The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 15 April 1925

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  • 19 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. |lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL. 23 PENANG APRIL 15,1925 NO. 15
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 191 1 CONTENTS LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) i Rioshas 377 Mr. Langham-Carter ...386 g gi A Serious Offenoe 381 Seremban Club Case 386 g j France’s Finances ...381 Anti-Opium Measures ...387 France’s Post-War Finances 389 S.C.B- Benefit Fund 387 g a LAW Th® Plight of Prai 388 Rj Kn The Restriction Law 378
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    • 186 2 4J r TH< r I STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. 1 q/5. Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the S, daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the Far
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  • 1041 377 ob o ne assertion made by the Won and China Express, in ap e n the ricsha, "the glamou I t'l in the Orient is not what there will be universal agree--nt,’and in the case of residents m East there may be a tendency to ws tion whether it
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  • 455 377 ST. Mr. G. Edgar, who is staying at the E. A O. Hotel, arrived by the Kinta this morning from Singapore. Mr. C. H. Hicks, of the London Zoological Society, who has c»ome to Malaya to collect specimens, is at present in Singapore. Ihe Hon. Mr. Langham Carter, Resident
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    • 30 377 jjt siraiis cto PLBLISHED DAILY mail EDITION nine the news of the week prior to Wt of Europe Th e Criterion Press, Limited, 59, Beach Street, I’enangwEDNESIHI', APRIL S. «25
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  • 826 378 Mining in Kedah Mr. W. Peel, the British Adviser, remarks in his anou »1 report on the State of Kedah that Kedah is essentially a padi country and where the two industries clash, mining must give way. Ths location and wo» king of Indus is perhap* the only
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  • 280 378 FALSE ASSESSMENT DECLARATION European Estate Manager Convicted [From Our Own Correspondent] Kuala Lumpur, April 8 V. N. B. Were, Manager of the Kampong Kuantan Rubber Company, Kuala Selangor, was charged at Kuala Selangor by the Restriction Department with making a false statutory declaration in respect of the
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  • 1802 378 M^ic iPAL L m sIDEMT INTERESTING MEETING Yesterday’s meeting of tie V Commissioners was of more than interest for, apart from aQ made with regard to Mr g departnre, Mr. Lim Cheog 4? President had matters of nuh'i,. to bring forward. Mr. g Co?*** presided and the
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  • 710 379 .Malay Mai). CASE SETTLED OUT OF COURT A M IS UNDER S T A N DIN G Seremban, April 7 The Sungei Ujong Chib case was mentioned in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. -Justice Deane, when Mr. Ivens, for Air. Justice McCabe Reay, the plaintiff,
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  • 387 380 -s.x The case in which Esther Lim js using Murugasu for maintenance of an illegitimate child was continued in the Third Court this morning before Mr. C. W. A. Sennett. Mr. G. H. Goh appeared for applicant and Mr. C. D. D. Hogan for defendant. Evidence for the
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  • SPORTING NEWS
    • 171 380 Visit From S. Patani An interesting cricket match was played at Alor Star on Sunday between teams representing Alor Star and Sungei Patani. Batting first, Alor Star compiled 108, towards which F. C. D. Laßrooy contributed 48, E. V. G. Day 34, and J. F. Augustin
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    • 598 380 P. C. C. v. CHINESE A Win for the Club All sides of the padang were lined three to four deep yesterday to witness the Association Football League match between the P.C.C. and the Chinese, which, after a very fast and well contested game, resulted in a
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  • 303 380 Chinese Convicted for Cruelti In the Second Police Court to4s before Mr. P. S. Williams, Inspects Dawson, of the Pitt Street Station, charged Khoo Pai Pun, a Cantonese, with cruelty to animals by causing two morai birds to fight near the Capitan Klang mosque yesterday. The evidence for
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  • 566 381 W A Sennett, the Magis«r .C-'««end Police Court, very tn“ 'took a serious view of the rl Emitted bv the local dealers .'“Evicted on Tuesday of sellwho® he co nll i n ine, and rejected xg adulterate q would be met s £«°and the payment of costs,
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  • 785 381 Twenty odd years ago, when M. Anatole de Monzie, the new French Minister of Finance, and the present' writer were comrades in the Latin Quarter, finance was certainly not de Monzies strong point. Rather, the contrary. But he was already recognised as a brilliant young barrister, who would
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  • 234 381 TRIBUTE IN SUPREME COURT The Independence Of The Judicial Bench” [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, April 9 The Attorney-General, Sir W. Murison and Mr. J. Aitken paid a tribute to the retiring Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw, in the Supreme Court, the former observing that Sir Walter
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  • 1262 382 Thu Colonial Secretary and Pral According ti the London correspondent of t‘'H Singapore Free Press, the Undersecretary of State for the Colonies has mentioned the fact that the present unfortunate position” regarding Prai is engaging the anxious consideration of the High Cornnsiosioner and the Unofficial members of the
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  • 975 382 ADMISSION OF A SOLICITOR BAR COMMITTEE S OPP OSIT] In the Supreme Court this m 5 Lordship Mr. Justice Wbitlev «pplication of Mr Irving Arnold bin ward hane, Barrister-at-Law 7 Oyu mission as a member of the Sunram/e As a matter of fact, the anni; Lgen before Mr.
