Malacca Guardian, 7 January 1929

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  • 16 1 MALACCA GUARDIAN (PUBLISHED WEEKLY). I MALACCA, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929. SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS. N§. 1.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 461 1 try the Lcca Guard an MALACCA WEEKLY AS AN iERTISING MEDIUM > FOR RATES, f RITE TO THE MANAGER. A if AIL-Lst I I I KIAtE 8 TRUST AGENCIES (1927) LIMITED. ft if*' '> > A Trust Company Registered under the Trust Companies’ Ordinance W /U) c/mOfiSSS. 4 A >
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    • 36 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) 3 MONTHS $l.OO G 2.00 12 4.00 FOR PLACES OUTSIDE MALACCA TOWN, ADD 25 CENTS,'* 50 CENTS, $1 RESPECTIVELY FOR POSTAGE. FOR POSTAGE TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES PLEASE DOUBLE THE ABOVE AMOUNTS.
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  • 108 2 There will be four competitors in the Schneider Trophy seaplane race this year—Great Britain, Italy, France and the United States. The American entry was cabled shortly before midnight, when the list closed. In 1927 the race was between Great Britain and Italy only, and Flight-Lieut. Webster brought the
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  • 879 2  -  A PLEA FOR COMMON SENSE G. P. Davis, f.r.h.s. Special to the Malacca Guardian) Malaya has been modelled and influenced by a certain t y J “li Ceylon methods of agriculture and to-day is following Ceylon’s exam pie, as typified by the agricultural makeshifts of such planters as
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1775 2 Beatrice Football f.ompMilion No M li' advertisements. $9,000 IN PRIZES /jsj£\ Good n ,isl IS OFFERED FOE f COMMERCIAL 10 MATCHES ONLY 10 CORRESPONDENCE > j I-earn to speak and write well. You j r, m J c an study at home in your spare time. English Cup batches to
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    • 213 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE. There will be a General Meeting of the Colts Athletic Team on Sunday, the 13th instant, at the premises of Mr. Tan Teck Chye, 213, Tranquerah Roacl, at 10 a.m. sharp Members are kindly requested to attend the meeting. TO LET. Compound Bungalow known as No. 2117 C.
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  • 596 3 W Are you a clock-watcher I asked the employer of the candi--1 date for a job. 1 No, I don’t like inside work,” 1 replied the applicant, without heat. 1 I’m a whistle listener.” 1 I Visitor How the 1 land lie out this way? I Native It
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  • 420 3 The 8.8. Kepong,” of tne S. S. Co., is due from Bangkok this week with a cargo of rice. The S. S. Co.’s s.s. Jeram will not put in at Malacca this week but will resume her former run between here and Penang next week. The Straits Steamship Company
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  • CHINA NEWS
    • 253 3 (Kuo Min News Agency). Following the discovery of several Communist ceils and the arrest of many Communists, the Changsha military authorities are taking extra precautions for the detection and capture of other Communists in the city who are attempting to incite the workers and ri sbanded
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    • 501 3 Following is translation of a mandate issued by tne State Coun- c Cli: i The purpose of appointing van- N ous public officers with specific c functions and duties is to entrust t them with the execution of ail rou-: j tine and special affairs of the j
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    • 156 3 KIANGAN CREW HELD. By order of tne State Council, the entire crew of the s.s. Kiangan,” aboard which was recently discovered the large shipment of opium that precipitated tlie opium i scandal involving the Military and Police authorities at Shanghai, I l with the exception of Captain < Stewart and
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    • 71 3 In a memorandum to the Central Party Headquarters, the Party Headquarters for the Special Municipality of Peiping proposes that an order be issued to all Mun cipa! Governments within the country instructing them to erect bronze or marble statues of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, tne Party's late Leader, in
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    • 86 3 A comprehensive program for the administration of affairs in connection with public health throughout the country has been submitted to tne Executive Yuan by Mr. Ilsueh Tuh-pi. Minister of Public Health. The program provides for the establishment of a Public Health Department m each of tne provinces. and
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    • 90 3 General Feng Yu-hsiang, Commander of the Second Group Army and concurrently Minister-of War, gave a reception to his staff officers of the Second Group Army at the cafetana of tne officers’ Moral Endeavour Society, his body-guards and driver all eating at the same table. In the course of
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    • 114 3 A total of fourteen radio broadcasting and receiving stations at various important centres of the country have been constructed by the National Reconstruction Com-mittee-since the organization of the Radio Department of the Committee. according to a spokesman of the Committee in a statement to •the Kuo Min
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    • 51 3 The remains of Gl4 Chinese who cued in Oregon between 1906 ant 1921 will snortiy be snipped aboard the s.s. Alabama to Hong Kong, to rest with their ancestors —in order to attain peace and contentment —according to the Chinese benevolent association whicn is financing the
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    • 46 3 It nas been decided to reduce tne Shanghai Defence Force to the strength of one infantry brigade ot four battalions and ancillary troops. The First South Wales Borderers wiU therefore not proceed from Egypt to China as arranged in the schedule of reliefs.
