Straits Echo, 17 December 1914

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 17th DECEMBER, 1914. Single Copy, 10 cents No. 292
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1186 1 WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY “Dog Head Stout." V V a AD It is Strengthening and Invigorating. t*l« Agents TIANG LEE Co., Penanq A KucUa Lump ur Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Due to arrive by a steamer. One 5 Sealer EMPIRE CAR ■< BANKS Just JLanded Chartered Bank of
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    • 23 1 r Ci m to D 03 > Cj NS The Doctor advises and reoommends. It is nourishing, invi* gorating and strengthening. letd Gaionesi Stovt
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  • 854 3 From Antwerp to the Persian Gulf Wars have a two-fold object, a dost rue- I tivo and a creative one Thu Germans have K revealed at the beginning of the war their R intention to destroy the pjwer of France, g Russia, aud Great Britain, but
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  • 1096 3 The Fall or Duala. A Medical Officer on board a British transport ship on tlie West Coast of Africa has written home letters detailing his movements since bis vessel left Liverpool at the beginning of September. The letters, which were dehved owing to the strict censorship emulations,
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    • 69 3 Whooping Couth. When your child has whooping cough calful to keep the. couch tom»* be caretul to expectorition easy *>7 9'™* A This UAIA J 1 Coukfh Remedy as may be requu remedy will also liquify the u l«h ®ucu«« and make it easier to expectorate. It bus ben used
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    • 339 3 BSE 1 HUnim 3ROS- i m. PENANG. SINGAPORE. IPOH. KUALA LUMPUR. m m 1® «1® Ci o -1 >** V J X -A* *>-■ :f4,v] frr (V, m r 1 (?V© @j® t>Tc?Tc Rubber Factories Rubber Mills 4J £>• GAS, CIl 8 PRODUCER ENGINES. SEMI DIESEL CRUDE OIL ENGINES BENTRIFUGAL
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  • 200 4 ».P. Tapioca 13.85 tales M. P. Tapioca $4.10 sales Gold Leaf $64.40 Black Pepper 18. —buyers White Pepper 30. buyert Trang Pepper 19 no stoc Cloves 40.— teller» Mace 110 nominal. Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —tellers No. 1 6.10 sale» Sugar < 2 5,50 sales Basket
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  • 230 4 Penano, December 17. Beep l cts. Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 55 Feet 20 Heart 50 Liver per catty 40 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head M 22 Feet 26 Tongue
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  • 118 4 Penang, December 17. (By ;ouriesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4} 3 Credit 2/4} 3 Documentary 2/5 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 174} 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 174} Moulmein, Demand Hank 173 3 days’ sight Private 176 Madras Demand
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  • 511 4 A Necebsart Piece or Legislation. Now that the Home Office and the Police are becoming alive to the real bearings of the alien question iD war-time, we venture to point out the necessity of increasing still further their powers to deal with it. It will be remembered that
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  • 455 4 WHAT THE FRENCH GUNNERS OWE TO AIR SCOUTS. Secret Column Surprise!*. Telegraphing from Paris, the special correspondent of The Standard says r It is no secret that the nation as a whole, and Parisians in particular, have been rather disappointed with the work of the airmen. Great
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  • 472 4 The following letter, recently received by a justly incensed correspondent, indicates that the City man, by whom it was written, is far from being a romantic lover, even in his tenderest moments, says Vanity Fair. A more businesslike victim of the tender passion never addressed his betrothed.
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  • 484 4 How to Protect Yourself from its Consequences. A irillion deaths above the yearly average have, on occasions, been caused by Malaria That simple sentence is a terrible reminder of the virulence of this disease, which, 1 as that great authority, Sir Joseph Favrer, has written, causes more sickness and
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    • 80 4 TRANSLATION. rpHE UNDERSIGNED undertakes to 1 translate auy document from English into Chinese aud vice verßa. Also Chinese accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale:— (1) For translations for insertion in the Straits Echo or the Penang Shi Poe or to be printed by the Jobbing Department of
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    • 391 4 J. C. ALLAN, Engineer 8 Contractor, F.M. S. Railway Buildings Penang, begs to inform Contractors, Planters and Miners that he has taken over the Agency of Chop EWE LEONC HO, TIMBER MERCHANTS 8 SAW MILLERS. Works: Kota, Kuala Muda. Depot: Bridge Street. LARGE STOCKS CARRIED OF Chenghai, Merbau 8 Meranti.
