The Straits Times, 17 May 1936

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA No. 230 Sunday, May 17, 1936 Price 10 cents FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 230 Sunday, May 17, 1936 Price 10 cents.
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    1.600-YEAR-OLD GRAVES FOUND ON MALAYAN ESTATE
    497 1 ACCIDENTAL FINDS REVEAL PENINSULA'S EARLIEST HISTORY Sequel To Widening Of Road (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. ARCHAEOLOGICAL finds have been made on estates in the Sl-m River and Tanjong Malim districts which alter the accem d version of Malaya's earliest history. They
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    Nanking Control Over North China To End
    414 1 Japanese Demand Accepted Shanghai, Saturday. Hapd and Chahar Provinces will bo entirely divorced from Nanking control by July I. Information, which confirm* lor months past by i and Chine c cirrles. i.s r irted to hr.ye beer received from offldsJ in Pclpl .g.
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    FOUND HANGING
    92 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturd .y. A JAPANESE dentist named Ohtsu was found hanging in the surgery of Dr. K. Homma in Jalan Ibrahim here today. Dr. Homma had been in Singapore and when he returned he was unable to get any reply when he knocked
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    JAPAN'S BUDGET
    78 1 V.709,170.000 NEEDED TO BALANCE Tokio, Saturday. The Lower House passed by 36 votes to 37 the Budget totalling 2.309.910,000 Yen expenditure, made up as follows: Navy, Y. 550.390.000; Army. V 508.310.--000; Finance. Y 497.560.000 Home Office. V. 206.810.000; Communications. Y. 196.490.000; Tducatlon, V 142.380.--000; Agriculture. V 94.400.000 Justice.
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    KING'S HORSE SCRATCHED
    15 1 The King's horse Fairey has been scratched from the Derby, says Reuter.
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    35 1 A new type of kite, here being: tested in Regent's Park, London, v.iiirh it is claimed ran prevent an aeroplane from crashing. It is the invention of Mr. W. Snappy, an authority on kite design.
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    'FLU OUTBREAK
    94 1 SINGAPORE STAFFS DEPLETED jyj.WY office staffs ..i Singapore arc being depleted by influenza. A mild epidemic has affected many families. The Municipal Health authorities told the Sunday Times yesterday that illnesses like influenza were usually heavier at this time of the year, because of the change of the
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    ENGINE TROUBLE
    75 1 NEW SINGAPORE FLYING BOATS DELAYED The Singapore 111 Hying boats which are on their way from England to join Squadron FB 205. Singapore, have been delayed at Karachi. One of the two flying boats has had trouble with one engine and repairs are being made. The other machine
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    MR. HU HAN-MIN'S
    44 1 STATUE FOR NANKING Nankins. Saturday. A statue of Mr. Hu Han-min, veteran statesman who died in Canton .n Tuesday, will be erected In Nanking Funds for this purpose wili be rals?d by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the Premier. -Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    AIR-COMMODORE SMITH
    31 1 Air-Commodore Sydney Smith, Air Officer Commanding the R.A.F., Far East, who has been visiting Kuala Lumpur, will be flown back to Singapore tomorrow by No. 100 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron.
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    "EUROPE MUST HEAR"
    143 1 MUSSOLINI ON THE CRY OF ITALY Paris, Saturday. ABYSSINA is now entirely, irrev- ocably and exclusively Italian," declared Mussolini in the course of an interview with Le Matin's special correspondent in Rome. The correspondent, having recalled that Mussolini in a conversation with him last September had stressed
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    A SCOUT SAVES DROWNING MAN
    130 1 A SCOUT SAVES DROWNING MAN SEIZED WITH CRAMP IN SWIMMING POOL (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. Saturday. A Chinese while swimming in the Kinta Swimming Club, today was seized with cramp and sank in a section of the pool that is ten feet deep. When the man sank a second
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    REPULSE REFITTED
    107 1 Now Carrying Four Battle Planes London, Saturday. The big battle cruiser Repulse, which has been entirely rebuilt in the course of the past three and a half years, will put to sea on June 8 and proceed to the Mediterranean in order to reinforce the British fleet there.
