Straits Echo, 27 August 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 GENERAL*! VOL. 13. $24 Per Annuo? PENANG, FRIDAY, 27tn AUGUST, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 194
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1109 1 fTu N't •Hi Otws&m Sim, l sr as m iwv V ,di TfwißMßlii j s»u a?«»u< JIANG LEE S' CO., S’ K«»ii Ltti»p«r, jjj For Cars on Hire Call at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN REPAINTING Motor cars, carriages
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    • 17 1 XO LEX. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. 5 APPLY 53, Beach Street. fi
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  • 1449 2  -  Bv Dr. Dearmer. An ancient land, long dying, and as yet still unaware of the new life that has come into it, and will make it young again; a land of maize-fields, and wheat fields, and the white flowers streaked with little purple colonies of the
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  • 501 2 Girls Who Are Not Suited For Flirting. An erudite German, Professor Mahliug, ha 3 contributed to the Hamburger Nachrichten an article on Flirts, and a translation of a portion is given in the Daily Telegraph. Though, judging by the article, he does not appear to have bad any
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 617 2 MUNICIPAL NOTICE Commissioners of George Town, 1. Penang, hereby invite tenders for the following: Construction of Back Lane Drains and > other works at Seek Cbuan Lane, Love Lane 1 and Maternity Hospital. 1 Full particulars can be obtained and plans < and specifications inspected at the Municipal Engineer’s office.
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    • 67 2 Are You Going on a Journey 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 meiicine cannot be secured on board the train or steamship. It may
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    • 72 2 With the swiftness of a tropical rainstorm does an attack of Pneumonia bring those attacked by it to the life or death stage. Pneumonia follows on a neglected chill to the body, and that is a condition to be always watchful of. An immediate dose or two of WOODS' GREAT
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    • 154 2 A Sale Where Cost and Profit Receive Little Consideration. WMTEAWAY, LAIDLAW CD., LTD., PENANG. LAST DAY OF SALE MONDAY, AUGUST 30TH. REMNANTS AND ODDMENTS MUST GO AT SOME PRICE. FORMER SALE PRICES WILL 8E CUT IN HALFAn Inspection of the Price Cutting will astonish the Keenest Buyer. COME EARLY. DOORS
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  • 410 3 There is at first something of a shock conveyed by the headlines of some of the American papers just to hand, which sug* gest that the great super-Dreadnought, Queen Elizabeth, has been sunk bj the Turks in the Dardanelles. The date ot the “disas* ter” is
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  • 88 3 Aug.2s By Balance ...$33,069.43 26 Simpang Estate, August subscription 10.00 Staff of Simpang Estate, August subscription 10.00 Amount collected by Nova Scotia Club: K. C. Vaughan 10 00 R. H. Vaughan 10.00 R. Eadie 10.00 H.G Daniels 10 00 W. R. C. Gray
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  • 37 3 Aug.2s By Balance 5 915.58 26 Ladies’ Bridge Table, Golf Club 27.00 St. George’s Ball Relief Fund 200.00 J. H. Allard, Ipoh 100 00 Balance, Aug. 26 $1,242.58 Amount previously acknowledged 16,859.10 Total ...$18,*****
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  • 77 3 The following were the results of the ties played off yesterday Championship. A W Harries beat J R Bennett 6-3, 6-3. F W Harries beat H C Sells 6 —4, 6—3. Single Handicap B. Dr Sayers ve o from C D D Hogan. Profession Pairs. VV S
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  • 130 3 Billiard Tournament. The following was tho result of the tie played off yesterday Double Handicap. J S Reutens and H Y D’Aranjo beat C C Stewart and R H Tegjeu (250 —143/ The Avenir du Tonkin reports that IndoChina reservists who left lately for the front, after a
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  • 457 3 Nefarious Activities. Regarding a more or less mysterious matter upon which we touched briefly in a paragraph a couple of days ago, the Java correspondent of the Strait» Time» says A curious and rather mysterious ultimatum haß been put on the local government by our leading organ
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  • 236 3 An Obstrbpbroub Man. Before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel in the Third Court this morning a Chinaman was charged with disorderly conduct by shouting outside the Court yesterday evening. The accused produced a baju and said he had been wearing tho baju and thought he was guilty. Being
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  • 156 3 Appeal Dismissed. Some time back, in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Ebden, Goh Boou Hoo sued Toh Kbay Beng and Goh Chin Loo for the return of four pieces of silver pillow heads, four pieces of gold pillow heads and two pieces of silver bolster heads
