Straits Echo, 1 December 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo iM!LY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL* 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, WEDNESDAY, Ist DECEMBER, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cinti. No. 275
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 997 1 FRESH GRAPES. New Shipment Expected Shortly and Orders Solicited. Tiang Lee Co. I l BANKS. >- I i For Cars on Hire Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. EMPIRE "The Lillie AriilocTai"’ Call at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked A
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    • 15 1 FRESH JjRAPES. Choicest quality to last the season. Applj Tiang Lee Co. I l i
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  • 1939 2 SITUATION IN THE BALKANS THE ASSET OF BRITISH TENACITY. Bt Colonel F.N. Maude, C. 8., late R.E. Judging from the current Press and the opinions I have heard expressed by very many men of all types in journeying lately to and fro through the Midlands, no
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 55 2 Chronic Constipation. Chamberlain’s Tablets can and do cure constipation. One or two of these tablets taken at bad time will keep the bowels open, and while doing so will invigorate the stomach and put the disordered liver in a condition to do its work in a natural manner. For sale
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    • 2522 2 THE Eastern 8 Oriental Sales Room. By Order of Pussy Fatimah the administratrix of the Estate of Mahomed Ariff deceased TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION All the undermentioned valuable Freehold Properties at Nos. 52 and 54, Bishop Street, Penang, (except Lot No. 1 which will be sold by Public
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  • 127 3 Pbna.no, December 1. {By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4 j* T 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4/* 3 Credit 2/4; J 3 Documentary 2/4J Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 175 9* 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 175 Moulmein, Demand Bank 174 99 3 days’
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  • 1049 3 It is a pleasure to publish the very interesting article in which Dr. Malcolm Watson, who stands second only to Sir Ronald Ross as an authority on malaria, expresses bis appreciation of the research work done by Dr. Strickland and the value of his recent discovery. Dr.
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  • 272 3 Messrs. Kennedy Co., as Secretaries to the Malay Peninsula Agricultuaal Associa1 tion inform us that they bare received the following subscriptions which have been forwarded to the Central Fund. A S Evans, Caledonia Estate $21.43 J Cruickshank, do 16 07 A Forsyth, do 10
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  • 209 3 Ordinary Meitino. An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commission was held yesterday afternoon at the Municipal Office. There were present Messrs. W. Peel (President) P. T. AlleD, Quah Ben? Kee, and Yeoh Guan Seok, with Mr. L.M. Bell (Municipal Engineer) and Mr. L.A.C. Biggs (Secretary) in attendance. The
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  • 79 3 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys Co, by auction sale yesterday and during week Smoked Ribbed Sheet $153 to «163 Plain $131 $138 No. 2 Smoked Sheet ribbed $120 $142 Unsmoked Sheet $129 $135 No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet Crepe Fino Pale
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  • 155 3 lbs. S. S. (Bertam) Rubber Co. Ltd,, 87,500 The Straits Rubber Co., Ltd 164,500 The Penang Rubber Estates Co. Ltd 140,000 The Rubana Rubber Estates Ltd. 50,000 The Tali Ayer Rubber Estates Ltd. 65,250 The Batak Rabit Rubber Estate Ltd 18,500 The Bagan Serai Co. Ltd. 27,000
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 449 3 LOST. r N TOWN HALL on Tuesday evening a X gold and jade bracelet. Finder will be rewarded on returning same to PRITCHARD A Co Ltd. 721 Penang. NOTICE. Perak and Penang Aerated Water Factory (PENANG BRANCH) Removed to No. 18, Leith St. No. 570. ’Phone 713 NOTICE. IS HEREBY
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    • 333 3 Estate Book-keeper Wanted. COMFORTABLE POSITION, of Head Clerk, near Parit Buntar. Commencing salary $BO monthly. Address applications to O. 8., c/o Straits Echo Fenanq. 716 GOVERNMENT OF KEDAH. Public Works Department, Kedah. WANTED TWO EUROPEAN ASSISTANT ENGINEERS for the Public Works Department, Kedah. Salary $350 per meosem with free quarters
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    • 61 3 A Favorite Rub Down. The golfer, the football player and the all round athlete know the value of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It is just the thing for a rub down after a hard game. All soreness disappears like magic and sprains and swellings are cured in one-third less time than
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    • 337 3 G .==.<==«=i==i====j Westminster Cigarettes TURKISH BLEND A. A. GRADE are unequalled. Packed in Hermetically Sealed Tins of 50’s. FOR SALE 1 BY ALL DEALERS. 0 D OMETHING SPECIAL! BIG OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PUBLIC H «.■fc the STRAITS CINEMA, ’Phone No. 628. Empire Hall. Penang Road. To-night! To-night!! Will present the
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  • 94 4 NWi*ls*d daily (except Sunday* and jrek’is holidays) XT TBfjt CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Pkxcb. Daily Local |24 par miicd: Out station... Postage Extra. Maii Edition (Post Frue) 117.50 CABLB ADDB«*S ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo 533 Printing Department 343 A’ ti .—All bu»i»o«t eemnnciieatioa*
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  • 1426 4 The material resources of the British Empire are eno-mous, so enormous in fact that there is always the danger that people unaccustomed to thick in hundreds of millions may bo inclined to indulge iu the comfort able belief that they are inexhaustible. But the demands of
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  • 481 4 Mr. J. A. Nelligan, of the Chief Post Office, has been promoted to class I vice Mr. P. P. Salvana/agam PiUay who goes into the Special Grade. The November medal of the Selangor Golf Club was won by Mr. D. M. Barry with 80 nett and the
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  • 34 4 (.From Our Oicn Correspondent.') New Appointment. Singapore, December 1. It is officially announced that the Hon. Mr. I', J. Wilkinson, Colonial Secretary has bean appointed Governor of Sierra Leone.
