Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 January 1938

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  • 24 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE 1 IST EDITION ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. Xo. 6. Vol. XCVI. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, J 938. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 77 1 .Reuter. Heavy Artillery And Machine-Guns SUPPLIES VIA YUNNAN AND THE WEST Shanghai. Jan. 6 Orders for twenty million dollars uorth of armaments here placed abroad on Dec. 19. according to Chinese reports. They are stated to include heavy guns, with which the Chinese are
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  • 605 1 Astonishing Increase Last Year year a gieattr nuuuci use been completed for the y than in any year since the Great War. ipid completion of cruisers has < ted al the expense of other :ng The following* ships have tleet during the last twelve < x .11'
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  • 222 1 Plantation W orkers In Ceylon Problems of Indian workers on planta tions in Ceylon were discussed at a meeting in London convened by the Londdti representatives of the Ceylon Socialist party and the Congress Socialist party of India. Mr. Mark Bracegirdle, who was at one time a
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  • 87 1 Gold Cup Race At 5.30 p.m. The Pinang Gazette is informed that with the consent of the Committee of the Penang Turf Club the Penang Wireless Society will broadcast through its trans mitting Station Z.H.J. a running commentary of the Gold Cup Race from the Penang Race
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  • 159 1 Reuter. Fascist Conspiracy Brewing Rome. Jan. 6. Extraordinary importance is attached to the forthcoming conferencv of Rome Protocol countries at Budapest by Gayda in the Giornale d ltalia. A closer link between the Rome Beilin axis and Danubian states is one of the principal items on
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  • 56 1 .Reuter. Retired Officers Recalled The Hague, Jan. 6.Retired officers who have served in the East Indies ure be ng re-engaged for service in consequence of a temporary deficiency of officers in the East Indies Army and Navy. A report that military and naval leave in the East Indies
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  • 57 1 .Reuter. London Jan. 6- The International Chess Tournament at Hastings was won by Samuel Reshevksy, the American champion, who finished with a score of seven for nine days’ play. Alexander Young, the British master, tied with the Estonian, Keres. for second place. Other competitors included Fine
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  • 158 1 .Reuter. To See The Premier The former Belgian Premier, M. van Zeeland is in London. He hopes to confer with Mr. Neville Chamberlain before he returns to th? Continent. ft wi’l be recalled that M. van Zeeland undertook at the request of the British and
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  • 46 1 CHINESE SOLD!EES rrcTide)ii’fi o o ft and ammunition after Lreakiiui thronah t >e barbed it' re of the Fi< neh Concession at Shanyhat. Thousands of civil an r— Hiees have escaped th Japanese in this uhiu. but face death from starvation.
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  • 122 1 To l ake Place Next Vi ednesday (From Our Own Correspondent) London. Jan. 6. Prince Bira’oongse of Siam and Mis--Ceril Heycock. daughter of Colonel aru Mrs P. R. Heycock. of Evelyn Gardens London. S.W. are to be married at the Siamese Legution in London next Wednes day. Their
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  • 106 1 Death Of Well-Known Eurasian (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore Jan. 7. The death occurred last night of a wellknown Eurasian resident of Singapore. Mr. Newbold Benjamin Westerhout. Mr. Westerhout. who was 73, was employed for 48 years with Messrs. Donaldson and Burkinshaw. of Singapore. When he retired
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  • 80 1 Union Times. 450 Foreigners Aiding Defence Scheme According to an announceemnt published by the foreign Press in Shanghai, there are some 450 foreign volunteers serving in the Chinese air force at present. Of the number 152 are Americans, 124 French, 115 Russians and 55 British. Hundreds of
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  • 60 1 Reuter. Egyptologist’s Discovery Cairo, Jan. 6.An enormous tomb discovered north of Sakkara by Mr. Walter Remery is believed belongs to Menes, the first king of the first Dynasty. It contains g huge valuable collection of pottery and stone vases bearing the seals of Menes who hitherto had
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  • 143 1 Reuter. Princess Frederick Arrives In Greece A huge crowd roared a welcome to the Greek Crown Prince’s financee, Princess Frederick, when she arrived at Athens with the Duke and Duchess of Brunswick in a special train drawn by a white engine with gold painted wheels. A salute of
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  • 937 2 SIMILAR TO ONE LOST IN KUALA LUMPUR Indian Acquitted Of Theft Charge A PECULIAR pocket watch” showing the position of the moon, stars, (lavs of the week, days ol the month, time, and seconds was the principal exhibit which was produced in the Penang
