Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 September 1937

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  • 21 1 fjST EDITION Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. 223. Vol. XCV. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937. BRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 471 1 Invitations To Pacific Powers REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE REPLIES The League 1933 Advisory Committee on the SinoJapanese conflict met yesterday afternoon. 23 members, including Mr. Harrison, United States Minister at Berne, being present. R'-uter. Monsieur de Graaf, the Dutch repre sentative, proposed Monsieur Munters Latvian
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  • 126 1 Reuter. (,h Awakened In Small Honrs Cant? Sept. 22.—An unknown number ulanes dropped ten or twenty bomba < north-eastern area of the city a t 3in morning, causing considerable damage Chine?- pianes and anti-aircraft guns respond’ waking the entire populace.— Reuter was the longest yet staged,
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  • 40 1 Nt us has been received in London tli.i’ th teph of the Japanese Governnrnt Io the British Note on the a- an.l >g of Sir El. Knatchbuil-Huges-s jr.inded to His Majesty’s AniI sailor in Tukio yr «terday.
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  • 77 1 s’ ’np Corporation.- British Wireless Li mi. Sept. 21. Flags on public bn in London flew at half mast to 'ay tn; funeral of Dr. Masaryk. The mng ijM>rs feature reports from enage r ndered by the peoples i th»-< republic to its first president
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  • 31 1 British Wireless. Lon >n. Sept. 21 —The Foreign Secreta r>'. who left Geneva last night, arrived d 'ion Aerodrome soon after six 'his vening British Wireless.
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  • 45 1 Sept 21. After a week s search, coastguards have abandoned the ai > the Endeavour saying they are >dl that the yacht is nowhere off A i ncan coast and must either hav? Sundered or weathered the storm and cunuuued towards England.
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  • 82 1 a Our Own Correspondent)) Ipoh, Sept. 22. ipson Gray's court was graced by ■i e yesterday of three European ;us who were accommodated at ible to listen to the proceedings. r nately the fare was poor. The ortant case was one in which a ‘‘‘■i'
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  • 104 1 lin King, who had been away in returned today by the s.s. Klang T isilors to Penang from Bangthe s.s. ‘Liang Chow are Mrs. ■nd Mrs, A. Scott. 'J I 'i* mg passengers are expected m Penang tomorrow morning md O. liner “Carthage":- Mr. f 'G Barr, Mr.
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  • 97 1 i.—Reuter. ITALY LESS TEMPERAMENTAL Rome, Sept. 21—An official communique announcing Italy’s acceptance of the proposed conference of British, French and Italian naval experts in Paris “to determine modifications of a practical nature to be made to the Nyon arrangements for the purpose of permitting Italian participation’’ says that
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  • 80 1 —Kwon Wah Yit Poh. I'n willing Conscripts Executed Hong Kong Sept. 21.—Foreigners from Tokio speak of the Japanese Government's oppressive measures to deal with the antiwar movement in Japan. Many refusing to comply with the conscription laws have been executed and the gendamarie have confiscated huge quantities
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  • 78 1 —Reuter. Seamen’s Role Against Aggression Paris, Sept. 21—Seamen’s organisations should “continue efforts against aggressors in Europe and the Far East” declared a resolution passed at an international conference of seamen’s organisations affiliated to the International Federation of Transport Workers. The resolution also paid tribute to the
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  • 274 1 —Reuter. Separate British And U.S. Action Mr. Cordell Hull has announced that the United States has made representations to Tok o ageinst Japan’s announced intention of bombing Nanking. The protest was based chiefly on the grounds that the bombing of non-comba-tant populations violated international humanitarian laws. The
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  • 127 1 brought before the Cabinet. —British Wireless. Amendments Rumour Premature London, Sept. 21.—A report has appeared that a Bill to amend the Government of India Act would be introduced at the next session with the object of meeting points raised by Indian Princes in connection with federation.
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  • 93 1 Finnish Report Of Air Preparations According to information received at Helsingfors, everything possible is being done by Soviet Russia to strengthen still further her Air Force in the Far East. Bombers of the latest type are being sent there daily, and the Soviet Press is quite openly claiming
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  • 104 1 British Wireless. Delivering judgment this morning, Mr. T. D. Hughes, the Penang Police Magistrate, acquitted Low Lian Gik, a pig-rearer and Low Teik Liang a clerk in the Weights and Measures Office, Penang, who were charged with having sent a false petition to the Chief Police
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  • 230 1 Traders Want Immediate Com pensation The Far Eastern section of the London' Chamber of Commerce at a largely attended meeting closely examined a variety of matters in which the war is injuring British business. Two committees of exporters and importers were appointed to keep track
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  • 97 1 Daring Daylight Robbery In Singapore IFrom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sept. 21. On his way to the Municipal Offices with $575, representing two days’ collection of slaughter fees, Chua Chian Lee, cashier to the municipal abattoirs, was held up about 10 o'clock yesterday morning
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  • 94 1 (From Our Own Correspondent)) Kuala Kangsar, Sept. 21. News has been received from Kroh, in Upper Perak, that a huge tiger carried away a cow several days ago. On a second visit it was seen on the road chasing an Austin Seven motor car. The Chinese driver
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  • 655 2 SENT TO HOUSE OE DETENTION Queer Conduct Leads Io Questioning And Arrest A Chinese who claimed to be a millionaire and who was arrested on a charge of vagrancy was yesterday ordered to the House of Detention by Mr. I.im Cheng Kan, the
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  • 206 2 The girl w’hose love for Tommy Farr caused her to sing in the streets so that she could raise money to see him fight Joe Louis is back in London, looking for a job. She is 26-year-old, red-haired Miss Phyllis Penworthy, a
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  • 36 2 "WHY ALL THIS FUSS’?" expressed in the plaintive face ot Max. three-month-old lion cub in Pets’ Corner at the Zoo. which evidently regards his first steps on a ladder as nothing unusual.
