Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 2 February 1939

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY No. 27. Vol. XCViJ. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 723 1 Applauded by all But Isolationists DEFENSIVE MOVE ON A PROFITABLE BASIS Washington. W eilncsday. I he Neu York World telegram in an editorial says: ha! is happening is that France and Great Britain are paying us in gold for the privilege of strengthening one of
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  • 131 1 —Reuter. Committee's Recommendation London. Wednesday Every home in a vulnerable area should have an air raid shelter in advance of an emergency. This is one of the conclusions reached by the three experts appointed by Sir John Anderson to consider the problem. The exeprts recommend that shelters
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  • 108 1 British Wireless. Plenty Of Trade For All London, Wednesday. Mr. R. S. Hudson. Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, said that Herr Hitler’s statement that Germany must export or die was one of the most encouraging statements heard for a long time. I believe that if we can
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  • 131 1 —Reuter. Au Air Counterpart Constructed Berlin. Wednesday. The recent construction of an air counterpart to the Siegfried line is disclosed in an article in the weekly paper Wehrmacht. by General Kitzinger, Commander of the western air defences. A powerful line of defences runs parallel with the land fortifications
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  • 71 1 Reuter. Many Farms And Villages Threatened London. Wednesday. Zero hour is approaching in the lowlying areas of the fens where it is possible that thousands of tons of flood water may burst through the hastily built defences and inundate farms and villages. After a night of ceaseless preparations,
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  • 45 1 —Reuter. London, Wednesday. In the House of Commons at question time today Captain Balfour, Undersecretary for Air, said it was hoped that. Imperial Airways would start a scheduled seasonal service of an experimental character to the United States on June 1. 1939.—Reuter.
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  • 164 1 Reuter. w4 His Importance In The Vanity Fair Of Nations”*' London. Wednesday The hope that statesmen and adminis-. traters would avoid looking upon the natives of Africa “as if they have no importance in the Vanity Fair of nations’’ was expressed by Dr. Armindo Monteiro, the
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  • 99 1 .—Reuter. Crowds Cheer The Enemies Of Spain Rome, Wednesday. Hailed by bursts of machine-gun fire from the roof of the huge exhibition building, Via Nazionale, Signor Mussolini had a field day today with a march-past of twenty-five thousand Fascist Militia. The parade included tiny tots, boys and girls,
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  • 137 1 popular movement headed by Wu. —Reuter. Japanese Efforts Fruitless Peiping. Wednesday. hi!” the Japanese controlled Press mterprets Wu PeiFu’s interview yesterday as an acceptance of the Japanese terms and as presaging his certain emergence one o’’ the Marshal’s close associates declares that he is incensed at
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  • 94 1 will call at Freetown on March 9. —British Wireless. New Destroyer To Cruise To Gold Coast London, Wednesday. The Admiralty has arranged for H.M. S. Ashanti, one of the destroyers of the Tribal Class, just completed, to make a cruise to the Gold Coast before taking up duty
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  • 188 1 —Reuter. Recommendation To Congress Moscow, Wednesday. The abolition of "mass party purges” is to be proposed at the eighteenth Congress of the Communist Party on March 10. M. Zhdanov, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Authority of the U. S. S. R., who is
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  • 70 1 —Reuter. 250,000 New Yorkers Toil Up The Stairs New York, Wednesday. Nearly a quarter million workers in the fur garment manufacturing area had to climb this morning in consequencee of a strike of 8,000 liftmen and other workers of 600 buildings in central Manhattan demanding a 40-hour
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  • 25 1 ,—Reuter. London, Wednesday. Reuter learns that there is no foundation for reports that Earl Baldwin might head a British mission to Tokio. —Reuter.
