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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927.
BIAS BAY.
CEYLON PAPERS COMMENT ON RAID.
The "Times of Ceylon" of September 8 states:
THRIFT MOVEMENT. that the peasantry were paying
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES' SUCCESS IN MALAYA.
or
usuriously high rates of interest on loans. Moreover the co-operative system had actually been started and was satisfactorily progressing among Mahomedans both in Egypt and in the Punjab. master-General of Egypt was Accordingly in 1921 the Post-
THE CHINA MAIL.
such as the Co-operative Unton with headquarters in Manchester and the Agricultural Organisation Societies In England, Scotland, and Ireland as their governing body, there is no alternative bat to leave the control of the movement to a bureaucracy
But the control of the Registrar
EARTHQUAKES.
BIG CONVULSIONS OF THE" EARTH.
:%
The New Tork “Tribune" lists the most destructive earthquakes from
shows in these outstanding convul.
Calabria
No.
LARGEST TUNNEL
COMMENGUD UNDER CASCADE MOUNTAINS.
In the early days of ixilway Be Welsh
tunzel through
1108 20,000 nine years later, the first locome 1268 60,000 tive ran through it; the length of
1456 40,000
1831 30,000
1626 70,000
1631 18,000
CHAOS
11
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(motiver weeżka kiz vyraided,
The annual reports for 1920 on the working of Co-operative. So No more striking proof of the cleties in the Federated Malay { approached for an account of the in India is gradually being relaxed the year 577 ́A.D. to 1929, and construction, the piercing of a}Sw°C
mounting Market, maj truth of the old adage that States and the Straits Settlements, means which had been adopted to and surrendered to Co-operative slons of the earth (only thirty-one range was considered & fumid- the that thị
War makes thieves and Peace just to hand, must provide gratify overcome Mahomedan objections Unions and Institutions, and is all being listed) destruction able infetaking, and, in the Cord the hangs them" can be furnished ing reading to the original aponto Interest in respect of the Post would be reduced practically to of human lives totalling 1,828,000, majority of CH853, many War Commune well card the 17 than the history of the Bias Bors of the movement, who steadily Office Savings Banks. The answer the limits of the Registrar of Com This does not include what has lapsed before the work was se queing an a Bay pirates, who for centuries obstacles which might well have depositors had
held their ground in face of initial was that the interest allotted to panies in the case of a well come to be considered the most completed. The Mont Cenis tus- Central Geomrumuju nikich, nữ.
been rendered managed society. Similarly in destructive of all earthquakes, the ael, for instance, which is complished wi222 Beall, wul have plundered shipping on the daunted them.
legally acceptable by Islamic Law Malaya Government control, as was Japanese upheaval of September 1, uiles in length, was commenced cipled for by t coast of Chiria. Bias Bay is ani Inlet situated less than 50 miles Broadly stated, the system works to Mostem investors by means of officially stated in the year of the 1923, in which about 300,000 lives in 1857 and was not opened to
as follows: Small-holders, men of a special "Fatwa" issued by the scheme's Inception, will be with were lost. The list is as follows: traffic until 1871; the Average likes Krung dieillessa
The spirit Age o north of Hong Kong and, from good character and industrious Grand Mufti of Egypt, and that drawn at the earliest possible op- ime immemorial, has been the disposition, belonging to the same since this pronouncement
progress was 2.57 lineal yards aį gaining gewund, 493) it snema të the portunity, so soon as the members Place
Year Killed headquarters of the most blood-village, form a society in order to Imams and Sheikhs of the Mos of the local societies can furnish
dar. The St. Gotthard taumellust the fog w/ the Be Constantinople
57710,000 was commenced in 1872 and, at the riski trg is los medir Government age) se well ani hirsty sea marauders of China. pay off the old debts which they ques, and also the Omdas of the proof that they are capable of Catania
1187 15,000 Piracy is, and, has always been, have contracted at high interest to villages, had co-operated in
en- managing their own affairs of
a visa 20 dag a Syria ** endemic on the coast and the "chetties" and others, and to save couraging and fostering principles strictly Co-operative lines.
state of thes Silicia Co-operation in India, as is well- rivers of China, but the intro-money for a rainy day. If; for of thrift.
