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FOR THE RAINY DAY. NEW ACT TO PROVIDE FOR
UNEMPLOYED...
1920
On November 8th the neg Unemploy=^_^ vent Insurance Act providing benefit for epsons thrown out of work will come into eration. -Cher readers are familiar with the general features of the menaires, vas bject to revealed during the debates in Parliament. Sep Wow say an exchange. A detailed explanas
tion of the scheme has now been issued by the Ministas Labour, The Act will exter compulsory, insurance to substan
TRAGEDY AT JEA,
LIVES LOST ABOARD TE
ALTENBURG
HEROES FROM SINGAPORE.
DEFRAUDED SINGAPORE.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DISHONEST,
CLERKSAM
leage operations aboard of the seamarero merg cases at the ent
were bank clerks charged with-defranding..
に
which has been ashore on Lima as at Slugapore, in which the accused
3rd, stopped abruptly on Sept.
banka Une
the Horsburg Light, since soth in consequence of a wrible agedy & Hokion, who was charged with falsifying
accounts. It was alleged that accused wash.
as was that of Lim Cheng Boun,:
involving the lives of six persons..
Items, say the Straits Times, that at employed in the Banque de l'Indo Chine
Hally all persons, fir whom health ins out 1 o'clock Mr. John Wait, the fore and absconded in 1016, when defalcations.
Male contributions have nor to be paid man shipwright, dockyard department of to the extent of $18,00 were discovered escent oat-worker and persons employed the Singapore Harbour Board, socom. He had since been in hiding in Malacca,
ingriculture and private domestic ser
vie The imploges of local authorities,panied by a Chinese, and an Indians were but eventually decided to give himself, up railways and certain other public utility in a tunnel ngar the bunkers, where Mr. to the police. undertakings, and persons with rights Wats was engaged in fixing a pump. ds Mr. Koek, junr, on behalf of the ring to the fact that accused had given
ander a statutor anperannuation scheme, st
are also excepted, if the liniste of wording to some accounts the Chinese and used, made a plea for leniency refers Labour certifies that they are not subject, Indian-were-seen to collapse into some himself
to dismissal, except for misconduct and ter at the fr of the tunnel and that Addressing the Accused his Lordship
up are employed under conditions which make and insurance usucessary but generally be Mr. Wate fall in going to their assistance, told him he was not even certain whether bila certificate of characters when he Wher Maxsyption," include only persons who are
ould prefer? chard Germaniambia no ens foxepted from the Health Insurance Aces- Others" sert that. BEAAatis was the first to the bank fo was placed in
i any other consideration
the Armutation as online
the
here 1 A distanction from health insurance, is that Fighting workpeople on to will be insurable, ex-lo the reans trygging for certain results the cept in the cold age pensioners ho Gerziaze on armistice under the are excluded, both as regards conibu
tions and burit. It is Rental conditions we have just determined
Act will bring into incipered cha thomo resilia prin put pronewsion This being achieved me has the right to unemployment an additional oight milio persons, making the total numberkinau fos cause another drop of blood to be shed. Another day when detail of the dinitre abdile 12 million persons, includifig son. matual workers in receipt of remuneration being discumed at the Quay ed'Orsay, not exceeding 250 a year. It is expect. Marshal Foch objected to the insertion of
millions will be that about Weight a clause which was strongly supported by insured under the general schein and the naval advisers of the Allied Govern- that ultimately.
About Your m
illions will ments and Bich the Germans would come under special schemes, which may be have been compelled to surrender immed set up by industries which contract aut intely and unconditionally some of the of the general scheme, i battleship which were afterwards interned (z) Contributions.The general at Seapa Elow. His arguments were provides for a week) these: What if the Germans, after sub-Following rates mitting to ich savere funditions, will not Receipt this further, humiliation For the merenpleaving receiving at once a dem more of hos warships which during the
whole hardly ever ventured out of the
contribution
From
employer.
From
| harbour: - will you the newb) olien of 13 pad over... 4d-
homilit kon land and the welem sacrifice Women of 18 and over 354, 2. Bd. For man komads of list.
