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TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1928.
Mr. H. E. Somerville, of Mans- An unemployed Chinese, charged GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
Mansfield & Co., Penang, who went feld and Company, has left Penang in connection with an armed rob to Singapore on a business. visit,| for Hua Hin, Bangkok, on a holl-bery, was sentenced to death by returned by the "Patroclus."!!
*@Dr. William_Fletcher spoke be- fore the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Recent Work on Some Malayan Fevers on December 8.DAN
It is reported that the American Finance & Credit Corporation of Harbin, a banking concern for Russians, contemplatca opening an office in Shanghai.
day.
Judge Li in the Provisional Court.
Hoklos who raided a junk off The "Osaka Mainichi". Is sponsor Sam Chung Island on January 11 for the statement that Comrade got away with a haul valued at Alexander Tréyanovsky has been $8,778.
appointed Sovlet Ambassador to Јарап.
Mr. W. N. Edwards, of the F.M.S. Police, who has just returned from furlough, has been posted to Ipoh for duty. ^
New York. The marriage is an- nounced of Mrs. Rachel Littleton Wilmington (Delaware), Satur-Vanderbilt, formerly Mea. Corne- day. The death is announced of lius Vanderbilt junior and Mr. the millionaire, William Dupont, Jasper Morgan, nephew of Mr. J. brother of ex-Senator Dupont.—| P. Morgan.. Reuter's American Service.
Calcutta. Ten thousand The new Soviet Ambassador la workers have gone on strike at! reported to have mado a clean the workshops of the East Indian aweep of all French Communists Railway at Lilus, Bengal, owing to employed on the Embassy staff, dissatisfaction regarding wages, substituting Russlans-Reuter. aggravated by friction between the
workers and the authorities.
Now York, Saturday-The death has occurred of Major-General| Goethals, the Chief Engineer con- cerned with the construction of the Panama Canal-Reuter's American Service.
Captain J. C. MacLeod, late of the Straits Steamship Co., has been appointed to a Government post in the Harbour Master's Department at Penang, says a Penang paper.| He takes over his new duties this month.
The engagement is announced of Frank Harold Neame, of High-] lands estate, Kiang, only ach dif Mr. and Mrs. Harold Neame of Chipstead, Surrey, to Marjoric,! youngest daughter of Mr. and Mra.] Athys, of London.
According to the vernacular press the Shanghai merchants have requested the Government to repay $100,000, which was "borrowed" from them by Gen Yang Hu when he was Commisaloner of Gendar-: merie in Shanghai.
The Nanking Military Council has officially appointed Gen. Hsiung Hal-hui, associate com mander of the 13th army corps, acting Garrison Commissioner of Shanghai and Wooaung. It is ex- pected that Gen. Hsiung will as sume office within a few days.
HENRY KILLERMASKINEN
Mabel Vernon, national executive secretary of the Woman's Party, who recently arrived in Washing- ton to take charge of the work at the national headquarters for the equal rights amendment. She has just recently returned from Paris, where she assisted French women in their fight for equal rights.
The "Sinwanpao" reports that track walkera beyond Sungkiang fonid a mine under Bridge 81. Sentries are guarding all the larger bridges in the vicinity.
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The Nanking Government is ro- ported to have raised $200,000 for the payment of interest on the bonds which recently wero Issued with the special 21⁄2 per cent, Cus- toms surtax as security.
Mr. Hugh Noel Davis of Win- chester College, son of Dr. Noel Davis, Commissioner of Public Health, Shanghal, has been clected to the War Memorial Medical Scholarship at University College, Oxford.
The Shanghai Chinese police have arrested a man, believed to be the leader of a well-known gang of -counterfeiters. In his room were found some 35,000 counter- feit notes on different banks, says the Chinese press.
An unemployed Chinese, charged before. Judga Liang in the Provi- sional Court, with having snatched a handbag containing 142 from a Miss Schulz in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.
According to the Chinese Preas, Sir. Miles Lampson, H. M. Minister to Peking, has arrived at Harbin with Lady Lampson and their doughter, who have left for Home via Siberia. Sir Miles is returning to Peking in a few days,
According to the Russian preas, the Bureau of Foreign Affairs has announced that the certificates of registration for those Soviet citizens who made application for them dur- ing the period subsequent to the break in diplomatic relations, are now available.
