Straits Echo, 27 April 1915

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, TIIE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 271 h APKIL, 1915. Single Copy, 10 anti. No. 94-
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  • 566 2 “OUR PRINCIPAL ENEMY.” Terms to be Imposed on Our Allies. Paris, March 26. Continuing the series of interviews with prominent Germans which it has obtained through a neutral journalist, the Echo de Paris to day publishes an account of a conversation with Herr von Richthofen, the German
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  • 337 2 A French !adv of rank who was well acquainted with the Kaiser's Court before the war told a correspondent a few days ago that William for some years has taken a particular intereot in all that occurred in France. He was au courant with all that took
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  • 880 2 Among the by-products of this war is the manufacture of* epithets by which the nations concerned express their uncomplimentary opinions of each other. It is a work, by the way, which is mainly left to nonc mbatauts, since Mr. Atkins and Muller of Pomerania are usually too occupied
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    • 92 2 The Forty Year Test. Au article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty years. Chamberlain’s Couch Remedy was first offered to the public in 1872 From a &mall beginning it has grown in favor and popularity until it has attained a world wide reputation. You will
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    • 324 2 METHYLATED SPIRITS! (Quality Guaranteed) Wholesale and Retail Price $4 per tin of 4 gallons or 22 cents put quart bottle OB I A N ABLE AT CHEAH KEE EE 6» CO., M. Ckiaa Street. Peuit oc DCJ DOC CC NIKKO MODERN ART PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. Annteun Work Devdoaed and Printed. EXPERTS
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  • 987 3 Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the above company was held the other day at the offices of the Secretaries, Messrs Boustead and Co. The notice and minutes were read The Chairman said The report and accounts having been in your possession for the prescribed period I
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  • 576 3 The Spring Handicaps. Reuter, having kept still silence as to the Lincoln and National, has seen fit to cable the result of the City and Suburban. War or peace, nothing seems to stop the Joel brothers and, Solly having won it last year with the good but
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  • 378 3 GUIDANCE FOR PASSENGERS. To The Editor of The Times. 3ir, —The British Board of Trade regulations prescribe with exactitude the number of passengers which ocean-gomg ships may carry, and that life-belts and boat accommodation sufficient for the entire complement of passengers and crew shall be provided and
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    • 437 3 “WESTMINSTER 99 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 TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! THE GRANDEST RECEPTION WILL BE HELD AT THE STRAITS
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  • 96 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Reach Street, Penang. Pbic*. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printinf Department 343 A’ 1-All business communications should bs
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  • 1355 4 From the fact that practically no Reuter’s cables were received last evening and none early this morniDg we think that it is just possible that things are moving down in the Dardanelles and that the Censor is holding back information. If any of our readers would like
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  • 760 4 Mr G. H Nash is to act as D.O. «t. I Jelebu. Mr. H. Weisberg is to be a second clas< magistrate in Jelebu. Mr. S. Richards is the new Deputy Registrar of Societies in Porak. The appointment of Mr. H. A. Small wood as Treasurer, P.M.S
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  • 986 4 We uotice that both the Pall Mall Q ot t and the Globe which certainly cannot W described as au “unpatriotic” papers,f n tinue to print full column advertisement t Sanatogeo. The hand of the Cenbor has been heavy 0 the M.S.V R. Magazine; eveu a littj D
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    • 89 4 LOOK for .jFLAG 1 on the Label. You wii! then know you are getting the British Brand, the Super Iced Cologne. Price 40 and 70 cents at the George Town Dispensary Ltd, PENAN j, TAIPING AND IPOH. ASK FOR THE SUPER BRAND. T p 8 Co. SOLE AOEKTS FOB J
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  • 635 5 (Reuter’s Service) Copyright Telegram A UNIQUE BATTLE. VIVID ACCOUNT OF THE NORTH YPRES BATTLE.; London, April 26 Despatches from Northern France state that the battle north of Ypres is unique as the first in Canada’s history and for which the Canadians can claim the glory. Canadiixis Surrounded.
