Straits Echo, 11 April 1917
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Title Section35 1917-04-11 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 15. $24 Per /nnum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, nth APRIL, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents, No. 82.35 words
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Advertisement1025 1917-04-11 1 NTIi Jk V The Georgetown Motor Garage BANKS. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. 7a, Penang Road. ini Address: Hokim'eik, Ponang. 'Phone No. 694. pOR SALE. COMMONWEALTH PA RTIN-PALMER MOTOR CARS 1917 MODEL. Oeo 6-pasßonger Touring Car. Two 2 Roadster. A car that matches every automobile desire at a1,025 words
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Article1556 1917-04-11 2 War and the Future.” By H. G. Wells. (Cassell.) 6s. net. Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart knows no rest till it rests in Thee.” It is strange that this famous sentence of Augustine should come vivilly to our minds on readiog a1,556 words
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Article430 1917-04-11 2 Officialvt Forbidden. Tsinan, March 23 This city was quite stirred recent]» a proclamation cf the Governor 0 f Province, a summary of which below Wa The bad Custom of the binding feet in China has been 0 f standing, but our people did not f°!? realise its430 words
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Advertisement242 1917-04-11 2 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. i A Few Great Artistes who Xing and Flay exclusively for His Master’s Voice. Mli m m. J 1 V> V, *5 F? > r»» We have great pleasure in announcing that wq have secured the Sole Agency for Penang of HIS MASTER’S VOICE GRAMAPMGNES RECORDS Thus enabling242 words
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Advertisement92 1917-04-11 2 The Forty Year Tes*. An article must have exceptional merit to survive for a period of forty years, Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy was first offered to the public in 1872 From a small beginning it has grown in favor and popularity until it bas attained a world wide reputation. You will92 words
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Advertisement56 1917-04-11 2 JUST ARRIVED THREE tm a Famous Humber X u a n Motor Cycles New Flat-Twin-Opposed-Cylinders h,p. t 3 Speed, Chain drive. PRICE STSO nett. Without Horn and Lamp. LEAFLETS ON APPLICATION. a a ik Sole Agents tor S.S. 0» F.M.S. GOH TAIK CHEE S 24, Btach Street 81 Church Street,56 words
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Article475 1917-04-11 3 Training Notes There was a considerable increase on Saturday moruiDg in Ibe Dumber of those who are attending the tr&iciog and the mom* me Wig in tTdry way favourable for work. Tatre have beeu no times” to rrcord, iut most of the hoisos wc.re extendtd from the five475 words
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Article395 1917-04-11 3 The late Mr. Charles Alfred Waller, whose death was reportid yesterday, was the elded son of Mr Henry Inet Waihr, well known in China in the seventies and eighties and was lorn in Shanghai in 1872. He was st nt for Lis early education to Sr.395 words
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Article82 1917-04-11 3 At the Eastern Produce Exchange Auction yesterday the following prices were obtained Diamond Smoked Good from $154 to $l6O Diamond Unsmoked 118 to 135 Plain Un&moked 107 to 123 Brown Crepe Dark 81 50,825 lb. of rubber were offered and 39,757 lb. were.sold. The Koelnische Zeitung, quoting82 words
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Article330 1917-04-11 3 FIRST GENERAL MEETING. Prosperous New Property. The first ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Parit Perak Rubber Company Limited was held at the Chamber of Commerce to-day. There were present Messrs H. Waugh, W. E. Cleaver, G. N S*ye, F C. Marples, C, T. Johnson,330 words
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Article186 1917-04-11 3 Between England and Siam, The following message of goodwill was, says a Bangkok contemporary, received by His Majsety the King from the King of Great Britain and Ireland on New Year’s Day. 1 st April. His M<je6ty the King of Siam, Bangkok. On the occasion of186 words
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106 1917-04-11 3 The General Idea fpr the operations on Saturday, the 14th inst is as follows: Information has been received that the enemy (consisting of "C Coy and Cadets —each man to represent 2 in number) has seised Jelutong Police Station and is making preparation to attack the106 words
