Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 13 July 1937

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 162. Vol. XCV. TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 978 1 ese tension is reported to be acute.—Reuter. NANKING REQUISITIONS WAR SUPPLIES Japanese Reported To Be In Retreat From Lokouchiao Shanghai, July *2. —It is learned from Nanking that ihe Government has promulgated a law enabling the requisition of foodstuffs, labour and military supplies throughout the
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  • 245 1 Sharp Price Rise Anticipated Pinang Gazette Cable London. July 12.—Reports that droughts are curtailing production in Malaya and Nigeria, a rumour that Bolivian production for June was only 1,100 tons compared with the quota allowance of 4,200 and the record rate of consumption have persuaded the London
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  • 159 1 Palestine Represented The Only Hope The executive of the Zionist Organisation has issued a statement that, while (.romising a considered opinion after a thorough study of the Palestine Report, it immediately challenges the underlying assumption that the Mandate is inherently unworkable and says we have done ou.' work
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  • 190 1 Kuala Lumpur Chinese Fined $25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, July 13. Lim Hee Kung, one time partner of the short-lived Kuala Lumpur cabaret, the Prince’s Cabaret, was fined $25 yesterday by Mr. W. J. Thorogood, first magistrate, Kuala Lumpur, for leaving the
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  • 38 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 13. The Temporary Allowances Committee sat yesterday in the Council Room of the Federal building and another session is being held today, after which the committee returns to Singapore.
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  • 153 1 —Reuter. Suggested Consultation With Britain Washington.—The State Department announces that Mr. Cordell Hull has informed the Japanese Ambassador and the counsellor at the Chinese Embassy that an armed conflict between Japan and China would be a great blow to the cause of peace and world progress. Mr.
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  • 132 1 Tax Fears Lead To Some Repatriation London—After a week-end spent in studying the new taxation proposals the more nervous French Foreign Exchange speculators appear to have taken the measure Involving a tax on forward transactions to heart and today’s improvement in the franc, both spot and forward, is
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  • 626 1 Italian Allegations Of British Intervention Refuted mounting those batteries.—British Wireless. Reports from various sources report notable government successes in recent fighting in Spain. The Government troops claim to have advanced 15 to 20 miles on the Madrid front and also to have isolated the insurgents
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  • 2552 2 “I Am Facing It Without Fear” A Four-Fold Policy Rearmament Peace jy|R- NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN last week addressed his first Birmingham meeting as Prime Minister. The meeting was in his own and his father's division of Edgbeston, at the Botanical Gardens, and the occasion was the
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  • 436 2 STRICT IMPARTIALITY THE SAFE COURSE Mr. Winston Churchill, in a special at Wanstead last week, said that we were now definitely in a danger period of which neither the peak nor the end was yet in sight. In a reference to the Spanish situation he declared
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    • 455 2 lead Office 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1477 1478 with extensions. Telegrams: Gazette Penang. Shigapore Office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Times Singapore. Koala Lumpur Office 25, Java Street. Phone 3683. Ipoh Office Brewster Road. Phone 268 London Office 40, 43, Fleet Street, London E.C. 4 Phone Central 3608—3609
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    • 150 2 HONG FATT (SUNGEI BESI) LIMITED NOTICE OF DECLARATION OF A SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND FOR 1937 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a second interim dividend at the rate of 4% on account of the year ending 31st December, 1937. (making 8% to date for the year) has been declared and is
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    • 432 2 W.P.S. 41 Kidneys Must > Clean Out Adils The only way your body can clean r health-destroying’ Acids from your t .-.j is through nine million tiny Kidney or filters, but beware of cheap, drasu ritating drugs. Weak Kidneys usual!. the real cause of Getting Up Nights, Nervousness, Swollen Ankles,
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  • 434 3 .—Reuter. CHINESE REFUSE TROOPS TRANSPORT FACILITIES Tientsin: The Japanese have taken over virtual control of the Shanhaikuan-Peiping section of the Peiping-Mukden Railway following the refusal of the Chinese railway authorities to provide troop transportation facilities. Japanese crews are now manning the trains.
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  • 213 3 Army Command At North Africa Rome. Marshal Balbo, who has been Governor of Libya since 1933, has now received the promotion which friends expected for him when Signor Mussolini visited Libya last March. He has been appointed Superior Commander of the armed forces on land, sea and
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  • 33 3 .—Reuter. Death Roll Of 221 New York: The America-wide heat wave has resulted in a death roll of 221 over the week-end and an additional 93 lost lives by drowning.
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  • 35 3 .—Reuter. Indianapolis Governor Townsend announced that the Committee for Industrial Organisation and the Younstown Sheet Tube Company have effected a separate agreement with him enabling the return of 7,000 operatives.
