Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 October 1937

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE t i ST I DITIQh ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. V, 213. Vol. XCV. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 615 1 Market Recovers Its Poise SUGGESTED REASONS FOR THE FALL IN TIN i <»rk, Oct. 20 all Street today touched the other <xtr< mr after yesterday’s slump and closed very strong. (,aiir in m curities of British interest ranged from anything up to b n dillars. ail
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  • 25 1 Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble has been appointed Commander in-Chief, China station, in succession to Adm. Sir Charles Little. He assumes command about April.
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  • 241 1 —Reuter. rvx ntion deadlockTias been W), J t and Germany have agreed to ‘inal numbers of their volunWill be sent to Spain p,., niberg whereon withdrawal prove, > <■(] Possibly the Non-inter-committee will decide when ive sufficiently progressed for M li «‘*rend rights to both sides. 1i,..
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  • 483 1 —Reuter. Aid For Sufferers In China London, Oct. 21: The Lord Mayor broadcast last night a moving appeal to the nation for contributions for the relief ot war sufferers in China. Elaborating his appeal on Oct. 1. ho said that he believed all sections should unite in
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  • 33 1 Madame Chiang Kai-shek discards the black gowns which she has worn since the outbreak of the war and dons a flowered garment for a visit to a hospital.
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  • 207 1 Railway Building Becomes China’s Alcazar Reuter. Shanghai. Delayed by Censor The Japanese thrust towards Tachang failed to break the Chinese defences, according to an official Chinese communique which says that both sides suffered heavy losses. The Japanese, however, claim a slight advance. “Only an
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  • 39 1 ,—Reuter. Paris, Oct. 20 —A categorical denied is given by French Official quarters to a report circulated by a Japanese news agency that war material had been landed at Haiphong, French Indo-China, for transport to China.
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  • 75 1 Sin Chew Jit Poh Penang supplement. An Incident At Nagasaki Shanghai, Oct. 20. —Citizens of Naga saki on the evening of the 18th heard the sounds of a plane and machine-gun fire. In the morning a wrecked balloon was found on the beach which the military explained
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  • 17 1 Rente”. Rangoon, Oct. 21— Miss Jean Batten left for Allahabad at 3.11 local time.
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  • 231 1 Sir G. Northcote In Penang “I am looking forward keenly to my new appointment in Hong Kong,” said Sir Geoffrey Alexander Northcote, formerly Governor of British Guiana, to the “Pinang Gazette” today on his arrival in Peneng. He is on his way to Hong Kong where he
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  • 29 1 Reuter The Baer-Braddock fight has been postponed indefinitely owing to injury of Brad dock's hand. Mike Jacobs is announcin'. the and place in a few weeks.
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    • 35 1 a s MOHIDEEN co. ix Ik «11 Street, Penang) 'Phone No. ‘H7 j x| rl- in serving to the Government Depts., throiigl ,,,,,J 1,1 a a va Brant hes:— Penang A Malacca Head Office Singapore
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    • 65 1 SPECIAL AIR MAIL PHOTOS ARRIVING Twice A Week N«w On View At Our SHOW WINDOWS 10 cis. per copy. ■I: fir PL JR. ...with plenty of fresh fruit. Grown and ripened in some of the finest orchards in the world, fresh shipments are constantly arriving. ORANGES, GRAPE FRUIT, PEARS, APPLES.
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  • 853 2 Says She Was Hit On Head With Iron Bar MALAY ACQUITTED ON CAISA(; HURT CHARGE An allegation that the complainant bore hii u because he had once refused to pay her $5O when he took ?i r i V from her house was
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  • 568 2 143rd Anniversary Of Death Today (L. E. Pheow) Today is the 143rd Anniversary of the death of Captain Francis Light, the Founder of Penang. In commemoration of this sad event, it is not out of place for us to allude to some of his commendab'e acts which
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  • 159 2 “In this case I ask for another 48 hours' police custody owing to the number of identification parades to be held and calling of the number of witnesses to the police station on behalf of the accused,” saio Inspector MacLennan, of the Detective Branch, before Mr.
