Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 August 1939

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    21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY »i9i, i. xcvn. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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    PlACE MOVE BY THE AXIS POWERS
    494 1 MUSSOLINI WANTS FIVE-POWER CONFERENCE Free City Not >rth A War DEMOCRACIES IN FIRM POSITION To Reject Onesided 4pproaches Washington, August 14. Vk I today whether either Britain or France (luring f past week had invited the United States to particip ;i a conference for
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    JEWS BEATEN uP
    50 1 —Reuter. OrganisPfF Excesses In Slovakia Vienna. Aut?ust 14. Report' have reached here of oreranis...l ex- .Kses c-ainst Jews in Pressbum mrastislava). It Is stated Jews were beat up in Streets and synagogues were rmmed while Jewish business premise ■ver.' pi«-n afMeked and in mary cases, dunolished. —Reuter.
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    Temperature In Danzig Rising
    499 1 DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY IN DiRSAII Two Germans Arrested On Train Warsaw, August 15. Much (iiplomaltic activity in the past days indi- atr-» thb vising tempo rati fe in the Danzig situation. Tin- Brinish Ambassador, Sir Howard Kennard, coni. rrrd fur M>me time Inday with CoL Berk who
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    JANET GAYNOR,
    28 1 JANET GAYNOR, film star, and i- i. '«d frutnirm de signer, have elop'd ta Yuma when they vmi he marr/td, says a Reuter tfu sfnrm Ll'ALipevisl
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    Two Men Of The Hour
    26 1 COUNT CIANO, wAitcd with having drawn up the 4.r»-s- 'itmee plan." COLONEL BECK, n&w having a fmsn inw. seeing dird-'m'ta.t s
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    SURRENDER OF SILVER?
    254 1 Reuter Apprehensions Of Chinese London, August 14. It is understood that the Chinese Government has strongly protested to Sir A Jlark-Kerr against the surrender oi the Tientsin Chinese prisoners and has also cabled Mr. Quo Tai-chi to use his utmost efforts to avert the surrender ,'The latter
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    SALVATION aRMY HEAD
    127 1 -Reuter (.cii ."Eva" Bootli Retiring Londvii August 11. The secret conflave of the High Council of the Salvation Army to elec, a successor to -enera". Svangeiint Booth will open :<t the Army headquarters at Clapton tomorrow General Evangeline ba.- hem at the head of affairs for five
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    Europe Has 8,500,000 Men Under Arms
    236 1 EVEN BAIANCE BETWEEN RIVAL BLOCS lA>ndon, Auffust 15. The fact that in this nominal peace time Europe has 8,500,000 men under arms without counting Navies and Air Forces is a striking conclusion by Reuter's military expert on the basis of reliable available estimates collected
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    COMPROMISE SETTLEMENT OF DANZIG PROBLEM?
    746 2 Reuter. Proposal Of Count Ciano 17 SALZBURG TALKS Revision Of Statute In Favour Of Germany Paris, August 14. Reports that >a compromise settlement of the Danzig question, stated to have been proposed by Count Ciano to .Herr von Ribbentrop, are current in «Warsaw, according to
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    NO FURTHER REFUGEES
    139 2 —Reu’er To Be Allowed Into Shanghai (Delayed by Censor) Shanghai, August 14. The Shanghai Municipal Council has inform'd all consulates and shipping rempanies that no further European refugees will permitted to settle in the International Settlement. The ban. -ccmis into force immediately The authorities of th? French
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    PEACE AS REMOTE AS EVER
    327 2 —Reuter. No Sign Of Collapse Of Japanese Economy London. August 14. Under th» caption: "After two years’ warfare’ the Teleqrcph writes that the announcement of the Japanese military missions to return to Tientsin and the renewed anti British demonstrations In China do not encourage the
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    NEW TURN IN PEIPING
    91 2 .—Reuter. Leaflets Thrown Down By Japanese Plane Peipine. August 12. Anti-British activities too’; a new turn today, when a Japanese plane this morning flew at a dangerously low altitude over the diplomatic quarter, throwing overboard many Anti-British leaflets in English and Chinese, which read: “Down with
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    TOKYO TALKS WILL BE RESUMED
    833 2 .—Reuter. Fresh Instructions From London Expected Tokyo, August 14. Sir Robert Craigie met Mr. Kato, Japanese Minister-at-Large, this afternoon and, according to Domei, this interview gave “a ray of hope” that the Tokyo talks would be resumed in the next two days. Sir Rovert Craigie
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    HAI RIVER RISING
    61 2 .—Reuter. Efforts To Save Tientsin From Flooding Tientsin, August 13. The authorities are making feverish attempts to save Tientsin from flooding as a result of the rise of the Hai River the level of which is now only one foot from the surface of the British Concession
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    “CABOT” ARRIVES AT PORT WASHINGTON
    18 2 —Reuter Wireless. Port of Washington, August 14. The "Cabot" landed at 10.15 G.M.T.
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    AMERICAN COLLEGE BOMBED BY JAPANESE
    185 2 Shanghai, Aug- 14. The Talmage College of the American Institution at Changchow, an important trading centre 24 miles eastward of Amoy, suffered severe damage during a raid by eight Japanese planes yesterday, according to reliable foreign reports received here today. .—Reuter The main buildings of
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    FLYING BOAT CRASHES
    76 2 —Reuter W-< 14 Killed In ]{j 0 Harbour Rio d» j. ro VU£) The Pan Amr boat from Miami > down here. Three on Icard were k i and seven are ml 5 WING STRIKI )h(K It is 'now establis! were killed and f ,B ,ln B
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    THE "MAURETANIA"
    185 2 —Reuter. Orders From Bridge By Radio 1 &lt;*b iiuiH Rugby, August 12. When the Cunard hi’e st u i ne r “Mauretania” docks at New York at the end of her voyage n f rnrn the King George the Fud. Dock, L.ndon, yesterday, ord quietly from the bn..
