Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 December 1937

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE EDITION ESTAE. 1853. FLEJLiSHED DAILY. Xo. 295» Vol. XCV. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1937. PRICE 1(1 CENTS.
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  • 1192 1 But No Hasty Decision To Be Taken YAM; I SE STATEMENT LN COMMONS TODAY It is expected that a da\ will be allotted in the Commons early next week to satisfy the l abour demand for a debate on the foreign situation with particular reference
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  • 91 1 observed until June 9. Reuter and British Wireless. Ancient Custom Revived At Windsor London, Dec. 14: The King spent his 42nd birthday morning today quietly in Buckingham Palace. He received presents from the Royal Family and attended to the usual State papers. A 500 years old
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  • 51 1 Reuter. Jerusalem, Dec. 14. The first death sentences on Arabs for murder of Jews since the disturbances of 1936 were passed by the Court of Criminal Assize at Jerusalem today. Two villagers were sentenced for the murder of a man named Hendel Mintz dur.'ng a hold-up last
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  • 25 1 Reuter. Belgrade, Dec. 14: The Franco-Yugo-slav trade agreement operating as from January 1. 1938 was signed by M. Delbos and M- Vrbanitch--
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  • 79 1 7 Prime Minister replying in the Commons to a request for a statement of Government’s policy to meet unemployment problems that threaten the country in rteu? of the oncoming slump,” said: I do not accept the implication in. the question. I consider any talk of an
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  • 134 1 Satisfactory Board Of Trade Figur es For the first eleven month* of the yeai United Kingdom imports totalled £935.412,236, an increase of £169,539,952 over the corresponding per.od of last year and ot £251,856.353 over the same period of 1935. Kxports at £*77,979,846 represented an ncrease of £77,726,061 over
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  • 349 1 Reuter. It Goes Without Saying...” Tokio, Dec. 15.—The Naval Section of Imperial Headquarters has issued the following statement, On minute circumstances in connection with incidents where m the Panay and British gunboats were bombed by Japanese naval planes.” On receipt of information at noon on Dec.
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  • 35 1 The third issue of the Journal of the Malaya Branch of the British Med.ra' Association has n<‘w been published. It is obtainable from the Publishers. The Aovertising Publicity Bureau Ltd Sirgapore. st $l.
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  • 120 1 Readers of the P.nang Gazette will have noted W’ith some anxiety the cessation of news cables from Madame Chiang Kaishek since the Generalissimo and his wife were compelled to leave Nanking. We have no information regard ng her whereabouts and we believe that her silence is
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  • 144 1 Reuter. Recognition Of A Conquest But Not Of Franco Dublin. Dec. 14 Mr. De Valeras Government recognises the Italian conquest of Abyssinia but not Franco’s Government in Spain, according to replies given in tnĕ Dail. Mr. De Valera said an Irish Free State representative was
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  • 70 1 Readers who have made th< m eessary reservations for the Pinang Gazette Dictionaries and who hare already collected 12 consecutive coupons arr strongly advised to forward them at once, with $2.50, when the books wit be sent to them. This advice is given becaum tht number of reservations in
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  • 2868 2 President Pays Tribute To Dr. J. E. Smith And Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe MR. T. C. MARTINE, GOING ON LEAVE, RESIGNS At yesterday's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners Mr. J A. Black, the President, announced that Dr. J. R Smith and the Hon. Mr. Khoo Sian
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    • 146 2 Tliey'reiCx, jgaa. 12*1 Happy Because they get their Lt regular weekly course A SHERLEY’S Taaic and CMditioa Powders. And that m mm. keeps their blood cool, their appetites KJ BB keen, their spirits bubbling and makes FC 3 Iff z them the happy, contented pals they W■Bk B u MH
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  • 657 3 Government Backs Up Strong Demands U.S. MAY CUT OFF JAPAN’S WAR SUPPLIES Washington, Dec. 14: Upon receipt of complete information of the number of casualties and the condition of survivors of the Panay outrage, the U. S. Government has decided to reinforce Roosevelt’s demand
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  • 25 3 Reul er ;l oli<lu<l Outrage l( )<■(.. 1I: Pilot ()fii- illiam Jones oi the ;l s found murdered jlabbanivah where he friends. Reuter
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  • 85 3 British Wireless. W( v Britons To Try \ext Spring < 14 Most of the party of will constitute the British ch next spring' will make a <mpt to reach the 29,002 feet I verest have now been selectu Tilman who is 39 and the n t>« r of the
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  • 70 3 -i,;, debts ano British Wireless. I>< 14: Arrangements for the w- ek of a £5.000,000 loan to < iring interest at four per cent. lt ,b in 1960 were completed yes- roup of British bankers. r is will be used mainly to repay I ;Uh credits
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  • 47 3 -Bnt <■ Wireless. j, ar j of Trade returns for Novemthat imports were £97,251,000 ncrease on October figures of txi, 1 11 1 and the previous November of i7’ Exports at £45,183,000 show a -> October of £2,032,000, but an last November of £6.741,000.
