Straits Echo, 9 September 1918

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED «ALAV STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY yOh- l<>> 1030 Per Annum. PENANG MOIMUAY, 9iL SEPTEMBER 19« 8 Single Copy, lO cent*. No. 206.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1536 1 f NESTLE' S MILK FOOD the BEST'FOODi” FOR YOUR t BABY|! 90 cts. PER 1 lb. TIN. 1 < BANKS Bank of India, Australia and China. Charto red (Incorporated In Englaodby Mva!Charter.) £1,200,00 > £2,000 000 £1,200 0 0 fiid op C*P' ta j^ rre Fuad Liability of proprietors Head
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    • 10 1 MILKMAID BRAND SWEETENED CONDENSED MIIX $20.50 B T A|NABLC EVERYWMEF
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    • 179 2 THE SAVER OF INFA UP IS ABSOLUTELY STARCH-F t m* m M. If mothers who cannot nourish own babies would give themt* e Mellin Diet from •x. birtn we should hear less of infant mortality X Mellin’s Food with cow’s milk will do more to bring your baby safely through
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  • 978 3 A GLaNlE a I' T.iElfi WORK The General Military Service Tribunal has practically oompleted its labours There will probably be several further meetings to dispose of the cases of men who were g> antr-d temporary exemption, but, broadly speaking, the fall man power of the Colony n»s
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  • 969 3 1 DR. WATSON’S REPORT. i Dr Malcolm Watson’s report on the pree valence of certain mosquitoes in Singapore 1 during the current ye«r haa been issued and reads as follows i—i For the purposes of a general anti- mosquito campaign the mosquito at their breeding places
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    • 1060 3 Tnmnnr 9 9 STRAITS SETTLEMENTS WAR LOAN BONOS. of f Bearing interest from the date of purchsfo at s<> per cent per annum, payable Half-yearly •n the noth January and the noth July Off RLHAYAHLt -xT rAf OM THE 20th JULY. 1928. PRICE OF ISSUE—IOO PER CENT t J» !o
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    • 89 3 ChmberlaU'a CMgh ItoaedrWhen you have a bad oold you want a remedy that will not only giro relief, but ef feet a prompt and permanent cure, a remedy that is pleasant to take, a remedy that con. >ains nothing Injurious Chamberlain's Cough Remedy meets all these requirements, It acts on
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    • 12 3 Fw Ciumlim'i H«aki»t o»«g** at Ni*kt, owta'i Amt Fw«i»t Cm U. W.
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    • 616 3 WONDERS WI.«L neve;: cease. A splendid offer of Dress Goods at prieea wbioh have become prises BRITISH THROUGHOUT. Fine N’avj Blue Tweed, 56 ins. wide, fast c lour, smooth surfaoe. Pr c $9-50 yard. pecral Show i ©p Dress ds oo H Excellent Black Tweed, 56 ins. wide, fast colour.
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  • 348 4 ST, XiVIER’3 BEAT P.C O. Tbe c'ickefc noa cb between the P.OC. and St. X vier’s R creation Club wbiod was played on tde Esp anad* on Saturday afternoon resulted in another defeat for the p(jQ A worse one than on tbe previous 03Cft»t‘>B. Although IS tw II represent
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  • 501 4 The Government defeated tbn Chinese Recreation Club at tbe latt r’s ground on Saturday by .92 runs. Tn* Government Service put up a «rand total of 116 towards whioh W H. Souily, on» of P-nang’s best batsman, attributed 58 in fine style, Ooe over h* faced
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  • 235 4 SIME DARBY CO.’S REPORT. Singapore September 7. London Quotations —The latent wire from London received hereon 2nd instant dated 3Jtb was as follow»:—‘Rubber 2/0# 2/1 market quiet Auctions 4th sth eptbmbbr;— A steady tone has prevailed since ou last report Consider* le quantities of rubber have i banged
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  • 393 4 IN AID OF ST. DUN3TAN3 Oa Friday 13 b, the Annual Exhibition 4Dd Bile of the Art C ub Penang Impression igts will be held, (by the kindness and courtesy of the Com p se Merchants ol Penang, in their Club Hous<, Litb Street Following the successful
