Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16 January 1939

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY \O. 12. Vol. XCVII. MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 620 1 BIG AREAS TO BE EVACUATED General Pei Confident Of Future Chungking. Sunday. JAPANESE naval activity along the coast of south-west Kwangtung. and the intensive bombing recent’, of towns in Kwangtung and Kwangsi are taken to indicate that an invasion of the latter province is imminent.
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  • 293 1 Reuter. London, Sunday. iiK Chamberlain arrived back in London this afternoon. He was Leered by a crowd of several thousands outside Victoria Station and al oas he drove via Whitehall to Downing Street. Smiling and wearing a pink carnation and i ing tin- now historic
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  • 250 1 Reuter. (live Work To 15.000 Britons London, Sunday. Lc"d Winterton, Chancellor of the 1 nichy of Lancaster, referring, in a 1" h, to tht progress of rearmament, that the Government and the coun■y had been carrying out the greatest ren^thoning and extension of armed ver attempted in
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  • 64 1 —Reuter. Hamburg, Sunday: The American Con- and Vice-Consul were present at the t,l; d today of an American sailor, 11 med, Roth, from the liner Mahattan, ■'••‘o was sentenced to six months’ imsonment for "preparing high treason.” Ihe judge declared that the sentence v/;ts mild
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  • 228 1 London, Monday. HPHERE is only one serious critic--1 ism to be made of the British Note to Japan, says the Manchester Guardian. It is long overdue. Otherwise, remembering our civil servants' little practice of plain speaking tn the past eight or nine years, it
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  • 51 1 —Reuter. Berlin, Sunday: Breaching at an intercession service on the occasion of Pastor Niemoeller’s 47 the birthday today, an unnamed pastor said that Pastor Niemoeller’s courage was now' broken by loneliness. He was broken after justice which the German court gave had failed to become justice.
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  • 354 1 Loyalists Launch Dawn Attack Lerida, Sunday. JPRANCO’S military headquarters announce today that both 1 arragona and Reus have been completely occupied by Nationalist forces. Other Nationalist columns are said to have reached the mouth of the River Gaya, while the Nationalist troops on the northern
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  • 113 1 luoiis 101.—Reuter. Protests Against Executions Jerusalem, Sunday. The house of the British Superintendent of the War Memorial Cemetery I Ramle.i, property of the Imperial A'l G. e i-'r i.sEivu rf fire 4 incendian -2s. Various army units operating throb W out the country in the past
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  • 82 1 —Reuter Melbourne, Sunday. THE death roll from bushfires is now 66. Damage is estimated at £2,000,000. A slight rain fell today and a fall of temperature raised the hopes of the firefighters who managed to save the town of Corryong, 180 miles north-east of Melbourne where
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  • 87 1 —Reuter. *‘Hour Has Come” London, Sunday. nPHE Independent Republican Army organization placarded Dublin and parts of Northern Ireland with posters declaring that the hour has come for a supreme effort to make the Irish Republic effective and calling Britain to withdraw all armed forces from Ireland. Lord
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  • 28 1 —Reuter. London, Sunday: The Duchess of Norfolk w’as admitted to the Nottingham general hospital yesterday with sigiit concussion following an accident in the Belvoir Hunt. —Reuter.
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  • 311 1 Paris, Sunday. French Government does not wa nt to risk anything but will yield x to nothing,” declared M. Daladier speaking at an important meeting of the Radical Party's executive which passed a resolution declaring that no territorial cession could be agreed to
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  • 2459 2 HEART OF THE EMPIRE BECOME MORE HOGMA NAY" MINDED Thousands Crowd Into Picadilly > Deserted Cenotaph How Glasgow Welcomed 1939 ‘"With Dignity” We Are Jumpy Despite Peaceful Prophecies Minister’s Holiday Begrudged New Laws And An Old One London’s Biggest Entertainment Venture Closes Down Light’s O’London I’ rom Our Own Correspondent).
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  • 12 2 A firefighter at= week's big blaze Singapore week big blaze in Singapore
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  • 315 2 London, Sunday. DIPLOMATIC interpretation of the recent talks between Herr Hitler and Colonel Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, are given prominence in more than one of the Sunday papers. The Sunday Times diplomatic correspondert says that the talks were of con- siderable
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  • 401 2 Solution Lies in Spain Berlin, *Sun<lay. Insisting that the d:spn between Italy and France make it ible to realise the aims which th Bn t particularly desire, namely, limit'i’.:on of armaments, humanisation 01 war and friendship between the tom European lowers, the Rome coi r ’ent of the
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  • 84 2 —Reuter. Amsterdam. Sl ndl 3! The printing presses of th< Socialist paper Helnational I organ of the so-called Nazi in Holland, have been < Leyden as well as Friday 1 action is a sequel to the publu a time ago of an article :dh been offensive
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  • 973 3 Explanation of Policy In China Demanded TOKIO TOLD 9- POWER PACT .NOT OBSOLETE London, Sunday. i iE( Getailed interpretation of Japan’s policy in China as recently outlined by Prince Konoye and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, is requested in a note presented b\ Sir Robert
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  • 84 3 —Reuter. .Mme. Chiang In Her Visits To The Fronts Chungking, Sunday. cannot, and will not, talk peace with Japan” declared Madame Chiang Kai-shek here today. ”1 have visited many fronts but have never overheard a whisper indicating a desire for peace negotiations though the Chinese soldiers and
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  • 157 3 —Reuter Oslo. Sunday. Norway yesterday officially annexed new territory in the Antarctic. A statement issued by the Cabinet states that the Government has decided to place under Norwegian sovereignty that part of the coast of the Antarctic Continent stretching from the border of the
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  • 26 3 Reuter. Blantyre, Nyasaland, Sunday:—The death has occurred of Sir Harold Kittermaster, Governor and Commander-ir.-Chief of Nyasaland Protectorate since 1934, aged 59. Reuter.
