Straits Echo, 24 March 1916

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 14. $24 Per Annuo. PENANG. FRIDAY, 24th MARCH, 1916. Untie Ctir. It unto. No. 68.
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    Wanted—An Opposition?
    1561 2 The opening of a new Session of Parlia-1 ment this week has resurrected as to the I need for an organised Opposition. We are I mot inclined to dispute the theoretical I advantages of the suggestion indeed, it is I not long since we ourselves were calling 1
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    To Be or Not to Be.
    471 2 This week’s Gazette, says the Bangkok Times, contains a royal decree condemning suicide. It was solemnly promulgated in the presence of the King and Court at Ban Pong, and should surely be unique among the many and varied edicts which have appeared in the
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    EXCHANGE.
    119 3 Pbnano, March 24 (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4/, .1 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4$ 3 Credit 2/4f 3 Documentary 2/4* Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days’sight Private 176 Bombay, Demand Bank 174 Moulmein, Demand Hank 173 3 days’ sight Private 175 Madras Demand
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    Chinese Marriage Law.
    774 3 A few months ago attention was drawn in this column, says the Malaya Tribune, to Chinese matrimonial affairs, with a view to pointing out how hardly the law as it stands sometimes bears upon the first wives of Chinese. In the case then cited a first wife
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    Mail Notice.
    174 3 To-day. Hebe, for Singapore, 12.30 p.m Hok Canton, for Port Swettenham and Singapore, 12.30 p.m. Gregory Apcur, for Port Swettenham and Singapore, 2.30 p.m. Calypso, for Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson, 3.30 p.m. Jinsen Maru, for Singapore, China and Japan, 3.30 p.m. Un Peng, for Pulau Langkawi, Perils
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    Eurasian Association.
    523 3 To th* Editor or th* Straits Times. Sir, —Will you kindly find space in your valuable journal for the insertion of this I letter Looking back and seeing what the different nationalities in this part of the East have done in the way of their bit and progress,”
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    Acrimonious!
    265 3 To the Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, Your correspondent The Man in the Street has quite appropriately dubbed himself as such, for I certainly do not take him to be a man of virtue for the simple reason that he cannot distinguish a ihmg between the good and
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    Eastern Produce Exchange.
    111 3 At the Eastern Produce Exchange Rubber Auction yesterday 33 ,5701 b. were offered for sale and 11,865 lb. sold at the following prices Diamond Smoked Sheet from $164 to $177 Plain-Smoked Sheet $164 Diamond Unsmoked Sheet $159 $167 Plain Unsmoked Sheet $155 $l6O Pale Crepe No. 2
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    97 4 Published daily (except Sundays and pnhlir holidays) AT Til CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang fuel. Daily Local M $24 per annas Ontetation... Postage Extra, Mail Edition (Post Free) «17.50 CABLl ADDBISS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Not. Echo, 980 Printing Department 343 WB.—All kualaaaa wttimtiaii akaaM ka
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    THANKS TO “THE TIMES.”
    1409 4 After twenty months of war the exis tence of such a lamentable state of affairs as clearly obtains in regard to the medical and sanitary department of the Mesopjtamian Expedition is a serious scandal and one for which public opinion in Great Britain will cleirly insist
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    A WARNING.
    115 4 To the Editor of tis Siraitt Echo. Sir, I have found that many of the public are not aware that under the Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance 1915 cbickenpox has been declared an infectious disease which must be reported in the same way as Bmallpox. I shall,
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    St. Patrick’s Day.
    90 4 Irish Soldiers’ Faad. As a result of an appeal to the Irishmen of PenaDg and P. W. to provide comforts for the Irish Regiments at the front, Dr. Liston has been able to send a draft for $560 home to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Leinsters. The
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    Bukit Kepong Rubber Co.
    95 4 C From Ousr Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, March 24. The Bukit Kepong Rubber Co’s, report shows a profit of $25,111. The report recommonda a dividend of 20%. The crop totalled 34,3721 b., the all-in coat was 33 17 cts- and the gross price realised $1.04 per
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    Tin and Rubber.
    510 4 To-day’s Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-iay at $93.30, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $94, business done (75 tons sold) and in London at JEI97 spot and AT9I 10s. three months’ sight. Messrs. Boustead &Co inform us that the following is the quotation for Rubber
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    973 4 Aa Easy Way Out. We read in a contemporary A correspondent of the Lokal-Ani.,„, r gests that owing to the deplorablVV ,g number of one-armed men now ri«iki Germany, many of whom were before tu ln talented pianists, German com pog r r forthwith create “an entirely n*-
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    THE WESTERN THEATRE.
    722 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. fierce bombardments. Last sad West of the Meuse. LondoD, March 22, 4.20 p.m. Paris communique states that, west of the Meuse, a very lively artillery duel took place at Malancourt, Esnes and Hill iO4. It wa9 particularly violent at H&ucourt Hill. East of
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    THE EASTERN THEATRE.
