Straits Echo, 16 November 1915

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo i DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annuo. PENANG, TUESDAY, 16th NOVEMBER, 1916. Sifttle Copy, 10 cents. No. 262
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    • 904 1 »»u A«..L, tiano LEE 9 CO. r,\ iu>; T>» Doctor advises and r*©»>» moods. Tt is noorUkiog, iarigorattag sad strangtkeniag. Wi For Cars on Hire -< BANKS EMPIRE "The Little Aristocrat*' Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked A New Shipment
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    • 16 1 m TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAM ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 678 2 PROPOSED PROGRAMME. <UNDER S.R.A. RULES OF RACING.) NOTICE.—No amendments to this Programme will be considered unless due notice is given in writing to the Secretary at least seven days before the date of the Special General Meeting, i.e„ 22nd November, 1915. The notice must
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  • 2410 2 C From Char Own Correspondent.) London, October 22. Sir E. Carbon’s Resignation. The political sensation of the week—the resignation of Sir Edward Carson—had its fitting sequel on Wednesday night, when in the House of Commons he gave bis reasons for leaving the Cabinet. He clearly stated,
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  • 207 2 The muscles of the back do the heavy work of the body. When they are overworked or ill-nourished they ache and people who are looking for trouble begin to worry about their kidneys. Backache may be due to lumbago, which is rheumatism of the muscles of the back,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 393 2 A. FRANKEL, CO., Complete House Furnishers, VICTORIA STREET, SINGAPORE. (ESTABLISHED 1887). A FEW LINES WE OFFER: Ashcroft's Billiard Tables (all sizes). Fitter's All Brass All Nickel ron and Brass Bedsteads. Bender's All Steel Fire-proof Cabinets for •H» Home or Office. «M* Koken's A Archer's American Barber Chairs. Japanese Seamless Crass
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    • 89 2 Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. When you have a bad cold you want a remedy that will not only give relief, but effect a prompt and permanent cure, a remedy that is pleasant to take, a remedy that contains nothing injurious. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy meets all these requirements. It acts on nature’s
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    • 129 2 THE MONTHLY LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE National Review NOVEMBER ISSUE will be considerably enlarged and will comprise reviews and matter dealing with publications suitable for Xmas. There will be a very large circulation of this issue and it provides an excellent opportunity for advertisements of Xmas presents, Xmas
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    • 323 2 The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Head Office: SINGAPORE. The undersigned has been appointed Agent for the above Corporation, and is now prepared to accept MARINE FIRE RISKS atcurrent rates. QUAH BENG KEE, 43. Beach Street, Penang, THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. Hiad Offiob SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and
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  • 115 3 Fbnano, November 16 (Hy courtesy of th* Chartorod Bmnk.) London, Demand Bank J/4,* t 4 months’ sight Bank 1/4/, Credit 1/4J Documentary 1/4* Calcutta, Demand Bank Ka. 175 8 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 175 Moulmein, Demand Bank 174 S days’ sight Private 176 Madras Demand Bank
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  • 608 3 Thbix at Railway Station. A Chinaman named Song Eow Lim was I this morning arraigned before Mr. V. G. I Ezechiel in the Third Court, charged with theft of 50 cents at the Railway Station, the property of one Cheah Eok Guan. The complainant, a shop-keeper living
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  • 105 3 QFrom, Our Own Correspondent Ipob, November 16. A letter has bean received from Flight Sub-Lieutenant Nicholl by Mr. Alma Biker. Mr. Nicholl states that he is the pilot of Malaya No. 3. presented by Mr. Alma Baker, with which he has bean under conti nuous fire from
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  • 44 3 Nov.ll By Balance ...$41,514.76 12 Contribution by Parit Buntar Chinese School 100.00 Municipal Staff, 13th instalment 389.21 Penaug Band, 11th instalment 18.90 12 Balance 42,022.87 Remitted to Loudon .£lO,OOO on 24-2-15... 85,618.73 Total subscriptions to date ...$127,641.60
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  • 23 3 Nov.ll By Balance $2,211.23 12 The Parit Buntar Chinese School 100.00 12 Balance $2,311.23 Amount previously acknowledged 18,558.21 Total ...$20,869.44
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  • 352 3 CHINA TOLD THAT THE WAR IS OVER. t Amazino Peace Term». > A particularly audacious example of how the Germans or their paid agents feed neu- tral countries with facts worthy of the i genius of the illustrious Munchausen him- self is presented in the issue of
