Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 12 July 1937

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE last edition ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. 161. Vol. XCV. MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 1995 1 NANKING RESOLVED TO THROW FULL WEIGHT AGAINST AGGRESSOR Tokio Authorises Expenditure For 46 Appropriate Measures” SEVERE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE VICINITY OF PEIPING. While diplomatic negotiations are proceeding for a settlement, heavy troop movements are taking place, ten military trains having brought Japanese troops from
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  • 37 1 Reuter. The Hague—The Waterier Peace Prize for 1937 of £2.100 has been awarded to Lord Baden-Powell for his extraordinary services to international understanding by means ci promotion of the Boy Scout movement. Reuter.
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  • 255 1 Dividend Reduced To 6 per cent. Net dividends from subsidiary companies of Consolidated Tin Smelters Limited for the year to June 30 were £'223,444, which figure was arrived at after provision for a subsidiary company’s loss. The balance carried down is £216,473. The sum of
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  • 128 1 —Reuter. Transjordan Supports Proposals Jerusalem —The Emir of Transjordan, interviewed on the recommendations of tinPalestine Report, declared that the finding.provided the best solution that could have been adopted, considering the circumstances in Palestine. Intimation that the Iraq Government will officially protest to the British Government against the proposed partition
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  • 41 1 Messrs. Shaw Brothers, controllers of a :hain of cinemas and amusement parks, have established a talkie house in Kulim, Tailed the Coronation Talkie, which opens on Friday, July 16, with “Tarzan and His Mate” as its opening programme.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 12 1 H. TOKISATSU ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHERS No. 6S-70, Bishop Street, PENANG. Telephone No. 772.
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    • 64 1 “M El RICH” MOTOR TABLETS increase the octane value of your petrol. Obtainable at WEARNE BROS. LTD., Penang. Our CHILLED BEEF needs no introduction —it has already made a name for itself. It retains all the natural juices. Delicious, tender joints, equal to the home-side beef in flavour, we can
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  • 1194 2 SOUTH CHINA XL PLAYERS COMBINE WELL BY “TWELFTH MAN” A large crowd saw the South China Athletic Association beat the Penang Chinese Recreation Club by four goals to two at soccer on the Victoria Green on Saturday. Throughout, the visitors played the cool, progressive
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  • 217 2 Selangor Depot Sweeps The Board (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 10. The Police Depot swept the board at the F.M.S. Police sports held at Kuala Lumpur today, scoring 66 points, and leaving Selangor runners-up with 22. Negri Sembilan were third with 20 pts., Perak fourth
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  • 65 2 Boxing At Singapore From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 10. Young Frisco* 11.4% beat Mohamed Fahmy 11.6 on points over twelve rounds at the New World tonight. Al Rivers retired in the second round against Kid Leyte. Rivers injured his hand. Nai Boon Mah t.k.o. Joe Grande
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  • 95 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, July 9. Three more singles in the Che Laidin’s Shield badminton competition were played today on the Kedah Volunteer drill hall courts. The Sunroc Badminton Party defeated the Hottentots Badminton Party by three matches to nil. The Sunroc Badminton Party won the
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  • 377 2 SEVERAL NEW RECORDS ESTABLISHED (From Onr Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 10. In spite of bad weather and a heavy track, two Malayan records and five Singapore records were smashed at the third championship meeting of the Singapore A. A.A. held on the padang. The Governor and Lady
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  • 110 2 Cat-Calls In Malaya Cup Encounter (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, July 10. The Combined Services beat Malacca by two goals to one in a Malaya Cup match here today but the goal which gave the Services victory is being much discussed. From what could be seen, the ball
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  • 17 2 Mr. Vernon Nicholas Wade has been appointed Assistant Registrar of Imports and Exports, Penang.
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  • 31 2 —Reuter. Sin-kie Beats H. F. David At Edgbaston in the final of the Midland Counties tennis tournament Kho Sinkie beat H. F. David 4, 6 —3. Reuter.
