Straits Echo, 17 July 1915

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo OAUV CHRONIC! E OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT TK6 STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, SATURDAY, 17th JULY, 1916. Siftflc Copy, II cents. No. 161
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    • 1048 1 hr hk N’i Btii £«i&s6is Steal. 11 i* 02 ill B S 2 o •s-1 B s»u TIANG LEE t! CO., i’tnar.s 9 K«at& Luiapsr. i/masa»>tKmmmmAmamsßKß.aKaamaa For Cars on Hire Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7*. Penang Road. f BANKS WE ABE SPECIALISTS IN REPAINTING
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    • 15 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. I42B. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 1119 2 How tmb War Touches French Pockets The French citizen to daj (writes Claire de Pratz in the Daily Newt) might be likened to a man sitting on a heap of beautiful fine wheat grain, but starring fer want of a! loaf of bread For even though he
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  • 949 2 Bt the Shellback. The desolation of the wilderness is as nothing to the desolation of the Belt of Calms, which in deep sea parlance is known as the Doldrums. The Doldrums are unknown ground to the majority even of travelled mankind. I myself have passed through them
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  • 449 2 CORRECTED PROGRAMME. <UNDER S.R.A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Thursday, 29th July, 1915 SECOND DAY Saturday, 31st July, 1915. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 29th July 1915. I.—Thb Pont Roadster Handicap. A cup presented by the Committee with $250 added by the Club. A
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    • 1219 2 For a few nights only, at The King Street Theatre, The Grand Opera Co. of Penang, after a half-year’s tour of the Dutch East Indies. To-night, I7th July, 1915, when the company will stage That Most Popular Play, ALADDIN Come Early to avoid disappointment. Come and See Our New Dresses
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    • 92 2 Don’t Neglect Your Family. When you fail to provide your family with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at this season of the year, you are neglecting them, as bowel complaint is sure to be prevalent, and it is too dangerous a malady to be trifled with.
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    • 348 2 F i a /> ■> ri*> < at 5 p.m., on Tuesday, 20th July, 1915. Handicaps for the LIUrieS VlOSC First Day will be published on or before the 24th July, If 15 A P alt y of 7 ]hs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race
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  • 1218 3  -  (Br Tom Wbioht.) You know now all about the last disgrace of the Dailg Mail —it* inspired attacks on Lord Kitchener—and the inner history of this unprecedented Coalition Government f How sweet it is to a Radical rotter like me to see the popular sort of patriotism turned
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  • 359 3 Drawings and Handicaps. The following was the result of the drawing for the Tennis Tournament at the P. C. C.:— Championship. SEA Linton bye H A Neubronner E H Everest F D Hindley C Cunradi R E Prentis S F B Martin F G Gregson
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  • 238 3 At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. G. A. Hereford, yesterday, a Hokkien named Ong Chiew Bok was found guilty on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises without a licence, and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred and fifty
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  • 94 4 Published daily (except Sundays »nd pub’ic holidays) iTTHI. CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pare». Daily Local $24 per Out station... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRBBS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 A' B. —All bu.in.M coinmu mention* should
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  • 1382 4 Two days ago we referred in this column to tho divorce which now exists between the House of Commons and the people of Great Britain, a state of aff-tirs due in a considerable measure to the fact that a gnat many of the best and
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  • 967 4 Mr. E- F. Salzmann, of Messrs. Barlow and Co, Kuala Lumpur, has left lor home. Mr C. M. Henderson, of Messrs Guthrii i and Co., uud Mia. Henderson have gone tc Singapore for a week. The French consular cable reports that j the condition of General Gouraud.
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  • 1013 4 The Editor of a Malayan paper—wh 8h tl 1 be nameless—is reported to have t 0 M a friend who tried to put him on to soda water with the whisky left out of it, vr boy, abstinence is a question of constitution Some men, if deprived of
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    • 95 4 BRITISH Eau de Cologne STOCKS NOW RECEIVED I No Necessity to buy Continental Brands. 1 J E I. LTD. PENANG, TAIPING and IPOH. BO CO, SOLS n.G£Z v TS FOR ROV SOLIGNU WOOD PRESERVATIVE AND STAIN. S0U6^ Defies The the Only Deadly Effective Ravages Remedy s# fi of M Against
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  • 831 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. VIGOROUS ENEMY ACTIVITY. IN THE RIGA REGION. Patrograd, July 16, 5 45 a.in. A Petrograd communique states ••The enemy, strongly reinforced, took the offensive on July 14 in the region of Riga and Shavli. Our cavalry and advance guards are detaining the enemy
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  • 535 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. AFTER IHE LULL. London, July 16. There has been a renewal of activity on the Italian front after a lull of some days. Capture of Falzarego. The Italian communique records the ■uprising feat of an infantry detachment who sealed the sides of a
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  • 42 5 Message from Queea Alexandra. (From Our Own Correspondent Batu Gajah, July 15. Mr. Alma Baker has received the following cable from London to-day The three aeroplanes from Malaya have been presented by Queen Alexandra to the Royal Flying Corps.”