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Article222 1917-04-11 3 Alma 22,000 lb, Bukit Toh Alang 13 522 lb, Shanghai Klebang 8,243 lb, Kota Bahroe 40,918 Ib, SuDgei Duri 12 9301 b, Cbemor United 16 944 lb, Cluny 17.125 lb, Kinta Kellas 45.491 lb, Klian K«llas 6,364 lb, TaDjong Pau 8,519 lb, Old Kellas 18,670 lb, Kuala222 words
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Advertisement250 1917-04-11 3 NEW BEER-ARRIVAL quart and pint bottles. v.'k ?A S.' 9 Sole Importers TRADING SOCIETY “DELI-ATJBH” (Incorporated in Holland) 49, Beach Street* Penan?. ■'VCV wonderful Tonic and Mouth Refreshen mm As a digestive, it it unequalled tod will not disturb tho (unctions of the most delicate stomach. Ite antiseptic properties render250 words
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Advertisement349 1917-04-11 3 LAMBERT and BUTLER i<£a DR Bfe. STned •••^•Q#a#a#n#a##n@n#n#n#a©n### Wap! Wap!! 2 ON LAND AND ON*’SEA n e a 0 n n n n n n a n n n a '1 HE Electric Polyscope PRESENT 1 THE GREATEST NAVAL FILM, Secured at an enormous expense, AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE, ARGYLL349 words
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Article, Illustration96 1917-04-11 4 FmhliiW daily (except Snndaja and public holidays) AT THS CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. M*. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Paic*. > j |l< Duty Local m $24 per annum. OvUtatkm... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 All business96 words
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Article941 1917-04-11 4 A Dutch reader, thankng us for the Random Note in wh ch we referred yesterday to the difficulties of Holland’s position, remarks that if tin Dutch Government permitted Biitish armed merchantmen to use its ports it might experience difficulty iu preventing the Germans from using Dutch waterways941 words
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Article1326 1917-04-11 4 The British thrust in the West looks like the real thing and the enemy’s forward defences on a wide front have been reduced and Dearly ten thousand prisoners captured. From L>ns to Si Q lentin, which is roughly the width ot the breach we have made in1,326 words
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Article942 1917-04-11 4 Wo much regret to learn that Mrs A. B Voules is ill in Hospital. General Gouraud, replaced by General Liautey, as Resident General c f Mjrocco has received a command at the front. Mr. R. St. Q Sproule, late of Sungej Gettah Estate, Starling, is going h<942 words
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Advertisement134 1917-04-11 4 If you require a really reliable IVIotor* Cycle for pleasure or business, you cannot do better than ride a “Torpedo” Two-stroke. Only high-class workmanship and materials used in its construction, it is indeed the most economical Motor Cycle in existence. Fitted with heavy Dunlop Tyres, Lamp Generator and Horn, luflator134 words
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Article1930 1917-04-11 5 BRITIS H VICTORY. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] tfN thousand PRISONERS. TEN /mPOHTANT CAPfURts. sir D u*!»' Hail'» «'P 3 London, April 10, 1 ».m. i C n Illi reports 1 coDtinoe .ucoesstally L „.h p' al< Oar troops every .lorewd tie «IsfeDcas from < ba,a .C iim to lbs southern outskirts ttubelle1,930 words
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Article564 1917-04-11 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Further LeiisUtioi. Leaden, April 10. A telegram from Washington states that the Democratic leaders on ApHl 12 will introduce into the Hiuse of Representatives a five-billion dollars bond measure, comprising three billion dollars for th 9 Allies and the remainder for the United Stages as564 words
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Article25 1917-04-11 5 (ivon* Our Own Correspondent London, April 10. The prices in the London Rubber Marke' to-day were: Pale Crepe 3/If Diamond Smoked 3/1^25 words
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Article502 1917-04-11 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] TURKS’ CONVERGING MOVEMENT. Russians Held Up. London, April 10. An official announcement regarding the operations in Mesopotamia stat s that the Turks who were reported on April 6 as retiring to Kifri are now contemplating a converging movement in conjunction with the Turks on the left502 words
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Article25 1917-04-11 5 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to dry at $101.50, business done, and in S (refined) at $lO2, business dme (150 tons sold).25 words
