Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 October 1932

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE gSTABUSHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY No. 253. Vol. LXXXX. WEDNESDAY. 26th OCTOBER. 1932. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 477 1 —Reuter. OF OPINION WITH GOVERNMENT action to restore freedom of trade gj.i ATERAL NEGOTIATIONS WILL MAKE LITTLE IMPRESSION WOGRESS TOWARDS LOWER TARIFFS RETARDED BY GOVERNMENT POLICY London, Yesterday. Owing to difference of opinion with Government, Sir Walter Layton ha. resigned from the Preparatory Committee
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  • 106 1 F‘ ance To Follow British Intention Paris, October 21. ktk? M 1 f llOW the re P° rted British j the p regards 1116 Payment of debts Fenced d StateS the Finance Minister F e,n l*r b av T d y She wiU ma ke the Wl« c
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  • 304 1 and had begun production.—Rugby Radio Service. GREAT DECLINES IN U. S., FRANCE AND GERMANY Britain Unscathed Since December Rugby, Yesterday. The Prime Minister, replying to a Commons question to-day, said Government’s policy would continue to be to provide in every way in their power conditions required for
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  • 212 1 Decline Attributed To Seasonal Influences Rugby, Yesterday. After a further decline to 3.28 dollars sterling on New’ York recovered to-day to 3.30%. The low price of the pound is attributed in city circles here to influences of a seasonal character which are naturally more marked since the departure from
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  • 100 1 Rugby Radio Service. Representations To French Government Object Achieved Rugby, Yesterday. Questioned in the Commons regarding negotiations with France and Germany on restrictions imposed upon imported B “tish coal in those countries, Mr. Walter Runciman said representations made to the French Government were directed towards securing that the
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  • 82 1 Reuter Wireless. Vienna, October 21. The hurtling of an inkpot was used to enforce arguments at a stormy sitting of the assembly over the recent rioting in the factory quarter at Bernmering when three people were killed and ten seriously injured. The social democrat leader, Herr Hauer
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  • 165 1 .—Reuter Wireless, Mr. Mellon on U. S. Tariffs and Ottawa London, Oct. 20. The real question to be decided at the coming United States’ Presidential election was that of leadership, declared Mr. Mellon, the American Ambassador, when addressing the English-speaking Union at Manchester to-day. He said it was
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  • 202 1 .—Reuter. MINOR ALTERATIONS SUGGESTED AWAITING REPLY London, Yesterday. Proposals for the regulation of tea exports submitted by producers of Java and Sumatra were considered by the Committees of Indian Tea and the Ceylon and South Indian Associations in London which suggested minor alterations. They are now waiting
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  • 40 1 Reuter Wireless. Berlin, October 21. “Relations of mutual trust between Germany and Britain are essential for Germany’s future,” Herr Hitler emphatically declared when replying to several speeches made by Herr Von Papen, in which he criticised the Nazis.—
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  • 141 1 .—Reuter Wireless. Rev. Davidson Brings Scandal To Church and His Holy Order London, Oct. 21. The Reverend Harold Francis Davidson, Rector of Stiffkey, was deposed and degraded and stripped of ecclesiastical promotions, benefits and emoluments amid remarkable scenes in Norwich Cathedral. The tiny fourteenth century Bauchum Chapel
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  • 64 1 .—Reuter. Two Men Charged With Mail Bag Robbery London, Y esterday. Two men were charged with mail bagrobbery at Euston Station involving £6,000 in registered packages. The police combed London last week and numerous pound notes from the bag were found in a chimney in one of the
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    • 19 1 I NOTICE M r T. NAGATA, Dentist, has come back from leave, an d attending from Monday, 24th Oct.
