The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 18 April 1928
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Title Section19 1928-04-18 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION. $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 2« PENANG APRIL 18, 1928 No. 1619 words
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Advertisement282 1928-04-18 1 CONTENTS Leading Articles Miscellaneous (continued) What is Mr Ormsby-Gore Here Hxlam Fatally Stabbed 231 For? 230 A Fatal Altercation 235 Thr()rmsby Gore Mystery Poultry Thieves in Tanjotig Deepens 234 Tokeng 235 A Leakage? 238 Mishap to s s (Ihirbi 230 C’evlonese in Penang 242 Hard Working Dorai 236 A Regrettable282 words
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561 1928-04-18 230 It is not even week that a minister, en an under-secretary, pays a visit to ese stores, and it is only natural that e peregrinations of the Rt. lion. W. A. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial EnderCretan, should be followed with conerable interest. Whatever pronouncents he561 words
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Article53 1928-04-18 230 i From Our Own Correspondent; Singapore. 13 April Ihe Hou. Mr. Justice Prichard is hearing an action in which the Orient tobacco Manufactory is seeking an injunction res Irai< J i ig the El Orientc Eabrica de loliaeco from using certain trade marks m connection with the53 words
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Article24 1928-04-18 230 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 13 April Iwo De Haviland Moth seaplanes have arrived for the Singapore Flying Club.24 words
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Article55 1928-04-18 230 CHINESE AND CO-OPERA-TION (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, 15 April On Saturday Mr. A. Cavendish, Di rector of Co-operat ion. addressed a. large Chinese gathering at the Chamber of Commerce He explained Io them the fundamental principles of co-operation With the object of introducing the mowmen! among the Chinese55 words
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Article99 1928-04-18 230 An enjoyable dinner wa- held on Thursday night at the Carlton Ih-tair mt in Beach Street, when 52 of who hail from Ceylon, of all nationalises. were present. The date coinided with the Ceylon National Day which is now universally observed in t’evlon as a dav99 words
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Article532 1928-04-18 230 A Gushing Press Ihe gushing altitude of Illi press of this country must -trike Mi OrmsbvGore in pleasant contrast io the candid criticisms to which he is iccu-tom-ed w hen at home. His extraordinary speech at Inoh for instance, wr find on going through onr contemporaries has aroused532 words
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Advertisement29 1928-04-18 230 jbe Straits Echo PUBLISHED DAU. s WEEKLY edition filling the news of the week prior I, departure of Mails for Europe jbe Criterion Press, Limited, 59, Beach Street, Penang29 words
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Article740 1928-04-18 231 IMPENDING R E TIR EME N T OF A GREAT WORKER Sir Malcolm Watson, M.lt., LL.D., is retiring in the near future after 2« strenuous years in Selangor, says the 51,day Mail. His career has been notable;" his withdrawal will be Malaya s loss.’ A personality of740 words
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Article96 1928-04-18 231 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, 15 April Mr. \V. G. A. Ormsby Gore, Undersecretary for the Colonies, spent a busy week-fend inspecting the Trade School and the Rubber Research Institute. On Saturday night a largely-attended official dinner was given at Carcosa and to-night another is96 words
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Article147 1928-04-18 231 From Our Own Correspondent, Ipoh, 15 April Kor Cheng Chai, secretary and accountant of the Perak Chinese Widows’ and Orphans’ Institution, who was arrested in Penang, was convicted in the Police Court on three charges of criminal breach of trust and sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment147 words
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Article550 1928-04-18 231 AN ECCENTRIC AMFm, I MILLIONAIRESS Ci Who financed "Mother W I 'l'wy .on which h asballlk T non so ~r. According O i y I ducted by a special represent "1 the Free Press of India I has been done not by a cate but by550 words
