Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 June 1933

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY No. 145. Vol. LXXXXI. SATURDAY, 24th JUNE 1933. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 1264 1 Prime Minister Buoyant And Hopeful TALK OF ADJOURNING CONFERENCE DISCOURAGED Disagreement Only Temporary gramme in future. Reuter and Rugby Radio Service. London, June 23. J The confusion in which the World Economic Conference was thrown yes-; t rday by the American declaration has' in no
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  • 80 1 —Reuter. Aramis Strikes Rock NO. 4 HOLD BADLY HOLED Shanghai, June 23. The 24,000 ton Messageries Maritimes passenger liner Aramis sailing from Hongkong to Shanghai, struck a rock last night five miles to the north of Steep Island in Hangchow Bay. She was disabled but pulled
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  • 56 1 ).—Reuter. 1932 Profits Boston, June 23. The cash assets of Ford Motor Company for 1932 amounted to $303,650,000 compared to $372,483,000 last year, according to a statement filed with the Massachusetts Commissione of Taxation. The Profit and Loss surplus amounts to $580,440,000 compared to $655,302,000 last year.
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  • 41 1 —Rugby Radio Service. London, June 23. The dollar sterling rate which rose to 4.24 yesterday and closed at 4.23% opened this morning at and at noon stood at 4.22. Business on the Stock Exchange is quiet.—Rugby Radio Service.
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  • 66 1 Pilot Killed FIRST DISASTER AFTER TWO YEARS (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, June 23. After nearly two years of regular civil services by the Aerial Transport Company, Siam has lost a machine, and the pilot was killed in a crash in North-Eastern Siam. The mail was not
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  • 73 1 —Reuter. Ruin for Millions of Chinese Geneva, June 23. Chi Yung Hsaio, the Chinese Government delegate, speaking at the Labour Conference, declared that China to-day was the victim of a terrible war with invasion from abroad, meaning ruin for millions while the rest of her
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  • 70 1 —Reuter Wireless. Relations Strengthened London, June 21. The hope that close and fruitful relations between Britain and Iraq would be maintained and strengthened, was expressed by His Majesty the King when King Feisal was entertained to a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace this evening. King Feisal referred
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  • 178 1 L —Reuter. Co Operation Urged WEAKENING POSITION OF CHINA ABROAD London, June 23. The co-operation of the Chinese leaders is urged in a telegram from Dr. W. W. Yen, Dr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Quo Tai-chi to members of the Canton Provincial Government. It refers to the
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  • 93 1 —Reuter Wireless. Batteries of Pressmen Paris, June 20. No royal marriage could have attracted greater attention than the wedding of Miss Barbara Hutton, the heiress to the Woolworth millions, and Prince Alexis Mdivani, a son of a former A.D.C. to the Tsar, which was celebrated quietly
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  • 45 1 1. —Reuter. Income Increase of 58,000,000 Yen Moscow, June 23. The Manchurian Railway Board Report shows income for the current year at 245,000,000 Yen, an increase over last year of 58,000,000 Yen. Net income is 61,000,000 Yen, an increase of 48,000,000 Yen.—Reuter.
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  • 114 1 Mother and Daughter Killed (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 23. Tragedy occurred in a house in Pudu Road at 11.30 last night when the roof over the second floor of the house which was occupied by a clerk and his family fell in. The
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  • 86 1 i.—Reuter. Australian Airman's Ambitious Attempt u FIRST STOP PROBABLY < AT SINGAPORE Derby, Western Australia, June 23. The Australian airman C. T. M. Utar. who accompanied Capt. Kingsford-Smith in 1928 in his America to Australia flight, took off at 11.55 a m. in an
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  • 38 1 —Reuter. Former Reich President Arrested Berlin, June 24. The former Reich President, Socialist" Paul Loebe, was arrested this afternoon. also a number of social democrats, in connection with the dissolution of the Socialist Party.—Reuter.
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  • 91 1 Flaps Them as If Trying to Fly A cat with wings, huge eyes, and a bushy tail has been found in the garden of an Oxford house and taken to the Oxford Zoo. Efforts are being made to seek the owner, failing which it will be destroyed.