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  • 448 2 Alleged Road Obstruction NOT PROHIBITED ROAD >A Y S Ai AG I STR ATE "I don't propose to convict him. If he has no customer it is different, but in this case he has customers and I suppose he can stop on the side of the road
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  • 334 2 Chinese Convicted LN Hl RRY FOR WEDDING "I thank Mr. Hogan very much in bringing this case to court,” said Mr. Lina Cheng Ean, the Additional Magistrate, in the Penang Middle Court yesterday when he sentenced a Chinese driver of a Kedah motor-car to pay a fine of
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  • 243 2 ,'iai Purchase Rubber Island JUST SOUTH OF SINGAPORE Negotiations for the purchase of an island just south of Singapore are being carried out between the Baron Empain and Tuan Syed Ibrahim bin Omar Alsagoff. wealthy Arab landowner, the Straits Times understands. The island, Pulau Bulang, comprises 27,000 acres
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  • 79 2 Chinuse Labourer Lined For disobeying the law’ful order of a police constable engaged in regulating traffic at the junction of Pitt Street and Chulia Street. Lam Ah Hor. a Chinese labourer. was yesterday sentenced to pay a fine of $2. in default, five days’ rigorous imprisonment, by
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  • 950 2 Claim Against S.S. Kedah CASK I OK 2ND DEFENDANT OPENED That the onus was on the s.s. “Kedah to prove that she was right at the time of the collision was the submission of Mr. E A. de Buriatte, counsel for S.K. Shaik Othman, who as owner of
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  • 151 2 May isit Singapore SAYS I .S. CHINA FILM CHIEF "Clarke Gable told me in Hohywoi-.. at he is anxious to get away from t and see Singapore and China > r. i will fly by the China Clipper. Mi M -v Marcus managing director for M G 'd
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  • 623 3 ZERO HOUR CAME AND WENT: CAPITAL TO BE KEPT IN SUSPENSE —Reuter. U.S. AMBASSADORS DECISION TO EVACUATE Resentment In American Military, Naval And Civilian Circles Shanghai, Sept. 21, 1.52 p. in.: The zero hour has come and g'one and Nanking* still awaits the
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  • 442 3 Negligible Damage 7 JAPANESE PLANES broight down lowing communique was issued by Chinese Consulate yesterday: in planes, numbering 80, attacked it 1 city and environs this morning r e hours of 10.15 a. m. and 1 p.m commenced with 12 planes app- tlu city, re-inforced' shortly
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  • 61 3 —Reuter. British Protest Loudon, Sept. 21. aiding the Japanese announcee shadowing the bombardment A ‘king, the British Ambassador .t" is making representations to t tombing other than military t.\ <s. whereby civilian lives niii imperilled. The British Gorin <nt reserve the right to hold the oit st Government
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  • 300 3 Causing Japanese Anxiety AN I XPERT’S SUMMING UP London, Sept. 21. hester Guardian’s usually audiplomatic correspondent in suni- information and views of '■l circles says that the Chinese '1 qualities which although not here have caused the Japanese t a good deal of anxiety. Even ary chiefs
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  • 271 3 Strong Criticism By M. Litvinoff RESOLUTE POLICY URGED Geneva, Sept. 21. M. Litvinoff, addressing the League Assembly, regretted the absence of the United States from the League which now had an appeal for help from two members who are the victims of aggression. The appeal faced the League
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  • 71 3 .—8.0. W. London, Sept. 21 The Admiralty has issued details of the thirteen routes to be used by British merchant shipping in connection with the Nyon Anti-Piracy Agreement signed by Nine Powers and under which British and French warships are now patrolling the Meditarraneen. No special routes
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  • 25 3 —Reuter. New York, Sept. 21. The Explorers Club has received a wireless message from Wilkins indicating that he is in no trouble.— Reuter.
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  • 351 3 Says Ex-Kwanghing Warlord LITTLE RELIANCE PLACED ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS’ AID “Japan does not plan the conquest of North China alone. but aims at drivingout all European interests from China,” declared (i.neral ('han Chai Ton", ex-Kwangtung warlord, hastening back to the bar East
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  • 24 3 SHE LOVES DIGGING. Sarah Marshall, daughter of Herbert Marshal) and Edna Best, stage and screen stars, enjoying her holidays at Frinton.
