Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 28 August 1931

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833, PUBLISHED DAILY No. 196. VOL. LXXXIX. FRIDAY, 28th AUGUST, 1931. PRICE 10 CENTS
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      2020 2 TO-EEF Notice of Meeting of the Board a KJTfQ j( of Licensing Justices, Penang. OAIN J Compound House, No. 178, Kelawei f&'B W wy ‘SSE? H- JSraS’wifcg THE mehcmule BMI hmmuimuuu ßMum I Avenue. Entry Ist Augusi 1931. District Court, Pentmg. at 215 p. m. OFIHU, UNITED. CBHPOUTHJH. I H
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      DID JARDINE MAKE A MISTAKE?
      244 3 CAUTION PERSONIFIED England’s Chance in the First Test WHAT a fine chance of a glorious cricket adventure was missed at Lord’s yesterday, wrote a Daily Express” cricket correspondent on July 1. New Zealand declared nt 469 for nine tickets io their second inning?, leaving England
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      First-Class Cricket Averages
      93 3 OTCLIFFE AND LARWOOD ON TOP The following are the leading averages in first cl ie cricket in England: Batting Rune. Av. So'c’iffe (Yorkshire) 2089 94 95 Nswab cf Pa ndi (Oxford) 1328 83.00 P. R Jardine (Surrey) 873 67 15 K. 8. Dolerp’inbji (Snsiex) 2174 58.75 H'ndrei'
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      Tennis "Carneras" in Action
      143 3 LYTTLETON ROGERS BEATS ARGENTINE STAR Twolaun tennis ‘‘Cameras”, G.L, Y4eton Roger? (Ir Lnd). who itard’ 6ft. 8 n., *td R. Boyi (Argentine), bulkier aid r nly an inch or eo shorter, fought at Q een’e Club recently for a place in the L ndon championship semi-finals.
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      £400,000 For U.S. Facecourse
      77 3 A grandstand that will SEAT 12,000 for the construction at M am’, ot ‘he biggest racecourse in the 'ted States have been announced at Kington. course will co»t £4OO CCO to build will hsv? grandstand seating 12,000 p with 300 boxes. A* to he opened for
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      CYCLING BOOM IN BRITAIN
      190 3 AGAIN FASHIONABLE? Turned OuQby the Thousands a PPARENTLY a trade boom Z-% lias been created in the Birmingham area by brisk demand for pedal cycles. Increased orders com? almost wholly from the home marker. The most up to date pedal cycle be acquired by an initial
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      Sporty Pars
      479 3 Miss Fester, who won the King’s Pr’ze at Bielcy last year, was 46th in the ’ast hundred this yea-, eleven points below her last year’s total. XXX Williams, the Everton back, is all right at am, following his ir jury in the WalesIre and fame at Wrexham last
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      Lively Scenes at ’Spurs Meeting
      233 3 OFFICIALS CRITICISED BY THE SHAREHOLDERS That the ehareh lierj of Tottenham Hotspur F.C. are restive over the eteidy decline in the financial fortunes cf the club and the failure to g't back to the First Division was clearly shown at the annua 1 meeting. There
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      P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
      167 3 Results of ties played on Monday Mixed D übles --15 5 M-s Stark and M T P Rule beat —l5 Mr and Mrs E Reimann 6 1, retired. Ladies Doubles —l5 3 Mies R’chardson and Mrs Samuel b-at —2 Mrs F.ddes and Miss Hardwick 6 4, 6
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    Moonlight Band Programme
    98 3 To-night at Esplanade at 8 30 p.m. 1 March Cmtemptibles Stanley 2 Overture Ma inarella Facik 3 "Reminiscences of Offenbach” Riviere Grand Sa ec’ion From the Opsrps cf the late popular Composer, 4 Idyll Blumerg fluster Bion (Tne Wbi“peii'gs of the Flowers.) 5 Two Fjx Trots (a)
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    The Colony’s Biggest Bankruptcy
    2689 6 Sarkies Brothers Affairs < Insight into Local Hotel Management Mr. M. S. Arathoon Examined The investigation into the “biggest bankruptcy the Colony has ever known, to use the words of the Assistant Official Assignee (Mr. E N. Taylor) last week, began in the Bankruptcy Court before
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
