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ATROCIOUS MURDER AT SINGAPORE.

SIKH WATCHMAN'S, HEADLESS BODY FOUND.

BLOOD STAINED GUNNY BAG DISCOVERED,

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GRUESOME CLUES IN HANDS OF POLICE.

Singapore, September 21.-Murder among Sikhs in Singapore is in- frequent and comparatively few when compared to such crimes among other local Asiatic com- munities, but whenever a

case occurs it is accompanied by the most ferocious brutality.

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Blood-Stained Gunny Bag. It is presumed that the scene of the actual attack and murder was not Cluny Road as the spot where the body was subsequently found did not show signs of any struggle.

The deceased was a powerful man and must have fought desperately for his life. The murder was in all probability committed in some other place and the body conveyed in a motor car or other fast yehicle to where it was found. The pre- sence of the blood-stained gunny. bag supports this theory so far as that it was used to hold the sever- Early yesterday afternoon the ed head and limbs. The body, hea

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watchman was discovered in n patchpital for medical examination. of jungle in the Botanical Gardena, Tanglin, and the police were called on to the scene.

Llandrinded.-Mr. Justice Avory opened a new approach and putting course on the golf links at Llan drindod Wells,

ran into a

Windsor. train motor-car at a level crossing near Windsor, Nova Scotia, and killed the five occupants,

So far it has been ascertained that. the deceased man was seen at Kim Yam Road," off River Valley Road, on the night of his disappear- At present Sunder Singh, the father-in-law, who is engaged as watchman at Kim Yam Road. and

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college, named Bakhtawar Singh of the same locality, and the wife of the deceased are detained for inquiries.

Paris-In Paris the price of bread has again been raised. The present rise is from 2.10 franes to 2.13 francs for a loaf of alb.

Recently Married. The dead man was Jeewn Singh, young Sikh, who had been in the employment of Messrs. Paterson, Simons & Co. for over twelve years as watchman. Those who knew him describe him as a respected member of his particular class.

The murder has created a sensa- rest of his compatriots Jeewa Singh the Sikhs and the result of police tion throughout Singapore among commenced a money-leading busi investigations is being eagerly ness and at the time of his death awaited. The authorities are con- was reputed to be a fairly rich man.fident of arresting those responsible

for the murder.

Like the

Only in April last he married in Singapore the adopted, daughter of Sunder Singh, a watchman in the River Valley Road district. At the Lime of his death he was only about thirty years of age.

Inquiries made by a Struita Times reporter elicit the information that the deceased lived with his young and pretty wife at the premises of Messrs. Paterson, Simons & Co., Collyer Quay. For the last four ör five daya he was visited by friends and relatives who were ntertained by him. On Thursday

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SCIENCE AND RESEARCH IN FRANCE.

EXPERIMENTS WITH NATURAL ENERGIES.

THERMAL POWER FROM THE SEA AND DAMMING THE MEDITERRANEAN.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF TEMPERATURE.

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Paris.-Coal and oil as sources of 1 Struga.-Gendarmes are in pur

Dr. Claude hopes to have his first auit of a band of brigands which

power may become as obsolete as turbine-a eniall hundred horse- came from Albania and started fint and tinder if experiments of power affair-running by October. cattle-lifting near Struga, in Yugo-French scientists successful. By February he thinks he will be slavin.

The experiments are 110 quasi- able to develop 1,300 horse-power. Hull-Twenty schoolboys have theoretical investigations, but prae. If these plans work out, he will left or a trawler for a holiday offical inquiries in intimate contact catablish a "fully equipped power offering prizes for the best essays with the natural energies which the station of 15,000 horse-power. There

The trawler owners are on their experiences.

savants hope to be able to put to work for mankind.

The father-in-law of Jeewa Singh, was produced later in the Second Police Court before Mr. P. S. Williams and charged with murder.

Iceland.

Athens The Greek Government has agreed to lend the Parliament House for meetings of the Inter national Peace Congress, which will be held Athens this month.

Copenhagen.-Cardinal van Ross sum, Prefect of the Propaganda Fide. has started from, Copenhagen for Iceland to arrange for the foundation of a See at Reykjavik,

tion are to abandon all save two Doncaster. Doncaster Corpora tramway routes, in favour of track less vehicles, and are borrowing £14,000 to start three new

routes.

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Marlborough.-A visit was paid to the camp of the public secondary schools endets Marlborough Common by Major-General Charles. Director of Military Operations and Intelligence.