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    TURKISH ARMY MANOEUVRES
    116 2 —Reuter. No More Bith rnĕss In Bulgaria Sofia, August 13 The newspapers, which for some clayi r have carried bitter articles ri /ardii/' th» alleged concentration of lai b die cf troops on Turkey’s European terr rv and Thrace, have adopted a n w the past twenty-four
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    GEN. GAMBARA
    87 2 Wligary v ot-r Wireless. Appointment Approval By Burgos Paris. August 12The Spanish Government ha- a W :C the appointment of Gener ,lb ra the Italian Ambassador &gt; Sp-'' :1 CCSS ,on to the C- t ins to the Havas correspond! nt a General Jordana. ex-Fon Mb I been
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    FEARS OF POSSIBLE I.R.A. OUTRAGES
    77 2 .—Reuter. No Visitors Allow»' 1 Board P. K O. in London. August [ken, it As a precautiouar, n understood, against p&lt; a p rages, only bona fid lowed on board the I’ j, m den and Ranpura, b !so Southampton on a and for Yokohama
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    RADIO-PHONE
    43 2 -Reuter. Chungking- 1 ongkonM Servin c i' n A radio-phon kirg and Hong K I August 15 when Kung will exchan Governor, Sir G' Preparations ar Chungking by rad' z Ran-’o.-’i Chungking is a* wireless with San Pa-is. BetTn Batavia, Saigon and
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    PROF. BURCKHARDT
    96 2 —Reuter. League Commissioner Visits Hitler London, August 14. The League High Commissioner for Danzig, Professor Burckhardt, received an invitation last week to go to Berchtesgaden and Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent learns that Professor Burckhardt left Danzig for Germany on Friday night. The British Government was confidentially informed a few
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    MALAY A NEEDS NEW TYPE OF SCHOOL
    1137 3 Rev, Peach On V ocational Education USEFUL AND EFFECTIVE Kuala lAtrnpur. r pressing aeed tor vocational training It Malayan schools and that trained teachers might be recruited trom Java, India a.id the Pl.ilippinc» for a period of ivr years local tc chers rould
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    HELP FOR YOUNG EUROPEANS
    603 3 Bi-hop's Scheme MIXED WITH LONELY MEN Singapore mes for the social we tan civilians and Services men I I efore leading citizens of S)n t a tea given at Bshopthe Bishop of Singapore, (hi vB C Roberts fl: were for a Toe H Mark, ivilians. in
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    "HELLO JUDGE”:
    18 3 nt in the Bexley Heath Baby livid at Hanson Park, gives the judge a welcoming salute.
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    PRIZE-WINNING HANDIWORK AT M.A.H.A.
    256 3 Success Of liocal Schools Penanu schools, especially the Hutchings School, figure prominently in the list of prize-winners in the schools section devoted to the handiwork of English schools at, the recent M.A.H.A. Exhibition. The work was of very high quality proving that while boys and gjrls
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    “He Who Laughed Last —”
    89 3 “He Who Laughed Last uas in thi-s ease Police Seryf ant Dolphin. Photograph uas takf“n after he had given evidence that u'hen he stopped a cyclist the cyclist told him he w'is too fat to catch him. This, the sergeant proudly stated was untrue. So mu- ’h so. in fact,
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    CHETTIAR’S HOUSE RAIDED
    389 3 Eleven Fined For Gambling Kuala Lumpur. rpHE sequel to a raid by officers of the Kuala Lumpur Detective Branch on a house at the mdestone Klang Road at 12.30 on Saturday morning, was enacted before Mr. R..C. Redman. First Magistrate, K»’®la Lumpur. when twelve Chettiars were charged
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    Early School-leaving Age Deplored
    484 3 KAMPONG EDUCATION Kuala Lumpur. rpHERE are 48 delegates to the Malay section of the Education Conference and they have been holding their meetings in the Kampong Bahru Girls’ School. Their discussions have included the following: (I) Are there ways in which a Malay school can make
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    RAILWAY POLICE DISBANDED
    207 3 Work Takes Several Months To Complete Kuala Lumpur. With the disbanding of the Uniformed Branch aid the amalgamation of th» Detective Branch with the Federated Malay states Police a few months ago. the Railway Police Department has nowceased to exist. The work of disbanding the Police Force,
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      325 3 How I Made This AMAZING CHANGE ■hi? In 7 Days wssi F W K tli* I O 1 Miss Drouet made this amazing change in her appearance in 7 days. Read below her personal letter in which she explains exactly how she did it and how any woman can do
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  • DAILY INDIA PAGE
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      CEYLON INDIAN CONGRESS
      508 4 Aims Of iVew Organisation Colombo, July 26. AT a joint meeting of the representatives of the Ceylon Indian Congress and the Ceylon Central Indian Association held on July 24 at Colombo in the presence of Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, a central organisation to represent Indians in Ceylon was
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      IMMIGRATION TO BE STOPPED
      266 4 Decision In Respect Of Ceylon ACTION BY INDIA GOVERNMENT Colombo, July 31. IT is understood that the Government of India are imposing a ban on Indian emigration to Ceylon with effect from tomorrow and that the Ceylon Government have just been notified (of this decision by
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      INDO-BURMA RELATIONS
      134 4 Rangoon Mayor’s Plea Karachi July 29. “VW/ E want to be a good neighbour. We depend upon India for industrial products and coal, and you can rely on Burma for rice and oil”, observed U Ba Win. Mayor uf Rangoon, in an interview to the Associated Press. "Last
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      VICEROYS TOUR
      357 4 Arrival In Cuttack Cuttack, luly 31. WELCOME worthy of the occasion was accorded Ao His Excellency the Viceroy when he pa’d his first visit to the Orissa province this morning The special train conveying Lord Linlithgow steamed in a few minutes earlier than the scheduled hour end the
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      SHEPHERDS BITRIED ALIVE
      66 4 Lahore, July 31». Six shepherds and thirty heads of cattle were bur ed alive under a h’ll near Palampur in Kangra district. It Is stated that the shepherds, along with their cattle, were taking shelter from rain in a cave, when large boulders from the h ll-side
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      BIHAR
      122 4 Government’s Plan Patna, July 29. A Bihar Flying Club will. It is understood, be started in November next with two machines provided by the Government of Bihar. The construction of hangais and conversion of the Patna landing ground into an aerodrome will begin after the rainy is over and
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      PRICE OF PETROL
      73 4 Reduction In Bombay Bombay, July 27. A .reduction in the price of pretrol in the city and suburbs is announced by certain oil concerns in Bombay. When the Bombay Govemmen’ levied a sales tax of 6V4 per cent, the price was raised to Re. 1-3-0. prer gallon.
