The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 25 August 1924

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  • 20 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL. 22 PENANG AUGUST 25, 1924. NO. 35
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    • 290 1 COlMTxil4 1S r£k i 1 ci LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) Kc g After London 872 Penang Impressionists 884 fg Is Prohibition A Failure? 872 Health Returns 887 g The Lees of War 878 Penang from the Ait* 888 K Will the Agreement Work! 882 News Erom Kedah 879 A 889 Kwantung’s
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    • 216 2 <jWt> SS5< <M d TAX7vX 2hX 4JV&FS< flSwtNfe g WM^; I THB J STRAITS ECHO r A‘ MAIL EDITION. as? ys, 'r OOO— C sp f Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, y >o and contains the latest local and States news originally published
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  • 510 872 j wo -snags” remain to be removed jpfore the London Conference can be Sded as a complete success. The laments have still to be ratified by 7* french and German Parliaments tiie international bankers have still signify their willingness io provide the a/of £40,000,000 to Germany to enDawes
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  • 1106 872 During the past week or two an American divine, Dr F. D. Blakeslee, of New Nork, has been touring Malaya, lecturing on the subject of Prohibition. Dr. Blakeslee is a fervent and, apparently, an eloquent advocate and defender of the Volstead Act. He maintains that Prohibition
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    • 28 872 [I)C strsits cl)O< PUBLISHED DAILY mail edition the news of the week prior to departure oD^ r Kuro P e iw Criterion Press, Limited, Beach Street, 1 euaiig.
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  • 1036 873 Capital Punishment Ap.opoi of Saturday’s leading artiola we are reminded of the remark of Alphonse Karr who, vt hen a» k<d if he were in favour of t v e abob’tion of the "peine de morf replie I, a Certain went. viais que messieurs lea assassins comrnenc&nt The
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  • 182 873 Kuala Luaipur Shop Guited (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, August 18 A Chinese shop in Prtaling St eat occupied by 1 hop Kwo'>g O >n Loong and containing a la ge stock of celluloid t-ye, cloth, t-H, ami lubber goods was putt d. The Fii« Bi
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  • 420 873 Mr. J. McGuffin has been a Surveyor of Ships ,n/|" Machinery, S.S. lns l*cta The resignation of Stton.l i Lun Keng Chuan of his the Chinese been accepted. Tlie Hon. Mr. A M provisionally appointed a Legislative Council i n the p| !lcc Hon. Mr. J. Mitchell,
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  • 2120 874 SI'CCESSFVL FI N( HON' A n-xTE CIVIL Service Sports a «fnl were the second anof the Su^ rdinBte «.nice Association which were excellent weather conditions on itdsv on the Dato Kramat Groun<ls of the Club premise, in the pregathering which included Un S Codrington, the Hon. Air. A\
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  • 117 875 An Association football match played on the Dato Kramat Grounds between the Straits Echo Football team and the Pinang Gazette F.C., resulted in a win for the former by one goal to nil, although the\ should have scored many more. 1 hey were the superior team anff had
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  • 640 875 TOWKAYS ON TRIAL Story of Attack on Mr. Wan Kim Toon Mr. Sennett, Second Magistrate, Singapore. continued his preliminary enquiry on Friday into the charges of abetment of murder against Messrs. Wan Boon Seng and Wee Kim Chuan, two well-known local towkays. Mr. R. Williamson and Court
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  • 407 875 Results of tennis ties pla v d ,i mg the week. T- Championship A K.aß. Terrell beat R. N Bvafi cSingle Handicap Cuss B /L o' Waldron beat -5£ H. Kent 62, 6 3. Single Handicap Class C C Terdre beat -3 W u Mair 6—4,
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  • 316 876 WHHE'S farewell order i «.wins farewell order has been H -Wte,D.S.O Officer, Penang and t<W ttelleslev Volunteer Corps: >w‘®“ BIV appointment as Officer f t? W V COrpSl thank the Officers, Warrant|fMh Son-Commissioned Officers and and also the members of the staff for the good work they ine
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  • 74 876 \La/ o 'i° wn o are the results of the Competitions held at Hungah yesterday: I A r (l^ H M Yards Handicap Stevens. 7 secs. j’. For <* Her. Cocke. 6 secs. Uw 50 Yards Handicap j <> brttoek. 26 secs. > E. Bowers. 14 secs.
