Malacca Guardian, 1 April 1929

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  • 17 1 MALACCA GUARDIAN (PUBLISHED WEEKLY). Vol. 11. MALACCA, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929. SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS. No. 13
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  • 446 2 very acceptably doesn’t it? (By Searchlight.”) IX.—THE YIELD TEST. The soundness of an agricultural investment depends on several lack's. One of them, and a very important one, is that of yield. i our product has to reach the market at a cost sufficiently less than selling price to
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  • 172 2 Attacks by the North Hunan forces, under the command of General Chan Tsung-chang, against the western front of the Nationalist forces defending Chefoo, have been completely successful. The National lorces have been retreating through Chefoo to the East in the direction of Nmchaichow, evacuating troops and ammunition
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  • 121 2 The general election in Italy is occurring under a unique and partly experimental electoral system, only producers being entitled to vote, of whom 9,500,010 come under this category. A fascist ticket,” headed by the name of Mussolini, is he only way by which a vote may be
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  • 227 2 The committee appointed to report on the offers for the purchase of the Shanghai Municipal Electricity Department recommend the iccentance of the bid of £10.000,000 by the American and Foreign Power Company, which is a subsidiary of the Electric Bond £hare Company of New York. Mr. Lam \et
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  • 1168 2  -  HOW IT IS GROWN ON PLANTATIONS. G. Parry Davis, F.R.Hi I (Special to the “Guardian.”) (Concluded.) Out of 500 Chinese employed, 15 to 20 are tindals, including one head tindal, and one tindal in charge of the fermenting sheds. Their wages are in the following ratio: —The
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  • 68 2 Singapore’s new reservoir, whk:| aiso to supply Johore Bharu. has been named the Sultan Ibraisi Reservoir and is situated at Gunc:| Pulai in Johore, was formally officially opened on the 24th insta::| before a concourse of (lignitefrom Singapore and the Nati State. The area of the lake crea'J
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  • 60 2 Correspondence between H.E.- i Governor and the Colonial 0&-I disclosed at the recent meeting I the Legislative Council, sho*l the Home Government 4 opposed to the abolition 4 the Opium Revenue Replug ment Fund, but is willing that rfl further additions be made totte-i fund until the position
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  • 128 2 Two negroes were killed and other people seriously injured in 1 tornado which levelled 30 buildings in a five-mile area in Alabama. The Rev. Dr. former Bishop of Singapore, since his retirement has been Ib’ at the Vicarage, Fleet, is no" u London on a visit. Hi> friends
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 664 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. J 1? <j An Urgent Appeal for Recruits vOOO L A *****1 The chinese Company, M.V.C. AND i r, The Straits Chinese British AssoP.nMMFRP.tAI ciation was responsible for tne UUIVImLIIUmL organisation of tne Chinese ComCORRESPONDENCE °l£ e Learn to speak and write well. You Company is now much
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    • 77 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. MANAGER WANTED. Applications are invited, from >!anters with opening-up experince. for the post of manager of he Experiment Station (estate) of Ihe Rubber Research Institute of Malaya at Sungei Buloh. 15 miles from Kuaia Lumpur, and must ■each the undersigned on or before 'nd April. 1920. Particulars of the
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    • 144 2 ADVERTISEMENTS. The Malacca Guardian. Tel. Ad. Guardian Malacca. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 3 Months $l.OO 6 2.00 12 4.00 For places outside Malacca Town, add 25 cts., 50 cts., and $1 respectively for postage. For postage to foreign countries double tne above amounts. The Malacca Guardian is on sale
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  • 568 3 Mother,” said little Dorothy Eastman of Charleston, 44 1 had I to stand up in class to-day.” I told you they would punish j you if you were naughty,” said her mother. That’s one on you, mother,” returned Dorothy, I got extinguished mention.” 1* Mummy, is this a
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  • 714 3 l The Malacca Guardian does nut necessarily endorse the opinions of its correspondents Aquarian Age. i'o the Editor of the Malacca Guardian.” Ye are the temples of the iiving God,' aeciare the Holy Scriptures, ihe body is the tempie of tne Divine Spirit, it is the nome of the
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  • 527 3 The P. O. steamer Bulan left Malacca on Tuesday last with a cargo of about one thousand cases of rubber. The S.S. Co.’s s.s. Kepong arrived from Bangkok at daylight on Saturday with 3,000 bags of rice. She left in the afternoon for Port Swettenham. The s.s. Kelantan made
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  • 26 3 Commodore Gar Wood has established a new world’s motor-boat record by attaining a speed of 93.12 miles an hour in Miss America VII.
