The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 15 April 1931
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Title Section20 1931-04-15 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY (MAIL) EDITION. >lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. VOL. 29. PENANG, APRIL 15, 1931. No. 15.20 words
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Advertisement373 1931-04-15 1 I CONTENTS I i i 0 LEADERS. Alleged Gang Bobbery In The Province 2 65 I Alleged Cheating By Business Mau 266 Die Terrible threat from Alleged Borgery Of Codicil X I India 257 Of Will 267 X 'X Sharks hi The Channel 259 Chinese B. C. Annual General X373 words
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Advertisement126 1931-04-15 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading >nd special articles. The subscription is SIR per annum, post free to any part of the126 words
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Article1140 1931-04-15 257 J HE cabled news received from India over the week-end may be far mure terrible than any recorded since the days of the great mutiny, for it is an Open declaration of possible active belligerency between the two great branches of the Indian race, who1,140 words
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Article123 1931-04-15 257 ONE WIFE HERE AND ONE IN CHINA. Eating three tahils of opium a hinese tried to take away his life on Saturday at Stewart Lane. Yesterday the man, Hua Ah Yong, was produced before the Police Magisrate and charged with attempting to omniit suicide. He pleaded123 words
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203 1931-04-15 257 CONVECTION QUASHED UN APPEAL. The conviction was quashed in the Appeal Court yesterday in the case in which a Chinese named Cheah See Lye had been charged with failing to appear in the District Court in obedience to a Mimmons. His Lordship also directed203 words
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Advertisement29 1931-04-15 257 THE straits echo. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEEKLY EDITIONS. Contig t* ews f thC WeCk Pri r t 0 departure of Mails for Europe. •Straits Echo" Building. pciiHug Road, 1 enang.29 words
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Article663 1931-04-15 258 BUTTERWORTH LAND CASE MYSTERIOUS ALTERATION OF THE MAP. Judgment restoring th»- parties to the same position as in 1895 was delivered in the Supreme Court in the ease in which a Malay planter sought to rectify ;m alleged forty-year old error in a deed. In663 words
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Article146 1931-04-15 258 GAMBLERS ESCAPE. POLICE RAID DEN AT TANJONG TOKONG. How gamblers evaded the Police by jumping into the sea was related in the Police Court yesterday when eleven of them all Chinese, were charged with gambling in a common gaming house The accused severally pleaded146 words
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180 1931-04-15 258 TAMIL AND TWO OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. That he was duped and cheated of $5 was the charge mad:! by a Tamil. Govindasamy, against two of his countrymen, Solai and Aehuden. It was stated that Govindasamy went io the toddy shop in Perlis Road to180 words
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Article396 1931-04-15 258 IMPORTANT RESOLUTION PASSED. S A successful Indian Conference u held at the Lower Perak Indian elation. Tclok Anson, on Sat and Sunday. Delegates were sent k practicall.v all the Indian Association, throughout Malaya; and there was a attendance of about 200 persons during the Open Session. After396 words
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Article346 1931-04-15 259 HE public of Penang bus to thank T" M Bicknell for the warning ,< on our news page, that b “W*" seen bv him mid others '“■"“sou > Channel .yesterday, mid m the .nnlies this information in it is already that it is likely t 0346 words
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Article425 1931-04-15 259 T HERE is every prospect of a move- moot's being launched in Malaya ’Meli will have as its watchword “libit) for the unofticials. At present here is quite a controversy going on round the action of the chairman ol ht Kinta Sanitary Board who refused oconsider a425 words
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Article817 1931-04-15 259 "VV7ILL London give up the ShangW li.ai International Settlement?” is the question asked bv “The Times >f Malaya.” and the answer is distinctly. “No”. if for no other reason than that London has no more power f o give up Shanghai than Ottawa has the power to817 words
