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HOW MALAYA IS CHANGING.

BY J. H. SIDNEY, M.A., F.R.G.S:

BATE PANAT, August 12th. There will be no need to describe the road between Singapore and Johore Bahru: it is well know to

most of us.

SINGAPORE JEWELLER'S THE MANAGING PARTNER.

SHOP LOOTED.

WELL-PLANNED ROBBERY.

INTERESTING METHODS OF THE THIEVES.

SINGAPORE, August 15th.

A well-planned robbery occurred

A WOMAN WHO RAN THE SHOW."

TO TAKE SHARE OF LIABILITIES.

At the Summary Court yesterday morning, the acting Puime Judge last night, ten armed Chinese, har- (Mr. P. Jacks) dalivered judgment ing obtained admittance by a ruse in a case in which the partnership to a North Bridge Road Chinese of a local firm was involved. jeweller's shop, looting, the place to

Chan Ng Sze had sued Tak Lan

the extent of several thousand and Tsang Ah Cheong, the manag dollars, and binding the proprietor ing partner, for the recovery of and his assistants before leaving $918.30, this being principal and silently, as they had come, by the interest secured by two Chinese back door, whence they gained the borrowing notes which bore the public thoroughfare unmolested by finger print of Trang Ah Cheong way of a back Inae, crowded by and the chop of Lan.. hawkers and their patrons.

In his Judgment, His Lordship said inter alia:

Dust Burning: Bad Surface. One's prevailing impression was the dust, the acres and acres of country along the roadside which have been burnt or are actually being burned to-day;,,and, the bad surface of most of the road.. True, there are steam-rollers at work in parts, attempting to cope with an enormous task, and for many miles the red laterite surface is very fair

the Court, Tsang Ah Cheong con- -especially near Batu Pahat and

sented to judgment which given against both defendants. after one has made the turn to the left-but on the whole the surface The door was opened, and in filed | Subsequently on application was of the road is bad. There is a six armed men. The proprietor made on behalf of the Lan for a strange difference between this road and bis assistants were placed un-rehearing of the case on the ground as it is to-day and the same roadder. armed guard and the robbers only four years ago.

proceeded to loot the place.

The volume of traffic has swollen, the look of the country owing to the falling and burning of the jungle has perceptibly altered, and generally it seems that this wilder part of Johore State is being cultivated and opened up and that soon it will be inhabited.

Pineapples: Rubber: Jungle and Padi.

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It is a common gibe that there is no scecery worth mentioning in Malaya. A careful observer even

of this 60 miles of road would soon tell 3 different tale. To begin with one passes through country mainly devoted to pineapples, and the small and picturesque villages are entirely devoted to the pine apples factories nearby. Later we

The robbers brought off their coup soon after closing time. A kinek was heard at the back door, accompanied by a request to see one of the assistants.

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Every Bedroom Searched, The key of the sale was comman deered and the money therein taken. Not satisfied with this, every bed- room upstairs was thoroughly and systematically searched for the cash of the women occupanta, one of them being thereby victimized in a sum of over $1,000.

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consent to judgment for the firm. A BOLSHEVIK FROM JAVA? The rehearing was granted, Cheng Cho and Cheng Sik Pui being joined as defendants.

Tsang Ah Cheong in her evidence said "I am the managing partner of the Tak Long Lan. I have the chop, the keys of the safe and the book" She gave an outline of the history of the firm and its partners in which she appeared well versed. She was the concubine of one of the

ARREST IN MANILA.

LABOUR LEADERS

INDIGNATION.

Tan Malaka, 30 years.old, accus-

original partners and had no doubted of being i Bolshevik agent from worked for the firm for many years.

She appeared

More Important Than He Pretended.

stabulary headquarters.

P

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DEATH BY ELECTROCU TION.

ELECTRIC CO. INVOLVED.

JURY RECOMMEND BETTER WIRE INSPECTION.

The inquiry into the death of a Chinese, named Poon Chan, who was electrocuted on the 15th fast. was held at the Central Magistracy Festerday afternoon, Mr. R. E. From

another employee of Cheung Wo, of No. 33, Bailey Street, at service.

choked water pipe in front of the at. No. 34, Tung Street, clearing a

house. Deceased climbed up 1.

get jungle on one side and rubber | in the bedrooms upstairs. They me the impression that he was, for but efforts were "apparently made i ladder just beneath the verandah of

With the front door securely barred against intruders, the back of woman and when once started paper man, was arrested by the masterful kind Java under the guise of a news entrance guarded, and the ocher influence and energy would go expanta vigilantly watched against a long way. She seems to have secret service and Constabulary Landsell sitting as Coroner. any attempt to get away and seek overshadowed the manager, Cheng last week says the Manila Times the evidence of witnesses called, it Cheung, who appears to have let Ee was immediately taken to Coa- seems that Poon. Chan was with assistance, the six marauders might her do his job. have completely rifled the show