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    • 71 1 LONDON LETTER FOR WOMEN Page 6 BUY BRITISH AND BE PROUD OF IT 2MORRIS COWLEY SALOON 30 k 1932 MODEL MILES PER PRICE GALLON. 9 IS WITH SLIDING HEAD /[j| FEATURES:—New Radiator and wide “Eddyfree” body Hydraulic Brakes Safety Rear Tank Low frame, improved clearance, longer springs—Air-filter and preheater—Magna type
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    • 2119 2 SATES FOR CASUAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY Municipality Of George BANKS, ADVERTISEMENTS Town Penan 9- ape |J 7^u The Exchonge Banks t h B Spot Nederlandsche Hande! Hongkonc QnJ Conservancy Superintendent > TcHpm9 S J P UI M V CL i -Ml communications relating to w j|| close On Friday. Applications are
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  • 299 3 offered FREE for I 21 YEARS If Tenant Will Finish Building It have covered a mystery house that L, has taken, despite the offer of free t it stands on a hill-top, looking down the old-world village of South Wam-| 'Broufh, between Alton and Odiham, on main
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  • 255 3 A Profit Of $101,902 Last Year directors of the Singapore Cold ■rage Co.. Ltd., in their report for the ll vi mon'hs ended June 30th, 1932 state fe the Profit for the year amounted to fc1.902 97, to which must be added Jount brought forward from last
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  • 127 3 A N AUSTRALIAN RESIGNATION disagreement with CABINET’S TARIFF POLICY pt deral J E Fe nton, the M. Mr j er ener al, has been acthat he S’’ the Prime Minister, Nation on th accepted Mr. Fenton’s e ®ent with thA?°i^ d f “K enera l disw J th C t
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  • 324 3 “SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN” AT THE “TROC” AS IT WAS 36 YEARS AGO London, Oct. 12 The book of time was turned back 36 years at the Trocadero Restaurant. It was “Memories Night”—just 36 years since the “Troc” was opened as a restaurant on the ground
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  • 229 3 40 SQUARE MILES RESERVED FOR PROSPECTORS Harbour Grace, October 7. (Newfoundland), Friday. The first adventurers in a gold rush to a new Klondyke are daring death in an effort to stake claims to vast fortunes. They are slipping away into the vast wilderness of
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  • 110 3 CURE OF AIR CHIEF AFTER HOPE WAS ABANDONED Sydney, October 11. A brilliantly successful operation has given Australia’s Air chief every prospect of returning to his normal duties a fit man. Col. Brinsmead, Controller of Civil Aviation, w r as seriously injured in the Dutch Air mail
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    • 288 3 o B t wliiii C c tfosca *****1 n 111, 11 ne /i 1 I The Fragrance is not the Perfume’s r it is Yours! If they compliment your perfume, it has only half succeeded! Change j* > to "47ir Tosca and they will compliment you. For a perfume should
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  • 783 4 DRUGS GIVEN TO 94-YEAR-OLD VEGETARIAN WIDOW PROTESTS “HE WAS GETTING YOUNGER EVERY DAY” The widow of a 94-year-old man, who died in hospital, accused the authorities of “malpractice” at a St. Pancras inquest. The man, Alfred Benbow Westrup, of Gower-street, W.C., died in St. Pancras Hospital
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  • 719 4 Mr. S. I. M. Alsagoff has returned to Singapore after a holiday in Europe. Mr. C. Carless, Locomotive Foreman, F.M.S. Railways, has been granted nine months’ leave. Captain C. T. M. Husband, Superintendent, Survey Department, has been granted eight months’ leave. Mr. G. T. Holford, Warden of
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  • 1280 5 CHINESE RED ARMY BOOKLETS CAPTURED c by detectives TWO MEN AND A GIRL IN COURT Motives who spent an all-night vigil in a house in Kim Ot t IC <l with success and arrests were made. As a Kiat Road were c.w.n* men and a girl,
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  • 134 5 AUTUMN MEETING ll Scratchings For To-day i The following are the scratchings for to-day’s races at Ipoh Race 1 Timbang. Race 3 Benaroon and Koroki. Race 4 Sleeping Beauty, Tambour Battant and Boy Charlton. Race 5 La Gai and Rio Rita. Race 6 Short Suit, Senlac and
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  • 507 5 Visitors’ Brilliant Display OBJECT LESSON TO PENANG FOOTBALLERS Although handicapped by a waterlogged ground and the rain which fell incessantly the Burmese XI outclassed Penang in their match on the S. X. I. ground yesterday to win their first game by the wide margin of five
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    • 134 5 OPEN AMATEUR BOXING AT WEMBLEY ON Thursday, 27th Oct. 1932 AT 9.30 P.M. (In Aid Of The Health Strength Union’s Improvement Fund.) The Health and Strength Union VERSUS The Rest (Prizes Will Be Awarded) (Rules Adopted—Amateur Boxing Association of England) Entries from “THE REST” to be sent AT ONCE to:—
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    • 200 5 This is the registered number of a really new and attractive design j employed in a very pretty and fascinating manner for table covers f and four piece duchesse sets. Made of British Cotton and the colours 1 are guaranteed fast to washing. In j four delightful shades. CD 1
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  • 2372 6 WOMAN DOCTOR’S GREAT WAR WORK: FIRST WOMAN AS MUSEUM GUIDE: FAMOUS CLUB ADMITS WOMEN: EVENING GOWNS OF LEATHER (From Our Own Correspondent) London, October 12. QUEEN’S SHOPPING EXPEDITIONS The Queen’s private motor car may be seen in the West End on most days that her
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  • 202 6 MISS SYDNEY AND HER CRICKET KIT Miss Sydney is divided against herself, and Miss Sydney’s boy friends and girl friends are fiercely taking sides. It is all over clothes—cricket kit to be exact—and even this, or the most favoured garment of it, is divided. In other words, one
