Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 March 1939

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY r h( Vol. xcvh. MONDAY. MARCH 20, 1939 PRICE 5 CENTS.
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  • 1322 1 >it al Decision By Emergency Cabinet Meeting Yesterday Busy Sunday In London toIOCRACIES NOT TO BE TAKEN UNAWARES II b II XRXEI) I HAT THE CABINET YESTERDAY Lr! I i) I li \T THERE SHOULD BE IMMEDIATE CONL 111 1 I I GREAT BRITAIN
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  • 335 1 Plenary Powers Voted Paris, Sunday. i It is officially announced that Lbe Cabinet meet this afternoon following Senate approval by 256 votes to 17, M. Daladier’s, full powers Bill. The Senate Finance Committee passed the Bill in the morning with only two dissentient votes. M. Daladier stated
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  • 210 1 Not To Recognise Ajigression Moscow, Sunday. in the course of a note to Germany refusing to recognise the validity of German action in Czechoslovakia. M. Litvinoff declares that the Czechoslovak Republic had been one of the few European states where internal peace had really been secured. The
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  • 31 1 The British Ambassador has returned to London. The French Ambassador to Berlin was recalled to Paris last night. The German Ambassador to London left London for Berlin yesterday afternoon.
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  • 28 1 .—Reuter. Los Angeles, Sunday. Dr. Benes will shortly announce formation of a provisional government in the United States, according to M. Janovsky, Czechoslovak consul here.—Reuter.
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  • 265 1 C/lurch Bells And Fifty Military Bands —Reuter Berlin, Sunday. Hitler arrived by train at 6.30 amid tremendous shouting and the blare of trumpets. He was welcomed on the platform by all Reich ministers, headed by Goering, state secretaries, regional party leaders and delegations from the army
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  • 16 1 Count Grandi left for Rome yesterday in order to attend the Fascist anniversary celebrations.
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  • 67 1 ,—Reuter. Indemnification For British Banks London, Saturday. Reports are current in the City that a second formal notice from the authorities has been received by London bankers taking yesterday’s instructions a step further by definitely requesting bankers not to make any sort of move with regard to Czech
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  • 54 1 —Reuter. English Missionary In London Chungking, Sunday. it is confirmed that Mr. A. G. Leigh, a Briton belonging to the English Methodist Missionary Society whose headquarters are at 24, Bishopsgate, London was killed in the Japanese bombing of Pingkiang, North-east Hunan on March 15. His wife and four-year-old
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  • 34 1 .—Reuter. Johannesburg, Sunday. “Complete preparedness in every sphere” is the aim of the extensive precautions. Leading men m South Africa, especially civilians, have been alloted key positions to ensure maximum efficiency.—Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 137 1 I.OON CHEONG Co., Building Contractors, Furn'ture Makers, Painters, Polishers, Signboard Writers, And Teak Wood Merchants. Stockists:-Mirrors A Plato Glass, all sizes. 19A. Leith Street, i PENANG. Perak Branch:LOON CHEONG Co., No. 6 Station Road. Ipoh. 1 /’m giving a dinner uf J IaMAISBBM party tomorrow night x and I just
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  • 854 2 Suggestion By King Carol Reported Discussed By British Cabinet PRESS REVIEW OF CRISIS London. Sunday. rjESPITE official dentals from Bucharest that (1) Germany has presented an economic ultimatum to Rumania and (2) that the RumanM army is being mobilise I. the Foreign Editor <?I the Eveixingf
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  • 235 2 Possibility Of Local Trouble Following Nazi Proles Johannesburg, Sunday jPXTENSIVE precautions are being taken thr< iiuhtni! ih e Union to guard communications and vital public sei-”* vices. Whether the activities are connected with the Fun'' pean situation or the position of German immigration n South-west Africa
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  • 59 2 —Reuter. Washington, Sunday. The United Stages Army has launched an intensive recruiting campaign throughout the nation for young men to be trained as pilots for three thousand odd additional warplanes authorised by Congress, i Office”s are being assigned to visit universities and colleges to recruit students who are
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  • 71 2 ’—Reuter. Chicago, Sunday. Paderewski, the famous pianist and the first president of Poland, in a letter to Dr. Benes denounces Herr Hitler, whom he describes as a ruthless invader who has stamped on the most sacred rights of a nation. He adds: “From the bottom of
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  • 84 2 ■—Reuter. Seattle, Saturday. A huge Boeing four-engined stratosphere airliner crashed near Alden, Washington, in test flight today. All ten occupants are believed to have been killed. The plane cost $500,000. An eyel witness of the crash declared that the tail became detached and the plane fell
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  • 329 2 AT/sr Attfick On Britain Berlin Sunday. The National Zeitung, closely related with Field-Marshal Goering, comments that the “termination of the Munich Agreement is the most serious attack ever made against the friendly relations between the German and the British people. It is the product of the
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  • 107 2 Berlin, Sunday. rjIHE economic negotiations between Germany and Rumania formed the subject of an official statement issued in Berlin yesterday. This says: “German-Rumanian economic negotiations are taking place in Bucharest. They are developing in normal fashion. Their subjects are usual questions dealt with in such negotiations, such
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  • 32 2 —Reuter. Madrid, Sunday. The National Defence Foreign Minister. Senor Besteiro, appealed to General Franco over the Madrid Radio last night to open negotiations for an honourable peace.—Reuter.
