Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 January 1939

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  • 19 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY 2. Vol. XGVII. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 4, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 261 1 —Reuter. Million-Pound Scheme For-Students ds Co-operation in Service Is Ideal t MILL lON-pound scheme to create a “City of Youth’’ in London which will be the centre point of all Empire youth organisations s announced. It is the outcome of an
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  • 103 1 —Reuter. £3.000,000 Scheme London. Tuesday. The provision of a national reserve of switchgear, transformers and other electrical equipment under the administration of the Central Electricity fxiard as a special A .R.P- measure nas been decided upon as the result of discussions between the Ministry of Transport and
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  • 112 1 Reuter. Barcelona, Tuesday. A communique admits that F ranco s forces have slightly advanced south of the Lerida-Tarragona Road where Nationalists attacked with "enormous violence” but claimed that attacks south of his area completely repulsed. GOVERNMENT raid Valencia, Tuesday: Republican aircraft bombed Nationalist warships lying in
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  • 195 1 "France is Invincible, Says Daladier Reuter. Tunis. Tuesday. “AS head of the Government. I had to rome.ro tell vou that our mothet country stands by the Empire as the Empire stands by her," declared M. Daladier in a speech here which was broadast throughout France. He said that the day
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  • 144 1 London. Tuesday. Of three by-elections now pending in East Norfolk, Ripon and Holder ness special interest centres on that in East Norfolk where feelings is so strong over the Government's agricultural policy that the Minister tor Agri--ulture Mr \V S. Morrison, was refused a hearing
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  • 280 1 President To Ignore Fascist Threat Today 111! national defence and public relief forming two < ftb mo<t pressing problems, th'e 76th United States Congres assembled tot’ay in expectation of what many newspaper openly termed as a “war for supremacy.” between Mr veil and ice-President Garner
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  • 233 1 Reuter. Jerusalem, Tuesday. THE trial opened today before the Chief Justice, Sir li»rry Trusted, and two other judges, one of whom is a Christian Arab, comprising a special court, of four British who are charged with having precipitated the murder of Arab prisoners. Their
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  • 233 1 .—Rout >r. Chungking, Tuesday. JT is reported that Jie Comm.:n:sts are demanding reorganisation of the Central Government alter a purge of the pro-peace elements. A report that Wang Ching-wei has proceeded to .-Langhai from lioio- Ko.ig discredited by competent circk < who •ssert that he is
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  • 132 1 Renter. King- ton. Tuesday. J\M .1< police were attacked by a row. at Montaga Bay. northwest of Jamaica, following a man's death in a -struggle with the police at a labour derm nst ration. The fatal struggle occurred while I' U ..i;inif >.
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  • 94 1 Reuter. Defence Measures Go Uiead Rapidlv London. Tuesday. <> ernment ordinance today s’ gun factory is to be t: Clydeside site formerthe famous shipbuilding i Beardmore at Dalmuir. it ion to this effect was t Lord Provost of Glasgow It believed that when in f <
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  • 107 1 l<> Meet Normal Operations Washington, Tuesday. partni nt today informed i is in urgent need of 30 i submarine, a destroyer in the United States and -ions to meet the normal Pl« t. -ndation is contained tn 1 the Special Naval Board r itrveying the
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  • 83 1 -Reuter. Copenhagen. Tuesday. THE Governor of tie Danish Colony of Molt on ths east coast of Greenland, and his family will have to live in a snow hut during the remainder of winter as his house at Scoresbay Sound was burned down on New Year’s
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  • 47 1 Reuter. Stockholm. Tuesday: Sweden is aboi to order two battleships of 8.000 ton' according to the newsp.per Tidn’ngei which says the Minister for Defence in tends to ask the Rikadag on January 1 for a credit £5.500.000 for their imme diate construction —Reuter.
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  • 213 2 ITINERARY FOR CANADIAN-AMERICAN TOUR OF KING QUEEN —Reuter. Visit to United States to be Confined to Four days London, Wednesday. An extens ve coast to coast tour will be made by the King and Queen during their visit to Canada the itinerary for which was officially announced here and in
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  • 210 2 Moscow, Tuesday. Brian Grover will be released today. He is expected to leave tonight or tomorrow for London. His wife has been given per mission to leave with him. .—Reuter At the trial Grover made an impassioned plea to be permitted to live
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  • 61 2 Ixmdon, Tuesday.— Lord Baldwin’s Fund for refugees now totals £282,313 and subscriptions are still coming in steadily. Meanwhile, a final list of the Lord Mayor’s Fund for Czech refugees totalling £450,350 is oublished. London, Tuesday: It is stated in Sandringham today that tne Queen and Princess Elizabeth
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  • 617 2 Reuter. Bizerta, Tunis. Tuesday. M. Daladier, the French Premier, arrived here in the cruiser Foch at dawn today. A dozen submarines and a 1 squadron of torpedo-boats and destroyers joined in according him a welcome, while a squadron of seaplanes flew overhead as IM. Daladier
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  • 213 2 German Attitude Berlin, Tuesday. The Government’s reply to the points raised in the discussion between the British and German naval experts will be published in the next few days, according to an article in the National Zeitung of Essen, which is associated with FieldMarshal Goering.
