Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 12 September 1938

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE OST ep/t/on. ESTAB. 1833 PEBUSHED DAILY Vol. XCVL > MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1938. PRICE 5 GEM’S.
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  • 1516 1 OFFICIAL INTERPRETATION OF POLICY PUBLISHED Germany Can Be Under No Illusion BRITISH STATEMENT PLEASES LEAGUE GREAT BRITAIN WILL INTERVENE IF THE SECI RITY OF FRANCE IS THRE ATENED. This is an authoritative interpretation of British policy which was published in London last night and
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  • 153 1 p. G. Selling Price Reduced Todav the selling price of the pinanu Gazette is reduced to five The decision has been arrived at bvthe group of newspapers controlled the straits Times Press Limited an d a similar reduction is made in the w .t of the Straits
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  • 177 1 MagUlrate’s Words To Witness ido oimire your sincere patriotism wl I esnisv your fear of giving evidence.’ 1 S' said M: L. B. Gibson, the Penang Jib.lye. to a Chinese, Tan Kim one of the witnesses for the i in the case in which Lee Keng >
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  • 64 1 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Se P L 11—Continued Chinese h&irr.K ,ne Yargtse are officially tre a n i an c hi Chinese cut off re•anese and the latter abandon'll,..' leavy ins also reported from Kuchi, Hon.m, where a border town 1 and heavy casualties inenemy however,
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  • 58 1 Wong Loong was fined $l. in default one day’s imprisonment this morning by Mr H W. Nightingale in the Middle Court when he was charged with having ignored the traffic policeman’s signal yesterday at the junction of Farquhar Street and Light Street. Wong Loong pleaded guilty and
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  • 212 1 —Keuter. OE FI Cl AL REQUEST TO LEAGUE Geneva, Sept. 12. Dr. Koo has sent the Secrcstary-Geneial of the League a communication iequesting on behalf of the Chinese Government that the Council give immediate effect to Article Seventeen of the Covenant. Dr. Koo recalled that precisely a
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  • 251 1 Reuter. GERMAN COMMENT ON THE DECLARATION News of last night’s interpretation on British policy from London spread like wild-fire all over Nuremberg. Officials of the Foreign Office and Propaganda Ministry refused to comment, but asserted that the fullest account had been forwarded to Herr von Ribbentrop and
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  • 230 1 Excisemen's Big Haul Sentence was deferred till tomorrow, by Mr. L. B. Gibsoix the Penang District Judge, in a cajse in which Liew Kwee Yoon pleaded guilty to having in his possession 200 tahils of non-Govemment chandu on board S.S “Anshun” on Sept. 2. Mr.
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  • 32 1 —Reuter. London, Sept. 12—A bulletin sigred by Dr. Russell Wilkinson and Lord Dawson of Penn announces that Prince Arthur of Connaught died at 3.30 tod n y while asleep.
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  • 60 1 ir r rone movement is Sin Chew Jit Poh. Popular Front Move Possible Hankow, Sept. 11.—As hostilities are prolonged, the anti-war feeling in Japan grows proportionately. The Japanese Press is becoming less discreet than hitherto, and the Kukomin Shimbun openly expresses the fear of a Popular
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  • 55 1 Crisis Leads To Dissolution The Siamese Assembly has been dissolved by Royal Decree, cables our Bangkok correspondent. A general election will take place within 90 days. The Premier, Phya Bahol, threatened to resign on Saturday when a motion to amend the rules of procedure relating to the Budget
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  • 53 1 —Reuter. Shanghai. Sept. 12 —The British ConsulGeneral is investigating the reported assault on Britons. Mr. W. Iredale, Mr. T. Clarke and Mr. H. Jackson by a Japanese sergeant-major at Hongkew yesterday. It is alleged that they were beaten with sword and fists. Mr. Iredale hacf lighted matches thrown
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  • 1087 2 Rest Beat Newcomers By 6 Points To 3 KAR CHONG OUTSTANDING A try scored by Chadwick on time enabled the Rest to beat the Newcomers by six points (2 tries) to three (one try) in the first ru< r bv trial
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  • 524 2 Soccer “Double” Defeating the Li Tek Seah by four goals to nil on the Victoria Green on Saturday in the replay of the final of the second division league, the Sepoy Lines Recreation Club created history by completing a double, having w-on the Cow and
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  • 318 2 Wolves Ilin Away At Brentford English and Scottish FA. League matches played yesterday resulted as follows: English League DIVISION I Arsenal 1 Everton 2. Birmingham 1 Stoke City 2 Blackpool 2 Aston Villa 4 Brentford 0 Wolverhampton W. 1 Derby County 1 Sunderland 0 Grimsby Town 1
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  • 367 2 Roy; Escape A ‘anjotiS A dramatic rescue from i wais madeonSaturdnv xooi, the Royal Life Saving S utl “i Chinese Swimming Clul. Heavy seas was runni Md a strong wind seawards. loA 'nf Cheah Poh Chye, a SC h oolbov three school friends to fish friends went
