Straits Echo, 22 January 1915

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  • 38 1 Straits Echo I i) A L v CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEOERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERAL?. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 1915. Single Cspy, 10 cents No. 18
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    • 1202 1 JlHMMnmHaaMcuaaa WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY "Dog Head Stout." a n; nS. It is Strengthening and Invigorating, S»l<A|rnt»: riANG LKt O' Co., Ptnn+n <t Kuila Lmm /<*>■ tsMianaQaaniMHaia in Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Due to arrive by a steamer. One 5 Stater EMPIRE CAR AS ILLUSTRATION. BANKS Jut Landed
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    • 22 1 o» 2 R. mm n: Tbs Doctor advises and reoom q mends. It is n<nri-hinfr, inri- and strengtheninf. aiMiiaiuasaoaaaiaiiEii 1»©IS jrwn t.lof
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  • 1209 2 IK TRAINING WITH THE NEW i ARMY. By Patbi.'k Macoill [Mr Mat.ill. who it th- author of that few arkabU book “Children-f the i>tud E"d," i' hat tu.l\sUd m the London tLxfie Briga<ie t If tbe tquamuiity of English householders *bu aie abcUt to bare soldiers biil»-t*d up 'u
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  • 731 2 THE FUTURE ELDORADO OF THE east. NIW fCHEMIS. By Sydasy A. Hoaclsy. (Late Editor of the E yi>tian Mail.") Events in Egypt hav* justified the prog nostica'i ns I mid* in tbe Evening Stand ard last week. Abbas has beeu dethrone*» aud a more amenable substitute bas
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    • 1296 2 ODI SPECIAL ADVERTISING OFFER Free! Free 11 Free II! Free of *r for To night only. Any person attending tbe show To-night FROM Reserved sea* to 4tn class will each be giveu A FREE MATINS.E Ticket for to morrow's (S atu r day’s) Matinee 6 30 o 8pm 8peci.il Feature
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    • 70 2 Croup. Every young child 1» susceptible to croup. Dou’t w*it uutil this dreadful disease attacks your lit'leone before you prepare tor it. It comes io tbe night when chemists' shops are usuilly closed, and this alone should be a warning. Get and keep Cbamb rUin’s Cough Ken edy on band
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    • 646 2 NOTICE. AN application bavine been made for the issue of a duplicate certificate of ibe underojrutioued shares in the Tanjopg Pinaig Ice Company, Litni'ed, the original of which is declared to h .re lost, notice is bertbv given that one moDth from this date a new certificate, in ieu of
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  • 1269 3 HOW THE WAR AFFECTS STRAITS PROSPERITY. Huge Slump in Trade Rrturms The returu of imports and exports to and from the Cotonv for the third quarter of 19 4—ihit is. July, August and septe>. b r —hat* just been issued, and is, as the Straits Timas points
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  • 397 3 The decision of the Government to resume granting assisted passages to labourers from Madras Presidency is the inevitable consequence of a critical situation that had arisen in the planting iudistry. Many estates Lave suffered already a severe setback through the shortage of labour, and tbe opiniou expressed at
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  • 187 3 Quoits Tournament. The following wore the results of the ties played off yesterday Double Handicap. Cunningham and Southam beat Fettes and Reimann 21 14. Championthip. R Owen beat W S Dunn 21 20. Lawn Tennis Tournament. The following were the results of the ties played off yesterday
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    • 553 3 last MIGHTS! LAST NIGHTS!! FILLIS CIRCUS AND The Midget City Company Grand change of Programme Nightly Rememb r our farewell Matinee SATURDAY. THE L3rd JANUARY. AT 4-30 P.M EVERY CHILD SHOULD SEE THE MIDGE IS. Important Announcement.— The Midget City Company, who are returning to America, are tendering a complimentary
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    • 224 3 DOC OMITTI3 GMCK M 11*1 c Ggareite VI Friends also follow the law of divine necessity they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise.” EMERSON. DOC P. O. S. N. Co. SPECIAL STEAMER FROM Singapore, Port Swettenham and Penang DIRECT For Marseilles and London THE COMPANY’S 0 s.s. "Nubia 5,913
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  • 96 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT TH« CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Prick. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo 586 Printing Department 343 X B. —All business communications should
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  • 1236 4 Here is a fair sample of the kind of thing one finds in the German news service supplied to the newspapers in neutral countries News comes from Rome that Britain is sending her Indian troops, landed in Egypt, to the European theatre of war, since she fears that
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  • 47 4 Jan 20 By Balance $74,967.72 21 B. P.” 10.00 Penang Hindoo Sabha 100.00 Ooi Hong Lim 20.00 Profits of Penang Race Meeting of 7th and 9th inst. 919.80 Rose money collected at the Raoe Course 10.00 Balance Jan 21 ...$76,027.52
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  • 942 4 Lord Derby is hon. colonel of eighteen infantry battalions in Lancashire The services of Messrs. P. A. S. McClelland and E A. P. Helps have been lent to the Straits Settlements Government for special duties M. M. It is understood in Parliamentary circles that Mr. John Redmond,
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  • 929 4 Admittedly the nature and extent cf intellectual debt to Germany” have exaggerated by British Pro-Potsdamuierf but it is also possible to go too far i n th opposite direction. In a letter to the Tim* Professor Sayce practically implies that Th* debt is non-existent, and that its concepti,,*
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  • 615 5 (Rente's Service) Copyright Telegram. Received 22nd of Jan. at 9-20 a.m attacks repulsed. Paris, January 21. \n official statement issued this evening announces: The enemy this morning gained a foot- ranch north of Notre Dame de mg m j n tte but were expelled by a counterattack.
