Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 February 1939

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY n„. :;i. Vol. XCVH. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 523 1 —Reuter. NO HOSTILE COMMENT Commons Cheer Announcement Cheers greeted the Prime Minister in the House of Commons last night when he stated in precise terms that Great Britain .voulil sianG behind France if then* were any threat to the vital interests of that country.
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  • 116 1 Reuter j njjlish People’s (hitlook London, Monday. h we live in an island and we j rides ourselves of our isolaI think it is true that the English ver had a more international han today.” said Mr. Chaniber•iiin_ the delegates of. the InI, f Advisory Committee of
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  • 176 1 Reuter. ('ompreliensive Scope London, Monday. .aft of the Government’s Cotton 1’ y Reorganisation Bill was issued It proposes Lhe establishment ~l in Industry Board with fifteen be furdcially assisted by’ r. v. 1 Trade. The Board’s funci ill be, firstly, keeping of t. r.rms and the collection of
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  • 34 1 Reuter. ’>'■ 1 nit ssage states that ap'd the mobilisation decree is "iitinuing at the centre zone. lhe age of 40 and even those port .nt posts are incorporated in the army. Reuter.
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  • 314 1 ie deienua —Reuter. Conspiracy London, Monday, ■rences to a mysterious “plan” in tion with the recent bomb exwere made bv the prosecution at Street today when the twelve men charged with conspiracy on appeared on remand today. ■!<> '*cution described the plan as "mprehensive, covering
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  • 326 1 —Reuter. Rh p nrochemen t Unlikely London, Monday. The Aral) Higher Committee delegates are busily engaged in last minute preparation» of the cas? they will present at the Conference. Briefly the case will be. firstly, recognition of Palestine’s complete independence; secondly, replacement of the mandate by a
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  • 85 1 Hendaye, Monday. Another eighteen hundred Spanish Republican militia deserters who are returning to Franco Spain, crossed the frontier at Irun tonight making a total of three thousand in two days. The men, who came in a special train from Perpignan, were received at Irun by the
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  • 267 1 —Reuter. Gold Revaluation Explained London. Monday. There is no question of any change by monetary policy being involved in the Currency Bill which the gold holding of lhe Lank of Englan 1 is to be revalued at market price, declared Sir John Simon moving the second reading
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  • 256 1 Reuter. To Finance Germany’s Armaments Plans Berlin, Monday. It is learned that when Herr unk took over the Presidency of the Reichsbank he was told that wages, prices and currency must be kept stable and that increased taxation as required by Dr. Schacht must be avoided. Nazi
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  • 54 1 Reuter London, Monday. It is officially announced that the Duke and Duchess of Kent, who had accepted an invitation to pay a few days’ official visit to North Ireland next month, have on the advice of the Government of Northern Ireland agreed to postpone the visit until later
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  • 141 1 Dictators As “Targets For Mirth” i <1 l v /11 van —P.euter. Hollywood, Monday. Charlie Chaplin has broken silence about his new film “The Dictators” in which he will have a talking role for the first time The story and dialogue are Inished, he
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  • 100 1 1. Reuter. Unemployed I’m A Call On Sir .1. Anderson London. Monday. Thirteen unemployed “gate crashed" Grosvenor House an*? ’aid dowr- on me lounge and covered themselves with posters bearing the words "We want work on A. R. P. The ruen shouted for Sir John Anderson
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  • 52 1 Reuter. London, Monday. In the House of Common, Sir Thomas Moore moving an amendment in the committee stage of the Criminal Justice Bill to be considered by the Standing Committee this week prescribing flogging as one of the penalties for those found guilty in participation of
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  • 115 1 Reuter. 'Counter Offensive An Essential I’art London, Monday. Sir Kingsley Woo in a speech in I London, emphasised that Great Britain jK ssessed and was building up a balanced Air Force. Thyr was no founatien for the suggestion that. the Air Ministry .had freversed its previous policy and
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  • 338 2 Approa c It e (I B y I* s Republican Government London, Monday. T»fcITER understands that the Spanish Republican Government has apptoached the British Government regarding the question of mediation. No formal note has been sent tc General Franco but a suggestion to if.
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  • 176 2 ■—Reuter. Oxford Appointment For Dr. Chen Yin-ko London. Monday. Ihe first native-born Chinese to hold a professorship in a British university is Dr. Chea Yin-ko. woo has been appointed Professor of Chinese at Oxford. For some tr.ne past the universities and the China Committee had t en stressing
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  • 31 2 Reuter. London. Monday. The War Office announces that Colonel F. K. Simmons who is at present in Palestine has been appointed Commander in the Shanghai area, effective June 5.
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  • 35 2 wi/v Oie doo pen-hed up high and dry as he vxitches the svxtn floating by unicorried bu the uvusuull f t,.y. K have •caused floods at Shopper ton, where this picture was taken.
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  • 226 2 riritiuh sm —Reuter. M.P.’s Hear Japanese Excuses London. Monday.—The Japanese alleg ed that they were conducting militar. operations which would be impeded by the movement of ships, replied Mr. R. A Butler, the Foreign Under-Secretary ii -the House of Commons today when asked by Commander Marsden under
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  • 112 2 —Reuter. Claims By British Firms In China London, Monday. Three hundred claims amounting to £235.000 for destruction. confiscation damage and looting had been accepted as admissible from British firms in China, presented to the Japanese Government declarer Mr. R. A. Butler, the Foreign Under-Secretary, in the House of
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  • 47 2 united States delegate, presided -British Wireless. London, Monday:—The Prime Minister today opened in London the first session J nternatlona i Advisory Committee of the World Congress for leisure time ana recreation. Delegates from twenty-two countries were present. Dr. Kirby, the United States delegate, presided -RrtHc-i
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  • 281 2 British Wireless. Meeting German ('om petition London, Monday. r|'HE ParLameniarv Secretary for jl. Overseas Trade, Mr. R. S. Hudson, returned, in a speech at Belfast today, to the question of securing greater co-operation among those eng: ge 1 in the exnort trade, particularly in view of probable
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  • 83 2 Guarding "The First (From Our Own Corresp.irdeiit) Singapore, Monday. r jpHE Government will soon announce the introduction in Singapore ol a “manpower registei of men and women available in an emergency. J The scheme covers the rest of Malaya, uut Singapore is the most important a.
