The Straits Times, 10 September 1933

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    37 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA. No. 91. Sunday, September 10th., 1933. Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper in Malaya. No. 91. Sunday, September 10th. f 1933. Price 10 cents.
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    AUSTRALIA IN THROES OF WAR-SCARE
    360 1 THE MENACE IN THE PACIFIC DEFENCE FORCE BEING STRENGTHENED AUSTRALIA fears that a war is imminent in the Pacific and thai she may be called upon to defend the "White Australia" policy shortly. Measures are beinr taken to remedy the deplorably defective defences and the
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    13 1 The exciting finish of the second race. Rangoon, Wadsworth up, passing the p^st.
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    The Riddle Of The Cosmic Ray
    288 1 Experiments In Local Waters RAYS a thousand tin;td more pov.jrful than any now Known, such as x-rays or gama-rays, are being attracted to the s.s. President; Garneld at the Singapore docks today. Dr. Robert J. Millikan, the eminent American technologist, is responsib'e. Before the
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER.
    77 1 Noon, Saturday. R.S.S. equal to London Standard Buyers Sellers Spot (loose) 11 3/16 11 5/16. (F. 0.8.) 11 Vi 1156. Standard R.S.S. on Tender Buyers Sellers September 11 Vi October ll?i 11 Y%. November 11 7/16 11 9/IC. CX t.-Dec. 11 7/16 11 9/16. Jan.-Mar. 11% 1194. Tone
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    Munition Depot Established At Luanchow
    77 1 Shangnai, Saturday. Trains on the Peiplng-Mukden Railway east of Tangshan are under the control of the Japanese military forces. A Japanese depot for the storage of food supplies and munitions has been established at Luanchow, on the Peiplng-Mukden Railway. All craft on the Luan River
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    OUTSIDERS SWEEP THE BOARD AT RACES
    713 1 Another Record Is Smashed BIG DIVIDENDS FOR LUCKY FEW FAVOURITE TWICE THROWS JOCKEY, THEN WINS (From Our Racing Correspondent.) THE RECORD-BREAKING EPIDEMIC CONTINUED ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE SINGAPORE TURF CLUB AUTUMN (GOLD CUP) MEETING YESTERDAY WHEN SENLAC BEAT THE MALAYAN RECORD FOR
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    TRAPPED IN BLAZE
    189 1 WOMAN AND CHILD JUST ESCAPE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. a WOMAN and a child narrowly escaped being burnt to death here today when fire broke out In the Kuala Lumpur premises of the Singapore firm of Peter Chong and Co. The first floor, containing
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    BANDITS NEAR TREATY PORT
    103 1 Pnnic Stricken Population Fleeing The population of the treaty port of Chinwangtao and .he neighbouring districts, in the neutral zone in North China, bln a panic. The bandit hordes under Lao Ho-tse, the notorious outlaw chief, have occupied Shihmun. near Chinwangtao. The bandlis now threaten to
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    FOOTBALL COMPETITION
    254 1 Two Singapore Readers Share The SlOO Prize Once again The Sunday Times Football Competition has resulted In a tie, two Singapore readers: Mrs. L. C. Sullivan, of 9, Upper Serangoon Road, and Mr. O. L. Felslnger, of 968, Yeo Chu Kang Road, having predicted correctly the results of
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    COCHET AND VINES TURN "PRO"
    152 1 COCHET AND VINES TURN "PRO" BOTH WILL FORFEIT AMATEUR STATUS r'O of the world's most prominent tennis players have turned professionals, (says Reuter.) During the week-end it was authoritatively announced that both Cochet and Ellswyrth Vines would shortly renounce their amateur statue. "I intend to turn professional," said Cochet in
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    "CHINA MUST HELP HERSELF
    97 1 Mr. Soong Urges Economic Reconstruction Shanghai, Saturday. IN his speech at the Lushan conference Mr. Soong stated that, despite the sympathy of Great Britain and the United States, no tangible support is to be expected from these two Powers. China must help herself," Mr. Soong declared,
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    LONDON RUBBER & TIN.
    86 1 LONDON RUBBER TIN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. RUBBER. (Quotations as supplied by Symington and Wilson. J Spot (Bayers) 3' (Sellers) 3 7/16. Oct.-Dec. 3 1 Jan.-Mar. 3 19/32. Apr.- June 3 11 16. Market tone Quiet. TIN. Spot £214 18s. od. Three months £214 18s. fld. Market Irregular.