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  • 106 3 Estimate Exceeded By Over £1,200,000 Canberra, July 10. Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Attorney-Gene-ral, announces a Budget surplus of £1.276,637 for the year ended June 30, as compared to the estimate of £40,000. Receipts total £83,090,136 and expenditure £81,813,499. Income-tax and land tax have exceeded the
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  • 36 3 .—Reuter. Chances One In A Million Honolulu: Sixteen aeroplanes are making a last 6,000 square-mile search for Miss Amerlia Earhart. Authorities state that the chances are one in a million.-
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  • 385 3 —Reuter. MR. EDEN REPLIES IN COMMONS London. Mr. Anthony Eden, answering a batch of North China questions in Commons gave a resume of the course of the fighting ased on information which he admitted was naturally somewhat incomplete and nost of which had already been
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  • 252 3 SOLICITING PASSENGERS (From Our Own Correspondent) Butterworth, July 12. Mr. L.R. Forbes, the District Officer, Province Wellesley, who sat as magistrate here today fined Ong Kim Huat, a motorbus driver, who was found guilty of soliciting passengers in a disorderly and persistent manner. Musa, a Malay constable,
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  • 509 3 Grace And Beauty At Wembley When the King and Queen with Prin:ess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, entered Wembley Stadium to attend the Festival of Youth, 11,000 young men and women, picked teams from 40 organisations associated with the British Sports and Games Association,
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  • 171 4 COMMENTS BY SHIPPING MAGNATE (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. "People don’t seem to realise that the American shipping hoid-up of a few months Ijack was an owners’ sit-down strike,” Mr. ft. D. Lapham, president of the AmericanHawaiian Steamship Company, of San Francisco, told a Pinang Gazette
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  • 257 4 Once Leading Lady In Western Films (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. A woman who arrived in Singapore by •the Dollar liner President Monroe on Sun«day has spent six years of her life being pursued by moustached villains. “It was great fun while it lasted,” she
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  • 204 4 Recti rd Breaking Freighter “Jinx” To Airships Osaka. Tragedy in the air marked the setting of aortfier milestone in rapid sea transportation on May 6as the crack Kawasaki Risen Kaisha motor freighter Kami&awa Yfura made New York, 23 days out of Yokohama. This strange coincidence
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  • 59 4 Secund Governor of British Borneo to fr selected frem that territory's service His Excellency Mr. C. R. Smith arrived m Singapore on Saturday from England by the Pet'oclus. His appointment was made during his four months leave in England and came into force on June
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  • 1159 4 Mr. F. A. Briggs of Kuala Lumpur, has been appointed temporarily a notary public during the absence of Mr. W. V. D. Skrine from the F.M.S. Mr. W. A. Wilken has been appointed a •nember of the Advisory Committee (Malayan Rubber Fund) during the absence on leave
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  • 92 4 Ship’s Engineer In Hospital i From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore.. Suffering from serious cellulitis, Mr. Lief Westwick, chief engineer of the Dollar liner President Monroe, was taken to the Singapore General Hospital in an ambulance on the arrival of the vessel from San Francisco on Sunday
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  • 64 4 Wedding In September Our London correspondent writes that the- engagement was announced in London on July 5 of Noel Charles, only son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Butler-Madden, of Taiping, Ferak, and Joan Linda Miriam, only daughter of the late Capt. A. K. Park, 10th Gurkha Rifles,
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  • 171 4 Lady Wilson, wife of the Governor of Queensland, had her first experience of air travel recently, when she flew with her husband from Brisbane to Singapore. She decla <al, on landing, that she had enjoyed every minute of her trip. ft is reported that on the
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  • 543 4 Brisbane. Mr. James Nangle, Government Astronomer to New South Wales, is inaugurating a campaign to turn the Earth upside down and put Australia on the top of the world —on terrestrial globes. He complains: “Every time I want to show somebody Australia on
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  • 216 4 Elephants May Soon Be Extinct Fears for the possible extinction of many of the larger African animals, including the hippopotamus and elephant, are expressed in the current issue of the Animal Year Book, published by the University of London Animal Welfare Society. With regard to
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  • 2778 5 -BEST COUNTRY FOR MOST OF US TO LIVE IN” B y OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT London, July 7. •VTOW that we know there is to be no general election this year —the prime Minister says he has too main ,ther things of importance to do—we
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  • 67 5 MEMBERS OF THE CAST of “The Housemaster” at the Shaftesbury Theatre took to the field at Croydon when they met Lime School at cricket. lan Hay (Major Beith) author of the play (left) acted as umpire while Tony Wickham, a pupil of the
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  • 29 5 Francesca Bahrie, the 21-year-old Anglo-Viennese actress, who has the leading feminine role in Press Button B,” the Paramount production which is now being filmed at Highbury.
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  • 46 5 Guilio Rossi, of Italy, making a snatch for a dr jk in the International Cap race on the Crystal Palace road racing circuit. Judging by the way he took his refreshment be must have felt like another on the next round.
