Straits Echo, 3 May 1918

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    Masthead
    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. voi>- it> s:iO Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 3rd MAY 1918. Single Copy, lO cents. No. lOtf,
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      1171 1 condensed 31 Milkmaid bra jl#£, i V^Lfr* t^»'iSSCONi)E«Olf IF YOU WANT COMFORT BANKS GO TO TE< Undermentioned taraje For Brand N«w C»ra for lr re DAY AND NIGHT Telephone No 694. Tele&mphic Add e r HOKIMTBIK. I Motor car importers and largest dealers in cylinder oil, petrol A niotor accessories.
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      11 1 E’S MILK (5 T7l£ KSI C®tf H *<Ct use !i c=s
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    The Ukrainian Peace.
    1020 2 WQAT IT IS AND HOW IT CAME. It has been announced all over the world that the Ukrainians have made peace with the Cential Powers. And yet b-foretbe war tbeie were Eery few men ia Eagland who knew of the existence of tuib a nationality. Kitff tbs
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    Informing the German Mind.
    467 2 We cannot see ourselves as others see us The German Wireless, it will be observed, informs tbe world that during the whole month of January” England has been torn by deeds of violence. "Hardlv a day passed” without cor.fl cts between the crowds and tbe police
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    Supplies for America's First 500,000.
    319 2 What Supplying an Asm M baits, The Saturday Evening Fott of Philadelphia gives statistics regarding the British Army in France in order to show the needs of the first half-million Americans. For these troops 40,000 railway trucks will be re iuired in France, and the
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      320 2 White away s FOR CHINA AND class ware. “THE STRATFORD” Dinner, Te% and Breakfast S*t made of white semi-procelain ware, decorated with apple g een leaf deaiga. S r Regent shaped as illustration. Very strong and serviceable. Breakages can be replaced sny ti fVIO* m .c.jSEiwk" /.-w— m Strong &|DurabIe
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      50 2 Accidents Will Happen It may be impossible to prevent an accident, bat it is not impossible to be prepared (or it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not be yond anyone’s perse, and with a bottle of this liniment yoe are prepared fer almost anything. For sale by all dispenaarist and deaUri
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      591 2 the tiny laxatives are safe and sure at all limes and cause no habita fou can take them u n ta the constipation is corrected and then discontinue them without fear of relapse. a Recommended for the tre.t meot S he!Zhe^ U3 M Ot all ehrmiata, 6,) oent, p„ phil
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    British Malaya and the War.
    502 3 ij I In the oourse of a most interesting lee* I tare tefore tbe Royal Colonial Institute, on March IS, Mr. Octavius C. Beale, exPresident of tbe Associated Chambers of Manufacture of Australia, rendered tbe folI lowing tribute to the servings that British Malaya had
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    Malayan Chamber of Mines.
    505 3 A meeting of representative! of tin mining companies registered in England, operating in Malaya, was held at 73, Basing-ball-st, E.C., on Peb. 21, with a view to completing arrangements for formation of a Malayan Chamber of Mines in London to work in close relationship with the
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    A Youthful Food Controller.
    302 3 3* This little anecdote is what ii known by n tho vulgata aa a chestnut bat ia of soob sxtieme age that it has probably been forif gotteni la the olden days, by which is meant tbe daya before the war, many h restaurants and hotela
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    A Shaft of Wit.
    222 3 Mr. Tom Wright in his last artiole to the \ttraits Echo permitted himself to make a pun, qualifying his indiscretion by suggesting that puns are excusable, as indeed they [are if they are really shafts of wit or as our Franch Allies would say jeux de
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    Teluk Anson Topics.
    188 3 Our Teluk Anson correspondent writes A fine of 920 was imposed on Mah Thong for bavng taken two excess passergers in his motor oar, while Kumariah was fined 110 for a similar offence in respect to one passenger. Fur hiving stored toddy in unlicensed premises Muthia Pillay
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    To-day's Band Programme.
