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PROSTITUTION IN MALAYA.
Defence of Government Attitude.
SUPPRESSION OF BROTHELS.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
THE
CHINA MAIL.
"MICKEY MOUSE”
ADVERTISEMENT OR LIBEL?
Adopt Pale-Face Son
Action Against News Paper Fails.
AT THE NEW SILK STORE.
DEFENDS.
German Objection to Cats Defeat.
Berlin, July 13, Those who follow the adven-. tures of "Mickey Mouse" may be Astonished to hear that the one adventure he was never expected
All the Singapore Chinese, bews. papers have written many articles
to encounter han befallen him- on the prohibition of prostitution in he has been censored: This has the Straits Settlements,, and the folhappened on account of his. trip lowing factording to the Malaya to the trenches,
Iis friends will remember that Tribune) is a precis of one of
on this trip Mackey wore a kepl them:-
and that, with his usual ingenu- "Many sy brothels have sprungity, he, there outwitted at every up since the closing down of regia- turn a number of very dangerous tered brothels by order of Govern-looking cats wearing steel helmets
Those Chinese who do not of the German pattern. understand the good intention of the l The German Board of Film Government consider this step by Censors any gravely that the the Government very unwise.. One artist evidently aimed at a comic candi help recuting the fact, that representation of an action in the in the past, whenever the GovernWar. While the victorious mouse French ment wished to enact certain Ordinis distinguished by the
his enemies the cats are ances for the benefit of the Chinese, kepi. and as data. for the guidance of the clearly recognisable as the Ger- local courts when dealing with Chi-man Army by their German steel nese matters, it met with much op-helmets."
ment.
position from the so-called Chinese The board thinks that Mickey's public opinion."
"Public Opinion."
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QUESTION OF A HEADING.
Mr. Wilfred James Absalom, an automatic amusement caterer, of Covered Market, Croydon, was un- successful in an action which he brought at Surrey Assizes against the Croydon Advertiser, Limited, for alleged libel.
Sir Wilfred Sugden, for Mr. Absalom, said that last November an errand boy pleaded guilty at a Children's Court at Croydon to em- bezzling his employer's money, which, he said, had "gone in the gambling machines in the Cover- ed Market."
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The case was reported in "Croydon Advertiser under the headings "Gambling Lure," "Boy's Downward Path." The headings, counsel submitted, were not fair comment After the report ap- peared, Mr. Absalom received verbal commenta and complaints, ao he conuulted his solicitor, who wrote to the newspaper asking for an apology to be inserted.
To this the paper replied refus- ing the request, and stating "Your client should have sent a letter of thanks for the advertise-
te "reawaken the latent anti-Ger- "In 1920, fearing that the Chinese man feeling, existing abroad since. school teachers might use the the War" and "to wound the
feelings patriotic
of German schools for propagating political und other insidious doctrines, the Gov-cinema-goers." The exhibition of ernment wanted to enact an Ordin- the film has therefore been forment." ance for the registration of Chinese schools in Malaya. Inspectors were appointed so that the Government
bidden.
might know what the schools and SINGAPORE ROADS. their teachers were doing, in order"
that it might, when necessary, take steps to restrain them. These men- sures were indisputably good. One holds no brief for the Government but let us recall how many schools, since the enforcement of the Ordin- ance, have been brought to book for vaing their premises for spreading Communist doctrines, and the large number of teachers that have been
banished for the same reason.
Chinese children.
PLANS FOR EMPLOYMENT OF
EXTRA LABOUR.
At the last meeting of Commit- tee No. 3 of the Singapore Muniel- pal Commissioners the Municipal Engineer was instructed to push
on with constructional works and to submit proposals for the em- ployment of extra labour for the construction of non-asphalt roads. The committee approved the pro- posals for improving the junction of Thomson Road and Chancery Lane, at an estimated cost of $22,000.
"But when the Government put the proposal before the public, the Chinese school teachers made a unanimous protest. It is absurd to believe that the Government had the intention of destroying Chinese literature, Chinese is taught in most of the English Universities. In Kuala Lumpur a Chinese free, Decided that by-laws be drafted school, entirely supported by the to provide that owners must sub- Government, has existed over 30 mit designs for private bridges to years. This school takes in all be constructed over Municipal drains and that slabbing over Muni- cipal drains to give access to shop Menace of Immortality, "The reasons why brothels should houses, should be done by the Com- be closed are that they are a dis-missioners at the cost of owners. grace to humanity; they help to spread venereal diseases; and they are a menace to the financial con- In view of the fact that the ditions of the regular frequenters. estimated cost of rubber paving is, "The disadvantages accruing from roughly, ten times, that of asphalt their closing down are that aly paving, decided to ask the Rubber brothels, whose inmates are not sub- Growers' Association whether they ject to medical inspection, have are prepared to give the rubber sprung up to take the place of regis free of cost for proposed experi- tered brothels, which are not as mental rubber paving at Read dangerous na the sly ones so far as Bridge.
