The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 5 September 1928

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  • 19 560 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION $18 PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 26 PENANG, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928 No. 36
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    • 213 560 X Leading Articles Miscellaneous JL >-/w| ital Statistics 562 Commercial Examinations 566 B T The Happy State of Ireland 562 The Hutton Lane Eire 569 JL j| Legislative Matters .>66 War Memolies 571 IB 8 1he War Memorial -.72 Penang War Memorial I’uixl 571 573 BSr Lubber Slocks >>72 i
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    • 185 561 I THE STRAITS ECHO fl j WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day prior to the departure of each maH for Europe, and contains .1 latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all I Ĕ important news from various parts of die FAR EAST, including
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  • 367 562 It has'Jbeen said that there are three iefeesef comparison of falsehood —lies, M lies’ and statistics. Certain it j that he who endeavours to prove his oB by recourse to comparative figures leaving with a double-edged weapon, fctlis a commonplace that figures can beiaade to prove almost anything.
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  • 176 562 America has a’ways been the friend and admirer of Ireland, and Mr. Kellogg, who is paying a triumphal visit to the Free State to day, will be able to carry back with him a first-hand impression of the value of the weird political structure which
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  • 76 562 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 4 September A fifteen-year-old claim has been settled by the Hon. Mr. Justice I’ri chard, when J. O. Davies sued the Penang Broker, Gustav Bantie, for $1,000 in the hands of Custodian of Enemy Property. The claim was in respect of shares
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  • 220 562 MALAYS DEFEAT I*. C. C. In an interesting match played on the Esplanade yesterdav the Darul Aihsan Football Club beat the Penang Cricket Club by seven goals to four. The Malays had their full side out and were expected to win but the Club put up a good
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  • 300 562 EUROPEAN FINED S15 ‘E N T K Y T O A N N<) Y” A N D “CRIMINAL i UKCB TO TENANT’’ i pon returning from >fiice at 2 a.m ,\e>lerd >y morning. Mr. W. A. liarpur. ivditor of the Straits Echo, discovered
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  • 101 562 (From Our Own Correspondent; Iron, 4 September As regards ihe c i e in Iitno d E\ Law Yew Guan against the him e ualang Iin for tre pass flic lion. Mr. Justice Thorne gavi jmkm nt in favour of the defendant company. lb-
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  • 92 562 (From Our Own Correspondent; Kl’ala Lemper, 1 September The Chief Jii-tice »-d ,y at th» Asizc t'ourt ■f'.ppid p<■(/(•♦< ng- in ’he case against Chin. t- fine a'csman who v. a char/ I v. h m 7 ing a paper effigy of t urn < u
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  • 4807 563 COUNCIL SPEECHES The enormous strain which will be imposed on Malayan transport and storage facilities when Restriction is removed on 1 November, and rubber stocks estimated at 125,000 tons (November and December) will be released for export, was dealt with in the Legislative Council on Monday by
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  • 26 565 I Mr. I. G. Spcde, secretary of the i Singapore Cold Storage Co., is ea i shortly for a holiday in Australia-
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  • 114 565 At 1.30 a.m. on Sunday, ■ese detectives stopped taming four Chinese m K j oB e Singapore. The detectives w of the men but the remainder too I their heels. As they made «n. of them drew revolvers an t ve s. i were followed
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  • 827 566 re were two important suojects iscussion at the last meeting of Legislative Council. One, the :3t t;o n° of the transport of Rubber durin" the period immediately the Removal of Restriction on Srts is relatively a matter of passmportance. If nothing is done beJ 31 October, we shall
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  • 11 566 have returned to Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 29 566 stated that the re- port that Ghazi Mustapha Kemal Pasha nas asked for the hand in marriage of the King of Afghanistan’s sister is baseless.
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  • 33 566 understands hat Dr. G. Rarmrlingam of the Tan Pock Seng Hospital, Singapore, wdl succeed Dr. Ang Swee Ilian who leaves he Durian Daun Hospital at the end >f the month.
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  • 34 566 is announced of Capt. Sydney Smith, O.B.E., of the LW.D., F.M S.. with Miss Frances leorgina Annesley Woods, elder daiigher of Dr. A. Annesley Woods and Mrs Woods, of Tampin, Negri Sembilan.
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  • 41 566 that he has severed all ormeetion with the Morris-Cowley, Sin ipore London expedition, organize i .Mr. C-dric Dover nd is arran. ine t »o on a similar trip on his own in thnear future.
