Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 8 June 1939

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY ESTAB. 1833 u ]33. Vol. XCVII. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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    BRITAIN SENDING ENVOY TO RUSSIA
    1048 1 TO ACCELERATE SOVIET PACT NEGOTIATIONS Mr. William Strang Leaving By Air Tomorrow FULL AGREEMENT EXPECTED j NEXT WEEK London, June 7. Rid TER’S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT LEARNS THAT MR. WILLIAM STRANG, HEAD OE THE CENTRAL DEPARTMENT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE. W ILL BE SENTRY BRITAIN AS
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    IF MOSCOW COMES TO TERMS Axis Counter-Thrust
    174 1 IF MOSCOW COMES TO TERMS Axis CounterThrust —Reuter. JAPAN MAKES PROPOSALS Berlin, June 8. Although rierr Hitler is leaving Berlin shortly for a holiday to Berchtesgaden, it is indicated that the Fuehrer will continue to watch international events closely. The fact that he will be accompanied by a large number
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    SIR PHILIP SASSOON’S SUCCESSOR
    46 1 —Reuter. London, June 8. Mr. Herwald Ramsbotham, Minister of Pensions, will be First Commissioner of Works succeeding Sir Philip Sassoon who died last week. Sir Walter James Woimers* ley, Assistant PostmasterGeneral, succeeds Mr. Ramsbotham. Mr. William Mabane succeeds Sir W. J. Wolmersley.—Reuter.
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    CONTENTS
    45 1 Page Latest Telegrams I 16 Earlier Telegrams 2 Malayan News 3 Civil Servants in Debt 4 Local News 7 Editorial 8 Correspondence 9 Financial News 10 11 Radio News 12 Shipping News 13 Kedah G. C. Handicaps and Sports 14 15 Birthday Hoiiours 16
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    Japanese Plane Fired On By British Warship?
    111 1 —Reuter. Tokio, June 8. A report from Taihoku, Formosa, to the Domei News Agency states that an aeroplane belonging to the Japanese Aviation Company was fired on by a foreign warship while flying over the sea east of Hongkong on Wednesday morning. Ten
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    A BRITISH MONARCH ON AMERICAN SOIL
    481 1 King Received By Mr, Cordell Hull HISTORIC ARRIVAL MARKED BY ABSENCE OF FORMALITY Niagara Falls, United States, June' 8. With a marked absence of formality, a deigning British monarch set foot on the United States for Jhe first time in history when at 1.30
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    No Striking Awards In Birthday Honours List
    320 2 PROMOTION FOR DUKE OF KENT Five New Barons TWO MINISTERS MADE PRIM COUNCnJLQRS London, June 7. The Bl Jiday Honours List contains a large number of reward:» for political and public services bint no particularly striking awards. li starts off with the p
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    LAST TRIBUTE TO “THETIS”
    420 2 Wreaths Dropped Into Sea WHOLE NATION MOURNING London, June 7. 'Die nation today mourned the vf<tints oi the ‘Thetis’ d.sastci. The clattei and noise if the busy Merseyside Was htmheJ a.- the min siveeoer, Hebe.” pasrei on its way ta the open sea to piy the
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    Franco Wants To Suppress Imports
    119 2 -Reuter. Madrid, June 7. "it is imperative tc suppress all ini perts not indispensable to the life ot th? country and increase exports, thus obtaining foreign currency instead of the mere conven ent expensive system of receiving credit abroad,” declared General Franco, omairing the Spanish
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    A DELIBERATE DROP?
    198 2 Reuter. Chinese Dollar bankers unable TO EXPLAIN London. June 7. Fur Eastern bankers interviewed by Reuter, state that they have no information to explain the arop in the Chinese dollar. Seme are cf the opinion that it maj’ be intended to even the balance between exports and
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    PEACE FRONT
    210 2 .—B O.W. Progress In Negotiations With Poland Rugby. June 7. An opportunity was afforded at the usual weekly Gdtinet this meeting this morning for a survey by the ManlrGrs of the progress in strengthening th? pt-ace front against aggression. In this connection, importance is attached to the meeting
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    FIRST GLIMPSE OF UNITED STATES
    486 2 Their Majesties Arrive At Windsor Ljondon, (Ontario), June 7. While at Windsor Their Majesties gained the lii < glimpse of the United States, which they enter toda\. thus marking the first historic occasion upon which British Sovereigns have visited the United States. Half a million
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    HITLER'S STOCK NOT UP
    240 2 —8.0. W. British Reaction To Latest Speech Rugby, June 7. The reference made by Herr Hitler, in addressing yesterday the German troops returned from Spain, to the painful necessity which had obliged him to be silent year after year about their struggle, is the subject of
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    TINKLER INCIDENT: STRONG BRITISH PROTEST EXPECTED
    714 2 Reuter. It is understood that the British authorities are shortly protesting to the Japanese against Tinkler’s death. The final form will probably not be decided upon until after the inquest. Tinkler was a middle-aged Lancastrian employed in the mills of the Bri-tish-owned cotton and
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    Annual Meeting Of S.S. (S’pore) Association
    599 3 REFERENCE TO WORK DONE Singapore. rpHE annual general meeting of the I Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association was held at the Exchange Room. Singapore. Present: Mr. C. V. Miles (President t in the Cha r; Mr. K. K. O’Conn< r (Vice-President); Mr. B. Lowick (Hon.