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Article318 1928-04-18 232 RODRIGO SCORES A CENTURY whole day cricket match was played on the Esplanade yesterday between iwo teams of the Penang Recreation Club, skippered by F. W. Stewart and i Rodrigo which was won by the latter's side by 48 runs. Rodrigo hit up more than-half the318 words
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Article765 1928-04-18 232 CENTRAL DIVISION WINS CHAMPIONSHIP CUP R. C. AND MRS. FROST PRESENT Ihe Hon. Mr Meadows Frost, the new Resident Councillor, Penang, and Mrs. Frost, made their first public appearance in Penang on Saturday when they attended the annual athletic sports ol the Penang Police Force which were held765 words
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Article59 1928-04-18 232 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 12 April At the annual general meeting of Bukit Timah Rubber Co., Ltd.. Mr. Mundell, presiding, said that the board was cons’dering a scheme whereby, if adopted, the Municipality wmi!d extend the water and lighting services to portions of the estate59 words
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Article53 1928-04-18 232 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 12 April The Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association views with alarm the proposed introduction of Greyhound Rte ing and consider it Io be an unmitigat ed evil. It is also representing to the Govern ment the neccssitv and desirabilitv of particip iiion in the53 words
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Article1078 1928-04-18 233 CONCLUSION OF DISTRICT COURT CASE ACCUSE!) SENTENCE!) TO ONE YEAR Mr. J. S. W. Arthur. District Judge, Penang, delivered judgment, on Saturday morning in the case in .which Cheah Soo Tuan, till recently proprietor of ('hop Guan Hup Bin, Penang, was charged with offences under the Bankruptcy Ordinance,1,078 words
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Article252 1928-04-18 233 WOMAN’S THROAT CI T '-Murder oil some person or persons unkaoJ® returned at the inquest on Sat A a Cantone.,e woman, Leon« ceased, it was stated, a in her bedroom, (he door of the husband, a pork-seller, left .2 a.m. Ewe Ah Heang, pr i ncipal the252 words
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Article69 1928-04-18 233 (From Our Own Correspondent) IPOH, 13 Apwl At four a.m. to-day Captain Alornsii accompanied by a posse of detectives, raided Kampong Pasir Puteh area, suburb of Ipoh, and arrested seven Hy lams and one Hakka, who were found in possession of seditious liter# tore, gunpowder69 words
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Article47 1928-04-18 233 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. 13 Apr® h eu Chen Kim and Leong K<>k were charged with housebreakin? theft of leather at Mr Tan Kab factor'.. The second accused, 6 also charged with possession property, was acquitted but thenrs’ sentenced to six. months inipr' so47 words
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24 1928-04-18 233 (From Our Own Correspondenff Singapore. L Die Cevlon barefooted drew with the Singapore Cric*®* each side tcorms three goals-24 words
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Article663 1928-04-18 234 r -ipuroaching. some banks of 1 ntlv impenetrable fog clear some- but scrutiny of a verbatim report "X Ormsby-Gore's speech at Ipoh rLdav merely deepens the cloud of 0,1 which enshrouds the Colonial gU-ys remarks. At the out- e said he had come here purely m663 words
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Article42 1928-04-18 234 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. 17 April A Chinese was sentenced to eighteen months' rigorous imprisonment for attempting Io break into the residence of Mr X. L. Linden, Assistant Superintendent of Police. Singapore, from which he fell, breaking a leg.42 words
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Article69 1928-04-18 234 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 12 April The Cliinam University Football Team arrived in Ipoh to-day from Teluk Anson and are due to play a selected Ipoh Chinese Eleven on Saturday and also a selected League Team on Monday, after which they will leave for Taiping,69 words
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Article77 1928-04-18 234 (From Our Own Correspondent' Singapore, 12 April At the annual meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce the Hon. Mr. Bagnall, presiding, reviewed the past year's trade the outlook of which, he said, had not improved in 1928. Two main commodities had dropped considerably. He thought that77 words
