Straits Echo, 9 August 1918

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THB STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL- 16 $3O Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 9th AUGUST, 1918. Single Copy, I© cents. No, 179.
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      10 1 milK rtWmhrscffil** ksi "JWbw iaT 1 ».rj. DIC *rioN« FiM
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    AMERICAN WORK IN FRANCE.
    1912 2 J THE AIR SERVICE. Preparations for Victory. [Jhe following ia the conclusion of the first authorized description of the work accomplished bj the American forces since the/ landed in France as puolishei in The lime a.] (From a Special Correspondent Great plana are under waj for
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      190 2 (r™ 3CDCDCDC DOCDCDOCUZDCZXZDCZ^C DO GREA I-., k u BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS. Gent’s White Lawn Handkerchiefs s»ie 51*75 per dozen Tweed Gaps S*le Price 0.65 each 0 C n V0 o A Sweaters Neok Ties Large Variety do Boots ShOOS The “REX” Brand, Tan, pointed toe do Face Towels Size
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      109 2 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. Application will be received by the unde,Blgoed up to 4 pm. on Monday, the 19th August 1918, for the post of Stiff Nurse for th.< Maternity Hospital (K.n? Edward VII Mimrra*) Penang, at a com menc.ng salary cf £lso/.per annum and £lO/ per annum Un-form Allowance (At Exobanoe
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      615 2 NOTICE id h„ rebv Power ofAttarL n tk Qu*h 800 Tiny by *0 |Pb*y nod Qu»b Hock 8ti t Qwfc t Qj*b Kongsi) b a8 been revoked «I It to «wa boo p 84 Trutlee c Quuk Penang, 7th August 1918 Chinese Widows and Orphan', ulitB Vf EMBEK3 who ha„
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    TAIPING TIN DREDGING
    559 3 STATUTORY MEETING. The statutory meeting of the Taiping Tin Dredging Cimpany, L mi ted was held at the Chamber of Commeroe this afternoon. There were present Messrs H Waugh, F B Rickett, W 8 Goldie, A 8 Anthony, G Stotbard, H Oxenbam, F Daxbwry and L E
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    Comforts for Mesopotamia.
    148 3 The following are acknowledged as further funds and comforts for Major Jensen’s Men in Mesopotamia 8 c. Amount previously acknowledged 214.25 United Eoginofrs Limited see 25 Messrs R T. Rdd A Co. 5 W»r Wager” 10 Mr. E Wright Motion 15 Misses Pritchard Mr. A. L gpull
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    The Chinese Hut for France.
    51 3 Attention is drawn to the fact that the Penang Free School Boy Scouts will reappear again to-night for the last time at the Town Hall at 9 o’olock to enlarge the proceeds in aid of a Red Triangle Hut for the Chinese Labour Corps in
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    SELANGOR TURF CLUB.
    249 3 FIRST DAY’S HANDICAPS. (From Our Own Correspondent 3 Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 7. 1 The following are the handicap! for the first day Race 1 (5 Fuklouos.) Miss Linacra 19. 2 Ampang 8. 3 The Earl 9 2 Pretty Mally 8. 0 Fallow land 8 7 Pawl 711
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    The Electric Poliscope.
    278 3 Splendid pioturea are promised at the Eleotrio Polyscope to-night and the following three nights. The management have extended the screening of the ‘Gold Rooster film Tears and Smiles featuring Baby Marie Osborne, the fsmoue ehild artist which will be shewn in the first hoase. In the second
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    Coronation of the Sultan of Brunei.
    162 3 The B N. B. Herald says that the following telegrams were interchanged between the Court of Directors and the Resident ef Labuan, at the time of the coronation of H. H. the Sultan ef Brunei: Please convey following to Sultan of Brunei: —Court ef
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    Hongkong Tribunal.
    98 3 Up to July 26, the names of 823 men had been before the Hongkong Cousoription Tribunal. Oat of these 143 men bad been deolared medically unfit, leaving 180 oases to be dealt with. The following was the result of the Tribunal’s deliberations i Total Exemptions 115 Temporary Exemptions
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      563 3 Special Special Axur.uncemeiit the •e *4 4 4 EMPIRE vsu r>c |i»r: l THEATRE 1 I 77JF PREMIER 1HEATRE OF THE COLONY. 4 4 i 4 >4 >4 •4 >4 -4 ■4 4 4 -4 4 ■4 •4 HI Hi ►4 -4 4 H» HI >4 >4 Special Announcement COMMENCING
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      730 3 WAKTTED. CLERK wanted at the Penang Free Sobool. Salary $50 par mensem riaing by annual increments of 95 to ISO per mensem. Apply to 548-12-14 HEADMASTER. WANTED. NUR8E PROBATIONERS for the Perak Medical Department. Chinese or Eurasians preferred. Salary $40 permensem rising to $95 p.m. Uniform allowance $3 p.m. Washing,
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    The Straits Echo.
    97 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sandtys tad pablic AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Daily Local $BO pep annum. Outat&tion Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $lB pep annum. Cable Addrees: ECHO PENANG.* Telephone Noe. (Coho) 58«. Printing Department 343. ■N.B.—A 11 buam*M communication,
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    BIRTH.
