Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 8 March 1940

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    23 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 rUBUSHED Milt PRICE 10 CENTS. L o 5 Vol. XCVIII. FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1910.
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    SOVIET ULTIMATUM TO FINLAND
    354 1 W “PEACE” DEMANDS PRESENTED MEDIATION BY SWEDEN Sensational Rumours Discounted London, March 8. TEI «EPHONE communication between Stockholm and a number of foreign capitals, including London. was interrupted at the Swedish end tonight. In Copenhagen, Reuter was told that calls to Stockholm were stopped “because the
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    Rumania To Remain Neutral
    81 1 .—Reuter. Bucharest, March 8. King Carol opening the new session of Parliament re-affirmed Rumania’s intention to follow the j>olicy of neutrality “in her own interests and those of peace.” King Carol added that the rules of neutrality had been, and would be. followed also in the
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    EMPIRE AIR LINER BADLY DAMAGED
    38 1 —Reuter. London, March 7. It was learned that an Imperial Airways machine flying between Hong Kong and Bangkok was badly damaged today while taking off at Udorn in Indo-China. Nobody was hurt. —Reuter.
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    "Just Like A Lovely Cruise”
    302 1 Just Like A Lovely Cruise” IMPRESSIONS OF CAPTAIN OF ‘QUEEN ELIZABETH" New, York, March 8. 4 I TER a ceremonial reception by the President of the New York City Council. Captain Towney, of the “Queen Elizabeth” told reporters that no suUna -re seen on the voyage and the convoy was
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    BERLIN-AMSTERDAM AIR MAIL
    86 1 —Reuter. Service To Be Resumed Next Week Amsterdam, March 7. The Beil in-Amsterdam air mail service which was suspended at the outbreak of war will, it is understood, be resumed on Monday. It will beopeiated by the German Lufthansa whose planes will also cariy freight but the
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    COALITION MINISTRY IN AUSTRALIA
    62 1 —Reuter Country Party Leader To Be Deputy Premier Melbourne. Mar 7. Mr. Menzies has agreed upon the formation of a Coalition Ministry. He has reached an agreement with Mr. Cameron, leader of the Country Party, whereby Mr. Cameron becomes Deputy Prime Minister anG other members of
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    EFFORTS TO MUZZLE DUTCH PRESS
    64 1 ’—Reuter Germany Gives “Deadly Earnest” Warning Berlin. March 7. The press comments angrily on an in the Algemcenhandelsblad. The Boersen Zeitung gives “a deadly earnest” warning that “it is unbearable when a Dutch paper adopts the language of the lowest ChurchilDnpress and attempts to touch
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    France’s War Aims Told To Mr. Sumner Welles
    95 1 ;.—Reuter. Paris, March 8. According to authoritative circles, France’s war aims as told to Mr. Sumner Welles are: First, the restoration of the independence and the territorial integrity of Poland, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia; second, any peace must contain material and positive guarantees
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    ALLIED ECONOMISTS
    41 1 —Reuter. Cordell Hull Washington. March 7. Mr Ashton Watkin and M. Rist, the British .and French economists, hai a consultation with Mr. Corde 1 Huh yesterday and then began commences with other members of the State x {Murtment. —Reuter.
