Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 11 August 1939

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY No j; Vol. xcvn. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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    “DANZIG DOES NOT STAND ALONE”
    637 1 F ill Backing Of Germany lllJ.li FORSTER SPRINGS NO SURPRISE Position Too Serious For Sensations DANZIG, AUGUST 11. i\E VIEET IN GRAVE TIMES TO PROTEST Bl ii'. HIE WHOLE WORLD AGAINST THE WAR IS WHICH POLAND HAS BEEN MAKING I'ol V EEKS PAST,” DECLARED HERR
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    Invitation To Hitler?
    65 1 —Reuter. Berlin, August 11. Herr Forster has sent the following telegram to Herr Hitler: “My Leader, tens of thousands of German Danzigers, assembled at the square of the eternally German town, Danzig, at a protest meeting against Polish threat to shell Danzig to pieces, look up to
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    ONE GERMAN SHOT DEAD
    85 1 I.— Reuter After Crossing Polish Frontier Warsaw. August 11 I A Reich German was killed during a skirmish on the Polish side of the I Silesian frontier last night. s f ates ar official c«'mmu.'lqt-e According to the Polish version, the Polish frontier guard attacked after
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    ARABLE LAND
    70 1 —BOW Great Increase In England And Wales Rugby, August 9 A feature of the annual returns made in June by farmers in England and Wales and published by the Ministry of Agriculture is the increase of 48,<?00 acres in arable land. Immediately after the War and again since
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    MR. QUO TAI-CHI
    24 1 —Reuter London. August 10 Mr. Quo Tai-chi visited Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office and remained for threequarters of an hour.—Reuter
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    AIR EXERCISES MARRED BY BAD WEATHER
    407 1 August 10. The air exercises continued today but were hampered by the weather. A report states that dirty conditions prevail over almost the whole of the exercise area. ’—B.O W A communique issued by the Air Ministry today, dealing with the period between 8.30
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    WHITE MAN’S PRESTIGE
    164 1 ’—Reuter. Warning To Nations Johannesburg. August 10. Referring to the international situa tion in a speech here, Mr. Pirow said he. did not believe war in Europe was inevitable. He added, however, that nothing hac happened which, directly or indir. u*. affected the vital interests of Soa-Africa
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    $67 FOR £1
    32 1 .—Reuter. Shanghai, August 11. The Chinese national dollar touched a new all-time low today when it was quoted at 3 19/32d., equivalent approximately to $67 to one pound sterling.—Reuter.
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    SPAIN’S PEACE TIME CABINET
    74 1 —Reuter. Army Falange Join Forces Madrid, August 10. The Army and Falange joined forces to form Spain's peacetime Cabinet, it was announced by General Franco tonight. General Franco becomes President with power to issue decrees without previous reference to anyone. The portfolios include Colonel Beigbeder (Foreign
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    LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
    49 1 —B.O w Paying State Visit To Rotterdam Rugby. August 10. The Ixjrd Mayor of London is to pay a state visit to Rotterdam from September 15 to 19 on which day he will be received in audience by the Queen of the Netherlands. —8.0 W
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    Axis Aiming At Conference?
    409 1 POSSIBILITY OF WAR NOT DISCOUNTED Ciano-Ribbentrop Meeting BERLIN. AUGUST 11. COMPETENT OBSERVERS BELIEVE THAT TOMORROW’S MEETING BETWEEN COUNT CIANO AND HERR VON RIBBENTROP WILL SHOW A SOLIDARITY AIMED AT IMPRESSING ON THE DEMOCRACIES THE ADVISABILITY OF CALLING A CONFERENCE RATHER THAN MAKING WAR INEVITABLE BY THEIR
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    FLYING TO INDIA
    76 2 Reuter. Duke And Duchess of Kent Ixxndon, August 10 The Duke and Duchess of Kent have drcided to fly to Karachi when they proceed to Australia in October to shorten what will otherwise be a long voyage. According to present arrangements they will less than a week
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    NON-COOPERATION
    102 2 —Reuter Jewish Retaliation For New British Policy Geneva, August 9. Non-cooperation with the British Government in retaliation for the suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine and the White Paper policy was urged by Rabbi Meir of Berlin in his opening address at the world conference of Mizrachi <the orthodox
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    SPAIN AND CHILE
    80 2 —Reuter. Possibility Of Break In Relations Santiago, August 10. The possibility of a diplomatic break between Spain and Chiie .was raised by Senor Ortega, Foreign Minister, commenting on Genera! Franco's demand for Republican refugees in the Chilean Embassy at Madrid. He added: We have asked all La’
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    WAR RESOURCES
    66 2 —Reuter. Formation Of Board In U.S. Washington, August 9. An announcement of the formation of a civilian advisory "war resources board” to advise military services in current expansion of the forces has been made jointly by the Army and Navy. The board would a’so become in emergency an
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    AIR SERVICE HITCH IN ARGENTINE
    49 2 Reuter. Over Employment Of Italian Pilots Buenos Aires, August 10. W air service between here and Rosario has been suspended owing to the alleged violation of contract to employ the majority of Argentin*» pilots. It is.staged the company intended to employ exclusively Italian pilots.—
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    OIL DISPUTE
    42 2 —Reuter. Mexican Government’s New Proposals Washington, August 10. The Mexican Government’s new proposals to settle the oil expropriation dispute involve vesting in a neutral third party of the balance of power over oil properties, according to informed circles here. —Reuter.
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    AXIS POWERS BRINGING PRESSURE TO BEAR YUGOSLAVIA
    753 2 Troop Movements On STAGE SET FOR NEXT EUROPEAN CRISIS London, August 10. Reports from the Yugoslav frontier arouse fears that Yugoslavia will be the centre of the next European crisis, writes the News Chronicle special Belgrade correspondent adding] that it is reliably reported
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    FRENCH WARSHIPS
    64 2 Reuter. Artillery Practice Postponed Lcrient, August 9. Torrential rain with the weatiier report, “visittlity nil? led to the postponement of the artillery practice of the Atlantic Fleet scheduled for today. The new cruisers, Georges Leygues, Gloire and Montcalm, and the battleships, Dunkerque and Strasbourg, should have participated prominently
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    THE “CARIBOU”
    36 2 —Reuter. Arrival At Montreal On Return Trip Montreal, August 10. The "Caribou” arrived here at 10.25 p.m. G-M.T. and Is remaining at Boucherville air base here overnight leaving for Botwood at 6 a.m. tomorrow.
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    DEATH OF EARL OF ROSSLYN
    22 2 ).—Reuter. London, August 10. The death has occurred of the fifth Earl of Rosslyn. aged 70. —Reuter.
