The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 11 March 1931

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY (MAIL) EDITION. |lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. vol. PENANG, MARCH 11, 1931. No 1»
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    • 454 1 CONTENTS j LEADERS. The Act ng Governor’s Round If a Of Inspection 182 w jg The Two New News Services 168 Fatal Sequel To Motor Accident 188 Hands Off The Sli p “Columbus’ 168 Inquest On Ricsha Puller 18b Z 5 Bashful Socialism 168 Second “At Home’’ At “Bel Z
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    • 129 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day pror to the departure of each mail for Europe, it conta ns the Latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and spec'al articles. The subscr'pt'on is $lB per annum, post free to any part of
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  • 501 168 THERE is likely to be a very interesting war between two world renowned news distributing agencies: ii fact, hostilities have already begun, am we predict that it will be to the advan tage of the parties concerned as we I ns providing the public, particularly
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  • 333 168 11 is a great pity that Penang will be denied the opportunity of going iboard the Columbus win u she arrives o-day, for there are many who would ike to see the inside ol a really modern jeean liner. The orders are, however, hat nobody
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  • 579 168 ON E of the reasons why Sir Charles Trevelyan, Minister for Education. has resigned, is because the present Socialst government has not introduced Socialism. In that respect, he has proved himself a conscientious politician. It is rather unfortunate that the Labour Government will go out of power without
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    • 26 168 the straits echo. published daily. WEEKLY EDITIONS. CnWlnlßg the new, of the week prior t, departure of Malls for Europe. ••Straits Echo" Building. Penang Hoad. Penang.
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  • 5828 169 RAPID CHANGE OF CONDITIONS. THE HON. MR. GILMAN’S ADDRESS TO ROTARY CLUB. Addrenniny the member, of the Penang '’i/ f 's/Zoii Tueeday night at the E. and 0. Hotel, the Hon. Mr. E. I man in hitt paper on “Labour in i/a xaid. The
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  • 310 172 knife attack on french BIG GAME HUNTER H'oin Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. March 3. A French big game hunter, named Varenne, was the victim of a •a\age knife attack by» unknown assailmts wliilo asleep in his room at Hotel !,n about 1.30 a.m. to-day. The v Him
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  • 383 173 THERE was a torrent of news yesterday, so much so that mud of it had to be left out of the paper owing to pressure of space, but the smallest item that was published, consisting of 27 words, was the most interesting of all. It related
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  • 227 173 F 1 looks as if the Senior Warden of Mines is attempting to compete with Reuter’s and the Central News in supplying the press of Malaya with reports of important world happenings. Recently we received a confidential notification from the Senior Warden, with strict instructions that
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  • 593 173 IT is a painful duly to relegate press contributions to the waste-paper basket, but it is better to inflict pain on one contributor rather than on thou sands of readers. There is to hand, to instance, an article of more than words in which the author
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  • 173 173 DECISION TO CONTINUE, J-’roni Our Own Com» ponJnt uh ilf I March 8 At the halt-yearly meeting o f Malayan Teacher»’ Co-operative ft* Society the chairman reported «1,000 out of 58,000 overdue from n>« hers had been collected by Mr Assistant Director of the* Co-onmr Department.
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  • 124 173 TWO BADLY WOUNDED. i Pivm Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 3. Following a shooting and stabbins ilfray in Carpenter Street yesterday morning at which a Chinese was fatally stabbed and another shot, Newmarket >treel was the scene of another gun battle last night. It appears that
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  • 787 174 lOSS of OVER 84,000. The eiuhteent 1 anuual general ineetf the Ayer Weng (Rahman) I„„,ent and Prospecting Company T a held on Saturday at the Oeo r wn Ch T; B Tp<n.ni»- L Vaughan presided 2’S present were the Hon. Mr. Patave Simpson, Mr. 1.