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    NEW WORLD RECORD
    45 1 Birmingham, Alabama, Saturday. Forrest Towns, a Georgia University i undergradute, established a world record for the 120 yards hurdles today ,by covering the distance in 14 1-10 seconds, beating the record of P. Beard (U.S.A.) by l-10th. of a second j Rruter.
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    BABY FLIES TO LONDON
    132 1 BABY FLIES TO LONDON TPHE youngest passenger to fly from Australia to England lias just passed through Singapore. He was "Baby" Edward Brcwn agea 20 months. The child arrived with his parents. Dr. and Mrs E. E Brown, from Brisbane in a Qantas machine, and joined the Imperial plane for
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    HOME CRICKET
    121 1 Late News /"M,OSK of play scores in county cricket tames which began yesterday, says Reuter. are At Lords M.C.C. 382. Hendrcn 88. Wyatt 65. Allen 54. Human 115 All India 6 for 0. At Hove Sussex 297 Leicester 88 for 3. At Derby: Derbyshire 175, Gover 5 for
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    DAVIS CUP
    24 1 At Dusseldorf Germany beat Hungary 3 o. At Montreux Switzerland beat Denmark 3 o. At Dublin Ireland beat SweUer. J —1 Reuter.
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    94 1 Thousands of militiamen and flelmwehrmen taking part in Austria's first militia parade heard a fighting speech by Vicechancellor Prince Starhemberg, who breaking a long silence, declared that the militia would be dissolved only over his dead body. He assured Chancellor Schuschnigg of the loyal support of the Heimwehr in "rooting
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    WATER STILL RISING
    266 1 Selangor Flood Grows Worse (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. FURTHER heavy rain fell last night and today at Tanjong Malim and estates on the Selangor side of the village are flooded to a record depth. It is still raining and the waters which subsided a
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    BURIED ALIVE
    67 1 Gipsies Who Refused To Leave Cave Madrid. Saturday. Seven gipsies were killed and two seriously injured when a cave in which a family lived near the village of Lada suddenly collapsed, burying all its sleeping inmates under the debris. The authorities had repeatedly warned the gipsies that the
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    Colony Cavalcade
    1813 2 The Man in the Street And The Man in the Slum A Personal Problem In Singapore Today I SUPPOSE it is true to say that many people in Singapore have felt for some time past a growing impatience with their own ignorance of the slum problem in this
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    MR. J. H. THOMAS ENTERTAINS MALAYAN STUDENTS
    305 3 Miss Maggie Tan, Miss Thora Oehiers And Mr. F. B. Oehiers TEA AT COLONIAL OFFICE (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 10. QKVERAL Malayans were among a, largo number of students who werr entertained to tea by the j Secretary of State for
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    Making English The World's Language.
    82 3 'T'liE Board of Education and the Board or Trade are co-operat-ing in a scheme to spread the use of the English language all over the world. A semi-official body known as the British Council, supplied with funds from the Government, has awarded bursaries to fourteen
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    TWO NEW SHIPS
    132 3 FOR SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO. T*HE Swedish East Asiatic Co. is to augment its freight service to Singapore and the Far East by the iddition of two 10,000-ton ships for which orders have been placed with juilders in Gothenburg. They will inaugurate a faster ;ervice im which
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    27 3 Mile. Kyra Nljinsky, the only child of the dancer, was married to Mr. Igor Markovitch. a young Russian conductor, at the Coronation Church in Budapest on Saturday.
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    21 3 As a protest against Sanctions Italy has refused to send a team to compete at the International Horse Show at Nice.
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    Things People Say
    152 3 We have a public who will not tole- rate malaria and who rightly feel that to be burdened with malaria is not 1 only disastrous but a disgrace. Dr. J. W. Scharff. Men in Persia now face the same problems as those in the West they have
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    NANKING CONTEST
    272 3 50,000 SPECTATORS SEE KITE-FLYING MOKE than 50.000 Nanking people turned out to witness last week the kite-flying contost held under the auspices of the Metropolitan People's Athletic Association. Dr. Chu Min-yl, former official of the Executive Yuan and an enthusiastic follower of the sport, was chief Judge. Despite
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    21 3 Mr. George Riddell Allardice. a British merchant and one of the oldest members of the Valparaiso (Chile) Stock Exchange, is deaa.