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    • 145 3 I Hfifl K wmmk ■BbsM Hkßhß nsn Wm bbbsb MBslm #?J| |j|i BHWB HnS&H i. Need we subscribe any remarks I CONCESSIONAIRES FOR MALAYA ’-m wL «rfh. mi i—i INCORPORATED IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS SINGAPORE. PENANG. TAIPING. IPOH. KUALA LUMPUR. MALACCA. Going for a Ramble rJ Tnen do not forget
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  • RECENT NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
    • MONDAY.
      • 209 4 BY-ELECTIONS WON BY OPPONENTS. The by-election in the North Lanark Division due to the death of Sir Alexander Sprot resulted as follows: 1 too Miss Jennie Lee (Lab.) 1o Lord Mungo Scone (Cons.) 9,133 Miss Michell (Lib.) The result of the last election aS CoI. Sir A. Sprot
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      • 129 4 In the House of Commons Mr. S. Saklatvala (Com., Battersea), asked why Scotland Yard officials for the past five weeks had visited private individuals, printers, and a publisher and interrogated them about the British edition of the Communist International programme and the British Communist manifesto on the recent
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      • 112 4 At the opening of the election campaign. General James Hertzog, the South African Premier, referred to a recent manifesto by the Archbishop of Capetown and other prominent people in Cape Province, appealing for support against the Government’s native policy as embodied in the Native Parliamentary Representation Bill,
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      • 59 4 An adventurous attempt by a septuagenarian Dutch sea captain, Jacob Schuttarvaer, to cross the Atlantic in an unsinkable lifeboat, named after himself, ended in the steamer Commillas picking up Schuttarvaer, and two members of the crew in mid-Atlantic. The rescued men declared that they would have starved or
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      • 37 4 One hundred and fourteen peop’e are reported to be dead and 61 severely injured as the result of a fire which destroyed a cinema in the village of Igolkino in the Province of Vladimir, Russia.
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    • TUESDAY.
      • 247 4 JAPAN SETTLES THE TSINAN INCIDENT WITH CHINA. Immediately after a six-hour conference with Mr. Yoshizawa, the Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang, informed pressmen that, since the deadlock of Feb. 8, four Foreign Office secretaries and four Japanese delegates had been carrying on nn official negotiations and hart now reached
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      • 98 4 In regard to reports that Prince Georges position at the Foreign Office will preclude nis taking up the Governor-Generalship of a Dominion, Reuter learns tnat H.M. tne King nas long considered the question of nis representation in a Dominion or Colony, where suitable vacancies may be tilled
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      • 71 4 The North China Command is to be abolished. In future, ali British forces in China will be under the Command of Hong Kong. As a result, Major-General Alexander W'ardrop, the G.0.C., is proceeding Home on April 9. Major-General J. W. Sandilands, 2nd Cameron Hignianders, and Military Attache
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      • 57 4 The French Courts have decided that electrical energy exported from Switzerland must pay Customs dues, and the Customs sued tr.e company concerned for £640,000. The company registered a plea that electrical energy was therefore untaxable. The Court ordered the company to pay £320,000 to the Customs and a
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      • 63 4 Twenty-eight Boy Scouts were reported to have been drowned near Harriman, Tennessee, in a flood which carried away the bungalow in which they were camping, but later reports say that a Scoutmaster and two Scouts have been drowned, w*hile five Scouts are missing, and have apparently been
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    • WEDNESDAY.
      • 503 4 CANADIAN SCHOONER SUNK BY AMERICAN GUNFIRE. In view of the call paid by the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, to the State Department, in connection with the sinking of British rum-running schooner Irnaione by gunfire from the coastguard cutter Dexter,” off the .cast of Louisiana, officials of
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      • 112 4 Severe fighting has broken out between the Wuhan and the Nanking forces on the borders of North East Hupeh. North Anhui, and also south of the Yangtze, on the Hunan Kiangsi border. No details are available. General Chiang Kaishek and his staff have gone to Kiukang. Owing
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    • THURSDAY.