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  • 260 4 Consequent upon a shocking discovery made by a Chinese named Loh Ah Ten', the pol ce were called out to the 7th mile, TJYper Serangoon, early yesterday morning, says the Free Frets ot Friday last and in the j ingle two miles from the road found the
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  • 880 4 SEMI OPFICULH ETIEff T J“ Allowing cables wer* to the Ban kok p re Nation;- rre,s by the 1« Tes w B During the week^’he°° *1 Utfan 30 continued th ir advance nukin ,ed «ai* progress. British troops ott forced the passige of the An AutfUgt 22
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    • 338 4 GET IT >■ The World’s Greatest Dust Gatherer. r j -m w a THE 0-CEDAR MOFf O-Cedar Mop Cleans as if Polishes, O-Cedar Mop Made with a strong enamelled steel centre Indestructible, cleans and polishes at the same time, putting a high lustre on all varnished surfaces. There is nothing
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    • 12 4 For Children’s Hacking Cough at night Wood’s Great Peppermint Oare Is. 6d,
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  • 1908 5 I Mr. 0. C. Rogera ii to be a Police Magi» •u. I trate at Penang. I Mr, P. A. F. Darid ii to act aa Secom ♦-1 Magistrate, Singapore. I I Mr. B. D. Aoton has been granted tw I months’ privilege leave, with effect from
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    • 441 5 TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT 11 .ft -ft ft -ft Hi HI EMPIRE THEATRE THE PREMIER THEATRE OF THE COLONY. •ft •ft HI Special visit of the famous Cowboy CAPTAIN GEO. ASH ►ft ►ft 1 -ft ft •ft AN EDDIE POLO IN REAL LIFE AT 9-30 P.M. Giving Exhibition! in Lassoim?, Shooting—and the
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    • 731 5 sakura; BEER STOUT THE DELICIOUS DRINK EVERYBODY STOCK IT. SOLE IMPORTERS: G. ADRELY Co., PENANG AND SINGAPORE. SINCAPORE'ACENTS M m. BRINKMANN 8 Co. AND THE VERDICT WAS Biggest and the Best THAT HASI EYER YISITED PEKANG Willison Wirth’s Circus Menagerie NOTHING CAN B£ BETTER THAN THE BEST The Management much
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  • 103 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays,) !AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Daily Local $BO per annum. Outaxation Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Poat Free) $lB per annum. Cable, Address: ECHO PENANG.* Telephone Noa. (Coho) 986. I Printing Department 343. N.B. —411
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  • 2110 6 Penang ii justly proad of the Penang Free Sohool, whioh has exercised a very I wide ioHuaaos on tha life of the Settlement* It matters not where one tame, its eona ere Ito be found occupying high position* and contributing to no small extent to the pro*
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  • 675 6 [Reuter's Telegrams.] °Wr»g„ on Allied CoV JIH Di,quieting wpo ,u fii* b r l I colony at Petrogr.d nntna.om .rreet, wera The headquarters of the Ftenr* u?* Mission were stoked tnd a ll,||r J I Frenchmen arrested. n *naber 0 Lenin Worse, Awailint Lying.’ x London, Septembe*
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 103 6 FINE OLD SCOTCH. Jt Hi Di SELECTED QUALITY BLENDED AND BOTTLED BY John Robertson Sons SOLS AGENTS FOR S.S. V F.M.S., Pritchard Co., LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IV STRAITS SETTLEMENTS oc=3>nc 0 n DC D CD C ffl OU FAME. RETAINS THE EXCELLENT QUALITY WHICH MADE IT FAMOUS. u o o Q
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 1410 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] ,;yAKKAHI.K PEO3REBB. Ih* P*rooß* Am» Landoo. S-ptsrober 6,15.50 ».m. Do«il*> H,ig "’P 01 'I’' 1 00 th part of tbe bottle front both north lo tb of Peronne we ere tdeenoin* end jn tbe enemy** reergeerd* end ere tbe high gronnd on tbe Athiee•iTrle front.