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  • 71 2 Following are results of Rugby Lui© matches played yesterday. Bath 6 Llanelly 11. Bedford 40 Old Edwardians 3. Bradford 26 Manchester 15. Bristol 9 Swansea 15. Cardiff 3 Bridgend 4. Coventry 17 Rugby 3. Gloucester 18 Lydney 5. Leicester 3 Headingley 3. Neath 16 Weston-Super-Mare 3. Newport 19
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  • 54 2 IRA 111 w A verdict of death brought inattention and neglect was returned o turday by Mr. Um hhoon T k. Penarg Coroner, when an J held into the death of an umdent.fie of a newly born baby. 14 The body round 1 a drain in
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  • 792 3 No Doubt Left In Highest Quarters In Germany ANGLO-FRENCH MILITARY EXPERTS TO CONFER N a result of an authoritative statement removing all doubts as to how far British attitude might be known in the highest quarters in Germany, no further demarche in Berlin is likely
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  • 75 3 Still Undecided 4ft er 7 Weeks Saragossa, Sept, U— After nearly of savage fighting, the /ti battle is still undecided. The mhst offensive is still in aeiug and the Republicans are if r rin from position to posi/ion. ationalists claim that the li ans now possess less than
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  • 245 3 f the cmn —Reuter. —sk Discussions At Eeague Meeting c.neva Sept. 10—Conversations began M iween representatives powe Xnling -he League meeting on the subor application or Articles of the Covenant particularly Article XVI. Tl British altitude on this question. Ilt rfudi smaller States are deeply conmed will
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  • 62 3 Reuter. Returning To The Hague From Amsterdam Amsterdam, Sept. 11 —Queen Wilhelmina is leaving for the Hague tomorrow at the close of a week’s official visit to the city s celebrations. She will return soon owing to Prince Juliana's indisposition. The visit will then be unofficial. The character
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  • 162 3 Confined Indoors By Influenza —Reuter. Amsterdam, Sept. 11. On the advice of doctors. Princess Juliana will be confined to her room for some days following an attack of influenza, according to an official communique. She will, therefore, not return immediately to Soestdyk Palace, as was earlier expected. This
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  • 113 3 $30,000 PLANS UNDER PREPARATION Plans for a $30,000 clubhouse for the Indian Association are rnw under preparation. The intention is to put up a building at Bagan Jermal, a suburban coastal village to which the trolley bus system was extended at the beginning of this
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  • 112 3 .—Reuter. Defence Lawyer Asks For “Mistrial” Ruling New York, Sept.ll—Evidence was given in the trial of Hines to counter the State’s charges that he influenced, intimidated or bribed” ex District Attorney Dodge. Mr. Stryker, for the defence, called Mr. Lyon, a Boston and New York lawyer and former
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  • 106 3 In Town Last Night— ‘Scandal Street’ opened at the Queen’s last night. Louise Campbell, a librarian, lands in a small town where your business is everyone’s business and becomes the centre of the town’s gossip. Lew Ayres, her young man who has been away in a
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  • 82 3 —Reuter. Nuremberg, Sept. 11—Reference to Czechoslovakia was made by Herr Hitler at a mass parade of Storm Troopers. He said, I see before me a Germany happy in unity but /*re are other Germans to whom this happiness is still denied. Our hearts fly out to
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  • 257 3 Straits Chinese Buy From France (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sept. 11. Although little publicised the boycott by Straits Chinese of Italian goods is as strict as against Japanese products, according to men in close touch with Italian business in the East. As detailed statistics of Italian
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  • 72 3 —Reuter. Issue Confronting. Whole World Washington, Sept. 11. —“Lawlessness versus fairplay is the issue confronting the whole world,” declares Mr. Cordell Hull in a letter accepting an invitation to the United States to attend the Eighth Pan-Ameri-can Conference. He says “no nation, no Government can avoid the
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  • 137 3 Awards To Chinese Indian Contractors The tender of Messrs. Sin Tat Lee A CO., for $19,000 has been accepted for the erection of an assembly hall and covered way to Westlands School, Penang. Other tend ers were Ban Seng Huat Cb., $22,900, United Engineers, Ltd.. $22,900, Tang Ah
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  • 258 3 Questions By Mr. C. Grumitt Following is the agenda for the meeting of the Penang Municipal Commissioners tomorrow:— 1. To confirm minutes of last Ordinary Meeting held on the 30th August 1938. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions by Mr. C. Grumitt:
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  • 246 3 But No Rea! Relief I ntil this New Drugless Remedy Let this fellow-sufferer give practical advice to all who suffer from any form of indigestion. He has found in LJhardox a I new, refined. super-activated, tasteless charcoal, 50 times more powerful /Jiom the ordimtrif kind.
