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EUROPEAN WOMAN SHOT BY BOY"

Tragedy at Kuala Lumpur

RIFLE STOLEN FROM OUTSIDE BUNGALOW

KUALA LUMPUR, May 16. "Mrs, R. W. Taylor has succumbed to her wounds" This was the brief official announcement and nowe of the shooting tragedy rapidly spread through Kuala Lumpur and was received with amazement and horror.

The police inquiries are not yet complete and there were uo, eye. witnesses of the shooting, but what happened enn be pieced together fairly well.

Mr. Tayler, who is a winchiman employed by Petaling Tin · Ltd.,' left his house, at the 8 milestone, Klang Road, at seven o'clock to go to work on the dredge.

JAPANESE CEMENT IN MANILA

HOW IT GOT IN CHEAPLY·

CRUELTY TO POULTRY

INADEQUATE CRATING ON BOARD, THE VENEZIA

Manila. A possible reason why Japanese was able to under-bid all local hidders for the US. army

Two foli, employed by Chinese contract for

10,500 barrels of poultry dealers, were brought before cement recently, was revealed when Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Magas- a charge of Vicente Aldanese; a collector. of tracy yesterday on customs, declared that importations causing cruelty to poultry by fail made by the army do not pay duty.ing to provide matting for two The question of whether the army crates, one containing 50 and the and navy should be exempt entirely other 30 chickens. They arrived on from paying duty onim the s. Venerin. ports is still pending decision ne cording to Mr. Aldanese,"

A Japanese bilder is at present facing an investigation for alleged dumping of cement into the coun- try as a result of the unusually low quotations mads on cement in the army bidding,

His cook-boy served Mr. Taylor with breakfast and appeared to be. normal. Mrs. Taylor was still in bed when he left.

There were no servants in the house at the time of the shooting and no one saw it.

CEMENT PROBE GETS ::

STARTED

ALDANESE ASKS QUESTIONS OF PROSPECTIVE IMPORTER

Investigation of the Japanese' who recently secured a bid from the United States Army for 10,500 bar rela of cement by under-bidding all competitors by P348 per barrel, was begun yesterday when Vicenta Aldanese, insular collector of cus toms, addressed a letter to the par- ty concerned making "certain in quiries." The investigation is bas- Taylored on an alleged violation of the

"dumping" law,

The amah was away taking the baby for a morning walk. A Tamil tukang ayer was walking to the village. He had not gone far how ever, when he heard Mrs. calling for the amah.

Blood Transtuston's,

Both sorvanta want to the foot of the stairs but did not gɔ up stairs, evidently, frightened to do

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The amah called out to Mrs. Taylor who told her to fetch European neighbour.

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The amah ran to the "house Sungei Way Tin to a European employee who hastened to Mrs. Taylor's house, ran upstairs to the dining room and found Mrs. Taylor lying near the sideboard.

This European communicated with his manager and the bungalow. and servjunts quarlets were then searched by a number of Eura peans with the result that the boy's body was found.

The ambulance was at once sent for and Mrs. Taylor was rushed to the Bungsar Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, where she was found to be wounded in the left forearm and

abdomen.

Her condition was so serious that

she could not be operated on, but later in the day a blood tranfusion was performed and afterwards it was stated that there was a chance

of her recovery.

Three European employees of Petaling Tin Ltd., gave blood for this transfusion,

"Mrs...Taylor made a statement in hospital to the effect that it was the boy who shot her.

Dead Under Bed. Some mystification was caused by 2 newspaper report that the boy's body was found under his bed.

The Japanese secured the army bid by quoting P1.19. per barrel as against P484, the lowest local bidi made per barrel.

Mr. Aldanexe yesterday would not divulge the identity of the Japanese concerned nor the nature of the inquiries made by him.

FLAC MATERIALS "

ORDER

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Mr. George K., Hall Brutton, for the defence, contenckid that the only remedy was either to refuse to take the chickans from the ship, if the crates had no matting, or to leave them aboard the ship or to take matting down with them to the wharf and transfer the poultry there. But if they employed the last method, they would be charged for obstruction on the praya

Mr. Wynne-Jones remarked that the consignee could do nothing.

Mr. Hall Brutton: He gets it every way. The most humane thing! is to take the chickens, on arrival, to the storage places ne quickly as possible, whether the crates have inatting or not.

