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VITAL STATISTICS.
HIGHEST DEATH RATE FOR EIGHT YEARS.
IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
LIGHT ON MARS.
SURFACE CHANGES IN TWO YEARS.
OLD D.O.R.A.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE STOCKS FOR KISSING
HIS WIFE.
THE "POLAR CAPS"
OLD "BLUE" LAWS.
The number of births registered
Some of the most remarkable ob- New light is thrown on the as- In the Straits Settlements during servations of the planets which have tonishing old "blue" lows, enacted the year was 37,233 and the num-ever been made were described to by the Furitans to enact a decorous ber of deaths 35,504, records the the Royal Astronomical Society by observance of the Sabbath, by the 1927 report on the Colony. The Dr. W. H. Wright, of the Lick Ob-discovery at Portland, Maine, of driest months during 1927 were servatory, California, in delivering records of fines and penalties in from June to September, when the the annual George Darwin lecture. posed in New England." drought was responsible for a large The method which has been used is number of deaths from malaria, to photograph the planets in light of
The percentage of males bors different colours by the suitable use the was 51.3. The highest birth-rate of colour filters, and to compure the by nationalities was 58.28 per thou-results. Band, amongst Chinese.
pneumonia and among infants.
1925.
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Some of these seventeenth cen- tury punishments would put even twentieth century London "Dora" to shame.
INDIAN PRINCE,
RICH MAN WHO COULD NOT BRING HIS JEWELS.
IN LONDON,
The Maharajah of Patiala, who has just arrived in England, is one of the richest men in India.
He is never seen in the magnifle- ence of his wonderful jewels in this country, however, for they are hereditary jewels, the possession of the State, and only leave it occn- tends a vice-regal function at Delhi, sionally when the Maharajah at-
"Of them all," said n Stute official A soldier in the town of Duns-to an "Evening News" correspon table, for example, wet a plece of dent, "the most historic is the
Laual diamond,
which was named an old felt hat and put it in his boot after its owner, who swallowed it in order to case his foot.
before he was killed at the time of His neighbour saw and reported the French Revolution. The stone
"Lewd Behaviour."
"It was bought from the French Republic by the Maharajah's great- grandfather.
MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928,
|DUTCH· EAST INDIES. HIGHLAND ‘BATTLE,'
BILL DEALING WITH CHANGES OF CONSTITUTION,
IN PARLIAMENT.
A Bill has been laid before Par- liament providing for the amend- ment of the Constitution of the 'Dutch East Indies.
In its present form the Volks- rand consists of a Fresident, appointed by the Government, and 60 members, of whom 30 are bers of the Chinese and other Dutch, 25 natives, and five-men-
groups. The Government now proposes to change these propor tions to 25 Dutch, 30 natives, and five other members, the President being appointed as hitherto by the Government. It is intended that 15, 20 and three members re- spectively of the three groups shall be elected, and the remain- der appointed by the Government.
TROOPS LANDED FROM WARSHIPS.
BEACH LANDING.
GARDEN PARTY.
POLO AT RANELAGH FO
PRINCES CUP.
2,000 PRESENT.
H.M.S. "Hood,” June 12.
London, June. In accordance with the plan of At Ranelagh, the Indian Em Landing 550 Cameron Highlandersgarden party was held in per and 800 Royal Marinea near Nairn, weather. There were 2,000 di the battle-crulacra "Hood," Ren-guished persons present inclu own," and "Repulse" arrived at the King and Queen, Dornoch Firth at 9.30 last night. Maharajahs of Burdwan, Kasl A proportion of the troops were and Baroda and the Nawabs the ships proceeded to an anchorage transferred to destroyers and all. of Palanpur and Cambay, Earli
Countess of Birkenhead and off Nairn, arriving at. 1,40 · a.m.
Reading. to-day.
