Straits Echo, 13 September 1918

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THB STRAITS, THB FBDBRATBC MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST, GENERALLY- sob. 16. 930 Per Annum. PENANii, Jb KlliA X i.»id SEPTEMBER 1918 Single Copy, lO cent». No. .iOW.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1496 1 ’«Sgfeatfsr/s NESTLES MILKJOOD i the.best;f30d ►V fOR^YOUR L BABY,! 90 cts. PER 1 lb. »tin.: BANKS. t j* «tcr Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (Incorporated la England by Koval Charter.) Piid up Capital M geserve Fuad geserve Liability of Proprietor Head Office i yo. 88, BI8HOP8GATE, LONDON, E.C,
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    • 10 1 MILKMAID BRAND SWEETENED CONDENSED HIUL $20.50 B r AINABLF CVEITYWMER
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    • 32 2 OF EVERY fflomi Cases. Acetic Acid. English Tapping Knives. Changkols. Wire Nails. Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. KATZ BROTHERS, LTD (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) PENANG. V
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  • 1980 3 Bt Auoustin Hauoir. Germany, under the fiction of Parliamentarism, is in reality an autocracy. The power is centralised in the hands of a few men. The rest obey. German un ty was achieved under t he hegemony of Prussia and it was imposed .upon individuals and collectivities
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    • 111 3 MARPLE ROME-SPUN SHEETS. MARPLE HOME-SPUN SHEETS. Heavy Twill Sheets for Dependable Wear. Pure white bleach, soft finish. We* can recommend these all British Bed Sheet*. They will withstand the routjh handling of the Dhoby and wear much longer than ordinary quality Bed Sheetr, touting a httle lees. Whiteaway, Laidlaw Co.,
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    • 50 3 Accident* Will Happen. It may be impossible to prerent an accidjjt, bat it is not impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is net be* jond anyone's parse, and with a bottle of this liniment yon are prepared for almost anything. For sale by all dispeaoaries and dealers
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    • 624 3 SITUATION WANTED.; m r;tm "■> j v> 4 PLANTES, married, matt change to health t Estate Four year. experience, Field Factor?, Disease and Books. Chiefly Chinese labour, Refer X, Y. Z do Blraits Echo.'- 1 643-18-9 WANTED. FOB the DINDING3 A QUALIFIED SUBYE YOB oo tbe Temporary Establishment of the
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  • 1897 4 SOVEREIGNTY ARMAMENTS. Thank God, we «till have a House ot Lord* t Teat priceless bus dohy wbat the House ot Commons ought to have done long ago. It has passed a resolution approving of tbe principle of a League of Nation* and pressing it upon the consideration of tbe Government,
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  • 214 4 The following programme of music will {be played at the Esplanade this evening {at 6 p.m i—{l Fantasia Pantomania Williams {2 Gavotte Stephanie Czibuika 3 S lection Babylonia Williams |4 Walts Caramitlo My Willoughby Dearest 15 March Ziuave Goud. H M. Consul-General at Batavia, in a {recent
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    • 932 4 1 vrm m K. <//// rfiwr/l\ ft #*F 2?r a I Mi B i a*, *>. v -v L J fcrvr s© n l!£ f jsfeisteidLi?: jL-4 M W» r >. «ft /«7/. I u •Ti NATURE’S WONDERFUL GIFT TO AFFLiCTrD MALAYA A CERTAIN, SAFE SPEEDY CUKE FOR ALL CASES
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  • 61 5 NEWS AND YIEW3. (From Over Oven Correspondent,") London, September 11. lhe prices in the London Robber Market to*day were: Pole Crepe 2/2| Diamond Smoked Sheet 211 Messrs. Booiteod A Co. inform na that the following were the qootationa [for Robber cn Spot in London on the 11th
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  • 1127 5 (From Our Ovm Correspondent At the Singapore Rubber Auction the following prioes were obtained per pound cts. ets. Fine ribbed 48 55} Good 38 47* Good plain 17 40 Ucsmoked fine ribbed 40 Good 311 Good plain 27 Crepes fine pale thi n 52 55 Good 88
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  • 617 5 Excess Profits Jkciduncu, Presiding at the annual meeting of the 8ungei Besi Mine, the ohairman said that, in oonse quenoe of their not having been able to reach the full producing stage as early as was anticipated when the company was formed, it was now liable
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  • 381 5 Before Mr. 8 EL, Liogstoa in the Police Court to-day a pork seller named Leong Eeng was charged with selling pork to one Tan Ah Tin at a higher prioe than that fixed under the Food Control Regulations, The evidenoe showed that the accused yesterday charged 48 oents
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    • 462 5 ■0+ikH PHENOMENAL WEfKEND DISPLAY 1 -4 -ft 4 I rft ft EMPIRE theatre Is THE PREMIER THEATRE OF THF. COLONY. L V V T- -ft ft 4 4 >1 r« 41 -ft -ft -a -t -ft -a -a 41 4 ft -II .f. Rupert Julian—Ruth ClifFord (O EN1UCKY CINDERELLA) IN
