The Straits Times, 8 April 1934

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    18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA. No. 120, Sunday, April Bth., 1934. Mice -ft) cents.
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    SUNDAY TIMES DELIVERY BY AEROPLANE
    399 1 STARTS NEXT WEEK First Regular Service In Malaya NO EXTRA CHARGE Papers Many Hours Earlier QN Sunday next the first regular distribution of newspapers by air in Malaya will be inaugurated by The Sunday Times. At 5.15 a.m. the Imperial Airways Liner "Arethusa" (VT/AEF) will
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    12 1 The Aicthusa which will be employed for the Sunday Times distribution service.
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    PENANG FIRE INQUEST VERDICT
    304 1 Coroner's Rider RESPONSIBILITIES OF MUNICIPALITY (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penanc, Saturday. Important alterations to the regulations under which licences to store rubber are granted are possible as a result of the coroner's verdict at the conclusion of the inqui-y h/e Into the deaths of an English-speaking
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    GIANT WAVES' HAVOC
    52 1 Oslo, Saturday. Forty persons are missing and are believed drowned, as a result of great waves sweeping up Ta Fjord, near Allesund. The waves were caused by a huge rrag overhanging the Fjord falling into the water. One wave travelled nearly half -a -mile inland, wrecking six
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER.
    70 1 Noon, Saturday. R.S.S. equal to London Standard Buyers Sellers Spot (loos*) 17 l i 17 7 (I 08.l 18 18's. Standard R.S.S. on Tender Buyers Sellers April 17 7 a 18- Ma y-June 18 18' s. July-Sipt. 18 516 18 7/16. O(t-I>.(. 1 18 J 4Tone of Market
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    SHARP CRITICISM OF I.T.C:
    124 1 LATEST TIN MOVES (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. The International Tin Committee's failure to increase the quota is sharply criticised in view of the probability of further substantial shrinkage In stocks during the current month. It is believed that the buffer pool scheme will be
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    RUBBER TALKS VISITORS TO SIAM
    59 1 RETURNING Bangkok, Saturday. Mr. Egmont Hake with Mr. J. Robertson are leaving for Penang by train this afternoon. The Raja Muda of Perak is also a passenger. The rlco mills of Bangkok are still closed and loading is interfered with. Owners refuse to give increased
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    U.S. LABOUR UNREST A BUSY TIME FOR PEACEMAKERS
    160 1 U.S. LABOUR UNREST A BUSY TIME FOR PEACEMAKERS New York. Saturday. Simmering labour unrest is keeping the hands of peacemakers full, particularly In the automobile and cognate Industries. There is unrest at Detroit whtre President Roosevelt's intervention recently settled a strike. Unionists assert that employers are still pressing employees to
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    SIAMESE ROYALTY
    40 1 Paris, Saturday. The official visit of their Siamese Majesties was ended after a luncheon their majesties gave at the Siamese Legation In honour of President and Madame L»brun and attended by M. and Madait Doumergue and M. Herriot—Reuter.
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    RUBBER BOOMLET PROFESSIONAL BUYING OF SHARES
    45 1 RUBBER BOOMLET PROFESSIONAL BUYING OF SHARES (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Saturday. Vague reports of the approaching success of negotiations lor restriction resulted yesterday In heavy professional buying of rubber shares. Leading Malayan, Ceylon and Netherlands India counters experienced the best turnover for many weeks.
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    FAMOUS GENERAL LED GERMAN TROOPS AGAINST LIEGE
    67 1 FAMOUS GENERAL LED GERMAN TROOPS AGAINST LIEGE Berlin, Saturday. The death has taken place of General Karl von Bnem who commanded the Seventh Army Corps in the early days of the war and directed the attack on Liege. Later he was commander -in-chief of the Third Army and fought throughout
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    Malay Driver Absconds After Fatal Smash
    147 1 Malay Driver Absconds After Fatal Smash SENT TO GAOL FOR A YEAR (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. ABSCONDING immediately after an accident, a Malay, Sudin bin Haji Ismail, was arrested in Pahang and brought to Kuala Lumpur where he pleaded guilty to charges of causing the death of
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    GIRLS NOT ALLOWED TO WORK
    308 1 Mr. Adams And Chinese Waitresses (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. rpiTC British Resident (the hon. Mr. *'T. 8. Adams) has declined to approve of the recommendation that waitresses be allowed to be employed at amusement park stalls. The manager of the Hollywood Park
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    FOOTBALL COMPETITION
    128 1 Three Entrants Share The $100 Prize In' T.ne Sunday Times Football Competition No. 35, which was based on the matches played on Mar. 31, one result upset the sreat majority of the forecasts. Thres competitors succeeded In predicting correctly the results of nine of the ten matches set,
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    TAXPAYERS' HOPES
    159 1 HOW WILL CHANCELLOR SPEND HIS MILLIONS? London, Saturday. A The prospects of Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, producing a popular Budget on Anr. 17 are growing, according to well-inform-ed quarters. It Is understood that the Chancellor once again will not make any prevision for war debt
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    BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY
    53 1 TO BE ESTABLISHED AT HISTORIC SPOT Lucknow, Saturday. It has been decided to establish an International Buddhist University at Sarnath, near Benarco, where Buddha himself conducted a monastery. The University Is Intended to promote the study of Buddhism and scientific subjects having the greatest bearing on the good
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    OIL CONFERENCE
    42 1 New York, Saturday. A An Important oil conference in Europe convened with the object of balancing supply and demand Is stated by newspapers to be the object of the departure during the past few days of several prominent magnntes— Reuter.
