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The funeral of Mr. Leong Fook Chee will take place on Sunday next, the 9th instant Mr. Charles Ball-Greene died in the Kota Bharu Hospital. Kelantan, on November 20. Mr. J. A. Black has been appointed to officiate as Assistant Protector of Chinese, Singapore. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Clarke,","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":40,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.16","page_number":"14","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.45","article_title":"RANDOM NOTES","article_text_1st50words":"RANDOM NOTES stitute. Kasnuli. Punjab.Calcutta Statesman. Waterfall Gardens No further information s forthcoming concerning the decision to close the VV iterfall Gardens after dusk in order to pr> tret plants and trees from vandals who have in the past caused their destruction. On a recent moonlit evening over one hundred","contributor":"stitute. Kasnuli. Punjab.Calcutta  Statesman."},{"_id":41,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.16","page_number":"14","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.46","article_title":"SINGAPORE NEWS","article_text_1st50words":"SINGAPORE NEWS NEW S. R. A. HANDICAPPER {From Out Own Correspondent) Singapore. January 3 Mr R. C. Bone, Secretary and Handicapper of the Kalgoorlie Turf Club, has been, appointed Handicapper of th» Straits Racing Association. He will attend the Penang Race meeting, but does not take up his duties until","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":42,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.16","page_number":"14","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.47","article_title":"CHARTERED BANK","article_text_1st50words":"CHARTERED BANK OPENING OF NEW PREMISES AT SOERABAYA Tiie new premises of the Chartered Bank at Soerabaya were formally opened on December IS. In a specially erected pavilion, the Agent of the Bank, Mr. Macpherson, welcomed the visitors, among whom were the Resident, Mrs. Hardeman and many officials while nearly","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":43,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.17","page_number":"15","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.48","article_title":"FLOODS AND THE RAILWAYS","article_text_1st50words":"FLOODS AND THE RAILWAYS WIDESPREAD HAVOC EUROPEAN RESIDENCES DESTROYED Serious Food Shortage The correspondent of the Malay Mail nt Singapore, telegraphed as follows on January 3. When the steamer Mahidol returned to Singapore on Saturday she reported the serious plight of the inhabitants of Pahang in consequence of Hoods. The","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":44,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.18","page_number":"16","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.49","article_title":"FLOODS IN KUANTAN","article_text_1st50words":"FLOODS IN KUANTAN COAST TOWN WASHED AWAY r f Heavy Loss of Life i [From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, January 5 1 '1 he steamer Rahman from Kuantan reports that Kuala Pahang badly requires food. Only three houses in the coast town of Bebar are stand ng. The manager of","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":45,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.3","page_number":"1","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.5","article_title":"PONTIANAK GOLD","article_text_1st50words":"PONTIANAK GOLD Mr. F. C. Feck writes as follows to the editor of the Singapore Free Press: Mr. Herbert Wilson s letter in your issue of the 23rd instant, which clear. Iy implies that the Pontianak Gold c< mpany’s directors do not intend to call a meeting of shareholders until","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":46,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.18","page_number":"16","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.50","article_title":"CHILD MURDER","article_text_1st50words":"CHILD MURDER A Chinese girl of about twelve years of age has been charged before the second magistrate, Raja Uda, at Kuala Lumpur, with the murder of a Chinese )<>y of seven years of age. It is alleged that she pushed the child through the railings bordering the Klang river,","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":47,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.19","page_number":"17","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.51","article_title":"VOX POPULI","article_text_1st50words":"VOX POPULI Of ail tlie journalistic parrot cries which enliven this country popular representation is the worst. It is the last resort of the written-out journalist, the one grievance which can be relied ujkti to stir the jaded minds of amateur politicians when Malaya is void of news and there","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":48,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.19","page_number":"17","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.52","article_title":"M.A.P.","article_text_1st50words":"M.A.P. Dr, -I. Morgan airived here to-day by the it y of Lahore. Lt.