The Straits Budget, 21 July 1922

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1 9 The Straits Budget
  • 30 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES. VOL. LXXVI NO. 3362 Singapore, Friday, July 21, 1922 ESTABLISHED OVER THREE QUARTER OF A CEMT'RY. Price 25 cents.
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  • 235 1 LEADERS— I,‘u."ian Fn reason 12 Municipalised Tramways 12 International Si Ivency 12-1 Riitish Pros poets L'S Expenditure 13 Shipping Rivalry 14 General Loral ami Personal 1-2 Singapore's Water Supply 2 In. W'instodt’s Malay Dictionary 2 Reuter's Service 3-7 Dutch East Italics 7 Highway Robbery in Perak 7 I’ltinnn Rifles
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  • 3231 1 I li<* despatch ship Alacrity, Commander |,,,,v y R. Stevens, returned home last from the China Station, where r 'l'd duty for two commissions. The ‘Merity was the Commander-in-Chiefs yi’ ht in reality, and her return home is l f 1° economic reasons. She will be l’"ioe<i
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  • 540 2 SINGAPORE ’S WATER SUPPLY. References in Johore State Council. A* a in ting of Johore .Slate* Council on May *>, the minutes of which have just lien puMi.shed, the rep >rt of the s 1 Icct committee appointed to examine an 1 report on the terms on which the iny-
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  • 155 2 \»C- are in receipt of a copy of the com! and revised edition of an EnglishMalay Dictionary (in Roman characters), compiled by K. O. Winstedt, M.A., D. Lift. (Oxon), of the Malayan Civil Service and published by Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, I'td. The author, whose record
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  • 843 2 The fiteenth annual gcnenl tin' Lahat Mines, U.I., l; "r f 14 at Basinghall-sYrtt't K r" m' Walter J. Payne (the chairman i »V, Tito Secretary read the notice 'll, the meeting and the report of the au.li J lie chairman, in moving th.
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  • FRIDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 306 3 Reuter's Service. London, July 12. t,i cpiiit. marks have recovered to I,KB”> tu the support inspired by the belief I r e being better prospects of the n being taken in hand. London, July 12. i The explosion at Groden depot after the
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    • 164 3 London, July 13. iMr.iig- questions in the House of Conin'.":..'. Mr. Ke 11a way stated that the Govr? aient had further considered the quesrt of the Imperial wireless chain and l.v itcaied to erect in England a station 'he ultimate power contemplated by expert commission, instead of the
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    • 30 3 London, July 13. genera] reduction of railway rates \ugust 1 as a result of agreement n the Knglish and Welsh companies 1 (‘deration of British Industries t'lfiid yesterday.
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    • 28 3 London, July 12. of Trade returns for June 1 P"rts .£84,298,000, a decrease of 1 J nipared with June last year, £••2,145,000, an increase of ,1100.
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    • 40 3 London, July 13. I'ourteon were killed and 20 injured through the fall of the Almeida Mosque, the centre of >v 'iile the faithful were celebrating 1,1 of the patron saint. Immense was done to valuable antiquities mosque.
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    • 409 3 l.oi.dun, July 12. San Francisco A shortage of coal in the United States owing to the miners' ■■tr;ke has resulted in over om> d< /on si ip--1 cir.g chartered on behalf of San Francisco interests to import coal from Australia. Glasgow and Cardiff. London, July 13. Washington
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    • 113 3 London, July 12. Paris A message from Hamburg states that Herr Stinnex will inaugurate a shipping service from Hamburg t > India in October. London, July 12. Paris Declaring that the situation has become irremediable unless a speedy provisional agreement is reached, Germany has requested the Reparations
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    • 107 3 London, July 13. The Tea Bill, as amended in committee, provides penalties as already indicated for giving a false written warranty in respect of the net weight of tea sold, also for selling tea otherwise than by net weight, except that in the latter ease the penalty
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    • 270 3 London, July 12. At a meeting of the property subcominissb'ij at which Sir Lloyd Graeme presided and which lasted three hours, the president in unequivocal terms detailed tin* numerous points on which the Russians had failed to define their intentions, notably regarding the recognition of debts, the
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    • 140 3 London, July 12. The opening of the new South Irish parliament has been postponed indefinitely in view of the unsettled conditions. Roundabout communications have been established with Cork, but hitherto no information has been received from there. Reports from the Galway district indicate that the National troops
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    • 129 3 Manufacturers Reparation London, July 13. Replying to a deputation of the National I’mon of Manufacturers urging enforcement of the German reparations agreement, Mr. Lloyd George declined to discuss the question of reparations until the report of the Reparations Commission in Paris had been received, which he hoped would be in
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    • 91 3 London, July 12. In connection with the Prince of Wales’ tour, the King has made a number of appointments to the Victorian Order, including a Knight-Commander-•hip to Admiral Sir A. L. Dulf, K.C.8., and Commandorships to Captain the Honourable Herbert Meade, D. 5.0., commanding 11.M.5. Renown,
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    • 29 3 London, July 13. Tlii Bank of England discount rate is now three per cent. London, July 13. Mr. S/.e, the hincHc minister in Washington, hm, left for Berlin.
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  • SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 212 3 HKITKK’s Skkvick. London, .July 14. Pans: While M. Millerand and other notabilities were returning from tin* review at Longehamps on the ocea- ion of the National Fete, a man at the corner of the Avenue Meriimy, Champs Flyseos, twice fired
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    • 155 3 London, July 14. An important tatement upon Britain’s financial position was made by S!r R. Horne in the House of Commons. Replying to Mr. Asquith, he said the British debt to America at the present rate of exchange was ItJN millions sterling. The floating debt bad been reduced
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    • 148 3 London, July 14. Chicago A strike order lias been issued railing out 25,000 stationary fireim*n, engineers and oilers on the railways of the United States on July 17. Washington It is probable that United States troops will soon be employed to protect the railways against interference by
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    • 32 3 London, July Id. < alieut Three Moplahs were sentenced t death and three to transportation on a charge of murdering Khanehekkut/., an ex inspect' r of police, during last year’s rebellion.