Naples Similar Inquiries Instituted in known, has progressed rapidly and Lisbon duction of fast steamers and the example, ten men combine, they vigilance of the British Navy agree to pay $10 a year for ten the Punjab elicited the answer that has reached very large dimensions. Naples gradually curtailed the opera- years, thus acquiring $100 worth no special measures had been But the steady growth of the young Vesuvius
of shares. These shares,
found necessary to overcome theer Malayan movement, though it bas ions of the Bias Bay hordes. savings, can be used in the future interest difficulty. "It sometimes not yet attained such proportions Schamaki For many years the large volume for funeral expenses, the educa- occurs," the Registrar of Co-opera: as In India, is to be regarded as
Sicily of Chinese and foreign shipping tion of a son, the dowry
especially Yoddo... satisfactory, ative Societies of the United Pro- highly raffic on the coast of China be- daughter, or some similar purpose. vinces wrote, "that a Mahomedan when the comparatively small ween Hong Kong, Swatow and They then wish to borrow colles will not take interest on a deposit, native population is taken into Algiers Shanghai was go, well protected tively, say, $6,000, on the security but this is rare. All Mahomedans consideration. In 1928 there was Lima and Callao hat the Bias Bay pirates were of all their joint property, lands, have to pay interest to the usurer, a total of 19 societies, with a mem- Cairo forced to turn their attention to houses, bullocks, and so forth, to and so they pay to the societies bership of 2,361 and a working Kashue (Persis)
capital of £8,570; in 1926 the 80 Lisbon awful pursuits. They possess-pay off their debts, obtain cash for without objection."
Armed with these incontrover-cieties numbered 116, their mem- ed no steamers, and their old-working expenses, or buy cattle.
Syria fashioned junks were useless for The Registrar of Co-operative So- tible facts, the advocates of co-bers totalled 15,249 and the united Central America operations against fast steamers.cieties registers their society and operation, were able, with full con capital amounted to £118,188.
Aleppo Many facts might be cited which
Calabria When civil China some years ago, the for-
fluence the societies have come to
Colombia ign authorities found it desir-
exercise, but one must suffice. The Krakatao (Strait of ble to concentrate their Naval
members of the Krian Co-operative Sunda). forces in and around Shanghai,
Societies, who are rice-planters, Island of Hondo, have been enabled at last to aban- with the result that the Bias
Japan Bay pirates were furnished with in opportunity to make raids on oastal shipping. They confined heir attention mainly to vessels owned by Chinese, but,
of
Peking
1638 10,000
1667 80,000
1692 100,000
1708 190,000
1716 18,000
1731 96,000
1746 18,000 1754 40,000 1755 40,000
1765 50,000
1759 20,000
1797 40,000
1822 20,000
war broke out in authorises it to borrow this sum.fidence, to ask the Native Rulers would witness to the beneficial in San Jose de Cucuta,
1857 10,000
cm-
Six
Hon. Charles G. Dawes, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
don what is known as the "padi Sanriku, Japan ratus" system. This institution Martinique and St.
Vincent
1876 14,000
1888 36,000
1891 10,000
1896 27,000
1902 40,000)
1908 184,000
was the bane of the rice-growing Industry in the district, and by it Messina and fifty-four growers were compelled to Bell
towns in Italy their crops to creditors sometimes Central Italy....... 1914 12,000 at as low a rate as six cents Central Java....... 1919 10,000 gantang (gallon). The societies, Persia
1923 20,000 supplying all the credit needs of The British Association for the their members, put them in a posi- tion to sell their crops at their Advancement of Science has issued pleasure and at full market rates, statistics on the number of earth- receiving prices as high as 18 and quakes taking place in each century 19 cents a gantang.
It is eati-of the Christian era. One of the mated that the Co-operators realis-outstanding features of this statis- ed $40 (£5) an acre more for their tical report is the remarkable in- crops than their neighbours who crease of these upheavals during had to borrow money outside to recent centuries. The statistics do cover the costs of cultivation-earthquakes, but only those which not include small and insignificant "London Times."
have caused widespread destruction of life and property, Beginning this tunnel is 91/3 miles, and with fifteen in the first century, the average progress wax 6,01
A SHANGHAI INCIDENT.