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    27 3 Lord Greville has received an anonymous gift of 10s. for the Rebuilding Fund of St. George's Hospital from "A Scots Maid" as a thank-offering for a lob.
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    Sea-Snakes Take Refuge In Fishing Stakes
    392 3 Sea -Snakes Take Refuge In Fishing Stakes FEARLESSLY HANDLED BY MALAYS IT has often been said that poiaonous sea-snakes climb up fishing stakes, and that the Malay and Chinese fishermen never pay any attention to tl ni. An eye-witness of such an occurrence is Vicomte R. de Bondy, who writes
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    PLAN TO KILL DUTCH QUEEN
    61 3 PLAN TO KILL DUTCH QUEEN The Hague. 7HE Public Prosecutor here demanded a sentence of five years' imprisonment for a Communist who had, it is alleged, suggested the assassination of Queen Wilhclmina. The accused, named Houtman, is sfated to have wriilen a letter to the Communist leader, M. de Viiser,
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    RATS CAUSE FATAL GAS LEAK
    90 3 HOLE IN LEAD PIPE A leakage in a gas pipe caused by rats was stated at Hull to have been responsible f yr th c death of James Beever, aged 55. a museum attendant. A gas inspector produced a length of lead pipe in which
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    30 3 Fifty swallows, apparently exhausted by the flight over the Alps and surprised by a sudden cold spell, sought refuge in a bed in a house near Lindau, on Lake Constance.
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    BLINDING HEADACHES MADE HER HELPLESS
    194 3 Forced to Lie Down For Hours at a Time The vverHy of this woma.i's mMmM can be easily Imagined from her Maiement that the seemed to lose her sight, and all power In her hands. Other sufferers horn headaches will b> Interested to read her
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    35 3 MISS DOREEN EVANS, one of the best-known British women drivers, had to leap for her life during the international trophy race at Brooklands and is seen running across the track after leaping from her car.
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      266 3 mm Why go to Peking to buy the famous FETTE PEKING LIVE WOOL CARPET RUGS? We have them here, all ready to lay on your floor at PEKING FACTORY PRICES IN SINGAPORE We are offering these rugs at prices never before witnessed in Singapore at THE JADE TREE RAFFLES m
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      338 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY HOTELS StA \II W HOTEL: Special Tlfun anj J Special I-.nncr. 1 CINEMAS ALII.iMHRA: On Screen— Way Down 13«sv M o'clocl: Revue. 3.15 6.15— 9.15. CAPITOL: Modem Tir.iK with Charlie Chaplin. 3.l»— ClS— 9.la. GLOBE THEATri.'. GREAT WORLD:, Broadway Gondolier v.ith Dirk Powell -nd Joan Blondell. 7
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      309 3 Mails from Europe (Amsterdam) expectca today by air (Netherlands) will be delWerea to boxholders at 8 p.m. General delivery or letters on Monday at 8.25 a.m. Mails from Holland etc. «m Tuesday t/f Balocran I Mi. SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD Saturday. May 16. EMBt Wruirf Rohna 22 1 Muinam 20 1
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    LOST PEARLS RECALLS SENSATIONAL ROBBERY
    2077 4 Scotland Yard, Singapore And Siamese Police Baffled ROPE OF 242 PEARLS WORTH £8,000 FOR QUEEN OF SIAM Sealed Box From London Empty When Opened In Bangkok BELGIAN WHARFINGER GAOLED FOR HOLDING STOLEN PROPERTY THE sensational loss, and equally sensational recovery, of a $35,000 string of
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    Legends Of The Hock-Chew Hair Ornaments
    169 4 I^AMPONG KOH. Slttawan, nas one of the largest Hock-chew populations, in Malaya, and among the older women of the tribe, one occasionally sees dangerous looking knives worn as hair ornaments. They are made of heavy silver and are beautifully engraved. In ancient times these
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    FLYING BOATS ON EMPIRE ROUTE
    316 4 FLYING BOATS ON EMPIRE ROUTE FIRST MACHINE HERE NEXT YEAR ""THE first of the Empire fiyinff boats for the England-Singa-pore-Sydney air route will probably be seen at Singapore early next >car. Cnc of the fc-jr.nl machine? is nearly completed and wiil be put through rigorous tests. Slight modifications are usually
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    WOMAN IN CAR WAS DRIVER'S WIFE
    122 4 MY COMPLIMENTS," SAID THE MAGISTRATE Edward Robert Cecil Matthews of Dartmouth Park Hill, Highgate, was summoned at Wood Green for being in such a position when driving a car as not to have proper control of it. A police officer said Matthews drove with
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    ACTRESS FALLS OUT OF 'PLANE BIARRITZ TRAGEDY.
