Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 December 1937

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE IJST EDITION ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. o 2KK. Vol. XCV. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 497 1 Chiangs Remain in the Capital AMERICA SELLING WAR PLANES TO CHINA Shanghai, Dec. i I lie war which started in Shanghai on August 13 entered its 117th day today with the Japanese forces virtually al the gates of Nanking whose capture will mark the
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  • 352 1 British Wirelĕss. War Minister’s Assurance Dec. 5 A sharp passage at th< House of Commons al m > between Mr. Hore Belisha iirt Sn lifr' d Knox, brother of General who resigned his post of I u eral to the Forces in accordanr, with th.- recently announced
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  • 89 1 Reuter. Italian Gesture Of Friendship l,n De< b Mussolini has ordered !a .tiling political prisoners in 1 't*" is bordering Yugoslavia to 1 i i gesture of friendship folan horn s conversation by the u IV I’time Minister'. M. Stoyadino,,l!' ith m Polini and Ciano. M. Stoya1 having more
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  • 35 1 North and fog in the South "1 yesterday's road re- ’;d parts of Yorkshire it work while ice-bound •I. s of Derbyshire, Cuni- otland as well as areas in vst Country.
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  • 66 1 I i -in i r,rs 1 n for the Pinang Gazette .ma l ies have now been ren be satisfied. Late applii. alt with strictly as repeated that dictionaries 'P by those who reserved f i’uon of the purchase r with 12 consecutive cou■miterial from which issues 4b
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  • 48 1 Reuter. Natal. Brazil. Dec. 5. The French Vi men, Codos and Reine left at ».30 a.m. 1 M.T. for Dakar on their homeward flight across the South Atlantic which they crossed on their outward flight in the record time of 11 hours 5 idnutes. Reuter.
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  • 22 1 The Chinese cruiser Ning H<ii u'huh is reported to have fallen into the hands of the Japanese.
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  • 124 1 —Reuter. Indian Speculators Rush To Sell Alarmed lest the 1933 Silver Agreement will not be renewed, and frightened of the possibility of China being forced to liquidate her huge London stocks of.silver, Indian speculators rushed to sell today. Most of the selling orders, however, had a limit
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  • 72 1 er. Wall Street opened irregular.- Reuter. Tins Respond To Rise In Metal Despite iack of any extension of business. Stock Markets presented a good appearance with Kaffirs in the forefront. Tin shares responded to the upward trend of metals, but Burma Corporation reacted on the sharp drop in
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  • 97 1 No Modification Of Original Scheme The aim of His Majesty’s Government is and had always been to carry into effect the clear intention of Parliament that federation should follow provincial autonomy as an integral part of the single constitutional scheme with the least possible delay, the Under Secretary for
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  • 61 1 Reuter. To Fly On Non-Inflammable Helium Gas Washington. Dec. 6. The State Department has authorised the agent of the Zeppelin Company to export 17.900,000 cubic feet of non-inflammable helium gas which is required for the new Zeppelin LZI3O. This authorisation paves the way for a resumption of experimental
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  • 54 1 and sacked Santo Domingo in July. Reuter. Managua. Dec. 6. The famous insurgent leader Pedion Altamirano has been killed with his two sons, according to an official communique which says he had been a menace to peace. It will be recalled that Altamirano took and sacked Santo
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  • 144 1 Reuter. Protests To Madrid Government Questioned in the Commons on confiscation of assets of British companies in Government Spain, the Foreign Secretary replied that there had been a very laige number of cases of interference with such assets Over and above representations which has been made
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  • 48 1 Concessions Bv Federal Board New York. Dec. 6. A further move to ease credit for dealing in stocks in the United States has been made by the Federal Reserve Board. Traders with restricted accounts < accounts which become under-margined through a decline in market values of
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  • 38 1 Reuter. The Postmaster General announces that the great bulk of the mails from Malaya, India, Hong Kong, Egypt etc. on the fly-ng-boat Cygnus, which crashed at Biin- disi, is likely to be recovered.
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  • 168 1 I J.S. Agricultural Secretary’s Appeal Washington, Dec. 6. —A seven-point re:overy programme was outlined by Mr. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, in a radio talk in which he appealed for the cc operation of all sections of trade to Lr ng about a co-ordineted drive against bie’ness recession.
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  • 64 1 No Question Of Abandonment, Says Mr. MacDonald There is no question of abandonment of the principle or practice of Imperial Preference,” declared Mr. Malcolm MacDonald referring to Anglo-American trade negotiations at a meeting of the British Empire League. He added: "At every stage of the negotiations we shall
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  • 59 1 The King has approved the appointment of Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob as Constable of the Tower of London from February next in succession to Field Mar shal Lord Milne. Sir Claud Jacob is stated to be the first Constable of the Tower who has had
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  • 35 1 The Government Bill to secure unification of Mining Royalties under State control by a payment of £65,450.000 to between four and five thousand Royalty owners was considered yesterday by the Commons in Committee.
