Straits Echo, 17 March 1916
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Title Section35 1916-03-17 1 Straits Echo 1‘AILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERAL VOL. 14- $24 Per Annua. PENANG, FRIDAY, lith MARCH, 1916. Sinfle Copy, 10 cents. No. 62.35 words
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Advertisement1170 1916-03-17 1 I HRed nat uM Fur Cars on Hire ik. 4®: BANKS EMPIRE •'The Little Artstc*. Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7\ Penang Road. Just Unpacked A New Shipment of Motor and Cycle Accessories. Repairs of Motor Cars and Cycles undertaken by expert Mechanics. Largest Dealers1,170 words
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Advertisement18 1916-03-17 1 MILK*S o »0F W «ICH IS THt BEST C IK V*£ FO« ,|)St ■i* ?£S W*t*r £3 '•se18 words
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1218 1916-03-17 2 The Beach. I went ashore for a walk a few days ago This would scarce deserve mention were it not for the fact that shore-goiDg Las become a rare event with me these days it is a good six weeks since I last essayed the1,218 words
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Article715 1916-03-17 2 BRITAIN’S “DANGER”* Deknburo and Reventlo'w Differ. In the Berliner Tageblatt Herr Dernburg has been lecturing Great Britain solemnly for the benefit of German readers, telling of the dangers threatening the British and of the misfortune they are drifting into unless they take up some really715 words
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Advertisement552 1916-03-17 2 HANG JOO Co ‘9 Just Received a New Shipment of The JOOCOCLES” Guaranteed British-made Throughout From Frame to Fecial From Tyre to Saddle Fitted Complete with DUNLOP Tyres, Lamp, Bell, Inflator 8 Tools. $55-00 Nett. TIANG JOO Co., Sol ""p°rt« rs PENANG LIBRARY. (Opposite St. George’s Church.) Comprises some 20,000552 words
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Advertisement75 1916-03-17 2 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 chest and rheumatic pains are some of the diseases for which it is especially valuable.75 words
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Advertisement225 1916-03-17 2 fr3#0#0t00o#fooo#0»0#c-) 0 0 0 0 0 The Bernese Alps Milk Co. CONTRACTORS TO THE Admiralty India Office FOR I9IUBe guided by this and always ask for SLEDGE BRAND MIL tr Local Agents: SANDILANDS, BUTTERY 8 Co. u a 0 n a 0 0 0 ;brb9o«) RENANS. RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, Telephone Nos.225 words
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Article1128 1916-03-17 3 I Annual Rbport and Accounts. The annual general meeting of members -of the Penang Library will be held at the j Penang Library on Thursday, March 23, at j 4.30 p rn. for the transaction of the following j business: (a) To receive the Committee’s Report and Treasurer’s1,128 words
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Article95 1916-03-17 3 At the Eastern Produce Rubber Exchange yesterday 63,978 lb. were offered for sale and 36,839 lb. sold at the following prices: Dnroond Smoked Sheet from $l6B to $179 Piaiu Smoked Sheet $163 Diamond Uusmoked Sheet $l6l $!65 Plain Unsmoked Sheet $156 $l6l Pale Crepe No. 1 $lBO95 words
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Article86 1916-03-17 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 17. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 412,350 ib. were sold at the following prices Smoked Sheets $lBO to $lB7 per picul. Good $173 $lBO Fine, Plain $l7O $179 Good $164 $169 Unsmoked $169 $174 Good $l6l $l6B Fine $l6B $l7l Good86 words
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Article64 1916-03-17 3 The outputs from the following companies for the first half of March were: Kamunting Tin Dredging Ltd. Piculs 500 Hours run 311 Chenderiang Tin Dredging Ltd. Dredge. Piculs 180 Hours run 294 Hydraulic Elevators Piculs 50 Total output (Chenderiang) 230 Deebook Dredging No Liability Output for first fortnight64 words
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Advertisement640 1916-03-17 3 VVANTBID. TlfANTED A COMPETENT TYPIST, preferably with a knowledge of hortbnnd. Send in applications and lcom®eiidations to 134 PRESGRAVE A MATTHEWS. "wanted. TUTOR f° r STRING BAND at Parit Buntar. Salary >50 per Apply T. L. ENO, Parit Buntar. 129 notice, PENANG LIBRARY. r PHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING m L640 words
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Advertisement420 1916-03-17 3 L» c IX > X> 6 < V •V/ O A \N <b /> O v <S x *>?;X <->\ <VvT 4 c O. s. o V V: <1/ v /C r/. <>. S ’_S*WL!4 COMING! COMING!! COMING!!! The World’s Longest Detective Serial The Exploits of Elaine in 72 Parts.420 words
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Article, Illustration99 1916-03-17 4 FxbliiUd d&ilj (axcept Sundays «ad pablifl holidays) AT TVS CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang Fbiob. j• Daily Local M >24 per »i»™ OnUtation... Postage Extra. ICail Edition (Pott Free) >17.50 CABLE ADDBBSS: ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Not. Echo, 585 Printinf Departnent 343 tf i. —All Au.iß.as99 words
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Article1242 1916-03-17 4 Nothing could be more nauseating than the cowardly fu3B which certain English newspapers of the baser sort were making >n mail-week about the Zeppelin raids. There was a regular outburst of hysterical shrieking and a clamour for measures of defence which would not only entail sponding millions1,242 words
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Article37 1916-03-17 4 To>iay's Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $93. buyers no sellers, in Singapore (refined) at $93.75, business done (225 tons sold) and in London at 4195 spot and 4190 1 Os. three months’ sight.37 words
