The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 5 August 1915

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  • 21 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. 17.50 Per Annum. Single Copy, 40 cts. Vol. 13. Penang, Thursday, sth AUGUST, 1915. No. 31
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    • 262 1 CON TE MTS. 5 Leaders page. Miscellaneous (Contd): page S America's Grievances 1,101 Millions and Malaria 1,105* The Meanest Man on Earth 1,107 Canton Floods 1,106 S A Great Anniversary 1,113 Maternity Hospital 1,106 s The Chinese Overseas 1,113 Health on Estates 1,112 After Warsaw ...1,119 The Young Man in
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    • 187 2 fl it IF ii TWi ifcggW s '.■> THE ST K Ail'S EC'Hw J MAIL EDITION. jM m IJMMW Published the day prior to the departure of ~ach mail J for Europe, and contains the latest local and States t news originally published in the daily issues, as well as
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  • 1275 1101 From the fact that Sir Edward Grey has cabled to the American Secretary of State aiking him to suspend publication of the latest British Note to the United States on the subject of the British blockade and contraband, we may gather that the tone and tenor of the
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  • 250 1101 The First List. A Notification in a Government Gazette Extraordinary, published on Tuesday, says Whereas by section 4 of The Seditious Publications (Prohibition) Ordinance 1915, it is enacted that the Governor in Council may by order prohibit to be imported or brought into the Colony any newspaper, book
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    • 96 1101 733 8321)® roAIL W hkliihed duly (except Sundej. end prtlie holidays) at th® CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. fl o 59. Beach Street, Penan?. Pmcb. Dailj Local 124 per annum. Outetation... Postage Extra. Kail Edition (Post Free) >17.50 CABLI ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 NB.~ AII buiinen communication»
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  • 586 1102 Mr. G. Cumming, the official handicapper, is on a visit to Penang for the races. Mr. J. Dick, of Messrs. Huttenbach, Liabert Co., leaves for home on long leave early next month. Dr. Wu Ting Fang, the well-known diplomatist, who expects to see his 200th year, has
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  • 450 1102 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. VIOLENT CANNONADE IN ARGONNE. Paris, July 27, 12.35 a.m. A Paris communique states that the cannonade was more intense in the oouchez sector. The town or Arras was twice bombarded. Tr.e fire which began was quickly extinguished. A violent cannonade took place throughout
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  • 652 1102 (neuter s Service.) Copyright Teletram German version. I Amsterdam, J U J29 1 That the Russian, are fightin I ucentiy i.s ovideuced bt ton' k? “S*- I communique, the whole tone of.?. I the situation i, I mumque admits a great Rw 81aa I ous attack ou
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  • 248 1103 juuxipon Meeting at the Kapitan Kling Mosque. We learn from a reliable source that Mass Meeting of the Mo lems of Penang was held last night at the Kapitan Ming Mosque to discuss the advisability of showing Moslem loyalty to the benign nntish rule and
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  • 423 1103 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Turks Fortifying Asia Minor Coast. London, July 28. Persons arriving at Athens from the Dardanelles report that the Turks are feverishly fortifying the coast of Asia Minor from the entrance of the Dardanelles to the Gulf of Adrajti, expecting an attack at a
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  • 294 1103 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. STRONG POSITIONS STORMED. PRISONERS AND GUNS CAPTURED. Rome, July 28, 2.35 p.m. A communique, issued at Rome, says that the battle on the Carso plateau continued to be very fierce. On July 26 the Italians advanced along the entire front and the infantry
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  • 137 1103 (.From Our Own Correspondent?) Singapore, July 29. At the Singapore Rubber Auction 216 tons of rubber were offered for sale and 120 tons were sold at the following prices Sheets, ribbed $l3O to $133 per picul h fair $l2B $129 smoked $122 $l3O unsmoked $ll6 $l2O Crepes,
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  • 1205 1104 HI ill IUU I.— Were these normal times, no doubt, His Excellency the Governor would come up to Penang to open formally, with due ceremony, the new Maternity and Chil Iren s Hospital in Macalister Road, erected at a cost of >lOO,OOO by the inhabitants of this Settlement
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  • 564 1104 TO THE V I Sir,—l happen to be memhZ"* I Singapore Club, and I w omber recent Extraordinary I the members when a resolution I ail but unaimously, th at Wa, who were in the position onu" 1 1 1 aud naturalised alien