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  • 297 4 FOREIGN ORIGIN SUSPECTED Paris. The French Government is offering a reward of f 750 for information leading to the discovery of the criminals responsible for the bomb outrages on the night of Sept. 11 at the Paris headquarters of the Federation of French Industries and of the
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  • 239 4 Early Resignation Possible Brussels. According to the “Express” of Liege, M van Zeeland, the Belgian Premier, is thinking of resigning soon because of the state of his health. M. Barnich, a Socialist Senator, said: “As a physician, it is a mystery to me how M. van
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  • 104 4 General Dill’s Departure Jerusalem... The departure of Lieutenant-General Dill lias removed an officer who was res pec'. 1 throughout Palestine, although he is of so retiring a disposition that his person'll appearance remained till the end unknown to the majority of the inhabitants even of
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  • 221 4 Woman M.P.’s Letter To Minister London. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. for Jarrow, has written to Mr. Ernest Brown, Minis, ter of Labour, in reference to the new steel works to be opened at Jar row, pointing out the difficulty of older steel workers getting back to
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  • 138 4 Rapprochement Hopes Budapest. An important meeting of the Hungarian Cabinet was held last week in Budapest, with the Premier. M. Daranyi, in the chair A report on foreign political questions was given by the Foreign Minister, M. Kanya. For two days M. Kanya and M. Daranyi
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  • 352 4 "i. Daladier On Threats To Peace Paris. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Radical Party held here last week M. Daladier, the Minister of War, made a firm but temperate speech in which he outlined the attitude of the party towards problems at home
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  • 770 4 Restrictions Upon Freedom London. Mr. Hugh Dawson, in his presidential address to the annual conference of the Institute of Journalists at Margate, referred to the great need of vigilance in the face of restrictive legislation affecting the newspapers. Speaking of “certain blemishes in journalistic practice to which
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  • 97 4 Paris. In order to facilitate the grant of pen sions for retired workers the C.G.T. have agreed to consider the possibility of an extra hour’s w’ork among the employed trade unionists, the wages for which would be given as a contribution towards the cost of the
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  • 652 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr, Duncan MacLachlan has been appointed a Dental Officer, Malayan Medical Service. The Resident of Perak has appointed' Mr. Eliathamby, J.P., to be a Registrar of Hindu marriages in and for the State of Perak. The Resident of Perak has appointed Inche Zainal Abidin bin Kasahatan, of the
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  • 142 4 Geneva. “Help me, I am dying.” These words, whispered faintly down a nountain telephone wire, led to the discovery of the bodies of two Italian smugglers high up on the Great St. Bernard Pass. A motorist, on the way to the famous hospice, had stopped
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    • 163 4 Crompton Parkinson Electric Mot ors CROMPTON PARKINSON «kf Al' I «rvxiMl AI .a DESIGN. A-.J tegl ft 4 t f Uk— r nor There are few secrets in electric motor design. i were of no importance, any manufacturer could make improvements tomorrow. But what would be impossibly expensive in the
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  • 723 5 HERO OF KUT HAS “NO HOPE AND NO FUTURE” Siniggk To Obey Court Order London, Sept., 12. 7 TH a few pence in the pockets of his only suit, Captain W alter Nugent Sherlock, former officer of an infantry regiment, is walking the streets
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  • 119 5 General Smuts On Space Annihilation Johannesburg. General Smuts, speaking on the chang ing world, said: “We are now living in a period of nationalism. We can teach national isolation as much as we like, but ts whole nature is being destroyed, b? cause space is being
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  • 345 5 H orkers Mobilised For New Decree: Cells For Active Propaganda The Soviet Union’s 22,000,000 members of the Trade Unions have been mobilised in the most vigorous anti-religious campaign launched in recent years, in order ta combat the reported threat of a s rious religious
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  • 45 5 MISS HELEN JACOBS, United States woman tennis star, went to England this summer to defend her Wimbledon singles title. She lost the championship, but found two Border terriers with which she was seen on the Aquitania at Southampton, as she returned home.
