Straits Echo, 10 August 1915
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Title Section35 1915-08-10 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE SmAiTS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, TUESDAY, 10th AUGUST, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 18035 words
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Advertisement984 1915-08-10 1 S.U TIANO LEE V CO. Fcaaog 9 K«l* L«ap«r, ti'tmwgwo Vi '-rtL as a Tho Doctor adriscß and raoosamands. It ia nourishing, inn* forating end strengthening. <nl For Cars on Hire Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. BANKS WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN984 words
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Advertisement26 1915-08-10 1 TO LET. S m m M 1 BUNGALOW m No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. i 5 LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. m APPLY X Ĕ 53, BeacA Street, J26 words
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Article1943 1915-08-10 2 The Pests Enactment. Mr. F. W South, writing in the May number of the Agricultural Bulletin, says Practical experience of locust destruction duriug tLe <*nd of the year 1913 and the eailier part of the year 1914 showed that the powers conferred on officers in charge < f1,943 words
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Advertisement451 1915-08-10 2 MAHOMED NOORDIN’S RESIDUARY ESTATE. To Let from the Ist September, 1915, the right to collect Coconuts from the following lands, viz: T. S. D. Lot. Area Situated at. 1. 118 about 2 acres Pulo Tikus, Burmah Road. Part I 11. 2. 8 16 Western Road. 3. 185 8 Land at451 words
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Advertisement73 1915-08-10 2 Teething Children. Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which can ba controlled by giving CbambirlaVs Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, All that is necessary is to give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than natural and then cas tor oil to cleanse the system. It73 words
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Advertisement10 1915-08-10 2 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Qreat Peppermint Cnre Is. 6d10 words
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Advertisement199 1915-08-10 2 m V J LAEAW b CO., Lfl). PENANG, Bs CONTINUES DAILY THROUGHOUT AUGUST. BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS GREAT SALE OF Ladies Millinery, Outfitting, Woollen Goats. GREAT SALE OF Ladies Blouses, Fancy Neckwear, Hosiery. GREAT SAIF. OF Ladies Shoes, Dressing Gowns, Skirts. GREAT SALE OF Gentlemen’s Hosiery, Shirts, Pyjamas, Waterproofs. GREAT199 words
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Article989 1915-08-10 3 Gnus—And thi British System ot Gunnery. London, July 9. The possibility of German battleships I being rearmed, during the period of waiting, with heavier guns than those they I originally carried is still being discussed, I and, in most quarters, dismissed as an absoI lute impossibility. Nothing of989 words
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Article467 1915-08-10 3 After trials covering the Turco-Italian war, the Balkan wars and ten and a half months of the great European conflict, it can now be said that, except for scouting and signalling purposes, aircraft have proved worse than useless in warfare. As means for observing the operations of467 words
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Article322 1915-08-10 3 Regarding a form of nuisance peculiar to the Far East which we have often denounced in the Echo, a writer in the Bangkok Daily Mail says :—“Talking of travellers, I see that two more of the globe-girdling wights have recently turned up in Psnang. They tell the usual322 words
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Article199 1915-08-10 3 West River Conservancy. One begins to despair of the conservancy problem ever being tackled by the Chinese Government, as it should be —though much pretence is made of doing so. It is interesting, however, to learn that of the money subscribed last year for the relief of199 words
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Advertisement911 1915-08-10 3 WANTED FOR BAGAN LUAR OIL INSTALLATION. CHINESE Clerk with knowledge of simply book-keeping and type-writiDg Apply in person to the MANAGER Anatic Petroleum Co. (S 8.) Ltd. i 1, Weld Quay. Plain truths 465 for sale. The undermentioned valuable properties, ALL thoHG four pieces of laDd adjoining each other and911 words
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Advertisement384 1915-08-10 3 Smokers of discrimination always select GARRICK SMOKING TOBACCO It has the distinction of invigorating the ii nerves and brain of ‘f^gKlNG the business man. Does not burn or irritate the throat. i-Qi ri In weakness, neurasthenia CONSUMPTION CHLOROSIS mm t&*Hk v> Use HEMOGLOBIN Oeschiens ai way<? ninpc All doctors agree384 words
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Article, Illustration94 1915-08-10 4 Published daily (except Snnd&js and public holidays) XT TUX CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang Puca. Daily Local $24 per asnans. Outntation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Peat Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 SB. All buainaaa communication* ahould b*94 words
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Article1300 1915-08-10 4 Public opinion throughout the Colony has welcomed the announcement that the Reserve Force Bdl id to ba carried through til its stages at the next meeting of the Legislitive Council on Thursday. It speaks •inch for the patriotic sentiments of the community that this should bo eo1,300 words
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Article63 1915-08-10 4 Grand Opera Co.'s Special Show, The Grand Opera Co. will give a special performance to night when half of the receipts will be given to the Canton Flood Relief Fund. A very popular Chinese play entitled Sam Pek, Eng Tye” will be staged aud ama vellous feat63 words