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  • 195 2 Moscow, Sunday. Silence does not mean that the Soviet authorities are not gravely concerned with any action which might bring Germany, considered by the Soviet a most dangerous enemy, close to its borders. It is believed in informed circles that the Soviet
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  • 198 2 Reuter. Cardenas’ Proposals I For Settlement Mexico City, Sunday I President Cardenas has unnountU plan for settlement- of the oil disput] which, he said, is based on a pronYj by Mi. Richberg, the U.S. represents, tive. President Cardenas said that J plan provides for co-operation betwewl the Mexican
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  • 140 2 —Reuter. Fate Of Refugees Arouse Concern Prague. Sunday. The number of suicides here is increasing. A well-known surgeon, Dr. Meydl. and his wife took poison when they 'learned that German troops were enterin? Jthe city while twenty Jews, have hitherto been removed to hospital after
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  • 100 2 It’s when children a s: J tot i suddenly, that they need your attention. Children who ,are n fast often tire easily, 8?* P ale> 1 C and do poorly at school. The trouble Is that children e double Job of work to do. They up
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 196 2 GIVES THE SENSATIONAL, entirely netr OHV MORRIS 10 VZ Thought Oil planning is noticeable, too, in the very capacious luggage \\v a J How nave these two importcomp a rtment ,he for ep spare ant opposites faster peryorwiir’ZT": formance an d greater unusually happy jn its economy—been united in one
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  • 2026 3 \ikl <imi Sunshine Is I €*niptin<* i lie Slimmer Bathers Iwe towns Willi A Dress Problem Judges Favour Flogging '■< in ()tir ()wn ('oi > espoii(lcnt) I om’oii. March S’. on a Sunday morn- ci’ dccpiiy <.vcr the !<■(. >thrs at ihe clock ‘J <.r<
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  • 33 3 ■NAZI WOMEN'S LEADER Aisits hospital of Mothercraft Training Society.—Frau Gertrud ScholtzKlink. Nazi women’s leader, who paid a four-day visit to London, visited Cromwell» House, hospital of the Mothercraft Training Society.
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    45 3 j. r ’LAY, President Lebrun 'of v n<, will have completed seven in n le Elysee Palace, but it the popular president ele- ;redt chances of being rejn.' l <! s se n here embrac11 general during a ceremony J 4r the Triumphal 4*
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  • 336 3 DLiur nt! At ii tuiJiv ir.eiie Althou h there is no Irish Society in I’ni tag. li .s'm n in Penang, Province Wellesley and Kedah celebrated St. Patrick'. Dav on Saturday with a dinner and dan. t tl.e Runnymede Hotel. Hosts and guests numbered nearly
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  • 338 3 The Hon’bl? Mr Khoo Sian Ewe was again feted on Saturday night in honour of the conferment of the O B.E. on him. The dinner was given by the co-trnstees and members of the committee of the Chinese T'own Hal).
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 398 4 ANY endeavour to judge the probable trend to prices by an analysis of rubber statistics at the present time is hardly pro titable since the market is more susceptible to movements of th*> political barometer than it is to all the production and consumption trends so accurately compiled
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  • 1255 4 BY “PERTINAX” UNEASINESS persists in Paris in competent quarters about what is in store for the Western Powers in the near future. The warlike intentions with which the German and Italian Governments are credited cannot, perhaps, be proved beyond
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 39 4 Yi Ask J Y®, ->rr&t ANDY THE BULL ANDY WAS NO! LIKE OTHER BULLS. HOWEX'ER MUCH THE MATADOR TRIED TO GOAD HIM, ANDY JUST SAT QUIETLY AND SMELLED THE FLOWERS. After the «fu’ Pisnev film l rr,l,naml the H. '<
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  • 559 5 B < of white-collar jobs Hl ;,o( been shocked by the livered by the Chief I the Trade School, Mr. nrl .'l rhe Hon. the Resident r X. M. Goodman, at a ni ual prize-giving of the it’ ITiday. I aC t that boys with a mechani-
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  • 215 5 Sails Wrongly Put Up: Boat Capsizes ARTI nf four schoolboys who went out rowing yesterday had an exciting experience when they sailed their boat straight into a fishing trap some three miles oil Tanjong Bungah. The boat capsized, and the boys had. to cling to
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  • 400 5 FIXE SHOW BY ELYSEE CABARET GIRLS Over 83.000 Collected For Cl. iua Fund The taxi-dancers of the Elysee Cabaret scored a great success, last night at th< Town Hall, in a fine variety concert in ait of the China Distress Relief Fund. Ai audience paying nearly
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  • 96 5 The funeral of Mr. Lim Soon Jin, who passed away on March 14, at the age of 68, took place yesterday, in the reformed .style from his residence No. 79, Macalister Road for interment at the Batu Gantong Cemetery. The deceased leaves behind, the