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  • 207 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. Jan. 7. Some anxiety had been felt, especially in Kulim, among motor vehicle owners drivers and conductors of buses in a false rumour that Mr. B. M. B. O’Connell, Commissioner of Police Kedah would be going away on leave at
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  • 80 2 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Jan. 6. In the Criminal District Court yesterday Cheng Ah Ching a Chinese, was sentenced to 15 months’ rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by a year’s police supervision, for housebreaking. Chief Court Inspector Dyas said that Ah Ching entered a house
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  • 87 2 Sergeants Ernest Henry Hanson and Alfred Shipwright, of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force are included in the Supplementary New Year’s Honours List. They have been granted the Meritorious Service medal. Military division of the 0.8. E. Mr. Hanson was a very popular member
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  • 98 2 Arrangements have been completed by the Kwangsi Government to admit 100 Chinese Malayan youths into the Military College at Nanning, former capital of the province. Mr. Wang Shi Chao, of the Kwangs: Law College, is reported to have been sent to Singapore to examine applicants
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  • 151 2 Teo Ho Khuan. a Chinese, who had been charged with having committed criminal breach of trust of a wrist watch valued at $3.50 on December 12 at Tye Sin Street, was yesterday ordered to enter a bond in the sum of $25 to
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  • 856 2 Free Press Editor’s Impressions (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Jan. Criticism of the lack of encouragement in civic pride and the weakness of public opinion which allowed residents not to be troubled by a social conscience, was made by Mr. I>. S. Waite, editor of the Singapore
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  • 29 2 GEORGE, the camel at a Surrey zoo, had his f' i rst exper.cnce of snow when exercised try his keeper early th s month.
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    • 200 2 He thought he was getting old but trouble was NIGHT IM.LEAVING,THE I'VE &EHV WATCHING! BOYS. I ALWAYS FEELTIRED AND 'mH™ -3EL YOU FOR SOME DONE UP I SUPPOSE I’M GETTING TIME NOW AND |IIU fNONSENSE,CAPTAIN,YOVR.EONLY 3j.) A t'W /MEANS YOU ARE ||3M9k/ YOUR HEALTH NEEDS SEEING TO. "l REPLACING VSEDCv’
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  • 186 3 Private Houses Also AUL Japanese owned public establishments in- Shantung capital of Tsinan, have been completely wrecked by thcChinese who are retreating before a spearhead advance of Japanese forces. Out of 450 private Japanese houses, only a dozen are intact, the
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    20 3 "f the Polish Pallet, exno her approval of London arrival last week for a C nt Garden season.
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  • 61 3 Permanent Peace Time Fleet Proposed ashington. Jan. 6. providin’;- for a pcrmanpt ace time fleet to operate \tlantic coast a>propo> Congress b\ Mr. Hamilton, of the Naval Warfare Committee. The Bill calls for eight battleships .ith 16-inch guns, one airr.f- rricr. seven Class and vt
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  • 82 3 Reuter. I ikelx To Proceed To Greece By Train Jan. 6. The Rumanian desMaria. in which the 16-year-a I rince Michael is proceeding to nd the wedding of his uncle Prince Paul of Greece, arrived -nstantza after fighting a i. the Black Sea for 30 hours. >;cn in
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  • 222 3 R.A.F. Planes Aid In Galilee Round-1 p A large force of British troops and Palestine police spent their Christmas in the hills of Galilee, in pouring rain, "mop* ping up" the remnants of three rebel gangs, now combined in a party more than 200 strong. An officer
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  • 107 3 Rumoured British Offer Denied Ottawa^—Mr. Gardiner, the Dominion Minister of Agriculture, states that so far as he knows no plan for the purchase of the entire Canadian wheat crop by the British Government has even been discussed. He knows of no central organizaion by which such negotiations
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  • 103 3 Reuter. Government's Efforts At Conciliation Paris, Jan. 6.-M. Chautemps has issued an appeal to representatives ot French employers as well as workers to meet again under the auspices of the Government to conclude labour agreements and undertake to respect them Labour conflicts created a situation dangerous to France’s
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  • 609 3 New Mediation By Germany JAPAN has consented to new efforts bv Germany to mediate between China anil Japan, according to 'I ass agency messages from Hankow. "A trip to Nanking only rccentb undertaken by the German \mbass i dor. Herr Trautman, with the
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  • 44 3 S/P FRANCIS ACLAND. M.P., who has left the Church of England for the Society of Friends because of the Church's attitude on divorce, with his bride, Miss Constance Dudley, after their marriage at Kensington register office. Sir Francis is 63.