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    • 523 5 •fiKl/Rflßtef 9 >.imrrr> r l T “t 5 r-sr Tgj ms/ti Co.^ TntsrJ Bum?'’ SAKU RA BEER STOUT ASK FOR IT. SOLD EVERYWHERE SOLE IMPORTERS: G. AURELY Co., PENANG SINGAPORE. W*HNAL FAREWELL-^pJ Willison Wirth’s Circus Menagerie This FRIDAY Evening Grand Fashionable Night Testimonial Benefit Accorded to B£<sT WILLISON, Prior to
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  • 99 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Stmday» and public holidays,) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Liocal $BO per annum l( Out station Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Poet Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Noe'. (Eoho) 586, Printing Department 343, y.B.— All
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  • 1073 6 In sres, New Zssland is a little smaller than the British Islands. It has a million people of British stook and fiftj thousand Maoris—a preceding dark-skinned race of noble attributes. The Maoris Before the whites came were not inferior to North American Indiansj thej are
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  • 189 6 RbPBIMAJTD FROM THE BINOH, la consequence of a letter addressed to the Benoh bj the Penang Bar Committee with regard to the signing of certificates o! 1 identity at the back ef deeds, Mr. Daniel Logan, Barrister-at-Law, appeard before Mr. Jnstioe L. M. Woodward this morning in
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  • 918 6 Mr. Vincent 8t. B. Down, of Singapore is I *t present on a business visit to Kinta. The Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknill K, 0 is expeoted to return to Sincanore on the 16th lost. s Mr. R. W, B. Darke, of Kulim, and Mr J. Dewar,
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  • 805 6 A War Baby, instance from a New 7 i w vui ajaew 4,aia n(1 F# Nixou.— February 22 Nixon and Mrs Nixon—1 t J Nixon returned May «2** 1 A Marshal of FrsTncTi To-day is the 71 at .mi death of Charles Nicolas r?.?** ot i'io Napoleon’s marshal.,
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  • 18 6 AoesMi Oommlttid f* CtVm The «cooed >• Jt ,rf.lW m.rder, were d o^- ltWd double murdsr*
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 93 6 WHISKY fine old scotch. J. R. D. SELECTED QUALITY BLENDED AND BOTTLED BY John Robertson Sons SOLS AGENTS FOR S.S. 6> F.M.S., Pritchard 8 Co., 7 I V LIMITED. (iNCOFfORATED IN 6TRAIT8 8RTTL1MEBT8 ocddc 0 DC DOC DC n n IN OLD FAT ME. DnCDO 0 n n RETAINS THE
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 652 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams] Local CperatloxsLondon, S-ptembar 11,10 50 p.m. gir Douglas Ha'g reports *—We carried ,t a successful looal operation in tbe early orB j W northward of Epeby, advancing our line sod uklDg a n mher ot P ri >oners. progressed on the southern portion of tbe bat*!
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  • 732 7 London, S ptember 9, 5 80 p.m. A Wireless German offioial message states i—Strong enemy attacks against tbe Gauxetucourl-Epeby line failed with heavy losses. Between the Ailette and the Aisne an enemy attack in close formation was repulsed on tbe whole front with sanguioary losses. London, September
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  • 678 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] SHEET ANCHOR OF DEFENCE. Cambrai Lines not Final fystem Loodon, September 11, 25 50 p.m. Aoable from Amsterdam statu that the Vo»•itcheZeituug publishes a sign fioantsrtide by Ciptsiavon Stlsmann who anticipates shortly a heavy British attack at Cambrai and says that the German lines before
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  • 1482 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] REVOLTING RECORD OF BARBABI1Y. 1 Zultur in AfricaLondor, 8 ptember 11. Mr. E H L Gorges, C.M G, Administrate 1 or of Sonth-West Afrios, has presented one of the meet sensational reports ever issued in connection with German Colonial It constitutes a most damning indictment of
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  • 406 7 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Tsarina and Daughters Murdered. Lmdon, September 12. The Daily Eaprert under stands that the Bolsheviks murdered the Empress of Russia and her four daughters. Rd Guards at Talta tried to kill the Dowager-Empress and ber daughter and son-in-law the Duke of Oldenburg but sailors of
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  • 47 7 Tbe following articles will bs found on oar oat-ide pages i 3.—The German Megalomania. 4 —B )verei«nity and A-m «moots. s,—The Bobber Position. Singapore Beboer Aaotion, "^B—Aff'irs in China. The W-ek’e Events. Tronoh Mines. Give ns Tin. 10. Mining in China. 11, W«r News and Goatip.
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  • 22 7 Latent Quotations. Tin is qntted here to-day at 1149 12$, bu«in««s done, in Biogapore (refined) at bnsioesa done, (40 tons told.)
