Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 December 1937

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE Ijy/' EDITION ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY No. 290. Vol. XCV. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 164 1 Line Blocked By Landslide FOOD BEING STORED AGAINST EVENTUALITIES (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dee. 9. I he East (.oast Railway permanent way in Kelantan is blocked by a landslide north of Kuala Gris. Coolies are ch aring the track and repairing it, while
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  • 592 1 Anxious l or Truce At \ankiiio with the exception or three tons consigned to a dyeworks in Holland.”British W i reless. in in, Dec. 8. Fighting took place f> t in il ls surrounding Nanking tonight jus tin Japanese tried to drive spearheads towards the eighteen
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  • 24 1 I S estimates of rubber consumption during the first quarter of 1938 «'f <u/f 45,000 tons a month. (See page 16)
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  • 203 1 Reuter FIRST BOOM BROKEN Shanghai. Dec. 9. Five months after it was constructed, the Kiangyin boom was broken this morning. The Japanese flotilla of destroyers steamed through and are now continuing up the Yangtse. They passed a British ship, which, with several others, is no longer bottled up
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  • 95 1 But Effective Steps Beinji Taken" In a statement on Palestine at Commons question time, the Colonial Secretarysaid in the last fortnight there had been a few further outrages involving loss of life. Several cases have already been heard by military courts and in one case the death
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  • 191 1 Reuter London Not Fearful Of China Supplies London, Dec .8 A report published in one of this morning’s papers that Chinese silver is being refined! in London on behalf of the United States Treasury was categorically denied by refiners who inform Reuters that the refining was being done on
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  • 48 1 The Board of Trade index of wholesale prices in November was 1.9 per cent, lower than in October. The decline followed a fall of 0.5 per cent, in October and slight falls in September and August the aggregate decline over four months living 2.7 per cent.
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  • 162 1 Presentation To Che M<l. Sheriff < From Our Own Corp'l >ondent I Alor Star. Dec 9 His Exce'kney the Governor, Sir Shenton ~h< ,ms and Lady Thomas arrived here y i day by Imperial Ait ways linei in the neon and v ere met by His
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  • 141 1 Reuter. Klu Klux Klan On The Grand Scale New York, Dec. BAmerica is now far more dangerously threatened by the new madness of nations in nightshirts.” declared Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior in a speech at a dinner of the American Civil Liberties Union
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  • 80 1 To Spend Christmas At Singapore Five Royal Air Force flying boats of Number 204 General Reconnaissance Squadron, which left Plymouth on December 2 on a formation flight to Australia and back, arrived at Bahrein yesterday afternoon from Lake Habbaniyan. The Squadron will spend Christmas at Singapore. They
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  • 24 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. Dec. 9. Raub gold output for the four weeks ended Dec. 4 was 1,378 90 ounces.
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  • 247 1 Adm. \(imauiolo Ridicules Threat To Siu pore (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Dec. 8. T am certainly surprised to hear that British people still think that Japan might send an expedition to take, Singapore,” declared Rear-Admiral Shinijiro Yamamoto. Japanese naval veteran, who fought on the
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  • 67 1 British Wireless. London Dec. B.The King paid a surprise visit of inspection early this morning to Vickers’ works at Brooklands. Work on the Royal Air Force planes being constructed under the rearmament programme continued while the tour of the premises was in progress. His Majesty was
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  • 411 2 Husband, Who Stood Surety, Asked To Show Cause CHINESE G/lEV TIME TILL TODAY In connection with a criminal case which occurred some time in September this year in which a Chinese woman,- Hua. was convicted for the offence of criminal of respect of jewellery,
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  • 176 2 Running Business In Sungei Patani From Our Own Correspondent.) Sungei Patani, Dec. 7. Hire motor-busses travelling Irom Sungei Patani to the north as far as Bukit Junun and Jeniang, under the new Kedah Motorcar Enactment and are identified by the green triangular plate fixed on the tofl
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  • 96 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 8. Charged with having attempted to murder his brother last Monday, a 22-year-old. Teochew, Ng Kweh Teh, appeared before Mr. F. V. Duckworth, Second Singapore Magistrate, yesterday morning. After the charge had been explained to Kwh Teh, the case was postponed
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  • 180 2 False Representation Charge Fails CHINESE ACQUITTED Without calling upon the defence. Mr. T. D. Hughes, the Penang Police magistrate acquitted a Chinese Yeoh Ghee Jin. who was charged with having taken delivery of one basket of cabbages valued at $44 belonging to Chop Gin Seng, by falsely representing
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  • 38 2 The suit fixed for hearing in the Supreme Court yesterday between Lam Shai Hong, plaintiff R 'ghavan Co) and Lam Kim Sang defendant, < Hogan. Adams and Allan) was put off for the January sittings.
