Straits Echo, 12 February 1915
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Straits Echo
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Title Section36 1915-02-12 1 Straits Echo i aILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GBNERALLI VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, FRIDAY, 12th FEBRUARY, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 3636 words
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Advertisement15 1915-02-12 1 TO LET. 2 BUNGALOWS Nos. 142 A and 1428, BURMAH ROAD. APPLY 53, Beach Street.15 words
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Article889 1915-02-12 2 An Interview with* Admiral Tseng. Tbe official announcement of conditions upon which pardon will be granted to rebel leaders and associates, though merely formal in its terms and inildlv expressed, more than suggests (writes tbe N,C. Daily Newt) that the Government is somewhat uneasy on the889 words
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Article920 1915-02-12 2 Graphic Account op Search fop THE GUILTT. Tbe last issue of the Shanghai Municipal Gazette contains an interesting the manner in which the murderers of \l r| Neumann twelve months ago were tracked and brought to justice. The great interest aroused in the case and920 words
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Advertisement35 1915-02-12 2 Just What You NceJ. Don't buffer for years from a disordered stomach. A few doses of Chamberlain’* Tablets will put you right. They are just •what you need For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers35 words
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Advertisement207 1915-02-12 2 Huttenbach Bros. COMPANY. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: All kinds of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations A Speciality. AGENTS FOR: HE STERLING TELEPHONE CO., LIE. Large Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations can be Started207 words
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Advertisement9 1915-02-12 2 For Children’» Hacking Congh NigMWood»' Or «at P#pp«rwit»t ‘^«r*9 words
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Article1323 1915-02-12 3 (From Dutch Sources.) THE KAISER’S MOVEMENTS. From Amsterdam it is announced that the Kaiser has gone to the Eastern front. GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES The two latest lists of German naval f kiaaeg bring the total up to the high figure of 15,000 men. Excluding the Bbicher there1,323 words
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Article359 1915-02-12 3 Mrs W. M. Miller’s Prize (Singles Handicap Tournament The finai of the above competition was played off on Monday, Bth instant, the finalists being John A. Hunter and Mr. J. ESc tt Brown. After an evenly contested game the latter won an excitiug match on the last359 words
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Advertisement493 1915-02-12 3 Lest you forget I Fine feathers make fine birds J! WE HAVE THEM AT THE STRAITS CINEMA, PENANG ROAD. And guarantee all pictures advertised, to be shown in our SPECIAL PROGRAMME COMMENCING To-morrow Night! To-morrow Night! Saturday, the 13th February. Detective! THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS. Detective THE FAVOURITE OF PENANG.—A493 words
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Advertisement160 1915-02-12 3 SWEET CHESTNUT TOE. i s and i s 4 C.VT riw Work for all men— For ail men rest. And a time to taste the joy* of life. WILCOX 3OG3OGZXXZ3OG3OCZDOC30 1 DR. S. P. SENG, nrWTIQT 155. CARNARVON STREET, l/CiH A to 1 9 CORNER OF CARNARVON LANK. CROWN AND160 words
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Article, Illustration96 1915-02-12 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THB CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Reach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. OutBtation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printinj Department 343 K.K. —All business communications should be96 words
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Article1198 1915-02-12 4 While lighting has been going on along tbo banks of the Suez Canal, it does not <eem that the passage of ships through that most important waterway has at any -iino b'jea suspended for more than a few hours, a fact which speaks volumes as to1,198 words
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Article69 1915-02-12 4 Publicatioa Arraagemests. There will be no issue of the Straits Echo either on Monday or Tuesday next, the 15th and 16th inst., nor will any telegrams be sent out on either of those days. The management wishes to take advantage of the holidays to instal new plant69 words
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Article882 1915-02-12 4 Tbe King has placed York House at the disposal of Earl Kitchener as his residence. Mr. S. B C. Ross has succeeded Mr. E. R. Hallifax as Secretary for Chines 3 Affairs, Hongkong. Mr. A A. Wright, Assistant District Officer, Kuala Selangor, leaves on the 18th for882 words
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Article1021 1915-02-12 4 How thorough has been the reshnffl; the Liberal Government since Birß n Campbell-Bannerman assumed the^ power in 1905 will be realised n!!.?* 0 when we point out that Sir Edward ft at the present moment the onlv ms’mk y the Cabinet left in possession of the o ffi1,021 words
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Advertisement215 1915-02-12 4 BOOOOCOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOa p Ail'iO CKEANC Co., 59, Majazin; Read. o o o We bare just unpacked a large consignment of private rickshaws of the latest type which can be fitted with English-made wheels, etc. complete and can be had at prices which defy competition. 0 We have in stock Rickshaw and215 words
