The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 26 January 1926
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Title Section20 1926-01-26 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL. 24 PENANG: JANUARY 26, 1926 NO. 420 words
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Advertisement290 1926-01-26 1 IM LEADERS MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) fil The Tailor»’Petition ...63 Si.meee Daooit. ...76 fffl China, Britain and Japan 69 Dr w Lie T h Penang 76 ES The Robber Situation 77 Labour in K“dah 78 PD France and Syria 81 Education 80 The Civiliaati >n of China 85 Singapore Shooting Affray 82290 words
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Advertisement181 1926-01-26 2 X/7 THB £> I STRAITS ECHO I f« MAIL EDITION. gj 0 w f^e d Y to departure of each mail for Europe, 7 and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the Far181 words
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Article21 1926-01-26 63 BIRTH Goh.To Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Goh, at (>, Bennington Park Road nursing home, West Hampstead, London, a daughter.21 words
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Article1548 1926-01-26 63 The petition presented by the master tailors of Singapore to H. E. the Governor raises a definite iss’ue on which assuming the accuracy of the statements madeonly definite action is possible. The employers, who have been unable to arrive at a settlement with their men for over1,548 words
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Advertisement28 1926-01-26 63 Cbe Straits cbo PUBLISHED DAILY MAIL EDITION Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe the criterion press, limited 59. Beach Street, Penang28 words
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Article1164 1926-01-26 64 .eel Watering 5 i »t U 8 d >l. tt.b toHCH ins «md uf Bull water as at pieeeot. Car owue'i complain that the mudguards, especially on American care, very soon rus through To ove com* this diffimlty several owners have z'nc mudguards and these appear to give1,164 words
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Article469 1926-01-26 64 The King of Siam has consented to become x atron of the Siamese ar Comrades Association. Mr. Lee Ban Poe, manager of the Kuala Lumpur branch office of Messrs. United Traders, Ltd., has come to Penang on a holiday. Dr. Jackson, Health Officer, Negri Sembilan, will be going home469 words
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Article767 1926-01-26 65 CURIOUS POSITION IN SINGAPORE FIRM’S AFFAIR A curious position in connection with the affairs ot Messrs. Berli and Co. in Singapore and Messrs. Berli and Co. Ltd. in Bangkok occupied the attention ot Mr. Justice Deane in the Singapore Bankruptcy Courton Friday, when an application was made767 words
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Article334 1926-01-26 65 -M ML, The Kroh-Lek states that the Commission appointed to examine the present position in regard to the Privy Purse property has sent in a report recommending that 2,000 officials of the Lord Chamberlain's Department be discharged, and their posts abolished. It is recommended that-M ML, - 334 words
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Article536 1926-01-26 65 A correspondent writes: lhe first turnout of the year of the Penang Girl Guides took place at Mayfield,’ Macalister Road, the residence of Mrs. P. M. Robinson, tiie Divisional Commissioner, yesterday afternoon. At o p.m. sharp the different companies l fell in under tneir respective commanding I536 words
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Article1254 1926-01-26 66 MASTERS’ STRONG PETITION TO GOVERNMENT Tailors of Singapore are still at variance with their employees although they have maae every attempt to solve the uimeuities lying in the path of a settlement. it wouiu seem that the object oi the men is not only to obtain unreasonable1,254 words
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Article240 1926-01-26 66 Another Motor Smash With the increase in the number of motor vehicles the number of accidents must become more frequent. Lately there have been two or three bad ones and it was only yesterday we recorded a smash up at the racecourse. This morn, ing there240 words
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Article128 1926-01-26 66 -ST Saturday’s Gymkhana Entries for the Polo Gymkhana Club Skye meeting which ia to be held on Saturday on the racecourse closed yesterday. Mr. S. C. Vickers informed our representative this morning that satisfactory entries had been received and that the entries with handicaps would be available-ST - 128 words
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Article1185 1926-01-26 67 We are printing an article to-day in which the writer bases a scale of future rubber prices on the assumption that shortage is inevitable before we reach the year 1930. Mr. Palmerton, chief ci the Rubber Division of the United States Department of Commerce, is o F1,185 words
