Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 28 December 1938

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESI AB. 1833 PLBLISHFD DAILY \<>. 308. y ci. xcvi. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1938. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 373 1 “Threatened By Italy” HIGHLY SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS DENIED Paris. Tuesday. A sensational report that the Italian authorities in Abyssinia are threatening to march on Jibouti is published by Pertinax in the newspaper Ordere. He says the Italian authorities are proclaiming that it is only a
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  • 63 1 Reuter. Berlin. Tuesday (denial doctors are being sought here in ise Germany gets her cclcnies back." The German Medical Journal discussing this states that only doctors who complete a special course of preparat on have iiiy prospect of being considered for this work. Doctors who are
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  • 96 1 Reuter. I S. To Train 20,000 Vnnually Washington, Tuesday. President Roosevelt has announced a ps n t-ir annual training of 20,t>00 civilian pilots to form a reserve aviators in war tim< at a cost of about $10,000,000 annually. Mr Roosevelt said he was not prepar- < to say
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  • 152 1 Reuter. Conference A Qualified! Lima, Tuesday The Pan-American Conference has oiii-(i-’Ily ended \yith the delegates signing instruments adopted by the Confergiven n honour of the delegates. Mr. 1 ifter which a state banquet was Cornell Hull was the chief speaker. E\ n if much of importance was discard.
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  • 488 1 Reuter. Chungking, Tuesday Chiang Kai-shek in a speech I i report from a German source Mr. Wang Ching-wei is negotiating o e wi h the Japanese. His visit Hanoi was non-political and the attempt at misleading the public i amours was unworthy of notice. Mr Wang
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  • 73 1 recent Italo-German arbitration.—Reuter. Slovak Peasants Object To Transfer Budapest. Tuesday. One was killed and many wounded in a clash between Slovak peasants armed with knives a.r.d sticks and Hungarian gendarmes in the communes of Nagysurany and Zog near the Czech-Hunga-rian frontier, it is officially announced. The encounter followed
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  • 212 1 Icy Gale Lashes Great Lakes To Fury -British Wireless. New York. Tuesday. Fierce icy gales and blinding snowstorms are sweeping the northern half jf the United States. Temperatures have been experienced as low as 37 decrees below zero. A 61 m.p.h. gale is lashing
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  • 39 1 Clyde shipbuilding has just had its best year since 1930. One hundred and seventeen vessels of an aggregation of 443.615 tons were floated and engineering firms produced marine machinery of a total of 914,000 indicated horsepower.
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  • 71 1 Tablet Unveiled At Sandringham A memorial tablet to King George V was dedicated in the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene at Sandringham on Christmas Day after morning service which was attended by the King and Queen Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, Queen Mary, the Duke ano
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  • 56 1 —Reuter. Arrested On Swindling Charge Paris, Tuesday. Bernard Tanenzafl, well known as Ber nard Natan, a French film company director, and two o-hers were arrested or a charge of swindling and detained at the Sante prison. The sum involved according to share holders’ representatives is several thou sand
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  • 96 1 >. —Reuter. ENEMY DIFFICULTIES AT CANTON Canton, Tuesday. The first reports partially substantiating recent Chinese claims to be seriously harassing the Japanese in the Canton area and recapturing towns and villages (which hitherto have been for the most' part discounted) came through today. It is reported that a
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  • 121 1 Reuter.* C Four Divisions Of Italians Atl eking Barcelona, Tues ay. A communique admits intense pressuxe and says Government troops are resisting constant attacks supported by larg-. numbers of Italian and German planer It says the Italian forces in the 1 owcr Segre are known to number four div.sions.—
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  • 67 1 Reuter. Wholesale Purge Of Officials Santiago de Chile, Tuesday. A wholesale purge of Govern me t officials and high army officers is tak ny place following installation of a Popular Front Government on Dec. 15. Reorganisation involves res gnation of eight Genera’s and the dismissal of most I heads
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 37 1 sm I KAT co., 350 <£• 352. Chulia Street. Penang 142, Brewster Road, Ipoh. ’Phone 932 Spf rialised in DEVELOPING. PRINTING ENLARGING Prompt Service Guaranteed) Dealers in CAMERAS, LENSES. FILMS. PHOTO MOUNTS. PH()T()G RAPH IU ACCESSORlES CHEMICALS. ETC.
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    • 40 1 Uitlng B SAFETY FIRSTWatch your food supplies—make your’safety '‘Beacon’ the GOLD STORAGE GALATINE OF VEAL HAM VEAL LOAF SALMON CAKE TOMATO SAUSAGE SLICING SAUSAGE FBONE PENANG—ISOO A 1501 BUTTLF.WOftTB—33 4dvt. of Sinai port Cold Stow C»., Ltd. W.P.S. 113 maaKBW
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  • 244 1 Obituary DOCKERS’ M. P. Sir James Sexton Dies At Age Of 81 I i»ndvi., Tu su_y. dir J me- dexK.n "Jk J >ockers’ M.P.,” -er;rt- General Secretary of the Nations Union of D.ck Lah urers. past Presiden ■>f the T U. C and Labour meinbe; r the St. Helen's Division
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  • 590 2 Breeding Places In Malaya There is no evidence to support tile belief that cockroaches convey disease to human beings, it was stated in a health talk from the Britisn Malaya Brcadcas ting Corporal ion. In Malaya the favourite breeding daces for cockroaches are septic tanks
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  • 241 2 Total Distance Of 6,000 Kilometres Kweilin, December 23. Work on ten railways in the Southwest has been started according to special reports received here from Chungking. The total distance of the ten lines is estimated to be 6,000 kilometres. The ten
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  • 17 2 —Reuter. London, Tuesday. Lord Baldwin’s refugee fund now exceeds the £250,000 mark.—Reuter.