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    LONDON RUBBER & TIN.
    68 1 LONDON RUBBER TIN. (From Oar Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. RUBBER. (Quotations as supplied by Symington and Wilson.) Spot (Bayers) 5%- (Sellers) 5 7/16. January-March 5 17/32. April-Jane July-September 523 32. Market tone Steady. SILVER. Spot 19 15 16d. Two months 20d. CROSS RATE. London-New York, 5.161*. New York-London, 5.17. (Rate
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    MAINLY About MALAYANS
    2457 2 Civilian Help For The Police Public Service After Retirement Libel On Sarawak Planting Topics By THE WANDERER THERE was a paragraph in the Straits Times recently to the effeut that several persors saw the murderer of Inspector F ope joy running away What would have been the
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    HINTS ON Bridge
    722 3  -  Ely Culbertson By GRAND SLAMS MADE EASY MANY bridge writers reach almos: the height of ecstasy in describ ing the simple and the grand coups as rerr fctl at the bridge table. As a matter of fact, they are neither remarkable nor striking; they are in essence
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    SIR C. TREVELYAN ON NEXT WAR
    125 3 "THOUSANDS REFUSE TO FIGHT* Sir Charles Trevelyan, speaking at a Socialist Conference at Glasgow, said it was unlawful for any Government to declare war, and no Government had ever obtained a democratic mandate for it. Hundreds of thousands would refuse to fight in the
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    STUDENTS ABROAD HELPING THEM TO BE HAPPY
    200 3 STUDENTS ABROAD HELPING THEM TO BE HAPPY Of particular Interest to young men in Malaya intending to complete their studies in Great Britain is the growth of the overseas student movement. It is fast being appreciated that it Is as much the duty of Great Britain as of overseas organisations
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    "A Thousand Blessings On The Lady"
    350 3 Among the minor charges dealt with by the magistrates Just a month ago was one concerning a young Chinese' woman, who pleaded guilty to hawking without a licence. Nothing remarkable in that; except perhaps that the woman was markedly comely despite the obvious hardships
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    ??ASK ME ANOTHER??
    155 3 1. Who was the Empress Eugenic? 2. What is a helve? 3. Who wrote of "Dickie Donovan > 4. In what creed was Moloch worshipped? 5. What does "cavalierly" mean? 6. What Is "opera bouffe"? 7. Who is king of Yugoslavia? 8. What is the solar plexus?
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    SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE
    416 3 The recent sensational exhuma.ion of the body of Stavisky, the archswindler, brings to mind (writes a correspondent) a number of exhumation dramas countenanced by the law for the purpose of establishing whether the cause of death was a natural one or not. There have been a
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    NO BIG BEN CHIMES
    217 3 ST. PAUL'S AS RADIO DEPUTY The voice of Big Ben the world's most famous clock, will not be heard during May and June. Coinciding with its 75th birthday the clock, it was stated in the House of Commons, is to undergo the most extensive spring-cleaning process
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      236 3 Learn CONTRACT by Example! This NEW BOOK "60 CONTRACT LESSON HANDS" 160 PAGES By ELY CULBERTSON teaches you both bidding and play at CONTRACT BRIDGE. $1.25 A COPY By specl.-l arrangement with Mr Ely Culbcrtson, the world's 'greatest player and authority on modern Contract Bridge, this paper Is enabled to
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      312 3 Where To Stay When Home on Leave EVER POPULAR IS THE NEW ECCLESTON HOTEL Eccleston Square, London, S.W.I (Facing Garden*) near Victoria Station and Airways Terminus. Room from 76, with Bath and Breakfast from 9/6. Rooms with Private Bath 10 6 Inclusive weekly terms from 4 gas. With Private Bath
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      154 3 Our Crossword Puzzle (CLUES.) ACROSS. g- n^ d fodder ptt 30.' Distorted 2. Local 31. Cereal 7. Nothing 32. Tree 8. Burden 33. Receive 9. Writhes 34. Pipe 10. Plans 39. Binds 13. Rendezvous 40. Upbraid 19. Move spirally 41. Father 21. Transgress 42. Collection of horses 23. Canaanltc deity
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    THE CLUE OF THE PENCILLED.
    5108 4  -  R. F. FOSTER By A Story Of Whitechapel INTHONY Ravenhill looked up as I entered the room and put his newspaper on the table. That Whitechapel murder's going to prove an interesting case," he remarked. "Is it I said indifferent'y. My thoughts were elsewhere, and
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    POULTRY NOTES
    630 4 By OUR EXPERT There are many kinds of chicken lice but those which are most met with and which discourage many beginners are the red mites, body lice, feather lice and head lice. Red mites: Despite the name, the colour of the body is white, or greyish. The
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      45 4 APRIL 2nd. MONACO GRAND PRIX 4 out of first 6 places obtained on SUri I MOTOR OIL and SPIRIT Ist MOLL 4th LEHOUX LL DRIVIMG LFA ROMEO MR S 6th VARZI WINNERS SPEED90.182 Kil. per hour An advertisement of the Asiatic Petroleum Co. (SJiJ Ltd.