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    AIR ATTACK ON LIGHTSHIP
    84 1 .—Reuter. Bombs Droppeil But No Hit Registered London, March 7. Wireless listeners heard an S.O.S. from a Norfolk Coast light vessel whicn stated that she was being bombed and machine-gunned by an enemy plane. The message stated that three bombs had been dropped but the vessel
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    ATTACKS ON SHIPS
    58 1 ,—Reuter. N.E. Coast Town London. March 7. The people on the front of a town in the north-east coast of England saw what is believed to be an enemy plane attack slips a few miles out at sea. Loud reports were heard and flashes were seen. Shortly
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    TWO RAIDERS CHASED OFF
    129 1 ;—Reuter. Dog Fight Over East Coast London, March 8. British fighters engaged two German planes off the east coast of England this evening. Onlookers saw one raider almost collide with the British fighter before climbing into the clouds where a dog fight followed. The second raider
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    NEW NAZI WARNING TO NEUTRALS
    242 1 ixx*-, —Reuter. Ships Liable To Attack If With Allied Vessels Amsterdam March 7. Neutral ships are liable to be at- j tacked by Nazi planes if they are ac- 1 < companied by Allied vessels, an official spokesman told neutral correspondents in Berlin today. He
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    OIL FROM COAL
    97 1 —Reuter. German Output Exceeds Estimates Moscow, March 7. A belief that Germany s output of synthetic oil from ceal the Anglo-American estimates by 3 000 000 tons annually, was expressed by the well-known economist, M. Yevgeni j Varga, in the Red Star. If Germany’s non-military oil consumpt’on
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    100 Per Cent Increase In Fighting Strength Of R.A.F.
    1209 2 40 PLANES SHOT DOWN WITHOUT A SINGLE LOSS Sir Kingsley Wood’s Review Air War OVER 1,000 SORTIES INTO GERM ANT London, March 6. CIR Kingsley Wood, in a speech in the House of Commons said that aircraft of the Bomber Command
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    Japanese Liner Boarded By French
    46 2 .—Reuter. Osaka, March 7. The Japanese liner, “Bangkok Maru,” was boarded by the French naval and water police authorities at Haiphong yesterday and mails addressed to Germany were removed, according to a message from the owners quoted by the Domei Agency.—Reuter.
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    Food Shortage In North China Worse Than Ever
    186 2 .—Reuter. Peiping, March 7. The spotlight has locally shifted from political affairs to the economic situation and even the forthcoming Central PoConference at Nanking at which the future political status of North China will possibly be decided, cannot obscure or even rival
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    HUNGARY OPPOSED TO CZECH STATE
    72 2 —Reuter. Declaration By Count Czaky Budapest. March 7 “It is in East Europe that the framework of the Czech state should never be revived” declared the Foreign Minister. Count Czaky, speaking in the Chamber “We and on our initiative, our powerful friends have made the
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    "QUEEN ELIZABETH’S" SAFE ARRIVAL
    348 2 .—Reuter. Welcomed By Crowds Of New Yorkers New York. Mart b Completing the most spectacular maiden voyage }l i_ time history, the Queen Elizabeth reached the quaranh station in New York at 3.09 p.m. G.M.T. When she w ?en approaching Fire Island, she was unescorted and
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    PRINCE FREDERICK OF PRUSSIA
    49 2 —8.0. W fLxrm prion From Restrictions Rugby. March 7. Answering a question in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary stated that Prince Frederick of Prussia was granted exemption from internal or special restrictions by the West Scotland Aliens Tribunal on November 1, 1939.—8.0. W.
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    German Coal On 14 Italian Ships To Be As Prize
    553 2 Rugby March 7. Five more Italian ships, believed to be carrying coal believed of German origin, have been detained in the Downs, making the total now fourteen of which one has txs-n released. The Italian ships whose cargoes of German
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    U.S. KEEPING OUT OF WAR
    148 2 —Reuter. Desire Increas< <1 B\ Stopping Of Ships London. March 7 The U.S. Ambassador. A’- Kennedy, u an interview on his return from America, said: “If isolation mean-; the desire to keep out of war, I would sav that it b definitely stronger now in
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    AFRIDI TRIBESMEN
    99 2 —Reuter. Ready To Fight Russia If Near Eabt Invaded Peshawar, March 7 Over 100.000 Afridi tribesmen are read) to fight against Russia. a< (rdin.- to the daily vernacular paper p: hlished here. The paper says that the tri’esman have informed their Government that they will volunteer to fieht
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    SEARCH FOR AIR LINER ABANDONED
    32 2 —Reuter. Calcutta, March 7. The Air Ministry search for the m* Ing air liner. Hannibal, has been aba 9doned. RA.F. planes are n-turning t” their bases —Reuter.