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174 1931-04-15 260 NON-REGISTRATION. PROSECUTIONS BY POLICE SUCCESSFUL. I’rusecutions are for the purpo.se <>i putting u stop to sly prostitution,” said Inspector Yorke to the Police Magistrate before whom yesterday, he charged three eating-house keepers with failing to have the names their female employees entered in the Back174 words
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Article288 1931-04-15 260 TWO AMERICANS LEAVING ALOR STAR ON FRIDAY. Two American airmen, Hoss Hadley and .John G. Pratt, who are touring the world, will leave Alor Star for Singapore on Friday. I’he fliers have already toured the ITiited States, Great Britain, Germany. France, Spain, and Italy and on288 words
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Article672 1931-04-15 260 EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The eighth annual general meeting of the shareholders of Lesong lujoh Rubber Estates Ltd was held in the Registered Office of the ompany, British India Bouse, Penang, on April 2, 1931, at 10.30 a.in. Mr- C. B. Graburn was in the672 words
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Article143 1931-04-15 260 INDIAN GETS 11 MONTHS GAOL. I pon a charge of house breaking aiis theft, .th Indian named Peruinal »> yesterday in the District Court convir (al and sentenced to eleven month rigorous imprisonment. It wu- alleged that accused broke into a coffee shop in Tanjong Bungab143 words
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Article173 1931-04-15 260 READ THIS. AND YOU WILL LEARN THE ANSWER. Ihe Spring Number of the hx-Ber vices Association of Malaya is fohu* and an admirable publication it is. cor sisting of 90 pages of art paper, and cot raining several illustrations. The wgazine which173 words
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Article817 1931-04-15 261 T HE ANGLO-IN DIANS' FUTU RE. ni i'P k a pathetic warning conI Sin the message of Colonel 1 > iv nf the Anglo-Indian comGidney. lea in gtatement delivered "published on page 3 of this Ir's’the following significant, and l s C true remarks to make a!1 advent of democracy817 words
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Article469 1931-04-15 261 ,O)ME bright ideas occur from time J to time to people who wish to see a rapid restoration of world trade There was the suggestion, for instance, to dump the surplus rubber into the sea. so as to raise the value of the remaining stocks: then469 words
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Article351 1931-04-15 261 CHINESE SWEET-SELLER CONVICTED. On his own plea a Chinese Svveetstall keeper of Acheen Street was yesterday convicted of causing hurt to another with a knife. Inspector Hamilton, who prosecuted, stated that complainant went over to accused’s stall to buy some sweets and was allowed to351 words
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Article586 1931-04-15 262 FOUR CHINESE ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGED THEFT. The prosecution was closed yesterday against the first accused in the case in which four Chinese stand charged with the theft of a suit case belonging to a planter of Kedah. The four accused are Tan Teik Em Chong586 words
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Article219 1931-04-15 262 WILL DISPUTE CASE. CLAIM TO EXECUTORSHIP OF ESTATE. Hearing was postponed for this after□oon in the case arising out of the Will of a Chinese named Oou Eng Cheok, now deceased, taken up in the Supreme Court yesterday. On the death of Oon Eng Cheok, Probate219 words
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Article219 1931-04-15 262 DISCOVERY IN HUTTON LANE YESTERDAY. W ild stories were current throughout town earlv yesterday morning that the lecapitated bodv of a woman was to be found in a house in Hutton Lane. Even the Detective Police heard the storv as such and Inspectors and219 words
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Article256 1931-04-15 262 LOAN APPROVED. MESSRS. R. YOUNG &c(>tender accepted o,B Government has approved of th» i of W>2.->.(XX> applied for by th.. P® Municipality in connection with tho n”posed water-borne Sewerace Pins anunmt represents the Inst three years programme whiek ntelndes the Hospital Scheme whiehi i I to be256 words