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Article242 1926-01-26 67 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo > Dear Sir, -the article reproduced from Truth and published in your paper of yesterday s date has greatly surprised me and, 1 am sure, all right thinking people. At a time when the Anglo-Ghinese friendship is a little strained,242 words
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Article169 1926-01-26 67 (To the Editor of the Strait» Echo) Sir, Much has been written in the Singapore press upon the subject of the high prices now being charged for nmtm cars. The same appnes to Fenang wnere, on account of the rubber boom, neaily everyone is becoming a car169 words
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Article105 1926-01-26 67 (To the Editor of the Straits heim Sir, Concerning the Penang Lm.m Sweep Lottery, 1 am at a loss to understand why its drawing should take place privately in the Secretary’s Rco at the race-course, where memte* were not given an opportunity of witnessing. Since the Cash105 words
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Article887 1926-01-26 68 Tin it cent agitation lor an increase in the payments made to wage-earners in ibis country has, with few exceptions been settled without any general interhnnee with the industries of Sin gapore, although there arc a few outstanding difficulties. We need not again lav undue stress887 words
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Article692 1926-01-26 68 SINGAPORE v. PERAK TIIREEQU ARTERS TRIUMPH The following comments on the Malaya Cup final at Kuala Lumpur are taken from the Malay Mail:An almost immeasurably superior threequarter line gave Singapore an easy victory against Perak at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The Perak forwards were, perhaps, a little the better692 words
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Article1524 1926-01-26 69 Writing from Ipoh on Sunday last, a Chinese correspondent, whose letter appeared in the Straits Echo of yesterday, was righteously indignant with Truth, from whose columns we reproduced on Saturday an article suggesting that somebody” should give Japan a mandate to occupy Manchuria, and declared that1,524 words
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Article1282 1926-01-26 70 The Dutch Quinine Monopoly H n th x. e ib »1 noti d io the L >• Nhbtioua a<« y pa tarued at tue refa«p.l of the Datrh Governoient to rsuaiate the aeiione of the qaiaiu-» rin/ There ie at any rate one way of ov« oimiag the1,282 words
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Article262 1926-01-26 70 GROUNDING OF CITY OF BARODA Captain Severely Censured (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, January 2U At the enquiry' into the grounding of the City of Baroda, on Christmas Day while on a voyage between Cebu and Singapore, it was stated that the Harbour Board estimate of the cost262 words
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Article228 1926-01-26 70 A Curious Case Matilda Jambu, a Eurasian, was this morning charged before Mr. C. AV. A. Bennett in the Police Court with having voluntarily caused hurt to a Malay police constable who was on duty at the police hyt near the juction of Gottlieb, Mount Erskine228 words
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Article1429 1926-01-26 71 Last week (says the Malayan Saturday Post) we discussed the anomaly of an" Education Department which was content to allow itself to be used as a stepping-off place for Officials who wished for senior Staff appointments; we o aid something about the Inspectorate and tried to show1,429 words
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Article347 1926-01-26 71 The annual general meeting will be held in the Chamber of Commerce on Friday, January 29. The report contains the following: The Statement of Accounts shows a surplus for the year of $65,640.96 after deducting $14,896.81 for depreciation, and expending $7,873.18 on upkeep and improvements to the347 words
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Article1169 1926-01-26 72 By far the most important feature of the I.S.P. proceedings on Saturday, both as regards the Chairman’s address and the subsequent discussion of agenda items, was (says the Malay Mail) the definite launching of the Malayan planters’ Provident Fund, the recently concluded scheme for which, fathered” by1,169 words
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Article304 1926-01-26 72 IMPORTANT APPEAL COURT JUDGMENT Married Women’s Rights in the Colony Exceedingly important judgments affecting the rights of married women of all nationalities in the Colony were delivered in the Singapore Supreme Court on Saturday morning in a case which was argued by Mr. Roland Braddcll and Mr. G.304 words
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Article116 1926-01-26 72 Excess of Arrivals During 1925 An approximate idea of the improvement in the Malayan labour situation is obtained by an examination of the return of arrivals from and departures to foreign ports at the ports of the Straits Settlements. We (S.T.) have made the following summary of the116 words