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  • 233 6 DEFICIT REDUCED SUCCESS OF PREMIERS’ PLAN Adelaide, October 6. Mr. Hill, the Premier of South Australia, in his Budget speech to-day, said that corlditions were generally better but still difficult. There was now striking evidence almost daily how the Premiers’ Plan had saved Australia and was restoring
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  • 175 6 Great interest appears to have been aroused in Australia by the reported discovery of a new gold field. The area is about 70 miles from Tahami in North West Australia. Several prospecting companies have been formed, and others are being floated. According to an expert report the
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  • 124 6 ARRIVING WITH MISS CLEMENTI ON THE RANPURA A cable was received at Government House on Sunday stating that Lady Clementi and Miss Cicely Clementi will be returning to Singapore on the Ranpura, the P. and O. steamer which is bringing Sir Samuel Wilson to Malaya. The Ranpura is
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  • 134 6 “The moving picture theatre is a place where one can sit down and leave one’s brains in the cloakroom,” said Mr. St. John Ervine, speaking at a recent meeting at Exeter in support of the Actors’ Church Union. “Many provincial towns and cities,” he said, “had
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    • 23 6 It is a long lane that has no turning. An advertisement in the Pinang Gazette will help to pull you through dull times»
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    • 197 6 o. J 1 L 0 «it* 1 OF FRESHNESS EVERY TIN OBTAINABLE AT ALL CHEMISTS and HIGH CLASS STORES SOLE AGENTS FOR MALAYA ISfe (1929) M BISHOP STREET, PENANG Tel. 398. dy- I J BHBBBBBB > S r B B a ß »<V| l £3B» I < R v th
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  • 2323 7 COMMISSION REPORT: THE FREE F LY e AND THE CROWN: LORD FASSFIELD Pon RUSSIA: A NEW SOCIALIST LEAGUE K r own Correspondent) London, Oct. 8 thE ,.TTAWA AGREEMENTS I -■•nbles, it will nth to complete the sessions f r 7-o implement the Ottawa agreeM" 11 a3
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  • 210 7 SIR JOHN SIMON AND MINISTER’S TASK MANY KICKS AND LITTLE CREDIT Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, speaking at the Cheshire Cheese, Fleetstreet, E.C., on October 11 said “The influence of this country in the councils of the world, for good or evil, I believe is greater to-day
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  • 546 7 ONE CUBIC FOOT PER MINUTE Dr. H. A. des Voeux, in his presidential address at the fourth conference of the National Smoke Abatement Society at Newcastle-on-Tyne drew attention to some dangers caused by carbon monoxide from the exhausts of motor-cars. “It is not generally known,”
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  • 91 7 DECLINE OF £69,836,000 DURING PAST YEAR The estimated value of production in Australia for the year 1930-31 amounted to £319,701,000, compared with £389,537,000 for the previous year, according to a statement issued by the Commonwealth statistician. Except in the case of gold and tin, the production of minerals
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  • 129 7 ELOPEMENT ACROSS AUSTRALIA Darwin, North Australia, is a cosmopolitan town, and provides some cosmopolitian romances. “Flower of the East,” a Chinese girl, is the heroine of the latest romance, which involved an elopement by air across half Australia (says a British United Press message). Following the custom
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  • 435 7 BURNED DOOR AND LANDING AS COURT EXHIBITS When Reginald Edward Curtis, licensee of the Vintners’ Arms, North-street, Guildford, Surrey, again appeared at Guildford Borough Police Court’ on a summons alleging that he set fire to his house, a scorched door, part of the landing and a
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    • 105 7 a" 1 B WHAT'S WHATi AT THE “SAG BAkk” ON I SATURDAY. THE sth NOVEMBER. riTT- SEE SONIA" and her SEVEN SINUOUS SYLPHS I (SO SWEET) MEET "MADAME MANABOLEH" 7 THE MYSTERIOUS FORTUNE TELLER (ASK HER ABOUT DECENTRALISATION) j SAMPLE "SAM SMALL'S" SAUSAGE STALL j (EH, LASS, DOST WANT A
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  • 960 8 Next month the third Round Table Conference on India will be held in the House of Lords, and, presumably, another move in the game of giving away the Empire will be made. Idealists and visionaries will meet in solemn conclave to discuss the shaping of India's
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  • 294 8 Children’s taste in literature was the subject of discussion at the recent Library Association’s conference in Bournemouth. The most interesting evidence was furnished by Mr. E. Osborne, the Derbyshire County Librarian, who gave the results of a questionnaire which had been sent to some twelve hundred elementary school
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  • 1499 8 The Work Of The Lightships The enormous volume of shipping which enters and leaves the Thames is safeguarded by a series of lights around the estuary. Where there is no firm land for the building of lighthouses, dangerous shoals and sandbanks are marked by lightships or
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  • 753 8 A HEBREW WlR El 7>\| station s The only Hebrew bC n the air UU» month l '>| Aviv Palestine Sta ion Three months ago th e >-■ held and a band of enthl %B amateurs ran a small k| first broadcasting n rO r ra trans
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    • 234 8 Grand Novelty Fooiboli I I Competition I in aid of st. Nicholas’ Home St. Xavier's Ground, Saturday, Oct. 29, 4 P.M. to 6.15 P.M. Six-a-Side Football Tournament to be played between P.C.C. P.R.C. C.R.C. D.A.F.C. M.A.F.C. P.W.F.A. S.X.R.C. POLICE (ADMISSION: i $l.OO, 50 cfs. 20 cfs. I yj 77m space
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    • 18 8 E. O. HOTEL. SPECIAL DINNER AND DANCE. TO-NIGHT Dance Music By the Band of the S.S. “PRESIDENT POLK”