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  • 42 3 A Penang car and a Perak were x® collision yesterday near Sungei Bakap. Th» Perak car appeared to have sustained the most damage but the Penang vehicle ran off the road and was stranded in soft earth
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    • 159 3 GYMNASTICS HEALTH EXERCISES) FOR LADIES DANCING CLASSICAL BALLET) FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN. Interviews by appointment. Mr*». Meijer (Phone No. 704) Or at the Academy of Music, Penang Phone No. 888) 2141 5 8 10 12 11 Asthma Cause KiHed in 24 Hours Ph tho discovery of an American i rr
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  • 935 4 BRIDGING THE DESERTS Engineers Of 11. Nations Share Great Task Iran, which until recent times was known as Persia, is celebrating the completion of a great railway, costing £30,000,000, which now links the Persian Gulf with the Caspian Sea, and is destined to play an all-important
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  • 662 4 Unstick And Bombs In the scorching prairie lands of south-western Spain the troops of General Franco have started on .an offensive of far more than military value. They are driving into the great bulge, which for two years has stretched out from .Madrid towards the
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  • 55 4 DICKENS CHURCH SAVED FROM "DEATH-WATCH BEETLE.-A DEATH-WATCH BEETLE. A steeplejack at work on the famous spire of Chigwell Parish Church, Essex, which has been saved from the ravages of the death-watch beetle. The damage was discovered wh n the weather vane was taken down for regilding. Charles Dickens often visited
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  • 155 4 Hoped To Return To England (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Sept. 2. Although Singapore is recognised in the Army as one of the most pleasant of overseas stations, the Ist. Bn. Manchester Regiment, due to arrive in Malaya on Oct. 14. must have been disappointed to
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  • 96 4 London.—Town and district councils throughout the country have been instructed by the Home Secretary that they must take delivery of sufficient gas masks for the whole of their population without delay. There are now 35.000.000 masks available at Government depots. The councils have been
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  • 432 4 DEA TH IN Heavy Toll This Season THE FOOLHARDY CLIMBER During the present summer 100 or more persons have lost their lives as the result of mountaineering accidents in the Alps. Such a death-roll tends to throw mountaineering into disrepute and non-mountaineers may be forgiven for questioning the justifiability of
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  • 641 4 Where They Are Sent To Die Quickly Weimar (Germany).—High above Weimar, in the dark forest of the Ettersberg. is the Buchenwald, the concentration camp where, it is said, some thousands of Jews suffer just because they are Jews. Everybody in Weimar knows of the
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  • 280 4 are dry and warm- th. a>neering-they lhlnk th s s '>n they laugh at the an i warned them of ts d Then .»hen plastered with snow aVf they are the elements, the battering y merciless cold. There farther u an THE SLACK Sope Never before have thev
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  • 290 4 Earlv Return T<i Malaya (From Our Own Correspondent> London. Sept. 5 Tengku Mahmud. 20-year-01l brother of the Sultan of Trenggar.u, intends to retur.to Malaya at an early date to discuss w his family his proposed marriage to M:.Joyce Blencowe, chiropodist daughter of ar Oxford tailor, following the
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  • 59 4 CLAIMED 58,000 FROM CROWN I In leu el- SHZeil l>? gardens. Lona lN i)()o 11 the Government to. u i He was in e 'j i(I1 o n’.-dianw"'- ;0 at Hatton-garden. I- ~3. Mr. Bueknah in tion for je” 1 i> 4 r ograd-' been in busin»- 1 te( j
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  • 461 5 )f( Doctor’s Strange House Of Hoaxes I’EAIHES BECAME HAGS •’unfair.” an amazing house built at Susanville, t<> humiliate women in the eyes of men. is being v nni-cum ;hc girl he wanted to marry —she told him that i v a man who looked like
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  • 209 5 L ONDON'S NEW AIR TERMINUS Gm.-,- Of a "'"■hl Sv stem Airways’ new headPalace Road, Vic also as a terminus railway station, and a rapidly approaching T',. building, which will 05 feet, will provide landmark. It will have ’lie main building. the tower wil] be the the new chairman, 4
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  • 82 5 Cost. Him 30’-, He Wasn't Hutton Wilfred Barber, Yorkshire county cricketer, was fined 30s, at Nottingham for exceeding the 30 m. p. h. speed limit at Arnold, Notts, on August 21. “If his name had been Hutton Well said the chairman of the bench. “As it is Barber I am
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  • 260 5 Escort Of 21 Planes (From Our Own Correspondent) t Singapore, Sept. 10. An aerial escort of 21 R.A.F. planes flew in formation over the P. and O. liner Rajputana. as she brought the new Air Officer Commanding, the Royal Air Force, Far East, Air Vice-Marshal
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  • 62 5 —Reuter. Second Last Match Of I our The Australians played their second i-v-t match in England at Scarborough .\-ainst Mr. H. D. G. Leveson Gower’s XT on Saturday. The tourists totalled 306, McCabe contributing 58. Barnes 90 and Waite 77 Nichols took six wickets for 113. At
