Straits Echo, 26 March 1918
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Straits Echo
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Title Section34 1918-03-26 1 Straits Echo RONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. S3O Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, 26th AIARCH, 1918. Single Copy, lo cents. 1*0. 7i>34 words
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Advertisement1142 1918-03-26 1 m km /t, '«I I ni 3- <W 1 IS rM trtsi IF YOU WANT COMFORT GO TO THfi Undermentioned Garage H For Brand New Cars for hire j DAY AND NIGHT Telephone No 694. Telegraphic Add e.s: HOKIMTEIK. BANKS. Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China •Incorporated in England1,142 words
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Advertisement7 1918-03-26 1 MILS WUCB ct" •>c ctj L.S Bta7 words
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Article1275 1918-03-26 2 An Ikiih Mudlmt (From a Times” Correspondent It ii Sunday afternoon, and ourtelv-V are lounging in an irregular lice by the roadside, about 15 or 20 country boys, in the dark blue clothes that betoken the day of rest, and in those tweed oapa of varying ■hades of1,275 words
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Article316 1918-03-26 2 Transport Arrangements. We are informed that special arrangements have been made for the transport of the world, his wife and his baby who havt been invited to the big Easter festivities at Alor Star that is being held next Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The following gives the316 words
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Article78 1918-03-26 2 The following is the health statement of the Penang Municipality for the week ending March 2, 1918: {Male 54) > 66 Female 12 Death rate 32 24 per mille per uiim compared with 58.59 in the preceding week and with 31.98 in the corresponding week ef last year.78 words
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Article53 1918-03-26 2 The following programme of musio will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow at 5 p m.:— 1 Selection of National Airs of All Nations Caryll 2 Serenade Before her Window Nehl 3 Seleotion Buy Bias and the Blail Roue Godfrey 4 Walts See Saw Crowe 5 Marohing53 words
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Advertisement438 1918-03-26 2 FOR CHILDRc N S WEAR u TOBRALCO H FOR LADIES’ WEAR THE PERFECT WASHING FABRIC. Persian Lawns, Width 46 inches three qualities in stock. Prit'j 90 ds, #1.20, 11.35 per yard. Swiss Robe Muslins. Width 46inches extra fine finish Prices 85 cts, 95 cts. $1 29, 1.35 per yard, BATISTE.438 words
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Advertisement89 1918-03-26 2 Chamberlain's Con*h Remedy. When job bare a bad oold job want a remedy that will not only give relief, bat ef« feet a prompt and permanent care, a remedy that ii pleasant to take, a remedy that contains nothing injurious. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy meets all tbsse requirements. It acts on89 words
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Advertisement700 1918-03-26 2 Do you Suffer With Rheumatism Hu. thi. terrible, Tve-reeking. ptinfB ftsuned it 8 p|f Bpon P Bf lose hope. Here’s.saceoirfor »oa D n Littlss Osibmtal Balm he. cured thoo Sind, of iOTst«rate coroo.o cases of Kh e J mat ism among them hundreds of C mL tb*t were pronounced hopale..700 words
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Article1427 1918-03-26 3 Tom Wright] - [By Tom Wright] You have aeen, perhaps, a spoonload of f J. 0 4 b'c* r b dropped into a glass of water. cl0*r, dead almost, was that water. I I The drug stirred it, clouded it, Agitated i p Ter y particle of it—and just then you1,427 words
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Article358 1918-03-26 3 ANNUAL MEETING. Important Dklibbrations, (.From Out Own Oorr&pondmt,') Ipoh, March 25. At the annual general meeting of the Central Perak Planters’ Association, Mr. P. G. Ltwford was elected Chairman and Mr. A. B. Milne, Vice-Chairman. Mr, J, S, Ferguson reported that there was a check in358 words
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Advertisement479 1918-03-26 3 RLL EW TO-NIGHT 5 ONLY The Best Show in Penang-THYT'S ALL. 2 »im a —a W* 5- >- mpire Theatre 5* Proprietor H J. A. holm. tH HB Manager: thomas shafto Ist Show at 8 p.m. FROM THIS SHADOWS ms. p- SH •H 2 R-el Br rneho” Wild West Exiting479 words