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  • 61 2 —Reuter. Lowered By 5j Homs Libreville, (French Equatorial Africa) t,, Monday, The airman Alex Henshaw who attempting to fly from London to the Cage and back under four days, landed here, at 5.50 a.m. G.M.T. narrowly missing a ditch and resumed three-quar-ters of an hour later, Capetown,
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  • 36 2 —Reuter. Bombay, Monday. Ihe Gaekwar of Baroda is dead H &gt; was 75 years old and had been suffering from poor health for more than a year. He was then the wealthiest Indian Prince.
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  • 434 2 Astute Move By Mufti Supporters mtiers or i British Wireless A M nday A three-day ab strike has been proclaimed in Jeruand ether parts of Palestine. -d T ie orL htary commander has proclaim a 4-hour curfew over Arab areas in Jerusalem. s Tne strike was
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  • 291 2 Reuter. British Se&lt;iion I p lo AiJ-W eather Standard London, Monday. In the House of CoTirno.'-S, Csjt. Peter MacDonald asked whether the Governuient oi iiur.na was giving any assistance co the improvement of the existing road co the Cmm.se in -.tier from where it continued to Yunnan and
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  • 169 3 —Reuter. FORTY AIRPLANES DESTROYED Hangars Set On Fire MOST SUCCESSFUL RAID THIS YEAR Chungking Monday. pHINESE aircraft staged a surprise raid yesterday on the &lt; &lt; Japanese air base at Yunchen, in south Shansi, “demolishing more than forty Japanese planes, and also ground structures/' according
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  • 518 3 Main Tragic Shifts Of Population Chungking. A new appeal to the people of Great Bn tin nd other countries for funds for r la: work among China’s war victims was made in an address here by Mr. E. H. S &gt;’t. secretary for the
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  • 212 3 —Reuter. New German Plan Lend- n. Monday. A rew Germ n pirn for the emigritic 1 of Jews ’--ought from Berlin by Mr. Gcoi'ge P.uble Director of the Inter-Governr.nn. -1 fugee Committee, dro.s the export guarantee and internet oral loan provisions of the original Echacht plan, says
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  • 54 3 —Reuter. Rome, Monday. The Supreme Commission of Nation a Defence is meeting today to consider the military- problems arising from ti.e international situation. One problem likely- to be discussed L the disposal of the thousands of Legionaries who have returned from Spain. Nothing will be officially- revealed
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  • 47 3 —Reuter. Canton. Mondav. Prior to the reopening of the Pearl River no vessels of any nationality, apart from Japanese warships, military- transports and foreign gunboats, will be allowed to navigate in the waterway, declares the Japanese Consul-General at Cantor Neuter learned today.— Reuter.
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  • 58 3 —Reuter. Chungking, Monday. Reuter is authoritatively informed that Dr. Wang Ching-wei has arranged with the Chinese Government authorities for a trip to Europe as a “tourist,” and is being granted a tourist passport. This is regarded as an effective quietus to rumours that Dr. Wang Chi
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  • 58 3 -Reuter. Eighty-one Feared Drowned Tokio, Monday. Six out of the crew of eighty-seven of the Submarine I 63 which sank iast Friday have been rescued. The fate of the others is not known. The worst is feared. The Submarine 163 sariK. after comini into collision with another
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  • 53 3 —Reuter. Paris, Sunday:—Five decrees have been issued to implement M. Reynaud’s scheme for speeding up French production There are designed to encourage industrial and commercial establishments and improve plant, the fourth aims at re hieing charges of companies which reorganise production, and the fifth tight ens
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  • 35 3 ,—Reuter. Oran, Monday:—The airman Alex Hen haw, who is attempting to do a recorc flight from England to the Cape and back ’anded here at 10.30 a.m. and left at 11 a.m.—Reuter.
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  • 65 3 “A friend of mine in Penang lent the bicycle to me,” said a Chinese named Loke Weng when he was charged in the Ipoh First Magistrate’s court yesterday before Mr. P. Radcliffe with being in possession of a bicycle suspected to he stolen. Accused claimed trial
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  • 46 3 The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company have issued invitations to motorists to attend a showing of a talking film, entitled “The Inside Story of Correct Lubrication.” at the Majestic Theatre, Penang, tomorrow at noon. The film takes about 45 minutes to run.
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  • 47 3 The speaker at the wecklv luncheon meeting of the Penang Rotary- Club on Wednesday will be Capt. Osterhaus. a Dutch motorist, who is travelling round the world with his wife in a car. The subject will be “Travel—a Means to better Understanding.
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  • 52 3 The honorary secretary advises us that the examination for the Associations First Aid Certificate of the HutchingsSchool Class IV will be held at, the General Hospital, Penang, “Block A on Friday at 6.30. It is hoped all members of Instructional Class will be able to attend
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  • 44 3 All OMMODATION FOR FLYING-BOATS AT iMPERIAI AIRWAYS’ EMPIRE BASE, Berth 1(18, Southampton, has recently iie.-n doubled. Service* are *&lt;»metimi-s dirplh-ated and two rafts now allow two aircraft to be loaded or unloaded at the same time.