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  • 188 2 GOLDSMITH’S COOLIE SENTENCED This type of offence is becoming very prevalent in Penang amongst goldsmiths’ coolies. They are entrusted with gold to make into jewellery, and they convert it for their own purpose. There had been many many cases of this nature recently,” said acting Court Chief
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  • 328 2 relief funds being SENT TO HONG KONG (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Dec. 8. Malayan Chinese are by no means disheartened by the news from Nanking, to u< ge by the opinions expressed by a number of Chinese leaders yesterday. "The collection of relief funds for
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  • 100 2 Proposal To Hold One In Penang It is proposed to hold a Dog Show in Penang under the auspices of the Malayan Kennel Association in February or March. Dog lovers, dog owners and persons interested in dogs are asked to communicate with Mrs. J. Danson, 12 Brown Road,
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  • 79 2 Chinese Certified Insane When the case was mentioned before Mr. Lim Cheng Ean the additional magistrate, Penang, in which a Chinese, Kwok Kam Chan, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by taking poison, some time last month at a house in King Street, acting Court Chief
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  • 85 2 (Fiom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 8. Alleged to have offered a $3 bribe to Inspector F. H. Goodship, at Central police station, on Monday, a Chinese, Lim See Wah, pleaded guilty when charged with offering illegal gratification to a public servant, tn the third Singapore police court,
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  • 958 3 GEN. CHIANG’S CRACK SOLDIERS REPLACING PROVINCIAL TROOPS A crack division belonging to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek’s army has arrived in Nanking to reinforce the garrison and replace the less experienced Provincial troops who are being transferred. As a precautionary measure, the remaining British, American and German Embassy
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  • 24 3 ENTRANCE to The Ming Tombs, one of tlte link» icith ancient China now in danger of bein g destroyed.
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  • 506 3 Chinese Customs A: Other Questions: .Reuter London. Dec. 8 Discussions are stilT proceeding in Shanghai with the Japanese authorities regarding Chinese customs, said Mr. Anthony Eden in the House of Commons today. He had received no information from the French and United States Governments
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  • 95 3 Reuter TO BE INAVGI RATED ON DEC. 19 i London. Dec. 8. Questions based of! the assumption that Imperial Airways have failed in efforts to establish a BangkokHong Kong air service were agreeably proved not to have been based on fact when Mr. Eden in the
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  • 367 4 SHOP DAMAGED AND TARRED BY CHINESE MOB Traffic Held Up: Police Rousdilv Handled (I'roin Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. Dec. S. TWO police constables were roughly handled in North Bridge Road at about 1.30 yesterday afternoon on attempting to restore peace when a gang of Chinese began
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  • 377 4 Brilliant Reception On Airfield i From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Dec. 7. A day after having flown from Singapore. where he is manager of the great airport. Mr. Arthur Newark was married in St. Mary’s Church Kualo Lumpur, today to Miss Margery Kathleen Mann, who
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  • 43 4 Following are donations received in conjunction with the coming Christmas at the Penang Convent:— ITeviously acknowledged $258 00 Mr. W. Heaney 10 00 Mr. D A. Mackay 1000 Ruby’s Daddy and Mummy r >o 00 Pulau Tikus 500 $333.00
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  • 223 4 Girls In Coffee Shop (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Dec. 8. Dur, ng the trial of a young Hylam, Teo Chong Kuan, charged before Mr. Justice Home in the Assize Court yesterday with having attempted to murder Tan Ah Joon, medical evidence was given that th e
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  • 296 4 .‘’•Centaurus On The Way (From Out Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 8. Blazing the trail of the Empire air route from England beyond Singapore to Australasia, the Empire tlying-boat Centaurus, is due here on Saturday. She will leave Karachi tomorrow for Calcutta, flying to Bangkok on Friday and
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  • 204 4 Mrs A. P. Hanby Holmes. Hon. Organiser of’this year’s Poppy Day Fund, wishes publicly to thank Messrs. Pinang Gazette Straits Echo Criterion Press for free printing and the following firms for allowing her to utilize their advertising spaces in this paper in connection with the Poppy Day
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  • 28 4 In connection with the Constitution Anniversary, the office of His Siamese Majesty's Consulate. Penang, will be closed for two days, i. e. today and tomorrow respectively
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  • 27 4 There will be Moonlight Band Performances at the Esplanade on Dec. 16, 17 and 18 from 8.30 pm. to 10.30 p.m. wea th er permitting.