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  • 41 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ATTACKS IN THE ARGONNE Paris, July 16, 3.15 a.m. A Paris communique states The day has been relatively quiet. Two Gorman attacks took place in Argonne, but were repuhed. Elsewhere artillery actions took place.”
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  • 454 5 UNFOUNDED RUMOUR. PREMIERS’S STERN REBUKE. London, July 15. Iu the House of Commons Mr. H. H. Asquith, with great gravity, uttered a stern rebuke to Mr. R. L Outhwaite, Liberal member for Hanley, who asked whether it was not a fact that both the Belgian people
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  • 400 5 (Renter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. STATEMENT BY LORD CREWE. London, July 16. In the House, replying to a series of questions on cotton as contraband, the Marquess of Crewe reiterated that the Government hoped by continual friendly negotiations with neutral countries, gradually to limit the exports to these
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  • 429 5 Indifiaatioa ia U. S. A. The Hague, July 15 Telegrams from Washington state that all the proposals made in the German Note to the United States will be rejected. The whole of the America press regards these proposals as an intolerable insult, based on cynical considerations, and
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  • 61 5 July 15 By Balance $26,903 65 16 Brown, Phillips A Stewart’s Staff, June subscription 70.00 Lim Boon Tbock, contribution 30.00 Lim Boon Aw, contribution 100.00 Members of the Lower Perak Club, May Bubscriptioß 241.00 Balance, July 16 27,344 65 Remitted to London on
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  • 99 5 Mrs L E. P. Wolferstan has received the following letter from the Treasurer of the Prince of Wales’ National Relief Fund Mrs. L. E. P. Wolferstan, Dear Madam, I hare to acknowledge, with sincere thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 12th ultimo, enclosing a draft
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  • 457 5 July 15 By Balance $1,661.09 16 Amount collected in Gula Club 240.00 European Staff of the Malakoff Rubber Co. A the Malakoff Plantation Co. 130.00 Balance, July 16 $2,031.09 Amount previously acknowledged 13,457.11 Total ...$15,488.20 New Adtt. —Messrs. Md. Ebrahim and Md. Zain will sell by public
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  • 385 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following spicial telegrams are taken from the Sumatra Post of Wednesday and Thursday General Botha. Geneial Botha was offered but declined both a peerage and a money grant of £lOO,OOO in recognition of his services in South Africa Holland's Trade. The Locomotief learns
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  • 79 5 7th Sunday after Trinity, July 18, 1915. 8-00 am. Matins 8- a.m. Holy Communion 9- a.m. Holy Communion (Tamil Service 500 p m. Sunday School 6-00 p.m. Evensong and Sermon Hymn 534 Far down the ages now Psalm XCIII Ouseley XCIV Gray Magnificat Barnby 47 Nunc
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  • 311 5 Services on Sunday, July 18 Morning, at 9 a.m Specially for children. Evening, at 6 p.m. Preacher, Rev. A D. Harcus, M.A. Hymns, 344, 632, 368, 429 and 475 The Electric Polyscope Co. have set down a strong programme for to-night. “Up tj Her Tricks,” a four-reeler,
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  • 159 5 Obituary. Mr. G.*G. Hill. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 15 The death took place to-day suddenly ol Mr. G. G. Hill, Assistant of Vade A Co. Obituary. Mr. C. E. Coekram. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, July 17. The death has taken place at the Serembau Hospital, after
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  • 955 6 THE OLD AND THE NEW POLICY. Awaiting the Call i Bukarest, May 26. (Delayed in transmission.) Ever since the outbreak of the great war it has been recognised here that Rumania must sooner or later participate in the struggle on pain of forfeiting, perhaps for ever, the realisation
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  • 1010 6 War, writes a Driver of the Royal Field Artillery who is at present in one of the war hospitals in the country recovering from severe wounds received in France, is much more exciting to read about than to experience It takes a comfortable armchair and a
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  • 957 6 THE FORCING OF THE NARROWS. Difficulties of the Land Campaign. I Topography of tha Gallipoli Peaiaiula. The forcing of the Dardanelles, which has I been undertaken by England and France, is a gigantic undertaking. I have nothing to say here as to the great advantages which will
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    • 12 6 For Children’» Hacking Cough at Night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1». 6d.
