Straits Echo, 30 September 1915

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annin* PENANG, THURSDAY, 30th SEPTEMBER, 19 i 5. Single Copt, I# com*. No. 223
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    • 1014 1 s* /8 111 I7J? s f<3 I w T»! /NgSy 5 /4,-. -i» 6i j£?S.*S7 9 n cv i: _-3» n C-V WJSTi >tj r Sfc£WW Vjiur p ra (h fl q A TIANG LEE 6* CO„ !’«bmi 9 K«klt l/v.mp'r i iIDIIIDIKPHIta f WUMaaiSEaBiEIRO For Cars on Hire n
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    • 15 1 TO LET, 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, BeacA Street.
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  • 934 3 Bt M. H. Tbbtple My private feelings towards the bee arel a mixture of contempt and fear. People J have died from bre-stings before now, and ro a hasty temper and the habit of carrying poisoned weapons, the bee adds a combination of miserliness and bJacklegging
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  • 472 3 Mannerisms at the Front. Budapest, August 25. officer who has just returned from the front and who has had occasion to see the German Emperor more than ooce among the soldiers there, gives roe an interesting description of the theatrical ways and manuers the Emperor William adopts
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  • 353 3 American Speculations which Went Awry. New York, August 23. The Kaiser has lost no less than £1.000,000 of his private fortune in the last twelve months by ill-judged speculation in American war-cotton and securities This is tha startling declaration m .de by the Providence Journal, which
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    • 538 3 re RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO SCIATICA. Rheumatism, Lumbago and Sciatica are three of the most common and most painful complaints and practically arise from the same cause and the names only distinguish the location ol the disease. If the arms and legs are affected it is called Rheumatism; if in the Loins
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    • 403 3 THE REMEDY FOR ALL PEN TROUBLE BUY Fountain! TIJE SIMPLEST AND the most efficient Children like Melim's and thrive on it Mellin’s Food always satisfies. Tt contains in correct proportion nutritive elements which, when the food is mixed with fresh cow’s milk, provide a comphte and satisfactory all aties from
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  • 1061 4 Thi Little Tin God with A BeerStained BeAED. Roosendail, Hollind. Colonel Schwalbe ia the greatest bullj in the German army, and the funniest.” Such is the judgmeut passed by universal consent on the German officer in charge of the railway station of Esschen, the first Belgian Tillage
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  • 805 4 Some Economic Obstacles. Berne, August 24. Besides the questions of annexation ai d war indemnities, Germany is preoccupied with that of her trade after the war Pamphlets are already beginning to appear on the subject, and there is no doubt that many measures are being
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  • 596 4  -  (By Cloudesley Brereton.) When recently in PariB I had a long conversation with M. Bontroui, of the French Academy, and well known over here for his very remarkable address to the British Academy, and also for his Gifford lectures in Scotland a few years ago. He
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  • 261 4 Happy Scenes in Sing Sing. New York, Wednesday. Aremirkab’e demmstratiou was given yesterday by tha coaviets of Sing Sing Penitentiary. New York State, when their warden, Thomas Osborne, known affectionately as Tom Brown,” because he served an educa ional term as convict under that name, returned to prison
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    • 88 4 Chamberlain’s Couth Remedy. This remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whooping cough. It haß been a favourite with the mothers of young children for almost forty years. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. It not only cures colds
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    • 41 4 Treatment for Dysentery. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by a dose of castor oil will effectually cure the most stubborn cases of dysentery. It is especially good for summer diarrhoea in children. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 467 4 A splendid dish for growing children is a Corn Flour blancmange with jam or stewed fruit. It is rich in easily digestible nourishment, and is very economical too. If you use llßroun Poisons p&fenf Com Flour and follow the recipe in every packet carefully, your blancmange is sure to turn
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  • 494 5 Suicide »r Hanging. The inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Chinese woman named Ooi Tok, who was found hanging by means of a rope, was held yesterday afternoon before Mr. E. E. Colman and a jury comprising Messrs. G. Holloway, Ho Chye Teong and Ung Cheng
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  • 472 5 Chinese Boycott Still Active. In spite of prophecies to the contrary, after three months the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods in Bangkok is still as active as ever. Merchants decline to take delivery of Japanese merchandise, and coolies refuse to handle cargo on Japinese steamers, while the
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  • 578 5 Proposed Demolition. Says the Malaya Tribune We are all very glad that our health authorities are actively engaged in trying to improve our sanitation. The death-rate has been falling, but we cannot attribute it entirely to the work done by the Sanitary department. Still the campaign against mosquitoes
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  • 80 5 Rubber Auction. Messrs. Cunningham Clark Co., advise us that the undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by auction and private tender yesterday Diamond Smoked Sheet $125 to $l2/ Plain smoked Sheet 120 121 Diamond Unsmoked shoot 116 118 Plain Brown Scrap Crepe No. 2
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  • 194 5 Rebels Sentenced to Death. Kota Bahru, September 16 Penghulu Drahraau and Pok Mek Sman were tried in the High Court at Kota Bahru for participating in the local rebellion and were sentenced to be shot. They were two of the leaders and were arrested in Trengganu. Mr. A.
