Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 30 August 1935

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 201. Vol. XCIII. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 3379 1 U. S. A. OUR BEST CUSTOMER UNITED KINGDOM INCREASES BUT STILL THIRD NETHERLANDS INDIES SECOND According to the official report on the Foreign Trade of Malaya in 1934. extracts from which are given below, the United States ol America was Malaya's best customer with
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  • 93 1 :.—Reuter. To Lady Alice Montag Douglas-Scott DAUGHTER OF DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH London, August 30. The engagement is announced of the Duke of Gloucester ‘o Lady Alice Montagu Douglas-Scott, daughter .of the Duke of Buocleuch. The pair have been eiJje friends fee s me months, often dancing
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  • 49 1 —Reuter. 20,000,000 Pesos Loan For Strengthening Buenos Aires. August 30. The Government has introduced a bill in parliament to raise 20,000.000 pesos to strengthen naval aviation in addition to 22.000,000 pesos for military aviation. The amount will be raised by an internal 5 per cent loan.—Reuter.
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  • 272 1 I Rugby Radio Service. Mr. Eden To Report On Paris Talks FRENCH PREMIER TO BE CONSULTED London, August 30. M hen the League Council, which meets next W ednesday at Geneva takes up the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia it is expected that early in the proceedings
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  • 26 1 —Reuter. Rear-Admir-’l ayton Appointed London. August 30. R-eer-Admiral G. Layton is appointed Director of Persoral Services with effect from November 8. —Reuter.
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  • 143 1 .—Reuter. Effective From Date Of Separation UNRESTRICTED INTERCHANGE OF GOODS London, August 29. A three year trade agreement has been reached between India and Burma effective from the date of the latter’s separation from India, The agreement provides for Indian goods to enter Burma unrestrictedly and free
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  • 65 1 Rugby Radio Service. Not Returning To London On Sept. 4 London, August 29. The report that the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin propose leaving Aix-les-Bains for London on September 4 is incc rrect. No official information has been received in London that Mr. Baldwin has decided to change
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  • 33 1 British Naval Gunner's Death At Hongkong Hongkong, Aug. 29. Commissioned Gunner J. B. Jenner, of H.M.S. “Delight” has died from poisoning alleged to have been self-administered. The inquiry is proceeding.
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  • 76 1 —Rugby Radio Service. London, Aug. 29. The Mediterranean Fleet will leave today on its summer cruise. Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir W. W. Fisher, is flying his flag in the battleship “Resolution.” Its destination is Port Said where she is due on September 2. She will remain there until September
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  • 20 1 —Reuter. TO BE ABOLISHED Nanking, August 29. The government has decided to abolish tile Piping Political Council—Reuter.
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  • 58 1 ;.—Reuter. For Service On Dutch Planes MAKE UP SHORTAGE OWING TO RECENT LOSSES The Hague, August 30. The Royal Dutch Airlines are negotiating with British, German, Austrian and Scandinavian airmen after a decision to appoint experienced foreign pilots to make up the shortage of Dutch
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  • 144 1 —Rugby Radio Service. To Be In Closer Touch With Affairs London, August 30. The Prime M nister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin who rejoined Mrs. Baldwin at Aixles Bains to complete his holiday after the special Cabiret last Thursday expects to leave there on Wednesday and reach London
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  • 121 1 —Rugby Radio Service. Clyde Authorities Preparing For Voyage London, August 29. Although the 73,000 ton Cunard White Star liner “Queen Mary” is not due to leave Messrs. John Brown’s fitting barin at Clyde Bank for another nine months, Clyde authorities have already almost completed the preliminary plans
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  • 58 1 Reuter. Serious Outbreak In Taoan District Peiping, August 29. A Mukden message states that there is a serioug outbreak of bubonic plague in the Taoan District, West of Harbin. Seventy-eight deaths were reported. The disease is new an epidemic in the Fuyu, Shuangshan and Changlin districts
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  • 2274 4 MAJOR NUNN’S REPORT FOR 1934 PENANG ROADS COST $564 PER MILE TO UPKEEP Xvai h six million dollars, out of a total of over eight millions allotted by Government, was spent by the Public Works Department in the Straits Settlements during 1934. Major R.