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    Surprise Move Expected In Danzig
    191 2 .—Reuter. Paris, August 10. Herr Forster in his speech at Danzig tonight intends to spring a surprise. He is quoted as having expressed his intention in a statement to newspapermen on his return to Danzig from his visit to Hitler for whom he would virtually
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    N.E.I. Defences To Be Strengthened
    58 2 Rt uter. Batavia. August 10. The leaders of the different parties represented on the National Council proposed a motion urging the necessity of reinforcing the defences of the Netherland Indies. They considered that special attention should be given to the Navy and Air Force, both
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    I.R.A. SUSPECTS
    56 2 ’—Reuter. Two More Deported From Britain London, August 10. Two Birmingham I.R.A. suspects aged 18 and 21 respectively, have been deported from Liverpool, one being sent to Dublin and the other to Belfast. When the deportee bound for Dublin boarded the ship, several passengers greeted him with shouts
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    FRANCO-TURKISH PEACE PACT
    32 2 —Reuter. Paris. August 10. Agreement has been reached in the negotiations for a Franco-Turkish trade pact. The terms have been sent to Ankara for the approval of the Government.—Reuter.
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    REFUGEES AT HAIFA
    44 2 —Reuter. Police Intercept Five Lifeboats Haifa, August 10 The Marine Police intercepted five lifeboats containing 297 Jewish refugees who were wearing lifebelts and in a pitiabk condition. The refugees- w?re apparently transferred at sea during the night iron? an unknown steamer.—Reuter.
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    Japanese Impatience fa Delay
    454 2 THREAT TO BREAK Opp TOKIO CONFERENCE Tokio, August Q, Mr. Kato, Japanese/ Minister-at-large, in r urther interview with Sir R. Graigie today, asked Fir state definitely whether Britain was making; “Bor.. f, pre parations” to resume the conversations. He is reported to have added that failing
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    RUMANIA AND BULGARIA
    173 2 —Reuter. Signs Of Improvement In Relations London, August 10. It is announced that Rumania will purchase from Great Britain for the Ministry of Health material to the value of £850,000 including ambulance, mobile water filtration and sterilisation plants mostly for the army’s use. King Carol who is
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    AMERICAN CLIPPER
    39 2 —8.0. W. 19 Passengers For First Westward Flight Rugby, August 9 The flying-boat, American Clipper, the latest addition to the Pan-American Airways Fleet, leaves Southampton today with 19 passengers for its first westward flight across the Atlantic.—B.O.W.
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    SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES
    97 2 —Reuter. To Be Made Issue In General Election London August 10 A scheme of family allowances in the wages system will lx- an issir in the forthcoming general election ’lni:- was decided at the Liberal Summ r School, Cambridge, where it was stat< d the econonaif.
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    DISAPPEARANCE AT SEA
    74 2 —Reuter. English Nil r-M* Mission From P. I)• Shanghra, Auguft A wireless message et- n-cer/ed Shanghai today nporti' r iZ woman, Miss Hilda c s from the P. and <) r! n Shanghai for En Wind 1 Miss Chester, who was a sister m. tiu Council Isolation
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    Reproducing War Conditions In England
    278 2 BO'V Rugby, August 9. For the important air exercises which began last night and are still continuing, every effort has been made to reproduce war conditions; and for tonight’s great blackout covering twenty-eight counties, an appeal has been issued for the co-operation of all to
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      173 2 TN fib 1 X» Cv I f ri Likk What makesTangee so different, you’ll ask' I L-» Why does it end that painted look? Bt-cau /X? Tangee isn’t paint —can’t paint Instead it l changes color from orange in the stick to ft youthful blush rose on your lips. .And
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    SINGAPORE STABBING CASE
    570 3 Hainanese “Boy” Charged lI4RBOUR PILOT GIVES EVIDENCE Singapore. f |l |\(r was resumed before Mr. L(’ Goh in the Singapore Police Court on Tuesday during the postponed hearing I Hminary inquiry in which a Hainanese, Liau Fong Soon, (orn had “boy” to (apt. Sinclair, stands charged with
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    TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS
    130 3 Need Of A Central t-socialion Kuala Lumpur. > ore a central association n 'jcchi i! A., istants, was stressed by ~u .u it tin Malayan Technical As- <*’• njrtant. IMiie r at the Eastern Hotel recently < ava am, the Secretary of the Reccpti mmitt re in the
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    “RACKET OF LONG STANDING”
    124 3 Transferred Ticket To Another Person Singapore. “Th:- is i racket of long standing." omit!! I Court Inspector M M. WlutB» it; 11 s ,fpor< Third Police Court, on Tuesday when Harban Singh, a 26-yiar-old Sikh pleaded guilty to a charge of transierniit’ a railway ticket to
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    CHINESE FOUND DEAD
    39 3 Kuala Lumpur. Early on Wednesday morning, the of an eld**rly Chinese was found in a rubber estate adjoining Tong iih'n Terrace ui I*udu The body was found propped against a tree, with a round its neck
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    TRANSFER OF CANADA'S TRADE COMMISSIONER
    160 3 Mr. B. C. Butler for Los Angeles The Canadian Government Trade Commissioner at Singapore, Mr It. C. Butler, has received advice by telegram that he has transferred to the United States and will open a new office at Los Angeles. I Government has main■’>mtni.ssiorer’s office
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    HORS d'uevres were served on a model train
    43 3 J served on „«lel train UM. Britteh Ball"»/ Quer.., Mi-.» EIU -I u... Zurich .-KhlblUn, durinr her viat to Switzerland V.n. toe her slamtas her el.ua office to Dr r Cottier, of the Zuricii Railway.
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    ANOTHER FOR THE ROW
    44 3 Sergeant-Major Bone watclws his wife as she tries the 0.8. E., received from the King at the Investiture, against her husband’s row of-medals. Right: Mrs. Leah X. Folland, a South Wales J. P., leaving the Palace after receiving her C.B.E.
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    K.L. Special Services Vote Criticised
    1471 3 INADEQUATE PROVISIONS FOR 1940 Sanitary Board Meeting Kuala Lumpur. ord nary man in the street > does not very often follow' the figures of the Sanitary Beard votes, and it might te as well that this opportunity s taken to jxiint out to the public
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    K.L. Sewage Scheme
    336 3 Investigations May Take A Year A report, on the water-borne sewage scheme for Kuala Lumpur by the State Engineer, Selanror was .submitted to a meeting of the General Purposes Cnmnattee of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Beard on July 18. when the committee desired to know the following-—(a)
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    BICYCLE THIEVES SENTENCED
    224 3 Numerous Parts Discovered In Raid Singapore Remarking that people who have bicycles must be protected. Mr. Conrad Oldham. Singapore Second Magistrate and District Judge, on Tuesday sentenced a 24-year-old Chinese. Yong Woh. to a total sentence of nine months’ rigorous impriment for stealing three bicycles valued $l4.
