Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 January 1938

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 1. Vol. XCVL SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1938. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 180 1 Joint Meeting In London Next Week DOCKERS ALREADY TAKING UNOFFICIAL ACTION It is understood that a joint meeting of the T. U. C. General Council, the National Executive of the Labour Party and the Executive of the Parliamentary Labour Party will he held in London
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  • 733 1 RECOGNITION FOR DIPLOMATS Home Honours List It the head of the New Year's Honours the Viscounty conferred on Lord Nuf.fld for public aid philanthropic services. In the recent past Lord Nuffield has ms de a series of benefactions of unpre-ce-idented munificence for the benefit 01 i.'tressed
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  • 32 1 77.57 to 64.64 cents an ounce.Reuter. Washington. Dee. 31.- President Roosevelt has slashed that price of silver mined in the United States from 77.57 to 64.64 cents an ounce.Reu-
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  • 82 1 Reuter. M. Chautemps To Mediate Paris, Dec. 31.—The Senate by 224 votes to 73 adopted the conclusions of the Senate Finance Commission rejecting the proposal for reopening the Paris Exhibition next year. The proposal had already been adopted by the Chamber by a considerable majority. M. Bonnet announced
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  • 134 1 Reuter. Smuts Ou Large And Formidable Army** Geneva, Dec. 31. A vibrant plea for thv League as a living reality in the present and a real hope for the future was made by General Smuts in a speech recorded ,n South Africa and broadcast to the World
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  • 90 1 A four-year-old Chinese boy is lying in the Penang General Hospital in a critical condition, as a lesyut of a motor accident which occurred at Light Street, in front of Stanley and Co., last evening. It is understood that at about 6 p.m., the boy
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  • 53 1 |>OET as well as politician, Wang w Cbing-weiwho may succeed Chiang Kai-sheklooks boyishly young, despite his 51 years. In 1935 had two narrow escapes "rom assassination in one month: Was at one time leader of the Left Wing of the Kuomintang Nationalist Party) and a bitter political opponent
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  • 250 1 Position At End Of Nine Months Exchequer returns for the first threequarteis of the financial year show a nrt increase cf total ord nary revenue compared with a year ago of £25,787.544. In eluding self balancing items, total revenue is up £29.087.544 to £534,112.358. the estimate for the whole
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  • 132 1 Charges In Tinies Of Transmissions It is officially announced that the closing of the gap between Transmissions 2 and 3 in the 8.8. C. Empire Service from Daventry is the chief of several important changes that will come into force this year. On and after tomorrow, the
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  • 369 1 Creation Of New Senior Post At Foreign Office The following statement is issued from the Foreign Office. The Secretary tor Foreign Affairs in consultation with the Prime Minister has recently had under review conditions which for some time past have placed an increasing strain upon the
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  • 133 2 Accused ants To Be Examined Lu Chun bat. a 58-year-old Chinese, who was charged with having had in his possession explosives, namely a bomb, without a licence from the licensing officer, on December 28—at Penang Road, made his second appearance before Mr. Lam Cheng Ean the
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  • 264 2 To Spare Mother From Seeing It AWARDED SCOUT V.C.” For over two years Leonard Frederick Crispin, a member of the 6th Epping Forest (Ist Wanstead) Group of Boy Scouts, suffered intense pain through cancer. Occasionally during that time he was allowed to go home
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  • 65 2 Renter. Moscow, Dec. 31: The Soviet Government has decided to establish a sepantc Commissariat for Naval Affairs and tr; *sfer to it the naval forces of the Red Army which will thus be detached from the control of the Commissariat of Defence M. Smirnoff, at
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  • 694 2 NO. 1 WANTS MORE MONEY No Use Complaining,” Says Magistrate Your obligation is to your legal wife and not to the othei woman. \Vhv don’t vou pay the $l5 which your legal wile claims and live in peace with the other
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  • 213 2 Goldsmith’s Breach Of Trust Sentence was deferred on Tham See Kee, who pleaded guilty before Mr. Lim Cheng Ean. the Penang additional magis- < rate, yesterday to a charge of having committed criminal breach of trust in respect of gold worth $86.90 on December 30.
