Straits Echo, 25 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 EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, SATURDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER, 1915. Single Cog;, It centi. No. 2;19
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    • 16 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street. m
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    • 45 2 DRINK Hi 9* I f% g% mfw Ilf ml I S ft E fc’fi -«sqr -a. mV»>, •T'ft I m B ti SSjB &4 »1 Jl THE V ,v'-' v? «P BRAND ON SOTF AGENTS: v.< n i* > w li r. *i ISWM LTD., PENANG.
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  • 1220 3  -  THE ULTIMATE REALITY. Br Numa. I aui on dangerous ground, I know. The man who takes such a text is asking for trouble. Some of us will have in mind Bradley’» well-known epigram that “Mr. Herbert Spencer has told us more about the unknowable than the
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  • 487 3 Take the skeleton of a thin and tawdry plot. Coat with presumably humorous dialogue, and cover thickly over with amorous negroid ditties, eccentric dancees, and Music Hall turns until the plot is entirely concealed. Collect a number of pretty girls, dress in the latest Paris models, and mould
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    • 271 3 TH£ CLAYTON SEMI-MESEL OIL ENCi! manufactured by Clayton 8 Skttleworth ltd., LINCOLN, ENGLAND. Work* Automatic equally throughout well with a requires y-.f Crude, ao lamp or M Rtsidoal, or attention i Rtfiaad after Lana m starting. The Cheapest Running Engine Made. APPLY FOR FULL PARTICULARS TO McAlister Co., Ltd. BOLE
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    • 513 3 LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH IS LIVING DEATH. VETARZOSpS This remarkable compound, the latest discovery of modern times, is without equal in all cases of defective nerve and brain power, whether induced by worry, overwork, dissipation, or other influences. Sleeplessness, palpitation, defective circulation, nervous dyspepsia, tic or neuralgia, low spirits, menial and
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  • 2235 4 THE INEVITABLE VICTORY. A Reviiw of tie Russian Situation. (By Colonel r. N. Mi.dt, C. 8.. Lot* R C.) 1 think any stranger visiting our shores for the first time might be pardoned if he inferred, from certain newspaper posters which have offended our eyes during
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  • 643 4 It is notorious that the Dutch upper classes are pro-German and many of the sons of the Dutch nobility are fighting with the Germans. The newspapers and the people are however, mostly for the Allies and the Teiegraaf writes as follows. We take from the Gazette
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    • 61 4 Rheumatism. Have you ever triad Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism If not, you are wasting time, an the longer this disease runs on the harder it is to cure'. Get a !>ottlo today, apply it with a vigorous massage to the afflicted parts and you will be suiprised and delighted
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    • 41 4 Treatment for ftyuntery. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrb«ea Remedy followed by a dose of castor oil will effectually core the most stubborn cases of dysentery. It is especially good for summer diarrhoea in children. For sale by ail Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 389 4 Michelin Tyres. I am keeping stock of these well known tyres in all sizes. Arctic Ice Machines. n DOC Best for the tropics. Estimates and Contracts made for complete Works from 1 to 100 tons daily. Bessemer Semi-Diesel (Crude Oil) Engines. The most reliable, economical and simple engines for Rubber
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  • 1285 5  -  [Bt Tom Wunt.] Kipling at the Mansion House said that the most Useful thing a civilian can do in these busy days is to Bpeak as little as possible, and, if he feels moved to write, to confine his efforts to his cheque book. What is the use
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  • 787 5 Lesal Argument Between Judge And Counsel. Yesterday, at the Assizes, says Thursdays Strait Times before Mr. Justice Earnshaw, Retnam, the Tamil charged with the murder of his mistress in their house in River Yalley Road, swore that he found the woman with another man. He was so enraged
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    • 331 5 < Ul a ui q: _i < u Ul (L (/> CO |> r < X u ffl O c/> -J < SCOTCH WHISKY SOMETHING TO C&OW ABOUT** ACK&WHITE X X fek: mm n V., ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY ft TJ 70 O ■D > a m > r m
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    • 501 5 mm I i i I QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. u a xrr fete S; U PsT. That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE. 777. V////j Judge man by the company he keeps. Judge a picture
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  • 97 6 Published daily (except Sundays and pnblie holiday!) ▲T Til CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pucb. Daily Local $24 per unia, Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Echo, 586 Printinf Department 543 S' a. —All bu.in.to communication. ihoold
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  • 1342 6 Things are moving apace down in the Balkans. Both Bulgaria and Greece have now mobilized and Rumania, although nothing has come through from Bucharest, is certainly not remaining passive. All through this long Balkan crisis the cables which we translate from our Sumatra contemporaries have given us
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  • 30 6 We are informed that Mr. A. O. Merican has offered a donation of $5OO to Jthe new Maternity Hospital for the purpose of purchasing additional equipment.