The young man, it is said, arriv cases. In their selection of the

ed in Manila early this year and contents, however, they were, a5 With regard to Cheng Sik Pui had several conferences with local discriminating. NA they were the plaintiff's counsel in cross ex- thorough in their search for cash amination of the witnesses for the labour leaders. His movements defence elicited much which gives were closely watched by the police, on the other side of the road, and took only those articics of jewellery All practical purposes, a far more it is not until the 50th mile that which for resums of their own they we see padi. The recent telling considered would best meet their and burning have given most of the needs, and this thorough ransack roadside an untidy appearance, bating of the show cases and re in places there are fair green ceptacles for valuables resulted in hills reminiscent of any country an almost indescribable scene of rather than Malaya.

confusion in which they left the place, the floor and tops of the Various show cases being indis littered criminately

with gold watches, diamond rings, etc.

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The Stone, Chisel Town, Luckily I have a friend here who gave me much curious information about this town in the course of a stroll round last evening. I had

Discriminating Robbers...

important person it the firm that by labour leaders, it is said, to be alleges himself to have, heen. shield him. Before his arrest he cannot, however, bring myself to ad just arrived from the pro rule that he was a partner,

Tinces. more so as neither of the gree ments which have been put in as exhibits mention him.

the

the first floor, under which there were two parallel wires of the Hong Kong Electric Co., and was handed a hammer, öbits! Ynd a piece of wire. He then drove a nail into the

All Kept quiet. Both secret service and Constabu-wall At this stage his assistant I do feel that he was in such a

saw several flashes of fire, immed- position that had the business of lary officials refused to say any below beard the fusing of wire and the firm been a flourishing one he thing about the young Javanese,

iately after which, deceased fell to Information obtained by the

He could and would have claimed part- Dership.

Times from reliable sources show the ground head downwards. I find that Tsang Ah Cheong was'

died shortly afterwards. a partner and that she had au- that Tan Malaka is 30 years old,

Mr. Sorby, representing the thority to borrow money; that and was born in Sumatra. He ob- The robbers discrimination is Cheng Cho was & partner when the tained his college education in Hol- Hong Kong Electric Co., said that not realised before that the name of suggestive of the theory that they money. claimed was advanced that land and travelled extensively in the wires in the case were part of

ccnfined their attention mostly to Cheng Sik Pui was not; and that the town meant stone chisel" second hand articles of value, new Cheng Sik Pui had knowledge of Europe. Before he came to the the system of his Company. He and that this is supposed to dete jewellery being rather dificult to the loan by the plaintiff and ac- Philippines he was closely connect said that the wires had once been connected by T's to minor lines, but back to Portuguese times. It is get rid of, in the suspicion under quicseed in it.

the T's had since been removed and which any one of a certain type judgment for the plaintiffs with ed with the nationalist movement snitt that when the Portuguese were attempting to pawn or sell new costs.

it was apparent that the parts bad building Malacca they cbtained stuff of value would inevitably

I fall. some very good stove from the The manner in which the robbers

either been insufficiently patched or that the patches had been worn mouth of the Batu Pahat river-it gained admittance from the back

away He added that the Company had appropriated a considerable sum was chiselled here or hereabouts: door indicates how carefully the hence the town's name. The modern coup, was planned, for after clos ipg hours the inmates use the en-

of money this year for renovations town is not much more than ten trance for egress and ingress, and

to their street lines and the wires in years old, and it is perhaps one of it was only natural to expect that

I therefore give

CANNIBALISTIC RITE IN

SHANGHAL

"BOILING AND EATING AN ENGLISHMAN.

in Java.

Concerning the arrest of Tan Malaka, Francisco Varona, well- known labour leader and president of the Philippine Labour Congress, gave out the following statement:

"I know the young Javanese de- tained at Constabulary headquar-

the best planned towns in Malaya an acquaintance wishing to speak CHINESE SERVANTS' STRANGE ters and I sincerely deplore the with its wide streets, and its room with one of the assistants after the for expansion. And it is expand closing hour would approach the ing! can see great changes since I last here in 1993.

back door.

DOINGS.

Tung Street were due for repair

within a month.

great error which is the cause of his arrest. This man is a worker Not the man who opened the door was sunt it is difficult to gauge to the robbers, hut another assist- sions attract very little attention and that of his race, in the same While as a rule Chinese proces on behalf of his country's destiny the population-my friend put it at at, who went out as they came in, from the foreigner long resident in 5,000-but every day sees a fresh has fallen under suspicion, and is the Enat, there was one which occanner that his Malayad kins and building going up, and soon it will at present in Police custody. His rank as a frst-class township and is the only arrest that has been have an Adviser, I understand. At made in connection with the affair, The total value of the booty has present there is no electric light, not yet been estimated, but it is but the hollow-wire system seems a very efficient substitute and the expected that it runs to over 83,000 that in the evening most of the boys, becoming convinced that the most should be made to the Company to

main roads of the town are as well at the least--Straits Times. lit as most other places.

The Rest Housea,

A HAND THROUGH THE PORTHOLE.