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      If War Breaks Out
      134 4 Jaipur Ruler Offers Services Karachi, July 29. “JN the event of war, the resources of the Rajputana States in general and Jaipur in particular will be certainly placed at the disposal of His Majesty the King and I myself will go with my* regiment of Lifeguards
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      ALL-INDIA WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
      287 4 Tribute To Activities Sangli, July 30. A warm reception was given on Saturday night in the Palace Hall at Sangli to the members of the Standing Committee of the All-Inula Women's Conference, who have assembled at Sangli for their terminal session. His H'ghness the Raja Saheb, high
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      THE JUTE INDUSTRY OF BENGAL
      291 4 Union Threatens Strike Calcutta, July 30. ■DEITERATING its demand for the postponement of any change in the working hours, or in the number of workers for three months, the Central Committee ol the Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union, at its meeting today, urged the millowners to
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      PENANG INDIAN ASSOCIATION MEETING
      175 4 T\ the absence of Mr. N. Raghavan (President) who was awav in India on leave, Mr. K. S. Pillai (vice-presi-dent) took the Chair at the. fourteenth annual qunural meeting of the Indian Association, Penang, which was held at No. 3, Union Street, Penang, on Saturday. The
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      RAJKOT PRAYS FOR RAIN
      112 4 Eajkot, July 31 An all-day prayer gathering to &lt;»ifer prayers for rains was organic 1 Jay by the Rajkot Stat&lt; people in Rajkot have let’ the morning and have asse the open country, where pr-y-’ be continued by them unt 1 ng, invoking the Goda to
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      NON-CEYLONESE TEACHERS
      73 4 elimination invrF.n AT Simla, Ju 1 The elimination of non teachers, including Enr&lt; n- r from schools is indicated to (?t nt vations of Mr. T. B. Javan &lt; ?f](&gt; nf tho annual genend n Colombo Teachers Assoer T avah h’nted that r&gt;r vn nt n «,ed. bv
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      104 4 MAJESTIC &lt;&gt;|»f XING TONIGHT 6.15 930 RKO-RADIO’S Exciting Thriller based on the internationally famous novel by LESLIE CHARTERED “THE SAINT STRIKES BACK” with George Sanders Wendy Barrie Jonathan Hale Jerome Cowan Nell Hamilton Barry Fitzgerald. MATINEES TODAY A TOMORROW AT 3-00 l’.M. Paramount’s Joyous Musical Hit “CORONADO” with Johnny Downs,
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  • DAILY CHINA PAGE
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      CHINESE TROOPS MOVE
      70 5 Centra ws (losing In On &lt;- z Shanghai Hongkong, August 9. Ki Tom Shanghai indicate well equipped Chinese tr oeen found in large numa radius of twenty kiloShangha who have been Japanese garrisons near 2k SiiiinyhV’ and Sichwang Shanghai-Hangchow Rail■v: ear Chenju, Nanhsiang, ng ind Qu’nsan on
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      ANTI-WAR MINERS
      56 5 ail ap IGO miners Cen- i &lt; k two Coal Pit* Hongkong, August 9. panese mir.ei'S recently n oil of &lt;‘oal nrne at Ogawa Vilb. :i Sago County at the end of paralyzing the mining &lt; cording to a message reOn He following day another pit ite resulting
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      JAPANESE SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
      79 5 Centra News. I billing &lt; rood Ground in Ainiani Hong Kong. August 10. Jap.i! interests are actively foil,. &gt;t ii versiv- activities in An* aii ting to reliable reports. zen cf Annamese malconw in Canton whence lutur rsivt activities ir Canher provinces in French I). C i
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      CHINESE MOVE IN SIAM
      65 5 1 &lt;nn X-.vs, p Not Wise Or Justified Kong, August 10. •&gt; Morning Post, in iisidered the anti nt m Siam as a step ncilhe 1 nor wise. ing to be a neutrai anal said. Siam has ’-Japanese tendency igh-handed policy of Cin.-s’. It stated that
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      Problem Of Malaria In Yunnan
      282 5 D‘{. KUNC, REQUEST* U.S. AID I xperts And Materials Required Chungking, August 9. H. H. KUNG. President of the Executive Yuan nd concurrently Minister of Finance, has forrequested the United States to give medical aid :i-mala ria work in Yunnan province in Southwest in a
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      FAR EASTERN POLICY OF BRITAIN AND U.S.
      302 5 Should Be Identical Savs Chungking Paper Chungking August 9. HTHE Far Eastern policy of Great Britain and the X United States should be identical because their fare of Eastern interests is identical, comments the Chungking Combined Daily 5n an editorial this morning —Central
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      SLUMP IN YEN
      47 5 —Centra’ News. Hong Kong, August 9. A further slump of the Japanese Yen was reported from Shanghai Whereas the Japanese Yen or.ee enjoyed a premium of thirty cents ever the Chinese dollar, at present the premium is only nine and hah’ certs. —Centra’ News.
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      Chinese Bombers Active Near Nanking
      160 5 ATTACK AIRFIELD AND RETURN SAFE Hongkong, August 10. 4 Xl- W arrival from Nanking in Shanghai revealed that Chinese aircraft heavily ami effectively bombed the lapanese airfield outside Nanking on July 27. according to a Shanghai report Central News. He said that when rJne planes
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      JAPAN AND THE AXIS
      94 5 5. —Central News. Dissension In &lt; Mficers’ Camp Hongkong, August 9. Commenting on the reports that Japan is adheiing to the Axis military alliance, foreign observers point out that dissension still exists inside Japan between the Young Japanese officers’ clique and the moderates. They declare that
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      GUERILLAS ACTIVE
      98 5 luv.NU x. K the Chinese concentrations. —Central News. Dominate Two Districts Hong Kong. August 10. Information from Shanghai indicates that two districts. Nanwei and Fenghsier. immediately to the south of Shanghai, virtually have completely been dominated bx Chinese regulars and guerillas. Another guerilla unit at Paoshan. northeast of
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      GOVERNOR OF MACAO
      64 5 tion yesterday afternoon. —-Central News. Visits Hong Kong Hong Kong, August 9. Dr. Artur Tamagnini Desousa Barbosa, Governor of Macao, who arrived here yesterday morning aboard an Imperial Airways passenger plane from Bangkok, is returning to the Portuguese colony today. The Macao Governor was honoured by Sir
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      CENSORSHIP OF NEWS
      70 5 .—Central New r s. Criticised By Paper Hong Kong, August 9. English newspapers here criticised the newly announced censorship regulations, the South China Morning Post contending that the measure Is not just fied by the present situation. The papers warned that the anxiety to maintain peace and
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      TAICHOW BOMBED
      41 5 —Centra! News. Much Damage To Property Chungking. August 9. Ei"ht mili’f’rv nlanes C H e I '’ng in enr’v 1 100 &lt;-w«rr&gt;»*z&gt;i-.r ,4 o &gt;n p np* On proTV'Hy fhn several d'r-r* hits report received here.— Centra! News. 1
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      35 5 BOBBY BEAR'S ADVENTURES: Friendly Bout vVa\ l i£i B but ues Percy's swing, a C taV Y U Jtfh** iarl*~ st Ul are JnU of spring. Throw him forward with &gt;«rAh- wnos tn* W MW
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    BOY’S DREAM COMES TRUE!