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  • 808 5 With her black and red funnel prominent above the gleaming white hull, the 20,C00-ton Cunard White Star world cruiser, b ranconia, arrived in Penang yesterday morning in the course of her annual cruise round the world, and continued her journey in the early hours of
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  • 59 5 Mr. and Mrs. Tang Cheang Siew have issued invitations for the marriage on Sunday, March 26, at the Penang Buddhist Association, of their fourth daughter, Miss Tang Mee Foong, to Mr. Ong Eng Kooi, youngest son of Mr, and Mrs. Ong Sin Seng. A reception will be
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  • 378 5 Ambitious Plans Of Selangor A.A.M. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Sitting at its first meeting this week, a Safety-First sub-committee of the Selangor and Pahang branch of the Automobile Association of Malay i formulated proposals for educating the vast road public of pedestrians, cyclists
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  • 79 5 Incident 100 Yards F roin Police Station Two shops in Straight Street, Bukit Mertajam, about 100 yards from the Police Station, were found tarred on Saturday morning. The five-foot-way of both shops was smeared with ‘ar while the shutters and signboards bore signs that the perpetrators
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  • 116 5 ■The concern of the police over the increasing thefts of bicycles in Penang and their anxiety to put a stop to this menace, is evidenced by the circulars being issued by the Chief Police Officer to cyclists. Couched in the following terms: “Thi.s bicy-
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  • 134 5 LE I U K TO THE EDITOR Sir,— On March 17th I Inquired from the Penan. Post Office whether the s.s. “Patroclus” was carrying letter mail to Colombo, as I had noticed on the Post Office Official Daily List that parcel mail only was listed. I
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  • 525 5 Miss James Mr. G. P. Aitken Mrs. Madeline Isobel James nee Dreyer, popularly known as Miss James, of the Penang Academy of Music, was married on Saturday at the St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Penang, to Mr. Gordon Patrick Aitken, Manager of Dennistown Estate, Farit Buntar. Mr.
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  • 310 5 Four During The Week-End The Chinese Consulate was the venue of two weddings on Saturady, both being in' the reformed style. The marriage took place quietly of Mr Cheng Ying Cheong and Miss Dai qnet Ying“. The attesting witnesses were Mr. Cheng Siew Kway for the groom and
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 1212 6 7W/W -wf jf “IT A UNDOUBTEDLY THE BRIGHTEST MERRIEST SPOT TN 7«; ROYAL elysee cabaret RKO-RADIO PRESENTS A HEART-WARMING SAGA OE THE COUNTRY r> TT DOCTOR A VIVTD ACCOUNT OF SELF EFFACING SACRIFICE AND j j il f Ine M f Modern anJ Luxurious Dance Hall in Northern Mah Va
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  • 672 7 A New “KiUarney” Discovered Canberra, March 8. RED-blooded adventure is not yet dead in the world, as a report to the Minister of Territories of a patrol through unknown New Guinea by Mr. J. L. Taylor, assistant district officer in the New Guinea service,
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  • 128 7 than was ever taken out of it. —Austral News. Melbourne, March 8. The famous “golden mile”, the discovery of which, fifty-four years ago, precipated one of the most famous gold rushes the world has seen, is, as a result of renewed prospecting, extending northwards. On one
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  • 89 7 —Austral News. Melbourne, March 8. A crop of perfectly baked apples was the freakish result of a small but fierce bushfire at Dromana, near Melbourne. Flames swept across the tops of the fruit trees in an orchard while the grass at the foot of
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  • 176 7 Sydney, March 8. A new process for making hats which the inventors, a group of Sydney men, claim will revolutionize the industry, is creating widespread interest. Not only will hats—both men’s and women’s—be made at a fraction of the cost of the old method but
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  • 99 7 Canberra, March 8. New capital is now going into Australia at the rate of approximately of £10,000,000 a year, according to the estimate of the Federal Treasurer (Hon. 11, Casey). For the most part this influx l has taken the form of the direct establishment of
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  • 114 7 Sydney, March 8. Here is a brand-new fish story—Mr. Tom Mackay, a Sydney pipe band drummajor, claims that he can “charm” fish with his bagpipes. Members of the Highland Pipe Band, with whom Mr. Mackay went fishing lately, are prepared to back up his claim. The
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  • 172 7 Sydney, March 8. “They never bite for me!” said Judge Perdiau in Court here when he awarded compensation to Charles Sutton, aged 29, of Sydney, because he was bitten by a fish. Sutton’s counsel said that in September last year Sutton was grubbing up stones around a
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  • 36 7 —Reuter. Basle, (Switzerland) Friday. “Whoever attacks us or infringes our independence or territorial integrity will have to face war,” declared Dr. Obrecht, head of the Department of Public Economy in the Federal Council today.
