Straits Echo, 29 November 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* $24 Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY. 29th NOVEMBER, 1917. Single Copy, lO cents. No, 281.
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    Stendhal on War.
    3489 3 The men of letter! who have actually “practised” as soldiers could, one might think, be almost counted on the fingers this is the first impression as we look back into the past. A little company, they are rare by contrast with the lar e and quite distinguishable
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      600 3 I'female I Throughout the many stages of woman s life, fvorn ptevish girlhood through «omanhood, motherhood, to the declining years of rid rage, there is no better, ilder, or more effective medical companion to women-folk than if'se’s Indian Root Pills» Ihey promote a healthy and regular condition. cleansing and restoring
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      338 3 BAXTER S> Co.'s BEST NAVY CANVAS. SIND1LANDS, BUTTERY 6 Co. DAYID CORSAR SON’S WELL-KNOWN EXTRA NAVY CANVAS, NO. 0. SANhIUNDS. BUTTERY 8 Co. Penang Sales Room. Under the Alien Enemy (Winding Up) Ordinance 19i4. By order of the Liquidator of Martijn and Goldenberg an Enemy Co., TO BE SOLD BY
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    Electricity For Ipoh.
    1775 4 Thiols are beginning io mcvd in Ipoh in regard to lighting the town with electricity ainco we last comanntd on the sutj ct on November 17. It is scarcely necassary now co detail the history of the movement that brought this question to the front a little
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      226 4 r? > i s Whiteaway'sl ALL-BRITISH BOOTS SHOES 1 Penang. EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN UP-TO-DATE LADIES’ CANVAS FOOT WEAR. fhc ‘Swiss’ Brand PRICE Ladies’ White Canvas Derby LaciDg Shoes, made with neat toe caps, fine canvas uppers, white canvas lining, strong soles, smartly finished. $4.95 PER PAIR. THE "SWISS” BRAND I
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      203 4 BURRELL CO.’S BOILED RAW LINSEED OILS. SNOW WHITE ZINC, PAINTS TURPENTINE. To be had Retail from all the Leading Stores. SANDILAND3, BUTTERY k Co. Sole Agents, Straits Settlements ST ANDREW’S DAY. Under the auspices of The Penang St. Andrew’s Society the following programme has been arranged for Friday, 30tta November,
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      647 4 nnnnnnn annnnnt ;> n aaaan C| FOR DYNAMOS (SECOND-BAND) 1. riO Volts 31. 35 "l. 35 50 o. 16 Amperes. 20 i 16 35 On view at Our Penang Branch Offers invited 0 Cycle Carriage n n COMPANY. >□□□□□□ □OQDDDDi Penang Auction Mart The Estate of Tan Sim Ho, Decease!
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    Lumut Rest House.
    413 5 *A, Emr, [To in Edito* ow tik Strait* Ech*.] Daar Sir, May Ibe allowed a apace in your paper to criticise ",A Penaogite’s” aomewbat exaggerated article, which appeared in your issue of the 24th mat, under the heading of A visit to the Best House at Lumut.”
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    Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild.
    125 5 PUVANO WOMEN WOBJtUBS. Amount previously acknowledged. $6,089 38 Mrs. Oieaver 15.00 Mrs. Lonie 5 00 Mrs. J. A. Brown 2.00 Mrs. Davis 2 00 G. A. 0.10 Pip 0.10 $6,113 58 Hospital Garments for Soldiers ready cut out for .workers will be given out at the
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    To-morrow's Band Programme.
    45 5 The following programme of musio will be plaved at the Esplanade to-morrow evening at 5 p.m. 1 Overture The Eclipse Wiliams 2 Bolero Pasquita Bigge 3 Selection A Chinese Honeymoon Talbot 4 Waltz Reine du Danube Godfrey 5 March Magara Mad dock
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    Shares.
    216 5 The following are the alterations of Messrs. A. A. Anthony Co.’s Share List to-day s Alor Gajah.Bobber Estate $4.40 buyers and $4 60 sellers; Ayer Pan*» Bobber Estates $ll5O buyers and $l2 00 sellers; Balgownie Rubber Estate $6 30 buyers and $6 50 sellers; Cbanpk*t Berdang Estates $9 25
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    Police Court News.