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  • 534 3 Previously acknowledged $1979,75 Collected by Mrs. Charter Miss de Mirnay. Sept. 50 cents; Mrs Velge, Sept. 50 cents A Friend, Sept. 50 cents; Mrs Charter. Sept $l. Collected by Mrs. R C M. Kindersley Mrs Drummond Hay, Sept. |1 Mrs F B Gough. Sept
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 502 3 FORSALE. MEAD CYCLES— just arrived. Moderate price. Inspection cordially invited. Apply to J. A. CARRIER, 651 a56, Burmah Road TO LET. |7IR0M 1st May, 1916, premises Nos 27 Jj and 27a, Beach Street, at prosent. occupied by Messrs. Huttenbach Bros, k Co Suitable for offices and godowns. Apply to GAN
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    • 634 3 NOTICE The 8.s. Hong Kheng, Captain J. Mason, is expected to arrive here from Singapore on Thursday, the 18th instant, and will leave for Rangoon on Friday, the 19th instant at 9 a.tn. For Freight or passage apply to Messrs. CHIN HIN Coy,, 63, Beach Street, Penang. Agent for the
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    • 12 3 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d.
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    • 508 3 Smokers of discrimination always select Xshe GARRICK SMOKING TOBACCO sfSfejgAß/?/r &°king TobacC! Does r’Ao 4 It has the distinction of invigorating the nerves and brain of the business man. not burn or irritate the throat. Yes It’s the Big Guns that possess the advantage and Now It’s The Top Notcher
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  • 94 4 Published daily (except Sundays and ptcblin holidays) at Taa CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pare*. Daily Local $24 por Outatation... Postage Extra, llail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB iDDKIIS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Nos. (Echo, 536 Printing Department 343 If d. All busiaeas communications should bs
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  • 34 4 Wood-Hooker— On the 15th Nov., 1915, it St. George’s Church, Penang, Reginald i). Wood, Manager of Henrietta Estate, Kedah, to Dorothy Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Hooker of Sanders Lad, Croydon, Surrey.
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  • 1277 4 Writing from London in mail week, a correspondent who goes about the country a good dea! has some interesting remarks on the recruiting problem. The contrast between the conditions in the large towns and those prevailing in the rural districts i 9, he says, very striking.
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  • 943 4 Mr. J. Lonie, of Messrs. Boustead A; Co., returned from leave by the mail yesterday. Mr. G. McCall, of Sitiawau, has been in Penang to meet Mrs. McCall, who came out by the mail yesterday. A brother-in-law of Mr. R. R. Turner, of Penang, was injured in
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  • 1001 4 Letters from England received by the mail yesterday toll graphic tales of the last Zeppelin raid on London and the Eastern Counties. The feeling in favour of reprisals seems to be very strong though it is generally acknowledged that, as the submarine campaign has proved, we are hopelessly
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 102 4 To Introduce our s i r co E so that after the war there will be no room for the GERMAN article for the present month only we offer 5 Bottles at the Price of 4. The only condition is that the 5 Bottles must be a single purchase. Prices:
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  • 1450 5 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. REVIEW OF FRENCH OPERATIONS. BULGARIANS THROWN BACK. London, November 14. Tbe review of the recent French operations in Serbia continues as follows Tbe Bulgarians opened the operations by attacking in considerable force but were unable to withstand the tornado of the french artillery fire
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  • 732 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN SURPRISE ATTACK. London, November 15, 2.5 a.m. A Paris communique states that in Artois the Germans launched a surprise attack on the Labyrinth penetrating one of our first line trenches, from which they were immediately ej-jeted. The enemy left all their wounded
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  • 608 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. ENEMY ATTEMPTS FRUSTRATED. London, November 15, 2 50 a m. A Petrograd communique states that the 1 German attempt to resume the offensive in j the Ixhull region has been repulsed. Fierce fighting continues near Tchar-1 tovysk. Our fire frustrated the euemy j
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  • 308 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. POPULACE REASSURED. Petrograd, November 15. j A Teheran telegram, dated the 12th inst, states that the decision of the Sbah to re- main at Teheran has reassured the populace. Clergy's Restraint. J The Mussulman clergy are showing great reserve m their Moharram sermons.