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  • 72 3 —Reuter. MAKKAI. scuttled by OWNERS Shanghai, Dec. 6. Evicting the ocipants who have thus lost their floating 1 > c ;>,m< se troops today seized hun;r. q i junks moored within the British •>,c* < tor in that part of Soochow which cuts through the Settlement. Tt
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  • 682 3 public Indication Of Intention To Take Independent Measures Shanghai, Dec. 6. A CT ING in dependantly and without warning the International Settlement Police, 12 Japanese Consular police armed with rifles and pistols today visited the Great Eastern Hotel jp .Nanking Road belonging to
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  • 109 3 -Reuter. I .S. Army Chief’s Tribute Washington, Dec. s.—“ New arms could aid the infantry but they could not replace him,” declares General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff of the United States Army in his annual report for 1937. Gen. Craig considers that the Spanish and
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  • 57 3 The most recent monetary donation to the Central Government to aid China in its defence measures against the invaders, brings the total contributions from General Chen Chi-tang, former commander of the Kwangtung troops, up to $10,000,000. General Chen first gave $3,000.000 shortly after his return from abroad, and
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  • 124 3 Romance Rumours Denied London, Dec. 5. .Gossip in the popular newspapers of a Royal romance evoked a thorough corrective from Brussels in which King Leopold’s secretary states that absolutely fantastic rumours are again cir culating on the occasion of the King’s visit to England. None
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  • 356 3 Angr\ Chinese Girl Fights Japanese Guard Shanghai, Dec. 3. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.“ says an old adage. Hell certainly has no fury like that displayed by a young Chinese girl who was struck with the butt of a rifle swung by a
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  • 42 3 Foreign observers in Shanghai state that the Japanese have as many as seven temporary aerodromes in or near the city. It is from these temporary flying fields that the Japanese birds of prey take off daily to deal death.
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  • 682 3 Mr. Eden Closely Questioned In House Of Commons Lindon, Dec. 6. J S r \TEMENT on the Japanese victory in Shanghai was made in commons today by Mr. Anthony Eden replying to a number <>i questions in that connection. Mr. Eden said
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  • 1192 4 ASIATIC SALARIES —LONDON PETITION THROUGH GOVERNOR Singapore Subordinates Set Example HIGHER LIVING COST STRESSED (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Dec. 6. SINGAPORE Junior Civil Service employees set a lead for their colleagues in other parts of Malaya on Saturday by unanimously resolving, after a two-hour meeting, to petition the Secretary
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  • 588 4 Mr. K. M. Byrne has been appointed to act as Assistant District Judge, Singapore. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. E. Ashby of Kramat Estate. Dindings were in Ipoh on Friday. Mr. Robert Chelliah, Senior Hospital Assistant, Bentong, died on Saturday at the General Hospital. Kuala Lumpur. Mr.
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    • 430 4 Teething without Tears As soon as the first tiny sooth is due. give your baby Ovaltine Rusks to bite and crunch. They will ensure his happiness and contentin' i throughovt teething time. Although not too hard for baby to eat and enjoy, Ovaltine Rusks are just firm enough to give
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  • 294 5 LENINGRAD A DOOR TO SPIES” "ovirt Leaders Whip I p I’he Masses SPECIAL TRAINS FOR propaganda Moscow. ■•ent Soviet electoral campaign is b-ing “fought” against foreign u: i Trotskyist spies r\ v here during this week before the .q nundreds of thousands of people nightly to the public squares, illuvith
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  • 512 5 loy* W ith Which They \niused Themselves .nt Kingsborough, 39, heir of the Kingston, was given judgment in X jury County Court against Miss -?.oyie, actress and mannequin, of y-street, Regent’s Park, for the re- i. number of articles alleged to have wrongfully detained. irticles comprised
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  • 422 5 Landing Gear Jammed MESSAGE IN CHALK ON RESCUE MACHINE Dorchester: There were anxious moments for lhe pilot and two occupants of a giant R. A. F. bomber which took off from Woodslord aerodrome, near Dorchester. In mid-air the pilot discovered that
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  • 109 5 Yo, k; Tommy des, spent one week-end wot king twelve months has i.vboy He found that keeping his title tor ;2. »0,000. biggest being the disposal had some very heavy expenses t his ye of his fourth wife, Marcelle
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  • 146 5 At the Prime Minister’s request, the new year’s honours list will contain a high honour for Mr. Ernest Brown. The Minister of Labour will probably receive a knighthood or baronetcy. Mr. Chamberlain is very grateful to Mr. Brown for the way he
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  • 119 5 Italy’s first scientific expedition to Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, in Abyssinia. has now returned to Rome and a preliminary report has been made to the Italian Royal Academy. The mission consisted of twelve scientists. headed by Professor Giotto Dainelli, and in view of the