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      70 4 OIL CAKES Linseev Cake, Soya Bean Cake, Coconut Cake, Ground Nut Cake at COMPETITIVE PRICES. Write for Price List. TONG LAM CO., 46/48, Peck Seah Street, Singapore. LIVE STOCK AND TRADE EXHIBITION. Begin to prepare your poultry (or this Exhibition NO'KOSSOUAN POULTRY TONIC will tring them Into the ptnk of
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      189 5 Summary of 1933 Report NEW INSURANCE £11,084,969 INSURANCE IN FORCE 103,*****5 ASSETS *****363 PAYMENTS TO POLICYHOLDERS 3,*****7 SPECIAL RESERVES AND SURPLUS 1,*****4 The Company's Record, 1887-1933 Death Benefits Paid £9,506,038 Payments to Living Policyholders for Maturities, etc. 14,456,952 Dividends to Policyholders 5,394,061 THE Manufacturers Life Insurance Company HEAD OFFICI TORONTO.
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    NO SLUR INTENDED
    791 6 "CONFESSIONS OF A PLANTER" THE Planter publishes the following letter which has been addressed by Mr. Leopold Ainsworth, author of "Confessions of a Planter in Malaya," to the Incorporated Society of Planters (Malaya):— I notice your remarks regarding the reference in my book to the treatment of
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    FACTORY EXPLOSION
    85 6 There were 21 casualties when a nitroglycerine shed attached to an explosives factory at Atsusa, Yamaguchi prefecture. Japan, blew up recently. Four men were killed, and 17 seriously injured. About 3,000 kilogrammes of nitroglycerine were In the shed at the time, and tbe explosion not only wrecked the
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    HIS HEART ALL RIGHT
    79 6 Mr. Yajlrl Fujlta. an Osaka city assemblyrr an, has his heart r .the right side. In more senses than one. Anyhow it isn't on f c left side, which i& the right side, or he would be dead by now. Recently an angry workman, discontented over
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    CHILDHOOD
    9 6 A study of childhood in Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown.
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    MUTINY REMINISCENCES
    1848 6 A Chinese Doctor's "Mere Lads" British Major Who Was Saved By German Prisoners A WELL-known Chinese doctor, still resident in Malaya, hat written for, the Sunday Times his personal reminiscences of the Singapore Mutiny, which are published below. At the time of the Mutiny, in 191 S, he
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    CHANGE OF SEX AT 15 GIRL BECOMES BOY
    143 6 CHANGE OF SEX AT 15 GIRL BECOMES BOY A remarkable case of change of sex ls reported from Flfeshire. A Cowdenbeath girl." aged 15, recently visited an aunt in the same county when "she" was dressed in boy's clothes. The mother said that sha became suspicious about two years ago,
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    JAPAN'S AIR ROUTES
    129 6 Tokio. The Japanese Department of Communications is contemplating the inauguration of several new air routes with the co-operation of local governments. As preliminary to Kst opening oi an air service between Tokio and Parao in the South Seas und?r Japanes. mandated rule, trial flights between Tokio and
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  • Books Of The Week
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      WHEN YOU RETIRE
      252 7 WHEN YOU RETIRE How To Live On Pension i OPENINGS FOR WORK How to Live in England on a Pension. By "Mauser." Published by the author at Mansion House Chambers, 11, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C. 4. 3s THIS is a new and enlarged edition of a book which has
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      SPATE OF WORDS
      132 7 The Malakoff Flat. By Max j Coventry. John Murray. 7s. 6a. ANY slight plot which may be hidden away :n "The Malakoff Flat" is so drowned in a spate of words and twisted sentences that even the most hardened reviewer may be forgiven for falling to discover
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      BOOK-KEEPING
      86 7 Th- Bed-Rock of Modern DoubleEntry Book-Keeping. By L. B. Daley, Macmillan and Co. A i.ew small handy te --book on i book-keeping. The author's view is that even in the elementary st-ges the work of a text-book should be as practical as possible. He has had vast experience In
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      SUNSHINE LANE
      316 7 VIVID PEN PICTURE OF A FAMILY Sunshine Lane. By F. E. Milk Young. The Bodley Head. 7s. 64. "SUNSHINE LANE" is a tale with a moral, the moral being the well established truth that money and happiness are not synonymous. The Reed family Is poor. George, the father,
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      SOMETHING NEW IN GUIDE
      32 7 A national fete day scene in Paris. Crowds dancing in the Place de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Square) which is in normal circumstances a hive of business activity.
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      BOOKS INTIMATE TOUCHES
      443 7 BOOKS IN TIM A TE TOUCHES CHEAP "GUEST HOUSES" France on Ten Bounds. Germany on Ten Pounds. Both by Sydney A. Clark. Ivor Nicholson and Watson. ss. each. MESSRS. Ivor Nicholson and Watson art to be congratulated upon a new idea in travel books. The £10 series contain an immense
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      CRUISE MYSTERY THE DEAD WOMAN ON THE BOAT DECK
      281 7 CRUISE MYSTERY THE DEAD WOMAN ON THE BOAT DECK The Pleasure Cruise Mystery- By Robin Forsythe. Falcon Books. 7s. 6d. MR. FORSYTHE is one of the most ingenious of authors of detective fiction and his "Pleasure Cruise Mystery" shows no falling off from his usual high standard. All sorts of
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      Strange Story Of A "Fall"
      342 7 *Death By Misadventure* j Death By Misadventure. By Barbara Malim. John Murray. Asuaaen death, even It it is brought In at the coroner's inquest as "Death by Misadventure," often leaves completely innocent people open to suspicion, and Percy Forrester's supposed fall from a Cornish cliff
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      NAIVE BUT PLEASANT
      114 7 City of The Rose. By Anthony Richardson. The Bodley Head. 7s. bd. MR. Anthony Richardson takes us back to the musical comedy kingdom of Ruritania only he calls it Carlstadt. He gives us a story of romance and adventure such as should delight the hearts of film
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      SOLVING RIDDLE OF TYPHUS
      1192 7 A POLISH SCIENTIST'S QUEST IN MALAYA Research On Tropical Typhus. By Ludwir Anlrstein, M.D., Ph.D. Parasitologist to the State Institute 1 of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland. Lecturer in Parasitolory, University of Warsaw. rpHE publications of the Institute of Medical Research, F M.S. are of a high standard
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      29 7 FOR -EVERY OCCASION ..WEDDINGS BIRTHDAY etc. A PRESENT from RENE ULLMANN Is ALWAYS APPRECIATED WATCHES JEWELLERY SILVERWARE SMOKER REQUISITES CLOCKS etc., RENE ULLMANN Capitol Building and Raffles Place, Singapore.
