The Straits Budget, 24 September 1920

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  • 30 1 The Straits Budget tsriNG THX O WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES" VOL. LXXIV NO. 3267 Singapore, Friday, September 24, 1920 EKTA HUSHED OVER HALF A CENTURY. Price 25 cents.
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  • 277 1 LEADERS— Undesired Perfection 12 Can We Control 12 Voluntary or Compulsory 12-13 The Commercial Crisis 13 The Breach in# Point 13 Italian Labour 13-14 General Local and Personal 1-2 Reuter Teleprams 3-8 A Sign of the Times 8 Indian Labour Committee 9-10 Singapore Mortality Returns 10 War
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  • 4467 1 Mr. Justice Watson intends doing his utmost to stop gang robbery. At Seremban Assizes last week a Chinese named Chan Rch was charged that he on or about Ju.y 20 at Rassah, Negri Sembilan, together with live or more persons, comknitted gang robbery. The accused, who pleaded
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  • FRIDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 710 3 Reuter Telegrams London, September 15. The Prime Minister this morning made statement to the effect that it is the congider*. policy of the Government gradualJy to live the coal industry from Government coali >i, bat as long as
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    • 217 3 London, September 14. Particular interest lies in the telegram from Warsaw communicated to Reuter dealing with military probabilities in the near future, in view of the reported intended new Bolshevik offensive against 1 oland on both extreme wings. According to the message the period
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    • 427 3 London, September 15. Events in Ulster are moving swiftly towards the creation of Ulster’s r.*w civil guard. Representatives of the Government and loyalists are now working out the details of the organisation. Th Ulster volunteers have been warned to be ready to mobilise and it is expected that enrolment
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    • 86 3 London, September 14. The report of the committee of inquiry into the Colonial medical services recommends a unified service and the appointment of a Director-general also that candidates ought to he young, newly-quali-fied men and should have been seconded to some hospital appointment at home us resident
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    • 580 3 London, September 14. The draft scheme for the institution of a permanent Court of international Justice .s published by the League of Nations, ihe scheme, which appears in a special supplement of the League's official journal,
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    • 88 3 London, September 15. The Morning Post authoritatively states thnt the reported resignation of Lord Milner is absolutely without foundation. Since the armistice he has been and is now closely engaged on a number of questions of momentous interest to the Dominions and Colonies also the Emp re as
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    • 27 3 London, September 15. Paris Reports of the early resignation of President Deschanel are being revived. It is declared that his health has become appreciably worse.
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    • 274 3 London, September 14. Portland, Maine Polling in the Main* elections for the State Governorship and 'ffher offices is now going on. tatest r turns show that all the Republican candi-iLt-s for Congress will probably be elected >.v overwhelming majorities and that Go State Legislature will also be
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    • 195 3 London, September 14. War Office Mesopotamia comm tin iqu& mentions that the employment of mountain gun at a range of 700 yards •;.< ctive!y repulsed a nocturnal attack on a blockhouse on the Folujah railway. In 1.0 Baqubuh area, the column mentioned previously moved from Jhiraban to \buj sra
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    • 109 3 London, September 14. The Indiarubber Journal takes a hopeful view of the prospects of the rubber ndustry. While admitting that undoubtedly more rubber is being produced than can be used, the opinion is given that thia is temporary and that with the resumption of normal conditions of manufacturing,
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    • 120 3 London, September 14. The board of directors of the Dafly Herald to-day declined the offer of £75,000 from the third International. They accepted the resignation from the board of Mr. Meyri'd, who negotiated the oifer. Tha other directors adopted u resolution delarnr that they had no knowledge
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  • SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 472 4 Reuteb Telecicamh London, September l!>. Further light is thrown on the realisation of the Russian jewels in England in a statement to-night from Downing Street, which gives the lie direct to several assertions made by Kameneff in his letter cabled on
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    • 180 4 London, September 10. It is reported from Milan that in spite of last week’s decision the economic crisis has taken a fresh grave turn, 'lit seizure of factories on a vast scale continues, including the Cantoni cotton mills, employing 6 ,000, also Italy’s principal wo'dh n factories at
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    • 19 4 London, September IC. The Government has presented th, •?Ca^ldit BCr Aur ra ns ftn im gif;
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    • 331 4 London, September 15. The likelihood of the threatened strike among electr.cians is considerably diminished as the outcome of a resolution adopt'd by the national joint industrial council for the electricity supply industry. The •ouned recommends in consequence of the electrical trades union having
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    • 185 4 London, September 14. Berlin A report from Bremen states that by the five year agreement between the Norddeutsche Lloyd and the United States Mail Steamship Company the former will represent the latter in Central Europe and place the entire organisation of the establishments in Bremen and Bremerhaven at its
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    • 185 4 London, September 16. The Daily Express Paris correspondent states that the sudden rush of the Minister for the Interior to Aix-ies-Bains to consult M. Millerand is due to an incident which occurred on Friday at Ramuouillet. it is said that M. Dcschanel was wanderin*' in the chateau grounds
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    • 274 4 on ;> i, September 15. A semi-official message from Riga states that t!v* Russian delegates for the itusso-P"*.sh peace negotiations have arrived. London, September 16. Toll from Riga on the eve of the Russo-IV! it i/o negotiations state that .JolTc, hea
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    • 201 4 London. September 15. The India Office announces that Mr Strnchnn, who was reported captured reached the military camp at Shahraban on the 13th with Indian civil servants. They are reported all well. Thus Capt. Lloyd, Mr. Stra. ban and Mrs. Iluchanan are now safe. London, September 15. The Mesopotamia
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    • 194 4 London, September 14. Presiding at a mcct ng of the Peking Syndicate, yesterday, Mr. T. A. Larson express'd the conviction that China would shortly settle down to peaceful industrial developments which might astonish the world. Dealing with commercial aviation in China, Mr. Barson expressed the opinion that there
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    • 467 4 London, Sontr.iwk An unprec. ntcl wave- mber >*• owing to i!, t Uni.. e(1 s to swamp the imnii> .f?’threateno team ship eon panics j m tXil lon service coat., will be fill*] //that 1 steerage for month 11 utmost Island is unable to accommodate* Elli comer,,
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    • 74 4 London, September 15. Paris Newspapers state that the Foreign Office is at present negotiating \v itii a Siamese plenipotentiary with regard to a treaty of considerable economic importance, including fixing the frontiers of Siam and Laos, the conclusion of commercial agreements, and finally the determination of conditions
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    • 78 4 London, September IG. Wellington Mr. Israel Cohen, emissary vf the Zionist world organisation, has completed a three weeks tour of New Zealand, where he raised £*20,000 for the Palestine restoration fund. Mr. Cohen had a civic reception at Auckland. The acting Governor General and the Prime Minister, at a
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    • 45 4 London, September P»Budapest The ex-Premicr Tisza "j* assassinated two years ago but the coi martial which has been trying those corned has only now given its vcr(lieisentenced two men to death, one to n years hard labour and one to three y imprisonment.
