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A ples for higher education for the State of College, with hostel Malay girls in a College on the attached, for Malay girls on the same lines as the College for boys same lines as the Malay College. at Kuala Kangsar was made by for boys at Kuala Kangsar. The Tuan Sheikh Ahmad speaking on experiment should, 1 think, be the adjournment of the Negri tried on a small scale, as was the Sembilan State Council meeting. case with the Kuala Kangsar The Hon. the British Resident, College, Amongst the subjects to be taught in the proposed college In reply, said that it was im
be included needle-work possible at the moment to embark should
on any fresh expenditure, but and cookery to make the girls promised that the
suggestion useful in later life.
would be forwarded to the Adviser į "The establishment of such a on Education for his comments. college will, I have reason to believe. Speaking on the adjournment, be not only a success but a great "Ahmad said: Tensive to Malay parents to give Tuan Sheikh crave your indulgence in bringing their daughters all the education up a subject which has been in my that they can possibly get locally mind for a very long time. I refer and unhampered by the restriction to the educational facilities for of permitting boys and girls to Malay girls whose parents have a mix freely. There are also many des.re
English Malay Officers in the services and to give them education up to "the secondary other Malays of means who are
classes.
stationed or live in districts where facilities for English education for VIEWED WITH DISTASTE their daughters do not exist. Such "It is, I believe, well known that, a College will cater for them." In Malay parents have for ages, addition the present tendency of viewed with distaste any kind, of Malay youths appears to be to look Intimacy or friendship between for English educated girls to be boys and giris especially after the their partners in life. Intter have reached the age of 13 "What of great importance or 14 years. This attitude, coupled is that the College will turn out with extreme shyness on the part educated girls who will be more of the girls themselves, greatly ham-useful citizens, that their iterate pers their educational progress for sisters and be the means of the girls will be compelled to leave uplifting the community เอ school while yet in the elementary general. classes.
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"Thera, are at present about 42 girls in the State who attend either English girls schools or mixed schools and over 500 Malay schools. Of these very small percentage will have the op- portunity of secondary English education due to the prejudice that I have mentioned,
FINANCIAL LIMITATIONS"
The President, speaking" in reply. said he was afraid that at the present moment, owing to financial limitations, they could not embark on any fresh expenditure. He promised, however, that the suggestion made by the Hon'ble Tuan Sheikh Ahmad would be
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Crab Cocktail
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| FORMER GOVERNOR OF STRAITS WEDS LONDON, June 28 (Redter)
Sir Frank Athelstane Bwettenham, former Governor of the Stralis Settlements, is to be married to- day at Caxton Hall, London, to Mrs. Nell Guthrie, widow of an Irish Guards'. Officer, who WHA killed in the Great War, accord- ing to the "Dally Mall."
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS
The following forthcoming mar- rlages are announced:-
SHIVERED HERSELF TO LIFE
"It was much more comfor- table when I was dead" said Mrs. Frances Beymour of Alwayn road, Maidenhead, Berks.
She was telling how she shivered herself back to life.
childbirth in a Hampstead -hos- Lying dangerously in after
pital. Mrs. Seymour' stopped breathing for,- two minutes.
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Doctors surrounding her bed felt her pulse; said she was dead. They laid her body on ice and Mrs. Seymour promptly shiver- ed-and was alive again.
She left the hospital, evred
to but not expected
Live long. That was forty seven years ago.
Recently Mr. and Mrs. Say-
Mr. Arthur Robert Smith, mas- ter mariner, 3.5. Jessie Moller. care of Messrs. Jebsen and Commour, both pany, and Miss Tatiana Itzekson, dental surgeon, of No. 4 Fort Street;
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aged seventy-seven. celebrated their golden wedding. "We both have charmed lives,” Mrs. Seymour said.
8gt. John. Bertram Mansfield "I remember how the pain re- Wilson, of the Royal Artillery, turned as I came to. shivering!" and Miss Kwok Sho-yee dispen-on-the-ice-block, har
sary store assistant, of No. 5 Chl Mrs. Seymour, who had. cook: Wo Street, second floor, Kowloon,ea for King Edward VIT ande
the
Rothschilds, has escaped death in iperations and
road
"
At to-day's meeting of the accidents four times.
Her husband, a retired coach- Hongkong Rotary Club, a cinema. fim.(with sound) on "Oll from man has been feared the Earth, will be shown through four accidents. the courtesy of Mr. J. L. Isley.
NEWSETTES
Mr. J. H. Montgomery, of Hong- forwarded to the Adviser onkong, visited the Rotary Club of
Belfast on May 15.... Education for his comments.
A gavel presented by the No. 1 Chicago, which COLLEGE IN STATE
Rotary Club of was handed to Dr. Li Shu-fan to "In order, therefore, to extend to
be sent to the Hongkong. Rotary thema helping hand to Concluding the President said
Club, was used at the last meet complete their education, I re: that if they were to expand educa-
The Royal Engineers Old Coming of the Club in Hongkong. spectfully beg to suggest for the tional, medical and health services.rades Association will hold a earnest consideration of the Gov- then additional taxation would Flannel Dance at the Peninsula
establishment in probably be found necessary.
ernment
the
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COMMENCING JUNE 29TH AT 6.00 & 9.15 P.M.
"BROADWAY VANITIES"
A SUPER REVUE WITH AN ENTOURAGE OF 80 ARTISTS FROM RADIO-SCREEN & STAGE
$4.40, $3.30, $2.20, $1.10
Hotel on July 8 at 8.30 p.m.
