Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 25 June 1941

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE LAST EDITION ESTAB. 1833 PUBLISHED DAILY \o. 149. Vol. XCIX. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 25. 1941. PRICE Ki CENTS.
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    CONSTANZA ABLAZE FROM SOVIET BOMBING
    236 1 Fierce Fighting in Defence Of Grodno, Vilna Kaunas GERMAN PARACHUTISTS BEING DROPPED BEHIND LINES IN RUSSIAN UNIFORM Moscow, June 25. I ANZA is ablaze from Soviet air bombardmer.t states a Red Army communique, which also reports heavy bombing of the Danube port of Sulina. Soviet
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    Strong Soviet Attack In Bukovina
    1025 1 HUGE AIR BATTLES ALONG WHOLE FRONT Ankan Hine 24. A FIGHT is reported to be going on off the Bulgarian coast, according to rumours from Varna. Soviet cruisers, destroyers and submarines are said tc be lighting aircraft, but there is no confirmation. The Germans are
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    DUTCH TO FIGHT BY SIDE OF RUSSIANS
    283 1 Queen W ilhelmina’s Warm Approval Of British Policy Reuter. London, June 25. Che only purpose of the treacherous attack of Hitler’s hordes upon tli Russian people is mastery of fo< 1 and raw materials which Hitler m ••ds to continue the battle against
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    BRITISH RING OF STEEL ROUND PALMYRA
    463 1 Considerable Vichy Resistance In North Syria Jerusalem, June 24. The British ring of steel is gradually tightening around Palmyra, Northern Syria, which is now almost surrounded, but are meeting considerable machine-gun and bombing opposition. Another column, advancing towards Palmyra, almost reached it, said a
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    RED ARMY'S SUCCESS
    40 1 .—REUTER. NEW YORK, JUNE 24. -THE ENEMY’S ATTACKS ARE BEING SUCCESSFULLY REPULSED,” THE MOSCOW RADIO ANNOUNCED TODAY, ACCORDING TO THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM. “WE CONGRATULATE THE HEROIC RED ARMY ON ITS MILITARY SUCCESS” THE SOVIET ANNOUNCER ADDED.—REUTER.
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    NINE MORE ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED
    251 1 Reuter. Ratio Now Raised 5 To 1 London, June 24. The power station at Comines, near Lille, centre of France’s heavy industry, I was attacked by Blenheim bombers dur- ing the offensive sweep by the R.A.F. j over Northern France on Tuesday even- 1 ing.
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    TRAWLER SHOOTS DOWN ENEMY PLANE
    56 1 —Reuter. London, June 25. An enemy aircraft which attacked British minesweepers yesterday was destroyed by the Naval trawler “Solon,” says an Admiralty communique. During the engagement, the trawler “Nogi” was damaged by a bomb taken in tow by the “Solon” and another trawler, but subsequently
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    NAZIS "CRUSADE FOR CHRISTIANITY"
    184 1 What “Pastors” Have Been Told To Preach Berlin, June 24. The German Episcopate has sent a message td pastors of all dioceses, describing the war against the Soviet Union as a fight for Christianity in the whole world, says the German Official News Agency. “Pastors are
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    Active Aid From Navy In Syrian Campaign
    238 2 ADMIRALTY SENDS MESSAGE TO C.-INC. Praise For Very Successful Operations Bv Submarines LONDON. JUNE 24. AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE STATES: UNITS OF A THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET ARE GIVING CONTINUOUS AND ACTIVE ASSISTANCE TO THE ADVANCE OF OUR ARMIES ALONG THE COAST OF SYRIA BY
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    RAIDS ON BRITAIN
    75 2 —Reuter German Planes More Active London, June 22. German raiders were more active over Britain during Saturday night than on recent nights. Announcing this, the Air Ministry says there was a sharp attack on the South of England, causing casualties and some damage. Bombs were also dropped
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    £10,250,000 A DAY ON WAR
    52 2 —Reuter. Commons Vote New Huge Credit I London. June 24. After a brief discussion the House of Commons voted a credit of £1 OOOJWO.O<K> for war purposes Sir Kingsley Wood i estimated that this would suffice the need for three months. War expenditure now reached
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    British Take Another Town On Way To Beirut
    558 2 Reuter. Cairo, June 24. A communique issued from British G H Q states:— Yesterday the British troops occupied Quanata south-west of Damascus and are now advancing from this town towards the Damascus-Beirut Road. Free French and Indian troops successfully attacked and occupied
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    Sir Stafford Cripps To Direct British Aid For Russia
    3512 2 COMMON TASK OF BOTH COUNTRIES TO DEFEAT HITLER Mr. Anthonv Eden Reviews Of Diplomatic Events .3 London, June 24. £N a statement in the House of Commons on the diplomatic events leading to what he described as Hitler* “giant act of
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    Campaign In Abyssinia Now Ending
    259 2 —Reuter. London. June 24. .Among prisoners taken when Jimnia was captured were General Tissi, the corps commander, and two divisional commanders. Generals Scale and Mainaridi. There are still abcut half a-dezen group, of Italians operating in various part.- of the country. Three groups are engaged
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    BRITISH SYSTEM OF "MAILCERTS"
    114 2 —Reuter. Fur Parcels From L.S. To Foreign Countries Washington, June 24. The British Embassy announced a svstem of ’Tr.-icerts” for parcel post shipments iron the U nited States to Eire, Finland, French West Africa, Iran. Iraq Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Portugal. Portuguese Guinea Portuguese and Spanish Atlantic
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    GREAT ROUND-UP OF RUSSIANS
