The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 24 September 1930

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY (MAIL) EDITION. |lB PER ANNUM single copy 40 UTS. yol~2B~~ PENANG, SEPT. 24, 1930. No. 38
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    • 248 1 CONTENTS Race With Two Dogs And A LEADERS. “Bobby” 735 The Retrocession Of Weihaiwei 725 Third Raid |n Two Month( 7!)5 When Vice Is Virtue 725 Ayer Itum Motor Accident 735 Hard Facts And Hard Work 728 Gambling Appeal Withdrawn 735 The Unemployment Question 728 Enticed Away Or Of Her
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    • 142 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published 'the day prior co the depar* ture of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local tjews originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, posi free to any part of
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  • 379 725 Though not a resident of Malaya, Dr. Wellington Koo is usually looked upon by Straits Chinese as being one of themselves, owing to the vast commercial and family interests which he has in this country: because of that, Chinese in Malaya have reason to be proud
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  • 433 725 Though Chinese are usuali; too polite to say so. they often feel that the Westerner, who attempt, to wean him from the two vices usually associated with the Celestial—gambling and opium smoking—is nothing less than an arrant hypocrite; and the Chinese may be perfectly right in
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  • 113 725 MAN GAOLED lOR BEING A MEMBER. (Erom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, September 17 Mr. W. IL Gatiield, Registrar of Societies, said that the Heng Woli Society was one of three notorious Cantonese Societies which are responsible for most of the gang robberies in Singaj ore, wlun a
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  • 173 725 THEFT OF TWO PAIRS OF TROUSERS. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, September 17. Private Charles Davies of the Welch Regiment was yesterdav sentenced to .iirtecn days' rigorous imprisonment ind also bound over for three months in a surety of $5OO on being convicted of the
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  • 810 726 SUCCESSFUL YEAR IN REVIEW. The first annual general meeting of the Penang Amateur Athletic Association was held on Tuesday at 6-30 p.m. at the Penang Cricket Club. The lollowing delegates were present P. C. C.: Mr. E. A. Davies. P. R. C.: Mr.
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  • 118 726 NINE MONTHS’ RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT. Leong Seng, a Cantonese, who was convicted for theft at the Penang Police Court on September 17 by Mr. Edward Jago. was yesterday sentenced bv Mr H. A. F brrer at the Penang District Court to Hine months' imprisonment and one year
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  • 305 726 bare NET PROFIT. MEMBERSHIP DOUBLE!» IN ONE YEAR A net profit of $73.27 for the v eu ended June 30, 1930 is shown J ie]>ort of the Penang English SehwJ feaehers Co-operative Thrift and U, bocuty Ltd. 'I Ihe annual general meet, ing «ill be held
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  • 70 726 arrangements complete for SATURDAY. (From Our Own Correspondent)Singapore, September 1 Arrangements are compete te r t b e play O f the Malaya Cup Final Stadium on Saturday- started called that the match which W at Kuala Lumpur on flooded abandoned halfway owing aTV state of the
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  • 319 727 decision of board of Dt JUSTICES. invroral "as given by Hie Penang sof Licensing Justices which met Z District Court yesterday, to three Stations for public house licences J three other applications tor billiards «,,m licences. i r i t The first application, by Goh
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  • 108 727 VITAL STATISTICS. U eorge Town for the week rhi i ~B’tember 13 numbered 60 of 21 L."'"*-’ males Tlle de th rate compared with 20.94 for the "«■k. T 1,,.,,. were ,5 cases r t* I dltb s s Bof pneumonia •dua co,lv,l s Gns No
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  • 442 727 SIX DIFFERENT CASES. On a charge of having committed criminal breach of trust in respect of jewellery valued at nearly $ll,OOO. Lim Ah Kang. a thirty-five-year-old Hokkien woman, was remanded on hail at the Penang Police Court yesterday by Mr. Edward Jago. Court Inspector Roberts
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  • 210 727 EUROPEAN BADLY INJURED. Hassan, a Malax syce. Wa> charged in the Second Police Court this morning with having driven his car P. 2384 in a manner as to cause danger to the public and having collided with a motor-cxch P. 233.» at Northain Road yesterday
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  • 154 727 COLLAPSE OF MINE. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, September 19 Two coolies employed in the Tronoh mines perished as a result of being buried alive by the fall of earth. The deceased at the time of the accident were engaged in playing on the
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  • 714 728 The rubber industry is undoubtedly handicapped by its past history. Profits have been easily earned and easily spent. With the demand tor labour due to the frenzied opening of new areas in the past, inducements have been offered which cann it be carried during the
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  • 398 728 The unemployment question in Malaya is serious, and it will probably become more so unless immediate steps are taken to evolve some scheme whereby the present distress may be relieved. At the public meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, report of which appears in our news
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  • 132 728 ONLY CONSCIENCE THAT CL’ MAKE HER Among a number <»f n. sought the advice of Mr. C ar f the Old Street Magistrate, recent. a young wife who husband objected to her a 3 business career, and as a p her going out to work
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  • 1426 729 CAI LS ON GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, September 18 More than 250 attended a public meeting at the Town Hall last night to consider a resolution calling upon the Government to provide and proceed with unemployment relief schemes immediately
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  • 57 729 STEADILY DECLINING IN BRITISH SCHOOLS. Captain A. Z Armitage, president governor, stated at speech day at th* Royal Merchant Seamen’s Orphanag Bear Wood. Berkshire that during th* past year only four per cent of the chil Iren received corporal punishment, ns compared with 31 per cent eight years
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  • 1602 730 WOMAN WHO IMPERSONATED DAUGHTER. JUDGE CONDEMNS BROKERS. Mr. T, E. Conagban, the defending counsel, made a moving appeal on behalf of a young Malay woman who was charged with forgery and personation at the Penang District Court yesterday before Mr. H. A. Forrer. Rokiah Bee binti Abdulhamid.
