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SINGAPORE--BANG-
KOK AIR MAIL
Threat of Strike by Dutch Pilots
HOPE THAT NEW LINK WILL BE UTILISED
BANGKOK, May 24.
NIPPON MARU GROUNDED
ANCIENT RITUAL:
AT PEKAN
Sultan Abu Baker Installed
JAPANESE VESSEL ASHORE OFF POINT HONDA
MALAY PAGEANTRY AT ITS BEST
Ban Francisco, May 29. After hours of excited searching, the Japanese tanker Nippon Meru which had called for help, was found grounded on a reef off Point. Honda, north of Santa Barbara early to-day.
When the ship sent her first S.O.S. message, the Mackay radio stations were the only ones to in-
sta-
KUANTAN, May 29. Pahang's new ruler, Sultan Abu The threat of the Dutch air pilots to conte put on strike at the end of Bakar, was installed at a detures. June is viewed with some concem, inque ceremony at Pekan yesterday Bangkok which has come very large. The ceremonies were attended by ly to depend upon this air raail for the High Commissioner (Six Cecil tercept it. The message was re-
stations. All broadcasting rapid communication with Europe, Clementi), the rulers of neighbour Peated for ships at sea and shore on the Pacific Coast "were using the French air mail us aing states and leading Europeans tons second line
silenced waited for the position of communication. and Malays. Everyone here in the commercial
which the Nippon Maru had pro world hopes that the differences be
mised to give." tween the Dutch pilots and their directors will be adjusted to pre- vent any hold up of the services, and believes that friendly counsels will prevail. At least there is nothing of a lightning threat in the attitude of the pilots and crews, for there is a whole month or more in
which negatintions can take place,
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reached.
equitable
Sultan Abu Bakar succeeded to the throne on the death of his Father, Sultan Abdullah last year.
After some hours of waiting, the vessel indicated that she was off In the evening the Sultan gave a banquet which was attended by Sir Santa Barbara Island, which is Cecil Clementi, General L. C. L.more than 100 miles south of Paint Honda. The vase) was actually Cdfield, representatives of the in Santa Barbara Channel but, Federal Government and the other while waiting for further signals, rescue boata were sent to Santa Barbara Island.
states.
EXCURSIONERS RESCUED
The booming of gung across the arrangementwide readies of the Pahang River
The coast is particularly danger: on Friday evening and again on ous near Point Honda and many Although Singapore, has been Saturday morning signalised the ships have been wrecked there, as brought within eight or nine hours' arrival at Pekan ofthe Sultan of well as at Point Conception, a fea
ying from Bangkok once a week, Pekar and His Excellency, Sir miles to the south. the pst office have as yet made no Cecil Clementi, respectively, and The Nippon Maru had filted her intiuation of their willingness to this morning all was ready for the tanks at the Ventura fields and was close mails by the weekly plane, formal installation of Pahang's new outward bound. She carries a crew but one can send by air mail to ruler, Sultan Abu Baker, who came of 35. Saigon, Rangoon and, of course, the to the throne at the age of twenty- Dutch East Indies, but in due sea-eight last year on the death of his son letters may be able to go by air father, Sultan Abdullah.
Houghton, Mich., May 28. mail to Singapore. by Dutch The ceremonies were marked by
After spending the entire night planes. Those who remember the great dignity and impressiveness abroad a shattered and sinking effort involved to get the Europeand were performed in the presence excarsion boat,
more than one parcel mails landed at Penang and of the High Commissioner, the Sul hundred persons were rescued to- then trained to Bangkok, are not tan of Pekan who is Abu Bakar's day by the United States cutter without hope that the new link in father-in-law, and representatives | Crawford, which had been sum direct communication between of the M.S. Sultans of Selangor, moned to Isle Royale, in the mid- Bangkok and Singapore will be Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Treng die of Lake Superior. utilised. For many years parcel ganu and also the major and minor
The excursion steamer struck a mails came to Bangkok by the all- Chiefs of Pahang, the British Re-
reef on the way out from Washing bea route ri Singapore. There sident, State heads and district
ton Harbour. at Isle Royale and they stayed till there was an on- officers of Pahang, many unofficial the rush of waters into the engine. coming boat to Bangkok, and the residents of the state and a repre-room caused the boiler to explode. time in transit from London to sentative assemblage of Penghalus, Five persons were injured by the Bangkok, varied from seven to eight assistant Penghulus and religious explosion.
officers from throughout Pahang.
weeks..