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  • 118 5 Here are Transport Minister Burgin and the Mayor of Tottenham watching the first two “motorists" on Britain's first model “traffic area" opened in Lordship Recreation Ground, Tottenham, .by Mr. Burgin. The area has nearly a mile of fully-equipped miniature roads, on which children
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  • 380 5 Alien's Ruse To Obtain British Nationalit v London.—lntending to marry a perfect stranger, a 37-year-old Dutch woman arrived in Liverpool. As the woman, Elizabeth Winkens, stepped from the boat train at Lime-street Station, she was met by an Englishman, George Foo, who recognised her
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  • 162 5 Mr. G. E. Nichol And Miss 1. A. Forrest The wedding took place at the Church of the Assumption, Penang, on Saturday evening of Mr. George Edward Ernest Nichol, second pump engineer, P.W.D. and son of the late Captain R. Nichol, who was well known in local shipping circles
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  • 260 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 10. Two days after her arrival in Malaya," in the P. and O. Rajputana, Miss Christina Service was married to a man from her Scottish home town. Renfrew’. The bridegroom was Mr. W. E. Lyall,
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  • 286 5 “Meeting Place Of Fairies’’ OW N HOISEKEEPING London.—A tumbledown building—the old schoolhouse of Gairnshiel, on the hills near Baliater, in the Highlands—has been bought by the King. The house, reputed to be a meeting place of fairies, is to be renovated and made into a
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  • 85 5 Miss Jeannette. Czechoslovakian dancer, entertained patrons of the Wembley Cabaret on Saturday night to a Gipsy dance. Rhumba, Grenadier March and a number of sor.gs including “You’re Beautiful in My Eyes, which was sung in German. She was presented with a basket of flowers by
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  • 199 5 Demand For Higher Fees London—Britain’s 14,0(10 dintors, hard-hit by the country's improxinij health, are demanding more pat now that the Nati.nal Fitness Movement has made their ;fight still worse. The Movement, s; v the doctors, has made their receipts i. oil. instead of improve
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  • 284 5 For attempting to destroy a cat in an improper manner a man was sentenced, in his absence, at Dartford, Kent, to a month’s hard labour. The defendant, Harry Lord, a draughtsman, of Merlin-road, Welling, wrote a letter in which he pleaded guilty. Air. Gordon
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    • 54 6 The Brightest and Merriest Spot in Penang ELYSEE CABARET TONIGHT Dancing from 9.15 p.m. to Midnight CHARMING ENTERTAINING HOSTESSES. PENANG'S MOST POPULAR HOTEL ELYSEE HOTEL CENTRALLY SITUATED A FEW MINUTES DRIVE FROM THE PIER OR RAILWAY STATION Modern Sanitation Throughout COOL, AIRY ROOMS WITH BATHROOMS ATTACHED Excellent Bar Cuisine Telegrams
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    • 324 6 i( LAST DAY OF EXTENDED SEASON MAJESTIC TODAY at 3.00 6.15 9.30 p.m. Matinee Prices: 15 9 30 and 30 cents Downstairs. 1 ALEXANDER KORDA’S Magnificent ALL-COLOUR EPIC OF BRITISH HEROISM IN INDIA I i aB ioF /t£ V 1 w AMShQ If ax, ,z/ I'l w I 12NDQN FILMS
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  • 289 7 Ape-Man Friend Oi Tiger A REAL-LIFE TARZAN, more than six feet tall, who is believed to have some strange control over wild animals, is to be sought by an expedition which will set off soon into the heart of India’s biggest jungle. Previously few people
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  • 132 7 “Cave-dwellers” of Barcelona, the families w«ho have camped in the underground railway to escape air raids, are now to be made to leave. Some of these ’-tube" dwellers moved their whole households, including sleeping and cooking equipment, down into the underground platforms, steps, and passageways
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  • 202 7 In eight weeks a 72-years-old big-game hunter, Major H. G. Powell-Cotton, of Birchington, Kent, and his 23*years-old daughter, Antoinette, will pack tents, guns and gear and begin a 15,000-miles journey to the heart of Africa and back. They hope to “bag’ a white-bearded wildebeest and a
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  • 1268 7 Effect Of The Act: Dawn Of New Era London —Stories were current a few months ago about mushroom British film companies that spent all their capital on salaries and sets and had none left to make the actual film and about film technicians who almost
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 211 7 LOOK LADIES GENTLEMEN I Ihitinees Tomorrow and Wednesday at 3p. m. RKO RADIO’S LAUGH HIT “WHEN’S YOUR BIRTHDAY” with JOE E. BROWN REDUCED PRICES DOWNSTAIRS 15 30 CENTS UEEN’S 6.15 TONIGHT 9.30 The exciting, Down to Earth Drama of Girl who lost her Reputation Just when She needed it most.
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    • 237 7 TONIGHT LADIES’ GUEST NIGH! WEMBLEY PARK Tonight Monday 12 th. September, 1938. MO LEK STAR OPERA: Will Stage “JODOH” One of The Greatest Love Story Strongly Supported By The Latest Vaudeville E>Kra Turns TOMORROW: —“GUNONG SARI” A Grand Javanese Serial Story in 5 Parts. THE CHINA TRAVEL GREAT OPERA: SENG
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  • 34 8 BIRTH CUSCADEN At the Maternity Hospita Penang, nn 10th September, to JANE wifi r \V. L. CUSCADEN of the Asiatic Petro kum Co.. (S.S.i Ltd., a son. (S.S. F.M.S. papers please eopyi.