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    • 50 4 The Children’s Colds. Watch the children’s colds and cure them before the? weaken the vitality. Use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy freely. It is perfectly safe. It has been tested by chemists and pronounced free from injurious sub-1 •tauces and costs but a trifle. For sale by j all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 272 4 WEAKNESS, neurasthenia CONSUMPTION CHLOROSIS Use HEMOGLOBIN Deschiens All doctors agree that thi3 vital Iron of the Blood ALWAYS CURES, and gives every one health/strength''and*' beauty 0 )ked meat, Chalybeates, etc. Far better than uncool SS3NNinD Gtf.-fH s.900 SS3N V.flO QtGH SOOO ft WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY AND OBTAIN a C3 K
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  • 415 5 A Gloomy Governor. When Sir Hugh Clifford was in the East he was wont to tell us that tbe East was good, very good. Mosquitoes worried him not: he scorned the suu, and while mere man sought to guard against sunstroke by wearing a topee, Sir Hugh
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  • 219 5 Grandmotherly Sanitary Regulations. Keeping of pigs by the poor has been very greatly interfered with by grandmotheily sanitary regulations,” says the Spectator. So says tbe Chinaman in the Straits, who also thoroughly endorses all that is said about grandmotherly legislation. It does not seem impossible or uneconomic,
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  • 229 5 If the German people know the full I extent of their losses in this war we believe there would bean outcry which the Kaiser would scarcely be able to withstand. But the utmost care is taken to avoid any I publication of the awful total, and the ad-1
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  • 91 5 American Buters Operate Freelt. Plantation rubber is fully firm, and American buyers have been operating in London freelV receut'y the reason being a gamble on the chance that the American exp rt prohibition will be removed shortly, for which there is no indication yet, says a London message
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  • 1028 5 Whatever it may be to the world at large, it must be evident enough to the profession that modern war is mainly a matter «I engineering science. War, such as the tremendous confl ct in which the vast armieon the Continent of Europe are now engaged,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 10 5 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d.
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    • 239 5 I K A A O Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. DR. S. SENG, nrKITICT 155. CARNARVON STREET, l/x!iN 1 Ij 1 y CORNER OF CARNARVON LANE. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK, BEST WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED CHARGES REASONABLE. Orders are now being booked for delivery about 25th inst. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE
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  • 94 6 fmblished daily (except Sunday! and pvblio holidays) ▲T TBS CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang, raics. Daily Local 124 per annum. Outßtation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) 117.50 CABLR ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printinf Department 343 U All buiinen communication. thould ba
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  • 1417 6 If the young planters in the Krian district are really no more eager to come forward and serve their King and Country at this i t hour of crisis than we are led to believe by the manager of the local estate who addressed us on
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  • 512 6 Mrs. Kershaw, of Taiping, is on a visit to Penang. Mr. Wong, tlie Chinese aviator, will be proceeding to Peking shortly. Mr. J. A. Cable has commenced his duties in Siam as Director of Statistics. Major H. Birry de Hamel, Chief Police Officer, has been granted short
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  • 295 6 In the Polish Government of Kielce two German military trains laden with explosives came into collision. Every person aboard them was killed. Between Gemmenich and Aix-la-Chapelle another German train of 40 waggons was derailed and 1,500 soldiers were severaly injured. During the fighting round Lodz the Germans
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  • 920 6 You say your wife never loses at bridge Never. If the game goes her way, she wins. But if it goes against her, I lose." With great satisfaction we notice that the Malay Mail is now asking Cannot we do a little more in the way of providing
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  • 574 7 (Reuter’s Service) Copyright Telegram. RECEIVED 16TH OF DEC. AT 4.30 P.M. Petrograd, December 15. An official communique issued by Army Headquarters here says: Our offensive in the Mlava region continues successfully. “The enemy’s forces continue to concentrate on the left bank of