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  • 318 5 Won Good Posts In Spare Time More than 500 miners have left the pits and the slag heaps of South Wales in the last three years.... They have not drifted away to find work in other towns. They have not gone on the road, despairing
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  • 242 5 Large Submarine Fleet The new German shipbuilding programme keeps strictly within the limits of the London Naval Treaty of 1935, which allots to Germany 35 per cent, of the total man-of-war tonnage of the British Commonwealth In submarine tonnage Germany is ent’tied to 45 per cent.,
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    • 62 5 Did you MACLEAN your teeth to-day? m SL Ah! I see you did If you use a solid dentifrice, try the new Macleans Solid u\ Peroxide Dentifrice. Sales Representative: A. T. Gillespie, P.O. Box 217, Singapore 1922 1930 I!I33 f.P.iC liiiM HttgCIHZAND VfWvW DALIAN VERMOUTH 4 SOLE AGENTS FOR MALAYA
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  • 131 6 Machine-Gunned By Japanese Airmen Canton, Dec. 1. Though no al«nn was sounded throughout yesterday, two Japanese hydroplane.,, apparently from a warship, were sighted in tmorning flying towards the Chungahan district. After having a good look at th- lay of the land, they flew to Kong moor Sarnshui and
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  • 492 6 From Our Own Correspondent» Canton. Dec. 1. Japan ise planes again raided the Can-ton-Kowlocn Railway to-day. Three machines were sighted this morning at 8.40 ovt-v the Chungshan District, and about the same time another group of Japanese b >mi>ers appeared over Shumchun. The alarm was
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  • 230 6 Japanese Force Lander! Near Macao? Hong Kong. Dec. 3. Reports hitherto unconfirmed were received in Hongkong yesterday of the landing of Japanese troops at the big island of Chikkai, approximately’ 40 miles southeast of Macao on the south-eastern Kwangtung coast. The landing is being supported by’ a Japanese
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  • 114 6 A European. C. Taylor, who was arrested by the Siamese police early in November last on instructions received from Kedah in connection with a charge of alleged misappropriation in Kedah, nas been released. The arrest was mide in accordance with the extradition law and he was
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    • 255 6 GREETED RY TWO PACKED HOUSES LAST IYIGHT QUEEN’S I (OPERATED CONTROLLED RY KENG HL’AT FILM CO A 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 Paramount's Greatest Sensation In Town “HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME” j iS MBbk ■-y OT iW > ~Wl ni Wtru.. J- -X. y K ~< x WITH Irene DUNNE Dorothy LAMOUR
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    • 599 6 I 705 ight One Show Only At 8 p. m Return Screening of The hole Serial of the Grtatot Animal Thriller of All Time. 15 SMASHING, DYNAMIC. THRILL-PACKED CHAPTERS A REPUBLIC SERIAL» Thrills With The King Of Animal Trainers! Braving jungle perils. battling the death-dealing bat men Amaan» adventures .when
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  • 331 7 Shangri-La’s Home In Least Known Part Of Tibet To Be Landmark Of Non-Stop Venture 25,000 FEET UP OVER THE GLOBE’S CURVE >OYAL AIR FORCE non-stop Australia fliers are to pilot their bombers over the least-known parts of Tibet next year. Their course will
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  • 141 7 Sir George Lee, engineer-in-chief of the GP. 0., London, has suggested that television programmes, could be distributed by wire to subscribers, thus making home reception as widespread as sound reception. The suggestion was made in his presidential address to the Institution of Electrical Engineer’s “The technical
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  • 33 7 *<<> Ml Ch Alh\i. are Dorothy, Iris and Myra Tagg, ten-jear-old triplets, of Leytonstone, Essex, that even their father and mother get muddled as to which is which at times.
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  • 225 7 Mme. Liipescu May Have To Mee From Rumania Mme. Lupescu. favourite of King Carol, it is learned in Paris may be forced to quit Rumania soon as a result of new threats against her life. Rumours to this effect are strengthened by reports that emissaries
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  • 273 7 “Forced To Beg For Every Trifle” COOK AS MEDIATOR Vienna. Archduke Leopold of Habsburg, brother-in-law of Princess Ileana of Rumania, sued his mother, the Archduchess Blanche, in a Vienna court for a maintenance allowance. He complained of the humiliations he had suffered at the hands of
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  • 744 7 FINDS BY BRITISH EXPLORERS London. Seven Cambridge University graduates returned last week from the ranges of the Andes, on the border of Bolivia and Peru, having in the course of several months’ research wrested from the great tropical lake of Titicaca, situated in
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  • 181 7 Three Princesses Lead Parade ALBANIA'S JI BILEE CELEBRATIONS Tirana, Nov. 26 Wearing lieutenants’ uniforms, the three youngest sisters of King Zog, Princess Myzejen, Princess Ruhije and Princess Maxhide, marched past the King today during the Jubilee celebrations comm-' morating the 25th anniversary of Albanian independence. They
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  • 120 7 London The most intensive “alien” hunt since the Great War fees just been started by the Special Branch at Scotland Yard in con junction with officers of the Secret Service. In the last five years hundreds of aliens have disappeared from the official recor
