Straits Echo, 27 February 1918

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OP EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL* 16* s:iO Per Annum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 27th FEBRUARY, 1918. Single Copy, lO cents. No. 48.
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    • 1276 1 mi m mm* N ‘--£V. -.iTTSaBStt IF YOU WANT COMFORT GO TO THE Undermentioned Garage For Brand New Cars for Lire day and night Telephone Nj 694. Telegraphic Add es HOKIMTEIK. <BANKS > II Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (Incorporated in England by Royal Charter.) Hongkong and Shanghai
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    • 32 2 OF EVERY Momi Cases. Acetic Acid. English Tapping Knives. Changkols. Wire Nails. Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze KAT 1 9 (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) i PENANG.
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  • 1942 3 trian guns and frightful havoc made of the sacred fane». If the Germans are the Hans, the Austrians are the Goths of the Twentieth Century. The Submarine Menace, The submarine campaign is slightly decreasing and the menace is being kept further from our shores, although there
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    • 537 3 BAD BREATH. THE TONGUE IS THE INDEX. Your breath is foul. You do not perceive it yourself. You are like a •rr. II m rv m A coated tongue indicate* a tout breath. person who is always among the oils and vai nishes you get used to whac is to
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    • 592 3 STATESMAN And A Great Tonic Iron Jelloids. Strength of Character, Strength of Will, Strength of Intellect make the Gfeat Statesman. WILLIAM PlTT—the Younger. All have their source in the material loly—all depend upon the red corpuscles of the blood. Maintain the l umber of your red corpuscles, these are the
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  • 749 4 preliminary arrangements. PROPOSED PROGRAMME DRAFTED. Preliminary arrangements are now being made for bolding the sec.nd Agricultural Conference of Malaya and a General Committee haa been formed representing the District Planting Associations, together with four members of the Agricultural Department to discuss the various details in connection with
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  • 230 4 8. P. Tap^oc»** 0 F,,M T 27 M. P. Tapioca P Nleri Gold leaf ®25 iell 9r|< I £?PP“ r (W.Coaat 3 lb. 5 Black Pepper l fi bn yer White Pepper bn yer| Trang Pepper ,M n °minal Mace t?,T ,on °*«r Mace Pickings n om. Cloves 48
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  • 271 4 Pekang, Fbbruaet 27, 1918. Beef- Soup per cattj!6—18 Roast 28-30 Pteaks 28-30 Stew or Curry Meat 20—30 Rump Steak 28—30 Ox Tail each 35—40 Tongue 50—51 •9 Feet each Heart 40—50 Liver per catty 40-45 Fillet of Beef 60—44 Pork Pork per catty 60-62 with fat 40-45 Pig’s
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    • 193 4 WMteaway, Laidlaw k Co., LI Ml TED. (Incorporated in England.) Complete House Furnishers S K li K C T K D T I Ifl Ml E K I E N T I i A T i: s F R E E THE'CHORLTON” BEDROOM SUITE IN CHENCHAI PASIR POLISHED WALNUT, MAHOGANY
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    • 12 4 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cere Is, 6d,
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    • 451 4 JONG-KEENA (BLACK LABEL) FOR CATTLE AND POULTRY. As a result of the wonderful effects of Jong-Keena as a remedy for human ailments, the Proprietor has been experimenting wiih the preparation in treating diseased cattle, and poultry and is now able to offer to the public a sure and certain cure
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  • 907 5 Accused Discharged. In the Ku-la Lumpur Court on Friday last H- D M ff ir, uatil recuatiy a private to the M d V.H, w»8 chirk'd by Lieut-Col lyta with oaeating Dy ftlsdy representing mat he wished to go to the Loot, but would settle bis lubil
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  • 99 5 Thu Curbbxt Ratrs. For the period from tbe Ist to the 7th March, 1918, inclusive, tbe value of the biphest grade of rubber is fixed st two shillings and three pence per lb., and the duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is k viable on
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  • 982 5 We have received the following official statement It furnishes yet another and a v»ry striking exposition of the extremely difficult position that Holland has been in since tbe oommeneem* nt of hostilities > A striking instanoe of the attempts of Germany to oompel the Dutch shipbuilders to
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  • 602 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Mr. Gerard's EevelatiensLoodoD, February 23. The Timet publishes the fi it instalment of a new book on Germauy by exAmbassador Gerard. In this the* former representative of the United Btatei in Berlin gives bis impressions of the K-dser snd the workings of absolute monarchical rule.