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  • 699 5 [Reuter's Special War Service.] Copyright Telegram. Received 22nd of Jan. at 11-20 a.m w ••■VS» avr if wa CRITI ISMS ANSWERED. Nr.W FRENCH OFFENSIVE METHODS. L«ndon, January 22. In view of some criticism both in France and England of the slowness of the Allie- advance, it
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  • 377 5 DIRECTORS IS THE DOCK. {tram Our Own Correspondent.') Singapore, January 21. As a sequel to the Kwong Yik Bank smash, Boey Lian Chin and Lim Tian Siang were charged to-day in the Police Court wi<b criminal breach of trust as bankers. Boey Lian Chin was the Managing
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  • 46 5 {From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, January 20. The mining industry is showing an improvement, with a continuance of the price of tin over $7O, and it is felt that the question of wages may have to be reconsidered after the Chinese New Year.
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  • 90 5 CFrom Our Onn Correspondent.) Ipob, January 20 For stealing four cases of dynamite from Messrs. Boustead and Hampshire’s store at Tambun over which he had guard, a watchman was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the Magistrate’s Court. The modesty of Marshal Joffre has become almost proverbial.
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  • 313 5 {From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, January 20. Mr. V. G. Bell of the Forest Department who leaves for England to take a commission in the Oxfordshire yeomanry on the 26th inst. is an entomologist of considerable repute. He has been making a
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  • 240 5 Telegrams to the Java Papers. The Soer. Handelsblad learns from The Hague that the Balgiau army now numbers almost 100,000 men, and has been reorganised with great care. All divisiongenerals have been replaced by younger men. The Germans are fortifying Ryssel. All the works have been renewed,
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  • 338 5 Before Mr. G. A. Hall in the District Court this morning, the hearing was resumed of the case iu which Patel Narotham Fakir, alias Narothamdass Patel, was charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of certain brilliants and rubies and criminal misappropriation of $2OO, the
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  • 574 5 A NOVEL CHARGE. The hearing of the case against Lai Ah Cheang, Chin Ah Heng, Too Ah Sen, Cbm Seng and Lin Cheang, who were charged with assembling for the purpose of committing gang robbery, was concluded yesterday afternoon before Mr Justice L P. Ebden. Mr. A. B.
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  • 154 5 Ladies’ Monthly Medal for January, 1915, and Gold Medal for 1914. Result. ♦Mrs Ebden 34+33= 67 4=63 Mrs Park 38+89= 67—14=63 Mrs Clarke 46 39= 85—22=63 Mrs Edwards 37 39= 76—10=66 Miss Brown 37 35= 72 5=67 Mrs Low 41 44= 85—17=68 Mrs Armstrong 43 44= 87
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  • 122 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 2 —Billeted In Training with the New Army. Outlook in Egvp f The Future Eldorado of the East. 3.-The Colony’s Business: How the War Affects Straits Prosperity. Indian Immigration. Penang Cricket Ciub. 6. —“Jacky” Fisher: The Man who
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    • 309 5 rtii GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. HbjlU Omen: —SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All F orms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agents for Penang. SELLAR, MURRAY A CO. local Office: —No. 7, Untow Stubs;, KOTJ.CE OF SALE BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. The undersigned is instructed to take
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  • 1062 6 THE MAN WHO ADE OUR MOHTINO NAVY Bt T P. O’Cowwo*. M PTbit it the man wn hat created the modern B i'isb Navy Without him such a Navy had nev*-r been. Tt is u.av seem a strong saying, for we look back to a strong British Navy
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  • 1026 6 FIVE MONTHS’ D VKLOPMENT. (Bt H Massac Bvist Five months’ ex e ience of the use of air craft in the war has led to results in no fi-'d m' 6 sati-f »ct»>rv than tbo«e obtained bv 'he Rival Fiviug C rps Tbi* country ntarted. as
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  • 409 6 Gbbbrally Wbaby of Fiohtino, But bOMB Fair '1 iotas.” In a letter to bis wite at B-afford, Private Cook, of the Coldstream Guards, says 1 be Germans that come in to surrender have a very weary look *b-mt them, and don’t -eem able to dtag their rfl -s
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  • 163 6 Russia i 9 certainly not pre ared to listen o any p-ace talk. Tbe Paly Telegraph's '’etrograd correspondent qu -tea the Army Messenger, which is a semi official organ, is saying Only simultaneous and complete success on all fronts can dow save the Germms, but thi"»
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  • 359 6 Mr. Harold Cox, in a pamphlet on The Economic Strength of Groat B-itaiu,” s vs ihif, from the economic p >int of view the war has left this c<>uutry almost scathle«s \fter four and a half m> nthsof the greatest war in history there is
