Straits Echo, 12 June 1915

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRC IiLATINO THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AN» THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, SATURDAY, 12th JUNE, 1915. Single Cw, 10 cents. No. 132
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    • 987 1 :?> a z c r n ri «5 f) The Doctor advisee and reoomq mends. It is nourishing, invi- go rating and strengthening. IDKIIIIIQIIIIIliiiiiiiHHal Irkk M'i (tith&cu Start. For Cars on Hire Call a* or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A t Penang Road. BANKS THE Chartered
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    • 16 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. I42B.; BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET tf HEALTHY. APPLY JJ, Beech Street.
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  • 1088 2 Malacca Repokt—Thr Cyclone in Selangor —Standardised Costs. j Loudon, May 11. The outstanding feature of the report of Malacca Rubber 5 lantitions is the very iarge sum set aside under the heading of French taxation. The amount is .£31,000, equal to one-half the sum distributed by way of
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  • 811 2 German Culture, Past and Present. By Ernest Belfort Bax. (London :G. Allen and Unwin.) -Js 6d. net.] It is an extremely fluent and interesting account that Mr. Belfort Bax furnishes of the closing phases of medimval German history, although bis woik scarcely fulfils the expectations we
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  • 505 2 PROPOSED PROGRAMME. (UNDER S.R.A. RULES OF RACING.) NOTICE —No amendments to this Programme will be considered unless due noti.- given in writing to the Secretary at least seven days before the 23rd J 6 8 1915, the date of the Special General Meeting. The
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    • 542 2 Again Ahead of our Competitors. All Penang Go Crazy aft9r the MysteriOU8 and Enthralling LUCILLE LOVE IN 13 < HA P T£RS. TWO MORE NEW SERIES TO-NIGHT The 6th and the 7tn Chapters Our Quality is unrivalled —Films Brand New from Film-Mint. AT GEORGE TOWN KINEMA The Show of Years’
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    • 514 2 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. I HE Municipal Commissioners of George Towr, Penang, hereby invite tenders for renting of Bath House behind Pitt Street and Ah (juee Street for 6 months from the 1st day of July, 1915. Full particulars can be obtained at the Municipal Office. Tenders which should be endorsed Bath
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    • 13 2 For Children s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, li. 6d.
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    • 49 2 Bowel Complaint in Children. During the summer months mothers should watch for any unnatural looseness of the child’s bowels. When given prompt attention at this time serious trouble may be avoided. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy can always be depended upon. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers
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    • 365 2 0 r 1 1 e 1 1 0 3 r s 3 3 f i v Entries Close at 5 p.m., on Tuesday. 20th July, 1915. Handicaps for the First Day will be published on or before the 24th July, 1915 A Penalty of /lbs. incurred in a Handicap by
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  • 1202 3  -  (Bt Tom Wkioht News such as tbat of the piratical scuttling of the Lutitania unfits the mind for the sort of thinking I am used to pursue. Merely to rage as the heathen were unworthy and the outrage was far too gross for ordinary journalistic slop. 'J he
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  • 393 3 Would some public spirited Unofficial Member of Legislative Council —they are all public-spirited when the way is indicated —kindly give notice that he will ask the Hon’ble the Colonial Secretary if there exists any special reason in this Colony why the local Government is unable,
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  • 288 3 Through Shot and Shell.” By the great and generous kindness of the proprietors and managers of the Empire Kinema Hall, Penang Road, Mr. Pringle, General Secretary Y-M.C.A. of Malaya, lectured to an audience numbering probably not less than 800, in that spacious auditorium last night. The fifty slides
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    • 239 3 J < Id </) Q Id g -I < U UJ (L U) tf> Z < < z o D CD o in -i < £*3* aj SCOTCH WHISKY SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ 1' t -BLACK&WHJTE^ rSCOTCHjWHlSK ,,mes iuciSSw' K m BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY e*i ■0 70
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    • 435 3 2 g 1 I 1 I 2 QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. That’s why EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as n THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE. SK-'-. Virginia c icar.ett£s-^ Bristol lOH<>®s^; WAR WAR! OUR GHT One More WAR Price is Quality
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  • 94 4 Published daily (except Sundaye and public holidaye) AT 'HI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Pbicb. Daily Local 924 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) 917.50 CABLB ADDBBSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printinf Department 343 SB All busiit«M cpiaaur.ieationa ahould b«
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  • 518 4 There is considerable and legitimate curiosity among the Straite Chinese to toe whom the Government selects to fill the seat in the Legislative Council from which Mr. Tan Jiak K m has just resigned after a long and creditable tenure. The ietiriDg member, it will bs generally
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  • 753 4 Planters and others who live in lonely districts are very anxious that that the F.M.S. Government should make a special effort to apprehend and bring to justice the gang-robbers who murdered Mr. Macfarlane a week ago. Those who know the neighbourhood of the scene of the crime are
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  • 637 4 The War Correspondent, Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, was rescued from the Majettic. Mr. R. T. Reid has gone on a business visit to the Native States. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Grey will be interested to hear that, according to private letters just received, they both
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  • 179 4 June 10 By Balance ...$22,052.46 11 Amount collected by A. L. M. Sc. tt:— A. L. M. Scott, Sungei Kechil Estate, May subscription... 10 00 Khoo Chiang Hot, Sungei Kechil Estate, May subscription 3.00 Tamils, Sungei Kechil Estate, May subscription 7.06 Chinese and
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  • 1007 4 A blue took issued in London i n m week on the conditions of Indian irn m a in British Colonies contains a report “Suicides and immortality on estates" 00 Trinidad. ln None of the Colombo papers which should have reached us in the ordinary wav hr P.
