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COMMUNISTS IN

SINGAPORE.

CAUSING THE SHOE MAKERS STRIKE.

BOMBS BEING MANUFAC- TURED,

SINGAPORE, March 7th. No settlement has yet been reach ed in the Singapore shoemakers strike, and unpleasant manifesta tions are beginning to appear.

Early in the strike' a bomb was thrown into a shoemaker's shop. It was a crudely manufactured article that failed to explode. An equally hamless contraption was thrown into another shoemaking establish ment a few days ago.

Last night, however, the Fice Brigade was called out twice to deal with ontbreaks of are that

followed the throwing by striking ehoemakers of bombs that did explode.

The Eres fortunately were not serious owing to the rather amateur quality of the bombs,

CHINATOWN RAIDS.

IN SEVERAL BRITISH PORTS.

ALARMING INCREASE OF SMUGGLING.

LONDON, Feb. 24th.- Suspecting extensive smuggling by Chinese at workcan restaurauts and laundries, plain clothes Police

night simultaneously raided the Chinese quarters in London, Läver: pool, Cardiff and other Lancashire parts and towns and effected "the biggest zound-up in accent years.

Hitherto the elusiveness of the' Orientals had foiled local efforts to obtain a census and the similarity of names and facial appearance had increased the difficulties still fur ther. By some mysterious means, the arrival of, the authorities used to be communicateughout the whole district and a suspecta

vanished in time.

WIFE'S SUIT FOR SEPARATION.

SO THAT HUSBAND CANNOT MARRY.

JUDGE'S CRITICISM OF THE LAW

I THINK IT IS SHOCKING THAT IT SHOULD DEPEND ON THE CAPRICE OF THE WIFE TO INFLICT ON THE HUSBAND SO SEVERE A PUNISHMENT.

THIS WOMAN HAD NO RELIGIOUS OBJECTION" TO DIVORCE.... SHE SAID THE OTHER WOMAN HAD RUINED HER HOME, AND SHE DID NOT WANT THE HUSBAND TO MARRY THE WOMAN.

I DEEPLY REGRET THE LAW GIVES ME NO POWER

To-night, however, the Police formed rings over wide areas, TheTO REFUSE THE Chinese, as usual, got wind of the PETITION FOR Police in some neighbourhoods and | SEPARATION. managed to escape, but the names of several in Liverpool were taken.

A sent revealed a quantity of correspondence and docoments in Chinese which have been forwarded to the Home Office.

WIFE'S JUDICIAL

The husband admitted the charge, and said he wished to marry the other woman. She was ready to marry him.

Mr. Justice Hill made these com- ments when he gave judgment in -Under & File Of Ironing.

the Divorce Court in a suit în An Inspector, giving evidence at which a wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Some of the persons responsible Scarborough where there were three Annie Blanchard, of Windmill. mrrests, said that one man was dis: road, Brentford, "asked for a decreo for these banks gertainly had yes-covered under a pile of ironing, the of judicial separation from her terday evening an experience that other under a pile of brown paper husband, Mr. Wilfan-Benjamin should prove a deterrent to further and the third, Leong On, who is Blanchard, the ground of his experiments For a third outbreak regarded as the ringleader, was misconduct.

busy smuggling in Chinese. to which the Brigade was called was caused by an explosion during the manufacture of a bomb in a Short Street house. Several per- fors were burned, as seriously enough to make it necessary for him to apply at the hospital. for treatment. Thither he was traced by the police, whose further inves tigations unearthed, at the Short Street house a quantity of seditious literature.

The Pulice at Bristol who were searching a laundry found a quan tity of opium, an automatic pistol and 44 rounds of ammunition.

Mr. Tyndale, for the husband, who defended the action, suggested that the judge had a discretion in these circumstances either to refuse the petitica or to grant a decree nii lor divorce.

It is stated that the ring-leaders, whose head-office is in Hong Kong,

When the suit was brought last charge £100 for delivering a Chinese án England. He is wually mugterm ir Justice Hill expressed gled on a steamer calling at a Con- the hope that the law would be soon tinenta port, from where he is com amended to give the Court discro reyed by motor-boat and landed ontion to pronounce a decree of the South coast, often with a parcel divorce in such circumstances not- of drugs...

withstanding that the only relict asked for was judicial separation. The Wlia's Eight. Mr. Justico Hill said on the facts of the case and on the law as it stood. the woman had a right to a deorse. of judicial separation, and he must grant her it, with costs, and the custody of the younger child of the marriage...

Bager said Mr. Ja

The shoemaking establishments to which bombs were thrown yes terday are at the junction of Sum- bawa and North Bridge roads and DR. G. E. BROOKE OF in Middle Road In The Middle Read, shop, two bombs were thrown. A considerable quantity of goods was damaged in the fire following the second bomb.

In the absence of arrests, it is not known whether or not the throwers of the recent bombs are Hylams. Two shops employing Khet ers have resumed work.

