Straits Echo, 13 April 1915
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Title Section37 1915-04-13 1 Straits Echo I I DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 13th APRIL, 19 IS. Single Copy, It coati. No. 8237 words
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Advertisement1008 1915-04-13 1 rassassns» «1121 siimi* a ■SJ?6 «XV p sv age "TJ q, The Doctor advises ami recoin < q mends. [t is nourishing, inri- gorating and strengthening. «■a. naasißit. .lasisiiaim I *ie»ls ramniM) i t Uq Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. NOW ON SHOW One 5 Seater EMPIRE CAR1,008 words
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Article1846 1915-04-13 2 FORCES MORAL AND MATERIAL. Numbers and Losses. [By A Military Correspondent Success and failure in war depend upon the moral and material forces at the disposal of the combatants. Clausewitz has declared that the chief moral forces are the talents of the Commander, the military virtues of1,846 words
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Advertisement846 1915-04-13 2 NOTICE. Mohammedan and Hindu Endowments Board. TENDERS are invited for the pulling down of houses Nos. 220/230 Penang Road and for the construction of 4 Dew shephousea in front of the Sri Kunji Bahari Temple at Penang Road. Plans and Specifications can be aeen at the Land Office, or at846 words
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Advertisement92 1915-04-13 2 The Forty Tar Tat. An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty Chamberlain’s Couch Remedy was first offered to the public in 1872 From a small beginning it has grown in favor and popularity until it has attained a world wide reputation. You will find92 words
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Advertisement47 1915-04-13 2 Serves the Whole Family. The fame of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is world wide. It is good for the deep seated cough of the adult or the croup and whooping cough of the children. The same bottle serves the whole family. For ■ale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.47 words
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Advertisement440 1915-04-13 2 o< —--1 JZDi j-Z-~-izioc. ->ocz r:- ro PALMER CYCLE TYRES. I X u The Best in the Market R. T. REID Co., Sole Agents 25, Beach Street, Penuvf. Q<2- Z3>v. >c_-:--Trrmrr ->nrr. h~-- >n •’OB THE FOLLOWING APPLY TO CHIN SENG 8 Co., Ltd., nuwnusinni. L, Rustoff Metal Polish thoroughly440 words
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Article1106 1915-04-13 3 THE MAN OF YPRES. A PHILOSOPHER AND STRATEGIST. In one of his latest published dispatches Bir John French mentions General Foch as one of those tchose valuable help and support he has “once more gratefully to acknowledge." (PROM A PARIS CORRESPONDENT.) One might hare been pardoned for expecting1,106 words
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Article177 1915-04-13 3 ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR. I PRAISE FOR GERMAN PRISONERS. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, April 11. A general parade of the Singapore Garrison was held on Saturday, including the Johore forces with H. H. the Sultan, the police, the special constables and the armed civilians. His Excellency177 words
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Article64 1915-04-13 3 t From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, April 12. The wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Saturday of Mr. A. H. Todd, Managing Clerk of Messrs. Drew aud Napier, and Miss Marjorie Roy Cameron. The Rev. Mr. Peile officiated. The couple, who left by the s.s.64 words
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Article42 1915-04-13 3 Tkaaksfiviag Service. <from Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 12. Yesterday (Sunday) morning Saint Andrew’s Cathedral was crowded, the whole of the garrison, including the Volunteers, being present at special military thanksgiving service. The Rov. Mr. Peile preached the sermon.42 words
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Article54 1915-04-13 3 (From Our Oion Correspondent.) Singapore, April 12. On Saturday evening Lieutenant Moss, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who was recently Sergeant-Major of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, was entertained at dinner by the Senior N.C.O’s. of the S.V.C., who paid a tribute to his efforts to promote the54 words
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Article184 1915-04-13 3 The following was the result of the shooting at Kampong Bahru on Monday afternoon Deliberate Fieinu. h’cap. 150 yds. Total, spoon shoot. Mrs Mudie 9 25 34 Miss Smith 4 29 33 Mrs Durege 6 26 32 Miss Mathieu 5 26 31 Miss Sellers 7 24184 words
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Advertisement497 1915-04-13 3 oc DOC DC DC NIKKO MODERN ART PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. f Amateurs’ Work Developed and Printed. EXPERTS SENT for OUT-DOOR PHOTOCRA?HY. P Mahogany and Oak Frames a Speciality. Annaess: r 21, Penang Road. Telephone 579. COMPARE OUR PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT WITH OTHERS You will be convinced that you are having THE BIGGEST497 words
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Advertisement377 1915-04-13 3 “WESTMINSTER TURKISH CIGARETTES. Above the chaos of impending ills Through all the clamour of insistent strife Now while the noise of arming nations fills Each throbbing hour with menaces to life I hear the voice of Progress. Wilcox oc 30C ALLEN DENNYS CO., Penang, 39 1 PROPKICTOKS OP THE PENANG377 words
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Article, Illustration96 1915-04-13 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THU CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo 586 Printing Department 543 A r All businww communications should96 words