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  • 516 3 .411 eged Di fferences (In Peace Proposals Paris, Monday. A X.MAIH dash to France by Senor Negrin, the Republican Premier, accompanied by four other Ministers and several Republican officials, is reported by the Havas correspondent at Leperthus, saying that they crossed the frontier at 3.45 a.m.
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  • 122 3 Reuter. Survey Flight This Week Chungking, Monday. A survey flight for a nev. direct China to Europe air line by In.perial Airways is taking place next Thursday when a Douglas plane of the China Naiional Avia tion Corporation will take off from &lt; x hung king, according
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  • 412 4 A N excess of over thirr\ thousand in arrivals over departures at Malax an p&lt;»rt&gt; and airports and at thv immigration barriers on the MalayaSiam frontier provide.* ground for encouragement. The population of this country is governed, not by the birth t and death rates, but by the
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  • 1322 4 COSMOPOL 1 7 E GOSSIP By A Special Correspondent QHIPS and waterways, greater and lesser, are in ne news. On the greater side are the renewed discussions about the famous under-waterway, the Channel Tunnel which Marcel Boucher, deputy for the Vosges Department, started a.-.ain
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 551 5 Political Sensashun’ I a VIA PS over the week-end d I; -v'- done nothing to alleviate ’Ji-- ..cute political tension in i Indeed, an unconfirmed re,i current yesterday that a V, &lt;t I’ahang peasants, armed in resolutions, had crossed ingor frontier. The Selangor -.id..r at Kuala Lipis
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  • 720 5 MaJaya’s Defence Of Imperial Importance STIRRING appeal for young British Europeans to join the Volunteer forces in Malaya \va&gt; made by Major General Dobbie, G.0.C.. Malaya, broadcasting' from Singapore last night. General Dobbie stated that rhe European Volunteer strength at Singapore had
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  • 563 5 District Judge’s Remarks Holding that the complainant had failed tn make a report to the police when he was given the opportunity to do so. and that the prosecution had failed to properly prove the case against the accused. Mr. J. L. McFall, at the end
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  • 254 5 AI leged &lt; instruction Of Revenue Men Alleged to have obstructed some Excise Department Revenue Officers by’ preventing the arrest of one of their number, four Chinese, Tan Ah Liap, Tan Chew Kee. Tan Lim Hock and Chew Cheng Kee were produced by Mr. Talbot, Assistant Superintendent
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  • 221 5 Chinese On Trial For Possession The first session of the Penang Assize Court for 1920 will ojren before Mr. Justice Howes on Monday next. The business part or the session will be preceded by’ a ceremonial opening;, when the Judge, Crown Counsel, Registrar, Court Officials and
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  • 113 5 A Chinese, Leow Yin, appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck, Penang Third Magistrate, in the Middle Court yesterday, on two charges, firstly’ of committing theft, of a piece of iron and four sarongs belonging to Noel Joseph at Hutton-lane on January 29, and secondly with
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  • 97 5 As a sequel to a raid carried out by the Excise Department, under Mr. E. S. Talbot, on the night of February 4. at a house in Carnarvon-street, a Chinese woman appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck, the Pt-nang Third Magistral yesterday, on two
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  • 278 5 Two Last Sunday A tongkang owner was robbed of $213 in the early hours of yesterday. The money was kept in his tongkang, anchored at Sungei Pinang, but wh?n he woke up yesterday morning he found the money missing. A report was made to the Police, who
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  • 117 5 Possession Of Drug Also Charged Staled to be a returned banishee, a Chi.. meu Chan Ah Chee and a Siamese, Harun, were produced before Mr. J. L. McFall in the Penang District Court yesterday, charged with possession of 13 pounds of ganja at the Prai railway
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  • 16 5 The Penang Volunteer training season for iggg ttnll start on Monday, February ig
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  • 226 5 A MacMahon Law Studentship, which is considered one of the most eovetc scholarships at Cambridge University, has, it is learned here, been awarded to Mr. Wee Chong Jin. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wee Gim Puaj of Penang, and an ex-pupil of the Penang
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  • 398 5 Passengers For Malaya Expected in Penang on Thursday morning, the P. O. Rawalp.ndi, carrying mails front England, will bring the following passengers to PenangLt. Cmdr. C. C. Alexander. Mr A. G. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs-. D Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. H. Fraser, Mrs. C.F.S. Jameson,
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    • 191 6 Jan Hay’s Comedy Furore Success Now comes, to Screen. OPE?I -G TO NIGH! a 9.30 r- n r nnaw TV A PT 781 T C SCHOOI OH BOY •LOVELr &gt;' I-e r LOOSE .s A tI 1 DO THEY DIS JRGANISE iHINGb OTTO KRIGER DIANA CHI RCHILL PHILLIPS HOLMES “The
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  • 1250 7 (By (htr Film orrespondent) OTARS is like skittles. ‘“'As the cockney would tell you: You put? ’em up and ycu knocks ’em da’ a. Look what last year did: At* Metro, world’s No. 1 film studio, young Mickey Rooney weni to the top, passing
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  • 476 7 used only for emergency co.!’' tlsh United Press. Vatican City, Jan. 24. DR. AMINTA MILANI, personal friend and physician to Pope Pius Xlth, has brought his pontifical patient through two dangerous illnesses “free of charge.” Dr. Milani refuses extra pay for
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  • 241 7 •THOUGH Singapore Chinese, pr’ding themselves on their r..c. .n--fty, will not celebrate to any exc nt Chap Goh Meh, the fifteenth of the Chinese lunar New Y ar, Chinese upccuntry will be look! g forward again this year to a verybright celebration, literally and
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    • 65 7 FUN FROLIC PARK Gaik &lt;&gt;" boon Teochew CPpera:— “Si NG CHOO CHOR ONG HONG” Kim I’oh Choon Kow Kak: 'HENG LAY KOON” Part 2. I min Sen \&lt; an Cantonese Opera:— CHOW KAM SAY KEE” ng’ Miss Park Yon Liang Mr. Mun Slew Chow. DEDUCED PRICES. Libert la Ikies: TWO
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  • 480 8 Lord Strabolgi On Former Visits INSPECTING NAVAL AND AIR BASES (From Our Own Correspnodent) Singapore, Monday. riEARER of a 600-year-old title, Lord Strabolgi (the 1 is silent 3 and the g hard), is in Singapore. He is the guest of Mr. ind Mrs. Bruce Petrie on
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  • 168 8 Perak Indians Prepare For Celebration Perak Indians are making arrangements to celebrate the Coronation of His Highness the Sultan of Perak. In this connection a meeting of representatives of Indians in South Perak was held at the Kinta Indian Association, Ipoh, on Saturday night with Mr. J. A.