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Article632 1915-08-10 4 Messrs. L. A. Allen aud F. S Wiliams are now Passed C'dets. Mr. E Burusi.’w’s leave ha* be*u extended to the end of September. Mr .Duncan, his l>6en actiug as Letter Censor in Penang for some little time past, is leaving the Government Service and returning to632 words
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54 1915-08-10 4 Aug. 7 By Balance $30,855.50 9 Fay given by some Members of “A” Company, Penang Volunteers 40.00 Government Servants in the District of Balik Pulau, Bth monthly subscription 16 56 Balance, August 9 30,912 06 Remitted to London on 24-2-15, £lO,OOO 85,618.73 Total54 words
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Article66 1915-08-10 4 Aug. 7 By Balance $3,352.05 9 Pay given by some Members of "A Company, Penang Volunteers 30 42 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Caledonia Estate 100 00 Balance, Aug. 9 $3,482.47 Amount previously ac- knowlodged 13,457.11 Total ...$16,939 58 By the s.s. Edavana to day 1,619 coolies arrived.66 words
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Article941 1915-08-10 4 A distinguished nav.il officer on H M H Nelson, says the Bodleian, in thanking jj Lane for a present of books f or the shin writes:— P’ “Tt may interest you to know that it i. tho invariable custom, during any u u action for a gun’s crew,941 words
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Advertisement93 1915-08-10 4 SANAPHOS ALL BRITISH not an imitation of German Sanatogen but a BRITISH OWNED BRITISH MADE Preparation of Superior Nutritive Value If you want a Tonic TRY SANAPHOS Don’t buy goods that put money into GERMAN POCKETS IDE GEORGE TOWN ENSARY. LTD. PENANG, TAIPING and IPOH. SOLE FOR ROY m 1193 words
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Article1016 1915-08-10 5 (Reuters Service.) Copyright Telegram. resolute resistance. in EVERY PART OF THE LINE. Petrograd, August 9, 2.40 a.m A Petrograd official announcement states Iu the direction of Riga we dislodged the enemy from the region between the Hirers Pwina and Eckau •i All enemy attacks on Kovno and1,016 words
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Article291 1915-08-10 5 VIOLENT FIGHTING AT SOUCHEZ. Paris, August 9, 5 p.m. A Paris communique states ‘‘Violent fighting took place at Souchez and N6uvill«, in which the German attacks were completely defeated. A grenade battle continues in the Argonne, the French having the advantage. The Germans in the Vosges made291 words
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Article295 1915-08-10 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ALPINISTS’ DURING FEAT. Rome, August 9, 4 25 a.m. Both the Italiaus aud the Austrian? are fertile in their expedieats iu a warfare of surprise attacks. A communique records a diriag foit of the Alpinists iu the Tonalo district. They climbed in the295 words
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Article52 1915-08-10 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, August 9. Mr. Justice Whitley, in the Johore Supreme Court, gave judgment in favour of Wong Ah Fook, Ex-Managing Director of Kwong Yik Bank, in his action against the Johore Government respecting the gambling concession granted to him by the late Sultan52 words
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Article49 1915-08-10 5 Mr. T»a Jiak Kim’» Successor. {From Our Oim Correspondent^) Singapore, August 9. Dr. Lim Boon Keng, the well-known medical practitioner of Singapore, who won the Queen’s Scholarship from the Raffles Institution ia 1887, has been elected to succeed Mr. Tau Jiak Kim in the Legislative Council.49 words
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Article42 1915-08-10 5 (From Our Own Correspondent,) Singapore, August 9. Mr. J. L. Burgess, of Pulau Bintang, has been killed in action in the Cameroons. Sergeant Cbamplio, the well-known boxer of the K. O Y. L. 1., has been killed in Flanders.42 words
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Article66 1915-08-10 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, August 9. The death took place on Sunday of Mrs. de Basagoiti, who had been a resident in Singapore for the last 54 years. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $73.75, buyers no sellers, and in Singapore (refined) at66 words
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Article2924 1915-08-10 5 CLOS£ OF E \QUIRY. DECISION RESERVED. Tho preliminary enquiry iato ♦he case against Tan Kira Hoe, a schoolmaster of St. Xavier’s Institution, who was charged with the murder of Chin Kim Shin, a pupil and boarder at the t-arae institution, was resumed yesterday afternoon before Mr. V.2,924 words
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Article959 1915-08-10 6 Superiority of Chinese. Mr. Hashimoto Keizaburo, a member of tho House of Peers, and formerly ViceMinister of Finance, contributes an article to the Zaitei Keitai Jiho on Japanese enterprises in China and Chosen. That China is destined to became an important market for Japanese goods in959 words
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Article939 1915-08-10 6 Very soon after the outbreak of war the nation wa6 solemnly called upon t* admire the action of sundry men of letters,” who saw fit to put it on record that they were on the side of their own country in the colossal struggle which had been939 words
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Article302 1915-08-10 6 Germany's Place Among the Nations Amsterdam, July 9. In a very carefully-written leading article the Frankfurter Zeitung attacks politicians who are advocating German conquests in Europe, stating “It would not be the German way to make ourselves drunk with the thoughts of victory, and to advmce with302 words
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Article302 1915-08-10 6 Peking as Model. The proposal of a model district, which we discussed a fortnight ago, has not been taken up officially as yet, but the President has resolved on a ciurse that will be of the utmost significance in the history of national reform. He has decided302 words