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Article177 1931-04-15 262 TWO MONTHS’ R. I. FOR PORK SELLER. Convicted of using a false measure» pork-seller was yesterday sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment The story for the prosecution, as related l>\ Inspector Roberts, was that a Chinese who wished to buy some pork •ailed out to the accused177 words
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459 1931-04-15 263 .TZTiUlava is somewhat Y* lIOIhH 1 t lc outside I hc k of knowledge of world's de P lu, o eation of some of its such as Penang. it must leading <- Jue t i t there are occanot b i lorg VneV are given an459 words
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Article187 1931-04-15 263 0" Wl why Penang htr <no "n as the Show 'V W Z' C S niost if not the,. P <:oln v livre ailver '”«lves superlative terms hence when a really good show does arrive. the public discounts about 90 pei cent, of its claims,187 words
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Article508 1931-04-15 263 rllol'Gll the majority of Australians and, in fact, the whole Briish Empire, will probably xvelcoine the lews that a draft constitution of a tew Federal loyalist unit. New Engand, has been approved, virtually as i protest against the New South Wales ;o\ermmnt s repudiation policy,508 words
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Article95 1931-04-15 263 SIKH WATCHMAN FOUND WITH MULTIPLE WOUNDS. (Trom (fur ()wn Correspondent.) Singapore. April 9. About two o clock this morning the vandang Kei-hau Police received in tori nation of an alleged niurler in Rangoon Road and went o the scene. In ’he compound »1 Rangoon Road School95 words
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254 1931-04-15 263 ECONOMIES OF SULOK RUBBER COMPANY. (I’l’om Our Own Correspondent). Ipoh, April 10 At the annual meeting of the Sulok Rubber Co., Col. Cecil Rae preside<l nd reported that last year’s crop was harvested at a cost of 15.50 cents a lb. nd the254 words
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1982 1931-04-15 264 "GANDHI THE MAN AND HIS MISSION." LECTURE AT HU YEW SEAH BY MR. RAGHAVAN. "Gandhi the man and hin minKiuii wan Hit’ title of a lecture de* livcred by Mr. N. Raghavan last night Io a large gathering at the Hu 1 eie Seah. Dr. Ong (thong Kcng prcxiiled. The1,982 words
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Article91 1931-04-15 265 'wnV EST PASS ES AT Air? y I CE I NT ,r EXAM,NA riON Anstrili-i f who went to Of the f l 10 las re t urn ed. of Mu S L UP T e r tere( ,or Triuit y motions all Loll(lon theory91 words
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741 1931-04-15 265 INQUEST CONCLUDED. CORONER RESERVES HIS VERDICT. At the conclusion of the adjourned in|uir\ yesterday into the death of a Malax child at Tanjong Tokong on February 19, following a motor accident, the Coroner, Mr. E. J ago. reserved his verdict till Monday, the 13th instant.741 words
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210 1931-04-15 265 BAIL GRANTED TO TWO OF THE ACCUSED. Bail was allowed yesterday on two of he accused in the case of alleged gang obbery at Bukit Toh Alang Estate, the Town withdrawing its opposition. In tins case six men stand charged »ith alleged robbery at210 words
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120 1931-04-15 265 STALL KEEPER HEAVILY FINED. Charged with exposing for sale fish unfit for human consumption. Alahudin, a stall-keeper at the Chowrastra Market pleaded ‘‘guilty in the Police Court yesterday. The Municipal Health Officer stated that he examined the fish and xvas of opinion that at the120 words
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Article1212 1931-04-15 266 REFERRING to the Hindu-Muslim differences. Mr. Raghavan. in his lecture on Gandhi, delivered last Friday, says that newspapermen who are expected to know better, and who perhaps do know better, have made it their solemn function to make as big a mounta n as possible out of1,212 words
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Article141 1931-04-15 266 GAMBLE ON THE RUBBER MARKET.” K Arrested on a warrant issued upon charge of cheating. Lee Bian Z who said he was a prominent busing man. was produced before the Pofe Magistrate on Saturday. The allege tion was that he dishonestly induced the General Produce141 words
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Article107 1931-04-15 266 WEDDING IN ENGLAND LAST MONTH. .The marriage between Mr. Chari# Theodore Smith, only son of the late Mr. T. Smith. 3rd Dragoon Guardand Joyce Marie, daughter of Mr. anu Mrs. Charles Every-Brown, of Cottage Fulmer. Buckinghamshirt took place last month at St. James 1107 words
