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IMMIGRATION LAW AMENDED.
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Great Pressure.
An apparatus withstanding water pressure at greater depths than man has previously attained ia reported from Zagreb. It is the invention of young Croatian en- gineer. Josip Pongratz, from Ozek, a prosperous town in the vicinity of the Hungarian border. Tests already made have shown its use- fulness. The inventor has named it "an apparatus for examining the
bottom of the gea."
Old Serbia.
Belgrade, June 16. M. Kuzman Kekitch, nerve specialist in the General State Hoa- pital in Belgrade, and M. Herneda, one of the foremost of young Ser ian journalists, have just publish- ed their report on a visit made at Whitsun to a village near Pozhare vatz, where they were present at the Whitsuntide dances, at which the women of the village fall into
lachiana.
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London, July 26. Cleveland. The allegation that the British airwoman, Lady Heath is "incompetent by reason of mental disorders" was made in an applica tion for appointment as her guardian filed in the Probate Court by her nurse, Miss Florence Madden
Heath entered a sanatorium on The application reveals that Lady
Conversation in the Soviet domain centres around one all ab sorbing tople-Food.
The talk may start anywhere, on politics, art, science, or anything el but inevitably it ends on the -central thought which dominates the people of Russia.—Food.
His Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G. has issued the following proclamation, which was published in the Straits Settle- ments Gazette of August 1.
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migration. Restriction Ordinance, 1928, it is enacted that whenever |the Governor'in Council is satisfied Meals are not taken for granted that the conditions of labour pre- i vailing in the Colony or in ang by the majority of the population as Malay State under British protec 5, Wyndham St.. elsewhere in the world. They are tion are such that the influx not a routine of the day. Every, immigrant labourers is likely to meal is a soft of triumph of luck cause unemployment, the Governor, and perseverance on the part of the with the approval of the Secretary housewife. She, or her servant, of State for the Colonies nay, by has stood in long lines for some of Proclamation in the Gazette, pro- the food; she has carefully guarded the monthly ration of others; she has followed the rumour that some article of food may be obtained in such-and-such a shop or market.
If you listen to the chattering in tram cars, at the theatres, at or restrictions as he thinks fit: Leather Sale Canvas Shoes .... 4.50 parties, wherever Russians gather, i And whereas the Governor in Crops Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $ 5.00 you will hear endless discussion of Council is satisfied that the condi- Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00||| detail of how to fill the stomach. tions of labour prevailing in the Black or Brown Bnots from
Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 You hear that tinned sardines Colony, and in the Malay States of Children's Boots or Shoes from $2.00 .. 8.06 and pretty good sausage may be Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Best styles, most complete ateck obtained at the kiosk on a certain Pahang, Johore, Kedah, Perlis,
of all sizes. Repairing a specialty. street corner, that a certain neigh- Kelantan and. Trengganu are such
WONG SIU WOON bour has an extra-half pound of that the influx of immigrant £1, Pottinger St. Phone 2147.4. meat every other day, that the labourers is likely to causé unem. speaker has not tasted butter for ployment. months. 7
Two years ago, and to a lesser extent, last year, popular appre hension was centred on the subject of bread. That item of food has fortunately been stabilised ample daily rations of bread, half white and half black, are available and there seems no danger now of the
hibit or regulate the entry or land- ing in the Colony of immigrant labourers or any class of im- migrant labourers from such coun- try, territory or place, in such man- ner, and subject to such conditions
Now, therefore, the Governor with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies orders that for a period of three months from the date of publication of this Proclamation no adult malé Chinese immigrant labourers shail land in the Colony:
Certain Exemptions.
supply stopping. Interest has been Provided that the provisions of changed to foods of animal origin, this Proclamation shall not apply meat, dairy products, poultry. The to any such labourers travelling lack of these foods is the salient on a ship which at the date of and towering fact in Moscow sud publication hereof has already de- a question with which the Govern- parted from her inst. port of call ment must deal quickly.
on a direct voyage to any port in Big Problem.
the Colony:
The magnitude of the food pro-
Provided further that in the case blem is sharply underlined by a of ships-(a) owned by a steam- journey across the Soviet Union. ship company" and regularly run- The British United Press corres- ning between Hong Kong or any
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pondent who recently made such a port in China and any port in the LINENS & SILK trip found that at every railway Colony, or (b) chartered by a station there were complaints by charterer prior to July 15, 1930, on local inhabitants of the shortage of which during the period from April].. various foods. The station buffets 15, to July 14, 1980, adult male
with
several years ago well stocked Chinese immigrants have arrived Unusual New Designs
-were tragically bare. At, some in the Colony, such steamship com- stations there were
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Everywhere can be Been long the publication hereof a number of patient queues winding from the adult male Chinese immigranta THE ONE PRICE STORE doorways of food shops. In which have arrived in the Colony Samara, or distant Samarkand alike on the ship or ships of such steam.
China Bldg. these lines of people waiting for ship company or charterer respec- food were regular features of the tively during the period from April scenery. In the native quarter of 15 to July 14, 1999.
For the purpose of this pro-: Tashkent or Bokhara, the queuer present a curious sight with wo-clamation, the expression "adult" men, some veiled with horse hair means a person of 14 years or more paranjas, others with faces un-in age. covered, but all awaiting with their ration books in their hand.
