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which they would have scored a few years ago. One hears, of oducated men, formerly in receipt of good salaries, working as coolie- overseers at paltry wages which. can barely provide food and cheap lodging. They are to be admired for their courage, but they are not The Government Gazette notifies
In the public square at Rouen Mrs. J. H. Hodges, of Addlestone, serving to uphold the prestive of that the following have been the murderer, Hearl Verdiere, who Surrey, is a patient at a hospital their class which is such an in-struck off the register of co suffocated an eight-year-old girl for which she was collecting when
panies: The Hung Tak Lan Com- portant matter in the East, In pany, the Chung Yuen Hotel after luring her into his room, was she was injured in a road accident. Malaya especially, the white man Company, the Hol On Steamship executed at dawn. The guillotine During Addlestone carnival. she assumes an importance which is Company, and the China Chun had been set up during the night toured the streets with a barrel
Hung Shin Company.
On being awakened Verdiere took organ. She was carrying a Wey- the traditional rum and cigarette bridge hospital collecting box when His Excellency the Governor has appointed, provisionally and without a word. When the time a motor-cyclist knocked her down. subject to His Majesty's pleasure came for the walk to the scaffold he the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kolewall, C.M.G., set up a violent resistance and had Good Cheer at Funeral. LLD., to be temporarily an Un-to be dragged from his cell and tied "In accordance with the custom official Member of the Executive
Council in the place of the Hon. up with rope. Light was just ap-in Cleveland, a bidder to my funer Sir Shouson Chow, who is tem- pearing in the sky when the knife al be sent round the estate, and porarily absent from the Colony, fell.
Firemen Rescue Crow,
that wine, beer and sandwiches be provided at the expense of my gen- eral estate for tenants and othere who are present at my funeral.”
not required in the homeland, and prestige, involving the refusal of low-paid jobs or residence in cer- tain localities, is a paramount con- sideration. These out-of-works who are now taking the places of Asiatics in more humble employ ment are, apparently, merely the
The friendly football matches forerunners of hundreds more who
which take place at the North Point Paisley firemen were summoned are expected to be thrown upon an Stadium, at 3.30 and 4.30 p.m., in to rescue a young crow which had already overstocked labour market, which the Navy and the Somersets become entangled in a piece of net "This was a desire expressed in will provide the opposition. have ting on the top of a tall tree. By the will of Mr. John Kenneth Fos- in the near future.
.of ladders the been arranged by the Chinese means
fire-ter, of Egton in Cleveland, Yorks, reached the top of The problem is to afford relief Athletic Association, and not South men
and of 49, Pont-street, S. W., wool- but tree,
.owing to that will enable a man either to China, as stated yesterday. The the tide over the slump or else keep res-Athletics will have their first and the slenderness of the branch len manufacturer, who left un- they could not get near the bird. settled property of the gross value Eventually the branch was secured of £128,823. by a rope after which it was sEWN through and lowered to the ground Gratitude. when the trapped crow was released.
second XI's out,
and
The offices of the Supreme Court will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Long
The next time Mr. Albert Guy of Tulsa City, Oklahoma, gets into Vacation, except on Public
difficulties in the municipal swim- General Holidays, when the effices P.C. Arrests an Ostrich. will be entirely closed, and on Residents of Goff's Oak, near Iming pool, he'll drown. “A little Saturdays, when they will be open Barnet, Herts, were surprised to see while ago he was saved from drown from 10 am to noon, subject, a policeman on a bicycle chasing an ing in the pool by a life-guard. A however, to the provisions of sect ostrich along the main road, at few days after he had recovered tion 5 of the Supreme Court Barnacle Hill. Overcoming their his lawyer presented the City with (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, 99 surprise, many joined in the pur-a bill for £6. Guy claimed £3 be far as it relates to the Criminal suit. The constable, P.C. Brown, cause he was permitted to be al- Sessions. The Long Vacation was cycling along his beat when be most drowned, and another £3 be commences on the 20th instant, encountered the ostrich, which had cause of a bruise on the head suf- and torminates on the 17th Occscaped from a Zoo at Tanfield Stud fered, he says, when the life-guard Farm. With the help of motorists dropped him after dragging him tober, (both days inclusive).
and pedestrians he outflanked the from the pool.
pectable while secking suitable em- ployment, However, the slump threatens to be of long duration, and other branches of employment are not likely to be able to absorb more than an infinitesimal portion of the planting community. Whole Isale repatriation of the unemployed Mrs. D. B. Antonio wishes to Britons, it is pointed out, is no re- thank all friends for visits medy, and would deplete the coun- and kind enquiries during her
regrets try of valuable, experienced work recent illness. not being able to thank them ers, who may be required any time personally.
prosperity returns. The Malayan Government learned this through The League of Nations Health bird, and drove it into a shed where their experience in 1921-22, just Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the it remained a captive until removed Late Love-Letter:
week ended September 13th shows by its owners. before the Stevenson restriction
the following. cases-Plague: scheme rescued the rubber industry Mombasa 1, Alexandria 2 (2 Rats.