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    RISE AND FALL OF THE GERMAN NAVY
    948 3  -  BY ERNEST SCHAFLER |Y one of those queer coinc- 1 idences that defy rational emanation. my dictionary fell epen at exactly the right place ad my gaze had only to travel the words scurrilous. cuniness, scurvy, scut, scutcn, ad scutcheon before it came
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    Biggest Port In Germany Is Dying
    159 3 HAMBURG'S doom as a major Ger■l“a man port is foreshadowed by a series of measures to dismantle —it is called “transform” —what was Germany’s greatest shipping centre. These measures amount to an admission by the Nazis that they have lost the North Sea as
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    ACCIDENT WAVE COES ON
    266 3 /GERMANY’S succession of railway disasters is being iol- lowed by a wave of accidents in the building industry. Hitler’s programme of high-pressure building all over Germany in the months before the war has fallen to pieces. Inside Germany Every day now brings reports of serious mishaps
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    Died While Watching Wrestlers
    136 3 Montreal. T UCIEN TOURNEAU, aged 32, of Quebec, collapsed and died of excitement while watching a wrestling bout. Two women fainted and another was injured when two wrestlers crashed through the ropes and fell in the laps of ringside spectators. The Government have communicated with the
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      78 3 WHAT A WAR! A —4 r\ 3KxX#« .X '«ii\ jwg» ■IT r i I 3> /nglS "z j 1 I U 1 M > L v V W wiMr K B l /i WOMW Hl > > vfflp ■JR I Ik GESTAPO (The Synthetic Spy) ear lir er. —Owing to
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    DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY MALAY JOURNALISTS
    879 4 Finding Suitable IT ords For IF ar Phrases Singapore. rpHE difficulty experienced by Malay journalists in finding exact Malay equivalents for certain English words and war phrases was stressed by Inche Zainal Abidin in a talk, “Malay newspapers in Malaya,” at the Rotary Club, Singapore,
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    STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS
    20 4 STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS
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    THANKS DIKECI FROM FRONT
    195 4 Malayans Gift To Cigarette Fund Singapore. Expressions of thanks direct from the Western Front are now being received at the headquarters of the Malaya Patriotic Fund in Singapore. They are sequels to the gift of £l,OOO from Malaya to the Overseas Leagu? Cigarette Fund which was
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    SINGAPORE SINDHI MERCHANTS
    529 4 Unanimous Opposition To Income Tax THE Sindhi Merchants’ Association, Singapore, at an extraordinary general meeting held on Tuesday, unanimously passed a resolution not in favour of the Governor’s income tax proposals as outlined in Sir Shenton I homas, broadcast speech on Sunday. This is the second organization
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    MALAY SOLDI EKS BOUND OVER
    424 4 Sequel To Park Disturbance I I Kuala Lumpur. The case against two soldiers of the Tvlalay Regiment, A lang bin Amat and Yahaya. who were charged with causing hurt to two Sikh watchmen employed at the Bukit Bintang Park on the night of Jar. 16.
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    WAR NEWS
    417 4 Bulletin In Romain Malay March 6 Sa-buah surat khabar Arab p, P bernama An-Nahar ada nieu-, bersambong2, menerangkan orang2 Arab pauit menyok yebelah pehak British da Maka lah yang baharu sa-ka h ia-lah karangan Muhyiddii orang ahli siasat dan .penulis yang terkenal. la berkata. w r biar-lah pehak
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    MR. A.E. JOHNSON LEAVES ON WORLD TOUR
    88 4 To isit Brother In England Singapore. Mr. A. E. Johnson, Technical Assistant, Central Branch P.W.D., Singapore left by the “Conte Biancamano” for England via Italy and France on eight months furlough. He Is visiting his brother Mr. P. J. Johnson. ex-Assistant Conservator of
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    FIRM FIXED
    108 4 Charge Under Defence Regulations SingaporeFines totalling $2O and costs were in>* posed on the Malayan mg CLtd., of Winchester House .gaport who w’ere summoned in the Singapoi' criminal district court on Wedr.<.-day un two charges under the Defenct ran" Regulations. Mr. A. L. Barrett, who a; and the
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    IPOH Y.M.C.A.