    375 6 The new Methodist Episcopal Ohuroh at Lumut will be dedicated by Bishop Edwin F. Lee on Saturday. Mr. E. P. Colgan, A.0.P., Klang, has been transferred to Kua'a Lumpur, and Mr. Mumford, from Kuala Lumpur, succeeds him Mr F. M. Feins, Deputy Collector Land Revenue. Jasin, underwent
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      84 6 (cheaper RECORDS Here is your opportunity to secure “Columbia Records’’ at prices that make them unprecedented value. 10 D. B. Records $l.OO 12 SJ.SO Select yours before the pick of our Special Sale Stock I is disposed of. Robinson Piano Co., Penang. f ,11 Mil 01 *W 7 i J
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    Opening Day of Singapore Gold Cup Meeting
    1324 7 Notes and Selections Will Orient Express Accept in Big Race? Hopaway and Penny Bee Good Things BY TIC-TAG Th rzwnrow will see the opening t)f the Singapore Turf Club Gold Cnp Meeting, a five day meeting which will conehide on September 12. The
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    SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION AT GOLF CLUB
    204 7 DANCE AND PRIZE DISTRIBUTION An enjoyable function was held at the 1 enang Golf lub yesterday evening on the occasion of the distribution of tennis and golf prizes this being wound up by an informal dance. The Nonentities” supplied an e cellent selection of music.
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    Forthcoming Lawn Tennis Match
    114 7 PENANG v PERAK A tennis mUcb between Perak and Penang will be played on aturday and Sunday, September 5 and 6 Tne follow ing players have been selected to represent enang. Singles J. Yeo Wee Yiang 2. Cheah Wnatt Sun 3 Tan Them Seang 4. Cheah
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    Yorkshire and Lancashire Win
    124 7 —Reuter. COUNTY CRICKET London August 27 At Brighton Yorkshire defeated Sussex by nine wickets. Sussex batting first were dismissed for 106 (Verity 6 for 52 and batting a second time were all out for 165. Verity again bowled well taking 7 for 93. Yorkshire made 148
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    Communism in Penang
    208 7 DETECTIVE S SMART ARREST A Chinese named Lau Toh was sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment this morning by the Penang Folice Magistrate on a charge of being a member of an unlawful society, viz., the Malayan Communist Party. Evidence was given by a Chinese clerk at
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    LARGE HAUL OF CHANDU
    91 7 Seizure Valued at $4,110 CARGO FROM CHINA Revenue officers this morning, under Mr. R. L. Pirn, assistant controller, seized a large quantity of Chinese Red Lion chandu on the s. s. Sei tan which arrived from Singapore last night. The haul was removed to the Government
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    Off to Singapore
    107 7 PENANG "BISLEY’ TE\M3 Since Monday quite a lot of Penang volunteers, officers and men. have been leaving for Singapore to take part in the Malaya Command Riffs Meeting which opens there to morrow. Last night two Penang teams, *B” Com pany and a team from, the Eurasian
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    Correspondence
    93 7 A SPORTING GESTURE (To the Editor of the Pmang G.zette' Sir. —Subscriptions are being collected with a view to sending a Malayan Chinese team to participate in the National Athletic Meet at Nanking sometime in October this year. The object of the trip is laudable and should be very
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    Moonlight Band Programme
    321 7 To-morrow at the Esplanade at 8 3 p.m. 1. March The Voice Of The Guns Alford 2. Overture Robespierre." Litolff (An Epi ode in The Reign Of Terror” composed in 1853 for Rob Grispenkerl s Tragedy 'Maxmilian Robespierre This Overture portrays the political unrest in France during
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    APPEAL FROM COLLETOR'S AWARD
    861 7 JUDGMENT RESERVED Site Required for Proposed Aerodrome Judgment was reserved in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon in the matter in which Mohamed Naina Merican, a Penang landowner, appealed against the Collector of Land Revenue’s award in respect of a piece of land in Glugor which the
