Straits Echo, 19 December 1918
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Straits Echo
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Title Section36 1918-12-19 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THB STRAITS, THE FBDERATBC IA AAV STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY* VOL. 16. •SO Per Annum. PENANt*, laUliaMl, I£th DECiiMBEIi, 1918 •Ingle Copy, 1® rent». No. 200.36 words
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Advertisement1404 1918-12-19 1 HESTtFS MILK li'tiiiD I IK SCSI F3OB ns vow imi 90 cts. t B A N \K S Chartered Bank of India, ■Australia and China. (Incorporated In England by Royal Charter.) Paid up Capital m X 1,200,000 Baser ve f und X2,000X00 Beserve Liability of Proprietor* XI ,200,000 Head Office1,404 words
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Advertisement38 1918-12-19 2 p I BOTTLING OF •*sir V.*, EXTRA FOREIGN Brewed and Bottled in Dublin A t LAND iiA KATZ BROTHERS, LTD. PENANG. «(INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS) SINGAPORE SOLS AGENTS, 9 ff SL xyj Crikk rl xy5 vapp XTJ 138 words
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Article955 1918-12-19 3 Tieii) 3/ear /fleeting, igig. RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Tuesday, 21st Jany., 1919. |< SECOND DAY- Thursday, 23rd Jany., 1919, THIRD DAY Saturday, 25th Jany.. 1919. FIRST DAT. TUESDAY, 21st JANUARY, 1919. The Gsorgre Town Plate and Purse. J4P0 and $100 to each Second‘‘Horse. A. Handicap for all955 words
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Article1427 1918-12-19 3 The rer, ®Agh prices of antique furniture, ch na, coins, book, and prints have placed these almost reyond the reach of those of modest income- Pictures of any merit have long trwn the hobby of the rich. There remains the collection of the autograph letters1,427 words
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Article435 1918-12-19 3 Onb W*o Knows Him - (By Onb W*o Knows Him General Daosterville, commanding our forces in Persia, is none other than K«pliau'e 44 Stalky.” Kipling was Beetle ml the*firm of Stalky and Oo.” and the two have kept up a fast friendship eince the day I o' Westward* Ho! Dansterville is i»wellknown figure in435 words
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Advertisement328 1918-12-19 3 Entries Close lslh January, 1919. Handicap Races for Horses or Special CoaHitloa R««ardi«* H^ e JJ e n 7ent of the Committee, divide the entries Ponies the Official Handicapper may, pi gs a will be separately Handicapped. Kir. or I» OI....S th.n K b riglt it th.J con.ider th.E.tr.« In328 words
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Advertisement27 1918-12-19 3 Now Is the Tiwie. j? rhrmmfcti*™ fi «Othißg (t r nhnnkwrlai»’» Pw® B*lnu WW I j u Ttt thil lini* tS ST- 6* puiudunun. T#r need doeler*27 words
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Advertisement252 1918-12-19 3 RO-SAM INDOOR CLOSET. It’* an all-metal portable fixture that may be set up in ten minutes at any place in the house, and aide hall, under a *tairway, in a bedroom basement or clothe* closet. A rent pipe or directly outdoors carries off all odor*. :s Every man finds it252 words
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Article968 1918-12-19 4 A Possibli AljPßl. The following amusiag Incident is reported as having occurred at tha Ipoh station hotel i A few days age a well-known planter, who happened to be staying at the hotel, was addressed as follows i Clerk i—" Sir, I think you oan leave the hotel968 words
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Article400 1918-12-19 4 CoMMiiroKMHrT of Imp&ovbmint SOHBMB. Among the recommendations of tha oommittee appointed to oimider and report upon a scheme to commemorate the centenary of Singapore, and published in our iaaue of October 15, was that the elephant in front of the Town Hall be moved to the grass plot400 words
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Article287 1918-12-19 4 Reuter’s message to-day with its reference to the Netherlands Minister caused somectiog in the way of mild sensation, It did not actually cause much surprise as the pro-German attitude of his Excellency has throughout the war been a matter of notoriety. On the other band287 words
