Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 June 1939

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY \O. 111. Vol. XCVII. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1939. PRICE 5 CENTS
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    VOLUNTEERS IN TIENTSIN STANDING BY
    430 1 Iwo Warships On The Spot FOOD RELIEF ON THE WAY Tientsin, June 21. Ihe V olunteer 1 orce of the British Concession will stand by for immediate mobilisation. There are now two British warships here. H.M.S. “Sandwich” arrived in the afternoon and later the <fc
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    THE "MAURETANIA"
    54 1 .—Reuter. King’s Response To Loyal Greetings London, June 30. Reuter’s special correspondent on board the “Mauretania” in a radio message states that Their Majesties on board the Empress of Britain” have sent a message uf thanks and good wishes in response to the message of loyal greetings dispatched
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    POLISH REPLY TO POPE?
    87 1 I.—Reuter. Vatican City Conference Vatican City, June 21. Monsignor Cortesi, Papal nuncial :n Warsaw had a long' confer nee with the Cardinal Secretary of State accord- ing to official reports. Monsignor Cor- tesi’s journey to Rome is connected solely with the nomination of seven new Bishops
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    ARAB TERRORISTS
    29 1 .—Reuter. Engagement Near Jericho Jerusalem. June 19 British troops co-operating with aircraft accounted for an entire gang of nine brigands near Jericho, killing eight and capturing one.—Reuter.
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    Submarine Disasters Due To Sabotage?
    91 1 .—Reuter. Washington, June 21. A resolution for the appointment of a Congressional Committee to investigate the possibility that the loss of the submarine “Squalus,” “Thetis” and “Phoenix” was due to sabotage has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Barbour. The resolution suggests that the
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    R.A.F. RECRUITING No Sign Of High Rate
    131 1 .—8.0. W. Diminishing Rugby, June 20. There is still no sign of the high rate of intake into the R.A.F. which has been a feature of recent months, diminishing. Last week 1,034 recruits joined, compared with 407 in the corresponding week last year,
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    FRESH HOPES FOR SOVIET PACT
    207 1 Outstanding Differences Being Solved London, June 20. A more favourable view is now taken in well-informed quarters of the progress of the Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations, says Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent. The latest Soviet memorandum has been examined and the points of view of the two sides are
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    MOVE BY ROOSEVELT TO MEET THREAT OF WAR
    238 1 Removal Of lI.S. Anns Embargo Urged Washington, June 21. President Roosevelt told a press conference that Congress should take action on the neutrality legislation before the adjournment of the present session. Mr. Roosevelt thought the Bill now before the House of which
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    New Japanese Drive On South China
    67 1 .—Reuter. ffokyo, June 21. A new Japanese drive on South China was launched today with the seizure by Japanese naval forces of the unoccupied island of Tasu a few miles from the International Settlement at Kulangsu. The Japanese landed guns and. exchanged fire with
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    MEMORIAE TO KING GEORGE V
    61 1 3. —Reuter. Open Space Around Statue London, June 20. The House of Commons approved the proposal that the Government devdte certain property in the Millbank area near the House of Parliament to the purposes of the national memorial to King George V, the intention being
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    KHALID ALHUD'S VISIT TO HITLER
    74 1 .—Reuter. Pending Arab Questions Discussed Berlin. June 20 It is learned that Khalid Alhud had oeen in Germany three weeks before he was invited to see Herr Hitler. Naturally the interview which lasted three hours caused considerable interest in foreign political circles. It is freely
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    U.S. TAXATION
    72 1 Reuter. Undistributed Profits Tax To Be Abolished Washington, June 20 Bv 358 votes to nine, the House of Representatives passed the Tax Revision Bill the most important provision of which is the abolition of the controversial undistributed profits tax in place of which the bill provides a foretax
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      29 1 fed on COW GATE Zg ugS y s y I Xsr' f-' North Malaya Penang:— ftffS ETOWN DIS PF. N SARY L’i 1)., GEO p tnan g and Ipoh.