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      Vogue Of The Tilt
      541 8 SPREADS TO FROCKS (By Our Fashion Correspondent.) Sunday Times OrriCE, Fleet Street, Mar. 15. rIS week has been a harassing one for that section of the community generlcally known as fashion correspondents. Hither and thither have we been rushing. In a ceaseless effort to discover Dame
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    Seen In Singapore
    462 8 SPORTS GIRLS' MOONLIGHT PICNIC HTHE Y.W.C.A. Sports team arrived back in Singapore last Tuesday morning from their trip to Kuala Lumpur during the Easter holidays feeling particularly pleased with themselves for they were successful In all their tennis, net ball and hockey matches. At K.L. they were
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      91 8 RENE ULLMANN MILLINERY DEPARTMENT For the SMARTEST GOWNS HATS from PARIS exclusive models for patterns materials NOW ON VIEW RENE ULLMANN CAPITOL BUILDING STAMFORD ROAD SINGAPORE. ni s l^^r J^(^^^W V m^ol \/V il l Cpj hPl^ What we wish to convey is ttdJMttkV^Sß^. A Special Shipment toI BE^B S
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    THE WEREWOLVES
    882 9  -  ROGER COURTNEY, By The Big Game Hunter rpHERE was a time when I placed ■A- the superstition of the werewolf on a par with all the other old wives' tales that have done good work for centuries in keeping naughty children in order. I should have been insulted
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    EARLY TO BED GOLDEN RULE LEADS TO DIVORCE
    130 9 EARLY TO BED GOLDEN RULE LEADS TO DIVORCE New York. Miss Doris Kenyon, the film strr, told the divorce judge at Los Angele. 'hat her insistence on going to bed .en evening at 9 p.m. led to the break-up of her marriage. She explained that early to bed, early to
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    PRIMATE SAW A "POOR DEVIL" THEN TOOK HIS PLACE ONE DAY
    154 9 PRIMATE SAW A "POOR DEVIL" THEN TOOK HIS PLACE ONE DAY The Archbishop of Canterbury told a story of his early ambitions when speaking at a meeting of Hampstead (London) Council of Social Welfare. "When I left Oxford," he said, "I was filled with ambitions for a political career, and
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    THE ANSWERS.
    142 9 The answers to the questions in page 3 are:— 1. Wife of Napoleon in. 2. Handle of axe or hatchet. 3. Sir Gilbert Parker. 4. The Phoenicians! 5. Superciliously, haughty. 6. Comic opera. 7. Alexander I. 8. The largest network of nerves In body, behind the stomach. 9.
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    SINGAPORE
    83 9 Following is the wireless programme ot Station "Z.H.1 Singapore (wavelength 49 9m.» (operated by Radio Service Co.. of Malay Ltd 2 Orchard Road TODAY 12.30 p.m. t»»i iv ci BaflhM Hotel Oi chestra (directed by Daa Hopkins' MONDAY, APR 9. 6 p m. Reorded music 630 Relay of dance
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    WELSH "PIRATES "
    42 9 WELSH "PIRATES New and more effective apparatus for detecting the presence of radio receivers is said to be in use by the Post Office Research Department at Dollis Hill, London, N.W. Post O. detector vans are now in the South Wales -a
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      14 9 shorts, worn by "3r*^/-£Bk film star. jfffHP^jk j^rt»^* \r ft i '<Ss* v at
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      59 9 < i Bobby is delighted with his collection of "NESTLES" picture stamps, and so will your boy be. It is so easy to obtain an album just send 10 cents in unused postage stamps or 5 picture stamps to NESTLES, CHOCOLATE DEPT., 144/7, Cecil Street, SINGAPORE, nnd a Volume 11
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      396 9 T^Py.^cn YOU SO l f T«V WELL WHY DID YOU "1 IN VJ W JUMP OUT OF THE JH 8.8.C. LOCAL RADIO PROGRAMMES rrvr-rr* mjrTkfnr< 1020 The Laind Speed Record." 8.5 The Western Studio OrcliesTHE EMPIRE 1035 Variety tra. 4.^ t 1120 A Sonata Recital. The News. BROADCASTS 11.50 The
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    TOTIDEM VERBIS
    437 10 Newspapers may yet play an important part in solving the rubber Droblem Mr. Lionel C. Neale, of Melbourne, has devised a process foi making printing ink from old mctor tyres and waste rubber. Mr. Neale claims for his process that it makes possible the sale of printing Ink
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    WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
    698 10 PAT PERMANG ASKS MUDDLED MUSINGS EACH of us lives in several worlds, but only exists in one. This Is bound to complicate matters for the human being, who only differs from any other animal in so far as his mind insists upon building Its own
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    PAID-FOR JOKE.