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  • 133 2 No Attempt To Kill Hitler Berlin, Jan. 3. The trial opened this morning of the author, Ernst Niekisch, and his two companions charged with preparing high treason. The trial is expected to last several days and the public is not to be admitted. Eighteen others
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  • 329 2 Reuter. London, Tuesday. O\. the occasion of the Xew Year, a letter of homage and sympathy to (leneralusimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madanic Chiang, “sharer of your conti nual danger,’’ and the Chinese people, addressed by large group of senior members of the Oxford University,
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  • 111 2 London, Tuesday.— The Manchester Guardian, commenting on the p> stn battle in Spain, declares that hangs on it than the future of Sp aiil and the lives of men deserted or ceived by those who should share democratic beliefs. “A few months ago a Rebel
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  • 131 2 London, Tuesday Confirmation has now been received in London from the Adi' l British Agent at Burgos of the arrest of the British Vice-Consul ;i! San Sebastian, Mr. Ernest Golding,and his wife but the nature of charges is not yet known. —Reuter. Mr. Jerram has
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  • 191 2 .—Reuter. 673 Lives Saved London, Tuesday. During the past year which has beer, remarkable for severe storms around th° British Isles, lifeboat service has played an important part in saving from destruction more vessels than ever before in its 115 years. There was a record number of
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  • 78 2 —Reuter. Istanbul, Tuesday. MANY casualties and heavy damage arose from a terrific hurricane sweeping the Black Sea. Twenty-two ot the crew of a Turkish freighter are reported to have been drowned while several other seamen are missing and it is feared that they are lost.
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  • 334 2 Reuter. London, Tuesday. TW EMBERS of the National Unemlll ploy°d Workers Movement, who planned to delive? a < offin with a rolled up umbrella cn the side at No. 10 Downing Street today, were prevented from doing so by the police. When Big Ben struck
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  • 67 2 Four Doctors Attend George Robey London, Tuesday. It was announced today that morphia injections are being given to the G 9 yearold comedian George Rcbev who broke three ribs on Saturday when he fell from the stage at the Alexandria Theatre at Birmingham during a performance
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  • 177 3 Reuter. Opposition To Formation II National Party PRINCE KONOYE LIKELY TO RESIGN Tokio, Tuesday, xcnoye, wlui was engaged in a number of court ih<‘ ei 1 cf last year, is resigning from the Prebefore the next week-end, according to well-in-i t i I circles here. tviichiro Hiranuma,
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  • 56 3 Reuter. y Mr. Montagu Nor* the Bank of England, visit to Berlin today or w 11 be the guest of ■s:l nt of the Reichswit.h him during his London. It is not exNorman will remain in night, after which he ms host to Basle
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  • 146 3 —Reuter. Deficit Not f nexpected London, Monday. i income tax and surin the fourth quarvear, a large deficit c h ndar year is part ntine of the British sysc and that disclosed national revenue and the April-December unexpected. 11.. do not regard it as -es mainly from the
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  • 382 3 Reuter. But No Strategic Points Taken London, Tuesday. The northern end of General Franco's offensive r gainst Catalonia has assumed fresh interest with the slackening of the Nationalist advance in the southern sectors, judging from the latest reports. A Saragossa message says that Franco’s northern blade of
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  • 106 3 —Reuter. Colonisation Of Libya A “Calamity’* Cairo, Tuesday. "It is the sacred duty of Egyptians and Moslems throughout the world to oppose the Fascist policy of exterminating Islam in Tripoli and turning the land into Italian hands,’’ declares a manifesto issued by Abdel Hamid Said Bey, the
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  • 257 3 —Reuter. Financial Aid Bv Britain U.S. London, Tuesday:—The Financial News states: ‘‘The stiffening of the American attitude to the Japanese aims in China, combined with the offer ol credits tor the import of materials, encourages the hope of those whose financial and commercial interests in China
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  • 300 3 600.000 JEWS FOR PALESTINE —Reuter. Berlin Calls For Discussion London, Tuesday. Mr. Robert Briscoe, a Jewish member of the Government Party of the Eire Df’l, is sailing on Thursday for the United States, where he hopes to make arrangements leading to the transference to Palestine of 600,000 Jews from Germany,
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  • 36 3 \Thc light sports aeroplane which, two G-erman airmen are flying on a 55,000 kilometre flight from- Benga zi, Tripoli, Africa, to Australia «nd back. It is expected to arrive in Penang tomorrow.