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  • MONDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 844 5 Reuter Telegrams London, September 16. New York A terrific explosion shook the prim’in 1 business parts of the citv at noon killing, according: to the latest estimates, 30 and injuring: 170. The cause is so far
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    • 378 5 London, September 16. Washington M. Shidehara is empowered to negotiate direct with Mr. Colbv on the subject of immigration in Sakhalien. London, September 16. i The Times’ correspondent at New York says that the Steamship Owners’ Association has passed a resolution emphasising the hostility of American sh
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    • 91 5 London, September 16. Rome It is semi-officially stated that the loss of life in the recent earthquake proves to have been 176, which is considerably less than at first reported. That the victims were not more numerous was mainly due to the fact that the mountain ous zone
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    • 123 5 London, September 17. Simla An important debate in the Imperial Council arose upon a resolution do manding the appointment of an inquir* nto the labour troubles in connection witl recent strikes in Government presses a* Calcutta, Delhi an?l Simla. The niovei advocated the abolition of the piece wor’
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    • 1052 5 London, September 16. A conference between the miners’ executive and Sir R. Horne was held privately to-day and adjourned until noon to-nmr-row. Hopes of a settlement are said to be brighter than hitherto owing to indications that the
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    • 354 5 Paris, September 14. The newspapers nre unanimous in *Xnressing satisfaction at the outcorn* ®f the conference at Aix les Bains. Bin® \iy stress on the word alliance appearing m the joint declarat’on of the Premier*. Matin states that in the course of meetmv with M. Jonesco, Rumanian
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    • 165 5 London, September 17. Herrorke-.’s, the largest manufacturers of h.ngcloth and flannelette sheetings, l aving announced a g< mwal reduction in •f ires of r» per cent. The management 'dared that this was the beginning of iie hug promised break in the prices of iry goods. Only a grave
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    • 173 6 London, September in. The Council of Action has intervened in the Lloyd Gcorgc-KuineneH’ recriminatory correspondence with tin* extraordinary allegation that the Prime Minister himself urged the Council to use its influence on the Russian governmeni through Kameneir at an admittedly very critical moment. The Cmim 1 appro; lied Kamene.T
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    • 220 6 London, September 17.The curfew which has operated in Belfast from September 1 will be withdrawn on the 10th, but it is ntirnated that if reimposition is necessary owing to furthci disturbances the regulation will remain in force for u prolonged period. London, September 17. Dublin The economic boycott in
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    • 88 6 London, September IG. Berlin The surrender and destruction of arms, hitherto in the possess ion of civilians, has begun in compliance with the Government undertaking gi.vn at Fpa. The result generally is stated to be fair!;, satisfactory. In some places more were handed in than was anticipated, consequently the
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    • 118 6 London, September 10. .The Siamese Prince Pnru’ n'r.i, inf< rvicwed by the Evening Standard, emphasised that the railway svste .i in Sia:.i was Ftci.l |v growing, but was st |j rapahl > »,f 'ast expansion. r l hey hoped ere long to have a <« mpletc network of railways
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    • 42 6 London, September 17. Ip connection with the s»Ulenn*nt of tl e electr,mans’ dispute it has been agreed l»mt foremen will not be compelled to min th« Uwtricl Trades Union. This lix, t point on which ull tho trouble ariuo.
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  • TUESDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 310 6 Reuter Telegram London, September 10. The trade slump is causing economists, jubiicists and the leading employers anxi->u.-i to search for an industrial solutii n f post-war problems. On tlu* one hand ir thousands of unemployed throughout
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    • 232 6 London, September 18. Mr. Ernest Bcvin, of the Dockers’ Union ml director of the Daily Herald, has ».Vten to Mr. Lloyd George protesting o.ainst the official statement that the rul I would not have taken the public i its confidence regarding the proposed Lo'shcvik subsidy had it
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    • 135 6 London, September IS. Peking: The Finance Ministry is fh at--1 n /f a million dollar domestic loan of niillion dollars will be utilised to '»'\v depreciated Peking notes of the Rank •d Inna and the Communications Bank and remainder will he applied to Ihe ciis-(dnr-re of mortgages held
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    • 647 6 L' cilun, September 17. The conference between Sir R. Horne and the rninmd executive resumed th s mornm 1 end adjourned until the afternoon "f the ;p>li alter sitting for an hour and a half London, September 17. It is I
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    • 57 6 London, September IG. Stockholm The general election up to the present has resulted as follows The Liberals have lost sx seats, the Social Democrats four, whilst the Conservatives have gained five, tho Farmers Union three, National Agrarian Union one. The left party losses are attributed to the inclusion of
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    • 48 6 London, September 18. According to the Paris Tribune, tho .Tuivo tribe of Hebrew origin discovered in Central China immigrated to China before the epoch of the Kings of Israel and adopted the Chinese customs, but conserved a certain racial purity and speaks a particular language.
