Straits Echo, 11 January 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EYENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS» THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY- VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, MONDAY, llth JANUARY, 19 IS. Single Copy, 10 cents No.
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  • 634 3 We cordially congratulate the Daily Tflegragh upon the public servioe it is doing v publishing Mr. Rudyard Kipling's articles on ‘The New Army m Tr&iuing,’ myb the Star. The Star has given its readers from day to day many glimpses of the New Army
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  • 297 3 A correspondent iu Pahang, writing under dato Nov. 4, to the L and C. Express says:— We had a bit of a panic on the outbreak of the war, as the banks shut down on all overdrafts; hence firms were paralysed. Thiugs are moving
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  • 666 3 At a time of the year, a season we are accustomed to with feelings of human kindliness, of peace on earth and goodwill towards men, wm fiud ourselves iu an atmosphere of coi.fl.ct and animosity, and many nations of the earth engaged in the most appalling war
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  • 260 3 Yeg—he is gone—there is the message—see! Slain by a Prussian bullet as he led The men that loved him—dying—cheered them on— My son —my eldest son. So be it, God This is no time for tears—no time to mourn, No time for sombre draperies of
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    • 65 3 Croup. Every young child is susceptible to croup. Don’t wait until this dreadful disease attacks your little one before you prepare tor it. It comes in the night when chemists’ «hops are usually closed, and this alone should be a warning. Get and keep Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy on hand. It
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  • 202 4 8. P. Tapioca $3.80 buyer» M. P. Tapioca $4.10 buyer» Gold Leat $O4 40 Black Pepper 18.— buyer» White Pepper 30.50 »ale» Trane Pepper 1$ Clove AX.— talet Mace 110 nominal Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —nominal (No. 1 6.10 tale» Sugar 2 5.50 tale» Basket 5.15
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  • 227 4 Pbnanq, January 11. Beef cte Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steaks •> 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 55 Feet 15 Heart 50 Liver per catty 40 Pork Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head... 22 Feet i. 26 Tongue
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  • 1140 4 WHAT IT MEANS TO GERMAN 81RATEGY. |< A Cordon War. j< By Col F. N. Maude, C.B. i 'pjjf eg can be no doubt that the illness of j the Kaiser is of most serious importance to his country and its armies. It has been so much
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  • 480 4 “A Question of Effective Occupation.” The allegation that British aircraft have passed over Switzerland—a neutral country— together with the British Note repud ating the theory of the Sovereignty ot the air, has naturally revived the question of what jurisdiction territorial authority has over space. A reporter
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    • 80 4 TRANSLATION. rpHE UNDERSIGNED undertakes to J, translate auy document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale: (1) For translations for insertion in the Straits Echo or the Penang Sin Poe or to bo printed by the Jobbing Department of
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    • 487 4 TRY —I Beecham's Pills, they are lust the thing as a family medicine. Nothing to be compared 1 with them has yet been put before the 3 public. For over half a century this medicine has been an easy First Favourite in countless households and the name and <j fame
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    • 111 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE AN ORDINARY MEETING! of the Municipal Commissioners will be hold at the Municipal Office at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 12th instant. (By Order), L. A. Coutier BIGGS, Secretary to the Municipal Commissionert. i .i V m s vr la; n\ -ft -y S 3 aV. O'S •A
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    • 344 4 THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD REMEDY Which has now borne the Stamp of Public Approval for OVER FORTY YEARS. ENO’S ‘FRUIT SALT’ Pleasant to Take, Refreshing and Invigorating. IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES OF Biliousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Diet—Eating or Drinking, Thirst, Giddiness, Rheumatic or Gouty Poison,
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  • 1495 5  -  [By Tom Tom Wright.] Those who care to studj the prototypal marginal notes n.ay find them in the new and very cheap Tauchnit* published at a shilling by Bell (Essays and 8tories, by E. A. Poe). Poe’s explanation of his method of building a poem suits my wellknown
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  • 343 5 The Amateur Surprise Dramatic Society, of Taiping, presented a drama in four acts entitled A Matter of Money at the Town Hall, on Saturday night, in aid of the Prince of Wales’ and the Belgian Relief Funds The attendance was not what was expected, but considering
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    • 395 5 GAME" i j I NX Cigarette Vl fu£i* Friends also follow the law of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.” EMERSON. s. ITCH ARD 8 Co SOLE AGENTS FOR DR. S. P. SiSNG, fIPXTTIQT 155. CARNARVON STREET, ULN ilu i CORNER OF CARNARVON LANE. CROWN AND
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  • 95 6 Published daily (eicept Sundays and public holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street,}Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone No*. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N B. —All business communications should b«
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  • 18 6 Young.— On the 11th inst. at England House,” Penang, the wife of Robert Young, of a daughter.