• Rubber Paving,
the spreading of V.D. ja concerned; Generally approved the Munici- and the necessity for the existence pai Engineer's proposals, involving of medically controlled brothels on transfer of all plant, crushers, etc., account of the large number of from Mandai Quarry to Pulau labourers. If the public will assist Ubin, and abandonment of propos- the Government in the prohibitioned railway siding at Bukit Timah of sly brothels according to the Road, the Municipal Engineer to Ordinance for the Protection of submit estimates of the cost of Women and Girls, they will be developing Pulau Ubin Quarry, eliminated in a few years.
Accepted revised quotation, at "The Government has in fact not £799 each, f.o.b., for two, two ton enacted any law for direct prohibi- Electricars (suitable for greater tion. "The Women and Girls Pro- mileage.) tection Ordinance does not say any- Accepted the tender of the thing about 'known' or 'aly brothels, Borneo Co., Ltd. for 80 Hudson at $62.50 The word brothel la simply defined side-tipping Waggons,
as a place which two or more women each, as they are of British manu-
7150
side-tipping
Mr. Absalom, in the witness- box, agreed that since the report appeared his gross takings had in- creased, but said that the profits had been reduced. He denied that his automatic machines were gambling machines.
Frederick Nicholls, confectioner) and tobacconist, of Old Town,
Mark Poucette, Stony Indian brave In 2015 the bereaved Indian parents and star performer at "Indian asked Mr. White if they might Days" celebrations at Banff each "share" his son He agreed, and July, and bis wife were heartbroken Mark Poucette, in a simple but In 1914 far they had lost their three touching ceremony, christened little Dave "John Mountain Btony" and sons and were childless. The last declared "he now my boy too-he of them, John Poucette, had been now, my son". That was fifteen the particular pal of Dave White, years ago and little Dave la now a aon of a planser merchant of Banff, grown man He is shown to a mag-
Dave White, Br, who has been deal-nificent head-dreas, made by Mrs, ing with the Stony Indiana for yeaze Potentte, together with his foster- and is highly respected by the tribe.father, outside the Poocotte's lepes,
Croydon, said that he had derived FEAR OF FATHER.
much benefit from Mr. Absalom's electrical machines.
Frederick Charles Boiling, the manufacturer of the machines, |
denied that Mr. Absalom did use gambling machines.
HIS OWN COFFIN IN DINING ROOM.
Haunted by the fear that in the event of his death his wife may have to forgo several little personal, luxuries in order to pay his funeral expenses, Mr. Thomas Q. Crigeen, of Woolwich, has made his own
Mr. John Flowers K.C., for the newspaper, submitted that there was no case to answer. It was ad mitted that the report was fair and accurate, and it was only the head-coffin. ings that were complained of. This grim task occupied all Mr. In summing up, Mr. Justice Crigeen's spare time for nearly Avory suggested that the headings eight months, and was carried out were fair comment on a matter of in the presence of his wife and public interest. He had no hesita-
grown-up daughters. tion in saying that where small boys were tempted to spend their employers' money in gambling machines, the matter was of public interest. There was no doubt the boy was descending, the downward path.
The only duty that will eventual- y fall to his relations will be the engraving of his age on the name
plate."
Now that it is complete he keeps it in the dining-room, and its sinis ter shapelles exposed to his family every time they sit down to meals.
Without leaving the box, the jury returned a verdict for the newspaper, the foreman remark.
A Gloomy Prospect.. ing, "Wa suggest that this is a
"It is horrible," said one of his frivolous case, and that there is daughters. "Wherever we turn we quite a suggestion of advertisesce that thing lying before us. ment in it."
"We have tried to persuade father Mr. Justice Avory: I am en- tirely of your opinion, and I only to keep it in the garden shed, but he regret that you should be brought here on such an inconvenient day to listen to such a lot of rubbish.
