The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 12 January 1926
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Title Section20 1926-01-12 7 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. SlB PER ANKUM SINGLE COPY <8 CENTS VOL. 24 PENANG JANUARY 12 1926 NO. 220 words
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Advertisement214 1926-01-12 7 jtf&SBRSBaffiSBSBS COBTT £8 NTS Si LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) 35 Caesarism in South Barope 9 South Indian Labour 24 9 fS Whin ths Evidence is Obscure” 11 Sumatra and Java News 26 S 3 The Lesson of Hongkong 17 Profiteering and Strikes 27 U 3g Riasba Pullers’ Licences 21 Overcrowding 28214 words
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Advertisement188 1926-01-12 8 «sp TR I STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. |J <\> Published the day prior to lhe departure of each mail for Europe, At and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the X» daily issues, as well as aH important news from various parts of the Far Zfr188 words
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Article992 1926-01-12 9 V\ hat are loosely described as the Mediterranean nations of Europe are, with the exception of trance, -which, too, may possibly join the movement before very longpassing through a phase which has supervened more than once in their past history. Spain. Italy, and Greece have since992 words
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Article530 1926-01-12 9 'To the Editor of the Straits Echo Sir, It is supposed that the function of a newspaper is to lead, create and expt ess public opinion, but recently there has been a tendency to ignore the views of the public. Your attitude with regard to the Income Tax530 words
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Advertisement28 1926-01-12 9 Cl)c btrdits tci)o PUBLISHED DAILY MAIL EDITION Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED 59, Beach Street, Penang28 words
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Article1514 1926-01-12 10 Polder” It ih n t o‘‘cn that wc ar« «turned 'y a wo»d in R uta s cabin», hu wb hav to confess th it poH«r,” which came through this m >rning in o™ of the message» about the fl o s in Holla d sent us to1,514 words
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Article511 1926-01-12 10 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SEAT A Contest The fpec’al m etin <f the Pening Chunber of Co me ne f o be he’d thia afte noon for the pu p so <-f electing a Racce»sor to the Hou. M-. PJgr»ve Simpson, who his -esign-d oonsequ tit on the r511 words
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Article39 1926-01-12 11 MARRIAGE CRAWFORD Boud VILLE. On the sth January, at Alor Star, Colin Crawford, only son of the late Colin Crawford, Accountant, Singapore Harbour Board, to Denise, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Bondville, Penang.39 words
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Article1471 1926-01-12 11 A Chinese correspondent was at some pains, in a letter we published yesterday, to defend His* Excellency the High Commissioner against what he, the correspondent, described as our scathing criticism’’ of His Excellency’s devolution policy- We can assure our correspondent on the best authority that,1,471 words
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Article1145 1926-01-12 12 Dho ies and Others v .I I oui ca je 8 toll ns th kt w'eo Deoenibe wmi* nt the dhohy cone in with a demand f >• $2 or $3 ext 1 f< r the month’s washing, or f »r th* n-w ti'iff. whinh h« brought with1,145 words
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Article111 1926-01-12 12 AN ESTATE IN ANNAM” Important DocdMENr Missing (From Out Own Singapore, Janua’y 6 The mysterious death of Mr. Olnard Wohl Sch-order, who was found d j id in b»d >n his room at the Europe Role' on Ddjembec 18, is being inves igated by the Coroner, At the111 words
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Article160 1926-01-12 12 Kim Sai, a Chinese clerk of Mts«rs. E. A Barbour a-d Co., Ltd., aud Hong Liw Kee, his friend, we e produce! in the Police Court this miming and harmed w.th theft of 1« picu s 7 oatfipß of rubber valued at the p-oparty of M s«'S.160 words
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Article431 1926-01-12 12 (To the Editor of the Strait» Echo) Sir, 1 have read the ktter of Mr. Cheah Kee Ee on Devolution in your issue of yesterday. A tew years ago, when a United Malaya Council was nrst mooted, Air. Kee Ee blandly suggested that this body should eventually become431 words