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      45 1 CONTENTS Page Latest Telegrams 1 16 Earlier Telegrams 2 Malayan News 3 Indian News 4 China News 5 Foreign News 6 Local News 7 Editorial 8 Local News 9 Financial News 10 Pictures 11 Radio News 12 Shipping News 13 Sports 14 15 Miscellaneous 16
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    EX-PREMIER EXPELLED
    86 2 Reu r. Action Again.* t Dr. StoyadiiNH itch SENSATION /A RELGRADE Bel rade. June 20. Th» Exrcu.ivt Committee oi the Parlianien'tar.' oroup of the Government ha..- uecided to expel Dr. Stoyadinotitch, who resigned the Premiership last 'February. but continued to act as leader >' ti Government Pari”. Nineteen
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    ARMAMENT PROFITS
    191 2 .—Reuter 60 Per Cent Diit> Announced London June 20 A Wii Pup> iia.s been :.-su ci dealir. > .til the charge o. ..rnr :m i molds duty. Il sti.i.' that this will be charged on 11 peisor..- on track or business wind) .r. decl red be ■•ibsianu.-J; eng”,
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    CAWNPORE RIOTS
    135 2 Renter. Police Open Fire And Troops Called Ont Cawnpore, June 19 I'liirty people a ere injured in HinduMoslem rioting which broke out during a religious nrcxiession in the Moslem quarter. The police epened tire ana quickly had the situation in liana. A curfew has been imp sed in
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    FRANCE TO BUILD NEW SUBMARINE
    32 2 pars. June 30 M. Daiadier announced in the Senate that the Gov.-rnnievr ha- decided. muiediately to lay down submarine similar to the Pheni- to ix called Phenix
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    THE BRITISH STANDPOINT
    305 2 .—Reuter. No Ban At AH On Flour The majority of the British Municipal I Council’s Chinese police are descendants and relatives of men who have i scon service with British forces dur ng the Boxer r< bellion or proceeded to Fiance with Labour Corps during the Great
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    "FULL-BLOODED DOCTRINE"
    172 2 d r siring to make friends wi.h us.” —Reutoi. ’Open Challenge To Axis Urged London, June 20. C bling foi ;i 'full-blooded doctrine” nom the Government in the course of his T eech n London, the former Air Minisi°r herd Londonderry said. “I should like w- -co tin
    drsiring to make friends wi.h us.”—Reutoi.  -  172 words
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    BRITISH AUTHORITIES ATTEMPTING TO EVACUATE RESIDENTS
    683 2 Tientsin Situation Quiet On Surface U.S. ATTITUDE TOWARDS JAPAN STIFFENING Tier tsin, June 20. The situation remains quiet on the surface. The British authorities are attempting to arrange for a steamer to take hom* Tientsin *ll oersons desiring to proceed to Chungwangtao, Peitaiho and
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    SPECIAL TRAIN BRINGS QUINS TO TORONTO
    10 2 S Tm,Mu B,ut 1,11
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    THE "SCARAB" INCIDENT
    217 2 t.—Reuter. Interference By Japanese Snanghai. June 20. The Japanese allegations that- .sailors H.M.S. Scarab pointed machineguns at the Japanese in order to land supplies at Wuhu and that it was a violation oi the agreement not to load cargo without permit were categorically denied by the British
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    JUDAS' KISS AND THE SEQUEL
    169 2 —Reuter. Murder Of (huiul Imam TWO ON TRIAL IT ALGIERS Algiers June 20 How a Judas- kiss give. L street cf Algiers was th-' assassination of the Grand 1m; v t told in court today wiiei. pw assassin and an accomplict connec c. with the
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    MR. ATTLEE
    26 2 —Reuter London. June 20. The Leader of the Opposition. Mr. Attlee, today underwent a major operation. His condition is stated to be sai SUctor
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    Jewess Molested By Driver
    330 3 TAKEN TO UNKNOWN PLACE Johore Bahru. Allegations of using criminal force to a Jewish woman by embracing her at Jalan Tamboy, Johore Bahru, on April 24, a Chinese converted Mohammedan, •Salich bin Abdullah, alias Tah Hong Neo, a taxi-driver, was on Monday fined $35 by the
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    OLD KUALA LUMPUR RESIDENT DIES
    128 3 Mrs. J. M. Hollway Kuala Lumpur. □he death took place at Worthing of an old resident of Kuala Lumpur, Mr.. Edith Hollway. Australian Mrs. Hcllway, who wsu> an A came out to Perak with hff afterwards late Mr. J. M. Hollway. in afterwards coming to
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    An airman transports
    28 3 An airman transports a spectator across waterlogged Northolt Aerodrome at a dress rehearsal for Empire Air Day. The incident was no part of the rehearsal!
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    MURDER CHARGE AGAINST CONTRACTOR
    505 3 Wife Who Wanted To Marry Another Man Johore Bahru. Allegations of murder against Liu Lok, a Chinese weeding contractor, who is alleged to have killed his wife, Chai Seong Moi, because she refused to live with him, were made at the magisterial enquiry by Mr. M.
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    "SERIOUS" CHARGE
    110 3 Chinese Granted $l,OOO Bail Kuala Lumpur. Chin Chek abas Chin Shak Hong, who was arrested on a charge of assisting in the management of an unlawful society (the Selangor Kuala Lumpur Overseas Chinese Workers Resisting Enemy Backup Society) at Ampang on June 5. was again produced before Mr.
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    NOVEL RELIEF FUND IDEA
    159 3 Cruise In s.s. Hong Peng HALF MILLION DOLLARS COLLECTED Singapore. Over half a million dollars (Chinese currency) was collected by the China Relief Fund Committee on Sunday as a result of their novel idea of commemorating Dragon-Beat Festival. For the occasion, the s.s. “Hong Peng” was
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    HUSBAND’S 'OTHER WOMAN'
    211 3 Glass Thrown Into Eyes Kuala Lumpur. Chan Yit Kwai, a middle-aged Chines? woman, pleaded guilty before Mr. R. C. Redman, on Monday to a charge of having caused hurt to a compatriot by throwing broken bits of glass into her eyes. Accused was cautioned and discharged. Mr.
