Straits Echo, 11 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. VOL. 16* $3O Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, nth JANUARY, 1918. Single Copy, lo cent*. No. 9.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements

  • 1252 2 At the junior Institution of Engineers, in London, Dr. William Wilson said that, although the subject on whioh he was about to speak was announced as Technical Education in China,” he thought that had he chosen the title he would bare expressed it otherwise seeing that,
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  • 724 2 On the Eaves of the World. By Reginald Farrer. Two volumes. (Arnold. 3 Js. net.) In February, 1914, Mr. Farrer set out from Peking with one English companion, Mr. Purdom, to look for plants on the Kansu-Tibet border. He chose this region because it was mainly
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 172 2 i iWhiteaway, Laidlaw Co. Ltd., Penang. IAI t\t T»\Tn.T n vrn E tM m (INCOBPO2ATSD IN ENGLAND > g y t ra |i sweeping iTWELVE-DAY reducti ns *h STOCKTAKING S 3 55 3'fc sfe sfeifesfc ifeifeiifesLsfe sfeifctfc‘l?<fe*fe<fc tfcife d>4tfe jfeifcisfei sfc sfcsfcsfed? TTT--LT^<fciT'-i'-L. c 2t El E K Ld sf
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    • 14 2 fp=ancc= —3DD' PINKETrES £*2 Will Keep You Fit kow u Incite anu l i
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    • 591 2 Have you a Rheumatio Friend Tell him about Little’s! Oriental Balm modern emancipator from tbe aobeg an* pains of the human body. No mere relief bat permanent freedom from the tortures and deformities of rheamatiem. The cute has baen achieved not once, not a few tim», bat thousands of times.
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  • 899 3 CoMfiTTis Meeting MinutesThe following excerpt from minutes of the Committee M eting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held in the Chamber on Tuesday, January 8, are forwarded by Messrs. Brown, Phillips and Stewart, the Secretaries Present:—A F. Goodrich E*q Chairman, C. M Henderson Esq, Vice-Chairman,
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  • 278 3 BAGAN JERMAL LANE TRAGEDY. Verdict and Sentence, After a trial lasting four days the case of what is ktown as tbe Bagan Jermal Murder in which Lim Chai 8-ng was charged with the murder of Tan Ah Bok, a hawker, was concluded yesterday afternoon before Mr. Justice Woodward
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  • 40 3 Deo. 3 By balance $359.60 31 interest for year 2 7 02 Jan. 3 Teoh Cheow Cheang (monthly) 2.00 7 H. de Z. Lancaster (monthly) 25.00 Jan. 7 By balance 393.62 Amount previously acknowledged 32,429.23 Total ...$32,882,85
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  • 548 3 The output of Ipoh Tin Dredging, Ltd,, during December was 475 piculs. Tbe ontpnt of tin ore from Ngow property of the Siamese Tin Syndicate, Limited, for December was 1,166 piculs, The output of the Bandon Property of tbe Siamese Tin Syndicate, Limited, for the month of December
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    • 639 3 V i? ‘Jbsbiibifc <k<fcsfcsbsfccfc y* 4 WHAT CAN YOU ASK BETTER THAN THIS? jjj TWO SERIALS ONE GOLD ROOSTER ONE FEATURE. FT 18 FAR AND AWAY THE MOST EXPENSIVE PROGRAMME YET OFFERED 4 F<-r Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Mon., 1!, 12, II and 14th, Jin., 191*, by the Electric Polyscope
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    • 666 3 PENANG CLUB LOTTERY WANTED. TWO EXPERIENCED COMPOSIT0R3 for tbn Department Good s.l-.ry to cjmpetect men, Apply to FOREMAN. 10, e/e Straitt Echo, WANTED. An experienced bill. COLLECTOR. Security $1,000, Appj to Box 586, c/o Straitt Echo. WANTED, WANTED a Qualified Chemist for a Singapore Dispensary. Apply stating salary required and
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  • Supplement to the “Straits Echo.''