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  • 262 9 Kd ought not to be abolished.—Rugby i Service. K 0 CLEAN SWEEP OF MEANS TEST labour CRITICISM Rugbv, Yesterday. When the Labour Party moL of eensure on the Govern|ltn.as moved in the Commons the Opposition Leader, L j ansbury, criticised the ecoLies effected in social services L
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  • 115 9 HI A -vr:can millionaires Reuter Wire- ■rench Nobleman’s Career Of I Waste I Paris, October 20. ■Marquis Boni de Castellene, a modern i-bnimmel, has died. He had been one the most conspicuous figures in French ■ciety since his marriage in 1895 with Gould, an American heiress, after
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  • 61 9 lespe JReuter Wireless. ■xtension Till March Agreed I To By u. S. Washington, October 21 untiKi fl has agreed to extenwn« J’ Qf the arms truce Kr. Offir- Ue ex P’ re On November 1 Kn is intpL q uarters ex Plain the extenan g J ve the
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  • 81 9 .—Reuter. F” Pr< “lucers Willing To Reduce Price Limit I London, Yesterday. Eondent* l^^. 1 Times Amsterdam CorreEers hav/ 8 the Java Sugar Prok to re<lur- an ?l oUnCed that they are Kats inton i price limit for superior I' lX ,Or ,he west o' BriE«i sugar mpet
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  • 82 9 Monarchist Candidate Or The Throne phe deleo Lisbon, October 19. c hose n Hi s n ß m °narchist cause Nuno, Duk?° y f al Hi hnesa Dom U ia /l ßra^ce sucPrince (h A k ng Ma noel. The L' 1907) hL 18 born on 016 23rd
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  • 172 9 —Rugby Radio Service. FLOWN BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS MACHINES ANNUAL MEETING Rugby, Yesterday. At the general meeting of Imperial Airways to-day, it was stated that during the year under review, Imperial Airways craft had flown 1,722,000 miles, compared with 1,296,000 miles in the previous year. The company
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  • 122 9 early legislation to rectify matters. —Reuter Wireless. No Proper Treatment For Poor Despite Sweepstakes Dublin, Oct. 21. In spite of the huge sums derived from the Irish sweepstakes, the hospitals in the Free State are not giving proper treatment to very poor people according to complaints in the
    early legislation to rectify matters.—Reuter Wireless.  -  122 words
  • 105 9 ton, now employ thousands. —Reuter Wireless. End Of Italy’s “Rubber King Milan, Oct. 21. A romance of industry 7 has been brought to a close by the death at the age of 84 of Senator Giovanni Pirelli, founder of the great rubber tyre and electrical cable factories. Pirelli
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  • 90 9 —Reuter Wireless. Claim By French Company Rejected London, October 21. A claim by a French company for a share of the gold recovered from the wrecked steamer Egypt has been rejected by the High Court. The owners of three French trawlers as plaintiffs argued that it was through
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  • 79 9 —Reuter. President’s Action Held To Be No Violation of Constitution Berlin, Yesterday. The constitutional legality of President Hindenburg’s decree appointing Herr Von Papen State Commissioner of Prussia and authorising him temporarily to depose Prussian Ministers was held to be no violation of the constitution by the Supreme
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  • 30 9 I. —Reuter. Italian Boat Secures Blue Riband of Atlantic Gibraltar, Yesterday. Rex has established a new trans-Atlantic record. She arrived here from New York in five days, seven hours.
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  • 104 9 Manchukuo Government Pays Bulk of Ransom Mukden, October 21. The bulk of the ransom paid for the relase of Mrs. Pawley and Mr. Corkran to the Chinese bandits was paid by the Manchukuo Government, it was revealed to-day (Friday). The Government paid 95,000 yen while the relatives of
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  • 156 9 Stirring Words By French Prime Minister Paris, October 19. Speaking at a banquet given by the syndicate of the local dailies, M. Herriot stressed the difficulties of the statesman’s task in the present difficult circumstances, particularly in foreign policy. “We are,” said, “at the very moment when claims
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  • 108 9 Bird of 111-Omen Not Wanted In Belgium Brussels, October 19. The international adventurer Trebitch Lincoln, who at present has adopted the mask of a Buddhist monk, Chao Kung, was arrested here on his arrival from Berlin, where he had created a passing sensation, being finally compelled to flee
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  • 75 9 .—Reuter. Ex-French Finance Minister’s Views Vienna, Yesterday. The restoration of silver as a currency was urged by M. Caillaux, the French exFinance Minister, in an address on the world crisis before the Austrian League Culture. Millions in India and China, he declared, who lacked gold had been lost
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  • 69 9 .—Reuter. Japan To Submit a New Scheme Tokyo, Yesterday. It is learned from an official source that Government has sanctioned a new set of proposals for naval reduction the nature of which is not revealed. It is understood they neither reject nor accept the Hoover and Baldwin proposals
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  • 55 9 Ex-Congress Official Murdered Bombay, October 19. The former President of the All-India Congress, Mr. Datta, has been assassinated by unknown persons near Khulnas. Mr. Datta had been frequently accused of being in the pay of the British police and it is believed that the unknown assassins were prompted
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  • 41 9 University Students in Riots Vienna, October 21. Fresh riots occurred in the quadrangle of Vienna University when it re-opened on Thursday after several days’ closure. The police intervened. The authorities have closed the University library for an indefinite period.
