Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 October 1940

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY No. 245. Vol. XCVIII. MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1940. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 527 1 Ready 7o Take The Air Before End Of This Year TRAINING IN ENGLAND London, Oct. 14. f>EUTER S special correspondent somewkeie in England, writes that the newly-formed American Eagle squadron, now completing its training in England, will be taking the air as a crack
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  • 172 1 —Reuter. Ready To Join Free France Cairo, October 14. A real leader could swap Syria over to the cause of Free France merely by a show of strength and decisiveness which the present Government obviously lacks, according to a well-informed traveller who has just arrived from
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  • 75 1 —Reuter. No Tram Bus Service* In French Concession Shanghai, October 13. The French Concession passed another day without tram and bus services as the strike situation remained unchanged Meanwhile the water and electricity services are run on a skeleton basis with temporary Russian and German refugees and
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  • 65 1 —Reuter. Exports To Greece And Turkey Not Stopped Bucharest,' Octooar .3. It is authoritatively stated here that the export of oil products from Rumania to Turkey and Greece has not been stopped, but that the Rumanian Government has taken steps with a view’ to the institution of a
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  • 391 1 “All Bill Be Bell In The End' Reuter. London, October 14. Princess Elizabeth especui’ly addressed herself to children whi. have been evacuated to country districts or overseas, during her first broadcast which was made during the B.Ba■ Children’s Hour yesterday (Sunday). “Thousands of you have
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  • 64 1 —Reuter. Tokyo, October 14. ERM AN Foreign Office mission has gone to Moscow to V r try to check the tendency towards improvement of Anglo-Soviet relations, according to a Berlin message to the Domei Agency which adds that the German Ambassador in Moscow, who
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  • 114 1 Bucharest, October 14. A traveller who has first arrived here from Russian Black Sea ports says that official circles there believed the Germans were preparing to pass troops through Rumania against Greece. —Reuter Soviet preparedness for eventuallities is shown by the fact that they are reported
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  • 121 1 .—Reuter. RUSSIA MORE CONCERNED Istanbul, October 12 While the Turks see a potential threat to their security in the German occupation of Rumania, they are not disposed to be unduly anxious until the strength of the occupying forces is known. Opinion in Ankara is that Russia
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  • 115 1 —Reuter. Celebration Of Pact With Axis Tokio, October 13. The streets of Tokio were decorated with the flags of Japan, Germany and Italy when a mass meeting was held to celebrate jointly the lifting of the twoyear ban on public demonstrations and the conclusion of the
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  • 58 1 —Reuter. Schools To Be Opened In Western Australia London. October 13 The first of a series of schools in Western Australia under the Empire Air training scheme will open in early November followed by others in December. Most of the schools will be for the preliminary’
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  • 21 1 Reuter. Nicosia, Cyprus, October 13. Italian reports of unrest and sabotage in Cyprus are officially denied here.—
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  • 125 1 .—Reuter. Ward ha, October 14. The Congress Working Committee dispersed after issuing a statement endorsing Mr. Gandhi’s plan of campaign. One of the two persons chosen to court arrest in the civil disobedience campaign is a man named Vinoba who daily squats on the floor
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  • 46 1 —Reuter. Malta. Oct. 13. Malta had two air raid alarms yesterday’, but enemy machines turned back before reaching the coast. In. the words of the official communique, “Our fighters were ready for them but did not get a chance of engaging them
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  • 536 2 BLOCKADE WILL BE DECISIVE FACTOR Plans For Defeating Hitler New York, Oct. 13. A “British plan” to defeat Germany by bombing and starving her into revolution is described by the London correspondent of the “New York Times.” German-controlled Europe, he says, is
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  • 220 2 —Reuter. Iraq Oil The Real Objective New York. Oct. 13 President Roosevelt's pledge of total defence of the Americas and adjacent oceans is particularly emphasised in Sunday's American press as well as his defiance of the axis, American aid for Britain and the rejection of appeasement. “The
