Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 17 September 1941

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB.IB33 PUBLISHED DAILY w 221. Vol. XCIX. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 463 1 Fighting Still Raging After Ten Days RUSSIANS WIN RIVER DUEL I Moscow, Sept. 17. I TANK battle has been raging for ten days on the central front between the Second German Army Tank group under General Guderian and troops commanded by
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  • 96 1 H«Utfo 1» Determine Exchange Allotments m. London, Sept. 16 The C'r T'. '-mnese Foreign Exchange Con- c n p e held its first meeting under the chairmanship of *F ’•ung, the Finance Minister. F n on, the Chinese currency board, composed cf Briu n and Chinese members,
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  • 14 1 .—Reuter. London, September 16. nothing to report,” states an --4stry communique.—Reuter.
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  • 92 1 Reuter. New York, Sept. 17. “T?VENTS of the last few days strongly indicate that war may be forced upon the United States/’ said Mr. Ralph. Baird, American Assistant Secretary of Navy, addressing ensigns of the training ship “Prairie.” Mr. Baird said that German submarines
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  • 223 1 Reuter. Washington, Sept. 17. .4 new stunt to speed Lease-Lend operations by cutting red tape zvas announced bv President Roosevelt at a press conference yesterday. He declined to say whether the Navy would engage in actual convoying to get war supplies overseas. The
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  • 275 1 Teheran, Sept. 17. 'PHE Shah has left the capital. He is going to Isfahan by the same road along which British troops are advancing towards Teheran. It is understood that the Shah on Monday night sent a secret emissary to the British
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  • 189 1 —Reuter. 14 Enemy Aircraft Destroyed Cairo, Sept. 16. An additional communique issued from R.A.F. headquarters yesterday evening says Further details of air operations ever the frontier ume of the Western Desert show that in addition to the destruction of enemy aircraft mentioned in yesterday afternoon’s communique, two
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  • 174 1 —Reuter. New York, Sept. 16 Colonel Knox’s statement that all Lease and Lend cargoes traversing the ocean between the American Continent and the waters of Iceland will henceforth be protected by the United States Navy, and the report that consideration is being given in Washington to
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  • 164 1 trictions against Japan.—Reuter. Shanghai, Sept. 17. A NN O C N CE M E N T of “Japanese Agreement” as a result of fu rec-.nl discassions in Washington has been delayed owing to dlfficidties which may have arisen during til a past week,
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  • 66 1 .—Reuter. Head Of Well-Known Firm Of Lyons London, September 16. The death is announced of Sir Isidore Salmon, Conservative Member of Parliament for the Harrow division of Middlesex and head of the well-known catering firm of Lyons. Sir Isidore Salmon, who died in a London nursing
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  • 34 1 Full results of this afternoon’s races at Ipoh together with the latest war news will be featured in our Evening Edition, out on sale in the streets shortly after 6.30 p.m. today.
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  • 176 1 London, Sept. 17. AN Allies’ “League of Nations” has been formed in London and will one day help to shape the New Europe. The official title is “London International Assembly formed under the auspices of the International Committee of the League of Nations Union.”
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  • 272 1 —Reuter. Berlin, September 17. HTHE Bulgarian Government has categorically denied adopting a “disloyal attitude” towards Russia, according to a Sofia despatch to the German Official News Agency. The Bulgarian Government, It is added, “knows nothing” of any provocative action on Bulgarian soil. These statements
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  • 314 2 CREATION OF BIGGEST ARRAY OF FIGHTING SHIPS THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN New 35,000-Ton Dreadnoughts Added To Battle Line Washington. Sept. 16. CINCE “Zero Hour 0 (one minute past midnight), the United States Atlantic Fleet, stripped for action h** been taking under armed protection
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  • 68 2 i.—Reuter. en More Hostages Shot Bond on, September 16. Ten more French hostages were shot by the German authorities in Occupied France as reprisals for “acts of aggression against members of the German Army,” according to the German controlled Paris radio. The ages of the
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  • 93 2 .—Reuter. Ankara. September 16. Despite dummy Italian administrators, the Germans retain all key posts in Greece and the Italians are generally relegated to secondary administrative jobs, according to travellers who arrived her from Athens. Thus in Piraeus, the zone of the German administration embraces the port, warehouses
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  • 193 2 —Reuter Death At Liverpool At Age Of 112 London, Sept. 16. j Britain’s olclesi man. Mr. Alfred Charles Nunez .Arnold, died yesterday at the age of 112 at Liverpool convalescent home. He was a keen student of Yoga and attributed his long life and good health to
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  • 315 2 Reuter. L.4RGE FIRES AT YARDS FACTORIES London, September Ifi. Hamburg was the principal objective of a big fleet of R.A.F. bombers which attacked German ports in North-West Germany and Occupied France last night. Shipyards, factories and railways were attacked for some hours by a