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  • 255 3 R.A.F. Pilot Killed TANKS AND CARS SET ON FIRE Flight Lieutenant Francis Stafford O’Hanlon, R.A.F., was killed in an air crash at Farnborough, Hampshire, on June 13 a few seconds after he had taken oft from the aerodrome. The machine struck the wall of a
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  • 224 3 A PIECE OF CONSUMMATE IMPUDENCE” Italian Sweepstake Prosecution in London Saying it was a piece of consummate impudence that distinguished people in Florence should form a company to promote in this country a sweepstake for Roman international charities,” when such sweepstakes were banned in their own country, Mr. Percy Robinson
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  • 168 3 Three-Hour Test Flight Miss Mary Enid Barnard, a student of Newnham College, Cambridge, pleaded not guilty, at Cambridge on June Bth, to low flying on May 22. Dr. J. T. Maccurdy, a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, said that he was in Corpus Christia Gardens
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  • 339 3 Heavy Loss Feared GALLANT RESCUER BADLY INJURED An amazing hoard of hundreds of pounds in notes and coins, possessed by an aged woman who it was thought was without means, and who has been receiving the old-age pension, was revealed on June 9th, by a
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  • 201 3 The Willesden, N.W., Council summoned Mr. S. Humphreys, of Shelley-road, HarlesI den, N.W., at Willesden Police-court for I permitting overcrowding. It was stated that Mr. and Mrs. Hump- hreys had 11 children. The 13 of them I lived in two small rooms and a kitchen-
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  • 154 3 Sprouting Green Shoots in Office London, June 22. A 400-year-old plane tree dating back to the Great Fire of London grows right through an office at Cliffords Inn Hall, E.C. (It penetrates the concrete floor and roof and has a circumference of 12 feet.) The inside
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  • 309 4 Orchard Road Barracks Sensation PATHAN FELLOWCONSTABLE COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Abdullah Khan, a young Pathan police constable attached to the Orchard Road Division, was committed to stand trial at the forthcoming assizes on a charge of having murdered a fellow-constable named Lal Hussein on the
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  • 339 4 Photographs in Wrecked Machine A photograph found in the wrecked aeroplane was used for identification at the Skegness inquest, on June 7th, on the victims of the crash—Hubert Bentinck Chantrey (29), engineer, of Connaught-place, London, and Vera Emily Field (28), erf Connaught-street, London. A verdict
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  • 816 4 Mr. R. G. H. Tait, of the Singapore Harbour Board, and Mrs. Tait have sailed for Home. Mr. P. H. Forbes, chief accountant, F.M.S.R., w'as operated on for appendicitis at the Bungsar Hospital, on Thursday. Enche Mohammed Salleh bin Haji Sulaiman, A.D.0., Tapah, has gone to Kajang
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    • 397 4 /t DO YOU BUY YOUR PEN FOR I J BEAUTY’S /7 SAKE? Different people have different reasons for selecting a pen for personal use. If you want a < pen that looks like an aristocrat in your pocket i and on your desk, one that comes in many SIB t
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    • 176 4 A J?9 lui,,bia A I I 3 TO THESE CRSB4 UNDERNEA H THE HARLEM MOON Fox irot G 8584 HONEYSUCKLE RQSE Hot Rhythm Is The New Style And This Record Of Fletcher Henderson’s Band Is One Of The Best Released. nßinftß laughing policeman in America p ART 2 I THE
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  • 625 5 Local Lads 1 Successes JAYARAJ’S WIN OVER STARR (By SECONDS OUT") The standard of boxing as shown in the main bout between Jayaraj, the local boy, and Sylver Starr, of Singapore, last night at Fun and Frolic, was unusually high, both showing skill and craft
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  • 57 5 —Reuter. Compston and Sarazen Exeter, June 23. Compston, the former ex-British Ryder Cup player, beat Sarazen, the American Ryder Cup player, by 5 and 4 over thirtyox holes in the first of a series of five challenge matches. Sarazen was 2 up after the first eighteen holos,
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  • 338 5 P.R.C. Beaten PROVINCE WIN BY 3 GOALS TO 1 The football match between the Province Wellesley Football Association and the Penang Recreation Club, in the first division of the Penang League was played yesterday on the S.X.I. ground and resulted in a win for the former
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  • 75 5 —Reuter. American Challenge Frustrated AN ALL BRITISH FINAL Hoylake, June 23. As a result of to-day’s quarter-finals and semi-finals, the Honourable Michael Scott meets Bourn in an all-British final in the Amateur Golf Championship. The American challenge was frustrated by the victory of Scott over Dunlap, the
