Straits Echo, 1 May 1915
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Straits Echo
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Title Section35 1915-05-01 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annucrj. PENANG, SATURDAY, Ist MAY, 1915. Sinjle Copy, 10 cnili. No. 9835 words
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Advertisement1041 1915-05-01 1 •u a TIANG LEE 6* CO., Pi'Bin] V KuiU Lon^iir. rntt«niai27! vn I** BE Ui s&dGSSSIS ti- n •'V g 2 The Debtor advises nnd recoin- i? S infolds. Tt is nouri.-hing, inn- J goratiug and strengthening. o Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. NOW ON SHOW One 51,041 words
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Advertisement16 1915-05-01 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QOIET b HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.16 words
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Article2123 1915-05-01 2 yfrom Our Own Correspondent i London, April 2nd. t A century ago was born Bismarck, the future mau of blood and iron, the man who i cemented the German Confederacy with blood and bonded it with bonds of steel. His life was spent in penectiug the military, naval2,123 words
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Advertisement162 1915-05-01 2 oc DOC T-—n n PALMER CYCLE TYRES. The Best in the Market R. T. REID Co.. Sole Agents. 23, Beach Street, Penang. oc DOC DO AUSTRALIAN Sterilized Milk 16 cents per pint tin. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED, PENANG. telegrams: STORAGE Telephone No. 602. <r c C MOTOR GIBAGE CHIN162 words
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Advertisement65 1915-05-01 2 A Parent’s Duty. Your boy is always getting scratched 01 cut ro bruised. Because these wounds Lave healed all right is no sign they always will. Get a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and see that every injury is cared for immediately. You tan get nothing better, and blood poison65 words
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Advertisement312 1915-05-01 2 Muddy Complexion. When vpu see a woman with a muddy or sallow complexion and dull eyes, you uray know that her iiver is out of order. A few doses of Chamberlain’s Tablets will coirect it and make her look better and feel 1 otter. For s.tlo by all Dispensaries and312 words
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Advertisement532 1915-05-01 2 3XT OTICE T HE usual monthly sale of Pawnbrokers’ X forfeited pledges for sums exceeding SlO will be held punctually at 11 o’clor-w a m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Fridav a l Saturday, thesth, t>tb, 7th and Bth prox>,, respectively at No. -4 2, Beach Street The above forfeited pledges may532 words
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Article659 1915-05-01 3 Tom Weight. ] - [By Tom Weight.] The Cambridge Magazine reports the Venerable Archdeacon Cunningham as quoting with approval an Austrian opiuion that Liberals, Socialists, and Pacifists generally are worse than Jews.” Whereupon between a hundred and 150 Cambridge fellows left the meeting in protest. There was an indignation meeting outside, and659 words
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Article310 1915-05-01 3 (To the Editor of the Free Prets). Sir, —Reverting to the article by "J. C. G.” published in your issue of to-day’s date as a Messmate” I must take distinct exception to the reference to mess life in Singapore. Your contributor must be one of a very310 words
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Article492 1915-05-01 3 Sergt. Simpson Killed, Ptb. Peate Wounded. A letter received in Singapore from Sergt. Champlain, K.0.Y.L.1., at the frent, records the death from wounds in action of Sergt. Simpson, K.0Y.L.1. Both these men left the regiment here (says the Singapore evening paper) on expiry of their service492 words
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53 1915-05-01 3 April 29 By Balance ...$16,908.51 30 Employees of Malakoff Rubber Co. and Malakoff Plantations Co ,Ld.,sth monthly subscription 110.00 Chinese Staff, Chartered Bank... 32.30 Municipal Staff, 7th instalment 384.80 Penang Band, sth instalment 18 90 Balance, April 30 ...$17,454.01 Remitted to London on53 words
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Article27 1915-05-01 3 April 29 By Balance $1,408.64 30 A. L Jumeaux, 3rd contribution... 5 00 Balance, April 30. $1,413 64 Amount previously acknowledged 11,744.74 Total ...$13,158.3827 words
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Article70 1915-05-01 3 Ladies’ Monthly Medal for April, 1915. Result. Mrs Sellars 46 43=89 24=65 Miss Fletcher 48 44=92—24=68 Miss Mahler... 40+41 =Bl 12=69 Mrs Brereton Martin 41 38=79 7= 72 Mrs Hoefeld 49 42=91—16=75 Mrs Crabb Watt, Mrs Smith Steiumetz, Mrs CrichtoD, Miss BrowD, Miss Barnett, Mrs Pritchard, and70 words
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Article26 1915-05-01 3 4th Sunday after Easter, May 2. 8-00 a.m. Matins No celebration 600 p m. Evensong Psalms As arranged Hymns 235, 540, 3126 words
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Article36 1915-05-01 3 Services will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Northam Road, to-morrow: at 9 a.m Specially for children at 6 p.m., Public Worship for all. Hymns (from Church Praise) 12, 328, 434, 242, 494.36 words
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Article42 1915-05-01 3 The following subscriptions for the Air Fleet Fund, Ipoh, have been reesved Gan Gnoh Bee, for Kinta Craft... $5OO Gan Gnoh Bee PenaDg 500 Tye Kee Yoon do 500 Cheab Chen Eok do *5O H. Y. Edwards do 2$42 words