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  • 667 8 Tllb. appeal of the Eurasian member in Council made in a lettei to the I’inanc Gazette that the ar Office should create a Eurasian regiment of regular soldiers is ru t new hut it is one which loses none of its gency as year succeeds vear. 'i h
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  • 111 8 Revision Being Considered (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Sept. 11. Complete revision of the labour laws is >eing considered by the Government in onnection xvith the industrial disputes egislation at present being framed, the 3 inang Gazette understands. Changes will probably include revision of he existing
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  • 161 8 One Way In hich Public Can Assist Sir,- —I am xv’ondering whether you would be kind enough to give us a little publicity regarding clean, worn clothing we are requiring for free distribution to needy cases (men, women and children) n Penang. There must be in Penang, as
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  • 52 8 H.S.H. Prince Sobhan Svasti, son of the late Prince and Princess Svasti, left Penang today by the International Express for Bangkok. He was accompanied by H. H. Princess Mayurachatra, daughter of the late Prince Purachatra. Both are returning to Siam after a stay of nearly five years
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  • 591 8 Delicate Work In Progress The 30-year old railway pier hei e i > undergoing a delicate but major surgical operation. Strengthening and extension of ti stiucture is being carried out in such a manner as not to interfere with the regular flow of traffic. With the
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  • 651 8 p“™"« 1 ~f ’he M. t la V -I', j missH>n inti> tlb i n which I su< the right d r t vernment to training men a correspondcii s scheme would teaching 01 c jv j schools. Thi> ~i only make the future citizens but woum
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    • 139 8 new jMfe. -< < v tiiH lii 1 Oxi K w J W The cook has not changed, nor has the recipe except that Maggi’s Seasoning is now used in the kitchen. A tew drops work wonders if added, just before serving. to an insipid dish, weak soup, stew, gravy
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  • 709 9 2 1)00 X olunleers And droops Engaged UTHORITIES SATISFIED iT!I PREPARATIONS Xorlh Malaya most <*x tensive manoeuvres, in which ihan 2.000 troops and Volunteers were engaged. 111 1 4*ll*l [T parried out successfully in the vicinity of Giinong t[ nanuU<’l 'cMerilay. Major-General W. C.
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  • 160 9 Mr. M<l. Ismail And Miss Che Puteh A Malay wedding was solemnised at 130 D. Patani Road at 11.30 last night. The parties were Mr. Mil. Ismail son of Mi. Mohamed of the Federal Secretariat. Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Che Puteh daughter of the late Md. Mydin of
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  • 39 9 Afr. G. |E. E. Nichol and Miss 1. A. Forrest, who were married on Saturday at the Church of The Assumption. Report appears on page
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  • 77 9 W ATCHMAN IN HOSPITAL Assault On Hill Alleged A Sikh watchman was admitted into the General Hospital, Penang, on Saturday with grievous injuries. He had a big gash across the face and several wounds on his body stated to have been caused by a piece of iron-spike used for husking
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  • 106 9 Alleged Suicide Attempt Oh Board Ship The Cheng Wah Athletic Association soccer tourists to Sumatra caused the s.s. Kedah to arrive in Penang late this morning. The Malayan team played their last match at Medan yesterday evening, and had to make a hurried departure for the boat immediately
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  • 166 9 Mr. H. W Nightingale, the Penang Additional Magistrate, this morning sentenced Lee Ah Ming, a Chinese boy, to one day’s imprisonment and a fine of $5, in default seven days’ imprisonment when the accused was convicted of having committed theft yesterday of a set of carpenter’s tools,
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    160 9 Mr. Lee Kim Toon Ami Miss Ooi Phaik Loo A wedding in the reformed style took place yesterday at the Hu Yew Seah where Mr. Lee Kim Toon, brother of Mr. Lim Leong Chuan and a member of the staff oi the Chartered Bank, was married to Miss
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  • 117 9 Vi eek i o Reach Settlement A ease in which one Khoo Po Cnye woman, claimed jewellery wortl ,oo was mentioned in the Penang Middle court this morning. Mr. Gurchuran Singh said that he epie.sented Lim Mei Hua. She hau received the jewellery from Khoo Po
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  • 440 9 Deal!? (}f European A ohmteer (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. Sept. 10. The death occurred early this morning of Mr. H. R Benison. a keen volunteer and member of the machine-gun corps of the Ist Platoon A (S) Coy F.M.S.V.F. I'he deceased, who was very popular with
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  • 1277 10 Holiday Influence Meagre American Buying Messrs. A. Strauss Co., Ltd., in the mon.thly report, dated Sept. 1, state: The visible supply at the end of August rose by 1,216 tons to 30,717 tons. Deliveries remained very small, while on the other hand, the last cut
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  • 536 10 Reconstruction Plan CUT IN DEBENTURE INTEREST RATE London, Sept. 3—Tavoy Tin Dredging Corporation has now issued the full terms of the capital reconstruction scheme referred to by Mr. J. Ivan Spens, the chairman, at the meeting on 25th July. Briefly, it is proposed to cut issued capital