    36 5 Ipoh. The twenty-fourth annual general meeting of the Y.M.C-A. will be held at 6.45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 12. Mrs. vx i turned to Singapore after spending one month’s holiday at the Cameron Highlands.
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    CRITICISM OF INCOME TAX PROPOSAL
    734 5 A Disastrous Policy To Pursue Says Ipoh Man Ipoh. 'T’HE proposal to introduce income tax in Malaya is continu- ing to be the subject of strong adverse criticism here. An F.M.S. resident who signs himself “Septuagenarian—already taxed as to F.M.S. Investment up to the limit”
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    Young Malay On Murder Charge
    217 5 Hit Wife With iron Bar Ipoh. A LLEGED to have killed his wife by hitting her on the head with a heavy iron bar at Kuala Kam par on October 2 last year, a young Malay, Abu bin Pandak Abdullah stood his trial before the
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    ELECTRICAL COMPANY SLED
    115 5 Hearing Adjourned In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Aitken, the suit which Messrs. Beng Swee Co., Ltd, brought against Wee Chor Electrical Company for a sum of $1,821.90 being balance due for goods sold and deliverea was again adjourned. Plaintiff firm originally sued Wee Chor
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      150 5 •t- BOXING TO-NIGH 7 Bth March, 1940 AT The NEW WORLD ANOTHER THRILLING COLOURFUL PROGRAMME Will Cheah Boon Cheng, the Chinese K.O. artist repeat his former K.O. Performance or will he meet his Waterloo? In any phase of sport, it is the uncertainty of the game that lures the crowd.
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      303 5 FIRST j&ir Conditioned t IRE IN NORTHERM MALAY A (a ex) JHAW BftOTHE^ S//OJKS TCtfMY 3.00 6.15 9.30 P.M. “I TRUST NO MAN RTICULARLY ONE I LOVE'*’ Jl’ IN TLCHMCOLOO SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE WORTHY OF YOUR SUPPORT SIX IIKST RATE SHOWS IN ONE PARK GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY’S WORTH.
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      456 5 EVERYBODY AGREES IT’S THE BEST FUN-SHOW EVER SCREENED! Definitely The Show You Must Never Miss MAJESTIC 3 SWOJFS DAILY 3.00, 6.15 9.30 RKO-Radio’s Non-Stop Laugh Record The Screen’s Funniest Comedy Team in the Biggest Show of Their Careers WW». a wi ,h JEAN PARKER REGINALD GARDINER RKO RADIO Picture A
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      103 5 QUEEN'S 6.15 TODAY 9.30 Heart Throbs Heart Tugs Heart Warmth Heart Thrills Here’s Everything That Makes A Picture Great Entertainment! The Grandest Family You’ve Ever Met Is Coming To Town "OIK NEIGHBOURS —THE CARTERS’’ A Paramount Picture with Fay Bainter, Frank Craven, Edmund Lowe. Genevieve Tobin. Just as you like
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    THE JAPANESE PUPPET
    603 6 rg.lir: wei to form a puppet Gov- ernment in China seems to be bearing fruit at last. According to well-informed sources, quoted by Reuter yesterday, arrangements have been completed for the inauguration of the regime either at the end of this month or in the early part
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    By The Way
    409 6 Hitler's Friend IVTOW that all that ballyhoo over Miss Unity Mitford’s return to England has died down, it might be interesting to recall how this young English girl became known as Hitler’s friend. G. Ward Price gives a sympathetic picture of her in a recent issue of
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    Diary of a Foreign News Editor
