Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 January 1937

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No- 21. Vol. XCV. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 247 1 Evidence In Moscow Treason Trial ATTEMPTS TO KILL OFFICIALS Moscow, Jan. 26. The newspapers are publishing violently worded resolutions demanding the death penalty for the accused in the mass trial. Today’s proceedings were marked by further evidence by the accused admitting their guilt, varied by a
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    32 1 A SKI-ING KING. The young King of Siam photographed at Arose-Hulm in Switzerland where he is enjoying the winter sports. He is seen setting off for a ski-ing ejrpedition.
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  • 83 1 i sent stives of both governments.—Reuter. Agreement In Sight Washington. Jan. 25. Mr Walter Runciman announced at a i' et-s Conference at the British Embassy that he and President Roosevelt were close to an agreement in principle as the basis for negotiation of a reciprocal Anglo-Am- rican I
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  • 390 1 —Sin Chew Jit Poh. REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES Shanghai. Jan. 24. The rebel forces led by Gen. Yang Hu Cheng, assisted by Chinese Reds, launched a night attack on the Government positions near Weihsien. a few miles to the east of Sianfu. yesterday but were repulsed
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  • 155 1 League Conference In Java MRS. MUKERJEE PASSES THROUGH Mrs. S.C. Mukerjee passed through Penang yesterday on her way to attend League of Nations’ Conference on the traffic in women and children, to be held at Bandeong. Java, early next month. The conference, the first of
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  • 58 1 Reuter. Washington. Jan. 26. The fatalities of the glood disaster have increased to 80. Fourteen were drowned in Ripley. Tennessee, when a house, in which some persons had taken refuge, toppled over and hurled the victims to the flood waters. Three women and three children were drowned
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  • 46 1 Reuter. Rain Again Adelaide, Jan. 26. There was no play before lunch in the M.C.C.--South Australia match. Heavy rain overnight .made play impossible this morning and it is likely that further play will be abandoned in view of the Fourth Test on Friday
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  • 92 1 British Wireless. Evacuation Of Civilians SPANISH GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST London, Jan. 26. Attention was called in the House of the report of the health organisation of the League of Nations that 200 motor omnibuses are needed by the Spanish Government to assist in the evacuation of civil population
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  • 36 1 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai. Jan. 25. A junk, carrying over a hundred night shift workers for the Ching-tang-kiang bridge overturned in midstream last night and all were drowned except about 20.
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  • 56 1 Mr. R. Block Arriving Today Mr. Rudolph Block, a well-known American journalist, who writes for the Heerst Press in America, is expected in Penang today by the "Jutlandia” from Europe. Mr. Block is better known as Bruno Lessing and Vagabondus, under which names many articles by him
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  • 48 1 British Wireless. London, Jan. 26. As a result of an invitation conveyed to him by Mr. Eden, the Swedish Minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Sandler, will pay a short visit to London in the course of March as guest of His Majesty’s Government.
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  • 58 1 .—Reuter. Generally Satisfactory Paris. Jan. 26 The Italo-German replies to the British note are regarded in authoritative quarters as generally satisfactory. It is held now that there is no reason why steps should not be taken compa: atively quickly to fix a date for the
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  • 61 1 The P. O. liner Naldera The P. O. liner Naldera damaged a propeller when leaving Southampton for the Far East with 300 passengers on board and teas taken back to drydock at Southampton. Some of the passengers, who should have been well out to sea in the liner, are watching
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  • 83 1 Negotiations In London London. Jan. 25. Reuter is reliably informed that FrancoBritish Treasury officials are at present discussing the terms of British credit in London. Negotiations are centering round the duration of the credit, whether it should be nine months or a year, the amount and
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  • 79 1 Reuter. 1937 Holds Promise Of Over Six Million Washington, Jan. 25. That the total permanent unemploymen’ figure would be five million, even when prosperity was restored, was predicted by Mr. Hopkins, Works Progress Administrator, when speaking to the House of Representatives’ Appropriiitions Sub-Com-mittee. He said that "1937 holds
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  • 27 1 Captain W. E. L. S. Pocock having been granted leave of absence. Captain J. A. Smith is appointed to the s.s. "Ranchi” from today.
