Straits Echo, 6 March 1918

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    36 1 Straits Echo *gr DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $3O Per Annum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, ©th MARCH, 1918. Single Copy, to cents. No, 64,
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      34 2 ol ami OF EVERY Momi Cases. Acetic Acid. English Tapping Knives. Changkols. Wire Nails. Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. KATZ OTHERS 9 (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) PENANG. aigjfcifll
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    The Great Offensive.
    1470 3 Th e Great Offensive. Germany and the Balkans. la no oibtir W4 b»ve the proph ts been 1 so coDbirtfrut iy contcuodtd «8 in tbe present < Wur.d aoj M F/auk Hi uj mo ad 8, < 'D bUggestlug t(•«bt Gsiinauy la about to 1 strike a mighty blow at
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    Starving Germans.
    520 3 Situation a Tragedy. The Berne coir spondent of the New York World interviewed a prominent neuiral, who r. turned to after several months iu Germany. He says tbe food situation is a tragedy. Ooly the richest are able to stave off tbe pangs of hunger. Djgs seldom are
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      623 3 bad breath. THE TONGUE IS THE INDEX. Your breath is foul. You do not perceive it yourself. You are like a person who is always among the oils and varnishes—you get used to what is to many people |gjj a most obnoxious smell. It is most disagreeable to those with
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      92 3 Chamber lain’s Coo*h Remedy. When you bare a bad cold you want a remedy that wid not only ei*« relief, but ef feet a prompt *od permanent cor», a remedy that is pleasant to take, a remedy that contains nothing i jurions. Chamberlain Couch Remedy meet** all these rf qmrements.
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      12 3 For Children’s Hacking Ooigh »t Mgbt. Weed' Greet Peppermint Onra Is. M.
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      484 3 A Great Ideal And A Great Tonic Iron Jelloids. A Great Ideal is placed before the world by Bertholdi’s Colossal Statue of Liberty, which greets the traveller entering New York Harbour To a robust constitution alone is pcssib’c the fulfilment of great ideals. Maintain your strength by maintaining the number
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    The Silent Farm.
    1175 4 A WINTER ALLEGORY. (From a. Time* Cokbkspondkht.) The old farm, now that the trees are bare, the skies bleak, and the roads fr outbound, ii far other than what it waa in July, and a stranger, coming here for the fi.st time, might well wish, if he
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    PRODUCE.
    215 4 Pbnako, March 6. 3. P. Tapioca ttl P. TVpioc. Gold leaf SO Pepper (W.Coast 3 lb. 5 os)*sl6 n Black Pepper w 7 White Pepper ba Jer« Trang Popper *0 nom.ntl 11.0. -»32 Mlon Mace Pickings 49 Ji?** cioves ,eller Nutmegs 110, 4!^ s g,r i£? t C.„.ste I
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    Market Prices.
    297 4 Penang, March 6, 1918. Buev— tit, Soup per cattyl6—lB Roast Ml Sf 36 Pteaki r> 36 Stew or Curry Meat If 22-24 Rump Steak 86 Ox Tail each 35—40 Tongue m 55—60 Feet 1, Heart ~40 —50—60 Liver per catty 45 Fillet of Beef 60—64 Pork Pork per
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      227 4 Whitemv, Laidlaw k Co. LIMITED■ (Incorporated In England.) Complete House Furnishers i; H K T b K ¥1 C A T T X" i: i: ii N T F n it it K F F K THE'CHORLTON” BEDROOM SUITE IN CHENCHAI PASIR POLISHED WALNUT, MAHOGANY OR NATURAL COLOUR. AT \if
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      50 4 Why It Sells. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the largest selling cough medicine in the world to-day because it does exactly what a oongb maedy is supposed to do. It stops the cough by oaring the cold* and does it speed ily and effectually. For sale by all disper'«riee and dealers
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      531 4 Shake Off the Clutch of rheumatism, the greatest enemj to the peace of man. You can do it. A a evidence of this you have but to consider any one of the thousands of cures that have effected by th use of LITTLES ORIENTAL BALMMany of those cured were told
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    Penang Library.