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  • 862 3 CHINA’S CRACK TROOPS START FOR THE NORTH SENSATION CREATED BY GEN. CHIANG’S ORDERS Nanking Demands Apologies From Japanese Embassy Tokio, July 11. A message from Tokio states' that Domei official reports reaching the War Office understand that following resumption of Sino-Japanese
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  • 338 3 HI M SHOWS HOW IT STARTED A film taken by a British officer of part >f the Wai Wai incident, which Italy used is an excuse for the invasion of Abyssinia, has been shown in public in London for the first time. The Government had hitherto
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  • 121 3 VIOLENT ERUPTION WITHOUT WARNING Batavia. Dr. Neumann, the volcanologist, had a thrilling experience recently while visiting Mount Tjerimai, the volcanic crater in Middle Java. He descended together with his “mantri to the crater to make observations. One of the gaps down below showed a temperature
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  • 166 3 “Missing” Malay Captain Found How the captain of a Malay sailing vessel, the Mas Melayu, is reported to have slept continuously for a week is described in the Sarawak Gazette. It was reported that the captain had disappeared' just as his ship was bound to sail
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  • 381 3 8.8. C. SCHEME Malaya is failing to play its part in supporting one of the Empire's leading institutions, the British Broadcasting Corporation. Having given up his long-cherished idea of inducing Empire radio listeners to make financial contributions toward the cost of the Deventry programmes. Sir John
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  • 70 3 —A.D. Shillong. An old copper plate has been discovered at the Government Records Office. Prof. K. M. Gupta of the M.C. College, Sylhet, who deciphered the words on the plate, says that it is written in Sanskrit verse and relates to the grant of a village
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  • 93 3 A lawyer of Podmokly, Bohemia, is suing a lady of whom he was reported to have been very fond for “loss of professional time” —because she kept him waiting. Asking for compensation from the Courts, he said that she wrote to him asking him to meet her
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  • 162 3 Lord Lothian On Its Importance Lord Lothian, in a speech at Ashbridge discussing to subject of India, said that the decision at Wardha of the Congress Working Committee was of immense importance, not only to the British Commonwealth, but to the world. He took it to mean
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  • 144 3 —Reuter. LARGE PARTIES TAKEN FROM HONG KONG Sydney. A scheme for smuggling Chinese into Australia, which is believed to have been carried on for some time, has been detected by Customs officials. Parties of a dozen Chinese have been smuggled aboard steamers at Hong Kong and
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  • 366 3 More Work For Mr. Eden London. Although the tension has been relaxed as a result of Saturday’s decision by the Non-intervention Committee to invite the British Government to attempt to break the deadlock which is holding up tha Spanish control scheme, it would be rash to
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  • 598 4 RETAILS of the epic Nanking-Yun-nan motor caravan tour organised by the Chinese Central Government through eight provinces were related by Dr. Wu Lien-teh in the course a lecture on Saturday at the Hu Yew Seah, Penang. The lecturer formed Me
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  • 109 4 Woman Fined In Chand u Case (EYam Our Own Correspondent) Butterworth, July 10. “Sr*? was caught in the act of smoking, sir,” said a Chinese revenue officer, when ■a Chinese woman was charged before the District Judge, Mr. L. R. Forbes, here today with
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  • 488 4 (in an address at the Hu Yew Seah) not only was it situated 7,000 feet above sea level, thus enjoying perpetual autumn weather, but the natural scenery was superb having beautiful wooded mountains around and a huge lake of 60 by 90 square miles at the
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  • 78 4 Mr. Quah Beng Kee, 0.8. E., has been reappointed a member of the Penang Harbour Board for a further term of three years. <»* a r •m i. —————o r The F.M.S. Government Gazette on July 9 contained an expression of deep regret by H. E.
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  • 678 4 GIRL’S STATEMENT OF CAR CRASH (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 10. The statement made to the magistrate while she lay partially paralysed in hospital last week by Miss Allison Yabsley, the 19-year old Australian girl who broke her spine in a motoring crash on
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  • 139 4 P. T. DAILY PAID EMPLOYEES Liable To Fine For Neglect Of Duty (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 9. The next Federal Council, meeting on August 20, will be asked to pass a law empowering the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs to fine labourers on daily wages in the
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  • 149 4 AMENITY FOR PITT ST. AREA Occupying premises on the ground floor of the Kadersah Square buildings in Pitt Street, Penang, a new Post Office has been opened transacting all classes of business under the Post Office Ordinance, the Post Office Saving Bank Ordinance (1936) and the
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  • 128 4 Exhibition At Selangor Club (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 10. Horace Lind rum and Melbourne Inman, the world-famous billiards and snooker ’wizards,” will appear at the Selangor Club on Monday evening during their world tour. They will give an hour’s exhibition of billiards and play
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  • 119 4 A two-year-old Chinese girl, Saw Kim, was given a seat at the bar table in the 'enang Police Court on Saturday, when Mr. T. P. Cromwell, assistant Protector of Chinese, Penang, made an application to the magistrate Mr. T. D. Hughes, for the girl to be
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  • 43 5 —An aeroplane owned by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and piloted by Air- era ft man Thomson, of the Bristol Flying School, on its nose after it had crashed in the roadway at Yate (Glos.). The pilot was seriously injured.