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Article103 1917-04-11 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pages. 2. —Mr. Wells’s Lay Sermon. Footbinding in Shantuug. 3, —Singapore Ricis. Late Mr. C. A. Waller. Parit Perak Rubber. Exchange of Royal Courtesies. Penang Volunteers Field Operations. Eastern Produce Exchange. March Rubber Crops. A. Week’s Warring. France and103 words
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Article921 1917-04-11 5 Great Book. M r Britling Sei It Through” is a great book, compounded of sound, honest thinking and sound, honest craftsmanship. It is 6otEe'hing to the credit of the British reading public that a novel of this description should already have reached its 65th thousand. Saul Amorg Tkt921 words
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Article174 1917-04-11 6 The muscles of the Vacfe do the heavy work of the body. When they are overwoiked or ill-nourished they ache and people begin to worry needlessly about their kidneys, Backache may be due to lumbago, which is rheumatism of the muscles of the back, but more backaches are174 words
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Article830 1917-04-11 6 Skmi Official Review. Tue following ctbles wa-j c in :iuuie*Ud to the Bangkok papeis by the Biitish j Legation: The Front in France. London, March 30. During the week steady progress has been made at various points on ttie western front. The enemy’s efforts to arrest tbe830 words
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Article865 1917-04-11 6 The Rhine Frontier. From an article by D.. Holland Rose in the Nineteenth Century it would seem that t a demand lor tbe Rhine as a frontier is making itself heard in France, although at present it is coi fined more or less to a group865 words
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Article59 1917-04-11 6 Wednesday, April 11. Town Band Esplanade. Friday, April 13 Town Band. Esplanade. Hindu New Year Commonces. Saturday, April 14. Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association, A.G.M. Chamber'of Commerce, 11 am, Penang Volunteers, Field Operations. Sunday, April 15. Ist After Easter. Monday, April 16. Town Band. Esplanade. Tuesday, April 17.59 words
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Article1015 1917-04-11 6 A hundred years ago China had no neighbours. She had dependents and tributary states. The most civilized nations of tbe West were to her but outer barbarians, not only in fact but in name. It took several foreign naval and military expeditions f to strike the1,015 words
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Article1150 1917-04-11 6 ('From th 9 Straits Echo of April 11, 1913,) t Perhaps the most important question discussed in the Home.papers to Dand by this week’s mail is Mr. Asquith a declara- tion in the House of Commons that. Great 1 Britain is under no obligation to seed1,150 words
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682 1917-04-11 6 The legal and, iede d, the pditied importance of the applications made hy two Irish rebels who are now in Lewes Prison for writs of habeas corpus abundantly justified Lord Reading in constituting a Court of seven Judges to hear the case argued.682 words
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Advertisement598 1917-04-11 6 NOTICE I the undersigned hereby give notice that I have on the 4th day of April, 1917, ■old my interest and responsibility in the firm or Chop Hong Bee to Oog Leong Gan, and that from that date I shall not be responsible for any debts or loss incurred by598 words
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Advertisement49 1917-04-11 6 Serves the Whole Family, The fame of Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy is worl 1 wide It is good for the deep seated cough of the i dult or the croup and whooping cough of the children. The same bottle serves the who'e family. For Mile by all dispensaries and dealers.49 words
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Advertisement79 1917-04-11 6 Good at tides recommend themselves their value causes the public to ask for them and not be satisfied with a substitute. That is why WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CORE has so increased in favour during the 20 years and dm re it has sold. It is a medicine put foiward as79 words
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Advertisement12 1917-04-11 6 For Children’s Hacking Comgb at Night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Care, Is. 6d,12 words
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Advertisement36 1917-04-11 6 I PINKETTES clear the complex I and sweeten the breath. ion laxative* act no griping SO cents per pkUl at your druggist's or direct by mail oa receipt of pries from DR. WILLIAMS' MEDICINE COMPANY. SINGAPORE.36 words