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Article68 1916-03-17 4 Tbe March Monthly Medal Competition, viz., 200 varda handicap, will be held at the Swimming Club on Sunday, 19th March at 11*15 am. Entries will be received up to within half an hour of the start of the race. A list of tbe handicaps can be seen68 words
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Article908 1916-03-17 4 Mr. D. A. M BrowD, who haa been stay* ing at Richmond oa Penaag Hill, has come down to the plain again. Our Singapore correspondent wires that the death took place in London in childbirth, of Mrs. Crofton, wife of Captain Roger Crofton. The death occurred on908 words
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Article83 1916-03-17 4 The Irishmen of Penang and Province Wellesley have decided that no public celebration of St. Patricks’ Day should take place this year, owing to the war. They have, however, subscribed $5OO towards providing comforts for the Irish Regiments at the front. .This will be sent home by83 words
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Article931 1916-03-17 4 St. Patrick’s Day. Sf. Patrick’. Day, besides the pe reonill controveriy about the real shamrock!!! which is the wood-sorrel—now brings an annual query as to the true national colo»; of Ireland. Green is Nationalist, but no national. It is a mere party emblem, ifc. Orange, and dates only931 words
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Advertisement82 1916-03-17 4 XXX BIS TAI Guaranteed Pure Fine Old Brandy Produced Bottled in France. OBTAINABLE FROM All Leading Liquor Stores. x x The Eastern Trading Co., X X PENANG AND IPOH. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd. IMPORTERS OP Australian Frozen Meat and Produce ALSO English Siberian Fish Game Telegrams: Storage, Telephone No.82 words
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Article622 1916-03-17 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ENEMY’S EFFORT AT VERDUN. A Three-Mile Froat. London, March 5, 1.20 p.m. p atU semi-official announcement states that the enemy’s whole effort at Verdun yesterday was directed on the narrow front 0 f three miles from Bethincourt to Cumieres which is dominated by622 words
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Article581 1916-03-17 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. the falling mark. hptadiii Collapse, New York, March 15. 1 here has been another sensational i decline in the mark to 711. The New York Herald says that this i continued decline, in spite of the efforts of the German financiers to check it581 words
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Article682 1916-03-17 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUMANIA’S ATTITUDE. Germaa Miaister Returns to Berlia. Bukharest, March 15. The German Minister is returning to Berlin. Rumania. “Preparing Foe War.” —A despatch from Bucharest to the Neue Zarcher Zeitunj declares that Rumania appears definitely on the point of entering the war on682 words
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Article941 1916-03-17 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. TURKISH ADVANCED POSITION TAKEN. London, March 15. An official announcement regarding the operations in Mesopotamia says tbatGener Sir Percy Lake reports that a column, which was sent out on March 11, drove out the Turks from an advanced position they occupied on March 10,941 words
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Article413 1916-03-17 5 (Reuter Service). Copyright Telegram. OCCUPATION OF SOLLUM. London, March 15. It is officially announced that General Peyton occupied Solium yesterday. The enemy had blown up their ammunition stores on Monday and offered only slight resistance yesterday. They were pursued by armed motor-cars and the Cavalry Camel Corps.413 words
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Article19 1916-03-17 5 CaprTUs. Saturday, March 18, Bahrol Alam vs, Crescent Star. Sunday, March 19, TanjoDg Tokong vs, Mejlis.19 words
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Article71 1916-03-17 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages: Page. 2—As the Germans See It. A Grand Fleet Chaplain’s Note-Book. 3.—Penang Library. Eastern Produce Exchange. Singapore Rubber Auction. Tin Outputs. 6.—Servants Problem. P. C. C. Tennis Tournament. Naval Notes. Affairs in China. Wild Tales from Borneo. The German71 words
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Article569 1916-03-17 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special ttlagrams are from the Sumatra Pott of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, March 13, 14 and 15 HOLLAND AND THE WAR. The Bandoeng” Incident. The German semi-official Wolff’s Bureau confirms the attack on the Dutch steamer Bandoeng in the Mediterranean but endeavours569 words
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Article204 1916-03-17 5 C From Our Own Correspondent^) Singapore March 17. Messrs. Fraser and Co’s reports states that good business was done in rubber shares and there was a better demand for mining shares. Bhould the metal keep at a high level more attention would be oentred on the shares.204 words
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Article334 1916-03-17 6 Alleged Impersonation, Mobamed Ibrahim was this morning oharged before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel in the Third Court with impersonating a public sevant, to wit, a Municipal servant for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The accused claimed trial, and on the application of Inspector McLsrnon he was334 words