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  • 186 3 U.S. Defences Must Be Reinforced Washington. Sunday: “There is a very serious possibility of a conflagration sweeping the world,” said Mr. Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War in a nationwid broadcast yesterday in support of President Roosevelt’s defence programme. Munich merely emphasised the significance of the
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  • 36 3 Reuter. Berlin. Saturday: King Ibn Saud has given assent to the appointment of the first German Minister at Jedda. He will be Dr. Grobba and will present bis credentials later in the month.— Reuter.
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  • 570 3 Reuter. \(M Republican Mobilisation Law Lerida, Sunday 'l i.. N’ Hionalist forces in the ~n t r« oi the Catalan front last night entered Barcelona province near Coloma. Then were dramatic advances in all sectors yesterday. The southern forces. besides capturing Valls, pushed forward to within nine
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  • 35 3 hivana, Saturday:- -Twenty-eight ar- G were made here today after disturht m which Leftist crowds w rotten eggs and fruit at German ’mors sitting in cafes The police made Sfv cral baton charges.
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  • 96 3 Bush Fires Continue To Wreck Havoc Melbourne, Saturday. of the blackest weeks in the history of the State of Victoria ended with huge areas of once fertile land turned into smoking deserts by bush fires. Dozens of townships have been destroyed and fire-fighters are
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  • 28 3 FRENCH NAVAL AIR EXERCISES Reuter Paris, Sunday: The Mediterranean squadron of the French fleet and part, of the Atlantic squadron will hold joint exercises off Casablanca this montli
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  • 29 3 —Reuter. Copenhagen. Sunday’ Prince Waldemar of Denmark, great uncle of the British King, died at 8.45 a.m., local time, yesterday, aged eighty.
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  • 169 3 Reuter. Paris, Sunday. A stir has been caused in France by pointed references to Italy’s Suez Canal claims made by M. Edgar Bonnet, Vice-president < f the Suez Canal Company, at a meeting of the Board yesterday. “There has been much
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  • 430 4 V QUESTIONS ielating to terms ol employment are dealt with by The Llantei in the course of a leading article which emphasises the need tor more reasonable conditions 01 work for rubber planters as a whole. One of the main disadvantages of planting life and one that indeed
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  • 1384 4  -  A Letter From England By Joan Littlefield QINCE 1357 a wholesale poultry market has been held at leadenhall. Prices were regulated there as earlv as 1384. Now .hi the 53,000,000 Billingsgate ex.triM, i scheme, the poultry will be removed to Billingsgate
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 638 5 Postal Guide r|’> F 1939-1940 edition of the I Malayan Post Office Guide, xu u h is issued with the au- tv of the Director-General o! p i< and Telegraphs, has ,ie its appearance and is on all Malayan post offices at ot SI per copy. This
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  • 481 5 Hokkien Hoay Kuan To Stage Dragon Display A PUBLIC meeting of the Chinese Community of Taiping was held at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan, to discuss what part the Taiping Chinese could take in celebrating the Coronation of His Highness the Sultan of Perak. Mr. Toh
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  • 91 5 A five-year-old Punjabi girl sustained fatal injuries when knocked down by a motor car at Chemor village on Saturday morning at 8 o’clock. The car, driven by a Chinese, was backing on the main road when it ran over the child. The child succumbed to
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  • 71 5 “I bought this bicycle at Kulim from a Chinese, but I cannot trace him at present,” was the answer given by Swee Soo Chong when charged at the First Magistrate’s Court, Ipoh, on Saturday with dishonestly retaining a stolen bicycle. The case was posponed until Wetlnesday
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  • 45 5 (From Our Own Correspondent). Tapah, Saturday. Two Indian labourers, Sinnasamy and fils wife, Muniammal, while sheltering from rain alongside a clay mound on the Cameron Highlands Road were buried yesterday. Thev were dead before they could be dug out.
