Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 May 1938

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE IJST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY 117. Vol. XCVI. WEDNESDAY. MAY IK. 193 K. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 615 1 Reuter. Rival Claims Of Field Successes ECONOMIC STRAIN ON JAPAN A VITAL FACTOR 1 Mav Ii 1 lie Japanese claim that after seve- t j operations, their net of steel is tightening uruimd IKudiow. the vital junction on the Lnnghai and lb nMii-l’ukou Railways.
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  • 363 1 7 .(MM I Families Transferred Votes for the Ministry of Labour and th° Unemployment Assistance Board were discussed in committee of supply in the Com mons. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in reviewing various aspects of the Ministry’s and Board s work stated that 2,500.000 men
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  • 122 1 Reuter. Japan Loses Trade To Italy Cairo, May 17.—1 n the course of its reply to the British Ambassador on representations against new tariffs on British cotton the Egyptian Government is underwood to reiterate that the increases were in no way directed against Lancashire. The reply points out
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  • 102 1 larges o Reuter. Retaliatory Duties Go Tomorrow In consequence of enactment of the Anglo-Eire pact in both countries, t e trade agreement arranged comes into force tomorrow when the special British duties on Eire goods cease and Eire retaliatory duties are abolished, while specific taru adjustments will be
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  • 103 1 I nternational Meeting Next Month An answer was given in the Commons regarding an American proposal for inter national action to deal with the problem of refugees driven from their homes tor racial, religious or political reasons. Mr. Sutler said more than thirty countries had now agreed to co-operate
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  • 41 1 Pawangsh. Reuter Battle For Hsuchow Shanghai. May 18- The Japanese c a that the Wc.t walls of Dan es« been breached by direct hit.- supers- which has kept up unceasing mUnsive bombariraent from rawangshan for the past twenty-one hours.—Reuter.
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  • 84 1 Preparations In United Kingdom <7 Every anti-aircraft unit of the Territorial Army has its full training quota of searchlights. Every artillery unit intending to be equipped with anti-aircraft guns has its quota of three-inch guns. Delivery of 3 7 inch guns is ahead of schedule and units will
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  • 165 1 Reuter. I psei Bv Mussolini Speech Paris. May 17.The Cabinet has instructed M. Blondel to inform the Italian Government of the surprise caused in French circles by Mussolini’s speech in Genoa.Reuter. Despite the closing of the National Defence Loan, the Bourse and markets spent an uncomfortable day with
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  • 193 1 ernments and for exports elsewhere. Reuter. Commons Debate Postponed The Prime Minister’s movements arc still restricted by an attack of gout and in consequence the debate on the Opposition’s motion on air defences which would have been the chief feature of the week in Parliament has been postponed
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  • 112 1 it none sii Reuter Another Grand Jury Inquiry Hinted Washington. May 17.—A spokesman of the Department of Justice declared that another Grand Jury investigation into the affairs of three of the largest automobile manufacturers and associated finance companies might be proposed in the very near future. He added
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  • 298 1 British Wireless and Reuter. Six Killed: 40 Injured The remarkable freedom over many years of the London Underground Railways from serious accident was broken yesterday when on the District Railway between Charing Cross and Temple under ground stations an Inner Circle train ran into the back
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  • 73 1 <1 Tteuter. Arrangements To Dispatch Force London, May 17. Arrangements are being made to despatch air force squadrons to Ceylon, Penang and other centres in the Far East. This step is in accord ance with authorisation in 1936 to provide an additional 12 squadron overseas stations. Squadrons
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  • 38 1 The President of the Board of Trade told the Commons that he was not in a position to make any statement at present on the progress of the Anglo-Ameri-can liade negotiations which were still proceeding.