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  • 129 6 Paris. There was a riot at Saint-Cloud Racecourse when Grain de Beaute was erroneously announced as the winner of the sixth race instead of La Vallombrosa. The mistake was not discovered until the judges had examined photographs of the race, by which time some of the backers
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  • 305 6 THE KING AWARDS THE ALBERT MEDAL The King, it was announced in the “London Gazette” has awarded the Albert Medal to Lieutenant-Commander B. G. Scurfield, R.N., for gallantry which saved the lives of five men when H. M. S. Hunter struck a mine off the Spanish
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  • 48 6 A gruesome crime was revealed to the police of Cairo when they arrested a man in a cemetery. He was rifling a grave for gold teeth. He is believed to be a member a gang, which has made a speciality of thefts of this nature.
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  • 348 6 Work To Start As Soon As Possible DELAY CAUSED BY FLIGHT OF MINERS Bilbao. The greater part of the iron ore mining district round Bilbao is now occupied by the Nationalists, and it is possible to visit the area, says Pembroke Stephens in the Daily Telegraph.
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  • 96 6 Gene Sarazen won a fine game from Percy Alliss in the Ryder Cup. When he went up to receive his medal at the presentation after the match the crowd gave aim a great ovation. Eventually he enswered the shouts of 'Speech, speech” with the words: ‘l’ve
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    • 183 6 v 4 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 Cop vs. Killer. The Law vs. The Lawless. O'Brien vs. The Bogart in the Battle of the Centura I Dav r 3 Great i 1° X F r Th Irish, tRwWIMM wk’ *1 fa ffs oYmTf W5W> Am SVrtndaa- Frieda Inexc.rrt .'oimms Cri<*p*K«nry O'Neill Croiy
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  • 197 7 TWO CHARGES EXPLAINED TO MOTOR COMPANY CLERK Um Teik Keat, a clerk at Borneo Motors, Penang, was arrested on Saturday by the Detective Branch, alleged to have committed breach of trust in respect of benzine valued at about $1,700 belonging to
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  • 112 7 MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE TO TRAFFIC OFFENDER “You must treat the Police Court summccLS with respect” said Mr. Lim Cheng Han. the Penang additional Magistrate, yesterday, When a Chinese, Pee Hon, failed 0 torn up in court in time to answer a under the traffic offences ordinance.
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  • 100 7 MR. BINGHAM’S ARMS RACE WARNING Mir. W. H. Bingham, the American Ambassador, speaking at an Independence L>iy dinner in London, said: Despots have forced America and Britain to undertake rearmament and', having undertaken, it. we must necessarily win the rearmament race. May we hope that
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  • 245 7 T following publications were issued or r- -i/-i by the Department of Statistics, 5 S. F.M.S., Penang, during the per >a July 5 to 10, 1937, inclusive, and are available for public use in the Reference L oriry. Government Building, Penang. A.opu ration may be made by
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  • 98 7 (!Trom Oiir Own Correspondent.) Butterworth, July 12. H has been in the lock-up the whole day. sir I ask your honour to warn him, 1 Inspector Pawanchee, of the Butterworth Police, before the acting magistrate, Mr. L.R. Forbes, the District Officer, Province Wellesley, here today,
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  • 108 7 Two Malays, Omar bin Yap and Osman bin Mat Dati, and a Tamil, K. Suppiah, were charged! before Mr. Um Cheng Ean in the Penang Middle Court yesterday wtth having caused grievous hurt to Veloo on July ii at Penang. The accused claimed to be tried. The
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  • 136 7 TWO CHINESE PLEAD GUILTY Before Mr. J.L. McFall, in the Penang District Court yesterday, two Chinese, See Chin Chuan and Seow Soo Tan, pleaded guilty to a charge of being in possession of non-Government chandu on July 7 at Weld Quay. Penang. Mr. D.G.W. Montgomery, who prosecuted. stated
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  • 87 7 Won By Senior Officer Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, the First Sea Lord, attended' the passingout parade at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. When the battalion of gentlemen cadets marched past Lord Chatfield, who took the salute, it was to the tune of “Hearts
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  • 83 7 Dnce’s Exhortation Rome. That Italy should be able to produce within her own frontiers most of the iron she needs is clearly regarded by Signor Mussolini as a question of great urgency. Replying to a telegram from the Board of the Iron Finance Company, which
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  • 62 7 The case was mentioned before Mr. J. L. McFall in the Penang District Court yesterday in which a Malay, Ismail bin Jaafar, is charged with having committed housebreaking by entering into a house belonging to Mohomad Isa bin Ahmed on June 30. The accused claimed to be tried.