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  • 88 5 —Reuter. A Great Semi-Final London, June 23. The London Tennis Championship semifinals at the Queen’s Club resulted as follows: MEN’S SINGLES Vines beat Gledhill 6—B, 7—5, 6—3. Stoefen beat Sutter 12—10, 12—12. Stoefen won the first set against Sutter and when 12 all was reached in the
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  • 177 5 But None Since 1930 This man must have something like a record for suffering. He says:—“ Since 1910 up to 1930—that is 20 years—l have been a great sufferer with rheumatism. I am pleased to say that since 1930 up to date, I have been
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  • 99 5 To-day, at the “Esplanade,” from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.:— 1. March —Our Battalion —Rushworth. 2. Overture —Rienzi —Wagner. 3. Selection —Aida —Verdi. 4. Waltz —Blumen —Steinmann. 5. “A Dervish Chorus” (An Oriental Scene) —Sebek. 6. Selection —On With the Show (1929) —Nicholls. 7 Finale —Savoy English Medley—
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  • 187 5 ST. GEORGE THE MARTYB CHURCH OF ENGLAND 2ND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 7.50 Litany. 8 a.m. Matins. Pss. X. XU. XIII. Hymn 317. 8.30 Holy Communion. 11 a.m. Holy Communion Chinese, 6.30 Evensong.—Ps. XV. 93. Ps. XVI 94. Hymns 290, 292, 166, 298. Magnificat 95. Nunc Dimittis 112. THURSDAY,
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  • 381 5 List of New Books The Arches of the Years, by Halliday j Sutherland; The Brown Murder Case, by Roland Daniel; Cornwall and The Cornish, j by A. K. Hamilton Jenkin; Death in the i Afternoon, by Ernest Hemingway; Death in the Air (Anon:); Death of Felicity Taverner, by
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  • 97 5 The 26th and 27th meetings of the Trade Commission were held in Singapore on the 20th and 21st June. Evidence was taken from'Mr. J. W. Grandie of the Rotterdam Trading Company, Mr. S. T. Erickson of Messrs. Connell Brothers, Co., Ltd., Mr O. Pedersen of the
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  • 99 5 Escaped London Bird Still at Liberty London, June 10. Loretto, a green Amazon parrot which escaped from its home at Knightsbridge on Whit Sunday, and made for Hyde Park, is still at liberty. It is described as a gifted bird, speaking Spanish well, a little English and also
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    • 14 5 r—. .^11 II» m p II —1 JM! wOhe SIGELoT COMING SOON MAJESTIC THEATRE
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    • 116 5 COMMON SENSE AND INDIGESTION Any doctor will tell you that almost all digestive trouble is due to excess stomach acid, which ferments food, generates painful gases, and attacks the delicate stomach lining. Obviously, then, to get immediate relief, you need only counteract the stomach acidity; and for this purpose there
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    • 138 5 ISII® TOBrSeCO SO EASY TO WASH SO HARD TO WEAR OUT /A TOOTAL PRODUCT HAVE you bought your TOBRALCO Directly you touch Tobralco you are conscious of its quality; its beautiful weave; its firm texture. It proves a wonderful economy in sunny climates—and it washes so easily. The designs and
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 238 5 WIRELESS 8.8. C. Programme For Straits Settlements, and Federated Malay States from the Empire transmitter, Daventry, England. Two of the following frequencies and wavelengths will be used in the transmissions to the Indian zone. Announcements will be made at frequent Intervals. Call Sign Frequency Wavelength GSB 9,610 kc|s 31.55 m.
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  • 323 6 Monk Whose Prophecies Came True ABBEY SCENE Purge Away the Evil Touch A few ye rds away from the spot where a monk cue raised his arm to curse, a bishop lifted his hand and prayed that the curse might be removed. Battle Abbey School, which
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  • 167 6 And Sticks to It When Samuel Frederick Bendall, an eighty-two-year-old widower, of Sansomstreet, Camberwell, S.E., makes up his mind to do or not to do a thing nothing can shake his determination. At seven years old he became a printer’s devil and determined that when he
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  • 177 6 The Berengaria had a new experience on May 27—she caused a road-rail smash on shore. The liner was leaving Southampton Docks for New York. She was being pulled stern first by tugs away from her berth. A squall caused her bow to dip down against
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  • 180 6 Two Somersaults in a Hill Race LANDED ON WHEELS Ten thousand people saw a home-made car skid at a terrific speed, turn two somersaults, and finish on its four wheels in the hill-climb race at Shelsley Walsh, Worcester. The driver was J. B. Bolster, of Wrotham, and