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    ENRAGED LOVER ATTACKS WIDOW
    153 3 Woman Cut With Axe Muar. “She is already my wife, but we are not married, said Mohamad, an Indian, when he was charged before Inche Haron bin Ahmad with having caused hurt to a woman, Gayah, by cutting her with an axe, on June 16, at
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    ALLEGED CHEATING
    170 3 Witnesses From Naval Base Singapore. Merle Winston Frugniet, Christopher Gordon Rodrigc and Vivian Havelock Williams, appeared on charges of cheating in the Singapore Second Police Court, on Monday. The Magistrate. Nir. Conrad Oldham, addressing witnesses from the Naval Base, including the Commodore, Malaya, Commodore T. B. Drew, expressed
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    EUROPEAN MINER PINNED INSIDE CAR
    337 3 Serious Motor Accidents at Kuala Lumpur ENGINEER ALSO INJURED Kuala Lumpur. Two Europeans were injured,, one seriously, in two motor car accidents during the early hours of Sunday morning in Kuala Lumpur. Mr. J. Gerrie, of Hongkong Tin Ltd., Puchong, who was seriously injured when
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    K.L. SPORTSMAN WEDS
    409 3 Mr. J. H. Abbott And Misjs M. D. Knightly MINER’S DAUGHTER MARRIES PLANTER The marriage was solemnised at St. Mary's Church. Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday afternoon between Miss Marion Doreen Knightly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Knightly, of Bexhill, Sussex and Mr. John Henry Abbott,
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      386 3 SHE LOST WEIGHT EACH WEEK The Ideal Way to Reduce A woman writes to tell how she is reducing excess fat and her way seems to be the ideal way. “I am 49 years old. 5 ft. s ‘/2 ins. in height, and was 13 st. 8 lbs. when I
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      THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
      909 4 Mr. Santanam s Address At Trichy Trichino} oly, June 1. QEEAKJNG on the ’Future ot Journalism,” Mu. K. Santanam. A.l, L. A. (Central), maintained that the journalists like evert other profession should evolve their own standard.; ol conduct and disciplinary action within the profession. The meeting
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      INDIAN GOVERNMENT ECONOMIES
      389 4 Summer Exodus Curtailed Delhi, May 21. FITHE decision of the Government of JL India drastically to curtail from next year the annual hot weather exodus of the Government to Simla was announced today. Tne cv.uiuuniqur states that the decision has been occasioned by the pre sent serious
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      No More Short Wave Broadcasts
      316 4 Colombo, June 1. C COLOMBO’S short-wave transmitter .4 functioned for the last time yes- terday. This transmitter, which incidentally is an entirely locally built one, will now be reconditioned and brought into use as a stand-by for the regular me-dium-wave service. There is a possibility
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      SITUATION IN THE INDIAN STATES
      465 4 Mr. Gandhi And The Rajkot Dispute Mtoc- Fleet stree t May 24. IbS AGATHA HARRISON, whu six m< itlis in India as- representative of the Indian Conciliation Group, returned to London yesterday. She had just lead in a French newspaper that Mr. Gandhi had on
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      "Veeras" Trade With Malacca
      295 4 Archaeologist’» View Pondicherry, June B. JI I- ICTOR Gouloubew, the French ItJL Archaeologist, who was staying in French India, for the three weeks, left for Saigon yesterday by the French Mail steamer, “d’ Artagnan.” M. Gouloubew, during his stay in Trench India, visited a number of
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      SUGAR PRICES MAY FALL
      183 4 Indian Syndicate’s Forecast Calcutta. June 7. A probable decrease in the prices o sugar, in view of the general interna tional conditions and the estimates o the next season’s sugarcane crop.-i forecast in a communique issued by th Indian Sugar Syndicate. The communique says that the
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      99 4 8 1 a 1 i QUEEN'S Last Mgh, T<,ni i!,i 6.15 p.m. 9,;;o FREDDIE BART frc n JUDV GARLANt. Mg®}\ "LISTEN l»\R|.|\( with WALTER FIDGEON MARY ASTOR n(J Opening lamorrou FRED McMIMAY MADELEINE CARROI h “CAFE SOCIETY Matinee 7 fa /-j ni Grand Stage and Scret > ON THE STAGE
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      JAPANESE BLOCKADE OF TIENTSIN TIGHTENING
      1124 5 Puppets Distribute Anti-British Slogans FOOD CARRYING VEHICLES HELD ll> —Central News. 4 LONGSIDE with the Japanese sion in Tientsin which is Japanese and puppets are forcing Peiping to stage a large-scale ar Beginning from yesterday, according to dispatches from Tientsin, anti-Bri-tish leaflets and slogans ap
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      FAMOUS AUTHOR BROADCASTS