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  • 267 2 London. Miss Rose Nicholson. 20-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Nichelson, of Lincoln, is leaving England on December 23 for India to marry a man Stic has never seen L.-Cpl. Frank Dixon, of the Ist Batn. North Staffs. Re giment. L.-Cpl. Dixon, 26 years of
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  • 32 2 A picurcsquc evening (joicn of white saiitu, with the skirt caught up at intervals, givina a crinoline effect. The corsage is trininod uith ]>ink roses and features the lines.
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  • 67 2 FIRST RAID BY MILITARY PLANES Tokyo, Tuesday. JAPANESE military planes raided Chungking and effectively bombed the Chinese Government offices and military establishments there today, according to Japanese military despatches. It is added that one Japanese plane developed engine trouble but managed to return safely to the base. Japanese
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  • 78 2 —Reuter. Paris, Tuesday. At the Socialist Congress today, M. Blum's motion, which regards Munich as a defeat and insists that France abide by her treaties even in the face of the danger of war. obtained 432 votes. M. Paul Faure's motion approving Munich as having averted
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  • 199 2 Tokio’s Latest Chinese must not be referred to in disrespectful slang expressions, according to a ruling which has been issued by the Home Office. Tokio. for the benefit of Japanese children’s magazines. The magazines must especially avoid such characterisations of the Chinese as chankoro or chanchan bozu,
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  • 91 2 Vr. !••>«> Eng Lin An<l Miss Leong Clicc Young At the Ipoh Registry on Saturday morning Miss Leong Chee Yoong, daughter of Mr. Leong Swee Chee, of Ipoh, was married to Mr. Foo Eng Lin, of the .staff of Messrs. Henry Waugh and Co. Ltd. and
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  • 148 2 —Reuter. British Steamer Sunk Barcelona, Tuesday. The British steamer Stancroft (1.407 tons) was sunk during the first of two Nationalist air raids today. No casualties resulted among the crew. Some buildings in Barcelona were damaged but the number of victims is Amknown According to Spanish sources
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  • 108 2 Canadian Conservative Party’s Opposition Quebec, December 16. The Canadian Conservative party is definitely opposed to the admission to Canada of refugees from Germany. Addressing his first political gathering in Quebec province since his election to the leadership of the party. Dr. R. Manion declared he
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  • 202 2 The Chinese Minister of Economics. IV. Wong, calls on the British Cooperative Movement for assistance and advice —particularly advice. This is the message brought by Mrs. Charlotte Haldane, wife of Professor J. B. S, Haldane, who l‘| just returned from a six weeks’ journey through
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  • 87 2 Reutei. Incriminating l’ap<Ts In Diplomatic Bag St. Jean de Luz, Tuesday. THE British Minister, Mr. left for London today to consult tForeign Office regarding the 1 P( j Irun when a diplomatic bag a and found to contain incriminai 11,, cuinents, among them being 2 by
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  • 272 2 —British United Press. No Change Of ate To Be Made Manila, Dec 24 All talk of the possibility of t in the date of granting PhJipp^ 81 Jependence has been _'resident Manuel L. Quezon as -A. 7 A time.” d Wa 'Ae President Quezon said it u
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  • 179 2 £2,824,000 Scheme The London County Council is to be asked on Tuesday week to pass a capital estimate of £2,824,000. so that work on the new Thames tunnel, a duplication of Blackwall Tunnel, may start forthwith.. The Minister of Transport has agreed to make a
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  • 101 2 Cape Town, Thursday. Trade statistics for the nine months ended September, which have just biea issued by the Union Department of €a. toms and Excise, show a considers e drop in both exports and imports in coin parison with the corresponding peiic last year. Imorts
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  • 40 2 Reuter. Madrid, Tuesday Tlie International Commission app ed by tlie League of Nations r the withdrawal of foreign volunteer arrived at Madrid. The Ca’iinm- headed by General Molesworth, int< m to remain in Madrid for two days
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    • 55 2 gat IIP •i m U r Wier a u W, o,e UG»« anything perfortn»!*®’ are ca XirWftj ■3 < srt^ g y W' life W -W W tecXJ: the n*°* n nv K 11 A felt > f i ~_2„ ~jJI IS --x 1311*111 i L> f. M. S- T
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  • 453 3 Italy Looks Back To V ersailles “NEW ATMOSPHERE CREATED” AT MUNICH I eace 1 reaties which concluded the World War l en years ago have now ceased to exist and no er even seem to be the foundation stones up™ the international community was based.
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  • 49 3 —Reuter. Chiang Refutes Rumours Chungking, Tuesday. 1 ;il message issued by Genera- (Hang Kai-shek states that Dr. ching-wei’s visit to Hong Kong H "ly fpr health reasons and the "ii that Dr. Wang Ching-wei is 'ting peace negotiations are abso- ithout foundation.” —Reuter.
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  • 122 3 United Press. Sacramento, Dec. 17. JiHE speed limit at which motorists may safely negotiate curves in the state's highway system soon will be designated by a new system of road markers. C. H. Purcell, state highw’ay engineer, announces. The new signs of the diamond-shaped caution type,
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  • 199 3 'I'ME f o’, lowing is an extract from a speech mudt last week y Mr. J. Dyer Simpson. general manager ot the Royal ana Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Companies. to the Insurance Institute of London:—. “As everybody knows, an executive has practically nothing to
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  • 368 3 Berlin, Dec. 17. to the quick by foreign Press comment on its treatment of the Jews, the German Government has issued a statement in which it explains that all that has been done to this unhappy people in recent months is intended for their
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  • 41 3 jj crcn/ anti-Italian demonstrations have takr-n place in Tunis, during inhich the It alia”-Consulate has been disfigured by blue and red ink fhre vn against the white walls of Cie building. Mounted French w ara reedty c Txxic Street.