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    1829 2 BY OVR DIARIST. A'i me v.. Days." Sir Philip Gibbs' knowledge of Malaya was certainly not extensive. In fact he was delightfully vague He wasn't quite sure whether Commander Compton, reaching England again after five years in exile should have come from the Malay," the Malay
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      1096 2 Five Hundred Dollars Must Be Won This Week. NEW AND SIMPLE CONDITIONS. Home Football Competition With No Entrance Fee. This week the conditions of The Sunday Times Football Competition are altered in such a manner that $500 will be awarded even if no one succeeds in forecasting correctly the results
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      45 2 IF YOU FELL HEIR ~7vT n I ai -WHAT* WOULD /v..? I I THE ALARM CLOCK L 1 I I .S--*l TO A VAST FORTUNE <SA YOU DO? WOULD GOOFF f f* A I W (Copyright. 1832, by Th« Btll Syndiott. Inc.) I "Z2. (f)
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    The WORLD of BRIDGE
    1933 3  -  Ely Culbertson h World's Champion Player and Greatest Card Analyst MIIOW would you have played that hand, Mr. Culbertson?" a fair lady, who happened to be my partner at the Bridge table, recently asked me after having played a hand in a particularly atrocious manner. If
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    A FARM FOR SNAKES' VENOM.
    634 3 BUTANTA, in the State of San Paulo, Brazil, boasts one of the most unusual farms in the world. Snakes are bred and reared there, in order that their venom may be turned into a remedy against snake- bite. South America possesses some of the most
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      80 3 Assets exceed $12,000,000. Assurance in force over $35,000,000. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) BEAD OFFICE Great Eastern lit* Building, Cecil Street. Singapore. LONDON OFFICE 27, Old Jewry, E.C, The Company has £20,000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England snd complies with the
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      197 3 i jl KjJOW s rpEST your general knowledge by seeing how many of the following quesJ- tions you can answer correctly. Turn to Page 15 to check your replies. GENERAL QUESTIONS. 12. What province of Canada is 1. What is a mestizo? washed by the waters of four of 2.
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      308 3 For The Passing Hour. smßWMslMTiii—i ffllsi Li OKE if you can win this jigsaw puzzle game. First cut out the 18 parts. *3 You are required to fit the entire picture together inside your time allowance. Time limits 8-year-old child. 18 minutes; 12-year-old 16 minutes; 16-year-old 14 minutes; adults 12
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    THE WORLD OF BADMINTON
    1830 4 Final Stages of the Championships Exciting Matches Likely All-Malaya Tournament ff anted An Alternative Scheme International Matches Overseas A Suggestion to Selangor The Standard of The Game in tv Other States. THE ties in the various events of the Singapore Championship Tournaments advertised for last weekend
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    THE PERFECT DEFENCE.
    81 4 The following occurred in the courtroom at Harrison, New Jersey, states the British United Press:— In the dock Mr. John Papa, charged with causing an accident by driving j with one arm, the other being round a woman passenger. "What have you to say?" asked the judge.
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    M.P.H. BEAT POST OFFICE
    458 4 DILL GAME AT J ALAN BESAR M.P.H. .4: Post Office .0. rE unseemly sight of players coming to blows on the association football field has been witnessed with sufficient frequency this season to cause disquietude to real lowers of the game. It was feared that such
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    HOSE CUP FINAL Negri Tamils Win By One Goal
    170 4 HOSE CUP FINAL Negri Tamils Win By One Goal (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. The needle match of Negri soccer, in which the N. S. Tamil Union beat the Hire Motor Union by the only goal of the final for the Hose Cup was played here today before a
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      169 4 E^w!' ON THE SUBJECT |K;, OF INCOME— /aJj^ifcfr \*o^% Security in old age is as much ±1 desired by the man with a small income as by the man who is well- to-do. Both arc anxious that their old age shall be made comT^kJ fortable and that their families V
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    Mainly About Malayans
    2168 5 Mainly About Malayans By THE WANDERER Salaries Now And Then Mr. Bennett Shaw's Record Cooks And Cooking ARE we going back to the salary standards of forty years ago? This question is suggested by readIng the reminiscences of Mr. Renganathar, published in the Victoria Institution magazine. Mr. Renganathan took Lis
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    MODERN SLAVERY HORRORS:
    801 5  -  ROGER COURTNEY BY ATTENTION has recently been drawn to the activities of the Arab slave traders who supply the extensive Abyssinian market. Public opinion has been incensed by stories of the brutal- j itles committed by the raiders, and i vigorous demands have been made that the
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    A "Joy Ride" Fallacy
    500 5 would influence to some extent the price they were prepared to pay. /Vo "Joy-Rides"! EVERY now and then Government officers in Malaya are sent on special missions to other countries to inspect, types of work in which they have specialised, and the tendency is to regard
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      49 5 llKEllieSlllllllUllll I SEA VIEW j HOTEL m m TODAY j| CONCERT I 1 FROM 1 1 TO 1 P.M. j BY PAUL STRAUSS J AND HIS BAND. i! SPECIAL today I CURRY I Prepared by a native cook from Ceylon. THE FINEST CURRY 1 j AVAILABLE IN SINGAPORE. eiiiiiiiiiHiiißiinii
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      116 5 ANNOUNCEMENT OWING TO THE GREAT SUCCESS OK THE august ANNUAL CHEAP SALE WE take PLEASURE TO INFORM OUR PATRONS THAT WE MAINTAIN ALL OUR PRICES TO THE SAME LOW LEVEL AS THEY WERE FIGURED DURING THE SALE. THIS IS THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY YET OFFERED TO OUR CUSTOMERS FOR PURCHASING JEWELLERY
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    Society Is On Holiday
    1200 6 FROM A LONDON WOMAN'S WINDOW Sunday niczs Office, Fleet Street, Aug. 10. HOLIDAYS are the talk of the town, whether they mean a few days at Brighton or a long visit to the South of France. Even the busiest Society butterflies, who flit from one centre
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    20 6 Myrna Loy, the Me tro G old wy n Mayer star In black bathing suit cot in the one-piece style.
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    WAISTS DECREED
    97 6 II Paris has its way, women 1 will be waist-conscious next season. In a collection recently every J dress had its waist the trim Edwardian type, which usually 1 owed its existence to corsets. The modern dressmaker has managed to give a very creditable j resemblance of the
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    Seen In Singapore
    636 6 JPINE weather favoured the first two days of the Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) meeting and the paddock presented a very gay scene indeed, and formed the background for many lovely creations, the frocks of the Western women intermingling with the more picturesque costumes of their
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    AND THEY SAY:
    102 6 AND THEY SAY: I rTHAT a new type of coat is made like a dress. The silk 1 blouse-like top is Joined to a woollen skirt. I That Sunbathing sunshades of 1 coloured oil-silk and bound with tape are an innovation fnr allow--1 ing the sun to tan the skin
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      108 6 OPPORTUNITY WEEK AT WHITEAWAY'S LADIES FANCY WOOL PULLOVER. In two tone effect, exact to sketch. Shade: Viyol- White, Red White. Black/ White, Orange White. Price $2.50. NEEDLERLN LACE BRASSIERE. Satin ribbon shoulde. straps. Fasten at back with two buttons. Size 32 to 38. Price $1.50. LADIES Xl Hltii: DIVING CAPS.
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      64 6 The Name is yourSafeguanl When you order salt you buy something of unknown quality: but when you ask for 'Cerebos' you obtain a perfectly packed Salt prepared under ideal conditions from pure natural brine. To insist on 4 Cerebos' is to practice true economy. (erebos) SALT Ibt Recognised Standard of
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    Heavy Weather
    2192 7  -  P. G. Wodehouse THIS WEEK'S INSTALMENT I By The Hon. Galahad replaced his monocle. "Monty Bodkin?" he said, refreshing himself with a sip from his glass. "I remember him well. Nice boy. Not at all the sort of fellow wlib would nobble pigs. Wait a minute, Clarence. This
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    SYNOPSIS.
    100 7 MONTY Bodkin who has been dismissed from the Mammoth Publishing Co.. by the proprietor, Lord Tilbury, determines to get a Job at Blandings Castle as the Earl of Emsworth's secretary. Sue Brown, a chorus girl, Monty's former fiancee, who is now engaged to Ronald Fish, Lord Emsworth's nephew, is
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    GALAHAD PLANS TO FOIL THE PIG-STEALERS
    1265 7 little earnest consideration," he said 'thoughtfully. "You wouldn't consider taking a firm line and telling Ronnie to go and boil his head and not make a young fool of himself, if he starts kicking up a fuss?" "But you don't understand," wailed Sue. "He
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      35 7 A Sample Tin of Lactogcn, Mother's Book of Advice and Measuring Spoon will be sent, postage paid, to any parent or expectant mother who sends stamps value 20 cents to "LACTOGEN" 144-7, Cecil Streei, SINGAPORE.