@Boys of 16" and under
Uneori Prime Ministers, I think it 18
a parition to enforce all the
cour nexizopération
A French for at once went ponition of responsibility in which it was Then a second serious offence. In February 1918 be had possible for him to commit this very
ened down followed by Collard AM
board was then had already further efforts were
Harb
for over two years beat employed in the Bank as a ledger clerk and then he stated in his confessions that he had, a friend kim Ly Rafies Dispensary.
who was manager of the Between us we con cocted a plan to cheat the bank out of large sums of money. One Tan Bee Guan bad & large account at the bank and wa hour a diver descended drow several forged choques on his account. paratus and recovered the Some of these cheques were forged by me while the wireless installation and some by the other man." They were asmitted the and news to the cached by friends of mine and were passed- Singapore and late in the through the Bank by me and some were bach, in charge of Mr. Fald into an account in another bank. We This was from the ship with the obtained over $18,000 part of which was
brought them to Tanjong Pagar spent in Raffles were landed abent. 10 p.m. and about 2,000 orary and I spent Accused was sentenced to three years the "mortuary the General
rigorous imprimament on the first count Hospital
Land six mom each on two other cotzita, According to Micine. Come the sentences to run concurrently.
do... the agent for the Altenburg. the fatality was not, as at fire reported, du
The DPP referring to the accused'a Counsel statement that a, strictes which should have been kept in the bank said
to pas generated from rice and zino cargo, sid, I is true that some days ago a number that in 1916 there were only two Eurom
3d
24. 14.
of coolies complained of gas, but Mr. A pean officers in the bank as til, the rest
ACCUSED'S CONFESSION
case the defendant was
G. Harrington, the Municipal Analyst, inwero fighting. wa Mr. Lloyd Georgy asked him what Girls of 16 and under- would pepti!: the Germans refused to
34 vestigated and said there was no danger ་、་ sig and how long it would take to drive. For vary contribution paul in respect at all from the cargo. It is thought that then back across the Rhine. Egangcated, nemen, and women the Stale will contri the fumes were carbon monoxide arising opening hub arm tatuur gesture with butel 2 and 1 2-3d. respectively, and pro from the cost bug kept in a "confined In the second him. Maybe four or five months who portion amount in the case of boys and space and not being disturbed for close upon a Tamil named R. Suppiah who was knows?" He never alluded to a fat blow girls Workpele insured under previous three weeks. When the bodies were finally charged firstly with using as genuine in the nest Tow days when he fought from Acts not be required to obtain new recovered artificial respiration was tried forged cheque for $200 in the name of Versailles his draft of the military terms of books and their previous contributions for a long time, but without the least. Hook on the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, and further the armistice convention. He simply aid will be treated as an equal number of consucess
Of the deceased, the late Mr. Watt must with using as genuine a furged cheque this: The term par military advisers tributions under the new Act. Unemploy-
ment benefit will be at the rate of 15. have been knowns to thousands who have valued 81,000 on the same bank and in- the name di Mrs. L. Hook which he knew: are agreed upoù an thoayrië, aha
per weekur men and 13s, per week for passed through. Singapore during the 20 Women, Contributors de 18 are years he had been engaged at Tanjong to be forged documents entitled to the full rate No benefit Pagar Jock was familiar to them all His Loriship (Sir John Bucknil) in summing up said, that accused had pleaded is, payable for the first three days of un, and they all liked Fock, and, wo he u
which constitutes awaitingsliers, especially his employers as Watt was tyto a very serions offence. It was
epidemic in ing madrance whom none other knew the world better. He
amongst bank clerks of forging
That was certainly the third, પાનાં વ This limitation that the considerations, there was in the minds of inaunt of benefit" drawi" must not exceed 47 gram of age and leaves a mother case, which had come up that "Assize: One Was A box of 2 or 23 educated atipo of the best schools and here was accused, 18. years of age, also educated at an excellent do with people like him.
Banks inst have clerks and they must to curtain - tent trust them and it was always possible for them fa suma way of Dher to obtain money by fraud which did not belong to them. His Lordship said that if accused:
which were no geret af the pas
of - hostilift,
henry during the repley
tinuous fring that
of the sar Apart from purely
SAMMELTE
KONTANkanong, among the bestno in zirgir shipwrights, tha iad to zee that there seemed to
stage
the statesmen a strong feeling that the the proportion of one week for every six populations, after sharing themselves ready contributions. During the first year bene soon as four contributions have been paid.
