Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 13 January 1939

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  • 19 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESIAB. 1833 PIBI.ISHED lIAII.Y io. Vol. \cvn. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 1073 1 Little Gained From Visit Wide Disappointment Felt In Rome Rome, Thursday. THE formal conversations between Mussolini and Mr. Chamberlain have come to an end two days before the British Prime Minister planned to leave Rome. There is a keen feeling of disappointment over the
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  • 56 1 -Reuter Thursday. XIftTIEICATION of the I Western Pacific by Britain and the United States is re- ‘‘with grave concern” the Japanese Navy, declared Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, the Japant Admiralty spokesman. ph. r r.v s ’ll proposed strengthenGu'ini 1 land, he .said that per,;’lv he (W no
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  • 182 1 n Knt to liaim compensation.—British Wireless. Violation < >f British alers London. Thursday. i ir- ilt of an examination of the 1 circun stances of the attack on the British steamer Marionga on Decemt r 29. the British Government has lodged a protest with the Spanish
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  • 64 1 VI HCI Mt —Reuter. Lite' M Joe Luis Diez London. Thursday. 1 Luis thout precedent, n<>t n decided. Her presence in ir n °t without its embarrasstij,. authorities and she is bea > ‘Ui-'d because her owners are l to reinovt her vithin the time specified
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  • 279 1 Chungking, Thursday. h'Hnd Chinese Air Force, which will soon be vice. will be well equipped and will meet the etjual terms. <‘ign airmen have offered their services, and >te<l are 300 Russians. l! < 1 I I i X. surrounded again
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  • 229 1 Washington. Thursday. /CONGRESS was struck by the moV. 4 deration the defence message and it seems that there is little doubt that the .President’s recommendations will be approved without serious opposition. Virtually the only voice raised against it that of Hu’-Hton Fish, who said that
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  • 112 1 —Reuter. American Plans Washington, Friday The American aircraft industry produced 1.800 military planes in 1938 and can produce 5.500 in 1939. according to a statement issued here by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce after President Roosevelt's defence message to Congress. The statement says that, contrary to popular
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  • 118 1 Dissatisfied With Methods Of Mufti Jerusalem, Thursday. )R 1) [X (> to a reliable report from Damascus, Abdul Rahim, one of the two principal rebel leaders in Palestine, arrived there al the beginning of the week having abandoned the supreme leadership in the Palestine revolt. .—Reuter.
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  • 149 1 approval ou. ue uvum nw statutory authority in peace time. —British Wireless. Great Britain's Civil Defence London, Thursday. The Lord Privy Seal, who is responsible for civil defence, met representatives of 28 London boroughs today and discussed the organisation of A.R.P. The general progress, he told
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  • 124 1 —Reuter. Budapest, Thursday. A DEFINITE announcement that x>. Hungary vzill join the AntiComintern Pact if invited to do so in a suitable form by the present signatories was made by Count Czacy at an important meeting of the National Unity (Government) Party. The statement follows the
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  • 56 1 —Reuter. Kaunas, Thursday. The Governor of Memel ha.s agreed to the appointment of Willy Bertuleit, a Nazi, as President of the Memel Directory, other members of which are also Nazis. The newly elected Diet, in which Nazis holds almost all the seats, is expected to meet
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  • 1666 2 Broke Away When China’s Prospects Were Brighter (From Our Own Correspondent.) Hong Kong, Jan. 8. THl{ most astounding feature of the amazing decision oi Wang Ching-wei to break away from the Kuomintang and advise China to capitulate to Japan was that it came just
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  • 93 2 —Reuter. Moscow, Thursday. IT is officially announced that decision to speed up Russia’s defence industry have resulted in a complete re-organisation of the Commissariat. The defence industry is to be divided nto four separate Commissariats, namely, cviation, shipbuilding, war supplies and irma meats. Th.s step reflects
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  • 133 2 —Reuter. London. Thursday. It is learned that the British Govern-, ment has sent a strong protest to General Franco regarding the action of Nationalist warships when the Republican destroyer Jose Luis Diez slipped out of Gibraltar last month. It is stated that the Nationalist
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  • 71 2 Happy End To Soviet Flight London. Thursday. T>RIAN Grover and his Russian wife were formally re-married according to English law at the Chelsea Register Office today. A crowd of several hundreds, mostly women, and a large number of photographers surged round the couple whei they left
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  • 74 2 —Reuter. ‘“All Problems Settled In 'Principle” Berlin, Thursday:—“l am able to state that all problems have been settled in principle to our mutual satisfaction,” declared Herr Funk, the German Minister of Economics, when he returned today from Rome, where he discussed economic questions with Signor
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  • 318 2 Important Railway May Be Cut Barcelona, Wednesday. THE capture of the Republican forces of two important positions on the Cordoba front, namely, Pic de Santaines and Col. de Castuera, is reported from Jaen. Reuter. It is claimed that this success inter.* sifies the threat
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    27 2 'iiHoMAS DEWEY, Director of Public Pro.,ecu- on in the State of New York, i- a liki ly Republican cjiididule lor the Presidenti./ elections text year.