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    • 45 3 London, July Id. Sydney The five ma ted baripie Prance, be world’s largest sailing ship, has been wrecked on a reef a hundred miles oiT the t coast of New aledonia. The crew took to the bo.it-. after n dreadful night** xpenence
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    • 400 4 I,wn<!on, July 1 I (ahim-t Minister* ami oversea** representative*. wen present at Downing Sired jit a dinner given I»\ Mr. Lloyd Cicorg* in honour of the Prince of Wains. Tin* I'riirn* Minister, in a speech wel comm- tin* Prince, said Many were doubtful
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    • 241 4 Distracted China.” London, July 11. Tin* Tinas, in a loader on Distracted China, emphasis'** the seriousness of the Disk of the now regime. It is «>f opinion that < hanir I o Lin’s doings net d not b(* regarded with anxiety or as more disquietjntr than the roea lei trance
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    • 128 4 London, July Iff. At Ihe annual meeting of the Purina Oil Co- Mr. Cargill, presiding, said the rca-' snnable hope of this year proving good was fairly well founded. The* actual saving in 11)21 was small. Trading results were down, elue to the* decline* in the value of
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    • 162 4 London, July 14. Appearunces point to tfreat activity south of Limerick. The Free Staters (apture of Wexford has seriously threatened the irregulars’ wine The latter art* reported to he evacuating Waterford City and falling hack on County Waterford. lie Free Staters
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    • 113 4 London, July 111. In tin- House of Lords, Lord Birkenhead .-aid lie believed we were at last witnessing the birth of the Irish nation. He boldly claimed that the situation today contained elements of promise which had not existed between Ireland and England f< r centuries. Murders,
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    • 115 4 London, July 14. Laneashne’s e-ase against the imposition of a ffff l/ffrd per cent, duty e»n German fabric gloves was explained at the Boarel e»f Traele committee of enquiry by Mr. William Howarti e>f Holton, representing the, c* Lton-spinning employers and workers. He said tin* eluty wernid eriousl.v
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    • 66 4 Lonelem, July I I. Paris: The Matin states that French doctors have* carried out experiments which conclusively show that the absorption of vaccine against typhus, elyscnte»ry anel chedera is much more efficacious than vaccination. Out of l,2ff*> persons in one elistriet. whe» absented anti-typhoid vaccine, only live* sulfereel
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    • 55 4 London, July 14. Brussel.-. The* newspaper Peuple an* nouiues that tlu* King has commuted the <h*atii sentence on Armand Jeannes to penal servitude for life. I Armand Jeannes, a Belgian, was sentenced to death, after a ten elays’ trial, tor wholesale espiemage under the Gerieans, including complicity in
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    • 91 4 London, July 11. Stocks of tea in the United Kingdom on June JO were, 170,51)9,000 Ihs., I <,091,000 Ihs. less than on June .’5O, 1921, ami apparently the lowest figure since November, 1919. Practically no stocks ol the 1921 crop remain in India and tlu* present annual requirements
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    • 308 4 London. July l Tlv hreukdi wn at The ll mi**, simult:tfi ,i-|\ v .til *1 e Lap of ilf Cen.MV. mark. ha- again focuvod attention «»n the (!«Th an lit.uncial proinein, which, with tlu* aim. nnarckieal condition of Austria, Ithreatening western Kurop.* w:tr.
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    • 61 4 London. July l'». Vienna An otlicial demand from Britain for iln* extradition of Be*van has reach* -i the supreme court. The work < f trai.s’ation and preparation of a mass of d cumcnts will occupy at least a week and the final decision regarding extradition will possibly
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    • 33 4 London, July 14. For the first time r *ir many months the r. st of living r f sc f*ur points la-t month •.ml is now S 4 above pre-war.
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    • 214 4 London. July 12. Sydney The crew of the sailing ship France have been safely landed. London, July 14. A blind girl was among 500 graduates capped at Edinburgh University yesterday by Sir James Ewing. The recipients of decrees included students from the Dominions. India, Japan and China. London, July
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  • MONDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 698 4 Kf.iter’s Service. Louden, Jul> V Dublin A communique states th«t* the irregulars hold the barracks at Water ford and have mined the roads m t b tt city. Fighting has been in progress at Limerick since Tuesday.
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    • 137 5 9 London, July 15. diington In the course of Cabinet I vision'of the shopmen’s strike, the p ;<ter-(Jeneral intimated that the ,V the mails were being carried ~11V. although there were delays at p ints. lie declared that a t l a id commercial aeroplanes were in',
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    • 127 5 London, July 15. J mi, valuable gift of Japanese I aoiiaor ia> been received by the Victoria 1 aI A hut Museum, Mr. R. A. Pfungst havirg presented to the nation the whole 1 f fine collection of medicine cases, w hich have been exhibited on loan for
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    • 97 5 London, July 15. Wadiinirton Replying to a corrcspon- Mr. Hughes said he saw no prospect "f t Lnited States sharing in the f nance of a permanent court of n:d justice until provision was whereby she had an appropriate n th*- election of the court’s judges
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    • 75 5 London. July 15. In a railway accident due to 1 1 man's error, three were killed and ‘“•■riously injured. London, July 15. When a train was entering the du Xord the rear porti m was in- switched off on to another breaking the couplings. The roar rr
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    • 72 5 London, July 1<>. Le Temps says thiit through the ■/oediary of the president of the Hague nee, the Royal Dutch Shell Com- ■'>' invited representatives of the lM petroleum interests to a conferHi a view to considering the resumpf work in the Caucasian oilfields. Bo- lonel Boyle,
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    • 31 5 London, July 15. cow communique stutes that as of fighting th,o complete over"f Knvor Pasha’s Bokharan ad7' ,s imminent. Herman consulate at Petrograd was r 'd on July 9.
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    • 187 5 L< !>i m, July 5 t 1 tiii> 1 Juvi t. a well-known anar rliist, evidently dirceted tin* attempted outrage t.n M. Milhrand, whose escape has evoked numberless congratulations. London, July 15. IV.ris It is understood that Germany las paid the thirly-two
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    • 106 5 London, July 17. Geneva The economic expert whom Dr. Nansen sent to the Ukraine has returned and reports an appalling situation at KiefT, Kharkoff and Odessa, which are flooded with famine refugees crowding the railway stations and without food owing: to the lack of municipal resources. Bodies arc
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    • 82 5 London, July 16. The Hague It is officially stated that M. Patyn, president of the non-Russian commission, has sent a letter to M. Litvinotf stating that the presidents and members of the three sub-commissions unanimously agree with the statement of the president of the third sub-commission that
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    • 56 5 London, July 17. Paris An aeroplane from Strasbourg, on the Paris-Strasbourg service, crashed at Saveme, Alsace-Lorraine. The pilot and four passengers were killed. London, July 17. Paris The passengers killed in the crash of the aeroplane from Strasbourg are described as Britishers named Evans, Caron and Desurmont. The
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    • 62 5 London, July 17. In the House of Commons at queslion time Mr. Baldwin said the application of the silk trade for protection under the Safeguarding of Industries Act had been refused by the Board of Trade because the trade was not able to put a prima facie case.
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    • 38 5 London, July 15. Simla It i> reported from Tatung that the third and'final attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, f• 1111 1 Seven coolies were killed by an avalanche and a European narrowly escaped.
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    • 30 5 London, July 15. Cairo: Lieut.-Colonel Piggott, of the Army Pay Department, was shot and w undid, it is believed fatally, in the litre </ ei'y. Ih" assailants escaped.