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  • 122 1 Reuter. KING’S MESSAGE Clears Ground For Empire Visit London, Jan. 26. The Prime Minister is bringing to the House of Commons this afternoon a message from the King asking whether legislation is to be passed for establishing a regency providing for the ladministration of the Government
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  • 74 1 (From Our Own Correspondent > Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. Sentence of five years’ rigorous imprisonment was passed by Mr. Justice Cussen at the Selengor Assizes today on a Tamil, Mari, alias Nadason, alias Hussein, who was found guilty of returning from banishment. Mari, who
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 121 1 MALAYA SILVER CO., No. 458, Chulia Street, Penang, S.S. MANUFACTURERS DEALERS OF silver photos, shields, cups, etc. Gold and silver badges and medals, brass and zinc blocks, lantern slides, brass plates. Prizes for schools and clubs. Gifts for weddings, birthdays, etc. Scientific Workmanship. Moderate charges Prompt servic e. .Wliat, bacon
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  • 614 2 More Money 7han She Wants Stockholm, Jan. 17. THE happiest country ini Europe today is Sweden. It is the nearest approach to Utopia that the modern world has seen. While other nations are anxiously awaiting the introduction of their Budgets Herre Wigforss, the Swedish
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  • 264 2 Herr Hitler's New Decree VERSAILLES AGAIN REPUDIATED Berlin, Jan. 17. According to an order issued in the “Naval Orders Gazette,’’ “warships and war vessels belonging to foreign Powers can only pass through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal (the Kiel Canal) after pe: mission has been obtained
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  • 105 2 Versailles Treaty Clause No surp ise has been caused in London by the new promulgation about the Kiel Canal. The promulgation itself is regarded as unnecessary, inasmuch as it follows logically from Germany’s denunciation on November 14 of Part XII (Poits. Waterways, and Railways > of
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  • 216 2 Nazi Campaign Against "Grumblers" Berlin, Jan. 15 An outspoken reference to the Church dispute was made by Herr Himmler, chief of all the German police forces, in a speech broadcast over the German wireless stations. Referring to the work of the secret State police, he said: “As
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  • 128 2 Mrs. Roosevelt’s Horror Washington, Jan. 15. Mrs. Roosevelt was deeply shocked during a visit to the 61-year-old District of Columbia Gaol, when she discovered that electrocutions took place in the dining-hall Expressing her horror, she termed the overcrowded gaol "a danger to the community.’’ There are
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  • 91 2 The High Commissioner for Australia has been advised by the Commonwealth Government that a regulation has been issued prohibiting the importation into Australia of all foreign goods consisting of or bearing Royal emblems or the like (including British Empire flags) or any other marks,
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  • 341 2 MR. AMERY AND CASE AGAINST RETURN Mr. L. S. Amery, M.P., has given careful study to General Von Epp’s case for the return to Germany of the Colonies which, under the Versailles Treaty, she ceded to the principal Allied and Associated Powers. In a Supplement to the
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  • 428 2 Commission Hears Their Case NOT ENOUGH POSTS FOR MOSLEMS Jerusalem, JUn. 17. Fuad Saba, secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, and Dr. Hussein Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem, today presented further evidence on behalf of the Arabs at a public sitting of the Royal Commission investigating the causes
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  • 115 2 Negligible Element The intervention of Fascist candidates in the L.C.C. elections will, in the opinion of Mr. Herbert Morrison. M.P., the Socialist leader of the London Country Council, show that Fascism in this country is “a negligible and contemptible element.” Speaking at a Socialist party
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  • 84 2 Berlin, Jan. 15. One of the 16 new German destroyers has been named the Hans Lody, after Lieutenant Cail Hans Lody. who was shot as a spy in the tower of London in November 1914. The First of the 16 was commissioned today at Kiel. Hitler
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  • 279 3 DISSATISFACTION OF BRITISH FIRMS London, Jan. 25. In the House of Commons Mr. A. F. Chorlton called attention to the dissatisfaction of British firms trading in China owing to imitation by Chinese of trade marks owned by British firms and registered in China. Reuter. >l6
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  • 81 3 Reuter. KENTUCKY'S APPEAL FOR ENGINEERS Washington. Jan. 25. The Governor of Kentucky has asked President Roosevelt for t’oops and engineers to "rule, rescue and reassure.’’ Three hundred thousand inhabitants in Louisville are panic-stricken by the rising floods. President Roosevelt thereupon called an emergency confe ence with the heads
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  • 161 3 -British Radio. Success Attributed To British Mediation London, Jan. 25. The two main problems before the Council of the League are the subjects of further private negotiation today. They will not be discussed at this afternoon’s Council meeting which will be devoted to the consideration of other matters
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  • 46 3 —Reuter. Vatican City. Jan. 24. The Pope’s condition is fairly satisfactory and there is less pain in his legs.— Reuter. Vatican City, Jan. 25. The Pope spent a better night, sleeping some hours without the aid of drugs. He tested in the morning.
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  • 88 3 —Reuter. Nanking's Protest Nanking, Jan. 25. The Foreign Office has protested to Japan against the activities of Japanese secret service agents at Chengchow. Honan, where the Chinese police on Jan. 5 raided a house, seized a number of documents and arrested three Japanese. Those arrested, who
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  • 46 3 —Reuter. UNCOLLECTED DUTY TOTAL 550.000.000 Nanking, Jan- 25. The serious recrudescence in organised smuggling in North China has been reported to the Government by Mr. Maze who estimates that the duty leviable but uncollected on such cargo in 1936 aggregated about $50,000,000.
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  • 74 3 British Wireless. Part In Indian Border Politics London, Jan. 25. Sir Hamilton Grant whose death occurred in London on Saturday, aged 64. played an important part in Indian border politics of war and post-war periods. He served as Foreign Secretary to the Government of India
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  • 50 3 British Radio. Thames' Valleys Flooded London. Jan. 25. Heavy rains during the week-end aggravated the situation caused by the flooded rivers in maffy parts of the country. Many bungalows became isolated and the roads were flooded everywhere in the valleys of the Thames and its tributaries.
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  • 70 3 —British Wireless. London, Jan. 25. The Connection between Loch Garry and (X)ch Erich. Scotland for the Grampian electricity scheme is nearing completion. The Work has been in operation for two years and the engineers in charge are of the opinion that nine-feet diameter openings which are
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  • 31 3 —Reuter. New. York. Jan. 25. The seamen’s strike in the Atlantic Gulf is ended. St ikers and employers in the west coast a’e very near reading an agreement.