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  • 707 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. R ECEIVED 17TH OF DEC. AT 7-55 A.M. SCARBOROUGH SHELLED. London, December 16, l p.m. The Admiralty announces that German movements of naval importance are taking place this morning in the North Sea. Scarborough and Hartlepool have been shelled. Our flotillas have been engaged
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  • 761 7 RECEIVED 17TH OF DEC. AT 10 A.M. PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES. Paris, December 16. A Paris communique says: The British squadron violently bombarded Westende, north east of Lomberdzyde. The Belgians repelled a couuter attack at St. George’s and occupied the farms on the left bank of the
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  • 980 7 EUROPEAN PROSECUTED. Mr. J. Heim appeared before Mr. L. V. J Laville in the Third Court yesterday afternoon in answer to a summons issued at the instance of Mr. F. P. Scully, Inspector of Arms, for dealing in daggers without a licence from the Licensing Officer.
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  • 610 7 MOHAMEDAN KATHI CHARGED WITH ABETMENT. The preliminary enquiry into the case against Syed Omar, a Mohamedan Kathi, who wa9 charged with abetting the offence of going through tho ceremony of unlawful marriage, was resumed to-diy iu the Sicoud Court before Mr. V. G. Ezecbiel. Mr. C. R.
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  • 125 7 Hamat, an old offender with fourteen previous convictions, was this morning charged before the District Judge, Mr G. A Hall with the theft of a sirong valued at $1 80, the property of one Eusop. The accused was fouud guilty and sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment.
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  • 106 7 [Reuter’s Special War Service.] Copyright Telegram. Received 17th of Dec. at 3 20 p m. Bombardment of Scarborough. Hartlepool, December 17. It is understood that after the thr*e German cruisers started shelling four British destroyers rushed out and engaged them. Eye-Witness's Des ription A Scarborough Eye-witness of the
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  • 120 7 Erropean Severely Cen«ured. Our Klaug correspod-mt writes: An inquest into the death of a Tamil was held by Mr. Biyant on tho 9tb inst. It seems that on Novombir 28 Mr W. E. Hastings, assistant on Bronklands Estate, was proceeding to Kuala Lingat on his mo*or-bicycle at about
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  • 95 7 Tho following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3 —Capturing the Camoroeus. Tho German World Empire. 4 —Naturalised Alieus Fi diug the Range: What the French Gunners Owe to Air Scouts. Love Without Prejudice.” s—Sir Hugh Clifford. Pig-Keeping in Malaya. Germau Losses Plantation Rubber. The Eogineer
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  • 140 7 Possibility of losure. A Haguo message received in Java last, week states that tho Nice Courant (Holland) has advisod Dutch shipping companies to provide themselves with coaling stations along the South African route in view of a possible closure of the Suez Canal. From the George Town
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 67 7 Mr. Cox, local agent for John Roberts Billiard Tables, met with an accident yesterday afternoon. He was on a motor cvcle and was turning into Burmah R ad from Burmah Lane At the junction his cycle came in contact w ith the bus plying for hire between Town and Catu
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    • 312 7 WANTED IMMEDIATELY. Reliable Chinese clerk. Good writer and expert typist essential. Salary $5O. Reply X.Y.Z., 17-12-14 720 c/o Straits Echo. Rahman Hydraulic Tin Limited. NOTI E OF LOST SCRIPT. WHEREAS application has been made to the Directors of the above-named Company to issue duplicate certificate for the following shares iu
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  • 993 8 Just as the situation on the high seas and on the C ntinent of Europe seems to be steadi'y improving for the Allies, so matters commercial in the F M S are said to be brightening. This is the matured opinion of many m-mbers of light and
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  • 650 8 THE CLEMENT-HOLT ENTERTAINERS. J J An Improved Performance. Contributed It is difficult for the average layman to appreciate the care and labour which lie behind the smooth, polished and completed work of the expert. We can look at a watch casually, without for a m meat
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  • 51 8 Dec. 15 By Balance $47,514.19 16 CR. A. Goatly 25.00 Dr. G. Sutherland 100.00 Rev. F. W. Haines 100.00 Pangkor Mess, monthly subscription 20.00 Penang Rubber Estates and Allied Companies Joint Local contribution 3,000.00 S. F. Brereton Martin 100 00 Balance Dec 16.
