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Indian association with Malaya ta general 'and the part played by Indian convicta in building the city of Singapore in the middle of the last century in particular were described by Mr. Nazir Mallal in a talk from the B.M.B.C. After describing the earty als
DESTROYED tory of India's connection with
26,000 U.S. Planes For Britain
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940. -PAGE 9
LONDON, Dec. 10 (Router) With the volume greatly in- British Banking shares continue creased today dealings were re-quietly to enjoy a revival of in-
Malays. Mr. Mallal said that gistered in practically all the terest on the Stock Exchange, but
Losses amounting to over $350,- notable engagement, between the leading counters, Banks, Trams, otherwise generally dull conditions 000 have been sustained by the Malays and British forces was the Realtles and Cements reaching new prevail with prices of most groups Japanese as a result of the de Pahang War 1894 in which Sir higher levels. Four more Gold following gilt edged securities to strucuon by Chinese mobile units Hugh Clifford played the leading Issues are reporting the following slightly lower levels,
of several Japanese factories at part. A large part of the Sikh dividends.
Among foreign stocks Greeks kangcheng northwest of Fung Police Contingent at Singapore and Chinese have hardened, others enunt, southern Kwangtunk.
bad volunteered and fought under In a speech at Boston during the recent election campaign. are Arm.
Bir Hugh Gifford.
The hero of the episode was one President Roosevelt indicated.what: Ram Singh, who courageously at-tremendous help Britain was re- tacked a swarm of Malays single-celving and would receive from
received handed,
thirty nasty the United states, help which must wounds all over the body, and be a great factor in the winning afterwards escaped in a dug-out of the war.
United Paracles .08 etvos, Itogons .02 crvos. San Mauricio .02 ctyos, Coco Grove 011 etvus
BUYERS
HK. Bank, $1340. Wharves, $92.
Docks (0), $37.75, Docks (N), $17.25. Providents, $5.50.
Hotels, $3.40. Lands. $33.23. Humphreys, $7.40.
Realties. $3.80.
Star Ferries, $59,50. Electrics (0), $39.80. Electrics (N), $39. Telephones (0), $25.25. Telephones (N). $10.20,
Cements, $18.50.
Dairy Farms, $18.75.
Watsons, $10.50.
Entertainments, $8.80.
Constructions (O), 81.60.
SELLERS
Docks (0), $18. Electrics (0), $40,50, Ropes, $7.10.
Vibro Filing, $7,70. SALES
"H.K, Banks, · $1350. Docks (0) $17.95.
Wall Street was arms.
Chinese troops lately launched repeated "attacks on the Japanese outposts at Lentang, Melcheng. Fund and other scattered points, NANKING TO ISSUE Inflicting numerous casualties on
OWN CURRENCY SHANGHAI, Dec. 10 (Retter-
The Nanting Regime is issuing Its
the Japanese-(Cantral News),
HONGKONG
SHAREBROKERS'
ASSOCIATION
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own currency on Jan. 15, accord- ing to a Trans-Ocean report from Nanking, but, will continue recog- nising the hungking Government | notes for a certain period, after which Chungking notes will be jexchanged at par for Nanking notes, and the former will be de- clared valueless-In occupied terri-Lights (0) C.D. *...... tory.
Providents, $5.55.
Hotels, $3.50,
Realties, $3.90.
Tram, $17.55/17.50. Lights (0), C.D. $7.35. Lights (N), C.D. $710." Electries (D), $40.
Cements, $18.75/18.50.
Watsons. $10.50/60.
Volume of Business Transacted on Tuesday, Dec. 10. 1940.
SALES
Lights (N) C.D. China Providents
to warn the loyal Malay chiefs Last spring, last winter, even i be said, "the great down the Pahang River To him year ago,"
Sir Hugh Clifford has paid a warm American production capacity tribute in his brink, “A Carmer of programme was stepped up by or Asia."
ders from overseas, and in taking these orders for planes from over-
CHRISTMAS
AND
NEW YEAR HAMPERS
NO. 4 HAMPER
quart Lanson Dry Champagne..