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  • 190 3 NO SLOWING DOWN FOR YEARS. SAYS DEFENCE MINISTER Reuter. London, Dec. 14: The rearmament programme will not slow down for four or five years, declared the Minister for Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, at a luncheon of the National Union of Manufacturers. He said that
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  • 277 3 -Reuter. Italian Journalist Dead Shanghai, Dec. 14. H.M.S. Bee rescued a number of survivors of the Panay, including several found on Hanshan Island. It is reported from Hohsien that an Italian, Sandro Sandri, correspondent for the La Stampa in Turin and formerly inAbyssinia and Spain for Mussolini’s paper
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  • 93 3 Reuter. German Protest To Japanese! Berlin, Dec. 14: The Foreign Office lodged a complaint with the Japanese Embassy in Berlin about the continuous attacks by Japanese artillery’ on December 11 on the British steamer Wangtu which had aboard the office of the German Embassy in China. There
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  • 89 3 k along me line to British Wireless. London. Dec. 14: Large areas of Scotland are still deep m snow and last night the express from Edinburgh to London after being snowbound during the night, causing it to leave Carlisle eight hours late, was delayed for three
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  • 52 3 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 14: The question of a boycott of Japan is being again discussed in labour circles. The President of the American Federation of Labour speaking at Ohio pledged that the Federation will make a real boycott against Japan for her barba- rous war
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  • 124 3 Reuter. Japanese Detain Paramount Man Shanghai. Dec. 14: An American, Arthur Menken, of Paramount News, is re ported to have been detained by Japanese Army authorities in the so-called safety zone in Nanking- His camera and films of the siege of Nanking were seizedThe local representative of
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  • 75 3 British Wireless. i‘6( M &gt;.()()&lt; &gt; Scheme London. Dec. 14: Negotiations are well advanced for the establishment of a City of London Airport at Fairlop plain. Essex. The City Lands Committee, having coin pleted arrangements for acquisition of the site from the Commissioners of Crown Lands
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    • 403 3 CRIPPLED BY PAINS IN THE LEGS Physical Instructor Loses Use Of Limb* If rheumatism is crippling your limbs, and making life miserable for you, read how this man obtained relief from the same trouble: I am a swimming and physical instructor Early this year I had violent, stabbing pains in
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  • 836 4 EXPENDITURE ON VOLUNTEER FORCES TO BE INCREASED Amendments To Aliens Law And Telegraph Censorship Eroni Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. Dec. 14. THE text of four Bills to be introduced into the Legislative Council at the special meeting in Singapore tomorrow were
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  • 818 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr. Mrs. F. Bede-Cox have returned to Tanjong Ram bu tan, after spending about a week at Cameron Highlands. Mr. J. A. Bines and Mr. A. H. West, both of Messis. Guthrie Co., Ipoh spent their week-end at Cameron Highlands. Mr. J. Nalder, manager of Ipoh Rubber Estates,
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  • 185 4 Causes Disturbance Before Fatal Jump t Front Chir Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 14. Fallingeighty feet to his death from the balcony of the fourth floor of the Southern Hotel, Eu Tong Seng Street, Singapore, yesterday shortly before 1.30 p.m., a 40-year-old Chinese, whose identity
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  • 95 4 Mr. G. P. Noakes gratefully acknowledges the following donations in connection with the Penang Convent Christmas Fund: Previously acknowledged $333; B S.M.A. $10; C.H.Y. $5 Anonymous $3O; total $378. Dr. Loh Guan Lye. of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, was married at the Singapore Wesley
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  • 393 4 Police Clerk Charged From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 14. Alleged to have received an illegal gratification of S 5 from Lim Bak Kee as a motive for doing him a favour. lan Seng Hong, a clerk and interpreter with 13 years’ service in the Police Department,
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    • 125 4 gv ji it The importance of Q* plenty of FRESH t BUTTER for growing f /T boys and girls cannot r be over-estimated. Have you ordered your Xmas Turkey? LULU L'l'Uli/iL'L PHONE PEN ANG 1500 1501 BUTTERWOK 11! 33 Advt. of Singapore Cold, Storage Co., Ltd. FORD V 8 22
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  • 413 5 HITLEWS NEW PLANS TO MEET WINTER FOOD PROBLEM roAAAMxz i Berlin. Dec. 5. GERMANY, Still unable to import from abroad the additional foodstuffs she needs to feed her 67,000,000 people, is tightening her belt for the third winter in succession. &gt;«• whole
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  • 113 5 Cape Town, Dec. 5. Mr. William Kerr, a young commercial traveller of Johannesburg, and formerly a parachutist, set up a new Empire record today by jumping from a height of 22 395 ft. The jump was made near Standerton, Transvaal, anti Mr. Kerr was unconscious when he
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  • 43 5 Wellington. Dec. 5. The bill introduced by the Government reducing the life df the New Zealand Parliament to three years Passed the House of Representatives today. The last Government extended the life of Parliament to four years.