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  • 240 2 Seeds They Bought During The War For Russia Judgment in the action for £lBO,OOO by the Russian and English Bank against Baring Brothers and Co.. Ltd., as London bankers of the former Russian Government. was given by Mr. Justice Bennett in the Chancery Division. During
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  • 169 2 Mistaken Identity, Says Accused T have never been in Seremban. It might be a case of mistaken identity. I ask that my finger inpressions be taken again and referred to the Registrar of Criminals” said a Chinese, Teh Kim Hooi, when Inspector Linsell accused him of having
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  • 71 2 Cart-Puller’s Mishap Yesterday afternoon a Tamil coolie pulling a cartload of firewood tripped and fell at the junction of Acheen Street and Beach Street. The contents of the cart piled on top of him. At that moment a trolley bus came on the scene and
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  • 303 2 Affairs Of Lady (Muriel) Bowden’s Daughter The first meeting of creditors of Mrs. Charles Clarke, of Norfolk-street. Parklane. W.. and lately .staying at the Hotel Splendide, was held at Bankruptcy Buildings. Carey-street. Mr. C.T. Newman, the assistant Official Receiver, said that Mrs. Clarke had not
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  • 357 2 Will the Dionne Quins be the star turn rn Scotland’s £10,000.000 Empire exhibition when it opens its doors at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, in May next year That is the question the organisers of the exhibition are asking each other. They have sent
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    • 587 2 Mead office 12, Bishop Street, Penang Phone 1477 1478 with extensions. Telegrams: Gazette Penang. Bia ga pore Oflice Ceeil Street, Singapore. Phone 5471. Tel Times Singapore. EaMa Lumpur Office: 25, Java Street. Phone 368.4. ipob Office Brewster Road. Phone 268. London Office 40, 43, Fleet Street, London EkC. 4 Phone
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    • 658 2 W.P.S. 37 Notices M/V RADNORSHIRE VOYAGE 5 (OUTWARD) ARRIVED ON 27-12-37 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 the Penang Harbour Board's godown No. 4 at 2.30 p.m. on
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  • 1089 3 Good Fields For Card Of Eight Events Below will be found the full programme for the second day of the 1 enang lui I Club Xmas~Xew i ear Meeting to be run at Penang today: RACE 1 HORSESCIass 4,Division 3,5 Furlongs. 20 0 SALMON PAR
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  • 473 3 Family Urges Budge To Earn £20,000 As Pro London, Dec. 23. Talking of Christmas boxes....lt seems that the Budge family would appreciate it as a seasonable gesture if Donald, the red-headed son of the family, Wimbledon and United States lawn tennis champion would stop saying "No. thank yon.” to all
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  • 974 3 London’s Third Round Cup Luck Seven Out Of Nine Drawn At Home Arsenal’s Reason For Sale Of Players (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 23. WITH fog, frost, and snow robbing us of a considerable portion of our week-end sports programme, and upsetting form in the games
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    • 123 3 G race and Charm Fx WSk that spring from U v l Radiant U Health ,/j/- 'X V.\ f x 'HI I AB Wwr r s z A sracefnl Rgurr* the chirm bright eyes Y clear visible signs of yadiant X St hra’th. V. -X f 1 Frery waaxan «MB
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  • 431 4 Complainant Was Frightened For Life (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Dec. 31.. 'I must ask your worship to take a serious view of this case as the complainant has definitely been frightened out of his life by the accused Court Inspector TE. Wray, said ths
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  • 129 4 Opportunity For Cinematographers Amateur cinematographers thruugihoul the Empire will have an opportunity of rlutwing their films to a wider audience icxt May at the British Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland. A Film Festival, open to all residents in the Empire, has been organised by the British Film
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  • 110 4 (From. Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 31. Mohammed Salleh bin Ahmad, a prominent land owner in Bombay, appeared in the nurd Singapore Court yesterday on three -charges of falsifying accounts of Ismail Mansoor and Co. on three different dates i total of $461.25 cents. The charges
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  • 25 4 EVEN THE GROWN-UPS are interested in this miniature railway which was seen at the toyland department of a Sintja pore town store.
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  • 1307 4 Eurasian Assn. Announcement ONLY POOR TO BENEFIT (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Dec. 31. The establishment next year of two scholarships, for a Eurasian boy and girl of jHior parents, was announced by Mr. IL R. S. Zehnder at the annual meeting of the Singapore Eurasian
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  • 40 4 Mr. F. A. More O’Ferrall, managing director of the Anglo-Irish Agency, Ltd., the well known dealers in race horses, of 27 Old Bond Street. London, leit England by air on Dec. 20 for India and Malaya.