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  • 260 10 MEAT Kati 38 Beef Steak do 28 Stew or Curry do 48 Pork lean Pork lean and fat Ist quality do 36 Mutton (Goat) N. indies local per lb 4.) Do. Australian do 40 Kati 25 Fow’l f Capons locally reared d 0 n do do 28
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  • 726 10  -  By Joseph Martin Modest Beginnings. It is a strange fact many' of the most prominent British institutions owe their origin to informal meetings in taverns or eating-houses, and the early establishment of Lloyds’ Insurance in a coffee-house is generally quoted a’s the classic example of
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    • 768 10 BANKS r THE mercantile rank OF INDIA, ltd. The Indian Overseas T Capital Authorised Krill Ltd». Capital Subscribed Ddlllk, lulU Reserve Fund and Re«t £1 300 .<m (Incorporated in British India) Capital Paid Up BOARD of DlReomttJL DO YOU KNOW Sir Charles Alexander Innes, Sm ‘th, Kt, Your Flighty Dollar
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  • 468 11 Type Steadily Disappearing (From )ur Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Sept. 11. The old-fashioned Singapore Chinese wile is in danger of being swept out of existence. This is the opinion of conservative Chinese families as they watch with growing uneasiness the coming of a new 1 'er
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  • 182 11 London. Sept. 1. Prontosil, the drug which is still ir. its experimental stages was said at an inquest at Poplar yesterday feo have led to the death of Ellen Elliott, aged 60, of Lamprell-street, Bow. A daughter said that Mrs. Elliott had frontal headaches and at
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  • 26 11 —Reuter. London Sept. 10.-Sixty were injured, mostly slightly, when a passenger train from Glasgow collided into a stationary engine near Paisley. —Reuter.
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  • 797 11 S.S. “KEDAH” arrived this morning from Belawan and sails today at 5 p.m. for Singapore. M.V. CHINESE PRINCE arrived this morning from Belawan and sails tomorrow at noon for Halifax, Boston and New York via Colombo and Cape of Good Hope. S.S. ‘LONDON MARU arrived
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  • 567 11 THE RESEARCH TO BE LAUNCHED IN FEB. The magnetic survey vessel Research, which is building at Dartmouth, is to be ready for launching in February and is to be put into service in the autumn of next year. She is being built at the cost of the
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  • 57 11 Construction Of New Building Begun Work on the construction of the new school-house for the Hu Yew Chinese school has been started. When competed it is expected to hold 320 students L' eight rooms. In the event of more for admission the preserX school building will
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    • 434 11 ■UE FUNNEL LINE SERVICE to LONDON NORTH CONTINENT Leave. Due London r»<\’ON Calls Marseilles Glasgow Sent 16 Cut n Calks Antwerp Middlesboro* Sept 19 Oct 20 xS Calls Antwerp Middlesboro* Sept 23 Oct 21 n\r BKKVIOK TO UVKBrooi VIA HAVB& r«-\ Calls Glasgow Omits Havre Sept. o'"™ K,YTONEU S Sept.
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    • 767 11 PO and V/ BRITISH INDIA (Incorporated Ir England.? po rt s Wettenham SINGAPORE S.S. “RAJULA” SAILING THURSDAY, 15th SEPTEMBER Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under Penang, Teluk Anaon, Port S wettenhao», contract with His Majesty’s Government Malacca and Singapore Service. London and Far East Mail Service. Outwards from London
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    26 12 hcsc tiCO a bund rac(f ut the oxfOrd and Bucks Light Infantry camp at Bulford Fields, Salisbury Plain. They did not win. No wonder!
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  • 240 12 The New Furnace A fascinating story someone might write who •< temperature how from the earliest times to oui <v neme tho >, greater heat, till now we can melt substances nev iPar nt to The savage could not make anything ho .ter t...e olten. -<:!r 4 thousand
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  • 80 12 With its its throat, a king penguin was found at Chessington Zoo. Sarrey, recently. An iron bar. discovered in a hedr 12 feet from the penguins’ pools, had tcanejs sticking to it. A Zoo official said: “We are at a hss to know who did this cruel
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  • 256 12 Death After Five Operations London.- It was stated at an inquest Wormwood Scrubs I’nson that Hudson, 36. a prisoner, had had tions for the removal of Jore g which he had swallowed. He di. prison hospital after swallowing Mr. Walter Young. son .said that Hudson
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  • 553 12 Latest rimes Of Pectin" AIK M AILS EUROPE AND THE WEST IMPERIAL (Empire Air AlaiL: For Burma except Victoria Point). India. Aden. Palestine. Egypt. Sudan, Kenya, Tankanyika. Uganda, Zanzibar, Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Nyasaland, South Africa, Great Britain. Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland. Ordinary Correspondence 7.30
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 726 12 BBC SERVICE SCHEDULE London, Sept. 10: Following is the BBC Empire broadcasting service schedule (Malayan Standard Time) for this week: TRANSMISSIONS 2 AND 2 6.02 p.m. to 12.20 a.m. GSH, GSG. GSF and GSJ. GSG for the Far East from 6.02 p.m. to 11.20 p.m. TRANSMISSION 12.37 a.m. to 4.20
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    • 890 12 Highlights Of Today’s W ireless ZHJ (PENANG) 7.05 p.m. Programme of Misctl aneous Recordings. 7.55 p.m. to 8.50 p.m. BBC Rehroadcast. ZHP (SINGAPORE) 5.00 p. m to 7.00 p. m.: Asiatic M usic. 7.00 p.m. Pianoforte and Cello Recital. .15 p.m. Max factor's Programme. 9.30p.m. Dance Music. GSF (BBC) o.Obp.m.
