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GREAT F.M.S. FLOODS:

CESSATION OF TAPPING AND MINING.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

All trains to and from Ipoh were suspended on December 9th, also the mail services.

The water was still rising at 10.30 a.m. that day but after exceeding December 3rd record level by one foot, at four o'clock began slowly to subside.

A thick pall of mist, came on about this time giving a gloomy outlook though news at the end of the day reports an easing off of water all over the district.

All European offices without ex- ception could not be approached to-day and business was completely at a standstill.

MEMOIRS AND PRIVATE.

CONVERSATIONS.

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S ATTAQK.

LADY OXFORD, COL. HOUSE AND COL REPINGTON.

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING. QUOTATIONS.

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P. & O. Bank.. Following the exposure of the East Ana Bask Whispering Gallery," the notori

Canton Insurance oas book of laked reminiscences, Chins Underwriters Lord Birkenhead in the course of North China Ins. an interview with a Daily Mail re presentative raised the whole ques Eon of the publication of memoirs and reminiscences in which opinions expressed privately are published.

Lord Birkenhead said:

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The incident, however, ruises a wider issue than the particular book involved. This is the whole ques- tion how far it is justisable to in-8 As a result of the prolonged Idade in, volumes of reminiscences, Boods in all parts of Perak there real or imaginary, the alleged pri. has been a cessation of tapping for rate conversations of public men. the whole week, whilst early every The fashion for memoirs of this

Kalas Mining 24......03% som. mine in Kinta and Kampar is kind, I imagine, was ses by Colonel Houded and will be unable to re- Repington's book, which, disregard Langkats (combined).... 1. 25 nom.

Do (nylo

Tia. 12 nom. sume production for many days ing the rules of decent behaviour.

S'ha. Explorations

Tis, di nom. LAD. whose of people.. conversations

Baube actions were in many casse a sub Tronoh Mines ject of controversy," replied Londral Caspiana

H.K. & K. Wharts........ Birkenhead.

Lady

Oxford's reminiscences HK & W. Docka

Now

more.

Meanwhile train service to the purported to reproduce the private shanghai LanH

south is suspended."

Last night the line was flooded or brenched at numerous places from Tanjong Rambutan to Batu Gajah

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No night mails are likely to be carried on the precedent, although Hoering"....

run for some days but one day train everybody realises that Lady Ox

between Ipoh running

and fard, with her vivid pen and kind Penang to-day.

hearted nature, endeavoured faith fully to reproduce the opinions of those she mentioned. She cannot. however; he acquitted of some slight blane in that she gave her racket a practice so obviously able to abuse.

Conditions in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur was visited by a great food on the night of the 27th, ixating over 21 hours.

Rain sharted on the 25th and con- tinued without a break lor, over

hours.

The river began to rise on Christ- mas morning and subsided the next day for a short time, but began rising again on Monday, until, by nightfall, clnost the whole town was inundated,

Colonel House carried the mai- ter to extremes by hurrying home from private conferences on the secrecy of which he himself insisted. and at, which he was the avowed representative of President Wilson and by dictating to his secretary for publication whatever he thought to recall, accurately or↑ otherwise, of the remarks made in con5dence by the statesmen with whom he had heen closeted."

Opposite the Post Office, the later water was a good deal over five feet in depth and the whole bliainess. cen tre was affected. As a resalt, not single office opened yesterday. By evening. the water began to subside and next morning only a few low- Discussing the issues raised by lying parts were affected. All con- the publication of The Whispering munication between Kuala Lumpur Gallery," Lord Birkenhead said:

Books of anonymous tittle-tattle and the outside world was held up, j

This flood is stated to be a recordare in a different category.. even beating last year's inundation. things are at present, any public

Loss of Life.

man may find himself mentioned in It is still impossible to say the book of this nature, with remarks extent of loss in lives and pro asered to him that are fantastic perty. but this is believed to ieally untrue. What is he to do? It he protests, the book recéives an very kreat.

undesirable advertisement. If he is silent, his silence may be misinter preted by ignorant people. auch worse when the public man. involved is dead and cannot defend biaself.

Large numbers of poor houses situated in the lowlying parts are

washed away.

One sad tragedy is reported. Chew Jim Guan, the well-known Selangor footballer, was swimming near Travers Road when he suddenly carried away by the cur

rent and see" no more.

way

Most of the business houses and the Post and Government offices were several feet under water or the 9th. The damage to property

is enormous...

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A later report in the Singapore Free Prea states:

With every desire to take a sober view of the Perak Boods the facts now revealing themselves as isolated places are freed, after the week's silence are truly appalling.

At Kuala Kangsar, an appalling Acad occurred for two days washing away the market and some shop houses, and several small houses of Malays gently cleansweeping the Malay Kampong of houses for many square miles. The extent whereof is indicated by the fact that the river rose CEt.

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"The late of the Whispering Gallery will I hope, warn garbage- manufacturers and their publishers that they cannot with impunity slander the dead and insult the Bving..

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1 am not, of course, attacking either the writing of books of con temperary niography or the practice of anonymity,

Asked whether he thought novel.. ists were justified in introducing real persons into fiction, Lord Bir kenhead said that this practice also seemed to him an objectionable one.

