The Straits Budget, 23 September 1937
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Title Section29 1937-09-23 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHW> NEARLY A CENTURY.] No. 4154. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937. Price 25 cents (S.S. Currency) or 7d.29 words
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Article, Illustration907 1937-09-23 1 rpHE courage and capacity for sacn1 flee shown by planters and their wives in the bad years, which are only just over, are as great a glory as the struggling and sufferings of their pioneer predecessors 40 or 50 years ago.” was the tribute paid by907 words
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Article, Illustration53 1937-09-23 1 These three sons of the Sultan of Selangor returned specially from Britain, where they were studying, to attend the jubilee celebrations of their father. They received high Malay titles at the “menjunjong duli” ceremony last Wednesday. Left to right: Tungku Abdul Halim Shah, Tungku Mohammed Azab and53 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article1126 1937-09-23 2 Straits Times, Sept. 16. Several officials and heads of business Arms in Singapore have received during the past few days, “with the compliments of the Consul for Italy,” a pamphlet which contains a translation into English of an introduction by Signor Mussolini to a book by Genera! AdrianoStraits Times, Sept. 16. - 1,126 words
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Article921 1937-09-23 2 —Straits Times, Sept. 17. Mr. H. B. Egmont Hake’s references at the annual meeting of the Sungei Bagan Rubber Co., Ltd. to risk of a rubber famine in the 1940’5, which cannot be excluded as a possible result of continued prohibition of new planting,” provided—Straits Times, Sept. 17. - 921 words
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Article813 1937-09-23 3 Shamateurism.” of amateurism. —Straits Times, Sept. 18. In a speech delivered a year ago, on his retirement from the office of President of the Singapore Amateur Football Association, Mr. R. 1.. Hastie offered a warning against a growth of shamateurism in local sport. Since then the insidious practices to whichof amateurism.—Straits Times, Sept. 18. - 813 words
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Article925 1937-09-23 3 -Straits Times, Sept. 20. There is much refreshing reading in the report of the speech delivered by Mr. W. Leggatt, the president, at the annual meeting of the Incor- porated Society of Planters held in Kuala Lumpur at the week-end. For several years this society has concentrated a-Straits Times, Sept. 20. - 925 words
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Article942 1937-09-23 3 in his official capacity.—Straits Times, Sept. 21. Nearly ten years of leader writing in Singapore, involving the production of a couple of thousand articles—a few more or a few less- has failed to render one Individual proof against surprise at public reaction to the printed word. lu thatin his official capacity.—Straits Times, Sept. 21. - 942 words
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Article1005 1937-09-23 4 —Straits Times, Sept. 22. Markets throughout the world have fallen into the doldrums in consequence of the break which began on Wall Street a fortnight ago and continued almost uninterruptedly until yesterday. Explanations of that break are as plentiful as the dollars that were shed by—Straits Times, Sept. 22. - 1,005 words
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Article127 1937-09-23 5 BEING served with a summons in Malaya is quite a pleasant little ceremony. Incidentally, Crux is not in trouble; he has merely ueen watching somebody else get into trouble. Somewhat awe-stricken, the jaga shows a beaming Malay policeman to the desk of the erring tuan. After much delving,127 words
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Article91 1937-09-23 5 IN an adjoining column Is an article throwing new light on the ancient Italian legend of how Romeo met Juliet. Although Shakespeare made the tale into one of the greatest romances in literature, “Romeo and Juliet” is being displaced in twentieth century popular favour by that91 words
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Article49 1937-09-23 5 IN spite of his lack of love, old Shakespeare must have been some thing of a lad in his time. At 18 he was married to a girl, or rather a woman, eight years his senior. A child was born six months after the marriage.49 words
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Article86 1937-09-23 5 gANGKOK is annoyed. While publishing accounts of the parties given by the P. O. Line in Singapore, Penang. Colombo, and other Eastern ports to celebrate the company’s centenary, the Bangkok newspapers ask why the P. O. did not see fit to entertain the travelling public of the Siamese86 words
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Article79 1937-09-23 5 gANGKOK people are not the only ones who are annoyed. Following the action of the American film actor George Brent in divorcing the beautiiul Australian-born screen star Jocelyn Howarth ten days after marrying her in Mexico, Australian audiences are threatening to boycott completely any Brent films, according to79 words
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Article89 1937-09-23 5 Adolf’ s Long Arm. JHE Australian story sounds like Ahe action of the German Consulate ln Los Angeles a few weeks ago in ad- vising by mail all the actors in the Erich Maria Remarque film, “The Road Back,” that any films in which they appeared in future would be89 words
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Article125 1937-09-23 5 motor, or auto,” men travelling through the East say the American car is gaining in social prestige in Europe. I This helps sales throughout the world, they think. People in England and on the Continent who in the past would think of nothing but English, French, German125 words
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Article96 1937-09-23 5 the broadcasting last night of a recorded version of the Richard Strauss opera, Der Rosenkavalier.” ZHL brought to light a work characteristic of the twentieth century. Completed in 1911, “Der Rosenkavalier” bears the true stamp of the postWagnerian epoch. In chronological order. “Der Rosenkavalier” follows “Salome” and96 words
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Article134 1937-09-23 5 JN many ways Richard Strauss is one of the most remarkable musical figures of this age. He once told the writer Ernest Newman the story lying behind the composing of the first scene of “Elektra.” His case showed the advantage of going straight to nature for inspiration.134 words
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Article80 1937-09-23 5 WHEN overseas fllmgoers roll up to see “Booloo”, which is being filmed in Malaya at present by Paramount, they will probably be surprised to notice that Malaya has modem trains Scenes which were taken on the Singapore station the other night as the night mail was80 words
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Article129 1937-09-23 5 piLM people are not the only ones responsible for highly-coloured overseas ideas about Asia’s railroads. The New Yorkqr has been telling its readers that. “China has a serene philosophy of rail travel. The Shartghai Express on its run to Tientsin makes frequent stops for the purpose of losing129 words
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Article90 1937-09-23 5 /■\NE blessing of life in Singapore is v the way people refrain from di3 cussing the weather. It is brought in only as a last conversational resort. Singapore weather is so regular and well-ordered that discussion on its habits would be as pointless as commenting on the way90 words
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Article110 1937-09-23 5 DY yesterday’s United States mail came tidings of woe for any unfortunates who succumbed to the American fad of drinking radio-active water when the craze was at its height several years ago. Among the claims made for this mystic fluid was one that it would lengthen110 words
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Article86 1937-09-23 5 National Rush •THERE is a Texan staying at Sea- view who cannot understand the British. Travelling from Vancouver to Sydney a few weeks ago in a British steamer, he became accustomed to standing when the British National Anthem was played. On the day of his arrival in Sydney he attended86 words
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Article107 1937-09-23 5 JT was one of those French cars with door-like louvres, or flaps, in the side of the bonnet. With the ports open, plenty of engine was visible from the street. The Jaga held the door open while the owner clambered ln The starter scraped and the exhaust droned.107 words
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Article82 1937-09-23 5 Muzzled Puzzled *pHIS week’s prize for Ingenuity should go to the Arab storekeeper In High Street who is conducting the greatest dog-muzzle selling campaign of his career. The enterprising fellow has hauled from the musical department In his shop a papier mache fox terrier, which was one half of an82 words
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Article77 1937-09-23 5 Restful Atmosphere QN the brochure rack In the Singapore office of a leading travel agency still rest plies of pamphlets advertising Germany’s 111-fated passenger dirigible Hlndenburg. “Travel by the Hindenburg for comfort and safety,” says the leaflet. On the same rack are booklets detailing the charms of the Palace Hotel,77 words
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Article78 1937-09-23 5 Incident JAPANESE precision is attaining new heights of perfection. According to China papers, the Cabinet has decided “to change the terminological description of the current crisis from ‘North China Incident’ to ‘China Incident’.” The Japanese novelist who yesterday told the Straits Times ship news reporter that Chlang should save China78 words
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Article123 1937-09-23 5 Liner Borrowing •■pHE diversion of one of the P. O. liners on the London—Singapore— Shanghai run to the Vancouver— Auckland—Sydney service of the Canadian Australasian Line, which Is operated Jointly by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the P. O. Line, Is foreshadowed by Australian shipping men. Almost driven off the123 words
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Article96 1937-09-23 5 Brown Brothers PVENTB of the last few weeks, culminating in the occupying of the Pratas Reef, in South China Waters by the Japanese Navy, have tended to shatter Big Brother beliefs held by the Filipinos in regard to Japan, say Manila people arriving in Singapore, -tie Little Brown Brothers are96 words
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Article101 1937-09-23 6 Mickey In Java MICKEY Mouse must have become 1 more international than any other brainchild of a cartoonist. There was a Mickey Mouse session last night from the Nlrom radio stations In Java. And they didn't bother to translate Mickey’s name into Dutch— U was plain “Mickey Mouse.’’ In Singapore101 words