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    • 62 3 A ghastiy sight greeted the eyes of New York police who were called to investigate a strong escape of gas, when tney burst in the door of a small flat and found seven members of one family dead. One had apparently been overcome by tiie fumes
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    • 52 3 An influenza epidemic is sweeping the United States. Over half a million cases have already been reported. The health authorities, who are already very busy in this connection, are further alarmeo by the discovery that a number of cases of influenza have been followed by
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    • 29 3 The Graf Zeppelin’s round the world flight is tentatively scheduled as late in summer, via Siberia, Tokyo, and America. Passengers and mails will be carried.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 117 3 RIALTO THEATRE. I Showing together with the iatest Fred Thomson stunt picture at the Riaito Theatre to-night, is Ai Wil- son in The Sky Skidder,” a thril- i iing air drama abiaze with stunts. In tne first show is’ Tne Trail of the Tiger,” episodes 5 and 6, together with
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  • RECENT NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
    • MONDAY.
      • 217 4 TURNING POINT IN ANGLOCHINESE RELATIONS. The text of the new Treaty of Commerce with China, by which Great Britain agrees to Chinese tariff autonomy, and by which most-favoured-nation treatment is secured for me goods of both countries, is now r published in the new spapers. Delay in
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      • 228 4 L. appears from official information received that the British Legation at Kabul Was under constant gun and rifle fire during the heavy fighting between Afghan rebels and Afghan regular troops, as it happened to be in the line ot fire between the opposing forces. The British military
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      • 107 4 A serious split within the Indian National Congress, between delegates who aim at Dominion status and others aiming at complete independence, has now been mended by the adoption of a compromise resolution upon which the leaders agree, by a vote of 118 to 45. Subject to the
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      • 88 4 The Evening News states that a King’s messenger met the Olympic,” on her arrival at Southampton from New York and received from the purser a small packet containing special drugs for use in connection with the King’s illness. The packet contained the socalled Dakin’s solution,
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    • TUESDAY.
      • 87 4 PAUL LECA'i BECOMES TOTAL LOSS. The Paul Lecat,” one of the best known passenger steamers of the Messageries Maritjrfie Far Eastern service, has been completely burnt out in a fire at Marseilles which lasted all day. All internal fittings were destroyed and only the shell plating and
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      • 84 4 A scheme is being worked out at New 7 York to establish a special department of the Stock Exchange to trade in securities of rubber companies. The scheme tentatively provides for the listing of British, Dutch, and other stocks at present not deait in. on
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      • 77 4 Ten million U. S. dollars, the residue of the estate of the late Charles Hall, father of aluminium,” w 7 ill be distributed among twenty-one higher educational institutions in the Far E&stt, including the American College and the Allababad Agricultural Institute in India and the following
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      • 61 4 Wireless telephony with the Dutch East Indies will be opened to the Dutch public on Jan. 8. The Queen-Mother, on Jan. 7, will converse with the Governor-General’s wife, who will convey the congratulations of the Dutch East Indies to the women who contributed to the gift
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      • 52 4 Owing to the sudden speii of very cold weather, especially in the eastern border districts, large numbers of wolves are ravaging Russia. Peasants and cafctfe are repeatedly attacked. Six deaths have occurred in the Vilna disrrict and two men engaged in smuggling from Lithuania w 7 ere
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      • 57 4 Manchurian leaders headed by General Chang Hsueh-liang announced that in accordance with the last will of Marshal Chang Tsolin they have decided to accept Sun Yat-sen’s three principles and also to submit to the authority of the Nationalist Government as a token of which the White Sun fag
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      • 41 4 The Washington State Department has transmitted a draft pact to the Chinese Minister to serve as basis for the arbitration treaty. China is the last nation represented in Washington to be offered the Pact by Mr. Kellogg.