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  • 712 7 1 We advarcsd six kt'ometrea at some points. On tbe whole Ailette front the enemy, exhausted by hard fighting since 20th August, to-day b*gsn to give ground, Our units are pursuing the German rearguards and have rapidly progresaed north of the Ailette. Pierremaode and Autreville are
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  • 1480 7 i The crossing of lbs ftwulet laeon was doe to the eoeraga of *a single Lieutenant who t got a company man by -man, under heavy fire, across tbe wrecked railway bridge on tbe Ham-N’fila line, Hs worked the other bank with a handful of men to
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  • 589 7 1 L > iop, 8-pt»mbir 6, 8.50 p m. North of tin Ose toe French ara in possession of toe w.iols tf the Autrecomr, massif. The situation is developing aocoidiog to aoticipa f ioas, Tbe German retreat is proceeding towards the Hindenburg L n r The Veble
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  • 1427 7 The following articles will be found on our outnide pages t 3. —The Honekong Tribunals. Prevention of Ycttetr Fiver. 4. —Cricket. Rubber Market. Penang Impressionists Exhibition. A Volunteer’s Djatb. A Week* Warring. 5. M. A. P. 8 —Telegrams, 9.—Telegrams. The Epiphany Industrial Girls' School. Municipal Commission. 10, —Disciples of
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  • 931 8 Significant Summed UnParis, September 7, 6 45 p.m, I 8 Yesterday witnessed four Frenoh opera-1( dons. General Dibeney’s army pushed for- on tho Somme to within four kilo- li metres of Ham. General Humbert’s troops I reaohed the Oi»e the same distance southwest of Chauny, while General
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  • 390 8 Soldiers Sailors in Siberia. An pob Compobts L Tbe Hon’ble the Resident Councillor has received the following communication from 1 tbe G.O.C. wi f h reference to our Sailors and 8oldiers in 8ibaria. Money and gifts of every deaoription will be received either by Mrs. Michell, The Residency, or by
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  • 26 8 cFrom Our Own, Correspondent London, September 5. The prices in the Lendon Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/2 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2,04
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  • 132 8 Latest Quotation». Tin (unrefined) is quoted here todiT at *****5, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $151.87* business done, sold 50 tone. In their lateet produoe report, Messrs, Barlow and Co. itate There has again been a firmer feeling In tbeoopra market, although purchase! ere practically confined to Chinese
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  • 898 8 [Reuter's Telegrams.] DECREE AGAINST CHATTERER3. Berlin Placarded. LondoD, September 6, 12 50 a.m. A cable from Amsterdam stat»-a as an instance of widespread disquiet io Germany that the Kotlnische Volks Ziilung draws attention to tbe faot teat the military I [authorities have placarded Berlin, Breslau] and other
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  • 331 8 NEW BE0I3TEB OF 18,000,000, President's Inspiring Words London, September 1. A oable from Washington says tbit I immediately after signing the Man Powtr Bill President Wilson issaed a proclimitioa setting the 12th September as the data for I the registration of all men between 18 iod 145
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  • 609 9 [Reuter's Telegrams.] i German Warship Sunk A c»b!e from Amsteidam says that a German warship was seen to sick yesterday evening cff tbe Dutch Coast, presumably mined or torpedoed. Recalcitrant Submarine Crews. London, September 7. The Scandinavian newspapers give a sensational explanation of the mystery of
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  • 211 9 Tbe sale of work of the above eohool which took place on Saturday last at 5 a 30 pm. und-r tbe management of Mrs. Biggs, Mrs. D ewar and Mis. Danitl, tbe Superintendent of the Bcbool proved a great success. Despite tbe inclement weather there
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  • 164 9 The business for the meeting te-moiriw is as follows 1. Minutrs of last meeting to be read aDd con rmed. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 8. Questions. 4. Some bills to be passed, 5. Application from Thio Siow Kong foi Commissioners’ assuranoe to purchts*
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  • 557 9 The following programme of music wiil be played at the Esplanade this evening at 6 p.m i—--1 Fantasia Bonnie Scotland Hare 2 Galop Clear Tbe Bo id Tbiere 3 Selection Strolling Bound The Town Godfrey 4 Walts Passing Of Salome Joyce 5 March Belphegor Brepsant A violent
