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1927.

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SUNLIGHT EFFECTS.

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EXCITEMENT IN SINGAPORE STREET.

In the street of Singapore, one might at any moment be brought into unpleasant (hay, dangerous, and perchance fatal) contact with any of the shootings. or stabbings that are almost daily occurrence, saya the Straits

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This fact was emphasised lost week in the exciting experience of Mr. C. H. Dakers, the Third Police Magistrate. He was on his way to office, when in Havelock Road, 300 yards from the Chinese Secretariat, coming upon several Chinese attacking another with knives, he left his car and went to the aid of the apparently badly wounded man.

has been realized from the first that the leafy vegetables stain large amounts of vitamin. Afortunately the methods of Times.. Judy have not been such as fermit very accurate determina flon of the amounts of vitamin in any single specimen or as to the relative values of various portions of plants for this purpose.

Investigators in, the division of home economice of Michigan, State Collège have recently been study ing the relative vitamin A con- tent of head lettuce, as compared with leaf lettuce, and of the

Whether the assailants would Icaves ofsattuce from the inside. as compared with the outside of have fled at Mr. Dakers approach the head, and of leaf lettuce as if they had heen armed with pistols grown in hot-houses with that instead of knives is matter for grown out of doors. As is usual surmise, but that is what they with experiments of this type, did, and in the chase that ensued up Havelock Road, Mr. Dakers' animals were fed on diets taining large amounts of the Malay syce, who was a few paces various types of lettuce that were ahead of his master, was able to

their scize one of the men. boing investigated and growth was studied in this rela- tionship.

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Bloodstained Knife.

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Musical instruments.

6 Went faat.

On the way back to the waiting 11 Simpleton. It was found that the leaf let-car, in which the wounded man 13 Noise. tuce is better for the promotion of was brought to the Central Police 14 Rigid.

16 Festivals, growth in rats that had been fed Station and conveyed thence in an

on a diet deficient in vitamin A ambulance to hospital, Mr. Dakers 18 Stories.

21 Charges. than was the head lettuce. Fur-picked-up a bloodstained knife, 20 Water bird. outside green dropped by one of the fugitives 23 A sufficiency. theremore, the

A few minutes after the occur-25 Battering Irons. leaves of the head lettuce was far

inside yellow rence a Pathan civilian brought in 27 Snakes. superior to the leaves in furnishing vitamin A. a fleeing Chinese and a Malay 29 Calls by name.. In-door leaf lettuce proved to be policeman another, and a second 30 Female sheep. as beneficial, as outdoor leaf let-knife was picked near the scene 32 Ages.

of the attack by Mr, W. H. Gat- 84 Broads." tuce in producing growth;

The evidence seemed to indi-field, of the Chinese Protectorate. 36 Shrub.

89 Prophet. cate that the chlorophyl, or green. The apathy with which such 87 Beverages.

41 Little. colouring matter of the plant, had street incidents are regarded by dome definite relationship to the the average Chinese crowd in 43 Useless plants. A that was present. Singapore, and but for which per 48 Summon forth. vitamin However, "this was not especially haps these ruffians would not be 48 The Devil.

so ready to resort to violence, was 50 Precipitous... proved.

Dakers in 51 Apex, Of course, the relationship of emphasised by Mr. the sunlight to the growing plant response to enquiries by a Straits 52 Literary composition. is also involved in this considera-Times representative. "There was 53 Scarf. tion. It is not possible to know a crowd of Chinese watching the 54 Ties up. how much sunlight penetrates man boing attacked," said Mr. frem outside of the head of let tuce to the inner regions, nor is possible to know the amount of vitamin in the leaves at various times in the cource of the growt Certain however, it is import- ant to know that these factors do play a part and that all kinds of lettuce are not equally efficient in their content of the growth-pro- ducing factor known as vitamin

A.

HANKOW'S ROAD" PERILS.

A CALLOUS MOTORIST.

Hankow, Sept. 2.

Dakers, "and not one of them made any effort either to prevent it or seize any of the assailants."

CHINESE SOCIETIES

- CLASH. MANY CASUALTIES IN SINGAPORE.

Singapore, Sept. 6. Secret Society fights between Teochow factions have been rife during the week-end, with the result that over a score of dead and wounded have been admitted to the hospitals.

The worst affray took place in Balestier Road late on Saturday- bégán fight night, where a An illustration of how callous and amongst a section of a large' watching a wayang. cowardly a motorist can be was crowd given on the Bund at about a quar-Inspector Judge arrived from Kan- dang Kerbau Station with a party ter to nine yesterday evening.

Road-hogging, and evidently on of police, but owing to the crowd, an evening joy ride, this motoristit was impossible. to identify the Eleven wounded men knocked down a coolie on the S.A.D."bad hats."

No. 2 Bund, but instead of stopping were collected and taken to the he stepped on his accelerator. Police Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where whistles then began to blow and an four of them died. armed constable fired a shot, where About eight o'clock on Saturday upon the driver turned away from night, a serious disturbance start the river round by the San Pened in Holloway Lane, near the offices. He went round with such Eer Club, and when Inspect speed that one of his mudguards Judge arrived with a party, he

He then scraped against a tree.

found five men suffering from turned into Rue Dubail, and accel-knife wounds. They were quickly erating to above sixty soon disap- removed to Tan Tock Seng Hos- peared in the direction of the pital. A house in Bain Street was

ex-British concession.

At the time of the accident the owner of the car was not known, but one of the policemen on duty reported that he had noted the num ber is being 281.

searched by the police and hun- dreds of bottles, bricks and other missiles were collected and re- moved to the station.

The police were just in time to prevent a serious outbreak at Boat A curious circumstance attend-Quay, where thirty arrests were ing Cardinal Csernoch's death re-effected, and a large number of cently is the fact that it was an- bricks, bottles, poles, etc. seized.

A Teochow was brought to the nounced a full week before it actually occurred by the official Central Station on Sunday about Vatican organ Osservatore Ro8.45, suffering from eleven stab

wounds all over the body. long mano, which published s

How or obituary notice accompanied by an was unable to speak, and died on edifying description of the cardi- the way to hospital.

where he was stabbed is at present nal's last moments.

unknown.

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