABLE” NAMUR PELL AT THE FIRST ATTACK. Blunders Op General, op oarrison or 26,000 men only 12,000 ESCAPE. The secret of the fall of Natuur, the great Belgian fortress, is revealed in a Router dispatch from Ostend, received recently. It was confidently anticipated that774 words
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Advertisement325 1914-10-12 3 t? :"T5;* UHOra D B F D i- /77T TT Offl 1/^te #r gfeifiF THE rv: BEST JF J. f L THE Price Ex Codown Penang. AND BEST CHEAPEST. AND CHEAPEST. Old Machines Taken Over in Part Payment. A Guarantee Givers with Every Machine m f m I New Features325 words
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Advertisement86 1914-10-12 3 mmrr. Sunshne &nd Common Sense. Don’t doctor your blood for rheumatism Use an external application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In a few days it will get you up and out into the sunshine, then nature will restore the rich red blood to your veins and soon rid the system of86 words
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Advertisement1644 1914-10-12 4 FOR SilLH. Guide to ?eaan notice BY THE LATE F. Skertchly, r. e. s. Price GO centG. Worth a DolUr a copy. «01.0 AT STRAITS KOHO OFFICE. AND AT THE 8AVE-U-TR0UBLE FIRM LABOUR CODE, 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinan:e 1911. I' EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOUR li ar« hereby reminded1,644 words
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Article766 1914-10-12 5 [Echo Special Our King and our country needs us. bo we are told every day, in big type. Persons wearing flags tell us so, persons presumably as badly needed as we are. Well meaning young ladies offer us white feathers. Then we weaken. We could766 words
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Article430 1914-10-12 5 [The Editor or the “Malay Mail.”] Sir, —The leadmg article in your issue of 7th instant touching on the State of the > F.M S. finances throws a glimmer of light r on a subject that has necessarily been kept very much in the dark of late, but430 words
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Article386 1914-10-12 5 St. Andrew 's Society, Penang. Copies of tho undermentioned circular of appeal have been sent to all the Scotsmen iu aud coir Penang who are known to St. Andrew’s Society. There may be others, we know, who would bo glad of tho opportunity of helping. Therefore we have pleasure iu386 words
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Advertisement467 1914-10-12 5 < 111 </> o Ld O' < U Id Q. < Z < o ffi o V) _l < wm B M. jasi SCOTCH WHISKY vm rltv »1 iVM/'J&VA 3 7 “BLACK&WH'^i *sX .Qour.y^ JAMES BUCHANANfc^J-:-^; w so m SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT” > r 0» TJ 70 O -D467 words
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Advertisement60 1914-10-12 5 Sunsh ne and Common Sense. Don’t doctor vour blood for rheumatism U-e au external application of Chamberlain's Pain P»alm. In a few days it will get you up aud out into the sunshine, then nature will restore the rich red blood to your vein9 and soon rid the system of60 words
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Advertisement336 1914-10-12 5 ALWAYS SELECT THE “GARRICK CIGARETTES AND SMOKING TOBACCO. v ‘1 Lm WSftßfi* W 1 Sr fSjHSAR/jffi Inking Tobac^ -> S!*PE IN ENGIAIiS Money cannot buy and an Expert cannot blend a better CIGARETTE or TOBACCO. iC»cw:«oa»wi'] IS■MM YOU MAY nrsr ASSURED that Beecham's Pills will be of great service to336 words
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Article, Illustration95 1914-10-12 6 fmblished daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT TBI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. r*ic*. I Daily Local 124 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 jf B.—X 11 bu.in.M communication*95 words
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Article933 1914-10-12 6 Once again the interest of the war shitts to Belgium: Antwerp has fallen. Not Belgian bravery or the water weapon—the opening of the dykes in the vicinity—availed to keep back the invader who, we are told, brought to bear on the town no less than two hundred heavy guns.933 words
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45 1914-10-12 6 Mr. W. G. Peter, Hon. Treasurer, sends us the following further list of contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang: Oct 9By Balance ...$14,637.35 10 S R. Naidu 25.00 Balance Oct. 10. $14,662 3545 words