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  • 209 3 Comment On Wang’s Dismissal Shanghai. Monday. Hopes c-f peace that sprang from Dr. Wang Ching-wei’s departure from Chungking have been finally dissipated by his expulsion from the China Government. China thus faces 1939 with no prospect of any cessation of hostilities in sight. Among denunciations
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  • 160 3 Early Release Expected San Francisco, Tuesday. Governor Olson of California announces that as a result of a petition for the release of Tom Mooney, former Labour leader, he would give Mooney a personal hearing on Saturday. It is widely believed that Mooney will be released shortly. On July
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  • 206 3 London, Tuesday. Reuter is authoritatively informed that Mr. Ernest Golding, British Consular official at San Sebastian, and his wife were arrested there last night by Nationalist mi itary police. The action follows a local juridical enquiry into the ramifications of the affair
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  • 101 3 —Reuter. Shanghai, Tuesday. The Yellow River flood waters which •burst the dykes in December, inundating an area of three thousand square miles, are now -threatening another nine thousand square miles of low-lying country, according to the International Famine Relief Committee. After joining the Hwai River, the
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  • 78 3 Reuter. Shanghai, Tuesday:—The Japanese authorities have lodged a protest with the American authorities against the operation of an American wireless station under the name of Globe Radio in a section of the International Settlement in Shanghai known as the “American detence sector.” The Japanese
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  • 139 3 ,—Reuter. More Searches Carried Out Jerusalem, Tuesday. Following reports that the Old City of Jerusalem wae again occupied by a number of terrorists, the military carried out searches in certain quarters yesterday, but these are officially described as mere “routine.” Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, acting leader of
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  • 34 3 Reuter. London, Tuesday:—The official price of gold on the London bullion market reached a new high record when it was fixed today at £7. 10s. OVsid. per ounce.—•
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  • 329 4 A LTHOUGH the New Year x offers China no hope of an early end to the war. there are recent indications that the position, from the Chinese point of view, has improved. Firstly, the reaction to former Vice-President W ang Chingwei’s conciliatory statement sjtowed die strength of Chinese
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  • 1259 4  -  Cosmopolite Gossip By Rose Patterson QLXCE the Xew Year is so important with us in Paris our Christmastide shopping did not end week ago, in fact the peak of it is reached this week-end and the biggest crowds have thronged the hawkers’
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 642 5 Veld Quay iCCESSI VE administrators of the Colony, and Penang, in paiiicular, have expressed dismay at th< state of affairs at the entrance 10 this island. 1 refer to Weld Quay where for many years stilted houses have been allowed to -pring up on a muddy and
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  • 945 5 Fine Record 01 Mr. C. D Ahearne (From Our Oirrt Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jun. 3. His Excellency the High Commissioner has approved the retirement this year of Mr. C. I). Ahearne, first Federal Secretary in (he Fed erated Malay States. I understand. Mr.
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  • 91 5 Appeal For Monthly Subscriptions Ten thousand copies of an appeal for subscriptions to the China Distress Relief Fund are being distributed in Penang by school children. Each copy of the appeal is also accompanied by a subscription form on which intending subscribers may write down their
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  • 247 5 Tragedy At Hill Farm (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 3 An Indian labourer was gored to death last morning at the Dairy farm at F raser’s Hill by’ one of the stud bulls there. The farm lies about three and a half miles from
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  • 515 5 PISTOL LOST 15 YEARS AGO Found In Dead Man’s Possession (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 3. automrtic nistol which Mr. A. J. 1~. ly of Charles Bradburne and Company lost 15 years ago was allegedly used by Cheong Yow Foon, a young Chinese who had suffered since his
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  • 139 5 Anti-Japanese Demonstrations In Kuala Lumpur fFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 2. Main thoroughfare in K uala Lum pur' s hinafown, Petahng Street was in a state of continual excitement today, when curioUs and hostile crowds gathered c.t a Chinese piecegoods shop which was the
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  • 134 5 MISSING SINCE MONDAY: LAST SEEN AT A CABARET r J I HE body of T. H. Fredrick, well known 29-year<cld Singhalese of Penang w* s found this morning in a ditch bv the side of a vacant piece of land in Eagan Jermal Road.
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  • 350 7 Civilians Leave Town In Day-time Kweilin Business Centre Wiped Out Wuchow, December 27. damage and upset of normal life in Kweilin, Kunming, Shuihing and all big towns in Kwangtung and Kwangsi were brought about by Japanese warplanes, according to reports received here. A good section
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  • 317 7 national News Agency. Hong Kong, December 27. A CCORDING to a statistical study 2*. by Dr T. C. Lee, a financial authority, in the Financial Review, a semi-official organ of the Chinese Ministry of Finance, the actual amount of silver still existing in China,
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  • 118 7 —I it circle smug- Xu-W K-S Agency Chungking. December 27. Representing l the view of the military faction, the Kokumin Shimbun, a Tokio paper, in an editorial yesterday advocated the retrocession of Hong Kong and other territories leased or ceded to foreign Powers, according to
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  • 134 7 north of the Great Wall.—lnternational News Agency. Bluecher Returns To Siberia Sian, Decemb?r 30 In view of the Soviet-Japanese tension following. Moscow’s refusal to renew the Fishery Treaty, Marshal Vassily Blue cher is reported to have arrived somewhere in Siberia from Moscow to take command of troops to
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  • 127 7 adjust improvements International News Agency. Harbin, December 27. MR. Yosuko Matsuoka, who leaped into world attenhon by leading the Japanese contingent to withdraw from he League of Nations, h?s resigned his post as President of the South Manchurian Railway. After transferring the office to Mr.
