The Straits Budget, 2 September 1937

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1 4 The Straits Budget
  • 29 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY.] No. 4151. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 2, 1937. Price 25 cents (S.S. Currency) or 7d.
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  • 1091 1 WARNING that the collection in Malaya of funds for war purposes in China and Japan is strictly forbidden has been issued by the Malayan Government. The intimation is conveyed in a communique, which points out that there is no objection to the organising by Chinese and
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  • The Straits Budget
    • 970 2 Straits Times, Aug. 26. Considerable interest has been aroused locally by an exhaustive review of the United States rubbe: industry, appearing in the August issue of the New York Stock Digest Service which is distributed to clients by various Wall Street brokers. In its references to tyre sales
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    • 954 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 27. Japan is obviously extremely nervous as to the possible outcome of the wounding of the British Ambassador to China, which is reported today. And she has every reason to feel perturbed. It is futile to talk of inadequate identification marks on the car in
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    • 939 3 Straits Times. Aug. 28. To those who have lived in Malaya any length of time and take a keen interest in British administration as it concerns the Malay race, noting is more heartening than the evidence of slow but steady propress in the Eastern States. The forward
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    • 869 3 Straits Times, Aug. 30. It has taken three years’ persistent agitation to get rid of the F.M.S. food taxes, but the Government has given way at last. True, these taxes have not been swept away entirely, but the Government has gone as far as it could
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    • 908 3 -Straits Timqs, Aug. 31. Early comment on the announcement that a non-aggression pact has been concluded between China and Russia is inclined to dismiss the understanding as “innocuous.” Close study of the present position and the events which have led up to it suggests that the
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    • 1027 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 1. Past conduct of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners has shown that under existing regulations it is possible for public opinion to be derided by those who should be its servants and the ratepayers of this town of over half a million inhabitants forced
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  • NOTES Of The DAY.
    • 257 5 QIR Laurence Ouillemard. whose memories of his seven years in Malaya are making such interesting reading in The Sunday Times, and whose autobiography will be brought out by Methuen next month, is the seventh Straits Governor to contribute to the bibliography of this country. In the corner of
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    • 273 5 I NEVER thought that in the course A of my notes on birds I would have to record a friendship between a Cecil Street newshawk and a Java sparrow, but it has actually happened. Can you imagine a stranger contrast? On the one hand, a fough, cynical, hardboiled.
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    • 191 5 HAD never thought of the Kallang River as the source of millions upon millions of a peculiarly loathsome kind of milk pudding until 1 learned the other day that this riverfront is one of the world centres of the sago industry. All the sago factories of Singapore are
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    • 215 5 £ANNOT something be done to change the system whereby a vagrant in Singapore is confined in a prison celj as though he had committed a ciime? The House of Detention, to which magistrates send down-and-out strangers, is not intended to be a prison but a plac? where
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    • 174 5 *T*HOSE who know Tanjong Kling. that pleasant spot on the west coast of Singapore Island, will be glad to hear that the decision not to build a bridge across the Jurong river in the near future will :.ot affect the scheme to give Tanjong Kling a wate: supply.
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    • 180 5 WHAT looks like a really notable addition to the historical records of Singapore has come to light in Australia, in the shape of a new account of the founding of the Settlement by an eye-witness. When Sir Stamford Raffles returned from Calcutta to Penang in 1818. with authority
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    • 122 5 ONE0 NE wonders how many merchants in Singapore will agree with some comments on Japanese competition made in “The Colonial Problem,” a book produced by a study group of Royal Institute of International Affairs. The Joint authors say that since quotas were imposed Japanese retailers have been
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    • 366 5 THE coral snake (recognisable by the vermilion under its tail), one of the common snakes of Singapore Island, is poisonous but hitherto has not been thought to be dangerous to man owing to the smallness of its mouth. Experts are likely to treat this snake with greater
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    • 178 5 JT should be noted that Dr. Jacobson declined to be injected with antivenine, although this was available As an expert on snakes he knew that the anti-venlne made in the Pasteur Institute at Bandoeng (and presumably also at Bangkok) is obtained from horses treated with the venom of four other
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    • 224 5 pEW people know how small are the variations in the Singapore temperature throughout the year. It is usual to suppose that this place is markedly cooler during the rainy and blustery weather we get at the time of the north-east monsoon, and that hot weather must be expected
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    • 233 6 IITHAT is the record size for a durian W in Malaya? Two were gathered from the same tree at Kota Tipggl the other day which weighed b Tb. anc 7 3 4 pounds respectively, and there are others on this tree which look almost as large. No doubt
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    • 267 6 V HAVE heard some interesting things about durians lately. There is supposed to be a tree in the Malacca district which bears fruit containing only one seed, with a thick mass of pulp around it. thus saving th durian gourmet an enormous amount of trouble. I have also
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    • 221 6 V HAVE been reading a description of an evening spent in the house of a wealthy Batavia merchant a century ago. The writer was a second-lieuten-ant. a newcomer irom Holland, and he was astonished at the style In which his host lived. On the arrival ol himself and
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    • 241 6 ONE0 NE would hardly expect to And indications of the vanished continent of Sunda Land in a stream on Singapore Island; yet they are there. Many of the freshwater fishes in Malaya are found also in Sumatra and Borneo, and so another link is added to the
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    • 231 6 is no more alluring field for the Malayan naturalist than this for so little is known about the fresh water fishes of this country that at any time he might come upon a species new to science. “No one knows what the wilds of Pahang, Trengganu, Kelantan, Perak
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    • 261 6 'TURNING now to the sea fish, there are all sorts of surprises for the lay reader of this paper. For example, everyone has heard of the electric eels in South American rivers, but how many know that there are fish in the Straits of Malacca which “can give
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    • 199 6 rrHE rich, rustling silk-slufls, stilt with gold thread, which are worn bv Malay royalty are now obtainable in Kelantan from precisely one person, an elderly woman living in Kota Bahru and making a high quality of sarong for the palace. I learn this from Mr. de Moubray report
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    • 207 6 seeing Raffles' signature i or the first time, on documents signed bv him at Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, and now preserved at Raffles institution, I turned up a curious relic of the British period in Sumatra which i bought in a London second-hand bookshop some years ago. Inside a
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    • 330 6 going his rounds last week a Johore planter was lucky enough to see a baby cuckoo being fed by its foster-mother. Very few Europeans have seen this in Malaya, although it is common enough in English hedgerows in the nesting season. The cuckoo probably belonged to the
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  • 519 7 Mr. A. Beeman, chief clerk, Medical Department. Alor Star, is retiring from the Kedah Government Service on Sept. 7. Mr R. J. MacDonald Bennett, formerly of Sungei Way Estate, has been appointed manager of Sungei Rengam Estate, Batu Tiga. Mr G. B. Linford, Adjutant, F.M.S. police Depot,
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  • 501 7 Tuesday, Aug. 17. Sir Mirza Ismail, Hon. Mr. p. J. Morten, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. O. H. Tidbury and Major and Mrs. L. Raynar-Smith had luncheon at Government House. His Excellency and Lady Thomas dined with Commodore and Mrs. M. L. Clarke at Navy House. Wednesday, Aug. 18. His
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  • 76 7 Mr. L. Rayman As Acting Treasurer. The following appointments are notified in the S.S. Government Gazette: Mr. H. T. Hedley to act as Auditor, S.S. and F.M.S. Mr. A. W Hay, M.C.S.. to act as Protector of Chinese and Police Magistrate for Penang. Mr. F. V. Duckworth. M.C.S.,
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  • 83 7 Higher Building Costs Mean Bigger Vote. OECAUSE building costs have risen the estimate for new quarters to replace the bungalow of the Governor’s aide de camp on Government Hill needs to be increased by $5,000 to $40,000. A special warrant is sought by the Finance Committee of
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  • 96 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 27. IMPROVED organisation in mar- keting of Malayan fruits would popularise them amongst the public and thus enable their to supersede Imported fruits, thinks the Adviser on Agriculture, the Hon. Mr. O. T. Faulkner, C.M.G., B.A. He states in
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  • 299 7 IMPORTANT contributions made Jby engineers to the development of Singapor’s defences, which were described as a great peace preservation measure, was stressed by the acting president of the Engineering Association of Malaya, Mr. J. R. Casely when proposing the toast of “Our Guests” at the
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 23 7 FARRINGTON. —Td Rose Margaret <nee Burton) wife of E. Q. Farrington at Alor Star on Sunday, August 22, a daughter. <Jennifer Margaret).