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Article95 1937-09-23 6 International THE latest issue ol the New Yorker tells of the activities of a department of King Features Syndicate in New York that has the job of translating the dialogue in syndicated newspaper comic strips that are supplied to 60 foreign countries. It is quite a business. Donald Duck becomes95 words
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Article99 1937-09-23 6 'J’HE word “Singapore” once caused a headache in King Features’ translation bureau. “Singa” has such an awful meaning in Cuba, according to the New Yorker, that a character in the popular American comic strip “Little Annie Rooney” named Mr. Singapore had to be renamed Mr. All Baba. Crux99 words
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Article109 1937-09-23 6 Sunset Gazers AN increasingly popular method of re- ducing Singapore WaiFtline is tramping to the top of Mount Fao'r every evening to see the sunset. You leave your car at the foot of the hill and commence the long plod from there. If this is done every night for a109 words
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Article110 1937-09-23 6 Candid Nights QjINGAPORE cafe owners might profitably follow the example of restauranteurs in North America. There the miniature camera craze has become sufficiently important to Justify the staging of “candid camera nights.” On these nights additional lights are provided and guests are invited to bring their cameras to snap fioor110 words
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Article116 1937-09-23 6 Service QINGAPORE owner-drivers think they are being well caret* for when the Automobile Association’s new parking syces juggle with their cars for them in Raffles Place. But Hong Kong drivers have just learned what service really means. A leading American gasoline firm in the Refugee City has planted an army116 words
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Article72 1937-09-23 6 Long Cruise TTHE Dollar Line’s round-the-world 1 ships probably make longer voyages than the vessels of any other major shipping company. The President van Buren, which arrived at Singapore from Hong Kong yesterday, left New York on July 22 and will not steam past the Statue of Liberty again until72 words
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Article95 1937-09-23 6 Celebrities Aloft passenger list of the Royal Dutch plane which left Singapore on Saturday afternoon for Amsterdam read like a Who’s Who. Travellers boarding the machine at Singapore included Mr. J. H. Marsman, Manila mining magnate, the Baron Empain. Belgian nobleman, and Miss Laurence Atkins, who was Miss England for95 words
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Article109 1937-09-23 6 Placer Miner EORGE W. KERR, placer mining specialist, who also is speeding from Singapore to London by air with Jan Marsman in connection with Philippine mining expansion programes in Malaya, was bom in Hertfordshire. After extensive mining experience in British Columbia and Alaska, Kerr first went to the Philippines in109 words
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Article104 1937-09-23 6 Constructor key man in the Marsman companies, G. B. Gifford Hull, managing director of Marsman Hongkong China, Ltd., is an Englishman. From 1927 to 1932 Hull was in Singapore In connection with the erection of the municipal waterworks and in Perak in connection with the putting up of the dam104 words
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Article54 1937-09-23 6 yET another Marsman director has worked in Singapore. He is Eugene E Wing, an American "who was submanager of the Singapore office of the old International Banking Corporation (now absorbed in the National City Bank of New York) for several months in 1917. He later opened a branch for54 words
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Article77 1937-09-23 6 piTMAN’S are about to publish a book by Mr. H. Baynton-Power. musical director of the R. B. Salisfbury Musical Comedy Company. Entitled “How to Compose Music,” the book is largely non-technical and is intended to appeal to that vast army ot men-in-the-street musicians who. while having some appreciation77 words
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Article84 1937-09-23 6 A MORNING POST that arrived in last week’s mail carried in the “In Memoriam” column a notice inserted by the Valentino Memorial Guild to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of the death of the screen’s first great hero. Rudolph Valentino. “Toujours fldele’’ are the concluding words. Valentino was the84 words
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Article104 1937-09-23 6 Atmosphere A NUMBER of Singapore people are returning from long leave by wav of the Paris International Exposition. Some of them have been most impressed with the African exhibit in the colonial section. In their attempt to create a piece of tropical Africa on the Isle of Swans in the104 words
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Article141 1937-09-23 6 Famous Dog A N American drama enthusiast (“drammer fan”) passing through Singapore in the President van Buren says playgoers all over the United States are lamenting the passing of Flush, the world’s most famous cocker spaniel. Owned by Miss Katharine Cornell, the New York stage star who will be playing141 words
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Article131 1937-09-23 6 ATIN is no dead language i n eavesdropping mood Crux yester day overheard an enterprising-looking young Englishman endeavouring to persuade one of those stranded Italian girls who are waiting for the next ship to Hong Kong to go to tiffin with him Her only language was Italian. But131 words
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Article109 1937-09-23 6 fRUX must confess that several hours after the incident, when he came to record it, he could not recall the details of the “nonne apud” part of the conversation and had to seek assistance from a Singapore Latin expert. He said that “Nonne apud me prandebis” was in109 words
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Article74 1937-09-23 6 rDMOND Demaitre, dapper war correspondent for Le Journal, Paris, who is in Singapore on his way to China, thinks that the rest of the world should be grateful to Britain for three great gifts to humanity. “Those gifts." he says, “are, first your whisky, secondly your red-headed girls, and74 words
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Article110 1937-09-23 6 Slots OLOT machines have not made much headway in Singapore. There are so many spurious products in this honest city that slot machine operators are probably scared of receiving more dud coins than good ones The slot machines most frequently seen are those grabber devices from which few people ever110 words
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Article38 1937-09-23 6 A feast for Malay and Indian Muslims was given on Friday afternoon at Klang in connection with Sultan Suleiman’s Jubilee. The guests were estimated to be over 1,800. The expenses connected with the function were borne by Government.38 words
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Article389 1937-09-23 7 Mrs Richard Graham, of Kuala Lum pur returned by the Nieuw Holland alter spending a holiday in Australia. Mr T. H. Newey has been appointed to act as Controller of Posts and Telegraphs, Singapore. Mr F. G. Ridout, of the Singapore Harbour Board, is leaving the Colony389 words
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DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
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Article22 1937-09-23 7 SCOTT —On Sept. 11, 1937, at the General Hospital, Malacca, to Joan, wife of Malcolm Douglas Scott—a son—(China Papers Please Copy).22 words
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Article99 1937-09-23 7 KUSSELL— JOHNSTON.—The engagement is announced and the marriage will take Place shortly between John Withers RusC.A. of Dunlop Plantations Ltd. Malacca, and Elisabeth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. M. Johnston of Orford, Suffolk. England. nt ?agement is announced between Ordt c-nar.cs Staple Dob*-**'’ R.A., youn no son99 words
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Article63 1937-09-23 7 AI r>Tr< MAHK1AUE S A^NDRE ws.— On Aug. 23. .1937, at Aini r ng I iam Norfolk, Allison Stoughton ois of Dunlop Plantations Ltd. younger L the late R. P. and Mrs. Aldis of rin,, r i!l Rham to Phyllis Nancy Napier only nf l?, ht r of Mr63 words
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Article149 1937-09-23 7 Saturday, Sept. 11. Hon. R. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Griffith-Jones, Dr. P. 8. Hunter, Sir George Trimmer, Mr. ft Mrs. A. H. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. P. 8. Laing, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. R. Redfeam, Mr. A. C. Smith, Major E. C. Doyle, Mr. and149 words
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Article226 1937-09-23 7 Accountant-General For Singapore Supreme Court. THE following appointments are noti- fled in the S.S. Government Gazette: Mr. K. A. Blacker, M.C.S., to act as Assistant Treasurer and Deputy Ac-countant-General for the Supreme Court, Penang. Mr. J. D. Lambert, M.C.S., to act as Assistant Controller of Labour, Penang. Mr.226 words
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Article213 1937-09-23 7 The appointments of the following new arrivals are gazetted in the F.M.S.: Mr. Duncan Maclachlan to be a Dental Officer, Malayan Medical Service. Mr. Maclachlan arrived on July 1. Dr. (Miss) Marjorie Jean Lyon to be a Lddv Medical Officer, Malayan Medical Service. Dr. Lyon arrived on213 words
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Article, Illustration60 1937-09-23 7 'THE new United States Minister to Siam, Mr. E. L. Neville, arrived in Singapore on Sept. 19 in the Dollar liner President van Buren. He is accompanied by Mrs. Neville. For 11 years Mr. Neville has been Councellor at the United States Embassy in Tokio. Mr. Neville isStraits Times Photograph. - 60 words
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Article166 1937-09-23 7 Mr. L. Rayman To Act As Financial Secretary. The following F.M.S. appointments are gazetted: Mr. L. Rayman to act as Financial Secretary, F.M.S. Mr. See Zau Tsung provisionally recognised a* Consul of China at Kuala Lumpur. Mr. J. O. Evans to act as Controller, Posts and Telegraphs Department,166 words
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Article238 1937-09-23 7 The following passengers are leaving for Colombo and Europe In the Rawall pindi tomorrow morning •Lady V. Addison, Sq./Ldr. and Mrs. J. E. M. Bainbridge and child, Mr. H. J. Barnard, Mr. J. M. Baber, Mrs. W. L. Blythe, Mr. A. W. H. Binney, Mr. R. A.238 words
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Article334 1937-09-23 7 Leaders—- With Compliments” 2 The Ban on New Planting 2 Shamateurlsm 3 The I.S.P j With Compliments 4 The Wall Street Panic 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Picture Supplement t 17 20 Financial SupplementFinancial and Commercial News to date, following page 32 Malayan General News— Rising Prosperity334 words
