Straits Echo, 8 January 1918

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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. VDL. 16. 930 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, Bth JANUARY, 1918. Single Copy, lo cents. No. 6.
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    Changement De Secteur.
    2036 2 All day a steady drissle bad been falling, 1 andallday and tor many daya train-loads 1 of men and material had rattled and bumped up the elope paet the little Tillage in tbe bille. And now it wae eight o’clock and. although tbe height of summer, it
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      149 2 fcm’Km'iraresm: rvi E3EE Iwhiteaway, Laidlaw Co. Ltd., Penang. ft (INC0SP02ATSD IN ENuLAND) Uj 33 §3 t SWEEPING TWELVE-DAY H K3 REDUCTIONS f| E a E STOCKTAKING SAL T2sr?" ri^r’ 'E! I 1 STARTS Monday, Jan. 7th at 9 a.m. fc*88 K 5] BJ AND WILL CONTINUE^— 12 DAYS. Sg I3
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      42 2 Karij Colds. Be oareful of the cold» you take at thia time of the year. They are particularly dan* gerou». A. neglected cold may mean a win* ter-long oold. Take Chamberlain’» Cough Remedy at onoe, Fer aale by all diapeaaanea and dealer».
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      638 2 Good Returns and Save Weeding. TWO CROPS IN ONE YEAR. Robust» Coffee Nurseries After 18 months each tree gives bearing of thousands of seeds. Liberian Coffee Nurseries After 24 months each t< ee gires bearing of thousands of seeds. Planting 6 feet by 6 feet With the low price in
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    370 3 JANUARY MEETING. FIRST DAY’S HANDICAPSThe following are tbe handicaps for the first day of the forthcoming January Race meeting:— TUESDAY, 15th JANUARY, 191». 1. George Town Plate Value $400. A Handicap fer all Ponies that have not won a raee other than a pony iwoe since 1st
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    Training Notes.
    583 3 Some Usucl Wear. There were about a dezan interested spectators at the Rice Course this morning to witness the training for the forthcoming rac Q meeting. Black Watch and Eighgate are both looking fit and were given useful work. Pretty Boy piloted by R. Billet, finished the last
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    The Assizes.
    1015 3 Baoan Jnbmai. Lanh Murdnb. The greater part of yesterday afternoon in the trial of Lim Chai Seng, who is alleged to be involved in what is known as the Bsgan Jermal Lane Murder, was occupied in the examination of two witnesses for the Crown—the ten-year-old daughter of a
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    Eastern Produce Exchange.
    72 3 At the Eastern Produce Exchange 199th Auction Sale the following prices were obtained per picul. Diamond Smoked Good from $91 to 99 Diamond Smoked Fair 62 to 90 Diamond Unsmoked 63 to 73 Plain Unsmoked 69 to 70 Brown Crepe 43 to 49 8"rap C*-epe 38 Virgin
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    The Week’s Events.
    53 3 Tuesday, January 8, Municipal Commission, 4 p.m. Chamber of Commerce Committee Meeting. Wbdnmsday, January 9. Town Band, E-placade. Friday, January 11. Town Band, Esplanade, Sunday, January 13. New Moon. First after Epiphany, Monday, January 14 Town Band, Esplanade, P. V. B. C. Annual General Meeting, Penang Cricket
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      455 3 To-night! To-night!! 3 FEATURES 3 No. l “Metro” Quality Pictures after the Interval present in five big acts 3. l t *5 3^ JPt iJ*.V |0 /M&X3W7 rl$svs$y.&vxt ft z? WITH FRANCIS X BUSHMAN A BEVERLY BAYNE EMPIRE THEATRE <t! t THIS-n'S GOOD) No. 2. FOUR NEW REELS OF THE
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      339 3 Penang Turf Club. NEW YEAR MEETING 1918. ADMISSION to Grand Stand by Tickets only. Tickets for Grand Stand can be obtained at the Secretary’s Office, at the gate. These Tickets are only sold subject to right of the Committee to return the morey at any time to the Holder without
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      309 3 WANTED. A RELIABLE CB1NE8E CONTRACTOR to keep clean weeded €00 acree of coconut land. Apply with refer* enoe to i— Tbe Manager, CnnsoNnsa Estatb, Ltd., Kuala Kurau, Perak. Wantsjd. JUNIOR TAMIL CLERK, good handwriting and ability to add up figures essential. Salary $25/-per mensem. Apply to, X T. Z., o/o
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    The Straits Echo.