AS VIEWED IN, AMERICA.
The incident at Shanghai arising out of the refusal of the Chinese to return the wings of a British aeroplane has not created much in- terest in America, public opinion in the last few months having lost much of its sentimentalism in re- gard to Chinese affairs. ・ May;
Even if there is to be a revival: of anti-foreign propaganda and if this should complicate the problem and increase the danger to be an- ticipated as the retreating Nation-
there is shown a gradual increase
His Royal Highness, Prince Nicholas, uncle and one of the Prince three regents of young King
Nichols Michael of Roumanis.
accompanied mother, Queen Marie, on recent United States tour.
hia
ber
As the giskajowa to the tipė ng of folka in se betrenih tary, and as 1es, gyyon with [grestest_trade sociaca thre
day, it becha^A VON BASKE
Chinese gærple, wig is well-kel”. the concern of Purskole merle
LEAGUE (SUNCI
CHINESE "ESSENKA WAST
FOR
it is reportyd, autoa the ind
examerpenden
Fol
| Poga" Chat What Meraky, Mic. 113 Brenede kun and resignult žžže Peking Gentengt ta fil {pizee vuested vi
to 115 in the thirteenth century, yards a day. As is almost in-}
variably the case with engineer- From that time the list is follows:
Fourteenth century- Fifteenth century Sixteenth century Seventeenth century Eighteenth century Nineteenth century.
48
··
137
174
258
378
640
2,119
FLAPPERS' SLANG.
who departed latina.
| King-ga, kawen kat made de ante conditionen osa Puking | warding Clio 17 today ospita ka electing 'ay REVI
il seste la uz 42 mont Lust zuhaimeta no lo trends.
last year den kry admisie Assembly.
of Sir Austen Leone falu, Finland or a quote ad the Bi Dominion-grens – Phyaržaci ti seed for a Kis-seid termi Enarusmiama lat tem pichế sucrsed Cheza ngak, whil Latin Asterinencaps sutifle Sabrador'a sez?.
ing work, the acquisition of ex- perience led to great advances in speed and in eronomy of work-to
BULLIKSEYS VO BOGE
· Boll-ArMiar evade in a
kill feet le de
boldened by their success, they subsequently raided British ves- sels. The methods adopted by he pirates were extremely lever. Instead of sailing out in unks and attempting to bold up hipping, the pirates invariably måde a voyage to either Swatow or Hong Kong, perferably the atter, and embarked as passen- rers on A coastal steamer, When the vessel put to sea, the birates produced weapons, over- awed the officers, and forced hem to proceed to Bias Bay. After the cargo had been re- moved, a number of passengers, generally wealthy Chinese mer- hants, were taken as hostages, and the steamer was allowed to continue ,her
voyage.
ing. The Arlberg tunnel, for months ago the British Naval
The publir bedoria instance, which is well over the saimals y de "Corrid uthorities decided to take
miles in length, was begun in Orlenas recently speed oppo trong action to prevent any re-
1880 and was completed in just Wien one në 59 cila mat urrence of these tactics. A
over three years. Again, thej dress rehearsi in the real punitive expedition was sent to
cost per lineal yard of the Mont and read the wish y Bias Bay and the headquarters
Cenis tunnel was £228, whereas ChriquRa there is wrther ind of the pirates were destroyed.
the corresponding figure for the tin Aeroplanes from a British air-
CONDEMNED BY INTER- raft carrier flew over the set-
Arlberg tunnel was $108. Of The mal saby & kull-fight. NATIONAL COUNCIL.
more recent construction, the forbidden in buy but it i lement and dropped bombs.