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  • 137 2 —Reuter. Aspirations To South American Leadership Madrid, Oct. 12 Today «Saturday» is “the day of the Spanish Race" and special attention is being paid to the occasion as Nationalist Spain aspires to the cultural leadership of South America. The newspaper "Ariba" says “The Falangist generation of
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  • 732 2 London, October 12. A tribute to the way in which Londoners are facing up to the air raids ordeal formed part of the speech broadcast to the nation this evening by Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour and National Service. “We have had to face,”
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  • 74 2 —Reuter. Wardha, Oct. 13 Mr. Gandhi’s plan for individual civil disobedience which he has confined to a limited number of person has been approved by the Congress Working Committee. It is understood that Mr. Gandhi proposes that in the first instance only two persons should
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  • 1223 2 London, October 13. 4 N electric power station, gas works and important goods yards were among the targets hit by the R.A.F. during their attacks on Berlin on Saturday night. An Air Ministry communique, describing the night's activities of British bombers, says: “Last night
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  • 111 2 —Reuter. Tokio, Oct. 12. Virtually all representatives of Japan» e firms will evacuate London when the liner Fushimi Maru arrives at an Irish por at the end of the month, according to Dome! telegram from London. Some 150 Japanese are expected to boar<: the liner, leaving only
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  • 185 2 r .—Reuter. Extension Search In Shanghai Shanghai, October 13. The hunt for the slayer of Mayor Fu Siao-cn was inaugurated yesterday throughout the city as detectives in the two foreign areas and Japanese-sponsor-ed special municipality were given pictures of the wanted killer and told to keep
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  • 76 2 —Reuter. Exports To Japan Resumed Sydney, Oct. 12. Japan has just arranged to import from Australia the July quota of wool amounting to 25,000 bales. The monthly quotas were taken regularly until the end of May but the June quota was not taken until July. It is understood
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  • 346 2 —BOW. Rugby, October 13. Despite Germany's increasing use of fighters as light bombers with the object of reducing heavy air losses, it is confirmed that German aircraft casualties in battles over Britain during the week ending midnight on Saturday were substantially higher
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  • 70 3 London. I i GENERAL inspecting Home A Guards asked an elderly man anks his civilian occupat rhe man replied-. “Nothing i ticular. I’ve knocked i a good deal.” General moved on and I nted to the officer accom•■g him: “That’s a pleasan tI s
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  • 156 3 London. F'lßl 'G i-. few test shots with a v British £stg.3o,ooo naval gun cost £stg.soo. pl4-inch gun weighs 100 tons and- a barrel 60 feet long. It iig test was when a charge. c ;ng of a huge quantity of cordit xceeding the
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  • 150 3 London. MTAYFAIR centre of pre-war luxury living, is in danger of becoming one of the worst depressed areas in England. Caught in a vicious spiral of rising costs, more and more people are leaving their fashionable addresses. As a result an increasing number
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  • 218 3 Sell Out And Cut Overdraft London. Tm newspapers are indignantly criticising the h ighhanded manner in v ich local branch managers of banks ai e putting pressure on small clients with overdrafts. The managers hare been telling these < its to sell their industrial
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  • 881 3  -  Foremost Aviation Authority Tells c. G. GREY |u/io wrote the dramatic story on this page, is one of the fore\most authorities in the world today on aviation. He was the founder and former editor of “The Aeroplane,” in \which journal his knowledgeable and
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  • 530 3 Paint Boomerangs On Planes As Symbol Of Safe Return London. A USTRALIANS are taking an imP ortant part in RAF raids on 2 and the boomerang has become symbol in several Bomber Command stations for the continual safe re f urn o f British planes from these
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  • 1012 3 From bomb-scarred London come tales of the dauntless courage and unshaken resolution of women and children who have been made a front line army by the merciless Nazi bombers. In the midst of death and destruction, even those with homes shattered and possessions
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 641 4 Goodwill Cheque From Church Workers Kuala Lumpur. rpHE esteem in which the Bisliop of Singapore (the Rt. Rev. B. C. Roberts) and Mrs. Roberts are held by Church workers in Selangor was reflected in speeches of appreciation which were made at the evening reception