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  • TUESDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 350 5 Reuter's Service. London, July 17. There was much activity at St. James’s Palace on the occasion of the meeting ol the council of the League of Nations. A small crowd watched the arrival of the councillors, including Mr. Tang Tsai Fou,
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    • 119 5 London, July 17. Dublin It is believed that big events are impending in the south and west. The Government is preparing stern measures against the heart of the irregulars’ resistance, namely the line from Limerick to Waterford, where heavy fighting is expected. The Government is convinced that once the
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    • 72 5 London, July 17. A telegram from Capetown states that Marconis have submitted a scheme for the formation of a South African wireless company with a capital of V 500,000. four-fifths to he subscribed in London and the remainder in South Africa, to const ruet and work a station out.
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    • 55 5 London, July 17. The King opened the London C urtv Council’s new hall south of Westminster Hridge, the building of Which was inter rupted by the war and finally cost 1-1,000.000. If is expected to mark the beginning of the reconstruction and beaut iYjitior .f the s
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    • 235 5 (.Minion, .1 uly 17. In Hi' 1 lions' 1 of < ominous, Mr. Lloyd C.oigc ..riiio ii" <1 that unless tin* deadlock .'ii Ha,. was iiissipat» <1 at the elcvi Mh I; oir 11■ i• l*iiti«ii delegates would ii*t 'ini Hi's \v»
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    • 114 5 London, July 17. The grand jury at the Old Bailey found a true hill against Dunn and O’Sullivan, the murderers of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. A rule for attachment for alleged con- mpt of court was granted in the King’s R nch, early this month, against the Boswell
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    • 37 5 London, July 17. Wheeling, West Virginia Tin* action of tin* strikers in liiinjf a part of the Richland colliery led to fighting in which ten were killed, including the sheriff and several of his agents.
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    • 108 5 London, July 17. MV. Robert Sm il lie, .speaking al Pontypridd, said they were told there wouhl not he another war, hut capitalists* forced bring one. There were coal* fields in China when* it was possible to obtain more coal than Hritian, Germany France and America together
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    • 55 5 London, July 17 Sir Richard bane, ex-Associate Chief Inspector of the Chinese Salt Revenue, leaves Kngland for China in October to participate as one of the British representative!- in a special conference of the ftowers at Peking on the Chinese cl tom. tariff as an onto me of
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    • 49 5 London, July 17. Ottawa: The Prime Minister, who has returned from Washington, -.ays that in addition to the Rush Hu trot agreement the problems of the fisheries and great waterways, Canadian representation at Washineton and reciprocal treatment in ncorm* taxation were discussed, but not rad-* masters.
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  • WEDNESDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 268 6 United States Strikes. Thirteen Killed in Miners Fight. Kl.t'lMj’s Sl.lt' 1* London. July IT. Wa; iiinuton It m understood that hpecdic propaganda to eml the coal am railway str.k» s wa- <l isc u e<t at a\N Inti ilous 'conference between Pre ident llarding, t.overnor Sproul and othei oflicial of
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    • 194 6 London. July 18Their Majesties and Queen Alexandra, with tin* I’rince of Wales ns best man, also Princess Mary and l.orl Lascelles were ovated by thouaanda who flocked to Ft. Margaret’s. Westminster, to witness the brilliant pan nut at the marriage of Lord Lou s Mounthatton to
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    • 158 6 London, July IS. < The* now Lloyd's Resistor shows a not increase in *dcnm tonnage coin pared w;th pre-war of 11,288,000 tons, and compared with tin* previous year of 2,500,000 tons. The largest increases for the year tire. Germany 1,1 1 ,tiOO tons, Holland 400,000 tons, Pritish Itominions
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    • 91 6 London, July 18. Mr. Halliday Mn.\u ,f ney, chairman of the Si inn Rriti.-h Trade c "lation, has sent letter to the press requesting all interested in the welfare of (Tena to give an opinion regarding tlv alloeaUon of the Boxer indemnity to the eneou.-agement of ft l
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    • 299 6 London, July IN. Ih dill Ratheiiau’s suspected murderers, I i i her ami koin, win in the police with i .otor cars and digs lave been hunt :.r .u-liout fierinatiy, w< re tracked yesterday tu Saah ck Castl near Umlum s' u
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    • 141 6 London, July 18. The Ha guc The Ru ssian delegation has F t accepted the invitation to meet the private property sub-ccniniission this morning. M. Litvin ff sent a letter to tlu* president asking for a meeting <f th whole «.f the << > imi.-si-ms. rot sub-coin-missions,
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    • 80 6 London, July IS. A h>ng controversy on the conferment of honours was ventilated in the Houses of Commons and Lords, where motions standing in the name of a large and influential section of Parliamentarians were debated. The Prime Minister announced the appointment of a Royal Commission to assist Prime
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    • 62 6 London, July 17. Washington The Department of Comim ice announces that the foreign trade of th United States in the financial year endingl June 20 showed a favourable balance of $1 ,if»2,ooo,ooo, a decline of nearly ,$2,000,000,000 from the previous year. The exports were $2,770,000,000 and
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    • 73 6 London, July 18. Pai is The four F.nglishnien killed in the aeroplane crash were from the Midhands. They were interested in the motor grand prix at Strasbourg, whence they were returning to Paris. The disaster is the topic of the moment in the press, v. I.i, h i
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    • 242 6 London, July Ik. 1 hum aid O’Sullivan, the murderer* of Field-Marshal Sir Henry W Ison, have Leon sentenced to death. London. July 18. Xev.' cvid Mo-' a Muced at the trutl of Field Mai.-, al Wilson's murderer.*, at the Old 11a lev. showed that Dunn and O’Sullivan had unha
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    • 234 6 London. July 17. The Council of the League of Nations decided to request the (lovernm* nts of the United States and Germany to nominate delegates to the advisory committee for the suppression of the traffic in women and children. Mr. Harris, president i f the committee, stated
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    • 52 6 London, July l«s. Stockholm The SvenskadagbladV Riga correspondent is reliably informed that Lenin was murdered on July while travelling to the Caucasus, by a member of the radical party, which is now in power at Moscow. The body was thrown into the Don. It is believed that Lenin
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    • 43 6 London, July 17. The Imperial Tobacco Company’s dividend for six months is 5% per cent, on the A preference, (J per cent, on the II preference, 10 per cent, on the C preference and TVs per cent, on the ordinary shares.
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    • 21 6 London, July IS. Simla The aviator, Major Blake, has left Bushire and is expected at Karachi this evening.
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    • 44 6 London, July is. I he feature of late dealings in the exn""e market is tlie American buying of \llied currencies which is attributed to the inter-AHied debts question. Sterling improved to $44%, francs 51.70, Belgian francs 55 and Italy D2 )4 lires.