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  • 302 3 Reuter. Youths Of Good Family Remanded The stoiy of an alleged robbery with violence in a fashionable Hyde Park Hotel on Dec. 22. 1937. was related by counsel for the prosecution when four young men. stated to be of good family, appeared before the Westminster magistrate
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  • 124 3 Haile Selassie of Abyssinia was a passenger in a taxicab which was involved in a collision in London last week. He was on his way from Paddington to the Ethiopian Legation, before going on to Broadcasting House to deliver a message to America. No one
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  • 79 3 Reuter. London. Jan. 6—M. Van Zeeland, who has been preparing an international econ omic report entrusted him by the British and French Governments has arrived in London. He hopes to have a conversation with Mr. Neville Chamberlain tomorrow’. When questioned regarding the repor’ that he
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  • 215 3 NEW ITALO-JAPANESE TRADE PACT SIGNED Count Ciano. the Italian Foreign Minister, and Mr. Hotta. the Japanese Ambassador, signed a new Italo Japanese trade and navigation agreement in Rome last week. The terms of the pact have not been officially divulged, but it is understood that the
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  • 117 3 Reuter. V' al! Street interested hi Roosevelt’s Proposal ANOTHER REVERSAL IN ATTITUDE? Xew York. Jan. 6-Wall Street is highly interested in M r RooseveltX proposal tor joint control of production by Government and industry. Many authorities are inclined to see in ihe suggestion another reversal ot
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  • 109 3 Couple Parted For Fifteen Years A woman who was married in Warsaw las* week not ab]e to kigs her j till October 8, 1952. She is Jadwiga Szajetowana, a waitress ot U arsak. and she was married in a Warsaw prison to her fiance, Marian Brzezin sik. who
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  • 49 3 British Wireless. Lomlon. Jan. 6.Four engine railway companies have authorised construction during 1938 of 355 new locomotives. More than 2,200 new passenger vehicles are also to be built. Altogether 24.790 new waggons and more than 1.000 containers for door-to-door transit of merchandise are to be provided.
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  • 497 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Mr. Foo Joo Sun, son of the late Mr. Mrs. Foo Boon Sean, with Miss Yeoh Liang Siin, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Yeoh Seng Kung. The wedding will take place on Thursday, Jan. 13. at 1 p.m. at the Oh
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  • 579 4 Will Not Have To Depend On Dutch Authorities $500,000 WIRELESS UNIT AT KUALA LUMPUR THE Pinang Gazette understands that the F.M.S. Government has earmarked nearly $500,000 for a new short wave radio station at Kuala Lumpur. When the station is erected Malaya will
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  • 198 4 Old Man Gaoled For Fapping Pipe i,From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Jan. 6. Pleading guilty to an alternate charge of unlawfully drawing water from a Muni cipal pipe, a 73-year-old Chinese, Sum Ah Fook, was fined $3O. in default one month’s rigorous imprisonment, by the Second Singapore
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  • 38 4 he Phased uatchinq this miniature train track with its train <j y. Yuletide conics but once a year and here's a happy crowd of children at th* toyland fair in one of Singapore's stores.
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  • 383 4 Hokkien Who Killed His Son ACCUSED UNDER OBSERVATION From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Jan. 6. The Third Court Magistrate, MrReeves, yesterday began a preliminary inquiry into a charge of murder against a 54-war-old Hokkien, Low. Kim Joo, who is alleged to have killed his youngest
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  • 179 4 Passenger Pushed Out Of Trolley Bus (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Jan. 6. "This is the third case in ten days that I have dealt with in which Traction Com pany conductors have been involved in fights with passengers." said Mr. Duckworth, in the Second Singapore
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  • 110 4 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Jan. 6. The Coroner, Mr. Porter, yesterday held an inquiry into the death of an unknown Chinese woman who was run over by the Singapore-Kuala Lumpur express on Christmas morning. Benjamin Theiseira, the driver of the enme, said he
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  • 2070 5 RUMOURS OF CHANGES IN AIR MINISTRY (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 29. Another Christmas is over. As this is the last letter I shall write io- you before the dawn of another year let .me send you the v r > best of
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  • 179 6 The Dean Of St. Paul’s Sermon The Dean of St. Paul’s. Dr. W. R. Matthews, analysed peace proposals in his Christmas Day sermon at St. Paul s Cathedral. "We are looking for some way to peace, and we hear of many admirable proposals for finding it,”
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 421 6 Still Showing To Crowded Houses LAST 2 SHOWS 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 Two Mighty 20th Century-Fox Pictures In One Programme. THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF THEM ALL! TALL STORIES COME TRUE SIGHTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN! MARTIN JOHNSON S LAST AND GREATEST PICTURE BORNEO The Lslo of the Incredible. Where Fish Climb Trees.
