Straits Echo, 11 July 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 VOL. I 6 $24 Per Anaum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, lith JULY, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 160.
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    • 1134 1 kMAI I) fAH O j\r K r.«. i.lf it :AZiI- A?* f t A PI m Tk Georgetown Motor Garage 7a, Penang Road. Tel Address» Bokimteik, Pjaang. W ’Phone No. 694. pOH SALE. T WO ONLY 2 SEATER COMMONWEALTH partin-palmer cars TWO ONLY 2 SEATER MODELEDE-LUXE TWO STROKE MOTOR CYCLE
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    • 15 1 m Which but THC oHD 0^ «I* Ne'e use lIONB ro* fJ-3 a* *<3 css
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  • 1948 2 A Summabt of the Position. Is Austria-Hungary bound always to remain in international politics dependent on Germany Anyone who looks squarely at the facts must answer Yes, German preponderance in Austria and Magyar dominion in Hungary is the very foundation of the Hapsburg Monarchy, and Germany is the only
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    • 179 2 RUGS AGO BLANKETS BOUGHT UNDER FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES and OFFERED AT PRE-WAR PRICES. The“ Premier 4 Rug. A good size Rug in a range of dark tartan and check designs. Fringed ends. Size 60 by 70 inches exclusive of fringe. Price $7.95 each X' Wool Travelling Rugs. (LJj At Is ic.
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    • 483 2 Not Beyond Hope. Those who have suffered yeaT a "fe or with Rheumatism will be glad tn hi remedy that ha. proved an ab. 01,1 01 There are no conditions of Eheam,tu“ S matter bow severe, nor from what 0 that cannot immediately I» relieved 0 9 permanently cured by
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  • 638 3 Tha following Order regarding tha revised scheme of pay, pensions, and furlough is published in the 8arawak Government Gazette It being expedient to amend and altir the Regulations under which pay, pensions, furloughs and allowances are at present granted 1 hereby enact that on and after the
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  • 183 3 [To the Editob of thb Straits Echo Sir, May I make use of your columns to thank the Penang subscribers for their help in contributing the cost of Penang Tent for the Church Army at the Front. The money will be cabled to England without delay.
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  • 996 3 I Monday saw the beginning of the end of I the civil suit in which Messrs. Allan Van Cuylenburg and David Gxaham claim $1,348,974 from tha Government of Perak, as damages for the alleged wrongful cancellation of a water licence in respect of the River Dipang, says
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    • 269 3 A MONSTER CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. To-night To-night AT THE ELECTRIC POLYSCOPE I j THE PREMIER PICTURE HOUSE hj lO NEW ADDITIONAL PARTS XO THE DIAMOND FROM THE SKY Fire, Fury and Confusion The Soul Stranglers The Lion’s Bride The Rose in the Duat The Double Cross 2 Parts AHD Luke
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    • 322 3 FRONTIER MIXTURE. Managing Proprietor 0. M. EMANUEL. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! A THRILLING DRAMA THE MARCONI OPERATOR, LORD CHUMLEY AN EXCITING WAR YARN. i Special/ Special! Special! A GAUMONT EXCLUSIVE COLOR PHOTO THE LION’S REVENGE ÜBS ES VE D B A LOO IT 7 ONE DOLLAR ONIY. S5/ SECRETARY and ACCOUNTANT apply
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  • 95 4 flMiflttil daily (except Sundays and public katoday.) Atm CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. Ho. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pmice DaSy Leeal 994 per annum. Onhatataoa... Postage Extra. Mail Editaen (Poet Five) $17.50 OilU ASDBIIB ECHO —PENANG." Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 N.B. —All business communication! should bo
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  • 1429 4 That tho British Empire is a loosely hung organisation we all know; in the words of an American journalist shortly after the outbreak of war it is a queer, queer thing.*’ That certain anomalies will hare to be removed when peace is restored is equally well
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  • 468 4 Mr. J. B. Scrivenor, Government Geologist, F.M.B, is now training with the Inns of Coart Officers’ Training Corps. Tempy. Cipt. E D. Bryce (late of Tehran i Estate, Johore) has been gazetted to be Acting Major whilst commanding a company in the Machine-Gun Corps. Mr. Clair Speldewinde,
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  • 67 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $109.50, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $110.50, business done, (50 tons sold), and in Londoa at £246 10s spot and £242 10s three months. Messrs. Boustead Co. inform us that the following are the quotations for Bobber
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  • 29 4 (f rom Our Own Correspondent London, July 9. Theprioes in the London Bubbar Marke to-day were Pale Crepe 2/54 Diamond Bmoked 2/5$ London, July 10. Unchanged.