#
Black & White Whisky Cordon's Diy Gin
Courvoisier Three Star Brandy
-Hunt's Old Brown Sherry
**
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Hunt's Full Rich Port
+1
Paramart Burgundy
+9
Sauterne White Wine
Gordon's Sloe Gin
J
I pint Gordon's Creme de Montbe
NO. 5. HAMPER
1 quart V. Ca P. Champagne
1
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1
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OBSCURE HERO "The network of scars on his eas, we were following and brown skin," he writes, "will rare following hard-headed self-
interest." mind you of a raised map design-
Buliding on the foundation pro- fed to display the mountam system vided by these orders, the British
of Switzerland. He is inordinately
Jon the other side of the ocean, proud of. them, and rightly so. sav
(the President continued, were 1, for which man among us can show such undoubted proofs of receiving a Meady stream of alt- of courage, endurance and self-sacri. planes. After three months
blitzkrieg in the air the strength of the Royal Air Force. was ac- Today an infinitely bigger war tually greater than when the ate 18.75 than the Fahani incident was tack began.
fice as this obscure hero?".
and the soldiers of India in their "And they know, and we know. thousands were here to afford that that increase in strength. protection despite battle losses, is due in part them security and 18.75
that this beautiful 'to the 18.75 God grant
purchase made from 18.75 island would be spared the hor-American air-plane industries and
should 500 18.50 rors of war, but it war
212
500
250
5 7.35 7.35 7.10
500 5.55
$00 5.50
500 5.55
500 5,55
500
$,523
Cements
200
50 18.25 50 18.50
100
200 1,400
H.K. Docks (0)
200 100
• 200
SHAE BROKEES ASSOCIATION H.K. Ropes
HK Realties
600 1,500
H.K. Tramways
400
Ballara Semina"
0
A. 3. Watsons
Yaumati Ferries
£79.
£76
£72
£251
£10
"
$73
HONGKONG SHARE QUOTATIONS
“STOCK” EXCHANGE
Buyer Sellers Bater confinal
$1340
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TUESDAY 10 DEC.
Banks
Chartered Bank.....
1340/50...
B.K. Banks
£79
Do. (Col. Reg.)
£76
Do. (Lon. Bag.) ....
27
326
Mercantile. B. "A"
E10 1/18
$72
N. C. 4. S. Banks....
Insurances
$I
$80
33/9
$7
Mercantile Bk. “C”.
Bank of East Asia......
Shipping
LAY
81340/1337 HK. Telephones (N)
ia et.
$188
$395
80 čt
8160
$135
8100
$100
33/9
$7
$395
#185 Canton Kararanem...yan
Union Insurances....... $390
Underwriters
$150 H.K. Fires..
$138 Donglines
$11
Steamboats
$100 Indo-Chinas (Pral)....
Indo-Chinas (Def.)
Buells
Waterboats
Docks. Wharves, Godowns, etc. H., & K. Wharr Providents
201
--------$5.05
L.K. Docks (Old).......... $17.20 1.K. Docki (Naw)... $17.40
Shanghai Docks................. Mining
Ragbst
11 cta. Finng Kong Mines......
Lands, Hotels and
Buildings
85/55)
$17.95
#17}
$30
16/3
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Kailone
$33H.K. Landı................
$100
$3.65
3
$7.40
817.35
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#51/6.55... $18/17,95
#301
10/3
$100
H.K. & 8. Hotel
$3.45 33
Do. 4% Debantures...........
II.K. Realties.
#31/3.80.
| Shanghai Landı.......................
Humphreys 'kupina
$100 Chinese Estates
837
Cotton MIL
Ewo (3.) ANY METAL DEA 1858'bai Cottona. (8.)...
***
Zoong Sings (8.)...... Wing On Textiles (8.) Public Utilities
***
H.K. Trammsys............... | 817,48
$7,40 Pask Trams (old)...........
131
C.D. $7,30
123
C.D. $8.301
$39.80 $40 $40
$11.20 #251
$18.40 $6.00
#10.1
Peak Trams (new)...........
Star Ferries
T'ati Ferries... $234 Chias Lights (0).......
(New). China
H. K. Flectrics ('014)..
H. R. Electrics(New)..... (014)
$12 Mac Electrics $16Macno Electrics (New)
Sandakan Lights..... Telephones (cld)........ #251 Telephones
S'pore Tractiona (Ord.)) Industrials
$14.90) Cali., Bacg. (Ord.) 8. 014 Cald., Macg. (Prol.)8.)