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  • 100 1 —Reuter. Protest To Tokio Moscow, Wednesday. A fresh incident on the ManchukuoSoviei frontier is reported. Tass f ncy says that a Soviet frontier patrol of five men was suddenly fired on in the vicinity of Kailastuevskaya by a group of 18 Manchurian soldiers with riflea and
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  • 222 1 .—Reuter. 10,000 May Be Admitted To Palestine London, Wednesday. Mr. Vyvyan Adams, at question time, reopened the question of the Colonial Secretary’s refusal to <illow 'lO,OOO Ger-man-Jewish children to enter Palestine and suggested that the number of Jews later to be admitted into Palestine might be correspondingly reduced.
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  • 38 1 —Reuter. New York, Wednesday. The Treasury will offer to the public on February 6 $300,000,000 worth of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Notes. The proceeds will presumably be used to repay the Corporation’s debts to the Treasury. —Reuter.
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  • 93 1 Reuter. Presentation To Chairman Of Shipping Conference London, Wednesday. Members of the Far Eastern Conference, which embraces all shipping lines trading to and from the Far East, made a presentation to Mr. Archibald Lang, Deputy Chairman and Managing-Director of the P. O. Steamship Company, in appreciation of
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  • 33 1 —Reuter. Washington, Wednesday:—The 75-year-old chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah was taken seriously ill today and removed to hospital. His illness is described as very severe influenza. —Reuter.
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  • 603 2 PRESIDENTS ANXIETY FOR DEMOCRACIES Will Do Anything To Save England And France New York, Wednesday. QENSATIONAL reports of a conference which President *<) Roosevelt had with members of th? Senate Military Affairs Committee yesterday appear in the Press today. r he Herald Tribune describes *he meeting,
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  • 354 2 .—Reuter. Nazi Paper Warns Britain Berlin. Wednesday. A BIG colonial campaign which is expected to sweep Germany has been launched here. The Boersen Zeitung gives prominence to an article declaring that Herr Hitler has “led the colonial issue back to the point whence a reasonable and
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  • 650 2 London, Wednesday. nr HE conclusion of Mr. Chamberlain’s speech in the House of Commons yesterday laying down the conditions of Britain’s readiness to enter full settlement, is given prominence in the Press. The Daily Telegraph, referring to the Premier's request for evidence of willingness
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  • 95 2 —Reuter. France Appeals To Britain London. Tuesday. Mr. R.A. Butler, replying for th Government in the House of Commons announced that the French Government had appcolcd to Great Briain to offer help on a generous scale to eed and shelter Spanish refugees who crossed the French frontier.
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  • 156 2 —Reuter. Salamanca Claim Salamanca. Wednesday. The Nationalists entered Gerona province today, capturing Blares, fortyfive miles from Barcelona, according to a communique issued here today. Big advances are also claimed in the northern and central sectors. Rain and snowstorms are stated to have hampered operations in the north
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  • 147 2 Reuter. Berlin, Tuesday. “Change of attitude in London.’ “Fiecd from a nightmare,’’ “World extraordinarily impressed” and similar h adlm* appear in Berlin newspapers over th" iispatches about the reception of H ik •r’s speech abroad. The Deutsche Allegemeine Zeitu ig ays: “The right word at
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  • 75 2 —Reuter. London, Tuesday A new low-wing two-seater monoplane is believed to be tat v.ar plane. Its category is manufactured in large numb'-ts i Royal Air Force. Details of trial Hights are cret. Tire plane has a very high p< ance and is scheduled to r
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  • 473 4 ALTHOUGH making no open threats or demands, or even reference to Italian territorial claims. Herr Hitler in the Reichstag speech on Monday declared that Germany w shed to iive ui peace with Great 1* ilain and I rance and that she had no aggressive attentions
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  • 1200 4  - Clothes Are Scarce Dear In Russia By Ed mull d J. Lowry THE average Soviet worker’s pay is about equal, in terms of purchasing power, to what the Russian worker earned under the Czarist regime. This in itself would be a devastating comment upon the “achievements” of the Stalinist regime