Large quantities of silk pyjamas,
the
Passengers arriving оп the accks, dressing gowns, shirts, and Chief Inspector J. Donovan, "Khyber" included Mr. and Mrs. O.C.P.D., Tapab; who was admitted J. McCormack, Rev. A. H. and Mrs.ca were secured by thieves, who to the European Hospital, Batu Bray, Mr. and Mrs. Coom, Mr. and ransacked the shop of Messra. Colletts, Limited. hosiers, in Gajah, suffering from paralysis has Mrs. A. K. Taylor, Lleut, and Jermyn Street, W. An entry was made a slight recovery. Inspector Mrs. Illingworth, Lt. A V. Walker, apparently obtained through Bendle, of the Central Police Sta- Lt.-Comdr. Cublson, Dr. H. Agate fanlight over the door. tion, Ipoh is acting for him at pre-Lt-Comdr. Ward Smith, Lt.-Comdr. Bent, says the ""Times of Malaya."
Mackenzie, Lt. Cooper, Sub. Lts. Gaisford, Abram,. Lloyd, Martelli, Mr. Tai Tien-chou, former Min- Local cinema-goers will be in- Nowell, Remington, Rowe, Mr. T. Jister of Industries, who is a son-in- terested to learn that the manage- Gibson, Mr. D., A. Murphy, Rev. P. law of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, in ment of the Tivoli Theatre in Lon-
Kennelley...
soon to leave for Europe and don have decided to acceda to in-
America for the purpose of collect- numerable requests to revive
Mr. W. R. Boyd, of the Malayan ing funds from Chinese residents "Ben-Hur"This magnificent film Civil Service, who has been spend- for the Chung-ahan University, of is to be screened in Hong Kong ing most of his leave in Belfast, which he has been appointed pre- next week, starting on
will be returning to London this sideat. Monday, January 80.
month, where he will remain un-
his return to the F.M.S. Mr. According to the Chinese news- In view of the steadily increas- and Mrs. A. S. Bailey are now stay- ing price of rice, due, it is claiming at the Waratah Hotel, Falace papers, a gang of armed men, fail- ed, to the military seizing rice Gate, W. Mr. E. C. Locke, of Nova ing to make a wealthy Chinese re- also arrived in London, which will $10,000, fired a number of shots Scotia estate, Teluk Anson. has aldent of Zaukadoo "lend" them be his headquarters during his near his house to frighten him. leave. Mr. .. H. Shelford, of Messra. Paterson, Simora and Co., police, who ran up
These attracted the attention of the f
as the mis- has left for Switzerland, with his creants escaped in the darkness. family, and his niece, a daughter of Mr. R. N. Bland, C.M.G. for the Winter Sports-M.M. London cor- respondent.
boats, the Shanghai Rics Guild has sent a lengthy petition to Nanking praying for an order that not only should this be stopped but that -vessola already ́commandeerod
should be restored forthwith.
Mr. Tu Yuch-sung, a well-known Shanghai merchant of the French Conceвalon, who is chairman of the Chinese Ratepayers". Associa tion and the Commercial Federa- tion of the Settlement, has tender ed his resignaion to the French Consul-General as Chinese member of the Provisional Municipal Com- mission.
The Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers have awarded to Professor Fleming the Farsday Medal for conspicuous service to the advancement of electrical acfence. Professor Fleming is well-known as the inventor of the first wireless valve, and has played of the French Concession presented a notable part in the development
A pleasing ceremony took place at the French, Consulato-General at Shanghai, when members of the Chinese Association of Ratepayers
a beautifully inscribed screen to of the great applications of elec- M. E. Naggiar, the retiring French trical science. Consul-General. The presentation. was made by Messrs, Chang Siau- Major General A. E. Wardrop. ling, Tu Yueh-sung and Wong
The "Times of Malaya" learns who is going to Shanghai to re- Ching-yung, the first named mak- on good authority that Mr. V. G. Hove Major General Sir John Dun- ing a short speech in which he ex- Ezechiel, First Magistrale, Ipoh, is can, arrived in the Colony over tolled the virtues of M. Naggiar and shortly to be transferred to the the week-end from Home by the regretted his departure from Federal Capital, where he will act | P. & Q. · 8.8. "Khyber."; Major Shanghal; the Chinese people join for Mr. G. P. Bradney as Auditor- General Wardrop has had a dis- ed together in congratulating the General when the latter goes Home tinguished career in the Army. He new Minister on his well deserved on leave in the middle of April. served throughout the European promotion. M. Nagglar, replying, Mr. Ezechiel will probably leave war and recolved many decorations thanked the Association for their Ipoh early in March and will act besides being mentioned nine times gift and assured them that ho as Assistant Auditor-General until in despatches. He is a C. B. and would continue to exert his efforts Mr. Bradney's departure. It not C.M.G., and has been G.O.C. of the to preserve the traditional, rela-yet known who will succeed Mr. Lahore district, India, since 1923. tions beween the two peoples. Ezechiel In Ipoh:
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