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    • 42 7 LOH —CHONG.—The engagement is announced between Mr. Loh Khal Fatt, eldest son of the late Mr Loh Kee and Mrs. Loh Kee of Ipoh, and Miss Chong Book Chin, fourth daughter of Mr and Mrs. Chong Kim Tong of Bidor, Perak.
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    • 43 7 YOUNG—MICHIE.—At the Presbyterian Church. Singapore, on Saturday,* August 28, 1937. by the Rev. Stephen Band, M.A. John Stanley Young, son of Mrs. M. A. M. Young, Broughty Ferry. Dundee. Scotland to Elizabeth Lindsay Mlchie, daughter of Mrs. A. Michie, Muirend. Glasgow, Scotland.
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  • 368 7 leader*— 44 New Use* 2 Japan’s Alarm 2 Stock-Taking In Kelantan 3 Taxation. Rice and Roads 3 Closing In On Japan 4 A Little More Secrecy 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Picture Supplement 17 20 Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following page 32 Malayan
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  • 29 7 Mr. H. E. Roberton. manager, Ayer Tawar Estate. Sitiawan, left for home on long leave last week. Mr. R. Barbour of the same estate will act during his absence.
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  • 23 7 DEATH D’CRUZ. —On Aug. 26 1937, at No. 1012, Jansen Road, Singapore. Albert Walter Joseph D’Cruz, 52 years, late Port Health Officer, Singapore.
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  • 531 8 COUNCIL PASSES BILL THROUGH ALL STAGES. Short Meeting Deals Mainly With New Laws. “THE Jaw is at present being widely evaded by the importa- tion of goods which are in fact regulated textiles put up in disguised form, which enables them to
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  • 78 8 llfILL Government in future adopt a more helpful attitude toward radio in Malaya? The Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, now has a wireless set. It is a radio gramophone, recently installed at a cost of about $300. "A wireless set is a necessary part of the
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  • 37 8 last Malaya is to do something to tell the world about its tourist attractions. The Malayan Governments are producing an illustrated brochure, “Visit Malaya.” The Colony’s contribution to the cost is $l,OOO.
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  • 143 8 More Come Forward For Treatment. INCREASES in the number of new cases of venereal disease treated at the social hygiene branches of the Medical Department m the Straits Settlements last year occurred at Singapore, Penang and Malacca, according to figures released by the Government on Monday.
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  • 366 8 “I Have Not Lost Any Sleep Over It,” She Says. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 29. DICKED by Paramount directors as the ideal girl to play the lead in the film Booloo,” 19-year-old Miss Cicely Reeve-Tucker, daughter of a well-known Selangor
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  • 14 8 It is understood that a town planning department for Johore Bahru Is under contemplation.
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  • 139 8 H.Q. For Johore Military Forces. LARGER GOVERNMENT OFFICES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, Aug. 30 JOHORE is speeding up building u programmes that were meant to be completed next year. New buildings are being constructed all over the Segamat district. The Police Department is to have another
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  • 59 8 OINGAPORE Rotarians may send to Nebraska two dolls—a youth and a young woman—in Malay costume. The Kearney Rotary Club of Nebraska has asked for them. This club is collecting dolls from all countries where Rotary exists. The dolls will be preserved and exhibited in public schools,
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  • 122 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 27. THE first appointments to consti--1 tute the Federated Malay States Transport Board, which was established by the new Road Traffic Enactment, are published today. They are: Mr. Harold Huntsman (Perak): Mr. Khoo 800 Gong (Selangor):
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  • 108 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh. Aug 28 p*ROM inquiries made in official as well as unofficial circles, it is gathered that ther„ is no evidence ot anti-Japanese feeling in Perak. The trade boycott, it is pointed out is an entirely different matter, but the local
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  • 586 9 Unofficial Attacks Profiteers In Federal Council (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26. THE Malayan Governments have not the slightest information which would justify the recent rise in the price rice, said the High Commissioner (Sir Shenton Thomas), speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the
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  • 438 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Aug. 19. THAT British manufacturers can meet Japanese competition effectively only by opening factories in Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and Siam is contended by Mr. D. A. Batwell in a letter published in The Times today. Mr. Batwell,
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  • 143 9 New 7 Municipal Move. (From Our Own Correspondent Malcca. Aug. 26. THE Municipal Commission has prepared draft town planning proposals embodying schemes which have been approved already by the Gover-nor-in-Council. It is expected more concrete plans will be drawn up when the Hon. G. W.
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  • 435 9 If New Planting Ban Not Relaxed, Says Mr. E. MacFadyen. IJNLESS there is a modification of the present prohibition of new planting within the controlled areas, “a shortage of rubber within the next decade cannot be ruled out of reckoning,” says Mr. Eric MacFadyen,
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  • 118 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Aug. 29. THE severe drought experienced 1 this year by farmers in Jolburi, a coastal town not far from Eangkok, has led to about 20 per cent, of them being short of rice for food. Last week about 800
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  • 287 10 BUT GENUINE RELIEF FUNDS ALLOWED. Should Be Kept Within Communities: Official View. Singapore, Aug. 28. A WARNING that the collection in Malaya of funds for war purposes in China and Japan is strictly forbidden has been issued by the Malayan Governments The intimation is
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  • 104 10 Mr. G. Parbury On Malayan Committee. RilR. G. Parbury will be the Singapore Municipal Commissioners’ representative on the committee dealing with Malaya’s participation in the British Empire Exhibition to be held in Glasgow in 1938. He was elected on Aug. 27 at the Municipal Commissioners’ meeting
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  • 47 10 THE funeral of Dr. Albert Walter Joseph D’Cruz, formerly Port Health Officer, Singapore, took place at the Bldadari Cemetery on Aug. 27, preceded by a choral service at the Church of St. Joseph and was very largely attended. The Rev. Father Rego officiated.
