Straits Echo, 2 February 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. SOL. 10. $3O Per Annum. PENANG, SATUKUAY, 2nd FEBRUARY, 1918. Single Copy, lO cents. No. 27.
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    • 71 2 ■> ■t **Y*jf i>SVR A f t •r 7T, H .'M&tg'#»* v; ml». 1 1 1$ I r&*s*w i yo»>> < >' 1 'r- < 'i l >S; to\, "i j rJSI 'Y,' ■Y,'*t .S', r., v; V- -YX v i. c =C^ o< =ip A> <:> z= sp>^i^-i^> j&^vE
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  • 2195 3 It is so difficult to tell the truth at the best of times that it seems to us to be extraordinarily well worth attempting. Every sense we have plays tricks on us, and our very ideal* betray us into falsehood. A lapse of
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    • 449 3 Shake off the Clutch of rheumatism, the greatest enemy to the peace of man. Yon can do it. As evidence of this you have but to consider any one of the thousands of cures 'hat have been effected by the use of LITIXE’S ORIENTAL BALM Many of those cured were
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  • 971 4 While politician, are talking, and Reoonatrvction Committee, and other committee. and sub-committee. are observing an mgust retioenoe, Tommy Atkins ie asking some question. as to his future after the war which, it iB to be presumed, will end some day. One of these question, n, If it
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  • 909 4 Effect of The Rise ih Sii^eb. Peking, Sept. 26. The advance in the price of silver, aod the consequent rise in exchange, have revolution a J the fin*Doi»l position of the Government of China. The doiar to-day is practically worth double its average value oafore the
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    • 149 4 i is i fel a Ki w LI 4 T u Ss *<.. f >'**-' A 5^„/*.*j.,,. y «vt^_ fed* THE S/*V5 gSJESSfc-w 5§a IS ra Leading Penang Boot Store. IN ALL VARIETIES Of r LW I e L«l E£ Si vs. £1 Kj ■rf] 1< C( V j rv.
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    • 49 4 Accidents Will Happen. It may be impossible to prevent an accident, but it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is not beyond anyone’s parse, and with a bottle of this liniment yoa are prepared for almost anything. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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    • 524 4 OFFICES TO LET SECOND FLOOR, B»oif B«iu 5 '7' Dowuiog Strut t particulars apply to the r Hongkong Shanghai Banki Sg Corporation Beni Penang Auction Mart FOR SALE, DAIMLER LANDADLETTE IN FIRST CLASS CONDITION For further particulars apply t O LEAN CHONG HIN, 13, Bishop Street, Penang, 22nd Januay, 1917.
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  • 1201 5  -  [By Tom Wright.] Study of the lustily-growing national debts of Great Britain and France, with their separate and united loans, recalled to my mind an amusing story which, through no fault of its own, no longer seems amusing. It telis of an Irishman locking at the Winged Victory.” Pnwat’s
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  • 449 5 Concluding Day’s Handicaps. (.From Ow Own Correspondent^ Kuala Lumpur, February 1. The following are the Handicaps for the concluding day of the races here i—--1. Thu Klang Starrs. Value $4OO with 15 per oent, of the Cash Sweep as added money. A handicap for all pouies entered
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  • 95 5 Messrs, Sime, D*rby A Co„ Ltd., advise us of particulars of tin outputs from the following companies for the month of January, 1918 as under Kamunting Tin Dredging —Piculs 800; Hours run 655; Yard# treated 57,000; V*>u« of output $61,120 Cost of mining $12,600. I Chrndrriang Tin Dredging
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  • 95 5 straits 235.000, Penang 221,500, Tali Ayer 87,500, Rubana 84,000, Bagan Serai 32 500, Batak Rabit 25.000, Stiawan 13.948, S. S. (Bertam) 120,000 lb. When an eighteen-pounder shrapnel shell explodes it scatters 860 bullets over an area iof 10,000 square yards, ooniderably more 1 than two acres. Thus,
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  • 1022 5 Shakpin—Campbell. The Cbuich of the Assumption was on Thursday afternoon the te a ne of a popular wedding, the Rev. L. M. Duvelle officiating at the marriage of Mr. Harry Douglas Shtrpio, of the Hongkong and Shanghai B»nkiag Corporation, Rangoon, to M'ss Doris Catherine Campbell, youngest daughter of
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    • 577 5 attractions fxtraor diary 3 To-night at 10-15 To-night FRERERIC SHIPMAN PRETENTS TBE hs r 1 «r fantastics Songs, Solos, Duets, Tries, Musical Monologues, Dialect Stories, Imitations etcEmpire Theatre 9^ Business Manager Thomas Shafto. t«H AT 9-15 METRO’S VVonderplay of patriotism starring the beautiful and gifted joung actress. Miss E i
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    • 470 5 WANTED, A N EFFICIENT CLERK for t Rubber Estate. Apply to, QOH TAIKCHEE <fc SON. EMPTY GLASS JAnS which contained Acetic acid. Apply stating quantity and price to Box No. 86, e/o Straits Echs WA.3XTTED. AN EXPERINCED Book-keeper. Good salary to start with. Capable men only need apply, Eastbkn Tbadino
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  • 100 6 LI V PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Dally Local $80 per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) «18 per annum. Cable Address: ’‘ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586. Printing Department 343. M.H.—
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  • 1395 6 An employer of labour to whom we rpoke the ether day had very little to sty in favour of youths reared and engaged locally. Ia point of fact, be made a vtry gfvere indictment Toey write badly, are rot too careful in tbe matter of bookkcep’.tg, are rot too
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  • 30 6 Lateat Quotation*. Tin (unrefined) is quoted beta to-day at $137.00, buyers no sellers, in Singapore, (refined) at $137 50, buyers no sellora and in London at 4295,195. three months.