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The following were among the passengers who left Hongkong for Haiphong by the sa. Esang on As from to-day the offices of June 24: Mrs. Kauf, Mr. Schenke, the French Consulate. will be Miss V. H: Jolly, Mr. H. Ammann. opened to the general public from 8 am to 1 p.m. daily.
The death occurred in London on June 17 of Maj. General Sir W. C. Chayfor, who took part in the Great War.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Wong, Mr. Ho Ching-ming, Mr. Tchang Lai-tsen. Mr. D. F. Myers, Mr.. Y. P. Chang Mr. Huang Chu-chef, Mr. Tchan Wen-taan. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Chang..
His Excellency the High Com- missioner of the F.M.S." Sir Shen-
Dr. C. T. Wang, who represent- ton Thomas, has offered a medal ed China at the Olympic Games of the best essay written by a Committee in London, returned member of the General Clerical to Hongkong yesterday by Im perial Airways.
Service Association. The High Commissioner has always dis- played an interest in the move- ment to encourage reading among The death occurred at the Sin
Government subordinates which gapore General Hospital, on June is being fostered in the FM.S.. 12 of Mrs. Joan Madger wife of and as a practical example of his Mr. J. Madge works foreman of interest he has offered this medal. Mess. Gammon (Malaya)." Ltd
The death occurred recently at
Mr. G. D. Litchfield. Superin- Hobart, Tasmania, of Mr. Albert tendent of Agencies, Asia Life Henry Farr, a men ber of the Insurance Co., Inc., accompanied structural staff of United Engi- by Mrs. Litchfield, left Hongkong teers, who went On leave by for Haiphong by the sa. Esang "oh flying-boat in March. An Aus
he tralian, aged about 45 years, June 24,
went to Malaya 19 years #go from Sydney and joined United The Hongkong's Y's Men's Club Engineers, Singapore. He was will hold a dinner at the Chinese connected with a number of im Recreation Club, Causeway Bay, portant construction **under at 8.30 pm. to-day, when the takings in Singapore. initiation of new members will take place.
About 100.000 European refugees will find accommodation in a new A Requiem Mass will be cele-colony in Yunnan Province with brated at the St. Joseph's Church, the assistance of the National Garden Road; ' at eight o'clock, Government and the Yunnan this morning for the repose of Provinciai Government This the soul of Mable Louise Sophie, move was started by Mr. Jacob Leong, on the occasion of the Berglas, a refugee from Germany tenth anniversary of her death, where he has a banker and
manufacturer. The community
will be self-sustaining and Euro-
Two Szechwan girls have pean refugees will be welcome submitted a Joint petition to the regardless of their religious bellets. National Military Council asiding or nationality.
That they be allowed to enlist in the
Chinese Army and sent to the front] ::
| to fight the Japanese. They are
| Miss" Chang" Yung-chiu and · Misa.
Disbandment
%
or
combination
Yang Taao-shu, teacher and of some of the Singapore Euro graduate of the 4th Primary Dean sub-units in the Straits School of the Haleh, Ho Country of Settlements Volunteer Force, un Pelling District in Ezechwan less a better response to recruit- ing appeals than has so far been apparent fsforthcoming, was One of the biggest Chinese announced by Major General W. [society weddings to take place in G.8. Dobble, the General Officer Penang in recent months was Commanding. Malaya in the an- solemnised at the Chinese Con-nual report of the Force which sulate, Northam Road, on June was laid before the Legislative 15, when Miss Claire Chan, Council on June 15, TM In Peneng daughter of the late Mr. Chan | and ́ Malacca the kuropean -re - Fook Ngbee and Mrs. Chan | Cruiting situation l satisfactory Fack Nghice, was married to Mr. Jadda Major General Dobble, and Cheah Wat Han, the youngest no such (steps, would be needed son of Mr. Cheah Tat Jin,
in those" units":
dead in
"MOST IMPORTANT HANDCLASP"
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Mr. J. P. Kennedy, the Ameri
the Ambassador, described handshake of the King and Pre- sident Roosevelt when they met as "perhaps the most important handclasp of modern times."
TUESDAY, JUNE 27 1939.
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
„” Good party last night, when't it ?" "Ee -- yes I suppose so. Sauwhow I don's nem to remember things very clearly, l'er got a vague recollection of somebody wearing a fez"
Yes. That was you."
! Oh, I see. Tell me, Philip — do you renumber me being "dropped head downwards from a great height on to a concrete floor, dj'any chance ?”
SH eb "Slight headache,
Philip I wish I had your flair for understatement. I feel as though I had lived on an exclusive diesof iron filings and broken glass for the last five years. What emages me is that you seem to be
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zo disgustingly cheerful and bright ̧· this morning, "I know. It must be very exasperat. ing. A medicine man warned me to stick to 'Gimlets
at parties. So'l always take the precaution of bring. ** ing my own bottle of Rose's Lime Juice. You may cock a sceptical eye- brow, Edwin but it works."
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"Rose's Lime Juice is the latest thing in therapeutic agents. It restores the metabolic balance. In simple non-
·welentiße parlance suitable for s mind such as yours, Edwin it prevents hangovers." *Why oh why i didn's you tall ma this last night ?"
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"Reports," he said, "showed that received with the same warmth America not as the King and Queen were being
and enthusiasm in America In Canada.
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