Straits Echo, 30 October 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. 16. 9t4 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 30th OCTOBER, 1017. Single Copy, IO cents. No. 2550
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1066 1 f KMX I Mi I m ts. I The Georgetown Motor Garage I WORTHAM ROAD AND farquhar street. Telegraphic address: Hokimteik. ’Phone No. 694 IS ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE. CARS FOR HIRE A flet of B and C*rs for hire day tnd at moderate charges. Motor Car Importers Motor repairing
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    • 16 1 c MILK op wajea is Ttti out W’ t0 AT -> lUJK UIC FO* JS ?x css
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  • 908 2 A Dutchman's Appeal to British Firms. Why are you losing ground in the Netherlands Indies? writes a Dutch correspondent from Java. And the you is addressed to Britain and to British manufacturers. Why not gain the import trade, especially of all kinds of machinery, in these industrious
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  • 1089 2  -  (Bt Patrick Macgill. Author of The Great Push.”) The battalion left the trenches at noon with the sun above blazing from a couldless sky. The men were going back to rest far to rear and despite the day’s heat and the long weary march before them they
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 104 2 Diphtheria —How It May Be Avoided. Diphtheria in usually contracted wh*n the child has a cold. The cold prepares the child’s system for the reception and development of tbe diphtheria germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that have colds should be kept at borne and
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    • 322 2 /5? •HA. ',n hi a >vy4 jC Lr/ U-i, «a»* YOU ■■HESSkOI Indian Regd Design 3611. English Regd. Design 646,599. English Patent 13,033. Swiss Patent 84 338. Australian Patent 17,607. rmrareazam LEATHER STY THAT NA STRAP E O N G g A a n PRACTICE ECONOMY WHEN YOU ADOPT THE
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    • 12 2 For Children’s Hacking Cough At Night. Wood' Great Peppermint Cure Is. 6d
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    • 626 2 GOVERNMENT NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that subscription for tbe Straits Settle. noen»a War Loan will not be received ift T Wednesday, the J4th November, 1917 H. MARRIOTT, Acting Treasurer. 88. October 1917. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. NO 1 ICE is hereby given that the books containing; tbe Annual Valuation o? and
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  • 392 3 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Tke Daily Cost* Washington, October 29, The Government expenditure for Octob9ri including loans to the Allies, will be a billion dollars and possibly a hundred milI lion more. The expenditure for twenty-three working days averaged approximately 142,600,000 daily. Tke Likerty Lou. Washington, October 29.
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  • 137 3 Penang Our Day 1917. RED CROSS FUND. List of Sukscriptions. Amount previously acknowledged ...1109,169.70 Proceeds collecting boxes Nos. 48/66 Municipal Tramway 62 36 Anonymous 250 00 G. R. Samuel 50 00 Cbeab Kee Ee *****' Yeap K*-ng Teng 50.00 Cheah Keng Ee 25.00 Proceeds Grand Theatre of Varieties per O.
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  • 424 3 [To thi Editor of the Strait t Echo Bir. Interested”, the correspondent in the Straits Timet brought up the old argument that the Queen’s Scholarship ought not to be revived as it only tends to benefit a f6w bright boys to the detriment of the normal rest
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  • 338 3 A.t a meeting of the members of the Penaag Sikh Guruduara on Sunday there were present Dr. Jagat BiDgh President Subadar Ma ,or Bball Singh, J.P, Bbai Arim Singh,' K*hr Singh, Secretary of the Malaya Divan, Harcbaru Singh Secretary and several others. Among the business before the
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  • 64 3 At tbe Eastern Produce Exchange 180tb Auction Sale the following prices were j obtained per picul. Diamond Smoked Good from «111 to 112 Diamond Smoked Fair 90 to Plain Bmoked Q Diamond Unsmokhd n Plain Unsmoked B-own Crepe Scrap Crepe 33 to 47 Untreated Loose Scrap 2
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 335 3 If you are In doubt-read this programme Grand Change EM PI RE jHsj THEATRE! Pro gramme for Oct, 29. 30. 4 31st. Mon*., Tuss *4 Wed* FIRST SHOW AT 8 P.M. jrjUB REELS OF THE FASCINATING AND EXCITING SERIAL *5 The Mysteries of Myra AT 9 15: NESTOR COMEDY: —Tbs
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    • 627 3 i 1 I I QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. I b 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I t I I t 1 e ''IRGINIA C| CAaETT£S- =^^^j v D.6HOWi^ Bristol I I I V i 2 2 A 'A g 2 2
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  • 12 3 Obituary. London, October 28. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein has died in London.