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  • 151 7 Striking testimony of Australia’s “Air-mail-Mindness” was revealed in figures released here by the Director-General of Post and Telegraphs, Sir Harry Brown. Both internal and external airmail fig ures show a remarkable increase in volume in recent months. For instance, 1,052,474- letters were carried from Australia to overseas countries
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  • 52 7 Sydney, Marrh 10. New £5 notes on which an engraved irtrait of King George VI, replaces that f King George V have been issued in .Australia. Other alterations in the new “fivers” include a watermark protrait of Captain Cook instead of the former watermark portrait of King
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 378 7 I TONIGHT! LADIES 9 GUEST NIGHT. WEMBLEY PARK I Tonight: Monday. 20th March, 1939. I keong I,of Shanghai Opera: I THEE KONG KAY. (2) “GEOK TONG CHOON” Seats: 20, 30 40 Cents. jvo FREE RISTS. I S) n Set l°y Cantonese Opera: I I M NG TOOK FOO MAU CHEE
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    • 35 7 F. M. S. R. BAR, RESTAURANT GRILL ROOM HIGH CLASS FOOD. MEALS AT ANY HOUR O'ndar the personal supervision Of our new Chef from Singapore SERVICE UNDER IDEAL CONDITIONS. ENTIRELY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT MODERATE TERMS.
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    • 15 7 Warning! THE STORM WILL BE AT THE Queen’s NEXT CHANGE Watch ANNOUNCEMENT IN THIS PAPER!
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 149 7 QUEEN’S LAST 3 SHOWS TODAY At 3 p.m. 6.15 p.m. <K 9.30 p.m. MICKEY ROONEY MAKES NEW “SCREAM” HISTORY TN THE BEST OF THE “JUDGE HARDY’S FAMILY SERIES” DD Judy Garland’s joy- I ia singing to the Hardy tnily fun...and you have e newest...and grandest adventure of the picture ries
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  • 537 8 Suffering Great Pain the deceased was constantly worrying over her inahi*it\ <o recover from her sickness and had intimated that it would be better for her to die because of the great pain tl it she was su i ering, was the evidence of a
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  • 99 8 Matron of the Singapore General Hospital for 13 years. Miss Rita Fenoulhet, has left for England prior to retirement. During tne War. Miss Fenoulhet was a sister at the Norraanhurst V.A.D. Hospital. Sussex, and she came out in 1918 as a nursing sister in the
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  • 346 8 TWO HOKKIENS SENTENCED I Convicted on charges relating to I the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, two Hokkiens. Goh Sin Cheng and L’ Hoh Lin, were sentenced to terms I nine months’ rigorous imprisonment each I in the Singapore Assize Court, on FiiI day. 1 On
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  • 399 8 Coolie Crushed To Death The death of a Chinese godown coolie. Tan Chcah Chooi, who was said to have been crushed to death by a falling bag of rice, was the subject of an inquiry, held in the Penang Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. A. W. Bellamy,
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  • 37 8 HUNTERS’ SHOW AT AGRICULTUR AL HALL.— The 55th ;> n i ~w Thoroughbreds and Hunters has opened at the Agricultural Hall. Lslin„ ton. This is an entry in District Class 4 parading before the judges.
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  • 191 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, Saturday. ACTING on information, Mr. F. I. Tremlett, A.S.P. attached to the Detective Branch, held up a motor-car containing three Chinese, on the night of Feb. 28, and found a fully loaded revolver under the seat. The incident had
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  • 95 8 Allegations Of Bookmaking I Two raids were conducted by Detec- live Inspector E. Linsell, of the Gambling 'Suppression Branch. Penang, on Saturday afternoon, and seven persons were ar- > rested in connection with alleged book- making. The first raid was at 1 p.m. on a shop in Mac
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  • 84 8 Mr. Oei Seng Cliye And Miss Caro! Chcah Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Mr. Oei Seng Chye, sub-! editor, Malaya Tribune, Penang, to Miss i Carol Cheah Teong Thean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cheah Tat Khuan, at the Penang Buddhist Association on Sunday,
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  • 218 8 IN the Bankruptcy Court on Friday on the application of Mr. Ong Huck Hong, for the petitioning creditors. Messrs. Ipikdjiin Brothers. Diamond Merchants, Mr. Justice Howes made receiving and adjudicating orders against John Hardouim of Bukit Tambnn, Province Wellesley, and Lucy van der
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 70 8 Asthma Germs Killed in 3 Minutes Choking, pa ping, uhc- n" Bron' hitis poison yum- health and w-ak.-n y<nir l> the pn suription <‘f an i ‘1 starts killing Asthma G< r>’' h- purifies the blood ;in<l hi.d'l lt so that you can.sh'P- soundly.Jl anything and enjoy hf< successful that
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  • 302 9 Chinese, who was al one excise informer, was surr„; arrested by two Malay at Sengat Estate, Sirnpang Friday evening while in the ~ain.su to a crowd of Tamil act o» charred in the First PflclD Court, Ipoh, on Saturday F Y. Radcliffe on two t i
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  • 95 9 Trespassed In Temple (Compound > Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Saturday. /ii trespassing in the com- i Indian temple in Kota. C;. u Hui. a ricksha-puller, said he w. o catch birds. He had been ■lk-1 n p’ vious occasions and no one objected. A S', '.iitchman said
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  • 122 9 Reuter. luxm <1 < >n V) ay I o iangsters’ I lannt Tientsin. Friday. h H. F. Dyott. chairman of the Briber uf Commerce, was Chinese this afternoon from h lu m the Japanese-occupied •icession and driven away in a motorcar. Ml L'yntt Who is 55,
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  • 96 9 Lanlonese Sentenced up tor sentence on a charge i stly retaining stolen promtoncse, Leong Ab Kow, was six months’ rigorous inipribe followed by one years vision, by P. F. Y- Radcliffe Magistrate’s court, Ipoh, on dUi ,y j B Tohinas, Chief Court Inltd that on receipt of