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  • 678 2 Thrilling Experience Off Gibraltar NORSE CARRIER” PASSES THROUGH PENANG A vivid account of a high-handed action by the Insurgents off Ihe coast of Gibraltar was given in an interview with the Pinang Gazette” shipping reporter yesterday by Capt. F. Utne, skipper of
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  • 79 2 A Japanese landing party was driven, lack when it Cited to occupy Lappa Island Lappa is just west of Macao, the Portuguese possession 50 miles across the Canton Kaver estuary Cro.ni the British colony of Hong Kong. After several hours of fighting, in which r tey
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  • 100 2 (Front Our Oxen Correspondent.) London, May 10. Not long ago, the science master in a Montreal (Canada) school filled a toy balloon with hydrogen, painted his name and address on it, and set it free. Subsequently, he was delighted to receive a letter from Singapore
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  • 138 2 Trengganu Sultan’s Brother Present (From Our Own Correspondent) London. May 9. As your Correspondent cabled to you on May 3. Mr. Ralph H. Pinhorn. 0.8. E., i former headmaster of the Penang Free School, died at Oxford on May 1. Mr. Pinlorn had been living
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  • 168 2 Chinese To Be Repatriated (From Our Own Coirespondent) Singapore. May 17. Before the Second Police Magistrate, Mr. Duckworth, yesterday. 52 Cantonese pieadd guilty to a charge of having Idnded n the Colony without permission on May 4. They admitted having sailed from China n
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  • 227 2 Cheated Over Bridal Dress Jewellery A Chinese widow, Lee Ah Pee, was convicted in the Penang Middle Court yesterday for cheating. She took a bridal dress and jewellery, valued about $5OO, from the complainant, Ong Kim Chooi a married woman on hire at $3O for
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  • 307 2 Visit To Almashhoor Islamic Religious School A party of twenty-one women teachers from Johore, under the leadership of Haji Inche Zain binti Sulaiman. Lady Supervisor. Malay Girls’ School. Johore, visited the Almashhoor Islamic Religious School Penang, on Monday. A guard of honour .vas formed by the
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  • 132 2 Collapsed And Died (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. May 17. After being rescued from drowning in .he Singapore roads” at noon yesterday a 54-year-old Chinese collapsed and died n a sampan which was taking him to Clifford Pier. He was one of the 200 discharged mine coolies
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  • 65 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. May 17. Charged with the theft of a car. Private C. Orme told the Third Police Magistrate, Mr. Rawlings, that he was fed up of the Army” where ther? was no justice at all. He admitted taking the car, having
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  • 122 2 No Relatives: No Work For Year With downcast head, a middle-aged Chinese woman of the amah class. Lee Ah How, tearfully admitted to having tried to commit suicide early last Friday morning. when produced before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday. She said
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  • 160 2 Finest On The Empire Routes (From Our Own Correspondent) London. May 10. Singapore is the finest airport on the Empire air routes,” said Capt. Laurence Egglesfield, of Imperial Airways, to a Pnang Gazette representative today. He added that Basra was the only port at which the arrangements could
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  • 70 2 Revd. Chittale Kho Bhikku D.F., of Bangkok, who is on a tour of the Far East, will give a lecture in English on The Aims of Butfdhism” at the Burmese Temple. Pulau Tikus, Penang, on Saturday, May 28, at 7 p.m. under the auspices of the Penang Buddhist
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  • 56 2 This evening at the Waterfalls'’ from &gt; 30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m:— 1. March The Smiling Prince. Carver. 2. Overture Pique Dame. Suppe. 3. Selection Waltzes From Vienna. Clutsam. 4. Piccolo Solo Snow-Flakes. Charrosin. 5. Serenade Birthday Serenade Un eke. 6. Selection On With The Show. Nicholls. 7.
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  • 283 2 Coolie Hits Co-Worker On Forehead 66 Through Misfortune” l From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, May 18. Remarking that it was lucky for accused that the hook with which he had struck complainant did not enter the eye and injure it, and that
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  • 1328 3 Chinese Inflict Heavy Casualties FUKIEN DEFENCES GREATLY STRENGTHENED Hankow, May 17: Although the Japanese made raids on Lunghai they did not succeed in establishing themselves anywhere on the railroad, according to an official spokesman. He added that three columns had been trying to get a
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  • 91 3 is. a wai Reuter. Dockers Adamant REPLY TO PREMIER LYONS’ THREAT Melbourne. May 17: The Australian icr Mr. J. A. Lyons, has threatened ancell the working licences of dockers If unless they resume loading scrap iron japan He gave them until May 25 to hange
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  • 57 3 Reuter. Vienna. May 17: It Is revealed (hat the body of Herr Kettler, private se&lt; n-tar\ to Herr von Papen. was found in the Danube ten days ago. It ap|M‘ared then to have been in the water for over a week. Kettler, who was unpopular with Uistr
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  • 151 3 Reuter Match Abandoned The match at Lords between the Australians and tlu M C C was abandoned and declared a draw There was no play yesterday owing to rain. In their first innings, the Australians made 502 and the M C C. hit 212. Following on. the
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  • 47 3 Reuter. Debate &lt; hi Air Defences Postponed London, May 17: As a consequence of uie Prime Minister’s illness, the debate nxed for May 19 on Mr. C. R. Attlee’s mot.on in regard to Air Defences in which r &lt; hamberlain had intended to participate has been postponed.Reuter.