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Article52 1914-10-12 6 Mr. W. G. Peter, Acting Manager of the Chartered Bank, advises us that the following amounts have been received by him for the credit of the Belgian Relief Fund opened by Mrs. John Mitchell: Oct. 9By Balance $/30 00 10 Master lan Rose 8 57 Balance Oct.52 words
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Article66 1914-10-12 6 The Adjourned Fourth General Meeting of the Shareholders of The Temerloh Coconut and Rubber Estate, Ltd., was held on Saturday, October 10. The Accounts and Directors’ Report were passed. Mr. W. H. Thorne was re-elected a Director and Messrs. Brown Phillips and Stewart were re-elected Auditors. The Report66 words
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Article770 1914-10-12 6 Mr. P. H. Henshaw, of the P. M. S. Bail- i ways, arrived here this morning. Mr G. Pearson, of the United Engineers. Bangkok, is transferred to Singapore. 1 The T.O.M. hears that Mr. C. B. Mills, Revenue Auditor, Perak, is going on short < leave. Mr.770 words
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Article474 1914-10-12 6 To the Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, I am now able to enclose the accounts from which it will be seen that there is a sum of $1,365.91 to be handed over to the War Fund. This will be done as soon as some outstanding accounts have474 words
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Article272 1914-10-12 6 General von Voigterhetz has been appinted head of the Germau General Staff. The Germans have surrounded Lanaeken, a Belgian town near the Dutch frontier. The Dutch steamer Niewland has been mined in the North Sea. Her crew were saved. The German cruiser Karlsruhe has sunk seven enemy272 words
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Advertisement189 1914-10-12 6 ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY ONE TO DO THEIR DUTY and make as manv purchases as possible to keep British Factories from closing down. v? l’\ j" Just arrived New Fashionable Terai Hats, popular shades, and light weight, by Messrs. J. Ellwood Sons, England’s Best Hat Manufacturers. Price only $2-25. Also J.189 words
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Obituary265 1914-10-12 6 Obituary. (From Our Own Correspondent). Ipob, October 10. The death has occurred of Raja Haji Abubaker, a Member of the Perak State Council and Magistrate at Lenggong. The deceased was ft son of Raja Omar and married a daughter of the Sultan of Perak. Obituary. King of Rumania. Petrograd, October265 words
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Article1860 1914-10-12 7 FALL OF ANTWERP. ADMIRALTY’S GRAPHIC STORY. NAVAL BRIGADE INTERNED. (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 11th of Oct at i p.m EVENTS IN FRANCE. Paris Communiques. London, October 10. A Paris communique says: —"A battle continues under satisfactory conditions to the Allies All our front has been maintained despite1,860 words
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Article507 1914-10-12 7 Before Mr. G. R. Sykes in the Third Court this morning a Cantonese woman named Yeo Chun was charged with (1) selling ebandu without a licence, (2) keeping open an unlicensed opium smoking shop, and (3) being in possession of chandu dross exceeding three tahils. Mr. A. West,507 words
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Article407 1914-10-12 7 GERMAN LOSSES STATED TO BE NEARLY 400,000. Wantonly Wasteful.” September 8. Mr. Arthur Kitson, writing to th 9 Morning Post, quotes a letter he has ju9t received from a friend in Holland, who says I have seen a letter from a very high German official who has been407 words
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Article307 1914-10-12 7 SATURDAY’S RESULTS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, October 12. j Tin following wero the results of Saturday’s racing I. "he Stewards’ Stakes. Value $4OO and $lOO to the Second Horse. A Handicap for Pony Ex-Griffins that have run at tho Meeting. Entrance Foe, $25. Distance, Race Course. Messrs.307 words
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Article172 1914-10-12 7 To the Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, I shall be obliged if you will publish this letter as a warning to all those people who spread about false and damaging reports about other people and who are apt to prejudge a case and condemn the accused172 words
