The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 15 December 1925
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Title Section20 1925-12-15 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. |lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL. 23 PENANG: DECEMBER 15, 1925 NO. 5020 words
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Advertisement221 1925-12-15 1 CONTEKTB LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) The Outlook in China 1337 H- C. L. in Malaya 1340 The Danger in China 1341 Fire in Kuala Lumpur Trade Within The Empire ...1349 Government Offices .1340 Education and Business ...1353 Municipal Affaire ...1312 Shares and Exchangee 1357 Penang C< event 1348 1360 A 1365221 words
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Advertisement184 1925-12-15 2 gw Sj I STRAITS ECHO I g MAIL EDITION. Published the day prior te the departure of each mail for Eurooe n and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the fj'R daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the Far East,184 words
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Article1070 1925-12-15 1337 People who had pinned their faith to Marshal Chang Tso-lin as China's one strong man, capable of saving the country from chaos, unifying its administration and bringing the Provinces under the direction oi a Central Government firmly established in Peking,- will be bitterly disappointed al the1,070 words
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Article459 1925-12-15 1337 M M 1 I<l, of Messrs, (’aid t P- n mg. w. d i s 1 H’ me sh< rtiy on leave. M J b iy, Senior Inspector. P s iur back from Home by the s.s Kashima Maru. It i> rumoured that Mr. Rcutens, of 11 j M.M M - 459 words
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Advertisement31 1925-12-15 1337 Cix Straits tcbo PUBLISHED DAILY MAIL ED IT IO?; Containing the news of the week prior tc de] urture of Mails for Europe, THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED 5.1, Beach Street, Penang31 words
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Article1393 1925-12-15 1338 The Almanac To-day our thoughts go hack to Da Quine*y, who died on Dncember 8, 1859. b'on etimeß it is out of the mouth of an old ret liner that the last word is said about the great. We all remember how White of Selborne was summed up1,393 words
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Article394 1925-12-15 1338 Naval Base and Recruiting (From Our Own Camipondent) x- S’ December? The meeting of the Phnters 1 Association of Malaya strongly favoured the Impend Government leoruitiug its own labour for the naval base, or utilising the local Government’s recruiting officer to obtain labour from India. The fear394 words
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Article1111 1925-12-15 1339 COLD-WEATHER comments (From Our Own Correspondent.) Calcutta, November 27 This week has been a grievous one for us all culminating in to-day's tribute of National Mourning. The weather too, as if in sympathy with our sombre feelings and thoughts, has suddenly changed and to-day has been1,111 words
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Article477 1925-12-15 1339 T O NEW YEAR MEETING Horses in Training It is yet too early to begin the training notes proper but the following jottings on some of the Penang horses, chiefly in regard to the new griffins, wi I interest turfites and generally those looking forward to theT O - 477 words
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Article559 1925-12-15 1340 THE INFLATION OF PRICES We commented a week ago (says the Malayan Saturday Post) on the unfortunate tendency in Malaya at the present time for the cost of living to rise. There is an upward tendency in the prices of commodities generally, and the only reason for559 words
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Article158 1925-12-15 1340 PENANG MUNICIPAL LOAN Necessary Improvements [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, December 8 At the meeting of the Legislative Council, the Treasurer, the Hon. Mr. Pountney, moved that Council approve the raising of a loan of $4,0U0,U00 by the Municipal Commissioners of Georgetown, Penang, and said it was' a158 words
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Article382 1925-12-15 1340 Taipmg, December 7 The Managing Director of Nawng Pet I’in, Ltd., repirts from the mine that pumping of the mine started at 6 p.m. on Friday, the 4th instant, and it is hoped to have the water out in about hve days and to be producing382 words
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Article295 1925-12-15 1340 ENANG hotkey league s. A. A. v. p. 3 c L There were two matrix connection with the p Pn }est€rda in league which i s H a close. On tLa -r draw the P. C. C. met B(V Es PMe the Free School ground th7s4?? d<t ter»’295 words