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    The Straits Times TOTIDEM VERBIS
    524 8 The Straits Times TOTIDEM VERBIS I HI I .)Kl \L. MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street, Singapore. TELEPHONES EDITORIAL 5151, 5152. ADVERTISING 7701. GENERAL OFFICE 7702. PRINTING PUBLISHING 7703. Kuala Lumpur: 25, Java Street. TELEPHONE 3683. The Singapore municipality is spending something like half a million dollars on capital works
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    PAID FOR JOKES
    269 8 "J. 8.," of Singapore, is in the money again this week. He takes all ten of the dollars for these two stories A born pessimist, in a fit of peevishness, committed a murder and was sentenced to be hanged. Put into the condemned cell, he made himself
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    The Masked Desert Riders
    2091 8  -  DONALD CAMPBELL By i"iNE of the outriders ol the caravan bound northward from Timbuktu swerves back to the main body, throws t.p a hand, then points to the directioi wnence he has come, and those eyes accustomed to seeing over the desert sands can discern a
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    STOP PRESS.
    75 8 (Ananias News Factory). I, mdon, Saturday. Mr. J. H. C. F. Howeson has not presided over an annual general meeting for a whole week and the tin market is becoming very agitated in consequence. It is rumoured that he has rone into retreat for an indefinite period with
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      131 8 MATINEE TODAY 3.15 p.m. 6.15 NIGHTLY 9.15 KING of the JUNGLE" with BUSTER CRABBE as "The Lion Man" It's Panunount's Amazing Spectacle MATINEE AT J. 15 WARNERS' DARING COMEDY HIT MAN WANTED STARRING THE SCREENS MOST RAVISHING 3EAUTY KAY FRANCIS the indiscreet adventures of an immodest lady! IT'S OH KAY
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      122 8 ENTERTAINMENTS SINGAPORE SEPTEMBER 10, 1933. ALIIAMBRA King of the Jungle with Buster Crabbe and Prances Dee. 6.15 9.15 p.m. CAPITOL GirK Missing. 6.15—9.15 p.m. GREAT WORLD Carbaret. Talkies. Sideshows. Cinemas and Theatres. MARLBOROUGH The Beggar Student. 6.15 9 15 p.m. NEW WORLD Cabaret Dancing. Sideshows, Talkies. Theatres and Cinemas. PAVILION
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      26 8 (^g^ ASSERTIONS &J*!®X Te f n doUar tor a \^^C\ ANANIAS L\C lic^rT -n- o n^ r> n> h -n\ o n> -n o n frriPf
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    Week-End Flips To Sumatra Soon?
    413 9 NEW DUTCH SERVICE MAY START MALAYANS MAY FLY TO D.E.I. AND RETURN BY SEA From Alor Star to Brastagi, by air on Thursday, returning by boat on Sunday, may be the new week-end craze for Malayans. In a message received from Medan yesterday, it was
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    It's An Old Chinese Custom
    282 9 in the local harbour dress on such occasions as the King's Birthday, Empire Day or New Year' 3 Day. But when a small coastal vessel belonging to a Chinese company "dresses" It .o to celebrate on age-old belief or sup >rstltlon. It is following an
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    MARRIAGE BAN FOR UNFIT ?
    150 9 MARRIAGE BAN FOR UNFIT STERILISATION PROPOSALS London, Satura A suggestion that marriage between the mentally unfit should be legally banned unless cne partner consents to sterilisation is being considered by the Departmental Committee on Sterilisation set up by the Minister of Health. It Is possible that a recommendation on these
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    THE MEN WHO LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS
    700 9 They Work While You Play SINGAPORE'S consumption of elec- tridty will drop only about 20,000 units today. The average weekday load is in the region of 110,000 units, so that those I who satisfy the town's demand for power and light at St. James
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    TAMILS TRIUMPH
    348 9 Six Nil Defeat Of Selangor i Malays <From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. rriHOUSANDS were disappointed when the T.P.C.A. made history in local football winning first division honours by defeating the Malays, last year's champions, by six clear goals. It was surprising to see a huge crowd
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    UNEMPLOYED FACE DESTITUTION
    670 9 Serious Position In K.L. ASIATIC RELIEF FUND FAILING A grave situation may arise in regard to the unemployed Asiatics in the Federal Capital. Despite the fact that the tin mines and rubber plantations have commenced to make profits again, there has been no appreciable decrease in the
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    GUNMAN WENT OFF HIS GAME
    101 9 GUNMAN WENT OFF HIS GAME Chicago, Sunday. -ifIACHINE-GUN Jack Mcthe local Public 1 Enemy No. 4, a«d former chief assistant to Al Capone, had an unpleasant shock in the middle of his week-end game of golf. Under his baptismal name of Vincent Gabardi, he was competing in a tournament ne:»r
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    Strange But Is It True ?
