Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 April 1941

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    23 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION iMWI* ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY No. 95. Vol. XCIX. TUESDAY, APRIL 22. 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    ROOSEVELT TO VISIT CANADA
    239 1 Between May 10 And 15 MR. MACKENZIE KING BACK FROM U.S. Importance Of Latest Agreement OTTAWA, APRIL 22. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT MAY VISIT CANADA BEr TWEEN MAY 10 AND 15. THIS WAS ANNOUNCED BY MR. MACKENZIE KING WHO SAID THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WAS ANXIOUS TO VISIT OTTAWA
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    SABOTAGE IN BELGIUM
    68 1 s. —Reuter. Nazi Threats Of Reprisals London, April 21. Following numerous acts of sabotage and ‘‘hostility towards the army of occupation” in Hainaut Province, Belgium, German authorities have issued a threat of severe reprisals, states the “Inbel,” (Free Belgian News Agency). These, it states, will include: taking
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    RISE IN U.S. INCOME TAX FORESEEN
    143 1 chewing gum and soft drinks. Reuter. Washington, April 22. The people of the United States may shortly have to pay more in income tax It is reported that the Treasury has proposed to Congress that the basic individual rate for income tax shall be
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    DR. WELLINGTON KOO
    81 1 .—Reuter. On ay To Lisbon I o Meet Dr. Quo Chungking, April 20. Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to the Vichy Government, is on his way to Lisbon to meet Dr. Quo Tai-chi. the new Chinese Foreign Minister, who is to return to Chungking from London by
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    RAID ON MALTA
    66 1 —Reuter. One Enemy Aircraft Shot Down Malta, April 19. A large formation of enemy aircraft rained Malta early this morning. Anti-aircraft defences engaged them destroying one aircraft which crashed into the sea. Four persons were killed and eight seriously injured while seven sustained minor injuries. Bombs were
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    "PAPER DRIVE”
    67 1 .-BOW. Opening Of Salvage Campaign At Reading Rugby, April 21. Household salvage has already saved Britain sixty shiploads of paper and enough metal to build twenty thousand tanks. The Joint Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Supply revealed these figures at the opening of Reading’s “paper drive”—one of
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    VON PAPEN SEES HITLER
    36 1 Reuter, Vichy, April 21. Tne German Ambassador to Turkey, Herr von Papen has been received be-’ Hitler at his itinerant headquarters in the Balkans, according to news reaching here from Swiss sources.—Reuter,
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    "WORLD’S GREATEST STATESMAN”
    104 1 Reuter. Duct Unwilling To Concede Position I o Hitler Rugby April 21. In spite of the contempt in which Germany now holds Italy, Mussolini still appears unwilling to concede to Hitler the position of the “worlds greatest statesman.' While sycophantic eulogies of the Fuehrer on the occasion
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    'No Telling Who Will Win This War'
    97 1 A JAPANESE VIEW Rcutt f* Tokio, April 21. is no telling which side is going to win the r .ur peon war in the long run,” declared the noted political com- -nentator. Mr Murobuse, speaking at a debate under the auspices of the
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    VICHY CABINET RESHUFFLE LIKELY
    115 1 London, April 22. r PHE possibility of a reshuffle of Marshal Petain’s Cabinet is being discussed in Vichy, according to “Afi” information from the French frontier. —Reuter. German successes in North Africa and the Balkans, it says, appears to have strengthened the position of those favouring
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    HEAVY A.-A. FIRE GREETS NIGHT RAIDERS
    164 1 LIKE GIANT FIREWORKS DISPLAY ).—REUTER. LONDON, APL. 22. I\JAZI BOMBERS LAST NIGHT LAUNCHED AN INTENSIVE ATTACK ON A SOUTH WEST ENGLAND COAST TOWN AND IT IS FEARED THAT DAMAGE WAS CONSIDERABLE. THE RAIDERS WERE MET BY SUCH HEAVY ANTI-AIR-CRAFT BARRAGE THAT TO FIRE WATCHERS
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    Hitler And Mussolini Meeting To Divide Yugoslav Spoils?
    155 1 .—Reuter. Berne, April 22. 11ITLLK and Mussolini will study the question of the partitioning of Yugoslavia after preliminary talks have been held In Vienna between Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, states a Rome telegram. According to a Budapest despatch to the
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    Allied Line Successfully Reformed Without Being Broken
    334 1 CONFUSION AMONG ITALIANS Athens, April 22. TXESPITE violent German attack the Greek line on the MaceU donian front has not been broken, according to a statement by the Athens Radio. The statement says: lines were adapted according to plan, zdithout being broken through
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    INDIA AS SUPPLIER OF WAR MATERIALS
    87 1 —Reuter. Orders From Australia. Malaya And Egypt New Delhi, April 21. Hie layout of railway workshops for the production of artillery tractors is proceeding satisfactorily and the first body is nearing completion. The capacity production of rifles and bayonets is substantially expanding. The chief
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    SCIENCE WINS
    250 1 It is a well established fact that millions of dollars are expended annually in repairing the damage done by Termites or White Ants as they* are commonly called. In a recent press survey, it was shown that on the estimates of the Kuala Lumpur Works and Buildings Department,
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    Her Majesty the Queen
    50 1 Her Majesty the Queen and her elder daughter. A delightjul picture of her Majesty photographed with Princess Elizabeth who an Sunday celebrated her fifteenth birthday quietly with her parents and sister. Hundreds of congratulatory messages were received from the Empire and the United States, says Reuter.
