Straits Echo, 4 May 1917

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. IS. $24 Per '‘nntim. PENANG, FRIDA*, 4th MA¥, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents No 10^5*
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    Singapore Man-Power.
    658 3 The following applications were made to the Singapore Man-Power Advisory Committee 1 Charlwood, E. O. H„ Shipping Supervisor, Adamsom, Gilfiilan St Co., Cinnot be spared, Certificate. 2 Robertson, A., Mercantile Assistant, John Little A Co., Ltd., Application to be renewed within 6 months. 3 Myers, J. H„ Confidential
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    April Rubber Crops.
    114 3 Bakap 16,000 lb, Bata Matang 11,600 lb, Jong Landor 48,500 lb, Kedah 32.622 lb, Parit Perak 8,660 lb, Perak River Valley 11,844 lb, bemanggol 8,511 lb, Jnru 14,500 lb, Kong Lee 1,120 lb, Ayer Kuoiog (F.M.S.) 55,500 lb, Bradwall (F.M.S.) 33,049 lb, Chersonese (F.M.S.) 56,355 lb, Dennistown
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    Police Court Cases.
    247 3 Importing Chandu. Bafore Mr. R. D. Acton this morning Teoh Kecg SeDg, who was charged with importing chandu into the Colony, pleaded guilty and was fined $2O or in default fourteen days. Mr. A. Wes f Head of Preventive Service, Government Monopolies, stated that the accused was
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    Penang Turf Club and the Chinese.
    139 3 [To the Editor of the Straits Echo.'} Dear Sir, As a fair-minded person I am of opinion that it is only right on my part to make a slight correction in Mr. Khaw Joo Tok’s statement in your yesterday’s paper concerning Mr. Yeoli Kok
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    Penang Swimming Club.
    93 3 There will be a 50 yards squadron race at the Swimming Club on Sunday morning at 11-15 a-m. between teams representing the Msxims, Platoon 1, and Platoon 2. The teams are as follows: Fte. T. H Stone. L, Cpl. L. M. Evans, Pte, N. R Allan and
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    Tin Outputs.
    58 3 Mr. Khaw Joo Tok advises us that the outputs from the following two Companies for the month of April, were Katoo Deebook No Liability. Cubic yards 51,000 Hours 497 Piculs 310 Deebook Dredging No Liability. Cubic yards treated 51,000 Hours 529 Piculs 268 Larut Tin Dredging Ltd. Piculs
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    To-morrow’s Band Programme
    62 3 The following programme of music will be played at the Golf Club to-morrow evening from 5-45 p.m. to 7-15 p.m. 1 Selection San Toy Jones 2 Two Step I’m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark Alstyne 3 Selection The Pirates of Penzance Sullivan 4 Waltz Destiny
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    Empire Theatre.
    159 3 Last night at the Empire another big crowd witnessed a very [fine programme when the Pearl of the Ganges ”an excellent Gloria” Film Production in four parts was screened to a really appreciative audience. Those who have not seen this show are missing a good programme and as
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      493 3 aT ptNA(it'S-P.iPULAR-PUY-HIOSE-WHE«E EVERYBODY COE IT MPIRE. JO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT ANOTHER Monster Program of Excptional B illiance tir DO«r 1 FAIL TO SEi\ AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. The most Magnificent, Thrilling, and Awe-inspiring film ever Presented ENTITLED: I il THE PEAtfL. OF THE GANGES In four Staggering and R ood-tingling parts produced
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    THE STRAIRS ECHO.
    95 4 NMitUd daily (except Sundays and pnblio Mdaya) AT TEE CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. Bfe 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price. >' VmStj Laeal 924 per annum. OmMation... Postage Extra. Ifail mtY~ (Post Free) «17.50 GiBLl IDDIIIS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 N.B. —All business communications should
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    RECONSTRUCTION.
    1305 4 Are we, after the war is oxer, to see in Britain a social and political and industrial reconstruction Are we, in fact, to see such a reconstruction as has always been in some men’s minds since the days of Plato It seems to us not only probable, but very
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    Singapore Rubber Auction.