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    • 68 6 Gan Yon Afford the Risk? Were jou ever seized with a severe attack of cramp colic or diarrhoea without a bottle of Chamterlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy iu the house Don’t take such risks. A dose or two will cure you before a doctor could possibly be called, and
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    • 258 6 B 0Q WHITEAWAY’S THE VALUE HOUSE PENANG. TRAVELLING requisites. The “PREMIER” RUG All Wool Rug with Fringed Ends. Good Dark colorings in quiet Checks and Tartans. Size 58 by 90 inches. Real Sterling Value Price $4.95 each. FH TRAVELLING RUGS We hold a large stock and are still selling at
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  • 1065 7 Effect* of Italian Intbetention. Writing from Neucbatel on May 18th, the correspondent of the Timet said :—ln a message which I sent on April 26th, after a ▼isit to Cbiasso and Milan, I said that the conditionsjthere led one to believe that war between Italy and Austria
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  • 601 7 A Ceylon Opinion. In view of the forthcoming race-meeting in Penang the following article, which we take from the Ceylonese, is of topical interest “The various letters that have appeared in the press regarding the forthcoming C. T. C. Races in August have brought up the
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  • 191 7 Another of the leading native papers tells us that in the matter of corruption there is very little to choose between the Anhui and j the’ Canton faction. The real bone of contention, it says, is “control of the finances —that is to say, “they are simply
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  • 156 7 Offer from Japan. An offer to float the raiding cruiser Emden, which was so badly battered by the cruiser Sydney that she had to be beached at the Cocos Group, has been received by Messrs Burns, Philp f and Co., from Japan. Mr Teisuke Shimzu, the veteran
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    • 367 7 HOTEL NORMAN. Penang's Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. ENGLISH CUISINE English Treatment URCE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M. Judges. Medical Officers. Colonial Secretaries. Magistrates, etc. TggifS MoDKEAT. AND C«U«s 'NORMANS.'* T«l«pko»s No. 3»1 nursing home. MADAME mTaNTONESCU, Midwife (Diploma) and Sick Nurso. No. 21, Barrack
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  • 1128 9 Facts Versus Fajttasirs. Man is for ever running after idols. The story of the Israelites setting up a golden calf in Horeb, or some strange beast elsewhere, is at least true of man’s antics to-day, and there is no reason to doubt such stories of his conduct
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    • 466 9 What is a JOOCOCLE It is THE Bicycle Specially Made and Imported by TIANC JOO A CO., for the S.S. and F.M.S. markets. “JOOCOCLE" is British-made throughout, and Fitted with Real British Dunlop Tyres. PRICE, COMPLETE WITH UMP, BELL Sc.. $39 nett. Sole Importers: TIANG JOO Co.. 117. BEACH STREET.
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    • 414 9 Plain CrutDs on the subject of Health are the only acceptable pronouncements. Ei»Bgerated statements end by convincing no one—rather do they create suspicion, and give rise to doubt. But you may safely listen to universal opinion. The public have for long known the value of Beecham’s Pills In cases of
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  • 1391 10 FOOD PRICES AND SUPPLIES. 1 Facts and Figures. Guessing at the conditions of life in the capitals of the belligerent nations appears to have a certain fascination for newspaper readers. Stealthy visits are being paid to Berlin and Vienna by neutrals for the purpose of
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  • 149 10 Is He Alive or Dead? I may mention as an interesting matter of speculation, writes a London correspondent, that in some well-informed quarters in thh country and on the Continent there is a firm conviction that the aged Emperor Francis Joseph has been dead and buiied for
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  • 244 10 Once the spores of the Malaria parasite have become established in the blood something more efficatlous than quinine—which at best is purely a palliative—is necessary to eliminate them. Unless these spores are completely exterminated they will remain dormant for varying intervals of time, only to break out
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    • 10 10 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is. 6d
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