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    • 32 1104 —cw« fw B es mM ii Correct that disordered .too few dose, of Chamber!*»» that feeling of distress and will disappear like magic. kh J cure for the blues. Eor e&rios Dealers-
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  • 1240 1105 3 Inf interest was caused over a arrival here from the year T La. o f a consignment of toe “Millions” fish, to which, attributed the comof the Islands from f ,T ,‘T Much was written of and perhaps ,l,r a f from the experiments, but if
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  • 555 1105 (.From Our Oicn Correspondent bukit Mertajam, July 28. At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. G A. Hereford, on Monday, a Hindu named Antony was convicted of theft of 40 rambutan fruits valued at 20 cents, and sentenced to pay a fine of $5 or undergo
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  • 560 1106 Club Spoon Shoot (Open). Tho following was th i result of the Shoot at Kampong Bahru, on Wednesday afternoon Deliberate Firing. x ao x o o o £a. o o O Mrs Liston 31 32 '3 96 Miss Smith 33 30 23 86 Mrs J A
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  • 322 1106 Nearing Completion. The Maternity Hospital (King Edward VII Memorial) is app» caching completion and will be ready for use about the Ist of August, when it will be handed over to the Municipal Commissioners who will manage the institution with the aid of an Advisory Committee. This "was
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  • 183 1106 Encouraging Support. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, July 30. Ata representative meeting of Chinese it was unanimously decided to form a Perak Chinese Volunteer Corps. A large committee, with Mr. A. C. J. Towers as Honorary Secretary, has been appointed to enrol recruits. Encouraging support is being
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  • 542 1106 A City Uedie W ATbr I Our Canton correspondent -a- I July 13, says: F Wri to g I A roof trip around the t. I gives the idea that all Canton Pit I dated. Boats passes eecasiorfl' 1 I correspondent’s roof; they a™ lOQr I terribly high
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  • 1189 1107 'Ji U-o nu C 4. M.M. letter to the Singapore t ree "L 9l ttl s.bjectof naturalised aliens Lhich we reproduced in yesteruch a compound of iguordajß anre udice that it might prop 9 rly aD ce aD y J with contempt were it not
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  • 581 1107 Mr. A. G Stephen, m.nager of the Hongkong and Sh-tugbai B nk at Shanghai, and manager in Penang about ten years ago, haa left for Europe via Siberia on three month»* leave. A Solemn Requiem High Mass, offered by tbe members ot the Parish Hall, will be
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  • 1114 1108 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. BRITAIN'S DETERMINATION. London, July 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. H. H. Asquith moved the adj lurnment of the House till September 14. He p in U d out th it the Coalition Government had been responsible fora
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  • 435 1108 (Reuter’s Strvk t> Copyright Telegran, SUCCESSFUL RESISTANC» enemy pushed Back Amsterdam, July 28.64 n The Russians are evident!, P is ‘Vf re frout and llio An Uneonvieeiag Claim, The Germans claim that they took mm 2,000 p-isoners, but the claim j, ing, as they are said to
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  • 465 1109 rthek 'T al,an progress Fl, T Borne, July 29. 1 30 a.m. A com““ D!^’ *emy/under corer of the but was prompts fe' Alpini’t’ stormed a number of Our Paloiecolo front. ‘""i” the day on Carso, strengthenpositions captured on the centre made further 2b ra ,s capturing
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  • 626 1109 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. COMPENSATION FOR DEPENDANTS. QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. London, July 28. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law, Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question regarding the general policy of the Government in the matter of compensation for the sufferers
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  • 430 1109 ANOTHER EX-DIRCTOR SENTENCED. (Frm Oar Own Correspondent,) Singapore, July 29. At the Singapore Assizes Boey Lian Chino an ex-director of the Kwong Yik Bank, was charged with criminal breach of trust as a banker, between Nov. 10th and 20tb, 1913, in respect of $108,078.16. The following
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    2303 1110 SUCCESSFUL OPENING DAY. Patrons—H E Sir Aithur Young, k c m g, H H r I h 4 Sul tun of 1 erak, GC MO,* H H The Su'tau of Kedab, k c m g* H H The Sult in of Deli and The Hon A T Bryant.
