1914-07-07 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Now Schools for Peking. Two new schools of agriculture have been opened in Peking. These schools will be maintained by the fonds sot aside for the Bannermen and in thom Ban- nermen will be taught farming

Panama Allegations of Graft.

Farther evidence that "

graft

予算

entered considerably into the

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NEW SHIPMENT

VICTOR

construction of the Panania Onnal RECEIVED BY THE

was forthcoming, when the Federal grand jury at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, recommended the indictment of five employees off the Carbon Steel Company on obarges that they bad felonionsly conspired to defraud the United States in connection with the steel furnished for the csual locka. "The alleged conspi.ators are charged with foisting upon the Government inferior grade of steel, which is declared to be of such low quality as to make its uss in the looks and gates of the canst unsafe. The Panama Canal gates and locks which contain this low-grade metal, it is enid,

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In order to evade detection, it is

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and plates to be highly tempered, MOTOR-BUILDING

eo that when the inspectors

chipped a piece of metal of the ende to have the cel noalysed they would cue only the highest grada metil

Tiger at Port Swettenham. Aller'a lapse. I many months another man-eating tiger has pat in an appearupce in the Port Swettenham district says, the

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Where Cars Come Into Being Every Twenty-four Seconds.

Take out your watch. Follow Malay Mail, .a sume Chinese the second bond around the coolure" wore stacking timber at minute cycle. Every time it Sungei Aur yesterday morning ticks off twenty-four seconds a the marnader leaped from the new Ford car comes into being. jangle and carried off one man. The month of April was another A search pay of Europeans was record-breaker at the Ford fac at cuca organise, but, though tory in Detroit. Thirty thousand, they found to coolin's caju, and four hundred and two complete bloodstains near by, do trace of cars were bailt and shipped dur- the tiger could be discovered.ing the month, which had twenty Further parties are going out. six working days.

Death of an Aviator, " A littlo mental arithmetic The Echo de Paris states that shows that this means a daily in attempting to stop a runaway production of about eleven ban- horse at St. Uyr natation recently, dred and seventy care. It shows the well-known French military that approximately one hundred aviator, Pierre Martin Bacoonais, and forty-six Fords were built lost his life. Baconnais, who each hour. It shows that almost was undergoing his military twenty-four seconds elapsed service, was engaged in loading a between the time one complete car when one of the horses. sud- car left the factory doors until denly Kol ed. The aviator at once another followed it.

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Batavia, June 27.-The South Samitra Earthquake is most Oil Expedition to Shens!.

evere, and was caused by the The oil expedition to Shensi isļ volcano Korinchi. All the telo-being seriously bindered through graph lines are broken and lack of transport. It is harvest damaged, and the new cable from time, mules are not easily obtain. Batavia to Padang is broken. able, and the troops have Fifty houses have collapsed in commandeered available moans the town of Benkoelen, among of transport. them twenty large Chinese houses and a section of the Post Office. There are many killed and injured and already twenty- five bodies have been recovered. The material damage is enorm-' ous.

In consequence of the earth-

sprang forward to stop the borse, Of course these figures are quake choppy eens caused the

but he fell, and the car passed

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based on an eight hour working randing of thecrowdedemigrant THE QUEEN OF day. The assembling depart-whip Kintuck in Sunde Strait. stantly, M. Baconnais was a ektiful mont at the Ford factory work-bur She is safe but her condition is TABLE WATERS.

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aviator, and last year made some flights in Morocco and algiers.

More R.E. Bipfames. -

All the houses of Europeans are uninhabitable, The earth- quake was felt throughout the whole of Netherlands Indies.

one shift of eight hours. Other leaky. A steamer of the Pakevaart departments of the factory work Maatschappij has been despatched three shifts of eight hours into her assistance. I hear, says the London cor- order to keep the assembling The gold mine at Bonkoelen respondent of the Manchester department going at top speed bae sustained no damage and Guardian, that the success of the The first seven months of the there is no collapse. atable neroplane in which Colonel company's fiscal year have.seou Sooly flow the R.E. 1-is con- the production of more than ones sidered to be so pronounced that hundred and forty-five thousand the Authorities are about to order complote Model T's. Every sac a large number to be constructed, ceeding month since the first of Doctors and nurces have been Thean now machines will be built the calendar year has seen the despatched "to Benkoelen to for the most part by private firms Ford factory hand up a new reador assistance to the wounded. but the War Office will make all production record. In January Later. It is officially announcTM tails at the Royal Aircraft Factory, twenty-three thousand, nire ed that the Europeans are" all this being the portion of the hundred and thirty-six Fords were well. machine the details of which it is built and shipped.

This was

Hundreds are without a roof essentialshould not become publio be first record smashing month over their benda. property,

of the year. February passed The Resident has subscribed 1,150 Guineas for a Pony, ⠀ January with a production of to the first help fund. High prices were obtained, last twenty-four thousand six hun From inland nothing has been month at the sale of horses and dred cars. Then came March heard and it is feared that there ponies belonging to the late Air.with its cutput of more than ele are miny terrible accidente. William Foster, of Mel Valley, ven hundred care a day. Twenty-

Jane 28.-The Kistook has Moseley, Birmingham. The cata-eight thousand, seven hundred fifteen feet of water in her and logae included a number of well- and fourteen cars were built and she is packed like brickwork on known winncie.

Mel Valley shipped in March. And then the a coral reef. Baabis, described as the best April production topped March The stearners Glaucius and 13-2 pony alive" and the winner by two thousand.

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