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Advertisement555 1918-03-26 3 FOR SALE By Public Auction or private tender On Friday, the 5th April, 1918 at 11 a.m. as a going concern a rubber factory consisting of one 15 Horse Power, motor driven by the Municipal electric current one 15" macerating machine and two 6* creping machines, and also various •pare555 words
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Advertisement677 1918-03-26 3 "W ANTED 10 PURCHASE one Horse a* d 7 Victoria App’y Bex No, 32, r t c/o Straits Echo. TO LET. Furnished compound house for taree months frim about middle April, Apply to 191 PATERSON, SIMONS A Co., Ld. Easter Holidays. The Exchange Banks will be closed on th 29th677 words
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Article, Illustration99 1918-03-26 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Daily Local $BO per annum. i, Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: "ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Noe. (Coho) 986. Printing Department 343. M.B.—A 1199 words
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Article724 1918-03-26 4 This morniDg’s news of the great battle on the British frent in France is distinctly encouraging, while the comment on the military situation furnished by the Matin and reproduced in the Havas cable servioe is particularly useful as enabling the Dyman to view the position in724 words
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Article576 1918-03-26 4 History, we believe, will assign to our late Governor, who has just died in Ceylon, a high plaoe among the great British Proconsuls. That he was popular when he was here, either with the publio or the Civil Service, no one would contend, He was strongwilled to576 words
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Article471 1918-03-26 4 Captain AH. Chalmers, of the Marin Department, has returned from Home.— B.T Inspector Lamerton has returned te Taiping, Inspector Farrant haring relieved him at Bagan Serai. Mr. C.F. Scott Blacklaw, Assistant Traffic Manager, F.M.S. Railways, is in Penang on a visit of inspection. Phya Maba Amatya, Viceroy471 words
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Article177 1918-03-26 4 i In their annual review of the rubber market, Messrs, 8 Figgis and Co. estimate that in 1917 the plantations produced 1 190 000 t.ns, Brazil prodneing 41,500 ions r and other sources of supply of wild robber I about 9,000 tons. Although the supply from the177 words
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Article217 1918-03-26 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $148.25 busioess done, in Singapore (refined) at $149 business done, (12$ tons sold), The amendment to the Rubber Dealers Enactment has oertainly had some effect in minimi-ing the long standing evil, says the annual report of the O.P P.A but217 words
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Article966 1918-03-26 4 Smart Work at Sea. Our heart leaps up-not like Wordwortk*. when we behold a rainbow in the skv that would be welcome e^gh’^X*. fi U a V Wh !f W 0 roftd 0f Buch a fineVd’ fashioned naval scrap as that which took p.ace off Dunkirk last week966 words
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Advertisement208 1918-03-26 4 PRITCHARD f and Company, Limited, •8 •a •8 Sports Department New Delivery of Sporting Goods. t a* Tennis Rackets by the Best Makers. g- Forrester’s,” Slazenger’s, “Davie's” “Prosaar’a,” from $9 to $22.50 each. Tennis Posts of Wood and Steel. The •’Acme,” Polished Pine Posts, with Guy Ropes, Pegs and Runners208 words
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Article2556 1918-03-26 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] CHEERING REPORTS TALES of HEROISM enemy everywhere held IVIESE AGE FROM THE KING. La on, March 25, 4.10 p m The Pi css Bureau auncuncos that H. M. the King has telegraphed to Sir Douglas Hug i—" I assure you that the fortitude, courigQ and2,556 words
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Article398 1918-03-26 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] BY LONG RANGE GUN3. LondoD, March 23. 9 15 p or. A Paris official message states that the enemy is shelling Paris and suburbs with a long-range 240 millimetre gun firing every quarter of an hour. A dozen were killed and fifteen wounded. Counter-measures are being398 words