    381 5 Annual Qenesal Meeting, The anou«i geourai meeting ut toe members of the Penang Library was held at the Library yesterday, the Hon. Mr. W. C. Michell, K sident Councillor, presiding, Toe o'hers present Messrs. R. H. Pioborn, Y-oh Gu*n Beok, L. M. Bell, toe R-v. K-ppel Gamier, Dr.
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    Alluvial Tin Mining.
    401 5 Bona Hole Results and Dredging. The Malayan Tin and Eubbsr Journal culls a few rematks by Mr. J. Malcolm Newman on bucket dredging for tin from coe Mining Magatins, Mr. Ncwmio, who is now on active service is quoted as not .icing enamoured of the bucket dredge
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    Tin Outputs.
    60 5 The output and profits from the Kramat Pulai, Limited for the month of February, were s From the Mine—Otftput Dressed Ore 216 74 piculs Estimated Profit $l2 500. From Tributors—Output Dressed Ore 376 77 picu’s Estimated Profit $12,800. The total output of the Tronoh Miner, Ltd,, mines from
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    February Rubber Crops.
    123 5 Ayer Kuniog (F.M.S 57.600, Bradwall (F,M 8.) 42.040, Chersonese (F.M.S.) 47,277, Dannistown (K;ian F.M.S,) 38 000, Highlands Lowlands Para 98.543, Klabang 22,078, Krian 12,330, Bungei Krian 41,436, Bungei Way (Belangor) 37 742, Perak River Valley 16 806, Semangrol 11,606, Jam 9,000, Kong Lae (P r*k) 860, Alma
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    Coroner’s Inquiries.
    444 5 A verdict of death by misadventure was returned by tbe Coroner, Mr. 8. H. Langston, regarding Low Teng, a coolie, who was to death by the fall of a wall on tbe 18 h ultimo while he was at work at godown No 2 Penang Harbour Board. The
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    Singapore News.
    152 5 CFrom Our Own Correspondent,') Bukit Tixah Rubber. Singapore, March 6. In their report of the Bukit Timah Rubber Estate, Ltd., the directors recommend a final dividend of 2£ par cent, making 10 per cent, for the year, absorbing the sum of $12,500, the transfer of tbe sum of
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    Penang Polo Club.
    321 5 Blue Cross Fund. Already Acknowledged $1,305 C. O. Barlow 10 Jas. Stark 10 G. H. Pritchard 25 Total $1 350 Our reporters are a hardworking and efficient body of men who pride themselves on the faot that nothing happens in Penang without their knowing about it if
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      206 5 A TONIC NEEDED No particular disease, but jour system lacks tone. Your work drags. Ordinary tasks become bard. You find yourself tired, low-spirted, unable to keep your mind on anything, unable to get aound sleep at night. Debility is robbing you of your power. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
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    The Straits Echo.
    96 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pabllc>bolidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Local $3O per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo) SB6. Printing Department 343. M.R.— All business communications should
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    GERMANY’S AMBITION.
    894 6 Tbs ides of welding together a great Middle European State, or federation of States, to be dominated by Germany, seems for the present to have displaced in the minds of the German expansionists the idea of the overthrow of Britain’s sea supremacy by the German fliet. The '‘Mittel-Europa”
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    Tin.
    24 6 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to day at $l4B 75, buyers no sellers, in Singapore (refined) at $149, buyers no sellers.
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    Rubber Still Rising.
    26 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.') London, March 2. The prioes in the Loudon Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/5 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/5
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    The F. M. S. Rubber Duty.
    253 6 STILL AN INIQUITOU3 DIFFERENCE Says the F.M S. Government Gazette For the period from March 8 to 14, 1918, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at two shillings and four penoe per lb., and the duty on cultivated rubber
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    M. A. P.