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Article143 1918-12-19 4 Thubsdat, Decembib 19. Town B«nd, Golf Club. Fbiday, Diobmpeb 20, Town Band, ĔspUoids, Penang "Oar D*y«" Bed Cross Gymkhana Bazaar, Fancy Fe a etc, Bice Ooarsa, Siia of Flag», Badge* and Bosette* throuphoat the Town at noon for "Oar Day.” Empire Theatre Special Performance for “Oar Day F.143 words
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Advertisement340 1918-12-19 4 n oc Q X ■^OCDCDOOoC j PRESENTS FOR THE LITTLE ONES. Pluhitte Gats. A whit* Pluahette Cat with ooloored ribbon and bell round neek.~ Price 65 oetate each. m ;*/i t/i > n m PloshetU tats f JJA white fur oat with jointed limbs and?* I epeoial ejee, has silk340 words
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Advertisement503 1918-12-19 4 BRITISH (SIAM) ~n ASSOCIATION ~Q» Mr, 918 w*R Lol| LOTTERY. TICALsToo O.OOQ Tickets, Tica's TZohT he"-*' 1 k “«S“p,^ l Ist Prize 2 Prizes 8 32 50 140 T ‘cals 200.000 50,000 e 4c 20,000 10,000 5,000 l 2,500 U 0 500 It It •I It •t *wv The balance503 words
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Article1224 1918-12-19 5 BTRONO SINGAPORE CRITICISM. Sift E. BftOCKMAN’I VftftT Foouib RXBases* So acute («ays tnu Fr— f rttt) baa been the comment ia seme quarters ocoaaicned by oertain remarks tbe Chief Seoretary F. M. 8. made dariag tbe diaoaaaioa ia Federal Coaaoil on edaoation eatimatea, that Sir Edward Brookmaa baa1,224 words
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Article947 1918-12-19 5 (To 'he Editor of tha Straits limst,) Sir, —You have indeed plaoed the publio of Malaya under deep debt of gratitude by your publioution of tho Colonial Secretary's reply to the petition of Ghineao merchants engaged in the Rangoon Bioe trade for it seems to indioate that947 words
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Advertisement420 1918-12-19 5 Tut t4 Hi hi e H8 4 THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS $2,000,000 “OUR DAY” 1918 5iX WAR LOAN LOTTERY. SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT and run under the auspices of 11 Our Day Committee. HI Hi Hi ~e The balance, after deducting all expenses, will be distributed in Straits Settlements Government b\% War420 words
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Advertisement813 1918-12-19 5 OUR DAY 20th 1918 Coder the Distinguished Patronage of The Hon hie The Resident Councillor and Committee Members of the RED CROSS FOND* THE PS EMPIRE Penang Road. IN AID OP THE “RED CROSS FUND WE ABE SCREENING IN THE SKCOND HOUSE 9.15 P.M. SHARP A SPECIAL BED CRO*S FILM813 words
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Article, Illustration97 1918-12-19 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Local $BO Per annum Outstatlon Postage Extra, Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum, Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Coho) 586. Printing Department 343, All baiinMi commuaicationa should97 words
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Article1209 1918-12-19 6 The local rioe problem is distinctly perplexing owing to tbe very contrary opinions that have been published in the local press. It is to be hoped that the important discussion on the subject by the heads cf the Government whioh it is believed is (ending at Singapore1,209 words
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Article22 1918-12-19 6 Latest Quotation, Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-dsy at $125.25, business done and in Singapore (re-fined) at $125.10, no business done*22 words
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Article925 1918-12-19 6 Mr. S N. Brunel-Norman, who is now resident in Saremban, has been granted an Auctioneer's Licence Mr. Justice L. M. Woodward will be leaving early next week for Samatra on a short holiday. He will be away for the rest of the year. The marriage takes place925 words
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Article988 1918-12-19 6 A Tip lor To-morrow d ,th ''p«i« th“„r advioa of friends. H.s .iLi! Wlth tbs procedure was to write the nal tf the horses running n gi“® r f p,ch c! separate slip 0 f D4nPr rf4 Klve r»ci 00 t pallet and throw them’aii 1*^?th' P h988 words
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Advertisement157 1918-12-19 6 ASTINEI SOMETHING QUITE NEW IN WATER COLOUR FOR WALLS. ARTISTIC, SANITARY, LASTING AND ECONOMICAL “Alabastine when applied on the walls gives a clear, streakless, and spotless appearance and is particularly suitable for standing the trying light of the Tropics. “Alabastine" is stocked in a wide raDge of colours in 5157 words