Madras: There has been another death as a result of injuries receiv- ed in the explosion at a small fire works factory at Vysarpadz, near Madras, bringing the total death roll up to eight.

Paris.-The Civil Legislation Committee of the French Chamber has agreed that the proposed Gov ders should be strictly limited to ernment amnesty to political offen-

Alsace and Lorraine,

being considered for the grave No less than five solutions are

problem of what the world will do for power when the supplies of of and coal age exhausted.

Interesting Tests, These experiments can bo der- cribed briefly as follows:-

ia no limit to the number of such stations be will be able to establish once the initial unit is shown to be practical.

construction of enormously long Another experiment involving the pipes is that being conducted on a small scale by Bernard Dubos. This plan involves the taying of a tube along the incline of the Atlas mountains from its base, the desert, advantage of the fact that heat to the top. Dubos proposes to take tends to rise in" columns; or rather -A plan to tap the thermal whirling cyclone like cones of energy of the sea, ie., to utilize energy. His idea is to ennalize the cyclone by leading the heat under the difference in temperature. be large surface of glass upon the tween & current such as the gulf ground to the pipe at the lofty stream of a constantly high tem-upper end of which'n turbine would perature and the surrounding transform the force into electrical waters of a much lower bent.

2-A device which has already

Water Wheel, proven its value-for capitalizing the energy of the tides.

energy.

Engineer Dubos' iden, it is point- ed, can be applied wherever desert A plan for utilizing the dif- and mountain are found together. ference in temperature of tropical The American desert regions of and arid regions, such as the Nevada and Arizona fit this des- Sahara desert and of adjacent cription. mountains of relatively low tem perature: in other words, scheme to harness the hent that rises from the desert,

4-A new method for utilizing the wind.

cer, has worked out a plan for the Pierre Gandillon, also an engin- construction of a basin intermediate between the Mediterranean and the Dend Son, at a great altitude than rither, body. The water from the 5-A plan for creating an arti Mediterranean would be pumped ficial fall of water between two up to the artificial basin and then neighbouring bodies of water of permitted to fall into the Dead Sea Mediterranean and the Dead Sen, altitude, lower than the Mediter- different altitude, such 3.3 the which is at an exceptionally low the volume entering the lower body being exactly equivalent, to the ed into the Dead Sea would be. ranean. The amount of water pour- amount of evaporation.

regulated by the amount of evapora- A sixth iden is from the brain tion.

The actual scene of the attack and murder has not yet been de-

Leicester.Mr. Harry Flude, re- initely established but it is believgistrar and legni secretary to the ed to have been near the vicinity Bishops of Peterborough and Lu of Kim Yan Rond. It is stated cesser, has died suddenly. He had that a umber of compatriots of been registrar. at Peterborough the deceased man owed him money since 11, and at Leicester since ranging from hundreds of dollars the formation of that diocese in to thousands and that more than

of a German engineer who, proposes The engineer ässerts that his. one civil action for the recovery of

dam the Mediterranean at the plan is applicable wherever two the loans yas instituted by Jeewn County Council have appted end, using the overflow for the pro- single against his creditors.

Cumberland Dardanelles and at the Atlantic adjacent bodies of water, of dif ferent altitudes, exist. He makes read scheme, estimated to There is a strong presumption £200,000, subject to Government

cast duction of electricni energy and the only one condition and that is that night, it is said, the deceased left that more than one man participat- grants being obtained. It was de irrigation of the Tunisian Sahara the larger body be inexhaustible. He enumerates a half dozen places in Africa, Asia and North America where he could apply his idea.

1920.

Cumberland. The

in a motor-car with certain com- ed in the callous murder and a

cided to urge upon the Ministry patriots at about 8 o'clock but fail-information leading to the arrest of in West Cumberland only local reward of $1,000 is being offered for that in view of the unemployment ed to return either to his quarters those concerned. or his duty.

The following morning the rumour of his apparent disappearance was widely circulated and a number of Sikhs of the moneylending frater- nity called 'at Messrs. Paterson, Simons & Co. to make inquiries. The manager of the rm was in formed of Jeewa Singh's disappear- ance and the Central Division Police were communicated with.

Later in the murning the wife of Jeewa Singh personally called at the Central Police Station and made a report to the effect that her husband, who had left the pre- vious night, had not returned.