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Article54 1937-09-23 7 Mr. Middleton-Smith, M.C.S., has arrived in Klang from India where he has been to study Tamil. He 18 attached ro the Labour Office. Klang, and is expected to relieve Mr. J. S. H. S. Cunnyngham-Brown as Assistant Controller of Labour. Klang. from Nov. 1 when the latter goes to Johore54 words
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Obituary55 1937-09-23 7 The High Commissioner records with deep regret in the F.M.S. Government Gazette the deaths of Mr. W. G. Leeder, Assistant Power Station Superintendent, Bungsar Power Station, Kuala Lumpur, which occurred in England on Aug. 31, and of Dr. R. G. Spink, Health Officer of the Malayan Medical Service, which occurred55 words
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401 1937-09-23 8 Jumps To Water And Flees In Sampan. $2,000 WORTH OF CHANDU DISCOVERED. Singapore, Sept. 21. AFTER an exciting chase in Singapore harbour this morning between a Master Attendant’s launch with revenue officers aboard and a motor sampan, a young Singapore Chinese, who had jumped401 words
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Article96 1937-09-23 8 Women’ s Offerings To Moon IN spite of suggestions by Chinese 1 leaders not to spend money on moon cakes and the moon cake festival, but to save it all for the Red Cross Fund, scores of Chinese women on Sunday night could not resist offerings to the moon, whose96 words
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Article101 1937-09-23 8 PATRIOTISM to a fine degree is shown by a Singapore Cantonese widow who has borrowed money to help the Red Cross Fund. She would have liked to contribute all she earned from hawking to the fund, but being the sole supporter of four children this101 words
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Article136 1937-09-23 8 Police Act Against Lax Owners. A fifth case of rabies was confirmed in Singapore on Sunday after the brain examination of a dog which died on Friday night. Its home was River Valley Road—about a quarter of a mile away from the two cases of136 words
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74 1937-09-23 8 TWO motoring offences were admit- ted in the Singapore Police Court on Sept. 20 by a European, A. Morgan. He pleaded guilty to driving a car without a licence and to having turned right against a traffic signal in Empress Place. Defendant was fined $674 words
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107 1937-09-23 8 Army As “Sick Grandmother/’ (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Sept. 21. JAPANESE in Malaya are being recalled to their homeland Some of them, it is reported, are being conscripted. In Penang, Victoria Pier has been the scene of many sad leave-takings and the small Japanese colony107 words
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125 1937-09-23 8 MR. H. SLEIGH NOT PRESENT IN COURT. II JUDGMENT 'debtor summons against Mr. H. Sleigh, the horse trainer, was mentioned in the Singapore Supreme Court .on Sept. 20 before Mr. Justice Horne. Mr. Sleigh, on the judgment summons, owed a balance of $1,468, the judgment125 words
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Article101 1937-09-23 8 The following passengers left Singapore for Europe in the Fionia on Tuesday Mr. N. O. Christensen, Mrs. F. Gregory, Miss S. Weskin, Mrs. M. Barr, Miss P. Barr, Mrs. K. Pender Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Streyffert, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wilson, Mi. T. A.101 words
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310 1937-09-23 8 Four Men Fling Pepper Singapore, Sept. 21. his way to the Municip al offices with $575, representing a two-day collection of slaughter fees, Chua Chian Lee, cashier to the Municipal abattoirs, was held up at about 10 o’clock yesterday morning in busy Victoria310 words
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101 1937-09-23 8 lUEARLY 800 British Indian refugees from war-torn Shanghai passed through Singapore on Sept. 20 aboard the steamer Elephanta on their way to Calcutta. When the Sino- Japanese conflict proved a danger to foreign civilians in Shanghai, arrangements for evacuating Britons were made101 words
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Article109 1937-09-23 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. Sept. 20. MR. H. S. Lee, a municipal sanitary inspector, was married to Miss Mary Nolan at Malacca. The bride was led to the altar by Mr. F. J. Ong Kim Pong. The Rev. Father J. P. Francois, vicar of St. Francis Church,109 words
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Correspondence.
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697 1937-09-23 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. SIR, —Quite accidentally, my attention has been called to the statements of Sir Chimanlal Setalvad on Japanese industrial conditions appearing in your issue of Sept. 9. Here is an excellent example of how good intentions without knowledge697 words
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412 1937-09-23 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —In spite of the necessary prestige of the European in this country, there are a great number of European women working in Singapore for a ridiculously small salary. By “ridiculous” 1 mean $BO to $lOO. and even as412 words
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Article283 1937-09-23 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. OIR, —In a recent issue of the Straits Times you published a short article anent Rubber Regulation in Sarawak. The article quotes from the Straits Times Commercial correspondent as follows: The declaration that all tapping shall cease for a period283 words
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Article94 1937-09-23 9 Fully Trained Battery In Six Weeks. To the Editor of The Straits Times. Sir.—With reference to your Military Correspondent’s comments about the “heretic” General Ironside’s assertion that It takes considerably longer to train an infantryman than any other: There is a manager of an estate not far from94 words
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Article112 1937-09-23 9 To the Editor of The Straits Times. Sir. —Having read the articles on the contretemps of bachelors v cuties. one is regretfully forced to the conclusion that the bachelors are putting up a very poor showing. With monotonous regularity, the thought arises that had the112 words
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Article181 1937-09-23 9 Value Of Exports Almost Doubled. (From Our Own Correpondent.) Batavia, Sept. 18. EVIDENCE of rising prosperity in the Netherlands Indies is to be found in the fact that the value of exported goods during the first seven months of this year is almost double that of181 words
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Article266 1937-09-23 9 Service Honours At Bidadari Funeral. THE fun?ral of Capt. (Q.M.) Francis Edward Cooper of the Royal Army Service Corps took place at the Bidadari Cemetery on Friday afternoon with full Service honours. Capt. J. Hooper, R.A., Staff Captain Malaya, represented the General Officer Commanding the Troops,266 words
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Article77 1937-09-23 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Talping, Sept. 17. After having terrorised rubber tappers and livestock in the vicinity of Krlan Road for the past few months, a tiger was killed yesterday when it fell to the vun of a Tamil hunter. The beast, which measured over77 words
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Article254 1937-09-23 10 Judge Uses Three Notebooks. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 17. JUDGMENT was reserved today in the Supreme Court in the case in which Messrs. Guthrie and Co. are suing Mr. Ong Ee Lim, Lim Hee Kung and the Official Assignee for the254 words
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Article174 1937-09-23 10 Rajas And Chiefs Not Members. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Sept. 19. 'THE formation of the Perak Malay Association was decided upon at a big meeting of Malays, exclusive of royalty and chiefs, which assembled at the Town Hall last night from all parts of174 words
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46 1937-09-23 10 Maior O. MacDonald. M.C.. the Gordon Highlanders and Captain T. A Moody, the Royal Innlskllllng Fusiliers, have been appointed to be Honorary Aides-de-Camp to His Excellency. Captain Moody succeeds Captain H. C. G. Stewart, the Royal Innlskllllng Fusiliers, who has resigned.46 words
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343 1937-09-23 10 Membership Greater, Finances Better Usefulness Expanding. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 16. “I AM here today, as chairman, a happier man than I have ever been since I became intimately connected with the society’s affairs. For I can say with conviction that it is343 words
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457 1937-09-23 10 '■pHE Straits Settlements Government 1 Gazette announces that the following 84 officers and other ranks of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force have been awarded the Efficiency Medal: Corporal Awang bin Haji YusofT. Sergeant C. B. Albuquerque, (Medal and Clasp), A/Corporal Abdullah bin Awang,457 words
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99 1937-09-23 10 financial stability i» unaffected by the SinoJapanese conflict,” declared Mr. Parkcane C. Huang, managingdirector of the Singapore Branch of the Bank of China, who has just returned from a business trip to China. “The country’s sound finances are shown by the exchange rate In South99 words
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Article194 1937-09-23 10 Check On Certain Malpractices. PROTECTION OF THE PRODUCER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 17. “IT is considered desirable that there should be some form cf control of dealers in copra in order to protect producers by checking certain malpractices which are alleged in194 words
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Article138 1937-09-23 10 Missiles Hurled In Sago Street. Singapore, Sept. 17. WHEN a party of police raided alleged gambling dens in Sago Street last night they had thick pieces of firewood and planks rained on them and tripped over black wires stretched across Sago Lane while they were returning138 words
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Article153 1937-09-23 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Sept. 19. SIR Charles Vyner Brooke. Rajah ot Sarawak, is returning East by the Comorin, which Is due to arrive at Singapore on Oct. 8. The advance passenger list issued by the P. and O. company shows that others153 words
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Article, Illustration360 1937-09-23 11 Says Ex-Kwangtung Warlord Going Back To Nanking. JAPAN does not plan the conquest of North China alone, J but aims at driving out all European interests from China,” declared General Chan Chai Tong, ex-Kwangtung warlord, hastening back to the Far East from Europe—Straits Times Photograph. - 360 words