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  • 282 9 More Discharges Of Europeans I.T.C. DECISION AWAITED WITH ANXIETY Phe situation in Kinta throughout the mining districts is reported to be growing steadily worse, mere and more Europeans being discharged by the dredging companies without apparent hope of reinstatement, whie in otter cases they
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  • 230 9 To Ask Government For Loan (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Members of the Kuala Lumpur Book Club who attend the annual meeting on Wednesday, March 29, will be asked to consider a resolution which authorises the committee To apply to the Selangor
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  • 200 9 The death-fall of an Indian lorry attendant Sengol. from a moving lorry was inquired Into at the Penang Polio Court, on Saturday, with Mr. AAV. Bel lamv as coroner. A verdict ol death by misadventure was recorded at the end if the inquest. The circumstances surrounding
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  • 143 9 Five Chinese robbers, some of them asked end armed with what appear ?d to be pistols, forced their way into a rouse occupied by a Chinese rubber taper anil his family near Kampai on Jaturday morning. After tying up the notlier and daughter the
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  • 111 9 Malay Charged With Negligence (From Our own Correspondent) Taiping, bunuay. As a result of ditching his car at the junction of Swettenaam-road and Asam Kumbang-road. a Malav named Musa bin Junus was charged before the Taiping magistrate on Saturday with the Taiping migistrate on Saturday with negligent
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  • 70 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Saturday. As a sequel to the recent thefts at the Nurses’ Hostel in Main-road, the Taiping police, on information received, arrested a Tamil youth named Nagalin- On his production before the Taipmg magistrate on a charge of housebreaking by night, the
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  • 343 9 Javanese Fined $25 (From Our Cun Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Saturday. Alleged to have committed theft of a bicycle, the properly cf one Alwi. at the Malay mosque at Sungei Manik on March 8 a Javanese named Zaitun bin Arsadiviriah appeared before Che Osman min Ta’at in
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  • 304 9 Tamby Bound Over Found guilty on a charge of dishonestly inducing the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Ipoh, to deliver to him ten dollars on a fraudulently altered •cheque, a South Indian Tamil lad, Gnaniah, a. •‘tamby” employed at the office of Messrs. Cowdy and Jones, K was
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  • 183 9 Arrested II hen About. To Hoard Ship For India (I roil! Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Saturday. BAIL in the sum of $30,000 in two sureties was offered to a South Indian named S. Muthiah who appeared before Che Osman bin Ta’at, the Teluk Anson First Magistrate,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
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  • 1876 10 Scarcity Of Shares To Meet Rapidly Expanding Demand (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Mar. 8. LJUBBER producing interests here are well satistiĕd with the way in which thsir industry’s prospects are shaping. They are convinced that the Spot price will reach the long-desired
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  • 1062 10 PROMISING OUTLOOK-SI I PROSPECTS London, March 6. INVENTS seem at last to be justifying! the faith which have repose I in Rubber shares for some months There have been clear signs during the past two weeks oi reviving public interest in the shares, and price i npioio
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  • 231 10 j London, March 7 After the severe slump of recent months, South Wales tinplate manufacturers are finding encouragimwnt i steady improvement which is now 11 seer, in the flow of new business. Each of the. last few weeks ba.- about an increase in activity, an<
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  • 53 10 London, Alare’> J’ be The rubber industry o controlled by a 1 rad together lta three appointed representatives of botn workers. The appointed J, olleg e, Oxford; J. L. Brierly, of Al Souk f Miss Hilda MaWmlaV J SI S W., and Mi. C- I
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  • 118 11 .w. oiciure of Manchester, one of Britain’s nevest cruisers, wnich i- In <r re EAST INDIES C-IN-C makes rs OFFICIAL landing he Com.iii I L'lava. Commodore T B. Drew, being piped aboard 11.M.5. Norfolk when he called on i !h" mmander-in-Chicf of the Fast Indies
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    • 67 11 W Ulll,— lieu»* ITLI <LI T TANGYE PUMPS .For All Purposes ITg-jr Tri '1 Vi Vi k qF u\ Hi m\ \3lll x \3' U lu' lli eSeli SHstSSu! If* 1 I a _A- XfmF < X ■KT —-"x 1 1'1) manufacture a complete range and« e l5O FT. SERIES
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  • 166 12 Shiukwan, March 14. A S a first step in democratic government in Kwangtung, a Provincial People’s Political Council will be formed on April 1 with fifty members to be chosen by the Central Authorities. General Li Han-yun, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, will submit one hundred
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  • 305 12 I 1 Increased Powers In j Shanghai Tokio. March 5. i 4 n understanding by which the British, American and Italian forces in Shanghai will co-operate with the Japanese military and naval authorities to maintain peace and order in the International Settlement was reached today, according to
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  • 230 12 Tokio. March 6. Mr. Kazuo Aoki, Vice-President of the Cabinet Planning Board, revealed to the Diet today details of the gigantic programme of industrial expansion, by which Japan hopes to achieve complete selfin war materials in three years. Raw materials derived from the occupied areas
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  • 242 12 Millions Marching On Tiie Unchanging Ea<-t! Century after century it has been possible to use this old phrase. India, for example, remained ever the same. Changes occurred in Europe, but li.dt?. was passive. Famines came from time to time, plagues broke out. the temples grew more venerable, i.
