Straits Echo, 18 November 1916

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED SALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 14. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, SATURDAY, 18th NOVEMBER, 1916. Single Copy, 10 cents, No 271.
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      1011 1 ft m t'vl V P m ED MATUiii FOR SALE! On* new 1916 and 2 second-hand 1913 Model HUPMOBILE CAES in good running condition. One second-hand two-seater MORRIS OXFORD In good running order complete with accessories. Intending purchasers can have a trial run and lull particulars obtained from The Georgetown
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      11 1 Mujt* B, «"e»israt«r^ if c T«eiui is Sa •s. •ws E
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      22 2 DRINK RECOGNISED BY CONNOISSEURS the LEADING BRAND ON THE MARKET. SOLE AGENTS: KATZ BROTHERS, LTD., I ncorporated in the Straits Settlements.) PENANG.
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    An Old Story.
    1209 3 And A Modern Parallel.. There ia a striking parallel between an old Greek story as told by Tbucydidea and a 14 modern instance, which it is really interesting to notice in these troublous times It ia the parallel between the atory of Melos, 416 years B.C, and
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    Crown Colonies & Man-Power
    692 3 Crown Colonies Man-Power It is right, opces the Free Pres*, that the question of getting possible recruits from the Crown CjloDies should receive a 9 careful consideration as the raising of men at borne but from a practiccl point of view, (hit s to say eliminating all thought of putting
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      542 3 MOTOR CAR Tbe Cheapest and most economical 2 Seater In ike Market. ♦n* ♦n* Fitted with Electri Lights Electric Starter, 3 tpeed Gate change and Beat Magneto. For firther particulars and tiial run Please apply to the Agents SEASON CO.. LIGHT STREETS’ KING STREET j Straits Settlements War jjjj Loan
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      297 3 ©♦♦♦oooooooooooooooooooooooow* o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o JUST UNPACKED. CHEAP ASD RELIABLE 1916 NEW MODEL MOTOR CARS. EMPIRE 5 passenger Touring. BRISCOE 5 passenger Touring. HUPMOBILE do. SAXON 2 setter DODGE BROTHER 5 passenger Ter due to arrive by the
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    Malaya and the Empire.
    1053 4 We wish to commend very warmly one brief sentence in tbe address delivered by Sir Arthur Young «8 High Commissioner if the Federated Malay States. Until peace is secured,” he said, all the resources of tbe British Empire must be carefully husbanded I to meet any
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    PENANG TURF CLUB. New Year Meeting, 1917.
    969 4 PROPOSED PROGRAMME. (Under S. R, A Rules of Racing.! NOTICE.—No amendments to this programme will be considered nnlesg due notice is given in writing to the Secretary at least seven dee days before the date of the Special General Meeting which t| fixed
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      321 4 New Stock Just Arrived. List No 8338 Ladies' White Canvas Tennis Lacing Shoe. With red rubber sole. $2-95 PER PAIR. B42 Ladies’ Black Glace Kid One Bar Shoe. With white buckle. $7-95 PER PAIR. 8337 Ladies' White Canvas Tennis Bar Shoe. Red rubber sole as per illustration. $2-95 PER PAIR.
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      46 4 Chamberlain's Pain Balm 1 here ;s nothing so good for muscular rheumatism, sprains, lameness, cramps of eth musc.es, bruises and like injuries as Chamberlain s Pam Balm. It will effect a cure in less time than any other treatment. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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      385 4 •5 p.m. on Friday, 5th January, 1917. Handicaps for the First Day will be published on or before Wednesday, the 10th Entries Close at January, 1917. Any owners wishing to enter for more than one Griffin Race, on the First or Second l>ay, can do so on payment of $10
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    Adversaria.
    1613 5 (Bx Ton Wutii). Cod script ion or no conscription—that it the question of the day in Australia, and a Tory Taxed issue it is* Them wee lees fuaa m the Old Country, where, by the way, the proposal was more thorough-going. Here, they propoee to conscript only sufficient men
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    Chinese for Mounition-Making.
    253 5 Chinese for MounitionMaking. How. Mr. Err Tone San’» Oiwir. At tbe Federal Council meeting on Thursday afternoon in Kuala Lumpur, after the Supply Bill f>r 1917 had been passed voting a total expenditure cf 146,533,338, a very interesting and generoes < ffer was made by the Hon. Mr. Eu Tong
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    Singapore Rubber Auction.