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  • 34 3 —Reuter. 350,000 Rupees For Colombo’s Deaf And Blind Colombo, Jan. 25. Lord Nuffield who is en route to Australia donated 350.000 rupees to the local deaf and blind school. LORD NUFFIELD.
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  • 123 3 NON INTERVENTION IN SPAIN Reuter. ITALY AGREES WITH BRITAIN London. Jan. 25. The Italian note to Biitain concurs with British aims and expresses readiness to legislate to prevent recruitment and transit of volunteers for Spain. It also agrees to an adequate system of control when other countries have adopted similar
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  • 98 3 accused of trafficking in drugs.— Reuter Wireless. China Protests Nanking. Jan. 25. The Foreign Office has protested to Japan the activities of Japanese secret service agents at Cheng Chow and Honan where Chinese police, on Jan. 5. raided a house and seized a number of documents
    accused of trafficking in drugs.— Reuter Wireless.  -  98 words
  • 98 3 —Reuter London, Jan. 25. In the House of Commons Sir Charles Cayzer drew attention to the Japanese Government's proposals to cancel the perpetual oases granted to certain Britons in Treaty acts upon the expiration of extra territorial rights in Japan in 1899 on terms which
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  • 65 3 —British Rad.o. London. Jan. 25. The Chamber of Shipping’s quarterly returns of the number and tonnage of ships from the United Kingdom ports on Jan. 1 shows further marked improvements in B itish shipping. Ships to tke number of 112 and of the tonnage of 192,177 we e
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  • 180 3 —Reuter. Excitement Not Expected London, Jan. 25. Tomorrow’s International Rubber Committee Meeting is not expected to produce undue excitement. Well informed people are of the opinion that the Committee aided by the strike in the United States is well on its way to regaining control of prices
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  • 153 3 —Reuter. Norwegian Steamer In Distress Oslo, Jan. 24. The mailboat Venus is en route from Newcastle to Be gen where a great recep•_ion is awaiting her. She was obliged to rush to assist another Norwegian steamer Veni, with a crew of 27. which sent out an S
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  • 50 3 Reuter. Committee Of Fifteen Appointed Geneva. Jan. 25. The Council has appointed a committee of 15 including Sir Leith Ross and Sir Hemy Strakosch and representives of Japan. Soviet. United States. France and Holland to deal with access to raw material question. Germany had decided not to participate.-
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  • 84 3 —Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai. Jan. 25. Mr. Wang Ching-wei, accompanied by Mess s. Tsang Chung-ming and Chu Minyi, flew to Fenghua yesterday to confer with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. They will stay in Fenghua a few days before returning to Nanking. Sin Chew Jit
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  • 60 3 -Sin’ Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Jan. 24. The Japanese are impatient and threatening strong action if Nanking compromises with the rebels which will virtually render the principles of their Prime Minister. Mr. Hirota, futile. Japanese troops and police raided Radical organs in the suburbs of Tokyo.
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  • 18 3 —Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 25. Doret has abandoned his flight as the machine is bedly damaged.-
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  • 289 3 WILL TO CO-OPERATE MUST EXIST IN BOTH COUNTRIES Paris, Jan. 25. “The will to co-operate exists in France and if Germany also shows the will to co-operate, we are ready to work with her,” declared M. Blum in a speech at Lyons. M. Blum deprecated
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  • 65 3 British Wireless. London, Jan. 25. The Chamber of Shipping's quarterly returns of the number and tonnage of ships from United Kingdom ports on Jan. 1 shows further marked improvements in British shipping. Ships to the number of 112 and of tonnage of 192. 177 were laid
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  • 44 3 British Wireless. London, Jan. 25. During the week-end aggravate a situation caused by flooded rivers in many parts of the counter. Many bungalows became isolated and roads were flooded everywhere in the valleys of the Thames and its tributaries.
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  • 60 3 Reuter Still Under Discussion London. Jan. 25. “The matter is still under discussion with the Japanese Government who have not yet given their final reply’.' said Viscount Cranborne in the House of Commons when questioned by Capt. Alan Graham ind Sir Charles Cayzer as to whether Japan had
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  • 252 4 The King and Queen and the Princesses will move into Buckingham Palace soon after their return from Sandringham at the end of this month. The King and Queen will occupy the same first floor rooms as were used by King George and Queen
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  • 154 4 Legacy From A Passenger For ten years before he died last November at the age of sixty-nine. Mr. Fred Owen Chorley. retired grocer, of HomiltonTOHd, Reading, used to wait for one special tramcar whenever he had to go into the ‘'town. On that tram was conductor A.