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    • 257 6 News from France. M. Millerand not Standing For P residency. Pari,: colleagues’ request. He staYeT'ti! &nu ;bad enunciated to his co-cabjfrt m hat he imperative reasons making ir him t„ decline the invitation bat"!.'' 1 r cont.nue m the premie-;!,,,?' -Id Will other name at pres--m ihc °nly is M
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    • 132 6 London, September 18. The Home Office has replied to a correspondent “There is no foundation for the statements in the American Press w.th regard to the prison treatment of the Lord Mayor of Cork. He has from the first been allowed the privileges granted to political prisoners and
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    • 105 6 London, September 16. Rome After hearing the representatives of the owners and metal workers Signor Giolitti appointed a commission composed of representatives of both to draft a bill dealing with the control of factories which the Government w 11 submit to the Chamber when it reassembles, London, September
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    • 68 6 London, September 17. Nome, Alaska A fishing boat has brought nows of Amundsen’s expedition, which is icebound off Cap Serge on tho Siberian coast. The fishing boat was also caught by the ice but managed to squeeze out. Tho captain says Amundsen hopes shortly to free tho Maud
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    • 64 6 London, September 17. Reno Governor Cox has telegraph'd to Professor Fisher, of* Yale Un.vet.-y>* asserting that he will make any r :i v able concessions in order to secure Am'’ can membership of the League of Nat• The Democratic platform opposed <' y the reservations of nullification,
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    • 305 7 London, September 17. The Times correspondent at WashingL says that according to the New York the Washington authorities hope granting proper rights to the Japanese iireSiiv in America, Japan will agree to prohibit Japanese labourers and farmers Altering the Un.ted States, otherwise
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    • 67 7 London, September 17. 1 A War Office Mesopotamia communique reports that a general improvement is notceable in the demeanour of the tribes. Except in the Samawah area and in a few isolated cases, the disaffected tribesmen appear to have withdrawn largely to their homes. The 34th brigade column reached
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    • 50 7 London, September 18. Cairo The legislative assembly passed by 44 to 3 a resolution accepting the principles of the Lord Milner agreement regarding Egyptian independence as a suitable basis for a treaty, which should be submitted to the national assembly, the latter having the right of acceptance or rejection.
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    • 57 7 London, September 17. A provisional settlement has been reached in the printing trade dispute in Manchester and Liverpool. If ratified papers which have not published for many days will resume on the 20th inst. London, September 18. The settlement of the printing dispute has been ratified ami
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    • 125 7 London. September 17. New York The five socialists who were expelled from the state legislative early this year on charges of disloyalty were re-elected in the special elections held yesterday. London. September 18. IVrlin Among the civilians who surrendered weapons to the police for destruction was a woman who
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  • WEDNESDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 776 7 Reutkr Telegrams London, September 19. A powerful ph*a for industrial peace was made at (onnah's Quay, Flintshire, this afternoon by the railwaymen’s leader, Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.l\ With regard to the Ciovei’nnient s otiev to submit
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    • 247 7 London, September 10. The next three months will be the most fateful in the whole history of India, says the Observer, in an article heath o S,nn Kein in India/’ Commenting on Gandhi's motion for a total boycott of the British Government, which the recent Indiun National
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    • 172 7 Paris, September 17. M. Clemeneeau s soon to start on a long journey to the East. He intends visiting Ceylon, India and Java, but does not expect to go to Jupan. Beyrouth, Syria; The autonomy «>f the province of Aleppo under the protection of France was solemnly
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    • 200 7 London, Septembe r 19. A fight has occurred in the Wi«*klow mountains between a large number of men drilling and the constabulary. The ai air occurred at Enniskerry where the constabulary surrounded the men who were drilling one of whom was killed and several wounded. Forty were
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    • 71 7 London, Septemb. r 19. Stockholm The final result of tie* electi< ns for the Riksdag are not yet 1 n .wn, hut so far the Conservatives ha won eleven seats, the Farmers’ Union Party six ami the National Agrarian Party one. ’lie Liberals lost eleven seats, tin* Social Democrats
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    • 357 7 London, September IK. It is reported from Rome that, (he labour situation has reached a very jfgte stage. Signor Giolitti has surrciidcrouto the rebellious workers and :s altcm Pting to coerce the employers to accept of factory
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    • 111 7 London, September 18. Peking A Government communique says The inability of the Tsarist official representatives in China to carry out their functions and the chaos in Siberia has rendered the adoption of a modus vivendi immediately necessary to regulate trade relations between Russia and China.” The communique
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    • 100 7 London, S ptember 17. Melbourne In the Common wealth ’enate, Mr. P. arce. Minister of Defence, n statement supplementing that of Mr. Hughes, on the 10th. on the Government’s lef~r.ee policy, stated that a system of lieisionnl organisation would be adopted involving the abolition of Slate < omninnlants.
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    • 27 7 London, September 18. Windsor, Ontario The trade and labour congress of Canada has unanimously rejected a resolution favouring selfdetermination for Ireland and tho nationalisation of industries.
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    • 37 7 London, September 19. Two hundred mills will be idle at Oldham to-morrow by a strike of spinners who have repudiated the agreement concluded by the union on their behalf. Thirty thousand operatives are affected.
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  • THURSDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 213 8 KkI'j IK Tkj.ku; \m London, Soptemh* r I*o. Th* oflV <il n-port of to-day’* coal conference show* that Sir K. Horne again eloquently appealed to the miners to accept an impartial tribunal with referenci to wages. The miners’ representative'persisted in
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    • 131 8 London, September 20. Rome At a conference at the Ministry of the Interior between delegate* of the employers and the employees it was agreed that the new wages scale would be retrospi*ctive from July 17, the payment of wages sought by the workmen during the period they occupied
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    • 167 8 London, September '2l. The Times correspondent at New l ork says the United Slates Shipping Board has been asked to approve an agreement between the United States Mail Steamship Company and the North-German Lioyo similar to a recent agreement between the Harriman group and the liamburgAmerika line. The
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    • 108 8 London, September 20. The garrison of Kura has been beleaguered for some weeks, but it is inferred that they are satisfactorily supplied with necessaries and ammunition by air, for according to the War Office Mesopotamia communique the latest aerial reconnaissance has ascertained that request is only being made for
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    • 287 8 Paris September IS. ng the MT' rmd-Ciiolitti joint at the <•< n i mil of the Ai\-les-I: p tonference, Mr. Lloyd George wired i" that h*‘ s' up ahr Jutely the con- ici i' that the most ir timate entente be- I r.\nce,
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    • 165 8 London, September 19. N*-w York A reward of $lO,OOO is offered lor information as regards the Wall Street bomb affair. The newspapers state that discovery of parts of a clock mechanism has convinced the authorities that ..!i enormous bomb was used, while he owner of the wagon
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    • 59 8 London, September 21. There is a serious development in the Irish munitions dispute. The Great Northern has suspended traffic from Dundalk to Enniskillen, making 563 miles on the three Irish trunk lines without passenger traffic. The curtailment, which is a direct result of the refusal of men to transport
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    • 81 8 London, September 19. Speaking at the Grocers Exhibition in London. Mr. Mccurdy, the Food Controller, declared that apart from a possible coal strike, food prices by Christmas would have risen to such an extent as to make the working-class family weekly food bills 9s. 6d. more
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    • 44 8 London, September 21. Tin l!i hevists continue the*ir hasty re’'a* •■be distric* east and south-east fL; yr. The Doles are pursuing and ,IV r the G licinn border at Brody d I :ntyn. Too Doles to the north < i upc Lubno.
