Straits Echo, 26 April 1917

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    36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. I VOL- IS. $24 Per /nnum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 26th APRIL, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 98.
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      1057 1 rs Y-> LU tvl\ V A Aim mm A~ AliM* 'IK The Georgetown Motor Garage 7a, Penang Road. Tel. Address s Hokimteik. Penang. ’Phone No. 694. pOR SALE. COMMONWEALTH PAKTIN-PALMER MOTOR CARS 1917 MODEL. One 6-passeDger Touring Car. Two 2 Roadster. A car that matches everj automobile desire at a
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    Sweden and the War.
    563 3 It would be interesting to know what it costli nations to beep out of this war. Neutrality,-we suspect, is only slightly less costly than belligerency, Scandinavia in particular having to pay dearly for the attitude she is determined to adopt and we trust wid be able
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    The Star-Spangled Banner.
    344 3 The Star Spangled Banner,” which Sir Henry Wood specially orchestrated for a recent concert at Queen’s Hall, is now recognised by the naval and military authorities of the United States as the official anthem, members of both services' being ordered to stand at attention while it is
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      123 3 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx “STELASTIC” TYRES The only Tyres holding the R.A.C. certificate for 5,000 miles without cuts or punctures. BRITISH AND MADE IX BRITAIN. r fl fhik Agents for Penang: The Eastern Pacific Trading Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) i [XXXXXMXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ASK FOR m Ji t ĕ iZ >* •-3
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      230 3 l a I a i a a I IB a i I i a a a ii a a a m 1 STONE ”1 a THE TYRE} That Satisfies^ First on the Road “Last off the Rim’’ 1 AGENTS a a i I THE WATERHOUSE Co.. Ltd. (INCORPORATED IN THE
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    Perak Man-Power.
    682 4 List of Certificates Granted The Advisory Committee —the Hon. Mr-. W, George Mai we 1 (Chairman), Messrs* G. Gordon Brown and J. H. Rich (Civilian Members) and Capt J C Moulton (Military Member) met at the Ipoh Residency on Monday. A suggestion by Mr. H Lloyd Cowdy that
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    415 4 i Per P. and O. ss. From London.—To Singapore Mrs. Hendgeler, Mr. Wanstedd. s Mr. Hughe?, Mr. Bussell, Mr. Moorcroft, Mrp. Bull, Mr. Burshell, Mr. Tftorbu-n, To Penang Mrs. and Mr. Crabb Watt, Mr Go:dricb, Mr. Jones, Mr. Brown, Mr. j Pinckney. Per P. and O.
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    Municipal Commission
    236 4 Official Minutes. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commiesiopprs held on Wednesday the 11th April, 1917. Present W. Peel (Prtrident). F. Duxburv, E-q. A. F. Goodrich, E f q. Yeoh Goan Sfok, E q. Quah Beng Kee, Esq. Che« Wor Lok, Esq. A. M, Goodman, E-q. 1.
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      560 4 ALL STYLES AND PRICES IN TOWEL?. <ji\LD Uu c **>. r?kJ »4 V f V Hemstitched Turkish TOWELS. SupoTf-lU qmlity extra h“»vy a» sjrbeot Turki'b Towels hemstitched borders. Sizi» 21 by 42 and 23 by 45 in-. Prices 90 cts. $1-20 each. Fringed Huckaback Face TOWELS. Measuring 18 by 36
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      49 4 Serves the Whole Family, The fame of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is world wide. It is good for the deep seated oough of the adult or the croup and whooping cough of the children. The same bottle serves the whole family, i For sale by all dispensaries and dealers. j
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      565 4 hso m r Just look, Mary, at thosu Robiusoi s. Three months ag tl.ev ere m thin as you and I. And Robinson rays all they Lave done is‘Take Sargol and grow fat.’” HOW THIN PEOPLE MAY PUT ON FLESH. We believe tin thinnest man or woman can fill out,”
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    Cambridge Local Examinations.
    919 5 Successes foe Penano, Thfl following are the successful candidates from Penang who have satisfied the examiners at the recent Cambridge Local Examinations Seniors, The following stntents under 19 yea r s of age hkve obtained honours Cla«s I. Penang Free S*bool —Choah Teik Houag, Foo Keat Kaaug
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    Empire Theatre.