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  • DAILY INDIA PAGE
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      GUJERAT AND THE FORWARD BLOC
      372 4 Mr. Bose's Claim Bombay, July 22. ]VI R. Subhas Chandra Bose has issued the following statement on his return to Bombay from his Gujerat tour: “Before I came to Bombay last month, I was told by several friends that, despite the support tlvil the Forward
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      BUS SERVICE IN NILGIRIS
      163 4 District Board’s Decision Ootacamund, July 21. A special meeting of the Nilgiri Distr:ct Board was held yesterday under the presidency of Mr. H. B. Ari Gowder, M.L.A., when the proceedings of the Committee appointed by the Board to consider the question of running bus services by
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      Gandhi’s Offer To Congressmen
      1094 4 IF THEY BELIEVE HIS POLICY HAS FAILED Call Special Meeting To Consider Revision Bombay, July 29. “JT may be that Congress-men have come to the belief that non-violence of my definition is played out. In that case there should be a conference, formal or informal, between
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      LADY ANNEE HOPE,
      54 4 LADY AWE HOPE, eldest, daughter of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and the Marchioness of Linlithgow, whose engagement was a/i--nounccd recently to Lieut. Patrick Henry James Southby, R.N., younger son of Sir Archibald Southby. Bart., M.P., and Lady Southby, of Barford Priory, Oxfordshire. Lieut. Southby was formerly an
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      SLAVES OF BOOKS
      421 4 Present-Day Students Rajahmundry, July 21. Delivering the inaugural address of the Metcalfe Union attached to the local Government Arts College, last evening, Mr. M. Ruthnaswami, Member, Public Services Commission, spoke on the importance of a liberal education. Mr. T. Suryanarayana. Principal of the Government Arts College, presided.
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      The South African Issue
      182 4 GANDHI'S ACTION WELCOMED Simla, July 24. Mr. Gandhi has advised the leaders of the Indian community in Transvaal to postpone passive resistance until further instructions. The advice is greatly appreciated here, where the view has been consistently held that the inauguration of the movement, while the
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      “NEWS FROM GERMANY” BANNED
      78 4 Simla, July 28. The Central Government has prohibited the bringing into British India of any copy of any pamphlet in the series entitled News from Germany, issued by 11. I\. Hoffman, Stranberg, Bavaria, Germany, any reprint or translation of any suchpamphlet, any document containing substantial reproductions
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      MILLION TONS OF SHIPPING
      81 4 About the end of March the British Government announced its intention of providing subsidies and shipbuilding loans for British cargo vessels. During the three following months orders for more than 150 vessels, aggregating some 700,000 tons gross, with a total cargo-carrying capacity of more than 1,000,000
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      “T.B. SANITORIUM FOR MALABAR
      331 4 Tellicherry Citizens 9 Support Tellicherry, July 23. «RESIDING over a public meeting of the Tellicherry citizens held last evening at the Town Hall to concert measures for helping the proposed Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Malabar, Mr. S. Y. Krishnaswami, M.A., 1.C.5., Collector of Malabar, appealed for funds
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      COCHIN EXPRESS FROM OCTOBER
      432 4 Reintrodiiction To Be Permanent Madras, July 29. tU r dIE South Inu Railway administration having in mind the desirability <>! developing traffic lietween the metropolis. (Madras city) and ichin by tho introduction of a daily through express train, it has n decided, to re-introduce the Cochin
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      75 4 The RITZES are in the Horseplay novf Come and take a Tip from them to choose your Winner for Tomorrow’s Races.. MAJESTIC OPENING TONIGHT AT 6 15 9 30 THE RITZ BROTHERS in Damon Runyon’s “STRAIGHT, PLACE AND SHOW” with Richard Arlen, Ethel Me rm ar* Phyllis Brooks, George Barbier,
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      70 4 The whole world has t i.. Family to its TONIGHT 6.15 AND 9 MATINEE TOMORROW vr Reduced AT QUEEN'S “OUT WEST WITH IH E HARDYS’ Come out west with the -1 and have the time of The Best of the Hand senes J Together with the latest BRITISH PARAMOUNT MATINEE
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      EIGHT OF JAPANESE ARROGANCE IN TIENTSIN
      296 5 people Wait Four Days T o Enter City GENDARMES EXAMINE FOREIGN VESSELS Hongkong, August 5. intended to be a gesture of threat, veral Japanese planes are reported to be flying low he British and French Concessions in Tientsin every ng, according to a dispatch
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      MUI TSAI IN HONG KONG
      282 5 Report Discloses Decrease i The last half-yearly report from Hong Kong shows that the number of registered mui tsai has decreased by I 181, the total on the register on November 30. 1938. being 1.141. Of the 181, 65 are remaining with their employers as
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      Before calling on the wounded soldiers and officers
      44 5 before calling on the wounded soldiers and officers and other air raid victims, Madame Chiang Kai-shek made a brief speech to members of the families of those in active service on the morning of August i.
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      CHINESE SUCCEED IN WANGMOON DRIVE
      193 5 -Central News. Entire Coast Cleared Of Japanese Hong’ Kong-, August 5. IXG on successfully in a counter-attack which began on August 1. strong* Chinese units, assisted by the local sell-defence corps, have cleared the entire Chungshan roast around W’angnioon in the Canton delta of the
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      CHUNGKING’S BONDS ISSUED
      96 5 —International News. Chungking, August 4. National reconstruction bonds to the value of $300.000,000 floated in Chungking at face value bearing an interest of 6 per cent, per annum will be subscribed here. The bonds will be redeemed in twenty-five years from January 31, 1942. A sinking fund
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      RAILWAY TO BURMA
      44 5 Chungking. Chinese sources say that Mr. Yu Cheng-yuan, formerly head of the Nanchang Railway Administration, left for Kunming rerently where he is assuming the d’rectorship of the Engineering Bureau for the construction’ of the Yunnan-Burma Railway, which is now under way.
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      Chinese Swear Their Oath To Fatherland
      254 5 Sydney (X.S.W.) wouldn’t have recognised Charlie who brings you the vegetables twice a week if you had been at Menzies Hotel, writes a correspondent in the Sydney Sun. Diffident, self-effacing Charlie, who nods apologetically when the beans are not up to standard, threw his
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      U.S. PUBLIC OPINION
      164 5 I Showing Interest In Far East Hongkong, August 5. A MERICAN public opinion now shows signs of crystallization and the Americans are taking interest in the Far Eastern happenings. realizing that the United States rights must be respected, declared Mr. Julean Arnold, the U.S. American Attache to
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      NEWFOURTH ARMY
      89 5 and Tong Pon-on.—lnternational To Launch Large Scale Attack Shanghai. August 4. 4 LARGE scale counter-attack on Nanking ar.q Shanghai on the eve of August 13 will be launched by Chinese troops of the New Fourth Ai my’ with the support of guerillas. Most of these troops are massed
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      WANG CHINGWEI
      216 5 Central News. Io Convoke ‘People's (Congress'’ Hongkong, August 5. t tempt to organise a “cental regime" having been by Wang Keh-min. the puppet in Peiping, and i Hung-chih, the leading i t ette in Nanking, Wang <m. a oi at the Japanese instiga i< is planning to convoke
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      HEAVY FLOODS IX HUPEH
      145 5 Central News. 22 Districts Inundated Chungking. August 5. AT bast twenty-two districts in the lb pei province ir. North China, in svhich Peiping and Tientsin are silua’i i, are flooded as a result of dyke breaches deliberately cut by •kipar.i e troops, according to reports received
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      BOMB DROPS NEAR BELGIAN EMBASSY
      173 5 —Central News. Nobody In Compound Injured Chungking. August 5. A bomb fell within fifty metres o the Belgian Embassy here during Uie fourth moorJight raid on Chungking in this week early this morning by eighteen Japanese bombers again ir two batches. A bomb smashed a
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      46 5 BOBBY BEAR S ADVENTURES: No Boating (2) < /Sai? x/NScCs. I plan. ucnl drifting ad ,io/t In, lit ar. the arch tie: stuck My u How Haute orealcs aaay. That s pune. The bridge ahead. Uad, top, u ttiert, I’ve caught you. Just as well,” said uu..