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    Driving On Private Road
    183 3 NO NEED TO (IAVE LICENCE Defence Of Kuala Lumpur European Kuala Lump"" The submission that the road on wnich he was driving was a private road and therefore -there was no necessity for him to have a driving licence was made by a European, Mr. J.
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    HOUSEBREAKERS
    45 3 HOUSEBREAKERS always attract a great deal of attention as they go about their precarious work, but recently, at Cheyne-walk, S.W., they took second place. The crowd had gathered to see Miss Viola Lubbock leave Chelsea Old Church after her marriage to Mr. Charles ChadwickHealey.
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    Registration Of Colony’s Man-Power
    388 3 BUREAU TO BE SET UP IN MALACCA Malacca. K Government has recently been reviewing the man-power resources of the Colony which would be available in the event of an emergency, and has commenced the preparation of an Emergency Service Register, somewhat on the lines of the
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    Tamil Fined $20 For Dangerous Driving
    130 3 Kuala Lumpur. A fine of $2O, in default three week’s imprisonment, was imposed on a Tamil name A. Appusamy, who was convicted on Tuesday morning by Raja Abdul Hamid, tlie Third Magistrate, in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court, for dangerous driving. It was .stated
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    Film Star Obliges Autograph Hunters
    29 3 M/TK. Carl Bris■L*-"- son, the film star, was besieged for his autograph when he opened the birthday party celebrations at Wm. Whiteley’s West-End store.
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    $10,700 DAMAGES CLAIM FOLLOWS CAR ACCIDENT
    352 3 Driver Alleged To Have Been Negligent PLAINTIFF SAYS HE LOST SIGHT OF EYE Johore ‘Bahru. r FHE hearing was begun in the Johore Supreme 'Court before Mr. Justice Mills on Tuesday in the case in which Mr. Ng Teow Seng, manager of a sewing
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    SOLDIER DRIVES OFF GAR
    192 3 Sentence Deferred By Magistrate Singapore. Sentence on a 21-year-old Gordon Highlander, W. A. Gunn, was postponed a week, in the Singapore Second Court on Monday after he had pleaded guilty to the theft of a taxi. The prosecution, alleged that accused hired a taxi at 10.45
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    Contractor Denies He Offered Bribe
    384 3 INCIDENT AT NAVAL BASE Singapore. THE case in which a middle-aged Cantonese, Wong Eng Thong, claimed trial to a charge of abetting the offence of bribing a European police constable at the Naval Base, Seletar, on May 13, was continued before Mr. L.C. Goh in
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    Freddie's Sister Don’t See Films
    343 4 j (HLD? and E icon Eavti'.oicmcv., c'.i.tcr£ c Freddie, the film eta had no id a that thei: Licvhci had told a, Hollywood court that he die not kne then whereabouts, aijd v?as t illing to look aftei them. They thought the whole family knew
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    BLOOD TEST FLAWS WARNING
    252 4 Dangers in the adoption of blood tests in establishing parentage were stressed by Sir Alexander Maxwell I ermsnent Under-Secretary to th? Home CTree, before a "'elect Com mittec of the House of Lords. The committee were considering the Bastardy (Blc. d Tests) Bill, which, provided tH.it
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    LAST RUSH TO MARRY AT GRETNA
    57 4 Gretna Green. Weddings are taking place at Gretna Green at the rate of one a day. “People are rushing here to get married while they have the chance,” said Mr.’ R. Rennison, one of the “priests.” “Gretna marriages will stop in July if the
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    TOWN SHOCKED BY PICTURES
    157 4 Art Exhibition Quarrel ISTANBUL VERSUS IZMIT Istanbul. pictures of nudes in an exhibition k-/ held by the Union of Independent Painters at Izmit so shocked a. numbei of vis’tors that they lodged complaint with the local AttomeyGeneral. The latter formed a committee of experts, who decided
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    THE AMERICAN NOVEL
    347 4 An English View ’l’lt'E P.E.N. Club listened the other night to an English novelist’s views on the American novel of today when Miss Phyllis Bentley, who recently returned from her third lecture tour in the United States, gave her impressions gained from inquiries made in 35 States.
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    Accused Of "Cruelty" To A Fish
    203 4 'I'HE magistrates at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. were equally divided when Frederick Mar'ctts was accused of inflicting cruelty on a fish. The chairman said since he had not a casting vote they could not ’give a decision. The clerk said the case would probably be reheard.
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    BOTH GOING INTO ACTION
    60 4 The kepi his icings out of t'ie u>Atei‘ to ge<. up ipcd. The soldier kept his feet out of the. iciter to p> event them getting u;et. Neither hod cold feet, for the su n teas going into aefion against the photographer and the soldier teas
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    HOW HITLER PREPARES HIS SPEECHES
    272 4 ’—Reutei. “Long Menial Wrestling* THEN, STRIDING, m DICTATES JLIOW Herr Hitler prepay speeches is described Nazi press chief. Di. Dietuch. t; Lock “With Hitler to Pcwei “Ttc Fuehrer of An speak, from notes as he did at w shaver”, states Dr. D etr ch, deed,
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    ANCIENT TOMBS AS AIR RAID SHELTERS
    83 4 Alexandria. Ancient Graeco-Roman tombs and catacombs may be used as air rai 1 shelters here, f recommendation of the local A.R.P. committee corr es into effect. The committee is of opinion chat with a slight expenditure these ancient tombs, some of which have been
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    NEW MUSIC IN THE MAKING
    944 4 Electricity Into Sound: Science And The Composer §IR JAMES JEAXS'S lecture ;u the Royal Institution may l>renienibercd in years to c >i tc as decisive moment in the dcvelopmei' of eiec'..ric irusic in Great Britain There can be no doubt that we hav shcw.n too
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    SAND DISTRIBUTED FOR PARIS A.R.P.