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    Empire And Greek Forces Taking Up New Defensive Positions
    766 2 HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED ON ENEMY BY ANZACS Cairo, April 21. forces in Greece, in conformity with the movement of the Greek Army fighting on left, are approaching their new defensive positions, states today s Middle East communique. This withdrawal has been
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    VATICAN’S ATTACK ON NAZI REGIME
    131 2 .—Reuter. Treatment Of Catholics In Germany London. April 21 Another sharp attack on the Nazi regime for its treatment of the Catholic Church in Germany was made last night by the Vatican City radio announcer in a French language broadcast. He recalled the “painful words
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    POSSIBILITY OF EVACUATION
    420 2 No Illusions In London Regarding Outcome London, April 21. That there are no illusions regarding the possible outcome of the situation in Greece where Empire troops and Greeks are fighting one of the world’s greatest defensive battles is stressed in today’s press comment on the news of
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    British Continue Pursuit Of Italians
    321 2 r. —Reuter. FIGHTING IN DESSIE AREA London, April 21. A Middle East communique states that in the Tobruk sector there is nothing of importance to report. At Solium, British patrols have again been active. Fighting about Dessie in Abyssinia continues. Further south satisfactory progress has
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    LONDONERS CAN TAKE IT
    212 2 —8.0. W. (.011 rage Of 16-Year-Old Messenger Boy Rugby, April 21. Among the many press reports of courage and coolness on the parf. of London’s civil population in last night’s and Wednesday night’s indiscriminate raids on the capital is one describing how a sixteen-year-old messenger boy,
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    SOVIET POLICY OF INDEPENDENCE
    172 2 Silence On Pact Vi ith Japan Broken Renter London, April 21. There is still very considerable doubt as regards the precise scope and meaning of the SovietJapanese pact, it is learned. The Japanese press and official spokesman welcomed it as a tremendous score for Mr. Matsuoka.
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    Luftwaffe Defeated In Big Air Battle Over Greek Capital
    263 2 R.A.F. "BAGS" 16 London, April 21. An Air Ministry communique notifies that the R.A.F. yesterday secured its biggest bag in one day since Germany began her offensive in Greece. At least sixteen enemy aircraft were shot down. Fourteen were destroyed in
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    NO ANGLO-CHINESE- U.S. PACT
    82 2 NO ANGLO-CHINESE-U.S. PACT .—Reuter Tokyo Reports it lion t Foundation Sydney, April 21. Commenting on the Tokyo report that a naval and military pact is alleged to have been signed by Britain, the United States. China, Australia, India and the Dutch East Indies. Sir Frederick Stewart, Commonwealth Minister for External
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    TWO NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN
    101 2 .—Reuter. I nsuccessful Attack On British Minesweper London, April 21. How a British minesweeper destroyed two German aircraft without sustaining damage or casualties is told in an Admiralty communique issued this morning. The minesweeper, Bassett, was attacked by four Messerschmitt 110 s. One exploded in
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    CROAT PRISONERS
    55 2 .—Reuter. Allowed By Hungarians To Return Home Budapest, April 20. Admiral Horthy has ordered the release of Yugoslav war prisoners of Croat nationality, according to Budapest newspapers, says a Budapest despatch to the Official German News Agency. The prisoners will be allowed to return to their homes in
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    R.A.F. Defies Weather To Raid Cologne
    167 2 —Reuter. London, April 21. /''OLOGNE, Dusseldorf and Aachen were bombed by the R.A.F. last night. The R.A.F. attacked a number of objectives in Germany and German occupied territory last night, according to an Air Ministry communique. Large fires were seen when bombers attacked Cologne
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    Roosevelt’s Call To U.S. Doctors
    138 2 .—Reuter. "Help Our British Friends" Washington, Apr. 20 President Roosevelt last night urged American Doctors to volunteer to serve in military and civilian hospitals of "Our British friends,” in a statement issued from his home here. The President said the British Red Cross had appealed
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    ROOSEVELT THANKED
    154 2 For British Red Cross Appeal London .April 21. The Minister of Health, Mr. Ernest Brown, thanked President Roosevelt today for supporting the British Red Cross appeal for American doctors to serve with the British fighting services and civilian hospitals. In a message issued to the press, Mr. Brown
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    RAID ON MALTA
    82 2 Renter. Three Fiat Fighters Shot Down Into Sea Malta, April 21. A small formation of Italian Savoia bombers, escorted by Italian Fiat Biplane fighters and Messerschmitts, flew over Malta yesterday morning. Bombs were dropped in the sea and anti-aircraft defences were heavily engaged. British fighters shot down
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    “World’s History In Next 100 Days"
    257 3 VfK. John Biggers, Defence Pro ‘’l duction Director of the Office o* Production Management, the supreme defence co-ordinating body, testifying before the House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee recently, said that the United States was 100 days from the -tass production of defence supplies,
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    CZECHS HIDE ,FOOD FROM NAZIS
    170 3 Many Cattle Secretly Slaughtered The Czechs are fighting the Nazis with a secret weapon. It is food. Last yeaf 250,000 pigs, 45,000 calves and 2,000 head of cattle were secretly slaughtered, according to news reaching London recently. About 13,000 wagon-loads of grain—chiefly rye and wheat
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    FRENCH INDO-CHINA REINFORCEMENTS
    45 3 French forces in Indo-China have been strengthened further by the arrival from France of 400 Colonia troops in Saigon, the capital, according to foreign reports from IndoChina. The same srteamer also brought a large quantity of munitions, says a report reaching Shanghai.
