THE NEW YEAR'S PAY.
ATTEMPT TO BOB A SHROFF.
An attempt to rob a shrof Barry, ing New Yene's pay to a group of building coolies, wal reported to the police yesterday..
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notes in his coat pocket, and the rest in "coins in a leather handbag tied to his bicycle-carrier, Ap- proaching Beach Street, near Tai- kektsui he was confronted by three
who knocked him off his PURCHASE OF GOVERNMENT bicycle. One man snatched the money from his pocket, while the other two made off with the bicycle. The foreman shouted for help, whereupen the men dropped the hieyele and bolted, leaving the leather hand bag untouched,
STORES.
CURIOUS DISPUTE... | BLOWN BACK BY A
GENUINE SIGNATURES ON DUBIOUS DOCUMENTS.
The authenticity of two business documents was questioned when Mr. Y.
In new stores purchase rules based on the rupee tender system, recently & When, residing at the Chin- 9 V. M. C. A., sued the Advertising promulgated in New Delhi, the and Publicity Bureau, Alexandra No arrest have yet been made of ¦ Government of India,explains that Building, for $750 at the Summary the highway robbers.
ta policy is to make purchases of
Court yesterday before the Puisne stores in such a way as to encourage
Judge (Mr. Justice Wood). Flair: the development of Indian "indused with the Bureau, and the balance
tiff claimed 8800 as money deposit
tries to the utmost possible extent
as part of his wages. consistent with economy and ef be an agreement between the plain- One of the documents purported to ciency Preference will be given in
tiff and the Bureau, and the other a receipt for $600 deposited with the following order :-
signature of Mrs. B. Thompson, the the firm. Bath documents, bore the the receipt having in addition the Bureau's date "chop."
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Mr. H. J. Armstrong, for the defentiants, repudiated liability, ཐྭ To articles wholly or parti-saying that the defendants denied ally manufactured in India from having signed the papers in the imported articles provided the form in which they row.appeared. quality is sufficiently good.". Outlining plaintiff's case, Mr. F. C. E. Rendall said plaictif in
3. To articles of foreign manu- facture stocked in India provided they are of suitable type and of the requisite quality.
4 To articles manufactured Abroad which need to be specially imported. The purchasing authe
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septed an advertisement for ployment. As a result the defen dants engaged him on September
at. A
on manth's probation salary of $30 a month.
Towards the end of September
STORM.
HOW A BANISHEE RETURNED TO SINGAPORE.
DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT.
THE AWAKENING OF THE FELLAHEEN.
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Makram Ebeid and a number of The defence that he was driven other prominent Waldists have late- ashore while fishing off one of the ly been on an electioneering tour Dutch islands in the neighbourhood in Upper Egypt, and they have nese who was charged at the Singa- saying very much, since nearly
been greeted enthu of Singapore was raised by a Chi. Overywhere
Biastically. This perhaps is not pore Assizes with returning to the anyone gets greeted enthusiastical- The jury returned an unanimous rer- Colony after having been banished.y in Upper Egypt. The Egyptian diet of Not Guilty, and he was
is ready to fetch out flags and illu mination acquitted. the Chief Justice (Sir vocation just because he likes flags the slightest pro- William Murisoa) remarking in the and illuminations. Even so, it is 7.30 am to 2 pm was not long nearer it becomes increasingly ob- course of his suniming up that from still true that as the elections draw
for a man who found his way to an
vious that the Wald has the country unknown inland after having been solidly" behind it. blown about all night in a storm; educated and unfamiliar with demo- However un- he might even have stopped a night caatic institutions the Egyptian
going to' electorate may be, it is, at least, register an canphatis opinion as to when it wants to re- present it.",
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might be regarded as reasonable two without exceeding what
should have been taken. period within which his departure
Accused, giving evidence, said from Singapore, he went to the that after being banished to Chinn
Dutch East Tudies, and made a living as a fisherman on a Dutch island rea" Singapore,.
rity may, when satisfied that such plaintiff approached Mrs. Thomp Pulau Blakang Parang. One even-water supply: cheap appends to self-
a measure is justified allow a limited degree of preference in respect of price to articles pro- dused and manufactured in India either wholly or partly.
sou, one of the directors, to racer- Lain whether they were satisfied with his work. Mrs. Thompson replied in the affirmative, and on December 2 plaintiff was asked to sign an agreement for two years at All articles, except those relating a salary of $100 a month. The to military or of a special or uns question of providing eash security usual character, specilied shall be was also mentioned. Plaintiff was purchased with the condition that not willing to provide security, and delivery be made in India and pay it was then arranged that he should ment made in rupees in India. draw 850 monthly as sainry, and Tenders will be invited in India place the other $30 as deposit to and also abroad when desiralde, butwards a total security of $500. delivery must be made in India and payment inust made in rupees. The rules provide that lethal weapons, munitions of war, tech- nival apparatus, and equipment and other stores for which the draw ing patterns, specifications, and designs are issued by the authorities will be indented in the India Store Department in London unless avail able in India.