    124 5 The change of prog amme last night at the Empire attracted another good house and there was not a dull moment during the whole three-and-a-half hours’ entertainment. The first show, commenced sharp at 8 o’clock when the fi’st two Episodes (in five big parts) of Love’s Battlefi-ld was
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    Taiping “Our Day.”
    98 5 “Red Cross Fund,” Collected by Towkays Ng Hoo Eng and Teh Ah Phiao from the following, all from Kuala Kurau Ng Hco Eng $57, Teh Ah Phian 50, Chug Geok Bang 25, Saw Ah Phin 25, Si?w Ah Eu 10, Chum B.e 10, Cbuay Eu Chay 10,
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    C.R.C. Lawn Tennis Tournament.
    102 5 The following ties have boen fixed for Saturday, the 28th inst Single Handicap—Class A. Lee Tiang Leat (—15.1) vs Lim Keng Sim Single Handicap Class B. Chin Pow Kooi 15)* vs Khoo Son Bok (-15) Chua Sin Tock (-15.1) V 8 Cbeah Oon Saik Tin following
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    Penang Rubber Auction.
    204 5 The undermentioned prices wdre realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys and Co at their 275th Auction Saleto>day:— Smoked Bibbed Sheet $l5O to $159 per picul Plain Sheet 124 125 do No. 2 Smoked Sheet Diamond 132 143 do Unsmoked, Sheet 135 146 do No. 2
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      904 5 WANTED MOTOR CARS for sale. Adler c.r. 7 Pour "P e d d 1 C.r :-Ks.i.t«red to carry ‘Vj abcve C' w h»™ I»» wel1 c,rpd f r a in nprfpct tunning order and can be ‘ti n 15U, H“«“" !0? reS Nonable offer will be accepted 8enior Office Clerk
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      254 5 ncDc DO CDC X Dcon 9 LAMBERT and BUTLER P n FRONTIER is w n n 0 0 Br n T* 'jT''' n >•■ r\ r\ K n u L r n 0 0 nczx X )CD COC )On x □•ntatntn^QMntntn^atnin Coming! Coming!! CominglU Coming!! THE SUPER SERIAL a a
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    96 6 FlMirtwil daily (except Sundays and pablio holidays) at th CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. Ye. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. OaUtation... Postage Extra. Moil Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone N T os. (Echo) 583 Printing Department 353 N.B. —All business communications
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    IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.
    1266 6 Now that we are within measurable disance of the adoption of the policy of Imperial Preference, it is useful to consider certain aspects of the subject out of which its opponents have in the past sought to make capita!. It will be remembered that when the resolutions o
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    Agricultural Conference.
    94 6 Dr. Luey’a Paper, C From Our Own Correspondent,} Kua'a Lumpur, April 26, Tin A 'ricultural C inference opened od Wednesday afternom, Mr. Lewton Brain, Direc or of AgricuUu-p, presiding over a large attendance. Dr. 3. H. R. Lucy, Senior Health Officer, F.M.S, read a paper on Health Sanitation
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    M. A. P.
    938 6 Mr. J. H. Phipps is away in the Dindirgs oa inspection duty. Mr. H. Chtvallier, of the F. M. 8. Civil Service, has returned from leave. Mr J. Crabb-Wat 1 of Messrs. Adams and AllaD, who went home on leave, has returned, Capt. A. R Chancellor, Inspector-General
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    962 6 Plasters sad Mas-Power. Mr. William Duccan probably fe BA much as anybody in the county/.i* 1 European man-power question jn?!? it afLcts local agriculture y 0 f r »i member of tbo Peoaog 4dll *N mittee and when he declares »h impossible to judge of the SU( T
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      130 6 SUPER ICED COLO6NE There are several lc d Cologne» 01 the mirket but none of them c ropare with Ibe Original E glUb Brand the Super Brand InstftiiHy \X_ Hlii'ii Cures Head?, cite rnd Neu algi i |ml. the super- C^d £AUd£ CQLQ gN br> t,sH AN DBE3tV^2^^ANDBE3I TOWN DISP^
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    BRITISH OFFENSIVE.
