Straits Echo, 25 July 1918

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    Masthead
    36 1 Straits Echo OAlfcY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THB STRAITS, THE FEOERATBC MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY POL. I 6 §3O Per Annum PENaNG, THURSDAY, 28th JULY, 1918, Single Copy, lo cento. No. 107.
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      1586 1 IONDENSED Milkmaj» SWISSCOND OWH> jrOR SALE, l2 .3) sealer "Scripps Booth jlotor Car ssz r 900 “,,ejr for fa< me. Apply to Th» undermentioned garage. iir YOU WANT! COMFORT I GO 10 THE Undermentioned G^raje for Brand New Cars for bir. day and night Telephone No 694 Teletr»»hic Address: H0K1MTE1K.
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      9 1 Ĕ'S MIL K "■ojßmiiui AT ate rnt kjmmkm s:
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    Our Scientific Record.
    1434 2 Burranr's Hunt mi ow Sciusou.—By A. Schuster, F.R.9., and AS. Bhip'ey. F.R.B, Constable. Wair, say the R viewer of the New Statesman, admittedly,aself depreciating pjoplr*. peroaps because we are, in some respects, a rather ignorant people; and when faoed with the achievements of other countries we are
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    Munitions Enterprise.
    486 2 a Striking Instancks From Orrat a Britain’s War Rkoord. e Anyone who in peace time visited the manufacturing centres of Great Britain in tue industrial Midlands and North, and saw the steel and iron works by day and 3 night, the sun hidden by the clouds of smoke
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      91 2 INTO TICE rilHE USUAL MONTHLY SALE OP X Pawnbrokers’ forfeited pledges of earns exceeding $10 will be held punciually at 11 o’clock a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 6th, 7th and 8th proximo respectively at No 42, Beach Street. The above foifeited pledges may be view* ed at the
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      472 2 Required T7XBRIBNCED CLERK -Licharge of Rubber fjl 10 t|k “VJ ta suitable ma*. <£ A Pplj to Mmo 8a«u»o g TeUk iM0^ ktotxcej. M ,,sm F r Too»,,, LrL J03.p 0 Cornwall B been admitted >s pirtaer. in from the 1st of J.niurj 1918 1 EWSTEtb t NOTICE, can NTENDING
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    Wright Writes a Business Letter.
    1032 3 Registered, with eighteen cents worth of stamps on it, and bearing a very legible certificate to the tffect that it had bw*n opened by Censor No. 1627, the letter lay at tne bottom of my box, beneath a mass of printed staff. Only the reader
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    War Anniversary Commemoration.
    451 3 A meeting was held in the Chamber of Commeroe yesterday afternoon to discuss 1 the question of commemorating the 1 anniversary of the declaration of war. The various communities were well represented and on the motion of Mr. H. A. Low, seconded by the Rev. Father L
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    German Attack on American Tug-boats.
    150 3 [Reuter's Telegrams.] New York, July 23. A German submarine sank a tag and three coal barges on Sanday off Caps Ood. The men, women and children aboard were saved. The attack was witnessed from the Bhore. Two sheila from the submarine fell clcae to the
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    Optimism.
    224 3 It is pleasant occasionally to see u letter which gives a obeery note about borne. England,” says one lady writing reoently, is not such an awful place to live in after all. Thrre are no queues now that all oar food is rationed, and we are registered at certain
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      306 3 w=sf= race week attractions. f| M JJlsi I 1 I ft I r uf anEMPI RE ><>♦♦♦♦♦ THEATRE the premier theatre of the colohy. —tĕ THURSDAY CHANCE OF PROGRAMME ONE OF THE 3BEATEST OF MSTB03 r m ffgNE FROM f? VANITY? “VANITY” The «tory of a girl informer who was
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      311 3 66 99 RAC JES THURSDAY SATURDAY DINNERS 35th JULY. 37th E. 0« Orchestra at tiffla and dinner day during 1 Race Weekevery To-night! To-night 4A T 0 P V HE PARS! EMPIRE 1 T THEATRICAL Co OP BOMBAY E k Present at the Drury Lane The&tte Hall, ASIR-E-MRS As our
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    The Straits Echo.
    94 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pnbllc holidays,) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang Price: Dally Local #BO per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) «18 perjannum. Cable Address: "ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Noa. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 143, M.jt.— ail turn re*» communications
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    RETREAT.
    1415 4 The.e seem» sound reason for hoping that the action of General Fcch in striking hravily at tbe fltnk cf tbe German salient will have tho result of forcing the enemy to retire along the whole front to a line app ox'mately parallel with that from which be started. The
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    M. A. P.
    925 4 Mr. Leo Chin Ho arrived in Ipoh ou Tuesday alterrooo from Petatg. Mrs T. R. Toby and family left Ipoh for Penang oo Monday for a short holiday, Mr, Lim Tick Siong returned to 8inga- pore on Tuesday after a stay of three days l in Ipoh,
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    588 4 News from Town. -A class mei m tbe PetKc* i.l, are now ucdargomg cj °"*“*«r l training." Yen may cot have < fact, before of chs- A but u true be can S 3 the Timet of Maiava. -o. Tbis probably aocusots f or ‘I 1 appearance of
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    Straits Trade.