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    • WEDNESDAY.
      • 299 4 DUAL CONTROL LEADS CHIEF TO RESIGN. Mr. Edwardes, Officiating Inspec-tor-General of Customs has officially informed Reuter that his resignation has been handed to the Finance Minister. The translation of the despatch from Mr. Edwardes to the Finance Minister is as follows: The firgt essential in efficient working of
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      • 162 4 The Manchester Guardian,” commenting on the developments in Manchuria, does not think that actually the authority of the Nanking Government there is likely for many years to exceed that of a vaguely recognized suzerain power. Nevertheless Chang Hsueh Liang’s formal hoisting of the Nationalist colours has shown unheard
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      • 73 4 The 2nd Suffolks Regiment has embarked from Shanghai for India aboard the Neuralia. They had the heartiest of send offs. The band of the 4th Regiment of U.S. Marines played off the transport, which is also taking a half battalion of the Northants to Malta and 150
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    • THURSDAY.
      • 317 4 HUGE INCREASE IN CUSTOMS REVENUE. The Inspector-General of Chinese Customs announces: The Customs revenue for 1928 totals 82,332,000 Hai Kuan taels, an increase of 13,597,000 compared with 1927. The average exchange was 2s. 11 l/16d., showing a total of £12,028,000, compared with an exchange of 2s. 9 13/16d.
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      • 166 4 DOMINION STATUS INSISTED UPON. The Indian National Congress has passed Mahatma Gandhi’s resolution, declaring that if the British Government by the end of 1929 does not accept the entire dominion status constitution drafted by the Nehru Committee the Congress will organise a non-co-operation movement, including the non-payment of
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      • 68 4 It is estimated that wealthy Americans last year donated a record total of $2,230,000,000 to different educational, scientific, religious and other causes. The list comprises nearly 500 individual gifts of a million dollars or over. The largest benefactions came from the millionaire sportsman, the late Mr. Payne
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    • FRIDAY.
      • 147 4 TURKISH GREYBEARDS STUDY NEW ALPHABET. A remarkable spectacle is being witnessed in Turkey, tne whole nation going back to school. Men and women, old and young, are peremptorily summoned to the classroom to learn the new Latin alphabet. Even greybeards snuffle along ti revive youthful memories, and
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      • 156 4 Hankow’s Municipal Council, governing Wuhan, Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, has taken over the administration of the former Russian and German Concessions, removing the archives to the native city, which action removes the areas from the authority of the Sino-Foreign Councils, which, have governed the areas since they
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      • 67 4 It is reported from Para, Brazil, that workers, on the ground that their wages are insufficient, are leaving Henry Ford’s rubber plantations, which are intended “to wrest tne rubber monopoly from ne British.” The Chief of Poiice in Para is stated to be investigating the allegations of
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      • 66 4 The under-writing has been arranged for tne new India Government ioan of £10.000,000 in 4f o per cent 1958 68 stock.. The issue price will be 91 per cent. The new issue constitutes the largest overseas loan for some time, and as the money raised is largely
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      • 58 4 All. Parker Gilbert, AgentGenerai for Reparations, is in no way popular since tne publication of his annual report portraying the i osy condition ol tne German economic situation, which the newspapers unanimously affirm is unjustified and unfair, because it is likely to create an erroneous impression in
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    • SATURDAY.
      • 142 4 GENERAL BOOTH INFORMED OF REBELLION. Aji official announcement issued from tiie Salvation Ai'my headquarters stated tftat tne doctors considered General Booth now strong enough to be informed o: the convocation of the High Couecii, without any very grave risk to his health. Mrs. Booth and his eldest daughter,
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      • 100 4 German labour, while recognimg the reparations obligation, objects to working be'ovv the lev/ of civilised existence.” is the con ment of the Socialist nevvspape Vorwaerts.” This is symptom* tic of the temper aroused by th report of Mr. Parker Gilber Agent-General for Reparations. The organ of Dr.
