The Straits Times, 26 April 1936

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER FN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 227, Sunday, AprM 26, 1936. Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper in Malaya No. 227. Sunday, April 26, 1936. Price 10 cents.
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    SINGAPORE DEFENCE SECRETS MUST BE KEPT
    506 1 WAR OFFICE APPROVES LIST OF "DONTS" Stringent Measures To Check Espionage CAMERAS, DISGUISES AND CODES MEAN TROUBLE tyDWNING Street, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Air .Ministry and the Colonial Office have, after ten months of careful consideration, made it possible to arrest and
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    SECRET PACT WITH REDS JAPANESE CHARGES AGAINST CHINA
    102 1 SECRET PACT WITH REDS JAPANESE CHARGES AGAINST CHINA Shanghai. Saturday. A conference of Japanese milltaiy attaches in China will be held shortly to investigate Japanese press allegations that First. Nanking anc Moscow have concluded secret alliance Sec mdly. Nar.k'ng is "insincere" in her protest against the Soviet-Outer Mongol alliance, having
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    KING FUAD PASSES A QUIET NIGHT
    28 1 Cairo, Saturday. Despite rumours King Fuad is still alive. He passed a relatively quiet night but his circulation trouble is worse.— Router.
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    GERMAN EDITORS MIST BE ARYANS
    29 1 Berlin. Saturday. The German Press Association has decided that all editors of German newspapers must prove their Aryan origin goes back to I.Boo.— Aneta-Trans-Ocean.
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    BUDGET SECRETS' LEAKAGE LAST-MINIUTE RUSH TO INSURE
    108 1 BUDGET SECRETS' LEAKAGE LAST-MINIUTE RUSH TO INSURE London. Apr. 25. In connection with the abnormal last, minute heavy insurances agalnsi t>n increase in the income tax and tea duty on Budget day, Lloyd's committee has asked underwriters to ascertain lrom brokers the names of the clients wnom for such insurances
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    Duke Commands Blackshirts
    64 1 The Duke of Pistoia, (above) a relative of the King of Italy, is commanding the famous Blackshirt Division "March 23," which has played a prominent part in recent Italian victories in the Tembien, North Abyssinia. The fighting on this front has resulted in the capture by the
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    MUI-TSAI INQUIRY CAPT. JEFF SECRETARY TO COMMISSION
    165 1 MUI-TSAI INQUIRY CAPT. JEFF SECRETARY TO COMMISSION pAPTAIN John Jeff, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, S.S. and F.M.S., has been appointed secretary to the Commission which will investigate the mui-tsai problem in Malaya and Hong Kong during May and June. Capt. Jeff, who has been connected with Chinese affairs in
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    UMBRELLAS OUT WHEN ASAMA ERUPTS.
    37 1 Toklo, Saturday. Mount Asama, the active volcano near Karulzawa, erupted again this morning and ejected ashes, which fell so thickly in the Mayebashl district that passprs-by had to put their umbrellas. Aneta-Trans-Ocean.
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    World's Largest Sailing Ship On Devon Rocks
    232 1 Swedish Captain's Oxford B.A. Wife Remains By His Side London, Saturday A GRAPHIC story of rescue was told by Miss Diana Firth, a schoolgirl friend of the captain's wife, when she was taken off in a lifeboat from the Finnish windjammer Hcrzogin Cecilie,
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    EMPLOYMENT RECORD IN BRITAIN
    51 1 EMPLOYMENT RECORD IN BRITAIN London, Saturday. W\R- E. L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, states that on Apr. 23 10.630,000 people between the ages of 16 and 64 were in employment, the highest number in British history. The cost of living was stationary and savings were increasing.
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    The Governor Leaves
    313 1 FLYING HOME TO DAUGHTER'S WEDDING THE Sunday Times understands it is likely that the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, who leaves for England this morning by the Imperial Airways Aurora to attend his daughter's wedding, v ill be away for at least four months. The wedding of Miss
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    CASABLANCA BEATEN BY FLOHR
    63 1 London. Saturday. The international chess tournament at Margate, which ended on Friday, was won by the young Czechoslovakian champion, Flohr, who scored a total of 7' 2 points against the 7 of the former world champion, Casablanca, who had to content himself with second place. The
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    BERLIN BOMB SHELTER
    49 1 Berlin, Saturday. The construction of the capital's largest underground bomb-proof shelter, capable of offering refuge to several thousand persons in the event of an air raid in war time has now been completed beneath the Alexander Platz. the well-known square in one Berlin^ busiest districts.— Aneta-Trans-Ocean.
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    BRAZIL INCREASES QUOTA FOR JAPANESE
    27 1 Tokio. Saturday. Information from Brazil says the Brazilian Government has increased the quota for Japanese Immigration by 600 to 3.480 annually.— \neta-Trans-Ocean.
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    DAGGAHBUR FALLS
    17 1 Rome. Saturday. It Is reported that Italian mechanised units have captured Sassabenah and Daggahbur.— Reuter.
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    Strike Scenes At Teluk Anson
    325 1 LORRY DRIVERS' GRIEVANCE Godowns Packed With Goods (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. *T*HE strike of Lower Perak hire car drivers as a protest against what they consider to be toostringI ent regulations regarding the licensing of vehicles appears to be a little nearer solution
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    Cup Final
    27 1 The Arsenal won the Football Association Cup at Wembley Stadium yesterday by beating Sheffield United by one goal to nil. Full story in page 25.
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    FRENCH VIEWS OF QUEEN MARY
    171 1 DOUBTS ABOUT THE BLUE RIBAND Paris. Apr. 25. Will the new giant Cunarder Queen Mary, succeed in wresting the coveted blue riband of the Atlantic lrom the crack French liner. Normandie is a question anxiously asked by the entire French nation, which is looking forward
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    NEW CANCER INQUIRY
    46 1 To Decide If Oil Fumes Are A Cause A two years' investigation will shortly begin at Manchester Univrsitv to de♦.ermine whether the fumes from heavyoil engined vehicles have any relation to the increased incidence of cancer of the lung and the air passages.
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    JAPANESE DEMAND TO THE SOVIET
    37 1 Tokio. Saturday. The Foreign Office has instructed the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow to demand an early resumption of negotiations for the renewal of the fishery treaty which expires on May 28. Reuter.
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    Colony Cavalcade
    1737 2 Malacca Street To Cecil Street —The Old Quayside— Mr. Pek Seah's Mansion Dato Braddell TPHE great gash that has been cut from Cecil Street to Malacca Street is welcome evidence both of the demand for more modern office buildings in Singapore and of the tendency of luisinoss to
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      52 2 "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF OUR CHILLED BEEF which is deliriously tender, retaining all its natural juices ana having a flavour all its own. A trial will prove the truth of our statement. TEL- 5378 —Ml i^lß IMW^MM V C
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    MAN WHO HAS CONDUCTED 20,000 POST MORTEMS
    852 3 DFt J« C. TULL RETIRING SHORTLY 'College Of Medicine Most Important To Medical Department THi; Sunday Times understands that Dr. J. C. Tull, Government Patho!mr's». S. S.. is retiring shortly after 18 years' service in Malaya. Dr. conducted more than 20,000 post mortem
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    "Memorial Hall As A Cabaret"
    326 3 "Memorial Hall As A Cabaret SHAIK YAHYA AFIFI REPLIES TO MR. LAYCOCK To the Editor of the Sunday Times. Sir, Will you please be good enough to gi\e me space in your paper to reply to Mr. Laycock's personal reference to myself at the Municipal meeting held on Friday last,
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    Things People Say
    64 3 SCOTLAND adopted the quantities system, so surely there must be a saving!— Mr. D. R. Waters. There is too much of this wifeslashing here, and I am going to stop it— Mr. Justice Mills. The vegetable oil industries are experiencing better times and can. I think, anticipate
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    BRITISH TRADE FAIR
    119 3 Work has begun in earnest upon the decoration of the stails and stands in readiness for the opening of the British Trade Fair at the Great WorU by Mr. A. S. Small on Friday. The opening ceremony will take place in the cabaret at 6.45 p.m. In
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    EIGHTH CONVICTION
    51 3 A Straits-born Chinese named Lee Wah was yesterday sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by twelve months' police supervision, by Mr. M. H. Blacker, the third magistrate, for theft of a purse from an Indian. Lee Wah had seven previous convictions for theft and similar
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    18 3 Mr. P. L. Mill, formerly of Banting, Selangor. has now taken over the Angel Hotel at Halesworth, Suffolk.
