Straits Echo, 31 October 1914

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo i, Pa!LY EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS,' THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PEN AUG, SATURDAY, 31st OCTOBER, 1914. Single Copy, 10 cents No. 253
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  • 1911 3 ’[Thk SEVENTEENTH iNSTALMEIft of these Notes appealed in the Echo of October 24th For 1 feel me growing stronger, and my muscles waxing hard, I shall stand the winter better, which were quite enough reward But I also have enjoyed it, —gained a bit of copy too,
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  • 96 4 f»bli*laed daily (except Sundays and pwbUo holidays) AT TKB CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. raicß. Daily Local $24 per annum. Out station... Postage Extra. Via l Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO —PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 tf o,—All birnin*»»
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  • 456 4 We welcome the Naval and Military News (Emergency) Bill, which was passed in all its stages at tho meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday. However rigid the censorship it imposes and however confusing its clauses, it cannot be one h If so bewildering as the system, or
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  • 353 4 Mrs V. P. Parsons and four children left for home this morning by the P. &0. si earner. Mr. Louis Bonn, writing from Paris od September 19 to friends at the Selangor Club, said he was off to the front. Mr. J. Polglase, Secretary to the Singapore
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  • 426 4 Annual Meeting. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. October 31. The Uuited Engineers held their annual meeting yesterday, Mr. C. E. F. Sanderson, Managing Director, presiding. The nett profit on the year’s working was £63,976. With a Balance of $101,155 he recommended a 1% dividend on Preference
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  • 608 4 CHINESE AND VOLUNTEERING. MOTIONS ADOPTED (From Our Oivn Correspondent.) Singapore, October 30. The Legislative Council njet this afternoon. The following motions by the Colonial Treasurer were agreed to il) That this Council approves a vote of $85,714.28, the equivalent of -£lO,OOO, as a contribution from public funds to
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  • 497 4 (From Our Oivn Correspondent) Taipmg, October 30 We are having a tremendous amounts rain just now. It commences to rain i n ti afternoon and generally continues till Lil at mgbt. Tho wet season has brought mosquitoes to some localities which were f from the pest a few
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  • 76 4 (From Oar Own Correspondent) Ipoh, October, 31. Heavy rain at Kinta have caused great flooding in the Kinta Valley and iu many other places. Ipoh is inundated and traffic has had to bo temporarily suspended. 'I he washaway at Rasa and Kuala Kubu has caused considerable delay
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  • 81 4 (from Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 31. The floods at Kuala Kubu are the biggest ever known The railway line is impassable to the South of the station. Passengers by the mail train are having to transfer and are walking nearly half a mile Four feet
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  • 69 4 DeAtk of Mr. A. E. C. MuDomll. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Katnpar, October 30. Mr. A. E. C. MacDonald who was attacked by gang robbers on the night of the 26th instant at his bungalow on the property of the Societe des Etains de Kinta at
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  • 49 4 Mr. W. G. Peter, Hon. Treasurer, sends us the following f urther list of contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bauk, Penang Oct. 29 By Balance $25,843.84 30 Native Warders of H.M. Prison, Penang 18 Balance Oct 30. ...$25,862.5?
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  • 47 4 In advising the despatch of a further .£250 to the Belgian Minister, London, by to-day’s mail, Mrs. John Mitchell begs to thank all who have so generously subscribed. The need for additional assistance is Ter T urgent. Further subscriptions, however will be gratefully acknowleded.