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  • 41 5 on your bowler, because it hasn’t been specially treated like the one in the picture, which is being tested by baring a 9lb. weight dropped upon it to make sure it will protect its miner-owner from iaUina stones.
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  • 227 5 London, Dec. 4. Hundreds of Germans officers, soldiers, men. women and children stood erect, and gave the Nazi salute as an American placed a wreath in memory cf Jews on Berlin’s war memorial. Not one in the vast crowd of onlookers realised that the American,
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  • 596 5 Exchange Of Lecturers With America Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society, announced at the tv\o hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary meeting of the society at Burlington House last week that the King had consented tu be the patron of the society, thus
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  • 257 5 KI SSIA REMEMBERS Ml RDERED LEADER Moscow, Dec. 3. morating the third anniversary of i r of Stalin’s lieutenant, Kiroff, in the official Press announces the ntention to keep up the present for enemies.” fficial theory is that greater joy ss” are achieved here the
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  • 118 5 PLAN TO I SE BONDS FUND Edmonton, Alberta, Dec. 3. It is learned that Mr. Abefhar.t. the Social Credit Premier, is considering using fcr Social Credit purposes the £1.000.000 fund originally set aside for bond interest payments and now lying idle. The money has been accumulating since
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  • 326 5 Montreal, Friday. Fascism is beginning to flourish in the Canadian piVivince of Quebec. It has all tin- attendant feature» of uniforms, swastikas, arm. d drilling and anti-Jeu ish propaganda. It is favoured by the present right-wing semi-F?scist Government of Premier Dunplessis. Describing themselves as
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    • 67 6 n■———»— GOLF HUA HIN-ON-SEA Siam Premier Sea-side Resort. Play where you’ll enjoy most ROYAL STATE RAILWAYS OF SIAM. ONG BOON HOE 1, J ALAN DEWA-SUNGEI PATANI, Kedah Mail Bus Service Bus No. K 1356 Contract of Pinang Gazette” and Sunday Gazette Delivery Service. LEAVING DAILY ARRIVING ARRIVING Butterworth 3 Patani
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    • 71 6 BOXING FUN FROLIC ARENA Friday. l 7t h l) .&lt;. 1 lt r MAIN EVENT YOUNG CORBETT 10 Rds. VO i v Iu (Penang Indian» A| &lt; Serembaji Ma: a YOUNG BERG 8 Rds. N A SAWIF SUPPORTED BY TWO OTHER GOOD BOUTS NOTE.—Boxing Tickets will be sold at all
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 677 6 vvvwwwwwwwwwwwvwwv. TONIGHT LADIES’ GUEST NIGHT AT BOTH PARKS THE BEAUTIFUL MOON CALLS YOU OUT OF DOORS DROP IN AT OUR PARKS 7 SUPER SHOWS FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT YOU CANNOT RESIST THE DRAW. WEMBLEY PARK ODEON STAR OPERA Flaming Dragon Reduced prices A super show for your entertainment. SHANGHAI THEATRICAL TROUPE:
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    • 179 6 For Happiness Sweet and Rare onu THE WEMBLEY CABARET WHERE YOU WILL GET ALL THE FUN YOU W Bar Dancing 9 p.m. to Mi(| llitlt Coupons 4 for $1 9 f or 52 TEA DANCE TOMORROW WVWV\fWVWVWV&gt;VWWVWA-.V.\V at 6.15 OPENING TONIGHT 9..M1 YOU’VE SEEN HIGH. WIDE AND HANDSOME. NOW SEE
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  • 555 7 NO RECOGNITION FOR MRS. KIRBY-GREEN Royal Aero Club Men Demand Explanation JHE biggest rumpus in the history of sports flying has broken out among air men and women in Britain over the failure of the Royal Aero Club tc incorporate the name of Mrs. Betty
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  • 286 7 SIR ABE BAILEY'S SUGGESTION A suggestion that betting off the course should be made to contribute financially to the support of horse racing was in a letter from Sir Abe Bailey, the South African racehorse owner and member of the Jockey Club, read at
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  • 222 7 Rapid Jump In Sex Ratio l*roni Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, l&gt;3c. 14. I'he stress recently laid on the social aspect of estate coolie accommodation is commented on by Dr. R, E. Anderson, health officer, Malayan Medical Service, in the current issue of the journal of
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  • 211 7 The Hague. JI ever I rincess Juliana and her mother, the Queen of Holland, came near «1 disagreement, it was over the nursery for the babv the I’rinceiSS i&gt; expectingin January. l.he Princess wanted everything modern, her mother inclined to the
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  • 176 7 Tobacco To Be Forfeited i (i roni Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 14. At three o’clock one morning a Chinese came to my house with two big parcels and left them there, saving he would return for them the next morning. I did not know