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  • Australian News And Views
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      War Threat Benefits Industries
      82 6 Canberra. Apprehensive that a European war would cut off their supplies of iron and steel, buildir# materials and technical equipment, lary firms in the East are switching their orders to Australia. There are 400 manufactured lines which merchants in the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Siam. Indo-Chine
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      Record Air Round Trip
      105 6 Brisbane. The Airlines of Australia Douglas plane Kyilla set a new record when it flew from Brisbane to Sydney and back to Brisbane in five hours five minutes flying time. The previous record was six hours. Piloted by Captain Keith Virtue, the Kyilla averaged 195 miles
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      AUSTRALIAN HONOURED
      51 6 Joins Select Company New York. The Explorers’ Club awarded their medal to Sir Hubert Wilkins for his work in exploration. This is only the fifteenth time the honour has been bestowed on anyone, and only six of the recipients are living. The list includes Byrd. Stefansson Peary and
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      THE BOSS GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
      47 6 Casino. The former manager of a New Zealand dairy factory sat side by side with young dairy employees for examinations in dairy science held the other day. Australian regulations which differ from those in New Zealand, compelled his return to school.
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      Discontent In Royal Navy
      558 6 TALK OF SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA SPREAD BY NAZI AGENTS THP2 extent to which the subversive influenza of foreign agents in Australia may have been responsible for the discontent that has been engendered among a minority of ratings in the Royal Australian Navy is a matter that demands
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      Chinese Star In Sydney
      30 6 ANNA MAY WONG, well-known Chinese film and stage star, who is tuno touring Australia. She had a successful season in Sydney at the Tivoli in Hollywood
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      Colour Craze Brings Blue Drinks
      153 6 TJOTTLES of blue Curacao are glow- ing, richly in Sydney bars. Once white, Curacao, not to mention other liquors, has been tinted to satisfy the craze for colour in daily life. Colopr must be* used to decorate, not to deceive, points out the chief food
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      AUSTRALIAN PILOT HAS NEW BEAM
      175 6 Coloured Lights Indicate The Course Sydney. A secret flight of 200 miles out to sea will be made by D. Evans to test an air beam, invented by himself He claims it is cheaper and more efficient than the beams in use all over the
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      33 6 4n aerial viezv of the University Bit. dings at Perth, II This State is the only one in .Australia which offers uni tion free.
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      REFUGEE SAVED THROUGH KIND ACT
      276 6 Australian Helps Friendly Austrian Sydney. AN Austrian refugee, Arthur Simmelman, who arrived in Sydney, was met at the wharf by a Sydney businessman whom he had befriended while attending a Salzburg musical festival, and who arranged for his admission to Australia. “That meeting in Salzburg
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      GERMAN-CZECH MONEY GOING TO AUSTRALIA
      42 6 Sydney. German and Czechoslovakian interests are combining to establish a new industry to manufacture bakelite products in New South Wales. A new company is m process of formation. Fountain pens, pencils and similar goods will be made.
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      AUSTRALIA CONSUMING ITS OWN WOOL
      82 6 Canberra. The consumption of wool in Australia has increased considerably in recent years, and now amounts to about 238,000 bales annually, while ten years ago it was only 148,300 bales. In addition over 11,000,000 lbs. of tops, noils, waste and yarn are exported. The output
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      Beer Once Breakfast Drink, Says Judge
      65 6 Auckland. 'T certainly am not going to stand for the proposition that there is anything wrong with the man who takes beer as an integral part of his daily life,” said Judge Callan in the Timaru Arbitration Court. “Our ancestors drank beer for breakfast
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      Healthy Australians!
      37 6 Canberra In a recent report, the Minister for Health stated that of 31,644 men medically examined for the militia during the past year, the number rejected as physically unfit was 1.199, or 3.8 per cent.
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      "Believe It Or Not”
      77 6 ¥> BOWING smoke ring.- ;i t ot a British trai p entered Victoria Docks Believe it or not. her name is Her Diesal engines are run oft the exhaust gas from the main ylinders. The Diesel exhaust is inside the main funnel, making a funnel within
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      HUNGRY CHILDREN STEAL LUNCHES
      128 6 Headmaster’s zlppeal For Relief Melbourne. Some of the children at the Grahamstreet, Port Melbourne, State school are so underfed that they sometime* run off with the lunches of other school children. The headmaster, Mr. C. H. Butler, said this in an appeal for some of th»
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      U.S.A. Inventor Walks Around Continent
      55 6 Melbourne. To attract attention tz hi.- n chief of which is an automa i r ling device for airplan< llir gical Monterio, a 29-year-oh chemist of California, Xl c ts t* walk around Australia* •> work his way. .jjalling Monterio claims th a. device will
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      Fresh Flowers Ten Years In Ice
      42 6 Sydney •ion power <* To prove the pres. .agoice, flowers that blow; Mca t were exhibited in Sv Industry Exhibition fro!* 11 They have been > haV o block of i« e and fo« first retained the freshnesbloom.