    122 4 SAND DISTRIB UTED FOR PARIS A.R.P. Faris. Sacks of sand for use agam diary bombs are bein'’ 11 over Paris. Fifteen sackd given out to each st. building. It has been decided that war most of the deepei will be converted into air 1 A skeleton metro service within l
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      143 4 SMASHING HOLilht) ATTRACTION PACKED HOV.SES «KEETBD YESTEKDAYS OPENING PERFORMANCES! 3 SHOWS TCDAY .{.OO p.m. 6,!5 p.m. ■—9.30 p.m. 3 p.m. Matinee il deduced Prices: 20. 10 60 cts. Downstairs. WARNER BROS.’ MIGHTY DRAMA OF DARING AND HEROISM I Haikw n IuRW i UUU&MMUidH 2 1 fc’AA «Z® ZO/ iuf Jb
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    English Wife Wears Five New Hats Every Year
    456 5 and that TOTALS 75.1 >OO,OOO i ERA year th? women 1 of Bri4 tain buy 75.000,000 hats. ;i five times a year (on an jue) every' wife goes home >' .-mile and a hatbox in the hop, ci pleasantly surprising her ini
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    MONTAIGNE’S ESSAYS FOR SALE
    67 5 Reuter. Only First Edition Copy Paris. A first edition of inontaigne’s essays H wbe sold here. It is the only copy ot the first edition in existence and behaujcd to Montesquieu, the famous french philosopher and author. The lCv has been fixed at 15,000 Francs (about
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    AND AFTER HATSPINS
    192 5 IHE modern woman Inay not need so many pins -s A did her mother, but there is >till m-ioy in the pin business, shown in the will of Mr. X W.D.* Brou.gh,ton, J.F., f Fear Oaks Warwickshire. Mr. Broughton, who died in January aged 62, u s
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    5,000 Girls In Health & Beauty Show
    112 5 5,000 Girls In Health Beauty Show QIXTY Canadian “Keep Fit” girls have come to England to take .'art with 5.000 girls from all parts of England and Wales in the Empire demonstration of the Women’s League o~ Health and Beauty at Wembley o t Tune 10. With them are two
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    FOUR FIRMS BUILDING “INFANT” CARS
    278 5 A T least four British car manufacturers have deciced to push ahead production plans for “infant” cars. These cars will be two-seaters, with a maximum speed of 50 m.p.h.. ana a petrol consumption of about 55 nr'lea per gallon. But they will not be “toy”
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    They say that a week of sunshine sells 50,000 straw hats. Here arc two
    30 5 They say that a week of sunshine sells 50,000 straw hats. Here arc t wo They say that a week of sunshine sells 50,000 stivw hots. Here arc f wo
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    AND TALKING OF FASHIONS— Six Men Worked For 25 Years On One Robe
    238 5 r F*HE finest aruy cl Chin;. robes ever t< come to London are or view at th-. China institute, Gordonsquare. Blccm jbury. They have been collected during the ’ast ten years in Asia, Europe and Ameiica by
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    ARMS WORKERS FORM OWN SECRET SERVICE
    204 5 Detectives As Deck Hands In Queen Mary W7ORKERS art* taking an active part iu th? special “secret service” organised to protect key armament factories, shipping, and other vital in ustrles ainsi atten d hv foreign age-i ts. Squa is of volunteers are on the
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    Blind Wife Cites Blind Woman
    59 5 Mr. .Justice Hallett heard a. divorce petition at Liverpool Assizes in which all the parties concerned were blind. Lucy Heath, of Grovehurst-avenue Knotty Asli, Liverpool, was granted a decree nisi against John Heath. The wife’s case was that her husband went to live with another
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    WOMAN'S FAIR PLANS START
    218 5 Woman’s fair at Olympia- to be held in November is already being prepar ed. It will be the family exhibition and more; for it will be seven shows in one each show a complete exhibition in itself. Five hundred thousand people —a record for the first
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    Kings Without Kingdoms
    1157 6 and a Kingdom Without a King yOG OF ALBANIA is the latest addition to the long list of kings who have lost their thrones. Actually, Zog was never very secure in Albania For years he had been engaged in a constant battle of wits with Mussolini and,
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    MOTHERS-TO-BE WHO HAVE HEARTBURN
    210 6 Should Read this Nurse's Letter Here is something of real interest to those mothers-to-be who are suffering with indigestion in one or another of its various forms: flatulence, heartbum, sickness or acidity. Today it is no longer necessary to endure this penalty. Relief can be obtained
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    HIS GREAT-GRANDSON VISITS EX-KAISER
    144 6 Amsterdam. Grand Duchess Kyra of Russia, the wife of the ex-Kaiser’s grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, has returned to Germany with hei’ turee-month-old baby after p. stay of over five w’eeks with the ex-Kaiser at Doorn. As they left the house, the ex-Kaiser himself showed the princess
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    17 CONVERSATIONS ON ONE WIRE
    60 6 Unique Telephone Installation Sydney. An installation w’hich will make telephone history is shortly to link Sydney and Maitland. With it, two cables, 117 miles long, will each carry 17 independent conversations simultaneously. Up to the present the maximum carried, anywhere, on one cable is 12.