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  • 135 2 Owners To Be Asked To Shift Them (F:om Our Own Correspondent) Butterworth, Oct. 20. Dr. Cameron c?rew the attention of the members of the Province Welles'ey Rural Board at its monthly meeting held in th' district office today to the number of insanitary pigsties within the vil’age
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  • 515 2 Chinese Provident Assn. Decision At the sixteenth annual general meeting cf thc Chinese Provident Association held at the Chinese Town Hell, Penang, yes te: day evening, the members present unanimously approved a donation of $l,OOO (Chinese Currency) to the China Distress Relief Fund. The President,
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    • 258 2 O& H k V ®®l® J I®Mksil I 36,59 w re 1 TOS C A jU RHINE G O L D Eau de Cologne. A poem of 11 ||l Eau de Cologne enchants by glorious fragrance, delightfully PM s sparkling cheerfulness. Sweet captivating in its charming in- 2k and cool
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  • 983 3 Shanghai Situation A Stalemate FOREIGNERS IMPRESSED BY CHINESE SUCCESS (The following article contains the personal impressions of Mr. Chancellor, general manager of Reuters in the Far East, who has just returned to Shanghai.) ,> Shanghai, Oct. 20: military.situation remains a stalemate despite all prophecies and cohtrar-v
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  • 65 3 —Reuter. CHINESE CLOSING IN ON ENEMY Shanghai, Oct. 20, Delayed by censor: A severe battle on which the fate of Kiangwan and Chapei hinges is raging to the north-west of Tachang where Chinese troops, supported by strong reinforcements, have closed in on the Japanese salient from
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  • 84 3 Reuter. Nine-Power Talks Tokyo. Oct. 20: "It is very funny that Japan has not yet been invited to the Brussels Conference,” remarked a Foreign Office spokesman at a Press conference, adding that until the Japanese Government gets and has seen the contents of the invitation
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  • 48 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. Oct. 20. Several prisoners under death sentence in the peninsular town of Bandon were burned to death on Sunday when tin- g.*ol "as alIt g< illy set on fire by the condemned men, according- to the Siamese press.
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  • 40 3 Post Office Mystery (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. Oct. 20. Forty thousand piastres consignee, to the French bank here from Saigon disappeared in the Railway Post Office on Sunday night. The police are making inquiries.
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  • 41 3 Paris. Oct. 20: The presence of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in Syria is now the subject of discussions between competent French authorities in Paris, but it is learned hat no decision on the matter has yet been taken.
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  • 47 3 Reuter. Gibraltar, Oct. 20: It is learned from e most leliable authority that over <OO wounded Italians, many of whom are disabled. are aboard an Itelian ship calling here on her way to Genao. They have been fighting for General Franco in Spain.
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  • 57 3 Reuter. Jerusalem, Oct. 20: As a sequel to an attack on e. police station and theft of rifles and ammunition, the village of Daharia has been fined £2,000 sterling. A number of houses corresponding to the number of stolen rifles have been marked for demolition. One house
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  • 85 3 ,—Reuter. Peiping, Oct. 20, Delayed by censor: Japanese troops in Shantung are withdrawing to the North, according to a foreign report from Tsinanfu, which states that General Han Fu-chu’s forces have made a big advance to Tehchow from Tuhai River encountering little 'opposition from the Japanese.
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  • 129 3 British Wireless. London, Oct. 20: The second day's programme of the Yorkshire visit of the King and Queen includes a sixty-mile motor tour. Luncheon will be taken with the Mayor at Halifax and in the late afternoon Leeds will be reached. Halts ere being made at several smaller
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  • 79 3 .—Reuter. Lone Chinese Plane Did It Shanghai, Oct. 20: It Is reliably disclosed that on the night of Oct. 14 a Chinese plane followed four Japanese bombers returning to their Shanghai airfield from a raid. The Japanese planes turned on their navigation lights and landed one
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  • 34 3 Reuter. Jerusalem, Oct. 20: A new Arab Higher Committee is being formed in Syria, according to local Arab sources, comprising refugee members of the old committee, in Iraq. Syria and Lebanon.
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  • 29 3 British! Wireless. London, Oct. 20: A gift £50.000 by Lord Nuffield foi the sea cadet corps of the Navy League was announced by Lord Lloyd last night.
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  • 15 3 —Renter. RargiMHi. Oct. 20: MKs Jean Batten arrived here at 4.36 p.m.