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  • 95 7 Obituary. I The Lata Sir Batan Tata Londoo, September 11. The funeral of Sir B .tan T*ta took plaoe I «t Brookwood yesterday at noon. The service I was in the Parsee obap 1 and the interment I in a grave sdj lining >hi mau-oleuna of the late Sir B&tan
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  • 79 8 Friday Skptumbu» 13. Peuans Impre'si""»»*»’ Exbib tion, Chineie Merchants’ C »b. 9 30 a.m. to 7 p m. Satuuday, BEPT*atBM 14, Ortoket.—Government Service 0. B. C. Viototia Green. SUMDAY, SUPTUMBU* 15* Sixteenth after Trinity. Monthly Med., Competition!, Mohday, B«ptmb«b 16. Town Band. Esplanade. M Jewi.h Holiday. (Day
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  • 791 8 A number of golf matches is being arranged to take plaoe on Friday, Ssptember 27, en the Penang Golf Course about 9 P by moonlight-weather permitting—in aid of the Our Day Fund. u OUR DAY" TANK. Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Company, Limited have kindly presented one
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  • 992 8 INTERVIEW s WITH CHINESE m MINI31EB8. Tuan Chit Jui. I! The special correspondent of the Daily Mail in tbe Far Eist bas had an interview with Tuan Cm-jui. the Chinese Premier. In the oourae of it luan said i—••The threatening situation on curl frontiers certainly demands safeguards.
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  • 1111 8 APPRECIATION OF INVESTMENTS I The sixteenth annual general meeting was I bald on" Jane 27 at the Cannon street Hotel, E C., Mr. C. V. Thomas (chairman) presiding. The secretary (Mr. A. H. Cullen. C.A,), having lead the notioe convening the I meeting and the report of the
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  • 250 8 A few explanations of technical terms I may be of service to visitors to this exhibi-1 lion, the prooeeds of which are to be devoted to the 8t. Danstan’s Fund. BT .—An attempt to improve on Nature. (See Artificial AaTiBT-—Oae who gats as near to Nature as
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  • 720 8 An event that deserves th’ fullest support of the public is the all-day exhibition at tbe Chinese Merchants’ Club to-day of the Peaang Impressionists Considered intrinsically, tbe exhibition reached a standard! high enough to appease the most oapric ous but what was of equal importance regarding it
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  • 2128 8 It is impossible, says the Mining Journal of June 29, to read without some amusement I—though unfortuaateiy the laugh is at our [own expense—of the sudden access of I interest which the Colonial G/ve nm9nt has taken on discovering that there is a I shortage in tbe
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  • 2294 9 a Dividend 1 21 Namb» 0 Oe 1 J < Sh»r £3 j fern* 5 issued. last finanfar current I N Q h i s oial year. year. >. 0 35 1 c? i 1 i RUBBER—DOLLAR SHARES 8 cts 8 ets ia Jl 1*20,001 1*20,0)0 1 1 6#
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    • 318 9 4* I I i I I i 1 I CHIN SENG Co., Ltd.. (INCORPORATED IN THE 1.8.) A I We beg to .tmouooe to The General Publio th»t WB have just reoeired a Urge shipment of fresh Horse foi.der, comprising the following:— CRUSHED FOOD", "CRUSHED OATS” “BRAN”, “CHAFF” etc Orders
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  • 945 10 Mineral Enterprise in China By William F, Collin»- (lioinomann 541». net) Thing» being they are, end they have been »inoe the passing of Yuan Soib-kai, in Ohm», it would seem that work on mineral enterpri»e in that distracted country might have been written after the manm-i j
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    • 81 10 Croup. This disease is so dsngerous and so rapid in its development that every mother of young obildren should be prepared for it. It is very risky to wait until the attack of croup appears and then send for medicine and let the ohild suffer until it o»n be obtained.
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    • 661 10 The Allied Governments Have Bought Over ROYAL To Equip their New Armies Compare the work and you too will choose the ROYAL Typewriter,—the machine that makes big organizations complete. STOCKED IN BRIEF. POLICY 8 FOOLSCAP SIZES BY THE SOLE IMPORTERS: AND COMPANY. Instant Relief f 0r FOOD-SICKNESS and Morning Na
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  • 1754 11 (.From Out Own Oorresptmdwd^ London, Jane 26. Oar gallant Italian Allies arder General Dili still hold the fort despite all the endeavours of the Austrians to break tbroagh. Nothing save the desperate internal state of the Deal Monarchy oould iedaoe it to ■auction snob a desperate
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    • 628 11 Nippon confectionery p«‘«. PUm Ho, 480, 0PE from 6 a m to midnight. 5H68tii Icb cr«»m, Cakes, £tc M n be had at any hour. Orders for Calces booked at any time. moderate charges. cc list» FRCC ON APPLICAT,0N TENDEK8 will be received at tie n rboa r Master’! Office
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    • 323 11 r E ESTATE SUPPLIES IN STOCK Aoetlo Acid 99 per cent. Barbed Wire. Gary’s Box Strapping inch. English Sodium Bisulphite. Breen Mosquito Wire Gauze. Latex Pans. Momi Gases. Mosaic Tiles. Par-Boiled Rice. Peninsular Acetate, Tapping Knives. Veneer Ghosts W1 White Porcelain Gups White Aino Paint. The Best and Cheapest Coagulant
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    • 1300 12 P. 0. —BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(Undei Contract with Hi« Majesty’s Government.) Tht Company’. MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at snspended. PaM.ngen for Europe are booked via Bombay aa opportunity offer, and a. fare. C00 “t‘ c“m'pl^
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