Straits Echo, 8 December 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENT'S, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum, PENANG, WEDNESDAY, Bth DECEMBER, 1915. Single Copy, IS c«nti. No. 281
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 843 1 FRESH GRAPES. New Shipment Expected Shortly and Orders Solicited. Tiang Lee Co. For Cars on Hire BANKS. > Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. EMPIRE “The Little Aristocrat" Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked A New Shipment of Motor
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    • 12 1 FRESH CRAPES. Choicest quality to last the season. Apply Tiang Lee Co.
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  • 1063 2 Lokd Rbdesdalb’s Stobt of A Lono i Lira. < Memories”, By Lord Redssdal*. Two rolumes (Loudon Hutchinson A Co.) 32s. nst. Reminiscence volumes are not scarce, and 3ven good ones. But few such collections can boast the simultaneous length and breadth of this one, winch reaches from the
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  • 833 2 An inquest was recently held by the Shanghai Mixed Court Magistrate, Mr. Kuan Chun, and the British Assessor, Mr. C. F. Garstin, on the body of a workman who died as the result of injuries sustained in one of the local cotton mills. The Magistrate aud
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 756 2 DAVID CORSAR U SON’S Well-Known Extra Navy Canvas, No. 0. SANDILANDS, BUTTERY S U ESTABLISHED IB74. THE ORIENTAL Government Security Life Assurance Company Ltd lacorporated ip ladia. BRANCH OFFICE, SINGAPORE. J. R. Macphbeson, Secretary S.S. and F M.S. NOTICE. LABOUR CODE. 1912. F.M.S Indian Immigration Fond Ordinance 1911.” T0 Employers
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    • 88 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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    • 55 2 Chronic Constipation. 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 condition to do its work in a natural manner. For Bale
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    • 476 2 f>nnnMnnnMnnMMnnnMnnnMnnn«ann» SLOTEN’S 1 1 BUTTER 1 i a y is the best Dutch Butter M m in the Market. c jnnannnsanMnnniinninnnnDnn» PRITCHARD 8 CO., LTD., PEMANG and IPOH, SPECIAL OFFER 100 Doz. Ayres and Slazengers Tennis Balls to clear at the Reduced Price of $5 per doz. These are New
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  • 121 3 Pkna.no, December 8. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4 •i 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4^ 3 Credit 2/4JJ m 3 Documentary 2/4J Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 175 Moulmein, Demand Hank 174 3 days’ sight Private 176
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  • 482 3 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Monday, December 6 HOLLAND AND THE WAR. Mr. Ford Not Wanted. The Dutch Government has prohibited the American pacifist Ford f'om establishing in Holland his|headquarters for carrying on a peace propaganda among the soldiers
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  • 266 3 A Chinese painter was yesterday arraigned before Mr. Y. G. Ezechiel in the Third Court on a charge of criminal breach of trust of a tricycle, the property of one Ong Beng Cheng. I On the accused claiming trial Court inspector Nicol said that the complainant
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  • 89 3 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys A Co., by auction sale yesterday and during tkio week Smoked Ribbed Sheet $157 to $163 Plain $142 $152 No. 2 Smoked Sheet ribbed $139 $156 Unsmoked Sheet $l4O $l5l No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet $135
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  • 689 3 The Excess Profits tax has continued (says the L. A C. Express) to hand this morning to excite considerable discussion amongst rubber shareholders. Mr. McKenna has thrown some light on the situation. He is reported as saying If a rubber company were brought out with
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  • 89 3 PENANG WOMEN’S WORK. Subscription List. Amount previously acknowledged $826 Mrs. Wright-Motion Collected by Mrs. Wilson (Ciledooia) 7 Mr. FC. Marples (sale of Limes) 5 Mrs. Jamieson Messrs. Wassismull Assomull 2 855 Garments will be distributed as usual at the Town Hall on Friday from 10-11 o’clock.