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Article111 1928-04-18 234 The procuring of a girl under the age of twenty-one lor the purpose oi prostitution was the charge brought before the District Court yesterday, aginst two Cantonese women, Wong Ah Lok and Choo Ah Sam. Ihe Protector of Chinese. Mr. J Black, together with Chief Detective Inspector111 words
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Article252 1928-04-18 234 Urban Penang With tile erection oi inoia and more trackless tram standards Penuug it diking on quite tin? aspect of an English provincial town. It is strange (hut even urban liit-lory should be repenting itself, and that the tirade against the Irani'- of tweniv-fivc year.-, ago in Lnglaud252 words
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Article58 1928-04-18 234 TWO MATCHES ARRAN(iEI) The Chinese Sporting Club, Taiping, will engage the students ol the. Cliinam University. Shanghai, al a game of Association Football on the, Taiping Esplanade at 5 p.m. to-day. On Friday next. the 29th instant, a combined European team will meet the, students on58 words
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Article87 1928-04-18 234 The dance at tie Town Hall on Saturday night organised by lb' Penang Dance Syndicate was very largely attended and proved an unqualified sue cess. The music supplied by the M;mi :a Serenaders was greatly agpre- i r'l as was evident from the nuni'-iou <n cores. During87 words
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Article31 1928-04-18 234 (From Our Own CorresponileiP Singapore 17 April Hxlani was fat illy stabbed while in i ric.-ha in New Bridge Road \< ->t»;rday Acning. No arrest has b» n made31 words
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997 1928-04-18 235 The annual meeting of members of the Ex-Services Association of Malaya, Penang Branch, held yesterday evening at the Penang Crickei Club at 7 p.m. Mr. G. 1). A. Fletcher, President, occupied the chair and the others present included Messrs. 11 M. S. Haughton, 11. E. Collins,997 words
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266 1928-04-18 235 POW On J uesday night Taniono T„u. I I net was the scene of further £“l lions by the particularly mean S ±‘J thieves who do not hesitatTfe J poor people who keep P o„|,' 3 pigs as a means of providing thaj’l with a266 words
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Article215 1928-04-18 235 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 16 April A Tamil employee at the District Ho pital was fatal! v stabbed in the Hosp tai grounds by an itinerant Chinest cakeseller. Deceased is said to h* asked the cakeseller to leave as he com not be allowed to enter215 words
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Article1170 1928-04-18 236 HI matches marred aLL by RAIN /Rv a Visitor to Singapore) 1 Splanwr Slate team, the li!t Recreation Club and the d illC se Recreation Club were SdsHors to Singapore over the Easter SjU v to engage in cricket matches M spoiler ofspor,, the weather, H1,170 words
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Article108 1928-04-18 236 TIMELY RESCUE EROM PENANti HARBOUR A slight mishap overlook the s.s. Ghirbi yesterday morning when she vvas some six or seven miles off shore and bound for Alor Star and several Siamese, ports. Her propidler shaft broke and a screw vvas lost. Immediately water began to108 words
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Article288 1928-04-18 236 Malayan Memories Yes! for it wasn’t, of course, in these dour dark days of to-day, that impossible, as it is at the moment Io believe, rubber in spite ol its inherent heaviness, had its lighter sideas is evident from the following: On one occasion a certain288 words
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Article, Illustration827 1928-04-18 237 ARRIVAL IN PENANG An American World War veteran, William Wolf, arrived Imre yesterday during the course of his world walking tour, which he commenced two and a half years ago as the result of a wager made with friends, for $2,500, to cover miles in seven827 words
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Article154 1928-04-18 237 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 17 April Archdeacon Swindell presided at the annual parochial meeting of St. Andrew’ s Cathedral and deplored the fall in subscriptions and donations. The Government has agreed to make a generous arrangement when he retired. Hie marriage will take place at the154 words
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Article456 1928-04-18 237 NON COMMITTAL Pt ,l AT IPoh iFrora Our Own I i Ipoh, n I t l COU1 of a l uc A< era.,. uiKaac.ais a; the i, I ipoh, Mr Ormsby-Gore I With any definite to Kot an idea of l low iki M hls country. He knew456 words