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  • 1297 1111 Mr. Bjnar Law’s official ignorance of tbe fate of the rioters condemned to death in Ceylon is quite in keeping with the methods of the Colonial Office, but rather a disappointment to those who had hoped to see him justify his reputation, break with the Dewning-Street tradition and
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  • 601 1112 STATISTICS FOR 1914 Reduction or Death-Rate Dealing with estates in his 1914 report, the Principal Medical Officer lays the number of estates from which returns are available is 672 against 609 in 1913, and the average number of labourers employed was 176,226, which is 12,711 less than
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  • 540 1112 Says the Hongkong Telegraph: If we had our way, no one under twenty-five should ever ba allowed to come to the Far East at all, and not even at that age unless he could show that be had some amount of experience of real
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  • 595 1112 Police Court New s Both Served Alixi An elderly Malay nam6(l T yesterday morning chargS Jp’ ldla Scott in the District Court causing grievous hurt to on. m Market Street, on the 19th The complainant’s story was fU p.m. on the 19th iniUnt u Street talking to a KlirJ accused
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  • 580 1113 readers will have gathered, a i 8 i? Hs being made throughout the Strive the patriotic demonstranexf Wednesday on the t»“< 1 of the Declaration ol War "“"TGermany the character of an manifestation of imperial sondar- M Here in a “mmiltee repre--1 J 'J« of ererj section
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  • 601 1113 Down in Java relations between the Chinese and Japanese have naturally been somewhat strained since the recent crisis, and latterly they have developed in a manner which has caused the Government of Netherlands India some little disquietude. So the officer who fills the position in Batavia, equivalent
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  • 575 1113 A special cable from the Hague state! that General Bj ha has been appointed a Field-Marshal in the British Army. Sir W. H. Treacher, K. C M. G., former Resident General, F. M. S, has joined as a private the City Battalion of the National Volunteer Reserve.
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  • 32 1113 Memorial to the Victims. (From Our Own, Correspondent»} Singapore, July 31. It has been decided to erect a memorial in the Memorial Hall to the victims of the Singapore Mutiny.
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  • 1627 1114 (Reuter's Senice.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN CLAIMS. Amsterdam, July 29, 6.55 p.m. The battle for Warsaw still sways. The Germans are not only making no progress in the vital centres but a Berlin communique admits repeated Russian attacks and says that the situation is unchanged north of the
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  • 9 1114 Markiaf Ti®«« C onse7uence F o"'tbejg&jS
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  • 391 1115 (Rwtw’s StHKCJ copyright Telegram. R J FRENCH’S REPORT. MINING operations. London, July 29. 11.50 pm «uMurihal sir John French reports been active mining operatbit there ba o intormitt ent but not infantry A British aviator brought a GerProffM® Alsace. London, July 30,1.15 a.m. Tho Paris communique «ays
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  • 430 1115 (Reuter’s Senice.) Copyright Telegram. SLOW BUT SURE. London, July 30, 2.50 a m. The communique, issued in Rome, says Our offensive at Cordevole made marked progress. “The enemy advanced in the Palola Valley but was repulsed. “Our artillery in Carnia destroyed another cupola of Fort Hensel. The
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  • 505 1115 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special cables are from the Sumatra Poet of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: The Waste of Maahood. The total losses of all the belligerent Powers up to July 1 are estimated at over 10,000,000 killed and wounded. Holland and the War. In the
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  • 1270 1116 “This case is a tissue of lies running from end to end of the evidence oa the one side or the other and told by a set of citizens who would doubtless resent any imputation on their perfect respectability. Mr. Justice Ebden in a recent judgment It will
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  • 688 1116 From the Methodist Public I Singapore, we have pamphlet, entitled Niof l War” which, as some of I remember, is a reprint of Tt® l delivered by the Rev. William n I members of the Penang I four or five months back. K I which is
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  • 65 1117 Finding of the Court, (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 31. The Marine Court of Inquiry has delivered its finding into the sinking of the Fwot after a collision with Brisbane. The Court found that the collision was caused by an error of judgment on the part of