The rules come into operation a year bence-auely, January 1 1931. Meanwhile, the invernment dires that purchase be male in: accordance with these rules when ever convenient.
In December. continued Mr Rendall. plaintif accompanied Mrs. Thompson to wong Chew Wan. the object of the visit being to ohtain advertising sites in that district. Mrs. Thompson then told plaintiff that she was going on to Holbow and Haiphong on business, and $105 was left with plaintiff to pay for the sites and to meet his
expenses.
An Alleged Loan, Before Mrs. Thompson left Kwong Chow Wan she asked plain-- tiff about the possibility of getting a luan, as she was afaid off rug- ning short of money during the trip. About this time plaintif - re- ceived $100 from a friend who was going on to Wuthow. Out of this money plaintiff lent Mrs. Thom son 8600, the latter giving him a an Indo-China stang, After their "Teturn to Hong Kong, Mrs. Thompson gave him a receipt for $600 bearing a her
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request plaintiff returned the criginal receipt given him in Kwong Chow Wan.
Evidence corroborating solicitor's statement was given by the plain. tiff in the witness-box. He said that subsequent to receiving the original receipt Mrs. Thompson did not appear to be satisfied with his work at Kwong Chow Wan, and cut out several items from his statement of accounts. This dis agreement led to his resignation on January 3. At this time, Mr. Chirch (another parter of the Advertising Bureau) asked him to siga a note to the effect that his salary and commission had been paid to the end of December, but plaintiff refused to do so.
Singapore Sonows,
Nor is it onsy to arrive at pre- peasant to cisely what motives induce the vote so solidly for Saadist candidates. Unsyrupathetic foreigners suggest all sorts of rea- named ons-lies they are told about the
interest and to religious fanaticism. But actually there is very little evidence of this.. What is much more likely is that the Nationalist. movement coincides with and is re- inforced by one that is much more fundamental: a definite awakening on the part of the fellakeen to a sense of their right to a larger share in the life of the community, rather like that which took place in Gerenny in the sixteenth cen tury. Already there is talk of founding a Fellahcen party; and
ing a storm came up, he was blown out to sea, and the next morning. he found himself close to some land. He made for it and landed nt 7.30 a.m. at a village. That afternoon at 2 p.m., while getting his nets in order, he was arrested,
Chief Det-Inspector Porter said that accused was arrested on Pulau Bukom Kechil, a small island near Pulau Brkom, on information which the Police received and which sub- sequently was confirmed by an examination of his finger prints.
In reply to the Deputy Public Arom, the most official of the Prosecutor (Mr. J. H. Pellow) the
Egyptian papers, published accused denied that, his story of a sombre leader on the danger of storm was untrue, and that he grounds that it might lead to their educating the fellaheen DM the voluntarily visited the island.
The jury desired to know whether realising rather tos vivilly their inquiries had bees made as to har, miserably low standard of life, and long ageused had been on the island to a serious social upheaval when he was arrested, and he to whether or not he had been living there.
"Not Guilly,"
The headman of the village was then called, and stated that he noticed the presence of the accused on the island on the very day on which he was arrested. That was the first time witness saw the ac eused, witness's attention being drawn to the man by the fact that he was a stranger.
His Lordship: Do you know a the people who live on the island Yes.
TAX ON KNOWLEDGE.
AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL TO TAX IMPORTED BOOKS.
The Nationalist Leaders.
The leaders of the Nationalist movenant with all their sincerity have mostly a reactionary attitude alism. Their educational policy, for to every question except nation- instanes, is an upper class one; and even Zaghlul, in his day, put down strikes with a are drawn largely from the proper- firm land. They tied class because only the proper- tied class has money to pay for. agitating. They naturally take the education and leisure to devote to prejudiced view of the landowner en al social issues, particularly with regard to land values. But their nationalism is "so intense a passion with them that they will risk for it even their deepest pre- judiers. And they soon realised that so long as their movement was only supported by students of their own class, as in the time of Mus. tapha Kannel, it could achieve little
In further reply to his Lordship, witness said there had been a storm the night previous to the morning on which witness saw the accused. The accused did not teli witness that he was a banishee.