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  • 99 4 Increase Of 180,000 Over Last Year Tokio. The population of Tokio now exceeds 7,000,000, according to estimates com piled by the Metropolitan Police Board. The exact population of Tokio Prefecture was set on Dec. 31 last year at 7,001,560, an increase of 180,000 over the Police
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  • 760 4 View Of Chinese Educationist Chungking. T7EAR of co-operation between the British and American navies in the Far East and the probable lease of Singapore to the United States, in the opinion of Dr. Lo Chia-luen, chancellor of the Chinese National Central University, is one of
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  • 393 4 Malayan Journalist’s Impressions CHOULD Japan attempt to strike at Yunnan, in south-west China, from Indo-China she will not be able to employ an army sufficiently large to cope with the strong Chinese resistance that would be offered This conviction is expressed by Mr. Li Peng Jen,
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  • 74 4 Important French war research work on inventors’ devices to defeat Hitler has been placed in a number of British Government laboratories. Many of the ideas, which have been brought out of France by inventors who escaped after the collapse, are going to be of great
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  • 418 4 October 10, 1940. It is suggested that readers should cut out this news in Romanised Malay and hand it to Malay members of their households, thus helping to keep tiie Malay population informed about the progress of the war. These Malay news bulletins will be
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  • 104 4 To aid The War Fund, the Singapore Urban Co-operative Union Ltd., will give a variety concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Nov. 18. The programme, which is being arranged in collaboration with the Cooperative Department, will comprise 14 items, including two one-act plays
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  • 276 4 U.S. Leading Fifth Columnist T EADING German fifth columnist in the United States is a naturalized American, George Sylvester Viereck who is actually registered with the State Department in Washington as a Nazi propagandist and agent of Hitler’s third Reich. Viereck, who is understood to be
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 1738 5 War Taxes Yield S 3 Millions FINANCIAL SECRETARY'S PLEA FOR SACRIFICE AND CO-OPERATION Singapore, Today. Presenting the draft esti mates of revenue and expenditure at today’s Budget meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Mr. L. G. Corney acting Financial Secretary, said that the war taxes
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  • 154 5 The War Fund in North Malaya has increased over the week-end to $1,407,608.74 made up of Penang $915,539.00 and Perak $492,069.74. Only a few contributions were received in the two centres, the biggest gift being $464.92, the proceeds of a football match on Dublin Estate
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  • 80 5 Mishap V) hiie Leaving Ferry A Province motor lorry, which was fully loaded with sundry goods from Penang, plunged into the sea on Saturday evening while leaving the ferry at Mitchell Pier. The lorry, it is reported, went out of control, broke the chain of the launch
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  • 289 5 Meetings And Practices This Week The following are Practices. Meetings etc., for the Passive Defence Services to be held during this week: AUXILIARY FIKE SERVICE Training for Auxiliary Fire Service, Penang, will be held at Beach Street Station every week-day evening at 5.30 p.m. CORPS OF AIK
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  • 253 5 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr. P. G. Coleman has been Appointed to be an Agricultural Officer, Malayan Agricultural Service. Mr. R.W.E. Harper, Officer-Super-intending Police Circle, Kuala Kangsar will be proceeding shortly to New Zealand with his family on long leave. Mr. W. Gordon, Senior Customs Officer, Malayan Customs Service, has been appointed
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    • 112 5 MONDAY 14th OCTOBER, 1940. EVERYTHING AT WEMBLEY CABARET IS AT ITS BEST. LEAVE OTHER APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PRESENT AND BE OUR GUESTS TONIGHT FROM 9.00 P.M. MIDNIGHT. YOUR BABY DESERVES THE BEST! EVENFLO VALVE NURSES The most hygienic and scientific feeding bottle. RECOMMENDED BY DOCTORS AND NURSES FEATURES: Nearest to
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 165 5 I > L Penang'a Moat |X Luxurious WjWaX Air-Conditioned Theatre OPENS TODAY .3 Shows at 3 p.n;., 6.15 9.30 p.m. The Thrill-Adventure Romance Of The Robin Hood of Old Mexico. Reduced Prices Matinee 15 25 cts. (Downstairs) Evening Shows 15, 25 5o cts. (Downstairs) (Prices Excluding Tax) DEAD or ALIVE
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    • 81 5 LAST THREE SHOWS TODAY EXILES FROM LIFE!. FUGITIVES FROM LOVE w| JHk I BASIL VICTOR IW McLAGLEN W CARRILLO A NEW UNIVERSAL PICTURE Opens Tomorrow Tuesday Oct. 15 A TIMELY DRAMA ABOUT THE PRESENT-DAY WARFARE I SEE HOW A NATION CAN BE INVADED IN THE WINTER! 'they LIVE WITH DANGER!