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  • 54 8 In view of the police precautions taken during Taipusam only one instance of a drunk and disorderly case was brought before the Ipoh magistrate, a Tamil being fined $1 for this offence. The Court Inspector informed the Court that accused was warned by a constable but
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  • 442 8 “Australis must have r nay &gt;ase declared l ord Stir io g ormerly Lieut.-Commander Ken •orthy in ‘he House of Commons). Cme Vhip of the Er hour Opposition in thf -ouse of Lords, when he arrived at Singapore from Australia by air yester- ’“The Commonwealth
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  • 199 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Sitiawan, Sunday. Many distinguished guests and leading members of the Sitiawan Chinese community were present at the dinner party given to Mr. Alexander Thomas Edgar, and Mrs. Edgar last night at the Si Huang Restaurant, Simpang Ampat. Sitiawan, in honour
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  • 100 8 During the week ending January 28. 1939, exports of tinned pineapples from Malayan ports mounted to 49,557 cases, of which: 41,099 (83 per cent.) cases were to the United Kingdom, 675 (1 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 4,850 (10 per cent.) cases to
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  • 202 8 Driver Charged With Negligence (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. With both his thighs crushed and one irm fractured a. Chinese cyclist, See Ah Chong, lies in a critical condition it the General Hospital after being down last irght by a lorry. Today C. A.
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  • 237 8 Rotan For Bad Boy (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Kangsar, Sunday. A 14-yet”--old Malayalee lad was ordered by Che Ahmad tin Mahmud the Kuala Kangsar magistrate, to receive eight strokes with a light rotan, when he was convicted on a charge of theft of cash
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  • 43 8 Reuter. Prague, Monday. “Czechoslovakia must join the AntlComittern Pact,’’ declared the Propaganda Chief of the Slovak Party at a meeting of the Hlinka Guards last night. He also hinted that Slovakia may want to become completely independent of Prague.—
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  • 61 8 —Reuter. Belgrade, Monday:—Dr. Zvetkovitch has formed a new Government including Dr. Markovitch, Yugoslav Minister in Berlin, as Foreign Minister, and also all the five Ministers whose resignation caused the crisis on February 4. The Government is expected to be of a transitional character. Its chief
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  • 27 8 THIS PHOTO GRAPH THIS PHOTOGRAPH, taken few hems hefoi? the t .11 shows N •finnar.st soldiers fir; ig a gur aring h&lt; from one of the subuihs.
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  • 473 8 Ipoh Delegates Noini naled TWO past presidents of the Ipoh Rotary Club, liotariaib J,[ Woods .and S. Raiaratnam. Ipoh delegates to the annual Conference of the 80th District, Rotary International, whichis co be held this year at Bangkok from February 18 until February 22, will be'leaving
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  • 110 8 —Reuter. Mashuri bin Haji Hashim, who was fined $lOO by the Teluk Anson magistrate for carrying passengers for hire without a licence, appealed against his sentence yesterday morning before Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley. Mr. Terrell argued the appeal and submitted that the prosecution had not proved that
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  • 230 8 Four Appointments Gazetted T'HE four new appointments u the Straits Settlements Civil Service from Junior Civil Service, announced by .he Governor, Sir Shenton r omms, toward the end of last y. L. v. been gazetted. They tool- iwct from Jan. 1 and raise to
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  • 181 8 Ipoh Festivities The festivities in connect."* Taipusam were brougm Ira on Saturday night at Ij A'- v l tham” bearing the of the Hindu deity, Shree a t was taken back from the Anderson-road to lan urn temple at Sungei Pari-road 11 P ThTXession started
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  • 60 8 On Sunday night a a in Gclf Club-road, j ing wound and was rem The Ipoh police have r (isiinl y, These men, Palany, pro&lt;lu ced A vifnan and Sundram vve F tra te terday before the Ipoh n^ using N* charged with volun
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    • 519 8 NERVOUS EXHAUSTION made hei an INVALID FOR YEARS Too often the sul.it rers from exhaustion get little or no sympathy. Weighed down by a burden of fatigue, they drag their way through the heat and fever 01 the day, half-dead with lassitude. Yet there is a way out a diet
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  • 237 9 Nine Cases'Listed For ĔK' i Hearing rpUE first session of the Perak Assize Court for the current year commences at the Supreme Court, Ipoh, tomorrow. It is not known who will preside—whether Mr. Justice Murray-An\ nsley or Mr. Justice K. a’Beckett Terrell, who is expected here.