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  • 98 7 Three Reasons” Why Why Lord Chief Justice He wart prefers the House of Lords to the House of Commons was told by Mr. Norman Birkett K.C., at a London dinner recently at which Lord Hewart was a guest: 1. It assembles later than the House of
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  • 110 7 HELPING TO EDUCATE PRINCESSES Queen Mary is taking a keen interest tn the education of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. She has arranged to take them one afternoon every week to places of historical ind national importance. Already Queen Mary and the Princesses have visited the British
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  • 240 7 P/e« Ky Ex-Husband Of Flarbara Stanwyck Los Angeles Barbara Stanwyck, the film actress, who has been named repeatedly as the girl Robert Taylor will marry, may have to appear in court to answer charges by her ex-hus-band, Frank Fay. radio comedian. Fay alleges that Miss
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    • 542 7 -.-a oft re 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1477 A 1478 with extensions. Telegrams: Gazette Penang. &gt;i«a&&lt;&gt;re Office Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. lei Times Singapme. Lumpur Office 25, Java Street. Phone 3W». |m&gt;* Office Brewster Road. Phone 288. Office 40, 43, Meet Street, London E.C. 4 Phone Central 3608-3609
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    • 293 7 PENANG HILL RAILWAY Delightful days will be yours if F» visit Penang Hill. Excursion tickets are cheap. time table up TRAINS. MONDAYS TO SATURDAYS: 6 30 am. to 8 00 am. every 30 minute» 9 00 a m. to 10.00 a.m. every 15 10 00 a.m to 4.00 p.m. every
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    • 193 7 wlte ij b IwriT V "-ANS Of AssMAnCI a i. &lt;■ THE RE AT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE C.°. IP SINGAPORE BRANCHES 'THE COMPANY ONTHE SPOT’ &lt; 1 DIABETES IF UNCHECKED LEADS TO SERIOUS AILMENTS AND PREMATt KE DEATH. Check it with the safe and reliable oral treatment of Dr. Janies
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  • 555 8 WE ought to be really happy in Malaya. The duties of citizenship are reduced to primary essentials. So long as we behave ourselves, remember our glorious heritage and all the benefits accruing therefrom, and pay such modest sums as are demanded of us by way of taxation, then
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  • 149 8 Peking As Capital Peking. Dec. 14: In a description of the creation of a provisional Government of China replacing the Nanking Government” the Domei Agency quotes the Chairman. Tang Erh-ho, reading the proclamation which states, inter alia, that the new administration aims at: 1. Abolishing one-party politics;
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  • 667 8 Malayan Big-game Hunting Well known Shikari Book h&gt; be Published Where do Elephants die "A EW men in Malaya todav d&lt;&gt; s’ big-game hunting in anything more than a casual way, and then only to protect tlreir estates or labourers. This was not so about thirty years
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  • 1291 8 Malayan jungles. ;m&lt;l gb useful advice that most only acquire by painful x Mr. O’Hara has still a J chapters to finish, and from i at what he has written, the 1 &gt;&lt;&gt;k w be of interest to the ordinary num the street ais well
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    • 50 8 LANGENBACH’S FAMOUS RED SPARKLING HOCK TH EM ARK OF QUALITY! «NIBELUNGEN. KRONE. A FAVOURITE OF YOUR LADT FOI.KS AND SO BE SURE TO HA\TC A BOTTLE HANDY AT YOUR HOME. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL THE LEADING DEALERS Or From The AGENTS Henry Waugh Co., Ltd. PENANG, Singapore. Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 618 9 Well-Known Chinese Accused Of Dealing In Japanese Goods (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 14. Ong Hock Heng was convicted this evening by Mr. W. J. Thorogood, the first magistrate, Kuala Lumpur on a charge of extorting $lOO from Mr. Yeow Kim Pong,
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  • 618 9 WEIGHTS FOR FIRST DAY (From Our Own Correspondent.) Tai ping, Today. The following are the weights for thp iirst day of the Taiping Turf Club Skye Meeting to be run on Friday; KA4JE 1 Polo Ponies. Catch Weights. WHY WORRY CARKAL 1* ANGKOR LUMUT GREY LAI) EDGAR
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  • 249 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 14. Some 500 British soldiers w'ho for two months were in the thick of the battle for Shanghai, uncertain when some airman or gunner would misread his map and land hundreds of pounds of high explosive
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  • 35 9 Reuter. Bombay, Dec. 15.Lord Tennyson’s XI won by six wickets. Lord Tennyson’s team scored 171 for 4, Edrich had 86 not out and Worthington 49 not out to their credit.