    263 3 The following programme of musio will be played at the Esplanade this evening at 5 pm,:— 1 Selection The Bat Stransa 2 Ooe Step The Picadilly Picadillo Holmes 3 Selection Madame Sherry Felix 4 Walta La Barcarolle Fetras 5 March Le Pere la viotoire Game The Frankfurter
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      421 3 Special Special Special Special THE!RED ACE" ■r t its NOTE THE OPENING NIGHT MAY Itth EMPIRE CH We liare no desire to be sensatioonl in our announcement of the above but "TUB KKD ACK TIIK KKU ACE THE KEU ACK" DEMANDS IT Never in the History of Serials was anything
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      474 3 -m For bo Bsnefit of School Boys. wanted, COPIES of the teachings of Confucius A THOROUGHLY RELIABLE and for the House and Maxima for EXp EKIENCED BOOK KEEPER. the management thereof will be SSSmcnU kt* od wriliD 8 ith °°P ,e< gratis to anj schoolboj on I >* s o
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    The Straits Echo.
    102 4 I PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pnblie holidays,) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, PenangPrice: Dally Local 180 per annum. Outatation Postage Extra. Mall Edltlop (Post Free) $lB per annum. I Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Not. (Eoho) 880, Printing Department 343. N.ti. —all t>u*iu«as
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    BIRTH.
    23 4 My bus —Oo the 30 b i*st, kt ton European Hospital, t > Mr. sod Mrs. G. Myers of Kuala Lumpur, a son.
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    MARRIAGE.
    25 4 b'KTH-SuasiTz—M* r 5, in Paris, G. G. 8etb, Stiaits Settlements Civil Servic°, to Denis* widow of Lieut- Henry 8egni<z killed ia action in 1915.
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    GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MILLING.
    1202 4 On April 18:h there was published in the Government Gazette a R oa (Price of Milling) order whioh affects an important industry in the Straits, and still more in Kedah acd the States. There are three chief points in this order: A return has to be
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    M. A. P.
    868 4 Mr J. R O Aldworth, Controller of Labour arrived here to-day on duty, e News baa bean received of the death in aotion of Mr. B- A- Starling, late Surveyor, F.M-8- Railways. Messrs. D. Anderson, C. H. Miller and V. E. H, Rhode», all of ths Kajang
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    979 4 Known at Last. An Admiralty order to Mariners No m of 1913, announces that the lights J P.9T' P B and 80T8r »l other place! of which we dare not give the slightest hint even by an initial, have been extinguished Why the.Germans .Can't Win Now Toe Allgemeine
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      160 4 PRITCHARD’S G. SOLE AGENTS FOR The Greatest of all Tonic Foods. Composed of the entire Protein Constituent 8 of Milk (Casein and Lactalbumen), combined with the Glycerophosphates of Calcium, Sodium and Magnesium. Per Per Bottle Bottle GIVES VITALITY RESTORES HEALTH For Brain, Body and Blood YJTAFER simulates and restores the
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  • Obituary
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    48 4 DEATHS Ramsay —Match 15, at Queen’s Gate, Eleanor Julia, wif- of Sir George Dalbousie Ramsay, C.B, and daughter ct the late John Orawfurd, F.R S, Singapore Thomson. —Maroh 8 after a short illness, at Hillside, Bishops Tegnton, South Devon. Thotxas Thomson, formerly of 8 og *pcre. »ged 80.
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    THE GREAT BATTLE.
    582 5 [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS] Enemy’» Black Monday. London, M.y 1. Jet.it. ot Mond.J 1 fighti-e n ,,„d.b.J0<»fi'"> tb titW h6WOr, 7 1 m w, b« eip-r.enccd MM th» opening V g«*t T he p p r tb hitbe.to b,»fl b..n reticent in »,e. nt pc 1 f ,ctn.tion. ot
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    Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches.
    155 5 London, May 1. Desglas Haig reports t —The enemy artillery w& a active against baok areas in 6 neighbourhood of Bethune and also heavily shelled the French positions at r8, Otherwise there were only looal •ncountera, We took prisoner 1661 during »rob, of whom 59 were
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    French Communiques.