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    • 83 8 London, September 21. The Siairuv e L-inct* I'urachatrn is touring the uniris 4 .rial centres of Britain, lie is troiiiK t<> Newer*stle as the truest of the Lord Mayor an*l visits Armstrongs’ works at Fls wick. London, September 20. Stockholn Owing to the groat shortage of hopsos, tii Jj.aii'ls
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  • 694 8 Messis. Baker. Fearon ami Co., Kuala Lumpur, reported at f» p.m. on Friday The week under review, so far at the rubber section of the share market is concern I. has been the most depressing one on record for a long
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  • 212 8 The Malay Mail says :-\Vo l three officials and two unoflie K M made up their minds not to and when they retire. And inM? f"** three eases out of these five dl 1 a has been decided
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  • 234 8 The Siamese Tin Syndicate made nearly the same profit last year as in the prec* ing period, viz., £34,159, as compared ra 1*35,652, and the dividend rate is be:;* maintained at 25 per cent, by the payrr.r of a final 5 per cent, for the past ytr The
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  • 291 8 0 The International Court, Bangkok, ha c •onchuled the hearing of a charge of murder against three Pathuns in connection with the death of another Pnthan in Anuwongse Road. The first witness called Vr. Brighouse yesterday, says the Barurkok Times of September 9, on behalf
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  • 294 10 The Singapore Municipal ominbus service between Tcluk Ayer market and the cement works at Pasir Panjang, has entered upon a career of usefulness which augurs well for future extensions to other outlying parts. The service has now run for a
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  • 148 10 Ma laya- Madras Steamer Service. At tt»e recent meeting of the Federal Council, tin* Resident of Selangor moved -That this Council approves the payment out of the Indian Immigration Fund of a sum of $30,000 being a share of the annual subsidy paid to the British Indian Steam Navigation Company,
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  • 450 10 l The text of a commission issued to the Hon. Mr. R. J. Addie, Messrs. W. G. Hennings, M. V. Fillai, .John Robertson, D. I .1. Waul, ami Dr. S. C. Vin, M. 8., M.R.C.S., in connection with the Singapore trami ways, is published in
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  • 200 10 Messrs. Fraser and Co's Weekly Report. Messrs. Fraser and Co. report as follows :—The business of the week has been extraordinarily restricted which, under existing circumstances, is all for the good and until local financial conditions settle themselves there can be no object in marking down prices
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  • 92 10 The rate of mortality in the Settlement of Singapore for the week ended September 4 was 30.73. The total number of deaths was 230 of which 163 were male subjects and 67 female. Convulsions claimed 33, phthisis 26, malaria fever 35, typhoid fever 1, plague 0, cerebro-spinal
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  • 568 10 In the Johore Government Gazette, of September lti, is published the text of rules governing grunts of land in respect of war service. (1> The following are the terms and ■oiiditions upon which land in Johore (together with assistance by way of
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  • 102 10 A telephone message was received at the Kuala Lumpur fire Station at 9.15 p.m. on Sunday from Mr. Weirman that Batu village was on fire. On arrival of the brigade the place was found to be gutted. It was ascertained that a row of 17 shops
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  • 58 10 An interesting arrival in port on Friday was the American steamer Saueon, 5,784 tons, belonging to the United States Shipping Board (Emergency Fleet Corporation) which came in from I’a tow with a full cargo of Chinese coal consigned to Denmark being a part of an order for 10,000
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  • 543 10 Massacre of Christians. Church Desecrated: Vi llage Set On Fire. Following are further detail* rf saore of Chrstiana conoemin,. w h T" ter wired a few days hack ch R< u What is probably one of the rages even in the disturbed hXt Ut China is reported from \in m
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  • 124 10 The Times of Malaya of September says Mt. Isaac Boadle, who P w n the Badak property, and who Ipoh on business, has received ing cable from Mr. Harry Gildl. who his address as care of the L through Melbourne Orton challeng boroa the press the correctness
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  • 111 10 In the course of a leading to Times criticises the increasing 1 j s appoint elderly men whose P u Co lo* approaching an end as governo s 'pht* nies and agents general in Lon t > paper adds that it is hardly rt a contiask young
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1100 12 true to it and to ourseivos.- Straits Times, September 17. There are some excellent authorities who say that the most marvellous work done during the great war was done by the British in Mesopotamia. They had to go there—and they found fever, poverty, and misery of every description
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    • 1174 12 CAN WE CONTROL preservation.—Straits Times e nabIt 18. Se Ptemb«r A very important question just now is whether control of production is possible to save the rubber industry from a disastrous slump in prices. Several of our correspondents have taken for granted that no action is possible without the co-opera-tion
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    • 1168 12 compulsion which exists.—Straits Times, September 20. Wo congratulate the F.M.S. Govo ram on its decision to give the volant,™ system a trial, though, as we explain i at 2 we do not think that the scheme goe, u far enough. In Singapore, we have, 7 ly speaking,
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    • 1171 13 —Straits Times, September 21. Failures and rumours of failures are the chief theme of gossip in Singapore. The millions involved in one case threaten to bring down a pood many who mipht have weathered the storm if the bip shock to credit had not been piven. Larpely
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    • 1235 13 -Straits Times, September 22. Hitherto every strike or threat of n strike in the coal trade has been nv't by some concession. The men ark for 20'rise and they get 10/-. They ask for another 20/- and they get another 10/. and so it has gone on
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    • 1197 13 —Straits Times, September 23. Signor CJiolitti may be a more weakling or a constructive geniuß. Ho may even, and this seems most probable, be a mere ppertunist who has averted certain revolution by entering on a great experiment with the industries of his country. The telegrams have given
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  • 1495 14 At the Assizes on the 10th instant, ho" /c* the ag. Chief Justice, Sir John Hu ’.mill, K.C., Ong Yew Kai was found not guilty, on a charge of using as in.mo a forged document and was acquitted. The charge referred to
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  • 227 14 The Birarg U mett". of th*" 151 h in-tanV states :—A party of five, consisting of clc.si.;. M rpny, Barlow, Livingstone. Eoer -.ri 1 Uhi lwell went out shooting 0:1 Sunday last Sunv.m I’im.ng, Bullk Pulau, r*n*l during ill" afternoon took to the se.i t loo!: *itf .r
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  • 117 14 C a sns have* arisen where former enemy aliens have arrived in the Colony with a view to transhipment to neutral ports. Their passports have been properly visaed by British authorities in Europe for the journey via British ports but it has been imposs.ble to let them
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  • 741 14 Federal Council. Government’s Replie s to The Unofficials. A. he Feueral Council meeting Kua.a Lumpur, on the 15th inJt at Sooretnry, reports the Malay Mai v. c. -ho points raised \r- ln f. eal Members saitl he was entir».u. or of the introduction of a Bill* f 0 t lt.