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  • 182 3 Traveller Tells Of New Attitude Of Reds Hankow', Alay 11. Ka ted su PP° r t of Marshal Chiang Cnm administration by the Chinese travedler'- 1 S reported b Y a foreign of th irr,vln K at Hankow after a tour e nnese "Red” area in North
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  • 136 3 Strong Protest To Japanese Shanghai, May 17: The British ConsulGeneral, Mr. Herbert Phillips, has sent to the Japanese authorities a strong written protest over the Wilkinson incident, and says that Wilkinson’s version of the incident is fully accepted. W ilkinson s version (given in a Reuter message
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  • 57 3 Reuter. Lord Weir Follows Lord Swinton London. May 17: It is understool that Lord Weir has resigned from the Air Council after the resignation of Lord Swinton. with whom he had worked in close co-operation. Lord Weir has also abandoned, therefore, his unofficial position as adviser to
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  • 45 3 .Reuter. 25 Planes Claimed Destroyed Madrid, May 17: A communique claims that 12 Republican bombers, accompanied by pursuit planes raided an aerodrome at Caude and found 25 Fiats in the field. They unloaded their cargo of bombs and troying the entire fleet.—Reuter.
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  • 35 3 Reuter. U. S. Financier Dead Philadelphia, May 17: The death has occurred of the financier Mr. Edward Stotesbury, who helped to finance the big international loan to China in 1907
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  • 25 3 Reuter. London, May 17: The Eire Agreement Bill has passed its remaining stages in Lords and receives the Royal assent this evening. Reuter.
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  • 31 3 Reuter. Farming Dale (New York). May 17: The first air defence test and blackout in the history of the United States was carried in this village.Reuter.
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  • 679 4 Regent Of Kedah Among 10,000 Spectators (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. May 16. ABOUT 10,000 people, including the Regent of Kedah and small parties of visitors from Malaya, saw the revival of the great Siamese sport of elephant hunting at the ancient
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  • 70 4 77ic attention of mariners is drawn to th* tact that a rock with a least depth or* it of four fathoms exists in the Enn of Bengal in a position about 1.8 mH t /77 from the south point of Pochurnh Island, La..
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  • 283 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mr. Chung Ah Ming. J.P., who was on a visit to Singapore during the week-end, has returned to Ipoh. k Mr. E. C. Watson, the Ipoh lawyer, who was on a visit to Singapore, has returned to Ipoh Mr. G. F. Staynes. M.C.S., District Officer. Batang Padang, who
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  • 451 4 Following are contributions received up Mjy 14 towards the above fund: Previouslj acknowledged Straits $506. 729.62. Oversea-Chinese miners of Bana Kay Chan. Haadyai $52.00: Tat Leok Hote X- staff $14.50: Staff of Swee Hin Chan Branch’» $5.60: Mr Chong Y’ong Cheess.os; Ban Hong Aun Mr. Loh
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  • 1354 4  -  BY ANDREW BLACKMORE r T I EX years ago a Cinematograph Bill was passed in the Houses of Parliament, the purpose of which was to encourage and help the British film industry. The Act compelled British cinemas to exhibit a certain proportion of British films, instead of
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  • 655 4 Adventist Chapel Lecture Professor V. E. Hendershot M.A. delivered a striking lecture on Sunday night last at the Adventist Chapel on the subject. "World Peace or Armageddon?” The speaker said that he wished he could paint a different picture from the one foretold in the Revelation.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 1041 6 thrili to this c V A BRILLIANT 20th CENTER QUEEN S UMPH! TOMORROW! IM Al M I ILJ 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 WARNER BROS. LAAF-TIME HIT OF JL JI JL «L Qj .-s row™. drama LAST NIGHT-TONIGHT 615 9JJO g|j f OF LOVE AND HATE IN THE the GOOFIEST FEUD A
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  • 180 7 FIRING HEARD FROM CITY Guerillas Filter Through Gates CHU-TEH, China’s Red Napoleon,” who for many years carried on successful war against Chiang Kai-shek, is report-ed to be preparing to attack Peiping with his Bth Route Army. r jP HL QUEEN sights pressed by Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka,
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  • 222 7 Line Shattered By Weight Of Numbers CHINESE ATTACK IN VAST WAVES Hong Kong. May 4 A great Chinese victory in North China is announced in unquestionably reliable reports arriving here from the Shantung front, where a gvnera! offensive was launched yesterday bv 800.000 Chinese troops. The
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  • 19 7 jp HL QUEEN sights a 3-inch trench mortar during a dcmoiistrs-Joa after the manoeuvres at Aidershot.
