Straits Echo, 22 September 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Amtun> PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 22nd SEPTEMBER, 1915. Single Copy, IP («nit. No. iJI6
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    • 960 1 Itfak k|'» Btti Sttvg. KV -w -5 «<S S'? "5 3 ciS 3~ u ■H 91*1« At»(»: TIANG LEE CO., a P**»»*l V L«s»p«r. iKßMtaiHananauauiaKMaKßESßa.ii»» For Cars on Hire rate BANKS > FOR Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China EMPIRE "The Little Ariatacra f** all at or 'phone (No.
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    • 22 1 TO LET. M m 1 BUNGALOW H No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. 7 LOCATION QUIET a HEALTHY. APPLY S 3, Beach Street. 2
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  • 1866 2 THE GERMAN PLAN. Nbws r&ott Ekolamd. The Spy Syatsoi. The Timet has commenced the republication of its interesting “Notes by a Neutral. We quote from the issue of August 21 Since I have arrived in England I have been asked by many acquaintances here to give
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    • 449 2 BOARD AND LODGING At Moderate Charges. No. 50, 1'enang Road. 513a THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. Hbad Offiob :—SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agenti for Penang. SELLAR, MURRAY A CO. l ocal Office: —No. 7, Uniow Strfft ESTABLISHED 1874. THE
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    • 41 2 Treatment for dysentery. Chamberlain’* Colic, Cholera and Diarrb«a Remedy followed by a dose of castor oil will effectually cure the most stubborn caaea of dysentery. It is especially good for summer diarrhoea in children. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 59 2 Chronic Diarrhoea. Are you subject to attacks of diarrhoea Keep absolutely quiet for a few days, rest in bed if possible, be careful of your diet and take Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This medicine has cured cases of chronic diarrbssa that physicians have failed on. and it will
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    • 395 2 Penang Sales Room AUCTION SALE At China Street Ghaut On Wednesday, 22nd Sept., 1915. AT 2-30 P.M. The following: One Turnout consisting of a pair of Australian geldings, very strong and fine. < trotters, perfectly quiet in Harness, together with a rubber tyred four seater Victoria and Double set Harness
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    • 180 2 TEA. Will you drink something fine YES. Try then our unsurpassed fragrant JAVA TEA from the Culture Maatschappij “GOLAPARA” of Soekaboemi. The following qualities are obtainable: No. I ORANGE PEKOE No. 2 PEKOE SOUCHON from TONG J00, CHONG KEE AND HOONG KEE.* Sole Importers: TRADING SOCIETY DELI-ATJEH” CHIN SENG CO.,
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  • 510 3 j Minutes of an Extraordinary General Meeting held on Saturday, the 18th Sepp tember, 1915, at 3 30 p.m. This meeting was called under the authorisation of the Council to consider the contribution of a portion of the funds of the Chamber towards the Malayan Airfleet.
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  • 422 3 The Festubkrt Battle. Lieut.-Col. A. B. Hubback, who is in command of the 20th Battalion, London Kegiment, on the western front, writes in a private letter dated Aug. 21st (and reproduced in the Malay Mail as follows We had a very strenuous time up to a
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  • 464 3 I The funeral of the late Mr. J. Campbell, Superintending Engineer of the Eastern shipping Company, Limited, who died in Medan 1 on Saturday, took place this morning. There was a large attendance. The remains were conveyed from Medan by the s.s. Alma which arrived
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  • 34 3 Sept. 17 By Balance $2,516.73 21 D-B. Stark 50 00 J. McNeill 50.00 Golf Club Ladies’ Bridge tables 35 10 Balance, Sept. 21 $2.651.83 Amount previously acknowledged 16,859.10 Total ...$19,510 93
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  • 417 3 The undermentioned prices were realised J for rubber sold by Messrs Allen Dennys j Co. by auction sale yesterday and during J the week Smoked Ribbed Sheet $125t0 8127^ Plain 8118 $l2O No. 2 Smoked Sheet $ll7 $123 Unsmoked Sheet $ll4 $llB No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet 8112
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    • 989 3 WANTED TO BUY. CEAKA RUBBER SEEDS in «mall or large quantity. Apply to A cfo Straits Echo. NOTICE OF SALE. HOUSE WANTED. WANTE D to loam, iu or near Parifc Buutar or Bandar Bharu a bouse suitable for a married couple. An estate bungalow if close to town would suit
