The Straits Times, 24 September 1933

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    51 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA. No. 93. Sunday, September 24th., 1933. Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper in Malaya. No. 93. Sunday, September 24th., 1933. Price 10 cents. D. E. L. ANUERSOm. who rowed in the ?4 mile race in yesterday's R.B.Y.C.
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    TERRORISED CHINESE FLEE FROM BANDIT SCOURGE
    367 1 REFUGEES POUR INTO I PEIPING Neutral Area Ravaged IS JAPAN ACSISTING THE OUTLAWS? THOUSANDS OF TERROR-STRICKEN CHINESE, MANY OF WHOM ARE ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION, ARE POURING INTO TIENTSIN AND PEIPING rROM THE NEUTRAL AREA. THE CHARHAR ARMY HAS INVADED THE NEUTRAL ZONE,
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    21 1 AT. K. M. Hoops, after the :l i-mi)e race in yesiu.^, anal sculling meeting of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club. i
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    Local Hospital Staff To Be Increased?
    439 1 ACTION MAY FOLLOW \iRAVE EXPOSURE OFMCIAL PRESSURE FOR MORE NURSES [D SISTERS (iuN.'.n.ucnt action may follow, the Sunday Times revelations, made last week, that Singapore General Hospital is seriously UP'"' Or iioiaLS frankly admit that should the number of serious cases increase tomorrow, the
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    20 Nations Boycott Japan
    218 1 SEARCH FOR NEW MARKETS Shanghai, Saturday. r PHE Ministry of Industry and Com- merce In Toklo announce? that more than 20 nations have combined in boycotting Japanese goods. Sin Kuo Mm. A report Irom Japan states that, while Great Britain and tne British Colonies all over
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    RUBBER CULTURE
    51 1 JAVA PLANTER URGES RESTRICTION Batavia. Saturday. During a meeting of the Western Java Rubber planters the President addressing the Agricultural Director expressed the hope that the Government would Introduce restriction measures similar to those taken In connection with tea in order to prevent the collapse of rubber culture—
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    LONDON RUBBER & TIN
    73 1 LONDON RUBBER TIN (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. RUBBER. (Quotations as supplied by Symington and Wilson.) Spot (Buyers) 3 27/32. (Sellers) 3 25/32. Oct.-Dec. 3 27/32. Jan-Mar. 3 15/16. Apr. -June 4. Market tone Steadier. SILVER. Spot 18 '_>d. Two moi ths 18 9/16 d. CROSB BATE. London-New York,
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    COMPANY RESULTS
    54 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Sept. 22. Ban ten g (Selangor) Rubber Estates. Ltd., announce a loss of £259 for the year ended April 30, 1933 £9,389 is carried forward to credit. Seaport (Selangor) Rubber Estate, Ltd., announces a profit of £807 for the year enrted June 30
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    TIN DIVIDENDS
    41 1 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) London, Sept. 22. Bangrin Tin Dredging, Ltd., announce an Interim dividend of ten per cent, payable on Oct. 17. Siamese Tin Syndicate has declared an interim dividend of 15 per cent, payable on Oct. 17.
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    PANIC ON SINKING SHIP
    200 1 PANIC ON SINKING SHIP I HIRUNDO STRIKES ROCK IN GULF OF SIAM i>ungkok, Saturday. A PANIC occurred among the passengers when the Norwegian steamer Hirundo struck a rock in the Bay of Siam, near the island of Koh-Si-Chang during the w#»p'<--«""\ A iNtftai n«Jie wus torn in the vessel's bows,
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    FOOTBALL COMPETITION
    281 1 Mnlucca Woman Reader Wins $300. The result of The Sunday Times $500 Must be Won competition is a I win for Miss Lucy Mahtias, c/o P. G. Mahindasa, 289, Tranquerah, Malacca, who gave the maximum number of correct predictions. Of the ten matches set, one was postponed and
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    PENANG WEDDING
    78 1 Mr. G. A. Leiper And Miss H. B. Moon (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Saturday. A fashionable wedding place took this afternoon at St. George's Church. The parties were Gerald Andre** Leiper, formerly of the Chartered Bank, Penang, and Miss Hilda Blanche Moon. The church was specially decorated.
