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THE RIGHT NOTE.

to

trouble can be attributed

Shipping Tragedy The Governor's Return Proposed Hill

School!

(Our Own Correspondent)

to any hostile act on our part, for, ино His Excollency's phraseology once again, the movement which has damaged both Hongkong and Canton "is in no way due to any oct either. of commission or omisston by the

Singapore, Nov. 7. Government or the poople of The amok tragedy on the steamer Hongkong" That is an incon- Klang, which resulted in the wound- trovertible statement of fact,,

ing of thirteen persons, and the deaths of eight, was certainly, the His Excellenes's sage advice worst instance of this kind of to Chinese students; also offered insanity in Malayan history, at the University gathering, Cases of amuk are rare, but they are reported occasionally from the could not have been bettor

Malay Peninsula and the Dutch expressed, and we would that Indies, and almost invariably they | his words could find their way to end in the shooting down of the the ears of those who find time madman, there being no other way and energy in which to foment of dealing with him. The Klang affair caused a very painful sensa- trouble amongst this particular tion here, partly because Captain class. Real study of the Chineor McDonald was a well-known and claisies, particularly of the popular skipper, and partly because tonets of Confucianism, and their of the decisive and effectivo reign of terror which the lunatic Mainy application to the problems of established on board the ship.. It life, would without a doubt offset) was stated at the inquest that the much of the louse and dangerous Struits Steamship Company. have not hitherto required their officers touching which is threatening to) to be provided with firearms, but ruin China nowadays, for, to cite presumably they will do so in only one of the many fine sayings | future. With the cosmopolitan

A very

of Confucius himself, "learning crowd of deck passengers carried undigested by thought is labour on these ships it seems fost: thought unassisted learning is perilous,"

AL

basis

07 else

CHIEF JUSTICE OF F.M.S.

Mr. Justice Gompertz, Puisne Judge of Hongkong, who has been promoted to the position of Chief Justice of tho Federated Malay Statos. He leaves the Colony with Mrs. Gompertz on the 18th instant.

been a

Some-

DAY BY DAY,

WHEREVER IS LOVE AND

LOYALTY, GREAT PURPOSES AND LOFTY SOULS, EVEN THOUGH IN FAIRYLAND,Churles Kingsley.

A HOVEL, OR A MINE, THERE IN

The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 2s. 4.9/16d.

***

Sir Claud Severn is to leave

Queen's Pier at 11.15 am. on Saturday, the 14th instant.

***

The P. & O. 5.8. Karmala, from

the 11th, November, at 7 am.

Hongkong, arrived in London on

necessary precaution. Judging from the evidence given at the inquest, however, it is difficult to know what could have been done About Easma ".

on board the Klang, as all the In propusing the health of the stabbing was apparently done in Ex-Active Servicoman's As the first mad rush, when the mad-) On 11th. November, 1925, at 7sociation at the annual dinner on man ran loose among the terrified

Middle Road, Kowloon, to' Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Arnold, Armistice Night, Mr. J. A. B. Malays, Chinese and Indians. The Bullock expressed the opinion tragic feature of the whole affair a daughter,

that all ex-servicemén should be

Government of the Federated was that Captain McDonald had eligible to join, and he proceeded an unloaded revolver and cartridges Malay States, This is the burning to criticise the Association for limiting its membership to those in his pocket, and one can only question of Malayan politics, and The funeral of the late Mr. C. F. ex-servicemen who actually saw Suppose that when he refused to has bean'ever since the news leaked de Carvalho (whose death active service in the Great War, give the weapon to the chief officer, out that Sir Iaurence, before going occurred in London recently) Mr. Bullock rightly pointed out or to load it when he went to on leave, imparted some mysterious will Luke place to-day that if the Association confined investigate himself, he thought he information to certain members of November 13th.. the cortogo its membership to such

as could settle. the trouble as he had the Federal Council after extract- passing the Monument at possessed that qualification, it doubtless settled many a row in his ing a promise of secrecy. 5.30 p.m.

would be dead in 20 years, boganse long seafaring career before-by body failed to keep the secret, and all ex-active servicemen of the peaceful means.

the lively antics of the cat since Great War would have died oft.

it escaped out of the bag have THE QUESTION OF INSANITY.