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  • THURSDAY’S TELEGRAMS
    • 264 6 K t Si Lon.hr t J u i_ v B.rlin Dr. and Mrs. Stein have been ..jested, it is presumed that thev knew P r ese, ce the murderer* f Kathenau :n their residence. Stein i adh. rent of the German Nationalist Virl
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    • 131 6 London, July lp lhe Daily News spates that the Sino rench agreement for refloating tinBanque lndustriclle de Chine by means »f the Boxer indemnity is reported to lave been signed. it says the French •hare of the indemnity consists of nmo uinual payments of 1!, 101,000 gold and
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    • 97 6 London, July 10 lie Hague At a plenary meeting of tic i'o; vice M. Litvinow said l.e proposed t< a ihe Mosci a (love rnmei.t whether ’.Vii > prepared to acknowledge the debt "f iand its ored' cesser•< and agree to ceii:per.. -ate foreigner i f r
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    • 80 6 London, July It* In the House of Commons, replying tc a question as to whether he had received rt prt sentations from Canada on the dc sirabilit.v of remitting a part of the Boxer indemnity, so that Canada could bonctit by its being devoted to educational pur poses,
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    • 28 6 London, July B* Riga A Moscow message says that tr Siberian Archbishop Anatoly has beer condemned to death for refusing to sur render church treasures.
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    • 205 7 London, July IS. The international commission 0 riai navigation meeting here decided tha» fifteen states will be represented on tl» > commission each year, including Britain's dominions and India. A perni.aiv nt secretariat will be domiciled in Paris. The commission will be under the authority of the League of
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    • 139 7 London, July 18. New York So far two are announced a* killed and 30 injured by an explosion in a chemical warehouse which tore huge holes in surrounding buildings and started a conflagration described as the largest since the famous Equitable Building fire. London, July 18. Philadelphia
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    • 76 7 London, July 19. The Board of Trade Committee of Enquiry into the fabric gloves question •'miciuded its public sittings to-day. The chef feature was the evidence of Mr. W. Picldiam, representing the fabric glove manufacturers, who expressed the opinion that Lancashire could not seriously beh've that the imposition
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    • 56 7 London, July 19. An Admiralty salvage steamer has arat Londonderry after successful ’["rations on the hull of the Laurentic, 'win h was mined in the war off the coast Donegal. Divers in the first two iiiotiih-; recovered bars of gold worth a nnMicti sterling. The salvage steamer
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    • 59 7 London, July 19. Amsterdam telegram gives details ,or,l( sharp fighting between Chinese jenion employed by the Nederland ••amship Company in which two were u ‘"1 and several were wounded. The intervened assisted by a large u ,ni r °f bystanders and arrested 24 1 The p o
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    • 37 7 London, July 18. ls nn °unced that Lord Louis Mount- < n s been promoted to be Knight 1 'niander of the Victorian Order. London. July 19. uix town The Assembly has ratified Mils embodying the Washington
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    • 148 7 London. J u ;y 19 Ihe silence at Limerick is broken bv a in S ?wr fr i corrps Pondc*nt received 'ih Ballinas i oe > which «>»- ims that there was heavy lighting at The havi »uc. rm i i .surrounding the irregular
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    • 82 7 London, July 19. The jubilee of the incorporation of the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies will be celebrated brilliantly at the Botanic Society’s Gardens, Regent’s Park on July 24. A banquet will be attended by diplomats, cabinet ministers and representatives of industries, science and art. A reception will
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  • 338 7 A correspondent who has large interests in the Dutch East Indies, and who is now in London, addressed an inquiry to the Foreign Office in reference to the status of British subjects in the Dutch Indies and more particularly in Sumatra.
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  • 85 7 Our Ipoh correspondent wires A daring highway robbery is reported from Lower Perak. Mr. J. Cruickshank, an assistant on Bagan Datoh Kstate, whilst conveying $7,000 from town to tin* estate on his motor cycle was suddenly set upon hy two Malays with sticks, who knocked Mr.
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  • 631 7 His Honour Mr. P. A. F. David had a case before him on Wednesday, incidents <n connect! n with which did not, in the opinion of the police authorities, permit of publication and, therefore, the proceedings were conducted in camera. The girl,
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  • 156 7 The secretary of Austral Malay Tin, Ctrl., reports the following outputs of its subsidiary companies for the half month of .July Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd.- Hours run (two dredges) 571, cubic yards treated JiO.OOO, total piculs 009.4(5, net value $24,924. A •-•am Kumbang Tin Dredging, Ltd.
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  • 685 7 Messrs. Fraser and weekly report dated the isth mst. states 1 In? Share Market na> been fairly act* Vl during the a.eh, wi;h transactions principally confined to Industrials, wlc re most shares show eontinued improventent. lin closes at I'l.’l '»>. Ml. a
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  • 91 7 II is announced in rd* rs tl it fix- L’ 70th l*nt Ktirnm Rifles will arrivt* .it IVnarig on S.S. Kdavana about tin* .".Oth inst. and w II urori i d by train to Taipitur to relieve tin* 1 TOtli Hn. Ibinna Rifles. Tlx* latter will ’*'\r
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  • Sporting News and Notes.
    • 500 8 Results in the Singapore lawn tennis championship on July 1.' were as follows Sherrington heat Ess, 0 .‘1, <1 4. Wodeh use heat K itch, retired, w.*. Honda heat Major Wwnhain, 1, •> 2. hoi/unn heat Tan Toon llor, 1. *i I. From the point
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    • 1578 8 Richard triumphant I hat is the title of a recent popular novel, and it applies very aptly to what happened < n Monday on the S.C.C. centre court, when Richard—or, to be less familiar, that very popular all round sportsman R. L. I).
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    • 290 8 Way «»n .July 13 resulted as follows Mixed Doubles B Class. Mr. and Mrs. de Havilland beat Mrs. Rooney and Mr. Hutchison, 6—3, 6—2. Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright beat Mr. and Mrs. Quinton, 6—5, 6—1. M iss tiuhbins and Air. Dobson beat Airs. Ager and
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    • 135 8 A Reuter wire of the 12th in,r At Wimbledon in the lawn Un i s: pionship finals, in the men’s Anderson and Lycett beat Pan, r O’Hara Wood 3-6, 7-9, b-4 Ihe holders of the doubles Jhanm Jl wrn. Lycett and Max latter was unable to participate lh
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    • 290 8 A Reuter wire of the 13th inst. At Bristol in the second round of Davis Cup competition, Count I)e Cnuner Spain, beat A. A. Fyzee, India. 1-6 (5—2, b—3, o—b, 6—l, and Manuel Alonzo Spam, beat A. H. Fyzee, India, b— l. fi__2 A Reuter wire of
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    • 102 8 A Reuter wire of the PJth inst. states Tilden has cabled to Patterson requesting him to play a match during the Davi« Cup meeting at Boston. Patterson, interviewed by Reuter prior to sailing from Southampton with the team. < a:<l he was willing
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    • 26 8 At Seremban on Saturday Negri Sen hilan proved victors over Johore in the AInlaya Cup match by the one goal
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    • 663 8 The Middlesex and the K c met on July 13 for the second mo in the league and the former what was their final league ma added another win to their eftafter a not very high class game, hy i 11
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    • 766 9 A* w lit meeting of the S.C.F.A. I Vu.»'. m Sic latter’s ground *n\\\d>i- i\ «ln w ai. 11 orm< us attendance. This U: in .-eccnd me -t of the teams in the !he game, which was fast ami v< J
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    • 747 9 1 hi* Harlequins' lucky star seems to have deserted them. On July 14 they sustained their second defeat of the week, this time from the Ex-Services, who are a greatly improved team, and as a result the Harlequins are not in an unbeatable position, while the Ex-Services
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    • 127 9 At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon the Singapore Football Association considered the protest received from the Harlequins lid* with regard to the recent match with the Ex-Services. The Harlequins complained that ihe Ex-Serviees side included a player who had also figured for the S.C.C. 11.
