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SINGAPORE LETTER.
The GovernorshipColony's Big Future The "Itugger" Problem.
(Our Own Correspondent.) \,
25, 1925.
Singapore, Nov. 14. As Mark Twain said when ha read his obituary, the reports of
AT MEMORIAL SERVICE,
and oxaminors, and to award oertificates to those who succoed in becoming proficient. From onquiries we have mado We have learned
the details of much valuablo work which was rendered by members of the Association during the recent troublos,of the number of casualty cases with which they were con- cerned, and we can assure readors (if any assurance is needed that our Governor's retirement havo there is nothing but crodit and been greatly exaggerated. At his high praise due to the young men
first public appearance since hel who devoted so much of their time rence, Guillemard very decisively
returned to the Colony, Sir Leu-]
to gratuitous servico on behalf of knocked on the head the interest Įthe general community. Wo caning rumours that have been in not help but thinking that much elreulation during his absence. So far from his throwing off the more advantage might be taken burden of office within a few of the Association by the Autho-months, or even weeks, as had been ritios in the way of greater en suggested in a London message, His couragement to the mon of the Excellency announced that he hoped
to spend more than one morej police force to form a strong Armistice Day in Malaya. At the Division within their ranks. In time, he was addressing an many of the police forcos at Service gathering, and the very Homo, the possession of a St. marked warmth of the welcome!
It was fortunate that the occasion John's Ambulance first-aid badge
extended to him on this occasion) was significant. Of His Excel caught General Fraser in a mood currios with it an increase of pay leney's personal popularity there of prophecy, for he has told us more KEEP GOOD COMPANY, AND and we think that a similar indu- can be no question, and when an about the Imperial destiny of Singa- YOU WILL BE OF THE NUMBER. -- comont might be made hore in attack upon him, couched in singure and Malaya, as it is being George Herbert.
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A VALUABLE SERVICE.
Suppressing Banditry.
view of the
Chinatown.
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His Excellency the Governor is here soon (right-band back soat of cur! arriving at St. John's Cathedral for the inemorial service to victims of the "M. 1" subniarine disins. tor. Also in the car are Sir Matthow Nathan and the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher. (Photo: Ming Yuan).
What Malayo Wants.
DAY BY DAY.
on domand to-day is 26. 4.7/16d.
The opening rato of the dollar
The annual Polico Ball will take
placo on Wednesday, December 23.
The Charity Football match The developments played on Poppy Day resulted in
Mi. E. Zoitlyn, who is appear-
The Canton 'Government has invested the control of the
to those which will be laid before General Fraser foreshadowed will un addition of 8525 to the Earl the Federal Council next month, have direct and indirect results for Haig Fund. It is welcome news to hour The Straits Times, however, main-|
the civilian population, and the that the Canton authorities have tains that its information came latter will be the most important. in hand a comprehensive scheme from a reliable source, and official When it all comes true, we shall being for the defence in the Ather- which aims at the suppression of denials, at home or abroad, are like just as intent upon tla and rubberley case, is instructed by Masers. bandit activity. Working with advance theatrical notices to be as we are to-day, and H.M. Forces Hall and Hind, and not by Messrs. armed forces on land and water, taken with a grain of salt. So we will go their own, inobtrusive, Hall Brutton & Co., as stated together with aeroplanes, if can but wait and see.
Fosterday. Armistice quietly efficient way, but fadirectly found necessary, the Government Day was duly observed down here the existence of a naval and air ! is credited with the intention of with the usual religious services increase in the amenities of life in tained only two cases of in-
base should result in a very great
Last week's health return con- organising a big movement hyn ex-Service festivities, and wel which it is hoped to extirpater also had the two-minutes silence, forward to here, and which another curlet fever and enteric fever
опе Malaya. The three things we look fectious disease, each of scatter brigand bunds in all parts. of Kwangtung, and for the better but this solemn observance is
both Chinose, reported from the carrying out of the plan a system curiously unsatisfactory in a city generation will certainly have, are
Victoria registration It would indeed be extremely of district committees and sub- such as ours, where it is ignored airways. We need wireless to a proper hill-station, wireless, and
district. There was a clean bill of health regrettable if, because of justified committees has been devised. It in
Fortunately the
for Monday," is thus hoped to sacure the active day was a public holiday, and there the very excellent service which is supplement our news service, and criticism of the Colony's ambul-co-operation of every town and was little traffic in the streets, so aneo and first-aid arrangements village in the project, and this that the interval between the guns collected at Bandoeng in Java, and dealt with it greater length in appears to be quite feasible in seemed quiel enough to the crowded distributed to all the newspapers special article elsewhere in this government, system in vogue in Cathedral.;,
admirable local congregation assembled in the the Dutch East Indies shows Arsonal in a committee of eight what can be done in this direction;ombers, the personal of which issue, the impression gained cur-practically every part of China.