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  • 382 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) 1 Singapore, Sunday. < With all the carefree abandon exf an old time troupe of it.nerant musicians, the 29 Wuhan Songsters, who gave such" a memorable performance in the Capitol Theatre recently, are living while in Singapore in an
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  • 100 5 A young Malay police supervisee, Puteh bin Mat, was sentenced to six weeks’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. P. F. Y. Radcliffe, First Magistrate, Ipoh, on Saturday, for failing to notify a change of address to the police. Chief Court Inspector N. B. Thomas, prosecuting,
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  • 110 5 A Tamil named Retnam pleaded guilty on Saturday before Mr. P. F. Radcliffe First Magistrate, Ipoh, to a charge of theft of a shirt belonging o Chinese. The accused stated in explanation J that w’hile he was on his way to the t
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  • 802 5 Sound Advice To Members The first annual meeting of the Penang Harbour Board Junior Service Club was held at the Club’s premises yesterday, .before a large gathering of its members. Mr. R. H. Wilson, J. P., presided. The agenda was as follows:
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  • 184 5 [LETTER TO THE EDITOR) Sir, —I understand that according to the suggestions of the Chief Police Officer to limit the number of rickshas, they should be distinguished by coloured discs to each divided area in town. He considers that this procedure should go a long way towards
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    • 274 6 gMRPiiB'WI i 9 1 II Uli Til TONIGHT LAST NIGHT! The Producers of “Theodora Goes Wild” Hit the b iiiiny-Spot with Another Hilarious Hit IF YOU ENJOYED TMJEODOEA GOES WIID BY ALL MEANS SEE IB Even more riotous roman- .MAilluj tic»/ A stunning steno goes boroork when levo cornea <■'
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  • 1844 7 I.S.P. Chairman On Need For Higher Qualifications (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. A RECENT questionnaire among Malayan planters revealed that agency houses are putting Europeans in charge ol bigger and bigger units, declared Mr. W. Leggatt presiding at the annual general meeting of
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  • 444 7 Higher Publishing Expenses (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Speaking at the annual meeling of the Incorporated Society of Planters, Mr. F. W. Castle, chairman of the finance committee, said:—• Gross income amounted to $34,277.71 which is an increase over the previous year of $811.09. This
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    • 624 7 Tonight Ladies’ Guest Night at Both Parks! WEMBLEY PARK Tonight, Monday 16th, January, 1939. Molek Silver Opera:Will stage a most comical story in “ALI BABA to be directed by Jnche R Sainan in which the Male cast will be taken up by female haracters and the actors take the female
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  • 768 8 SOLUTION OF IMPASSE VERY LIKELY k LI. we can say is we wish India the best of luck and we /«.wish Malaya, too. the best of luck. AH sensible men have the same idea<.” These were the parting- words of the Malayan Government Labour
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  • 321 8 NEW BY-LAWS TO COME INTO FORCE ON MARCH I (F'rom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sunday. Wide powers of arrest for offences which are now covered by summonses are being given to the Singapore traffic police. Amendments to the traffic regulations are expected to
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  • 115 8 Unrest Allayed By J V Interim Reply (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala, Lumpur, Saturday. Unrest among the 2.000 workers in the central workshops of the F.M.S. Railways at Sentul. Kuala Lumpur suburb has been allayed by an interim reply to the men’s demands for increased
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  • 244 8 Siam Wants To Be Good Neighbour (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sunday. Siam is the Switzerland of the Far East; she wants always to remain a good neighbour to everybody,” Mr. Frederic Russell Dolbeare, Adviser to the Siamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said when he
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  • 91 8 Teluk Anson Tamils For Trial (.Front Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson. Saturday. The preliminary inquiry into a charge cf murder, alleged to have been committed at Nova Scotia Estate on July 31. preferred against three Tamils, Parianayagam. Krishnan and Gopal, was concluded before Che Osman bin Ta’at
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  • 142 8 The Birch Memorial will be one of the items tor discussion at a meeting of the Kinta Sanitary Board to be held at the Ipoh Town Hall on Thursday. The returns of revenue and expenditure, P.W.D. water consumption, births and deaths, milk analyses and malaria will be
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  • 228 8 NEW PLANTERS’ CH AIRMA SEEKS STABLE LEVEL (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday SALARIES that fluctuate according- to the rise and fall rubber price were deprecated by the new chairman, Mr p Allen, at the meeting of ihe Incorporated Society of l’]; “I feel as a
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  • 209 8 Taxi-driver Charged (From Our Own Correspondent) Kampar, Saturday. The accident in which an elderly Chinese named Yip Tak was knocked down by a motor car on the evening of November 24, on Jalan Gopeng, Kampar, had its sequel in the Kampar Police Court yesterday morning. when
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  • 114 8 (From Our Owm Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur Saturday. Allegedly implicated in the $5,000 jewel theft from Robinson and Co. on Christmas Eve. Panjik Sharam was charged before Air. A. GrattanBellew, first magistrate, today, with being in possession of a wristlet watch and a pair of cuff links
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  • 89 8 A fine of $75 was inflicted on a Kongsi Chinese Wong Fong, at the First Magistrates Court, Ipoh, on Saturday by Mr. I*. F. Y. Radcliffe on his pleading guilty to a charge of being in possession oi a still without a licence. Mi. V.