Judgment was entered for the newspaper, with costa
NO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
FOR GIRLS.
won't
"Very often he sleeps in it to make sure that he still fits it. Little does he know how he tortures va."
Mr. Crigeen, who has just turned 50, is obsessed with the idea that he is suffering from an incurable disease.
Medical assurances to the contrary
have failed to convince him."
Se his family, while happy in the Captain A. Z. Armitage, Presi-knowledge that he will probably be dent Governor, stated at Speech spared to them for many years yet Day at the Royal Merchant Sea are faced with the prospect of hav- men's Orphanage, Bear Wood, Ing his codin as a daily companion. Berkshire, that during the past year only four per cent of the children received corporal punish ment, as compared with thirty- four per cent. eight years ago. To day girls, never received corporal punishment.
Age and Youth at Picnic
as a place for prostitution. facture and of the same type as
the existing all Section 18 of the Ordinance asya that if three or more families com- waggons.. plain of a place being used as a brothel or, for other immoral pur- poses which are detrimental to the respectability of others living in the neighbourhood, a police magistrate has the right to summon the land- lord or the tenant to court, and to order the landlord or the tenant to stop using the place for Immoral purposes. Should the landlord of the tenant fall to carry out the order within five days he is able to be fined $25 for every day outside the period. Noong
every da
Two Useful Sections. "Soction 19 says that at the Instance of the C.P.0. or the Pro- tector of Chinese, a police magta- trate has the right to give a tenant '80 days' notice to stop using a place as a brothel or for other immòral purposes. Outside of these two sec- fiona the Government has no other law for direct prohibition of brothels. It will be thus soon that those, Chinese who are in favour of doing away with prostitution «C'sly' or otherwise) can do a lot, under these two sections, towards the elimination of this evil za **"The other sections deal with the traffic and abetment of traffle in girls, etc. There are quite a lot of Hawy in the Ordinance. It is neces sary to enact a new Ordinance for. the prohibition of prostitution. Under section 18 the Governmönt has no right to call a place a brothet If It occupied by only one Supporti krisz This section should be "amended."
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ESCAPE FROM 'REDS
"I SHALL BE SHOT IF SENT BACK."
"If I am sent back I shall be shot as soon as "I land.”.
This dramatic declaration was made to the police, through an in- terpreter, by Eugene Kriwolap, a Ukranian subject, who la stated to have landed at West Hartlepool after escaping from Russia as a stowaway in a Greek vessel from Archangel
WOMAN BISHOP.
IN LONDON FOR PILLAR OF FIRE SOCIETY MEETING.
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The only woman in the world to hold the title of Bishop is now in London.
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She is Bishop Alma White, founder and head of the Pillar of Fire Society, an American ligious sect based on the principles of Wesleyan Methodism, with the difference that women are admitted to its clerical posts on the same footing as men.
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Bishop White, who is nearly 70.) said to a reporter:
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One of the features of Bishop White's activities in the United States is a broadcasting station, by which the society preaches dully to its followers.
LANDLADY TOUTERS
WHY THE POLICEMEN WERE TRANSFERRED,
Two Southend (Essex) land-1 ladies, Annie Miles, of Whitegate Road. and Rose Gibbs, of Lone- each at Southend for touting for dole Road, were fined ten shillings
lodgers in the neighbourhood of the railway station,
Mr. W. E. Bates, solicitor, on behalf of the LAM.S.-Railway Com pany, sald that touting landladies congregated along the boundary line between the railway property and the public highway and pent- ered incoming visitors to lodge with them. If they see borough policeman coming," he said, "they jump over into the railway company's property, and If they seen railway policeman A pathetic story of hardship and coming, they jump back. The privation was told of the man by chly way to catch them is to keep the Interpreter, who dasisted the borough policeman on one side policajti
and a railway policeman" on the other."
and Krlwolap, who is in an emaciated condition, said "I am 21 years of sge. I am not a Bolshevik and was taken from a little village in Ukraine because of my religious beliefs,
Mr. Bates added that in the case of Rose Gibbs, who was so experienced that she knew all the railway policemen by night” and so avoided, them, officers who were “I was kept in prison for eleven | unknown to her were transferred months and was then sent to to the station. Archangel to work at the decks, where there are thousands of prisoners, most of them persecuted Christians, I could not stand, It any longer and escaped in a beat. FAILI-had to eat was a small quan- tity of black bread, and bad water to drink.CAMANY
In 1920, the Božehevika shot my other for her religious beliefs, my father was 1-son distracted
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