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118 1931-04-15 266 ELECTION OF OFFICE-BEARER At the 19-h annual general jnee® of the Stia Tanjong Tokong FC. I»' on Saturday last, the Hon ble r H. Abdookader and Captain Salleh Alsagoff J.P., M.8.E., were a t pointed Patrons and the office-»®# elected lor the vear 1931 were:—Mr118 words
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899 1931-04-15 267 EVIDENCE AT THE ENQUIRY. VERDICT OF MURDER AGAINST SULTAN’S NEPHEW. Sensational revelations were made at the inquiry into the double tragedy which occurred in Johore about three weeks <icro when two members of the Johore Royal family were found dead in a pool of blood. The899 words
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545 1931-04-15 267 CASE POSTPONED FOR EVIDENCE OF EXPERTS. In the Supreme Court yesterday morning, Mr. T. E. Conaghan menioned the case arising out of the Will of the late Oon Eng Cheok. This case, i) which the application of one Oon f’hooi Thong for the Executorship545 words
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1289 1931-04-15 268 COLLAPSE OF OBSTACLE STRUCTURES. W. RODRIGUES EASILY CHAMPION ATHLETE. Four persons were injured in an accident which marred the interest of an otherwise successful Municipal Sports Meet held on Saturday at the Esplanade, favoured by bright weather, at which there was a large crowd1,289 words
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1174 1931-04-15 269 UNLESS the unexpected happens, which it has a peculiar habit ol China—in less than a month 01 g n"‘v the Hepublie will probably nli-red the most epoch-making b j h its history. The issues are l’ tT ihe first concerning the Se's'Conference, which is1,174 words
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258 1931-04-15 269 COLOURFUL SETTINGS AND COSTUMES. King Richard 11 w ill be presented this, week liy" the senior pupils of the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School. This play •equires colourful settings and costumes, for it represents the most flourishing period of heraldry. Care has been taken ik258 words
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Article252 1931-04-15 269 ON MUDBANK AT BATU MAU. A liner went aground yesterday, but was refloated later. At ti.BO a.in. the lighthouse keeper of ’ulau Himau Lighthouse, in the south Channel, reported by telephone hat tile Ho Hong liner Hong Kheng was aground off Batu Mau on the252 words
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551 1931-04-15 270 NEW PAVILION. “TRUE CENTRE OF CHINESE SOCIAL LIFE IN PENANG.” The 40th annual general meeting of i h.- Chinese Recreation Chib was held on Friday, April 10. 1931. The President Mr. Lim Lean Teng, addressing th* meeting, said: Gentlemen —Yon have had circulated to von551 words
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Article405 1931-04-15 270 ACCUSED COMMITTED. CHINESE DOCTOR’S STORY OF THREATS. How a Chinese doctor was threatened with death before being robbed ill bis own house was revealed before the Police Magistrate yesterday. Three Chinese stood charged with armed robbery at 66, Maxwell Road on March 5. Chief Court Inspector Tumi405 words
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Article375 1931-04-15 270 BENEFICIARIES SHARES FATHER AND SON BORROW IN ANTICIPATION. Affairs of tlie estate of a te airc of Penang were disclosed Supreme Court yesterday. 8 A >lllll of S.XI.COO had’ been i,r,| Court by the trustees of the estutet be paid to a Railway clerk named Khw375 words
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88 1931-04-15 270 LOCAL ASSOCIATION HAVE A DINNER. Tb<' Lev lon Association, Pei»a u celebrated Cev loii Xafional Day vP r 13) by a dinner at the chib footn Kelawci Road, last night. MJ. Scharanguivel. President. presided covers were laid for over 40. A convivial time was spent. g88 words
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249 1931-04-15 271 ll,xt)I11 r .rf ‘dock yesterday together Tyuw Hun uillst hom Chal ge L in the same connection was d i,bctl, t i the Detective Police. Cet for the prosecution was that 11 pill, on the lath of March a, ,"X detectives wire in back iu249 words
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Article176 1931-04-15 271 HENRY REID IN CRITICAL CONDITION. H«nr\ Reid, who was removed to on Saturday with serious ins sustained as a result of the acciJ:'" 'd the Municipal Sports Meet, is 1 V|ll in a critical condition. Young ls stU( b'Ht of St. Xavier's In'tltlltlOll. Jl r A176 words
