The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 11 June 1930

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo Weekly (Mail) Edition. I PER ANNUM SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. 01.28 PENANG, JUNE 11. 1930. No. 23.
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    • 275 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. OUTSTATION NEWS. Forty In Riots At Seletas 456 Kelantan 456 New Headmaster 458 The Press 460 In Kuala Lumpur 458 Happy Returns.' 462 Coconut Tree Crashes 459 I Astute 464 Brief List Of Honours For Penang Port 472 Malaya 464 Alleged Seditious Articles 470 The “Burgenland’ Remains East
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    • 143 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day prior to the depar* ture of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading •nd special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, post free to any part of
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  • 689 456 KELANT AN. It is an interesting comment ary a the peaceful character of the people of Kelantan that for a portion of 300,000 the amount ‘of discovered serious crime” in 1929 was almost negligible. Those who urge for the development of ireas that economically and educatonally are backward can never
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  • 383 456 CHINESE KILLED A N I) INDIAN’S H E A 1) SERIOUSLY INJURED. A charge of rioting will be preferred against Chinese and Indians, who fought at the Singapore Naval Base. (brom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, May 31. One man was killed and another badly injured
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  • 968 457 —S.F.P. BEHIND SCENES IN THE WORLDS HUB. Cheers, Ramsay is in. And what a majority. Yes, that means Labour is leading the Tories by nine seats. Another Liberal loss. Hullo Megan Lloyd George in. What? Another Conservative ‘certainty’ gone? Gentlemen, England is safe —Stanley returned with a
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  • 414 457 perambulator, motob Cli AND HEARSE. jUB ae 4 I have seen printed in some or other the various human life from the childhood to the day whenthTj* taker is called in to perform his j sional duties. The writer of this ml cular paragraph expresses himtelf. transport. Childhood
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  • 139 458 JAMIL CLAIMS THE E. O. AS "MINE". Tamil who thinks t ha> h> t 0 the that h J?of the E. <f- o. Hotel ZTi' Sarhiee. L q young Tamil, who was Penang Police Court yeseharged at the renai K rd»y baore Mr n A E 0 Hotel ~-iIM trespass
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  • 102 458 The “Straits Echo” understands on good authority that Mr. E. de La Mothe Stowell, headmaster of the High School, Bukit Mertajam, will leave Province at the end of June to assume the headmastership of the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Stowell, who is in his thirties, is a
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  • 119 458 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June This morning at the King’s birthday four companies of the M.S.V IL. H T., two from the InU? Po ,ce two from the Malay nee and one of Cadets were on the Chief Secretary, the '■l’lifp Cochrane took the che
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  • 403 458 “KING” LEAVES BED OF SICKNESS. Miss Ruth Johnston is to be congratulated with her charges, the Cambridge students of the Anglo-Chinese Girls’ school, Penang, who on Saturday gave a remarkable production of King Henry V. The young actresses, several of whom showed unmistakable acting character. were
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  • 435 458 PENANG MAN ACCUSED OF THEFT. A Penang scene when a man fan away and came through a house. Lim Kheng Seng who deci..red himself to be a maker of mule uni female slippers, was the complainant in a ease vesUt'day at the Penang Police Court when
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  • 385 459 REFLOATS AFTER REMOVAL OF CARGO. The “Burgenland," which ran aground off Port Swettenham last Saturday, has been refloated. The s.s. “Burgenland” owned by the Hamburg-Arnerika Line, left Penang last Friday afternoon on her way to Port Swettenham. All went well that night and at day break
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  • 106 459 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. June 6. Shortly after 5 p.m. columns of smoke, issuing from the roof, brought a large crowd to Belfield Street where it was found that Caxton Press was well ablaze. The Fire Brigade arrived in six minutes’ time and attempted to put
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  • 112 459 The Chinese branch of the Penang Y.W.C.A. is establishing a cookery class and a child welfare class for local Chinese women and girls. Lessons will be given once a week under qualified teachers. Each course will be for about three months, and Chinese and English will be used
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  • 162 459 (From Our Own Correspondent.) B utter wort h, Fri da y. Much havoc was caused on Wednesday when a Chinese shop at Sungei Dhuraka, Province Wellesley, was damaged by a coconut tree which fell on.it. There was no loss of life, as some people outside the shop
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  • 405 459 At the eighteenth annual C( no > i meeting of the Penang Hindu Sabha he c at the Sabha with V, Nadasam Pillay J.P., 1 sident in the chair, the following offiT bearers were elected for the enZ year Messrs. Nadasam PiHav J J President (Re-elected); C.