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  • 256 6 One of the Coolest Jobs to Be Found The coolest spot in London during the heat wave is—under Smithfield Market. There the temperature is never allowed to rise above 14 degrees Fahrenheit, which means 18 degrees of frost. Leaving the blazing sunshine and torrid air of
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  • 143 6 Invite a Parson to Convert Them Eighteen schoolboys, prefects and members of the Sixth Form at the Malet Lambert College, Hull’s most modern municipally owned school, have turned agnostic. They are being won back to Christianity by a young Methodist clergyman, the Rev. 1 Douglas Griffiths,
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  • 243 7 Prince’s Claim to His Royal Highness LESSER TITLE TO BE USED Geneva, June 13. I learn sayij the Geneva correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”, that th a three words “His Royal Highness” are alone responsible for ttie holding up of the marriage of the Prince of
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  • 292 7 Passengers Escape in Alarming Mishap “‘THE GHOST TRAIN” While the 5 a.m. train from Crewe to Euston was passing through Rugeley Station, S ails, on June 11th, one of the couplings became detached, and the rear portion of the train ran off the
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  • 221 7 Captain’s Novel Feat A small motor-boat entered Fleetwood Harbour, after having crossed England from the East to the West coast. Owing to the circuitous route of the various rivers and canals the voyage proved to be one of 250 miles and occupied eight days. The voyager
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  • 153 7 Believed to be W ork of Continental Thieves Jewellery worth £l,OOO was stolen from a dressing case belonging to Mrs. Pitts, of, Kyleakin, Isle of Skye, a passenger on the Scottish expresse, at King’s Cross station on June 12. Some time before the train was due
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  • 228 7 Thrill for Holiday Passengers Two-hundred-and-seventy-four pasengers on the new French mail steamer Cote d’ Argent had an unexpected thrill on June Bth, when the vessel was involved in collision during a dense fog with the Swedish cargo steamer Clive. The Cote d’Argent was bound from CaiI
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  • 175 7 The Proper Remedy A revolver bullet, a life preserver, and a heavy stick were handled by Mr. Justice Goddard, counsel, and a jury at Somerset Assizes at Wells on June 10, when Walter Wright, an Ilminster watchmaker, was found not guilty of attempting to murder William
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  • 371 7 JUNE, 1933 JUNE 24 Kedah Gymkhana Club Amateur Meeting, Alor Star. Cricket: P.C.C. "A” v Butterworth Recreation Club, Butterworth; P.R.C. “A” v Sepoy Lines R. C., Esplanade. “Malaya” Cup Football, Penang v. Perak, Penang. Hutchings School annual sports, Hutchings School, 2.15 p.m. JUNE 24 and 25 Cricket:
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  • 658 8 In the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister. in reply to Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, disposed of the numerous rumours to the effect that negotiations with regard to rubber restriction were proceeding between the British and Dutch Governments. He
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  • 187 8 A bombshell has fallen upon those worthy and useful men, the publishers of guide-books. It was hurled by the Civil Tribunal of Brussels, and the first victims are Baedeker Brothers, of Leipzig—whom, surely, not to know is to argue oneself unknown. The City of Dinant and five Belgian widows
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  • 32 8 :.—Reuter. Mandates Declared Void Vienna, June 23. Following the Cabinet’s decision forbidding Nazi Party activities, a Bill declaring void all Nazi Mandates was passed by Lower Austrian Diet.
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  • 1373 8 THE PAGEANT OF THE EMPIRE AIRWAY HOW FACT OUTSTRIPS FICTION By HARRY HARPER (Author of The Evolution of the Flying Machine,” etc.) Deseit sheiks, in flying liners, paying courtesy visits by air. Pearl-fishers speeding to market by winged express rather than by sailing dhow. Fortune-seekers flying in
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  • 681 8 SPORT IN LONDON lx all the schemes recently the creation of great SgfcfV 1 ndon materialise the Metro claim distinction a equipped city in the world in th rln addition to the p rCj <.♦ c at the White City, and neighbourhood of Regent’s p a k
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    • 46 8 CIGARETTE GIFTS! Every D E RESZKE is a prize in itself The Cigarette for smokers who insist on THE BEST Say “DE RESZKE to your tobacconist. SAVE THE COUPONS SOLE AGENTS HENRY WAUGH CO., LTD., SINGAPORE. I -.SaNG. KI Ax.-a LUM PVR, IPOH 3 APB— 3«.