$1 Canton Ico......
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Cemente
H.A. Bopet
ILK. Goyt.. Lowas
#98 4% Loan W...
34131%
$24 31%
$181 $3,50 $1.60
19
$2.16 1101/580
$104
(1984)
(1940)
Miscellaneous
Bairy Farms....
Entertainment
[50 eta
Constructions (old)... Constractions (new)..... }' Lane Crawfords... won].
Sincere Watot ***35%. Ch. G.5% 1925GBd.
$7,80
"
Nanyang
Tobox.....
$18
36
172
American" workers.
T
Black & White Whisky
Gordon's Dry Gin..
Courvoisier V. O. Brandy
Sandeman Brown Bang Sherry
Sandeman Partner Port
Sauterne White Wife
1
Pommard Burgundy:
Laubenheimer Hock
Margraux Clarot-
Gordon's Rum. Shrub
1 pint Gordon's Creme de Menthe
-$55.00.
-$70.00
Special Ham ers made to suit Customers requirements.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
WINE DEPARTMENT....
Queen's Building.
"
Telephone 20636.
SILVER MARKET
LONDON SILVER
17.95 come to these shores they might
"Tonight," he went on," ani planes for military purposes betn announce for the United States and Britan 17.95 rest assured that they would find
privileged to make an Indian soldier here 18.00
every
London, Dec. 9 (Reuter), ment, using Boston Instead of the will not be interrupted... self-
Silver-Moderate Indian and "With that request nave come courare, endurance and
White House: the British within 7.20 3.90 sacrifice in as high a degree as the past few days have asked for orders, large additional orders, for speculative selling, which even-
machine guns, for tually absorbed 17.55 shown by Ram Singh. Bir pah permission to negotiate again with artillery, for
at lower levél. American manufacturers for 12.000 rifles, ter tanks with equipment Business small. Market steady bat .500 17.50 Clifford's obscure hero.
200 10.50 Proceeding. Mr. Mallal said:
And I have and ammunition. And again the quiet. In the afternoon, the mar- additional planes. 24.50 No record of the Indian commu-asked that that request be given plant capacity necessary to pro-ket was very dalet with no busi- 10.30
200
500
10.262
The total value is $109,188.20.
nity in this island would be com- most sympathetic considerationįduce all of this military equip-ness.
BOMBAY SILVER
Spot, 22-7/8a. Forward, 22-13/18.
Bombay, Det 9 (Reuter). Market Quiet but steady. Off-
100 bark
plete without a reference to what by the Priorities Board.
ment is and will be available to the Indian convicts have done for
When those additional orders serve the needs of the United are approved, they will bring Bri-states in any emergency. Singapore.-(Maldya Tribune).
tam's present orders for military
"The productive capacity of the planes from the United States to United States that I have talked
about, which has made it the take NEW PLANT NEEDED
greatest industrial country in the "And we must remember that world, is not falling now. It is those orcers will require still more going to make us, it is making us, new plant facilities so that the the strongest air power in all the present programme of building world.”
Only One Tin Smelting Works In The F.M.S.
Tucked away off the main road between Kuala Lumpur and Sungel Besi is the only smelting works in the FMS. belonging to the Tan Ban Joo Co., Ltd., where a large proportion of the tin- ore produced in Selangor is smelted.
Still employing the primitive type of Chinese smelting fur- nace, which until recent years was operated by hand-propelled bellows and which has now been improved upon by a forced alr draught worked by electrie motors, the lactory smelts about 20 tons of ore 'n day,"
more than 26,000,
Indian Mint Silver
Ready Dec. 27 Settlement
Jan, 22 Settlement
PRE-PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
The following classes of advertisements are charged at the price given belowo zim SITUATIONS VACANT.
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS WANTED.
HOUSES AND APARTMENTS TO BE LET. MISCELLANEOUS, WANTS.
80-14 60-12 60-11
Announcements not exceeding 25 Words are inserted under this heading at a Pre-paid Rate of $1.50 for THREE INSERTIONS. If Charges collected, $2.00.