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    • 476 3 I i» co C O’ m o; *b S^fcyy m ?a&rx»re—t rAB RIQUr. D!f ~-_> CIG AR ET TES FGY PTIEN NES FELUCCA i! x fjnjjp BoUTOtiXIoUGE 11 Hi ifi W FRfeREs pj ABBiQur; P AE r MASPERO FRERESLre \l DANS IEUR MANUFACTURE AU FASf*:QUC O O Freges L to
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  • 100 4 Published daily (except Sundays and pvblio holiday*) AT Tas CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Paicn. Daily Local m $24 per ai mm. Outatation... Postage Extra. Had Edition (Post Free) $17.50 cast,» ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone No». (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N ri.~ All busineo*
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  • 1332 4 There is not a British journalist who t ikes a proper pride iu his profession but will regret to learn that Mr. J. L. Garvin is to leave the rail Mall Gazette and devote himself to the Observer. That so brilliant a writer and so
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  • 1022 4 i Mr. A. B. Voules, Solicitor-Grreial, is again indisposed H. H. the Sultan of Perak, gj.c m.c., i arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday from Port Dickson. Mr. B. T. Knight, superintendent engineer r of tne Siam Railways in the Trang division, has left for Europe under
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  • 1010 4 It is satisfactory to note that rents for louses, both furnished and unfurnished m Penang are still going down. If the process continues, in about auother six months hey will have reached a reasonable level. There seems no limit to the credulity of rhe bucolic mind if it
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    • 173 4 The Right (Pricejto pay is ...at which appeals to your sense of reason. For quality reasons, as well as economical reasons, you cannot beat Ours. A new range of Perambulators just to hand. The Woodenette is a strong square wood body perambulator, neatly painted Brown or Green and lined beautiful
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  • 1579 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FIERCE STRUGGLE ROUND DVINSK. London, September 21. 6 a.m. A correspondent of the Times, in a despatch dated Dvinsk, Saptomber 18, says that he has spent the past three diys on this front where a terrific battle is raging with little interruption Whin
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  • 852 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SIR lAN HAMILTON'S DESPATCH. NARRATIVE OF THE OPERATIONS. London, September 20. Sir lan Hamilton, in his despitch dated August 26, resume! the narrative ot the operations in Gallipoli from the time the Allies force 1 their way forward some 5,000 yards from the
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  • 565 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FINANCIAL EXPLANATION. A DESPAIRING APPEAL. London, September 20. The third German War Loan closes on Wednesday. The Cologne Gazette, in a last despairing appeal for subscriptions, complains that there are 29,000,000 male adult salary and wage earners ia Germany, of whom at least
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  • 263 5 Iteremd Export Trade. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, September 22. At the half yearly mooting of the Selangor Chamber of Commerce Mr. H. P Clodd, who presided, said that there had been a fall in the value of the imports, but a substantial increase took
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  • 462 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. BULGARIA AND TH£ ENTENTE. CRITICAL DAYS. London, September 21. Owing to the strict censorship iu Bulgaria where martial law is enforced, it is diffiou t accurately to gauge the present critic al pjsition there but despatches from Rome and Bukharest indicate that the deputation
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  • 33 5 Messrs. Bousted Co. hare been advised by cable o£ the following interim dividends payable Ist October next:— Windsor (P.M.8.) Rubber Estate, Ltd 2±% Sungei Batu (Malaya) Rubber Estates, Ltd 5
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  • 291 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2. —Notes By a Neutral. 3. —F.M.S. Chamber of Mines. News of Col. Hubback. The Late Mr. J. Campbell. Belgian Relief Fund. 6. —Penang Library. The Menglembu Lode, Ltd. Sikhs and the War. A Rough House. War’s Irony.