    99 5 Singapore, November 18 At the Singapore Rubber Auction 378 tons were sold at the following prices per ptcsl Smoked SbeeU »}3B to »141 Good 126 to 136 Ussmoked ™Jo 131 Fine Plain o }25 Crepes 144 to 146 Good 335 to 143 Blanket good pale 132 to
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      575 5 wanted immediately. TYPIST— good *1*7 pomfon-aone but Boi No. 1#. efo Strait* Echo .',97 r..O BUT i-cood h«id typewriter, fool.Mp T m<d.L Muid b-. m good wcrkiogt order. 5 W HI NO WOH THONO, 69, Market Road, TsipiogVI'^ ELL liKhted airy premw, suitable V V for office or warehouse, el*>etrie
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      382 5 TURKISH BLEND. r A particularly good cigarette at a very moderate price. GOLD. PLAIN AND STRAW TIPPbD. Packed in Air Tight Tins. i ALL DEALERS. )0OOOO98@@BO@@®e9(3@6@OOOO0 The Eastern Produce Exchange 27. B:ach Street, at the comer of Beach Street and Church Street Ghaut. CAPITAL $120,000 Auctioneers Brokers. The Eighty-fourth Auction
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    101 6 PlbHsbftd daily (except Sunday» and public y> holiday») AT TIB OBITERION PRESS, Ltd. tfo. 59, Beach Street, Fenang. Price. 1 Daily Local 124 per annum. Ontatation... Postage Extra. Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS «ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 |t Printing Department 343 ff g —All bulines*
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    YOUTH AND THE WAR
    1458 6 We Bpeak to-day more particularly to the younger generation. We would have them realiae to the full what the events of to-day mean to them. Death, it has b3en said, is the greatest and most beautiful of adveu* tures, and war makes us think of it
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    M. A. P.
    942 6 Mr. M. K. Whitlock returned from leave at Home this morning by the i.s Nankin- Dr. W. N. Bright and Mrs. Bright re- j turned this morning from Home by the j s.s, Nankin. < Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Voules ara among tho passengers booked for
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1017 6 Crime is the F.M.S. Figuies talk even more eloquently than High Commissioners and if one of our F.M.S. contemporaries will obtain and put,, lish statistics for the last five years showing the number of cases of murder and homicide and the convictions obtained the public will be able
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      156 6 JOHNSON’S SHAVING CREAM SOAP IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES. Very convenient for Travelling, Produces a smooth creamy lather that does not dry. EX O. Price 55 cts. per tube. A delicate deodorant for destroying the Odour of Perspiration and keeping the body sweet. IN COLLAPSIBLE TUBES 50 cents. EUTHAZEL TOILET PETOL SALVE.
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    CAMPAIGN IN RUMANIA.
    766 7 (Reuter's Service). Copyright Telegram. THE situation. Expert Commeat. London, November 17. nilitwy «pat, ooromontiDf! on the rum,*., KuteioiftD tad Oerm.a common, nai point, oat that the German heavy i which hid long bren delayed in b0 miantains. are now in action in the «H.J above KimpoloDR. But
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    IN MACEDONIA.
    603 7 (Reuter's Service), Copyright Telegram. ON THE STKUMA. BrHitk Advance. London, November 17, 6.35. A British communique from Salonika states that, after artillery preparation on the Struma, we attacked and captured Barakli and again drove the enemy out of Prosenik and Kumli, We are now consolidating our gains. Our
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    593 7 (Reuter’s Set vice). Copyright Telegram. GENERAL HAIG’S REPORT. Strong Enemy Counter-Attack. London, November 17. General Haig reports A.» the result of the operations on Thursday we extended our front from Beaucourt eastward along the north bank of the Ancre. A strong counter-attack in the afternoon forced us to
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    London Rubber Market.
    26 7 {From Our Own Correspondent London, Novemtar 18. The prices in the London Rubber Marke today were i Pale Crepe 2/7 i Diamond Smoked
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    105 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Tke Wsr it tke Air. London, Nov. 17, 4.35 p.m. The Paris communique says i There was relative calm on the whole front. Two enemy aeroplanes were shot down in our lines and the aviators made prisoners. There were four air-fights in the Amiens
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    Oriental Studies.
    342 7 The appeal for funds on behalf of the School of Oriental Studies in London, which was discontinued shortly after the outbreik of war, has been reopened. To wait until after the war may be to have it too late the school wants to b 9 an entity and
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    Theft in a Dwelling.
    401 7 Two Tamils Charged. Before Mr. J. C. Sugars in the District Court this morning Sami Chetty and Vetty- velu Chetty pleaded guilty to theft iu a dwelling house of cash to the amount of $1,200 and jewellery to the amount of $393, total value $1,593, the
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    THE FOOD PROBLEM.
