Straits Echo, 12 January 1916

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRC ULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 14. $24 Per Annum PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 12th JANUAKY, 1916. Siiti* c *n, M am. .No. 9.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1069 1 For:Cars on Hire ■i BANKS. > Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. EMPIRE ''The Little Ar<slocT*ii Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation. 115,000,000 Just Unpacked A New Shipment of Motor and Cycle Accessories.
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  • 2886 2 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Lobd Derby's Recruits London, December 16. Lord Derby's scheme closed on the 11th inst. and on the same day the manhood of England and Scotland represented itself and asked to be enrolled in the legions of the brave. The scenes in the
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    • 635 2 101 SINGAPORE, HONGKONG, SWATOW 8 AHOY. The i.i Hong Kheng, Captain J Maaon, ii expected to arrive here from Rangoon on Wednesday, the 18th instant, an i will leave i for the above ports on Thursday, the 13th 1 instant, at 10 a.m. a For Freight or passage apply to
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    • 65 2 Croi). Every young child it susceptible to croup. Don't wait until this dreadtul disease attacks your little one before you prepare for it. It comes in the night when chemists' Bhops are usually closed, and this alone should be a warning Get and keep Chamberlains' Cough Remedy on hand. It
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    • 58 2 A machine weakened in one part soon breaks down altogether. That ia the ctae «ritb sufferers from indigestion, a most disheartening complaint. If you are troubled, turn immediately to WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE. A course of this medicine will place the body machine in perfect running order. Sold at Dispensaries
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    • 442 2 DOC DOC o Palmer Cycle Tyres British and Best. R. T. REID S’ Co., SOLE AGENTS 23. BEACH STREET. PENANG. )OC DOC J Pritchards FOR BRASS BEDSTEADS New Designs Best Make Untarnishable. Sizes 5' toy 6' O' 6' by 8' 6" FANCY MOSQUITO NETS TO ORDER PRITCHARD 8 CO., LTD.,
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  • 2097 3 Giis Robbkkt. The hearing was concluded yesterday afternoon before Mr. Justice L. P. Ebden and a common jury of the case against Lee Ah Long and long Seoog, who were charged in that they, with several others exceed* ing fire in number, did commit gang robbery at Sungei
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 468 3 < UJ O UJ Q U lil CL m z < z < X u 3 m o t/) UCHANANS SCOTCH WHISKY SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ r. 5Z&&&Z m r OIA5COW BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY Sole Agents PENANG AND KEDAH. By mfBointmeent to M The KING. ‘ROYAL HOUSEHOLD'
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    • 388 3 8 GAME mm LEAD OTHERS FOLLOW. ALL DEALERS. laaOBSSOOE 20 Parts Screening Saturday Detective Hayes Series Parts 20 NOW SHOWING BY SPECIAL EE QUEST For three nights only commencing Wednesday, 12th January 1916. AT The Electric Polyscope Co., Lyceum Theatre, Argyll Road. Gigantic and Gorgeous Chinese Film Plays Real Chinese
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  • 87 4 PlMktxl daily (except Sundays and pablie holidays) AT TIB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd No. 59. Beach Street, Penang Puoa. Daily Local _W4 per aanra. Oatatataoa.M Postage Extra. if ail Edition (Poet Free) 917.50 OilLI iODBISI ECHO —PENANG." Telephone Noe. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 tf.n.’—AW tositoto tototounttotioto «Scold
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  • 1375 4 Among the be*t bits of unconscious humour for which we hare to thank the war is the demand of the Austrian Government that pp3cial precautions should be taken to protect the Austrian subjects undergoing repatriation by the Qolconda Against the dangers from the submarine campaign in the
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  • 115 4 Jan. 10 By Balance 8 484.54 11 The Employees of the Caledonia Estate Cum-Sections, Dec. contribution as follows W B Wilson $5O 00, L V Love $17.86, L F Smith $15.00, W M Miller $28.57, Gordon Phillips $2O 00, R Joshn $2 50, A Forsyth $l3 39.