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  • 94 4 MiM daily («rapt Sundays ud pvklio WMaya) um CJtITRBION PRESS, Ltd. B* 59, Bsaeh Street, Penang. PfelOl' Daily Leanl —9U ...par annum. m OMfoM Poetsgu Extra Mnfl EdMaa (Poal Fraa) «17.50 oablu addbbss: ECHO—PENANG” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 A.B.—X 11 business communication* should b*
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  • 27 4 On 29cb Ojtoh*»-, at Tar j'mg Bungah, to Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Tar, son-in-law ard laughter of Mr. aod Mrs. Wee Hein Txe, a laughter.
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  • 1192 4 Now that it is reported Dr. Michaelis is no longer Chancellor it may not be amiss to recapitulate briefly the trend of German politics just before the war and since then. The recent demand by the pan-Germans that the Reichstag shall be dissolved and a general election held
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  • 942 4 i Mr. A Boehm, of Messrs. Ambrosoli, k Co, pr oeeds to Singapore this afternoon on bn»ioess. e e e Mr. T. H Dennis. of tbo Pu'au Brani Smelting Works, who has been on a boaimas v«it to Penang, returns to Singapore by the Klmug to-d*y. e
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  • 1001 4 An Anniversary. I is ju t fifty-three years t O -dsT of tb. Treaty V,eoo,' fc ”'J« D nmark, worsted after a brave hnt u y for her rights against the o|>e Nions of Pmasia and Austria SoblMwie-Hol.-.io, and .greed to lodemni y towards the cost of tbe
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 282 4 Veterinary Medicines G.T.D. SU Wesre specialists in the supply cf Veterinary MEDICINES and ipply the leading: and mos* successful trainers in Ma aya Dog Tonic. This in a na'ljf g* od liteiative fctiei g tl.euiu tonic $1-00 boftl’, Dog Pills Worm Distem} er and Ape ient. 40 cti-. a botile.
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    • 30 4 IN Alu Of 1 HC PED CPOSS F( ND VOLUNTEERS AND FRitWDS Wanted at the DRILL HALL TO-NIGHT. Are you aware that there are 888 PRIZES IN IHC PENANG LOTTERY»
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  • 1349 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE enemy thrust. C«rny Oee«pi«» Gorixia. Amsterdam, October 29, A Vienna official message states „Th0 Austrians hare occupied Oorizia. Tbe Italians hare withdrawn across the 110,1,0 ITALY IN PERIL. A* OH Coatrovsrsy R«viv«4. London, October 28. Tbe gravity of Italy’s position is reoogni*. bT tbe British
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  • 691 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] I Bcl(iii Suceen*. i London, Oot. 28, 1.15 p m, Bir Douglas Haig reports “We improved our positions slightly a night-time in the neighbourhood of tbe Vpres-Roulers railway, "Tbeßelgians on Friday night made a successful raid to the noith of Dixmude making sixteen prisoners and yesterday,
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  • 534 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Over 2,000 Prisoners Take*. London, October 28. A French communique states:— “We continued to make progress in Belgium on our left. In the Peninsula of Lerghem we captured some small islands. d We have taken over two thousand prisoners since yesterday." Artillery Activity. London, October 29,
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  • 27 5 (From Our Own, Correspondent.) London, October 29, The prioes in the London Rubber Marked to-day were: 7 Pale Crepe 2/9 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/7
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  • 32 5 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $ll5, business done, in Singapore, (refined) at $115.50, no business done, and in London at *****55. spot and at 4251 three months.
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  • 581 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE PEACE DEMANDS. Furlker Revision. Petrograd, Oct. 28. The Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Council have revised its instructions to M. Skobeleflf, its delegate at the Paris Con* ference recognising them as unsatisfactory. Defence of Petrograd. The Preliminary Parliament has approv ed the declaration of M. Kerensky
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  • 559 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE GRAVEL CONTROVERSY. Briiisk Legation Statement. Tne Hague, October 28. I The statement of the British Legation regarding the sand and gravel imported to Belgium via Holland from January 1 to August 31 reports As regards the saod it is impossible to establish whether the
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  • 69 5 The following articles will be found ou onr outside pages Page. 2.—Marching in Summer. Openings in Java» 3-—Telegrams. Penang Onr Day” 1917. The Queen’s Scholarship. I enang Bkb Gurudnara. Eastern Htodnce Exchange. 6. Ocr Day at Ipoh. Greece as Ally. "T’o-day’s Band Programme. India. When the German Awakes* M.F.A.