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  • 622 876 CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH 'I he following is the chairmans speech at the fourteenth annual general meeting of the Kedah Rubber Co., held on Saturday. The rest of the business has already been reported. Mr. Palgrave Simpson said: Gentlemen, I regret to say that the Hon. Mr. I) A.
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  • 368 876 Beaten The return match between the P.C.C. and Farit Buntar was played at I’arit Buntar yesterday and resulted in a win for the home team. A very enjoyable time was spent by the visitors: Scores-and bowling analysisP.C.C. T. S. Anthony b Aitken 48 C. E. B.
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  • 310 877 PRESENTATION FROM THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND A correspondent writes as followsi, to a Singapore contemporary: On August 4, an interesting ceremony took place at Macassar at the house of the Chinese Captain, Mir. Ting Liong Hui, who had presented H.M. the Queen of Holland with a Chinese made
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  • 192 877 'The Municipal Health statement for (he week ending August 9, gives the total’number of deaths as 196 representing a death rate of 26.49 per mille per annum compared with 28.92 in the preceding week and with 24.64 in the corresponding week of last year. The chief causes
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  • 495 877 AN AMERICAN WRITER GIVES IMPRESSIONS In an article in the Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Harry Leon Wilson gives some impressions gathered during a visit t i Singapore. Apparently he was there at the height of the gang robbery period of last year, and he is amazed
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  • 330 877 31 wa: -S.T. SURVIVORS FROM THE in« SHIP Los T The Harbour sin has telegraphed that 1 Vivors Of the steamer sZe R w been found near Sam P i t Ba Later The steamer 19 survivors of the Saric- tel 5 arrived at Bandjermasin. -fc are 15
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  • 108 877 Penang v. Kedah Some friendly golf matches p ed at Alor Star on Saturday. 9 day, between Penang and Ke who went from Penang were Crabb Watt, Duxbury, Birse and b f Chambers, and these our me C. H. Wolff, Acting Rnfsh Messrs. FleUry, Duff f Singles were played
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  • 1045 878 ago the g reat ar d »Ch d nearly six years of peace, f<!* least; actually Europe has iff I*"’ 1 to the ears in the lees of «7 Maurice Hewlett pictures- JSbed its distracted condition. *J.i® and reconstruction are slow but the outlook has improved
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  • 448 878 Second Lieut. Wan Mohamed Aii is now commanding the M.V.I. platoon at Tai ah. Mr. W W. Coultas, Acting I iiisli Consul, Singora, is at present vi iti ig Pattani. Mr. E. Pratt, District J ud 03, o 3, Penang, left tor the Bindings yesterday t > hear cases
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  • 1346 879 Future of the Tinies The Lnnouuceini nt that a responsible committee of non party tr eat mtn has been formed to provide aganst the p. edibility of The Times newspip r lulling at any future period into unwo thy hands will b* generally welcom'd. It H)’ve« a grta
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  • 367 879 In the PoKce^o^^p l7 C afternoon, before Mr. yest Hr hearing was resumed of th. J° Prer two Malays, Dharun bin A and Mohamed r a9o ff s A^ a 0 5lt| cheating the dials of a meter attJhe7t n factory at Jelutong R oaf j Mr. A.
