Straits Echo, 14 June 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE: OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES A*tD THE FAR BAST GENERALLY < VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, MONDAY, 14th JUNE, 1916. Single bn, It cent!. No. 133
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    • 1144 1 ‘.'«Sttlß'J «1«*)} JU I®***.i OO a 331ONVIX Si g& The Dooior advisee and recommends. It is nourishing, invi- 3 forating and strengthening. 2* I*9 F**H *.N For Cars on Hire Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7\ Penang Road. BANKS THE Chartered Bank of India, Australia
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  • 1671 3 Europe, and all that makes Europe worth ht i ol z for, began with the Greeks and hen "hey joined together to fight the Persians they were defending the Europe ,{the future. For the glory of Europe is that it i« always in the future, that it hopes trU
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  • 183 3 Before Mr. E. L. Talma, in the District Court, Singapore, on Saturday morning, Dr. K. Appadurai again appeared to answer a summons taken out against him on the grounds that on or about May 3 lie wilfully furnished for the purpose of registration false information in
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  • 179 3 The O.S.K. aicogo-mar*. which ha. J..t Sent at Canada, report, the .teamer Victoria, BC. It is Bta of April 30 lef t Victoria diatance when and had proceeaea rauit in a Cußtome official C “fficiali P Btopped the motor-boat. h beba if 0 f the steamer ftnd
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    • 221 3 ir—rs i ••-•wj—*-. i■ i iMi—agßa HUTTENBACH B™. C o. SOLE AGENTS FOR ROYAL TYPEWRITERS Have much pleasure the arrival 01 THE EW MODEL Mo. 10. 5* m i u 3T, 2* :-V sas K a 4 r?S£ PS ■ra n n s ■3 P m a 13 ss *1
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  • 1278 4 An Attempt to Articulate a Feeling» Which Swings Between Distrust of Russia and Hatred of Austria (fiy Alexander Brociner.) A continued strict neutrality of Rumania until the end of the war will leave that country in a worse position than the one she is in at present,
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  • 699 4 We believe that most people are agreed that the benefits that are to arise out of the great war will, in the long run, moro than outbalance the terrors, losses and inconveniences of it. We do not wish to be too sanguine, but we feel that,
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    • 319 4 John Roberts Billiard Table Manufacturer, HOTEL NORMAN. PENANG. HAS IN STOCK New Billiard Tables FOR SALE AND Ail Billiard Accessories such as Cues, Balls etc. Undertakes Repairs to any Kind of Table at reasonable Charges. FOR Guide to Penang, BY THK LATE E. F. Skertchly, r. e. s. Price 5
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    • 129 4 iMtmc Dnc Dncz>nn«#nconnc INSURE DEC Dnnncir YOUR of or Oars otor Cycles u n AND erci&l Vehicles with the Company that specialises in MOTOR INSURANCE. /HE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED. (Under the auspices of the Automobile Association and Motor Union,) n n n n 0 0 n n n
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  • 792 5 Rhenish Minister and Ghbman Prisoners The following extract, taken from a German paper dated April 29, should make interesting reading for those who have been in Singapore since the outbreak of war and who are, therefore, acquainted with the true facts of the case. The account, nevertheless,
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  • 188 5 Three Officers Among the List or Drowned. Further information regarding the wreck of the Zweena is still scanty in detail. It is known, however, that she struck a reef at the eastern entrance to the Straits of Madoera- the passage between the Island of Madoera
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  • 444 5 The cricket match which waa played off on the £*planade on Saturday afternoon proved to be a very interesting fixture. The i contending teams were captained by The Hon. Mr. A. R. Adams and Mr. D Currie. Mr. Currie’s team batted first and compilJ ed a total of
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  • 119 5 Tenfis Touenament. The following were the results of the tennis ties played on Friday la t: Profession Pairs Sells and Threlfall w.o. from Saye and Harvey. Todies' Doubles Handicap Final. Miss Grey and Miss Heim vs Mrs Phillips and Mrs Low, unfinished. The following were the results
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  • 104 5 The fortnightly handicap shoot was held on Sunday at 7 a.m. and resulted as under with h’cap. made. LtOwen .70 103.80 Mrs Murray .j>J Pte Osborne -72 97 60 Mrs Hoeden -49 97.6 Batt QMS Murray .09 96.34 Mr Clarke L/Corpl Weber 72 »»»6 Pte Sharpe
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    • 200 5 < LJ if) a uJ Q£ _l < U Ld Q. if) if) Z < z < z o o 01 o </) -I < SCOTCH WHISKY JAMES l ond° n giasgow "SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT' BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY ft “0 70 O no > r D
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    • 430 5 1 QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. w 5=; s*il I? S: VIRGINIA.^ C *CaR.ETTESt=5 lohoo^ 5TOL That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE. I WAR OUR One More Hit! WAR Price is Quality is Service is
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  • 95 6 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) ST THI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Prior. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Eitra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 SB.— All business communications should bs