    611 6 How Robert Barlow Beat The Americans £3,000,000 Tin-Can Merger Romance J BEHIND tin- recent ajinouneemen* of Hit* ILS,(XX),OOO i ierger of Britain’s biggest tin-tan manufacturer-» lies a drama as romimtie. th‘* ’&gt;!&lt;&gt; of any novel. It is Ihe drama of cut-throat big business and of a
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    He Cured Cow's Complex
    208 6 ,4 LLJGATOR Fancy of Lt- Vivier IV,” now the pride f Longmoor Farm, Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire, was once but a very' ordinary Jersey cow. Her owner, a Jersey breeder, gave her away' as a calf, and for years the insult rankled. She had the appearance of
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    FORTUNE MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
    175 6 Fortunes have ccnie to two sisters —who worked for half a century for Dr. Albert Boyce-Barrow, of King’s Court Farm. Cooksmill Green, Writtie. near Chelmsford. Essex. The 94-year-old doctor was’ killed in a car accident. FOR 45 YEARS Of his £39,000 estate he has left half
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    POLICE RAID AT A WEDDING RECEPTION
    272 6 Alton, Hants. AS a wedding reception was at its height at the Working Men’s Club at Medstead, near here, two carloads of police drove up. They marched into the club, locked all the doers behind them and began to take the names and addresses
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    TOM BROWN STATUE PAINTED RED AND BLUE
    155 6 Scon after boys of Rugby School had left for home, it was discovered that the statue of Judge Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays.” had undergone a startling change during the night. The statue, which stands in the school grounds, had been
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    Life Sentence On A Dog
    223 6 T&gt;ATCH, a mongrel sheepdog, which r cost 15s. as a puppy’ was placed .under a life sentence at Hull Quarter Sessions last week. From new on, he must NEVER G-o for a walk unless muzzled and on a lead: Be allowed in the front garden
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    ALL COMES OUT IN THE WASH
    118 6 Mothers, don’t worry much if your small hoy shies at soap and water. There’s nothing unusual about it. Dr. A. Maberley, a Harley-street specialist, says so. Addressing the British Social Hygiene Council’s Summer School at Oxford Dr. Maberley said: “The time comes in adolescence
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    This Will Please Plain Jane
    91 6 MERE ait- words millions of v. rors tell them that not creams and lotions in ever make them beaut:! PERFECT BEA CT Y !lty rather than an asset X great women in histoix I!n&gt; perfections. Even whom Antony lost hal; t far less beautiful tha:
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    TWO STORIES WITH AN IF
    172 6 ¥F your daughter of s&gt;A' t w she was going to a beaut t &gt; rl&lt;&gt;u would you object* It was revealed at the National HaTdressers’ Association coi ntion at San Francisco that juvemh b iutj saloons have sprung up all ‘instates. Jf: If you
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    Gaol For Alien Smugglers
    193 6 The five aliens discovered in a ballast tank aboard the small Dutch motor vessel Velocitas when she berthed in the Thames were at West London recommended for deportation. The captain and three of the i v were sentenced to various ten-.. &lt;&gt;l imprisonment and recommend! d
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    SONG HITS AND CUPS OF TEA
    73 6 Factory Aids I&lt;&gt; Efficiency Do factory workers get f job more efficiently and n fully under the influen some people claim is the Are rest pauses, with &lt; cups of tea, good for them These are some of tic which the National Instituttrial Psychology
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    HOUSEBREAKING BY NIGHT
    250 7 Gaol For Eurasian Youth 17-year-old Eurasian youth, Henry Jacob, pleaded s to two charges of housebreaking by night in the Dissesterday before Mr. H. A. Forrer, it was stated that rmpted to emulate the* famous Jimmy Nelson of Kuala he n:i&lt; e lAjmpu Chief Court Inspector McLennan
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    PUBLIC GAMBLERS FINED
    165 7 Cash, Table Board Confiscated Two Chinese. Tan Beng and Neoh Chiang, and a Tamil, Arusamy made their appearance again before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Middle Court yesterday, for gambling in public at 10.10 p.m. on August 11 in a vacant land cd Market Street The
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    Funeral Of Mrs. Hilda Andres
    640 7 KI I ESENTATTVE I'HERING nd friends assembled in i for the funeral of ix s wife of Mr O. A. passed away at her resiRoad on Sunday after(kncf? Andres was well kr.-Avn a genial disposition, she circle of friends. She of age. and her g
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    Penang Student’s Success In London
    97 7 Mr Tye Soo Cheong, B.Sc., Honours in Civil Engineering (Hongkong) has been awarded the Diploma of Bnperial College of Science and Technology (London University), for post-graduate study in Civi! Engineering. Mr Tye is the younger son of Mr. f-: Mrs. Tye Shook Yuen, and was
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    10 SAMPAN MEN IN COURT
    145 7 Breach Of Immigration Regulations On pleading guilty to a charge of communicating with the s.s. Apoey, by carrying aliens previous to permission being given by the Immigration Officer at the Penang Harbour at- 7.45 a.m. on August 8. ten Tamil sampan-men wen?ach fined $5 by
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    RESIST-THE-ENEMY BACKING-UP SOCIETY
    145 7 Youths Charged ith Being Members Kuala Lumpur. Charged with being members of an unlawful society, namely, the Malayan Overseas Wo-kers Resist-The-Enemy Backing-Up Society, two Chinese youths named Liew Tham Keen, chas Liew Keen and Lee Yew. alias Lc? Tit Yew. were brought before Mr. R C. Redman.
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    Social and Personal
    600 7 A cinema show by Dr. W. H. Brodie, to be followed by a supper dance, will be held at the Penang Swimming Club, Tanjong Bungah, on Thursday, August 17, at 7.15 p-m’. Supper will be obtainable at $1 per head and tables should be booked, with the
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    NON-MALAY PADI CULTIVATORS
    382 7 Perak State Council To Discuss Question Kuala Kangsar. over by His Highness the Sultan of Perak, a meeting of the Perak State Council w ill be held in the Council Hall at Kuala Kangsar, commencing at te n o’clock today. The question of granting lan d to
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    BOOKMAKING ON RACECOURSE
    71 7 An Indian Mohamedan. Abdul Majid, and a Tamil, Periasamy, who had on Monday last pleaded guilty to a charge of book-making on the racecourse, appeared yesterday before Mr. A. W. Bellamy. Police Magistrate, Penang for sentence. His Worship, sentenced the two men to a fine of -10
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    “LADY PRECIOUS STREAM”
    75 7 Donors Thanked The Penang Chinese Amateur Players who recently staged “Lady Precious Stream” acknowledge with thanks the following donations: (a) Towards the expenses of producing the play:—sloo from the Hon. Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe, 0.8. E., J.r*., SIOC from Mr. Loh Boon Nghee, and $5O. from Mr.
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    MRS. TAY HOOI KEAT
    53 7 VI. A. 11. A. Award For Painting Mrs. Tay Hooi Kent oi the AngloClvnese Girls’ School. Penang was awarded a very hi°hlv commended prize for her black and white pi.irting at the Malayan Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. Sh'&lt; is the first Chinese lady in Penang t-
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    DEMONSTRATION OF INCENDIARY BOMBS
    126 7 200 A.R.P. Wardens Attend About 200 Wardens and Senior Wardens oi the Hutton Lane Group, comprising the former Hutton Lane, Carnarvon Street, Beach Street and Hutton Lane sectors attended the demonstration of incendiary bombs through metal plates at the new A.R.P. Headquarters, Francis Light School at
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    WORK OF SALVATION ARMY
    212 7 Appeal For Penang Support The Salvation Army in Penang is making its annual appeal for support. It is hoping tc raise at least $2,500 for the maintenance cf its work in Penang. The annual cost of their work in Penang at present is $5,500 and most
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    VAGRANT AND DRUGS
    69 7 In the District Court yesterday morning before Mr. H. A. Forrer, an Indian Mohamedan, Ismail bin Sini Tamby. pleaded guilty to a charge of being in possession of deleterious drugs on July 25 at Penang. The accused was sentenced to two months’ rigorous imprisonment, to be followed
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    JAPAN’S TRAGIC FAILURE
    440 8 ZX)NTRARY to expectations, the second anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai passed off quietly. The same can be said also of the negotiations at Tokio. So quiet in fact has been the progress that it is likely the talks may not be resumed at all.