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Article2693 1926-01-12 13 THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SEAT Mr. James Sellar Elected A special general meeting of the members of the Penang Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday afternoon to elect a successor to the Hon. Mr. Palgrave Simpson, who had resigned. Representatives of firms turned out in force to support2,693 words
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Article515 1926-01-12 14 Fr*«i Throes. REGISTRATION OF RICSHA PULLERS (From a Chinese Correspondent) 1 am particularly pleased to note that when the question of licensing riesha pullers came up for discussion at the last meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commission, all concerned dealt with it with caution. They decided, in deferenceFr*«i Throes. - 515 words
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Article834 1926-01-12 15 Large Gathering This Morning There was a large gathering on the course this morning to watch the training, which however did not turn out as satisfactorily as many wished. With so many present it looked as if the trainers 1 did not like to show what their834 words
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Article979 1926-01-12 15 THE PROSPECTS Coleus a Red-Hot Favourite For the next ten days or so there will be an interesting topic of discussion in Penang and that is tne races and the question that everybody warns to Know is, what is eoing to win, in the respective events. Lnprecedented interest979 words
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Article524 1926-01-12 16 Admiral de Richelieu, who came out to Siam some fifty years ago, naturally finds many changes on his present visit as compared with his a->t, which, if 1 mistake not, (writes the Bangkok correspondent of the Straits limes) was on the occasion ot the Coronation of His late524 words
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Article1041 1926-01-12 16 icu m oiuer io take u -Cathedral Paper annual conference in ipoh Opening Session On Saturday, January 2, the Malaya Annual Conference of the Metnodist Episcopa* Mission opened its 34th session m Ipon. 'The ma.n item of business for the first session was the reading of theicu m oiuer io take u -Cathedral Paper - 1,041 words
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Article1173 1926-01-12 17 In view* of what has been happening during the past few months in Hongkong, reasonable public opinion in the Straits Settlements will, we think, readily approve the main provisions of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to confer on the Governor in Council power to make regulations1,173 words
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Article480 1926-01-12 17 24 AL (lie Awang bin Tais. <1 Kuala Lipis, has been appointed a Settlement Officer. Captain and Mrs. H. de C. Elton, ho have been on a short visit to Borneo, returned to Ijxih on Tuesday. Prior to his departure, on transfer to llaub, Mr. A. Kirk, assistant engineer.– 24 AL ' - 480 words
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Article1191 1926-01-12 18 An Irish Story Stofies of Irish wit and gallantry are legion. The following is new to as ana perhaps new also to oar readers; it certainly has a fragrance all its own An Irishman had a garden far-fam°d for its beautiful roses and he was fond of inviting1,191 words
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Article687 1926-01-12 18 CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST AN INTERESTING JUDGMENT Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, in the Police Cour*, this morning, delivered an interesting judgment in the case in which Mat bin Som, a Malay police oomtible, was charged with criminal breach of tiust in respect of jiweh vduad at687 words
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Article180 1926-01-12 19 As already stated, the first sessi <>n of the Penang Assiz-s for this year wi’l begin before His Lordship Mr. Justice A.V. Brown on Tuesday, January 12. The calendar is a short one, comprising five cases in all. There is one ease of binid.ment which will probably be180 words
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Article310 1926-01-12 19 Work in the District Court was quickly disposed of this moaning. There were 15 summons cases against local petty traders in which they were charged at the instance of Messrs. Katz Brothers with offering for sale concrete brilliantine to which a false trade mark had been applied and310 words
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Article1696 1926-01-12 19 t await in >. STRENGTHENING THE STATE COUNCILS Ther c is at least one plank in Sir Laurence Guillemard's decentralization programme which all his critics agree to be a sound one, says the Malay Mail, and that is his proposal to give the States composing the Federation a mucht await in >. - 1,696 words