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  • 418 7 Welcome And Essential"” Hankow, May 7General Chiang Kai-shek received me at his headquarters today, and made a statement on the future of British and other foreign interests in the event of a Ch nese victory (writes a Times correspondent Speaking at unusual length, General Chiang
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  • 150 7 CREATING A DIVERSION Shanghai, May 8. Advances by three columns of the Centra! Japanese forces, all outside Shantung, were mentioned tonight by the Japanese spokesman. He said that in Kiangsu a column from Fowning, near the coast, was advancing north towards Haichow, and that in Anh wei
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    • 584 7 J Office 12. Bishop Street Penang. 4ead itrnce I&gt;twne 1477 an( j 1478 with extensions. Tekrf ams: "Gazette" Penang. office: Cecil Street, Singapore. Phone i 'runes" Singapore. Kuala Lumpur: lava Street. Phone: 3683. Ipoh Office Brewster Road. Phone: 368 London &gt; 4t Fleet Street, London E.C. 4 Ottice flltra j
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    • 236 7 brassq IK 1 BRAS*. AND COPP El M 12 For that cold, nothing better than ASPIRIN NOTICES PENANG MUNICIPALITY TRACTION ENGINES and MOTOR CARS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 214) Notice is hereby given to the owners of motor vehicles bearing the undermentioned registration numbers (Penang), that unless the said owners communicate with
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    • 510 7 PENNED TO BED BY LUMBAGO Scarcely Moved For Week* Acting on his principle of "wLen you know a good thing tell your friends abou.* it,” a man w r ho has had very bad lumbago writes as follows: I had suffered from lumbago n mj back, and for weeks could
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  • 891 8 PENANG ha&gt; never heard of \.R. I‘.. but Penang G yvt more vulnerable in the event of aerial .ittack than the average town of the &gt;ame Mze in the I’nited Kingdom where \.R.P. is taken \er\ serioush indeed, both by the authorities and by the populace,
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  • 150 8 Chinese Convicted In Singapore iFrom Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, May 17. A fine of $lOO, in default, four months’ vigorous imprisonment, was imposed on a Chinese, Tan Bit Song, who was convicted on a charge of using a forged certificate of admission into the Colony, by
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  • 35 8 CL LLzll ,Reuter. Cairo, May 17.1 t is understood that the Government has decided to reduce coaling dues from 7*2 to 2 milliemes a ton for a trial period of six months.—-Reuter.
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  • 229 8 Mr. Lim Joo Chong The death took place early this morning at his residence in Burmah Road of Mr. Lim Joo Chong, the well-known Penang Chinese, and sole proprietor of Messrs. Chong Kee Co., general merchants, Beach Street, Penang. Of a quiet ana unassuming nature deceased
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  • 332 8 Spy Drama At Majestic 2nd Bureau.” This is a thrilling and entertaining film of international espion age The story commences with Marta Laban being asked by the Secret Service to trace Charles Oliver, a spy, who disguises as the secretary of an inventor. After they have
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  • 62 8 40 More Pass Tests In Singapore (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore. May 17. Fifty-five persons obtained certificates in the Air Raid Precautions examination on anti gas measures held early this month in Singapore. Altogether 94 candidates entered. Of the number who passed, 40 obtained Instructor Certificates, which brings
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  • 492 8 THE complete or p,-. r j tion of Amoy Univtrsm other tragic chapt&lt; r and tragic historj i s regretted in Penang w m r c M people have Fukien Tihe Amoy L'nivtrsitv Sop-, times thought of a&lt; tution. Its princip. 1. i&gt; old Malayan. Dr. formerly
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    • 35 8 THE K.L.M.’S NEW t 5.,, DC-3 air ijners fly miles an hour, MINUTE. YET the V NONE OF THE ANNCA SATIONS COMMOM CIATED WITH HIGH BY K.L.M. MEANS SI BINED WITH COMH ABOVE the heat
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  • 683 9 pi re And Cash To Value Of $50,000 To Be Sent \|&gt;PEAL RECEIVED FROM K 11ANGSU RELIEF FUND COMMITTEE -j': Hokkicn community in Penang have unanimously de i relief to their native province in the form of cash the equivalent ol a sum
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  • 195 9 Penang Women I&lt;&gt; Serve 75 Cents Menu The Penang Chinese Fair and Bazaar at the Wembley and Fun and Frolic Parks in aid of the China Distress Relief Fund from Friday to Sunday promises to be a great success. A feature will be the 75 cents’
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  • 19 9 Our Singapore correspondent telephones that the going is likely to be soft for today's races at Singapore.