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    TEN MILLION FOB SPITFIRES
    780 3 Money Pours In From All Over The World I HAVE just been to the Minis try of Aircraft Production (writes William Mundy ii; the ‘Daily Mail’’). T have never been among so much money in my life Every morning of every day there descend on Lord
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    INVENTORS LOSE THEIR ENTHUSIASM
    272 3 VALUABLE war inventions had been lost because of the indifference of the Defence authorities, according to Me Charles O. Harrison, consulting engineer, of Loftus Street, says the Sydney Morning Herald. Scientists and engineers had lost their enthusiasm because they were convinced the Defence authorities had no
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    PRINCESS ELIZABETH
    52 3 Princess Elizabeth is attending special lectures on fire-fighting and A.R.P. precautions now being given to the staff and tenants of the King’s country estates. She has been taught how to use the stirrup pump and to give artificial respiration to other workers who might be overcome by smoke
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    A NEW ATLANTIC ALLIANCE
    1547 3  -  HOW n tLL HITLER FALL? Bv (r eor s e Sloc o m b e L iThu Famous Foreign Correspondeni I N the smoking-room of a modest club in London, an exiled King sits in conference with his Ministers. When their Cabinet meeting is over. King
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    Training Malayan Fliers As Fighter Pilots
    477 4 xMALAYAN pilots who gained their certificates in Malayan -IVI flying clubs and upon the outbreak of war joined the Royal Air Force in Singapore, may soon be sent to a fighter squadron now stationed in Malaya, which is equipped with speedy Brewster Buffalo fighters—to
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    STABBED HIS WIFE
    79 4 Tamin tin Buyong, a Malay carpenter, appeared before the Seremban Magistrate, Mr. J. A. A. Faith, to answer a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to I‘Lesan binti Jalil at Lenggong. He claimed trial and was undefended. Lesan told the court that she was Tamin’s wife, and on
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    MALAYA USING UP HARD WOOD MUCH TOO FAST
    2234 4 90,000 Tons Consumed In A Y ear BOUND TO BE PAINFUL SHORTAGE Malaya is using up hard wood, like merbau and chengaL much too fast and there is bound to be a painful shortage between the exhaustion of supplies from virgin forest
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    USED PARANG ON NINE MEN
    72 4 Segan-At “1 was off my head and did not kno what I did,” said Nfe Hoi, of S’ Cha’ah, when brought before Xn-- e Haroun bin Aiunad, the Segamat trate on a charge of causing hurt -With a parang to nine compatriots. It was stated
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    Lecture On Incendiaries Illustrated By Experiments
    198 5 KEDAH AIK RAID WARDENS GET PRACTICAL LESSONS Alor Star. A very interesting as well as instructive lecture on incendiaries was given by the Divisional Warden for North Kedah. Mr. J.. D. Whitfield, to a group of Air Raid Wardens in the Science Laboratory of
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    SOCIAL & PERSONAL
    424 5 SOCIAL PERSONAL Mi and Mrs. H. C. de Wind, of Sin-, gapore, are on a holiday in I’enang. Mr. H. R. Ross, M.C.S., has been! appointed to act as Assistant Secretary to the British Resident, Selangor. He assumed duties on April 15 ;k Mr. A. J. Bostock Hill, who vas.
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    SERVICES CLUB FIND $100 From Oversea Chinese Bank
    43 5 A contribution of $lOO towards tne Services Club Fund in Penang has been received from the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation, Contributions should be sent to Mr. R. A. Green, at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
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    $l,OOO BAIL
    171 5 Criminal Breach Of Trust Charge Bail in the sum of $l,OOO allowed a Singapore Chinese. Lun Chin See, who appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday on a charge of criminal breach of trust within the jurisdiction of Singapore After the charge had
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    NORTH MALAYA WAR FUND $1,506,516
    408 5 The War Fund total in North Malaya stands at 81,506,516.61. made up of Penang $959,307.39 and Perak $547.209.22. Kir. C. T. Bridger has sent $lOO and] Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lancaster iiniiar' amount. A sum of $5O ha- beer ctee veu from the P.W.D.