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Article1141 1926-01-12 20 TOWNSHIP SPRINGING CP Al SELETAR Extensive Building And Drainage Work Six months ago (says the Straits I'imes) the naval base site at Seletar was still much as it had been since the China tea-clippers warped 'their way through the Johore Straits a wilderness of swamp with no1,141 words
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Article1562 1926-01-12 21 1 he Municipal Commissioners of Singapore were asked Last week to decide whether or not they would enforce the registration of ricsha pullers from the first day of the New Year, and they very wisely decided to shelve the measure. With three strikes in progress in Singapore1,562 words
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Article1191 1926-01-12 22 Quis Custodiet. Whet! we he-r of ao ex Ohuf <f 'not Lnd Yi>d bein? fined for mi*hehaH< tr iuthePark and the Haruarian Chief of Poliae io osetody for aompucity in a bugs CODipitaoy to tern out forged bauk-notes on b comuie'ci'tl stale, we begin to have a rather1,191 words
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Article62 1926-01-12 22 Singapore Conference \From Our Own Correspondent) m, Singapore, January 7 The annual meeting of the Advi-ory council of the Far Eastern Epidemi brie J ireau of the League of Nations concluded o-day after a four days’ conference- The decisions taken were purely administrative and delegates from many62 words
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Article452 1926-01-12 22 Dr. McSwan has been transferred to Klang, from the General Hospital, Kua. la Lumpur. Mr. A. J. Bturrock, who is down with "’flu,” has been admitted into Baty Gajah hospital. Dr. Richard Dowden, P.M.O. F.M.S., and Mrs. Dowden ere likely to go on leave in the spring. Mr. D.452 words
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Article1015 1926-01-12 23 -T.O.M. FEDERAL FUNCTIONS In the course of a leading article, the Malay Mail says, inter alia Time, as we have said, is slipping by, and one is inclined to wonder how far the various Committees which His Excellency is understood to have set functioning have got with the very-T.O.M. - 1,015 words
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Article602 1926-01-12 23 A RECORD ATTENDANCE Three Hours of Thrills To the majority of the record gathering which went to see the Wembley Rodeo performers at the Dato Kramat Gardens last night quite a vivid idea of the life of the prairies and back country of Mexico and America must have602 words
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Article1090 1926-01-12 24 M.M. it, would scorn, says the limes o Malaya in the course of a leading article, that there are two steady streams oi Indian labourers between India and Malaya—a stream of men coming to this country and a stream of men returning to India, lhe labourers relumingM.M. - 1,090 words
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Article492 1926-01-12 24 BUSINESS AT TO DAY’S MEETING A meeting of the Rural Board was held in the Land Office, Penang, this morning, for the purpose of confirming the minutes of the last meeting and considering applications. Mr. E. T. Williams was in the chair and the members present were492 words
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Article1049 1926-01-12 25 Proof of the extraordinary interest now widely commanded by the various branches of psychologythe science of mental life both in its phenomena and their conditionsis apparent in the continuous issue of books on the subject, some of which have run through several editions. A volume, just1,049 words
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Article511 1926-01-12 25 f /'o tuc Editor of the Straits Echo Sir, One cannot pass many years of one’s life in a country without taking anuntere>t in its polit.cal development even w nen circumstances prevent one’s having any personal share in or responsibility tor tiie changes one sees taking piace.511 words
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Article1322 1926-01-12 26 Myths About Malaya Wh are used by u<>* to r ading noneenss about. Malaya in the Hume press. bn* M>r»ly the Morning Post, which p ofeeses to lake eo k»eu an interest in Imperial and overst’Hß aff J'S, oug't to know better than to publish childish «mfE like1,322 words
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Article767 1926-01-12 26 SUMATRA JAVA NEWS HEAD STEALING (Translated for th« Echo) At Tap»noe’i, n«ar the bmndtry of Awnhan and the West Cna«t of Sumatra witchcraft is still prac‘ised by some of tha natives *nd the d *nd bodi-s of mde ohiidieu have been discovered mi a* their h»ads and fin es on767 words