source of considerable Knowing the spirit in which the Association was first formed and In shooting the man down the embarrassment to the powers-that- its very useful subsequent history, police took the only possible course, be ever since. Public opinion is we think that Mr. Bullock was and incidentally they saved the whelly' behind the vigorous protests perhaps, just a little too critical, local courts the trouble of deciding that have been made against these but there is, of course, a very the question of whether a man who secret discussions upcountry, partly unanswerable logic as regards has run amok can escape the penalty because the Chinese mombers were The picture

of the future of the law on a plea of insanity. excluded from them, and partly time somó

or another That formed the subject of learned because the whole problem is too the Association will:

most discussions when the Congress of important to be dealt with by such is clear from the speech certainly nave to widon its

While the Tropical Medicine met at Singa- undignified methods.

The health roturn for Wednos which he delivered at the Univer-membership

pore, and there have been several domestic afairs of Malaya perhaps day shows three Chinese cases of gradually dwindle and die away judicial decisions on the point. have no great interest for readers typhoid and one Chinese occur- sity on Wednesday afternoon that | How much better would it be if His Excellency the Governor has the Association became an Ex-The answer is not easy to find, on the China const, this question rance of rabies.

imperial signicance, because if each case is taken on has

*** Servicemen's Association, irres

Stan Hill's football carloon to- not taken long to obtain 2

pective of whether the members its merits or demerits clearly the because the Malay States, federated through grasp of the abnormal fought in South Africa, or man who stabs thirteen people is and unfederated, are not British morrow will deal with incidents situation with which this Colony France, or even Satonicu, or more likely to be adjudged a territory, and already the cry of in the match between the Club.

ruised. and South China. is still faced as a result of the whether they had ever fought at lunatic than the man who is shot "annexation" has been

all? So long as a man had been before he has attacked half that Centralisation has gone too far, and strike and boycott which have in the regular forces of number. Unless the Maley is so far as these proposals correct been a source of serious trouble the Imperial Government-that proved to have some streak in his that tendency they will be wel- Their most interesting both to Hongkong and Canton for should be enough to admit him mentality which is peculiar to his comed.

to mombership. It might be race, public opinion will naturally feature is the provision that the some months past. In his first thought that the Association and be unwilling to concede that his High Commissioner and Governor public utterance since his Club can be maintained for a few amok is anything more than the shall spend six months in the year assumption of office, Mr. Clementi more years yet by the men for common human impulse to see red at Kuala Lumpur, the capital of

whom and by whom they were which is restrained by the civilised the F. M. S has struck the right note. Hi

created, and there can be no races. What happens is that a HILL SCHOOL FOR MALAYA. speech can be described as a complaint if the Committee and Malay broods upon a grievance, The long-talked of iden of estab calin, clear-cut and statesmanlike members decide to carry on us at possibly of the most trivial nature, lishing a hill school for European

Another motor accident on the summing up of the position, or should. come, when the word

But the day will come until he can endure the sense of children in Malaya has at last

Praya East occurred yesterday. couched

humiliation or anger no longer, and taken definite shape, in the form of A Chinese girl, who attempted to in language which "Active" will have to be dropped

cross the roadway in front of a leaves no room for doubt as to from the title, and the basis of he determines to die as dramaticnl-In letter to the press, signed by a ly as he can. In this case the number of influential people, asking

cur, was knocked down and this Colony's genuine desire that membership widened.

trouble seems to have started with for the views of parents as to the slightly injured. She refused to the past should be forgotten in an

the refusal of two upcountry scheme. There are several suitable go to hospital. Capt. Steel, the A.D.C. to H. Malays to allow this man, a sites of 5,000 feet and over which ondeavour to revive the old the Governor (Mr. Cecil Clementi, stranger to them, to share their could be found for such a school, The suicide occurred early this spirit of mutual friendship which C.M.O.), arrived on the P. & Osleeping berth. Ground for the and where a dairy, could be carried month of Mr. P. W. Leslie, an for so many years marked the Ss. Marea yesterday. He was belief that a man who runs amok on, and most of the English vege-assistant on Kapar Para Rubber

met by Captain 6. E. Swinton,| relationships of Hongkong and M.C. the A.D.C. to H. E. Sir Ed is temporarily insane is perhaps tables and some of the fruits is near neighbour. That is a ward Stubbs, K.C.M.G., who has afforded by the fact that the Malaya, grown. That the need for such a A most kindly and school is felt is shown by the fact Lask for statesmen, and we been acting as A.D.C. to Mr. ordinarily

a school. for Dutch Clementi during the past few courteous race, will do such appal-that when welcome Mr. Clementi's prompt days.