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  • 117 10 Singapore, Aug. 28 CINGAPORE Teochew merchants have promised $15,000 Straits to the Singapore Chinese Red Cross Fund, making the total to date $365,000. A cable advising the Nanking Government of the amount collected and stating that a quarter million dollars would be forwarded today has
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  • 129 10 In 1940, Say British Unofficial Circles. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Aug. 27. circumstances will compel Great Britain to station a full battle squadron in the Pacific when the building of new 7 battleships and the modernisation of old units are completed three years hence is
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  • 361 10 Singapore, Aug. 28. gUILT around the theme of rearmament for peace the Coronation Searchlight Tattoo staged at Farrer Park last night is surely the finest spectacle ever presented in Malaya. As item after item emerged from realistic castle walls, bathed in brilliance by ten great
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  • 448 10 Trouble Over Spilled Drinks Ends In Fines. H ow a Tamil cook, M. S. Anthony, threatened to shoot his master, Lieut. B. J. Mahon, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, after being rebuked for spilling a tray of drinks was told before the Singapore Second
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  • 105 10 Death Of Former Singapore Resident. ll/|RS. R. W. Reader, whose husband. 1T1 the late Mr R. W. Reader, formerly was in the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Singapore, has died following an accident in which she was knocked down by a motor-car while crossing a road outside
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  • 258 11 Singapore Will Store 50,000 Tons Of Shanghai Cargo. Singapore, Aug. 27. ABOUT 10 000 tons of cargo for Shanghai, discharged from ships from Europe, are in Singapore godowns, the Straits Times understands. It is expected that further unloadings will swell the quantity of cargo
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  • 449 11 Says Sir Shenton Thomas Defending Them In Council. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 27. WHEN the Hon. Mr. W. G. W. Hastings told the Federal Council yesterday that the roads of Malaya had not been improved in the last 15 years, the
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  • 79 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kua’a Lumpur, Aug. 28. rpHE two air-conditioned bogie-coaches put on the day expresses between Kuala Lumpur and Penang have so far cost the F.M.S. Railways $88,900, it was stated in a paper laid before the Federal Council. The original cost was
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  • 139 11 THREE Italians off the Italian vessel Victoria, which arrived in Singapore on Aug. 26 from the Far East, were the next morning sent to gaol by the Criminal District Judge (Mr. H. A. Forrer) for chandu offences. Vincenzo Durando, Codetto Chiozza and Fuliro Purgiogi
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  • 360 11 To Be Considered In Committee. pviSCUSSION on the disapproval U by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners of an application for promotion by the Distribution Engineer of the Electricity Department was cut short at the Commissioners’ meeting on Friday when, following a motion by Mr. Seow Poh Leng
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  • 339 11 F.M.S. FOOD DUTIES Sugar Dealers Fear Heavy Losses. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 27. DRIT1SH tinned milk will be no cheaper because of the reduction of the import duties on that commodity and other foodstuffs made by the Federated Malay States
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  • 71 11 ing the shares into stock.—Straits Times copyright. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Aug. 26 The chairman of Ipoh Tin Dredging Ltd., told shareholders at the annual meeting that the company’s decreased profits were due to the exhaustion of the rich Ayer Etam property. Application had
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  • 1005 12 Municipal “Hush-Hush 99 Policy PUBLICITY in the transaction of public business is not only helpful, but like sunshine and fresh air, it is also healthful and invigorating and should be preferred to the murkiness and the vitiated atmosphere usually associated with
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  • 188 12 Municipality Reiterates Policy. EXISTING STAFF HAS FIRST CLAIM. HPHE policy laid down by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners of considering the claims of the existing staff for higher posts in the Municipality whenever possible was reiterated at Friday’s meeting of the Commission. The matter arose when
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  • 63 12 A marriage has been arranged and will take place towards the end of the year between Mr. W. B. Harris of the United Engineers, Ltd., Penang, second son of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Harris, 118 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, England, and Miss Doris Mullins. M.A., of the Anglo-Chinese School, only
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  • 250 12 MO attempt was made to settle the claim amicably before the action was started in the recent case between Wee Hong Heng and the Municipal Commissioners, it was revealed in the answers tabled at the Commissioners* meeting on Friday replying to questions raised
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  • 499 12 (From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 28. EUROPEANS in the East have discovered—often to their cost—that water buffaloes have a peculiar aversion to any white—skinned person. Yet these sulky beasts are often very docile in the hands of Asiatic children. The British Resident of
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  • 171 13 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Aug. 20. SIR MALCOLM WATSON, Director of the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, is to pay a visit to Malaya shortly, for the purpose of reviewing the progress of anti-malarial work throughout the country. Sir Malcolm leaves Marseilles
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  • 132 13 QANADA is making a new attempt to establish strong trade ties with the Orient, said Mr. George M. Murray, a member of the British Columbia Legislature, and a former managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, who arrived in Singapore on Aug. 25 aboard the P.
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  • 304 13 Nanking Official Says Europe Behind China. Singapore. Aug. 26. “gRITAIN was appalled by news of Japan’s apparent attempt to gain control of Shanghai, irrespective of rights and interests of other foreign countries notably Great Britain and France.” Thus declared Dr. Oung Wen Hao, Secretary-General
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  • 404 13 LONG FAMILY CONNECTION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 24. ENGINEERING shops of the F.M.S. Railways throughout the Peninsula were closed this afternoon as a mark of respect for a popular official—Major John Charles Garth Spooner, M.C., who left on retirement
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  • 105 13 Found By Johore Planter. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Aug. 26. r\R. J. R. JACOBS,. Deputy Pathologist, Malacca, was killed last night in a motor accident while on his way from Singapore to Malacca with two children. The car crashed into the ditch at
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  • 233 13 European Selected For “Booloo.” (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 25. perfect girl” to take the lead in Paramount’s jungle film Hooloo has been found here by Director Clyde Elliott. She is a European and has been chosen from seven of the
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  • 119 13 THE death occurred in England on Aug. 6, of Arnold Sharpies, A.R.C.S., D.1.C., formerly of the Agricultural Department of the F.M.S. and later a member of the staff of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya. Mr. Sharpies was 50 years of age and came to Malaya
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  • 405 14 SYRUPS, SOUPS, SUGAR, MEATS, MILK, BUTTER. Estimated Revenue Loss Of $2,700,000 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26. AT an estimated cost of $2,700,000 the F.M.S. GovernA men t has partially abolished and substantially reduced foodstuff and other import duties. The announcement was
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  • 260 14 Italian Liner Victoria Here CECOND refugee ship to reach Singapore from China, the Lloyd Triestino liner Victoria, which arrived at Singapore on Aug. 26. carried 600 refugees from Shanghai to Hong Kong. They included Italians, Germans, Britons, Swiss, Spaniards and Filipinos. In addition to
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  • 62 14 THE death occurred on Aug. 26 of the late Port Health Officer Singapore. Dr. Walter ’de Cruz at his residence 1012 Hillside Drive, Upper Serangoon. Dr. Cruz, who was 52 years of age, only retired about one and a half months ago. He had been
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  • 283 14 Chinese Resisting Mass Inoculation. Singapore, Aug. 26. rjRIM TALES of the cholera horror in Hong Kong were w brought to Singapore this morning by travellers aboard the Italian liner Victoria. Sections of the Chinese populace, with deep-root-ed objection to modern scientific aids, were resisting attempts
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  • 64 14 Boxed In Singapore Some Time Ago. DUSH Mayo, the Filipino boxer who was assaulted when he was mistaken for a Japanese by a Chinese mob in Shanghai recently, will be remembered by Singapore fight tans. Mayo figured in several contests at the Olympic Stadium and
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  • 73 14 MESSRS. Fred Elias and E. O. Heuscr. of Shanghai, arrived in Singapore on the Lloyd Triestino linei Victoria on Aug. 26 to take charge of the newly-established Singapore brand > office of the well-known Far Eastern sharebroking firm of S. E. Levy and Company. “Business was at
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  • 131 14 Injured Near Palace Hotel. 20 year old Singapore girl, Miss Josephine Hatten, has died following injuries received when she was standing either outside the Palace Hotel in Shanghai or close to the hotel during the bombardment by the Chinese on Aug. 14. Miss Hatten
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  • 88 14 Institution Of Rev. H. J. Paine. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Aug. 24. IN the presence of a large con- gregation the Bishop’s commisary, Archdeacon Graham White, this evening officially instituted the Rev. Humphrey John Paine as chaplain of Penang (St. George’s Church) at a special service.