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Advertisement336 1915-05-01 3 -J < U 1 (A O Ui Q£ -1 < U Id a. (A (A w z < z < X a D OQ o </> _i < SCOTCH WHISKY SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT' x «mesboSESS^^:: K X pn 90 t*l BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY ■o S 3336 words
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Advertisement367 1915-05-01 3 “WESTMINSTER” TURKISH CIGARETTES. a Above the chaos of impending ills Through all the clamour of insistent strife Now while the noise of arming nations tills Each throbbing hour with menaces to life I hear the voice of Progress. Wilcox. J) For something striking, you should come to the Polyscope To-night.367 words
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Article, Illustration95 1915-05-01 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THS CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Paic*. Daily Local $24 per annnm Outstation... Postage Extra, lfail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 KB.— All business communication* should b*95 words
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Article1387 1915-05-01 4 That the forcing of the Dardanelles could only be achieved by means of those combined operations known as amphibious warfare,” that is, by a strong landing force covered and supported by an adequate fleet, was recognised from the first by all except the few1,387 words
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Article867 1915-05-01 4 From among the verses composed by Haruko, widow of the late Emper of Japar. the following have been selected te b' engraved on the portals of the Girls High Schools throughout the Empre:— The diamond’s best rays Flash from the carved stone So genius wins praise By labour867 words
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Article379 1915-05-01 4 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS SPIRIT DUTY DOUBLED London, April 29. In the House of Commons, M r Ll OV( j George introduced the Government’s p, 0 posals on the question of drink. The duty en spirits would be doubled that on light beers would remain379 words
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Article75 1915-05-01 4 Th* Government Attitude. {Reuter.) London, April 29. In the House of Commons, Mr. JoyusonHicks, Unionist member for Manchester, strongly urged the Government to allow the use of more cable codes especially with the Dominions and India. He declared the present limitations were crippling trade. The Government replied that75 words
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Article52 1915-05-01 4 (Reciter.) London, April 29. In the House of Commons, Mr. L. Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies, announced that no substantial loan towards the railway extension to Lake Nyasa could be expected at present. He hped that the servey might be undertaken towards the end of52 words
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Article14 1915-05-01 4 {Reuter.) Petrograd, April 28. The Tsar has arrived at Odessa.14 words
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Article98 1915-05-01 4 Finding of the Court. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 30. The Marine Court of Inquiry into the circumstances of the stranding of tl lo s.s. Glenroy on the Fallodan Hall Shoal on April 7, found that the stranding was contributed to by the wrongful act98 words
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Advertisement93 1915-05-01 4 Somewhere in the North :iea, the BRITISH FLEET, last seen (and felt) off the Dogger Bank on 24th January. Finder will be suitably rewarded. VON TIRPITZ. The substitute PAR EXCELLENCE lor German Ice Water THE BRITISH SUPER ICED COLOGNE. Instantly Cures Headaches. Price 40 and 70 cents from the George93 words
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458 1915-05-01 5 many prisoners CAPTURED. Athens, April 29. The Allies yesterday successfully continued their operations at Suvla Bay on the coast somewhat to the north of the Narrows, where they captured au entire battalion of Turks. Warships Forging Ahead. London, April 30, 5 a.m. The Daily458 words
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Article789 1915-05-01 5 HOW THE FORTS WERE SILENCED, London, April 30, 5.50 a.m. A correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, who was at Rabbit Islands in the Darda-1 nelles on April 26, witnessed the bombardment by the Allied Fleet and sends a graphic description of it. At midday, he says, the789 words
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Article601 1915-05-01 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram FURIOUS BRITISH OFFENSIVE. London, April 30. Despatches from Rotterdam state that the fighting on the Yser-Lys Canal is continuing most furiously, the British attacking constantly in increasing strength. The British also took the offensive in the district ef La Basses where they never601 words
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Article1294 1915-05-01 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. THE FIGHT NORTH OF YPRES. GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. London, April 30. The Eye-Witness attached to the British Headquarters states: “The German plan was a sudden onslaught to the south-west, with the object of gaining the crossings of the canal south of Bixschoote and getting well1,294 words
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Article306 1915-05-01 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegrams. CHILD’S HARROW ESCAPE. London, Liter. It is unknown whether it was a Zeppelin or an aeroplane that visited Ipswich. Of several bombs which were dropped there one of an incondiary character fell on a house nccupiod by a family of three and into306 words