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Article94 1918-03-26 5 A Stupid Bombardment. Paris, March 25, 9-15 pm. The French Press is astonished at the stupid bombardment of Paris by a gun. The oolossal means used are out of all proportion to tbe trifling results obtained which are of no advantage to the enemy. Yesterday being the first94 words
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Article94 1918-03-26 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Artillery Activity. London, Mirch 25, 12 45 a m. A French oommuiiqu reports intermittent artillery ac f ivity at the Chemin den Dames with occasionally violent duels in Champagne and the heights on the right of the Meuse between Cauriĕres Wood and Bezonvaux and at Hartmansweilerkopf.94 words
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Article66 1918-03-26 5 The following article* will be found ou our outside pages Pages. 2. Ourselves Alone.” Alor Star Fete, Vital Statistics. To-morrow's Band Programme. 3, Thundering Legions. Telegrams. 6.—Chinese Marriage Law ReformEastern Produce Exchange. Tin Output. The Week’s Events. Telegrams. Chinese Law Of Succession. Sunday Labour. Heredity. Police Court Cases. 191766 words
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Article691 1918-03-26 5 [Riuter’s Telkoramh. I Graphic Description. FINE WORK BY DES TROYES. The Bam in ActionLondon, March 25 Eyewitnesses’ narratives of the deitroyer actiou eff Duckiik on the 21st say that the British destroyers Botha and Morrit and the French Mt hi, Magon and Bouchier were patrolling the Channel691 words
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Article332 1918-03-26 6 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Intervention Anticipated. London, March 25, 8 25 a.m, A Time» message from Tokio declaies that despite the political disruption which is likely to have its climax in the resignation of the Cabinet, there is indisputable evidence that Japan is preparing to enter Siberia after a332 words
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Article379 1918-03-26 6 FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION. GERMAN ATTACK A FAILURE. Enemy Gains NegligibleParis, March 25. All reliable information shows that the enormous effort attempted by the Germans against the Britieh front in France ie resulting in a real failure. Le Matin writes on this matter, In order to meet tbe formidable379 words
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Article416 1918-03-26 6 A Chauffeur Charged. Yia Lin, a Chinese chauffeur, appeared before Mr. S. H. L*ngston this morning charged with driving a motor car without a i licmie. In answer accused said be was arrested when on his way to get his iicense renewed. A Court Inspector Nicol stated416 words
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Article220 1918-03-26 6 [To Thu Editor of Thb Strait Echo D j ar Sir, The D. 0., to whose report you have given so much attention, states that a million gantaogs of padi were lost owirg to th a refusal of planters to allow coolies to have leave to help220 words
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Article200 1918-03-26 6 [To Th> Editor or Thu Straits Echo] D j ar Sir, It has been brought to our notioe by users of Dnnbp Tyraa that several motor garages in view of the acute shortage of eartain 6iz?s of motor tyres and tubes are demaudiog heavy premiums on the prices200 words
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Article918 1918-03-26 6 [To thu Editor or thb Malay Mail.] g IR A Bhort time apo I wrote a letter on the subject of Sunday labour (which you very kindly inserted in your columns) with tbe obi >ct of opening up a discussion on the subj-ct. My own opinion I expressed918 words
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Article86 1918-03-26 6 Messrs, Guthrie &Co L*d., local agents of the Renoug Tin Dredging Co. Ltd,, send us the following particulars of the output of tin ore for the first half of the current month No. 1 Dredge 67 piculs; No. 2 Dredge 137 piculs; No. 8 Dredge 484 piculs, 4>86 words
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Article537 1918-03-26 6 [To THi Editor or thu Strait» Echo.'] Dear Sir, It is indeed regrettable that many ot your corn spondents should tbiiik it advisable to write to the prt*< not with the ot j-ct of giving a s mud opinion on the matter of Chinese Marriages but537 words
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Article345 1918-03-26 6 At the Eastern Produce Exchange 220th Auction Sale the following prices were obtained Diamond Smoked Fair From $6O to $B4 Diamond Uosmcktd 50 to 69 Plain Uosmokfd 47 to 54 Scrap Crepe Fair 28 to Loose Untreated Sorap 14 to 26 74 367 lb. of rubber were345 words