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  • 1826 15 Planting Topics Experiments Chemical Substance To Force Rooting And Assist Seed Germination. (By Our Planting Correspondent). CAN rubber trees on a commercial scale be successfully raised from cuttings taken from existing trees, whether oi budgrafted origin or otherwise? That is a question to
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  • 314 16 Handwriting Expert's Evidence In Tam pen is Case. A YOUNG Chinese school teacher, Yeo Heok Cheng, was on Aug. 26 committed to stand his trial at the next Assizes on a charge of murdering Low Sock Gim, the 16-year-old daughter of a tally clerk,
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  • 46 16 A CHINESE schoolboy at Taiping has sold his watch for $5 and given the money to the Red Cross Fund, according to the Taiping correspondent of the Straits Times. Nearly $lO,OOO has now been subscribed in Taiping for the fund.
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  • 579 16 UNOFFICIAL QUERY FOR GOVERNMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26. POURING the course of tributes to U the F.M.S. Government, in the Federal Council today, for the decision to reduce many import duties, the Hon. Mr. W. G. Hastings
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  • 364 16 Rayats Celebrate Ruler’s Birthday. (By A Special Correspondent.) Kuala Trengganu, Aug. 21. •pRENGGANU today celebrated, in picturesque fashion, the 43rd., birthday of the Sultan, who is now in the eighteenth year of his reign. While the officials paid their respects in the form of a
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  • 111 16 To Relieve Cramped Workers. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 25. *JTHE Agricultural Department’s central buildings at Kuala Lumpur are to be enlarged by the construction of another $100,000 two-storey laboratory. Tenders are being called for now. The present administrative block, set in park surroundings
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  • 92 16 “jyiNNER on the Rajputana the first night out from Shanghai was a strange meal,” said a passenger on the ship when she berthed at Singapore on her arrival from Shanghai and Hong Kong. “Everybody was silent. Some passengers looked terribly ill, many not having slept for two
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  • 100 16 THREE European motorists who infringed the traffic regulations were dealt with in the Singapore Fourth Police Court on Aug. 25. A. Elsworth was fined $3 for driving his car along Orchard Roard on July 20 with one headlight. For failing to comply with a traffic
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  • 54 16 Mr. C. S. Venkatachar, I.C.S., who has been appointed the Agent of the Government of India in Malaya, is to sail about Sept. 10 from Madras, accompanied by his wife. Since July--’ he has been on leave, staying in Bangalore. Mr. Venkatachar was until recently Rural Development
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  • 478 17 Dr Robert Hall, of Johore, and his bride. Miss Betty Ann Sinclair Scott, photographed after (heir wedding at Rutherglen, Lanarkshire on Aug. II. Dancer from Hollywood Night f lub. New York, Eva Alexander is in the Rex Story revue which opened at the Capitol last
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  • More Leaves From A Woman’s Notebook.
    • 935 21 ‘Thank You ’ls Rare, Say Bachelors. uiHAT is wrong with Singa- pore’s young women Nothing, they say, but the men do not, apparently, agree. Let us take an inventory. Bachelor “A” reports this: He takes a “young thing” out, gives her a dinner, dances
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  • 185 21 Mail Bag HINT FOR BACHELORS To the Editor of the Straits Times. gIR, —In a recent issue a correspondent advocated the inauguration of a scheme for importing pretty young girls from the United States and Australia to become the wives of Singapore’s pining bachelors. That would
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  • 108 21 Man Sentenced To Gaol Term. accused had apparently been putting fear into the mind of the complainant by using the unknown” said the second magistrate Mr. F. V. Duckworth, when sentencing Phng Cheng Goan to three months’ rigorous imprisonment on Aug. 26. The accused was chargee
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  • 213 21 She Beats The Swimming Club Drum Mucki From Budapest. “WHO is the dimpled girl who plays the drum?” has been one of the most frequent questions at recent Saturday night swimming Club dances. The dimpled girl who plays the drum is Miss Mucki Nidosi, of Budapest. She is the only
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  • 114 21 (From Our Own Correspondent. Johore Bahru, Aug. 27. I T IIE Johore Government has allocated a big sum of money for the purpose of building religious institutions throughout the State. The levelling of a site beside the Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque is In progress
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  • 49 21 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. Aug. 25. 'T'HE death is announced today, after three week’s illness, of Prince Patriarch Jlnavara. He was 79. He was the head priest of the Buddhist Church of Siam for 16 years and was a priest for 58 years.