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  • 97 8 From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Kangsar. Sunday. Before Che Ahmad bin Mahmud, th*. <uala Kangsar magistrate, a Chi lese. Chan Chew wag charged with disiding intoxicating liquor. He pleaded guilty. Mr. D. B. Palmer. Assistant Superintendent of Customs, prosecuting, pressed for a heavy sentence as he
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  • 683 8 MR. W. LEGGATTs WARNING AT l.s.p CONFERENCE I (From Our Own Correspondentt Kuala Lumpur. Satur av 1 lam going over the side after piloting the ship for a number of years, leavin-’ t it in the tried hands of others, but be- fore I go, I think
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  • 81 8 The dying deposition 6f a Chin named Khoo Ah Bah was taken the General Hospital by the Penang fh Magistrate. Mr. Lim Koon Teik, y day morning. The man, when admitted to the b<’> tai, was found on examination to I” a critical condition. When able
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  • 150 9 Engine Disabled \t Kepong i n.!, Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. T n ith bound night mail from j i Lumpur to Penang was held up a half hours at Kepong, from the Federal capital, > v n the engine that was pulling (i
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  • 134 9 s| i;\ l( I. IO KI CHING Miruh Flighl Yesterday > j (Mir Own Correspondent» Singapore, Sunday. tn.n rcial aeroplane to fly pore to Sarawak was K i Hang Airport at seven o’clock this morning. tl. h' which is being made by a four-engined DHB6 ci u't. l
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  • 100 9 i < nvn Correspondent > Taiping. Sunday. >k place at the Wesng, Taiping, yesterday, M’ Kow and Miss Sung Lor T; 1 ianghter of Madam Tan tilling Hwan of Taiping. is harming figure in white !1 cut latest semi-westem style v high Shanghai collar and long ittended by
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  • 179 9 All Schools Reopen Fodav All English and Chinese schools in S.S. and F.M.S. re-open today after a month’s holiday. For boys and girls in the lower standards there was little work after the first week in December. Schools were kept open for the Cambridge Junior and
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  • 117 9 A disturbance which occurred at Kampong Bharu, about half a mile away from the police station, on Friday night, had a sequel at the First Magistrate’s Court, IpoJi. on Saturday, before Mr. P. F. Y. Radcliffe, when two Punjabis, Bishen Singh and Teja Singh. were
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  • 1025 9 THE funeral of Mr. Chee See Teong, aged 83, who passed away on Tuesday last took pkto- yesterday morning from his place of residence, No. 23, Farquhar street, I 9 1 ’a nient at the BatuGantong Cemetery. The deceased was one, of the oldest residents
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  • 324 9 ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING DEVELOPMENTS IN MALAYA (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Sunday. A/TEMORIES of the days m hen (ran besari used drive to their offices in gharries and victorias. y\ere recalled in an interview with Mr. IL S. Russell, director of Sime.
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  • 136 9 Woman Admits Charge As a result of a raid carried out by Revenue officers under Mr. A. E S. Talbot. Assistant Superintendent, Excise Department, at East Jelutong on Friday, a Chinese woman. Tan Gian, was produced before Mr. Lim Koon Teck, Third Magistrate, Penang, on two
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  • 344 9 Malay Was Of Unsound Mind (From Our Own Correspondent’. Alor Star, Saturday. That he was of unsound mind when he stabbed his wife to death was the plea at the trial of a Malay, Abu Bakar bin Mat, who was charged with the murder of his
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  • 85 9 In the Government Gazette this week it was notified that an instrument has been passed under the public seal the Colony reappointing Sir John Bagnall to be provisionally and subject to the approval, an Unofficial Membe> of the Executive Council of the Straits Settlements for
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  • 41 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok. Saturday. Sir Shen ton and Lady Thomas |wiH arrive here on January 30 by R.A.F. flying-boat. They will stay with the British Minister before proceeding to Angkor on February 4.