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  • 547 460 THE PRESS importance is now attached J BS throughout the world L'perhaps at anv tin»- m its ,nd it is »<>' surprising libaMb leaders of British Li,tre. arts and the protessions (ri Ml ,e represented With -embers the Government at the luiietions w be held in honour of the deletes
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  • 273 460 His Highness I uan Syed Alwi, C.8.E., Rajah of Perlis, who 's at present staying in Penang, visited the St. Xavier’s Institution. Penang on Wednesday. His Highness, who was accompanied by his Suite, was received b\ (he Rev. Brother Janies, O B E.. Visito-- of
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  • 412 460 .1 Gn man steamer which left Penang on Friday ran into a bank off Port Swettenham during the week-end. lhe German steamer Burgenland, belonging to the Hamburg— Arnerika Line. which Ifl Penang last Friday afternoon lor Port Swettenham and Singapore, met with a mishap causing considerable
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  • 1145 461 NEVER SEEN ANYONE HANDLED AS I WAS.” Serious allegations against the good faith of members of the Penang Police Force were made by an ex-Railway Policeman. An interesting case in which an exrailway policeman was charged with n scuing a prisoner from legal custody was
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  • 260 461 Subramaniam, a Hindu devotee living in the temple at Waterfall Road. was sentenced to twenty-one days’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Police Court yesterday when he was accused of begging for alms at King Edward VII Place at 9.40 a.m. on
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  • 822 462 thrones were and c were falling over a decade were eome who prophethat the King-Emperor would vanning those who would >n the of a few years return to pngfe, or perhaps become the first of the Brttish Repubhe. put the prophets were disappointjis due to some extent to
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  • 236 462 Tke story of the chase uf an alleged thief in Penang. "Criminal trespass with intent to commit an offence” was the charge preferred against Ahamad, an Indian Mahomedan at the Penang Police Court yesterday when a bunch of orchids, which were alleged to have
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  • 185 462 The Malayan Air Services seaplane is to remain in Penang for another few days. Messrs. William Jacks and Co., (Malaya) Ltd., Penang, secretaries and agents for the Malayan Air Services Ltd., announce that during the prolonged stay of the seaplane at Penang, the machine will be
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  • 759 463 At eight a.m. to-day Penang celebrates the birthday of the King-Em prior. .A special parade of Penang Volunteers. policemen, and cadets is being bfld this morning at the Polo < iround honour of the 05th birthday of His The King. six hundred men in all
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  • 628 463 Jssaqaa u'litlv (Irani, characters and t? Phere which strikes nherever the scene is laid. TheS IS oi secondary consideration an( ending unsatisfactory. R p I"'® fashion to end a book "in th e °A and Ihe Noble Error” is no exception I he
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  • 755 464 will be no surprise at of the oreat.on British Ministry to k* *2 Dominion affairs- lor toe it has been obvious to “Lts of the political situation J Empire that the old arrangea the colonial Office workLinthe Colonies as well us the Unions was not entirely satisThe old rĕgime
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  • 447 464 C.M.G. FOR CHIEF SECRETARY. There are only a few Malayan names in the list of honours conferred by the King on the occasion of His Majesty’s birth» day. The principal of the honours conferred upon people in Malaya in the King’s birthday list is
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  • 1813 465 MR. HAM ON LOSSES. RAILWAY TICKETS “FOR VISITORS.” Mr. G. L. Ham’is administration report for 1929 as President of the George Town Municipal Commissioners says (in part). Mr. Hani states that the view of the Comnrssioners is that the most important and most pressing problem to be faced
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  • 1084 466 LARGEST MALAYAN COLLECTION FOR THE LONDON ZOO. (EXCLUSIVE TO THE STRAITS ECHO. Without ostentation, a large Zoo passed, through Penang yesterday, to fill out specimens of Malayan fauna in London: it was the largest collection that has singly left the Far East. G.A.T.R. writes:
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  • 280 467 S. X. R. C. DEFEAT U. I. A. The St. Xavier’s Recreation Club met the United Indians at home last evening and defeated them by three goals to nil. The play on the whole was slow and unsteady, both sides putting up a poor show. The Indian
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  • 1000 467 COMMERCIAL SCHOOL'S ANNUAL DINNER IN PENANG. A thought provoking speech was delivered by the Resident Councillor, Penang, at a dinner on Saturday. The annual reunion dinner of the old boys of the Penang Government Commercial Day School was held in the F.
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  • 296 468 BATHING by CHONG SENG. Fret School ground on Saturthe Penang Free School Xasier’s Institution by an Scores «e as follows: St Xavier’s Innings. 22 to Williams run not < (W Loke run out ‘tap lbw Ah he u Sang Ouan c Teik Lee b
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  • 426 468 P.C.C, HELP SUNGEI PATANI. The Sungei Patani cricket team having arrived five short a scratch match was played on the Esplanade yesterday, the P.C.C. supplying the shortage Anthony and Boyd played well for Knight’s team and for “The Rest” Pinhey had a breezy knock which realised 58. In
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  • 253 468 PRIVATE SEAPLANE’S QUICK JOURNEY. A private seaplane flew front Bort Swettenham to Penang in two hours and ten minutes. Mr. Loke Man Y’at, who flew from Port Swettenham in a gypsy moth seaplane piloted by Mr. W. H. Phillips, landed
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  • 133 468 The Boatmen gained a victory over the Eastern Smelting eleven in a game of soccer at the Renong ground. Play at the beginning was confined to the Eastern Smelting area. Shortly after the kick off, the Boatmen netted and. though their opponents were very aggressive, the
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  • 538 469 PENANG CHINESE AND A DEBTOR The mother who was buying an omnibus for her Penang son. Because the driver of a bus owed him money, Lee Hock Beng, a young Hokkien, admitted stealing a tyre and a tube together with some accessories, worth $lB, at
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  • 418 469 YOING CHINESE DROWNED WHEN BATHING The story of a tragic ending to a Penang seaside picnic party. At the Penang Police Court on Saturday ;-.n inquiry into the death of a young Cantonese who was drowned when bathing, was held by Mr. A.