    1522 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] The Crois'lles —Gavrelle 1 Front. FIEBCE fighting. Tactical Points Captured. IjondoD, April 25, 1.55 a.m. pield-M*rBb*l Sir Douglas Hiig reports: purthirioformition regarding Monday’s h4t tle show» that tin fitting was exoeption--7 fiircd. Sivon Gmnii divisions were %J .inn tbo Croisillos— Givrelb front, iQgtgsd oi d ,3Voral
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    P. A. M. Meeting.
    216 7 THE MAN POWER QUESTI ON. Planters' Relief Fund. {From Out Oxen Correspondent.) Koala Lumpur, April 25. Mr. William Duucau, presiding at the meeting of the Planters’ Association of Malaya at which there was a large attendance, said that the Planters’ Relief Fund at the end of
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    Breach of Promise Case.
    60 7 Damages Awarded, (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, April 25. In the Supreme Court, before the Chief Justice, Sir J. A. S. Bucknill, Clothilda Cardoza claimed damages from Julian R. Battery for breach of promise of marriage and was awarded $2,000. The oounter-claim of the defendant for
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    Tin and Rubber.
    243 7 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $lO3 25, business done, and in Singapore (refined) at $lO4, business done (125 tons sold). Messrs. Boustead Co, inform us that the following are the quotations for Rubber on Spot in London on the 24th inst. received yesterday:—
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    803 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ARTILLERY ACTIONS. Enemy Bstteries Exploded. London, April 25. 1.30 a m A French communique reports Tho day was chiefly marked by artillery actions along the whole front. We continued our destructive fire agaiost the enemy batteries and organisations in the region* of St. Quentin, the O
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    AEROPLANES vs. DESTROYERS.
    674 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] INCIDENT OFF ZEEBRUGGE. Enemy Ship Sunk. London, April 24. The Admiralty announces that three British naval aeroplanes attacked five destroyers which ware steaming between B'ackenburg and Zsebrugge on Monday afternoon. The leading machine dropped siiteen bombs, one obtaining a direct hit. The remaining destroyers scattered
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    TIGRIS FIGHTING.
    280 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] QENERAL MAUDE’S VICTORY. List of Captures. London, April 25. An official announcement regarding thi operations in Mesopotamia states that, besides the rolling stock cabled yesterday, our captures at Istabulat include Twenty officers and 667 men. One 5.9 gun. Fourteen Krupp guns, 1,24) r fDs and a
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    Outside.
    331 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pages. 3. —Sweden and the War. The StarSpangled Banner, 4. —Perak Man-Power, Passengers to the Straits. 5. —Cambridge Local Examinations. Empire Tbpatre. Taiping "Oar Day. C.RC, Lawn Tennis Tournament PenaDg Rubber Auction. 8. —The War Tax. 3upreme Court. A
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    THE WAR TAX.
    964 8 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VIEWS, Minutes of a Special Committee Meeting to consider the provisions of the War lax Ordinance, 1917, held in the Chamber of Commerce, Penang, on Tu sday, 24th Ap>i', 1917. PresentA. F.G >odrich Esq Chai. man. C. M. Henderson Esq., V >-Chairman, J. C,
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    SUPREME COURT.
    3216 8 a partnership suit. In th« Supreme Court before ai Juitice L M. W yesterday lifternooo the bearing wsg re-umed of the sui‘ instituted by Mrs, D. A. Donald, widow of the late Mr. G. M. Donald against Mr. Malcolm Duucan, claiming (1) to have an account taken of
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    A Week’s Warring.
    960 8 Semi-Official Review. Tho following cables we o communicated to the Bangkok press by the British Legation America's Entry. LondoD, April 13. The striking event of the week has been the accession to the ranks of the Allies pf the United States. The Germans torpedoed the Brazilian steamer
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    The Somme Films.
    223 8 The Somme Fi l ms In the -use of the cinema w i peculiarly valuable for propaganda J, iq such a country as China, We outwitted According to the p y been Tientsin Timet, proprietors of 'p, and picture theatres were actually ra j i n,>B B tbe German war
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    The Week’s Events.