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  • 266 4 League Conference Delegates Pass Through The League of Nations’ Conference on Ifie traffic in women gird children, the first ■of its kind to be held in the Far East, will take place in Bandeong, Java, early next month and will last for a fortnight. Representatives
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  • 1580 4 MALAYANS AT HOME Mr G. E. London, ex-Under Secretary, Federated Malay States, and now Colom il Secretary, Gold Coast, has been home on leave but has just left London to return to duty. 1 Miss Molly Ismail arrived in London from Johore Bahru last November and is
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  • 233 4 MR. MRS. YEAP CHOR EE ENTERTAIN R. C. and Mrs. Goodman Present Mr. and Mrs. Yeap Chor Ee entertained over 60 guests to dinner on Saturday night at their residence in Northam Road on the occasion of the marriage of their sixth son, Mr. Yeap Hock Hin, to a daughter
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  • 140 4 Three To Qualify For Bar One Engineering The 1936 winners of the F.M.S. Queen Scholarships are to leave for England some time in August this year. They are Mr. Ng Wah Hing, of the A.C.S., Ipoh, Reja Zahar, of Malay College, Kuala Kangsar, and
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    • 391 4 THOUSANDS OF “HUMAN WRECKS” fl a 9 31 a fll ’fl™™™™™™" IDEFORM ED~| [i PI’RE BLOOD, STRONG ADTMRITIB 'll GIANT VIGOUR I HKI I(3 i '.l IT of grateful users write to 1 I us bow FI LLER CELERY PERLES have g>vr jr them freedom, item, the pan. of stiff,
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  • 625 5 Presiding Deity In Penang (By “A Modern Hindu”) There are three Gods to a Hindu a Trinity as it were—Brahma, the creator, Vishnu, the protector, and Shiva, the destroyer. Their respective wives are Saraswati, the goddess of learning, Laxmi, the goddess «if wealth, and Parvati, the divine
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  • 208 5 Chance Of "Busman's Holiday" Malayan Government officers whose next leave enables them to be in England during July are af folded the chance of spending a. “busman’s holiday.” They are invited to apply for admission to the Oxford University Summer School on Colonial Administration which will be
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  • 180 5 French Scotland Yard To Investigate French doctors and detective are to combine in the study of the Jekyll and Hyde dual personality that drives many otherwise normal men to commit murders. Close examination of the facts of the express train murder, in which an attractive widow
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  • 274 5 $lBO,OOO To Build A $lBO,OOO building, comprising four storeys rising 70 feet above the ground and occupying an area of approximately 5,000 square feet, is being constructed at the junction of Chulia and Philip Streets. Singapo! e. It will be the new premises of the Sze Hai
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  • 37 5 Ceylon beinq loaded on an Imperial Airways machine, at Croydon. The occasion was the start of an all-air journey for the mail, as it is usually transferred to a steamer at Madras.
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  • 329 5 Chinese Passenger Killed When lightning struck the fuse box of e trolley bus in Singapore last week-end making the driver lose control and the vehicle to swing across the road and crash into a steel post, a Chinese passenger was so badly injured that he died
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  • 120 5 £1,000,000 CLAIM Warsaw, Jan. 17. The Polish Supreme Couit today rejected the claim of the Countess Brassoff, morganatic wife of the late Grand Duke Michael of Russia, to estates and property valued at more than one million pounds which belonged to her husband. MAY PETITION The verdict
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  • 150 5 Belgrade, Jan. 4. The inhabitants of a village near Tetovo, in Macedonia, bearing the remarkable came of Neproshteno, or “Unforgiven,” have been granted official permission to restriction it Acdreyevo, after the child prince of Amdrew of Yugo-Slavia. The legend runs that three hundred
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  • 193 5 INGOT TAKEN FROM SLIT POSTBAG New York, Jan. 17. A 331 b. gold ingot worth £2,800 was stolen from the French liner Paris during its voyage from Harve to New York. The discovery was made after the vessel started its return journey. The gold was
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  • 121 5 Amsterdam. Holland’s “oldest walker,” who has won many prizes and 76 medals during recent years, is now 76. He is Mr. M. de Wind, of Groningen. Since his seventy-second birthday he has walked some 2,000 miles. “I never get tired,” he has told interviewers. “After a day-long
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  • 149 5 IN A FEW YEARS' TIME Bombay, Jan. 18. Another Everest expedition will come to India within the next two or l three years to attack the unconquered mountain, according to Brig-Gen. the Hon. C. G. Bruce, who arrived here yesterday. Brig-Gen. Bruce was chief of
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  • 153 5 Man Succumbs To Injuries The young Chnese (Chin Kin Kong) aged 18, who was the victim of the stabbing affray which occurred in Hugh Low Street. Ipoh, on Friday night, succumbed to his injuries in the Ipoh District Hospital However, before he died, a dying
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  • 1052 6 THE LIGHTHOUSE MAY COME BACK London. THAT the reverse of the forthcoming issue of the bronze coinage will bear the familiar figure of Britannia, with the possible addition of a lighthouse, is a matter of interest to all students of numismatics The public has always
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  • 214 6 A mail for Siam, Burma, India, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Belgian Congo, Great Britain. Ireland and whole of Europe by Imperial Airways will close at 8 a.m. tomorrow A mail for the United States of America and other places served via U.S.A, by Imperial Airways to Lond?n,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 127 6 LAST 3 SHOWS Today 2.45 6.15 9.30 Out of the roaring furnaces of the steel mills conies this raging drama of loyalty and courage! MSm OMF- Don't fail to see VIC at his best as the “Magnificent Brute" OPENING TOMORROW Warner Bros, famous for many of the screen’s greatest musical
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    • 246 6 Greeted Bv Packed Houses Last Night. WINDSOR 5.45 TONIGHT 9.00 Special Matinee Today at 2 p.m. A GRAND THAIPUSAM ATTRACTION The Latest, Super Magnificent TAMIL TALKIE An Entirely Brand New. First Run Picture Two Great Stars Together S. D. SUBULAKSHMI and M. K. THIAGARAJA BAGAVATHAR in Naveena Sarangadha ra” A
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    • 73 6 Another Grand Double Feature Attraction ROYAL Nightly One Show At 8 p.m. Chinese Talkie THONG KIT in "Mr. Wong's Country Life" A rollicking, hilarious comedy drama! together with CANTONESE TALKIE Miss (Chee Lo Violet in "Loh Yong Bridge" with Miss Ng Yat Peng, Low Hee Mun. A picture packed with
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  • 828 7 Ran Amok On Ship With Knives In Hand JURY’S VERDICT OF “GUILTY BUT INSANE” “Guilty but insane,” was the verdict of the common jury in the Assize Court yesterday at the conclusion of the case in which Lim Mun Huat was charged
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  • 226 7 Man's Strange Conduct At Treasury Charged with having caused wilful damage at the Treasury Offices, Whitehall, by breaking six panes of glass, Albert Lee. aged thirty-four, of Liverpool, was remanded in custody at Bow Street Police Court recently. Lee pleaded guilty to the charge. A
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  • 256 7 MONEYLENDER AS COMPLAINANT From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, Jan. 24. A bigamy case came up for hearing before Tuan Syed Mohamed Idid, the Chief Malay Judge, in the High Court, Alor Star yesterday when Mangku was charged with having committed bigamy on May 5.