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  • 822 6 COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES. The Secretaries forward the following excerpts from the Minutes of a Meeting of the Committee of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held in the Chamber on Tuesday, 29th January 1918, at 2 30 p m. Present: A. F Goodrich Esq., Chairman, 0. M.
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  • 26 6 (From Our Own Correspondent London, January 31, The prices in the London Rubber Market >o*day were! Pale Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Smoked 1M 2/2f
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  • 1002 6 Good Business I We read in the Straits Tim,.', r Share Market report for Thursday Lo<nl Uniteera, buyers $19 50, seller, tiq There ought to be no difficulty ma, business at these quotations, unless Jl D|? sellers persisted in taking 50 cent, lfi P a r ?L P
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    • 203 6 •Sj •8 *3 t fc* fc* WHEN YOU STOP TO HIE It stands to ref-son we can supply your Drug Needs to your advantage better than any other firm in the Straits. We purchase Drugs etc. in enormous quantities for our Depots at Penang, Taiping aud Ipoh and the advantage
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  • 1204 7 [Ksctir’s Tuluoramb.] M ANY LEADERS ARRESTED. LAW PROCLAIMED. ggvamsst Spreading to the MinesAmsterdam, Jauury 30. gocUlist representatives from all parts of 0ernJlD y sod Austria are arriving in Berlin, 1,0 the Rbenish and Westphalian deputies «to report that the comers are joining the dement in ever-increasing
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  • 545 7 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REPORT. General Liveliness London, January 31, 11.55 s.m, Sir Douglas Haig reports that our patrols secured some prisoners in the neighbourhood of Epehy. Hostile artillery was aotive to the south and north of Lons and in the neighbourhood of Passchendaele. More Prisoner* TakenLondon,
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  • 672 7 TROOPSHIP DESTROYER TORPEDOED. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Henry Loss of LifeLondon, January 30, 415 p.m. The Admiralty losses announced in the House of Commons on the 23rd were transport Areujtn torpedoed and sunk on December 30, the auxiliary Oemanieh mined and sunk on December 81, both in the same locality in the
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  • 541 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] FRE3H COMPLICATIONS. More Delegates on Both Sides. Amsterdam, January 31. At the Pesce Conference at Brett-Litovsk when the sittings were resumed, Baron tod Kaehlmann announced that Bavaria would be specially represented, while M. Trotzkv announced th«t two representatives of the Ukranian People’s Republio had been incorporated
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  • 517 7 [Rrwtrr’s Trlrobams.] BOMB3 ON PARI3. The German Version. London, Janaary 31, 4 55 p.m. A wireless German official message state» As a reprisal for the bombing of German open towns, our aviators dropped fourteen tons of bombs on Paris last night during the course of our
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  • 69 7 The following articles will be found ob oar outside pages Pages. 3. It is Better to Tell the Truth. 4. —When Peaoe Comes. The Finanoei of China. 5. Adversaria. Selangor Turf Club. Tin Outputs, Janaary Rubber Crops. Looal Wedding. B.—Chinese Will Case. Free Fight ia Hongkong. Telegrams, Church Services,
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  • 50 7 Obituary. Mr. Alfred RothaehlldLondoo, February 2 The death it announoed of Mr. Alfred Rothschild, [Mr. Alfred Charles de Rotheshild wae a partner in Rothschild A Bona and was formerly a director of the Bank of England. He was a trustee of both the National Gallery and of the Wallace Oelleotion.]