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  • 193 2 JVV fl 11IIIVI1L —-Reuter. Last Session Of Parliament Ottawa, Thursday. The fourth, and probably the last session. of the present Parliament opens today with a speech from the throne by Lord Tweedsmuii. the Governor-General. A general election is expected to follow the close of the
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  • 218 2 .—Reuter. London, 'Jh ir-, COMPLETE at today’s met ternational Wheat A tee for conven wheat conference. The place is yet to be fixed. Mr. Massey, the Can <|.; H aid that the Canadian seriated itself with th< nvnt on the desirability tl r.. ional Wheat Com. that
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  • 100 2 —Reuter. Chungking, Thursday. Russia would agree to p to war against Japan in three sets of circumstances, declared Dr. Sun-fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, in a speech at Chungking on January 7. These .were, firstly, that the Leagued Nations enforced sanctions against Japan; secondly,
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  • 90 2 crvvui —Reuter. Chungking, Thursday Whether Britain and the Unite Sta E- be able to present a united front W check the Japanese onslaught in Ciuna will be determined, it is believed > n Chungking, by developments at Rome talks between Mr. Ciiurl"' 1Ai:l and Signor Mussolini.
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  • 51 2 —Reuter. £1,850,000 To Be Spent On Repair Sydney, Thursday: A s< l ions ness has been discovered In tin 4 Burrinjuck dam. the great! lia, and following expert 1 the New South Wales Gov.-rn decided that remedial v' 1 taken immediately at a cost 1
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  • 109 2 Ottawa. IhuraJv “The uncertainties of the future and conditions of make it imperative,’’ declared the Governor General, Lord i opening the Canadian Parliament with the Speech iron» die 1 —Reuter. Lord Tweedsmuir announced that the Government would propose to Pari ament further augmentation of the
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    • 419 2 THAT SUDDEN STAB OF PAIN In the back, or the elbows, shoulders, knees a sudden twinge; it is wort some days than others, and only too often people put up with it until a severe’ attack forces them to recognise the fact that they have rheumatism. Accumulations of uric acid
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  • 1075 3 I’ooM vuh s Defence Message Washington, Thursday. from other nations leads us to believe Hhic inu-i he complete revision of our aircraft Thinking in terms of necessary defences, the e ((inclusion is that our existing forces are so 5i i
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  • 63 3 —Reuter. New York. Thursda'. THE Chinese Government A has entered a tentative contract with the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation for two hundred bombers, according to the Herald Tribune, at a total cost of £1.700,000. Each plane mounts five guns and carries seven bombs. Ihe contract, says the
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  • 357 3 —Reuter. Berlin. Thursday. rpHFRE is great indignation here 1. at reports of incidents at Amsterdam and The Hague, where, it is stated, shots were fired at the residence of an official of the German Consulate and the office of the secretary of the Gt rman Legation
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  • 64 3 British Wireless. London, Thursday:—Final approval has been given by the King and Queen ano Queen Mary to the design for a memV ial to the late King George V, which is to be erected on a site adjacent to Westminster Abbey. The architect of the scheme
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  • 154 3 London, Thursday. /TIDE Foreign Office states that information has been reI reived that Mr. Jerram, acting British Agent in Burgos, hAs visited Mr. Golding, the arrested British Pro-Consul, v. ho has no complaint to make against their treatment whde being' detained. —Reuter. A St.
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  • 34 3 .—Reuter Rome, Thursday. The death has occurred of Pri^ Mafalda, the second daughter of Kuig Vittorio Emmanuel, aged 36 She married, on September 20. 1925, Prince Philip of Hesse. Reuter
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  • 425 4 r I! all intents and purposes Mr. Chamberlain's visit to Rome has been a complete and utter failure in the sense that, according to the latest reports, his talks with Mussolini have concluded without any concrete result being achieved. Reports are at present too hazy on what has actually
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  • 1116 4  -  Modern Slang Has Classical Origins: Phrases ‘Catch On By Arthur I. Goldberg eramage,” 1816) —and ai’ei i life he died at 36.— Cop) N.A.N.A WHEN the life of the party evokes an uproar by slinging such infectious slang as “one foot in the grave” or
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    • 39 4 INVERTED BI'VRS). CROUJN I V "7* 4lS**" POUCV OP’APPEA^ wt>4T 3* I T PEBU'IO'NG POR H>TISR THE I 1$ (U GERNVSH fleet suRRCnDE<?£O v I 4 \fr' Jf\ M,s /I 9 J J I I OAD LOW'S ALMANACK PXOPHECit';
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  • 534 5 jlinif t [uUGH the Penang women i n the Public Services in Be. to be held in were by no means the list of words (lOl h .ides, it is apparent ,j a harder task than the most astoflish- faci that while the men ~1 confronted with
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  • 606 5 Further Discussion By Commissioners MALCOLM CO.’s AMENDED TENDER ACCEPTED AT the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners in December there was a debate on Messrs. Malcolm Co.’s tender for the filtration of the Guillemard Reset voir, After the debate the matter was referred back for further
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  • 227 5 Miss V. Ponnudurai’s Broadcast Penang listeners report an excellent reception of Miss iolet R. Ponnudurai a broadcast from the Colombo Bioadcas=tin>, Station last night. Miss Ponnudurai said that the programmes put forward during the Children’s Hour were of great interest to Ceylonese children in Malaya.