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  • 33 7 NAUF TO RESCUE The best man had to lend a hand after the wedding of Miss D. Hobbs at Devon while the groom, Lieut A.E. Wood disentangled his bride's train.
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  • 483 7 CARD OF 27 EVENTS For the first time in the history of Perak a cycling carnival will be held at Ipoh during the Hari Raya Haji Holidays from Saturday Feb. 20 to Monday Feb. 22 1937. It will be held under the auspices of the Ipoh
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  • 170 7 Feared It Was Unsigned Fearing that she would be left destitute because she believed her dying aunt hac not signed her will, Miss Olivia Stirling Barry threw herself in front of a train at a Weston-super-Mare level-crossing. At the inquest last week it was revealed that
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  • 258 7 MEMBER OF UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY Two weeks’ rigorous imprisonment was imposed on a young Chinese, Yeah Ah Chew, who was charged with being a member ot an unlawful assembly on Dec. 12 at Carnarvon Street, Penang. Mr. H. A. L. Luckham, the Penang second magistrate, said
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  • 100 7 The following passengers are on board the m.s. “Jutlandia” which is due to arrive here tomorrow morning from Home Mr. and Mrs. F. Worm. Mrs Johannes Larsen Mrs. A. Sylvester Havid. Mr. and Mrs. K. Brandt, Mr. R. Block, Rev W E. Spencer, Mr. S. Ingemann. Mrs
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  • 68 7 Two Malays, Eusoff bin Merican and Nayah binti Abdul Kader (f) appeared before Mr. H. A. L. Luckham in the Penang Police Court yesterday, charged with criminal misappropriation of a pair of bangles, one silk sarong, one baju and two cotton sarongs on Dec. 2. Both
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  • 45 7 H.M.S. Malaya, Captain F. A. Buckley, which has undergone large repairs at Devonport during the past two years, is to leave for the the Mediterranean on February 3. The Malaya was orginally completed in 1916 at the cost of the Federate*’ Malay States.
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  • 106 7 The Li Tek Seah Brass Band, un .er the direction of Mr. J. A. Montano, wdl play at the Esplanade tomorrow’ night from 8.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m Following is the programme:— March; Belphegor: E. Brepsant. Overture Lustspiel Keler Be a. Waltz Blue Danube Johann Strauss. Selection
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  • 546 8 AN Australian business man who recently passed through Penang on his way to London to witness the Coronation celebrations spoke in ven bright terms of the trade recovery in the Commonwealth. His views coincide with reports of several outstanding features of economic progress. notably the confidence
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  • 395 8 Efficiency Decorations And Medals REGULATIONS FOR AWARDS The following is a brief summary of the regulations relating to the Efficiency Decoration for Volunteer officers, and the Efficiency Medal for Wan ant officers, noncommissioned officers and men, which have been published in the Federated MaJay States Government Gazette:— EFFICIENCY
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  • 52 8 Bangkok. Jan. 25. Many members of Saint Andrew’s Society are entertaining in honour of Bum’s Night but there is no official celebration on the part of the St. Andrew Society. Stocks of haggis in the Cold Storage and tins at grocers’ shops were completely disposed of prioi
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  • 842 8 Good For Eurasians —At The Coronation —P. &0. Naldera —A New CommanderDue In Penang THE Eurasian Company, Penang Volunteers, is very gratified that Lieut (Acting Capt.) S. Toolseram has been selected as one of the officers to represent the Straits Settlements Volunteer Forces at the Coronation of
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  • 105 8 —British Wireless. $1,374,000,000 FROM BRITAIN London, Jan- 26. It was stated in reply to Parliamentary question that estimates recently compiled by the Uoited States department of commerce and treasury department showe that at Dec. 31, 1935, the investments in the United States by Britain stood out at
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  • 99 8 British Wireless. THAMES STILL RISING London, Jan. 26. There was no rain today in London area, but the Thames is still rising and flood waters are spreading in the Thames Valley, where large low-lying areas are under water. The flow of the river at Teddington was at
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 141 8 RALEIGH THE ALL-STEEL BICYCLE *l!\ liL I W\ \v* wisyf I iXiW'Ai 11■ jsSeH® ji THE WORLD'S BEST CYCLE GUARANTEED FOR EVER Prices From $45-00 each. ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET SENT FREE ON REQUEST SOLE AGENTS ROBINSON Co., Ltd., SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR Sub-Agents THE CHULIA CYCLE COMPANY, IOA, Church Street, PENANG. E.