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  • 411 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr. E. C. Martin, of Sime Darby and Co., has returned from Europe aboard the Rotterdam Lloyd liner Indrapoera. Mr N L Alexander, Acting Assistant Protector of Chinese, Perak, who went to Hong Kong on casual leave, has retumc to Ipoh. Mr S. M. Middlebrook, Protector of Chinese,
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  • 62 4 Fight Between Malays And Chinese (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Dec. 30. Because of alleged interference by Malays with a married Chinese woman a fight occurred at Kulai Besar Estate between Malays and Chinese yesterday one Malay being killed, one Chinese seriously injured by
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  • 67 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Dec. 31. Alleged to have fraudulently diverted Municipal electric current for their owr use. two Chinese were convicted on charges before Mr. Reeves, in the Third Singapore Court yesterday. Tan Y’eow’ Choon was fined $75 or two months imprisonment, and
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    • 299 4 recovered from ULCERATED STOMACH Mrs. Norman is a happy woman these davs She might well be, after all she ha« S’ through 8 I feel I must wnte tc you says Mrs. Norman, about the way I have recovered from ulcerated stomach and gastric trouble. For years I have suffered,
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  • 121 5 GERMAN ENVOY TO MAKE PRESENTATION Shanghai. Dec. 31: It is learned reliably, states Reuter, that the German Ambassador in Tokio, Herr von Dirksen. has received the following six peace terms from the Japanese Government for presentation to the Chinese Government through the German Ambassador
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  • 67 5 Reuter. China's Soviet Imports Shanghai. Dec. 31: A fleet of small S v t submarines, sent overland from K' -s:a in parts and assembled in China, a oeanxl in the Yangtse to the west of At <ing, the capital of Anhwei, according t ".confirmed reports in
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  • 92 5 Reuter. Looting In Japanese Shopping District T'.r.4tao. Dee. 31: Events are moving v u unatie rapidity. Chinese troops ar marines have withdrawn. Chinese it deserting and looting has begun m. th Japanese shopping district. The Mayor. Admiral Shen Hung-lien. w? wls awatded the D.S.O. after servo in the British
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  • 311 5 Old Friend Of Stalin Among Victims Moscow A communique issued here tonight announces that eight men were -ttnceu to death for high treason and have now been shot. It is presumed that the sentences were passed by the Military Collegium, but ev n that detail
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  • 256 5 Coins Nursed As Novelties’’ London: The reasons why the new 12sided threepenny bit has almost vanished from circulation although over 3.000,000 have been minted are discussed by the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint. Sir Robert Arthur Johnson, in his reports for 1935 and
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  • 54 5 Reuter. Box-office Draw New York, Dec. 31: Record crowds are now packing New York’s cinemas to see films of the Panay incident, prints of which are being distributed throughout the country. Seven thousand formed a queue to await the opening of one cinema alone. Long
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  • 96 5 Reuter. Cairo, Dec. 31: The capital, Alexandria, and the provinces are calm following the change of Government. Organised blueshirted followers of Nahas Pasha, the deposed Premier, stole away from their camps under cover of darkness. The police found their camps deserted. The Blueshirts also silently evacuated
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  • 42 5 Shanyhai, Dec. 31: Despite the official Japanese announcement of the reopen in a of the western subunits to Chinese and fort iyners. people icho tried to enter found the.r way barred by Japanese sentries. They turned back
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  • 84 5 -Reuter. Brand New British Cruiser London. Dec. 31: The battleship Warspite reconstructed at a cost of £2,250,000 goes to the Mediterranean on January 4. Then there will be three battleships and two battle cruisers in the Mediterranean. The brand new cruiser Birmingham is now being fitted
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  • 61 5 From Our Own Correspondent, i Bangkok. Dec. 31. Four hundred folk danced in the New Year at the Sports Club in the presence of the Chairman of the Council of Regency and Mr. L. Wenner-Gren. the Swedish multi-millionaire. and party from the luxury yacht. Southern
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  • 108 5 20 Per Cent. Rise Demanded Warsaw. The inhabitants of Puck, a little town in Polish Pomerania, not fax- from Danzig, have startled everybody by petitioning the Treasury to increase their taxes. We want them to be increased by 20 per cent.,” runs the petition to
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  • 104 5 The King’s Approval Notification of the appointment by the King of Viscount Gort, V.C., the new Chief of the Imperial General Staff, as a member of the Army Council, has been given in the London Gazette” This is the first of the official announcements required to confirm
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  • 28 5 Reuter. London. Dec. 31: Official quarters here categorically deny rumours that British troops were being moved from Palestine to Egypt during the political crisis.