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    • 101 5 See DR. CYCLOPS Diabolical Discoverer of the Most Frightening Invention In The History of Civilised Man Packed Houses Since Opening QUEEN’S 3 SHOO S DALLY 3 6.15 9.30 MATINEE REDUCED PRICES The Mightiest Thrill Picture Since “King Kong” SEE humans shrunk to 14 inches daring to fight for life and
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  • 423 6 r pilE arrival of German troops in Bucharest coincides with a renewal of the IlumanoHungarian dispute. While the two events are not necessarily related, it does seem that the Vienna award is not going well. Axis intervention is again inevitable. There is no doubt that
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  • 72 6 ODEON CINEMA "Rio” with Basil Rathbone. Victor MacLaglen and Sigrid Gurie 3, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. MAJESTIC CINEMA "The Spirit of the Spider" (Chinese picture) 3, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. REX CINEMA “The Girl and the Gambler” with Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt and Steffi Duna. 3, 6.15
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  • 248 6 Ice Cream Mystery INKED with the serious aspect J of a Nazi agent's activities in the United States is an amusing story of the manner in which a simple request for ice-cream led to a nation-wide mystery. Dr. Westrick, sent here four months ago as Hitler’s special
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  • 768 6 Monday, October 14. rp H OUS X N D S of Lon- doners, lining the streets, witness German planes being routed following several attempts to attack the capital yesterday. At least four or five raiders were chased from cloud to cloud until they finally
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  • 33 6 OBITUARY' LAING —James Adam Laing, of Glasgow, aged 44. died at 830 p.m. on October 12, at Sungei Nyok Dockyard. He leaves his wife and two sons. (S.S. and F.M.S. papers please copy).
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  • 5835 7 I ITAL IMPORTA\ (E OF RAW MATERIALS hat Has Achieved In First Year T™ meeti 18 f e LegiS atiVe Council at 10.30 tins morning, when His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government the Hon. Mr. S W Jones dZ hvered his address, reviewing
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  • 192 7 4. T. BENNETTS SENTENCED TO EIGHT MONTHS (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) KUALA LUMPUR. TODAY THE LATEST OFFICIAL OF THE MINES DEPARTMENT TO BE SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT AS A RESULT OF THE RECENT CORRUPTION PROBE BY THE GOVERNMENT IS A. T. BENNETTS, FORMER ACTING SENIOR INSPECTOR
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  • 29 8 Operating results for quarter elided .September 30, 1940. Output of Concentrates tons 96 Mine cost £6.600 Estimated mine profit on 96 tons sold during quarter £7.100
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES QUOTATIONS
    • 459 8 Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Penang and Ipoh sections) at noon 14th October, 1940. Issue Buyers Sellers 4/0 Ampat Tin 3/14 3,44 5/0 Austral Amal 4/104 5/3 £1 Austral Malay 33/6 35/6 5/0 Ayer Hitam 17/3 18/oex $1 Ayer Weng 0.824 0.874 £1 Bangrin Tin 15/3 16/3 $1
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    • 236 8 Issue Buyers Sellers Allenby 1.024 I.o7Jex Alor Gajah 0-85 0.90 Amal. Malay 1.65 1.75 Aver Hitam 0-90 I 0 Ayer Molek 110 115 Aver Panas 105 1.10 Bassett 9.40 0.43 Batu Lintang 104 1.07 Bedford 0.85 0.90 Benta 0.95 l.OOex Borelli 1-30 1-40 Broga 0.56 0.59 Brunei United 0.50
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    • 331 8 Issue Buyeis Sellers A. £1 (Aust) Z. Min Ord 22/0 23/0 2 Alex Brick Ord. 1.75 1.95 2 Alex Brick 74% Prefs 2.10 2.20 5 B. M. T. 7.40 7.60 £5 Chartered Bank £64 £7x £1 Con. T. S. Ord. 17/e 17/6 £1 Con. T. S. 7% Pref. 20/3