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    WORLD’S TALLEST TREES
    227 6 —Austral News. California Or Australia Melbourne. Which country has the world’s tallest trees The controversy has just been revived in Australia which claims them. The rivalry as of old is between Gippsland, in the State of Victoria, and California, U.S.A. The "Brisbane Mail” which champions the Australian
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    MOTOR CARS MAY RUIN ON CHARCOAL
    112 6 Melbourne. A plan with a first-class double purpose has been submitted to the Minister for Defence. By storing charcoal supplies from the areas recently outraged by bush fires, Professor A. H. Burstall, of the chair of engineering at Melbourne University, claims Australia could be
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    America's Umbrella Boom
    453 6 IW/YR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN has achieved the ultimate fame of leaving his name behind ias a noun. America has adopted the word "chamberlain” as a synonym for umbrella. Soon ,■after the Munich Pact A. nericans of all ranks and classes were taking a special uelight in saying "Tarnation!
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    SHOULDER ARMS
    61 6 (Two Styles) ARMS! u as the order at the Duke of York’s Military School at Dover, home of the Toy Soldiers’ Parade as these youngsters rehearsed a new display for this year’s Royal Tournament. Another kind of implement was shouldered bv members of the Rumanian “Strajers” Youth Movement
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    FETES IN FRANCE
    840 6 Belgium’s Water Fair Ry PIERRE LEROLX A LTHOUGH the trend of travel in 1939 is definitely setting towards America, thanks to the manifold attractions of the New York World’s Fair and the San Francisco Exposition. France and Belgium still expect to receive more than their usual share
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    PENANG’S SHARE IN KING’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS
    931 7 0.8. E. For Lt-Col. Fletcher FIVE RESIDENTS MADE J. P.’s Other Malayan Awards HE King’s Birthday List was issued last night and indudes an award of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of tneßrit.sk Empire (Military Divide. for nk r D Fletcher, who was
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    LT.-COL. G. D A. FLETCHER
    689 7 Memorable Services For Volunteering Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Alexander Fletcher. M.C.. who has been made Officer of the Most Excellent Order of Use British Empire (Military Division), is the manager of Messrs. Harrisons, Barker Co., Ltd.. Kuala Lumpyr, and was until recently in charge of the
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    DR. ONG HUCK CHYE
    614 7 Awarded Certificate Of Honour JAR. Ong Huck Chye. who receives the Certificate of Honour, is the Senioi Chinese member of the Municipal Commission and Justice of the Peace, Penangf Born in Penang, January 28, 1893, son of the late Mr. Ong Hun Slew, he received his
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    Penang Rural Board Meeting
    65 7 A meeting oi the Penang Rural Boarci will be held in the Land Office, Penang, in Thursday. June 15, 1939 at 11 a.m. The agenda is as follows: To confirm the minutes oi meeting held on May 11. 1939. To consider the appointment cl a temporary
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    F.M.S. Certificates Of Honour
    196 7 Certificates of Honour have been awarded to the following persons j.n the F.M.S. in recognition of thenloyal and valuable services to the Government Lup Bahaudin bin Haji Mohamed Noh, 'M.S.C. Orang Kaya Kaya Laksamana. He is the territorial chief foi the Lower Perak district. .He entered
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    KEDAH MALAY FINED
    335 7 Negligent Driving A tine cf $5O or one month's simple imprisonment and his licence to be endorsed, was the penalty imposed by Mr. Lim Koon Teck, in the Midd> Court yesterday, on a Malay, Haji Sulaiman bin Haji Jabris, who was convicted on a charge of driving
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      67 7 F. M. S. LIST lu the name of His Majesty the King His Excellency the High Commissioner lias been pleased to award Certificates of Honour to the following persons in recognition oi their loyal and valuable services to the Government of the Federated Malay States: Lo| Bahaudin bin Haji Mohamed
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    A FORTIFIED PENANG
    483 8 4 SIGNIFICANT point of this morning’s array of military strength is the fact that for the first time the King’s Birthday Parade in Penang was attended by regulars. It brings up the question of the fortification of the island, which was begun last year and is now
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    SOCIAL & PERSONAL
    596 8 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mrs. A. V. Aston, wife of the District Officer, Lower Perak, has arrived at Teluk Anson from Home. Mr. J. R. Burnham of Sime Darby Co., and Mrs. Burnham have returned to Penang this week, where they are now stationed. Mr. W. Elphinstone, 0.C.P.D.. North, is leaving Kuala
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    By The Way
    637 8 Birthday Parade Impressions WHAT a magnificent stage the polo ground is how hot it can be at 8 o’clock in the morning how tedious for the troops drawn up a full half hour before the Resident Councillor arrived how many sweat-soaked uniforms —how satisfying the spectacle of
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    THE DIARY OF A FOREIGN NEWS EDITOR
    367 8 Thursday, June 8. THHE Anglo-Soviet negotiations have gone a stage further with the announcement, made by the Premier yesterday, that a special envoy would be sent to Moscow in order to accelerate the conclusion of the proposed pact. IW/JR. WILLIAM STRANG, head A
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    SMART TURN-OUT AT KING’S BIRTHDAY PARADE
    547 9 Regular Troops Take Part IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY THIS MORNING Penang Flying Club Planes Dip In Salute f HERE was a smart and impressive turn-out at the King s Birthday Parade held this morning on the Polo ground. For the first time in the history of
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    29 PLANES FLY PAST
    121 9 Singapore Parade On Grander Scale (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Today. Thousands thronged Farrer Park this morning to witness the Kings Birthday Parade, which this year was on a grander scale than in past years. Three thousand and five hundred troops from the Navy, the Military
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    RITA PEARS,
    28 9 RITA PEARS, the well-known mezzo soprano singer, who will be heard in tonight's broadeast at 1.50 from the Penang Wireless Society's Station ZHJ (wavelength 1f9.3 metres).