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    • 655 5 V jHfjTTfTJfTWWMWWWWWWTWmWfffftj)| rjt TRIKTOR H. J. A. HOLM. MAN AO ICR: THOMAS SHAFTOA Tremendous Program that Compels Attention. At> 10.40 “EDDIE F* O L- O IN THE GRAY GHOST Epi» des -5 andfi, '‘Plunder'’ and “The House of Mystery.” At 9 4». A FIVE REEL RED FEATHER FEATURE A CHILD
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    • 12 5 For Children’s BUeking Coogh at Night Wood' Greet Peppermint Cnra la, 6d.
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    • 473 5 KWONC SENG 43. LEITH STREET, PENANG. FIRST CLASS TAILORS. Moderate charges and good workmanship guaranteed. Cutter: AH BOON. 134 A trial it tolicited. SALE. Wooden Steamer —Single Screw. Gross Tonnage 59. May bn inspected in Penang Roads, on application to ADAMSON, GILFILLAN A Co.. Ltd. Agentt. Cocoanut Plantation and Building
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  • 96 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sondays and public holidays AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Local $3O pep annum. Outstation Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) 586. Printing Department 343. N.B.—All business communication* should
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  • 1291 6 As the Straits Echo car, we think, claim to have played acme part in waking the European planters up to the iniquity of the present system of assessing the F.M.B. rubber expoit duty, we naturally rejoice it the resolution passed at the P.A.M- masting yesterday. At the same
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  • 928 6 Tbe Hon. Mr. A. N. Keoiou has returned from India, The Rev. E. N. Qreenhow has left Ipoh for Seremban. He waa seen iff bj a number of bia parishioners. Mr. W. T. Chapman haa arrived in Kuala Lumpur to act at tbe Cbineae Protectorate for Mr.
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  • 483 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] FBOM THE INDIAN OCEAN Long List of Sinkings London, February 2S TbeAdo.ir.lt, w,tb the German official report that the auxiW ormser Wolf his returned after a 8ft months’ cruis-, that it i. presumed she *2 m the Indian and Pacific Oceans the follow mg vessels,
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  • 28 6 (From Our Own Correspondent-) London, February 21. The prices in the London Bibber Mirksl to-day were: Pale Crepe 2 4 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2 3$
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  • 65 6 Latest Quotations Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to*d»7 (146 business done, in Singapore a at $146 75, buyers no sellers,»™' London, at £314 spot and at £3ll months. .l.* Messrs, Boustead A Co inforct, a» the following were the quotations f or K on .pot in London
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    • 184 6 The best in quality for the least money. You are not buying an Experiment when you go in for “Coincible” Cycle. Nothing cheap about it except price. Fitted with Palmer or Bate’s Tyres with Lucas Bell and Lamp Complete Price $7 9. IS S §©GJ3 &@EKE§ Hood selection of Motor
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  • 1301 7 RUSSIA GERMANY. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] the terms of peace. SITUATION AT PEII OOEAD. A Threatening Pro:lamation LoadoD. February 24. 4 15 pm. A cable from Petrograd states that the General St.ff of Petrograd has issued a «reclamation declaring roartia'-law in the L and announcing that all thieves, counterrevolutionary agitators, German spies
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  • 604 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Negotiations OpenedLondon, February 24. Barou von Kueh'manu, Count Czarnin aud M. Radoslav ff began negotiations with General Averescu at Bukhae-t on Saturday, They demanded territorial acquisitions for Bulgaria and economic advantages for Aus-tria-Hungary. General Averescu w~s granted a few days’ grace for the Rumanians
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  • 1315 7 [Ukutkb’s Telegrams.] Inter-Allied Conference. The Final ResolutionLondon, February 24. The la'er Allied Socialist Conference concluded by adopting a War-Aims Memor.ndum practical’y identical with the British Labour Memorandum cabled from the Daily Telegraph on August 10 and December 17. Ths clause as regards Alsace-Lorraine was strengthened as
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  • 539 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] BRITISH OPERATIONS. Vivid Description. Lendon, February 25, 6-30 am, R uter’s correspondent with the British Army in Palestine wiring on 22ad instant says tbat the lull in the operations sicoe the Nev Year, due to oold wet weathsr and the necessity of strengthening the lengthened lines
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  • 249 7 The following articles Will be fend OS our entside pages Pagas. 3, War News and Gossip. 4, —F M.S, Agricultu al Conference. 5, —The Moffat Case. F. M. 8. Rubber Duties. Germany and Holland. Telegrams, B.—P.A M. 10.—German War Profit. Home Rule for India. 11—A Raid on Eogland. The
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  • 11 7 Obituary, London, February 24. The death is announced of Earl Brassey.