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  • 277 469 A DIVIDEND OF >2lO Kuala Lump., Jme lollowuig the previous day’, L rani, the course was in exctlU., dition, also the fields and attend tor ui spite of the public bolidunu was an extra attraction in ‘,2’ race marking the King’s birthdiv. mile and a quarter
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  • 1250 470 KNIGHT’S GOOD BOWLING. INSUFFICIENT FIELDING PRACTICE. By “Vulcan.” So the tables were turned on '‘The Best' on Tuesday and I say h t artily, Bravo the P. C. C. 1 They won by live jricfets but should really have won by ten. Knight’s strategy towards the
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  • 131 470 IPOH MAN BAILED. (From Our Own Corn spundent) Ipoh, June 4 Two Chinese, who were recently arrested in connection with the publication and printing of an alleged seditious article, were 1 produced in Court and remande.d. An application h»r the reduction of bail Was made on behalf
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  • 502 471 —G.A.T.R. NOVICES ADMITTED TO ORDER OF SISTERS. “FORGETTIN g and FORGOTTEN BY THE W 0 R L D. Nine girls who yesterday vowed in Penang to live on, “forgetting and forgotten by the world.” A simple yet impressive ceremony was witnessed at the Convent Chapel,
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  • 418 471 A story of slippers in Penang with a Court sequel. “Fraudulent possession of property, to wit one pair of slippers and one sarong” was the charge preferred against Low Siew Kee at the Penang Police Court vesterdav before Mr. A. D. York. Low Siew Kee claimed trial
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  • 409 471 impressive parade scenes. The Penang ceremony com ™™°Tatmg the 6t>th drthL of Hie Majesty the King a most impressive one. The significance of the day M lost on the enormous crowd that i t gathered on the Polo Ground had the March Past of the grand
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  • 839 472 a short time a conterence Lanble in Penang once again feeuss the P‘“ s f r the w ,it of the port. It is so ong X the original move was made subsequent gatherings held. the public mind may be shgl Ll "to tbe ,ssues t JJussed by
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  • 454 472 A Penang telegraph peon yesterday accused local policemen of assault. A Telegraph peon named Raja Manickam was sentenced to twenty-one days’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. A. D. York at the Penang Police Court yesterday, when he was charged with possessing a small hatchet, which
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  • 954 473 DREDGES “TUNED UP.” LEAN AND COMPANY'S REPORT. Thursday Evening. Since our last Report of 23rd ultimo. Tin has developed further weakness having reached the low level of £135 for Spot and £136.17.6 for 3 months forward, but closes to-day firmer at £137 ]os. Ready and £139.10.0
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  • 387 473 FAILS TO REFLOAT AFT EB removal of cargo 'lhe German steamer "JU aland is still aground off p u lau Angsa, near Port Sweden ham. News of the grounding of the genland was reported exclusively in f June 3 > when it wy
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  • 597 474 SPORTS AND A DINNED. Kidah celebrated the King s Birthday in WW stVl<l- Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, June 4 Unr Star was en fete yesterday in Xtions of the sixty-fifth birthday 7h M the King. Proceedings cornfeed at the Balai Besar, where, 9 a.ni.,
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  • 259 474 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. June 7. The Colony versus F.M.S. tennis tourney began this evening ou the Selangor Club courts at 3 p.rn. Shortly after, however, play ceased owing to rain. Three doubles matches were started but were not finished. Kleinman and Roy Smith played Hewett
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  • 509 474 SOON THEAM CO. Penang, June 6. The price of rubber declined to 6 5/16d. to-day which is a new low level. Rubber shares have been practically neglected with the exception of a few counters. In the absence of sellers, the good class shares keep fairly steady while the speculative issues
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  • 601 475 A.A.ANTHONY CO. DAILY SHARE LIST. Penang, June 12th, 1930. Name of Company Buyers Seller Tin—Dollab Companies cts Scu Ayer Weng Baton? Pa Jan? LI 3 2'ln Batu Ca-. es 0.55 0.60 Hitam 0.35 37j Johan <— 0«32 0.34 Kinta M 4 I*l6 Klang Rivers 2-174 2.15 Kuchal 1.15 1.17 Kuyoh
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  • 583 475 [To the Editor of tbb StßjlTs Sir, While paseing al ong Kel e: U>e other evening my attention ,2 drawn to a rather unu. ua l sighf-J? that Penang residents rarely hiv/T opportunity to enjoy. On Jhe padang of the residence of the Ifejn See Kiew Lye, scores of
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