Straits Echo, 6 May 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 6th MAY, 1915. Siegle Copj, 10 cents.' No. 102
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    • 1125 1 *1«"* 19 i 3319NV1A x tc*w «a «xnxwf aimsw*i oy{ fc:4\ 1 \:Z%> ym/r*' V X* -<■ Tt To tor advises and recomq mend*. It is nourishing, mri- trorating and strengthening. B M a «R.'IRA-I'JS *1 L 91 r I Irisk Had fai*ftcsi Stest. Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang
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    • 16 1 TO LET, 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET tf HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Bench Street.
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  • 1878 3 A NEW CRUSADE. Br E B Osbokn. It has been suggested by on*) of my correspondents that no Christian ought to j >in an i.ssbciation which aims at narrowing the fiditiesof life and living for any section of mankind. In other words, he couteuds that ihe Anti-German
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    • 91 3 The Forty Yesr Test. An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty years. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy was first offered to the public ir. 1872 Prom a small beginniug it has grown in favor and popularity until 't has attaired a world wide reputation. You will
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    • 234 3 PTiEnm m m. PENANG. 3* SINGAPORE. IPOH. KUALA LUMPUR. W r r 5 Rubber Factories Rubber Mills. V GAS, OIL S PRODUCER ENGINES. SEMI DIESEL CRUDE OIL ENGINES. 6ENTRIFUGAL 8 PISTON PUMPS. WATER, GAS 8 STEAM PIPES 8 FITTINGS. BELTING 8 ENGINE OIL. mmmm i. ****************************** n n u a
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  • 1100 4 “REALIZING THE WAR.” (From A “Times” Corresfondbnt.) j When the Tim»» declares that the country does not fully realize that it is at war, it is far nearer the truth thau it suspects. Take the case of Our Town. We live in what I may describe as a
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  • 611 4 Scene in the Prison. We have already reported briefly the verdict and sentence of the Field General Court Martial in the Manscor treason case, but the following more detailed account from the Singapore evening paper of what actually took place when the sentence on the traitor was
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  • 41 4 May 3 By Balance 17,699.31 4 Asiatic Staff of Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd, monthly subscription 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. O M monthly subscription 10.00 Balance, May 4 ...$17,719.31 Remitted to London on 24-2-15 10,000
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  • 80 4 May 3 By Balance $1,518.64 4 Mr. and Mrs O. M., monthly subscription 5.00 By Balance, May 4 $1,523.64 Amount previously acknowledged 11,744.74 Total ...$13,268.38 Busant Singh was charged in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court last Saturday with the murder of S *rgeant-Major Guggat Singh, an acting
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    • 137 4 WARNINC. All persons are cautioned against making unauthorised use of Reuter's Service of News, and any person or persons found infringing the Copyright Ordinance of the Straits Settle- ments will be strictly dealt with in accordance with the provisions of that Ordinance. REUTER. P**nng. GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD.
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    • 77 4 nnnc >n< >n< monC">n«DCDnnnCZZIDnc .'r~H)nt zpnnnczr )nanciziz)nczziz>acDnn»»n(ZDnnc DnczzzDann INSURE YOUR Motor Cars Motor Cycles AND Commercial Vehicles with the Company that specialises in MOTOR INSURANCE. THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITER. (Under the auspices of the Automobile Association and Motor Union,) For full particulars regarding rates etc., apply to Agents:
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  • 1361 5 Another Warning Speculation about what is happening in Kelantan would be futile. All we are concerned with for the moment ia that trouble of aome description has arisen and that it has been considered expedient, as a precautionary measure, to Bend up a small militaryforce from
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  • 776 5 i'o lue Editor of tub Malay AJaU.] Sir, —before any further steps are takeu with regard to the F. M. £3. CouvaKsjtnt Home, might I bo ailowid to make a tuggestion. The assistance that it is proposed tc give is obviously not going to make auy difference
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    • 236 5 _1 < ill </) o Id O' -I < u id Q. in < X o 3 CD o </) _i < UCHA 9 S SCOTCH WHISKY !ittM?.aSßyl rl- SCOTCH JAMES X giasoo^ 6 SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ r*i 90 e»j ft* BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY 99 ■o
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    • 411 5 Sm& i y/ 1 Because of its delicate aroma and sweetness of flavour Sweet Chestnut Tobacco assures that pleasing contentment. THE CRITERION OF QUALITY. "Vw 'O r to nS 2 r For all round satisfaction in programme, come to the Polyscope. The Electric Polyscope Co., Lyceum Theatre, Argyll Road. TO-NIGHT!