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Advertisement13 1918-12-19 6 e TO MORROW. Don’t forget your I Money or your Purse I ■■■■^Salr^^aaaaoai13 words
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Miscellaneous13 1918-12-19 6 THE WEATHER. 19th Dxcbmbis. Temperatare 73* Rainfall for 24 hoars 4 ins, 80».13 words
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Article1251 1918-12-19 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] BRITAIN'S WORLD POWER. Leading Profeisor’e Testimony. London, Daoember 14 The latest batch of German newspapers received in London shows that certainly the more educated classes have no doubts that Germany has been utterly detested. In this connection, an artiole in the GonserT ,tive newspaper, the1,251 words
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Article1359 1918-12-19 7 [RbUTUb’b TbL*GESM9.] ALLIED PRESS VIEWS, Its Historical Aspect London, December 16. French and British newspapers say that President Wilson’s visit to Europe is one of the great events of history. The Timet sayai—«The entry of the United States into the complex politics of the old world and1,359 words
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Article833 1918-12-19 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Premier at Camberwell. Criticism of Labour Party. London, December 13. Mr. Lloyd George wound up bis campaign with a apeeoh at Camberwell in the oourse of which he objected to the name of the Labour Party, because it did not represent all the labonr of833 words
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Advertisement121 1918-12-19 7 “OUR DAY’ OFFICIAL NOTICE. Red Cross emblems will be sold in tht Town on Friday forenoon and a' the Race Course on both days. On Friday and Saturday every om should buy and wear as many Ret Cross emblems as possible on botl days. (Price from 10 cents to each.)121 words
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Article623 1918-12-19 8 Loudon, Drnaber 18, ?iot-Ad*iiral Keyee, oommanding the Dorer FMrel, in a speech, revealed a nvaber #f iaMf« whereby very great vaoceiaea agaiaat enaeaj submarines ware aobieved. i Ha axplaiaad that the Channel barrage consisted of two liaea of specially batlt i ■hip* able da ride at aaohor623 words
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764 1918-12-19 8 As Imprtsshr* Spectacle London, Daoember 15. Reuter’s correspondent with the British 1 Army, telegraphing on the 12th from 1 Cologne, describes the British oavalry oross- 1 ing the Rhine as oae ef the most impres. 1 sive oeremoniee of the war. A guard764 words
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Article672 1918-12-19 8 An Agitated City. L ndon. December 16, A message from Lisbon says that Antonie Pass, brother of the murdered President, was waanded by a sabre in the contusion after the assassination. It is believed that the assassin belonged to the Young Republican League. It ie understood that672 words
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Article986 1918-12-19 8 Borii Still Kin* London, Daeember 17. Telegrnphio communication with Bulgaria hai practically oeaeed for several weeks. News now cemee from Sofia ahowing that German reporta of the abdication and flight of Erne Boris and the establishment of a republican government are qnite nntrae. Boris is still King986 words
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Article496 1918-12-19 8 The Agamomn cn ia exp«oted to arrive here above the 25ih or the 26th December y outward bound. c The s§. Kaga Maru ia expected to arrive here on the 20th instant homeward bound via the Suea Canal. J The Blue Funnel a.a. Stentor ia expeoted to arrive496 words
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Article422 1918-12-19 8 St'&ngsr Snit< t From Our Own Correspondent, Kuala Lumpur, Dicumber 19, M. Joseph da Barlet, of Ku»l« Selangor, has introduced through Mr. Carton de Wiast, Minister of Justice, Belgium, his oousin, sn action against William Hohensallern for illegal imprisonment and ill* treatment of his sister Madame Helene422 words
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Article571 1918-12-19 8 The following have kindly Dre nfc her au stated below to hi*** 4 »ubSaturday, the 21st Course for the Bed Cross Fund L Ev N 6 Mr Heah Swee LM c.L Messrs Seng Hong Co 50 l Messrs Leong Unsmoked ,h* lt Foo A C 0...571 words