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    • 254 3 i 'fISSBKBeBVKaBS H ■aSQloae*S»a H U BBS WEMBLEY PARK 'IE ADMISSION lOcts. GENTS. LADIES FREE. h’MGHI Thursday. 21st October. 1937 Ladies Guest Night ERA OPERA ODEON ORIENTAL Jointlv Present Last Part. Free d>stribtMion of Bunga Tclor. White Female Snake" Cantonese Talkies. ANTONESE OPERA “Fong Fob Hee Chee How" Part 2.
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  • 593 4 First Reading On Monday QUESTIONS BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Next Monday’s meeting of the Legislative Council, at which the Prevention of Corruption Bill comes up for the first reading, will also be the Budget meeting, when the Governor will review progress. The acting Financial Secretary will move
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  • 365 4 Fatal Attack In Singapore (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. That he saw the accused knock down the deceased with a blow on the jaw and then kick him and bang his head against the road, were some of the allegations made by Romeo William Pagler, a
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  • 414 4 Contributions received up-to-date, are as follows: Previously acknowledged Straits $305,172.56; Mr. Lee Thean Chor of Lorry No. P 2242. $14.59; Mr. Lee Khee Phee of Lorry I No. P 2164. $7.31; Mr. Lee Geok Kong of Lorry No. P 3861. $6.33; Mr. Lee Thwa Thow of Lorry
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  • 84 4 Ottawa. Canada. Canadian purchases from British Straits Settlements show a marked improvement this year. Imports of crude rubber in June amounted to 5,854,819 lbs. valued at $1,211,645, an increase of 2,691,939 lbs. and $723,354 over the corresponding month last year. Imports of canned pineapples increased from
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  • 23 4 The Municipal band will be away on a fortnight’s leave commencing from Tuesday, October 26 to Monday, November 8, 1937.
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  • 442 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr. W. B. Taylor.- Managing Director of the Sitiawan Electric Light Co., Ltd., Sitiawan. is expected from home leave during the third week of next month. The Hon’ble Mr. G. W. Bryant has ar rived in Malacca and has assumed duties as Resident Councillor. Mr. E._ V. G.
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  • 30 4 b HI ILER GETS SOME FLOWERS: Fuehrer Adolf Hitler receives a boufroni a small admirer during his visit to the Exhibition of -Creative People,” at Diuesseldorf.
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  • 825 4 few specimens LEFT < There is no doubt that the one-horned rhinoceros sondaicus, a few specimens oi which still linger in Malaya, is one of the rarest of the great mammals in existence at the present time" declares Mr. Charles W Loch in an article published in
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  • 259 4 Take These Flesh.E ((rni i ll£ Tablets You know only too wel; steady loss of weight font, it now, while there is yet t <■ now get, in the form of t u.. sugar-coated tablets, the c .A body-building, flesh-t orm t our day—the
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  • 93 4 To Live In England Permanently Lc>ncon. Col. Lindbergh, who. with h.s arrived in England from America or last day of 1935. has decided to n.ake pernranent home in England He w.'. to America only for short visits Col. Lindbergh has lived at s.v n Kent, since he came
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    • 175 4 B. f WORRYING ME. HIS -STRENGTH IS COMING BACK k -A IL 50SLOWLY ZLENGTH?) PUT ME ON vant J JK HORLICK’S JVWk we J B nr soon < .Nkw < i Made me JAv* M strong BOf fS jusrll Jl f YPS!- M Smodiiurx? BRINGING IT ]l 1 0 YES
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  • 3731 5 (Cambridge Examiners’ Favourable Report he science work of the school continues to thrive. The bridge examiners reported very favourably on the work of < ertificate candidates at the last and of the i Jidates 67 per cent, passed (School Certificate and