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    Around The Town
    108 8 QUEEN’S CINEMA “Back Door to Heaven” 3.00, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. MAJESTIC CINEMA “The Saint Strikes Back” 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. WINDSOR CINEMA “Adventures of two Sisters” (Cantonese talkie) 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. ROYAL CINEMA “Sipah Salar” (Hindustani talkies) 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITAL TALKIES “Judge Hardy’s
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    GEN. MacMIGHAEL FLIES TO BRITAIN
    32 8 —Reuter. Jerusalem, August 13 General Mac Michael, High Commissioner flew to Port Said en route for Britain. He is expected to he away for two months. —Reuter.
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    By The Way
    558 8 New Wodehouse Novel fans will be glad to learn that Dr. Wodehouse (as I suppose we must now call the author of Jeeves) is busy writing a new novel. He has taken already four months to mull over it and still has a month to go. &gt;
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    Diary of a Foreign News Editor
    457 8 Tuesday, August 15. news is decidedly hopeful. Count Ciano’s reported plans for a peaceful solution of the Danzig problem have given rise to the belief that at their Salzburg talks, the Axis Foreign Ministers concluded that Danzig was not worth a war. more promising
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    Air Mail To Central And South America
    172 9 4IR mail correspondence is now ac cepted, for the West Indies and ountrtes in Central and South Ameri•a for transmission by the Imperial Arways services to London and thence o destination by the Transatlantic Air Services (operated by the Imperial Airways or the
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    R.A. OFFICER KILLED IN OCCIDENT
    327 9 Coroner’s Inquiry Begins Singapore. The death of Lieut. M. Leonard Wilms, of Royal Artillery, the Colony ockey player, and a Malay taxi driver, blowing a crash in the early hours of August 5 between a two-seater driven by the former and a Johore taxi i
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    ACCIDENT AT GLUGOR
    123 9 Police Seeks Help In Tracing Motorist a PPcal to Penang residents to come forward to assist the Police in tracing the identity of the motorist who knocked down the elderly Sikh at Glugor, in front of the Glugor Club, on Sunday night, was broadcast from Station ZHJflfcujt
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    MISCHIEF CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE
    468 9 Burning Of “Batek” Sarongs As a sequel to a bonfire of some I “batek,” sarongs believed to be of Japanese origin, at Weld Quay on July 17, a Chinese, Phoa’n Boon Tian, appeared in the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. A.W Bellamy, charged with mischief
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    PARTICIPANTS IN ROBBERY ATTEMPT SENTENCED
    506 9 Judge’s View On Flogging 1 c ime very near to ordering a flogging, but I have not ’e so because a committee of y learned ladies and gentlein England have taken the w that flogging does not &gt; criminals. My experience ntirely to the contrary,
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    CAR TURNS FOUR SOMERSAULTS
    169 9 Two Hurt In Permatang Pauh Accident i A FIAT BALILLA, T- 505, overturned near the pontoon bridge at Permatang Pauh on the Penang side of the* main road at about 10.15 this morning and ended on its side in the stream. The two occupants were taken
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    POSED AS A SALESMAN
    92 9 Youth Pleads Guilty To Cheating Charge Ipoh Pretending to be a salesman of a European firm in Ipoh, a young Chinese named Choo Soo Onn was alleged to have cheated two firms in respect of two dozen bottles of rose essence and two dozen bottles of
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    GOTUVADYAM RECITAL AT TOWN HALL
    59 9 Prof. S. Narayana Iyengar, a leading exporiei.t of Indian music, gave his first recital at the Town Hall, Penarg, before a packed house yesterday evening. The professor plays the Gotuvadyam, a rare instrument which is said to be the nearest approach to the human voice
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    FEDERAL COUNCIL
    22 9 The next meeting of the Federal Council will be held next Tuesday. Aug. 22, and not today as stated yesterday.
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    Bits Conductor Sued For Maintenances
    486 9 Wife Alleges 111-treatment By Husband’s Parents Batu Gajah. i Summoned for havjng failed to maintain his lawful wife, Au Yow Lin, a young Chinese named Hoo Man Seng appeared before the Batu Gajah Magistrate, Che Bahaman bin Samsudin. The defendant, a bus conductor at Siputeh,
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    Bukit Meria jam Mystery
    128 9 CORPSE FOUND IN ESTATE surrounds the dis■LrA icovory of the highly decomposed body of an unknoum adult in a rubber plantation near Bukit Mertapon, in Province Wellesley. Tice corpse, which had the appearance of that of a Chinese, was found underneath a heap of stones, which
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    Theft From House Of O.C.P.D.
    70 9 POST4L ORDERS MISSING Ipoh. I’wo postal orders valued about S3(F were reported to have been stolen fron&gt; the house of Mr. R. Ackiill. 0.C.P.D., Ipoh laat week. Mr. Aekrill s gardener first reported th®~ theft of $lO cash from his room. hearing this Mr. Ackrill
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    CHINESE WOMAN KNOCKED DOWN
    57 9 Motor Accident On Gopeng Road ipoh. A voung Chinese woman was srriousljr injured when she was knocked down by a motor car at the third mile, Gopeng R/&gt;ad, early yesterday morning. The car way driven ■by a Chinese. Tiie injured woman was removed to hospital in
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    Sudden Collapse During Stroll
    53 9 ipoh. While taking a quiet stroll in a lonely estate at Tanjong Rambutan in the early hours of Sunday morning with her husband, a Tamil woman suddenly collapsed and died. The body was conveyed to the Ipoh District Hospital for the usual post mortem examination. The
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    Wall Street Cable
    543 10 SUPPLIED BY MESSRS ANTHONY CO. New York, August 14. The following quotations were those ruling when the Stock Exchange closed to-day. DOW-JONES AVERAGES. Yesterday’s To-day’s 30 Industrials 138.42 140.18 20 Rails 28.35 2356 15 Utilities 26.36 UJ.62 New York Stucx Exchange, business done, total volume 550,000 shares.
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    FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    129 10 MONDAY AUGUST 14. Prev. Latest Pans 176 176 23/32 New York 4.68 1/8 4.68 1/8 Montreal 46b 1/8 4.68 1/16 Brussels 27.55 3/4 27.55 3/4 Geneva 20.74 1/2 20.74 Amsterdam 875 1/4 8.71 3/4 Milan 89 89 Berlin 11.67 11.66 1/2 Stockholm 19.31 1/2 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40
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    AYER HITAM TIN DREDGING, LTD.