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  • 640 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. french successes. Alt' RAID ON BRUSSELS. Loudon, June 10, 4 48 p,m. Tbe Paris communique says that the Frenchmen repulsed the German counterattacks, maintained the captured ground everywhere and made further progress. Allied Airmen Active. Allied airmen on Suuday night flew over Bitusels
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  • 525 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. GERMAN ADMISSIONS. Amsterdam, June 10. Russian successes in the north and south are admitted in to-night’s German communique. The Russians, bringing up reinforcements from the north east, checked the German encircling movement at Dubissa. Tbe Germans retreated to a fresh line.
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  • 564 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. CAPTURE OF MONFALCONF. AN IMPORTANT FEAT. London, June 11, 2.55 a.m. The; communique issued in Rome states that the Austrians lost 200 billed and 220 prisoners and abandoned 4CO wounded in the fighting on June 7, 8 and 9 for the possession of
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  • 151 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegrams. MR. W J. BRYAN S APPEAL. Washington, June 11. j On the eve of the publication of the 1 American-Note to Germany, Mr. W. J. j Bryan, late Secretary of State, has issued an appeal to the American j people declaring that the
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  • 377 5 VERY FIRM IN TONE. Washington, June 11. The American Note to Germany is very firm in tone. The United States very earnestly and very solemnly renews the representations of the former Note. The War Zone Proclamation. It says that it canuot admit the proclamation of
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  • 80 5 Serious Loss of Life. (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) Singapore, June 11. The s.B. Zibeena struck a reef in the Madura Straits and went down in twenty fathoms of water. A Dutch destroyer picked up the captain, two officers, 82 of the crew, and 26 passengers
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  • 441 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. STRICTER MEASURES. HOME SECRETARY'S ANNOUNCEMENT London, June 10. At question time in the House of Commons Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, announced that the internment and repa triation of alien enemies were proceeding rapidly and that over 6,000 had been intern ed or repatriated.
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  • 109 5 (Reuter,) London, June 11. Lord Rosebery’s filly Vaucluse winner of the One Thousand Guinneas, has been scratched for the New Derby. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $B2 25, buyers no sellers, in Singapore (refined) at $82.75, business done, and in London at .£l6B spot and
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  • 332 5 EULOGY OF Mr. TAN JIAK KIM. .BY OFFICIALS AND UNOFFICIALS. {From Our Own Correspondent.') Singapore, June 12. At the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday the Hon. R. J. Wilkinson, Colonial Secretary, eulogised tho services of Mr. Tan Jiak Kim to whom they owed a debt of gratitude
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  • 160 5 An Interesting Case. (From Our Oivn Correspondent Ipob, Juue 12. A case has been decided by Mr. Justice Edmonds, with the Chief Kathi of Perak and Tuan Haji Mohomed Daud as Assessors, in which a Malay woman who had recently been divorced without proof of misconduct, claimed from
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  • 299 5 To the Editor or the Straits Echo. Dear Sir, I am sure many would read your leader concerning the Municipality in last ovening’s issue with interest, a great number of people having doubtless been 6erved with notices, demands, and threats, where such are not merited. Why does the
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  • 925 6 The attitude of an overwhelming majority of Europe’s Socialists toward the war was simply that of emotional human beings in whom the racial e,;o it aroused. That was evident from the beginning. What was not ■0 dramatically clear at first, being partly I obscured by the
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  • 959 6 A GRUESOME STORY OF CRIME. Thb Bbinkmann-Soffing Case. A gruesome story of cruel murder, and wholesale poisoning is. liuk by link, being formed into a cbaiu which will scarcely find an equal for cold-blooded taking of life in anything which has ever been heard in a Court of
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  • 512 6 Singapore Man’s Suggestion. to the editor of the Pall Mall Oazettt. Sir, —A problem before us at the moment is how to let Germany and Austria understand in a definite shape that such wicked deeds as the sinking of the Lusitania will be j visited
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  • 404 6 Britishers Slaughtered by German Orders. The Foreign Office has issued a despatch received from the British Minister at The Hauue transmitting copies of declarations by Mr. J. Martin, editor cf the Ratterdamsch Nieuwsblad, and |Mr. N. J. Van Ditmar, press correspondent, of Rotterdam, regarding the shooting of
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  • 264 6 Messrs. Guthrie and Co. report as follows I Singapore, June 9. Stronger advices have been received from London during the week and the auction sale opened to day under more favourable conditions than for some time past. There were again full supplies on offer and of 196 tons