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    CHARGE OF THEFT
    175 5 A man with four aliases appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Penang Middle Court yesterday on a charge of theft within the jurisdiction of Tronoh, Perak. He was Wong Ah Kong, his aliases being Wong San.. Wong Juan, and Wong Tin After the charge had
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    GIRL’S COMPLAINT AGAINST YOUNG MALAY
    579 5 Ibrahim bin Devan, a young Malay of 23 and said to be married, was charged at the Penang Assize ourt yesterday, before Mr. Justice C. W. V Carey with a grave offence on an 11-y ear-old Malay girl, Mymoonah binti Hashim, on December 2 last
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    FACING FACTS
    437 6 \y mi the battle in Greece approaching the critical stage, the question arises: Will there be another Dunkirk? While there can be no denying that the Greeks and the British and Imperial forces are fighting most heroically against odds which must inevitably wear down even the best troops
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    Around The Town
    129 6 ODEON CINEMA: "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable. 3, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. vIAJESTIO CINEMA: “Too Many Girls.” 3, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. BEX CINEMA. "Adventures of Robin Hood’ with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. 3, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. IL’EEN’S CINEMA:
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    Diary of a Foreign News Editor
    618 6 Tuesday, April 22. determination of Greece and I Yugoslavia not to abandon the struggle is reflected in two statements made yesterday by the new Greek Premier, M. Tsouderos, and young King Peter of Yugoslavia. “TY7E shall carry on our country’s fight to a victorious
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    By The Way
    526 6 War And Marriages DOTH interest and encouragement are to be found in the British Registrar’s latest returns of briths, deaths and marriages. They relate to the first half of last year, and reveal that both marriages and births were the highest reached within the last decade. The
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    Wives Of Men in Services To Be Evacuated From The Philippines
    340 7 ORDER TO BE CARRIED OUT BY JUNE THE story of the evacuation of wives and children of men of the American fighting services in the Philippines by order of the United States High Command was brought to Singapore on
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    BAND PROGRAMME
    60 7 Today on the Esplanade from 6 pun. to 7.30 p.m March A Bunch Of Roses Chapi Overture The White Queen Metra Selection 50 Years Of Song Brown Vvaitz Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life Herbert Cornet Solo I Know Of Two Bright Eyes Clutsam Selection Leslie Stuart’s Songs Godfrey
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    BLUE HAWAIIANS TO BROADCAST TOMORROW
    212 7 Miss I). Theseira To Sing HIGHLIGHTS IN TOMORROW’S BROADCAST PROGRAMME FROM ZII.J (PENANG) WILL BE A HALF HOUR’S ENTERTAINMENT FROM THE STUDIO BY THE BLUE HAWAIIANS FROM 7.45 P.M. TO 8.15 P.M., DURING WHICH MISS DAPHNE THESEIRA WILL CONTRIBUTE FOUR ITEMS. Miss Theseira, who is
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    RAFFLES SCHOOL CHANGES PROMOTION SYSTEM
    226 7 Better Results Now W itk Exam. As Deckling Factor CHANGES in rules relating to promotion of boys from one class to another are having important results in Raffles School, reports the school magazine, The Rafflesian. Until recently, boys were transferred from one class to another
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    CHINA’S TEA EXPORTS TO BE INCREASED
    505 7 Industry Now Being Developed Inland “In a few years, China expects to export more and more tea to foreign countries than has been produced and exported from the coastal region, most of which is now being destroyed by Japanese militarists,” said Dr. Linnwei Shao,
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    CHINESE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
    58 7 Meeting Postponed The twenty-fourth annual general meeting of the Chinese 'Benevolent Association, which was announced to be held at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at 5.15 p.m. yesterday, was postponed for lack of a quorum. The postponed meeting will be held at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce
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    FIRST AID CLASSES IN PROVINCE
    47 7 Classes in First Aid will be held at the Railway Institute, Prai, on Tuesday and Friday evenings at 6.30 p.m. from ti ls week. Residents of Butterworth and Prai desirous of enrolling are requested to turn up on either of these evenings.
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    PETROL RATION FOR MAT UNCHANGED
    25 7 Singapore. The Competent Authority for Oil, Fuel and Lubricants advises that the basic petrol ration for May will be unchanged.
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    SCHOOLBOY FOUND DROP NED IN RIVER Alor Star.
    110 7 An 11-year-oid Chinese school pupil was found drowned in the river close to the school compound during the week-end. The boy, Ho Lip Yong, was a pupil of the Chinese School at Kampong Perak. It was stated that he was in the
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    No Proceedings Against Mines Inspector
    183 7 INQUIRY CHAIRMAN MAKES STATEMENT KUALA LUMPUR, TODAY. AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING A. H. V M. CRETCH, INSPECTOR OF MINES, BATU GAJAH, WAS MADE BY THE] CHAIRMAN OF THE MINES COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY, THE HON. MR. E. D. SHEARN, THIS MORNING, WHEN A PUBLIC SESSION WAS
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    RAIDS ON MANY ASSOCIATIONS IN KINTA
    102 7 Arrests Made And Documents Seized Ipoh Today. Early on Monday morning, a number of Chinese associations in Kinta were raided by officers and men of the Perak Detective Branch. Six Chinese were detained and a number of documents seized. The associations raided were the
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    APPELLATE TRIBUNAL TO SIT ON SATURDAY
    26 7 There will be a sitting of the Appellate Tribunal at the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 26.