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  • 266 3 JIS MIND back m the war years 'William Mason (43), a native o -elfast. who was sentenced to eigl ears’ renal servitude 'later reduced t ix) for his part in the nutiny, slashed a girl on the cheep ith a razor blade during
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  • 163 3 Three Problems To Be Faced Auckland, December 20. Although the New Zealand Labour Government was returned with a large majority at the recent election, its battles are by no means over. Since the election the flight of capital, especially to Australia, has been greatly intensified.
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  • 234 3 Two husbands who have exchanged wives and still share two small rooms with three children, were said at Weymouth Juvenile Court to have “made no bones about it.” The children appeared as being in need of care and protection, and afterwards one of the waives told
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  • Article, Illustration
    62 3 IM. MAISKY, Soviet A/mbsissador in L omlon opened the exhibition of Soviet Graphic Art at the Bloomsbury Gallery. The exhibition was organ;.M »l b.v the society for cultural relatlo ns between I the people of Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. M. MaJLsk y and his Wife are looking
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  • 1060 3 Vertical Trade Unionism Is Working Weil Santander, Dec. 10. trade unionism is the Spanish way of )lvin<r labour relationships,” Ped vr > Gonzah z Ru •’■(> f National Syndical Organization, tol. 1 > in his office here today. The Ministry is the most modern office
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    • 118 3 Flush Kidneys of ftcid and Poisons Gain in Health and Mop Getting Up Night® kidneys are clogged they be- < weak—the bladder is irritatedpi sage is scanty and smarts and sleep is restless and nightly io the bathroom are frequent. right sale harmless and inexpen--1 ay to stop this trouble
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  • 463 4 of the most important '-J aspects of Penang traffic conditions to be investigated by the newly appointed committee will be that of ricksha traffic. The problem —as it has been termed since the introduction of motor traction—is a fairly ancient one and all schools of thought concede at
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  • 1935 4  -  In Republican Spain By Edmund Allen Madrid, Dec. 22. A MILL lON men. women and children, shivering with cold in devastated Madrid, without without light and almost focdlcss. under ths muzzles of the cannon mounted in the Casa de Campo Park
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 283 4 v >—' ,<: > BkISIBW: A MAST ER PIKE OF fl» Xr".'» THE DISTILLERS ART LvHBSBi If Don’t Vague m£u“R-" ask for... NO FINER WHISKY GOES INTO ANY BOTTLE SOLE AGENTS JOHN LITTLE lt? Incorporated t« England .feuENTV*"» JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD., PENANG. (Incorporated In England). KUALA LUMPUR IPOH PITMANS
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    • 51 4 I ANGENBACH’S FAMOUS RED SPARKLING HOCK THE’MARK OF QUALITY! NIBELUNGEN. KRONE. A FAVOUBITE OF TOUB LADY FOLKS AND SO BE SUBE TO HAVE A BOTTLE HANDT AT TOUE HOME. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL THE LEADING DEALERS Or From The AGENTS Henry Waugh Co.. Ltd. PENANG, Staffapom. Ipoh and Koala T wfim.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 483 5 Harvest Time? 'EKYONE in Malaya pays lip service tu the principle behind that leading- article fall back, “grow more rice!” But how many except agricultural department wallahs and peasants re really interested in the sub'J here are parts of Kedah, Kelantan and the Province which at times
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  • 321 5 Judges Confronted With Difficult Task Messi’s. Chin Aik and Co., of Penang, won the first prize ln 5 Penang Trade Fair, organised bv the Chinese Oversea Amusement Company at the Fun and Frolic Park, Penang. The second prize was awarded to Messrs Cheng Lee
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  • 226 5 Chinese Couple Celebrate Married 50 years ago. Mr. and Mrs Cheah Hock Siew celebrated their golden wedding at a dinner last night at their residence, No. 379, Perak Road, Penang. Mr. Cheah. who was assistant cashier of the Netherlands Trading Soci ty for 37 years, is aged 71
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  • 73 5 The death occurred last Monday, Dec 26, of Mrs. Khoo Keng Khoon nee Goh Suan Gaik aged 34, wife of Mr. Khoo Keng Khoon of the Chartered Bank, at her place of residence, No. 36 B, Chow Thye Road. The deceased leaves the widower,
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  • 571 5 8600 For China Relief Fund The Town Hall, Penang, was packed with over 500 people las. nignt, wh_n the Kong Chong Dramatic Party of the Hoka.cn Association, Ipob made its debut here in aid of the Caina Dis ress Relief Fund. A sum of about
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  • 107 5 A large crowd of children including grown-ups were present at the Penang Convent yesterday when a children’s Xmas party was held. The hall, which was decorated with flags and buntings, presented, an enjoyable s»ght. This party was organised by the Society of the O d
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  • 125 5 Protest Against Public Execution (From Our Own Correspondent). Bangkok, Dec. 24. The art of fasting unto-death has spread to the Bangkwang Penitentiary, Siam. Four prisoners under death sentence, at the Bangkwang Prison are now on a fast-unto-death as a protest against the reports that