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  • 281 7 Two Million Rats In Chungking Hong Kcng, December 30. A PIPE Piper is needed very badly in Chungking, China’s war time capital with a population of 800,000, to jret rid of the 2.000,000 rats within city limits, according to officials arriving here from that city. The
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    • 659 7 WEMBLEY PARK Tonight, Wednesday 4th, January, 1939. Mnhk Silver Opera:— Will stage another romantic thriller in the form of Tnche R. Sainan’s Greatest story ever told on the Malayan stage entitle*! “THE FAITHFUL PRIME MINISTER” to be directed hy himself featuring an ali star cast including Misses Ainon-Mazenah, Sup ih,
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  • 468 8 Chinese Sentenced For Theft Of Motor-Car Tools STATED to have had seven previous convictions, a Chinest whose suspicious behaviour on seeing a detective led to his arrest and the discovery of a number of articles which he was unable to account for satisfactorily, was
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  • 427 8 Malay Boy Wins Coveted Prize ifrom Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Monday. Abu Bakar bin Tamin, one of the F.M.S. Queen’s Scholars, 1938. is looking forward to July, when he sails for England to continue his studies at Cambridge University, where he will take up Economics Part 1
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  • 31 8 London, Tuesday:—Sir Percy Loraine, British Ambassador to Turkey, is to sue ceed Lord Perth as Ambassador in Rom» on Lord Perth’s retirement in April.
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  • 236 8 Opening In Singapore Tomorrow The Methodist annual conference begins tomorrow at Singapore and will continue until next Tuesday. A large number of delegates from all parts of Malaya are expected to be present. Several delegates from Ipoh, Kampar and Sitiawan are taking payt. Mr. R. Casselring, who
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  • 160 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, Tuesday. Improved service is promised local _'.ephone subscribers with the intallaiion of the central battery system which will come into operation in this listrict some time next month. Telephone subscribers in this district are now provided with the Gecophone type
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  • 72 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Tai ping, Tuesday. With the New Year holidays overthere was the usual crop of gambling cases before the Taiping Magistrate today. Ten ricksha-pullers who were found playing "pakau” in a vacant house in Market-road were fined $2 each. A sum of
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  • 73 8 A Chinese, Kworig Chai Hong, was produced before Mr. Lim Koon Teck, Third Magistrate, Felling, yesterday on two charges of being in possession of two tahils of opium and half tahil of chandu at the Church-street Pier on January 2. After the charges had been explained}' the case
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  • 78 8 Badly Damaged, But No One Hurt A brand-r.ew car belonging to Dr. S. K. Lim of Sitiawan came Into collision with a another car near Falim, Ipoh, on Monday night. The doctor was going towards Menglembu when suddenly another car shot across th? road, ax;d the
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  • 150 8 Varied Programme Arranged (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Tuesday. Thirty-eight Australian schoolboys, members of the Young Austraia League, arrived in Singapore today from Penang on a visit to Malaya. During their visit to Singapore the boys will live in St. Andrew’s House by permission of Rev.
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  • 107 8 Mr. Teh Kar How And Miss Lim Soak Hoon (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Monday. A pretty Chinese wedding was solemnised at the Kiung Chow Hoey Kuan, Teluk Anson, at 1 p.m. yesterday when Mr. Teh Kar How, second son of Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 132 8 The Hon. Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley, who is spending the court vacation at Cameron Highlands, came down to Ipoh on Monday specially in connection with a criminal appeal which was listed for hearing at noon. In case one Mihan Singh appealed against the conviction and sentence
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  • 131 8 Abdul Rani, a Malay with 22 pre vious convictions, was sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment by Che Ismail, Second Magistrate, Ipoh, yesterday on a charge of theft of a pair of shoes from the house of Abdul Latiff at the Central Police Station. The sentence is
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  • 1022 8 “We have* pleasure in announcing,” states the latest bulletin of the Technical Association of Perak, “that the Hon. the British Resident of Perak has honoured the Association by consenting to become one of our patrons, the other being His Highness the
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  • 54 8 LMr. Alfred Shia (right), leader of the Wuhan 'Songsters, and Miss Pauline Choic. of Peking, one of the singers uho arrived in Malaya by the Conte Biancamano over the u'cek-cnd. The Wuhan Songsters, a party of about 30 young Chinese students from Hankow, are now touring
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  • 72 8 The Perak Flying Club will hold two competitions during this wieek-end, for forced landing and aerobatics. The forced landing competition for the Windeatt Cup will be run on handicap lines. The other competition is for the Aerobatic Cup. Arrangements are being made by the Perak Flying
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  • 110 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Colombo. there are many apparent defects in li i( educational system, of Malaya,” Sir William McLean, chairman of the <-< on Higher Education in 55 v:i, when he passed through Colombo n the Rawalpindi. unmission had therefore been apjiti 1,
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  • 142 9 luo Unemployed ouths* Ambition Singapore with only a dollar illy-made bicycles between ung Singapore men, William x ony Chua, have arrived They took two weeks for the d in' nd leaving this week for of employment for some time, i travel as ter as India in
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  • 118 9 Pmang Tamils Acquitted (hi Gaining Charge p. that he disbelieved the ry that the two ac- n gambling with notes, Mr. Li K Teck, Third Magistrate, sterday acquitted and distw< Indians. Tolishi and Borts.. charge of gamingi in public at P w toad on January 2. Det-
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  • 66 9 m Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Tuesday. Th- i.ath has occurred from heart hire (’apt. James Cecil Leigh'!l lb was 80 years old. 'b’et. Leighton was at one time secreStraits Merchant Service Guild I I several years ago. He is sur- I by his widow, who is
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  • 108 9 I,lc annum, seafarers' Christmas dinner was nela yc the itimine i osrei, ipore. About I*o men. representing nim> ai n9 <■ dinner of turkey and mince pies, and afterwards saw tin film “Mutiny On The Bounty:- The ainm, was under th down to an excelled
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  • 437 9 SOCIAL PERSONAL PR. and MRS. C. T. MILES, of Kuala Lumpur, have returned to their station from leave. MR. A. E. JAKEMAN, O.C.P.D. Kuala Lumpur, left on Saturday for Home on furlough. MR. JAKEMAN was at one time stationed at Ipoh. <8 The High Commissioner has fixed tii price of
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  • 140 9 Pleading guilty to a charge of committing house trespass at Muntristreet on December 21 last, with intention to commit theft, a Chinese. Lim Heng Hiong, was yesterday bound over in the sum of $25 for three months by Mr. Lim Koon Teck. Third Magistrate, Penang.