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  • 183 9 Unusual Incident Near Jitra (From Our Own Correspondent Alor Star, May IS. Revenge is alleged to have been the motive for a murder committed at a wayang a few miles from Jitra in the early morn ing of Saturday. It would appear that a quarrel arose be tween
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  • 180 9 Amended List Of Results In connection with the recent Reliability Trial held in Penang the following amended list of results have just been issued by the Automobile Association of Malaya (Penang and Kedah Branch): RELIABILITY TRIAL Cars: Ist, J. G. M Ferguson: 2nd. H G Oates: 3rd.
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  • 87 9 I poh Sikh Gets Seven Days' Imprisonment (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. May 18. Magistrate. What is your name? Accused. Lakas Singh. Magistrate. Were you not brought tip on a similar charge under another name Accused. Yes. Then it was Rakah Singh. The foregoing replies
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  • 403 9 I nity «X Education Foundation Of Present Nation Reputed world traveller, lecturer and socialist, Mr. Kenneth G. Murray held a large crowd consisting of members and r lends of the Hu Yew Seah spell-bound last night when he gave in frank and outspoken manner
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  • 104 9 Teams For Today’s Practice At Victoria Green The fifth Malaya Cup soccer trial of the season will be played today on the Victoria Green, Penang. The following have been selected to take part: Reds:Soekiman: Rashid. Ah Kooi. Kah Chong. Kam Teong. Keng Tat: S. Cornelius. Manappan.
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  • 64 9 D.A.F.C. Team To Meet P.W.F.A. XI The following will play for the Pro vinca Wellesley Football Association against the Darul Aihsan Football Club in a first division soccer league match on the Victoria Green on Friday: D. Suppiah; Teik Khoon, Jong Ban; Abdullah, Che Din, Noor Ab;
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  • 84 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, May 17. Emulating Chinese coolies who recently walked off a Japanese-owned iron mine in Trengganu. the Chinese labour force of a Japanese iron mine in Kelantan are reported to have stopped work and left Kota Eahru. the capital, for Singapore.
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  • 81 9 (From Our Own Correspondent; Ipoh. May 18. A 70 year-old Malay living at Changkai Pinji. Lahat. was found dead in his hut. his head battered, on Monday night. The discovery was made by neighbours about 8 o'clock and the police were informed. It was first thought that
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  • 180 9 Latent S.R.A. \lHClHllUeilts XI /I MAXI) GRIFFINS pi I IMO CLASS 4 ire the latest amendn&gt; and additions to the I Association Official ClassiHorses and Ponies. Celesis' Release and Royal ip to Class 1. All of them meeting accept Renished second to Golden a
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  • 27 9 &lt;\ and Mr. J. O. Souter arrived i' today by the Klang. y x tf. X 1: &gt; h l.a\ arrived in Penang H-i;. Peng from Rangoon
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  • 16 9 Rt Uti -t&lt; M y 17. Mr. Roosevelt has i"i ino Xaval Expansion
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    • 251 9 .AIM X .V- X X X ri 7 x v wSS® z’* \y/ x A A rY X -W I» z v 1 I Z Xc'-X. i Z X Z X /r Molly has a pretty taste in accessories. You can tell that by the set of her bow and
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  • 1038 10 Highly Profitable Sales For Forward Delivery The thirty-fourth annual general meeting of the shareholders of The Sandycroft Rubber Co. Ltd. was held at Penang, yeserday at noon. Those present were:— Hon: Mr. G. LI. A. Fletcher (director) in the Chair, and Mr J.M. Prescott (director). Mr. R.
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  • 14 10 Operations for the first half of May 1938 Output 30 piculs.
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  • 12 10 Operations for the first half of May 1938 Output 350 piculs.
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  • 922 10 Slightly Better Feeling In their weekly review of the American Securities and Commodities Markets S. E. Levy Co of Singapore write: The better feeling with which the New York Stock market closed on May 7 stiil prevailed when business was resumed after the week-end, sentiment being anything
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    • 32 10 TO COUNTERACT THE MOUTH ACIDS I/ THAT CAUSE ACHE ANO DECAY COHTA.H* 2 APB 5 CALOREX’\ HEAT ABSORBING GLASS REDUCES TEMPERATURE AND CUTS OUT GLARE SIME, DARBY 8 CO., LTD. SOLE AGENTS.