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  • 472 22 European Wins Pro. Note Case. MALAY WOMAN’S DENIAL. A DEAL in diamonds led to an action in the Singapore High Court, on Aug. 24, before Mr. Justice Horne, when Mr. A. Flinter successfully sued an elderly woman, Badariah binte Abdullah, for the recovery of $1,458.60 on
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  • 76 22 than 40 Singapore Chinese have volunteered for training in the St. John’s Ambulance Corps started by the Singapore Nanyang Chinese Students Society. The Corps was organised when local Chinese first received news of hostilities between China and Japan, and the intention of the organisers was
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  • 75 22 f)NE man in Singapore at least has reason to be thankful for the Sino-Japanese war in North China. He was a Chinese opium addict of 20 years’ standing but is no longer one. When the call for relief funds was sounded he resolved that
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  • 468 22 STRING OF FIRST CLASS FILMS SCHEDULED. PURSUING a policy of expansion warranted by its increased activities as one of the major producing companies in Hollywood, the Columbia Pictures Corporation of America enters the Malayan market by setting up its own distribution offices in Singapore
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  • 64 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping, Aug. 21. FOLLOWING the example of Chinese living in other towns, Taiping Chinese are calling a meeting at the Hokkien Hoey Kuan, Taiping. to consider means to collect funds for the alleviation of distress among the wounded Chinese in the
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  • 225 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Aug. 24. POUR new Justices of the Peace r have been created in Negri Sembilan on the occasion of the birthday, today of the Yang-di-Pertuan Besar. They are Messrs. Donald Farquharson, N. B. Fraser, Chui Kik Moon and
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  • 191 22 New Government Control Rules For Council. £OLONY retail rice dealers will shortly be required to submit to the Registrar of Statistics, returns of the amount of rice they have sold during each quarter. This step towards securing accurate statistics will be taken at the
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  • 191 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Aug. 24. CTRANGE cargo was brought to Penang from Siam by the s.s. Jeram on its way to Singapore. It includes a tiger and a tigress and the skins of over 250 crocodiles. The story of how the wild animals
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  • 87 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Aug. 24. JOHORE Bahru Boy Scouts last night showed the 90 Italian youths who are visiting Malaya how a Malay marriage is carried out. This demonstration followed a tea at the International Club at which the Regent of
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  • 396 23 Singapore Nurse Is Glad To Be Back. “T SAW war dead litteiing the streets; mangled I bodies were shovelled into lorries; a plane crashed in flame over Chapei before my eyes; bombs fell about us as we'were being evacuated. Pretty 20-year-old Ethel Ridsdale, a Singapore
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  • 64 23 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 24. THE Prince’s Cabaret case, which was to have been resumed today, had to be postponed for a week owing to the illness of Mr. Roland Braddell, who is at Cameron Highlands. Last Friday, when the case
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  • 204 23 Miller’s Princely Gift. A SUM of $200,000, which is being remitted immediately from Kuala Lumpur to Nanking, has been subscribed by Selangor Chinese for Red Cross work in China. Mr. Chung Yok Choy, the Selangor miner, is understood to have made a princely contribution
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  • 92 23 CIRST inquiry of many of the feminine refugees from Shanghai as soon as they arrived in Singapore aboard the Rajputana was Where is your G.P.O? They wanted to try and get in touch by cable with the husbands they left behind in Shanghai. Singapore newspapers were
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  • 161 23 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Aug. 24. DERAK Chinese have started a voluntary boycott of Japanese goods and the Customs have already noted a big falling off in the amount of Japanese goods imported into the State. Since the boycott was started by lf.cal Chinese
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  • 562 23 Malay Homage To Ruler 40 Years On Throne. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 24. IIIS Highness Sir Ala’idin Sulaiman Shah, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., 72-year-old Sultan of Selangor, will celebrate his Golden Jubilee as Ruler as well as his birthday on Sept. 11. The rejoicings
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  • 21 23 After serving with the Johore Government for about 23 years Mr. Phua Seng Yong. Senior Interpreter, Supreme Court, is retiring shortly.
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  • 398 24 ’—Reuter. HEELED OVER DURING LAND AND AIR ATTACK. Shanghai, Aug. 24. W/ARFARE in the past 20 hours has been centred mainly in Japanese naval bombardments in both Shanghai and Pootung sides of the river, which were also subjected to air raids. The Chinese replied with machine-guns,
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  • 91 24 —Reuter. WARNING TO BOTH SIDES. Washington, Aug. 24. A DM. Harry Yarnell, commander of the United States Asiatic Fleet, reported to the Navy Department that a special board of Investigation found no definite evidence In regard to which of the opposing forces fired the shell which
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  • 61 24 -Reuter. QHfNESE propaganda is reaching thousands of people in the United States through Chinese laundries, whose customers are receiving ip their parcels of clean linen leaflets appealing to Americans to aid China in her struggle against Japanese aggression Hundreds of pounds have been raised
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  • 119 24 —Reuter. Britain Disappointed At Japanese Attitude. EFFORTS BEING MADE TO CHANGE VIEW. London, Aug. 23. no final replies have been received frcm China and Japan it is understood China has approved in principle the proposals for the neutralisation of Shanghai, provided her defensive position is not
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  • 75 24 MISS LIN PENG SHA, the 1 Chinese aviatrix who was in Singapore a few months ago, and who is now in Fukien Province, has offered her services to Nanking Government. This is the second time she has come forward to volunteer assistance to the Chinese
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  • 43 24 —Reuter. Alexandria, Aug. 23. 1TING FAROUK of Egypt, who recently ascended the Throne on his coming-of-age, today became engaged to the 16-year-old daughter of Yussouf Bey Zulficar, a high palace official, whose wife is lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother.—Reuter.
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  • 589 24 —Reuter. Shanghai, Aug. 24. WHEN a shell exploded in the $5,000,000 deparment store of the Sincere Company, Ltd., in busy Nanking Road, 175 were killed and 475 were injured, according to an incomplete official casualty list. Two foreigners were killed, a 16-year-old German
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  • 591 25 -Reuter. Shot While On Mission Of Peace To Shanghai. JAPAN EXPRESSES REGRET AT INCIDENT. Shanghai, Aug. 27. WHILE on his way to discuss ways of restoring peace in Shanghai with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. S. Kawagoe, the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugessen, was seriously injured
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  • 43 25 A MESSAGE of sympathy with Sir Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen, who is a personal friend, has been sent by the Chinese Consul-General at Singapore, Mr. Kao Ling Pai. He also arranged for flowers to be sent daily to the Country Hospital.
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  • 195 25 —Reuter. Finished His Work Before Operation. Shanghai, Aug. 27. A TRIBUTE to Sir Hughe’s remarkable courage and calmness was paid by CoL Lovat-Fraser in an interview today. He said the Ambassador, although seriously injured and obviously in great pain, had lost consciousness and their one thought
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  • 66 25 —Reuter. larger Pensions Allowed In New Budget. Canberra. Aug. 29. The Budget introduced to Parliament totals £85,190.000 and estimates a surPlus of £30,000. There is no reduction in taxation nc old-age pensions have been in'teased by one shilling a week. t-if f r° nce expenditure
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  • 50 25 relief of Chinese war sufferers.—Sin Chew Jit Foh. The German Consul at Shanghai on Aug. 26 called on Mr. O. K. Yui, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, and handed over $17,510 which had been given by German residents for the relief of Chinese war sufferers.—Sin
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  • 58 25 Shanghai, Aug. 25. The most remarkable feature of the fighting in Shanghai is the technical preparedness of the Chinese in respect of aircraft, anti-aircraft guns and artillery, with the result that the Japanese are encountering hitherto undreamed of resistance and have not been able to improve
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  • 177 25 —Reuter. Insufficient Identification On Car, They Claim. O EAR-ADMIRAL HASEOAWA, the Japanese naval commander, has ordered a strict Investigation into the shooting of the British ambassador, and also called on Admiral Sir Charles Little, the British Commander-in-Chief, and Informed him of the steps he was taking. Although
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  • 61 25 London, Aug. 25. TPHE Ist Battalion the Royal Orena- diers of Savoy has left Addis Ababa for Massawa to embark for Shanghai to reinforce the Italian contingents there, reports the Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The extent of ill} loss of life and property
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  • 520 26 Apologies Not Sufficient. London, Aug. 27. 44 AN unparalleled outrage” is the description applied by the Times in a leading article on the attack on Sir Hughe Knatchball-Hugessen. Not even the most reckless Japanese airmen would have attacked the Embassy cars had they been aware
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  • 108 26 Reuter. jyHAT is the latest news from home," was the question Reuter was continually asked when touring the North Station defence sector, held by the Welch Fusiliers, The men themselves were “at home," shirtless, polishing rifles, washing socks and chatting idly. On sandbag redoubts were chalked
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  • 98 26 —Reuter. Will Sink Submarines In Dardanelles. Ankora, Aug. 26. Two notes to foreign Powers warning them that the Turkish military forces have been ordered to destroy any submarine found in the Dardanelles unless it surrenders first have been sent by the Foreign Minister, Dr. Rustu Aras.