London, Sept. 2. Simplon and Loutschberg tun that enforcemos or the law There was no bloodshed, 8.8 warning had been given in ad-
alist troops approach. Shanghai, The slang of the flapper and nels, the former upwards of 12 tk has views very {Many have $271 ballfi vance of the intention to make
there is, says the correspondent of the barbarisms of the cake-cater miles, and the latter 9 miles in wale de notre enthy it he raid. The freebooters, how: The committee is then empowered of the Malay States and the Pre-"The Times" at Washington, no are to be condemned by an length, were notable achieve Wines the 2-ment ge
accomplished in the year after pass- ever, declined to take warning to borrow the $6,000 from some sident of the Mahomedan Advisory lack of faith that the emergency International Council for Eng-ments
be successfully met.lish. It was indicated recently face and proceeded to intensify their rich man or from a bank, and the Board to consider the proposal. could operations. A few days ago a for their various loans. The com- in June, 1922, at the Palace of the complete confidence here that the Israel Gollancz, Secretary of the perience
members agree to pay 15 per cent. The problem was fully discussed Generally speaking, there is such by a published statement of Sir foreseen difficulties.
gained steamer, the "Hainchi," travel-mittee obtains the money at 10 per Sultan of Perak in the presence determination to avoid Intervention ing between Foochow and cent., part of the balance of 8 per of several Ulama, and the Sultan in China but at the same time to British Academy and a member worka was undoubtedly Shanghai, was seized. As usual, cent. going to defray the expenses then gave it as his definite opinion afford full protection to foreign of the Council. A meeting of the responsible for the succesful the pirates were disguised as of the society and the remainder that the payment and receipt of lives and property is finally and de- organisation has already been marmer in which tluse under passengers and during the voy-into reserve to meet unforeseen interest as required by the by-laws finitely a British as well as held and plans are now being takings were completeă
A tunnel, at presta ander Baserwis s age they suddenly produced contingencles.
of Co-operative Credit Societies American intention, that the fullest made for carrying on a campaign
construction, which reMIDT#| CITY AND weapons and cowed the crew, The objections to the introduc- would not be contrary to the tenete Anglo-American co-operation in against corrupt English. They compelled the sailors totion of such a system of agricul- of the Mahommedan Law. Actually that sense is not only expected but The United States, rich in many features of interest by thei paint out the name of the vessel tural loans to villagers were based the position would seem to be that treated as certain. There would be newly coined expressions, will re- new Cascade tunnel of the Great and repaint her funnels, and chiefly upon the nature of the the payment and receipt of interest less doubt about the immediate ceive special attention from the Northern Railway Company of
Malay himself. When Sir Arthur in this connection, though really future if the same American con-Council which is composed of America. This tunnel, 7.40 Tyłam. Bret the officers were forced to take Young, inspired by favourable ex- Irregular when regarded from a viction as to identity of aims exist both British and American miles in length, will be drivenirytum Hommesser: her to Bias Bay. This plan periences in Cyprus, attempted the strictly orthodox point of view, are ed in regard to Japan. Obviously, scholars. It is explained, how under the Cascade Mountains, Team Zek broved so successful that, en innovation in 1907, he was met not more so than tobacco-smoking however, and, in spite of official ever, that the purpose of the in the State of Washington, bash route to the pirates' lair, the with the contentions that the or listening to band music,*! assurances to the contrary, which "Hsinchi" passed several unsus-Malay was in little haste to grow :
Steady Progress.*** would certainly be given if a blunt organisation is not to limit and tween Scenic, which is some 87 becting British and French gun-wealthy, was somewhat distrustful
The upshot was the issue of a question were put, Japanese activi cramp the confines of the English miles east of Seattle, and Berte, A ships. The steamer was looted of his neighbours (whether Malays "Fatwa" in favour of the projected ties in Shantung are being watch language, but to keep it pure and a town 61-miles west of Went and was then allowed to pro- or others), still suffered from the Co-operative Societies so long as ed with some disquiet. It is felt free from slang and localiam so chee. When finished, it will be ceed on her voyage. On Wed-recollections of past evil rule when their objects were the safeguard that they can be, as by some ob- that a more unified and stan- the longest tunnel in the Amer nesday, a second punitive ex-nothing was worth while and sav
that the work will only cupý pedition was despatched by, the ing was merely inviting attack, was ing of the interests of the people servera. they are interpreted, as a dardized English will be spoken Ican Continent, and it is claires
and their protection from the step away from the engagements throughout the world. not of one stock, and was perhaps hands of moneylenders. British Naval Commander-in- undergoing a rather painful deve July, 1922, the Co-operative So Washington Conference, and there Council will not attempt to
And in entered into during and after the Sir Tarael explained that the three years to complete.