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  • 249 2 —Reuter. Control Of Capital X Exports Tokio, September 16. The Japanese Government held a €a- I binet Meeting this morning when an announcement was made of two wartime programmes for tightening up Government control over the movement of industrial and commercial capital as well as over Japan’s
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  • 100 2 .—Reuter. Enormous Sums Spent On News Agencies Buenos Aires, Sept. 16. Revelations about financing operations of Axis news agencies are contained in the third report issued by the Parliamentary Committee which are investigaing anti-Argentine activities. The report shows that Trans-Ocean, a German undertaking, and the Italian
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  • 446 2 22-Year-Old Crown Prince SiicceeJ Tb. i i To Throne BIG DEVELOPMENT IN NEXT FEW DAYS London, Sept. 16 Ihe Shah of Iran has abdicated. He is succeeded by his son. These developments were reported to an extraordinary session of the Iranian Parliament on Tuesday morning, according
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  • 127 2 Reuter. Now Talking On The Air London, September 16. Leningrad and London are now talking on the air. In response to the message broadcast a few days ago, the Leningrad radio today responded: “Listen people of London, this is Leningrad talking. We thank you warmly for your
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  • 102 2 —Reuter. Seeking Information Of New Secret Weapons New York, Sept. 16. Mr. William Sebold, German-born United States Government informer, told the Federal Court here yesterday that he had been specifically instructed through a Gestapo agent to discover new’ secret weapons and devices. He was giving evidence
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  • 320 2 .—Reuter, Hoover On U.S. Naval! Action rliicago, Sept. 18. The view that Hitler will coUap.se as a result of his own over-reaching and that the United States should become the bulwark of freedom at home was expressed by Mr. Herbert Hoover In
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  • 142 2 .—Reuter. Boycotted By The Population London, Sept. 16. As an expression cf their indignation at the attitude of German-controlled Czech newspapers in the German Czech protectorate which is increasingly contemptuous in their references to dead Czech leaders and have adopted towards Soviet Russia and the United States
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  • 34 2 —Reuter. Bombay. September 16. It is announced here that the National Defence Council will be meeting for the first time on October 6, 7 and 8 and the Viceroy will preside.—Reuter.
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  • 27 2 I.—Reuter. London, Sept. 16. A oerman bomber was destroyed by British fighters off the East Coast on Monday evening, it is learned.—Reuter.
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  • 100 2 —Reuter. 169 Killed Dr Missing In I nited Kingdom London, September 16 One hundred and sixty nine persons were killed or are missing and believed killed as a result of German air raids cn the United Kingdom during August. This number includes 56 men, 72 women
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  • 599 2 Enemy Submarine And Two Lar« Transports Sunk London, Sept. 16. The following is the text of a Soviet midday communique broadcast by the Moscow radio at 11 a.m. G.M.T.:— “Durin? the night of September 15, our troops continued fighting the enemy along the whole
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  • 228 2 —Reuter. Editor Slicks |1 Hi> Guns 1 Three dents walked into Influ M newspaper office and Oadgered 1 tor wxtb questions ability to maintain her neL i 1 her lack of enthusiasm f Or friendship and the new order H Asia. editor stuck to hi-" 1
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  • 630 3 Bombay Sept. 14. L4Y civil aviation in India is playing an increasing part F training for the Air Force. A party of journawho visited the training centre near Bombay were told j }V the end of this mont h nearly 350 mechanics from tre in
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  • 250 3 I COURT STORY London. ■jIBTMOOK convicts are allowed to fight among themselves. ■No attempt is made to prevent fl®-but they are punished afterwas stated by a contact, Ronald i" at Devon Assizes, when two floor prisoners were accused of him. maid Holdsworth, 26, bricklayer, Jack
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  • 60 3 r v Chungking, Aug. 27. laladevi, Vice-President is A n dia Women’s Congress, e n Chungking for a visit. ’I-d on Generalissimo and liang Kai-shek and other Was entertained at dinner f c:r n’s Advisory Committee tv r ,fp Movement Association J ;ri ed that Madame Kamala-
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  • 986 3 DID YOU KNOW? In a single drop of water there are 15,000.000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000 atoms. The atomic power contained in a }pint of water would probably drive an ocean liner across the Atlantic and back. There is enough atomic power locked up in a lump
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  • 842 3  -  Ohio rubber city again may become the training centre of officers in ‘lighter-than-air’ service of the U. S. Army and Navy— Newest tyj>es of balloons designed for defence against all kinds of air attacks are given drastic tests at experimental station. By Helen Waterhouse Akron, Ohio—Barrage balloons,
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  • 55 3 “Paul Robeson’s voice is now considered by the Germans to be too dangerous for Norwegian ears,” says the Norwegian Telegraph Agency. The use of records of his songs has been forbidden at any public meeting or in any Norwegian broadcast. Records of the American Negro singer, Marion
