Straits Echo, 1 May 1917

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    36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED A AY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, Ist MAY, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 99.
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      1083 1 i.upAflj /■> g I sa® m Ike Georgetown Motor Garage 7a, Penang Road. iu AddreBBi Hotioteik, Penang. ’Phone No. 694 {BANKS.) Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND BY ROYAL CHARTER.) ,-<OH SALE. COMMONWEALTH P/i RTIN-PALMER MOTOR CARS •917 MODEL, Odo 6-paeaenger Touring Car. Two 2 Roadster.
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      18 1 l^gjsss >. 0r '«'HICH ij THE BDI W" EOfO £152*3 I' a» n iS use HbU "t .•s; MM
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    The Chinese Attitude.
    1122 2 The Ch inese Attitude. A F ast of Lanterns By L. Cranmer-Byng. Murray. 2b. net. Tao t«h King. By Lao-Tsu. Translated by Dr. Isabella Mea'S. W. McLellan, Glasgow- 2s. 6d. net. Some years in A Lute of Jade, Mr. franmer Bvng published a collection of Chinese poetry, drawn chiefly from
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    Liberals and Tariff Reform.
    844 2 We are somewhat puzzled by the attitude of the Liberal Press on the resolutions of t Lord Btlfour of Burleigh’s Committee. These resolutions, as we need hardly say, are ia complete accord with the resolutions of the Paris Conference. But the resolutions j of the Paris
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      414 2 STRENGTH C A*h COMFORT IN EVERY PAIR. The Great European War b ‘lZ7/,TZlT\Z practically all $oTt factories are under Government control and tbia means tbat the importation of B ots and Shoes is considerably restricted. Anticipating trouble in this respect we plactd cur oiders many months ago, thus emuring first
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      64 2 A Parent'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 Bain Balm and see that every injury is for immediately. You can get nothing better, and blood poison
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      627 2 Violent Methods. Are necessary to corner th enemy of civiliz.fi n Kht umatiam?' tef form», including Rheumatic Q )Ut Al1 >t cared permanently, s*f e l v and C n > [y b, Little's Oriental Mm™?”!"'' bow mocn pain your Rheumatism ig Uer you. No matter if you have tried
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    Sungei Glugor Gang Robbery.
    813 3 Trux OF Accused, The preliminary enquiry into the case against Yeoh L h, Tan HiD, Chong Cbuan and Ooi Nir, charged aith gang robbery armed with dangerous weapons, was heard yesterday atternoon before Mr. R, D. Acton in the District Court. Mr. A. B. Voules, Solicitor-General
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    To-morrow’s Band Programme.
    198 3 The following programme of music will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow evening from 6 p.m. ti 7 p.m. 1 Overture La Si ene Auber 2 Two Step Grizzly Bear Rag Botsford 3 Selection Strolling Round the Town Godfrey 4 Waltz Areal Spirits Hecker 5 March Loubet
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    Compulsion at Last.
    350 3 [To the Editor or the Straits Echo.'] Dear Sir, Looking over your Random Notes,” published on page 6 of your esteemed journal dated Siturday, 28:h April, 1917, I there appears an article headed “Compulsion at List.” It would appear from the second para of this article in
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    St. George’s Tamil Mission Association (Penang.)
    214 3 The annual general meeting of this Association was held in the Chapel, 2, Pitt Street, on Saturday last. The R varend K. Gamier, President of I the Association, was in the chair •and there were present also the Reverend D S. Ponniah (Vice-Piesident) Messrs.
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    Eastern Produce Exchange.
    79 3 At the Eastern Produce Exchange Auction yesterday the following prices were obtained Diamond Smoked Good from $154 to $156 Diamond Smoked Fair 136 to 153 Diamond Unsmoked 130 to 135 Plain Unsmoked 116 to 124 Brown Crepe 86 to 108 Scrap Crepe 76 to 89 Bark Crepe
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    April Rubber Crop.
    270 3 S. S. (Bertam) Rubber lb. Sivs a Peking message of April 16 Both Generals Feng Kuochang and Chang Hsun have wired to the President, the Cabi net and Military Governors, strongly favouring war on Germany either conditionally or unconditionally, without further hesitation, as China cannot remain in
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    99 4 daily (sxoept Sundays and publio MMays) A.r ni CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. gt, r 9 Beach Street, Penang. i Puca., If' IWfyLaaal 924 per annum. m Ovfealatkm... Postage Extra. Mml BAWaa (Post Free) 917.50 CABLE ADDBBSS ECHO— PENANG Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 N. B.~ All
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    FROM THE SCARPE TO THE STRAITS.