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      • 88 4 Explaining the suspension of ex--1 perimentai flights by Dutch aerojplanes to and from tne Dutch East Indies, an official statement points out that the machines must use certain military aerodromes in Iraq, and tnat tne increased number of I civilian fights caused too much inconvenience. Therefore the
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      • 94 4 An authoritative review of the King’s iiiness, published in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal” concludes: “Despite the King’s exhaustion and much weariness of mind, as well as of body, through the increasing sens»' of the burden of nis iiiness, the will of the King to live
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      • 79 4 A 100 mile an noil gale, accompanied by tidal waves *as swept the north-west coast Jnpan destroying and washing away hundreds of houses in the v, ist villages of Nicata Prefecture. Fiftysix persons were kino i()l eS were injured. Telegraphic and ten m i v c on
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      • 72 4 The three-engined F f j." niane Question M; 'K-" 'vent aioft at Los Air.reles o, 111 1. ’s stiii flying at last re at K V several refuellings i l !lt> p means of a hosepipe from an aeroplane flying overhead. It has been demonstrated that
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  • 3306 5 r [The Malacca Guardian does not necesi sarily endorse the opinion of its correspondents, J I An Impression. I All Malaya Indian Conference at I ipoh. 1 To the Editor of the ft Malacca Guardian.” ■Dear Jb n, 3 The All Malaya Indian Confer■ence held at Ipoh during Amas»weeK
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  • 373 5 PRESIDENT CHIANG KAI-SHEK ADDRESSES AGITATORS. At Nanking on December 13 an anti-Japanese mob got out of liana ana did some damage at tne residence of Dr. C. T. Wang, as already reported in tnese columns. •President Chiang Kai-snek, upon being informed }nat the paraders were proceeding to the
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  • 319 5 “MEMBERS OF INDIAN FAMILY” SAYS COL. GIDNEY. Cease to look upon yourselves as a superior class of beings. You are but one of the peoples of India, members of the great Indian family. You ought to be proud of your motherland, India, the same as you should
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  • 837 6 The termination of the hiconceived policy of restriction, designed to bolster up a wrongful method of uc\ pn ent of British Colonial Possessions and Protectorates, necessitates new plans for tropical agrici. viirai expansion here in Malaya. As Mr. Parry Davis has so. logical«y pointed out in his
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  • 315 6 Some of the papers of Mai ay a are very mueii disturbed over the j Rubber Research Institute's delay in sending them the last quarterly journal of the Institute and at a letter signifying that the Institute wishes to cease its subscription to these papers. Having been guilty
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  • 265 6 The trustees of the Howell Memorial Scholarship Fund, Messrs. Loh Kim Swi, A. J. Minjoot and Teoh Bong Leong, are about to start a fresh campaign for tne completion of the fund, to the credit of which there is already a total of over $2,400 in tne Government
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  • 224 6 At tne last meeting of tne Municipal Commissioned s tne Municipal Engineer applied for an additional building inspector and peon, saying that at a previous meeting tne solitary inspector had been refused a travel allowance for the upkeep of his car and had sold it and
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  • 139 6 There is said to exist in Malacca tne same lack of interest in the oiunteer Corps for which larger centres of the Colony are famed, though with the much fewer c versions here one would naturally suppose that volunteering, with its recreational side, its instructive and disciplinary fea T
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  • FROM OTHER PENS.
    • 253 6 prove wise as well as just?—“The Malayan Saturday Post.” We have a real respect for Sir Laurence Guiilemard, our former Governor and High Commissioner even though we do not subscribe to quite the same views in some matters. t)ne point in which we diffei with him is in
      prove wise as well as just?—“The Malayan Saturday Post.”  -  253 words
    • 211 6 quite recent years.—“ The Straits Times.” Commenting upon the rapid emancipation of Chinese women from the semi-purdah status in which they remained, until the overthrow of the Manchus, a Hongkong contemporary recalls that less than 20 years ago it was s till unusual to see a Chinese woman
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  • 114 6 As wili be seen in our advertising columns, the Government is now railing for tenders for the new High School, to be ere-.-ted in Chan Koon Cheng Road. I tlUb this valuable addition to tne educational institutions of Malacca makes an important step uearei realisation. Another advertisement
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
    • WEDDING BELLS.