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  • 831 4 IMPERIAL \irways' Empire base at Southampton has been very much in the rows lately. There are rumours that it is going to be moved. Possibly to Langsione Harbour at Portsmouth, possibly to some other place on the south coast where, if necessary, an artificial lake mav
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  • 531 5 Battle of the Canal rpjj) ill-fated attack on the Suez anal by the Turks which be regarded as one among the reverses of the Central Pow- during the Great W ar began 24 today. It illustrated graphi’.J’ ihc overwhelming disadvantage which a lightly mechanised force lt to
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  • 603 5 Increased Membership Of Library to the Penang Library report for 1938, just issued, Penang public read more books and magazines last year than during 1937. There was an increase of 2,949 in the isSU r/°n h°?k s an( l 143 in the issue of
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  • 248 5 Narrow Victory For “The Rest” “The Rest” scored a narrow victory of a point over the Public Services in the second “Spelling Bee” competition which was held and broadcast from Station ZHJ, Penang, yesterday. Out of a possible 36 points, Vie Rest scored 21 and
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  • 151 5 Decoy Basket Leads To A rrest Leaving a basket of eggs which he had been carrying on the five-foot way of a shop, a Chinese went into the rear portion of the shop, but when he returned his basket of eggs was missing. Obtaining a similar
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  • 132 5 Committed To House Of Detention An aged Chinese Mohammedan, Ibrahim bin Abias, who was arrested by the police for begging, and who tried to commit suicide with a piece of cord in the Beach-street police station lock-up, was produced by Inspector Ongham before Mr. Lim
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  • 121 5 While the Penang District Court was in session on Monday last, a commotion was heard immediately outside the Court, and as a sequel to this a Sikh, Ram Singh, was produced before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday, charged with disorderly conduct
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  • 118 5 Miss Jean Stevenson, formerly national secretary cf the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand has been visiting Malaya for some months, advising and assisting Y.W.C.A. Branches throughout the country. During the past week, she was the guest of Mrs. T Rogers at the Railway Bungalow, Penang Hill. Miss Stevenson's
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  • 395 5 Former Teacher At Raffles That he was drunk and incapable and might have taken the bicycle was the plea of an Indian Government Pensioner, N. A. Roche, who was charged before Mr. A. W. Bellamy, Second Magistrate. Penang, yesterday with having committed theft of a bicycle
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  • 387 5 NO MORE PINES FOR SINGAPORE BIG DECLINE IN PLANTATION AREA LAST YEAR (From Our. Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday. than 11,000 acres of land in Malaya which once produced pineapples, fell out of planting use last year, but in spite of this decline in plantation area, it is not anticipated
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  • 318 5 Three Malays Face Court Charge Aa a sequel to the recent theft from the Arabic School at Tek Soon Street, when jewellery and clothing, valued in all at $lO9, was removed, a young Malay, Hashim bin Dahari, was produced by Court Inspector Cowie in the Penang
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  • 137 7 Sequel In Court As a sequel to a raid by Mr. K. H. antrell. Assistant Superintendent of Customs and Excise, Ipoh, and other ’outdoor officers among the caves near the third mile on the Gopen road, two Chinese named Leong Fan and Leong Fhm were yesterday
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  • 377 8 AIR FORCE MISSION TO VISIT COMMONWEAL!! I Singapore, Tuesday. OING p ORE defence observers are taking keen interest in rhe Roval Air Force Mission, composed of senior officers and officials from the Air Ministry, which is to visit Australia. The
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  • 1071 8 |>ELO\V is the report of the com- mittee of the Straits Settlements (Penang) Association for the year ended December 31, 1938, which will be presented at the annual general meeting to be held on Tuesday, February 14, at 5.15 p.m. at the Penang Chamber
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  • 186 8 (From Our Own Cori..<> n Taiping, VV e <in< While enjoying his h.u yesterday by bathin. n stream, an Indian Moh Fafeh Mohamed was surr vV.o Chinese boys walki clothes. He raised ahm fortunately for him, two nu-. nearby chased and mana j two
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  • 166 8 Not All ov ed To Se rve In Countt v Of Birtli (From Our Own Correspondent; Singapore, Monday. The British Resident. Ne ri Si mblilan, Mr. G. L. Ham, and nearly 400 people were present in the hall of King George V School. Seremban, when the Ceylonese