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    • 312 5 r "notice. custom*»* t<> uhoe I WMMr 1< THAT Wf «A* 1 yd t firm hex* Z iLwS' wKI H NT OTICES outside two neighbouring; petrol-stations on the Portsmouth road at Esher, Surrey, C Side-by-side, so closely set that motorists are hard put to it to say which one they
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  • 1347 6 Local Lawyer Gives Advice To Free School Boys Sound advice on how to act after leaving school was given t( the boy> of the Penang I'ree School this morning by Mr. Chcah Inn Kheam. the Penang lawyer, speaking as representative oi the ()ld Prees
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  • 157 6 Dresses Left Alone (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Oct. 20. In a burglary at a milliner’s shop, “Prestige,” in the Capitol Building yesterday, the works of a sewing machine were among the articles stolen. Dresses and hats, drawers of tables and cupboards and hat boxes were found
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  • 167 6 The trial of a Japanese and three Chinese who are charged with having traWcked in counterfeit Straits currency notes was continued at the Penang Assizes yesterday before Mr. Justice Gordon Smith ard a common jury. The accused are Kichiyoshi 800 Bun Chin. Oon Liat and Li Lim,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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    • 56 6 6.15 OPENING TONIGHT 9.30 The concliidiing chapters of I niversars super jungle serial sensation More Thrills More Excitement More fights than the first 6 Episodes SEE Molten Lava engulf a native village I ‘Mighty African jungle forests shaken by an earthquake Ihe ‘’Lion Goddess’' makes savage beasts to do her
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    • 102 6 PARAMOUNT’S FAMOUS PICTURE OI HR MALAYAN JUNGLE Return Screening A Great Sit cress WINDSOR THE PICTURE ACCLAIMED BY PRESS AND PUBLIC AS OX BEST FILMS OF ITS KIND EVER SHOWN Hear Again DOROTHY LAMOUR Sing “MANIS”, Th.- Famou- Reduced Prices of Admission 15 cts.. 30 cts.. 50 ets a NEXT
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  • 432 7 GUN BATTLE WITH G-MEN IN SHOP AND STREET New York, Oct. 12. RUDDY-FACED Al Brady, America’s Public Enemy No. 1 since Dillinger was shot, had his career of murder and pillage brought to an end in a gun-battle with G-men in Bangor, Maine.
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  • 172 7 Because he was refused a visa to go to the United States, an Armenian shot and killed Mr. Theodore Marriner, United States Consul-General in Beirut Syria. Police state that the Armenian, Meguerdlch Karayan Who is a naturalised American. bad been trying to get a
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  • 135 7 Alleged £650.000 Fraud Paris, Monday. The trial opened today of six persons accused of complicity in the misappropriation of funds involving £650,000. The trial is the sequel to the crash of the Hostallier Bank in 1932. which caused great losses among farmers in the North
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  • 95 7 THE Spanish Embassy in London has sent the British Gov- ernment a Note stating that information has been received that Italy is about to begin an unprecedented campaign of provocations. These, it is stated, will include: Gas attacks on strategically important Spanish towns
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  • 190 7 “We Pay Your Salary” Vienna, Oct 12. “Wounding an official’s honour” was the offence for which a man and woman appeared in the courts here tuday. Official honour is a delicate plant which the State considers requires particular care whether the official be a policeman, tram driver
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  • 206 7 “KING CAROL LINE’’ Bucharest. An important statement on Rumania’s national defence was made recently by the Prime Minister, M. Tatarescu, in a nationwia’e broadcast from Oradea on the Hun garian border. “Rumania will soon be sunounded by an impenetrable barrier of stone and steel which will ensure
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  • 39 7 Cape Town. Plans have been passed fot a giant tentorey police headquarters. costing £lOO.OOO. for Johannesburg. It will have the biggest finger-print bureau in the world and will be equipped with its own radio transmitter.
