Straits Echo, 6 November 1916

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    34 1 Straits Echo DAIL\ CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. $24 Per /nnom. PENANG, MONDAY, 6th NOVEMBER, 1916. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 260
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      1246 1 «■s; IX tv *'A FOR SALE One new 1916 and 2 second-hand 19J 3 Model IMMOBILE CAES in good running condition. One second-hand two-seater morris oxford In good running order, complete with accessories. Intending purchasers can hive a trial run nnd full particulars obtained from The Georgetown Motor Garage 7\
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      28 2 DRINK L RECOGN irsjtTi MJ, *toS*£> 'Agf OMOISSEURS life *£<» THE *fer' -jiL -JJ$ >M LJ BRAND on the MARKET SOLE AGENTS: (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) LTD., PENANG.
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    A Paris Letter.
    950 3 NO MORE FRANCO-GERMANS. French Aerial Successes. Paris, October 1. The Dtlbiiick law, which conferred upon all nituralised Germans, the right of reenfranchisement as subjects of the Kaiser, is about to receive a nasty jir from France. M. ReDe Viviam’s Bill, which aims at miking French naturalisation impossible
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      1513 3 WAR LOANS INVESTMENT TRUST OF MALAYA. INCORPORATED IN THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES BY ENACTMENT NO. 8 OF 1916.1 CAPITAL $6,00,0000. Issue of Certificates of $10. each fully paid, %T\lHHt G ov!L™ 6 PEB ;7 which together with repayment in full on liquidation is guaranteed by the F.M.S. Government. Interest will
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      177 3 THE KEDAH RUBBER COMPANY, LtJ. (Incorporated in Penang.) NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. Notice is hereby given that a First Interim Dividend of 10% baa been declared by the Directors, on account of the financial year 1916/17, payable on Friday, the 10th November, 1916, to share* holders whose names are on the
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    Ipoh Gymkhana.
    386 4 Ct ncludinq Day’s Results. (From Our Own Correspondent,) Ipob, Not, 5. 1916. Thera was another Tory gocd attendance of members at the Ipoh Gymkhana on Saturday. There was a slight drizzle during the first raca but after that the weather was fine. The going was on the henry
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    Late Mr. Lee Kang Thew.
    448 4 The funeral of the late Mr. Lea Kaog Thew took placa yesterday morning when his remains were removed to Swettenham Pier where the coffin was placed in a Chinese junk and conveyed to Bitu Bawan for interment. The funeral was on a grand scale and
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      485 4 The Worlds Greatest Dust Gatherer. 7! h <*pr /O olmh THE O-CEDAR MOP O-CEDAR MOP Cleans as it Polishes. O-CEDAR MOP. Made with H strong enamelled steel centre, lodestructibl». Cleans ar.d polishes at the same time, i uttiou a high lustre on all var. isbcd surfaces. Ibere is nothing to
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      172 4 The Eastern Produce Exchange 27, Beach Street, at the corner of Beach Street and Church Street Ghaut. CAPITAL $120,000 Auctioneers and Brokers. The Eighty-first Auction Sale WILL BE HELD On Thursday, the 9th November. 1916. Sales or Purchases negotiated by Private Treaty or by Public Auction mnitine Sailers aud Purchasers
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    Brings Sweet Slumber to Nerve-Wrecked People.
    258 5 That old devil, Insomnia, is the gieitest booking agert on earth, The rosult of his never euding labour ia so groat that it required thousands of sanatonums and hundreds of insane asylums to take care of bis bookings’. The ovetflow he sends to prisons,
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    Notable Chinese Wedding.
    1445 5 To celebrate the wedding of their daughter Mias Quah Chooi Hu*b Mr. and Mrs. Quah B*ng K“e yesterday evening entertained thrir European friends at dinner at their residence in Bishop Street Mr. Beng Kee occupies the leading position j among the Chinese community in the public r
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    Penang Assizes.
    286 5 The last session of the Assizes opened this morning in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice L. P. Ebdeu. There were altogether five cases on the calendar. Mr. Yeoh Guan Seok stated he had just received a notification to the effect that he had been assigned by the
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    “Our Day” Red Cross Fund.
    97 5 Nov. 2 By Balance 56,058 25 3 P. K Nambyar 15 00 Proceeds of Moonlight. trip 650.00 Taeng Long Jin Sang Ko in 20/0 Lim Teog Kwin 5.00 Box No. 126Criterion Press Ltd. 2 07 4 R. G. Parker 100.00 F. D. Kenny 50.00 H.
