The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 25 April 1928
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Title Section19 1928-04-25 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION MS PEP ANta. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 2« PENANG APRIL 25 1928 No. 1719 words
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Advertisement265 1928-04-25 1 t— CONTENTS» Leading Articles Miscellaneous (continued) Y D»e Hospital Question 248 Engineer's Sudden Death 218 fl Mr >W< i n] ml iF Mr Ormsby-Gore at Kuala Lum- v .i u;i n i ir oro .Wv North Bridge IM. Stabbing Case... 2.>0 ErW pr 248 1« M I jr j i265 words
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Advertisement76 1928-04-25 2 l**~ aytedtAidE&afl T. sr <* tH ft/j W«I IH w Hĕot HI R r lisl I 7T IMfeU n! fiM > g JPSbv B -.|^l.- w -X® I W/ illMl I Jrlllln i* Bi- lIH El? G H MUMM *C" H I k'i /r/>\ In u'i I Kj Trĕs I76 words
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Article560 1928-04-25 248 We publish in another column, a «moranduin by the British Adviser, iedah. which has recently been issued s Estates in that Protectorate through be Kedah Planters’ Association. The shortcomings of the Penang Jeneral Hospital having recently been q vividly impressed upon our minds by be Penang Hospital560 words
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Article335 1928-04-25 248 The planting industry will find little consolation in Mr. Ormsby-Gore’s speech at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He dwells only on obvious facts, and we find little that is helpful in the present position. Mr. Ormsby-Gore says that two obvious alternatives were before the Government, namely, we335 words
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Article299 1928-04-25 248 High Tides I he tides have been exceptionalh high the last two days, and have resulted in a minor degree of Hooding. Light Street pavementone of the tew of which Penang boastswas submerged <»n Sunday, and it only required a tew iucliL’.* more to put Light Street it>eii299 words
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Article26 1928-04-25 248 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 24 April Captain Boring, master of the steamer Skald, was fined $5 for leaving port without a clearance.26 words
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50 1928-04-25 248 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 24 April A Hylam boy employed by Mr. Falls, of the Customs Department. Tehik Anson, was committed to the Assizes on a charge of possession of documents likely to bring info hatred the Government established by law' and incite to murder.50 words
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Article34 1928-04-25 248 (From Our Own Correspondent; Singapore. 24 April Mr. Cyril Webb, Chief Engineer of the s.s. flong Peng, was giving instructions on board, when he was taken ill and died almost immediately.34 words
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Advertisement23 1928-04-25 248 (fcfStratts Echo FUBLISHED daily weekly edition the news of the week prior departure of Mails for Europe Pre»s, Limited, a, Beach Street, Penang23 words
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Article2068 1928-04-25 249 PENANG SOLICITOR SUED YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS Vilen I he hearing <4 the case aga nsi Mr i.n:i < heng Fan -for damages lor v. 'l'-ti’l*' and negligently advising i’.hoo Saw with regard to the titles .mi land -he purchased from Mr. Quah Beng Kee- vs as resumed yesterday before2,068 words
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37 1928-04-25 250 From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 18 April r/p, e sea 1 ,la nes of the Singapore 1] L. u uiade a very successful Sight yesterday. The other is c U P tins afternoon.37 words
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Article70 1928-04-25 250 F wm Our Own Correspondent) Thp ok- S in <*apore, 18 April W p?l npse w ho was stabbed in Un -T evening 1 entitled as the shoe-maker with reprisals for »l f, a r a bomb thrower reCe nt^ s trike. n Sir C.y70 words
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Article363 1928-04-25 250 MR. BARTON OF JELAPANG KILLED Dull skies and occasional heavy showers ol' rain have been the rule in Kinta for some days, and on Monday this was varied by a sudden burst of lightning north of Ipoh which caused at least one shocking tragedy The mine worked363 words
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Article112 1928-04-25 250 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 18 April Ong Chop, Soo Seng and Kee Goh were charged with being concerned in the importation of non Government chandu The first accused was discharged, but the other two were fined $54)0 each or in default to three months’ imprisonment. I’cvcrvu112 words