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Article2276 1926-01-26 73 ALLEGED LIBEL A Preliminary Issue In the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice R. D. Acton, the preliminary issue was heard as to whether the libel action being brought by S. Pakiry I’adaichee against the Hon. Mr. P. K. Nambyar and others (as constituting the Penang Hindu2,276 words
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Article700 1926-01-26 74 THE INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE EAST These two headings form the title of a book by Mr. David M. Figart, the Special Agent, Crude Rubber Survey Department of Commerce, U.S.A In the course of a review, D.H.G. writes in the Malayan Agricultural Journal: This is the second of700 words
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Article350 1926-01-26 74 Extraordinary Allegations K.P.N.” writes as' follows to the Straits Times: Last evening 1 got into a motor bus at Vpper Serangoon Road, on my w r ay to attend an evening school in town. lam a South Indian, and was at the time dressed in white and350 words
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Article1645 1926-01-26 75 RIGHTS OF MAINTENANCE Appeal Court Judgment The following, from Monday’s Fred Press, is a more complete report of the Singapore Appeal Court judgments in the case in which Tan Kim Hoe, a British born Chinese, appealed against an ordetf made by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr; P. J.1,645 words
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Article365 1926-01-26 76 woman arrested A Criminal Appeal Sain Soo, the Chinese woman who was committed to the Supreme Court to stand her trial at the Assizes of last year on two charges of aiding and abetting the procuration of a young girl for the purpose of prostitution, and who absconded365 words
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Article278 1926-01-26 76 GOVERNMENT TO PAY DAMAGES Award of $10,450 As already briefly reported by telemr.i, (he Chief Justice of the F.M.S. Mr. Justice Gompertz, delivered judgi .ent yesterday morning, in the Kuala in.mpur Supreme Court, in the action brought by Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Collins, of S ngapore,278 words
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Article397 1926-01-26 76 Railway Incident Further details are to hand regarding the pitched battle fought on the Siamese Eastern railway near Petriu between gendarmerie and dacoits. It now appears that the passenger train, which was stopped by the firing and returned to Ban Mai Station, was the objective of the bandits.397 words
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Article598 1926-01-26 76 VISIT TO THE FREE SCHOOL Yesterday evening Dr. Wu Lien Teh paid a visit to his o d school, the Penang Free School and gave a short but ifiterestmg lecture to the masters and boys. After an introductory address by the Headmaster, Mr. W598 words
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Article1173 1926-01-26 77 One of the last Singapore weekly rubber reports says tiiat tne heavy increase in London stocks to 7.319 tons rather broke the heart of that market and the premium on spot vanished.” Another states that the outlook is uncertain and the market is unsettled by the controversy1,173 words
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Article437 1926-01-26 77 Datoh Elana, of Sungei L'jong, is confined to his house suffering from induenza. Ah’. F. Heginbotham, assistant traffic manager, F.M.S.R., is going on leave next month. Mr. Justice J. McCabe Reay will preside at the Malacca Assizes to be held on Monday, January 25. Mr. Alec Mackenzie, manager of437 words
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Article1274 1926-01-26 78 A Printer’s Error The burning of Groot Cor the historic building of the Cape, recalls the fanciest misprint ever perpetrated by the humorous hand of chanoe. When Joseph Chamberlain was at the Cape he was the ohinf guest at a Government, G*rden Party at the famous wine farm.1,274 words
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Article2671 1926-01-26 78 CRIMPING AND WAGES Meeting Of Planters Matters concerning Indian Labour in Kedah generally and more especially the recent demand, by some coolies for an increase in the rate of wages, which have been causing considerable anxiety lc the planters of Kedah, were fully discussed at a general2,671 words
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Article223 1926-01-26 80 'To the Editor of the Sbraite Echo Dear Sir, You may have seen an advertisement of Nai Hoot Tin Ltd., in which it is stated that the issue of 865,000 shares has been under-written for 2| per cent. It omits, what appears in the prospectus, that223 words
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Article1079 1926-01-26 80 As it happens, says the Malaya Tribune, the Director of Education, besides being an educationalist, is able to comfort the official mind by being also a Civil Servant. Were Dr. Winstedt not a member of the Civil Service it would be,' impossible for him to become the Director of1,079 words