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    • 351 7 a— d Ofßc* 12 BwhoP Street, Penang Phone 1477 1478 with extenwionH. Telegrams: Gazette Penang. apore I office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Timea Singapore. lath Lumpur Office 25, Java Street. Phone 3683. ■»1 Office l-. Brewster Road. I‘hone 268. fxcidoa Office 40, 43, Fleet Street, London E.C. 4
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  • 590 8 IN spite of a feeling that the jury system has never completely satisfied the devious needs of justice, and in spite of sjjasmodic attempts to replace it with something better. this integral part of the •structure of British justice has persisted and is likelv to
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  • 101 8 Reuter. Xoi Mere Paper Friendship, Say M. Delbos Warsaw, Dec. 6. —Many Franco-Polish differences of opinion were perceived and removed and there are no longer obstacles to co-operation between the two countries as a result of M. Delbos’s visit. M. Del bos this morning received the Cnter of
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  • 280 8 Mr. Yeoh Swee Guan And Miss Khoo Kim Saik The marriage took place yesterday at the Chinese Town Hall, Penang, of Miss Khoo Kim Saik, eldest daughter of Mr. Khoo Soo Jin, and Mr. Yeoh Swee Guan of Taiping, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Yeoh
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  • 139 8 The death occurred yesterday morning of Mr. Maihimaydass Mudaliar after a prolonged illness, at his residence at Muntri Street, Penang. The deceased, aged 50, who was formerly in employee of the “Pinang Gazette” and later m the Times of Malaya, Ipoh. leaves behind eight children
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  • 560 8 Canton to Penang in Three /)u V s Mail-bags Triumph (her Diiiieulr lVi What Two Adventurers Found Intriguing in Penan” THE mail-bags will find a way. Traffic <>n the Kowloon-Canton Railway is completely disrupted owing to Japanese bombing. The Pearl River is practically closed. There is no
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  • 65 8 COLONIAL ECONOMIC APPEASEMENT —Reuter. U.S. Informed Of Anglo-French Conclusions Washington, Dec. 5. —Speculation with regard to the interview between Mr Anthony Eden and the United States Charge d’Affaires in London on Friday led to an explanation that Mr. Eden merely desired to inform the United States of the Anglo-French conclusions
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  • 67 8 —Reuter. Japanese Bid Not Even Considered New York. Dec. s.—The sale for demolition of the American liner. Leviathan, to a British firm for about $BOO,OOO was announced by Mr. Basil Harris, vicepresident of the United States Liner. He states a Japanese bid for the
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  • 43 8 Chengchow, Dec. 1. By order of General Chiang Kai-shek, $lOO.OOO will be distributed to the officers ?nd workers of the Chinese Government railways as a reward for their efforts in he maintenance of railway traffic during the present emergency period.
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  • 44 8 New Delhi, Dec. 5.—A court for India under the new constitution was inaugurated this morning in the Princes Chamber in the presence of the Chief Justices of the four Provinces, advocates general .nd 100 leading lawyers from the whole of India.
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  • 30 8 Nanning, Nov. 30. The Air Defence Commission in Kwangsi today petitioned to the Centre’. Govern ment for the appointment of General Hsia Wei as Commander lor Air Defence.
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  • 71 8 Parlies Formerly I" Penang (From Our Own Correspondent' London, Dec- Sir Boyd Merriman granted a ,k cn fcf to Mrs. Frank Mary Short. parents at Brighton, against Haro Short who did not defend. nan te The parties were married <’ h December 1934. Mrs. Sli"' and her
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  • 63 8 Reuter Atlrnipt Io IDop*" Kidnapping J a*’ New York, Dec. 5 -Stirre. turn of the Lindberghs, G can organisation sough’ to t .Rinj famous kidnapping case and Governor Hoffman to susj" n tb* the reward money on the gud real culprits have not yet G•< requested
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  • 64 8 Another Chinese In connection with munder which occurrt '1 November < in whn i 1,111 death, another Chinese M t n was arrested and Clia nl Cheng Ean tn yt stenl rIt will be recalled 1 mur der persons were q, Eitvr »n'' W 1 ing withdraw
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  • 228 9 First R.C. To Fly On Leave The Hon. Mr. A. M Goodman. Resident < ouncillor, Penang, leaves Penang tomorrow by K.L.M plane on leave. He will be away six months. Mr Goodman hopes to be back in Penang some time in June or July next year.
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  • 87 9 2 More Detained: Police Confident Diligent inquiries regarding the Penang bombing mode by the Magazine Police with the assistance of the Detective Branch resulted in two more Chinese being detained on suspicion. It will be recalled that on the morning fallowing the bombing, one man was detained for
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  • 90 9 Irene Dunne scores another big success an High, Wide and Handsome,” Paramount’s screen dramatisation of the battle for supremacy of a group of oil wells between the farmers who owned them and a powerful group of railroad magnates, which opened to crowded houses at
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  • 29 9 The hockey match which was to have been played this evenirfg at the Esplanade between the Penang Sports Club and the Old Frees Association has been cancelled.
