Straits Echo, 16 March 1915

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  • 34 1 Straits Echo u '<■' of evem*. uacui/Tißfi rut -y: basts. the federated malat states and the far east generalu VOL. 13. $24 Per Annvra. PENANG, TUESDAY, ltfth MAKCTi 1915. Sinjle Copy. 16 cents No. 60
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  • 1033 2 Engineering Operations. A piper was read before the Institution of Civil Engineers on 9;h Feb. by Mr. F D. Evans on Engineering Operations for the Preventi >n of Malaria Mr. Evanß is engineer to the Malaria Advisory Board of the Federated Malay States. The paper is
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  • 959 2 Br John Tbavbes I wonder where they are now, the Indian Orderlies I used to kuow. Some watch the bleak white flakes from hospital windows some endure bitter frostbite, and face bombs, and shells, dynamite, and bullets; some fight in East Africa or the Persian Gulf some
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    • 1022 2 NOTICE. Miracle-Cure A LIST of Applications for public house licences for the year 1915 to be considered at the meet inn of ihe Boar of Licencing Justices on Wednesday, the 24th March, 1915, may be setn on application at the Chinese Protectoiate during the usual office hours. P. T. ALLFN.
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    • 47 2 Rub It la. A good many people think rheumatism can not be cured without taking nauseous medicine. Champlain's Pain Bdm massaged thoroughly into the skin hag cured far more rheumatism than any internal remedy in existence and gives relief quicker. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 240 2 MILK. (Bacchus Marsh Co.) Concentrated Fresh Milk (In* Quart tins.) STERILIZED MILK (In Pint tins.) SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY. LIMITED. PENANG. Telegrams STORAGE. telephone No. 602. «fIKUWSr.VA rcnr: 30C DC ALLEN DENNYS CO.. Penang, 3 RUBBER BROKERS, PROPRIETORS OP THE PENANC RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SffLES HELD EVERY TUESDAY RUBBER bought
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  • 921 3 Racing and War. As a resent leader in this paper pointed out R icing is a highly specialized business.'’ For a nation that boasted tbeir motto was Business a»» Usual,” the present agitation for the cessation of racing seems inexplicable The breeding, training and running of thoroughbreds
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  • 569 3 We have often wondered why Malaya did not turn to account her splendid stores 1 of pure kaolin and other clays suitable for pottery-making and so create a home industry of substantial proportions. In > reading Mr. William Jones report on Clays of Eeonomic
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  • 339 3 Previously acknowledged, $258. Collected it Mrs Ridowat. Isobel, Betty and Joan, $10; Mrs A E A Ridgway, $5 Mrs G Herbert, $5 Mrs W A Turner, $5 A T C, $5 J W Bunch, $5; G Forbes, $10; P Edington, $5; A E A
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    • 466 3 ae 9oc >9 PALMER CYCLE TYRES. The Best in the Market R. T. REID A Co* SoU AfrnH. 21. Back Street, Pma*. v\, rt —^->g=^. >w— >*—■— 1 "~jo DOC DOC Dor'0E THE FOLLOWING APPLY TO CHIN SENG 8 Co., Ltd., fawrar strut. R us toff Metal Polish thoroughly oleans
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    • 10 3 F#r OkroDiC Che«t Complaint», Wn<il' Or**» PtppOiißi*» C>ta 1 Sr*
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    • 398 3 SWEET CHESTNUT TOE. x s and 1 m HHST Work for all men— For all men rest, And a time to taate the joys of life. WILCOX If you want to see the most thrilling detective drama ever produced come to The Electric Polyscope. To-night! To-night!! AT The Electric Polyscope
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  • 95 4 Published daily (except 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 Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N.B. —All business communication* should b*
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  • 18 4 Leonard —On March 16th at 7 Sepoy Lines, Penang, the wife of H.G.R Leonard, of a daughter.