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  • 1007 5 TURKEY JOINS IN. ODESSA BOMBARDED. (Reuter’s Service.) Copynfht TVlagrara Received 31st ok Oct at 12 noon. THE BORDER FIGHTING. Paris Commun que. London, October 30. A Paris coinmuuique says:— “On the eitriiue left tbe Hood* caused by the Army in the lower valley of the Vsrr have compelled
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  • 525 5 (From Our Own Correepomlent.) Ipoh, October 30. The first day of ipoh Races was marred bv heavy rain. The running was very heavy. There was a good attendance. The results were as follows FIRST DAY. Friday, 30th October, 1914. 1. The “Bab” Cup —3 pm Presented by
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  • 219 5 The following ties have been fixed for Monday, the 2nd Nov.: Double Handicap A. C C Rogers and R T Reid vs. A S Hall and Hargrave. Zeppelin sheds are now being erected at Brussels and Antwerp Tbe British Army near Ypres has repulsed a German force
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  • 2057 5 Penang’s inhabitants were on Wednesday morning awakened by a heavy cannonading in tbe harbour. Many thought that a salute l was being fired and proceeded to the jetty I only to see the last of the Russian man-of- war. It appears that shortly before 5 a m
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  • 662 5 WAR CLOSE AT HAND. And so the Ei.den hat paid a visit to 1 Penang, and has sunk two warships there, and there was no ship at hand big enough to deal with her. How she knew this we know not, but know it she did, as in
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  • 192 5 News has been received to the effect that at about 12 midnight on 29th instant a gang robbery took place at Bukit Nouing in the District of Bukit Mert. jam. It was alleged that eight Cantonese-speaking Chinese broke into the house of a compatriot, named Si Mah
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    • 94 5 Penang Swimming Club. I A DIES are advised not to bathe from ■J the Club premises until further notice. EVATT Co. Secretaries. 31st October, 1914 G 43 HORSE FOOD The best horses must have the best food. Don’t insult and injure them by giving inferior substitutes. This food is good
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  • 632 6 Minutes of the Council Meeting held on Monday, the 26th October, 1914, at 230 p.in. Present. —Mr. R. p. Brash (VicePresident) in the chair, Messrs O. S Dawbaru, Chung Thye Phin, L. Vaughan, J. Boy, J. H. Rich, and the Secretary Mr. A. C. J. Towers.
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  • 675 6 RECENT EXPLOITB. £2,000,000 Bag. Colombo, October 21st. —The Emden has sunk five vessels 120 miles east of Minicoy. Three, the Chilkana, Benm*hr, and the Troilu» were on their maiden voyage, the first-Bam°d being a passenger steamer. The collier Exford had a full cargo of coal. Shipping is being
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  • 124 6 New York, October 7.—The German papers report that Count Zeppelin at the head of the German corps is at Wilhelmshafen m the North Sea. He is believed to be planning an attack on England from toe.-e. Interviewed bv a German pressman, the Count says: “I cannot forget
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  • 1212 6 [Br Holbrook Jackson.] k. Patriotism is in the air; our politicians are acclaiming it to the delight of vast audiences every newspaper riDgs with it; it has inspired all our poets and many who are not poets —and yet I cannot help feeling that we are not
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    • 560 6 PENANG HARBOUR BOARD. Tenders will be received at the Office of the undersigned up till noon on Saturday, 7th November, for Lighters Nos. 32, 65 and 75 as they now lie at Prai. C. W. BALLANTYNE, Secretary. Penang, 29th October, 1914. 640 NOTICE. The usual monthly sale of Pawnbrokers’ forfeited
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    • 462 6 N. Y. K. f i 3 3 n >* 1 9 a E Japan Mail Steamship Company L EUROPEAN LINE A Fortnightly sorvice is maintained b« tween Yokohama via ports to JtfarseilleT London and Antwerp under mail contract with the Imperial Japans Government The New Twin-Screw steamers maintaining this service
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  • 887 7 Two articles in The nineteenth Century •ire devoted to an elucidation of the qualities which distinguish the individuals of the nations engaged in the rude task of testing one another’s endurance. Dr. G. de Swietochowski, writing on The English and the Others—through Polish Eyes,” makes some interesting comparisons
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  • 557 7 I January Meeting, 1915. (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) NOTICE :—No amendment*; to this Programme will be considered unless due notice i 6 given in writing to the Secretary at least 6even days before 9th November, 1914, the date of the Special General
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  • 918 7 Few men have had greater opportunitiei of watching events at close quarters than Dr Dillon, who is familiar with the intricaciei j of diplomacy in every capfcal of Europe. In The Contemporary Review the whole situation is surveyed, and the causes which led up to
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    • 369 7 Fntritft at 5 p tn on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914. Handicaps for the Dfllll lta VlUav First Day will be published on or before the 2nd January, 1915. A penalty of 7 lbs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race run subsequent to the publication of the
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    • 93 7 Children's Coughs. Why let the children rock their little bodies in such a distressing: manner when you can so easily cure their colds with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For sale bv all Dispensaries and Dealers MARTIN’S I for Ladies! A Fianeta Rtnidy for >ll Irrofulorltlee Thot t_adi« k««
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