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  • 212 9 6 "Cygnus” Disaster In Brindisi Capt. Macdonald Drowned (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 7. It is now understood that three people who were staying at Government House with Sir Shenton and Lady Thomas last month were involved in the crash of
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  • 151 9 Two members of the Siamese Royal Family arrived from Europe last night by the M.S. “Boringia” His Highness Prince Svasti and His Highness Princess Svasti. The following passengers arrived by the same boat:—Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Y. Caruth, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leiber. infant and
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  • 61 9 A suit which was down for hearing in the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Gordon Smith, was mentioned as settled out of court and a consent judgment entered. The parties were: Cheah Eng Khuaa (plaintiff), who was represented by Mr. T. E. Conaghan and
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  • 15 9 Sir John Salmond. -tcho vox recently ,i Penang. i<*<w among those injured.
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  • 384 9 Mrs. Pennefather Vi ins Both Titles (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dee. 7. The women’s events in the Malayan badminton championship tournaments were brought to a conclusion yesterday when thrilling games were seen in both the sin- >. and doubles rinals. Incidentally, it was a Singapore-Negri Sembilan
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  • 38 9 In the period from January 1936 to the end of October 1937 the total value of aeroplants, aeroplane engines and other parts of United Kingdom manufacture exported from Britain was £5.951.000. according to a Commons answer.
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  • 37 9 The Foreign Secretary confirmed wh< n questioned in the Commons that the Duke cf Alba and Berwick had been appointed by General Franco to be his agent in the United Kingdom und**«* O'* -ecent agreement.
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  • 152 9 Bad Weather At S. Siput (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Dec. 7. The ‘shooting’ of Paramount’s jungle thriller “Booloo” in Sungei Siput is being held up by the bad weather. For the last four days the “Booloo” unit, headed by Messrs. Clyde Elliot and John E. Burch,
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  • 241 9 Excellent Start For Season The first boxing promotion in Kedah for about a year will be held tonight at the Grand Amusement Park, Alor Star, when Battling Khoo, the former featherweight champion of Penang, meets Nai Ural, the Siamese ex-sailor, over ten rounds in the
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  • 34 9 Reuter. Accrington Beat Lancaster By 4 Goals To Nil London, Dec. 6.—ln the F.A. Cup first round second replay, Accrington beat Lancaster by four goals to nothing at Preston.
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  • 42 9 The King went shooting yesterday in Windsor Forest with a number of fr ends. The party included the Earl of Athlone The Earl and Countess had been guests of the King and Queen at Royal Lodge during the week-end.
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  • 132 9 Reuter. Suggested Change Rejected London, Dec. 6 A suggestion was made in Commons by Mr. Craven Ellis that Government should sonsider adoption of the policy of accepting gold fixed at the international price of 140 sh.Hings an ounce, not as a measure for value ol currency, but
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  • 97 9 The teachers of the Anglo-Chinese Primary School $124 00, the pupils of the Anglo-Chinese Primary Schoo’ $16.81, tin pupils of the Penang Free School $35 00 the staff of the Govt Survey Dept (3rd monthly contribution) Messrs. Chew Choort Heng s3*. Ooi Chong Hai. Ijee
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  • 1623 10 Proper Level Between 9(1. And I Od. A Pound REQUIRED TO FULFIL OBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL SCHEME The following article is by Mr. E. D. Money. of Bonstcrul Bros., chairman of Brooklands (Selangor) Rubber and other rubber companies. Itiappcars in the Finanml Times of
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  • 110 10 Operations of the undermentioned companies for the month of November, 1987:Cubic Hours Yards Ficuls Ampat 1.213 300.000 2.142 Southern Kinta 4,140 1.264,000 5.015 Kamunting 1.801 413,000 1.904 Pangnga River 761 199.000 1.073 Tongkah Harbour 2,457 463.000 1.267 Anglo-Siamese 1.229 192.000 630 Kampong Lan jut 1,237 503,000 1,958 Kuala
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  • 31 10 lb. Penang 285,000 Sabrang 103,000 Straits 257,000 Rubana 132,000 Bagan Serai 78,500 Tali Ayer 136,250 BaEak Rabit 36,700 Merchiston 44,500 Mount joy 118,000 B-denoch 225,000 Paloh 46,500 Glenshiel 50,200
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  • 26 10 The output of Kinta Kellas Tin Dredging Co. Ltd., during the month of November was: Output Pls. 889.90: Hours run 584; Yardage 130,400.
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  • 36 10 Kuala Lumpur Tin, No Liability. Summary of company’s dredging operations at Kalumpang for the month of November 1937. No. J Dredge Hours Run 610; Yards 87,300; Output 350 Piculs; No. 2 Dredge (Closed-for-alterations).