    128 2 Reuter Gestapo Engaged All Da> In Berlin Zurich June 23 1..- _rcStap-j was engaged al! day on Sunday, in a great round-up of Russians in Berlin, according to a correspondent :-i the Neu Zuericher Zeitung.” The German public was not informed until the last minute on
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    SYDNEY'S £3,000,000 GRAVING DOCK
    917 3 "Will Be Finest In World:' Says Engineer 'T'HE first portion of the permanent structure of the £3,000,000 Sydney graving dock—a steel sheet pile—appeared above water level recently. Thousands of these piles will be driven into rock through the embankments forming the coffer dam. The dock will
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    BREAK-UP IN ITALY
    242 3 JF«r Left To Nazis New York. DESPATCHES from American diplomats and leading American correspondents in Europe tell the story of a shattered and demoralised Italy. In articles in American papers, John Whitaker, formerly “New York Post” and “Chicago Daily News” correspondent in Rome, and Saville Davis, former
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    "GERMAN DEFEAT CERTAIN"
    97 3 Chicago. "Defeat will come to Germany, perhaps this year, but certainly next year,” declared Colonel “Wild Bill” Donovan, who recently visited Britain and the Middle East’for President Roosevelt. He admitted that the Nazi war machine was rolling fast, but said that tho war was not lost. “When
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    Hard Facts About Berlin
    1402 3 THIS is life in Germany now—as 1 have seen it. lou will find no “wishful, thinking” here. These are the hard facts about Berlin. All of them I can vouch for. “Hard” is the right adjective. For lite in Berlin is hard, but tough. And it
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    Incidents Between U.S.A. And Germany Expected To Develop
    634 3 INSIDE opinion in Washington toda#r says Richard Hughes, Sydney Sunday Telegraph roving correspondent in America, is in complete agreement with these three points: One Roosevelt hasn’t the slightest desire or intention to declare war formally against the Axis. Two U.S.A. warships will
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    HIS MOTHER KILLED -STILL PACIFIST
    70 3 Private Albert Foster, a conscientious objector, who is alleged to have been assaulted by an N.C.0., “would not help his country when the Germans were threatening invasion and his own mother had been killed by enemy action.” This was stated at a Liverpool courtmartial by
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    BOMBS AMONG DANCERS
    856 3 Girls Rip Frocks For Bandages Lirtuto n. THE story may now total of th v I'.igfij of rhe (PL de Paris; of the well-known nirrn and lovely women who were dancing ore of the world’s smartest res taurants when two bombs exploded in their midst It was
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      109 3 Relief from the 1 torment of |Z—- i HEAT i Ocneti a ue*. -vd, I/' arc btacx t> B» V Zi'd' you peniJiiifc Auapso. 3"— The burning torment of prickly heat is often unbearable. Don’t put up with miserable dav« and nights Use Asepso, the antiseptic toilet soap. Its gentle,
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    IF AMERICA JOINS WAR
    416 4 Filipinos In Malaya Would Figh t I e .ery Filipino, down. to the last man can be exp- fight under the American flag should America icin the wai with Britain, was a resolution proposed before r- ,< Singary re F. < Association by Air. P. G.
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    Contact With Blood Donors
    483 4 VALUE DEMONSTRATED AT A.R.P. PRACTICE Singapore. THE exercises can-H'd out during -Ao-d y all -Malaya biack -out by the -ecriOD of the Medical Auxiliary Services attached to the Blood Tran *-fusi< r I> r ~t h o ve ch nn n real value of making previous
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    Anzacs In Singapore
    544 4 NEW YORK GIFT FOR HOSTEL FJAHE Anzac Relief Committee of New York has sent to the Aus* tralian Comforts Fund in Sydney £1.500 for the establishment of a hostel at S.ngapore, states a report published in Sydney. The committee has aJso despatched half a ton of books
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    REASONS FOR GERMAN ATTACK ON RUSSIA
    2007 4 Important Move In Hitler's Strategy DISPOSITION OF NAZI FORCES This timely amclt by M Ha sch, icho was the Berlin correspondent of the Ch a Sc -nee Monitor recently, helps to explain why Hitler has struck aga ik-st the Soviet Union. Mr. Haroch deals
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    DECISIONS AT PENANG RENT BOARD MEETING
    391 5 I Iht Kent Assessment Board Penang and Province Welheld its monthly meeting w the Second Divisional Court, Btipreine Court, yesterday when lit applications* were heard. I Mr. Paul Storr presided over ■e meeting. ■he first application was chat of T. ■Wichael Samy, living at
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    TWO MEN RUN OVER BY TRAIN
    96 5 Ipoh. A double tragedy in which two Malays lost their Jives is reported from Bikam, near Tapah. It is gathered that the men were run over by the Penang-Kuala Lumpur night mail on Saturday. The train was. immediately stopped and the decapitated bodies of
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    COMMEMORATION OF DOUBLE SEVENTH
    168 5 Perak Chinese To Hold Mass Meeting Ipoh. While their compatriots in Singapore have prepared a mammoth message to be sent to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek to mark the fourth anniversary of the undeclared war in China (July 7), the Perak Chinese are making arrangements to hold a
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    MALAY ON SERIOUS CHARGE
    72 5 Alleged Offence On Grand-daughter Ipoh. Alleged to have committed rape on his grand-daughter, a 60-year-old Malay, Hussin bin Ahmad of Ulu Kuang, Chemor, was produced before Mr. P. F. Y. Radcliffe, in the Ipoh First Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where the charge wa s explained to him.