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  • 118 383 [From O W Own Corretpcndent] f i f u 9fendftntB 10 the Ferrers, w wide i? 8 aoton f° r an order to of th/ r V>IOUB rder a l ,owin the Pl r nt ut of th jurisdiction Kuftla Lumpur. of the\< n,^ de -n
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  • 693 383 PRIZE DAY Brevity was the key-note of the proceedings at the Government English School yesterday when Mrs. Voules gave away certificates in connection with the school’s annual prise day. Lack of space also did not preclude the boys from giving an entertainment and this, though not up
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  • 421 383 Deck Passenger Stabs Three Men As briefly reported in a telegram from our Singapore correspondent, a Chinese quarte*"-master and two Bengali policemen were stabbed by a Chinese passenger on board the Tangistan whilj this vessel was lying in the roads at Singapore on Monday. The wounded
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  • 568 384 f .M.S. GOVERNMENT LAUNCH DAMAGED Tbh 8 q el to a colliGon betweer the motor Luu h Rewnk, one of toe craft of tlii Rubber P evemive Fleet, aid the wahf-boat Ent<"p»i i e, hlon-.-side the water-fxat jetty at Hin/apore, was heard before M Juatve Sproule in
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  • 1116 384 ANNUAL MEETING Five Per Cent. Dividend The twelfth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Sungei Gettah Rubber Company, Limited, was held at 12.30 p.m. to day at the registered offices of the Company, No. 8, Beach Street, Penang. Mr. F. H. Grumitt (Director) presided and the
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  • 1508 385 E VIDENCEJONCLUDED aiZiZ7^ ideUCe 0F t 6 Gurusann» in o te nance action by -ncein tbe nst K> Murugasu, m Esther burt before Mr. C. W. A. the Th ird r j a v said about 7 p.m. on MEett} l 2 he visited defendant at 94, Road
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  • 259 385 Judging by the entries there should be some interesting racing this week-end at Ipoh when the Gymkhana Club will hold another two-day sky meeting, on the Saturday and Monday, confined to ponies and hacks, says the Free Press. The previous fixture of this kind brought the Club
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  • 522 386 MALACCA CLUB PRESENTATION The lion. Mr. Langham-Carter, the retiring Resident Councillor. Malacca, and the popular president of Malacca Club, was the guest of the Club on Saturday, when a farewell tea and cricket match were held. Ihe teams were captained respectively by the Hon. Mr Langham Carter
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  • 393 386 GROWING CONFIDENCE OF ESTATE POPULATION In the report of the Malacca Agricultural Medical Board for 1924, the administrator, the Hon. Mr. J. W. Campbell, says: Taking the returns sent in, the average estate population represented is 18,634, amongst which there were 371 deaths, giving a death rate
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  • 275 386 (To the Editor of the Free Press) Sir, Having been Secretary to the old Company and or the Board prior to, 'luring, and subsequent to the Arbitration re the expropriation in 1905, 1 am interested to read the remarks of the < hairman ot the Chamber of
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  • 390 386 Commenting on the result of the action brought by Mr. Justice McCabe Reay against the Sungei Ujong Club, tb Malay Mail says Not only the friends and acquaia tances of the parties, but every right thinking person among the educated classes of all communities in this coun
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  • 706 387 tH E KLANG WARD (Contributed) t ,»rr 26 when the Antifrorln- a J rd at the District Hospital, r" opened, up to March 31. the Sch o' Sel!,ngor Antl ;°P ,u K!an krl issued 225 admission tickets, h h 2!9 were pressed by the apX for admission into
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  • 336 387 Singapore Company Secretary Sentenced Sentence of three months’ rigorous imprisonment was passed by the District Judge (Mr. Ralph Scott), Singapore, on a Ceylonese, named K. C. Perera, for criminal breach of trust as a servant ot the Seremban General Agency in 1921. The accused returned to
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  • 219 387 RECEIVING ORDERS AGAINST CHINESE CLERKS Air. Justice Barrett-Lennard granted several applications for receiving and adjudication orders in the Bankruptcy Court at Singapore. The debtors included Tan Cheng Hin, a clerk, employed by Messrs. Boustead A Co., who received a salary of $ll5 and owed $2,000 to money lenders.