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  • 363 12 £120,500.000 Programme Approved By Cabimi Tokio, March 16. A SIX-YEAR naval building programme costing 1.20.'>,000,()IH) yen (£120,500,000 at par) was approved by the Japanese ahi net today. The programme also provides for an expenditure of .‘»00,000, 0011 yen on naval aviation, and 188,000.0 00 yen on
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  • 378 12 Hong Kong, March 14, INDICATING permanent occupation of Hainan Island, the Japanese gaged several German engineers and military experts to map out the industrial and defensive plans of the island, according to an intelligence report received hem These military advisers recently left Hong Kong
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  • 161 12 SOCIAL PERSONAL The marriage took place vest-: a morning at her residence in Cliemoi Miss Magaeswary Ponniah, daugliier Mr. R. Ponniah. pensioner and M' S Saravanamuthu. clerk, Stoi s Si.; ...’.e dent’s Office, F.M.S.R Scntul Mr. V. P. Gokhale formerly ot I*l Veterinary Department. Ipoh. i- < nti -i to
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  • 66 12 (From Our Own Corn -pon'b'd Taiping. Friday Mr. R. E. Roberts, an enginn i' Posts and Telegraphs, Ipol- 1 Taiping last evening, and esting address on T' l' vi.sion tion” to members of the Post their club premises in Barrm k I There was a
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  • 33 12 c-apla.n A F. J. Engla Malay Regiment, has b< act as Company Commander giment. while Lieut. M, Company Officer, has been app act as Adjutant, with effect tri-m Jaaa. 27.
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    • 1330 12 railofeSlß'fedTo- radio radio Iradi-o fedi.b ralro’i® lHwffem wlio radio radi# fed ip radio radio i Electrical recording. -fGramophonc records. PENANG SINGAPORE ZHL 1,333 kc/s 225 m.) ZHJ 6.08 nic/c (40.30 mJ. ZHP 9.69 mc/c (30.96 m.) TODAY TODAY P.M. 5.00 Lagu Nasib and Sa'ir.f 5.30 P.M. Cantonese music.f 6.10 Cantonese
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    • 468 12 8.8. C. Service Schedule I For Far East London, March 1: Following is the probable BBC Service Schedule for the Far East in Malayan standard time for week beginning March 20. TRANSMISSION 2 6.02 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. GSJ, GSG GSV and GSF. TRANSMISSION 3 9.20 p.m. to 12.20 a.m.
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  • 353 13 Latest Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh And Penang air mails OUTWARD TROPE VI» THE WEST Empire Air Mail): For :ctoria Point), India, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya anda, Zanzibar, Northern x •-ia. Nyasaland, South ritain. Ireland, Canada and wfoundland. 7.30 a.m.; Ipoh 12.45 7.30 p.m. Tuesdays, I -lays and
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  • 935 13 ARRIVALS Today: SILVERELM ex Phillippines, Java ports via Singapore. KEDAH ex Belawan-Deli. EUMAEUS ex Singapore. HOEGH MERCHANT ex Bombay via Colombo. Tomorrow: BENARTY ex London. Wednesday, March 2: SUISANG ex Calcutta. BULAN ex Singapore via ports. TJIKEMBANG ex Far East via Singapore. Thursday, March
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  • 86 13 A PRETTY dance hostess, Pauline Tai, appeared before Mr. G. S. Rawlings it. the Singapore Third Police Court cn Friday as complainant in a summons case in which two Chinese, Charlie Chew anti Sam Mui were charged with voluntarily causing hurt. There was a cross-summons against
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  • 311 13 Siam Aliens EUROPEANS NOT AFFECTED (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. March 16. rglHl'l Assembly on Tuesday discussed i and approved the principle of a bib whereby all aliens will have to pay four ticals per annum as a stamp fee on their registration papers in
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    • 456 13 ■tvs funnel Tune SERVICE TO LONDON As NORTH CONTINENT /-..He, Hull heat-, ''—-.m lu, fz>nd'-> I CaUpi MHraeiU., **J' calls Marseilles, Antwerp Middlesboro Apr’ 7 Mav 3 fl s DAI SERVILE ZO LmKiVai. v»*. HAvRE fl Mar. 20 fl Mar. 24 Apr. 26 fl Omits Havre A pr. 4 5
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    • 808 13 P&O (Incorporated U> England, SINGAPORE, CHINA JAPAN. S.S. “CHITRAL” SAILING THURSDAY, 23rd MARCH, 1939. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co., under For Teluk Anson, Bagan Datoh, Port contract with His Majesty’s Government Swettenham, Malacca and Singapore London and Far East Mail Service. Q/q5 <. RTTT AM Mnr 94 Outwards from
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  • 1307 14 MeasurejWins By L Short Head i J LAST DAY OF SELANGOR MEETING (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. AFTER several failures, Mr. Lee Nam’s Australian importation, Measure, made amends today to win the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup in one of th? must
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  • 1374 14 W olves And Everton If j n With Ease DIVISION I Arsenal 2 Liverpool n Aston Villa 3 Stoke 1 Blackpool 0 Bolton 0 Brentford 0 Leeds 1 Derby 3 Charlton 1 Everton 4 Birmingham 2 Grimsby 1 Preston 1 Huddersfield 0 Middlesbrough 1 Portsmouth 0 Leicester
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  • 37 14 —Reuter. Paris, Saturday. OWING- to international events, the Davis Cup committee has amended the qualification rule whereby a player is permitted to represent another country if his own country is absorbed by another Power.—Reuter.