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    • 166 8 Dividend Payable Books Close Remarks MINING. Ct.2nderiang 10% Final L.T. 31.10.40 in London Hongkong 124% Int. L.T. 24.10.40 in London Idris Hydraulic 24% L.T. 29.10.40 in London Klang River 74% 25.10.40 21.10.40 Kuala Lumpur Is. 6d. Bonus A.C. 18 10.40 in Melbourne Larut 6d 23.10.40 14.10.40
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  • 2054 8 Mr. Abdoolcader Stresses Importance Of Part Played In Conflict Declaring that in Malaya, as in the rest of the world, too much had been heard of the political difficulties in India, and far too little about the part she was playing in the prosecution of
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  • 142 8 Saturday’s Close Previously TIN: LONDON: £259. 10. 0. £260. 5. 0. “Spot” £261. 0. 0. £262. 0. 0 “Forward” SINGAPORE: “Spot” $133.25 $133 25 Business done 50 tons ioo tons PENANG: “Spot” $133 25 $133.25 RUBBER: LONDON: “Spot” 11 13|16d. ii I3i6d Forward" 11 1316 d. n 733
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  • 1516 9  -  Breaking The Terror: The World’s Hope By J. L. GARVIN in the "Observer" On one hand is the immense tern- porary power of the Dictatorships. On the other is the greater inherent power of the English-speaking peoples. They have the might to win. They only need a
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    • 3379 9 ft II I ZIW RANGOON. KUALAWMPUR XYO 6.01 mc/s am. ft W I A R I AYO 3.48 mc/s 'B6 nr> d v.-u News Eulleth. (Rtiajed from Lun A I 6.50 p.m. Indian bession (Recorata Programme.) 7.05. English Session R' o js pm News in. Tamil a Indian ccraed Programme).
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  • 628 10 *No Combination Will Stop Help We Are Giving To Free People" Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 12 “No combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will stop the help we are guing to almost the last free people fighting to hold them at bay,” said President
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  • 1302 10 FULLY-EQUIPPED GERMAN TROOPS IN RUMANIA Further Explanations Asked By British Govt. I Bucharest, Oct. 12 The first German troops which have been sent to “instruct the Rumanian Army” arrived here this morning, according to an official communique. Troops are stated to be fully equipped
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  • 175 10 Reuter. Pledge To Premier From Duala London, October 12. General De Gaulle has sent a telegram from Duala to the Prime Minister: “From French soil over which the enemy has no control I send to you and to the valiant peoples of the British
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  • 509 10 Reutr. LITTLE DAMAGE AND FEW CASUALTIES Ixuidon, Oct. 12. The Au Ministry giving details of todays raids on Britain says: Once again German heavy bombers left the air invasion to a large formation of Messerschmitts which flew very' fast and veryhigh over the Kent coast
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  • 152 10 —Reuter. 7,000 Casualties Inflicted Chungking, Oct. 12 A Chinese victory in a six-day battle on the South Bank of the Yangtse River in Southern Anhwei is splashed in the newspapers. It is claimed the Japanese suffered 7,000 casualties. Reports state the battle began when the
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  • 95 10 Sultan Of Joho re’s Friend Miss Lydia Hill, the London cabaret dancer, whose name was coupled with that of the Sultan of Johore some years ago. was killed by a bomb while shopping at Canterbury, buy ing a wedding present for her friend, says