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  • 938 6 Mr. R. M. Skinner, of Kuala Lumpur, who has taken ovor most of his brother’s visitine work, has been paying a business visit to Penang M. A. Boyd, formerly of the staff of the Malay Mail who later became a member of the Herald staff (Sydney), is
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  • 88 6 Letters posted at Dato Kramat and E. A O. Hotel Sub-Post Offices and in the Pillar-boxes before 10 a.m. to-morrow will be in time to catch the Homeward Mail Letters etc., for despatch by the B. I. Contract Packet Bllora may be posted at the Head Office up
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  • 986 6 Goitre is known to be an affliction common in mountainous countries in Tibet md the Alps it is frightfully prevalent and we noticed quite a number of cases up-coun-try in the Rahman district some years ago. But the general conception of a mountainous country is one in which
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    • 221 6 BRiriSH MANUFACTURERS are doing their best to CAPTURE GERMAN TRADE. ARE YOU DOING YOUR SHARE? WE OFFER ALL BRITISH PREPARATIONS. for similar German Articles. wERWAN: BRITISH: ODOL use TONIC TOOTH WASH The Odol Substitute, Flavour and composition as Odol. 85 Cts. LYSOL use SUPER ISOL The product of a British
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  • 723 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FIERCE ARTILLERY WORK. Paris, September 23, 5 p m. A Paris communique reports the continuance of tierce artillery work in which the French had the upper hand and in which they destroyed trenches and blew up ammunition stores. Fighting was particularly fierce on
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  • 619 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. INTENSE FIGHTING. SITUATION IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES. Petrograd, September 24, 12.20 p.m. A German aeroplane flying towards Riga j wus destroyed by Russian guns. The great battle which is proceeding in the Baltic Provinces is still in the intense stage. The Russians bajre
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  • 755 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. BULGARIAN MOBILISATION. TWENTY-EIGHT CLASSES CALLED UP. London, September 23, 6 pm. The Bulgarian situation is wrapped in 1 complete obscurity. Feeling in Greece. Athens, September 23, 6.5 p.m. A decree was promulgated in Sofia at midnight mobilising twenty-eight classes. The news has intensified the
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  • 432 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. AS SEEN BY A RAIDER. NUMEROUS UNTRUE STATEMENTS." London, September 24. Commander Nathy, a pilot of one of the Zeppelins which raided London, has furnished the Jfew York World with an account of the caid, which has been passed for publication in London
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  • 238 7 Our Bukit Mertajam correspondent relates the following curious story "A young Malay woman, wife of a bullockcart driver residing at Telaga Ayer, Butterworth, recently gave birth to a female infant and a snake of about six inches in length. On the day of its birth the snake
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  • 36 7 Sept. 23 By Balance ...$36,483.16 24 Staff of Messrs. R. Young, September subscription 100.00 Balance,'Sept. 24 36,583.16 Remitted to London £lO,OOO on 24-2-15 85,***** Tot?l subscriptions to date ...$122,201.89
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  • 563 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. A BUSINESS DECLARATION. GENERAL APPROVAL. London, September 23. Mr. Reginald McKenna’s Budget statement was purely a business declaration and noticeably free from rhetorical declamation The whole interest of the country is centred round the taxation proposals and general satisfaction is expressed because th 6
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  • 109 7 The following articles will be found on our outbids pages Page. 3. —Modern Thought and Life. A Revue. 4. —Harmony of the Allies, Holland and the War. 5. —Marginal Notes. Singapore Assizes. 8. —Guthrie’s at the Front. Fight for the Pacific. Football in Siam. F.M.3. Tin Exports. St. George’s
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  • 419 7 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post and the Deli (lourant of Thursday, September 23 British Trawler Sunk. The British trawier Ci'y of Dundee has been run down in the mist in the English Channel and sunk with all hands. The Sumatra
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  • 407 7 GOVERNOR’S ADDRESS. Sound Financial Position. (From Our Own Correspondent J Singapore, September 25. H. E. the Governor, in his Budget address, stated The war makes heavy calls but my optimism of a year ago is more than justified. The difficulties of 1916 are now fronting us, but we
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  • 435 8 Letter From*.-Corporal Dak vie. a NEW EEEBtJi Mr. H. Dandie,' late-of Messrs. Guthrie and Co» Klang, and now corporal in thn 2nd Batt., K.O.T.L I in the course of a private letter from the. front, published in the columns of our Kuala Lumpur contemporary, says:— At-daylight
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  • 311 8 Finax Figures for the Eight Mouths. An official statement of tin exported from the F.M.IS. during the months of January to August» 1915 i and comparison with cor re* eponding period of previous year* gives the following figures (cents and katig omitted) Total Tie,. Increase
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  • 940 8 In his book on" Nationality and the war” Mr. Anold J. Toynbee makes> some reference to*4herfotuie problems of peace. For the first time in our lives* Bays Mr. Toynbee in the opening sentence of his book, we find ourselves m complete uncertainty as to* the future;