    674 7 (Reuter's Service). Copyright Telegram. PUBLIC AND THE PROPOSALS. Relief ttd Gratitude. London, November 17. Mr. Runcitmn’s proposals for regulating the nation’s food supply still constitute the topic of the hour. The newspaper comments are unanimous in describing the public feeling as one akin to relief and thankfulness,
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    Outside.
    79 7 The following articles will be found on 1 our outside pages:— Pages. 3. An Old Story. Crown Colonies and Man-Power. 4. —Malaya and the Empire. 5. —Adverseria. Chinese for MunitionMaking. Singapore Rubber Auction. g—War News and Gossip. Passangera to the Straits. Church Services. Exports of Penang. Free School Boy
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    Tin.
    38 7 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $9O 90, buyers no sellers, in Singapjre (rtfioed) at $91.50, business doce (100 tons sold) and in London at .£lBB 15s. spot and .£l9O ss. three months’ sight.
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    SEH YEOH KONGSI CASE.
    1002 7 Committkd roK Trial. The preliminary erquiry into tho case Rgaimt Y«soh B>on Teao, a trustee of the S»b Yeoh Kocgs*. who is being charged with criminal breach of trust as a servant in respect of certain sums of the Kongsi’s funds wis resumed in the D.strict
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    Free School Boy Scouts.
    911 8 INSVBCTIOW ASD DIfFLAT. 0 jlooel the Hod. A. R Adams, I Chairman of the Penang Local Association of Boj Scouts, inspected the Free School Troop yesterday evening at 5.30 He was met at the Bchool entrance by the L Headmaster of the Free Bchool (Mr. R
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    To-night’s Band Programme.
    84 8 The following pr»>gramme of music will be pissed at the Golf Club this evening iroui 5.45 p m to 7 15 p.m.: 1 Overture Poet and Peasant Suppe 2 Liocers Top O’ the Morniog Williams 3 Selection The Eirl and the Girl Caryll 4 Waltz Incognita Fracklin
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    War News and Gossip.
    2332 8 War News a nd Gossip. Rumajtlas Campbx«*«(From Char Own Oorretpondmt^ London, October 10 Qe-many is going to make a terrible example of our gallant little Ally-Rumama if she can. That well-chosen tool, Von Fa'ken bay d, has accumulated a f jrmidutole end well supplied army to essay the task and
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    St. George* a Church, Penang
    457 8 22wd Scxdat aitmb Teixitt. 8-00 aan. Matiiis, 8 30 a.mu Holy Communion. 1.0 00 a.m Holy Commnnion (Tamil). 10-45 a.m. Baptism U-00a,m. Matins (Chinese). 5- p.m. Sunday School. 6- p.m. Evensong. Hymn 161. Responses Roberts. Psalm 98 Parratt. 99 Jt 100 C^oke. 101 Brewer. Magnificat
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    Passengers, to the Straits.
    295 8 Per P. and O steamer Msoftan. From London Oet 27 —T* Singapore: Mis. f Grant, Mr. McQuarrie, Dr. Dent, Rev. H. Hillier, Mr. Stswsn. Mr. Eenrie, Mr. Hucbison. Hon. Ck-H* 8‘nufcAMr. McNeill, Mr. Armstrong, Min Guthrie and child, Mrs. Clifford and 2 children, Mr. Fraser, Et.
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    The Week’s Events
    548 8 Saturday, Notbwbnb 18. Our Day Concert, Taiping. F. M. S. Chamber of Mines, General Meeting. Sunday, Notembbr 19. Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity. P, V- Field Operations, Mowoay, NovßMnnn 20. Ipoh Gjmkhaou Club. Settling Day. Tuubdat, Novwmbbb 21. Penang Volunteers—Battalion Drill, Ran»- Course 5,15 p.m. Recruit Drill, Chines*
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    Exports of Penang.
    56 8 The following were the exporta of Penaog for tbnffffi half of the month of November i To Uurrun Kivodom. Tin 378 tons Tapioca (flOu*> 75 (pearl) 400 Copra 50 Rubber 293 To U.S. A vearcA. Tin m 860 tons Tapioca (pearl) 104 Rubber €5 TO Cowttk wnt
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      66 8 I Sfc*’p attacki of ooHc are very prevalent ia tbi» trying climate, and it ia well to know whit should be taken to overcome the trouble. Here ii the knowledge to act on Get a bottle of view mut nmiKUT con and take a teaapoonful every three hour* Speedy relief
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      518 8 Harsh Purgatives, Salts and Castor Oil, are old fmhiott* ad remedies moss drastic than safa. BEEm the tinv laxatives ensure the same roefdte, but in a perfectly natural manner. They do not upset the etomaoh, nor gripe, but gently assist nature. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial or post free
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    Income Tax.