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  • 222 9 Jumps Into Sea and Later Tries Strangulation Quite a commotion was created yesterday on the Church Street Ghaut Pier when a Chinese was seen to rush in and running right along the Pier make a dive into the sea. A large crowd gathered and as
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  • 96 9 the girl and then committed suicide. —Reuter Wireless. Early Morning Shock For Duchess’ Housekeeper London, Oct. 20. A murder drama in a deserted mansion in Grosvenor Square belonging to Suzanne, Duchess of Somerset, was revealed when the housekeeper arrived this morning and found the housemaid employed by the
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  • 93 9 Labour Party Support For Mr. de Valera Dublin, Oct. 19. A strong reason to believe that de Valera will strike another blow in the Anglo-Irish economic war was conveyed in a speech in the Dail to-night. His position has been strengthened by an agreement reached with the
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  • 68 9 The German Governments Help Berlin, October 19. In order to alleviate the distress amongst unemployed and war veterans resulting from the paring down of doles and pensions, the Government has established a special fund of 80,000,000 Marks from which during the winter months additional sums varying between two
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  • 51 9 Another Conversion Scheme Amsterdam, October 18. The Netherland Government is elaborating a scheme for a conversion loan at the rate of 4 per cent., the proceeds to be used for the conversion, of existing loans bearing a higher rate of interest. The total would run to 1,055 million
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  • 25 9 Slight Reduction in September Berlin, October 21. The floating debt of the Reich during September was reduced from 1.903 to 1.757 milliard Marks.
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  • 27 9 .—Reuter. Mr. George Lansbury Elected Leader London, Yesterday. Mr. George Lansbury has been elected Leader of the Labour Party as successor to Mr. Arthur Henderson.
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  • 98 9 FlN—Spot YESTERDAY. TO-DAY. I London £152-0-0 £153-0-0 TIN (3 Months; London £152-5-0 £153-5-0 Singapore $78.00 $78.00 Business Done J Penang $77.87 V 2 $77.95 Business Done Buyers—No sellers. Buyers —No sellers. COPRA (Sundried) $5.75 $5.75 BLACK PEPPER $21.25 $21.50 RUBBER London New York 3% (G) Singapore 71/ cts
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    • 363 9 (PENANG HILLS 2,250 FT. ABOVE SEA LEVEL) SPECIAL TIFFIN ON SUNDAYS COOL COMMODIOUS DINING ROOM WITH LOUNGES NEWLY COMPLETED TENNIS, BILLIARDS AND EXCELLENT WALKS. MODERN SANITATION (throughout) FROM SEPTEMBER Ist. Board Lodging one person per day $7.00 Saturday 4 p.m. to Monday 10 a.m. $10.50 inclusive. REDUCED RATES FOR FORTNIGHTLY
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  • 320 10 SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN MADRID HOTEL FOUND CLASPING PHOTO OF DIPLOMAT London, Oct. 20 Holding in her hands an English novel to which was pinned the photograph of a Spanish diplomat, a beautiful 23-year-old English girl, Miss Gloria Hopfield, was found in her room at the Hotel Majestic,
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  • 269 10 Canberra. Official circles here have been stirred by a report that Japan contemplates negotiations for the purchase of the Portuguese section of the island of Timor, in the Malay Archipelago, which is only 400 miles from the north coast of Australia. The strictest secrecy is
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  • 236 10 Mr. Antonio de Navarro, who, 42 years ago, persuaded the most beautiful actress in the world, the one and only Mary Anderson, to marry him and retire from the stage at the early age of 29, has died at his home, The Court Farm, Broadway,
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  • 756 10 NOVEL COLOUR SCHEMES PLANS FOR NEXT BRITISH TEXTILES EXHIBITION Many additional artists have been engaged by British textile manufacturers to produce new fabric designs for the British Textiles ExhibFon which will be held at the White City from February 20 to March 3, 1933. The public taste
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  • 367 11 roTENTATES l :R henry hadow and I economy I Hadow, when he opened six Barhing, seated the t P° tentate wb °r at K prize P vine f inst education. Educa■ot nothing a ai Uose who cannot Kn is ah very wen E on without a
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  • 363 11 I RIDDLE OF WOMAN’S DEATH LEFT UNSOLVED I Miss Harriett Emily Warren, matron of n oangham-street IV.. nursing home, told l« c she had destroyed a dilapidated repater of patient' since the recent death of b woman during r.n operation. This statement was made at the