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  • 1609 4 As our readers will have gathered from the Straits Timet' article reproduced l in our columns yesterday, there is disappointment and dissatisfaction in the planting world at the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Panicker case. For our part, crediting the F.M S. bench with
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  • 450 4 Mr. T. C. Fleming is appointed Magistrate at Sereinban. Mr. L. A. Allen is to act as second assistant D 0., Tapah. Mr. H Fraser has been appointed a Collector in the District of Kuala Lumpur. Dr. J. R. Delmege and Mr. H. J. Twamley, of the
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  • 375 4 i Mar. 13 By Balance $5,205.77 15 Staff of Penang Harbour Board, Feb. 1 subscription 54.60 Balance Mar. 15 $5,260.37 Remitted to London on 24-2-15 .£lO,OOO There will be a choir practice on Friday, the 19th instant, at St. George’s Church, Penang, at
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  • 960 4 To those of our readers who crave f or I light and amusing literature we can cordi ally recommend Mr. Hilaire Belloc’s divert ing story of political jobbery entitled A Change in the Cabinet,” which Messrs Methuen have just added to their admirahil library of shilling novels. Among
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    • 129 4 PRITCHARD 8 Co SOLE AGENTS FOR OVER i rc JL/lLo WAR TELEGRAMS. (GTD Service No. 2.) Bombardment Dardanelles A Hied Fleets proceeding briskly and successfully also Bombardment German Icewasser by Super Iced Eau de Cologne very active and successful Ask for the Super brand and you will get the British
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  • 594 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. A PLUCKY CAPTAIN. Belfast, March 15. The steamer Hartdale was hailed by the German submarine at 5 o’clock in the morning and the crew was given ten minutes in which to leave the vessel. The captain refused to abandon the vessel and altered
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  • 637 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. IMPORTANT FRENCH VICTORY. Paris, March 15. An official statement says that the French troops captured the plateau and half the village of Vauquois, in eastern Argonne, after several days of desperate fighting. This gives them the important positions which the Germans occupied in
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  • 154 5 LAST OF THE “DRESDEN.” The Hon’ble Resident-Councillor informs us that the German cruiser Dresden has been sunk. No details are yet available. The Dresden, which was completed in 1907-8, was a protected cruiser of 3,540 to s, with a maximum speed of 24£ knots. The armament consisted
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  • 782 5 Sir Charles Eliot, the Vice-Chancellor of Hongkong University, gave a lecture recently to a large audience of Chinese students, British officials, and others on The Causes of the War.” In the course of his lecture, Sir Charles Eliot said There is one thing more I should
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  • 72 5 THANKSGIVING-DAY APPOINTED lFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 15. Sunday, the 21st instant, hai been approved by the Government as a Thanks-giving-Day for preservation in connection with the recent mutiny. There will be an official service at St. Andrew’s. It is proposed to publicly entertain the Naval
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  • 229 5 Sixty Heuse» Destroyed. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Langkawi, March 14. About half-past 11 o’clock last night there was a big fire at Pekan Kua and by midnight not less than sixty houses were in flames, including the Custom House and the Opium Monopoly. An hour
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  • 480 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2. —The Prevention of Malaria. Some Indian Orderlies. 3. —The English Turf. Pottery in the F. M. S. The Queen’s Work for Women Fund. 6. —The Mahabharata of the West A Sepoy’s Story in France. Letters from Serbia.