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  • 60 14 A beautiful large size oil painting 11.M.5. Malaya ploughing the high, followed by two modern cruisers, 4 much-admired object in the r°‘ bj‘ e Council Chamber yesterday. Malayan Leader of the 16th mstn r;i nie painting in enclosed in a heavy g> .b j, and is hung on
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  • Sporting News and Notes.
    • 450 15 The last match of the S.C.C. cricket reason was played on Saturday between Married, captained by O. P. Griffith-Jones, and Single, captained by N. A. M. Griffin. The result was a win for the Single eleven y 44 runs. Batting first, the winners opened with Aisiter
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    • 980 15 R.T.G.,” a member of the S.C.C. has kindly taken the trouble to work out the cricket averages for the season. The match wih the S.R.C. is not included. The figures are as follows Batting. Played in five matches or more 9} n JC tc T. H ©.5
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    • 148 15 Koleh sailing enthusiasts at the Swimming Club have started a series of handicap races to take place on low tide Sunday mornings when there is no swimming race. The first of th< -c was sailed on Sunday, and a pleasant race resulted in .Seabrooke being first, after
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    • 317 15 American D avis Cup Team. A Reuter New Y irk message of tbe 15th says :—The following t am has been oho o n to meet Australasia in the challenge round of the Davis Cup in December Tilden, John ton, R. N. Williams and Samu I Hardy aptain. The team
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    • 57 15 Mr. Yeow Kim Swee, the donor of the Malacca Football League Shield, has been further generous in offering a silver cup and eleven medals to be competed for by the pupils of High School, Malacca. The league is under the management of Mr. J. P. H.
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    • 210 15 A great number of enquiries are being made regarding the change in t.uw 6 of Association Football. Law 6 deals with offside, ami it is the thing about the throwin that is exercising the mind of many club secretaries. In these circumstances s« cretaries—and followers of
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    • 222 15 The annual general meeting of the members of the Singapore Polo Club was held in the Exchange Buildingson Tuesday afternoon, with the President, Mr. 11. C. Cooko* Yarborough, in the chair. In moving the adoption of th report and accounts, the working account of which showed a
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    • 229 15 A Reuter message from Dr 1 dated the 15th states Miss America, which was re <• ntly successful at (’owes, won the gold challenge up, tho American motor-boat c! »s-ic, laiming the world’s record w*th thirty miles in 25 min. 37 secs. j L.L.T.C. Tournament L
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    • 111 15 The match between the Singapore and Keppel Golf Clubs, which was played, off over the Keppel links on Sunday, resulted in a win for the S.G.C. by IH. The scores were as follows, visiting players being mentioned first:— Ford and Miles 1, Jones and White K. Acton und Sturrock
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    • 430 15 RESULTS ON SEPTEMBER Hi: Championship. Swindell beat Wells, 6—2, 6—3. Sinclair beat Major Shore, 6—1, 0—l. A. Doubles. Franklin and Yeldon scr. v. Battishill and Cunradi owe 15.2, unfinished. B. Doubles. Coleman and Langham-Carter acr. beat Stredwick and Wilson owe 4, 6—1* 6—1. Bailey ami Marsh scr.
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    • 37 16 Our Penang correspondent wires that Threlfall has won the Penang Cricket Club tennis championship for the tenth time, beating Milner G—2, 4—G, G—o. He was also a winner in championship pairs and profession pairs. C
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    • 33 16 A Reut»*r message from Philadelphia, dated the litth, .states that Mrs. M. B. Mallory won the women’s national singles lawn tennis championship, defeating Miss Marion Zinderstein G—«'{, G—l. >. r
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    • 32 16 A Router message of the 15th states The match Middlesex v. Rest of Knjrlatu! at the Oval was drawn. The Rest declared with G0.*l for three. Hobbs ma. e 215.