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    M.A.S. Men Render First Aid In Accidents
    271 5 There have been several instances recently of first aid rendered by members of the Medical Auxiliary Service (St. John Ambulance Brigade Section) to members of the public. At Macs Ester Road and New Lane junction Divisional Superintendent Lee Swee Heen saw a big
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    BOY GORED BY BUFFALO
    208 5 Serious Stomach Injuries Kuala Kangsar. A seven-year-old Chinese boy with serious stomach injuries was brought into the District Hospital, Kuala Kangsar by his mother. The unfortunate lad had been badly gored by a buffalo and was said to be in grave danger of losing his life.
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    PEDAL RICSHAS FOR TAIPING
    129 5 Application Approved At S.B. Meeting Taiping. Taiping will soon be having pedai rieshas as a result of the decision of the Sanitary Board, Larut and Matang, to allow an experiment by Mr. Lim Eow Thoon, J.P., M.C.H.j the wellknown Penang resident who first introduced pedal rieshas
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    BREACH OF TRUST ALLEGED
    169 5 Chinese Woman Claims Trial Ipoh. Th© Police have taken into custody a Chinese woman, Eng Ngo. who was arrested on a warrant issued by the Ipoh police as being wanted for on a charge of criminal breacn of trust in respect of a set of furniture
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    COLLISION WHILE CROSSING ROAD
    311 5 Inquiry Into Death Of Child The story of how a five-year-old Tamil child while being led across the i road by his mother was killed following collision with a motor car at Dato Kramat Road near the junction with Chin Ho Square was told before Mr.
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    SOCIAL & PERSONAL
    491 5 SOCIAL PERSONAL I Mr. C. W. Shorland, M.C.S., Pro- i tector of Labour, Kedah, has gone on leave. 41 V H.H. the Sultan of Kedah is on a visit to Penang and in residence at Kedah House. Mr. Ang Ban Lee will be the speaker at the English Gospel Service
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    BAND PROGRAMME
    59 5 Today at the Waterfall Gardens from 5.15 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. March Step Lightly Anderson Overture Tantalusqualen Suppe R.erhini.scences of “Sullivan” Winterbottom Intermezzo The Fairy’s Rendezvous Lautenschlager Fox Trot Whistle While You Work Church God Save The King Inche Abdullah of the F.M.S. Police Depot, has come on
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      26 5 TOOTH PASTE and POWDER KJ -tj CONTAIN IR I U M 3d| FOR GREATER C LEANSING POWER r r ic i ij M I jSKE. i
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      85 5 NoAsthma Tears Two years ago J. Richards, Hamilton. Ont., Canada, was in bed with Asthma. Had lost 40 pounds weight, suffered coughing, choking and strangling every night—couldn’t sleep—expected to die. Mendaco stopped spasms first, night and he has had none since—in OVER TWO YEARS. Men. daco is so successful it
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      141 5 PENANG’S MOST LUXURIOUS AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE I Opens Today With 3 Shows Daily I At 3; 6.15 9.30 pan. I VARNER BROS.’ HUGE STAGE SENSATION. NOW I THE SCREEN’S BIGGEST COMEDY HIT I hp r ’ylgSS&jg. JKH directed I»*(,IORGL KING > PLy hv ■af V fev CKJ M) HR'M E V/tLLiAMS»'
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      102 5 I MAJESTIC NO SHOW TODAY Owing to the Half-Yearly j Cleansing of the Theatre. WMGRROW The First All-English Dialogue FullLength Feature Produced in Thailand “The King Of The White Elephant” Starring Renu Kritayakorn Pailin Nilsen and Thousands of others with 500 Warring Elephants Thrilling Amazing I The Wonder Picture of
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      52 5 I j WESTERN EUBCTt*IC SOWTD gmc.: i wLwrj.t Rua®.'phoke uid OPENING FRIDAY, 27th JUNE Nightly 6 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. A SMASHING PUNJABI HISTORICAL ADVENTURE “JAGA DAKI” WITH GULZAMAN, PUSUPA RANI, and NAZIR BEGUM. Actions Songs Comedy I N.B. This Cinema is closed today and tomorrow for cleansing purposes under