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      Coloured Disc To Register Dog
      37 6 v Melbvui’ 111 ,f“ji^ ,n? 5 Meta! colours for to dogs as to < x K iatieo adopted by th. n u)J The system, it is cku ,tered ‘l*’ 3 inspectors to dettx
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    FIVE ALLEGED GANG ROBBERS ON TRIAL
    1036 7 Persian Witness Tells Of Conspiracy MEN GIVEN PILLS TO STEADY NERVES 4<»O' of a successful police vigil in an untenanted house h resulted in the capture of five men in the small hours t Hiorning of May 15 this year was related to the
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    TAIPING CAR CRASH
    231 7 Nurse Fined For Negligence Taiping. The motor accident which occurred on Wednesday afternoon when a Morris 8 Saloon car driven by Miss G. P. Mallows, nursing sister of the Taiping Hospital, went off the road as it was coming down the slope of Esplanade Road, had its
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    FLOWER-SELLING CAMPAIGN
    72 7 Third Anniversary Of Shanghai Incident Ipoh. The Third Anniversary of the Shanghai incident on August 13 will be marked bv another extensive flower-sellim campaign in Ipoh. It is not likely that there will be any special meetings on tin occasion. v Some thousands of colcured-paper flowers are being
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    BUTTERWORTH AND PRAI
    231 7 AJtJ*. Volunteers Wanted ORGANISATION It is intended to extend the Air Raid Precautions organisation to cover the areas of Butterworth and Prai. Residents of these areas interested and desirous of enrolling as Air Raid Wardens are requested to forward their names and addresses to the Regional Inspector,
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    NEW BARRISTER FOR IPOH
    131 7 Mr. F. A. Reid Admitted To F.M.S. Bar Ipoh Mr. Francis Alexander Reid was yesterday morning admitted a> a member of the F.M.S. Bar before the Hon Mr. Justice Poyser, Chief Justice F M.S Sir P McElwaine. Chief Justice S.S.. and the Hon. Mr. Justice Gordon
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    C.P.O. ARRESTS RICSHA-PULLER
    446 7 I Disorderly Soliciting At Pier r pHE Chief Police Officer, Mr. B. M. B. O’Connell, was the complainant in the case in which a ricsha-puller, Goh Chuan Hock, was charged before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Middle Court yesterday, with soliciting passengers in a persistent or
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    TO STUDY IN ENGLAND
    237 7 Miss Evelyn Goh DAUGHTER OF LOCAL LAWYER Miss Evelyn Gch. eldest daughter of Mr. G. H. Goh, the well-known Chinese advocate and solicitor, and partner of Messrs. Lim and Lim, will be leaving Penang for England by the P. O. Corfu on Saturday to further her
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    PENANG YOUTH FOR AMERICA
    100 7 Mr. M. S. Leong, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Leong Eng Khean, wellknown Penang residents, left yesterday by the P. O. Rajputana for Hong Kong, where he will embark on the Empress of Russia for the United States. He intends to take up journalism and
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    Social and Personal
    665 7 Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Dale of Bukit Mertajam leave today for a fortnight's holiday at Fraser’s Hill. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Thane, of Nilai, have returned to Negri Sembilan after a holiday in Australia. A director of Vallambrosa Rubber Co., Ltd., the later Major Charles
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    ALLEGED DRUG IN COFFEE
    184 7 Tamil On Serious Charge A serious charge was preferred against a Tamil, Nadesan, before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Middle Court yesterday, when it was alleged that the accused committed theft of a gold necjlet, valued $lOO, belonging to one Oonamalai (f), having, previous to
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    DAMAGE TO R.A.F. PLANE
    188 7 i Forced Landing at Bhuket Alor Star TLREE R.A.F. planes left Rangoon at 1.35 GMT for Malaya and only one arrived at Alor Star at 6.06 GMT Another .plane left Mergui at 5.00 GMT and arrived safely at Alor Star at 7.08 GMT. Out of the
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    THE LIGHT MEMORIAL
    799 8 'TODAY is the 153rd Anniversary of the Founding of Penang, for it was on this day in 1787 that Captain Francis Light landed at Point Penaggar (somewhere near the present Kedah Pier) and formally took possession naming the island Prince of Wales Island, as a compliment to
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    By The Way
    670 8 IFhy Hot? IfOR E about ‘Lady Precious Stream”: I hear on good authority that the Penang Chinese Amateur Players are holding a meeting today to consider the question of giving a jierformance in Ipoh. Yes, why not? I am sure our Ipoh friends, having heard and read
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    Diary of a Foreign News Editor
    438 8 Friday, August 11. ZX)NTRARY to expectations, Herr Forster, Hitler’s spokesman in Danzig, did not produce any surprise in his eagerly-awaited address yesterday. The position, he said, was too serious for sensations. Poland was trying to increase hatred of Germany. He assured Poland the people
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      32 8 WHEN BUYING TIN PROVISIONS Always Specify. DEL MONTE PRODUCTS are known fbe world over. OBTAINABLK AT All the leading dealers. BOLB AGBNTB: Henry Waugh Co.. Ltd.. PENANG. Singapore, Ipofe and Kuala Ixanpur.
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    Today is the 153rd anniversary of the founding of Penang by Captain Francis Light
    90 9 Toda y is the 153rd anniversary of the founding of Penang by Captain Francis Light j is the 153rd anniversary of the founding of Penang by Captain Francis Light and the old I nion Jack is being flown over his tomb at Nor than» Road. J<ct< ti above depicts the
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    50 YEAR-OLD CHINESE BEATEN UP AND TARRED
    389 9 Jutrage In Burmah Road ATTACK BY THREE MEN A 50 YEAR-OLD CHINESE WAS THE VICTIM OF YET ANOTHER TARRING OUTRAGE, PERPETRATED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF THIS MORNING IN BURMAH ROAD, NEAR THE ARRATOON ROAD JUNC- TION. THE MAN, WHOSE NAME WAS GIVEN
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    CHARITY FOOTBALL
    36 9 On Sunday at B M High Schc»ol ground at 5 15 p.m P.W.F.A Burton, Eusoff and Gregory, Sviasamy, Che Din and Abdullah; t>. Comeliu. K Cornelius, Subramaniam, Mumandy and Skadiang Ib.-.-rve Osman and Ahmad.
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    today’s Sports Diary
    25 9 H4MXIKR: P.F.A. League, Div. I P.W.F.A v. S.L.R.C., Victoria Green; P.M.R.c. v. P.G.F.A., Dato Kramat ground. BADMINTON: ACS Dnion tournament, 5.30 p.m
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    FLEW EAST TO SPEND HOLIDAYS
    211 9 Miss Baeza Arrives In Penang With the increased facilities offered by air- Ones, a large number of students who are being educated in Europe, are coming out to spend their vacation with their parents in the East This morning’s Imperial flying beat "Calypso” arrived in
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    Retreat At Esplanade This Evening
    20 9 The Drums of the Volunteers will be beating a Retreat this evening on the Esplanade.