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  • 69 14 Barrow 9. St. Helens Rees 5. Bradford Northern 14, Leeds 13, Bramley 7, York 7. Featherstone R. <5, Wakefield 17. Dewsbury 0, Huddersfield 26. Halifax 4, Oldham 12 Hull 13, Swinton 9. Hunslet 13, Warrington 5. Keighley 11, Hull Kingston R 6 Liverpool S. 31, Rochdale H
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  • 85 14 I Aldershot 13, Harlequins Bath 3, Devcjport Serve'. Gloucester 12, Newport .1 Leicester 12, London W< London Scotti <h 6, Bln IManchester 14, Sale 3 Moseley 6. Coventry .> Northampton 3. Bedford 1 Nuneaton 3, St. Bart s H" O.M.T. 3, Richmond 22 Pontypool 8, Bristol 6.
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  • 27 14 Reuter London. Satun! i.i) At the Kennington Oval land beat. Wales in a men s m.■ hockey match by four goaW Reuter
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  • 574 15 Complete List Of The Entries PANTRIES for the Malayan badminton championships closed on Saturday. As anticipated, Penang has sent in the most entries in the men’s singles and doubles, but Singapore is also very strongly represented. Entries for the 1 «ingles have well exceeded the limit
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  • 361 15 Nerves” When In Winning Position London, Sanday. F rom London Staff) 4 S your Correspondent cabled you today A. S. Sairuel’s bid to bring the All-England Badminton Championship to \|alay a n the semi-final when he was defeated by the eventual winner of the title,
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  • 177 15 Smelters Win By Six Runs I ground on Saturday the I ting Company defeated the runs. For the School i first wicket, carried his 43. W. Taylor topSmelters with 30 runs. S.X.I. r T ez not out 43 "-’TPs rur. out c F. Lopez b Dollah 4
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  • 51 15 ••UC! iT'uter. London, Saturday. I 11 Amateur Billiards Arthur Spencer, the York1 Kingsley Kenner’ecord score when he This teat was perI :,r -J- 11 k Spencer’s semi-final -Jones, the Surrey chamI I’ r| I- J nea h -V 3440 to 2199 J< u;< n ,ley n flnal
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  • 360 15 Week-End Results (By Our Badminton Correspondent) A LTOGETHER 15 singles and seven w doubles were played oq in the Penang junior badminton championships during the week-end at the Free School Hall. Tnere were no surprises, but there were two love games, in one doubles and one singles,
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  • 208 15 The Wooden Spoon For Scotland Murrayfield, Saturday. England beat Scotland by 9 points (3 penalty goals) to 6 (2 tries) to regain the Culcatta Cup and share championship honours with Wales and Ireland. Seventy thousand spectators saw England dominate play on a muddy pitch. The English
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  • 332 15 C.R.C. Beat Malay® By Big Margin DECLARING at 170 for seven, the Chinese Recreation Club easily beat the Malay Cricket Club, who were nil out for 49, in a game of cricket played on the Victoria Green, on Saturday. A feature of the Chinese batting
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  • 521 15 Chinese Defeated By Sports Club The Chinese Recreation Club who are considered to have the strongest Club XI in Penang this year were defeated by the Sports Club in a low scoring match on the Esplanade yesterday. Ihe Chinese taking first lease ot the tickets were
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  • 275 15 Easy Victory For P.R.C. At Butterworth scores by-K. A. Taylor, H. R. Stewart and Andrew J. WilHants and effective bowling by L. I. Robless enabled the P. R. ‘C. to register an easy victory over the Butterworth Recreation Club at Butterworth yesterday. For the losers
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  • 76 15 Board Takes Steps Edinburgh, Saturday. A meeting of the International Rugby Board here today discussed scrummage laws and decided to form a sub-com-mittee to bring forward recommendations on this matter at the Board’s next meeting on the eve of the Calcutta Cup match at Twickenham next
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  • 385 15 nPHE P. R. C- “A” won a close and excit1 ing match, in a race against time on the Esplanade on Saturday, when they Ix’at the Sports Club “A” by two wickets. Winning the toss, the Sports Club hit up the splendid total of
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    • 36 15 RUSTON OIESEU ENGINES Stand for reliability and economy! Ideal Units for driving electric generators, or as power units in portable compressor sets, hoists, cranes, pumping sets etc., Seven powers 3’ to 60 kh. p, ~v APB3I
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  • 64 16 MIDDAY QUOTATIONS TIN LATEST Penang $109.1212 Business 25 tons 5109.12% RUBBER: Penang (Spot) 26 %c Singapore (Spot) 26 %c COPRA: Sundried $3.70' Black Pepper $9.00 TAPIOCA: Eair Seed $3.05 Medium $3.40 RICE: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $6.00 No. 2 $5.85 White No. 1 $6.60 Local Parboiled No.