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    • 635 10 BANKS HONC KONC 4SI, SHANGHAI BANKi\( corporation The Indian Overseas (incorporated in Hoag Knn ww 1 I i. J Liability of members 1« r Bank, Ltd», extent and in Incorporated in British India) rduar.ee Nm* I 9„ t, «WO DO YOU KNOW 7 1 Fuuy Pii r u Hongkong Currencv
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  • 762 11 Empire Governments Urged To Remedy Position A the annual meeting of the Birmingham District Branch of the Navy League, Mr. 1.. S. Amery, the President, referred to the state of Britain’s mercantile marine and urged Empire Governments to do all they could to remedy the
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  • 730 11 M.S. 'BATAK’ arrives today from Tandjong Poera, sails today for Belawan and Tandjong Poera. S.S. KLANG’ arrives in the morning from Singapore via coastal ports, sails for same ports this evening. M.S. GENERAL VERSPYCK’ from Lho Seumawe, Sigli and Sabang on Monday, sails today for
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  • 438 11 History Of The Kau Sing The typhoon rescue tug. Kau Sing, is to be offered for sale in Hong Kong. The authorities are now considering replacing the Kau Sing with a new vessel. Tenders will be called for by advertise ment for the purchase of
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    • 461 11 blue funnel line l t r R LY SERVICE TO LONDON A NORTH CONTINENT Leaves Penan, n... t a H CHAS Also calls Hull and Gdynia l9 n DEUCALION Also calls Marseilles and Glasgow May 27 June 23 GLENIFFER Also calls Antwerp and Middlesborough June 3 into i TEN DAY
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    • 738 11 RAO BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated in England.) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. RAJPUTANA” SAILING THURSDAY, 19th MAY, 1938. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under contract with His Majesty’s Government, London and Far East Mail Service. Outw&rde from Lon dor. for China Japan. Homewards for Colombo, Adan, Port c Marseilles and London
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

  • 852 12 London Music Festival Arturo Toscanini will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra at this year's London Musical Festival, which will take place in Queen s Hall during May and June. Organised by the BBC, the Festival has been a feature of London's musical life for several years. This
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  • 724 12 Latest rimes Of Posting AIK MAILS A mail for Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur and by Malayan Internal Air Service will close at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Registration at 1.30 p.m. A mail for Australia, New Zealand, Java and Timor Dilly via Singapore and thence by Qantas Airways
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  • 717 12 DEPEND ON IT TO RETRi EVf MY FORTUNES Spent £600,000 On P| avs B. COCHRAN leaned back in his stall, took row of beautiful legs, glanced at the r 1 bioadcasts he will make this week. A quick glance, then he looked up at me,
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1981 12 WORLD RADIO PROGRAMMES 8.8. C. Highlights Of Today’s Wireless &lt; Empire Broadcasting Service sche- GSF (BBC) dule for this week: &lt;7 I'aluce oi a net it TRANSMISSION 2d 3 l m t zr n&gt; n f 9.35 p.m. rhe BBC Empire Orchestra. (6.02 p.m. 12.20 a.mJ 1 GSH 21.1,1 Mc/S
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    • 25 12 PENANG DAILY WEATHER REPORT PENANG (FORT CORNWALLIS) Yesterday's Temperature 6 a.m. Noon 5 p.m. 86 NW 89 S 90 S RAINFALL May 16 17 Nil
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  • 157 13 ON THE RIVER AT STAINES A DAY IN THE OPEN of the year THE VIEW WAS WORTH IT.These cyclists found that Box Hill. Surrey, had a "get-off-and-push” gradient. But they look as if they enjoyed it. NEARLY ALL HANDS to the job of tent erecting
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  • 1282 14 Singapore Turf Club Extra Meeting Below will be found the full programme for today, the first day of the Singapore Turf Club Extra Meeting: Race I HorsesClass 4Div. sAbout 7 Furlongs. 02 0 GREEN EYES 9.00 Foss Campbell McMillen -0 3 SARATOGA 8.11
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 95 14 THE SALE FOR WHICH HUNDREDS OF SHREWD BUYERS HAVE BEEN WAITING NOW THAT DESIRE HAS BEEN FULFILLED AT DOULATRAMS IB ON A FIDE l| now in progress AMAZING PRIZES RELENTLESS REDUCTIONS INCREDIBLE BARGAINS VISIT AT ONCE CORNER OF BEACH BISHOP STREETS. fcj AopcHtment To H M. Vr»o Mtngof SUN* H