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Article283 1928-04-25 250 OVERCHARGING for STAMPS It was brought out in the Police Court yesterday, when an Indian-Mo-hamnii dan was summoned for selling stamps without a licence, that defendant, moreover, charged in excess of the value of the stamps. Detective Inspector Fouler said that he sent a man with twenty cents283 words
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Article212 1928-04-25 250 Alleged to be a suspicious character, Yeoh Ah Chye, appeared, in the Police Court yesterday; the detective who arrested him. felling the Court of accused’s extremely qu siionablu actions. It was at the yarly hour of three-thirty in the morning that accused was seen to lurk outside a212 words
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Article1197 1928-04-25 251 PENANG ADVOCATE SLED ALLEGED BAD ADVICE Before tin Hon. Mr. Justice Stevens in the Supreme Court yesterday a suit Was pAii’iiiiriiecal in which Khoo Saw Ee, a former client, sued Mr. Liin Cheng Emu, Adv<x*ate and Solicitor, Penang, for a sum of S2BO,<MM) odd on the ground of1,197 words
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Article147 1928-04-25 251 BORNEO CO., LTD., ALLEGES LOSS OF $13,000 At the Magistrate’s Court, Ipoh Monday morning, before Mr. ij Coope, the case in which Mr. Tan Ta Seng, until recently cashier and acco© ant Borneo Co., Ltd.; Ipoh, gfaa charged with criminal breach of tra in respect of147 words
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Article81 1928-04-25 251 TO BE OPEN DAY AND NIW The Municipal Secretary informs! that arrangements have now w made to keep open the Fort Road vatories all dav and night. Attends will be on duty between the hours' 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., 12.30 p.ro- 311 2.30 p.m., 4 p.m.81 words
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Article44 1928-04-25 251 The Straits Steamship Compaq steamer Ghirbi, which had toed in the vicinity of North prevent her sinking as she v in water resulting from a peller shaft, has been refloated needed to dock yesterday tor lD sary repairs before resuming44 words
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Article42 1928-04-25 251 PRIVATE OF THE DU KE S FINED (From Our Own Private Falkinham, of Wellington’s Regiment, t lr .-p to a total fine of $6O, of aS of $35 has been ordered "pm pensation to the hawker r< Stole the articles in Tanglm42 words
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Article495 1928-04-25 252 r February, when it was anU j that a Kedah Court Enact- been decided upon to the it with certain reservations, t!ia f the Supreme Court of the of the Federated could appear and conduct kjirps in the Court of Appeal and Division of the High Court,495 words
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Article334 1928-04-25 252 We understand that it has very wisely been decided to drop the proposals’ for a larger percentage of release between now and November and to which we referred to in these columns a fewdays ago. Such proposals would only jeopardise the chances of coming to some334 words
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Article151 1928-04-25 252 ALARMING STATE OF AFFAIRS (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, 22 April At the half-yearly meeting oi the Jaffnese Co-operative Society to-day the Chairman drew attention to the alarming state of affairs occasioned by the non-repayment of loans by members, necessitating a wholesale revision of the society’s loan151 words
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Article503 1928-04-25 252 Ihe recent reports of the success of the Nationalist Armies in China have more than a passing significance; for the Civil War in China may now be said to have emerged from the stage of a struggle between rival war lords for personal aggrandisement, and to have503 words
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Article1059 1928-04-25 253 (By BOHAZ) Value of rubber in bearing Since the Prime Minister’s announcement that Restriction will be removed as from the first of November next, and with the consequent collapse in the price of rubber, it is necessary to revise our ideas as to the value ol1,059 words
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Article627 1928-04-25 253 CHAUFFER FINED I Did the n.otor-car CTas h I tram or the tram into the ear’ tri Soon Chee, who defended KhJplSl who was summoned for M ''l ghgent driving, contended inti, Court yesterday that it was tt S that butted into the side of627 words
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90 1928-04-25 254 We are officially informed that His Excellency the High Commissioner, with the approval of His Majesty the King, has been pleased .to appoint Raja Musa Udin ibni Sultan Alaidin Suleiman Shah, Raja Muda of Selangor, Dato’ Sedia Raja Abdullah bin Haji Dahan, Undang of Rembau, and90 words
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Article255 1928-04-25 254 P. C. C. DEFEAT INDIANS On the Esplanade yesterday the P. C. 1 experienced little difficulty in defeating the Indians. It was a four-goal victory but the Club should have scored st least another half a dozen, Ashworth, Jayeiiport and Sanders missing opportunities time and again in255 words
