The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 22 May 1923
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Title Section21 1923-05-22 1 The Straits Echo. MAIL EDITION. $3O PER AVMM Single Copy 60 cts VOL 21. PENANG, TUESDAY, MAY 22ND. 1923 NO. 2021 words
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Advertisement182 1923-05-22 1 CO N TENTS Leader: I Miscellaneous: (Continued') I The Utmost Limit” 560 The Kelantan Scandal 561 Development Schemes 564 Legislative Council 562 1 The Opium Question 568 For Admiralty Purposes 567 Singapore Naval Base 570 Continuous Dancing Craze m 567 l AW Health Returns 568 Rubber Smuggling 561 567 Railwa182 words
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Advertisement200 1923-05-22 2 c oPb T H E S I “STRAITS ECHO” I g MAIL EDITION. I pj) 1 »WOOOOOMM Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, Jjy and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the vR daily issues, as well as all important200 words
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Article1287 1923-05-22 560 lhe German ±\ote on Reparations (iontauied proposals which were generally regarded us inadequate, and a poor case was badly presented. There was no prospect ol a renewal ol negotiations on me basis suggested, and as the Allies do nut appear to be able* to reach an agreement1,287 words
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Article58 1923-05-22 560 dhe Loudon market is again flat and the price has fallen back to Is lid. The tono of the Singapore mar ket is also flat and both grades were enquired for at 48, cents a pound—a drop of cent. Locally Good F. A. Q. is 47| oents58 words
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Article42 1923-05-22 560 Tin is down £6 fur spot and £7 for three months buying, the London quotations for both being respectively £199 and £197,100. Locally tin is down 95 cents to $99.50 and in Singapore it is down $2 to $99.40.42 words
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Article136 1923-05-22 560 Japanese Community’s Homage {From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, May 15 Princess Asaku, Viscount Ishii, Japanese Ambassador to France, Viscountess Ishii and the Consul General fur Japan proceeded on board the Katori Alaru this morning to pay homage to the remains of Prinoe Kitashirakawa, the victim of the French136 words
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Advertisement29 1923-05-22 560 Cijc Sli’OiiS fcCi)O if A I L k MAlt tDI 110*1 the new* of the wee* prior *o departure of Mail» for Europe r(jbhiDtilx>u umcx. The Criterion Press, Limited29 words
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Obituary47 1923-05-22 560 OCCURRENCE DEATH Lim—At 209, Hutton .Lane, Penang, on Sunday, May 13, at a p,m. Air. Lrm Alah Euvv, aged 57. FUNERAL notice. ne rem«DB of the late Mr. Lim Mah U ba removed for interment to toA**. from 209 Ht tOn bSne ooFrid»;, th. 18th insist 1047 words
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Article1252 1923-05-22 561 —M.M. ALLEGED MODUS OPERANDI The full particulars of the case »n which two Chinese were fined S3o,4UU each in the Telok Datoh police court early this month were related in the Supreme Court before Sir Lionel VV oodward, Chief Judicial Commissioner, on Friday, when the accused appealed against—M.M. - 1,252 words
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Article472 1923-05-22 561 Truth, to hand by this week’s under the heading The Colonial and its Puppet, adds the following remarks upon the behaviour of th. r mat Office in the matter of the K e i Government’s indebtedness to th.m Development Company. Official Disingenuousness Mr. Maxwell Thornton asked tju472 words
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Article557 1923-05-22 562 P.C.C. vs. PUBLIC SERVICES Qaite an interesting game of cricket was witnessed on the Esplanade on Saturday .ftrrnoon, when the Penang Cricket Club met an eleven of the Publio Services. Ths P. C. C. proved too strong for their oDDonents despite the absence of R. N. Hamilton. Batting first557 words
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Article449 1923-05-22 562 THE ELECTIVE PRINCIPLE Of all the Asiatic members whQ have ever sat on the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements we believe it will be conceded that Dr. Lim Boon Keng was the ablest in speech, the keenest in debate and the most sympathetic towards the aspirations of449 words
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Article1106 1923-05-22 562 A VARIED ASSORTMENT Low Chai Nins? charged with beine a waoderwg lenatic sprang blithely into the dock, buret into a peal of merry •jaghter and shouted Bahut Lal/ Bahut Lab P. C 43 remarked that it was not quite so moe on the Ayer Hitam Road in the1,106 words