    115 4 ACTRESS FALLS OUT OF 'PLANE BIARRITZ TRAGEDY. Paris. Mile. Germainc Recart, a Parisian film actress under the name of Nadia Cortes, was killed when she fell out ot a two-seater touring aeroplane near Biarritz. The 'plane was piloted by Senar de la Gandara, a Spanish resident of Biarritz. The 'plane
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    U.S.A. LEAD IN CIVIL AIRCRAFT
    134 4 BRITAIN RANKS FOURTH T"UE U.S.A., with 9,072 machines, heads the list of countries with registered civil aircraft, according to a report issued by the Air Ministry. Of this number 426 are employed in regular air transport. Franco has the second largest num- ber of civil
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    MAN WHO IS IN DAILY CONTACT WITH THE CITY'S TRAGEDIES
    466 5 SINGAPORE CORONER'S BUSY TIME 277 Inquests In First Quarter Of Year I TELEPHONE rings it's three o'clock in the morning a sleeping form awakes and picks up the receiver "All right, I'll be there in a few minutes He hurriedly
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    BACK FROM DEAD
    166 5 GIRL REVIVES AFTER NEW DKUG INJECTION London. After bcin:; "dead" for 15 minutes, i.iisy Allen, aged 22. if O"i r ord. Is recovering—thanks to tw> remarkable confidences. The Jirst coincidence," her mother said. was that her doctor—Dr. E. Ju.;t:n Bailey —who was not due to pay his
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    A PORTER'S DUTY TO SLAM DOORS
    156 5 A PASSENGER'S DUTY TO KKEP HIS HANDS AWAY It is the duty of a railway porter to see that doors which swing open are ■hot before the train goes to shut as many as he can while the train 13 stationary, and slam the
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    POLICE BAND
    74 5 The Police Band will play on 1 rsday at the Botanic Gardens at \"0 p.m.: March. Manhattan Beach (J. P. Sousa) Overture, Story of the Overtures (part 2) (Aubrey Winter); 1 -tion, Cock Robin Co. (Gordon E. Stutely) Intermezzo. Demoiselle Chic (Percy E. Fletcher): Fox-trots, n> Colombo (Horatio
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    Victoria Theatre MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE'S DECISION
    268 5 Victoria Theatre MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE'S DECISION |L|UNICIPAL Committee No. 1, at a meeting held on May 5, In connection with the agreement for tne letting of the Victoria Theatre tor exhibition of sound films, agreed (1) That so far as it Is possi. In differing circumstances to make comparisons, the present
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    SUN-WORSHIP IN HUNGARY
    270 5 BARBARIC CEREMONY AT DAWN Budapest. A revival of the Hungarian heathen religion known as the Turanian Faith, closely resembling 3en. Ludenilorff's German paganism, was Inaugurated by a barbarous ceremony In the town of Oroshaza. At sunrise two halfmoon scars were cut on the cheeks of a recently
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    13 5 Si Ha*ry Luke, L:eutenant-Oovernor :>f Malta, has left on a visit to Tunis.
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    Flats To Rest On This Foundation
    114 5 NEW FLATS TO BE BUILT NEAR ORCHARD ROAD Foundations Being Prepared CLOW but inevitable is the encroachment of the Singapore builder upon the low-lying areas adjoining Orchard Road just beyond the Pavilion Theatre. Two blocks of three-storeyed flat* are soon to go up between
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    22 5 Employees of both sexes, w;-o are compelled at 25 to join the German Labour Front, have been ordered to undergo medical examination.