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Article1506 1915-04-13 4 On e again there lias been a revival of German peace talk and once again the United States have been selected as the stage from which to utter it, though this time the exhortations have been put into the mouth of the Popo, whereas last year Mr.1,506 words
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Article482 1915-04-13 4 HALF-YEARLY MEETING. The Hon. Mr. A. R Adams presided at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Turf Club which was held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon to receive the statement of accounts for the half-year ended February 28 There were present besides Captain M icintyre482 words
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Article135 1915-04-13 4 It would appear that a good deal of seditious literature manages somehow to find its way into Penang—the sort of sedition that converts every fight, naval and land, into a great German victory, that, reckoning by the number of ships alleged to have been lost, has annihilated the135 words
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35 1915-04-13 4 April 10 By Balance ...$14,110.90 12 Staff of Asiatic Petroleum Co. at Bagan Luar, April subscription 17.15 Balance April 12 ...$14,128 05 Remitted to London on 24-2-15 .£lO,OOO35 words
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Article27 1915-04-13 4 April 10 By Balance 485.50 12 Mrs. A. B. Voules, 3rd contribution 15.00 Balance April 12. 500 50 Amount previously acknowledged 11,744.74 Total ...$12,*****27 words
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Article100 1915-04-13 4 For F.M.5. Men at the Front. (From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumaur, April 13. 11. H. the Sultan of Pahang is sending to every man who has gone home from the F. M S. to serve in the war in any capacity a silver pipe-lighter engraved,100 words
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Article970 1915-04-13 4 Our latest copy of the Navy List is that for January, February’s issue not having been issued to the bookselling trado or the general public. only mention it contains of the Botha is this 74 Botha, Flotilla Leader. Eng. Lieut.-Com. Ed. J. 0.’ B. Croker 23rd Oot., 14.970 words
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Advertisement159 1915-04-13 4 A ONT THE SUPER ICED COLOGNE. The FIRST BRITISH Preparation on Sale in this market. Sales are increasing rapidly and we have numerous testimonials to the Excellence of this article. ASK FOR THE SUPER BRAND. Price 40 and 70 cents. AT ANY OF THE BRANCHES OF THE George Town Dispensary159 words
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Article556 1915-04-13 5 (Reuter’s Service) Copyright Telegram. DEMANDS OF THE YOUNG TURKS. London, April 12. According to the well-informed Sofia correspondent of the Times, the recent missions of Marshal Yon der Goltz and Halil Bev to Berlin was in connection with an urgent demand of the Young Turks that556 words
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Article590 1915-04-13 5 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CIRCUMSTANTIAL REPORTS. GUN FLASHES SEEN. Christiania, April 12. The ciptain of the steamer Vestfos reports that while on a voyage from Manchester oa Wedaesday he passed, seventy miles west of Utsire, fourteen large German cruisers which were steaming northward. The Wilots,590 words
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Article529 1915-04-13 5 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. THE WORKMAN S. REPLY. WILL DO HIS BIT London, April 12. At a meeting at Newcastle the delegates °f twenty-one engineering and shipbuilding trade-unions sent a message to Mr. H. H. Asquith, welcoming tho appointment of a Munitions Committee and saying “We529 words
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Article270 1915-04-13 5 PRESENTATION TO MR. GIBSOV. 1 From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 13. To-day Mr. W. S. Gibson, the Civil District Judge, was the recipient of an address, contained in a handsome silver casket, from tho Pertk Chinese. Mr. Cheih Koe Ee. in presenting the address, said that Mr.270 words
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Article81 1915-04-13 5 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys Co. by auction and private treaty to-day. 37,300 lbs were sold Diamond smoked sheet 3125 to 3128 Plain 3119 3122 Unsmofeed sheet 3H6 3119 Fine Pale Crepe 3125 Medium Pale Crepe 3124 Pale Brown Crepe81 words
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Article388 1915-04-13 5 P .C.C. Tennis Tournament. The Championship. A very interesting game was witnessed on the Esplanade yesterday evening when the final for the Championship between W. H. Threlfall (holder) and H. G. R. Leonard was played off. Threlfall, who won by 6—2, 6 —3, 7—5, retains the Championship. There were many388 words
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Article2096 1915-04-13 5 The Transpoet Service. —Wfaea tho history of the war comes to be written, an interesting chapter should be that on sea transport—a department in war service which has to ba largely improvised when the need arises, and in which no country but England could do what has been2,096 words
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Obituary55 1915-04-13 5 Obituary. (Reuter,) London, April 12. The death has taken place of Lt.-General Samuel Holt Lomax. [Lt. General S. H. Lomax was born in 1855 and entered the army in 1874. He was appointed a Colonel in 1901 and a Maj General in 1908. He was A A G. of the55 words