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    "FAN-DANCING UNFAIR," SAY NUDISSTS
    124 3 San Diego. TyUDiSTS ivere pitted against nudists at the Pacific International Exposition in a miniature war between the devotees of art and the supporters of utility. Members of nudist organizations, mho have made the Pacific Coast one of their strongholds, picketed the exposition pavilion housing Sally
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    36 3 A KENG 111 A PLANT GROWN IN ENGLAND The plant shown above was grown at Ilighampton, North Devon, by a former Malayan, Mr. A. C. Hynes, who took home a small cutting from Singapore in 1930.
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    HIS OWN OPIUM
    116 3 Chinese Fireman Fined For Possession For being ln possession of three and a half tahils of non-government chandu, and three chees of opium concealed in the store of the engine room. Aw Huo Tai. a fireman on board the motor vessel Cremer, was yesterday sentenced by Mr.
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    PLOUGHING CEREMONY AT BANGKOK
    67 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Saturday. The commencement of the ploughing ceremony attracted a large crowd to a field on the outskirts of Bangkok yesterday. The forecast of the new crop states that the rainfall will be less than last year, that fruits, meats and fls:i
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    RHEUMATISM SPREAD TO ALL HER JOINTS
    192 3 Ordered to Bed After Months of Suffering; Here Is a sad story of suflerlnj. but ft has a happy ending. This woman was attacked by severe rheumatism which sprrad to every joint in her b*dv mid Anally crippled her. So great was her rliof
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      561 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR VIEW HOTEL: Special Tiffin and BOARD Specie! Dinner. CINFiVIAS Saturday, April 25. Ships alongside the Wharves or expected to ALHAMBRA: Welcome Home with James arrive Di;nnp. 3.15 6.15—9.15. Entrance CAPITOL: On V. ings of Sons with Gracs Godown Gate Moore Leo Carriilo. 3.15—6.15—9.15. Main
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    ENGINEERS ONCE CONTROLLED NATURE FOR MAN
    719 4 But Sex Equality Reared Its Ugly Head! DEFINITION DEFINITELY OUT OF DATE "COME six months ago, I tried to convince our Selangor friends that we engineers shared with senior Naval, Military and Government officers a diffident and modest mein. I failed my most serious
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    SUEZ CANAL DUES
    121 4 INCREASE AGREEMENT EXPECTED Paris. Saturday. The Suez canal dues will be fixed at 38 piastres as the result of a new agreement expected to be concluded shortly between the Egyptian Government and the Suez Canal Co., according to the paper L' Information." which points out that this
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    CANTON POLITICIAN SERIOUSLY ILL
    93 4 Former Kuomintang Chairman In Siam Canton, Saturday. The condition of Mr. Hsiao Fucheng. a leading South-West politician who has been 111 for the past two weeks, took a turn for the worse I yesterday, when he lost consciousness despite frequent injections. Although a slight improvement was
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    26 4 Chemicals hurled by incendiaries through the windows of the prefecture at Nantes started a fire which burnt I about 70 square yards of parquet floor- ing
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    NANKING BUDGET TO BE BALANCED
    136 4 STATEMENT BY FINANCE MINISTER Shanghai. Saturday. The Central Government will be able to balance Its Budget for the current year." stated Dr. H. H. Kung. Finance Minister, in an Interview i today. The principles of the Budget have been fixed," Dr. Kung added, and there
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    GANGSTER OUTRAGES
    112 4 Paris Night Club King Shot In Bed Paris. Anxiety has been caused here by an epidemic of gangster outrages which j has swept the city. The audacity and brutality of the gangs rival the methods of American racketeers. The murder of Loais Leplee. so- called Night Club King,
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    COST OF INDIAN AUTONOMY
    292 4 I Sir Otto Niemeyer's Report £4,000,000 MORE A YEAR New Delhi. IT is understood that Sir Otto Niemeyer will submit to the British Cabinet by the end of this month his report on the question whether the j financial position of the Central and Provincial Governments
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    SOVIET WOMEN ARE DRESS CONSCIOUS
    85 4 PARTY OFF TO PARIS TO STUDY STYLE Warsaw, Saturday. Soviet women are beginning to think i less of Five Year Plans and more about clothes. According to a message to a Polish newspaper the wife of M. Moltov. President of the Council of Commissars, is
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    MILLIONAIRE'S WORD TO THE YOUNG
    104 4 "MONEY UNIMPORTANT" New York. Advice to the young people of America to remember that money does not matter very much was fciven by Mr Charles Schwab, formerly one of he < wealthiest men In the United States, who still receives a salary of £50.000 a
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    26 4 Prof. W. O. Constable, the English art critic, lectured at Moscow on EngSociety for Cultural Relations with lish landscape painting to the Soviet I Foreign Countries.
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    MR. SHAW'S NEW PLAY
    313 4 SCENES ALL LAID IN GENEVA. MR. Bernard Shaw has written a new play which is entitled Geneva." He gave me the news a lew minutes after he arrived in London from a long tcur, which included visits to America, Honolulu, and New Mexico, writes the Daily
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    CHILD'S ESCAPE FROM FALLING TREE
    96 4 During the storm which raged in Singapore shortly before five o'clock yesterday afternoon, a tall coconut tree standing in the Slglap area crashed through an attap hut Narrowly missing a three-month-old Chinese girl sleeping in a bed. The tree, however, brought the house down over
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    EUROPEAN VICTIM OF USURER
    237 4 LOAN THAT MULTIPLIED TENFOLD (From Our Own OoTTMpOlHtallt L.i ;iv.a The pathetic case of a Eorop m who lost his coconut plantation representing the fruit of man] hard work and saving— as tlv result 'of a loan cf 100 gui'ders from i usurious moneylender has just
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    57 4 The Grand Military Meeting:, the last National Hunt meeting before the opening of list flat raring season. was heM at Sandown Park, Surrey, Tidebrook won the Open Selling Handicap Hurdlr rare with Lance Corporal second and River Fox third. Photo shows Lanoe Corporal (No. 5) and Intelligent Boy (No. 21)
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    GLIDER TO REACH STRATOSPHERE
    150 4 SOVIET EXPERIMENT Moscow. A "double-decker air train." witii gliders soaring several kilometres abovu the aeroplane which tows them, has been successfully operated by Soviet aviators. M. Sherbakoff. the designer, predicts that it will be possible to send gliders into the stratosphere by means of this arrangement.
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      38 4 NO PERFORMANCE TO-DAY, SUNDAY at the VICTORIA Theatre. TWO SHOWS AT THE GLOBE USUAL at 7.15 9.30 "A TRULY GREAT PICTURE" A VERITABLE PAGE FROM LIFE I Nothing LIKE IT has «v«r b**n attempted on the Screen Before
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    AUSTRALIA'S DAY OF MOURNING FOR FALLEN COMRADES
    1131 5  -  R. E. Lockwood ANNIVERSARY OF GALLIPOLI LANDING "Man With A Donkey" As Symbol Of Sacrifice By TJOLDIMC, a high, place in Australian history are the figure sof a Mar. and a Donkey. The man was Private Simpson, of the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance,
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    HERR HITLER'S WAR PAINTINGS
    236 5 FACSIMILES SHOWN AT STUTTGART Berlin. pACSTMILES of water-colours painted by Herr Hitler during the war have just been placed on exhibition in the Wurttemberg State Library in Stuttgart. The paintings are all of buildings, and are clearly the work of a man deeply interested in architecture.