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  • 45 3 Visit From Kulim To-morrow, Saturday, at Dato Kramat Gardens, the Kulim Royal Union Club and Crescent Star will meet. To accommodate tbe visiting Club, tbe First Division League fixture between Crescent and Babrol Alam has been postponed bv erder of the M. F. A.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 805 3 IMOTICE. Owing to Late Arrival of s.s, Colconda, The Bandmann Gaiety Co.’s Performance or “ALL FRENCH” WILL TAKE PLACE ON Monday, Aug. 30th. tS. SATURDAY’S TICKETS HOLD GOOD FOR MONDAY 30. The Robinson Piano Co., ltd 500 NOTICE. DAILY —Breakfasts, Tiffins and Dinners. SATURDAYS- Special Tiffins The public are cordially
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    • 525 3 if <5? G K8 O O/ *S ££T£S ESZ 5® l s Y^:ir~' r y^sr e—? FABRIQUE DE —J> Cigar ettes Egypti en n es FELUCCA 5 Rouge MasperO w' fabmiquc AUspero FreresLi *S ttOR FA»ntatJ« A^aspcro pßcacs 'Mmm 333 HAVE U SEEN THIS? If you have not, you’ve missed
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  • 96 4 Published daily (except Sunday» and pebi.a holiday*) aT tb b CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, PeDang. Paicß. Daily Local 924 per ann«m. Outatation... Postage Extra, lfail Edition (Post Free) 917.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Not. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 K d. —All bu«m*M e»mraunic*tion«
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  • 1259 4 Our Chinese readers, like ourselves, will, we feel sure, be very chary of accepting, •xcept under all reserves, the story Reuter cables to-day, on the strength of he Timet s «orrespondent in Peking, regarding the propaganda that is said to have been started with the object of
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  • 821 4 Mrs Jules Martin is returning to Penang next month. Mr. F. Burdett Ivens has left Ipoh on a trip to India. The health of Mr. Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader, shows some improvement. Mr. C. Wilson, of the F M S. Government Service, who obtained a commission
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  • 913 4 Certain proconsuls in Singapore, Kunl* Lumpur, Colombo and Hongkong will learn with interest that the Military Secretary to the Governor of Bombay has forwarded Rs 5,000 to the Presidency War Fund, thi* being the first in«talment due to th* ■toppage of champagne at Government House. What would that
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    • 158 4 *****0 Dear me! The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, I never had a similar one as when I hear of the extraordinary Bargains being offered at this Sale.” KENG A CO Penang S Ipoh. SALE NOW ON. ■■■■■■■■nrrrmtm Weinberg's Mauaiia Cigarettes. m cep .H m 0 'umuuin
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  • 534 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. resume of recent OPERATIONS. TWO LINES OF ATTACK. London, August 25. The Preen Bureau announces that it is now possible to recount the important operations since August 6 on the western extremity of the Gallipoli Peninsula These comprise two separate lines of attack. Firstly,
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  • 1063 5 A startling story is told by Reuter s Cairo correspondent regarding the presence of Germans in the Australian forces. Writing on June 7, he says A German in Australian uniform, who had been moving about freely amongst our men for •ome days, was recently shot in the
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  • 633 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ARTILLERY DUELS Paris, August 25, 6 pm. A Paris communique states that only cannonades and gronida fighting took place iu tbe varijus sectors, especially in Artois and the Argonne. Pans, August 26, 1.20 a.m. Artillery duels took place along the whole front and
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  • 665 5 (Renters Service) Copyright Telegram. REPUBLIC OR EMPIRE? A STORY FROM PEKING. London, August 25. The Peking correspondent of the Times states that an inspired propaganda has been started in Peking, either to sound the readiness of the country to aecepfc Yu in Shi Kai as Emperor,
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  • 716 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. VO CHANGE. Petrograd, August 26, 1.20 am. i A Petrograd communique states that the situation in the Riga district is unchanged, j The fighting at Dvinsk continues; the front is approximately unchanged. Feeble evening attacks near Vilna were repulsed. The Germans continue to
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  • 170 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Tuesday and Wed1 nesday:— Belgium under German Rule. A number of Belgian priests have been sentenced for actions hostile to Germany. I Further arrests are expected. German War Credits. The Social Djoiocratic Party in
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  • 141 5 COMMANDEERED CARS. Question of Compensation. (From Our Own Correspondent,') Singapore, August 27. At the Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Automobile Club a letter was read from General Ridout on the subject of compensation for cars commandeered during the Mutiny. All the claims by owners hare been