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    • 128 9 Tin* Singapore United have hr >ken their spell of in n-success. On Monday against N lelar, in their final match, they scored first and were leading up to near tin* end. Then Si tar trot. on terms with a jfoal which some of the spectators thought was
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    • 141 9 First Division. I*. W. 1). I.. (Jls. A. I»ts .Middlesex H 7 I Oil f» If, S. <’. C. K 5 0 17 7 10 S. C. F. A. S 2 I 5 II 10 It. Ci. A. 7 1 2 I r. 2:1 1 S.R.C. ..7 1
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    • 227 9 Another interesting game of hockey was played on the padang on July 12 when tin S.K.C. were at home to the Machine flip Fin;oon of tin* Middlesex Regiment. Play fmm the outset was of a very brisk character, and both sides had their share of attacking hut found the
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    • 431 9 A meeting of Rugby enthusiasts was held at Sega mat on July 12 and it was decided to form a North Johore Rugby Football C lub, and if poss bit* to ask. Muar to cooperate. There was an attendance of 22 Kurot>eans and Mr. B. J Barton
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    • 240 9 A 'lfutci wire of the wist givea li t* f llowii i' resuits A i i unbridge W<• il s Kent brut Sussex by <*iglit wickets. h’reeman took twelve wickets for 71 for the winners and Tat© eight for t»7 for Sussex. At (dourester Lancashire beat ClouresterMiin by
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    • 508 10 Thirteen lx.‘it.- .-tailed in the final race for 1 i l’i;p un Sunday, and as cord 11 ms and w< .Viter were till that could he de. ired a most enjoyable m mine’s ‘-port was the result. The race was started at ten o’clock, and the Gertrude
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    • 102 10 The So Yanis all-round championship race was contested at the Y.M.C.A. pool on Saturday and resulted as follows J. K. Tan 90.7 points, Tan Chong Kew 93.3, Seah Tong Ann HO, A. Kim 73.3, 11. W. I'hear 00. 7, Tan Soon Tye 50.7, Chia Kim
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    • 730 10 The thirteenth annual athletic sporU of the Anglo-Chinese School were held at the Oldham Hall grounds *n Miniday and favoured by ideal weather. Though Slmnmugam did well in heating his own record of last year in 100 yards and 220 yards by 2/5 seconds he lost tin*
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    • 193 10 Ihe following is the proposed programme for the S.C.C. Sports, which will be concluded on September 9. The times of the various events will be announced later. Monday, September 4 :—Rugby Drop Kick Final, Rugby Place Kick' Final, Throwing the Cricket Ball Final. Tuesday, September
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    • 71 10 I’lie first and second water polo teams of the Middlesex Regiment paid a visit to the 1 .M.C.A. Swimming pool on Sunday morning and met the first and second trains of tln* Y.M.C.A. Two excellent games were played and both resulted in victory for the Y.M.C.A. teams, as
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    • 42 10 Bisley The Kolapore Cup. A Reuter wire of the IHth inst. states \t Hisley the Kolapore Cup was won by ibe Mother Country with 1,080 points. Canada was second with 1,071 followed bv (Jinrnsey and India with 1.0.'1.'l and 995 points, respectively.
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    • 146 10 The following are the entries for the lir t nay’s r.i mg at Penang Kao i ami —The Bolter, Sorlrong, Clara, Mciry Maiden, Captain Cuttle (late r.an C.i, Jill, Second Start 11, The Bailor, Dougal Cratur, Dodger. Knees 2 and a. —Beau Regard, Beau 1.. annuel, Tunah, Nader,
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    • 157 10 An operation, somewhat rare in this country, was performed at Mr. Redfearn’s stable on Monday by Mr. David W. Higgins, veterinary surgeon, late of the Stock Department, West Australia, when tin* hr. stallion, Runjit, was what is sometimes known as added to the list." Runjit, which is
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    • 114 10 The Bangkok Times of July iO says Those who consulted Madame Isis for rac ng tips last week made a good haul al Saturday’s races at the Sports Club. Her selections were as follows, and wc give the actual result in brackets :—Rong Chan (Ist>,
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    • 115 10 A Reuter wdre from Strasbourg, dated the 16th instant, states that Felix Mazzaro, driving a Fiat, won the French motor car Grand Prix of 500 miles at an average speed of 80 miles an hour. Vizcaya, driving a Bugatti, was second and Marco, driving a Bugatbi, tvas
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    • 171 10 A Reuter wire of the 12th inst. states Lancing College won the Ashburton Shield for shooting at Bisley. A Reuter wire of July 15 says At I*isl(‘\ Corporal Goodman, of Hongkong, won the Alexandra competition. There was no cricket on Saturday on ace unt of rain. At the
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    • 160 10 Kee and Carvalho on August ■> We art* now able bo give nion culars of the third meeting hit those well-known local boxers J Carvalho ami Teng Kee, wh eh, a* 7 ready stated, is to be a match „f rounds under straight out p t f, conditions. I
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  • 442 10 Arrangements for the lighting, of Ip,,h by electricity are going on apace, says the the Times of Malaya. The poles tor the wires are all, or nearly, all completed and we understand tenders have been united, and received, for their erection.