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  • 172 9 Two Vacancies To Be Filled As previously stated in the Pinang Gazette, Dr. J. Emile Smith, Eurasian representative on the Municipal Commission, is not seeking re-election and this fact was made public at yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Commissioners, the last for this year. It was also
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  • 85 9 Mr. Newbold To Act As President At yesterday’s meeting of the Penang Municipal Commission it was announced that Mr. T. C. Martine had sent in his resignation as he was going on leave next year. It is'hOt’ yet known who will take Mr. Martine's place on the Commission.
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  • 141 9 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN KUALA LUMPUR (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dee. 14. The charge of murder of an unknown Chinese in Chulia-street, Penang on Oct. 18 was explained to Neo Chye Huat, a Hokkien. who was produced yesterday before Cne Ahmad, the third magistrate, Kuala
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  • 66 9 C.D.B. White, a European, of the Trans Krian Estate, Nebong Tebal, appeared before Mr. Lim Cheng Ean in the Pen ang Middle Court yesterday to answer a charge of having permitted more than one person to sit beside him while driving his car along Farquhar Street, Penang,
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  • 75 9 Master Oh Yew Meng, a six-year-old son of Mr. Oh Peng Loon, correspondence clerk attached to the Penang Police Court .vas knocked down by a motor car yesterday evening at the junction of Burma!. Road and Jahudi Road. The boy was trying to cross
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  • 153 9 ASSESSORS DIFFER: JUDGE DECIDES (From Our Own Correspondent» Alor Star, Dec, 15. After a three-day trial at the High Court of the first division, Alor Star, presided by Mr. Justice G. B. KeDagher. the case in which Bakar bin' Haji Ismail was charged
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    • 132 9 COMING SOON The Truth About Pirates Ten gripping stories of pirate adventure and stolen gold. Watch For Them In the Sunday Gazette. Starting December 26 E. O. HOTEL, PENANG TONIGHT DINNER DANCE XMAS NEW YEAR PROGRAMME. XMAS EVE I SPECIAL DINNER Friday, 240» December DANCE DINNER S 3 Extension to
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    • 184 9 For cool, W .Milling serve \Kj. CHIVERS JELLIES viemf, Chi»er« Jelhw 11» and convalescent*. The most popular jellies for over half a century 01 I I The rich fruity flavours so characteristic of Chivers’ Jellies have won for them a world &lt; K\l 1 wide popularity. What could be nicer
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  • 1266 10 Stocks Rise To Continue U.S. TRADE RECESSION STILL THE CRITICAL FACTOR (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 8. Rubber prices are likely to rise slowly during the opening months of 1938. but not sufficiently to enable, most producing companies to earn such
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  • 202 10 Mr. G. L. Ham Becomes N. S- Resident (From Our Own Correspondent! London, Dec*' 8Colonial Office promotions, and reappointments announced by the Colonial Office this morning include the appointment of Mr. G.L. Ham (Vnder-Se-crqtary, S.S.) to be British Resident, Negri Sembilan and of Mr- N- R-
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  • 39 10 Rat rut Basin Tin Dredging Co. t Ltd. Dredge Statistics for the month of Nov. 1937. Hours run 388; cubic yards treated 68.800; tin ore won pikuls 312; estimated cost $18,000; cost per cubic yard 26.16 cents.
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  • 35 10 Katu Tin Dredging Ltd. Dredge Statistics for the month of November 1937. Hours run 609; cubic yards treated 150.000; tin ore won pikuls 1,040; estim|ated cost $16,800; cost per cubic yard 11.20 cents.
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  • 36 10 Renong Consolidated Tin Dredging Co.. Ltd. Statistics for the month of November 1937. Hours run 676; cubic yards treated 236,000; tin ore won pikuls 1,019; estimated l*ost $17,000; cost per cubic yard 7.20 cents.
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  • 31 10 Reuter. Brussels, Dec. 13The Finance Minister, M. Deman, has left fgr London to sign the agreement concluded with British bankers for a loan of £5,000,000 bearing 4 interest.- Reuter.