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  • 179 8 If interest in football is going to increase at the present rate we shall soon reach the stage of having several editions of newspapers night, giving- columns of description and the latest scores. This is as (it should be,* but 1 hope never to iee the day
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  • 87 8 September 26,1915. 17th Sunday after Trinity. 8-00 am. Matins 8-30 a.os* Holy* Communion 10-15 a.m. Chinese Servioe- p.m. Sunday School 6- p.m. Evensong and Sermon Hymn 277 Yearn my God to Thee 'Psalm CXIX Monk and Pye nJk Dimitris Stainer 8 Parisian Tone Anthem Incline-thine ear
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  • 51 8 Services will be held in the Presbyterian Church, Nortbam Road, to-morrow as follows i Morning, at 9a m CbildfmiY Service Evening, at-6 p m Worship. Preacher, Rev. W. Murray, MA. Subject—The central idea of the ('hutch, Hymns for evening service: Church Praise 688, 173, 434, 534 and
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  • 102 8 On Wednesday next and following two nights Mr K. W. Levering, Agent for the I London Film. Coy’s productions, presents (iu addition to a very strong film programme,) Miss Irene Delmar, Serio and Dansense and Mi’. H. Kenyon Slade “The Funny man These two Artist»
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  • 361 8 0 The foRowing ties have been fixed for j Tuesday, the 28tb inst. t Mixed DouMe* Mrs Kbden and Mrs Everest 1 V» Mrs Mactm and Mrss Began (Fiaal>. m j The Straits Cinema bag set down a strong a programme for show to-night. The chief features
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  • 454 8 Service in the Bulgarian Army is universal and compulsory. Mahoinedans are exempted, but like all others exempted, pay a tax. Service in thn ranks commences at the age £O, and is now for 2 years in> theinfantry, and for 3 years in the other arms. Reserve service
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  • 512 8 Military service in Gr eece is compulsory and universal, with few exemptions (laws of 1867, 1896, 1904 and November 30i 1914.) It commences in the 20th year, and lasts for the long period of 81 years. The term of service in the active army is 3 years
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    • 57 8 A machine weakened in one* part Boon breaks down altogether, That is tka-cause with sufferers from indigestion, a most diabaar tuning compkbn*. If you are troubled, turn immediately to WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. A course of this- medicine will place the body machine in‘perfect tunning order. Sold at Dispeosanee and
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    • 83 8 Chamberlain's Couth Remedy. Tim remedy has no superior-as a cure ■for colds, croup and whooping cough. It has been a favourite- with the mothers of jnvog children for almost forty years. Chamberlain’s dough Remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. It not only cures colds and
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    • 7 8 For Cbromc Cbest Complaints, Wtada’-Grait Peppermint Cui*ls»-M,-
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    • 489 8 WANTED*. TO* BUY. C B B B EDS im Apply to A cfo Straits Echo. WANTED. European to take change of a pi attt near Penang. Some engineering experience required Also ability to handle labour. Must speak Malay Free quarters. b Reply No. 127, 571 cfo Straits Echo WANTED. A
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  • 907 9 1. All subscribers to aircraft—men and women—take their stand definitely on the side of the fighting forces of the British Empire and her Allies. 2. Subscribers to aircraft help in a definite way to avenge personally the murder of tens of thousands of brave men, and the
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  • 1013 10 Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Stand. President Yuan Shih-k’ai probably is in a stronger position to-day with ail China south of the Yangtsza and with the Ciiinese abroad than at any previous period in his long and strenuous career. His firm stand in favour of the Republic probably has
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  • 1001 10 We all make thorn. We are annoyed when they are pointed out to us, and we are consoled by the fact that we have added to the gaiety of nations. It is now a chestnut that a member of Parliament, speaking of the iniquities of the Lords, after
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    • 11 10 For Children's Hacking Cough at Wood»’ Qioat Peppermint Cure, 1». (Jd
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    • 189 10 Huttenbach Bros. S COMPANY. B| ICAL ENGIN CONTRACTOR O SOLE AGENTS FOR: kinds of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY sMmJk JL w JL. saEaattaoora stimates Given for all Kinds' of Electrical Work Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations A Speciality. AGENTS FOR: LING TELEPHONE 00., LID. Large and Stocks of Telephones are kept
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  • 244 11 From Within. So many people in the East suffer from •kin troubles, such as eozema, blotches, pimples and irritation that a word of advice is necessary. It is a great mistake for such sufferers and those with unsightly, bad complexions to smear themselves with greasy ointments. Often,
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  • 1929 11 THE GERMAN LOTE OF LOOT Mannbrb and Morals or thr OrriCRR. Dowkta About tk« Submarine, W* publish below the third of the tenet of urticlet in the "Timet" from the pen of a neutrol writer voktte tympathies are ttrongly with the Alliet. He has had what
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    • 59 11 Chronic Diarrhoea. Are you subject to attaoks 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 aud Diarrhoea Remedy. This medicine has cured cases of chronic diarrhoea that physicians have failed on. and it will
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