After a feint attack by destroyers the troops landed on an open beach in ships' boats in face of opposition by the 2nd Battalion, The Black watch and the 6th (Territorial) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders. The first lot landed at 2.30, the last
The landing
By such means it has bean de The infantile mortality (deaths monstrated, among other things, of children under one year) was that Mars has an atmosphere whose 214.14 per thousand births height may be given tentatively as
18 against 205.47 in 1926 and 184.62 In about 120 miles, in which meteoro- this place of "heavy work" per-was buried with him, but his family logical changes take place similar to formed on the Lord's Day, and the knowing that Lausi, would never The crude death-rate, 33.55 per those of the Earth. The method is offender, the town records show, have allowed the jewel to be taken thousand as against 31.81, was the capable, on further development, of was compelled to pay a fine of forty from him, disinterred, the body and highest since 1918. The averagofgiving much more important evid-Įshillings for the offence.
recovered the jewel. for the last ten years is 32.01.fence on the much-discussed ques The death-rate for 1925, 27.26 perition of the habitability of Mars than |
A man who drove cowa "without thousand, was the lowest on re-lany yet obtained.
{nced" on the Sabbath in Plymouth, eurd.
Photographs of the planet in Massachusetts, was given a seatin "The Maharajah wears English responsible for ultra-violet and in red light differ the stocks, and a New London dress while in this country, except .296 deaths as against. 6,482 in greatly in appearance, chiefly in the fisherman was fined merely for anl.when he goes to Court. In defer- 1928, while fever unclassified ac-fact that the latter show much more ing his boat. counted for 1,983 deaths as against detail than the former,
ence to the King's wish he will then 2.GG2 in the previous year.
Then there
Captain wear Indian Court dress a long waa The planation is readily obtained by Kemble, who, in 1856, so far for cont, either black or coloured, and device of malaria was due to photographing distant landscapes got himself as to indulge in lewd tight white trousers with patent deficient rainfall, which left many on the Earth in the respective co-and unseemly behaviour." anopheline breeding grounds us-tours. It is then seen that e
The Maharajah always wears a This consisted of kissing his wife flushed, enabling the larvae taimilar effect is obtained, because publicquely" on the Sabbath on turban, even with English dress, faction among the native popula- ty to be successful in war as the
Malaria
come to maturity,
The ex-
shoes.
The polo match for a cup aunted by the Indian Princes sulted in the Artillery benting dia by 19 goals to 5.
The teams were:-- Artillery Regimental teari Fowler, Captains H. Morrison Campbell and C. Alfrey (back India: H. Weber, J. Sandes Captain Broadfoot and Majon Anderson (back).
There were Bix chukkers. the interval the Artillery " leading by 5 goals to 3. The gun- ners were well mounted and show- ed fine team work. Fowler was brilliant and scored 8 goals, while Sunderaon scored 3.
MALAYAN SOIL.
SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION NOW BEGUN.
Jot, at 4. The weather was fine and Existing Difficulties.
the sen esim, but very cold. There In an explanatory memoran- was a ground frost and snow on the dum the Government states that distant mountains. the changes in the composition of cannot have bean a surprise for it the Volksraad introduced by the
was twilight all night and the ships amendments which the Second
were silhouetted against a yellow Chamber made to the Govern glow to northward during their ap ment's proposals of 1923 had proach. Naval beach parties as caused difficulties, if only in.resisted for the landing and for obser gard to the appointment of mem- vation of the ships gunfire, tem- bers. The Government regarded porary wireless stations being as even more serious the fact that established. Aeroplanes from the the composition introduced by the "Furious" were used for bombing. amendment had caused dissatis- The Innding was not considered like- The highest death-rate in any sur atmosphere is much more trans- the doorstep of his own house when because, being a Sikh, his hair is tion. It was just those sections boats were in full view, long be- month was 36.67 in July. With the parent to red than to violet and he returned from a three years' voy-would not be so comfortable.
long and knotted on top and a hat of the population that were pre- fore the beach was reached, and
pared to collaborate with the grounded some way out. advent of the rains in September ultra-violet; in other words, we can age.
It afford Good Linguist.