    19 5 French Communiques London, flay 2. A Frenoh communique states i—“ There was a fairly lively bombardment north of Montdidier.”
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    Correspondents Accounts.
    263 5 Correspondents Accounts London, May 1. Reuter’s correspondent at British Headquarters (May 1, evening) i The Australians rushed an enemy post near Meteren. The German field reoruit depots are being heavily drawn upon to replaoe the recent casualties. The thirteenth reserve division has just received a company of 250 boys of
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    From Various Fronts.
    429 5 From Various Fronts Palestine Front. London, May 1, A Palestine offloial message states i “In the early morning of yesterday the foroes eastward of the Jordan attacked the enemy holding the foothills south of Essalt. Our mounted troops, morlng northwards along the east bank of the rirer and turning eastward
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    General Wire News.
    1177 5 War at Sea. Londop, Mayl. An Admiralty report says that tho sloop Couilip was torpedoed and sank on April 26. Fire offioers and one man are missing, presumed to hare been killed by the explosion. Torpedo boat namber 90 foundered in heavy weather on April 25. One
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    Outside.
    53 5 Tke following artioles will be teuud e» our outside pages 2. —The Ukrainian Peaoe. Informing the German Mind. Supplies for Amerioa’s First 500,000. B,—A Youthful Food Controller. Teluk Anson Topios. British Malaya and the War. Malayan Chamber of Mines. ••—Holland’s Food Plight, War and the Birth Bate. Dutch News.
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    Political News.
    650 5 Political News Japan and the Allies. London, May L A Tokio message states that Baron Goto, the New Foreign Minister declared to Beater that the suggestion waa baseless that the policy of the Japanese Government had changed, or its loyalty to all ita engagements lessened, owing to a ohange of
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    FRESH PEACE OFFENSIVE.
    703 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, May 2. The best confirmation of the enemy defeat i at Ypres is oontaiaed in indications of the r imminence of a renewal of the peaoe often--1 sive. Thus, German papers state t’gat the I Pope is about to issue a new peace Note,
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    DUTCH SHIPPING.
    1151 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] ALLIES’ EXPLANATION. London, May 1, 5 p.m. The British reply to the Netherlands says that while recognising that the Datch delegates who discussed the outstanding questions at tho end of last year between the Netherlands and tba Associated Governments worn not plenipotentiaries, His Majesty’s Government repudiates
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    Havas Service.
    155 6 Havas Service MONDAY'S VICTORY. Rtstros Still IntactParis, May 2. The papers of Miy 1st are unanimous in stating that the recent fighting in Flanders has been a veritable and sanguinarv defeat for the Germans. The Echo de Paris speaks cf tbe struggle on Monday as follows From six in the
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    Mails Will Close.
    116 6 Foe By Stbamee At. To-morrow (Saturday), Pott Swettenham and Smrapors 10 80 a m Port Swettenham and Singapore Ip'h 3-30 p.m Tongkah and Renong Ptnang 12 30 p m Trang Trang 1-30 p.m Moulmein 4 p.m 6th instant (Monday), United Kirgdntn (route 12 30 p.m uncertain) Mail
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    Affairs in Ireland.
    396 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] A Homs Bale Deadlock London. May 2, Sir Eiward Parson has written to the secretary of the Irish southern Unioniet Committee declaring that it is little short of insanity to re-open the question of Home Rule in the midst of the grayest Europesn crisis. The
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    Tin and Rubber.
    58 6 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $l7l, buyers no sillers, and in Singapore (’refined) at $l7l, no business done, Messrs. Boustead A Co. inform us tint the following were the quotations for Rubber on spot in London on the Ist inst. received to-day. Plantation
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    London Rubber Market.
    26 6 (From Our Own Corretpondtni London, May 3, The prioes in the London Rubber Market o-dav were: Pale Crepe 2/4J Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/3|
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    PRODUCE
    163 6 Pbmajto, Mat 3. 8. P. Tapioca $8 85 it lei M. P. Tapioca 935 aeliers. Gold leaf 72 Pepper (W.Coast 8 lb. I os).816 1/2 buyers Black Pepper 25.00 buyers White Pepper 40 nominal Trang Pepper ...132 season orer Mace $BO nom. Mace Pickings 49 sellers Cloves season over
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    Dutch News.