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    • 393 6 Tomorrow Hl 4W IrJyli AN ADAM IN A la <ll d JUNGLE EDEN! -TO-—-R E AT E R 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 Tarzan MATINEE TOMORROW AT 2.45 most z JpF M-tro Goldwvn Romantic Triumph JEANETTE MacDONALD w I a Wa SAN FRANCISCO” fl J with Spencer Tracy— Jack Holt Jessie J
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    • 98 6 KEftLl 6.30 TONIGHT 9.30 The Latest China War News Presented On The Screen CHINESE MANOEUVRE” or CHUEN KOK CHONG TONG YUEN" SEE! The awakening of the sleeping lion Her Mobilisation. Her determination to resist to the last. It’s The Picture That Every Chinese Should Not Miss’ Nanoh Film Co., Superb
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  • 615 7 EUROPE’S SHARE DOUBLED IN FIVE YEARS Significant Gaps In The Figures Geneva. THE Armaments Year-book” of the League of Nations for 1937 is now published. It is the thirteenth year of publication. That the volume is up to date is shown by the fact that in most
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  • 300 7 NO WASTE OF FOOD OK STEEI. Rome. National economy and self-sufficiency is the new slogan in Italy. The man in the street is told that the rich and satiated Powers— meaning Great Britain, the United States and France—may begin another Ml to starve out Italy and
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  • 234 7 A SEGREGATION PROPOSAL Injurious Contacts Canberra Dr Donald Thomson, a Fellow of Melbourne University, has presented a report to the Commonwealth Government on his 15 months’ stay among the aborigines ot Arnhem Land as a special patrol ofticer. He recommends that the remnant of the tribalized
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  • 180 7 Italian Airmen’s Flight Rome,, Dec. 29. A new world record for distance flow n in a straight line by a seaplane is stated tc have been set up by the Italian airman Signor Mario Stoppani, who, accompanied by a second pilot, a wireless operator, and
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  • 37 7 repairing blizzard damage to telephone wires near Lyndhurst, Hants. Hundreds of Post Office employees are working at high pi < ssttre to restore before Christmas more than two thousand wires brought down in the blizzard
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  • 389 7 New Zealand Accused Of Indifference CONTRASTED WITH GERMAN (ARE Sydney. Visitors returning from the Pacific Islands comment on the neglected state of Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave on the summit of Mount Vaea, overlooking Apia in former German Samoa, now held byNew Zealand under league of Nations
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  • 97 7 The Hague. M. Hansen, of The Hague newspaper Vaderland, who was imprisoned four weeks ago for having refused to divulge the name of his informant on some secret proceedings of The Hague Municipal Council, has been released by order of the Court. The Hague Burgomaster had
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  • 541 7 Huge Shop Counter Of Industry CATALOGUES IN NINE LANGUAGES Ev dence oi me growth of Britain’s trade is shown in the preparations tor the next British Industries Fair, which wnl be opened in London on February 21 at Earls Court ana Olympia and al Castle Bromwich,
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  • 321 7 Floggings Urged LORD ALNESS ON THE -ONLY REMEDY” Lord Alness, a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counc 1, spoke at a luncheon in London of bloody gang warfare” in Glasgow and urged that flopg.ng was the only remedy. T tried many cases in
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 460 7 .zj Office 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1177 1478 .th extensions. Telegrams: Gazette Pesang. -mapore Office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Times Singapore. s Lumpur Office 25, Java Street. Phone 3654. Office *ui Brewster Road. Phone 268. < ifiee 4t. 43, Fleet Street, la>n.io<i E.C, 4 Phone Central 3
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    • 106 7 K DIAMOND" BED IS A GIFT OF GIFTS TO HOME MAKERS The bedstead is the centre of the home. Price, beauty and endurance should be considered. On comparison of these three qualities. DIAMOND beds cannot be equalled. DIAMOND METAL PRODUCTS CO LTD 601 KRMPONG BAHPU RCRD Si I KI G=
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  • 592 8 THE Japanese taking over the censorship at the Shanghai cable <>ffices will not have passed unnoticed. The fall of 1 ieiitsin effectively dried up practically all news from those Sources. At first, while there was nothing to’ be recorded but stories of Japanese advance, foreign correspondents apjieared
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  • 158 8 The weather station at Jan-Mayen Island, in the Arctic Ocean, has received a wireless report from the four Russian scientists drifting on an Arctic icefloe stating that they have sighted hitherto unknown land north-east of Greenland. They gave their last position as 80deg 20min North lat.