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Article359 1916-03-17 6 A Note of Warning. The continued buoyancy of the Rubber I market, says a mail paper, is sufficiently surprising to excite comment even amongst those who arejsupporting it. Where the orders come from is a matter for astonishment to everybody. The provinces are buying rubber shares largely.359 words
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Article118 1916-03-17 6 The following were the results of the ties played off yesterday Double Handicap B. C. T. Smith and L. H Wem vee. beat G. H. Gartside and W. McK. YouDg. 4-6, 6-4, 6-0. Single Handicap C. G. H. Gartside w. o. from B. Mitchell Among the Portuguese118 words
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Article1085 1916-03-17 6 Lob» Fisher and the **Old” Renown. London, February 5. The old Renown —she is a year over one-half of the Victory t age at Trafalgar —his found her way to a shipbreaker’s 1 yard, at Biytii, where in due course she e will be converted into scrap-iron and1,085 words
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Article1007 1916-03-17 6 The System Followed in Ceylon. (Special to the Times of Malaya”) This evergreen problem is beginning to be I j ventilated in public once more and, so far as t Malaya is concerned, appears as yet to be as 1 i elusive as ever it was in the1,007 words
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Article953 1916-03-17 6 Preparation for Representation, In another column we (Shanghai National i Review give the text of the important Presidential Mandate issued on Monday night i in connexion with the calling together of f the Lifah Yuan. It has been one of the 1 complaints of the radical opposition953 words
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Article496 1916-03-17 6 8ays the writer of the Marudu Notes in the British North Borneo Herald At the beginning of the month a Chinaman was drowned in the river just below the station while endeavouring to wade across it I when it was in high flood. A policeman I496 words
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Article575 1916-03-17 6 A careful estimate of German losses in the war has been made by Military Correspondent of The Timet. He gives due weight to many consideiations which tend to make such an estimate to some extent a matter of guess-work, affected by the temperament of the man who575 words
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Article894 1916-03-17 6 I hat during the terrific and all absorbing struggle for national life and prosperity n nl raging in Europe some men’s minds are duected toward scientific investigations not always related to the death struggle [1 of the good things of the day. The Berlin894 words
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Advertisement76 1916-03-17 6 The moment a man does his best bit of quick thinking is when attack d by a violent pain in the stomach. His thoughts immediately fly to WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. The wish for a dose of that famous medicine is uppermost, a wish founded on solid experience,, because he76 words
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Advertisement10 1916-03-17 6 For Chronic Cheat Complaints, Woods' Croat Peppermint Cvro la, fdi10 words
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Advertisement52 1916-03-17 6 Best Medicine Made. A better medicine can not be made than Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It relieves the lungs, opens the secretions, aids expectoration and assists nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition- Resides, it contains no opiates and is perfectly safe to take. For sale by all Dispensaries52 words
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Advertisement46 1916-03-17 6 Rob It In. A good many people think rheumatism and not be cured without taking nauseous medicine. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm massaged thoroughly into the skin has cured far more rheumatism than any internal remedy in existence and gives relief quicker. ■ale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.46 words
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Article1439 1916-03-17 7 THE ALLIES’ BTRATEG T. Value of Dissemination. A certain number of write» are already using the unfortunate setback our troops have received on the Tigris as a text from which to preach the doctrine of concentration on the decisive point as against our present practice, in which they1,439 words
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Article512 1916-03-17 7 A Chinese Moslem Problem. For the first time in the history of China’s relations with her dependencies, an ambassador has been appointed to Outer Tibet who cannot perform the sacred rite of worshipping the famous Koko Nor, the Blue Sea. Ma Chib, former Ctien Tai of512 words
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Article811 1916-03-17 7 Had an order prohibiting alcoholic drinks gone forth to the house of George 111. there would have been consternation indeed. Most people in the days of “Farmer George” drank more than was good for them, and the royal servants furnished no exception. From the Reminiscences”of the811 words
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Article179 1916-03-17 7 The long spell of wet weather is now having evil effect on a number of people, and the tortures of rheumatism are disabling many. Victims of this malady have every reason to fear the first dull aches in the limbs and joints, followed by sharp pains through179 words
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Advertisement61 1916-03-17 7 A Life Saver. It is safe to say that Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has saved the lives of more people and relieved more suffering than any other remedy in existence. It is known all over the civilized world for its speedy cures of cramps in the stomach, diarrhoea61 words
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