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      153 5 yf Qi R-C onp Itlo n e d lASI THREE SHOWS TODAY YOU’LL WASH YOUR BLUES AWAY, WHEN YOU SEE j WILL HAY IN HIS LATEST RIOT OF LAUGHTER’ I WILL HAY'S FIRE BRIGADE KWOWS ALL THE ANSWERS EVEiv x uC' o w ro st art 1y 11 gg a
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      211 5 Another One Our Grand British Film! I liimall J Last 3 Shows Today 3 p.m., 6.15 9.30 A JOY FROM START TO FINISH 1 AMAZING DIALOGUE AND PIQUANT SITUATIONS 6i JANE STEPS OUT With DIANA CHURCHILL JEAN MLJIR And Others! TONIGHT LADIES 9 GUEST NIGHT AT THE NEW WORLD I
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    THE LESSON FOR EIRE
    396 6 OETWEEN Brit savicerts and German > ml b the growing seriousness of Eire's dilemma is E>ecoming even more clearly manifest. On the one hand the reborn nation is determined to maintain her peace and hard-won peditieal inde] e unimpaired. Against this quite understandable intention looms the
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    Around The Town
    123 6 MAJESTIC CINEMA: No Show Today. QUEEN'S CINEMA: Jane Steps Out' 1 with Diat-a Churchill and Je&n Muir. 3, 6 15 and 9.30 p m HEX CINEMA: George <s Margaret-* 3. 6.15 and 9.30 p.m WINDSOR CINEMA: No Show Today. ODEON CINEMA: Will Hay in ‘‘Where’» That Fire.”
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    Contemporary Opinion
    344 6 'J '’HE Soviet leaders might be all of what Hitler is now calling .hem. bvt that should not blind us to the fact ’hat we are working for the defeat of Germany, and anybody who is prepared to make a contribution to that end is welcome. If it
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      ROWDY A.R.P. WARDENS
      115 6 -c the Editor. Pinang Gazette.” A number of A.R.P. Wardens .would appear to have made the recent black-out in Penang a sort of picnic. I live in the Dato Kramat area, close to a Pest, and certain Wardens here enjoyed themselves all n jht leng by singing
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    GEN. LORD GORT'S DESPATCHES
    63 6 Reuter. Publication Now Postponed London. June 24. I: > authcr.tatiTely learned in London that '.r.e publication of General Lord Gert s despatches on the campaign in Frar.ce ha-, been postponed. It -as origin--2 T. 2.-. ’r Cr p‘7Ol2Sh<d in the middle of June, but it is
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    By The Way
    253 6 Profiteering TT was with considerable satisfaction that I read yesterday the report of an egg-seller being fined 525 for overcharging a customer. While hoping this action will be a warning to other traders. I am afraid it will not be sufficiently deterrent unless customers do their part
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    Diary of a Foreign News Editor
    786 6 Wednesday, June 25. J ATEST reports of the Nazi-So-j viet fighting (and these from Axis sources; confirm that the German- are meeting very strong opposition in Bukovina. GFHE Russians are not fight1 ing a defensive battle but are attaching as well. OOVIET sources claim
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    "Opened Wife’s Safe To Look At Jewellery Every Night"
    1648 7 FURTHER EVIDENCE IN MAN’S SUIT AGAINST MOTHER-IN-LAW EVIDENCE of how he had got information that his mother- in-law was in the habit of gambling and that as a result he was very careful and used to open his late wife’s safe
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    Workmen’s Compensation Policies
    323 7 Exclusion Of “War Risk” Singapore. Insurance companies have excluded “war risk” from workmen’s compensation policies, which means that until legislation, already proposed by both the Colony and F.M.S. Governments under which they will themselves undertake such risk, is enforced, no workman injured as a result of enemy
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    MAIL TRAIN TWO HOURS LATE
    62 7 Derailment At La hat fl IKING to a derailment at Lahat, near Ipoh. the mail train from Kuala Lumpur this morning was nearly tzvo hours late. It was one hour and 45 minutes late when it passed Bukit Mertajam. The derailment was not to the
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    Dr. Quo Tai-chi In Singapore
