Straits Echo, 3 May 1916

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    36 1 Straits Echo DAILV CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY. VOL. 14. $24 Per Annus. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 3rd MAY, 1916. Single Ctpy, 19 cents. No. 1 01.
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      1138 1 H.MAI m m USdn II TYRES. jBRITISH MADE). Try A help British Trade. You will be confident, if you try ROM TYRES, of their superiority in quality, reliability and durability. AGENTS: Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. (TELEPHONE No. 694.) Motor Car Importers and Stockists of various kinds of
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      16 1 a a»n »yi r »wo Jtr»j r jM» N Sf^oS smnitiwi,:* T jgSTs ;-H‘ *v. HRS*.
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    The Problem of the Irish Volunteers.
    1958 2 (From an Irish Correspondent). In view of the revolt in Ireland this I article, which is taken from The Nets Statesman is particularly interesting The question of defending the realm against Irish disaffection has again been raised in the Times and elsewhere, and will
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    Weak Stomachs Cause Wind.
    182 2 Wind in the stomach is caused by the food being retained so long that it ferments j if it is vegetable food or putrifies if it is animal food. The usual treatment is to forbid the eating of the food that causes the trouble This stops
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      61 2 For Lame Back. When you have pains or lameness in the back bathe the parts with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm twice a day, massaging with the palm of the band for five minutes at each application. Then dampen a piece of flannel slightly with this liniment and bind it on over
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      738 2 LIQUID FUEL FOR Diesel and Semi-Diesel Engines, Smelting Furnaces, Boilers, etc. KEROSENE FOB KEROSENE OIL ENGINES. LARCF STOCKS ALWAYS on HAND. For particulars and prices, apply direct to THE ASIATIC PETROLEOH CO., (S.S.) LTD., (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.) WELD QUAY, PENANG. ESTABLISHED 1874 THE ORIENTAL Government Security Life Assurance Company Ltd
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    Police Court Cases.
    1304 3 Alleged Attempted Murder. The preliminary enquiry into tbe case against Goh Ki who is charged with the attempted murder of See Moy at Transfer Road on March 18 waß commenced yesterday afternoon before Mr. W. C MichelL Victim's Stobt. See Moy, who described himself as a ricsha
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    Penang Harbour Board.
    538 3 Haiv-Ybablt Rbpokt. We append the report of the Penang Harbour Board for the half-year ended 31st December, 1915, which reads as follows The Board have the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor their Report and Accounts for the half-year ending 31st December,
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    April Rubber Crops.
    110 3 Straits, 147,000 lb., Penang, 141,000 lb., Rubana. 44,000 lb, Tali Ayer, 57,2501 b., Batak Ribt, 19,000 lb„ Bagan Serai, 26,000 lb., Sungei Batu Malaya 15,466 lb., Val D’or 21,000 lb., Kurau 23,300 lb., Malakoff 37,200 lb., Btraiti Settlements (Bertam) 78,000 lb., Windsor (F.M.S.) 20.500 lb., Malakoff Plantations
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      865 3 WANTED IMMEDIATELY COMPETENT CHINESE TYPIST Willing to trawl if required. Good Salary to good man. Headquarters—Medan, Sumatra. Apply in writing to HADOW PINCKNEY, F.M.S Railway Building» jh.I 210. Penang, NOTICE. Mr A. G. Anthony has been admitted Par'n p r in °ur Singapore and Penang firm as from the 1st
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      384 3 I The Egyptian Favourite among those who have sufficient knowledge of the essentials of a perfect Egyptian Cigarette is one or other of the brands known as Bouton Rouge and Felucca Egyptian Cigarettes Until you have smoked them you really have not realised the perfection to which the manufacture of
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    100 4 PvkfifWd daily (except Sondaji ud pwfelis holidays) AT TEI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street Penang. PIZCA Daily Local M 924 por urn m OmUt*tioß. M Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Poat Frao) 917.50 cab lb ADDaaaa: ECHO—PENANG.** Telephone Not. Echo, 58# Printing Department 343 tf AU
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    “SPOTTED FEVER.”
    401 4 Field-Marshal von der Goltz was an elderly man and Asiatic Turkey is not, in the ordinary sense of the word, a very healthy country. So we accepted without suspicion the German report, which reached us from Amsterdam a few days ago, that be had died of spotted fever
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    THE TODDY QUESTION.
