Straits Echo, 20 May 1915

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo UAiLY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRC H ATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Anmiia. FENANG, THURSDAY, 20th MAY, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 114
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1059 1 s.u A*«U: TIANG LEE V CO., Penang Cf Kuala Luapur. mm w> rp\ The Doctor advises and recommends. It is nouri-hing, invigorating and strengthening. ifliiiamiiiiiiiiiiin ftrkk N'i Hud Stwt. Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. BANKS MAGNETO Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. NOW ON SHOW One 5
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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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  • 1231 3 This war, I imagine, is unique in the way ,o which it has awaken* d iu us a devouring interest in our enemies. Every week produces its batch of books, serious and fantastic, on the nature and achievements of the Germans; and if it goes on much j,
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  • 741 3 REIIRED JUDGES AND THE PEERAGE Bacon’s Precepts. Lord Justice Buckley, who has retired from the Court of Appeal immediately upon the completion of the fifteen years of judicial service entitling him to a pension, has, in being raised to the peerage, received an honour which very few retiring
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 10 3 For Chronic Oheit Complaint*, Wood*’ Croat Papparaaiat Oara, 1* ad
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  • 1126 4 Celtic Bulls and Saxon Blunders It was Sir Richard Steele who said that the bull” was a result of climate, and that if an Englishman were born in Ireland he would make just as many. The collection of this form of wit is very timely.
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  • 794 4 A Hongkong Opinion IQ I We have said before that, if the Govern- ment at Home had a little l°ss to say on the te subject of the registration cf servants and the Hongkong Government a little more. the equalising of troubles might be welcom- ed by
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 423 5 Mastee or Ceremonies’ Etidenoe. In the Third Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. N. D. Mudie, the preliminary enquiry into the case in which a Straits-born Chinese, Chew Chiat Thye, of 32, Cross Street, was charged with bigamy by having married another woman during the lifetime of his first
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  • 233 5 Tennis Tournament. The following were the results of the tennis ties plaved last night at the Golf Club: Mens Doubles Handicap B. Laudon and Ward —2/6 beat Oxenham and Rickett —15.3 6 —l 6—l- Doubles Handicap. Mrs Phillips and Threlfall —15.4 beat Mrs Low and J Anthony
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  • 132 5 The followine ties have been fixed for to-morrow Mixed Doubles. Mrs Rose and Dunn vs. Miss Starr and Houston. Championship. Goldie vs W K Sharpe Dr Rose vs J L Fettep. A good story of early golfing experiences is toll by Sir Martin Conway. Sir Martin says
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  • 229 5 Mr. Henry James, who celebrated bis seventy-second birthday in mail week, has lately been giving an American interviewer his opinions on the war. We should naturally expect the novelist to be a stanch upholder of the cause of the Allies, and it will also cause no surprise that his
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  • 228 5 It was pointed out some time ago as a proof that there was no shortage of food in Germany that there had been no exodus into the surrounding neutral countries. A Japanese telegram now states that considerable numbers are leaving Germany for Switzerland and Italy owing to
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  • 98 5 Good Demand. (From Our Oion Correspondent) Singapore, May 20. At the Singapore -Rubber auction the demand was good and the average prices ruling last week were well maintained. Of the 182 tons offered for sale, 100 tons were sold at the following prices: Sheet, fine,smoked... $127 to
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  • 78 5 At the next Matriculation Examination to be held in Hongkong on July 12th, 5 prizes of one hundred dollars each, will be awarded to the successful candidates who obtain the highest marks The winners of the prizes may enter any Faculty but must join the University on
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  • 175 5 May 17 By Balance f? 19 Straits Guano Co., Ld. 13 51 May 19 SI,879.79 May 19 To Draft on London, .£200 $1,712 37 Balance, May 19 167.42 Amount previously acknowledged 13,457.11 Total ...$13,624 53 Counsel (to a prisoner charged at the Manchester Assizes with manslaughter, ami
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 199 5 -I < Id O Id Q£ -J < U Id a. co to m z < z < X o D CD o </) < SCOTCH WHISKY SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ §gg|@2sl JAMES iX GLASGOW BLACK WHITE DO P— W 90 t*S •H ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY <D ■o JO
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  • 96 6 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Fbicu. Daily Local 924 per annua. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) 917.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 A B. All buaiuMa foramumctiona ihould