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    Bearding The Desert Brigands
    478 1 EXCITING JOURNEY ih?vOUGH PERSIA AND ARAB!/. MORE than 2,000 miles by :.iotorcar, travelling across the Persian and Arabian deserts and country Infested with brigands, visiting sites of ancient cities was the novel way in which Mr. Kenneth Black, the wellknown surgeon of General Hospital, Singapore, and
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    61 1 Noon, Saturday. R.S.S. equal to London Standard Buyers Sellers Spot (loose) l." s (F. 0.8.) I 12 9 18. Standard R.S.S. on Tender Buyers Sellers October 1.", November 12% I! 1 Oct.-Dec. 12% Jan. -Mar. 12.. Tone of market Firm. Latest Cable per Ib. London Spot Sheet 3
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    Behind The Front Page
    1311 2 QAID the ycung lecturer at Malaya's future University Wore educating them too fast." "What exactly do you mean?" I asked. "Well," he replied, "they 'cram' for a degree, and what do they really leurn? Their knowledge is entirely superficial. They have no background. Perhaps, in the
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      179 2 0 I f/ 'o/- *Vw "> V Very sad, says the reader, and passes on to the racing news without further thought for, after all, these things always happen to someone else and never to one's self. If however your viewpoint turned out to be incorrect the burden of your
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      989 2 Five Hundred Dollars For Ten Results OR $100 FOR BEST FORECAST. Home Football Competition With No Entrance Fee. In this week's Sunday Times football competition Five Hundred Dollars is offered for ten correct results. In the event of two or more entries predicting correctly the results of all the matches,
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    For The Passing! Hour.
    1583 3  - For The Passing! Hour. Ely Culbertson try The WORLD of BRIDGE World's Champion Player and Greatest Card Analyst rHE average player falls to make a great many contracts through lack of knowledge. If a fally Involved play Is required, It may be unknown to him or If some rather skillful
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      759 3 DO YOU KNOW? i \fpKST your general knowledge by seeing how many of the following general questions you can answer. Turn to Page 15 to check your replies. GENERAL QUESTIONS. 20. In what book of the Bible are the 1. Who wrote the poem Including the o "Beatitudes"? line, "Laugh
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      230 3 Assets exceed $12,000,000. Assurance in force over $35,000,000. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in th« Straits Settlement!) HEAD OFFICE Great Eastern Life Building, Cecil Street. Singapore. LONDON OFFICE 27, Old Jewry, r.'.C The Company has £20,000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England and complies with the
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  • Malayan Volunteer News
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      Something About The Soldiers
      788 4 Something About The Soldiers s.v.c. THE Scottish Company had a day out at the Bukit Timah Range last Sunday, and concluded the annual Wapinschaw by entertaining a large number of guests. Major D. G. McLcod's (O.C. the Company) "company commander," Mrs. McLcod, presented the handsome array of trophies, but it
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      AROUND the CLUBS
      1197 4 AROUND the CL UBS Chinese Students' LA. LAST week-end, the C.S.L.A. held a house-warming In the new premises at No. 11. Bukit Pasoh Road. The premises were beautifully decorated with flowers and bunting and more 1 than 100 members and guests were pre- sent. The social secretary, Mr. Eu Pak
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      20 4 The Lewis Gun team of "B" (Chinese) company of the Malacca Volunteer Corps winners of the inter-platoon Lewis Gun competition.