    202 4 Fimv Quabth’s Fiooiii. For the quarter erding March 31 the tot*» 1 value of imports of merchandise lab the Colony was 9181,561,401 conspired with 9161,066,306 for the cm responding quarter of Usi year, The greatest increass is shown in Singapore where the rose by nearly thirteen millions, bat
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    P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
    92 4 The following are the results of ths He* played off yesterday s— Mixed Doubles—Mrs Low and A 9 beat Miss M Pritchard and F C Greg ,flo 7—5, 8-6; Miss Gold and G If 9»T eb f Mrs Hogan acd C O Rogers by B"®' f 8
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    48 4 ■maws—s—«ai'Si ,-xn» —————a DEATH. Bsuoh —Killed ii sc'ion in France, on M<y 12, CtpUin John B c .e:b, R E formerly second Magistrate in Kuala Lumpur, eider son of Mr. ard Mrs. J. Beeoh, E'gin House, Newo-stl», Steff ndshirp, and husband cf Mrs. B?fcb, 65, Ettisley Avenue, Cambridge.
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    GERMAN RESISTANCE STIFFENS.
    2131 5 [Reuter's Telegrams] SJT allies still progress 6 BRITISH HEAVILY ENGAGED. ,i h, c» ch Aovaocc. Be4 London. July 23, 3 30 s.m. .ferehcommuniq»* Staten The Gert0.day attempt by powerful counterTcllo rrtft tur P ro8ret tbe rBe D d Ourcq. The Frenoh and d B t 0 itfd
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    MESOPOTAMIAN ADVANCE.
    696 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] REORGANISING THE COUNTRY; London, Ju’y 23. 4 45 p.m. In the House cf Ccmmccs L:rd B ibeCecil stat d that the op j ta‘ioaa of Geoeta Marshall on the Euphrates iu March and it the neighbourhood of Kirkuk in April resulted in 10.000 Turkish casualties including
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    RECORDS OF HEROISM.
    734 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] V 0. AWABD3 FOB NAVAL RAID. t j London, July 23. I Echoes of the stii.-ing events at Z t-brugg I m the night if the 22nd-23rd April a I contained in a Qart tie anncuticmg awards (various decorations to parlicipaots. Tt > I Victoria
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    TO-DAY’S RACES.
    266 5 J BCRATCHINGS AND SELECTIONS. j The followiog wre the prices in the two I lotteries held last evening I Racb 1 Polar St>r $3OO ard 460 Sol I J hu W 5 -i« 390 May ha fan 1 I J4O a d 110 Gtm 80 .bu 60 Experts
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    SELECTIONS.
    107 5 Ri.cn I —Polar Star, Sol Dhu Manhattan., Race 2.— Fallow!a* d, Brttuher, Aringa Racb 3 Silent Friend Tim, Midat. Baci 4. Hi hgate, Black Watch Milky Way. Baou s.— Singapore. Racb 6.— Nullo. Racb 7. —Black Buck, Baba Keehit, Kota Tinggi. Racb 8. Bonnetty Bob, Oh La La, Good
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    P. V. R. C.
    34 5 There will be C-a*- S mot on Butd*y mcraing nit the 28tt> July at 7 s.ir. Ranges 200 300 and 400 yards Rapids. ft V. R. 0, Members please note,
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    An Escaped War Prisoner.
    41 5 (/rent Our Own Correspondent*") B r g«r ore, July 25 The Provost*Marshal M-jrr Thompson infill s that an Austrian war prisoner Diubofsky, passing as a Russian, ii mi»»irg from Tanglin war camp. He is sgtd 28 24.
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    Singapore Rubber Auction.
    29 5 CFrom Our Own Correspondent .> Singapore, July 25, Rubber is waak with demand only fair. Smoked sheets are at 50 ote, and Lw„r grades 2 ots. lower.
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    London Rubber Market.
    27 5 CFrom Our Own Correspondent,") London, Jaiv 22. The prioes in the London Rubber Market t#*day were: Pale Crepe 2/2$ Diamond Bmoked Sheet M 2/1$
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    Turkey in Dire Straits.
    107 5 Tmriat Or War Against Orbmavt. Lol(1od. M»y 30.—A mess»»# fern Athene states, upon credible information, that the present condition of affaire in Turkey is lamentable. Epidemics and famine bare can sod wholesale deaths and the population is depressed in oons qaenoe jf the British saooesses in
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    Penang Municipality.
    480 6 Tbe annual reports for tbe year 1917 of the electricity supply and electric tramways departments hard been issued by Mr. O. Venning Thomas, Engineer and Manager, who records in regard to tbe first-named department that tbe undertaking has been in a state of arrested development during 1917, its
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    Russia.
