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OIL TANKS ENDANGERED.
ALL NIGHT JUNGLE FIRE
IN SINGAPORE.
Throughout last Tuesday night the Singapore Fire Brigade Police constables and all of the staff of the oil installation on Ayer
TUESDAY,
JAPANESE RAID IN SHANGHAL
MAN WHO TRIED TO MURDER
BARON TANAKA, .
AUGUST
9, 1927.
NEW BISHOP OF SINGAPORE.
HIS RECORD OF SERVICE IN MALAYA.
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Times.
The Rev. B, C..Roberts, who has just been nominated as Bishop of A FRUITLESS SEARCH.
Singapore, in succession to Dr. Acting upon information con- Ferguson-Davie, is a well-known Baja Road were engaged in batcerning the whereabouts of Wu personality in church circles in tling with a fire which threnton-
whelalaya and went home about the Korean. Dzung-dung, ed to engulf the oil tanks, and attempted to assassinate Baron and of March last, says the Straits cause one of the most serious Tanaka, the present Japancac losses which have been expert-Premier, several years ago, the
He was a Foundation Scholar enced in Singapore.
Japanese Consular Polico, swoop of Pembroke College, Cambridge, About six o'clock in the even-ed down on a house in the French steward of Rannock Scholar 1907, ing the officer in charge of the Concession at "121 Rue Wantz on B.A. 1909, first-class classical oil Installation informed the Cen-Wednesday morning and made a tripos, M.A. 1914, Wells College tral Fire station that a jungle fire thorough search of the place for 1911, deacon 1911, priest 1912, in was in progress at the rear of the wanted man and certain other the Diocese of Wakefield. He was the tanks and that it was gradual-alleged criminals said to have a Fellow of St. Augustine's Col- ly approaching them.
been frequenting the house. Nolego, Canterbury 1914.. A machine was despatched in-trace of the sought men was found, stantly, but on arrival it was however, and it is believed they found that there was not a drain had been warned of the coming of water anywhere in the vicinity.of the police and escaped several Another machine was sent for hours before.
and in the meantime the firemen, At the Japanese Consulate- with all available assistance, net General later it was stated that about the big task of beating the direct information had been re- fire out. Before they could ap-ceived by the Consulate to the
As "Army Chaplain.
He was formerly eurate of St.
Jude's Falterhobble 1911-1913, Jee- turer St. Augustine's College, Can- 1918-1922, temporary terbury,
Chaplain to the Forces 1915 to 1919, sub-warden St. Augustine's sary to the Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak 1920 to 1992.
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cut their way through dense un-criminals were in Shanghai and dergrowth and thus were very
were in hiding in the French Con-
From 1975 to 1919 he near to the stages of exhaustion cession. Wu, it was stated, came before they could cemmence the to Shanghai from Canton on a Chaplain to the Forces in Malaya most vital part of their work Chinese warship..
and at the expiry of that time They stuck to it. however, and
joined the Diocese of Singa-Selan- eventually succeeded in beating
gor and was examining chaplain. the fire out to the crest of the
to the Bishop of Singapore.
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"As 5 o'clock, yesterday morn-
He was present at the annual 20 African sorcery. ing, a party of local Japanese Con-meeting of the Singapore Auxi-21 Principal man. All Night Task.
sular police proceeded to the liary Diocesan Association held 24 Demented. The wind then changed and French Concession in two motor: in London on June 20, when in a 26 Used in gambling. the "fre progressed in the direc-cars, and with the assistance of speech he referred to the impend27 Used in arithmetical tables.
28 Slight tion of Pasir Panjang Road where the French police raided a house ing departure of the Rt. Rev. 23 Bar by one's own act.' it was held in check for the time in 121 Rue Wantz,. the residence J. Ferguson-Davie, the present 31 Thick. being by the second machine, of one Yen, a Korean interpreter Bishop of Singapore, who has just 82 Lie at ease. Fortunately, the wind changed in the French police force.
left Singapore on retirement. He 34 Lime tree. again and the fire was carried
remarked that he thought that the 36 Steeple "Doors Locked. back, but then began to approach
tributes' which had been paid to 07 Baffle, the oil tanka once more, and the "When the police arrived at the Bishop and Mrs. Ferguson 39 firemen were compelled to begin the house they found the doors Davie had not been exaggerated 41 their exhausting task all over securely fastened, and were final-in the least. again. All through the nighty compelled to effect an entrance these small outbreaks recurred by forcing the doors. In one of the rooms they found a small boy, about five years of age, sleeping
and on account of the absence of
ever, the firemen had succeeded in subduing the flames..
How the outbreak occurred is not known. The oil tanks contain a huge quantity of crude oil, which normally is not highly inflam mable. If once fired, however, it is 'most difficult to deal with, and considering the disadvantages
Work in the Diocese.
Has never been split.
Tribe.
Mountain lakes.
Darkest time.
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Crude metals. 60 Dispatches.
Hide.