    1248 5 Allboid Biiici or TbubtA young Chinese woman, named Foh Kin, appeared in the Second Coart, this morning, on the charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of 1 pair gold bangles, 1 pair gold bracelets, 2 gold and diamond rings, 1 pi' gold and .diamond earrings,
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    Empire Theatre.
    67 5 A special attractive programme will go up at the Empire to-night where further new reels of The Great Secret together with a well assorted selection of first class films will be presented. Pour more rael? of The Mysteries of Myra and a New Universal Animated Weekly depicting the
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    EXCHANGE.
    117 5 Pnraira, Novumbu* 29. (By courtety of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4£ 4 months’sight Bank... 2/411/16 8 Credit 2/427/32 3 Documentary 2/4 7/8 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 3 days’ sight Private. M Bombay, Demand Bank M Moulmein, Demand Bank 3 days’ sight Private... S Madras, Demand Bank m
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      456 5 j: TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! 3 sensational spectacular surprises. :J HN\KG'S POPULAR PLAYHOUSE—WHERE IVERYEODY GOES. -L Business Manager E Program for Thnnsday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 29th, 30th and December,I lnt and 2nd. ist 5H0W at 8 p.m. Chapter ]5. The Test of Death.” Chapter 16. "lhe Crafty Aland.” -HSOW at 9
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      151 5 Penang Sales Room TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION TALUABLI HOUSEHOLD FUENITUEB, PIANO, BTC., COMPRISING: Mirror front wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Marble Top Washing Stands, Iron Bedsteads, S.de Boards, Dinner Wagons, Dining Table, 8 day Chiming Clock, Side Tables, Bentwood and Btttan Furniture, Pictures, Glass, Caockery and E. P. Ware. Cutlery,
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      260 5 WA.KTTHD. An ehperienced book-keeper AND CAttHIER. Security $*,000. Apply in writing, with copie* of testimonial* tci CO. D, Straits Echo, WANTED. CLERK WANTED for the Penang Free School, Commencing salary $60. A ply HEAD MASTER. STEADY CLERK of Buok-ke;piog and Typwriting, Apply Box 600, e/o Strait» Echo. WANTED. A CLERK
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    THE STRAITS ECHO.
    98 6 PritfalMA duly (exoept Sundays ud pvblio holidays) AT TBB CRITBKION PRESS, Ltd. gg, o.i, Be»ch Street, Penang. Fbicb Daily Leeal m* 924 per OdeUtkm. M Postage Extra. if mi\ mOtkm (Poe 4 Free) 917.50 CABLB iDDKIIS N echo—PENANG.” Telephone No». (Echo) 586 Printing Department 343 A.All business
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    ALSACE-LORRAINE.
    1290 6 A curious question was put to us the other evening what has the question of A 1 ace-Lorraine to do with the present war P It has everything to do with it, because if Alsace-Lorraine is not restored to France the Allies will not have secured that complete victory
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    M. A. P.
    356 6 Mr. W«i Gim Pu*y and Mrs. Wee Bwee 800, who went to Medan on a trip, retnrned to-day. Mr. W. O. Tait, Manager of Arcadia Eit ate, Bag an Datob, arrived here this moimng on a visit. o Mr. J. Sellar, of Messrs, Wreford and Thornton, intends
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    St. Andrew's Day.
    202 6 The DinnerThe Committee of St. Andrew’s Society wish it to be understood that tickets fo*- the Dinner and Coooert at the E. 6 0 Hotel tc-moirow will be collected during the Dinner, These are obtainable at the Hotel or from Members of Committee. Anyone omitting to bring
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    Penang Rubber Auction.
    84 6 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys A Co. at their 337th Auotion Sale held today i Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 1 sB6to 9 89 per pioul Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 2 66 80 do Unsmoked Sheet No. 2 48 56 do
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    London Rubber Market.
    26 6 CProm Otar Own Correspondent London, November 27. The prices in the London Rubber Marke* to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/6$ Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/5$
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    Tin.