    217 6 A SILVKB LlBIYO.” London, Jane 2 —The Daily Express correspondent at Petrograd advises England to watoh (or a silver lining in Russia’s dark oload. He does not explain the nature of the silver lining, but asserts that the Bolshfcvig’s Fabian tactics are already entioing Germany into a quagmire. He
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    Conscription.
    747 6 (to thb Editor of thi 8.F.P. Bir, —The Government, I think, ia now oonvicted of a b each of faith. The Coknlal Secretary has replied to an enquirers The Government is not prepared to grant pa«atige of the wives of men going Home, as many men are quite well
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    Methodist Boys’ School.
    146 6 A Visit to Pibak, Thirty-two boys of the Methodist Boys’ School cricket and football teams returned last week from their annual visit to Taiping and Ipoh to play the different Schools at thoee towns The first game of crioket played at Ipoh against the Anglo-Ohinese School was
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    The Week’s Events.
    53 6 Thoebdat, July 25. Penang Racei, F bid at, July 26. Town Band, Esplanade* Sato an at, July 27, Penang Rtoes. Sunday. July 28. Ninth after Trinity. Monday, July 29, Town Band, Esplanade. Italian Opera Town Hall 9 p.m. Widrmday, July 31. Town Band, Esplanade, Italian Opera, Town
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    Hit The German In Hit Pocket.
    339 6 American Senator's Way Fob Ensuring Phack. The Washington correspondent of the Central Naws writes Senator OweD, of Oklahoma, has introduced a resolution in the Senate urging an eoonomio boycott of Germany as a means of oompelliag her to com 6 to terms. Tbe resolution
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    German Officers Tamer.
    213 6 According to an Amsterdam meaaage to the Daily Chroniele, it ia now aomewhat dangerous for German offioera, in Berlin at least, to act on those rules of conduct cf which tbe Z abern affair gave an admirable illustration. The Kreuzzeitung and tome other journals are mightily concerned
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    Q. M. N. G.
    335 6 3 The following have been forwarded to 3 Major H, D. Jenson, Mesopotamia, one big case of clothing, one of books, also a case of soap. The box of clothings contained. F'emrl pyjamas 74; Crepa pyjamas 12; Fun.ud shirts 22; Crepe abirts 14; Kimonas4o; Thiok Tests
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    “Bipp.”
    256 6 A m Important Burgical Discovert Fob Healing Dangerous Wounli. Quite a number of new words will be added to the dictionary as a direct outcome of the war. Among these is "Bipp”—a combination of Bismuth, lodoform, and Paraffin Paste —tbe name given to one of tbe most important surgical
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    A Ballade of St. George's Day.
    193 6 Us took a j runt to the Continent, Theiit, Intrepid, Brilliant an’ all, An’ over to Z.-ebrugg pier us went, Seventy ships, coantin’ gert an’ small; Two liddle ferry boats led tbe ball, Like maids a- lancin’ a gay quadrille, An’ one gert cruiser,
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    German “Ace of Aces.”
    427 6 BoHoanTz’s Flying Cabenb Ended. Paris. *The J Frankfurter Zeitung reoently announced that Lieutenant Bongarta, who after the death cf Richthofen became the German aoe of aces with tbirty-six victories, had ended his oareer as an aviator in consequence of a fight, in the course of which
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    Chinese Labour in France.
    1284 6 It was a happy idea to introduce Chinese Ltbour into France and it is to our French ▲Hies that the credit is due for the origin»! departure from the beaten track in regard to the utilisition of Chinese non-combatant units behind the fighting lines. Toe Frenoh
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    Cuttings from the Enemy. Press.
    698 6 By Lieut h. b. W.x, fio “•“*'7 MMM. stolid and precise people, but n, 311 d| Z* caused by tbe static Condition of i battle” has played bavoo with their owt Their military wii'ers are not to bs tiu ed with figures at the present
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    Science and Rubber.
    799 7 PLANTERS’ EFFORTS IN RESEARCH* Vnws of Sir Edward Roslino. Professor J. B, Farmer read a paper, with Sir Edward Rosling in tbe chair, at a meeting of tbe Sooietj of Arts op Maj Bon Soienoe and the Robber Industry.” The Profeiaor aaid that if tbe induatry waa
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      105 7 The Kedah Rubber Co., Ltd, (iNOOEPOEA-TED IN MNA.NO) NOTICE OF MEETING. IVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Eighth Anneal Ordinary General Meeting of the above-named Company will be held at the Chamber of Commerce. Downing Street, Penane, on Saterday, the 10th day of Aagnst, 1918, at 12 30 pm. BUSINESS,
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      795 7 Penang Club Red Croce Lottery DC 1917. NOTICE is hereby given that no claim) for prises will be considered after August 31st 1918, All prizes unclaimed on that date will be eancellet and the amounts will be credited to the Our Day Fund. LIM EOW THOON, H. OXENHAM, Joint Hon.
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      1379 8 P. S 0. —BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PAS8ENGER 8ERVICE8. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (Undei Contract with Hi> Majestj’i Government.) The Company’» MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at preeent impended Paeeengere for Europe are booked via Bombay ai opportunity offer» and aa far
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