    584 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. Figbtigg Aloag the Whole Liae. Pctrograd, March 23. A Pctrograd communique state i that fighting is general along tho whole eastern front. The Russians captured two woods 1 in tho village of Jacobstadt and a sector of 1 the line of
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    THE SUBMARINE WAR.
    161 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMANY S POLICY. Unlimited Frigbtfulaess. London, March 22, 1.35 p.m. A telegram from Amsterdam states that it is reported that Herr Ballin has declared that Germany’s policy is to prevent all traffic between tbe United Kingdom and European countries, whether neutral or not.
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    CHINESE CONSTITUTION.
    431 5 Monarchy Abandoned. New York, March 23. The correspondent of the Associated Tress at Peking states that the State Department, in a mandate, announces the abandonment of Monarchy and the resumption of a Republican form of Government. U.S.A. and Mexico. Ominous Reports. Columbup, March 22. There ia no news
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    ITALY AND THE WAR.
    1168 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GENERAL CADORNA IN LONDON. London, March 22, 5.50 p.m. General Cadorna, the Italian Commander-in-Chief, has arrived in London from Paris. He was welcomed by Lord Kitchener, Lord French and other notable parsonages and was accorded a great ovation by the immense crowds
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    Late War Items.
    475 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCE 3. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Tuesday and Wednesday, March 21 and 22 HOLLAND AND THE WAR. The T«b»ali»" Outrage, The Dutch press regards as mere diplomatic quibbling the Q-erman contention that the Tubintia cannot have been torpedoed a
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    Outside
    191 5 The following articles will be found on I our outside pages: Page. 2. —To Be or Not to Be. Wanted —An Opposition 3. —Chinese Marriage Liw. Eurasian Association. Eastern Produce Excbango. Acrimonious! 6. —A Friend of the Kaiser. The Two Great Failures. Consumption of Rubber. Singapore Defence, Affairs in
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    FOR THE BELGIANS.
    727 5 •TABLEAUX VIVANTS’’AND DANCE. It was rather a pity, consideiing the excellence of the object and the trouble which the promoters had given themselves, that more people did not turn up at the Town Hall last night to witness the "Tableaux Vivants’' organised by Mr. and Mrr. G.
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    The Assizes.
    569 6 Alleged Ckeetiig. Tho bearing way resumed this morning of the case against Lim Ab Kow, who was eharged with attempting to cheat by endorsing on a promissory uote the payment of $65, whereas only sum of $5 was paid. j Mr. J, Crabb Watt appeared for the prosecution
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    Penang Library.
    238 6 The annual general meeting of the members of the Penang Library was held at the Library yesterday evening. There were present the Hon. Mr. A. T. Bryant, Resident Councillor (President), Messrs. R. H. Pinhorn, H. C. Sells, C. R. Samuel, N. P. Walshe and H Welham (Librarian and
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    M. F. A.
    134 6 Cup-Tie*. To-morrow, Saturday, at Dato Kraraat Gardens, Stia Persenangan meet Jamathol Horea in the replay of the Cup-Tie which was drawn one goal aside. To-day, 5 minutes extra time will be played, if necessary. The winners have the prospect before them of meeting the League Champions on
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    Singapore Defence.
    950 6 Some references were made at the meeting oi the bingapore Chamber of Commerce to question of local defence. They may be taken as the very temperate expression of views strongly and widely held, and it was hoped that changes were in contemplation to meet the just complaints. Briefly
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    The Two Great Failures.
    1025 6 Thb Past and futubb Outlook. In a striking article the well-known Editor of the Daily News, Mr, A. G. Gardiner, gives a frank and thoughtful review of the present outlook. “It would be possible,” he writes “to divide the war into many phases but the broadest
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    Consumption of Rubber.
    986 6 No one pretends to be able to make any accurate forecast of the demand for rubber after the war has ended. There are some pessimists who think that, inasmuch as rubber has remained well below four shillings in spite of the abnormal consumption for uses that will
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    A Friend of the Kaiser.
    1066 6 Mr Poultney Bigelow’s Reminiscences* Prussian Memories, 1864—1914.” By Poultney Bigelow. (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.) ss. net. Mr. Bigelow, who has been familiar with Germany and its people for more than half a century in the varied capacities of traveller, historian, and citizen of the
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    Affairs in China.
    985 6 A Responsible Cabinet. Those who have watched carefullv »l policy of the Government during the n two years will have a good deal of svnmSr with the authorities in their attempt to introduce representative methods ViT extreme form of representative instituti™ was tried at the instance of
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    A Grand Fleet Chaplain's Note-Book.
    1189 7 A Flap. We are not always in harbour —though j you might think we were if you listened to i the Germans, who in this as in every other 1 matter act on the good old legal principle 1 that if you have a bad
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    A Fine Complexion.
    174 7 A girl’s complexion is something more j than a matter to concern her vanity. It is j 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
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    Post Bellum.
    1117 7 How will it be when the tumult and the shouting dies, and the captains and the kings depart This is no senseless question, no query hurled at random into the void of unfathomable things* It is unanswerable only in that its answer must eventually be given. Must. We
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