Straits Echo, 6 October 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, WEDNESDAY, 6th OCTOBER, 1916. tilth Com, It anti. No. 228
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    • 918 1 »•>• *i«'« TIANO LEE V CO. f g r TK« Dcotor «drisM *nd r*eom- m*nd> It >• nnnrii-kiag i»TV- forating tad straagtkaaiaf. iiuiniiiiii buibb s For Cars on Hire EMPIRE "The Little Arttiocro C all at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked
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    • 15 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 2016 2 SOME VIGNETTES OF LABOUR. Bt J. J. Bill, Author of Wrr Mi««>iiaot, Ac 11. Ia covering acres, in shops occupying so many square yards, they are making munitions. Here a regiment is employed, there a battalion, here, again, a mere squad. Critics of tbe Government may sneer ai
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    • 61 2 Rheumatism. Have you ever tried Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for rheumatism If not, you are wasting time, as the longer this disease runs on tbe harder it is to cure. Get a bottle to-day, applj it with a vigorous massage to the afflicted part 8 and you will be surprised and
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    • 747 2 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that the books containing the Annual Valuation of and rates imposed on all buildings and lands situated within the Municipality of George Tbwn, Penang, for the year 1916 are open to the inspection of Ratepayers at the Municipal Office daily on week days between
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  • 765 3 The occasion of President’s birthday has j given opportunity to a good many people to j express their opinion of him, and the ex- treme limits of admiration and distrust have been revealed. On the whole, personal comment has been somewhat restrained, as was natural at a time
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  • 44 3 The following ties hive been fixed for to-morrow Single Handicap B. Gregson vs Turner (Final). Profession Pairs. Sells and Threlfall vs Whitlock and F N Sver. Single Handicap C. R C B Hay vs Harvey or G E W Motion (Jr.)
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  • 92 3 The Consolidated Rubber Estifces Ltd. 23,767 The Nellmay Rubber, Co., Ltd. 4,000 The tin production in Banca during the first seven months of 1915 amounted to 41,664 piculs, being 3,335 piculs less than in the same period of 1914. It is reported that several new Japanese
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  • 122 3 (The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Belgium intrigued with England and France to drag Germany into war.) Big bully Belgium, Breathing blood and flame, Crafty as a serpent In a cunning game, Sent a note to England, Sent a note to France, Let us crush the Fatherland While
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  • 185 3 Though still in its infancy, the University already has upwards of two hundred students. It is exceedingly well staffed and equipped, is doing excellent work, and undoubtedly offers to the Chinese, at their own doors so to speak, educational advantages fully equal to those offered by similar Universities
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  • 178 3 To The Editor or the Straits Echo Sir. In a Random Note appearing in your issue of Monday last tba writer of the note speaks about a rumour that has reached his ears about the amalgamation of two rival bakeries. There has been no amalgamation whatsoever, as
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  • 77 3 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs Alien Dennvs Co. by auction sale yesterday and during week Smoked Ribbed Sheet 5126t0 $l2B Plain $l2O No. 2 Smoked Sheet (ribbed) $l2l $125 Unsmoked Sheet $ll7 $122 No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet Crepe Fine Pale Thiu and
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  • 55 3 Oct. 4By Balance ...$37,719.54 5 Chief Post Office, Penang, 9th instalment 48.10 Hon. A. R Adams monthly subscription 100.00 Sek Tong Seah, Cheah Hock Haw Eong, Kongsi monthly subscription 100 00 Balance, Oct. 5 37,967.64 Remitted to London .£lO,OOO on 24-2-15 85.618.73 Total
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  • 40 3 Wednesday, 6th October, 1916 Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. 1 Overture The Children of the Coast Marques 2 The Top Notch Two Step Altbur 3 Selection Falstaff Nicolais 4 Waltz Aerial Spirits Hoker 6 March Smart Troops Lehnhardt
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    • 985 3 WANTED. COMPETENT COMPOSITOR? according to qualification. Apply in person to .FOREMAN, Salary NOTICE, NOTICE is hereby given that KHOO KEAT LAI has ceased to be the Manager of the Coconut and Rubber Estate at Telok Wang, Province Wellesley belong- Strait» Prhn i DR t0 EsUte f KH0 SIN YEANG deceased
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    • 452 3 1 QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. 1 1 1 I 1 V/. i I m I I fees I I 1 1 C U -O Virginia C *CAR.ETT£S 1 I I B *'STOL 6 That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described
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  • 95 4 Published daily (except Sundays and pwblio holidays) AT TBS CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Puca Daily Local $24 per aanam. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABI.a ADDRKSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo„ 586 Printing Department 343 N d All business communication* should
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  • 19 4 Richards —At the Maternity Hospital, Penang, on October 6th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. M Richards, a daughter.