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  • 247 4 Imsortaat Evidence. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, July 11. The preliminary erquiry has opened into the charge of murder against a ChinamaD in. connection with the tragedy at Ipoh on June 2, when Mr. John Edmonds, Assistant Manager of the Menglembu Lode Syndicate, w»s killed in Lahat
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  • 1076 4 The Rising Generation. China’s Revolution and tin general up heaval which has taken place in the Far East have been responsible for many changes in the old order of things during the past few years. Not all of them have been wholly good and some have been digtinctly
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    • 267 4 Not how much, hut how long will it wear- is the true test. Our Torpedo light weight Moror Cyc’e has the tame comfort aud refinements as the heavyweights It is fitted with a two speed gear box with hand controlled clutch, aluminium foot boards, large luggage carr er, chain and
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  • 611 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] outsr.oNS the house. Serret S«*»ioa PromisedLondon, J oly 9. u„u.e of Common., replying to > men. ol, -«on. regarding B.U. b 3 41 ,j Mr. Bonar Lxw announced W Would tb.n evening move reflation lb,t tbe House hold, private .itt.og-to iIK sr..-< Co 0 London,
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  • 405 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] SPECIAL ALLIED CONFERENCE. Ruuia'i Attitude. Fetrograd, July 9. The Government announces that a special conference of the Allies has been convoked to oonsider Balkan affairs. Bach a conference," the announcement adds, "is necessary in view of the extreme complexity of the strategical situation in the Balkans.
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  • 314 5 Considerable Damage, A big fire broke out at Messrs. Cheng Law and Company’s rice mill at Maxwell Road early this morning. The alarm was given st 1.32 a.m. and within three minutes both the fire engines were on the scene. On the arrival of the engines
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  • 826 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] WEST OF STANISLAU Geaeral Korailoff Sueees*. London, July 9 A wireless Russian official announcement reports a successful offensive to the west of Stanislau, General Korniloff captured on Sucdiy several villages, 131 officers and 7,000 men with fort}-eight guns, including twelve heavy guns, also many machine-guns. General
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  • 881 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] SENSATIONAL CONSPIRACY CASE. Arms for I»dia, San Francisco, July 9. Tae United States District Attorney, in a st»t ;mant on the conspiracy case to promote an anti-British revolution in India, said that p'tpirations for war against England were made in Amer.ca a year before the outbreak
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  • 1456 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] SUCCESSFUL COUNTER-ATTACK. Lost Positions Regained. LondoD, July 9. 6.5 p.m. A French communique report? "We brilliantly repulsed a strong attack against Panthcoa. We counter-attacked against the trenches the enemy occupied yesterday between Los Beauvettes and ChevrigDy Spur and after a very lively fight broke up the
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  • 205 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 2 —Austria-Hungary, 3. Sarawak Civil Servic*. Church Army R creation Te: ts. Perak Water Rights, 6, —Crisis in China. The German Fleet. Toe Sbo'tige of Doctors. French Consular Telegrams. The We k’s Events. Z nnias. Penang Omemi. Rural
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  • 647 6 For a sand; garden there are few flowers which make a brighter display in so short a time and for so little trouble and expense as the Zinnias. The wide range of colours now to be had even in the double sorts would be a revelation to most people.
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  • 86 6 Billiard Tournament. Tbe following were the results of the ties that have been played off Single Handicap. B C Doral beat H Sbnat 250—245 H A Phipps beat J W Boyle 250—190 Double Handicap. H A Phipps and J M Baptist beat T B de Cruz and K
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  • 97 6 Those who visited the Penang Cinema on Saturday laat are informed that, provided they have preserved the pass-out tickets given them, they may see any performance this week free of charge. Various alterations, and adjustments have been made, and the management announee that the lighting arrangements and clearness
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  • 56 6 A meeting of the Rural Board, Penang Island, will be held at the Lind Offi e, Penang, at 2 30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 24 h July. 1917. Agenda.. 1. To confirm minutes of last meeting. 2. To pass Supplemental Budget No. 1 of 1917. 3 To
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  • 1530 6 Crisis in China. Chano Hsun a* Saimon. a We give below extracts from the Peking y pipers of the events which lead up to the t Chinese crisis. c Peking, June 18. < Reports on all sides stite that the Presi- 1 dent is now helpless
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  • 383 6 The question arises periodically as to whe- ther the German High Seas Fleet will again 3 venture forth and engage the Grand Fleet. 9 Such a decision ou the part of the enemy would naturally be a momentous one for both the Allies and the Central Powers.