    1247 4 There is not a great deal of news in the cables to-day. In the West the Allies are more than holding their own slowly but surely pushing forward, beating off every counter-attack and, what is most important, killing thousands of Germans. The Ger man
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    London Rubber Market
    25 4 (From Our Own Correspondent London, April 30. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 3/Of Diamond Smoked 3/Of
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    Tin.
    24 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here today at $104.50, business done, and in Singapore (refined) at $105,50, business done (150 tons sold).
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1049 4 Worse and Worse. Fire hundred shillings a ton of 50 cubic feet works out not at 2sd. a pound as we stated in this column yesterday but at about 4.80 d per pound for crepe and 3.22 d for sheet. If the planters will stand this they will
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    NAVAL MATTERS.
    502 4 [Reuter's Telegrams.] The Suhaariae Meaa<,. London, April 10 At question time in the House of Com m Sir Edward Carson stated that owing to thl increase of submarines in other areas the increase of patrol boats in the Channel the loss of shipping in the Channel in Apnl
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    BRITISH OFFENSIVE.
    710 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] HGHTING AT ROEUX. Diff.wHT of <K« Grou.d London, Apni 30. 6-30 a.m. i r3 rre<p)^o at,(loiCribe thB fight Bp *V, ai pl*e« 0Q wont jj,nd of groun 1 which risas to high P P3BltiolH thrust batwaan ,I,PO !rL who hid to aJvania ia an their ft
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    313 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Artillery Duel, London, April 30. A French communique reports “At Chemin des Dames there was energetic reciprocal artillery firing and at Hurtebise tbe grenade duel iu the front lines in this region was equally lively. We effectively bombarded the German organisations north-west of Rheims. “In Champagne
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    Awakening of the Arabs.
    381 5 MENACE TO THE CENTRAL POWERS. Allia.nob Against Tubks. I Reuter's Agency learns from an autho* ritative source that from general indications it is now quite clear that the Arab j race is beginning not only to awake, but to coalesce. A sense of race and desire
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    U.S.A. AND THE WAR.
    631 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] BUSY PREPARATION. A* Army of Two Millioas. London, April 30. The American War Department bas t Already presented plans for the training of 1 two million men. Isrsstsrs Hard at Work. 1 Manufacturers throughout the oountry are awaiting the signal to start making equipments
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    AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
    150 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Asti-Pacifist Proeettioa. London, April 30. i A telegram from Petrograd states that an impressive anti-Pacifist procession took place in that town in which thousands of maimed >; and wounded soldiers marched to the Dnma* They were addressed en route by the American Ambassador who said
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    PLOTS IN HIGH QUARTERS.
    600 5 Graad-Duekcas Coafiaed to fcer Rcaidcaec. Petrograd, April 1. The searches for and arrests of the remainder of the conspirators in league with the monk Raspntin are still going on in Petrograd. As the result of a very strict search that has been conducted in connection with
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    1766 5 HALF-YEARLY MEETING. The half-yearly general meeting of the members of the Penang Turf Club was held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday and I there were present Messrs. D. A. M Brown W. S. Goldie, F. C, Gregson, M l Cathiravelloo, F. B Rickett, R. P. Phillips,
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    Outside.
    276 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages i Pages. 2. —Liberals and Tariff Reform. The Chinese Attitude. 3. —SuDgei Glugor Gang Robbery. Tomorrow’s Bind Programme. Bt. Gaorge’a Tamil Mission A?sooi»tion (Penang). Compulsion at Last, Eastern Produce Exchange. 6. —Camp, Country and Towd, Russia’s Revolution. 7. —China
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    Russia’s Revolution.
    905 6 The New Ministri. A writer in a Horae piper gives some interesting particulars eirarding the men who made the Russian Re olution President of the Duma. M. Rodzianko who has played such a distinguished part in these events is a large landowner from the south of Russia. He
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    Camp, Country and Town.
    2224 6 H me in War Time. Mx weeks at sea. Home fr *m o East! Half the time would have served in prewar dais, but here we are at last in dear old Blighty, safe and sound in spite of the H on Blighty it is a
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    “Love’s Battlefield" at the Empire Theatre.