SINGAPORE.

LEAVING FOR SARAWAK.

....

SINGAPORE, March 7th. The Colony wilt Fose, and Sarawak will gain, one of ablest public Bill no doubt about the miscon health officers that have torved duct in this case. The husband of Malaya when Dr. Gilbert E.the woman with whom Mr. Blau- work-Brooke, Chief Health Officer at chard was living petitioned for Singapore, goes on. Homo leave divorce from his wife, citing Mr. prior to retirement from the Straite Blanchard as co-respondent, and a medical service this month, says the decree niri was granted against the Straits Times,"

EMPLOYERS' OFFER. STRIKERS ADHERE TO

"ORIGINAL DEMANDS.

The striking shoemakers, it will be remembered, demanded an in- crease of 40 per cent. The employ cra have offered a 20 per cent, increase. That offer has been jected. "The strikers still adhere to their original demand of a 40 per cent. increase. N

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Dr. Brooke will not be saying good-bye to the tropics, however, nor will be be giving up active work, for he intends to take up past under the Sarawak Govern- ment after las leave, and his long experience and exceptional ability will certainly be as valuable in that territory as they have been during the past twenty-six years in Singapore.

woman

4 This women wishes to mar y Mr. Blanchand as soon as her de cree nini is raade absolute, and whether she is ever piserd in a position or not to marry Mr. Blan chard, the probability is that they will continue to live together. F

Bir Francie Jeune said in 1901, on this matter, it was a terrible thing that any people should be going about the world neither married nor unmarried, exposed to the temptation of entering into illegal alliance, and certainly ex- posed to temptations to commit mixcondnet."

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NOVEL APPLICATION TO SOUTH AFRICAN

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Dr. Brooke was first appointed Port Health Officer in Singapore in They are paid by piece work, and 1902, and the work of the Govern they declare that with the cost of ment Health Department in this living what it is to-day they can- Settlement has expanded in all Lot produce enough work at ruling directions during his period of "It is not a matter that concerns rates to make their calling a reservice Above all, however, has the partics merely, but their -munerativo one pati

name will always be asociated with children, the State, and the in- They are fed by their employers,

The

judicial but the cost of their food is include the development the St. John's terests of moralit

reason why quarantine station and with the ed in the calculation of the pay remarkable health measures which separation is sought and not die- ments to them fate their piece work have been carried out in the rural solution, I have found, is some The employer refuse to listen to districts of Singapore island duriance religious belief.. Such con- the demand that no striker shall being the past seven years.

victions conscientiously held I

A. sequel to the, recent conviction dismissed within six months of the

respect, though I do not share for breaches of the liquor laws at them.

Should even poisonous snakes resumption of work. The demand

Kaubatan di ben Chez Victor Club, Grafton-street, "Sometimes the wife has the New Bond-street, W., was beard at and other cold-blooded creatures that no employee shall be dismissed without reasonable cause is regard-

hope that her husband will retura, Marlborough-street Police Court ed by the employers as being as

A large assortment of seditious and thinks there is a better chance when Mr Mead dealt with the rich as todds and fish, be protected ridiculous as it is superfluous, for literature and Bolshevik publica if the marriage were not dissolved questions of the club being struck against dekberately vindictive acts, that usually obtains in the ordinary tons was found, and i will take a But sometimes the motive is much of the register and of disqualifica of cruelty f course of events in every calling week to examine thoroughly the less worthy--a desire to purish the tion.

This problem was discussed at The strikers up to date hare given documents that were seized. The husband, and make it impossible Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K. C. the recen no indication that they will reduce Soviet, flag, with its sickle and that he should marry anyone else, and Mr. St. John Hutchinson ap the recent congress in Durban their demands-Straits Times.

hammer on a red field, was promin and to punish the woman by mak: peared for the club sad Victor of members of the South African ent among them.ting it impossible that the should Perosing, who at the hearing two Society for the Prevention of

One of the arrested men, and ap-marry the husband,

months ago was fired a total of

Kaffri Cruelty to Animals, "With that desire, ao wanting parently the most important o! them, la Wong Te Choi, alias in charity, and it might be, so £200, with £60 costs. Cheung Wan Seng, who is a well- cruel in its effects, there can be Lieut. Col. English had written Zulus, Matabeles, and other to the court intimating that he had natives, many of whom have lost known agitator from China. Then sympathy. other man as a Hylam, "

fra Blanchard, when I quas resigned the secretaryship of the their relatives, friends, and oattle

report Completed bomb and material tioned hor, was frank about it. for their manufacture were seized, he had no religious objection to

Å DEN RAIDED.

BOMBS AND DOCUMENTS SEIZED..

Recent discoveries by the C.L.D. and harmless Cough throat trou in Singapore have pointed to the hie, Rheuma to many Nervousness, existence of conderable Com

Thousands have been made wekil

by these herbs which are simple

Soviet Flag Prominent.