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Article136 1914-10-12 7 The following was the result of the shooting at Kampong Bahru this morning. H’cap 150 yds. Total. Spoon shoot. Miss Smith 80 33 34 60 Mrs Hart 90 27 34 20 Mrs Webb 84 29 34.04 Miss Mathieu 76 30 33 80 Mrs Wright-Motion 64 30136 words
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Advertisement217 1914-10-12 7 NOTICE I HERE BY CANCEL the Power of Attorney given to inn by Oota Kunasaiuy Nadhar on tlio Bth May, 1914, in accordance with the letter writtcu by Oona Ra nasamv Nadhar from India requesting me to hand over the business to his brother Oona Latchimani Nadhar. (31.) S. MUI’HIA217 words
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Article1474 1914-10-12 8 BOMBARDMENT OF AN TWERP. GERMAN TACTICS. BRITISH AIRMEN’S FEAT. Reuter’s Service.] Copyiight Telegram. Received 10th of Oct. at 7 p m EVENTS IN FRANCE. Paris CommuniqueLon lou, October 9. A Paris communique siys: The general situation is unchanged. Two cavalry forces continue to operate to the North of1,474 words
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Article287 1914-10-12 8 The annual report of the Marine Department shows a total revenue of $64,321 against $220,121 in the previous year. The decrease is accounted for by the abolition of light duos. The total tonnage ect. red and cleared in the Colony was 29,587,834 made up by 64,929 vessels287 words
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Article247 1914-10-12 8 Russian Army for France 250,000 MEN SAID TO HAVE LANDED. Rome Telegram Still Unconfirmed September 9. The following telegram from Rome was received in London yesterday and was passed by the cable censor. Upon its beiog submitted to the Press Bureau a message was returned to the effect that there247 words
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Article255 1914-10-12 8 As soon as war made itself felt, in this part of the world, by a tightness in currency, the Chetties did not hesitate to press those of their clients who were Dot able to carry out to the letter arrangements to which they had put their255 words
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142 1914-10-12 8 Notice. The next Meeting of this Association will be held at 10-30 a.m., on Sunday, the 18th October, 1914, at the New Club, Taiping. Agenda. 1. Minutes of Meeting held on 2Srd August, 1914. 2. The War. (a) Payment of Wages. (fe) Resumption of Immigration.142 words
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Advertisement354 1914-10-12 8 AT Crown Cinema, Depicting a Naval Battle fought under Modern Conditions. IN REELS. Forty Millions of Virile Men and Women are taking an intelligent interest in War. There will be a Fine Revue on our Screen To-night! To-night!! George Town Riitema Still going strong with absolutely All TipTops Features aud354 words
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Advertisement10 1914-10-12 8 For Chronic Cheat Complaints, Woode’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d.10 words
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Advertisement383 1914-10-12 8 WANTED BY AN OFFICE IN MEDAN, SUMATRA. A CHINESE CLERK, knowing shorthand, typewriting, and English correspondence. Apply with references to BOELEN Co., 10-10-14 617 3, Bishop Street, Penang. ■un* < t- r*r *v<r»«v tmsmmmnm c—vr KEDAH GOVERNMENT. i SCHOOL MASTER for English School A lor Star with Normal Class and383 words
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Advertisement599 1914-10-12 8 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. AN ORDINARY MEETING Of the Municipal Commissioners will be held at the Municipal Office at 4pm on Tues day, the 13th instant. (By Order), L. A. Coutikr BIGGS Secretary to the Municipal Commitsionert NOTICE. ’I'HE PUBLIC is hereby informed that the Power of Attorney granted by i UH599 words
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Article2634 1914-10-12 9 MISTAKE 3 THE GERMANS HAVE M \DE AliOUr BRITISH INFANTRY. By Kobkrt B latchfokd. Mr. Hubert Ulatcii/ord is the well-known Socialist writer who for many years has been calling upon Britain to prepare for the Herman attark. lie believes with all of us, that2,634 words
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Article208 1914-10-12 9 S. P. Tapioca ...$3 buyers M. P. Tapioca ...$3.30 buyers Gold Leaf ...?64,40 Black Pepper 27.50 buyers White Pepper 24. —nominal Trang Pepper 19 no sloe Cloves 50.—worn. Mace 110 nominal. Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —nominal No. 1 6.10 sales Sugar s 2 5,50 sales Basket208 words