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    • 444 9 7 s£ CARIBONUM i t TYPEWRITER RIBBONS IN 4; s non RLUb HJRPLE rsF'^j BLUE *>• sea AND RED KaND PURPLE and red. Copy a n, l Record gSS 3~v .and Keconl for Royal,” OHror,” Kmre" and “Underwood” typewriters Ip Ip H* ?p *s» Ip Ip H* H* a* rfa*
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    • 1019 9 In time of prosperity one is inclined to be extravagant and when the pinch comes it is time to look for econ raj Expensive things are not always the best Coagulatex costs ooly $l5 a jar enough to make 40£ piculs first grade dry rubber or less than cent per
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  • 15 9 Obituary, London, September 7, 4 59 p.m. The death is announced of Sir Ratan Tata,
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  • 471 10 The following translation from Primora throws light on the dramatic appearance of the Czecho Slovaks in Siberia which resulted in present A 1 ied interven tion. On March 20 a treaty was made between the Bolshevik Government and the Czechoslovaks. of which the following part is rather
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  • 415 10 Discussing sympathetically in the Berlin Tageblatt the recent pamphlet wri ten by Visoount Grey on The League of Nations General Count Max Montgelas says that the only war aim worth the immense sacrifices involved is the prevention for all tme of a repetition of the four
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  • 552 10 When u announced a week BO thl h r »o«0] b l of members which *u held> ,peCul «*2? were probably few Mnt ,i Mk “’ght^ to ,f^ week previously nothing <*» cmtconly talk-d about gfi? J* *i Mr-gulanties of .ha basiSf f lh| S* Now that this
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  • 181 10 For gome days past the Dateotive Department hag been engaged io anravelllogtbi mystery which enshrouded the mirder o( Mrs. Litbmann and Emil Landis, ittbi Globe Hotel, on the night of Sunday, Auguit 25. Earlier indications suggested tbit tM crime wag committed by a Eiropeac and farther
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  • 123 10 [To TH» Editor oi th* Strait* fi**Sir, —I read in the prass Scretary. acting as the Governor D** recently made the following remit jj* "fcudden changes came almost and even if promises were f Wf. might be easily necessary to the next, ...In bow many the war began had
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 40 10 Now I» For rheumatism J 0 9l p 3,1«. J 3 batter than Cbsmberlaln 1 h j, iJ»* is the time to {M rid 0 p-'nt end see bo* < J" lck y bf end soreness. For»* c. irie end de*Jw*«
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  • 693 11 w •Bull» and Blunder#,” Mi the fol,owiog ■toi'j aa t J.C> el 'of qai°k Irish repartee. Lore ,pfCi® e W j tty Irilh judge, wai dininf Mo" 1 8 Harcourt, and mentioned t< flt u Mbit be bad aeen a paragraph in the bil .fttioz that a
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  • 1335 11 -Boclo months ago Mr. Hilaire 'ello brought out a little book called “The Fre Press.” in which he professed to tra e th rise and decay of the newspaper in ngland Like all controversial writings of Mr Eelloi it was coloured by his peculiar temperament
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    • 242 11 Penang Harbour Board. TENDER8 will be received at the Eirbour Board Office up to noon on Saturday the 2 sf September, J 9 18 for the ?*hon of six Dwelling House» at Bagan wlim rovince Wellesley. and Specification may be »een at f* Office of the undersigned after the 10th
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    • 110 11 ii f! ESTATE SUPPLIES. ii M j»* 4 Cf V It IN STOCK Acetic Acid 99 per oent. Barbed Wire. Gary's Box Strapping inoh. English Sodium Bisulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. Latex Pans, stsomi Gases. Mosaic Tiles. Par-Boiled nice. Peninsular Acetate, Tb Tapping Knives. Veneer Chests tVhite Porcelain Gups White
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    • 122 11 Order under the Food Control Regulations. The following are the maximum prices of the undermentioned articles of food fixed by the Penang Food Control SubCommittee until further notice. By Order, W. 0. Ml< HELL, Chairman, Food Control Sub-Committee, 22nd August, 1918. ▲BTIOLBS MAXIMUM PKIOBB Complete upioca Plant. POK HAT.T?!, FOB
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    • 1552 12 35 P. 0-BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (XJndei Contract j with His Majesty’s Government.) Tbt Company's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at prooeni suspended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Boxnba> as opportunity offers and as far
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