The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 3 April 1923
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Title Section21 1923-04-03 1 The Straits Echo. MAIL EDITION. •30 PUR ANNUM Single Copy OO cl» J VOL 21. PEN4NG, DESDAY, 3<W. 1925 NO. 1321 words
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Advertisement182 1923-04-03 1 .aM*IM IMMMM— WMMMMMMMMM» MWMM CONTENTS L I r k i. j Miscellaneous: (Continued): Leaders aa Matters 360 Planter Robbed and Injured 368 After Life’s Fitful Fever ...360 Blue Funnel Outward Mail Ser- vice 373 t Enhanced Responsibility 365 Japanese News 3*74 The White Man in The Tropics 372 Easter»Faith 375182 words
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Advertisement183 1923-04-03 2 THE “STRAITS ECHO” I S MAIL EDITION. C\PO »*>coooooo« J* /*> i Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, JC and contains the latest local and States news originslly published in the daily issues, as well as all im'ortant news from various parts of the183 words
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Article927 1923-04-03 360 Japan, which persistently refuses to deal on equal terms with her Chinese neighbour and declines to abrogate the Treaty born of the iniquitous TwentyOne demands, just as persistently continues to clamour in her relations with the European nations for the abolition of all racial distinctions. Her latest appeals927 words
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Article313 1923-04-03 360 Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress of her age, has made her last bow, after a life in which she crammed every possible sort of experience into eighty tempestuous years. Even to those who, like the writer, saw her first some twentyfive years ago, when her charm313 words
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Article45 1923-04-03 360 Yesterday’s cable from London says that the rubber market there is steady with the price at Ib. 4|d. —a rise of |d. A rise of cents was recorded at Singapore at noon to-day and locally both qualities rose J- a cent a pound.45 words
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Article263 1923-04-03 360 Tin is down £7-5b for spot as well as for three months buying, the respective prices being £216.15 and £216 10. o: The installation of Bro. R. W. Newson as Right Worshipful Master of Lodge Ailsa, No 1172 S- C., will take place on Friday, March 30,263 words
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Article610 1923-04-03 361 Contain J.W.T. Sannden, Senior 3oarding focer. and hi. family, •P #ndlD B ,hort holiday at fanjong Mr P H. Hayward, of the Sarawak Mr< k.. k«n granted «even Cinl Service, ha. been gr 14 month.’ fatlongh, to date from March 1» Mr. D. Gordon Stable, ha. been610 words
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Article1143 1923-04-03 361 annual general meeting Bright Prospects The tenth annual general meeting of the Ulu Piah Company, Ltd., was held at the registered office of the Company in Downing Street at 11 o’clock this mornins. There were present the Hon. Mr. R P. Brash (Chairman), Messrs. F. Duxbury, J. R.1,143 words
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Article85 1923-04-03 361 (To the Editor of the Strata BA*) Dear Sir, ftoer to Kindlv allow me space in your p call the attention of the Superin Municipal Tramways to a tramcar running from jeiuwug noC ri this morning. I was n nfnrton.t< > to travel by this oar. There85 words
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Article1879 1923-04-03 362 Great Hundreds” This rather curious expression in Reuter’s table, regarding the importation of eggs from China into Great Britain, sent us to the dictionary from which we learn that “In England hundreds of 6 soore, of 132, and of H 4, formerly had also a limited we.” Perhaps1,879 words
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Article180 1923-04-03 363 (To the Editor of the Strait» Echo I have seen the article in your much read journal of Friday last, on the thieving fraternity who are tx> numerous in Penang. Unemployed persons wandering about without means, should be aalled upon to give an account of themselves and180 words
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Article139 1923-04-03 363 (To the Editor of the Free Press) Sir, Much talked Tea Money has been brought to the notice of the public before the First Magistrate on 20th instant, the al'eged landlord being prosecuted by Court Inspector. Out of one thousand and one secret transactions only one was brought to139 words
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Article70 1923-04-03 363 (To the Editor of the St aits Times) Sir, I have been waiting patiently to s e a reply to a letter signed “A Belgian”. 1 am surprised that no answer or even an explanation has been sent by the Bank in question. If the public had owed70 words
