It would surprise residents in your "city to find how keenly vents shave been followed in the North, and more especially how anyone who can talk about Shanghai is given a hearing. The writer, soon after his return from the North, was. solemnly asked by a Chinese who was by no means an ignoramus whether there was anything left of Shanghai! The inquirer sured that there were still houses on the Bund, and shops in Nanking Road and elsewhere, and at first he was ineredu-Tous.' Pictures were then brought out to convince him. He had been oleinnly told that Shanghai had: been destroyed by the Japanese! name it is not easy to.
rid much about Shanghai Ddecause' the world thinks it knows much already, For example, ju the 1982 edition of a certain reliable publication I see that the population of Shanghai is given as 1,000,000 only. I have done my best to correct the notion that Shanghai ig growing smaller!
the boys and girls in the schools of Malaya, however, are learning 'a good deal about' th Shi tu hag been there and knows just exactly what to tell them about, th Toattended one of the tures the other day and can'
sstify to the interest of the audience, their surprise at your traffic conditions, their wonder at your Neon lighting, and generally their enormous interest in your waterway problems and your many forms of government. I wonder whether there are similar lectures being given in Shanghai about Malaya and what this countly stands for in the scheme of things?
Proprietor v. Newspaperman 'A case has just, been decided in the Supreme Count at Ipoh which must be of intense interest not only to newspapermen but to members of ho general public riy well, A focal newspaper, being faced with Incas prosperous" times, decided affect economies, The proprietor decided that. all the staff must come onto a month to month basis. Not all agreed, and those who did not were paid' off. One man, however, an ex-editor, and a journalist who had" served' the paper long and faithfully, soon found that his fate was going to be similar to that, of The others, but that he was going to. get no' compensation. He sued the paper for leave pay, and passage, Actually he tried to get not 'Snly' a period of six months' leave Pay which was obviously due, but. 2 further six months "which he Neged had accumulated as he had taken no leave for six years or more. 'The Judge, however, could not give him this second portion, He gave six months' half-pay leave, and 4 passage, and half' the taxed costs, amt people are saying that the Plaintif? was Iueky to have got what he did. This case interests all of who are at the mercy of 2 week to, week or month to. month "dis-needed, how eminently fair and impartial' the Bench attempts to be. The case was ably argued on both sides, but it was obvious to those timism: Court Ruling This Beauty Light Sentence aper Case Houtywoom experts declare that Ssu is one of those women who the perfect girl of to-day must be:—won't even lower herself to talk Nineteen years nine months old. the milkman—she hands him a note with "half a pint" written on of us who followed it closely that!
Five foot three inches, tall, it-—Southend witness.
one would have any security at Eight stone two pounds in weight. fil if, because of the slump, we Blue-eyed.
Were suddenly deprived of what we Twenty-four inches round the waist.
Others Do the Work had earned during years when there Besides which, of course, her was no question about slump at all.
Jcoefficient of divorcibility should be We are not going to try to be The ease is a direct result of the high as possible. funny to-day. We don't have to, for twe have been handed the weekly slump. rade report of Messrs. Koyata (Ca-Education in Malaya Song of the Shirts [Yamamoto & Ca, manufacturing ready two or three exporters of cotton piece goods and bern cotublianed. in ireland. a1 the Tue Blue Shirt organisation has schools in this country which go. yarn. it will be noticed that they {for ce-education, but only one witl "National Guard" also. humourist of a remark which I am tolerably familiar. Thi When you wear a blue shirt tably high order. Here is the re-Isa tle country "school fin the And I wear a brown shirt, port:—lie of the Federated Malas And Tom up the road wears Frenzied Lancashire Cotton men and a pleasanter atmosphere black; have finally directed their arms [than in that "school it woul be And Jim wears a green shirt against Japan with an oppressive Laid 19 imagine. It is Govern: nent, English School, and was (ad Jobo, bets air attitude. The. Indian. Government With all of the spots in the pack—Jannouneed unexpectedly the rais-founded for boys. It happened, Oh! the world will be bright Ing of the Custom duty on Cotton however, that the local Soltan had When we put on our elo'es, nowhere to send his granddaughters Piece goods of Japanese and other But by some oversight ron-British origins to 75 per cent. school, and he asked whether they The great heads won't disclose fad valorem, and the new tariff went "ight come with their brothers.
Whether pants should be white into effect immediately.
is Tequest was granted, But where And coats couleur de rose? his Highness had led the way And it seems that then pink shirt, The predominance of Japanese others soon followed, and now out Meets Indian ink shirt prodyets has" been collapsed of a school population of some 300 [students 60 are girls.
And brown shirt meets indigo blue, ought in the Indian market. This announcement greatly ratified the The girls and boys work in come Es Cotton mull circles in England, itis mon in the classes, But they do not breath howls do all their drill ud games toge-reported ther, and it waa thrilling to see business these young. Malay and Chinese
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