    64 10 From Johore Bahru, where the ten chips goes this week A sailor entered a bus and began lighting up a cigarette. Conductor You can't do that. Don't you see that sign, No Smoking Sailor Sure. That's plain enough. But there's so many dippy signs in this bus. Look
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    THE ASSERTIONS OF ANANIAS.
    1650 10 THE ASSERTIONS OF ANANIAS. So we are going to be distributed by air on and after Sunday next as ever is! Well, well; we live in an age of progress and I suppose these things must be expected. I don't share at all in the kudos for this enterprising development.
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    13 10 Keep your head down, old son, and we may have ayam for tiffin."
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    STOP PRESS
    54 10 (Ananias News Factory). Tokio, Saturday. If the Japanese offer to modif. competition with Lancashire in return for the abolition of the Singapore Naval Base is accepted, it is intended to make further overtures and volunteer to cease making Scotch whisky in Kobe on condition that the British Empire
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    GROWING INTEREST IN LOCAL DEFENCES
    810 11 Singapore's Geographical Position "No Longer A Mystery" (F rim Our Own Corr nt.) London, Mar. 26. T ONDON newspapers continue to 'cvotc murh space comings and goings at pore. Where .s a few years ago the locality remained a geographical obscurity, the port being more
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    2 11 Opium mipes
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    CURING OPIUM SMOKERS
    322 11 LOCAL CLINICS YORK pICKSHA-PULLERS predominate H among the drug addicts treated at the Singapore Anti-Opium Clinic. The report of the clinic for the period May 8 to December 31, 1933, states that 1,011 cases were dealt with, and these included 108 Ricksha-pullers 53 Mechanics and 122 Hawkers
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    BRIDESMAIDS IN BLUE
    198 11 WEDDING AT ST. ANDREWS At St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday afternoon Mr. R. A. Fawcett, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Fawcett, of London, was married to Miss Constance May Richards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richards, of Shanghai. The Yen. Archdeacon, Graham White, officiated. The
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    SECRET PLANS FOR EMPRESS PLACE
    362 11 NEW CIVIL CENTRE? It is said that plans for the reconstruction of Empress Place are once again under consideration by the Government. No official confirmation can be obtained but it is believed a secret committee was appointed some lime back and this committee has submitted
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    WEALTHY FAMILIES LEAVING NORTH CHINA
    234 11 Feared Resumption Of Japanese Invasion Shanghai, Saturday. In consequence of fears entertained in North China of an impending Japanese push from Manchukuo, there is a steadily growing exodus of wealthy families to Shanghai and other southern cities. Even families of Chinese officials aft Peiping and
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    CANTON NOTES CURRENCY CRISIS OVER: LOAN CONCLUDED
    68 11 CANTON NOTES CURRENCY CRISIS OVER: LOAN CONCLUDED Shanghai, Saturday. Th<" currency crisis In Canton has passed following an official announcement that the Canton Provincial Bank has concluded a loan of $5,000,000 from leading Chinese bankers of Hong Kong. Notes issued by the Canton Bank, which recently slumped to as low
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    LOCAL BEAUTIES SHY
    64 11 The committee organising the beauty contest at the forthcoming Livestock and Trades Exhibition In Singapore announce that entries are disappointing and that if more are not received soon the contest will be abandoned. The Committee add that those who enter the contest may rest assured that it
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    75 11 A second officer reports an unusual mirage seen last November off the coast of California near Mount Lazaro at 12.30 p.m. Two images of this mountain were seen, one over the other with a steamer upside down passing along the top of the lower mountain. In the air were also
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    NO DISCIPLES GANDHI TO BE SELF-MADE MARTYR
    95 11 NO DISCIPLES GANDHI TO BE SELF-MADE MARTYR Patna, Saturday. Gandhi urged the abandonment of civil disobedience in the course of a statement to the press. He said: "I must advise all Congressmen to suspend civil resistance for the Swaraj as distinguished from specific grievances." He has decided that he will
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      89 11 ENTERTAINMENTS Singapore April 8, 1934. ALHAMBRA King For A Night with Helen Twelvetrees and Chester Morris. 6.15—9.15 CAPITOL Night Flight with John Barrymore and Helen Hayes. 6.15 9.15 p.m. MARYBOROUGH Shashi Punho. 6.15 9.15 p.m. PAVILION Design For Living with Fredrle March. Miriam Hopkins and Oary Cooper. 6.15—9.15 p.m. NEW
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    CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER
    1063 12 NEWS FROM THE COURTS STORY OF WOMAN'S FLIGHT Pthe second magistrate's court yesterday a man named Ng Ah Koon was charged with the attempted murder of hit mother-in-law and with attempted suicide. He was not I present in court and the case was postponed one week
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    GRECIAN FIGURE
    70 12 When search vru3 made for a girl with a perfect Grecian figure to act as a mannequin in the Textile Section of the British Industries Fair at the White City. London, Miss Patricia Win;, a Hackney girl who works in a Biighton textile factory, was chosen. She was
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    DRASTIC LAWS FOR BETTING
    180 12 BILL TO BAN SWEEPS The British Government's Betting and Lotteries Bill, issued recently, provides for legislation of a far-reaching character for regulating betting on the course and defining the position with regard to lotteries. The Bill follows on the lines of the report of the Royal
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    NEW RIDING SCHOOL
    116 12 A riding school and livery stables have been started in Singapore. The object of the proprietors is to stimulate interest among those sportsmen and sportswomen who, though anxious to indulge in the pleasures of i riding, hr.ye not been able to take part In this exercise owing
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    SINGAPORE'S CINDERELLAS
    348 12 (By a Special Correspondent.) IT^HAT a clatter and a chatter who are they asked She Who Had Just Arrived. They're our factory girls, the most hard-working and the happiest women in Singapore," I replied. Cad It's true. Each morning they enter those godowns by 7 or 8. They
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    CRISIS IN THE WIG TRADE
    239 12 NONYAS TO BLAME EFFECT OF THE 'BOB 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. WITH the advent of bobbed hair, and with Straits-born Chinese nonyas following the fashion, a formerly lucrative trade in Kuala Lumpur has been gradually declining. The Itinerant Chinese wig- seller bemoans
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    12 12 Bunches of hair exposed for sa!c by the wayside in Kuala Lumpur.