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  • 228 9 (From Our ()un Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Sundav. r r HE illanja pontoon bridge, which was to have been open tor traffic today, will be not open for some time owing to the sudden rise of ihe Perak river at Grik. This follows further torrential rains
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  • 142 9 Well-known Indian Leaves MR. K. A. N. BaJiurdin, only son of the late K. A. Naina Mohamed the well-known jeweller and money-changer, left Penang by the s.s. Rajulu for India. Mr. N. Raghavan, president of th* Penang Indian Association, garlanded him on behalf of the
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  • 432 10 The Certified And Corporate Accountants THERE are at present only four* Accountancy bodies which have been accorded statutory recognition on an equal footing Parliament, and they are, the Chartered, the Incorporated, the Certified and Corporate bodies of Accountants. Speaking of these bodies of recognized accountants
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  • 30 10 Operating Results for Quarter Ended December 31, 1938; Output of Concentrates Tons 19% Mine Cost £2,540 Estimated Mine Profit on 33 tons sold during quarter ‘’253
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  • 68 10 Berlin, December 28. With Germany facing an unfavourable trade balance for the year 1938 estimated at 450,000.000 marks (nearly £40,000,000», the Finance Minister has to-day issued a decree granting a certain measure of exemption to German exporters from paying the turnover tax. It is explained that
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  • 152 10 Osborne Chappel Returns fur the quarter to 31st December, 1938 Guota in tin-ore Ordinary. Buffer Stock Piculs Piculs. MINES:— Gopeng Consolidated Limited 1,132 714 Tekka Limited 656 295 Kam bu tan Limited 263 220 The Kinta Tin Mines Limited 544 524 Idris Hydraulic Tin Limited 910 159 Chenderiang Tin Dredging
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  • 182 10 Further 3J Preference Arrears Payment London, January 5. A further payment in respect of Preference arrears is annum ced by the Borneo Company. The dividend is 3% percent., less tax, and is in respect of the half-year ended August 4, 1936. The previous payment was also 3% pet
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  • 147 10 £10,500 For N.D.C. London, December 29. Profits of £174,715 (against £270.441) Were earned by- United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations in the year to 31lst. August, as given by the preliminary statement already published The accounts now Issued show that tne figure was struck after providing £14.000
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  • 114 10 1416th Auction January 11, 1939 Catalogued 1,330,055 lbs —tons 593.77 Offered 1.167,130 521.04 Sold 1,069,642 477.52 Prices Realised RIBBED SMOKED SHEET CENTS PER LB. Standard Quality 27% to 27 Good Average Quality 27% 27 Fair Average Quality 26% 27% Off Quality 25% 26% Sheet Cuttings
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  • 33 10 PLANTERS’ STORES AGENCY London, January 5. Prelim, statemt. of Planters’ Stores and Agency Co. shows net prft. £52,41'9 (£41,038); fin. div. on Ord. 20 p.c., less at is} 7%d. mkg. 30 p.c. (same).
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  • 390 10 Big Increase In Deliveries London, January 3. SUBSTANTIAL increase in deliveries and a further fall in stocks of American tyres and inner tubes occurred in November. This development accom--1 panied the rise in American automobile output to the highest level for more than twelve months. Deliveries
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  • 342 10 Some Aspects Of British Enterprise (By Robert Mackay) THE good results achieved by British insurance conipanies are repeated with unfailing regularity. Durinv the past month three leading companies have declared interim dividends on the same high level as last year. I n one case the dividends
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  • 347 10 President’s Address Fails To Impress Markets lTr Singapore, Wednesday. cabled synopsis from the “Trader’s” column of “Barrons. the American National Financial Weekly, is I on) aided by Messrs. S. E. Levy and Co., Singapore:— Barrons’ Weekly Index of Business Ac- tivity is 78.0. unchanged
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  • 139 10 i Net proceeds uf rubber of Garing (Malacca) Rubber Estate to 30th Sept £8.090 x (£12,658), plus miscell. receipts £lB4 (£49). mkg. £8.274 (£12.890). Add trsfr. fees int. and N.D.C. not required £260. mkg. £8,534. To est. expend., incldg. deprecn. £6.875 (£6,198), loss on exchange £27 (£53),
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  • 155 10 London, January 5. ILL. tin deliveries in December were disappointingly- low at only 3,400 tons. A tctal of 4,000 to 4,500 tons had been expected by the market. This figure is almost certainly lower than actual consumt ption, some metal w’liich has actually I been bought having
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  • 231 10 Issue Of Prospectus Held Up Amsterdam, January 4. /CONTRARY to general ,le Prospectus of the Ihree-and-a-Half per ent Fls. 100.000,000 (£U.76LOOOi loan of the Batavian Petrokum Company was not published today. This came as a big bllr pnse to a puzzled Bourse. Later unronfirmed rumours were cir
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  • 250 10 Monday, Jan. 16. MEAT Beef Steak Kati 38 Stew or Curry do 28 Pork lean do y Pork lean and fat Ist quality do 32 Mutton (Goat) N. Indies local per lb 45K Do. Australian do 40 Fowl Kat i 24 Capons locally reared do 50 Hen
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  • 276 11 Robey Celebrates •< LORD LONDONDERRY slopped, looked, and listened to George Robey at the Dorchester Hotel, W., The 'ccasion was a dinner to celebrate the comedian s sirty-ninth n' thduy and his half-centuru as an actor on the Bri ish stage. Talking /I bout Horses