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    TROWELL APPEALS AGAINST MAGISTRATES DECISION
    278 7 Ipoh. Certain remarks made by the Magistrate in his grounds of judgment in the case in which J. H .A. Trowell, former Chief Inspector of Machinery, Ipoh, was sentenced to four months’ simple imprisonment on three charges of accepting various sums of money from three
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    Patriotic Fund Mali Jong
    27 7 The monthly mahjong in aid of the Malaya Patriotic Fund will be held tomorrow at the Penang Sports Club at the usual time.
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    Anzac Club Proves Popular Rendezvous
    170 7 400 A.I.F. VISITORS FROM ANOTHER STATE Kuala Lumpur. The new building of the Anzac Club which is situated opposite the Town Hall, was practically filled to capacity on Saturday when about 400 Australians stationed in another State were brought to Kuala Lumpur for the day.
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE
    74 8 Penang April 21, 1941 &V Courtesy of the Chartered Bank./ SELLING London Demand 2 4 3 32 New York, Demand 47.16 Montreal Demand 51.91 Batavia Demand 88.82 Calcutta Bombay) Rangoon Demand) 156 Hongkong Demand 53 5 8 Shanghai Demand H 15 16 Japan Demand 193 1, 2 New
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      MINING
      459 8 Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Penang and Ipoh sections) at noon 22nd April, 1941 Issue Buyers Sellers 4/0 Ampat Tin 3/0 3/6 5/0 Austral Amal. 6/6 6/9 £1 Austral Malay 33/6 35/0 5/0 Ayer Hitam 17/3 17/9 $1 Ayer Weng .75 .80 £1 Bangrin Tin 12/0 13/0 $1
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      RUBBERS
      229 8 Lsue Buyers Sellers Allenby 1.12* 1.17* Alor Gajah .80 .85 Amal Malay 1.60 1.65 Ayer Hitam .90 .95 Ayer Molek 1.07 J 112* Ayer Panas 1.015 1.10 Bassett .40 .43 Batu Lintang 1.05 1.07* Bedford .85 .88ex Benta .97* 1.02* Borelli 1.32* 1.40 Broga .60 .62* Brunei United .55
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      GENERAL
      336 8 Issue Buyers Sellers A£l Austral N.Z. Ord. 22/0 23/0 $2 Alex Brick Ord 1.87* 1.92* $2 Alex Brick 7*% Pref. 2.10 2.15 $5 B. M. T. 7.50 7.75 £5 Chartered Bank £B* £9c £1 Con. T. S. Ord. 16/15 17/0 £1 Con. T. S. 7% Pref. 19/9 20/6 $5
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      LIST or CURRENT DIVIDENDS
      162 8 MINING Dividend Books Close Payable Batu Selangors 5% 1.5.41 8 5 41 Chenderiang 5% L.T. 30 4 41 Kent 5% L. T 304 41 Klang Rivers 7*% 22.4.41 26 4 41 Kuala Lumpur is. AC. 24 4 41 Kramat Tin 25% 24.4.41 30 4 41 Larut
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    ALEXANDRA BRICKWORKS
    271 8 Profit Of §65,668 For Year The thirteenth ordinary' general meeting of Alexandra Brickworks, Ltd. will be held at the office of the secretaries, the Borneo Company, Ltd., Mercantile Bank Building, Singapore, on Saturday, April 19, at 12.30 p.m. The works at Singapore and Pulai remained in full production
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    "E.P.T. KEEPS TAX YIELD DOWN”
    458 8 Mr. E. B. Laycock On ages Policy An attack on 100 per cent. E.P.T. was made by Mr. E. B. Laycock, acting president of Leeds Chamber of Commerce, at ■the annual meeting. A properly thought-out wages policy was, he said, in part tied up with
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    SHIPS SUNK OFF COAST OF AFRICA
    74 8 Landing Of Survivors In Brazil Rio de Janeiro, April 21. Two lifeboats manned by 33 British sailors have reached Curupu island twenty miles from Saoluiz in Maranhao state. They stated they were survivors from a ship sunk off the East African Coast 33 days
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    PARIT PERAK RUBBER
    338 8 Directors’ Report And Accounts The twenty-fifth ordinary general meeting of the Parit Perak Rubber Co., Ltd., will be held at the registered office, 33, Eeach Street, Penang, on Saturday, April 26, at 12 noon. Subject to confirmation at the ordinary general meeting, a final dividend of 10%
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    LONDON’S GALLANT FIRE WATCHERS
    281 8 Few Serious Blazes In Wednesday’s Big Raid Rugby, April 19. Although Wednesday night’s raid on London was the heaviest so far experienced and the total number of fires exceeded those during the “BVv" last month, the number of more ious fires was actually fewer in proportion
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    SEMBILAN ESTATES COMPANY
    460 8 Heavy Burden Of E.P.T. The adjourned thirty-fifth annual ordi nary general meeting of the Semcllan Estates Co., Ltd., was held at 10 Ola Jewry, London, E.C. Mr, C. R. Gilliat (chairman of the com. pany) presided, and in the course of his speech said: “During the year