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      More Hints on The Use of Side
      429 4  - More Hints on The Use of Side "CUEMAN" BILLIARDS by /\NCE a man begins the development vF of Inhibitions In billiards he spoils his pleasure. If he is wise he will avoid the teaching that goes by the way of "do not." The "do not" school in anything should be
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      POULTRY NOTES
      5 4 BY OUR EXPERT
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      112 4 Zowq Xam Co. 46/48, PECK SEAH STREET. For BALANCED" POULTEY FOODS, According to Poultry Editor's Formula. Prices on application. SINGAPORE Phone 7328. BACK TO THE LAND. The I.C.S. Course on Poultry Farming gives lull instruction in methods of raising, caring for, and handling most profitably all kinds of poultry. Every
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      21 4 This coupon, attached to a letter addressed to the Poultry Expert, entitles readers to free advice on any poultry- keeping problem.
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    Mainly About Malayans
    2302 5 By "The Wanderer" A lamentable case of prudery has just been noticed in Kuala Lumpur. For some time past there has been displayed' in the window of a Tan Kah Bee shop a slender and graceful maiden attired in a one-piece bathing costume. It is true that
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      122 5 JEWELLERY I THE WHOLE OF OUR STOCK HAS BEEN GREATLY REDICED IN PRICE. THE BEST OPPORTI'NITY EVER OFFERED OF NEW STOCK OF HIGH CLASS JEWELLERY The LATEST PATTERNS— AT VERY LOW PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. VISIT OUR SHOWROOMS ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS A SPECIALITY. DIAMOND SET BROOCHES,
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    Attractive Cottons For Beach Pyjamas
    811 6 Attractive Cottons For Beach Pyjamas Sunday Times Office, Fleet Street, London, Aug. 24. LTHOUGH beach frocks have un- doubtedly found more favour with our changeable sex this year than beach pyjamas, the latter are by no means extinct, and during my shopping tour I saw some most attractive beach or
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    Seen in and About Town
    605 6 By The Woman Correspondent ON the last and most important day of the Singapore Races, the course was crowded with hundreds of smartly dressed women of every nationality. Throughout the season, I noticed, the majority of the women favoured simple tailored styles or simple afternoon
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    38 6 More lavish and more typical of the charac~ ter she portrays, Claire Dodd wears a suit, the skirt of which has an extremely high waistline and a blouse and short bolero jacket of blond satin trimmed with .table.
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    39 6 Helene Vinson wearing the starched white chiffon gifwn she wears in Warner Bros.' "Lawyer Man". The chiffon is combined with crepe Pleated flounces with a high tight collar and bare shoulders. (Front view is seen at the extreme right.)
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    19 6 Joan Blondell wears a charming costume on simple line A grey tweed skirt with a grey black knitted sweater.
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    13 6 Claire Dodd offering a front view of the gown illustrated at the left.
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    From A London Woman's Window
    190 6 ped bags, one particularly effective model being in white leather with separate flap attached at the top of the bag by chromium rings. With my spirits duly revived after may bag-gazing orgy, I went along to the lingerie department to discover what we shall have
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      266 6 New Beauty Secret Save her Natural appearance Men wondered about her lips. They looked artificial, so conspicuous. Then she switched to Tangee. Unlike ordinary lipsticks, Tangcc cannot make your lips look painted. It is unique. As you apply it to your lips it changes color to the one sh?de just
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    Heavy Weather
    2441 7  - Heavy Weather P. G. WODEHOUSE Continuing By 1 AT the moment of her arrival, Monty •A was staring out of the window and Julia had leaned back in her seat. Tli ore was nothing, accordingly, to indicate any connection between the two, and Sue was just about to address to
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    SYNOPSIS.
    149 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 Emsworih'g secretary. Sue Brown, a chorus girl, Monty's former fiancee, who is now engaged to Ronald Fish, Lord Emstoorth's nephew, is
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    TOTIDEM VERBIS.
    221 8 The newspaper campaign against the abuse of the National Anthim in Malayan cinemas is bearing fruit, although not as yet in Singapore. The principal cinema in Kuala Lumpur now merely shows a slide bearing the word "Goodnight" at the conclusion of the performance, and the management has been
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    1789 8 There is no doubt that the rubber restrictionists are still very much alive and are making a most determined effort to overcome the difficulties in their way. In Netherlands Indi* and in London and Amsterdam prolonged negotiations are taking place, and the whole problem is being thrashed out as it
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    AMERICA Looks To ROOSEVELT
    573 8  -  ANDRE MAUROIS BY T CANNOT say that America 13 a country of optimists. Such a state of mind Is hardly Justifiable in any country today. It Is useless to expect to find excessive optimism in an army of 14 million unemployed wV.o drag out their lives
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    PAID-FOR JOKES.