    77 7 GUEST OF SIR SHENTON THOMAS It is officially announced that His Excellency Dr. Quo Tai-chi, lately Chinese Ambassador in London, passed through Singapore the week before last on his return to Chungking where he is to take up the appointment of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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    BENZINE CATCHES FIRE, BURNS MAN
    88 7 While attending to some machinery at the back of his house in Macalister Lane, a Chinese sustained severe burns to his back when some benzine which was nearby caught fire. The benzine had been placed in a container, and this is believed to have fallen
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    Investigation Of Untenanted Houses In Penang Urged
    365 7 Mr. Jules Martin Raises Question At Commissioners’ Meeting The question of untenanted houses over a number of years in Penang was raised at yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Commissioners by Mr. Jules Martin, who expressed the view that some rents were being helu
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    GOVT. OFFICERS DOING WAR WORK
    860 7 Granting Of Allowances “Undesirable” DISCUSSION AT MUNICIPAL MEETING On the suggestion of Mr. D. A. Mackay, the Municipal Commissioners, Penang, have written to the Colonial Secretary stating that they consider the Government practice of granting allowances to officers appointed by them to carry out duties
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    Another Druggists’ Shop Tarred
    146 7 SHOW-CASES SMASHED with bottles containing liquid tar, a number of Chinese smashed some show cases in a Chinese druggists’ shop. No. 156, Chulia Street at about 7.45 this morning, causing damage to the extent of nearly $2OO. The tar was splashed all over the shop as
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    NORTH MALAYA WAR FUND $1,522,997
    125 7 rpHE total of the War Fund in North Malaya stands at $1,522,997.83, made up of Penang $970,093.90 and Perak $552,903.93. No donations were received yesterday in Penang. PERAK Mr. Goh Siew Keat, honorary secretary of the Kinta Badminton Association, forwarding a donation of $113.50 to
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      172 7 BATH TOWELS BED SHEETS AND PILLOW COVERS ALWAYS IN STOCK. Get Them From EASTERH BAZAAR (The Blue Shop) 8 BISHOP STREET, Phone PENANG. P. O. BoX 1396 316 Ske GROW/ AT 6 MONTHS W BmB Ait- F AT 9 MONTHS J THE FAMOUS QUADRUPLETS REARED ON COW GATE AT 15
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE
    81 8 Penang, June 24. 1941. (By Cou tesy 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 i/g Hongkong Demand 53 q ig Shjr.g hai Demand 12 14 Japan Demand 193 1/2 New
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    AUSTRAL MALAY TIN
    88 8 The Secretary of Austral Malay Tin, Ltd., reports the following outputs of its associated companies for the half month of June. 1941. K. KAMUNTING TIN (KARANGAN) Hours run 321 Cubic yards treated 75,000 Total piculs 413 Nett value $32,214 TIIABAtVLEIK TIN Hours run 304 Cubic yards treated
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES QUOTATIONS
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      MINING
      500 8 Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Penang and Ipoh sections) at Noon 25th June, 1941 Issue Buyers Sellers 4 0 Ampat Tin 3/0 3/6 5 0 Austral Amal 7/0 7/3 £1 Austral Malay 33. 6 35/0 5 0 Ayer Hitam 17/3 17/9c $1 Ayer Weng .674 .70 £1 Bangrin
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      RUBBERS
      234 8 Issue Buyers Sellers Allenby 1.024 1.074 A lor Gajah .75 .80 Amal Maihj 1.521 1.574 Ayer Hitam .824 ,874 Ayer Molek 1.074 1.124 Ayer Pans.-? 1.024 1.074 Bassett .40 .42 lex Batu Lintang 1.00 1.02 lex Bedford .07 .90 Benta 924 .97* Borelli 1.374 1.424 Brega .57 ,59ex Brunei
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      GENERAL
      355 8 Issue Buyers Sellers J A£l Austral N. Z. Ord. 22 0 23/0 1 $2 Alex Brick Ord 1.774 1.824 $2 Alex Brick 7J% Pref 2.074 2.124 $5 B. M. T. 7.50 7.75 I £5 Chartered Bank £Bl £9 £1 Con. T. S. Ord 16 0 16/6 £1 Con. T.
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      LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS
      136 8 MINING Dividend Books close Payable Ayer Hitam 74% int It mi. t. 5 8741 Burma Malay 6d. 27th div. 24 6 41 Gopeng Conscl. l.tax Kjmuntlng B% mt. Lt. 9641 Kepong Dreagmg 24% int. l.t. 7741 Hint» Tin Mines 5% int. Lt Klang River 74% (No.