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    MARKET QUOTATIONS
    128 8 Yesterday's Close Previously TIN LONDON "Spot” £271. 0. 0. “Forward” £267 0 0 SINGAPORE "Spot” $135.62^ 2 $135.75 Business dons 50 tons 50 tons PENANG "Spot” 5135.75 RUBBER: LONDON "Spot” i 4 7|l6d “Forward” 14 318 d. Tone Easier SINGAPORE S P ot 39 34c 39 3|4c PENANG
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    HELPS MEMBERS TO FIND SYCES
    216 9 Singapore A.A.M. Service Singapore. The service which the Automobile Association of Malaya (Singapore Branch) gives to its members has included the finding of suitable syces as yvell as arranging employment for syces of members leaving the country, according to the annual report of the Association
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    SOLDIER REFUSES TO SIGN BOND
    248 9 Sentence Altered To Fine Singapore. A soldier who was ordered to be bound over in a surety of $lOO to be of good behaviour for six months, refused to sign the bond in the Singapore fifth court. He was George Chislett, of the Loyal Regiment,
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    THE MAILS
    181 9 TUESDAY. APRIL 22. 1941. Postage Latest Time of Destination Letters Postcards Superscription Posting at Penang per oz. each Ordinary Regn. AIR MAILS Tues. 22nd Inst. Ipoh, K. Lumpur Weames Air Singapore i 10 .05 Services 1.30 p.m. 1 p.m. EUROPE All destinations 1.30 .65 Air to New York
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    On Way Back To China
    254 9 What Envoy Has Seen Done In Malaya OIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR, British Ambassador to China, has left Malaya for Chungking with a comprehensive picture in his mind of plans for the Ihnd, sea and air de-, .fence of this part of the world in the
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    R.A.M.C. CORPORAL MARRIES DOCTOR
    291 9 Singapore Weddings Singapore Dr. Agnes Mary Ramsbotham, resident doctor of St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital, was married on Saturday morning to Cpl. Noel Dunn, Royal Army Medical Corps, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Dr. Ramsbotham is the daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. A. Ramsbotham. and Cpl.
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      3206 9 iXjL TWTTWTW SINGAPORE KWEIYANG W W I I ZHL 1,333 kc/s (225 mJ XPSA (49.0 metres? ■W4| 1 wrfl W ,1 > I F ZHPI 9.69 mc/s (30.96 mJ 4.50 a.m. National Anthem—News for M. 7W W w I ZHP2 6.175 mc/s (48.58 mJ the press in Chinese. ZHP3 725
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      37 9 SYDNEY VI4Q 9.61 Mc/s (31.2 mJ (From 8.35 p.m. to 9.50 pm.) 8.40 pm. Programme and News in French. 9.05 Programme and News In English. 9.30 Programme and News in D4tclt- (Related from London). 9.50 Close down.
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    “UPS AND DOWNS” OF BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
    653 10 Two Of Three Best I -Boat Aces Accounted For London, April 20 Germany has now lost two of her three best U-boat aces. This news was given by Mr. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking of the successes in the “ups and
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    ITALIAN TANKER SINK ON WAY TO TRIPOLI
    64 10 i—B.O.W. Rugby, Apr. 21 An Admiralty communique states: “Further loss has been inflicted upon supplies intended for the enemy armies in Libya. H.M. submarine, Tetrarch, has sunk a fully laden enemy tanker on its way to Tripoli.” The Tetrarch less than ten months
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    Nazis Demand Of Rumania Greater Collaboration
    206 10 VIOLENT SCENES BETWEEN ANTONESCU GERMAN MINISTER —Reuter. London, April 21. Violent scenes between General Antonescu and the German Minister, Herr Von Killinger, resulted from the increasing Nazi pressure to bring Rumania into more active “collaboration” with the Reich, according to information reaching the Istanbul
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    Resistance Continues In Yugoslavia
    888 10 ARMED BAND OF 8,000 FIGHTING WAY SOUTH German Casualties Of 30,000 In Kachanic Region New York, April 21 The Macedonian Komitaji resistance in Yugoslavia is continuing, according to a report received in Berne from a neutral diplomat somewhere in Serbia, says the “New York Times” Berne
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    GERMAN TANKS FIRE ON ITALIANS OUTSIDE TOBRUK
    37 10 —Reuter. New York, Apr. 21 German tanks have fired on the Italians outside Tobruk, says a war correspondent of the “New York Herald Tribune” in a dispatch via Cairo. —Reuter.