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  • 712 3 Melbourne, Sept. 14. <FHE Minister fur Information (Senator Foil) states that the Government will soon send an artist to Malaya. Australian News Cable The practice of stationing artists with the A.I.F. abroad was adopted in the last war, and paintings by Mr. Harold Herbert, who has been
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  • 92 3 London. An Isle of Wight boy, with a doublebarrelled shotgun, was sard to have captured tne crew of a German bomber after it crashed in a wheat field. “I mor? o less threatened then, with my gun,' 16-year-old boy rrcounted. “I told them
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous

  • 624 4 Comprehensive Defence Scheme TAKING its lesson from the damaging raids suffered by the London docks when the Germans loosed their air Blitz last autumn, the Singapore Harbour Board has ai a cost of “tens of thousands of dollars’’ provided a comprehensive scheme for the protection
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  • 469 4 “/CALLING Mr. Chang, Calling Mr. I Chang. Wif. you please go to Operations Room immediately You are required for a cross-country flight.’’ Mr. Chang—nobody knows him by any other name —rose from a deep armchair in the rest room at the aerodrome
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  • 106 4 Batavia. The Netherlands Indies People’s Council is receiving many supplementary budgets for 1941, ’especially for defence purposes. The Government has just presented the fifth for the Department of War, amounting to 82 million guilders. This money will be partly spent on speeding up the reinforcement
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  • 57 4 Shanghai. Japanese schoolboy a+hletes in the approaching national track and field championships will have to compete without spiked shoes, according to a Welfare Ministry announcement reported here from Tokio. A desire to conserve needed metals and to change the object of the meet “competitive”
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  • 616 4  -  Av H. HARVEY-DAY. Wf E talk about the totalitarian T states as if they were something new to this world. Actually, when our ancestors were running about with woad on their skins totalitarianism existed in the insect world. They went about their jobs in an orderly and civilised
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  • 277 4 Americans Praise Soviet Forces HTWO American consular clerks who were attached to the 1 United States Embassy in Moscow from Jan. Ito June 27, this year, arrived in Singapore with the announcement that Russian morale was extremely high and the “Reds” were confident of smashing Germany
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  • 248 4 “Should Re Taken Over Bv Australia"' The view that after the war the administration of Singapore might lie taken over by Australia—“because it is so much more her business than ours.” was expressed in an interview by Mr. F. Kingdon Ward, the well-known naturalist, botanist, explorer and
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  • 494 4 Combating Drought I Coastal Pahang I (Ry 'A SPECIAL CORRRSPONdInt I coastal region of Pahang i s suffering I successive year of drought, and padi phnt Us 1 deavouring to respond to the country’s need rSWho ’l grown rice are Ln many places confronted fields.. v
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  • 133 4 She Gets 5 Years For ‘Hitler’ Talk 4 WOMAN teacher who said to two soldiers in a public-house that Hitler was a better man than Churchill was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude at Herts Assizes. She is Elsie Sarah Constance Orrin, aged 48, and, it was
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  • 481 4 TO P/£Ot| B T day aM "Isht a Of United States w/W «ro sa th, feu, A b y 3. group of trips “just, routine” Job? F r last yearoU.B 0 70 per cent of them Am S oeen delivering the ar-d sometimes i n bad I tions
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  • 25 4 The Chinese > Pahang. "A'» BHtaln sX- S’ War,led R ej; rf th Fund «»>»»s°, %„ese«»>“““ 0 Of the Chinese air raid
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 58 4 What a War By Gilbert WiUkisison < nF‘ *‘.7 f 9 'IB w AW “I mighi 'nave knewn YDV wouldn't appreciate nvhat a r.‘'W hat means to a girl, sergeant!” All in a Day's Work— W-Csft MAS SHOva/M j '"TES, JOT— I I us therc is SOKIE-- j sills// I
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  • 398 5 SOCIAL PERSONAL f- J- R. C. McGrow, of Sungei Way ft. has returned from leave in I* sfs r t Commissioner has appointf lr J .T. Rea. M.C.S., to be Tmmipt Officer. r William H. C. Bailey of Messrs. F«- Gilfillan and Co., Ltd., Port f’-'-"ham. is proceeding to Singa-
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  • 358 5 Always Glad I o Co-Operate Says Sir G. Northcote Describing relations between Chungking and Hong Kong as very cordial, Sir Geoffry Northcote who recently retired from the governorship of Hong Kong, said in an interview before leaving Singapore "We are always glad to co-operate with
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  • 990 5 Unending Calls In Yesterday’s Exercises Approximately 330 men of the Penang Fire Brigade and Auxiliary Fire Service put in strenuous work from 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon till late al night; and of the Services none had a more arduous, exacting time than the Fire Brigade
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  • 110 5 I isiis Sewing Depot And St. Nicholas Home Visits to the Malaya Patriotic Fund (Women’s Section) Sewing and Knitting Depot at the Runnymede Hotel and the St. Nicholas Home at Eagan Jermal were paid by Her Highness Tengku Ampuan, wife of His Highness the Sultan of
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  • 258 5 Two Applications Before Board The Board of Licensing Justices held its third quarterly meeting yesterday at 2.45 p.m. in the Penang District Court. Mr. B. F. Bridge, District Judge and First Magistrate, Chairman of the Board, presided over the meeting and others present were Dr. W. H.