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    Belgian Relief Fund.
    123 5 Oct 13 By Bilanca $3,271.81 Not. 1 "Anonymous” "Minthly” 2J Nov. 4 M. Maude TtohChaow Cheang 2 Total $3,308.81 Nov. 4 By Balance $3,308.84 Amount previously acknowhdgei $27,310./2 T til ...$30,619.56 No organisation has done batter work during the war than the Y.M.C., and many may be
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    Pilgrimage to Mecca.
    446 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. i RETURN OF HOLY CARPET, i A City Improved. London, November 4. The Timet correspondent at Cairo states i that the ceremony of receiving the Holy i Carpet on its return from Meocawas held on Novembar 2. Tbo pirticipmts of the Pilgrimage expressed
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    Rubber Up.
    25 5 Another Rise. (.From Our Own Correspondent.') London, November 4. Tue pricBs in the Llulon Rubber Market to-day werr. Crepe 2/7 Diamond Smoked 2/6f
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    October Rubber Corps.
    325 5 Aver Kuning (F.AJ.S.) 76,250 lb, Bralwall (F.M S.) 47,929 lb, C (F.MS) 60,716 lb, Dennistown (Krun F.M S.) 52,300 lb, Hig'ands and Lowlands 120,756 lb. Klabang 19,807 lb. Krian 26.000 lb, Sungei Krian 66,000 lb, Sungei Way (Selangor) 38,560 lb. A repot t from Peking states that
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      273 5 •OUR DAY. in aid of the red cross fund. NOTICE. rpHE ACCOUNTS of the above will be closed at noon on Saturday, November 11 tli. It »> therefore earnestly requested that all who have not yet sent in their gubscription will do so as soon as possible. bills against the
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      297 5 r V »ISCINJA 4 CIGARETTES By HO Wills. HjM B *i-S7oi r> Lor.oo* adSMM** —JD> J I ~YI :c<& Do you know that each tin contains a coupon and that the coupons will be redeem ed by the British American Tobacco Co. (Straits) Ltd., at Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur and
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    93 6 Published daily (except Sunday! and public holidays) AT THI CRITERION TRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESB ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 (> Printing Department 343 business crramunications should bs addressed
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    THE COUNCIL AND INCOME-TAX.
    1319 6 Saturday’s debate iu the Legislative Council on the financial position of the Colony and the proposed additional contribution to tho cost of the war was for the most part ba r ren and futile. Mr. Darbishire repeated with force the argu meats against fresh taxation with
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    M. A. P.
    865 6 Dr. R. Dan? is granted three months’ leave of absence with full salary from Oct 16. Mr. Pang Ah Pan is appointed a member of the Chinese Advisory Board for Malacca. Lce-Sgt. R M. Richards is appointed Second Lieut, of the Province Wellesley Volunteer Rifles. Mr. R.
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    COLLISON NEAR HOLYHEAD
    628 6 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Haavy Lost of Lif«. mu it tyt November 4 The North Weatern Railway .taamar Connemara, while proceeding to Holyhead collided last night with the steam*’ Retriever. There was only one survivor of the two vessels. It is estimated that 300 perished, Later Details.
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      136 6 FOR* XMAS *1916 N 0 W 0 N S A L E FIRST SHIPMENT OF AND GREETING CARDS AND POST CARDS CALL SEE TB E “HEART-TO-HEART” SERIES Suitable for FRIENDS KINSMEN at the Front. N OJ W 0 N S A L E The FEDERAL RUBBER STAMP Co. Penang, Kuala
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    THE BRITISH EFFORT.
    590 7 (Reuter’s Service). Copyright Telegram. A STRIKING TRIBUTEFrom Gcrmsa War Minister. Amaterdam, November 3. General Stein, the new German Miniater 0 f War, in his stat ment to the Reichstag _"The Kaiser ordered me hither from the Somme battlefield where I learned much, -fbe enemy, especially the British,
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    652 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. THE VICTORY AT VAUX. Further Details. London, November 4, 12*45 a.m. A Paris official announcement states: “On the right of the Meuse, after the capture of Fort Vaux, the infantry continued to advance as far as the outskirts of the village of Vaux to
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    RUMANIA’S CAMPAIGNS.
    605 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. A Frank Report. London, November 4, 125 a.m Tbe Bukharest communique says Oar pursuit in the Vulcan Pass continues, We here captured four more guns and much material of war. There was violent fighting on the whole front in the Roterturra Pass. The enemy
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    THE GREEK CRISIS.
