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Title Section20 1927-10-12 1 The Straits Echo Weekly Edition. $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 25 PENANG, OCTOBER 12, 1927 NO. 4020 words
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Advertisement240 1927-10-12 1 t--.‘ CONTENTS -4« *-<3 fl Leading Articles Miscellaneous (Continued) JL The D.E.I. Restriction ...806 Good Fishing Grounds Discovered ...812 IT Kiu Ong Yah” Festival ...806 1 Dr. Tagore on Unity ...812 1 The China Melting-Pot ...808 Exit the Ricsha ...812 IL «jL Votes for Girls ...812 Our Malayan setters ...813240 words
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Advertisement219 1927-10-12 2 X» 4 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. I I I I I t t 4 Published the clay prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, and contains 4 the latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all important news from various219 words
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Article342 1927-10-12 806 THE D.E.I. RESTRICTION It is nut without a touch of irony that just when the anti-restnctiouists are congratulating tnemseives mat the breakuown oi me btevenson scheme is mimiuent news comes to hand tnat the Dutch hast Indies prouucers, who hitherto have refused to nave anything to do with restriction, are342 words
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Article283 1927-10-12 806 st'rdav, the ninth day of the nt Chinese moon, was the last dav celebration of the festival of p ir ,j 1 or the nine brethren lls is observed mostly by the ui th llB !I,H Parted on the first day niD th moon when a283 words
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Article311 1927-10-12 806 YOUTHFUL ACCUSED SENT TO ASSIZES Before Mr. S. N. King in the Police Court yesterday afternoon, Osman bin Nasir a Malay youth 18 years of age, was charged with having fraudulently used as genuine a money order duplicate for $4.24 by presenting same for payment at the Government311 words
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Article480 1927-10-12 806 Political Window Dressing AG are reminded that iia- present Gox rnnient at Home no., entering its y \ea of office and the parties are u< g.nning to dress their window* in preparation for the next elections. Undoubtedly had it not been for the general strike Mr. Baldwin s480 words
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Advertisement28 1927-10-12 806 flbe Straits Echo PUBLISHED DAILY WEEKLY 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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Article1274 1927-10-12 807 PENANG’S EASY VICTORY OVER KEDAH (By Our Sporting Correspondent) Fenang secured an easy and convincing victory in her first representative match of the Season when she met and defeated Kedah, on Saturday on the Esplanade, by 45 points (six goals, and five tries) to nil. The Kedah combination1,274 words
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Article176 1927-10-12 807 VENEREAL DISEASE (To The Editor of The Straits Eohs Sir, In this unpleasant subject you have another excellent argument in lavour ol the registration and control of domestic servants in this country. Under present conditions these people do just as they please, ask what wages they176 words
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Article161 1927-10-12 807 Two Chinese, father and son, wer charged before Mr. S. N Kmg Police Court yesterday with disho J disposing of stolen property tow geese and a turkey on 21 bep the first defendant bemg also with dishonestly retaining 1 "rhe gardener at the Residency in161 words
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Article482 1927-10-12 808 Well-wishers of China abroad are hava their patience severely taxed by the Responsibilities of the many generals, governments and factions which cont'inue to impede the path towards orfer and peace. Nationalist ideals and aspirations are the same to day as they ere twelve months ago but what482 words
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Article506 1927-10-12 808 Monday’s Council Meeting Judging from the Orders of the Dm, there is not likely to be anything ven exciting at the Legislative Council meet ing next Monday. Some of the business is formal and so far as the motions are concerned none concern Penang. And Friend” A New506 words
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Article285 1927-10-12 808 THE V. D. MENACE (1° I he Editor of The Straits Echo) Sir, Lour leader under date 4th ni-t touches the vital trouble of -ualaya and the world t an it be that the medical profession is so tied to its Trade un on the B.M.A.that285 words