    20 10 Output Quarter ended 30th June, 1939 (Restricted) 101} tons (1709 Piculs). Estima’td Mine Profit €ll3OO
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    ACTIVE BUYING IN LONDON COMMODITY MARKETS
    1389 10 Speculative Interest Increased IMPROVEMENT SHOWN IN RUBBER London, August 4. After a lengthy period of uncertainty, the past week has witnessed an encouraging change for the better in the trend of a number of leading commodities. In some cases satisfactory gains have been recorded,
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    TEA PLANTING IN JOHORE
    59 10 The ZTcale Secretary, Johore, notifies for general information that applications for licences to plant tea during the period of 1939 to March, 1943, will be received by the Tea Controller, (Department of Agriculture, Johore Bahru) from now to September 6, 1939. Applications for such licences must
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    KENNEDY AND COMPANY
    610 10 Weekly Share Market Report The Local Share Market durin t! month has been subject to the same which has prevailed in markets thover. While no special feature in ti tical world can be said to have d “values,” there has been no positiv a cement in European
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION
    118 10 The Singapore Chamber of C&lt; r Rubber Association, 1446th Auction, ust 10. 1939, resulted as follow Catalogued 1,188,728 lbs 530J' Offered 1,059,101 472 81 Sold 711,723 317 London —Spot 8 9/16d. New York—Spot 16 5/8c FRIGES REALIZED RIBBED SMOKED SHEET cts. per 1 Standard Quality 285 (in
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      906 10 BANKS THE CHARTERED bank r T=rn 7 “Til liil 1 I OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA (Incorporated in England by i I Royal Charter 1853) Lfl Pa’d-up Capital 3 900 ®nn I fl I Reserve Fund .£,3,000.000 t i 4 Reserve Liability ol Proprietors £3,000.000 l. r 51| 1 I
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    PRANG BESAR RUBBER ESTATE LIMITED
    1949 11 Demand Ear Isolation Carden Seed yR. ERIC MAC FADYEN, Chairman) presided at the thirteenth annual genera! meeting of Prang Besar Esite&gt;, Ltd., which was held in London on July 28. Alter the usual preliminaries, the Chairman addressing he shareholders said:— s, itlernen, prodiic tian of
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    Bevin Says Young Men Will See The New World
    1008 11 TRANSPORT AND GENERAL WORKERS BridHngton. lilt ERNEST BEVIN todav 1 visualised the birth of a new world, writes Frank Machin, in the Daily Herald, London. His concluding words at the biennial conference of the Transport and General Workers’ Union were an
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    Merchiston Rubber Estate Report
    246 11 t'OLLOWING is the Directors' 1 eport of Merchiston Rubber Lstdte, Ltd., tor the yenr ended March 31, 1939, presented at the 27th annual meeting in London on July 27. Cultivated Area: Replanting. The total area replanted is 150 acres, all of which has been budded A
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    AYER HITAM TIN DREDGING
    20 11 OUTPUT for Quarter ended Jurfc 30. 1939, (Restricted 101% tons (1709 Piculs), ESTIMATED MINE PROFIT £11,300/-
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    DRY RUBBER EXPORT
    33 11 Export of dry rubber, (uncorrected) figures from Malaya, Brunei and La’ouan for the month of July 1939. tons Mainland 37,331 Straits Settlements Islands 175 Brunei 103 Labuan 15 Total 37,624
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    ARMOUR DISPLAY AT CHRISTIE’S
    454 12 Arms and armour are always displayed t&gt; the li st acvar.tagc with a background cf tapestry end textEe designs writes A. C. R- Cart&lt;i in the Daily Telegraph.’ Accordingly at Christie’s the picked pieces from the Clan nee Mackay collec’icn sent from New York have been
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    The Mails
    370 12 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh And Penan&lt;&gt; SEA MAILS Outward For North. North Eastern and North Western Sumatra will close by Krian at 4 p.m. today. AIR MAILS Outward EUROPE AND THE WEST IMPERIAL (Emp re Air Mail) r Burma (except Victoria Point dia, Aden, Palestine,
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    Gangs Unite To Fight Police
    244 12 Running fights and pitched battles with the police went on for nearly two hours ir. the streets of Gorbals. Glasgow. Two enemy gangs. "The Stickers” and "Beehive Boys” stopped throwing bricks, bottles and iron bars at each other and united to resist the attempts of
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    Wireless Versus The Microbe
    313 12 IN 1896, a cargo steamer from a Chinese port unloaded at Bombay. It had aboard those veteran ocean travellers, rats, some of which were carriers of plague germs. Infection was spread to the port and city of Bombay and later to the whole of India. Between
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    TRAIN MAILS
    81 12 Mails for BANGKOK will have Penang at 9.40 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays, and incoming mail u li arrive in Penang at 6.30 p.m. on todays and Thursdays Mails for F.M.S., SENGAPORE, ete. will leave Penang at 8.30 a p.m.; Ipoh 1.36 p.m. and 210 n and Kuala
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      2845 12 HPI! MIW. WWF4! 1 D in !W»»i l l J HWBBMTJII Jill t -1 lIJTJ *Once there lived a giant named "Gr-rne- 1 :r.jss 7 ■_&lt;) New.-, :n English 735 a.’&gt;;&lt;B/ A. 7’- from Stuueart (contd.). 8.20 News dirt E£ "'A IHB| ?|U Econusn Review m German. 8.35 Dunce jy
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      215 12 Lilac Time —Selection (Schubert). 3) Dark Red Roses (Braham). 4) Chanson (Friml). 5) Percy Mantester, Tenor: a. Dolores, b. Home Again. 6) Suite of Serenades (Herbert). 7) Stephanie Gavotte (Czibulka). 8) Rendezvous—lntermezzo (Aletter) 9) Harry Shalson, Baritone: a. Just Imagine, b. Same As We Used To Do. 10) Swing Patrol
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    PENANG SHIPPING NEWS
    1216 13 Arrivals I I TODAY, AUGUST 15. dm. ’oveei Euguiver” from Singapore via run awtiiennaiu m.v. “Greystoke Castle" iron) Singapore. *.s. “Menestneus” irum Liverpool. sj&gt;. “Benmohr” from London. ui.v. “Silverpine” irom suigapore anu Bela wan. TOMORROW, AUGUST 16. inj&gt;. “Peru" from Suigapore. bj&gt;. “Pres. Adams" iroiu San Francisco
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      658 13 SLUE rUNNEL LINE WI.EKI SUU KE TO LONDON A NORTH CONTINENT MfIMNON Calls Marseilles Glasgow U-wes Penang Due London GLENOGLE Calls Anwerp Middlesbro Aug 19 Sept. 14 EN’ROY Calls Mars., Antwerp Midd esboro A U& or 25 ...&gt; DAY -r.KW.r. lu 20 -7’MAEUS Calls Glasgow Liverpool 4YILMIDON Calls Jeddah. Omits
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    NOVA AFTER FARR
    225 14 Not Fighting Galento New York. MAKING a (loiible-barrelled an- nouncement, Ray Carlen, manager of Ixju Nova, revealed he *.s withdrawing the youthful Californian heavyweight battler from the bout wit*' Tony Galento because he -s considering a light against Tommy Farr. Nova recently agreed to terms outlined by
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    OWNER SELLING HORSES
    109 14 Mr. Gordon Roll, who first came into the. Turf limelight when he bought Turkmill early last March to represent him in the Grand National, is to sell all his racehorses. In a cablegram from Le Touquet he states, “Have just told Donoghue to sell all my 12
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    How to keep a straight hat:
    24 14 How to keep a straight hat: Advice by Bill Reeves to Munro, a promising you.igster from South Benfleet.
