Straits Echo, 10 March 1916

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    37 1 Straits Echo IiAILV CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCUI A'f (Nfc THROUuIiOL’T Vr.fi STRAITS. lUE FEUERAIED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERAL VOL. 14. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, Oth MAKUH, 1916. Single Copy, IQ tend. No. 66.
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      1138 1 jlhlmalD 9 yZED NATUIa BANKS. For Cars on Hire EMPIRE “The Little Ariator-i* Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked A New Shipment of Motor and Cycle Accessories. Repairs of Motor Cars and Cycles undertaken by expert Mechanics. Largest Dealers in
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      15 1 •*.y. MILK*! 5? INFAMTS CH BIST |HE <*to «•> ?'«EC uSt Q NS if a> ’«u
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    Rubber Prices and Shares.
    405 3 The conditions in the rubber market continue to give matter for reflection to many people who are a little in doubt as to the trend of affairs, says a London paper of February 8. There is a good deal of quiet strength underlying the position, even
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    Singapore Rubber Auction.
    68 3 (From Our Chen Corrttpondenld March 10. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 083 tons were sold at the following prices Smoked Sheets $179 to $lB7 per picul. Ribbed $172 $179 Plain $164 $l/ 6 Unsmoked $156 $169 Plain $l6O $l7O Crepes $lB4 $lB7 Good $lBl $lB4 Fine, Brown
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    Eastern Produce Exchange.
    86 3 At the Eastern Produce Exchange Rubber Auction yesterday 86,4051 b. were offeied for sale and 48,841 lb. sold at the following prices ~Q I Dnmond Smoked Sheet from $167 to $lBl Plain Smoked Sheet $154 $l6O Diamond Unsmoked Sheet $l5B sl6** Plain Unsmoked Sheet $156 J.rt Pale
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    P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
    67 3 Tbe following were the results of the ties played off yesterday Double Handicap A R E Prentis and Harries beat F C Gregeon and V G S*vi 7—9, 6- 3, 6-3 Single Handicap B E J Bennett beat M Terzano 1 6, 7-5, 6—l. Double Handicap B.
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    Penang Golf Club.
    78 3 Ladiss’ Gold Medal, 1915 The play for this competition resulted as folloWS I— Mrs. Toroson *2 34=76 9 S. F. B. Martin 34+39=73 s—oo Samuel 81+36=67+ 3=701 Ebden 37 89=76- 2= 74 Powell 44+44=88-11 =74 Sellar 45 51=96-16=80 Mre. Kinder also pi»yed but returned no Mrs. Tiirge,
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    M. F. A.
    47 3 Cap-Tics Competition. Tr-morrow, Stia Pe>seuangau and J*ni thol Ilorca meet iu theopenincr m t hof the amual cup. Pl. yd at D.to Knmat Gardens, 5.15 p.u\ On Saturday, at the same time and place, Penang Polioe and Sabroi Jamil meet m the leeoad match.
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    Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith.
    446 3 In the course of an interesting obituary notice of Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith the L. and C. Express says: When Sir Cecil became Governor of the Straits the Chinese secret societies were •till, as they had been for many years, very powerful and a thorn in the Government
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    Mail Notice.
    457 3 To-day. Brandan, for Deli and Asahan, 10 a.m. Perak, (E. S Co.) for Port Bwettenham and Malacca, 11 80 am. Penoa, for Deli and Langsa, uood. Hok Canton, tor Port Swettenbam and Singapore, 12.30 p m. D van Twist, for Deli, Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleb, Sabang, Padang
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      327 3 TOWN HALL, PENANG. MONDAY. MARCH I3TH AT ©-30 P.M. Special Return 8 Farewell Visit of “THE SCAMPS” IN AN ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME. booking now open at the ROBINSON PIANO Co. INVESTMENT. Anv ’.utu or sums up to $50,000 awaitlDt, m'veotment in good freehold securitiss. Add !v with full particulars to
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    97 4 Pmblukftd daily (except Sunday* ud pvhlic holidaya) AT TEI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang Faiom. Daily Local $24 per aanaa. Oatatation... Postage Extra. Hy.il Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE IDDKIII ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Not. Echo, 589 Printing Department 343 NA— All buftacn taßßuntMtiom* thou Id
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    THE SEA AFFAIR.