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  • 91 3 lbs. Parit (Perole) Rubber Syndicate Kedah Rubber Co. Ltd. 3<jh769 Batu Matang Rubber Plantations Ltd. 11,903 Bakap Rubber Plantations Ltd. 26 260 Jong Landor Rubber Estates Ltd. 42,136 The Sungei Batu (Malaya) Rubber Estates Ltd. J® fJ* Val D’or Rubber Estates Ltd. 21,518 The Kurau Rubber Estate
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 504 3 WANTED competent compositors for Job Work. Salary according to qualifications. Apply in person to FOREMAN, Criterion Press, Ltd. wantedT mWO CONDUCTORS (Chinese or Tamil) to take charge of Rubber Estates in Perak. They must be active men with a good knowledge of Estate Work. Reply with copies of certificates and
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    • 377 3 NOTICE. Penang Auction Mart. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE, On a TO BS BOLD BT a PUBLIC AUCTION. Jj Friday, 10th December, 1915. AT 1 P.M. At the Balik Pulow Police Station, s The following property belonging to Khew Ah Min, Khew Lim Sit, Chin Ah Nhooe and Chono Ah
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    • 450 3 j Westminster Cigarettes TURKISH BLEND .A. A. GRADE are unequalled. Packed in Hermetically Sealed Tins of 50 s. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. ii J WAR! WAR! WAR! For the Most Powerful Modern Dramas and Astounding Mysteries go to the STRAITS CINEMA. 'PHONE NO. 628. EMPIRE HALL. PENANG RCAD. SONS
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  • 93 4 PtbliiW daily (except Sundays and pvfe'.io holidays) AT THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Fbicb. Dailj Local M 924 par aans^e Omtstation Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Poet Free) 917.50 OABLB ADDBBSS M ECHO—PENANG.” f Telephone Not. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 buiiMM wmuniittioii should
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  • 465 4 Apparently it is to be left for the Crown Colonies to lead the way in the matter of compulsory military service. The example set by the Straits has already made a great impression and has been quoted with approval by the press all over the Empire.
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  • 553 4 It is highly satisfactory to learn from Peking that the incipient trouble at Shanghai has been nipped in the bud. The mutiny on the Chaohao (which looked at one time like following the course of that which took place on the Kniaz Potemkin in the Black Sea some
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  • 120 4 With reference to tho question of forming a company of Chinese Volunteers in Penang, we may state, without making any premature disclosures which might possibly hinder or postpone the realisation of the idea, that the matter has been under consideration for some time past. It is understood that
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  • 60 4 Two cases of plague have occurred in the vicinity of the junction of Penang Street and Chulia Street and both have proved fatal. One case was discovered last week and the second this week. The Health Officer’s staff are taking every precaution to prevent the spread of
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  • 76 4 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page. 2. —A Diary of Woe. Bernstorff’s Friend. Chinese Commercial Enterprise. Mr. Miggs on Bernard Shaw. 3. —Rubber and the New Taxation. Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. November Rubber Crops. Late War Items. A Charge that Failed. Penang Rubber Auction.
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  • 952 4 Mr. and Mrs. S. Leslie Thornton have arrived in Penang on a visit. The Java Bode denies the report that Mr. Douwes Dekker is to be its Editor-in-chief. As stated in the Echo soma time ago, Mr. J. L Humphreys has been appointed to act as British
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  • 634 4 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. NEW VERSION OF GERMAN TERMS. Ridiculous Proposals. London, December 7. A telegram from New York states that Mr. W J. Bryan has issued a manifesto in which he urges President Wilson to mediate between the belligerents immediately. Simultaneously,a new version of Germany’s peace terms
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 126 4 jij* IS O. Hotel. ■:o:« ECIAL TIFFIN WEDNESDAY S’ SATURDAY. 1 J SR CO. LTD a k- s a VN *«Sk LiES AGE^ )VER Why pay doctor’s bills, one of our raincoats would be cheaper. PR CE $10-50 y ONLY. n\ V\ w PRICE $10-50 ONLY. ou "Gresham" Waterproof Coats,
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  • 618 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. general gallwitz s army. reorganised and reinforced. London, December 7, A telegram from Rotterdam states that information from Dublin indicates that General Gallwitz’s German army, which has not been mentioned for some weeks, had been reorganised and reinforced with a view to attacking
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  • 645 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. AF: TILLERY ACTIVITY. London, December 7, 1.15 a.m. A Paris communique reports artillery activity in Artois, around Loos and Souchez, and between the Somme and the Oise. Our batteries shelled convoys of troops moving behind the German front. A severe cannonade took place
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  • 596 5 Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. DISCUSSION IN THE LORDS. QUESTION BY LORD BRYCE. London, December 7. In the House of Lords Lord Bryce called attention to the position in the Persian Gulf and emphasised that the situation in Persia demanded the most drastic action by Great Britain and
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  • 614 5 (Renter Service.) Copyright Telegram. A REPUBLICAN DEMAND. London, December 6. A number of New York newspapers, headed by the Tribune, is urging the Republicans in Congress to demand that President Wilson should suspend relations with Germany till the Lusitania crime is disavowed, Coast Bernstorff Waats to Kaow.