    • 268 4 [REUTERS SERVICE.] Allies’ War Aims. THE PREMIER'S SPEEJH. Feeling in CanadaOttawa, January 10. Tbe Duke of Devonshire, G>veinorGeneral of Ctnad*. has sent tbe following cable to Mr. Walter Long Secretary of S’ate for tbe Colonist, “My Ministers have read with much gratification the report of tbe speech in
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    • 82 4 From. Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, J «unary 11. T’ 6 frllowirg w»re th« prices realised ia the Singapore Rubber A notion fn-H v Snr tine licbed 98 to 05 pe r picul Good ribbed 75 97 do Rihbed unwmoked 73 75 do Plain untmoked 77 do Crepe
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  • 103 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 39, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Dally Local $BO per annum. Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Eoho) 980. Printing Department 343. I N. B.—
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  • 1327 4 pi The latest article from the Straits Jim's [I om the question of the Rubber Growers’ Association proposals for the', reduction of H rubber output is an awful example of how H painfully foolish even an intelligent scribe p. may make himself look when he starts pi
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  • 946 4 Mr. M. H. Pawan Teb. late aeeistant master, Anglo-Cbinese Beboo\ has joined the staff of the Pecaog Free School. F. 3. Goodall, of Messrs. Goodhall ACo Siogaporp, arrived here tc-day from tbe sister settlement to attend the race meeting next week. e Lieut. A. EL M. Thomas
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  • 989 4 What Salonika Means. By immobilising a Urge Bulg lr i,„ which would other wine be eaip 0 V 18 einforce the Turks or Germans eli*»h M. Gastave Herve points out, the 8 T* expedition is justified. That ii hiu a section of tbe English Press whiohi lately oried
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 374 4 MOSAIC TILES. THE BEST THING FOR YOUR FLOOR CHEAP dND LASTING and ARTISTIC IN APPEARANCE. IMPROVE WITH USE. A room 10 feet by 10 feet will only require 225 Tilep. W« can lay them for you at moderate pricea. Hundreds of patterns to choree from. WE SOLICIT YOUR INQUIRIES! HPPLY
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  • 787 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Turthtr Bet&iliLondon, January 9. On board the British hospital-ship Rerea, wb ich was torpedoed and sank in the Bristol Channel at midnight on January 4 w ben coming from Gibraltar, there we re 550 aboard including 250 wound,d. She was travelling at four krots when
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  • 621 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ADMIRALTY REPORT. London, January 9, An Admiralty report states that the arrivals during the week numbered 2,086 and the sailings 2,244 Total 4329 Eighteen vessels over 1,600 tons and three under that tonnage were aunk, making a total of twenty-ore. Eleven were uraucces, fully attacked.
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  • 592 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Bolshevik Claims. Petrograd, January 9. The Bolshevik News agenoy declares that the attempts to break the power of the Soviets are crumbling, Ganeral Dutoff has been beaten and is fl ieing, General Kaledin’s troops were defrayed and are retreading, the Soviet at Rostoff has
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  • 748 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REPORT, Artillery Activity London, January 9, 4 60 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports that both artilleries were active at a number of points to tbe south of the Soarpe. There was some aotivity by the enemy to the north-east of Tprea. The Attack
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  • 481 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] MESSAGES OF GOODWILL From Zing and PresidentLondor, January 9. His Mb j st y the King has sent a met. aige to President Wilson expressing "yen sincere New Yeai’s good wishes for yonr welfare,and America’» prosperity end success jn the great undertaking in support of
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  • 125 5 (Firm CFtr (Fan Cot respondent,") L >ndon, January 9. The prices in the London Rubbor Market to*day were: Pale Crepe 2/5* Diamond Smoked Sheet see 2/4* A oricket match has bee a arranged to be played on the morrow between Officers and N C- O.’s off the
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  • 386 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] IABOUB’8 ATTITUDE. The Recent PronouncementsL >rd jp, Jap. 10. A joint meeting of representative British Labour organizations has issued a manifesto warmly approving President Wilson’s ieo'aration. It states that Mr. L'oyd George’s speech, followed by President Wilsou’s proncuocemcnt, have transformed tie whole international situation,
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  • 68 5 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $lB7 buyers no Singapore (refined) at $lB7 50. business done, (830 tons sold) •nd in L indon at £3OO spot and at £295 three months. Messrs. Boustead Co inform us that the followiag were the quotations for Rubber
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  • 176 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pages. 2. —Technical Elucatioa in Obina, Chinese Plants and People. B—The Chamber of Ccmtniroe. The Assy's. Bilgian Relief Fund. Tin Outputs. 6. —An Ambassador’s M o mories, Out to Win.” The Week’s Events. Rubber Questions. To-morrow’s B«nd Programme. Capt