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  • 63 7 The case in which a Tamil, Sithambaram, was charged with having enticed a minor, Monaganadas (14 years), from the guardianship of Thavanah on June 29, at Kajang Road, Penang, was again mentioned before the District Judge, Mr. J. L. McFall, yesterday. The accused claimed to be
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  • 235 7 CAUSING HURT CHARGE Without calling upon the defence, Mr. T. D. Hughes, the second magistrate, Penang, yesterday acquitted two young Tamils. Amurtham and her brother, Narayanasamy, who were summoned for causing hurt to Sevathan on May 13 at Gladstone Road. The complainant stated that on May 13,
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  • 123 7 Took No Notice Of Flashlights Kuala Kangsar. A Malay driver living in Taiping w’as summoned before Raja Hitam, the Kuala Kangsar Magistrate, on Saturday for failing to have an attendant on his motor lorry at Padang Rengas on June 28. Two Malay constables gave evidence and
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  • 60 7 Car Performs Double Somersault Mr. lan Chalmers of Tanjong Tualang had a miraculous escape from serious injury when his car made a double-somer-sault on the Batu Gajah road while he was proceeding to a cricket match at Gopeng. Mr. Chalmers, none the worse for his experience, continued his
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  • 171 7 The Secretary far Native Affairs in Sarawak last month attended the annual Samah ceremony at the Taling Taling islands. The Sarawak Gazette reports that thus ceremony, which is a survival of the Sarawak Malays’ former animism, has lost much of its popularity. The ceremony consists of
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  • 283 7 Wife Tells Story Of 111-T reatment Yen Sooi, a fruitstall keeper at Bayan Lepas, was ordered to pay $8.50 a month from August 1 to his wife, Sia Thoo, at the end of a maintenance case heard by Mr. T. D. Hughes in the Penang. Police
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  • 125 7 From Our Own Correspondent) Bukit Mertajam, July 12. The death occurred here on Saturday of a Cantonese named Chan Ah Poh who, it is stated, was on his way to the Penang General Hospital. The deceased, who was a resident of Kulim. was being
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  • 807 8 JT is easy to trace the causes which have led to the outbreak of hostilities in the vicinity of Peiping. The unification of China has proceeded too fast and in too convincing a style to please Tokio. Doubtless the usual attempt will be made to “localise the incident”
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  • 246 8 Application In Causing Death Case (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 12. Application that a special jury be summoned to try the case in which Dollah bin Moheis stands charged with causing the death of John Morey and a Chinese contractor by driving a car in a
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  • 678 8 Increasing The Amenities Of Life Wily Moneylenders Evading Lan Penang’s Building Progress r J'HE payment by instalment plan or hire-purchase system, which originated in the United States of America, has been generally adopted by dealers throughout the world, and Penang is no exception. Any employed person, provided
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  • 141 8 Gamblers Insist Upon Their Guilt (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, July 13. “Salah, salah” said fourteen Chinese youngsters employed in United Engineers’ local foundry to a charge of gaming. They said they all belonged to the foundry and after pay-day had a little flutter. Magistrate: I cannot accept
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  • 91 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) I Taiping, July 12. Charged with housebreaking by entering into a building used as a human dwelling at Eaglehurst Estate, Ulu Scpatang, a Tamil, Manikam, was today produced in the Taiping Magistrate’s Court. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge but
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  • 81 8 Tamil To Serve Four Months’ Gaol (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, July 12. “You should not be so free in the use of your knife,” said the Taiping Magistrate 'oday in sentencing a Tamil, Kannun, to four months’ rigorous imprisonment for stabbing his wife, Sinnammah, the sentence to
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  • 95 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, July 12. Pleading guilty to a charge of possession of three katties of scrap rubber valued 30 cents, which was reasonably suspected to be stolen property, a Chinese, Goh Soon Teck, was sentenced to a fine of $l5 in default
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  • 35 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, July 12. The engagement is announced between the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Arthur Howes, of the Supreme Court, Kuala Lumpur, an<3 Mrs. Marjorie Sanders, of Bexhill, England.
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  • 186 9 Y.W.C.A.’S NOVEL CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT FUNDS ,£From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala, Lumpur, July 11. rrHE local Y. W. C. A. have I started a novel campaign to collect funds for their expenses this year. They need $4,000 in all for their current
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  • 120 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, July 12. Alice Gertrude Williams was today granted a decree nisi against Percy James Augustus Williams, who did not defend the suit. Married in England in January. 1934. and without children, the husband -went to Singapore, arranging for his wife to
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  • 151 9 Fresh Charge Against Karawans (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, July 12. A gang of Karawans, two men and two 'women, Munusamy, Narayanasamy, Munittmmal and Araee, who were arrested on a charge of being suspicious characters and naving no means of subsistence, appeared again in the Taiping Magistrate's
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  • 110 9 A ten-minute talk was given by Dr. Wu Lien-teh this morning at the Penang Free School. Words of advice were mingled with accounts of his experiences in the course of 41 years since he left the Penang Free School with a Queen’s Scholarship
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  • 57 9 Entries For Columbia Cup Close Tomorrow Members of the Penang Sports Club (Golf Section) are reminded that the entire» for the Columbia Cup will close tomorrow. The entry list is posted on the clubs notice board. JULY MIXED FOURSOMES Owing to the Penang race meeting this competition
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    19 9 ON HIS TOES. —Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, playing at a tennis party, at Highgate.