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  • 607 9 GANJA TOBACCO IN KITCHEN OE BANGKOK EXPRESS RESTAURANT CAR CHINESE HEAVILY FINED IN PENANG The story of a frustrated attempt to smuggle a large quantity of Indian hemp and Siamese tobacco bv the Bangkok Express was related in the District Court, Penang, yesterday, when four Chinese, Poo Kim Yan, Low
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  • 72 9 Twenty traffic summonses were heard before Mr Lim Koon Teck Third Magistrate, Penang, in the Middle Court yesterday. For driving his car without a reflector in Light-street on December 7, a Chinese, Gan Teng Kee, was fined $2. Defendant pleaded guilty. Another Chinese, Lee Soon Lee,
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  • 125 9 Five Cases Reported In Idoh Five cases of diphtheria are reported from Green Town, Ipoh, where a number of Governfnent servants are housed. This morning swabs of the sputum of over 80 children were taken from Green Town area. The Health Officer, Sanitary Board states that
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  • 134 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. When he retired to his shop opposite the Bukit Bintang Amusement Park last night the proprietor was suddenly seized by a man from the back. He managed to wriggle out of his assailant’s grasp and
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  • 138 9 Thinks N. Z. Government Is Safe (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Tuesday. On his w’ay to New Zealand, as guest of the Labour Government, the British Labour Peer Lord Strabolgi passed through Singapore by K-L.M. plane from England. “The apprehension in England regarding the New Zealand
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  • 75 9 A Chinese Wong Ah Moon, was produced before Mr. Lim Koon Teck, in he Middle Court. Penang yesterday, charged with having committed theft of an electric bicycle lamp, valued at $l, belonging to Kandar Veloo in a field in front of the Penang Turf Club, on
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    • 44 9 mickey mouse POPLIN 1 "101 s WEMCOJ PRINTS JI ST ARRIVED h lightful to Wear U;hv to Wash 1 ast Colours LEASES THE CHILDREN. IS ENGLISH MADE Au RO R A S Ij ERARTMENT store k CORNER OF HIGH st. NORTH BRIDGE RD. SINGAPORE.
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    • 134 9 /$4l WIkVA W »■>< nu/ UH x i I Z"" 1 CE.ASS IEADXR FOR 1930 THE NEW /T) Q B W&mIO hlsh tandard COMFORT 1« one of motoring. “Centre-Poise” riding smooth--B^'‘W the features that have placed the Ford ness, fuff noise-and draught-insulation, TlT<Jlß?x ••prefect” among today’s most succeeaM ••••< appointments,
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  • 1786 10 London Believes Buffer Wil! Control Market MR. C. V. STEPHENS AND THE TIN RESTRICTION (From Our Own Correspondent) London. December 21. npiN sentiment in London is no less variable than the I weather. That is to say, while one
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  • 114 10 (From Our London Staff.) London, December 19. F N the House of Commons to1 night Capt. L. F. Plugge (Cons., Chatham), asked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether overseas credits were available for trade with the Colonies; and, if so, to what extent such credits had
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  • 157 10 IN a despatch designed to be read ’round about Christmas, it is, perhaps, permissible to be l ght-hearted and to quote two rhymes which are now’ circulating on the London Metal Exchange, writes our London Correspondent. The first refers to the efficiency with which buffer pool control
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  • 96 10 During the week ending December 24 1938, exports from Malayan ports amounted to 21,230 cases, of which: 12.066 (57 per cent.) cases w’ere to the I nited Kingdom, 412 (2 per cent.) cases to the Con‘inent of Europe, Nil per cent.) cases to Canada, and 8.752
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  • 43 10 The Controller of Rubber*^falaya. notifies On the advice of the Malayan Rubber F und Committee the cess on rubber ported from all Administrations will be raised from .15 cent per lb. to .25 cent per lb. with effect from February 1, 1939
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  • 1860 10 Company Amalgamating With Malayan Producers r pHE ninth annual general meeting of Jalang Tinggi 5 Rubber, Ltd., was held at the Registered Office of tb«e Company, Changkat Kinding Estate, Tanjong Rambutan at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 29th December, 1938. Those present included Mr. H. P.
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    • 45 10 I I STEEL “Il WINDOW FRAMES I I french doors ffimMO etc;- etc, J Equal to the best H M R imported makes« 9 K —s I BY I i I EASTERMIIFG. CO. J J I» River Road, y I I Pemmg. m ’PHONB: 1484.