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Article213 1931-04-15 271 CHINESE BEAT EUROPEANS EASILY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) [poh, April 13. The annual tennis match between Europeans and Chinese was played this week end and resulted in a sweeping victory for the latter. The following were the results: Lam Sav Kee beat Watson 4/6, 6 3,213 words
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223 1931-04-15 271 DECLARED NOT INSANE BY MEDICAL AUTHORITIES. 1 he young Chinese woman who was sent to the House of Observation last we» k bv the Police Magistrate, having been certified sane bv the medical authorities. was back in the Police Court esterday. The first day she223 words
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Article504 1931-04-15 271 BODY OF CHINESE FOUND AT BUKIT TOKONG BATU. A verdict of wilful murder by some person or persons unknown was returned at the. Coroner’s inquest held on Saturday to enquire into the circumstances surrounding the death of an unknown hinesc whose body was discovered at Bukit504 words
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Article508 1931-04-15 272 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, While agreeing with your reasonable comments in your editorial of 6th instant on the ‘English’ language, you, are over-enthusiastic in extolling that language. You say that, had Mr. Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi been ignorant of English, these two eminent508 words
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Article551 1931-04-15 272 [To the Editor of the Straits Echo.] Sir. “Authentic” is right when he says that “if a batsman playing out to a ball steps out of the crease and the ball rebounds oil the wicket-keeper s pads on to the wickets the batsman is stmnp•d out551 words
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Article276 1931-04-15 272 (To the Editor of tn c it, Please grant me a little space t» forward what would appear to 1« fair tux on the travelling PuWi especially such hard times as one frequently hears of the very™,, dissatisfaction ruling against ir -•ailed "Week End” chea|T«vA* "W <-an276 words
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Article395 1931-04-15 272 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir. Owing to the present si unip and cooidering the unemployed estate Dressers \ho are qualified and among whom 1 m one I shall be very much obliged if on will kindly publish the following:— U present, it is a pity395 words
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Article424 1931-04-15 273 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, In a big country like India, with an immense imputation the greater portion of which is ignorant, superstitious and bigoted (fruits of decades of British rule), the surprise is not that there have been communal riots but that such424 words
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Advertisement17 1931-04-15 272 and addresses of correspondents are required, not necessarily for publication, bul as a sign of good faith.17 words
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Article87 1931-04-15 273 INSPECTION OF PERAK I HEADQUARTERS. I (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, April 14. Major-General Oldfield, G. 0. C. Malaya, arrived from Kuala Kangsar yesterday evening in the course of a tour of the Malayan Command. He visited the Perak battalion headquarters and also Anderson School in87 words
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109 1931-04-15 273 QUANTITY OF DIAMONDS STOLEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 14. The premises of Bene Ullmann, whose expensive stock of jewellery and brilliants are displayed in the capitol building, were mysteriously burgled in the small hours and thieves have left no trace. The store was watched109 words
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149 1931-04-15 273 BLOWN OUT BY SQUALL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, April 14. The steamer. “Marudu”, landed four Chinese whom the ship picked up in the open sea when voyaging from Borneo. It appears the men set out in a motor boat to make149 words
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Article466 1931-04-15 273 VALIDITY OF MORTGAGE. DISPUTE OVER PENANG PROPERTY. Further hearing was taken up in the Supreme Court yesterday in the case in which a mortgage is sought to be set aside on the ground that one of the parties was a minor at the466 words
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