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    • 721 12 ISIROM today PDC 15.15 me s (19.8 m.) PMN 10 26 me s (29.2 m. YDS IT-86 me s (25. u m. VS 9.65 mes (31.20 m.) p m. nnpning Albert Sand4.50 Time sign Op children by ler 's tea conC rt n Discone ws. 6.50 Aneta Uncle Dick. 6
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  • 231 13 Mr. \rthur Woodburn. Scottish Secretary of the Labour Harty -(left), "‘3? Mr. p. (Jordon Walker. Labour candidate for Oxford, and Mr. J. I. M. Milkir General Secretary of the National Council oi Labour < olieges is atid) at the suimner school. BIG EMPTY and it
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  • 861 14 State No. 1 Doubles Pair Beaten In First Round (By Our Badminton Correspondent) There were three surprises in the Penang Open Badminton championships over the week-end at the Penang free School. The State No. i doubles pair, Tung Ghim Huat a,nd Tan Kon (> Tat, zvent
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  • 247 14 Training For Extra Meeting <From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Sept. 12. Some fast work was done on the second track at Bukit Timah this morning. Queen Beon (Whalan) did half pace work. Next Nightshade (Farthing) galloped at half speed, looking good. Lisheen (Lawler) moved nicely.
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  • 128 14 Corinthians And Cheng Wah Team The Malayan soccer tourists to Sumatra and Burma have returned. The Ipoh Chinese Corinthians, which include several Penang players, arrived from Rangoon yesterday, while the Cheng Wah Athletic Association arrived in Penang this morning by the s.s. Kedah from Belawan-Deli. The Corinthians
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  • 97 14 Penang vs. Kulini Tomorrow A golf match has been arranged between Penang Ladies and Kulim Ladies and will be played over 18 holes at Glugor tomorrow at 3.45 p.m. PENANG KULIM Mrs. Samuel Mrs, Perkin Miss Howes-Roberts Mrs. Davies Mrs. J.W. Clark Mrs. Calder Mrs. Sidney Smith Mrs.
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  • 127 14 London—Kingsley Kennerley, amateur billiards champion, home again from his abortive attempt to vzin the Empire title, n Melbourne, told the press that all ideas of turning professional have been abandoned. He is a very wise young man. “I insist,” he said, “on proving myself the best amateur
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    39 14 BRYN JONES, Welsh international forward bought by Arsenal from Wolves for £14,000, is proving his worth. The famous London club have played four games so far this season, and all their goals have been netted by Jones
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  • 326 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Sept. 11. A crowd of 68,000 saw Everton triumph over Arsenal on the latter’s ground. Stevenson and Lawton gave the best display seen in London this year. Arsenal rallied and Bryn Jones scored, and their forwards thrice hit the cross-bar
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  • 96 14 —Reuter, Old Westbury Win Meadowbrook, Long Island, Old Westbury (Phipps, Smith, Iglehart and C. V. Whitney) retained the American Polo Championship beating Greentree (Bostwick, Cavanagh, Hitchcock and J B Whitney) by 16 to 7 before a crowd of 36,220 the largest in the history of the tournament.
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  • 89 14 Bowls Results The Penang Sports Club bowls ties played on Friday resulted as follows: Championship Pairs: —A. Clark T S. Anthony beat M.T.P. Rule G.C. Miller 21—14. Championship Pairs:—R.J. Hutton D Sturrock beat J.B. Ross E.S. Laurie 21—20. Tennis Finals TODAY Ladies Singles (Final): 15 5 Mrs
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  • 197 14 State T 1 I’enang R„ l,el <l this week -’’’"'M J first -•> Volunteers (c, i esda y ('A hues) and “>N; be« eenG)lours -5,,, '™k will com 1 earns are: mrncn ceat 5( v °Er\T EFJ{s (COLOURS) 'WHITty J-H. Wagstaff P B -H- Willson A G.