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  • 411 387 Annual Report The Committee in th e annual report for the year ending 28th February, 1925, of the Subordinate Civil Service Benefit Fund, Penang, to be laid before the members on April 18 says:The fund has now completed its third year and as on previous occasions, the
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  • 286 388 The Ixmdon correspondent of the Singapore Free Press cables to that paper: In view of your leafier of February 25 touching the future of Prai, 1 have made enquiries from the Hon. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, who tells me that the
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  • 147 388 1 he following motor cases v ere heard before P. S. Williams, in the Police Court yesterday: A Chinese driver of car No. P. 798 was charged with driving his car in a rash and negligent manner at the junction of Carnarvon and Prangin Streets, failing to sound
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  • 231 388 A Chinese was brought before Mr. C. W. A. Sennett in the Police Court vesterdav for having failed to show cause. Inspector E. J. Brownings said accused was a notorious chicken stealer, and had four previous convictions, three for theft and one for absconding. He was sentenced to
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  • 32 388 Walley Wins (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, April 4 Walley regained the Flyweight Championship of Malaya yesterday evening at the Happy Valley by outpointing Trono in a twelve-round contest.
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  • 349 388 Curious Defence in Johore Murder Charge A curious case opened the Johore Bahru Assizes before Mr. Justice A. V. Brown on Saturday, when Lai Fatt, a coolie on a timber cutting kongsi near Mersing, was charged with the murder of Yip Thow, the clerk to the kongsi.
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  • 397 388 Fire at Telok Pulai [From Our Own Correapondent] Klang, March 26 A fire occurred on the 23rd instant al Telok Pulai, about two and a half miles away, which completely destroyed a lam unoccupied Chinese two-storey house The building belonged to the late Towkay Hong Thye and is
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  • 1003 389 w had been Prime MinisS ten months, and in this ter for llbo magnitude of his f bvious. Financial difficuh Lrited from his predecessors, a d became acute, and "fmlitical troubles appeared on the po domain of foreign to“',sd certainly in his attitude j ppnnany M. Herriot
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  • 484 389 Mr. J. S. W. Arthur, District Judge, Malacca and Mrs. Arthur will leave this month for Home. Mr. A. B. S. Morton is appointed a member of the Indian Immigration Committee vice Mr. V. A. Taylor. The death is announced of Colonel James Alexander Black, I. M.S., from heart
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  • 1161 390 The Tin Market A month ago the price of tin was slightly below £250, and market conditions were favourable after a series of slumps on a growing realisation that statistics were likely to make a favourable showing. Secondly, there was a feeling that in any case price had
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  • 539 390 MEMORIAL SERVICE at SINGAPORE In Singapore on Sunday the was of a particularly impresses says the Free Press. The fl’’ kindly lent by Mr. Lim Teck Ri prietor, was transformed into worship, the roadways and otherX in the grounds being renamed for thu and from early morning
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  • 3550 391 pt«AK v>ENAN(i pcuang VVin Again Exciting lini*h TJainTon their annual oll f with I’erak but the game g O be g r,t da 1 one lost four good 4 Then ensued a long and pickets rtnprdlip bv Bird and Duck.lubbom P<‘ lt mer p fo p ena ng
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  • 243 393 TALL SCORING A Drawn Game The following are the scores in this m<'h which was played on Saturday mH yesterday at Kuala Lumpur. What promised to be an interesting finish was prevented by rain, stumps being drawn yesterday after Singapore had made 139 'iG On the first