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  • 298 5 London Thanks to the co-operation of more than 5,000 amateur observers working for the British Rainfall Organisation under the Air Ministry, the wettest places in Britain have been determined Last year’s report of the organisation was issued last week The wettest places are a small area
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  • 14 5 K*.»™ I""»™"™ member of the i lorusev i
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  • 216 5 Big Smoke Screen Cleared London Clouds of smoke which billowed from a fire under the railway arches in Godingstreet, Vauxhall, S.F last w eek, made such a thick choking screen that the first firemen were unable to get through to the flames. The smoke came
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  • 159 5 Nationalist Charge Against England Caernarvon. Sept. 12. Mr. Saunders Lewis, the Welsh Nationalist leader, who was released from Wormwood Scrubs recently after serving nine months imprisonment for setting fire to an R A F bombing school at Penrhos, told a “demonstration” of 12,000 Welsh people, held
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  • 1165 6 FRANCE AND BRITAIN CONFIDENT Instructions To Sink Any Submarine IF FOUND NEAR SCENE OF THE ATTACK The Admiralties of Britain and France are confident that the anti-piraev plan adopted at Nyon on Sept. 11 will effectively check further submarine attacks on merchant ships m the
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  • 192 6 New York. Sept 12 Anxious to speed up his marriage to Mrs. Delphine Gedde, only daughter of .Mi Horace Dodge, the millicna r magnate, Jack Doyle is fretting a_> st the law’s delays. So he has gone to Los Angel- in an effort to persuade
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    • 166 6 WHOLE FAVIII.x WITH INDIGESTION Suffered Whatever T| U u A mother of four writes family of four all seemed tc anl acidity, pains in the bac k of indigestion. I suffered But since we have been tak ,r (for the last three months/'-?. 11S(he n anything, and all enjoy our
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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    • 132 6 MajestiC *KII JL4i J f M (f A w® 1 >1 II I f *.a OPENING TONIGHT I THE FAMILY YOU’VE LEARNED TO LOVE AS REAL. AS HUMAN AS ALWAYS IN A HEART-WARM-ING LAUGH HIT THAT’S AS HUMAN 11 J 1 Vill i 1 AS IT IS hilarious ERICH POMMER’S
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  • 52 7 KING FAROUK, 18-year-old ruler of Egypt, is to marry his childhood playmate, the lovely SouaJa. daughter of Youssef Zulfikar Bey, who is 16. Her father is a judge. She is on the right in this picture, in which she is seen with two of King
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  • 511 7 Selassie’s Friend Chose Death To Conquest THE secret of a broken-hearted princess who poisoned herself, a tragedy that overshadowed the lite of the Emperor Haile Selassie (now living in exile near Bath), was revealed recently to the Sunday Chr< micle. It was told by
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  • 118 7 IL S. Criticism Of Trial Procedure New' York. A ioint committee of leading American lawyers and journalists has taken cognu sance for the first Urne -ewer, ns eUn-ax with the famous Hauptmann Heeded by'Mr- New gharply Xcis a es speeches in which witnesses 1 f
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  • 465 7 Conan Doyle Tells Of After-Life Talk That Bns Proved Four hundred of the world's leading spiritualists were last week in Glasgou for the International Spiritualists' Federation Congress. Here Mr. Denis PS. Conan Doyle relates a remarkable experience of his famous fathei• the late Sir
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  • 216 7 Lydia Linders, the “living target.” hit upon a new way of committing suicide when the man with whom she was in lov chose another woman. Lydia and Leo Gavorin. a Caucasian, staged a variety “act” in which the girl stood against a board while the
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  • 170 7 Traders’ Case For Abolition London Chamber of Commerce has been informed by the Dominions Office that the Australian Government are not at present prepared to go beyond the decision already reached to admit free of duty catalogues and price lists imported in single copies and addressed
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  • 521 7 Mystery Briton A Legion Fugitive PICKED I P ADRIFT AT SEA Oran. Picked up at sea in a stolen customs launch, in which they had been drifting helpless for days and nights in the Medi terrenean, three deserters from the French Foreign Legion have been handed
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  • 140 7 l oo Benumbed To Ely Vienna, Sept. 13 The Austrian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals this morning dispatched some 200 young swallows by aeroplane to Venice. The birds, which were of the third brood of this season, were left to fend
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  • 112 7 Custom To Be Revived Windsor. The custom of firing Royal salutes in front of the gates of Windsor Castle on Royal birthdays, which was discontinued in 1931 on grounds of economy after having been in existence for many centuries, is to be revived. The 21 carronades
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 653 7 U Office 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1477 1478 with extensions. Telegrams: “Gazette” Penang. Singapore Office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Times Singapore. Xuala Lumpur Office 25. Java Street. Phone 3683. Ip >h Office Brewster Road. Phone 268. lx>ndon Office 40. 43, Fleet Slreet, London E.C. 4 Phone Central
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  • 431 8 LONG overdue reforms with regard to non-Christian marriages are promised in the provisional drafts of Bills which have been published in the Government Gazette. Of the two Bills which may be shortly introduced, the one relating to the registration of non-Christian and nonMohammedan marriages is the most important.