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  • 133 9 J.—Reuter. Report Denied 60 PER CENT RISE IN AMERICAN PRICES Portland, Maine, June 23. The report that President Roosevelt intends to dash to London aboard the Indianapolis was denied by the President’s secretary’. President Roosevelt, who is still aboard his yacht at Anberjack off Chebeague
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  • 163 9 Miss Isabel Wilford to Marry The engagement of Isabel Wilford, the actress daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford, High Commissioner for New Zealand, is announced. She is to marry Mr. Edward PenroseFitzgerald, son of the late Mr. James Penrose-Fitzgerald and Mrs. Penrose-Fitz-gerald, of Milford-on-Sea, Hants. Miss
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  • 127 9 CARRIED TWO MILES Over Boulder-Strewn Path In descending Great Gable, Lakeland, A. C. Johnson, of Blackburn, slipped on the loose scree at the top of Aaron’s Slack, and rolled up against a boulder. He broke his right wrist and received abrasions on the chest and limbs. He was
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  • 108 9 Romance of Earl’s Daughter Although members of her family will neither confirm nor deny the report, friends of Lady Honor Guinness, eldest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh and the Countess of Iveagh, M.P., are expecting that the announcement will shortly be made that she is to
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  • 119 9 Reuter. To German Film Star Berlin, June 9. Max Schmeling, the boxer, is to be married, according to a newspaper, which says that the banns will be published to-mor-row in the Town Hall of the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. Schmeling’s future wife is Fraulein Anna
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  • 116 9 Reuter. Public Puzzled PAMPHLETS CONTAINING INSULTING REMARKS Berlin, June 23. The public is puzzled by an official story of foreign aeroplanes flying over Wilhelmstrasse. The police of the Air Ministry reports that unidentified foreign planes dropped pamphlets containing insulting remarks about the government; nevertheless, enquiries at
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 269 9 Sir, —In these days when economy and drastic measures are being practised on every State, one is surprised to know that a road is being made to Penang Hill and one can only wonder who is really going to benefit by its completion. The public at one
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  • 127 9 “Cut So as to Form a Big Bag” This woman was wearing a skirt which was cut so as to form a large bag,” said Detective-Sergeant Keen, at Marylebone on June 10, when Hannah Wilson (77), a widow, of Sherbourne Street, New North Road, Hoxton, was
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  • 76 9 Reuter. Hopes Of Release M. LITVINOFF TO MEET SIR JOHN SIMON London, June 23. M. Litvinoff has agreed to meet Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office on Monday, doubtless to explore the trade consequences and the imprisonment of the British engineers. HOPES REVIVED The presence of M.
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  • 597 9 Move Against Big Estates BUT WHO LOOKS AFTER THE KAMPONGS The following are extracts from minutes cf a meeting of the Malaria Advisory. Board, F.M.S., held in the Office of the Director, Institute for Medical Research, I Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, March 17: Responsibility for Malaria Control:
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  • 100 9 TlN—Spot YESTERDAY TO-DAY London £223-5-0 £2lB-15-0 TIN—(3 Month»; London £223-5-0 £2lB-15-0 Singapore $117.62 $llB.OO Business Done Penang $ll7. Business Done 25 tons COPRA—(Sundried) $3.90 $3.90 BLACK PEPPER $19.00 $19.00 RUBBER London 3ijd. 3JJd. New York s|gc.(G) 6c.(G) Singapore 10fJ cts. 10% cts. TAPIOCA Fair Seed $4.00 $4.00 Medium
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    • 16 9 &0 Tfe] ■iSIGQj OF I 1 UK I CROSS/ .I— J -17 COMING SOON MAJESTIC THEATRE
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    • 341 9 "Well above the Average Cow Gate builds the’ healthy viri le child, not the fat and flabby baby of the ordinary artificial food. That is why modern Mothers the y world over are turning to it with ft relief There NO DOUBT about Cow Gate.” «Eh ’’ths PATS REMOVES 1
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  • 265 10 Combating the Psychological Element STRANGE SUICIDE STORY Suicide while of unsound mind was the verdict at a St. Pancras, London, inquest on June 9, on Henry Charles Samuel, 54, a retired doctor, of Hampstead, who, it was stated, being a psychological expert, was able
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  • 234 10 Relatives Fight Police Theory of Suicide Did Reuben Henry Watts, twenty-nine-year-old fruit and vegetable salesman, of Hedge End, near Southampton, bind and gag himself and commit suicide in the’ River Itchen, Southampton Was he murdered Four days after the discovery of his body, detectives were
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  • 92 10 Municipality of George Town The health statement for the Municipality of George Town for the week ending! June 17, 1933, shows a total of 54 deaths—[ 32 males and 22 females—the death-rate being 18.05 per mile, compared with 19.72 in the preceding week and with 21.20 in the
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  • 672 10 Eerie Life on the Edge of a Volcano WHY PEASANTS RETURN AFTER ERUPTIONS Vesuvius is once more showing disquieting signs of activity, and peasants are fleeing from its near-by neighbourhood, lest the dreaded volcano should once more overrun the surrounding country with its ashes and with its
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  • 110 10 Leaving University For Workshops Terance Robert Corelli Fox, of Crock-erton-road, Tooting, S.W., has won the four prizes awarded in connection with the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Cambridge for thermo-dynamics, aeronautics, the theory of structures, and for the highest distinction in the tripos—an achievement equalled only
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    • 342 10 W IL 1 ""W I J—pT w .«a peep inside ARC AD IA C/JL WORKS showing b Cigarette-making machines invented by the late Mr. Bernhard Baron (founder of Arcadia Works) which f < roll, cork-tip, cut and finally ffijk H deliver complete Craven" A" F 8 cigarettes, ready for final
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  • 198 11 Tail Wedged Fast in Hole CEMENTED OVER AND VOYAGE RESUMED London, June 11. How a leaking ship was saved by the tail of a large fish becoming wedged in a hole in the ship’s bottom, and being cemented over, is told by Messrs. Monroe Brothers,
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  • 186 11 2,519 Miles in Five Days, Twelve Hours Three new records were accomplished by the White Star motor liner Britannic when she steamed alongside Liverpool landing stage on June 11 from N:w York and Boston. This magnificent Atlantic liner of 27,000 gross tons completed her voyage eastwards in
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  • 197 11 Child Held on Hot Stove Paris, June 13. A wave of indignation has been aroused by the lightness of the sentence passed upon a woman named Nys, who so tortured her 2 V2-year-old son that he died after screaming with pain for three days. The woman, who
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  • 211 11 Not Ready for Another Year When do you hope to complete the work, Mr. Hardiman "Perhaps in another tw’elve or eighteen months. That is the nearest es’imate I can give.” T. is conversation (writes a Morning Post” lepresentative) took place at the studio of Mr. A. F.