When Mr. Arnold Beanett wrote a novel called Lord Raingo,' it was widely stated--and he did not con tradies it that the principal char acter was modelled on a member of the Coalition Government. In fact, the work was vulgarty adver tised upon this basis.

"What right, asked Lord Birken- The only place available to house head.." has Mr. Arnold Benheti, practically the whole town popula-whose public services, as apart from tion was the Land Office at the top his literary merits, are unlikely to of the hill, but thousands are home be celebrated in song or story, to suggest that his imaginary puppet was modelled from an actual states-

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The whole of the resources of Taiping went to the rescue includ ing the Burma Rites, bringing there hundreds of people

The Sultan of Perak personally

masi

3ir. H. G. Wells has committed the same offence by a different hat equally well-advertised method. He has recently expressed his opinion of living statesmen through the mouth of a Mr. Clissold and his equally 'voluble, tedious, and cock. sure brother. Has Mr. Wells shown such capacity in public affairs justifies him in amailing the states in boxes. Houses were bodily car-manship of men who have held rer sponsible positions in the most anxious period of English history 7"

Jed the officials to the rescue work, performing many feats of gallantry in saving lives on Wednesday and Thursday (December 29th and 30th) and risking his life many times.

Corpies were held up at the Perak Railway bridge and children floated

ried away.

This is only part of the tale hitherta received by The Times of Malaya whose reporter travelled" thence on December 28th. He pro- ceeded to Taiping and phoning Inte to-day that the damage at Kuala Kangar, was unestimable.

News from Bukit Fraser sys that two bungalow, collapsed owing to the flooding..

AMBI-DEXTERITY.

SIR R-BADEN POWELL'S. SUPPORT.

An English elementary school teacher, who teaches his pupils to use both hands, states that the children who are thus trained are more cheerful and better scholars than those who are right-handed. They are, he adds, superior in alert- ness and decision.. The whole of the teaching goes on quicker and better with such children-

SAVED BY FINGER-PRINT.

MAN NEARLY GOES TO GAOL

FOR LIFE.

Finger-prints have sent many a maa to prison, but finger-prints saved William Feit, a New York salesman, from a life senterice.

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RICE MARKET REPORT. We have received the follow- ing Rice Market report from the Commerce et de Compagnie de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient, dated Saigon, December 28th, 1996:

We beg to confirm our last market report of December 14th, 1926.

Our market is very quiet without any big variation in prices. No important business is to be report ed, the Far Eastern markets having not shown any activity.

The tendoney keeps slightly weak, and lower prices can be yet expect

The total amount of rice exported from January 1st to December 15th, 1928, is 1,333,237,043 tons against 1,306,607,602 in 1995.

One Isaac Shapire was wanted

We quote to-day white Saigon for larceny, and the police arrested Feit on a ferryboat, since he an- rice, No. 1 25% brokens round swered, the description of Shapire. grain:-Hong Kong $1.20 per picul Numerous witnesses identified bim, of 134 lbs., fo.b. Saigon; £0.11/10 as Shapire. Now. Shapire bad been per est, fo.b. Saigou; yen 7 per thrice sentenced for felony, and picu! of 134 lbs.: f.o.b. Saigon. under the New York State law a White Saigon rice No. 2 aifted, man convicted of four felonies must Japan quality: Hong Kong $0.70 per plculo 134 lbs., Fo.b. Saigon; be sentenced so prison for life."

Even Feit's lawyers were unable £0.11/- per cwt., Lo.b. Saigon; to place mach credence in his pro-yen 6.80 per picul of 134 lbs., fo,b. For January/February testations that He was not Shapire. Saigon,

Feit was released on bail and was shipment. continually rearrested by policemen as Shapire...

OVEN HALF A CENTURY REPUTATION

Sir Robert Baden-Powell has advocated the equal training of both hands for many years. The

Finally, in a last dramatic mo value of ambi-dexterity from the ment in court, when Feit was about LECLERC'S DONETS military point of view, he says, is to be sent to prison for life, a most important. He regards to finger-print expert was called in, soldier as thoroughly trained who He identified Feit as Bhapire, and cannot mount his horse from either then the fingerprints of the two sides, use his weapons with either men were laid before him. hand, and shoot a quickly and To-day Feit is free, for he has, a le from the left thoulder as the loop on the third finger, whereas rigat.

Shapire had a whorl.

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ISAKO'S CIRCUS

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GRAND GALA PERFORMANCE

OF CLOWNS 30

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4 ARKOS, Kings of THE AIR,

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will perform blindfolded

with

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will jump the Famous Saltomariale.

MIRACLE OF

Something new in the Cirons World, Dances, leapings and pyramids of different kinds

XXth CENTURY

For the first time in the Orient Everywhere a great mucams. PONY MATHEMATICIAN

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Trained and introduced by Mr. Isako,

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The best clowns in the Orient. "You The pony which was presented to must laugh when you see them in Mr. Isako by Mr Catroshoff, a the ARLEKINADA. the great former Manager of C.E.. will work comical scene introducing Jumbo, the Elephant of Ceylon.

under the contml of Miss La Bljaker,

THE GIANT AND THE LILLIPUT

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