    1488 4 Ymuiden tells us that the German fleet, or at any rate a considerable portion of it, came out for an airing on Monday and Amsterdam announces that it has returned to its base. Personally, we cannot pretend to determine whether the Kaiser ia more likely to send
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    Penang Volunteer Rifle Club.
    34 4 Owing to the Volunteers having annexed Sunday morning the 12th inst for a Field Day, the P- V. R. C. fortnightly shoot fixed for that date has to be abandoned-
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    M. A. P.
    898 4 Dr V. H. Stanton has been elected Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Reuter cables this morning that H. H. the Aga Khan has gone to the Continent. Dr. J. S. Rose who, we learn, has been tapped for pleurisy, is progressing favourably. Mme. Melba has been appointed
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    963 4 The Hello Girls. A writer in the Times of Malaya state, that the advent of girls as operators at the telephone exchange in Ipoh is regarded with mixed feelings by the public in Kinta We can assure the Ipohites that here in Penang the telephone girls are infinitely
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      166 4 IXXXX NOW IN STOCK X White Porcelain Rubber Cups TUMBLER SHAPE. White Enamelled Latex Pans, x x SIZE 18" BY 10 BY 3*" X X Onoda Portland Cement x j x FOR PARriC.ULARS AND PRICES APPLY TO The Urn X X 1 PENANG AND IPOH. xxxxxxxj< SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE Co.,
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    THE WESTERN THEATRE.
    881 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ARTILLERY DUEL. Grrmaa Attack» Repulsed. London, March 8, 3.35 p.m. 4 French official message states that there is no change north of Verdun. German bombardment continued st 0 ti ie Meuse but no infantry attack attempted, the French batteries reply]n. vigorously both westward
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    Outside.
    377 5 The following articles will be found ou our outside pages: Page. 3.—Sir Cecil Clementi-Smitb. Rubber Prices and Shares. Singapore Rubber Auction. Penang Golf Club. M. F. A. P. C. C. Tennis Tournament. Eastern Produce Exchange. fi. —Recent Events in China, Peking Prattle. Domestic Servants. The Shipowners’ Gains. Mvstery of
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    NAVAL ACTIVITY.
    759 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CANAL FLEET COMES OUT T London, March 8, 10.30 p.in. t Y telegram from Amsterdam states that a trawler which has arrived Ymuiden rej ports that on Monday afternoon it sighted k j off Terschelling at least 50 big German warships, with a large
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    CHURCHILL REBUKED.
    366 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FIRST LORD’S REPLY.' London, March 8, t In the House of Commons Mr. A. J. Balfour replied to Mr. Winston Churchill, l saying that his speech was very unfori tunate both in form and in substince. I He reaffirmed the continuity of Admiralty policy
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    Tin and Rubber.
    352 5 To-day’s Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day a* 1190.95, business done, in Singapore (refined) at §91,50, business done (75 tons sold) and in London at .£188 spot and £187 15e. three months’ (light. Messrs. Bou stead Co. inform us that the following is the quotation for
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    IN THE BALKANS.
    864 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN WITHDRAWING. Paris, March 8. A cable from Salonika states that numeroui German effectives are being hurriedly withdrawn from Macedonia. German Doubt in the Balkans —Mr. G. Ward Price writing from Salonika on January 19, says Methodically the German hand of iron, according
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    LATE WAR ITEMS.
    217 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Tuesday and Welneiday, March 7 and 8: HOLLAND AND THE WAR. Further Taxation. The Telegraaf states that the Radical Patty in the Chamber has decided in favour ol increasing the war taxation so as
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    Alleged Cheating.
    642 5 Post Offico Clerk Charged Before Mr. V. G. Ezichiel in the Third Court this morning Thum Keng Wyp, a Chinese cleik employed in the Penang Post Office, was charged with cheating and thoreby dishonestly inducing one Soli Singh to deliver to him two promissory notes, amounting altogether to
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    Domestic Servants.
    585 6 To tbb Editor or thr Times of Malaya.] Sir, As the stirrer of the domestic »er- 1 rant strife some years ago, which actually 1 ended in a Bill being passed but never pat into operation, 1 was pleased to see the matter referred to again in a
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    The Shipowners’ Gains.