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  • 221 1117 A correspondent of the N.C. Daily News, writing from Suchien, says —We have just bed an unusual execution in the city, a young ywen runner losing his life for want of ffiil reipect, He had been reported to the Magistrate and imprisoned last year on a
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  • 1147 1117  -  [By Tom Weight.] My Rabelais being a single-volume, ratty, dog-eared, torn, loose-leaved, dirty, besmudged, and generally disreputable looking copy, I did fall into that temptation that catalogues continually do bring, and am now the quite unrepentant owner of the two vol. edition with Heath Robinson pictures. After Dore,
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    • 93 1117 Mt Neglect Your Family. Ok tO u P rov ide your family i£ hail 5 berlaiu 8 Colic Cholera you are thi of the °°Biplaint is BUrp g^tin B them, as bowel feverous J provalent aud it is is especiallv a( ?y to be trifled with. 10 the family a
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    • 68 1117 Can You Afford the Risk? Were you ever seized with a severe attack of cramp colic or diarrhoea without a bottle of Chamlerlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house Don’t take such risks. A dose or two will cure you before a doctor could possibly be called, and
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  • 1388 1118 Chief Secretary’s Report. We take the following extracts from the report of the Chief Secretary for the year 1914: Mfning. The revenue derived from all sources for the past two years is shown in the following table: State. 1913. 1914. Perak 6,655,803 4,500,295 Selangor 3,582,790 2,376,858 Negri
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  • 206 1118 To the Editor oi the Straiti Icko Dear Sir, At a meeting of Chinese held at Town Chambers on the 27th instant it n unanimously decided to form a Psrtk Chinese Volunteer Corps. The following were appointed a Committee to enrol recruits, with Mr. A. C.J. Towers as
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    • 44 1118 Blazon Type Not NecwtHChamberlain’s Coho, Choto» rhcea Remedy needs no gl*r g# attract the public e l e it i,suffici*»h“ ment that all chemists sei it every family knows its "><"■ |t what used for forty J*»" J W»** name implies- For sa and Dealers.
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  • 1344 1119 zx-r to all intents ffars«” h» a n tbird German ajd purpose, b(J idlo t 0 attempt attempt.“ d t fact tbat the capture of ,odi B Z of R“ 99iaa Po!aod d r thJ the cap ltal tangible success for the present a very g hQ mi
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  • 504 1119 Mr. A. F. Richards, A D. O Krian, bai returned from Java. We bear that Lieut. J. H. Allen is serving in the Dardanelles.— T.O.M. Mr. J. J. Fleury, State Veterinary Surgeon of Kedah, has been in Penang over the week end. The Bisbop of Sarawak is
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  • 1420 1120 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN CL UMS. Mackensen's Offensive, Amsterdam, July 30, 8 35 p m. A Berlin communique states that the general situation in the bittie for Warsaw is unchanged, but claims tint General von Mackensen has resumed the offensive south-east of Lublin and reached the
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  • 889 1121 (Reuter’s Service.) copyright Telegram. oiISSIA’S UNSHAKEABLE RUSS RESOLVE. Petrograd, August 2. Tha Duma, which opened yesterday, was T i b 2l the galleries being crowded with people includ,ng m y of the President, M. tn fhfi Premier, M. Goremykin, the S Minister, M. Sszrnoff, and the
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  • 42 1121 A telegram from The Hague to tne Sumatra Post states that the Governor of Haiti hisbeen murdered and that the President has taken refuge in the French Legation Before he was assassinated the Governor had 160 political prisoners shot.
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  • 462 1121 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telvgram. Obstinate Fighting at Barenkopf. Paiis, July 30, 6.5 p.m. A Paris communique says A hand-grenade battle took place all night long near Souchez and the Labyrinth’. Elsewhere cannonading and mine explosions took place. “.The engagement at Birenkopf was continued into the night with
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  • 457 1122 Paris, Augut 2, 5-55 p.m. A Paris common que states Various infantry engagements took place yesterday night. “The French are miking progress northward of Arras, while a gieaadi battle was continued at Souchez. The Germans thrice attacked on the heights of the Meuie. but were repulsed by
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  • 890 1122 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyri ht Telegram. Minor Successes. Rome, July 31, 3.5 a.in. A communique, issued at Rome, states Minor actions took place in Tyrol, Trentino, Cadore and the Carso plateau. The enemy at Carso, after bis defeat of July 28, confined his efforts to opposing our advance,
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  • 529 1123 Celebrations. London, August 1. rations point to the celebra£ll the lo t h o Empire on fioM irOU^ f the war being a striking jDoirerssry determination to a victorius issue. There w» t i“ n6 t ;’be» town or village in the Kingdom without a meeting.