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  • 227 10 Members of the Engineering Association of Malaya met at Ipoh on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday morning about members were shown over the property of Gopeng Consolidated, Ltd. The sludge channel at Kota Bharu, the Tailings Pain and Thomas Spillway, and the mine work :ngs were
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 1302 12 Straits Times, July 14. To all appearance The Hague Conference has come to an end, the delegates being convinced that the replies riven hy Russia to specific questions make it quite .impossible to continue the discussions with any hope of advantage. The simple truth is that at Genoa
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    • 1116 12 Straits Times, July I V On? of tin* greatest objections to what is called municipal trading in Great Britain is that all the employees, practically, are municipal electors, and tin the aggregate may form a very solid body working exclusively from a selfish point of view by putting
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    • 1279 12 increasing its debts.- Straits Times, July 17. As we pointed out the other day, tlu-rc seems to be absolutely no hope of anv immediate agreement which would bring Russia within the comity of nations an i help to restore financial stability in Europe. In point of fact, the
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    • 1198 13 Straits Timrs, July IH. o discussed yesterday the principle? laid down at the Genoa Conference for the restoration of financial stability in Europe. Russia has refused to consider any pro posals which would make her a helper in the movement. Austria is in a condition of almost hopeless
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    • 1055 13 Tim* July |y, We do not know precisely what line the Straits Settlements Association will take in its campaign against heavy expenditure, but the matter is certainly one that requires the closest possible investigation. We used to rail at Sir Arthur Young for his worship of the balances, and
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    • 1141 14 Stiaits Times, July 20. Nothing, perhaps, is more amazing than the* rapid replacement of mercantile tonnage since the end of the war. Britain, of course, got a very big share of the ships taken from (lermany as a penalty for the luwless and brutal use of the submarine,
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  • 220 14 lie Coroner's inquiry into the circumstances attending the death, following an '!> mi) in hospital, of the late Inspector D. K;l: urhy was fixed for Saturday hut on Ur. <• jl.lts taking his seat on the bench on Sat in day Major l.angle.v, M.C., SolicitorUcm ml, asked
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  • 127 14 Was Katong in Danger Hefore Mr. David, District Judge and I'irst Magistrate, on Wednesday Inspector A. W. Matthews, Arms and Explosives Department, mace two charges against Messrs. Houstead and Company in connection with the shipment of gunpowder that was con- ‘‘.vH on a sampan to Katong for the Tanah Merah
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  • 1078 14 'i lit* fourth Assizes for the Settlement >[ Singapore with .‘l2 cases, including seven on the capital charge, were begun Defore the acting Chief Justice, the Hon .\i i.! '.J.Spmulc.onTuesday. Major Langley M.C., Solicitor General, in the absence of the D.P.P., who
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  • 485 14 (’apt. Baartling, representative of Hugo St ii ins Lines, armed with a special permit from the British Foreign Office, arrived in Singapore a few days ago to fix up local arrangements in connections with the forthcoming arrival of the Emil Kird
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  • 45 14 Our Penang correspondent wires At ‘he Assizes before Mr. .Justice \Vhitl< lan Kong Chuan was sentenced to the vears’ imprisonment for cheating. I' <,u hinese convicted of gang robbery in ai •ittempt in Mnealister Road, were sen diced to live years’ rigorous each.
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  • 2061 15 v oinmitteu meeting <»f the Straits! i mints (Singapore) Association was] f r; tiu* hoard room of Messrs. Banter (Nmpany’s offices on July Id \i. Dudley Parsons presided and an excellent chairman by soon 'utilising desultory discussion into eon- fi rm. In this
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  • 217 15 On Monday the acting Chief Justice, Hon. Mr. I*. J. Sproule, delivered an exhaustive judgment in the case of Syed Shaik Alkaff" versus the AttorneyGeneral and others, the plaintiff's being (he present trustees of Syed Shaik AlkafT’s will. The chief question
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  • 99 15 The Japanese Consul General at Singapore sends u the following official telegram dated Tokio July M —The Japu- !(•'<• Gov. rnment considering it expedient to reduce the extent of territory occupied by its troops in the province of Saghalien has decided to withdraw, by the end f
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  • 936 15 Tin* twentieth annual general meeting of the Tronoh Mines, Ltd., was held on June It. at 73, Basinghall-atreet, E.C., Mr. V. Thomas presiding. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, first referred to the loss which the company had sustained hy
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  • 109 16 (The Strkit* Time* is not respond.l. U>' the opinion- it c'lriuxpointen* >■. Hpnn ton’s hnu. lili'-r ;ii m’ r l ti must l>r -hurt «ml to ,k u’ p »int. f "i'i! mnil.lirtv epi*»tl(o. are liable to be rej ic*l nr rutldcs v cut down. "<>r i •npor.«lcr.* ii
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  • 55 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, May I, through the medium of your valuable paper, appeal to our city fathers to have s< methinc none t Lloyd Road as it is really a dangerous road in its present (*ondition, c-pccially after dark. Yours, etc., SOUK I
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  • 229 16 To the Editor of the Straits Tunes. Sir, W ih reference to the letter appearing in your issue of July 12 over the signal it. of l.ayman, as the standard of reinforced ctnimle ((instruction in Singapore appears he a matter of some local mtcre.'t «t present, we may
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  • 306 16 Once a Mason.” To the Kditor of the Straits Times. Sir,- With reference to tlu* comments in your paper under above heading signed by Modular Ratio, it is quite correct that the writ* r has not designed any work fur Mansfield or for the S.S. Government during four years experience
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  • 507 16 To the Kditor of the Straits Times. Sir. With your courtesy, mav I *ug- ge>t son.** nn ans whereby economy with pout loss of efficiency cun he practised by K.iu ati'.n Department. At present .it Singapore, there i?, one Inspector of HliooN and there are several llcad-
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  • 266 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir. I have been waiting for an abler pen than mine to comment upon the activities of the Hindu Advisory Hoard and I must thank your correspondent for his letter which appeared in your issue of the 11th
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  • 459 16 To the Editor of tin* Straits Times. Sir,—! wish to write a few words in support of I* airplay whose letter regardroeenfle l, »7: < art .V»lir eoh.mns Jv. ,)(,PH 1 tht* Government think ,ial will he enough for the Fund h T'V’iVr Work ™e Committee of
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  • 299 16 T tin* Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—In your last night’s issue mention is made of the scarcity and expensiveness of ammonia as an anti-coagulant. Certainly the liquid ammonia of pharmaeeut’cal standard is both expensive and scarce at present expensive as it is usually imported in
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  • 72 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— Further to my letter of yester'“‘.V, the r(*sults of preliminary experiments show that, after four days, latex heated with solutions of sodium hydrox, u n l t,alt ium hydroxide remains unco adulated. 11 would be premature to say that these chemicals
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  • 38 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir. Who is Mr. Robert Smillie and h of the Coalfields in t Inna and the next war. Yours, etc., Singapore, July \H, 1922. 1 lThe unswer is—Nil.—Ed., 8.T.1
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  • 153 16 (From Our Own Corresp ,nde,. Hongkong, J u v i Though Sun Yat Sen’s ships a., anchored off the Shamoen, a fort break in Canton itself is n it am a-:;,', ik is reported, however, that steam.' r .-e standing by ready
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  • 392 16 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, July lv The trial of Jaga Rao, an employee <1 the F.M.S. Railways living at Central Workshops, for the murder of one Subranianiam. a coolie living in the same lines by cutting him with an axe in
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  • 152 16 The head cool; of the Sea View Hot who was the defendant, to a judgment summons issued by a ehetty before tin acting Chief Justice, lion. Mr. I*. J Sproule, on Monday, told his lordship that his wages
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  • 542 17 niiuh rcgrit Lu report the ~u July of Mr. George f .•> Smith, an ixtuiiL *<n H iki 1- ;itnjv Estate. Sia* deci ..>e<i who ~y was taken ill on the Bth inat. in’the General Hospital Iran pneumonia
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  • 116 17 Ul IVnang correspondent wires:— su-ti. n brought by Messrs, H. Slot 1 against the late Mr. Wee Heintze sun > of $42,000 in respect of ad- made on consignments of rubber, I’ecalied in the district court, artu. on Monday when before b- Scott, Mr. Wee Heintze IU
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  • 110 17 l folh wing passengers travelled I Singapore and Penang by the i; ,l connect at Rangoon with the u 1 'ho Henderson Line, and the ■awTlcshire of the Ribhv Line By /"'"•o, sailing on .July 10 :Mr. and Mrs. \r. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming, j, l Neming
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  • 320 17 solemn warning tu drinkers of il‘*‘lU‘ ls which means a great part of .1 population of the city, is given by the 1' ;b!ic Frosecut* 1 of New York, lie de(bat a cartful examination of tin* li, uor ,J >dy .r Id in New
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  • 111 17 Nothing has been heard for some time of the ex-Service men, Capt. H. G. George and Messrs. Prow.se und Dickson, who nine weeks ago set out from Singapore in a small sailing boat in the hope of getting to Australia.