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Article506 1926-01-12 27 Lean and o s g eekly Lep »rt I hu sday evening. On a steady and f-aoi-elesA Tin m the 3 m mths closing pdoe of £2B '.15.0 j shows an advance of 15/- on Lst week’s quotation. Rubber staried the N. w Year with a decline o506 words
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Article972 1926-01-12 27 bo ioag (says me Ata.aja. Iribuuu) as proiiiuci.ug is ai.ovieu to commuu uacuecaua in iue uiuiAtia ana among me oi WHu.esaieis baigapore cuimol c.xpcci io ue nee num mu strike nuisuxxcu, which lias aiiuuuy seriousjy ariecied one or two big business concerns and which is, at ttiu972 words
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Article224 1926-01-12 27 (To the Editor of the Straits Times) Sir, There is no doubt that Mr. Leakage writing the other day on the above subject has shown us something rather amazing in mortor car prices. Perhaps he and others will be interested to know that 1 have been taking224 words
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Article557 1926-01-12 28 SOON THEAN A CO.'s WEEKLY KtfOKl There was a uisposit.on to hope for belter marxeta in me -New fear, an the week opened in a hopeful tone, although business— except m a tew scattered specialitiesbid not expand to an} great extent. At the beginning Rubber shares were firm,557 words
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Article1120 1926-01-12 28 A STRAITS PROBLEM Mr. G. F. Penny (says the Ma.ay a I'nbune) nas evidently been inspired, lot in the House oi Commons nisi mouth, he asked the Secretary of State some pertinent questions with regard to the present position oi the overcrow ding ptoblem in Singapore and Penang. Mr.1,120 words
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Article1029 1926-01-12 29 During the past few weeks we have reproduced from a Ix>ndon paper a series of interesting articles by wellknown people on How to Live Ixnig.” Out here in the East the expectation of life is nothing like so great as it is in Europe, North America, and Australia.1,029 words
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Article469 1926-01-12 29 Mini -8 F 1L Dr. Wellington has returned to Kuala Lumpur. Mr. S. K. Wong is leaving for Hongkong again shortly, and on his return he will proceed to Europe in May. Mr. T. Drury’, European master, Education Department, has been seconded for service under the Government of Johore.Mini -8 F 1L - 469 words
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Obituary23 1926-01-12 29 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCE DEATH Lewis.On January 8, 1926 at the General Hospital, Singapore, Haymond Charles Lewis, aged 30, late Supt., General Post Office, Singapore.23 words
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Article1134 1926-01-12 30 Unkind M<’. Cheah Kee Ee sent to the Straits Times the same letter on "Federal Devolution” as was published in cur columns on Tuesday. Our Singapore eontempora-y appends to it the following editorial note The above letter peems worth giving especially in view of the snub to the1,134 words
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Article2828 1926-01-12 30 NEW YEAR MEETING Saturday’s Interesting Sport For the opening day of a four-dayTace meeting the sport on Saturday was all that could be desired. Big dividends were the order of the day and the bevt of all was paid in the biggest race when Over There sprung2,828 words
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888 1926-01-12 32 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 25 Per Cent. Dividend As already reported the 15th annual general meeting of shareholders of the Perak River Valley Rubber Co., Ltd., was held at noon on Saturday at the registered offices of the Company, 9 Union Street. Mr. D. A. M.888 words
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Article1046 1926-01-12 33 AN APPEAL FOR CONCRETE "Beating the Air” Out Kuala Lumpur -contemporary suggested the other day tlliat there had been a good deal of destructive but very little constructive criticism of the proposals made in regard to future federal Administration by Sir Laurence Guillemard, says the Straits Times, 'there is1,046 words
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Article628 1926-01-12 33 THE EFFECT OF KEEN COMPETITION Court Approves Reduction of Juts and Company's Capital I’he loss ol $53,373 sustained during the last financial year, being the greater part of the sum of over $BB,OOO of the capital of the Company which had been ost since its incorporation in 1920,628 words
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