His Worship, referring to the re- gulation, šnid the prosecution should be against the master of the ship. The Police should find the person in charge of the poultry on the ship, and, failing this, should go for the master. If they charged: one master, the result would prob- ably be an example to other

"Defendants were discharged.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE

CHINESE GETS THREE YEARS

Sentence of three years hard labour was passed on Mui Yeung at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. when he was arraigned on charges of robbery with violence and larceny in a dwelling house before the Puisne Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell.

The charges were that, he used personal violence on a Chinese wo The Manila Bulletin in

man named Mok Kwai Hing when editorial article states:---

he robbed her of a platinum and The right

diamond wrist watch and wrist can government to apply the "flag band, and other articles of jewelry materials" order in the Philippines and 380 in money; having entered is unquestioned. When the order the house of complainant to steal operates to the benefit of Philippine the goods. elsewhere under the American dag that he had used " products in the United States and On the first count, accused stated when it treate Philippine products but not very much and a plea of a little violonce as "flag materials the same as it not guilty was accepted by his treats the Philippines as 'Ang ter ritory the fairness of it is un. Lordship. He pleaded guilty to the questioned.

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end charge and was sentenced for the term mentioned above, the first charge being withdrawn.

But when the American govern. ment fails to apply the order

Chan Sau, an amah, who appear- strictly in array purchases in the Philippines it is time to protest, ed with prisoner in the dock on to charge inconsistency and un-charges of having aided and abetted in the offences pleaded not guilty to both counts and the case

fairness.

A considerable stir has been caus- ed and still more of one is in pros pect over the case of army bids for

cement.

Purely a question of Dumping

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heard by a jury of which Mr. A. J. Bird was foreman. She was found

not guilty."

POLICE INTERPRETERS

MAGISTRATE'S CRITICISM

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**I wish you would do something. to these interpreters of yours. They are most careless remarked. Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Magistracy yesterday to Sub-Inspector Smith, when a discrepancy cropped up re garding the name of an Indian con-

Hiy Worship: How did this name

Sub-Inspector Smith It is the name the interpreter gave me.

get here f

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Under the strict applica tion of the "flag materiale order this bidding should resolve itedf into a competition between Philip- pine and American products, the two being on equal footing. How ever, according to reports, Japanese cement is offered at one-fourth the price of the Philippine or American product, and through the differenti. People asked how would it heal clause of the "Bag materials" possible for him to commit suicide order the contract may be awarded with a rifle in that position? How-to the foreign bidder. ever, this point is now cleared up. The boy had a bullet hole in his throat and the bullet evidently. If the army authorities had rea-stable, in charge of a case. passed out of the back of his head son to believe that the Philippine and through the mosquito curtain and American bidders were trying and attap roof of his quarters. All to hold up the government for an indications are, therefore, that he unjustified price there might be sat on his bed, leaned over the renson for accepting the foreign rifle and pulled trigger, afterwards offer, but the best available reports falling on the flour and rolling on cost of production support the partly under the bed.

contention that the prices in the Philippine and American bids were fair and reasonable. This brings the matter directly to under-out- A strange feature of the cage ting or dumping on the part of the authorities permission and instruc that the two shots that struck Mrs. Foreign bidder. It puts the Ameri- tions to stand by heag materi- Taylor were obviously bred from Can government in the position of als" order consistently and persis- behind the sideboard and through becoming party to an open violatently and to back up the local the upper part of it. This side. tion of the principles of protection, law against dumping, a low which board acts as a screen for the stairs, violation involving things which was approved by the President of

make a farce of the talk of stop the United States. ping dumpingur and destructive tactics în trade. -

May Have Seen the Boy.

leading up from the servante quar tears to the dining room on the first floor.

It is conjectured that Mrs Tay lor may have seen the boy point ing the rifle at her and in attempt ing to wrest the weapon from him it may have been fired at through the sideboard.

The affair is the sole topic of conversation in Kuala Lumpur where it is felt that this and the Wallace case is bound to affect the popularity of Hylam servants as a class.

The danger of leaving reveivers about or of failing to remove and lock up the bolts of rifles is also emphasised Singapore Free Press.

on the cost of a barrel of cement A seventy-five per cent discount is a pretty cheap price at which to sell the principles upon, which the flag materials order is based, the principles on which it is de

fended, and should be defended: There hardly could be a case is which that is more thoroughly trus than that of army purchases in the Pilippines, purchases which pre sumably are concerned with the defense of the Islands, protection for the people and the principles which put these people under the American flag.

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