Straits Echo, 11 December 1914

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING i HROSJfittOliT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL, 12. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, lltli DECEMBER, 1914 7 Single Copy, !0 cents No. 287
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    • 30 1 Sol* Ageats: TIANG LEE 6f CO. Penaog 9 Kuala l.umpur. m C 3 The Doctor advisee and recommends. It is nourishing, invigorating and strengthening. ID Drink Dot’s Head Guinness Stent.
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  • 646 2 Neutrals Belligerents. As was foreseen, war has been quick to raise a number of delicate and difficult: questions as between belligerents and! neutrals. The international ramifications of trade are so complex and widespread that! a state of war between great Powers inflicts almost as much injury commercially on the neutral
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  • 236 2 A Reuter message from Peking to Shanghai, dated November 23, says: Alarmist reports have, recently, been circulated in Peking, from which city they have been telegraphed elsewhere, first regarding the imminence of an anti-foreign rising—beginning with demonstrations against the Japanese by Chinese soldiery secondly, stating that
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  • 487 2 (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE FIRST DAY SECOND DAY D AY S Thursday, 7th January, 1015. Saturday, 9th January, 1915. FIIIST DAY. Thursday, 7th January, 1915. 1. The Opening Stakes. Value $5OO A Handicap for all Horses to be entered at
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  • 1097 2 It is one of the dozen or so military centres of France, in the Department of Isere in the Dauphine, of which province it is the capital. There can be few towns of France more beautifully placed. It stands at that point where the Isere, rising
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    • 487 2 Entries Close at 5 p m., on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914. Handicaps for the] 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 weights and
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    • 11 2 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’jQreat Peppermint Cure la. 6d,
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  • 763 3 C From Our Own Correspondent^) Taiping, December 8. The Library fee of 50 cents a month, which members of the Perak Club had to pay hitherto for using the Club Library, has now been discontinued. I am told that durians hare never been as cheap as they have
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  • 201 3 The Bangkok correspondent of the Straits Times writes to that journal: Statementsemanatingfrom Penang lately to the effect that the railway from Singora to Kedah will be opened in about a year are laughed at by the officials who really know. Put it at between two and three
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  • 555 3 [To the Editor or the Times of Malaya Dear Sir, —A great deal is being e&ic and written about the German cruiser Emden, and some people who speak and write about her daring and gallantry y apparently quite lose sight of the fact that she has really
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  • 291 3 To the Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, To day you are announcing, among the contributions to the Prince of Wales’ War Relief Fund, the result of the special effort made by St. Andrew’s Society. This Committee desire to take this opportunity of expressing their cordial
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  • 40 3 Dec. 9 By Balance ...$34,219.19 10 G. Smith Steinmetz monthly subscription 20.00 Municipal Staff, 2nd instalment 100 00 St. Andrew’s Society Subscriptions, $1,622.99 PrnppAtifl nf Concerts 1,377.01 3,000.00 Balance Dec. 10. 1 ...$37,839.19
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 998 3 Why worry yourself so much Just because your wife or sister is a Gambler IT’S A BAD IDEA to correspond through the local papers in order to find means of putting a stop to THIS GAMBLING EVIL Why expose your family secret to the world when you can, by good
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    • 239 3 I I p 'ts* A A O w Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. PRITC SOLE AGE ROVE Co 3 FOR LES “Tip Top Topping Topicals THE STRAITS CINEMA, Penang Road. Speciality: Latest Pathe: Productions. The Leading Premier Show in Penang The People’s Favourite Rendezvous Is iu the proud
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  • 81 4 fmblished daily (except Sundays and pvblie holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang, raic». Daily Local 124 p«r annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDEEBS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N 8.-AU ocmn.unie.tion. .bo«M »>• t
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  • 1116 4 Among the most useful and interesting of tbe excellent series of pamphlets on the war issued by tbe Oxford University Press is one with the title which we have taken as 'he caption for this article. It is from the pen of Professor J. R.