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  • 118 5 (Front Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Today. "It’s real English Christinas weather,’* remarks everyone as he looks into Kuala Lumpur’s dreary sky. It has been .drizzling without break since 5 a.m, on Tuesday. As if Jupiter Pluviux was tiiring to make up for
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  • 261 5 Boxing Day Nuptial At Singapore The marriage too». r .at trie Cathe dral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore at 8 a.m. on Boxing Day, between Miss I Margaret Mary McGuiie. eldest daughter iof Mr. George McGuire and the late Mrs. McGuire, of 217 K, Buimah Road,
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  • 120 5 Miraculous Escape Of Occupants While on their way to Ipoii yesterday morning, a party of six Chinese from Penang, including two children and two women, had a miraculous escape when the car In which they were travelling went out of control when taking a corner about
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  • 127 5 Occupants Escape With Minor Injuries A car containing three Chinese piung ed into a ravine yesterday at the 9th mile stone Batu Ferringhi Road. The occupants of the car, Messrs. Lim Keng Chuan, Penang’s veteran scrum half, Young Ah Peng and Toh Cheng Swee. escaped with
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 30 5 kT l. m. PENANG LONDON 5 Days 9,000 Miles ONE-THIRD OF THE EARTH’S CIRCUMFERENCE WITH the same ’plane and same CREW THROUGHOUT STOPPING EACH NIGHT AT LUXURY hotels en route
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    • 130 6 Matinee Today at 3 p.m. MARION DAVIE3S GARY COOPER in “OPERATOR 13” SUPPORTED BY REL ““d HAKDY 'if J v>) in VJ7 U ‘THE CHIMP’ PRICES 15 and 30 Cents Downstairs. Matinees Tomorrow Friday at 3 p.m. v JEANETTE MacDONALD 1 1 a,l< l NELSON EDDY in imwos l -a
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 111 6 LAST NIGHT OF EXTENDED SEASON MAJESTIC 6. |5 TONIGHT 9.30 HOLD YOUR HEART! > Here comes Bobby wiih the wonder baby of the rinks .in a story of love end hope and triumph that will make you glow with happiness through your tears. \TW Ft 'X j kj 1.. }WW
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    • 923 6 MAJESTIC OPENING TOMORROW I Who is The FROG’? SCOTLAND YARD S GREATEST BSl> PROBLEM Si jw f THE .VYSIEKY MAN WHO TEI :!,<»(;. EW~ K B IS! D LONDONS MILLIONS: 9 B ML 53 More Thrilling Ilian •INVISIBLE MAN” MMH|jk§ '■Tilt- I tJMj' (|iJe'.ze y>ur pi.).- i ju t a;-;
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  • 302 7 London, Dec. 17. SCOTLAND YARD detectives last night searched the luxurious aiite in Sovrani’s Normandie Hotel, Knightsbridge, of the Countess Mari Cageneck, beautiful Austrian Je wess. Countess Kageneck. wife of the old Viennese aristocracy, has been missing ‘or nearly a week. Hotel officials who
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  • 127 7 The following subscriptions for 1939 m?y now be paid: Private Letter Boxes SlO per annum. (In the case of a new renter an additional fee of $5/ is required as deposit for the Key of a Private Box This fee is refunded when the Box is
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  • 96 7 During the week ending EVcember 17, 1938, exports from Malayan ports amounted to 19,835 cases, of which: 10,524 (53 per cent.) cases were to the United Kingdom, 945 (5 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 1,500 (7 per cent.) cases to Canada, and 6,860
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  • 139 7 N.I. Will Not Co-operate In A Control Seheme rERE is no reason, a Batavia message to the Telegraaf says, for the Netherlands Indies to associate itself with any control scheme for the sisal market. The quality of N.I. sisal, it >s declared, is better than that of the
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  • 247 7 An gl o-1 )u tch Chairman Receives £1,500 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, December 12. SALARIES of £1,500 a year for the chairman and of £l.OOO a year for the directors, of a £3,000,000 rubber-growing compang, Anglo-Dutch Plantations of Java, Ltd., were agreed at an
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 327 7 Tonight Ladies' Curst Night 4t Bo<fc p WEMBLEY PARK lonight, Wednesday, 28th December, 1938. Molek Silver Opera: BATu'bERTANG Pntitled “RATU BELAH < itume» M-ilav music accompanimpnt'T a,ay COst umes-Malay talented artistes in conjunction with tat H rn star cast cf Inche Kassim’s “Kerjatohan Keraiaan Tomorrow Night! r r J Kera
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    • 69 7 Who is 4 THE FROG”? m sx THE MYSTERY MAN WHO TERRORISED LONDON’S MILLIONS I THE SCRE IN’S GREATEST THRILLER MORF! TERRIFIC THAN “FRANKENSTEIN” MORE EXCITING THAN “INVISIBLE MAN” SEE IT TOMORROW IT M/VIESTiC 17' LAST —7 he Long iic .ited a itert! WRESTLING AT ROY A L Theatre TUESDAY.
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    • 183 7 I Eastern Oriental Hotel NEW YEAR’S EVE SATURDAY. 31st DECEMBER Special Dinner Fancv Dress Dance $l.OO h EXTENSION TO 2 A M XMAS CARNIVAL NOVELTIES Dinner served in the Hotel Ball Room and on the lawn hy the sea. BOOK YOUR TABLE NOW. j eJO. Dance Hall XiUniA 9.30 till
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 101 7 ROYAL THEATRE Box No. 5 ALOR STAR ’Phone 77 TONIGHT LAST NIGHT At 6.30 9 30 p.m Tne Best Tamil Talkies “VIKRAMA STHREF. SAHASAM” Expert Acting And Dazzling Dances! Full Of Sweet Sengs And Spectacular Scenes Featuring With The Famous Casts Miss Pappalakshmikantham. Miss T K. Rukmani, Mr. T. R.