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  • 18 26 —Reuter. Genoa, Aug. 26. The Italian cruiser R'aimondo Monte Cuccoli has left Genoa for Shanghai.
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  • 158 26 Reuter. China May Raise Aggression Plea. Paris, Aug. 28. THE French Government is getting into touch with the British and American Governments with regard to the attitude to be adopted at the League of Nations meeting in September. when it is expected that China will
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  • 27 26 Reuter. Castro Urdiales, an important Basque stronghold on the coast between Bilbao and Santander, has been ‘captured by the insurgents, according to the military authorities at Bilbao.—
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  • 67 26 —Reuter. London, Aug. 25. THE Financial Times declares R that Manchester and Lancashire manufacturers of cotton piecegoods are already being asked to quote prices for making cheap cloths supplied to some Dominion and South American markets by Japanese makers following doubts regarding the ability of
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  • 313 26 —Pcuter. Heavy Fighting Continues On Settlement Borders. CHINESE HOLDING OUT BRAVELY. Shanghai, Aug. 29. JLVEAVY fighting continued all 11 night in the area immediately adjoining the northern boundary of the International Settlement along the front extending from the North Station and towards Yangtszepoo. Chinese aeroplanes paid two
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  • 48 26 —Reuter. Moscow, Aug. 27 'T'HE Japanese Consulategeneral at Shanghai has threatened that the Soviet Consulate will be shelled if a light, which is alleged to be a signal to Chinese troops, is. seen again. This message is published by the official Tass Agency. Reuter
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  • 357 27 No Legal State Of War. London, Aug. 27. BRITAIN will not recognise any Japanese blockade of the South China coast any more than she has done the frequent blockades declared by Gen. Franco in Spain. No legal state of war exists, and the Foreign Office
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  • 62 27 —Reuter Indian Forces Sail From Calcutta. Calcutta, Aug. 25. T*HE 5th battalion of the 6th Rajaputana Rifles, commanded by Colonel Ferguson, hate sailed from Calcutta for the Far East aboard the steamer Elephanta. A Secunderabad message says the 4th battalion of the 19th Hyderabad Regiment
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  • 47 27 MIXED battalion of French and Annamite troops have arrived in Shanghai from Tongking to reinforce the 1,000 French colonial troops already in the French Concession. It is reported that 5,000 more troops from Indo-China will arrive in the course of the next three weela.
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  • 203 27 Reuter. Shanghai Aug. 26. (SHANGHAI is gradually accustoming itself to a war raging on its doorstep. It is believed that, apart from misdirected projectiles, the city is not in any great danger, and the possibility of troops from either side forcing their way into
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  • 117 27 Reuter. ATE POISONED TINNED FOOD. Moscow, Aug. 29. THE death by food poisoning of Marshal Demid, War Minister of the Mongolian People's ‘tenublic, and Divisional Commander Dzhansakhorlo are revealed officially by the announcement that the bodies arrived at Moscow today. They died suddenly on Aug.
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  • 34 27 New York, Aug. 27. ANDREW MELLON, banker, financier, art collector and diplomat, has died. He was understood to be fourth richest man in the world, his fortune being estimated at £200,000,000.
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  • 198 27 —Reuter. Lady Hugessen Reaches Hospital Shanghai, Aug. 28. AFTER rushing to her husband’s bedside in the British destroyer Defender, Lady Hugessen, accompanied by an official of the British Embassy, arrived at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, at 830 this morning, apparently earlier than she had been
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  • 31 27 Reuter. The Nanking Government has promulgated a law providing for summary execution of looters, rumour-mongers, saboteurs, traitors, and army commanders who retreat without adequate reason, reports
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  • 169 27 Tientsin, Aug. 25. REVERE Sino-Japanese fighting has broken out at Chinghai, to the south of Tientsin, which the Japanese claim to have captured. They say that troops are now sweeping in a south-easterly direction along the Pelping-Suiyuan railway towards the Nankow pass, the so-called “gate"
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  • 27 27 —Reuter. A Japanese hospital ship, with Red Cross emblems conspicuously displayed. arrived In Shanghai on Aug. 27, docking near the Japanese Consulate.
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  • 46 27 DR. FRANK RAWLINSON, one of the most prominent missionaries in China, and Mr. H. Honigsberg. an American motor dealer, were killed in their cars in Nanking Road when Chinese bombs fell on Aug. 14. This picture shows the scene in Nanking Road.
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  • 363 28 -Reuter. Wants Formal Apology, Punishment Of Fliers, Assurance For Future. DRITAIN is demanding a formal apology from Japan for the wounding of the British Ambassador to China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, by a Japanese aeroplane. Suitable punishment for those responsible also is being demanded, as well
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  • 465 28 —Reuter. Flag Plea Is Held Irrelevant. London, Aug. 29. A FTER recounting the facts of the shooting, the Note states that the British Government “has received with deep distress and concern the news of this deplorable event, in respect of which it must record its emphatic
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  • 54 28 Reuter. Washington, Aug. 29. nR. C. T. WANG, the Chinese Ambassador in the United States, announced that China is as ready as ever to settle whatever differences she may have with Japan by pacific means in accordance with international law and the principles recently enunciated
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  • 119 28 Hong Kong. Aug. 29. Reuter is informed by reliable sources that 9,000 cases of Bank ol China silver have been unloaded at one warehouse already. The boxes contain between $4,000 to $5,000 each. Many more lighters are alongside, apparently awaiting completion of strong-rooms before landing
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  • 131 28 -Reuter. American Union Threatens Strike. Washington, Aug. 30. leaders of the National Maritime Union have threatened to call sit-down strikes on ships manned by its members to prevent implements of war reaching Japan or China. Union leaders say seamen are averse to carrying
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  • 345 28 NON-AGGRESSION PACT FOR CHINA SOVIET. OHINA and Russia have signed a pact of non-aggression, it was officially announced in Shanghai on Sunday*. The pact which was .signed on Aug. 21. will remain in force for five years. The Soviet Foreign Office published the text of the Sino-Soviet pact in Moscow
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  • 1508 29  -  By “Captain Dash.” PINE weather favoured the opening day of the Singapore t Turf Club’s Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting at Bukit Timah on Saturday, and a large crowd had an enjoyable
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  • 426 29 SLASHING VICTORIES FOR CHELSEA ARSENAL. ST. JOHNSTONE HOLD RANGERS KILMARNOCK BEAT CELTIC. QJOCCER began <n England on Saturday with a full series of league matches. Notable results in Division I were the defeat of the champions, Manchester City, by the Wolves, Chelsea’s 6—1 drubbing of Liverpool and Arsenal’s big win
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  • 49 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) London. Aug .25. The Ebor Handicap run today over 1% miles at York resulted 1 Weathervane 7.9 (Weston) 1 Dytchley 8 0 (D. Smith; 2 Coup de Roi 8.10 (E Smith) 3 Won by a head; one '**ngth Seventeen ran.
