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1 Plymouth Reck Cock and 3 Bens, 1 Legborn Cock and 9 Hens.
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AŬLURID PICTURE...
tion. Other crops, like copra, were disregarded. Everybody was making
a fortune out of rubber Rubber production -reached its zenith, - and now the markets of London and New York are choked with unsaleable stock.
A visit to a plantation on the island of Singapore showed' the The following article, 'dated Singstagnation existing there. A car apore, February 20, was accepted took us through the Jungle to a place and printed by the Manchester of hills and dales. On the slopes Guardian and we reproduce it in were the rubber plantations, the cul- order to show what our friends attivated yellow soil stretching away home are being told about us here into a jungle of palm and bamboo. tay the Straits Tinies. It is signed No workers were to be seen, and the by W. J. Makin of whom we bare no knowledge beyond the ignorance he displays concerning his imagina- ire City of Despair. It is not a bad sketch. Ed. C.M.).
tin cups hang is a forlorn fashion at the base of the trees. The planter, a picturesque figure in his tarai hat and khakishort," took us to his imposing bungalow. His wife, an. Englan girl, with the dea y pallor of these parts, talked wistfully about
London.
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BOND-STREET TUNNEL.
SUMPRISE FIND.
COURSE OF A LOST RIVER.
Werkmen busy on repairs in New Bond-street, W., have just broken into a long, empty, brick tunnel, which for generations has lafu under the very middle of the roadway un- known to anybody.
distance of 184
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Distinguished archeologists. in cluding Mr. Philip Norman, FSA, and C. R. Peers, Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments at the Office of Works, investigated the mysterious tunnel and were much puzzled by it. It has been traced as far as Clifford- The best way to see the sights of
street in one direction and as far Singapore is to sit in a long care
as Conduit-street at the other, a chair on the verandah of the Hotel de TEurope with a cool drink in easy "No possibility of going home yet," blocked at both these places, bat It was found
KING EDWARD HOTEL reach. Singapore loafs round you said the planter. It's as much as further excavations are to be made It reaches out a limp arma for a gin some of us can do to hold on. I've to see if it extends farther. The A LLE
ZRICTKAMS Paas Entrance, Elec aling, and says; Of course, it's no discharged ever three hundred coolies tunnel is very strongly made of red Walks Bystem throngboat Best at. Food and place for a decent white man. No within the last month. Simply can- brick and is 5ft. across and eft. high. 375. Telegraphie Adelrom: "VICTORIA' one wants to live here particularly, not afford to keep them on. Even It is perfectly dry and in excellent But then, there's the rubber.
two Emopeza assistants have had to | condition. That, apparently, is the one arg11- go. ment for existence in Singapore. It is a long story of continued Rubber! What a word to conjure efforts to face the slump. Produc with a year ago. Now Singapore tion cut down 10, 15, even 30 per swears at the mention of it. Excent. Now there is a general demand istence in Singapore is as in a for a 50 per cent reduction. We're hothouse. One struggles against an even burning crude rubber on this overwhelming luxuriance of tropical
simply got no growth, a damp, feverish climate, and market for it. If I wasn't so com a congestion of cosiles from almost mitted to rubber here Td sell out and every part of Asia. But Singapore plant segar in Java." : - is now struggling for its existence in
But it is in Singapore that one sees an economic sense. The world's how desperate is the state of
The East is very conservative, and great rubber stump has almost over affairs, Tamils are being herded on
It may have been the course of one it is not surposing that many customs whelmed it.
of the little lost rivers of London. described in the Bible survive there the boats, back to India Chinese Owing to the slope of the ground There are no less than five big coolies, with their gaily labelled the stream may have run away from to this day. firms here tottering on the brink of boxes, struggle frantically in a con- Piccadilly towards Oxford-street, and rain. If any of them go smash, gestion of sampans to reach the perhaps joined on to a branch of the
There you may see the ox treading then the whole rubber industry goes steamer that is to take them back Tyburt tires, which flowed in this out the corn, the seamless garment with them" (Thus a rubber to the Far East One discovers neighbourhood broker, who looks as though he occasional Europeans travelling to it is difficult to estimate the age of village by the women.
and water drawn from the wells in the is feeling the strain)Of course, China in the hope of a job. Their the tunnel, but one theory is that it is
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In the opinion of the experts it is probably a conduit built over an old stream. The fact that the floor of the tunnel is flat and apparently of earth is favourable to this view. The in- vestigators were greatly surprised to bear of the discovery of the tunnel, of which there is believed to be no record. They stated that they had not heard of there being any stream in that place......