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  • 6101 8 QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING. QUESTION OF SUNDAY LABOUR. i IVTUREBTIUG DlSCUSSIONl. The quarterly general meeting of the Planters Association of Malay*,' held at the Penang Chambar of Commerce yesterday, was attended by the delegates of different District Associations and severs 1 visitors were also present. Those present included
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  • 2334 9 a? 1 J 8 Dividend a 1 o Nm5i flu •'5 St CtplUl. Bkarr icvssd. 0 m 1 fc> nj 5 tlast Imeial year. far current jear. Warn* 5 N 0 m s 3 so 1 Cf 1 KUBBER—B9LLAR BMAKEB. 8 ets 8 ets 1)6* 9 1 !#,#*'> WO.*00
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    • 496 9 life without health is living death ETAR ZOnervef^ TI,U rrmtrkable compound, the latest discovery of model- times, is without equal in all case? nerve and brain power, whether induced by worry, overwork, dissipation, or othei o'S' sleeplessness, palpitation, defective circulation, nervous dyspepsia, tic or neural*!» tnflu iHts menial and bodily
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  • 1034 10 M. Andre Cblradame, the eminent autho* lily on Pan-Germauiem, ba# just issued a cimpblet on German War Profits and the German .Formula, “No Annexations, No Indemnities.’ In three years, writes M, Cfadradame, the domain of Prussian militarism has increased from an area of 540,000 equal* kilometres inhabited
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  • 1108 10 Wren «““ion* (°o r th B Ddi, C0,,*,. 0 «Piration. which k lhe B J ,01M But the fact t C h b b P'Mideut of th„‘ Mr 8*»« itself rather .igmficaut of the f 8 demand tor Horn, Kule" 'f* ‘bat tu naturaf growth of
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    • 161 10 V a mm mm* a The Allied Governments S Have Bought Over i w»iirri(l n RITERS To Equip their New Armies Compare the work and you too will choose the ROYAL Typewriter,—the t S'- ,i j machine that makes big organizations 1 i' 5 complete. To «I i iki a
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    • 266 10 1 rr ri i—[•*4 “Ke«p the Blood Pure.** 1 j WBMfU caEassBzsjKv For ti:e Blood i£ I* the Life," Mixture If you suffer, fro,,, any such disease as mentioned below, don’t waste time and money on lotions or ointments whicfi cannot get below the surface of the skin. What you
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    • 9 10 Par Children’s Hacking Coigh »t Weed' Grenfc Psppenni»! o«r*
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  • 951 11 jl w Tomm7 Kkkps On Smiling yy VV !p. on bis return from what M ore of the ppri"d'C*l j >y-rid*s b ed C itifrh Foreign Office and the b C ifi ff organise from time to time to oeDer r,fiiun« an oipoHun.ty to visit tbe I,el
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  • 865 11  -  Will the Germans Bisk It f (By A Military Correspondent). Among the many criticisms levelled at the Government in regard to its man-power policy, we find frequent reference to the retention in England of a large and com* paratively well-trained body of men under Lord French,
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    • 1312 12 P. C. —BRITISH IMIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies"lncorporated in England MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGSwith His Majesty’s Government.) The Company’s MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present ««pended Passengers for Europe are hooked via Bomba} as opportunity offers and as far a* acsemmodatien is available. The
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