    626 8 Thursday, April 26. Agricultural Conference. Kuala umpur (2od day.) r Chamber of Commeroe, Special General Meeting, 3 p.m. Friday, April 27. Town Band, Esplanade. Agricultural Conference, Kuala Lumpur (3'd day.) Saturday, April 28. N *B«i Sembilan Planters Association, A.G.M. Sungei Lyong Club, 10.30 am Batu Lintang Ltd
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      68 8 A Paint’s Duty. Your boy is always getting scratched or cut or bruised. Because these wounds have healed all right is no si n they always will Get a bottl of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and Bee that every injury is ca r ed for immediately- You can get nothing bet
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    SHARES.
    2223 9 S Dividend. 1 s Nnm ber of •a a. H 0 Capita* Shares issued. i P 1 last financial year. for current yearName s B m 1 o 0 <y RUBBER—DOLLAR SHARES. 9 cts. 9 cts. 120,000 500.004) 450,000 j 200,000 750,000 200,000 120,000 1 1 65 20i 1
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      422 9 THE eastern produce exchange. 27 Beach Street, at the corner of Beach Street and Church Street Ghaut. CAPITAL $120,000. Auctioneers Brokers. The 128th Auction Sale of Rubber WILL BE HELD On Monday, the 30th April, 1917. Auction Sales of Rubber held twice a week, on every Monday and Thursday, Sale*
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    China Next!
    703 10 Now that the great Ame r 'can decision has bepn made, now that the United States has d*finitely takpn its itind in the racks of the Eueits Powers in the war to save D Cmcy from the fetters the most crn~l ano barbaric Au’ocrscy of modern tim< s
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    Ipoh Streets Under Water.
    217 10 Taken generally the rainy season in midPerak is most intense during the first and last quarters of the year, the second quaiter being comparatively hot and dry in the plains, says Tuesday’s T.O M, So far, March aB well as April have not proved very Wet,
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    Viceroy Shum Again
    502 10 Cheap Advice. "Critics are already made” poet. The latest recruit to the JS* tb of advisers who are at the affliction unto the Republic of China 't 15 Chun-bBuan. who some vears Vi eroy of Kwangtung and' was foreigners as Viceroy Shum. }j e rto official wbo
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    The Eastern Rubber Market.
    503 10 There is every indication of a reviral in the Eastern rubber market. Cables have been received from Colombo, Singapore, Medan and Bativia which reflect keen business, presumably on account of American interests. These sales coincided with the advent of the American break with Germany, and sellers
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      48 10 Do not allow yourself to become a victim to recurring Fever. There ia a sure remedy at band in WOODS’ GREVT PEPPERMINT CORE. a truly marvellous specific in all conditions of fever and internal complaints. It is sold by dispensaries and Stores everywhere at 80 cents per bottle.
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      126 10 sr, m mt/i l £w [V; tTL m s-u:. J2f rji i^i 13 u OVER 7,000 MACHINES sfotd to ff. 9ft. 'ijotiernment dinee the Commencement of ffodtititied. STOCKED BY THE SOLE IMPORTERS: *s Co maL8m*z2 xs; n You buy it for less here. jxV'«-4 GAME. h sW ve PHEASANTS WILD
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    War News and Gossip.
    2253 11 (From Oar Oic Correspondent London, March 16. Capture or Bagdad. What Townshend failed to achieve—i through no want of skill or gallantry of his troops, but because the task given to him j was a hopeless one <rom the very outset Maude has accomplished by a
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      50 11 Bowel Complaint in Children. During the summer months child’en are subject to disorders of the bowels and should receive the most careful attention. As soon as any unnatural looseners of the bowels is noticed Chamberlain's Colic, Cholen and Diarrhoea Remedy should be given. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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      444 11 A Stubborn Foe. To conquer an obstinate enemy requires p Q ri«isteticy and perseverance. Ii; is the with Rheumatism, the dread foe of mankind, which ranks foremost in stubborn* To eradicate it from the system, you iruot os'» the right weapon. Littlo's Oriental Balm is the only remedy tba f
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      1557 12 P. 0.—British India AND APCftR LINE (Companies Incorporated in England.) Mail and faauenger Services. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (UNDER CONTRACT WITH HI8 MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT) For Singapore. China, Japan, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Forts and London. MAIL LINES. Homeward (for Europe.) j Outward (for China.) INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERVICE. Tke‘
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