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  • 201 17 Viscount Peel, presiding at the largely attended annual dinner of the Central Asian Society on duly 7, with Lord Konaldshay as guest of honour said that a friend writing from India with respect to the appointment to a governorship wrote Send a Ronaldshay and all will
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  • 153 17 Our I poll correspondent wires A respectable and elderly Malay collector of rents for the estate of the late Dato Panglima Kinta was charged before Mr. .justice Waison ori Monday with defalcation m suns exceeding SN,OOO at the instance of the administrator, the Hon. Mr. A. N.
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  • 217 17 A case which the acting Chief Justice, ll' ti. ->lr. I*. J. Sproule, described as .•luilsai came before him on Monday in a*, appeal from the lower courts. Lie Pee was sentenced recently in the low 1 r courts to three weeks’
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  • 158 17 The biggest rush in the history of the alluvial diamond diggings in South Africa occurred at Moses berg, about forty miles from Kimberley, to-day says a message from Johannesburg to London dated June U, A huge canvas camp arose lust even- 1 ing, and diggers from all
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  • 145 17 BLAND. To Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Bland, of Medan, on July 13, 1922, a son. CIIUA. On July IS, 11)22, at Cycle House, 5-b, Scott’s Load, to Mr. and Mrs. Chua hciig llock, a son. F.M.S. papers please copy. DAN ILL. On July It), 1922, at the Maternity
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  • 27 17 BONNER LOOSE. At St. Andrew’s l athed ral, on July 17, 1922, the Ven Archdeacon Swindell oil.elating, Chus. R D. Runner to Minnie Oracc (Peggy) RooV.
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  • 159 17 EXCHANGE. Singapore, July 20. On London, Bank l m/s 2/4 Dcnmnd 2/ l 29/32 JTivate :i m. credits 2/4 3/16 On Now ork Demand 51 3/K IT* vale 53)4 On 1 ranee Rank 506 On !i..oa, Bank I. f. 176)4 On iiongkong t Dank d/d 12 7
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  • 416 17 i Singapore, July 20. I MINING. Issue. Buyer* Sellers 1 1 Ayer Wieng j.oo 1 1 1 llitam Tin 0.86 0.05 I 1 J elan tub 0.60 1 1 Johan Tin 0.35 0.44 il II kam. Kamunt. 1.12.0 1.14.0 10 10 Kinta Assoc. 3.50 4.50 Lingui Tin
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 86 17 NOTICE All communications for both the Straits Times and the Straits Budget should be addressed to the Head Office, Cecil and Stanley Streets, Singapore, Straits Settlements. The post free price of the Straits Times to the JJnited Kingdom and foreign countries is $54 a year. The post free price of
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  • 77 17 OKA'I IIS I>A\'11 >. Frederick Itrooke, on .Inly 7, I'.iliJ, at Saigon. Lata of Singapore. Kldest son of II. David and brother of .1 It, David, Singapore. WILSON. On .July 12, lPli‘2, at Souialiaya (leorge Wilson, lata of Singapore. Penang and Ceylon papers please Copy. IS MKMOKIAM LAWI.KSS. Of my
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT
    • 103 1 f»encraf--Indragin Lubber 1 Latex for I*ondon 1 Lubber Policy 2 June Lubber Lcturns 2 Kubber Tyres for Bullock ('art'- 2 Clean Lubber 4 Lubber Lands 4 Malaya Agricultural Association 1 To lb strict or Not Lubb r Dock Lavi hk d laxal Lubber Auctions 7 f Torres |Himlcncc Lubber
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    • 400 1 Mr. Robinson, on behalf of Indragiri Rubber, Limited, applied on Tuesday in the Supreme Court to Mr. Justice liarrettLennard to confirm the reduction in the capital of the company, under section 47 of the Companies Ordinance. Mr. koliinsun supported his application hy r
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    • 1862 1 'liif l lit l» annual general meeting of a i" h. i dders in the* IJukit Toh Alang Kul.l r Estates, Ltd., was hold at Shanghai on June 27. Mr. A. .1. Welch presided, supported by Mr. Hugo Reiss, director,
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    • 220 1 Our Kuala Lumpur corrcspen :t*n: wires Enquiries are being made !.'rally by London firms with a view t" rot* tract ng for .‘5,000 tons of latex P'‘» annum to be exported to London, presumably for paper manufacture. Hie price offered is reported to be the 8 nga
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    • 2338 2 j, Stevenson Committee began its u "l the wrong wav. It assumed s m :i« that no policy of restricl> e.n\ live unless it included in < f l;u? Dutch East Indies, w'i !>;■.' studied the Rubber j fl w
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    • 1850 2 The fourteenth ordinary general meeting of Lanadron Rubber Kstates, Ltd., "ns held on tillin' 11 the registered ofi *e of the company, 1-4, Groat Towor-stre t, K.C., Mr. I* 'ric Slacfadyon presiding. Mr. .1. Melnnes, representing the Secretaries Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfield. Ltd. I,
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    • 892 3 The twelfth ordinary general meeting nf the Kuala Puhi Rubber Estate, Ltd., was held on June 14, at the registered office, 125 High Holborn, W.C., Mr. Thomas Medley Phillips (the chairman) presiding. The Representative of the Secretaries having read the notice calling
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    • 840 3 The third ordinary general meeting of the Kuala Iiidong Rubber Estate, Ltd., was held on June 14 at 125 Hiyh Holborn, Y\ .C., Mr. Thomas Hedley Phillips (the chuirman) presiding. The Representative of the Secretaries having read the notice calling the meeting
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    • 191 3 Alma.—25,000 lbs. Atbara.—18,551 lbs. Ayer Tawah.—29,311 lbs. Ampat (Sumatra). —20,940 lbs. Bedford.—7,000 lbs. Bernam-Perak.—38,971 lbs. Bruas-Perak.—14,010 lbs. Batang Bcnar.—20,955 lbs. Batu Anam.—19,202 lbs. Bintan.—(Ceased Tapping). Bukit Kajang.—54,553 lbs. Bukit Toh Alang.—30,477 lbs. Batu Village.—1,951 lbs. Burma Development.—4,111 lbs. Bintang.—14,900 lbs. Bukit i K.B.). —6,196 lbs. Benar.—10,041 lbs.