The First Air Mail,
Lamps of Strange Design,
1:
Sir Cecil Inspects Guard,
The boat was too far out to per- The programine began with the bathing ceremony at the Astana Srimit a rescue from the island and Terentang. This is the oldest and help was summoned from Hough, toa. Passengers were rescued The first letters from Siam to largest of the two royal residences Singapore by air were sent as long in Pekan und stands about a mile shortly before the decks were sub-
merged. as December 1919, when the late Sirinland from the river while the
It is believed the ship will be Ross Smith made his bistoric flight other residence, Astana Pantai, is to Australia from England: And on the riverbank. In the grounds worth salvaging. n he stopped over at Singora a of Sri Terentang a bathing pavilion night two full days were occupied or pancha persada had been erected. in transit. Now one breakfasts This consisted of a
Heven tiered The Sultan and his consort were early in Bangkok, takes an apertif structure huilt entirely by Malay bathed with nine kinds of holy at Alor Star and afternoon tea'or'
artisans.»
water, this water being poured something stronger in Singapore.
through a white cloth held above their heads and also being applied Air-minded people here at keen-
by hand. Meanwhile the women ly interested in the Imperial Air- On these tiers were sented a num-kept up
a high-pitched waiting ways forthcoming experimental ber of Malay women with their chant and the rythymig beating of flight from Rangoon to Singapore. faces towards the central platform. native drums provided an under- The plane chosen one of the big These women were dressed in white tone for the strange and ancient Atalanta types, has four engines or pale pink and ench wore a scarf ritual. The ceremony lasted over and will be the first of her type of pale yellow thrown over the right seen at Don Muang, The builders shoulder. Each woman was tending claim that the placing of the en- nframe in which but a lamp of gines in the wings renders travel strange design like an antique can- hour but
an
before it had much quieter for the passengers. dlestick. The path from the Palace finished most of the visitors to the pavilion was covered with had left to prepare for the ceremony There is a general belief in flying white cloth and protected by an of installation at the other and circles that for some time to come wning of the same material. On smaller place on the river bank. the route from Burma to Maya will be by way of the established one side of this path over a hundred known as the Astana Panti. dromes and landing places in cen themselves all wearing the kris but
chiefs and Penghulus arranged After Sir Cecil Clementi had been tral and peninsular Siam and not wearing it concealed the right to received with the royal salute and along the coast from Rangoon via display the kris on court occasions had inspected the quand the whole Victoria Point. Mefeorological conditions, and aerial corridors for being strictly restricted by Pahang group came to the larger balai and
etiquette.
were seated on the raised central fying are pointe in favour of the
portion which constituted the through Sinn route, as against the Among the European' spretators throne room. risks attendant on the journey up were Sir Cecil Clementi, General the west coast of the peninsula with Oldfield, the Chief Secretary, and and his consort from the palace in Then came the Sultan Abu Bakar its lack of communications and al- the British Residents of Pahang a procession similar to that seen Perak and Selangor. The proces earlier in the morning. The Sultan most complete inaccessibility at
sion from the Palace to the pavilion and his consort seated themselves on certain times in the monsoon season. And it can hardly be expected in was a wonderful example of Malay slightly raised dais on thrones these days of depression that gov. Pageantry at its best. It was head-made of finely carved blackwood ed by the Tengku Panglima Besar with gold ornamentation while Sir erament can provide and equip two routes with landing grounds and deep red costume with the Cecil Clementi and the Sultan of
benrer of the "chogan 21 safe anchorages, wireless communi-
a broad Perak occupied chairs on the right cation, staffs, etc., for the journey bladed spear which is the principal and left of the Sultan, respectively Rangaon-Singapore, which, inside royal emblem of Pahang immediate and at a slightly lower elevation. ten years, will be accomplished in of the spears known as "lembing ly behind him and also two bearers a days's Hying of ten hours.
A 12-Hour Trip.
A solemn ceremonial was ther en-
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homage to the Sultan. 8 o'clock-a twelve hour trip with two halts of half an hour each. for refuelling.
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These ladies of royal rank were followed by thirty-two women
Throughout the morning the At first, of courze, Imperiai Air- tendants who walked between a
double file of men, the latter carry ported themselves with great dig young Sultan and his consort com- ways won't attempt to run even to present day Dutch schedules, but ing closed umbrellas and wearing it is only a question of time before uniforms slightly different to those aity and composure but they must been thankful when the programme there will be nothing to choose be of the spearmen All the men and tween British, Dutch and French women attendants in the procession was over for such a long appear carried yellow silk scarves similar ance public and the observanco air services, beyond the days of ar rival and departure. Tickets by to those worn by the women already of such a complicated ritual and
on the pavilion.
ceremonial must have been a heavy one line will be equally valid, by
strain. In the evening the Sultari the other two. The fact that the The Sultan, his consort and her gave a banquet for a large number, Dutch are the quicker at present two royal supporters ascended foof guests including Sir Cecil the uppermost platform of the Clementi, General Oldfield, repre- pavilion and also the thirty-two sentatives of the Federal Govern- women attendants whose part in the ment and the other states and many ceremony was a very important one. officers of the Pahang Government.
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solely due to the fact that they have been longer at work. Their pilots have got to know the route, and their ground arrangements are more perfect.
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