    80 6 Latest Quotations Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day st $131.50, buyers no sellers, in Singapore (refined) at $132, buyers no sellers, and in London st J 6283 15s, spot and st J 6282 ss. three months. For onoe in a way Taipiog took top place in Perak last me
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    967 6 No Light. A correspondent writes “As one who resides in Mrdrw r deem I have a right to ask why du,i„.l l mmy years I have lived in thfs p* rt h town I have (bserved no attempt wh th made to provide us with any li R
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      193 6 IF* ITS YOU ARE WANTING •S-f- -H- -f >S >6' fOJWALlNi I X In 5 gallon •f Uiums X PRICES OH X r nlvtu w V l{K- ‘>u' •H~ •3< S<--H 3-t-H-i Merctny f 3® Pi-rcHioride t T PRICES ON T ■H~ -H-S-C--H-H-1»£ F1HM, We are it*; largest purveyors of
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      47 6 IN AID OP THE RED CROSS FUND. ST. ANDREW’S DAT. Diana forget the Soceer Match ON FRIDAY Planters vs. P. C C. AT THE PAD4NG» Have yon booked table at the El* O* For the Haggle and Scotch Broth Over SOO have already made •iccar. ye kea.
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    HAIG’S BLOW.
    1278 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Severe Fighting. LocdoD, Nov. 28, Sir Dough* Haig reports LiCil attioks a*; diwn in tha neighbour* hooi of Fon r aine and NJ*ra Dima villages lei to severe fighiag. The enemy strongly reinforced, ooateatad the advance with great gtuhbornnees and the fight swayed backed* and forwi-d*
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    ITALIAN FRONT.
    610 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams] Enemy Repulsed London, Nov. 27, 6.10 p.m. An Italian official announcement states that after a furious bombardment at Col della Berretta to the east of the Brenti Valley the enemy launched a whole infantry division. A fierce struggle ensued. A barrage isolated the defender* who, perbapp,
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    RUSSIAN CHAOS.
    272 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams] M Trotzky’s ThreatLondon, Nov. 27, Reuter’s correspondent io Petrograd states that M. Trotzky has written to Sir George Baohanan, British Ambassador, demanding the release of two Russians arrested in Great Britain who have apparently been interned, Hiats were thrown out regarding similar reprisals. Bolshevik ThanksLondon, Nov.
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    Perak Man-power.
    311 7 Astxsobt Committee Mistino. A Meeting of the Perak M*n-P-iwer Advisory Comm’tsee was held at the Ipoh Residency on Monday last at 2.15 pm. There were present: Tbe Chairman (the Hon. Mr. B G. Watson, o. m. e.), Mr. J. H. R ob, Civilian Member, and tbe Military M
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    Malaka Pinda Rubber.
    123 7 CFrom Our Oum Correspondent.') Singapore, Nov. 29. At the meeting of the shareholders of the Malaka Pinda Rubber Estates, Ltd., the Chairman defended the conservative policy of the directors and said that the dividend of 33 per cent, worked out at 11 per cent, of the maik
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    DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN
    239 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams] Amsterdam, November 27. Hundreds cf Independent Socialists held a demonstration in Barlin on Sunday and endeavoured to rfach the centre of the City. The Police arrested nine of them. Quiet Crowds Amsterdam, November 28 Sunday’s peace demonstrations in Berlin assumed considerable proportions in the north
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    Runnymede “Our Day” Entertainment.
    173 7 Receipts. Dinner tickets 1673.00 Entrance tickets 68 00 WiDes 624 30 Auction 1,606 00 Bran Pie etc- 55 Side Shows, 1 Hoop la 74 00 Shooting Gallery 74.00 Round-abouts 14.10 Smash up Happy H°m« 4100 i B and O's Table 318 00 Bombing the Kaiser 41.00
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    Outside.
    68 7 The following articles will be foand oi our outside pages Pages. 3. —S f endbal on War. 4 —Electricity For Ipoh. s—Police Court News. Lumut Ro B > House. Queen Mery’s Ne«dle woik Gui d. To-morrow’s Banc Programme Shares. B. S If-Government for India. T- kf« Typhoon. Tedo and
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    MALAYA'S TRADE.
    917 7 ENCOURAGING FIGURES Britain Holding Her Own. i The latest official figures dealing will 1 trade in the Straits Settlements —publisher 1 on the day before this was written —art l cheering to a Briton in one respect. Tbejji show that Britain is bolding her own in sale* j
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    Selangor Matters.