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  • 1163 5 INVASION FROM THE NORTH Blinded bj passion Germany bas rcc.mtiy, in pursuance of her policy of frigbtfuluess,” taken certain action with the result tbit i she is fast making enemies of the very nations with whom she should endeavour at almost all costs to preserve friendly
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  • 473 5 Alleged RobberyTwo Tamils named Perumal and Arumugan were this morning brought up before Mr. A. W. B Hamilton charged with robbery of a necklace, valued $60.55, the property of oDe Alamelu, a Tamil woman, in Anson Roid. They were both remanded for a week for further enquiries
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  • 309 5 The undermentioned prices wore realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys A Co. by auction and private treaty to-day. 45,700 lbs. wore sold Diamond smoked sheet $lOB to 8124 Plain 8113 8115 Unsmoked sheet $lO9 8117 j Fine Pale Crepe $ll9 $l2l Medium Pale Crepe $ll5
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  • 1824 6 By Elisabeth ChriatiUk. If the Serbian goes to battle blithely it is not because of a naturally warlike disposition —be has all the gentle and humane attributes of the typical Slav--but because war conditions have surrounded him from chil Ihood, and bis participation in the perennial struggle
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  • 70 6 The following ties have been fixed for to-morrow Championship. H G R Leonard vs F N Syer (5). A S Hall vs. E H Syer (6). Single Handicap B. W E MacDonald v». M F Hotchkis (2). Profession Pairs. Everest and Oliver vs. Sayers and Minniken (4).
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  • 1134 6 A SEPOY’S STORY IN FRANCE. Tmb Vow of Wariam Sin«h (By an Anglo-Indian). I found the Indian Hospital at the College des Jesuites transformed. Roads had been made in the quagmire between the blackened ruins, walls demolished, flower borders laid along the paths, and thousands
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  • 661 6 Mr. A. H. Pollen, in an article in the Sunday Times, 6ays that the first six months of the naral war has been a period in which the Brititish Navy exercised, unchallenged, complete command of the sea. Never in our history have so many of
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  • 190 6 The following was fcbe result of the shooting at Kampong Bahru on Monday afternoon 300 yds. Miss Sellers 30 Mrs Liston m 25 Miss Mathieu 22 Miss Smith 21 Mr» Wright-Motion 16 Miss M Pritchard 10 Mrs Durege 10 Miss Pritihard 4 500 yds. Miss Sellers
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  • 537 6 As tome of our readers have aske what would be the probable fate of a British merch »nt vessel which ventured to resist by force the summons to surrender of a German submarine or other warship, the following views on the subject from a London paper should
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  • 423 6 The Tannin® Industry—Opportunity in Malaya. Reference having been made in the newspapers to the serious shortage of tanning extracts in English tanneries, the Forest authorities of the Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, says the Malay States Information Agency, have been carrying out investigations with a
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  • 918 6 The tables giving the value of our trade with all Britisn possessi -ns and foreign countries during the list quarter of lUI4 which havo now beeu issued by the Bo 1 of Trade, emblo us to discover to what extent the war h- s
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 100 6 Sint? a song of Sixpence, All the blessed day, Sing a song of triumph In the old familiar way. Also don’t forget to sing 8 D B of something pure. be a song in praise OfWoods* Great Peppermint Cure. FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS CHRONIC *B ASKS. wr.t. for ERLPT10S4.PII ES.
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  • 1098 7 The New Linogi Issue—Producing» Costs or I ukit Cloh —Raw Rubber Statistics. Some surprise has been occasioned by the time chosen for the appeal for further capital of Linggi Plantations. Naturally, at this juncture the new issue is regarded t with anything but enthusiasm It is coni' tended
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  • 910 7 The Winter Solstice Worship of Heaven, 1 recently performed by tbe President of the Chinese Republic at the Temple of Heaven, 1 in Peking, has not attracted much attention r in Europe, but a correspondent of The Time* commenting on this significant event remarks that it
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    • 497 7 HOTEL NORMAN. Penang’s Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. NJi. —In the event of change of Proprietorship, the Hotel will not be closed, but will be handed over to the new tenant as a going concern. LARGE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial
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    • 77 7 A Family Necessity. Every Family should be proved with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm at ail times Sprains may be cured in much less time; when promptly treated. Lame back, lame shoulder, pains in the side and chest and rheumatic pains are some of the diseasts for j which it is especially
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    • 1689 8 n o v /C P. Wireless Telegraphy, filled on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. BRITISH INDIA TEAM NAVIGATION GO., LTD Fox Intended to Sail. Steamer. Mail Service. Homeward. Date.
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