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  • 31 8 Dec. 14 By Balance $l,BOO 46 16 Dr. G. Sutherland 50 00 S. R Naidu 5 00 Balance Dec. 16. $1,855.46 Amount previously acknowledged 4,266 66 Total $6,122.12
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  • 43 8 The following tie has been fixed for to-morrow Single Handicap. McPherson vs. Cuuningham (2) w S Dunn vs F N Syer (1). Pour Ariadne Phyllis Dow Just lolls around and moons She spends her mornmgs wondering how To spend her afternoons.
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  • 806 8 We publish to-day in our Literary Supplement (says the Timet an article on the Russian soldier in modern fiction but the writer warns us that fiction is still concerned with the time before the Japanese War and has not yet discovered the changes which that war
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  • 400 8 Republic or Monarchy Peking, November 20. The Peking Gazette referring in its leader to-iUv to the alleged plot of tbe Imperial party, expresses the hope that the authorities will act with vigour in suppressing the movement which would destroy all hopes and in withstanding the picssure and action
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 362 8 TOWN HALL. Friday, 18th December. IN AID OF FUNDS FOR THE St. George’s Girls Home. A Musical Evening Song and Dance. TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE FARCE TIME IS MONEY 9-30 P.M. PUNCTUALLY. «a Reserved Seats $l-50 each can be booked at the Robinson Piano Company from Monday, 14th December.
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    • 48 8 When Blither’s nipper got the croup, And almost lost its breath, The neighbours .-hook their wise old heads, They all predicted death But just a few days after this They mm relied much, I’m sure, At seeing the kid quite well and strong ’Twas Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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    • 53 8 Unnece-wry Words. Why waste words and advertising spaoe in describing the many poiuts of merit in Chamberlain's Cough Kernedv The most fastidious are satisfied when we slate that it cuie» colds and coughs from anv cause, and that it contains absolutely no narcotics or injurious Bubstances. For sale by all
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    • 180 8 Whooping Cough. When your child bus whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectontion easy by giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to expectorate. It has been used successfully in many epidemics, and
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    • 118 8 A Germ Destroyer. There is no danger whatever from lock jiw or blood poison resulting from a wound when Chamber Iain’s Pain Balm is promptly applird. It is an antiseptic and destroys the germs which cause these diseases. It also causes wounds to heal without maturation and in one-third the
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    • 712 8 ISTOTICE A MEETING of the Justices of the Peace will be held at the Governor’s Office at noon on Fiiday, the J8th instant. BUSINESS: 1. To appoint a Chairman of the Visiting Justices. 2. To draw up Roster for 1915. Resident Councillor’s Office, Penang, 9th December, 1914. 707 NOTICE. Applications
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  • 663 9 Range Finding foe Artillery Letters from our airmen at the Front do not often come to hand, probably because their work is particularly arduous and exacting, and they have little time for writ* ing. Here is one, however, from a young member of the Royal Flying Corps
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  • 424 9 Censoring the News for British Officers. From Copenhagen the special correspondent of The Standard writes On my way from Berlin my train had to stop not far from a German prisonjcamp, and through the kindness of the authorities I had an opportunity of seeing the life
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  • 653 9 Two Railway Problems. 3 a re «lad to find that one of the a er ious problems raised by the Japanese j invasion of Shantung is likely to be settled by the British authorities in the way least I,kel J to threaten the very heart of
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  • 277 9 A dramatic scene occurred recently in one Hof the classrooms of Georgetown University, Washington. Dr. Conrad, a law professor, 1 1 was lecturing to a post-graduate class and was incidentally denouncing the public sympathy often given to criminals. Who was I that man in Kentucky.” he asked,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 546 9 Guide to Peaang, BT THE LATH E F. Skertchly r. e. s. 1 Price SO cents. t" Worth a Dollar a copy."; SOLD AT STRAITS ECHO OFFICE and at THE SAVE-U-TROUBLE FIRM bju r 11 wuj THE London Directory (Published Annually.) Enables traders throughout tho World to communicate direct with