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  • 91 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Wednesday. Malay and Javanese artists enacted a page of Singapore’s history—the Javanese invasion of 1361—at ,he Happy World Amusement Park last night when an impressive ava-Malay pageant was staged. Artistically decorated, eight units mounted on carriages represented ancient Singapore royalty courts’
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  • 261 8 No Colonies Will Go Back To Germany tFrom Our Own Correspondent J Singapore. W'ednesday. •South Africa will not tolerate any return of African colonies to Germany. ’’The African people themselves do not want the Germans back,” said Mr. Carl R. Davis, director of the Anglo-Ameri-can Corporation of South Africa Ltd.,
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  • 99 8 (From Our Own Correspondent). Taiping, Wednesday. Revenue officers surprised an elderly Chinese in Tenierlch yesterday while he was busy distilling. As a result one Koh Seong was charged in the Taiping police court today, with distilling without a, licence. The accused pleaded guilty. The accused admitted
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  • 328 8 Report Of Meteorological Office For 1938 Malaya are seen to be reasonably cool 1K ‘Mwygh the days are frequently hot and. on iu° t ne hi.Qh humidity, somewhat oppressive, it very h ha P? ens x tha refreshing sleep is not obtained at ni.dit.*' f
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  • 600 9 POLICE INTERRUPT MEETING AND TEA PARTY i BIG louncl-iip of members of an unlawful society was nude bx Ihe Perak Detective Branch on Tuesday night v ii 75 young Chinese, including 12 women, were arrested. ii ;md tea party were in pro- ti> Perak
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  • 91 9 Major Lindsay V ears’ ar Involved i Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. Wt dnesday. o: ?ng to Major Lindsay imp to His Highness the i’ uk, was involved in an ac* i ping on Monday. ih 'he Malay driver, named va- this morning charged T •:-.ng magistrate
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  • 21 9 living in Green-lane, rep'ited to the police on he lost a gold watch, va- :<<• from his house in the
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  • 90 9 Singapore, Wednesday. The man who more than any other knows the underworld of Singapore, and the workings and ramifications of its gangs, will be retiring this year. He is Mr. R. H. de S. Onraet. Ln-spwector-General of the Straits Settlements Police Force for the last three years,
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  • 148 9 Singapore Ratvpax ers Concerned (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Tuesday. Concern with the powers of arrest granted in the proposed traffic rules, to take affect from March 1, was expressed at a committee meeting of tin Singapore Ratepayers’ Association. A sub-committee, comprismg Messrs. G. H.
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  • 97 9 He had no work and so had to eke out a living by illegal distilling, was the plea of a Chinese named Kok Chun who was yesterday produced in the Ipoh First Magistrate’s court for being in possession of a still. Mr. V.
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  • 70 9 (From Our Own Correspondent). Taiping, Wednesday. March 4 will be a public holiday in Perak; it being the occasion of the Coronation of His Highness, Sultan Sir Abdul Aziz. Messrs N. Eliathamby. J P M.C. H N. Appuduray and S. Ellagupillay, of Taiping, motored to Ipoh
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  • 45 9 Identity Of Vessel In a reference yesterday to an alleged massacre cf Chinese on tne Sui Ying, it was inadvertently stated in the captio that the vessel involved was the oui Sang. We take this first opportunity of correcting the error.
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  • 114 9 In Serious Condition In Hospital (From Our Own Co respondent) Mak’cc-i, Monday. The police remov. d in i mbulance last night a n ddR-ugcd Tamil Roman Catholic who is repo ted to have been in mediation near th empty vault of St. Francis Xavier. St. Paul’s
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  • 130 9 Chinese Beali-n And Roblx-d A daring highway robbery was perpetrated by three Chinese at Ayer Itam-road, Penang, opposite the taxidermist’s premises on Tuesday night when they waylaid a young Chinese, Khoo Thea.m Liat, and robbed him of $l2O. From inquiries, it appears the Chinese vas cycling
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  • 165 9 Kn. Rajaratnam Talks On Dickens The vekly tiffin meeting of the Ipoh Rotary Club was held at the Grand Hotel yesterday, with Mr. C. H. Dakers. the vice-president, in the chair. Guests present were visit.ng Rotarians Py Kwok of Singapore and Yang Hung Sang.