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  • 532 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. Paris, April 25. A Paris communique states: The figbtiug iu Belgium continues under conditions favourable to the Allies. Two German at t teks, debouching from t Pascheudaele and Brodsunde were stopped by the British The Germans violently bombarded Ypres. We
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  • 160 5 Singapore Libel Suit. MACGREGOR vs. STRAITS TIMES.” Judgment For the Plaintiff. Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 27. In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Earnshaw delivered judgment in the libel suit brought by Mr. William Harvey Macgregor against the Straits Times Press, Ltd., and Mr. Alexander William
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  • 1010 5 Labour and Munitions or War.— So that there may be no delay in making the essential munitions of war, on which so much depends, a conference has been held between the Government and Labour representatives, at which ?5 workmen’s organisations were represented. Happily this conference succeeded in reaching
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  • 1700 5 RESUMPTION OF INQUIRY. The Marine Court of Inquiry inte the circumstances of the collision between the Straits Steamship Company’s steamer Calypso and the Eastern Shipping Company’s steamer Avagyee, which took place in the harbour on the morning of April 3, was resumed at the Governor’s Office yesterday.
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  • 150 5 At the Church of the Assumption this morning the marriage was solemnised of Mr. David S. Ferrao, Engineer, of Singapore, and Miss Emma Martha Syfrig, of the Convent. There was a large attendance in Church to witness the ceremony at which the Rev. L. M. Duvelle officiated. The
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  • 77 5 For the period from the 30th April to 6th May, 1915, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at two shillings and four pence threequarters penny per lb., and tho (duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable on
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  • 722 5 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. THE FINANCIAL POSITION. The annual general meeting of the Perak C.ub, Taiping was hold on Saturday evening. There was an exceptionally largo attendance, the Hon’blo the British Resident (Hou’ble R G. Watson, C. M. G.), ex officio Preside ut, presided. After the minutes of the
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  • 42 5 April 24 By Balance $16,209.66 26 Staff of Messrs. R. Young, April subscription 100 00 G. Smith Steinmetz, April subscription for Home Fund 20.00 Balance, April 26 ...$16,329.66 Remitted to London on 24 2-15 X’lo,ooo
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  • 41 5 April 23 By Balance 629 90 26 Anonymous 100.00 Proceeds from Concert held in Taiping on 27th March, 1915, per Mrs. S. C. G. Fox 653.74 Balance, April 26 $1,383 64 Amount previously acknowledged 11,744.74 I Total ...$13,128.38
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  • 3611 6 GERMAN RECORD OF SUCCESS. At War with Truth. We publish to day from the Times the second part of the article contributed by General von Bernhardi, the famous Ger man military writer, to the New York Sun.” In this article the author of Germany and the Next
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  • 288 6 The followiug telegram from Mr. Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Hia Excellency the Governor, dated April 20, is published in the Government Qazttte, for general information Having now received full report as to riot I desire to associate myself with all
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  • 961 6 Facts to be Faced. When in the Middle Ages the first serious effort was made to reform the English law which forbids the legitimising of children born out of wedlock by the subsequent, marriage of the parents the Barons of England returned the famous answer, Nolumus
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  • 454 6 William the Sudden." A CHARACTER SKETCH OF THE KAISEii AS HE IS. Impetuous Disposition. The April Fortnihgtly Review contains a very readable article entitled William the Sudden,” in which, by anecdote and observation, a picture of the Kaiser is presented by Anne Topham, author of Memoirs of Kaiser’s Court.” The
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  • 390 6 The following was the result of the shooting at Kampong Bahru on Monday afternoon Deliberate Firing. 100 150 200 Total yds. yds. yds. Miss Mathieu (winner) 32 33 23 88 Mrs Wright-Motion. 31 31 23 85 Miss Smith 31 31 21 83 Mrs Liston 32 29
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  • 235 7 How strange it now seems that girls at one time cultivated pale, sickly-looking faces. Better sense prevails to-day and no beauty with a rosy tinge of health would willingly sacrifice this natural charm; still there are many girls who have no roses” on their cheeks,
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  • 311 7 A GERMAN VIEW OF HIS CHARACTER. Unequal to his Task Amsterdam. March 26. The Cologne Gazette prints a short article on Lord Kitchener, iu which the journal remarks that the man who is commanding the British armies against Germany deserves all the more attention. because nothing much is
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  • 579 7 For the first time a clear, complete, and unimpeachable history of the first six months of war in the West has been supplied from a French source obviously in close relation to General Joffre. It is a narrative of extraordinaty interest, but it is ra‘her with the warning
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  • 1055 7 Whether the Germans win or lose, says j the Cologne Gazette, they are essentially j superior to the English. That is silly, of course, but it is worth our while to note why the Cologne Gazette thinks the Germans superior. We may igDore their talk
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