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  • 164 9 Unsuccessful Appeal Dal Singh, an elderly Punjabi unsuccessfully appealed in the Perak Supreme Court on Monday before Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley against the conviction and sentence of three months’ rigorous imprisonment inflicted on him by the First Magistrate. Ipoh. for theft of a sack of rice
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  • 147 9 “They were shouting at each other and chas ng one another round the road while a crowd of 5G looked on, said a Sikh sergeant-major in evidence in a case in which two Sikhs. Banta SLngh and Gang?. Singh, were charged in the Ipoh First
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  • 145 9 Robbed In Sind KARACHI, January 20. A lonely unmarried Yugoslav woman, aged about 25, who embarked on a world tour on foot about three months ago, is now at Karachi. j She traversed several countries and arrived in Kara c hi on January 12 from Basra
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  • 38 9 COUNT CIANO. THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER. was Here he is .-c.-vniiiy the traMtmwl bread and a lt f rom llie iVal/cr ol Beli Man '.s'(A vhen he arrired with I'rc.rier Stoifidutovit h
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  • 125 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Tuesday. While r&lt; turning home one evening, a Malay in Changkat Jering named Ismail tin Yasin was surprised to see another man in his house, in a compromising position with his wife. Enraged by the sight. Ismail was alleged to
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  • 138 9 Appeal Dismissed A Maiay named Abdul Rani bin Taib. who had been sentenced to cne year’s vigorous imprisonment bv Mr. P. F Y. Radcliffe on a charge of tljjfft of g pair of shoes from the house of a Malay Police Inspector, at Ipoh, had his
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  • 93 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. Tuesday. For using his car on the public thoroughfare without a road license, an European Mr. r'. Enderlein, was fined $lO by Tengku Syed Abdullah yesterday. The defendant admitted that when he was stopped by traffic constables on January 23 last, his
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  • 95 9 A SOUND picture of the working of the human heart las been produced by a Russian film studio, says the Observer. The picture is in two reels, the first of which reproduces the movement and tone of a healthy heart, and shows the development
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  • 84 9 ‘A* SCHEME to loan newly-married couples a £5O subsidy to encourage them to have more babies is to be put before the British Government, says the Sunday Dispatch. Those couples having two children need only pay back £25, and those having three children £2 10s.
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  • 185 9 Much Speculation In Ipoh Theie is considerable speculation amor-, Peiak Malay royalty over the impending •ppt intment of the Raja di-Hilir consequent upon the promotion of the ’a e ruler’s son as Raja Bendahara of Perak. It is generally believed that the Raja Musa, the 18-year-oia
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  • 96 9 The death of Che Petri Zawiych wife &lt;; Enche Ahmed Jalalidin took place on Saturday at the Malay Settlement, Ipoh after a very short illness. The deceased is a daughter of the latr Megat Abdul Hamid of Kuala Kangsa; and is a cousin of Dr.
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  • 378 9 Full Programme For Year (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Tuesday. At a special devotional service held at the Wesley Church Sunday, the newly-elected officers of the Taiping Epworth League presented to their chapters the various programmes of activities for the current year. Mr D G. Jayasekara, the
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  • 260 9 Police* Disperse Disturbers SALEM, January 19. 'nfusion prevailed at a meeting held last evening under the auspices of the Salem Bran, h of the Southern India Lil ral Federation on the Hostel maidanto condole the death in jail of Mr. L. Natarajan, an anti-Hindustani prisoner. Tile police had
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 447 9 J/ODERNISM yi .WITH A TRADITION o/ |||l The Style u Moutrie piano has enjoyed enormous popularity over a |M‘riod of many yeairs, Now. tliis instrument i s available in the conservative modernistic ease illns(rated, at no extra cost. This perfected miniature upright hits been hailed by WTI.. leading members of
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  • 1317 10 Erratic Prices Malayan Over-Exports London, January 23. I ÜBBER prices have followed a somewhat erratic coui se II this week. No life was infused into the market by the heavy U.K. stock reduction reported at the beginning ot the week. I Equally little result was produced by
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  • 369 10 Weekly Rubber Report Fj'HE Stars in their courses are not J. launching any startling movement on the world and for want of anything better to do. the Dictators and Statesmen are playing in speech on the minds of their people. From these declarations ii is becoming
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  • 1343 10 Arrangements Being Made To P| ant Up Reserve Land MR. T.B. Barlow (Chairman) presided' at the twenty-eighth annual general meeting of Majedie (Johore) Rubber Estates, Ltd., which was held in London on January 5. The Representative of the Secretaries (Messrs. Thomas Barlow Bro.) having read
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  • 233 10  -  (By Robert Mackay) rpHE good results reported by British I life assurance companies for year 1938 are a reminder of the tance of insurance business in thf nances of the country. At least t r British life assurance concerns may ranked among the great
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 905 10 BANKS THE CHARTERED BANK Qi INDIA, AURTBAJJA ANTI &lt;UIINA I in England by I’|lV (Kci’MNIS Charter 1853) &gt; i paid-up capital J-J 0000 Bank, Ltd., Reserve Fund £3,ow,w F&lt; lerve Liability of Proprietors £3,000/o t D Head Office i «Incorporated in British India) No. 38 Hi iuopsgat London, EC. Manchester
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  • 393 11 lh r t v of &lt;st tv for War. Mr. Leslie Hre B«li-lia, inspecting Bn- i light ;ml&lt; &gt; die guns at the Royal Small \rtns 1 tory at Enfield. The hu ton r&lt; &gt; i. ly be-n equipped with in .li m pl nt
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  • 158 12 Leaders Arrested And Bans Enforced Bombay, Jan. 26. THE decision of the Rajkot Praja Parishad to re-start satyagraha movement in the State is announced by Sardar Vallabhai Patel in *h? course of a statement. The reason given for this decision is the alleged failure of the Rajkot
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  • 97 12 Seven Persons Killed In Train Collision Bombay, Jan. 26. SEVEN were killed and three injured when two locomotives came into collision between Mohammedganj and Garhwa Road on Barkakhana loop line, East Indian Railway, yesterday afternoon. According to the Divisional Superintendent. Dinapore, the accident occurred
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  • 101 12 Police Open Fire On ’.Varsity Students Aligarh, Jan. 26. TTHIRTY-EIGHT constables were in- jured, a couple cf them being stabbed, in a riot this evening when University students made an unexpected attack on the exhibition grounds and attempted to set fire to it- and
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  • 170 12 Agitation Against New Education Scheme Nagpur, Jan. 27. KHAN Bahadur Nassab Siddlq Ali Khan, a member of the Legislative Assembly and the Working Committee of the Central Provinces Muslim League, with nine other members of the League marched to the Secretariat followed by a crowd of
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  • 47 12 Calcutta, Jan. 26 ipANDIT H. N. Kunzru, member of the Council of State, arrived this afternoon from Rangoon after spending six months in Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and Malaya where he studied the problems of Indian labour. He left for Allahabad tonight,
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  • 33 12 Karachi, Jan, 2«. i ,N the Sind Legislative Assembly aCongress resolution which had the backing of the Muslim League on Government’s assessment proposals was 4efeat£d to 20.