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  • 102 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore. Monday. The first pilot, to join Wearnes’ Air Services nearly two years ago. Mr. J. B. W. Pugh, is leaving Singapore next Tuesday fur England. Mr. Pugh expects to take up an appointment in England. Formerly a pilot with British Airways,
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  • 88 9 The engagement is announced of Mr. Wong Pow Mun. younger brother of Mr. Wong Pow On. J.P., well-known resident of Bukit Mertajam. an<-j Miss Sam Modi, an ex-Penang Convent pupil. The bridegroom-to-be is an old boy of the Hish School, Bukit Mertajam. and is at present attached to the
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  • 49 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batavia, January 29. Illegal imigration of Chinese into Dutch Borneo has recently been discovered by Government officials. It is alleged the Chinese are going from British Borneo by small craft and landing on deserted parts of the Dutch Borneo coast
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  • 313 9 I From Our Own Correspondent;. Kuala Kangsar, Wednesday, ihe Kuala KangsSr Police ot®erved Hari Raya Haji by an At Home” at which they entertained more than 100 guests to a tea pat ty at the police canteen last evening. Fine weather favoured the occasion.
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  • 55 9 (From Our Own Correspondent i Batavia, January 29. Several centres of distribution of counterfeit banknotes have been discovered in Sumatra. It is believe/ here that the notes are coming int > the country from China or the Straiti Settlements. A Chinese has been arrested in connection
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  • 2197 10 Early Price Advance Now Considered Unlikely 4T (From Our Own Correspondent) London, January 25. f i is generally anticipated in London that when the endDecember statistics are published it will be found that 1938 closed with world rubber stocks totalling not more
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  • 601 10 BENEFITS OF RESTRICTION The ordinary general meeting nf British Tin Investment Cor Por t h< Limited was held on January 17 don. 5 ln Captain Oliver Lyttelton, D.,S O Mr (chairman and managing director)’ ri that the company was now fully i lr they regarded that as
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  • 377 11 SOUTH’S VICTORY OVER NORTH IN BIG RUGGER MATCH pKACTICALLY all the forwards of both sides and several of the backs of the North XV can be seen in this splendid picture of Saturday’s North-South rugger mat ch at Anson Road Stadium. South won 15—6. The
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  • 325 12 Conquest Of The Stratosphere Tho.isan Is of years ago man was satisfit i to remain on the ground. In the. days he searches the depths of the sei. explores all countries, and has now taken upon himself the task of finding knowledge in the stratosphere. It v. as
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  • 627 12 Mr. Gandhi Defends An Ambition Bombay, January 8. IT HE position of the Congress in regard to the Hindu-Moslem quest.on was .recently explained by Mr. Gandhi to Mr. H. V. Hodson, a British journalist, who had a long interview with him at Saegaon. Recording the interview
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    • 464 12 5.00 A Recitation of the Koran, from the Studio. 5.20 Arabic Songs.f 5.40 Song by Miss Julia.v "Punggok Merindu Bulan”—“Radin Inu” “Penghiboran.” 6.00 Teochew Guakang Selections.! Tho Hoo Sooi. Sung by Kwiek Peng Khim Tan Aiang Goh. “Keng Guan Tan.” Sung by Loh Peng Seng Tan Kian Chong. 6.15 Teoehew
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    • 370 12 8.8. C. Servin Schedule For Far East London, Jan. 27. bable BBC ServinI East in Malayan y ’beginning Jan. l- TRANsmiss lox i 6.02 p. m. to 9. I,; GSV and GSF i TRANSMISSION 9.20 p. m to j > > i 9.20 p. m. o ]I, 9.30 p.m. to
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  • 532 13 Eales Postin’! Times At Kuala Lumpur, I poll And Penang AIR MAILS OUTWARD H noi’l W; the west Air Mail): Fo V ria Point), India I /ypt, Sudan, Kenya Zanzibar, Northern Nyasaland, South Ireland, Canada and K 11 '0 a.m.; Ipoh 12.4: 7.30 p.m. Tuesdays Way.» and Sundays.