    185 9 Strange But Is It True (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lipis. Saturday. AN amazing story has gained currency locally. A Malay woman, to all intents and purposes, died at Ulu Gall recently. Everyone was perfectly satisfied that she was really dead, and arrangements were made for her funeral. Some hours
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    HINDU TEMPLE FEUD
    321 10 FIKRCE ATTACK ON SECRETARY RELIGIOUS DISPUTE WILL BE TAKEN TO COURT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. ILL-FEELING smouldering among certain sections* of the Hindu community of Kuala Lumpur has broken into flame n The Mariamman temple, one of the three principal Hindu places of worship
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    SUGGESTION FOR CYCLISTS
    83 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. WHEN a Tamil, named Supplah, was charged before the Seremban Magistrate. Raja Kamaralzaman, with causing obstruction by leaving a bicycle on tie flve-foot-way the Magistrate humorously remarked that since a person would be pulled up for an unattended cycle if he
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    MALAY BOYS DEATH
    39 10 (Frcm Our Own Correspondent.) Sercmban. Saturday. The Seremban Coroner returned a verdict of death by misadventure at the inquest on a Malay boy, Zakaria, aged 13, whose body was found on the railway lines at Labu.
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    76 10 In a letter from home, Mr. H. G. R. Leonard, British Resident, Pahang, states that he has been on a motor tour through Cornwall, Devon. Hampshire and Sussex and he describes the weather at the time of his tour as "fearfully hot." Capiain N. D. Dalton, formerly of Gedek Estate,
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    FOOTBALL CLUB THAT DOES NOT FIELD A TEAM
    873 10 g FROM THE COURTS i 1 PREMISES ALLEGEDLY j USED FOR GAMING i i rrttlE Turf Club betting case, which 1 was decided by Sir William Murison some months ago just before he rtured from the post of Chief Justice, was cited
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    ARE NUDISTS COMING ?
    352 10 ARE NUDISTS COMING Hongkong Cult Extending Branches LOCAL POLICE ALERT. Singapore Does Not Want Them WILL an attempt be made to establish a branch of the nude cult in Singapore? The Nudist Association of Hong Kong has announced that it intends to extend its sphere of activities, and already plans
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    K.L. COMES OF AGE!
    321 10 GRANTED POWERS OF BORROWING SYSTEM OF RATING WILL HAVE TO BE ALTERED (From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. TT U ALA LUMPUR has at last been granted power to borrow money. This power Is certainly limited, in that borrowing can only be done from the
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    Chinese Boxing Belles
    220 10 WILL NOT BE ENCOURAGED ALTHOUGH the younger generation of Singapore Chinese may favour the emancipation of their womenfolk, they intend to draw the line at their girls taking up boxing. Up-country, this intrusion into the realms of masculine sport, seeirs to have caught on. The other day
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      172 10 THIS TIN- your safeguard! I i »O«H PWOSPCAITV I ADVERTISEMENT was Inserted recently In the j,**+J?>j£ Press throughout Malaya and >W produced the following worthy <^%£*££y* comment— (viz. Times of Talping Miner writes \N\ -^5>5 l Wakefleld's Castrol advertise- v* if m.nt in "The Times of >A v Malaya has
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    SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD
    2092 11  - SECRETS OF SCOTLAND YARD Edwin T. Wood hall, Continuing I By Late Of The C.I.D. I GLITTERING jewels worth a king's ransom twinkle in the light of an electric torch. The burglar reaches out a hand, clutches the gems, smiling as he thinks of the face of the Jeweller in
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    SUEZ CANAL DUES CRITICISED
    133 11 British Shipping In East Suffering London, Saturday. Scathing criticism of the Suez Canal dues, which, he declared, resulted in turning Far Eastern trade to the United States, was uttered by Sir Arnold Wilson before the Economies Section of the British Association. He pointed out that Suez
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      351 11 vO O* AT 1 1 THE 0 4 f f£\ %l/ £f fj A* Isl thi$ boy I 41 f iLu f*' iV C^~*\ Look at his smiling health the useless fat and the weak* mto&&9 nesses of the ordinary *f >. V^i Bfcfc-i "*"\~*S VTOV artificially fed Child! And
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    AN IMPUDENT BOOK
    311 12 AN IMPUDENT BOOK I Take This City. By Glyn Roberts. Jarrolds. 10s. Cd. MR. GLYN ROBERTS is a very "clever" young man. If ever he sees those Inverted commas he will probably succumb to a temptation to b>? most inordinately rudu at the expense of someone he has never met.