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    "THE MUSIC GOES 'ROUND AND AROUND" SINGAPORE
    263 5 Biggest Hit Since "Yes, We Have No Bananas A FTER weeks of throbbing popular- ity throughout the length and breadth of America and In all the capitals of Europe that cra7y song has set Singapore humming. I blow through here; the music goes
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    $2,000 SAVINGS STOLEN
    119 5 NO HIDING PLACE SECURE ENOUGH Nyl Chang-kens, a well-to-do farmer of Nantung. has lost his $2,000 savings despite his attempts to find a good place to hide his money. Several bandits came to Nyl's home one night and Instead of searching the house they took his only
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    20 5 An armed bandit held up the cashier in the bar of Jack Dempsey's restaurant opposite Madison Square Garden. New York.
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    GIRLS EARNING OWN LIVELIHOOD
    144 5 '4 OUT OF 5' ESTIMATE. Out of every two sirls of 14 years of age in England >ne is earning her own living, and out cf every five girls of 18 and over four are earning their own living, and out of every five pirls of
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    30 5 The bells of Great Horwood (Bucks) Parish Church were rung to celebrate the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs. J Marks. Mr. Marks has been a bellringer for 53 years.
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      315 5 STOMACH SUFFERER SINCE CHILDHOOD. To be perfectly fit and able to eat{ anything after over 20 years of acute! stomach trouble Is more than most people would dare hope far JPtt this has actually happened to Mr A. C. These are his own words: "I must teH you how thankful
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    PRETTY GIRLS TO UNDERMINE DISCIPLINE IN U.S. NAVY
    650 6 "PROPAGANDA PILLS NOW SWEETIE- COATED" But Sailors Take Care AMERICAN Communists are accused of using pretty girls as Shock Troops to undermine naval discipline on the Pacific Coast says the Washington correspondent of the Morning Post. In Americancse," the California Comrades," it
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    "LEAGUE FATAL TO PEACE"
    342 6 LORD EUSTACE PERCY ON PRESENT DANGERS London, Saturday. MM Kustace P«r«>. who recently resinned from the Government. ayefckJag at a Ceasenrattwi meetine Oxford last night on the League «.i Nations, said the present construt lion of the League was fatal to praee. hut for the enforcement
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    AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER
    78 6 London. Miss Lize Maugham, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Somerset Maugham. Is to marry Mr. Vincent Paravicinl. only son of the Swiss Minister to Great Britain and Madame Paravicinl. Mr. Somerset Maugham is best known for his literary achievements, although he gave up a successful medical
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    FLYING BOAT IN HEAVY STORM
    235 6 NIGHT AT SEA OFF SARAWAK COAST IN R.A.F. flying-boat from Seletar, with Squadron-Leader J. B. Lloyd. flight-Lieutenant R. A. A. Cole and j Flying-Officer H. J. Hobbs aboard, had a narrow escape when it was forced down by a violent storm off the coast of
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    STOP SMUGGLING!
    132 6 CHINA'S LOAN SERVICE MORATORIUM HINT Shanghai. Saturday. Dr. H. H. Kung, the Finance Minister, has denied that a Sin '-American monetary agreement had been concluded as a result of the Washington negotiations which were merely an exchange of official opinion. Dr. Kung said that China had not approached
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    24 6 Dorothy Round is playing tennis well up to form this season and here site is reaching for a low re turn on the backhand.