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    Mother Charges Son
    123 7 ALLEGED MISCHIEF Tell this old lady to speak the truth the next tine she comes here” said the Penang Police Magistrate. Mr E Jago, this morning in dismissing a summons taken out by her against her son Mun for mischief, In the information for summons the old
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    Maintenance Case
    73 7 SETTLED OUT OF COURT The case in which Mrs. Muriel O’Hara sued her husband Mr G M. 0 Hara, late of the Malayan Forest Department, for maintenance was mentioned again in the Penang Police Court this afternoon before Mr. E. Jago. It was stated that a settlement had
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      37 7 Health soon returns when you take Halls Wine THE SUPREME TONIC RESTORATIVE. From all firtt-class Chemists and Wine Merchants an 4 AFRICAN EASTERN (MALAYA), LTD., SINGAPORE PENANG. Wt Proprietors: Stepbon Smith Co. LUI. Bow, London, England. 40
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    IN THE YEAR?
    506 8 Modern science is the Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of our civilisation. On the one hand it is everlastingly endeavouring to prolong human life, while on the other it pursues a perpetual search for new and more efficient measures of destruction, poison gas being an extremely popular
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    FRENCH COLONIAL MINISTER
    120 8 —Reuter. Extended Tour of the Far East this Autumn Paris, August 27 M. Paul Reynaud. Colonial Minister, plans to visit the Far East in the autumn. He wi 1 depart on '•'eptember 11 for Singapore whence he will go to Batavia to study conditions in the Dutch
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    SCHNEIDER TROPHY
    92 8 an I from the Continent—Rugby Radio Service. Rough Weather Again Stops Practice (f. < London, August 27 Owing to rough seas and high winds; the Fritish Schneider team were prevented from making any practice flights at Calshot to day. Arrangements for dealing with transport and other problems in
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    BIG OIL MERGER
    82 8 —Reuter. Standard Companies of New Jersey aod California New York, August 27 A merger at an early date between tbe Standard Oil Companies of New Jersey and California is indicated by tbe respective presidents which will lead to the creation of the largest single industrial enterprise in
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    BY THE WAY
    1173 8  -  A. H. L. Penang, Friday. WITH regard to our remarks in this column yesterday on mosquitoes in Greenlane, or rather that portion of it which forms a junction with Hargreaves-road, swift and commendable action has resulted on the part of the authorities to whom we appealed; and
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    OPPOSITION GATHERING FORCE
    1659 9 -Rugby Radio Service and Reuter. Government Denounced by T.U.C., Miners and Labour Party Inuendo Against Bankers Party Leaders Broadcast Speeches Cancelled Large Sterling Credit The Labour Party and the General Council of the Trade Union Council are jointly responsible for the issue of a manifesto denoune ng
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    $500,000,000 CREDIT FOR BRITAIN
    511 9 —Reuter. New York and Paris Arrangement £’S STABILITY ASSURED New York August 27 According to the N ew York Evening Pest Wall Street bankers headed by J.P. Mor gan 4 Co., have agreed on a new short term credit of at least $3OO 000.000 for the
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    CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF
    115 9 The D 0. X has arrived at New York. A Uruguayan Government Dec increases customs duties on the major, y imports by fifty per cent. When the King’s special tram reach* Ballater Scotland, yesterday morning, d‘= Majesty was loudly cheered by a large crow He drove
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    KIDNAPPED GAMBLER FREE
    45 9 ,—Reuter. Chicago. August 27 *r be gambler Lynch has returned home unharmed. He declared ha blindfolded but was comfortably treated. He denied that any ransom was either paid or promised and be refu 3 ed to give the names of his kidnapptre,—Renter.