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  • 79 8 r January 5, 1939 a mass general acting of all representatives of Chinese associations, guilds ~nd public bodies in Ipoh will be held at the Pera.k Chinese Chamber of Commerce to make ela- rate plans for the festivities in connection with the coronation of Sultan r
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  • 222 8 BUT TO BE GIVEN VALUABLE PUBLICITY BY FRANK BUCK MALAYA will not he represented by an individual display at the World Fair which is to open in New York at th< end of April. The British Government has decided that there
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  • 187 8 “Accidental Death’* Verdict A verdict of accidental death was re turned by Che Ismail bin Mat Sal the Ipoh Second Magistrate, last week at an inquiry into the death of a 50-year» old Chinese woman, who was found drowned in a mining pond at Pengkalan.
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  • 406 8 25 Banished Last Year rpWENTY-FIVE persons were recommended for banishment during the first half of this year as being habitual offenders under the Excise and Chandu Enactments, states the Federal Secretary in his review of affairs in the Federated Malay States for the first half of 1938. Three
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  • 126 8 Narrow Escape Of Passengers (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Kangsar, Tuesday. Five young Ipoh Chinese had a thrilling experience while returning from Penang, when the saloon car in which they were travelling, driven by one of them, overturned into a ravine at Bukit Berapit last
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  • 134 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Kangsar, Tuesday. Rainfalls have not been sufficiently heavy or continuous in Upper Perak and the Kuala Kangsar District to cause the Sungei Perak, Malaya’s second largest river to overflow its banks. Perak’s royal capital has been free from any
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  • 59 8 The Singapore delegates of the District Conference of the Rotary International which is to be held at Bangkok during the Chinese New Year holidays—February 19 and 20 —will travel in a special plane chartered from Messrs. Wearne Bros. Ltd. Some of the Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur
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  • 195 8 Kota Bharu and Kuala Thenggam. ran a dead-heat for the heaviest reloid rainfall in Malaya during the menth of November this ycai, the figures being 39 inches and 35 inches respectively, in one day alone eight inches of rain fallig at each. The third place goes
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  • 118 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Tuesday. Three motor-cars were stolen for joy-rides during the Christmas weeknd, but all were recovered. The most serious theft occurred early yesterday morning, as a result of which two soldiers were charged in court yesterday morning, with gang robbery. In
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  • 38 8 BRITISH VOLUNTEERS— 300 of fem—comprising the British Battalia t) Disbanded International Brigi.de, which has been fi(>htin<f .< .th tt> loreen in Spain, arritei at Vlctotna Station Ina Of them have been at front for nearly two years.
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  • 627 8 SOCIAL PERSONAL MAJOR C.D.V. GEORGI, O. B. E.. has returned from leave. DR. LIM CHIN KHEAN. Assistant Medical Officer. Ipoh, is temporary stationed at the Tapah Hospital. Among visitors staying at the Ipoh Grand Hotel are MR. and MRS. S.A. YELL and MR. E.N. REYMOND. MR. M. N. SAM ADAR.
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  • 72 8 The wedding took place at n Monday, at the New Deles'. 1 Hall, Ipoh, of Mr. Wu Chin of Mr. and Mrs. Wu Yoon I’ h. Chung Swee Ling, second dainu 1 1 Mr. and Mrs. Chung Ming Chee ceremony, which was in 1 style, was
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    • 373 8 WOMAN BOUND IN COTTON WOOL Helpless for Weeks With Rheumatism She was bound from head to foot in cotton wool. She could not sleep without the use of sleeping draughts. Yet, within two weeks of starting to take Kruschen Salts she was on the road to recovery. •‘Although I am
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  • 240 9 Mi. MacDonald Declines Suggestion By M.P.s (From Our London Staff.) London, December 14. 4 suggestion that a development commission to visit ail oarU ol the denial Empire and mandated territories should appointed \\as* declined, in the House of Commons f li. Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary
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  • 257 9 China In Formidable Position A circular issued by the Hong Kong Branch of the National WomenTRelief Association says that it is inevitable that there will be misleading information as a result of Japanese propaganda which may cause disappointment and dismay among their friends and fellow countrymen
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  • 134 9 To Infuse Patriotism (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang, Monday. MISS Lim Peng Kiap, the Chinese aviatrix, who is touring Malaya, is-a native of Fukien. She received her English education 8 years ago in the United States at the Columbia Univer-, sity. She then took
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  • 562 9 Good Progress, But Not Financial Success TpXPERIMENTS in the manufacture of China tea are in progress at the Central Experiment Station, Serdang. The results already obtained are said to be encouraging from the point of view of manufacture, but not on the financial side. It
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  • 165 9 Another Ceremony At Shanghai Hotel The Shanghai Hotel was crowded yesterday morning when Mr. Phang Theng Hoe, second son of Mr. Phang Choon Lin. Senior Interpreter of the Police Department and Mrs. Phang Choon Lin, wedded Miss Khoo Slew Tuan, fourtn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Kok
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  • 20 9 London, Tuesday. The death has occurred of the British Trade Union leader, Sir James Sexton, aged 82, reports Reuter.—Reuter.
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  • 1089 9 Admissibility As Evidence Challenged (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Monday. The question as to whether a statement made by an accused person to a Customs officer at the time of his arrest could be tendered as an exhibit after the case for the
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  • 45 9 Four Chinese armed with parangs are reported to have entered a house about four miles from Kampar and after putting the occupants in fear of injury robbed them of $5O in cash and made good their escape. The police are investigating
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  • 457 9 Indolent Note Left Behind I Our Own Correspondent) Kual? Lumpur, Tuesday. V r so much for having opportunity oi giving your ’<’•< once over. Sorry we were > >. n your strong roam, but in. you will awfully glad r: o> this job. Nevertheless you.