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  • 1043 6 Our Day” at Ipoh. Mr, Crbet’s Successful Effort. Mr. P. Z Creet. the proprietor of the Grand Hotel, Ipoh, did his bit” od Saturday evening for the British R‘d Cross Fund, as it is computed that more than $l,OOO will be realised as the result of the special dinner and
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  • 863 6 THE NEW PHASE IN THE BALKANS. By Crawfurd Price Despite big news from the Western front, there is evident an increasing public anxiety for information concerning the subsidiary mil tary campaigns iu Syiia, Mesopotamia, and Macedonia, and since tbe possibilities of hostile action on the pait of
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  • 50 6 The following programme of musdc will be plaved at the Golf Club this evening at 4.45 p m. 1 S lecHcn Irish Aits Hartmann 2 TwoSbp Tue Gaby Glide Hbsch 3 S lection H. MB. Pinafore Sullivan 4 Waltz TbePiikLrdy Caryll 5 March In Gipsy’s Camp Oicfceit
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  • 987 6  -  SOME ELEMENTS OF THE PRO 3LEM. By Harold Cox. The public has become aware within the past few weeks that among the many pro blems awaiting solution, now or after the war there is an In ian problem to be dealt with Briefly, that problem is how to reconcile
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  • 865 6  -  THE END OF FEUDALISM. By Eden Phillpotts. A philosopher baa defined the forms of human 6ccitty which have mulled frem the despotic principle—that is to say, authority backed by force or force transmitted to authority. f They are thte —the Absolute Monatcby, where a king is
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  • 28 6 A general meeting will ba hold to morrow night at the Volunteer Club, to consider letters and challenges from Singapore and Kedah, and lively proceedings are anticipated,
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  • 1320 6  -  By J. C. Bristow Norle. It's not easy nowadays to get a lift in a flying machine. You see, everything that can fly—and unfortunately, m%Dy "things” that can’t flj. but are expected to—are Government property, and the Government is getting j-alou? of what it owns and tne
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  • 431 6 i he Penang Select Committee's Recommendation, The Select Committee for Penang the Hon Messrs. W. Peel, J. Mitchell atd A F. Goodrich imfee tbe following recommen-’ dition with regard to tbe draft estimates for 1918: We are of opinion that a sum of $lO 000 should be
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  • 136 6 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS. Tuesday, Oct. 30—Volunteer Dance and Ronggeng, Drill Hall, 9.15 pm.; A™ Competition, Caledonia Estate, 430 p.*followed by Bridge Drive “Our Dry". Thursday, Nov. I—Football Cup Final, Esplanade, 5 pm, Town B*od. Friday, Nov. 2—P M I A Chinese Dramatic Performance, Town Ha 11,915 P*Satu
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  • 38 6 Tuesday, Ootobib 80, Municipal Commission. W BDNBBDAT, OCTOBI» Town Band, Esplanade. Friday. Noybmbbb 2. Town Band, Esplanade. Saturday, Noybmbbb 8. Town Band, Golf Club. Sunday, Notimbi* 4 22nd after Trinity. Monday, Noyrmbbb Town Band, Esplanade*
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 44 6 Chamberlain’s Pain Balm There is nothin? so good for muscular rheumatism sprains lameness cramps qf the muscles. bruises and like injuries as Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It will effect a cure in less time than any other treatment, For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,
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    • 37 6 Children’s Colds. Whj let the children rack their little bodies in such a distressing manner when you can so easily cure their colds with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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  • 1157 7  -  (By R. Johnson.) The day bad passed in comparative silence, except for the sonod of stray rifle shots, and the sharp phitt as the bullets hit the earth. Now and again, a deep boom might be heard; signs from the heavy batteries that, despite the quietness they
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  • 793 7 i THE PLANTERS’ FUND. I Home Administration Tbe followirg letter from the Hon. Mr. I W. F. Nutt, Hon. Secretary of the F.M.B. War Relief Fund, to Mr H. 0. E. Zacharias, i Secretary of the P, A. M was read at the recent meeting of tha P.
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    • 60 7 Sunshine and Common Sense. Don't dcctor jour blood for rheumatism. Use an external application of Chamber* lain’s Pain Balm. In a few days it will get you up and out into the sunshine, then nature will restore the rich red blood to your veins and soon rid the system of
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    • 1483 8 P. 0.—BRITISH INDIA AND APGAR LINE. MAIL (Companies Incorporated in England) AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (Under Contract with Hii Majesty’s Government.) The Company’* MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at preaant suspended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay as opportunity offers and as far as accommodation
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