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    DRIVE OUT RHEUMATISM
    81 5 It should be realised Rheumatism is no' inevitable if the poisonous add fluids of the v.stem are kept on the move thus prevent:iS the formation and drpesit cf palnfuj -rystals In the joints. The solvent stimulating tction of Phos."erlne has a masterly effect In liquefying. ilspening and
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    52 5 The marriage took place at Cassala, 2, Tanglin Hill, jf Mr. Lhn Tee K«at. youngest son of Madam Wee Kirn Kwee and the late Mr. LJm Cheng Pheng, and Miss Florence Constance Chna, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chna Teow Kee. The bridegroom is a teacher at the Choon
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    BRITAIN BECOMING LESS FIT " UNHEALTHY LONDON
    161 5 BRITAIN BECOMING LESS FIT UNHEALTHY LONDON "We have no pride In physical fitness in this country," declared Dr. E. K. Le Fleming, chairman of the Council of the British Medical Association, at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology Conference at Oxford. "No one," he said, "has the right to allow
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    13 5 Foreign wireless programmes must no longer be broadcast in public places in Italy.
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    "NO HOPE FOR THE WORLD"
    316 5 Bishop's Remarkable Sermon "IF CHRIST WERE IN ITALY" 'TtiE belief that Jesus Christ would be murdered again today in Italy V7as expressed by the Bishop of London (Dr. Winninston Ingrain), in St Paul's Cathedral. "Let Him stand up in Italy and dem unce Vie use
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    "AIM OF HUMAN LIFE "
    83 5 "AIM OF HUMAN LIFE Mr. S. Navaneetha Krishna Bna ruthi, a well-known Tamil poet and j author, has arrived in Singapore on a short visit to Malaya. While m Singapore, ho is the guest of Mr. T. Sivapragasam. Mr. Bharathi is a member of the Board of Examiners of the
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    SANCTIONS CUT ITALIAN TRACE BY HALF
    320 5 SANCTIONS CUT ITALIAN TRACE BY HALF FIGURES PUBLISHED BY THE LEAGUE Ccrr'f. ITALIAN trade with countries wiw i are members of the League ha* declined roughly 50 per err.*., s'.r.c-j Sanctions w^re enforced on Oct 2.5. 1C35. This is revealed by statistics issued by the League secretarial Should Sanctions continue.
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    MALARIA EXPERTS CONFER THIS WEEK IN SINGAPORE
    529 6 THIRD INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN MALARIOLOGY Quinine v. Atebrin PROBLEMS IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES f^ MJMBER of malaria experts have arrived in Singapore for the third international course in malariology which opens on Monday at the King Bi ward VII College of Medicine. In the
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    TYPIST AND UPSET POT OF TEA
    161 6 £100 FOR SCAR WHICH SHOW WHEN BATHING Miss Veronica Mary Agnes Lynch, aged 23. shorthand-typist. Athlone Road. Tulse Hill, S. E.. was awarded £100 damages with costs in the King's Bench Division in respect of being scalded by pot of tea which was upset
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    REV. R. BOSSHARDT
    139 6 TRIBUTES IN LONDON NEWSPAPERS London. The Chinese Inland Mission, of which the Rev. Rudolf Bosshardt Is a member, has a fine record, says The Times. The work of the foreign missionaries is generally something of which the west has cause to be proud and China thankful. Mr.
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    Only Two Cars Complete Race Of "1,000 Corners"
    469 6 MONTE CARLO. TPORRENTIAL rain and a record number of spectacular smashes marred the Grand Prix de Monaco, the classic race of a thousand corners, which took place here on Apr. 13. Only nine of the 19 competitors were running at the finish.
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    20 6 THE REPRESENTATIVES of the Penan? Union Epworth League who attended the twelfth All-Malaya Epworth League Institute which ended last week.
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    NEW YORK BUYS MUNICH BEER AGAIN
    67 6 Munich. After 22 years, beer from the famous Munich Hofbrau Brewery is to be shipped in considerable quantities to the United States under a new contract which has Just been signed. The first shipment has Just left the brewery and I the fleet of
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    NEW WORDS IN THE ARMY
    363 6 "Troops Will Embus" MACHINES CAN NEVER REPLACE INFANTRY 'THE introduction and development of new arms has made necessary a comprehensive revision of Field S.-rvics Regulations, and new words have been added to the military dictionary, writes the Morning Post military correspondent For instance, as a
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      210 6 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT HOW TO CLAIM $100 PRIZE MONEY Three entrants submitted All correct coupons in The Sunday Times Crossword Puzzle Competition printed on April 12 and they, therefore, share the $100 prize money in equal proportions. The winners are: Ahmed. 1, Market St., Telok Anson; Cho Kirn Choon, 95
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    THE CHARM OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
    1915 7  -  Fred J. Melville Stamp Collecting KING EDWARD AND PHILATELY By •TTIK Ki/ir has (ranted bis patronage to the Royal Philatelic Society. The news communicated by Lord Wigram. Keeper of the Privy Purse, has given j tlir create t pleasure in philatelic 1 circles
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    Trouble Trying For Toe Many Eggs
    815 7 Poultry Note* DOULTRY diseases of many types, the greater number of them incurable, have been created through the insatiable desire of breeders for a larger and yet larger number of eggs. These diseases have become established throughout the world. Scientists are battling desp?rateiy to
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    VOTE OF CONFIDENCE PASSED IN PULAU KAMIRI BOARD
    751 8 Financial Position Not Entirely Satisfactory REPAIRING OF PLANT HAVING MARKED EFFECT ON PROFITS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. "THE financial position of the company cannot be considered entirely satisfactory. The reconditioning of the plant, which is being borne out of
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    NEW AMUSEMENT PARK
    102 8 SANITARY BOARD GIVES APPROVAL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ip i, Saturday. Ipoh will have a ne. amusement j park as the result of the Kinta Sanitary Board approving Mr. Lim Seng Fook's application to utilse the ground belonging to the V.M.C.A. for the purpose of erecting permanent
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    ALBERT STREET AFFRAY
    53 8 Three Chinese Tons Seng Kans, Low Teow Kang and San Kia An. were charged before Mr. T. D. Hughes, second magistrate, yesterday, with causing an affray in Albert Street the previous night. They claimed trial and the case was postponed for a,»veek for mention, ball being fixed
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    BUGIS STREET RATS
    68 8 Cecil Fester Walsh, the Kenya Journalist who pleaded guilty before Mr. L. B. Gibson, the Criminal District Judge, to a charge of being in possession of a firearm without a licence and was given a week's time to pay a fine of $100, appeared in court yesterday
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    REGISTRY WEDDING
    29 8 Mr. James Sinclair Malcolm of the Singapore Traction Co., and Miss Muriel Habekost of the Oriental Telephone Exchange, Singapore, were married ln the Singapore Registry Office yesterday.
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    36 8 A GROUP PHOTOGRAPH taken a t a farewell function riven at Ipoh in honour of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Warren prior, to Mr. Warren's transfer to Singapore. Mr. Warren is in the F M.S. Railways.
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    POLICE BAND
    65 8 The Police Band will play on Tuesday at Katong Park at 5.30 p.m. March, Manhattan Beach (J.P. Sousa) Overture, Poet and Peasant (Suppe) Selection, Bric-a-Brac (Lionel Monckton) Waltz, A Waltz Dream (Oscar Strauss) Angclus From the Suite, Scenes Plttoresque (Massenet) Fox-Trots. Roll along Prairie Moon (A. V. Tilzer)
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    20 8 Austrian Monarchists have renamed a street at Baden, near Vienna, Emperor Otto Street." and the local school Empsror Otto School."
