Straits Echo, 2 September 1918
1918-09-02
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Straits Echo
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Title Section35 1918-09-02 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THB FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY yol» 16 •30 Per Annum. TENANT*, 2nd SEPTEMBER, 1918 Slogle Copy» to cento. No e 99»35 words
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Advertisement1884 1918-09-02 1 NESTLES MILK food «THE BESTiFOODJ” fO R YOUR BABY,! 90 cts. PER 1 lb. TIN, **>■■■■ auctions. Xbeuader-i. ne l are prepared to take ap auction ealee of i Lands, Proper tleSi Estates. Houses. Furniture. Motorcars. Rubber, etc. PKQIPT account sales rendered. For Term* Apply to: i ALLEN DENNYS 81,884 words
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Advertisement11 1918-09-02 1 BRAND SWEETENED CONDENSED MUJL $20.50 FIR OASK. 8 f AINABLE EVERYWHER11 words
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Advertisement170 1918-09-02 2 THE SAVER OF INFANT LIF IS ABSOLUTELY 3JJRQH T if.* STARCH-FREE If mothers who cannot nourish their own babies would give them the Mellin Diet from birth we should hear less of infant mortality. Mellin** Food with cow’s milk will do more to bring your baby safely through infantile health-dangers170 words
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Article1790 1918-09-02 3 It is difficult to remember sometimes what one has written in past letters, But I rather feel that I may have given an im* pression that soldiering in Italy is all jolly good fnn and no work If so, please remember that I write only of that1,790 words
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Article240 1918-09-02 3 Ssndsy morning's shoot resulted a» under at 200, 300 and 500 yards H.P.S. 105. fi’osp. made. T/Oo p! G N 8*ye .65 98 35 8 Q M S A E Murray Sor, 95 00 Sgt E W FGHmio .47 9440 iPt-JMeldum 65 9415 i LMWodtrd 34240 words
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Advertisement761 1918-09-02 3 «.I JUST AftRIVEO X 3 Q, IRON FOUR POST BEDSTEADS. 11 in. pillars, size 4 feet 6 inches by 6 feet 6 inches, Flowered osts, Enamelled Black, S4S-00 IRO\ FOUR POST BED STEADS. H in. «If” Pillars, Brass Mounts on Four Pillars also on Two Foot Pillars size, 4 feet,761 words
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Advertisement49 1918-09-02 3 A<wi4«nta Will Hnppe» It may be impossible to prevent an accident. but it ia not imposaibte to be prepared for it Chamberlain'* Pain Balm i. net beyond anyene'a pnrae, and with a bottle of ‘hi* liniment ton are prepared far almoat anythin®. For salt by all dieptneane* and dialer*49 words
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Advertisement321 1918-09-02 3 l MOTOR CYC 0 B.S. A. h.p. chain cum bait drire 3 speed counter shaft gears. READING STANDARD 12 h.p. twin cylinder Complete with electrical equipment. INVICTA V h.p. single speed 2 stroke, 2} h.p. cwo speed 4 stroke Jap engine. MONOPOLE 2s h.p. single speed 2 stroker. 5 4321 words
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Article1167 1918-09-02 4 STRONG SINGAPORE CRITCI8M Two Ih ngs are now clearly estsbl shed Firstly, that the G* vernment did leoeive tbe 8 o etary of 8tate’s cable message of July 20 in reference to tbe robber position, I and. secondly, that the Gov rnmeut sent a reply prsc1,167 words
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Article827 1918-09-02 4 THE OPENING PERFORMANCES. What Will Bh 8e*n, Willison Wi tb’s Circus and menagerie has been reorganised for a final fartWdll tour of tbe F M 8. and the East, Sinoe tb* Company’s last appearance here Mr. Bart Willis» n, tbe maoagmg director, t as returned from Australia827 words
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Advertisement1158 1918-09-02 4 GE T II fl S WHIiIAWAT I The World’s Greatest Dust Gatherer. Y ■W S 3 p r //O r ouch 0-CEDAR MOP O-Cedar Mop Cleans as it Polishes, Q=Cedar Mop Made with a strong enamelled steel centre Indestructible, clears and polishes at the same time, putting a high lustre1,158 words
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Advertisement83 1918-09-02 4 Croup. Tbii disuse is so u-n*ercus and so rapid iamb d* veh pment that every mother o? young children sbouid be prepared (or it It ia very risky to wait untit the attack o! croup appears and then send (or med:cin«aud let the child twff -r until it cm be83 words
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Advertisement632 1918-09-02 4 Order Regulations. The following *r« the m of the undermentioned article b, tbe r« ns „s Fojd c" N Committee un il f ur ;h>r noljci- B .v Older w c MI heu, u,ao Food < ontrol t-ub-Comnitu. 22nd August, 1918 e 1 e i r >- Li fc lb632 words