    1000 6 Prince Albert bai been promoted naval lieutensnt. H. R. H. is said to be a very promising youth, in spite of his persistent bad health. Mr. H. H. Stevens, Assistant District Officer, Kuala Kangsar, has been appointed a Magistrate of the First ClaBS in and for the
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    979 6 Artemus Ward, Charles Brown, one of the earliest and brightest writers of what in England is recognised as American humour, died at Southampton on March 5, 1867. He had come over with some diffidence to give hia comic lectures, but he was most cordially welcomed in London, and
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      104 6 PRI 'T m**f> A STORES BEST ENGLISH II i14 Hi ESS \vV BtrriMii BLACK LEATHER HARNESS WITH BRASS MOUNTS PONY €OB HOHu d $85-00. $95-00 $110-00. FIRST UlAMTT BLACK LEATHER HARNESS WITH E.P. SILVER MOUNTS PONY COB HOBSi $125-00 $135-00. $145-00. CSSS 10% DISCOUNT FOR CASH, <? 9 91 w
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    CENTRAL POWERS AND RUSSIA.
    703 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] hostilities suspended. the New Peace TreatyLondon, March 4, 5 30 p m. olpflg Russian official communique, A !‘?hnt General Krylenko, the Bolshevik **nder-in-Cbief, has ordered the mi tn ceft80 hostilities but to remain m Bassianfl cc nretent positions “T’Tbticles op the treaty. 0onditions 3
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    RUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS.
    606 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Negotiations to be Opened. London, March 4 A message from Jassy states that a Rumanian Crown Council, at whxoh the King presided, decided to reply to the enemy ultimatum received on March 1, that Rumania has decided to enter into peace negotiations with
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    657 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] BIG COUP DE MAIN. Useful Haul of Prisoners Liodon, March 5, 2.10 a.m. The French communi ud says East of the Meuse we carried out an extensive coup de main in a snowstorm, I penetrating to the fourth enemy line on a front of 1,200 metres
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    THE IRISH QUESTION.
    671 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] HOPES OF A COMPROMISE Tht Federal SystemLondon, March 5. Sir Edward Carson has been re-elected Chairman of the Irish Unionist Party. The Daily Telegraph states that an effort is being made to interest members of Parliament in a project to establish the federal system in
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    Local Domestic Tragedy.
    223 7 A Cantonese woman, mistress of a local Chinese, complained to-day at the Chinese Protectorate of having been ill-treated by her protector and prayed for a separation from him. The latter denied the allegation of ill-treatment. After the case was over and while the woman was getting into
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    LANSDOWNE AND PEACE.
    740 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ANOTHER LETTER. Conciliatory Remarks London, March 5, 8.20 a m. Lord Lansdowne in another letter to the Daily Telegraph thinks that Count Heriliag’s speech marks a perceptible advance in discussion. la contains, firstly, a dist.not expression of the wish that responsible representatives of the belligerents
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    THE LATE SIR STANLEY MAUDE.
    575 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] NATIONAL GRANT TO HIS WIDOW. The Premier’i Fine Tribute. London, Maroh 4, 5.35 p.m. In moving a grant of £25,000 to Lady Maude, the Premier said that the servioe g wbioh General Sir Stanley Maude had rendered to the Empire in Mesopotamia were
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    Outside.
    60 7 The following articles will be foind on our outside pages Pages. 3. —The Great Offensive, Starving Germans. 4. —The Silent Farm. 5. —Penang Library. Tin Outputs. February Rubber Crops. Alluvial Tin Mining. Coroner's Inquiries Penang Polo Clnb, B.—The Irish Problem. The Military and the Public. To-day’s Band Programme. Mr.
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    Mr. Asquith and the War.
    1024 8 Since tbe war began there has been no Ei'gii-h scat buoad woo has approached Mr. At-quitb io thj extraoi dinary felicity with winch be has expressed the turns ot the fiee peoples in this war. From fi at to last bis single ard cons stent
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    The Military and the Public.
    648 8 Air India.it Compla.int, We observe that the officer commanding tbe Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles adverts in Regimental Orders to an Occasional Note appearing in our issue of January 15th last. Tbe purpose of tbe paragraph was to call the attention of the Government here in
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    To-day’s Band Programme.