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  • 603 8 Fully Reported In Press FAVOURABLE COMMENTS London, Sept. 21. The important speech delivened by the Foreign Secretary Mr. Eden at the Geneva Assembly yesterday is fully reproduced in the press and is the subject of favourable comment in most newspapers. The Times warmly congratulates Mr Eden. Referring
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  • 79 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taipinsr, Sept. 21. The Taiping Magistrate. Che Pawanteh, is going on long leave in October, and it is understood Raja Salim will come to take his place. Taiping will be playing their second inter district rugger ma*ch on the coming Saturday, when
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  • 559 8 Hero-worship assumes a new guixe Watch your dictionary J paradise for epicures HERO-worship seems to have assumed drastic changes. Not so many years ago, maidens would ‘worship’ the heroes of battle; adore a man who stopped a runaway horse, or a brave fellow who dived to save
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  • 646 8 Municipal Co-Operative Society PROGRESS DURING LAST SIX MONTHS The Penang Municipal Employees’ Cooperative Thrift Loan Society, uxd., is making satisfactory progress, in of the fact that membership is on the down-ward scale, according to its president, Mi. J. E. A. Clark who addressed members at
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    • 46 8 LANGENBACH’S FAMOUS red sparkling HOCK THE‘MARK of QUALITY! .nibelungen-krone-A FAVOURITE OF YOUR LADY FOLKS AND SO BE SURE TO HAVE A BOTTLE HANDY AT Y’OUR HOME. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL THE FADING DEALERS Or From The AGENTS Henry Waugh Co., Ltd. PENANG. Singapore, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 161 9 Publishers Give No Reason (Pinang Gazette Cable) o London, Sent. 22. urpi ise was created in London publishing circles today when vas announced by Messrs. Methuens that they are withdrawing i ivial I ond Records a book of reminiscences written bv Sir Laurence Guillemard, former Governor
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  • 198 9 Amendment In Racing Schedule (From Our Own Correspondent)) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 22. Owing to the excessive entries the Selangor Turf Club Committee regret that they are unable to provide either of the runs for Class 2 Horses. The Committee have therefore to revise the schedule
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  • 212 9 Fined $250 For Breach Of Trust (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 21. Convicted on a charge of having committed criminal breach of trust of $3OO entrusted to him by Mary Anthony, G. V. Seenivasagam. formerly Chief Clerk in the Chief Police Officer’s Office was
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  • 356 9 Suggestion At Sanitary Board Meeting (From Our Own Correspondent)) Taiping, Tuesday. The main topic of discussion at the monthly meeting of the Larut and Matang Sanitary Boarci held today, was the question of parking-places in laiping. Mr. J.B.J. Birch, 0.5.P.C., Perak North, informed the meeting
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  • 258 9 Track Notes From Kuala Lumpur (From Our Own Correspondent)» Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 22. A sharp shower this morning again marred to a certain extent the training for the Selangor Turf Club Autumn Meeting, most of the candidates being content to canter round without being stretched. Kuala Laddie
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  • 78 9 The following will represent the Penang Sports Club in a rugger match against the “E” Company (Volunteers) today on the Esplanade, Penang, at 5 p m.: J.F .Keay; T. A. Maxwell, C. N. Hogan, T M. Clark. WDC E. Crun; G.E.C. Ash, F
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  • 36 9 The final of the Penang Sports Club bowls tournament will be played today on the Esplanade. Championship Pairs: J.B. Ross and J E. Miller vs. G. C. Miller and M. T. P. Rule.
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  • 664 9 FLOWERY LANGUAGE IN ASSIZE CASE (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Sept. 22. “I have already eaten more than ten fresh peaches and. I have today fallen down from the peadh tree,” Was the statement contained in a letter Which was admitted
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  • 126 9 Identity Of Singapore Chinese Established (From Our Own Correspondent)) Singapore, Sept. 21Two gold teeth in his upper jaw established! the identity of a Chinese who was found dead on a bridle path off Duneain road yesterday morning, the victim of a brutal knife attack involving 20
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  • 30 9 Exchequer —Returns show that total ordinary revenue is £292.874,049 against £279,293,270 a year ego and total expen diture, less self balancing items, £382,167,144 against £355,373,568 a year ago.
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  • 398 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sept. 21. an exciting chase in the Singapore harbour this morning between the Master Attendant’s launch with revenue officers aboard and a motor sampan, a young Singapore Chinese, who had jumped from the Norwegian vessel Muinan, was arrested near Anderson
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 435 9 M/V “GLENSHIEL” VOYAGE 31 (OUTWARD) Arrived (19-9-37) Consignees of cargo per the above vessel from Europe are hereby notified that a General Survey of all cargo landed in a iamaged condition will be held in Penang Harbour Board’s godown No 4 at 2.30 pm. on Friday, the 24th September. 1937.
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  • 1125 10 SALARIES AND MAGES TW O MAIN FACTORS Indian And Chinese Labour Exaction To the prospective investor without inside knowledge of the rubber plantation industry, the factors that govern variation in production costs of the better known estates can only be guessed at He is prone
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  • 145 10 The Secretary of Aust'al Maiay tin, L‘J., reports th? following outputs of its associated companies for the half ?n< nth of September. 1937. Kam pong Kamvn'lng Tin Dredging Ltd. (Karangan.t U.m-.’s run 310; Cubic yards t. rated 64.09). Total Piculs 114; Nett Value $8,436 Asam Kumbang
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  • 298 10 MOVE TOWARDS THREE PER CENT. Amsterdam. Sept. 12.—The issue of the new 3 per cent. Guaranteed Netherlands Indian Government Conversion Loan has not only brought the Government's longawaited decision regarding its long-term loan policy? but also probably marks a de finite transition to the 3 per cent,
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  • 226 10 London. Sept. 13. George Kassab. after retiring on a fortun. made from lace, dreamed at sixty-four of making a further fortune with a palatia shop in London's Oxford-street. But thi dream faded: creditors were told yesteiday that it had ended with liabilities of £12.160 In