-Col. J. M. Boyd arrived here yesterday fr< m Singapore by the s.s. Shirala. Among those who arrived in Penang from Madras by the s.s. Teesta was Colonel C. L. M. Vcules. Mrs. T. W. W. W'right","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":49,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.20","page_number":"18","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.53","article_title":"RANDOM NOTES","article_text_1st50words":"RANDOM NOTES Keeping Cool When- L < Dewir fin. all the good yarns he del- fits In tellin to his friends in a mxstcr His late-* t<lls how an extremely sdi-possessed n hi. was in and out of H..HHO’ in the hah t o< telling his wife to keep cool.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":50,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.20","page_number":"18","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.54","article_title":"OLD MALBURIANS","article_text_1st50words":"OLD MALBURIANS Successful Dinner (Frmn Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Jan. 7 Mr. J. R. Taylor presided at the Old Malburians* dinner at which there were present the Bishops of London and Singapore, Major Boutfield, Lieut. Armitage. Messrs. Clarkson, Duncan Roberts, C. E. Smith, Vaughan Jones, Dr. Keevil, Messrs. G. Morrice,","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":51,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.20","page_number":"18","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.55","article_title":"JOHORE C. OF E.","article_text_1st50words":"JOHORE C. OF E. Foundation Stone Laid (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Jan. 7 The Bishop of London this morning I iid the foundation stone of St. Christopher’s Church in Johore on the site given by lI.H. the Sultan.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":52,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.20","page_number":"18","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.56","article_title":"CHINESE SPORTING CLUB","article_text_1st50words":"CHINESE SPORTING CLUB A Ch nese correspondent writes: 1 sixth Anniversary of the Chinese Sporting Club, Penang, was held at the Chib's premises on New Year Day. The budding was decorated and presented a striking appearance. Indoor games, such as billiards, pingpong, etc were played by l lie members as","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":53,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.20","page_number":"18","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.57","article_title":"RUBBER POSITION","article_text_1st50words":"RUBBER POSITION NOTES BY A. W. S. A.W.S., writing from London to the ,S7m/7.s Times, under date December 8, Discussion during the week has been mainly upon the formation of the American Rubber Purchasing Combine, of which, no doubt, cabled messages have already informed the readers of the Straits Times.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":54,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.21","page_number":"19","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.58","article_title":"COMMERCIAL LETTER","article_text_1st50words":"COMMERCIAL LETTER FUTURE OF TIN (I* rom (Ju/ (Jtcn Coi respondent) London, December 16 A very considerable emphasis has been given to the world's raw mineral industry by the decision of Minerals Separation, Limited, a company registered in London, to undertake a detailed aerial survey of certain portions of North-eas-tern","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":55,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.22","page_number":"20","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.59","article_title":"H.E. 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The ministers and staff removed to a new building now under construction.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":57,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.22","page_number":"20","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.60.1","article_title":"VOLUNTEERING","article_text_1st50words":"VOLUNTEERING VULun i 1- !To the Editor of the Strain Echo) k) 1 r Your correspondent styled himself as Hex” should really be read as Ked for I can say that \"Bex” unknown must be one of the Anti-British political members who is plotting against the government of this colony","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":58,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.22","page_number":"20","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.60.2","article_title":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING","article_text_1st50words":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING Sir. While agreeing with you in the main, regarding what you write in in your lea dur of yesterday, in which you say among other things. We are prompt <‘d to believe. however, that there are many Chinese who joined the Volunteers not so much from the point","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":59,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.22","page_number":"20","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.60.3","article_title":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING","article_text_1st50words":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING Dear Sir, Allow me to exnreac Of the st’dpm 1 appreciation uu abatement conta ned in ti. i„ s? a 'tr movement in a Patriotic through patriotism, 1 think that those ol mu cmnese who have been averse to joining, have kept themselves out xnaimy on account or","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":60,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.22","page_number":"20","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.61","article_title":"BOXING","article_text_1st50words":"BOXING SONG KNOCKS OUT REYES (Prow Our Own Co 'respondent) Singapore, January 7 j C. Song knocked out Cowboy Reyes at the Happy Valley yesterday evening in the eiglfth round. Mohamed Amin drew with Domi Santos. Mi. C. G. 