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  • 366 566 I lie ti -tills oi the London C hamber >1 Commerce Spring Examinations 1928 are as follows Sen ,r Certitnates—Book-kcepng and Accountancy: Ang Ban Seng; Commercial Law: Lim Joo Kee (with d’stincion) Company Law: Khoo Chong xooi (with distinction);
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  • 89 566 NON-B ENDERS BEAT SELANGOR (From Our Own Correspondent) Iron. 2 September At cricket th»- Perak Non Benders beat Selangor bv an nnines and I) inns. Fhe Perak Ncn-bender; put up !’>(>, toward which Sheehan contributed 5M, Haddon >7 Dr Jlennesiy nd Coop* It, not od. Sr any
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  • 41 566 'nnoimri d of Mr. .'<•*» Thein? S v on of the late \fr 'frs. V. Ib in T/e to .\fiss Urn mg Tee. daughter of Mr A Mrs lain ;ow Thoon. Th" marriage will take place some time in September
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  • 1322 567 THE DEFENCE HEARD The case between Lai Yen Seng, the son of a deceased partner of the Kwong Loon Mining Co., and Ng Boon Yong, another partner of the same company, was resumed yesterday morning before the District Judge, Mr. J. 8. W. Arthur. It will be remembered
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  • 191 567 PRELIMINARY INQUIRY HELD IN CAMERA A preliminary inquiry was held in the Police Court yesterday into the allegations against a Chinese, Lim Chhufi Hock alias Lim Choon Hock, who is accused of having committed a serious offence on three girls under the age of 15 who were
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  • 14 567 The Rt. Rev. L. Perriehon brief visit to Ipoh.
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  • 15 567 A Reuter’s cable from H nounces the death of t Charlie Chaplin.
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  • 706 568 tfCUSED DISCHARGED riit fresh charge pending r case against the Bayan Lepas Lan Lee Seow, who is charged *L e e counts with committing crimDtimidation, was heard ycsterthe District Judge, Mr. J. S. Arthur. The allegations against accused were that he threatened Boon with intent to frighten
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  • 55 568 Gyrd Hector, younger son of the late Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Burns, of Carlisle was married to Dora llammersley, youngest daughter of the late William Beech Johnston, M.D., and of Mrs. Beech Johnston, of Bournemouth, and widow of Wilfrid Thornely, LL.D., Cantab, Judge of
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  • 68 568 on Tuesday for Ipoh where he will join the Mercantile Bank as compradore. On the eve of his departure he was entertained at lunch by the management of the Chung Hua Cinema Hall at the F.M.S. Union Club and later, at an “At
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  • 150 568 took place on Saturday at All Saints’, Taiping, of Mr. Owen Llewellyn Stephens of the Public Works Department. F.M.S., son of Mr. and Mrs. IL C. Stephens, of Port Talbot, South Willes, and .Miss Valerie Sydney Smith, daughter of Captain Sydney Smith, Assistant Director of Public Works. F.M.S.
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  • 985 568 (lo the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, iin to tl Times report in its issue of 28 August of the meeting of the Legislative Council of the Colony held on 27 August, the Hon. the Colonial Treasurer, in rnovtbe a PP r °val of
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  • 786 569 I he revenue of the Institute will be provided fur by a special export duty r 10 CentS a P ikul (i one. tenth of a cent per lb.) on all rub- i ber produced in and exported from
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  • 137 569 Four Engines Assist In Suppressing Blaze Xhe big fire which broke out Saturday afternoon in a house situate at the junction of Hutton Lane Nagore Road is stated to be due toi short circuit of the electric installation The immediate cause of the short cuit was
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  • 45 569 four Calcutta possess two■ o living in the world w.thout Two young men with rup ar were recently taken to the > lege Hospital and the 8U e0B Qperati 0 8 remove the organs. e the P* were completely success tients were discharged fi
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  • 48 569 The engagement lias beet' of Mr. H. J. Walker, gj gurlof Sandakan Estates, and ganda ksi ing. who has been Bta v^ ]k ha« lor a short time. Mr well known as a popular B Ji B planter on the West as well as Sandakan for
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  • 1256 570 «voeand utermark win 11 fiti MEN’S DOUBLES r c Penang Lawn Tennis ChampionA which began on Monday June 13 to a successful close yesterday the trial in the Men’s Doubles was f ed off and, at the conclusion of iIrs Meadows-Frost distributj the prizes. The last
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  • 263 570 Detect ve Inspector Roche produced before the Police Magistrate yesterday, a Chinese woman named Ong Ho, charged with cheating one Soo Hoo Kim, a pawnbroker; by falsely presenting two silver chains gilded in gold, and inducing him to deliver her $65. on one chain and attempting to cheat
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  • 25 570 wife of Mr. P. C. Dias of Hie Harbour Board, left for Ipob (‘sterday to visit her daughter and sonn law
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  • 60 570 Sir Samuel H. Wilson, Pea tn.a Ir k/ Secretary for the Uolome.-, i.~ now on an ollie al vidt Io Hie W< -I African (’oionies. io pcs to Vi.il 1 iia •ie i i" reluabl v to i< m- i i c i o i in .ii u r
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  • 55 570 car belonging the X ivy, Army and Air Force Inb.ie I, •.-> been traced as the motorist i<, i- believed to hav knocked down a <b- irifin in G lang Hoad Singapore the night of 21 Aiyrtist The injured m died noon after the accident,
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  • 1515 571  -  (BY RICHARD SIDNEY) My chief memory of that last ‘holiday’ before the War is the faces of the holiday-makers in the crowded Cambridge streets. Bewildered faces, faces of people who did not understand why their long-waited holiday should thus be marred by war’s alarums. I can remember seeing
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  • 73 571 Acknowledgment of Subscription (First List) Ex-service Association of Maliy* (Penang Branch) The Hon’ble Mr. Justice P. L Sproule g Dr. G. S. Glass j Mr. W. F. Fletcher j Mr. S. V. Adams j Mr. A. P. H. Holmes g Mr. J. R. Danson g Mr.