      • 355 4 CIGARETTE DESTROYS HUGE GERMAN STEAMER. The new giant liner 44 Europa has been destroyed by fire, which broke out in the forepart of the new 46,000-ton liner in Biohnvoss shipyard. The 44 Europa was launched in August of last year and was to have sailed to New
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      • 171 4 MARSHAL’ S FUNERAL. The Prince of Wales, representing the was a prominent figure at the funeral of Marshal Foch in Paris. After attending the service at Notre I)ame Cathedral, His Royal Highness marched with distinguished representatives of other nations in a great procession which attended the passage of the remains
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      • 215 4 In a memorandum, Mr. A. W. Meilon, Secretary of the Treasury, declares that the Imalone is a notorious smuggler and law breaker. She was not only a thorn in the side of the United States, but had actually got into trouble with the British authorities over false clearances
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    • FRIDAY.
      • 300 4 STEADY FALL OF PRICES IN NEW YORK. The elevation of the call money rate to 14 per cent marked the beginning of one of the most disastrous of heavy declines for many months. Many active stocks lost 5 to 13 points, even first-class rails selling off considerably.
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      • 103 4 The Directors of the American Petroleum Institute have unanimously approved the American oil industry’s plan to curtail the production of crude oil to the 1928 average, which means a cut of 170.000 barrels a day in the United States, and a reduction of output in Mexican, South American
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      • 53 4 Mr. Gandhi was convicted on a charge under the Calcutta Police Act and fined one rupee. Four other accused were fined a similar amount. The Magistrate said that Mr. Gandhi would have been dealt with under the First Offender’s Act, but this did not apply to offences against
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    • SATURDAY.
      • 126 4 BRITISH SEEKING TKADF OPENINGS. The British Industrial Mission I Russia has left London. The d I gation numbered 85, represent' 1 150 firms and trading organis?,!? I and covering nearly every ]m ant branch of British manufactn" and commerce. It is claimed I the organisers that the
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      • 115 4 Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary f or Air, arranged to take advantage oi the Easter recess to travel by the new Indian air service leaving* London on saiuruay, March 50, inoraer to examine the various questions connected with the working of the Mediterranean stage of the route
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      • 71 4 Tfie Graf Zeppelin circled over Telaviv en route to Jerusalem anc dropped confetti over a throng of Jews celebrating the feast of Purim and then flew to Ramleh and dropped mails. It flew round and across Jerusalem. Messages of goodwill were signalled from the Deputy District
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      • 71 4 The King took part in his firs: official ceremony after his illness by receiving at Bognor the Archbishops of Canterbury and York who swore allegiance. Mr. Baldwin read the oath. The King descended by a lift trom the bedroom and walked into a room on the ground
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      • 51 4 The South Manchurian Railway Company has placed an order with Krupp for the supply of a complete plant for steei roiling works. The company apparently intends in the tuture to manufacture a grear pad of its own railway material. It is expected that the plant will cost
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      • 37 4 MADAME FOCU S PENSION. The French Government has tabled a Bill in the Chamber pro* viding Madame Foch with a specie pension of 100,000 francs per annum in addition to the ordinary pension she is entitled to.
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      • 23 4 The Italian destroyer Muggia has been wrecked in the vicinity Amoy. The crew has been taken off. There are no casualties.
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  • 883 6 Our esteemed contemporary, the Pinang Gazette,” is engaged on an amusing war upon the inaccuracy germ, which it finds so active in the Press of Malaya. Far be it from us to differ from our worthy contemporary on that point. (See correction in another column). As long
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  • 639 6 Reports are just being published of the first conference of the Ceylonese youths of Malaya/’ held at Kuala iumpur on March 13. At that conference a series of resolutions was passed, most of which are highly commendable. We propose to deal with these very briefly. The first expresses
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  • 328 6 The usual evasive or procrastinating replies were received by the Hon. Mr. Tan Chong Lock, as might have been expected, in answer to his questions at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday last. “It had not been possible to frame a programme of work at Malacca as the
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  • 288 6 An illustrated American paper devotes a whole page to as elaborate article on the bird nuisance at Washington, D.C., by which it is seen that a few starling; imported as a novelty have become a great nuisance in the capital city of the United States, yet there seems no
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  • FROM OTHER PENS.
    • 144 6 The Malaya Tribune/’ It is unthinkable, of that the present British Ad' (Johore) has been wholly lining ested in the recent disclosuresihat the High Commissioner h}®* self has not taken a serious of them and initiated such concerning them as properly j* within his province. That tne has
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 165 6 ife i I Pabco I Plaster Board H fir Uzaufy and Permanence J I I I A W For further particulars apply to! g SIME, DARBY 8 Co., Lid. I Sole Agents. <-& «p Q X H If you are not yet ii A subscriber j§ The Malacca Guardian i$
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    • 24 6 Smcapoot machines arc twee <3 Give the BesTiLorsearraesucei PCOL2Y C" ihotcs ctve you that 36Hvncg\ i Buy British Buy Bat b Phone 85 Malacca.