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115 1937-09-23 11 New Powers For Controller. <From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 17. r J*HE F.M.S. Government intends to give the Controller of Rubber authority to eradicate and destroy rubber plants which are “self-sown.” The Bill, which is to be introduced at the Federal Council meeting115 words
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Article42 1937-09-23 11 A rER an extended tour abroad. Mr. John Laycock. a member of the Singapore Municipal Commission, returned on Sunday by the Lloyd triestino liner Conte Rosso. He was accompanied by his wife. They boarded the ship at Genoa.42 words
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51 1937-09-23 11 MORE than 50 applications are reported to have been received from Malayan Chinese to serve with the Chinese forces in the Sino-Japanese conflict. Some have already left for the front. Two Ipoh Chinese taxi-drivers arrived in Singapore on Friday on their way to serve their51 words
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Article104 1937-09-23 11 Perrin Swallow. THE marriage took place on 1 Saturday at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, of Mr. Norman James Perrin, manager of Thos. Cook’s Hong Kong Branch and Miss Dorothy Swallow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Swallow of Duffleld, Derbyshire, England. The Ven. Archdeacon Graham104 words
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168 1937-09-23 11 u|F the war in China becomes widespread it may cause a boom in Netherlands Indies. Coconut oil, from which nitrates for the manufacture of explosives are extracted, will be required in large quantities, declared Mr. H. A. Quade, managing director of General Motors168 words
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Article217 1937-09-23 11 Ungku Abdul Aziz's Garden Party. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Sept. 17. THE 64th birthday of the Sultan of Johore today passed off quietly owing to the absence of His Highness from the 8tate. Thanksgiving services in the various mosques and feeding of school children took217 words
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610 1937-09-23 11 ADVISER ASKS ESTATES TO SUPPORT SERDANG. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 17. THE F.M.S.. Government, which has hitherto only offered scholarships for agricultural training to Malays, has decided to offer, next year, in addition to those reserved for Malays, four open competition scholarships for610 words
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Article247 1937-09-23 12 Place Just South Of Singapore. NEGOTIATIONS WITH ARAB LANDOWNER. NEGOTIATIONS for the purchase of an island just south of Singapore are being carried out between the Baron Empain and Tuan Syed Ibrahim bin Omar Alsagoff, wealthy Arab landowner the Straits Times understands. The island, Pulau247 words
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79 1937-09-23 12 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 20. The Government has decided to discontinue from 1938 the concession of permitting land rent to be paid in instalments. The concession was a slump time measure and, as times have very greatly Improved and even79 words
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Article149 1937-09-23 12 /CHARGED with having driven a car without two independent and efficient brakes, Cecil E. Edlin, was on Sept. 16 convicted by Mr. L. C. Goh, the Singapore Fouth Magistrate, and fined $l6, in default one day’s simple imprisonment. The fine was paid. Mr. Philip F.149 words
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Article160 1937-09-23 12 Says U. S. China Film Chief. “£LARK Gable told me in Hollywood that he is anxious to get away from the studios and see Singapore and China shortly and will fly by the China Clipper,” Mr. Morey Marcus managing director for M.G.M. for China, told160 words
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Article132 1937-09-23 12 Nearly $30,000 Per Day For Month. Singapore, Sept. 20. TOTALLING one-and-three-quarter million Chinese dollars live days a.go, the Singapore Chinese Red Cross Fund is nearing two million Chinese dollars this morning, equivalent to about one million Straits. This is exactly one month and four days132 words
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Article, Illustration349 1937-09-23 12 YANKEE HERE AGAIN ON ROMANTIC WORLD CRUISE. LJAVING travelled 17,000 miles—- half way round the world—since leaving Gloucester, Massachusetts, almost a year ago—the 92-ft. American schooner Yankee reached Singapore on Sept. 19 from Semarang, Java. It is the schooner’s second visit to349 words
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69 1937-09-23 12 Rulers Durbar At Klang In November (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 20. IN the jubilee year of Selangor’s 1 Sultan, the Durbar of Rulers of the Federated Malay States is to be held at Klang Astana on Nov. 1. The Durbar will be opened with ceremony at 10.3069 words
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Article233 1937-09-23 12 PLAN TO VACCINATE 500 DOGS A DAY. Singapore, Sept. 18. TWO further cases of rabies are reported this mom- ing, making four altogether to occur in Singapore. One of the latest cases is from Institution Hill, close to where the second affected dog was discovered. The233 words
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Article, Illustration677 1937-09-23 13 Selangor’s Princes, Rajas Chiefs Pay Homage. COLOURFUL KLANG RITUAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 15. 1 TtAULAT Daulat! Daulat!” (“So may it be”). These cries echoed nine times through the Astana Mahkota this afternoon, punctuating the Menjunjong Duli ceremony in which princes and major and lesser chiefs of677 words
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Article44 1937-09-23 13 COR having driven a motor car with- out front and rear lights along Queen Street on Aug. 23. Shinotkin Speelman. a European, was fined $3 by Mr. L. C. Ooh in the Singapore Fifth Court on Sept. 15. Accused pleaded guilty.44 words
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Article993 1937-09-23 13 THE COLLECTOR IN PAHANG. QNE of the few duties of the Malayan Civil Service which have not lost the picturesque and leisurely character of. former days is the collection of the land tax from the Malay peasantry living along the rivers of Pahang. The tax is993 words
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Article122 1937-09-23 13 ABOUT 1,050 Japanese residents have already sailed from Hong Kong for Japan (reports Domei). Only 400 Japanese residents are left in the Colony, most being consular officials and clerks of banks and business Arms. The wholesale withdrawal of Japanese residents is due to the122 words
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438 1937-09-23 14 Wife Of Ex-Official Prefers Life In Britain Singapore, Sept. 15. A LOVELY Malay girl, married to a former British district officer in Borneo, arrived in Singapore yesterday after a year’s stay in Britain and she told a Straits Times reporter that she preferred London438 words
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82 1937-09-23 14 QWING to the Japanese blockade of the China Coast and the probability of Hainan Island being invaded, remittances for Hainan are no longer being made through banks In Singapore. This has caused considerable hardship to Singapore Hainanese, many of whom have people in their82 words
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Article339 1937-09-23 14 Causing Death Sentence Quashed. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Sept. 14. f HE Kamarudin bin Omar, Aasistant District Officer, Taiping, was yesterday successful in his appeal against a conviction on a charge of causing the death of a Chinese ricksha puller while driving a339 words
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55 1937-09-23 14 Because of engine trouble, the trim American ketch-rigged yacht So Fong, which left Singapore a few days ago for Palembang and Suez in continuation of a world cruise which began at Hong Kong, returned to Singapore at the week-end. Her voyage will be resumed55 words
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Article, Illustration305 1937-09-23 14 WORK IN POLITICAL DEPARTMENT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT. piRST member of the Indian Civil Service to be appointed Agent of the Government of India in Malaya, Mr. C. S. Venkatachar arrived in Singapore on Sept. 14 by the Slamat and was warmly—Straits Times Photograph. - 305 words
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252 1937-09-23 14 Attempt To Smuggle Siamese Tobacco. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 14. piNES totalling $17,500, or prison sentences amounting in all to 19 months, were imposed yesterday by Mr. W. G. Thorogood, the Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate, on Seah Kong Hua, Tan Leong252 words
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Article55 1937-09-23 14 MORE than ***** b. of cotton and a large quantity of lint for use in first-aid work in the China fighting left Singapore for the war zones on Sept. 14. It was imported from Eng land as a donation to the first-aid authorities. The supplies will55 words
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Article42 1937-09-23 14 Lieut. Tan Cheng Chye, of th« Straits Settlements .Volunteer Force, has been promoted to the rank <>. Captain, according to a Governmei > Gazette notification on Friday. Second Lieutenant Tan Peng Leong. has been promoted to the rank o Lieutenant.42 words
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1192 1937-09-23 15 Planting Topics Tapping Efforts To Aid The TappersA “Planting Crime” —Never Too Late To Mend —Tree To Tree Paths. (By Our Planting Correspondent) PLANTING on contour terraces has now become the recognised practise on steep land and there are very few clearings that ;iiv1,192 words
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497 1937-09-23 15 CARAWAK Chinese value education for its utility and not as a goad to awaken political consciousness,” says Mr. Edward Parnell, Government Secretary, in his 1936 report on the administration of the state. Referring to the Chinese community, the report states that it is found497 words
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Article, Illustration202 1937-09-23 15 Received Medal From The Pope. RECIPIENT of a certificate and the Bene Merentl medal, conferred on him by His Holiness the Pope. Mr. Lawrence Justinian Shepherdson has died at his residence in Queen Street at the age of 72 years. He was a prominent member of the202 words
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Article26 1937-09-23 15 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok. Sept. 15. DOKER. both European and Chinese forms, is now allowed by the authorities under the Gambling Act.26 words
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426 1937-09-23 16 Resident’s Warm Praise For Work Of I.S.P. “DETERMINATION TO HONOUR A BARGAIN." (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 17. “THE courage and capacity for sacrifice shown by planters and their wives in the bad years, which are only just over,426 words