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  • 335 16 The most serious motor-ear mishap so far reported during the week-end occurred in Anson Road on Saturday morning, shortly before nine o’clock, when a Chinese was knocked down and killed. The driver of the car—No. SUo6—was arrested and is being
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  • 71 16 Strait* Times in not responsible for the ".'.lmons of its corr«o pondent*. Corree- i.Jvnts nhould bear in mind that letter* I. b» short and to the point. Long ra Hiding cpie tic.4 are liable to be rejected or ru(.: t sly cut down. vV.rrespo.ndent* must :nc •4- their names,
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  • 328 16 'l*o the Editor of tin- Straits Times. I Sir, —Your leading article in to-day’s issue gives food for reflection. Our J capitalists have always shown great eagernes.- to invest in industries prom.sing great protits and quick returns, regardless i f tI!• nature of the enterprise. Sir John A
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  • 139 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.- Reading your paper of September 17 1 notice a short paragraph re H.M.S. Malaya stating that a large size oil painting has just been received and is at present hanging on the wall of the Council Chamber. As this ship
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  • 74 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.—I endorse the remarks of a Passenger in your journal of yesterday’s date and sincerely hope the authorities concerned will lose no time in carrying out the arrangements suggested, i.e., the removal of the starting point to alongside Teluk Ayer
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  • 181 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. S,r.-Can you Mr. Editor tell me why ihe 10 [ter cent, bonus for the year 1919 is jiaid only to the principals and clerical hands of the Municipality of Singapore, and the peons and tambies are struck off -he Lst
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  • 116 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —A few months ago I read an article in your paper complaining about exhorbitant fares demanded by the drivers of motor car* plying for hire. If the fare of 20 cents per mile within Municipal limits is only allowed by
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  • 84 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir. -As the writer under above heading has referred to the law it might be interesting to draw attention to the fact that the case is sub judice and should not be discussed in the public press. Wlun
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  • 979 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir. —You have chosen an opportune mom* »t for bringing up the question of voluntary or compulsory service in your leader of yesterday as there seemed to be some danger of this matter being forgotten. There are some questions raised
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  • 204 16 To the Editor of the Straits Time* Sir.—With reference to tho ree-i appeal made by Field Marshal Loni Ha, on the subject of the unemployment returned ex-service men at home! I shea like to draw the attention of the Br:t> public of this Settlement
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  • 222 16 The Victoria Theatre was not enough for all those who wanted to in for the second of the children’s conce which was given on Saturday afterno* An excellent programme had Pf en a ranged and was carried through with gu success, every item being received enthusiasm. The orchestra,
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  • 1310 17 Salvage operations aboard of the stcan'cr Altenburg which has been ashore or. Lima Island, near the Horsburg Light, since the -‘trd inst., stopped abruptly on Monday in consequence of a terrible tragedy involving the lives of six persons.
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  • 327 17 We are very glad indeed to hear officially from Capt. J. A. Campbell, president cf the Straits Merchant Service Guild, that at the half-yearly general meeting of the members held in the Guild Rooms on the Kith inst., it w-as unanimously decided to approach the Government
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  • 616 17 From the report, for the year 1919, of the Hon. Mr. J. L. Humphreys, British Adviser, Trengganu, we take the following interesting reference A commission presided over by the Hon. Sir John Bucknill, K.C., Chief Justice, Straits Settlements, was appointed
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  • 157 17 The local manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China advises having received the following telegram from their head office in London -At meeting of shareholders called for October f> Board of Directors will propose subdivide present shares into 400, (KM) £T» each also
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  • 474 17 The following n p rt it- -applied by the secretary The statutory meeting of the Overseas Assurance Corporation, Lindt <l, was held on Tuesday, September 21. at 11 a.m. The Hon. Dr. I.im Boon Kong, 0.8. E., (chairman) presided, and the following were
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  • 283 17 Before the Federal Council met at Kuala Lumpur on the lath m 1.. His Excellency the High Commissioner, Sir Laurence Guil'emard, K.C.8., presented the King’s Police Medal to Police Constable Che Lah bin Mat of tin* F.M.S. Police Force. The
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  • 54 17 Sungei Gan.— Plant 4 1 It) pis., tributo 2.0 H pis., total 47.1 H pis. Ting Kd. Plant 44.22 Ms., tr hut.e 74.07 pis., total 11S. I*i phs. ’i he pontoon was floated to a m-w site d mg the month. Sluicing operation- wr arried on up
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  • 3275 18 At tin* Ap.sizts on Monday before the ag. Chief Justice, Sir John Bucknill, K.C., Mr. A. W. Cooper, of the Municipality, was charged with musing death by a rash or negligent act. The case arises out of the motor
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  • 157 18 At a sub-committee of the Municipal Commissioners on the 17th inst., in reply to Mr. Low, the President stated that a prelininary bacteriological examination of the water in Fort Canning Salt Water Tank had been made, and the Bacteriologist’s report was as follows Nine samples
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  • 131 18 The Siamese Naval destroyer Phrarjanj formerly the British destroyer Kadiam. which has arrived in Singapore o way to Bangkok, had a •££s& adventurous voyage out. South P was left on July 22. In the Bay of Bist y the destroyer ran out of oil, an :„h stated,
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  • 50 18 In the third police cour a fine Ahmat bin Pellah was sentew imprison* of $125 or five months r goro a nd merit fort driving car S:)410 i place negligent manner the same yesterday, and also with dri' p ro »e* car without a licence. Insp. cuted.
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  • 160 19 I Messrs. Guthrie and 0., agents for the* British North Borneo Government, have E.ceived the following message from the Boverner Communicate to pre«s folding letter received by Chartered CornL an y from Col* nal O.Tee, boyivs :~I am Erected by Viscount Milner
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  • 286 19 The following properties weiv sola by Auction by Messrs. Cheung Koon Seng ana L at their saleroom 30, Kling Street, |n the loth instant. Bidding was [risk and the prices realised are consiUe i satisfactory. Freehold land off Ehar.gi Load, area 10,000 sq. feet, bought L mV.
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  • 178 19 An applicant, for a small Colonial appointment on the Gold Coast calls my attention, says Truth, to a piece of oil 1c.;.l meanness which unfairly penalises can- t s who reside it a distance front Lon n. The Crown A fronts, a’ter t '.in r vip
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  • 151 19 At the conclusion of the criminal cases, Ra ys the Malayan Leader in referring to the recent Assizes at Seremban, his L<»rd:p, Mr. Justice Watson, made some r athcr strong comments uponthucourtproVj dure. His Lordship said he shod i k> matter before Government. Ti.roug tii>.* lack of
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  • 55 19 Aneta Service. Weltevredcn, September 21. Calcutta, September 20 It is reported from Allahabad that the Bolshevists are now pouring troops into teiu.-.M Asia anil extending their hold on Bokhara. Merchants are fleeing to India with all their possessions. The Amir of Bokhara is negotiating with the
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  • 46 19 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 21. At the statutory meeting of Taprang (Siam) Mines, Mr. E. V. C. Thompson presiding said the mining r.ghts now were jver 447 acres. Application had been marb for a further b!o-k. Operations would commence within two months.