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  • 111 879 IFrom Our Own Alor, Star. Angwt l7 H.H the Regent of Kedah has a visit to PnJ-. t dih Mr. G. T. F. While, o e PW.D., is ao inmate oi Hospital peoed‘ The lt,d ,h \l,e’ p»P* b,i g res'-ricteJ to M* ruembeis of the Ru
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  • 514 880 editor of the h Echo). J* Si of V“ r Lading article of cxc.aots f oma v Ljrd Da son of lean, t-Jeia i.iutbell .u eof l.crds Bill seuu perlnie.t jtaeM 3 r t ;nk pi eponderancu of throughout the civi.ized *ut a mole.at.oa n O
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  • 608 880 FURIhuR E’» ibENCi. Further evidence in u*u cas e in which i erunial, ilatnuin, Aiulliu and llainasainv an charged with the uL iuctiou of a twelve-}car-old girl, and cum milt.ng assault on ijcr, was taken in the Kuala Lumpur Civil Court \esterdav morning by the Laja
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  • 540 880 ONI. HLNDRi I) SQUATTERS HOAIELESS One Heath Among thiiee Casualties n■ >n n Saturday, the 16th inst.. *> tie Times of Malaya, u out in an area f, l qudter.C huts situated about a mile out of (ropeng town and before the blaze could be controlled
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  • 550 881 Singapore’s Overwhelming Win At Malacca Extraordinary interest was taken in the Malaya Cup match between Singapore and Malacca, played before a very big crowd on the Malacca Club ground on Saturday afternoon, reports the Free Press. The weather was most discouraging at first, but the Tain kept
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  • 548 881 One of the worst cases of labour oppression that has occurred in this- part of the world, says the Free Press, was revealed in the Court of Appeal last week, when a Bengali landowner and moneylender in Labuan appealed against the severity of the punishment, a fine of
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  • 438 881 M M Chinese Merchant’s r, fn the Bankruptcy V’"’ F *U P-re on Friday, at t-».tng See Sua came u examination. I n re L fo r b «Mx. Assignee (Mr. G c L r v th rupt state,] that he came years ago, and started U& P
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  • 474 882 french and the German k have approved the work Delegations at the P e reference and the latter has as to intimate that if the does not ratify the Agreement be dissolved. This would neral election in Germany on wt issue of peace or conflict with
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  • 1162 882 Most of the Chinese in Malaya come from the southern provinces of China and those of them who continue to take an interest in the country o f their origin, as the majority of them do, must he feeling anything hut cheerful just at present with regard to
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  • 944 883 Misunderstood In England, unlike most other countries,” explained the M.P., as he showed the visitors from Michigan round the House, members of Parliament receive only a small payment for their arduous services, merely four hand ed a year—far less than the income of a moderately successful shopkeeper.” One
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  • 213 883 Guncil’s Stern Measures [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, August 20 The Council of the Singapore Medical College has ordered the students who took part in the recent acts of insubordination and absented themselves from Congregation to be punished as follows Firstly, they forfeit all claims to medals and
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  • 367 883 J-T.OM graphs s ng A -n to We are glad to learn th.t M» r Lay Teik, daughter of y r j”* 6 ,E... h s S Mr. E. Pratt, District Judge who went to the Bindings returned th.s morning by Rengam. u Messrs. Cobbold, B. Batts,
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  • 1234 884 a!)N ual exhibition excellent show J ExLibition of work by the e Penang Impressionist Club, rf*” the Government English S.m yeBterdf ty a,ter 5» >±3 en uniformly much trel h e uTs .7. v of the exhibits are de- ,t ?””l> mo™ than P assin J Lla.ire of
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  • 297 884 Alleged Assault on a Woman In the Second PoHoe Court this morning before Mr. Forrer, a Chinese, Chang Chong, alias Teoh Chiang was charged by Inspector Bailey with assault, with intent to outrage the modesty of a Chinese woman on the Penam? Hill on the 13th. The Inspector
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  • 268 884 On Saturday, l efoie C*p'.aiu J mew, in Singapore Ling S-o.ig Ling was charged with cheating in respect of a tender for the erection of a j t'y at the Naval But». Tee pro c e ution all-ved that the accused, who is a partne
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  • 1688 885 THE GIRL’S STORY Prosecution Closes Continuing his evidence in the case in which four Tamils are charged with the abduction of and assault upon a 12-year-old Chinese girl, in the hearing in th* civil court, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday (says the Malay Mail of Tuesday), the cleaner working
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  • 1540 886 nave T.O.M, tbc annual dinner of the Straits 1 Lts Association in London m s John Anderson, who was then rX of Colony, speaking, as he declared, "with the authority C« s iestv’s Government," warned British Malaya that within XTvears the opium revenue would 7-« dfsappeared.