Summing up, his Lordship said that before the jury decided accused went to that island of its own freebeenuse was guilty they must be satisfied he
was always open to the will. If he was forced to go there reproach that the essential section by stress of weather, then he was of the community, the producing not guilty..
section, was not concerned with it, The jury returned their verdict and was, moreover, betted provided 3 stated above.
for hy an impartial foreign Ad- ministration. So they extended their agitation to the villages and met with a surprising success there. In this they were, of course, con- siderably helped by the very real grievances of the fellahee arising out of the war-conscription of young men for labour hattalions. commandeering of cattle and horses, and so on. But apart from this it almost seemed as though the pea sants were waiting for them; as though the personality and oratory of Zaglul, himself of fellah origin, expressed just what they had been feeling for a long time. The re- salt was that they worshipped him. Even now it is in his name that they vote: but not so much because they associate him with the idea of political independence, for Egypt as because they associate him with the realisation of new possibilities in life for themselves. He was able to make the two movements coalesce, the one nationality, the other revolutionary, make them one single.force whose immedinte objec tive was Egypt's independence. With this achieved the coalition will presumably be broken up. And the Wald is not altogether easy at the prospect.
Plaintiff said he left Singapore for the United States to carry out The Senate of the University of his studies. After five months be Queensland, in common with the was obliged to return, as his mother Universities of the Common- ther refused to send him any wealth, says the Brisbane Courier
aloney.
has thrown its weight into the pub. Mr.lic protest against the proposal to impose a tax on all books introduc ed to Australia from other coun- tries.
In cross-examination,. Armstrong put it to the witness that his story in Court was a fabrication. Witness denied this but in answer to other questions agreed that the reason why he did' not want to return to Singapore was because he was engaged to be married to a girl in the New Ter- ritories, while his mother wanted him to marry another girl.
Blank Spaces "FU! In. Mr. Thompson," in her evidence, admitted that the signatures on the two documents were hers, but said the papers were not in their pre- sent form when the signed them. She explained that while in Kwong Chow. Wan she gave plaintiff one of the stamped farms used in that place for contracts. Other stamped forms not being available, she type ed four more while on board the Tonkin. These forms were signed by her before she handed them to the plaintiff, and between the English wording and the signature there were several inches of left blank for filling in the Chinese transls tion. The suggestion WAB that plaintiff had cut the paper, and typed out the words of the agree. ment and the receipt over her signe ture.
Questioned about the chop ap pearing on the receipt, witness said that plaintiff may have obtained it from Mr. Church's disk while he was away at tiffin.
The eurious fact that Mrs. Thompson's signature appeared to have been written over the "chop" was brought to his Lordship's at tention. In adjourning the case until this morning, his Lordship directed that the partics appear in Chambers before the hearing is re sumed with the "chop," so as to investigate this point.
The Senate has described the pro- posal as "a tax on knowledge," and it is inconceivable that any politi. cal party, would be so shortsighted as to place such a premium on ignorance. The suggestion that s tax on books would make more work for printers is ridiculous.
It may as well be said that a tax on the English, American, and for ign newspapers that come to the offices of the newspapers make more work for local printers Even a tax on novels would not help the Australian authore, be cause most serious readers prefer the novel from abroad because it contains that glimpse of life in an ther country that readers are seek ing.
would
worse.
Only on such a theory is it possible to account for the unani- mity with which the fellaheen cast their votes for the Wafd party. For they are not much concerned A Badge of Ignorance. with political independence as such. A few Australian writers have a When Egypt was approximately large reading public in Canada and free under Mohammed Ali their lot in South Africa, just as Canadian was certainly no better than under' and South African authors sell a Cromer; probably much big proportion of their books here, And, when the price of cotton was and for precisely the same reason, booming alter the war and the land- Even Australia had a' suffid- | owners were making immense ently large reading public to en-profits, no share came to them. able the best book to be printed Then, as now, a family of four, all here any tax on literature would working, was
able to earn the he a tax on knowledge and a badge equivalent of a pound a month; of ignorance. But the plain fact was able, that is to say, just to is that no Australian publisher exist. But this will go on for ever. could afford to publish the really And the first sign of its coming to worthwhile books that are written an end is to be seen in the reali- even by Australians.
sation by the fellaheen of the power that a democratic system of Gov. ernment gives them; and for their determination to use that power to put into office a Government which has no connection with the English and connection with the Palace: one, that is to say, which is specifically Egyptian.
They must seek publishers in England, where the sales are lar, ger. A duty would not help the printers by a ha'porth, but it would damage Australian prestige, and it would. be placing in additional burden on those trying to acquire knowledge.
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