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  • 1197 6 English people are never happy unless they can label and classify, and discover what they hold to be the origins of social and political phenomena. That is why they have accepted so readily the theory that the present war is due to the doctrines of a
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  • 825 6 Mr. William George Greig, formerly Singapore, died at Ipswich on December 7. The Rev. Father Renard was a passenger from Port Swettenham by the s.s. Klang this morning. Sir Evelyn and Lady Ellis left for Singapore by the s.s. Lama on Saturday. Mr. A F. Goodrich also
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  • 104 6 $9OO FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES' FUND. To the Editor or the Straitt Echo. Dear Sir, For your information I beg to state that the total collection for the Prince of Wales’ Relief Fund made by the sale of roses at the Race Course is $9OO, which
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  • 75 6 To the Editor or the Straitt Echo. Dear Sir, Can you tell me why the $2 Sweep, which proved so popular a feature at the last race meeting, has been discontinued bv the PenaDg Turf Club The Sweep, I understand, was confined to members of the Club,
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  • 105 6 To students of the Now Testament yesterday marked a date of interact. It wag exactly 401 years since the printing of the first New Testament in Greek was completed. The colophon at the end of Tom. V. of the Complutensian Polyglot, containing the New Testament in parallel
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  • 488 6 Rules made by the Governor in Council, to regulate the manufacture, use, sale, storage, transport, importation, exportation, and possession of explocive substancos, and to fix the fees in respect thereof, are published in the Government Gazette for n -A! IrwtfvcW UXMKJj t»k U OUOuikt ted to
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    • 165 6 Kunnnnnn COLOSSAL SALES MEAN SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. j&aßi -v j x n X s. W /I y, w i a t >rs> v. ,v« =*SiV# r 9 rv v Year in and year out, we find the sale of our Cycles rapidly increasing. It is therefore clear that the value we
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  • 624 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 9th of Jan. at 2 p.m. BRITAIN'S REPLY. London, January 9. (Britain as presented her reply to tbe Note fbich will bo published on Sun j. v *o Ith or «fAir. AT I*3o pm 4*W- London, January 10. ridwrd Grey, in
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  • 505 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 10th of Jan. at 9 a.m. FIERCE FIGHTING IN POUND. Petrograd, January 9. An official statement announces Fighting has become fierce on the left bank of the Vistula near the villages of Sukba and Mogbely. The Germans, despite heavy losses, stubbornly attacked
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  • 1667 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 9th of Jan. at 2 p.m. PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES. Paris, January 8. A Paris communique states: The enemy’s artillery was very active in Belgiumand Arras. The French batteries replied spiritedly and effectively. Our infantry I made progress near Lcmbaertzyde We I
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  • 101 7 Admiral Sturdee’s spe*ch. Londcn, December k'G. At Monte Video, Admiral Sturdee, replying to greetings from tho British Minister, said that he hoped our little success would improve British, French, Russian and Japanese commerce. He hopel British merchants would cease to employ cheap G rmans, many of whom
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  • 205 7 The whole Indian public, native and European alike, are up in arms against the action of the Viceroy in retaining Herr Buckner as his bandmaster. Herr Buckner ought never to have been made bandmaster at all, seeing that there is a plethora of regimental bandmasters well qualified
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  • 258 7 The following articles will be found on our outsido pages Page 3 Mr. Kipling aud the New Army The War as seen from Mala ya “Doing His Job.” “My Son, My Eldest Son.” 4 The Kaiser’s Illness What it Means to German Strategy Sovereignty of ihe Air: A Question
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  • 86 7 The P O. Company has artanged for the s.s Nubia (from lie Straits only) to sail ho onwards from P« iiaug about 12th M ucb. Th s sailing is spnallyto m«et Iho gieat demand for Intermedia*e pa>sage? from the Straits aud F.M.S. Fillis’s Ciicu% which has been
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    • 330 7 Croup. Eveijr young child is susceptible to croup. Dou’t wait uutil this dreadful disease attacks your lit.looc.o before you preparo tor it. It cotu69 io the uiglit wheu chemists’ shops are usuilly closed, aud this aloue should bo a warning. Get aud keep Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy ou hand. It uevor
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  • 2048 8 SATURDAY S RESULTS. Saturday’s racing brought to a conclusion a very successful January meeting. The weather was delightful but the attendance was only fair. The Hon. Mr. A T. Bryant, Resident Councillor, was again present. The racing proved even better than on the first day, the fields
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  • 1867 8 GERMAN SUBMARINES AT DOVER. Shore Guns in Action. From the Daily Graphic correspondent. Dover, December 11. For nearly half an hour this morning the (tuns protecting the eastern entrance of Dover Naval Harbour were engaged in repellimg a German submarine attack. A submarine was first sighted off the
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  • 304 8 Opinion in Berlin. Amsterdam, December 10. The Berlin correspondent of the Algemeen 1 Handehblad says it is believed in the > German capital that the German General Staff intend to pursue the offensive as vigorously as possible in the eastern theatre of war, and that when the
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  • 62 8 Jan. BBy Balance $"0,528 14 9 Kee Tek Pong *25 00 Marimutu 3.00 H. E. Sparke 10 00 S Bayley 5.00 Lod f?e Scotia, Ist instalment 62 00 Amount collected by G. E. WrightMotion 120.00 G. Smith Steinmetz 20.00 F- C. Ebbels 30.00