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  • 201 12 Chungking Is China's New Industrial Centre —international News Agency. Chungking, January 6. 4S a result of this Westward move- ment, Chungking today has 54 metal factories; nir.e electric power plants; 20 chemical plants; 10 weaving and spinning plants; 18 printing shops, four porcelain and glass factories; thiee coal mines; and
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  • 187 12 Overcrowded Ether interest is growing in the possible outcone of the conference to be held in Switzerland during the spring for the purpose of allocating broadcasting wave-lengths to the various countries. A preliminary plan has already been drawn up, and though official details have not been made
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  • 250 12 Four thirty-minute programmes epitomising the history of London’s royal alaces—Hampton Court, St. James’s Kensington, and Buckingham—are among the outstanding feature programmes that Daventry listeners will hear during the first quarter of 1939. These programmes. which have been written by L. du Garde Peach, famous radio
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  • 81 12 International Nfin”- Ager.ov Hanoi, January 10. It was learned here today that Mr. Wang Ching-wei is still in this city, although his wife, Chen Pi-chun, has gone to Hong Kong. It is likely that Mr. Wang will go there in the near future. A spokesman
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  • 312 12 Mary Schaffer When you try to bore a tunnel through a mountain the rock offers resistance. When you try to invent a better way of doing anything you inevitably, come up against all kinds of difficulties. But the greatest resistance and the biggest number ot difficulties are nearly
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  • 533 12 Mr. Sun Fo To Be Chairman Of Executive Yuan Chungking, January 10. IN order to strengthen the Chinese Government for pro longed resistance against invasion, there will be some changes in the Government after the fifth plenary session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee on January
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  • 36 12 dive Tokio, Friday: A passenger steamship service linking Italian Somaliland with Japan h? 1 been started by Oi.aka Shosen Company whose liner the African Mart» will leave Osaka on Jannarv "3 for Mogadidtu —P-ev/e’-.
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  • 287 12 —lnternational News Agency. Shanghai, January 13. 4 JAPANESE journal is not a free agent. It cannot print certain things. Serious criticism of the army or the government is forbidden. Editorial opinion runs along certain sharply circumscribed lines—or it does not run at all, says
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  • 104 12 ower rates, land facmuc.- Chungking, January <> In an effort to enlist the suppot t more nationals living abroad in the I' 1 gramme of economic reconstruction the South-western provinces, the Nati' o' Government has announced that grant assistance to enterprises the n part of
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 2092 12 radio radio radio radio radio radiz> radio 8.8. C. Service Schedule radio radio radio radio radio radio radio SINGAPORE F r Far East ZHJ 6.08 me s (49.39 m.) ZHP 9.69 mc/s (30.96 m.) Jan FoUowing Dable Service Schedule for the Far Kast in Malayan standard time for week PM
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  • 473 13 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, [poll And Penang AIR MAILS OUTWARD I rope wd I’HE west IVI’! i;i(Empire Air Mail): For pt Victoria Point), India, I’ai st le, Ecrypt, Sudan, Kenya, ’"b i Luanda, Zanzibar, Northern lih..de>ia, Nyasaland, South Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland. 7.30 a.m.; Ipoh
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  • 1178 13 arrivals Today: BEN WY VIS ex London. TANIMBAR ex Java ports via London. TANIMBAR ex Java ports via Singapore. SILVERFIR ex Java M>rts via Singapore. GEN. VERSPIJCK ex Sabang. BATAK ex Asahan and Belawan-Dcli. FLINTSHIRE ex Far East via Singapore. KEDAH ex Belawan-Deli. Tomorrow*;
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    • 453 13 BLUE funnel line U I I hl v SERVII E TO LONDON A NO RTH CONTINENT j i Hliii: falls Antwerp Middlesboro VINI' XS Calls Marseilles Glasgow Jan. 19 Feb 18 HILLES Calls Hull Gdynia Jan. 26 Feb. 22 II N DAY SERVICE IO LIVERPOOL VIA HAVRE Omits Havre, calls
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    • 111 13 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. Leave Arrive A rrivc 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 Apr. 11 PACIFIC
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    • 782 13 P& o BRITISH IND’A (Incorporhtted in England) FORT SWETTENHAM SINGAPORE S.S. ‘ROHNA” SAILING THURSDAY, 19th 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 “BULAN” Jan. 20 Ourwards
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • 832 14 Selangor Beat Army Bv Two Goals (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. a magnificent game, Selangor scored a deserved victory by ten points to nil over the Army .here today before a crowd of 5,000 which included the Sultan of Selangor and the
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  • 262 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. DESPITE bad weather conditions and sLppery roads 33 competitors toolpart in the central rally of the Automobile Association of Malaya today and estt'biished good times. Competitors started from different centres, ending in Kuala Lumpur, an i routes were all ever
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  • 87 14 The North and South teams for the rugger match to be played at Singa pore on Jan. 28 are as follows; NORTH SOUTH Harder (Sei.) Dick (R.A.F.) Hatfield (Sei.) Lundon (S’pore) Close (Pg.) Richardson (Arm;. Lyle (Pg.) Pierce (Army) Hague (Pg.) Craig e (S’pore) Ewart (Pg.)