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  • 294 12 Ajanta Nothing is easier, when thinking of the achievements cf men, then to imagine that they all belong to modern times. This is not so. In days long past men achieved remarkable successes, and the celebrated caves, hermitages, and halls of A junta (or, more correctly Ajuntha&gt; of
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  • 841 12 Difference Of Opinion Between Governor And Ministers Calcutta, Jan 2’ WILL the reported disagreement between the Gove &lt; t Orissa and his Ministers lead to serious coust'j’ Hushed silence prevails everywhere and the politic?! ’s daily becoming tense. Hopes were entertained after Mr. Harekridir/.
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  • 48 12 TWO NEW MINISTERS FOR SIND Karachi, Jan. 2S. IT is understood that an increase in the number of ministers is under □ntcmplation. It is likely that Mr. Mirbundali and lr. Mialmal Dculatram will be the wo new Ministers to be appointed irobablv In the first week of February
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 1923 12 radio radio radio radio radio radio radio 8.8. G. Service zßimercsmMisk Schedule radio radio raaib radio radio radio radldj J&lt; Of Far East PENANG SINGAPORE London, Feb. 3: Following is the probable BBC Service Schedule for the Far ZHJ 6.08 Mc's (49.03 m.) ZHL 133, Ke's (225 m.) East in
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    • 24 12 TIDE TABU LOW HIGH TODA* n rn 9 19 P 1,1 2.52 p.m. TOMOKKOW 9.25 a nl 2.50 a.m* 9 48 p 3.26 pm
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  • 978 13 arrivals Today: TAY BANK ex China via Singapore. KRIAN ex Bagan Datoh ind Teluk Anson. HARUNA MARU ex Japan via Singapore. M.V. CHISONE ex Italy. Tomorrcw: KLANG ex Singapore via ports. SAUERLAND ex Singapore. Mata Hari ex Singapore via ports. S Thursday, February 9:
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  • 581 13 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh And Penang SEA MAILS OUTWARD British North Borneo Mails close Ipoh 12.45 p.m. Friday; Kuala Lumpur 7 p.m. Friday. Northern Sumatra ’Mails close Penang 4 p.m. today by s.s. Krian: ana 11 a.m. tomorrow by s.s. i Batak. Singapore Mails close
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 574 13 BLUE FUN NEL LINE I WEEKLY SERVICE TO LONDON it NORTH CONTINENT I Leaves Penang Due London I Ki l l’s (GLEN.) Calls Antwerp Middlesboro Feb. 10 Mar. 12 aRPEDON Calk) Marseilles Glasgow Feb. 17 Mar 15 I mi N’KI.AUS Calls Hull Gdynia Feb. 23 Mar. 22 I TEN DAY
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    • 585 13 P& o BRITISH INDIA (IncxjrpoiSited In England) SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN S.S. “RAWALPINDI” SAILING THURSDAY, 9th FEBRUARY, 1939. Peninsular Md Oriental S. N. Co., unde 1 For Teluk Anson. Bagan Datoh Port &gt;on/ aCt "VU 11 Ua J e t y’ s Covernmeii Swettenham. Malacca and Singapore" Far East Mail Service
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    • 251 13 LONDON SERVICE For Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Sala Nanles?. Marseilles Gibraltar. London* Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. Steamers Sailing dates HARUNA MARU Feb 7 KATORI MARU Feb 17 YASUKUNI MARU Mar 2 KASLMA MARU Mar 17 HAKONE MARU Man 31 FOR JAPAN FROM SINGAPORE For Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. HUSIMI
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  • 426 14 HelsinskilWill Outdo Berlin Finnish Parliament Votes £1,500,000 THE Berlin Olympics, apart front the sensational perfoi mances of the American sprinters, will go down into athletic history as one of the most pretentious of its kind. Th? staging of 129 events was undoubtedly a triumph
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  • 171 14 Merrvlads Beat A oung Ansonians Tn a return ti lenuly match the Merrylads 8.P., beat the Young Ansonians by seven games to one. The match comprised of four singles and four doubles and was played on the Merrylads courts over the week-end. Results (Merrylads raenti ne;i fir
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  • 105 14 Office-bearers For This Year AT the annual general meeting of the Penang Chinese Chin Woo Athletic Association held at 1 p.m. at the Association premises on Sunday, the following were elected oft ice-bearers for the ensuing year: President; Mr. Low Geok Swee (reelected Vice-president; Mr. Phuah
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 14 Eric Boon. British light i&eijjht ch'.impion-, tvUl defend h s title against lArthur Danahar at Harringay ox Eeb. 23. Th.s pr&lt;,mises to he on&lt; of the most fights in years. Already more than 10,000 worth of tickets have been sold. Afore picture shows Boon knocking out Dave Crowley
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  • 218 14 Melbourne Cricket Club Secretary Sydney. Mr. Vernon R nsford, a former Test cricketer, was: appointed ry the committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club yesterd w to be secretary of the club at a salary of £l.OOO a year. He succeeds Mr. Hu/b Trumble, another famous crici-cter. whe
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  • 108 14 A tennis team from Teluk Anson was defeated by the Ipoh Medical Club by five matches to nil at the P.C.R.C. courts during the week-end. Following are the results (Ipoh players mentioned first): Liew V. eng Kee beat Dr. Chang Hoi Chan. 6 4, 6 4.