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  • 110 19 The President has given notice that at the ordinary meeting i»» be hold today, he will move the following That the Municipal Commissioners, in view of tli>* resignation of Dr. Middhton, Health Officer, record their high appreciation of the work he has done
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  • 120 19 The Admiralty have notified that four chief yeomen of signals or yeomen of signals are required for loan to the F.M.S. Government as meteorological observers in the Malay States. The salary will be equivalent to i’49o a year, with free quar tors, etc. Candidates are to
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  • 93 19 The prolonged trial of Yeo Team Seng, managing proprietor of Chop .Jin Cheong >, and Ng«*t* Gunn, a traveiPn f merchant u v. n< s an! spirits, two of Id men orig.r.aliv charge l with l aving evaded duty n a large 'juantity <»i m nuk, came
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  • 203 19 About a p.m. on the 10th instant, a Mr. Charles Reginald Wells, who is employed in the Un.ted Engineers, alighted fr<-m a motor bus on the Katong Road and was knocked down by a motor car coming in the opposite direction being so seriously injured that he had
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  • 380 19 A grave warning about Britain’s little vars :s conveyed by Fie’d-Mnrshal Sir .lenry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial icneral Staff’, in a. memorandum dated Jecember 1, 1919, contained in a Blue dork issue! respecting British operations a: t year
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  • 64 19 Mr. M. W. IVtt, Chief Officer of the Shanghai Fire Brigade and formerly in charge of the Singapore Brigade, has had a narrow escape in an early morning blaze, falling through a burnt portion of the Ih.or, which was being heated by the flames, into
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  • 20 19 TAN.—At No. Ileeren Street, Malacca, on September 20, 11)20, to Mr. and Mrs. Tan Cheng Juay, of a daughter.
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  • 83 19 UI.ACK HALT#-- WATT. At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on Wednesday, September IA, 11)20, I.eonard A. Blackball, llatu Aram L t;it<*, Joiiore, to Kditb Watt, I.onmuy, Aberdeenabir**. WELSFORD CRACK. At St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, on Tuesday, Seplemtember i 1, 1020, the V'-n. Archdeacon Swindell ollici.it ing, Kdward Percy Welsford, youn;;e.
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  • 126 19 Singapore, Septembe r 23. EXCHANGE On London, Rank 4 m/a t/41/16 i *emund 2/313/16 Private 3 in. 3 credit* 2/4 25/32 On New York Demand 39*4 Private ho da>s 45*4 On France Bank 575 On India, Punk T.T. 121 On Hongkong, Bank d/d 90 p.c. pm. On
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  • 408 19 Singapore, September 23. MINING. let. Val. Pd. Buy ere. Sellers. 10 10 Ampang 12.00 I 1 Ayer Wong 1.10 1.25 IT £1 Kam. Kamunting 2.0.0 2.15.0 10 20 Kinta Assoc. 5.50 6.50 £1 £1 Kinta Tin 2.7.6 nom* 1 II it am Tin 2.60 2.80 1 1
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    • 87 19 NOTICE. The post free price of the Straits Times to the United Kingdom and foreign countries is $:i8 a year. The post free price of the Straits Budget is $11 a year to any part of the world, it is not necessary to subscribe for n year. The Hubsciptions for
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  • 120 19 DEATHS. (IRKI.NRURB. On August 20, PJ20, nt Cnlc i.i, i; i < i reenbu rg, beloved mother of hi i. <J. li in.-ley, m her OVtli year. Deeply regl'eLU d. .SKKT. On Saturday, September is, at N’o. 7-1, Race Oour.se Itoa-I, Mr.. Meet I.ian Kong (nee Koli Cheng .N’eo mother
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 98 1 General— Indian Labour 1 Local Rubber Auctions 1 August Rubber Returns 2 Kelantan Estates 2 Rubber Items 5 Kcmpas, Limited 5 Correspondence— The Rubber Slump 2 Restriction of Output 2 Rubber Problems 2 Meeting and Reporta— Tambalak Rubber 1 Bode Rubber Estates (1914) 1 Bukit Katil Rubber Estates 2
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    • 385 1 The Malay Mail says :—Messrs. Cumberbatch and Co. write :—Commenting on the report of the Executive Committee upon Indian Labour which appeared in your paper on the 20th ultimo, a well known Ceylon Planter writes as follows, which may be of interest
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    • 732 1 The annual general meeting of Tambalak Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held at Gresham House on Saturday. Mr. H. Robinson was in the other chair, and the others present were Messrs. C. V. Miles and D. M. Robinson (directors), Khoo Kim Lian (manager), F.
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    • 505 1 The sixth ordinary general meeting of the Bode Rubber Estates (1914), Ltd., was held on August 10, at Winchester House, E.C., Sir C. H. Rason (the .hairman) presiding. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said that the
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    • 478 1 The 4C4th auction of the Singapoi* Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associate was held on September 15 and 16, when there was catalogued 2,897,875 lbs, 1.293.69 tons. Offered 1,943,931 lbs 867.82 tons. Sold 1,124,942 lbs., *****0 tons. PRICES REALISED. Ribbed Smoked Sheet: Cents
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    • 65 2 [Th« Stntlte Tlbm U not ruponvibl* for the opinions of its corronpondents. Corre apon.ients Bhould bear in mind that letters must be st ort and to the point. Lon* ratnrilmg: are liable to be rejected or ratbleaely cul down. Correspondents mast enclose their names, not necessarily for publication but
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    • 218 2 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—I have read with interest Rubber Planter’s letter in the Straits Times of 13th instant and agree with him that it is about time steps were taken to put a stop to the manipulation of the big manufacturers if they
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    • 639 2 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —With reference to your leader under the above heading in your issue of 14th mst. it is difficult for a layman to formulate an cpinion or to offer any feasible suggestions for overcoming the present serious state of overproduction
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    • 889 2 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—In regard to the effect of restricof output on the price of rubber I “sun>lus k P H ir V“ t that the expected surplus of about 40,000 tons is bv no means all real surplus. Probably stocks amounting to at
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    • 445 2 Benar.—9.sG7 lbs. 8uj0ng.—23,349 lbs. Henrietta.— 48,008 lbs. Hevea (J0h0re).—24,582 lbs. Kuala Geh.—20,333 lbs. Kuala Pergau.—3o,47o lbs. Kamasan.—24,soo lbs. Kota T.nggi (Johore).—3o,ooo lbs. kundor.— 21,889 lbs. Kepong Ma1ay.—45,019 lbs. Kasintoe.—62,B43 lbs. Kuala Reman.— 84,302 lbs. The estates i Pahang Consolidated Company, Ltd., are now being run as a
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    • 694 2 Banirkck Tin™ In, f 0 0w j n art.i le regarding toe ea alleged illtreatment of Siamese in Kel mtan It is sometimes a veiy _-|t matter to get at the truth, even when Governau;nt/s f'ier. dlaboration, Mevotc their best energies i.»
