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LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.
The strike of the Wei, Turg} The case against a former employee of the New Zealand Cotur Mill, which began on Insurance Company who is chargNovember 21, still continues, and ed with embezzlement, was again 1,481 hands are affected. before Major Willson at the. Central Magistracy. The enge was further adjourned.
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There will be a Public Lecture at the Helena Max. lastitute Monday. December 6, at 5.30 p.m. given by Mr. Lindhell on "Chinese
Admission free. * Names,"
The Resident of Pahang has appointed Mr. C. J. Dunn to be a member of the Vigilance Com- Imittee in and for the district of
Observing that it was a ensa- Temerloh, for the purpose of for wanton cruelty. Major C watching inematograph films, Wilson fined & Chinese $10 at the posters and advertisements and Central Magistracy yesterday for live to act as recipient of complaints plucking the feathers off a and information arising from ex-
pigeon. hibition display or publication of such.
Another kidnapping case was brought before the Mixel Court, Shanghai, on November 23. when four elderly women were charged with kidnapping six girls, the ages ranging from five to ten years. Owing to there being a number of witnesses the Court was unable to proceed with the lease, which was adjourned for one week, the children to be held by the Door of Hope.
Since the end of August the silver dollar has come to be an article of merchandise in which there is a big import from Hong Kong, says a Bangkok paper. We know of one case in which a ship brought something approaching half a million dollars, and no doubt there were many other cases. The price of silver is down and so is the exchange value of the "silver dollar. People with money boy dollars in the hope of a big proft when the value goes ļup again,
Was
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1926.
On "November 18 another GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
meeting was held by the Chinese and foreign authorities of Shang- hai in discussion of problems con-- cerning the rendition of the Mixt Court." The decision, however, is unknown.
In Washington on November 18, Gov.-Gen. Wood of the Philip- piæ Islands was charged with usurpation of Legislative and judicial functions" in abolish" ing the board of control at Manila statement issued by the in a Washington office of the Philip pine Endependence League.
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SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
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HONGKONG.
Mr. D. C. Weir employed by A Peking message. of Nov. the Jardine Engineering Corpora. 18 states:As a result of to-day's O'N DONKRET, BO V KREIS A Ha'a' izenean sa mac a' Canna n-cIE A MORETIL A tion, was fined $5 by Magistrate meeting of the Cabinet, the Gov- King in the British Police Court. ernment has instructed the Min- Shanghai, on Nov. 19. for falling istry of Home Affairs to make to obey a police traffe signal at preparations for the restoration the junction of Yates and Bubblof administrative power of the ing Well Roads,
In view of the fact that na- ive soldiery have been making a habit of searching Chinese in the Nantao and Chapel districts of Shanghai Sefore the hour of the Curfew Colonel Yen Tsung-yang has issued an order that this Fractice must cease and that all pedestrians must be treated with the utmost civility and courtesy.
Belgian Coneession in Tientsin, | which is to be followed by the declaration of the invalidity of the Sino-Belgium Treaty Commerce.
"It appears that many people
writes the
of the
in other provinces Kaeiyang dorrespondent "N.-C. Daily News' "think that travelling in Kueichow is very dan- gerous on account of robbers. I since Gen. nim glad to say that Chow Hai-cheng took over the
The proposal that the Japanese share of the Boxer indemnity beGovernorship of the province, he cereal et} to educational work in has been steadily suppressing rob-! China has aroused the hostility erbers and it is probably as safe to the Kiangsu Educational Associatravel in most parts of this pro
the ground vince as elsewhere. low in Shanghai, on that it will mean the training of along Japanese
Chinese studence
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The Western conception of ex. The Association has urged the sinister Orientul it seems is te teachers and students of local not yet dead." On November 17, hlase coluxes to join in a strong as the "N-C. Daily News," a zame pretest on the subject to the Pekingber of "Ryndam" students; anxious to get as much ecfour us pris- Government.
sible in the short space of time at!
Dao Ching-sie, formerly a cotton mill worker and whart coolie, who was thrown out of employment us a result of the May 30 Incident last year.
Inquiries made in Shanghaieir disposal, but with no ambi arrested in Pootang by the Chin- Lon Nov. 20, into the whereabouts tions in the way of waking up int ese police and transferred to the of Mr. Harrendorf, German mer-the middle of the night with " military court for interrogation. chant, arrested by the Japanese fiendish yellow devil Jeaning over He was eventually executed a few authorities at Yokohama recently them with a knife, demanding their or other life, asked R days ago, The Shanghai General in the act of absconding from money Labour Union has issued a de-Shanghai after allegedly per-police officer if he thought it would claration stating that the exec-petrating huge frauds on several be very dangerous to sleep in al tion of Dao Ching-sie by the local banks, revealed the fact that Chinese hotell for the night. Chinese authorities should con- Harrendorf' is still in cestody in suspect the offcer vince the people of the absolute Japan, though steps are being humour, for though his reply is not on record, we do know that the necessity of having self-govern-taken to have him removed to
students dropped the ideu. Shanghai for trial. ment in Shanghai.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS,
The Hon. Mr. P. J. Sproule, Senior Puisne Judge, Penang, has returned from leave,
Mr R, Scott has been appointed Resident Councillor, Penang. with effect from June 9, 1926,
Archdeacon and Mrs. Swindell have been granted six months? furlough and are due to leave Singapore or December 7.
Mrs. A. P. Scott has returned to Shanghai from England.