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Article1693 1918-09-02 5 OFFICIAL ENQUIRY CONCLUDED. Vbbdict or SuiciDi. (From Our JSpeeial Representative.) In the Coroner’s Court, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday morning, the official enquiry into the oiroumstanoes attending the death of the late Mr. J. W. C. Ellis, Acting Deputy Controller of Labour, F M.8., was1,693 words
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256 1918-09-02 5 The Bishop of Singapore writes as follows I to the Btraits limee which prints his letter in leaded type t A« I have been, and still am, in correspondence with various high officials about the I lotteries I have purposely kept out of256 words
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Article65 1918-09-02 5 The following tie has been fixed for Wednesday, the 4th instant i Championship —H A Hunt vT M Shervmgton 4 ollowing fcie kM fi xe d for Thursdav. tha sth instant t A Single. Final —A S Hall vM D Rutley The following tie has been fixed65 words
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Article34 1918-09-02 5 The output of the Ratrut Basin for the month of Angnsti Honrs work. 601, yards treated 70 000. Output 525 pionls. Estimated Idle o! month’, output $50,000. E.ti. mated working ooit* $11,000.00,34 words
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Advertisement390 1918-09-02 5 4 y 4j i, lUJU&HUUMM*! L| THE PREMIER i I: E A Monster Programme Monday to Wednesday FIRST HOUSE 8 P.M, THE GREAT METRO aan t HIS ADOPTED SON” vup PRAWnifl Y Alt EVBKLEY IAYNE FRANCIS X BUSHMAN, ibis t* play *i r h »d y r y-a ee (Showing390 words
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Advertisement751 1918-09-02 5 gKVRfI m '«Sc.lft»»*: Cl s .Th^ Co. 1 Bsi*©' SAKURAi BEER STOUT THE DELICIOUS DRINK EVERYBODY STOCK IT. SOLE IMPORTERS: G. AGREYL Co., < PENANG AND SINGAPORE. SINGAPORE AGENTS: MESSRS. BRINKMANN S Co. i 5 LOST, POCKET WALLET, brown hither, containing two S. S. S return tickets tor Singapore ani751 words
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Article, Illustration100 1918-09-02 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Snndays and public holiday»,) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Loeal 180 per annum. Outs tat lon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: t ECHO PENANG.’ Telephone Noe. (Coho) »80. Printing Department 343, N.B.—A100 words
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Article1244 1918-09-02 6 Although the official ecquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. J. W. 0. Ellis has been concluded, it may be taken for granted that the last has not y<t been heard of this lamentable affair, o;ie thing will certainly strike the unbiassed reader1,244 words
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Article1045 1918-09-02 6 Mt< and Mrs. Bastow, of Pinji Estate, Perak, navd gone to Aus ralia on holiday. Mr. A. W. B. Hamilton is by now in desopotamia, having stayed only a few days in India en route. Mrs, F. Williamson is expected to return from Australia where she has1,045 words
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Article636 1918-09-02 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] 13 FOOH SEEKING A DECISION. Aw»,, Londofc, August 31, 245* MiliUry wr.ter, p, ri( oontmua to that tfc e mcgt porUnt points of tae battle troot a ro Arras E d north of Borons. *1*** sectors the Gernc.Le continue to offer a*" resistance with first-class636 words
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Advertisement140 1918-09-02 6 Pritchard 8 Co LIMITED. (INCORPORATED I IT STRAITS 8ETTL1MKSTS Extra Value in Sewing Machines TDf edOSCILLI hand sewing machine WITH FULL SET OF ATTACHMENTS "*Nr •< TTP* *T*' jfV r '‘<r^S_ PRICE *40.00. CASH PRICE $36.00. Absolutely the best value ever offered at the Price. THE R0T0SGILL0 TREADLE MACHINE COMPLEIE140 words
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Advertisement82 1918-09-02 6 NOTICE. The relatives and f iinda of tbe late Mb Lokb Cnow Kit of Kuala Lumpar and Penang are kindly requested to tefrain from sending offerings at bis faneralj which will ba in the simplest reform style and which has now bfen definitely fixed as originally for to morrow (Tuesday),82 words
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Miscellaneous17 1918-09-02 6 THE WEATHER. IST SIPTEMBHR. Temperature 73° 83° Rainfall 24 hours 6 m,m. 2nd Suptxmbur. Temperature 76° 84®17 words
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Article4167 1918-09-02 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] t u 0» Four W,vers %r:hsr British Strides. jjtoiiO, AU|!«*l 246 P n M U. B-« »P° r,s tß d> '"P itB the j bilges over the river oar ops crossed tbe Somme south peroonp. We have taken Olerj .ndCjrables making prisoner in 200 nd4,167 words
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Article78 1918-09-02 7 The following articles will be foind on onr outside pages i 3—" In Time of War. P V. R. C. 4. —The Government and Rubber. Circus in Ipoh. 5, Late Mr, J. W, C. Ellis. The Bishop, the Governor and the Lotteries. 8. —Singapore Share Market. Rnbbsr Market, Asiatics”snd78 words