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Article32 1926-01-26 81 MARRIAGE TurnerPike.December 23, at Hen-rietta-street, Covent-garden, W.C., Sydney Walter Turner, of Miri, Sarawak, and late of Kuala Lumpur. F.M.S., to Elizabeth May, only daughter of the late Wallace Pike, A.C.A.32 words
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Article1020 1926-01-26 81 Since the time Syria was mandated to France it has proved an irritating and expensive toy to play with. France’s first task after she had taken it over was to reconstruct the principal means of communication, which, after five years of English, German and Turkish occupation were1,020 words
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Article447 1926-01-26 81 Dr. and Mrs. Fletcher, of Kuala Lumpur, are going Home on leave very shortly. Work on the tomb for the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen in Nanking will begin shortly. When the last mail left Home Kapitan and Mrs. Chung Thye Phin were staying in Amsterdam. Mr. Meade, who447 words
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Article1540 1926-01-26 82 Threatened Railway Strike The thieat of a railway strike at Home comes as a surprise, for the railwaymen, who are members of a sheltered industry,” are well paid and it was only the other day that a leading coal magnate was demarding a reduction in their wages in1,540 words
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Article398 1926-01-26 82 Further Details of Society Raid The shooting affray on North Boat Quay on Tuesday night, in which six Chinese coolies were shot, was' one of several serious incidents which have occurred recently, and which point to the fact that secret society crime is beginning to increase again.398 words
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Article572 1926-01-26 83 POPPY DAY” IN MALAYA SPLENDID RESULTS ACHIEVED Mis. F. Garland, of Ipoh, the Hon. Organieir g Secretary for British Malay writes ns as follows: On behalf of the ab >ve Fund may I, through the rnediura of your valuable paper, take thi-< opportunity of thanking one and572 words
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Article825 1926-01-26 83 ALLEGED LIBEL Suit Barred In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice R. D. Acton delivered judgment on the preliminary issue before the Court in the suit for damages in which S. Pakiry Padiachee, a former member of the Committee of Management of the Mariaman Temple, was bringing825 words
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Article354 1926-01-26 83 The question, of future sdpplies of tin iias been the subject of comment in the financial papers. The decision of some of the Malayan companies to erect and operate additional dredges has created a rear in some quarters that any large increase in output must tend to354 words
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Article1068 1926-01-26 84 ImL r'uSITiGN IN SINGAPORE in reply U> certain questions raised b. iaiis settlements Association a the corn letter, the Colonial knitted that the Princii’.. Alt Officer advises that he has i-'j cvxd <j. the cuies, in cases of veneicM disease», tiiected by the clinics in outdoor patients,1,068 words
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568 1926-01-26 84 SOON THEAM CO.'S WEEKLY SHARE CIRCULAR Penang, January 22 Both Rubber and Tin prices show further declines during the week. A loss of s£d. in the price of rubber for one week would naturally have a serious effect on rubber share prices and the erstwhile optimistic rubber share operators began568 words
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Article1063 1926-01-26 85 The question has often been asked, but lias never found a satisfactory answer, why and how it is that Chinese civilisation has persisted through so many centuries, while other civilisations, with equal if not superior claims to permanency, have been broken up and have disappeared from1,063 words
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Article429 1926-01-26 85 The Rev. Mr. Ayadurai is the new j’amii pastor of the Wesley Church, Seremban. Lt.-Col. B. A. Thompson, MilitaryAdviser, Johore Military Forces, has returned from leave. Mr. lan Burgess, of Renggam Plantations, Johore, has returned from Home leave, accompanied by his sister. Mr. Chech Cheang Lim, who came Lo429 words
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Article1639 1926-01-26 86 Sir Austen Chamberlain on Education Siuce lhe early days ot Dieiatdi the pseudonyms attached to letters to the Times have often concealed well-known persons and it is interesting to see that one Of them has just been persuaded out of hie shelter. Rugbei«nsis, w'no made last year some1,639 words
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Article193 1926-01-26 86 (From Our Own Correspondent) bingapoie, January 23 It is reported that Mr. Scmadlec and Mr. Dymond, two Johore planters, I ate beeo missing slued W’edue>day evouiug when they went out Tne pjiiue and their colleagues hoe b.-eu fruitlessly eeat chiug for them. o: Mr. and Mrs. A. C.193 words