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  • 275 8 School Clerk’s Discovery At Night lFi om Our Ow n Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 5. Suicide by hanging was the verdict returned by Che Ahmad, the second magistrate, Kuala Lumpur, when he inquired in his capacity as Coroner, into the death of Nadesan peon of
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  • 578 8 Britain’s Appalling Death Roll 67,100 in 10 Years Manual on Rubber Planting m HE inquest on the Tamil, who was the sole victim of the Johore railway accident, pro duced no evidence as to whether he was a passenger on the train or how he came to
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  • 308 8 Former Chinese Premier (.From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 7. An interesting visitor to Ipoh now is Admiral Sah Chen-ping, one of China’s foremost sailors and an ex-Premier. Admiral Sah, w’ho is about 80 years of age, is on a visit to Malaya
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  • 32 8 Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 7. The U.S. cruiser Augusta, flagship of Admiral Yarnell, has left Manila for annual overhaul. Adm. Yarnell has transferred his flag to the patrol vessel, Isabel.— Reuter.
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  • 194 8 Matter Of Finance (From Our Own Correspondent! Bangkok. Jan. 3. If the Islington Corinthians want to visit Angkor Wat they will have to make the journey from Saigon. It was proposed that they should come to Bangkok from Singapore by sea, play several matches in
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  • 108 8 Kee Cheating Mr. and Mrs. Kee Hup Kim, xv I residents of Sungei Bakap, have isstvitations for the marriage of th< brother. Mr. Kee Hup Cnye (a of the late Mr. Kee Tek Leng Kee Tek Leng), to Miss Cheung Gu eldest daughter of Mr. and Mr
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  • 1075 9 Claims Damages For Illegal Arrest MALICIOUS ACTION BY DEFENDANT ALLEGED (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Jan. 6. A civil action, in which a Chinese lorry driver, Lee Leng San of Jelai, sued Mr. W. Elphinstone, until recently Officer-in-charge of the Traffic Branch, Taiping, for a
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  • 148 9 Two Arrested Almost the entire police force in the v ill ages of Balik Bulau and Siingei Binang on the west coast of Benang were called out following the report that seven shop bouses at Ginting, Balik Bulau, had been broken into by a gang of
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  • 91 9 First Consignment Arrives By Blue Funnel Liner The first consignment of steelwork for the New Grandstand of the Benang Turf Club arrived in Benang from Britain today by the Blue Funnel liner Ajax". The consignment includes 67 pieces and 30 bundles of steel bars, 25
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  • 38 9 Members of the Penang Turf Club are reminded that the foundation *»tone of tile new Grandstand building at Batu Gantong will be laid by Mr. J. D. Keanp on Sunday rooming. January 9, at 9.15 ti-HX
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  • 175 9 The steamship Kedah arrived this morning from Singapore with the following passengers;—The Hon Mr. R. Williamson. Dr. and Mrs J Bortelly, Mr. H. B. Sym. Capt. R A. Statham, Mr. O. B. Griffith Jones, Mr. H E. Reilly. Mr. T- W G. Knowles, Mr. Inglis. Capt A
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  • 106 9 T Met Him in Paris,” at the Queen s. is an extremely pleasant little comedy about a young American business gin tClaudette Colbert) who takes a holiday in Paris and finds herself the centre of a gay romance, with Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas as the
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  • 73 9 Funeral I his Morning The death took place yesterday at Penang of Mrs. Maria Nathan, wife of Mr S E. Nathan of the Post and Telegrap Office, Penang. The deceased leaves her husband, tour children, an aged mother, and several brothers and sisters. The funeral
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  • 48 9 Welsh Team Against England London. Jan. 6. The following will represent Wales against England at Cardiff on January 15: Jenkins; Clement. Idwal Rees, Woolier and Bassett: Tanner and! Cliff Jones (Captain); Travers. E. Morgan. H. Rees. Watkins. McCarley. A. M. Rees. Vickery and F. L. Morgan.—Reuter.
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  • 128 9 Another state soccer trial has been arranged by the Penang Football Associa tion to be played today on the Victoria Green. The Islington Corinthians are due to arrive on Sunday, and they will play their first match on Tuesday against the Penang Asiatics Their second will be
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  • 96 9 Penang Sports Club is playing the Penang Recreation Club at hockey on the Esolanade this evening. The following are the teams: P.S.C.: A. N. Other; J. C. Mathison. J. D. Lambert; S.V. Adams. R. N. Elliot. A. G. Close; J. E. Goodrich, I. P- MacFarlane, B. J. Wright, E.