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  • 73 174 FIRST ANNIVERSARY. (Prom Our Own Coi respondent.) Singapore. March 4. Knihii Royal Dutch Indian Airways) o-day celebrated the first anniversary >l the inauguration of the SingaporeLit avia air service which has been car■i« d out uninterruptedlv with the great's! success since it inception. Altogeher 113 passengers from Batavia
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  • 61 174 DEATH OF DRIVER. From Om Own Correspondent. I Singapore. March 4. A taxi speeding along Woodlands Road Yesterday evening crashed in to he roadside tree and the driver, who ipparentlv was the only occupant, was n'cked ii]) bv a passing car and taken o
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  • 60 174 CAR PARK IN BASEMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. March 4. The n*w K P M offices were opened by Mr. Finlayson Green to-day The building, which cost half a million, has i basement of narking space for a large numb» rof cars. This is
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  • 226 174 QUARRYING RED EARTH. APPEAL AGAINST OFFER OF GOVERNMENT. Dissati-iicd with’die offer of Government lor i he acquisition of certain lands in Bukit Mertajam for the Railway for the purpose of quarrying red earth, the owners luive entered into litigation and the empiiry came up
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  • 252 174 (To the Editor of the “Straits Eeuo”.) Bir, II yon please let me know if a »oal-keepcr shall not be charged by an ipponent. while holding the ball? 2 Shall not a goalkeeper be charged hen In* is outside -the goal area and hold ng the
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  • 598 175 TWO WICKETS VICTORY. LOW-SCORING GAME ON THE PADANG. The first J*. C. C.-P. R. C. cricket fixture played over the week-end on the I’lid.iiig ended in a win for the P. C. C. la, 2 wickets after an exciting match. The P. R. batted first and
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  • 146 175 DEATH Al TER A BRIEF ILLNESS. The funeral of Mrs. Al. 1. Summers whose death occurred on Saturday, at the General Hospital, after a brief illness. took place the same evening. Rev. K. Macpherson, of St. George's Church, officiated. Amongst those present at the
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  • 169 175 JAMIL’S RUSE THAT FAILED TO SUCCEED. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, Afarch 4. hde counting $2,000 cash, which "•as bemg drawn for his employer from the Hongkong Bank yesterday, a told that some money had 1 n °tt from the count r bv a Tam’l
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  • 283 175 THREE CASES DISPOSE!» nr THE ASSIZES OFw 7 hree eases on charges of of seditious documents were di M by the Assize Court yesterdaj these two resulted in convicti V ease collapsed, oue of the acet discharged on the application 1 Crown as no evidence
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  • 174 175 LONG PROCESSION OF CARS LAST NIGHT. esterday again Penang was with light and colour when the oration of the “Chap Goh Meh” eont nued. ft was a day out for II» Chinese maidens. Dressed in best, they paraded the town time without number in their cars,
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  • 1483 176 VISIT TO LOCAL SCHOOLS. SENIOR GIRL AT CONVENT MAKES SPEECH OF WELCOME. Excellency Officer Administering the Government, the II Mr John Scott, visited the St. Xavier's Institution and the ConJnt yesterday morning. •r, the Convent he «ent with 1 J Seott and «as
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  • 494 177 WHEN the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Lampson, was in Singapore recently, he expressed satisfaction with the improvement of conditions in China, and his words implied that the time was most propitious for negotiating for the further surrender of certain privileges which British nationals
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  • 603 177 UNDER the terms of Dictator Gandhi's settlement, only peaceful picketing shall be employed. As there has never been any such thing in India, however, as peaceful picketing, die ordinary common and garden kind is to be expected. Both the Mahatma and the Viceroy seem to be
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  • 369 177 FIVE YEARS' SENTENCE AT ASSIZES. Found guilty of the attempted murde of his wife, a Chinese named Lim Kei Ling was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment yesterday at the kginning of the second session of tk Penang Assizes, presided over by His Lordship Mr.
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  • 121 178 rI'ILDING completely BU GUTTED. Our Own Comipondent.) Ipoh, March 4. H the revelries ii connection Se Chap Goh b,ld ended w h i oa9 sounded owing lo an outt nf fire in shophouse in Theatre bre k When the fire brigade and the S T
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  • 101 178 CHINESE DISCHARGED. Charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of 800 tins ot kerosene oil, the property of the Standard Oil Company, Yeap Theani Soon was discharged yesterday by Mr. H. A. Forrer, in the District Court, Penang, on the application of Mr. E. A.