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Phe local Chinese packers have reduced their on put. by 30 per ent., s nee","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":63,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.23","page_number":"21","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.64","article_title":"M.A.P.","article_text_1st50words":"M.A.P. Mrs. Willem type, daughter of Capt. P. A az, proceeds to Europe and Holland with her husband (2nd Engineer on the Van Hoorn) and infant daughter on Ft binary 4. 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The question arises on this why the-»- particular","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":65,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.24","page_number":"22","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.66","article_title":"FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS","article_text_1st50words":"FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Loe\\L Belief Find Ihe Straits Settlements (Penang) eiatimi have inaugurated a Belief 1 \"\"d for those who have suffered in the r-eent tbxds in the Malay Peninsula, ihe fund to he called The Malava I'l< nd Belief Fund. ''T' Committee of the Association form the Committee for","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":66,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1","issue_date":"8/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.1.24","page_number":"22","article_id":"straitsechomail19270108-1.2.67","article_title":"THE F.M.S. 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SINGLE COPY 40 GTS. VOL. 25 PENANG: JANUARY 15, 1927 NO. 2","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":76,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.5","page_number":"26","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.10","article_title":"SPORTING NEWS","article_text_1st50words":"SPORTING NEWS PENANG TURF CLUB NEW YEAR MEETING OPENS RECORD FIELDS java Candidate Annexes Big Event Old Horses Still Good The opening day of the Penang Turf Club New Year Meeting can be pronounced an unqualified success weather, arrangements and fields were all on the good side. His Highness the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":77,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.7","page_number":"28","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.11","article_title":"THE MISSIONARY","article_text_1st50words":"THE MISSIONARY We published a letter in yesterday's Straits Jw ho under the heading American .Missionaries'’ which was sent us by a non-British resident of Penang. Our correspondent casts a slight on' the American missionary by his wholesale condemnation of a booty lor which we have the proloundest respect and","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":78,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.7","page_number":"28","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.12","article_title":"THE MALAYA FLOOD RELIEF FUND","article_text_1st50words":"THE MALAYA FLOOD RELIEF FUND fhe Committee of the S.S. (Penang) Association acknowledges with thanks e fol lowing subscriptions: Hon. Mr. R. Scott $5O, Hon. Mr. Juslee 1 J. Sproule $lOO, Mr. C. R. amuel $lOO, Mr. C. D. 1). Hogan $lOO, Pk’n- 2’ G Jf> hnson $lOO, Mr. R.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":79,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.7","page_number":"28","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.13","article_title":"M.A.P.","article_text_1st50words":"M.A.P. 11. E. the H igh Commissioner has been pleased to award the Colonial Auxiliary F<rces Long Service A.edal t Corporal (i. T. Holford, of the M.S.V.R. Air. Al. 11. I’Venander, of the Editorial Staff of the Times of Malaya I poll, arrived here yesterday by train. He left the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":80,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.7","page_number":"28","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.14","article_title":"RANDOM NOTES","article_text_1st50words":"RANDOM NOTES I lie Bishop of London From morning till evening from even ing till night 1 preach and 1 organize, lecture and write Ami all over London my gartered legs flv, Was ever a Bishop as busy as I? For luncheon I swallow a sandwich of ham As I","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":81,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.8","page_number":"29","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.15","article_title":"WELCOME