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Article593 1928-04-25 254 ONE ACCUSED CONVICTED At the resumption of the case, in the Police Court yesterday, in which three men, Hussain b. Kader, Katuwa bv Rowther and Khoo Tee Ilin, were charged with the theft, from the s.s. Elephanta, of six bags of Rangoon rice, belonging to Messrs.593 words
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Article304 1928-04-25 254 MINUTES OF MEETING The following are the minutes of the adjourned meeting of shareholders of tin* Kroh Forest Tin Dredging Co., Ltd. (in liquidation) held al the liquidator’s office. No. 3, Weld Quay, Penang, on Wednesday, 18 April, at 12 o’clock noon. There were present Mr. V.304 words
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Article91 1928-04-25 254 From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, 24 April The funeral of Mr. McConnan took place at Taiping yesterday in the presence of a large gathering, including the British Resident of Perak. The Rev. C. Browning officiated. A squad o, the M.S.V.R., of which tiie deceased was91 words
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Article892 1928-04-25 255 FIRST DAY’S RESULTS Tai ping, IB April Th*- opening day of the Taiping I urf I lab Amateur race meeting was favoured with go*xl going. while the dividends wen- fair. The gathering was small, including His Highness the Sultan of Perak and suite. The only upset was892 words
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Article301 1928-04-25 255 The heavy downpour of rain wbe started after midnight on Tuesday»! preceded by a strong gale accompany by vivid flashes of lightning and lo« roaring thunder. It rained heavilyl night causing the low-lying districts 1 be under a few inches of water. It ig just301 words
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Article487 1928-04-25 256 LANDL ORDS’ RAPACITY ihuence of any discouragement that Penang landto display such a degree as can only exist m a town Sl tional and local government f lv fad t 0 l ,rovl,e n -V Proteethe hapless tenant, and where "I-of nationality, tongue and daily Amongst householders militates the organisation487 words
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Article862 1928-04-25 256 When tin slumps, buy tin shares, and when tin booms, beware ot the sharks.” said a wiseacre of Beach Street, years ago; and if the speculating gentry had followed this advice, there would not be in the purl eus of I he share offices to-day so many long862 words
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Article174 1928-04-25 256 FORMER RECORD BEATEN Three out of four pupils of the Penang Free School and the Hutchings School, who made an attempt on Saturday to sw in across the Channel from i’enang to the mainland. not onlv suceecdcd in achieving their object but wo o them succeeded174 words
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Article2226 1928-04-25 257 Richard Sidney - (By Richard Sidney) Joseph Conrad Life and Letters by (J. Jean Aubry. (Heineman. 2 Vols.) Hitherto I have not seen a copy of this book in any local Ixxjkshop, nor have 1 read any reviews in the local press. I am reviewing these volumes from a2,226 words
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1829 1928-04-25 258 Richard Sidney - (By Richard Sidney) One must be very young and enthusiastic to undertake certain things. Had I known all that 1 do now I should never have attempted to produce Shakespearean plays with schoolboys, and even if 1 were ever again to be so1,829 words
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Article219 1928-04-25 259 The courses of lectures which have been arranged by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the next twelve months with a view to giving instruction in hygiene to employees of business firms and official bodies proceeding to the tropics, is a step in219 words
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Article186 1928-04-25 259 DRAWN MATCH WITH SPORTING CLUB (By A Special Correspondent) Taiping, 18 April The students ol the Chinam University. Shanghai, who are on a visit Io Taiping and who are the guests of the Chinese Sporting Chib during their four days’ stay for which an elaborate programme186 words
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Article426 1928-04-25 259 (From Ou, Own IXI'AI.A LUMPUR 16 a,.. W A. Ormsbv-te cour-e ol an authorised' k. Pressstates that the Iters re,.<l n u reat deal more into) inprepared remarks at the 1,,!.. elieon party than those remark intended to convey. m- felt it 'his dutv to»., e enrly426 words
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Advertisement174 1928-04-25 260 r I THE STRAITS ECHO I T WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day prior to the departure of eaeh mail for Europe, and contains X i the latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the FAR EAST,174 words
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