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  • 1052 13 DEPARTURES Today; BENRINNERS for Straits. Manila. Hong Kong and Japan KRIAN for Ba.gan Datoh and Teluk Anson. PRES. HARRISON for Neu York via Colombo and ports. RAJULA for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Tomorrow: KEDAH for BelawanDeli. JUNA for Victoria Point, Mergui. Tavoy. Rangoon and
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  • 182 13 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Post Office Hours At Penang G.P.O. Registration. Parcels, Telegrams. Sale of stamps etc. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. (except parcels). Savings Bank and Money Order Branches closed. XSub. P.O.’s Registration. Parcels. Telegrams, Sale of stamps etc. Ba.m. tc i
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  • 112 13 The Ipoh Post Oilice «-ill open for business as under Window Delivery and Poste Restante S.OO a.m.—10.00 a.m. Parcel 8.00 a.m. 10.00 a m. ♦Registration 8.00 a.m.- JO.OO a.m. 4.00 p.m.—5.00 p.m. Savings Bank and Monty Orders Closed. -Sale of Stamps 8.00 a.m. 10.00 а. 4.00
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 292 13 ILUE funnel line u hl y SER* ICE TO LONDON NORTH CONTINENT Calls Marseilles Giasgow L Calls Antwerp .'lid<Qesboro Feb 10 Mar’ 12 C ilii Marseilles Glasgow Feb. 17 Mar 15 DAY SERVICE TO LIVERPOOL VIA HAVRE ’-’’rrpoo) s Feb. 5 Mar. 9 b eb. 16 Mar. 14 Feb. 22
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    • 599 13 D an< W BRITISH INDIA (Incorpoiikted In England) PORT SWETTENHAM SINGAPORE S.S. ‘RAJULA” SAILING THURSDAY, 2nd. FEBRUARY, 1939. ,9 rl tal s N Co under 1 For Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh, Port -‘•njerty’s Government Swettenham, Malacca and Singapore. London and Far East Mail Service. S/S “BULAN” Feb. 3 Outwards from
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    • 259 13 LONDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Saia, Naples. Marseilles. Gibraltar. London, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Steamers Sailing HARUNA MARU Feb. 7 KATORI MARU Feb. 17 YASUKUNI MARU Mar. 2 KASIM A MARU Mijr. 17 HAKONE MARU Mar. 31 FOR JAPAN FROM SINGAPORE For Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. HAKONFI
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous

  • 1713 14 Second Day of Perak T.C. Meeting Regiment And The Caliph Tie In Last Event weather favoured the second daj’s races of the Perak Turf Chib's January-February Meeting’ at I poll 'erday afternoon. The going was good, and a moderate crcwd vih in attendance. Cosmetic
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    • 70 14 ggfct&u-’ ggr gf i Jggrtßr ffs iff S S ..£OhB > Sf £SJ z 7 B B jfl zN’ jSSaS^AbSSSiSS jSSt/mst» l FAMOUS THROUGHOUr 7WF WORLD (\AA Jy J® s a^OWTi ''wH VVS' ■> -az X J z i' J jOiwp-1 Z/’ x 4--: da/fe W wZ a zzfe;.;, j
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  • 971 15 Fifth Round Prospects Reviewed ,1 \|)ERLAND HAVE an amazing RECORD (Hom Our Own Correspondent) London, January 25. ii <E.\ KiiAMPTOX Wanderers have been installed V l, im favourites for the F. A. Cup. They were rated a g '1 nee before the fourth, round ties
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  • 346 15 Handicaps For Third Dav J Following are handicaps for Saturday’s Ipoh races: ISKANDAR PLATE HORSES. CLASS 2 1' MILES HI VI-HIVI 9.04 DEEPDENE 9.01 VIOLA II 8.07 KALILI s. 06 ARGOUTAT 8.06 LUCKY LIFE 8.06 LE TOUQUET B.OC MOUNTAIN STREAM 7.13 VICTORY PARADE 7.11 SPEAR OF SARAWAK
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  • 107 15 Now At Top Of His Form (From Our Own Corresoondent) London. .Jan. 29. Playing at Herne Bay yesterday, A. S. Samuel won the Kent ounty badminton championship. Samuel is playing right at the top of his form and is among those who are considered to have
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  • 105 15 The Caledonia Club “A” and "B“ Class golf championships over 36 holes were played on Sunday. Jan. 29. G. Halliday won the “A” class with a score of 150 while R. T. N. Kitchener was winner in *‘B” class with 174. The following players competed in the A.