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  • LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
    • 740 7 JBrORTANT BUILDINGS TO BE ERECTED. ■Malacca will hardly be known by fIH residents when they come back ])ay us a visit a year hence, for vXe improx ements which have been Binned and are already begun wib B very conspicuous on account of He prominent positions they will
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    • 219 7 SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. The seventeenth ordinary general meeting of The Atlas Ice Co., Ltd., was held at the registered office of the Company, 18, Jonker Street, on Monday last. These present were: Messrs. Chee Swee Cheng (Chairman), Tan Kwi Hi (Managing Director), Tan Swi Chay
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    • 336 7 Mr. Yasukuni Takeshita, a Japanese world tourist, visited Malacca last week on his way north from Singapore. He explained that ordinarily he walked and ten years ago enjoyed that exercise very much but is now forty years of age and finds constant pedestrianism fatiguing. He arrived here on
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    • 796 7 THE AYER MOLEK RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED. The nineteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the Ayer Molek Rubber Company, presided over by Mr. Loh Kim Sw r i, w r as held at the Company’s office, No. 137, Heeren Street, Malacca, on Tuesday last. There were also present Messrs.
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    • 132 7 Among visitors to Malacca last week was Commandant Martha L. Kruschwitz, of Bandoeng, Java, who is collecting funds for the work of the Salvation Army in the Dutch Indies. The lady officer rides a bicycle and has been diligently engaged during her stay here in visiting
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    • 350 7 Low Sunday is the Sunday after Easter. Easter and Whitsuntide in the ancient church were the stated times of baptism. It was the custom for the persons baptized to w’ear white garments as an emblem of spotless innocence. It was usual to wear the w’hite garments a w’hole
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    • 196 7 Rev. H. J. Hutchinson, the Colonial Chaplain, preached a sermon at Christ Church on Good Friday morning, on the penitent thief, contending that the day, though one of solemnity, should not be one of sorrow because w T e celebrate then the accomplishment of the plan of salvation
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    • 91 7 At the examination for Estate Dressers he’ld here on the 22nd March, the following candidates passed. Tffe fallowing list is in order of merit:— Grade II: T. K. Raghavan and P. P. Nambiar. Grade III: C. K. Nambiar, C. P. Suvaram, M. Krishnan, C. P. V. Nair,
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    • 95 7 The Malacca Club has secured two mora entertainments for this week. To-night at 9.30 p.m., the Mayfair Four Revue Party will be the attraction and on Friday Mr. Ernest Kaai and his party of Hawaiian entertainers will give one of their ever-popular programmes at the same hour. The
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    • 858 7 TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MALACCA RIVER. The last issue of the Guardian contained »a series of questio# submitted by the Hon. Mr. Lock to the Legislative Council on Monday last. The first was regarding Government ;aid in fighting tuberculosis, to the reply was as follows: Advice and treatment $n
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  • SPORTING NEWS
    • 18 8 The Malacca Golf Club’s April monthly medal (bogey competition) will be played on Saturday and Sunday hext.
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    • 80 8 In. addition to the list of fixtures previously published, a match against Jasin has been arranged lo take place at Malacca on May 25. The match against the Indo-Ceylon-ese, which was abandoned last Saturday, will be replayed on July 20. MARRIED vs. SINGLE. On Saturday of this week there
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    • 729 8 TEMIANG ROYERS v. COLTS. Tiie Temiang Kovers of Negri £>einoiian weie visnors to Malacca j uui iHg me weeK-enu wnen mey n.ei me cons .Ainieuc learn aiiu me Malacca Boveis at soccer. On Saturday on tne Kudu C Ground tne iemiang ttovers playeo me Colts. The sky was overcast
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    • 328 8 MALACCA CLUB. Tne following are the resuits of the Club Tennis Tournament up-to-the time of going to press. Ladies’ Doubles. Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Anderson beat Miss Foster and Mrs. Chester w.o. Mrs. Holmes Smith and Mrs. 1 Willmott beat Mrs. Goss and Mrs. Bruce. Mrs. Harland and Miss
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    • 49 10 Next week Saturday the annual police sports will be the attraction on the Malacca Club padang and a gala time is guaranteed, weather permitting. The Police Band will play and there is sure to be a crowd to cheer on the gallant preservers of law and order.