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  • 169 5 Malay Settlement Drains I ailing into line with Singapore, the Penang Rural Board yesterday fixed a rate for 1939 of one cent on each tappable tree under Section 4 of the Rubber Estates Assessment Ordinance for estates of less than 100 acres in Penang. For administrative purposes
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  • 1153 5 The first Malaya -Siam Conference 01 the i oung Men’s Christian Association v.as field *n the premises ci the oaivstion Army, 226, Macanster Road, Penang on Jan. 6. i and The lodowing delegates were in alien*- nice: Hon. Mr. aB. Joi dan,
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  • 583 5 I From Our London Staff) London, Jan. 4. Congratulations to Mr. J. G. Hay on the knighthood conferred upon him in the New Year Honours List, were forthcoming from Malayans of many generations at the Association of British Malaya’s annual At Home, held at
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  • 184 5 From Apprentice To Squadron Leader (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 2. Behind the announcement, in today’s R.A.F. half-yearly promotion list, that Fit. -Lt. N. C. S. Rutter, at present stationed in Singapore, has been appointed a squadron-leader (a rank equivalent to an Army major
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  • 159 5 Proceeds For China Relief Fund Under the auspices of the Penang China Distress Relief Fund, an art exhibition is being held at the Min Sin Sean, Penang, by the Malayan Chinese Artists’ Union, tor three days. Commencing yesterday, the exhibition will be continued today and tomorrow. Tickets
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  • 91 5 The Crag Hotel. Penang, in conjunction with the Penang Hill Railway, has arranged, as from Sunday, Jan. 15, an inclusive Sunday Excusion to Penang Hill. The cost of the excursion will be $5, this to include first class return fare on the railway and lunch,
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    • 426 6 ACCLAIMED >A FIRST-RATE CHILLER BY ALL IL Jk B THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN IT! Knrtl W' 1 J LAST MIGHT TONIGHT! U The world’s most A ivacious Musical Comedy Star in the World's Greatest Musical Comedy Success 6. 15 I (KN l( 11 I 9.30 Over 500,000 People Saw The
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    • 315 6 MAJESTI( OPENING SUNDAY NIGHT: IF YOU ENJOYED THEODORA GOES WILD BY ALL MEANS SEE jl Even more riotous romantics/ A etunning steno goes i '-'L XX I’ berserk when love cornea yalong —stages the maddest vrrWl manhunt since the first a£-j& boss discovered that his J; Bocrotary knew more than
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  • 91 7 Judgment Reserved 1 From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping Thursday. After a protracted hearing, the Taip;ng gambling case, in which nine prominent members of the Taiping Literary Improvement Association are involved, was brought to a close yesterday, after >ccupying the whole day. Mr. S. Seenivasagam, counsel for
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  • 172 7 Alleged to have abetted the offence f offering an illegal gratification'Xamasamy a tindal on Tong Seng in Mines, Kampong Ka.payang, vas summoned before Mr. C. H. akers, Protector of Chinese, Perak, who at as Magistrate. Mr. N. B. Thomas, Chief Court Inspector, Ipoh, prosecuted, while Mr.
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  • 43 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) 1 Teluk Anson. S. Appasamy, technical tached to the Drainage and I rri atl Teluk Anson, was discharged in Teluk Anson magistrate’s co rt charge of causing the death of M samy on November 24 at Rungkup.
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  • 694 7 Permanent Atlantic Force Is Being Considered Washington, Dec. 29. |\JEXT session of Congress, in January, may decide 'whether the United States is to have an Atlantic fleet, upplementing the Pacific fleet, in the maintenance of a wo-ocean naval standard. Naval observers here are increasingly of
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  • 103 7 An appeal for funds for 1,000 war- stricken families n Fukien Province was made by Mr. Teh Aik Ting at a meeting of the Perak Hokkien Kong Hoay. In a small district in Fukien Province 1,000 able-bodied men went to the front to
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  • 532 7 SOCIAL PERSONAL HAJI MOHAMED EUSOFF. Assistant Registrar of Co-operation, F. M. S., Kuala Lumpur, is in ipvh on duty. CAPTAIN P. H. C. HAYWARD, Adjutant, Kedah olunteer Force, has been appointed Superintendent of Prisons. The Convent Chinese School re-opened on Monday. Pupils are received for first, second, third and fourth
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  • 134 7 It was announced at this week’s meeting of ihe Ipoh Rotary Club that the Singapore Rotary’ Club had nominated Col. Cecil Rae to be the District Governor of the 80th District for 1939-40 and that the Ipoh Rotary Club had decided to support the nomination. Mr. E.
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  • 208 7 “Source Of Special Strength” (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, Thursday “Looking at the world tedey, it seems to me that in the tremendous days that appear to lie ahead. Indians could be a source of special strength to Malaya.”, said a noted authority on Indian emigration
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  • 131 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Thursday. Pleading guilty’ to a charge of negligent driving, a Tamil cardriver named David was this morning fined $3O by Raja Salim M.C.S., First Magistrate, Taiping. Before sentence was passed upon him, the accused asked the magistrate to take Into
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  • 1833 8 IPOH HEADMASTER ON FAILINGS OF PRESENT SYSTEM Interesting Address At Rotary Club Tiffin 4i r pHE failings of the present Malay vernacular educacational system seem to lie in its stopping short at too early an age in a boy's life, and
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  • 165 8 First Attempt Of Young Thief Sentence of two months’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed by the First Magistrate, Ipoh, on a young Chinese, Cheah Seng, aged 18, on his pleading guilty to a charge of th< ft of a bicycle belonging to one Chan Sai Chun. Mr. N.B.
