Straits Echo, 7 August 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. 15. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 7th AUGUST, 1917. Single Copy, 10 cents No, 183.
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      1181 1 .fillipAlK Ulk vCJ s ra tr; ®S2 iZZS-:*£*. The Georgetown Motor Garage 7a. Penang Road. rel, Address i Hokimtcik. Penang. ’Phone No. 694 ■f BANKS Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND BY ROYAIi CHARTER.) for sale. TWO ONLY, 2 SEATER COMMONWEALTH partin-palmer cars TWO ONLY. 2
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    Rubber Disease.
    924 3 Important Circular The following circu'ara have been issued by the Department of Agriculture, F.M S.: Thinning Out and Disease. Kuala Lumpur, 3Ut May, 1917, Si r I have the honour to inform you that at the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Agricultural Department held on SOib
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      230 3 ’SSSHKiXSSarrZ': CHE H Australian Cheddar Canadian I nglish Cheddar C'uyere SINGAPORE COLD STORAG D u COMPANY, LIMITED, PENANG. Telegrams: Storage Telephone: No. 602 t BLUE “MYSTO” p 1 J VHITB ANT EXrr.RMiNflTOaf AND POWDER ENTIRELY BRITISH MADE I hi i c 'vvllr m o D >1» i 0 EL., CAN
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      911 3 laslaat Relief for DIZZ INE SS aad Specks before Ike Eyes. Lmr derangement is the cause bebird these distressing conditions, and only restoration of perfect natural action can effect lasting cure. That is why Dr. CsssellV Instant Belief is so immeasurably superior to the old fashioned cathartic liver pills and
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    The Middlesex Regiment.
    1032 4  -  By George F. M. Cocks. Regiments, like men, come into being in atter nakedness, without a shred of reputation to hide their rawness, lacking even a name, designated often bj a mere number. Hence an inquiry into regimental origins, even of those regimeats with the highest reputation,
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      167 4 VV I All Sizes Offered at Reduced Prifces During the SALE. Ready Hemmed for Immediate Use. Size 7f by A\ feet Sale Rate $2.00 Size 7 a by 6 Sale Rate $2 45 Size 71 by 7f Sale Rate $3.15 Size 71 by 81 Sale Rate $3.40 You cannot procure
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      618 4 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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    N.S.W. Premier at Sheffield.
    393 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Pacifists vs. Militarism. London, August 5 W. A. Holman, Premier of New I South Wales, speaking at Sheffield, said that as one who all his life had been a Pacifist be had been compelled to adopt the view (that peace in Europe and the
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    Penang Polo Club.
    112 5 Mr. G. E. V. Thomie, who was until I recently Hon. Secretary of the Penang Polo Club, is leaving for Mesopotamia shortly and as a special farewell” to him the Club will be At Home next Saturday when a three-chukkor match will be played between the team
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    July Rubber Crops.
    59 5 Alma 30,000, Bukit Toh Alang 14,434, Shanghai Klebang 12.760, Eota Babroe 45 725, Sungei Duri 17,794, Cheraor United 19,923, Shanghai Malay 20,468, Ayer Tawah 27,000, Kamuafgng (in Kedah) 15.917, Kinta Kellas 55.816, Elian Kellas 7,241. Old E>llas 26,743, Batu L’ntarg 3,137, Bakap 17,200, Batu Matang 13 439,
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    Tin Outputs
    40 5 The output and profits from the Kramat Pulai, Ltd. for the month of July, 19,17, were as follows From tbn Mine—Output Dressed Ore 300 piculs, Estimated Profit $11,900 From Tributors —Output Dressed Ore 126 piculs, Estimated Profit SSOQ.
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    To-night's Band Programme.
    145 5 The following programme of music will be played at the Golf Club this evening from 5-45 p.m. to 7-15 p.m. 1 Selection From the Operetta Das Model Snppe 2 Katunka Intermezzo Smith 3 Selection From N. Lambet's the Yashmak Allan 4 Waltz Alexandra Gung’l 5 Song Sunshine
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    Cricket.
    1048 5 "A" Co. and Maxims v “B” Co, and m “D" Co. I Taking advantage of the holiday the I Penang Volunteers decided to have a whole I day’s game of cricket yesterday, the contesting parties being “A” Co. and Maxims I I and “B" Co. and “D” Co. captained
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      424 5 *>o<X xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx* jf TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT I ELECTRIC POLYSCOPr L TIIB PREMIER picture HOUSE L PRESENTS l 3M. HOW WE BEAT THE EMDEN tst show 8 p.m. How we beat the Emden Part 1 2. 3. 2 3 4. Manoel Acrobats 2nd show 9 p.m. OVERTURE BY POLYSCOPE’S ORCHESTRA. b.