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    FOLKESTONE FESTIVAL
    142 14 A\ arner’s XI. v. The Rest This year the Folkestone Festival begins on September 2. when Sir Pelham Warner s XI will oppose Rest. TEAMS SIR PELHAM WARNER’S XI D. F. Walker &lt; Norfolk &lt; capt. t; C H. Palmer &lt; Worcestershire J.P. Bake (Cambridge and Hampshire». J.
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    FOXGLOVE II SOLD
    65 14 Negotiations have been completed r the sale of Foxglove 11. and he will go to the "tud in the Argentine. Foxglove 11. who is a four-year-old colt by Foxhunter—Staylace, was bought hy Mr. P. Beatty from the Aly Khan the day before he won the Ascot Gold
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    OPENING OF HOME SOCCER SEASON
    496 14 lntent On Playing A Brighter Game usual, the iScottislh Football League has begun much earlier than the English League, which opens orly on Aug. 26. The various English clubs have been in series training for ’the last few weeks and last Saturday they played public
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    MIDLAND BOWLS
    99 14 Warwickshire and Worcestershire Bowling Association have mad? seven changes in their two sides to meet Cheshire in the final of the B.C.G.A B.A Crosfield Cud Competition on August 19. Of the 24 players who assisted, by beating Staffordshire, to make them Southern Section champions for thv. first Jme
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    STRONG FRENCH ENTRY FOR THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE
    714 14 PUBLICATION of on- tries lor the big autuinit “double, the Cambridg’eshire and Cesarewitch, suggests that the flat racing season is nearing its close, but there is still more than two months before the fust of them will be decided. Tins will be the Cambridgeshire,
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    INTERNASTIONAL WOMEN'S ATHLETICS
    225 14 (rpnnany Bent Holland Berlin. An-. r jpl 1 i-. I bird w omen’- ;u tic competition between Germany and IlolLmd end ed on Sunda\ in Aa hci with a sixty to thirt\ vic tory lor (lerman\. The only victory by the Xetlier lands women athletes wa&gt; in
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    Yugoslav Tennis Team On Way To America
    62 14 Belgrade, Aug. 6. riTHE funds for sending the 1 Yugoslav tennis team, aliich won the European Zone Davis Cup competition, to America to in the semi-finals, have been guaranteed by the Yugoslav Premier, it yeas announced her? tonight. Tb? team, composed of Puncety
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    COWES WEEK
    174 14 Professional Hand Drowned Cowes. Aug. 1. The racing in Cowes Week today was marred by the drowning of a profession» 1 hand in one of the small class yachts and all the craft in the Roads flev their ensigns at half-mast when the tragedy became known. On top
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    Walking Champion's “Come-back"
    93 14 Walking Champion 's “Come-back" Tommy Green, former Olympic Games road-walking champion and holder of many records, is .planning an attempt to regain some of his Io.J laurels at the age of 46. It was five years since Green, as a member of the Belgrave Harriers, ruled the walking world, and
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    DANGER OF HOCKEY PLAYERS BECOMING STALE
    772 15 Reason Begins Too Early In Penang EED FOR LIMITING NUMBER OF TURN-OUTS (By “ALASKA”) HL hockey season in Penang commenced very early this year, the opening game being played on'Augy when the Sporting Diamonds scored an easy 31 win /er the Old Xaverians’ Association
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    POLO AT K.L.
    101 15 Russell Shield Won By R. A. Kuala Lumpur, August 14. The Singapore Royal Artillery Polo Club won the Russell Shield this afternoon when they defeated the Singapore Polo Club in the final by 2 2/7 goals to one. The winners received a handicap of 12 7 goals
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    INNINGS VICTORY FOR ESSEX
    45 15 .—Reuter. Nichhols In Brilliant Form London. August 4. At Southenl, Essex defeated Derbyshire by an innings and 31 runs. Derbyshire scored 70 (Nichols 6 for 18) and 79 (Nichols 5 for 26. Fames 5 for 52 &lt; while Essex totalled 180. —Reuter.
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    PENANG FOOTBAIL FRIENDLY
    48 15 In a friendly game of soccer played on the Scott Road Padang on Saturday the Sporting Wanderers "B” team defeated the Concordians by 5 goals to 3. The following scored for the winning team: Ah Lee (2 goals), Vin Thian (2) and Vin Yoong (1).
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    CHARITY SOCCER
    309 15 Krian Chinese Win 4-2 Parit Buntar One of the best soccer matches seen locally was played on Sunday before a large crowd on the Riverside padang when the Krian Chinese Old Boys Association beat the Taiping Chinese Recreation Club by four goals to two. The match was in
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    P.S.C. TENNIS FIXTURES
    123 15 The following are P.S.C. tennis ties for Thursday and Friday:— THURSDAY’S TIES Men’s Doubles: —3O Hickey and Scarlett v. —15.3 Campbell and Davies; —15.4 Francis and Wraight v. 4-3 Willson and Rapkin Profession Pairs: Bumham and Hamilton v. Allen and T. M. Clark. Men's Singles B: Scr.
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    12 NEW WEIGHT-LIFTING RECORDS
    588 15 Malayan Championships The 1939 Malayan Amateur Olympic Weight. Lifting Championships which were held under the auspices of the Singapore Amateur Weight Lifting Federation, the Governing Body of Weight Lifting in Malaya, at the “Happy World” Singapore on August 5 and 6 saw greater progress achieved than
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    Several Upsets In A.C.S. Union Badminton
    700 15 Quite a number of upsets were created in the Anglo-Chinese School Union badminton tournament which began last Wednesday, when several ties were played off. Tan Kong Tat surprisingly went down to Ong Hock Cheng in the Singles Handicap while Miss Cecilia Chan and Beh
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    Today’s Sports Diary
    35 15 SOCCER: P.F.A. League, Div. 2 G.T.S. v. **C” Company, G.T.S.; Malay R.C. v. I.R.C. “B,” Dato Kramat ground; P.HB.J.S.C. v. M.D.S.C., Renong ground. TENNIS: P.S.C. Tournament BADMINTON: A. C. S. Union Tournament.