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  • 115 4 El TONG SEN CHARGED < From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Dec. 8. Summoned to appear before Mr. E.C.G. Barrett, in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. on a charge of having allowed his two dogs to be out of doors without muzzles. Eu Tong Sen, who was not
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  • 332 4 Mr. A. Flinter. managing director of A. Flinter Ltd., Ipoh, with Mrs. Flinter and their two daughters has returned from Europe. Mr. J. C. Osborne, late Stipendiary Steward, Straits Racing Association, has been appointed Handicapper and Starter to the Irish Turf Club. Mr. E. G. Holiday of
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  • 2291 5 Men Risk Death To Ensure Safety Of The British Public Tests Show High Standard Of Protection From Gas Attacks Mr. Herbert Shocks House Of Commons Used Words Even Enlightened’ People Avoid W ets Versus Drys Dick” Sheppard Leaves £40.000 (From (hir Own
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    • 370 5 GOOD NEWS FOR LANGUID WOMEN AND TIRED MEN New Vitality From Tasteless Tablets When tiring weather conditions or weakening illness have sapped strength and energy, left you languid, inert and unirw terested in life, it is time for you to recharge your devitalised body with life giving, energising Vitamins. It’s
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  • 84 6 ,Reuter. Grave Fears Pelt In Philippines One of the two which left Cuba on Monday morning for Manila with Major-General Paulino Santos, Chief of Staff of the Philippines Army, and four others, including Lieut. William Lee, of the United States Army, was found at Tayabas
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  • 111 6 British Wireless. Lor. lon Dec. 8.- Students of the Colleoe of Aeronautical Engineering are about undertake construction of three light aeroplanes. One is to be built to special design for the Air League in the British Empire. In another case, a well-known designei ,ias
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  • 56 6 ,Reuter. Barcelona. Dec. B.lt is reported that 200 were killed in an air raid yesterday. This is unconfirmed but it is officially stated that 50 were killed and 100 injured. In a second air raid in the afternoon three insurgent bombers, flying high, were driven off by anti-aircraft
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  • 156 6 Graduates Of Four arsities In England And Scotland At an informal meeting held last night at the O X.A. premises of returned students from England and Scotland, a decision was reached to bold an annual dinner for such students. The date of the dinner will
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  • 44 6 Reuter. London. Dec. B.lt is stated that practically all mails aboard the Cygnus which crashed at Brindisi on Dec. 5. have been salvaged. Some are being held at Brindisi for drying but some are expected in London later in the afternoon.
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  • 28 6 Reuter. Montana. (Switzerland). Dec. S.--Laddie Cliff, the British comedian, died here today in the British Sanatorium. His wife. Phyllis Monkman. was at the bedside.
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  • 53 6 Reuter. London, Dec. S.—Assistant Bishop Bullen lost his life In a plane crash at Sudan. He was flying in a R.A.F. bomber. The pilot was also killed. It is reported that Bullen’s wife was also passenger but the official notification of the disaster does nox
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  • 68 6 British Wireless. ShoMii At A Cinema London Dec. B.—A 8.8. C. television programme from Alexandria Palace was shown last night on a large screen In a cinema tn Brisley. Kent. The results were clear with little interference. It is stated that proposals are on foot to equip
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  • 43 6 Malayan Tourists Enjoying Themselves (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Dec. 8. Chinese and Indian tourists. including your representative, visiting Bangkok for the Constitution fetes from Malaya are enjoying themselves with an arduous programme of sightseeing and in cool season weather.
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  • 49 6 Reuter. A hand grenade was thrown from a speeding motorcar this evening at the offices of the Russian Daily News, a proSoviet newspaper published in the French Concession. Glass shattered and machinery was damaged but there were no casualties. The miscreants eluded arrest.
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    • 209 6 The Best Shows In Town Are With 1 < WEMBLEY PARK TONIGHT Thursday 9th. December 1937 LADIES 9 GUEST NIGHT ODEON STAR OPERA: Azim Zalika” Every night packed to the doors Come Early SHANGHAI THEATRICAL TROUPE: Ist Show Poh Chiin (Tun Chiu 2nd Show Thong Sin Kay” Seat locts all
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 201 6 ROYAL Tonight One Shxnc Only AT 8 P.M SHARP ISGAI WAH DRAMA PARTY* TOMORROW Chin Woo Athletic Association’* SATURDAY 11th DEC. fcfc Wah Keow Dramatic Party*' Charity Shows in aid of China Distre.ss Relief Fund Continuously Three Nights Space. Hall and Lightings Kindly Donated by Messrs ONG SHAW l2th Dec.