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    STRAYING CATTLE IPOH PROVIDES LARGE GRAZING AREA
    90 8 STRAYING CATTLE IPOH PROVIDES LARGE GRAZING AREA (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Saturday. The Kinta Sanitary Board will make an attempt to deal with the straying cattle nuisance by providing a large reserved area for cattle grazing. The area selected embraces 230 acres and lies bet-rveen Tiger Lane and Plnji
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      542 8 WIRELESS PROGRAMMES 8.8.C. TRANSMISSION 4. Three of the following frequencies will be nsed: G.S.I. 15. 26 Mc/s (19. 66 m.). G.SD. 111.75 Mc/s (25.53 m). G.S.B. 9.51 Me/s (31.55 m.). G-S.O. 15.18 Me s (19. "6 m a.m. 12.35 Big Ben. The Children's Hour.* "The Three Little Pigs." a record
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      293 8 11.40 Mantovsnl and his Tipica Orchestra. Lamcnto Gftano (Lucchesl.) t'arlczmoi a'amour iLcnolr.) Tou jours (Manilla.) Aicne (Brown.) Hungarian Fantasy (Paoii*'}.) Melody (Dawes.) The Feast ol Santa Lucia (Ferraris.) I Dream Too Much (K> j Selection from Musical Comedies v; r. Mantovar.i 11 50 Grecnr irl- t'n c slgna;. a.m. 12.20
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    Malayan Musings: Casual Comments On This And That
    1177 9 OHOULD rubber restriction be continued after the expiration cf the present agreement In 193« Mr. l'a 1 me r 'Ware The tnlnk s so, and Kestriction man P e °P le wU1 Complex agree witn nlm Many others, however, will have grave
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    MALAYAN JINGLES
    124 9 50 EX HORTATION Tax, brothers, tax with care. Tax every man like a millionaire. They've all got h iney, so don't relent Don't let them pay more than five per cent. Our railway's wobbly; it can't compete IF ith lorries and cars that are cheap and fleet. Tax
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    UNEXPLORED FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY
    157 9 i MRS. BALDWIN recently unveiled a marble bust of the Duke of Kent at the clinic of the Institute of 'Medical Psychology in Mallet Place. 1 Bloomsbury, to mark the Duke's Presidency of the Institute. Mrs. Baldwin said that there seemed ja very large area of
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    2090 10 The Story Of Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy PEARL BUCK'S NEW BOOK MAGNIFICENT FIGURE OF CARIE STUTLING The ExUe. By Pearl S. Buck. Metnuen's Colonial Library IT is impossible to believe that Pearl Buck's latest book is just a novel, and that the magnificent figure of
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1252 11  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By The Shape Of Things To Come P*IFTY years have rolled by, and Gran'fer Nat dubbins, bald and toothless, though still in his tarly nineties, sits propped up in a garden chair wrapped in shawls and blinking in the pale spring sunshine. The great,
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    CONTRACT: By The Four Aces
    562 11 QXE of the favourite opening 1 leads of the expert against a i six contract is low from the King of a suit bid strongly by dummy, HIGH CARD VALUES. of the FOUR-ACES SYSTEM. ACE 3 KING 2 QUEEN 1 JACK |f Total Value of
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    'MESSIAH' WHO IS GOD TO MILLIONS
    609 12 MYSTERIOUS NEGRO WHO AMAZES AMERICA His Heaven Is In Harlem New York. IN Hsrlom, New York's coloured quarter, a short, 52-year-old Negro sits in his Heaven," surrounded by angels." Known to America as Father Divine, this most picturesque of all Negro hot gospellers is
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    62 12 Aerial picture of a segment of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, gigantic State connecting link between the two Californian cities, with the vital panorama that is downtown San Francisco in the background. Note the central deck suspension from the main cables. This marks a radical departure from established engineering prin
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    Honoured By Chinese Government
    30 12 Mr. I.im Teng Umng. honorary general secretary of the Chinese Students Literary Society, Kuala Lumpur. He has received a certificate of honour from the Chinese Government.
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    "The Bridge"—Just That
    611 12 "The Bridge Just That mM) other appellation b necessary to citizens of California than "The Kndsr ln&smui li as the San KraiH-isro Oakland Bay Bridge re- presents, to them, the only trult important brider existent. "The Bridge" is sufficient identification for the purpose thereof. It is an affectionate term for
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    'ITALIAN NUN IN ECSTASY.
    99 12 Cosenza. Italy. Surrounded by physicians, priests and Catholic sisters, the nun, Elena Atello, lay In religious ecstasy on her cot in the Cosenza orphanage on Good Friday, when, for the twelfth consecutive year, blood streamed from her face and forehead. The little group was privileged to
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    38 12 The Rembrandt picture reported to have been stolen from the provincial museum at Segovia Is now stated to be an engraving doubtfully attributed to the master. The Jour Durer engravings which disappeared at the same time are authentic.
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    WANTED TO BE AN ENGINEER
    617 12 NOW CHIROPRACTOR IN SINGAPORE \X Australian who kMMM inlrrested in healing the sick while he was doing: secretarial work at the Singapore General Hospital and had the opportunity of studying case records has been credited with miraculous cures by "chiropractic." He has become Singapore's iirst
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    "FILMS WILL RUIN MY CHILD"
    90 12 Cincinnati. Mrs. Marjorie Irene Huber Halbrook, aged 24, who did not want her five year old daughter, a perfect Shirley Temple," to ruin her childhood with a movie career, has been arrested on the charge of having stolen the child. Mrs. Halbrook, who said that
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      205 12 To be opened on \^<^^3 FRIDAY, Ist MAY W^W The Noh. Mr. A. S. SMALL /I W/ at <..45 P. VA\M| *urc tupr and unt. ilinp quality \t£_ J^^^bW/'' have made Metirs. Chiver*" Jama TjK own orchard* are made Into jan the day they arc picked. ChiversJams If V. R.
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    SINGAPORE'S USELESS RUBBER SHOULD BE CLEARED AWAY
    660 13 SINGAPORE'S USELESS RUBBER SHOULD BE CLEARED AWAY Land Better Used For Growing Fruit And Vegetables DR. TEMPANY ON AIMS OF FARM SCHOOL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. A GREAT deal of the rubber on Singapore island is useless and should be cleared away. In place of rubber cultivation, vegetables
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    London's Crime Doctor
    121 13 London 's Crime Doctor r\K. W. 11. de Barque Hubert, a U Harley Street mental specialist, has been conducting an experiment which may lead to revolutionary changes in the State's attitude to crime. The experiment has been going on quietly at Wormwood Scrubbs prison for two years Dr. Hubert, the
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    A PRINCESS OF 3600 B.C.