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  • 1440 4 By the time this paper is in the hands of our readers, it is probable that the diplomatists down in the Balkans will have made way for the soldiers. Perhaps even now as wo write the cannon are thundering across the frontiers and the interesting nationalities”
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  • 885 4 Mr LiaDg Chi cbiao’s resignati -u from the State Council of China and the Constitutional Drafting Committee has been accepted. The first child of European parentage to bo born at the Maternity Hospital, Penang, made her appearance yesterday, namely, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M
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  • 931 4 Winter” has begun in Singapore. Says he Straits Times of Monday The cold snap of this morning brought down the thermometer in this office to 78 Netherlands India, and Sumatra in parti, cular, would be hard hit were it to prove true, as reported in the Dutch telegrams,
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    • 208 4 Every Price Quoted A Triumph of Good Value. e»\n.vcv.G wro* > StoWKtt 0H A- JiXSMJi 3JLZJtdlH3 When buying your Folding Camp Bed insist on same made by the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Manufacturing Co., U.S.A. It is far guperior to anything of the kind ever offered to the public for
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  • 1176 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CONFERENCE OF ITALIAN MINISTERS. Paris, October 4 The Matin says that an important couforonce has been held at Rome between the Italian Premier, the Minister of War, the Minister of Marine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Miuister of the Treasury and tho Under-
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  • 801 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SIR JOHN FRENCH’S DESPATOH. ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACKS. London, October 4. A despdch from Field-Marshal Sir John French states that yesterday afternoon the j enemy commenced a heavy bombardment and d«livered repeated attacks over the open j against our tranches batwem the quarries at Vermelles
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  • 1014 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. EFFECTIVE RUSSIA* ARTILLERY. Petrograd, October 5. A Petrograd communique again indicates an increase in the effectiveness of the Russian artillery and the vigour of the infantry attacks, resulting in the capture of a number of villages and some hundreds of German prisoners at
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  • 205 5 A Malay chauffeur, named Salim, was this morning arraigned before Mr. V. G. Ezecbiel in the Third Court on a summons issued at the instance of Inspector Lawrence for driving his motor car in a reckless manner and failing to blow his horn at a turning Inspector Lawrence
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  • 437 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2. —Munition Workers. 3. —President Yuan. P. C. C. Tennis Tournament. Rubber Crops Jor September. The Blackest Lie. Hongkong University. Amalga mat ion Bakeries. Penang Rubber Auction. Band Programme. 6. —Legal Notes. Affairs in China. The Cinemas. Examiners
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  • 810 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are 1'ronn tho Sumatra Post and Dili CouratU of Monday, October 3 Holland and the VVar. It is reported that the Entente I'owers are about to proclaim tobicco contraband of war. General Soyders has again issued an order to the
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  • 90 5 Obituary. Mr. George Edward#*. London, October 4. The death has taken place of the impressario Mr. George Edwardes, Chairman and Managing Director of the Gaiety Theatre Co., and sole Lessee of Daly’s Theatre. r Mr. George Edwardes who was born in 1852 first entered into management with Mr. John Hollingshead
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  • 971 6 Lawyers on Active Bbrvice. London, September 3. One of tbe popular notions which the great war ought to dispose of is the belief, fostered by some novelists and dramatists that lawyers are accustomed to take narrow professional views of their civic obligations The Council of the Law Society
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  • 1428 6 THE MONARCHY QUESTION. Convention to be Held. Peking ia January. Peking, September 15. Although the dog-days have passed the Peking newspapers continue to give their I readers mild thrifis by forecasting the removal of high officials from office. Almost daily reports are published to the effect that
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  • 347 6 In addition to a good programme Murrell, the military juggler, and Miss Lillah Ashby, musician and shadowgraphs, have been engaged to p-rform at the Electric Polyscope for the first time to-night. Murrell and bi 3 assistants will pre- sent Pastimes on the Battlefield while Miss Lailah Ashby will,
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  • 889 6  -  By a Victim. 3 Grown up people deserve to be taught a 9 lesson. They are too hard on the youngsters who do tfot always remember what has be?ri taught them at school. Most of us as children have a keen recollection'of a relative of the eleventimes eleven”
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  • 930 6 WHOLESALE DEPORTATIONS BY THE TURKS. Italian Consul Tells a Pathetic Story. Rome, September 25. Turkey, like Germany and Austria, is today a closed fortress, but a glimpse of its inner life has been afforded us by Commeudatore Gorrini who was until a month ago Italian Consul Geueral
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  • 970 6 THE MAN WHO WILL REMOUin BRiriAN’S ARMY. Sir Wm. Robertson. By One Who Knows Him. In the early eighties there was a crackregiment of British cavalry in the North West Provinces of India 1 meet a retire! colonel who was in the regiment all his lif e
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    • 59 6 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 diot and take Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This medicine has cured cases of chronic diarrhoea that physicians have failed on. and it will
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    • 14 6 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, i ß> g d
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  • 1861 7  -  I—" ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THEM. Br F. A. MoKixzib. Private F. Brown, of the Middlesex Regiment, has reason to think himself a fortunate man. He is one of the very few of his company left to tell the story of the great fight in the early
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    • 90 7 Chamberlain's Couth Remedy. This remedy has no superior as a cure for colds, croup and whooping cough. It has 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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    • 34 7 are the ideal laxatives for the Tropics. Tiny but thorough, gentle at Nature. De not gripe. Of Chemists. 50 cents per phial, or p"gt free from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co Dept. 2b, Singapore.
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    • 619 7 Malay States Guides. Latest Promotions Notification No 2533, published in the j F.M.8. Gazette of the 17th September, 1915, is cancelled and the following substituted |therefor: Jemadar Jiwala Singh to be Subadar, vice Subadar Mahomed Zaman, retired, with effect from the 23rd December, 1914. Sergeant Sawan Singh to be Jemadar,
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    • 1529 8 P.40. og S.N.C® Wire lew Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and eaoh berth is furnished with an Elec trio Reading Lamp. Exp&ted Arrivals and Departures. Fob Singapore. Mail Service Homeward Date. n 3 g Due London. Oct. Oct. Not. Not.
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