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Article1130 1926-01-26 87 STORY OF SOUTH CHINA S NEW UNIVERSITY Five Years Of Remarkable Work Five vcars ol remarkable work were summarised by Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Principal or Amoy University, in an interview with a Straits 1 imes representative on Wednesday. Dr. Lim Boon Keng is paying bis first visit1,130 words
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Article508 1926-01-26 87 (To the Editor of the Malay Malli Sir, lenders have been cabled tor by the Immigration Committee lor the erection of buildings at Penang. So far 1 have not noticed any announcement regarding a loan., so it will be interesting to know now the Committee intend to508 words
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Article1285 1926-01-26 88 ADDRESS BY Di<. WU LIEN TEH Al the iiu icw Scab premises yesterday afternoon. Dr. V\ u Lien I eh, the well-known Plague specia.ist, delivered an instructive address on Progressive Movements in China to a large body of beah members and a few others. A good1,285 words
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Article483 1926-01-26 88 The question whether a. wife is a compellable witness, in a case in which her husband is an accused, came up before Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby at the Kuala Lumpur Assizes this moflning in the course of the trial of a Sikh named Fareda, who is483 words
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Article21 1926-01-26 89 BIRTH jvens.At Circular Road, Kuala Lumpur, on the 22nd January, to Mr. and E. B. J vens, a daughter.21 words
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Article991 1926-01-26 89 Events appear to be coming to a head in Manchuria where the dispute between Chang Tso-lin and the Russian administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway has culminated in the arrest of the Russian manager, M. Ivanoff, by the war-lord. Russia, very indignant, is bombarding both the991 words
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Article440 1926-01-26 89 Mrs. I Smith has> been admitted as a patient to tile Batu Gajah Hospital. Ihe Hon. the Resident Councillor, Mr. Peel, went to the Province today on inspection. Mr. Charles C. Reade, the Govern ment Town Planner, F.M.S., is expected to return from leave bv the Man t ua.440 words
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Article1301 1926-01-26 90 Mukden Mukden, w’ ich is n>w the gnat rentrp of interest in Nothern China, has abeady had rather more history than is good fur a town. Until the war of 1914-18 set fresh reoorde of human carnag», the decisive battle* fought here between the Russian and Japanese armies1,301 words
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Article424 1926-01-26 90 The following delightful verses over the signature Ella Guilleinard” ap. peared in recent issues of the Spectator; we are sure that people in Penang where Lady Guillemard counts so many warm friends, will read them with interest and pleasure: The Flying Fish The silver tish that skims424 words
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Article1645 1926-01-26 91 SATURDAYS GYMKHANA A Successful Meeting After the Penang Turf Club New Year Meeting, which concluded only a week ago, the Penang Polo Club Gymkhana on Saturday on the racecourse might have turned out rather an anti-climax; it was. however. highly successful and drew a distinguished and fairly1,645 words
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Article429 1926-01-26 92 Perak defeats Selangor (i’rurn Uur Ucun Cun eapuudent) Ipoh, January 24 In ideal weather conditions and before a large crowd ol spectators rerak defeated beiangor by two goals to one yer terday on tne ipoii Club Padang. Ihe ground, wmcn is one of the ueob in Alafaya, was429 words
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Article1222 1926-01-26 92 axis me uuveiuuf nnds <1 H.uV..V vll mat i. a.- o -v nu Wioaxvo io auu. me uuutj oj tu-ci oeciuuuy io muou oi uovtmur auu LLgu Commissioner. mu way io emu a ten Uuiiuj to nnsome -uisuie is to uo wiiat tiiuie sto uu nivxougmy. lor nismuce1,222 words
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Article1021 1926-01-26 93 tfcAh CO.’S WttKLY' REPORT < Thursday evening. Tin has continued in its course and has shown daily lo's'seq until to-day, when a gain of .>ls'/- was registered and a recovery from the lowest Joint of £273 10s. 3 months to the closing quotation of £274 ss. set in.1,021 words
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Article499 1926-01-26 93 7/inEEt months fcr ass Balt Before Air. (>. A. Hereford, .n tlu District oui t yistenlay, the case v,;econtirmed in vjiich. (.ho Lah. a fitter employed in the ?J uuiFqial Triutiwax < workshop, was changed with causing hurt to a 1 ami! at Ayer ItArn on December 20499 words
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