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139 1925-12-15 1340 attempted ARSON SUSPECTED Smart Work By Police What might have been a was averted yesterday by the action of the Z” at the Government Offices, Kuala pur At about 2.15 p.m., stable, who had just reueve stationed at the guard r a Hre near139 words
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Article1095 1925-12-15 1341 Almost sooner than we had expected comes news confirming the fears we expressed yesterday regarding the possibility of serious international developments as the result of the defeat of Marshal Chang Tso-1 in in Northern China. Soviet Russia, as we have already pointed out, has for some1,095 words
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Article464 1925-12-15 1341 M Aru’ampalum, SubKu Kings.ir, has gone Ku.C i Lip as acting Li. utenant Kalpb L. Bridges N R.. of Singapore, has been pro--11 1 5 ttie rank of Lieut.-( emmaud* r, H.N on the retired list. lhe M Mail hears that Mr A. J L. Lee will464 words
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Article1218 1925-12-15 1342 Government and Municipalities” Monday b meeting of iL>h Legislative Council was of a formal character; t u 9 various motions and resolutions on t e agenda were parsed without oriticism. The meet important resolution was the one approving of a loan of 14,000,000 by the Municipal Commissioners of1,218 words
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Article2810 1925-12-15 1342 FOUR L Ois alleged bus ihcidexj 14.C00.000 L. n th issue and an alleged inoid P’< P“1 bus, ,nt o whi)h M utao appointed to enquire W 8„ «‘I tome which came np Z. a "“i» the ordinary general’ meeHoT", 00 Municipal Commissioner, IS tfc day afternoon. At2,810 words
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Article3038 1925-12-15 1344 PLANTERS CRITICISE GOVERNMENT RECRUITMENT OF LABOUR Threat of Naval Base Among many matters discussed by the members of the Planters’ Association of Malaya, at their half-yearly meeting in Singapore on Monday, was the labour question, particularly as it is being affected and is likely to be affected by3,038 words
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Article532 1925-12-15 1346 District Court Proceedings Before Mr. G. A. Hereford in the District Court, Penang, this morning, two women, Lee Ah Sai and Chay Ah Yee, were charged with attempting to kidnap a Cantonese girl, who was under 16 years of age, on November 27, and a third woman Lim532 words
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Article1072 1925-12-15 1346 EmpText APPEAL AUALNSI DISTRICT CUuRT SjuMEinLE A Chinese medicine man, named Chan San Meng, appealed before Mr. Justice Deane in the Supreme Court at Singapore on Saturday moining against a conviction and sentence of Id months' rigorous imprisonment in the District Court for assisting in theEmpText - 1,072 words
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Article2437 1925-12-15 1347 association makes him HONORARY MEMBER Advocacy of Restriction At yesterday morning’s meeting of the Planters’ Association of Malaya (says the Free Press of Tuesday) a resolution was unanimously passed by which Mr. A. W. Still, the editor of the Straits Times, becomes an honorary member of2,437 words
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Article531 1925-12-15 1348 We have to acknowledge with thanks a copy of the Anglo-Chinese School magazinethe third for the year, it being published three times a year, in April, August and December. It is also a year since the first number was issued and within this short space of time tiie531 words
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Article205 1925-12-15 1348 A CHIU SIMAS APPEAL Harcld Dove, of Messrs H bach, Lazarus and Sons Ltd H lUr> as follows:- td w nte 8 ug In the absence of a the Convent, Mr. John Mitchel"™ f. to me again to take over thp’/i S ""■'“"e 'h. mi 1,.,;., t al205 words
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Article253 1925-12-15 1348 The preliminary enquiry into the charges'of murder preferred against the three Chinese who were arrested under exciting circumstances in New Keppel Road, Singapore, after the murder of a Chinese in a motor bus in broad daylight on Armistice Day last was opened on Wednesday. It will be253 words
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Article1257 1925-12-15 1349 Lord Inchcape, chairman of the P. < 0 ranks to-day as the greatest of British captains of industry His careei reads like a romance and it has been entirely built up on hard work, foresight and commonsense. One has only to meet him for a few1,257 words
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Article280 1925-12-15 1349 Well-known Penang Merchant We regret to record the death of Mr. Yeoh Paik Tatt, J. P., the well known Penang merchant, which occurred about 10 this morning after a prolonged illness of over a year, at his residence 183, MacAlister Road. Born in 1872,280 words