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    326 12 Gentlemen— The Regiment! By Hush Talbot. Dent. 76. MR. Hugh Talbot's first novel is a work of outstanding merit. It is difficult, indeed, to believe that it is a first novel, ffee as it is from the gaucherie and awkwardness of the average initial attempt. The
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    A Gallery of Fallen Monarchs
    1322 12 The Book By The Of The Week Book Critic Kings 'n Exile. By Dr. Otto Ernst. Jarrolds. 18s. "MANKIND, like the individual, never reaches a final goal, but is ever pushing forward. Results, however, are as unequal as life itself" and Dr. Otto Ernst, in
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    A Tale Of POST-WAR A USTRIA
    406 12 A Tale Of POST- WAR A USTRIA Pilgrim Cottage By Cecil Roberts. Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. I LAST year Mr. Cecil Roberta's "Spears Against Us." a novel dealins with post-war Austria, was one of the outstanding successes of the publishing season and we feel certain that his latest book.
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    BROAD HUMOUR
    157 12 BROAD HUMOUR Cocktail Time. By Starr Wood Werner Laurie. 7s. 6d. UTARR Wood, the artist who is widely known for his drawings illustrating the broader type of humour. Is the latest recruit to Werner Laurie's providers of Picture Books for GrownUps." Following upon Stag at Eve and "Everything's Rosy." "Cocktail
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    THE OPENING STROKE PROBLEM
    772 13  -  "CUEMAN" BILLIARDS BY T>ILLIARDS is almost 100 per cent, attack. The protagonists have but few opportunities of obstruction. Maybe were it otherwise the game could have a greater spectacular "pull." There is little of the thrilling about it. If it is to attract it Is mainly
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    407 13 s.v.c. THE annual "Bisley" meeting was commenced at the Buklt Timah Rifle Range last week-end. All companies participated, and the attendance of competitors from the Royal Engineers, and the R.A.O.C. was very much appreciated. Unfortunately, the Ist. Battalion, the Wiltshire Regiment did not send any representatives.
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    22 13 Members of S.V.R.A. firing in individual Rifle Event at the annual Bislt-y meeting: (held on Bukit Timah Range) which commenced last Sunday.
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    467 13 Seremban Malays* Society. rpHE 3rd annual general meeting of the Seremban Malays' Better Living Society was held it the premises of the Persidangan Bilia Club on Sunday Sept. 3. Among those present were: Dato Klana Petra C.8.E., president; Da to Bandar, vice-president; Che Hamzah b. Abdullah M.C.S.,
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    814 13 A lot depends upon the feeding of your birds. They should be fed at regular hours, for erratic feeding will have disastrous results. The time to feed poultry in Malaya is at about 6.30 a.m. and 4.45 p.m. A lot of the so-called "Roup" would
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    HOW THEY RAN AT BUKIT TIMAH
    2093 14 TROUBLE AT THE TAPES Punters Unlucky ONLY TWO FAVOURITES GET HOME (From Our Own Correspondent.) The following are the results of racing at Bukit Timah yesterday, the th<rd day of the Singapore Turf Club's Autumn (Cold Cup) Meeting. Race 1. THE FIRST MAIDEN HANDICAP.
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    313 14 SUNDERLAND SHOCK WOLVES London, Saturday. Matches in the English and Scottish Leagues today are as follows: DIVISION I. Arsenal 1 M'chester City 1 Aston Villa 4 Liverpool 2 Blackburn R. 4 W. Brom. A. 0 Everton 2 Sheffield W. 3 HuddersAeld T. 0 Leeds U. 0 Leicester
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    925 14 Positions Before Matches Played Yesterday The following were the positions of Clubs in the English and Scottish League tables prior to yesterdays matches FIST DIVISION. Goals P. W. L. D. F. A.Pta Portsmouth (9) 4 2 0 2 7 2 6 Tottenham 4 2 117 3 5
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