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    Memorial To Late King
    273 6 STATUE NEAR ABBEY AND PLAN FOR PLAYING FIELDS London, Saturday. THE newspapers generally welcome the decision that the memorial to the late King shall take the form of a statue on a cleared site to the south of Westminster Abbey and opposite the! Victoria Tower of
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    WOMEN AT THE RACES
    328 6 (By Our Woman Correspondent.) ALTHOUGH women racegoers were not so plentiful at Bukit Timah yesterday as on the previous Saturday, there was no lack, of smilling faces for many had not only picked the winners but several had won cash sweeps! Mrs. B. E. Johannes, looking
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    NAVAL CHANGES
    86 6 London. Saturday. The Admiralty announces the following flag appointments: ViceAdmiral Geoffrey Blake to be VlceI Admiral Commanding the Battle Cruiser Squadron in succession to Vice- Admiral Sidney R. Bailey, to I date from July. 1936. Vice- Admiral Blake will assume command in August iwhen he will relieve Vice-
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    68 6 Noon, Saturday. Buyers Sellers No. 1 K. R.S.S. (F. 0.8.) May 26 3/16 26'< i Good F.A.Q. in eases (F. 0.8.) May 2€ 2«H No. 1 K. R.S.S. in cases (Spot loose) awardable Spore 26's 26W June 26>4 26*6 July-Sept. 26% Oct-Dec. 26V* 27 Jan -Mar. 27V6 27
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    STORM IN HOUSE OF PEERS
    137 6 JUSHA TSUMURA SENDS IN RESIGNATION Tokio, Saturday. The stormy session in the House of Peers had a sequel in the adoption of disciplinary measures, for the first time in the 47 years in the annals or the Upper House, against Jusha Tsumura. a patent medicine
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    STRIKERS CAPTURE ENGINEERS
    100 6 KEPT DOWN MINE AS HOSTAGES Madrid. Saturday. An original and drastic method of attempting to enforce their demands has been adopted by 450 miners on strike in the Penaroya pits. The strikers bundled two French and three Spanish mining engineers, as well as the local president of
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    FORMER BANK CLERK AS A BOOK-MAKER
    96 6 CHINESE ADMITS OFFENCE IN IPOH COURT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. Saturday. Choy Ah Wah. a former Bank clerk, was arrested today opposite the General Post Office and charged in the police court with book-making Pleading guilty to the charge Ah Wah stated that
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    CHESS MASTERS
    109 6 PROMINENT PLAYERS NOW IN GERMANY Bad Nauheim. Saturday. Almost simultaneously with the "Olympia chess tournament" organised at Munich, the preliminary rounds of which have just begun at Bad Ester, a still more hotly contested chess tournament is about to start at Bad Nauheim. Among the prominent foreign players
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    In England Now
    29 7 In every part of the country, hundreds of youths and girls are now spending week-ends in camp. Ths picture shows campers bringing in wood and provisions.
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    THE PHILATELIC MONTH OF MAY
    922 7  -  Fred J. Melville Stamp Collecting By MAY is usually a very busy month for philatelists in Britain, and to a lesser extent in other parts of the world. A royal month, it embraces the birthday anniversaries of Queen Vie- toria and Queen Mary, as well
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      409 7 18. CONDUIT STREET. LONDON. W. I. IS A FAVOURITE MEETING PLACE FOR MALAYANS. H. G, DISS. (late of Singapore.) Managing Director of Coni Sc Co., Ltd., the well known High-Class Tailoring business, invites those coming home on leave to pay him a visit. All orders n^elved by him will be
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      474 7 Today's Wireless Programmes EMPIRE STATION. TRANSMISSION 1. i The following (requenciev will be useO: (■•> 1182 Me s (25 38 m.l. GSB 9. 51 Me s 131.55 ml 11 M am B'g Ben Brlb, and an Empire Srivice* from St. Paul's Cathedral. Lon- j 1:01. Order of Bel Ik* Introductory
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      326 7 2. The Dutch R«d Croat. Talk by Mr. Dr. D. A. P N. Kootea. 3. Music. 4. PvUMeal review by Paul d« Waart. 5. Ml vim. News. 6. Music. BEGINNING OF THE PHOHI PROGRAMME FOR THK NETHERLANDS I OILS Wavelength 16.88 m. 8.2* p.m.— Dutch National Anthem and opeaiac announcement.