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  • 258 9 More Money Taken Last Year Iskandar nad Bianja Toll Bridges $B4 255 compared with in 1936 and $67,162 in 1935, the nt from the Iskandar Bridge being and from Bianja Pontoon Bridge do, states the annual report of the i’erak P.W.D. following figures show the re from
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  • 47 9 ii. ERHISH VOLUNTEERS—3O9 of th. cm <•<:m-prising the British Battalion of the disbanded International Brigade, which has been fighting with the Barcelona forces it, Spain, arrived at Victoria Station, London, last week. They icere given a great welcome at the station as this picture shows.
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  • 1446 10 Are Anglo-American Trade Revivals Linked? DEALINGS APPROACHING 60 P.C. OF “PRE-NAZI NORMAL” (From Out Own Correspondent) London, December 16. W/HEN at the German Embassy-boycotted Foreign Press Association dinner in London this week, Mr. Chamberlain assured his listeners, and the world, that ’‘we
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  • 1175 10 Special Interview V. ith Dutch Expert TRANSLATION of an interview with Professor J. van Gelderen, Deputy Chairman of the Dutch Delegation to the International Rubber Regulation Committee, with a special representative of the “Agence Economique and Financiere,” Paris. The Hague, Dec mber 5.
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  • 292 11 i usNTS DEMONSTRATING IN ROME to protest against the treatment of Italians in Tunisia. A large force of police prevented them from getting near the French Embassy. LADY DENT last week launched the new British gun-boat H.M.S. Dragonfly at John I. Thornycroft’s yard at Woolston.
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  • 219 12 To Check Japanese Advance Pakhoi, December 20. ALL the coastwise highways linking Limchow, Yamchow and Luchow in south Kwangtung were destroyed from December 9to 12. Those in the interior at Limkong, Shuikai, Huppo, and then ta Watlam in Kwangsi were also demolished between December 15 and 18.
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  • 127 12 Kcngmoon, December 23. FOR the second time, Japanese forces are still engaged in mopping-up operations against Chinese guerillas in Sha Wah and Shih Chiae on Sam Kok Chow' or Triangle Island, about 50 miles south of Canton. These towns are the gateway to Kwangsi by river, and
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  • 337 12 —lnternational News Agency. Shekki, December 23 GENERAL Li Han-yun, the new’ chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, who is in command of troops for the counterattack on Canton, will assume his new’ post most likely in Linhsien on New Year’s Day. He will
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  • 93 12 Hong Kong, December 23. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in a telegram to Mr. Tsang Yang-fu highly commended him for his gallant fight the Japanese in the Samshui area, according to a Kwangning telegram received here. Mr. Tsang, until recently the Mayor of Canton, was in charge of
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  • 267 12 Logs No schoolboy who happens to read this will be thrilled l.y it. He will wish to goodness that the man who invented logs had never lived—or will pretend to do so though of course, if he is really an intelligent fellow, he will know well enough that
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  • 477 12 Put Up Stout Opposition Before Being Sunk Wuchow, December 20. THE Pearl River squadron composing of one light cruiser four torpedo boats, one sloop and several river gunboats staged a gallant though forlorn fight against an overwhelming superior Japanese naval force before they were annihilated
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  • 69 12 fringement of aerial rights.—lnternational News Agency. Kwangchouw’an, December 23. Japanese w'arplanes are flying so low on reconnaissance over this area that their markings, bombs and pilots are plainly visible from the ground. They tty over Tungying in Kwangchouwan and Tsunchin (Chunkurn) Bridge in Fort Bayard,
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  • 40 12 This evening at the “Waterfall’s” from 5.30 pun. to 6.30 p.m.: 1. March —A Frangesa—Costa. 2. Overture —King Stephan Beethoven. 3. Potpourri —50 Years Of Song— Brown. 4. Intermezzo —Heart’s Ease Macbeth. 5. Fox Trot—Broadways Gone Hawaii —Bayford.
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  • 176 12 PLANES READY TO DEFEND Kunming, December 19. ANTICIPATING mass bombing of the Haiphong-Kunming Rail w a y, China’s major line ot communication to the sea, Chinese military authentic 1 here today instructed the air defence units to redouble preparations to meet invading Japanese planes. Frequent
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  • 83 12 Greeting cards, such as New Year and Birthday cards are eligi for transmission as printed ,natl as such are forwarded by > ''‘J mail to all parts of the wo: Id u those participating in the Empm Mail Scheme. Cards sent by this i.< must be enclosed
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  • 122 12 P. O. SAILINGS The s.s. Rajputana from t 0 Bombay and Colombo, is x,,t rr ,,w arrive in Penang at 6 a.m. H and will leave for Sm/aP*’;’ Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and u r will 1 p.m. the same day. work at the wharf The s.s. Corfu from Yok f
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 653 12 8.8. C. SERVICE SCHEDULE FOR FAR EAST London, Dec. 23: Following is the probable BBC Service Schedule for the Far East in Malayan standard time for week beginning Dec. 25: TRANSMISSION 2 6.02 p.m. to 9.15 p.m.: GSJ, GSG and GSF. TR INSMISSION 3 9.|D p.m. to 10.35 p.m.: GSG.
