MONDAY, JULY 23, 1928.
S'HAI'S MOTORISTS.
EXTORTION OF MONEY
. FROM OWNERS,
WILD MEETING.
STUDENT SUPPORTERS of VIVISECTION.
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EJECTED BY POLICE.
RUBBER YIELD.
A SCIENTISTS CLAIM: GOO POUNDS PER ACRE,
NURSERY SELECTION,
one
THE CHINA MAIL,
good yielders can be detected when they are no more than six months
ald.
numerous practical contributions to the solution of rubber planting problems, and South Indian plan ters are particularly indebted to him for his success. in combating the "Phytophthorn" leaf disease of rubber. This leaf disease, which threatened at one time to put an
In discovering the means
of the same area."
INDIAN “SUTTEE.”
5,000 WATCH WIDOW BURN.
This suggestion was definitely treated, and one of the accused horse vehicle) with the woman, drove away on an "ekka" (a ene
"The question which, at once arisea is has Mr. Ashplant's theory. been subjected to practical testa? The great practical value of this If it has it stands to reason that discovery will be apparent to all his investigations must have ex- LADY'S EXPERIENCE.
Interested in rubber. For the first tended over a period of at least time it will be possible to carry out seven years for It takes from six
ABETTORS SENTENCED, Another case of unreasonable There were uproarious scenes al A discovery which, If substantiat- Field selection in the nursery. All to seven years for trees to reach a demands for money on the part of Caxton Hall, Westminster, during ed, will be of revolutionary Import "duds" can be got rid of before tapping stage which would give
Allahabad. A remarkable casal Chinese authorities from a for- meeting huld under the auspicos fance to the plantation rubber in- transplantation and estates ex-sufficiently accurate information as
of "auttee" came before the justices | eigner whose motor car was held fof the British Union for the dustry is announced by the "Mar-lusively planted un with good to yield. How, then, has Mr. Ash- of the Patna High Court, who re- up for not having a Chinese Abolition of Vivisection.
dras Mail," which states that a yielders. It is estimated that the plant managed to keep his experi- jected the appeals of the ten men licence occurred a few days ago, Twelve young men, said to be research scientist employed by the application of Mr. Ashplant's test ments so sceret for so prolonged a
sentenced by the Sessions Judge of at the entrance to Sicchwei Con-medlent students. were ejected by United Planters Association of will raise the productivity of future period?"
Patna to terms of imprisonment vent at the junction of, Avenue the police, who had to be called by South India has devised means plantings by from two to two-and- Haig, Route de Zikawei and the promoters of the meeting.
INTEREST IN IPOH
varying from one to ten years for whereby good and bad yielders can
half times. In South India, where
abetting suicide and unlawful ns. Avenue Petain, says the "N. C. The ball was packed, the audience be detected in the nursery, thus yields at present work out at about
An Ipoh correspondent.writes:sembly. Originally there were six- Daily News" to hand.
including a band of about 100 atu-enabling the yield per acre to be 300 lbs. per acre, 600 to 750 lbs.
It is claimed that this is the most teen accused men, but the Sessions! The foreigner in question, an dents. The opening remarks of the very greatly increased. The article can be looked for.
Important scientifle discovery with Judge acquitted six of them. American lady well known in the Earl of Tankerville, the chairman, is as follows:-
The discovery reported is likely regard to rubber yet made, putting Joen community, had paid a visit were drowned in the chorus of "The
The prosecution story was that a It is well-known to rubber 'pro-
to lead to as great on improvement Into the shade the lauded progress young Brahmin woman. from the to Siccnwei Convent as she fre- Frothblowers Anthem," and after ducers that Para rubber treas differ in rubber yields as was expected of the Dutch, Mr. Asl.plant aaya: Barh sub-division of the Patna dis quently did for the purpose of several attempts to make himself enormously in their
"In addition to clearing up from the more troublesome and yielding ordering some of the linens and heard, the chairman gave place to qualities,
the triet accompanied the body of her While a few trees on
tess certain method of "budding" mystery of yield I have succeeded husband to a burning "ghat" on the needle-work for which the con- Mr. W. Brown, but the inerruptions every plantation yield from six to vent is famed. Her car as usual continued, bells being rung
which the Dutch, who have hitherto
of dis- banks of the Ganges, with the in- and twelve lb. or more
led the way in rubber research have tinguishing between patential poor tention of performing "suttee." pissent through the entrance to coloured paper streamers and paper majority yield unly between
per year, the
been bually pursuing. It advances and potential good yielders when On the way to the "ghat" a number | Siccawei where a Chinese police-darts thrown about the hall. and three b.