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  • 679 10 Control Policy Criticised “I do not view with satisfaction the present position of rubber, and there is just cause for expecting the necessary corrective action.” said Mr. J.G. Hay, a member of the International Rubber Regulation Committee, presiding at the meeting of the Sungei
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 117 10 You Can Cure PILESPhysician’s discovery positively reduces and heals piles. Dr. Van Vleck’s Absorptive Pile Plaem* a complete cure for the worst pi lee. The firat ap;>lication stops pain and irritation almost instantly. Alarming loss of blood is arrested. Inflammation soon lives down. Hie swollen piles surely grow .«•s and
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    • 157 10 be bitten MOSQI ITOES MALARIA SHELLTOX Harmless to Humans Astatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.) Ltd. 10A J SENSATIONAL RECOVERY thanks t o RON XIE had a terribly difficult -tart in life. His mother was ill in hospital •»h<-u lie ua- born. W eighing lb-., lie hud l<> be wrapped 'ii i'ott<»ii-M
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  • 375 11 FITNESS WINS! And They Will Show You How .Members of the AA omen's League of Health and Beauty K swinging along in line style when rehearsing their part io the Lord Mayor's Show. AA ith lifty men of the Lucas Tooth Gymnasium, they will form
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  • 72 12 La,c p l Of I oshiiu I AIR MAIL I A mail for Kuala l I by Malayan Inf. ri I at 2 p.m. tomorrow. A *.l I tain. Ireianu. h I America by Impenal I 8 a m. tomorrow I I A mail for North.
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  • 177 12 'l’ll commemorate its tenth anniversary, C. J.. “The Happy Station’’ invite you to the best birthday part\ ever held on the air from the famous Philips experimental station at Hilversum, Holland, tomorrow. This is going to be a real birthday party and you will enjoy it just
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  • 367 12 A project to study the effects of radio upon the listener and upon everyday life is being sponsored by the Princeton (New Jersey) University School of Public and International Affairs, it is announced by Dr. Harold W. Dodds, president of the University. Made possible by
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  • 152 12 By arrangement with the Easte- P tension Telegraph Company, ch-?* and New Year Foreign Greeting/ grams to all places (except Russi-i which the Daily Letter Tel is m operation, will be accepts Telegraph Office in the Straits 7 and Federated Malay Statperiod from Dec. 14, 1937 to
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  • 202 12 The story of the Samoa hurt;. 1889 of the six men-of-war destroy it and the one ship that survived e: recalled in ’The Escape of the Calliop» programme shortly to bt hr id. i- Daventry on transmission 2. at 7 j on Dec. 13 Monday
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 28 12 If Its Real Music You Want. WELL MARCONI RADIO GRAM, A N D— Columbia Records Will Produce The Worlds Best. DEMONSTRATIONS Al Robinson Piano Co. (s.s.) I 1,11
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 2268 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES 8.8. C. BERLIN MELBOURNE PENANG—ZH J t IMB 15.20 Me/. 18.7 m. VK DIE 9.59 Mcs (31.2 in.) ZH«J €.OB Me s (49.3 m.) IMN 9.54 Me/» 31.45 m. TOD4Y iw o. <*e IUC IJM M( g IM> TODA» TRANSMISSION 2 DJQ 15.28 Mc/s 19 83 m-
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    • 18 12 TIDE TABI.E today HIGH 2.50 p.m. TOMORRO" 9 30 i m 2.35 a.m. '4 26 p 3.20 p.m
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  • 615 13 S.S. ‘l3 KVI.OCIII S' from Singapore sails for Liverpool Bromborough. M-S. ‘BORINGI.V from Europe. Sails same (lax for Port Swettenham, Malacca, Singapore Bangkok. S.S. ‘MEMXOX’ from Liverpool sails for Manila. Hong Kong X japan. S.S. KI TSAXCi’ arriving nine o’clock to<la\ from Calcutta sailing for
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  • 423 13 Judgment Reserved In House Of Lords Judgment was reserved recently by the House of Lords in the appeal concerning the right of the Admiralty to recover salvage for services rendered bv H. M. ships. The appeal was by the Commissioners of the Admiralty from
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  • 204 13 A NEW P. O. COMMANDER AND A RETIREMENT On Nox- 22 Captain H Elliott-Smith retired from the P O. after thirty-eight years in the Company’s service. His place as Commander of the “Chitral” has been taken by Captain W.E.L.S. Focock who thus takes up his first definite appointment to a
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  • 467 13 Sunken Ship Raised Liverpool, Nov. 25 In a statement made today to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board it was revealed that the Clan Mackenzie was on the point of being abandoned five minutes oeiore she began to lift gradually from a sandbank off Hoylake on
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  • 200 13 In a recent issue of the "Blackburn Times," it was announced that Philips Radio Company are to open a factory at Blackbum for the manufacture of radio apparatus etc. An up-to-date factory is being built and soon after its completion a certain amount of technical training
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 737 13 blue funnel line v LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Due iin conjunction with Glen Shire Lane) Penang London XGARRY L don, R’dam, H’burg, Antwerp and Middlesborough. Dec. 8 Jan. 8 AMEMN’ON Mars., L’don, R’dam, H’burg Glasgow Dec. 10 Jan. 5 A HAS L’don. R’dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea Dec. 16 Jan. 12
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    • 628 13 P O BRITISF| d |NDIA (Incorporated in England.) PORT SWETTENF2AM SINGAPORE S.S. “RAJI ILA” SAILING THURSDAY, 9th DECEMBER S N Co under Pena ag. Telux .Anson, Port Swettenham. h HIS L Ma J est y’ 3 Government Malacca and Singapore Serx ice London and Far East Mail Serxuce. Outwards irom
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  • 895 14 ROWING (Jambridge Crews Better Than Expected FAST TIME AT ELY Ely, Nov. 28. The two Cambridge trial eights raced over the usual two and a half miles course between Littleport and the Adelaide bridge here this afternoon A fresh northerly breeze dispersed the fog and mist
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 14 OF/» TO UM.—lrina Baronova, the Imllft dancer, used her trunk a-'t a seat while waitvng at Watcrfor Queen Mary boat train.