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    ALL POSSIBLE U.S. AID FOR RUSSIA
    354 8 Form Of Help Not Yet Decided Upon Washington, June 24. The United States will give all possible aid to Russia. Mr. Roosevelt, making this declaration at a Press Conference on Tuesday, said it could not be determined yet what form help would take. He
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    Germans Evacuating To Norway
    86 8 —Reuter RESULT OF BOMBS OX HAMBERG AND KIEL London, June 24. There is no doubt th: mans are undertaking scale ez>acuation of Gernic Hans and administrati n r cials to Norway to seek r from the relentless Br: bombing of Hamburg, Kiel and o-thcr north Germa)
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    HOWLING AND RAVING OF GERMAN BEAST
    164 8 Dr. Benes On Why Hess Fled To Britain .—Reuter London, June 24. Hitler’s mistake in invading Russia has removed the spectre of a Nazi victory and decided the issue of war, declared Doctor Benes President of the Czechoslovak Republic, broadcasting to the Czechoslovak nation
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    MARKET QUOTATIONS
    128 8 Yesterdav’s Close Previously TIN: LONDON “Spot” £260. 10. 0. £261. 5 “Forward” £263. 0 0 £263 15 SINGAPORE “Spot” $137.25 $l3B 37-. Business done 50 tons Buvers. No Sellers PENANG “Spot” $137 25 $l3B 3' RUBBER LONDON “Spot” 13 5.-5 “Forward” 13 12d. Tone Quiet, Unchanged Stea SINGAPORE
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      217 8 BAN K S a g pri r- 'ws"? -jLJ L- 8g ■RH] niff i I SAVINGS f?&z&ze Mitin A Jolla; saved t> an extra dollar earned. A Baw»ge Account t> the beast tnduc< ait nt to save. To have a savings Account and to eee this ?.cc*unt grow from time
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    WOMAN FAILS IN CLAIM AGAINST HUSBAND
    2317 8 Judgment In Suit Over Tailoring Business “My sympathies are largely with the plaintiff, but I cannot allow that to interfere with the legal aspect. From the moral aspect I consider that the defendant has treated the plaintiff very’ badly but that is beside the
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    Culture Under The Heel
    517 9 London. E>OY SCOUTS, Salvation Army, Unions, P.E.N. Club, Rotaryall are suppressed under the Nazi heel. It crushes all tolerance. It stamps out all good will. Where it treads, you cannot work fof betterment or mutual understanding. Beneath it, every vestige of freedom perishes, (writes Hannen Swaffer
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    A FREUD CURES
    147 9 Aids Bombed Babies Thirty little London children who have been through the “blitz” are having their bomb-shocked minds brought back to normal by the methods of the famous psychologist, Dr. Sigmund Freud. They are being treated free of charge by Freudian experts, who normally charge high fees
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    THE MAILS
    404 9 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1941. Postage Latest Tinft ot Destination Letters Postcards Superscription Posting at Penang per os. each Ordinary Regn. AIR 3HAILK SPECIAL ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THE REVISED TIME? of CLOSING ABB MAILS AND REVISED CHARGES PAN-AMERICAN CLIPPER Correspondence for connection with the Pan-American Service prepaid at
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      2938 9 RANGOON CHUNGKING -IUM ft I X -JSL 69I mc/s < 49 94 XGOY (31.6 metres). B. W W IW B XYO r 3 9 B mC/S <B6 m) A.M. P- m dl an Session (Recorded 2.20 News for the press in Chinese 9l?H an^ me 7,05 English Session (Rec- XGOX
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      105 9 SAN FRANCISCO (TREASURE ISLAND) KGEI 9.67 mc/s (31.02 m.) 12.05 a.m. Organ. 12.20 News. 1.20 News in English. 1.35 Dance Orchestra. 1.50 Dance Orchestra. 2.20 Dance Orchestra. 2.50 Dance Band. 7.20 Ballads. 7.50 News in English. 8.05 It’s Dance Time. 8.35 Hollywood News. 8.50 Our Musical Heritage. 9.20 Music. 9.50
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    Germans’ Main Thrust Repulsed
    1577 10 RED ARMY DESTROYS 300 TANKS IN SHAULAI AREA 127 Nazi Planes Brought Down And 5,000 Prisoners Taken Moscow, June 24. A RED ARMY communique issued this morning’ states: During the day yesterday the enemy strove to develop his offen s j ve along the whole front
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    Kiel Again Pounded By R.A.F. Bombers
    127 10 —Reuter. Subsidiary Attack On Other Towns London, June 24 Last night, British Air Force bombers attacked objectives in West and North-West Germany, it is learned authoritatively. Industrial districts in Cologne and Dusseldorf and the Naval Base at Kiel were the main objectives of R.A.F
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    R.A.F. SWEEPS
    78 10 .—Reuter. Railway Targets In France Bombed London, June 24. Railway targets were bombed in the R.A.F. sweep over Northern France on Monday evening, reveals an Air Ministry communique issued early today The Germans made a more determined attempt to interfere than in the sweep earlier in the day,
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    SPANISH CABINET MEETING
    40 10 Reuter. Madrid, June 24. The Spanish Cabinet is today continuing deliberations which it began when the meeting opened last evening. There is no doubt that the International situation arising from the Pusso-Ger-man war has been under discussion.