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  • 292 11 JEWISH REFUGEES ARRIVE IN HOLLAND JEWISH children, refugee's from districts a r o n n d Frankfort >n German v. receiving attention from nurses at Naardennear Amsterdam, after they had crossed the frontier into Holland. Kight: The Mayoress oi \aarden. at the let* of the
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  • 254 12 Quicker Dyeing Improved methods of dyeing have put new’ life into the British woollen industry. While individual inventors w’in outstanding fame by some worldshattering discovery—the X-rays, the telephone, or the steam-engine—-often inventions or improvements of great value are made without anyone outside the trade affected know’ing much about
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  • 443 12 Zurich, Dec. 23. CWITZERLAND in 1938 was oppressed by a growing fear of becoming the battleground of a future European war. That anxiety began to take concrete shape when the Anschluss of Germany and Austria in February gave Switzerland a new common frontier with the
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  • 139 12 A party of 26 amateur actors and acti esses from Singapore, under the style of the Yeh Yue Amatuer Dramatic Party, arrived in Penang during the week-end, and will be staging a Mandarin play, entitled The Coming Of Dawn” on January 6 and 7, at
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  • 629 12 Impoverishment Of Arab Population TRADE AFFECTED, SURPLUS DISAPPEARS Jerusalem, Dec. 2S. THE general state of insecurity in Palestine was reflected in the financial and economic developments of the country during 1938. Most striking of all, have been the impoverishment jr even partial pauperisation of the
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  • 178 12 London—There is a game they are playing in the South of France which we do not see in this country—pelota or hi-li. It is a first-rate spectacle. It was started over three centuries ago by the Basques in Spain, and at that time they used to hit
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  • 506 12 Dublin, Dec. 28. QOUTHERN Ireland in 1938 cast off almost its last remaining tie with Great Britain and became virtually an independent, sovereign republic. Under the new constitution, which became effective on the eve of this year, the former Irish Free State ceased
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 612 12 B. B. C. TODAY TRANSMISSION 2 P.M. 6.05 Big Ben. ‘lf I Were You.’* 6.35 Jay Wilbur and his Band.* 7.20 BBC Welsh Orchestra. 8.20 ‘Empire Exchange.’* 8.35 Recital of Gaelic Songs. 8.50 The News and Announcements. 9.05 Greenwich Time Signal. 9.10 End of Transmission 2. TRANSMISSION 3 P.M. 9.20
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    • 1042 12 retd io radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio radio PENANG SINGAPORE ZHJ 6.08 mc/s (49.3 m. ZHP 9 69 me s (30.96 m.) TODAY TODAY F.M. P.M. 6.00 Malay Music. 7.00 Variety Pro- 1.00 Miscellaneous Programme of New gramme (Recorded). 7.30 Penang Muni- Gramophone
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    • 17 12 PENANG TIDE TABLE TODAY High Low 11.39 p.m. 5.36 p.m. TOMORROW 6.27 a.m. 12.18 p.m. 6.31 pan.
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  • 431 13 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh And Penang SEA MAILS OUTWARD British North Borneo Ipoh 12.45 p.m. Friday: :■> r iir 7 p.m. Friday. Northern Sumatra e Penang. 11 a.m. today Singapore Yenang 4 p.m. Mondays by s > Kedah Ipoh sp.m. Friday; Kuala 7 i r
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  • 752 13 arrivals Today: PRES, ADAMS ex San Francisco via ports. KLANG ex Singapore via ports. Tomorrow: TER UK UNI MARU ex Janan via. Singapore. BENALDER ex Japan via Singapore. MATANG ex Victoria Point, Renong, Kopah and Tongkah. BULAN ex Singapore via ports. BELLEROPHON ex Singapore.
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 484 13 BLUE FUNNEL LINE EEKLY SERVICE TO LONDON NO RTH CONTINENT Leaves f’enang Du* 1 nndon VIENESTHEUS Calls Marseilles Glasgow Jan. 6 Feb. 1 I LINTSHIRE Calls Antwerp Middlesboro Jan. 14 Feb. 12 aIINEAS Calle? Marseilles Glasgow Jan. 19 Feb. 18 TEN DAY SERVICE 1O LIVERPOOL VIA HAVRE Liverpool IELLEROPHON Jan.
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    • 203 13 SILVER JAVA PACIFIC LINE Joint Service of Pacific Java Bengal Line and Silver Line, Limited to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and North Pacific Ports. m.v. “MARKEN” (P) Jan. 17 m.v. “BENGALEN” (P) Feb. 14 (via Java Manila) —also loading for Gulf Ports) VESSELS FROM PACIFIC COAST. For further particulars
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    • 749 13 P& o BRITISH IND'A (Incorporated in England) PORT SWETTENHAM SINGAPORE S.S. “RAJULA” S AILING THURSDAY, sth JANUARY, 1939 Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under contract with His Majesty’s Government, London and Far East Mail Service. Outwards from London for China Japan Homewards for Colombo, Aden, Port Said} due Penan?
