The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 25 January 1928
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Title Section20 1928-01-25 1 The Straits Echo Weekly Edition. PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTO. 3 VOL. 26 PENANG, JANUARY 25, 1928 NO. 420 words
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Advertisement187 1928-01-25 1 II £**•♦■■■< r m iiaaft >■ CO NT IB NT 3 M JL Leading Articles Miscellaneous (continued) JL Publicity 49 International Opera 51 I A Move in the Right Direction 49 Two Terrible Trees 53 th By. hI fcfHl Clear as Mud S 3 Penang’s Trade Outlook 54 JL Jk187 words
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Advertisement190 1928-01-25 2 t w z /-o jgrtWrtfrfrC >: I j THE STRAITS ECHO I WEEKLY EDITION. J: PahMwd A* 4»7 pwsr to th* ispactuse of each nwJ for fA «Mrtrti X I lh» IcM laaal awl 3katos wws «BfMaMy puhtabed it «he datfy kmns, m wdl Mal pastart mwc fraw vasiaws parts190 words
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Article355 1928-01-25 49 Advertising is a question which vitally affects a newspaper, and therefore perhaps our readers will pardon us if we indulge in a little shop for once in a while We were more than interested in some information communicated t<> us by the manager of a wellknown firm of importers355 words
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Article306 1928-01-25 49 at *VfoH^i nOWadavs tba t the easy ln alom, th.' i- nOt alwa Y s for its bemc <>f least resistance, but because it contains a suggestion of that echo which sycophancy demands. It is so easy to fall into line when somebody else306 words
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Article226 1928-01-25 49 SPECIAL CHINESE NEW YEAR NUMBER We are under the pleasant necessity of congratulating the Malayan Daily Express on the production ol a special New Year number which seis a new standard of journalism in the P..M.S. Extending to 24 pages and printed in colours it contains226 words
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Article476 1928-01-25 49 The High Cost of Honour I hr case of Viscount I’.yng of Vimv who received his Viscountv n 1026. i»ut hu- only just been Ciaz.cttcd. draw< ,n--tention to the very high ice-. th.il hav to be paid bv those upon whom (*o\ei<M honours are bestowed. The ex-Governor-General of476 words
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Advertisement32 1928-01-25 49 fbe Straits £cbo PUBLISHED DAILY WEEKLY EDITION Containing the new» of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe The Criterion Press, Limited, 59, Beach Street, Penang. PENANG, 19 JANUARY, 192832 words
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Article1295 1928-01-25 50 CONSULAR CLERK SENTENCED When the Penang Assize» were resumed yesterday morning Mr. Justice Sproule delivered sentence in the case in which Xavier Aroul, till recently Consular Clerk, at Messrs. Harrisons, Barker. Penang, had pleaded guilty to three charges of forging receipt*. His l/ordsliip said that he found the1,295 words
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Article80 1928-01-25 50 DECISIONS AT MEETING (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 28 January A meeting of the Malayan Lawn Tennis Association, Sir William Munson presiding, appointed a committee to reconsider the rules and also the handicapping of events for veterans at the Championships which are being held at Singapore in80 words
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Article98 1928-01-25 50 An Ordinance has been published relating to the Ferry Service between Penang and Province Wellesley which ii maintained bv the Penang Harbour Board. 6 The object of this Bill is to empower the Board by means of Bylaws to fix rates and charges, to deal with the98 words
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Article55 1928-01-25 50 Mr. Vfd. Noor, President, and Tnem* >ers ot the Malay Sporting Club, held speci,i function at their temporary pre* buses at 2.30, Burmah Road, on Sun- a> night in celebration of their second anmversarv. Members who attendm strength and several guests were TZ'f re f res hnient and55 words
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Article1053 1928-01-25 51 a tale of sixty bales 4 1 OF CLOTH The charge against an Indian w as hroueht before Mr. King at the Police Court yesterday of the theft ot sixty roils of black cloth, valued at $l5O, from a tongkang lying alongside Penang Harbour Board Godown No. 41,053 words
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Article229 1928-01-25 51 ORDERS OF THE DAX Among the Orders of the Day down for next Monday’s meeting of the Legislative Council are questions by Mr. Mohamed Gnus bin Abudullah us follows Will the Government state: (a) Whether it is a fact that the Government has acquired a piece of land229 words
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Article170 1928-01-25 51 ANOTHER SILVER CUP PRESENTATION Tlie International Opera of Java staged Jalil Shah” last night before a packed audience which showed their appreciation by numerous encores and loud applause for the various extra turns. Salim Sladek scored a great hit with hi» song, Lai Chok,” to the tune of170 words