    717 8 Tbe planters of Um Selangor regard as 1 very serious tbe state of tbe road oommunica- I tions in that district The matter came up I at tbe mectiDg of the District .Association held last week, Jt-was then reported that correspoDdence|with the Government had culminated in the President
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    The Week's Events.
    75 8 Thubsoat, Notbxbhb 29. Full Meon. Fbidat. Novbxbbb 30, Town Band, Esplanade. St, Andrew. St. Andrew’s Society, “OurD*y” Dinner, E A O Hotel. Football—Planters vs. P.C.C., Esplanade. Saturday, Dbcembbb I. Queen Alexandra’s Birthday. Tapping Oar D«y Baxasr, Supper and Dance, Town Hall, Polo Ciub Gymkhana, Pclo Ground, 4.45
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    “Yedo And Tokyo.”
    2053 8 Sous Histobisal Ricomns. The following address by Prof. E. W. Clement was delivered before the Asiatic Society, Tokyo, on Wednesday, 17ih Oot. During the Spring of this year an exihibition was held at Uyeoo in T b 7 J > a celebration of the 50th anniversary of
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    Self-Government for India.
    2656 8 W The policy of JBUs -Misty’s Govern- J ment, with which the Government of India J are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indiaus in every branch of the administiation, aod the gradual j development of self-governing ini-titutioai, with a view to tha
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    Tokyo Typhoon.
    498 8 WORST FOR HALF A CENTURY, Auallin* DisasTia, A week of rile weaker qulminsted on the night of the last -day in September in a i typhoon, the like of whioh has not been experienced in Tokyo for half a century, i says The Neut Eatt. In the .coast-wiss
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      49 8 Why It SellsChamberlain's Cough Remedy is the largest selling cough medicine in the world to-day because it does exactly what a cough remedy is supposed to do. It stops the oaugh by curing the cold, and does it speedily and effectually. For sale by all dia. psnsaries and dealers.
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    On Knowing The Difference.
    1881 9 It was only the other day that we came upon full grown man readiog with something like rapture a little book that has ju-t been publ'sbed Ships and Seafaring Shown to Children. His rapture was medifi d, howtver, by the bitter reflection that he had already
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      502 9 BY order of the custodian of enemy property pursuant to I an order of his excellency the governor in council la tbo matter of theTradiit? with the Enemy O.diiance 1014 ti 1916 K od of the Alim Enttoiee (W nditg up) Ordinacces 1914 to 1917. IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE. Reserve Price
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      176 9 FOR MOTOR CAR INSURANCE YOU CANNOT DO BETTER THAN The Excess Insurance Co, AGENTS: ADAMSON, GILFILLAN CO., LTD. Incorporated in England 'Keep the Blood Pure." 1 For the Blood Is the Life." [Clarke's Blood Mixture if you suffer-from any such disease as mentioned below, don't waste time and money on
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      895 9 PEiMNG TURF CLUB. NOTICE. rpHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING J. of :bu M uibers of the P-naog Tori Club will ba bold in tbe Chamber of Com me'ce on WVdteid*y, the 5ih December, 1917, at 4 30 p.m. BUSINESS, 1. To coufirm the minutes of the half yearly General Meeting held
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    The Conscientious Objector.
    1497 10 I Appeal Unto Caesar. By Mrs. Henry Hobhouse- With an Introdnclion by Professor Gilbert Murray. (George Allen and Unarm. Is. net,) Toe p s'tK'D ot ib+j conscientious objector ra ses many nice questions of casuistry, few of which arfsc msidered in Mrs. H obho'use’s brochure "J Appeal
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      131 10 ts HFESH k /5® «<• 1» > «4 6 a mm .3 i *»t 14 !<*» I tt <11 i AGENTS lR. T. REID Co., Penang.| 1 BRINKMANN Co, Singapore. ij THE WATERHOUSE Xo., Ltd. (INCOBPORATBD IN THB 0.8 A Muar, Malacca ari, Kuala Lumpur 3 8 mm* »«cs‘-r tJN>
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    Mr. Montagu’s Calm Atmosphere.
    2054 11 WHAT IT MEANS. GREAT PROTEST IN MADEA3. Riliakko thi Whirlwind. (Atiociated Preti Madras, Oot. 24. An influential!j attended meeting of the Madras branch of the European Defence Association was held yesterday at the Garden Club to protest against the statements made in the recent Parliamentary debate
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