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Article184 1927-10-12 808 Singapore, 5 October Mr. Wah Kah Kiat spent $160,000 for the construction and equipment of a rubber factory in Tanglin Road which had been operating for five )ears, when the Municipal Commissioners refused to renew the licence on the ground it had become a nuisance. Mr. Wah184 words
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Article2965 1927-10-12 809 R. J. H. SIDNEY - A Japanese Schoolgirl AbroadWhen Divine Protection can be Dispensed WithA Comedy of A LabelSingapore History New StyleAnother Lady Traveller Lord OxfordA Great Soldier. BY R. J. H. SIDNEY. (Exclusive to the Straits Echo) Beside me lies a huge pile of books which I want to get2,965 words
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Article198 1927-10-12 810 Singapore, 5 October Mr. Justice Deane set aside the judgment against M. V. Pillai in the action brought by Ramagamy Ponudurai in respect of a promissory note on the ground that Cathiravalo was an infant at the time Pillai hHxml surety for the heir. o: Mr.198 words
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Article524 1927-10-12 811 ALLEGED THIEF CHASED Before Mr. S. N. King in the Police Court yesterday afternoon, a Chinese youth was charged with theft by snatching a gold pendant and chain from a school-girl named Yeoh Han Eng of No. 48, Northam Road, at about 9.20 p.m, on 28524 words
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Article527 1927-10-12 811 SOME DEATH SENTENCES THAT WERE WRONG Fewer mistakes are made in British courts than in any other, and when a ii isc image of justice is suggested, as in the case of Oscar Slater (who was sentenced io death in 1909 for the murder of527 words
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Article337 1927-10-12 811 The Banvard Musical Co lne ,j v pany which is advertised i 0 Ton instant comes to the S.S with alluring reputation. ,ost Reports are that it has broken all Box Offices Receipts in both Bomtav and Calcutta, and Mr. Harold Srf the advance Manager,337 words
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Article153 1927-10-12 811 SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION LAST SATURDAY On Saturday night a fancy drew masked ball was held at the Town Hji in aid of the Poppy Day t n gathering was largely attended J communities and many beautiful ana original costumes were worn. 16 nicipal Band was in attendance,153 words
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Article531 1927-10-12 812 \ll being well with the British Eintrade being in lull swing and the fusing, health and unemployment problems having all been settled, poll jcians are finding that time hangs heavily on their hands. Therefore having nothing of real importance to get n C with the Cabinet is531 words
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Article404 1927-10-12 812 Lepanto 10-day is the 356th anniversary <; the Battle of Lepanto tor on October, Lnl the Spanish and Italian fleets: about 250 sail, under Don John of Ina defeated and almost destroyed the Turkish fleet of 270 sail under Piale and the Lay of Algiers. The Turks, it404 words
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Article65 1927-10-12 812 iFrom Our Own Correspondent Singapore, f> October The Tongkoi reports finding between Penang and the Bindings the best voiding grounds vet discovered. Anol he seventy miles north of Penang remain to be examined. Mr Walter Makepeace has taken ove« from Mr R. N. Bland. C.M.G.. theditorship65 words
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Article301 1927-10-12 812 INTERVIEW AT TANJONG BUNGAH YESTERDAY I represent the truth of spiritual unity to all human peoples,” said Dr. Rabindranath Tagore in an interview at Tanjong Bungah yesterday. The highest human truth is our spiritual interdependence. The unity of man has to be realised in order to301 words
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Article248 1927-10-12 812 The statement is made in a message that ther e are now less than 200 nesha pullers in the Japanese capital I The time was not so many sears s.nce when kurumaya lined the streets in thousands, and there might be as many as 200 or more248 words
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Article2235 1927-10-12 813 R. J. H. SIDNEY, M.A. F.R.G. S - A Departmental ReportOur Traffic-Ridden StreetsSome of the Offences—Noises and Glaring Lights—Some SuggestionsMore Rigid Inspection. BY R. J. H. SIDNEY, M.A. F.R.G.S. i Copyright Reserved) There will not be sufficient space within the scope of one article to discuss these problems as fully as they deserve, and 12,235 words
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Article583 1927-10-12 814 FIRST MEETING HELD YESTERDAY The first meeting of the members and fiends of the above society was held tt the Government. English School, yeserday, with Mr. J. N. L. Pasqual, the President, in the Chair. Among those present were: Messrs. B. E. Boss, W. Ingold, Gan Teong583 words