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  • 45 14 EDDIE FIULLIFS, former British light heavy-weight < ciu i .I over both eyep, being congratulated by his wife, in his Harrincav rebeating Amo Kolblin. the European champion on points, at H. g cently. A doctor had just attended his injuries when thrs p taken.
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  • 424 14 London. Nov. 28. RECENT events lend a great deal of weight to a letter I have received from Harry Flower, secretary of the National Union of Boxers; writes John Macadam in the Sunday Dispatch. Harry points out that preference is being shown by*
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  • 205 14 One would expect all-in wrestler Jack Pye to fight tooth and nail in the ring. But he cannot. He has to keep his nails so short for his job that he can hardly open a pen-knife. Yet to meet him you would think he had
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  • 175 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, Dec. 6. At a general committee meeting of the Kedah Chinese China Red Cross and Distress Fund, including representatives of 22 towns in Kedah, held at the Kedah Chinese Chamber of Commerce premises on Dec. 4 it was revealed
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  • 517 14 GOLF Five Times British Open Cham iiion JAMES BRAID James Braid, five times British Open champion and hero of many a tournament, is still one of the greatest personalities in golf. Now, in his sixty-seventh year, he takes no further part in competitive golf, but that is not
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  • 17 14 CYCLIST MENZIES, out to break the year’s mileage record, carries on with a broken arm.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 341 14 See the name on the nameplate be re FIVE REASONS FOR B UYINQ GREATER PROJECT-ABILITY Y with the Food-Safety Indicator Frigidaire keeps food safer, fresher, longer— always within thi Safety Zone—proved by the new’ type Food-Safety Indicator with dial on door, always in sight! A constant guard against the waste
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  • 483 15 10,000 OFFER FOR FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN GELDING The Trump May Race At Bing Crosby’s Track SENSATIONAL CAREER Melbourne: An offer of £lO,OOO by cable for The Trump, winner of the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups double, to race at Bing Crosby’s race track at Del Mar, California, has been received by Mr.
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  • 196 15 BADMINTON SENSATIONAL RESULTS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Dec. 6. Tan Chong Tee and Yap Chin Tee, two i s best badminton players were d ionally eliminated from the Malayan Championships yesterday, when they were t<n by narrow margins after thrilling rubber matches. Fuli results of yesterday’s games
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  • 200 15 XHOSA, spokon by two million Bantus, Ls the latent language to be “coltert<l” by the experts at the School of Ori•wtal Studies, Westminster. Mr. D. Mthimphuhu, a native teacher irom Natal, made direct recordings of its grtimmar and colloquial Jexphessiont; reently in the school’s
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  • 74 15 few days ago Herr Hitler saw Marlene >i't rich’s latest picture, "Angel.” H' liked the picture, liked Marlene, and xpi ssed a wish to meet her when next ■’ll' visits the land of her birth. Mid a stiff rebuke has been issued o li the official
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  • 304 15 ‘MAY BE END OF THE TRAD? Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, left last week for Africa, on what he says may be “the end of the trail.” He sailed in the Llanelly Castle for Mombasa. “8.P.” w’ill be 81 years old in February. Ruddy-cheeked and in
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  • 51 15 ’—Reuter. Notts Cricket Club announce that differences with Larwood have now been settled. A three years contract satisfactory to toth sides will be signed by Larwood in the next few' days. It will be recalled that on August 24 the Club suspended Larwood as a “dis- ciplinary
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  • 133 15 Manager Discovers He is leaving Nottingham. Supporters of Notts County F C. had a shock when it was reported that Mr. James McMullan. who was appointed secre-tary-manager last November, was leaving the club immediately. Mr. McMullan said _n an interview: “This has come as a thunderbolt.