    754 4 In endeavouring to grapple in earnest with the toddy question the Planters’ Association of Malaya is wrestling with an evil spirit which has gradually undermined both the moral and physical wellbeiDg of the coolie. Here we have no bogey bred of the imagination of a teetotal fanatic
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    The Legislative Council.
    169 4 Peaasg Vaeaaey Filltg. We hear on good authority that His Excellency the Governor will nominate Mr. John Mitchell, Chairman of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, to fill the vacancy in the Legislative Council caused by the resignation of Mr. Robert Young. The choice will meet with general
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    M. A. P.
    918 4 Sir John Anderson arrived in Ceylon on i April 15. r 1 Mrs. Bartels is out of hospital where she had been an inmate for some time. Mr. M. B. Shelley has returned from leave. He will be stationed at Ipoh Mr. T. K. Radford, of the
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    964 4 Aa Anniversary. A suggestion from infuriated Bcot, mpn that patent medicines should be taxed instead of whisky may remind us that to-di* is the anniversary of the death of Muriioij the “bygeist,” at whose pills Carlyle was wont to scoff. But Morison himself was no quack” in the
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      209 4 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Kt m ttt safe F H. Ayre’s Regulation Badmington Set in strong deal box containing one pair of portable poles net, pegs, lines and runners, and asb mallet with four Badmington bats, d regu lation velvet bottom shuttlecocks and rules
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    THE IRISH TROUBLE.
    638 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. rebel commandoes surrender. London, May 1. II is officially announced that all the Dublin rebel commandoes (commander* P) h»re surrendered. White Fill Raised. London, May 1. The scene at the surrender was most dramatic. The rebels waved the white flag! and the troops
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    Chulsa Rubber Co.
    44 5 TOn Our Own Correepondent.) Kuala Lumpur, May 2. Oottr* e, tooetin of the Chulsa Rubber 1«,. V blcll Wa held at Calcutta it was *u i o 1 at tbe under rubber ,hit tapping was about to ihe prospects were good.
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    THE WESTERN THEATRE.
    625 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. THE BRITISH FRONT. Garnaaa Attacks Repulsed. Paris, May 1. The Germans have suffered heavy defeats I at Verdun. A communique states that they attacked I powerfully at dusk in massed formation against Deadman Hill. Our artillery and machine-gun fire inflicted enormous losses. Every
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    Outside
    164 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2. —The Problem of the Irish Volunteers. 3. —Police Court Cases. Penang Harbour Board. April Rubber Crops. Tin Output. 6—Naval Notes. The Mercantile Bank of India. Germans in Java<- The Week’s Events. Rubber Auction Rubber. Mail Notice. The
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    RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN.
    808 5 (Reuter's Service) Copyright Telegram. ACTIVITY OF THE COSSACKS. Petrograd, May 2. The features of a communique are that j the Germans vainly, attempted to debouch from the trenches south-west of Lake Narotch in the face of our fire. On the front in the direction of Diarbekir the Cossacks
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    NAVAL MISHAP.
    447 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. MINES IN THE.MEDITERRANEAN. London, May 1. His Majesty’s armed yacht Aegusa and the mine sweeper Nasturtium have been sunk by mines in the Mediterranean. All the officers were saved. Six of the Aegusa’s crew and seven of the Nasturtium't are missing. London, May 1
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    Roll of Honour.
    31 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Military Cross has been conferred on Mr. E. Sherlock, formerly of Nova Scotia Estate, and now a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery.
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    M. F. A.
    134 5 Cup Fiaal. At a meeting at Hutton Lane Club, the M.F.A. fixed the Final for Saturday the 13th inst. In accordance with custom, the perimeter of the ground will be divided among the affiliated clnbs, and the contesting sides will be required, as a precaution in view
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    Rubber.
    98 5 Messrs. Boustead Co. inform us that the following is the quotation for Rubber on Spot in London Plantation Ist latex crepe, 3/-f. Lieutenant Doumer, son of M. Paul Doumer, ex-Governor-General of Algeria, (and formerly of Indo-China) has brought down two Fokker aeroplanes. The output of the Menglembu Lode Syndicate,
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    ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH.
    1259 5 EASTER VESTRY MEETING. ybe Easter Vestry meeting of the Bt. I George’s Church was held at the Office of I His Excellency the Governor at noon to-day. There were present the Rt* Mr. Rev. C. J. Ferguson-Davie, Bishop cf Singapore, the Rev. Mr. Greenhow, (Acting Colonial Chaplain),
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    LATE WAR ITEMS.