Mto accept every sacrifier for a just cause it up to eight tooks may be claimed a Brittany and were R. Coquin, nge 32. P. school. It was difficul to know what to
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wonl] never" (orgive their leaders if they thought hahting had been prolonged beyond the limiteal neersity,
WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK.
TINO DISOWNS HIS GERMAN BROTHERS-IN-LAWAR
STORE OF. MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
STOOK MURDERER FOR
HUSBAND.
and father in Falkirk with whom the greatest sympathy will be extended.
The French sailors were natives of Lefevre, and Yves Benchal 31 the last named being married, with three children
To the relation of these men sympathy will be extended and some consolation will be found in that, by an heroic act, they gave their yes for fellow meng
left
senb
The steamer fanburg, now known, we had been in England he would be believe as the famruḥn, is commanded by to owe place where they try to reform Capt. Rochellend was on her voyage young persons of accused's age, but un- Curious detuits auto mutaking a mai from Haiphong and Saigon bound for fortately there was nothing of the word Ex-King Lonstantine, in an interview convicted of murder, for her husband wer Europe She is of 7.000 tons grows and is there. His Lordship said that he was at his Love at Lucera on August 3rd, given at the Westminster Felice Cours comparatively new ship having besa built on to read a little picce from aceased's decared to a newspaper correspondent that cently by 4 middle-aged man who stated in Germany in 1914 for the Norddeutscher confession; because he hoped it would be the life of M. Venizelos, bich be strongly him years ago and now desired summom now been exchanged for that of the jater Chartered Bank as a cash book clerk, with bo had nothing to do with the attempt on the obtained a separation order gains Lloyd. She was registered at Bremen and warning to other men not to follow originally flew the Germang which has accused course of life: As soon as I
school"
Fou say I joined the condemned. I asked his his opinion of M. for erreur of gisintenance.
PAllies Venizelos, and be described bin us tha very She said he made the applicationgnoi
amalary of 1843 month, My father was a blind man and I had to support intelligenty ambitious man but with the,bo" of getting a money from
my mother, father and sister. In Januar scrupulus politician"
bhair hugba bat in order to obtain, im
1920 I was invited by one of my In saver to another question, the unit from interference. She, bad nos PRE-WAR PENSIONS.
to his house where ronggeng was started.. King said would certainly return ten or heard anything of him for eight Athens King of my people if in the years until about a week age, and an
From that day I ever took any more care of my father or mother. I used to coming eroticas, the Greek people prove then was under the impression that he
give all my pay to the dancing girls and by their vote that they want me.". I have the man hanged as Smith, the murderer never abdicated, and consider myself only the brides in the bath." She bad identi
Browar Amy pensioners are to receive
At last they in exile ip Besitzerland. • -
fied that individual in Pentonville Prison, an addition their pension or retired refused to lend me any more then I stole I never was Germasophil, and arither bat must have been mistaken a me I nor my wife has had any direct commu her husband face to faco Tafely in the Pay in enses where their means, including cheque book belonging to the bark and rication with the Kaiser or his family for street, and he had threstengt her. She pension, are under 150 a year if unmar forged Mrs Hook me for $1,000. ried, and under £200 a year, if married.After that I destroyed the ship and-made several years. Ms. Hope and purpose 2 had also received a letter from him, and The increas will date from April ist, debit
United Malaysian simply is return to lens at the head ofitively identified his writing. the Greck nation, who I cherish," The Magstrate, in granting the sum
mas, said the applicant had made extraordinary mistake, and hers was wange story.
It is not so long agoJuly 15, to be axact--that the wis sent to his sister the Greck Queer the famous telegram eading: My kindest regards to Tino."
INCREASES FOR THOSE UNDER a
£200 A YEAR.
Bs my pay was a tad to bor.
row money from
1920, and an Army Order bakes the follow Rubber theo the ledger. I
gave all this money to the dancingin afing provisions with respect 10
At the end of April forged Mr. Hook a The pensions which may be increased in name absin for $300 and this case lude officer retired pay sad wound pen- debited her account I then roads another mons, nurses' retired pay, soldiers service forged cheque for 1800 in th name of or disability pensions, VC pensions for Mrs. Hook and after cashing if I destroy- gallant conduct, special campaign pensions, ed the slip and debited the mount against. the Ledbury Bobber Estate, I gave thin A BATTLEFIELD PANTHEON, and pensions of Army schoolmistresses, **
Provided the pensioner "liven in the money also to be dancing girly. On Juss THE AUTUM RUSH TO THE Frangements are in progress for the British Isles and has attained the age of 14th I wanted more money, and I for
erection. at Notre Dame de Lorette, is 60 (if a widow, 40) year of age, or was another cheque, for $1,000 in the mode EAST.