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  • 478 9 PERAK TO SEND 175 ATHLETES (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, July 13. Perak will be represented by a strong contingent of 175 athletes of both sexes at the Malayan Chinese Olympiad to be held in Singapore at the end of this month. This was revealed at a
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  • 154 9 Henry Cotton Meets Shute At Walton Heath Londbn, July 12. At Walton Heath, in a 72-hole Challenge match between Henry Cotton and Shute for the virtual World Golf Championship, the pair were all square at the eighteenth. Cotton went round in 36 and 35 and Shute in
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  • 145 9 Below will be found the entries for the Taiping Skye Meeting which will be held on Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 17:— Horses, Class 4. Ist run about 6 furs., 2nd run about 6 furs. Heart's Content, Spotlight, Komolux, Rawang, Metro, Miss Polly, Horses,
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  • 275 9 Possession Of NonGovernment Chandu Alleged Mr. Symons, Assistant Superintendent of Customs, produced before the Ipoh magistrate yesterday three well-known Penang Chinese named Look Leng, Loh Keng Pui and Tan Kuan Choon on a charge of, not being the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, F. M.
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  • 70 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, July 12. Four Malay lads, Ahmad bin Mohamed, Saat bin Sarip. Hamid bin Saradi and Darus bin Isahak. appeared in the Taiping Magistrate’s court today charged with mischief by removing the post marking the Sanitary Board limit placed at Matang. All four
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  • 196 9 Exhibition Games By Lindrum And Inman (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, July 12. Horace Lindrum, the snooker wizard, and Melbourne Inman, the ex-billiards champion, thrilled a large crowd in the Selangor club tonight with exhibitions of skill. Although both players were on a world tour
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  • 527 9 Statistics Of Perak Turf Club July Meeting pULL statistics of winning owners, trainers and jockeys at the Perak Turf Club July Meeting concluded last Saturday are given below. “Mac Kongsi” heads the winning owners, followed by Mrs. P. Logue and “Mr. Tin.” Advertised stakes were
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  • 47 9 —Reuter. Randall Island, New York: Leroy Robinson, of San Francisco, created a world record for the half mile with a time of 1 min. 49 6/10 secs, beating the old record set up in 1934 by Ben Eastman by two-tenths of a second.-
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  • 24 9 The Penang Detective Branch has been transferred from Penang Road to the top storey of Beach Street Police Station since Sunday.
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  • 694 10 Reason For The Lowered < Distribution Al cable has been received from Consolidated Tin Smelters Limited London Office, stating that the directors’ report and accounts will be posted in London on July 12, 1937, to all shareholders. The following is an extract from the directors’ report: •During
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  • 257 10 PIG-IROX BUSINESS HELD UP With the approach of the holiday season, the pressure by consumers upon the producing works to obtain delivery is becoming accentuated, says the official report of the London Iron and Steel Exchange Comparatively few new transacions are reported, as most of the steelmakers
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  • 1538 10 Why London Stock Markets Are Dull (From Our Own Correspondent» London, July 2. To the mortification of stockbrokers and share dealers, the slight but definite improvement in business on Change which developed during the latter half of June collapsed at
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  • 241 10 DIVIDEND OF 5 PER CENT FOR YEAR The ninth ordinary general meeting of Kamra Tin Dredging. Ltd., was held in London on June 30. Mr. P.J. Burgess (the chairman I said that the profit and loss account made a rather better showing than for the preceding year,
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  • 190 10 FINAL DIVIDEND DOUBLED The Anglo-Dutch Plantations of Java proposes to pay a final dividend for 1936 of 4 per cent., less tax. This compares with 2 per cent. a year ago and makes with the 3 per cent, (against 2 per cent.) interim distribution a total
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    • 230 10 PENANG TURF CLUB AUTUMN MEETING 1937. Ist. Day, Saturday, 24th July, 1937. 2nd. Day, Wednesday. 28th July, 1937. 3rd. Day, Saturday, 31st July, 1937. 4th. Day, Monday, 2nd. August, 1937. ENTRIES close at 12 o’clock noon on Wednesday, 14th July 1937, at thf Secretary’s Office. SWEEPS A $1 Unlimited Sweepstake,