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    • 44 8 ALREADY FAMOUS BLACK WHITE SMOKING MIXTURE is worthy to stand unashamed on the same shelf as Black White Cigarettes which have long been known as England’s highest class cigarettes. 1 oz, 2 oz 4 oz tins On sale everywhere Importers HENRY WAUGH CO. LTD.
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  • 1247 9 Best Exhibit Prize For Wanderer Of Ware f (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Jan. 25. BIG dogs and little dogs, elongated dogs and tubby ones were on display at the Singapore Dog Show at the Racecourse, Singapore, yesterday. There were perky Pomeranians, hugei friendly Great Danes, quaint
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  • 33 9 'The religious side of the Thaipusam festival is celebrated today and here are seen some of the devotees bathing in the river behind the Waterfall Temple.
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  • 454 9 PROGRAMME OF 27 EVENTS (From Our Own *Correspondent). Ipoh, Jan. 26. Under the auspices of the Ipoh Rotary Club, a cycling carnival, the first of its rind io the history of Perak, will be held at Ipoh during the Hari Raya Haji holidays from Saturday, Feb. 20
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  • 211 9 P. T. VAN DRIVER FATALLY INJURED 3 CHARGES AGAINST MALAY (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. Yusof bin Majid, a van driver employed by the Posts and Telegraphs Depa tment, was fatally injured yesterday when he was knocked down by a motor car, near the entrance to the
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  • 278 9 SLOW WORK YESTERDAY MISS SARDIS MOVES WELL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. Jan. 26. “The overnight shower which was a particularly heavy one, over an inch being recorded, did the course a world of good and the whole track looked fresh and green yesterday morning when
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  • 138 9 TWO TO THREE DAILY (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. That the average of bicycles reported to have een stolen in Kuala Lumpur was from two to th:ee a day. was stated by Chief Court Inspector A. E. Jakeman in the Kuala Lumpur
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  • 152 9 Singapore Baby's Unique Distinction A girl bom in the Singapore General Hospital last week came into the world with a distinction that is almost unique for a European in this country—she has treat grandmother is Mrs. R.M. Langleymother all in Singapore, where they have Lved for
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    • 125 9 j Gow 8 Gale < urn >sf JI I The Smile is generally an index of Health, the outward sign of an inward happiness both mental and physical. And you want your Baby to smile Then above all things feed him correctly and see that he has fresh, wholesome and
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  • 1287 10 A Stock Exchange Paradox EUROPEAN POLITICAL GLOOM CANCELS OUT PROSPERITY NE IVS London. Jan. 18. INTERNATIONAL political considerations continue to restrict business in London’s investment markets. Stock Exchange activities this week have been confined to a few specialities, paiti- cularly Copper and other base metal
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  • 780 10 Rise In Imports MANUFACTURERS' BIG NEEDS REFLECTED The good impression created by the preliminary figures of Great Britain’s foreign Lrade in 1936 is confirmed by the details lot each category of goods revealed in the December returns issued last week. The feature of the year
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  • 484 10 Agreement On Main Points CONCESSIONS TO BRITAIN London, Jan. 15. Ag-eement in principle upon all the main points of the new Trade Argeement between the United Kingdom and Canada has now been reached, after several months of negotiations. It is hoped, according to an official statement issued
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  • 186 10 DECEMBER SLIGHTLY DOWN ON MONTH BIG INCREASE ON A YEAR AGO The United States rubber consumption figures for December were made known in London last week and were received in the market with satisfaction. While the e mount used in December was 677 tons lower than that
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    • 61 10 s-SIFRIGI D A iREEh g——MW—— SERVICE •DO YOU realise that FRIGIDAIRE is represented in Singapore by the only firm employing full time qualified refrigerating engineers. z. PATERSON. SIMONS CO.. LTD. REFRIGERATING AIR CONDITIONING ENGINEERS. BELLISS MORCOM STEAM ENGINES, OIL ENGINES, COMPRESSORS, ETC. I a I ■i ’292 STEAM TURBINE-GENERATOR SET
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    • 70 11 PRINTING SERVICE Can Your Printer Supply IDEAS COPY LAYOUTS We can—and if you are not getting this service let us quote for your next orders. Let us show you samples of publicity and general printing that will substantiate our claim that we are well equipped both with staff and material,
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  • 549 12 PLEA FOR "LOW-BROW" PROGRAMMES Ways and means of “rounding up” more members were discussed <at the annual general meeting of the Malayan Amateur Radio Society (Kuala Lumpur), operators of Station ZHE, which was held in the Petaling Hill studio. The chairman (Dr. F. E. Byron) drew
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  • SHIPPING NEWS from ALL PARTS
    • 822 12 Mr. Denham Christie And Shipbuilding Outlook SPEAKING alter the launch of the single-screw motorship Hopecastle, at Wallsend, Mr. J. Denham Christie, chairman of Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, 1 td.. said that it would be some time yet before contracts taken some time ago,
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    • 47 12 P. O. CARTHAGE The s.s. Carthage from London via Bombay and Colombo is expected to arrive here £t 6 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 28. and will leave for Singapore. Hong Kong. Shanghai. Kobe and Yokohama at 1 p.m. the same day. Steamer will work at the wharf.
