WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1927.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SCANDAL TABOOED. A GLOBE TROTTER. STATUS OF INDIANS.
STRIKE IN INDIA.
ROYAL ACADEMY. A TURK AND A GIRL.
ITALIAN'S TEN YEARS' WALK.
BRITISH GUIANA GOVERN- MENT SCHEME.
EFFORT TO AVERT RETRENCHMENT.
UNIQUE HONOUR FOR MRS. LAURA KNIGHT.
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SINGAPORE PAPER, TO BE "GOOD."
IMPLICATIONS OF WORD.
UNCLE'S COMMAND.
DISQUIETING NEWS,
Calcutta, Nov. 2.
FIRST WOMAN ELECTED.
London, Nov. 2.
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PASSIVE RESISTANCE.
His Excellency's kindly reproof | "Go and make yourself a man”
Kharagpur, Oct. 31.
The murder of Elán Niego, a
the Press of Malaya,
and beautiful Jewish girl, or to was the command from a wealthyl
The special session of the' The Rev. Mr. C. F. Andrews,
Mrs. Laura Knight and Mr. Young that section of it which has indulg-uncle that induced a twenty-years interviewed concerning the dis- All-India Railwaymen's Federa-Francis Dodd have been elected by a Turk named Geman Bey on ed in the use of the word "scandal" old nephew to undertake a walking quieting news received in Bom-tion, which has been considering Associates of the Royal Academy, August 17 last has developed into a minority question which appears Mrs. Knight is the first woman to bodo ill to the entire Jewish In connection with Penang Hospital tour of the world lasting ten years, bay from British Guiana, said the situation created by the re- affairs will probably have been read one of the conditions being that that if the report was correct, trenchment of Bengal-Nagpur Associate appointed since Miss
there must be no begging, while all
All Jews have been forbidden to with interest in other circles than journeys on land had to be covered then the gravity of the situation railway employees, consequent on Angelica Kaufmana and Mrs, community in Turkey.
could not be over-estimated. the reclosing of the workshops, Mary Moser were elected original travel outside the limits of their newspaper offices, there. Is on foot.
When the whole question of also the contemplated rotrench-members of the Academy in own boroughs and the greatest therefore perhaps no need to Antonio Zetto, the nephew, is at
apprehension exists as to what may apologise for reference to it. present in India. Setting out from fresh Indian emigration was con- ment of employees of other rail- 1769,
Mrs. Laura Knight, A.R.W.S., follow. Etymologically It might be pos-his home at Trieste on December 24,| sidered by the Indian Legislature, ways in India, adopted a resolu-
Osman Bey first saw Miss Niego sible to split straws with the 1918, he began his lone adventure a demand was made that the tion to-day expressing the opinion R.B.C, first studied art at the Governor and maintain that the real that is to fast until December of present electoral rights of In- that a general strike was the only Nottingham School of Art, and in a ferry-boat nearly a year ago, reason why the word is inapplicable itinerary took him
next year, and the first part of his dians should be secured to them alternative left, and urging the subsequently won the gold, silver and, despite her repeated assur- is that "scandal" is apparently the when it was not long before he met demand was
over Europe for all time by Statute, and this B.-N. Railway Union to consider and bronze medals at South Ken-ancea that his attentions were re "uttering of false statements mak- his first encounter with the seamy sidered.