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  • 750 5 PROPOSALS FOR PATROLLING ARCTIC WITH DIRIGIBLES THE Russian Government is shortly to put into operation the first airship built for passenger service, and it is to be filled with non-flam-mable helium gas. The Soviet Union claims to be the only State besides the United States
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  • 381 5 GIFT OF VISCOUNT FITZALAN By the gift of Viscount Fitz Alan of Derwent, the British Museum has just received one of the largest and most important series of historical documents which have come to the nation in recent years. The papers are the Shrewsbury-Talbot collection,
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  • 243 5 You Take Your Car In With You Hollywood now has a unique cinema. It is the only one in the world in which you drive in with your car and just sit in the car and watch the pictures. As cinemas go it is a
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  • 144 5 Training Ship’s Visit (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 10. Officers from the Chinese naval training ship “China Freedom” were greeted with enthusiasm by a large crowd of local Chinese who surged around them as they stepped ashore on Collyer Quay today. The 1.600-ton “China Freedom,”
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  • 176 5 Two Chinese Charged (From Our Own Correspondent) Butterworth, July 10. That the injured man who was at first thought to be in a critical condition was now out of danger was revealed before the District Judge, Mr. L. R. Forbes, here today, when the case in which
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  • 610 6 Anthony 5 For 5: Hoot Yeang 5 For 12 DRAWN GAME WITH MARATHONS Remarkable bowling was seen on the Penang Free School ground, Green Lane, when the Penang Free School forced a draw with the Marathons in a two-innings match. In the first innings,
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  • 324 6 Cameron In Form The Penang Sports Club “A” defeated the Indian Association by three wickets yesterday, in a single innings cricket match on the Esplanade. The Indian Association took first lease of the wickets, and' put up a total of 110 runs, while the Sports Club
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  • 210 6 SANDS WINS CHAMPIONSHIP (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, July 9. The Kedah Golf Club golf championship was played on Thursday, July 8. I lay was 36 holes strokes championship CO l JP®' •ition. Mr. W. N. Sands, who played oft 6 (handicap), won with a score
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  • 47 6 Over 30 persons in Finland wilt shortly have to stand their trial on the charge of caviare smuggling, it is reported. The police have been investigating the illicit entry into the country of caviare from Russia, and their efforts may shortly lead to a "clean-up.”
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  • 59 6 A race for German fathers of large families is to be one of the events at horse racing meeting at Verden Aller Rhineland, next month. It is open to fathers of families containing four or more children. A father with more than four children will receive a handicap start
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    • 213 6 NEVER A DAY WITHOUT HEARTBURN His Wife Gave Him Chardox Relief from the First Dose When indigestion plagues you when heartburn is making you feel sick, through and through—here’s a new thing to de. Just swallow two or three Chardox tablets. Chardox is a newly-discovered substance which brings relief with
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 223 6 YiYfra'fl?Ksr 6-f.r nightly 9.30 NEXT CHANGE Cop vs. Killer. FERNAND GRAVET The vs. The Lawless. r*i Americas newest film O’Brien vs. The Bogart j co starred with io the Battle of the Century I JOAN BLONDELL ■>. 4 in Warner Bros. Million Dollar w ne The J T** Fona Meefs
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    • 219 6 .VAVASN 'bV«Wi .“■■■■.VW.NV.V.,-’. Rw Greeted Again By Packed Houses OY AL WINDSOR 6.30 Tonight 9.30 Opening Today With 3 Shows Tai Fong Film., Production 2.45 6.30 9.30 Cantonese Talkie Here At Last The Picture You Have Been Waiting To See Again THREE CHEERS or “SUM HEE LIM MUN” in the
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    • 77 6 jOJUzHuRdh iffg'jii f A” *i LAST 2 SHOE'S 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 The Two Who Thrilled You in ‘’The Road To Glory in a Drama Even Stronger A Romance Even Greater k UNDER THE BROODING NIGHT SKY OF A STRANGE AND OMINOUS LAND ...DANGER LURKS PASSIONS I||& MENACE LOVE FLAMES FIERCELY!