      • 281 7 H l^lliarn ai'v look place at 139, s irtM l on Monday last, 01 X( nK run, the second son n and Mrs. Cnan Kang Swi, ft fH ac ca and Miss Tan Lai |JH, ne sixtn daughter of Mr. lan
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      • 164 7 iKt St. Peter’s Church, Bunga |Sa, the marriage of Miss ViruSa Jennie Pereira, daughter ol Kf and Mrs. George Pereira and B|er of Lance-Corporal Horatio Weira, a skilled marksman now the Singapore Volunteer Mps, with Mr. Peter Francis jHnes, son of the late Mr. N. J.P., was solemnised, on
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      • 116 7 WILLIAMS —FELSINGER. I At Christ Church on Wednesday rning, the marriage of M IS ivHis B. Felsinger and Mr. Eric Williams (accountant with it* Borneo Motor Garage) was Tmnised by tile Rev. H. Jutchinson, the local Chaplain, r. I). Day, of the Asiatic Petrouin i'o., was bestman and Miss A
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    • 326 7 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING IN MALACCA CLUB. On Sunday, Dec. 30, a special general meeting of the Malacca Hanters'*Association was held in the Malacca Club. Those present were: Messrs. H. E. Nixon (Chairman), M. MacKenzie, F. E. Gearing, E. S. Giles, G. Grant, A. S. Simpson, A. McKenzie,
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    • 142 7 The attention of parents is drawn to the following regulations relating to the English Schools: The year’s work commences in every case early in January and all intending pupiis should enter school on the advertised date of opening, January 14. There are some parents who keep their children
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    • 124 7 The Malacca branch of the S.C.B.A. has withdrawn the petition asking for executive clemency in the case of Mr. Tan Kam Choon, in view of the more or less irregular way in which the petition was started and at tne suggestion of Mr. Tan Kam Choon’s family
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    • 150 7 APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE AT MALACCA CLUB. Mr. Fred. Coyne’s Comedy Company was able to give Malacca an extra night and so appeared at the Malacca Club rather by surprise one day earlier than it was expected. However, the Company had an audience of about seventy, which was enthusiastically
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    • 454 7 A paragraph has been appearing ni me xviaiayan tress to tne eiit-cc mat me lion, lan L neng Lock was among me passengers recently arriving in Singapore trom riong ivong by a lioit liner, mis was an error as ivir. lan Cheng Lock was in Singapore at
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    • 546 7 ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION IN MALACCA. From Malacca conies a grievance ciiismg out oi me aistincuon made between a Chinese ana a Malay convict by the colonial prison authorities, says Tne Pinang Gazette.” these two men were each sentenced at the iast Malacca Assizes to three years’ rigorous imprisonment
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    • 70 7 The following is from The Malaya Tribune Pro Bono Publico sends a letter, which cannot be published because of the suggestions made in it. regarding tlie projected Ayurvedic Hospital at Malacca. Questioning the value of such an institution, he concludes: “There are Government Hospitals, with qualified doctors.
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    • 440 7 RAIN FAILS TO DISCOURAGE MEMBERS. An unfortunate and long continued shower which began just prior to the hour for the opening of the Malacca Indian Club’s new premises at 185, Lorong Panjang, on Saturday afternoon, failed to dampen the ardour of the members and their friends, who turned
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    • 193 7 The Chinese flag was strongly in evidence in Malacca on New Year’s Day. Christ Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church both had watch night services on New Year’s Eve, the latter beginning at 11 p.m. and the former at 11.30, At tne Methodist Church a missionary from
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    • 612 7 CHRIST CHURCH HOLDS ANNUAL EVENT. The annual Christmas tree of Christ Churcn was held at tne Malacca Club on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. R. C. Gould usual being tne organiser. All tne children connected with the Church, of various nationalities but chiefly European, were there in costume, much ingenuity
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 1319 8 TEST CRICKET.” ENGLAND EXULTANT. Australia’s Admirable Attempt. (Special to the Guardian.") With the marathon match in progress on the beautiful Melbourne ground, the crisis in the present series of Tests has been reached. Australia has to win the current fixture to prevent the friendly foe from definitely claiming the rubber
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    • 154 10 Singaporeans Beaten by Malacca at Bickley Park. On the tennis courts of the Methodist Mission at Bickley Park, on Monday afternoon, a party of three young men representing the India-Ceylon Club of Singapore, who have been touring the peninsula, met more than their match in three of the local
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    • 78 10 A correspondent who writes a special weekly letter for the Malayan Tribune,” Malayans at Home,” hints that Betty Xuthall, the English tennis star, may not take part in the Riviera tournament as she and her mother may take a pleasure trip to Singapore. If this trip
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    • 139 10 lan Tan Party heat Chan Ah Yin’s Partv. A match was played between the Tan Tan Badminton Party and Chan Ah Yin’s Party on the former’s court on the 6th instant, and resulted in the former winning four games put of six. Result (T.T.B.P. players mentioned first). Singles. 1.