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Article1254 1925-12-15 1350 The Almanac Killed, Llewelyn Prince of Waleo, 1282,” eaye the almanac fo r to day, referring to the last native invert ign of Wales. His head was exposed by Edward I, on the Tower of London, and from the time of his death the title, Prince of Wales,1,254 words
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Article1618 1925-12-15 1350 BR OTHErTat L* W Fortune At St*,, B f re Mr b the bupremo Court, p en Acu a day afternoon, the action in which two brothers "hitusamj- Phla/Xf ness here about 40 yea’s h"’ Roland Braddell of Q in P tlf w dMr Plaintiff were kept by1,618 words
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Article1962 1925-12-15 1351 brothers at variance FUR THE it KVIOENO* The Civil Slit whioh two Hindu rothera ve the uoti s. each maintaining hat he wa. ,h. o igi-ml n i ganaine K h na Mutu-imy which founded a fi-m in fenanpbout 4 > y. a. ago was oniiuued yesterday aftrnoonm1,962 words
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Article569 1925-12-15 1352 THE KID NAPPING CASE EXEMPLa «I^is HMEnt men and a m n Ufa!* A- Hereford in the District r reSI r > da morning with attemntin Tywkea antonese girl under 16 8 '’S on November 27, and buvL™a St king in and obtaining no tra «o R--1 for the purpose569 words
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Article1084 1925-12-15 1353 On the ȟbject of education and business training, we said here, the other dav. that the teacher was not entirely to blame if business men did not gel lad' ;\ho reached the standard of training thev regard as necessary. We hinted, however, that he was not entirely1,084 words
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Article442 1925-12-15 1353 M. A.P. -Mr A li West, of Messrs. Pritchard A E g"ing on transfer to I|H»h in th- mar future. Captmn F. Caithness, of the Straits Steamship (< ha» .eft for home on leave by the Rhexcnor. Major R. Russell, of the general staif. .Malaya Command, is going to Europe442 words
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Article1233 1925-12-15 1354 The Almanac At this lime, says an old almanac, all good housewives lay in stores of prime roasting beef against Christmas; and the almanac improves the occasion by giving a Word of sympathy to the species of dog, with long back and short legs, called Turnspit,’’ formerly employed1,233 words
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Article99 1925-12-15 1354 CHINESE WOMAN'S PKTITIOs Tiid to a Luxatic (From Our Own Carre, Before Mr. Chief Ja.tioe, Chinee, oh Odn Jj0 sought divorw fro m T; -i: h n ,blnd 00 befr" d th‘‘ eddio h ,e laaghod and always behaved strangely. Mr. Justice bproule said that it wmb99 words
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Article273 1925-12-15 1354 Excellent Results of the Yiar’i Trading The report of the directors of Wearne Bros. Ltd. for the year ended September 30, 1925, states that the profit for the period after making due allowance for depreciation on stocks, buildings, furniture, garage equipment and writing off all bad debts,273 words
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Article1870 1925-12-15 1355 brothers at variance YESTERDAY’S HEARING The oivil suit in which two Hioda brothers arc the parties, each maintaining that be was the o iginal and genuine Koona Mutnsamy.who founded a firm in Penang about 42 years ago was continued yesterday afternoon before Mr. Justice R. D. AotonThe Hon.1,870 words
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Article1504 1925-12-15 1356 REPORT OF THE YEAR The Report of the Penang Harbour Board for the year ended 30th June, 1925 says: After paying interest $112,324.90 and Sinking Fund $20,939.74 to Government and allowing $14,583.33 for depreciation of Ferry launches, the income and expenditure account shows a credit balance of1,504 words
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Article1074 1925-12-15 1357 In the columns of a contemporary, a currespon lent makes several suggestions with regard to share dealing, irmiaruy they ure importance to Companies, brokers, and investors and speculators, out they are sufficiently interesting to merit general attention. 1 he number of people in the Colony and the1,074 words
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Article502 1925-12-15 1357 M. A. P. Mt ti N hinij pimped to Kuala Lumpur y -ter I ty morning M' K Seartiiekc. As .slant Eugn.. r. I I> FU S is due back from H< hi. v<• by the 1’ A O Khyber Dr. R instedt, Director of Education. i» proceeding on leave502 words
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Article1241 1925-12-15 1358 The Sowers of Tares No dunbt the decision of the High Court of Australia that Walsh and Johannsen, the leaders of the recent British seamen’s strike in the Australian ports, cannot be deported, is a blow to the Bruce Government and the Prime Minister will have every reason1,241 words