    284 13 FOUND INTACT AMONG PYRAMIDS PRESERVED IN MUD FROM NILE Cairo. fllE boAy of a princess, who died about 3600 B.C. has been found Intact in her tomb by Prof. Selim Hassan, who has been excavating am on; the Giza Pyramids. The body was covered with
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    PEACE OF 3 "NATIONS" THREATENED
    304 13 Zoo Ants Arm For War rTFTEEN thousand wood ants at the London Zoo are preparing for war. They live on the largest of the three little islands in the pond outside the Insect House, and the mild spring dayj have awakened them from their winter
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    MALTA SOON A CROWN COLONY
    259 13 CONSTITUTION TO BE REVOKED •yHE Constitution of Malta will short- ly be revoked and in future the island will have the status and administration of a Crown Colony. The Government have decided to take this step because of the political and strategical position which has
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    26 13 Prof. R. A. Nicholson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, the authority on Oriental languages, has been ejected a member of the Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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    Was Once Dickens' Gardener
    70 13 Mr. George Woolley, of Coxtie Green, near Brentwood, Essex, who for several years was employed by Charles Dickens as junior gardener and later as coachman at Gad's Hill, Kent, has just celebrated his 87th birthday. Mr. Woolley still spends much of his time gardening and cherishes
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    BABY BORN IN THE AIR
    119 13 "ARIELA" SUGGESTED AS GIRL'S NAME Stockholm. CWEDEN now numbers among Its population the first Swedish child ever to be born in an aeroplane. The infant, a finely developed girl, was born In an ambulance machine which was conveying the mother from Overtorne, on the Swedish-Finland
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      314 13 NOTICE OF REMOVAL! SCHMIDT CO., 89, Bras Basah Read, Raffles Hotel Building SINGAPORE IMPORTERS OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. MICROSCOPES. PROJECTION APPARATUSES, X-RAY ELECTRO-MEDICAL APPARATUSES. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL INSTRUMENTS, BINOCULARS. LEICA CAMERAS. ETC. ARE REMOVING ON MAY Ist TO 90, ROBINSON ROAD. VSHfeA well -groomed \B^Bp^ It is so easy to keep
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    Totidem Verbis
    502 14 Reviewing Rubber Taxation DERHAPS the most important point about the recent communique on rubber taxation was not the reiterated refusal to "modify the decisions enunciated by His Excellency in the Federal Council in November, 1935." That was expected, and the quit rents issue has still to be fought
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    Let's Go Afishing Sometime
    1860 14 Ending The Boredom Of Pub-Crawls And Pahit-Parties Vicomte de Bondv THERE are very few people who do not get a thrill out of fishing. Those who don't, to my mind, are cranks with shrivelled souls, but thei*, t confess to being an enthusiast. The best fishing
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    MALAY SULTAN CLOSES EMPIRE'S LAST BULL-RING
    700 15 SEEN BY AIR TRAVELLERS KEDAH STATE COUNCIL PROHIBITION Sunday Times Correspondent Describes Fight LOSER SENT BACK TO KAMPONG TO END DAYS PULLING PLOUGH A MALAY Sultan has closed the gates of the last bull-ring in the British Empire. Alor Star, capital of Kedah, was
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    7 15 A CONTRAST seen in a Singapore street.
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    "BRITISH TROOPS IN YUNNAN" REPORTS UNTRUE SAYS NANKING
    99 15 "BRITISH TROOPS IN YUNNAN" REPORTS UNTRUE SAYS NANKING Nanking. CURRENT reports that British troops have Chingmao. in Yunnan, near Mie Burma- Yunnan border, and that they hav e erected a military wireless station and made other military preparations there are untrue, according to a telegram received by the Ministry of
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    £26,000 FOR SALVAGE COMPANIES
    115 15 Atlantique Award Paris. An arbitration court has decided that the Compagnie Sub-At!antique Is to pay £26.000 to the salvage companies which towed its liner Atlantique into Cherbourg after she had been burnt out in the Channel in January, 1933. The original claims of the salvage companies
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    LIFE AFTER DEATH
    87 15 Thurston's Promise To Fellow Magician New York, Apr. 14. Dunninger the magician, one of the rivals and friends of "The Great Thurston." established a 24-hours watch today over a little glass case enclosing an Egyptian idol. It there is life after the grave, he believes, an invisible
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    84 15 A picture on a rubber plantation at Pontian, Johorc, of the largest hamadryad ever caught. Resembling a python rather than a hamadryad, it measures about 18 feet, and has been sent to the London Zoo from Singapore in the Blue Funnel liner Diomcd by Mr. St. Alban Smith. The previous
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    EXPEDITIONS TO ANGKOR AND CARTHAGE
    365 15 Aerial Photography Reveals More Ruins Paris. "TWO important archaeological excavation works will be undertaken in the near future in different parts of the French Colonial empire, one at the site of the ancient city of Carthage, and the other in Angkor. The former port of
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    LordMoyne's 'Noah's Ark'
    536 15 Lord Moyne 's 'Noah 's Ark' COLLECTION FOR THE ZOO FROM MALAYSIA London, Apr. 12. *T*HE past week has been a momentous one in the number ol new arrivals, says the Zoo correspondent of The Observer. Lord Moyne's yacht, the Rosaura, which might on her journey have been described as
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    TO THE SEA WITH SONG
    352 15 HAPPY LAUNCH FOR S. S. GRACIE FIELDS jyiISS GRACIE FIELDS performed at Southampton recently the launching ceremony of a vessel which is to bear her name. Seldom can a naming ceremony have led to so much happy and spontaneous singing. "Gracie Fields, go to sea."
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    42 15 More than 5,000 delegates representing pigeon fanciers in France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain were present at the unveiling at Lille of a memorial to the carrier pigeons used •by the British and French armies on the Western Front during the war.
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    37 15 A Royal decree bans the use of hoardings In tourist centres, at the entrances to villages, and In specified areas In Belgium, and relegates them to a distance of 500 yards from roads .canals, and railway lines.
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    CHINESE PRIEST'S DEATH
    349 15 REV. LAU CHONG DE, WELL KNOWN IN MALAYA A FUNERAL service was held in th« Church of the Ascension, Killing, on April 3 for the Rev. Lav '".long Dedate of Penaiiß) who .died at his Ruling home on April 1, after an illness of forty days. His
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    COST OF LIVING IN SINGAPORE
    77 15 PIE following letter appeared in the "North-China Daily News:" Sir,— l should like to know through the courtesy of your paper if any of your readers could give m e the following information. The cost of living for two people in Singapore. Rent of small
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    CLAIM TO FINDING OF, NORTH POLE
    127 15 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY WILL NOT INVESTIGATE New York. The American Geographic Society has refused to re-open its investigation of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's claim that he discovered the North Pole in 1908. on the grounds taat it lacked funds to defray the enormous cost of
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    A Letter to Grandmother
    144 15 i Dear Mother, I am so much obliged to you for i recommending BRESTOL for Baby. It was just what he wanted and he is putting on weight steadily now and his limbs are so firm and strong the darling! I am using BRESTOL," of course,
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    London Calling!
    2683 16 London Calling West End THEATRE QUEUES, LIGHTS AND THE LAST TRAIN THE little wooden seats which bought a place in an invisible queue for the price of 6d. are rapidly filling up. The soft glow of the street lights is fiercely interfered with by the hard flashings of numerous advertisements
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      375 17 He's current Katcr, thief of li^lit <^ff£~^/ From Philips lamps he cannot steal ffflf The vvatts"\\ hieh form his evening meall Cheap Lamps cost more in the long run. Don't buy cheap lamps unless you have money to burn on the Current Eater. For the protection of your pocket-book and
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      623 17 $100 FREE ENTRY CROSSWORD PUZZLE MONEY PRIZES FOR CROSSWORD ENTHUSIASTS OUR WEEKLY "MUST BE WON" OFFER The Sunday Times offers today $100 for a coirect solution of the Crossword Puzzle printed below. Should no reader succeed in solving the puzzle correctly, the $100 will be awarded in respect of the
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    1,700 MALAYANS WHO HAVE THEIR OWN CURRENCY
    638 18 SUNGEI BULOH LEPERS' TOKEN NOTES Health Guard And Means To Encourage Industry (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. IN Mataya there is a community of 1,700 people for whom a special issue of currency notes has been printed. These notes are unlike the
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    MUMMY OF HORSE IN COFFIN
    124 18 Earliest Yet Found In Egypt Cairo. The expedition organised by the Metropolitan Museum of New York reports an interesting discovery made in the course of excavations on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes— the intact tomb of the father and mother of Senmut,
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    23 18 It is officially announced in Rome that Italian workers in East Africa sent home to their families during March the sum of £606.250.
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    31 18 Rifles at the ready against any bandit raid Into Soviet territo*"/ was the message sent by Maxim Goncl. the Russian author, to the congress of the Young Communist League In Moscow.
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    PRODUCING FOOD FROM WOOD
    447 18 RECENT RESEARCH IN GERMANY DROFESSOR Friedrich Bergius, of Heidelberg, spoke on some of the t chemical processes developed in Germany in recent years during t'r.e final I session of the International Confer- ence on Timber Utilisation and ReI search at the London Chamber of I Commerce.