    365 6 If the extraordinary rise io freights has done nothing else it has brought immense profits to the shipowner whose vessels do not happen to have been commandeered by the Admiralty. The net earnings in the trade are estimated to have risen from 20 millions in 1919 to
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    Recent Events In China.
    1016 6 Yuan Shih-kai is in no hurry about his crowD, the ti st refusal of which appears in the Peking Oasette of December 12, the second the following day, and his tardy bashful acceptance in the issue of the 14th On the 15th a mandate appears explaining
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    Peking Prattle.
    985 6 Tbrrtilb Disclosures. {By ike Vi'lage Idiet Reilly, Peking is getting too dull for words. It used to be one of the cheeriest places, bat somehow, sioce the war, people have got heavy. I was dining at the A s the other n*gbt, aod everybody was bored stiff. Mrs,
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    “The Pact of Konopisht.”
    936 6 Mr. Henry Wiokham Steed his a remarkable article in the February issue of the Nineteenth Century and After. It is entitled The Pact of Konopisht,” and deals with certain obscure events in Austria-Hungary in the weeks immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1914. A fortnight
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    God’s Good Man.
    1090 6 Mem v ets tell me (says Truth) that a 1 speech from Sir Edward Grey makes them < feel good, and thus saves the trouble and expense of going to church. When, last week, this much-abused man—the one Garter Knight who, as Sir Wi liam Harcourr would
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    Mystery of Turkish Heir.
    407 6 VIOLENT SCENES WITH ENVER PASHA. Dbad Princk’b f RBMONITION 01 Murder. Paris, Februirv 5. M. Eanle Galli, formerly manager of the An^L-French Constantinople newspaper The levant Herald, who was a prisoner oi the Tuicc-German, for nearly a year and a-half, and was a personal friend of
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    M. Venizelos.
    389 6 Rbportbd Charge or Hioh Treasjn. The Central News Rome correspondent transmits a report from the Tribunal correspondent at Athens that M. Venizdos is to be prosecuted by the Greek Government for high treason. The report, it should be stited, is entirely without confirmation from any other source. According
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      47 6 Rib lt In. A good many people thick rheumatism oan not be cured without taking nauaeous medicine. Chamberlain’a Pain Bilm masaaged thoroughly into the akin baa cured far more rheumatism than any internal remedy in existence and girea relief quicker. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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      82 6 There are two stages in the stilus of a preparation «old to the public under recommends* ion. The first is an experimental purchase, as a trial. If that trial does not produce results the artiole is not bought aorain. WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE passed the experimental stage over 20 years
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      45 6 Trouble Averted. That little cold and soro thro.it of yours must be checked at once or it may develop into something wors°. Take a few doses of j Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and your troubles will soon vanish. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers. i
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      11 6 F<r Children's Hacking Cough at Night* Weoda’ Great Peppermint Care, 1».
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    A Grand Fleet Chaplain’s Note-Book.
    1117 7 WlKELKSS —AND A Ca*. Have I mentioned that we have a very nice Puss on board P It is the pet and property of the Wireless operators staff, and on the analogy of most of the books pertaining to this specialised signalling, it is generally
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    A Fine Complexion.
    173 7 A girl’s complexion is something more than a matter to concern her vanity. It is an indication of the state of her health. Pallor in a growing girl means a thinning of the blood. Parents should be watchful of their daughters’ complexions, and should see to it
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      286 7 1 x ai > i-:— aair.r- t'_-sr'. HUTTENBACH Br„, &C o. ROYAL SOLE AGENTS FOR Have much pleasure in announcing the arrival of THE NEW MODEL Mo. 10. T 0 m l, amt. s_ -i( m I j I m 5 i- 4 TT 2* Hi rs m mm. N^>
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      75 7 A Family Necessity. Every family should be provided with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm at all times. Sprains may be curved in much less time when promptly treated. Lame back, lame shoulder, pains in the side and obest and rheumatic pains are some of the diseases for which it is especially valuable.
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      442 7 NOTICE •VTOTLCE 13 HEREBY GIVEN thattbe Xi business of eaglauet'Oß rubber carried on by us ceased to exist on March 6 and on and after tbis date we will not be responsible for any debt or debts contracted in this connection by any person other than us. CHOP KHEAM JOO.