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  • 719 6 AMERICA’S WAi IDEALS. Bt Coninosbt Dawson, Author of I Khaki Couraoh.” (Mr. Couiagiiby Dawson, the distingnished I jonng Anglo-American novelist, now serving with the Canadian Forces, relates in the following artiole soma of hia recent impressions of America.) In a spirit of humility born of a dear
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  • 90 6 Friday, January 11. Town Bund, Esplanade, Bunday, January 13. New Mood. Firat after Epiphany. P. V. R. C. Shoot, 7 am, Monday, January 14 Town Band, Esplanade. P. Y. R. C Annual General Meeting Penang Cricket Club, 7 p.m, P.C.C, Tennis Tournament Entries cloae Tuesday, January 15,
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  • 860 6  -  PERSONALITIES IN BERLIN. (Bt Sib Frank Lascblli?, P.C., G.C.B., Former Britith Ambastador in Berlin-) The Ust year of my m ssi n in Germany was peculiarly uneventful so far as the relaiioDsh'p of the two nations was concerned. There w*a no outstanding question of importance to fall
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  • 99 6 The Electric Polyscope had a big house last night when the “Submarine Pirate" end the “Twin Kiddies” were screened in the second show. The management announces a complete change of programme to-night when the concluding chapter of Pathe’s Gre-tt Wonder Serial “Toe Shielding Shadow” ard four new
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  • 790 6 LAND ALIENATION AND RESTRICTION OF OUTPUT. MORE SINGAPORE OPINION. In tho course of a leading article headed Helping Wisely the Straitt Timet says ‘•There are two rather big questions effecting the rubber industry before the public at present, and they are both, of course, connected with the war.
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  • 197 6 Toe following programme of music will be played at the Golf Club to-morrow at 5-45 p.m. J S 6l 0 00 Tbs Silver Slipper Mjddleton 2 Two Step Temptation Reg Lodge o S Notion A Runaway Girl Kappey 4 Waltz Espana Waldteufel 5 One Step In the
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  • 1012 6 Bbirzt Australian Comment. Cap’a Miles’s K*too Deebook dredge, R-DOiig. M*Uy Peninsula, spent a good p*rt of last year wrestling with deep ground, tt ff clay and bidden logs. The txchtquer tuff-red, as tin recovered was worth only 7.073 d. per cub. yaid, while costs were
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  • 548 6 In the course of a long hading article on the traffic in Singapore the Malay i 1 Tribune says: Singapore would be a dull aud uninteresting place to live in witnout some excitement and we have that turnisded us in tne looal traffic and its control. t
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  • 484 6 Waiting and Short Rations. The Hamburger Nachrichten published recently an interesting article by a naval correspondent on the moral of tbe German Navy, The writer’s main object is, as b says, to impress upon the German public tbe damaging tfLot of the persistent propaganda carried
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  • 1048 6 A correspondent writes to an Austin contemporary: ln Eeng-shui’s story of 8un (•‘China in involution,” 8 n interesting readiug but I c#tl things he doesn’t know about tue Ky i nonary Chinese President’s youth training. 1 1 Sun was born in a small house on
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    • 50 6 Accidents Will Happen. It may be impossible to prevent an accident, bat it is not impossible to be prepired for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not be yond anyone's parse, and with a bottle of this liniment yoa are prepared for almost anythin*. For sale by all dispensaries and dealars.
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    • 12 6 For Children’! Hacking Congh at Night Wood!’ Great Peppermint Chart la 6d,
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  • 1315 7 THE GEEMAN3 AT LUCERNE INSTRUCTION OF OUR SCLDIIRS. (From a Red Grot* Correspondent.) When the Press of the belligerent oountries writea of the profit which neutrals are making out of the war the Swiss shrug their shoulders and point to their hotels. Certainly when one walks out
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  • 662 7 The Vienna correspondent of the Frank\fiirter Zextung describes in a remarkable letter the war-weariness of Vienna. He writes People no longer speak of the war, or at most they ask When do you think it will be over There is no further interest in the details. The question
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 458 7 ocz DC DUCDnC DC PALE WOMEN DO A 0 Ifftny ft woman who had good colour »t Home grow* jale and sallow when l!v!n« jn ti e Trofiio*- 8 When the fading colour in ebeeks and lips is accompanied by a loss of brightness in the eyes and an increa>ing
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    • 50 7 Why It Sell*. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy if 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 cough by ouring the oold, and does it speed* lly and effectually. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers,
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    • 389 7 FOR SALE. > k One 7 seater Adler Moto»car four spee< 1 and one reverse in good running order On view at 156 Hutton Ltne. Box 1918 e/o Strait» Echo Rubber stumps small or big quantity over one year old. Prompt attention Apply TEIK BWEE Co., 27 A 28, Station
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