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  • 3495 5 ESTATE OF FORMER GOVERNOR OF RENONG UNDUE INFLUENCE BY DAUGHTER CONVEYANCE IN HER FAVOUR TO BE SET ASIDE DECEASED MENTALLY UNSOUND Judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Whitley in the I'Pieme Court yesterday m the suit between Khaw Bian Thong, plaint ill, and Khaw Keow
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    • 71 5 FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF OUR J UP-COUNTRY PATRONS AND THOSE vRC A T 1 WHO COULD NOT ATTEND THE NEWS I LAST WEEK OF SALE. < FOR THRIFTY PEOPLE, j\j three extra SALE DAYS MONDAY TUESDAY II WEDNESDAY i SEPT. 3rd I SEPT. 4th NO EXTENSION AFTER THESE DATES TAKE
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  • 276 6 IlMlliiaMa ©be® IBwsft ALL THAT WAS LEFT of a bridge at Ovada after the oursting of part of the Lake Orticella dam above Ovada. The other side of the bridge was once II houses, which were completely swept away in the terrific rush of water*
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  • 321 7 Coroner's Inquiry Into Tamil's Death The inquiry’ was resumed before the I Coroner. Mr. J.P. Biddulph, in the police. ,’ourt yesterday into the death of a Tamil named Aiyavoo from formalin poisoning on April 27. Inspector W.C. Alexander conducted th proceedings. Mr. H McNeice appeared on behalf of
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  • 184 7 Subscription List No. 2 Amount previously acknowledged 1,462.78 Choong Cheng Kian Estate 500.00 Mr. Yap Chor Ee 250.00 Messrs. Kim Bean Seng Co., Ltd. 200.00 The Penang Rice Merchants Association 100.00 Chop Poh Cheong, Penang 40.00 Staff of Messrs Klye, Palmer Co. Ltd. 5.00 Staff of
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  • 774 7 OWNERS' ASSOCIATION PLAN FOR 1936 YOUNG AREAS MAY BE DONE The Council of the Malayan Estate Owners’ Association has suggested to the Controller of Rubber that a fully repreI sentative committee should be appointed to consider the question of a re-assessment of the whole of
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  • 417 7 BIRTH RATE 37.1 AND DEATH RATE 23.4 There were 158.330 births registered in Malaya in 1934 as compared with 157,437 in 1933. Registrations "were made by the local Registrars of Births and Deaths and communicated biannually in terms of the numbers of each race, to the
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  • 278 7 U.P.A.M. Suggest A Conference UNIFORM RULES IN ALL COUNTRIES The United Planting Association of Malaya has asked that the Malayan ad-! ministrations take the initiative in ap- proaching the Governments of Ceylon and I the N.I. w’ith a view to securing agreement to uniform rules relating
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  • 1052 7 S'pore Rotary Address "STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM" Singapore, Aug. 29. Mr. Ong Kim Seng, the editor of the local weekly magazine “The New Era was the speaker at yesterday s luncheon of the Rotary Club of Singapore at the Adelphi Hotel. He spoke of his impressions
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  • 210 7 j Issues Frnp"' Australian i Dependencies Although the Silver Jubilee stamps of Great Britain and the self-governing Dominions have already ceased to be sold, special issues in honour of the occasion continue to arrive from distant parts of the Empire. The most recent are those just J
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  • 575 8 Al Nicholas Wins Poor Fight SEMI-FINAL BOUT A FARCE (BY “SECONDS OCT’) Ipoh, Today. Compared to previous promotions last Bight’s b xing was far from satisfactory. It has been the policy of the Jubilee Park management to crowd as many bouts as possible in one night
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  • 128 8 —Reuter. KENT SOUNDLY BEATEN HAMMOND SCORES 252 AGAINST LEICESTER Lcndon, August 29. The following are the results of principal cricket matches concluded today:— South Africa defeated Kent by an innings and 138 runs. South Africa: 311. Kent: 124 (Vincent 7 for 48) and 49. GLOUCESTER
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  • 294 8 ”E" Coy. Beat Warders BY TWO CLEAR GOALS The E Coy. obtained full points in their Second Division soccer fixture against the W arders Football Club, winning by two clear goals. The game w’as marred to some extent tow’ards end by rough Play. The /Eurasians pressed from
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  • 399 8 S.X.R.C. Beat Cricket Club VICTORY BY THREE CLEAR GOALS I first division fixture between the Penang Cricket Club and the St. Xavier’s Recreation Club was played off yesterday on the Esplanade and resulted in a win for the Xavierians by three clear goals. The P.C.C. attacked the
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  • 63 8 I. —Reuter. Won By Paul Beg A CLOSE FINISH London, August 29. The following was the result of the Gimcrack stakes run at York today:— PAUL BEG 1 BARROWBY GEM 2 WINDS A1L'..... 3 Eight ran. Wen by a neck; a length between the second and third.