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Article599 1915-02-12 5 (ReuUr’s Service.) Copyriglr Telegram. Received 11th of Feb. at 7 r.M. £1.400.000 DAILY. Petrograd, February 11. flje Duma aud Council of the Empire have votod the Budget. During the course of the debate it was announced that the war was costing Russia J 1,400, 000 daily,599 words
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Article129 1915-02-12 5 A TAIPING CASE. (From Our Own Correspondent J Ipoh, Febrtary 12. The Captaiu of a tongkang has been fined i $6O in the Taiping Magistrate’s Court for j importing five kegs of nails into the State without a customs declaration. The kegs were found to be129 words
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Article117 1915-02-12 5 Not an Austrian Subject. yfrom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, February 12. It is officially intimated that the Government has received a cable from the British Consul at Zurich intimating that the Consul has established the fact that Mr. W R. Rowland, General Manager of the117 words
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Article60 1915-02-12 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 12. Chinese robbers on Thursday night entered a shop near Kinrara Estate, Bliot tbe proprietor, and made off with $4OO cask and other booty. Another gang on the same night held up a motor bus 3J miles on the Petaling Road60 words
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Article36 1915-02-12 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 12. Mr. J. E. Smallwood, Auditor, British East Africa Protectorate, will succeed Mr. H. Vane as Treasurer, F M.S. He is expected in Kuala Lumpur in April.36 words
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35 1915-02-12 5 Feb. 10 By Balance $85,227.91 11 G. N. Burnham, Dec Jan. and Feb. subscription 30.00 Tong Joo, 2nd instalment 100.00 H. H. Abdoolcader 50.00 Balance Feb. 11. ...$85,407.9135 words
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Article173 1915-02-12 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pago 2. —China's Amnesty for Rebels. The Murder of Mr. Neumann. 3. —Late War Items. Caledondia Golf Club. 6. —German Dvnamitard. Contraband cf War. The German Elephant. The Submarine Menace. Germany Short of Grain. The Wheat Rise. Pan-German Propaganda173 words
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Article1542 1915-02-12 5 >• ALLEGED DOUBLE MURDER. The further hearing of the case against Salleh bin Ali, who was charged before Mr. Justice L P. Ebdeu and a special jury, comprising Messrs. H Waugh (Foreman), A. Lindley, J. R. Brown, S G. Parret, R d S. Jarvis, L Hoefold and Goh1,542 words
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Article539 1915-02-12 5 On the conclusion of the above case Teb Hun Seang, alias Teh Mah Saang, was [charged with the murder of Chin Fook Kim at Queen Street on November 30, 1914. Mr. A. B. Voules and Mr. G. N. Saye appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. J.539 words
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Article464 1915-02-12 5 At the Bukit Mertajam District Court before Mr. R Scott, on Monday, two Chinese I fish-mongers sued Railway Police Constable No. 392, Mirzamaa Kbau, for the sum of £lOO each, damages for causing wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. His Honour gave judgment in favour of the two464 words
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Article262 1915-02-12 5 Death of a Tamil Contractor. The alleged murder of a Jafna Tamil, Mr. A. Chiniyah, a well known contractor and the proprietor of an estate at Bidor, occurred last week in his house at Tapah. It appears that the deceased had been away in Ceylon for262 words
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Article109 1915-02-12 5 For the period from the 12th to 18th February, 1915, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at two shillings and four pence per lb., and the duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable, on an ad valorem basis, in accordance109 words
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Advertisement37 1915-02-12 5 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE. CO., LTD. Hbar Omen- —SING A PORK. Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Ac/entt far Penang. SELLAR. MURRAY A. CO. Loral Office: No. 7, Union Stbbst.37 words
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Advertisement385 1915-02-12 5 (AVID <ORSC! S SDK’S Well-Known Extra ''avy Canvas, No. 0. SAKDILWS. Sin T«EY Co. The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Hoad Office: SINGAPORE. The undersigned has been appointed Agent for the above Corporation, and is now prepared to accept MARINE FIRE RISKS at current rates. QUAH PENG KEE. i?. Ttmch385 words
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Article362 1915-02-12 6 Cardinal Mercier, Arcbbi*hop of Valines, whose arrest lately caused such a sensation, recently wrote a pathetic appeal to the English weekly Everyman for more help if it can be spared in addition to that already given, which he gratefully acknowledges. He tries to describe the condition362 words
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Article494 1915-02-12 6 Since the fall of the Tsingtau a certain amount of tension has crept into Chino Japanese relations Being in effect unable to defend her neutrality against either side, China set apart a war zone within which the struggle was fought out. When that was over, the Chinese494 words