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    1931 SINGAPORE CRIME
    59 12 ESCORT FROM PENANG FOR ACCUSED MAN (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Apr. 7. Pung Lye Choon, alias Lai Tian Heng, wanted in Singapore on a warrant in respect of alleged criminal breach of trust of $11,000 odd in 1931 when cashier of the Rotterdam Trading Company, has
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    TIES MADE OF SNAKESKIN
    291 12 PRINCE OF WALES WEARS ONE An exhibition opened at Northampton is a reminder of the mono poly the town of boots and shoes is rapidly winning in a new field of industry—the tanning of reptile and fish skins. Comparatively recently Britain had to buy all the
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    GIRL PUPIL OF GANDHI WEDS
    135 12 MARRIES U.S. WRITER Miss Nlla Cram Cook, Mr. Gandhi** errant United States woman disciple. has married Mr. Alfred N. Hutchins, a Chicago writer. Miss Cook, who is 24, returned to tha United States with her son by a former Greek husband, after several years In
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    FORGED CHEQUE CASHED
    356 12 INCIDENT AT BANK OF ENGLAND Edward Nelson Kent, 27, a clerk at the Bank of England, giving an adi dress at Carshalton Beeches. Surrey. 'was found not guilty at the Old Bailey, London, of uttering a forged cheque, and obtaining £17 10s. from I the Bank of
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    GREEK WOMEN VOTERS
    38 12 In the Greek municipal elections, where women foi the first time had the vote, although there were 80,000 of them on the register in the Athens district no more than 2,655 went to the »01l
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    REAL ROMANCE OF THE FILMS
    1177 13 REAL ROMANCE OF THE FILMS LAEMMLE'S HUMBLE START FIFTY years ago Carl Laemmle, the president of Universal Pictures, arrived in the United States, a poor immigrant boy. He was the man who fought the Trust he first put the names of stars en the screen; he was the first to
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    YALE B.P.
    234 13 IN the Yale Badminton Party's team league, the "Penang" team bsat the "Perak" team by two games to one. Results ("Penang" mentioned first):— Miss Ng Kong Poh and Lee En< Swee (capt.) beat Miss Chew Lian Hee and Kow Sim Thye (capt), 21—10, 21—11; Mrs. C. L. A.
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    BADMINTONS BEST PLAYER
    537 13 BADMINTONS BEST PLAYER SETTLING THE POINT The response to the proposed amateur tournament, open to all players in Malaya, to be held during the Second Annual Livestock and Trades Exhibition has not been as good as was at first anticipated, and the entries so far received have all been from
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    SOLAR SINGLES
    267 13 pK>LLOWING are results of the open singles badminton championship tournament of the Solar Athletic Union: A. Division: W. Cheng Slang beat Q. Chip Jian, 15—4, 15—10; C. Chong Kiat beat T. K. Koon, 15—9. 15—7; W. Cheng Slang beat C. Chong Kiat. 15_4, is_B; t. Chin Lye beat
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    GENTLY DOES IT IN BILLIARDS
    598 14  -  Cuetnan By WHENEVER one looks at professional billiards one is struck with the simplicity of the game. All seems plain sailing as the break goes along. No breakers, just an unruffled sea of ease. Why is it so? Why is it that the average player
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    U.S. RADIO STAR'S VISIT
    516 14 BETTY MARINO IN SINGAPORE JAZZ music must have some melody in it nowadays or lt fails to please the American public, says Miss Betty Marino, the pretty, dark-eyed American violinist who is a favourite of National Broadcasting Company audiences. Miss Marino has said goodbye to the
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    PIGEON POST
    100 14 The world's queerest and quietest hotel is said to be Treetops, a tworoomed bungaluv built high up la the branches of a grt at tree in the heart of the forest 12 miies from Nyeri, Kenya Colony. It overlooks an open space in the centre of which is
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    29 14 Sorlma Company, Italian salvage concern, is paying dividend of 24 per cent., largely on tht Egypt salvage. "Strathmore" is the name selected j for the new P. O. liner.
