CHINESE LABOUR FOR MALAYA.
50.000 IMMIGRANTS IN THREE MONTHS.
PORT HEALTH WORK.
The fact that nearly 50,000 Chinese immigrants have passed through the quarantine station at Singapore during the first quarter of this year suggests that the immigration figures for 1926 are going to beat the 1911 record, when 270,000 Chinese came to Malaya, says the Telegraph's "Singapore correspondent. Coolie ships are arriving here at the rate of four a week, and usually two out of the four are infected, indicating that infectious diseases, particularly smail-pox, are becoming more pre- valent in China. One unusual fact has been that smill-pox cases have, been found among the first-class passengers, and in nearly every case the infection has been traced to Shanghai, so that the public health system of that port would appear to require overhauling.
The quarantine figure for the 'first four months of this year hus already passed the total for 1925, and there can be no doubt that Malaya is still mugnetic enough to obtain all the labour it wants from South China, despite the diffcalties experienced by intending immi- grants In reaching the coast ports. St. John's quarantine station has been working at full pressure, and has amply proved its efficiency, and the efficiency of modern port health work generally," for the arrival of two infected ships a week has made no difference whatever to the health of Singapore.
St. John's is said to rank with! Ellis Island among the quarantine stations of the world, but it has a more pleasant reputation, for the Chinese immigrant who has top spend a week or a fortnight here| could wish for no better introduc- tion to Malaya. He arrives dirty and miserable after a deck passage. through the China Sea, and he spends a blissful interval in quarantine eating nourishing food and lounging away the first hours of leisure he has known, on the sunny beaches of the island. The same is true of the Indian immi- grant depots, and in view of the constant stream of humanity which flows to the Malay Peninsula from Amoy, Swatow, and Canton in China, and from Madras and Nega- patam in Southern India, it is a matter for congratulation that so. efficient a port health system has been evolved in this country,
ANOTHER PIRACY.
TRADING JUNK'S EXPERIENCE:
Another case of piracy in Chin-, ese waters is reported with thei arrival in Hongkong of a trading junk, the loss, including a cargo of wood and the junk's arms and ammunition, being put at $660.
"
STRIKE"
PERSONALITIES.
MR. STANLEY BALDWIN, the Prime Minister.
MR, RAMSAY
the Labour Leader.
MACDONALD,
MR. J. M. THOMAS,
who has figured in the nege- tions as a mediator.
CANTON STREET
FIGHT.
MALAYA TRAGEDY.
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Penang, April 24. - News has been received of tho tragic death of Mr. Noel F. Symes, manager of Riverside Estate, Be- dong, Kedah, in a motor accident. at Butterworth this morning.
Enquiries made at the office of Messrs. Kennedy, Burk!! and Co. agents for the estates, confirm the. nows, but there are no details,
. It is stated that three or four other occupants of a hired car died as a result of falling into a) canal.
Later, Datalls have now been received, of the tragic motor accident which occurred on the Bigra-Sungel Patani Road in Kedah, in which Mr. Noel Symes, manager of River- gide Estate, Bedong, and four of his servants were killed.
It appears that they were TC- turning from a function in a car, proceeding in the direction of Sungei Patani. The car contained Mr. Symes, his house boy, the tindal, their wives, a baby and the syco. While passing another car going in the same direction, con- taining three Europeans, the near wheel of Mr. Noel's car caught a tree stump with the result that the cur swung into the ditch. The
other car also ran off the road but the occupants were not injured and rendered assistance, but five of the party were found to be already dead. Mr. Symes had his spice braken in two places..
The only one who escaped un- scathed was the house boy, who was asleep when the accident oc- curred. The tindal received severe concussion and was taken to hospital in a critical condition. The rest, including the baby, were killed outright, their necks being Eroken. "
Mr. Symes leaves a widow and three young sons, at present in England,
The funeral, which took place on Saturday, was the largest ever seen in Alor Star. Over 80 Europeans were present and there, were many floral tributes. The funeral was a Masonic one and
was conducted by the Rev. Keppel Garnier of St. George's Church; Penang. Dr. Smart, R.W.M Kedah, was at the graveside.- Singapore Free Press.
NANNING PROTEST.
FOUR COMMISSIONERS RESIGN.
News from Nanning states that the Commissioners of Education, Construction, Civil Affairs and Finance have resigned in a body.
It is stated that the cause of] these resignations is that the Kuomingtang Insisted on the pulling down of the old Examina- tion Hall, of the Manchu regime, so as to erect a suitable memorial to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen on
SIG CLASH ON LABOUR DAY. the site. The four Commissioners,
are said to have protested against It appears that on April 13th
The demonstration of workinen the demolition of the Hall, which the junk left Tam Chow, in the the Labour Day, in Canton ap-has a portrait of Confucius en- leungshan district, for Hongkong, pears to have been lacking in on the act would be a sacrilege to shrined in it, on the ground that] with a crage of wood and a crew Ausiasm and unity when compar-the Great Teacher. comprising five men and four
Their pro ,women. On the following day.
ed with former occasions of the test was met by a rebuff" from a pirate launch came alongside kind.
General Li Chung-yan, which has and five men boarded the junk.
resulted in their resignations, The demonstration passed off It is further stated that General two being armed with rifles and without incident, except that it Wong Shao-hung is hastening to the others with revolvers. The crew were confined in the holds, was marked by disastrous results Nanning to endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between the four Com-
but on April 15th they were re-for the ricksha coulies. As it was General Li and leased. It was then found, that intended to be great day for the missioners. all the cargo had been taken away,
and that the pirate launch had workmen, a general order was is- disappeared, but the two pirates sued that all workers should ob
was ignored.
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with rifles were still on board. serve it as a general holiday, and Thirteen Germans, who formed These two pirates later depart that no ricksha is allowed to cater the crew of the Hamburg ateamor ed in a sampan, taking with them one member of the junk's crew. for hire until after 7.30 p.m., but Bragi, which stranded 150 yards Before leaving, they told the re- this order
north of Rattray Lighthouse were It su rescued by Peterhead Coastguards mainder of the crew that the jurkappened that one ricksha was during wild weather. The men must return to Wong Kok with carrying a -$100 for the ranson of the kid-west to the East Bund, and on rescue work being attended with passenger from the wore saved by breeches buny, the napped man..
Later, the junk way was peremporily stopped considerable difficulty and danger put in at a village and borrowed by the pickets and the rickshawing to the distance which the $100, which they paid over to coolie severely beaten. This led separated the vessel from the the pirates at Wong Kok, where-to a street fight between a few
shoro. upon the kidnapped seaman was coolies and the pickets,, which in released,
a short time extended all along! Some months ago, says the the Bund and also on the Wing Central China Post, a very small Hon, Wal Oi, Taiping and Yat Tak Chinese newspaper called the Streets. It is stated that there Telegram, commenced public- were from 3,000 to 4,000 rickaha ation in the Hankow Chinese city. coolies engaged in this fight, using Recently, however, the Police all manner of missiles. It is fur- Departinant has issued orders for [ther stated that the police allow the suppression of this journal, Athens, May 3, ed the opposing parties to fight it the reason advanced being that. Three Majors who were sentene out, until at, the late hour of 11 sale through the streets by ed to death as leaders of the 'clock the combatanta rotired of lusty volcad youngstors shouting Salonika mutiny have been granted their own accord. Later, the Red | Telegra Telegram as anamnesty and released-Cross Society was busily engaged effect upon the minds of the very alarming and disturbing in carrying off the wounded,
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