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  • 98 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Tai ping, Thursday. Revenue officers of the railway station last night searched a Chinese passenger on arrival from Penang and found on him a packet of chandu dross. The Chinese, Wong Kai, was today produced in the Taiping Police Court, and charged
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  • 35 8 •—Reuter. Moscow, Thursday:— The Soviet Defence Industry Commissariat is to be reorganised. Now there will be four commissariats, Aviation, Ship-building. Ammunition and armaments. M. Mikhail Kaganovich, Defence Industry Commissar. liecomes Commissar for aviation.
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  • 58 8 Heavy rain in Liu Kelantan has caused numerous subsidences and cutting slips on the railway line between Kemubu and Manekurai. It is anticipated that it will take several days to restore the line lor through traffic. Until further notice passenger and goods traffic from the south
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  • 426 8 Water Rises To Record High Level rpHE Perak River overflowed its banks yesterday i 1 Hir n j i f Kuala Kangsar, following heavy rains in Upper IH-/ 4 The Blanja pontoon bridge has been raised and all h is being diverted to the Iskandar Bridge.
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  • 162 8 (From Our Own Correspondent! Kuala Kangsar. Thursday Alleged to have posed as Inspe tor? of Weights and Measures, two Malays, Syed Uda bin Syed Omar and Abdullah bin Lebai Teyar, were produced before Che Jamal in the Magistrates Court, Kuala Kangsar, charged with fal ly representing
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  • 44 8 An apprentice boiler u i: under contract on Perak tin dredge was wnhei stringer when he fell oh on and was killed. The body then fell into th' was recovered later. No accident took place »-n kat Tin dredge as previously I
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  • 55 8 (From Our Own Corresp s Taiping. Thurxi > lie by 1 Invitations have been 1- estate dressers of Lara tea Krian and Selama distrn' H l party to be held at the b in Upper Station-road v Rat 5 p.m. in honour c n Duff,
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  • 195 8 Carrying Everything Behind Her (From Our Own Correspondent) Kampar, Wednesday. How a Chinese woman named Ong Moui tntd io hoodwink the authorities by an ingenious method of carrying liquor on her person was related in the Kampar police court before Enche Pavvan Teh this morning. Ong Mooi
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  • 70 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kampar, Wednesday. Chai Thin Chen, a Chinese, was charged before Enche Pawan Teh in the Kampar police court this morning with having cut down a rubber tree, valued at $B, on an estate at Malim Nawar without a permit from the
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  • 386 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Thursday. Ignacio Fernandez, former Madison Square boxing idol, and ex-lightweight boxing champion of the Orient and of Singapore, was fined $2O, in default of payment one week’s simple imprisonment, by the Singapore Fifth Police Magistrate, Mr. L.C. Goh. yesterday.
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  • 320 9 Ex-Cabaret Girl Attacked Twice In House A FORMER cabaret hostess living at Hutton Lane was the victim of a daring daylight robbery yesterday. The man however, secured only in cash and a gold bangle. The girl, her a mail and a small child
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  • 151 9 PIGS STILL TO BE S LAUGHTERED IN RURAL AREAS i> nane. has, ant i the T are fitted with n< U( derided not to pigs by l-• lik <iri' in the Municipa’ f j„ jon was reached at 1 v<• tV is ~n previously con- id tlie chai! man d*
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  • 86 9 sixteen Cotnicled qi. 1 •<> a raid made by the m Carnarvon-street, W day last, 16 Chinese .trg'-d before Mr. Lim h Magistrate, with gamb ..mning-house. All the l„ McLennan who pro i -.’heii he raided the 11 the accused seated th English cards. i v.
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  • 157 9 TOO D RUNK TO KNOW WHAT HE DID Indian l ined: To Pay junpensation 31!' in that in was drunk on the icident and did not t.bbed the complai- l: Tambusamy, a horse w >. v sentenced to one > ni pn 'l’.n nt and ordered to pay a i
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  • 45 9 tr;> <•; the more 1 Ibi better lor U. Wee Thiang u.- Rural a new scale of t' 'I market was It wa< ILC(| til’ll P '-.sem a monthly h,/,. the means of ««la new scale 0,1 the number of
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  • 17 9 Mai;,v O f Probationary for pro-'■imip-mg.s in 1940 "'l'' U 1 uard yesterday.