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    • 135 6 Never Such Packed Houses Before! It’s Made A Great Hit For The Town TWO SHOWS mzjjlxi 615t night930 (OPERATED CONTROLLED BY KENG HU AT FILM CO.) PARAMOUNT’S 1937 RECORD BREAKER High, Wide and Handsome > with Jtr, IRENE DUNNE HRhhfe < WHO WILL SET YOUR HEART i By THROBBING >
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    • 69 6 OPENING TOMORROW By Incessant Requests W e Bring Back Io \ou TRADER HORN’ I starring 1 Harry Carey. Edwina Booth. Duncan Renaldo and a splendid native SEE: wild deadly com I-. J Y* W "J A MIGHTY LOAD DU A.MA WMal TWO Oil lwJ 1 1 k GODDESS IX AX
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  • 478 7 Memories Of Captain Oates’ Last Journey INTO a blizzard in the Southern Polar wastes a very gallant gentleman” stumbled out of life and into history 25 years ago. Only the snowshoes he wore on that awful journey came back for his mother to treasure with
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  • 106 7 Death Of A Botanic Gardens Curator (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Dec. 7. The oldest Portuguese resident in Singapore, Mr. Jose de Almilda Pereira, died at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday at the age of 80. Mr. Pereira, who was extra assistant curator at the Botanic
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  • 44 7 Reut t. Moscow. Dec. 7.—Eight officials of the Ural region have been executed for agricultural sabotage. Nine officials of the Georgian Commissariat similarly charged pleaded guilty to contaminating cattle with cholera germs and supplying the Red Army with infected meat. Reut -r
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  • 66 7 Rome Dec. 7. An exchange of congratulatory telegrams between Pu-Yi and King Victor Emmanuel on the occasion of it cognition of Manchukuo is announced. Pu-Yi added: We can work together for the cause of world peace.”- Reuter. 4;—. 3he engagement is announced between Enid Margaret Ogilvie Will,
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 7 14-year-old Olympic Games ice-skater, whose st nsation tfi dancing on skates amazed the audience at the first night of the Covert Garden Ice Ballet and held up the show.
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  • 236 7 Instigator Of ColdBlooded Fraud” LED SON-IN-LAW ASTRAY Described by Mr. Justice Wrottesley as he instigator of a cold-blooded fraud which failed.” Hugh Francis Laverty. 67, carrier, of Stanhope-street, Liverpool, was sentenced at Manchester Assizes recently to five years’ penal servitude. He was accused with Joseph
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  • 236 7 QPPOSITION is growing hmong British doctors to the government’s attempt, through the B M.A., to create a shadow army of medical men for in a national emergency. The Committee of Imperial Defence has asked for information which would show how the medical
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  • 307 7 LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE WAR Berlin, Tuesday. Evefry German a* soldier and every German a National Socialist until the’ end ol his days.” This was declared to be the ideal of the new Germany in a lecture given to students of Berlin University by Et.-Col. Jost,
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  • 495 7 Denial By Bank Manager INTERVIEW WITH CUSTOMER London. A conversation in a bank manager’s office was the subject of a slander action heard by Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, and a spec, al jury in the King’s Bench Division recently. The National Provincial Bank and
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  • 568 8 A FULL meeting of the Intern.t-Z-k tional Tin Committee is being held tomorrow. Today the sub-committee which has been studying the question of the creation of a buffer stock is to foregather, and presumably the matter will come up for discussion by the full committee. At the date
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  • 110 8 British Wireless. I .K. Parliamentarians To Be Represented London. Dec. B.—A deputation from the United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association will visit Australia at the Invitation of the Association’s branch in South Wales Parliament for celebration in January of the 150th anniversary of the
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  • 81 8 Reuter. Preliminaries V> ill Last Till Next Feb. Or March Washington. Dec. 8.Asked when he expected the British delegation to arrive to conclude wnrk on the trade pact. Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State. indicated that the present stage of discussion regarding wasting commodities would occupy about
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  • 73 8 -Reuter. Mr. Roosevelt Evades Premium Question New York, Dec. B.Nearly 11.000.000 ounces of silver arrived from London, the great bulk of which represents the third instalment from China making the total recently received about 30.000,000 ounces. Mr. Roosevelt at a Press conference yesterday, said he will
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  • 75 8 British Wireless. London. Dec. 8.As a result of prolonged tests, it has been decided to construct aluminium alloy funnels for the Cunard White Star Line’s Mauretania, now- under construction at Birkenhead. The vessel will be the first of her size in the world to have
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  • 116 8 Reuter. Facing Censure Motion In Commons London, Dec. 8. Major Attlee, who, with Miss Ellen Wilkinson and Mr Noel Baker are leaving Barcelona today en route to England will face a censure motion in the House of Commons tabled by a Conservative member alleging that Major Attlee is
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  • 43 8 Reuter. Rome, Dec. B.—The result of M. Stoyadinovitch’s visit is summarised in a communique which says that the conversations showed that relations between Italy and Yugoslavia are continuing to develop harmoniously in collaboration closer and mure cordial in all fields
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  • 497 8 .Vazifcing the Beautiful Nou Prol )(l l t in Ruins China's Tin Shipment The Motor Decade i,\ Decade m I ANKING, which at this moment is probably being ravaged bv Japanese hordes, only a short six months ago gave promise of becoming one of the moist beautiful
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  • 134 8 Reuter. Noble ork Of Mission Hospitals London, Dec. 8.A Shanghai resident. Dr. R. C. Robertson who arrived in London today, intends to fly back to China after Christmas to take charge of the British anti-epidemic unit. Referring to an obituary notice published after a false report
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  • 89 8 Reuter. Questions In House Of Commons Replying to Mr. Percy Harris regarding Malayan textile quotas to cover made-up goods, Mr. Ormsby-Gore said the initiative came from the local Government after the fullest investigation. Mr. Harris asked whether it was merely an official majority which approved it er.