TO BISHOP OLDHAM","article_text_1st50words":"WELCOME TO BISHOP OLDHAM THE FUTURE OF MALAYA Bishop J. H Oldham, who Led the seeds ot the Methodist Mission in Malaya more than 45 years ago, and Mrs. Oldham, together with Bishop Titus Izjwe and Mrs. Lowe were welcomed b\\ the Meincd.st Minsk n in Jenang vesterduy nt the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":82,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.8","page_number":"29","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.16","article_title":"PENANG ASSIZES","article_text_1st50words":"PENANG ASSIZES Ceremonial Opening The first session of Penang Assizes for 1927 was opened to-day with ceremonial. A service was held at St. (itiorge’s at 10.30, the Rev. Keppel Gamier officiating. It was attended by Mr. Justice Sproule and Mr. Justice Brown, in gown and wig, the District Judge, the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":83,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.8","page_number":"29","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.17","article_title":"EDUCATION DEPARTMENT","article_text_1st50words":"EDUCATION DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL I CLASSES These classes will be re-open in Jan.l uary, 1927 and will continue through. l out’ the year with vacations as ar-K ranged by the Senior Instructor, Mr. C.E D. Quannby F.A.1.P.A.5.1. (European! Commercial Master, Education Depart- 1 inent). In all* subjects the syllabus of","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":84,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.9","page_number":"30","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.18","article_title":"SINGAPORE PINES","article_text_1st50words":"SINGAPORE PINES PACKERS’ PROPOSAL TO REDUCE OUTPUT Attitude of the European Shippers The announcement that the Singapore United Pineapple Packing Companya combination of all the local Chinese factories, employing a central selling office propose to reduce their production by thirty to forty per cent, this season was received with surprise","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":85,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.9","page_number":"30","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.19","article_title":"AMERICAN MISSIONARIES","article_text_1st50words":"AMERICAN MISSIONARIES (To the Editor of the Straits Echo; Sir, 1 feel somewhat diffident about approaching you on the matter of a letter which appeared in Saturday’s Straits limes to hand by this morning’s mail, but since that letter bears the well known initials G.L.P. (significant in Penang) the diffidence","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":86,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.1","page_number":"1","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.2.1","article_title":"Page 1 Advertisements Column 1","article_text_1st50words":"JL LEADING ARTICLES MISCELLANEOUS: (Continued) jl J) Attracting Visitors 24 P.M.I.A. Perak Flood Fund 39,40 A 49 I s/k Enterprising Motor Finns 24 Mr. Li in Eow Thoon 40 B Flood Relief 24 Bou stead and Co., Ltd. 40 &45 11 The Missionary 28 Turf Club Dinner 41 ill II","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":87,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.9","page_number":"30","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.20","article_title":"BISHOF OF LONDON","article_text_1st50words":"BISHOF OF LONDON ADDRESS AT VICTORIA THEATRE Christianity And The Empire Tne Bishep of London. the Kight Lev. A. F. innington-Ingram, had a large and enthusiastic audience in the ictoria Theatre on Friday afternoon to hear his address on Christianity and the Empire. Ihe Bishop O 1 Singapore, the lion.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":88,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.10","page_number":"31","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.21","article_title":"PENANG ASSIZES","article_text_1st50words":"PENANG ASSIZES Ceremonial Opening The first session of the Penang Assizes, which begins to-morrow, will, as has been customary the past few years, be I attended by a ceremonial opening. There will be a brief service at St. George’s, j attended by the Judge, District Judge, A members of the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":89,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.11","page_number":"32","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.22","article_title":"THE PERAK RIVER HYDRO-ELECTRIC","article_text_1st50words":"THE PERAK RIVER HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT UP TO DATE The Perak River Hydro-Electric Pow er Company Linrted was formed at the end of July of tlrs year, and the whole of the Capital, L 3,100,000 has now been subscribed. The Board is a strong one. and contains, amongst other members, two","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":90,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.11","page_number":"32","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.23","article_title":"IMPRESSIONS OF BANGKOK","article_text_1st50words":"IMPRESSIONS OF BANGKOK By a Penang Resident