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Article61 1937-09-23 16 The engagement is announced between Orde Charles Staple Dobble, Royal Artillery, younger son of MajorGeneral W. G. S. Dobble, General Officer Commanding, Malaya, and Mrs. Dobbie, and Fl6rence Mary Dicky, eldest daughter of Mrs. R. H. P. Addington, and step-daughter of Captain R. H. P. Addington,61 words
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Article238 1937-09-23 16 Trustee And Executor Co. Succeed. r\ENYING he had requested or authorised his guarantors to pay certain monies due to the P. and O. Bank, Mr. Tay Kong Seow, former proprietor of Chin Lim Pineapple Factory, Johore Bahru, unsuccessfully contested 'i claim for $41,772.24 made against him238 words
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Article98 1937-09-23 16 British Trade Gets The Benefit. the Sino-Japanese conflict developing into a major war, the boycott of Japanese goods by Chinese in Malaya is extending. In Siam, too, there is nevertheless strong anti-Japanese feeling by the large proportion of Chinese. Reports reaching Singapore state that there was a98 words
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Article51 1937-09-23 16 TO become editor of the newly- established Malayan Chinese Daily News in Kuala Lumpur, Professor Liu Ten Ling has arrived from Shanghai. Professor Liu is a native of Kiangsu. He graduated from Washington University and was afterward a professor of the Chi Nan University in51 words
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Article213 1937-09-23 16 Rawalpindi Just Wanted To See Warship’s Flag. 'J'HE P. and O. liner Rawalpindi, reported on Sept. 16 to have been stopped by a Japanese destroyer in the vicinity of Hong Kong, is now stated by Reuter to have stopped of her own accord to213 words
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Article, Illustration304 1937-09-23 16 WORLD RELEASE OF LOCAL NEWSREEL SCENES. AFTER a lightning visit to the United States, Mr. Len H. Roos. managing director of the newlyformed Malayan Films, Ltd., returned to Singapore on Sept. 16 by the steamer Shirala. He was accompanied by Mr. Clifford304 words
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Article, Illustration703 1937-09-23 17 I. S. P. Leaders And Rubber Scientists. Mr. R. McGregor Lunn (Burma) Mr. W Leggatt (above) who was re-elected chairman of the 1.5. P., ivith several branch chair men of the Society. Mr. E. W. Flanagan (Seremban-Rantau-Port Dickson), Mr p. a. Dix (Singapore). Mr. <?.(Straits Times photograph).; —Straits Times photograph.; by members of the staff. On th* right is Mrs. Laing—Straits Times photograph.; Straits Times photograph. - 703 words
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310 1937-09-23 21 Largest Force Among Foreign Powers. TREAT Britain, and other nations of the world are steadily U massing strong forces in the Far East war zone. The Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli has reached Shanghai and so have about 800 Italian troops of310 words
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Article182 1937-09-23 21 LESSONS OF PENANG MANOEUVRES. From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Sept. 13. 'TROOPS should not be content to capture a certain objective as ordered, said Maj.-Gen. W O. S. Dobbie, G.O.C., Malaya, when commenting on volunteer manoeuvres held ip Penang at the week-end. In modern warfare it182 words
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Article60 1937-09-23 21 Many Malayan friends of Lady Marchwood will be glad to hear that Jhe is making an excellent recovery ir°m the serious illness from which j e has been suffering since the beginning of last month. She is now out 0 hanger and expects to leave the oursing home60 words
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Article85 1937-09-23 21 AN the recommendation of V Mr. R. St. George Caulfeild, who was resident engineer on the Singapore airport undertaking throughout its construction, Rose Bay, a fashionable residential area in Sydney, has been selected at the terminal of the Singapore-Australia Empire flying-boat service. The buildings are likely85 words
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155 1937-09-23 21 Kuala Lumpur Millionaire’s Daughter Weds (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 13. RiIORE than 800 people attended a Chinese dinner at the Chinese Assembly Hall last night in honour of the wedding of Mr. P. C. Au-Yong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Au-Yong Lee, and Miss Chan Keng Doa,155 words
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130 1937-09-23 21 AS a token of loyalty and affection to the Sultan of Selangor, on the occasion of his Jubilee Message from the Indian Muslim Association of Selangor: “On the occasion of your Highness-s Golden Jubilee President and Members of the Indian Muslim Association (Selangor) wish your130 words
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Article90 1937-09-23 21 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Sept. 16. A NEW General Hospital for Perak has been sanctioned and will be constructed on the Ashby Road site as soon as plans are ready. The entire scheme will cost a little over $2,000,000 and there will be accommodation for90 words
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Article113 1937-09-23 21 Bangkok’ s New Automatic Phones. (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Sept. 15. THE automatic telephone service will be establirhed after midnight on Sept. 25. The reason this hour has been selected is because very few people will be using the telephone then. If the change were effected in the day113 words
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Article, Illustration262 1937-09-23 21 Yacht Crosses Pacific, Reaches Singapore KETCH HURRICANE HERE WITH TWO US. YOUTHS. A Singapore, Sept. 17. j-IAVING crossed the Pacific Ocean in their 45ft. Marconirigged ketch, Hurricane, two young Americans, Ray Kauffman and Gerry Mefferd, of Des Moines (Iowa), reached Singapore from Java this morning. .gETTINO out from Miami, Florida,262 words
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Article63 1937-09-23 21 xMany Malayans will hear with regret, writes our London Correspondent, that Mr. George Goldsack has sold the Rose Inn, at Wokingham in Berkshire, which for the past five years has been a favourite rendezvous of Malayans on leave. It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Goldsack. who63 words
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Article, Illustration252 1937-09-23 22 Trade Official Saw Hoover Hit. THAT the President Hoover was surrounded by Japanese transports and naval craft when she was accidentally bombed by Chinese planes confirmed by a vivid eye-wit-ness account of the incident in the Whangpoo last month is given by Mr. Andrew252 words
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Article103 1937-09-23 22 A FTEK inspecting Manchester mills and other mills in Europe we consider that Japanese factories are more modern and efficient,” Mr. O. Kodera, head of the great Japan Cotton Spinning Co., largest spinning organisation in Japan, told a Straits Times reporter on arrival by the N.Y.K.103 words
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432 1937-09-23 22 Landing Grounds Cheaper Than Roads And Bridges. MALAYA’S long-isolated East Coast may be opened up by air services more cheaply than by the construction of roads and bridges in difficult country. That is the view of Mr. L. W. Geddes, director of Wearne’s432 words
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91 1937-09-23 22 Singapore, Sept. 17. THE death occurred in Singapore yesterday of Captain (Q.M.) Francis Edward Cooper, of the Royal Army Service Corps. Captain Cooper, who was 52, leaves a widow, who is not, however, at present in Singapore. Captain Cooper was performing R.A.S.C., duties91 words
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101 1937-09-23 22 (From Our Own Conrespndent) Bangkok, Sept. 16. pLOOD damage on the northern railway line is at present estimated at £20,000. It is considered that at least three weeks’ work is necessary be lore the breaches in the track can be repaired sufficiently to allow101 words
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Article123 1937-09-23 22 Singapore, Sept. 14. /CONTRIBUTIONS to the Malayan China belief Fund are pouring in to upcountry centres. The Penang total has reached $131,740, including $1,313, collected from the sale of postcards by women, $250 from pork sellers, and $420 from the sale of flags and flowers by123 words
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Article73 1937-09-23 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Sept. 15. HPHE death occurred, after aprolongA ed illness, of Mrs. J. Moisslnac, aged 60, at the Malacca General Hos pital on Monday. She leaves behind two sons and three daughters besides many grandchildren. The funeral took place yesterday, the Rev.73 words
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Article, Illustration174 1937-09-23 22 Rushed To Singapore In Flying Boat. being rushed to Singapore by an RAF. flying boat on Thursday when he was stricken with Japanese river fever, Dr. Robert Gordon Spink. Government Health Officer at Kuantan. Pahang, died at the Singapore General Hospital on Sept. 13. Dr.174 words
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Article147 1937-09-23 22 Three Years For Tamil On Homicide Charge. A FTER a trial lasting three and a half days, Kathamuthu, who was charged with the murder of a compatriot on the morning of Apr. 18. at Somappah Estate, was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by147 words
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Article155 1937-09-23 22 Copies of rules and forms of application for membership of the new European Association of Malaya are now ready and may be obtained on application to Mr. R. H. Green, Honorary Secretary, the European Association of Malaya, 8. Raffles Place. Singapore. There is no entrance fee155 words
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Article, Illustration440 1937-09-23 23 JAPANESE NOW CONTROL LARGE AREA. Kowloon-Canton Railway May Be Cut. Shanghai, Sept. 14. JAPANESE forces are now in possession of an area of. over 100 square miles following the sudden Chinese tactical withdrawal at Shanghai yesterday. Falling back to their greatly-streng-thened first line of440 words
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Article, Illustration16 1937-09-23 23 The roof of the Palace Hotel Shanghai, after it had been struck by a Chinese bomb.16 words
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Article50 1937-09-23 23 Reuter. Rome, Sept. 14. The Pope has given a sum of monev. the amount of which is unknown but is stated to be considerable, for the assistance of Catholic missionaries in Shanghai. The Vatican has also sent money to assist the missionaries’ work in Peiping on behalf of Chinese refugees.—Reuter. - 50 words
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Article25 1937-09-23 23 —Sin Chew Jit Poh. China's 1.500.000 Catholics have sent a joint telegram to the League of Nations appealing for sanctions against Japan.—Sin Chew Jit Poh.—Sin Chew Jit Poh. - 25 words
