Straits Echo, 22 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. VOX-. 16* $3O Per Annum. PENANG. TUESDAY, 22nd JANUAKY, £9lB. Single Copy, lo cents. No 18.
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    • 1154 1 if i R -31/naeiMA,. Of W*CJ) JS IMt B l C **r i«wr iV i *ECti ns ro* u,g A- .-I J ;sS£“t *s2 A. -2 For Chinese NEW YEAR. Send your car early to avoid disappointment for painting or varnishing. We have brought out specialities from Hongkong for our
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  • 2248 2 (From Our Own Correspondent London, November 28. The news this week from the various battle fronts ia more encouraging than it has been for some time. Haig’s last stroke at the Huns in the WVst was by far the most brilliant of his brilliant attacks since
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    • 113 2 i THE gjice Leading Penang Boot Store ALL VARIETIES OF Tremendous Assortment. Value Unequalled. Whiteaway, Laidlaw Co., Ltd., (Incorporated in En^/andJ I -AtCi aBtiSMsaaiManRiH u m m m a a a» a s s &i s a u r a a at w a a *2LAS MOTOR TYRES. FRESH CONSIGNMENT
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    • 490 2 NOTICE. (KWONGTUNG AND TENGCHaU PUBLIC CEMETERY). A PUBLIC MEETING will bi held at the Toh Pdb Kong Temple, Kmg Street, on Thursday, the 24 h instant, at 2 p.m. sharp. Business. 1. To receive accounts and reports for the previous years 2. To elect office bearers for the ensuing year.
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  • 1251 3 [Bt Tom Weight The price of a lodging ia like the proverI bial alternative of a pair of evils to me. I I choose the leaser. That is how I came to Ibe paying guest in the home of a German I working
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  • 152 3 I P or N.Y.K. s,s. Atsuta Maru. From I London.—To Singapore: Mr, R. K Hardwipk, Mr. H. F. Clifton Smith, Mr. G. W. Hobbs, Mr. G. H. Motion, Mr. H. 8 Meczies, Mr. Brandon, Mr. Thurkle, Mr. H. T. Blair, Mr* A. M. Buckley, Mr. H.
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  • 109 3 As was to be expected at the opening of a oew show there was a large attendance at The Coliseum (Drury Lane Theatre) last night. The proprietors of the conoern had tiered no paios to make the hall comfortable. The feature of the building is the number of
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  • 35 3 Printing $1,208.40 Entertainment Expenses 214.06 Collecting Boxes 66.80 Badges 305.58 Miscellaneous 155.74 $1,950.58 A. B. Voulis, Hon. Secretary, Oar Day 1917* Vouchers examined and certified correct. Bkown Phillips Stewaet.
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  • 437 3 The following programme of music will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow at 5 p.m.:— 1 Selection Le Barbier de Seville Rossini 2 Waltz Pastoral Songs Basquit 3 Selection Gondoliers Sullivan 4 Polka The Handy Man Ooote 5 Maroh Hurrah Boys Laoalle A valuable cargo of tea,
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    • 471 3 To-Night To-night DRURY WANE Tuesday, 22nd January, tgiS. A well selected Programme specially for this occasion: PAT HE fRESENTS MOLLY KINO, LEON BAliY AND GLADDEN JAMES IN Mystery of the Double Cross 30 Pans The Greatest Mystery-Serial which caused a sensation on the continent. Episode The Girl in Number 7,
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    • 877 3 mnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmr: au. sm- asis— ss- i• aa- ss— SS-» <sa- aa- aEmpire theatre Business Manager Thomas Shafto. BA PROGRAM RICH AND RARE/ YOU CANNOT HAVE BETTER THAN THE BEST. From standpoint of sensationalism. From the standpoint of Punch, fti a wuo owuupuiUfc U i?rom the standpoint of suspense and Holding—Power.