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    • 177 5 < 111 to a hi Of UChANANS SCOTCH WHISKY o 111 0. to m to z < z < z a m o (/> "SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT” gMMgSSigr! ".«S&saitfOfe M BLACKAWMITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY “0 o u > o m > m 7) to Sole Agents PENANG AND
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    • 511 5 WM ii£L I I I '4 I i 2 i i QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. 1« 31 v lR.GINl* r.: C ICaR.ETT£5^^ 6 »ISTOL LOHD055;-' That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE. 'mmzzzzzzzm rwn' WAR
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  • 94 6 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THSC CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. Nj. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pucb. Daily Local 924 per annnas. Outstation... Pontage Extra. VaL! Edition (Post Free) 917.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N ef. —kW buaiaa»» communications ahould
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  • 1311 6 Twice at least in the recent past wo have -uffered disappointments because we have learned of notable British successes on the western front, only to hear afterwards that the gains achieved could uot be maintained. We refer to Neuve Chapelle, regarding which wa were subsequently bitterly disillusioned,
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  • 799 6 Mrs C. G May rnturos to Penang to-morrow evening. Her children remain at. home. Pies. F T. Ellis, Locks and Robertson have been promoted to the rank of L mce Corporal in Section 4 of A Company. A cablegram from the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, dated Leeds.
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  • 135 6 Letters posted at Date Kramat and E A O. Hotel Sub-Post Offices and in the Pillar-boxes before 6 p m. to-morrow will be in time to catch the Homeward Mail. Letters etc., for despatch by the Homeward P. O. Packet Nankin may be posted at the Head Office
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  • 917 6 Cholera, that sinister apparition which liways stalks in the wake of European irruies, moving down victors and vanquishd impartially, is once more reaping its harvest in Central Europe. Tho victorious Germans felt its scythe after Sadowa amongst both the attackers aud defenders of the Chatalja lines it worked
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    • 206 6 BRITISH MANUFACTURERS I) are doing their best t CAPTURE GERMAN TRADE. GERMAN: BRUSH: ODOL use TONIC TOOTH WASH The Odol Substitute. flavour and composition as Odol. 85 cts. LYSOL use SUPER ISOL The pr. duct of a British Firm of Disinfectant Manufacturers for whom we are Agents.! i ARE YOU
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  • 645 7 (Reuters Service.) Copyright Telegram. PROGRESS CONTINUED SIR JOHN FRENCH'S REPORT. Argonne Trenches Recovered. London, September 28. 6 10 p.m The French communique continues The German reserve positions in Chimp igua are protected by uxton give and disguised wild entanglements but we made some further progress towards Hill
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  • 1526 7 (Reuters Service) Copyright Telegram. A HUGE TOTAL. London, Sipfcember 29, 5.20 p.m. 1 A Parts communique says The German losses in Artois and 1 Champagne are now over 120,000. The j total German prisoners taken is over 1 23,000. Seventy-nine {guns have been I taken.” I i
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  • 81 7 (From Our Oven Correspondent) Singapore, September 30. At the Singapore Rubber Auction yesterday 256 tons of rubber were offered for sale and 207 tons were sold at the following prices Smoked sheets $126 to $129 per picul fair... 1 $llB $125 plain $ll6 $123 Unsmoked sheets $ll3
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  • 859 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. DESPERATE FIGHTING. London, September 29, 2 20 a ui. A communique issued iu Petrograd states: While the artillery tire has not weakened the desperation of the fighting has not diminished in the Dvinsk region. The enemy is making very fierce attacks in the
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  • 595 7 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. LABOUR ORGANISATIONS CONFERENCE. PREMIER AND LORD KITCHENER PRE9ENT. London, September 29. Mr. H. H. Asquith and Lord Kitchener unexpectedly attended a Joint conference of i the Labour Organisations in London, which had been called to consider the resolutions adopted by the Trades Union Congress
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  • 50 7 Sept.2B By Balance ...136,663.87 29 Amount collected by J. H. Phipps from Chinese Protectorate 6.30 Staff of Messrs. Brown Phillips <k Btewa't, August subscription 65.00 Balance, Sept. 29 36,735.17 Remitted to London .£lO,OOO on 24-2 15 85,618 73 Total subscriptions to date ...$122,853.90
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  • 714 7 record meeting. PATRIOTIC SPEECHES. (From Our Chen Corre^pondenl.) Singapore, September 30. A record orbing of British subjects of Chinese descent was held under the auspices of the Straits Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday to consider certain resolutions, offering their services to Government. Mr. Koh Siang
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  • 81 7 The following articles will bo found on our outside pages Page. 3—A Fraud in Wings. The Kaiser loses .£1,000,000. The German Emperor. 4. —Schwalbe, The Bnlly. Sidelights on Gherman Character. German Trade after the War. Prisoners’ Paradise. 5, Coroner’s Inquest. Japanese in Siam. Tanjong Katong. Central Sales Room. Kelantan
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  • 2181 8 SINGAPORE MERCHANTS AND h ENEMY FIRMS. i V THE TRADE OE THE COLONY. < As already briefly reported by telegram i the ordinary half yearly meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce was held i on Monday, at the Exchange, in order, as the Straits Times informs
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  • 711 8 Mr. RUDYARD KIPLING ON THE FRENCH PEOPLE. What England Must Know. Some extracts from a private letter written by Mr. Rudyard Kipling on his experiences at the French front are published in the Daily Telegraph. We quote the following passages France is not merely fighting this war,
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  • 1006 8 CHIVALRY IN WARFARE. 1803—1914. The Frigate Endtmion.” London, August 28 The Germans do not make it easy for us to remember that there was a time when nations fighting for their existence could conduct a war with the spirit of frank chivalry recognised by twentieth-century Englishmen under the
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    • 402 8 s.s. MARAS will leave for SINGAPORE on the 7th October at 4 p.m. For freight or passage apply to J. M. CAMA, 42, King Street, 580 Agent, t.e. Marat. NOTICE. IHE usual monthly sale of Pawnbrokers’ A forfeited pledges for sums exceeding $10 will be held punctually at 11 o’clock
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    • 38 8 Remember the Name. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the best known medicine for diarrhoea, dysentery, colic, cramps or paina in the etomach. You may need it pome time. For sale by all Dispensaries acd Dealei s.