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    Council Meeting On Monday
    451 9 ORDERS OF THE DAY THE following are the orders of the day for the meeting of the Legislative Council to be held at Singapore next Monday at 10.30 a.m.: I. Minutes of the meeting held on April 24, 1939. 11. Oaths of New Member the Hon.
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    More Penang Applicants For R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve Needed
    399 9 MONTHLY REPORT OF I LYING CLUB "JJNLESS there are more applications to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from Penang. Province Wellesley and Kedah, no flying school will be started here, states the monthly report of the Penang Flying Club for
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    CAR AND CYCLE COLLIDE
    89 9 (There was quite a commotion m Penang Road at the junction of Data Koyah Road at about 9.15 last night; when a -Chinese cyclist was knocked down by a car. Thu car. (P. 3400). an Austin “7” tourer driven by Miss Lily Yuen of the Ely
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    Lorry Driver Fined
    190 9 VEHICLE CRASHES INTO GATE r rilE driver of a lorry which crashed through the gate of the railway crossing over the Sungei Rambai Road at Bukit Mertajam on Monday evening, was fined $25 for rash negligent driving and $5, on a second charge, for having inefficient brakes.
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      Books And Bombs
      201 9 iTo the Editor, “Pinang Gazette”) Sir, Japan, in her attempt to bring China to her knees, has adopted the most brutal and savage methods krown to mankind and, as to be expected, various bodies all over the world have joined in the general protests against her barbaric
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    LATEST HORROR FILM
    297 9 Son Of Frankenstein' At Queen’s 00?. of Frankenstein,” which will r tegin its local screen ngs at the s Theatre tomorrow was shown a press preview yesterday. J’ 1 8 picture sequel to the two rar >kenstein films already made —is pother thriller which will make your
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    AMERICAN INDUSTRY IN WAR-TIME
    1831 10 “FAR LESS DISTURBANCE THAN IN 1914” Obstacles To Financial Aid For Britain And France Another major war would bring far less disturbance to American industry than did the war of 1914-18. This view is expressed in a detailed report on ‘’Economic Problems of U.S. Neutrality in
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    HOW TO INCREASE ANGLO-U.S. TRADE
    495 10 Complaints Made By Both Sides London, May 23. Mr. Joseph Kennedy, the American ztmbassador. had some good advice for Loin British and American business men yesterday, when he spoke at the Foreign Trade Week luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, at the
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    Wall Street Cable
    228 10 New York. The early session high grade equities. Hove tions met with offerings i; 1 cient to curb buying ei suited in an eventual staler, ing activity. Business news featured a ns in < output and reports that iti steel scrap was like!' RUBBER remains specur.tr ed
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    STOCK EXCHANGE
    64 10 London. Wednesday. Despite the continued lack of interek. the understone was steady. Home rails responded to good weekly traffic receipts, while among oils Trnidad issues were supported. Gilt-edged wa-s irregular and Industrials quiet. Subscription lists of the new Australian loan remained open throughout the session. COMMODITIES.—Cotton rallied Jiarplv
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    97 10 THURSDAY, JUNE 8. Prev. Ute» l Paris 176 49 64 176 47 64 New York 4.68 19 32 4.68 17 Montreal 4.69 1 8 Brussels 27.51 ?»/4 1 Geneva 20.72 3/4 20.75 Amsterdam <B.Bl Milan 89 1 1G Berlin 11-67 Stockholm 19.41 Copenhagen 22.40 Oslo 19-90 I»-»® Helsingfors
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    R.A.C. RALLY SUCCESSES
    122 10 For Austin EW’I Entries In the ILA.C. Rally the to Austin Eights, 1 door saloons, and a addition to covering th- out loss of marks, gait awards. The two-door saloon Buckley and G. Val< class, namely for two-d 1 under £2OO list achieved second p Competition for
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    BANKS’ RELATION TO SHORT PERIOD FINANCING
    1697 11 Mr. R. A. Wilson Explains How Situation Is Controlled rgAHE principles and methods of bank I lending were discussed by Mr. R. A Wilson, president of the Institute o f Rankers and a joint general mana- r of Lloyds Bank, in a lecture at
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      S. BATU (MALAYA) RUBBER
      1095 11 Dividend Of 5 Per Cent MR. E. D. HEWAN ON YEAR’S OPERATIONS ’J'HE twenty-sixth annual general meeting of Sungei Batu (Malaya) Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held at the registered office, 149, Leadenhall-street E.C. Mr. E. D. Hewan (chairman of the company) presided. Or. behalf of Edward
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      KIMANIS RUBBER
      717 11 Satisfactory Results SIR JOHN HAY’S SPEECH TVHE twenty-ninth annual general 1 meeting of Kimanis Rubber. Ltd., was held at the registered office, 52-54 Gracechurch-street, E.C., London. Sir John Hay (the chairman of the company) presided. The Chairman said: Gentlemen, those of you who take an interest in the
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      BUKIT IJOK (SELANGOR) RUBBER CO.