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  • 95 5 Reuter. HITLER NEW YEAR PEACE” MESSAGE Berlin. Dec. 31 The determination to fun her strengthen (Germany’s lighting forces in 1938 was expressed by Hitler in a New Year message to (Germany. "We believe that in these troublous aanjnj ui ip.w ojejs Suojjs e ajuo sauiii
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  • 83 5 Reuter. Huge Deficit Paris, Dec. 31: The Chamber passed a sleepless night lasting until dawn before they read the Budget a second time by 527 votes to 65. The final figures were estimated at expenditure. 54 milliard 957 million francs against revenue 54 milliard 537,000. The
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  • 145 5 British Wireless. London, Dec. 31 The Ministry or Health’s return of housing and slum clear ance progress at September 30 shows that 3,484.132 new houses have keen built in England and Wales since the Aim stive. While there was a slight decrease
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  • 89 5 -Reuter. New York. Dec. 31: In a statement giving details of the handicap under which the oil industry in Mexico would have to operate following the Mexican Labour Board’s latest awards to workers. Mr. W. S. Farish, President of Standard Oil, New Jersey, said
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  • 96 5 Reuter. People To Read Only Official Paper Bucharest. Dec. 31: The Rumanian Government’s official paper has announced that other newspapers are to be closed. Government has taken over the distribution and sale of all tobacco.Reuter. RELATIONS WITH SOVIET There are indications that the report
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  • 258 5 Reuter. Times On Ladybird Reply London. Dec. 31: Britain has despatched the reply to the Japanese Note regarding the attacks on British vessels in the Yangtse on December 12. There is nothing unexpected about the Japanese reply, says The Times. Immediately the Note was handed to the
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    • 68 5 1 S KF iEy IV I) g Rfl f p s f o r sensitive 11 p s VKhar a difference an lvory’ tip makes to your enjoyment of a cigarette! So smooth, so comX lortable so pure and wholesome You will find I (he Itory tip only on the
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  • 654 6 THOUGH the turning point is purely arbitrary, it is impossible not to heave a sigh of relief at the exit of A.D. 193/ which has been the worst year of tragedy since th? close of the Great War. For psvehological reasons which cannot be defined, everyone will
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  • 151 6 English School Teacher Marries Pianist Mr. David Sabapathy Ramanathan, of the tutorial staff of the Anglo Chinese School, Parit Buntar was wedded to Miss Ruth Samathanam Vanniasingham. yesterday at the Tamil Methodist Church. Kubor Nyor Road. Penang. The bride who is the eldest daughter of
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  • 119 6 Appointed A Governor Of The 8.8. C. The King has approved the appointment of Miss Margery Fry to be a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation for the next five years, succeeding Mrs. Mary Hamilton whose term has expired. During the war Miss Fry went to France
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  • 36 6 The total amount applied for in tenders for £50,000,000 Treasury Bills was £80.485,000. The average rate per cent, for bills at three months was 10s. 11.39 d. against 12s. 0.64 d. a week ago.
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  • 581 6 A Contribution to Greek Cream of the World Rake's Progress MANY years ago, Malaya was an importer of tin, the inhabitants of this country knowing nothing of the wealth which lay l>eneath their feet. Its discovery led to Kedah introducing an Arabic vxord into modern Greek. It
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  • 150 6 Free Supply Of Current By K.E.D. Co. I From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Dec. 31. A generous gesture on the part of th Kinta Electrical Distribution Co., Ltd. to supply free current has made it possible for lights to be installed at the new
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  • 136 6 < b rom Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dec .31? Pleading guilty to a charge of theft of two bags of clean tin ore weighing 109 katties and valued at $6O, two Cninese, Yap-Yin and Lew You, were today sentenced to four months’ rigorous imprisonment each
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  • 184 6 Reuter. Sikhs Again Arrested And Charged (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 1 Three Sikhs who were involved in a charge of theft of copper wire at Lahat were ordered by the Supreme Court to be arrested and charged again. Two of then: were produced
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    • 517 6 (j.( What precautions are best against Coughs I I of the Elderly?” r Angier’s jj is the gMyir answer Ki»BLaL Those who have the care of the Angier’s is unequalled for bronaged and feeble can confidently rely chitis, and for coughs and chronic on Angier’s Emulsion to afford catarrhal affections
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    • 59 6 WWWWWbIWb SPERRY PURE ROLLED OATS -rr icht i it rSP3SIBr Specially packed to protect your health, as well as to preserve the shape of the Flakes and wholeness of the grain. SPECIALLY PACKED FOR THE TROPICS In Airtight Vacuum Tin» Obtainable at all the Leading Provisions Dealers Sole Agents Henry
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  • 1134 7 MALAYAN NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST Majority Bestowed On The Police T he w Year’s Honours List lor 1938, which we publish below is chiefly remarkable for the fact that the majority of the awards go to members of the Police Force of the Straits