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  • 810 7 I nusual Tales Of Cannibalism And Concentrated Food JJNUSUAL sidelights on the Szechuan famine conditions arc contained in the latest issue of the “Peipeh Monthly,” a Chinese reconstruction periodical published by the Sanchia Experimental District in Szechuan. This experiment centre has sent out several
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  • 210 7 1,200 Delegates To Attend People’s Congress Shanghai. Chinese who have their citizenship duly registered will go to the polls on July 20, 21 and 22 in the first major election in the history of China. Their task is to pick 1,200 delegates for
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  • 62 7 Valuable Collection Sold In London London: A collection of rare Chinese porcelain has been sold at Sotheby’ the London art dealers, for £14,958. The highest prices paid for one piece was £640 for a wine pot of the Khang Hsi/ period. Several pieces fetched $4OO each. The
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  • 45 7 Picture shows firemen entering the building after putting out the blaze with their foam apparatus.
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  • Article, Illustration
    10 7 for A Young Uhe.-iT at the Canterbury Festival.
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  • 366 7 AMERICAN POSTAL DILEMMA New York:—The Department of Commerce of the United States has faced some difficult decisions in its history, but few have been more tiresome than that of the Chinese ears. An Indianapolis firm which specializes in the technique of plastic surgery was anxious to
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  • 55 7 Two tongues and yet unable to talk—this is reported to be the plight of a young Chinese woman of Chengehow, Honan Province. The extre tongue, however, has brought the woman fame and fortune, for it has made her much in demand for exhibitions, and the most
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  • 139 7 Radios Operate At Their Touch Prague: Extraordinary powers have been shewn by two workmen of Ostrau, Moravia, They seem to be walking electric currents. Their bodies, apparently, are supercharged with electricity. The moment their fingers come into contact with the switches of wireless receiving sets, the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 241 7 /T I SBBB Wise feeding means more than a healthy baby. It means a happy Mother, and a joyous home-coming i 1 for Father after his day’s work. That is why so many I a Mothers feed Baby on “LACTOGEN.” “LACTOGEN” is a carefully balanced whole-milk food, full of the
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  • 974 8 r pLK decision to throw open meetings of the Penang Rural Board to the Press has enabled the public to gain an insight into what is happening in the Rural areas, such as Balik Pulau, Ayer ham. Tan iong Tokong. Bayan Lepas, etcetra. From a report of the
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  • 53 8 —Reuter. New York—“We are suffering, but are holding on. We cannot see Howland Island” states a radio message giving Miss Earhart’s call sign. With the arrival of the Colorado and Lexington destroyers on the scene, it should definitely be known by Monday if Miss Earhart and Fred
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  • 717 8 Anti-Opium Society Appeals for Funds Prosperity Reaches Australia Water With A Kick QEVEKAL Penang residents who have been completely cured of the opium habit by the Singapore AntiOpium Society are loud in praise of the good work done by this small, but effective, organisation. Started in 1906
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  • 369 8 Mr. Chung Chee Leng And Miss Loh Yoke Kee A very large gathering of friends and relatives, many of whom came from Perak, were present yesterday at the wedding of Mr. Chung Chee Leng, sixth son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Chung Ah Yong, to Miss Loh
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  • 91 8 TAKES SEAT AS POLICE MAGISTRATE Mr. Lim Cheng Ean started his magisterial career this morning when he presided in the Penang Middle Court. The: was an unusally large crowd in court He came on the Bench together yvith M’ T. D. Hughes, who dealt with al
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  • 51 8 The Sindhi Community of Penang have issued invitations to a Tea Party to held at the Elysee Hotel, Leith Street, on Friday, July 16 at 5.15 p m in honour of Mr. M. T. Assomull who was recend? appointed a Justice of the Peace for < Settlement
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  • 340 9 BADMINTON FILIPINO DIES FOLLOWING FIGHT W ITH NAI BOON MAH (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 12. J( )SE GRANDE, the Filipino junior lightweight boxer, died in ihe Singapore General Hospital yesterday morning. He had fought against the Siamese, Nai Boon Mah, at
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  • 65 9 Reuter. London, July 10. s not playing in the Davis Cup ricn under doctor s orders. Wilde t se his place. —Reuter. EUROPEAN ZONE FINAL Berlin, July 11. In the Davis Cup European Zone final Germany eliminated Czecho-Slavakia by 3 at hes to
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  • 358 9 CHONG KEAT BREAKS TWO RECORDS Geh Chong Keat broke two swimming records in the annual swimming competition of the Peneng Fred School held at the Chinese Swimming Club. Penang on Saturday. Chong Keat broke the records in the 50 and 100 metres, and came out first, in
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  • 33 9 —Reuter. Berlin —An official intimation that a visit to London by Baron von Neurath would not at present be useful is contained in a commentary issued by the German News agency.