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  • 68 8 British Wireless. London, Dec. B.The ten thousand tons eight inch gun cruiser, Cornwall today completed her full programme. She will join the second cruiser squadron Home Fleet which will thus be restored for the first time since 1925 to its normal strength of five
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  • 97 8 Reuter. New Effort To I{e<ln<'' Death-Roll A fresh effort to reduce r *ad an 'by in British resulted in a Lx>rds < itiated by the Bishop of Winci A stated that 6,000 were killed, m injured while the cost to the i JE20.000.000 annually. The Earl cf Munster
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  • 84 8 Government I HorD Aid Enipl<>V>i< nl The Commons defeated by 1 124 a resolution condemning ment for inaction on the problem tion of industry from the point both of defence and the plight areas. g The Parliamentary Secretarx Board of Trade at the end o outlined inducements
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  • 38 8 A SE.NM I i Berlin. Dec. 8 Nearly all oany other Scandinavian confiscate they carried a caricatur representing him >» 1:1,1 omlortah'.V (Ml out in* l Schacht saying. G l room for two of us here
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  • 28 8 HONG KOM. >■" Agreement with the >• )r ui uk p. on the Impel ia Kong serv.ee ax service from Conllllol l-.. were announced in lm
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  • 403 9 Noise Died As Plane Went Down, Says Malay NO MACHINE IN MALAYA REPORTED MISSING (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 8. The jungle trees parted and the aeroplane disappeared.” This report, brought by a young, sunburnt Malay to Ulu Langat police station, 12 miles
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  • 167 9 The three men who were detained on suspicion in connection with the Fun and Frolic bombing incident were again brought up before the Penang Police Magistrate, Mr. T. D. Hughes, yesterday. It will be recalled that on Tuesday, when they were first brought up in court, they were
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  • 31 9 rey at Southampton was postponed.—Reuter. London, Dec. 8. At Bexhill. Kent defeated Sussex by 8 points to nil. The match between Hampshire and Surrey at Southampton was postponed.—Reu-
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  • 781 9  -  (By L. C. L.) The opening ceremony of the new AngloChinese School at Westlands Avenue by His Excellency the Governor on Saturday morning will be an event of sufficient significance to arouse public interest. It is a matter of pride to the Methodist Episcopal Mission because
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  • 299 9 Saturday will be a Red Letter Day for the thousand pupils of the Anglo-Chinese Schools of Penang, when His Excellency the Governor. Sir Shenton Thomas will officially declare open the new AngloChinese School building in Westlands Road. All preparations have been made for Sir Shenton's visit, and
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  • 146 9 P.R.C. v. Holland House A return tennis match between the Penang Recreation Club and the Holland House” Party will be played on Friday and Saturday on uTrri P.R.C. Courts, Esplanade, 5 p.m. each day. The doubles will be played on Friday and the singles on Saturday. In case of
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  • 113 9 A young Chinese, named A. C. Ann, storekeeper at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel, Penang, was found dead in a room in Teong Lam Hotel, Argyll Road, yesterday afternoon. The deceased engaged a room in the hotel on Tuesday night. The following day, when the hotel
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  • 35 9 The 8.1. s.s. Rajula, from Madras, with the English mails despatched from London on November 18 arrived in Penang several hours late. Some delay seems to have occurred at the Madras end.
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  • 401 9 Alor Star Promotion (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, Dec. 9. Judging by the support given to Mr. Granville M. O’Hara, organiser of the boxing contest which is to be held on December 19 in aid of the Poppy Day Fund, under the
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    • 350 9 PENANG TURF CLUB x XMAS/NEW YEAR (COLD CUP) MEETING 1937/38. Ist. Day, Monday, 27th December, 1937. 2nd. Day, Saturday, Ist January, 1938. 3rd. Day, Wednesday, sth January, 1938. 4th. Day, Saturday, Bth January, 1938. ENTRIES close at 12 o’clock noon on Thursday. 16th December. 1937, at the Secretary’s Office. SWEEPS.A
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  • 1383 10 Severe Quota Cut Probable PLEA FOR ORGANISED MARKETING” jFrom Our Own Correspondent) Condon, Nov. 30. Much as Condon representatives of the Malayan tin-mining industry would like to .see a revision of the distribution of national tonnages in favour of Malaya, they .are beginning to appreciate
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  • 125 10 Piccolos, mouth organs, and comds-and tissue paper were raised in a chorus of hope in Sydney a few’ weeks ago when the Australian Broadcasting Commission started auditions designed to uncover new talent. All kinds of music were reproduced on every possible type of instrument. "We
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  • 25 10 lb. Yarak 10.000 Ayer Tawah 54.500 Sandycroft 19,000 Dindings 53,000 Lesong Tujoh 13.200 Kuala Kangsar 162.400 Henrietta 120.800 Sungei Matang 43.000
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  • 28 10 Tongkah Compound November operations, Tongkah Compound N.L. Hours 602; Yards 157.000; Pikuls 374.06. Tongkah Compound No. 2 N. L. Hours 1.223; A aids 245.000 Pikuls 716.04.