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  • 436 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. STEADY NIBBLING. Rome, September 20, 11.35 p.m. Fighting on the Italian front continues steadily in favour of the Italians. A communique says that an important success was scored at Arsiero where large forces of the enemy attacked but were repulsed after a very
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  • 468 5 From Dutch SourcesThe following special telegrams are from the Deli Courant and Sumatra Post of Monday, September 21:— Holland and the War. The Cologne Gazette accuses the Netherlands Overseas Trust of co-operating in the Allies’ policy of starving out Germany and threatens Holland with reprisals A Dutch
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  • 1035 6 Brothers in Arms. Pew things of late have given us more satisfaction than the houour conferred on Subadar-Major Bhall Singh, of the Kedah Police by making him a J. P. and the welcome given to a party of the Malay Btates Guides by His Excellency the
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  • 1043 6 (By the Shellback It was pay-day cm the Pacific Station I the night of pay-day—and most of the men I whose ships happened to be in Esquimault I |at the time, and who could manage to get I leave, had caught the five-cent tram as early I
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  • 922 6 SEBBIANS NUBSED BT THEIR PRISONERS. A Mixed Lot. Most of the work of hospital attendants throughout Serbia is performed by Austrian prisoners. This fact is brought out in the course of an interesting letter published by the Nation I from Dr. F. M Dickinson Berry, physician to the
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  • 1115 6 Nbw-Bookb. The following books have been received at tbe Library The Ancient East, by D. G. Hogarth. History of Scotland, by R. S. Bait. The War Between England and America, by T. C Smith. The Hapsburg Monarchy, by H. W. Steed. 1 Nelson's History of the War, Vols.
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  • 247 6 Academic distinctions were freely showered on Professor Ehrlich during the last thirty years of his life; but he failed to gain any as a student. His first school was the Breslau Gymnasium, out of which he passed bearing the reputation of an idle and commonplace student. Then he
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  • 264 6 To the Editor op the Times of Malaya, Sir, —In the report published in your issue dated the 18th inst. of a special geueral meeting of this Co,, held in Penang on the 15th inst., I observe a statement was made to the effect that a
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  • 333 6 SECRET SOCIETY OF NINEVITES. A Meance to South Africa. The news from South Africa that H natives have been sentenced to death for the murder of a “boy” who refused to join the Ninevites calls public attention to the extraordinary ramifications of this notorious secret society, which
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  • 183 6 When the people themselves appoint their own constables and elect the superintendent or captain, popular opinion becomes a very potent force in the control of the organization, and as each unit (a street or ward in a town, or hamlet in the country) engaged the constables for
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  • 314 6 Wednesday, 22nd September, 191&. Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. 1 Selection Girefle Qirofla Lecocq 2 Lancers Florodora Williams 3 Polka The Echoes of Ment Blane Jullien 4 Waltz Lauretta Williams 5 March Maritana Riviere The best strains both of Christian and of pagan legend seem to mergo in
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 37 6 Remember the Name. Chamberlain's Colic, Cbolera and Diarrhce«. Koiundy is the bPst known medicine tor diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps or pains m the stomach. You may need it tome tune. For sale by ail Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is, 6d
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    • 62 6 Rheumatism. I Have you ever tried Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism If not, you are wasting time, as the longer this disease runs on the harder it is to cure. Get a bottle to-day, apply it with a vigorous massage to the afflicted parts and you will be surprised and
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    • 12 6 Fur Children’s Hacking Cough at Night VVoodB* Groat Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d,
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    • 58 6 Coughs and Colds are common ailments and in consequence often neglected, thereby permitting the system to drift to a stage favourable for the entry of serious disease. Protect yourself at the first sign of a cold by taking WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE. It is the finest medicine. Sold at Dispen
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  • 1170 7 Tib Last Half-hour or H.M 8. Triumph (Continued from Totter day’» Ittuo.J [Ths second instalment of the diary of an officer which we (the Star giro to-day commences with a striking description of the sinking of the Triumph after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
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  • 375 7 There is we think some justification for saying that Germany is gradually coming within sight of her last reserves to keep up her full numbers. There was some evidence on that subject in a case heard in the Prize Court in London recently, when
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  • 280 7 French Officer’s Records from the Battlefield. Paris, August 21. M. Louis Rousseau has sent to the Zoological Society from the quick-firing battery in which he is serving some curious observations on bird life at the front and the ease with which wild birds have become accustomed to
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  • 147 7 According to a witness examined by the Public Accounts Commission, there is now practically no currency in St Kilda, and this fact may account for the blissful condition of the islanders, who, though occasionally threatened with shortage of food, are, generally speaking, much the same as when
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    • 86 7 ChamkerUin’s Cooih Remedy. This remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whooping cougb. It has been a favourite with tho mothers of young children for almost forty y ear8 m Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasan It not onlv cures colds
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    • 42 7 WHEN TRAVELLING There is no remedy to equal fke little laxatives, which promptly iwliava sickness, headaches and con* ■tipation due to change of air. Of dealers, 50 cents per phial, or post free, from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Dept. 4, Singapore.
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    • 271 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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