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  • 235 11 Son’s Act to Protect His Mother When John Edward Evans (21), of Morton Street, was bound over at Newcastle on June 12 for inflicting grievous bodily harm on his father, it was stated that he walked into a police station, asked for a doctor, and said he had
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  • 206 11 Franconia Visits Her Home Port After an absence from the Mersey of nearly four years the Cunard liner Franconia returned to her home port on June 11. During the interval her sailings have been in the London and Southampton service to and from America, except when she
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    • 785 11 (REE DOCTOR’S BOOK ON ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS,' CATARRH Qii«k art Ustiig Belief threegh Inexpensive Henn Treat went THE latest edition of a Doctor’s Free I C—J« I?.»*. Book describing the most successful M<! Dea 1 rear» of afl home treatments for Asthma, j QEE, too, in the Free Book, Dr. Hav'»
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  • THE LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS
    • 1059 12 A Week of Ups and Downs COMMODITY AND SHARE PRICES RECOVER Singapore, June 20. Local commodity prices have fluctuated sharply throughout the week, says Fraser and Company’s weekly report, and market quotations for shares have in consequence moved somewhat erratically with business generally passing on a
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    • 486 12 The Small-Holders’ Interest Ex-Dutch Civil Servant writes as follows to the “Times” :-With reference to Sir Eric Geddes’s letter in The Times Mav 22 Dutch officials still consider compulsory restriction of their smallholders planting and output to be absolutely impracticable no matter what other nations may think or
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    • 1523 12 Efficiency With Economy The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Malakoff Rubber Estates Limited was held at the Registered Office of the Company, 149, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. 3, on Wednesday, the 17th May, 1933, Sir Harold E. Snagge, K.B.E. (the Chairman), presiding. The representative of the Secretaries
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    • 113 12 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1,127 th. auction on Wednesday. Lbs. Tons. Catalogued 1,206,594 538.66 Offered 1,116,258 498.33 Sold 870,611 388.67 PRICES REALISED Ribbed Smoked Sheet Standard Quality No Sales Good Average Quality 10% to 10% Off Quality 9% to 10 5/16 CREPE
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    • 28 12 The Rubber Output of the Bukit Katil Rubber Estates, Ltd., for the month of May 1933, was 13,365 lbs., Total for 1 month ***** lbs. I
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    • 270 12 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. Rubber Sales Department Penang, June 21. We have experienced an erratic and uncertain market during the past week and values have fluctuated sharply over a range of nearly 2 cents per lb. principally on speculative appreciation of the day to day reports on the progress of the
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    • 176 12 Jump in Exports Last Month May saw a welcome upward tendency in Malayan trade, according to the figures just issued by the Department of Statistics. The total imports for the month were valued at $27,456,000 a decrease of $4,191, 000 from May 1932, and $319,000 less than
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    • 106 12 Imperial and International Communication The following index numbers represent the estimated monthly traffic receipts of the Imperial and International Communications Limited as related to comparable traffic in the year 1929. Monthly figures reduced to working day average. Working day average of comparable receipts, year 1929 100. 1930
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    • 895 12 SYMINGTON WILSON'S WEEKLY REPORT Since our last Report tlw has again been very active w IUI wide fluctuations. On Thursday ket was somewhat irregular but and Saturday the tone was strort prices showed an advance of an 4 j on those ruling on Wednesday 1L k.'* 1 t ing on
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  • 547 13 Schedule of Principal Lines me following Is a list of vessels arriving «ailing from Penang during the week: IN PORT TO-DAY SS. MATANG from Tongkah, Kopah, Renong and Victoria Point. Sails for the same ports to-day. SS. DUYMAER VAN TWIST from Belawan, Asahan and Paneh. Sails
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  • 1052 13 AIR MAILS A mail for South America, by Steamer to Marseilles and thence by French Air Mail Service, will be closed at 6 p.m. today. OUTWARD MAILS I A. mail for Colombo, London, Rotterdam and Hamburg by the s.s. “Achilles” will close at 2 p.m. to-day. A mail
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  • 104 13 Latest Buyers* Prices Singapore, June 22. Latest buyers’ prices received by cable this morning, for Malayan palm oil and palm kernels are as follows, state Guthrie and Co., Ltd. Palm Oil in Bulk c.i.f. landed weights New York/Philadelphia 3.25 cents (U.S. currency) per lb. c.i.f. landed weights U.