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  • 237 178 19 MONTHS’ GAOL. Alter having pleaded guilty previously to being armed with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a razor blade attached to a piece of wood, Chhui Hong alias Chhui Puk Lim appeared before Mr. H. A. Forrer. the District Judge, yesterday for sentence. Detective
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  • 468 178 AERODROME SITE. AREA OF 280 ACRES BEING SURVEYED. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government paid a visit to the Aerodrome site and t'he Police Court at Bayan Lepas yesterday morning. Accompanied by his A.D.C he irrived at the toot of the Hill >y the
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  • 194 178 CLAIM ON PROMISSORY NOTE. Sued in the District Court before Mr. H. A. Forrer, Cheah Wat Swce successfully pleaded infancy (Brough his counsel. Mr. Lim Khye Seng, and se- D’'^ ,nvll t against the claim of RM. RM. engadasalam Chettiar by his attorney Jxaruppen Chettiar for
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  • 292 178 FAREWELL FUNCTION AT P, O. R. C. I nr Post Oilice Recreation Club was At Home yesterday evening to bid I’mewJl to M r and Mrs. IL J. Harris wii<> are leaving Penang shortly on lurImigh. Mr. Harris is the Controller in Penang of
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  • 495 179 authority on rubber. PERSUADED DUTCH TO ADOPT RESTRICTION. Mr. William Duncan, a Director of the Penang Rubber Estate» Co., Ltd. end Allied Co»., died on Wednesday according to a cable received by Messrs. Boost ead and Co., the local agents. The late Mr. Duncan came out
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  • 273 179 TW'O POSTAL EMPLOYEES GET GAOL. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, February o Two Malay postal employees, Jasmin bin Hassan and Abdullah bin Hassan, were produced before the District Judge this morning on charges of theft of registered letters containing cash and ordinary letters. A. S.
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  • 139 179 fell off train near BOMBAY. Ijnllier information is available re-gm-'ling ths tragie death in India of Dr lIIX arner, the American tourist who was going round the world on board Cunard liner "Franconia” which A q', 111 harbour last Sunday. tragedy occurred while the raneonia was
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  • 511 179 ACTING GOVERNOR in MRS. SCOTT “AT HOM E h His Excellency the Officer n istering the Government Scott were the hosts at a anm o i ing held yesterday afternoon ft Retiro, the Government Hill. The function was tended to be a “Garden Party’ l
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  • 264 180 I 1 political prisoners, incliidiiu, A 'th™ teMed dea th are u i from the lulls of India, uc be release 1 u Gandhi whose interview cording j reported by Reuter’s with journalists is 1 ''“tXlicc ‘'.ose sentenced to ,r th,, following three things hat
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  • 520 180 THE Prime Minister presents some what of a pathetic spectacle whei complaining that he has to face tin endless hostility of the Conservative Party, because he has no majority in the House of Commons. 11 is position is, no doubt, almost unprecedented in Parliamentary annals, for
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  • 389 180 UP to the moment of writing. Beu ter’s wireless has not made mud >f a showing, and if it wishes to de nonstrate that it cun provide a bette) nice than can the Central News oi wen the Rugby Propaganda Agency t w ill require to prove it
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  • 75 180 CONVICTION OF MR. STEWART BELL. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, March 0. Charged under the Companies Ordinance, Mr. Stewart. Bell, Advocate and Solicitor, was v sterday convicted by the District Judge, sentence being postponed The charge related to non-com-pliance with th,- requirements of the ordinance
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  • 319 180 RESULTS OF WEDNESDAY S MATCHES. The fellowing are the results of tennis tournament Ues played .n Wediiesdav M'Xed Doubles Handicap— —30.2 Mrs. Bule and G. C. Watson boat 4 Jr-. E Reimann and M J. Thorpe i- 2. 6—o; —l5 5 Mrs. Milligan and 1’
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  • 203 181 "MANSLAUGHTER." BATTLE BETWEEN LOVE AND WILLFULNESS. In 1922 Alice Duer Miller wrote ft smashing best-seller novel “Manslaughter.” Cecil B. De Mille produced it as :< silent moving picture and both the picture and the book were sensations. Xou Paramount has transferred the thrilling drama of
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  • 162 181 FOUR WEDDINGS. TWO SHIP’S OFFICERS AND TWO PADRES HIT. The Dollar Liner “President Wilson” arrived in Penang yesterday. Since iba left San Francisco there have been three marriages of young people on hoard. The first was on Monday v hen an American girl, Miss
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  • 179 181 PENANG WEDDING OF WORLD TOURISTS. (From Our Own Correspondent}. Singapore, March 0. The “Columbus”, the fourth tourist world cruiser to visit Singapore in the course of the week berthed at west wharf this morning and a romantic story culminating in wedding at Penang was related.