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    • 357 5 THE NEW WORLD WEDNESDAY, 17th SEPT., 1941 CHENG LIN CANTONESE OPERA. TONIGHT AT 8 P.M. “CHOONG MO YIN” Part 35. With Sng Cheong Mun, Loh Pun Chiew, Sin Yin Loong. T.OW IT KEE HIANG Teochew Wayang TONIGHT AT 8 P.M. "LOO GEE HIANG” METROPOLE TALKIES Paramount Presents “GIVE ME A
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  • 513 6 'T’IIE news that British and Russian forces are marching into Teheran following the abdication of the Shah will be generally welcomed as a logical sequence to the Allies’ determination not to be caught napping. The Shah was virtual dictator of his country and the announcement of his departure
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  • 125 6 REX CINEMA: "In Old Monterey.” 3, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. I WINDSOR CINEM "The Wolf Dog” (whole serial). 2.00 and 8.00 p.m. MAJESTIC CINEMA: "King of the Sea” (Chinese picture). 3, 6 30 and 9 30 p.m. ODEON CINEMA: Ann Sothern in “Congo Maise.” I 3, 6.15
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  • 73 6 Jerusalem, September 16. Eleven mysterious accidents occurred in Czechoslovakia during the latter part of July, according to news reaching authoritative Czech circles here. An ammunition train from the famous Skoda works was blown up. Over 250 officers and men of the German Army were killed in
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  • POST BAG
    • 165 6 (lo the Editor, "Pinang Gazette”). Sir, 1 think it is unfair that no one has informed “Steering Wheel” that all this ‘black-out’ business is just a big bluff! Please tell him that everything has been done to make motoring safe. All street corners and obstructions have
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    • 44 6 (To the Editor, “Pinang Gazette”). Sir, I wonder how our lovers of sleep reacted to the increased barking of dogs on Black-Out nights? The sirens, I notice, have lively effect on canine ears. Yours etc., “FORTY WINKS.” Penang. September 16, 1941.
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  • 532 6 FIRE BRIGADE EQVIPMn. NEEDS REPLACEMENT IBy A Staff Reporter I DOTH the big major demonstrations in wh o took part, the first on Monday at Sungp; p second, yesterday at Burmah Road, though' V' revealed several defects which should be ut) remedied. lately J.R.P. IMPRESSIONS—it With regard
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  • 672 6 W ednesday, August 17. VV/TTH the abdication of the Shah, T Iran has again leapt into the limelight. 'T'HE Shah, according to today’s telegrams, has left Teheran, lie is proceeding to Isfahan by the same road along which British troops are marching towards Teheran.
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  • 613 7 Lot ITTEO ON BREACH OF TRUST r v CHARGE case is riddled with do übts. At best it is the word of pone man against another and the slightest doubt will tip I ca e in favour of the accused. There are many points in
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  • 186 7 Govt. Increases Allowances Indicative of increased prices prevailing in the country, both the cost of living and supplementary allowances for Government employees in Malaya this month show substantial increases over those granted in August and in July. Cost of living rates are increased by either 15
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  • 135 7 A Chinese tongkang coolie was found dead in his junk at the Swettenham Pier at 7.30 this morning. The man’s craft was tied to a water boat which was moored at the pier. The man Ong Yew Huck, aged 40 years, had apparently passed away
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  • 375 7 Big Haul By Police Following Chase Ipoh. Approximately 83,500 in ten-dollar notes, stated to be counterfeit currency, would have got into circulation had it not o been for timely arrests effected by the Police on Monday, when Chinese, whose names were given as Hoe Yew Chew
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  • 124 7 Deputy C.-In-C. Promoted Adviser Defence Affairs Bangkok, Sept. 16. ■pOUR major reshuffles in the Thai Army Commands, in- eluding the Anti-Aircraft Regiment, are officially announced tonight. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Thai Army, is promoted Adviser, Defence Affairs. The Officer Commanding, Anti-Aircraft Regiment, is appointed Officer Commanding First
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  • 125 7 DIFFERENT SHAPE FOR EACH RELIGION The latest idea for identity discs in Singapore Is the manufacture of discs of different shapes for persons of different religions. A large number of people have already bought discs which are not so differentiated. Those discs are quite satisfactory
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  • 24 7 Half-Yearly Meeting To-morrow The half-yearly general meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce will be held tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.