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no one wants rubber. The rubber lot is trenviable Aman without as old as New Bood-street, which
BURNT OFFERINGS.
TIGER STORIES.
THE UNCHANGING EAST.
Many years ago I came for the first
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together with unleavened bre which was made there also.
Next day.I lilled a tigress in valley below the shrine, and the e of the sacrifice had been so propiti and no doubt the flesh of the go good, that my men said another goat must be slain
There was in the vicinity another valley, presided over by Hindu deity, up which a narrow path wound its way into the intest
Along this I wended my way one- morning at the head of my little baad alas ! long since gone to the Happy of faithful followers, who have all,
Hunting Grounds.
Here in the dust were impressed the foot-prints of many creatures.
bought here now is purely for specusa job in the East drifts so easily dates back to 1721. The tunnel is to time upon the ceremony of burnt There was the great sign mantial of |lative purposes, Gambling in theThe number of European assistants be filled in, and a large part of the sacrifice when I was encamped in the a mighty tiger. A. bear had ambled
rübber market is rampent, and in Malaya searching for work has work has already been done. someone has to pay the piper. More become so great that the Government than one well-known figure in have opened an Unemployment Singapore life has dropped out of Bureau. But the young man regards
jungle.
Each year after that I used to pitch my camp on the same spot on the
aking, and after him a panther. Deer, antelope, pigs, porcupines, peafowl, partridges, and little quail all these -existence in the last few months, Fit cynically. "What's the use of it despérate. Of course the slum bank of the Pwin Gunga River when had passed by in the silent watches of
just dropped out,
And so Singapore is a city under a So several of them live on the world must have rubber. But it's of tiger.
when there is no work to give us?" will come to an end some day, on my annual expedition, in pursuit the right, or in the estly moming
By the roadside stood the shrine of- cloud. It has an air of walling and generosity of friends, often to drift the waiting and the fear that we On the heights a few miles from the painted stone in a little bit from, the
the jungle god, represented by a red- « fearing the worst. It's men sit apart, anally into the Archipelago, where a can't hold out to the end river averlooking a tiger-haunted gummit of which a few red and white drinking in slow, meditative fashion, white mad may live a life of beach The speaker lit & cigarette with valley, the ziarat, or tomb, of Shaikh rags fluttered in the breeze, or lounging listlessly against the combing.
nervous fingers th
tars Everyone seems weary of the In John Little's, at the hour of these that man over there! Used Farid, & Mahommedan saint, gleamed The goat was taken to the shrine, its topic of rubber. Even the news gin sling, one found the same crowd to be one of the soundest men in upon the clift
head was anointed with country papers have stopped discussing the of apathetic drinkers. The men Singapore. Ran his four-seater car Here on this occasion and each year spirit, and when it boxed down before situation, contenting themselves with looked shea by and the women and went home regularly every year, afterwards, at the request of my the graver image, as it certainly did, Calaconic price quotation each day...
- Now the rubber slump la Filling him, followers who were Hindus, & goat it was immediately slaughtered, ita TA #Thirty-five cents a pound to-day,”
fowled the "trokeren And 1 re. A GOOD RULE FOR THE HOME. The car has been sold, and there's was sacrificed to propitiate the jungle blood spilt, and its severed feet hung member the day when it reached one "VAKÉ ÚK MINIJU s home to no prospect of him going home for deity who presided over those sylvan up as an offering within the sacred
Ale always kos p'im l: sw.bte off waoy a day. "And he's not the only solitudes. Without this sacrifice, my tenement Chambeil szintje su i isechas, Be--one to men assured me, we would have no f
Abram Vinst bowel. I leave these isolated and silent per
ath was cooked in camp and deusred thEsame evening a
killed the big tiger
doen Daily News
price, approximating
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war, Malay-piaritzen, brought | Vor ku "more rubber foto: cikira: Izupern".
promptly a drinkers They oppres you with
the fivets, without its cbem at and Btors the sense of men Awaking theThe goat was slaughtered and its
Ambecooked "esten" on the spot, traci Inevitable. It is a city of despair.