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    • 267 10 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The annual general meeting of the Malacca Football Association was heid at the Malacca Club on Monday last. As usual with Malacca there was a poor attendance. Mr. F. D. Sime was in the chair. After the minutes of the last annual general meeting
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    • 347 10 M. B.R.A. MONTHLY SPOON EVENT. The monthly spoon shoot held it Bukit Sebukor Range on Saturday, 23rd March, resulted as below. Segt. N. T. King won the Cheng C huan and Handicap cups. Mr. A. S. Gomes Net Spoon. Mr. G. Laub Pool Spoon. Mr. L. S. Harland
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 212 8 I Penang to Singapore I 13 hours 45 minutes i 1 Mr. J. Robson’s achievement on a Motor Cycle. I [Shell Motor Spirit and Shell Lubricating Oil I UaEI) THROUGHOUT. j| RU3TON HORNSBY. LTD. OSL^ ENGINES For all Purposes in Sizes from Vi Brake horse Power Upwards. Types to Run
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    • 231 8 ♦X* FRASER 8 NEAVE LTD I ft CAN GIVE DELIVERY OF THEIR FAMOUS I Aerated Waters I g IN ALL PARTS OF MALACCA TERRITORY fl •H j c a Enquire for Prices and Date o ft 1 v of Delivery in your District. n fl I *s SODA WATER LEMONADE
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  • AROUND THE COURTS
    • 948 9 ■SIIEN IT IS WATERED ANI) WHEN DOOR. 1a n interesting case came before K Dodd on Friday when the MuniKal Sanitary Department proseKed three Hindustani milkmen on| charges of seiling milk to Such water had been added arc. Hgt; having iicences in their possesHki while hawking the lactea.
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    • 257 9 A Malay named Saul said in the Police Court on Wednesday that when he returned from work on December 8 last his wife was missing. His friend Baba said that a man named Achim had taken her away. He applied for a warrant against Achim but was given
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    • 312 9 Hamid bin Mohamed Tahir, a fruitselier living at Bukit Gedong, was complainant against a Chinese at the Police Court on Wednesday. He said that he was selling langsa and mata kuching near the New Hotel on the night of March 1C when he was asked by a Chinese
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    • 128 9 A ricksha puller was prosecuted cy the Railway Police before Mr. Dodd on Thursday on a charge of trespass. After considerable questioning the information was elicited that the accused was outside tne station at the spot where passengers leave their vehicles, and refused to go w’hen ordered
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    • 77 9 We are in receipt of a letter from the Hua Khiow Steamship Co. Ltd., of Muar, denying that the Straits Steamship Co. is planning the purchase of three of their steamers as recently reported in the Guardian.” The letter states that the Company is prospering and instead of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 179 9 I ¥3 ¥3 A JTv i 1 INSTANT RELIEF FROM PAIN. QUICK ACTION MEDICINE. 8 I 1& l M 110 Tablets Asp**o Relieves:- Ail pains peculiar 25 Tablets j|| 25cTS Headaches, Neu- to women, Dengue, 60ct$. j« algia, Feverish- Neuritis, Colds, |f§ Pain relief or your money y fk N^t
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 86 9 RIALTO THEATRE. Phyllis of the Follies,” a sophisticated comedy of back-stage—and upstage life, starring Alice Day and Matt Moore, is the chief attraction in the Rialto programme to-night. In the first show are Chapters 3 and 4 of The Scarlet Brand serial, together with a two-reel Western drama and a
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  • CHINA NEWS
    • 141 10 (Kuo Min News Agency). The Kuo Min News Agency has learned that the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs has been officially informed by Sir Miles Lampson, n. B. M. Minister, that he is sending Mr. Basil Newton as his personal representative to maintain diplomatic contact
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    • 93 10 At the l&th meeting of the State Council the following resolution was adopted: That all civil and military organs of the Government be instructed to enforce the following schedule of salary reduction to be deducted in four equal monthly instalments beginning from the month of January from
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    • 92 10 With a view to eliminating corruption among the provincial officials Government of Chekiang has promulgated regulations requiring all provincial financial officials to furnish guarantee for their honesty and integrity. The guarantors will be held strictly responsible for the probity of the officials. According to the regulations, no official
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    • 78 10 The new coins of the National Government of the Republic of China w r ill bear a design of plum blossoms around the edge, it w’as decided at yes'erday’s meeting o r the Standing Committee of the Cen tral Executive Committee. As to the recommendation of
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    • 56 10 A telegram from Taian states that with a view to reducing illiteracy among the w’omen in Shantung Province, General Sun Liang-chen, Chairman of the Provincial Government, has instructed the opening of special schools for girls. Families of staff-members of the different Government organs in the province are
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    • 42 10 It is announced that the Mukden Arsenal wifi be closed on April Ist and immediately converted into a factory for the manufacture of agricultural implements in accordance with a decision of the National Military Reorganization and Disbandment Conference.