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  • 750 7 Returned From Patrol To Find Wife Gone A ROYAL Naval Reserve officer returning home from patrol duty found a letter left by his wife in which she stated that she had decided to go away with another man, it was stated in the Singapore High
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  • 385 7 Junks Collide In Harbour In the Supreme Court yesterday Mr. Justice C. W. V. Carey allowed an appeal brought by Teoh Teng Chooi against the judgment of the District Judge (Mr. H. A. Forrer), who dismissed a claim for $5OO brought by the appellant. The
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  • 92 7 The War Fund in North Malaya stands at $1,542,847.31, made up of Penang $981,695. 85 and Perak $561,151.46. There was only one contribution to the Penang collection yesterday, this being $1 from “Convener,” P.S.C. PERAK Three contributions, totalling $122.85, from the “odd cents’’ campaign in
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  • 95 7 Field Telephone Fixed By Volunteers During the Civil Defence Exercises, by courtesy of the Hon. Lieut. Col. E. A. de Buriatte, the Commanding Officer, 3rd Battalion S.S.V.F. the Medical Auxiliary Service were provided with a field telephone line to connect with the First Aid Post in Burmah
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  • 193 8 Penang, Tuesday With good demand evenly distributed between Tin and Rubber Shares, steadiness characterised the Share Market. Rubbers and Industrials, however, remained firm with more (buyers than sellers, scrip in some cases being difficult to obtain. Among dollar counters, Ajyer Wengs and Faiping Consols improved further with
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  • 36 8 Profit for 1940, after £15,000 E.P.T. and Debenture interest, £14,598 (£9,873). To tax reserve, £5.000, (£1,700); replanting reserve, £1,50=9 (£1,750); Debenture redemption, £2.000 (same); dividend, 2 1/2 per cent, (nil); forward, £3,175 (£2,927).
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  • 1858 8 A Satisfactory Year: Sir P. Thakurdas’ Review The sixty-sixth ordinary general meeting of shareholders and policyholders of the Oriental Government Security Life Assurance Co., Ltd., was held on May 28 at the registered office of the company, Oriental Buildings, Bombay. Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas, Kt., C.1.E.,
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  • 68 8 Penang, September 16, 1941 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) SELLING London Demand 2/4 3/32 New York Demand 47.16 Montreal Demand 51.91 Batavia Demand 88.82 Calcutta Bombay) Rangoon Demand 156 1/8 Hongkong Demand 53 9/16 Shanghai Demand 11 11/16 Japan Demand 193 1/2 New Zealand Demand 2/iO 7/8
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  • STOCKS & SHARES QUOTATIONS
    • 459 8 Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Penang and Ipoh sections) at noon 17th September, 1941 Issue Buyers Sellers 4/0 Ampat Tin 2/9 3/0 5/0 Austral Amal. 7/1} 7/4}ex £1 Austral Malay 35/0 36/oex 5/0 Ayer Hitam 18/6 19/0c $1 Ayer Weng -82} .87} £1 Bangrin Tin 13/0 14/0 $1
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    • 227 8 Issue Buyers Sellers Allenby 1-15 1.20 Alor Gajah .87} .92} Amal Malay 1 65 1.72} Aver Hilam .97} 1.02} Ayer Molek 1.17} 1.22} Aver Panas 1.22} 1.27}c Bassett -47} .50 Batu Lintang 1.14 1.16} Bedford 1.02} 1.07} Benta 1.05 1.10 Borelli 1.40 1.45 Broga .65 .67} Brunei United .65
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    • 359 8 Issue Buyers Sellers I A£l Austral N.Z. Ord. 22 z 0 23/0 $2 Alex Brick Ord. 1.75 1.80 $2 Alex. Brick 7}% Pref 2.15 2.25 $5 B. M T. 7.5 7.75 £5 Chartered Bank £9 £9sc £1 Con. T. S. Ord. 16/3 16/9 £1 Con. T. S. 7% Pief
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    • 292 8 MINING Dividend Books close Payable Austral Amal 3d. and 1} Bonus 15.9.41 26.9.41 Ayer Hitam 10% Int. L.T. 8.10.41 (in London) Burma-Malay 6d. 28th div 22/30.9.41 30.9.41 Chin Chin Tin 2% int. 13/23.9.41 23.9.41 Hong Fatt 8% 3rd Int. 10/20.9.4J 22.9.41 Ipoh Tin 3/- Int. 26,8.41
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  • 614 8 More Interest In Forward Tender Positions Stanton Nelson CoLimited Singapore, September 11. Except for rather more interest in the forward tender positions, no developments have occurred in the Singapore market this week, and local business continues extremely dull. No fresh statistics have been made available, and in
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  • 124 8 The Singapore Chamber of Com Eal Rubber Association 1555th Auction, 11 September, 1941. I lbs. t®| Catalogued 2,207,635 985.5)1 Offered 1,747,053 "5.5Sold 1,431,950 M London—Spot 13 5/Bd. New York—Spot 22 1/2 cents. PRICES REALISED RIBBED SMOKED SHEET cents, per i| Standard Quality 38 1 2—38 i| Good
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  • 122 8 Yesterdav’s Close TIN: LONDON “Spot” £256. 15. 0. £257. 0. 0 “Forward” £259. 10. 0. £259. 15. SINGAPORE “Spot” $138.25 Business done PBNANG: "Spot” $138.25 RUBBER LONDON; “Spot” 13 11,16 d. lll6d “Forward” 13 H 16d. Quiet Tone Quiet SINGAPORE g 5Sc “Spot” 38 s’Bc PENANG ?8 s?c
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 113 8 BANKS SAVINGS 7/ou to dollar saved la an extra dollar earned. Savings Account is the best inducement to save. n To have a Savings Account and to see this account grow from time to time is to be a contented person. A Savings Account may be opened with this Bank
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  • 133 9 Speculators in bombed sites who honed to make hug-e profits after the war have bought white elephants. The committee sitting recently under the h-airmanship of Mr. Justice Uthwatt to consider this question suggested legislation which would fix the price of bombed sites at their pre-war