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Mr. Lindsell, summing-up, said that it was obvious that the deceas-

found fault with the Company, for ed met his death by misadventure, but asked the jury whether they neglecting their wires. He said that

there was manslaughter. as curred a night or two ago which ancestors-Rizal, Del Pilar, Ponce, the Company could not be held for on account of its sequel showed that Regidor and others laboured. criminal intention on their part. curiosity in connection with it was

Bolshevism Dented.

The jury returned a verdict of well repaid. The event took place ia

"Death by misadventure" and add- "He is not a Bolshevist. I am ed a rider that a recommendation Medhurst Road, and it appeared

cooks and coolies in the vicinity gathered for some sort of proces- ingenuous method of discrediting make a regular system of inspection sion. It is said that some such

any organized aspiration by the of all street wires every year or

every six months premises and doing their various function takes place every year in

Mr. Lindsell said he would report one for senior Government officials, of the incongruousness of it all to

There are now two Rest Houses, domestic businesses quite oblivious that vicinity, though for what masses, no matter how harmless it

reason is not explained, but usually may be, tending to gain the rights the fading to the Government. and one for more humble folk the mere Westerner. I am told it is harmless enough. On this oc-of their country, is to point to such The latter la apt to be crowded, and that this, the Mahs Opera of casion, however, its sequel waxpiration as a Bolshevist move- visitors desiring accommodation are Muar, is one of the best in the very different. advised to write carly." I had write country. Those who don't know The sequel occurred the next meat. Bolshevism is becoming to ten, but my letter did not appear Malay Opera are advised to sample morning, when a number of those be like the bogey of "Filibustero" to have been received. It was sur- prising to see the former rather

sion were seen surrounding a sleepy rest-house, which I remem

ing pot. Into this were thrown cal refugee from his country where bezed, so full, and altogether so

I was told a tale about robbers what what at first sight appeared to he is being persecuted. I do not different

last night, and gang robbers at

should It has been repainted, there are that, which seems almost unbeliev be parts of a human body, the for- see why the Philippins Government persecute him simply be cause bis own Government is perse new chicks, and all the windows able Three men were lodged in eigner who observed the proceed-

cuting him." have been wired over and the doors one small cell in the prison bere ings noting a head, a hand and a furnished with strong locks and awaiting trial. Their only furnileg. Closer inspection revealed that bolts. The gang robbery fever bas ture was the plank bed provided these had been made out of four- or rice, the dough having been spread to this town, and visitors for them to die on, and a bucket. are asked to secure, their rooms at Their cell was on the outer wall fashioned into representations of human limbs. When cooked, these night or before leaving them. The of the prison and actually had no food is good, and again one marvels other wall guarding it. One of the were caten, and in reply to ques at the eficiency of the Chinese in robbers broke off the handle of the tions pat to the participants the providing one with a meal of bucket, bent it, and made it into answer was given that they were

"eating an Englishman." several coure at a moment's a pick and began systematically to

: Malay Opera House. One of the most interesting places into which we went last night was

notice.

it

A Tale About Robbera.

who had taken part in the proces roug

The young Javanese is a politi

ITS OWNER GAOLED FOR GRABBING A

BEDSPREAD

Arrested by the Naval Yard Police on Sunday, a Chinese de livery coolie, engaged to take food- stuffs to H.M.8. Magnolia was MARCONI'S CAPITAL,

charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery morning with the larceny of a gras unable to deal. further with the Admiralty. Division at a hearing on July 21st, bedspread, the property of the petition for the reduction of the P. O. Caskill saw the man, and pick out the cement surrounding Inquiries indicate that such a one of the bricks. He had soon dis custom as this is by no means a capital of Marcont's Wireless Tele he was arrested when he landed. lodged one brick, and the wall only Chinese one, and the theory is that graphy Co., Ltd., from 24,000,000 from a snaps having one thickness it was not too it is an importation. And by whom to 22,374,964, 81 arranged, and will It was stated by Sub-Inspector dificult to make an opening wide Onn suggestion is that, realizing not proceed with the matter till Dorling that the defendant had the theatre where the Malay operas enough to allow him to crawl out, its picturesqueness, and the effect it after the Long Vacation Senator come alongside the ship to deliver are staged. Unluckily it being a Thursday there was to performance its companions followed. They might have upon the ignorant the Marconi and Sir Gilbers Garnsey meat, and while there he stole to be given. In the dress circle got alean away! If the prisoners Soviet may have vamped it up from have made affidavits in support of bedspread by pushing his hand

had been lodged in any other cell some of their, correspondents in the petition, which is opposed by through one of the portholes

Sentence of three weeks, hard were a number of Malays the they would have had to climb a other countries where black magic is shareholders and debenture-bolders, actors I learned who live on the wall; round this one there was fine art-North Chins Daily an notice has been given of their labour was meted out by His

Worship. (Vontinued on next Column) nothing

Straits Tunes

Tewa..

cross-examination.

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