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    MANY DEATHS IN PORTUGAL
    210 9 —Reuter, Further Rebel Activities MINISTER IMPRISONED Lisbon, Hugest 27 The casually roll in the revclt is swelling The injo ed number over two hundred. Ihe movement w j s believed to be diminishing late last night but broke out again when civilians ard so’diers barricaded themselves
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    CHINA AND THE LEAGUE
    114 9 Reuter. Medical and Education Experts’ Aid Geneva, August 27 In pursuance of the p an for co-operation between the Chinese Government and the League of Nations Dr. Fajchman, director cf the Health Section of the League Secretariat and Mr. alters the SecretaryGeneral's personal assistant are now
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    GANDHI CHEERFUL
    62 9 Reuter. Miss Slade to Visit ountry She Has Disgraced Simla. ugrst 27 The dispute between the Government and the Congress Working Committee which threatened to prevent Gandhi’s departure big been settled dramatica'ly at the last -»t Gandhi, very cheerful left for route for London accompanied Bombay Gandhi his
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    CONVIETS' SUICIDE
    65 9 —Reuter. Doctor Killed in M n s Escape Attempt Marquette, Michigan August 2/ Three good conduct convicts committed’ suicide after an attempt io escape in which they killed the prison doctor ani wounded a warder. Tne men barricade themselves in a room into which the prison guards flung
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    FRANCO-HUNGARIAN PACT
    42 9 —Reuter. Budapest, August 28 The Franco Hungarian commercial negotiations have concluded The new ment initialled to day provides preferential treatment for Hungarian wheat on the French market, while Hungary grants certain tariff reductions based on the meet favoured nation Cause.-
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    AMY LEAVES JAPAN
    21 9 —Reuter. Osaka, August 28 Amv Johnson, on her homeward journey, left for Seoul at 5, 21. this morniug.
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    Shipping Arrivals and Departures
    1196 10 Port Of Penang Schedule of Principal Lines THE following is a Hat of Tessa Is arriving and sailing from Penang during the IN PORT TO DAY >8 "Je Haan from Langsi, LhoSeumawe, Sigli, Sabang, OaleeLheue, Meulaboh and Th’ang. Saib to-lay for Bela wan-D-li> A cheer Porte,
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    LEADING BROKERS’ SHARE LIST
    105 10 TO-DAY’S PRICES The fo” owing were the latest quotations In MESSRS. KENNEDY Go’s ehan list at 11 ajn. to-day:— Yesterday To day E Sharks >■ a O CD O ca OQ 00 fo. I fl. 10. 10. Mining Hongkonr Tin.. 13 6 14*6 13 9 14
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    Tin Control
    198 10 STRONG COMMENT BY LONDON PAPER London, August 24 “Once again Dutchmen and Bolivians have won aid British and Chinese tin producers in MJaya will be sacrificed for the benefit of Dutch and Bolivian combines/’ Ths is the comment of the "Daily Express” on the International Tin ComoJtiee’s announcement
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    Malaysian Tin
    153 10 SMALLER QUOTA THAN DUE Drought during Jane, Jaly and Augagt of 1930 hampered the operations of the Ma’aysian Tin. end, in cors-qnence, the company has been alloted a emiller quoti than it claims to be its due. The matter is seriour. because the prefi; for the year ended
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    London Metal Markets
    312 10 Mfssre. Wm. Jacks and Or, reported on August 5 as follows: “T lere does not exist a mo-e powerful curative for an over-produced Industry tlao bi unprofitable price for its products, something which keenly touches the pocket book.’’ This will have more effect upon Copper. Tin, Rubbe
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    SINGAPORE PRICES
    144 10 LONDON STANDARD (LOOSE) B.R. Sheet 7i cis. per poa*d =per pl 19/66 Qiiet. London 2j i New York 4 15/16 ots. (goto) (By Courtosy of Messrs. Alton Dsnaps). General Produce Agency Ltd. Singapore Prices for Standard Ribbed Smoked Sheet for to-day ere as follows: Spot 7i eta per
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    TIN AND RUBBER
    59 10 Latest Londoa, New York and Local Prices T/AT: LONDON sptmoo up £i-ioo 3 ff 23 10 0 Up £1 10 0 SINGAPORE 75 pw nori Down 37| c. 150 tons ta RUBBER s Loidon 21 d, Down 1/16 d lew Y irk 415/16 c. (M) Down Ic.
