Straits Echo, 23 July 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, FRIDAY, 23rd JULY, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 166
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 938 1 13! OO n AH ONYU §3 5 F CJ V /I 1“1 ac 0 j. z-il 111 HI tM*S F»1 *,*f For Cars on Hire all at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. BANKS Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. WE ARE SPECIALISTS
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    • 16 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCAHON QUIET a HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 2028 2 Les Embusques.” Paris, June 17. S’embusquer, embusquant, embusque vtrbt rĕjlĕchi (se mettre en embuscade; se cacher, se poster) To lie in ambush.— French Dictionary. Nothing eerns more natural, at first sight, thau for a soldier to be embusque it is one of bis ordinary duties to
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 784 2 3XTOTICE Chops "Lo Kwong Sang or Lo Kong Seng and Lo Mau or Lo Mow Seng of Penang. NOTICE is h reby given that by Indenture dated the 19th day of January, 1915, under the hand and seal of Ernest Alfred Mountford Williams of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong
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    • 12 2 or Children’s Hacking Cough at Night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d.
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    • 56 2 Blazon Type Not Necessary. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy needs no glaring headline to attract the public eye. The simple statement that all chemists sell it is sufficient, as every family knows its value. It has been used for forty yeais and is just what it* name implies. For
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    • 476 2 Whiteaway, Laidlaw 8 Co, LIMITED. Offer Special Value in Table Damask. JBT sf. o'o v ->■ 5K^B iH No. 4049. Bleached White Damask Table Cloth. New Design. Size Price 70 by 60 Inches 70 by 80 70 by 105 $5.50 $6.50 $7.50 each. Special Mercerized Damask Table Cloth. t s*p
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    • 209 2 PERFECT ENJOYMENT. To obtain perfect enjoyment of cycling it is necessary to ride a bicyclo which will give perfect service. Therefore, you cannot do better than KEDK A S. A. BICYCLE. if Pe;feet in Every Part.” Send to-day for a Copy of B. S. A. Bicycle Catalogue. Massey-Harris Cycle and
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  • 951 3 i Whatever may be said in Parliament by l the official spokesmen of the Colonial Office t will not serve to remove the impression that the outbreak of the Singapore Mutiny and i tbe terrible loss of life it entailed might i have bean prevented if either the
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  • 573 3 (From Our Own, Correspondent.') j Bakit Martajam, July 21. i At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, t before Mr. G\ A. Hereford, on Monday, two 1 Khehs, named (1) Tong Chung and (2) i Wong Ah Fan, ware brought upon a charge > of being suspected persons
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  • 336 3 To th* Editor of the Strait Eoho Sir, Will you, or any of your numerous Roman Catholic readers, kindly inform me wbat'the position in Penang and Province Wellesley as regards the ruling and aa regards the practice, of the Sunday attendance at Church; of the different sections
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 475 3 PENANG TURF, CLUB JULY MEETING. 1919. ADMISSION to Grand Stand by Tickets i only. Ticket* tor Grand Stand can be obtained at the Secretary’s Office, or at tha g^te. These Tickets are only, sold subject to of the Committee to return the money at any time to the Holder without
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    • 425 3 notice. MEETING of the Board far the canI* eideraUoo of claim a fov compensation for damage caused by the defence work* in Penaag wiH be held hi the Governor’s Office at 10 30 a m oa Tuesday, July 27tb. Any, person claiming compensation who has not submitted his claim should
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    • 473 3 i M K t From all Ckamiata. THE k *LBT umuMs 0^ r Jt A s l T h MAGNUMS jA{ •e Castles w Ci^a^et^ Th ree Ca b ‘.y'V* ■<• tr/trf YK*'*' w r>^HowiU6 Bristol London A Handsome Goose Quill Silver Gigarette Holder Enclosed in a Leather Case, Free
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  • 100 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) IT THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local >H $24 per aunua. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N B.— All business communications
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  • 1330 4 Kedah’s State Council, which carries out the functions commonly supposed to be performed in the Colony by the Executive Council and the Legislative Council, is a more industrious body than either of the Straits institutions. During the period reviewed in Mr. L. E. P. Wolferstan’s report it
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  • 596 4 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. QUESTION IN THE COMMONS OFFICIAL STAIEMENT. London, July 21. In the House of Commons, during the Colonial debate, Mr. G. Stewart, Unionist member for the Wirral division of Cheshire, raised the question of the Singapore Mutiny. He declared that the indications pointed to
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  • 624 4 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. BASIS OF THE SETTLEMENT. London, July 21. Roughly, the new mining settlement i a equivalent to a 5% advanse on the wages. The agreement is almost identical with that recently made in the English mining area but the Welsh agreement includes also all
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 554 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. night cannonades. Paris, July 21, 5 20 p m. 1 features of the communique, issued w«r« nisrht cannonades and the to-day, wer complete defeat of two Gernsan attacks in the Forest of Apremont. A Freach Success. But the most'important event was a French
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  • 666 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. MILITARY SITUATION. STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS. London, July 21. In the House of Commons, during the debate on the Coloniai Office Estimates, Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, sketched the military situation in the Colonies. German East Africa. He