Government which were dised however, an excellent example of the death-rate dropped to 32.32 and penetrate much more deeply by red He was ordered to sit in the "The Maharajah speaks good appointed. Dutchmen in the successful staff work, a most use- then to 30.04 in the last two months than by ultra-violet light.
stocks for two hours for this English. All the In the case of the planets, the dif- offence.
debates in the Volksraad expressed a similar of the year.
ful and interesting experience for Chamber of Princes-of which he is opinion, and the Minister identi-
all concerned, and Two thousand nine hundred and ference between the two photo-
a particularly fifty-two deaths were due to tuber-graphs can therefore be attributed records that even Puritan women ligh. Like
It is interesting to learn from the Chancellor are conducted in Ehgfied himself with the objejctions
welcome opportunity for Naval the other Indian raised in the Dutch East Indies. culosis as against 2.690 in the pre- to the existence of planetary at-were sometimes human enough to princes, he is highly educated, and, Although the amended plan for
and Army co-operation. The opera Pneumonin caused mospheres. That the effect is more lose their tempers.
tions concluded at 6 am, and the 2.000 deaths as against 2,568 in than can be accounted for by our
so far as his responsibilities per- the composition of the Volksraad
naval parties embarked. 1926. Only 198 deaths were re-own atmosphere is shown by repeat-
mit, lives the life of a country ken- could not come into force until It is recorded, for example, that tleman at Patiala. He has several 1981, the Minister hold it to be corded as due to influenza. Beri-ing the observations on the moon, Goody Gregory, who lived in Spring-country houses and is beri accounted for 1,531 deaths as which has no atmosphere of its own. (field, Massachusetts, in 1640, be shot."
a famous necessary to meet those object- tions at once. For the present against 1,098, 957 and 904 in the It is then found that the difference (came so annoyed by a neighbour's
the Minister is not years 1926, 1925 and 1924. Dysen-between the photographs is very taunts that she finally retorted, "Be- England in simple fashion on this pared to concede to the wish
The Maharajah is coming to
pre-
tery caused 1,111 deaths,
much smaller than that which char-fore God, I could breake thy heade!" visit, which is chiefly for the basi-expressed in a motion of the MUNICIPAL BUILDING SCHEMES throughout the Empire, culture There were 28 deaths from small-acterises the planetary photo- pox, 14 duatha
Mistress Gregory acknowledged ness of stating the case of the Volksraad for an extension of the. deaths from plague and 14 deaths red light shows the surface of the trial which followed, but this did princes, before the Indian States from cholera, 31 graphs. The conclusion is that the her "great sine and faulte at the Indian State rulers, with eight other from cerebro-spinal fever, exclud-planet, whereas the ultra-violet not save her from a substantial fine Enquiry Committee. He is accom- ing deaths in maritime quarantine light shows its atmosphere, ainee and a session in the stocks. ́* stutions.
rious year.
Quarantine Work.
ultra-violet light from the surface would be absorbed before reach- ing the Earth.
Partly Atmosphèric.
I
"Sin". Acknowledged.
STRANGE PARTY.
FLYING ACE ENTERTAINS FORMER ENEMIES.
·
number of members.
The Government further pro- members of the Council of the poses to increase the number of panied only by a military secretary Dutch East Indies from five to and two A.D.C...
Mr. Rashbrook Williams, his For- seven in order to renter possible eign Minister, a well-known British the inclusion of non-Dutchmen in literary man, preceded him to Lon-that body also. don. The Maharanee, who is com-
ing a little later to England, will
bring a lady-in-waiting and a maid.
On his last visit in 1926 the Maharajak had a suite of nine
One thousand five hundred and sixty-eight visits were paid to ships in Singapore and 998 visits to ships in Penang, by Port Health
Mary has two "polar caps," which Officers, who examined 1,010,249 have been held to be formed of persons. One hundred and nine snow, and for the distribution of thousand and eighteen pornons which over the planet the so-called were retained under observations canals have been said, by advocatea dinner in London recently to eight people and occupied twelve rooma st in the twe quarantine stations, of the habitation theory, to have famous German airman, including the Savoy Hotel
cholera and 11 for small-pox.
on anti-mosquito and anti-malarial trial clouds.
Dr. Wright is not
•
Colonel Bishop, V.C., gave a
The Maharajah has 15 European
BENGAL DETENUS.
BRITISH LABOUR PARTY'S REPRESENTATIONS:
COLOMBO RENTS.
SUGGESTED.
the delay in tackling the housing The serious situation created by problem in Colombo was raised in the City Council recently, and the Council decided to refer the ques tion to the Housing and Town In provement Committee for consi deration of, and to report on, a possible solution of the problem on the following lines:—
(a) The formulation of a scherze for building tenements and small -houses by the Municipality with the help of Government on suit. able unbuilt on areas available at
present.