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    NEW PILOTS OWING TO DOUBLING OF QANTAS SERVICE
    822 8 NEW PILOTS OWING TO DOUBLING OF QANTAS SERVICE Two Of Best -Known In Commercial Flying In Australia MEW pilots are being appointed by Qantas Empire Airways for the Singapore-Australia link because of the duplication of the through service to Australia. Two of the best known pilots in Australian commercial aviation
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    47 8 At the Eastern Command Bronze Medal Tournament at Hounslow Heath. the King's Cup and Prince of Wales's Cup for jumping were competed for. The picture shows S.C.M. Wyer, of the Life Guards, using his revolver at the jump in the Other Ranks Sword. Lance and Revolver contest.
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    CANNIBAL FEAST AT ZOO
    455 8 Tragedy Of Hissing Sand Snake ALLIGATOR ESCAPES TO A ROOF IT was a hectic day in the Reptile Houso at the London Zoo. Within a few hours keepers had to capture an escaped alligator solve the problem of a vanished snake, and spring-clean George." An official
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    25 8 Belgian Is negotiating with Holland tor the conversion of the balance of ■he C l 3 300 000 loan she secured from Holland in 1934.
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    EUROPE LEARNING ENGLISH
    290 8 "Most Favoured" Language FOREIGN STUDENTS IN ENGLAND 1 FNGLJSH is becoming increasingly the lingua franca of Europe. Lithuania and Latvia, in whose schools French and German have hitherto been the chief foreign languages taught, have decided to give flrst place to English. Finland Is considering the matter,
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    ARTIFICIAL SILK'S NEW NAME
    157 8 OBJECTION TO "RAYON" QSBCRIBING It as a matter "of fundamental Importance to the future of the British artificial silk Industry." British Celanese Ltd. have Issued a statement against "the efforts now being made by a number of wellmeaning but misguided interests to secure the official adoption
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    ANDREW SWAN
    215 8 STRANDED ON ISLAND IN PACIFIC A NDREW Swan, able seaman, and real life Robinson Crusoe, has died in the Seamen's Home at Auckland, New Zealand, following an operation. He was about 67. While woj:ing,as a saii-maker In a sailing ship bound from Brisbane to Honolulu, the ship took
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    DEFENCE PAID FOR BY DRINK TAX
    117 8 VICTUALLER'S CLAIM "The revenue collected through the trade practically pays for the upkeep of the country's defence forces." said Mr. John Morgan. Manchester, President of the Llc?nsed Victuallers' Dei fence League, at the annual conference i at Southsea. "It Is said that the increase
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    27 8 Mrs. William M. Francis has died at the age of 101 In Eastern Ontario, where she had lived since she left Ireland as a child of fire.
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      224 8 The golf championship and then a CARLSBERG FOR QUALITY APB S WOODS' KPMRmJnTOM For 26 years pust Woods' Tiiere should always be a Great Peppermint Cure has bottle of Woods' Great been the standard family Peppermint Cure handy medicine of all residents of in the house or when Malaya. It
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      297 8 The Source Of Beauty. 'Mfekc-up' cannot create the source of Beauty it destroys the recuperative power of the shin, and the user Is driven to go on using expensive subterfuges to hide the ravages of tune. How much better, more sensible, more economical it is to rrly on the i;-itural
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    HISTORY OF MALACCA LIBRARY
    3900 10  -  Dr. A. L. Hoops By Record Of Many Names Now Famous In Malaya |~\URING most of its existence the Malacca Library has been housed in the historic Stadthouse, although it was for some years in the old resthouse. The Malacca Library was started In November, 1881,
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    Malayan Musings: Casual Comments On This And That
    1245 11 «rIIAT Is described as a minor revolution has occurred In the C". jrlon Post Office— a ban on formal phrases in corresM I Have, Sir, P**"*a such m The Honour "y° ur <*«*«»« To Be—" servant and I have the honour. It
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    201 11 53 SQUARE PEGS I The journal British Malaya protests against a brilliant statistician bmng buried In Perak as a District OBiccr and indicts the "Powcrs-that-Dc" for ordering such things. i Governments move in mystic tcays their wonders to perform, And common men don't understand in s ignorance they