    693 6 Friday, March 8. TJELIABLE sources report that secret negotiations are progressing in Stockholm between Finland, Sweden, Germany and Russia to bring the Finnish-Soviet war to an end. Preliminary talks for an armistice have been going on for some days although the Swedish Foreign Office
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      AUXILIARY LIRE SER VICE
      473 7 Sir, A fireman’s job is “just cushy”—all he has to do is to "101 l about” in a comfortable fire station and wait the clanging of a bell to wake him into action. Such I know is the opinion held by the few who have been
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    STOLE FOUR PIECES OF IRON
    59 7 Sentence of one month’s rigorous imprisonment was imposed on Gu Han Teng by Kir. Lim Koon Teck, in the Third Police Court, yesterday, on a charge of theft of four pieces of iron valued $4 belonging to Eng Guan about 4.50 p.m. tn March 1
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    §5,000 Damage In Fire On Hill Slopes
    296 7 ACRES OF VALUABLE FRUIT TREES DESTROYED A FOREST fire of alarming proportions broke out on the hill slopes at Paya Terubong yesterday afternoon, destroying several acres of valuable fruit trees and vegetation. This is the worst forest fire to have broken out in
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    BETTING HOUSE CHARGE PREFERRED
    98 7 Campbell Street Liquor Shop Raided As a sequel to a raid conducted by the Detective-Branch on a liquor shop when a Hokkien was taken into custody on Wednesday, Teh Chow Kow alias Teh Cheow Geok, a 27-year-old Chinese was charged in the Third Police Court before
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    DEATH OF MRS. LEE LEONG SWEE
    94 7 The death occurred of Mrs. Let Leong Swee nee Madam Ycap Chye Siew at the ripe age cf 73 at 11 a m. yesterday at 12, Clove Hal! Road. The deceased leaves behind, besides her husband, four sons, Mr. Lee Boon Jin, secretary, Chinese
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    MR. N. GRICE TO TAKE OVER PROTECTORATE
    88 7 77ic Pinang Gazette understands that Mr. Norman Grice, formerly acting Protector of Chinese, Selangor, and who recently has been engaged in rear work in Singapore, arrived in Penang yesterday to take over duties of Protector of Chinese, Penang, from Mr S. M. Middlebrook,
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    FOUND ON BOARD WITH GUILDERS
    108 7 $5O Fine Imposed On Indian Mohammed Kassim was fined $5O by the District Judge, Mr. H. A. Forrer, this morning, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to take out of the Colony 168 guilders the equivalent, at that time, to $184.80 cents
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
    336 7 Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley has been admitted to the Bungsax Hospital. > Kuala Lumpur. A meeting of the Lowex Chamber of the Negri Sembilan State Council will take place at Seremban on Tuesday, while a meeting of the I pper Chamber will be held on Wednesday. The Selangor
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    Intimate Study Of Virgin Queen And Her Lover
    601 7 AT THE CINEMAS Bette Davis Scores Again Queen Elizabeth, her Lord of Essex, Master Francis Bacon the wit, and gallant Sir Walter Raleigh —they all come to life again in the latest Bette Davis opus now showing at the Rex. Appropriately called
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    More Opposition To Income Tax
    379 7 STORE CHINESE CHAMBER DECISION Any Other Form But That Proposed i Singapore. That the Chinese welcome the introduction of taxation so that they could contribute their share to help the British Government in the prosecution of the war but that such taxation should be in