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Article207 1923-05-22 563 Ex. The announcement that the Eastern tin pool is to be dissolved and that the liquidation of the stocks of refined tin held will be spread over 20 months, 680 tons being released each mouth, is of great importance to holders of Tin shares. In theEx. - 207 words
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Article995 1923-05-22 563 The Derby Sweeps A few years ago one could purchase a ticket in the Calcutta Sweep on the Derby without the least difficulty, in the East or at Home. The investor who was not a member, bought one or more from someoue, who in all probability was not995 words
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Article175 1923-05-22 563 Kedah Police’s Coup The Kedah Police have unearthed what is said to have been a schexne to de rau the Government of duty on rubber to extent of some thousands of dollars, is alleged that three Chinese conneote with Chop Ban Seng Lee, and three other Chinese,175 words
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Article1311 1923-05-22 564 The Imperial Conference will meet in A-mber and concurrently, an Economic I be held. The larger wll onß o£ Empire policy and harmony I L constitutional issues which remain I L be discussed are ol vital concern to the Dominions, and no doubt this Empire Council will be1,311 words
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Article357 1923-05-22 564 Tin is down £2 for spot as well as for three months buying, the London quotation for both being respectively £197.5 and £195.105. Locally tin is down 80 cents to 199.50 and in Singapore it is down sl'oo to $99.50« Lady Guillemard and party, includi ing the357 words
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Article543 1923-05-22 565 QMr. E. P. Colgan will be going on leave in the very near future. —S.F.P. Captain and Mrs- Ramplen Jones and family are sailing for Home by the e.s. Mentor. Mr. E. D. Shearn of Kuala Lumpur is in Ipoh in connection with a case arising out of the543 words
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Article820 1923-05-22 565 Planning and Housing I The papers circulated by the I Deputy Chairman of the SingaI pore Improvement Trust help to I maintain public interest in town planI ning and especially in improvements which cannot possibly be regarded as Utopian. Many of the suggestions concerning better housing for which820 words
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Article331 1923-05-22 565 Mr, Franlyn Robinson presided over the meeting of the Rural Board which was held in the Land Office yesterday afternoon. There were also present Messrs. FT. Kinder, G. Hawkins, Cheah Seng Yean and G. B. Baptis L Secretary. The minutes of the last meeting were road and331 words
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Article972 1923-05-22 566 SINGAPORE RACES Second Day’s Result» Out Own CoTrctpondcnt j Singapore, May 15 The following were the remits of the Jnd day of the Singapore Sporting Club’s Spring meeting: 1 The Farrant Stakes V.lue »600 with the Bocond pony; butop to "A” CIBBS ex griaiD pome6 X t 2972 words
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Article273 1923-05-22 566 —"M.T.” PROPAGANDA TO BOYCOTT JAPANESE On Saturday the Hon. Mr. Everitt pore e Mr District Singl ramĕd M T P Prh d u bth of a Chin with 11° Ho who was charged c A eepin S a Printing press at 45 Co on?I r °2 d Withf—"M.T.” - 273 words
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Article34 1923-05-22 566 Marking of Rubber manufactured substanceK are e 7. “"i’ from the marking exempt Act of X°bat D th f mgs of such subst-m. e/ th C VCr -Pt from such34 words
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Article56 1923-05-22 566 Mr n E M A. 6 SteJ ‘onli’ehaTfrth’ m-“Jbe Of m,^ r F- v »haf the accused amcn ded so «hat he had to meef g R. e j aC y I<no w nt W. and as Mr U' accountant of the hotel ’"“S' th ►horth.56 words
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Article823 1923-05-22 567 CONVICTIONS UPHELD The following ia the judgment of the Chief. Judicial Commissioner, Sir Lionel Wooawwrd, delivered on Monday I o rD J°B dismissing the appeal but setting aside the order ot the magistrate regarding the rubber and the tongkang. His Lordship said that the magistrate a conyiotioh was823 words
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Article109 1923-05-22 567 New Chairman Welcomed (From Our Own Correspondent} Kuala Lumpur, May 16 At the meeting of the Sanitary Board n welcoming Mr. Bresland, the new chairman, and eulogising the services of Mr. Elies, the late Chairman, Mr. Freeman aid that if the Government’s pledge that Kuala Lumpur109 words
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Article85 1923-05-22 567 The last issue of the Gazette contains two notifications under the Land Acquisition Ordinance,, declaring that 1,699 acres of land in the District of Sembawang, Singapore, and 511 acres of land in the District of Seletar South, are required for Admiralty purposes. The survey numbers and areas85 words