Bombay, July 5. Government's lenient policy to- wards the political detenias is indicated by the reported i tention
(b) The Municipal Council to to release two Bengal dctenus.
house its own labour, as Govern- It is understood that Ganeshment proposes to do, and, if pos Ghash and Protul Bhattacharya sible, to compel other employers of two of the eight detenus in Bareilly large labour forces to do likewise, (c) The Housing Ordinance to
transferred
Central Prison, were
the Bengal Government, to the Alipore Central Gaol.
Both of the deteaus were arrest
In addition to the work on padi soils, a thorough study of Malayan soils in general has been begun, says the Colonial Secretary (Sir Hayna Marriott), in his 1927 re port. No systematic investigations of soil problems in Malaya, or in- deed in the majority of tropical countries, have hitherto been car- ried out. Reliable Information con- cerning soils in the tropfes, com- parable with that available in res pect of soils in temperate coun- tries, is now generally regarded as of primary importance to the deve lopment of tropical agriculture pecially because it is as yet very uncertain to what extent know-
countries will apply under trofpeal ledge of soils gained in temperate. conditions. The first necessity ap peared to be to establish what soll types-exist im Malaya and what relation these types bear to the underlying parent material. A satisfactory commencement been made in the study of this pro- blem.
GRUESOME FIND.
has
CREEPY SPECTACEE FOR STRAND STROLLERS.
London, July 9. Parts of a human skull and jawbone and dozens of fragments of leg and arm bones, strewn about the rubble thrown up by warkmon, pro- vided a creepy spectacle for week- ing those rules and regulations They proved to be the remains un- which now hamper building. aarthed during the cutting of a,
(d) Government to be requested trench close to St. Clement Dane's ed four years ago, when Protul was to grant facilities to employers in Church which now standa on 'z a law student, and Ghash, a stu- Colombo who reside in the suburbs,
narrow island site in the centre of dent at the Bengal Technical In- (e) The desirability of imposing the thoroughfare. The church had stitute. The former had a long some sort of Rent Control, pend- an extensive churchyard attached to conversation with Lord Irwin reing the materialisation of one or it until 1905, when pait of it was cently.
more of the above schemes.
Required for street Improvements. It is believed in well-informed () The taxation of undeveloped . Complete skeletons were unearth- circles that this move by the Bengal land on its capital value so that ed last month, when cutting for Government at this stage has some it may be an indirect means of cables was being carried out near connection with the British Parlia- bringing pressure on land-owners | St. Margaret's Church, Westmins- mentary Labour Party'a deputation to erect building on such undeveter. They were reinterred else to Lord Birkenhead.
loped land.
where.
mostly for short periods.
been constructed. The new photo-some with whom he had bitter
European Officials, The number of persons
from graphs show conclusively that these air duels during the war. ships treated for. infectious dis-caps are at least partly atmos-
It was
surely the strangest officers, in Patiala, including doctors, enses in the Singapore quarantine pheric. They appear to be precipi. party ever held in London. Sit engineers, and officers lent from the station was 15 for cholera, 19 for tated in the atmosphere from much ting in evening dress and placidly Indian Army. small-pox, and 11 for cerebro-larger clouds, of which the Martian smoking cigars, the former Many of the Indian princes find spinal fever: in Penang 42 for atmosphere contains many, and enemies recalled their war exit of material advantage to have a which in general undergo irregular periences. They recounted, like British Minister in their Cabinet
sportsmen The sum of 8226,090.14 was spent changes similar to those of terres-bags," the number of enemy ma- with the Government of India and this week, under orders issued by be amended with a view to relax-end strollers down, the Strand.
describing famous because they have so many relations measures in a general reduction convinced, however, that they are. chines to their credit.
with the Provincial Governments of all harmful mosquitoes. Many formed of water-drops, like
"No one spoke boastfully, how-whose territory joins their own. our ever, records the "Daily Mail,"
The Maharanee, like the other area, formerly malarious are be clouds, and is, in fact, rather in- but with professional interest." Indian princesses, does not observe coming fra from, this disease.clined to the contrary opinion. The chief item of expenditure has]
Colonel Bishop confessed to no strict Pardah when in England. been drainage.