the industry in one bound to a stage the heven plants are still in the of policemen tried to persuade the man stood guard, as well as, on
The presence of so The police having been summon many poor and medium milkers, which, by the alternative method latex tube bores and yields and the woman to renounce the idea, and
nursery. From estimates of the the Route du Siccawei side, one e. some of the interruptern were amounting generally to 75 per cent. of "seed selection" would take thirty latex eclis it is possible to estimate the police inspector told the funeral or more French police. Nobody ejected. Women acreamed, and a of the total, sets questioned the car's right to en-bucket of water
a strict limit years to attain. was thrown from to the ter. But coming out, a short the gallery, drenching both police estates, the yield per
productivity of rubber
the increase in productivity attain-party that the woman would be de- Well-known in Rubber, World. Mr. Ashplant is niready well-able by the application of the new
tained at the police-station. time later, the car was stopped by and students. The interruptions only a third to one half of what is known in the rubber world by his method carried out with efficiency.
acre being the Chinese policeman who jump-continued, and other persona
Taken to Pyre. ed on the running board as they removed by the police.
were might be.
I calculate that with early selection. To all intenta and purposes, the were crossing the bridge at the
by means of bore measurements Miss Mary Odette, the actress, different classes of trees look alike
times the present yielding capacity I can give plants two and a half beginning of Avenue Haig. Talk-begun to give a recitation, but was Only when the trees are mature and ing through her chauffeur, the greeted with shouts and, bursting in tapping (by which time it is ton Toreign lady was able to ascertain into tears, she was unable to pru-late in change them) are the bad that lack of a Chinese licence was ceed. "Turn out the butchër boys," distinguishable from the trouble, and after she ex- shouted one plained to her chauffeur that she Hadwen," the interrupters called
woman. "We want trees.
Naturally regretted the fact, but that she, had never been stopped before
tinguishing them earlier, which India is now being kept under and did not realise a Chinese posed Dr. W. R. Hadwen, "that a terest all other rubber problems Ashplant's work.
disgraceful," inter-surpasses in importance and Ineffective control, thanks to Mr. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S LOVE licence was required, she then asked the chauffeur to
famous actress like Miss Mary has attracted many investigators. In view of the manner in which tell the Odette should be so treated by ao During the policeman she would pay the re-called gentlemen that she is unable scientists In
inst twelve years the coffee planting industry in quired fine.
every rubber country South India and Ceylon Was The sixtieth anniversary of the to recite further."
The constables called for rein- TO THE POLICE STATION.
have been endeavouring to lay virtually wiped out by an epidemic Duke of Connaught's entrance into forcements, and a party of police Mr. S. P. Viant. M.P., also bare the secrets of rubber yield. established over the equally menac when he received the congratula "ghat." They again tried to dis As the lady had no desire to be protested. ·
the rapid control the army was celebrated yesterday, with the inspector proceeded to the taken to a Chinese police station
So inaccessible to study however, Dr. Hadwen having offered to is the latex producing mechanism ng and even more formibable leaf tions of the Army Council at Clar suade the woman from the "suttee," she tried to clear the matter up give one of the students a chance of the rubber tree, that little disease of rubber stands out as a on the spot. This, however, was to state his case from the platform progress has been made.
ence House, conveyed by Sir but failed in the attempt. The ae- meritorious achievement. not the policeman's intention, and later, was given a somewhat better dificulties with which such studies Ashplant, therefore,
Mr. Laming Worthington-Evans, who cused men threatened the police, he pointed down Avenue. Haig hearing. He was frequently inter-are beset may be gathered from the viuble distinction of having solved affection and admiration of all bered 5,000, the police inspector. now has en- said that the Duke had "won the and as the crowd by this time num- and told the chauffeur that the rupted, however, white, criticising fact that some of the earlier work both the greatest local and the car and its occupants would have the theories of Dr. Voroff. The ers in this field have practically greatest general problem in the to come with him.