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  • 1483 6 When Lord Kitchener announced a few weeks ago that the Allies, as a retaliation the use of asphyxiating gas, had made up their minds to giro the enemy a taste of his own medicine we rejoiced at the return to commonsense. One has only to think of
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  • 856 6 Mr. A. Hood Beg is provisionally the Portuguese Consul at Singapore. Mr. R. J. Farrer acts as President of the Singapore Municipality during the absence of Mr. F. J. Hallifax. Messrs. D. A. M. Brown and Quah Bang Xee have been elected members of the Board of
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  • 796 6 Better late that never It is satisfactory to see that the Govern ment has at last adopted the course so often suggested in this column and instituted, body—the Mobammadan Advisory Boardto which it can go in cise of need for trust worthy information and. we bope.disintersn ed advice
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    • 184 6 Hurry up, these are the latest Out. jt-xv ,c -cr.- C V 1 8» y* New Gramophone Records, 10" double side!, comprising the following:— It’s a long way to Tipperary. Marseillaise Rule Britannia. March on to Berlin. National Anthems of the Allies. Goodbye, my soldiers sweetheart. It takes an Irish
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  • 509 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SPLENDID RUSSIAN SUCCESS., Petrograd, June 12. A Petrograd communique states, ••The RussLns achieved splendid successes from the Baltic to Bukovina. A furious j bombardment was repeated and determined attacks were made to the west of i -bavli The Germans even reached some! 1
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  • 429 7 (Reuter’s Service) Copyright Telegram. FURTHER FRENCH SUCCESS. I Paris, June 11, 5 p.m A Paris communique states We scored further successes, Firstly at the Labyrinth where we continued to drive the enemy back Secondly, eastward of the Labyrinth i near the high read to Arras. 1 “Thirdly,
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  • 155 7 Naval Attack" on Austrian Coast. Rome, June 12. The Austrian claim that they have sunk a warship of the Liverpool class is untrue. The ship in question on Wednesday joined the Italian destroyer flotillas in a successful operation against the coast of the Gulf of Drino and
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  • 606 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. PICTURE F THE BATTLE GROUND. THE LANDING BEACHES. Paris, June 11. An official announcement states that the French made fresh progress in the Dardanelles on the extreme right. Prisoners con- j firm that the enemy suffered heavy losses Loudon, .Tune 12. Reuter’s cot
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  • 393 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegrams. FIGHT WITH A ZEPPELIN* WITNESSED BY HUGE CROWDS. Paris, June 13, 8.45 p.m. An Eye-Witness at Evere states A tremendous German cannonade 1 brought out the townspeople who eagerly watched a contest against British aeroplanes. < The aeroplanes maroeuvrrd while the enemy fired
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  • 201 7 In the oourse of his report on the Straits Settlements Police Force, in 1914, Capt. Chancellor, I G P says In spite of five months of war the criminal statistics remain more or less normal. Energetic action was taken by Government to repatriate all coolies thrown out
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  • 325 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. More Steamers Sunk. London, Jane 11. German submarines continue to be active. They sank the Swedish steamer Otago and the Russian steamer Dania, from Archangel, in the North Sea, also a Russian barque in the Atlantic British Collier Sank. London, June 13. A
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  • 108 7 There was a good audience at the lown Hall on Saturday night to witness the third and last rendering of "HM S. Pinafore by the members of the Penang Choral Society. It proved a great success. All the principals excelled themselves. Owing to Mr. G.N. Saye’s departure for
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  • 133 7 Juneli By Balance ...$22,083.27 12 Hon. A R. Adams, monthly subscription 100 00 Stiff of Government Mcnpolies, May subscription 9135 Balance, June 12. ...$22,274 62 Remitted to London on 24-2-15... -£lO 000 The Ittihadol Kbairiah Football Club,” Penang, is asked to furnish proof
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  • 407 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. A MAGNIFICENT APPEAL. TO PLANT THE FLAG IN THE WORKSHOP. London, Juno 12. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Cardiff, made a magnificent appeal to plant the flig in the workshops and to use every lathe and enlist eveiy recruit. Short of
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  • 202 7 His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to form an Advisory Board on matters connected with Mohammedan religion and custom R J. Farrer Chairman Syed O.nar bin Moh >mmed Alsagoff Syed Mohammed bin Agil; Syed Alwi al Junied; Shaikh Salim bin Mohammed
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  • 27 7 Obituary. Sir Charles Layard. Reuter.) London, June 12. The death has taken place of Sir Charles Peter Layard, K.C.M.O., who was Chief Jostioe of Ceylon from 1902-6.