    229 8 Just to show that I am not a narrow-minded sort of a bloke, I am going to award this week's ten chips to a man who gives me a gentle kick in the pants. He writes: Dear Sir, The stories appearing in your columns have fallen to such
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    STOP PRESS.
    80 8 (Ananias News Fai I Singapore, Saturday. C'o.^ltli ruble interest has I aroused locally in the rival claiii> of Mr. C. \Vard-J;ukso:i and Mr. P. y L. A. Lct'indu to be kn<>« n as T-ian/ i. A meeting of pro.'i; citizens was held tonight to adjudicate in the matter
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    48 8 My pet artist has had a serious breakdown so serious that he can't even bring himself to write me letter about it. All he can manage Is this drawing, with the following words to go underneath it: "I CANT UNDERSTAND YOU WOMEN— YOU CERTAINLY ARE !YSTERY TO ML"
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      220 8 ENTERTAINMENTS SINGAPORE SEPTEMBER 24, 1933. AMIXMNRA Child of Manhattan with Nancy Carroll and John BoJes. 6.15 9.15 p.m. CAPITOL Local Boy Makes Good with Joe E. Brov-n and Dorothy Lee. 6.15—9.15 p.m. GREAT WORLD Carbaret. Talkies, Sideshows. Cinemas and Theatres. MAULDOROUGH Tess of the Storm Country with Janet Oaynor and
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      66 8 PIANO TUNING REPAIRS REMOVALS HIRE E. CHARLES. Phone 2902. 74, Orchard Rd, NEW WORLD SINGAPORE. Side Shows. Cabaret Dancing, Talkies, Theatres and Cinema* To treat these complaints successfully, get to the root of the trouble. Clarke's Blood Mixture is the world's greatest blood purifier and healer, it is famous for
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      13 8 J&) J&^ m. mt S*t?vL TODAYS *^S. T» ASSERTIONS SUmffij 1 «5t^&£ "taS"!;^-*
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    NEW HILL STATION IS BOOMING
    498 9 TWELVE MONTHS OF AMAZING PROGRESS CAMERON HIGHLANDS HAS ROUNDED THE CORNER (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. IN contrast with the depressing appearance it wore in the depths of the slump, Malaya's new hill station is now a scene of bustle and activity. This
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    17,500,000 Americans On The Dole
    201 9 Farmers Want Inflation As Cure Washington, Saturday. T«HE clamour for inflation is growing daily p .rtlcularly among thu farmers. At a meeting &t Des Moines, lowa, the "Nationa' Furmers Holiday Association" unaninously passed a resolution in favour of a "farm strike" for all agricultural products
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    CARGO PILFERING
    214 9 SLUMP CAUSES STRICTER SUPERVISION Cargo pilferers are having a very lean time during the depression. Smaller cargoes with a consequent shrinkage in freights have compelled ship-owners to exercise a more rigorous supervision of cargoes. During boom years they had to meet huge chums for shortages of cargo, that
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    BOUNTIES FOR JAPANESE SOLDIERS
    36 9 Shanghai, Saturday. The Japanese Government is reported to have distributed small bounties to 100,000 soldiers and more than 800,000 civilians, in recognition of their services during the recent Slno-Japan-«e hostilities in China.
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    CHINESE BRIDE IN LONDON
    176 9 AND SHE PROMISED TO OBEY A REAL Chinese wedding, with all the ceremonial of the East, took place in London recently. But there was one similarity with English marriages the bride promised to obey. The wedding took place at China House. Gower-street, W.C., and was conducted
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    30 9 Viscount Kikujiro Ishii. ex-Foreign Minister and one of Japan's leading statesmen, and Mr. Y. Fukai. vice president of the Bank of Japan who are returning from the World Economic Conference.