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  • 1288 10 ITS EFFECT ON CHARACTER. (Special to the Guardian:’) Dear comrade, have you ever for a while questioned yourself about your existence, why you are on this planet, from whence you have come, and whither you are going? Have you sometimes taken the trouble to find out the causes of
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 47 10 V' VJ \J\ fc,^T'f K AJ. t x vA v m?;i >*“».%.<-* \j?NKW.MEaM 1 *j -^'npps^r»j sir- rs\v Ur'^v m i\-\ K:il* I Jfc% U> 'i^' r%A Si -ftfci'y’rtL’* I I '"'%i i; i?h Tjßl J IP k> H fijL i v I I I! i ll *-a»-»
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 223 10 ,v« ryvvvvvvvYvy’t*♦ tt 11 i jll♦i♦ll j yyy*J h !**!hv. l f < *«vvV**** ,M ,M X*V ♦*>♦♦♦* /V%*V*«V VVV 4 VVV VVVV% 4 VVVv“*‘.. 1 f|Vv RIALTO THEATRE 1 8 PROGRAMMES *j*y n From Mon. April Ist to Wed. April 3rd From Thurs. April 4th to Sun. A pri
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  • 42 10 The untimely death of Mr. A. Vengadasalam of the P.W.D. at Jasin +ook place on Friday, March 22. The deceased leaves behind his wife and adopted young children to mourn hi's loss. He was for more than twenty years with the P.W.D.
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  • MALAYAN MATTERS OF MOMENT
    • 281 11 The Legislative Council on Monday approved the provision of $50,000 for the acquisition of land as a reserve for a civil aerodrome, says The Straits Times.” The Commissioner of Lands, in proposing this motion, said that most of the Council members had an opportunity of hearing the Chairman
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    • 418 11 INS PECTOR SENTENCED. lfl( )K(U S I.M PRISON M FNT FOR DEFKAI DIM. HINESE. jlM* Allred (diaries McLening, |||JBct(>r ol i’oliee attached to tile* 'IIB II Division, was produced be:flflhe District Judge, Mr. C. 11. ||||flarkc. on Monday morning on ot criminal breach of trust ,|H*pect of s2;> Straits currency
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    • 276 11 THIRTEEN CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM PRISON. A sensation was caused in the Criminal Prison at Sepoy Lines on Sunday afternoon when it was discovered that thirteen notorious convicts had made their escape by way of an underground drain leading from the courtyards to Outram Road, says the Malayan Tribune.”
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    • 548 11 We have received the following from Mr. Powell Robinson: The fourth annual general meeting of the shareholders of The Je'ai Concession (Pahang), Limited, was held on Tuesday at the offices of Messrs. Chan Sze Onn Co., Market Street, Singapore. After the ordinary business of the meeting was concluded,
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    • 115 11 A_n ever* considerable interest to all the European residents of Malaya took plane on Wednesday, when the eldest and youngest daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Arshak Sarkies, proprietors of the E. and O. Hotei. Penang, were married. The contracting parties were Miss Stella Sarkies and Mr. John S.
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    • 376 11 Elaborate preparations are being made by the Chinese community in; Singapore in connection with the Duke of Gloucester’s arrival at' Singapore on April 20. One of the items decided upon is a lantern procession on that night. The Japanese community, who have a special interest in the Prince’s
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    • 199 11 The Rev. Stephen Band, 8.A., formerly of Aberdeen, was inducted Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Orchard Road, Singapore, on Wednesday by the Rev. W. Murray, of the English Presbyterian Mission, in the presence of a large congregation, says The Singapore Free Press.” The induction began with a
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 157 11 We have just received a copy of the new Singapore and Malayan Directory and note a good many changes, most of which are for the worse. The number of typographical errors is extraordinarily large. The alphabetical directory is incomplete and printed in very small type. The official directory for the
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    • 259 11 /War»in7\ to tKe PiiMic I TJVEREADY Flashlights and Unit Cell Batter- I \J ies are recognized the world over as the best. 9 Like every other high quality product, they 9 have many imitations. None, however, can equal I the years of experience, the skilled workman- 9 ship and the
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