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    Tin Exports and Quotas
    80 10 ADJUSTING MALAYA’S OV3REXPORT We have received the fcllo ving statement from Harrisons. Ba-ker and Co, Ltd., the local tesretariee of the Tin Prodncara’ Association (Incorporated). c 3 w i s 5 S Z 0Q Quotas Mar./ July 21,044 11,673 13.369 3,060 49,146 Exported Mar./ July 24.104
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    Penang Daily Weather Report
    99 10 Temp. Wind Rainfal Saturday 6 a.m» 79 s Noon 92 s nil 5 s Sunday 6 a.m. 76 e Noon 90 s nil 5 p.m. 90 s Monday 6 a.m. 78 e Noon 80 w Imm 5 p.m- 80 n w Tuesday 6 a.m. 78 e
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    PROVINCE WELLESLEY
    58 10 Aug. 30, 13th Sunday after Trinity, 8.30 a m Holy Communion and Addre s Tamil ai St A nn e’s School, Prai. 6pm Evensong and Address at St. Marks Butterworth. Sept. 2, Wednesday Holy Communion 730 a m at St. Mark’s Butterworth. Sept. 3, Thursday, Holy Communion 7-30
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    Stocks Still Mounting
    343 10 This Year’s Consumption and Production With figures avAlahh for from thi principal countries of Dr n tion up te June and with the actual figarei of consumption in the U g ,Oclaethe United Kingdom for six month?, Missn. Symington Smcliir have n r lr 3l estimates of
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    How France Kept The Davis Cup
    1177 11 Britain’s Plucky Bid Cochet Just Too Good For Perry SO France keeps the Cup. By three to two matches she has beaten off Great Britain’s challenge and next year Auteuil will see the fight once more, Franca thoroughly deserves her victory. With two of
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    DEATH RECALLS WAR EPISODE
    661 11 A DELAYED TURN Battle of Jutland Controversy THE death, on July 20 of Rear-Admiral Wilfred Egerton at bis house at Heckfield (Hants) from septic poisoning recalls the controversy, about the sth Battle Squadron, the Fast Battle Squadron,** as it was called at the Battle of Jutland.
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    EXCHANGE
    76 11 Penang, August 28, 1931 By Courtesy of The Charts) ed Bank On London Bark Demand 2/3 U-/1 h 4 m/ta 2/8 7/8 Private 3 m/l® ertdik 2 4 7/32 On 8 h Documentary 2 4 11/32 New York Bank Demauc 56 France T.T. 1.410 India >i T.T. 155| Bangkok
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    FOUND THE JOB HE LOVED.
    521 11 42 YEARS’ SERVICE Hospital Porter Becomes a Governor. MANY poor people who went for treatment to the Essex County Hospital at Colchester on July 20 had a hearty handshake for Mr. A S Lamb, the senior porter, who has just been elected a life governor
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    Boustead and Co., Ltd.
    226 11 RUBBER SALES DEPARTMENT Penang, August 26 The market during tne interval been particularly dull with little business passing, After minor fluctuations, the local Spot price closes f cent per lb. down cn balance whilst London and New York are unchanged on last Wednesday's qa titio is
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    AN AMERICAN FORECAST
    645 11 Ten Big Years are Coming Mr. Charles F. Abbott (Managing Director, American Institute of Steel Construction). writes in Commerce and Fina ci of Nev York: If we could visualise the next five or ten-year period we should u doubtedly witness the greatest period of industrial development in
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    Bukit Katil Rubber.