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    • 280 10 If ll H JUfIM 4 'W| I GLYCO- &lt; I THYMOLINE I 'i is more (han a mouth-' I L» i wash. It soothes and aids i in healing delicate mem- i I; 1 1 branes of the nose and I”-. &gt;; throat it counteracts j L 1 &gt;^ s
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    • 444 10 STOMACH PAINS GONE INJ MINUTES The first thing you want when you &lt; an et from stomach pain is quick relief Then when the pain has gone, you want to keen it away. That is just how Mrs D. f e ]f She suffered agony with her stom;. h Now
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  • 223 11 1(»TH ANNIVERSARY OF POLAND’S INDEPENDENCE. Field Marshal R ydz Smigly taking the -salute at the march past of the Cycling Corps in Warsaw. *HINESE COMMUNITIES all over J apan are enjoying the same peace an&lt;l tranquility as prevailed before the inci:it the Japanese claim. The
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  • 374 12 Deal Practically Completed New York. The Leviathan, the famous 48,900-ton liner, which was taken over from Germany by the United States Gove-nment during the war, is likely to be sold for scrap to a British firm. The deal has been practically completed. The papers .are
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  • 1577 12 The New Wo 11 &lt;1 e r Arrives PICI’URES OF ALL EVENTS f()|; THE HOME TKJ.KX ISIOX, the new wonder, has arrived. There were no television receivers in Greatci L. &gt;i teniber, 1936, hut now there are nearlx 9,(XX), and increase is rapidly acceleratingin the last lour
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  • 371 12 Latest Times Of Posting AIR MAIL A mail for Kuala Lumpur and Singapoie by Malayan Internal Air Service will close at 2 p.m. tomorrow. A mail for Java and Southern Sumatra via Singapore and thence'by K.L.M. Service will close at 7.30 p.m. today. A mail for
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1216 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES B. B. C. I CALCUTTA VUC 6.10 Mc/s «49 1- m.) today om tne following wavelerngtlt: m 6 56 Time signal. For the Rural Areas. TRANSMISSION 2 26 Indian music. 8.11 -A feature programme 9.11-Talk: Public Health." GSH 21.1/7 Mc/S (13.97 m 56—New* bulletin in Bengali. 10.11—
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    • 562 12 MELBOURNE VK 2ME 9.59 Mc/s (31.2 m TODAY p.m. 4.2o—Opening announcement 5.20 With the world’s famous orchestra. 6.20 News bulletin and sporting results. 6.30 Tour of the world. 6.50 Leading Dance Band. 7.20Close down. TOMORROW VK 2ME 9.59 Mc/s (31.2 m.) p.m. 4.20 Opening announcement. 5.20 With tb.e world’s famous
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    • 275 12 PENANG—ZH J ZHJ 6 08 Mc/s (49.3 m.) TODAY pm. 700 -Signal and Programme. i.Oa— Studio Programme by the Tiger Raggers 7 45 interlude. 7.ss—Straits Echo News. 8 00 Chinese Music. 9.00- Close Down. TOMORROW ZHJ 6.08 Mc/s (49.3 m.) p.m. 7.00 Signal and programme 7.05 Lignt programme of well-known
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    • 22 12 ni)i. iaih* TODA' HIGH 4 33 p n 10 43 p m TOMOKRO" 111.15 a m 5.30 P 01 11.32 p m
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  • 853 13 S.S. I lONGKII EXG’ arrives this morning; from Rangoon, s.tiling this afternoon for Singapore and China ports. M.S. ALSI.V from Bangkok. Singapore and Port Swettenham yesterday afternoon, 'sailing todav for Colombo, Suez and Europe ports. I).OB. RIBOT’ from I’. So-asoe yesterday, sailing toda\ for same
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 493 13 BLUE FUNNEL LINE Vessels. LONDON AND NORTH CONTINENT Leaves Due &lt;ln conjunction with Glen Shire Line) Penang I&gt;ondon HAS L don, R’dam, H’burg, Hull Swansea Dec Ift Tan i? 1 .'PEDON Mars., L don, R dam, Glasgow. Dec 24 Jan 19 r.NOGLE Ldon R’dam. H’ burg, Antwerp and Dec 31
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    • 104 13 PREfSBBMT LIMB TO EUROPE VIA SUEZ. WEAVE Arrive Arrive PENANG Marseilles New York S.S. PRES POLK Dec. 18 Jan. 12 Jan. 25 S.S. PRES. PIERCE Dec. 30 Jan. 26 Feb. 8 S.S. PRES. VAN BUREN Jan. 13 Feb. 9 Feb. 22 A wonderful opportunity to visit Cairo en route. PACIFIC
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    • 703 13 P A O BRITISL| d iNDIA (Incorporated In England SINGAPORE, CHINA X JAPAN S.S. -CORFU*’ SAILING THURSDAY, 16th DECEMBER HOLIDAY VOYAGE ALONG THE BURMA COAST Ist Class $130.00. 2nd Class $90.00. Outwards from London for China Japan. Shanghai for loading only, outwards only.» Homewards for Colombo, Aden, Pcf’ Saia, Penang
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  • 421 14 CLIMAX TO MANY YEARS OF EFFORT New Course At Glugor Open Today As announced in the Pinang Gazette' last week, sent nine-hole golf course of the Penang Sports Club (Go** Section) on the Race Course will be abandoned as from today when ten of the
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  • 319 14 Good Game Expected In Final (BY AI’DAX) The fourth final of the All Blues Cup competition takes place at Seremban on Saturday, December 18, when Perak and Singapore Asiatics will meet. At the last meeting of delegates of the All Blues Cup Committee, the venue of this year’s