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  • 425 5 Annual Meeting. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, August 27. At the Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Cricket Club, Captain Mullins, who presided, said that the war had greatly affected games and particularly cricket. Hue-Desirables. The membership was at present 762 as against 876 the difference betweon
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  • 946 6 The Butchers Justified. Vice-Admiral Kirchhoff contributes to the Tdgliche Rundschau an article on The 1 Lusitania Judgment,” which is noteworthy l in several respects. Vice-Admiral Kirchhoff is one of a select body of retired naval i officers to which the task was entrusted, before tbe war, of
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  • 647 6 Huhsaet’s Part in the Great War. The attitude of American-Hungarians to- i wards the manufacture of munitions seems to be regarded in the States as a question of great importance, and the American Press, < in commen'ing on a recent article of the Budapest Correspondent of the
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  • 252 6 To Mr. Asquith’s statement regarding the Holy Places, the fullest publicity should be given. Replying to a question by Sir John Rees, the Premier repeated the pledge already given as to the British policy regarding the Holy Places. This pledge is specific and emphatic It is that
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  • 983 6 It must be conceded that a people at war is not ideally situated for emulating the wisdom practised by the singer of sweet Colonus, who saw life steadily and saw it whole. The even-balanced soul needed for r that performance must presumably be sought among neutrals, and it is
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  • 935 6 AS MERRY AS EVER. Life at the Front. The visitor to Italy iu times of peaoe, writes a Handelsblad correspondent from i Rome, gets the impression of entering upon a feast in honour of the beautiful life in the sunshine and amidst the perfume of flowersBut now,
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  • 1081 6 Although it was stated that a renewal of the Balkan Alliance would follow the' triumph of M. Venizeios in the Greek elec- j tions the throe neutral States remain in J almost exactly the same position as at the I beginning of the year. In January there
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  • 288 6 Twice a week may bo seen, if the weather is fane This famous old Corps doing Stunts” on the plain Forming four*” and two deep” and a more or less lino Or doubling for «belter in case of the rain There aro long, short, thin, fat ones,
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  • 293 6 Considering the number of people who go barefoot in Siam the mortality from snakebite is apparently small, and this in spite of the fact that such deadly reptiles as the krait, the green viper, Russell’s viper and the cobra are fairly plentiful. During the year which ended
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  • 177 6 Saturday 28th August, 1916. Golf Club, 3-45 to 7-15 p.m. 1 Selection... Dandy Dan Slaughter 2 Two Step... Karama Grey 3 Selection The Mikado Sullivan J alt PrakLadj Caryll i J 1 wo Step... Dream of Ragtime Tburban 6 March Dixieland Hare» In the second polioe court, at
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 10 6 For Chronic Ghent Complaints, Wood*’ Groat Peppermint Cure lr. 6d
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    • 46 6 Sick To-day, Well To-morrow. If you feel du 1 and stupid, are bilious and constipated, take a dose of Chamber- tain's Tablets before going to bed. They aie just what you need, and you will be all right fco-uiorrow. For sale by all Dispensane» and Dealers.
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    • 12 6 For Children'll Hocking Cough at* Night. Wood*’ Great Peppermint Care, li 6d
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    • 56 6 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 borne is complete without it. For
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    • 28 6 Keep It EUaJj. Immediate relief is necessary in attacks of diarrhosa. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy should always be on hand. For sale by all Dispensaries and
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  • 2300 7 Vital Points on Which Positive Know lb do is Possible. It is because war is of it» nature at once unusual and vastly disturbing that men do not readily seise what are the chief points by which they may judge its progress. Perhaps the commonest and,
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 73 7 Teething Children. Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which caD be controlled by giving Ohamberla'n’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Ko'medy, 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. It
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    • 207 7 THE SECRET TO HEALTH RESTORING. BOOKS of advice, given by Dr. K. C. Dass, a physician of over 50 years’ experience in the above subject, can be obtained post free from the following places: PENANG RUBBER STAMP Co., 40, Church Street, Penang. THE FRIEND OF THE PUBLIC Co., 49, Lahat
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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