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  • 216 9 MISS LEE AND MISS POH STILL BEST PAIR (l>y Our Badminton Correspondent) Tung Ghim Huat and Tan Kin flong entered the singles final of the I’enang open badminton championships during the week-end. Both won in three sets, tiie champion beating Tan Gim Kung
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  • 219 9 Enthusiastic Local Reception Mr. A. M. A. Kareen Gheni. a prominent member of the Burma Legislative Council of the Dyarchical Constitution, which existed before Separation and also a new member now in the House of Representatives arrived in Penang yesterday by the S.S. Khandalla. The Penang
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  • 164 9 1,700 Penang Chinese Register To Vote Since June 18, about 1,700 persons have i egistered themselves at the Chinese Consulate, Penang, as Chinese citizens. Registration closes on August 18, preliminary ’o votrng of the four delegates to represent Malaya at the First People’s Conference to be held at
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  • 106 9 Large Crowd See Inman And Lind rum At Play There was a large crowd at the Old Xaverians’ Association, Penang, last nigat, to witness an exhibition match by Melbourne Inman and Horace Lindrum, world renowned billiards players. The exhibition lasted one and three-quarter hours. Inman’s highest
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  • 569 9 Two Purchased By Mr. Leong Sin Nam STEWARDS’ ACTION AT SELANGOR RACES At the conclusion of the Ipoh races on Saturday, an auction sale of horses belonging to the late Mr. Lam Looking tool; place. There was keen bidding and the horses fetched the
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  • 522 9 A pleasant function took place yesterday at the Penang Flying Club, when members gathered to present their president, Mr. H. E. Nixon, with a cigarette box on the occasion of the celebration of the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Nixon on Saturday.
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    • 131 9 E. O. HOTEL PENANG. Wednesday 14th July DINNER DANCE s.s. "PRESIDENT MONROE” IN PORT Thursday Saturday Next i DINNER DANCES When Visiting Singapore Stay At Raffles Hotel. COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY With q Roll Film Comera use DUFAYCOLOR «Im. With this film, beautiful natural colour photographs are obtained and no filter is
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  • 1136 10 Attempt To Assess Life Of The Scheelite Deposits The annual general meeting of Kramat Pulai, Ltd., was held in London on June 28: Mr. C. V. Stephens (the chairman), in the course of his speech, said: The company produced 234 tons of tin ore and
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  • 24 10 United Malacca Rubber Estates Ltd., Rubber crop for the month of June 1937 was 51,700 lb, Total for 2 months 94,340 lb.