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  • 98 14 Reuter. M. C. C. Tourists vs Border XI East London Saturday. N reply to the Border Xi’s total of 121 L (Wright four for 32, including a “hat- k.’ Wilkinson three for 15), the M. C. compiled 320. Yardley, who scored 126, gave a sound chanceless display,
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  • 190 14 Lon ion, Saturday. -In the final international trial. The Rest beat Scotland by 17 points to 8. Other results as follows: Bath 6, Northampton 0. Bedford 23. Coventry 6. Birkenhead Park 0. Guy’s Hosp. 6. Blaekheath 3, Harlequins 12. Bristol 6, The Army 3. Gloucester 8. Leicester
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  • 361 14 rjpHE Khoo Sian Ewe Cup rifle-shootiner competition for 1938 wts won bv Selangoi- for the fifth year in succession, and for the last two years the State’s “A” team secured the honours with the same total score. Perak was second. The following arc the detailed scores:
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  • 811 14 State’s Hockey Record Smashed PENANG created the biggest surprise in Mai?; an hockey this season by lowering the colours of the redoubtable Perak side in their return fixture last Saturday on the Hutchings School ground, thus avenging the six-nil d e f eat she sustained in
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  • 325 14 London, Saturday. A DVERSE weather conditicns again' caused the postponement of several soccer fixtures, end match was abandoned after 65 nJnutes. Fall results of today’s fixtures are: ENGLISH LEAGUE—DIVISION I Aston Villa 3, Blackpool 1. Bolton 2, Leeds 2. Charlton 1, Liverpool 3. Chelsea 4, Middlesbro 2.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 151 14 One does appreciate freshness a .i. jjgUJ v. nhbHF' wW tip you agree! I’m VJ a heavy smoker, yet Cra\un A cork-tipped are cool to the tongue ’hc\’\c nvtcr a trace ut throdi ii i nanon You’re nght .ih( ut ihor too —must be the easy- I I sHkI attvss
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  • 466 15 Decision At B.A.M. Meeting Six Entries For Foong Seong Cup annual meeting of the Badminton Association of Java was Nd at the Old Frees’ Associa■i. i < sang. Is was decided to hold this year's Malayan apionships at Penang and in the draw of the
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  • 89 15 .11. Brodie Winner January Monthly Medal H. Brodie 8-73. W. Anderson 2-77, G. R. J. E. Goodrich 6-77, A. r, 7s W. H. E. Neil 14-78, R. Johnson 12-79, G. Halliday Scr. l! Sweeps. G. R. Evans 35. am-T-up. A Clark 35’™. y- S. ABDULLAH, Assistant Land
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  • 345 15 Albert Ward's Death Al Age Of 71 London, Jan. 7. Albert Ward, one or the most distinguished cricketers of his day. died at his home in Bolton yesterday in his seventy-fourth year. He recalls memories of days when matches in th s country meant so much more
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  • 612 15 Annual Rotary Sports A Great Success Ihe annual sports of the Rotary Hoys C lub was held yesterday afternoon at the Boys’ Club at Ayer Itam. A large number of Rotarians an J. visitors 7 rem the nearoy kampongs were present. An innovation this
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  • 114 15 I. A. R. Peebles has been appointed captain of Middlesex for the coming season, and will play throughout the .summer. Peebles has had little or no experience of captaincy, and it is some seasons since he regularly assisted Middlesex, but with his easy swing and natural
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  • 109 15 Esplanade llocki v Tomorrow The combined Penang Spoi ls < lub and Penang Recreation Club h< kw eleven will play the Rest on the Esplanade tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. Teams are as follows: PADANG CLUBS THE PEST. W. G. Colebeck. Abdul Kareem. V. Westerhout. Ismail
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  • 84 15 Triumph For Italian Capetown, Saturday. FRANCESCO CORTESE, of Italy, driving a Maserati won the Grosvenor Motoring Grand Prix, b.is time being 2 hr. 38 min. 41.6 see. an average speed 76.8 miles an hour. Peter Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook, was second, driving an E.R.A., his time
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  • 100 15 I wo Goals In Hockev At Pataui Road In a scrappy game of hockey played on he Patani-road ground yesterday, the Old Xaverians drew with the Police deven. each 5. de scoring a goal. The exchanges were about even. Kah Chong and Phui San were prominent for
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  • 199 15 In a friendly return match of badminton, the Evergreen B.P. was narrowly beaten by the Yew Hoe Seah by 4’ games to 3. The mixed double game was abandoned. The result were:— (Evergreen players mentioned first). Ng Swee Khee Ng Swee Kooi lost to Cheah Chee Aun and Chuah