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  • 1276 887 Not Quite the same Thing Government publications are produced with a leisurely regularity, very differ* nt from the rush of a daily newspaper, so it is perhaps not altogether surprising that they rarely contain the literals,” or mistakes in proofreading, that occasionally disfigure the p*ges of trie Straits
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  • 191 887 In the District Court ik* before Mr. E. Pratt, Def'eeti,’ J. G. Barrett charu.d a Teoche, c h W Fan Pow, with breaking into the P. Hong godown at Victoria night of the 12th. Court ln<XrV kins prosecuted. Accused iuTs J’ denied the charge. He said ha w
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  • 221 887 The health statistics for the Mnieipality of George Town for the weei ending August 16, 1924, give a totalo! 63 deaths40 males and 2 J fezn%k«— the death rate being 25.18 jw mi*!* per annum com pared with 26.78 io Ve preceding week and with 16,25 in corresponding
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  • 1018 888 M VISIT pfflflO’ A 5 FA 5 EN we h that our t>wn planner* 6 a>»r. n tbe y u fl nub'»” and 900 t,er M Chunteloups biplane thev might almost be von the thickly own hH9 i,S d P T' t* 1 nf a few
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  • 145 888 Singapore Opinion [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, August 21 The Straits Times, commenting on the Opium Committee’s Report, says that the enquiry has been an exhaustive one, but the conclusions are not likely to commend themselves enthusiastically to those wholly in sympathy with the antiopium movement. Registration
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  • 621 888 ACCUSED COMMITTED TO ASSIZES PERUMA L’ S SI'ATEM <NT r .e R*ja Ud i this morning, (s«y -tie M-Jay Mil! of Wednesday) in the Kinli Lumpur p li<’e court, fram* i two charges against Petumd, Ratnam, Muthii :nd lUmasamy, charged with the abduction of a young Chinese
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  • 659 889 RETAINING STOLEN PROPERTY EX-POSTMAN ON TRIAL. In the Second Police Cuu t, afternoon, Chief Detective Inspector Costello charged a Malay, Mohamed bin Itam, with dishonestly retaining stolen property, to wit. a letter, which had been addressed by Abdulla bin Shafnng, of Kedah, to Hassan bin Mat Isah in
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  • 518 889 (From Our Own Correspondent). Alor Star, August 20 Mr. Choong Lye Hock, the Penang ricemiller, has presented that piece of land on the English School side of the railway line ntar the crossing, to the Teong Wah Chinese School which is at present unsuitably housed in the
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  • 413 889 Mrs. Dunshea kr. j I Government Girls' sS““£ e I*,--"; 1 lhe wedding Jl7 j I o. the Singer Sewing Singapore, and Mrs. D os u,, T" yesterday. ssett and N. K. Bain, of th Servtce, are expected to leave early next month V" 2 Mr Lim
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  • 1057 890 .—S.T. E CHACE vrE 0F Second Attempt .W continued hearing of the pnuuirv into charges of abet--I'"'JD<“' JD <“n l ur<ler preferred against the Chinese, Wan Boon Kim Chunn, before the "cVistrate, -Mr. Sennett yesears Tuesday's Hee Press) t/tements were made by witreference to a second at- the
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  • 521 890 HONGKONG OPINION 1 ERRiBLE Lesson of Singapore Naturally reluctant though we are (says the hina Mail) to touch upon an unsavoury topic like the social evil again, we cannot forebear, in view of the very grave issues involved, to make a lew remarks about the movement now
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  • 1078 891 THE COMMITTEE’S REPORT Conclusions and Recommendations We give below the summary ol conclusions from the Report oi the British Malaya Opium Committee, which reached us yesterday Reduced Consu mpi ion We have satisfied ourselves that the consumption of prepared opium in Bri tish Malaya has diminished very
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  • 33 891 An Association footh.ii tween "B" CompZ p tears, and the Police’, tree School ground vesuw tt m a Win tor the Poiice by scored m th e first half. JU 8*