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Article612 1918-09-02 8 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Attempt on Lenin's LifeLondon, Augn*t 31, 4 10 p.m, A wireless Russian official message of the 80th August states that as the result of an attempt on his life at Moscow Lonin wae wounded. The communiqud does not give further details. Lenin’s Condition Grave London, August612 words
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Article684 1918-09-02 8 [Reuter’s Telegrams] Work for Gtneral Smuts. London, August SO, Tbe Metropolitan police hava struck for higher pay and a war bonus. Most of the City police to night have oome out. Eleven thousand are now on strike. Genera) Smuts was interviewed by the police representatives to-day. A mass684 words
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Article90 1918-09-02 8 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, Augu-tt 30. A cable from Amsterdam says that travellers from Germany state that forty were killed at O jiogne and entire streets devastated at Mannheim. The aniline works at Bingen and Coblents were utterly destroyed in the litast air raids. U. S. A.90 words
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Article151 1918-09-02 8 DEAL WITH GOVERNMENT. Dividend of 35 Per Cent. From Our Own Correspondent Kusla Lumpur, August 81. At the Eastern Tungsten Company’s first annual meeting Mr. Henggeler who presided said that cnly half the authorised capital had been issued. There was an overdraft at I the bank of151 words
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Article41 1918-09-02 8 MONDAY, SaPTHMBIB 2 Town Band, Esplanade. WIDHSSDAY, SXPTNMBKB 4 Town Band, Esplanade, Thursday, Septimbkb 5, New Moon. Friday. September 6. Town Band, Esplanade. Saturday, Skpthmbhr 7, Jewish New Y^ar. SUNDAY, SIPTHMBIB 8Fifteenth after Trinity. P. V. Field Operations.41 words
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Article417 1918-09-02 8 8.8. Bertam 103,000 lb. Sungei Gettah 6,940 lb. Six vaccinations were done by Mr. B. E. D L*u Honorary Vaccinator, at the L%m Hua Hospital on Saturday, The Dlreotore of the Rahman Tin Co., Ltd., have declared a Dividend of 20% less tax, payable on 6:h September,417 words
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Article363 1918-09-02 8 FR SEE Aix’i> CO. S REPORT. In their Singapore share circular, dated August 28 Messrs. Fraser and Co state:--The share o-arket ia exceptionally dul, entirely owing to the uncertain future o our two main industries, tin and rubber As regards the tin position, the price I for363 words
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Article267 1918-09-02 8 Bim> Darby Co.’s Rkport. Singapore, August 3J. London Quotations —The latest wire] from London received here on 28th instant dated 26th was as follows“ Rubber 2/0%, 2/1% market quiet.” Auctions 28th <fc 29th August. —The improvement reported last week continued at the auction under review. The advent of267 words
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Article199 1918-09-02 8 (PVma Char Om. QtrreqpomdexU) London, August 30. The prices in the London Rubber Market te-day were; Pale Crepe 2/14 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/0* Messrs. Le vis and Peat, who have just opened a Singapore branch of their business, made a first appearance at the Singapore rubber auctions199 words
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Article439 1918-09-02 8 ALLEGED FRAUD. The hearing of a very interesting case, i tebing the discovery of an alleged fraud tha company through a very lr geaious i ,p, waa begun in the D.strict Court before M G. A. Hereford this morning when two Chinese named Kboo Tek Chye,439 words
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Article292 1918-09-02 8 APPOINTMENTS. Mr. B. P. Walker, Travelling Auditor, has been appointed an Assistant Accountant in the Inspecting Branoh of The Federated Malay States Railways, with effect from the Ist January, 1918. Mr. J. E. Jackson, State Engineer, Public Works Department, Pahang, has been appointed to be292 words
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Article84 1918-09-02 8 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $157.25, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $l5B business done, sold 150 tons. A correspondent writes to protest against a Chinese taboo. He thinks it sheer nonsense that a coffin that contains a corpse should not be allowed to be84 words
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Article494 1918-09-02 8 I >0 United C ‘0 0bt4io tbo\daereoci’ of© 1 l*rg<,ly wa believe owing to n<k f agreement with a portion of It/?° 0il di w,s to have held a mating of Z nD 1 £!V n KVUU L «tnpar 7 J T"'" may be hoped that494 words