Artoise, of a great monument to the Allied, retired or discharged tarp gh physical or of Mrs. He and then I was found out the war by people from miles around for 20 year, may be increased by 30 and 1 came to Bingsporo e culled upon dead. The spot chosen vas visited before mental infirmity, the pension, if not over ran away to Kuala Lumpër "and about
18 days afterwards I thought, at the top of the hill there stood son cent, if over 250 but not over £100 (unfr
His Lordship Caid
Attention is called by The Times to fact that once again serious difficulty being encountered if providing accommoda.
Pillar T tion for all wishing to proceed to the East The building which is to replace this married on me by a 150 (male), "Yours Tory-miserabl We have already noted that applications modest chrise, destroyed by her between may be introd by 40 per cent.; if over I cannes possibly part over your ofbo for passages by vessels sailing in September October, 1914, and Sepember, 1915, whof 100 but under 150 in the case of no It would not be right to the bank or com and October were being dealt with in ordd thousands of French and British from all oled poron, or if over £150 sad mercial firms here if I did
da will
of their priority of registration, but that parts of our great Empire laid down their under 300 in the case of a married person, to prison for 16 months on the first charg more applications for passages had then lives near there, will be a fit reminder oft maji bo created by 50 per cent. Bu and three months on tas second been received" than could be satished. The their herole petion is 100 pension in be increased, but amount sentericas ta rua monentmonely whit expectations big excrptional risk in the According to the plans designed by M. greater as sum lent to bring the total you are in prison try reflect on what engan abotlu have her fully realised; 1 Cordonnier, a member of the Institute, means of pensiones up to 160 a year you have dong 12 up your mind the demand for passage is understood, to, and a son of the province of Art if unmarried of 2900 if married when you be at least a great as it has ever been domed basilica, resembling the Pantheon Per penisich have been inerea deal out of prison to try and
onestly in the future! in previous years and accommodation can butward appearance, will have attade bince the hogintiu far by morn
two wings terminated by small curian the al percentage will not only be provided in the remaining months, to
towers. In those wings will herred, but if the pro-war rule crossed; of this year for a proportion of those who
Fastern trade Ba
trade use of pains of Allied dead
proaching by by the above percentages rould give more done arded by vardag than the present rate an addition to p only one, and that early lawas, one will perrere, overtopping the will be made autumn months represent the height of the dome, graceful belity tower. At the Pensions granted between August 3rd, estward passenger season. What is how summit of the there will be a lanters 1914. and August thr
GHOALS OF MARRIED LIFE,
A young married couple, who
Lambeth Police Court recently, to try, relled woro advised by Mr. Hay Halkett; at least and put up with things for a little while
making it so difficult to deal with the pres of the dead the rays of which will be fearrent rates may be encressed by applying longetwelve mon amorevery
the
WAT T
takes.
current often for people to understand each
rates.
No
application: necesary for
kather, 1 said, the. Magistrate.jdy ex-
perience, which is rather a long, one
sure is that the losses of P. & O. mail ships seen around from Dounai aut Little the above parentes daring the war were very heavy, that the so less than from Hazebrouck or Cassel if the real ng rate la within gaps made in the fleet of these shing could The construction of this monument not ye have been filled; and that the in being undertaken by public subscription termedia's class of ships, which is now (collected, in Allied countries, by a commit being used for passengers to the fullest poster whose presidents M Jonnartdier pensioners, but other pezionors that, a gront, many married lives are on sible extent, only carries a proportion of Senator and President of the Geners should send in their applications, the mimber of onssenger for which the Council of the Pas de Calais Mgr. Joe Secretary, War Office (F-3, Con passenger and mail liners mere dezigned. Bishop of Arras and General aistre
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very poing! being wrecked within year of marriage. If they get byer Edangerous period they settle down.