Bir Henry Curtis Bennett id from serpent-báta, have beeni

feet swelled and some times Malaria, Hay Forer, Ulcers, Tum-munist activity in this city, but the andit. is highly significant that divorce, an expectation or wish it was not suggested that this wased to have caught snakes in Fred right leg was twice ita normal size aur, Appendicitis Piles, Constipa-most sensational haul of all was they were of a similar type to those that her husband bould return to one of those underground place venge" nad tortured them with had considerable gas, and bloated Diseases, Diabetes, Blood-Poison, of our Singapore contemporary,.re shops in the city, presumably by Under there circumstances I defeating the liquor laws. It an The BAS.P.C.A" came to the

I also suffered with constipation,

tion, Bladder Lung Bright's made Jast, right, says a laber copy recently thrown into shoemakers'

ber.

of the stomach. It was difficult for

employees who are on strike

Connected With The Shoemakera'

Strike, sta

deeply regret that the law gives me no power to refund the wife's peti bron for judicial separation.

The Woman Wronged.

me to move about much I took medicine and other things to try

and relieve this but nothing helped. Then my son-in-law and daughter who lived here is Modesto" wrote

of 1820 I came to Modesto. I now.

live on the South Sunset Bulevard- road, the last place this side of the Tuolumne Lumber Co.'s ranch, Shortly after I came here I began to feel pretty bad: and some ODE told me of the Poo On Chinese

Eetena Gastritis, Indigestion,ferring to an incident briefly Dropsy, Stomach Trouble, Kidney described in a Reuter cable publish- Catarrh, and many other diseasca ed on March 10th

A compound house in Balestier Kent Road was raided by the police, that the shoemakers strike is not

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give

the pull-adder, and the

which existed for the purpose of every refinement of hidrous cruelty- formed as a social, dining, and conclusion that the torture of even such creataren as is advisable supper club,

Mr. Mead: It does not look like to exterminate, for the protection a genuine olub when strengers, who of mankind, should be made a pagkagan, the Houth African Parlament to drink, Rond, near the junction of Kim It is survested in some quarter" I greatly regret the law gives are not members, are served with penal offence, and it is petitioning me to come out, And in the spring THE POO ON CHINESE and proved to be the beadquarters an ordinary-industriak dispute, and me no power to depree dissolutions Sir Henry said that since the oee amend the present alatulés 2015

Parliament, has not acted on the was reported in the Press in Deto of the military section of the "Boath that the men would go back to work commendations of the "Dívoros timber the takings of the club had cobra the same rights as the stray Seas Itevolutionary Party, which to-morrow if there were no other

w Another matten which is being the Communist organisation in foluences behind them. The fact Commission that the court should depreciated by at least fifty per cat this part of the world, w

that the bombs the wa last week have s discretion in these cases. Cent.

has been Mr. Mend: Then it will not be investigated is the practice allud- One of the two Chinese arreeted were molar to th found in the Mrs. Blanchard instated to have been the appoint Communist headgheters certainly grevondly wronged by her hus a lost if it is closeded to the Game Warden of Bir Kenny thought you Kenya's recent annual report, in ed bead of the party, and one of lends colour to that belieband, and, though she needed-no Herbs and what they were doing Hong Kong Office: 624, Queen's Road the leaders of the military section

would say that. Wher, my learned which he says, that a South Afri- keeping-babonIN-~BWAY, of the Communist organisation, raid was the successful culmination him, yet she wanted orders for per friend and I were in consultation can informant recomméndu," as a

maintenance and for last night he said you would be means

one, in view of the The raid was carried out by the of a fortnight's strenuous activity manent Chief Police Officer (Mr. OH by the C.I.D. in Singapore, and custody. Tirin court has no power

infoning and being op then painted blue. Sansom) the bead of the C.I.D. the Police are to be congratulated to make such orders except on prophet. (Laughter.) (Mr. H, Onract), Inspector Prithvi upon the results they are achieving, some decreo. Maintenance and Mr. Mead ordered the olub-to-ped of

Considering the higi organised Chand, and a party of plain alothes The arrested men were produced custody are part of the purpose for be struck off the register and the

Hof, they bábo Three of the five mea in the before the Third Police Magistrate which this suit was brought, and premises to be disqualified for oss house got away, but the object of (Mn, C. B. Daker) on changes of the petitioner must be given the searah tingkap the visit was more than achieved. being in possession of seditious deares for judicial separation for I was intimated that there

which the naked." Puz

would be an appeal. (Continued on next Uoluma). literature and explosives,

So I decided to give them a trial. As soon as I began to take them the improvement was noticeable. Shortly after the swelling all left: my legs, and gas left my spinach and my bowds were just as regular as could be. The. last herbs I took was in October 1920, and I have never had a recurrence of the old troubles, and I think this is just

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