    245 8 The following programme of musio will be played at the Esplanade to-day at spm j—--1 Section Marco Visconti Petrella 2 Galop The Great Eioitetnent Lirocbe 3 Selection The Contrabandists Sallivso 4 Waltz Rosalie Lirocbe 5 Maroh Pash Clouds Away Elliott Th 9 Canadian Government is planning to
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    The Irish Problem.
    2061 8 Batsbd or thu English. The greater Dumber ot Euglishmen, whether Unionists or Home Ruieis, c»n do j more be got to believe that the bu>k of Southern Irish—tbe bulk of the men aod women from whom tbe Sinn Feioers ate drawn —frankly and sincerely hate us, than
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    The Week’s Events.
    67 8 WlDUMDix, M 4 Ca Town Biind, Esplanade. Thursday, March 7 Mfletinfir of Oho ch Workers’ x Sc. Georgia Girls’ H St. Andew’s Pre.h® ,10 m Annual Business Meeting p h,rcl1 Friday, Marge 8 Town Band, Esplanade. Saturday, March 9, Town Band, Golf Club. Suedat, Marge 01. Fourth
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      383 8 A COATED TONGUE and a tainted breath' point to bile. If you also nave indigestion, constipation and headaches then your liver needs attention £[AR8H cathartios only aggravate the trouble- Gentle assistance is what nature ■eeda to establish regular habits of health P INKETTEO THE TINY LAXATIVES U free from habit
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      50 8 Accidents Will Happen. It mty be impossible to pro rent an accident, bat it it not impossible to be prepared (or it. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is not beyond anyone's parse, and with a bottle of this liniment job are prepared for almost anything. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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    SHARES.
    2276 9 “T- 0 a Dividend. Nambe c t m Q, 1 •s o h CspiUl. Star•, issued. £> telnet in anfer a arrant Fa»« s h I -eu 1 s m X eial jear. year. 0 n i 9 CP RUBBER—BOLLAR SHARK*. 9 cts. 1 cts HOC iw: 1 l!«,«o*
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      283 9 NOTICE. NatitK is berfbv ifiT j n that I have tbia 0* rf k?d and cancelled tbe follow- <f A'tor my: rbe p>r*on or i»H r named c*nnot act any longer i atl t b V e p,»pr of Attorney dated 13th day f lprill905 in favour of KiWana Sheyna
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    Utopia.
    2163 10 When tbe 8peak«r of the House of Com- mona desorbed the idea of a League of Nations tbe other day ss Ufopian,” be l apologetically expressed tbe hope that he would not be thought to be carping. Wart afraid that it is not the custom to use the word
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      98 10 It is bat a abort st r p from a chill d oondi ion of the body to Pneumonia and cnlpss the chill be driven off that second serious <*oi di r ion is reached, sometimes in les* thar 24b« a r 8. Arp'v this warning to y urs«>lf when
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    The Kerensky Regime.
    3019 11 LAST HOUK8 OF 1 HE LIJTaToRsHIP. An Historic Siege Not without considerable difficulty the Morning bo»t correspondent in Petrograd has succeeded in sending to bis journal a long despatch (dated November 10), of which the following is a portion describ ing the last hours of the Kerensky
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      192 11 E. 0. Hotel. SPECIAL TIFFIN EVERY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY. TRANSLATION. THE UNDERSIGNED nndertakes ro translate any docament from Englufc iato Chinese and Tice versa, Alto China t accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale (1) For translation for insertion tb« 8trait* Echo or the Piuanf Sin Pot or to
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      49 11 Why It S*-IU. Change !*>nV o-. *rf< K t kt if Bed tb d o-*J«.y b uohi it di*a exactjy *h*f oaieJy >* supposed to do. It atopa the coaph by canog the cold, aad does it apeed* ilj and effect «ally. For aale by all di|. peaaariet aad dealer*.
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