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Article140 1925-12-15 1358 t (To the Editor of the Strait» Echo) Sir, With reference to he appointment of the new General Manager. Ido not think it would be amiss to draw his attention.to the ooneested oonditinn nf Goods Godown. he local &i| w the last sovr'aI ri limit.d S140 words
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Article426 1925-12-15 1358 A preliminary enquiry into the cate i. whieh Chow Tow Pi, a li as leik. a bamshee unlawfully the Colony was held by Mr C W A Sennett in the Police Court ysMerdt afternoon Mr. GE. Wright MoeiS appeared for accused. B °n' 8 ton B ka426 words
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Article1100 1925-12-15 1359 DECEASED AND RELATIVES” jfit' Coroner s inquest into the death a Tamil, Kelawan. an employee of the Municipality who was electrocuted at Maccailum Street on December 4, was helu by Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, Coroner, in the Police Court this mornng. Mr. E. A. de Buriatte1,100 words
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Article261 1925-12-15 1359 complaisant PA\S accuseds FINE An urftisua! charge of criminal breach trust in respect of a Fiat motor-car No. 6129 was preferred against D>llah bin Mohammed, a Malax driver, before Mr. P. F David, the District Judge, this morning, says Thursday's Malax* tribune. The accused stated that he261 words
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Article278 1925-12-15 1359 Ihe Tost Office Daiy list announces that Christmas greeting telegrams will be accepted at any post office in the Straits Sett einents from December 15, till noon on December 22 for despatch to Englund, British possessions or foreign countries at special rates. The charge for a message to278 words
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Article1094 1925-12-15 1360 LEAN AND CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT Thursday evening On a steady and featureless market tin at, £2BO 12s. 6d. closes 7/6 below last week’s price, and the premium for spot tin has further advanced to £6 155., £287 7s. 6d. being the closing price for cash. Rubber, after slight1,094 words
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Article229 1925-12-15 1360 «RITISHc7pTAi N FIN EI) Pleading guilt7to7~ch ar ug«:nst him as the result Sj» tity of non-Govemment 5“ T 8 i Captain McKellar exnloi» j cabin in which the drug lht occupied by three female J d ai Mr. laylor, head of the r Service, told His Honour229 words
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Article204 1925-12-15 1360 Mr. Harold Dove grattfaily acknowledges having received the following amounts PievioaHy aeknowl dg<d 332.1’0 Ho». Mr, W. Feel 20.(0 Mie. Weibani 10.00 G. A. He. eLid, Esq 10.00 R. P. Phillips E-q 2IAO S. Wood Hil’, E>q 100« A. C. 8. Macb<d, Esq 10 W G.204 words
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Article502 1925-12-15 1361 j’hiw’osed Programme Approved \t a meeting of members of the PejiangTb f Club held yesterday afternoon it the lamber of Commerce the proposed programme which had been criculatcd io members was, with a few minor alterations, approved. The Hon. Mr. Peel, President of the Club, was in502 words
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Article657 1925-12-15 1361 SKY MEETING First Day’s Results iPrroa Our Ou:n>< Correspondent) Ipoh, December H i'hfc Hrst day’s rarmg of th* Ipoh Gxftn* !ih Club Skr Meeting veeterd.v w.-m off without a hitch. H.‘ H thSutan of Perak and suite, the Hon. the Arnng Bntish Ik-ident and several other notables657 words
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Article451 1925-12-15 1361 Doi’bi.ks Fixal A At Home” In pile f the wet weatlx-r, there was >: large attendance of memliers, Indies and friends to witness the final in the tennis match bet we* n A. Reutcna and II Scully and M. E. C. Orr and llodr go w hich451 words
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Article947 1925-12-15 1362 CHINESE INFORMER’S NARROW ESCAPE Eyh-Witness to Murder of Detective The sensational story of the street s4iooting in Chinatown as a result of which Pau Peng Sung, Detective No. 79 lost his life on November 11, was told to the City Coroner, Mr. F. C. Bourne yesterday when947 words
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Article571 1925-12-15 1362 tiOVERNMENFANp v D milled tor the two vacancies 2?, 0)1 tue Committee, the ballot CUrrul i> in favour of .Messrs. BoS and H. B. Layton. Braddtl; Venereal Diseases— Mr AP u inson informed the Committee that reply had bem received to Xjl F ot tile 10th November and571 words