The Duke in reply, dwelt on the Seeing two interrupters imitated the barking of abandoned the investigation believ-plantation rubber industry. French marines down the road to-dogs and the jabbering of monkeys.ing that a rational explanation of
changes and Improvement in the wards Sicenwei Convent, the Indy Dr. Hadwen retorted that the young yield differences is beyond present
COLOMBO COMMENT.
Army during 60 years, and conclud- attempted to drive back to the men had not yet cut their wisdom resources.
"Visions of estates yielding 600ed by saying: "My affection and Convent to ask their help, but the teeth and knew nothing at all about MR. ASHPLANT'S DISCOVERY.
or 750 or even 900 lb. of dry rubber respect for the Army, and for all prescribed Chinese policeman summarily put the matter under discussion...
per acre are conjured up by this an-that it stands for was never higher, and a stop to this and ordered the
We have the best authority for nouncement," remarks the "Ceylon No country ought to have a greater chauffeur to drive as he directed, interrupters were invited to go on has baffled all other investigators, would revolutionise the plantation
AL question-time two of the stating that this problem, which Observer." That such a discovery pride in it than ourselves." There were no French police in the platform. They accepted, and a has now been solved by a Jocul Industry is obvious and that it sight along any of the roads, and lively debate there was no choice but to go with took place between them and
m artificial respira-scientist. the policeman who stood on the Dr. Hadwen
would put bud-grafting, and even Mr. Herbert Ashplant, A.R.C.S., seed selection, in the shade is more raming board of the car and took[
the robber specialist of the United than likely. All the work of Plaster's Association of South India selection would be done in the has succeeded after prolonged re- nurseries and new clearings would search not only in completely clear-be planted only with rubber trees ing up the mystery of rubber yield; each capable of giving, at maturity, he has devised means whereby from 6 to 12 lb. of dry rubber per
annum."*
out.
"It is very
it down Avenue Haig. As he gave cheers for the police,
The meeting concluded with
the order to turn into a narrow
Chinese lanC
near the village
along Avenue Haig, the indy told
her chauffeur to inquire why they,
INTEREST!
the good
Experts have since stated that the discovery is "nothing new"
When the inspector ordered the "ekka" to be stopped the woman's relatives gaid that they would take her to the village. Two constables.
the problem of dis-and to rubber planting in South 60 YEARS A SOLDIER. | who were detailed to accompany
The
had to leave the municipal ronds, 1195,000 SOUGHT FOR LOAN OF rubber plants that will grow into
as they had no Chinese licence.
The question was dismissed by
the policeman who insisted-fur-
1. 138,
The mansiff of Chandpur has just ther that it would be necessary decided a mortgage suit brought by for the lady-owner of the car to a money lender against a debtor, come too. A large crowd of spec-claiming Ra. 26,00.700 as principal) tators meantime was collecting and Interest duo on a sum of Rs. 22 and adding to the general obadvanced as a loan 13 years ago. struction in the marrow roadway. Finally, they arrived at
The plaintif in the suit is Adhar very Chandra Sahn, of village Barkul dirty, small police-station where (1)ujiguni) within Chandpur, and the policoman in charge told the the defendant is
a man named i
lady she would be required to Nazaruddin. It was alleged in the pay St for her release. As she had only $10, she asked permisant that the defendant obtained sion to sign a cheque, but this loan of Rs. 22 in May, 1915, exe was refusel. Then she askeduling a mortgage bond repayable leave to drive a short distance in with interest at 10 per cent. per the French Concession to get the messem with compound interest additional $4, the police officer to every half year. In January 1923 come with her if there were any the interest due was Rs. 26,00,048. doubt in the matter. This re- The plaintiff agreed to relinquish quest too was denied with un-his claim for the interest to the ex hecessary rudeness. The lady tent of Rs. 25.99,347 and asked for. is told she could walk to the decree for Rs. 600 only. place and bring back the money if she wanted her car.