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  • 1349 6 Ever since we received Reuter’s cable last night telling of the rift at the Admiralty and the consequent crisis in the Cabinet we have been hoping that a later message would ccme to hand with the news that the differences between Mr s Winston Churchill and Lord Fisher had been
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  • 931 6 On the 13th inst., the Governor of Hong kong was to present a clock and a cheque to Mr. E. H. d’Aquino, I S O of the Treasury, in recognition of his fifty years’ service under the Government of Hongkong from 1864 to 1914 Mr. Hargrove, who
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  • 1015 6 It is 401 years today B i DPe House was founded by Sir Thr.nuJ J* Comptroller of the Navy, and capt f famous Harry Grace de Dieu. TV p charter granted by Henry yj][ interesting to note, designates the Cor tion very quaintly. ~rP or*. It was styled
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 229 6 JUST RECEIVED NEW STOCK OF Chinta Hati THE NEW PERFUME OF Delightful Fragrance AND Lasting Quality. PRICE PER LARGE BOTTLE $2.25. The George Town Dispensary Limifed, PENAN 3, TAIPING AND IPOH. PRITCHARDS Co. SOLE AGENTS FOR ROVER ES IN THE DARDANELLES. PRAISE FOR THE INDIANS. PROGRESS NATURALLY SLOW. London, May
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  • 191 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN REVERSE IN BELGIUM. HEAVY LOSSES. Paris, May 18, 4 50 p.m. A Paris communique states The Germans in Belgium left on the battle field 2,000 dead and a great number of rifles The French have consolidated the positions recently taken. The Get
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  • 320 7 ENEMY’S FURIOUS ATTACKS. HEAVY LOi ES INFLICTED Petrograd, May 19, 4.5 a.m. An official statement announces: “Between Opatow, the left bank of the Vistula and the whole Galician front to Kolomea great masses of the enemy ou May 16 attacked our positions, making the region north and
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  • 183 7 SUGGESTED REPRISALS. IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY LORD KITCHENER. London, May 18. In the House of Lords, Loid Kitchener announced that the British and French Governments felt that their troops must be adequately protected against poisonous gases by the employment of similar methods, thus removing the enormous and unjustifiable disadvantage
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  • 641 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. OFFENSIVE CONTINUED. OPERATIONS DESCRIBED. London, May 19. I A correspondent in the Dardanelles, i wr *ting on May 10, states lhe reinforced Allies resumed the j offensive, which was suspended since April 28, with the object of capturing the western and eastern arms
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  • 611 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ON THE BRINK. AUSTRIA'S OFFER. Amsterdam, May 18. Dr. von Bethmann-Hcllweg, the Imperia Chancellor, speaking in the Reichstag, sail j that Austria made an effort to ensur the friendship of Italy and offeree her the sovereignly of Yalona, portion of the Tyro),
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  • 679 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. CLASH AT THE ADMIRALTY. i REPORTED RESIGNATION OF LORD FISHER. London, May 18, 4.25 p.m. I Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord, has been i two days absent from the Admiralty. i He had a prolonged interview with Mr. H H. Asquith on Saturday,
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  • 1047 7 It is interesting to took into the strueturand organisation of the Admiralty at the present day. The pivot and cantre of the whole is the First Lord of the Admiralty. In the eighteenth century it was not uii common for a naval officer of high
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  • 968 7 Curious BKing Case. Lim Ltk, a Chiuaraan, was this morning charged beforo Mr. E. E Colman in the Second Court with being in possession of bhang. When this accused was charged at the last hearing he pleaded guilty.” Mr. G E. Wright-MotioD, who appeared for the accused
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  • 1086 8 Some Home Views. From, the Free Press' Correspondentj. London, April 16. The Colonial Office this week published the official despatches on the rising in Singapore and ail the papers gave it great importance while the article in the Singapore Free Press dealing with the absence of any coherent
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  • 761 8 F. M. S CONVALESCENT HOME. Chinese Support. An extraordinary general ineetiug of the Selangor Miners’ Association, in conjunction with the Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce, was held in the Association’s building on Saturday at 6 p.m with Mr. J. A. Ruasell in the chair, supported by Mr. Yap
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  • 1984 8 A FASCINATING WAR LECTURER. His Oratorial Art. Women reveHn these war lectures. At an address in m iil week by Mr. Hilaire Belloc at the Queen’s Hall there were nearly as many women present as men. In the front seats one noticed mother and daughters—sweet girls in their
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  • SHIPPING.