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Article433 1927-10-12 814 ENTERTAINED BY THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION Dr. Tagore who returned to Penang i -dm-.lay morning from his visit Java was entertained by the Indian Association at their premises in Dato Kramat Hoad last evening, when a teaparty was given in his honour. In spite of the inclemency of433 words
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Article85 1927-10-12 814 P.C.C. DEFEAT P.S.A.A. On the I .-pl made vesterda*. tin- P. '■•ng Cricket lub defeated the Rebel in-ti rs’ Athletic Assooiab. -ix goals to nil, three scored in first half ami thru»* after the uh nge ends. As usual Hyde wh th*- no t e‘i\<- ai ong85 words
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Article515 1927-10-12 815 EVOLUTION (To The Editor oe The Straits Echo) Sir, Sir Richard Owen’s audience 69 years ago, he said, was convinced, almost without a dissentient, that Man appeared on earth by a special act of creation.’’ The above statement which you published in your issue of the515 words
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Article553 1927-10-12 815 1926 REPORT IN HAND The 1926 report of Earl Haig s British Legion Appeal Fund, or better known as the Poppy Day Fund reached us vesterday, and it comes at an opportune moment in view of the fact that the appeal for the 1927 Poppy Day Fund553 words
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Article510 1927-10-12 815 MOHAMED ARIFF ESTATf DISPUTE SETTLED In the Supreme Court yesterday mom. ing, before the Hon. Mr. Justice H. W Prichard, K.C., the suit was mentioned as settled in which Che Din Ariffin a son of Mohamed Ariff, sued Mah Bee binti Arshad, Kurnah binti Kumat and Kulsome Bee510 words
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Article384 1927-10-12 816 The spectre of a capital levy has dis- eared from Labour politics only to uf replaced by a weird proposal tor a cial surtax ou unearned incomes of S^e £5OO. The prospect ot a Labour pXrnnient in the near future is by n 0 means remote and therefore384 words
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Article150 1927-10-12 816 V, SIT TO Y.M.C.A. TIFFIN ROOM thPn e jOvern or on Fridav visited o t<>Wn Y M -C.A. and had tiffin .J*’ n r j° iniQ g the cr <>wd and colH F .k' e var OUR dishes on his tray. j) P o Was150 words
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Article555 1927-10-12 816 Big Breakfast Post-Bag Liadbergh’s private secretary has just published in an American contemporarv some interesting statistics of the mail received by the Swedish-American aviator after his Transatlantic flight. The grand total of letters received amounted to three and a half million, which is said to be the largest555 words
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Article225 1927-10-12 816 An era of faster and cheaper communication between North America and trans-Pacific regions is foreseen by officials in America when projects now being developed are realised. Eor several years the British cable from Vancouver to New Zealand and Australia has born in process <>f doubling, and recently225 words
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Article178 1927-10-12 816 NO DEPARTURE FROM NEUTRAL ATTITUDE Contrary to reports, the Popo. during an audience accorded the \niercan Legion tries, never uttered bis opinion concerning the importance of the United States participation in the war. The T’ope thus never departed from bis neutral attitude, savs the Observatorc178 words
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Article2281 1927-10-12 817 LIQUOR SHOP MANAGER WHO ABSCONDED Promissory Notes madw by th Chinese manager of a Penang L; quor Chop, who has since absconded formed the basis of three cases whicl began in the Penang Supreme Cour' yesterday morning, before the Hon Mr. Justice H. W. Prichard, K.C. The defendants2,281 words
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Article822 1927-10-12 818 PROPRIETORS SUED Before the Hon. Mr. Justice H. W. Prichard, K.C., the hearing of the case was continued yesterday morning in which two Penang chetties, Sithambaram Chetty and Alagappa Chetty are suing two Chinese chops, Hop Hing and Loon Hin Hong, and Cheong Hin Kee, the manager822 words
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Article33 1927-10-12 818 RESULTS OF SEMI-FINALS (From Our Own Correspondent' Singapore, 3 October In the semi-final of the Singapore Ciolf Championship Hardie beat Dr. Lim and I pton beat Harker 'l ay lor.33 words