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    Japan's Inscrutable Statesman ;
    399 9 Japan's Inscrutable Statesman DELEGATION TO W.E.C. RETURNS VISCOUNT ISHII WILL NOT BE DRAWN yiSCOI NT Ishii, chief of the Japanese delegation to the World Economic Conference, ;u rived in Singapore yesterday by the Hakone Maru, homeward bound from the Conference. >\ hen I interviewed him on hLs arrival, he was
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    "GRETA GARBO" AT PENANG
    71 9 (from Our Own Correspondent) Penang Saturday. Seldom has the E. and O. hotel been so crowded as tonight on the occasion of the Hollywood Ball. Practically all the famous stars of both sexes were represented including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Bebe Daniels. Janet Gaynor, Anna May
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    WOMAN STRANGLED
    208 9 HUSBAND ON TRIAL ON CAPITAL CHARGE 'From Our Own Conespondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. A MAN who is alleged to have strangled his wife with a piece of > cord anrt then ailed for the police to be called, was a pathetic figure in the Kuala Lumpur police court
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    CHANNEL BID NEARLY COSTS LIFE
    145 9 SOLDIER LOSES A £1000 TO £1 WAGER Captain George Morris almost paid with his life for a desperate attempt to swim the Channel for a wager of £1,000 to £1. Ten miles out he was suddenly seized with cramp and collapsed. Fortunately his trainer, Billy
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    RIDDLE OF VANISHING IRISH LAKE
    121 9 SOUND AS "MULTITUDE OF MOURNING DEAD" The waters of Lough Na Sull ln Co Sligo, which disappeared at the beginning of last month and only reappeared later, have vanished again. A man named Michael Gaffney said the water disappeared into the cavity called "the Gulf
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    INVASION OF CITY'S VACANT PLOTS
    353 9 TO BE LET FOR PLAYING FIELDS MORE SPORTS GROUNDS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED WE want more playing fields," is the cry of Singapore's youth. Ten years apo the young men of our Asiatic communities were content to watch the Europeans at play. Today they are keen
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    Reds Routed In Fukien
    187 9 19th Route Army Is In Hot Pursuit Canton, Saturday. HAVING spent its force the Communist menace in Fukien <s practically over. Shunchang, which is about 80 miles west of Yenping, has been recaptured by the provincial troops under Lieutenant Generals Lv Hsing-pan anc Liv Ho-ting. The
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    SULTAN OF JOHORE'S OUTBURST ANSWERED
    322 10 SULTAN OF JOHORE'S OUTBURST ANSWERED EDUCATION SYSTEM DEFENDED MALAY SCHOOLBOYS NOT HANDICAPPED ri'HE Education Department does not entirely agree with the Sultan of Johor's statement that Malay boys are handicapped in English schools. Speaking on his birthday last week His Highness said that Malay boys have to do three to
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    JAPANESE ASSAULT WOMAN
    106 10 JAPANESE ASSAULT WO MAN Tciping, Saturday. Intense indignation has been caused in foreign circles here by an assault made by armed soldiers of the Japanese Legation guard on Miss Arguello, the personal private sreretary of the American MsMsr, .Mr. N. T. Johnson. Miss Argnelln was not riding when she was
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    Fortunes Changed Hands At Races
    239 10 Over A Million Dollars Were Invested V^HEN Singapore goes gambling, it does so with a vengeance. This is what happened at the fiveday Gold Cup meeting of the Singapore Turf Club which concluded over a week ago. The following figures are worked out as near
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    24 10 if Comoany teams or the Main a lunteers competing in the Command Rifle Muting. The ofli- die firing point is Capt Beame 1/ Wilts:
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    BENGALI BADLY BURNT
    48 10 At 4 o'clock this morning a Bengali workman was trying to light a gas lamp in the Kallang Gas Works when flames shot out of the Jet and badly burned his hands, face, back, chest and abdomen. The ambulance removed him to the General Hospital.