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  • 111 8 Annual General Meeting (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Aug. 29. The Selangor Hockey Association held their annual general meeting this evening at the Selangor Club. After adopting the minutes and accounts, the following were elected office-bearers: Mr. T. S. Adams—President. Mr. C.H. Sansom—Chairman. Mr. R.E. Cox—Secretary.
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  • 3032 9 HAMMOND AND LEYLAND MAKE THINGS HUM S. AFRICA'S 476 RECORD NINTH WICKET STAND ROBS US OF CHANCE TO SAVE RUBBER—HOBBS SOUTH AFRICA 476 ENGLAND 238—3 ENGLAND’S, batting against the South Africans in the final Test at the Oval on August 19, were faced with
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    • 43 9 JUST RECEIVED SHANGHAI LACE CO.. J L 27, Bishop Street, Penang. L ,<«> I <e I j j Comfortable travel from ftnang to Bangkok I the Capital of Siam in Day A Night Coaches with excellent Restaurant Car Service. STATE RAILWAYS OF SIAM a
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  • 703 10 War has its roots in human ambition and cupidity, strong impulses which can be regulated in the community as well as the individual, and the Catholic Church, with her clear practical teaching tin justice, her stern condemnation of fraud, violence and robbery and murder, her lofty ideals of charity
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  • 123 10 Victim's Condition Improves (By Our Perak Representative) Ipoh, Thursday. In view of th e improvement of the injured man who is seid to have been a victim of an assault ca/.’ied out by a number of Chinese at, Lahat, the two Chinese who were taken into
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  • 70 10 S. S. S. T. Alagappa Chettiar was produced before the magistrate (Mr. J. P. Biddulph) in the police court today charged with the offence of quitting the Colony after the making of a receiving order against him, with intent to avoid examination in respect of his
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  • 199 10 Awful Tragedy Outside Ipoh (By Our Perak Representative) Ipoh, Thursday. The awful tragedy of a middle-aged Tamil who met his death when his skull was crushed on the railway line by a train which was coming from Penang to Ipoh has been disclosed. 'The victim
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    • 808 10 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.) Sir, —The thanks of all Architects are due to you lor your ciear and auie exposition in tne treading .Article ot yesterday on thsubject discussed by the Municipal Commissioners with regard to the Fourtl Schedule of the Architects’ Ordinance 192»
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  • 1652 11 EMPLOYING CHINESE CLERK FOR TOUTING APPEAL FROM ORDER OF SUSPENSION BEFORE FULL COURT OF APPEAL The Singapore lawyer, Mr. Taib-ud-Din Talkudar who was recently found guilty of professional misconduct by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Burton and Mr. Justice Terrell at Singapore, appealed
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    • 58 11 Eastern Bs Oriental Hotel PENANG. TOMORROW Extension of Bar Licence to 1 A.M. DINNER. DANCE CABARET j WITH CORNELIA KIRDALL DANCE MUSIC BY HARRY LAMMERTS HIS ORCHESTRA. DINNER CABARET $3/- NON-DINERS $l/For Table Reservations, 'Phone 322. Sunday, Ist September ORCHESTRAL CONCERT 9.15 p.m. to 11.15 p.m. BY HARRY LAMMERTS HIS
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    • 34 11 i i Mb I Car 4 •'A Picture of Health" HE'S A TRUFOOD BABY HUMANISED IT NEVER FAILS Obtainable At All Chemists High Class Stores SOLE AGENTS FOR MALAYA THE DISPENSARY (1929) LTD., PENANG.