The addition of a small blast gradually by a wood fire, and when furnace of European design has the tin melts it is stirred with doubled the daily output, each new ladles, all impurities being thus furnace smelting 10 tons in 24 brought to the surface. These im- hours. The old-type, cylindrical purities are not wasted but are re- blast furnaces smelt five tons each, treated in a refining pan.
Bamples are then taken of the While the number of employees was between 60 and 70 a couple of smelt, and when this sampling has years ago, at present only ten men shown that the refined tin is pure
TO LET-Furnished Room, North are engaged on the work, doing enough, it is poured into sand
moulds, The ingots are then Point near, bus, tram stops, Tele- three eight-hour shifts.
While the ore dealt with by the ready for sale. (Malaya Tribune). phone 32810.
Eastern Smelting Company and
X.R.
$38)
the Straits Trading Company in-
$185
cludes practically the whole of the
$125
$7.40
tin-ore outputs of Burma and TACOMA BRIDGE
Thailand, in addition to ore pro-)
TO LET
627
WANTED TO BUY
WE PAY HIGH PRICES
duced in Malaya and supplies TO BE REBUILT for all gold and silver articles,
from South Africa, Australla, Indo-
gold bars, diamonds and jewels. The $8,400,000 Tacomas Narrows Apply Chins Gold Refining Co
3)China, Japan and North America,
Tan Ban Joo smelting works dealsbridge which collapsed will be re- Pedder Building, 2nd noor, Roard 8. built, Governor Cleafence D. orily with ore produced in Belan-1
Martin announced recently.
$7.30 OD $7.05 C.D.
$40/1391 ...
1391
$10
$7
88
#05
$18,80
$6.80
and Avinduri
ALTERNATE LAYERS
WE OFFER HIGH PRICES for Rebuilding of the bridge, the
of gold articles, third largest single suspension any amount The furnaces in use at present bridge in the world, will begin im-diamonds, silver, etc. No holidays. Apply China Building, 7th floor. by this Chinese company are medistely, Governor Martin sald,
Tel. 37127. Eurasia Gold Redning started with, charcoal and logs in
The huge bridge was completed Co. alternate layers, the object at the wood being two-fold, to effect, alast July principally as a national" quick rise in temperature and to defence measure, to connect Best- ensure uniform heating of the tie and Tacoma with the Puget charcoal.
Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton"
IN A WIND
When the whole charge of char-
coal is burning uniformly, about. The bridge collapsed in a wind 100 kattles of the pre are fed by estimated at 42 miles an hour hand into the top furnace, a simi-velocity, A University of Washing-
WANTED ENOWN ·
ORDERS TAKEN for hand-made. sweaters, Ladies Jumpers, Babies' outfits, etc., at $5.00 each far workmanship.
Wool and model desired, to be
Lar quantity being added every ton engineering professor said supplied by customer. half-hour or so. Wood and char- peculiar topography at the bridge
Bend particulars of address, etc.. coal is added to the fumace when site created a kind of wind tunnel to Box 502 H.K.D.P. necessary?.
which virtually doubles normal
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The first lot of molten tin is wind velocity, ready to be raked out through the
Two vehicles were on the huge The "WE" have an outstand- tap-hole after about three hours, span when it collapsed. A news in assortment of latest American dresses for all occasions and price, and from this stage onwards this paperman was driving an auto- process continues, the men ex mobile across it and a truck to suit all purses Call at "Vanity
Shop" (Lazarus) Pedder Street ployed at the furnace working for driver was operating, a huge leg- 35% eight hours in a shift ging truck across it when the The molten in runs from the structure Began cracking.
Experienced Book-keeper Wants tap-hole into a cast-iron, trough? Abandoning their vehicles the Students to form a class. Guaran. and from here it is ladied into two men fought their way along tee students to keep a whole set of moulds the assay of this being the andy pitcima spin to safety books after catépletion of a course Established 1886 $1.90 about 90 per cent.
Toe truck and
or's mantu For Term and Par-
$3.20
$10,55
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H.K. Wing On ........ 8hai Wing Un
Vibro Piling.
76 Marsmans Inv, (Long)|
Maromas Joy. (HK) $1.90 Wm, Powell............
†Bala to Shanghai
$14
The ingots are placed in a cold plunged Into Puget Sound, 108 feet, Leulaza. Please Apply to:-Box redning pair which is heated below,
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