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    PLANS FOR PENANG’S NEW MARKET READY
    401 9 Architectural Assistant To Be Appointed At a meeting of the Commissioners in Committee held on Tuesday, the Municipal Engineer reported that the layout plan for the new market was ready and he recommended the appointment of an Architectural Assistant to prepare working drawings. This
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    “OUT WEST WITH THE HARDYS”
    252 9 Enjoyable Film At Queen’s To see "Out West With T'ne Hardys,’’ at the Queen’s tonight, is to enjoy an experience. The members of this familiar and friendly family Lewis Stone, Fay Holden. Mickey Rooney and Cecilia Parker are m too form. In this picture. Judge
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    STATION ZHJ
    69 9 Kace Commentaries On Saturday By the permission of the Penang Turf Cluo the Penang Wireless Society will give tw’O running commentaries of the Racing on Saturday, August 12, through Station ZHJ Penang (6 08 megacycles —49.3 metres) The first commentary will be on the Gold Cup Race and
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      138 9 I I PENANG GOLD CUP MEETING I RACE TIFFINS W I can be t obtained at the Race Course j 12.30 A.M. TO 2.30 P.M. I RESERVATIONS AT I PRITCHARDS 1 PHONE 335 i I 1 1 A nnouncing A NEW TRUFOOD PRODUCT V A A PROGRESSIVE NUTRITIVE FOOD FOR
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    SOUTHERN KINTA CONSOLIDATED
    1852 10 Chairman’s Review Of Accounts SUCCESS OF THE BUFFER STOCK SCHEME The fifth ordinary general meeting otr Southern Kinta Consolidated Limited. wa‘>| held recently at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Moorgate-place. London., E.C.. Capt. Oliver Lyttelton, D.S 0., M.C., chairman of the company, presiding. Mr. A M Lightman,
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE
    97 10 Penang. August 10, 1939. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). On London Bank Demand 2/4 On London Bank 4 months 2/4 1/32 Private O. D. 2/4 1/4 Private 3 m/s Documentary 2/4 5/16 On New York Demand 54 9/16 Canadian 54 9/16 On France Demand 2055 Lire 1034
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    FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    129 10 THURSDAY. AUGUST 10 Prev Latest Parts 176 23 32 176 23 32 New York 4.68 1/8 4.68 1/4 Montreal 4.68 1/16 4.68 1/4'Brussels 27.55 1/2 27 55 3/4’ Geneva 20.73 3/4 20.72 I'4 Atnsterdarn 8.79 8.77 j Milan 89 1/32 89 Berlin 11.66 1/2 11.66 1/2 Stockholm 19.41
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    PNEUMATIC CASINGS
    356 10 Shipments In May Shipments of pneumatic casings for highway transportation during May are estimated to have been 4.753.403 units. This figure shows an increase of 9.1% above April shipments, and represents a 44.4% increase over shipments made 'during May, 1938 Shipments of casings to automobile manufacturers are estimated
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    JULY RUBBER OUTPUTS
    16 10 Perak River Valley Rubber Co., Ltd.. 22.795 lbs Juru Estates Ltd., 25.000 lbs
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    Wall Street Cable
    522 10 SUPPLIED BY MESSRS ANTHONY CO New York. Aug Jo Ihe following quotations were th ruling when the Btock Exchange v to-day. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Yesterday’s To-daj 30 Industrials 139.75 20 Rails 28.56 28.(hj 15 Utilities 26.33 25.1., New York Stock Exchange, bu., done, total volume 700,000 shares Spot
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    SYNTHETIC RUBBER
    152 10 American Chemist’s Claim Chicago. A new process for the manufacture of synthetic rubber from butane gas, which is so (plentiful in some American oilfields that it is regarded as a waste product, is announced by Dr Gustav Egloff, director of the research laboratories of the Universal Oil Products
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      777 10 BANKS HONG KONG AND Nederlansche SHANGHAI BANKING Handel-Maatschappij CORPORATION N. V. incorporated In the Colony ot Honing, (NETHERLANDS TRADING ’The liability of members is limited to QrM"'TK'T'V» «tent and in manner prescribed b> bUCIEIY) Ordinance No. 6 of 1929 of the Colony vnvr (Incorporated in the Netherlands «.woSd d c?puaf
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    PORTER TOOK THE HAT ROUND
    12 11 f lora Gross with her sewing marhine
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    So Flora Kept Her Sewing Machine
    136 11 I'I.ORV GROSS. 15-year-old refugee, brought her sewing machine with her whin she came to FJngland from Germany m the liner Europa. Southampton Customs officer gave it one glance. There will be 9s. (id duty to pay on that.” he declared But I have no
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    SOUTH AFRICANS AND THE ROYAL NAVY
    131 11 100 Applicants Every Year Johannesburg. Between 80 and 100 Johannesburg youths apply for admission to the Royal Navy every year. Of the applications annually submitted by the Navy League to the authorities at Simonstown. about 40 are approved after the youths have been personally
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    FACTORY TRANSFERS
    78 11 From London To Country A feature in connection with the transfer of factories to new sites i tiansn been the trend for crowded Lonbe employed r 'A fir'm of typewriter carbon and rib- makers who have for many years mTd a large factory at Leyton. mTast London, have
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    SIAMESE TIN
    19 11 July output of tin ore from the Ngow- Property of Stmnese Tin Syndicate Ltd was 1200 p.kuls.
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    FOREIGN OWNERS BUY SHIPS
    319 11 Mercantile And Naval AT the present time British shipyards have under construction or on order for foreign owners ovei forty vessels of variou: types. They include destroyers, -uibmarines, minelayers, car go motor-ships, motor tankers, colliers, trawlers, whalers, tugs, 'lrr<b’“. s and motor torpedo-boats. (*ly<r yards are
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    LANCASHIRE MILLS REOPENED
    58 11 ’.ion of the mills in. Nel•«ire, which were former- tton weaving, by a of rubber equipment .i<•■■<. has provided work foi indred girls "and twenty 'my has been installed -'in begun. Burnley, which was to town in July, has been a Nelson, firm and will cotton manufacturing
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    Giant X-Ray To Combat Cancer INSTALLED AT AMSTERDAM
    717 11 HUMANITY can count herself fortunate that there are men, scientists and doctors, who devote the vast resources of their knowledge and their accumulated experience to the evolution and application of equipment to combat the scourages of life itself. To give a list
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    Call For Peace Front With The Soviet
    836 11 SIR WALTER CITRINE OPENS I.F.T.U. CONGRESS Zurich, Switzerland. HE world is in the grip of n war neurosis. Statesmanship M*ems to be consecrated in nearly every country to the organisation of national resources for war. “It is essential to have the Soviet Union
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    Important Contribution To Scientific Research
    392 11 ON VIEW AT NEW YORK WORLD FAIR IN the Netherlands Section at the World’s Fair 1939 in New York the Philips Physical Laboratory is represented by an impressive scientific contribution. This laboratory was the first to succeed in preparing the rare metals titanium, zirconium and
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      194 11 Illy must strengthen your inst feverish diseases— A ——n Fever has left you very weak and you may easily have a fresh attack of malaria. There is no need to General Weakness worr y b ot if y°“ tak e a e u c nf Kalzana for a few weeks.