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  • 62 9 The Chinese Recreation Club 1.- piaj .ng the Krian Club at hockey on the Victor!? Green on Saturday. The following will represent the C.R.C.: Ng Teik Lee: Khoo Boon Choo, Wee Chong Ghee; Cheah Kim Swee, Boey Seng Poe, Wong Kam Boh; Gan
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  • 372 9 Causing Death Of Man Alleged (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Jan. 4. Mr. R. Bennett, an electrical engineer of Messrs. Huttenbach, Ltd.. Teluk Anson, was charged this morning before Mr. J. Innes Miller, with driving his car in a rash and negligent manner, thereby
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  • 1359 10 No Prophets In Mincing Lane EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW CONTROL SCHEME? I From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 28. London’s rubber men, the denizens oi that narrow and gloomy thoroughfare which all the world knows as Mincing Ljuie, returned to work this morning in
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  • 623 10 Temporary Trade Recession Will Be Overcome” (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 24. Christmas week business on the London Stock Exchange is never substantial and conditions this year have provided no exception to the general rule. But the undertone in all markets is firmer
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  • 499 10 NEW LUXURIOUS P. O. UNER Spacious All-Kound Accommodation The P. O. liner Stratheden” which recently ran trials on the Clyde arrived in London on Wednesday. Dec. 15. This luxurious vessel of nearly twenty-four thousand tons resembles in most respects the highly successful Strathmore” and is soon to be joined by
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  • 625 11 A chaiicepos>ibl\ the lasi chanceof cutting down -rid trade barriers is almost certain to be lost it the lovernment and the vested interests behind it arc allowed v their wav, say Douglas Jay in the Daily Herald. when M. \an Zeeland’s report omthe
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  • 766 11 S.S. BEU.EROI’IKJN’ from Singapore sails today for Jeddah. Havre. Liverpool Rromborough. S.S. AJAX from Liverpool sails tor .Manila Hongkong. S.S. I’>l i.A.X for Teluk \nson. Ragan Datoh. Port Swettenham. Malacca Singapc »re. MA f\\ EEI)I’»AXK* from Singapore sails today for Boston, New York, Baltimore via
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 467 11 BLUE FUNNEL LINE NfcKM<E TO LONDON A NORTH CONTINENT. Leaves I‘enang Due Load™ L- CALION Also calls Marseilles and Glasgow r- PHILOCTETES Also calls Hull g Jan 7 Feb 2 ?ATP.OCLUS Al, o calls Marseilles Glasgow 2? J TEN DAY SERVKE TO LIVEKPOOI Vi v iitvor 21 F eb 16
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    • 664 11 PJ2. and Ot VZ BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England.) PORT SWETTENHAM, MALACCA SINGAPORE S.S. KARAGOLA” SAILING SUNDAY, 9th JANUARY. 1938. i’eams'ilar and Oriental S. N. Co., under Penang, Telux Anson, Port Swettenham contract with His Majesty’s Government; Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far Mail Service. Outwards from London tor
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    • 252 11 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) LONDON SEBVICK For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Sale Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London Antwerp and Rotterdam. Steamers. Sailing dates. YASUKUNI MARU (calls Hamburg) Jan. 20 HAKONE MARU Feb. 4 x FUSHIMI MARU Feb. 19 HAKOZAKI MARU Mar, 4 X SUWA MARU Mar. 18 x Call at Rotterdam optional.
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  • 314 12 Outlay Of £107,000 Will Be Involved CAXBekk.) I EARIA this year: a start will be made by the Postinaxt r J General s Department with the erection oi the I)aib\ regi ()r station, while the short-wave station '3LR which, although in Victoria, services outback Queensland districts.
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  • 260 12 Cultural And Educational Walter S. Lemmon, president of World Wide Broadcasting Company B ton. Mass., told the Communications Commission a few days ago that shortwave station WIXAL was prepared to broadcast to South America classroom lecture.- iron Harvard University and other education! centres in the interests of pan-Amer.car
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  • 553 12 Latest l ime- Of Posting AIK MAILS: A mail for Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by Malayan Internal Air Service will close at 2 p.m. tomorrow. A mail for Australia, New Zealand, Java Timor Dilly via Singapore and thence by Singapore-Australia Air Mail Service will close at
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 2379 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES BBC J BERLIN HOLLAND i MBLBOUKNH TODAY TODAY IMB 15?0 Me/* 1») VK 2ME 9.59 Mc/s (31.2 mJ L TRANSMISSION 2 DJQ 15.28 Mc/a 19-63 nv 7.20 Experimental Broadcast from Eind- the uorids fd,ll u results 6.30 Tour DIA 9.56 Me/* 31-38 m hoven. 8.50 Close down.