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  • 99 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Dally Local $3O per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: “ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 343. N.B. —ail buttineaa
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  • 1281 4 Many months ago the man who controls the biggest industrial undertaking in Malaya and has bad more experience than anyone else in the Straits of handling labour at home, told the writer that in his opinion peace would be made not by the soldiers and diplomats but by
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  • 23 4 Latest Quotations. T-n (unrefined) is quoted here to-day it business done, in Singapore (re finfd) at $136.50, business done. (200 tona add.)
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  • 968 4 Mr. H. N. Feirers, of Kuala Lumpur, was in Penang yesterday. M r A W. Walkinsbaw, of the Hongkong Back, Perak, and a noted golfer, is on a visit to Penang. Mr. Arthur Miles, General Manager of Katoo Deebook Tin Dredgiog Coy Renong, is in Penang on
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  • 1008 4 A Thorough Rest Oaewould lk« to ..rif, Ih, ,t w lrdy of nioery-four who died in mnl Scarborough, after having spent u l seventy-two years in bed The 8to r. 4 d that ehe went upstairs in a bu ff Jl" father s veto on a prnpn 8
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    • 161 4 SUN CLASSES BE GOOD TO YOUR EYES. They are the most sensitive organs of the body. Don’t go out doors in the brilliant snnlight without Bun GHasse*. We have just received new stocks in all tints and patterns. Prices from $l.OO to $lO 00 MOTOB GOGGLES. fclatie in ilain Wails
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  • 604 5 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] PPOPI.E’S PE»CE MOVEMENT. Esssntmont in Germany. AiU't^ d'-*ro» January 20, -‘b-it five urns meetThe Voru&wt n Vienna unanimously resolved that r'bo” dee>“ d ilh P i,,i,D 6 retolo,e Ll uenora! »nd protested against r* (pmat io mwinterpraUHon by the entire nrdss of tin recent
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  • 1681 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE CONSTITUENT DISSOLVED. Bolshevik Intimidation. London, January 20. A cable from Petrograd states that tie Bolshevik decree dissolving the Constituent Assembly followed a stormy sitting at which Tseretelli, probably the meat popular Social Revolutionary leader, arraigned the Bolshevik usurpation, insisting that the supreme rights of
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  • 869 5 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] ,1 AT THE DARDANELLES. Snd of tht "BrMlan<” London, January 20. The Admiralty states that the Qoeben, I the Bretlau and some destroyers were in I action with British forces at the entrance Ito tbe Dardanelles on Sunday morning. The I Bretlau was sunk, the Qoeben
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  • 978 5 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS] Spanish Reply to Qerman Lies Madrid, Jana.ry 20. A aemi-cffioial statement denies the slip, gation of the Cologne Gazette that Spanhb officers 86iring on British hospital-ships in the Mediterranean stated that these vessels transported healthy troops. The statement adds "All the information in
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  • 525 5 COUN IL DEBATE An Important Concession. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singap* re, January 22. At the meeting of the L°gi*l«tive Couooil yesterday, on the motion for the second ending of the Rubber Lands Bill tbe Hon, Mr. Darbisbire said that urder tbe circumstances the passing of tbe smending
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  • 156 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Pages. 2. —War N j ws and Gossip. 3. The Seer of Most of tbs Game. “The Coliseum Passenger* to the Btraits. Statement if Expenditure, Oar D*y, 1917. To-morrow’s Band Programme. 6. —Telegrams. The Position of Rubber. Chinese Wedding
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  • 969 6 REUTER'S TELEGRAM] Arrival of Austrian TroopsLondon, January 20. A telegram from the Hague states that the newspaper Lea Nouvellea states that thf Belgian province of Limburg is filled with Austrian troops who arrived last week. [Thu Cornua Blow i —It iB characteristic of German methods that at
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  • 989 6 ENJOYABLE FUNCTIONS. A Large Gathbbikq Present A large and representative Chinese gathering, with a sprinkliog of Europeans and others, was present at the marriage, which took place in Ipoh yesterday, of Miss Lee Koon Lan, only daughter of Mr, Lee Ah Weng, Hale Street, Ipoh, and
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  • 1044 6 While it is a matter for great satisfaction that German activities in China have for the time being been practically put an end to, w 3 must be careful to avoid tbe mistake of assuming too easily that we have nothing to bar from German competition
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  • 1018 6 Air Oroanisbd Attack, The absence of bear raids has, since ihe outbreak of war, been a feature of the s rare market with the resultthat dealers have for some time past been notoriously short cf shares. Insiders will not sell, but lately atveral organised attempts have
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  • 1112 6 Thh Malay Status. The last issue of the Quarterly Review contains a very interesting article by Mr. Arnold Wright, of which the above headline Is the title. It is based upon a Dumber of official which have been referred to and commented on ia oar own columns.