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  • 781 14 I rom (hit htoh (.orrespotuh nt The January-February p, Meeting of the Perak Tin;' &lt; remembered for the ma: during the three day-' atHi ire still discussing t| dends paid. Two fjhree-i'; at one meeting are si&gt;ld&lt;&gt;i s coming from Ipoh: iu f •&gt; 113
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  • 341 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sunday. fTEHROUGH mud and slush and up hill I and down dale for five miles ran 20 athletes this evening as they contested Selangor’s first cross-country race be tween the Selangor Harriers ai d the Police Depot. The run
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  • 121 14 3Umile Race To Be Held For the first time in Perak a longdistance swimming event over 3‘ 4 miles will be held at the Kinta Swimming Club pome time in May this year. The swimmers will compete for a challenge cup presented by Mr. Lam Weng Yoon.
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  • 229 14 (From Our Own Correspondent). Taiping, Sunday. IN an interesting inter-club fixture played at the Town Hall today, the Medicos B.P. beat the Novices B.P. by six matches to two. Two doubles were left unfinished. Results (Medicos’ players mentioned first): SINGLES: Ahmad Nasir bt. J. Foo. —lO. 15
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 269 14 a O ax b% iy i Bh -aSsF- i ■rp l f I I TEETH like the STARS of HOLLYWOOD Hoilvvmod rars know that modern scientific dentifrice pop f dep&lt; mis largely on recommended by thousands of an &lt;t;! active smile which only dentists becauseof its unusual, bril a Hi"
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  • 863 15 ),&gt;urs /o Live Down Sense oi Responsibility qvj &lt;uul paid U 1,000 icr Bryn Jones. Since October he I &lt; goal lor them. Once he was even relegated loll' r enes, although on that occasion it might have consolt,,j lt r that because he was
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  • 207 15 •“Blending** German And Austrian Styles. When Austria was consumed by Germany there were conjectures in both countries as to how their Association football styles would blend when international teams would be chosen from both camps. In the smaller country there were many egrets i because the
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  • 135 15 TOEING president of Yorkshire cricket, I&gt; Sir Stanley Jackson is better able, possibly, than most men to express an opinion of a Yorkshire cricketer and get away with it. He has just said something which many of us thought, but preferred not to say in order to avoid
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  • 178 15 R. and A. Move Against Breach Of Rule London, January 26. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club have made another move to stop the practice of amateur golfers receiving gifts of golf balls from manufacturers. Manufacturers have been informed that it is illegal for them
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  • 276 15 But No Big International Events In Europe London.—Badminton is about the mos‘ universally played court game of any. b is certainly older than either squash rackets or table tennis. But whereas table tennis has its com.' petitions on Davis Cup lines, such as the Swaythling and Corbillion Cups,
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  • 200 15 The sudden death from a heart attack Boy McCormick, ginger-haired British cruiser-weight, sends the memory racing back to those exciting days when Carpentier, Bombardier Wells, Joe Beckett, Frank Goddard, and a host of good ones, stalked the stage. The “Boy”—a title which stuck to him as a
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  • 315 15 London, Jan. 30. The nte-idy losse? to professionalism lave hit lawn tennis hard enough, good ness knows, without cor.itries putting a ban on Wimbledon but that is what ‘iistralia has done for the second year in succession. It is announced from Melbourne that lustralia’a players will
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  • 22 15 —Reuter. Durban, Sunday. There was no play today in the AngloSouth African Tennis Test. Play is being resumed tomorrow. —Reuter.