    69 4 (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, May 3, The rubber auctions are unfinished. Nine hundred and ninety-four tons were catalogued for sale. Effect of Rite in Freight. Owing to the large increase in freight to Europe and the Pacific the demand for the poorest prices declined. Charity Sale,
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    M. A. P.
    582 4 Coi. E. R. B. Murray, late Commandant of the Malay States Guides, has been pro- j moted to Brigadier-General. Mr. G. H. Bradley, of Gapia Estate*! Padang Rengas, is, we regret to hear* an inmate of the Taiping Hospital. Mr. R A. Lawson, of Messrs. Butterfield and
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    F.M.S. Premium Bonds.
    302 4 $OO,OOO Already Realised. It will be interesting to many to hear that the Kuala Lumpur Aoglo-Chinese Syndicate has had remarkable success in the sale of its War Loan Premium Tickets, and that, thanks to the genuine interest taken in the scheme by all communities in the Peninsula,
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    Tin.
    34 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $lO5, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $105.75, buyers no sellers, and in London at £229 15. spot and £230 6s three months’ sight.
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    887 4 Weird and Wonderful. A weird and wonderful bird is the y policeman. He toils not neither H* 1 spin and yet he fares sumpt uoni i. day. But it is his capacity f or 2i 7 eTer J any time in any ciroumHtauce«~,„? P D? the gift of
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    London Rubber
    22 4 (PVom Our Own Corrc-'T London. M 3. The prices in the London hubb to-day were: <ji Pale Crepe Diamond Smoked
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      138 4 OUR SHOES GIVE EQUAL RIGHTS FOR TEN TOES H&W Child’s Willow Cdf leather strap shoes from $1.50 p ir. Fret F x Calf, ruprrir r fioit-h Shoe 3, l<ath»r throughout, Free ?(> 00, Boots $7 50 S^'i > Gent’s Tt-nnis Shoes, rod rubber Boles, Canadian Ma*2 Tennis Shoes, superior $2
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    BRITISH OFFENSIVE.
    651 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] r.GHTING ON THE WHOLE FRONT. Aeri&l Activity. London. May 2, 11-35 p.m. gir W» 8 U*ig reports We drove off a raid to the north of Arleui‘0 n *G' J ,o ie ,R*:iproc*l artillery firing was active northward of Scarpe and in the neighbourhood of Ypres.
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    603 5 [REUTER'S TELERGAMS.] ARTILLERY ACTIVITY, Reprisal Raid London, May 3, A French official announcement states i Both artilleries were active, particularly north-west of Rheims, and in Champagne. A well-conducted local operation gained us ground west of Mount Oornillet. The day was quiet everywhere else. “As a reprisal against the
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    SUBMARINE WAR.
    620 5 [REUTER'S TELERGAMS.] THE WEEK'S SINKINGS. Admiralty Figures, London, May 2. The Admiralty announces that during the week arrivals at British ports numbered 2,716 and sailings 2,690. Thirty.eight steamers of over 1,600 tons were sunk and thirteen under 1,600, making a total of fifty-one. Twenty-four were unsuccessfully attacked. Eight
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    IN PALESTINE.
    480 5 [REUTER'S TELERGAMS.] BRITISH BEFORE GAZA. Fine Artillery Work. London, May 2. An official announcement regarding the operations in Egypt states Our artillery in the neighbourhood of Gaza dispersed working parties, put out of action two guns, and blew up an ammunition dump/’ Mesopotamian Campaign, Brititk Success. London, May
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    Outside.
    72 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages i Pages. 3. —Singapore Man-Power. Police Court Cases. Penang Swimming Club. Penang Turf Club and the Chinese, April Rubber Crops. Tin Outputs. To-morrow’s Band Programme. Empire Theatre, 6, Coconut Toddy in Ceylon. The Sea Affair. Week in Germany. The
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    IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE.
    1569 5 [REUTER'S TELERGAMS.] RESULT OF lIS LABOURS. Official Statement. London, May, 3. Mr. Walter Long, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has issued a statement respecting the work of the Imperial War Conference which is now approaching the ead of its labours, together with some of the resolutions
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    Charge Against Storekeeper.