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  • 198 9 Elusive Gamblers In Police Net "Th- accused are members of a ganibng organisation which changes its venue from time to time around the vicinity of Chuiia-street and said Detective Inspector McLennan, when prosecuting in a case in "hich 11 Indians were charged yesterday before Air. Lim Koon
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  • 696 9 No Scheme Yet Approved A memorandum by Mr. E. R. C. Williams, Executive Engineer, Pene.ng, on the proposed water supply to the Balik Pulau district led to further discussion at yesterday's meeting of the Penang Rural board. Under the old scheme, Mr. Williams said, the
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  • 63 9 PENANG LIBRARY NEW BOOKS The following new books have been received at the Library:— Madame Curie, by Eve Curie. Monarchy: A Study of Louis Xl\, by Hilaire Belloc. Mozart, by W. J. Turner. Night Lights, bv Sevmour Hicks. Off Wit£ Her Head* by G. D. H. and M. Cole. The
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  • 79 9 Criminal Force Charge Against Boy Withdrawn (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Thursday. A 14-year-old Chinese boy, Teo Thian Siong, appeared in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Conrad Oldham, on a charge of using criminal force on a police constable, on January 10 in
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  • 134 9 Due Next Thursday After spending just under two months in his homeland, on his first visit in six years. Siam’s 13-year-old King Ananda Mahidol will reach Penang on Thursday in the new East Asiatic motor vessel Selandia, on his way back to Europe. The boy
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  • 113 9 Pleading guilty to the theft of five fowls al Edgecumbe-roa<j on January 7. a Malay. Che Sam bin Sheriff, was yesterday sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment plus six strokes of the rotan by Mr. Lim Koon Teck. Third Magistrate. Penang. Court Inspector D. Cowie, prosecuting,
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  • 472 9 A N attempted armed robbery in which a woman ivas alleged xAto have been rescued by four men she had hidden in her house was described before Mr. A. W. Bellany r in the Second Court, Penang, during the hearing of a preliminary
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  • 1567 10 32 per cent. Rise In U.S. Tyre Production 9d. AND 60 p.c. PROMISE TO PRODUCERS (From Our Own Correspondent) London, January 4. lONDON continues to take a firmly optimistic view of 1939’s prospects for rubber producers. Provided that peace is maintained in Europe,
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  • 365 10 Recovery Possible This Month London, January 3. AMERICAN deliveries of tin in December declined unexpect* edly to 3,400 tons, the lowest monthly total during 1938. This low return is the more disappointing as the market had been expecting a rather sharp rebound after
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  • 185 10 London, January 3. New York's buoyancy and activity are drawing renewed attention to the outlook for our own rubber companies. It is agreed that dividends in respect of the year which ended on Saturday, to be declared in March, April and May of this year, are likely’ to
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  • 29 10 ROBINSON CO. The scheme of capital recoust' :tion of Robinson and Co., utd., was adopted by a majority’ at the extraordinary general meeting held in Singapore on Saturday last.
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  • 856 10 Buffer Pool Manager Anxious To Acquire Cash (From Our Own Correspondent) London, January 4. IF London Metal Exchange gossip is reliable, we may assume that tin consumers in the United States and Europe .are beginning to fear that the International Tin Committee’s price-raising policy
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  • 45 10 j Subject to audit H. &S. B. C. Final i Dividend for the year will probably be J £3. (subject to deduction of Income j Tax etc.). 1 51,000,900 written off Bank Premises Account. Carried forward tu next year about $3,40C,C00.
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  • 163 10 Voluntary LiquidProposed As fimabadowed ing held in July last, the di r Juga Valley Tin Ar jc< able to wind up the business i- ordinary meeting "j Moorgate, E C on Januar- p.in., to consider a resol t company be wound up voluntaiii that Mr T. A.
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  • 292 10 R* -t’ The Penang Fire Brigade war r a iW out last night to 30. Kelawei-r >ad. a tree was on fire. The blaze -.as quick, mastured. C. W. Turley's c“iui dai for tk ir.g Ipoh races have arrived in leoh <ir,. are being taken out on
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  • 233 11 S </! ft i$ ’i Vo bm toors Welcomed Home r/' /<f/V/ th* fi l English cigarette for one of the wounded men h ;■■<• I’r.d.h volunteers who hate been fighting with the jcri: w/ten they at rived in n gland 1 u. Cf*r- h°iii4
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  • 187 12 Ministers’ Sons Join Up Shanghai, January 6. Owing to tne shortage of men in tht China front, the son of Foreign Ministei Hachiro Arita and another son of Genera Sadao Araki, the Minister of Education are just called to colours for service in China. General Araki,
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  • 298 12 -International News Agency Hong Kong, January 6. CHINESE troops launched a terrific attack nn the Japanese position in Taiping Chang and Fa Kiang, about 25 miles north of Canton, yesterday and inflicted heavy casualties .to the enemy, were taken by surprise. Two Japanese detachments are
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  • 196 12 Chungking. General chiang kai-shek is r determined to put an end to “fast life” among Government officials not at the front. Mr. Hsu Chung-chi, Chief of Police n Chungking, has officially announced that, “in accordance with instruct ons received from the Generalissimo, any Government,