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  • 162 11 Once Wimbledon fans cheered for Senorita d’Avarez, the Spanish star. Now their favourite is Senorita Lizana of Chile, who is seen with her fiance. Mr. Robert Ellis. STAR OF TOMORROW: Here's Gem Hoahing another Wimbledon favourite and 14-year-old Chinese prodigy, who played in this year’s
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  • 105 12 Tokyo, The armoured cruiser Asama 9,700 tons, rated a coast defence ship, has been formally put out of commission, thus closing her 40 years of brilliant record. She is to be used as a training ship for cadets at the Etajin.a Naval Academy. Built by
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  • 56 12 At their recent meeting, the governing oody of the Royal Seamen’s Pension Fund awarded 176 pensions to masters and seamen havihg long sea service in the British Mercantile Marine or in the British Sea Fishing Service. The total number of pensions granted since the institution
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  • 604 12 NEGLIGENCE ON BOTH SIDES “I qually to blame” was the finding of Mr. Justice BucKnill in tne Admiralty Court, recently m the cross-actions arising out of the collision in the Thames on January 6 between the Eurymedon, of Liverpool, owned by the Ocean Steam Ship Co.,
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  • 70 12 Osaka. The White Star liner lonic (12,351 tons), which was built by Harland and Wolff in 1902 and became famous early in the century as one of the finest vessels crossing the Atlantic, arrived here recently to be broken un. People who knew the
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  • 435 12 LATEST TIMES OF POSTING AIR MAIL A mail for Siam, Burma. India, ir aq Egypt. Sudan, Belgian Congo, Great Britain. Ireland and whole of Europe by i rri perial Airways will close at 8 a m morrow. A mail for the United States of America and
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1061 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES 8.8. C. EMPIRE STATION TODAY TRANSMISSION 5 Tune in on the following wavelength»: 6.05 p.m.— Big Ben. “A Circular TRANSMISSION t Tour,” by W.W. Jacobs. Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Pascoe GSH 21.47 Mo/S (13.97 m.) Thornton. 6.35 Jan Hurst and orchestra. GSG 17.79 Mo/8 (16.86
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    • 417 12 NIROM YDC 15..5 Me/» (19.8 m.) PMN 10.26 Mc/s (29.2 <u.) TODAY p.m. 2.10 News bulletin. 2.20 Close down. 5.50 Time signal. Opening announcement 5.54 Evening concert. 6.50 News bulletin. 7.10 Variety programme. 8.00 “Flowers and Plants in the N.J. Gardens.” Talk by Mr. P. M. W. Dakkus. 8.20 Classical
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    • 417 12 BERLIN DJB 15.20 Mc/s 19.7 m. DJN 9.54 Mc/s 81.45 m. DJE 17.76 Mc/s 16.89 m. DJQ 15.28 Mc/s 19.63 m. DJA 9.56 Mc/s 81.38 m. TODAY DJA, DJB. p.m. 6.15 Call DJB, DJN, DJE. 6.20 Concert of light music. 7.20 News in English. 7.35 Concert of light music (contd.)
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    • 24 12 TIDE TABLE TODAY HIGH LOW 3.47 p.m. 9.59 p m. TOMORROW 3 30 a. m. 10 20 a. m 4.18 pm. 10 33 p.m.
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  • SHIPPING
    • 585 13 M.V. ‘SIL,VERGUAVA’ from Pacific Coast via Singapore sails today for Rangoon Calcutta. M.V. ‘ENGGANO’ from Java Ports. Sails today for Rotterdam and Amsterdam. S.S. ‘SUMATRA MARU’ from Singapore sails today for Rangoon Calcutta. M.S.’ALSIA’ for Port Swettenham, Malacca, Singapore and Bangkok. S.S. ‘GEN. VERSPYCK’ from
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    • 252 13 Excessive Charges For Tickets By Runners Shipping companies selling tickets to boarding house runners who make an exorbitant profit by reselling them to country people were criticised by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy recently, when seven stowaways appeared before him. charged with obtaining a
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    • 65 13 A substantial advance in trade at Swansea is reported for the first five month c of the year. The export and import trade if the port during the period increased by nearly 500,000 tons. There was a sharp recovery in the coal export trade, over 1,400,000
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    • 359 13 The s.s. Hakusan Maru, which left here on July 9 for London, have the following passengers on board: FOR COLOMBO Mr. A.W. Chadwick, Mr. S. Hashimoto, Mr. T. Hirai. Mrs. B. Kaufman. Mrs. K. McClintock, Mr. C.H. Meares, Mr. M. Mizokami, Mrs. F.K. Newman, Mr. B C. Parikh,
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    • 180 13 N.Y.K. Chiefly Affected By Loss Of Stopover Tokyo, June 23. Diplomatic action was forecast here today over the cancellation by the United States Department of Commerce of stopover privileges hitherto enjoyed by passengers cn foreign vessels stopping at Honolulu. Under the Department’s ruling, passengers on