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  • 949 12 DEALERS* FEARS PROVED TO BE UNFOUNDED BUT LESS WORK FOR LOCAL MILLING INDUSTRY While fears as to the position of Singapore and Penang as markets and transhipment centres for rubber have proved Unfounded, the incidence of rubber control has resulted in some loss to Singapore’s
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  • 110 12 Latest Quotations Thursday Wednesday Paris 75 9 64 75 7 64 New York 4.97 ft 4.97 ft Montreal 4.98% 4.98% Brussels 29.50 29.49 Geneva i 15.23% 15.23 Amsterdam 7.33% 7.33% Milan 60% 60% Berlin 12.35% 12.35% Prague 119% 119% Copenhagen Oslo 19.90% 19.90% Stockholm 19.39% 19.39%
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  • 758 12 CASE FOR A SPREADOVER OF COLLECTION Estate duties are a form of direct taxation which gives rise to great discussion. Apart from the burden which they can lay upon individual estates, especially when two deaths occur in quick succession, they are in effect a levy
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    • 43 12 MARIw s Mr* PILLS, I APIOL STEEL I I Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should I keep a box in the house. I I w. j. ■DMnsm I I The BngHah Pharamy I I 02-54» BbmH Btiwet, Ptmmg. I
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    • 292 12 BABIES THRIVE ON I "LACTOGEN". Doctors, Nurses, Heads of Infant Welfare Centres, and other Health Authorities say— gl I “PUT BABY ON LACTOGEN” because I g Lactogen-fed babies grow sturdy, g; strong, vigorous, healthy and happy g t with firm flesh, dense bone, good teeth, steady nerves and splendid constitu-
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  • 1203 13 CAR SKIDS AND CRASHES INTO TREE KING LEOPOLD SLIGHTLY INJURED LUCERNE, AUG. 29. THE QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS WAS KILLED IN A MOTOR zXCCIDENT AND THE KING, WHO WAS DRIVING THE CAR, WAS SLIGHTLY HURT. Reuter and Rugby Radio Service, BEAUTIFUL MORNING King Decides To
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  • 54 13 EXHIBITION CLOSED Emergency Meeting Of Cabinet The International Exhibition immediately closed when the news of the Queen's death was received. Business is almost at a standstill in Belgium. Everywhere a flag fllies at ha.fmast and pecple are discussing the accident in streets and cafes. The Brussels and Antwerp stock
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  • 68 13 Tokio, Aug. 27. A hand-forged sword, as a token of Japa.no-Abyssinian friendship will be presented by th* Association of Japanese swordsniiths to Negus—the Emperor of Abyssinia. The famous swordsmith, Kogi Kaneko, in Fukuoka has been entrusted with thu manufacture of the sword which the Foreign Minister,
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  • 390 13 I Splendid 1934 Record In Colony 3 EXECUTIONS With 1934 a year of economic recovery, less criminals have been admitted into prisons in the Straits Settlements. The daily average number of prisoners decreased from 2,028 in 1933 to 1,557 in 1934 —and this too, when the number
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  • 27 13 Cornelia and Kirdall who are appearing at the E. and O. Hotel in classic, modern and eccentric dances on Saturday night and next week.
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    • 93 13 "A PERFECT PICTURE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY" ASK THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN IT THEY WILL ADVISE YOU TO BRING YOUR FAMILY ALONG IxLitMUS K?-: ■> Jll j| 6-15 NIGHTLY 9-30 MATINEES SAT. SUN. AT 2-45 P.M. SHIRLEY TEMPLE Seirsafional IN HER MOST APPEALING PICTURE Discovery. BRIMMING WITH HAPPINESS, EXCITEMENT ROMANCE
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  • 537 14 NOTICE The Air Mails despatched from Penang on the 18th August per the Imperial Airways via Alor Star were delivered in London on the 28th August. AIR MAILS A mail for Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and South Africa by train to Singapore
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  • 881 14 SHIPPING ARRIVALS DEPARTURES Schedule Of Principal Lines fh« following is a Ust of vessels arriving MMI sailing from Penang during the week: KN PORT TODAY S.S. ACHILLES from Liverpool. Sails for Hong Kong, Shanghai and Japan. M.V. GLENBEG from Far East via Singapore. Sails Ist Sept, for Colombo, Suez, Poirt
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    • 1272 14 Wireless Programmes p p Pianoforte Recital by Vivian Langrish. B.oo—Station Orchestra. B B W 8 20Weekly Newsletter and Sports Sum-; French music. mary. B.4oThe London Zigeuner Orches- j 8.30 —“Latest News from Holland.” TODAY tra directed by Ern est Leggett. Rita MacK key (Soprano). 9.os—Close down. B.4s—Station Orchestra. Transmission o
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    • 525 16 *Phone 485 Amalgamated Amusements. Limited 86, Beach Street, Penang. FUN FROLIC MAIN GATE 10 CENTS. Friday, 30th August, 1935 CHIN WAN KNOW CANTONESE OPERA “SAT FOO CHERE YUEN SI FOO" SEATS :—6O, 40 and 20 Cents. NO FREE LISTS. KHENG HWA LIAN KENG CHIEW OPERA ,j “CHANG KIM LOK" SEATS
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    • 321 16 6-15 LAST NIGHT TONIGHT 9-30 6.15 Nightly 9.30 new talk,e AURAT -KA DIL MATINEE TOMORROW AT 2-45 P.M. OR PATIT UDDHAR a A L <iii£ik 1 onic wi a great cast P. JAIRAJ MUBARAK SITARA Never Has Audiences Been So Convulsed With TARA SHAMSUDIN And 1000 Others In Support. Laughter
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  • 24 17 SOME OF THE CHILDREN who entered for the prizes given for costumes in the children’s fancy dress parado at Southsea.