The contractors are Mesir, p Chief and the headquarters at lopment from what has been called cieties Enactment became law, would be much relief if this sus eliminate synonyms just because Guthrie and Company, Inc, axil Bias Bay were again destroyed. a self-sufficing domestic economy. There can be no doubt that the Still more formidable appeared the against the law as it stands in that
A criticism which has been made picion should prove unwarranted...
two or more words may serve the cost of the undertakinjg will) sudden recrudescence of piracy objections on religious grounds, it invests the Registrar with ex-
the same meaning, saying that be in the neighbourhood of 14j on the Chinese coast is due in which a special Committee appoint cesalve powers in other words,
synonyms give richness and add-million dollars. The new tumei large measure to the fact that ed in 1911 expressed in the follow makes him an autocrat. In reply Stuttgart (Wartemberg), to penal ed power of expression to a will shorten the present limit be many of the British warships Ing worde
it is urged that until the principles servitude for murders and bomb Language New words, legitim-tween Scenic and Berne by 7681 which normally. are used to "Although it has appeared in of Co-operation have been learnt throwing the judge wald those ately coined to meet a need miles, and the stretch of track. patrol the coast are now in ser- that certain Malays are committee by the members, and until they really responsible, were living in caused by new inventions and which will thus be eliminates a
evidence before the.
ice on the Yangtze River. If habit of letting out money on in- this second effort to wean the terest in an indirect manner, it is Chinese pirates from their play-is nevertheless entirely againet ful ways does not prove success tenets of the true bellever of ful, more drastic measures will falam to take interest on money. have to be taken. Blas Bay is lent out. This being so at once not a trading port in the gene-disposes of the system suggcated ral sense of the term, and no to be considered so far as co-opera- doubt, when the, tension in tion among Mahomedans la con- Shanghai is relaxed sufficiently cerned."
With one of its afgnatories.ca
to enable the warships assigned prominent Malay, it might be sup to the China Station of the posed that such a dogmatic pro Royal Navy to resume their nor-nouncement would have been re mal activities, a warship may be garded as final. And indeed this stationed permanently in the dictum "the 1911 ghost it be vicinity of the inlet. The only came familiarly termed did come alternative to that is to land a up again when in subsequent years. strong force, without warning, co-operation was advocated anew, to administer to the pirates a
In one form or another,OLFER dose of their own medicine. Objections Overcome.
PAIN IN THE STOMACH.
It is most annoying as well as dis agreeable to be troubled with paina the stomach and there is no need
»for jonë 'dose of Chamberlain's. Wide Diarrhoea Remedyswill:aliz”
Bold everywhersisy hingga y
But Sir Arthur Young and other whole-hearted
scheme an out
was Mr. (now Maxwell
sceptical about)
Against the academic Bahomedan'a, inabili interest on mone
the de
an
In sentencing Communists at
have established an organisation security in Russia.
of
great
curves
ewher
rely
WATER SUPPLY
scientific discoveries will not be very expensive to maintain and tad discouraged by the Council. But operate. The. such expressions, elang, and gradients are excessive, and, barbarisms which are out moreover, much of the road las growths of different sections and to be protected by snow shots: localities, and which do not serve Incidentally, the new tunnel w for international usage among entail the abandonment of te the English speaking world, will present Cascade tunnel, which is be discouraged. yaya oke 2.63 miles in length, The Great It is expected that the deci- Northern Railway Company sions of the Council, which is to also electrifying that portion of be composed of representative its system which passes throught scholars from all English speak the Cascade Range. Eventually ing countries, when fully com a stretch of line, 80 miles pleted, will receive the endorse length, between Wenatchee ment and eu ort of college the east and Skykomish professors United Press, west, will be operated elec
Engineering
MURDER AT GRAVESIDE.
Paris, Aug.
rial had
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