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    • 42 8 To-dat. Kalmoa, for Deli and Langsa Alma, for Deli Perak, for Port Swettenham, p ort Dickson and Malacca Tara, for Port Swettenham and Singapore Avagyee, for Dindings, Sitiawan, BaVan Datoh and Teluk Anson Trang, for Trang YatshiDg, for Calcutta and Durban
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    • 351 8 COMINC! COMING!! THE EVENT OF THE AMUSEMENT SEASON Harmston’s Circus AND Royal Menagerie GRAND OPENING NIGHT j Friday, 21st May, 1915. LOCATION DATO KRAMAT GARDENS. Bigger. Better, Brighter than Ever. Harmston's THE APEX I THE CRUX THE ACME The Alpha and Omega of all that stands for perfection in the
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    • 46 8 The bells may ring the Old Year out, Or ring the New Year in Men will make vows to maidens fair, And promise to begin A new career in every And make tbeir lives secure, By taking for tbeir own health’s sake Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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    • 428 8 NOTICE SEPARATE Tenders will be received up to neon on Tuesday, the 25th Mar 1915, for the following supplies for a period of six months commencing from Ist Julv 1915: 7 a. Rations for Penang and Balik Pul au Hospitals. b. Rations for Province Wellesley Hospitals. c. Rations for New
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  • 1657 9 Those of ue who at Oxford or Cambridse a generation ago cannot but think of the difference between ourselves as undergraduates and the undergraduate now in the sudden change that has come over him with the war. We, whether idle or industrious, were secluded from the business
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  • 532 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —The Rev. H G. Peile says borne wise and timely things about the Reformatory, and I agree with him that the time is fully come when this Colony should have, as at home, a juvenile court to deal with cases
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 958 9 JNT OTICEI. LABOUR CODE, 1912, F.M.S Indian immigration Fund Ordinance 1911.’ 1 .EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOUR are hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding quarter must be sent 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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    • 394 9 As Vital as Love itself —is it to make sure that your baby is being properly fed. Not all the affection you can lavish on your baby can repair the truly disastrous results of wrong feeding. Baby has only one ideal food—a healthy mother’s breast milk. If this is absent
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  • 1385 10 WHAT ENGLAND AND FRANCE HAVE TO FACE WHEN THEY ATTACK THE RHINE. Bt Jerome K. Jerome “We made one miscalculation,” he said, and one only. We convinced ourselves hat Euglana under a Liberal Government would never fight. I know of Englishmen who held the same
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  • 653 10 Many parents still halt between two alternatives. Are children to be kept, as far as may be. from war ii fluences, or ought they to participate as far as they can in the lessons of the times? At one moment it seems that the fact of
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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  • 1972 11 WORLD-WIDE PECAUTIONS. Bt E. B. Osborn. Tbs whole world is at war, or would like to be at war, with Germany, and the formation of Anti-German Leagues in the countries actively engaged in military operations is a proof that the necessity of making peace a prolongation of
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 11 11 For Ohildrt*’» Hocking Oongh ot Night, Woods’ drool Pwrol«l,Oiri If, 14
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 1517 12 m 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. Mail Service Outward. D ie Penan? Steamer. Connecting with S.S. Homeward. Date. Steamer. Connecting with S.S. Due London. May
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