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  • 751 14 Bruce Mitchell’s Slow Motion Act Capetown, Tuesday. ENGLAND took their overnight score of 553 for eight to i 559 for nine, at which stage they declared, whsn play in the second Test was resumed this morning. The weather was s m i.v at the
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    14 14 Balaskas, Afitcan bowler, punishes Verity yesterday, hutuu'i joi.r boitndaries of/ him m .m.
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  • 1046 14 Corinthians And Casuals Merger? ’By Our Own Correspondent). London. December 21. Followers of amateur football, w ho »ave been depressed al the fall in status n recent ears of the Corinthians, will earn with interest that there is every .nance that the Corinthians and Casuals a ill
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  • 101 14 Reuter. London, Tuesuay. One of the greatest soccer sensations for many years has been caused by the announcement of the findings of the joint committee of the Football Association and the Football League appointed to investigate alleged breach rules of the Ysrociation and the League by the
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  • 70 14 Reuter Celtic Beaten At Home London, Tuesday. FTpODAY’S fixtures in the Scottish JL Football League resulted as follows:/ FIRST DIVISION Arbroath 1, Hearts 1 Ayr 3. Aberdeen 3. Celtic 0, Queen’s Park 1 Falkirk 4, Kilmarnock 0 Hibernian 2, Raith 1 Motherwell 3. Albion 1. Partick 2,
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  • 46 14 Reuter. Sydney. Tuesday. In a Sheffield Shield match b?tween Queensland and Victoria. D. Tallon, the Queensland wicketkeeper, dismissed twelve batsmen, thus equalling the world recoid ot E. Pooley of Surrey in 1868. lalb < .ught six and stumped three in two mn.ngs. Reuter
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  • 76 14 The Ipoh Police had a successful trp to Penang during the New Year holidays, lheir first string proved too good for the. Penang Police "A.” winning 6 —l. Meeting the Se, oy Lines Recreation Club, the I, oh Police won six -nil. The Police reserves drew
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  • 38 14 The .January Monthly Mt dal go f competition of the Penang Sports Club will be played on January 14 and 15. The women’s January Monthly Medal (bogey) will take place today and tomorrow over holes 10 18.
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  • 1170 14 Full Programme For The Last Day BELOW is the programme for the fourth and last day of the Penang Turf Club’s Christmas-New Year Meeting next Saturday, January 7. The card comprises eight events three of which are for stayers, the remainder being over sixfurlongs. Good fields
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    • 264 14 If You Have “Acid Indigestion” ALKALIZE STOMACH ALMOST INSTANTLY THIS AMAZING “PHILLIPS” WAY DR.SMITH TOLD US TO USE GENUINE PHILLIPS MILK OF «SV ,N MAGNES.A. IT ALKALIZES AN j 4 AC,D CO:ID!T,ON ALMOST /WRKHW IMMEDIATELY. WEVE FOUND ,T IvaNDERFUL J C ACID I (DIGESTION ‘-eOLiO MANX A GOOD a -T*
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  • 573 15 Bombus In Great Form pointers From Today’s Track Work By Tic-Tac that impressed me most this morning <• i Festival ami Slieve Anieria. Both are in tipion am! will he hard to beat in their respective rar( mi Saturday. of 'Jin Breukelen. Duval, .Major Fox.
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    32 15 ts demanding a title fight with Eric Boon. British lightweight champion. Danahar, former amateur 'hampion 4.cho 'teas yet to be beaten, is considered by critics to be superior to Boon.
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  • 278 15 Fairer Conditions For Next Match London. —Here is great golf news. An agreement has been reached between our Professional Golf ei s’ Association and their opposite number in America that in future the Ryder Cup tournament, staged every two years, shall be played in time and place
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  • 60 15 The following will represent the Old Xaverians’ Association against the Penang Colts on January 6on the S.X.I. ground: Georgie Lim; Lim Cheng Hoe, Yeang Kah Cheng; N. R. Danker, Chee Phui San, J. Read; Ooi Ewe Choo, Lee Ee Sin, C. Danker, J. Reutens and N. Perera. Reserves:
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  • 368 15 EUROPEANS NO MATCH FOR CHINESE Four-Nil Hockey Defeat On Esplanade T)LAYED on a slippery ground in a slight drizzle, yester- day’s hockey match on the Esplanade, in which the Chinese Recreation Club defeated the Penang Sports Club by four clear goals, turned out to be a scrappy affair. The Chinese
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  • 150 15 London. Dec. 20. It will please Larwood’s admirers that none other than Warren Bardsiey. Australia's famous left-hander, writing in the Australian paper “The Sporting Globe.” defends Larwood tooth and nail. He devotes two columns to the unforgettable body-line controversy, giving his piece the title. “Larwood Was R.ght.''