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    'SAUCY POMPADOURS'
    138 18 Essex Regiment Asking For Its Old Facings The Essex Regiment Is now seeking official permission to change Us white facings to the old Pompadour crimson worn by the 56th Foot— now the Second Battalion of the* Essex. This colour. It Is said, had been adop- ted by an
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    27 18 A scheme for the transfer from Germany to Poland of capital belonging to Jews of Polish citizenship will be pro- posed to the German Government by Poland.
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    30 18 The position of the British steamer Belgler. which was sunk In 1917 by a German submarine 20 miles off Lori- J ent, Brittany, has been discovered by a salvage ship
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    PILOT FINDS A "WOODHENGE"
    438 18 BRITISH TEMPLE OF THE BRONZE AGE I EIGHTEEN thou-aiH years ago men working with rough bronze tools in what we now rail Norfolk built a horseI shoe of oak tree trunks as a l*m?!r to their gods. The men died. The trunks decay- cd. One summer's
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    ANTI-AIRCRAFT CRUISERS
    166 18 TWO WITH BRITISH FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN TWO ships of unique type are now serving with th« Mediterranean Fleet as a special guard against air j attack. They are sister cruisers Coventry and Curlew, of 4,290 tons, with a speed of 29 knots, writes the Dally Telegraph naval
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      381 18 TO STOMACH SUFFERERS THE amazint cures effected by Maclear Brand Stomach Powder, even In cases where all else has tailed, have brought on to the market so many imitations ot its name and its appearance, that you must be very careful to insist on the original product, bearing the signature
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    THE BRIDE'S MOTHER
    145 19 WHAT the bride's mother wears Is always a matter of great interest —next to ths bride's own attire. So when the other afternoon the bride's mother wore dull, dark pink lace of a colour both flattering and unusual, her attire naturally came in -for a lot of
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    103 19 TWO— OR FOUR IT is very interesting to notice how ingenious women are able to manipulate their evening clothes so that one or two frocks and accessories assume a never ending variety. Contrasting tops and skirts are useful. Imagine a fitted coat of black talTetas embroidered in tiny white spots,
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    350 19 A Trick DROCURE two straws similar to those used for drinking lemonade or milk. Place these and an empty Jug on a table and ask your friend if he can lift the Jug with one of the straws. He will try and the straw will bend. Then you
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    545 19 Max Factor's Advice The Importance Of Poise [And Proper Carriage DULLY half the dignified charm of such lovely ladies as Joan Crawford, Ann Harding, Katharine Hepburn and Norma Shearer is a result of their graceful posture and carriage. They know the subtle improvement it makes in their whole
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    Exquisite Colours In The New Table Glass
    377 20  -  Diana Hartnell By 11TE -i ot only use glass instead of china, nowadays, but we are also beginning to use china glasses out of which to drink lemonade and various other long drinks more or less innocuous. A set of jug and "tumblers"
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    Smart And Small
    41 20 'FIIIS small saucer-shape in green and black gros-grain ribbons is typical of the new millinery fashions. The ribbons are plaited together, and the shallowness of the little shape is emphasised by the spiky feather trimmings at the back.
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    VERY SHORT SCARVES
    74 20 OCARVES to be really smart must be wide, supple, and soft enough to tie in pussy cat bows. Spun silk will do all this. Loose tweeds can be used, too. But the latest Idea Is a scarf of feathers. In pale pink, sot blue, and delicate green,
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    BOUDOIR AND BOULEVARD
    225 20 LJOW envious other people become when one manages to combine two dress schemes in one! Sports suits of soft wools are clever this way. They may have jacket tops, which are, actually, folds on a false front pretty frocks, slim, simple and one-coloured, being revealed underneath. Another
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    1620 21 BY OUR WOMAN CORRESPONDENT J^TKE every place elsewhere, the Highlands were crowded over the Easter holidays. Miracles were performed in both the hotels to accommodate extra guests, while Mrs. Rattray actually managed to put up eight people at the Green Cow. A first visit to the Highlands is fall
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    New Schemes For Lamps Every Day!
    622 21 jT almost r.ecms as though there ■n new lamp schemes every day. The latest is the bureau lamp, a bright aft'air whose narrow stem springs from a double ink-holder, with, at ether end, a couple of pen hoidf rs. A popular scheme in connection
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    STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A WANDERING CLOWN
    1737 22  -  R. L. Megroz LIVES OF LAUGHTER-MAKERS ARE NOT THE BRIGHTEST: HARD PRICES THAT ARE PAID By Who Has Wandered Throughout Europe And The East i •THE smell of sawdust and stables, 1 the glitter of gaudy lights and the glow of red baize; the
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    22 22 Miss Lai King Ying, who helped to organise a trip to Tanchorang Waterfalls at Easter. She is a schoolteacher at Salak South.
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    CHAIRMEN OP SANITARY BOARDS
    129 22 CHAIRMEN OP SANITARY BOARDS LONGER TERMS OF OFFICE URGED BY UNOFFICIAL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. At the conclusion of the Taiping Sanitary Board meeting Mr. J. N. Sheffield, on behalf of the unofficial members, expressed his regret at the impending transfer of Mr. R.B. Black, their chairman for
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    15 22 Britain Is the only great country whose flag Is not flying at the Milan Exhibition.
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    "The Sermon On The Mount"
    481 22 "The Sermon On The Mount NAZIS' OWN TRANSLATION Berlin. 'THE Nazis now have their own Germanised Sermon on the Mount." It has just been published by the former Reichs Bishop Mueller, Nazi head of the German Evangelical Church. In his foreword he writes: For you, my comrades of the Third
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    FOUND AFTER TWO YEARS
    213 22 SEWING MACHINE STOLEN FROM BURNING HOUSE There was an echo of the disaster caused by the fire which razed to the ground the homes of many poor people In the Havelock Road area two years ago, when a sewing machine In tho possession of a Chinese
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    "A NORTHERN HORDE OF UNCOUTH GARB"
    1601 23 What The South Thought Of Blackburn Rovers In 1882 "STRANGE OATHS" WHEN Blackburn Rovers and their followers journeyed to Kenni*igton Oval to play Old Etonians in the Cup-final of 1882, a contributor to a London evening paper described them ;.s a northern horde of
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    One Man Plays Eleven
    132 23 WEATHER conditions for the Burnley-Blackburn cup-tie were appalling and one after another the Blackburn players left the field. Eventually the goalkeeper, Arthur, alone remained. He stood in his place in goal and defied the full Burnley eleven to attack him. Burnley scored, which meant that Herbert
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    Frisco's Match With Malinao
    292 23 NEXT FRIDAY'S BOXING CINGAPORE boxing enthusiasts are to be given something different on Friday when two middle-weights, Young Frisco and Frank Malinao, meet at the New World Stadium. Frisco has fought here three times at his natural weight. On one occasion he beat Al Rivers by
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    BABE RUTH QUITS BASEBALL
    197 23 NEVER GOING BACK TO GAME AS A PLAYER Miami, Florida. DABE Ruth, once the greatest baseball player in America, is never going back to the game as a player. Interviewed here, during a golfing holiday he Is enjoying, Ruth said: "I was up there long enough
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    KEDAH TENNIS
    166 23 Hospital Tournament On American System (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. The following are the results of the American lawn tennis tournament held at the Kulim Hospital Recreation Club: Court A— l. Rah'm Stephen 28 points: 2. Sheriff Rajadurai 18: 3. Wan Basor All All 8: 4. Zalnal
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    ROVERS' LOSSES BY INJURY
    155 23 APPEAL FOR LOAN OF A GOALKEEPER DLACKBURN Rovers ware in touch with the Football League authorities last week for permission to sacure the loan of r.n experienced goalkeeper to play in League matches. Three Rovers goalkeepers are soff< ring from fractures. Binns, the first team man.