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  • 122 16 prev. Saturday p ar 176 49 64 176 ***** Nev.' /.h 4.68 H 4.68 ft Montreal 4.70% 4.70% Bru s-I*’ 27.84 27.83% Ge’ 20.65 20.68% Aws.crdam 8.82% 8.82 Mile 89 ft 89 Bor. n 11.67% 11.66% Sto-’ olm 19.42 19.42 Cod n". <r-n 22.40 28.40 Oslo 19-90 19.90
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  • 209 16 New York. Saturday. The action of the market, in face of the news, was satisfactory, specially with reference to the majority of leaders, which closed above opening prices. RUBBER —The trade, is absorbing speculative liquidation. DOW JONES AVERAGES Prev. Latest High Low 30 indus. 143.89 141.68 142.40
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  • 131 16 First Experience Of Play On Floodlit Stadium The Chinese soccer team from Singapore, which includes players from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other parts of Malaya, which is touring Manila, had their first match on Saturday when they beat Santo Tnmas University by three goals to one.
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  • 55 16 Reuter. Cairo, Monday. Gottfield von Cramm after a year’s absence returned to tournament tennis, playing for an international team on Saturday, and beat the Egyptian A- Najar 6 0, (U-l. On Sunday he was beaten by the American, Donald McNeill, 6—3, 3 —6, 7
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  • 244 16 KENNEDY CO. RUBBER Buyers Seilers 4yer Molek .90 l.OOex Ayer Panas 1.20 1.30 c Bassett .50 .55 Benta 1.00 I.lOex Broga .65 .72% Brunei United .55 .62% Bukit K.B. .25 .32% Haytor .90 ,95c Indragi ri 1.15 1.22 Kedah 1.90 2.10 Kempas 1.75 1.85 Lunas 1.50 1.60 Malaka Pinda 1.20
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  • 82 16 —Reuter. Hungarians Draw With Ireland London, Sunday. At Cork today, Eire and Hungary drew at soccer, each side scoring two goals.-Twenty-two thousand saw the previously unimpressive Irish forwards attack fiercely to equalise in the last minute. Ihe Irish defence was strong with Turner, the centre-half, outstanding. The Hungarians’
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  • 51 16 An unknown Chinese was found hanging at Waterfall Road near the swimming pool yesterday morning by a Municipal coolie. The police were informed and the body was removed to the mortuary. The man is believed to be a vagrant and his age is estimated at about
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  • 173 16 ANTHONY CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Batu Selangor 1.25 1.30 Hong Fatt -60 .65 Kuchai 1-17% 1.22% Mamba u .47% .52% Puteh -72% .77% Rahman Hyd. 1.00 1.05 Rantau 1.25 1.30 Sungei Luas 1.37% 1-42% Taiping Cons. 1.37% 1.42% Ampat 3;0 3 6 Kampor.g Lanjut 15|6 16 3 Kamra 14% 1|7%
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  • 178 16 RUBBER: Buyers Sellers Ayer Panas 1.22% 1.27|c Bassetts .47% .52% Batu Lintangs 1.05 1.10 Bentas 1.02% 1.075 c Indragiris 1.12% 1.17% Kuala Sidims 2.00- 2.15 Lunas 1.50 1.60 Malaka Pindas 1.20 1.25 Mentakabs .40 .42% Pajams 1.70 1.80 lungei Tukangs .97% 1.02% Tapahs 1.67% 1.871 c Telok
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  • 158 16 LEAN CO. TIN: Buyers Sellers Ampats 314% 3’7’ B. Selangors 1.27% 1 Berjuntais 1010 109 Hong Fatts .64 .68 Jelebus 60 .65 Johans .24 .26 K. Lanjuts 1519 1 6 3 Kramats 9’6 10 0 Kuchais 1.22% 1.27 1 Kundangs 619 7 3 Lukuts .52% -55 Laruts 4|4% 4 7%
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  • 458 16 The greater part of Holland consis s of a flat and damp region wlier'’ there are always mosquitoot to be found and where the damage caused by these insects is felt to its fullest extent and n all its forms. From times immemorial, there have been ordinary mosquitoes
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  • 104 16 A dinner was given to representatives >f the local English and Chinese Press •nd others at the Violet Cafe (Wembley °ark) c.n Saturday night, by Mr. Goh leow S<mg, proprietor of Messrs. Ee Khuat Chye (liquor and wine merchants) vho arrived in Penang recently to open n
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  • 108 16 /11 111 L Looi and June again gave an x llt at the Elys-ee Cabaret on Satun D this time of a tango. It preciated by the large crowi at ret. Saturday was “Pinex held Elysee, and two spot dances the rUults Wn E 1.
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