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  • 69 571 A verv pleasant the Hon. Mr. H. K held at the Indian Mercha s tion premises Singapore In<h«® evening where over a Juni*' merchants were present, m in 1 bhov introduced the gu g xce ]JeiJr T short speech thanked t jj 0 rigM the Governor
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  • 678 572 proposal to erect a War Memorial VU to include Province elles- d the Bindings, is one which will *Lith unqualified approval Some ,1 commemoration of the period 218 can be found in practically every ‘O. w here British people (we include British Subjects) and their late alis
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  • 711 572 The Straits Times of Wednesday, 29 August, and the Singapore Free Press of the following morning both deal with this subject in their leaders. These papers agree with us that some preparation ought to be made for dealing with the stocks which are accumulating and for making some
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  • 26 572 registered n the names of Messrs. J. Murray, Kuala Lumpur, and N H P. Whitley collapsed in training and had to be destroyed.
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  • 23 572 loaves for India on 21 November, wires our Singapore correspondent, while the Welsh Regiment is arriving from Shanghai.
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  • 26 572 is announced of Mr. Kenneth II. Metarlane, of Messrs. Evatt md c< r.p;ii y Singapore, to Miss Marjorv Arme, (jl the General Hospital, Singapore.
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  • 34 572 »f the P( n.illg branch of the A.P.(' is m K tai j Iziimpur on Im ne- M <> Mr >hut: worth, of Mes-rs. C. Wakefle'd and Go. s office, Penang.
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  • 35 572 arc 'eaving for South Afriej early in ()clober. We hi ir that Mr. Bm ne, who s in the P.W.D., has decided not tz) return to M > MM.
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  • 457 573 SUBSCRIPTION LISTS NO. 26 Amount previously acknowledged 89,915.66 The Hun Kung Keow Lum Kongsor, Penang Balance of subscription 26.53 The Hock Hin Trading Co., Penang 31.90 The Hai Teen Restaurant, Penang 10.12 The Eng Tek Bookstall, Penang 16.87 3 Persons total 18.18 Sim Thean Poe, Motor
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  • 400 573 Amount previously acknowledged 94,287.87 The Boeysi Kongsi, Penang 200.00 By Its Clansmen: Mr. Boey Chong Geh 30.00 Mr. Boey Chong Chan 50.00 Mr. Boey Nai Yean 20.00 Mr. Boey Paik Tho 20.00 Mr. Boey Chan Nai 15.00 Chop Poh Guan Tong 20.00 3 persons or chops
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  • 72 573 SUBSCRIPTIONS (SECOND LIST) I Amount previously acknowledged Hon. Mr. Palgrave Simpson... lOO.tt Mr. A. K. aBeckett Terrell 100® Mr. J. F. Arthur 15> Mr. A. J. L. Donaldson 15.® Mr. F. N. Syer 25.® Mr. H. M. Evans J5® Mr. G. A. Potts 211 Total to
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  • 113 573 ACCUSED ACQUITTED Lim Lee Secw was discharged terday at the District Court i case in which he was charge rninal intimidation by throa e hari bin Jalil and Ismail bin Malays, with bodily harm. a also ciiarged with threatening Th* Boon with injury to his P accused
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  • 430 574 T the multiplicity of ministries D 1S t veneration, evidence is not int the strain of office to-day ian ever before. With the a of the coal and general strikes Britain since the war has not been 1 n-th anv very critical national or crises; pret minister
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  • 38 574 ;ta reffi Cn, 'j n Methodist r from leave and fc A n ;io A‘°' da y aa hpadmi Ch,neBe Gir18 School, goin S ou ."r| s 11 ln building the 8th, »l 'H Jpoh.