      153 5 ol <-i r«eW ChinA.- -Csntral x -v.-. Jap Bombs Fail In Object Chungking, June 14. “jVOW if any’ Japanese are paying me compliment in listening to th< bredcast, I would like to divulge tn y< u gome military information of greatest importance. Your aviators are not. raining
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      JAPANESE LOSS
      96 5 p?.ny was sunk in the Yangtze. Centra! News. Hongkong, June. 14. The Japanese lost 10 airmen, includ--5 g Col. Hayaehi. in a raid on Clrungking on June 11 when two Japanese heaw bombers were s.rot o.own by the Cmnese. E.ght Japanese air men wounded in dog-fights r ear
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      POISONED OFFICIALS SUCCUMB
      89 5 -Central News. Hongkong, June 13. Two Japanese consular officials were among those poisoned at a party in the Japanese Consulate in Nanking a! 7 p.m. on June 10 and succumbed t&lt; the effects the next, day, according t a Shanghai report. The Moinichi Shimbun of Shangha reported
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      DEATH OF PUBPET MINISTER
      43 5 Hongkong, June 14. The death occurred to Dr. Chen Chintao. 68-year-old pu.npet Finance Minister of the “reformed government” and concurrently governor of the Hua Hsin Commercial Bank.” He was twice Government.—lnternational New s. Finance Minister in the defunct Peking
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      JAPANESE TROOPS MASSING IN KONGMOON
      338 5 Strengthening Hold On Delta Believed Objective Hong Kong, June 16. C CHINESE report stated today that additional Japanese troops 4 are pouring into the Kongmoon area for reasons not knowr. although it is generally believed that the Japanese merely want to strengthen their hold on
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    MALAYAN GIFTS FOR DEFENCE
    589 6 Second To None In Practical Patriotism London. JVJIL Geoffrey 11. Shakespeare. Parliamentary an I financial Secretary to the Admiralty, paid tribute to the generous gifts Malaya had made towards the defence of tiie Empire at the annual dinnei of the Association of British Malaya held at
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    HOUSE MICE MENACE
    121 6 —Reutei Found To Carry Brain Disease Washington Ordinary house mice have been found to be the carriers of a serious bra i disease -lymphocytic choriomeningitis acccrd’ng to a report published here by the Public Health Service SpreaGing of this malady by infected rodents had been suspected. tut
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    CRUEL FRAUD ON A MOTHER
    223 6 Wire That Son Was Dead Saying it was one of the nastiest and most cruel fiuuds nc had heard of for a long time, Mr. T.mne, the Marylebone Magistrate, passed sentence ot six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on Bernard McGuinness. 27. labourer, of Louvcrie
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    EGYPTIAN MILITARY MISSION TO MALTA
    30 6 Reutei Cairo Tire Ministry of National Defence has sanctioned the despatch of an Egyptian Military Miss-cn to Malta to specialise in coastal defence manoeuvres Reutei
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    A DILEMMA FOR YOUTH
    1553 6 Uncertainties Of An Armed World MR. KENNEDY’S WARNING The difficulties that faced youth in a world where the economic outlook was clouded, and there was the ever-present possibility of war, were emphasised by Mr. Joseph Kennedv, the American Ambassador, at Liverpool. He was speaking at a
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    CLAMOROUS COOS
    240 6 pigeons held th BE NOISY RIMALS T HE Pf nt Pigeons couli clawed as an W raisel at Folkestone r„|„ when Walter Robimon ru Bridge Streetsummoned under a local b v 1 keeptag within a shed in his certain. noisy ani:, !als pigecns, which caused serioa, convenience to
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    ROYAL VOYAGE SOUVENIR
    175 6 Barrel As Collecting-ho* In London The mail barrel in which leters from the King ar.d Queen and pictures of their voyage to Canada were cast overboard from the Err. press of Australia, to be picked up by H.M.S. Repulse, has been installed outside the Royal Exchange as
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      103 6 W every corner of the world there are hale and hearty men who owe fitness to Eno. Every morning during the past ten, twenty, perhaps I I thirty or forty years--they have taken I I their Eno as regularly as they have shaved their faces and brushed their J fi
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    DEFENCE TALKS AT SPORE TOMORROW
    219 7 Chiefs From India, Burma, Ceylon, China, Indo-china And Malaya ARRIVAL OF ADM. SIR PERCY NOBLE TTS; Xm. Con m d Of the H M S “Kent” to &gt; esterdilv ®'«ning aboard his flagship H.M.S. Kent to attend the Anglo-French talks on Far East de tnd
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    CORROSIVE POISONING
    89 7 Woman Dies in General Hospital A Chinese woman succumbed al the General Hospital from corrosive poisoning yesterday morning. The unfortunate woman, whose name was given as Tan Soon Moy, aged 31 years, is reported to have swallowed a .atal dose of caustic soda at her house Jo. 67.