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    GOOD GOING ON THE LAST DAY OF PENANG EASTER MEETING
    1570 24 TOTES AND SWEEPS WELL PATRONISED Clever Alec's Splendid Run In Seventh Race j (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Saturday. *T*HE Penang Turf Club's spring race meeting was brought to a successful conclusion today. The going was good. The sky was
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    "THE DOG" WIN
    78 24 PONNIAH BATS WELL FOR THE P.W.D. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. The Celangor Club defeated the P.WJD. by thre~ vrckets in a low-scor-ing cric!:ct match on the Padang today. The P.W.D. were all out for 32 runs 'V. PLnniah 42 net out. aud I. D.
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    JOHORE LEAGUE FOOTBALL
    428 24 MEDICALS SURPRISE THE POLICE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. 'THE first surprise in the Johore Bahru District Football Association League was caused when the Medical Sports Club beat the Police, last year's runners up, by two goals to one. The Jorinthlans and the Customs, rivals for
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    Y.M.C.A. SWIMMING CARNIVAL
    293 24 LADY SONG PRESENTS THE PRIZES ADY Song distributed the prizes at the conclusion of a very successful swimming carnival at the V.M.C.A. swimming pool at Fort Canning yesterday. This was the eleventh annual handicap meeting organised by the V.M.C.A. The winners of the various events were as
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    18 24 The cricket teams of the R.A. (Chantf), above and the Nondescripts who met atMcNairßoad yesterday —Sunday Times Photograph
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    CHINESE PLAY POORLY TO BEAT MALAYS
    641 24 CHINESE 4; MALAYS 1. CO uninteresting was yesterday's First Division match in which the Chinese beat the Malays by four goals to one that the West stand began to empty rapidly five minutes before the end. The Chinese played poor enough football but the
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    GORBEX SINGH'S 97 BRIGHT BATTING BY INDIANS
    107 24 GORBEX SINGH'S 97 BRIGHT BATTING BY INDIANS (From Our Own Correspondent i Kuala Luivpur, Saturday. After declaring at 202 runs for 5 wickets the Selangor Indians were unfortunate in not carrying the honours when they met the Victoria Institution on the Litter's ground today. The match was abandoned owing to
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    EXCITING FINISH
    153 24 Y.M.CA. BEATEN BY TAMILS (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. An exciting finish was provided In the match between the V.M.C.A. and the T.P.C.A. which the latter won by 1 six runs. After starting disastrous^ and losing seven for 38 the Tamils eventually made 92 thanks to
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    S.C.C. II OUT FOR 12 RUNS
    406 24 P.W.D'S FINE START ON NEW GROUND Twelve runs! That Is ai! TV seer.no! string of the S.C.C, could put together in their crcket fixture yesterday against the P.W.D. Sport's Club on the lattsr's new ground at Serangoon Road. Incidentaly this was the first tlma
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    GAME CANCELLED
    25 24 The cricket fixture between the Indian Association and the R.A. (Blakan Mati). which was to have been played yesterday at Balestier. was cancelled.
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    Local League Tabies
    301 24 I ATEST positions in the S.A.F.A. League and Commercial Cup football competitions are as follows 'lust year's positions in brackets) hkjT division Goals. P. W. L. D. P. A. Pts. R.A.F. (6) 6 4 1 1 19 7 9 Chinese (2) 6 4 1 112 7 9
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    93,000 PEOPLE SEE ARSENAL WIN F. A. CUP
    757 25 SHEFFIELD UNITED'S GREAT FIGHT Only Goal Scored By Drake In The Second Half THE Arsenal won the Football Association Cup yeetercby by boatinjr Sheffield United, a second division team, by one XomL, scored by Drake, to nil in the final played at
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    R.S.Y.C. REGATTA
    275 25 EXCELLENT TIME IN CLUB FOURS FINAL A N excellent time a few seconds off j the record— was returned by the winning orew in the Club Fours final In the R.S.Y.C. regatta rowed yesterday inside the breakwater. Three crews participated "A Crew J. H. Scott-Tagart .(bow). N. W.
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    BERG HAMPERED BY INJURED ANKLE
    85 25 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Saturday. B?for" his contest yesterday in i which he iost his British light-weight! title to Jimmy Walsh of Chester, j Jack (Kid) Berg was medically ad- vised not to box for three months owing to an injured ankle preventing proper
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    KULIM GOLF CLUB.
    119 25 The following are the leading scores 1 In the Kulitn Golf Club April month- j ly medal competition P. H. Bonnet 16 1 3 down. Mrs. T. Kitching (36) 3; down A. V. Perrln (10) 4 down. C. R. Little < 22 1 4 down. J. C.
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    SINGAPORE RACES
    66 25 I For the Summer (Governor's Cupi race meeting the Singapore race course will be open for training en Thursday Apr. 30 at 5.45 a.m. when the usual arrangements ior coffee will be made A full list of the horse.; and ponies in training for Urn meeting will be
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    GILLESPIE HELPS S.C.C. TO VICTORY
    388 25 Ea»y Win Over O.R.A. SERVICES' SLOW BATTING AGAINST THE "RECS" O.R.A. BOWLERS FAIL AN S.C.C. XI beat the Old Rafflesians' Association by a comfortable margine in yesterday's cricket match on the padang. After disposing of the visitors for 69 runs the Club scored 101 runs
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    21 25 A group taken outside the Royal Singapore Yacht Ctab of those who took part in the regatta yesterday. Sunday Times Photograph.
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    CENTURY FOR CHINESE
    260 25 RAIN SAVES ANGLOCHINESE SCHOOL HTHE S.C.R.C. batsmen made merry j against the ACS. In their fixture on the Hong Lam Green yesterday. Ong Swee Keng hit up a century ana Cam Glm Lock scored 38' Eventually the club declared at 197 for five wickets. The ACS. *ared
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    HOME RUGBY
    43 25 London, Saturday. Rugby games played today, says j Reuter, were Bridgewater 3 W. Super Mare 1* Coventry 6 Northampton 0 Cross Keys 6 Llanelly 3 j Devon. Servs. 3 Redruth 0t i Gloucester 6 Bristol 0 1 Moscley 12 Rugby s
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    LOW SCORING
    260 25 R.A. (CHAIVr;i) BEAT THE NONDESCRIPTS In a low scoring cricket match the R.A. iChangi) defeated the N.C.C. by two wickets on the McNair Road ground yesterday. Batting first, the home side compiled 58. Jabar contributing a valuable 16 while Merritt kept a deadly l«ngth to finish with the
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    MALAYA CUP TRIAL
    89 25 The first S A.F.A. Malaya Cup trial match will take place at Anson Road Stadium on Wednesday. The teams will be selected from the following Abdul Aziz. Ah Chong. Ah Kow. Aslar bin Abo, Awang bin Tallb. Bakar bin A&nawl. Chwee Chua. Dollah. James Goh. Inspector S.
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    SEVEN-ASIDE FINAL
    23 25 At Twickenham on Saturday the Rugby seven a -side final was won by Sale beating Blackheath first team 18 6.— Reuter.
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    EXCITING SOCCER
    226 25 AIRMEN BEAT THE •MIDDS' The Middlesex Regiment were beaten by the R.A.F. in a Garrison league match at Seletar yesterday by one goal to nil. The Airmen were without Steele and Lawrence who were forced to stand down with injuries. Holllngsworth. who has returned from upcountry, resumed his
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    EURASIANS LOSE
    99 25 CHINESE BATSMEN TOO STRONG (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. The Chinese trounced the Eurasians by eight wickets and six runs today. The winners passed the Eurasians' score only in the last over. The Eurasians made 140. A. L. de Silva topscoring with 69 including 11 boundaries.