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  • 189 7 Jaga Kreta Boy Who Needed Watching (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 31. Jaffar’s joy ride cost him $25 when he. pieaded guilty to a charge of theft of half a gallon of petrol and was fined $25 this morning in the First Magistrate’s court by
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  • 124 7 Taking up flying less than two months ago, Mohamed bin Hamzah. 25-year-old Malay working as groundsman at the Penang Flying Club, passed his tests for an A" Licence on Christmas Eve and becomes the first Malay in Penang to possess this licence. The son of a planter
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  • 338 7 Ex-Priest-Soldier Fined §5O (From Our Own Correspondent) ipoh, Jan. 1. Mehar Singh, watchman at a Lahat foundry, who described himself as a Sikh temple pnĕst lor nearly 12 years and a retiied member of the Indian Army, was yestetday fined $5O for being in possession
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  • 107 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh. Jan. 1. A Chinese boy of eight years was yesterday produced before Mr. SimpsonGray in the Juvenile Court on a charge of having stolen $lOO, the property of his mother. He pleaded guilty and. in view of his extreme youth, the
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  • 26 7 Reuter London, Dec. 31. In the Scottish soccer league. Clyde drew with Ayr. no goals being scored, and Mor on defeated St. Johnstone 32.Reuter
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  • 347 7 Weeding Coolie Drowned (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Dec. 31. An inquiry into the death of a Chinese adult. Low Seng, who died as a result of drowning in the Perak River near Manong on December 2 last, was concluded before Raja Hitam,
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  • 65 7 Coronation Youngsters To Meet Asiatic Y oungsters The following will represent the Coronation Youngsters against the Asiatic Youngsters in a friendly game of soccer tomorrow at Dato Kramat ground at 5.15 p. m. O. Basri; Jais Noordin. Yusoff: O Hussain. S. Yusoff and 11. B. Hamid; R Ahmed. Ahmed
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  • 579 7 Only 80 Acceptances: First Race At 2.30 Compared with the number of runners on the first day, 94, the acceptances for today’s races, the second day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting, are smaller, totalling only 80, which means an average of 10
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  • 380 8 School” Discipline Too Cramping In future there is to be a certain amount of relaxation of the regulations at Cranwell. This decision has been made by the Royal Air Force authorities because of the desirability of increasing the development of individuality and self reliance. The
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    • 343 8 l/ARriN 8 M" PILLS I APIOL it STEEL I Sureandcertainfor*ll Female complainta.Every lady should I keep box in the house. I T* l GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY 1 52-54 Beach Street, Penang. ONG BOON HOE 1, J ALAN DEWA-SUNGEI PATAN I, Kedah Mail Bus Service Bus No. K 1356 Contract of
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    • 352 8 .V.V.WAVJW. ROYAL canmai 1— gJ 545 TONIGHT 9.00 6.30 FONTGHI 9.30 matinee today at 2.15 p.m. Sun Yet Film Co., Production Sneciallv Brought Back By Request! The Mose Thrilling Cantonese Talkie e Th a Record-Breaking Tamil Talkie BORDER TOWN’ r7i 4 VOTINI v 9 r ftN FQNQ HUET LOOT DALAIWIii*
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    • 193 8 L-, ".12!!!=== "> OPENING TOMORROW 6.15 9.30 Paramount's Gay. Rollicking Comedy' Hit A mwiw-co-rouiio The pretty star of Mr. Deeds Goes To Town” now goes to town herself in a MV riotous companion picture to My Man ot^re y v 11 s Paran,o,,nt s Made-for-langhV PLANS NOH OPEN AT QUEEN’S
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  • 371 9 A MORE DYNAMIC ECONOMIC POLICY Berlin, Dec. 24. Dr. Schacht, the President of the Rci( hsbank, writing in the Deutsche Volkswirt,” the leading German economic < ('kly, today, calls for a more realistic end dynamic” economic policy by the possessor States.” He writes: I
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  • 98 9 Paris. Dec. 23. The Bayonne Civil Court has made fibsolute the divorce between Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch of Russia and Princess Ilyinskaya, formerly Miss Audrey Emery, of New York. The divorce was pronounced against Grand Duke Dmitri, but by agreement of the two parties he has
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  • 22 9 DOLLS WERE IN GREAT DEMA ND thio Yuletide and heron a V lrl holding tight to hers.
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  • 28 9 ONE OF THE LAST-MINUTE purchases for the Yuletide teas flowers. Here's a Christmas Eve shopper buying flowers from a stall in Orchard Road, Singapore.
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  • 312 9 Air Raid Bill Is Now Law London, Dec. 23. Royal Assent has been given to the Air Raid Piecautions Act It is now a statutory duty of local author.ties to make prov'sion for the protection of persons and property in their areas from injury
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  • 202 9 Col. De La Rocque Fined £250 Paris, Dec. 23. The Lower Criminal Court, sitting without a jury, today pronounced Col. de la Rocque's French Social party an illegal continuation of the forbidden Croix de Feu. Col. de la Rocque was fined £250 and five members of
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  • 142 9 Lumber Sent Abroad Was Too Good Moscow, Dec. 23. The President and seven other imported officials of the Dvina Timber Trust" in Archangel have been sentenced to death as "wreckers and agents of a certain foreign Power. The Dvina Trust. which sends much lumber to