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Advertisement43 1914-10-12 9 Life is full of toil aud trouble, If you make it eo, Aud one’B worries all seem double When you welcome woe. I 'ou t be always meeting sorrow, Look the other way Take Woods’ Peppermint cure to-morrow You’ll bo bright and gay.43 words
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Advertisement44 1914-10-12 9 Chamberlain’s Fain Balm There is nothing so good for muscular rheumatism, spraius, lameness, cramps of the muscles, bruises and like injuries as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It wil| effect a cure in less time than any other treatment. For mle by all Dispensaries and Dealers.44 words
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Advertisement12 1914-10-12 9 For (TruMrec’s Hacking Couj?h at. Night, V/ooils* Orpnt Pepprrm’rt Cura Is. G«7,12 words
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Advertisement781 1914-10-12 9 THE EASTE8!i SHIPPING CO., LTD. The luderooted Stumers will be despatched, ii circumstances ar.u weather eerait, Ir fenaat as follows: This Tiae-tabU is subject to alteration without any further notice. Fo TV r Ut.« Stka.mvsu*. Tongkah, Kopah, Renong, Victoria Point, Mergui and Tavov Tongkah A Renong. Trang. Sungei Opis. Trang,781 words
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Article875 1914-10-12 10 Lota» iv Faa.Nct vt to SvrrvMBB» 7. Official returna have now been received from general headquarters giving the number! killed, wounded, and misting in the fighting in France up to September 7, and correcting details given in previeus summaries. The killed, wounded, and misting of all ranks875 words
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Article782 1914-10-12 10 NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY IN SIGHT. Tbade and Commerce Ruined. (VEOM TEE MORNING POST” COBBBSPON DENT Washington, Sept. 9. Germany’s financial position is attracting increasing attentiou on this side of tho Atlantic, and the newspapers, by merely stating the facts, h ivo made it practically impossible for Germany to782 words
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Advertisement45 1914-10-12 10 WARNINC. All persons arc cau’ioned against making unauthorised use of Router's Service of N\ws, and :;ny person or persons found infringing the Copyright CrJi-ance of the Straits Set lemenfs w 11 be strictiy dealt with in accordance with the provisions of that Ordinance. REUTER, Penang.45 words
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Advertisement1335 1914-10-12 10 WOMEN’S GREATEST MISFORTUNE. The old saying that “distance lends enchantment was never more aptly to the P^";. tha ”j*“ to those people whose breath is laden with evil smelling odours. M~i.> pcrNO. at a distance, but produce a feeling ot pity and disgust when clo.:C to ceau.-w < breath. For1,335 words
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Article824 1914-10-12 11 THE FIRST MONTH OF THE WAR. Colossal Armies. bt major mdwai. Out of the haze that obscures the land operations, one important fact is slowly •merging, and that is the conspicuous inability of the Generals-in-Chief and their staffs to handle deftly the vast machines which they have824 words
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Advertisement432 1914-10-12 11 m m m m m m m m m G) <* m «5 0 t *> ft m (ft) (ft •r 4 /’> is; DRINK JEFF HB 7* *A. v. \v.'. .viw x wtf. V; j ft*' o f i n1 h 7 So i 4 a ..j j i432 words
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Advertisement102 1914-10-12 11 Diphtheria—How It May Be Avoided. Diphtheria is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the child’s system for the reception and development of the diphtheria germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that have colds should be keft at home and off102 words
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Advertisement57 1914-10-12 11 It Never Fails. Chauiberlaiu’a Colic, Cholera, aud Diarrhoea Remedy is all its uaine implies. It cures diarrhoea and dysentery in either children or adults, and the most violent cases of cramp colic or pains in the stomach give way to a few doses of this medicine. Safe, sure, always cures.57 words
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