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      227 5 F' 181 o AND < f*-sa Br’ FRONTIER MIXTURE. Da H D Valuable Property for Sale BY ORDER OF THE LIQUIDATOR (MR. W. H. MACGREGOR.) UNDER THE ALIEN ENEMIKB (WINDING UP) ORDINANCES TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION On Tuesday the 21st day of August 1917 AT II O’CLOCK A.M.
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    97 6 PtkßiM daily (noept Sundays and pvblie k fcotays) at m CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. S* 59, Baaeh Street, Penang. Fttor DaOy LeoJ M W4 per annum. Ortrtatio«~. Postage Extra. Mail Edita (Port Free) «17.50 OABX.I ISDBIU ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 If. B. —All butinea*
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    THE SUBMARINE WAR.
    1322 6 Since the Admiralty commenced to issue weekly returns in February last the number of vessels arriving at and leaving British ports has increased instead of diminishing. This would suggest that neutral shipowners are less nervous than Admiral von C&pelle, the German Secretary of State for the Navy,
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    M. A. P.
    818 6 Mr S. H- Langston, Second Magistrate, who had been ill, resumed duties to-day. Mr. G. P. Cuscaden, the head of the Johore Police, is shortly going Home on leave Dr. Elsie Layman is now attached to the R.A.M.C., and stationed at Salonika. Dr, O’Flynn is also at
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    Tin.
    36 6 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $110.50, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $111.75, business done, (60 tons sold), and in London at .£245 15s spot and J 8242 ss, three months.
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1012 6 A Good Week, There is no haste about the Allied offen. sive in the West, but, on the other hind, there is no pause. Some progress is made every day, and all the ground taken is carefully consolidated. Nowhere have the German counter-attacks made any lasting i m
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      236 6 RATS rn 4 COMMON SENSE RAT EXTERMINATOR S THE MOST INFALLIBLE RAT-KILLER KNOWN Rats just love it and eat it up greedily. Cat* and Doga will not touch it- Common Sense Rat-Killer eats the Bata right up and leaves no smell. It is used by Penang Municipality and is also
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    FIGHTING IN FLANDERS.
    646 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] rNtMV ATTACK AT HOLLEBEKE. 1 Sir DoufHai«*a R «P° rf London, August 6, 12.5 a.m. Sir Dougl** Haig reports A fter heavily shelling the positions to Bt h and north of the Ypres—Comines 1 the enemy attacked astride of the 01 n d for a
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    451 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Artillery Duel, London, August 6, 12,5 a.m, A French communique states The intermittent artillery duel was somewhat violent towards La Royere Farm in the Craonne sector and in the Champagne mountains region.” Enemy Attaeks Repulsed. London, Aug, 6 3 50 p.m, A French communique states The
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    Dutch War Cables.
    146 7 Holland and the War. The authorities at New York are prevention Dutoh vessels from leaving American ports. The ships have therefore been obliged to discharge their cargoes. A German submarine has run ashore at 0 j 0 j The safe passage across the North Sea in its
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    597 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] LOSSES AND GAINS. Official Account, London, Angnst 5. A wireless Russian official announcement states:— Oar scouts in the region of the KovelSarny railway crossed the Stockhod neckdeep and attacked an Austrian advanced post, bayonetting some of the garrison and making prison ars of the remainder. Our
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    RUSSIA IN FERMENT.
    612 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] PROSECUTION OF M. LENIN. Public Prosecutor's Statement. Petrogrsd, Aug. 5. The Publio Prosecutor has issued a statement explaining why the authorities are prosecuting M. Lenin and his many accomplices for high treason and organising a rebellion. It is established that they were intriguing with the
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    KAISER’S AMAZING LETTER
    642 7 [Riutik’s Tslioramb.] MEMOIRS OF Mr. GERARD, Interesting Revelations. London, August 6. The Daily Telegraph publishes from the Philadelphia Ledger the memoirs of Mr. Gerard, formerly American Ambassador at Berlin, containing the reproduction of an amazing letter written by the Kaiser to President Wilson on August 10, 1914,
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    THE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE.
    475 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Date of Meeting. Petrograd, August 5. At a meeting of the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates M. Rosanoff, a delegate to the negotiations as regards the International Socialist Conference (at Stockholm), reported that the date of the conference had been fired for September 9, Thejconditionsfor the
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    London Rubber Market.
    26 7 C From Our Own Correspondent London, August 3. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day ware Pale Crepe 2/5* Diamond Smoked 2/5
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    Outside.
    63 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page. 3.—Rubber Disease. 4.—The Middlesex Regiment. 5.—Telegrams. PenaDg Polo Club. July Rubber Crops. Tin Outputs. Cricket. To-night’s Band Programme. 8, The Cost of Living. War Anniversary. The Status Quo Ante.' Chinese Inter-Club Tennis The Week’s Event*. Th9 Stockholm Conference.