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    Soviet Accepts Offer Of British Military And Economic Missions
    310 10 Sir Stafford Cripps Returning To Moscow London, June 24 According to authoritative circles in London the Soviet has accepted the offer of the British Military and Economic Missions to Russia. Reuter understands that the British Government has accepted and endorsed the
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    GENERAL SMUTS AND MR. KING
    43 10 .—Reuter Unable To Travel 'To England London, June 24. Owing to present exigencies Field Marshal Smuts and Mr. MacKenzie King are unable to travel to England in the near future, it is learned in London authoritative quart. .s.—Reuter
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    TORRENT OF GERMAN PROPAGANDA
    143 10 L —Reuter. Justifying Attack On Russia London, June 24. A torrent of German propaganda in justification of the attack upon Russia continues to pour from German Wireless stations. The latest comment comes from the Official Diplomatische Correspondez which says, if German diplomacy in eleventh hour frustrated
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    GERMANY'S FINAL DECISION
    184 10 —8.0. W. Expected Only In West London, June 23. The warning given by Mr. Churchill in his last night’s broadcast that the Nazi attack on Russia was .simply a prelude to the final attempt against Britain is underlined by a report sent to the Budapest newspaper “Pester
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    CHINESE SYMPATHY FOR SOVIET
    32 10 .-Reuter- Chungking, June 24 Chinese sympathy for Soviet Russia and confidence in ultimate victory for Soviet Russia was expressed by a Chinese official in the “Central Dally News”.—Reuter-
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    TURKEY AND PACT WITH BRITAIN
    50 10 —Reuter. First And Foremost Of Her Engagements Ankara, June 24 Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huges-sen, British Ambassador, saw M. Sarajoglu yesterday. It is understood authoritatively that the Turkish Government informed Britain that the Anglo-Turkish treaty stands intact and remains the first and foremost of her engagements. —Reuter.
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    SITUATION OF VICHYITES VERY GRAVE
    170 10 —Reuter. Unable To CliecU British Advance] London, June J The British force which has real Palmyra started from Iraq about a J ago and advanced in an easterly J tion, it is stated in authoritative quaJ in London today. There is no co'nfij tion from
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    INDIAN COMMENT
    331 10 Hitler’s Latest ActioJ Condemned Bombay, June An emphatic condemnation of Hit! latest act of aggression was the kej of newspaper editorials throughout I country today. The “Hindu,” Maa declares that the German invasion I Russia was not expected and the 1 sensational development of the war I fact,
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    U.S. Navy Should Act Now
    145 10 Kc’jtl ROOSEVELT PROMISED SUPPORT HE TAKES VIGOROUS STEPS New York, June “The call that the United States Navy should be thrown in ll diately into the Battle of the Atlantic is made today by the “S York Herald Tribune.** The paper says, “Our planes will
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      53 10 Steamer sailings in July for United States of America For- full particulars apply to SIME, DARBY CO. LTD. Agent» AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES. LTD., 21 Beach Street Telephone 1481—5. BURNS PHILP LINE (Incorporated in Australia) for particulars regarding Freight, Passage, and other information please apply to BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Agents Penang
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    EVIDENCE OF CHARMS AND "DEVILS" IN HIGH COURT SUIT
    1505 11 Man Sues Mother-in-law Jver Dead Wife’s Jewellery An r larged photograph of his former wife (now dead) on iwediiĔ-g day in bridal attire and ornaments was among the jbits produced in the Penang Supreme Court yesterday in a [in vi the
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    THREW SLIPPER AT DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
    89 11 A Chinese nonya, Khoo Ho Lian, appeared before Mr. Lim Koon Teck in the Third Court yesterday on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to her daughter in-law, Law Gaik Cheng, i n front of her house at Carnarvon Street at 4.55 p.m. on June 23.
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    P.C.F.A. TAKE FULL POINTS FROM S.L.R.C.
    281 11 riirilling First Division Soccer JN a thrilling first division league football match on the Dato Kramat ground yesterday, the Penang Chinese Football Association beat the Sepoy Lines Recreation "Club by four goals to two. The Sepoy Lines, incidentally, were the first to open the
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    STORE TENNIS TOURNEY
    33 11 In the Singapore Tenni s Championships» men’s semi-finals, Chin Kee Onn beat H. Kamis 6—4, 6—2 and, Lim Hee Chin beat Yong Loon Chong 2— 6, 6 4, B—68 —6
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    WAYFIELD B.P.
    157 11 Office-Bearers For The Year The seventh annual general meeting of the Mayfield Badminton Party was held at No. 18, Logan Road, on. June 29. The following were elected office bearers for the ensuing year :>— Patron: Mr. Mrs. Ooi Choo Hong. President: Mr. Ooi Tian Kuan (reelected). Vice
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    SECOND DIVISION SOCCER
    238 11 Fortress Malays Trounced By P.R.C. The Penang Recreation Club trounced the Fortress Malays to the tune of six goals to nil in a Second Division soccer league match played at Glugor yesterday. The game was fast, with the Eurasians attacking most of the time. C. Robinson and
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    IPOH EPWORTH LEAGUE
    53 11 The usual weekly meeting of the Ipoh Union Epworth League will be held this evening at 7.15 o’clock in The Anglo-Chinese Girls’ School Hall. The speaker for the evening is Miss M. E. Toft, of the Anglo-Chinese Cont School. All members and friends of the League are
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    CHENG WAH BEAT C.R.C. BY ONLY GOAL
    369 11 Fielding a depleted team, the Chinese Recreation Club went down to the Cheng Wah Club by the solitary goal of the match registered in the opening half by Loong Kong in a First Division fixture on the Westlands Ground yesterday. It was, on
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    FELL OFF LORRY AT BEND
    92 11 Chinese Sncctinibs To Injuries Ipoh. It is learnt that the Chinese lorrycoolie who was stated to have fallen from his perch, has died without regain’ng consciousness. The police therefore were unable to take a statement from the man, who is suspected to have sustained a
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      59 11 mn it JOi Fife 11 ■njWliJJJm raW-V iM th W IT s r: ..»2 "diamond I F»i i I I p T-l g I I The popularity of “Diamond” Bcdsfcorfs has been pre-eminent 9| for many years on account of their extreme durability and high standard of finish. ES biwĕmHispi?