With regard to the work in the 53 Cause to coagulate. water it was impossible to put them
Diocese the ideal they had before 64 By way of. out altogether. By day-break how-in a bed covered with a mosquito them, he said, was that of hay-65
net, but there was no trace ofing corporate help from the Dis-57 Single.
wha Wu Dzung-lung, the man
eese as a whole, of placing the 58 Lay church officials, made an attempt on the life of Tamil work in Malaya on a dio. 60 Rubbish. General Baron Tanaka, the pre- cesan basis, and the ultimate join 62 Cupid (Greek).
of Japan, or afing of their branches, European, 64 Fine woosted. 63 Woody plant. sent Premier Ching Zien, who is wanted by the Tamil and Chinese, into one boy65 Poisonous fly. authorities for embezzling a sum to constitute a synod. of Y.10,000, or of Hang Feng-king, one of the men involved in the sensational bomb incident at the residence of the Governor-General of Korea. Three pillows were found on a "bed.
which the brigade" had to face they must be complimented on an
excellent piece of work,
SIR HUGH AND THE PLANTERS.
THE LAMB AND THE LION.
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 2.
A very successful tithi was
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From the foregoing it may be
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2 Charge with a crime. 3 Bishop's ecat. 4, Market."
6. Malicious burning. 7 Poems. g Band.
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readily realised that the Rev. Mr. Roberts has already a thorough knowledge of the diocese and all that is necessary for its well be- ng. This will be something of "A subsequent search of the
an advantage for it is undoubt- house, however, led to the dis-edly better that a leader should covery of a quantity of docu-be chosen from those who have 10 Inner skin of seeds.
11 Ate away. ments, including a certificate No.
than 3 13 Nine Inches. 56 issued by the Whampoa Mili-worked in the diocese,
atranger who would have to spend This document tary Academy..
much time picking up the threads.. bears "the signature of General Chiang Kai-shek and Waung Zao-
Friendly Personality. ming, a prominent member of the Kuomintang Party.
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"On the verandah of the house given by the Planters Association the police found heaps of straw, of Madara to the High Commis-which suggested the prepared sioner yesterday, over 100 guests ness of these outlaws, who appar- being present including the Chief ently had received a hint that the Secretary, the Resident of
police were after them. The raid Selangor Mr. O'Hara Hickao, lasted more than two hours. Mr. J. S. Arter, the Financial Adviser, Mr. Egmont and others.
Gaol Escaped. Mr. Arter, the Chairman of the
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He has a friendly personality extending to all denominations and one feels that the lot could not have fallen on a better man. That the nomination is a surprise 670 ACRES AT ROTTINGDEAN to those who are without know- ledge of the inner workings goes without saying, but others seem to have had reason to believe that the. selection would probably fall upon him. In any case it is cer tain that all will be thoroughly pleased with the selection.
Recently the Mayor of Bath,
FOR £21,000, Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white
cliff edge.
As when the Reman's came.
-Kipling.
Brighton Town Council recently
Heights estate, of 070 acres, for £21,000.
The estate is north of Rotting- dean, and adjoins the 1,000 acres which the corporation already
wn.
It is proposed to make a park,
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P.A.M., proposed the health of Sir "It will be recalled that at 2 Hugh Clifford in a short speech pim. on May 1, 1922, Wu Dzung and welcomed the other guests. tung succeeded in making good
Sir Hugh, who was greeted with his escape by breaking the cell The Rev. Mr. Robers married decided to purchase "Rottinghain
loor at the local Japanese Con-Dr. Somerville of Canterbury hos thetra and singing of "For he's a jolly good fellow," said that two sulate, where he had been detain-vital. months of continuous speakinged on a charge of attempted mur- had made his eloquence a triflettre of General Tanaka. thin."
He had been present at "According to the authorities, many functions of planters which Wu, after the sensational gaol while in America, heard a speaker could be regarded as "the lying breaking, went to Russia, where claiming that the United States down of the planter lion with the he studied communism in a cer-were the home of the cinema. He with facilities for football, cricket, On the at once protested that the honour tennis and bowls, on 100 acres, Government. lamb." He suggest-tain Soviet institution.
a sporting fixture with other completion of his studies, he pro- bolonged to Bath. As an earnest and to develop the remainder ou Colonies and said that Ceylon ceeded to Canton, where he was of his contention he is erecting in modern garden suburb lines. would give them a better pitch given a
Rottingdean, was for a time the post in the Whampoa New Bond-street-place a tablet to thon Kuala Lumpur gave the Aus-Military Academy as professor of J. A. R. Rudge, who in the kitchen home of Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and tralians... He paid the highest foreign languages. The authori- of a house there displayed, it is it was the "blunt, bow-headed, tribute to state sanitation in ties believe that We recently came claimed, the first moving picture, whale-backed Downs" in the dis- Malaya, which was better than in to Shanghai from Canton by aand to Friese Greene, who in a trict that inspired his
studio a few yards away, using any other place in the British certain Chinese man-of-war. Empire, while the coolies wore
There are stained-glass windows "It is understood that in view celluloid strips instead of glass looked after hetter. He was glad, of the foregoing the Japanese.zu-plates, followed up the invention he said, to notice synthetic flowers thorities will take legal proceed-by showing the first moving film.by Sir E. Burne-Jones in the on the table and that they were ings against Yen on charges of The men were friends and Greane church, and in the churchyard blooming AN aynthetic rubbaraiding, and abetting, and offering never forgot the debt he owed to William Black, the novelist, is never would (Cheers).
a shelter to criminal offenders." Rudge.
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