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    WOMAN CLIMBS A PYLON
    122 14 CITY'S ELECTRICITY CUT OFF A woman who climbed an electric pylon and touched a live wire cut off the whole electricity supply of the city of York and disorganised the train services for more than an hour. The woman is a patient in a private mental
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    MONGOLIAN PRINCES' ATTITUDE
    77 14 OFFERING ALLEGIANCE TO PU-YI? Shanghai, Saturday. Prince Yun Wang was formally sworn in as chairman of the Mongolian' Autonomy Committee at a ceremony at Pellingmiao, Inner Mongolia, on Apr. 3. Consternation has been caused In Chinese official circles by a report that ten Mongolian Princes have been
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    CANTON-PEIPING BY AIR
    29 14 The Eurasia Aviation Corporation has suspended the Canton-Shensl air service, and has Inaugurated In it? stead a service between Canton and Peiping Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    THE CROCODILE'S WEAK SPOTS
    731 14 "NEVER AIM AT THE EYE" Stunning Them IF you were nnlacky enough to meet a crocodile in your path, and lucky enough to have a rifle in your hand, at which part of its anatomy would you shoot In the eye. most people would say. That
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    YESTERDAY'S HOME FOOTBALL
    1303 15 LEAGUE RESULTS AND TABLES UP TO DATE. JJELOW are the results, cabled by Reuter, of yesterday's League football matches. The League tables include results of yesterday's games. Au>enal 3 Huaaersnem 1 Birmingham 0 Chelsea 3 Blackburn 3 Sheffield Utd. 1 Derby 4 Tottenham 3 Everton 2 Stoke
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    MORE TROUBLE ABOUT BOXERS
    286 15 THE TORTOISE BATSMEN (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. Great excitement occurred when nine St. Francis' Institute wickets were down and they still required 8 runs for victory In the first of the inter-school games, with the High School, for the Clarke Cricket Shield. It was anybody's
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    MUNICIPAL SPORTS
    103 15 ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENTS EASY WIN (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Saturday. In the Municipal sports here today, the Commissioner's Shield for the champion department was won by the Engineer's Department with y5' 2 points, the Electric Department which won the Biggs Cup being runners-up with 48 points. Ooh Thye
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    WIN BY 6 WICKETS AND 115 RUNS
    220 15 TANGLIN MATCH Yesterday's cricket match at Tanglin between the Wiltshire Regiment II and the Public Works Department Sports Club ended in a decisive win for the latter, by 6 wickets and 115 runs. Following were the scores P.W.D. Sports Club: J. V. T.
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    NONDESCRIPTS' EASY WIN
    272 15 265 FOR 7, AGAINST ONLY 61 The Nondescripts cricket club easily defeated St. Andrew's School at cricket yesterday afternoon on the Nondescripts' ground at McNalr Road. After dismissing St. Andrew's for fll the Nondescripts replied with 265 for seven wickets, J. N. Fernando contributing a well compiled
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    FRESH SOCCER INQUIRY
    183 15 WHAT HAPPENED IN JAVA? Charges of professionalism, levied against football officials and players In Singapore are to be the subject of a further inquiry, it is understood. This inquiry, like the recent one which resulted In the suspension of several well known players, will also have as
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    OLYMPIC GAMES
    90 15 QUESTION OF MANCHUKUO'S ENTRY Shanghai. Saturday. In an effort to break the deadlock over the question of Manchukuo's entry in the coming Far Eastern Olympiad, to be held at Manila, a conference of Japanese. Filipino and Chinese representatives has been called for Monday in Shanghai. Mr. Chao Yun-siang
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      365 15 /Audited Net Sales of The Sunday Times. Books and vouchers relating to the issues of The Sunday Times for the first two months of current year have been examined by Messrs. Gattey and Bateman, Singapore, and a certificate issued shoving that the net sales, after deducting all free and unsold
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    SINGAPORE CRICKET
    297 16 REMARKABLE GAME ON THE PADANG TVI OST of Sln Bapore's cricket sides had matches yesterday. On the Padang the S.C.C. beat St. Joseph's Institution by 85 runs after a somewhat remarkable game. At one time the Club were seven wickets down for 48, Le Mercler keeping his pace
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    WASH-OUT AT K. L.
    36 16 tFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Rain again marred cricket this afternoon and all games, which included one between Selangor Club and the T.P.S.A. on the Padang, were of short duration.
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    EXCITING SWIMMING
    379 16 G. DAY'S FINE DIVING V.M.C.A. CARNIVAL SOME excellent racing events were seen at the ninth annual V.M.C.A. Handicap Swimming Carnival held at the Fort Canning Pool yesteruay afternoon. .There was a large crowd of spectators, who watched with great keenness the fancy diving competition, won by George Day
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    MRS. HELEN MOODY.
    208 16 May Not Visit Wimbledon This Year. It is very doubtful whether Mrs. Helen Moody will be able to defend her title of woman lawn tennis champion at Wimbledon this year. The following letter which was received from her recently is the first authentic news to reach this
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    CEYLON SPORTS CLUB DO WELL
    216 16 V.M.C.A. ALL OUT FOR NINETY-THREE The Ceylon Sports Club did well yesterday to score 139 for two wickets against the V.M.C.A. whom they defeated by eight wickets. The V.M.C A. were all out for 93 S. D. Gander and H. Gibson being the only two
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    WIN FOR UNITED ENGINEERS
    201 16 VICTORY BY 9 RUNS Following vere the scores in the cricket match between the United Engineers and the Malay Cricket League at St. George's ground yesterday: United Engineers: M. G. Harvey b Omat 5, G. Lundon c and b Ismail Jabat 2, Van Cuylenberg b Ali
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    NEW SPORTS GROUND
    43 16 The monthly council meeting of the Catholic Young Men's Association will be held today at 9.30 a.m. at the association's premises. The agenda Includes "To arrange programme for the coming anniversary." and "To consider expenditure on the new sports ground."