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    • 320 12 Passengers' Tributes To The City Of Benares FIRST ROUND VOYAGE COMPLETED Liverpool. "A private yacht” is the term used by passengers in describing the new Ellenran passenger liner City of Benares, which has just completed her first round voyage to India and back in the quick
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    • 195 12 S.S. I HESEL S from Liverpool sails tor Shanghai and Dairen to Port today sails on 25th Jan. JI I LW'DI from Europe via Colombo. Sails same dav for Port Swettenham. Malacca, Singapore and Bangkok. TOMORROW S.S. "MATA HARI" from Singapore via ports. Sails Friday. THURSDAY, JAN.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1114 12 I RADIO TOPICS PROGRAMMES i 8.8. C. EMPIRE STATION TODAY Tune in on the following waveTRANSMISSION 2. lengttM €.20 p.m. Big Ben. The Shepherds’ TRAN SMIBSION 2 2Feast.* from Caldbeck in Cumberland. Tn GSH 21. 4"» Mc/s (13.97 m.) lhe English Lake District the Shepherds’ GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.)
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  • 350 13 To Be Maintained By Italian Line REJ-NGINING OF TWO SHIPS FOR MORE SPEED It is confirmed that the motorship Augustus and the steamer Roma are to be re-engined, and that their speed is to be increased to 27 knots so that a weeklj service may
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    • 711 13 iJR \B ■< JA < > A7nCWaL&: A\ t* 1 P&O > and Oriental S.N. Co., unoei .Penang, Teluk Anson, Port Swettenham, •ontract with His Majesty's Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Sendee. S /S “MAT A HARI” Jan. 29 Outwards from London for China <k
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    • 461 13 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. SINGAPORE PENANG. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Leave Due *n junction with Cleo A 8hir«» Line 1 Ienang London GLENSHIEL London, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp Middlesborough Jan 2 9 Mar. 1 C. MENESTHEUS Mars., L’don, R’dam, H’burg Glasgow Feb 5 Mar 3 C. PHILOCTETES London,
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    • 242 13 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) LONDON SERVICE For Colombo. Aden Suez, Port Said Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London Antwerp and Rotterdam. Steamers. Sailing date*. TERUKUNI MARU (Calls Hamburg) Feb. 4 HAKUSAN MARU Feb. 19 HARUNA MARU Mar. 5 ♦KATORI MARU Mar. 19 *KASHIMA MARU April 2 Call at Rotterdam optional FOR JAPAN FROM
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 891 13 RADIO PROGRAMMES NIROM French. 7.35 Continuation of concert relay.' IwllwwwlM 7.50 Records. 8.05 News in French. 8.35 Continuation of concert relay. Station in Batavia broadcasts on the fol- 3 9.20 Talk on Music by M. Charles Oul1 owing wavelengths: mont. 9.30 Social topics by M. Rives. 10.50 a m —1.50
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  • 699 14 Alfred Padgham Should Be Placed First AMERICAN RANKING LISI I have been interested to read the ranking list of the principal golfers in America’s leading golf paper, now owned and run by a former British boy champion, Stuart Scheftel, writes Henrv Longhurst in the
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  • 570 14 JAMAICAN CHAMPION STOPPED IN SIX ROUNDS London. HARRY MIZLER, of St. George’s, Southern Area light-weight champion, and former holder of -the British title, gave one of his most impressive displays for some time when he beat Dodo Williams, the Jamaican champion, at the end of the
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  • 1128 14 Positions in the home soccer leagues including Saturday’s games are: DIVISION 1 P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Arsenal 26 13 5 8 58 32 34 Charlton 26 13 5 8 34 28 34 Brentford 25 12 6 7 50 41 31 Sunderland 26 13
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  • 301 14 CAMBRIDGE HOLD! LOCK-TO-LOCK TRIAL Cambridge, Jan. 17. j AFTER a week’s steady paddling up and down the river to Clayhithe and back, the Light Blues paddled over the lock-to-’ock course yesterday, covering the three miles down-stream in heavy rain and with a following wind in 17
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  • 272 14 Restrict Work To Paddling There was a further very heavy rainfall during the night, and the stream was running with increased force, but. fortunately condtions improved, and the afternoon was bright and sunny. It had been intended to make a journey below lock, but in view
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  • 11 14 Adelaide, Jan. 25. There was no play today.