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  • 171 10 Boring Operations In Cumberland Sept. 12. Iron and steel production on the Northwest Coast, though greater than ever, is still unequal to all demands. The furnaces at Barrow. Millom and Workington are all producing a large tonnage of hematite iron, which is in keen demand. Two
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  • 99 10 During the week ending Sept. 11, 1937, exports from 'Malayan ports amounted to 11,033 cases, of which: 3,450 (31 per cent) cases were to the United Kingdom, 100 (1 per cent) cases to the Continent of Europe, 5,116 (46 per cent) cases to Canada, and 2,367
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  • 1010 10 LABORATORIES ON WHEEL The Unlearnt Lesson VV'HAT is the use of motor-racing today A question that has been asked by the ordinary motorist any time these twen-ty-five years, in fact, ever since the factories of the world began to count their production in tens of
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  • 217 10 Offer For Interest In Lower BBichi The d rectors of Jos Tin Ar. a announce that, with a view to acquiri' 2 an interest in Lower Bisichi (Nigem) Tin Mines, they have decided to off 1 shareholders in that company one diy j share in the Jos
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 61 10 Lt 4 A HOTEL IN BANGKOK? WHY NOT RAJDHANI Managed by the Royal State Railways at the Bangkok Terminus. Every room has a bath room attached, hot and cold running water Single room Baht 6.00 per day. Double room Baht 11.00 per day. I For reservation or further particulars, please
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    • 184 10 A BETTER INVESTMENT THAN EVER T 1 „'»U» AUSTIN PRODUCES THE n. dL nA u. LccEed— CA B 111 HI ItlL iw- mi t iff Ij j I HP w Ix The New Ten-Four Cambridge Saloon A sound-insulated car—a silent-bodiea car—a FOR GREATER SAP ETi, there are ne't Girlingcar from
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  • 190 11 German children getting the first official issue of gas masks for civilians Santander women come out into the suburbs to meet Franco’s troops, as the victorious rebels march into the city. T TTirP broke out in the old school of art, skater A'ZTT was seen
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  • 252 12 Surprise For Aged Yokels Four startled people sat in a room in Tottenham Court Roaa, London, and gazed at a mahogany box. Out of the box issued the cheerful music of a brass band. The four people looked reproachfully at two young men standing near them.
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  • 209 12 The motor tanker British Resolution, which w r as delivered to the British Tanker Co., Ltd., by Messrs. Sw’an, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., Wallsend, recently, after satisfactory trials off the Tyne, is a unit In the most important programme yet carried out by Mess~s. Swan
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  • 140 12 Yankee Arrives In Singapore On a world' cruise, the Gloucester (United States) 102-ton yacht Yankee has arrived at Singapore from Semarang (Java). With the owner skipper, Captain Irwin Johnson, there is a crew of 21. The craft is expected to continue its voyage from Singapore
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  • 114 12 “A Peace Offering” Warsaw. The State-controlled' Gdynia-America Line has placed an order with the Danziger Werft, of Danzig, for the building of two passenger-carrying motor-ships, each of 6,500 tons and with a speed of 16 knots, for its Mexican service. The vessels are to be
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  • 43 12 The s.s. Carthage from London via Bombay and Colombo is expected to arrive here at 6 a.m. tomorrow and will leave for Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe andl Yokohama at 2 p.m. the same day. The steamer will work at the wharf.
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  • 580 12 LATEST TIMES 01 POSTING AIR MAIL A mail for Australia, New Zealai t and Timor Dilly via Singapore and tb'n by Singapore-Australia air mail s. will close at 7.30 p.m. today. A mail for Amsterdam and Lor :<.■ K.L.M. sdrvice wi|l close at 6.30 •< tomorrow.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1597 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES B B c COLOMBO MELBOURNE VK 2ME 9.59 Mc/s (51.2 m.) VU2 6.12 Mc|s (48.9 m. VK TODAY Tw»c f» o« the following wavelength»: TODAY p.mp.m. 4 20 Opening announcement. TRANSMISSION 9 820 Children’s Half Hour, conducted by 52Q With the wor ld’s famous orchestra. Aunt Jenny.
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    • 414 12 PENANG—ZHJ (WAVELENGTH —49.3 metres) TODAY p.m. 7.00 Time signal and day’s programme. 7.05 Recorded music. 7.55 Straits Echo news bulletin. 8.00 Chinese music. 9.00 Close down. TOMORROW p.m. 7.00 Time signal and day’s programme. 7.05 Recorded operatic selections. 7.2 Q Food Flor Thought (BBC Rediffusion). 7.40 Leeds Midday Concert (BBC
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    • 18 12 TIDE TABLE TODAY HIGH LOW 12.58 p.m. 7.30 p.m TOMORROW 1.24 a.m. 7.50 a.m 1.32 p.m. 8.05 p.m
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  • SHIPPING
    • 690 13 YACHT ONCE USED AS FLOATING LABORATORY BY EDISON By virtue of size and completeness of eommodation, the yacht Sachem may stly be said to be the queen of the Sheepsad Bay sport fishing fleet. Built at the i usey and Jones yard in Wilmington. Decare, as
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    • 133 13 London, Sept. 16. Thirty members of the crew of the Red Spanish destroyer the Jose Luis Diaz, which was brought into the dock at Fa mouth some weeks ago. deserted from the ship on Wednesday evening, according to newspaper reports here. The men who claimed that the new
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    • 514 13 S.S. ‘RHEXENOR’ from Singapore sails for Boston, New; York Baltimore. S.S. ‘MATA HARI’ from Singapore via ports. Sails Friday. S.S. ‘YUENSANG’ from Calcutta —sails today for Singapore, Saigon, Hongkong, Kobe and Osaka. TOMORROW S.S. ‘CARTHAGE’ from London via ports. Sails same day for Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 384 13 BLUE FUNNEL LINE LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Leave» Due a ACHILLESI^<lra nJ^terdM th H^g HHu r l s' 16 p a "S London Rd Lwi R^ A^ e ßW bOrOUSh Oct B u N Xof C. MARON Jeddah, Liverpool Bromboroue-h c o/i L e P >O Jeddah, Havre, Uver POol
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    • 279 13 Pit EVIDENT LINEK- TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. LEAVE Arrive Arrive PENANG Marseilles New York S.S. PRES. VAN BUREN Sept. 23 Oct. 20 Nov. 2 S.S. PRES. GARFIELD Oct. 7 Nov. 3 Nov. 16 S.S. PRES. HAYES Oct. 21 Nov. 17 Nov. 30 A wonderful opportunity to visit Cairo en route.