    506 9 [To the Editor ov the Malay Mail.] connection with the suggested income tax, there would appear to be one or two points wbidh, though obvious, have not yet been mentioned. I may say, here, that I am one of these who will have to pay, but my object
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    Company Taxation.
    463 9 Toe Kimpong Kamuntiog Tin Dredging 1 Company is registered in Austral a. Rer oently it has held two meetings for the purpose of authorising liquidation in order to form itself into a company registered in the Federated Malay States. The circu1 lar letter gives the following interesting 1
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    Education in the F. M. S.
    430 9 There has been recently pissed in Perak a Malay School attendance enactment on the lines of those in force in other States, which imposes upon parents the duty of seeing that their children attend school at least half of the available school days. This
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      231 9 Necessity is the Mother of Invention. TIAD* COAGULATEX MARK “A Boon and a Blessing to Planters. «rOAOULATEX a recently discovered process for coagulating rubber Las already got firm hold of the market—this speaks for itself. Those using Coagulate* once will use no \?l" coagulant —Planters’ testimonials as to it* superior
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      123 9 FOR SALE CHEAP. EMPTY OIL DRUMS in zo d condition. Capacity 44 gallon* For particulars and price apply to CHUAH CHENO KEAT. 71, Penang Street. The only European Bar AND Restaurant in Penang. Owing to increase in the Catering Department a new Dining-room (separate from the Bar) has been opened.
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    The Johore Pilgrimage.
    999 10 Not Tory long sgo atteution was drawa in thes« columns to the. scandal of public gatnbling in J jhore, wlrcb has be j n the t >pic of conversation and comment for many months. The pilgrimage to Jobore of a noisy crowd each morning, has caused a
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    The Battle of Jutland.
    1052 10 A Neutral Opinion. The Bangkok Timet prints a translation of an interesting article on the Battle of Jutland published in the Journal of the Royal Navy League of Siam. We reproduce the author s conclusions With regard to the Battle of Jutland, I regret to say
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      59 10 It Never Fail*. Chamberlain’* Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is all its Dame implies. It cures diarrhoea and dysentery in either cbil> dren or adu It*, md the moit violent cares of cramp colic or pun iu the stomach give war to a few dotes of this medicine Safe, aure
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      364 10 Huttenkch Bros. 8 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: All kinds of ELECTRICAL MACHINERY. Free Estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations a Speciality. AGENTS FOR: HE STEELING TELEPHONE GO., LIE. Large Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations can be Started
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    The Commercial Methods of Germany.
    1506 11 Bt L. Romibb < The commercial system which is known as 1 Damping,” and which consists in having < two selling prices for the same goods, a 1 normal price for the home market or for the foreign markets already monopolised, and a very low
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      369 11 SANITAs CREOLEUM Protects, Preserves Beautifies all WOODWORK, from the ravages of Weather, Inseet fungoid Life. r n mt > .V /7/. -r»~— 1 ■*w Supplied in Drums Barrels J| Light, Medium Dark So/e Agents ior Penang, Federated Malay States. Sumatra St Java Gif. Slot &Co„ Penang. Wl >- < h
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      210 11 You ca in do it yourself. fi If you know ar y one who suffers, if you f suffer yourself in the relentless grip of I rheumatism, if you pints are stiff or swollen, your muscles weakened, or your c limbs drawn out of shape, if you sufbr from headache,
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      704 11 THE ORIENTAL Government Security Life Assurance Company Ltd. lacor»«r*tc4 ia ladia. BRANCH OFFICE. SINGAPORE. J. R. Ma.cphbr.Bon, Secretary B.S. and FM.B. Total Assets exceed $28,000,000 Claimi Paid »26,000,000 LOW RATES. LIBERAL CONMTIONS. Apply for Prospectus etc. to Lim Eu Toh, Merchant, 158, Beach or Street, feanang. The Branch Secretary, 23
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      1552 12 < P. O.—B. I. AND APCAR LINE (Ixoobpobatbd ik Ebglaxd.) Mail and Paw PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. MAIL SERVICE. nmtvard (for EttfODC.) OtttWifd (for CiiM Iht JipmJ KONINKLIJKE PAKETYAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. (ROYAL PACKET S. N. COMPANY.) (IXOOBPOBATBD IX HOLLAND-) Fob Lxtbxdbd to Sail. Langaa, Telok Semawe, 8egli, Olehleh, 18th November 8abang,
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