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    • 227 13 A great naval review of 42 new warhips of the French fleet took place recent’y in the Atlantic a few miles south-west of Brest. The ships were reviewed by M. GasmerDuparc. Minister of Marine, from the deck of the battleship Dunkerque, which represented the French
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 834 13 BLUE FUNNEL LINE Vessels. LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Leaves Due (in conjunction with Glen Shire Line) Penang London GLENGARRY L’don, R’dam, H’burg; Antwerp Middlesborough July 16 Aug. 16 C. aGAMEMNON Mars., L’don, R’dam Hamburg Glasgow July 23 Aug. 19 c FHILOCTETES L’don, R’dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea July 29 Aug. 26
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    • 430 13 P&O BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England.) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. “RAJPUTANA” SAILING THURSDAY, 15th JULY wrfront S N Co under Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham, I oniinn aJ v is Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Service Outwards from London for China Japan s/s “BULAN”
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    • 267 13 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) LONDON 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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  • 1709 14 SOUTH CHINA BEAT P.F.A. XI BY 4-0 SOEKIMAN A GOALKEEPER OF CLASS (BY “TWELFTH MAN”) After a brief respite following their win against the Penang Chinese Recreation Club last Saturday, the South China Athletic Association, with four changes in their side, gave
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  • 126 14 MAYER TAKES 13 WICKETS FOR 70 Warwickshire beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 32 runs. Gloucestershire batting first made 107 in the first innings (Mayer 7 for 46) and in the second made only 83, Mayer again doing the most damage with 6 for 24
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  • 94 14 Another Match Today It is learned that the South China Athletic Association will play yet another soccer match in Penang today. They are due io meet the Pĕnang Mohammedan Football Association on the Victoria Green at 5.15 p. m. sharp. The South China team has not
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  • 254 14 INJURED REMOVED IN AMBULANCES Vienna. As on many previous occasions, a football match against an Italian team resulted in violence at the Vienna stadium. The match, one of the Central European cup contests was between a Genoa team and the Austrian Admira XI; writes
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 289 14 WEMBLEY PARK Gate Admission 10 cts. as usual. TONIGHT Tuesday, 13th July, 1937 LOW TAN HONG SEAH TAN HONG SEAH AMOY OPERAS Jointly Present “Cheow Koon Hoay Huan” Part .7. Seats at reduced prices 30c. 20c 10c FOONG SEN NIN CANTONESE OPERA “Ting Sam Lee Fah Choon” Part 4. Seats
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  • 2124 15 RECORD-BREAKING FEAT BY CALIFORNIAN Miss Round Regains Women’s Title After Exciting Duel London, July 5. WJMBI .I’.DOX is ovei, its prizes won and lost. The Americans among them have won six firsts, England three firsts, Prance one. Bui this total oi 10 includes the
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  • 452 15 HVE women competing lOK KING’S PRIZE London, July 4. probable that five women will com- for th< King’s Prize against the Em- s greatest marksmen at Coronation v, which begins tomorrow. A record expected lot this prize, the lino! ot which will be shot on July 17. V.
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  • 198 15 —B.U.P. Capetown. July 6. A horse owned by Mr. A. E. Henkes, hich he had backed to win £lOO,OOO, was 11 -ten in the Durban July* Handicap today ■y an outsider owned by his wife. "he July’ Handicap is the most impor■•nt race
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  • 133 15 League Club’s Offer The future of Harold Larwood. the England and Nottinghamshire fast bowler, in cricket has become uncertain. He will shortly be called on tc decide whether he will remain in the first-class game or join a club in the Lancashire League. It is
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  • 577 15 Malaya Cup Who Will Be Northern Finalists?—Perak And Selangor Replay If Tie —Perak's Difficult Task Match Against Penang (BY “TWELTTH MAN") Who will represent the North in the final of the “Malaya” Cup competition this year? Obviously this must be the question which is uppermost in the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 133 15 New l>r. Germ-proof -seat M) i I IN SPARKLING GLASS fl I ill IB I SUPER-BRISTLES, WU- K sK 111 TER-PROOFED? g H more effective no mere, m I "SOGGY toothbrush. K g f gg' AW Your ABSOLUTE SATIS- g! B I /W HI FACTION GUABANs W/ g U i.'l