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  • 23 10 Pattani Tin Limited statistics for the month of November:Output Pels. 157; Yardage 171,000 cubic yards; Hours run 484; Hydraulicing Pels. 119.
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  • 21 10 Karnra Tin Dredging statistics for the month of November: Output Pels. 468.65; Yardage 160,000 cubic yards; Hours run 339.
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  • 21 10 Sxme Tin output for the month of November 1937, was 628 piculs. Yardage worked 115 500 Hours run 600.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 17 10 -1 r ilos s 100 mijs i Waterproofed To Prevent Soggy” Toothbrush Available in 10 Attractive Colours.
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    • 293 10 HUTTENBACH CONTINUOUS SHELTERS MADE IN ENGLAND i I I (Type S.MA) i 500—800 lbs. sheet i per hour. Each Junior Sheeter is fitted with five pairs of roEs, No. 1 pair being hair lined to receive the freshly coagulated rubber and No. 5 being grooved to give the final marking
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  • 304 11 XRMING STI’DY of Mrs. Richard Aaron and her two children Avro and Ruth June, who are expected back in Singapore after a lengthy holiday abroad on December 14. '.>RGE HALE, who is known as Tire Second Zeigtield.” talks it may t i 1 vice to
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  • 420 12 THREE NEW TREASURY GRANTS FOR B.B.C Devon’s New Radio Station Three Treasury grants are about :■< be made to the 8.8. C. tor television, foreign language broadcasting and early morning "health and fitness" programmes. The recent 8.8. C. retort that it had no money to (Start early morning broadcasts has
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  • 94 12 By arrangement with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Christmas and New Year Foreign Greetings Telegrams to all places (except Russia) with which the Daily Letter Telegram Service is in operation, will be accepted at any Telegraph Office in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States during the
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  • 313 12 Latest l imes Of A mail for Kuala Lump llr :tr by Malayan Int t| at 2 p.m. tomorrow. A mail for Australia, N ew 7 S d mOr Uy V a Singapore by Singapore-Austral;. M will close at 7.30 p. ra 11 A mail for
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 60 12 RUSTOf'i OIL ENGINES INDUSTRIAL MARINE TYPES FROM 3 B.H.P. TO 1.400 8.H.1’. e If you are thinking of installing new power plant, it will pay you t° investigate RUSTON oil efigiiu Their reputation is hacked 1»? world-wide service that ensure' f° r RUSTON owners dependable power at low cost. For
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 2246 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES B B c> BERLIN MELBOURNE PENANG—ZHJ 04 B 15.30 Me/. 10.1 m. VK 2MB 9.59 Mcjs (31.2 m.) ZH.I «.08 Me. (49.3 m.) IMN 9-54 Me/» 31.45 m. Tnn*v TODAY o. <»e zollmm.» «..«l-.diw: I)4C 17.7» Me/. 10.89 p m pm TRANSMISSION 2 DJQ 15.28 Me'» 19.53
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    • 17 12 TIDE TABLI TODAY HIGH UM 3.56 p. m 10 10 p n TOMORROW 3.40 a.m. 4.47 p.m
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  • 876 13 Maritime Commission's Proposed C- 2 Design h 1 port of the special committee of the New York Maritime vhan.uc appointed to consider the Maritime Commission s 1 un C 2 for a 435-foot cargo ship states that with two excepilh committee held the
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  • 812 13 G’ S.S. Bl L XX' arrives this morning from Singapore via ports, sailing tomorrow for same ports. S.S. IIARUNA MARI” arriving this afternoon at four o’clock from Japan via Singapore and ports, sailing same day for Colombo, Suez. Port Said. Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London, Antwerp
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  • 118 13 VENTILATION SYSTEM ON P. O. LINER The new P. and O. liner Stratheden,” which leaves London on her maiden voyage on Christmas Eve is ventilated on the T’nermotank punkah louvre system, with the exception of the first-class dining saloon, which is supplied with artificially cooled air. The whole of the
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  • 134 13 Two crack French submarines of the Redoubtable class, the Acheron and Fresnel, passed through Singapore last Friday bound for Indo-China. Capable of making over 19 knots without being pressed, the Acheron and Fresnel are 302 feet long and have a surface displacement of 1,379 tons. Their
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 501 13 blue funnel line Vr*BPl>. LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Loaves Due Penang London V.MEMNON Mars., L’don, R’dam, H’burg Glasgow Dec. 10 Jan. 5 L’don, R dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea Dec. 16 Jan. 12 Mars., L’don, R'dam, Glasgow. Dec 24 Jan 19 LIVERPOOL SERVICE Liverpool jVroNEL’S Jeddah, Liverpool Brom borough Dec 8