      310 11 Extensive Replanting Programme THE twenty-eight ordinary general meeting of the Bukit Ijok (Selangor) Rubber Co., Ltd., was held at 19 Leadenhall-street, E.C., London. Mr. H. B. Yuille, who presided, said that in I£3B the average exportable allowance was only 55 per cent, of standard, compared
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    RUBBER OUTPUTS FOR MAY
    100 11 Outputs of rubber for the month of May from the following estates: lbs. United Patani (Malaya) 168,114 Malakoff 110,800 Taiping Rubber 79,839 Sungei Batu (Malaya) 37,400 Windsor (F.M.S.) 18,227 Foothills (Malaya) 22,300 Kuala Muda Rubber 151,829 Vai d’Or Rubber 29,213 Gadek Rubber 52,000 Kuala Sidim 52,157
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    State-aided Labourers
    38 11 Information has been received that 12 state-aided labourers will arrive today by s.s. “Rohna.” It is expected that 3 will be sent to Pulau Jerejak and the balance will proceed to Port Swettenham for quarantine there.
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    SIONE TIN
    18 11 Output for the month of May 1939, was 403 piculs. Yardage worked 68,300, hours run 380.
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    PENANG STATISTICS OFFICE
    239 11 Library Notice r pHE following publications were is- sued or received by the Department of Statistics, S.S. F.M.S., Penang, during the period May 29, to June 3, 1939, inclusive, and are available for public use in the Referenc? Library, Government Building, Penang. Application may be made by
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    ARABIAN NIGHTS IN COLOUR FILM
    380 12 Mr. Korda To Make ‘Thief Of Baghdad At Denham yesterday I found Mr. Alexander Korda considering the last details of his big Technicolour production of “The Thief ‘of Baghdad,’’ and Dr. Ludwig Berger, the director, testing young men for the role of the Prince, writes
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    WOMEN'S CRICKET
    218 12 Steadily Growing More Popular Cricket for women is growing steadily more popular, and the standard of play is improving among the club members as they aspire to better coaching. Last year the Cheshire Women’s Association organised a coaching rally for club members at Northwich, and this year coachings
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    World Achivement
    274 12 Marvel Let us make a list of really wonderful and worthwhile inventions. We may include the giant Mount Wilson telescope, the gyrocompass, the Stock Exchange tapemachine, the wireless valve, and others. Will you laugh if we include the humble maid of all officework, that reliable servant of the
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    ST. DUNSTAN’S NEW HOME
    239 12 Modern Aids For Blind Men London. May 12. The new St. Dunstan’s Heme at Ovingdean, between Brighton and Rottingdean, is destined to bring renewed health and happiness to thousands of the war-blinded men in the care of the St Dunstan’s organisation. It occupies a commanding and
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    BRITAIN’S TOBACCO
    100 12 U.S. Import Doubled In 30 Years Each year Britain imports no less than 257,000,000 lb of tobac fn.in lie United States. An American tobacco specialist, Mr. P. G. Minneman writing on this subject in The Daily Telegraph’s Anglo-American Supplement recently. attributed this inorm :m quantity to the poplarity
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    The Mails
    467 12 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh And Penang AIR MAILS OUTWARD EUROPE AND THE WEST IMPERIAL (Empire Air Mail): For Burma (except Victoria Point), India, Aden. Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, South Africa, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland. Kuala
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      2707 12 Concert. 8.20 Sandy Macpherson. 8.35 'V AK fiUPK ft, V Tne News. 8.50 More Food for Thought.’* B JR AM sFI K Greeniofcft Time Signal at 9.05 p.m. 9.05 S& .m ft k Kf'i *fir ft Sports News, Market Note?, and Next h ftv ft si Is IgJ A Week
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      216 12 Philhaianznic Orchestra. 9.27 Songs by Miliza Korjus (Soprano). 9.37 Simon Barer at th? Piano. 9.47 Chopin- Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op 11 —A Rubinstein (Piano, London Symphony Orchestra. 10.20 close down MANILA KZRM 95.7 me s (31.35 m. 4.50 a.m. Music. 5.05 News in Spanish. 5.20 Music. 5.35
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    MAN FLIER’S DEATH IN TRAM Conductor Tells Of Fall Down Stairs
    369 13 London. May 12. lor described at the ditch yesterday how ■a Catherine Theresa ierly Mrs. Elliott Lady (Mary) Heath, stairs of a tram on injuries from which v rdict of accidental 1 corded. ns, who died in St. >l,
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    PENANG SHIPPING NEWS
    1131 13 Arrivals TODAY, JUNE 8. a.s. IUJCU&* from Japan Ha Singapore. s.s. ‘‘ratroclus” from from Liverpool. s.s. “Brisbane Maru” from Japan via Singapore, TOMORROW, JUNE 9. s.s. “Nurjehan” tom Calicut. s.s. “Aeneas” from Singapore. s.s. “Tosari” from Belawan-Deli, Asahan and Paneh (Laboean-Bilik). s.s. “Mandar” from Belawan-Deli, Langsa, Simpang-Olim
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    WATER BOARD FAIL TO FILL £3,000 POST
    130 13 Chief Engineer Wanted London. May 12. Although the Metropolitan Water Board advertised for a chief engineer at £3,000 per annum, it will today be notified by its General Purposes Committee tnat no appointment could be made from those who responded. The engagement of
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      757 13 D J? and Gl W BRITISH INDIA (Incorpot kted In PORT SWETTENHAM SINGAPORE S.S. “ROHNA” SAILING THURSDAY, Bth JUNE, 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
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      248 13 i BWWMPWyJMWBMffJ NIPPON YCSEN KAISYA LONDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Sala Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar. London, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg, Steamers Sail in v date» HAKUSAN MARU June 10 HARUNA MARU June 23 KATORI MARU July 7 YASUKUNI MARU July 20 KASIMA MARU Aug. 4 FOR JAPAN FROM SINGAPORE
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    WOMEN’S CRICKET HAS COME TO STAY
    560 14 English Team For Tour Of Australia OETTY Archdale, Master of Law —very few women have obtained that legal distinction —is to captain a team of English lady cricketers on a tour in Australia next winter. An undertaking for which she is specially qualified by
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    AMERICAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
    94 14 Two Midshipmen To Be Nominated London. Two midshipmen of the United States Navy are to be nominated for the American Lawn Tennis Championships. Midshipman J.R- Hunt, who is No. 5 in the national rankings, is the known of the two. He reached the fxfth round of last
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    HORSE-RACING
    32 14 HORSE-RACING as depicted by 15-year-old Deva Cayzer. The picture was awarded the President’s Prize at the “Children's Royal Academy”—-thd exhibition of the Royal Drawing Society held recently at Guildhall Art Gallery.