it is to be hoped that one day the includos Dr. C. C. Wu, a membor roney that there is any complaint We in Hongkong with the Can-
Our Imperial Future.
British Admiralty will follow the from the Engineers Union and ton authorities every success in
The distinguished soldier who is precedent set by the United States, to members from the Allied against the officiency and work of their efforts, for the bandit evil is responsible for the defence of this and allow their stations to be used Labour Union. the local District of the St. John's one which causes injury not only country had some remarkable things for this purpose. Facilities for air Ambulance Association. It must to the people and trade of to say at the ex-Service banquet on travel would make an incredible be very clearly borne'in mind that to the business interests of this in due time Singapore will be the country, with its calm seas, many Kwangtung but as a consequence, Armistice Night. He told us that difference to our life here. This we are criticising only the Gov-Colony as well. One part of the Clapham Junction of the airways rivers, and serene weather, is ideal crnment's provision, or lack of Canton scheme is the patrolling of the eastern and southern worlds, for flying, and Colonel de Pinedo of waterways by gunboats and that we shall have surface craft, showed us, when he passed over the provision, of RA adequately armed "launches, and this should submarines, a minefield, heavier Peninsula, that it would be possible, equipped and staffed public am-prove extremely valuable in keep land, defences, an increased garri-with proper facilities for air travel, bulance and first-aid service, anding check on the activities of son, and many other things which to breakfast in Singapore and be in
individuals who are often loosely will change the face of Singapore, Java for tiffin, or spend the week- bogey pool competition arranged that we are not unmindful of the referred to as pirates, but who in and possibly invest Penang and end in Penang, four hundred miles by the Royal Hongkong Golf very valuable past voluntary reality are bandits operating several of the magnificent but away, or in the hills of Sumatra, Club, played between the 21st services of the members of the St. afloat in the many waterways of almost unknown harbours on the and be back in our offices on Mon; and 23rd, instant, and the result John Ambulance Association. the province. If it comes to a west coast of Malaya with a day morning. As a matter of fact, was: Mr. H. U. Ireland (1 down), We hasten to make this perfectly rout out these pests, we have not not now possess.
question of a big expedition to imperial importance which they do it is by no means certain that air- Mr. J. Hooper 12 down), Mr. C. clear in view of any possible mis-the, slightest doubt that foreign Fraser added that these things were fitably already between Singapore down).
Sir Theodore ways could not be operated pro-A. Pocl and Mr. W. Lang (both 4 conception. Enjoying a member-naval forces would gladly assist coming the more, surely because and the Dutch Indles, considering |
in the work of ridding Kwang-they were coming slowly. If the the extent of the tourist traffic. It has been reported, that the.'
ship of over 70, all of whom are tung of this ever-present evil. qualified to render first-aid to the
injured, the local Association has done yeomun work, which we are
quickly. The mombers
Committee of the Institution of It has boon decided by the
Hongkong not to hold the annual Engineers and Shipbuildoru of ball this year, it being felt that under present adverse circum. stances it would be unnecessary extravagance to do so.
There were 29 entries in the
Canton Government intends to appoint a Committee of five to manage the affairs of the Kwang- tung University. The committee will consist of Mos978. Wang
one other.
statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, brooding over the harbour near the HOLDING UP RUGBY SEASON, scene of these festivities, had ears. The Clerk of the Weather has evi- in danger of forgetting all to Aid, the journal of the Order of founder of Singapore, for no more[Rugby game more or less on suffer. Ching-wel; Tan Yon-kal, Wa
to hear, these words would have dently decided to remind us of the The September numbor of First been pleasant hearing for the fact that in Singapore we play the the three Divisions-Y.M.C.A.,salem in England, contains of the site of this port could have start "rugger" about the middle of
of the Hospital of St. John of Jeru-emphatic confirmation of his choice ance. Ordinarily we expect to Chao-shu, Chen Kung-pok and. Kowloon and Indian-leading article highly eulogistic
been vouchsafed, of the work done by the St. John also told us that Cameron's Plateau, that stage is not usually in a cor cial institutions and ready sup-
General Fraser October, although the ground at vory spontaneously came for Ambulance Brigade in Hongkong
The soundness of British finan- ward during the recent strike, during the recent disturbances the proposed site for a hill-station dition to encourage heroic tacking port which is being extended to and for some weeks at least the and also in connection with the in the northern hills of the Penin- In November, December, and Colony's metor ambulances on editor
disaster in Po Hing Fong. The sala, will one day be a vast metro-January, on the other hand, the only Hongkong to help it tide over lengthy polis of health, with accommodation danger is that the ground may be exemplified in the announcement are well the island and in Kowloon were editorial by saying that no for thousands of people, and sur-under water, although the sciention Page 3 of this issue in regard served by voluntary attendants praise can be too high for the rounded by farms and gardens of fically-drained Eports stadium to the deposit of gilt edged self-denial and devotion to duty fevery description. Well, Cameron's which we now have at Singapore socurities by the Morcantile Bank drawn from the Kowloon and exhibited by the St. John Ambul Plateat is stil virgin jungle, and has proved a great boon, and of India to the Crown Agents as Indian Divisions. Duting the ance Brigade in this dreadful largely unexplored, and the Straits stands the constant wear of "soc-security for additional note issue autbreak of small-pox early in disaster, and the Order of St. John of Johore, save for the giant cause- cer" in the dry season, and the in Hongkong in connection with 1924, members of the Association)
is proud of its soldiors in Hong-way which links Singapore island doluges of the wet monsoon with the Trade Loan. kong". vaccinated over 12,000 Chinese, and the heroic work performed
concludes
with the mainland, are as desolate equal success, The first four and beautiful as they have beon wecks of the "rugger" season have
present conditions
ever since the ealling clippers been phenomenally dry, and the ed by HMS. Malaya for competition. in the recent terrible Po Hing the Day was issued by Colonel Signs are not wanting, however, in the southern semi-final of the to the unevenness of the State and, The following Special Order of passed that way into the China Sea, result is that Singapore will play throughout the peninsula, but owing Fong disaator is still fresh in the C. Russoll-Brown, D.8.0., yoster-that serious work is about to be Malaya Cup next Saturday with a Settlement sides, and the impossl- minds of all. On many occasions day:The General Officer Com-commenced on the naval base. A team selected practically on the ble distances between the various the Government has soon fit to manding the Forces in China an veritable mammoth among dredgore strength of the usual Newcomers, towns, the competition has proved nounces with deep regret the has arrived from Portsmouth, extra versus the Rest Oxture which less and less satisfactory, and next express thanke for the services death of Her late Majorly Alex- rendered. Among the stuff of the andra, the Queen Mother.
the personnel are coming out, and the opens In
season, Our up season it is proposed to ask the | Kowloon-Canton Railway there making this announcement the apparent inaction of the last few country rivals have not had the donors' consent to a change being
General Officer Commanding months, which have been, occupied same handicap, and it, is more made. Either the ownership o has been infused something akin knows that he is voicing the in survey work, ls at last beginning than probable that Singapore, the trophy, will be decided by & to enthusiasm for first-ald work, sympathy of all ranke now sor to bear fruit. The naval base site which has been the strongest side match between the Colony and the and those in charge of the As-which our holoved Queen Mother and attracts few people, for the war, is not likely to reach the final tween North and South, or there ving in China. The deep interest is sixteen miles from Singapore, in Malayan Rugby ever since the Federated Maizy States, or be sociation are at all times ready always took in the service and reason that there is nothing to see this year. The Malaya Cup, by the is a third alternative of running. and willing to organise classes the many charitable institutions there, and, indeed, it requires an way, is proving a source of some the competition on knock-out lines, of instruction when and whore connected therewith will be sadly elastic imagination to picture embarrassment to Rugby men down with fixtures played on neutraln desired, to provide the lecturere bored.
misaad and gratefully romem-battle-erubers anchored in these here. This cup, together with a grounds where the distance makes
inangrove-fringed solitudes.
similar soccer" trophy, was present this necessary.