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  • 127 4 Four Chinese, named Lok Chu Pow, Lirn Yan Peng, Lui Chang Siang and Kui Lai were this morning charged before Mr. E. E. Colman with committing the offence of rioting at Brick Kiln Road on November 30. They were all remanded for a week, no bail being allowed.
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  • 182 4 Struxgle With Police. A Gang robb ry is reported to have taken place at Gopeng on Sunday night, the property stolen being valued at over $l,OOO. From particulars to hand, it appears that a party of about fifteen armed robbers simultaneously attacked two Chinese chandu shops,
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  • 938 4 December 1 is curiously connected with worthies of the ancient British Church. It is the anniversary of Deiniol, commemorated by Mr. Gladstone in 8t Deiniol’s Library at Hawarden and of Rbystyd, who has been identified with Restitutus, the first-known Bishop of London. Queen Alexandra’s birthday celebration* have invariably
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 167 4 ALL EM DENNYS CO., Penang, [j RUBBER BROIiiSi’S, jj PROPStr.TO*» or THE PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SALES H LD EIfERY TUESDAY RUBBER bought or „:<i bj PUBLIC AUCTIOK or PKIVAT2 TKNDIE. FORWARD EALE3 ARRANGED. RUBBER traßahipi id tod ioaurftd to .nr PORT it mininam '■.tea. OTHER SALE ROOMS it Mo.
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  • 589 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SOUTH OF PRILEP. Salonika, November 29. The small Serbian Army is heroically maintaining itself south of Prilep. B«l|irim Ha»|it| Back. The Bulgarians are still hanging back in the region of Krushevin There is only occasional shelling of the Allied line. Sigaificaat Incident. A number
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  • 570 5 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN \TTACK REPULSED. Loadon, November 29, 5.5 p.m. i urtber grenade-fighting took place at Artois. The Paris communique says “We defeated a German bayonet attack at Berryau'bac, the enemy fleeing, leaving those who fell behind. We made prisoners. Four German aeroplanes bombed Verdun.
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  • 583 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. EMPERORS CONFER. A MOMENTOUS MEETING. Amsterdam, November 29. An official telegram from Berlin states that the Kaissr has started for Vienna on a visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph. This will be their first meeting since the war. Met at tbe Station.