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    • 64 8 MAN—do you know the danger of neglecting a chill f Chills lead to pneumonia and a score of other dangerous disorders. Be prudent, and at the first sign of a chill take a dose or two of WOODS' GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE, the medicine that should never be absent from the
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    • 59 8 Chronic Diarrhoea. Are you subject to attacks of diarrhoea Keep ab.-olutely quiet for a few days, rest in bed if possible, be careful of your diet and take Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrboei Remedy. This medicine has cured cases of chroific diarrhoea that physicians have, failed on. and it will
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    • 403 8 WANTED. A CLERK, Chinese preferred. Salary $3O per month. Apply to T. A. H. c/o Straits Echo, 581 WANTED. WANTED Junior Assistant for Rubber Estate situated in Kedah p or further particulars apply to SANDILANDS BUTTERY A Co 576 Beach Street, Penang, JOHORE. Mining Land at Mersing. MINING rights over
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  • 1089 9 HORRORS OF TROPICAL HEAT AND THIRST. i Officer’s Thrilling Stort. A letter from a British officer with the Persian Guif Expeditionary Force published :in the Englithman (Calcutta) gives some j idea of the hardships which our troops are enduring in that part of the
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  • 1393 10 [An important deputation of British trade unionists, headed by Mr. John Hodge, m p., chairman of the Labour Party, is now in France, with the object of combating the impression that the British people are not j doing all they might do to wiu the war, says the
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  • 615 10 NAYAL DISGUISES 'lO TRAP THE ENEMY. Spotted Ships. By H. C. Ferraby. Deception, under its more pleasant name i of feint, is a necessary part of warfare, J both on land and sea Every naval cam- j paign in our history practically has its lecords
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    • 11 10 For Chronic Chest Complftmtn, Woods’ Ore it Peppermint Cure le. Gd.
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    • 173 10 Bnaammmr-’v--PTTENBBGH BUS. 1 (l. PENANG. SINGAPORE. IPOH. KUALA LUMPUR. AGENTS FOR TANGYES Suction Gas Engines to work on Anthracite or charcoal fuel. Semi Diesel Crude Oil Engines. Refined Oil Engines. f: Centrifugal Pumps high and low lifts. High lift Ram Pumps. WATER, GAS 8 STEAM PIPES 8 FITTINGS. BELTING 8
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  • 2216 11 A British Officer's Diart. Ons of the most inter eating articles in this month's magazines is Some Experiences of a Prisoner of War," by an officer, Mr. Jeffsry, E. Jeffery, which is printed in the Cornhill" and from which we make the following esttracts: Mr.
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  • 151 11 Official Minutes. Minutes of a Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday the 14th September 1915. Present: W. Peel Esq President P. T. Allen Esq Yeoh Guan Seok Esq., Absent Quah Beng Kee Esq., John Mitchell Esq., A. F. Goodrich Esq., Lim Eow Hong Esq 1. The
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  • 291 11 Amoiig foreign residents in the Far East the belief in purgatives as a panacea for half the ills of mankind is a firmly rooted fallacy. At times purgatives are necessary, but their habitual us 9 weakens the whole system and means ultimate ruin to the digestion. The
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    • 62 11 Rheumatism. HavQ 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 ana
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    • 75 11 irtt GREAT EASTERN life assurance CO., LTD. FLbad Office :—SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All F orms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agentt for Penang. SELLAR, MURRAY A CO. neat Oflic- r —No. 7. Uniow Street. HOTEL NORMAN. Penang’s Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. ENGLISH CUISINE English Treatment LARGE
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