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  • 96 6 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THU CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Prick. Daily Local $24 per annum. Out station... Postage Extra. Mai! Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRE9S ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 A’ B.— All business communication*
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  • 18 6 Herbert Jenkins —Ou 1st May, at Taiping, the wife of Herbert Jenkins, of Matang, of a son.
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  • 1137 6 It is when Eye-witness goes into the by-ways of his business as sole and special correspondent of the Press Bureau that he is probtbly most interesting. When he ielates the deeds of derring-do of our army iu Flanders he has the whole world for audience, but, to
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  • 40 6 Sumatra Consolidated Rubber Estates, Ltd. 20,014 Bukit Mertajam Rubber Co., Ltd.... 37,344 Taiping Rubber Plantations, Ltd 34.320 Sungei Siput Rubber Plantations, Ltd. 8,645 Sungei Reyla (F M.S.) Rubber Estate, Ltd. 6.531 Lahat Rubber Company, Limited 2,516
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  • 42 6 May 4 By Balance ...$17,719 31 5 R B Osborne, monthly subscription 25 00 Employees of United Engineers, Ld., monthly subscription 41 00 Balance May 5. ...$17,785 31 Remitted to London on 24 2-15 10,000
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  • 858 6 His Excellency the Governor leaves Ku ili Lumpur on his return to Singapore by the mail train on Friday night. The Perak staff of the Straits Trading Co Ltd entertain d Mr. E. F. Mauldon at a farewell dinner at Ipoh on Friday before his departure for
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  • 39 6 The following statement is issued with the consent of His Excellency the Governor for public information Affairs in Kelantan are not likely to take any serious aspect, the disturbance, which was purely local, being practically at an end
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  • 990 6 Better late than never! Atlaste»« Singapore Club is to move in the •‘Alien Enemy Members,” as witness* h* following notice which appears i n the 9 pore papers Singapore Club Notice is given that an extraordinary ral meeting of the members of the clnh Jm? held at 5.15
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    • 112 6 Somewhere in the North Sea, the BRiTISH FLEET, last seen (and felt) off the Dogger Bank on 24th January. Finder will be suitably rewarded. VON TIRPITZ. FOUND The substitute PAR EXCELLENCE for German Ice Water THE BRITISH SUPER ICED COLOGNE. Instantly Cures Headaches, Price 40 and 70 cents from the
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  • 578 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram GROUND GAINED. Paris, May 4, .*>.4o p m. A Paris communique states Yesterday night, the British repulsed an attack northward of Ypres. We gained ground at Bagatelle.” New British Lint. London, May 4, 10.55 p m. An official announcement states: Field-Marshal Sir John
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  • 705 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. SIR JOHN FRENCH’S DESPATCH. METHODS OF OPERATION. London, May 4. Field Marshal Sir John French, in his report on the me of poisonous gases by the enemy, said that these gases had been ejected from pipes laid in the trenches and also by shells
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  • 778 7 (Reuter's Service) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN CLAIMS REFUTED. A RUSSIAN VICTORY. Petrograd, May 5. A Petrograd communique does not con- firm the Austro German claim of a great victory in Galicia. The communique states A series of battles developed on Sunday and Monday in Galicia from the Vistula
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  • 854 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. DETERMINED ENEMY ATTACKS London, May 4. The Press Bureau states that on the nights of Mly 1 and May 2 the enemy in the Dardanelles attacked our positions strongly, determinedly, and in mass, constantly briuging up fresh troops All Repulsed, The Allies not repulsed
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  • 262 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. COLLIER TORPEDOED. London, May 5. The British collier Minterne was torpedoed off the Scilly Islands without warning Two firemen were killed. Shelled by Submarine. A German submarine in the North Sea shelled a Grauton trawhr and killed four men on .the bridge. The
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  • 426 7 In MalayaA club conversation: The tukang ayer said he had a hari besar on and wanted two days’ leave. I told him he could go if he found a ginti Then he asked for his gaji, bat I hadn’t got the duits ou me. I
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  • 375 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CHANCELLOR’S SPEECH. TAXATION UNCHANGED. London, May 4. Li the House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd Geo.ge, in his Budget speech, said that the taxation would be unchanged. Duration of tbe War. The time was incouvtnimt for a review of the financial position which depended on
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  • 275 7 Reuter. Law Courts Destroyed and Judge Killed. Madrid, May 5. A terrible fire here has destroyed the law courts, a great seventeenth century building. A judge uatned Arana was killed while trying to save official papers and many firemen we’e iujued. Outside. The following articles will
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  • 2987 8 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Striking Dividend Record—Problem» •f Marketing Rubber The fifth auuu.il general meeting of the Straits Rubber Company, Limite), was held on April 8 iu tbs Council Room of the Rubber Growers’ Association (Incorporated), 38, Eistcheap, E C, Mr. E. L Hamilton (chairman of the company) presiding.