favourably con- the possibility of a strike, falling sington and the Princess of pulsive to her, the Turk persistent- a satisfactory settlement within Wales's Scholarship; hon. mention ly followed her. He alternately ing for defamation" and inasmuch falde of life. Stating that he could
a week.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, pleaded with and threatened her as there have been no false state-speak French, Spanish and English
1912; gold medal, San Francisco, until his advances forced her to
seek police protection. ments uttered-unless the report of In addition to his mother tongue. visiting committee contains Italian, Mr. Zetto said that though
1915; exhibited first in Royal
Warning Unheeded. them, which we shall learn in due he has visited every country, and
Academy in 1909; represented most of the principal cities of the
British Museum and Victoria and Police warnings, however, made time there can be no scandal, world, as is inaisted upon by the
Albert Museum, Public Museums no difference and Osman. Bey was DODWELL & CO. LTD. since the uttering of true state-conditions of the wager, he had ex-
at Capetown, Johannesburg, imprisoned. He resumed his an- ments, whether their effects were perienced little or no difficulty in
Manchester, Oldham, Brighton, noyances immediately he was re- defamatory or not, in presumably making his way. Ia nine years of
Rochdale, New Zealand, Mel- lensed, and even offered to change no scandal. But in reality that of travelling he finds that English is
bourne, Art Institute, Chicago, his religion if the girl would marry
him. course is not What Is Exculloney the most useful tongue to one un-
gie Institute, Pittsburg, New-not discourage him and when he Birmingham; represented Carne- Her refusal to listen to him did meant. What he gave us to under-dertaking a venture such as his.
castle, Leeds. stand was that the condition of
heard shortly afterwards that she Mr. Francis Dodd, A.R.W.S., was engaged to a young man of was born at Holyhead, in 1874, her own faith the Turk completely
the
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Mr.
If the control of finance was to be placed in the hands of the Governor, instead of registered Indians, it would obviously lower the value of the franchise and the status of Indians as citizens.
Earlier Message.
The Federation also called on the General Council to declare a general railway strike in India within a fortnight, with a view to averting the proposed re- trenchment.
VERTICAL FLIGHT.
SECRET.
London, Oct. 24.
He realised now that he had no
no one else should have her. He met her in a street with her sister on the evening of August 17, pur- sued her and stabbed her to death. The sister who tried to stop him was severely wounded.
hope of winning her, and he vowed
The crime was committed in a busy street in the Jewish quarter,
police saved the Turk from being lynched on the spot by eya- witnesses of the murder. Osman Bey has not yet been brought up |for trial and everything seems to point to the possibility that he will he declared insane.
History of the Trouble. In July the B.-N. Railway An earlier message dated of Government of India, decided to Agent, with the approval of the "Except when I was wounded by Bombay, Nov. 1, stated: The reduce the staff from 11,100 to affairs in Penang Hospital was noder in Siberia, my first contact with 120,000
bullet from the rifle of a marau-wholesale repatriation of the
9,000. Indians resident ju better than it is in the majority of the seamy side of life," he said, "British Guiana is foreshadowed sorily discharged received the and was educated at Glasgow lost control of himself.
The majority of those compul- hospitals in our Crown Colonies and have not suffered a day's illness in a long communication from the money due to. them and left School of Arts and in Paris and not much worse, although hedd- since I left my hame in 1918." mits he would like to see the whole Mr. Zetto has been sailor, gen- British Guiana East Indian Ass0- place swept
away. Those condi- erat handyman and labourer in ciation to the Imperial Indian Kharagpur, despite the efforts Italy. He is a well-known paint- tions in his view do not however order to comply with the strict Citizenship Association of Born of the Labour Union to persuade er and engraver.
them to remain. constitute a scandal and if the word clauses of the wager the fulfilling, bay. The letter says that the.
Only 435 employees refused to "ecandal" is to be applied to them of which bars him from accepting Indian community fear that such accept payment. When the men anything in the nature of a gratul- a step is the only alternative to were discharged, the other em- it must apply to a great many ty, and in the process he has be- remaining as helots in a country ployees in the workshops started similar conditions in other Colonies. come bronzed and hardened, He where they had tasted liberty a campaign of passive resistance, Well we have no means of con- may not travel overseas from or to and equality, as they will have to whereupon the railway author- troverting that.