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    HEROES OF SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR FAIL AT HOME
    1266 14 Lessons Of Recent Rugby Season IRELAND LACK LEADERSHIP rpHE season 1938-39 was ushered in by an inspiring—and badly needed—victory for British Rugby in South Africa, but, as usual, few oft the players concerned in that strenuous tour were able to make iiheir
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    ARE VOL STUMPED?
    167 14 pRIUKET POSER, No. 2, Somewhat sin Jar to No. 1. but is it? This time the bowler, running up to the wicket, notices that the striker—the batsman waiting to play the ball —has advanced out of his crease. Can the bowler, instead of delivering the ball in
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    1940 Championships Of A.A.A.
    280 14 STARTING BLOCKS TO BE TRIED A meeting of the General Committee of the Amateur Athletic Association was held in London under the presh dency of Mr. H.F. Pash, writes H.M Abrahams. It was decided that the championships in 1940 will take place on Friday and Saturday,
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    And this is how a boy of four, Marcus Brendish, depicts it.
    30 14 A.nd this is how a boy of four, Marcus Brendish, depicts it The dra winy received a award
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      73 14 EASTERN BAZAAR (THE BLUE SHOP) ANNOUNCE THEIR STORE WIDE CATC CLEARANCE A L E NOW PROCEEDING Generous reductions and outstanding bargains in every department. Come Early And Secure The Best DRYSDALE LAND AND DREDGE SERVICE PUMPS DRYSDALE TURBINE PUMP: There are many Drysdale Pumps in Service throughout Malaya and Siam,
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    STRONG FRENCH ENTRY FOR ASCOT STAKES
    807 15 Turf News From Europe And America (From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 18. ESS de Faucigny-Lucinge’s Contrevent, winner of last year’s Cesarewitch, and four other French horst s. have been entered for the Ascot Stakes to be run i 3. Contrevent s stablemate, F'4onthery,
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    PENANG SPORTS CLUB GOLF
    47 15 Monthly Medal Bogey This Week-end The monthly medal (bogey) competition cf the Penar,» Sports Ciub (Golf Section» will be played on Saturday, June 10, and Sunday, June 11. Ball sweeps will be run, for best first nine holes and best second nine holes
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    MRS. R. W. SPEED,
    53 15 MRS. R. W. SPEED, taking off her shoes and stockings for a shot to the 18th. green during the icomen's spring foursomes at Wentworth golf course recently. She had driven her ball into a bunker filled by recent rain and had to paddle into the water
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    KUALA LUMPUR RACES
    234 15 Records Of Three New Horses The three horses named below are making their debut on the Malayan turf at the forthcoming Kuala Lumpur races. Tovarich was entered for the Singapore Summer Meeting but did not run. BROWNHILL II 5y bag by Valiard Dcrncs (Mr. Alan Loke».—No record.