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    The Cost of Living.
    325 8 There has been a great deal of talk lately about high bouse rents but uot quite eoough about high market prices. The Topicist battens to add that he does not impute to the meat, fish and vegetable veudors a profiteering character, for the simple fact is
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    War Anniversary.
    599 8 Koala Lotnpor Celebration, C-fVtwt Our Giun Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, August 6. The meeting in connection with the anniversary of the war was be d on the Padang on Saturday when the Sultan of Selangor the Chief Secretary and the British Resident of Selangor ware prasent and many other
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    The Stockholm Conference.
    977 8 IS IT A “TRAP”? M. Bbantino’s Position. (From a Swedish Correspondent Tbe general suspicion with regard to the Stockholm Conference, and tbe common view of it in this country as a “trap,” is not greatly to be wondered at in face both of the more or less
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    Ypres.
    656 8 The little Belgian town of Ypraa is sure enough of a place in history but, in England, at any rate it will always be specially sure of it under a name which no cloth worker of Flanders ever heard, and would certainly never reoognise. The British Tommy,” who for
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    Shares.
    322 8 The following are the alterations in Messrs. A. A. Anthony Co.’* share list to*day:— Alor Gajah Robber Estate $4 40 sellers Ayer Mol6b Robber Co. $2.50 boyers; B&lffowioe Robber Estate $6 boyers and $6.30 sellers; Bckit Jeiotong Robber Estates 0 70 boyers and 0.80 sellers Cbangkat Serdang Estates $9
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    'The Status Quo Ante.’
    1354 8 There is a sentence in Mr. Wilson’s Russian note, which contains in itself, to those capably of reading between the lines, the whole story of the war. It is the sentence in which the President boldly and firmly denounces a return to the status quo ante.
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    Chinese Inter-Club Tennis.
    138 8 Penano C. R. C. vs. Pbeak C. R. C. The following were the results of the ties played at Ipoh on Saturday between the above clubs:— Singles —Tiang Liat (Penang) beat Kit Khong (Perak) by 3-6, 6—o, 6-1; J OO Wan (Penang) baet Dr Kbong (Perak) by
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    The Week’s Events.
    369 8 Tuusday, August 7, Marine Fire Insurance Association, A.G.M., Chamber of Commerce, S p.m, Wrdnusday, August 8. Town Band, Esplanade. Friday. August 10. Town Band, Esplanade. Saturday, August 11, Selangor Race Entries close. Sunday, August 12, 10th after Trinity. Monday, August 13, Town ipoh Schools reopen. “Recently,” the
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      436 8 WANTED. A COMPETENT CHINESE CLERK to translate Ch'Dese Accounts into Eoglisb. Preference will be given to one with previous experience in a legal firm. Applications stating salary required and accompanied by copies of testimonials are invited by ACCOUNTS 454 ejo Strait» Echo WANTED. KRANI for Tin Mine. Apply with particulars
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    Huttenbach’s Sued.
    1951 9 ME. JOHN HANDS’ CASE. Judgment Biiutid. I In the F. M. S. Supreme Court at Kuala I Lumpur on Wednesday, before Mr. Justice I Earnshaw, the oivil suit John Hands I (plaintiff) versus August Huttenbach, I Alexander G. Anthonj and Francis James I Hill (defendants) was continued. Plaintiff,
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      464 9 A CAR THAT IS BUILT UP TO THE STANDARD AND NOT DOWN TO A PRICE. PULLMAN» THE PALACE CAR OF THE ROAD. Specification:— 32 b P- i C 7 l f be d Motor, full floating rear axle, 50* inch full cantilever rear springs real laather upholaterj, genuine honeycomb radiator.
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    The Crisis in China.
    2203 10 By David h raskr. (Mr. David Fraser has contributed the following article on recent events in China to the New East, the new Anglo-Japanesa monthly published in Tokio. Mr. Fra«er’s article is characterhed by The Peking Gazette as being of refreshing sanity and breadth of view
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    Alsace-Lorraine.
    938 11 We are France.” Never has the historic declaration made by Keller in the National Assembly in 1871 on behalf of representatives of Alsace and Lorraine been forgotten by the French, and in the eyes of our gallant Allies all the sacrifices of this war will be wasted and useless
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      1406 11 Penang Auction Mart. By Older of the Reosivers appointed by the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, SETTLEMENT OF PENANG IN Suit 1913 No. 389. Between QUAH ENG HEOH and KHOO SIT CHEANG In the Matter of the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances 1914,1915,1916 1917. For Sale by Private Tender.
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