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  • 138 15 Two teams from the Penang Ladies' Hockey Club were engaged in matches yesterday, both played on the Francis Light School ground. In one match, the Club team met the Francis Light School boi’s and. after a keen tussel. the latter won by two goals, both scored in
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  • 128 15 Penang Team To Play Perak On Saturday THE team to represent Penang against Perak in the women's hockey match on Saturday on Victoi’ia Green in aid of St. Nicholas’ Home has been chosen as follows: Mrs. A. .E. (oonib-» Mrs. Sydney-Smith Miss arrier Mrs. Stoks Mrs. Purcell Mrs.
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  • 47 15 —Reuter London, Wednesday Results of today’s football: ENGLISH LEAGUE—DIV. i Arsenal C. Wolves 0 Derby 4. Grimsby 1 Portsmouth 0. Everton I DIVISION II West Bromwich 1. Burnley 2. DIV JU (SOUTHERN) Reading 0. Cardiff 6. SCOTTISH CUP 2ND ROUND Edinburgh 1. St Mirren 3.
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  • 359 15 Sport Club's Tourneys The following are fixtures in the Penang Sports Club’s tennis tournament: TODAY LADIES' SINGLES HANDICAP: —4O Miss Hamilton vs. —15.5 Mrs. G. E. Baughan. MIXED DOUBLES HANDICAP: —2 Mrs. Scoular and E. D. Rushworth vs. 30.1 Mrs. G. S. Reis and R. D. Wallace.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 79 15 GOLF in aid of St. Nicholas Home WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON February Bth, at 4.30 p.m. m !\ED FOURS Nine Holes Stroke Play (each team must have at least one lady) Each Member of the team to carry lull set of Clubs, but shots to be played in strict rotation. HANDICAP: Combined
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    • 29 15 iresh it ess pur i ty Jk I I Jy f |||M I I TIGER BEER made from the finest malt hops yeast Dhtiibiiti’d by Eraser (j- AtuvC Ltd.