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    WEIGHTS FOR ALOR STAR RACES
    257 15 rpHE following are the weights for the Kedah Gymkhana Club Meeting to be held at Alor Star on Saturday, June 10: RACE i. A handicap for horses over 14.2 Distance 6 furlongs. Ben Ghabrit 13.07 Catherine Wheel 13.05 Jade Lady 12.10 Miss Polly 12.03 Auboss
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    MALAYA CUP SOCCER
    255 15 Match At K.L. ARRANGEMENTS FOR TRAFFIC Kuala Lumpur, June 7 SELANGOR and Penang will meet in the “Malaya” Cup at the Stadium on Saturday, June 10. Traffic arrangements are as follows: All cars containing passengers for covered seats (?1.50) and uncovered centre seats ($1) with red park
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    KRIAN SOCCER LEAGUE
    215 15 Pant Buntar The Bagan Serai Football Team travelled up to Pant Buntar on Tuesday evening and met the Drainage and Irrigation Depaitment Soccer XI in the first round of the Krian District Soccer League and defeated them by the only goal scored in the match. A large
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    COUNTY CRICKET TABLE
    195 15 The positions in the County cricket championship table (including matches completed on June 6) are as follows: Ist Inngs. P. W. L. D. L. D. Pts. Aver. Yorkshire 6 5 1 0 1 0 64 10.66 Middlesex 5 4+ 0 1 1 0 48 9.60 Gloucester 7
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    O. F. A. HANDICAP TENNIS
    86 15 Yesterday’s Results The following are the results of the Old Frees’ Association Handicap Tennis Tournament played yesterday on the Association courts: Lim Hock San beat Lim Khay Seng 7—5, 6—4. Tan Thean Seang beat Lim Keng Hock 6—2. 6—4. Today's match between Koay Teik Swee
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    ROYAL HUNT CUP
    29 15 —Reuter, Convert Favourite At 10 To 1 London, Jure 9. The call-over for the Royal Hunt Cup i.s as follows: 10/1 Convert offered. ino/R others offered.—Reuter.
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      425 15 Yorkshire Evening News” Golf Contest CHARLES WHITCOMBE FAILS TO QUALIFY Leeds, June 9. TJRITISH golfers failed to resist the South American challenge for the leading place in the final qualifying round of the Yorkshire Evening News” £75 tournament. Emilio Serra Serra, the Uruguayan champion, heads the field with rounds of
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    TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF BRITISH RULE
    684 16 In Best Interests Of The People MR. M. MACDONALD’S CLAIM Introduction Of Colonial Office Estimates LONDON, JUNE 7. BRITAIN HAS ACHIEVED a TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS IN HER RULE OF THE DOMINIONS, DECLARED MR. MACDONALD, INTRODUCING THE COLONIAL OFFICE ESTIMATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. He added:
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    COMMONS CHEER MALAYA
    64 16 —Reuter. London, June 7. Cheers greeted Mr. MacDonald's statement in the House of Connmons that free gifts front Malaya towards the cost of Empire defence during the past twenty years amounted to more than £7 ,250.000 in addition to the expenditure borne by the Malayan Government for
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    Queen’s Attraction
    128 16 TOM SAWYER AS A DETECTIVE Two young sleuths on the trail of a murderer provide the chief fun in “Tom Sawyer, Detective.” which is now showing at the Quegn’s. Mark Twain’s immortal characters, Tom Sawyer (Billy Cook) and his friend Huckleberry Finn (Donald O’Connor) go to Arkansas to
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    “The Dawn Patrol”
    110 16 STIRRING AIR FILM AT MAJESTIC “The Dawn Patrol,” now showing at the Majestic* is the “Journey’s Eind” of the air. It tells in splendid, sincere and forceful manner the story of a British squadron’s desperate, heartbreaking devotion to duty. The constant slaughter of youngfliers arriving as replacements;
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    THE “THETIS" VICTIMS
    114 16 --Reuter. Primate’s Address At Service London, June 7. The Archbishop of Canterbury gave an address at St. Martin’s during the service to the victims of the “Thetis’’ disaster. Admiral Plunkett-Ernie ErieDrax represented the King. Lord Stanhope and Lord Chatfield were present. Captain Oram with his wife attended
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    EVENTS AT 1940 OLYMPICS
    33 16 —Reuter. London, June 8. The International Olympic Committee have decided that the 1940 Olympics will include boxing, fencing, canoeing, track and field events, modern penthalon, cycling, wrestling and swimming.—Reuter.
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    THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS
    670 16 More About The Recipients London, June 8. The Birthday honours include five baronetcies while 34 Knighthoods are conferred and two new Privy Councillors are appointed. The new barons are Sir Arthur Decapell Brook, Sir Herbert Cayzer, Captain Herbert Dixon whose elevation to the peerage will necessitate by-elections
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    LAWYER’S LIBEL SUIT APPEAL DISMISSED
    592 16 Two Judges Hold There Was No Gross Negligence Kuala Lumpur. THE appeal by Mr. Kok Chin Yin. a local Chinese barrister, against the decision of Mr. Justice Gordon Smith, who had awarded him $250 damages in a libel action brought against the “Sin Chew Jit
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    THE YANGTSE
    123 16 —Reuter. Japanese Rights Not Recognised London, June 7. “In order to enable British subjects to proceed up the Yangtse, the British Government acquiesced in the requirement that they hold Japanese military passes. The British Government does not recognise in principle the Japanese right to restrict and control the
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    ITALIAN AIR LEGION
    48 16 Reuter. Madrid, June 7. The Italian airmen with General Franco’s forces are expected at Cadiz tomorrow en route for Italy. With their departure the withdrawal of the Italian combatants in Spain is complete except for a few remaining temporarily to hand over the war materials.—
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    BRITISH AIR SERVICE OVER SOUTH ATLANTIC
    65 16 ,—Reuter. London, June 7. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the British air service over the South Atlantic. Capt. Balfour said that the necessary ground organisation was now being undertaken and it was not proposed to institute a regular service until suitable British
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    PALESTINE POLICY APPROVAL OF LEAGUE COUNCIL REQUIRED
    86 16 —Reuter. London, June 7. Questioned regarding the Governments’ Palestine policy, Mr. Chamberlain declared that the Government was satisfied that this was in conformity with treaty obligations and the Government would explain its views if required to the League Council. Mr. MacDonald was also
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