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Article79 1923-04-03 363 New Books The Dream Doctor, by Arthur B. Peeve D 8554. The Jesuits 1534-1921, by Thomas J. Campbell E 366. Miss Maunering, by W. Pett Ridge (2 copies) D8552-a. Open the Door by Catherine Carswell D 8553. Patsy, by H *de Vera Btacpoole D 8555. Recent Happenings in79 words
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Article647 1923-04-03 363 MONDAY MORNING’S VICTIMS Who Stole the Necklace 9 Before Mr. Bathurst, in the Police Court yesterday morning, a charge of having stolen a half-sovereign, a goM chain and pendant, and seven gold beads from the person of a married woman named Puchi at Lorong Kosy Sepit, Penang, at647 words
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Article198 1923-04-03 363 (Totfe Editor of the Malay Mail.} I came home from K*jang December with my wife, and settled down in a small furnished a>,d living in the quietest manner no 3 find that I have been incurring the follow ing items of weekly expenditure, whichmar be198 words
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Article324 1923-04-03 363 -M.M. From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, March 26. A report haviug Veen m ide to the police by a local firm that a clerk in their employment had absconded with money; end a warrant having been taken out, and i description of the man circulated with-M.M. - 324 words
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Article1757 1923-04-03 364 WORLD S GREATEST ACTRESS Death in Paris Peuter this morning announces the death of Sarah Bernhardt We take from hook of reference the following sketch of the great actress's life written some vears ago: r 'Bernhardt, Sarah, neo Rosine Beinardt, French actress, was born at 5 Rue de1,757 words
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Article433 1923-04-03 365 dislike idea of island home Problem of Children The Leper Asylum, which was the lubject of a recent leading article in this journal (Malay Mail) and which is situated behind the District Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, will cease to exist in the near future and the lepers segregated433 words
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Article695 1923-04-03 365 INAUGURAL MEETING Following upon its formation during the past few weeks the inaugural meeting of the Singapore Society of Architects was held at the Raffles Museum, last week a large attendance being presided over by the President, Captain Meadows. In th e course of his opening address the695 words
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Article326 1923-04-03 365 STORY OF A MYSTERIOUS CAR On Thursday afternoon, the Singapore Coroner’s enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the late Mr. Tan Soo Bit in Fullerton Road on the 13th instant was continued. P.C. 411 gave evidence, and in reply to Mr. Sheedy, said he arrived326 words
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Article930 1923-04-03 366 We must educate our masters, said Robert Lowe, fifty years ago, when extensions of the franchise were in the air. The need is greater than ever, to-day, now that Democracy has taken another great step forward, with Labour representatives forming one of the great parties in the State,930 words
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Article23 1923-04-03 366 The Library will be closed on Friday, Saturday and Monday, the 30th and 31st March and 2nd April, being Public Holidays.23 words
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Article39 1923-04-03 366 Another rise of {d is recorded in the London price. At noon in Singapore today both qualities touched 59| cents a pound—an advance of one cent. The local price for both grades is below that of Singapore.39 words
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Article117 1923-04-03 366 Tin is down £3 15s. for spot and £3.55. for three months buying, the respective prices being £213-0. and £214.55. :o: Straits Produce for April is out to-day. Among the contributors are J. Cracrott Amcotts, H. Collier, |C. W. H. Cochrane, B. W. Elies, R.‘B. G. Forbes,117 words
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Article1290 1923-04-03 366 We have frequently advocated, say, the Btra lte Times, the training of y’nng Chinese on Western lines and of late have seen much that convinces us that such a system should be persisted in to the fullest extent possible. The average boy has changed and is changing rapidly, but1,290 words