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    • 18 12 TIDE TABLE HIGH u> TODAY 3.39 p.m. 9.49 p.m TOMORROW 3.27 a.m. 10.10 a 4.17 p.m. 10.3 11
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  • 313 13 RELIEF WORK IN KUALA LUMPUR These picturs from Kuala Lumpur tak* us bch-nil th** scene of the Selangor Asiatic I nemployment Committee which his been brought into tiie limelight through the vigorous champion:.hip of the cause by Its lion. secrrlary and treasurer, Mr. John Hands.
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  • 708 14 Aerial Post Might Upset JACK DRUCE AND MILTONDALE FOR PLACES (BY TIC-TAC) TOMORROW will see the final day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting and with it the race for the Gold Cup in which a very fit field of 11
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  • 198 14 Chinese New Year Competition The Penang Sports Club (golf section) is staging a Chinese New Year Holidays Competition to take place from Saturday. Jan. 29, to Tuesday, Feb. 1 (inclusive). This c<>mi>etition, which is open to all active and absent members, is divided into two divisions: A’
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  • 235 14 Game Marred By Rough Play The Chinese Recreation Club defeated the Kedah Hall Party yesterday on th? Victoria Green, Penang, at hockey by the only goal .scored. The game was played at a fast pace, but tended to be rough in the first
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  • 356 14 Excellent Fight At Ipoh (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 7. Nicknamed the "Fighting Machine and "Old Man,’’ Little Abayan (8.0), the flashy Filipino flyweight, further enhanced his popularity in this town when he beat Little Palace (7.12), another clever Filipino flyweight, at the Jubilee Park last
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 143 14 RACE FORM GUIDE Can you pick winners by studying their form If so, you cannot afford to be without the special Pinang Gazette race form guide. This will be issued FREE as a 16-page supplement with each copy of the Pinang Gazette before each race day henceforth. DON’T MISS IT
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    • 100 14 The more you smoke wills' 5 GOLD FLAKE the more you'll realise why I call it a CLEAN SMOKE” dean and smooth to the palate Eyes I CROMPTON T It must be a CROMPTON COILED-COIL LAMP Join the army (of Crampton lamp users) and see the world. Crompton lamps with
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  • 1025 15 MORE LOSSES THAN GAINS Cotton, Eyston. Farr, Lynch And Wooderson Have Kept Flag Flying London: Those who would see Britain supreme in the realm of international sport have had many shocks administered during the year of 1937. W e have lost cherished
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  • 150 15 Ijondon: The beat all-round athlete of day. H G. Owen-Smith, is returning Natal. His early departure after massing his medical finals will be regretted by the legion of friends he has r.ade during the aeven years he has spent n this country. In that short
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  • 534 15 Chances Compared London: Everywhere on the Continent nsive preparations are being made for European Games, to be held in Paris next summer. Britain is to support the festival for \e first time, although, as yet, there has jeen little but official notice taken of the iames. in
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  • 281 15 24s 9<l Dividend In Place Of 4s 9d Newcastle: The directors of the White City Stadium, Newcastle lost money owing to a remarkable occurrence at the greyhound track here. Owing to an error in the tote dividen i declared hundreds of punters shared in an unexpected
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  • 307 15 Has Forgotten Crash Doctors told Mrs. Kay Petre, champion woman racing motorist, who was gravely injured in a crash at Brooklands last September, that she would never race again. A few weeks ago she underwent a second operation, and was discharged "cured.” but the
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  • 527 15 RESPECT REPLACES THE FORMER SNEERS New’ York: In an atmosphere of homecoming, Tommy Farr, British and Empire heavy-weight champion, arrived yesterday in the Normandie to prepare for his fight with James J. Braddock, former heavyweight champion of the world, which will take place
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 39 15 [SINGLE SHELL »?£SU dodge IxnW PACKARD CHRYSLER STUDEBAKER wWr triple Shell AUSTIN. MORRIS MV CITROEN STANDARD AEROSHELI THE OIL FOR YOUR l !T™a Drolls royce S. S. JAGUAR SINGER SPORTS Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.S.) Ltd. U J’. S. 36.4
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  • 115 16 PrL’r™, .v PREVIOUSLY LATEST P t) £186.10 .0 £lB5. 0. 0 monthB) £lB6. 5. 0 £184.15. 0 SINGAPORE ~QQ 25 business done fENANG $90 n $91.00 Buyers no sellers Buyers nd sellers black pepper -J;;;-J j. RUBBER LONDON 6Ad 6£d NEW YORK 14, c(G) 14&c(G) SINGAPORESpot 22)c 22? c
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  • 386 16 tfhaie of crenenrilnation untess otherwise stated Yesterday Rise or Fall Or-r.versJon Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 114 J Funding Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 113 J War Loan. 3) p.c 102 Com. Union Assce. (Units) 10 Prudential Assce A” 345 4- Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 8S Great Western Rly
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  • 118 16 14>odQn on Previously Latest 147 1964 147 19 64 JNew york 5.00 ft 4.993 Montreal 5.00 ft 4.99 J Brussels 29.475 29.45? Geneva 21.61 21.58) Amsterdam 8.98,ft 8.98 Milan 95 ft 95 ft Berlin 12.41 12.40) Stockholm 19.40 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 26) 26)
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  • 131 16 London, Jan. 6. RUBBER Dull. London 6J buyers 7 sellers Jan./Mar 61£ buyers 7 sellers April/June 7 buyers 7) sellers July/Sept 7) buyers 7ft sellers NEW YORK J 4.20 cts United Kingdom Stocks Tendon 35.810 tons Uverpool 22,008 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam ,Jan > £l4. 0.