any country as a passenger, but We are quite prepared to drop must enlist as a member of a ship's remain if the proposal recently ities declared a lock-out, with the HUMMING-BIRDS GUARDED and only the quick arrival of the the word and even to admit that it crew and draw appropriate wages. made by the Colonial Secretary result that the workshops were may have implications which are On land he covers an average of 25 to invest the Governor of the closed for several weeks. not fully justified, for His Excel-work is available, and sleeping in its finances is carried out. The or 30 miles per day, working where Colony with complete control of lency will understand that in the fields and beneath trees. hustle and hent which prevails in surprising how easy it is
"It is letter appeals to Indian leaders the offices of a daily paper even in round the world in this way" he prevent
to get and the Raj to act quickly to such
"a retrograde Bo quiet place as Singapore says. "and discomforts, except in step" the former by bringing there is not that cloistered calm, wet countries, are not great."
home to the British Guiana making for the delicate handpick- Zetto has almost completed his Government and the Colonial shops were re-opened, but the em-feeding, ing of phrases, which may possibly itinerary and will shortly leave for Office the certain prospect of exist in the less disturbed atmos the principal Indian cities he will wholesale repatriation if the pro phere on High. But
when make for Rangoon, Singapore and posal is pressed, and the latter by Excellency refers to "journalistic Penang on his homeward journey to taking up the matter on the enterprise" with its faint sugges- Trieste where he will claim the ground that the proposal, which, tion that the use of the debated wager.
according to the letter, seeks to term "scandal" might have been "Of course" he said "there have curtail the rights and privileges inspired by a tenning towards sen- necessarily been uncomfortable mo- of Indians in the Colony, con- sationallam, we feel constrained to ments during my travels, but I stitutes a breach of faith on the assure him that there probably does shall always he grateful for the cir not exist throughout the world a cumstances that led up to this ad- part of the Colonial Government
venture which has taught
and the Colonial Office with the Prens an wrapt in early Victorian much,"
Government of India, which per- beatitude, dowdily staid-al-|
mitted Indians to emigrate on the
all understanding that their though we make the indictment ourselves as that of Malaya. It is
rights and privileges would be practically Impossible. to imagine
maintained. any of our newspapers. launching oul into phrases which would cause a single utter in the pulse of the moat decorous member of the Malayan Civil Servlee. It is not naking too much then to pray His Excellency to believe that the use of the word "scandal" was one of the lapses for which nothing but a blushing regret can make atone- ment. It shall not happen again, Just as in France they named the greatest trial of recent years, "l'Affaire Dreyfus," 80 will our
Delhi and Benares. After visiting
CRISIS IN IRAK.
THE ACTING PREMIER
RESIGNS.
me
. Bagdad, Oct. 30.. The Acting Premier, Yasin Pasha, has resigned, following the Shiah protests against the suppression by the Cabinet of their newspaper.
PRAYER BOOK.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS INITIATED.
November 7.
ed that two separate enquiries. Government recently announc- would be held with a view to en- Six hundred exposures of a suring equitable treatment of the film per second have failed to dis- dismissed workmen,
cover the secret of how a num Fifteen thousand people attend- Subsequently the B-N. work-ming-bird hovers in the air while ed the funeral of the girl, two days after the murder, and it is alleged the passive resistance movement opinion that if they succeeded in between the Turks and the Turkish ployees immediately resuméd Air Ministry experts are of that the incident which has led to the present regrettable situation and orders were given to again filming the hovering trick they Jews then took place. close the workshops.
might solve the helicopter pro- A number of Turks allege that "We want The development of a film of justice." This is stated to con- the humming-bird's movements stitute a seditious action and an taken by means of a slow motion insult to the Turkish State, because camera at the Zoo showed blur-it implies that the Turkish judges. red wing movements. It is stated of the murderer might not deal out that if a camera can be found justice. which is capable of giving 1,200) exposures per second, a success ful film might be taken.
MISSING BOYS,
HUNTING PARTY JOINS IN SEARCH.
London, Nov. 2.
blem.
certain Jewa cried:
were
Turks allege also that the Jews were disorderly and that they at- tempted to interfere with police and municipal agents who trying to maintain order.