    183 11 THE LOSS ON YEAR’S WORKING The annual repor. of the Bukit Katil Rubber Estates for present.tiou at the meetir gin Malacca on Sept. 2ad, at noon shows that the net !o s on the year, after deducing depreciation on bu 1 lings etc., am ounted to $9,420.
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    MANCHESTER WEEKLY MARKET REPORT
    365 11 Messrs. James F. Hutton and Co. Limited, Manchester, reported on August 5 as follows: Generally speaking the week has been very quiet and apart from the further increase in the Bank Rate to 4| per cent, little of importance has occurred to check the downward trend
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    FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    74 11 London, August 27 Paris. 123 99 New York, 4.86 3 5 2 Brussels, 34.85; Geneva, 24.97; Ameierdam, 12.05; Milan 92.92; Berlin 20 50; Stockholm 18.16; Copenhagen, 18.17 Oslo, 18.17; Vienna, 34.6; Prague, 164 g; Helsingfors. 1931; Madrid, 53.85 Lisbon, 110; Athens, 375; Bucharest, 517 Rio, 33'2 Buenos Aires,
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    CHINESE INTER-SCHOOL ANNUAL SPORTS
    429 12 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Thirty Schools Competing The Chinese inter-school third annual sports meet started yesterday on the hsp anade when over 600 competitors from 80 schools of Penang, Province Wellesley and the Bindings took part. Twenty eight items which included heats in the events to be run
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    S.A.F.A. Cup Competition
    66 12 R.A. BEFEAT 8 C.O. Grom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, August 28 A i ound S A F -A. Cup replay, the R A wel! beat the S.C.O. by the only goal. Adam coming out instead of remaining m his goal. That was the one mistake in an
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    Volley Ball
    41 12 A match has been fixed to be played on Bunday, August, 80. at 4.30 p. m. on iJq ground between P. H. 0. L., and silver cun to th** Tek will Present a a ivcr cup to the winners.
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    PENANG F.A. CUP TIE
    228 12 Darul Aishan “B” Defeat Sepoy Lines D. A. F. C. 5 "B” SEPOY LINES 0 The Sepoy Lines football team was no match for the B. A. F. 0. “B” when they met on the Chinese Recreation Club ground yesterday afternoon in a Penang F. A.
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    The Long Sitting Record
    62 12 The longest continuous sitting of the House of Commons took place in 1881. The House met at 8.45 in the afternoon of Monday, January 81, and continued until 9.30 on the following Wednesday morning—nearly 42 hours. Last year the House sat continu ously from 2 45
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    DUKE STREET AMOK PRONOUNCED INSANE
    361 12 MEDICAL EVIDENCE Suffering from Melancholia and Delusions Murugesan, the Indian, who ran amok in Duke Street on July 11, and who is charged with the murder of a man named Mohamed Mustaffa and with causing grievous hurt to another, was yesterday produced before Mr. Edward
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    Cheaper Doctors and Lawyers
    90 12 Bombay, August 8 In self-governing India, if Mr. Gandhi has his way, doctors who now receive a guinea for a visit will get only a farthing, and barristers now receiving over 1,400 guineas will have to be content with 2s. 6d. "Once doctors and lawyers are
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      74 12 ’p j77")ivi? otiA fn'e ■> Best Sound /HOSE 264 SoLNt> %^Jp YSTtfb! ga- in Town. OPENING TO-NIGHT 6-15 and 9-30 The World’s Funniest Women Marie Dressier, Polly Moran IN REDUCING Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture ALSO A Oogville Comedy ‘‘BIG DOG HOUSE" Plans at MOUTRIE’S Phone 795 Thursday, 27th Sunday, 30th Show Starts
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      MUSIC INSTEAD OF BRIDGE
      282 13 TIRED OF YARNS U.S. Women Want Old English Evenings PROMINENT New York women are sponsoring a movement which they hope will recreate the days of Queen Elizabeth, when music was the evening’s amusement in every home. Mrs. Charles Mitchell, wife of th? m Hioaaire tanker, has