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  • 302 12 JAPAN TO GO FASCIST Shanghai, Januaty 6. THE possibility that Japan will go Fascist at least in some form figured in Tokio politics today owing to the demand of Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. the Minister of Home Affairs, to levy as much money as possible for prosecution of the war in
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  • 261 12 The Iron Lung Who is not familiar with the new medical gadget, the Iron Lung? We have heard much about it in recent months. Today the Iron Lung, as now supplied to hospitals, is an elaborate affair, and certainly one of the most powerful and vital of all
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  • 393 12 Move To Stop Soviet Supplies For China Tientsin, December 30. rpHOUSANDS of Japanese troops assembled today along the Peiping-Hankow Railway preparing for the big military push to the North-west in order to cut off Soviet supplies to China, which are reported to be increasing. The Japanese
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  • 102 12 Kweifin, January 6. Construction of two railway lines link ing Yunnanfu or Kunming with Burma and with Ipin, Szechuen province, will get under way with a ceremony seneduled to take place today, according t<» word from the Yunnan capital received here. In Chungking it is
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  • 276 12 Campaign Gaining Streni» I h Kweilin. December, 27. THROUGH world-wide appeals, International Peace Campaigii has succeeded in persuading n riy pie to refrain from buying Japanese goods for Christmas on the grornid that the proceeds of the sale “will go to trip Japan in the conduct of
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  • 39 12 >e Mr. G. Godfrey Shanghai. CouncilThe Shanghai Munn nounced the resignai l Secretary-General. effective next June 3 Mr. Fessenden ha- the council since 1920 yor of «hang ment for many 1 be Mr. G. Godfrey >•
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1368 12 I radio radio radio radio'radio radio- radio PROiGRAMMES radio radip radio radio radio radio radio PENANG SINGAPORE ZHJ 6.08 mc/s (49.3 m.) ZHP 9.69 Mc’s (30.96 m.) TODAY TODAY P.M. PJK. 6.00 Chinese Music. 7.00 Fur the 5.00 Rongeng Music.! “Sri New World Children. 730 Pianoforte Interlude-- Show.” Ta’Seah Berman.
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    • 296 12 B. B. C. TODAY TRANSMISSION PAI. 6.05 Big Ben. Sydney Gustard 6 The Westminster Players. 7.05 ‘Culler" coats. .35 Brian Lawrence and his Dance Orchestra. 8.20 ‘Food for Thought.’* 8.40 Next Week’s Programmes. 8.50 The News and Announcement. 9.05 Greenwich Time Signal. 9.10 End of Transmission 2 TRANSMISSION 3 P.M.
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    • 17 12 PENANG TIDE TABLE HIGH LOW TODAY 6.55 pm. TOMORROW 7.04 a.m. 1.20 a.m. 8.33 a.m. 12.57 p.m.
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  • 490 13 f Witl Latest Posting Tinies At Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh And Penang AIK MAILS OUTWARD FJ ROPE AM) HIE WI ST IMPERIAL (Empire Air Mail): For Viet ria Point). India, Alien, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya langair.ika, I canda, Zanzibar, Northern rn Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South 1 i. Lt' at Britain,
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  • 1051 13 ARRIVALS Today: DUISBURG ex Far East via Singapore. KEDAH ex Singapore. PERAK ex Singapore via ports. PAOLINA ex Italy. SOUDAN ex London via ports. VAN HEUTSZ ex Singapore and China ports. D. VAN TWIST or RETEH ex Belawan-Deli. MANDAR ex Langsa and Belawan-Deli. Soudan
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    • 429 13 D r > funnel line K L m\jCE TO LONDON N<> RTII CONTINENT w UIIEKIA Nr- Leaves Penan? Due London intwerp Middlesboro Jan. 14 Feb. 12 j! Marseilles Ar Glasgow Jan. 19 Feb. 18 Hull A Gdynia Jan. 26 Feb. 22 w SERVICE TO LIVERPOOL VIA HAVRJI t t,N I»-»’
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    • 110 13 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. TO EUROPE VI A SUEZ. Leave Arrive Arrive Penang Marseilles New York 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 Pres POLK Mar. 2 Mar. 29 Apt. 11 PACIFIC
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    • 897 13 £3 “Ot V BRITISH IND’A (Incorpoikted In England) PORT SWETTENHAM, MALACCA SINGAPORE S.S. KAROA” SAILING SUNDAY, 15th JANUARY, 1939. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under For Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh. Port contract with His Majesty’s Government Swettenham. Malacca and Singapore. London and Far East Mail Service. S/S "MATA HARI"
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  • 454 14 Penang Colts Beat P R C. On Padang Dangerous Tactics In Ihe Second Half OTHERWISE a well-contested and excellent game, yesterday’s Esplanade hockey match between the Penang Recreation Club and the Penang Colts Mas marred to a great extent by players from both
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 14 M’. .4. Broum. uho h<ix made good scores in Sheffield Shield Cricket in Australia this season. His best was tl!f nc>t out aaainst South Australia, last month.
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  • 338 14 Clubs Busy Preparing For Clayton Shield <► (From Our Own Correspondent) A lor Star, Thursday. rpHE various clubs in Kedah interested in tennis are -I busy practising for the annual Kedah Lawn Tennis Association tournament for the Clayton Shield, the finals of which comnetition will
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  • 110 14 (Prom Our Own Singapore, Thursday. 4 PERFECTLY legitimate complaint UM. was put up by the Royal Air Force in then* plea, at yesterday's Singapore Amateur rootoal’ Association meeting, to be allowed to have fixtures played at home during the forthcoming season. League games between two service teams
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  • 61 14 The following are the results of the ties played in the Penang Sports Club’s bcwlg tournament: TRIPLES (Final): Mr. and Mrs. J R. McDougall and J. A. McEvoy «plus 61 beat Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burnet and Dr. E. S. Lawrie (plus 2). 19 —13.