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  • 297 10 JULY 10 MEAT ct,. Beef Steak 24 Stew or Curry do 4g Kjk:::: f t i, t 3^BS Mutton (Goat) ind es 45 Do Australian do 36—4 U Kati Fowl u do 65 Capons locally reared 32 Hen d° rrt Duck eaCh Preserved duck none in market do
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  • 89 10 OSBORNE CHAPPEL Returns For The Quarter To June 30, 1937 Returns for the quarter to June 30, 1937. MINES PICULS Gopeng Cons. 3,154 Tekka 1,571 Tekka Taiping 2.889 Pengkalen Dredge 2,966 Tribute 459 3,425 Rambutan 610 Kinta Tin 2,760 Idris Hydraulic 1,466 Lahat Mines Tributers 815 Telok Kruin Tributers 1,724
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  • 384 10 Demand Remain, Half-Hearted Guthrie Co>, Ltd. in their report tat Singapore, July 8, state: While there has been evidence of rat more activity in the rubber market, it e not been possible to maintain their last week’s level. The effects of newed moderate buying interest from U
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  • 161 11 A close finish in a recent race in England. SEPTUAGENARIANS ALL: Old-time “cal bies” at the summer outing of their benevolent association hear a story from 91- Charlie Woods (centre). IN D C L. ROBES. Queen Mary, with the Chancellor of Oxford University (Lord Halifax) goes to
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  • 634 12 LATEST TIMES OI POSTING AIK MAIL A mail for Java and Southern Sumatra vie Singapore and thence by K.N.I.L.M. service will close at 7.30 p.m. today. A mail for Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Nigeria and Gold Coast via Singapore
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  • 862 12 THE DECLINE OF SMALL VESSELS In 1930, over 30 per cent, of the n„ wegian merchant fleet was less than t r years old, while the corresponding tage of the world fleet was To-da" 12.6 per cent, of the Norwegian fleet is i e g’ than
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 2041 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES 8.8. C. EMPIRE STATION TRANSMISSION 2 Tune in on the following wavelengths: PMN 0 2 < DJE 17.76 Mc/s 16.89 m. 6.05 p.m.—Big Ben. “Empire Exchange.” TODAY D jq 15.28 Mc/s 19.63 tn. Points of view by travellers from the Dom- TRANSMISSION 8 p.m. DJA 9.56 Mc/s
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    • 18 12 TIDE TABLE TODAY HIGH LOW’ 3.15 p.m. 9.24 p.m. TOMORROW 3.01 a.m. 9.50 a.m. 3.47 p.m. 9.59 p.m.
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  • SHIPPING
    • 508 13 AWARDS TO CREW OF VANDYCK Awards made by the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society to the commander, officers and members of the crew of the Lamport and Holt liner Vandyck for the rescue of the crew of the steamer St&ndale off the coast 01 Portugal in April
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    • 77 13 Hie Canadian Pacific has just issued a rochure entitled "Empress of Britain ’he World’s Wonder Ship.” The brochure beautifully illustrated throughout, and °ntains natural colour photographs of me of the liner’s public rooms designed famous artists, such as the Empress ’om by Sir John Laverv, R- A.,
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    • 252 13 Melbourne. When the announcement was made towards the end of last year that the Canadian-Australian Trans-Pacific mail and passenger service would cease, the competition of the heavily subsidised Matson Liners Mariposa, Monterey and Lurline, rendering this action imperative, an outcry arose in the Commonwealth and
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    • 170 13 Presiding at the annual meeting of the Suez Canal Co, the chairman, M. le Marquis de Vogue, said the end of the year 1936 had been marked by a revival of the commercial traffic, which revival had been still more evident at the beginning of this
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    • 69 13 An engineering feat has been accomplished at Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson’s shipyard. Wallsend, in enlarging the berth on which the Mauretania was built in order to accommodate the largest type of modern vessel. The contract has taken three months >o complete, and there was no
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    • 377 13 S.S. ‘HAGUE MARU’ from Singapore via Belawan sails today for Rangoon Calcutta: S.S. ‘LONDON MARU’ from Japan via Singapore sails today for Colombo, Bombay Karachi. M.V. ‘SILVERMAPLE’ from Rangoon via Belawan sails today for Los Angeles, San P'rancisco, North Pacific Ports via Singapore. M.S.
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  • 129 13 BEACON STATION Work on the installation ®of a radio beacon at the Cloch Lighthouse has not yet commenced. It was stated at a meeting of the Clyde Lighthouses Trustees that the sanction of the Northern Lighthouse Board had been obtained, and the Postmaster-General was now awaiting the
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 370 13 THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE Vessels. LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Leave Due (in conjunction with Glen Shire Line) Penang London GLENGARRY L’don, R’dam, H’burg; Antwerp Middlesborough July 16 Aug. 16 r AGAMEMNON Mars., L’don, R’dam Hamburg Glasgow July 23 Aug. 19 p PHILOCTETES L’don, R’dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea July 29 Aug.