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    • 526 14 Penang Chinese Fair Bazaar AT WEMBLEY FUN FltOl ON 20th, 21st 22nd MAY, 1938, Commencing at 6 p. ni. each night. GATE ADMISSION 10 CENTS ONLY SEATS AT ALL SHOWS: 60, 40 20 CENTS PROGRAMME AT FUN AND FROLIC Ist Night 20th: May Ist; HALL: Foong Sen Nin Cantonese Opera
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  • 1001 15 Young English Batsmen As Good As Australia’s Best the Australian fast I ,1, ester he bowled tQ n&lt;&gt; balls in a week, writes total to ]S 1S certainly unusual, to say i f c rame a disservice if we that we (io
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  • 124 15 London. May 11. The Times'’ writer on cricket, answering a popular query, Are the Australians as formidable as the scores suggest T” says: They are not great in the real sense of the word. They do not bear comparison as all-rounders with earlier teams. I do not
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  • 301 15 44 ENJOYED EVERY MOMENT OF THE GAME” Charlton Athletic’s final game of the season with the cup-holders, Preston North End, at the Valley Ground will long remain in the memory of one man who was there, although he could see neither the play nor
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  • 435 15 A HIGHER STANDARD IN VIEW London, May 8. The season that lies ahead will contain nothing starting but much that may be nteresting. The only visitors from abroad will be a Dutch XI. playing at Great Comp n Kent, and apart from that concentration will be on home
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  • 210 15 Two minutes before the end of the vital Stoke City match with Liverpool 21-year-old Fred Steele, international centre forward and idol of the Potteries crowds, flashed the ball with his head into the Liverpool net to score his team’s second goal. Thousands of
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 320 15 Asthma Cause Killed in 24 Hours Thanks to the discovery of an American physician, it now is possible to get rid of those terrible spells of choking, gasping, coughing and wheezing Asthma by killing the true cause which is Germs in the blood. No more burning of powders, no more
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 50 15 ln Black And White By J. MILLAR WATT DOWN’ £v\ sir.! pot q Oxvn you've got it in it A A g IV\ BLACK AND jQHhgjk AA white/ i V TWENTY. h yr sir. Jif JEf v( 9A j f x /w fa I 4».*J» w T» B.” y' IL.
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  • 115 16 1 IN rnr LONDON (Spot» £164.17. 6 £l6O. 6 *»NiX)N (3 months) £165. 5. 0 £l6l. 7. 6 SINGAPORE $82.25 $81.50 BUSINESS DONE PENANG $82.00 $Bl.OO BUSINESS DONE Buyers no sellers Buyers sellers COPRA (Sundried) $3.95 $3 95 PEPPER 59.00 $9.00 GIBBER gud 54Jd i.^KK SINGAPORE—(Spot) 19%c JU July/Sept
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  • 263 16 .-x’ unless otherwise atated r&gt;; ce nr Fall Share of dwomuacto.. Yesterdav Rise or ran Yesterday Rise or Fab Burmah Oil 118 9 7%d Cony 5 p.c. 44-64 113% Eagle 4 pesos. &lt;l‘i Funding 4 p.c. 60-9" 113% Cable 5% p.c. 101% War Loan 3% P-C. 101% *U.S.
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  • 133 16 LEAN CO. TIX Bu&gt;er* Seilers AmpaU 37 L Bangru’.' 20.3 21|3 B. Selangors 1-35 1.40 Hong Fatts 1.01 104 Jelebus 67% .»2% K. Lan juts 19j3 20J0 Kuchais 1.30 1.35 Kramats 10|6 UjO Kundangs 60 66 Laruts 9:7’.. 10 1% Rantau Pref 1.25 1.30 Rauhs 5.45 5.55 Taiping Cons 1.55
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  • 107 16 Prev. Latest Paris 177 43 64 177 New York 4.96% 4.96 Montreal 5.00% 5.00% Brussels 29.51% 29.52 Geneva 21.78 21.78% Amsterdam 8.97% 8.98 Milan 94 1 1 94 Berlin 12.36% 12.36-4 Stockholm 19.40% 19.40% Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19.90 19.90 Vienna 26% nomina Helsingfors 226% 226 Prague 142%
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  • 123 16 London. May 17. RUBBER: Dull.— London SJJ buyers 5% sellers May 5% buyers 5% sellers July/Sept 5% buyers 5% sellers Gct./Dec s}? buyers 6 sellers NEW YORK 11.78 cts United Kingdom Stocks London 55,115 tons Liverpool 28,187 tons COPRA Straits S.D. Rotterdam. May £l2. 2. 6 PEPPER:
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  • PENANG SHARE QUOTES
    • 173 16 TIN Buyers Sellers Ampat 4 0 4 4 Ayer Weng .60 .65 Ratu Selangor 1.35 1.40 Hong Fatt 1.01 1.05 Kpg. Lanjut 19 6 20 0 Klang 1-82% 1.90 Kuchai Ordy. 1.27% 1.32'2 Larut 99 10 3 Lukut .67% .73% Petaling 7.25 7.50 Puteh 1.00 1.10 Rantau Pref.