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    R.A.F. Activity In Libya
    193 10 >. —Reuter Aerodromes, Troops And Transport Bombed Cairo, Apr. 20 R.A.F. bombers and fighters inflicted heavy casualties and damage on enemy personnel and material in Tripolitania as well as in Cyrenaica during yesterday and the previous night, according to an R.A.F. communique. Enemy motor transport were
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    HEINKEIL SHOT DOWN NEAR LONDON AREA
    247 10 f.—Reuter Hurricane Pilot's Third Victim This Month Rugby, April 20. A 32-year-old Hurricane pilot, who has already “bagged” two night raiders on two separate nights this month last night, has destroyed another, says the Air Ministry News Service. He had destroyed two on one
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    BACKED BY U.S. AID
    51 10 .—Reuter. •’British Empire Simply Unbeatable’' London, April 21. “The British Empire backed by United States aid is simply unbeatable” declared the Netherlands Minister in Washington, M. Alexander Lcudon, in an interview with the “Cleveland News” today. “I am convinced Hitler is going to be defeated,” he
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    KING PETERS NOW IN ATHENS
    32 10 —Reuter. Berlin, April 21 King Peter of Yugoslavia is in Athens, according to a Budapest despatch. General Simovitch and several other Yugoslav Ministers are with him —Reuter.
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    THE MONEY MARKET
    97 10 Reuter. Increased Applications For Treasury Bills London, April 19. Or. the money market £75,000,000 Treasury Bills were offered and allotted at the average rate of £los. 2.63 d. per cent which showed a fractional movement in. the market’s favour. Applications increased from £156,600,000 to £161.800,000 and the
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    COMPLETE ORDER RESTORED IN AHMEDABAD
    226 10 /.—Reuter. 360 Casualties: 400 Arrests Bombay, April jj. Complete order has been restored following yesterday’s disturbance when seven people were injured in assaults following the communal rioting between Hindus and Moslems at Ahmedabad. Assemblies of more than five persons tn public streets and the carrying
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    RESISTANCE TO NAZI MEASURES
    92 10 —8.0. W. Belgian Communal Councils Dissolved Rugby, April If A grave judicial problem will be created in enemy occupied Belgium by the decision announced on the Brussels’ broadcast tfift German authorities have dissolved cpjnmunal councils. The Councils which control 2,670 boroughs are elected by universal franchise
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    SUCCESS OF A.A. GUNNERS
    98 10 Reuter. Over 1.000 Aircraft Shot Down London, Apr. 11. British Army anti-aircraft guns have now destroyed more than a thousand aircraft since the beginning of the war The'decent successes in the Middle East, qpUbiy against German planes at Tobruk, raised the total to over the first
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    SOVIET SURPRISE FOR GERMANY
    61 10 .'—Reuter. London, April It. 'The German Foreign Office have learnt with surprise that the Soviat Government has found it necessary to place a special train at the disposal tithe Yugoslav Chancellery in Budapest, according to reports reaching here from Zurich, to convey the Minister, M. Rachltsch,
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    MOST EFFECTIVE UTILISATION OF U.S.- CANADIAN RESOURCES
    227 10 MOST EFFECTIVE UTILISATION OF U.S.CANADIAN RESOURCES Joint Statement After Roosevelt’s Conference With Mr. King Hyde Park, New York, April 21 President Roosevelt and the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, have issued a joint statement concerning lengthy conference yesterday. According to this they discussed the “promptest and most effective utilisation
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    Bay Dragon Wins Over $5,000 In Treble At Spore
    1270 11 ELEVEN FIRSTS SADDLED BY VAN BREUKELEN Jockeys Donnelly And Spencer Share Riding Honours A feature of the Singapore Turf Club Governor's Cup Meeting is the brilliant performance of Mrs. S N Yeap’s Bay Dragon who scored a treble, including among his
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    BASKETBALL
    43 11 ’’Kheong Mo” Beat “Sean Ti” A friendly game took place between the Kheong Mo and the Sean Ti basketball teams last Sunday at the See Chung Schcol court. It ended in a win for the Kheong Mo by 39 points to 32.
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    CHINESE TO FORM MOTOR TRANSPORT COMPANY
    460 11 Perak Project: To Be Part Of British Regular Army Ipoh. History will be made when a proposal to enlist Malayan Chinese into the regular forces materialises. A completely Chinese motor transport company is proposed for Perak, and this is to be in addition to
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    SMELTERS TROUNCED BY EIGHT GOALS BY O.X.A.