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  • 2137 6 One of the most essential elements of 1 human progress must be a more intelligent campaign against disease and death. At present both eads of the field of life stand under the imminent threat of invasion, and are crossed only under sufferance. But, the lower stretches
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  • 501 6 [By Coommt ofthi Fmnc* Consulate Paris, July 4 6.10 p. m.-Tba G**' mada a pawerful attack on tbe whole o our positions on the north cf Jouy to th» east of the plateau of California. Th evI j with a sanguinary check, suffering terriff loaaes. We almost
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  • 232 6 Widxmdat, Jolt 11. Town Band, Esplanade. Thursbay, Jolt 12. J Bandman Opera Company—" High 1 Jinks —Empire Theatre. i Ipoh Gymkhana A. G. M, Friday, July IS. E Esplanade. I Bandman Opera Company—“ The Bing i Boys are Here”—Empire Theatre. Saturday, July 14. Bandman Opera Company—" Mr.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 8 6 For Cbronio Chest Complaints, Woods’Great Peppermint Care Is,
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    • 67 6 Can You Afford th® Ritk Were you ever seized with a severe attack of cramp colic or diarrhoea without a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrho3a Remedy in the house? Don’t take such risks. A dose or two will cure you before a doctor could possibly be called, and
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    • 70 6 When a child develops one of those nasty hacking coughs which keep the family awake at night it is annoying for them, but Ur more serious for the child, because of the «train thrown on its undeveloped bodily organs. Rupture is often caused by a attaining cough 3 WOODS' GREAT
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    • 13 6 A Chinese Storekeeper. Security $l,OOO/* Apply personally to QOH TAIK CMEE A 80K
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  • 1156 7 Slang ia one of the most impossible of things to defiae. Words considered impolite to-day may hare their place to-morrow in the mo it exclusive of vocabularies. We are constantly saying things which would have made our ancestors blush, Two hundred yeai s ago the word
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  • 205 7 There is a popular idea that most sickness is oaused by a germ of the dipease finding entrance to our bodies through the food we eat, the water or milk we drink or the air we breathe. This is true as far as it goes but it
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    • 325 7 All that baby requires is provided in Mellin’s Food mixed with fresh cow’s milk, and provided in a form perfectly digestible from the day of baby’s birth. It is this absolute suitability of Mellin’s Food in all circumstances which explains the gratifying success that invariably follows the use of ‘Mellin’s.'
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    • 56 7 Blazon Type Not Necessary. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarr rhoea Remedy ne6ds no glaring headline to attract the pablic eye. The simple statement that allchemists sell it is sufficient, as every family knows its value. It has been used for forty years and is just what its name implies. For
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    • 390 7 The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Head Office: SINGAPORE. The undersigned hns boat: appointed agents for the above Corporation, and is now pr«ared to accept MARINE FIRE RISKS At current rates. QUaTI BENGj KJEE, 4s. F*viA fUr»*'., Ptmm%o (4 Keep the Blood Pure.* Clarke's Blood Mixture If you suffer- from
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  • 1237 8 A Provocative Reply 10 a Debatable Question. If by art is meant work of creative genius, then m >st assuredly acting has no more right to be called an art than tie act of a clever child mimickicg its elders. The young of all animals—human and
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  • 325 8 Penang, 11th July 1917. Beef Soup per catty 16 Roast 26 fteaks if 26 Stew or Curry Meat 18 Rump Steak 26 Ox Tail each 40 Tongue 50 Feet 30 Heart 40 Liver per catty 40 Fillet of Beef 60 Pork Pork per catty 38 to 40 with
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    • 69 8 FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS glggllpssl therapiSn"^” the V?your,«lf it i, Mir d n I envelope to Dr I^eCler^ I PINKETTES are an ideal laxative fo r 8 Women. J, key f orr<ct Coetipalloe. elear tke skip of pimple» mod UfmuUi, »»d give tke krigkt eye of keiltkSO cents per phial
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    • 534 8 Lassitude is a feeling o£ weariness, depression, fatigue, which affects equally men, women and children, and it is most important that these signs of a run-down condition be not neglected. Neglect may easily lead to more serious ailments. Therefore if you are feeling exhausted, slack and depressed, don't delay, start
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  • 1895 9 (Br thb W. G. Militaby CobbesTONDENT) Whatever may be time and again the momentary appearances of pause, the military developments on the West front are continuous and rapid. The capture of Roeux may be compared with the taking of Poziires in the battle of the
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    • 92 9 Don’t N«gleet Tonr Family, When yon fail to provide your family with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy at this season of the year, you are neglecting them, as bowel complaint ie sure to be prevalent, and it is too dangerous a malady to be trifled with.
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    • 10 9 For Chronio Chest Complaints, Wood*’ Great Peppermint Care le. 6d
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