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  • 266 6 Visit to Kuala Lumpur The delegates of the Japanese Planters’ Association of Malaya, who are at present 1 on a tour through the F.M.S for the purpose of studying the methods adopted, hare paid a two days’ visit to Kuila Lumpur, arriving on Tuesday morning. The delegates were:
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  • 264 6 The following were the results of the ties played off yesterday Single Handicap. W S Goldie beat Scarborough 21 —7 Wright-Motion (Jr) to.o. from A Mourin Alexander beat D J Robertson 21 —13. The following ties hare been fixed for Monday, the 14th inst.: Championship. {E Reitnanu
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  • 241 6 Plating the Enemy’s Game. In a letter to the papers expressing regret at the growth of the blood feud between the British and German peoples, arising out of the atrocious war methods of the German Government,” Mr. H. G. Wells I says Few of us wish to
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  • 151 6 The People’s Fault. Peking, May 27. In an important Mandate, President Yuan Shih-k’ai reminds the people of the fact that the weakness of the country lies in its own faults. The people are reminded of the Sino-Japanese war in 1894 and of the Boxer rebellion in 1900. The
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  • 168 6 The diabolical use to which Germany has dedicated the torpedo recalls the difficulty its inventor, Robert Fulton, had to induce any Government to adopt it. His own Government, the American, rejected it as inhuman and unfit, for civilised warfare, and for the same ri asons the British and
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  • 167 6 Man not Woman. The hearing of the case against the Malay named Dollab, who was charged with disorderly conduct by dressing himself up like a woman, which was ordered by Mr E. E. Colman, Second Magistrate, to stand down for investigation, was resumed yesterday afternoon The accused,
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  • 107 6 To-dav, at Dato Kramat Gardens, in the Second Division, Babolsabar meet Jamathol Horea. To-morrow, Sunday, in the First Division of the League, Sri Penang meet Bahrol Alam. A Pioneer cable dated London, 28th May, mvs The association of Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson with the Admiralty Board is regarded here
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  • 614 6 GRAPHIC EXPERIENCES OF COL MILDMAY. A Memorable Birthday. The Western Mvrning News has published a graphic letter which has been received bv Mr». Mildmay from her husband, Colonel F. B. Mildmay, M. P, who is on the staff at the front, and from which we
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  • 94 6 2nd Sunday after Trinity. 8-00 am. Matins 8- a m Holy Communion 9- a.m. Holy Communion. Chinese Service. Choral 500 pm. Sunday School 600 p m. Evensong and Sermon Hymn 290 Through all the changing scene* of Life Psalms Battishill, Barnby Magnificat Attwood No 46 Nunc
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  • 126 6 Services on Sunday, June 13: Morning, at 9 a.m Specially for children; Evening, at 6p m. Preacher, the Rev. A. D. Harcus, ma. Hymns 647, 297, 534, 444 and 25. The Straits Cinema has set down a strong programme for to-night when several good films will be
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 10 6 For Chrouic Chest Complaints, "Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la, 6d
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  • 228 7 Xo be sound and fit is to-day a matter of biolutc necessity The preservation of good h altb by men and women alike was never e important as a national asset, and C are should be taken to guard against caunot keep well and resist disease
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  • 1154 7  -  [By George Russell (A E).] OLD PRECEPTS IN MODERN WARFARE. ma y be worth while to draw attention to what is perhapa the most concentrated term of military wisdom, what, indeed, might be almost called the sacred books of war, such are their age. I refer to
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  • 857 7 (Br The Shellback,) Wherever runB the law of the sea the master of a vessel is known as the Old Man My first skipper was a man of whom I have very pleas mt recollections. There was nothing of sea lore that ho did not know. He
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 228 7 HOTEL NORMAN, Penang's Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. the event of change of Proprietorship, the Hotel will not be closed, but will ba handed over to the new tenant as a goiug concern. URCE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial Secretaries, Magistrates,
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    • 43 7 Economy in the End. Tt costs but a small amount to keep Chamberlain's Oolic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy always in your medicine chest, and it is economy in the eud. It always cure* and cures quickly. For sale by all Dispen*arie* and Dealer*.
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    • 2003 8 S.N.C* Wireless Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electrio Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Eleotric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD, Fob Intbndbd to Sail. Stbambr. Singapore. (Three times a week). Mall Service Outward.
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