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  • 43 7 AMERICA’S Shrine of Democracy h s been completed with the unveiling of the bust of Abraham Lincoln, hewn from the granite face of Mount Rushmore. Black Hills, South Dakota. The other two figures are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
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  • 223 7 Handcuffed In Iron Cage Rome, Oct. 12. The Special Tribunal for the Defenceof the State began its duties this morning after the long.vacation. Seventeen men were charged with political offences under the special laws for the protection of the Fascist regime. With one or two
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  • 162 7 Fall From Window London. Mr. Frank Whiffin, aged 68, fell 90 feet from the bedroom window of his flat in Chancery Lane, EC., on Oet. 10 and was killed. He was a retired employee of an insurance company and had been under a doctor’s
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  • 393 7 680 Miles At 81 Miles An Hour OIL AND ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE France is shortly to have the fastest long-distance train in the world if claims already made for it arc substantiated. Ii will run on the Paris Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, and will cover the
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  • 104 7 Noted For Her Frocks Paris. “Rosanelle,” the actress widow of the late Anatole Lunachersky, first Soviet Commissar for Education end Fine Arts, and first Ambassac'or to Spain, is reported to be under arrest. She is a cousin of Nathalia Satz, manageress of the Moscow Children’s
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  • 560 8 BEACH Street yesterday was inclined to take courage from the fact that th*? Wall Street crash of the previous day was arrested bv the intervention of investment trusts, though the cabled comparison with 1925? was not relished. To what extent th? fall is due to purely domestic
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  • 380 8 HIGH PRAISE FOR MALAYA “Malaya is one of the healthiest trop cal 'ands where such extensive researches into tropical diseases are being carried out." declared Sir Malcolm Watson Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, School of Hygiene and London Tropical Medicine, in an interview
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  • 112 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Oct. 20. In about a month’s time a fully equipped and up-to-date ambulance, capable of standing up to the rigours of field work on war fronts, will be sent to China from Singapore, as the gift of two firms who “wish
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  • 104 8 Among the distinguished visitors to Penang today is Sir Victor Sassoon, the wellknown English race-horse owner and millionaire, who arrives by the P. and O. liner "Ranchi” from Bombay on his way to Hong Kong on a short visit. Mr. B. W. Allen, the
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  • 674 8 Penang Free Schoofs 12] si Anniversary Some light on propaganda Pictures worth £3,802,000 ONE of the leading educational institutions in th? East and the oldest in Malaya, the Penang Free School, celebrates itis 121st anniversary today. Founded in 1815 by the then Colonial Chaplain, the Rev. R.
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  • 135 8 Tmportant Witness Absent (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Oct. 20. Owing to the' absence of a material witness the hearing of the divorce action brought by On Lock Hee against his wife, Loh Ah Moey, on the ground of adultery with Lim Tian Seng, was postponed in
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  • 75 8 Acknowledgment of receipt of a consignment of 409 packages of old clothing for the wounded soldiers and po'r refugees in ill the Chinese war-stricken areas has been received from Miss Katherine Kan, honorary secretary of the Hong Kong Branch of the National Women's Relief Association, by
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  • 112 8 ‘■‘’Lloyds Of London. Draws Crowds “Lloyds of London,” which opened t‘ crowdet houses at the Majestic yeste t very good entertainment an.i l> r Power, the new leading man, carr: the honours even from Freddie lomew, who has been given scant i Tyrone Power, as the
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  • 51 8 Penang Medical List Cash donations already acknowledged 10 0 oo Dr. Gan Ho Chiong 25 qq Dr. G. Y. Oon G, oo Mrs. Lim Guan Cheng t) 0 Dr. Yeoh Cheang Hoe qq Dr. Ong Huck Leong GOOI>S j Already acknowledged 5 Dr. Toh Chin Eng
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  • 950 9 Extensive Rebuilding Scheme To Be I Jndertaken (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Oct. 20. T POH is to become the capital of Perak, a new General Hospital is to be provided for the town and an extensive rebuilding scheme is to be undertaken in
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  • 350 9 I DAY OF PI in K RACES weights for the last day of V' T r club meeting, at Ipoh on the P eraK Saturday: ~ss I, D«v. l r 6 funs. 9.04 9.03 B.ll 8.02 IGHT 8.00 ER 7 08 j 7.07 RAINI '5 W 7.07
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  • 716 9 MR. BLACK’S ADDRESS AT FREE SCHOOL Today, the 121st. anniversary of the Founding of the Penang Free School, was also Speech Day at the school; and tonight there will be the annual re-union of Old Frees at the Old Frees Association. Speech Day proceedings began at
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  • 1097 10 jyjKS. 1,. W. wife of the Headmaster of the Penang Free School, gave away the prizes at the annual Speech Day and 121st anniversary celebration of the foundation of the school this morning. There was a long list of prizewinners and. the time taken to
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  • 63 10 PAMELA SARGENT, 13-year- old daughter of Dr. Malcolm Sargent, the conductor and composer, with her father (in light suit) and mother as she was landed on a stretcher from a plane at Heston. Pamela was taken ill with infantile paralysis while holidaying with her parents at Portofino, Italy,
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  • 267 11 CHINESE TROOPS MARCHING TO THE FRONT I LOO? S, complete with brass helmets, marching to the front. The winter in North China having arrived, they now find they have a great advantage over th enemy. g; FLIRTING WITH DEATH (Left): This cockerel likes nothing more
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  • 115 12 Experiences that can be classed only as supernatural will be the subject of the third talk in the series from Daventry. ‘Can you Beat it?’ It will be given by William Martin-Hurst, who will describe two strange events that happened to him during his travels in
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  • 487 12 Eventful Tow Through S. W. Monsoon Another instance of the lengths to which Japan will go to secure scrap metal is provided by her buying and salvaging of the burnt hulk of the 5,000-ton 8.1. vessel Garada and engaging a British Shanghai firm to undertake the
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  • 215 12 A man who was deafened when blown up in the War has been helped to hear again by a television set fitted with amplifying head-phones. He is one of a number of inmates of the Tower Road Home for Deaf and Dumb Men, Belvedere, Kent,
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  • 135 12 The following passengers arrived or lef Singapore by air liners:— Aircraft Aurora VT-AEG from Karachi Burma, Siam Penang arrived Oct. 16: Mr. F. D. Stogdale and Mr. H. D. Black from London. Aircraft Sydney VH-USE for N.E.I. Darw'in Brisbane left Oct. 17: Mr. F. D. Stogdale. Mr. H.