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  • 583 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. TERRIFIC FIGHTING. GERMAN CLAIMS. Amsterdam, July 21, 10 p.m. The terrific battle for Warsaw still sways indecisively, but a Berlin communique shows that the Russians are making important counter-attacks from the Narew fortress line. It adds that the Russians have been hastily reinforced
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  • 813 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FIERCE FIGHTING AT CARSO. London. July 21, 1.40 p.m. A telegram from Udine states that the fighting on the Carso plateau is very fierce. The Italians as a result of their successes hold all the territory west of the line between Gorizia and
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  • 1964 5 CRITERION PRESS SUED. CHINESE AFFAIRS AT RANGOON. In the Supreme Court yesteid x\ before Mr. Justice L. P. Ebden, the case wa t resumed in which Tan Siew Kim, a Chines resident of Rangoon, sues the Criterion Press, Ltd., as the proprietors ot the Penang Sin Poe
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  • 235 6 As intimated in our issue of the 17th instant would probably be the case (says the Malaya Tribune the Germans recently dismissed from British-owned rubber estates in Sumatra met on the 16th instant in Medan, under the auspices of Heir Sandal, German Consul, to consider the
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  • 264 6 Our readers will note with interest that one of this morning’s wires speaks of the arrival of a Chinese merehant in Honolulu on his way to San Francisco with a view to starting a subsidised steamship line to Amerioa. This is indeed a wakening up of. things,
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  • 166 6 Colonial Office in .Ignorance. (From the Free Press Correspondent.) London, June 24. This week the following telegrams appeared in the evening papers. I quote from the Evening News 18 ffo 55, Straits Settlkmrnts Leads the Way in Compulsory Service. Singapore, Wednesday. A Bill haa been introduced in
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  • 166 6 We are supplied from the office of the Colonial Secretary with the following copy of a notification issued by the Colonial Secretary of Hongkopg, pursuant to which British» Allied or neutral passengers may, be called upon to produee either-a passport on official form, or a certificate of
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  • 1281 6 ANTONIO SALANPRA: THE c ITALIAN PREMIER. < 1 From A Rome Correepondcnt.) Now that Italy has come into the European war by the side of the Triple Entente against her former Allies, it is well that the British public should have a fuller knowledge of
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  • 165 6 The Wilkib Shield. The followiug ladies’ have been selected to .represent PenaDg in the shoot for the Walker Shield, which takes place on Monday next at 4 30 p.m. 200 Yards, Deliberate Firing. Mrs LiB f on Mrs Durege Mrs Webb Mrs Wright-Motion Miss Matbieu Miss
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  • 130 6 The following paragraphs are from the British North Borneo Herald of Jgly 1: It is confidently predicted by .a weatherprophet of great local repute, that the Reseivoirs will be filled before 1928. Meanwhile a scheme has been thought of for supplying Sandakan with water from the overflow of
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  • 99 6 July 21 By Balance $2f,541:82 Mr t and Mrp. D. ISCTQO J. Meldrum, monthly subscription 10-00 A. R. W. Landon, monthly subscription 15 00 “Anonymous,” monthly subscription 35.00 Balance, July 22 27,751.82 Remitted to London on 24 2-15 £lO,OOO 85,618.73 Total subscription to
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  • 975 6 From an 010 Romaumt. In tbqaq days theie dwelt a most monstrous dttgon ill the middle of that land, the >\ which constantly strove to win to the sea i for (quoth hq) J am grown so mighty that < save 1 lave me in the sea-water
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  • 928 6 For various reasons joint stock companies have never been popularized in China. The main essential for the successful operation of such companies is a well-defined and comprehensive Company Act. In the nature of things investors think first of security and secondly of profit. At the
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  • 964 6 FRIGHTFUL DEVASTATION. Fire Adds to the Trao*d T The topic of the moment, says the Hona kong Telegraph of July 14, is still the Kwangtung Floods, and everybody has the same remark to make about them that not within the memory of the oldest inhabitant has the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 70 6 The scourge of a tropical, country is dyir etotery, but every trouble has, its antidote, -and-for dysentery tbe medicine is WOODS' GREAT PEPPEftIINT CORE. It is ,a medicine that will provide quiofc re- lief and care. Those who have to get away into the out portions.,of this country should never
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    • 95 6 Don't Neglect Your Family. i When you fail to provide your family with a bottle of Chamberlain’» Colic, Cholera tmd Diarrhoea Remedy at thiy season of the year, you are neglecting them,, as bowel complamt is sure to be prevalent, and it is too dangerous a malady to be trifled
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Cheit Complaint!, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 1«, 6tl
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  • 1081 7 THE FESTUBERT BATTLEGROUND. Bt Percival Phillips. British Headquarters in the Field, June 18. After some days of inactivity along our front we have again taken the offensive at two points—near the ruined chateau of Hooge, in the Ypres salient, and at Festubert, near La Basses—with marked success.
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  • 888 7 Atmosphere. The firmament that lieth above tho waters has almost as much to do with the sailor’s life as the waters themselves, and there is not a single branch of naval work which is not affected in some way by the atmosphere. The wireless-operator’s life
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 53 7 Cramp Colic. No need of suffering from cramps in tb9 stomach, or intestinal pains. Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy never fails to relieve the most severe cases. Get it to-day, there will be no time to eend for it after the attack comes ou. For sale by all
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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