The atmosphere of Mars is not as fewer than 72, which is the She does not, however, attend social In Singapore a travelling motor ate that it is at least twice as obs- to any British pilot.
clear as oura; measurements indic largest number officially credited functions, but she goes shopping dispensary started work in May:
The best casionally. and treated 15,652 cases,
[cure. The surface features of the record among the Germans was The total number of lepers treat-planet have undergone marked 36 by Captain Bolle, leader of the Every Monday morning I have a ed in the Leper Asylum was 1,112 changes in a period of two years, famous Boelcke squadron. long parade of women complaining and the total deaths 143, as against but it is not possible at present to "Capt. Bolle, jovial, fresh-about their husbands, but never a 1,022 treated and 181 deaths in determine the cause of this, coloured, clean-shaven, and with husband complaining about his 1926. With the continuance of Similar observations of other a youthful air seemed to find a wife. Mr. J. A. R. Cairns (Thames modern treatment, the death-rate planets have been made, with very great bond of friendship in the Court Magistrate).
interesting results. Possible in-fact that he and Bishop could al- dications of a hitherto unknown most definitely identify the fight fourth ring of the planet Saturn they had together," says the have been obtained, but further cb. "Daily Mail.
has been halved since 1929
YELLOW FEVER.
BRITISH DOCTOR'S NEW VACCINE.
servations, which cannot be made
"It was over Ypres in 1917," Bolle told an interviewer after
until seven years hence, are neces-wards. "We recalled the whole sary to settle the question.
incident."
Dr. Edward Hindle, one of the
With consummate skill and in- foremost authorities. in England dustry Dr. Wright has prepared a
The celebrated Captain From mherz, who brought down 33
on tropical diseases, has dis- cinematograph film showing the Allied planes, was also present. covered a vaccine which is claim-planet Jupiter in rotation of During the War he was one of the ed to be certain protection against course, at a greatly accelerated best known German night-bomb- yellow. fever.
exhibited ers and frequently raided Paris.
.
speed. This was
The Rockefeller Research Mis to the audience, and evoked loud The party afterwards saw the film sion had already discovered that applause. monkeys, if inoculated with the
"Wings" which depicts with ter- The new method of investigation rifying realism air fights between: yellow fever virus, died within is the most important advance in German and American, pilots. four or five days.
the study of the planets which has
Dr. Hindle, using this inform- been made for many years, and has ution as a basis for experimenta, already thiown an entirely new set to work at the Wellcome tight on many long-standing prob Bureau of Scientific Research and other laboratories, and has now discovered a vaccine which is stated to protect monkeys abso-
lems.
Intely from any possibility of in- SINGAPORE FORESTS.
fection.
The "Daily Express" under-
MRS. BESANT.
BELIEF IN DOMINION STATUS
FOR INDIA.
London, July 1... Speaking extempore for an bour and a half, at the Queen's
fands that the Colonial Office GRADUAL INVASION OF THE Hall, Mrs. Annie Besant mention
ttaches the greatest possible
Importance to the discovery, and
that as soon as circumstances per
mit the vaccine will be applied to
native, in West Africa.
RESERVES.
During the year 1927, 583 acres
Changi Reserve, 639 acres at Pan-
ed that she had recently travelled in 12 countries and had delivered 51 lectures in three weeks.
Referring to conditions in
human beings, both European and at Seletar Reserve, 332% serena India, Mrs. Besant said: Many Dr. Hindle will shortly go to dan Reserve and 100 acres at Bukit States in India are ahead of us West Africa to study the results Timah Beserve were allotted to in seancation. Girls, for exam of the treatment, and he will be aquatters on temporary permits for ple are not allowed to be married one of the first to be vaccinated, the cultivation of vegetables. All fore they are 18, or sometimes before they are 16, and: boys be after which he will run, all kinds that part of Changl Forest Reserve, 21.
of risks if there should still be
fever.
a risk of contracting yellow from the month of Sanger Selerang, growing demand in India to be in
north of a line running directly east She doclared that there was was handed over
over to the military a position to be a self governing authorities for the Naval Base Dominion. She hoped and” be- The working? schemos of the lieved that the mal might be at: Malaces and Dindings forests are tained in peace rather than still under consideration.
means of struggle
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