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Article537 1918-03-26 6 ADOPTION AFJ.EE DEATH. IMPORTANT DECISION. Appeal Court Upholds "FiLiua Posthum us,” The Fall Court of Appeal, which has just concluded its sessioa in Ipot», decided a aery important and interesting appeal from the Taipiog Assizes of September last, says the Time» of Malaya. Ia that case,537 words
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Article80 1918-03-26 6 Tuesday, March 26. Municipal Commission. Wednesday, March 27. Full Moon. Town Band, Esplanade. Thursday, March 28. Jewish Festival (First day of the Pass* over). Fsiday, March 29. Town Band, Esplanade. Good Friday. Public Hobday. Saturday, March 80, Town Band, Golf Club. P.V E-C. Shoot, 7 a m.80 words
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Article91 1918-03-26 6 FuascaimoN List. J. A. Russel, E-q. $5,000.00 Leopold es Cbasseriau, Esq. 100.00 W. Dunefcu, Esq. 100 00 Towkay Boon Ng Hee 200,00 Towkay Loke Chow Thye 200.00 Kedah Club Billiard H’cap ***** Collections per District Officer, K. Muda ***** Total $5,885,15 Commenting on the subject91 words
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Article326 1918-03-26 6 Meeting at Ipoh. (From Our Own Corresp^dent.) Ipob, March 25, t the FM 8 Chamber of Com»,w ce y #nnu 1 me ki *g oo Saturday. motion e was passed protesting against the system by which the lo °al Government indents on the 1 Crown agents326 words
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Article511 1918-03-26 6 A correspondent writes:* I have bees mich interested m a treatise that 1 have been reading on heredity from which I gather that practically everything may be handed down from father to so», temperament, features, complexion, the colour ot the eyes and hair, the love of music or of511 words
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Article121 1918-03-26 6 THE TEACHING OF CHINE8ELocal Towkays’ Muwmcuuon. We are very pleated to announce that Mr. Tye Kee Toon has promised to give a capital sum of $5,000 in War loan stock to the Penang Free S-hool, the interest to be used towards the payment of the salsry of121 words
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Advertisement49 1918-03-26 6 Why It JSkilifc Chamberlain's ftemedy is 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 eeagh bj canng the oold, and does it speed ilj and aflootaally. For sale by all dispeasants tad dealers49 words
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Article1173 1918-03-26 7 Successive votes in the Hou*e of Lords hive established finally the position of Women s Suffrage as an integral part of the Reform Bill. 1 he last stage was the rejection on Tuesday of the plan for a special referendum As the passage of the1,173 words
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Article594 1918-03-26 7 Lieut. R.B. Fricker, R.F. C - A TYPICAL EABLY MORNING’S WORK. (By Lieut. R.B. Fricker, R.F.C.) Mr. H. G. Wells, who recently stated that the war would be won by the superiority of First Class Air Fighters should enquire into the records of the British Air Squadrons on the Western Front,594 words
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Advertisement495 1918-03-26 7 fook CHEONC FOUNDRY Motor and any kind of eng ne Repairers fro. 90 92, Tye Sin Street, PENANG. SALE. Motor Launch Kitty Watt* 45 feet by 10 feet. J lQ]o raft w k and E’m English bu It knot> WolTeriaa en B lD Speed sue Apply Secretary, Buema. Shell Co:495 words
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Advertisement337 1918-03-26 7 WANTED. Dr'ver to take charge of Oil Engine and Factory Machinery on Kubber Estate. Apply: Simb, Darby Co. Ltd 188 4 Beach St., Penang WANTED Young Englishman, invalided British lufantrv Officer, with ooasmercial, experience, requires post as traveller, or on an estate, address. K. I. M. 169 c/o Strait» Echo.337 words
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Advertisement1183 1918-03-26 8 p. 0. —BRITISH INDIA AND APCAB LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (Undei Contract with Hi» Mije.ty'. Government.) The Company'* MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY .t pr«nt .«pmded. P*«*enger* for Enropo *r. booked m BomUj u opportanily oSer. .nd m toM SERVICES TO1,183 words
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