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    YACHTING A WAYWARD WIND
    203 16 YACHTING A WAYWARD WIND There was a big variation in the direction of the wind during yesterday's racing at the R.S.Y.C. and remarkable finishes were witnessed. It blew from due south at the start but followed yachts right round the course, finishing up north-east. All three races, being run almost
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    34 16 Many members of the Struts Bachelors' Physical Culture will be present today at the funeral of the grandmother of Mr. Tan Boon Ouan. The funeral Is at 9 a.m. at 104, Telok Ayer Btreet.
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    POOR SHOW BY CHINESE
    285 16 S.R.C. VICTORY The Singapore Recreation Club beat the Straits Chinese Recreation Club at cricket yesterday on the Padang. Batting first, the Chinese made 90, only the two opening batsmen being able to make double figures. The Recreation Club knocked up 107 for eight wickets, T. Cordeiro
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    THE S.R.C. WIN DESPITE WEAK SIDE
    696 17 YESTERDAYS FOOTBALL AFTER BEING A GOAL DOWN AT HALF-TIME S.R.C 3; R.A 1. Just before the interval onvetro made another run and shot right AGAINST the R.A. in the first divl- acroS s. sion of the league at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, the
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    REFEREES LACK OF UNANIMITY
    265 17 REFEREES LACK OF UNANIMITY London, Feb. 19. The following circular has been sent by Engineer-Commander S. F. Cooper, R. N., Secretary of the Rugby Football Union, to all referees: "A great lack of unanimity among referees in applying the laws of the game, and in particular Laws 15 and 17,
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    WEDDING DINNER
    45 17 Invitations have been is:ued to all the members of the Amateur Sporting Association by Mr. Low Jin Tong to dinner at hia residence, 127. Chin Swee Road on Friday next on the occasion of the marriage of his brother-in-law, Mr. Wee Hood Uan.
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    HINTS TO LOCAL GOLFERS THE MALAYAN CHAMPION'S VIEWS
    663 17 HINTS TO LOCAL GOLFERS THE MALAYAN CHAMPION'S VIEWS (From Our Own Correspondent.) ~*uala Lumpur, Apr. 4. A few hours after he won the Malayan amateur golf championship Mr. W. J. Glbb left Malaya for Bangkok where he has been transferred. Mr. Gibb has been 15 years in this country and
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    OUTSIDERS SCORE
    501 17 THE K.L. MEETING CLOSES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. rtMiE second and last day of the -I Selangor Turf Club spring amateur meeting was concluded very succes.-tul-ly today despite a heavy shower daring the first and second races. The programme of eight events was gone through
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      PENANG AND PERAK
      152 18 LIPSVILLE TOUR The Llpsville Badminton Party of Penang was on tour to Perak during the Easter holidays and played two matches. At Talping the visitors met the Taiping Physical Culture League in five doubles and ultimately won by 3 games to 2 after a hard struggle in
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      MALAYA'S BEST
      93 18 The s»ett ol the question, "who is MalayVs best player?" is dis(iisscd in rage 13. Beng Huat beat Lee Guan Khye and Tan Teik Leong, 15—21, 20—20 (3—1.) 21—16. 3rd pair.— Cheah Chee Ann and Khoo Peng Chong lost to Cheah Sal Teik and Yee Kirn Teik, 9—21,
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      FRIENDLY MATCH
      301 18 THE Useful Badminton Party will play a friendly badminton match with the Mayflower Badminton Party at 522, Kampong Bahru Road, today at 3 p.m. The following will represent the Usefuls:— E. S. Wee, George Chen, Chin Tham Swee, Ec Hock Chiang, Wee Kirn Wee. Koh Beng Swee, Llm
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      GASTRIC ULCER NEARLY DROVE HER CRAZY.
      201 18 This woman sullercd so terribly with stomach trouble that she nearly went; out of her mind— felt like taking her life. Yet in two weeks a famous doc- I tor's formula gave her new health, n hope in life. Read her letter "My doctor
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      THRILLING PLAY AT K.L.
      1273 18 Brilliant Display By The Mayflowers (From Our Own Correspondent.) i Kuala Lumpur. Record crowds of spectators, who included badminton enthusiasts from Seremban, Klang and Malacca, gathered at Victoria Institution Hall to witness the matches between the Mayflower Badminton Party of Singapore, and the Sunnydale and Jolly
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      SEREMBAN MALAYS
      245 18 TOURNAMENT FOR TWO CUPS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. The following are the latest results of the Seremban Malays' badminton tournament for tht Tuan Sheikh Ahmad and Che Bujang Cups: Abu Bakar and Yassin (P. 8.C.) beat Hassan Kid Baharuddin (Rahang) 21—8, 21—8. Abu Bakar and Bahudin (P.8.C.)
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      SUNLIGHT CHAMPION
      194 18 MAH CHEE BEATS FOO KOON SENG The Sunlight singles championship tournament for Messrs. Lall Singh's challenge cup was brought to a close on Sunday last when Mah Chee met Foo Koon Seng, the former champion, in the final. The game was evenly contested and it was mainly the
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      THE HAPPILADS
      231 18 The Happilads Athletic Party held a successful picnic during the Easter Holidays. There were over 30 members and friends present. An interesting programme of land and sea sports was held. Mr. Khoo Tenj Boon emerged individual champion, with Mr. Wong Nai Chee a close runner-up. The prizes were
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    THE GOLF CHAMPION'S "BLANK" MOMENT
    647 19 SELANGOR "BOOK CRICKET" FAILS >T\HE main item of sporting interest heie is. of course, the splendid victory of W. J. Gibb over J. T. Smith in the final of the Malayan amateur golf championship. There was absolutely no doubt that Gibb was a popular winner.
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