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  • 126 14 Chong Keat Vkins Sian Ewe Cup Geh Chong Keat, the Penang Fr« swimming champion, repealed tus U in the final of the 100 metres fret open championship at the Chinese Si ing Club yesterday, and by winnii event for the second year in ,ua Chong Keat wins the Khoo
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    • 697 14 Restore Youthful Vigour To Glands in 24 Hours New Discovery Brings Pleasures of Life to Men £0 Who Feel Old Before Their Time Do you feel older than you are? Are you lacking in youthful animation? Do you enjoy the society of beautiful women? you suffer from loss of vigour,
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    • 64 14 No mor 'Flu, Cold or Rheumatis Wear the SIMPSON “lODOLOK" V J lodine Locke’ near your skin and for 1months you can laugh at ’Flu, ,-Ej Colds and Rheu- LbpdH m ati am. faj price *7 C CENTS YPffiBRSW J EACH Obtainable bum «V (V o- wiiITE A" from vT
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  • 825 15 v< g is the full programme for the first day of the Singapore Turf fl* to be run at Singapore on Wednesday, September 14Extra HORSES —Class 4,—Division I—7 Furlongs KING 9 00 “Oontong Kongsi” Silley eSsTANT LIGHT BJO9 Major T. L. Fox
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  • 1301 15 Blue Peter Nearly Repeats 1937 Feat AUTHENTIC PAYS BEST AT SINGAPORE MALAYA’ S racing classic of the year, the Gold Cup was won by Mr. O. H. M. Sturges* English gelding Golden Glimpse, who, ridden by White, came first Sn one of the closest
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  • 124 15 Min Sin Seah Wins In a friendly match of table tennis played between Min Sin Seah and the Lok Kiang Ping-Pong Team on Saturday at the Min Sin Seah, the Seah won by seven games to nil. The results were as follows (Seah players mentioned first) Tan Tong
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    • 107 15 H Hi Woman and home, home and children, there is unconscious harmony in these words/N6 home can be happy unless mother is carefree and baby contented. The wise mother J realises this early and weans baby on “Lactogen”. ‘‘Lactot gen” is whole milk containing J all the essential vitamins for
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  • 137 16 PREVIOUSLY LATEST LONDON (Spot) No market No market LONDON —(3 months) No market No market SINGAPORE $98.00 $97.75 BUSINESS DONE PENANG $97.50 $97.75 BUSINESS DONE Bueyrs no sellers Buyers no sellers BOPRA —(Sundrled) $3.45 $3.47V» BLACK PEPPER $8.50 $8.50 RUBBER NEW YORK No market No market SINGAPORE—(Spot) No market
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  • 100 16 London. Sept. 10. RUBBER: London Closed Oct./Dec Jan./Mar Apl./June NEW YORK United K’.ns'dnm Stock» London 65.514 tons Liverpool 34.211 tons COPRA Straits SD. Rotterdam Sept £10.15 PEPPER: White Muntok: in bond 3;d Oct./Dec. 3%d Lompong black in bond 2-’id Oct z Dec 2 d rCFF' 3 Robusta
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  • 125 16 A A. ANTHONY CO. T<N i Buyer* Sellers Ratu Selangor 1.32 1.37% Hong Fatt .86 .88 Jelebu .70 .75 Ku chai. 1.32% 1.37% Petaling 7.50 7.75 Rahman Hyd. 1.20 1.25 Raub Gold 5.05 5.15 ex Rantau 1.40 1.45 Taiping Consolidated 1.55 1.60 Talam 1.35 1.40 Ampat 410 43 Berjuntai 99
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  • 80 16 —Reuter. Nervous Buving Of Gold London, Sept. 16—Current events have latterly been portrayed in Lombard Street. The amount of loanable capital has suffered severe depletion owing to large-scale conversion of sterling balances into gold as a result of the European political tension. Consequently in the absence of competition
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  • 214 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Ayer Panas 1.32 1.40 Batu Lintangs 1.15 1.20 Bassetts .52% .5714 Bentas 1.07% 1.12’4 Brogas .77% .82 1 4 Kuala Sidims 2.47% 2.57’4 Indragiris 1.30 1.35 Lunas 1.67’4 1.77’4 Mentakabs .40 .42’4 Malaka Pindas 1.37% 1.42% New Scudais 1.17% 1.22’ 4 Pajams 1.80 1.90 Sungei
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  • 173 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 4 0 4'3 Batu Selangor 1.35 1.40 Burma Malays 210 22 Ocd Hong Fatts .84 .86 Ipoh Tins 24 6 25!3 Jelebus .70 .72 <- Johans .27 .29 K. Lanjuts 18 0 18 6 Kamuntings 9’4’4 99 Kramats 1013 10 7’4 Kundangs 59 613
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  • 191 16 Weaker; Turnover Moderate New York. Sept. 10 —Operators still adhere to yesterday’s views. U.S. August consumption of rubber was 3.8170 'tons; stocks were 277.463 tons: meeting bullish trade views that further improvement in consumption statistics is indicated. Dow Jones avs. Prev. Today High Low 30 indus. 139.90 138.29
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  • 168 16 KENNEDY LO. RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Brunei United -70 -B° c TIN: Ampat 4'o 4 6 Ayer Weng 62% .67% Batu Selangor 1.32'2 l-3<% Berjuntai 10 0 10 6 Hong Fatt 86 Jelapang 29|9 31|6 Katu 25 6 26 Oex Kuchai 1.34 1.3<% Malayan Tin 28 0 29 6c Mambau 4
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  • 21 16 TLN Singapore $9/./5 per pkl. Penang $97.75 per pkl. RUBBER Singapore —Spot 26'qc per lb. Penang —Spot per lb.
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  • 29 16 Reuter. Jerusalem, Sept. 11 Six Jewish supernumeraries were killed, one wounded and one is missing following ambush by brigands near a Jewish settlement in South Palestine. Reuter.
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