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  • 84 5 “II Trovatore”, which was first produced at Rome in 1853, shares with Rigoletto” and “La Traviata” the distinction < of being the most popular of Verdi’s operas. The treatment both of voice and of orchestra is masterly, while in imaginative power and i musical beauty it is excelled
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  • 318 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page. 2. —War News and Gossip. 3. —Germany as Victor Queen’s Work for Women Fund. Police Court Cases. The Prince of Wales War Relief Fund. Belgian Relief Fund. 6. —Trade Possibilities in China. An Indian Funeral. German Intrigue in
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  • 1011 5  -  BY MAJOR G. W. REDWAY. The invasion of Serbia, so calamitous from the Allies’ point of view, is not without certain compensations, moral and military. For one thing, it will rid the people of France and England of the habit of regarding their own proper armies as
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  • 31 5 Obituary. Lori Seafield. London, November 15. The death has taken place of Lord Seafield from wounds received in action. Mr, Booker Waahiaftoa. The noted Negro educationalist, Mr. Booker Washington, is dead.
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  • 1091 6 STRANGE RITES ON SUSSEX DOWNS. Thn Burnin®-Ghat. So many incredible things are happening that tbe imagination is apt to strike work and to take the incredible for granted But the spectacle of Hindu burial rites performed on the Sussex Downs is one to stir the most jaded
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  • 849 6 Mr. Ainscough’s Opinions. Mr. T. M. Ainscough, of the Commercial Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade, has just returned to London after a tour of investigation in China and Manchuria. Of the .twenty-one provinces virtually eighteen were covered—that is, the maiu trade route was fully
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  • 1156 6  -  AN ILLUMINATING RECORD. By H. J. Daenton-Feaser The ramifications of German propaganda have extended throughout the whole of the neutral world. Its activities have ranged from attempted revolution in Brazil to attempted assassination of Entente diplomatists in Persia. But nowhere have their t-fforts been more
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  • 572 6 Now that the scaudalous state of tho Censorship has evoked a protest from within the Cabiuet itself, there can m decency be no further delay in seeking a drasric amendment of its methods and constitution. Lord Sdiborne has frankly acknowledged that the nation’s failure to realise the extent
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  • 996 6 The brilliance of Lord Hardinge’s record as Viceroy of India, which is now the theme of much eloquence at farewell gatherings, has been grievously marred by his handling of the alien enemy question. He committed a deplorable blunder at the outset of the war when he determined
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  • 445 6 CHANCES OF MORE EAST COAST RAIDS. The New Command. London, November, 16. Nine months have gone by since German warships ventured far enough into the North Sea to come within range of British guns Since January 25 last, when they lost the Bliicher and suffered heavy damage
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  • 403 6 Wood-Hooxer. A very pretty little wedding was solemnized on Monday, the 15th November, by the Rev. F. W. Haines, B, A.jColonial Chaplain, Penang, the contracting parties being Mr. R. O. Wood, Manager of Henrietta Estate, Lunas, Kedah, and Miss Dorothy Mary Hooker, daughter of Mr. and
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 55 6 Chronic Constitution. Chamberlain’s Tablets can and do cure constipation. One or two of these tablets taken at bed time will keep the bowels open, and while doing so will invigorate the stomach and put the disordered liver in a oondition to do its work in a natural manner- For sale
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    • 69 6 Sufferers from Indigestion will find speedy and permanent relief by taking a course of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE. This medicine has been proved by genera* tions of English Colonists throughout the world to be the best for family use. It is a true corrective aud preventive Millions of people rely
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    • 40 6 Early Golds. Be careful of the colds you take at this time of the year. They are particularly dangerous. A neglected cold may mean a win-ter-long cold. Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy at once. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 49 6 Accidents Will Happen. It may bo impossible to prevent an accident, but it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not beyond anyone’s purse, apd with a bottle of this liniment you are prepared for most anyI r 8a l® ky all Dispensaries and
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  • 1701 7 In Professor Parker’s amusing and informing John Chinaman, written when the conversion of China to a Republic would have been scouted as an absurdity unworthy of discussion, there is an interesting penpicture of Yuan Shih-kai as he appeared to the then British Consul. I never
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