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    • 272 13 PRESIDENT LINERTO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. LEAVE Arrive Arrive PENANG Marseilles New York S.S. PRES. MONROE July 15 Aug. 11 Aug. 24 S.S. PRES. ADAMS July 29 Aug. 25 Sept. 7 S.S. PRES. HARRISON Aug. 12 Sept. 8 Sept. 21 A wonderful opportunity to visit Cairo en route. PACIFIC SERVICE. Have
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    • 636 13 P&O BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England.) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. “RAJPUTANA” SAILING THURSDAY, 15th JULY 9 rien tal S. N. Co., under Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham, r ls Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Service Outwards from London for China Japan. S/S BULAN July
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    • 270 13 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) IXINDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Marseilles. Gibraltar, London, Antwerp and Rotterdam. Steamers. Sailing dates HARUNA MARU July 23 x KATORI MARU Aug. 6 x KASHIMA MARU Aug. 20 YASUKUNI MARU (Calls Hamburg) Sept. 2 HAKONE MARU Sept. 17 X SUWA MARU Oct. 1
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  • 2659 14 SPLENDID MATCH AT KUALA LUMPUR DENNISON-SMITH AND HASSAN SHINE (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sunday. Set with the task of scoring 149 runs for victory in 120 minutes, Selangor batsmen went for the Singapore bowling and with fine blend of caution and risk,
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 237 14 WEMBLEY PARK Gate Admission 10 cts. as usual. TONIGHT Monday, 12th July, 1937. LOW TAN HONG SEAH TAN HONG SEAH AMOY OPERAS Jointly Present Cheown Koon Hoay Huan" Part 6. Seats at reduced prices. 30 cts. 20 cts. 10 cts. FOONG SEN NIN CANTONESE OPERA “Ting Sam Lee Fah Choon’’
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    • 238 14 IF y IIH 3Av 6 Pinang gazette Sunday sazMi $250 MUST BE WON Five Winners or Nearest Penang Meeting A prize of $250 will be given to the sender of the best entry. Shou.l two or more entrants tie for the prize the $250 will be equally divider amongst the
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  • 1134 15 PERAK TURF CLUB JULY MEETING ENDS: DAY OF UPSETS (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, July 10. The concluding day of the Perak Turf Club July Meeting h in a blaze of glory, as it were, there being an unusually large k<l.
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  • 564 15 Hague Individual Champion AMUSING BALACLAVA MELEE The Penang Sports Club held their athletic sports on Saturday on the Esplanade. Owing to the poor entiies, competition was practically limited to five athletes in the championship events, Hague, Hogan, Goodrich, Dr. Cameron and Keay. Hague eventually came out first,
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 979 15 Vigour of Youth Restored Q By Doctor's Prescription d, A Glands Stimulated to Vital MJmII Action Without Operation Starts Work The First Day prepared in strict accordance with the of complete satisfaction or they cost noth- < 'p" E t '’tvs' 's™"kT "r?’*'' J- the glands, invigourating the blood, and
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  • 111 16 TIN:- PREVIOUSLY LATEST nth»; no £?<>“£;£ BUSINESS DONE ’129 87' BUSINESS DONE Buyers no sellers Buyers no sellers COPRA—(Sundried) 86.35 86.35 BLACK PEPPER $ll.OO $ll.OO RUBBER LONDON 9,;d No market NEW YORK 19<:(G) No market SINGAPORE—Spot 31c 314 c Aug/Sept 31 gc 31 Ac Oct./Dec 313 c 31Jc Jan./March
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  • 249 16 Keen Football Expected In Today’s Match The South China A.A. meets the Penang Football Association at soccer on the Victoria Green this afternoon. The visitors are fielding a team with four changes from the one which met and defeated the Penang Chinese Recreation
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  • 94 16 Reuter. At Leeds* Yorks 314 for 5 (Hutton 135) vs New Zealand. At Colchester; Essex 206 for 4 vs. Sussex. At Birmingham; Gloucester 107 (Mayor 7 for 461 Warwick 213 for 9. At Dudley; Notts 286, Worchester 13 for 0. At Manchester; Lancs vs Middlesex, no play owing
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  • 49 16 Moscow.—A Soviet plane piloted by the Soviet sur ace, Michael Gromov, took off from Moscow lor San" Francisco via the Northpole at 1.10 a.m. B.S.T. The plane is a sister ship of the Ant 25 which flew from Moscow to America in June via the Pole.—Reuter.