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  • 271 14 Penang Trial On Friday A strong English Association football amateur team, now on a world tour, is due in Penang on January 9 to test Malayan soccer teams. It is a team of all trades carpenter, masseur, protessional cricketer, dance band leader, newsreel operator, furniture
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  • 71 14 Reuter. Floored Opponent Six Times New York, Dec. 14: Max Schmeling beat Harry Thomas at Chicago on a technical knockout in the eighth round. Schmeling began slowly and was being outpointed in the first four rounds but after the sixth he assumed the upper hand. The
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  • 626 14 Poor Combination In Both Teams Jn a game which showed the lack of cohesion on the part of both teams, the Old Frees’ Association defeated the Old Xaverians’ Association at hockey yesterday evening] on the S.X.I. ground by three goals to nothing. One goal was
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  • 445 14 Negri X Malacca May Combine (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Dec. 13. A suggestion to combine Negri Sembilan and Malacca into one unit in the Asiatic rugger competition may be brought for ward at Saturday’s meeting of delegates of the All Blues Cup committee. Malacca has been out
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 372 14 You May Be Forty But WHY Be B\ FAT? f For most people, there is really no reason to stay fat. Thousands hate fat yet fail to get rid of it because they do the wrong things. It is simple to control excess (Weight; Once you prove this for yourself
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  • 1067 15 Critics Confounded brilliant tackling BEATS CAMBRIDGE BACKS 1 From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 7. OXFORD won the sixty-second inter-university rugby match at Twickenham today, defeating Cambridge by one goal and four tries 17 pts.) to one dropped goal (4 pts.) The match was watched
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  • 129 15 BIG SCANDAL THREATENED Brussels, Dec. 5. Police have raided during the week-end many Belgian football pools organisations, some of which they allege to be fraudulent. Thirty organisers of pools have been arrested, most of them in the Liege and Charleroi industrial districts. More arrests are
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  • 419 15 AMATEUR REFEREES ONLY AT REQUEST OF PROMOTERS London, Dec. 5. Amateur referees will officiate at pro fessional boxing show’s in future only at the request cf the promoters. This proposal, put forward by the Southern Area Council, was passed by 14 votes to 11 at
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  • 88 15 A letter from Don Bradman advising the inclusion of spin bowlers in the next England team against Australia was read by Mr. A. E. R. Gilligan, former Eng’anl and Sussex captain, at Southwick Cricket Club dinner last week. The letter stated, I think you will agree
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  • 46 15 EKSATILE CANADIAN.Roy Musgrove, goal-minder of the Wemßley Lions ice hockey team, has entered for the light-heavy-weight division of the Ixmdon University boxing competitions. Musgrove (left’, here seen sparring with George James, the promising young Welsh heavy-weight, is studying mining engineering at the London University.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 181 15 2)cents worth of Patent Castrol oils your Pistons FOR STROKES and Reduces Cylinder Wear C. C. WAKEFIELD CO,. LTD., SINGAPORE, A PENANG. AUSTIN buy a. eaA.- but you in cut Hiutin, 4 J meet repeated requests tor an Austin hfcfcW:-/jTOy Seven with four doors there is now offered an additional
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous

  • 131 16 PREVIOUSLY LATEST IX)NDON(Spot) £195.15. 0 £193.10. 0 LONDON—(3 months) £iqs 0 0 £192.10. 0 SINGAPORE i»5 00 -/-/..&gt;95.00 BUSINESS DONE .TEN ANG qq &gt;94.50 BUSINESS DONE Buyers no setters Buyers no sellers COPRA(Sundried) 4 90 4.90 BLACK PEPPER j 9 00 &gt; 9 00 RUBBER LONDON 7ld 7ftd NEW
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  • 364 16 Share of «1 «renanilnatwn umeM otherwise stated Yesterday Rise or B all «reversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 114 J JP-»iwttng Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 1123 Var Lean 34 p.c 1013 Oiyn. Union Assce. (Units) 10 Fnidential Assce A" 33i 11 Royal Assce. share 10s. pd.) 8? Great Western
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  • 130 16 London on Previously Today S&gt;ari 147 9,64 147 15 64 New York 4.99 1164 4.99? Montreal 4.99 1154 4.99? Brussels 29.38 A 29.39-i Geneva 21.60. J 21.60 i Amsterdam 8.981 8.98 i Milan 95 eriin 12.39 12.39; Stockholm 19.40 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 tl* 10 19.90 19 90
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 79 16 KENNEDY CO. TIX Buyers Sellers Ampat 4 9 5 3 Batu Selangor 1.55 1 60ex Hong Fatt 1 08 1 12 Kpg. Kamuntsng 10;6 HO Kuchai Ordy. 1.52 J 1.57 A Larut n l 6 12 Mambau -00 -65 Pungah 21 3 22 0 Puteh I 20 I3oex Rantau Pref.