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    Shortage Of Brides In Hupeh
    215 10 Girls With Bound Feet Are Not Wanted STRAITS-born Chinese girls who find matrimony an elusive thing may find it opportune to take a trip to Hupeh and reside there for a while. Bachelors of that provinct have started a "Marry no girl with l and
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    WOMAN RESCUED FROM SEA
    159 10 Policeman's Prompt Act A Bengali police constable was on duty near "Batu Tangga" at the River end of the Esplanade early yesterday morning when he saw a well-dressed Chinese woman, about 30 years of age, alight from a ricksha, run to the edge of the sea
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    LOST FAMILY S.O.S. IN A WILL
    131 10 A world-wide search for a lost brother and his family is disclosed in the will of Mr. James Russell Pearson, of Beacon Hill, N. 7., woollen manufacturer, who left £12,137. Mr. Pearson declares that he has I done everything possible to trace his brother
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    6 10 Betty Stock feld. the British star.
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    THREE WHEELED TAXI FLEET FOR K.L.
    255 10 THREE WHEELED TAXI FLEET FOR K.L. 30 CARS WILL COMPETE WITH RICKSHA PULLERS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. A fleet of thirty baby taxis will be on the roads shortly in Kuala Lumpur. The first of these trim little threewheelers appeared on the streets some days ago. It
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    SOLOMON WAS WRONG ABOUT ANTS
    194 10 THEY HAVE MANY VICES AS MEN SOLOMON was wrong about ants. Professor Julian Huxley, the eminent biologist, told the British Association at Leicester that when the ancient wiseacre coined his famous maxim, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard,' he didn't know the facts of life
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    HIDDEN GOLD IN CELLARS
    155 10 OWNERS LOSING FORTUNES There is an untold wealth of forgotten gold In the London safe deposits, in the vaults of banks, and the cellars of great houses all over the countryIt is In the form of ornaments, family plate, trophies, and medals and prizes of every
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    Penalty For Being So Noisy—
    185 10 Penalty For Being So Noisy Ten Months Gaol TWO determined Chinese burglars who entered a house in Neil Road early one morning, made too much noise and awoke the tenant. He crept down the stairs quietly to a side door and ran to a nearby police station for assistance. One
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    FILMS IN SCHOOL
    162 10 REWARD FOR WORK, AND AID TO EDUCATION Three films made in Malaya, "Black Sand," dealing with the tin industry, the Outrarr. school sports and "Petro's Perigrinations," a tour of Singapore, were shown on Friday night at the Outram school. These shows are held in the school hall
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    Alleged Assault
    216 10 Alleged Assa ult DRAPERS ON SERIOUS CHARGE npHE protracted trial of two promin- ent local cloth merchants cf Arab Street who are accused of using criminal force to an elderly woman, was commenced before Mr. J McPherson Brander in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. The accused are Abdul Jabbar and
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    ALLEGED INCENDIARY HUNGER-STRIKING
    101 10 Leipzig, Saturday. Van der Lubbe. the alleged Reichstag fire incendiary, is refusing to eat. His counsel obtained permission during the opening of this moming"s proceedings for an order to sit beside his client in court. Van der Lubbe. meanwhile, maintains his habitual lifeless attitude with bent head,
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    18 11 Mr. I*. (i. VVodehouse, Author of "Heavy Weather" now being published in serial form in the Sunday Times.