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  • 560 11 AN AUSTRALIAN’S VIEW OPENING A WIDER DOOR TO EMPIRE TRADE Trade between Sheffield and Australia should improve as the result of a visit to Sheffield, of Mr. James L. Moore, of Melbourne, one of the leading business men of Australia. In the afternoon, Mr, Moore
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  • 75 11 SYDNEY STARTS A NEW FASHION Sydney is going all chromatic. Green roads, red streets, blue avenues, buff boulevards—all these are possibilities now’ that a start has been made with half a mile of footpath in the fashionable district of Point Piper which has been coloured green, says an
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  • 94 11 A few years ago, houses were being moved bodily away from Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia originally made famous by the “Golden Mile,” because It was thought that the rich ores there had been worked out. Fresh discoveries and new ore treatments accelerated by world depression have, however,
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  • 402 11 —IS EVERY WOMAN WITH A FASHIONABLE FIGURE THOSE BLASE LOOKING DRESS MODELS Modern women are nearer the perfection of Venus than ever they were before. This is the view of experts who were consulted by an “Evening Standard” representative on the declaration of a doctor in the
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  • 176 11 AUSTRALIANS’ HUGE APPETITE FOR ORANGES Children, yes, and grown-ups, too Orange juice is good for you. That was w’hat Mr. H. W. Clapp- Chairman of the Victorian Railways (Australia), thought seven or eight years ago. So he had the couplet posted up in large letters on railway
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  • 72 11 UNEMPLOYED MAN’S FIND A gold nugget, weighing more than 36 oz. and valued at £lBO has just been found by a man who had been unemployed for two years, at Wedderburn, in Victoria, states Austral News. It was at a dep f h of 11 feet, together
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  • 82 11 An interesting relic of the pre-motor days of the keen intercolonial rivalry of saddles has been unearthed in Melbourne in the shape of a perfectly balanced stockwhip, 108 feet long, says Austral News. Made by a famous Melbourne saddler, Abraham Brooks, it is the longest in the world.
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    • 248 11 I I BULLFINCH I BUTTER FOR I j PURITY I I A i s (o yhfe I 1 I" I I lIH I; The Sutter for Everybody I SOLE AGENTS: j Henry ’W'atagK 00., j PENANG j SINGAPORE, IPOH KUALA LUMPUR. Pepsodent announces a notable new discovery —an entirely new
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  • 1294 12 CAN RUBBER PRODUCTION BE ORGANIZED TO PLAN? The Ottawa Conference, whatever other benefits it may produce, has given some hope to those producers of basic raw materials who believe that organised planning will be the only means to a permanent organisation of production. Mr.
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  • 633 12 FINANCIAL STRENGTH WARRANTS MAINTENANCE OF PREFERENCE DIVIDEND Seventy-five years ago, when the Borneo Co., Ltd., was formed, there was practically no colonial demarcation in the East Indies and doubtless this explains the wide field over which the company has spread its interests. Often in the form of
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  • 996 12 FAVOURABLE RESULTS IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES: SATISFACTORY FINANCIAL POSITION The old established Eastern merchanting business of Harrisons and Crosfield, Ltd., achieved its present magnitude by reason of an intimate association with the development of the tea and rubber producing industries. In India, Ceylor£ Malaya and the Dutch
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  • 540 12 TANDJONG RUBBER.—Accounts of Tandjong Rubber Co. to 30th June show ne t loss for year, including £5,063 loss on exchange, of £10,351 (agst. loss of £16.58u). Credit forward reduced to £21,139. Reduced crop was 1,468,636 lbs; net sale nrice including estimated value of unsold portion, 2,25 d. (agst.
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  • 156 12 —"Financial Times.” FALL IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES Amsterdam, October 9. The eleventh report on the Dutch Indies native rubber industry covering the second quarter of 1932, just issued, shows the following figures of native dry rubber exports (in tons): 1932 1931 1930 First quarter 15,942 23,160
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  • 172 12 UNITED SUA BETONG DECISION The directors of the United Sua Betong Rubber Estates have decided to call up the outstanding balance on the partly-paid shares. These shares of £1 each were issued in June, 1926, at £2 per share premium. At present 16s. Bd. per share is
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 41 12 When you are Tired w /sANATOCEnA B 71U Tfw I 1 i Al KUa, f W MMB M*M I mMm towa at «vwy > W. «hmh. ia Bm Ba a th»«aaa4 WHAT LONDON IS DOING READ CHARLES ROBERTS in the SUNDAY GAZETTE.