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  • 679 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. THE “CHAOHO INCIDENT. LAND AND SEA ATTACK. London, December 6. A telegram despatched from Shanghai on I December 5 states that the crew of the I cruiser Chaoho mutinied and opened fire on the arsenal. Two other warships were watching the Chaoho, but
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  • 780 5 PENANG LADY’S EXPERIENCE. A well-known Penang lady who travelled home recently says in the course of an interesting letter posted at Malta: The submarine was first sighted about 1.30 p.m. while we were all at tiffin, so we were blissfully ignorant at the time as
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  • 134 5 (Reuter Service.) Important Announcement by tbe Premier. London, December 6. In the House of Commons Mr. H. H. Asquith made an important announcement in regard to the arrangements for closer military co-operation which have been completed regarding France and are under consideration in connection with the other
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  • 2112 6 ENEMY OWNED SHARE HOLDINGS. Mr. Rowland’s Position. The annual general meeting of the Pulau Bulang Rubber and Produce Company, Ltd., was held (says the Fret Prttt on Saturday at the registered offices, French Bank Buildings, Singapore. There were present Messrs. W. H. Macgregor (chairman), J. W. van de
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  • 295 6 At the Council meeting held on the 26th, November. 1915, the following were present: Mr. R. P. Brash (Vice-President) in the Chair, Messrs. E. J. Vallentine, C. Pearse, J. Boy, Cheah Kee Ee, A. H. Flowerdew, J. Descraques and the Secretary (Mr, A. C.
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  • 259 6 Dec. 6 By Balance $43,094.81 7 Hon. A. R. Adams monthly subscription 103.00 7 Balance 43,194.81 Remitted to London £lO,OOO on 24-2-15... 85,618 73 Total subscription to date ...$128,813.54 The Grand Opera Co at Kuala Kangsar Road Theatre, which has been drawing good
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  • 2581 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.') London. November 5. The Wib Council. A Cabinet within a Cabinet is to be formed to carry the war to a successful conclusion. That is the decision of the Government and it has taken it fifteen months—during which our casualties have piled
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  • 419 6 M. Davray’s article on Anglo-French relations in the current Nineteenth Century contains a stinging censure of our pessimistic press. He describes the grave uneasiness which the Time* and the Daily Mail caused in France by disparaging British efforts and accusing the nation of apathy and indolence and the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 62 6 k Favorite Rub Dowa. The golfer, the football player and the all round athlete know the value of Chamberlain’» Pain Balm. It ia juat the thing for a rub down after a hard game. All soreness disappears like magic and sprains and swell* inga are cured in one-third leas time
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    • 72 6 Digestive troubles. What a world of misery those words represent, and yet the disorder can quickly be corrected by a course of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE, a medicine that is particularly efficacious in cases of indigestion, flatulence, acidity of the stomach. If you are affected in this way buy a
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    • 11 6 For Children’s Haoking Coughjat Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cojfe, Is. 6d,
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  • 1072 7 Who is this ’ere Bernard Shaw F xsked the lorryman. I read something he §ay in the papers the other day, and it seems to me that if he ain't ’alf barmy he ought to have a free ticket to Germany.” Bernard Shaw,” said Mr.
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  • 1135 7 TYRANTS AND SLAVES OF THE GERMAN ARMY. Remarkable Confessions. The Time» prints over a column of extracts from the diary of Private Becker, 6th Company of the Ersatz Battalion of the •Ird Foot Guards, Landsturm, Professor of Latiu at the Gymnasium of Bonn. We can only
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  • 513 7 GERMAN COUNT” WITH THREE WIVES. Amazing Exploits. The New York correspondent of the Central News writes: Lieutentant Max Lynar London, a friend of the German Ambassador, Lieutenant von Barnstoiff, and of Captain von Papen, has been arrested at his residence in New York on a charge of bigamy.
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  • 155 7 tome few years ago a band of enthusiasts decided to organise an exhibition of the manufactures and products of Hongkong and its immediate neighbourhood, and to those who wore privileged to attend the City Hall the array was a revelation of the skill of the Chinese —often
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 195 7 o iM BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. THE KING NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Having 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
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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