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    • 182 10 MALACCA VOLUNTEER CORPS B.R.A. SPOON SHOOT. The foliowing were the results of the spoon snoot of the Malacca Volunteer Corps 8.R.A., which was held on the Bukit Sebukor range on Dec. 29: Net Handicap Khoo Ktm Lian 84 87 Leyman 82 96.29 Kow Liang Chye 61 79 M. A.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • AROUND THE COURTS.
    • 1073 9 PI VNTATION CLERK FAILS fo PROVE CASE. I j n civil District Court on ■nursuay, before Mr. G. C. Doucl, mr. A. J. Davids, formerly chief K-rk for the Batang Malacca R.ubK estate, sued the Consolidatec. lubber Estates, Ltd., proprietors! B Taiang Malacca, for $223.50. Kit ued
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    • 134 9 Thiee Chinese women had a violent disagreement on Goldsmith Street on Sunday evening and appeared before the Police Alagistiate on Monday iast. The first accysed said she saw the third fighting with some other women and advised her to go home. She got only a blow for her
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    • 103 9 A ricksha puller prosecuted another Chinese, who was formerly his landlord, in the District Court on Monday on a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by breaking his wrist with a broomstick. He stated that he had a quarrel with accused over a lamp. From words they went
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    • 248 9 Eighteen Chinese coolies were before Mr. Dodd on Wednesday on a charge of rioting. Inspector Shannon, who prosecuted, said that ne had been instructed to witndraw the charge against ail the Liuchiews, eight in number. A telephone linesman named Yacob said that on Dec. 4 at 5.20 p.m. he
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    • 163 9 Ong Chin Yam was prosecuted in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday on a charge of removing fifteen carloads of sand from the foreshore for use on ms premises at Kiebang. Accused denied tne charge, saying that the sand was removed by a Malay named Baba bin Ludin without
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    • 113 9 Five Chinese shopkeepers of Sungei Bahru appeared before Mr. Dodd on Thursday on charges of using tins with the figure of a milkmaid on them and the words Miikmaid Brand;” calculated to convey the impression that the goods were the manufacture of the Nestle and Angio-Swiss Milk
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    • 112 9 A ricksha puller naied another before the Magistrate (Air. Dodd) on Monday on a charge of taking $1.20 from his coat, which he had left in his ricksha. Accused claimed that it was a false charge on account of a. loan of forty certs he had made complainant
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    • 120 9 A Chinese spiritshop keeper was arrested by a detective on Wednesday on a charge of being a lunatic. [The detective fold the Magistrate on Thursday that the man ran from his shop shouting, Toiong,” and ran after motor-cars in the street. He seemed insane. The police
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    • 112 9 Mr. G. C. S. Rabjohn appeared before Mr. Dodd on Thursday as complaining witness against a Chinese buffalo cart driver who was accused of driving an overloaded cart. .Air. Rabjohn stated that the load was a very heavy one. not less than thirty hundred weight. In crossing
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    • 103 9 Khoo Tiam Hock, a Straits-born, English-speaking Chinese, was offered a position as mandor at $4O a month on a rubber plantation by a chetty in the District Court on Friday, when he put up a piea that he had been out of work for four months and therefore
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    • 79 9 Do you admit these six previous convictions?” asked the District Judge on Monday of a Chinese convicted of picking the pocket of another of a purse containing $7.35. I do but I have reformed,” replied accused. This doesn’t look like it,” remarked His Honour as he sentenced
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    • 198 9 A crippled Malay woman sat on a box in Mr. Dodd’s Court on Thursday to answer a charge of vagrancy. In a sash at her belt was a kitten. She denied that she was indigent, saying that she had a house at Bukit Asahan and supported herself by
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    • 500 9 PLEADS GUILTY TO CHEATING IN SINGAPORE. The fake doctor who visited Malacca a few weeks ago and was entertained by some of the leading Chinese here, and secured a valuable camera on credit from a local dispensary, has been caught in Singapore and pleaded guilty to a
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  • 573 9 CHILDREN S CHRISTMAS PARTY GIVEN. Jasin Club was tne scene of a most enjoyable party for tne children of members of the Club on Sunday, Dec. 30, at 4 p.m. Tnere were twenty-three chi kb ren present with their parents and triends, who were first treated to a
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 68 9 I N w Zealand Perpetual Forests :s L» T D M H (Incorporated in New Zealand). H Share Capital 2,142,500 I Paid up Capital 2,005,380 I Bonds sold exceed 25,000,000 8 3 H $214.40 payable in easy installments over four years, 8 j| approximate return 12 years $2,143.00. BRANCHES THROUGHOUT
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  • 416 10 ALARMING DEFICIT IN CHURCH FUNDS. A meeting of the Diocesan Council of Malaya was held at Bishopsbourne, Singapore, on Friday, December 28, with the Bishop of Singapore in the chair, at which the main business undertaken was the review of the financial position in 1928 and the sanction
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  • 44 10 The U.S. State Department has announced that an American-Cana-dian treaty has been signed for the construction of works on the Niagara River, in the neighbourhood of the Falls, to maintain and imnrove the scenic beauty" of the Falls and the rapids.