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  • 214 181 TWO CHINESE KILLED. (Prom Our Own Correspondent >. Singapore, March 6. A violent explosion occurred aboard the A. P. C. oiltanker “Petronella’ which was steaming to Pulau Bukon yesterday i veiling. Four Chinese sea men who were nearby the tank wen affected and were severely
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  • 292 181 CULPRITS CAUGHT, I TOWKAY RELIEVED OF I $5OO. I Anned with knives a ga Ug o£ I tered the house ot a Ch.nese towta I m Larut Road during the week-end aJ I relieved him of a considerable amount I of cash. I It appears
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  • 189 181 LAST WEEK’S RESULTS. The following arc the results of-P.C.C tennis Tournament ties played od Thursday Championship Pairs— F. N. Syer k 3. Aste beat J. L. Potter P. R- Prison B—o. 6 —3; A. H. E. King 4 G. Joklsaek beat N. Ward E. W.
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  • 525 182 I ness close at i eaBfc c aim tab gO t V |l<etU'<litY. T little itei,lS siip r ..ntellectu< r se tQ tbis one from China and the other IMUg hto-and strange to say. these W ”’.ries are i« any reSpe U kvi “> n each of
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  • 640 182 THE Straits Echo” was recently I told by “The Malaya Tribune’ that it was jealous of S ngapore, and now Horace Bleackley, who has jus written a book entitled A tour in Southern Asia, throws a bouquet al the Southern Settlement, but the only nice thing he has
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  • 360 182 GROUP PHOTOGRAPH AT THE KAPITAN KLING MOSQUE. The Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. John Senft, in the company of Municipal officers, inspected certain town improvement schemes on Saturday morning and also visited the <hoo Kongsi and the Kapiton Kling Mosque. On his
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  • 75 183 MALAY CHILD DIES FROM INJURIES. Futul results have attended the recent motor car accident at Tanjong Tokong, the child who was seriously injured with a fractured skull, succumbing on Saturday to septic meningitis, following hernia of the cerebrum. It will be remembered that this accident
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  • 415 183 WEATHER PERMITS A “GARDEN PARTY.” Another social function was held at Bel Retiro on Saturday afternoon when the Hon. Mr. John Scott and Mrs. Scott entertained a large number of local residents. The weather kept fine, thus enabling a “Garden Party.’’ The following is
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  • 312 183 CORONER’S RIDER ABOUT BUS DRIVER. Death by shock from a crushed leg caused by collision with a motor bus P. 2716," was the verdict returned by the Coroner on Saturday at the conclusion of the inquiry into the death of a Chinese riesha puller as a
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  • 141 183 OFF TO PORT SWETTENHAM YESTERDAY. His Excellency, the Officer Administering the Government, who arrived in Penang on Tuesday, left yesterday afternoon for Port Swettenham by the “Sea Belh< Mr. and Mrs. Scott arrived at the ictoria Jetty shortly after midday and left for the “Sea Belle’’
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    • 457 183 (To The Editor Of The Strait, E» Sir, I shall be thankful for the dull ol the following facts as X? above subject, in your paper get to the eyes of all sportsmen r‘ cumstances that had happened g above mentioned subject. “It happened that at the
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  • 425 184 A RE RUBBER ROADS THE SCHEME? IS remarkable that the experiments I conducted in Singapore wrtl. a to learning and to what rubber could be used tor road cXt t n hare not created a wider interest rubber world <’■> Hie lace oi ,ere should be little delay in de>L
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  • 698 184 A cipher or two has evidently been dropped by Reuter’s Ottawa correspondent who reports what is described as an “amazing fact” that 30,M0 persons annually cross the international boundary between Canada and the Lnited States; unless, of course, he means to imply that that number
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  • 114 184 f PRODUCED IN COURT. TOTAL VALUE OF LOOT $BB3. Three men arrested in connection with the week-end gang robbery were duly charged in the Police Court. The accused are Long Chee Nam, Wong Chin Sam and Ong Chin YeOW’, and the charges against them were
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  • 114 184 ONE FINED: OTHER CLAIMS TRIAL. Two tongkang men were brought up before the Police Magistrate yesterday for failing to carry a light in a conspicuous place in their tongkangs after lark. (»nc man. a Chinese, pleaded 'guilty” and was fined $5. The other, n Indian
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  • 92 184 BOY WHO TOOK ANOTHER ON HIS BICYCLE. A liinese hoy named. Chen Teng Seng, pleaded “not guilty’’ to a •harge of carrying another person on •is push bicycle. Th* constable who arrested accused stated that the other person who was riding on the luggag' carrier escaped. Accused