    896 6 Prosecution by Caldbeck, Macgregor t And Co. At Tuesday’s bearing in the third police court (Singapore) of tbe case in which Teo < Swee Hong, a former storekeeper employed by Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor and Co., was charged with omitting entries from an account book with intent to
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    Coconut Toddy in Ceylon.
    1050 6 An interesting paper on the composition I f toddy in Ceylon and the changes which take place in this beverage during fermentation has been published recently in the Journal of the Society of Chtmi:al Industry, Vol. XXXV, No. 22, 30th November, 1916. by K. C. Browning
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    The Sea Affair.
    1025 6 BAGDAD AND ITS LESSON. The Silent Struggle. The first decisive success in the land war 1 has been won by the British Navy. Perhaps, few people have looked at the capture of Bagdad from that point of view, and some may even be inclined to regard it
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    The Yser Front.
    1067 6 With the Belgian Army in Flanders, Belgian Headquarters. We wore standing on the first platform of the only belfry left intact along the whole battle-front in Flanders. At our feet the i quaint old market place, surrounded by picturesque high-gabled hou=es of the days of the Renaissance,
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    Week in Germany.
    857 6 Food Figures and Food Facts. Amsterdam, M ucb 18, i 1 The recent indiscretions of Dr. Micbaelis j and Baron von Scborlemer have caused surprise, because it was generally thought that they were working in harmony with von Batocki. And, indeed, they were—so long as th9 latter
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    153 6 P. and O. s. p rf m T To Singapore: Mr*. u Wanstedd, Mr. Hugh*® M p T Mr, Moorcroft, M-s. Bull, mV r, ell Mr Tborburn. To Penang M, Mr. Mr, Goodrich, Mr Jones. Mr. Pinckney. f o»n Per P. and O. steamer. From T
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    Questions.
    144 6 [To the Editor of the Strait, Time,.] Sir, Why is it Hat the emillHy .m servant prosecuted by a tuanbesar fori»! mg 75 cents gets ten strokes with d rattan’ whereas had b", for instiuce, sold (be J deu railings and stuck to tbe proceedswheu found out his resignation
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    The Week’s Events.
    501 6 f Friday, May 4 Town Band, Esplanade. e Saturday, Mat 5. The Ulu Piah Co., Ltd,, A.G.M., Chamber of Commerce, 11 a.m. Sunday, May 6. t 4th After Easter, e Football—l. R. C, vs. H, L, F, C. Dato e Kramat Garden®. Monday, May 7. g Town
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      52 6 Always Recommend It. Id almost every community there is some one whose life has been saved by Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Such persons seldom miss an opportunity to recommend it, and these recommendations and its never failing qualities account for its great popularity. For sale by all dispensaries
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      45 6 Now Is the Time. For rheumatism you will find nothing better than Chamberlain’s Pain Bilro, Now is the time to get rid of it. Try this liniment and see how quickly it will relieve the pain and soreness. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,
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    Latin and Greek.
    1369 7 A Defence of Classical Education. By R. W. Livingstone, Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Macmillan. 4s. 6d- net. Mr. Livingstone has written a thoughtful and pleasant book, and against all the old objections to a classical education, has produced all the old, and
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      12 7 For Children's Hacking Congh at Night. Woods' Great Peppermint Oure Is. M,
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    Dignity Difficulties.
    1115 8  -  AN ORDERLY ROOM \T THE FRONT. (By Sergeant W. L. Andrews.) A battalion orderly room at the Front achieves dignity under difficulties. It may be housed in a stable with half the roof off. It may be cramped in a dug-out haunted by rats, where every few minutes
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      489 8 The Weaning of “Nerves,” Nerves are fibres running from the brain to all parts of the body, like the wires of a telephone exchange. Some of them give us the sense of touch and feeling others convey messages to the brain and the will to our muscles and enable us
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    Posters.
    2068 9 London has been a quieter town during the past week, says a London paper of March 17. She has lain, as it were, under a Sabbath silence. Her street» have no longer the same restless voices. One is puzzled by a certain foreignness in the air aa one would
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