    23 4 On the 6th August at Kuala Lumpur Gecaral Hospital to Mr, aud Mrs, R, P, Pereira of Abtoo Estate, 8gmenyih, a daughter.
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    NO REST FOR THE GERMANS.
    1155 4 The midsummer campaign in France and Flandera is beginning to devlope with some rapidity, for following the Frenoh attack on the Marne pocket which has been a remarkable viotory, a tsw movement ii reported further north. Dealing with the Marne battle first it seems plain
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    P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
    94 4 The fol'owisg are the results of tho ties played eff yesterday A Doubles—A S Hall and J Tryner beat 0 0 Rogers and Shervington by 46,6 4, 6-2 B Doubles—B W B Powell and CR A Goatly beat E A Swan and ODD Hogan by 3 6.
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    M. A. P.
    898 4 Mr. T.R Hubb:ck has gone (e Alaska ou a shooting expedition. Mr. and Mrs. J N. MulHs hare left Kuala Lumpur for Penang —M M Dr. F. R Sayers, Port Health Officer, is on a holiday up the Penang Hill. e e e 2nd Lieut. A. S
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    918 4 Mona in ruit Laborem. It can hardly be claimed Hongkong Conscription Bill h a howling sucoess from the of view of the nsmber. proVlded not at all inclined to argue that bees»!,? numbers are small therefore the com is not sufficiently patriotic. A.a*^ fset it is a result
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      117 4 PRITCHARD'S FOR BRASS BEDSTEADS. NEW DESIGNS 5 1 £v O; a u;r i tfi ’’T SEE:' OUT? FURNITURE SHOWROOMS, UMON STREET, mnnnnnr mvinnnr o 9 9 SOUGNUM /5 //v J7S£ OAT ,111 LEADING ESTATES AS A COMBATANT OF BLACK THREAD AND FOR APPLICATION AFTER PRUNING c e o o e
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    18 4 DEATH. Da Ba*aooiti la London, on August 1, J.A 8. de Bssagoiti, late of the F.M.S, (By cable.)
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    MARNE STORM LULLS.
    1361 5 A B.sa TO AT pack ahne PBE (Wber German Betmt Aaga.t 7, 4.5 p.DL, cb comciuniqae state, i In the IMKhdie, we ni.de local prcgie.. F eß .co.Tt .ad soath-eaet of 11 ffe re puUed ae enemy attempt u ftn Qr.ee» ."d occepied the c.rt s*is»e" e
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    HAIG STRIKES.
    731 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] BRITISH ATTACK AT AMIENS. Good Progress Made London, August 7. Sir Douglas Haig in his aviation report •late* We destroyed five German maohines on the 6th August and dropped 24 tons of bomba cn railways, aerodomes and billets and obtained several direot hits, A11 ours returned,
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    RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS.
    645 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] GERMANY 13 ALARMED. Bolshtriki Defeated Landon, August 7. A Fladivcatock telegrcm of the 3rd i August states that British troops landed at dawn and were given a friendly reception. London, Aagust 7. A telegram to Geneva asya that the Ukraine bureau at Lausanne learns that the
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    PREMIER REVIEWS THE WAR.
    1409 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] CAUSES FOR THANKFULNESS. 1 How the N»yy Saved the Empire t London, August 7. Mr, Lloyd George, reviewing the war situation in the House of Commons, said that had tbe British Empire four years ago not decided to throw the whole of its might
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
    1140 6 Exosrpt from the mien'* 1 of a meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held in the Chamber on Tuesday, 6th- August, 1918, at 2 80 p.m. Fretent i —Messrs. H. A. Low, Chairman, J. 0. Benson, C. E. Craig, W. 8. Goldie and W. G. Peter.
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    To-day's Band Programme.
    50 6 The following programme of music wifi be played at tbe Esplanade this evening at 6 p.m i—--1 Overture Prometheus Beethoven 2 Matu'ka A Midsummer Eve Ora 3 Selection L« Figiia Del R-gimento Don’setti 4 Walti D earn Of Spring Ollerensbaw 6 March In The Gipsy’s Camp Lie
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    Tin Outputs.
    51 6 The output of Ipoh Tin D-edging, Limited durirg July was 405 piculs. The output of Tb*> U u Pish Company for tbe month of July 1918 was s Mne output 230 pis, approximate value $21,160 00; Tr-butf* Ore 156 44 pis value $6 092 66; Total K venue
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    July Rubber Crops.
    570 6 Perak River V«lley 23,000, Semanggol 11,507 Juru 13,000, Kong Lee (Perak) I, lbs. Tawau is to have a hotel, the enterprising owner of which is to be Mr. Cheah Loon Ghee of Jetselton. There will shortly be three substantial buildings in course of construction, the Government offices,
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    ADMIRAL SIR F. C. TUDOR TUDOR.