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Article47 1928-01-25 51 (From Onr Own Correspondent) Singapore, 23 January The S. C. C. beat the Services by 17 points to 3 at a game of Rugby. At Association Football the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment beat the Malavan Chinese learn by Iwo goals t<> one47 words
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Article1631 1928-01-25 52 FLOODS DISORGANISE WORK Th.- Hon. Mr. IL T. Jones, of Ipoh, presided at the annual meeting of the Benta Rubber Estates, Ltd., which wa< held <>n Saturday at the registered offices of the company, British India lions.-. Penang. The others .present win -Major G. Ncvill Stevens,1,631 words
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Article341 1928-01-25 53 Legal phraseology has long been the despair of the ordinary man, but it has produced a crop of litigation, resulting, we may be pardoned for supposing, m some pecuniary gain to those who have been at such pains to obscure the meaning of our laws. Doctors write341 words
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Article213 1928-01-25 53 tufeX’T i lOllg paSl eonsti territorv an between Russi Indi». Lj °.’l n as represented bv ins upon tl° n ultimo, comment the subject, we wrote a s folheo n Iv 6 ,u OViet COnBp ac y >'■ Hnim tails, »1 the 0 V 6 Channel th213 words
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Article454 1928-01-25 53 We wonder how many of our readers have heard of the rengas” tree in this part ol the world. It looks quite harmless, one would say at first sight; but its properties are such dial many thoroughly seasoned jungle-wallahs will not touch at any price the task454 words
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Article506 1928-01-25 53 Changes on the Map Those of us who were at school in the nineties find our geography rather weak now that is, of course, assuming that it was ever anything but weak. Europe and Africa have undergone hopeless change, so much so as to render the old atlas506 words
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Article1469 1928-01-25 54 TIN RECOVERY ON THE TAPIS? (By Our Special Correspondent) A short time ago, the idea occurred to us that it would be a fitting tribute to Chinese energy in all branches of commerce if we could issim on their New Year’s Day a comprehensive statement of the1,469 words
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Article375 1928-01-25 55 Ah then,” s aid the Yankee, you’ve just missed some sights. Why, there vou can see the whole forestturned to stone; there even you come across the hunter and his quarry a birdturned to stone; but, stranger, it’s not only that, for the most remarkable part of the whole375 words
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SPORTING NOTES
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Article1109 1928-01-25 55 (By Our Sporting Correspondent) From the point of view of entries and large fields the Penang Turf Club New Year Meeting just ended must be recorded as the most successful ever held. The stakes, with the added money from the sweeps, were also up 10 a1,109 words
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Article1741 1928-01-25 56 RICHARD SIDNEY - (BY RICHARD SIDNEY) (The Straits Echo have arranged to publish a series of articles dealing with the lighter side of life in Malaya. These articles will appear subsequently in Mr Sidney s next book on this country.) "Of course you spoil your servants, a lady said1,741 words
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Article489 1928-01-25 57 It has been said there are three comparative degrees in falsehood lies, dd lies and statistics. This quip is not without an element of truth, for punctilious as may be the compilation of statistics relating to almost anything. it is a fact that absence of special knowledge sometimes renders489 words
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Article505 1928-01-25 57 The Russian Exiles I here is something rather peculiar about the solicitation the Russian authorities are stated to be displaying on behalf of the latest batch of exiles. Pre vious!} al! political opponents have either lx en shot outright or tortured to death, and the special anxiet\ regarding505 words
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Article425 1928-01-25 57 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, 22 January At the annual meeting oi the Incorporated Society of Planter-, held on Saturday the Chairman, Mr. J. \V. Campbell, in the course of an exhaustive review ol the year’s working, pointed out the great improvement in the finances, the425 words
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Article1760 1928-01-25 58 In semi-darkness and in lamp light» the trial was concluded yesterday at the Penang Assizes, of the hinese ap prentice who was charged with causing lite death of his employer and the lat ter’s second wife at 271 Chulia Street and the attempted murder of three1,760 words
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Article357 1928-01-25 59 A Chinese was charged at the Police Court yesterday with offering $2 to P.C. 2185 with the intention of bribing him. P.C. 2185 gave evidence that while on duty at Jelutong Load, accused beckoned to and offered him $2. Accused also informed the constable that there was357 words