The Soviet Government and the hide or underestimate the gravity Communist Party do not attempt to
SPAIN'S ANARCHISTS
SEIZED BY FRENCH POLICE ON BANKS OF SEINE.
varlous forms cf, ecstasy and Mr. Pongratz has been working trance. The village is that of July 24 to underge treatment for of the food situation. Speakers at recent Party conferences all over
Paris, July 28. on his invention some eight years Duboka in the heart of a district nervous condition, apparently re-
the injuries she the country said frankly that the
The scene is a sylvan spot on the! and he has constructed it so that mainly inhabited by a people sulting from
a difficult, perhaps eix people may enter it and be known in Serbia as the Serbo-Wal sustained when she crashed through next will be
These are
a roof on August 29, 1929, an Isolated
critical, year in the matter of food banks of the Seine. The calm is lowered to great depths and study
slightly ruffled by the arrival of The application came as a sur supplies. the sea floor of its life without any branch of the Rumanian-speaking
prise, as after her return from They point out that the same some sixty townsmen, who dump inconvenience. This apparatus is peoples. fitted with very strong reflectors The facts of the Whitsuntide Reno, where the secured a divorce, problem which the Soviets had to their luncheon baskets on the daisy strewn field and sit around in a so that it is possible to see objects manifestations, although simple to Lady Heath made numerous public face concerning the bread supply circle. A few moments later motor at great distances from inside the explain, are none the less remark- appearances and her health appear now confronts animal foods. apparatus. Drawing and photo-able. There are dances, the ordin-ed to be good. graphy are also possible.
The same device which enables the apparatus to withstand great
pressure could also serve 28 means of locomotion, according to the inventor. This is a series of rubber shields which`admit air and water at one side of the craft and expel it at the other.
The bread problem was solved coaches drive up with several scores by building huge State grain farms of policemen, who jump out and sur- and collectivisation of a large part round the picknickers and persuade of grain acreage. Similar methods the latter, after some argument, to
ary chain dance which' bolds in various forms throughout the Balkan peninsula and at these dances the women, one by one, fall "RIPPER" OUTRAGES are being adopted in an organised accompany them to the police ata-
When this happens they are carri- into trances or forms of epilepsy. ed off by special dancers, who have the title of kings and queens, and peculiar dances, with incantations sung, are used to bring them back
HANDSOME YOUTH
ARRESTED...
Le Touquet, July 29:
to a normal state. Cases are ⚫ Searching for the perpetrator of
elfort to replenish livestock and tion. Here the luncheon baskets ara found to contain anarchiat make the products available to the literature mixed up with sand- urban population-British United
wiches, and the police are convinced, Press
as they previously suspected, that their quarry are Spanish anarchists planning the despatch of emissaries to Spain to engineer a revolutionary. campaign.
A submarine so constructed, he points out, would operate without fuel by water pressure. It could known, and were witnessed this several violent attacks on women in MORPHIA SEIZURE. reach depths where mines and tor-year, of quite young girls being the past few weeks, the police have taken with the Whitsunday mani-arrested a handsome sixteen-year-
burg, Germany. Two dogs were tions of morals are those of a
›
old youth named Loutre, who has MAN AND WOMAN ARRESTED not only confessed to attacking
BY CUSTOMS. women recently, but also to the murdering of a British woman named Mrs. Wilson in a forest two
The case then aroused much at tention and the police followed up numerous clues for many months,
pedoes are ineffective. Finally, the festations, and these young girls fact that the craft makes its own air gives it a much greater sub-are marked down as those who will merged cruiser radius than any coming generation.
carry on the tradition during the submarine yet built.
It must be remarked that this Trials in Germany.
peculiar remnant of a race is ex- | years ago, Trials have been made in Ham-tremely degenerate. The 'concep
placed in the apparatus, lowered much earlier epoch, and, indeed, Into the sea and kept there for 12 pofat to the earlier matriarchal hours. When they were taken out, state of society, which archaeolo it was found they had suffered nogical work of recent years clearly ill effects, and that the air was provea. to have held in this part almost as good as it was before the of the world. Marriage is regard- apparatus was lowered.
Fed in the most casual way, and man "The secret of the distillation of For woman changes partners as his the air lies in the rubber shields or her fancy pleases,
of the apparatus. These also make
it possible for the apparatua to: ------
withstand great pressures, The
ATAS
texture of the rubber shields is vicinity of Bushak have become in-- such that nothing can damage thetereated in thle Invention and wish craft. A test of the resistant to build a boat according to the, qualities of the rubber was made principles of Mr. Pongratz, "and by setting off an explosive under under his direction. The Yugoslav the apparatus. The explosion did War Ministry withite Navy De no damage, NO
Dartment - bas also asked An English firm now construct Pongratz to forward his plans to ing large shipbuilding yards at the the Ministry, as they will probably
part of Krapjevics in the miske tests in their own yards.
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The Chinese Customs officers at
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which, it is Greenwich) are as follow alleged, a Frenchwoman was trying August.
thousand of "yen,
to smuggle into Manchuria" by means of the Trans-Siberian wax- prean T
A business mail, a Russian, was also arrestedriskedage S Both were taken to Hathin and
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