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  • 63 16 MIDDAY QUOTATIONS HA LATEST Penang $108.50 Business 25 tons Singapore $108.50 COPRA gundried Black Pepper $9.00 RUBBER Penang (Spot) 26%c Singapore (Spot) 26 %c TAPIOCA Fair Seed $2.95 Medium $3.35 RHE Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $5.90 No. 2 $5.70 White No. 1 $6.00 White No. 2 $5.75
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  • 105 16 Prev. Today Paris 176 63 64 176 63 64 New York 4.67 U 4.67% Mon treal 4.70% 4.70 Brussels 27.66% 27.69 Geneva 20.71% 20. <2 Amsterdam 8.69*2 8.65% Milan 88'8 89 Berlin 11.66 11.65% Stockholm 19.41 19.4-1 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19 90 19.90 Vienna unquoted unquoted Helsingfors
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  • 186 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN i Buyers Seller* Batu Selangor 1.25 1.30 Hong Fatt .67% .72% Jelebu .57% .62% Klang River 1.70 1.80 Kuchai 1.27% 1.32% Mambau .47% .50 Petalings 6.30 6.50 Rahman Hyd 1.07% 1.12% Raub Gold 4.20 4.30 Rp.ntau 1.27% 1.32% Sungei Luas 1.40 1.45 Taiping Cons. 1.50 1.55
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  • 193 16 KENNEDY CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampat 3 6 40 A. Kumbang 27-10 28 0 Batu Selangor 1.22% 1.27% Hong Fatt .67% .70 Hongkong Tin 16 6 17 6 Kpg. Le.njut 16'0 16 9 Kamunting 8 3 9 3 Kuchai Ordy. 1 .27*2 1.35 Larut 3 6 4 0 Mambau .47%
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  • 221 16 New York. Wednesday. The market was a dull, trading affair after an early attempt to attract a following on the upside had been unsuccessful. Action suggest that prices are likely to prove sensitive to nearby news foreign or domestic. DOW JONES AVERAGES Prev. Latest High Low 30
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  • 84 16 Warning him that he would be liable to a whipping if he came up again before the Court in the immediate future on a similar charge. Mr. Lim Koon Tcck. in the Penang Middle Court yesterday, passed sentence of two months’ rigorous imprisonment on a
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  • 80 16 Stated to have been employed as a bill-collector at a shop in Beach Street, a Chinese. Tan Eng Choo, appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday, charged with riminal breach of trust in respect of a sum of $496,
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  • 66 16 .—British Wireless. London. Tuesday. The President of the Board of Education is paying a visit to Paris where he will be the guest of the French Minister of Education and will examine various axoects of the French educational system. Amongst other things, Lord De
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  • 28 16 —Reuter. Burgos. Wednesday. The Nationalist forces, continuing their advance in northern Catalonia, occupied Tordera and Fogar de Tordera. Bad weather has delayed operations in other sectors.—Reuter.
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  • 28 16 —Reuter.” Cairo. Wednesday. Settlement is understood to havf been reached between the British Government and Nashashibi regarding the Arab Defence Party’s representation at the Palestine conference.—Reuter.”
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  • 146 16 Tonight at the “Esplanade” from 830 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.: March: King Cotton: Sousa. Overture: Cosi Fan Tutti: Mozart. Selection: Dixieland —Selection of Jazz Classics —Stoddon. 1. March. “Mighty America.” 2. Serenade. “The Song Of The Bells” (Tubular Bells). 3. Sketch. “Arrival Of The Coontown Cadet.” INTERVAL Humorous
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  • 1928 16 16 Breeds In 79 Entries: German Shepherd Dog Most Popular The following are the full entries for the Penang and Piovince Wellesley Dog Show to be held at the Penang Free School on Sunday, February 5. There are altogether 79 entries, representing 16 breeds.
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  • 87 16 A coffee-shop waitress, Yin Sau, was robbed at the junction of Penang Road and Prangin Road, while on her way home at about 3 o'clock this morning, by three Chinese. She was riding in a ricksha which was stopped by the three Chinese, and
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  • 112 16 A young Chinese, Chong Pow Siew was produced by Court Inspector Cowie before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday on two charges of extorting money. On the first count he was alleged to have induced one Lim Ah Leong io deliver to
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    • 157 16 Notice of the Meeting of the Board of Licensing Justices. Penang. The First Quarterly Sessions of the Board of Licensing Justices for the Settlement of Penang will be held in the District Court, Penang, at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday, the 15th March, 1939. 2. All applications for Public House Licences,
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    • 456 16 Singapore Office: (> r i| Office brew/ter Ro'Jr' M?„n e: U 40 Flee <e«° n r V R°tes of Subscription f„7p in «nd Sunday Pinang Gazette Monthly s{‘.2s° 2 U f rt rl y 3.75 tea;,, Yearly 6.(0 <| ADVERTk>EMEM Ulb A DYE RT IS Em’en TS are' 25 cents
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