ling things when they give way to children was oponed in Brastagi, indication of the attitude int

this age-old custom of theirs, the the Sumatra.hill-station, some time

the ease murdering an ago

announcement elicited In the Marine Court this morn-man in this which he stands to this big

ing, Chau Sui-sang, master of the aged Chinese woman and a 70-year many enquiries on this side of the problem-an attitude which we trading junk, No. T.4361 H. was old Malay. The knife he used was Straits. The main factor weighing casued in Duddell Street this hope to see reciprocated by those summoned for giving falso parti- fitted with a kris handle, which against the scheme, of course, is morning, when a police whistle in authority in Canton. There culars concerning information made it a particulary dangerous the desire of all European parents was blown, and an Indian police- which is required by the Harbour weapon in a rough and tumble fight, to send their children to a good man was soon to rush into an office building. A large crowd can be no possible ambiguity in Master. The defendant pleaded the binde fitting behind the wrist school at Home, where they will His Excellency's words on this guilty. It was stated in evidenco and rendering possible the terrible forget their early association with immediately collected, and for point, for he plainly declares that that the defendant failed to truly upward, slashing blow which killed the amah or ayah as quickly as if the Canton authorities will declare the number of passengers nearly all his victims.

who were on board. He was fined again hold out the hand of ] $5, or, in default, five days. friendship to Hongkong, we

present.

MALAYAN GOVERNMENT.

According to the Canton Gazette, the. Strike Picket Corps is being organised, the committee sys tom being adopted.

Amongst the passengers who loft by the Empress of Russia yesterday wero Mrs. A. A. Clax- ton, Major R. S. S. Paton, and Mr. C. L. Dunbar.

Estate, Malay States, the funeral being held at Kuala Lumpur. It was stated that the doceused wen depressed owing to receiving notice, and shot himself. He was 36 years of ago.

Considerable excitement

WILD

short time they wore held in suspense. At last, however, the possible. Moreover, the Malayan policeman appeared with a Chi- climate at 5,000 fect is peculiar. nuse who was holding a piece of At that height we are still very cloth to his eye, and they turned Sir Laurence Guillemard arrived much in the troples, although the in the direction of the Police "Opium smoking can be stop-from Home by the Morea. to-day to air is unquestionably bracing, and Station. Another man was also shall clasp it warmly and

ped in Hongkong in six months, find a distinguished--crowd of appetites take on an-edge unknown takon to the station. It appoure endeavour by cordial co-operation at most a year, from the time official friends to welcome him at in the steamy flats of Singapore, that the men had been fighting. to remedy the harn: done by this China couses to grow opium, but the wharf in the early morning, and As a matter of fact, Malaya has boycott." There is some ground while the Chinese retain their a distinctly frigid lending article in ynt to acquire the hill-station habit,,

natural ingonuity and cheap

There are

for hope that this friendly gesture opium, it is a little difficult to see the Straits Times in the afternoon, and the sooner it does the better not make a habit of going to the by His Excellency wili in due how we can keep it out". Thus Without so much as giving His for its European population, and hills because there the facilitles course bear fruit, because, as Mr. Sir Edward Stubbs, until recently Excellency time to unpack his especially the women. We have no are quite inadequate..

Governor of Hongkong, summed luggage, our fiery local journal hill-stations comparable to those of several colonies of bungalows in Clementi rightly indicated. up the situation in regard to trains its batteries on Sir Laurence India, and while you may soar to the Malayan hills, but nothing ika Cameron's Hongkong bears no onmity opium in Hongkong in the course straight away, and backs this up vest heights in the mountains of enough, and until

& sensational Journalistic Java, a fortnight over there is Plateau, far away in the wilds of towards the Cantonese, with of an interesting interview with with

a newspaper reporter at Govern-coup, publishing what it states, beyond the financial capacity of Pahang, is opored up we shall have whom we have over Hoon anxious ment House, Singapore, last without reservation or qualification, most of us. As for Malnya, it is to make the best of the sea breezes to live on terms of goodwill and wook,

to be the proposed changes in the just as well at present that we do of Singapore Isignd.