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Reports of an earthquake which appeared to be of destructive violence were received at the Harvard Seismograph Station yesterday. The quake occurred about 9500 miles from Cambridge and was located by Harvard seismologists as being in the vicinity of Java and the Malay Peninsula. Three distinct waves or tremors reached the University Station and by figuring the difference in time between their arrival on the Seismograph, the distance and general position of the quake was ascertained. No reports have received as yet from the stricken territory...
...Calvin Coolidge was an inconspicuous Assemblyman in Massachusetts. Alfred E. Smith was the same thing in New York. Herbert Clark Hoover had branched out independently in engineering and in 1907-08 visited England, Egypt, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Malay, Ceylon...
...curtailment of British rubber production by Parliament under the Stevenson Act. Theoretically this measure was expected to intensify the demand for rubber and consequently raise its price by curtailing the supply. The actual results have been so unsatisfactory that last week a leading British newspaper in Malaya, The Malay Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded today as on trial for its life, and unless tangible results are achieved in bringing supply closer to consumption in the near future, the ranks of those prepared to scrap the scheme and give the law of supply and demand free sway...
Mines, mining, and matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa...
...reminder that Chinese are now prospering hugely in immigrant colonies on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo & Java was put forward, last week, by U. S. Methodist Bishop Titus Lowe, as he arrived in Paris from his bishopric in Singapore. Said he: "The Chinese have invaded Malaysia by thousands. Not only do they supply men for day labor but they run banks, steamship lines and other great business undertakings...