Nine persons were arrested and proceedings have been taken
A large gathering of hunting folk assembled for the opening meet of the season of the Dart- AEROPLANE JUMPS. against them by the Public Pro-
moor Foxhounds, but abandoned their intended sport in order to form search parties to scour Dartmoor for two boys, aged 17 and 8 years, who have been miss- ing from their homes since Tues- day morning.
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CURIOUS TERMS OF A WAGER.
Omaha, Nebraska, Oct. 31.
secutor, who has declared in no uncertain terms that they will now see what Turkish justice really is.
Proceedings in the criminal court against these nine alleged offen- dera have already been adjourned three times in order that additional
The elder lad was discovered in A young postman named Vinot evidence might be obtained but pitiable plight from exposure made a bet with a colleague that many points which have been, and hunger. He explained that Dempsey would Beat Tunney in raised in court require explane- they both lost their way in the Chicago last month.'
tion. mist and driving rain and slept The terms of the wager were
Lapse of Two 'Days. When that the loser would either pay why nothing concerning the alleged beneath a rock at night.
The counsel for the defence asks he awoke, he found that his the winner twenty-five dollars of seditious cries appeared in any companion had disappeared. The jump from an aeroplane at newspaper account of the funeral. latter has not yet been discovered. | height of 2,000 feet. ·
It was only after a lapse of two Yesterday, Vinot, who had days that great headlines proclaim- never been in an aeroplane, made ed this "terrible crime" on the part, a parachute jump, landing suc-of the Jews. Numerous witnesses cessfully.
stated that five of the offenders
London, Nov. 4: The body of the missing boy has been found on a river bank.
It is supposed that he was drowned while attempting to cross the river. ""Times of Ceylon."
He stated that he was untrain- were not near the scene of the in- ed, but had attended several per- cident; but these men are still in formances of a film, in which the custody. hero dived from an aeroplane.
London, Oct. 29. The Shiats at Karbala have sent Sir Malcolm Macnaughten, K.C., a deputation to Bagdad to protest on behalf of Sir William Haynes to the Acting High Commissioner Smith, a member of the Church of Press in future, let us hope, dis- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward L. England, has applied to the King's Bench for a writ prohibiting the Ellington. creetly veil all, partisanship and
Yasin Fasha resigned, following Legislative Committee of the As- human passion by denominating this "Affaire Hoops"-although an interview with the Acting High sembly of the Church of England candidly speaking we do not quite Commissioner, who, it is under from proceeding with the revised Imow why the unfortunate P.C.M.C. stood, suggested that the Cabinet's Prayer Book measure, because the Committee acted in excess of the has apparently been singled out for decision should be reconsidered.
Rashid All Gilani, Minister of the jurisdiction vested in them by prominence in this matter since he is only the mouthpiece of a Board. Interior, has been appointed Acting Parliament.
to be argued on During the past twenty-five yeara Premier but the fall of the Cabinet. The case is or so our memory seems to be that is expected in the next few days. Penang could always turn to one of three grievances, the Hills Railway, the Hospital and Weld, Quay. In- tomperate denunciations of Gov- ernment policy have polluted the atmosphere of the Chamber at times as to all three, but we admit, with conviction, that the spoken word is very different from the printed one in which connection perhaps we may be pardoned a story. A local Divine-long before Bishop Barnes' Beasts-decided to preach a series of up-to-date ser- mons upon modern difficulties and to answer questions thereon. This was safely accomplished in dus order, Approached one day to publish the sermons and his replies to questions for the benefit of those who had not been able to attend, he looked up from his study table and said with a distinct twinkle in his eye, "I hardly think it desirable- litera scripta manet."
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In a 60TLS0 this applies as between the spoken and the printed criticism, and so we are quite ready to accept His Excellency's mild re- proof and to refrain from any "scandal" clichés. After all in Singapore we are used to such discrimination in language, for was it not by official request that all really well conducted ... newspapers referred to the outbreak of the 5th. Light Infantry not as a Mutiny- harsh word---but AB an émeute felicitous thought. — “Singapore Free Press
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