    634 5 i FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Monday, May 1 3 HOLLAND AND THE WAR. f The “Tubantia" Crime. 3 The German Government has asked for a 3 personal .interview with the director of the Royal Dutch Mail and the
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    Naval Notes.
    960 6 The Mystery of Von Tirfitz. London, April 2. All the efforts—and there have been many—to trace a connection between the retirement of Admiral von Tirpitz and German naral policy, whether’*in esse’’ or in posse,” hare either failed altogether or else proved mutually destructive. Five weeks ago an important
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    Rubber.
    1626 6 In the coarse of an article with this beading in the Mnglith Rovitw Mr. Raymond Radclyffe says: When war broke out rubber shares slumped like everything else. But the Emden was destroyed and our spirits rose. Also, the Uoited States began buying rubber on a grand scale. Brazil was
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    The Tamil Mission Association.
    443 6 The 40th Annual General Meeting of St. George’s Tamil Mission Association was held in St, Andrew’s Chapel on May 2nd, 1916 at 5.30 p.m. Tbe Lord Bishop of Singapore was in the Chair, supported on the platform by tbe Reverend E. N. Greenhow, Reverend D. S.
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    The Mercantile Bank of India, Limited
    1617 6 Annual General Meeting. At the Twenty-third Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Comgany, held at Winchester House, Old Broad treet* London, E.C., on Tuesday, the 4 h day of April, R. J. Black, Esq the Chairman, presided. > The Chairman r Ladies
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    The Week's Events.
    263 6 Wednesday, May 3. Town Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Penang Volunteers. Recruit Drill, Chinese Comp my. Fort Cornwallis, 5.3Q p.m. Recruit Dr.ll, Fort Cornwallis 5.30 p.m. Straits Cinema, Penang Road, 9.15 p.m. The Electric Polyscope Co., Argyll Road, 9.15 p.m. Thursday, May 4. Town Band, Golf Club, 6
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    Germans in Java.
    620 6 The Kell EoaLorrswEiN Case. As Reuter will have informed jou, aT8 the correspondent of the Free Frees in Jara the Governor-Genu ral has been requested to inveatigate the allegations made against the Germans Kail and Ton Egioffstein regarding the inciting of the natives to revolt againet Dutch
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    Penang Rubber Auction.
    80 6 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys and Co. at their Auction Sale yesterday Smoked Ribbed Sheet $159 to $169 Plain $152 $153 No. 2 Smoked Sheet diamond $145 $157 Unsmoked Sheet $l5O $153 No. 2 Unsmoked Sheet $145 $l4B Crepe Fine
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    Mail Notice.
    50 6 To-day. Hole Canton, for Port Swettenham and Singapore, 12.30 p.m. Fooksang, for Singapore, China and Japan, 1.30 p.m. Kutsang for Calcutta, 2.30 p ro. Kedah, for Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson, 2.30 p.m. Flying Dragon, for Port Weld and Taiping, 4 p.m. To-morrow. Malacca, for Tongkah, 12.30 p.ro.
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    April Tin Output.
    29 6 The output of the Deebook Dredging Liability) for April was Dredge. Cubic yards. Hours. Piculs. No. 1. 30,379 517 112 No. 2. 59,322 601 313 425
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      12 6 For Obildren'i Hacking Ooagh at Night. Waoda’ Gnat Pepparmmt Cara, 1«. $<L
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    The Duties of an Officer.
    1303 7 T he Duties of an Officer. KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER. An Address in the Field. The following notes forme l the foundation of on address which was lately d-liveredby a Senior Officer to a Soho >1 for young Officers somewhere in France." We have obtained (says **The Times his reluctant permission
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    India and the War.
    636 7 Sir John Hewett, who has just returned from India, gives an account of his impressions which will be highly interesting to our readers. He bears testimony to the loyalty and devotion of the people of India to the King-Emperor in these trying times, doubly trying to
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    Kinds of Rheumatism.
    171 7 In popular language the word rheumatism is a term which covers a multitude of ills, of which pain is the chief symptom. Articular rheumatism, inflammatory rheumatism, and rheumatic fever are all names for the same disease Muscular rheumatism affects the muscles and doen not spread from one
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