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    • 59 8 Is there no hope r the sick man said The silent d. ctor shook his hea- 1 Ard friends who gathered arcuud his bed All felt this man would soon be dead But one moie wise than all the rest Couid nut such a scene endure. So be stiaightway made
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    • 370 8 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Wnril* I" rr«t tVrrrrm nt Cure Ib. 6d, 2 LATEST WAR JOURNALS To-Night To-Night! AT George Town Kinema Sportsmen’s Battalion on their way to Honschurck. The London Scottish a glorious lead. Canadians and Newfoundlanders in England ready to go to the Front, THE LORD
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    • 89 8 3NTOTICE. lnterest and Responsibility of Mr. Jalass in the firm of Hug A Co. has ceased on the 31st December, 1914. HUG CO., By Joseph HEIM, n Attorney, t enang, 9th January, 1915. 2 c*» O, Hotel Room No. 36. Madame CECILE I’o close her season will make enormJs reductions
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  • 904 9 Wake Up, John Bull Abe Wb E»f*tb? What with raids by land and sea, and the whole world bristling with impending disaster^it is a miracle that poor old John Bull keeps his head or bis t-mper. Still, we must remember thit in a multiplicity of couusel the e is wisdom,”
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  • 739 9 Edward Carpenter is not content to accept the many plausible reasons offered to explain why Europe is plunged into war, and in The English Review explores for The R >ots of the Great War as a surgeon might trace the cancerous growths which eudanger the life of
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    • 961 9 FOR SiLLSl. Guide to Penang, BT THK LATE E F. Skcrtchly., f. e. v NOTICE. LABOUR CODE. 1912, F.M.S Price 5 0 cents. Worth a Dollar a copy.”) BOLD AT STRAITS ECHO” OFFICE. AND AT THE SAVE TT-TROUBLE firm TIIE London Directory (Published Annually.) Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911 I
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    • 119 9 Do You Cough? Don’t overstrain the tine membrane of your throat in trying to dislodge the phlegm Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will accomplish this for you, and cure the cold that is causing it. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers TirfE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION No. 1 C'JiLS DISCHARGES. EITHER
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    • 195 9 Stri'ftht at It. There is no use of our beating around the bush We might as well out with it first as last We you to try Chamber* 1 tin's Cough Remedy the next time you ha'6 a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can
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  • 728 10 Rev. Dr. J. D. Jones, of Bournemouth, baa an interesting description' 1 o the britith Weekly of bis five weeks’ journey home fro in Australia in the Moldavia, and of the incidents on a liner in war-time.” They had no desire to meet the Emden
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  • 150 10 Regarding the flag matter, an officer of the Emden gave, an account to a passenger on a transport ut Alexandria. He denies the story that thev attaekfd the Jtmtchug under the Japanese flag- He 6aid they knew that a certain cruiser was in the neighbourhood, and so
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  • 100 10 Under this heading. Alert II in The Financier remarks Throgmorton Street is ever ready to give a hearty wtlct me to its khaki-clud meuibeis, whatever their rank, but 1 fain would caution a certain commissioned cl**>k against giving bimee f too many airs, especially in respect of
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  • 504 10 The editor of The Britith Review steps in to defend the War Office, and, emulating the editor of The Enqlith Review is moved to surprise at the indifference of the English I not British) public. Approaching his subject under the subtle j title, The Neutrality of
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  • 258 10 Two truant schoolboys have won the V.C. They are Driver Drain, R.F.A., of Barking, and Lance-Corporal Fuller, of Swansea,” says the Star. Driver Drain, of the 37th Battery R.F A., as a boy attended the Back Lane School, Barking, and the master there describes him as
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  • 129 10 London, December 11. Major F. E. Smith. KC, M P. (Field Cficer on the staff of General Willcocks, with the Indian Expeditionary Force,) who is on leave for a few days in this country, paid a hurried visit to Gray’s Inn, and lunched with some of
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    • 10 10 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Croat Peppermint Core, It, 6d
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    • 526 10 HEADACHES. The Cause and Remedy. Sick and Nervous Headaches are hut the symptoms of other ailments to which they are merely sympathetic, such as Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation, or some other irregularity of the system. Many women habitually sutler fron Headaches, which make life a daily purgatory, indeed this complaint may
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  • 1023 11 >1b. iUcrADTi* Priskbtb Hr* Cab*. Xo tb i Editor or tbr Straits Times. ri Your views are of interest just now, notonlv on accouut of their intrinsic impt rtance, but also for the source of inspiration which they reflect; and this leads me to disregard that maxim
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  • 875 11 A Long Fi«ht Aoainst Turkise Oppression. Atteutiou is naturally drawn to the history of Serbia by the re-occupation of the country by the Austrians. Serbia, as we know it, was occupied by that tribe of Slavs, who to-day still hold the land, in 638, after having undergone varying
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  • 977 11 F'<im time to tim there in oar new spa j e s w ird tr rie* of t **l v a its-to-makt*-M u H cr- p varkty designed to oonvii.ee iins couutry —or Geiunnv, perhips—that h** retsou the Piiemv’a main fl et pr-fers its h»rbo rs to the
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