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  • 181 10 —Reuter Copper Belonging To Chinese Stolen Shanghai. Oct. 12 The Swiss Consul-General is expected to protest to the Japanese authorities over an alleged action of Japanese gendarmes in preventing the arrest of a man accu-'ed of theft of an enormous quantity of copper estimated to be
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  • 559 11 Keen Game Despite Difficult Conditions The Perak Asiatics scored a creditable victory over'the PeRug y ootball Club X\ on the padang on Saturday, beat,g them by 10 points (two goals) to three (a trv). Tte Ashcs certainly have a formidable side this season and
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  • 133 11 kit Soon And Thiam Chin in Doubles Title Ipoh. Kit Soon and Lim Thiam Chin s’ doubles event of the Perak Tt nnis championships on the ‘Jrts yesterday afternoon, beatLy Lee and Shin Thee 6—2, 1 in 'he final. -finals and final in the boys’ .nt will
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  • 560 11 In the presence of a large and representative gathering, the remains of Mr. James Adam Laing, Chief Accountant, Sungei Nyok Dockyard, Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Butterworth were laid to rest at the Western Road Cemetery, yesterday evening at six o’clock. The news of the
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  • 63 11 P.S.C.. vs Free School At Western Road on Wednesday Oct. 16 at 5.15 p.m. PS.c.—H. L. Barry; J. E. Goodrich, G. T Cameron, K. A. G. Hague, D. M. Seward; V. Barrie. T. M. Clark; R. W. Quixley, J. Wilson, W. Rintoul, S. D. Russell W. Hannay, W. G.
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  • 37 11 Indian Assn, vs Trade School On the Esplanade today at 5 15 p.m.: Indian Association: Abdul Karim; Kerrail Singh and Lail Sur; Dr. Chanan Singh, Sadhu Singh and Joshua; Chanan Singh’ Sockalingam, Veerasingam, Subramaniam and Thamgaiah.
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  • 794 11 LATE MR. LIM CHENG HOCK The death occurred yesterday morning at the Penang Sanitorium of the well-known local sportsman. Mr. Lim Cheng Hock, from appendicitis. The funeral took place at 4 p.m. yesterday from the Thai Temple in Batu Lanchang Road for interment at the Batu
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  • 278 11 Arsenal’s Narrow Win Over Spurs London, October 12. r pHE folowing are the results of the soccer and rugby matches played today:— .—Reuter. SOUTH Aldershot 5, Bristol City 1. Bournemouth 1, Reading 1. Brighton 0, Southampton 0. Charlton 1, Brentford 4. Coventry 5, Cardiff 2. Fulham
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  • 72 11 Sultan Offers Cup For Competition ipoh His Highness the Sultan of Perak .has offered a trophy for inter-district tennis competition among Malays in Perak. The tournament, which will be run on a knock-out system, is expected to start early next year. The trophy has been named
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  • 138 11 Thoe Seong’s XI Beat Asiatic Rangers A scccer match was played at the Butterworth Recreation ground on Saturday evening. between Thoe Seong’s XI and the Butterworth Asiatic Rangers and was won by the former by six goals to nil. In the sixth minute Kok Hin drew first blood
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  • 49 11 0.F.4. vs P.M.R.C. At Westlands School today at 5.30 p.m O.F.A. —Tye Thoon Choy; Lim Cheng Hoe, Tan Luang Gark; Chong Ah Har, Gan Thean Beng. Chan Fui Kam; Tye Thoon Tuck. Khoo Ong Lee. Khoo Phin Hong, Ng Beng Hong, Cheah Kok Huat. Umpire—Mr. Yeap Choong Kong.
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  • 147 11 North Ami South Play Goalless Draw Ipoh. After a lapse of nearly six years the inter-Railway Institute soccer competition for the Daly Cup was revived when the North and the South met yesterday on the Ipoh Railway Institute ground. The match ended in a goalless draw. Mr.
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