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  • 457 12 Latest Tinus Hi Fostino AIR MAIL A mail for Kuala Lum pur a by Malayan Internal Air a. rv at 2.00 p.m. ton A mail for Kenya. Tai., t Zanzibar. Northern Nyasaland and South and thence by Imperial at 7.30 p.m. tomorro A mail for Java
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  • 154 12 No Official Calk Mad»’ From Our Own Correspon Su gapnr'' The Portuguese sloop Bar’ (2,100 tons), which will convey through the China Sea 600 Negro troops which were at Singa; week in the naval transport M rived here from Lisbon on Mondi.The Bartolomeu Dias was P
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1525 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES 8.8. C. BERLIN NIROM DJB 15.20 McZn 19 7 m. YIX 1513 Me/s (15 8 m) Fun/* t« o» the following wavelength»: D»N 0.54 Me/» 31.45 m. TODAY' IME 17.76 Mc/« 10.89 m. TRANSMISSION 9 MQ 15<28 Mc/# 19 8S P ISH ei.47 Mo/8 (19.97 ■».> 9
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    • 351 12 PENANG—ZHJ (WAVELENGTH —19.3 metres) TODAY p.m. 7.00 Signal and programme. 7.05 Non-Jazz dance music—recorded programme. 7.45 Pageant of English Poetry No. 3 Songs from the Elizabethan Theatre. 7.55 Messrs. Anthony and Co’s share report. 8.00 ZHJ 25th Symphony Concert. Symphony in D Major, Op 73 (Brahms. Allegro non troppo: Adagio
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  • 201 13 Impi’ov einrnts s iiggestr<l Baltimore. 1 i harbour and chan- ous major improvcauthorised by the 1 11, which has been nt Roosevelt. mng of main ship deep above Sparrows c<, will be asked by Bureau of the Balti- inimerce, and indth will be
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  • 41 13 The s s Naldera from Japan, China Singapore is expected to arrive here at 9 a m on Saturday and will leave lot Colombo, Aden. Port Said, Malta Marseilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth London. The steamer will work at the wharf.