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    • 42 12 digestion i OUT.OF. order! A COURIE Of promotes SOUND DIGESTION AND SOON PUTS YOU RWSHT IN EXCHAN For 200 used Stan r tnents, Malay States, Kong, Java, and the suit tries wid gn<Picture Post Of English Scenery from MISS TEE Stockwell, I-''"
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous

  • 730 13 Schedule of Principal Lines er iq a list Of vessels arriving jN PORT TO-DAY r m Paneh and Asahan. Sails Monday (31St) zaothKA MARU from Japan. Sails and Calcutta. AR from Tg. Mengeidar, Bagan E “tnHIW*. Berombang and Asahan Sesame ports— to-day. S K from Batoe
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  • 372 13 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26. Perak Turf Club Autumn Meeting, Ipoh Second Day. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. Deepavali: Public and Bank Holiday. SATURDAY OCTOBER 29. Rugby: Taiping v. Penang A. at Penang. Perak Turf Club Autumn Meeting, Ipoh, Last Day. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30. Penang and Province Welesley Volunteer Corps General’s
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  • 563 13 THE ENGLISH TRADITION The annual Frank Metcalfe Memorial Lecture was given by Sir Michael Sadler at Rugby on the subjects “Is a Change Coming in Education?” After referring to Metcalfe's life, which the enlargement of English education was on a scale beyond all earlier precedent in
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  • 233 13 COURT STORY OF WHY HE THREW IT OVERBOARD George Brown, described as a Trinity House pilot of 21 years’ standing, living at. Old-road East, Gravesend, Kent, was charged at Southend with attempting to evade payment of Customs duties and with destroying goods to prevent their
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  • 69 13 THEN DIED Mr. William John Hopkins, of Gwydyrmansions, Hove, a 70-year-old retired manager of an assurance society, was motoring from Finchley, N., after a visit to relatives when he was taken ill. He was able to pull up his car, but died before a doctor could be
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  • 164 13 Two schoolgirls held up a Metropolitan train for ten minutes recently. The train, which was non-stop between! Harrow and Baker-street, came to a sudden halt near Wembley Park station. The driver and the guard got down on to the permanent way and began to examine the
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  • 98 13 THREE WARNINGS IN A TOWN Alarm has been caused among residents of Waterlooville, a small Hampshire township near Portsmouth, by anonymous threatening letters which have been received at three houses. In each case the residents are well known. One of the letters ran: Dear Madam, —Take warning that
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    • 323 13 II H«WgMES——Ba—— SHELL MOTOR OILS Skilled Chemists working in close co-operation with I motor manufacturers, are constantly at work in the S Shell research laboratories, striving always to improve m lubrication and so prolong the life of engines. They watch every trend in motor car design and see to E
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  • By The Burma Mail
    • 596 14 After Evading Arrest For Two Years Rangoon, Oct. 17 Hla Gyaw, the notorious outlaw and ■dacoit, who has been absconding for over two years, and for whose capture dead or alive a reward of Rs. 1,000 has been offered, was captured on Sunday night, October 9, with two
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    • 191 14 Capture Of Outlaw "Boh" Shwe Ya Rangoon Oct. 17 Following the capture of the notorious outlaw “Boh” Shwe Ya, who has been responsible for at least 20 dacoities in the Hanthawaddy, Rangoon and Insein districts and in the jurisdiction of the Thingangyun police station, Mr. Autar
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    • 607 14 Fancy Dress Dance Rangoon, Oct. 17 The Maymyo week, after four quiet days at the beginning, got into full swing on Wednesday, when the bi-annual fancy dress dance was held. There was not such a large crowd present as there usual)ly is on these popular occasions, but this
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  • 347 14 Market Burnt To Ground Rangoon, Oct. 17. Strand Market, Kemmendine, was burnt to the ground on Wednesday night between 9 and 10 o’clock. The fierce blaze was witnessed by thousands of spectators who, attracted by the lurid glare in the sky and a column of dense smoke
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  • 200 14 Vacant Engineering Position Rangoon, Oct. 17 An advertisement appears in the current home mail inviting applications for a permanent appointment in the engineering branch of the Burma Marine Service. The advertisement sets out that candidates must be aged not less than 30 years on August 1, 1932,
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  • 368 14 The news of the death of Major Vincent of the Indian Medical Department at Maymyo on the 7th instant came to his many friends in the plains as a great shock. A short resume of his service is given here as a tribute to
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 386 14 What the New Glaxo ijl “The New Glaxo, in I our opinion, is an excellent conception, and shows that the manufacturers of infant’s foods are not content to stand still, I. but are anxious to make use of new discoveries in scientific research.” Reprinted from “Ths Practitioner” for January, 1929.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 2330 15 I rii»■»» P. 0.-BRITISH INDIA MLI y AND apcar lines il-kANTI N (j (Companies Incorporated in ?fc SLUE FUKMEL L' L————^___'jj m J MAIL PASSENGER “■> CARGO SERVICES H| T CONTINENT BOSTON AND NEW YORK .5 A. I LWV.H ERE ADRASTUS Due Penang Oct. 27 SS7%tS3 ?«->* Teluk Anson, Port
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  • 725 16 Full Extent Of Alterations WHAT LOCAL UMPIRES SHOULD NOTE During the past summer the International Hockey Board have redrafted the rules of the game in an endeavour to make them more clear and concise to players and umpires alike. In addition they have made one or two
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  • 128 16 BOXING T hree To Be Held in November (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Yesterday. A feast of sporting events is awaiting the Taiping public. Three boxing tournaments have been arranged to take place at the Taiping Town Hall on November 5, 17 and 19, under the leadership of
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  • 296 16 —Reuter. Likely' Field Of 33 Runners CHAMPION JOCKEY TO RIDE PRICKET London, Yesterday. The following are the probable runners (with jockeys) for the Cambridgeshire which is to be run at Newmarket to-mor-row: SLIPPER Perryman ST. OSWALDC. Ray ALLUVIAL Carslake DIOLITE Fox THE PENClifford Richards ANDREA
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  • 86 16 P. C. C. v. Aior Star Hockey Club Friday, on Hutching School ground, at 5 p.m. P.C.C.—C. G. Van Houten W. J. Leaney and F. G. Pooley; L. H. Best (capt.), A. W. Foster and H. R. Oldham S. A. Woosey, W. F. Fletcher, Dr. Strahan, H.