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    • 212 16 New York. May 17The satisfactory technical position is probably the maH cause of today's firmness on a small volume. Although the industrial picture as v whole is unchanged, today's news con tains certain items of possible favourabl .significance. Market action warrants continued retention of trading balances in view
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    • 25 16 TIN Singapore $81.50 Per pkl. Penang -$Bl.OO Per pkl. RI BBEK Singaj» &gt;rv Spot i%%c Peril». Penang Spot l‘&gt; I 4c Per II».
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    • 141 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN Buyer-. Sellers Batu Selangor 1.35 1.37% Hong Fatt 1.00 1.05 Jelebu .70 .75 Kuchai 1.25 1.30 Petaling 7.50 7.75 Rahman Hyd. 1.20 1.25 Raub Gold 5.30 5.50 Rantau Ordy. 1.25 1.30 Rantau Pref. 1.25 1.30 Taiping Cons 1.57%- 1.62’Ampat 3 9 4 3 Kpg. Kaniunting 9
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  • 149 16 Reuter. Home Cricket Results London, May 17. The match between the Australians and the M.C.C. was abandoned as a draw. There was no play today owing to rain The Australians made 502 the M.C.C. 214 and 87 for one wicket. GLAMORGAN WIN ON FIRST INNINGS At Birmingham.
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  • 54 16 An analysis of the distribution of British overseas trade in the first quarter of 1938 shows that the percentage of United Kingdom exports taken hy British countries was 50.3 against 47.2 in the same quarter of 1937, while the percentage of imports from British countries was 38.4 against
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  • 301 16 P.R.C. At Home” HISS CARRIER WINS OEHLERS CHALLENGE CUP E. C. alberg. several times Tennis champion of the Penang Recreation Club, once again won it yesterday from his old. rival, L. I. Robless. The final marked the close of the 1938 tennis tournament and an At
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  • 54 16 Owing to lack of a quorum, the annual general meeting of the~Province WelTesley Football Club, which was to have taken place yesterday, has been postponed to 6 p.m. tomorrow’, at the Butterworth Recreation Club. It is hoped that all clubs and teams will send their representatives, without
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  • 50 16 Brussels, May 17.The Olympic Games Executive Committee has fixed the Olym nic dates Sept. 21 tn Oct. 8. 1940. at Tokio. Reuter. Remarkable demonstrations of loyalty »nd affection marked Queen Mary’s drive 'lirough revonshlre yesterday on the sec ond of a five-days' visit to the West Coun try.
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  • 449 16 Kok Lem V&gt;at Swee Enter Semi-Finals AT HLN BEATEN LN BRILLIANT MATCH Tennis of a very high order was witnessed in the quarter final match yester day between Goon Kok Lem and Cheah Wat Hun, in the Open Singles of the Men’s Championship. Kok Lem took the
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  • 322 16 BA DMINTON Last State Trial On Sunday (By Our Badminton Correspondent 1 Two finals in the Penang junior open championships will be played this w r eek-end. and the final State trial in preparation for the Triangular Tournament will be held on Sunday, at the conclusion
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  • 238 16 "h ov EP I c (.of I Taking full pointy in r league maten with I pany, the Ex I step up the bot I Volunteers it I their better goal avei I won T&gt;y two I their unbeat» I There was n 0 doubt t'* l
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  • 65 16 (ireiano i Reuter Holder Beaten Burnham (Somerset), May 17: British Women’s Golf Championship third round, Mrs. R Peel of Hadcirngtonshire Scotland, beat Miss Jessie Xmlerson, »f holder, one up. Miss Madeline Fyshe, runner-up mth English Championship last year, beat 1% Gloria Minoprio. the one club golfer.
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  • 72 16 Sports Chib Dcfeatril By M.S.C. In a friendly soccer m h player oe tat Esplanade yesterday, th Malay Spor sg Club defeated the Penang Sport, Cub :y one goal to nil. The Europeans played well enough t have won the match but their failure to score was due
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  • 44 16 Members of the Penang Sports Clu are reminded that the qualii'J? round of the Golf Champwtf4 for 1938 is due to be played on Post entries and competitor.- to arra-. their own partners All competitors must start from Tee.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
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    • 113 16 AGE.XTS WANTED Wanted Asiatic and E' .r "p a y sell our well reputed 125/- Particulars free. Jindals L 46 Ludhiana (INDIA NOTICE Messrs. Chong Kee Co? Street, Penang, wl! be &lt; io&gt;e. today in deep respect to the Jco Chong, the Proprietor. away peacefully at 4 05 a.m. BANKRUPTCY
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