    876 11 Old Xaverians’ Second Convincing Triumph I oilowing up their convincing victory over the Marines Department Sports Club last week, the Old Xaverians’ Association yesterday trounced the Eastern Smelting Club to the tune of eight goals to nil in their Second Division league match
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    KINTA’S COMMERCIAL BADMINTON
    235 11 Detailed Results Of Tournament Ipoh. The detailed results of the Kinta District Commercial Badminton League which was played off on Sunday at the ipoh Town Hall are as follows: Champions: Posts and Telegraphs—--33 points. Runners-up: Cowdy Jones—27 points. Other teams: Kinta Sanitary Board 12 points. Ipoh Electrical
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    Well-contested Ipoh Ist Division League Match
    404 11 CUSTOMS BEAT P.C.R.C. BY 5 TO 4 Ipoh. One of the best soccer games seen so far in the First Division of the local League was played on the P.C.R.C. padang yesterday, when the Perak Chinese Recreation Club was narrowly beaten by the odd
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    NEVER HAD A MEAL WITHOUT PAIN
    394 11 Man Who Was Afraid to Eat One of the first people to try the scientists’ newly-discovered treatment for digestive disorders is a man whose stomach was in such a state that he was afraid to eat anything. In his case the effect of Chardox
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    TIGER AMAN TO FIGHT MORTELL AT FUN & FROLIC
    214 11 TIGER AMAN TO FIGHT MORTELL AT FUN FROLIC Dason And Suppiah In Supporting Event The main event of this week’s boxing promotion at the Fun and Frolic should undoubtedly prove to be a very big draw, for Tiger Aman, flyweight champion of Penang, has been matched against Johnny Mortell, holder
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    British Lightweight Champion Disqualified
    148 12 ERIC BOON'S FIGHT WITH KID BERG Pays Penalty For Over-Eagerness LONDON, APRIL 21. THERE WAS A SENSATION AL ENDING IN THE FIRST BOXING PROGRAMME EVER HELD IN THE HISTORIC LONDON COLISEUM, WHEN ERIC BOON, BRITISH LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION, WAS DISQUALIFIED IN THE SECOND ROUND AS KID BERG,
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    U.S. POLICY OF ALOOFNESS TO RUSSIA
    186 12 L—REUTER. WASHINGTON, APRIL 22. r IMIE UNITED STATES APPEARED TO BE REVERTING TO ITS POLICY OF ALOOFNESS FROM RUSSIA AS A RESULT OF THE NEW JAP-ANESE-SOVIET PACT MR CORDELL HULL REITERATED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE HIS BELIEF THAT THE PACT WAS LESS IMPORTANT THAN
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    PENANG TURF CLUB MAY MEETING
    207 12 ENTRIES CLOSE ON THURSDAY S.R.A.’s Latest Classifications The following latest classifications are announced: Class 1 to Class 2: Distinguished and Pure Gold. Class 3 to Class 2: Canibalong, Courting, Jest O<k Julieta, Nicotine and Shun. Class 3 to Class 4: Chatterbox, Luluai, Moonwin and Sacrifice.
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    DEFENCE AREAS IN NORTH IRELAND
    45 12 8.0. W. Rugby, April 21. The Northern Ireland Ministry of Public Security have made an order under the defence regulations declaring nine areas covering the whole of Northern Ireland to be defence areas. Belfast forms a defence area in itself.
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    MARKET PRICES
    47 12 TUESDAY, APRIL 22. TIN: Penang $135,374 Business done 125 tons Singapore $135,374 RUBBER: Penang Spot 39fc Singapore Spot 39|c COPRA: Sundried $2.80 buyers. Black Pepper Nominal TAPIOCA: Medum $8.30 sellers Pair Seed $7.70 sellers RICE: Rangoon Parboiled No. 1 $9.10 Rangoon Parboiled No. 2 $8.68
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    NAZIS ADVANCING CAUTIOUSLY
    151 12 at a cost of heavy losses. —Reuter. At Cost Of Heavy Losses Athens, April 22. ’AUTIOUS” German advance is recorded in a comniuniqiv issued by headquarters of the British forces in Greece yesterday. It says: “Despite continuous bombing, ordered withdrawal of our forces to new positions continues
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    NEW BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY
    94 12 ••Truth On 'The Tragedy Of France'" The following new books have beer, received at the Penang Library: I Bought A Mountain By Thomas Firbank, Little Tyrannies By H. A. Vache 1, Look At All Those Roses By Elizabeth Bowen, Manhold By Phyllis Bentley, Pushkin: A
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    “Struggle Will Not Be Abandoned”
    240 12 KING PETER'S PLEDGE TO HIS PEOPLE Somewhere in the Middle East, April 21. 64T DO not mean to abandon the struggle,” said King Peter A in a farewell proclamation to his people on the day of his departure from Yugoslavia. Assuring them he would continue
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    NEW GREEK PREMIER APPOINTED
    242 12 M. Tsouderos Out For ‘A ictorious Finish” WES.SJ6E TO NATION Athens, April 22. The Foreign Minister, M. E mmanual Tsouderos, has been appointed Prime Minister in succession to the late M. Korizis. He took the oath of allegiance at midday yesterday. The remainder of the Cabinet
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    OUTSTATION WEEK-END CRICKET
    418 12 GOOD SCORES BY TODD AND GILL r PHERE was an exciting finish to the match between the 1 Selangor Club and the Technical School on the padang on Saturday, the game resulting in a tie, though at one time the visitors needed only 20 runs to win,
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    Premiers Sivan – 'Good Omen'
    66 12 Premiers Sivan 'Good Omen' —Reuter. London, April 21. t}lo quiet stretch of inland water near the South Coast peacefully lived seven white swans and one Australian black swan which had escaped from Mr. Churchill’s home in Westerham,” Kent. A recent enemy bomb explosion slaughtered the seven whites, but the Australian
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      127 12 THE MENTAKAB RUBBER CO., LTD. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Twentysecond Ordinary General Meeting of this Company will be held at the Registered Office, Amber Building, 5, Malacca Street, Singapore, on Tuesday, 6th May, 1941, at noon, at which the Directors will recommend that
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