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  • 133 393 Matches in Penang The Perak Casuals led by Air. J. C. S. O’Hara visited Penang during the Easter holidays and played the Chinese at association, cricket and hockey. The cricket was against the Chinese Recreation Club, the soccer against a Penang Chinese team and the Hockey
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  • 428 393 Ipoh Casuals vs. C. R. C. A football match was played on Saturday on the Victoria Green between teams representing the Ipoh Casuals and the Chinese Recreation Club. The Casuals were captained by E. H. Toft and the Chinese by Thean Bin. From the kick-off the Chinese assumed the
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  • 362 393 The following are the scores in the first innings only Perak Casuals W Moreira b Eng Hye 7 N. Monerasinghe c Keng Chuan b Eng Leong 2 2 C. A. Baig c Hor Lan b Eng Hye 16 H. Jansz b Eng Hye 4 P. Foley c Teik Ban
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  • 1639 394 A SUGGESTED LONG CONTRACT SYSTEM i or a considerable part oi lust ycai there was much discussion ol Central Selling ol rubber as a remedy tor evils which even .Restriction had not quitesucceeded in overcoming. 1 look very little part in that discussion, because J felt that no
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  • SPORTING NEWS
    • 26 395 Malayan Championship n o u n Correspondent] Singapore, April 13 final of the Malayan Golf Hardie beat Nash. 1 up «J 3la P la V
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    • 1262 395 Events Well Supported The Ipoh Skye meeting began on 1 J kpfnrp a fair attendance. TBt 88 h were all well supported and the honours well distributed, with *to Fox’s credit. His Highness Multan of Perak and the Hon. the 1 t and Mrs Parr were
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  • 329 396 THREE CHINESE KILLED A number of people living in Arg he Road and passers-by were startled on Sunday morning, about H o clock, Io 1 a woman with a child in her arms running aero-- I’cnang Road shouting. Orang bunoh, orang bunoh.' She made for the Leith
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  • 221 396 T.O M. Our Klang correspondent writes: On the evening of the Gth a Chinese 1 eo(diew. Ng Jin Swee, of Assam Jawa, who was going to Kuala Selangor on a bicycle without a lamp came into collision with Mr. J. H. Bassett’s car, With the re ult
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  • 1135 396 TRIBUTES FROM THE BAR InDEPENDE'I E OF THE JUDICIAL BENCH After nearly twenty years in the’ British Colonial judicial service, the Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw, left the* Colonv on retirement, and the opportunity was taken on Thursday by the memb. rs < 1 the
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  • 450 397 cfl 'S WEEKLY REPORT 1 iBiM \Yednescbu Evening. <jS% l’ e^ d **iL after a*t back to l/Yjd has rteadily to 1/84 to-day 6 New York on the face of the r apid Xt the price of the Metal have remarkably steady with but Fdiscontinue weak and are on
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  • 1454 397 ANTHONY CO.’S SHARE LIST Name of Company. Buyers Sellers Rema rubber—dollar sharks. cts. cts. Allenby Rubber Co., Ltd. 1.45 1.50 Alor G*j*h Rubber Estate, Ltd. 1.05 1,10 Amalgamated Malay Estates, Ltd 2.05 2.15 Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate Ltd 11.00 11.25 Ayer Kuning Rubber Estate, Ltd... 40.0 0.45 Ayer Molek Rubber
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  • 129 397 Kedah 11,0141 b. Perak River Valley 16,000 and Soman#* gol 5,358 lb. Bata Lintan# 14,633, Jon# Landor 18,917, Bakap 13,750, Kaala Dingin 7,238, Patani 14,360, Bata Matang 5,300, Ta war 2,821, South Malay 12,00 South Johore 6,775, Parit Perak 18,014, Sangei Arak 5,201, Cioely 45,956, Eow
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  • 98 397 Ipoh, for the month of Maroh, 875 piculs. Renong, No. 2 Dredge at Rasa, from 22nd to 31st March, 47 piculs, yardage treated 14,600, hours run 146|, regular running commenced Ist April and dredge working satisfaotorily. Tronoh Mines, for the month of Maroh, 1,418 piouls. Tongkah Harbour, from
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