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    BOY ASSAULTED AT RAILWAY PIER
    652 7 Ticket Checker Fined $2O A ticket checker of the F.M.S. Railway, Hashim bin Tamby, was fined $5 and ordered to pay compensation of $l5 to the complainant, or in default, 'lO days' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr. I Lam Koon Teck in the Middle Court yesterday
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    MAINTENANCE CLAIM
    59 7 Wife Of Raffles Hotel Manager Singapore. The summons case against Mr. T. Trollei. Manager oi Raffles Hotel, of neglecting to mair/ain his Iwful wife was partly heard yesterday before Mr. Conrad Oldham in the Second Police Court and adjourned till today. The wire gave evidence yesterday and her
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    SIGNED CHEQUE FOR $1,605,50
    227 7 But Had No Bank Account Kuala Lumpur. Yap Tam Tung, a 17-year-old Chinese, walked into the K. K. Motors on Thursday, signed a cheque for 51,605.50 tor the purchase of a car but was not allowed to remove the car until the cheque was cashed. When
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    CIVIL SLIT POSTPONED
    57 7 The civil suit fixed for hearing before the Hou. Mi'. Justice Aitken yesterday has been postponed. The parties to the suit are y. Kader Batcha and N. Abdul Hamid, the dispute being over a bookstall and moneychanger’s business. Mr. R. D. Hume is for the plaintiff and
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    Third Day Of Tunku Ozair's Trial
    224 7 SHOT TAMIL GIVES EVIDENCE Alor Star. At the continued hearing on Monday of the case in which Tunku Ozair is charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt, Mayandi, the other victim who received the shot, said that after the first shot was fired, he, together
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    LORRY ATTENDANT INJURED
    122 7 Accident At Mount Erskine Road I j Another case of a lorry attendant lulling off from a lorry occurred at Mount Erskine Road, near the Batu Ferringhi Reservoir at about 1 o’clock yesterday 1 a Iter noon. I The victim was a Chinese, who, together with cwo
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    MALAYA’S FOOD SUPPLY DURING CRISES
    1008 7 ipohu 4 PETITION signed by over 280 prominent residents, traders, planters* and property-owners of Perak has been forwarded to His Excellency the High Commissi we, Sir Shenton Thomas, G.C.M.G., 0.8. E., urging the construe- tior of a second road to the Cameron Highlands. .-t present
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    PETTY QUARREL ENDS IN CHOPPER ATTACK
    151 7 Man And Wife In Hospital The attempted murder case in which a young man was alleg- ed to have struck the head of his recently married wife causing an ugly wound on the scalp almost j exposing the brain, was again i brought up
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    Eugenc Goossens,
    20 7 Goossens, famed English ccnductcr of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has brought his wife to England for a holiday.
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    TIME FOR ACTION
    445 8 JV EW S from Tientsin has in the past week overshadowed the negotiations now proceeding in Moscow. Yet the two are linked in that one inference can be drawn from the one and applied to the other. As the “News Chronicle” put it yesterday, the British Government
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    SOCIAL & PERSONAL
    669 8 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mrs. C. Wileon, wife of the Control ler of Labour, arrived in Kuala Lumpur from home last week. Tlie Justice, Sarawak, who is cn. a visit to Malaya, watched proceedings in the First iviagistrate’s Court, Kuala Lum,pur, on Monday. Mr. Hunter Bruce. of Chersonese Estate, Kuala Kurau, and
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    By The Way
    652 8 Over And Over Again T see that clerks in Kuala Lumpur have been exhorted to develop the reading habit. 1 would go one further than the learned lecturer and urge that books be read not only once but, if they are good, should be read over and
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    THE DIARY OF A FOREIGN NEWS EDITOR
    393 8 Wednesday, June 21. “’OT7ARLI KE” preparations are be- ing made in Tientsin. The Volunteer Force in the British Concession has been ordered to stand by for immediate mobilisation while two British warships arrived yesterday afternoon and another due to leave Tientsin today has
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    FRENCH CRUISER AT SINGAPORE
    200 9 Official Landing Of Vice-Admiral Coux FAR EAST DEFENCE TALKS TOMORROW (From Our Owr. Correspondent) Singapore, Today. p I RING a national salute of the French cruiser Lamotte Picquet, bringing Vice-Admiral J. D. Coux, Commander-in-Chief of the French Naval Forces in the Far East, took up her
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    St. Mark’s School Charity Bazaar
    183 9 DONORS THANKED Hie Principal and Staff of St. Mark's School tender their thanks to the following for their contributions in cash and kind to the charity Bazaar held on Friday June 16. and to all others who helped in various ways to contribute to the
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    CHINA RELIEF FUND
    28 9 $36,437.64 Remitted Yesterday The Penang China Distress Relief Fund committee yesterday remitted six drafts, amounting to $36,437.64 in Chinese currency, to the Chinese National Government.