This is the story of the remark-with * pedestrian, and his from its last great slump. Hun- deaths), Rangoon 5 (4 deaths);
cholera Bombay 1 (1 death).able rats of Thorpe Village, Sur-machine crashed into a door dreds of European plantors were Calcutta 9 (4 deaths), Manila 7rey. According to Councillor Black of the Luxembourg Station, which financially aided to get Home or (1 death), Ilo-Ilo. 1 (2 deaths), they thrived on poison; played with had not been used for years. The emigrate to the Colonies, particular- Shanghai 1 death, Greater Shanghai cate; and grew as large as their door fell in splinters and reveal- 18 (2 deaths); small-pox: Cal-feline friends. Byfleet dump was ed a boxful of stamped and unde- ly Australia, and they were little cutta 3 (1 death), Cochin 1. their happy hunting and playing livered letters, which, on examina better off for it. Many drifted Madras 6 (1 death). Pondicherry, ground, so long in fact, that there tion, were found to be 26 years old. Batavia 2 were soon hundreds of them. Then Among, them was a postcard writ- back, but many more who were 1 (1 death), Penang
(1 death); typhus: Port Said 1: Chertsey Rural Council took a hand ten by a student of the Latin quar an asset to the country never re-cerebro-spinal fever: Shanghai and put down special polson baits,ter to a girl saying,. "Meat me at There have, of late, been 2
but the rats merely found in this the 'bus terminus at the Pantheon.” new diet. Even a professional rat number of references in Malayan turned. It follows that the best death.
plan would be to keep these men in newspapers to the serious unem-
back of Concessions? Experience catcher was unsuccessful to wipe out G.B.S. Wants, to Forget Age.
Though Mr. George Bernard ployment problem which is facing Malaya as long as possible, while has shown, in the cases of several rat town. When Thorpe was in
Shaw recently affected by this despair there appeared, however,
celebrated his helping them to retain their self of the
a modern pied piper who, for the Europeans in that country owing
policy, that conditions have
modest sum of 2s, commenced to seventy-fourth birthday he had no
Thongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY,
~EPT. 20 1939
THE UNEMPLOYED IN MALAYA.
areas
fore, the height of folly to hand
A man on a tricycle riding down the Rue Gay-Lussac, Paris, swerved to- avoid colliding
ed my birthday for ever." The world is wondering if he will for ever remain George Bernard Shaw and even he has doubts upon this
to the severe slump in rubber/respect and that of the native definitely become worse for every wage a deadly war on the rodents.desire to remember it. "The more races. The Ex-Services Associa-body concerned, Chinese and He has a sceret and deadly bait, my birthday is forgotten the bet the greatest on record-as well as tion of Malaya appears to favour a foreigners alike. Is it not, there and his services are being retained ter I am pleased," he told & report- the depression in the tin-mining industry and general commercial suggestion that unemployed Euro ever Concessions which we know by the Rural Council until the last er: "By deed pall I have discard- gloom. An article from a Straits Deans be enrolled in a special from experience will be badly rat has disappeared.
Volunteer force until the economic administered and whose residents Great Scott
will enjoy far less security and paper which was reproduced in
crisis passes. This seems to be a justice than hitherto? However, Joseph Patrick Burns, a Scots-question. There have been rum- the Telegraph yesterday indicated
which this business of making friendly man from Glasgow, was spending ours that he may be asked to ac- feasible scheme, and one
"gestures" to China is obviously a holiday in Bournemouth. Finedcept a peerage. "If they could find the anxiety with which such
ather Crown Colonies might keep to continue, even though all the five shillings in the local court he me a more distinguished title than bodies as the Ex-Services Associa-
in mind. Malaya, like Hongkong, giving is one one side and all the paid the money and added 5s. to it George Bernard Shaw I might con- tion of Malaya view the present
taking on the other.
for the Poor Box.
sider it," he has declared. pays a big military contribution an- situation and the prospects of it
nually, and it would be only rea- worsening. Few people outside sonable if some of that fund could the British territorica in Malayabe diverted towards aiding men realise the gravity of the position who at the best of times are that has arisen. In Hongkong.potential defenders of the ter- the European community is liable ritories where they are employed, to have sections of its members and in a critical period are of pos- affected by acute business depressibly greater value most of them sion, as witness the retrench-being trained and all having special ments following the big strike knowledge of the country and the and boycott of 1925 and the native language-than even closing down of one of the big battalion of regular troops. At local industries. We are for any rate, Hongkong observes the tunate, however, in not having any sister Colony's problem with the staple industry which employs greatest sympathy.
very large numbers of Europeans
and which is liable to severe fluctuations of prosperity, such
are
Rendition Gestures.
the intended rendition of the
as rubber-planting. In British In a statement-issued regarding Malaya, in normal times, the British Concession at Amoy, white employees of estates and stress has been laid on the point tin mines number well over a that the area affected is small in aize and of no real commercial thousand of the more junior men, importance. Whilst that may be liable to be "axed" in time perfectly true, we cannot but of stress. Both tin and rubber reflected in the decision to hand deplore the tendency which is
have seriously alumped in, mar-back the Concession to China.
estates ket value, and the
The terms of rendition are to be the same as those in regard to particularly affected, with urgent Chinking, which was returned economies necessary if most of them last year. Since then, we are told, there has been no trouble at are to avoid bankruptcy,
Chinklang, "and it is presumed that the same state of affairs will reign at Amoy." May we point out, however, that it is not safe to dogmatise on what may or may not happen anywhere "in China? No-one, of course, will seriously suggest that Chinkjang's immuni-
There are discussions proceeding at present as to the feasibility of re-introducing tapping restriction, on the lines of the Stevenson scheme of eight years ago. That can be left to the men on the spot to decide.ty from trouble last year is a Britons in other parts of the Far consequence of the former British East, however, cannot fall to take Concession being placed under Chinese rule: it fo 2 mere a special interest in the hardships coincidence, and nothing more, which face so many of their fellow But in the matter of these Con- countrymen because of the alump, censions we are not at the moment concerned with the question ' of Already, scores of Europeans are untoward incidents. What we out of work, and are earning a very would ask, in all seriousness, is what benefits are likely to accrue precarious living in occupations as the result of this handing
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Dew one.