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Article1144 1915-04-13 6 HOW WE TREAT THEM AND WHAT THEY SAY. A Personal Visit. Just now there is a good deal of justifiable indignation at the treatment of prisoners, both military and civil, in Germany, and everyone is naturally asking how it comes about that whileour enemies display the greatest harshness1,144 words
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Article829 1915-04-13 6 KING CONSTANTINE AND HIS NEW PREMIER. A Difficult Position. By Percy F- Martin F.Ii.G.S. (Author of “Greece of the XXth Century The Greeks have tarried long before deciding to appear upon the stage where the great tragedy of the world is being enacted but before the829 words
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Article966 1915-04-13 6 To TiK Editor or the Strait* Time* Sir, —I thank you for publishing my letter on the above subject in your paper of yesterday’s date, but after reading your comments on it I note with regret that you approve of the system employed by the railway.966 words
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Article428 1915-04-13 6 Birlet Vindicated. In those days before the war we used to have lots of fuuuy notions aud theories. One of them I have often heard discussed was whether shooting at Bisley really did make for the real practical marksmanship some people said it did. I have heard men428 words
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Article422 1915-04-13 6 A Costly Production. A very good description of the much-dis-cussed Zeppelin airships is given in Tit Bits. “In appearance,” the article begins, a Zeppelin resembles a long, narrow pencil with sixteen sides, its exact measurements being 400 ft. long and 50 ft. iu diameter. If a Zeppelin were422 words
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Article919 1915-04-13 6 Annual Report. The following is the Directors’ report to Shareholders to be submitted at the Annual j General Meeting in Singapore on the 24thj instant: Gentlemen, Your Directors submit herewith a duiy audited Statement of the Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31st January, 1915.919 words
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Article659 1915-04-13 6 The Boom in America. America is in the throes of a golf boom, the extensiveness of which promises to eclipse anything in the history of the game. Ex-President Taft, himself an enthusiastic player, once expressed a hope to see the time when public courses would be offered to659 words
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Article394 1915-04-13 6 At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. R. Scott, yesterday, (1) Lim Ah Ee, (2) Lim Joo Kwang and (3) Lim Ah Pang were charged with voluntarily causing hurt to their compatriot Lim Ah Hock. Accused No. 3, Lim Ah Pang, was convicted and sentenced to394 words
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Advertisement11 1915-04-13 6 OfeUdma’a Hacking Comgh at Night, W<v,d*’.Or*»t Pappar trust Cara It, £<s11 words
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Advertisement64 1915-04-13 6 A Parent’s Duty. Tour boy is always getting scratched or cut ro bruised. Because these wounds have healed all right is no sign thev always will. Get a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and see that, every injury is cared for immediately. You can get nothing better, and blood poison64 words
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Article219 1915-04-13 7 Usually Mian* Rheumatism. Do not worry about a pain in your back. The worry will do you more harm than the pain. Serious diseases of the kidneys seldom or never produce such pains, while the cause of most backache is muscular rheumatism, which is painful enough,219 words
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Article1085 1915-04-13 7 THE BRILLIANT WORK OF M GEORGES SCOTT. J By G. Ward Price. i Paris, February 25. Generations to come, looking back on this I will feel keenly the difficulty of reconI dtructing its scenes. Formal despatches, reminiscences compiled when it is all over, I letters written from1,085 words
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Article959 1915-04-13 7 No deprivation will be more felt by the Germans than that of potatoes. Hans and Minna are passionately attached to the tuberous root, either in the form of kartoffel-salat or fried with veal cutlets. They would almost rather part with their beloved sausage than with their potato. And959 words
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Advertisement369 1915-04-13 7 HOTEL NORMAN. Penang's Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. N.Tt.— ln 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. URGE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers. Colonial369 words
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Advertisement50 1915-04-13 7 Muddy Complexion. When you see a woman with a muddy or 6allow complexion and dull eyes, you may know that her liver is out of order. A few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets will correct it and make her look better and feel better. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.50 words
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Advertisement145 1915-04-13 7 OCDC 0 n DOC DOC DOC DOcsooOC BY ROYAL 1 APPOINTMENT. Contractors -to: THE ADMIRALTY. THE WAR OFFICE. THE INDIA OFFICE. n o n r\ o r\ ALL Government Hospitals IN THE Straits Settlements AND Federated Malay States. MI V i 8 5*E AND ALL Leading Hospitals U 0 O145 words
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Advertisement1830 1915-04-13 8 m BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION GO., LTD. Fob Wireless Telegraphy, fitted 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. Intbndbd to Sail. Stbambb. Singapore. (Three times a week). Sat, 10th Apr,1,830 words
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