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  • 300 9 New Italian Press Attack On Mr. Eden Rome, Dec. 23 Comparisons are made in the I tai .an Press today between Mr. Eden’s statement in the House of Commons on Monday on Italy’s anti-British propaganda in Palestine and Mr. Chamberlain’s references in yesterday’s debate on
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  • 180 9 No batsman came within yards ot hitting a six in a recent cricket match played in Adelaide. Which isn’t so surprising when we know that to have scored six the ball would have had to clear a boundary rail” more than 40ft. high! The match
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  • 171 9 GANG ASK MONEY OR WE TELL’ Hollywood, Dec. 24. All Hollywood's detectives were mobilised tov.ay in a great drive to round up a ring of racketeers who have been attempting to victimise Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford and Olivia de Havilland. The racketeers sent
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  • 185 9 Electoral Test In Quebec Ottawa, Dec. 23. Mr. J. N. Francoeur. Liberal, and Mr Paul Bouchard, Independent Nationalist, have been nominated as candidates in the Federal by-election in Lotbiniere County, Quebec. The election, which will be held on Monday, is exciting much interest as providing a test of
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  • 130 9 W ill Rise To 11,000,000 By February New York. Dec. 23. The report submitted to-day by the Works Progress Administration to Mr. Harry Hopkins, Administrator of that agency, states that 2,000,000 workers had lost their employment since September, and estimates that between 1,000,000 and 2.000.000 more will have
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  • 381 9 50,000 MEN AND 500 PLANES London, Dec. 23. An outline programme of the forthcoming United States naval manoeuvres in the Pacific, received from Wash ngton yesterday, shows them to be on a much larger scale than has ever before been attempted, writes Hector C. Bywater,
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    • 186 9 LOST WEIGHT WON VITALITY! Once LanguidNow Full Of Pep” In two weeks, she lost 5 lbs. Three weeks later, another 5 lbs had gone. When she was burdened with her unwanted fat she was always languid—now she is full of activity. The method she followed is quite pleasant, yet very
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  • 149 10 A detailed scheme for a broadcasting service in Burma submitted to the Government by the Posts and Telegraphs Department provides not only for the permanent service but also for the preliminary stage of training and experiment. The wireless staff of the Posts and Telegraphs Department, it
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  • 271 10 Broadcast From The Guildhall THE King will probably speak on' physical fitness at a Giiil<ll l meeting in February. Hhe does so his speech «ill be bro ;1 CaSt This was revealed recently at a special meeting of the C,„„ mon Council, when it
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  • 218 10 Estimates Degree Of Moistures Two Federal research officers in Melbourne have applied radio to timber testing and have perfected a new meter for recording moisture contents. Timber experts here believe the inven tion will enable timber moistures to be scientifically estimated much more quickly than by
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  • 414 10 Latest Times Of Posting AIR MAILS: A mail for Australia, New Zealand. Java and Timor D.lly via Singapore and thence by Singapore-Australia Air Mail Service will close at 7.30 p.m. today. A mail for Kenya, Tanganyika, Ugan ft Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Nyasaland, South Afr
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  • 370 10 St. George The Martyr 2nd SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS 7.15 a.m. Holy Communion. 8.00 a.m. Matins. Psalm UM. Hymn 331. 8.45 a.m. Holy Communion. 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion (Tamil) 10.30 a.m. Matins Holy Communion (Chinese). 6.00 p.m. Evensong. Psalm UM. Cham Magnificat Nuif Tlimi‘»is. Hymns 74. MONDAY, 7.0 n
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    • 1024 10 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES B. B. C. BERLIN DJB 15.20 Mc/s (19 7 m.) Tune in on the following wavelengths: TODAY p.m. TRANSMISSION 2 12.25 German folk song. 12.30 Weekend concert. 1.20 News in German. 1.35 GBH 21.1,1 Me/S (13 97 mJ Week-end concert (contd.) 2.10 Greetings. GSG 17.19 Mc/S (16
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    • 458 10 HONG KONG ZBW 9.52 Mc/s (31.4 m.) TODAY p.m. 6.3010.20 European programme. 6.50 Stock quotations and Exchange Market report. 7.20 Time signal, weather report and announcements. 10.20 Close down. TOMORROW ZBW’ 9.52 Mcjs. ,p.m. 6.3010.20 European programme. 7.20 Time signal, weather report and announcements. 10.20 Close down. HOLLAND PHI. 17.77
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    • 456 10 NIROM YDC 15.15 Mc/s (19.8 m.) TODAY 12.20 Luncheon music by Marek Webei and orchestra. 1.10 News bulletin. 1.20 Continuation of luncheon music by Adalbert Lutter and band. 2.10 News bulletn 2.20 Close down. 4.50 Time signal. Opening announcement. 4.54 Charateristic potpourris. 6.35 Omroep Orchestra. 7.35 News bulletin. 7.50 What
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  • 561 11 Younger Officers Ordered To Choose Their Careers THI Jvl'. is to bv more specialisation officers of the Royal Wavy. Orders have been issued by the Admiralty directing ti.it all naval ofheers ot lieutenant s ami sub-licutenant s rank are’to indicate the specialist branches which they
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  • 738 11 S.S. SCIIARNIIORST’ arrived this morning at ten o'clock from Far Eastern ports and Singapore, sailing this afternoon for Europe ports via Colombo. S.S. HONG PENG’ arrived this morning at seven o’clock from Amoy, Swatow, Hong Kong and Singapore, sailing for Rangoon and Calcutta same day.