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      Shells 152-And the Thanks a Potato
      162 13 TEE SLDE3P WOMAN’3 SEJRET FOR LONG LIFE Mdme. Slavka Mitova, who is 152 ye art oil, claims to be the world’s oldest woiai Shnivtu in humble circumstances in the Bulgarian va.aga of Dschassrli, ma' Varna, sad gives a l the credit for her long
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      Ever White Flannels
      131 13 A NEW INVENTION FOR BLEACHING WOOL A naw procsss for bleaching wool fabrics es that they rataia their whiteness psrmaneu.ly has, it is claimed, been perfected in Leeds, FhnnJhanl tennis ba’l covers made from fab. .a treated by the process w*H, it h claimed, re.am their original
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      "Joke" That Exploded
      103 13 PLAN TO SCARE FRIENDS COSTS A MAN AN ARM A practical j her at Orsay, near Paris decided to scare his coll axues of the local town, baud, of which he va3 a leading member, as they came nto the Town Hall, to tract sa. His id;
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      POLICE SPIES IN UNDERWORLD
      356 13 A “YARD” INQUIRY Information Paid for in Public Interest A thorough investigation is to be made by senior officers at Scotland Yard into the question of the police employment of spies, and the methods adopted for payment of men and women known colloquially as “stoolpigeons.” Mr.
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      The Trains Kept Him Awake
      144 13 SO HE BOMBED A STATION A wealthy apartment-house owner, wh'», the police sa’, has carrie 1 on a feud with the Chicago Rapid Transit Company because the roar of its overhead bans disturbs his sleep, has been arrested in connection with a plot to bomb
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      A Dog That Has A Tale
      147 13 WHY lIS OWNER LEAVES IT AT HOME NOW There is a Naw York stockbroker with a breaking heart. Ha has overcoms lots ©f troubl es in a fairly adventurous life, but nothing has been quite so bad as the trouble he has now. In
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      "Depraved" Few York
      115 13 Sweeping charges of depravity are ma le by a unofficial committee of 14 persons which has b«en investigating moral conditions in New Y irk during the past 25 years and has juat completed its report. The committee asserts that vice conditions a-e low the werst fcr any
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      Baby’s 5 a.m. Trunk Call
      116 13 FIVE OPERATORS SUMMONED FROM BED Worried because he hca*d his sister w:s ill, five-ytar-old John Glover, staying with bis grandparents in Prestatyn, North Wales, clambered out of bed at five a.m. and, quite unaided, put through a trunk call to his home in London. At
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    PERKIN COMES TO TOWN
    491 13 FLABBERGASTING” His First Glimpse of London at 93 MR. John Perkin, at the age of 93, has just arrived from bis Cornish home to have a look at London for the very fi r st time in his life! Mr. Perkin in or e of the
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    BOOKIES AND A SWINDLE
    542 14 WIRES THAT ARE CANCELLED They Think the G. P. 0. Ought to do Something Bookmakers consider that they have a grievance with the Post Office authorities over the way in which they are swindled by certain backe-s who telegraph their bets. The bookmskpre think tl st
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    Girl Marder Suspect
    120 14 BEAUTIFUL F-USSIAN SURPRISES PARIS POLCE According to the l a-is police, a beantifol Russian Bouden*, who gave the name of O ga Romanoff, and said she w s ftndy. ing at the Sarbonne, h’a made a conf ssion to murder of Peter a f >rmer lieutenant in
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    On the Scent
    74 14 TOO-GOOD DISGUISE OF A DETECTIVE Two hundred detect?yes |r* Peking hive been successful in passing te#s in disguising themselves imposed by General Pao Yu lin. Commissioner of Pub.ic Safety, as pedlars, ws*er-carriers, peasants and even as working women, they ■ucceeded in patrair g the scrutiny of other
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    MARKET PRICES
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