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    • 431 12 Two Days' Radio PENANG I ZHJ 6.08 mc/s (49.3 m. P.M. 6.00 Malay Music. 7.05 Recorded Variety. 7.30 Penang Municipal Band under the direction of Bandmaster Scotf (By courtesy of the Municipal Commissioners). 8.15 Straits Echo News Bulletin. 8.20 Empire Exchange. (BBC Rebroadcast). 8.35 Melody and Rhythm by Martini and
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    • 494 12 SINGAPORE ZHL 1,333 kcis (225 m.) P.M. 1.00 Miscellaneous Programme of New Gramophone Records. 1.30 Mid-day Rubber Prices. 1.32 Miscellaneous Programme continued. 2.00 Interval. 5.00 Hokkien Amoy Music.t “Hooi See Wan.” Sung by Hua Pek. “Ngoh New Pou Lae Chee.” Sung by the Chorus of the Kim Gek Lian Theatrical
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    • 207 12 NIROM YDA 6.04 Meis (49.6 m.) YDB 11.86 Meis (25.3 m.) PMN 10.26 Mc|s (29.2 m.) YDB 9.65 He's (31.20 m.) IDE AT P.M. 12.40 Studio Orchestra. 1.10 Aneta news. Studio Orchestra. 1.50 Hungarian Gypsy music. 2.10 Repetition of news bulletin). 2.20 C| os‘e down. 4.50 Time signal. Opening. Mexican
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  • 502 13 in iill Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh And Penang SEA MAILS OUTWARD British North Borneo close Ipoh 12.45 p.m. Friday; •'Ha Lumpur 7 p.m. Friday. Northern Sumatra dose Penang 11 a. m. today by s s. Dajak. Singapore Mails close Penang 4 p.m. Mondays by s.s.
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  • 824 13 In Penang Harbour ARRIVALS Today: KLANG ex Singapore via Port Swettenham. DAJAK ex TandjongPoera. Tomorrow: RAJPUTANA ex London via ports. ALSIA ex Singapore. MATANG ex Victoria Point Re nong, Kopah and Tongkeh. KRIAN ex BelawanDeli. PALOFO ex Singapore and Soerabaya. MATA HART ex Singapore via ports. Friday,
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  • 32 13 The Mails despatched from Penang on December 3 and from Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur on December 2 by P. &O. Rawalpindi were delivered in London on December 24.
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  • 83 13 Mails for BANGKOK will leave Penang at 9.40 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays, and incoming mails will arrive in Penang at 6.30 p.m. on Sundays and Thursdays. Mails for F.M.S., SINGAPORE, etc. will leave Penang at 8.30 a.m. and 9 p.m.; Ipoh 1.36 p.m. and 2.10 a.m.; and
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    • 109 13 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. Leave Arrive Arrive Penang Marseilles New York Pres. ADAMS Jan. 5 Feb. 1 Feb. 14 Pres. VAN BUREN Jan. 19 Feb. 15 Feb. 28 Pres. HARRISON Feb. 2 Mar. 1 Mar. 14 Pres. HAYES Feb. 16 Mar 15 Mar. 28 PACIFIC SERVICE
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    • 761 13 P&O BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. “RAJPUTANA” SAILING THURSDAY, 29«h’ DECEMBER Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under contract >vith His Majesty’s Government, London and Far East Mail Service. Outwards from London for China Japan Homewards for Colombo, Aden, Port Said, due Penang Marseilles and London.
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  • 940 14 E.L. Dalton’s Century Turns Jide DRAW THE MOST LIKELY RESULT M.C.G 422 103 For 1: S. Africa 390 Johannesburg, Tuesday. With five wickets down for 166, the South Africans fought back in their first Test against the M.C.C. and raised their total today
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  • 62 14 The following will represent the Old XaverianT Association against the Ipoh Ironsides at hockey tomorrow on the X. I. ground: Yeap Cheng Eng; Ldm Cheng Hoe and Yeang Kah Chong; Nel. Danker, C. Phui San and J. Read; Ooi Ewe Choo, H. Stewart, C. Danker, J.
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 14 FXTURES TAKFN at the Christmas g.i'.i of the P(: ang So ,ihi: n- t hih yesterday. The top holographs sho .s start of the woni.n’s race an.l that at the bottom t»-? start of the even -lor children of ten years and over.
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  • 252 14 MORE than 250 parents and children were present at tinPenang Swimming Club Christmas gala, held yesterda; at 10.30 a.m. Many of the children showed marvellous proficiency a;r took to the water like ducks. lan MacGuffin, a wee Scot, not more than three, raced along
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  • 356 14 A.C.S. Foiled By Defence Tlie Penang Old Frees scored a creditable two-nil nockey victory over the Anglo-Chinese School Old Boys’ Association on the Ipoh Club padang yesterday. Although the exchanges were fairly fast, play was on the scrappy side. The Old Frees Old
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  • 144 14 IN a friendly match of table-tennis con- sisting of seven singles, Lee Chgig Chye’s Team beat the Penang 1 rirt ng Employees’ Association 4 3 Results Lee Cheng Chye players m nticned first: Lee Teik Earn bt Yeah Kok Guan. 18 21, 21—19, 21 14 21
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  • 117 14 Reuter London, Tuesday. FV ESULTS of today’s Rugby <n on 1V games are: Exeter 16, Bath 8. Gloucester 15, UniversiLes A. 1 Leicester 8, Barbarians 6. Swansea 5, London Welsh 3 Aberavon 8, Cross Keys 10 Cardiff 6, Watsonians 3. Newport 14, London Irish 0 Western-super-Marĕ 21.