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  • 670 15 Purse Offer Of £4,000 London. Dec. 21. Purse offer of 14,000, with a privilege of 50 per cent, of the gate, was made last night by promoter Sydney Hulls for a British Empire heavyweight championship match between Len Harvey and Larry Gains, the coloured Canadian,
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  • 289 15 Grimmett Takes 11 For 175 Adelaide, Dec. 20. South Australia beat the holders, New South Wales, by an innings and 55 runs in their Sheffield Shield match here today. South Australia made 600 for 8 and declared, C. L. Badcock topscoring with 271 not out. Don Bradman
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  • 116 15 London, Dec. 20. It is freely rumoured that Don Bradman is a candidate for the £l,ooo-a-year job of Melbourne Cricket Club secretary. This secretarial pest in Melbourne is one of the. most attractive in cricket. The last to hold it was the late Hugh 1
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    • 99 15 a»—r ■«■■mflflfl Hjf j nip I: 1 kS. R. BAR. R! STU RANT GRILL ROOM .LASS FOOD. Ml \1 > Vl’ ANY HOUR, rsonal supervision hi c from Singapore IR\ I NDER IDEAL < > IHTDNS. )A LY I NDER 1 WAGEMENT I 1 RATE TERMS. I f jEfIH MM
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    • 325 15 READY WXED OIL PAINT OF ALL DEALERS “A inmuuj i ir I L 1 —l HOW TO SHORTEN CONVALESCENCE A long convalescence is tedious and tiring to both doctor and patient. After many operations and illnesses, digestion is affected and impaired, yet it is necessary to eat well to regain
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  • 133 16 MIDDAY PRICES PREVIOUSLY LATEST LONDON—(Spot) £217.0.0 £217.0.0 LONDON—(3 months) £218.0.A) £218.0.0 SINGAPORE 7.’.’.”.”. BUSINESS DONE PENANG »*.*..7*7*7 slll 62 BUSINESS DONE *7 Buyers no sellers 50 tens COPRA—(Sundried) Buyers no sellers $3.50 BLACK PEPPER Buyers no sellers $8.50 HBER LONDON 8 Ad 8 Ad NEW YORK 7.7777* 16%c(G) 16Ac(G)
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  • 117 16 SI’ I H Prev. Paris 176 49 64 176 37 64 New York 4.64% 4.62 A Montreal 4.68 8 4.67 Brussels 27.61 27.42 »2 Geneva 20.60 Amsterdam 8.51 Milan g 8 i 4 g 77g 11.57 11.53» 2 Stockholm 19.42 19.42 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Osl 19.90 Vienna unquoted
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  • 118 16 I-4TNDON. January 3. Buyers Sellers RUBBER. Firmer. London 8 Ad. 8 Ad. February B%d. 8 Ad. Apl./June B%d. BAd. July/Sept. BAd. B%d. New York: (opening) 16.20 cts. United Kingdom Stocks:— London 55,632 tons Liverpool 31,056 tons COPRA: Straits S. D. Rotterdam. £10.12.6 PEPPER: White Muntok: in
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  • 126 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. T* l Boyers Seller* Ayer Weng 6 0 .65 Batu Selangor 1.35 j 49 Hong Fatt 70 72i; Kuchai i .25 1.30 Petalings 7.00 7.25 Rahman Hyd. 1 1214 1 17 v Kaub Gold Ms 3 Rantau 1.45 1.59 Taiping Cons. 1.62% 1.67% Ampat 39 43* Berjuntai
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  • 259 16 New York. Tuesdav. Aircrafts weakened on the apprehension of possible congressional conflict over the defence plans, which with the impending President’s message, restrained activity. However, it is learned later that Roosevelt states that tomorrow’s congressional message does not include national defence problems, but a special defence message
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  • 23 16 TIN Penang siii.62 i 4 per pkl. Singapore $111.62% per pkl. RUBBER Penang (Spot) per lb. Singapore (Spot) 28%c per lb.
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  • 166 16 KENNEDY CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampat 3|9 413 Ayer Weng 60 65 Ba.tu Selangor 1.35 3 40 Hong Fatt .69 .72 Hongkong Tin 18 9 19 9 Ipoh 22 6 23 6 Jelebu .571/2 .62% Kampong Lan jut 169 17 3 Kamunting 93 100 Kramat 1919 10 9 Kuchai Ordv
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  • 132 16 Charged in Penang yesterday with possession of utensils for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, a Chinese, Lee Lam, said he wanted some samsti for medicinal purposes. Sentence was deferred to January 5. Another Chinese, Koh Teng Seng, who was arrested in Trong, charged with
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  • 84 16 Tonight at the Esplanade from p.m. to 10.30 p.m.: 1. March Potpourri—Step of Glory Winter 2. Overture —Giralda —Adam. 3 Suite —Scenes of Childhood Hoby i. A Beautiful Morning. ii. The Punch Doll’s Seretiad iii. Play. 4. Descriptive—The Kiltie’s Court Macken zie INTERVAL 5. Romance Sans Paroles,
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    • 763 16 BANKS I THE CHARTERED BANK Experience Teaches One W To Save, But How Many m X Ckarter 1853 «.000.0« Have Found A Way To Reserve Fund £3, 000,UR. Rt jerve Liability of Proprietors £3,000,00» rllt t»V 1 heir Head Office No 38 Bishopsgate, London, E.C. Dollars Manchester Office No. 71
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    • 999 16 HEID <2. ■^HOP G gJ S E 8 T.„EE 5 ANC R ;PHgNE N!? > »W, WTTB EXTENS.Oy, SiWl e 'S K S* Office: 40, 43, Fleet Street. London, E.C. 4. 'Phone Central 3608—3€09 Tel “Leartu»#' 01 London. Kaf«e Subscriplion for Pinang Gazette and Sunday Gazette PINANG GAZETTE Local Delivery
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