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  • 683 15 Penang Cricket Notes By Our Cricket Correspondent Members of the Penang Sports Club played two cricket matches by way o( practice on Saturday and Sunday on the Esplanade which, by the way, will be used for the last
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  • 94 15 London, Sunday:—The English rugby team to meet Ireland at Twickenham on February 11 will be the same as that which played Wales on January 21: H. D. Freakes (Oxford U R. H. Guest (Liverpool Univ.), J. Heaton (Waterloo), G. E. Hancock (Birkenhead Park), R. S. L. Carr (Old
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 105 15 Taking the fea? necessary steps The main seeps in rhe preparatioa of Johnnie Walker are three First, the distilling the finest yX Scotch whiskies distilled are chosen for Johnnie Walker Second, the maturing years in oak casks make these whiskies mellow smooth Last, the blending experienced combining all the fine
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  • 64 16 MIDDAY QUOTATIONS TJX LATEST OI’RA Penang $107.37% Business Singapore r $107.37% Sundried w*®* Black Pepper $8.75 RIRBER Penang (Spot) 26%c S ngapore (Spot) 26-%c T\PIOCA Fa’r Seed 53.00 Medium $3.37% RICE Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $5.80 No. 2 $5.70 White No. 1 $6.00 White No. 2 $5.75
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  • 108 16 Prev. Today pari s 176 61 64 *****4 New York 4.67};-: 4.68% Montreal 4.70% 4.70's Brussels 27.71% 27.73% Geneva 20.72 20.72% Amsterdam 8 68 8 68’ Milan 88IS 89 Berlin 11.66 11.67% Stockholm 19.41 19.41 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40 Oslo 19 90 19.90 Vienna unquoted unquoted Helsingfors 226 226%
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  • 163 16 A.A. ANTHONY CO. TIN j Buyers Seller* Batu Selangor 1.22%- 1.27% Hong Fatt .67% .72 Jelebu .57% .62% Klang River 1.70 1.75 Kuchai 1.20 1.25 Petalings 6.50 6.75 Rahman Hyd 1.05 1.10 Raub Gold 4.20 4.30 Rantau 1.30 1.35 Sungei Luas 1.37% 1.42% Sungei Way 1.75 1.80 Taiping Cons 1.47%
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  • 249 16 New York. Monday. Favourable utility news was responsible for these leading an early rise. Activity declined later with prices near the top until the final hours’ traders’ selling erased the major part of the gains in industrials and utility commons. However final hour volume was only about
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  • 162 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 3'7% 4 0 B. Selangors 1.25 1.30 Hong Fatts .70 .73 Jelebus .57 .60 Johans .26 .28 Kamuntings 8 3 8 9 Kramats 9 3 9 9 Kundangs 67% 610 A K. Lanjuts 16 0 16,6 Laruts 3 7% 4 0 Lukuts -52% .57%
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  • 171 16 KENNEDY CO. TINS: Buyers Seller* j Ampat 36 4 q Ayer We ng .55 60 Batu Selangor 1.22% 1.30 Berjuntai 10 0 10 9 Hitam 25 .30 Hong Fatt .68 .71 Jelapang 28 0 30 0 Kampong Lanjut 16.0 16 9 Kramat 90 9 6 Kuchai Ordy 1.22% 1.27% Lukut
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  • 188 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Ayer Panas 1.17% 1.22% Batu Lintangs 1.00 1.07% Bassetts .45 .47% Bentas 1.00 1.07% Brogas 62 67 Kuala Sidim.4 2.00 2.20 Indragiris 1.07% 1.15 Lunas 1.45 1.55 Mentakabs -37% .40 Malaka Pindas 1.22% 1 27% Pajams 1.65 1.75 Sungei Tukangs .90 .95 Tapahs 1.62% 1.72%
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  • 388 16 MR. THAMPOO, head overseer, Ipoh. has gone on transfer to Tanjong Malim in a similar capacity. One of the vicepresidents of the Ceylon Association of Perak, Mr. Thampoo will be greatly missed by his numerous friends in Ipoh. The following have been appointed to the Sikh Advisory
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  • 543 16 Passport Officer As Complainant An incident which occurred at the Immigration Office, Penang, on December 28. 1938, had its sequel in the Penang Police Court yesterday when an Indian, D D. Kaura, was charged before Mr. A. W. Bellamy with having entered the office of
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  • 194 16 Donations From Penang Rice Merchants The Penang Rice Merchants Association has remitted through the OverseaChinese Banking Corpn., Ltd., Penang, to the Executive Yuan of the Chinese National Government the sum of Chinese $19,614-67 being Straits $6,080-55 at exchange of 31, representing donations from the followings firms:— Messrs. Ghee
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  • 76 16 O.F.A. Team To Meet Govt. Commercial Day Scholars The following will represent the Old Frees’ Association in a game of hockey against the Government Commercial Day School, at the Hutchings School Ground, tomorrow, at 5.15 p.m.: A. Rahman, Lim Cheng Hoe, Cheah Kok Huat, Tye Thoon Tuck, Khoo Phin
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  • 29 16 i.— Reuter. No Plav Owing 1 To Rain Bulawayo, Feb. 6. There was no cricket today in the match between the M.C.C. and Rhodesia owing to rain.—Reuter.
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  • 53 16 Reuter. Brisbane, Feb. 6. Don Tallon equalled the world wicketkeeping necord when he was responsible for the dismissal of seven men in one innings in the Queensland match against Victoria. The record is held jointly by E. J. Smith of Warwickshire, Farrimond of Lancashire and
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  • 64 16 —Reuter. London, Feb. 6. The draw for the second round of the Rugby League Cup to be played on February 18, is as follows: Leeds v. Widnes Bradford or Seaton v. Oldham Liverpool or St. Helen’s Recreation v. Wigan Keighley v. Featherstone Broughton
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  • 27 16 —Reuter. J Abandoned As Draw Durban, Feb. 6. The Anglo-South African tennis test w&lt;is abandoned today as a draw owing to rq in.—Reuter.
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  • 47 16 This evening at t“6.00 p.m. to 7.30 J' 111 f &lt; 1. March— St. Huw Thf 3 2 Selection The 11 son 3 Waltz B p.,jr M ;Ul1 P! 4 Overture— I n&lt; 5. intermezzo v 6. Selection T!l 1 7. Fox Trot Kip 1 C
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    • 44 16 THE STANDARD-VACUUM OIL COMPANY Presents “THE INSIDE STORY OF CORRECT LUBRICATION” at the MAJESTIC THEATRE, PENANG in Wednesday? February Bth, 1939 at 12.00 noon (The film takes about 45 minutes to run.) INVITATIONS MAY be OBTAINED AT THE COMPANY’S OFFICE CHARTERED BANK BLDG PENANG
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    • 416 16 Head Office: 12, pj s 0 Sinjzaoore Office- Cecil 5471. Tel: “Times” c !reet S- nj!a Office: 25, lav, Office Brewsier R "2Office: 40 43 i £hone Central London. lei: Rates of Subscription f, i&gt; and Sunday (iaz, Pinang Gazi-tt Monthly Quarterly j-Half-Yearly 7 q Yearly 15 ,&lt;) T Sundae
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