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 118 16 KENNEDY CO. TIN Buyers Seilers Ampat 4 6 5;0 Ayer Weng .77) .82>x Batu Selangor 1.521 1.57?. Burma Malay 27i0 27|9cx Jelebu .621 .67)ex Hong Fatt 1.07) 1.10 Kpg. Lanjut 22 9 23 6 Kuala Kampar 14 9 15 6 Kuchai Ordy. 1.45 1.50 Larut 11 11 11 7) Mambau
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    • 126 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.521 1.571 Hong Fatt 1.08 1.10 Kuchai 1.45 1.50 Petalings 8.40 8.65 Puteh 1.20 1.221 Raub Gold 3.90 4.10 Rantau Ordy. 1.40 1.45 Rantau Pref. 1.40 1.45 Taiping Cons. 1.671 1.721 Ulu Klang 1.00 1.021 Ampat 4 6 4 9 Eangrin 24
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    • 348 16 More Cheerful Tone New York. Jan. 6—With regard to oils, it seems probable that inflation possibilities are at present tending to offset in narl the depressing effect of price structure uncertainties. The action of aircrafts suggests that they are at present undergoing a period of consolidation of their
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    • 21 16 TIN Singapore $91.25 Per pkl Penang s9] .00 Per pkl. RUBBER SingajMire Spot Per lb. Penang Spot Per lb.
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    • 160 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buy era Sellers Ampats 4 71 5 11 B. Selangors 1.521 1.57? Burma Malays 27 0 27 6 Hong Fatts 1.08 1.10 Jelebus .60 .65 K. Lan juts 22 6 23 0 Kramats n 9 12 3xd K. Kampars 14 6 15 0 Kuchaif i.47< j 52’!
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    • 66 16 Reuter. Japanese Bonds Marked Down The Stock Exchange opened dull in sympathy with Wall Street and disappointment at the latest unemployment figures There was subsequently better sentiment under he leadership of active support for Kaffirs as a result of which several appreciable advances were recorded. Far Eastern were
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  • 169 16 Russian Grand Duchess r Q Berlin. Last week Prmce Louis Ferdinand second son ot the Crown Prince of Prussia oSi E n andSOn f the Kaiser, became Grand y n n aged lt Ls understood, to the Grand Duchess Kira, second daughter of the Grand Duke Cyril
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  • 23 16 Ch\ 1 f e Au miral Nob,e C°mmander-in Chief, China Station, left I ondon c Marseilles for Hong Kong f °T
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 115 16 eor SALE the W a Xant«d C WanCe d 85% tO N 193 c7 PRIVATE ROAD hfx SI L ANDARD VACUUM °IL COMPANY hereby give notice that their private road fading from the main road to the sea hrough the Company’s property at Ragan P pnbi mCe W e Pllesle
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    • 235 16 BANKS NEDEKLANDSCHE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPJJ, N.V. (Incorporated in the Netherlands.) (With limited liability.) (NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.) Established in Amsterdam 1824. HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM With 43 Agencies, apart from correspondents, in Holland. HEAD OFFICE FOR IHE EAST BATAVIA Branches throughout the Dutch East Indies and in tne Straits Settlements, India, China, Japan and
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    • 551 16 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LID. (Incorporated in England) Capital Authorised £3.009 of« Capital Subscribed 1,800 Ota Reserve Fund and Rest £1,247 gjg Capital Paid Up £l'osou> BOARD OF DIRECTOR* Right Hon. Lord Catto of Cairncatto. Chairman Sir Charles Alexander Innes, K .C.S.j C.I.Ĕ Sir Thomas Smith, Kt., P. R.
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