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  • 114 184 SCRAP OF TWO CHINESE. On a charge of voluntarily causing hurt loom Tan Ah Hunt, a man named Lim Lai Chong was produced in the Police Court vest.*rdax. Accused is alleged to have -frucl: the "omplainant with an iron rod \ceus( J who ideaded ‘not
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  • 714 185 KEDAH PLANTER'S LOSS. DRESS SUIT PRODUCED IN COURT. Dre»» coats and trousers were proions in a case of alleged theft taken up for hearing yesterday afternoon in the Police Court. The accused, four Chinese, nre charged with the theft of a suit case containing clothes
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  • 89 185 CHETTIAR COMMUNITY “AT HOME.” On the occasion of Masi Maham the Chettiar Temple in Jalan Bahru, Alor Star, was the centre of festivity on Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday also hapicned to be the Chap Goh Meii and r.dians and Chinese celebrated their •cspectivc festivals
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  • 78 185 SUM or $670 INVOLVED. A charge ol criminal breach of t-ru.sl was preferred against a man called Kok say roh in the Police Court yesterday Tlie amount involved is $670 made up »1 two sums of $3OO and $2OO in cash •.nd $l7O in bills, the
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  • 128 185 ATTEMPT TO SAVE FRIEND BV THREE CHINESE. Assuuii ng a public oilicei- ;uid rescuam a prisoner from the custody of two ’.lolic* l constables. were the. charges preferred in th« Police Court yesterdav igainst three Chin.-sc. It is alleged that two constables had. arrested a man
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  • 458 185 PERAK WIN MATCH With LAST BALL BOWLED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, March ft Perak defeated the Malayan Non Benders by. six wickets after a very ex citing match, scoring the required rw off the hist ball of the last over of th match. The Non-Benders
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  • 778 186 IT i 5 idle to adopt the worat fealur-.s Bolshevik dictatorship and at ♦inie attempt to persuade the "'Vl'that the «'Stem is democratic n’r iJt is preoisel.V «hat the Chinese mment b doing at the present *vi’li n government institutes “S svstem of press censorship,
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  • 218 186 T* HE word "Arctic” is a favourite expression when London gets chilblains. Tbe Air Ministry announces that "Arctic conditions in England are likely to continue," but the word is probably used because the Air Ministry has never been to the Arctic. When the mercury in England
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  • 169 186 (To tbe Editor of the "Straits Echo”.) Sir, We are more or less quite fumiiar with the stories of wolves told in fables is wi ll in magazines and also could be <uen in Picture Show, their capablity >f devouring human beings. Wolves ire usually found in the
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  • 81 186 CHINESE FINED. Detected spitting on the Police Court door on .the 9th instant, Lock Mali S’m was yesterday produced before the Magistrate. Pleading "not guilty" he said that he was an accused in a case on Monday and till case was taken up he was
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  • 55 186 24 IN ONE SMALL BASKET. A Chinese, who pleaded ‘‘guilty’ to i charge of having overcrowded twentyfour fowls in a basket too small for the purpose, was fined $5, half of which is to swell the funds of the S. P. C. A. at whoso instance
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  • 477 187 MUZZLING ORDER. PROOF THAT IT IS BEING EFFICIENTLY ENFORCED. Questions regarding the muzzling order consequent on the recent outbreak of rabies in the town were asked and answered at yesterday s meeting of the Municipal Commissioners: Mr. H. Dove: Is the Veterinary Officer satisfied
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  • 470 187 FIVE NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS ELECTED. Th'* following are the minutes of a Committee Meeting ot the Straits betI loments (Penang) Association held at the offices of the Penang Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, the ath March, 1931, al 1 p.m ntMr. E. Newbold (in the
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  • 104 187 RESIGNATION OF Mr. SI.OWE. Al the fortnightly meeting J I emmg Municipal Commissioner .1 terday. presided over by Mr C i Bryant, the following were Mewl Messrs. H. M. Noordin. H. Dove L Sian Ewe. C. R. Samuel, H. H Aku Cader prs. J. E. Smith
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  • 88 187 ACCIDENT AT SINGAPORE AIR BASE. (brom Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, March 10 The Air Base record of freedom fra incidents, which was marred bv rt ’•ecent crash in which Flying Offits Davies and Corporal Boyce lost the ives, was further marred vesterdi .\lien another Hawker-Horsley Bomb
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  • 152 187 YOUNG CHINESE CYCLIST I FINED. I Three push cyclists were before Police Magistrate yesterday. youngest of them, a Chrnese boy 4 about thirteen years, when chargedwij having ridden along a foot pa»h, that he was compelled to do so to aiofl being run
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