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  • 372 891 oinc* r Mr Hinton, A.C.P., charged beta, Hap Yacob, in the Klang on Thursday, two Chined, p hu and Chong Keng Huat, with theewta! venlioti of Rubber Restriction rule, lhe prosecution alleged that theta accused transferred at Kapar, on fa gust 6, a one-pikul rubber export coupon
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  • 979 892 lt the end of July, Mr. C. W. Dar-r-re’B attention was again diverted ZT the politics which interest his consent, at Westbury to Malayan affairs. his questions in the House of was rather belated, for the of State was able to point to ae nomination of a second
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  • 443 892 It is s.iid that M. Poulou is severing hi.- connecti >n with the French Tekka Mine, o’ which he is General .Manager. -dr. C. J. Beamish, Principal of the iiigh School, will leave Malacca on furlough in April next year. Surgeon Lieutenant J. A Cusack joins the
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  • 25 892 POMESTICOCCU RRE NCE death Tnlv 10, at Uriage les Bains, io Widow Of late H. K. C. ier. Straits Settlements, i. and C. Telegraph Company.
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  • 1222 893 Premature Publication Local ne-'spinors wern particularly requested to tro tt the report of the Opium Committ'e as confidential until Thursday, August 21. We note, however, that the Malaya Tribune dealt with it on Wednesday, the 20th. We can only conclude that the r e has been a mistake,
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  • 97 893 Ti e renewed ZZTndL phonio speech '«.h u I enang (a disUuce of l and the man? inform 500 F. M. S. ha 9 >X r O T° S Mr. T. A. Posts and Telegraph, p mV» report for 1923. The hn« j S 1 in I with
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  • 106 893 ENORMOUS AREA SUBMERGei, Devastation and Famine Shanghai, Augngt 13 Devastating floods in China are ing enormous tracts, and the low of 14« estimated at 50,000. There is wid fe lriL damage to many towns and tens-of thog. sands of villages, and thousands of mim are pouring into
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  • 93 893 Judge’s Strong Comment* (From Our Own Corresponded Kuala Lumpur. August 22 Mr. .Justice Reay, at Seremban. (b missed with costs a claim by a Hindu named Negataram, against his father-in law for $2,000, alleged to have been promised as a marriage settlement, ph» $3,000 damages owing to
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  • 143 893 Fighting Imminent (From Our Own Singapore, Augi« A telegram from H°ns°.' ,r ie port«d Straits Times says^fig htlD to be imminent, at Cantm. 11( 9 dll is panicky and trade is at a :o: "TXt fm* A committee meeting o Chamber of Commerce will D Kuala Lumpur, oni bun
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  • 2991 894 uik’FSE COMMUNITY and MOVEMENT l below further extracts port Of the Upturn Com'deuce tendered to us on this e j. w mewbat conflicting. consider it essential to otrei «rrations on the Chinese comBritish Malays because thenn perhaps not thoroughly unin Western Countries. 1 Chinese population sis's L,
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  • 181 895 < To the Editor of the SlmiL Echn. S,l l' wish to call your attention to shocking condition of the thorough!»» o t Market Lane and (’hulia Lane, appears to me that the authority in the course of tlie.rWj pureuitH have the OPP^ these Innes, for
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  • 13 896 Biß'lH T yr. and Mrs. ierh Boon 0-^ 1U U a
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  • 1115 896 /J nur contemporaries had rather f‘L little note the other day re- 7 line visitors to a house oi enterwho appear to have made tiieir felt and heard more proCdlv than is either necessary or v it has, somewhat regretfully, that conduct of this kind W little
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  • 423 896 Ihe Rev. N. Bower, chaplain of Christ Church, Malacca, is now back from leave. Mr. A. Bruyns, Clerk of Works, I’. A .1)., Penang, left for Sumatra yesterday on medical advice. Mr. E. A. Staines, Accountant, Post and Telegraphs, F.M.S., is due back shortly from Home leave.