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    • 377 9 notice. i LABOUR CODE. 1912. F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911 EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOU are hereby reminded that assessmec returns for the preceding quarter must h •entto the Office of the Deputy Controlle ot Labour Penang, during the months c October and January. Forms for the return will be
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    • 43 9 Bid Taste in the Mouth. If you have a bad taste in your mouth in the morning, ycur stomach is not in proper order. Chamberlain’s Tablets regulate this and give you a relish for your meals. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers
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    • 604 9 -i..... j Weak Lungs. Angler’s is the only Emulsion I can retain.* T-k 0 t Pnnce s Road, Richmond, Surrey. Sirs, 1 w,sh to send you a few words of praise and gratitude for benefit fr m US f An S' er s Emulsion It is now quite 15 vears
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  • 488 10 rt V < 5 (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE D AY S FIRST f)AY Thursday, 7th January, 1915. SECOND DAY Saturday, 9th January, 1915. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 7th January, 1915. 1. The Opening Stakes. Value $500. A Handicap for all Horses
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  • 1179 10 By Anthony Nuoint. Our courage aud conti leLce, I have discovered, only come into existence on the other side of the Channel. Iu our seagirt and inviolate island home we are afraid of eudless bugbears which we imagine ourselves or have conjured up for us by agents
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  • 906 10 More than fifty years ago, tbe third British Consul at Shanghai, Mr. Robertson, in one of his reports wrote these words, Chi' a exists for herself alone” They wete five words of profound truth. At that time the great desire of China’s rulers was that she should
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 505 10 Entries Close at 5 p m., on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914. Handicaps for tho First Day will be published on or before the 2nd January, 191f>. 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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    • 55 10 Unnecessary Words. Why waste worth and advertis'ng space in describing the many points of me r it in Chamberlain's Cough Remedy The most fastidious are satisfied when we state th.it it cures colds and coughs from any cause, and that it contains absolutely no narcotics or injurious substances. For Bale
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    • 10 10 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is. 6d
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    • 487 10 I YOU MAY REST ASSURED that Beecham's Pills will be of great service to you if your stomach is out of order or your liver is sluggish. The conditions of life in these days are so strenuous that nearly everybody is at times, overtaken by various derangements of the digestive
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  • 437 11 Gknbkoiitt to the Gieman. Sir Harry Johnston, writing in The Edinburgh Review, discusses the future of The German Colonies.” and, in contrast with most other writers, manages to say a good word for the enemy What account has Germany to give of her stewardship, of her thirty
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  • 444 11 1° this terrible war, it seems as though the loyal peoples suffer most. Of all the enemies we are fighting the Hungarians are probably the most chivalrous. Throughout their country the English residents have apparently been treated with far greater consideration than in Germany or Austria. And there
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 1243 12 THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED BE ROYA CHARTER A.D. 1720. THE undesigned, having been appoints Agents for the above Corporation, art now prepared to accept MARINE and FIR risks at current rates. PATERSON. SIMONS A CO.. LTD Commercial Union Assurance Company, Limitid Head OfficeLONDON. Eastern Branch: —SINGAPORE. Fire, Life, Marine
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