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Dr. A. G. H. Smart has been up- pointed Health Officer for Penang.
Mr. Chung Wing-kwong, the Can- ton educationalist returned to Can- ton from Hong Kong yesterday.
A farewell function to Rac Sahib D. Arulanandam, the Indian Government Agents, in Singapore Aafat Pasha Elaskari, the Diplo-was largely attended.. matic Agent of Iraq in London, has been recalled to Iraq to form a Cabines. and is leaving immediate-i
Mr. D. Beatty, Secretary for
We
of a sense of
Mr. J. A. Spiller. acting Gen- eral Manager, F.M.S. Railways, is going Home.
ex-
Mr. Chin Nyit Aun, an pupil of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, is now on his way back to Malaya. He has passed his Final Civil Engineers' Examination at the Battersea Polytechnic,
A rather sensational report published locally last week that! Sun Chuan-fang's family had left Shanghai and taken refuge in Tientsin was evidently erroneous, Seven says the "N.C.D: Mail" delegates (tai-piao) from Mar- and a half months, before retire-shal Sun arrived last week, but the report that they were Sun's "family" caused much amuse-
ly for Bagdad, says a London-mas-Chinese Affairs, S.S., has been Sage of November 7. Atte-Beymin, granted leave of absence for two Secretary of the Agency, is carry- ing on in London provisionally,
Miss Hope Falkner, well-known Singapore artist and daughter of Lieut.-Col and Mrs. Hope Falkner, who has been seriously in hospital for a month, is im- proving. The improvement is necessarily slow, however, and Mies Hope Falkner is likely to be in hospital for several weeks
ment.
Mr. B. Preedy, of Andersonment. School, Ipoh, goes on Home leave shortly. His place will be taken by Mr Lewis, who arrived from Home recently.
Franco-
A very successful British tiffin was held at the Royal Air Force Association of Shanghai headquarters, on Nov. A Reuter cable from Tokyo 19, the guests being British and states that the Bishop of London French officers. These included arrived there yesterday after-Lieutenant Bruyere, the new De- noon, and is stopping two or three puty Chief in the French Police, "days at the British Embassy be- Captain E: Fiori, Chief of French Paymaster Commander fore going to Korea. A very full Police. Mr. B. Van Buren, Ware-programme has been arranged. J. M. L. Cusack, Resident Naval housemen of the Singapore Har-
more.
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bour Board, retires to-day The health of the Emperor of after about -18 years sey Japan continues unimproved, ac vice and proceeds to Australia cording to court physicians, and early next month to join his wife His Majesty will spend the re- and three children who preceded mainder of the winter in the Im him some time ago. It is his in-perial Villa at Hayama, of which tention to settle there instead of he is very fond. The health of returning to his home in. Ceylon.
the Empress this winter is de scribed as excellent..
Officially stated to be travelling for private reasons, General Li
Naval Officer, Commander Har- vey, and Captain M. Chapeaux, Chief of the French Fire Brigade.
of the French Fire Brigade.
News has been received that Mr. Tan Soc-hock, FR.C.S. Edin., eldest son of Mr. Y. E. Tan, has left Genoa for Singapore and is due there on or about the 26th inst. Mr. Tan Soo-hock, In connection with the taking after graduating in Edinburgh, Lieb-chun came down from Canton over of the control of the Interproceeded to Vienna to take up to Hong Kong yesterday, it is be- national Mixed Court in Shang post graduate work and completed a special course on eye diseases. lieved, to go to Shanghal From hai. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, Shanghai, General Li is expected and Civil, Governor Chen Dao-yi, On completing this course he went to return to his native province of have jointly appointed Mr. Za to Berlin, Leipsig, and Paris to Kiangsi, by way of Kiuldang, Gen-Vei-taing, former Chief Procure study the methods adopted at the eral Li was chief of staff to the ftor of the Shanst High Court, to
eye clinics in these places. He late Dr. Sun Yat-sen several years take charge of the preparatory will start private practice in ago, and recently returned to Can- work for the formation of a pro- Singapore, says the "Free Press," ton to confer with the Nationalist visional Court in Shanghai in Government.
place of the present International Mixed Court. ·
The death of Mr. Maxmikan
The death occurred at the Joseph Gomes took place in Malacca on November 10. He. General Hospital at Shanghai last was a school teacher, and was so week, of Miss E. Fletcher, the engaged for over forty years. Matron of the Hospital. Miss He was born in Malacca, and Fletcher was taken suddenly educated at the High School (then with internal trouble and al- known as the Free School), leav-though everything possible was ing there to go to Rafes Institu- done it was too late to save her tion, Singapore, as a teacher, fe. The deceased lady assumed where he remained for about four duty in Malaya in 1908 and, apart He then went back to from furlough, had been con Malacca, to join the teaching staff tinuously on duty at Penang, of the High School, from which Malacca and, for the last four he retired on pension.
years, Singapore.
years.
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General Chen I, Civil Governor of Cheklang, accompanied by 20 of his bodyguards, arrived at the " North Station, Shanghai, November 18, from Hangchow by left for Nan- rail, and king. He was met on arrival at the station by Dr. V. K. Ting, director of the Woosung-Shang- hal Special Administrative Area, General Li Pao-tsang, commander of the Shanghai Martial Law Area, Ning Shao-san, managing director of the S.N.R... and S.H.N.R. stations, and a party of police and soldiers.
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