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  • 183 15 Odds Of 9.358 To 1 A 10s double on Sol.taire for the Manchester November Handicap and Wheel of Joy for the Worsley Nursery Handicap, also run at Manchester, won £4,679 Ils for Mrs. G. F. Hunter, of Newby, Elmfield Park, Gosforth, daughter-in-law’ of the
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  • 303 15 All-in Wrestler Bob Gregory, who recently married Princess Baba (daughter of the Rajah of Sarawak) is still in the wars. This time it is with the man who helped him to wrestling fame and also stagemanaged the wedding. Bob has had an £B,OOO offer
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  • 104 15 Retirement Of V. Y. Richardson During an official luncheon at Adelaide. V Y. Richardson, former vice-captain of Australian Test teams against England and captain of the team which toured South Africa during the 1935-36 season, announced his retirement from first-class cricket. One of the finest all-round sportsmen in the
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 218 15 IBSjinacin' m Relieves j PAIN Instant I if! For HEADACHES NEURALGIA TOOTHACHE RHEUMATISM COLDS FEVER If you suffer from headaches to thousands. Doctors and i —can't sJeep because of the dentists prescribe it. pains of neuralgia, tooth- Try ANACIN and see for i ache or rheumatism. If you yourself how
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 35 15 POP— A Good Definition By J. MILLAR WATT Do YOU KNOW V7HAI A f F IT’S A VYORD YOU USE SYNONYM NtS. WHEN YOU can’t IS SPELL THE OTHER.’ OfMfcjEO. >/ .<■> n —i Jr" w-» >■ 'JJ
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  • 124 16 1 IN PREVIOUSLY llr, £l q s 0 o £l9B. 0 LONDON—(Spot) £197 5 o LONDON—(3 months) $96.75 SINGAPORE w, w BUSINESS DONE i” Z $96 75 FENANG Buyers no sellers Buyers no sellers BUSINESS DONE Buyers no seiiaro j $4 65 COPRA—(Sun dried) 4 7J7JJ7 9.00 RUBBER:— 7id
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  • 350 16 Share of fl aenemlnatmn untes» Yesterday Rise or Fall otherwise stated Conversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 Finding Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 101 -r War Loan. 34 Com. Union Asace. (Units) 35 Prudential Assce "A” Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 9 Great Western Rly Ordy Canadian Pacific (£25) Chartered
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  • 123 16 London o® Previously Latest Taris 147 5j64 147 564 New York 4.99,4 4.99,' 5 M mitre a I 499 4.99 4 Brussels 29.375 29.41 j ■Geneva 21.60 21.60 A Amsterdam 8.981 8.98 Milan 941 94 2 Berlin 12.39$ 12.405 Stockholm 19.40 19.40% Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 <*lo 19 90
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 122 16 KENNEDY CO. Try Buyers Setters Ampat’ s l°, s 't, Batu Selangor 1-675 J Hong Fatt 114 Kampong Lanjut 22 3 -3|o Kamunting IJ I 6 Katu “I® Kramat 2 J*? 0 Kuala Kampar 15|0 Kuchai Ordy. 1 6 Larut n l 9 12 Lukut 72 7 CX Pahang Consol
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    • 155 16 A. A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.70 1.75 Hong Fatt 1.15 1.20 Kuchai 1 62 A 1.67 A Petalings 8.15 8.35 Puteh 1.25 1.30 Rantau Ordy. 1.55 1.60 Rantau Pref. 1.55 1.60 Sungei Luas 1.65 1.70 Sungei Way 2.60 2.70 Taiping Cons. 1.80 1.85 Ampat 5:0 5!3
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    • 189 16 Weakness Attracts Little Selling New York, Dec. 6. —In the absence of unexpected or significantly favourable news of business or Washington, the market failed to advance. However, we would note further evidence of apparently good technical significance, namely, the fact that weakness still fails to attract volume. In
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    • 25 16 TIN SingajMire $96./5 Per pkl. Penang $96.75 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore Spot 25 1 8c Per lb. Penang Spot 25' 12c Per 11».
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    • 145 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Seilers Ampats 5 0 5 6 B. Selangors 1.70 1.75 Hong Fatts 1.17 A 1.22 A Kramats 12 0 12 6 K. Kampars 14 10A 1510 A Kuchais 1.60 1.65 Pungahs 22 0 22 6 Putehs 1.25 1.30 Rantau Prefs. 1.52 A 1.57 A Raubs 4.00
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    • 180 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Allenbys 1.47 4 1.55 Ayer Panas 1.424 1 50 Bassetts .60 .65 Batu Lintang 1.12 A 1.174 Bedfords 1.074 1.12 J Bentas 1.121 1.171 Brogas .85 .90 Mentakabs .424 .47* Malaka Pindas 1.35 1.42*. Nyalas .924 1.024 Pajams 1.974 2.074 Sungei Tukangs 1.174 1.224 Ulu
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    • 8 16 ©PINANG GAZETTE ‘•CORONATION DICTIONARY” COUPON Name Address to
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    • 195 16 WANTED WANTED Secondhand light Car, cheap to run. Full particulars to Box 181 c o Pinang Gazette. -BRYLCREEM” IJ/ NOTICE is hereby given that the Trade Mark and Label depicted above are the exclusive property of THE COUNTY CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED, of Chemico Works, Bradford Street, Birmingham, and North Circular
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    • 774 16 BANKS NEDERLANDSCHE THE MERCANTILE BANK HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ, Of INDIA, LTD. N.V. (Incorporated in England) Capital Authorised (Incorporated in the Netherlands.) Capital Subscribed 1 NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.) BOARD of DIRECTOk.% Established in Amsterdam 1824. Rlght Lord ***** of Caimcatto, HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM Sir Charles Alexander Innes, 1 C I B> Sir Thomas
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