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    FILM WORKERS & TELEVISION
    431 12 FILM WORKERS TELEVISION Wide Effect On Entertainment London. The Luddites —bands of mechanics who organised riots in 1811-16 —smashed machinery. wrJes the Industr al Correspondent. The modern worker should adapt himself to innovations and co-operate with the employers. This was the theme of the presidential address of Mr. Robert Finnigan
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    Changes On Mars
    144 12 Changes oli the surface of Mars never noted before have been observed by astronomers at Lowell Observatory, which lies on a mountain-ten near Flagstaff. Arizona. This has been possible because of the planets approach to the earth. On July 27. it will be nearer than it has
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    100,000 TRAINED BY MINISTRY
    138 12 Reserves Of Labour Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, opening a Ministry training centre at Salford recently, said that more than .100.000 men hid passed through Government training centres for six months’ tuition, and work had been found for 80.000. “I am now a happy Minister
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    The Mails
    545 12 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoli And Penanv SEA MAILS Outward For North. North Eastern and North Western Sumatra wll close by Kedah at 5 p.m. tomorrow. For Mergui. Moulmein and Tavoy will close by Kuala at 9 a.m. tumorre w. For Southern and Western India will
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    BACH AT HASLEMERE
    229 12 F. Minor Concerto On The Harpsichord London. Tne Dolmetsch concert at Haslemere was given over to Bach —mostly familial works presented in a new and revealing way writes “J.A.W." in the “Daily Telegraph Nothing could have demonstrated better that the insistence on the instruments for which Bach
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    Multi-Engined Trainers For Canada
    104 12 First deliveries to a contract fo r 25 Airspeed Oxford advanced training twin-engined monoplanes have been made to the Royal Canadian Air Force. Oxfords are the standard multi-er.gined training equipment of the Royal Air Force at home and have been in service with the Royal New
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    FLIGHT AT 600 M.P.H?
    60 12 Five new wind tunnels are under I construction in Great Britain for aerodynamical research. Four are required by experts who work at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddingtor. The fifth is being built at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Farnborough. and is planned for investigation of conditions arising
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    BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION RECORD
    71 12 Imperial Airways and its associated companies flew more than 13 million miles during 1938, an increase of some three million miles over the previous twelve months. Total of British Empire registered civil aircraft rose from 3,197 to 3,260. The number of commercial pilots increased by 245
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    CAPITAL FUN AT THE RICHMOND?
    154 12 Fine Acting In The Chief Parts London f nf >d fun I* There k> any amoun be had at the Rich! “D.D.” in the Dail terfeit.” by <<yri Arlen, is unpretenti. as such should be Its peculiar merit h between crude gangs ei t ur
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      2375 12 Lili. BERLIN Ok W^' %z {ss*'''■ DJL 1776 mc 'l6 39 m.i ■3 Jr embsSm |Bmo, 'WA Wa djq IW® mc m) J||obF JM Wjjß MW O W| DJN 954 me s <31.45 m > Kw V Jfil^^** ,,< a A flEr fit! 1225 p:n rjail English» n Ek «®H/
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      143 12 SINGAPORE ZHL 1.333 kc/s (225 m.) 12.45 p.m. Light Orchestral Concert played by the Adelphi Hotel Orchestra, conducted bv A. Bershadsky. Relayed from the Adelphi Hotel. 1.30 Mid-day Rubber and Tin prices.* 1.32 Light Orchestral concert relayed from the Adelphi Hotel Contd. 2.00 Interval. 5.00 Malay Request Programme.* 5.30 Peipeng
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    FOOTBALLERS IN CAR SMASH
    152 13 James Guthrie On Danger List London. Phree well-known League players lames Guthrie, ca.ptain of Portsmouth f ht l-.A. Cup winners, John Thomson, aptain of Everton, and Willie Cook, the Everton Irish international back, were involved in a serious motor-car accident on July 14. They had been
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    FOREST FIRES REPOORTED IN RUSSIA
    114 13 i finish Fire-Guards Hushed To Frontier Helsinki. markable heat and drought at ing experienced in North e not only seriously affecting v< st prospects, but also increasianger of forest fires. Het from eastern frontier dis■f Finland states that forests Russian side are ablaze over ;i
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    “Memory Better Than Any P.C”
    143 13 ETHEL MARY HAMBLETON, who lives at Bickley. Kent, thinks that a woman’s memory is as good as a policeman’s. Acton magistrates do not. When she faced the Bench—all men accused of not allowing a nedestrian preference at a crossing m Chiswick High-road. She defended herself.
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    NEW FOURTH ARMY
    61 13 and keep it open for traffic. International News. Shanghai, August 4. Troops of the New Fourth Army have reached Wutsin and Changshu on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway preparing to harass Shanghai, At one time they were near to Nanking. Over one thousand Japanese troops are now added to
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    KWANGCHOUWAN’S EXPORTS TO HONG KONG
    64 13 —lnternational News. Kwangchouwan. August 4 I Arge shipments of livestock, eggs, poultry are being shipped from here to Hong Kong in place of those from Swabue, Swatow and Chungshan which are occupied or blockaded by the Japanese. The orders were mad« oy Hong Kong merchants,
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    PENANG SHIPPING NEWS
    1331 13 l Arrivals IODAY. august 11. i ss. “Calchas” irom Singapore. sus. “Teiresias” from Liverpool. J s.s. “Tosari” from Belawan-Deli. Asahan and Paneh (Laboean-Bihk 1 s.s. “Mandar” from Belawan-Deli. Lang.sa, Simpang-Olim, Idi and i TOMORROW, AUGUST 12. 1 s.s. “Corfu" from Yokohama via ports I ui.v. “Siamese Prince”
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      359 13 SLUE FUNNEL LINE UILhIA 'LKVK'E TO LONDON A. NORTH CONTINENT CAI/IIAS calls Hull AU E '."IT ‘sJT' 1 MEMNON Calls Marseilles Glasgow Aug 19 Sent. 14 .HNOGLE calls Anwerp Middlesbro Auf’ 23 Sent* TEN DAY SERVICE TO IK ER POOL VIA HAVRE EUMAEUS Calls Glasgow i 7 MYRMIDON Calls Jeddah.
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      640 13 PQ A and < V BRITISH INDIA (Incorpoikted In England» PORT SWETTENHAM 5 SINGAPORE S.S. “RAJULA” SAILING THURSDAY, 17th AUGUST, 1939. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under For Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh Port contract with His Majesty’s Government Swettenham. Malareaand Singapore London and Far East Mall Service. s/S “MATA
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      256 13 NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA’ LONDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Stelfii Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Steamers Sailing dwtat HAKONE MARU Aug. 18 HUSIMI MARU Sept 4 HAKOZAKI MARU Sept Ift l SUWA MARU Sept TERUKUNI MAEJJ Oct 12 HAKUSAN MARU Oct |2T 7 FOR JAPAN FROM SINGAPORE
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    OUR REFEREES ARE TOO LENIENT
    721 14 Recurrence Of Rough Play i In Penang Soccer I HAVE no apologies for returning to a topic with which 1 have previously dealt in these columns. Rlaugh play seems to be prevalent again in Penang League soccer and during several recent matches questionable tactics have
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    RONNIE JAMES,
    101 14 RONNIE JAMES, of Swansea, who knocked out Benny Caplan, in the second round of a 12 rounds contest at Sicansea on July 31. Caplan began with several light lefts to James’s face but James got in good left swings and two hard left hooks to the body which
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    £24,000 Loss On Polo Tour Of America
    313 14 London [NOR. the first time in the history of international polo a visit of an English team to America has resulted in a financial loss. The fact that on this occasion the loss has amounted to ±24 000 can only be described as
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    PENANG GOLD CUP DAY TOMORROW
    1242 14 Will Van Breukelen Complete Dozen? “TRESPASSERS DISCUSSES RACE PROSPECTS 'T’HE climax of the Penang Race meeting will be reached tomorrow when the Gold Curp, the major event of the meet, will be rim over a mile and three furlongs, thejlongest distance for a race in
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    JAMES DEFEATS WILDE
    381 14 Loser Retiro With Cut Eye George James. ehampion, ret round contest with J OFmer champion. m, Swansea. The end came urexj n eleventh round, whei A received a cut over th earl Y® the fight, turned to his ner ;uvl complained that he cc l not s
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    Are You Stumped?
