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"THE STRAITS AT SINGAPORE"

MARITIME LIFE OF THE WORLD AND THE AGES,

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-The gleaming beach and And sure enough, they seem to

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uncanny the palm trees,

adroitness through the crowded The Straits at Singapore, Like the drawing away of a roadstead by day and to glide the shadows 1ft eerily by night in and out of the filmy curtain from the eastern horizon. A great harbour confidently as some streak of crimson deepens rapid-night bird wingling its way above ly, then changes to gold. A rose the forest.

Yet the Reacy monsoon tiny touches clouds, and the islands are bath ed in a soft lavender hue. The gray of the sea yields to a deep purple and then to the turquoise blue of the tropical day. denly, then, following quickly Its outriders of crimson and gold, the sun leaps above the horizon. It is morning in the Straits,

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THE CHINA

MENTALLY RESPONSIBLE."

YOUNG BRITON MAKES WRONG BEGINNING.

JUDGE'S LENIENCY.

Selangor, May 21. Charles Brown, a young assist ant formerly employed by John Little and Co., was charged at the Selangor Assizes with the theft of cash valued at jewellery and

Accused $1,830 from that firm. pleaded not guilty and conducted his own defence.

modernity has touched them, too, in the form of artificial power, especially among the sam- pan type. It appears that a mer- chant of Singapore recently im- Sud-ported a cargo of outboard motors The Deputy Public Prosecutor, to be an un- Mr. R. C. Cussen, said that on Mon- which turned out.

They went successful venture.

day, March 3, accused lost $45 or of their value to a $50 at the Selangor races.

He ro- at a tithe canny Chinese who disposed of turned to his boarding house,

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where a fellow employee named them to his countrymen.

half the harbour sampana Gaskin also lived, at about six dash weirdly about the Straits o'clock. When Mr. Gaskin teturn- rest at lasted from a bath he found that his while their owners from the laburious sculling of keys had disappeared from his dressing table. There were two centuries.

bunches of keys, one of which bore the keys of the outer doors the other the of the store and keys of, the branch of which Mr. Gaskin had charge.

to a

• Singapore awakes to life if, indeed, it can truly be said ever to have been asleep. At any rate, the subdued noises of the night, seemingly softened dull murmur by the very weight of the thick equatorial darkness, swell into the tumult of the tur- bulent day in this strange place where twenty tongues clamour for expression. Every teeming street bursts into In babe-like activity. The legendary tranquillity of the White East is markedly absent. and yellow, black and brown, Chinese and Malay and Indian. and every rucial blend that the migrations of men have ever de veloped, mingle in kaleidoscopic nelivity like to nothing else on earth, when the day begins in Singapore.

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At the other end of the road- stead, behind the breakwater, and around yonder point alongside the great piers. lie the ships of to-day, the great F. & O. liners, the Messageries Maritimes, the North German, Lloyd and the Hamburg-American, the Chargeurs Reunis, the Danish East Asiatic Company, the Nippon Yusen Kal- sha, the Royal Netherlands Lloyd, the familiar Blue Funnel liners, the British India. Ellerman & Bucknall, and a score of others; together with ships plying to Australian cities through the Torres Straits. or to the exotic ports of the north and west coast;

ers presently to set forth Javanese and Sumatran harbours, and cargo ships of every type and size from every port on earth.

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Stole From Safe. Accused went to the shop and entered.

He emerged fifteen or twenty minutes later. Hle tele- phoned for a hired ear, but left in a rikisha before it arrived. Later in the evening he summoned the car to the Coliseum cafe. While in the shop accused opened a safe with Mr. Gaskin's keys and remov. ed jewellery and cash to the value already stated. Accused was scen on the station platform that even-

later at the Raffles Hotel, Singa pore, when all the jewellery was recovered, but some of the money had gone.

After corroborative evidence had been called for the prosecution,

As it la ashore, so in commen- aurate degree is it in the Straits, attractive tropically fitted steaming and was arrested a day or so that famous roadstend where daily one may regarded the maritime life of the world and the ages. If the picture ashore is unique. so also is the picture afloat. The fings of all nations flutter in the morning breeze from the stern- posts of the luxurious liners of today and of the goggle-eyed junka in which the men of Con- fucius's day braved the typhoons of the China Sea. None but a mariner of the eastern seas can

by any chance identify all the national emblema which add their rainbow colours to the rich-hued icture that is the Straits at Singapore.

It is a marine picture anrival led, as the blend of the life of all the world and every age in the seething, steamy streets of Singapore is a picture of human activity unparalleled. Everything that is of the sea is represented here in the Straits, as everything that is of the land is represent ed there in the streets. And that name of singing euphony ever recalls it all to him who has seen it, ever fires the fancy of him who has not.

What, then, is yonder five-strip ed flag of red, white and blue, We-you and I and all of us which Allas from the stern of a have thrilled to the very word next little passenger steamer? ever since we saw it on the map

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at times, but that was quite usual in such cases."