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  • 796 13 S.S. ‘RANCHl’arrives 6 a.ni. from London, Marseilles, Bombay and Colombo, alongside wharf, leaves at 1.00 p.m. for Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. (Islay Kerr). 5.5. ‘BHUTAN* arrives 6 a.m. from London, Bombay and Colombo, leaving for Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan 4 p.m. from the
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  • 467 13 With her food supplies and provisions running very low and the temper of her passengers high, the Java-China-Japan liner Tjibadak ajrivefd in M-anila early this month from Mariveles where she had been for four days under quarantine owing to refusal of some
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  • 204 13 10 Per Cent. Of The World’s Total During the past three months a slight decrease has taken place in the amount of mercantile tonnage under construction in British yards, according to Lloyd’s Register returns issued on Oct. 13. The decrease is 15,338 tons, but the present
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  • 84 13 500.000.000 Candle Power Beam Paris. A giant lighthouse with a lantern of 500,01)0.000 candlepower has been opened to the public at the Paris Exhibition. It has been designed by the lighthouse services and the lantern, which is on of the most powerful in the world, will
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    • 564 13 SLUE funnel line LONDON AND NJRfH CONTINENT Loaves Due in conjunction with Glen Shire Line) Penang London Ld- n. R’dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea Oct. 22 Nov. 17 t udon, R’dam, H’burg, A’werp M’borough Oct. 23 Nov. 22 Mars., L’don, K’dam and Glasgow Oct. 29 Nov. 24 LIVERPOOL SERVICE Liverpool Jeddah,
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    • 444 13 PX and ot w BRITISH INDIA Incorporated in England.) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. RANCHI** SAILING THURSDAY, 21st OCTOBER Peninsular and Oriertui q xt contract with Hi«, > Co under Penan Teluk Anson, Port Swetternam. London and Far F«<o m S <> Governmcn t Malacca and Singapore Service Outwards from c
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    • 271 13 (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA) LONDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Marseilles, Gibraltar, London, Antwerp and Rotterdam. Steamers. Sailing dates. TERUKUNI MARU (calls H’burg) Nov. 11 HAKUSAN MARU Nov 26 HARUN A MARU Dec 10 x KATORI MARU Dec. 24 x KASHIMA MARU Jan. 7 YASUKUNI MARU (Calls Hamburg)
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  • 426 14 Fo-lov. n- are the probable riders for today's i:. <s at Ipoh: RACE 1—2.30 I’M. Herses. Class 4, Div. 3: 5’2 Furs. Pride of Perak 9.00 Farthing Emperor Kublai 8.10 Martin Cheerful La-Jy 8.07 Spencer Gallant Maggie 8.07 Wocus Brown Fox 8.04 Lawler
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  • 48 14 A general advance in wages for steel workers in West Wales was agreed upon at a joint conference of employers and representatives of the Iron and Steel Trade Confederation held at Swansea. Mr. Cordell Hull is at Ottawa on a social visit to Lord Tweedsmuir.
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  • 1116 14 PROGRAMME OF 8 EVENTS FOR TODAY Below will be found ibe full programme tor today’s races at Ipoh. ibe third day of the Perak Turf Chib Autumn Meeting: RACE I—Horses, Class 4, Div. 3, 5| Furlongs, i 2 4 I'RIDE OF PERAK 9.00 A. van Tooren Duval
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  • 59 14 —Reuter. London. Oct. 17: In the men’s singles tinal of the Queen's Club National Covered Courts Lawn Tennis Championships. H. W Austin (Britain) defeated Karl Schroeder (Sweden), the holder, 6 -2, 3- 6, 7—5. 6—2. In the women’s singles final Miss M. C. Scriven (Britain) defeated
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 173 14 z \C “Even focus different as you and me agree about one thingwe must have Selo films” Xu Selo and Selochrcme, tre fences Films are made tc fit every rrcke. type and every s zc e' car e more, thanks to the ex“ latitude, they p>e ycj 0in every kind
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • 789 15 WRONG TO CALL ME A MONEY-GRABBER’ London, Oct. 11. i rubbish to say that I am tied H Mike Jacobs, the American I( r for five years,” declared h en I walked into his cabin Mary at Southampton yesJames Butler in the Daily teniay; if you that
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  • 435 15 M.R4TCII l>[ \YEK DOES il' WITH R< < \l) OF 70 London Oct. 12 Ifter a lap-e of twenty-six years, the ord for t*i>- Woking Club’s course was by Gerald Russell, a cratch playt r. with a round of 70 in the ral tournament. Humphrey