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Article1089 1923-04-03 367 S.T. His Excellency the High Commissioner arid Lady Guillemard arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Monday morning by train from Singapore. The King has approved of the award of the Imperial Service Medal to Mr. Richard Foster, late Senior Gaoler, Prisons Department, F.M.S, Mr. John Bailey, British Vice-Consul,S.T. - 1,089 words
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Article677 1923-04-03 368 ladies and gentlemen Saponaceous Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness, gays John Wesley in Sermon XCIII, and goap-and-water is a very good thing but that is no excuse for Hong Ah Poh’a helping himself to six pieces of soap of the value of 57 cents, the property of677 words
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Article283 1923-04-03 368 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, The Straits Echo just lately published an account of several cases of thieving which took place in and, in the locality of Burmah Road, of poultry and. close on in all of about fifty flower-pots and, suggested more vigilance283 words
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Article153 1923-04-03 368 A European planter, named Mr. G. Hughes, of the Hevea Rubber Plantations, Johore, was assaulted and robbed in the early hours of Monday morning. From his statement, it seems that he came over to draw the money from the bank with which to pay the coolies’153 words
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Article99 1923-04-03 368 The result of the tennis tie played clf yesterday was —Final, Doubles Handicap, Class “B”, E H Fforde and H. Cobon beat F. Mann and W. McQuarrie 6 —2, 6 —l. 0: Ihe Master Attendant, Singapore, has issued a notice to the effect that the wreck of99 words
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Article441 1923-04-03 368 YESTERDAY’S MEETING F.M.S. Railways (From Our Own Correspondent.} Kuala Lumpur, March 27 In reply to questions in the Federal Council it was stated that Messrs. Gregory, Eyles and Waring acted as consuiting engineers for the railway only on a fee fixed in 1883 at £4OO per annum inis441 words
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Article1183 1923-04-03 369 A Rea! Reason for Prohibition Prohibition as a moral oraeade. may fairly be said to have been laughed out of court by its own resalts. Bat as national policy based on grounds of poverty it has quits another footing. A movement on these lines whioh has been imarurated1,183 words
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Article1197 1923-04-03 369 JELEBU BRIDGE ACCIDENT The Defence The following is a continuation of tha report, adapted from the Malay Mail, of the hearing of the action brought by Mr. G. A. St. George and Mrs. Denies Violet St. George, against the State of Negri Sembilan, to recover1,197 words
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Article1372 1923-04-03 370 COURT OF INQUIRY In the First Magistrate’s Court at Singapore, on March 27, says the Straits Times of that date, the inquiry into the loss of the Straits Steamship Co.’s Ranee as the result of a collision with the Boribat off the Johore coast at midnight on March1,372 words
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Article270 1923-04-03 371 -8 F P Captain Mathieson's Evidence Our special correspondent telegraphs ns, to-day: Captain Mathieson, master of the Boribat, stated in his evidence that his watch was from 6 in the evening till midnight. There were also on the bridge on the night of the accident a Chinese quartermaster-8 F P - 270 words
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Article187 1923-04-03 371 FAUCETT v. J. A. RUSSELL CO Judgment Reserved The hearing of the action for damages for alleged negligence brought by Mr. A. E. Faucett againt Messrs. Rnseell and Co., of which ths beginning has already been reported in the Straits Echo, was retn mt d in187 words
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Article334 1923-04-03 371 P.C.C. beat A.C.S. Union A f »irly large crowd of spectators turned out on the Esplanade yesterday evening to witness the football match between the Penang Cricket Club and th) AngloChinese School Union which ended in a victory for the premier club, Huxter scoring during the last minute. Playing334 words
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Article542 1923-04-03 371 DEATH SENTENCE IN FIFTH MURDER TRIAL The Second Singapore Assizes were resumed in the Supreme Court, Sing, apore, on Monday morning, when a Chinese coolie named Tan Moey was charged before the Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw, and a special jury, with the murder of Ong Teow on542 words
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Article30 1923-04-03 372 birth. ,pr< -On the 26th March, 1923, 5 u thp'ran Tanglin Road, Singapore, Ur wd Mr’»- H U Bhar P in Hongkong “nd Shanghai Bankin Corporation, a daughter.30 words