The parties compromised the case and a decree for Rs. 431 was passed
in favour of the plaintiff.
the
THE RANSOM INCREASES. She thereupon started out,) found a riesha and went as far as
LE TOUQUET CRIME. Avenue Joffre to get the money. When she returned with it, and
Detectives Investigating resented it to the officer he murder of Mrs. Florence Wilson are hrew it on the ground and said reported to have abandoned the he amount he had specified was "clue" of the blonde cvelist, who) 40. The lady had taken every is now believed to be a myth. recaution before she left to make) Two detectives from the Surete) ure that $14 were the amount de- Generale in Paris, MM. Garanger iandesi. It was thereupon ne-and Loyere, visited the scene of the ssary for her to make a return crime at Le Touquet to take up the ip to the place from which she inquiry from the start again.
id borrowed the money the first
me in order to get the remain American who had a similar ex- She had on the first tripperience and was forced to pay lephoned to Mr. Edwin S. Cun-$50 before he could be released ogham, American Consul-with bis car, meral, asking what should be
As no notice had ne in the circunstances and he appeared either in Chinese or French explaining what the lady
d advised her to pay the $14 in believes to be a new regulation, the only conclusion to be drawn,
Jer to effect the car's release.
When she finally handed over by those who have had this kind: $40, she demanded a receipt of an experience is that the Chin- it, and the police officer told
ese authorities regard foreign
r to wait inside a small dirty motor ears as excellent prey.
18.
It
ma in which there were two is pointed out that the cars are incse prisoners behind bars.allowed to pass through to Sicca-
had been gone half an hour en the telephone in the room wel without question and are ere the lady was waiting caught for purposes of extortion
The policeman came back | on the way, back. Answer and after a long con- thought to be of very recent The regulation, however, is not sation in Chinese, which the standing as the writer remembers had reason afterwards to having had occasion some months eve was between a representa Lack to go to Siccawel Observa-
of the Foreign Office and captor, the receipt was hand. tory in a hired car. The chauf over with the same display of said he was unable to proceed Feur stopped at the entrance and temper which had character-further as he did not have a the whole affair.
Chinese licence. The unwary ALSO UNFORTUNATE.
however, are anxiously awaited, ince her own mishap the lady apparently, by the guardians of uestion has heard of one other trafle at the entrance.
leaf disease,
soldiers."
FOR THE ARMY.
London, June 27.
The death occurred on July 13, at the age of 43 of Mr. Lim Swee Bock, was a well-known amateur netor among the Straits-born Chinese of Singapore. He was a; director Musical Association and had been of the United Chinese prominently connected with its work on behalf of charity. He appeared in over fifty theatrical productions.
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Folksong and Handicraft Festival is to be half in's Hore, they find a blue sky wide enough for all Winnipez, June 19-23 of this year, and will present comer; a sweep-of pregnant prairie where men ofla wealth of interest.
the vehicle found the story of the taking of the woman to the village to be a hoax, and in spite of re- monstrances she was taken to the, pyre,
found the situation out of control, and considered it inadvisable to arrest the woman.
She, bathed 'in' the
the articles
using
then
Ganges,
of tollet for the "auttee."
her husband's funeral pyre, taking scated herself оп
his body in her arms, Her clothes burst into flames, while, the crowd, believing that a miracle had taken place, raised a shout of "Sutted Kijai" (Glory to suttee), and threw firewood on the woman.
Jump Into River. and evidently in extreme agony she When the woman was badly burnt plunged into the Ganges, on the brink of which the pyre was built, dragging the body with her. Two constables who tried to rescue her were thwarted by the crowd, but eventually the widow came out of the water and was taken to hospital, where she afterwards died.
The Sessions Judge said that there was a mass of evidence to show that the accused acclaimed| the woman's intention as Divine, that they instructed her in the cere montes required of "suttee," and overowed the police by violence and by enlisting the sympathics of the crowd.
GEORGE'S TWO PINTS.
BEEK CURE FOR MOODY MANDRILL.
Spring has always a depressing effect upon George, the mandrill at the London Zoo. This year, instead of recovering his spirits, he has grown more and more miserable. Visitors who take an interest in him have tried their best to cheer him up by means of sympathetic conver- sation and gifts of tempting food, but though grateful for these at- tentious George still mopes.
There is, however, a chance that he may soon take a brighter view of things. It was suggested that mandrills needed beer, and George now has two pints a day. The treat- ment was started several days ago, and George was duly presented with a quart of beer, He sniffed at it suspiciously and then drank, and since he left no heel taps and was careful not to spill one drop. George has evidently no teetotal objections to an alcoholic "tonte."
But he did find that two pints was too much at once, for after a sleep he showed symptoms of a "hend," so in futuro he will be more moder- ate and have one pint in the morn- ing and the second at night.
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