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    Malaya Patriotic Fund Now $1,066,559
    142 7 A statement of accounts for the Malaya Patriotic Fund up to Feb. 29 shows the total sum received to have been $1.066,559.91 —over $70,000 more than at the end of 1939, when the total was $994,280.88. Sums received since Dec. 31 comprised $21,180.35 from Singapore
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      129 7 H «.«.Th, MH. Th. Suiw P*»’ (I 1 (1 1 FIFTEEN MONTHS lost in the snow recovered unharmed! His Omega was nearly twenty years old, when on March 18th, 1929, he dropped it in soft snow on the Reiteralpe m Upper Bavaria at 5,000 feet. Summer melted the snow and
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    POSSESSION OF HOME MADE TRANSMITTER
    408 8 Taiping Postal Clerk Bound Over Taiping. 66VTOUR offence is especially serious in wartime,” said the Taiping Magistrate, Raja Salim, delivering judgment, yesterday in the sensational broadcasting station case, when he convicted S. Suppiah. a youn g Postal clerk, on a charge of being in possession
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE
    93 8 Penang. March 7. 1940 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). On London Bank Demand 2/4 1/16 Or London Bank 4 months 2/4 1/8 Private O. D. 2/4 5/16 Private 3 m/s Documentary 2/4 7/16 On New York Demand 46 15/16 Canadian 51 11/16 On France Demand 2060 1/4
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  • DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS
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      A.A. ANTHONY & CO’s QUOTATIONS
      176 8 A.A. ANTHONY CO’s QUOTATIONS TINS Buvers Sellers Ampat 5/ 5/6 Aver Weng 70 75 Bangrin 20/ 22/6 Batu Selangor 1.55 1.60 Burma Malay 23/ 24/ Hitam Tin 42} 45 Hong Fatt 1.271 1.32} Jelapang 32' 33/ Jelebu 85 9G Johan 32} 35 Kampong Lan jut 23 23/6 Kamra 1/9 2/
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      EXPORTS OF TINNED PINEAPPLES
      101 8 During the wee's ending 24th February, 19-10. exports from Malayan ports amounted to 28,056 cases, of which: 24,330 <B7 per cent) cases were to the United Kingdom, nil < per cent) cases to the Continent of Europe. 750 (3 per cent' cases to Canada .and 2.976
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      SOON THEAM & CO’s QUOTATIONS
      296 8 SOON THEAM CO’s QUOTATIONS TIN Buyers Sellers Ampats 5/ 5/3 A. Amalg. 6/3 6/9 A. Hitam 23/9 24/9 Bangrins 20/9 21/9 B. Seiangors 1.55 1.60 Hong Fatts 1.30 132} Jelebus 84 87 Johans 32 34 Kamras 1/10} 2/1} Kamuntings 11/ 11/9 K. Lanjuts 22/9 23/3 Katus 23/3 24/3 Kramats 11/6
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      LEAN & CO’s QUOTATIONS
      239 8 LEAN CO’s QUOTATIONS MINING Buyers Sellers Ampats 5/ 5/3 A. 6/ 6/6cd Bangrins 20/9 21/9 B. Seiangors 1.52} 1.60 Hon g Fatts 135 1.30 Jelebus 82} 87} Johans 29 32 Kamras 1/9 2/ Katus 23/9 24/9cd K. Kamuntings 8/3 8/7} K. Lanjuts 22/9 23/3 Kramats 11/3 11/9 Kuchais 1.65 1.72}
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    NEW TRAFFIC CIRCUS IN PENANG
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    CHARGE OVER YOUNG INDIAN GIRL
    221 9 Three Months’ Gaol For Abductor Singapore. Found guilty of kidnapping a young Indian girl, Sivagamy, from her home while her parents were out on Nov. 12 last, Kanniah Chitty was sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore criminal district court on Wednesday. At
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    Berthing The Queen Elizabeth