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  • 39 14 —Reuter. Lonuon. Thursday. IN the County rugby championship group replay toaay Warwickshire beat North Midlands by 31 points to 11. Results of other fixtures are: Oxfordshire 17, Kent 24, at Oxford Glamorgan 21, Monmouthshire 21, 5.
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  • 272 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson. Thursday. INHREE billiard tournaments are in pro- gress at the Lower Perak Club. Teluk Anson. The second round in the Russian Pool (200 up) competition has been completed while the second-round matches in the billiards and straight snooker tournaments are
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  • 883 14 King-Emperor*s Viceroy’s Cups Lonndon, |;m successes of Finalist in tu King-Emperor's and Viceroy' (,'nps in Calcutta last month com,an opportune lime. The\ should cause those who alleged that thoroughbreds exported from this country to India were losing prestige to rcconsid* the position. In 1937 the Australian-bred Tlyj
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  • 71 14 Reuter. Manchester (lityV Great Win London, Thursday. In a postponed match in the third round of the F.A. Cup today Manchester City, pla; ing away. beat Norwich five-nil. Repky.j r- ulted as fellows: Yeovil and Pett- r.s J. Sheffield Wednesday 2. Don' 1 a.»t er
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  • 69 14 Major F. H. Hugonin, R. A., who captained the British Army cricket team in England last year, was among the 23 officers who disembarked at Singapore from the troopship Dilwara on Wednesday. A first-class wicket-keeper, Major Hugonin, has played for Essex. Another cricketer, who also arrived
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  • 251 14 Home soccer fixtures in English and Scottish Leagues tomorrow are as follows ENGLISH LEAGUiE FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa vs. Blackpool. Belton vs. Leeds. Charlton vs. Liverpool. Chelsea vs. Middlesboro. Everton vs. Arsenal. Huddersfield vs. Portsmouth. Manchester U. vs. Grimsby. Preston vs. Leicester. Stoke vs. Birmingham. Sunderland vs.
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  • 63 14 The following players have been selected to represeit the Min Sin Seah against the Happy-Strong team at soccer on Sunday, January 15, at 5.15 p.m. at the Renong ground: Khoo Eng Aun; Tung Sin Huat, Ong Eng Chye; N. Ah Loy, Lee Soo Teong, Khoo Eng Tong; Ah
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    • 174 14 WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILECa,aael —And You 11 Jarop Owl •f B-»d Fall of Viw and Vifoar. Your liver should pour out two pint» o! liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile 1» not flowing irf-'.y, yo:r food doer n’t digest. It just de a-s in the bowels.
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  • 774 15 I 20,000 See Rangers Beat Celtic hi Ibrox Park Clash Glasgow. Jan. 3. Scot.- always say that there is nothing in the world ihe New ear s match between Glasgow Rangers and as Celt ic. 'iii Rangeis ai e ieague leaders while Celtic are third on
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  • 327 15 Soccer Crowds’ Behaviour Spectators, whose language “oversteps the bounds of what may be termed ordinary swearing” and “blots on League soccer,” are I commented upon in the Liverpool diocesan review, which is edited by the Bishop of Liverpool, Dr. A. A. David. “We ometimes wonder ii
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  • 115 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Thursday. THE table-tennis team of the Penang Look Kuen Party proved no match for the Taiping Chin Woo Association and lost all the matches played. Results (Taiping players mentioned first). SINGLES> Yap Aji Fook beat Ng Bee Teik by three sets to
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  • 48 15 —Reuter. To Take Place On March 16 London, Thursday. The British Empire title light between Len Harvey. British champion and Larry Gains, the coloured Canadian, will take place on March 16 at Harringay Arena. Harvey signed the articles today. Gains had done so yesterday —Reuter.
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  • 793 15 (From Our Own Correspon lent) London, Jan. 4. A glance 8t the Football League tables suggests that Derby County, Blackburn Rovers. Newport County and Barnsley, all of whom have commanding leads in their respective divisions, are going to run away with the championships. In two cases out
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  • 29 15 J. H. HADDOCKS, the Surrey semi ni-h-t. f, sending out pass at Richrnond against Hampshire, whose wing forward. R. Hammond (ri'/ht) is ready for a tackle.
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  • 1265 15 Interesting Features In l ite C 7 G olfer's A eiu enr London—l or golfers the New ear promises some new and inteiesting ieatures, both as regards legislative enactments and tournament play. At the spring meeting of the Royal ar. Ancient Club, at St.
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  • 68 15 —-Reuter. International At Twickenham V. G. J. Jenkins (London Welsh). ■S. W. Williams (Aberavon?. V/. Woolier (Cardiff; Idwal Davies (London Welsh). Lieut. F. Ford (Welch R g.ment). H. Tanner (Swansea). W. R. Davies (Cardiff) W. H. Travers (Neath). E. Morgan (Swansea?. W. E. N. Davies (Cardiff). F.