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  • 43 29 -Reuter Helsingfors. Aug. 26 The 2.000 metres world record was beaten here by San Romani, the American runner, who covered the distance In 5 min. 16.7 sec The previous record was 5 min 18 4 sec. by Jonnson, of Sweden—Reuter
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  • 517 30 HARD PRESSED IN THEIR FINAL GAME. THE championship in Division II of the S.A.F.A. League was decided at the Anson Road Stadium last week when the Post Office beat the Chinese II by a solitary goal, netted rather late
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  • 308 30 CHOON LEONG’S GALLANT BUT. VAIN FIGHT AGAINST YADI. |JY winning one of yesterday’s singles, the Y.M.C.A. beat the S.C.R.C. in the semi-final of the 44 Kliney Cup inter-club lawn tennis tournament by three matches to two. They will meet either the Tanglin Club
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  • 90 30 Dutchman, Corns, was third.—Aneta-Trans-Ocean. Copenhagen, Aug. 24. The world’s cycling championship, contested here on Sunday, was won by the Dutchman, van der Vijver, against the Frenchman. Oeorget. In the first race the Frenchman won by a few inches. George also won the second and the
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  • 316 30 They Win, While Fishlock And Gregory Foil Yorkshire. OY beating Kent, while Yorkshire could only take first innings points against Surrey, Middlesex resumed the leadership in the Countv Cricket Championship. y Their percentage is now 72.12, with Notts and Surrey still to meetYorkshire’s is 69.74,
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  • 102 30 Reuter. An Unspecified “Breach Of Discipline. London, Aug. 24. AN official statement issued by the secretary of Notts County C. C. states that, in accordance with a resolution passed by the committee, Larwood has been suspended for the rest of the season following a breach of discipline. Both
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  • 106 30 Celtic Drop A Point At Home. Results of matches played yesterday in Division I of the Scottish League are cabled by Reuter as follows: Ayr U. 4 Kilmarnock 2 Celtic 2 Q. of South 2 Dundee 1 Abroath 0 Falkirk 0 Rangers 1 Hibernian 0 Queen’s Park
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  • 70 30 AMERICAN AMATEUR.” Golf. -Reuter. Billows And Goodman To Meet In The Final. Portland (Oregon). Aug. 28. In the American amateur golfvchampionship semi-finals over 36 holes, resulted as follows: Ray Billows. New York, beat Johnny Fischer, the holder. 6 and 5. Johnny Goodman. Omaha, beat Marvin Ward. Washington, one up. Fischer’s
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  • 44 30 Reuter. London, Aug. 26. The County Cricket championship match at Bournemouth ended In two clays, Hampshire beating Northans bv an innings and 133 runs: Hants. 37! (Pothecary, 79). Northants, 105 (Herman 4 for 29) and. following on, 133.-
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  • 137 30 Golf. G.G.C. Team Beaten By 5*4 Points. The match between the women members of Keppel Golf Club and Garrison Golf Club, played on Wednesday afternoon at Keppel, resulted in a win for the home team by 0% to 1*4. as under (Garrison G.C. players mentioned first):
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  • 676 31  -  By “Echo.” riGHTING grimly for forty-five minutes, Sompong sturdy Siamese, and Joe Diamond, tough Malayan-born negro, went to a close decision at the Happy World arena on Satunlay evening. That decision was just earned—and
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  • 48 31 A Rentier telegram from New York states that two former world champion* Jim Braddoch, beaten for the title recently by Louis, and Afox Baer, from whom he won it in 1935—have been matched for a contest at Madison Square Garden on Oct 29.
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  • 82 31 Lawn Tennis. —Reuter. British Women Beaten In Doubles Semi-finals. Brookline (Mass.), Aug. 29. In the semi-final round Of the men's doubles in the American championships. the Germans, Van Cramm and Henkel, beat Van Ryn and J. R Hunt 6—4, 6—8, 14—12, 6—4. In the women’s doubles semi-finals American
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  • 54 31 .—Reuter. London, Aug. 28. S. C. Woodsrson, of Blackheath Harriers, broke the world record for the mile, with 4 min. 6.6 sec. The record was held by the American, Glen Cunningham, in 4 min. 6.8 sec. Wooderson had the assistance of Britain’s other leading
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  • 31 31 Nine cards were taken out for the Keppel Golf Club’s August women s foursomes competition which was won by Mrs C Q. Starkey and Mrs. P. Crawley, 45—11%=33%.
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  • 312 31 Middlesex Take Only First Innings Points From Notts. London, Aug. 28. THRILLING to the end is the struggle between Yorkshire and Middlesex for the County Cricket Championship. The lead changed hands again yesterday. Yorkshire regained the leadership by defeating Sussex overwhelmingly, Verity taking
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  • 125 31 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 28. “It was never the intention of the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association officially to record Sapper Rogan's time for the three miles race at the 1937 Malayan championship meeting,” said Mr C. H Sansom. President ot the Association, to
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  • 86 31 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Aug. 28. An Indian soccer league j to be held in Selangor this season. The competition will be for a shield presented by Dr. M. K. Lukshumeya. At a meeting held at the Selangor Indian Association it was decided to
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  • 339 31 Golf. S.G.C. Event Decided On First Six Holes. The Singapore Golf Club’s mixed foursomes competition for August was played at Bukit Timah on Sunday and resulted in a tie between Mrs. Young and Lt. J. H. Salaman and Mrs. Wyckoff and B. Neyland with a score
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  • 584 32  -  By "Echo.” DY a Rift goal scored two minutes from the start, the Chinese beat the Malays at Anson Road stadium on Aug. 25, and thus won the S.A.F.A. League first division championship for the
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  • 83 32 Goals. P. W. L. D. F. A. P. Chinese 15 11 2 2 35 14 24 Middlesex 16 8 4 4 29 21 20 R.A. 15 8 5 2 34 15 18 Inniskillings 14 7 3 4 29 17 18 R. 16 8 6 2 40 24
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  • 227 32 Lawn Tennis The Japanese pair, T. Aizawa and T. Uchida, proved too good for W. H. Droogleever and V. Anderson, of the Tanglin Club, when they beat them 6—4, 6—2, in the doubles match in the semi-final round of the Kliney Cup lawn tennis tournament,
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  • 46 32 Reuter. London Aug. 27. Erneat Whitcombe, of Meyrick Park, with rounda of 67, 65, 72 and 64, won the Newa-Chronicle £1,000 tournament at Brighton. Hia aggregate of 268 is the loweat ever recorded in a first-class golf event in Great Britain.