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  • 439 11 British Finn To Give Advice Warsaw. Poland has concluded an agreement with the shipbuilding firm of Samuel White and Co., Ltd., of Cowes, for specialist advice in carrying out schemes for the strengthening of her fleet and of her Baltic port of Gdynia. Although Poland has
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    • 512 11 blue funnel line [•’B=r ==s,' Fi PHILOCTETES Also calls Hull Glasgow Jan. 7 Feb. 2 lEX DAY SERVIC E TO LIV ERPOOL VIA HAVrS”’ 13 9 ii.ILEROPHON ,A HAVRE. Liverpool VKYPYLUS Omits Havre Jan 6 Feb. 10 WTTLOCHUS Omits Havre Jan 17 Feb 15 NEW YORK SERV IC E (via
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    • 841 11 Px and QL V BRITISH INDIA Incorporated fn England.) PORT SWETTENHAM, MALACCA SINGAPORE S.S. -KAROA*’ SAILING SUNDAY, 2nd JANUARY Peninsular and Oriental t-» contract with His Majesty’s Government an'dT'' P rt London and Far East Mail Service ee- A, and sn ff»pore Service Outwards from London for China Japan. s
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  • 369 12 dhare of tl denomination untess otherwise stated Yesterday Rise or Fall Conversion Loan, 5 p.c., 1944-64 114 g -j- A Funding Loan, 4 p.c., 1960-90 112 j? 4- War Loan, 3i p.c 101 J -j- 1 Com. Union Assce. (Units) 10 Prudential Assce. A” 34 Royal A awe
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  • 121 12 bought John L. Sullivan For 75 Rounds One of the last of the old-time prizefighters- Jake Kilrain- -died last week in America at the age of 78. He was contemporary with those other giants of the ringJohn L. Sullivan, Charlie Mitchell, Frank Slavin, and Jem
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  • 30 12 New Capital issues in December amount ed to £17,825.000 against £20.211,000 in December 1936, making- a total for the year of £170.906,191 against £217,221,225 in 1936.
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  • OPENING QUOTATIONS
    • 141 12 New York, Dec. 31. Dow Jones’ avA Prev. Today 30 Indus 121.56 120.85 20 rails 29.38 29.46 20 utilities 20.35 20.35 40 bonds 92.91 93.00 Businees done; 000’s 910 780 Am. Tobacco B 62 632 Anaconda Cpr 292 292 Beth. Steel 582 582 Douglas Air 382 38«
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    • 114 12 London on Previously Latest Paris 147 3 2 147 19 64 New York 4.992 4.992 Montreal 5.001 5.00 J Brussels 29.47 29.462 Geneva 21.612 21.612 Amsterdam 8.982 8.97)2 Milan 95 95 Berlin 12.41 12.412 Stockholm 19.40 19.40 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 26) 26) Helsingfors 226
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    • 117 12 London, Dec. 31. RUBBER Easy.— Lcndon 6Jj buyers 7 sellers Jan./Mar 7 buyers 7ft sellers April/June 72 buyers 7ft sellers July/Sept 7ft buyers 72 sellers NEW YORK 14.24 cts. United Kingdom Stocks London 34,929 tons Liverpool 21,086 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. (Dec.) £l4. 0. 0 PEPPER:
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    • 75 12 .Reuter. Third Inofficial Test At Calcutta Calcutta, Dec. 31. In the Tihrd Unofficial Test Match. AllIndia, batting all day, totalled 313 runs for (be loss of 5 wickets against Lord Tennyson’s XL Mushtaq Ali made 101 in 3 12 hours, hitting- 6 fours while Amar Nath scored
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    • 1213 12 KENNEDY CO., SHARE LIST. YESTERDAY’S PRICES NAMLS. i.l i I 1 I fia t > RUBBER (DolUi>. Allenby Rubber Co. 1 i 1 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 115 1 I~> I ex. Amalgamated Aiaiay E&tatcs 160 1/0 1 Ayer Ilium Planting Syndicate 115 I 1 <l5 ex. Ayer Molek Rubber
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  • 169 12 Almost Extinct Type The death of Fay. one of the oldest and rarest inhabitants of the Lion House at the Zoo. occurred last week. She was presented by the Janisahib of Nawanagar in 1922. Fay was one of the race of Asiatic lions which
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  • 49 12 This evening at the Esplanade” from 6.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. 1 MarchBond Of Friendship Macken-zie-Rogan 2 Overture The Wanderer’s Goal Suppe. 3 SelectionChristmas Memories Finck. 4 WaltzVoices Of Spring -Strauss. 5 TheBarcarolle— Offenbach. 6 Fox Trot On A Little Bamboo Bridge— Owens. 7 FantasiaBonnie Scotland- Hare.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 109 12 POSITION VACANT WANTED Clerk for Insurance Office in Penang. .None but those with expeiience in the insurance business need apply. Reply Box No. 192 c o Pinang Gazette. RUNNYMEDE HOTEL Phcfae 543 Penang. TONIGHT DINNER RACE BALL EXTENSION 1 A.M. TICKETS $3. j) s When a WOMAN \V s y°