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    MOONLIGHT BAND
    27 9 There will be Moonlight Band performances on the Esplanade Bandstand on June 29 and 30 and July 1 from 8.30 to 10-30 p.m. weather permitting.
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    STABBING IN BAKAU STREET
    396 9 A Month’s Gaol For Chinese r |’’HE accused's version of the story does not coincide with the story of the prosecution. I am quite satisfied that the version of the accused is not quite correct. I am fully certain that the complainant did not go out
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    PEACEFUL AND HAPPY KELANTAN
    69 9 Taking one thing with another 1 doubt whether there are many places in the world at present where there is so much real peaceful happiness and freedom from crushing want or anxiety as there is in a Kelantan counti y village. I hope that no impatient
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    Taking The Hospital To The Patient
    769 9 Health Work In Kelantan 'THE Kelantan Government has to provide for a population more than twice as great as that of the neighbouring State of Pahang with a revenue very considerably lower. It was obvious from the start that in order to maintain an
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    OLD AGE THRIFT SOCIETY
    63 9 Dinner In Honour Of Dr. Ong Huck Chye rjpHE Committee members of the Chinese Old Age Thrift and Loan Society will entertain Dr. Ong Huck Chye to a dinner at the Violet Cafe on Saturday, June 24, at 7 30 p.m. in honour of his being
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    ADVISORY SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
    334 9 M.C.S. Official’s Comments Mr. A. C. Baker, M.C.S., British Adviser to the Government of Kelantan, who is shortly to retire after holding that post for the last seven years, makes some interesting comments on the advisory system in his last annual report on the social and
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    WOMAN INJURED
    100 9 Hand Struck By Passing Lorry A woman comir.g to town in a hired bus was badly injured on the hand at Tanjong Tokong at about 10 o’clock this morning. The woman, who was seated on the right hand side of the bus, put her hand out of the
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    MALAYS TWENTY-FOURTH CONVICTION
    185 9 Sent To Prison For Theft Ipoh. has a tremendously long record of theft, house-breaking and other offences; so many, in fact, that I cannot possibly read them all out,” said Mr. N. B. Thomas, Chief Court Inspector, yesterday when he produced a Malay named Yeop before Mr.
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      191 10 rubber. Buyers Sellers Ayer Panas 1-15 1-20 Bassetts 50 55 Batu Lintangs 1.04 1.07$ Bentas 104 1.07$ Brogas 02 65c Indragiris L2O 1.25 Kuala Siduns 2.30 2.40 Lunas 1.55 1.65 Malaka Pindas 1.20 1.25 Mentakabs 40 42 Pajams 1-75 1.82$ Sungei Tukangs 1.02 J 1.075 c
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    Sungei Tukang Rubber Co., Ltd.
    1035 10 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Chairman Looking Forward To Future With Confidence The nineteenth annual general meeting oi Sungei Tukang Rubber Co.. Ltd., was hold at the Registered Offices of the Company. Chartered Bank Chambers. Penang, yesterday at 11 a.m. Mr. F. H. Grumitt, the Chairman, presiding.
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    Wall Street Cable
    251 10 New York, Tuesday It is indicated that the improved o arn ings trend, plus the prospect of a lunupr rise'in car loadings was responsible f Or the greater strength in Rails. Further evidence of favourable technical significance for the market as a whole seen in the action
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    STOCK EXCHANGE
    74 10 ,—Reuter. London, Tuesday. Substantial final gains were recorded in most groups after an early hesitance. Gilt Edged led the improvement on renewed optimism regarding the Far Eastern situation with Rails and Kaffir.-» following. Silver sumped a halfpenny to 19 1 Bd. on nervous selling induced by the uncertainty
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    EXCHANGE KATES
    125 10 TUESDAY, JUNE 20. Prev. Latent Paris 176 3. 4 176 23/3New York 4.68 1/A 4.68 9 3. Montreal 4.69 5/16 4.69 &lt;l6 Brussels 27.54 27.53 1 2 Geneva 20.77 20.77 Amsterdam 8.81 1/2 8.82 Milan 89 «9 116 Berlin 11.66 1/2 11.67 Stockholm 19.41 19.42 Copenhagen 22.40 22.40
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    PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE
    181 11 Men of 2nd Cheshire* at machine- gun practice on the range at Aidershot. The Wind ar. 1 The Rain caught guests unawares at the Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual garden party, at Great West Airfield, near Hayes, Middlesex. The rain forced them to seek shelter under
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    THE LAW, THE HAT AND THE WOMAN Conflicting Views Of Authorities
    353 12 The question of whether a womarmust wear a hat in a court of law has again been raised, writes a spe-.ial correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” The dourts themselves differ in their rulings, as shown, in three instances within
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    TRAPPED 10 HOURS IN CHIMNEY
    215 12 Steeplejack’s Orfleal Sheffield. May 29. Trapped for 10 hours and half last night in a chimney stack 130 ft. from the ground. John Henry Schofield, 26. a Sheffield steeplejack, of Snaithing-lane. Fulwood, today told me of his ordeal, writes a correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph.