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Article132 1937-09-23 23 Pukow railroad. —Sin Chew Jit Poh and Nanyang Siang Pau. Red Forces Claim Capture Of Jehol Capital. TTIE Chinese claim to have taken Chengteh, capital of Jehol Province in Manchukuo. as well as a number of towns in Chahar, including Kalgan, the provincial capital. Railway trafficPukow railroad.—Sin Chew Jit Poh and Nanyang Siang Pau. - 132 words
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Article218 1937-09-23 23 —Reuter. BID TO CUT CANTONKOWLOON RAILWAY. Hong Kong, Sept. 14. IJONG KONG was agog yesterday afternoon with the news that the Japanese had effected a landing at Bias Bay after bombarding several fortified positions in the vicinity. Unconfirmed Chinese reports state a considerable concentration of—Reuter. - 218 words
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175 1937-09-23 23 Italo-Japanese Pact Against Britain Moscow Predicts New Military Alliance. MILITARY alliance between Japan and Italy, directed primarily against Britain, is foreshadowed in Miscow by the semi-official newspaper Pravda, Tokio wants to see Britain more deeply involved in the Mediterranean, while Rome wants her attention distracted to the Far East, the175 words
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Article, Illustration308 1937-09-23 24 -Reuter. GEN. FENG INSPIRES HIS TROOPS TO ACTION. Shanghai, Sept 16. ADVANCING along darkened streets and alleyways, Chinese troops in the Chapei sector launched a sudden attack ast night against Japanese marines facing them along a two-mile front stretching-Reuter. - 308 words
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Article74 1937-09-23 24 -Reuter. Chinese Planes Attack Japanese Destroyers. Hong Kong, Sept. 15. MACAO was thrilled last evening by Chinese planes flying over the Portuguese colony and attacking two Japanese destroyers outside the territorial waters. A Portuguese gunboat on patrol duty very close to the battle area did not observe-Reuter. - 74 words
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Article69 1937-09-23 24 -Reuter. Paris, Sept. 16. DOLICE investigations in Paris and the provinces into the activities of a secret French organisation known as Cagoulards a kind of French Ku Klux Klan. led to the arrest of four men and the discovery of a number of machine-guns and-Reuter. - 69 words
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Article91 1937-09-23 24 —Aneta-Trans-Ocean. Advancing Troops Blown Up By Land Mines. JAPANESE forces suffered heavily in the Woosung sector when, reinforced by fresh troops from the warships, they attempted to push forward after the Chinese withdrawal and walked over fields laid with mines which were fired by Chinese sappers. The—Aneta-Trans-Ocean. - 91 words
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41 1937-09-23 24 —Reuter. In Hospital For Three Weeks. Hollywood, Sept. 14. Wallace Beery accidentally shot himself in the thigh while filming a wild-west picture. The wound is not dangerous but he will remain in hospital for three weeks.—Reuter. - 41 words
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151 1937-09-23 24 Brest for the Mediterranean.—Reuter and British Wireless. Malaya s Depa rture Creates Impression. London, Sept. 16. DLAYING her part in providing the greatest armed convoy of merchant shipping since the World War, Britain is rushing warships and aeroplanes to the Mediterranean to patrol theBrest for the Mediterranean.—Reuter and British Wireless. - 151 words
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Article97 1937-09-23 24 -Reuter. Worked Under Germany, It Is Alleged. Moscow, Sept. 15. A GROUP of Finnish “spies” who took “leading posts in the Soviet republic, Karelia, have been discovered and “annihilated.” announces M. Zakovsky, chief of the Leningrad secret police. It is alleged that these men entered Karelia-Reuter. - 97 words
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Article61 1937-09-23 24 -Reuter. FIFTH ACCIDENT THIS YEAR. London, Sept. 14 pOUR people were killed in a R.A.F. crash at Guisborough. Yorkshire. This is the fifth fatal R.A.F. accident this month and third this week. There have been 60 accidents this year with 101 deaths, while in the-Reuter. - 61 words
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Article199 1937-09-23 24 Reuter. Not Allowed To Leave U.S. San Pedro, (Cal.) Sept. 16. NINETEEN bombing planes consigned to China were removed from the Wichita in compliance with President Roosevelt’s ban on the shipment of arms to China or Japan in Government-owned ships. It is understood that aReuter. - 199 words
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73 1937-09-23 24 —Reuter. Shanghai, Sept. 13. P'HOLERA among the Japanese in the Paoshan sector is spreading and there are now more than 200 cases. The heavy increase in cholera at Shanghai is causing serious concern to the authorities. So far there have been 450 cases in the—Reuter. - 73 words
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Article40 1937-09-23 24 pact signed last November.—TransOcean. Rome, Sept. 13. It is categorically denied in official circles here that negotiations are taking place between Japan and Italy for the signature of an anti-Communistic pact, similar to the Japano-German pact signed last November. —Trans-pact signed last November.—Trans-Ocean. - 40 words
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Article, Illustration729 1937-09-23 25 ’—Reuter. Dr. Koo Makes Deep Impression. Geneva, Sept. 15. CHINA’S appeal to the League of Nations against 1 Japanese aggression will probably be referred to the advisory committee on the Sino-Japanese dispute established in 1932. A profound impression was made by Dr. Wellington’—Reuter. - 729 words
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131 1937-09-23 25 —Reuter. Berlin Newspaper’s Comment On Crisis Berlin, Sept. 19. In a critical review or the situation in the Far East, the newspaper Angriff says it is “almost a question of conscience” for Europeans generally, and Germans in particular, to decide in favour of either—Reuter. - 131 words
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Article122 1937-09-23 25 -Reuter. Japanese Planes Kill 400 Refugees. Shanghai, Sept. 14. |T is announced that more than 400 Chinese refugees were killed and injured when Japanese planes bombed a fleet of junks going up Soochow Creek. Mr. P. V. Thomas, head of the American 8eventh Day Adventist hospital at-Reuter. - 122 words
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Article133 1937-09-23 25 Reuter. Hong Kong. Sept. 17. CANTON city was again raided by Japanese planes at seven o’clock last night, v/hen foreigners, wearing steel helmets, standing on the sandbagged British bridge at Shameen, watched three planes fly over Shameen and proceed in the direction of the militaryReuter. - 133 words
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348 1937-09-23 25 -Reuter. Eden Attacks Bandit Submarines. Rome, Sept. 15. ITALY refuses to adhere to the Nyon proposals for the anti-piracy proposals in the Mediterranean unless she is admitted to the patrol on terms of absolute equality. The Italian reply was handed to British and French-Reuter. - 348 words
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Article256 1937-09-23 26 —Reuter. MANCHURIAN INCIDENT PROVIDES PRECEDENT. T'HE United States Government would consider carefully any invitation by the League, such as that reported to have been sent to Washington, to participate in the re-constituted Advisory Committee on the Far East, declared Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State.—Reuter. - 256 words
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Article79 1937-09-23 26 -Reuter. NEUTRALITY LAWS URGED. Ottawa, Sept. 15. pLAIMING that “Canadian economy is rapidly becoming part of Japan’s war machine,” the National Executive Co-operative Commonwealth Federation statement urges the application of Canadian neutrality legislation to the Sino-Japanese conflict. It cites the vastly increased trade with Japan-Reuter. - 79 words
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Article53 1937-09-23 26 Nanyang 8iang Pau. $3,315,000 In One Month. FJONATIONS from overseas Chinese U to Nanking during the past month totalled $3,315,000, according to the Central Overseas Affairs Committee. Of this sum, Malaya contributed $227,000, Hong Kong $448,000, South Africa $330,000, America $149,000, the Philippines $330,000, Annam $272,000. MacaoNanyang 8iang Pau. - 53 words
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Article106 1937-09-23 26 -Reuter. Where No Human Foot Ever Trod. Grand Canyon, (Ariz.), Sept. 17. HIVE experienced mountaineers, the vanguard o* the American Museum of Natural History’s expedition, successfully scaled a 1200-foot precipice to Shiva’s Temple Plateau, on which no human being has set foot since the dawn of-Reuter. - 106 words
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111 1937-09-23 26 Shanghai, Sept. 15. Four Kwangsi divisions are reported to have entered Pootung, suggesting that the Chinese are determined to prevent the Japanese entering Pootung, crossing the Whangpoo and executing an enveloping movement against the Chinese forces on the Shanghai side of the river.111 words
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Article42 1937-09-23 26 -Reuter. Vienna, Sept. 18. Dspite the efforts of the entire Vienna Are brigades assisted by an army of troops, the Rotunda, known as Vienna’s Crystal Palaae was entirely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 100,000.—Reuter.-Reuter. - 42 words
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Article76 1937-09-23 26 Reuter. 1750 Cases Treated This Month. Shanghai, Sept. 16. THE Chinese infectious diseases hospital in Shanghai has administered saline injections to 1.018 Chinese cholera cases since the beginning oi this month. Fifty of the cases have been fatal. In addition, 740 cases have been recorded atReuter. - 76 words
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Article98 1937-09-23 26 Italy Sells Submarines To Spain Paris, Sept. 19. THE Italian Government has sold 12 submarines to General Franco, officers and crews of which are Italian volunteers wearing special uniforms, says a Rome message published by le Populaire. Two of these submarines are named the Terriceyi and Anifltrite. Le Populaire also98 words
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Article164 1937-09-23 26 Reuter HEAVY INDUSTRIES ARE UNDEVELOPED. I FREDA UTLEY, authoress of the re- markable book Japan’s Feet Of Clay,” In a letter to The Times, ooints out the Joint resources of Japan. Korea, Manchukuo and Jehol of coal are only 171 tons a head against 4,070 tons inReuter - 164 words
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Article, Illustration100 1937-09-23 26 Reuter. Japanese Hold Their Ground. Shanghai, Sept. 17. stillness of the night was 1 shattered about one o’clock this morning, when Chinese forces in Chapei and Kiangwan sector, using rifles, hand-gre-nades, machine-guns and trench-mortars, again launched an attack. The noise of battle awakened many sleepers inReuter. - 100 words
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78 1937-09-23 26 -Reuter. Shanghai, Sept. 17. The Japanese are reported to have effected a landing near Kiao- chao. where Pootung faces the sea, and to be constructing an airfield on the beach there. Scores of Chinese farmers are alleged to have been impressed for the work. This-Reuter. - 78 words