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  • 546 8 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] A GREAT EFFORT. Pood and Troops for Europe London, February 1, 7 25 a mA cable from New York states that meaaurea have been announced for intensifying the efforts for supplying food and troopa to Europe. Shipping oontrol committees hare been established to direct
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  • 67 8 Saturday, February 2. Penang Golf Club, Annual General Meeting, 6.45 p.m. Penang Golf Club, Gold Medal Competition. Purification—Candlemas. Selangor Raoea. Sunday, February 8. St. Blaise. Sexagesima Sunday. Monday, Fnbbuaby 4. Town Band, Esplanade. Menglembu Lode Syndioate, Ltd,, Annua) General Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 3 pm. WBDNRSDAY, FEBRUARY
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  • 178 8 FINANCE AND THE WAR. Gloomy Prussian Outlook. Paris, February 2, 2 a.m, Herr Hergt, Prussian Minister of Fmanoe, declared this week that adding to tbe expenses that had been already incurred by the German Empire, the expenses that tbe near future will call for, forty-five per oent. of
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  • 131 8 Paris, February 2, The effect of the raid on Paris by the German Gothas last night was not to frighten tbe population who showed much curiosity, following tbe evolutions in the sky of the hostile machines. It did however arouse indignation against German barbarity and
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  • 96 8 Molting at VersaillesParis, February 2, 2 a.m. The Inter-Allied War Council met on Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock in the Trianon Palace at Versailles. Tbe allied nations represented at tbe meeting were France, represented by M. Ciemence&n, Generals Petain, Focb and Weigtnd England, represented by Mr. Lloyd
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  • 265 8 Two European Oppicbrs Killed. The Straits Times culls the following aooonnt of a most sensational aff-av which occurred in Hongkong on January 22 from one of the Hongkong papers:—There had b9en an armed robbery in which a contractor had been bound and gagged, and it was
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  • 66 8 February 3, Sexagesima. 800 a.m. Matins 880 a m. Holy Communion 10-30 a.m, Matins (Chinese) 5- p.m. Children’s Bervioa 6- p.m. Evensong Hymn 282 Psalms XVIII Wesley and Dnptais Magnificat 50 Nunc Dimittia 66 Anthem O worship the King Hymns 290 27, and 36 On Wndnnsday.
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  • 34 8 9-00 a.m. Children’s Service, 6-00 pm. Public Worship. Preacher Rev. D. J. Ross, m.A, Hymns 680, 159, 223, 224 and 516, Choir Praotioe on Thursday at 7 p,m,
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  • 4184 8 FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. Mori Exprrt Evidrnoi In the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr, Ju-tice L M. Woodward, Senior Puisne Judge, tbe hearing was continued of a suit "In the goods of Choong Cheng Rian, deceased, Lim Gaik Teen Neob, plaintiff rs. Lim Gaik Kee, Choong Lye Hock
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  • 2333 9 c 0 Dividend, to C Na'ja -o f > a. i c ‘5 Capital Skar»■ i*o u^d j "2 0 £> 2 laat lmfar e arras Name s 3 *—1 aS Od eiai year. jaar. ►t 0 1 n CO cr 1 l RBBBER—BELLA* .«HAKES. ct S cts 1*99
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    • 321 9 igufl BAZlEY WHITE J X BROTHERS' PORTLAND CEMENT., «LION brand SindilBods, Bultarj Go Y» agents. Penang F.M.S. 1HE SWASTHYA SAHAY4 PILLS. BAXTER &> Co 's BEST NAVY CANVAS. scndilands buttery e c 0 WONG KIM MUN, Bishop St. Penan surest and most efficacious remedy A J u9 Debility Bodily Weakness,
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  • 882 10 By otruin sound» from arc and the cornar of tbo verandah —grant», »Up«, aplaahes and the rattle of a kerosene-tin —I knew that blaok Mary had a job to “scrub-em Poor” Preaently ahe turned the corner, and aat up on her keels. She waa inching an obviously
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  • 58 10 Paris, January 29. The transport Droit* and the trawler KtrUkmn were sunk by striking mines off Marseilles; forty are missing. There have been desperate engagements between the ninth Siberian Division and tbe Rumanians near Galatz, Internal war prevails all over Russia, The Rada of Ukraine has been
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  • 882 10 A GROUND (FaOM A “Txm*8” Corb*. It is natural that i n the.® tumult many men’s mind. i* 7 0 V. those Scriptures which declai m I. terror of a world at strife «A* Lord of All will be tr ‘taelf arbiter of human de.tinv t!**"
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    • 12 10 For Ohildrea’a Hacking Oomgh at Night Wood*' Great Peppeiaiat Omre la. Id.
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  • 1300 11 ARCHBISHOP OP YORK’S VIEWS. SOCIALISM a “Sick System” Now In the course of a debate in the House of Lords on the reports of the Commission of Inquiry into Industrial Unrest, the Archbishop of York said that the working classes were only sharing the unrest which
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  • 627 11 HofkB or a Russian Recovery, Lenin, Trotzky, and Co. are making haste to complete the work of their German masters before the march of events and the recovered sanity of the Russian people can put a stop to it. They are probably under no illusion sb to
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    • 230 11 Grossmith’s “Golden Still” Eau de Cologne Wonderful freshness, invigorating quality and delightful odour, distinguish thi3 really high-class Eau de Cologne, which is undoubtedly the finest production of its kiad. It is manufactured from the p arest ingredients and blended with ine knowledge derived from nearly one hundred years’ daily practice.
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