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  • 118 16 TIN:- PREVIOUSLY LATEST /<3 No market £262.0.0 P No market £262.0.0 Singapore .I::::::::::/: 0 25 pena n ng s si29.B7s'.’.’.'.*.’*’”’’*’’’‘ii3i.oo BUSINESS DONE Buyers no sellers 25 tons COPRA -(Sundries J 6.35 BLACK PEPPER $ll.OO $ll.OO RUBBER IZ>NDGN No market XEW YORK No market 18$c(G) SINGAPORE—Spot 30£c 30gc Aug/Sept 315
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  • 358 16 Share of zi oen«m!natron unfess London, July 13. otherwise stated Yesterday. Rise or Fall Conversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 1125 Funding Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 nas War Loan, 3$ p.c 1005 Com. Union Assce. (Units) 10| Prudential Assce. “A” 33g. Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 8% Great Western
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  • 109 16 London on Previously Latest Paris 128 3164 128& New York 4.95$ 4.96}$ Montreal 4.96$ 4.97$ Krassels 29.45$ 29.49$ Geneva 21.653 21.67 Amsterdam 9.013 9 03$ Milan 94 942 Berlin 12.35 12.35$ Stockholm 19.39$ 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 26$ 26$ Prague 142 J 142 J,;
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  • 110 16 London, July 12. RUBBER Dull. Spot 9$ buyers 9f"a sellers. August buyers 9$ sellers. Oct./Dec. 9J buyers 93 sellers. Jan./Mar. 9 buyers 9 sellers. New York 18.65 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 21,571 tons Liverpool 20,604 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. August £16.12.6d. PEPPER White Muntok :in
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 85 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER: Buyers Sellers. Bedford 1.25 I•3oex Punggor 50 55ex Tapah 2.30 2. 35 ex TIN:— Bangrin 23|6 24|0 B. Selangor 1.87 1.92 Hongkong 3816 Jelebu 1.08 1.11 K. Lanjut 27|6 28|6 Kuchai 1.75 I.Boc Lingui 1.90 1.975 c Lukut 1.09 1.12 Malayan Tin 47|0 481 8 Rahman 1.65
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    • 161 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 1.72$ 1.75 ‘Lukut 1.08 1.11 Rahman Hyd. 1.62$ 1.67$ Rantau Ordy. 1.72$ 1.75 Rantau Pref 1.72$ 1.75 Sungei Luas 2.20 2.30 Taiping Cons. 1.72$ 1.77$ Ulu Klang 1.35 1.40 c Ampat 6|7%
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    • 200 16 RUBBER Buyers Sellers Bassetts 77$ 82$ B. Lintang 1.35 1. 40 Bedfords 1-25 1.30 ex Bentas 1.37$ 1.425 c Brogas 1.05 1.10 M. Pindas 1.67$ 1.75 Mentakabs 50 52$ Nyalas 1.15 1.20 Pajams 2.20 2.30 S. Tukangs 1.35 1.40 Ulu Benuts 47$ 50 TIN:— Ampats 6)9 7io Ayer
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    • 22 16 TIN Singapore $130.75 Per pkl. Penang $131.00 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore 30 7|Bc Per lb Penang —3O 7|Bc Per lb.
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    • 166 16 Tin Buyers Sellers Ampats 69 70 Ayer Hitams 31 9 32 9 Eangrins 23,9 24 3 B. Selangors 1.86 1.58 A Burma Malays 32 1 6 3313 Hong Fatts 1.371 j 40 Jelapangs 3919 40 6 Jelebus 1.08 1.10 K. Kamuntings 13)0 136 Kamuntings isjo 15|6ex K. Lanjuts
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    • 132 16 LEAN CO. Tin Buyers Sellers Ampats 6 9 7 1$ Bangrins 23 3 24 0 B. Selangor 1.87 1.92$ Hong Fatts 1.35 1.40cd •Jelebus 1.07$ 1.12$ Johans 31 33 K. Lanjuts 28'0 28 9 Kramats 66 6 67 6 Kundangs 9|ls 9:4$ Lukuts 1.07$ 1.12$ Pattanis 7 6 8 0
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  • 458 16 Crowds Of 12,000 Kept In Order SIR OSWALD MOSLEY ON “RED TERROR” Police, estimated to be 1,500 strong, preserious clash when Sir Oswald Mosleyte supporters marched from Kentish Town, North London, to Trafalgar-square. Despite the size of the crowds —estimated at 3,000 Fascists,
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  • 50 16 FUNERAL NOTICE Th? funeral of the late Mirs. HEAH SWEE LEE will take place wn Monday, the ?n<h day of July, 1937, at 9.30 a.m. sharp r<her residence No. 4GB Ncrtham Road, Pemmg. Friends and reTartives are kindly request•d to refrain from sending ‘bit chean’ or s i eet meats.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 27 16 TO LET FURNISHED Compound House No. 3 Pangkor Road, modern sanitation, refrigerator, etc. Entry as from Ist August 1937. Apply to Box No. 141 c|o Pinang Gazette.
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    • 131 16 BANKS NEDERIANDSCHE N.V. (Incorporated in the Netxerlanas > NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.) Established in Amsterdam 1824 HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM With 43 Agencies, apart from correspondents, in Holland. HEAD OFFICE FOR THE EAST BATAVIA Branches throughout the Dutch Eas f Indies and in the Straits Settlements. India China. Japen and Arabia LONDON
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    • 557 16 CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND a hv (Incorporated in England bu Royal Charter 1833) Paid-up Capital 3 000 Reserve E and £3 iooo 'Xj Reserve Liability of Proprietors £3 Head Office W No. 38 Bishcpsgate, London, e c Manchester Office No. 71 Mosley Street Agencies Branches-. Alor Star Horg
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