    492 6 Part II of Admuals of the British Navy,” bas the portrait of the Admiral, commanding the China station whose h auquarters are in Singapore, a fair likeness Dut not quite as genial looking as the original. Tbe text (»l«o not quite up to date
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    U. S. and Russia.
    276 6 Fight fob Idealistic Aims. A Washington message states that President Wilson, in a speech to the members of a Mexican mission to the United States, vindicated the idealistic aims of the American cation as a belligerent. It fights, he said, so that the world may never
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    Metal From Monuments.
    156 6 G reman Church Bulls Exhausted. It is a stated that the German military authorities, having taken all tbe useful church bells, are threatening to lay their bands upon such metal as is contained ia German monuments. Unfortunately tbe worst German monaments are not made of metal, It
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    UNITED MALACCA.
    843 6 the ramuan china property. Eighth Ajtnual Meeting. The eignm annual ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Uoited Malacca Rubber Estates, Ltd-, was held at tbe Company’s offire, Malacca, oo July 31, at noon. Mi. Tan Cheng Lock (chairman) presiding. Tbe Chairman said* Our profit for the
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    The Rice Market.
    159 6 Rangoon, July 29. Rice prices for July and August are quoted at Rs. 242 for September R*. 252, und October R* 261. As there id no ton* nagfc available for Calcutta, there is only a slight demand. There were tight milling notices in the market at 2p
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    SCANDAL IN GERMANY.
    574 6 Amsterdam, May 26, A sensational lib l case opened in tbe Berlin Court on* B*turday, in which the plaint ff is Baron Waiter Toa Ridenk, son of a Prussian Gar oral, and the defendants •re Count Guenther von son of tbe notorious ex Ambassador at W.abiogtoo, bis
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    Germany's Wave of Crime.
    256 6 Paris, May 27. The special correspondent of the Matin at Berne telegraphs t "Immorality is making surprising progress in Germany. Toe following two facts may be taken at hazard among many others, Oa May 15, in the Main Committee of the Reichstag, during a debate on
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    A Lady Official
    111 6 Miss Hilda Sp near Swithinbank is appointed to be Assistant Secretary to the Financial Cjormia-ioopr, Burma, in place of Mr. J. J Anderson, I C. S, M J J* And '7son, I. C S., made over, and Miss R. S Switidobaok nooived. charge of the dati a
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    THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.
    371 6 SIR A. FELL ON LONnnv WORLD CAmi[ 0K 48 Sir Arthur Fell, cb.i ra D of of Commons Channel Tuqq.i n .hsK.,.l Soci,„ o, London Society a p. per on tQre hi Channel Tunnel.’’ T he objsi I**s bow ih. future of Loudon .'.Urf" I oobutr, drpeud,
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    The Week's Events.
    88 6 Friday, August 9, Town Bani, E-plan.de. P. F. S. Boy Scout Entertainment, Tow Hall, 9 p.m, Taiping Tin Dredging Co General Mating, Chamber of Commerce. 12 30 pm. The Dispensary Meeticg. 3 WeldQsay, 3 p.m. Saturday, August 10, Kedah Rubber Co. Ltd., General Meetiif, Chamber of Commerce,
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    Mails Will Close.
    158 6 For By Stiamu To-morrow (Saturday). Port 8wettenham and Singapore If oh 3-30 p* Under the agreement bstween Britain and Turkey for an eicbange terned oivi liana Resbid 8*di Bey P back to Turkey. He bag been named by the Turkish OoTercafDt three others. Lord Newton said tbara
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    Late Telegrams.
    101 6 [Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Aug«‘ l A Paris cable says there wai loß bombardment to-day. A<?a ,U. A Harbin report ia that an th r government has been vTWt isolating the Vladivostock g I const quently strengthening u ot vlh* Hotvih ia Eastern B^,^ sending reinforcenoenta to threatened with
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    THE CATERPILLARS.
    1372 7 A BIG MOViNG CARPET.” Havoo In Dubbtshirh And Yokkshirn. Buxton, June 12. Oa Empire Day, says a Time* Correspondent, a schoolmaster went up on to the moors abcre Buxton with a book. He found a comfortable seat and began to rea|. When be got to the end of
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    German Tobacco.
    365 7 14 Wo Ids than Enbmy Gas.” Amsterdam, June 12. According to the Cologne Gazette, the beechlesf mixture which has bean supplied to smokers in the German Army, and whioh a War Office representative admitted bad damaged the health of the troops, was the subject of sharp questions addressed
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    Charity Lotteries Banned.
    148 7 Illboal, Howuteb Good thb Caum, Says a recent Home paper i The Commissioner of Police, London, desires to call the attention of all who are interested in the coaduot of war obarities and of the public generally to the fsot that to advertise, hold, or promote a
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      271 7 REGISTERED TRADE MARK “DEER” BRAND Four-Coloured (SuSek) Cards and White (Chi-Ki) Cards. Bast Quality, well Glazad. Obtainable from all Leading: Stores. TIANG LEE CO SOLE 1M0OBTEBS. inn*Mm*Am OC 3CDC DCD ndDOCDC XZX Strong people DO A n n escape many minor ills that make life miserable for others. Don’t envy
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