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    • 126 2 Tho ten'll annual report of the directors of th liukit Katil Kuhher Estates, 1.t«1., fur the year ended April .'5O, IP2O, shows that the net profit fur tho year after deducting income tax and directors' fees amounted to $55,750.N1, to which has to he added the
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    • 2242 3 Tin cloven ib orj<iary g» m.»a1 meeting Ol tbe Bckit Mcr»*j.rr: Ruotur Company Ltd wr a he Id cn A »g t 0 »st Winoheattr Hco.r, 0 d B.o&d Street, (t.O,, Mr, a. 3 Aid'll r (ot./u»L.an ci tbv c
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    • 1218 3 Tbe of tbe Ando Datoh Plants 'iont if J.va, Limited, bas afdre tel tb. f iliowiog 0 rrnU. tn th*- abavcbolduva D >ar S*r or Mtdam\ Y >o wilt ol i*(*t that at tho last annov 1 m n et og I s»a»e1
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    • 379 3 The repot! of tbe Enevild Rabbet m Oiniamt Company i ot fth»*y tM o j ua 81. 1920 states that ia Kebab, atoie tbe oosiig if ido aooiaita, tbe oo uoaoy fats o to graoted by tbe G >vercment 644 retorvi of laud ly»Ag b'.iiwr.i o
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    • 189 3 Tb 6 report of tbe B ra J*vt) Blister let 1919 states that tbe p.ofit ir £i,728, to wbirb moat be added tbe smonot brooght ferw r AU ,247, m kiog together 4619 072 A» *f dtdaoting d«n H*iat>on of bo Idiogs aad ma-bioerv, X1.9T0, tbe dircofto'S
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    • 106 3 Tbe veport ot tbe Bongei Gfciaob Robber Company (in liqnulatioa) fo» tbe 14 naontf tded Ktb.nan 29,1920 statrstba* the If*' ort p harvested amounted to 6VB H 2 Ibr. b« average nei prioe rraliud, ire !o, estimated valaH of umo'd porlioa, wss M 2 nnr poand Tbe
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    • 2247 4 Tbo Rceeral meeting of the share* li■>! 'rrp cf the BMot Robbe- E Utc, Ijiir.lt? d v ,ia bfcld oa Aagan: 12 v. t! o C r.«-t| R**o> c? tbe H kfcb Oiowtib* A-dccni.. c, \i6, E obcap, E C.| Mi. A.
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    • 1019 4 I be i veniu crJiaary g De al txceting cl ibo blian ho!d» ra cf tlu J niu Kaeb 1 *<-;•» h. L-*i,i\. d, b*! 1 o. A ,0*1 l« A v l •> it** ‘jvol H -tinf, E 1;,
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    • 1078 4 Tf.ofr» lb acrn*.l ru iio« of tbo Hc-mptl Ru b E'tulip, Liu i-> r, vtii held cn 18 «t M i.ciuic JLitbc ll.ceo, E. J., £l. F»*i k Coi tuac pn Moir.v. The Cbaiamav, lu movicj? tbe adopter of ibj piii a&4
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    • 225 4 The »i port r.f tb" Pa k E 'talr fot 19 9 nsa 1 h ifivt Ibo c 11 e (H tiati) hiv« e <1 t I'e f,7rfS (ft L-fc.B* J 1 If 7 '***'.B in 19. H; 1 ur, VH5f4 it*, uh! 1 7 4 ibh; kpii
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    • 743 5 At the Federal Council meeting last week Mr. W. Duncan during the discussion said :—My object in asking the questions standing in my name was a desire to have official light thrown on a subject which is at th s moment of vast
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    • 39 5 The directors of Ken pas I.td., have decided to put 20 per cent, of their tappable area on alternate duy tapping, to be extende l as circumstances warrant. This ineans paying olf a certain amount of labour.
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    • 609 5 The matter of the petition for the winding up of the United Malaysian Rubber Company was mentioned in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Barrett Lennard on Monday and further adjourned for a fortnight. With reference to Notification No. 28, published in the F.M.S. Government Gazette of January
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    • 177 5 The report of the British Rubber Estates of Java for 1919 states that the profit and loss account shows a cred t balance of £17,697, to which must be added £4,548 brought forward, making available £22,256. The directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 15
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    • 1006 5 Stock p»r Exchange Par p T °w Value. Company. Prices, Value. Company. iw?* 25 Augusts. 2/- Anglo-Malay 40/- £1 Linggi 57^ £1 Batu Caves 37/6 2/- London Asiatic g/g £1 Bakap Plantns. 31/6 £1
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    • 534 6 It Bn|TjMwn.T' -‘thli/an thing* &t*d2£S ii burry. A»4 tbt is jut why wb° >n!taMa to tbm mishaps L keep a bottle of UttWb Orloatil c eat hand. r abaolutoljr nothing equal to it fox r. he tortund nerves and wren chad, t uscu i ar Hatttro In m tho injured
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    • 134 7 V My Y* i J. J**. > BtT V "1 f |VB „Sr V *fa m M* r *s 1 r .jK'i'»— >\ ,^k' 1 <v .JV.... 4i^^H9L' 4 v v UPTON'S TEA ISSftL Nothing canaatiify the millions vBUM//// !jjlwrw§ij! 5 °f people all over the world, iBB|OTfc; lwißill¥ ////jwl
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