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    WORLD ACHIEVEMENT
    214 12 An All-Steel Train There has been built in the workshops of the Victorian Railways for use cn the Melbourne Sydney run, an all-steel train. A triumph of streamlining, this air-conditioned Spirit of Progress is a modern wonder. Whenever possible the materials and workmanship are Australian. though products from
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    POPE CRITICISED BY DR. BARNES
    488 12 Archbishop On Use Of Title The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, delivered a severe criticism on the Papacy during a speech in the Upper House of Convocation of Canterbury at Westminster recently. Dr. Barnes said that it was useless to speak of the value of
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    £1,500 Spent To Catch Two Thieves
    210 12 Two men who specialised ir. breaking and entering tea shops were each sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment in the second division at London Sessions. They were HAROLD HIRAM LAWE. 24, a baker, and CHARLES EDWARD ARNOLD. 36. a porter, and they pleaded “Guilty” to
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      674 12 in English and Dutch. 9.35 Greetings to our listeners in the “Far East” 9.40 Today in Germany. Sound Pictures. i 0.05 L)&lt;’ht Music. 10.26 *Press Review (English). 10.35 When I am there. I '.ant to dve. .11.20 Sign off (German. English». HOLLAND iTansmission Schedule of the Netherlands Shortwave. Phohi-Stations. P.H.I.
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    The Mails
    366 13 Posting Times At Kuala Lumpur, Ipob And Penang Am uixilLS OUTWARD EUROPE AND THE WEST IMPERIAL (Empire Air Mail): For Burma (except Victoria Point). India Aden. Palestine. Egypt- Sudan. Kenya. Tanganyika. Uganda, Zanzibar. Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Nyasaland. South Africa. Great Britain, Ireland. Canada and Newfoundland. Kuala Lumpur
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    PROTECTING WOMEN AND CHILDREN
    225 13 Men who were a menace to wjmen; were referred to by Mr. Justice Stab'e at Manchester Assizes, when he passed sentence of 14 years’ penal servitude on Frederick Blyth Gibson. 28, ..r, of nosaneath Road. Urmston, Lancashire. Gibson had been found gnilty on; a charge of
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    PENANG SHIPPING NEWS
    1197 13 Arrivals TODAY, JUNE 21. s.s. “Gihyo Maru’’ from Japan. s.s. “Pres. Polk” from San. Francisco. rn.v. "Glenroy” from United Kingdom via Suez. s.s. “Bangka” from Tandjong-Poera. TOMORROW, JUNE 22. s.s. “Phemius” from Singapore. s.s. “Mata Hari” from Singapore via ports. FRIDAY, JUNE 23. s.s. “Agamemnon" from Singapore.
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    PASSING OF FAMOUS GOLFER
    635 14 C. B. Macdonald Pioneer Of Game In America London. DECENTLY there appeared a short paragraph announc ing l the death in America of Mr. Charles Blair Macdo.nald. He was a man of truly remarkable character, a towering figure in the history of American golf. So many
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    ARE YOE STUMPED?
    130 14 pRICKET POSER No. B. The striker leans forward to play the hall, misses it and the wicket keeper whips off the bails. An appeal is made to the square leg umpire. The striker’s toe is right on the popping crease. Is he in or out? Answer to
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    TABLE-TENNIS
    130 14 Easy Win For Chin W 00 The Chin Woo had no difficulty in beating the “Happy-Strong” team at tabletennis by a matches to 2 at the Chin Woo premises. There was a large crowd present and the tit-bit of the evening was the match between Chan Kar Seng and
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    India Tour Of Tennis Stars Off
    57 14 Simla, June 7. The proposed tour in India of Budge. Vines and Perry, the professional tennis players, has been cancelled as some of the important cities have" expressed their inability to invite them to play, according to intimation received here by Mr. C. N.
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    PENANG SHOULD FORM TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION
    870 14 By “ACHILLES 99 On Carnes And Players A LL followers of tablex tennis will agree £hat it is high time that Penang has a controlling body for the game. Singapore and the majority of the States in the Federation have associations, but Penang has
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    DEATH OF MR. G.H. POWNALL
    115 14 Well-known New Zealand Sports Authority Sydney. Mr. Geoffrey H. Pownall, the president of the New Zealand Rugby Union in 1932, and a former .president of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, died suddenly at Wanganui at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. Pownall, one of the
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    EXCELLENT SOCCER AT GLUGOR
    1437 15 Police Go Down To Garrison Reserves j'HREE interesting matches in the Second Division of i Tk enang Fo tba ll League were played yester.av. They resulted in victories for Ithe Garrison Reserves, the Marines and the Harbour Board over the I olice, the Indians B and
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    SELANGOR TENNIS
    251 15 Mixed Doubles Semi-finals (From Our Own Correspondent' Kuala Lumpur. Tennis of a high class was served up in yesterday’s ties in the Selangor Championships when Mr. and Mrs. Leong Hoe Yeng met Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Sinclair in one of the semi-finals of thc Mixed Doubles in
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    CHARITY BASKETBALL
    133 15 Penang Chung Hwa I eani To Play In Jpoh The Penang Chung Hwa Basketball Team will leave for Ipoh by 830 a.in. mail-train on June 23 to play a number !of matches there. The gross proceeds of i gate admission will go to thc China I Distress Relief
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    PENANG GOLD CUP MEETING
    279 15 The Programme DISTANCES AND STAKES The Penang Turf Club will hold a fourday Gold Cup Meeting on Saturday. August 5. Monday, August 7. Wednesday, August 9 and Saturday. August 12. Two runs arc provided for Classes 1. 2, 3 and 4 Horses and Class 2 Ponies.