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  • 1071 731 The stage is now set, at The first Gate in the World us ChinBge de scribe Shanhaikwan, which, as its name connotes, is “The Mountain Barrier” —for another of those gigantic upheavals which have been almost of annual occurrence since emperors ceased to sit on the Dragon
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  • 265 731 FATHER FAILS TO REPORT In another case, Lebai Din, a Malay teacher, appeared as defendant to answer a charge of failing to report a smallpox case and secondly omitting to give a full list of contacts attending his school at 237, Counter Hall on
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  • 943 732 Before Malaya finally makes up its mind to be thoroughly miserable and, like that “lone, lorn creature’’ of romance, bewail that “everything goes contrairy”, it might be well to consider whether there is sufficient reason to justify this country’s dinning that mournful dirge into the ears of
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  • 350 732 BIG ATTENDANCE. After a short service by Revs IVgayam and Cida the remains of A. Isaac were removed from the hosrr tai quarters to Bukit Tengah at 4 p.m. on Friday. mon was conducted by pE. I. Loader at the chapel an: at
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  • 548 733 < INQUEST proceedings VFRDICT of accidental DEATH. “He did not even know that he had knocked down the boy till I called his attention to it.” said a witness at the Penang Police Court on Saturday to Mr. Edward -Togo, at an inquest on a
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  • 145 733 DECISION AT GENERAL MEETING. An extraordinary general meeting of the Ceylon Association of Penang and Province Wellesley was held on Saturday at the Anglo-Chinese School, Da-c Kramat, with Mr. Nicholas Ponnudurai in the chair. There was a large number of Ceylonese present including Sinhalese, Tamils,
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  • 122 733 At an inaugural meeting of the A C S. Union Benefit Fund held on the Union premises on Friday. September 19, 1930, the following were elected of-fice-bearers for 1930/31. Chairman. President, A. C. S. Union. (Ex-officio) Vice-Chairman. Mr. Low Swee Klick, Vice-Pres. A.C.S. Union
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  • 177 733 INDIAN ARRESTED AFTER TWO MONTHS. Said to have been arrested on board the s.s. “Rohna an Indian named Ramadevan, who was said to have been wanted by the Police for the last two months for the alleged theft of jewellery worth $1.494, appeared at Penang Police
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  • 254 733 CHINESE FOUND GUILTY. Yesterday, in the Police Court, before Mr. Edward J ago, a Chinese named Yew Ah Thu was charged with having on September 20, at Macalister Road, stolen eleven pairs of clogs, valued $l.lO, the property of one Yap Lew Thin. The accused
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  • 1056 734 COMEDY AND DRAMA. REMINISCENCES OF MR. R. J. FARRER. Reminiscences of a varied character, some humorous and others of a dramatic nature made up R. J. Farrer’s address to the Rotary Club at Singapore. Mr. Roland Braddell mentioned in an introductory speech that the membership of
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  • 501 734 TRANSACTION OVER CAR PURCHASE. Tile ease in which Basil Haebett European ts charged with chs T Messrs. Lyons Motors, Ltd., bj estly inducing them to deliver a hand Chi vsler car was partly heard betore the District Judge (Mr Gt Peal) Singapore. When the case was
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  • 559 735 The departure of the Sultan of „1 once again raises the ques- the advisability of a federathe «hole of British Malaya, proximity of Johore to the .Laval base, and the fact, that be lease of the Johore State Ranway “n soon expire, are bound to brtng J discussion
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  • 119 735 GAMBLING IN KIMBERLEY STREET. Seven Chinese of varying ages appeared before the Penang Police Court yesterday to answer a charge of gambling in a public place, to wit, Kimberley Street, on the 20th instant. The Court Inspector stated that this particular place had been raided
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  • 122 735 DRIVER STILL IN SUSPENSE Sunderam, the lorry driver involved in the motor accident at Ayer Etam, which resulted .in the death of the Chinese lad, Choong Teik Guan, appeared at the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. Edward Jago. Chief Court Inspector Stewart mentioning that he
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  • 213 735 FRUIT HAWKER’S TALE. STEALING FRLIT FROM A PLANTATION. Ihe story of a fruit-haw Ker’s race, with two (logs and a constable at his leels, was related at the Penang Police Court to Mr. Edward Jago when ft Chinese named Teh Tian Ho was
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  • 186 735 NO INSTRUCTIONS TO COUNSEL. An appeal by nine Chinese against conviction on a gaming charge involvin'? the confiscation of Sl6O 2fi was withdrawn yesterday when the matter came up before Mr. Justice Sproule at the Penang Supreme Court. The nine appellants, headed by Poah Teik Kiam, were