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  • 954 4 Some years ago the Kaiser, voicing the! naval pretensions of the Pan-Germans, sent a congratulatory telegram to the Tsar in which the Admiral of the Atlantic” salut- j ed the Admiral of the Pacific”. How hollow those pretensions were is proved by the result of the
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  • 27 4 Dec. 9 By Balance $1,278.96 10 School children of the Convent 111.50 Balance Dec. 10. ...$1,390 46 Amount previously acknowledged 4,266 66 Total $5,657.12
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  • 588 4 Mr. T. J. Carroll and his bride, who have been spending their honeymoon in Penaug, returned to Sumatra yesterday. Bangkok papers say that Capt. G. Rushton, of the Kuala, is relinquishing command of that steamer, to take up piloting in Singapore. There is a prospect of Mr.
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  • 251 4 To the Editor of the Straite Echo. Sir, re£erence to New Alien Enemies (Winding-up) Ordinance 1914 which was passed at the Legislative Council on Friday last, it is rumoured that a number of alieus (Turkish subjects) in Penang are endeavouring to get themselvo3 naturalized as British
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  • 29 4 The Emden at Cocos. We publish to-day on page 6 a lengthy and iig y mterpgting special account of the c Cocos Islands and her fight with the Sydney.
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  • 579 5 IN THE ATLANTIC. three german CRUISERS SUNK. OTHERS IN FLIGHT. (From A Correspondent.) London, December 10. The Admiralty announce an important engagement between British and German naval forces iu the South Atlantic On Tuesday, December 8, a British squadron under Admiral Sturdeo discovered the composite German floet
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  • 588 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 10th of Dec. at 5-35 p.m. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. London, December 10. Referring to the Eastern campaign the Paris communique states that obstinate German attacks against the Iloff, Lowicz, Strykoff, Lodz front and the line Btretching to the north and south sixteen
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  • 525 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. R eceived 10th of Dec. at 5.35 p.m. PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES. London, December 9 5 p.m The official communique stites that there have been artillery duels from the sea to Ly 6. There is nothing to report in the region of Arras.
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  • 134 5 Ottawa, November 13. The Canadian Department of Marine Affairs states that no action has yet been taken with regard to the Naval question in Canada, despite statements to the contrary appearing in the London Press. It is understood, however, that the Cabinet is considering the matter,
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  • 1269 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. R eceived 10th of Dec. at 5.35 p.m. A BRITISH SUCCESS. Loudon, December 10. The Press Bureau states that the Peisian Gulf Expedition with a uaval force and armed steameis attacked the enemy on December 5 on the left bauk of the
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  • 190 5 Paris, November 17. French newspapers describe the recent British attack upon the Prussian Guards at Zonnebeke as one of the noblest episodes in the British array’s. An aeroplane with searchlights revealed the enemy marching upon the Allies to the southward of Zonnebeke, the attackers being principally
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  • 63 5 I Tho following articles will bo found on j our outside pages Pago 2.—Neutrals and Belligerents. German Activity in China. A French Mil it- j ary Town. 3 —Taiping Topics The Kedah Singora Railway. The Emden's Exploit®. j Penang ft Andrew’s Society. G Emden Day At Cocos Islands 7.
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  • 702 5 ANSON ROAD TRAGEDY I j The hearing of the inquiry info the J circumstances attending the death of Khoo S t Hoe, who wai alleged to havo been sho*. through the head on November 27, was co icluded yesterday evening in the Second .Court bi'foio Mr V G.
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  • 4102 6 AT COCOS ISLANDS. A Special Account. We have received from a correspondent the following account of the Emden’s visit to the Cocos Islands and her defeat by the Sydney. It is a little belated, but the fersoual touch makes it highly interesting, t reads as follows: Cocos Islands,
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  • 373 7 Herr I)r. Lasaon, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Berlin, is, we suppose, a learned, though, possibly, not a very intelligent, person. He is, at any rate, a very clumsy one. He has addressed two letters to a friend in Amsterdam which will, surely, afford much
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  • 582 7 GINTING SIMPAH. The New Bungalow. We Malay Mail) are informed that the second bungalow of the Ginting Simpab Hill Clob, which it was recently decided to build, is now complete and ready for occupation, thus bringing the total available accommodation to 14,
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