    43 14 40—A batsman intercepts the ball with his legs in front of the wicket from a bowler bowling round the wicket with a ball that did not break. Can he be out l.b.w? Answer to No —The striker is out hit-wicket
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    MALAY VOLUNTEERS SURPRISE P.C.F.A.
    867 15 h ree Second Division Matches Y esterday ‘IE “C” (Malaya) Company Volunteers sprang a surprise in the Second Division <of the P. F. A. ue yesterday when they beat the Penang Chinese t ball Association ‘‘B” son the Renong ground. The Chinese dominated play in the
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    THREE GOALS FOR H. BAKAR
    86 15 I School Beaten I Malay R. C ‘•’«’creation Club beat the l{ I'rade School 4—2 on the 1 yesterday, H. Bakar f their goals. I'd oil with 'two initial stage. The first I 1 by Ee Hock .who'lconP av dutiful pass, to beat j ith
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    LEN HARVEY
    19 15 LEN HARVEY and his Jacquelwu havin-q a lifter his victory over Jock McAvoy for the lnjht-hswy-wdght title.
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    IPOH SKYE MEETING
    389 15 List of Horses Ponies In Training The following is the full list of horses and ponies m training for the Perak Turf Club August Skye Meeting— J. DUVAL 1 Kuaia Prince —Mr. A. Van Tooren 2 In-Ver-Fogg —do—--3 Pride of Perak do—--4 Woden —do—--5 Policy —do—--6 Spring
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    COLONY RETAIN MACKRAY CUP
    312 15 Malay States Lose At Polo Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 10 Tht Colony retained the Mackray Cup when they decisively defeated the Malay States m the annual Colony vs Malay States polo match on the Selangor Polo Club ground this afternoon by eight goahj to three. The States
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    Office-bearers Of M.L.T.A. Elected
    229 15 Ipoh rhe next Malayan Lawn Tennis Championships will be played at Kuala Lumpur This decision was arrived at at the annual general meetjng of the Lawn T ‘■’nnls Association of Malaya held at the Ipoh Club recently. Chung Ah Ming presided and after ■the ukual preliminaries
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    INDIA A GOOD MARKET FOR RACEHORSES
    90 15 There appears to be an exceptionally good market for racehorses in India at the present moment. Lord Dufferin, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, has been unfortunate enough in Iris short racing career to possess some very slow racehorses. Recently he decided to dispose of one
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    IMPRESSIVE RUN BY TURN OVER
    322 15 This Morning’s Track Work At Batu Gantong j (By “TRESPASSER”) r T'HRI\E horses from Hobbs’ stable were seen on the track for the first time this morning. They were Measure, Harriford and Turn Over. 1 arrived too late to see Measure, but I hear the.
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    TODAY’S HOCKEY
    95 15 Old Xaverians To Meet Petiang Colts On the S.X.I. ground today at 5.15 pm. sharp: L. Lopez; P. Foley, Lim Cheng Hoe; N. A. Perera, Jerry Reutens, Nelson Danker; J. Jpremiah, G. Laing, Chris Danker leapt.), Boh Eye and Ratnam. Reserves: L. C. C. Foley and J. Langan.
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    NEW MOTOR RECORD
    30 15 Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Aug 10. A; B. Jenkins, the American racing motorist, raised his own fifty miles record from 170.27 miles per hour t«i 74.2. —Reuter.
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    ACCEPTANCES FOR TOMORROW
    936 16 Six Starters In Gold Cup Rare RACE 1-2.30 P.M. PONIES—CIass 2—DivUion 2-M5 Furlongs duvm 1 3 3 BEVERANT Ty 904 Major 3 3 2 MARNEIX IS staßord Hobbs 44 0 KIT B J® ulan stable" Bowden 0 ™“mA MD TO® -Mr KU." NON-ACCEPTORS Mr Alan u> ke
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    ROYAL WORLINGTON TIPPED FOR GOLD CUP
    379 16 Measure A Danger f Selections By “Trespasser” ONLY six horses have accepted for the Penang Gold Cup. They are Jack Druce, Measure, Sir Theobald, Royal Worlington, Herbe Folle and Release, i of these Jack Druce, Royal WorlingtJOn. and Release are from the Van Breukelen
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    MARKET PRICES
    76 16 FRIDAY AUGUST 11 MIDDAY QUOTATION». Penang Tin $114.12i Business done 50 tons Singapore Tin 5114 121 RUBBER: Penang (Spot» 28 3/8c Singapore (Spot) 28 13/16c COPRA: Sundnea 53.65 Black Pepper 9.50 TAPIOCA: Medium $3.20 Fair Seed 12.75 RICK: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $6 40 No. 2 $6.30 Rangoon
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      178 16 rubber Ayer Panas BassettS 1 nfi Batu Lintangs l-<> 2 J Bentas *OO Brogas Indragiris 120 Kuala Sidims 210 2 5 Lunas 142 Malaka Pindas 120 Mentakabs 39 Pajams 170 1 Sungei Tukangs 99 J O Tapahs 150 J-®? Telok Ansons 120 Ulu Benuts 29 31
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      KENNEDY & CO’s SHARE LIST
      251 16 KENNEDY CO’s SHARE LIST Buyers Seilers MINING. Ampat 3/7J 3/10J A. Amalgamated 4/3 4/b Ayer Weng 73 76 Bangrin 17/6 18/ Baiu Selangor 1.18 1.22|c Berjuntai 8/3 8/9 Hitam. 32 34 Hong Fatt 59 ol Johan 4 24 27 Jelebu 48 52 K. Kamunting 6/ 6/6 K. Lanjut 13/6 14/
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      A.A. ANTHONY & CO’s QUOTATIONS
      129 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO’s QUOTATIONS FIN Buyers Sellers Ampat 3/7i 3/10£ A. Amalgamated 4/ 4/3 Bangrin 17/ 17/6 Batu Selangor 1.18 1.20 c Chenderiang 11/ H/6 Hitam 32J 35 Hong Fatt 58 60 Kampong Kamunting 6/ 6/3ex Kampong Lanjut 13/6 13/9 Kramat Tin 9/6 9/9 Pangnga River 5/9 6/3 Pahang Con
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