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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1927.

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ALARM CREATED IN PAHANG.

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FLOODS IN MALAYA. The whole plain alongside the line was a sheet of water completely blotting out the main trunk road," which was only indicated by the number of stranded cars only partly visible. Other cars and lorries, 30 or 40 in number, were held up. At Ulu Yam about 50 cars were held up.

A SEA OF MUDS.

CHEAP LIGHT.

CURRENT FROM ANOTHER, TENANTS MAIN..

WIRE CONNECTED.

At the Kowloor Magistracy yes- The train, which had started With only a slight rainfall the flood waters in Ipoh have sub-from Ipoh at 1.3 p.m., oventual-terday, the principal tonant of the Kuala Lumpur. at second floor of No. 28 Cooke Street, sided appreciably but the Hale ly reached Street and is still submerged and 12.30 a.m., although due there at charged the occupant of the first the water in the town drains has 6.85 p.m. This meant that all door before Mr. W. Schofield with not yet been able to run off. The passengers between Penang and larceny of electricity. water on the concrete back lanea Kuala Lumpur who were travell in the area bounded by Belfield ing to Singapore had missed the Street and Leech Street has dis-night mail at Kuala Lumpur.. appeared, leaving large quanti- ties of filth and garbage for the Sanitary Board to deal with. From an early hour on November 4 the coolies employed by the Board were engaged in clearing the filth from this area, the stuff being removed in lorries.

KNIGHT'S DEATH.

CAREER OF SIR WILFRID

PEEK.

His suspicions being aroused by the inexplicable increase in his elec- tric light bill, the complainant kept watch for several nights, and on Monday he saw the accused con- neet a wire to his, (complainant's) mains. It has also been ascertain- ed that although the tenants of the first floor did not have a meter in- |stalled, they had been using an

electric light for the past month.

The death of Sir Wilfrid Peck,

The accused admitted connecting third baronet, of Francis, Feek and and Co., took place in Paris on his light to the complainant's mains, He had been I for but alleged that he had the com- October 13.

the American Hos-plainant's permission to do so, some time in

This the complainant. denied, and pital there. Sir Wilfrid was the grandson of Sir Henry, Peek, the the Magistrate fined the accused frat baronet, at one time M.P. for $25, or, in default, one month's hard Mid-Surrey, and the head of the labour City firm of tea merchants, Peek Brothers, of Eastcheap. ·

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Meantime Pahang is also experiencing very wet weather. Mentakab has already been flooded and the water was steadily rising jon November 8. Hire cars in the place are doing no business as they cannot go either to Temer- lah or Bentong because the water on several sections of the road is about waistdeep or more. The conditions in Mentakab are such Sir Henry married Miss Edgar, JUMP FROM WINDOW that the residents fear a repeti- a daughter of a partner in the firm tion of 1926 events. Some of the of Swan and Edgar. Their BOO, people who have been more scared Sir Cuthbert Edgar Peek, one of than others are buying extra H.M. Lieutenants for the City of stocks of foodstuff while several London, murried the Hon. Augusta others have left the place for Louisa Brodrick, daughter of the localities that are generally up-eighth Viscount Midleton. When affected by floods..

Train Held Up. Wet weather continues and the flood is, still with us, says the Ipoh' paper of Nov. 7. The main trunk road from Ipoh as far as Ulu Yam was passable for traffic on Sunday although sections'klong the road after passing Gopeng were under water. Kuala Dipang was also under water and Kuals Kubu was a sea of mud.

After leaving Kuala Kubu a different state of conditions was apparent, Usually placid ankle deep streams were roaring tor- rents of more than two or three feet in depth and nearly all road side drains were full to the brim.

Just south of Ulu Yam the road was so badly submerged that no car could pass. A dash was mado to the Ulu Yam railway station in the hope of being able to persuade (the stationmaster to hold up the day mail train from Ipoh to Kuala Lumpur, but it was learned that 100 yards south of the sta- tion a portion of the permanent

Sir Cuthbert died in 1901 the pre- Bent Earl of Midleton was guardian to his son, Sir Wilfrid, who was then 15 years of age,

SEQUEL TO A RAID BY THE POLICE

Killed as the result of jumping through a window during a polica raid at No. 7a, Cross Street, on October 31, the death of a Chinese woman formed the subject of an in- quest which was held in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

Sir Wilfrid Peek was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cam, Evidence given by Inspector bridge. He was a magistrate for Bloor was, that he raided the house Devon and High Sheriff of that at 9.30 p.m. on suspicion that it was county in 1912, and served in the being run as a sly brothel. On en- late Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry, oftering the premises, he went to the which he was major. During the rear cubicle where he found two war he gained the D.S.O. in 1918, young girls, two men, and an old and on one occasion was reported woman. He told them who he was, and then proceeded to search the to have been killed.

He had a narrow escape while place, leaving a Chinese detective in

India, being charge of the rear cubicle.

Sud- tiger-hunting in

panther, and only denly an alarm was raised by the mauled by a

when the witness rescued by a clever shot from a detective, and friend. In 1913 he married Ed- went to the rear cubicle, he saw wine, daughter of the late William that the girl had dropped out of The ambulance was Heary Thornburgh, of St. Louis, the window. United States, and leaves a

telephoned for and she was remov- Francis Henry Grenville Peek, who ed to the hospital. is 12 years old, and succeeds to the title.

FLORENCE MILLS.

REPORTED.

Bon,

way was submerged and that DEATH FROM APPENDICITIS cutting slips which were visible after being submerged showed In cracking in several places. another section one side of the permanent way had sunk three feet. The work of repairing the damage was quickly tackled.

At 10.10 p.m., the mail train puffed out of the station, where it had had an enforced, stay of over five hours! Progress was "dead slow," nearly ten minutes being taken to cover the area that was the cause of all the trouble.

New York, Nov. 2. The death is announced of the coloured revue artiste, Florence Mills, as the result of an attack of appendicitis. "Times of Cey lon.'

[The late Florence Mills was a great favourite on both sides of the Atlantic. She returned to America recently after a long and successful season in London, in "Black Birds."]

Dr. J. R. Craig said that the woman died at 8.10 p.m. on Novem- ber 1, and the autopsy revealed that death who due to fracture of the skull.

The Inquiry was adjourned until Friday, the Coroner directing that

the deceased's mother should be called to give evidence.

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