    255 10 —Reuter. PILOTING VESSEL A DIFFICULT TASK New York, March 7. The “Mauretania” has been moved from its berth alongside the “Queen Mary" and “Normandie” to make way for the “Queen Elizabeth". The task of piloting a vessel of such size into New York harbour is one
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    VIIPURI BAY NOW A BLOODY BATTLEFIELD
    431 10 Red Army Supported By Numerous Tanks FINNS WIPE OUT COMPLETE DETACHMENTS Helsinki, March 7 Viipuri Bay has now been turned into a bloody battlefield as the Russians exert every effort to gain a foothold on the shore. The Soviet batteries moved forward over the
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    112 10 —Reuter. GIFT OF SHIPS TO ROYAL NAVY Hongkong, March 7 The War Revenue Bill, which is expected to raise ten million dollars annually, is certain to pass through the Legislative Council as Unofficial Members are unanimously supporting it. The Bill provides for a war time
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    R.A.F. ELIGHTS OVER NAY. GERMANY
    42 10 —Reuter. London, March 7. The Air Ministry announces that during last night and the preceding night the RAF carried out extensive reconnaissance flights over important towns in North-West Germany and over the enemy naval base of Wilhelmshaven-
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    GERMAN BOMB SIGHTS BAD
    78 10 .—Reuter. Direct Hits Purely Accidental New York, March 7. Judge Outcault, an officer in the United States Air Reserve Corps, lecturing in Cincinnati on the advances of aircraft declared that accurate bombings by the Germans were purely’ accidental. He described the bomb sights used by the
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    PALESTINE REGULATIONS A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR HITLER
    439 10 Huge Concourse Of Troops In Near East Ready For Arms London, March 7 “The new British Land Regulations in Palestine are a slap in the face for Hitler and an answer t o Nazi propaganda pretending that Britain has betrayed the
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    GERMAN WAR FILMS
    58 10 —Reuter. Seizure By Police During Showing At Hague The Hague, March 7. German war films showing the invasion of Poland were seized by the police at a meeting held here by the Dutch Nationalist Socialists. The films have not been passed by the film censor and no
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    TWO “TRAITORS OF STUTTGART”
    47 10 —Reuter. Sentenced To Death In Absence Paris, Mar. 7. M. Paul Ferdonnet and M Charles Obrecht known as the “traitors of Stuttgart” for their anti-French broadcasts from the Stuttgart Radio Station, has been condemned to death in their absence by a military court.—Reuter.
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    148 10 Reuter. “TIGHT AS CLAMOVER MISSION Pario, March 7. The press warmly welcomes Mr. Sumnet WeUes who is due her e at 930 from Switzerland and describes him as Mr. Roosevelt’s peace reporter. Mr. Welles wifi be met by the I Under-Secretary, M. Deribes,
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    136 10 -8.0. W. Plans For Second Evacuation Rugby, March 7. Plans for the second evacuation of children from London, announced on Wednesday, are to cover a larger area than that carried out at the beginning of the vrar. The scheme only applies to school children over five years who
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    29 10 .—Reuter. Paris, March 7. The 35.000-ton battleship. Jean Bart was successfully launched when the dock in which she is being constructed was filled with water —Reuter.