    772 6 Agiin last night there was a large and very enthusiastic audience at the Empire” when the thi d and fourth episodes of Love’s Battlefield” in four big vivid acts was screened, To-night is the last opportunity patrons will have of seeing this programme in
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    The Week’s Events.
    36 6 Tuesday, May 1. St. Phillip aDd S Jiui f. Wednesday, May 2 Town Band, Esplanade. Feiday, May 4 Town Band, Esplanade. Sunday, Mat 6. 4th After Easter, Monday, May 7. Town Band, Esplanade.
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    EXCHANGE.
    116 6 Penano, Mat 1. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/41 4 months’ sight Bank,., 2/4 11/16 3 Credit 2/4* I» 3 Documentary 2/4 29/32 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 3 days’ sight Private... Bombay, Demand Bank j Moulmein, Demand Hank a 3 days’ sight Private... 8 Madras
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      57 6 Bow* 1 Complaint in Children. Purinsr the summer month* child en are subje t to disorders of the bowels and should re eive the most careful attention As soon as ny unnatural loosene s of the bowels is noticed hamberlain s (’olic, I Cholen and Diarrhoea Kemedy should be For
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      82 6 1 What an anxious time baa the mother with a prowin family to look after. Generj J one or the other is ailing, baa caught h chill, or is feverish. With a bottle of WOODV ME IT PEPPERMINT CURE lin the medicine chest the worry is much diminished. A dose
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      435 6 Hs»e you (he CONSTIPATION HABIT? Ia too many cises constipation is selfcaused. The system gets cut of order and purgative pills or salts are taken. These so weaken the bow Is that constant dosing fellows, and so the habit is formed. Dr. Cassell’s Instaot R t ief cures because it
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      535 6 w KTOTICES, E hereby give notice that Mr p Harold Sykr is author^??***»» 'lirj t 14 10 nor fi no per procuration a*, May, 1917. 282 l>J the’ft KENNEDY 4 j, N NOTICE, OTIC'E is hereby eiv. r. M, Leone Eng Khean, LsongTa *2*; and Leong Ln Kbern have been
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    Picking Up An Escort.
    1311 7 The broad expanse of ocean was relieved by a group of sombre-painted vessels whose rusty sides gleamtd as they heeled over to the long, eternal Atlantic roll. Day after day, night after night, they had ploughed along in line across the wastes, bearing to the Motherland’s
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    China and the Allies.
    1003 8  -  (By Putnam Weale. From conversations in many quarters it has been made apparent to the writer that the attitude of China on the subject of a formal Declaration of War against Germany is misunderstood. If there is one cause more than any other to which this
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    "Market Prices.
    241 8 Pm**#, Ist Mat 1917. Bair Soap pereatty 19 Roast 24 Steaks 94 Stew or Curry Meat 18 Rump Steak *4 Ox Tail 40 Tongue Feet >• Heart 4® Liver par catty tl Fillet of Beef 30 POM Pork per catty 48 Pig’s Head F«£t 96 Tongue 98 Lard
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    PRODUCE.
    209 8 PsvAir#, Mat 1. I. P. Tapioca $7.50 buyers M. P. Tapioca 8.00 buyers Gold leaf 64.40 Pepper (W.Coast 8 lb. 5 0z).516 1/2 buyers Black Pepper 25.00 buyers White Pepper 40.00 sellers. Trang Pepper 32 sellers Mace $llO nom. Mace Pickings 52 sellers. Cloves 40 sellers. Nutmegs 110 s
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      42 8 Medicines Just Unpacked. The Penang Rubber Stamp Co, beg to announce to their patrons and many interested customers that they have now receiyed a large fresh shipment of medicines from The Swasthya Sahaya Pharmacy, Calcutta, and oordially solicit their further esteemed orders.
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      171 8 BOMBAY BUTTER (“I. D.S.” Brand) in 1 lb. and lb. tins. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED.I PENANG. Telegrams: Storage Telephone No. 602 I I I I I a i I ■a Just Received New Shipments! OF “Maxwell Cars” Up-to-date Model, Four Cylinder 25 H.P. Magneto Ignition, Self Starter and Electric
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    “Back Files.”
    950 9 The stirabout in newspaperdom consequent upon increased costs and enhanced prices tends naturally to wake one refer to earlier numbers, which are technically back files,” We thus become spectators of old and forgotten controversies, the dust of which has been, for years, laid and overlaid. But it is
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      41 9 The Fruit Season. Bowel complaint is sure to be prevalent during th“ fruit season. Be sure to keep a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on hand. It may save a life. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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