    98 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price t Daily Looal 880 per annum. Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: “ECHO PENANG.” Telephorto Not. (Koho) 08®. Prlntln® Department 343. ti. B. —all
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    THE WAR AND OUR FOOD SUPPLIES
    1226 4 How long it will be before peace is re stored is a question that is still very much on the knees of the gods. For our part, we cannot see that the Premier’s speech, admirable as it is, has brought the conflict any nearer
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    M. A. P.
    980 4 Mr. W. E. M*nn"r Headmaster of the Eogliah-Ohinese Sohool at Semarang, w o i 8 on a Ti.it to Penang, return, to Java to-morrow. m Leon Trotsky, now very much m the limelight, wa. born in the BnsaiM government of Kherson on the Black Sea. H»« real
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1019 4 A Poor Prophet. Tbis is wh»t Winston Churchill said eight fears ago about the warnings of L 0r t Roberts “We live in a period of superficial alarm, when it is thought patriotio and like, far-seeing, clever ard Bismarckian to predict hideous and dreadful wars a, m minent.
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      298 4 A RECORDY OUR AIM HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO PROVIDE Best Drug Service Penang. U K TIIIMi WK HAVE «UCCEKDED. 1 his time last year we had to record the moat successful year in our history and now we have even beaten last year's high record. b b WHY WE LEAD:
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    ALLIES’ WAR AIMS.
    1513 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] MK. LLOYD GEORGE’S STATEMENT. COMMENT FROM ALL QUARTERS. A Chorus of Approval. LoDdoo, January 7, 6 15 a m. Tb« newepapt i 8 waitnly receive Mr Lloyd George's stateromt as u welcome, clear and final announcement of Britain’s irreducible minimum. Labour leadera like Mr, A.
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    THE RUSSO-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS.
    595 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Modification of German AttitudeAmsterdam, January 6. The Socialists of the German Rtiobstag I met in Berlin to-day and discussed the difficulties connected with tbe peace negotiations. It is expeotud that the Conference will urgently rrqaeit the German Govern* ment to notify the Russian Government that
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    727 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] BOMBING ACUVIUE3. Sir Douglas Haig’s Report. London, January 7, 12 10 pm. Bir Douglas Haig in bis despatch 00 avation work etates Despite tbe weather jester lay we dropped half a ton of explosiv< s and fired fix-thousand rounds from machineguns at troops ard other targets.
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    WAR ON SHIPPING.
    980 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ALLIED LOSSES REVIEWED, An Important Statement Parp, January, 7. The French Ministry of Marine has published diagrams showing that the losses of Allied merchartmen owing to submarinism have steadily decreased since June. The measures taken after the serious orisis I which culminated iu April, 1917,
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    ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
    593 5 [Rbutur's Tblborams A Hugo Batch of RecipientsLondon, January 7, 8-30 a.m. A forty.six page London Gazette to ba published on Tuesday contair s the recipi nts of va-ious grades of the Order of tha I British Empire for war services. It is beaded by the
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    London Rubber Market.
    26 5 (From Ovr Chon Correspondent.) London, January 5. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/5$ Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/5
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    Tin.
    13 5 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) ie quoted here to-day at $127, business done.
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    Outside.
    59 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pages. 2.—Chingement ue Secteur. 3—Penang Turf Club. Handiosps and Training Notes. TheAssiz». 6. —ThB Obstacle to Peace. Leoine and Trctzky, Imperial Raw Products. Restriction of Rubber Output. IreUnd, America and the War. News of the Day. The Week's Events.