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  • 703 17 ADMISSION IN STATEMENT Clerk Says He Took The Money Away THREE MEN TO GO FOR TRIAL There were more sensations at Chester in. the hearing of the case arising out of the Northwich safe robbery trial, in which James Thompson,
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  • 93 17 James Thompson, solicitor’s clerk. of Bollins, near Oldham, is accused of attempting to suborn Samuel Lazarus to commit perjury. Frank Melia, of Staining, Blackpool, is accused of receiving £3,050 in stolen notes, the money of George Wilkinson, at Chester. Viplet Boothby (33), and William Parkinson (31), are accused
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  • 209 17 Manufacture At Melbourne Melbourne, August 14. Powerful 3-inch anti-aircraft guns for the defence of Australia’s six capital cities and Newcastle and Darwin are to be manufactured almost immediately at the Maribymong munition factories here. Machinery for this purpose has already been imported and installed at Maribyrnong.
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  • 362 17 Led By Jilted Suitor Of King's Daughter CASUALTY ROLL OF 300 Belgrade, August 16. A serious revolt is reported to have broken out in the Berat district of Albania, including the town of Fieri. The Albanian Government immediately isolated the district with police end troops and cut
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  • 168 17 Official quarters in Australia (says Reuter) not only regard the appointment of Sir Geoffrey Whiskard as first British High Commissioner to Australia as a fitt- ing recognition of the increasing importance of the Commonwealth’s place in i the counsels of the Empire but agree
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  • 441 17 Why He Declined Film Offers "WHO'S HOMER?" Sir Thomas Beecham on August 17 revealed the reasons why he has not hitherto worked in co-operation with a film company. He is shortly to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from two of Mozart’s operas,
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  • 205 17 Explorers* Find In New Guinea Melbourne, Aug. 13. The Government has received an official report form the explorer, Mr. Hides, announcing the discovery of a new tribe in New Guinea. The people, he says, were found in an area w’hich held the party spellbound by its beauty.
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  • 219 18 "I Am Prince SchoenburgWaldenburg" "OH, YEAH," REPLY POLICE The police at Melbourne (Victoria) received news that a sports car had been stolen. In their search they came across a sports car hidden in a dimly-lit back street in Montague, a suburb of Melbourne. They ran
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  • 137 18 Duties Remitted On Electricity Plant Mr. W.H. Taylor, the general manager of the Western Australian Government Electricity Supply, which provides current for power and lighting purposes for the whole of the Perth metropolitan area, is shortly returning to Western Australia, having completed the letting of contracts
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  • 246 18 Litigation Likely By Divorce Victim NEED FOR REFORM I The question whether a clergyman of the Church of England is legally bound to solemnise the remarriage of divorced people will be raised in litigation now pending at the instance of a woman. Having obtained a divorce
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  • 753 18 SHOPKEEPER’S REPLY TO BREACH CHARGE I Evidence for the defence was recorded on Tuesday before Air. H. A. F’orrer, the Singapore Criminal District Judge, in the case in which Tan Kee Leng, a Chinese merchant, was charged at the instance of
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  • 1076 19 The following are impressions of Java of the latv Gaavth Jones which appealed in the Western Mail shortly before bis brutal death at the hands of Chinese bandits in China was announced. “The land of poisons and of witch doctors, of magic and of
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  • 154 19 Tokyo, August 20. Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, the newly ap- pointed President of the South Manchuria I Railway Company, paid a farewell visit to the Minister of War, General Hayashi this (Tuesday) morning, when the Minister urged Mr. Matsuoka to do his best to realize the mission of the
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  • 81 19 A Three-Power Problem In China Osaka. August 20. The executive members of the Association of Japanese Cotton Spinners in China have decided to formulate a definite plan of Sino-Japanese co-operation for growing cotton in North China, including the Shensi, Hopei, Honan end Shangtung provinces, and to submit to
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  • 912 19 JAPAN ON THE MAINLAND When General Ugaki, now Governor General of Korea, was Minister for War I he advocated the increase of the standing army in Korea on the ground that if there were trouble in Manchuria troops could be sent by rail across the border
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