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  • 203 10 The following extraorfe story is from the PhilipsHerald, and indicates that in those islands is quite a d&s: religion from what it is hen else the reporter had his "Ik pulled wonderfully:— Moro inmates of Biiibid Prise: would not have their imprisonmer interfere with their religious ob. gat
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    • 242 10 PROPERTY SALE. At a sale held at the Sale-ro^ '3 of Messrs. Ching Keng Lee CoB Ltd., No. 15, Jalan Maharani, MuaJ the following properties were diJfl posed of. Lot No. 1. Land at Jalan Hashim, containing an area of 24.17 poles, comprised in Johore Government Grant No. 4121. Bought
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 216 10 RIALTO THEATRE. I PROGRAMMES. I From Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th Jan. 1929 From Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th Jan. 1929. 1 W At 9 3Q p ni At 9*30 p.m. Tg fit AL WILSON in IS I B.L. “THE SKY SKIDDER” R la th. tat,.t P.th. f A whi.*-.irj
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  • MALAYAN MATTERS OF MOMENT.
    • 760 11 I COMMENTS ON FAILURE OF THE TONGKOL r when a copy of the final report L n work of the Government Experimental trawler Tongjtol leaches the Pinang Gazette,” says that paper, we shall be surprised to find m it any lack of food for reflection. A brief
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    • 323 11 NO DIVIDEND OWING TO SMALL PROFITS. The annual general meeting of shareholders of the Alor Gajah Rubber Estate, Ltd., was held at the Secretaries’ offices, Messrs. Derrick Co., Hongkong Bank Budding, Singapore, on December 29. Mr. J. M. Sime presided, and was supported by Dr. E. G.
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    • 276 11 This week a new Chinese newspaper, under the style of the Sin Chew Jit Poh is to be published in Singapore. With a capital of $lOO,OOO, this new paper will be one of the largest Chinese dailies in Malaya. A number of printing machines, a large assortment
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    • 611 11 FESTIVE OCCASION AT KAMI’ONG MAI. AKA PI NT) A. On December 26. Inche Ahmad bin Abdul Rahman, formerly Assistant Inspector of Malay Schools, Malacca, and now holding the same position in Negri Sembiian, was married to Che Zanaip binte Haji Baboo, whose father is Court Bailiff at Kuala
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    • 476 11 IN ANNUAL SESSION AT SINGAPORE. The 37th session of the Malaya Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened in Singapore on Wednesday. Bishop Edwin F. Lee, newly elected by the General Conference of-the Methodist huren last May, was in the chair and opened the Conference with a
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    • 49 11 The Provisional Court has sentenced to death the three Chinese charged with of Miss Thompson and the attempted murder of Mr. Dudley Law. The foreign Consular Deputy sitting with the Chinese Judge commended the police of the foreign Municipality for their work in connection with the casew
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    • 1197 11 CAREFUL SURVEY OF LAND AND PEOPLE. (Special to the Guardian.") The Modern Malay by Mr. L. Richmond Wheeler (published by Messrs. George Allen Unwin Ltd., 40 Museum Street, London, 15 s.), a copy of which has just been sent us for review, is. a very careful survey
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