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Article129 1923-05-22 567 Miss Alma Cummings, starting at 7 10 on Saturday night, danced continuously at a New York Hall till 9.10 p.m. on Monday night, thus breaking all records. During the dancing she wore out seven partners, two orchestras, and several pairs of slippers. She occasionally ate grape fruit,129 words
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Article520 1923-05-22 567 FORWARD CONTRACT MADP BEFORE RESTRICTION The annual meeting oI the Changlm berdang Estates, Ltd., was held a company s othces, French Bank BuiH mgs, Singapore, on Satdrday. lhe Chairman, Mr. C. Everitt, in the course of his address, said: Tlie dks d OSS acfc u t nt520 words
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Article1127 1923-05-22 568 On page 0 of to-day’s issue we publish letter on the opium traffic in Malaya. The writer aims at abolition. He does not suggest the feasibility of wiping out the commerce in a few months, merely by passing prohibitive laws, but a commendable ardour leads him to1,127 words
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Article509 1923-05-22 568 Municipality, and MrT’ their silver wedding to day celeb '“o rXres 6 wbeu tb ‘»«er Dr. L. Robert, of Bangkok, and Dr A T Stanton, of Koala Lumpur, have ten SocTi co 9 P? ndi “K members of bociM de Pathology Exotique of Paris. of tha uV aVIS bas509 words
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Article839 1923-05-22 569 Handsome is. Our Civil servant* are admirable men, but they are not sufficiently picturesque and attractive. Lord Burnham. A Bright Idea! We do hope that the excetsive regard for the comfort of the policeman when constabulary duty’s to be done displayed by a member ol the House of839 words
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Article35 1923-05-22 569 Timothy de Silva is the first Ceylonese to win the Amateur Golf Championship of Ceylon. He defeated M. H. Lashington in the final of this competition at Nuwara liya by four and two.35 words
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Article286 1923-05-22 569 The health statistics for the Municipality of George Town for the week ending May 12, 1923, give a total of 65 deaths—42 males and 23 females—the death rate being 26.41 per mille per annum compared with 21.53 in the preceding week, and with 35.60 in the corresponding week286 words
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Article506 1923-05-22 569 lean s co.-, May being a Puw'/S week report is published\ dl?! of its usual time. The outstanding feature ano ther considerable drop of £n’*l which brings the Slmonth.» 7 o°J! 95 10 0 and the fact thafc h 35/- higher at £197-50, lends opinion expressed in some506 words
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Article965 1923-05-22 570 We find the extraordinarily voluminous ~o n unent. favourable and unfavourable, M the Admiralty'a intention to spend el.ven millions sterling to establish a 'aval base at Singapore somewhat puz2line rather than illuminating the oroiect has met with a good deal of opLition but many of the critics965 words
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Article146 1923-05-22 570 Two Waggons Derailed (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, May 19 Two wagons of a goods train from Kuala Lumpur bound for the North yesterday morning became derailed between Tiolak and Sungkai. The derailing was not discovered until the train had travelled nearly one and a half miles.146 words
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Article977 1923-05-22 570 The Giggling Crowd” The Malay Mail (May 16) i, wrathful A peculiarity of Kuala Lumpur audiences is that they do not appear to know when or when not to laugh”, says our contemporary. ft i a trying for a theatrical company to attempt to be funny for an977 words
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Article246 1923-05-22 571 Kuala Lumpur, May 16 On Monday evening, while two Tamils were indulging in a fight on the bridge in Brickfields Road, one was run over by Dr. Williams’ car, which was coming into town. The doctor sounded his horn several times, but the men refused to246 words
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Article1034 1923-05-22 571 Mr. A. F. Spooner, Manager, Gedong (Perak) Rubber Estates, Ltd., Bidor, is leaving for Home about June 12 next. Mr. 0, J. Saunders, who is retiring from the Government Service, is a passenger by the 8.8. Mentor, which left here yesterday. The Straits Settlements Association (Singapore branch)1,034 words
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Article648 1923-05-22 572 SINGAPORE RACES Third Day’s Results /from Out Own Corretpondsni Singapore, May 17 The following were the remits of the thud day of the Singapore Sporting Clib’i Spring meeting: I The Archdeacon Stakes Value 1600 with 1100 to the second pony; handicap for all ei-griffin ponies 14.2 and Mde648 words