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  • 704 8 Were some of those former leaders of the Unofficial Members of Legislative Council, whose presence at their end of the Table added a strength and character to its proceedings, remarkable even in those days when heads of firms were of more mature age than now, to revisit
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  • 244 8 Chief Officer Disembowelled. Says the Malaya Tribune of Tuesday 1 evening The s s. Donggola of the K. P. M. arrived in the port on Sunday morning from ffcengat. During the voyage some trouble had ocourred between the chief officer and a Malay passenger named Dormin, and
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    • 60 8 To-dat. Kutsang for Singapore. China at,,] J aDan Bangala, for Singapore and Port S-etS ham 1011 Lightning, for Rangoon and Calcutta Pera a f Port S »e‘tenhatn, Port Di<*, o and Malacca Leong Ho. for A lor Star Cornelia, for Deli Ban Lee, for Trang Avagyee, for Dindings, Sitiawan,
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    • 461 8 YOU OUGHT TO SEE THIS COSTLY TOPICAL The Preparation for Servian War Which is the Cause and Beginning of the Present European War. IN TO-NIGHT’S CHANGE AT George Town Kinema Koala Kanosa Foad THE BIG SHOW PAR EXCELLENCE ALONG WITH Countess of Zara” 3 Reels 3 Parts A play which
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    • 51 8 Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I do not care a jot. In sooth it is their own look out, So they may go to pot. But while I am upon this lay. I’ll make a slight detour, And ask you all to drink good health To Woods’ Peppermint
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    • 92 8 The Forty Year Test. An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty years. Chamberlain’s Cough 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
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    • 394 8 fire insurance. The undersigned has been appointed j Agent in Penang for the Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company, Ltd in the Commercial Union Assurance l Co Limited) and is prepared to issue Poli t cies of Insurance against fi-e on the usual terms. 1 JOSEPH HEIM, 2, Railway Building Bangnon Valley
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  • 1385 9 It seems to be the fashionable journalistic idea of the moment that the war either has entered or is about to enter on a new phase The origin of this idea is not far to seek. Winter being (we hope) more or less at an end, there
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  • 671 9 THE COURT MARTIAL. Tuesday’s Proceedings. This morning (says Tuesday’s Straits Times at the Court Martial there was brought before Major Scott, sitting as President, Major Edge and Capt Ball, one of the men, Naick Karma Khan, of the party of nine which came into the hands of the
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    • 810 9 NOTICE LABOUR CODE, 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911.’ I EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOUR \j aro hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding quarter must be gent to the Office of the Deputy Controller of Labour, Penang, during the months of April, July, October and January. Forms for
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    • 9 9 For Chronio Chest Complaints, W.Kiji' Qrut Pcppertaiat Care, W
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    • 419 9 f! mm 'Ĕ t *»«<<* Don’t mix Milk with Baby’s Pood ANY Baby Food that requires the addition of milk is obviously not a complete food for Baby. There is something lacking which milk is required to supply. There is only one perfect food for Baby—his mother’s milk. But if
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  • 1357 10 Br Julius West. The following passages are eitracts, quoted from memory, from the conversation of a Perrograd gendarme, Gorbunov by name. Before his untimely death, which took place the other day, when he slipped on the iee and was run over, Gorbunov wed to spend his working
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  • 674 10 A Healthy Sion. It is one of the most encouraging signs of the times that the rising generation among the Chinese community of the Colony, or a considerable portion thereof, is realising the benefits of outdoor sport. Wherever the Britisher goes, ho takes his love of sport
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  • 1913 11 Shame is the mother of virtue. Sin is the mother of shame. That is what might be called the Garden-of-Eden view. Surprising as such a genealogical tree of virtue may appear, it is to some extent rooted in reason. Certainly, where there is perfect innocence j there is no
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  • 163 11 Sir Edward Clarke’s article in the Cornhill Magazine for April is notable for his criticisms of Mr. Justice Hawkins (afterwards Lord Brampton) Sir Henry Hawkins,” he says, was the worst Judge I ever knew or heard of. He i had no notion whatever of
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    • 152 11 OCDC n DOC DOC DOC DQcxdOOC DCD< ey royal APPOINTMENT Contractors to: THE ADMIRALTY, THE WAR OFFICE. THE INDIA OFFICE. o r\ ALL Government Hospitals IN THE 0 Straits Settlements AND Federated Malay States. n o n m f f V V* RIRA d c i iMhAR gAR p| jfa-.NciN-.y
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