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    • 608 13 P© an d CM W BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated tn England.); PORT SWETTENHAM SINGAPORE S.S. RAJLL.A” SAILING THI RSDAY, 9th DECEMBER Peninsular and Or.enUl S.N. Co under Penang. Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham, contract with Hi a Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service London and Far East Mail Service. B Outwards from
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    • 259 13 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) LONDON BKBVWK For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Loncog, Antwerp and Rotterdam. Steamers. Sailing dates, HARUNA MARU Dec. 10 x KATORI MARU pec. 24 X KASHIMA MARU Jan. 7 YASUKUNI MARU (calls Hamburg) Jan. 20 HAKONE MARU Feb. 4 x SUWA MARU Feb. IS x
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  • 921 14 Province Wellesley Beaten in Close Rugby Match By a brilliant last minute try scored by Tan Ah Ee, hefty forward, the Chinese Recreation Club defeated a combm I ro vince Wellesley Fifteen on the Victoria Green yesterday y points (a goal and 2
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  • 155 14 Renter. Tourists Lack Finishing Power Ibrox Park, (Glasgow) Dec. 8. Scotland beat Czecho-Slovakia by 5 goals to ml before 40,000 people here, today. Scotland scored within 20 seconds. Buchanan received from Robertson and centred The Czech goalkeeper collided with the onrushing McCulloch and the ball
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  • 99 14 Reuter. One Of Best Games For Years Highbury. Dec. 8. Only a thousand spectators, mostly schoolboys, saw Cambridge beat Oxford 3 2 at soccer. Lees of Stratherines scored for Cambridge in the third minute of play and Lomas of New College, equalised. Then Washington (Queen’s
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  • 82 14 Dr. V. H. Norris's Triple Success The monthly golf competition at Malakoff Club was played on Saturday and Sunday last when Dr. V. H. Norris finished winner being ell square with Bogey. There was also a stapleford competiticn held in conjunction with the monthly competition and this
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  • 109 14 R.H.A. Johnson Wins December Medal The following are the results of the P. S. C. (.Golf Section) December Monthly Medal (Stroke) played during the weekend: R.H.A. Johnson 41-4214=69, (winner). A. Clark 434-41—14=70, and H. B. Sym 36-J-362=70. (runners-up). T. W. Douglas 42-4-41—11=72 J. P. de C.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 183 14 Here At Last! OPENING TONIGHT! The Million Dollar Programme That You’ve All Been Waiting I or’ MAJESTIC BRITAIN’S MOST POPULAR VARIETY STARS IN THE WORLDS GREATEST VARIETY SHOW! IUHMkHIiIIIVJ ELISABETH IAYTONpIIHI w EL C H a Higßajiitam 1\ 7 a lIVI’VJIInTn H H H H H P\ BROTME S S
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  • 299 15 Chelsea Bid £12,000 For Bolton’s Westivood SUNDERLAND PAY BIG PRICE FOR CENTRE-FORWARD (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Dec. 1. How crazy football finance is becoming is shown by the iact that Chelsea last week bid £12.000 for the transfer of Ray Westwood, Bolton Wanderers* international inside left.
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  • 856 15 Brilliant Performance t From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. Dec. 8. Th first Malayan championship meeting brought to a successful conclusion /.•stenlay when the finals of the remaining hree events were played off at the Happy vVorld covered stadium. Both the men’s singles and doubles titles
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  • 230 15 Marie Horn Loves Being Amateur” Ranked for two years as No. 1 German woman tennis star. Fraulein Marie Louise Horn arrived in Penang yesterday by the Lloyd Bremen liner Gneisenau” on her way back to Germany after an extended tour of the Far East. During
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  • 179 15 SIX A SIDE SOCCER Competition On Saturday A six-a-side football competition in aid of the St. Nicholas Home Fund will be played on the S.X.I. ground on Saturday commencing at 4 p.m. sharp. The competition, which is open to clubs in the first division only, will be on the knock-out
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  • 158 15 Income tax demands estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds have been made on certain syndicates of English bookmakers. The demands, in respect of profits alleged to have been made in buying Irish Sweepstake tickets since 1930, follow prolonged inquiries by Inland Revenue special nvestigation officers. The
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  • 471 15 Budge Will Follow In The Footsteps Of Perry Donald Budge, world tennis champion, has revealed to Australian newspapers that he win follow in the footsteps of Ellsworth Vines and Fred Perry, and turn professional after the next Davis Cup series. After he had won the Wimbledon and