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    • 703 13 PO and Ot XZ BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England.) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN SJS. “CARTHAGE” SAILING THURSDAY, 23rd SEPT. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under contract with His Majesty’s Government, London and Far East Mail Serricob Outwards from London for China Japan. Homewards for Colombo, Aden, Port due Penang 1937
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  • 440 14 H.A.F.C. DEFEAT POLICE Uninspiring Game POOR FINISHING OF POLICE FORWARDS Playing their last second division soccer league match of the season, the Hidyatol Anwar Football Club were rather fortunate to beat the Police Sports Club hv the odd goal in three yesterday on the Dato
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  • 320 14 Emmett Defeats Holt By beating R.A.A. Holt (Sussex) by 7—5, 6—2, Geoffrey Emmett retained the boys' title for Middlesex in the junior lawn tennis championships, which ended at Wimbledon on Saturday Sept. 11. Mis!? Rosemary Thomas, the school girl champion, claimed the girls’ title. She
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  • 532 14 Sports Club Beaten GOOD WIN FOR D.A.F.C. Although having the better of the exchanges, the Penang Sports Club went down to Darul Aishan Football Club by the odd goal in three at hockey on the Esplanade yesterday. With a steady set of defenders, especially Abdul Karim, the goalkeeper,
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  • 233 14 Upset By Umpire’s Decision Some very fine lawn tennis, then a bad decision. bad temper, and abject remorse, characterised and completely spoiled a recent match between C. Caralulis, of Rumania, and H. G. N. Lee, of Great Britain, at Scarborough. Caralulis won 5-7, 6-2, 6-2,
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  • 737 14 Dan Bulger Favourite For Cambs BACKING FOR 16 CESAREWITCH HORSES Compilers of ante-post volumes have been complaining that early business on the big Newmarket Autumn double was not so good as usual, and were inclined to regard the new order of Cambridgeshire before Cesarewitch as the reason.
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  • 549 14 Thrilling Finish MR. C. GARDNER WINS BY 2 1/2 MINUTES Hatfield, Sept. 11. Mr. C.E. Gardner won the King’s Cup Air Race, piloting the Percival Mew Gull, with Gipsy Six engine, of which he was the entrant. He was the winner of last year’s race. Following
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  • 74 14 President’s Prize The President’s Prize was played for over Malakoff Golf Course on Saturday and Sunday September 18 and 19 when there was a very fine turn out of members. The competition resulted in a win for A. R. Craig, who playing from scratch finished up all square
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 393 14 For Greater Mileage and Greater Safety DUNLOP /d U N LO p <<9o T’ I I dhe Worlds fV A QCIENTI Fl CALL Y I X I to grip ~A the road as no other W > I tvre can, its non•_A I skid characteristics w *fi prove a re
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  • 788 15 THE REAL TROUBLE BETWEEN FARR HIS MANAGER ‘■)hmev Has Been The Root Of All Our Arguments” —TED BROADRIBB London, Sept. 12. Hashed across the Atlantic ii... to tell the inside story of tween Tommy Farr and Ted t niairel which will wreck one i x.ng alliances that has left >
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  • 419 15 Mill. LGLIANO’S FINE HOLDER BEATEN le Lally Vagliano. who is ,<>n the Girls’ Championship on stoke Fogts. beating the holdggy Edwards, by 6 and 4 in :< 1 a 2 and 1 win from Miss In th< other semi tinal Miss Miss Sheila Stroyan
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  • 338 15 "A BRIGHT IDEA” FOR A PRESENT London, Sept. 13. As Steve Donoghue set off to ride at the Scottish Derby meeting at Ayr last night he was asked by a number of friends to tell them the present he would most like to take
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  • 17 15 MR. LESLIE HORE-BELISHA, War Minister, shows his fitness by hurdling a five- tarred gate.
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  • 450 15 Track Laps At 42 M.B.H. —Dogs |Vi 11 Given Start London. Sept. 14. Eight cheetahs brought to England for racing purposes in January by Mr. K. C. Gar.dar Dower, the big game- hunter and athlete, are now so fully trained that they race against greyhounds in practice
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  • 344 15 \X ill Defend Davis I up Next Year New York. Sept. 14 All the Forest Hills gladiators have now left for the Pacific Coast; rumours, canards, and memories remain. Professional promoters have been at Donald Budge that was inevitable. Before he had entered the shower-bath after
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 161 15 Motoring costs less than ever with the POPULAR 8 h.p. FORD I Ji> Abundant Power Roomy and Comfortable w NStM Whatever the purpose The Popular Ford is a splen- f° r w hi c h >’ ou mainlv use did choice because it is so 7 3 car —touring, shopping
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 41 15 p <»p—Well, If It Doesn’t Cure It Doesn’t Kill Either. By J. MILLAR W ATT .I. n marvelous? .ONIE OP this IVe hay-fever for hay FEVER > GOOD Q I THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AMD 1 NEVER /tc I 1® /Wl/- r I- Mir.