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    PROGRAMME FOR THURSDAY’S RACES
    768 15 Ipoh Skye Meeting HORSES —Class 4 —Division I—s! Furlongs 2 0 0 WODEN 7y 10.07 Mr. A. Van Tooren Duval* 03 2 KUALA PRINCE Uy 9.13 Mr. A. Van Tooren Duvar 20 1 SAM BURGER 6y 9.11 Mrs. R. N. Drake O'Neill 00 0 STAR LOCK
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    MOST IMPORTANT FIND IN ENGLAND
    232 16 Inquest On East Anglian Chiefs Treasure Ship London, August 15. Archaeologists and Sightseers crowded the village hall at Sutton near Ipswich today when an inquest was held on the personal treasures of an East Anglian chief found when his burial ship was uncovered on high
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    BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCHEME
    110 16 i.—8.0.W. First 100.000 Volunteers Registered Rugby, August 12. VV: bin one month of the inception of the national emergency blend transfusion scheme the first 100.000 volunteers have been registered and listed. An official of the scheme, commenting on this result, say’s that first line of defence against
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    DRIVEN BY COAL GAS
    100 16 8.0 W Claims For N&lt; w Types Of Engines Rugby, Augu&lt; 12. New types of motorcar engines, driven by high compression coal gas, which, it is claimed, operate as efficiently as engines driven by’ oil or petrol are to be exhibited shortly to Members of Parliament
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    MARKET PRICES
    72 16 TUESDAY. AUGUST 15. MIDDAY QUOTATIONS. Penang Tin $114.25 Business done 25 tons Singapore Tin §114.25 •RUBBER: Penang (Spot» 28 5/8c Singapore &lt; Spot 29c COPRA: Sundried $3.65 Biack Pepper 9.50 TAPIOCA: Medium $3.20 Fair Seed $2.75 4KICE: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $6 40 No. 2 $6.30 Rangoon White
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE
    97 16 Penang, August 14. 1939. (By Courtosy ot the Chartered Bank). On London Bank Demand 2/4 1/32 On London Bank 4 months 2/4 1/16 Private O. D. 2/41/4. Private 3ms Documentary 2 4 5/16 On New York Demand 54 s'B Canadian 54 5/8 On France Demand 2058 1 ire
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    TABLE-TENNIS
    123 16 O. C. B. C. Team Beat Harbour Board A friendly game of table-tennis was played on Sunday evening between the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Table-Tennis team and the Penang Harbour Board Junior Service Club. The 0.C.8.C. Table-Tennis Team won by six games to one. The following are the results, O.C.
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    TODAY’S SOCCER
    58 16 P. S. C, v» Chung Ling High Sellooi At Western Road today’ at 5.20 p.m. P.S.C. (in club colours): J. N. Davies: M. Roberts, J. T. Hors burgh; J. Wilson, E. C. Tokeley. F. E. Wraight; W T. Francis. H. P. Wales. J. N. Cooley, D Mclntosh and
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    WOMEN'S SWIMMING
    50 16 —Reuter. New Record For 100 arils Breast-Stroke Rotterdam, Aug. 15. Miss Heeselaars (Holland) set up a new record for the 100 yards breaststroke of 1 min. 115 3'5 sec. Miss Dillard of the United States was the previous holder of the record with 1 min. 16 3’5 sec.—Reuter.
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    TRAIN DERAILMENT
    38 16 r Reuter. Rail Disaster In Rumania Bucharest, August 13 Fifteen people were killed and twentyfive gravely injured when a train was derailed. at Petroaia. The crash is stated to be due to a pointsman’s error— Reuter.
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    TODAY’S OUTSTANDING GALLOPS
    311 16 Miss Labis Expected To Complete “Hat-trick” (By “EPSOM JEEP”) Ipoh, Today. yjOST of the outstation strings have arrived, and some interesting gallops came under observation at the racecourse this morning in preparation for the Perak Turf Club August Skye Meeting. The second track was opened for fast
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    NO AMBER LIGHTS
    102 16 Reuter. London Traffic Experiment Loudon, August 15. The Ministry of Transport after consultation with the Commissioner of Police, has decided, as an experiment, to discontinue the use of the ambji light between red and green in trarw. signals at some London and provincial road junctions. The experiment
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    'HIE "CARIBOU"
    147 16 —B O.W. Round-Trip Atlantic Flight In Six Days Rugby, August 12. The Imperial Airways Flying Boat ‘•Caribou”, which arrived at Southampton yesterday after completing the 7.200 miles r ound trip to New York and back in six day’s, made the Atlantic crossing from Botwood, Newfoundland, to Foynes. Ireland,
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    MEXICAN OIL DISPUTE
    146 16 ations in oil properties.— Reuter Wireless. Negotiations Broken Down W lihington, August 12. Senor Najera, the Mexican Ambassador, in a formal statement y esterday said that the negotiations between Mexico and the United States American oil companies over the expropriated properties in Mexico had broken down. Senor
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      KENNEDY & CO’s SHARE LIST
      245 16 KENNEDY CO’s SHARE LIST RUBBER Buyers Sellers Benta 97 I o2i Kedah 1.72) J- 8 C Kempas Pajam 1 65 175 Sungei Tukang 97 102 Ulu Benut 27&gt; 30 MINING. Ampat 3 3/10) Austral Amal. 4/3 4/6 Ayer Weng 72) 76 Bangrin 17 Batu Selangor 1.18 1.22)c Ber junta! 8/3
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      SOON THEAM & CO’s NOON QUOTATIONS
      268 16 SOON THEAM CO’s NOON QUOTATIONS TIN Buyers Sellers Ampats 3/7) 3/10) A. Hitams 19/3 20/3 A. Weng 70 75 Bangrins 17/6 18/3 B. Selangors 1.18 121 Berjuntais 8/6 9/ Chenderianga 11/ 11/9 Hong Fatt 59 61 Kamras 1/3 1/6 Kamuntings 8/ 8/6 K. Lanjuts 13/6 14/ Kramats 9/4) 9'9 Kundangs
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      LEAN & CO's QUOTATIONS
      167 16 LEAN CO's QUOTATIONS MINING. Buyers Sellers Ampats 3/6 3/10) A. Wengs 75 77) Bangrins 17/3 17/9 B. Selangors 1.17) 1.22)cd Hong Fatts 59 61 Hongkong Tins 16/7&gt; 17/1) Johans 28 2b Katus 21/6 22/ Kamras 1/3 1/6 K. Lanjuts 13/3 13/9 Kuchais 1-15 1.20 Laruts 3/9 4/ Lukuts 42) 45
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      UNITED TRADERS LTD QUOTATIONS
      184 16 RUBBER Buyers Sellers Ayer Panas 1.10 1.15 Bassetts 47) 52) Batu Lintangs 1.02 1.06 Bentas 1.00 1.03 Brogas 50 55 Ln dragins 1.20 1.25 Kuala Sidims 2.10 225 Lunas 1.42) 1.50 Malaka Pindas 1.15 1.20 Mentakabs 38 40 Pajams 1.70 1.77) Sungei Tukangs 99 1.02 Tapahs
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      144 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO’s QUOTATIONS TIN Buyers Sellers Ampat 3/7) 3/10) A. Amalgamated 4/ 4/3 Ayer Weng 75 77) Bangrin 17/ 17/6 Batu Selangor 1.18 1.20 c Hitam 32) 35 Hong Fatt 59 61 Kampong Kamunting 6/ 6/3ex Kampong Lanjut 13/6 13/9 Kramat Tin 9/6 9/9 Kuchai 1.15 1.17) Laruts 4/
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