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  • 242 5 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN VICTORY AT ILLUKST Petrograd, November 30. A communique says that severe fighting took place in the Illukst region where the Germans, after taking the offensive, were hurled back till they were swept by the fire of their own batteries. Profiting by the
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  • 323 5 Inquest. (From Char Own Correspondent,") Singapore, December 1. At the inquest into the death of Miss Olive Ethel Pinkerton a verdict of suicide while in an unsound state of mind was returned. Dr. J. Coronel in his evidence stated that he was called to the Raffles Girls’
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  • 68 5 Tbe following articles will be found on our outßide pages:— Page. 2. —Britons in the Russian Army. "If Germany Won.” 3. —Planters War Relief Fund of Malaya. Penang Rubber Auction. November Rubber Crops. Dr. Strickland’s Discovery. C. —With a Raiding Airfleet. Japan’s Offer. British and German War Loans. Russia’s
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  • 237 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. FINE WORK BY BRITISH AEROPLANE. London, November 30. Field-Marshal Sir John French reports that a British aeroplane destroyed, off Middelkerke, a German submarine which was seen to break in half. Another Submarine Destroyed. A Cretaa Claim. Salonika, November 30. Three Cretans claim to
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  • 383 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following items are taken from the Sumatra Post of November 29. The Balkaas. The Daily Telegraph learns from a Salonika source that King Constantine is in favour of demobilising the Greek army. The Serbian have been defeated to the south-west of Sjenitsa and
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  • 724 5 The Concert at the Town Hall last night was a great success from overy point of view. The programme contained a number of glees which were well received they were musical in every case and the voices blended excellently. We had got thus far when a competent
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  • 844 6 IMPORTANT ADMISSION BY A GERMAN WRITER. Powck or Resistance Rush. The special correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt at Vilna warns his readers that the Russian resistance is far from broken which is an important admission in the oolumns of the Berliner Tageblatt. After ohiding the people at home
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  • 166 6 One of the most remarkable operations in the annals of surgery has recently been performed on Pipe-Major G.D. Taylor, of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. During the fighting in the neighbourhood of Loos he was shot through the heart, but, marvellous to relate, was not killed. He
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  • 1569 6 THE BOMBARDMENT OF STUTTGART. A Pilot’s Stort. The following it a reproduction of the greater part of an article describing the French air raid on Stuttgart which appears in the New York Tribune ”from its special eorrespondent, Mr. Gordon Bruce. Paris, My friend, there is not
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  • 281 6 Count Okuma’s Statement. Paris, November 1, The Matin publishes an interview which its correspondent in Tokio has had with Count Okuma, the Japanese Premier. Count Okuma said In this war Franc?, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan see in the Germans the enemies of humanity, progress, and liberty,” Referring
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  • 1767 6 Mr. Runciman’s Convincing Facts. Statements of the first importance and interest on the subject of British war finance and trade are contained in an interview which Mr. Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, has given to the London Correspondent of the Chicago Daily News.
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  • 40 6 Wednesday 1st December 1915. Esflanadb, 6 to 7 p m. 1 Selection The New Barmaid Crook 2 Two Step Spanish Patrol Deshayes 3 Waltz Annen G-enee 4 Barn Dance The Darkies Holiday Burns 5 March Bow Wow Bilton
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  • 278 6 Magnificent French Defence. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express writing on Nov. 3, Bays that sign* are not wanting that the enemy is making a most determined effort to recover his recent losses. He used his best troops brought back from Russia to try to drive
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  • 180 6 Do you want to enlist, lad asked a recruiting officer at the Melbourne Town Hall recently of a man who had come into the depot. The reply was given in ths affirmative. The further usual questions as to previous service, etc., were put to the recruit. Then
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  • 376 6 Trade prospects in crude rubber continue to be viewed in an optimistic light, says a Home paper. There have been adverse fluctuations, but the market has displayed some rallying power, prices having recovered appreciably from the lowest point recorded in the third week of October, when plantation No. 1
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 10 6 Fur Cbrume Cheat Complaints, Woods’ Orest Peppermint Gmre 1«, 6d.
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    • 88 6 ChimherUin’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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    • 63 6 Nothing in this world is equal to a mother’s tender care for her children. She, knowing the danger following an attack of Colic, or kindred stomach trouble, is never without a bottle of that famous prepara* tion, WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE, in her medicine store. It is good for the
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    • 49 6 Accidents Will Happen. It may be 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, and with a bottle of this liniment you are prepared for most anything. For Bale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 40 6 Early Colds. 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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    • 11 6 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, li.6d,
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  • 1216 7  -  By H. Hamilton Fyfs. Petrograd. I I rom the other side of a street in Tsarskoe Selo I was hailed by a broadshouldered young man in Russian uniform- I thought lit must be one of my officer or ranker I acquaintances, but at the broadshouldered
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  • 526 7 Dr. Sadler’s Reminder of what would Happen. Professor Sadler, speaking at Batley, gave a clear indication of what would probably happen in this country if Germany won,” and showed how necessary it is that recruiting should be strongly stimulated The Germans, if they succeeded, (of course, they
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 62 7 A Favorite Rub Down. The golfer, the foot bill player and the all round athlete know the value of Chamberlain’* Fain Balm. It is just the thing for a rub down after a bard game. All soreness disappears like magic aud sprains and swell--ings ate cured in one-third loss time
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    • 157 7 Harsh Purgatives, Sails and Castor Oil, are old fashioned remedies more drastic than safe. the tiny laxatives ensure the same results, but in a perfectly natural manner. They do not upset the stomach, nor gripe, but gently assist nature. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial, or post free from the
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    • 678 7 BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. THE KINO ss.NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Haying been requested by several Residents in the Malay Peninsula to send parcels of Nestle Chocolates to relatives or friends at the Front, we have now made arrangements to send parcels from our London Office on the following
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1493 8 32 S.N.C° Wireless Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans! FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished wife an Electric Reading Lamp. Arrivals and Departures. Mall Service. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD, Foa Singapore Port Swetteoham and Singapore. Victoria Point, Mereui, Tavoy, Yeh
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