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Article720 1925-12-15 1363 \\h*le tk-e League of Nation* is bus\ n.,'ring preparations for a Disarmament Conference at Geneva in Fehruarx and th( newspaper correspondents in that ,j], sant centre are obviously doing what the can to create a favourable atmosphere," two significant pronouncements on naval armamentsthe branch of the (iUi-stion720 words
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Article323 1925-12-15 1363 Christmas in Penang His Excellency Sir Laurence Gui'lemard will spend Christmas and the New 'tear at Bel Retiro, Penang Hill. His Excellency is expected to arrive by the Government yacht Seabelle on the morning of the 23rd and will proceed up the Hill at once. Lady323 words
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Article549 1925-12-15 1363 G tn Millan c. Pahang arrived ui 1 11 pur by i i lay mght s mad C, P l 1: V Day. |»m> V., Alulat ivil > rvice, has been gr nted eight months leave. Mi 1' tl Hampshire, a member of the Hallway Board, has reported his549 words
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Article1291 1925-12-15 1364 The Railways: Main Line and New Ones On Ftaday we t ok from a contemporary a paragraph whish gave currency to a rumour that plans have been prepared, in Singap ire,” and wi'l be mentioned at the meeting of the Federal Con noil for a new East Coast1,291 words
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Article458 1925-12-15 1364 Mr. Eric Ri R a LeagiJ, of Io the F.P’EistakX® T n?f he League. He i 8 staying h VOrtatil Thu sflay, wh n e J R ilen J yar and Bangkok. V 8 f or A!, *e O e.pe.g L?agQ9 g non-party organisation of &Dffg who,e458 words
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Article211 1925-12-15 1364 A Corcraer’s enquiry into the death Tamil, who was killed W J duties in the Botanical Gardens, w by Mr. C. W. A Sennett m the P Court o. Saturday afternoon and ed this morning, when of accidental death WiS oB t It zppeared down the tree,211 words
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Article484 1925-12-15 1365 (To the Editor of the Strait» Echo Sis hi view of a certain misstatement which appeiad in Ihe Times of Malay aof the 9 b iost-mt t> the eff < t that the CommiB;icn iin Chi* f' of the Gid Guides 8 in r cdpt of quite484 words
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Article38 1925-12-15 1365 Previously $269.0» Mr. Justice RD. Acton 15.00 MD. Lyn h, Esq. 1 < 0 Mrfe, CT.Hu t n’lauh 50.00 Lneih Tek Thye, E*q. 10.00 C. U. Bicknell, Esq. 500 Tota' to December 14 I >5®.0038 words
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Article1007 1925-12-15 1365 second days resvlts COXI XDRI M Cmutm DIVHHMOX ('■■-■O-" Our y^Ec' O rr e 11l n J enl} Ipoh, December 13 lhe second dav’s races were acain sX SUc ce n ssfu) His Highness the and ther BUte Were P reBent on Frid V Q rger att1,007 words
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Article682 1925-12-15 1366 A KEDAH DISPUTE EXTRAORDINARY JURISDICTION" In the Supreme Court, Penang, this morning, Mr. Justice A. V. Brown was engaged in hearing an application with regard to a Kedah dispute. The parties are Ooi Beng Heang, the respondent and Bini Sin Aik and another, the appellants. Mr. A. Pi.682 words
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Article428 1925-12-15 1366 C.8.C." writes as follows to the Singapore Free Press, from which we took the article reproduced on page 9 in last Friday's Straits Echo: Sir, I must congratulate you on the article which appear- in your paper this morning oi) the above subject. It is a428 words
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Article458 1925-12-15 1366 SUMATRA JAVA NEWS ft 'i-DAN SENSATION I' unslated for the jfok, A kreat sensation was YN -Messrs. GathrW 1 d lr f Old M »rket Str et, mX :l «W 215 nJU -tore-keeper. M tiU When *>>* Husein, W as seen dlue< l Ettrfxe 1 n chasin» Vr u manager458 words
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Article1253 1925-12-15 1367 ANTHONY CO.’S SHARE LIST x’tnjf l CcinjMHJy. Buyers 'T-. gffßlRDOLLAR BH4RIB. I Ct». Ct l >uniiv Rubber Co., Ltd. ..J 3.66 7O Rubber Estate. Ltd. 2.99 3.10 Malay Estate», Ltd 4.80 5.00 Planting Syndicate ltd 22.50 <3/0 RS fS£r Rubber A«tete, Ltd... 1.50 .60 Molek Rubber Co., Ltd 3.75 I1,253 words
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Article203 1925-12-15 1367 RoDpibcn Tio, for- the first half of December 370 pica Is. Ronpibon Extended for the first half of December 100 piculs. Tin Bentong, for the first half of December hours 320, piculs 425 and yards 55,400. Batang Padang, for the first half of December hours 283, yards 25,000203 words
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Article610 1925-12-15 1367 »*<> 1 ICE AND PRISON SPORTS \l .r St »r. Dcmuiltfr 1» ell organistd. tri»- Kedah Poitrf» mid I j <n -t -lit» md the di, ndvnt mpnt* I > i Sutuniav, prowl >n u»i<|ualiti.-<| -ucc.a r-ult on which tinr» t mil. i t j t t» *»h610 words
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