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  • 556 1123 A HIT, A PALPABLE HIT. FIRST LORD'S SCATHING REPLY. London, August 1. The London correspondent of the Neiv York World submitted to Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord of the Admiralty, an article by Count Reventlow, entitled “A Year of Naval Warfare.” Ridiculous Charge. Mr. Balfour, in
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  • 319 1123 COUNSEL OF PERFECTION. Appeal for the Cessation of War. Rome, July 31. His Holiness the Pop*, in a letter to the belligerents in the official newspaper Asservato,e iitmana to-day, which is the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, fervently appeals for the cessation of the
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  • 192 1123 t._S T. Perkiai—de Reis. The wedding of Mr. William Borthwick Perkins, of the Pinang Gazette, to Miss Louisa de Reis, sister of Mr. de Reis, of Messrs Pritchard Co., Ltd., took place yesterday morning at the Church of the Assumption. The Rev. L. M. Duvelle officiated. The bride,
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  • 463 1124 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. INTERESTING FIGURES. London, August 2, In the course of the proceedings at the Prize Court to-day, the affidavit of Major Dillon, of the War Office, was produced, indicating the number of people nceiving supplies of food from the German Government. The figures are
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  • 563 1124 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Friday and Saturday last: Holland and the War, The secret sitting of the First Chamber of the Dutch Parliament, which considered the question of national defence and the increase of the Landsturm, lasted ninety minutes.
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  • 219 1124 To the Editor op th b B(rajjj I Dear Sir, —I hava watched f the FI M S h c£ ar V Otol dOM r S' 8 Chamber of Mines L t strike, me as rather extra* din? the miners, of all people inlk? should not have
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  • 251 1124 Columbia Cup. Rbsult. J CrabbWatt 36 37+40+40=153+ B=l6l G B Fitzgerald... 47 +49+48+49=193-32=161 J Sellar 46 40+15+45=176-10=166 CC Rogers 41 47+41+43=172 Scr=l72 R D Acton 46+49+47+43=185—10=175 P T Allen 47+50+47+51=195— 16=179 Messrs W Peel and DAM Brown alio played but retired. Messrs C G May, JJL Harvey,
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  • 1000 1125 .it was fancy, but it certainly did p h,p th» writer that there was a i«“ note about the ladies «ry ,ab Ike races on Thursday and dresses at have been mere ignorance that failed to nottce triking "creations” on the lawn or m |DJ and hastened to
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  • 256 1125 The Batavia Handelsblad is informed that in the Java Sea, near Anju, the American steamer Claverich has been seized by a man-of-war. According to the ship’s papers, the steamer came from Los Angelos, but the Commander could not possibly indicate to which port tho ship was going.
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  • 827 1125 (From the Straits Times Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, July 28. If it be tru« th it the land which has no history is a happy one, we are passing through a period of the greatest felicity that the Federal Capital has ever known. The clocks in government offices
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  • 956 1126 To THE Editor of the Straits Echo. Sir, The attention of the F M.S. Government has probably been drawn to the recent controversy in jour widely-read paper, as the Chief Secretary under Notification No. 1921, appearing in the EMS. Government Gazette of the 16th instant, has made the
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  • 1152 1126 (Contributed) On August the 4th W 0 the anniversary of our D-L Oce Thisgreit event of yl"f which the British Nation has w 18 be proud, and one well worth tion, in that we then of the weak against an Military Power, when that ed the annihilation
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  • 1284 1127 Kwong Yik Directors. It is entirely a matter for the discretion of the law officers of the Crown who shall and who shall not be prosecuted. No duubt fiitnds of the two men who have been con victed of fraud in their offices asdirectors of the Kwong
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    • 11 1127 Cough at Night w Great Peppe rlnin t Cure, la 6d,
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    • 52 1127 Cramp Colic. No need of suffering from cramps in the stomach, or intestinal pains. Chamberlaut’i Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy nev- fails to relieve the most severe cases. Get it to-day, there will be no time to send for it after the attack comes on. For sale by all Dispensaries