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  • 124 15 —Reuter. Berlin, Thursday. Germany does not intend at present to build submarines and heavy cruisers to the full limit provided in the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, according to the Voelkischer Beobachter. which adds that technical reasons prevent immediate completion of the full programme. Naval circles point out that
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    • 108 15 gold medal Haarlem Oil Capsules Fine for Weak Acid Kidneys and Bladder Irritation STOP GETTING UP NIGHTS 60-cent box of these famous capJ '1 put healthy activity into your 1 > and bladder—flush out harmful x poisons and acid and prove to you last you have a grand diuretic L“
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    • 31 15 as T E E L WINDOW FRAMES FRENCH DOORS etc. etc. Equal to the best imported make». MANUt'ACTVEISD BY EASTERN MFG. GO. 1, River Road. m Penang. G' fl THONE KB4
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  • 62 16 MIDDAY QUOTATIONS TES LATEST Penang $110.50 Business 50 tons Singapore $110.50 COPRA Sundried $3.50 Black Pepper $8.50 RUBBER Penang (Spot) 27c Singapore (Spot) TAPIOCA Fair Seed $3.10 Medium $3.45 BICE Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $5.90 No. 2 $5.70 White No. 1 $6.45 White No. 2 $5.90 White
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  • 101 16 Prev. Today Paris 177 A 177 New York 4.67A Montreal 4.71 4.71 Brussels 27.65 27.64% Geneva 20.67% 20.67% Amsterdam 8.59 8.59 Milan ggy 88% Berlin 11.64% 11.63% Stockholm 19.42 19.42 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90% 19.90 Vienna unquoted unquoted Helsingfors 226% 229% Prague 135% 136% Madrid 55.00 nominal
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  • 341 16 LONDON, January 11, Following are today’s closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange: Shares of £1 demonination unless other- wise stated. Today Rises or Fall Conversion Loan 5 p.c. 1960-64 109 I Funding Loan 4 p.c, 1960-90 108 J 4-j War Loan 3J p.c. 988 -?8
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  • 237 16 New York, Thursday: Operators believe that the acute weakness is not directly attributable to the defence message. Rumours abounded about the disappointing results of the Anglo-Italian conference; and after publication of the report, the amicable proceedings of the market rallied vigorously. Final changes are not too disastrous
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  • 221 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER: Buyers sellers Broga 67 72 Kamssan 1.25 1.35 Kempas 1.75 1.85 Kuala Sidim 2.10 2.25 Pa jam 1.75 1.85 Parit Perak 1.35 1.45 Perak River .90 1.00 Sungei Bagan 1.30 1.40 Teluk Anson 1.25 1.35 U. Malacca 1.55 1.65 Utan Simpan 1.30 1.40 TIN: Ampat 3 9
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  • 158 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 3(9 4|1% Ayer Wengs .60 .62% B. Selangors 1.35 1.40 Hong Fatts .69 .72 Jelebus .62 .67 Johans .26 .28 Kramats 9|7% 10|0 Kundangs 6 9 7j1% K. Lan juts 16j9 17|3 Kuchais 127% 1.32% Lukuts .55 .60 Pungahs 16|6 17’0 Puchongs 17|0 17|9
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  • 138 16 A.A. ANTHONY GO. TIN i Buyers Seller? Batu Selangor 1.37% 1.42% Hong Fatt .68 .70 Johan .25 .28 Kuchai 1.27% 1.32% Nawiig Pet .27% .30 Petalings 6.90 7.15 Rahman Hyd 1.12% 1-17% Raub Gold 4.60 4.70 Rafitau 1-47% 1.52% Taiping Cons 1.60 1.65 Ulu Klang .70 .75 Ampat 3 9
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  • 78 16 Mr. V. P. Borges, retired Assistant Conservator of Forests, F.M.S., died at his residence at Selema Road. Penang, on January 4 and was buried the following afternoon. Mr. Borges was a senior and popular officer of the Forest Department during his time. He joined
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    • 770 16 BANKS HONG KONG AND NEDERLANSCHE SHANGHAI BANKING HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ CORPORATION. n.V. (Incorporated in the Colony of Hongkong, The liability of members is limited to tin extent and in manner prescribed bj (NETHERLANDS TRADING Ordinance No. 6 of 1929 of the Colony SOCIETY Heud KONG (Incorporated ta the Netherlands Authorised Cfitpit&i Jso,ooojo(M>
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    • 362 16 pnianOsO-odtc a ,7 v "‘'W, Sin u apotf Ofr~e Cecil Street, Singapore. ’J hone 5471- Tel: “Times,” S t rapore, Kual* r_. Office: 25 Java Street. ’Phone: 3083. fpoh Office/: Brewster Road. ’Phone ws 'H» Office 40, 43. Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. 'Phone Central 3608—3609. r e «.Jinffi London. 4l
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    • 333 16 NOTICE Young Chinese Lady of “Mary Dress, milker,” Kuala Lumpur, expert in sew ■wall undertake to do such work i n Cfc tomers’ residences. Specialises in Earn, pean Lady dresses. Please Apply—MISS HO AH N’OOI. 2 New Lane, Penang. NOTICE The paths through Inchong Rubber Estate (near Serdang, Kedah) are
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