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    Roisterer And Velocity Strongly Fancied To Win
    384 12 Pinafore And Anton Rogue Appeal Despite Heavy Impost GOOD GOING TODAY (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Today. YWTINNERS for this afternoon’s races won't be so difficult to pick now after the result s of last Saturday and heavy scratchings yesterday. Never theless
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    Burglar Gets Away With $300
    78 12 Breaking into a house in Noordin Street occupied by a Chinese family in the early hours of yesterday morning, a burglar decamped with about $3OO in cash. The money was kept in an almeirah in one of the rooms on the first floor of the
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    CRICKET
    56 12 —Reuter. Oxford University Beat Empire XI London, June 24. Oxford University, playing its first cricket match of the term prior to meeting Cambridge on Saturday, beat a British Empire team by 29 runs. Oxford scored 207. Tom Goddard, the Gloucester and England bowler, took five wickets for 84 runs.
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    MARKET PRICES
    59 12 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 TIN: Penang $137,871 Business done Buyers no sellers Singapore ei -> 7 RUBBER: 37 87i Penang Spot 3g C Singapore Spot 3fi i„ COPRA: undried $2.80 buyers B1 ck p epper Nominal TAPIOCA: Medium $9.10 nominal F air Seed sB 6o nom inai Kit L;
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    SELECTIONS AT A GLANCE
    225 12 ‘THE RIDING BOT* “TIC TAG” I “EPSOM JEEP” “MAN-ON-THE “EUREKA” K.L. Racing “THE MAJOR” Penang Fenang Ipoh SPOT” Ipoh K. Lumpur Correspondent i Singapore Race 1 Carmana Hue and Cry Cannana Selangor II stai' Lock Selangor II Selangor II Hue and Cry Star Lock Star Lock
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    Entries For Taiping Meeting
    276 12 Entries for the Taiping Turf Club July Professional Meeting to be run on July 3 and 5 are as follows: HORSES—CLASS 3 RUNS Ist 2nd about 5 F 6 F Lady Zenta x x Stonechat X The Cutter x x Topla x x Titled Lady x
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    RENT ASSESSMENT BOARD, TAIPING
    89 12 Taiping. At the monthly meeting of the Sanitary Board, Larut and Matang, yesterday with the Chairman, Mr. A. C. Boyd, presiding, the following were confirmed to comprise the Rent Assessment Board, Taiping: The Chairman, S. B. Larut and Matang (president), and Messrs. Toh Eng Swee, P.
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    T. ANSON EPWORTH LEAGUE
    49 12 The weekly devotional meeting of the Union Epworth League, Telok Anson, will be held ip the Anglo-Chinese School Hall this evening at 7.30. Mr. Eric Rode will speak on “The Life of Richard Grenfell’ All Leaguers and friends are cordially invited to attend the meeting.
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    ACCEPTANCES FOR TODAY'S RACES AT KUALA LUMPUR
    977 12 Race 1: Horses Class 4 Div. 4 —5 J Furs. —2.30 p.m. 1. 3 2 2 STAR LOCK lOy 9.00 “Mac Kongsi” Magill 2. 0 0 0 THE WARRIOR 12y 8.13 Miss C. R. Noordin O’Neill 3. 2 0 0 PRUDE 5y 8.11
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    100 Per Cent. Tin Quota For Third Period
    69 12 The Controllei (Mr. M. C. Hay), Tin and Tin Ore (Restn.) Enactment, F.M.S., advises that the domestic tin quota for the third quota period of 1941 has been fixed at 100 per cent. Those producers who can produce in excess of their
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    At The Cinemas
    265 12 WILL HAY IN FINE BRITISH COMEDY "‘Where's That Fire” At The Odeon With his customary foils, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt, Mr. Hay, indignant, incompetent and dauntless, is chief of the world’s worst fire-bri-gade. There is also an absurd white torse. Best interludes in this wild slapstick
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      128 12 TRONOH MINES LIMITED (Incorporated in England) DIVIDEND NO. 137 The Board has declared an Interim Dividend of 10%. less Income Tax 10/- in the payable in London on 11th. July to all shareholders on the Register on the 18th. instant which wilt be paid out locally an arrival of the
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