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  • 225 15 BOXING London, Oct. IL JOHNNY KING the British bantamweight champion, proved too good lor Young Chocolate, champion of Jamaica, in their ten rounds contest at Bristol The coloured fighter was knocked out at the end of the fourth round. King forsaking his usual methods,
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  • 360 15 London, Oct. 11. On November 6 a greyhound will run at the White City and in the space of 28 seconds earn £1,750 for its fortunate owner. People associated with the sport when it was in its infancy will rub their eyes
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  • 172 15 A co'oured man. Frank Craig, 73, ol St. Giles's. High-street, Bloomsbury, stated to have been the world's middle weight champion for 11 years, was sentenced at Bow-street, London, last week, to two months’ imprisonment for assaulting Frances O'Shea. He was alleged to have struck the woman
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    • 71 15 A F i t? Izf Jl f fiS s' kJ 1 /jf II? t vwW *i -Jr W n s < > t < lip 0 ■/It I s 7 s ■i BElli <1 r m hhh v S i W| I F jS nushhme 1 Ilf i 1 Hl
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  • 109 16 TIN PREVIOUSLY LATEST LONDON—(Spot) £206.10. 0 £207.15 0 LONDON —(3 months) £206.10. 0 £207.15. 0 SINGAPORE $104.75 $105.50 BUSINESS DONE PENANG $104.75 $105.50 BUSINESS DONE 25 tons COPRA—(Sundried) 5.55 5.40 BLACK PEPPER $10.50 210.50 RUBBER LONDON 7ft d 7§d NEW YORK 15}c(G) 15}gc(G) SINGAPORE—Spot 24£c 254 c Oct./Dec 25}c
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  • 364 16 Share of rr denomination unless ssnaiv Yesterday Rise or Fall otherwise stated Conversion Loan, 5 p c., 1944-64 Funding Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 War Loan, 3} p.c 8 Com. Union Assce. (Units) lOxd 333 1 1 Prudential Assce “A” 1 Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 1 Great Western
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  • 120 16 London on Previously Latest Paris 146 2564 146 13,32 New Y ork 4 95 0 4.95 ft Montreal 4 95 ft 4 95« Brussels 29.38ij 29.361 Geneva 21.523 21.504 Amsterdam 8.951 8.964 Milan 944 94 ft Berlin 12.331 12.333 Stockholm 19.39} 19.39} Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90
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  • 128 16 London, October 20. RUBBER Firm. London 7£ buyers 7B sellers November 7g buyers 7fJ sellers Jan./Mar. 7H buyers 7sellers April/June 7f& buyers 7? sellers NEW YORK 15.72 cts. Tinted Kingdom Stocks London 29.555 tons Liverpool 20,774 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. (Oct.) 15. 7 6 PEPPER White
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 355 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER Buyers Sellers Allenby 1.25 1.40 Alor Gajah 1.05 1.20 Amal. Malay 1.50 1.75 Ayer Hitam 1.20 1.40 Ayer Panas 1.20 1.30 Bassett .60 Batu Lintang 1.05 1.15 c Bedford 1.05 1.20 Benta jJ 05 1.20 Borelli 1.60 1.75 Broga .774 Buk t K.B. 35 -45 Bukit Katil
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    • 143 16 LEAN CO. 'UX: Buyers Sellers Ampats 4 1 3 4 i 9 Ayer Wengs Batu Selangors 1-W 1.674 Bangrins 23 1® 2^!3 Burma Malays 28J9 29'6 Hong Fatts 1.074 1.124 K. Lanjuts 22'0 Katus 22(0 230 Kuchais 150 1574 Laruts 11 JO ll)9xd Pungahs 226 2310 Rantau Pref. 1.55 1.621
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    • 245 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.62} 1.70 Hong Fatt 1.09 1.11 Johan .37 .39 Klang River 1.50 1.60 Kuchai 1.55 1.65 Lukut .80 .85 Puteh 1.15 1.20 Rahman Hyd. 1.30 1.35 Rantau Ordy. 1.62} 1.70 c Rantau Pref. 1.62} 1.70 c Sungei Luas 1.80 2.00 Taiping Consolidated
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    • 22 16 TIN Singapore $lO5-50 I‘er pkl Penang $lO5-50 Per pkl RUBBER Singapore Spot c Per lb. Penang Spot c Per lb.
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  • 203 16 ar Drum Captured By Kitchener A native war drum captured by Lord Kitchener’s forces at Khartoum in 1898. and presented by him to Queen Victoria, has been given to the British Museum by the King. The drum belonged to the Khalifa. Queen Victoria kept
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  • 121 16 Padang Party v. Bertam Estate Ramblers A team from the following will represent the Padang Party against the Beram Estate Ramblers in a charity game of soccer in aid of Poppy Day Fund on Sunday, October 24 at Bertam Estate ground at 5 p.m. sharp:— Khoo Eng Chuan,
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    • 914 16 BANKS NEDERLANDSCHE THE MERCANTILE HANDEL-MAATSCHAPPIJ, OF INDIA. LTD. V (Incorporated m England» Capital Authorised (Incorporated in the Netherlands.) Capita! Subscribed Reserve Fund and Rest Capital Paid Up 247 8*NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY.) cau'TS,.. Established in Amsterdam 1824. sir Cbarlea Alexander Innea, K HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM slr Smith Kt di. F. R.
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