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    The Obstacle to Peace.
    710 6 The Chancellor of the Exchequer aeea no immediate proapeot of peace; nor does any* body elae wboae judgment ia of the alighted ▼alue. But aa ptase ia the thing wbioh we are all fighting for and hoping for, it ia imposaible to amid talking about it;
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    The British Empire Union.
    298 6 [To thb Editor of ths StraHt Echo Bir, Representations having been made to me of the desirability of forming a Branch of the British Empire Union in the Btraits Settlements and Federated M ilay States, I write to ask your powerful aid in bringing about this
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    Restriction of Rubber Output.
    453 6 [To thu Editor or thb Times of Malaya Sir, —I have read with interest Mr. A. B Milne’s letter in your issue of yesterday, aa also your leader theresrient. Admitted that the B.G.A. ia a powerful body, and largely represented by estates both in this country,
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    Ireland, America and the War.
    494 6 J Thr Irish Frllowbhip Club’s Warning. I The Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, which has jost hurled a bomb into the camp I of tbe Sion Feiners, is the most distinguished, and in leadership the most icflaential, I organisation of Irishmen in America. The I
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    Lenine And Trotzky.
    1584 6 Thi Mrn Who Want Mori,’ Nikolai Lenine, the dirieting power behind the most recent outbreak in Russia which raised him almost to the throne, the leader of tbe Bolshevik movement —Bolshe▼iki, by tbe way, meaning in straight United States “the men who want more”— is described as
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    News Of The Day.
    213 6 As Cabled Bx a Will-Known Press Agency. (An over-worked and much be straffed Manager submitt the following excuse for some of his shortcomings)LLOYD GEOBOX house speaking yestwaftsrnoou Baid quote agree peace cannot come too soon But must be peace not merely uppatched truce Some think Kerensky
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    To-morrow’s Band Programme
    146 6 The following programme of music will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow at 5 p.m, i—--1 Overture William Tell Rossini 2 Cake WaIkCZK CZK Thil 3 Fantasia Grand Pastoral and Hunting Godfrey 4 Waltz Studiantina Waldteufelj 4 The Motor March Rosey The cellar of a house in
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    Imperial Raw Products
    1574 6 r A 80URCE OF SUPPLIES. Thr Products a*d Possibilitibs cp British Malaya British Malay* is sow finuly established as the leadiog couotry m tbe production of cultivated rubber, and the industry has sdded very substantially to the remarkable prosperity cf tbe Malay Peninsula during the past nine
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    “Pennington’s Choice.”
    193 6 At the Empibn. I n»i«II!* D s patrons of Penang’s picture lhe b programme I the ro!nif P here and a Packed house wss I sponnH Ooni aienceaient of the I lanrn until twelve o’clock the I* d g d„‘”i 6n T e re bo, l„r Uir d
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    December Rubber Crop.
    48 6 Consolidated 55.985 lb. Ct i ol 7 fc °ope announces a grand Gold R pn ’B r, mi ne for to-night whsn a ”Twif^ r P in Aw parts entitled in 4 iarf. ru aDd a Submarine Pirate” li£ WIH be put 0° the screen.
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    Affairs in China.
    1020 7 Bbtwuih Two Orzviovt. The oonflict belwem North »Dd South—we use these two term* for the sake of oonTfiDienoe and not b j cau»e ih*y r-p eaeot f* c ts—is no nearer eettlement ro*d«y than i» wai five months ago Fire month* ggo the extremists on the radical
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    West Point.
    819 7 AMERICA’S GREAT WAR COLLEGE Bt Gbnbea.l Johw Biddlb, U.B- Abut [Lo d Kitchener, during a visit to America, described Wrut toint at the mott perfect Military Academy in the world. In the following art,tie, General Biddle, who wot the heid of West Point until America entered the war,
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