    590 6 Amsterdam, April 6. —Government has published a new white-bo k on the sand and gravel qu gtion showing that Hollaed again askfd for investigation in Belgium and i northern Franc* by a Dutch mission. Germany declared that admittance was now im- possible but previs onally waived her claim
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    Martian Canals.
    138 6 New York, Feb, 25 —ls the muchdiscussed mysterv of Mars and whether the famous Martian canals are the handiwork of human beings about to be solved at las'? As.ror ooi-rr, amateur aud professional alike, are interested By the fact that Mars will be in opposition on Maroh 14;
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    Aged Germans Useless To The Fatherland.
    181 6 Mr. Gerard’s recent statement that the Germans would Dot, in the event of necessity, hesitate to starve all persons, have received remark b'e confirmation from the Rev. Aloysius D*niels, a Roman Catholic priest, who has arrived in New York from Germany. Ia the course
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    War and the Birth Rate.
    982 6 In his presidential address to tbe Royal Statistical Society Sir Bernard Mallet referred to the overwhelmng importance of the whole question of racial advance or decline, on which the fate of nations so largely depends, and to tbe damage wbiob tbe present struggle must inflict
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    Holland’s Food Plight
    465 6 Tulbobahs VIA Batavia. Amsterdam, April 10— n ouster at Aimterdam proclaim, h 0,,r 0 of the Government h? r to supply more bread so long M f UQ bl wheat supply is not oartaio. H? that tuere should be calmness h« 1881 riots will be suppressed by
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    The Week’s Events.
    51 6 Friday, May 3, Town Band, Esplanade. P* P. S Scouts Inspection, i p.m. Saturdat, Mat 4 Ministering Children’s League Entertainment, Town Ball, 4 30 p.m. Sunday, Mat 5. Rogation Sunday. Monday, May 6. Town Band, Esplanade. P.C.C,, General Meeting, 6 45 p.m. Wbdnrsday, Mat 8. Town Band,
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    Electric Polyscope.
    67 6 A good house is assured to-night at the above theatre when three serials are being run together. In the first show “The Goddess will be put on the screen and in the seoond part of the programme, besides some mirth provoking comedies, two new episodes of 41 Tde
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    Britannia Opera Company.
    188 6 The management of tbe above comp I announce that they are performing here < for a few oighta longer, To-night the f part of that interesting Javanese play ec led Ganong 8ari*' will be staged and morrow night by special request will I produced Ali Baba and
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    Malaria Prevention.
    2138 7 Mb Richa.kdsob’b Schumu. I Toe Malayan Tin and Rubbar journal I publishes in full Mr. E. R. Richardson s I treatise on malaiia and mosquitoes which I was read by Dr. Rattray at the reoent I Conference of the Sociity of Estate Medical J Officers ih Ipoh from
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      248 7 the eastern produce exchange. 27. Beach Street, at the corner of Beach Street and Church Street Ghaut. CAPITAL $120,000. Auctioneers Brokers. The 32nd Auction Sale of Rubber WILL BE HELD On Monday, the 6th May, 1918, /action Sales of Rubber held twice a week, on every Monday and Thursday. Hal*
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      12 7 For Children's Hacking Coagh at Night Woods'* Great Peppermint Chare I*. 6d.
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      478 7 Are yon a Slave to pain Do You Ever Rut? Or is yoar life a perpetual burdenwakeful, restless, fevered tortured eziatenoe Do you start and cry out from twitchin| nerves or darting paiotP Are you robbed of your nighta of jaat re poae and tranquil aleepP Then there ia hope
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      338 7 WANTED, A THOROUGHLY reliable and expertenced Bazaar Han to work on salary and bonus. Apply stating experience to 177 O. 8 L c/o Strmits Echo, W^JNTTHD. P A N experienced Bookkeeper also a Gen5 ore! Office Assistant- Applicants moat have knowledge of typewriting. Apply with copies of testimonials and state
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