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  • 536 574 nobody in th dr senses would suggest that the Colony, or for tha' n dter Malaya in general, is ri] iiancmsc. With equal empbas s, anv tep which takes ue n urer th <f a universal franchise, or anv action which is likely to create a demand of
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  • 482 574 Those who mistake windv polvsvllables for reasoned argument are invariably impressed by utterances at the anniu.l conferences of the Trades Union Congress. There is no ca canny or reduction of output of verbiage at T.U.C. gatherings, and though our cable relating to the opening of the
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  • 1128 575 LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS The Mission Clinic wishes to gratefully acknowledge the following subscriptions to the Penang Sanitarium Fund:— Tye Kee Yoon Estate $3,000, A Friend $2,000, Mr. Lim Lean Teng $2,000, Choong Cheng Kean Estate $1,500, Mr. Lo Boon Ghee $1,500, Cheah Kongsi $1,000, Mr. Cheah Leong
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  • 18 575 have re- turned to Ipoh after a week’s holiday hi Penang. J
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  • 19 575 of Taiping, is leav- e xcupiug, is ieavng for Australia on holidav with her two children.
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  • 21 575 Health Officer r M q n umcer. m. b. is going on leave in the near future.
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  • 698 575 SLASHING victory Ffli the C. R. C *>• CRICKET CuiTwELL BEAR, The League Cricket match Esplanade on Saturday Penang Cricket Club arkGhe fl’ Recreation Club ended in a sl»t' tory for the Chinese by in one innings match. e decisive victory achieved bv a Penang
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  • 18 576 will be leaving Ipoh for Home this week on a brief visit.
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  • 43 576 is announced of Mr. Khoo Soo Chye of The Malaya Company Limited, eldest son of Mr. Mrs Khoo Chin Hin to Miss Khaw Phaik Hong, eldest daughter of Mr. Mrs. Khaw Joo Jeang. The marriage will take place time this month.
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  • 38 576 his Lordship the Bishop Nunes of «nd of the Roman Catholic DioStraits Settlements recently brated the silver jubilee of his ortion. H. E. The Governor of Ma- amongst the thousands who the ceremony.
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  • 159 576 Inni r ,XJCas ’°n of the transfer of t 7/ t ie J? akar chief clerk of the Disax tv t Endings, to take up duties t r hlel Ck *k of the Co-operat ve Dell P C n P enan ID place of Air. T. Bal<<
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  • 1872 576 CHINESE GIRL’S C0M= PLAINT A preliminary enquiry was held yesterday morning al the butterworth Police Court, before Mr. Ward, Police Magistrate, in connection with the case in which he Pain bin Mat, a Malay Sub Inspector of Police stationed at Bukit Mertajam, was charged with
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  • 422 578 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, There is a rumour current that the Council of the League of Nations had sanctioned to commission an investigation into the question of opium smoking in the Far East. This commentary is of the most vital importance, more especially to
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  • 331 578 i WOLF, LAMB AND cn, I I FOLlCYracK*' I 1 As every sound minded i I Japan has been encroach I China especially Manchuria X, I is putting every ounce of I and capital on the strategic I of railways. This railway W 1 I be regarded
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  • 102 578 (I > the Editor of the Straits Ecb». In your recent issue you advocated in the interest of the public the nece ty for the suppression of unnecessary n in Penang. Now indiscriminate g ners are out again shooting during the hours normally ev slumber. This nuisance g
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  • 23 578 > jl jg jf. Mr. W. C. Taylor, aU ficiallv announced, has p na ng to act as Second Magistrate,
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  • 25 578 j S. u It is understood that J penary Arthur, Acting District Ju g leave early will be proceeding home < next year.
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  • 771 579 A Big a wi er in a Siamese of China is abou' (XXhtXAn !i makes aiaimmg Odingas experts slate that the iLarth nl y maintain a population ol strenuously upholding ntw in a determination to keep zj quieter. Paris is considering a L of campaign to the
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  • 519 579 subscription LIST NO. 20 Amount previously aeknow-!'-<lgt d 97,817.66 Asiatic Staff of 1’he Georgetown Municipality, Penang 215.00 Staff ol Messrs. Sandilands, Buttery Company, Penang 31.00 The Chin Choo <<■ Crew of s.s. Trang 90.00 1 he hin hoo A Crew of s.s. van Hoorn 30.00 The
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