    684 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. OCCUPATION OP EKATERINI. Acute Situation. Salonika, November 4. Tbe Venizehsts occupied Ekaterini because tbe garrisou attempted to prevent tbe passage of a battalion from Verria from joining the National Army at Salonika. Athens, November 4 M, Venizelos is satisfied with tbe practical support
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    THE CARSO VICTORY.
    501 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. AUSTRIAN THIRD LINE REACHED. Htkvy Eaeay Loaaea. Udine, November 3. Prisoners sla*e that the Austrian commanders urgently asked for reinforcements from Rumania. The Austrians hare lost 25,000 men since October 30. Friaoaera T»k»»« London, November 4 An Italian semi-official announcement states that the
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    Tin and Rubber.
    107 7 Latest Quotations, Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at 189 business done, in Singapore (refined) at 189, no sellers, Messrs. Boustead A Co. inform us that the following were the quotations for Rubber on Spot in London on Saturday:— Plantation Ist latex crepe 2/6}. Smoked sheet 2/6}.
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    EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
    431 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Rkolniu Police Aak *4 London, /ember 4. A commun que regarding the operations in East Africa states that the German force* which were dislodged from Tabora had be a endeavouring to break tbreogb to Mthenge ind Somewha. Confused and severe fighting occurnd in the direction
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    Outside.
    134 7 The following articles will bo found on our outside pages:— Pages. 3. —A Paris Litter. 4. —Ipoh Gymkhao*. Lite Mr. Lm Kang Thew, 5. —Notable Chine s e Wedd'nir. Penang Assizes. Our Day Red Cross Fund. Belgian Relief Fund, October Rubber Crops. Telegram*. 8. —Legislative Council. 9. —Legislative Council.
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    LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
    4910 8 THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WAR CONTRIBUTIONS. MR DARBISHIRE S VIEWS CRITICISED. A full meeting of th 6 Legislative Council I was held on Friday, at which there were pre- J ■ent H. E. the Governor (Sir A. H Young, 1 G.C M.G.) the Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. F.
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    PENANG’S MESSAGE.
    2195 8 Unofficial Members Taken to Task. Mr. Adams said he was extremely glad that, on this occasion, be, as a member from the extrema point of the Colony, wag not cal ed upon to voice their views at anv length. (Hw, hoar). They had practically nothing of which to
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    THE GOVERNOR’S REPLY.
    908 9 MllTINQ WISHES OF SlWOAPORE CHAMBER of Commerce. The Governor, in brief reply, in leferenco to the toddy question, •aid that Mr. Niven’s was the first complaint that ho bad heard in the Colonv as regarded the method in which the toddy farm was conducted, though the matter
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    King Albert’s Hospital Fund.
    310 9 We have received from Mr. G.E. WrightMotion the two following letters in acknowledgment of his chequ3 for .£156/5/-, being the proceeds of the entertainment got up by himself and Mrs. Wright-Moticn at tbe Town Hall in April la9t in aid of the King Albert’s Hospital Fund
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    Income Tax Report.
    782 9 The report of the Committee appointed by the Governor to advise as to the lines and details of a Bill to provide for the levying of an income tax in the Colony was laid on the table of Council on Friday. It is piefaced by a letter
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    SINGAPORE COMMENT.
    1243 9 There was laid on tbe table at tbe me t tin; of the Legislative Council on Friday a report bv tha committee appointed to draw up a scheme for an income tax, and its su -gesl ions ctrtamly cannot b 9 considered drastic. They a e in suspense,
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    Clean Your Blood the Right Way.
    195 10 You are not downright ill—but you cer* tainly don’t fool well. Every day you are terribly tired, and sleep doesn’t refresh you You wake up with a headache that lasts all day, your appetite is poor and you are depressed and botbeied by trifles
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    The Colony and the War.
    925 10 [To the Editor or the Straits Echo Sir, Apparently the taiationists are percase imbued with a pensee that the war can only be brought to a close by all the Colonies laying their hands on whatever they can get in orde" to replenish the coffers
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    The Modern Irishman and the Mere Irishman.
    2139 11 The average respectable Irishm&u Bimply wanta to be let alone Hi* great virtue has come to be a kindlj tolerance, and his great ▼ice is closely akin to it, an apathetic acceptance of circumstance as something beyond his control, eften hardening into a
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