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  • 1754 1128 BILLET’S DAY. The attendance was larger oh Saturday and tbe racing even belter than on the op*nng day of the meeting. Some close finishes weie witnessed, and it the To'e dividends did not soar to the giddy heights of tl e fifties as oa the first day
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  • 1233 1129 5 a rear ago to day since Ger““J’tioXg be neutrality of Belgtum sn bj M h e r territory, brought Great d lDT d She Europ an war. It would be Britain into thei P wbat mlght haT6 P arei r“ nurse of events had Germany
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  • 633 1129 Our Singapore correspondent wires that Mr. Tiddens, Manager of the Hotel Van Wijk (formerly < f Medan), while coming out of the bathroom, dropped down dead of heart failure. He was 31 years of £ge and leaves a widow to mourn his loss. From Monday’s Straits Times
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  • 282 1130 (Reuter's Senice.) Copyright Telegram. SHARP INFANTRY ACTIONS. Paris, August 2, 2 30 a.m. A Paris communique states Sharp infantry actions took place in the Argonne. The Germans early on Monday .morning captured a trench which a counter-attack partially retook. Subsequently the Germans, using burning liquids, violently attacked
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  • 61 1130 July 30 By Balance ..,$28,329.19 Aug. 3 Asiatic Staff of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ld., monthly subscription 10.00 R. Scott, monthly subscription 25 00 J. R. Brown, July subscription 25.00 Hon A. T. Bryant, monthly subscrip tion 100.00 Balance. August 3 28,489.19 Remitted
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  • 26 1130 July 23 By Balance $2,712.05 Aug. 3 Mr. and Mrs. F. monthly 25.00 Balance, Aug. 3 $2,737.05 Amount previously acknowledged 13,457.11 Total ...$16,*****
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  • 520 1130 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. A HORRIBLE LIST. UNPARALLELED SAVAGERY. Paris, August 3. A Foreign OJice report deals exhaustively with Germ m acts of treachery and barbarism against combattints based onjthe evidence of the victims and German prisoners. The report states that civilians were used as shield against firing
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  • 420 1130 (Reuter s Service.) Copyright Telerrnm RUSSIA'S STUBBORN ENEMY SUCCESSUDUu^ 01 PURCHASED. U Petrograd, Augmt 3, 5.35 a.m A Petrograd communique states. Hard fighting was general on’snoj The Russians east of Poneviesz, south-east of Sbavli, continued tonSl enemy advance-guards, capturing 500? soners and six maxims. 6 P n
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  • 408 1131 (Reuter’s Serviced copyright Telegram- capture oF moU nt.medetta. PINISTS BRILLIANT ATTACK. AIPI Rome. August 3,220 a m. A communique; I B e^ t c° lrn i'i district T “a Mount Medetta, north-east of cptured Ho»u lsad a f QrloUa attack Rome, August 3, 2.55 a.m. for the
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  • 993 1131 August, which opens once more under the shadow of war, brings the anniversaries of many famous battles. Minden was fought on Au'Uit 1, 1759, and the battle of the Nile on August 1, 1808 Calais was ciptured on August 4. 1347, Blenheim was won on August 13,1704 and
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  • 79 1131 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys Co. by auction yesterday and by private treaty during the week. 32,000 lbs. were sold: Diamond Smoked Sheet $129 to $134 No. 2 $ll9 1126 Plain $125 Unsmoked Sheet $llB $123 Fine Pale Crepe $134
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  • 113 1131 July 27 By Balance $28,063,19 30 B. Powell, 9th monthly subicription 10.00 Chief Post Office, Penang, 7th instalment 50 20 Eastern Smelting Co. Staff, June subscription 205.80 Balance, July 30 28,329.19 Remitted to London on 24-2-15 .£lO,OOO 85,618.73 Total subscription to-date ...$113,947.92 The
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  • 1951 1132 PRE! IMINARY ENQUIRY. Th) preliminary enquiry into the case against Tan Kim Hoe, a schoolmaster of Bt. Xavier’s Institution, who was charged with the murder of Chin Kim Shin, a pupil and boarder at the same institution, was commenced yesterday afternoon before Mr. V.G. Ezechiel in tun
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  • 102 1132 To ihk Editor or thi Sir,—l notice in r°? r funds t»? 0reference to a proposal to co mmodio°! vide our Bishop with a more j house than the one new a| thii venture to think that at to 1* when everybody s s P ar e 0
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