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    A.C.S. SPORTS
    56 25 The twenty-seventh annual athletic sports of the Anglo-Chinese School will be held on Friday. May 1. at the Jalan Besar stadium. The events for i old boys will be half mile and 440 yards relay against the present boys. Guardians, old boys and friends of the school will
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    Home League Football
    292 25 BLACKBURN BEAT THE VILLA London, Saturday. DESULTS of football games played today in the leasues. >ays It ;it«-r. were DIVISION I Aston Villa 2 Blackburn R. 4 Brentford 2 W. Erom. A 2 Derby C 4 Sunder ;v.u l v Everton 4 Birmingham i Huddersfipld 1 M
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    £50.000 OFFER REFUSED.
    43 25 London. Saturday. Following a conference, first and second division league clubs have decided unanimously not to sell the copyright of the league fixtures, thus turning down two offers by syndicates for £50,000 annually for ten years for the copyright— Reuter.
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    LEAGUE FOOTBALL TABLES
    1031 25 League tables correct to Friday are 1 as follows: DIVISION I. Goals. P. W. LD.FA. Pts. SuncWland CSk' *t 2* 10 109 70 66 Derby (6) 40 17 11 12 57 46 46 Huddersneld (16) 40 17 12 11 57 55 45 Stoke (10) 40 19 15
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    ANXIETY TO SEE SINGAPORE BADMINTON EXPERTS
    810 26 INVITATIONS FROM UP COUNTRY Tournaments For Women Only Being Considered By Our Badminton Correspondent TFHE success of the Singapore State team last year in all iis interStiite engagements, coupled with the reputation it now enjoys of bein<r the most formidable team in Malaya, has
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    11 26 Tan Boon Hong, President of the Useful Badminton Party of Singapore.
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    GIRLS' BASKET BALL TOURNAMENT
    28 26 The Chun* Hock Girls' School basket bail team (below) which beat tt» Nan y. in* Girls' School In the Singapore novices basket ball tournament.
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    KEDAH TOURNAMENT
    427 26 (From Our Own Correspondent). Alor Stai. The first match In the Kedah Badminton tournament was between Wong Wei Kee and I.lew Ah Sit, last year's champion, and Sehu Tap and Llm Say Telk, but as Sehu Tap could not play that night, a -allc over was awarded to
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    ALOR STAR GAMES
    214 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. The Yeok Khoon B.P. of Yen visited Alor Star and played the Kong Seong B.P. The visitors lost by the narrow margin of 3 games to 2. The following are the results i Kong Seong mentioned first) Ton Oeng long beat
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    PENANG TOURNEY
    127 26 The Penang junior badminton championships have reached the semifinal stages. Play will be continued during the week-end at the Volunteei Drill Hall. An unfortunate Incident marred the close of last week's games when Telk Lin fell heavily and twisted hi* arm in trying to make a return. He
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    AUGUST B.P.
    207 26 The August Badminton Party will visit Puloe Bukom today to play several friendly matches of badminton, ping pong and football. Teams will be selected from Badminton Wee Eng Slang. Low Poh San, Low Poh Hai. Koh Thlan Hock, Tay Khtng Ann, Son Hock Choon. Tan Chong Beng. Son
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    13 26 Tan Siong Leng, honorary sports captain of the Useful Badminton Party of Singapore.
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    NATIONAL B.P.
    47 26 Clubs and parties wishing to have frlendlv badminton matches with the National Padmlnton Party are requested to write to the hon# sports captain. Mr. Koh Leong Kirn. c o Gestetner < Eastern Ltd., Cecil Street, or c o Mr. Low Hock Chiang, 12, Winchester House, Singapore.
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    SELANGOR MEN'S DOUBLES
    701 26  -  Smash (By OELANGOR badminton will begin when the 1936 inter-team men's doubles championship is played at the Victoria Institution HaU this afternoon. No less than seven teams are' participating and the tournament is expected to end during the first week of June. This years competition promises to
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    CHETTIARS PLAY BADMINTON
    373 26 (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. Great Interest was shown In the Inter- district badminton fixture in which a team of chettlar badminton players from Kulim met their compatriots in this town. This was probably the first time In the history of local sport that this sccf'on of
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    REYNARD B.P.
    176 26 In the friendly game between the Reynard B.P. and the Evergreen BP. (B) played on Sunday last at the latter"s court, the former v.on by four games to one. Results (Reynard B.P. first) A. Rahman lost to Koh Leong Kirn 1111.5 11. 15—10; A. Rahlm beat Sng Bock
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    SELANGOR'S FIRST STATE FOOTBALL TRIAL
    737 27 LITTLE HELP TO THE SELECTORS Chinese Girl's Splendid Tennis Showing FILM TO TEACH SOCCER By "Springbok" Kuala Lumpur. •THREE former Perak players took part in the first Selangor football trial in Kuala Lumpur. They were Scoular, formerly of Taiping, and Badi and Jalleh, botb> attached
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    LEAGUE FOOTBALL IN SEGAMAT
    270 27 ASSOCIATION MEETING THIS WEEK (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. ris gratifying tnat ac long last the committet of the Segamat District Football Association is alive to the, necessity of the customary annual; football league and that a meeting is to be held this week. The effects
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    S.C.R.C. FOOTBALL
    70 27 The following wi:i represent the Straits Chinese Recreation Club against the Municipal Services A team at the Clerical Union ground on Monday Au I Kee Hock; Tan Huck Wan, Henry Boon. Fam Choo Beng. Low Kee Pow, T. W. Ong: Kam Glm Lock, Gan Kee Slang, Lee Mong
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    LOCKHART BOWLS WELL
    519 27 LOCKH ART BOWLS WELL SEVEN FOR 13 AGAINST SEGAMAT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. jLJ LOCKHART, of the Gentians Cricket Club, has been bowling remarkably well in the Club's fixtures this season. He crowned his ac >evements of five for 11 against Cn as and five for 21 against Tampin
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    TAMIL BROTHERHOOD'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY
    24 27 A croup Uken when the Tamil Brotherhood Party of Singapore held tlieir first anniversary celebration on Tamil New Year day.
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    KRISHNAN'S FIVE FOR EIGHT
    262 27 JOHORE C.C.'s EASY WIN OVER R.A.F, 'From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. OEMARKABLE bowling by Krishnan, who took five wickets for eight runs, was the chief factor which enabled the Johore Cricket Club to b»at the Royal Air Force by six wickets. The R.A.F. batted first
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    SEGAMAT TENNIS.
    112 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat A lawn tennis team from Batu Pahat visited Segamat last week and beat the Segamat Club by two games to one In a friendly match. Due to insufficient time the games were, only of one set each, while the fourth game was left
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    OLD RIVALS TO MEET
    526 27 SUNGEI UJONG AND NEGRI CLUBS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. THE most Important club cricket match of the Negri Sembilan season takes place here this week with the meeting of the old rivals, the Sungei Tjong; Club and the Negri Sembilan Club. The Sungei Ujong Club
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    28 27 C crew of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club regatta: Mrs. Misselbrook (cox), J. C. Allan (stroke), N. C. Roberts. F. Thomas, B. L. Missel brook (bow). 1 wr
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    26 27 D crew of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club regatta Miss Uniacke (cox), L. F. Duncan (stroke), C. W. MacPberson, R. Hanson and J. B. Dunne (bow).
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    KEPPEL GOLF CLUB
    61 27 In the Keppel Golf Club April women's foursome played on Friday the following cards were returned: Mrs. E. Litchflcld and Mrs. A. J. Donald 45— 10>4=343i Miss V. Patterson and Mrs. G. L. Eyre 47— 11%=35V4: Mrs. J. McDonnell and Mrs. A. M. Low 51 13=38. The
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    TWO FOOTBALL TRIALS
    386 27 PERAK GETTING READY FOR STATE GAMES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping. '"TWO North Perak football trials were held here during the week to select the team to represent the North against the South in a State trial shortly. Football talent was drawn from, among other districts. Larut.
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