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    • 701 12 banks < t One CHARTERED BANK Experience 1 eacnes unv ojr lxi)lA AU Btbaija and i»uh (Incorporated in Sngland by To Save, But How Many Roya i charts ibmj 1 A IF/ Paid-up Capital f3.OOD.Wi Have Found A tr ay 1 o Reserve Fund £3,000,00®! o Reserve Liability of Proprietors
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  • RACING FORM GUIDE
    • 1107 1 DIVISION A” OF CLASS 3 MOST OPEN RACE Scribble Is Best Bet VA/INANLOSE, if in anything like form, should score an easy win. It is a real outsider when considered against the form horses in the race Horses, Class 4, Division 3
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    • 340 1 The following are the riding and training statistics lor the first day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting run on Monday, December 27: JOCKEYS TABLE—IST. DAY Mounts 1 2 3 4 Unp. E. Donnelly 7 2* 0 0 0 5 J. Donnelly 7
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    • 497 1 POOR traffic arrangements and organisation led to an inevitable result when, at the conclusion of Monday’s racing, heavy rain fell. Of the hundreds of cars parked outside the course only a few were able to get away in anything like"reasonable time. The majority were
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    • 9395 3 2-30 p.m HORSES LASS IV, DIV. 111.-5 FURS. SALMON PAR 9-1 I.UJL tI,V Sultan of Perak’?* ch.e.m. by Salmon Trout— I’ama (I*. Logue). 2nd, I 1 2 lens. (8 strs.) 7 9 (Davies 7). -Ith past grandstand, 6th round first bend, 3rd in back
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    • 851 7 COLOSSAL PROFITS EARNED AT EACH MEETING Singapore Turf Club Makes Million Every Three Years EIM A Mf'EC* *T’ C Tac,” one of the racing writers of the rIINAIVvEo. Straits Times Group, reveals just ho/v prosperous racing in Malaya really is. Within the past 15 years, he
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    • 272 9 Race I. Horses, Class 3, Div. 5,6 f. Solar Time (E. Donnelly) is seen winning from Budapest (Lawler), who. was the general fancy among the tlpstersr Mim was just able to beat Bright Ansvy§ J oyt pf third piw, f Race 2. Horses, Class 3,
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    • 127 6 I TWYFORDS BRITISH SANITARY WARE MODERN DESIGNS I I r t I > BATHS, STOCKS ALWAYS I WC TOILETS, JgE*: w AVAILABLE I x LAVATORIES, T PURE WHITE I itTfi -I *l!rn r f SINKS, .111 I’ OR COLOURED. I r *Jija I I MIRRORS, Jl PRICES AND OBSHELVES, V
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    • 168 7 Wishing Our Patrons A Happy And /I Prosperous New Year HEAD OFI ICE: ANTWERP ll MAJESTIC DIAMOND F 4CTOI{IFS AN IV. WINCHES; HONG KONG. SHANGHAI. Penang’s Premier Picture Palace Kobe, DAIREN semarang, Bangkok OPENING FRIDAY, 31st DECEMBER Smashing New Year Attraction A P,CTURE WORTHY M of THE author whose i
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    • 328 8 T > t '"'T l i I\jl 1 I KI F* I By AoDOlntment To H M> TnaKiniof Slarrt* J) H H. The Sultan ot Johore H H. The Sultan ol PeraK f YOUR MOTOR’S ,p1\ /1 l\ j.. T Tj I ja*"* For ihow who K" down to the
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    • 84 12 j 1 1 I <C?« v.*.W > I eV:.'<"'"'"; a vV'VXX' x I Ac !i::iiii »::!h:; iillslsill I J Qsranj the wonderful lump More value for money »z!t I Offtm Coiled Coil up:to 20% more light I I et burn jjo_ more electricity.> They start bright and "tay bright they’are
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    • 67 13 FOONG HUP SENG FOUNDRY, BRASS AND IRON FOUNDERS, ENGINE REPAIRERS AND GRAVEL-PUMP MANUFACTURERS, Etc. IMPORTERS, EXPORTERS AND GENERAL MERCHANTS. IPOH, F. M. S. Sole Agents for: GULDNER DIESEL ENGINES. ifl rl£l >-**l fl I Kr*t'snsllliBßl lIHI IB!i< I siwf |t vjM| ri. j I ABSOLUTE RELIABILITY LOW COST OF MAINTENANCE,
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    • 783 14 .aja„H_a_ ._Q_u_a_a_u_B_ B B _ii_ B B _n_n_e_n_n_n_a_»_a_a_a_a_B_w_a_a_a_ WE FBI F V CABAL’ FT fl 0?7 'I ,SHINC iLr patrons and friends a merry J 1 CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR WishesYouaMerry XinasK a P,risht& Prosperous Neu Year We offer mmi Monster Gala Yuletide &\W Year Attractions OP. i
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    • 160 15 RUBBER PLANTERS! After the Races spend your evening HERE’S THE OPPORTUNITY AT TO OBTAIN MAXIMUM CROPS AT MINIMUM LABOUR. C. GANGARAM NEW SHOP MOULDY ROT Corner of PENANG and MAXWELL ROAD Quality, Value and Service. V| For All Your Requirements in FRENCH ENGLISH MATERIALS pANACEA EOR v T RUBBER PLANTATIONS
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