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Article1642 1923-04-03 372 Some events apparently insignificant in the history of exploration, even now seldom remembered, will in the coining years he regarded as possessing greater influence on the destinies of mankind than the battle of Jutland, which decided the fate of Germany in the late war,1,642 words
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Article476 1923-04-03 373 Mr. A M. C»W>di»b ba, arrived in Kaala Lumpur. Mr*. H. D*vi* bre retained from her trip to ▲uttraUa. Mr. and Mn. A- Donaldson of Bangkok have left for Home. Mr and Mn. Kermit Roosevelt are staying at Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Lieutenant ven Buuren, of the Kota476 words
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Article313 1923-04-03 373 lean CO.’s WEEKLY REPORT Wednesday Evening. Owing to the Easter holidays our report is being published a day earlier than usual. Tin was aa-ain subjected to violent fluctuations and after touching £224.15.0, fell away over £lO in two days, dosing at £214.5.0 with a loss of £6 over313 words
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Article235 1923-04-03 373 The first home mail carried under the arrangement for a new outward service with the Blue Funnel steamers is due to arrive in the Straits on Thursday, on the Atreus. The mails will be ca»ried by the Italian sei vice to Suez, where it will235 words
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Article1720 1923-04-03 373 Maunday Thursday The day befo e Goody Fridayhy U* marked from an early ag 0 o f the ch by acts of humility, in imitation of thu of Christ in washing the feet of Hi Disciples on the eve of his Passion. Eoch. siastios small and great, laymen1,720 words
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Article163 1923-04-03 374 (From the Nanyo Niitvi-Nichi Shimbun) Tokio, March 23. Both the Kensei and Kakushin parties have decided to attack thoroughly the Government in Parliament on account of alleged dishonest action revealed in the contract made to build the man-of-war Akagi. It is reported that provisional agreement has been reached163 words
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Article810 1923-04-03 374 DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES Chechez la Femme Ragen an Indian cooly, strongly disapproves of the attentions which he alleges are being paid by Mohammed Kassim to his wife s sister and regards his intentions with suspicion. On Tuesday evening he called at Kassira’s coffee shop in Beach Street, demanded explanations810 words
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Article45 1923-04-03 375 Yet another rise of jd to Is 4| d is recorded in the London price of rubber but in Sinpapore the price fell j cents to 58} cents a picul at noon to-day. In Penang both grades are quoted 57} cents a pound.45 words
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Article272 1923-04-03 375 Tin is up £3 for apot and £2.10s foi three months buying, the respective prices being £216 and £216.15. 0: The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company inform us that the last time received here up till noon to-day was Fully Paid Messages 7.45 p.m. 27th. No Deferred Messages272 words
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Article935 1923-04-03 375 A PRESENT VICTORY Every one will admit that belief in. a future life, where it is held with conviction, must have a dominant influence on men’s attitude to this life. Our conception of the hereafter cannot but affect our attitude to the present. We may even give to935 words
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Article69 1923-04-03 375 (To the Editor of the Strait» Eche) Dear Sir, We often read of telegraphic and telephonic delays. Here’s one for the other side. I sent off a wire from the E. AO. Hotel at exactly 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning to» friend at Tanglin, Singapore. It was delivered69 words
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Article65 1923-04-03 375 Cash or Liquidation Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 29. At the annual general meeting of the Far Eastern Films, Mr. Relay presiding snid that the only coarse to adopt liquidate the Company unless to $40,009 cash was put up- Then t Company might be sold as a65 words
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Article113 1923-04-03 375 (From Our Own CorrtlFoni** 1 Singapore, March In the D’Almeida partnership Mr. Justice Barrett-Lennard be had been a partnership parties, but that it had been claimed by the defendant. Mr. Ong Huck Lim, of College, Cambridge, who has bee ing a short holiday in 'on the French113 words
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