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  • 1000 6 Sir James Birrie’a contribution to th» psychology of tbe w*r bui b-*«a produced in tbe form of a brilliant one act pi tv Der Tag,” the title of tbe play, from the blast which has b-»en drunk by Germ in i ffi ers in
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  • 437 6 Beams of paper have been covered with d esrv dissertations on wnat are described as the of the Season, nearly all of which are absolutely worthless from any practical point of view, and some of them are gros-ly mendacious and misleading, notably the list of Winning
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  • 279 6 At the annual meeting of this company held on I’eceinher 23 the ch drinan, Mr U. A. Lampard, observed that the total cost, of the properties to dafc* works out at th« rate of rather less than w 648 per acre. On the other
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  • 286 6 Mr lan Malcolm, M P.. writing from Pans to the Parish of All Saints’, M rgar t Street, of which he is churchwarden, says If the streets are comparatively full, vou should Re* the churches Ther are b« *et as never b fore at
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  • 439 6 An Arab Caliphate Religious Problem or Eorrru» Chanois Two interesting questions arise in con nection with the new Sultanate that La. been created in Egypt, says Reuter -the relations of the new monarch, first, with the Caliph in Constantinople, and second with the Chief of the Senussi. Although in principle
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  • 384 6 Dr. Michael Sadkr, Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, thus compares British and German ideals: We have waited energy through not clinching by decisive action the truths which hive .merged i n free discussion. The Germans have deadened independence of moral jud.mmt. and the power of shrewd observe
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Cbe6t Complaints, Wonts’ (Treat Peppermint Care. 1«. fid.
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    • 62 6 (ore T it Cough. Wh<>n yon h*yp •ot m« n that v<v bavo nnneumption o r that von aro e n ine to h»vp it. hut i» th <t ?nnr lunon arp thrpah nwi. and it is juot H« wpt] fn ho nn »ho naf** «id* «ud taVn Pouvh v
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    • 55 6 WVn Mr. W»H«t or wrnf» of Woods H* »»id wi»h erarh’C That Wnodn wo* moatly f'n h’r An 1 w»«i all c mtvia. dof f r r e But i‘ M WoHaf or i;*od to.d <Ti I’d i Bl'injng m w°r or wm H W* n “i**' oo «'tnply mems
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    • 27 6 Iw Couth f I Tour thrn»« r rB ra n ne p nibrane of Ch.mbsrla.o" cZ%° g"‘"^ e h f, P hlei m tuSLiL, bJ 411 w-i»"-""
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  • 1002 7 Field- Marshal Sir John French, in hie dispatch of tbe Bth October on the battle ,f tbe Atsne. paid a hiwrb tribute indeed to Jj,„ work of this corps in describing it as w.irtbf of tbe best traditions of tbe Royal L\, r n*«ts The beet traditions
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  • 206 7 8 P Tapioca $4.30 tales M. P. Tapioca ...s*.so tales Gold Lea! ...$64 40 Blick Peppor 18 buyer» White Pepper 31.25 tales Trang Pepper 19 no stock Clovos 41 nominal Mace 110 nominal. Mace Pickings 66. —sellers Nutmegs 110 23 —nominal JNo. 1 6.10 tales 2 6.50 tales Basket
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  • 230 7 Penang, January 22. Beef cts. 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 Big’s Head... 22 Feet 26 Tongao 36 Mutton
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  • 539 7 WOUNDED 80LDIER AND THE COLONEL’S WIFE. Scbew Gu»a In bis latest article in the Daily Telegraph Mr. Rudyard Kipling describes a visit be has paid to the Indian troops now in this country. We quote the following vivid passages The car swam bonnet-deep through
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  • 229 7 German Opinion Vseeing Round. The belief is spreading, says a Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail, that the Kaiser is anxious to propose peace while still in possession of Belgium and a large part of Poland. This is strenthened by the semiofficical statements appearing daily to the effect
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  • 135 7 Friday, January 22, 191ĕ. Eihikadi—6 to 7 r,K, 1 Overture R uy Bias Mendels- sohn 2 Two Step Creole Belle Lampe 3 Lancer» Jubilee Balfour 4 Walt* My Ladj Love... Robot 5 March Keep Time Kottann Prom a letter from the front:—" The otb»*r day we noticed a
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    • 83 7 TRANSLATION r rHE UNDERSIGNED undertake» to A. translate any document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into Englisb. Fees according to the following scale:— (1) For translations for in ertion in the straits Echo or the Penang Sin Poe or to be printed by the Jobbing
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    • 1812 8 I At" Wireless Telegraphy, fitted oo all Steamers All Cabins sr« now fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is turaiahed with an Electric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrival» and Departure*. Mail Service Outward. Homeward. t Calls at Bombay. FAKES BY MAIL STEAMERS A Accommodation. Ist class 2ndcLass
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