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    926 10 lte d m r INAI GI RATION EXPECTED END OF MARCH Hong Kong, March Arrangements have now been completed for the long-azeaited inauguration of a new Government under. Wang Ching-wei which the Japanese agreed to establish to run occupied areas in China. The
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    Selangor Gold Cup Race Meeting
    935 11 Acceptances For Tomorrow RACE 1 2.30 P.M. HORSES —Class 2 —Division 3 —6 Furlongs BURRANEER 7y 9.00 Mr. Lee Hong Teik Fenn j) e RUSSIAN ROSE 8y 8.12 Mr. A. van Tooren Duval a YULE CALL 4y 8.08 Mr. Alan LokeMajor Fox 0 5 SQUEEZE
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    382 11 Gustoms In First Division Soccer Playing excellent football, the Public Works Department, a new entry in the First Division of the P.F A. League competition, gained full points in their opening match yesterday defeating the Customs Athletic Club by the odd goal in
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    78 11 The following will represent the Woo Chin Goldsmiths’ Guild in a game of volley-ball against the sth Battalion (Pathans), 14th Punjab Regiment on the former’s court in Argyll Road at 5 pm. on Saturday, March 9: Lew Cheang Tatt, Lew Choy Tatt, Moy Wah Thyan, Liew Geok Thong,
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    MALAKOFF CLUB GOLF
    55 11 Result Of February Monthly Medal The following was the result the Malakoff Club Februa-y Monthly Medal played in Saturday and Sunday, February 24 and 25, 1940: MEDAL (Bogey) Winner (After re-play”) L. S. Dodd (18) 3Qp BALL SWEEPSTAKE (Best 9 Holes) Winner: J. W. Chandler (12) 3Up
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    247 12 PARIS, MARCH 8. “I AM VERY SATISFIED WITH MY CONVERSATION WITH MR. SUMNER WELLES AND WITH HIS VISIT,” M. DALADIER TOLD REUTER. r Mr. Sumner Welles In Paris Reuter The talk had been scheduled to take Only an hour and consequently Mr. «umner
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    199 12 Dr. Brodie President Of Malaya Branch At the annual general meeting of the British Medical Association, Malaya Branch, Northern Section, yesterday at 7 p.m. at the Dental Hall, -General Hospital, Penang, Dr. W.‘H. Brodie was elected Chairman of the Division and President Elect, B-M.A. Malaya Branch. Dr.
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    91 12 FRIDAY. MARCH 8 Penang $130.00 Business done 50 tons Singapore $130.00 «ÜBBLR: Penang Spot 38? c Singapore Spot 382 c -«OPR A: Sundr ied $4.10 buyers Black Pepper Nominal TAPIOCA: Medium $5.70 Sellers Fair Seed $4.85 sellers JKICE: Indian Parboiled 133 lbs. $5.80 New Crop Old Crop Rangoon
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    AIR VOTES PASSED
    370 12 .—REUTER Efficiency Of R. A. F. London. March 8. Closing the debate on the Air estimates in the Commons. Sir Kingsley Wood said they had evidence that the recent flights over Germany had not been without effect on production and morale in Germany. There was considerable evidence
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    326 12 —Reuter. SOVIET ATTEMPTS TO ADVANCE Helsinki, March 8. The 1920 Class vas called up for military service today. It comprises men 19 and 20 years of age who in the normal way would not be called to the Colours until autumn this year. Soviet
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    HEINKEL SHOT DOWN OFF SCOTLAND
    135 12 —Reuter. Attacked In Turns By Spitfires London. Mar. 7. The Air Ministry announced that an R AF. fighter shot down an enemy aircraft ov. r the North-East Coast of Scotland in the early afternoon. An enemy plane —thought to the one shot down —passed over
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    115 12 Draw Ln Women’s Events OPEN WOMEN’S SINGLES Top-Section: Byes: Miss Amanda vs. Mrs. Lim Ewe Jin. Ist. Round: Miss I. C. Chee vs. Miss Lily Khaw. Miss W. Lesslar vs. Miss J.J. Ooi. Bottom-Section: Byes: Miss S. Y. Hor vs. Miss Boey Ah Kheng; Bye: Miss V.
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    169 12 —Reuter. Four Ships Out Of 2,000 Lost Paris, March 7 During the first six months of the war only four ships out of over two thousand convoyed by the French Navy were lost, declared M. Campinchi in a statement. “At the end of the first six
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    55 12 For Malaya Patriotic Fund LADIES STROKE Winner Mrs. Mussett (S.G.C.) 52-16-36. Sixteen Cards taken out MEN’S STROKE Tie between E. N. C. Woollerton (R.S.G.C.) 87-12-75: P. O’Connell (S.G.C.) 85-10-75. Twenty seven Cards taken out. MIXED I’OI RSOMES Winners Mrs. Dr. Strahan (S.P.G. C A. B. Patterson
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    28 12 P.euter. Paris. March 7 The death is announced of Maxine Elliott. the famous American actress, at her own home in the French Riviera
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