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Article124 1927-10-12 818 TWO RECORDS BEATEN (From Our Own Correspondent» Sing wore, 3 October Distributing the prizes at the 5. M. C. A. Swimming Comp* tition Sir Hugh Clifford said he was impressed on returning to Ma I .on at tie striking manner in which the him -,e have taken124 words
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Article514 1927-10-12 819 Sixteen years have elapsed since the firing al Hankow of the first shots in the great and comparatively bloodless revolution that so speedily ended in the extinction of the Ching Dynasty and the issue of a proclamation by the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen at Nanking announcing the514 words
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Article623 1927-10-12 819 A Forgotten and Unnoticed Swim Apropos the latest Channel conquest i Butterworth correspondent sends me dii! following reproduction of a paragraph which appeared in the Manchester City News’’ of 25 August, 1877 (just half a century ago) which shows that the press in those days did not think623 words
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Article233 1927-10-12 819 It is with very deep regret that we an. nounce the death of Mr. E. A. G. Stuart Director of Education, Kedah, which took place at the General Hospital, P&. nang, at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. It was only very recently that he was admitted and hi233 words
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Article131 1927-10-12 819 CAUSE LIST FOR OCTOBER There was no work in the Penang Supreme Court yesterday but o there are three important cases for hearing. These three suits will henr,! together as one as the other, 0. K. M. 0. M. Alagepp» ty whilst the defendants m all tni131 words
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Article2425 1927-10-12 820 R. J. H. SIDNEY, M.A., F.R.G. S - More and More Visitors—Brilliant Exteriors—The Chinese BovSome Rest House Advantages— Vegetables and Fruit Bathing and Bed SwitchesTwo New Hotels—Bathrooms of the Future. BY R. J. H. SIDNEY, M.A., F.R.G.S. The number ot visitors to Malaya increases each year. More and more people have begun to discover that2,425 words
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Article242 1927-10-12 821 Before Mr. J. S. W. Arthur in the District Court yesterday Lim Beow and Ung Boon were jointly charged by Mr. J. Byrne, representing the Preventive Service, with being in possession of 2,700 tahils of chandu estimated at a value of $25,000, which was discovered at Jelutong242 words
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Article127 1927-10-12 821 GIRL SAYS SHE WAS BEWITCHED (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 10 October The kidnapping charge against Lee Lug Tek, a pianist at a Chinese cinema, and Yeop, was partly heard to-day in the Magistrate’s Court. A lady doctor gave evidence that the girl had not been harmed. The127 words
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Article47 1927-10-12 821 RECEPTION AT GARDEN CLUB (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 10 October 11 is Excellency the Governor and the General Officer Commanding were represented at the reception at the Garfin Club by the Chinese Consul-Gen-i-al and Mrs. Lit-chuin in honour of he Chinese National Dav.47 words
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Article485 1927-10-12 821 Apropos of the China Station 8,, Bias Bay gang continue topla/tu game with bland imperturbability ments a writer in Truth.” jC tish C. in C. has threatened them with another punitive visit, but probably h, realises that, as a deterrent, he might just as well-follow Sydney Smith’, t485 words
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Article10171 1927-10-12 822 It has been my practice, in each of tue various Colonies which I have been called upon to acftninister, to take the opportunity afforded by the submission o t the Budget to the Legislative Council to lav before its Members, for their consideration and for that of10,171 words
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Article208 1927-10-12 828 In Prai, the Hindus form the major portion of the population, there being all classes of workmen, kranis, money lenders and landlords, etc. There is a Hindu Temple for their worship since long ago. They have got also a Bajanai Madam and a piece of vacant land208 words
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Article928 1927-10-12 828 LEAN AM) CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT Thursday Evening While Jin still continues unsettled the market has steadied, and the closing prices of £'267 ss. and £263 l'2s. 6d. mark a recovery of £'4 ss. and £'2 <s. 6d. for Cash and 3 months respectively. End September Tin figures928 words
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