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Article103 1918-12-19 8 Mrs John Mitchell gratefully acknowledge* the following snbacriptions to Ike Q*? en Elisabeth Belgian Orphan Childrens Christ* mas Fund. Already]soktiowledged 15 572.70 CollfO by Mrs R 0 Martin, Ipoh (2nd) 16, Captain Perkins 10, Collected by Mrs Olayto», (2nd time) from Mr Arnold Convent, Kuala Lumpur 30,103 words
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Advertisement8 1918-12-19 8 For Ohi'idiea'a o*«f* Nl W On»* P»7p«r*i«* o**8 words
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Article2236 1918-12-19 9 3 Dividend. i s i Miab* *f d, <9aplta). Shar> 1 last lltBm e 1 A 2 i***ed. 1 'TJ for currant tL. J a (k eial year. year. 0 K CD i ete 1 St* 1909 1M7 196,000 600 000 126.006 i i l «0 Alor Gaj&h Rubber2,236 words
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Advertisement268 1918-12-19 9 ALLEN DENNYS 6* Co^ 7, Union Stmt, Penang. Phono flos, 383 A 412. ■OOIIS, where good Proprietors of/— Pit PENANG tUSBIt AUCTION price are always ebtainen TNI PENANG TRANSHIP. 0 INQ a FORWARDING Co., who undertaks to forward goods m ANY PART OF THE WORLD. ESTATE DEPARTMENT.— We pay special268 words
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870 1918-12-19 10 WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE FOR CHINA IN THI FIELDS OF ENGINEERING MILITARY AND NAVAL. An English Engineering Journal writes i— China's moral dubt to Great Britain began in 1CC3, when General Gordon was lent to the Government to or. anise the Army and quell870 words
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Article995 1918-12-19 10 Vmtm. I U|| My friend who said thi. j. <md has preserved uniniiiJL 1 90 instructed palate in Western R, 1 th *°«t nuance can c.ude him. f 0pe Hot eye for the colour of a claret ‘V a. for the perfume, as Di,ra.Ii l 6995 words
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Advertisement88 1918-12-19 10 Chanaberlnii’e CMgk Remedy. When 70« hate a bad cold 70m wank a remedy that will not only give relief, bnt effect a prompt and permanent onre, a remedy that ia pleasant te take, a remedy that contains nothing injnrions. Chamberlain’s Ooagh Remedy meets all these reqnirements, It acts on natnre’s88 words
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Advertisement1306 1918-12-19 10 i R MC W w *2 a 2r Tt >h NATURE’S WONDERFUL GIFT TO AFFLICTED MALAYA A CERTAIN. SAFE SPEEDY CURE FOR ALL CASES OF MALARIA, SPLEEN KALA-AZAR Just think of it!—more people are killed bj malaria, spleen and kala-azar in the tropics every year than die in action in1,306 words
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Article1281 1918-12-19 11 THE OTHER SIDE. i There is an oli European proverb that says, Hear the other side. There is a 1 good deal of wisdom in it. Sir Robert Anderson, whose death was recently announced in the telegraphic news, tells a 1 story in one of his books1,281 words
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Article559 1918-12-19 11 From the captain of a Z7-boat, a limp, bedraggled figure that been had fished out of the sea with a boathook, came to me the following description of what it is like to be depth charged- Well, how did you like it?" he waß asked ironically. By it” the559 words
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Advertisement476 1918-12-19 11 o p It n M i/i i imm KStNĔR BEwR i -'««AND PRIZES j hufZP'UTISH EXHiri T tO>.l»l| PIC EXK'.en")*- 1 I B D B§5 n K M 4 SAW o SPECIALLY k f n O' BREWED EXPO RT C^OMP^ B Bsr.ssw^cssssao 3 The Reason Why You Should Drink ASAH476 words
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Advertisement324 1918-12-19 11 WANTED A CHINESE CLERK in Alor Star mercantile firm Must be a reliable man and have previous experience as Book-keeper and Salesman. State age and salary required. 944—30—12 Apply to G;” e/e Strati* Echo, DON'T HE8ITATE TO GO TO THE MUSIC SUPPLY AGENCY No IE Hutton Lane, For best music324 words
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Advertisement1065 1918-12-19 12 p. BRITISH IMU AND APCAR LINE. (Campania* lucarparated tn England.) MAIL AND PABBENOER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS (Under Contract wifck His Majesty’* Government.) Tk, Con puny's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY ir* at praeant Miptaded Pumfin for Earop* in bookod via Bomb*}, a> opportunity off or* and as far1,065 words
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