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Article287 1915-08-10 6 Syren and Shipping shows bow seriously the war has affected the position of the Norddeutscber Lloyd. It is reckoned that a total loss of £4,000,000 in traffic receipts has been sustained, of which .£2.300,000 is in respect of North American trade. Against an income of <£3,047,400 for 1913,287 words
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Article659 1915-08-10 6 Ladj Warwick has shown some courage bv taking up her pen against the exploitation of army nursing by young women in search of a new fashionable amusement, says Truth. Writing in the Daily Chronicle, she declares that the plague of women ”in South Africa was a mild affliction659 words
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Article147 1915-08-10 6 Le Figaro makes some interesting comments on the past and present position of Fred Winter, the well known English jockey, who came to the front rapidly when apprenticed to Felix Leach, the Newmarket trainer. Wintor. it will be recalled, left Newmarket attbeGerman Emperor’s request, to take147 words
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Article171 1915-08-10 6 Thera is a deal of talk in the air of Russo-Japanese Alliance, and a suggestion of this kind is very often most important when it is in the air. It can then be moulded into any required shape more easily than when it has taken concrete171 words
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1266 1915-08-10 6 Tropes, and Three Watchkeepers. Myself: There was a fellow in “Hudibras” Who ne’er his mouth did ope’ But out there flew a trope. First Watchkeeper Well, of all the silly rotten things to say Is it supposed to be funny Do we laugh now And1,266 words
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Article273 1915-08-10 6 Holland’s Position. Ever since the war began, the position of Holland has been one of great difficulty. The preservation of her neutrality was seriously threatened when the invasion of Belgium was complete; for although Antwerp is in possession of the Germans, it cannot be used for273 words
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Article113 1915-08-10 6 Tbnhis Tovrnambnt. The following ties have been fixed for to-morrow:— Mixed Doubles. Mr and Mrs H J Sinclair VB. Mrs Adamson and Swan Mrs Dennys and R T Reid VB. Mrs Ebden and J Seller Mr and Mrs F T Kinder vs. Mrs Low and S F113 words
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Advertisement44 1915-08-10 6 Sick To-day, Well To-morrow. If you feel dull and stupid, are bilious and constipated, take a dose of Chamberlain’s Tablets l>efore going to bed. They are just what you need, and you will be all right to-morrow. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.44 words
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Advertisement29 1915-08-10 6 Keep It Handy. Immediate relief is necessary in attacks of diarrhoea. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should always be on band. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.29 words
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Advertisement75 1915-08-10 6 The moment a man does his best bit of quick thinking is when attacked by a violent pain in the stomach. His thoughts immediately fly te WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE, The wish for a dose of that famous medicine is uppermost, a wish founded on solid experience, because he knows75 words
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Advertisement12 1915-08-10 6 For Children’s Hooking Cough »t Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1» M12 words
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Article234 1915-08-10 7 Motbeis as a rule overlook how much their good hotlth depends on regular hours of re*t and relaxation. It is all very veil when duties such as nursing prevent a mother taking the necessary leisure, or on (ccadous when considerations of her health prevent her enjoying234 words
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Article1240 1915-08-10 7 A Singapore Suggestion. No one who was present at the great 1 gathermg of the representatives of all classes of the British subjects of Singa- pore, backed up by the moral support of many who, though residents in this place, did not come under that1,240 words
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Article366 1915-08-10 7 Out of these throes that search and sear What is it. so deep arises iu us Above the shaken thoughts of fear, Whatever thread the fates may Bpin us, Above the horror that would drown And tempest that would strike us down It is to stand in cleansing366 words
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Advertisement275 1915-08-10 7 THE SECRET TO HEALTH RESTORING. HOOKS of advice, given by Dr. K. C. ITdSH, a physician of over 50 years’ experience in the above subject, can be obtained post free from the following places FENANG RUB.iER STAMP Co., 40, Church Street, renang THE FRIEN O OF THE FUBLIC Co 49,275 words
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Advertisement68 1915-08-10 7 Are You Going on a Journey 7 Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should be packed in your hand luggage when going on a journey. Change of water, diet, and temperature all tend to produce bowel trouble, and this medicine cannot be secured on board the train or steamship. It68 words
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Advertisement56 1915-08-10 7 Supplied by All Chemists. Physicians prescribe Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy because it relieves cramps in the stomach and intestinal pains quicker than any preparation they can compound. It can be bought from any chemist. A bottle will keep for years, and no home is complete without it. For56 words
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Advertisement1544 1915-08-10 8 ss o» S.N.C° Wireless Telejrsphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Elec trio Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. Homeward. FAKES BY MAIL STEAMERS. A Accommodation. IstclaBs 2nd class To Lonuon or Plymouth... $565-72 $377-141,544 words
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