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  • 375 13 The following publications were issued or received by the Department of Statistics, I S. S. and F. M. S., during the period June 1 10th to June 16th, 1933, inclusive, and are J available for public use in the Reference 1 Library, Fullerton Building, Singapore. ApI
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 411 13 VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE MOONLIGHT OPERA WEMBLEY KEEP YOUR SATURDAY, NIGHT OPEN AND MAKE THE BEST OF IT—BE SURE THAT YOU’LL ENJOY YOUR WEEK-END Safurday-Nighf, June 24th BY VISITING CRYSTAL FOLLIES GRAND VAUDEVILLE NIGHT With Eddie Mendeita, the ever popular High-Stepper, supported by his 3 Best Partners: LILY
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 120 13 6.75 TO-NIGHT LAST NIGHT 9.30 1 MATINEE TO-DAY of 2.45 P.M. j M.G.M’s BRILLIANT PRODUCTION I MEN MUST FIGHT WITH J DIANA WYNYARD 1 (THE BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH STAR) 1 r Lewis Stone—Phillips Holmes—May Robson i FOR RESERVATIONS PLEASE ’PHONE 264 1 TO-MORROW 1 OPENING AT THE MATINEE 1 WARNER BROS.
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  • 228 14 Plea of Fourfold Bigamist JUDGE’S COMMENT Charged at Essex Assizes, at Chelmsford, on June 10 with bigamously marrying two women, and asking that the case relating to a third should be taken into consideration, David Gisby (56), a plumber, was said by his counsel to have had
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  • 331 14 Boxing Blue and Well Known Rugby Player A fight between two prominent Oxford undergraduates which is said to have followed a quarrel over a girl had a sequel in the police court, where both were bound over to keep the peace. It is stated that the
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  • 183 14 Increase of 3,000 Recorded in a Year Owing to the industrial depression, suicides increased sharply throughout the world in 1932, according to the Spectator,” an insurance publication, which gives detailed figures for the United States, showing that 23,000 persons took their own lives in that year, as compared
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  • 236 14 Damages for Doctor RUN INTO BY MOTORIST WHO DROVE AWAY A special jury at Gloucester Assizes on June 9 assessed damages at £12,000 in a claim by Dr. Abraham Goldfoot, a medical practitioner, of Victoria House, Gloucester Road. Cheltenham, for personal injuries received
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  • 145 14 Many Violent Deaths in F rance Has the heat wave any influence on crime Here is a little list of violent deaths in France for one day only Paris.—A woman of 75 was found strangled in the bath-room of a boardinghouse. Her jewels are missing. A
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  • 126 14 A F orced Landing Livingstone (Rhodesia), June 13. While flying over Northern Rhodesia, Sir Basil Blackett, former Finance Member of the Government of India, and Sir Hubert Young, Governor of Nyasaland, had a forced landing in the heart of the African jungle to-day. They
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  • 157 14 Father’s Tragic Discovery in Essex Ar. inquest was held on June 10 on Frederick Morgan (13), of Vallence Circus, Dagenham (Essex), who was found hanging from a lavatory cistern at his home on Thursday. Frederick George Morgan, the father, said his son had been
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  • 171 14 180 Feet Scaffold Climb Displaying nerve which would have done credit to the hardiest old-time sailor, Prince George climbed to the top of Big Ben. Accompanied by Mr. Buckingham, an official of the Office of Works, he made the 180-feet ascent by scaffolding
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 107 14 ->•* f st < 9 k M9 If DISTRIBUTORS i HENRY WAUGH CO., LTD. 44c j 1 MXAN* KUALA LUtPUB *«IPM. THE TIRELESS SALESMAN—An advertisement in the “Ptnang Gazette” is a tireless salesman. Froir one week’s end to another it talks business without boring potential customers. It tells your story
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    • 376 14 New Way to Banish q Ugly’ Hair HI It t-i «(q i i 1 wSrt» I- I FOR MOTORISTS I Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills Are Invaluable. e X a WHETHER one motors for business or Sensational Discovery \h/ pleasure eitheragadriveror of British Scientist T Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 2157 15 /1 N P. ©.-BRITISH INDIA gg 7 >/\ y A AND APCAR lines K£ P ll£j<LN lI N G (Companies Incorporated in England) ram.» travel home by dollar 4 EB^co S Vessels IXINDON AND NORTH CONTINENT. Penang London j Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., Penang, Teluk Anson Port Swwß"
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  • 74 16 Singapore Overwhelms Johore LOSERS IMPROVE IN SECOND HALF (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, June 24. In the Malaya Cup soccer match here Singapore trounced Johore to the tune of 7 goals to one. Keng Hock, Mat Noor and Dolfattah each scored two goals while Mahmood was responsible
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  • 217 16 Hilarious Aldwych FarceComedy at Majestic What an immaculate actor is Mr. Lynn? That is not to say that he relies on being immaculate merely in the satorial sense. At the Majestic last night indeed, he made a welcome appearance wearing a drooping tie, a dreadful collar,
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  • 21 16 England And West Indies MACAULAY TO PLAY It is officially stated that Macaulay (Yorkshire) plays in to-morrow’s test.