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  • 121 16 1 IN s PREVIOUSLY LATEST LONDON—(Spot) £257.0.0 £261.10.0 LONDON—(3 months) £257.15.0 £260.10.0 SINGAPORE $l3l 00 $l3l. I ENANG $129 75 $131.00 BUSINESS DONE 25 tons COPRA—(Sundried) $5.65 BLACK PEPPER $10.50' ii i i i $10.50 RUBBER:— LONDON B%d B d NEW YORK 18%c(G) 18%c(G) SINGAPORE Spot 293 30c Oct./Dec
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  • 356 16 Share of ti denomination unless London. Sept. 22 otherwise stated Yesterday. R»se or hall Conversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 113 a Funding Loan. 4 p.c., 1960-90 110%. -f-% War Loan. 3) p.c 100% Com. Union Assce. (Units) 9« Prudential Assce "A 4 Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 8
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  • 115 16 Yxindon on Previously Latest ~Paiis 146 21)32 145 ft New York 4.95% 4.95% Montreal 4.95% 4.95% Brussels 29.45 29.44 •Geneva 21.58% 21.57 Amsterdam 8.97% 8.97% Milan 94% 94 ft Berlin 12.35% 12.35 Stockholm 19.39) 19.39) Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 ©Ho 19.9 G '19.90 Vienna 26) 26) p rague 141
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  • 114 16 London, Sept. 21. RUBBER: Firm.— Spot g% buyers 9 sellers. Det./Dec. B}§ buyers 9ft sellers lan./Mar. 9ft buyers 9ft sellers April/June 9% buyers 9% sellers MEW YORK 18.25 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 27,967 tons Liverpool 20,794 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. (Sept.) £15.12.6 PEPPER White Muntok
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  • 101 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Sept. 21. August also proved to be a dry month in Taiping, as revealed by a report issued by the Health Officer, Perak North. The rainfall recorded for the month ir. inches was 8 62. There was no rain fo: 20
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 195 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER Buyers Sellers Amal. Malay 1 90 2 Batu Lintang 135 U 5 Bedford 125 J 3 Connemara 1 70 K Sidim 2.95 3.05 Pajam 2 2.25 ex Parit Perak 2.40 2.50 c Sungei Tukang 7,35 1 48 Telok Anson 1.75 1.85 Temerloh 78 75 TIN: Ampat 3)6
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    • 119 16 LEAN CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Ayer Wengs 1.00 1.07% B. Selangors 2.00 2.07) Bangrins 241 6 2513 Hong Fatts 1.29 1.33 Jelebus 1.02) 1.07) K. Lanjuts 25)6 2610 Kuala Kampar 15)3 16)0 Kundangs 9)0 9|3 Laruts 13)7) 14)1) Nawng Pets 77) 82) Pungahs 241 6 2510 Rahmans 1.47) 1.52 J
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    • 20 16 TIN Singaiwire $131.62)/» Per pkl. Penang $131.00 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore —30 c lb. Penang —30 c lb.
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    • 134 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Bnvers Sellers Ayer Weng 1.00 1.10. Batu Selangor 2.00 2.05 Hong Fatt 1.27) 1.32) Jelebu 1.00 1.05 Jchan .32) .35 Kuchai 1.77) 1.82) Mambau .95 1.00 Petalings 9.50 9.75 Rahman Hyd. 1.45 1.50 Rantau Ordy. 1.77 S 1.82 A Rantau Pref. 1.771 1.82) Taiping Cons. 1.92
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    • 166 16 Tin Buyers Sellers Ampats 5(6 510 Ayer Hitams 3316 34|6ex Bangrins 24)0 25|0 Batu Selangors 1.95 2.00 Burma Malays 31)6 32|6c Hong Fatts 1.27 J 1.30 Jelapangs 42|0 43)0 Jelebus 1.01 1.03 K. Kamuntings 1119 12)3 Kamuntings 1213 129 K. Lanjuts 2419 25)6 Kundangs 8)9 9)3 Kramats 1616
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 279 16 LATE ADVERTISEMENTS DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES ENGAGEMENT SCOULAR— FISHER The engagement is announced between James Murray Scoular, son of the late Robert Scoular and of Mrs T. Foreman of Tunbridge Wells, to Judith Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noel Fisher of Harpenden Estate, Kapar, Selangor. POSITION WANTED Estate Manager, well
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    • 785 16 BANKS A NEW THE MERCANTILE BWk SAFE DEPOSIT SERVICE Capital Subscribed ‘('JO.Otjfj SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES Reserve Fund and Rest Capital Paid Un ’Low F 050,0feL. for the safe keeping of valuables, BOARD OF Directors important documents, records, etc., Right Hon. Lord Catto of Cairncatto, etc., are available at Si- r
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