Discovery of Body,

All police stations were communi cated with and a description of the missing man was, furnished. While the police were busy making in- quiries a telephone message was received at about 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon by the Orchard Road Police. The message

came from the director of the Botanical Gar dons to the effect that a headless human body had been discovered by some of the Garden's employees at the Botanical Garden's end of Cluny Road.

STORY OF A RING.

A TRAGI-COMEDY OF A STATE PAWNSHOP.

A tragi-comedy of low life in Budapest is reported by the lenti- Hirlap. The protagonists are a Szanto, his wife, a tram-conductor named Andor meddlesome neighbour, and an employee in one of the state pawnshops.

Some time ago Stanto, wishing to give his wife an impressive birthday present, bought her a ring set with an artificial stone, for which he paid 36 pengo. Illness overtook their child, and Mrs. Szanto was obliged to pawn the ring to pay for medicine and me dical attendance. The vatuer in the pawnshop offered her 100 pengo on it, and the woman's astonish- ment was so great that she could paly stammer that

pengo would be enough..

Varying Value. Szanto and his wife and the neighbour discussed the matter, and came to the conclusion that by some incredible turd of fortune'a wheel the ring was worth ten or for it and that, they had only to twenty times what they had paid sell it to realias comparative allu- taken out of pawn and offered to ence. Next morning the ring was a succession of jewellers, who each of them offered to buy it for 16 pengo !

Dr. George Claude, might be said, is Dr. George The father of these ideas. it

Maurice Thomas has invented a labour be used.

Chaude, member of the Academy of water wheel which is already in use Birmingham-Percy V. Fowler, Science, who is now working off as a means of propulsion for bonta of Thimble Road, Warley, Birming the coast of Cuba, ccnstructing a but which has in it the solution of ham, was found lying dead, fully pipe, some 5,000 feet long into the that dream of stock promoters-a dressed, on the beach at Westen by which he hopes to demon way to tap the energy of the tides.. Shore, Llandudno. 20 yards below strate that the thermal energy of At present it is used to enable ships high-water mark. He had been the sea can be made to work for to move against the current upon staring at a convalescent home at humanity, Claude was virtually the power derived from that current. Deganwy. He went for a walk and first member of the Academy to Conceive of a hub which two never returned.

devote his attention to possible new spokes and no rim. At the end of sources of power.

carb spoke, a door which awings His achievements have inspired until it is right angles to the end other engineers and physicists to of the spoke, at which it is rigid. try their hand at the fascinating | As the ships enters the water, the problem. In his present under current strikes the door foreing taking he is financed almost wholly the wheel around and the ship by his colleagues in the Academy, moves ahead against the current. probably the first speculative ven- The swinging door arrangement ture in history financially backed keeps the vessel from slipping back by scientists.

and eliminates friction.

Leigh-At Leigh, John W."Duns- ford, mator salesman, of Parrswood Road, Didsbury, was fined £10 for driving a motor-car in a manner dangerous to the public. The de fendant's car mounted the footpath at Tyldesley and knocked down two boys, who afterwards died from their injuries in hospital. The de fendant said his car skidded.

The Stautos and the neighbour.| now agreed that the ring had been changed during the night, and, hastening back to the pawnehup, they demanded the original one.

The valuer inspected the ring for a second time, and realised, to his horror, that he had mistaken a poor. imitation for a genuine stone on the previous day. Convinced that if his mistake became knowu he would lose his employment he offered to buy the ring outright for 100 pengo. The Szantos, refused" to sell, even when the valuer, in his alarm, raised his offer to 500 pengo.

The police immediately left for the scene and lying in a small patch of shrubbery was the headless body. Closer investigation showed that the man's fore-arms had been cut off from the elbow and his head completely severed from the trunk. Searching round the police found one of the missing arms and a blood stained ganny bag. A further search revealed the head of the unfortunate man lying about 25 feet away from the place where the body was lying. The other arm could not be found. Wild monkeys are plentiful near this particular spot and it is believed by some that the arm may have been taken away by them out of curiosity and dropped further into the jungle.

The Singapore Coroner, Gover- ment Pathologist and other medical and police officers were summoned to the scene together with the wife of the missing man, her adopted father and certain friends of the and the conclusion finds Szanto depcased. The body was identified condemned to pay for his credulity by these people as that of Jeewal with one and a half years impri Singh.

More convinced than ever of the value of the ring, the Szantos denounced the valuer to the police. for theft. Whem the caso came in- to court the employee established his innocence with case, and en- tered a counter-petition for false accusation. The case has now been passed through three law parts,

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