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  • 957 897 Copra The price of copra is m iutained ata satisfactory 1 vel, $12.50 or 551’2.60, and the cutlook is encouraging. Writing from England, recently, a correspondent interested in the in lust r y oi«cu sed its future opt'mistioally* In Ceylon, tho coconut industry is the least advertised of
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  • 48 897 Kuala Lumpur, August 23. Our Kuala Lumpur correspondent telegraphs that there is a large influx of visitors for the Malaya Cup final. An enormous crowd is expected. The ground is in perfect condition, but this morning ominous clouds suggest the possibility of the weather breaking.
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  • 233 897 Our Singapore correspondent telegraphs that in a boxing contest there Keyes outpointed Key s in. ten rounds. 1 H.R.H. Prince Asdang of Nagor Rujasina, the Crown Prince of Siam, is expected in- Penang to-morrow afternoon from Singora. His Royal Highness has been on an unofficial visit to
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  • 525 897 i lrther 1 HUXTh POWER? To DEi[i offenders 11 [From r Singapore Mn n iJp"fc7mmi!° Wa I' conn l erlna forlhf P '’’««m u,L the hawker question P oo Ures that whatever j" Wj. J.: powers to deal wilh V?” 4 deV.' > emulations and the puui.k®'?'!’” P'
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  • 1717 898 fk REPLIES TO MR. Lowther kemp f r peck wHges to the Straus !<*;. k.«tber Kemp n.m.p’ains of M; in; to ans-vo- c iti.ns os, and of a one i.nportwoe, JW Ur al i»preset>t4'i»e on the S.S. «<?, Council of «he Singapore end also nvmber Council, it set
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  • 217 898 Valier. Pays the Penalty Loudon August 12 Vaquier was exemted this morning. Them was a crowd of people round the prison ga'es, tido the notiie posted, and several children who were in danger of being crushed w-re rescue I by thi I'oli m. Vaqu'er, who wos
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  • 1630 899 SINGAPORE OPINION (From The Tree Press) We do not imagine that anyone who carefully reads through the report of committee of enquiry into the opium qu lion which has just been published will escape three convictions, the first that the Committee has felt very much bound by
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  • 504 900 years ai -t.o.m. I gEOBOASISATION SCHEME -I k forth annual general meeting I r f iUe n Matches, Limited, held on I at the ofhces of the managing and secretaries, Messrs. J. A. If i and CO., Hongkong and ShangBuildings, Kuala Lumpur. Tonies Davidson (director) piesid-:-P Jj read
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  • 1512 900 ANTHONY CO.’S SHARE LIST Name of Company. Buyers SeSrs Remark RTB' EH TXU I.AH BHARRB. .«of.. < cN All-nb<HliWber Co., Ltd. 1.00 105 Ak r Gamh lUibber Ltd. 0. 0 i f 'O5 A imiU'h natal M» 'ay Estate», Ltd I/O 1 1.70 -nu S,n<licat" Ltd 9 0 ;C 0
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  • 247 900 Ciieuderiang, for the first half of August, Dredge, hours 293, piouls 100. Hydraulicing, piculs 85. tiatrut Basin, for the first half of August, 150 piculs, 240 hours worked, 33,000 cubic ya ds treated, stopped 3 days boiler cleaning. Kenoug, for the first half month of August, D.-edga No.
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