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  • 1185 736 BAPTIST CASE TRIAL. JUDGMENT TO BE GIVEN TO DAY. Once again the Police Court of Penang was crowded to its utmost yesterday, mostly with Malays, when the case was taken up in which Mustapha bin Mohamed Dawood stands charged with having “on July
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  • 220 736 JUDGMENT IN SUPREME I COURT CASE. Judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Sproule at the Penang Supren? Court yesterday, in the case between Khoo It Ghee, plaintiff, and Khoo Tek L’p, Saw Keow Neoh (female), Kh°° Phew Kew, Tan Geok Heok (female Khoo Keng Ho, Khoo
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  • 1630 737 TH E CHINA SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL. When General Butler, Commander f the United States Marines, landed °n China about five civil wars ago, be a ted that the hardest job he had to perform was to learn the names of the respective war-lords, and then w out the sheep
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  • 1039 738 FOUR CHINESE CHARGED. ANALYST DESCRIBES THE ALLOY USED. Four Hokkien Chinese, who were alleged to have been engaged in the illicit trade of manufacturing and circulating false coins. appeared in the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. Edward Jago when Chief Detective Inspector Fowler charged them
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  • 85 738 magistrate ACQ ITs MALAY DRIVED The Penang Police Court Was ed to its utmost yesterday when Mr. Edward Jago. ke P?* Magistrate. mounted the I c deliver judgment in the case in"! Mustapha bm Dawood, a W was charged with enticing away a W Sian woman named
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  • 319 738 ANNUAL “AT HOME.'* The Annual At Home of the Government English School Union, Alor Star was held on Saturday and proved a great success. This happy result was in large measure due to the hearty co-operation of all responsible. A large audience included H. H.
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  • 1255 739 X.RAY examination. transfer OF PROPERTY CONTESTED. Evidence us to how one’s age might be tested by an X-ray examination of the epiphysis of the femur was given by Dr. j \V. Adams yesterday in the Supreme Court of Penang before Mr. Justice Sproule in the course
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  • 201 739 JUDGMENT FOR CYCLE AND CARRIAGE CO. The Dato Muda Panglima of Kinta was ordered to pay a claim of $442 to the Cycle A Carriage Co., Ltd., Penang, by the Penang District Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrer, yesterday. The Dato Muda Panglima was sued by
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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
    • 492 740 (To the Editor of the Straits E.ho.) S r, t m With regard to “Remarkable s letter published in your issue of the loth instant, we all know of the acute general trade depression throughout the world. Kedah cannot but sustain its effects proportionately. In places where
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    • 136 740 (To the Editor of the Straits Ei.Lo.) Sir, Should I to take my poor pen again upon Y. C. Seong’s point of view? Now, as so urged, though I may be just awakened still I shall be with the greatest pleasure if such correspondent would be too good
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    • 201 740 (To The Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, 1 am again rather much surprised on seeing the appearance of Y. C. Seong’s letter dated 16th instant. What “happened to be the hardest nut to crack”? This, couldn’t he even understand from the very beginning of that
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    • 187 740 (To Hie Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, The following may be of great interest to your many readers: Wireless Fans who did not listen in yesterday evening missed a great treat Pie Radio Bandong on 15.95 meters was going great guns at loud speaker strength
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    • 290 740 's-,' 1 rTl I Judging from time to tine bj „l daily paper s statement, most of J?! anxious to see what will the slump lead us into and when it wilfZjß Throughout everywhere, offices and fiml have been closed down, and thousiahl have been thrown out of work,
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    • 97 740 I am writing in the hope following will draw the attention S.P.CA., and the police. Ponies in groups of three be found roaming about fri (from the Police Hut at Sso junction to the village iimi t village). These animals or
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  • 295 741 CONTACT FROM PENANG. (f rom Our Own Correspondent). Ipoh. September 24. 'i’wo additional cases of small pox were discovered in Ipoh. These occurred at the K;unpong Java River bank, north of Brewster Road bridge, the victims being Malay. The cases wt-re not reported
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