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  • 858 9  -  LONDON. GCHE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PLASTIC SURGEONS, LED BY SIR J HAROLD GILLIES, ARE NOW WORKING SIX DAYS A WEEK TO RESTORE BEAUTY TO THE FACES OF HITLER'S BOMB VICTIMS. By RHONA CHURCHILL Our fighting men, unassuming housewives hit by bricks flying from bombed
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  • 305 9 WEDNESDAY I7TH SEPTEMBER. 1941. Postage Latest Time of Destination letters Postcards Superscription Posting at Penang per oz. each Ordinary Regn. INTERNAL MALAYAN SERVICE Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur Wearne’s Air September 17th inst. Singapore ,10 .05 Service 1 p. m 12.45 pan. AFRICA All destinations .50 .25 B O.a .C.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 3146 9 NIROM 7 00 “Something Going on in Britain WUI t fl 1111VLZU1 Now”—A Talk. JB!i I I YDB 15.31 mc/s (19.61 m.) 7.30 News. ft I fl I YDC 15.15 mc/s (19.80 m.) 7.40 Listening Post. ;#W® X W ■-A PLP 1100 mc s (27.27 m.) 7.45 London Calling. PMN
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    • 706 9 KWEIYANG XPSA (49.0 metres) 5.00 a.m. National Anthem —News for the press m Chinese. 6.00 p.m. Flag song—Band music—Announcement or pregrammes. 6.10 News commentary in Chinese. 6.25 European music. 6.30 News in Japanese. 6.50 European Music. 6.55 Educational talks to’children, 7.15 News commentary in Chinese (.Cantonese). 7.30 Lecture bn general
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  • 632 10 LITTLE DOUBT WHAT THEY WILL DO TO COUNTER U S. MOVE Washington, Sept. J 6 Col. Knox’s announcement of naval protection for U.S. war materials came near the end of his address in which he declared that since the United States occupation of Iceland
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  • 52 10 Chungking, Sept. 13 It is learned a Foreign Exchange Control Committee is to be established shortly. Presided over by Mr. Kung, Finance Minister it will examine applications for custody of frozen as well as conversion exchange. Activities of the commission are to be transferred to a new
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  • 48 10 —Reuter. Berne, Sept. 15, According to the “Neue Zuericher Zeitung s Budapest correspondent, action by Serb patriots has caused the closing of the ninety-kilometer stretch of railway from Sarajevo to the Serbian frontier and the railway from Mostar to the Adriatic has been interrupted.—Reuter.
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  • 851 10 FOUR TRANSPORTS AIM ONE DESTROYER SUNK BY DEFENDERS Odessa’s Gallant Stand Moscow, Sept. 16 A Soviet midnight communique issued by the Soviet Informatia Bureau states “during September 15, stubborn fighting contig ed on the whole, front. Fifteen German planes have brought down. We
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  • 476 10 FINNS ISSUE "BLUE WHITE" PAPER ON RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA “Forced To Defend Herself” New York, Sept. 16 During the fifteen months’ peace between Russia and Finland, the Soviet plotted to destroy Finland’s independence and finally launched an unprovoked attack on the Finns at the outbreak of the Russo-German hostilities. This
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  • 73 10 —Reuter. MILITARY SCHOOL AT BANDOENG Batavia, Sept. 16 The Dutch East Indies’ naval and military grants have been approved. The Volksraad (People s Council) approved supplementary estimates which provide for the establishment of the Royal Military Academy at Bandoeng; the purchase of torpedo
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  • 71 10 —Reuter. Pro-German Policy To Continue London, Sept. 16. M. Laval in an interview with the Asseo National Zeitung” declared he intended to continue his policy of reconciliation with Germany, savs the German-contrlled Paris radio. Reconciliation, however, was only the beginning. Later friendship between Germany and France would consecrate
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  • 36 10 Reuter. Chungking, Sept. 16. The Chinese goodwill mission to Burma has returned to Chungking warmly appreciative of the cordial reception and hospitality accorded them, said Dr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Foreign Minister.—
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  • 42 10 Reuter. BACK TO OLD POSITION IN LIBYA Cairo, Sept. 16. It is understood that two enemy columns mentioned in yesterday’s Middle East communique as having penetrated some miles across the frontier have now completely withdrawn to their original positions.
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  • 157 10 —Reuter. Units Shifted From One Sector To Another Moscow, Sept. 16. “Important Gaps” in the Luftwaffe are announced in the “Red Star,” organ of the Red Army today. “A comparison of operations by the Luftwaffe in the first days of war and now proves that the
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  • 75 10 —Reuter. Shipping Rubber Shares Bright Features London. Sept. 16. The Stock Exchange is quieter and with markets sensitive to Russian war news moderate profit-taking appeared in most sections, especially Kaffirs. Losses, however, were generally small and building, shipoing and rubber shares presented bright features while Japanese bonds responded
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  • 91 10 .—Reuter. Roosevelt's Economic Investigator Simla, Sept. 16. Dr. Henry Grady. President Roosevelt’s special economic investigator in the Far East, is expected to arrive here today. It is understood one of the main cbjects of his visit will be to discuss with the Indian Government
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  • 31 10 .—Reuter. Bombay, Sept. 16 Mr. Bhulabhai Desai, the Opposition leader in the Central Legislative Assembly, has been released from Poona jail on the grounds of health.—Reuter.