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  • 2880 8 SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER RETIRES > Mm. Tan Jiak Kim, C.M.G. A meeting of the Legislative Council was held od Friday afternoon, at which there were present H E the Governor (Sir A. H. Young, R.C.M.G.), H. E. the General Officer Commanding (Brigadier-General Dndlej Ridout, C.M.G.), the Colonial Secretary
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  • 833 8 Already in these columns, says the Free Press, we have touched upon the very grave j question, involving the efficiency of adrnini- J stration, and that more in the spirit than in j the mere mechanical execution, implied in the absence of contact between the Govern- 1
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  • 905 8 NATIVE PREMISES LOOTED BY RIOTERS. i Town Guard Open Fire. Colombo exchanges to hand by the mail brought details of the recent rioting among certain sections of the native community in Ceylon. The trouble seems to have commenced over the Wesak festivities at Kandy aud spread to
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  • 329 8 A Bengali, named Ismail, who had ba«n sentenced to two months’ rigorous ,mpri7on ment for being ,n possession of bban ff T' ou Saturday moruiug arraigned befo£ vt E E. Column in oh with attempting to commit suicide at criminal prisou by hanging himself Being asked if be
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    • 90 8 Chamberlain's Pain Balm. A touch of rheumatism, or a twinge of neural Ja. whoever the trouble is, Chamberlain's Paiu Balm drives away the pain at once and cures the complaint quickly. First application gives relief. When a bottle of it is kept in the bouse the pain of burns and
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    • 59 8 Life had no charms for this old tough,’' Though in his youth he’d cut up rough, His eje was dimmed, his voice was husky, This much I knew of friend McClueky. And later on I heard the tale— He’d have given up the ghost, for sure, If he hadn’t followed
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    • 141 8 KTOTICE RENDERS are invited up to noon on Monday, the 14th June, 1915, for the supply of fresh Cow’s Milk for Hospitals in Penang commencing from let July, 1915. 2. FormB of Tender may be obtained at the Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Penang. 3. Tenders to be sent
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    • 49 8 PENANG TURF CLUB. NOTICE. A Special General Meeting of the Members of the above Club will be held at the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, 23rd June, 1915, at 4.30 pm. Business: To adopt the programme for the Summer (1915) Race Meeting. By Order (Sd.) R. T. REID, Secretary.
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    • 330 8 MOTOR CAR FOR SALE. A LARGE 2-Seater Scout Motor Car, up-to-date sporting type, 18 20 II P. 4 cylinder in new condition, complete with 2-fold wind-screen, hood, side curtains, tools A jack. 2 powerful acetylene head lamps, with nickel plated generator 2 electric side and tail lamps; with clock, electric
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  • 1255 9 The "Lusitania. MR. A. B. CROSS’S EXPERIENCE. Hours in thi Sba. We (M. if) have received a letter from Mr. A B. Cross, who was one of the passengers in the Lusitania and was rescued. Mr. Cross reached London on Maj 11th, and was apparently none the worse except for
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  • 804 9 The expression with the honours of war” in a military sense is one which has been used in a variety of circumstances in connection with agreements entered into between commanders of armed forces of belligerents concerning the terms of surrender of a body of troops,
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    • 11 9 For Children's Hacking Gough at Night, Wood»’ Great Peppermint Cure, 6d.
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    • 399 9 iiiii.;iiiiiii...^;iii!i i lliili:iniiiiiil,ii;ii!!i!il l l!iilillHiliillii!ii';iti]:illl^s Your Baby is growing every day j That is why his food is all g§| important. A week of wrong feeding m results in indigestion and a jg| loss of weight and vitality j|j which takes weeks of proper tg feeding to put right. Baby
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  • 1289 10 Sungei Kbian Results —Good Showing bx Lanadron —Batavia Plantation Investments Marked improvement Gas taken place in the position and piospects of Sungi Krian during the past financial year. At the close of 1913 the dividend on the Six per j Cent. Preference shares was 12 months in i
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  • 791 10 Capt. Muller of the Emden." Interned with Other Officers at Malta Speculation has often been rife as to the whereabouts of Cuft von Miiiler, Prince; Franz Joseph von Hohenzollern and other officers of the Emdtn. According to an inter- view granted by a Mr Conrad Haumann to the Fremantle correspondent
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    • 311 10 DREADFUL ECZEMA Cured by Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills. That torturing and disfiguring disease has its cause in an impure condition of the blood. The impure condition of the blood often arises from a diseased condition of the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition. When digestion is imperfect
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  • 995 11 hor his weight there probably is nothing in the world so interesting a baby. A most ordinary specimen has the power of concentrating the attention of a whole shipload of people. And now, when a very special sort of baby has begun to make its appearance in the
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  • 1017 11 Women, especially clever women, despise P men in their hearts as talkers. Women talk, no doubt, as much as men, but they do not take their talking so seriously. Heaven for a man, they think, would be a talking place for a woman it would be a
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    • 350 11 HOTEL NORMAN, Penang’s Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. jf /?.—In the event of change of Proprietorship, the Hotel will not be closed, but JiU be handed over to the new tenant H a going conoern. URGE AIRY ROOMS FACINS THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial
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    • 1611 12 S.N.C° All Cabins are fitted with Electric FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. Mail Service Outward. Dae Penan? Steamer. Connecting with S.S. June 25 July 8 23 Nubia Oriental Malta Malwa Persia Morea Homeward. Date. Steamer. Connecting with S.S.
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