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Article260 1923-05-22 572 The Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw, in the Supreme Court, Singapore, in ordering that a case, which came before him on appeal, in which Ang Swee Tiang, formerly manager of Asia Motor Garage, Orchard Road, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment ii» default of payment of260 words
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Article424 1923-05-22 572 P.C.C. vs. P.H.C.L. Quite a large concourse of spectators gathered round the ropes on the Esplanade yesterday evening to see the Penang Crieket Club add yet another victory to their many successes by beating the Penang Health Culture League by the odd goal in three. The game was fast424 words
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Article153 1923-05-22 572 Taiping, for first half of May, 389 piculs North Taiping, tor first half of May 371 piculs. South Taiping, for first half of May, 297 piculs. Batang Padang, for first half of May, 104 piculs. Ronpilon Extended, No Liability, for first half of May, 152 piculsTin Bentong, No153 words
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Article229 1923-05-22 573 EXTRAORDINARY meeting The $60,000 Sweep niHßcd ’Uie Suni of $4,H* /0 "F <w.n/ii£ure incurred in connection the recent $60,000 non-selling sweep ,md the resultant Police Court procee *"*The Chairman said that the apfee «1,500. Giving the history of t events preceding the last ra eeB > Chairman229 words
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Article257 1923-05-22 573 —“ST.” Captain Whippey was again placed before Mr. Gourlay at Singapore, for alleged cheating, the charge being amended so as to specify the particular act, viz., that on May 11, by falsely representing that he was in possession of money on a letter of credit—“ST.” - 257 words
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Article1105 1923-05-22 573 -M.M. (fo tho Editor of the Strait. Bobo Sir -Opium smoking is an accursed A Only those who are unfortunate mtil victims to this dreadful drug realise to the full when too late demoralizing eIX on the smokers, both mentally as well as physically. Opium smoking is a 7rime-M.M. - 1,105 words
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Article302 1923-05-22 574 ’—Ex. n editorial note in the Chinese ReJ nnints out that the rapidity with C °hfch the opium evil is regaining its old Md on China is, unfortunately too true. Public opinion is somewhat indifferent on Jhe subject- The writer refers to Sir brancis Agien’—Ex. - 302 words
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Article219 1923-05-22 574 -Ex. After the action just decided by Mr. Justice Shearman, which has attracted the doggiest audience ever assembled in the Law Courts, some of ue must be a little more careful. If an action for slander can be brought in the Courts on behalf of a Pekingese, it-Ex. - 219 words
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Article324 1923-05-22 574 BIG JUNK LOOTED AND SEAMEN KILLED 1 wo seamen belonging to a large cargo junk were killed and four others wounded in a> piracy occurring in Chinese waters on the morning of April 21, says the S. C. M. Post. Exasperated by the stubborn resistance offered324 words
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Article128 1923-05-22 574 A Weltevreden message of the 15th supplements an Aneta cable, it says that a severe earthquake was recorded as laving occurred near Maos at 11.35 a.m. on that date. Its centre was some 40U to SUO kilometres distant. Aneta learns that all the stone built houses128 words
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Article70 1923-05-22 574 To get my futile English mail. —B. in “Malay Mail.” Why iff it that 1 never fail. To go and meet the Outward Mail Its newspapers are five weeks stale, And my sad heart with anguish fills At sight of all those countless bills. But yet I’mTo get my futile English mail.—B. in “Malay Mail.” - 70 words
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Article159 1923-05-22 574 —“M.M.” AN EXPLANATION With reference to our report the other day of the Loke Yew will case brought before the Supreme Court, we are asked by Messrs. Rogers, Logan and Ross, solicitors, to publish an “explanation which will correct a possible misapprehension arising out of the—“M.M.” - 159 words
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Article313 1923-05-22 574 Mr. Kesteven’s Return It will be remembered that at tho last meeting of the Federal Council on March 27, the Chief Secretary, Mr. George Maxwell, made the following statement in connection with the enquiry into the Huxley Contracts affair: The Government have received the report of the313 words
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