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    The PRINCE Of HUMORISTS
    179 11 Heavy Weather. By P. G. Wo.lehouso. Herbert Jenkins. Colonial Library. THIS amusing and intricate example of Mr. Wodehouse's gerius for the ridiculous wlii be familiar to readers of The Sunday Times, in which it is running in serial form. Mr. Wodehouse has seldom bee;; funnier than
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    447 11 The Book Critic Jumping Jenny. By Anthony Berkeley. Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. fiONGRATULAI lONS to Mr. Berkeley for giving us the wittiest and most amusing crime story that we have read for a long time! Not only is the plot presented from an unusual angle,
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    6 11 MARION OAVIES "PEG O' MV HEAR
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    A GOOD BOOK AND A BAD
    511 11 One- Way Traffic. By R.*C. Ashby. Money Street. By J. K. Ewers. Both published by Hodder and Stougliton at 7s. 6d. •/\NE-WAY Traffic" is a thoughtful effort on the part of one of the best of the younger authors to solve the problem of
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    Again The Foreign Legion
    222 11 Again The Foreign Legion Sowing Glory. By P. C. Wren John Murray. 3s. tfd. f|>HE firm of John Murray have Just -I published in a cheap edition, for j the first time, a book by Mr. P. C. Wren, which has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times. It is
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    319 11 The Essentials of School Geometry. A. B. Mayne. Macmillan. 4s. 6d. 4s. 6d. TTOE author of this text-book Is Headmaster of the Cambridge and County High School for Boys and was formerly Open Scholar of Balllol College. The book presupposes a course in experimental geometry and
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    A POOR MYSTERY
    371 11 Missing! By F. E. Mills Young. The Bodlty Head. WE are so convinced from tr. start that Robert Hastings and James Smith are one and the same person that the final "solution" ol this mystery leaves us cold. Furthermore none of the characters In "Missing" excites any
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    743 12 the World of Badminton The Hauls Of The Singapore Championships Exciting Contests Miss Wang's Great Triumph Easy Win For Wee Boon Hui In Junior Singles Disappointing Open Doubles Match. A FAIRLY large crowd turned up at the SVC. Drill Hall on Sunday last to see the finals of the Ladies
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    860 12 Lads United B.P. HHHE following are the open badmin- ton handicap tics of the Lads United Badminton Party to be played off at 5 p.m. each day. Today:—F. L. Chen vs. Tan Boon Tuck, Tan Peng Tuck vs. Low Kee Swee, Low Kee Nsak vs. Tan Kirn Hye. Monday, Sept.
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    707 12  -  "SAMSON" by WEIGHT-LIFTING, or the "iron game" as it Is more popularly known, is a sport in which very few athletes in Malaya indulge. The exclusion of this manly pastime from the programme of the All-Malayan sports is greatly to be deplored. The first unofficial weightliftlng championship competition held
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    54 12 Results At A Glance. Club Lifters Body-wt. lb. YMP&LU Jaafar bin Ahmad 111 SAWLA Khoo Eng Wang 103 YMP&LU Hendrick Tan 118 SAWLA A. M. Ismail 115 Flyweight Title: SAWLA Goh Ah Cheng 112 YCAWLP Boey Chee Choon 107 Featherweight Title YCAWLP Wong Seah Kee 122 Record Breaking: YMP&LU H.
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    1001 13 IN 1929 when Mr. J. M. Sime re- signed the office of president of the S.A.F.A. a person practically unknown In the local football world was appointed in his stead— Mr. R. L. Hastie. Many people shook their heads and disapproved of this "usurper" but within
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    1046 13 How They Stood Before The Games Yesterday. The following were the positions of Clubs in the English and Scottish League tables prior to yesterday's matches First Division. P. W. L. D. F. A. Pts. Tottenham H. (P; 6 3 1 2 11 5 8 Huddersfield T. (6)
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    260 13 (Continued.) OADMINTON in Perak is growing more and more popular. This Is shown by the number of tournaments held In the different districts in Perak. especially in Ipoh. Taiping. Teluk Anson, Sltiawan. Kampar and thBatang Padang districts. Ipoh is always the centre for the badminton championships. The C'.iaai
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    440 14 4-2 Victory FAST THRILLING GAME (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. DESPITE a few showers about 4 p.m. many hundreds found their way to the T.P.C.A. ground this evening and saw the Singapore Chinese, the 1933 League champions, defeat the Selangor Chinese 4—2. The teams
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    218 14 Won By San Francisco Helmsman Lous Beach, Calif., Aug. 30. Glenn Waterhouse, of Sar. Francisco, sailing his trim little Three Star Two today won the international yachting championship for 1933. Eiidie Fink, of Long Beach, the dcicnding champion, crossed the finishing line a few minutes ahead
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    40 14 The O.R.A. easily defeated the R.I. on the latter's ground yosterday, winning R l. R. Armstrong scored three for the winners G. Armstrong scored one and Tan Chun Sei.g scored one. The losers' goal was scored by G. Valberg.