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Article592 1928-04-18 238 IVhoevrr has lost or gained as a reI the sudden catastrophic slump X price of rubber. America has cerlad a chance to take a turn, saUi r S av in Wall Street, at the ex:i' 1 "nf the Brtish producer and of the S, market. Apart altogether from592 words
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Article404 1928-04-18 238 If was reported to us that at about 8.20 last evening a young Indian woman was the victim of an assault on the part of an Indian watchman, who is alleged to have struck her on the head with an iron bar. The tragedy took place about404 words
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Article479 1928-04-18 238 CHETTY ASKS FOR ONE TO BE DISPENSED WITH Malay Police constable 2915 was examined in the Supreme Court yesterday in connection with a judgment debtor summons taken out by a chetty. Witness admitted that he had paid seven instalments of $5 and then stopped. On the last479 words
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Article1337 1928-04-18 239 20 PER CENT. DIVIDEND FOR THE YEAR The nneteenlh annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Kuala .Salim Rubber Company, Limited, was held at 10.30 a.in. yesterday at the registered offices of the Company, No. 1 Weld Quay, Penang. Mr. J. Crabb Watt (Director;1,337 words
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Article1251 1928-04-18 239 2| PER CENT. DIVIDEND The tenth annual general meetinf i the shareholders of the Bassett Bub Company, Limited, was held at 11U yesterday at the registered offices the Company, No. 1 Weld Q® Penang. Mr. J. Crabb Watt (Diree« i presided and the others present Mr. H.1,251 words
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Article1147 1928-04-18 240 decreased outputs and LOWER REVENUE the Hon. Mr. R. p. Brash, ol Ipoh, presided at the fifteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of the llu Piah Company, Limited, vvhic.h was held at noon on Saturday at the registered offices of the ompan\, No. 39 Beach1,147 words
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Article180 1928-04-18 241 ROBINSON COMPANY LIMITED The profits for the year amount to 8298,207.31 to which must be added the balance brought forward from last year of $139,011.45 less additional Directors Fees of $4,500 as voted at the Annual General Meeting making a total of $432,718.76. During the year an interim Dividend oi180 words
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Article186 1928-04-18 241 Ihe Net Profits for the year, to 31 December, after providing for bad and doubt lul debts, and including 1160,666 Ils. Bd. brought forward from hist Account, amount to £417,846 3s. 3d. From this sum has to be deducted 184,000 being the Interim Dividend of A186 words
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Article173 1928-04-18 241 MESSRS. ISLAY KE»», LTD. COMnAIW lerand Kat, lWll bin VX* 1 i,lese Tee Ilin 1 1 with the theft, from the s s p/W r: ar G bc longing to Al es rs Kerr Co., Ltd. Mr. CbifaJ lung and Mr. Mentis rep resa J173 words
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Article263 1928-04-18 241 Malayan Memories work to make a fresh pile. It does! sound exactly heroic, but it is at ka safe so far as philosophy is conceal Wonder has been expressed that al mals and birds killed by the poisoJ darts of Sakai surnpitans (blowpipes'! be eaten with impunity.263 words
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Article515 1928-04-18 242 Cevlou aiui Malaya are at daggers Iraunupon the rubber question, but no X harbours any desire to see the in extended to the Ceylonese tn and much less does anyone Leto see that body at .luggers drawn ff ith its own component parts. Last n„„da> "hat «as515 words
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Article275 1928-04-18 242 it is impossible, apart from the question of desirability. to speak of anything appertaining to religious matters with even the suggestion of disrespect. Therefore we wish to lay special stress upon the fact that, living as we do in a country of many nationalities, and, consequently, of275 words
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Article225 1928-04-18 242 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 17 April The annual report of the directors of Messrs. Robinson and Company, Ltd., shows the year’s profit amounting to $298.207 and an available sum of $432.718. The directors recommend a final dividend of 4 per cent, on the preference shares225 words