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  • 939 4 Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Owen returned to Singapore yesterday. Mr. A. G. Anthony, of Messrs. Hutten* f bach Bros., is paving a visit to Penang, < Mr. H. Fraser, crdet, is appointed to act as supervisor of Customs, Port Swettenham Mr. Magnee, of Medan, is on
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  • 956 4 Astley’»." A hundred and two years ago to-day died a once very famous London character, Philip Ashley. After attaining the rank of Sergeant in the Light Dragoons, Astley set up as a riding master in Lambeth Fields in 1766. ani four years later opened an amphitheatre for equestrian
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 182 4 rrr. DC DOC zn ALLEN DENNYS A CO.. Penang. PROPRIETORS OF THE PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SRLES HELD EVERY TVESDRY RUBBER fcooght or —Id by PUBLIC AUCTION or PRITATB TEHDXS. FORWARD BALES ARRANGED. RUBBER traaahippad tad iaaurad to a my PORT at airaii RIMER SALE ROOMS at No. 7. ONION
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  • 666 5 (Reuter Service). Copyright Telegram. BATTLE IN CHAMPAGNE. IMPORTANT GERM iN ATTACK. London, January 10, 6 15 p.tn. A Paris communique states that the Germans developed in Champagne an attack under cover of a violent bombardment of poison gas shells. They attempted four concentric actions daring the day
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  • 605 5 (Reuter Service) Copyright Telegram. MONTENEGRIN CAMPAIGN. Furious Fighting. Paris, Januiry 10. A Montenegrin communique reports ex tremely violent fighting. The Lepena<z positions ware cip f ured and lost several times but fi jally wa re n tine 1 m tsters of the ground. Our losses were npp
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  • 700 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. AUSTRIA’S STRANGE REQUEST London, January 11. The Foreign Office has received a communication from the Austro-Hungarian I Government through the United States Embassy relative to the intended repatriation by the s.s. Oo’coruia of the wives and children of Austrians interned in ladia. The husbands
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  • 791 5 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. PREMIER'S STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS. London, January 10. In the House of Cimmons Mr. H. H 1 Asquith expressed his extreme gratification at the retirement from Capa Hellas without the loss of a single life. Ten out of tbe eleven guns abandoned were worn-out
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  • 164 5 To-day's UuoiatioßS Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $B4 7\ buvers no sellers, in Singapore (refined) at $B4 80. buyers no sell-rs, and in London at j£ 173 spot and £174 10s three months’ sight Messrs. Bou-toad Co. inform us that the following is the quotation
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  • 1130 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. 1 GENERAL NIXDN’S SUCCESSOR London, January 10. Ia the Houaa of Commons Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, aantuiced that Geoeral Sir J. E Nixon, owing to ill-health, had relinquished the commind in Mesopotamia and was returning home. His successor is General
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  • 502 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are I from the Sumotru Put of Monday, Jane* I ary 10 HOLLAND AND THE WAR. Tke Crew of E 17" I Ip accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of the Geneva Convention of 1907 it is incumbent upon
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  • 75 5 The following articles will be found on oar outside pages: Page. 2—War News and Gossip. 3. —The Assizes. Housebreaking by Night 6*—Our Business in Mesopotamia. Tbe New Chinese Emperor. F.M.B. Hospital- Chinese Volunteers. Malayan Men Serving Inaccurate Manifests. Penang Rubber Auction. Municipal Commission. 7.—The Isle of Java. About Singapore
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  • 21 5 Obtuary. Mr. Allan McGregor. London, January 11, The death has taken place of Mr. Allan McGregor, Chairman of the Glen line.