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    • 367 14 Are You Tortured by the Maddening Itch of SKIN TROUBLE? If the maddening itch of a skin have tried has failed to give you disease is wrecking your health, relief, the efficacy of this simple preventing sleep and reducing you Cuticura treatment will prove an V jespair—if everything else you
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  • 1477 15 WALES BEA TEN BY A DROP GOAL TO A TRY Spoiling Tactics Mar Grim Struggle; Backs 9 Brilliance Wasted London, Jan. 17. 'A dropped goal to a try is no great but since England beat Wales at 'Twickenham by this slender margin that
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  • 543 15 Break With Maharajah Of Patiala Harold Larwood, famous Test match bowler, is back again in England after his trip to India. Only three months ago Larwood set out from England with prospects of much money, plenty of cricket, and a wonderful time as star man in
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  • 626 15 FOORD-PETERSEN FIGHT OFF NEUSEL TO SUBSTITUTE FOR FOORD GERMAN'S £70,000 EARNINGS y*HE heavy-weight fight between Ben Foord and Jack Petersen which was to have been staged at the Harringay Arena on February 1 has been indefinitely postponed but another opponent has been found for Petersen in the
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    • 190 15 A BETTER INVESTMENT THAN EVER 5 Und-insulating material ensures silence MMm SxjSc?• ~1.,,,........ STYLE. COMFORT AND SAFETY IN A fhe New Fourteen Goodwood Saloon is a throughout by a special lining which prevents typical Austin since its graceful lines are based body-noise at speed. The swept-tail is a good on
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  • LATEST SHARE AND COMMODITY NEWS
    • 329 16 Active London, Jan. 25. Yesterday Rise or Fall > Cml 5 p.C.. 1944-64 116% Ponding, 4 p.c., 196 U-90 114% —54 War Loan. 3% p.c. 104% —54 Cota. Un. Ass. (Units) ....10% Prudential “A 37% Moyal Aasce. (10». pd.) 9% Gt. Western Ord. 62 -4-% Can. Pac.
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    • 127 16 London. Jan. 25. RUBBER Firm. Spot 10 ft buyers 10? sellers. April June Io{ buyers 102 sellers. July Sept. 10. buyers 10'.. sellers. Oct. Dec. 10 ft buyers 101 sellers. New York: 20.75 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 29,671 tons Liverpool 43,388 tons COPRA Straits S.O. Rotterdam.
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    • 133 16 London on Previously Latest Paris 105 1164 105 964 New York 4.90 ft 9.90 ft Montreal 4.90 g 4.90£ Brussels 29.10 A 29.11? •Geneva 21.41 J 21.47 Amsterdam 8.954 8.95*. Milan 93 ft 93 ft Berlin 12.20 12.20 Stockholm 19.3914 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 ©•to 19.90 19.90 Vienna 2«H
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    • 287 16 KENNEDY CO. The following are the latest quotations in MESSRS. KENNEDY A Co.’» Start List today TIN Buyers Sellers Ampat 5(11 5|41 Ayer Weng 1.75 1.85 Bangrin 2410 25(0 Batu Selangor 1.45 1.50 Hitam 45 50cum Hong Fatt 1.49 1.52 i Idris 13(0 140 Jelapang 29 0 30 0 Jelebu
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    • 264 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Allenbys 1.95 2.02 J Ayer Panas 1.97* 2.05 Bassetts .871 -SO Batu Lintangs 1.52 J I.sscum Bedfords 1.35 1.40 Bentas 1.45 1.50 Brogas 1.15 1.20 Indragiris 1.675 1.725 Lunas 2.37 J 2.45 cum Mandai-Tekongs .25 .275 M. Pindas 1.875 1-95 Mentakabs .50 .525 N. Scudais
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    • 500 16 MALCOLM BOWLEY SON Weekly Market Report Messrs. Malcolm Bowley Son, London, in their weekly market report dated JaR. 15, state:—COPPER: The market opened with a spectacular rise of some £2. 17. 6. over last Friday’s close. This was due to heavy speculative buying. On Tuesday, on rumou. s that Restriction
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    • 1115 16 KENNEDY CO., SHARE LIST. 5E c MAMES j 1 I I RUBBER (Dollar). J Allenby Rubber Co. ISt 1 7u Ak>r G*ia.h Rubber Estate IbO I J Xmalgamated Malay Estate» 210 .2 20 i SmS 1» I 1W I Ay ci Panas Rubber Estates 190 210 Bassett Rubber Co. I
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    • 130 16 Mr. N. B. Thomas As O.C.P.D. i (From Our Own Correspondent.) 1 Ipoh, Jan. 25. Several important police changes have taken place in Ipoh whilst others will soon follow. Mr. N.B. Thomas has been ap- f pointed to act as O.C.P.D., Ipoh, in place of Mr. R.W.E.
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    • 230 16 BAT Experience Teaches One To Save, But How Many Have Found A Way To p Put By Their Spare g Dollars OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION t LIMITED. offer you facilities of their SAVINGS DEPARTMENT For Systematic Saving. 1 BEGIN TOUR SAVINGS NOW For Rules and Regulations Apply M AN.AGFR. Oversea-Chinese Banking
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    • 531 16 MKS. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRAUA AND CHINAvIncorporated in by Royal Charter 1853) Paid-up Capital £3,t/D0,uc»fo Reserve Fuad Reserve Liability of Proprietors £3,009 HEAD OFFICE:— 88, Bishopsgate, London, E.C. Agencies Branches: Alor Star Hong Kong Rangoon. Amritsar Iloilo Saigon Bang! )k Ipoh Semarang Batavia Karachi Serembarr Bombay Klang Shanghai Calcutta
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