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    War News and Gossip.
    2887 8 (From Oust Own Correspondent.) Rumour Regarding Lord Kitchener Loudon, Fwbrua> v 10M An important eh irge in our War Officis foreshadowed. Sir William Robertson is in future to sign all military and Other orders, aud not Lord Kitchener. Sir William was recently appointed Chief of the
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      62 8 A Life Saver. It i« safe to say that Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has saved tbe lives of more people and relieved more suffering than any other remedy in existence. a 1 OTOr the civilized world for diaJK?/ C re n f cram P* iQ the stomach, bJ
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      59 8 Harsh Purgatives, Salts and Castor Oil, are old fashion* ed remedies more drastic than safe. EEKCTfl the tiny laxatives ensure the same results, but in a perfectly natural manner. They do not upset the stnmaoh, nor gripe, but gently assist nature. Of chemists. 50 cents per phial, or post free
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      233 8 1 BLUE AND SILVER LABEL ILL PRINCIPAL STORES. SOLE AGENTS: ADAMSON, GILFILLAN l CO., LTD., (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND) PENANG, SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. Don’t take anybody’s word for it—judge for yourself. YOf CAN TELL better than anyone else whethei a hisky suits you or not. You can judge its flavour and
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    Meals.
    1176 9 One of the most delightful meals imaginable is one that you can cook yourself, even though you heve never indulged in that most misleading thing—a cooking lesson. This is the way to do it. Take a rough hunk of dry bread and a big slice of bacon. Get a
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    Naval Notes.
    968 9 Gmman Myths akd British Dvmnca. London, February 6. The statement which Mr. Balfour made the other day regarding the possible course that is being pursued by Germany in the matter of ship construction and armament was bound to be exceedingly vague. In the first place, he could not
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    A Message to Thin, Weak, Scrawny Folks.
    261 9 ▲ir East Wat *o Gaik 10 to 30 lb* or Solid, Haaltht Pbbkah but Flbsh. Thin, nervous, undeveloped men and women everywhere are heard to say, “I can’t understand why Ido not get fat. I eat plenty of good, nourishing food.” The reason
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      52 9 Best Medicine Hide. A better medicine can not be made than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It relieves the lunge, opens the secretions, aids expectoration and assists nature in restoring the ■▼stem to a healthy condition- Besides, it contains no opiates and is perfectly safe to take. Fer eale by all Disnensanei
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      279 9 DAVID CORSAR 8 SON'S Well-Known Extra flavy Canvas, No. 0. SANDILANDS, BUTTERY 8 Co. Medicines Just Unpacked. The Penang Rubber Stamp Co. beg to announce to their patrons and many interested customers that they have now received a large fresh shipment of medicines from The Swasthya Sahaya Pharmacy, Calcutta, and
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    Situation in Somaliland.
    91 10 A Question of Avoirdupois. Londoa, March 9. Ia the House of Commons Mr. SteelMaitland, Uuder-Secretary of State for the Colonies, stated that the situation m Somaliland is extraordinarily favourable. There had been less trouble during tha past eighteen months than in many years previously. The tribes in
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    The Falling Mark.
    18 10 London, March 9. The mark iu neutral Exchanges is now 29% below th8 normal value.
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    The Italian Campaign.
    75 10 Weather Hamper* Operations. Rome, March 10. A communique issued iu Rome states that the c mtinuance of bad weather is hampering operations. The mountain guns of the eoemy sought to turn the weather to account firing high explosive shells and bringing down avalanches on the Italian position?,
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    East African Campaign.
    54 10 British Progress. London, March 9. A communique states that the troops in East Africa under General Smuts have advanced aghast the German forces in the Kilimanjaro area. General Smutr, on the 7th iost, seised the crossings on the Lumi River with insignificant losses. Several counter-attacks of the
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      1523 10 p. I. APCAR LINE (Incorporated in England.) Mail and Pasaenger Services. -a PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. MAIL SERVICE. Homeward (for Europe.) Outward (for China and Japan*) Due Penang Steamer. Connecting with Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. May May June 17 1 Nankin Novafa Mongolia Malwa iru:— July «.i. Nor 8.R. Nell
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