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    Programme For Triangular Aquatic Meet
    155 15 Ipoh. The programme for the Triangular Aquatic Sports Competition between the Kinta Swimming Club, the Penang Chinese Swimming Club and the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club to be held in Ipoh on August 5 and 6 has been drawn up as follows: SATURDAY, AUG. 5 3.30
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    PENANG BOWLS
    163 15 Sports Club To Meet Ex-Servicemen The following teams have been selected for a Bowls match arranged betweep the Penang Sports Club and the Ex-Services Association of Malaya (Penang Branch) to be played on the Western Road rinks at 5 p.m. tomorrow: P.S.C. E.S.A.M. F. N. Syer (capt.) J.
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    CHINESE ENGINEERS WIN AT BADMINTON
    27 15 In a game of badminton the Chinese Engineering Association beat the Penang Chin Woo on Saturday by 4 doubles out of S.
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      410 15 ALTERATIONS to TIME TABLE From June 27th, 1939, until further notice MONDAY TO SATURDAY SUNDAY Leave Singapore 7.00 a.m 8.00 a.m. Arrive Kuala Lumpur 8.40 a.m 9.40 a.m. Leave Kuala Lumpur 8.55 a.m 9.55 a.m. Arrive Ipoh 9.55 a.m 10.55 a.m. -I Leave Ipoh 10.05 a.m 11.05 a.m. Arrive Penang
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    GREAT WELCOME HOME FOR THEIR MAJESTIES
    157 16 Ships Of Home Fleet Will Fire Royal Salute London, June 20. Plans have been completed for the great welcome which will be accorded Their Majesties when they reach England on Thursday. Ships of the Home Fleet will fire \a Royal Salute as the Empress
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    JAPANESE LAND NEAR SWATOW
    43 16 s.—Reuter. Hongkong, June 21. JAPANESE Army and Navy units effected a landing in two places in the vicinity of Swatow according to an official Japanese communique. Despite the stiff resistance the Japanese claim to be pushing inland. Fighting progresses.—Reuter.
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    HEAVY RAIN AT K.L.
    25 16 Our Kuala Lumpur correspondent wires that owing to heavy rain at 5.30 there was no early-morning track work, at the racecourse.
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    MARKET PRICES
    73 16 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. MIDDAY, QUOTATIONS. Penang Tin $115.50 Business 50 tons Singapore Tin $115.50 RUBBER: Penang &lt;BpoL) 28 l/2c Singapore (Spot) 28 5/8c COPRA: Sundried $3.85 Black Pepper $lO.OO TAPIOCA: Medium $3.17| Fair Seed $2.75 RICE: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $6.60 No. 2 $6.50 Rangoon White No. 1
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    Penang Open Badminton Championships
    476 16 FIXTURES FOR WEEK-END A start will be made with the Penang open badminton championships at the Penang Free School Hall on Saturday. Below are the fixtures for the day. 3.00 p.m: Doubles—-Tan Kin Hong and Ooi Teik Hock v. Khoo Eng Ann and Song Yok Kooi.
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    BRITISH LORRY, CARRYING FOOD, DEFIES JAPANESE
    640 16 And Is Allowed To Pass Unmolested TIENTSIN BLOCKADE Lord Halifax’s Statement Throws Little Light [Delayed by Censor] Tientsin, June 20. The first British effort to overcome the Japanese food restrictions (proved successful when a lorry ventured out into the Japanese controlled countryside and returned
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    WEST INDIES DRAW WITH LEICESTER
    394 16 Home Cricket Results match at Leicester between Leicestershire and the West Indies was drawn. West Indies 182 (Smith 5 for 53) and 314 for 8 wickets; Leicestershire 216 (Martindale 5 for 57). At Birmingham, Worcestershire won on the first innings. Worcestershire 271 (Mayer 6 for
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    INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW
    74 16 Reuter. London, June 20. In the international horse show Lieutenant Colonel Alessandro Bettoni of Italy, riding his fourteen-year-old chestnut gelding Adlgrat, won the King George V Gold Challenge Cup after a jump off with Captain Bizard France, riding his ten-year-.old black gelding Hondruas, on which he won
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