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    • 162 3 It is asserted, says a Ceylon paper, that a certain gentleman proposes carrying out a novel experiment in Colombo with a view to popularising the uses of rub her. He has already, it is stated, communicated with a home firm to manufacture rubber tyres for
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    • 1310 4 e .venth annual ordinary general iV'inir of the Siginting (Negri ScmbiRubber Estate, Limited, was a, n on June 14 at the Great Eastern ij yc t Mr. H. W. Hewitt (managing !iir et’. r r presiding in the absence of Sir Byron Peters.
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    • 894 4 BUKIT SEMBAWANG RUBBER. Company s Satisfactory Position. The 11th annual general meeting of the Bnkit Sembawang Kubber Company. Limited, was held on June at Winchester House, Old Broad Street. E.C., Sir Ivor Philipps, K.C.8.. 1h5.0., M.P. <chairman of the companyf, presiding. Mr. F. M. Jones, representing the secretaries, bavin.;- read
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    • 278 4 Tim India Kubber World < f June dev t: s two pages to extracts from letters from various Kubber manufacturing firms in 11 i• L.S.A. complaining of the careless packing <f plantation rubber, which tiny assert entails more expense in cleaning and washing before
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    • 202 4 The Gazette for July 14 gives the following figures of land alienated for rubber and areas in hewing 1<» 1921. Tha acreage under rubber shewn is for tha Straits Settlements, Perlis, Labuan and the Unfederattd Malay States. alien- in bearated. ing.
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    • 328 4 Our Renung correspondent w. res Mr. •I. W. Kennedy, presiding at the annual meeting of the Malay IVninsula Agricultural Association, at IVnar.g, yui«i the loss on the year’s working was #'.*,<*o6. As the result of a practical cessation of the i'"criiit ing of la'our the quest ion
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    • 1271 5 In our Inst issue* (says the China Express ami Telegraph of June 22) we gave tin* arguments of the managing director of tin* Scrbadjadi Co. against restrictions. The views lie enunciated are replied to by Mr. D. Birnic, of Java, who states
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    • 991 5 The thirteenth ordinary general meeting of Ledbury Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held on June at the registered oflicc of the company, 1-4, Great Towerstreet, K.(\, Mr. Eric Macfadven presiding. 1 ht> hairman said Gentlemen,— Owing to the absence of our Chairmaa, Mr. Barker, I
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    • 1034 5 The third annual general meeting of the Sungei Rinching Rubber Estates, Limited, was held on June 9 at 38, Lincoln’s Inn Helds, W.C. Major Herbert Edgington, 0.8. K. (chairman of the* company), presiding. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting and
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    • 75 6 H 'i. Strait? Turn's is not responoldo for t ic:: s of its correspondents CorrcH t ‘p hould bear in mind that letter# M‘ r V‘ t,. short «ft'J ,h< P° ,nl Long p! ,*tli"* are liable to be rejected or H r Vu? down Correspondents must H rl
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    • 471 6 H T„ tia* Editor of the Straits Times. H I pm probably not alone, among i i.:i. is, in regretting that your H i ,,n Mr. I’hysick’s letter in your Ti the loth inst. should have ■jii'uii petulance rather than a strightHj A lM i desire to meet
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    • 608 6 I To tho Editor of the Straits Times. I ,f ''i'i ‘'I'; i’h.vsick’s effort in your issue ('l a moun ts to two columns of 11 nn>: 1 did not recommend to tut alone. It appeared to me that the rubber industry was not \v.i ua, e
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    • 668 6 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—There is one important matter in connection with the various schemes for restriction of output of rubber which does not appear to have received the consideration it deserves, namely, the probable attitude of the large manufacturers in A nitrica to
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    • 1155 6 BRITISH MALAYA RUBBER. Company s Sound Financial Standing. 1 he second annual ordinary general meeting of the British Mulay Rubber Co.,' 1-t.i., was held on June 21, at the offices of the company, 2a Kastcheap, E.C., Major aldcn 'J honison (the chairman) pre-1 sming. 1 Mr. H. F. Turinr (managing
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    • 406 6 ’1 lit* Public Works Department, Federated Malay States has recently laid a rubber block paving at the Porch of the Selangor Ciovi rnment Offices, Kuala Lumpur. 'I he blreks are concrete, expanded metal and slab rubber, size* 8 15/Hi in. by l-t/Ui
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    • 1033 7 The* tut 1fth annual gcne*ral meeting <»f the Uradwall (F.M.S.) Rubber Kstuto, Ltd., was held on Juno 21, at tho registorotl oflico of tlu* company, 40 and 51, Kasteheap, K.C., tin* Right 11 on. Charles I*. Allen (the chairman) presiding.
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    • 381 7 Tire* 500th audit n <*f tlu* Singapore ha i.her of Commerce Kuhhcr Association was h* l<l e*n July I!*, when there vva* Tatalogucei I.085,703 lhs. tons 7.72.55. OiL It <1 1,088,11)}) Ills., terns 485.80. Sc lei i.» i,! In lbs., terns i
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    • 160 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, July 20. With reference to Mr. G. W. Crawford’s letter in yesterday s issue, I am reliably in formed that the local Rubber Growers’ Association has the matter of producing anticoagulants in hand. At present ammonia
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    • RUBBER SHARE PRICES.
      • 343 7 Stock Par Exchange Tar ExeK. v’blue Coraptay Pricea. Value. Coonpaaj\ Pricli' •Iuiu* 21. June 21 fl Anglo-Malay 10/ fl Lumut 23/(J tl Ayer Kuning 28/9 2/ London Asiatic 2 /1q 1*1 Baku)) Plantations 11/3 tl Malacca Plantations ;{•> tl Banteng (Selangor) 20/ 2/ Merlimau
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    • 43 9 HULL, ENGLAND HIGH GRADE FLEXIBLE r *r; c* N t V t v s Launching, Towing and all Marine S.if. wr Purposes. t m Cranes, Derricks, Lifts, &c. Sole Agents: Co., 61, Market Street, SINGAPORE. Cable Address: KEATCHEANG." Telephone No. 2269. Code: “BENTLEY’S.
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