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Article371 1928-04-18 242 Almost alone among the Malayan press the Straits Echo did not hesitate to criticise strongly Ihe apparent absurdities and inconsistencies d.splayed in the spcecii on the rubber situation delivered by Mr. Ormsby-Gore at Lpoh a week ago. At the time of writing we hazarded a guess that371 words
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Article133 1928-04-18 242 The final meeting fin liquidation) of the Kroh Forest 'Tin. Ltd which was to have b(er held at noon yesterday at Messrs. Evatt and < ompanv, had to be postponed owing to flu- want ol a quorum. If will fake place at the same time and133 words
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Article544 1928-04-18 243 Opinion is now consolidating that the only hope of saving the rubber industry from prolonged and acute depression lies in the possibility of securing the whole-hearted co-operation of the Dutch in a new restriction scheme. The Government edict has been made, and it is useless, at544 words
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1802 1928-04-18 243 Richard Sidney - IHE SCIENCE OF PACKING (By Richard Sidney) Those of my readers who have foliowed this series of articles up-to-date will not need to be told much about his lordship'Toi Soi Siew, to give him his full name. 1 have sung his praises so1,802 words
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Article440 1928-04-18 244 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, In your issue of the 10th and 11th instant under the respective headings of Hindu Advisory Board’’ and Hindu Affairs,’’ your correspondents A Disgusted Hindu’’ and A Hindu,’’ have done a service to the Hindu Public by bringing440 words
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Article1824 1928-04-18 244 Richard Sidney - MORE ABOUT KING EDWARD (By Richard Sidney) King Edward VII A Biography Volume Two The Beign By Sir Sidnev Lev (Macmillan 31/6) (Part II.) Having dealt generally with some of tne main features in this large Biography 1 will now try and get down to particulars1,824 words
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Article252 1928-04-18 245 NANKING GOVF.Dxur I ORDERS Immediate return to fk; I Chinese Nationalist which is empowered to **l treaties with the different n which China is bound by iuTj treaties, is demanded by the Mr J Government at Nanking, ac J*| a d.spateh received at Shanghai252 words
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Article1217 1928-04-18 246 rVBBER CONTROL ST,!AITS Eci f* favour of publication in L aXI 'lran scheme, for the ItatK-n of the rubber situation proposal have been submitted Arferation to the following local Government, Tim planters Association of Malaya. Asiatic Planters Association of Malaya, Dutch interests m Java. The Ceylon1,217 words
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Article137 1928-04-18 246 (To the Editor oe the Straits Echo > Sir, In spite of the h< avv rains «luring the last few even ngs I cannot un<]erstan<l "by there should still be verv little water available for private use in the 1 ouse. In the evening especially there s137 words
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Article387 1928-04-18 247 (To nir Editor or the Strait 1 Echo < ir. I shall be very thankful if you could kindly insert thi s letter in a corner of your valuable paper for the information of the Hindu Public who are in Penang and Butterworth. Yesterday morning387 words
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799 1928-04-18 247 CRIMINAL APPEAL DISMISSED In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Stevens, Tan Chooi Phow appealed against a conviction and sentence of two months rigorous imprisonment passed upon him by the Police Magistrate on a charge of having iieen in possession of documents relating to a799 words
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Article121 1928-04-18 247 'Hie result of bowls tournaiueU placed on 16 April was: l inal Mixed Double Handicap* Mrs. Hertz and J. G. Allan beat Mrs. Dravton and J. Al. Chain» 21—18. tp Air. Leong Sin Nani. J r Il of Ipoh. has been on a visit W Lumpur. The121 words
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Advertisement96 1928-04-18 249 'i- '-s'*'•*'"’ '•'4’V *e *’4*C*'W' w y B t| il j Penang im Poe > I I (ESTABLISHED 1896,> I Chinese Daily Paper I I I I I 1 The Oldest Chinese paper in Penang I 24-28 PAGES. I 1 I’ wWB' HB < > 2 The most comprehensive and96 words
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