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  • 55 16 Reuter. New York.—The whole of America is affected! by a heat-wave. There have been 110 deaths and thousands of prostrations. —Renter. EXECUTED 6 YEARS AFTER Berlin. -Three Germans have been executed on a charge of murder and rioting in connection with a Communist raid on a Nazi stronghold
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  • 277 16 Municipal Coolie’s Reason For Committing Suicide "Suicide by hanging," was the verdict returned by Mr. T. D. Hughes in the Coroner’s court. Penang, on Saturday at an inquest held on a Municipal coolie. Arasan, who was found hanging in the Municipal coolie lines at Sungei Pinang
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  • 256 16 Business For Tomorrow’s Meeting The following will be the business for the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners to be held tomorrow:— 1. To confirm minutes of last Ordinary and Special Meetings held on June 29, 1937. 2. Statutory' Declaration of Mr J. A. Black as a Commissioner to
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 85 16 KENNEDY CO. TINS: Buyers Sellers A. Kumbang 3810 Burma-Malay 32 6 33|6 Hong Fatts 1.37 1.40 c Hongkong Tins 38,0 39|0 Jelapang 39|6 40 6 Jelebu 1.08 1.11 K a Kamunting 1310 13|6 Killinghalls 27(0 28|0 Kramat Tins 65,6 67|0 Kuchai Ordy. 1.72 1.76 Lukut 1.08 1.11 Puchong 26j3 27|0
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    • 166 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. Tin Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.87 1.90 Hong Fatt 1-37 1.40 Jelebu 1.07 1.10 Kuchai 1.70 1.75 Lingui 2.00 2.10 Lukut 1.08 1.11 Rahman Hyd. 1.624 1.65 Raub Gold 5.75 5.90 Rantau Ordy. 1.72 A 1.75 Rantau Pref. 1.72 Vs 1.70 Sungei Luas 2.25 2.35 Sungei Ways
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    • 120 16 LEAN GO. Tin Buyers Sellers Ampats a 69 7 3 Bangrins 23|3 24 0 B. Selangor 1.874 1.924 Hong Fatts 1.35 1.40cd Jelebus 1.074 1.124 Jchans 30 33 K. Lanjuts 28 0 28!9 Katus 24 0 25'0 Kundangs 9J13 Lukuts 1.074 1.124 Puchongs 2613 27|0 Rahmans 1.624 1.70 Raubs 5.85
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    • 118 16 London. July 10. RUBBER (Friday) Dull. Spot 9 buyers 92 sellers. August 93 buyers 9, 7 sellers. Oct./Dec. 9, 7 buyers 94 sellers. Jan./Mar. 94 buyers 9 I !> 0 sellers. New York 18.95 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 21,960 tons Liverpool 21,087 tons COPRA Straits S.D.
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    • 26 16 TIN Singapore $130.25 Per pkl. Penang $129.87 I|2 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore Spot 31 114 c Per lb. Penang Spot 31 l|4c Per lb.
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    • 206 16 Tin Buyers Sellers Ampats 6 9 7 0 Ayer Hitams 31 9 32 9 Eangrins 23|9 24'3 B. Selangors 1.874 1-90 Burma Malays 32.3 33!0 Hong Fatts 1.38 1.40 Jelapangs 39 9 406 Jelebus 1.08 1.10 K. Kamuntings 1310 13 6 Kanruntings 15'0 15|6ex ‘K. Lanjuts 28 0
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    • 108 16 London on Previously Latest Paris 128 3 64 128 3 64 New York 4.95!;; 4.95 Z Montreal 4.96’j 4.96 Z Brussels 29.443 29.'454 Geneva 21.653 21.65; Amsterdam 9.01-3 9.013 Milan 9494 Berlin 12.332 12.34 Stockholm 19.294 19.394 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 264 264 Prague 142
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 1 16 “-QUALITY
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    • 81 16 MUNICIPAL NOTICE An Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held at the Municipal Office at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 13th instant. (By Order) T. W. DOUGLAS, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. TO LET Furnished house to let for six months from September Ist. Central situation, moderate rental,
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    • 811 16 BANKS THE INDIAN OVERSEAS HONG KONG A.XD BANK, LTD. SHANGHAI BANKINf. Head Office: 11/12, First Line Beach. CORPORATION Madras. (Incorporated in Hong Kong, j. i The Liability of members is liimtp.i iBranches at Karaikudi and Pe g. extent and in manner present i Statement of Affairs as on 18th June,
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