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  • 541 15 THE trainer of Finalist, India’s champion racehorse and winner of the King Emperor’s, Viceroy and Carmichael Cups, is Freddie Northmore, a former jockey who used to ride in Malaya, revealed G. Woods, the well-known jockey attached to Major T. L. Fox’s
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    • 684 15 Asthma Germs Killed in 3 Minutes If you suffer from choking, wheezing, I ronto, Ontario, Canada, recently said: “1 coughing. Asthma and Bronchitis—if you I felt better the first day 1 started taking gasp for breath, can’t sleep nights, and Mendaco. I could breathe easier. 1 slept the. feel your
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  • 63 16 MORNING QUOTATIONS* TIN LATEST Penan S >110.50 Business 50 tona Singapore >110.50 COPRA Sundried 33 45 Black Pepper 18.50 KI TUBER Penang (Spot) Singapore (Spot) 27*4c TAPIOCA Fair Seed Medium RICE Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 >5.90 No. 2 >5.70 White No. 1 >6.45 White No. 2 >5.90
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  • 106 16 Prev. Today Paris 177 ***** 177 ft New York 4.67 4.67 ft Montreal 4.71 4.71% Brussels 27.64*4 Geneva 20.66% 20.59 Amsterdam 8.59% 8.60*4 Milan 88% 88 tg Berlin 11.63% 11.64 Stockholm 19.42 19.42 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna unquoted unquoted Helsingfors 226% 226% Prague 136 136%
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  • 136 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN < Buyers Seiler? Batu Selangor 1.35 1.40 Hong Fatt .70 Jelebu .60 .65 Johan .25 .28 Kuchai 1.25 1.30 Nawng Pet .25 .30 Rahman Hyd. 1.12 H 1-17% Raub Gola 4.55 4.65 Rantau 1.45 1.50 Taiping Cons. 1.57% 1.62% Ulu Klang .70 .75 Ampat 3|9 413
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  • 144 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 3'9 4|1% A. Wengs .60 .62% B. Selangors 1.35 1.40 Hong Fatts .69 .72 Jelebus .60 .65 Johans .26 .28 Kramats 9|7% 10|0 Kundangs 6|9 711% K. Kamuntings B|3 B|9cd K. Lan juts 16|9 17|3 Lukuts .55 .60 Pungahs 16|9 17|3cd Puchongs 17|0 17|9
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  • 177 16 New York. Saturday. DOW JONES AVERAGES Prer. Latest High Low 30 indus. 146.52 148.26 148.49 147.01 20 rails 30.94 31.95 32.00 31.46 20 utilities 22.50 23.49 23.55 22.80 40 bonds 90.32 90.43 Business done 840,000 470,000 STOCKS Prev. Today Am. Tob. B 87% 88% Anaconda Cpr. 31
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  • 188 16 KENNEDY CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampat 319 4)3 Ayer Weng .60 .62% Ayer Hi tarn 2119 22)6 Batu Selangor 1.32% 1.37% Berjuntai 10 0 110 Burma Malay 219 22)6 Hong Fatt .67 .69 Hongkong Tin 18|0 19)0 Jelebu 62 67 Kpg. Kamunting 8 3 8 9c Kramat 9)9 10 3
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  • 174 16 Ayer Panas 1.25 1.30 Batu Untangs 1.07% 1.12% Bassetts .45 .47% Bentas 102% 1.07% Brogas .66 .69 Kuala Sidims 2.10 2.20 Indragiris 1.12% 1.17% Lunas 1.55 1.65 Mentakabs .40 .42% Malaka Pindas 1.30 1.35 Pajams 1.72% 1.80 Sungei Tukangs .97% 1.02% Tapahs 170 1.80 Telok Ansons 1.25 1.30
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  • 74 16 DEATH The death took place at 41c, Macalister Road, Penang, of Madam Lim Gaik Tean. wife of the late Mr. Choong Cheng Kean, on Sunday night at the age of 57. Deceased leaves behind one brother, one daughter-in-law, two grand-sons. 1 grand-daughter and many relatives to mourn their loss. Friends
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 750 16 BANKS HONG KONG AND NEDERLANSCHE SHANGHAI BANKING HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ CORPORATION. N-V. (Incorporated in the Colony of Hongkong. The liability of members is limitedto Um ANTK TDAFbINr extent and in manner prescribed bj (JNil I ntKLANLJij I KAUIIMI* Ordinance No. 6 of 1929 of the Colony. SOCIETY») Head Office: HONG KONG. (Incorporated
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    • 476 16 tfBXD OFt'rvn t 2. BTSHOP STREET, PENANG ’PHONE 1477 1478 WITH EXT! TELEGRAMS: “GAZETTE,” PENANG. Cecil Street, Singapore. 'Phone 5471. Tel: “Times,’’ Singnpore, Kuala 1 Office: 25, Java Street. 'Phone: 3683. ipoh Office/: Brewster Roan. ’J’honr Office 40. 43. Fleet Street. London. E.< .4. 'Phone Central 3608—3609. Tel ‘-nd,, London.
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    • 582 16 NOTICES THE CHINESE NATlOyu LANGUAGE SCHOO] A.C.S. Building, Westland Road, n;ih A class for beginners in the Chine» National Language has started ATTENDANCES; TUESDAY A FRidav 6.00 7.30 P.M. Teaching in the first stages is i n lish and is thereafter conducted in f’2’ conversational exercises in the National Language
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