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  • 739 32 Leather-Hunting For Services In Changi Match. I7KEE scoring by the S.C.C. batsmen was seen in the club’s match with the Uniter Services at Changi on Sunday. Slade hit a half-century, and Growder and Abbott made merry in an unfinished ninth wicket partnership
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  • 49 32 Reuter. London, Aug. 23. At a Cork athletic meeting Dr. Patrick O'Callaghan, the Irish Olympic champion, threw the 16 pounds hammer 196 feet, beating the world record of 189 ft. 6V2 in. established by P. Ryan, of the United States, on Aug. 17, 1913.—
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  • 33 32 -Reuter. Marienbad, Aug. 21. Henry Cotton won the Czechoslovakia Open Golf Championship with an aggregate score of 279. having rounds of 70, 72. 69 and 68— Reuter.
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT
    • 972 1 FRASER COMPANY’S SHARE REPORT. Market. Nerves Show Signs Of Wearing. MESSRS. Fraser and Co., in their weekly share report issued at the close of business on Aug. 31 write: Since our last report the International situation has undoubtedly drifted from bad to worse and much as one had hoped to
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    • 328 1 London, Aug. 31. The following are today's closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange Shares ji £1 denomination unless otherwise stated:Yester- Rise day or PaU Conversion Loan 5 p.c 1944-64 113% Curding Loan 4 o.c. 1960-90 110% War Loan, 3% p.c 100% Com. Union Aosce (Units) 9%
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    • 33 1 The price of rubber for the assessment of export duty in the F M.S. from Aug. 27 to Sept. 2 has been fixed as 29 l 4 cents per pound.
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    • 240 1 Singapore, September 1, 12 noon. Buyer Seller Gambler $8.00 Hamburg Cube $15.00 Java Cube $11.00 Pepper. White Muntok $17.50 White $17.00 Black $10.00 Copra. Mixed $4.75 Sun Dried $5.06 Tapioca. Small Flake $4.25 Fair Flake $4.10 Medium Pearl $5.10 Small Pearl $4.80 Sago Flour. No. 1 Lingga $3.55 Fair
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    • 22 1 Aug. 26 Tin, 8’pore Price $129.25 per picul 27 128.62 Vj 30 128.87 Vi 31 129 Sept. 1 130
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  • 51 1 Date Spot Sept. Oct.-Dcc. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June London Aug. 20 30 30 Vi 30% 30% 31 8%, 27 30*4 30% 30% 31 31% 8 13/16 30 30% 30% 30%, 31% 31% 31 30% 30% 30% 31 31% 8 13/16 Sept. 1 30% 30% 31 31% 31% 8
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  • 1680 2 Sharp Rise Of Acreage Of Estates Under 100 Acres. 25,000 ACRES REPLANTED DURING YEAR. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26. •pHE following report by the Con- troller of Rubber, Malaya, on the working of the rubber regulation scheme in this territory during
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  • 146 2 w —Straits Times copyright. Hague Statistics issued For Half Year (From Our Own Correspondent> London, Aug. 25. According to statistics published by the International Tin Research and Development Council in The Hague today, world production of tin during the first six months of this year
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  • 614 3 July Statistics Construed As “Mildly Bullish.” LEWIS ft FEAT (SINGAPORE) LTD. in t ir ir weekly report on the rubber market issued on Aug. 27 write:— Although it is early in the day to iump to conclusions, the Government returns for the first month at the h
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  • 143 3 THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held Its 1,344 th auction on Aug. 25 when there were catalogued 1,589,381 lbs.: 709.55 tons Offered 1,340.127 lbs.; 598.23 tons. Sold 1.290.139 lbs.: 575.96 tons Spot London 8 13|16d. New York 18 5|16 cts Prices Realised Ribbed smoked sheet
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  • 137 3 From $13,000 To $63,000: Dividend 10 Per Cent. PROFIT earned by Nyalas Rubber Estates for the year ended May 31 last is $63,385, almost five times that earned in the preceding The dividend proposed is 10 per cent, which compares with 2V*> cen
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  • 253 3 Larger Exports Of Two Main Commodities THE gross value of Malayan trade in July, as was to be expected, at $152,892,000 shows a substantial increase on the June figure of $138,181,000. This increase is caused mainly ~by heavier shipments of rubber and tin, rubber
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  • 791 3 THE report of the directors of Klang River Tin Dredging Co. Ltd. states that the profit for the year ended Apr. 30 was $315,633 which compares with $358,046 for the preceding year. Dividends paid during the year totalled 20 per rent, with a bonus
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  • 1171 4 Issued By Fraser And Co* EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, Sept. 1, 1937, 10 a m. MINING. Bayers Sellers 4/- Ampat Tin 8/3 8 9 £1 Asam Kumbang 36/- 37/£1 Austral Malay 58/- 80/-cd 6/- Ayer Hltam 34/9 39/9 1 Ayer Weng 1.30 1.40cd £1 Bangrln 'fln
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  • 99 4 During the week ending Aug. 21. exports of tinned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 75.206 cases, of which: 25,136 (33 per cent.) cases were to the United Kingdom, 1,935 (3 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 12,146 (16 per cent.) cases to Canada,
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  • 158 4 London Exchange Prices On Aug. 23. Ampat (4/) 6/1 Anglo-Burma (5/) 18/; Ayer Hltam (5/) 34/6; Bangrln 25/9; Gopeng Cons 2 13/32; Hongkong (5/) 37/; Idris (5/) 12/9; Ipoh (16/) 30/6; Kampong Lanjut 26/6; Kamunting (5/) 14/6; Kepong 1 11/32; Kllllnghall (5/) 27/6; Klnta (5/) 19/6; Klnta Kellas
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  • 269 4 THE following quotations are pub- lished oy courtesy of Messrs. S. E. Levy and Co.. Singapore. Messrs. White, Weld and Company. New York report by cable on Sept. 1. DOW-JONES AVERAGES. Yesteroay's Today’s Close Close 30 Industrials 177.88 177.41 20 Rails 49.73 49.60 20 Utilities
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  • 580 4 London Exchange Prices On Aug. 23. Allagar (2/) 1/6%; Alor Pongsu (2/) 3/. Anglo-Malay 15/9; Ayer Kuning 35/71,! Badenoch 28/3; Bagan Serai 22/6; Bahru iSel.) (2/) 3/2; Banteng 27/; Batang (2/) 1/3%; Batu Caves 20/7%; Batu Tiga 40/7%; Bekoh (2/) 2/3; Bertam Con. (2/) 4/3%; Bidor 37/6; Bikam
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  • 220 4 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Singapore, Sept. 1, 10 a.m. Company Dividend rotaJ Books Close financial Date Ex Dlv Payable Date to late r»N To Aistral Malay. 3 Int. Sept 3 Sept. 10 Sept. lo<7 3%% Bonus Ayer Weng 5% Int. Sept 13 Sept 18 Sept 14 Burma Malay
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