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  • 36 10 —Reuter. Cairo, Sept. 16. It is understood that two enemy columns mentioned in yesterday’s Middle East communique as having penetrated some miles across the frontier have now completely withdrawn to their original positions.—Reuter.
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  • 111 10 —Reuter, Training I" M< le Production Meth"® London. Sept Mr. Bevin, Minister Winant. United sW des» tain today inspected have come to Britain uctlol modern methods of inspection took place a Hertfordshire. fioveru nieni After stating that G going to “work hue Russia with war ma J*
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  • 35 10 :r Berne. The German Ambassador w has gone to German!. m fresh instructions ported here fr m Vichy of Admiral the ffsi of Tunis, is stated‘ J „_Reuter of normal consult.
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  • 17 10 On the it is learned on many were killedU the ..sons whose identity
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  • 198 10 ’—Reuter British Tanks To Be Sent To The Front London, Sept. 16. “Every tank and tank part made in Britain next week is to be sent straight to front lines defending Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. This supply of Britain’s all cut aid for the Soviet Union
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  • 172 10 —Reuter. R.A.F. Engaged By Axis Planes Cairo, September 16. A big air battle on the EgyptianTripoli frontier is recorded in a communique from British R.A.F. headquarters yesterday evening. The communique says: “A strong force of South Afiican bombers yesterday attacked and dispersed enemy motor transports
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  • 66 10 —Reuter. Bombs Dropped On N.E. Coast Town London, Sept. 15. A North-East Coast, town was the objective of a German raider last night, according to an Air Ministry communique which states: “One enemy aircraft dropped bombs on a town on the North-East Coast last night. These
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  • 178 10 MOVE TO ENFORCE DEMAND FOR WAR BONUS .—Reuter. New York, September 16 Nine ships are now tied up as the result of a strike called by the Seafarers’ International Union of North Americ which began on Thursday. In an interview yesterday, Mr. John
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  • 59 10 —Reuter. Move Welcomed By Indian Workers Bombay, Sept. 16. The executive of the all-India antiFascist Trades Union Council, claiming to represent over 150,000 workers, have passed a resolution welcoming the move of the British Trades Union Congress to set up a joint Anglo-Soviet Trades Union Council to intensify
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 53 10 Steamer sailings in September for United States of America For full particulars apply Io SIME, DARBY L.O. LTD. Agents AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD., 21 Beach Street Telephone 1481—2. burns philp LINE (incorporated in Australia) for particulars regarding Freight. Passage, and other information please apply to BOUSTEAD CO.. LTD., zlgeuts Penang
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  • 1737 11 L.L UNITS GO INTO ACTION JLLOWING AIR ATTACK ON PULAU TIKUS AREA All-Malayan Civil Defence Test, in which more than 20,000 workers ol the various units participated, was brought to a close at dawn this mornpjij ope was afforded to every branch of the Civil Defence
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  • 129 11 DISTANCES AND STAKES The Penang Turf Club Autumn meeting will be held on October 18. 22 and 25. Two runs are provided for Classes 2 and 4 Horses and Class 1 Ponies and a provisional third run for Class 4 Horses. The distances and stakes arei— Horses
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  • 212 11 G.C.D.S. Defeated At Hockey The Sepoy Lines Recreation Club easily defeated the Commercial Day School by four goals to nil in a hockey match on the Hutchings School ground yesterday. The S.L.R.C. were the superior side and they showed better combination than their opponents. A.
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  • 554 11 THE Executive Committee of the Indian Hockey Federation has suspended a number of well-known All-India hockey players. The chief item discussed at a meeting held recently was the report of the Bengal Hockey Association on incidents during the last Beighton Cup hockey
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  • 835 11 Remarkable Record Of Smith Brothers I)ETl RNIXG to ih° professional group in the golf Hall of Fame series, I a n sure, that nohcdy wall gainsay that W. Lawson Little, Jr., belongs among the galaxy ol greats, writes A. Linde Fowler in the “Christian Science Monitor.”
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  • 56 11 Greenhall Juveniles vs Govt. Trade School On the G.T.S. ground today at 5.15 p.m. Greenhall Juveniles —Liew Peng Hoe; Surha Singh, Chin Soo; Tit Singh, Tiang Siew, Mansor H. A. B.: Jit Theam, Fui Kam, Naviudar Singh, Jitiudar Singh and Chin Teik. Reserves —Chong Guan. Hooi Eoon and Kong
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  • 323 11 Ran DeadHeat While Unconscious JOCKEY’S AMAZING EXPERIENCE Sydney, Aug. 22. E 1 DELANEY, rider of Return Ticket, was unconscious when his mount dead-heated with Martheus in the Cameron Handicap at Newcastle. He said his mind was a blank from the furlong post until after he had weighed. Delaney’ had to
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  • 80 11 Penang Sports Club I ersus Garrison There will be a rugger match on the Western Road ground this evening at 5.15 between the Penang Sports Club and the Garrison, the following will represent the Sports Club: J. F. KEAY D. M. SEWARD G. H. CONAGHAN A. E.