Bangkok, December 4 Bangkok is now cool as it is in the Winter season when the temperature is only 65 degrees, and you feel as if you are staying on top of the Penang Hill. Living is cheap here compared to that of","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":91,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.24.1","article_title":"A MEAN TRICK","article_text_1st50words":"A MEAN TRICK (To the Editor of the «traits Echo) Sir. Please allow inc to address two gentlemen, through your columns, who on Ww Fear’s Eve, played a practical joke OH tile Y. w. C. A. Hostel in Anson Hoad, completely obliterating the sign tmrd with white enamel paint. I","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":92,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.24.2","article_title":"ABOUT MOTORING","article_text_1st50words":"ABOUT MOTORING /'[>. the Editor <>f the Echo) Sir, Nowadays, motor-car accidents are of frc<|iient occurrence. The reasons attributed are numerous but the most comm/U i perh ips to have cleaners practis mg dr'ving with crowded occupants in a hired ear. They are very dangerous wh<‘B they c« me to","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":93,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.24.3","article_title":"LIVING COSTS","article_text_1st50words":"LIVING COSTS (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir. The «traits Times published a letter Jrom a correspondent in its issue of Ihursduy last who claims that his total hvmg expenses in Singapore do not 25 r ,Qnth His \">onthly budget is made up as follows: Hoard and room","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":94,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.24.4","article_title":"THE RAILWAY DISASTER","article_text_1st50words":"THE RAILWAY DISASTER ('To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir, With reference to the recent collapse of the railway bridge between TassekGlugor and Pinang Tunggal, which precipitated the engine'of the goods train into the floods, resulting in the death of the driver and his firemen, it should be an","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":95,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.24.5","article_title":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING","article_text_1st50words":"CHINESE VOLUNTEERING Sir, troni my knowledge of the Chinese I think those who have joined the local Volunteer forces have done so firstly through paliK tisin. It lias to be remembeied that only one company of (.lunes» Bril sh subjects is allowed in 1 hang, Singapore and Malacca. 1 am","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":96,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.25","article_title":"SIAMESE CONSULATE","article_text_1st50words":"SIAMESE CONSULATE We learn that Taiang Varavadi. the local Siamese Consul has been tramtwred to Bangkok in ordet to take up an other post in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Pending the appointment of a new Consul, Khun Bhasa Bhitsj will be in charge of the Consulate.","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":97,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.12","page_number":"33","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.26","article_title":"BAD SITUATION AT KUALA LIPIS","article_text_1st50words":"BAD SITUATION AT KUALA LIPIS (From Our Own Cohresponi>bn H Kuala Lumpur, January 10 M. Victome de Bondy writes to the Malay Mail regarding the floods in Ulu Pahang, where Raub escaped lightly, but Kuala Lipis suffered terribly, the river rising seventy feet and submerging houses. 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It bitnis to have stalled with an assertion","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":99,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.13","page_number":"34","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.28","article_title":"CAMERON’S HIGHLANDS","article_text_1st50words":"CAMERON’S HIGHLANDS St;GGESTED DEVELOPMEX'T (From Oir Own Correspondent) Singapore, January 12 The Committee oi the Straits Settlements Association are recommending lire provision of wireless stations throughout. Alalaya, on the lines suggested by the Hon. Air. John Alitcheil. 1 hey also urge that the Straits Government should ally itself with the","contributor":"NA"},{"_id":100,"newspaper_title":"The Straits Echo (Mail Edition)","issue_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1","issue_date":"15/1/1927","edition":"1","page_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.1.13","page_number":"34","article_id":"straitsechomail19270115-1.2.29","article_title":"M.A.P.","article_text_1st50words":"M.A.P. II E. Sir Laurence Guilleinard has given $5OO to the Perak Flood Belief Fund. Messrs. Eu long Sen, 0.8. E., and S. K. W ong arc leaving for China and Japan shortly. Air. Justice Farrer Manby is engaged at Seremban, where he is presiding over the Assizes in the","contributor":"NA"}],"_links":{"start":"/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d_66160334994304e9a21d42ae2e32a5c7","next":"/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=d_66160334994304e9a21d42ae2e32a5c7&offset=100"},"total":20132}}