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  • 42 16 Police Team The following will represent the Police in the six-a-side football tournament on October 29 Bachan Singh or Suppiah M. S. Babjan, Ong Kee Seong (captain); Lim Swee Siang. S. Samsudin and P. K. Muthu. Linesman A. R. Ibrahim.
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  • 58 16 The following have keen chosen to represent Alor Star in the hockey match against the Penang Cricket Club at Penang on October 28. Alor Star Xl:—Mohammed Saaid; A. Salvon and J a wan Singh; Samuel; Mustaffa; and Tunku Yaccob; J. F. Augustin; Wilson; Retnam; Rattan Singh; and Mat Zain.
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  • 318 16 Funeral At Alor Star Large Attendance (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star, October 24. The funeral of Hilda Gnanamoney, wife of Mr. David Sundra Raj of the P.W.D., Alor Star, whose death occurred at Penang on Friday last, took place at the Christian burial ground,
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  • 159 16 Penang Functions The week-end, November 10-13, should be a particularly busy week at Penang. As is known Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, is due on November 10 by the Ranpura and Lady Clementi and Miss Clementi are also due by the
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  • 63 16 PENANG, OCTOBER 26. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) On London Bank Demand 2/3 i I m/ts 2/4 Private 3 m/ts credit 2/ 3 Documentary 2/4% On New York Bank Demand 38 France T.T. 950 nom India T.T. 103 Bangkok T.T. 80 per tics. 100 nom Batavia T.T. 94%
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  • 504 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day:— j Yesterday. To-day. f Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers MINING 1 Ayer Hitam 11/6 12/- 11/6 12/- Hong Fatt 35 39 35 37% J K. Kamunting 6/6 7/- 6/6
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  • 1150 16 KENNEDY CO. SHARE LIST I Ĕ rt a NAMES, 1 x Ĕ I I- I I RUBBER (Dollar.) C Al'enby Rubber Co. 40 50 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 33 I 40 Amalgamated Malay Estates t 5 Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate 55 70 Ayer Kuning Rubber Estates J 5 15 Ayer
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  • 80 16 La,est Paris TU Sd I New York Montreal Brussels Geneva nfl Amsterdam i’fl Milan Berlin 1388! Stockholm 1& J J v 19.55 J? ,enM !8 S J Prague S Helsingfors o 3n 2 Madrid 4QI Lisbon jp/p «i Athens 2 Hi 0(5 Belgrade 250 Bucharest 555
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    • 41 16 ON OTHER PAGES Burma News 14 London Letter For Women 6 £4,000 Mystery House 3 English Girl Poisoned 10 New Fashion Materials 10 Politics of the Week 7 Commercial News 12 Hospital Accused of Mal-practice 4 Communist Organisation in Singapore ’5
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    • 45 16 The s.s. Naldera from Yokohama via Singapore is expected to arrive here at 10 a.m. on Saturday (29-10-32) and will leave for Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port Said, Malta, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth and London at 7 p.m. the same day. Steamer will work at the wharf.
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    • 155 16 NEW SPRINGTIDE M Tanjong Bungah. Teiepk® M FANCY DSESS 111 Saturday, sth November, Music Starts 8 p.m. Dance 9 p. 4 lk 2 Prizes for Best Ladies' 2 Gents' Cta-B 2 Dancing Cot;-.■ Spot-Danca DINNER DANCE S2.KEkB NON-DINERS Cis. 50 Ed LADIES FREE! The Judges’ Decision is Final Come to
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