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Article404 1915-05-01 5 A Favourite's Wia. (Reuter.) London, April 30. The following was the result of the second great classic race of the season, run yesterday at the Newmarket First Spring Meeting:— The One Thousand Guineas Stakes of 100 sovs each, h. f., for three-year-old filliep, 9st. each. Rous mile404 words
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Article1697 1915-05-01 6 Complete List or Names. The Colonial Secretary haß fowarded to us for publication the following lists of names of those gentlemen who hare gone home in connection with the war and whose passages hare been paid by the Government. The lists are complete to April 30th, 1915.1,697 words
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Article2117 1915-05-01 6 EVIDENCE IN MALAKA PINDA CASE. Officials Attacked Bt Coolies. Wfien the Malaga Piuda case was resumed yesterday betore Mr. Justice Woodward, at the Malacca Assizes, little time was occupied (says the Straits Times in deciding whether the various charges should be taken together or heard separately according to2,117 words
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Article1383 1915-05-01 6 CONCLUSION OF INQUIRY. The Marine Court of Inquiry into the circumstances of the collision between the Straits Steamship Company’s steamer Calypso and the Eastern Shipping Company's steamer Avagyee, which took place j iu the harbour on the morning of April 3, j was concluded in the Harbour1,383 words
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Article417 1915-05-01 6 A correspondent writes from Florence:— The position just now in Italy is extremely interesting, though nothing big is happening, nor, indeed, is likely to happen immediately. For all the lull in the surface currents, stilled since the rising of the Chamber for the Easter recess to May 10.417 words
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Article141 1915-05-01 6 Golf Club, 5-45 to 7-15 p.m, Saturday Ist May, 1915. 1 Selection Gondoliers Sulliran 2 Serenade La Paloma Tradier 3 Selection Madame Sherry Felix 4 Waltz The Dancing Mistress Higgs Japanese Patrol Yerre 6 March lAm the Man Bilton. It is reported that the British Minister in China141 words
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Advertisement93 1915-05-01 6 The Forty Year Test. An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty yea> s. Chamberlain’s Coutrli 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. You93 words
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Advertisement53 1915-05-01 6 Tell me not in mournful wheezes Life is but an empty dream, For the man is sick who sneezes. And things are not what they seem. Life is real life is earnest, Of this fact you may ba suie, Eut precious little will ail you After taking Woods’ Great Pepper53 words
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Article1122 1915-05-01 7 SIGNS OF WEAR AND TEAR. The Die-Hard Spirit. The writer of this article is a neutral man of business who has connexions in general parts of Germany, where he spentmuch time before the war. Since last August he has made several visits to Germany, lasting mere than1,122 words
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Article290 1915-05-01 7 Among foreign residents in the Far East the belief in purgatives as a panacea for half the ills of mankind is a firmly rooted fallacy. At times purgatives are necessary but their habitual use weakens the whole system and means ultimate ruin to the digestion. The cause290 words
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Article983 1915-05-01 7 Long ago, before that curtain which hides Old England with the splendour of her quaint customs and pageantry dropped, May Day was celebrated with great festivi ties. There was a general holiday, and masters and ’preutice lads or farm hands, as the case was, together made983 words
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Advertisement41 1915-05-01 7 Chamberlain’s Tablets. 1 hese Tablets are intended especially f< r disorders of tho stomach, liver aud bowels if you are troubled with heartburn, indigestion or constipation they will do you good r y them, For Bale by all Dispousaiies and Deaitri,41 words
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Advertisement204 1915-05-01 7 HOTEL NORMAN, Penang’s Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. N.Ti. —In the event of change of Proprietorship, the Hotel will not be closed, but will be handed over to the new tenant ai a going concern. LARGE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under tho patronage of H.M, Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial204 words
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Advertisement48 1915-05-01 7 Serves the Whole Family. Tho fame of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is world wide. It is good for the d op ?e-»ted cough cf the adult or the croup and whooping cough of the children. The aarru» bottle serves the whole family. For •ale by al! Dispensaries and Dealers48 words
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Advertisement1946 1915-05-01 8 i P vV NT Wireless Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. AH 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 STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Fo* Intendsd to Sail. Mail Service Homeward. Date. Steamer. Connecting1,946 words
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