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 154 15 You couldn’t have thought of a nicer present! \vjlU 111 '<'' S’ 1 I Cigarettes for Christmas—of course. This 4 <rN Ii 'f Christmas the question of which cigarettes Yk 4 V /’jMS. 1 i to ĕ* ve s not a one. du Maurier y 1 naturally. Luxury cigarettes, du
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 51 15 V I» I- By J. MILLAR WATT I (ip\ (> JNews to Kobin 1 n T 11 WELL, you’ll HND it IN THE DO YOU WftHT LAROEH WHI RL THE. JAM TARTS WERE J'4 c2.rHw d Ml I( j I I f CY'UU d t 't t 4 r-J U-
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  • 111 16 TIN:- PREVIOUSLY LATEST LONDON—(Spot) £195.10. 0 £194- 0. 0 LONDON— (3 months) £194. 5. 0 £l9 °«ar SINGAPORE $96.25 95 75 FENANG $96.25 $95.50 BUSINESS DONE Buyers no sellers Buyers no sellers COPRA—(Sundried) $4.95 J BLACK PEPPER 900 RUBBER:- 7 d NEW YORK 15Ac(G) 15( SINGAPORE—Spot 25 c p
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  • 343 16 Share ox fi denomination unless Yesterday Rise or P all otherwise stated 1141 Conversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 Funding Loan. 4 p.c., 1960-90 War Loan. 3j p.c Com. Union Assce. (Units) r Prudential Assce A” Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) Great Western Rly Ordy 62 Canadian Pacific (£25)
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  • 122 16 Ijcndon on Previously Latest Paris 147 564 147 764 New York 5.00 4.99/« Montreal 4. 99« 4.99£ Brussels 29 40J 29.39 J Geneva 21.60« 21.601 A msterdam 8.98 ft 8.98 ft Milan 95 94 Berlin 12.40} 12.392 Stockholm 19.401 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19 90 19.90 Vienna
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 90 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Kuala Sidim 2 45 2.60 c TIN Batu Selangor 1.67 i 1.72 2 c Hong Fatt 114 117 Kampong Lanjut 2310 23 9 Kramat 12 1 3 12 9c Kuala Kampar 15|3 16 0 Kuchai Ordy. 160 165 Puteh 130 135 c Raub Gold 3.55
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    • 140 16 A. A. ANTHONY CO. YIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1-65 1.70 Hong Fatt 1.12& 1.15 Kuchai 1.55 Lukut 72 7 Puteh 4 27 i I- 32 Rahman Hyd. 1.37« 1.421 Rantau Ordy. 1.50 1.5 u Rantau Pref. 1.50 1.55 Sungei Luas 1.67« 1.721 Taiping Cons. 1.75 1.80 Ayer Hitam 26
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    • 142 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 4 9 5’3 B. Selangors 1.671 1. <~ Hong Fatts 1.14 1.16 Jelebus -70 .75 Kramats 119 12 3 K. Kampars ***** 15 6 Kuchais 1.571 1.621 Laruts 116 12 0 Pungahs 22 0 22 6 Putehs 125 1.30 Rantau Prefs. 1.50 1.55 Raubs
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    • 271 16 Strength Of Rails New York, Dec. B.—While the market is still offering good evidence of underlying technical strength at present levels, today’s action suggests that news of developments of definite favourable significance must precede any further substantial advance. Until then there is no reason to change the recently
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    • 22 16 TIN Singapore $95.75 Per pkl. Penang $95.50 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore Spot 25c Per lb. Penang Spot 25c Per lb.
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    • 183 16 SOON THEAM CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Ampats 5 0 5 Bangrins 22 9 23 6 Ratu Selangors 1.67 1.70 Hong Fatts 1.13 1.16 Jelapangs 35i0 36 0c Jelebus .721 .75 K. Kamuntings 10 9 1113, Kam untings 1113 11 9 K. 2313 23:9 Katus 22j3 23{3c Kramats 12j3 12 {9c
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    • 120 16 London, Dec. 8. RTTPPER: Dull.— London 7’ buyers 7} sellers Jan./Mar. 72 buyers 7ft sellers April/June 7ft buyers 7ft sellers July/Sept. 7« buyers 75 sellers NEW YORK 15.01 cts. n <nm Stocka London 34.359 tons Liverpool 21,225 tons COPRA Straits S D Retterd»(Dec.) £l4. 5. 0 PEPPER
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  • 55 16 If a water lily in the pond in the factory garden at Bournville grew twice as big every day, and would completely cover the pond after 30 daysafter how many days would the pond be half covered Answer :After 29 daysbecause on the next day it doubles itself
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 8 16 ®PINANG GAZETTE CORONATION DICTIONARY” COUPON Name Address 9|12|37 >
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    • 98 16 KEPONG DREDGING CO., LTD. (Incorporated in England) DIVIDEND NO. 13 oard has declared an Interim Dividend of less Income Tax di 5/in the payable in London on the 23rd instant, to all shareholders on the Register on the 7th December, 1937. Warrants will be is-sued to local shareholders on arriva’
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    • 819 16 BANKS Experience Teaches One CHARTERED Bank OF INDIA, AUSTRai, a K To Save, But How Many (incorporated J 4 V R Charter y Have Found A Jf ay 1 o Paid-up capital Reserve Fund £3 .000,08q Put By Their Spare Reserve Liability of Proprietors n jj o 9 Head Office
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