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    • 156 16 A. A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.571 1.621 Hong Fatt 110 1.121 Kuchai 1.55 1.60 Lukut -70 .721 Puteh 1.321 1.371 Rahman Hyd. 1.35 1.40 Rantau Ordy. 1.471 1.521 Rantau Pref. 1.471 1-52 1 Sungei Ways 2.55 2.65 Taiping Cons. 1.70 1.75 Talam 1.421 1.171 Ulu Klang
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    • 238 16 Prices Hold Up Obstinately New York, Dec. in certain industrial quarters tending to suggest an approaching climax to the current recession are at present disregarded by widespread pessimism which requires as an antidote news or developments of strong stimulating significance. In this connection we would note that reliable
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    • 19 16 TIN Singapore $95.00 Per pkl. Penang $94.50 Per pkl. RUBBER Singapore Spot Per lb. Penang Spot Perlb.
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    • 149 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers SelD-rs Am pats 5 0 5 6 B. Selangors 1.55 1.60 Burma Malays 25 0 26 0 Jelebus .70 .73 K. Lanjuts 233 23 9 Kramats 12 0 12 9 K. Kampars 14 6 15’0 Kuchais 1.50 1.57 J Laruts 11 3 119 Pungahs 22'0 22
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    • 147 16 RUBBER: Boyers Sellers -\llenbys 1.45 1.523 Ayer Panas 1.421 1-50 Bassetts .573 .623 Batu Lintang 1.123 1.173 Bedfords 1.10 1.15 Bentas 1.123 1.173 Brogas .85 873 c Mentakabs .45 .473 Malaka Pindas 1.35 1.423 c Nyalas .973 1.023 Pa jams 1.973 2.073 c Sungei Tukangs 1.123 1.173 Ulu
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    • 124 16 London, Dec. 14. RUBBER Easy.—. London 7* buyers 7 Jrn./Mar 7 buyers 7| 7 sellers 'nril/June 7, 7 S buyers 7ft sellers July, Sept 7’ buyers 73 sellers NEW YORK 15.00 cts. United Kingdom Stocks 34.326 tons Liverpool 20.91 S tons OPR -«rrbita S.D Rotterdem &lt; Dec
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  • 16 16 Reuter. The Belgian Bond issue is to be offered for sale at 97.- Reuter.
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  • 37 16 Arrangements were completed yesterday for a £570.000 Sierra Leone per cent, loan at 101. redeemble 1958—63. It is understood that existing four per cent. Inscribed Stnck holders are ogered part convension into this stock.
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  • 60 16 London, Dec. 14. Dublin University defeated the Cambridge University in a close game by 6 points to s,—Reuter. The steamship Hong Kheng’ arrived today from Rangoon with the following passengers: Mr. Ooi Boon Tay, Mr. and Mrs. Ooi Chooi Seng. Madam Tan Sun Chang. Madam Chuah Heoh,
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    • 11 16 I |Q\ pinanc gazette \~*X CORONATION DICTIONARY” COUPON Name W, Address
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    • 73 16 M/V GLENBEG” 'OYAGE 36 (OUTWARD) ARRIVED ON 12 12 37 Consignees of cargo per the above vessel from Europe are hereby notified that a General Survey of all cargo landed in a damaged condition will be held at Penang Harbour Board’s godown No. 4 at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, the
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    • 708 16 BANKS INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK, THE MERCANTILE HANK LTD. INDIA. LTD. Briti.» ÜBCorporaleu Capital Authorised Capital Subscribed Head Office: 11/12, First Line Beach, Reserve Fund and Rest Madras. Capital Paid Up UOfioSl Branches Penang. Rangoon, Karaikudi BOARD of DIRECTOR, and Sivaganga. Right Hen. Lord Catto of Cairncatto, Sir Charles Alexander Innes
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