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  • 921 6 VISIT TO BLACKMORE END. 1 AiuxamNTi Describe». Mr. T. H Reid, of Malay State* < Information Agency, baa paid a visit to j the F. M. S. Hospital at Blackmore End and, writing under date Dec. Bth, thus describe* hia visit in an account which we
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  • 942 6 Commenting on tbe acceptance by Yuan Shib-kai of the Imperial Crown of China, tbe Standard, in a leading article, remarks:— Yuan Shih-kai, who has wielded the power of an autoorat while enjoying only the dignity of a first magistrate, has apparently decided to bring the Dragon
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  • 225 6 The vmdermentioned prices were realised f>r rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys k Co., by auction sale yesterday and during the week Smoked Ribbed Sheet 8184 to 8188 Plain 8179 8181 No. 2 Smoked Sheet ribbed 8173 8183 Unsmoked Sheet 8172 8183 No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet 8169
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  • 465 6 Tm* Gov**ifo*’s Affmciatiow. The Chinese Company of the Singapore Volunteer Corps had a special parade on < Saturday afternoon at which His Excellency the Governor presented commissions to the ..fficers recently promoted, viz., Capt. Song Ong SiaDg, 2nd Lieuts, Seah Cheng Joo, Pan Chow Kim, Tan Soo Bin
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  • 514 6 The following notification, being an ex tract from Board of Trade Journal of Octo ber 21.19'5, is printed in the Government Gazette —The attention of the Board ot Trade has been called to cases in which goods exported from the Uoited Kingdom has been detained by the Allied
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  • 538 6 To-day at the close of the year 1915 we might fit tingly look back upon some of the events that have occurred during the twelve months both in and outside Siam. The Great War entering upon its sixteenth month has been waged with persistent bitterness on both
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  • 351 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bukit Mertajam, January 11. At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. G. A. Hereford, yesterday (1) Teo Oon Tew and (2) Teo Tug Sug, a licensed chandu smoking house keeper, w?re coDvincted of selling chandu dross other than to the Superintendent of
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  • 1451 6 [Tfo following a'ticis ts of special interest in view of the Reuter's lelejrams on the same \subject published on page 5 to-day On October 16th, 1914, about a fortnight after Turkey went to war with us, a British brigade under General Delamain left Bombay for the
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  • 294 6 Lnrrnß from Mr, Lindsat Vbaxi Mr. Lindsay Vears, formerly on Caitlsfield Estate, now in the 74th Howitier Battery, Royal Field Artillery, writes to» correspondent from Peshawar, N. W, Frontier Province lam not altogether satisfied at finding myself oat Eut soldiering, when I left tbe F. M- 8,
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  • 147 6 Morr Small pox Cash. The ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commission was held at tbe Municipal Office yesterday afternoon and there were present Messrs W. Peel, (President), P. TAllen, Yeoh Guan Beok,and Lim Eow Hong with Messrs- L. M. Bell, (Municipal Engi* neer) and Mr. L. A. 0.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 62 6 Care Th»t Cough. When you have troublesome cough, it does not mean that you have consumption or that you are going to have it, but it does mean that your lungs are threatened, and it is just as well to be on the safe side and take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
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    • 41 6 Do You Cough 7 Don't overstrain the fine membrane of your throat in trying to dislodge the phlegm. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will accomplish this for yon, and oure the cold that is causing it. For sale by all Pispensorlee and dealers
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    • 89 6 Striiftht at It. There ia no me of our beating around the buah We might aa well out with it firat as last. We want you to try Chamber lain’a Cough Runedy the next time you have a oough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can
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  • 1318 7 Jar» Past and Present. By D M. Campbell. Two volumes. (Heinemann 36s.net.) On lbe map Java appears merely as a member, and by no means the most import* ant member, of the greatest archipelago in ihe world as a link, and not the heaviest I link,
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  • 619 7 To thu Editor or the Straits Times. Sir, —The criticism of Singapore United Rubber plantations, Limited, in the leading article of y ur issue of the 7th instant, is b»sed to a considerable extent on wrong information. The points you draw attention to are: (1) that the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 493 7 The Anglo-Japanese Dispensary, 393 A 395, Chulia Street, PENANG. Qualified Japanese Doctor always in attendance. All kinds of Patent Medicines and Proprietary Articles held in Stock. Prescriptions carefully dispensed. Attention, Civility and Moderate Chargee guaranteed. PLEASE GIVE US A TRIAL. ESTABLISHED 1874. THE ORIENTAL Government Security Life Assurance Company Ltd.
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    • 12 7 For Children*! Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, la. 6d
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    • 59 7 Harsh Purgatives, Salta and Castor Oil, ara old fashionad remadies more drastie than safa. rnmism 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 cants per phial, or post free from
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    • 184 7 IE 2Z 2 r BY APPOINTMENT cV^' v i? <L<V r A TO H. M. THE KINC II D 4& NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT, 1 hv several Residents in the Malay Peninsula to eend li «ve follow r Wfl e Q upor Lunr ord< rece req’ Na| Chi *.o,y
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1705 8 B. I. P. O.- AND APCAR LINE Mall and Passenger Services. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. MAIL SERVICE. Outward (for China and Japaiu) Due Penang Steamer. Connecting with Jan. 11 Jan. 21 Feb. 4 Feb. 18 Mar. 3 Mar. 17 Mar. 31 Apr. 14 Sardinia Namur Nankin Novara Malta Nagoya Namur
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