Brown; Are there any after effects. after a concussion RC- cident?

ly:

His Lordship: This offence was committed early in March. Is it likely that mental effects of the concasalon might last as long as that?

can," said his Lordship in passing sentence, "because we realise that' the punishment of Imprisonment" is very much worse for the European In this country than it is for the Dr. Wakefield: Quite frequent-native. Owing to the climate and other things. It is much more un- we give pleasant and therefore Europeans who are convicted more lenient sentences as a rule. With regard to the offence itself, there is no getting away from the fact Dr. Wakefield: It is possible that it is a breach of trust, and that the mental affects of concua- therefore much more serious than sion might last as long as fiva an ordinary larceny. I take into months.

account your age, and I take into Accused asked an involved ques-account the more important fact tian to the effect that if Dr. that you have already spent three 8, Wakefield knew that six months months in prison awaiting trial, before he left Britain he had a and the sentence I impose is there- nervous breakdown necessitating a fore three months leas than it long stay in hospital, would Dr. would have been had you not been Wakefield be surprised to. learn In prison. that after the motor-cycling ac- cident he found himself doing things of which he inter had recollection.

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Dr. Wakefield was understood to reply that he had had perience of such a combination of circumstances.

Questioned by Mr. Cussen, Dr. Wakefield said that when accused was discharged from hospital the Chief Surgeon noted that he was quite well. Eleven days was

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rather short period to spend in hospital with concussion.

His Lordship then asked accused BAY whether he had anything to

before sentence was passed.

Brandy Affected Him. Accused said he came out to Malaya with very good references and with the intention of making a career for himself in this coun- try. Four months after his arrival he met with a very serious motor- cycling accident, which greatly affected his nervous system. Since that time he had suffered from nightmares and delusions and at times had done things of which he had no recollection afterwards. The week previous to the theft he was very busy in his department and two days' before it he worked from 8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. with no

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"But I cannot pass over such a serious matter. It is not “a case law to be dealt with under the relating to first offenders. It la not a case of that kind at all. It is quite true that John Little and Co., have lost nothing by, this lapse, but, it is equally true that you cannot prove that you were not mentally responsible at the time. It. would be a very difßcult thing to do. But I realise that it may be that you were not quite normal, and I take all these things into Grepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10,00 Black or Brown Shoes from .$ 6.00 account, but I cannot pass upon Black or Brown Boots from .. 8.00 you a less sentence than

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A GIFTED JOURNALIST.

With the sudden death at his home in Paris of Mr. George Jeffreys Adam, there has passed away one of the outstanding | figures in the British-speaking literary and journalistic world of the French capital. For, although only 46 years of age, Adam had already made his mark not only as

journalist, but also AX the author of a number of successful books, the latest of which was a brilliant study of Clemenceau.

Brown called several witnesses. Mr. A. E. Bond, director in charge

He was a brilliant conversa- of John Little and Co., Kuala Lum

tionalist, gifted writer and journalist, popular with his fel- pur, said, in reply to Brown, that he (Brown) had borne a quite

Over the week-end he felt lows, and possessed of a keen in satisfactory character up to the very unwell and on Monday he sight into French and' interna- time of this offence. It was true left at one p.m., it being a half tional politics, and his death will that about four months after he holiday, intending to lie down become as a shock to his large circle arrived accused had serious fore attending the races and after- of friends in Paris and elsewhere. motor-cycle accident which neces-wards to return to the godown to sitated his spending ten days in complete some work. He returned hospital. Accused came to the to the godown as he intended and firm with very good references.

after finishing his work he helped Brown: Is it true that I have himself to a glass of brandy. "I managed to repay everything that think that must have affected me," said accused, "as I am not used was missing?

It is the new flag of the Kingdom of our school days. With all Mr. Bond replied that only $60 Siam, the only absolute sorts of flaming imagery we have of the cash remained to be account. monarchy on earth; and it has invested this most picturesque ofed for, and the arrangements made recently replaced the famous in all the ports of all the seas. by accused did not quite cover signia of the white elephant. Ah, And those of us who

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Accused had a certain 7es. But what, in the name of length realised our dreams of amount of money due to him. in all we thought we had learned at looking upon, of participating in, the provident fund. school, is that curious, many that stupendous spectacle known coloured banner astern that other as The East" on its stage 5,000 lapper little vessel? That is the miles aquare, have found that flag of the Protectorate of Saraeven the farthest lights of fancy wak, the land of the famous Bri Ish Rajah, His Highness Charles Vyner Brooke, and that is one of the little fleet of the Sarawak Steamship Company which will 'n'be you to little-known ports where primitive, people dwell be side unfamiliar seas.

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have not led us astray as to the many-hued allure of Singapore and the Straite.-M. T. G. in Christian Science Monitor.

A travelling cashier of the London and North Eastern Railway was found unconscious in a train at If the wanderlust is wont to Maryland Point station. His cash rip you at little provocation, beboxes, containing £6,000, had been pell advised and keep away from rifled. Singapore, where there is more

In reply to Mr. Cussen, Mr. Bond said that accused worked for five months after his accident and did not seem abnormal in any way.. Mr. S. M. Adams, a missionary, gave evidence that he came out with Brown on the same ship and had seen him frequently since. He had always known Brown, to be of good character and he was surprised and shocked when he read of this affair.

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Proceeding, accused said he was only 21 years of age and this was the first time that he had been in a court. He had lost his position and he asked for leniency as a first offender. He asked to be sent to Britain to make a fresh start as soon as possible. He had been in prison

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