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Article529 1915-02-12 6 British Manufacturers Enquire Fob Openings. Apropos the article reproduced in yesterday’s issue from a London fiuancial paper, ou the subj ct of Ger nan’and Austrian trade with Malaya, it may be recalled that the suggestion to capture that trade and have it transferre 1 to British529 words
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346 1915-02-12 6 A Mere Battered Hulk. Th« derelict and battered condition of the Emlen, with her bows driven deep into the shore of Keeling Island, is a remarkable tribute to the fighting capacity of the Sydney A Daily Press representative had a conversation with an officer of346 words
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Article1714 1915-02-12 6 11 THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. Antagonism to Austria and Germany (BT A HUNGARIAN DBFUTT.) [The following article hat been received] from a well known member of the Hungarian 1 Independence Party, who for ob»iout reatont prefert that hit name should not be givven Budapest, January 1. About1,714 words
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Article153 1915-02-12 6 U. S A. Sensation. L mdon, February 2. A New York cable stat s Considerable sensation has been caused by a dynamite outrage on an important railway bridge over the Saint Croix River on the Maine frontier of the direct route to Moutreal and St James New Burnswick).153 words
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Article140 1915-02-12 6 The British Decision. London, February 5. In the Commons yesterday Mr. Tennant informed Sir J. D. Rees, that the authorities believed Germany had a sufficient supply of cotton for her warlike purposes. Therefore to place cotton on the contraband list was unnecessary. There were other interests involved140 words
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Article136 1915-02-12 6 Lahore, February 4. A C. and M Gazette cable, dated London, 2nd February, states that Earl Rosebery, in a speech on Saturday, likened Prussia to a mahout driving a German elephant He ;idded that th 3 German element in America desired similarly to drive the Uuited States.136 words
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Article97 1915-02-12 6 Calcutta, February 3. A Statesman cablegram says that a Russian statistician who made a special study of the movements of grain, and is especally well-informed on German economics, states that the figures on which the German Government have based their estimates of food supply, are seriously97 words
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Article78 1915-02-12 6 Mr. Churchill, interviewed bv a representative of Tho Matin a few days -igo, said that so long as the Germans sheltered in their defences, they would always have the advantage in small detailed encounters It is impossible for us to employ submarines when we cannot find a78 words
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Article50 1915-02-12 6 London, February 3. The American papers are indignant at the propaganda made by pan-German organisations in America, because they had threatened to exercise a voting influence against non-supporters. The papers say that the American people will Dot indefinitely submit to aliens meddling with their domestic affairs.50 words
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Article58 1915-02-12 6 Colombo, Februar y 4 The London correspondent of The Times of Ceylon states the Cocoa Trade deputation waited on Mr. Runciman with regard to export prohibition. No hone was held out of an immediate removal of the embargo, but Mr. Runciman f-tated that there woul 1 be58 words
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Article28 1915-02-12 6 London, February 3. A Chicago cable states: May wheat closed at 165 cents, the highest for seven years. There were wild scenes in the Pit.28 words
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Article754 1915-02-12 6 Dkad Elephants as a Special D* U c An interesting correspondence noon.7* subject of the consuu.pti on of elephant, f 9 lions is taking place in the Field r current issue Viscount de Poncins JfJJ 8 some of his experiences while hi..,!?! shooting in Abyssinia. 6 8754 words
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Advertisement81 1915-02-12 6 Beware of Colds. Children are much more likely to contract the contagious diseases whpn they hare colds Whooping cou«b, diphtheria, scarlet f?ver and consumption are diseases that are often contracted when the child has a cold. That is why all medical authorities say beware of colds For the quick cure81 words
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Advertisement117 1915-02-12 6 FOR SALE. ON£ Horse, Victoria and a Dog-cart. Apply to H 90 c/o Strait» Echt. HOTEL NORMAN, PENANG’S SELECT RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP LARGE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. COLD STORAGE FOOD Uodar the patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial Secretaries, Magistrates, Consuls,! etc. Terms:—MODERATE Special rates to Officials,117 words
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Article1188 1915-02-12 7 LORD HALDANE. MR. ASQUITH, AND THE OPPOSITION. Not Soldier to Leave. In the course of a series of articles entitled Round About the Great War some remarkable statements are made bj Mr. L. J. Maise in the January number of the National Review in detailing the events immediately1,188 words
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Article693 1915-02-12 7 Dutch Professor on Turkey’» Holy War. Professor C Snouck Hurgronje, a recognised authority on the Mohammedan world, contributes to the January number of De Gids au important discussion on the Holy War, which he describes as being in this instance made in Germany.” The Holy War,” he693 words
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