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    323 14 EVERTON TOO GOOD FOR ARSENAL London, Saturday. The following are the result of matches played in the English and Scottish Leagues yesterday: Division I. Aston Villa 2 Sunderland 1 Blackburn R. 3 Sheffield Wed. 1 Everton 3 Arsenal 1 Leeds Utd. 3 West Brom. A. 0 Leicester
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    WISE'S EASY WIN AT S.C.C.
    200 14 GOODMAN NO MATCH IN 1 SINGLES DUEL. N. S. Wise beat K. F. Goodman very convincingly 6 4, 6 2, in the final of the "A" Class singles of the S.C.C. Autumn tennis tournament on the Padang last evening. The match was resumed at 5-3
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    GOLF FINAL
    67 14 ALLISS WINS THOUSAND GUINEAS Purley, Surrey, Saturday. Percy Alliss, of Beaconsfleld, the holder of the German open golf championship, beat Mark Seymour of Crowwood. the Scottish champion by 5 up and 4 in the 36 holes final of the "News of the World" thousand guineas golf tournament Alliss
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    EXCITING END TO SCULLING SEASON
    613 14 FRANKS WINS GREAT RACE GOOD sport was witnessed inside the breakwater yesterday afternoon, when the Royal Singapore Yacht Club held Its last rowing regatta of the year. It was a pity that the spectators' launch was held up at the New Pier as those on
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    55 14 Semi-Final Of Pacific South West Coast Meet Los Angeles, Saturday, j In the semi-finals of the Pacific and South West Coast lawn tennis championship J. F. °erry (Great Britain) beat Stoeffen (U.S.A.) ft— o, B—B, 6—l. Saton (Japan) beat Tack Tidball C— 3 6—4, 6—2. Perry and Staoh
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    42 14 Lijjht-Heavy Weight Champion Beaten Houston, Texas. Saturday. In a ten-round Non-title contest Young Stribling. in his first ring appearance since he was injured during training for a fight against McCorkindale. narrowly outpointed Maxie Rosenbloom the world's lightheavy weight champion.— Reuter.
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    563 14 Wiltshires Win 7-1 SCORES NO INDICATION OF PLAY Wiltshire* 7 Police 1 A LTHOUGH they won their cup tie against the Police, at Anson Poad yesterday, by seven goals to one, the Wiltshires first eleven were not as convincing as would appear from the score. True the
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    PENANG TOO GOOD FOR KEDAH
    98 14 Golf Club's Tennis Victory (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Saturday. An Interesting tennis match was played here today on the Golf Club courts between Kedah Wanderers and Penang Golf Club, the latter winning by six games to three. In the singles, Penang won lour out
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    2139 15 Foi~ward's Upcountry View Of S.C.C. Cricket Change fFHE ck-Li.sioii of the Singapore Cricket Club to collaborate with othtr clubs In sending a representative Singapore crickit eleven to Kual.i Lumpur this year has caused cli satisfaction in Selangor. SO prominent a part has been played by Asiatic or
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    12 16 G. C. R. FRANKS after his victory in the rlub sculls race.
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    19 16 Rowing And Soccer THE WILTSHIRE'S fourth goal in the first-half THE WILTSHIRE'S score their second goal through a penalty.
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    14 16 THE BIGLAF T> i a wun me tauaag MaKKah Snieh lay at Jalan flr--r
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    23 16 THE YELLOW CR*!W in yesterday's rowing regatta ft. Mmr— J. P. Biytn, G. A. U. Walker, K. C. Wilson and K. S. Walker.
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