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Article457 1918-09-02 8 The following programme of music will ba played at the Esplanade this evening at 6 p.m.i—--1 Aria Torquate Tasso Doniiitti 2 Mazurka The Alpine Rose Strauss 3 Potpourri A Musical Tour Through Europe Conradi 4 Walts Annie Hortoo 5 Maroh The Night Riders Bafrom The next Assizes457 words
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Article2360 1918-09-02 9 m 0 Dividend T5 If a mb* of '3 (>■ a. an Jl CtpiU 11 8b»r« > iliued. 0 m m O •w *3 h lut financial year. fercurrent year* »ama s m 0 m 5 a m i <y I RUBBER—DOLLAR SHARES. I cts. f ots W"*» mat2,360 words
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Advertisement114 1918-09-02 9 vrrm WH W' IE! CHEAT EASTERN LIFE assurance Co., Ltd. Head Office:—SINQAPORB. f I» p DC A A Marriage-License and an Insurance Policy Ought to go together The ha a duo meat and wisest compliment a man ean pay his wife ia wrapped ap in a Great Eastern Insurance Policy.114 words
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Article397 1918-09-02 10 Thera ii uo m*u in Aoitnca or Cauad* i who la better known as a knight of tbe ropf j •nd gun than OupUin George A»b, a Canadian by biitb. He has been tbe champion of law and order in almost every portion of the world, and a397 words
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Article311 1918-09-02 10 As foreshadowed in the Echo last week, joint conference of representatives of the Education Departments and of he Government and aided English Schools of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States opened in Kuala Lumpur on Friday moraine under the Chai manship of the Hon Mr.311 words
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Article178 1918-09-02 10 August 16, 1918. Tbe Rioe Market was a babble of •xoitement to-day. All sorts of rumours were dying about and prices were falling all day. So rapidly were the changes rung that it was almost impossible xo say what the prioes were at any particular moment. As178 words
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Article1026 1918-09-02 10 rher* is a stor» wriVL fht Obiarver tbit f ne d 1 “too' to -P“k in th, L.WWhistlers s commit m t „e. J* »>. nature is undoubtedly Writers of fiction w h 0 reari *P !n OBneus (Heme ann will be coustr that fact is still an1,026 words
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Advertisement45 1918-09-02 10 Now Is the Time. For rheumatism you will find nothing buttur then Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Now ia the time to gat rid of it. Try thia lioiment and see how quickly it will relieve the pein and soreness. Fer sale by all dispensaries and dealers.45 words
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Advertisement712 1918-09-02 10 WONDERS Wli-L NEVER CEASE. A splendid offer of Dress Goods at prices which have become prizes. BRITISH MADE THROUGHOUT Fine Navy Blue Tweed, 56 ins. wide, fast colour, smooth surface. Prici $9*50 ya d. Excellent Black Tweed, 56 ins. wide, fast colour. Price $7-50 81 $9-50 yarc}. Fancy T weed712 words
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Article2084 1918-09-02 11 Sir, I thank you for permission to go ashore Aren’t you the cook Yes •ir.”—'• How long do you want?"—“Just till six bells, rir —“Who re you tearing in 'char e of the alley? —‘Mott, Sir”— “Mott? Where’s Schult* P‘ On the binnacle-list. tir. Hit the deck2,084 words
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Advertisement159 1918-09-02 11 if ESTATE SUPPLIES. IN STOCK Acetic Acid 99 per cent. Barbed Wire. Gary’s Box Strapping inch. Fnglish Sodium Bisulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. Latex Pans. Momi Gases. Mosaic Tiles. Par-Boiled ?*ice. Peninsular Acetate, Tapping Knives. Veneer Ghosts White Porcelain Gups. White Aino Pdint. The Best and Cheapest Cag plant in159 words
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Advertisement302 1918-09-02 11 NIPPON CONFECTIONERY 22, Lsith Street, Peaioft, PboneNo, 410, OPEN FROM 6AM TO MIDNIGHT. Sweets, Ice Cream, Cakes, Etc. can be had at any hour. Orders for .Cakes.booked at.anyjtlme. i: 1 MODERATE CHARGES. ijfTj PRICE LISTS FREE ON APPLICATION, FOR SALE. Motor cycle rover, si h.p S speed gear Bosch Magneto302 words
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Advertisement1229 1918-09-02 12 P. S. —BRITISH INDIA AND APCAB LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PAS8ENGER SERVICE8. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (Unde) Contract with Hi* Majesty’s Government.) The Company’s MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY art at present ««pended Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay as opportunity offers and as faraV aooommodation1,229 words
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