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  • 65 14 The Penang Chong Wah t .’A't'./jC team is engaging Ipoh ba>i in a series of matches on the c court, Ipoh, in aid of the < Relief Fund. nlrt the On Monday night, the visitors Yuk Kwong basketball team n> and thrilling match. I h‘- lhl
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  • 1343 15 CLASSIFICATION OF HORSES PONIES Straits Racing Assn.’s Latest List riMIE following-is ti n latest list concerning classification I of horses and ponies issued by the Straits Racing Association. HORSES CLASS I 6 A i il Bost, 5 Barford, a Beaudckin a BlU' Peter, a Bombus, 6 Burraneer 5 Cal. ido
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  • 218 15 London, Tuesday. The results of matches played today in tho English Football League are: FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa 1, Sunderland 1. Charlton 1, Arsenal 0. Chelsea 2, Leeds United 2. Derby 2, Everton 1. Huddersfield 3, Blackpool V Leicester 1, Manchester J. Liverpool 1, Stoke 0.
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    19 15 Jcurk Doyle i.s- to marry Morita, the film actresa who playrM in “Mutiny on the Bounty. ,9
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  • 683 15 Penang Basketball leaui’s Tour (F'rom Our Own Correspondent) Sungei Patani, Dec. 27. Taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, the Khoon ?ong Basketball team of Penang travelled' up here and played three friendly matches with the local teams. On the day of their arrival they met the Sungei
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  • 501 15 Flying Column Promoted To Class I Ihe following are the complete handicaps for the third day of the Penang races to be run on Monday, January 2: Horses, Class IV., Div. IV., G Furs. YOUNG GINGER 9 00 EQUETTA 8.12 CONSTANT LIGHT 8.11 QUEEN S
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  • 177 15 London, December 15. Cardiff City directors last night refus-, ed a £40,000 offer from Mr. H. H. Morrett, a South Wales sportsman, to buy up all or part of the club shares. Mr. Merrett also stated that if the deal went through he would spend
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  • 102 15 (By Tic-Tac). Wth rain all last night and early this morning training work was interfered with. Most of the horses at the York Road and Batu Gantong stables were exercised at Batu Gantong while only about 50 were worked on the present race course all
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  • 277 15 At the present time, there aie Still vast stretches of territory wh'-re malaria rages. Nevertheless, in former time:; this malady was mueli more widespread, even in the countries where it has now completely disappear* d. Therefore, a certain Robert Talbor obtained great success, towards
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  • 142 16 MORNING PRICES PREVIOUSLY TODAY LONDON—(Spot) £215.0.0 No market LONDON—(3 months) £216.5.0 No mtarket SINGAPORE $llO.OO $llO.OO BUSINESS DONE PENANG $llO.OO $llO.OO BUSINESS DONE 25 tons 25 tons COPRA—(Sundried) $3.45 $3.45 BLACK PEPPER $8 50 $8.50 RUBBER s LONDON BMid No market NEW YORK SINGAPORE—(Spot) 28y 8 c 28y 8
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  • 206 16 KENNEDY CO. TIX: Buyers Sellers Ampat 319 43 Ayer Weng .go 65 Batu Selangor 1.32% 1.37«-, Berjuntai 99“ 106 Hong Fatt .69 .71 Jelebu .62% .67% Kpg. Kamunting 8 6 9 0 Kpg. Lanjut 16 6 16.10 i Kamunting 8 9 9 6 Kramat 9’9 10 3 Kramat Pulai 14
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  • 120 16 —Reuter. Successful Conversion Of External Loans Paris. Tuesday M. Reynaud, in a broadcast to the nation, announced conversion on to a four per cent, basis on the entire external debt of the French Railways amounting to 3.500,000.000 francs now issued. It is from five to six-and-a-half per cent.
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  • 61 16 —Reuter. Avalanche Sweeps Away Power Station Tokio, Tuesday. A avalanche swept away a waterpower station under construction at Shiadani today. Ninety-three out of 125 workmen were entombed of whom 39 are known to be dead and 11 injured. The fate of 43 others is still unknown. A rescue
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  • 57 16 —Reuter. New York, 'Tuesday. Opening a drive for the arrest of a number of persons accused of blackmailing Donald Coster, Government agents arrested Walter R. Cragg, discarded lawyer on a charge of extortion by the use of the mail. A second accused person was arrested at the same
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  • 126 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Seller*' Batu Selangor 1.30 1.35 Hong Fatt .70 .72% Jelebu .62% .67% Kuchai 1.25 1.30 Mambau .50 .55 Nawng Pets .25 .30 Petalings 6.85 7.00 Rahman Hyd. 1.12%, 1.15 Raub Gold 4.70 4.80 Rantau 1.43 1.46 Taiping Cons. 1.60 1.62% Burma Malay 21 6 22,3
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  • 80 16 London, Saturday. Continued pressure for loans indicates that some difficulty may be experienced in carrying over commitments into the banks supplied the major portion of the new year. During the week clearing borrowers’ needs owing to paucity of offerings from other institutions. This monetary stringency resulted on the
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  • 227 16 Third Successive Weekly Decline New York, December 5. STEEL production in the United States this week will average 59.9 per cent, of capacity, compared with 60.7 per cent, last week, reports the American Iron and Steel Institute. The decline of 0.8 constitutes the third successive weekly
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  • 172 16 New York, Tuesday. DOW JONES AVERAGES Prev. Latest High Low 30 indus. 151.38 150.43 151.74 150.04 20 rails 32.02 31.55 32.15 31.42 20 utilities 22.04 21.40 22.00 21.35 40 bends 89.59 89.52 Business done 620,000 1,240,000 STOCKS Prev. Today Am. Tob. B 87 87% Anaconda Cpr. 34%
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  • 546 16 Problems Of Water Supply Improvement in padi-growing methods are described in a review of the work of Mr. R. B. Jagoe in compiling data on field investigations, published in the Malayan Agricultural Journal. The main problems appear to be concerned firstly. with water control; secondly, to give
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