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  • 177 6 TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The following ties have been fi XBd Wednesday, the 23rd inst. ed for Mixed Doubles—Mr sod Mrs Mr and Mrs Crabb Witt (l) Mr! 7 and Everest i> Mr and Mrs Prantis s) Lhiu Ladies Singles—Mrs Bennett u p° g /vs m,bs jom > mh.
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  • 78 6 Tha following ties have been filed for Wednesday, the 23rd inst. i Teams of Four—H Muir, J Q Allan H Starr and W K Sharpe vW S Dunn, Q'B Fitzgerald, W H Threlfall and AWde W Hartiesi The following ties have been fired for Thursday, the 24th mst.
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  • 76 6 Wbdnisdat, January 23. Town Band, Esplanade. Selangor Turf Club, Race Entries «lose, Thursday. January 24. Kwongtung and Tengchua Public Cemetery, Public Meeting, Town Hill, 2 p m. Friday, January 25. Town Band, Esplanade, Conversion of St. Paul. Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Adjourn ed General Meeting, 2 p.m,
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  • 58 6 The output of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Company for the week ended January 19, was twenty-eight tons. The following are the particulars of output of the Renong Tin Dredging Co,, Ltd., tie ore for the first half of January t No. 1 Dredge 115 pikuls; No. 2
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  • 229 6 i Taiping 15,220 lb. It is a pleasing duty onoe mors to take note of the ‘sterling patriotism manifeited by the British communities in the Straits Settlements and the Federat’d Malay State*. Both in man-power and money they h»n contributed handsomely to the prosecution of the war.
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  • 2368 7 Il f ia explaining the origin j° ttjo French Revolution, lays emphasis on I the equality of condition, education, and m ner which had existed between the nobility and the Third Estate, and the galling inequality of rights. The result was the politic*! revolution of 1789.
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    • 774 7 NOTICE. jg HEREBY GIVEN that rg H r. ivci u > »°S. 0 d i» •>»«'"■ lotereii ««rtaina no business lotere»- parrying on business u from to*d<»yMp. Kapbim Mbeican, petiic? 21st January, 1918. REQUIRED IN LEISURE HOURSTo Suffer or Not to Suffer -.T b e n 'I ™I. T e
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    • 194 7 Penang Golf Club the ANNUAL GERNERAL MEETING will be bald in the Club House on Saturday, 2ad February, 1913, at 6.45 p.m. Business. 1. To receive the Report of the Committea and the accounts for the year 1917 and, if approved, to piss the same. To elect the Officers, Committee
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    • 202 7 > I WANTED. WANTED AT ONCE a Malay D,m-ro tor for B,nfoufc App'j stating Silarj required and previous experienced to THE MANAGER, Ban Ltm CbeargTin Mining. B ntong, vi» K>ob, Upp«r Perak, w ANTED. 10 Ca P rat«° f Br llUnt E rriD weight aboat Apply to Box 39, c/o
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    • 1284 8 p. BRITISH INDIA AND APGAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(Undei Contract with His Majesty's Government.) The Company’s MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present suspended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay as opportunity offers sad as fares ■odation is available.
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