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  • 197 16 Well-Known Figure in Business Circles News of the death of Mr. Yeo Boon Swee at his residence at Crabb Hall, 179, Anson Road, will be deeply regretted by his many friends in Penang. His death occurred on Wednesday morning after an illness of nearly
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  • 197 16 Latest County Cricket Results TWO SEPARATE CENTURIES BY HUMAN London, June 23. Worcester defeated Middlesex on the first innings. Middlesex made 294 and Worcester replied with 299 (Nichol 112). SOMERSET v HAMPSHIRE Hampshire lost to Somerset by 107 runs. Somerset scored 190 and 272.
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  • 389 16 Remodelling of Johan de Witt As we formerly announced, the Nederland Royal Mail Line (N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappy “Nederland”) is recommissioning the s.s. Johan de Witt to replace the m.s. “P C. Hooft To increase the speed of the Johan de Witt to a point more in keeping
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  • 53 16 PENANG, JUNE 24 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) On London Bank Demand 2 3 4 m ts 2 331 Private 3 mjts credit 3 Documentary 2 On New York Bank Demand 48(4 France T.T. 980 nom India T.T. 153% Hongkong T.T. 3914 dis. nom. Shanghai T.T. 45% nom.
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  • 127 16 Latest Quotations Friday Thursday Paris 86 716 86 346 New York 4.21% 4.23% Montreal 4.67 4.66 Brussels 24.35 24.26 Geneva 17.61% 17.57 Amsterdam 8.49 8.44% Milan 64 23 32 64 11 16 Berlin 14.30 14.28 Stockholm 19.45 19.45 Copenhagen 22.42% 22.45 Oslo 19.90 19.80 Vienna 31%
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  • 702 16 TO-DAY’S PRICES The following were the latest quotation* In M ESSavS. KENNEDY St Co.’s share list at 11 a.m. to-day. Yesterday To-day. Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers MINING Asam Kumbang 27)6 30.0 27|6 30|0ex Ayer Hitam 13 6 14j3c 13J6 14[3c Bangrin 17'9 18j6 17|9 18|6 Hitam
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  • 77 16 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES DEATH OF MR. SOON AH LEE LUNAS, KEDAH. The death occurred of Mr. Soon Ah Lee at 3 a m. to-day at the age of 70, after a long illness. He leaves behind his wife, three sons, Messrs. Soon Eng Keat, Soon Eng Kong, Soon Eng Hooi, and
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 90 16 NEW SPRINGTIDE HOTEL, Tanjong Bungah Penang—Telephone No. 60 DINNER DANCE EVERY SATURDAY From 8 p.m. Till Midnight. Evening-Tea Light refreshments, Cool Drinks at Moderate Prices. Dance Music by MR. LEONARDO C. REYES AND HIS ORIENTAL DANCE ORCHESTRA. WATCH THIS SPACE. Rememberahat pure blood not only keep* away disease, but is
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    • 521 16 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS bank holiday NOTICE. Tho The Exchange Banks wi |i As from 26th June 1933 we have removed J our office from Rly. Buildings to No. 23, GIOS6CJ On Ist July ’ioiBeach Street, Ist Floor. ''*4, robb nilsson, which has been Penang. P r C ’Gimed a Bank Holiday.
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 38 16 WEATHER REPORT Temp. Wind Rainfal 6 a.m. 76 S 5 inches Noon 88 N.W. TIDE TABLES High Water. Low Watw TO-DAY 1.26 a.m. 7.32 a.m. 1.17 p.m. 8.17 p.m. TO-MORROW 1.59 a.m. 8.03 a.m. 1.46 p.m. 8.45 p.m.
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