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  • 131 11 Gate Collections For War Fund The P.F.A. Cup Final, .'e-play between the Police S. C. and the Indian R. C. will be played on the Penang Sports Club ground tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. The whole gross collections of this match will be donated to the War
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  • 103 11 Ipoh. A fine of $l5O in default four months’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed by’ Mr. P. F. Y. Radcliffe, Ipoh First Magistrate, on Monday, on Lew Wah who was brought up i>r sentence, on a charge of possession of eight bottles of intoxicating liquor at Guntong about
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 69 11 nmn b m a-b-bj DIAMOND j- s/fc j jI j I The popularity of "Diamond” Bedsteads has been pre-eniincnl for many years on account of their extreme durability and high standard of finish. IWAMONDMHMPIIOHjnSCF 601 KAMPONG BAHRU ROAD SINGAPORE f j By appointment to W SgllpffiiPlL SILVA is the name
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  • 386 12 On Approval Green Howard Outstanding SCHOOL BOY IN GREAT FORM (Bv “EPSOM JEEP”) Ipoh, Today. fttHE track was in excellent condition this morning and if the weather stays fine, the going for today’s races will be good. Queen’s Star, On Approval, and Green Howard stand
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  • 190 12 Berlin, September ip. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has had all her property seized by the German occupation authori ties in the Netherlands. The order of seizure applies also to all property belonging to living members of the House of Orange Nassau, states a Hague dispatch
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  • 43 12 On the Esplanade tomorrow at. 5.15 p.m. O.X.A. Heng Thuan; Cheng Hoe, Ghim Huat; Danker, Tiang Lok, John; A. Muthu, Jan, C. B. Tan, s. Klondyke, Boh Eye. Reserves: Sinn Htkt, Ramasamy, Boon Choo. Referee: Mr. H.H. Petersen.
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  • 45 12 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 17. TIN: Penang $138.25 Singapore $138.25 RUBBER: Penang Spot 38 s'Bc Singapore Spot 3« 5/8c COPRA: Sundried $2.95 buyers Black Pepper Nominal TAPIOCA: Medium $9.35 sellers Fair Seed $8.40 sellers RICE: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $10.36 Rangoon Parboiled No. 2 9.94
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  • 247 12 -twf Rinivr. BOYM "TIC TAO" «EPSOM JEEP" *MAN-ON-THE “EUREKA” “THE MAJOR" PenaDf Ipoh SPOT” Ipoh K. Lamp arStagapor, r» Queen’s Star Selangor II Queen’s Star Queen’s Star Queen’s Star Queen’s Star RACE 1 Authentic Queen’s Star Authentic Gay Prince Star Lock The Warrior P, r[? o
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  • 402 12 —Reuter. PROMPT AID FOR RUSSIA London, September IS. I Help for Russia forms the subject of j leading articles in several morning papers on Tuesday. “The Times”, after reviewing i the threats to Odessa, Kiev and Leningrad, points out that it is unlikely
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  • 14 12 Output for the first half of September, was 440 piculs.
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  • 12 12 Output for the first half of September, was 236 piculs.
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  • 303 12 —Reuter. IBy Maurice Lovell, Reuter's resident. correspondent). Petrograd, September 17. The fact that Soviet basos continue td control the entrance to the Gulf of Finland is by far the most interesting revelation <rf the overnight Soviet communique. The German attempt to land
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  • 1354 12 ACCEPTANCES FOR TODAY Race 1: Horses Class 4 Div. 4—6 Furs—2.ls p.m. I. 0 0 0 ROYAL BEAU 4y 9.04 ‘‘Bulan Stable” Marland 2 13 1 SELANGOR II 8y 8.13 Messrs. C. Y. Choy C. Y. Chong Hobrs 3. 0 0 0 GAY PRINCE 5y
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 328 12 MUNICIPAL NOTICE The Municipal Commissioners of George Town, Penang, hereby invite separate tenders for the following for one year from the 1st January 1942: —j MARKETS BATHS. 1. Rent of Sungei Pinang Market. 2. Rent of Market Street Bath. 3. Rent of Kampong Kaka Bath. 4. Rent of Chowrasta Bath.
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    • 312 12 (Head Office? Phone 1477 6 ]^o nan Road J Kata M ‘”1 Sunda- c? lna n J hocal Monthly *F-Ms J Quarterly YeariJ eariy I SON I Quarterly J Half-Yearly 950 1 Yearly I 6.00 I advkrtiselSt B4i J The charges i I S^ FIE: minimum of There are aunroxin
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