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Article1568 1928-01-25 59 I'lie case was resumed yesterday at the Police Court in which, following a collision between an Essex car No. P. 2495 and a motor-cycle ridden b\ Air. Davies of Katz Bros., Yahaya bin Jalil, driver of the car, was charged with (i) rash and negligent driving (ii)1,568 words
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Article526 1928-01-25 60 The state of affairs as they are is bound to prove an unfailing subject for comment in filling up the ever-recurring gap in the trivial round, the common task of journalism. Now journalism is, though we have to say it of ourselves, often quite misunderstood with regard526 words
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Article297 1928-01-25 60 The Raia— The weather was not kind to the hof day-makers. The downpour on Net Year’s Eve is not likely to be W ten by those who witnessed it. little drains in the centre of the tor were quite unequal to the task of cart, ing off the297 words
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Article210 1928-01-25 60 if thv suggestion just presented l the .Ministry of Public Instruction t the Federation of Women’s Sportiu Associations is adopted no French v man in future will be able to engage l sport, under the aegis of a club or society, without a mediei certificate"210 words
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Article187 1928-01-25 61 I,hough less han been heard of the Singapore Bunnlen8 unnlen activities of Ute i» bv no means to be assumed that the danger has been removed. Owing n the disturbed state of affairs in rhma Singapore continues to act in S e role of a filter187 words
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Article268 1928-01-25 61 A house divided against itself cannot stand, and the absence of cohesion within the ranks of the British Labour Party has forced Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to appeal to his followers for unity. Nevertheless, the Labour Party is, and probably will continue to be. sharply divided into factions.268 words
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Article803 1928-01-25 61 A REPLY TO MISS MAYO The Indignation of a Sensitive People* Father India. By 8. Ranga Iyer. (Selwyn and Blount. 6s. net). It was only to be expected, says the Literary Supplement to the Times, that Indian indignation at Miss Mayo’s book would find vent in a reply.803 words
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Article253 1928-01-25 61 The Police Court bad a busy morning yesterday, numerous arrests having been made during the Chinese New Year holidays. A large number of the offenders were charged with either gaming in public or firing crackers during prohibited hours. No less than twentyfour of the former charge and253 words
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1292 1928-01-25 62 BY VI .XILLUM” (Exclusive to the Straits Echo '.'on than once alreadv this year I i ffon for vour delectation, I j <ll »’.o th' great eiiorts i It.Mwr Grower- Associa- i I-, induce at least a working ma- the 250,000 Rubber Sharel./.Ph1,292 words
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Article86 1928-01-25 62 FIRST RACE AT 2.30 P.M. We are informed by Mr. S. C. Vic* kors. Secretary of the Penang Turf Clul), that the first race on Saturday, in connection with the Polo Club Gymi. khana, will be rim at 2.30 p.m. intend oi at 3 p.m. as previoush86 words
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Article87 1928-01-25 62 TWELVE CHINESE ON TRIAL (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 25 January At the Assizes the trial commenced before the Hon. Mr. Justice Thorne of <‘!(*ven hiui'se who are charged with noting and causing the death of a Ta--1 I labourer employed on the Perak Biver Hydro-Electric87 words
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Article74 1928-01-25 62 YESTERDAY’S LONDON PRICES Messrs. Lewis Lazarus and Sons tin prices at £252 11/16 ---.lip, per ton. The previous level was £'2sh—£250 L M d p.m the quotation for rubber was given by Messrs. Symington and mnclaii a’ Is. Id. per lb., which is the aim as yesterdax74 words
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Article599 1928-01-25 63 lean and O weekly Tin bi lOW level touched T'L/ff'L "T «246 2s. 6d. Si" n<l loli 3 months at which I'.sses shown durtag the week are -S Cxi. and t. ns. rpgncctively. Rubber has say.- back to per lb. showing a los- he week of sd.599 words
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Article396 1928-01-25 63 A NEW DIFFICULTY The Penang race meeting served to emphasise the growing difficulty of providing sufficient racing for all classes of horses and- the problems which lie before club executives in framing future programmes, savs the Free Press. As things are. with the rapid increase of horses396 words
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Article595 1928-01-25 63 WIikKLA M hI I' i:o The ptic< decline fimsh e._ showed a los :i !he v. Si -rcks a.gp,-i. and now stand a! 6 522 ,s. Ibe rubber sli.i< marieu w i-ru<'li-caliy Idei' AS JUG seie; WC'.’O inclines to re<luc<- tlu ir pi imxers w r595 words
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