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Article, Illustration16 1937-09-23 26 Prague, Sept. 14. THE death has occurred of ex-President Masaryk, Father of the Czechoslovak Republic.”— Reuter.Reuter. - 16 words
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Article30 1937-09-23 26 -Reuter. Moscow, Sept. 16. M. Krylenko, People’s Commissar of Justice, was today relieved of his duties by the Central Executive Committee. M. Antonov Ovseyenko has been appointed to replace him—Reuter.-Reuter. - 30 words
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Article, Illustration158 1937-09-23 27 BIG JAPANESE PUSH BELIEVED IMMINENT. Shanghai, Sept. 18. |T is believed the Japanese will launch their “big push” as soon as they have succeeded in landing forces at Luiho, where 50 warships, including two battleships, are concentrated. More than half the peace-time strength158 words
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Article104 1937-09-23 27 —Reuter. Washington, Sept. 18. pHINA has officially expressed grave disappointment at President Roosevelt’s interdiction on Government-owned ships carrying arms and munitions to the Far East. Asserting that Chinese communications to the United States Government had declared this action penalised the Chinese Government owing to its lack—Reuter. - 104 words
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Article83 1937-09-23 27 —Reuter. Japanese Blockade Rice Supplies. 'J'HE prospect of a serious food shortage faces the Chinese population of Shanghai, swollen by hundreds of thousands of refugees, unless the Japanese allow the removal of rice and other foodstuffs from warehouses in Japanese occupied areas. AH attempts to secure the—Reuter. - 83 words
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179 1937-09-23 27 —Reuter. Mediterranean Patrol Overshadows Spain. London, Sept. 17. \[AVAL control round Spain is to be abandoned by Britain and France as the destroyers engaged on patrol have a task of more actual importance to perform.” The destroyers will be used for the anti-piracy patrol.—Reuter. - 179 words
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Article105 1937-09-23 27 -Reuter. Roosevelt Intends To Keep Out Of War. THE President has not invoked 1 the neutrality law against China or Japan, declares the New York World-Telegrafn in an editorial on Roosevelt’s ban against Government ships carrying war material to the Far East. Neither of these countries-Reuter. - 105 words
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155 1937-09-23 27 —Reuter. Shanghai, Sept. 18. r'DAY, the sixth anniversary of the Japanese coup at Mukden that led to the seizure of Manchuria, the Chinese armed forces and the civilian population are taking an oath to strive for the recovery of the lost territories. Flags throughout the—Reuter. - 155 words
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247 1937-09-23 27 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has forbidden United States Government-owned ships to carry arms or munitions for China or Japan. This presages the early invocation of the Neutrality Act, observers in Washington believe, which would mean that the United States would not supply war materials to belligerents. Other247 words
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Article63 1937-09-23 27 Aneta-T rans-Ocean. Warsaw, Sept. 20. QT ALIN’S 12-year-old son has been kidnapped, according to a message received from Moscow. It is believed that the kidnapping was the work of counter-revolution-aries. In spite of all efforts by the Ogpu, Russia's secret police, no trace of the boy hasAneta-T rans-Ocean. - 63 words
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Article, Illustration273 1937-09-23 28 Reuter. Foreigners Warned To Leave. CAPITAL MAY BE MOVED. Shanghai, Sept. 20. RANKING may be laid in ruins if an implicit threat made by the Japanese is carried out. Foreign diplomatic representatives at Nanking have received a communication from the Japanese authorities advising themReuter. - 273 words
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95 1937-09-23 28 Aneta Domei. MORE than 1.000,000 Chinese in Shanghai have lost their employment as a result of the Sino-Japanese conflict. It is estimated that 370,000 workers were thrown out of Job owing to the closure of Japanese and other foreignmanaged mills in the YangtzepoAneta Domei. - 95 words
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Article84 1937-09-23 28 —Sin Chew Jit Poh. Indian’s Story Of Air Raid In Yangtsepoo. 'T'HE effectiveness of Chinese air raids on rh? Japanese position in Yangtsepoo was described by an Indian watchman, who claims that he saw seven Japanese planes destroyed and ten others damaged in one bombing attack—Sin Chew Jit Poh. - 84 words
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Article66 1937-09-23 28 -Reuter. Grand Canyon, (Ariz.), Sept. 19. Scientists exploring the Shiva Temple plateau in the Grand Canyon, have sent a radio message to the base camp for ammunition, intimating that they have found definite traces of big game. —Reuter. The plateau has been dubbed the-Reuter. - 66 words
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Article40 1937-09-23 28 -British Wireless. London, Sept. 17 A supplementary agreement to the Nyon arrangement extending its application to surface vessels and aircraft has been ;or;nallj signed at a private session of the Nyon Conference at Geneva this morning.—British Wireless.-British Wireless. - 40 words
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Article117 1937-09-23 28 —Reuter. THE Mediterranean tension is regarded as relaxed following visits by the British and French Charges d’Affaires in Rome to Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, though Count Ciano merely repeated the Italian claim to parity and did not offer co-operation. The talks are thought to indicate—Reuter. - 117 words
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Article362 1937-09-23 28 DRIVEN OFF AFTER DESPERATE BATTLE. Shanghai, Sept. 20. CPECTACULAR aerial combats were seen over Nanking yesterday. Nearly 50 Japanese bombers swooped on the Chinese national capital from all directions, and tried to bomb the waterworks, arsenal, aerodrome, broadcasting station, and other points. Coinciding with Chinese midAutumn362 words
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Article183 1937-09-23 28 Reuter. Direct Hit On Japanese Warship Claimed. £*HINESE planes conducted more than eight raids on Japanese positions and warships at Shanghai during the weekend and they claim a direct hTt on one of the Japanese warships. Few people in the Shanghai metropolis were able toReuter. - 183 words
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437 1937-09-23 29 “Echo. ” - By “Echo.” VETERAN, perhaps, as boxers go, is Ignacio Fernandez, but a very crafty and pugnacious veteran, and he taught a lesson to a young and promising aspirant to ring fame in the Siamese, Boon Mah, at the Happy437 words
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Article380 1937-09-23 29 WELL done, Marines The team of the departmental Sports Club, playing with pluck and determination on a very crreasy surface, eliminated the Gunners, last year’s winners, from the S.A.F.A Cup competition at the Anson Road Stadium last week, winning 3--2. In spite of being a goal380 words
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Article82 1937-09-23 29 Golf. Mr. R. R. Pim did the 7th hole, a distance of 165 yards, of the Fraser’s Hill golf course in one on Saturday. Mr. Pim was playing with Mr. A. E. Ford, of Singapore, against Dr. E. W. Martindell and Mr. R. Gordon. K.G.C. MIXED FOURSOMES.82 words
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660 1937-09-23 29 TEN MEN DOMINATE PLAY TO GAIN 4—1 VICTORY. TAKING no risks, and not forgetting what happened to t he R.A.F. last year, the Chinese fielded their full first team against H.M.S. Terror at the Anson Road Stadium on Saturday, when the two teams660 words
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120 1937-09-23 29 The qualifying round of the Singapore Golf Club championship was played at Bukit Timah during the week-end. The following were the cards returned for the 18 holes; M. C. Bain 143* «T. H. Beeton 145* M. M. Paterson 146* R. Cralk 148* S. N.120 words
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Article95 1937-09-23 29 Rugby Football. Reuter cables resulted of Rugby Union matches played at Home on Saturday as follows: London Irish 8, Portsmouth Services 14. Richmond 16, Northampton 16. Bedford 14, Bath 3. Bradford 11, Sale 14. Bristol 6, Cardiff 14. Devon 5, Wakefield XV 11. Devonport Services 3,95 words
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Article1281 1937-09-23 30 Surprises By Lerrick and Kate Beresford. POOD sport was provided at Bukit Timah on Sept. 16, the U opening day of the Singapore Turf Club’s Autumn Skye Meeting. The weather was fine and the going good, but the attendance was poor, especially during the earlier part of1,281 words
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Article179 1937-09-23 30 Nickels’ Team Lose To Officers. The S.C.C. six-a-side soccer tournament was brought to a conclusion last week, Lieut. Pears’s team beating Nickel’s team by one goal and three corners to one goal in the final. To get to the final Lieut. Pearse’s team beat Gillett’s179 words
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Article111 1937-09-23 30 Golf. The first round ties in the Andrew Currie Cup competition—the women’s golf championship of Singapore—were played on Sunday at the Garrison Golf Club, and resulted as follows: Mrs. J. Hill beat Mrs G. V. Allen 3 and 1. Mrs. G. Milling beat Miss S. Lucas 3111 words
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95 1937-09-23 30 Lawn Tennis France regained the Bonnardel Cup at Southport on Sept. 4 by beating the holders, the United States, in the final of the professional contest by three matches to two. Each country won a match on the first day. On Saturday France95 words
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Article124 1937-09-23 30 A Nap Hand For The Hammers. PNGLISH League soccer matches Splayed on Monday resulted as follows, cables Reuter: DIVISION I Middlesbro Beaten By The Albion Preston 0 Charlton i West Bromwich 3 Middlesbro i DIVISION n Swansea Lose At Home To Bradford Burnley 2 Sheffield U.124 words
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Article101 1937-09-23 30 Results of matches in the Home soccer leagues, played Tuesday, are cabled by Reuter as follows: ENGLISH LEAGUE. Division III (South). Bristol R 2 Bournemouth 1 Division III (North). Southport 2 York 3 SCOTTISH LEAGUE. Division I. Clydi 3 Dundee 2 Queen’s Park 1 Ayr101 words
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39 1937-09-23 30 Reuter. New York, Sept. 14. Tommy Farr is rated as No. 2 cnallenger to Louis for the heavyweight championship according to the N.B.A.’s latest official world boxing ratings. Schmeling ranks first.Reuter. - 39 words