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Article1052 1917-04-11 7 Thk Work They are Doing. Perhaps no organisation of women not directly connected with the war has done more good work since its beginning than the Women's Police Service The spirits of old-fashionedness, if such there be, must have opened wide their eyes when they first saw the little1,052 words
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Advertisement193 1917-04-11 7 SUPERIOR TO ALL.” LIBBY’S Soups-Tomato-Oxtail-Mock Turtle. FRESH STOCKS HAVE NOW ARRIVED CAN BE OBTAINED FROM Messrs. TONG J00 Co., CHONG KEE Co., HOONG KEE Co., AND ALL OTHER STORES AND GROCERS. Every tin of Libby’s goods consists of pure food products passed by the American Board of Agriculture. SOLE IMPORTERS:193 words
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Advertisement50 1917-04-11 7 Bowel Complaint in Children. During the Bummer months child en are subject to disorders of the bowels and should receive the most careful attention. As soon as any unnatural loesene-s of the bowels is noticed Chamberlain’s Colic, Choleri and Diarrhoea Remedy should be given. For sale by all dispensaries and50 words
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Advertisement517 1917-04-11 7 THE BEST ADVICE. To give to a person suffering from Head» iche or Neuralgia is to use a remedy that will iive instant relief—Like a touch of the W zard’s wand Little’» Oriental Balm acts on these painful disorders. The effects are simply marvellous. One application and cbe puin subsides517 words
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936 1917-04-11 8 Premium bonds are on the way. Mr, Bmar Law has no rooted objection to them, and they appeal to one of man’s fundamental ambition3 —his desire to Ret Sumetniog for nothing; a desire which creates the sportsman and disgusts the moralist. The premium bonds will936 words
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Advertisement563 1917-04-11 8 V L N e 'As y m f sh. i* < j r a Specially B£lTCaKirc*& :sJ OUGHENED MANUFACTURED BY W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND) LONDON. (OF CABLE .FAME) TRY THEM. G. H. SLOT Co PENANG. SOLE AGENTS FOR PENANG, PERAK KEDAH. THE EASTERN PRODUCE563 words
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Advertisement62 1917-04-11 8 MARTIN'S ,&STEEI* Ifo7 Ladies! PILLS A rrench Remedy for all Irregularities. Thousands o' Ladies keep bo* of Martin's Pills in the house, so that on the firs sian ol any Irregularity of the System timely dose may b« administered. Those wins use them recommend them, hence ttieri enormous sale. At62 words
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Advertisement253 1917-04-11 8 I FEDERAL LORRIES Powerful! Every FEDERAL lorry has plenty of reserve power to handle the hardest haulage problem No expense has been spared to make tho FEDERAL the best built motor truck. FEDERALS are built in a factory that specializes in the manu facture of lorries. Years of experience and253 words
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Article1481 1917-04-11 9 VIEWS OP HOLL\ND, SWEDEN, AND BPAIN. Growing Indignation One of Germany’s objects in starting the unrestricted submarine warfare was to bring such pressure to bear on neutrals by injuring their trade and cutting off their supplies as to compel them to support her demand for peace negotiations,1,481 words
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Advertisement250 1917-04-11 9 I WHCRe AVON TYR€S ARC MADC. JK! '+i \WIw r* m \-M tw V Pc 'ATii >e*. ,m l TV X \Ni -V.J» 3$ AS J T* t'n J** > c 0«fl in W.: >TT' if1$ > Ekißag 4<^ 1 ’MsA am. l&L </L V,' /A ■Si 7^iibk\ rks yen250 words
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Advertisement375 1917-04-11 9 Iniltkl Relief for BILIOUSNESS aid other Liver Troubles. The astonishing efficacy of Dr. Cassell’s lastant Belief is due to its toning effect upon the liver and bowels. It gives strength to the organs and helps them back to health and natural action. In other words, it enables the system to375 words
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Advertisement1436 1917-04-11 10 P. o.—British India AND APCAR LINE (Companies Incorporate» in England.) Mail and Passenger Services. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (under contract with his majesty's government) For Singapore, China, Japan, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Porta and London. MAIL LINES. Homeward (for Europe.) Outward (for China.) INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERVICE. Tke [lntermediate1,436 words
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