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Article64 1937-09-23 30 —Reuter. Middlesex Routed In Challenge Match. London, Sept. 14. Yorkshire won the challenge match against Middlesex, at the Oval, by an innings and 115 runs. Four days were allotted for the match, but it ended today, the third day. Details: Yorkshire 401 (Hutton 121, Mitchell 86). Middlesex 185—Reuter. - 64 words
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1276 1937-09-23 31 “Captpin Dash. ” - By “Captpin Dash.” A CCESSFUL two-day Skye race meeting was brought to a close on n Saturday, when a large crowd attended at Bukit Timah, their numbers being reflected in good support on the totes.1,276 words
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329 1937-09-23 31 BRILLIANT 75 by a lefthander, W. King, enabled the 8.8. and I. and Etceteras to gain a comparatively easy victory by four wickets over the United Services Officers in the final match of the S.C.C. cricket tournament on the padang yesterday. XHE winners now329 words
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Article192 1937-09-23 31 The S.C.C. beat the Malay Football Association by 29 runs at cricket on the padang on Saturday. Scores: S.C.C. J. E. Slade c Ibrahim b Ismail 26 J. E. Jeans b Ibrahim 1 P. Bartram b Mamont 5 J. A. Sutor c All b Ismail192 words
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Article324 1937-09-23 31 “Echo. ” - By “Echo.” IT would be absurd to say that last week’s S.A.F.A. Cup match at Anson Road stadium, between the Gordon Highlanders and the Malays, was a classic exhibition of soccer. It was indeed disappointingly mediocre. But it was close and keen, with fluctuating fortunes,324 words
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Article1606 1937-09-23 32 DERBY DEFENCE COLLAPSES AT MANCHESTER. RANGERS’ FIFTH DRAW IN NINE ENGAGEMENTS. IN 68 matches in the English and Scottish soccer leagues on Saturday, 241 goals were scored. IN THE SECOND DIVISION AND THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) OF THE ENGLISH LEAGUE, VISITING TEAMS SCORED THE MORE1,606 words
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Article433 1937-09-23 32 “Echo. ” - By “Echo.” DOR five minutes last week ofte sat up, surprised and delight- ed. Some of the best soccer seen in Singapore this year was being played by the Inniskillings. Then for fifty-five minutest depression steadily developed, with both the Skins and the Police—their opponents in433 words
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59 1937-09-23 32 -Reuter. London, Sept. 18. Hammond heads the English batting averages for the fourth time in five seasons with 3.252 runs and an average of 65.04. Verity tops the bowling with 202 wickets for an average of 15.68. Matthews, of Glamorgan, actually heads the bowling-Reuter. - 59 words
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Article47 1937-09-23 32 —Reuter. London, Sept. 14. The New Zealanders beat the Gentlemen of Ireland, in a two days match, by an innings and 52 runs. New Zealanders: 286. Gentlemen of Ireland: 160, and. following on, 74 (Weir five for 27, Gallichan five for 26).—Reuter..—Reuter. - 47 words
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Article962 1937-09-23 1 FRASER COMPANY’S SHARE REPORT. Investors And Speculators Still Nervous. jy|ESSRS. Fraser and Co., in their 4 weekly share report issued at the close of business on Sept. 21 write Living as we do day by day in an atmosphere of headlines, hearsay and hysteria it is becoming increasingly difficult for962 words
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Article242 1937-09-23 1 Singapore, September 22, 12 noon. suyei seller Gammer $8.00 Hamburg Cube $15.50 Java Cube $11.00 hepper White Muntok $17.00 White $16.50 Black $11J)0 Copra. Mixed $5.05 Sun Dried $5.30 Tapioca. Small Flake $4.50 Fair Flake $4.30 Medium Pearl $5.20 Small Pearl $5.00 S ago Flour. No. 1 Lingga $3.70242 words
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Article335 1937-09-23 1 London, Sept. 21. The following sire today's closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange: Shares or £1 denomination unless otherwise stated:— Yester- Rise day. or Pall Conversion Loan S p c. 1944-64 113% Funding Loan 4 p.c. 1960-90 100% War Loan. 3% p.c 100% Com. Union335 words
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Article20 1937-09-23 1 Sept. 16 Tin, S’pore Price $132.50 per picul 17 131.25 20 i 130.67% 21 131.00 22 *****20 words
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51 1937-09-23 1 Date Spot Sept. Oct. Oct.-Dec. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June London Sept. 10 30% 30% 31 31% 31% 31% 9 17 30% 30% 30% 30% 31% 31% 8 15 16 20 30% 30% 30% 31% 31% 21 29% 30% 30% 30% 31 8h 22 30% 30% 30% 30 3151 words
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889 1937-09-23 2 Current Year’s Figure May Not Reach 1936 Total. SHORT-TERM PROSPECTS REGARDED AS UNCERTAIN. |V)UBTS as to whether the current year would see a record consumpU tion of rubber in America, an opinion generally held hitherto, are expressed by Lewis and Peat (Singapore) Ltd. in889 words
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Article40 1937-09-23 2 I The output of gold by Raub Australian Gold Mining Company Ltd. for the four weeks ended Sept. 11, was 1,779.51 ounces. This compares with 1,802, 1,654, 1,850 and 2,000 ounces for the four preceding four-weekly periods.40 words
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Article43 1937-09-23 2 The directors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, have declared an Interim dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 14 per cent, per annum, less Income tax. The dividend will be paid on Sept. 29.43 words
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804 1937-09-23 2 AMALGAMATED MALAY ESTATES PAYS 147J PER CENT. IN 18 YEARS. “Substitutes Are Complementary Not Competitors” Says Mr. Chisholm. THE view that ninepence a pound for rubber is a reasonable price was challenged by the chairman of Amalgamated Malay Estates, Mr.804 words
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Article217 1937-09-23 2 PROFIT OF $65,771. FINAL DIVIDEND OF 5 PER CENT. PROPOSED. ORUNEI United Plantations Ltd ac- counts and balance sheet Issued last night show that the net profit tor the year was $65,771. It is proposed that a final dividend of five per cent, should be paid, making217 words
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1067 1937-09-23 3 McALISTER COMPANY’S ANNUAL MEETING. Investments Sold To Finance Business Expansion. internal reserves increased ADDRESSING shareholders at the annual meeting of McAlister and Co. Ltd., in Singapore on Sept. 15, the Hon’ble Mr. J. W. de Piro, the chairman, said:— With regard to the balance sheet, on the liabilities side you1,067 words
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115 1937-09-23 3 —Straits Times cable. (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Sept. 16. was another drop in the U.S. consumption of rubber last month, the total being 41,456 tons against 43,650 in July and 46,656 in August last year. Arrivals were 48,785 tons, compared with 39,108 in—Straits Times cable. - 115 words
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Article30 1937-09-23 3 The price of rubber for the assessment of export duty in the F.M.S. from Sept. 17 to 23 has been fixed as 29 7/16 cents per pound.30 words
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Article145 1937-09-23 3 rpHE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1.347 auction on Sept. 15 when there were catalogued 1,234,896 lbs.; 551.29 tons. Offered 1,093,829 lbs.; 488.31 tons. Sold 791,156 lbs.; 433.55 tons. Spot London 9Vb&New York 18 3 /4 cents PRICES REALISED Ribbed smoked sheet cents per145 words
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Article149 1937-09-23 3 During the week ending Sept. 11, 1937, exports of tinned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 11,033 cases, of which: 3.450 (31 per cent) cases were to be United Kingdom. 100 (one per cent) cases to the Continent of Europe, 5,116 (46 per cent) cases to149 words
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197 1937-09-23 3 Dividend Maintained At Ten Per Cent. THE annual report of the Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd., published on Sept. 16, shows that the company’s net profit for the year ended June 30 totalled $292,478, compared with 302,401 last year—a reduction of $9,923. The directors recommend197 words
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Article189 1937-09-23 3 THE position of Borneo rubber producers under the international rubber restriction agreement has recently undergone a considerable improvement and there is no longer a heavy internal cut in outputs. This factor, together with the advance in rubber prices, finds reflection in the results of the Beaufort Borneo Rubber189 words
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Article120 1937-09-23 3 London, Bept. 20. The following are today’s 'bid’ quotations for Fixed Trusts: s. d. British Empire “A” 21 10»/ 2 British Empire “B” 10 0 British Empire Cumulative 17 4*/ 2 British Empire Comprehensive 18 0 British/General “A” 21 6 British General “B” 19 l»/ 2 xd120 words
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Article1183 1937-09-23 4 Issued By Fraser And Co., EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, Sept. 22, 1937, 10 a.m. MINING. Buyers Setters 4/- Ampat Tin 5*/3 5/9 £1 Asam Kumbeng 34/6 36/6 £1 Austral Malay 56/- 57/6 5/- Ayer Hltam 33/- 34/6xd 1 Ayer Weng 0.95 1.05 £1 Bangrln Tin 25/-1,183 words
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Article86 1937-09-23 4 Amsterdam, Sept. 12. The N. I. export quota for estate rubber for the period October-Decem-ber has been fixed at 62,249 metric tons on a 90 per cent, allowance. Final figures of rubber exports from N. I. for July are as follows:—Estate Rubber: Java, 7,640 metric tons (June86 words
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Article588 1937-09-23 4 London Exchange Prices On Sept 13. Allagar (2/) 1/6%; Alor Pongau (2/) 3/1; Anglo-Malay 15/: Ayer K uning 35/7 Badenoch 27/3; Bagan Serai 22/6; Bahru (Bel.) (2/) 3/2; Bonteng 26/6; Batang (2/) 1/3; Batu Caves 20/; Batu Tlga 42/6; Bekoh (2/) 2/0%; Bertam Oon. (2/) 4/5*4; Bldor 37/6;588 words
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273 1937-09-23 4 THE following quotations are pub- Ushed oy courtesy of Messrs. 8. E. levy and Co., Singapore. Messrs. White, Weld and Company, New York, report by cable on Sept. 22. DOW-JONES AVERAGES Saturday’s Today; Close dose 30 industrials 155.56 156.56 20 Rails 41.80 42.31 20 Utilities273 words
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Article148 1937-09-23 4 London Exchange Prices On Sept 13. Amp&t (4/) 5/9; Anglo-Burma (5/) 16/6, Ayer Hitam (5/) 34/6; Bangrln 25/3; Gopeng Cons 2 15/32; Hongkong (5/) 36/3; Idris (5/) 12/3; Ipoh (16/) 28/3; Kampong Lanjut 26/3; Kamuntlng (5/) 12/3; Kepong 1 9/32; Killinghall (5/) 26/6; Kinta (5/) 20/- Kinta Kellas148 words
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260 1937-09-23 4 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Singapore, Sept. 22, 10 a.m. Company Dividend rota) tor Books Close financial Date Bx. Dlv vear Payable Date to late TIN TO Ayer Hitam 30% Int. Sept 7 Sept 27 Sept 20 30% Burma Malay 2%% Sept 23 Sept 30 Sepr 24 5% Idris260 words
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