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1559 12  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By "WHAT do they mean by a Budget leakage," asked the Awful Child, poring over the newspapers. "They mean that some smart gentlemen xoere able to find out that there ivould f> a tax on tea and insure against it." "What do you mean
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      232 12 B V^ X M /%L%sSf^^*m£ .^^p^^^ggflL^/fl Im 11/ gggi HJi |h VY i ri^T^'^y ■i\ ggft I Ht" g^B^^gggflHg^^^Q^H William E Scots Whisky The Spirit of unexcelled and unvarying flavour. SOLE AGENTS: TEL. 5378 ■-^-mmm^___ __^m W.S. 1 Take SANATOGEN and enjoy Youthful Vitality iLJ**'^ ffc ■■■kt^^i 2aL A&ftg gggfe
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      430 12 CONTRACT BRIDGE JHE hand shown below was the B y THE FOUR ACES last played that evening, but it was almost half an hour before the of course elcmentary South S players could go home. South who was o f a very |two notrump was based principally on excitable tem-
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    Mary Pickford Writes A Novel
    224 13 'Purest And Very Bad Hollywood' The Demi- Widow. By Mary Pickford. Methucn ?s. 6d. MISS PICKFORD must have read so many scripts in the course of her career on the films, that it is perhaps no wonder a novel by her should be purest and
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    443 13 Stories Of Russian Secret Service High Trcas;>:i. By Col. Victor K. j ICalrdin. !l:;rst and ■lttlkott. 18s. fCLONEL Kaledin's "High Trea- j .i is further proof of the i exceptionally arduous, dangerous and difficult nature of a super-spy's j career. The author of "K14 0M66" i now tells
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    GRIM PICTURE OF WAR
    179 13 Murchinrr Minstrel. By Violet Campbell. Murray's Imperial Library. The Marching Minstrel marched with Sir John Moore's retreat across the uplands of Northern Spain to Corunna and Miss Campbell gives us a grim picture of the terrified populace and the retreating army, pursued by Soult's cavalry and
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    Unusual And Amusing
    310 13 The Feather Cloak. By Katherine M. Yates. Roaring Ran«:e. By L. P. Holmes. Hurst and Blackett. 7s. 6d. Each. THE excuse of searching for a unique and valuable 1 -Uher cloak, old native work, whicl. has mysteriously disappeared in Honolulu sends Jack Sands and Alberta Martin to
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    MORBID BUT GOOD
    426 13 Escape From Drab Surroundings Self-Accused. By Phyllis Austin. Riders of the Lost Valley. By Cl«e Woods. Melrose. 7s. 6d. "CELF-ACCUSED" is a somewhat morbid tale about an orphan boy, Jeremy Blake, who is brought up by las uncle, Old Blake, the dealer in antiques, ancient and modern.
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    TWO MYSTERY STORIES
    260 13 Ab-jvc the Lav. 1 By John (loot'r.vln. The Professor Dies. By John Royland. Jenkins Colonial Library. LJEHE are two excellent mystery stories, maned by a common fault.] Both are too 'ong and too complicated. "Zero" is an unknown and very powerful blachmaller, who remains "outside the law"
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    The "Bookies" Of Malaya
    180 14 !|N October, 1907. 'bookies" were I banned in Malaya, and since then the big business of betting has j been officially the monopoly of the turf clubs. Officially, but not actually everyone knows that, and the clubs are very concerned about jit. So also are, or
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    The Scourges
    146 14 N° P la B ue > cholera or smallpox that is the almost invariable entry against Singapore in the L.O.N Eastern Health Bureau report, and it la very gratifying. But the Bureau is concerned mainly with notoriously infectious diseases, and there are others about which the need for
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    Our Judges
    164 14 MEMBERS of the Singapore Bar I Committee were safe in assuming that public opinion would support their views concerning the qualifications of judges, stated in the notably forthright memorandum published the other day. The surprising thing is that the I Government should ever have furnished occasion for such
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    An Oasis Of Civilisation In Malaya's Vast Jungle Expanse
    1243 14 An Oasis Of Civilisation In Malaya's Vast Jungle Expanse THIRTY thousand acres of kampongs am 1 padi fields, forming an oasis f civilisation in a vast expanse of virgin jungle such is the spectacle that will be seen by airmen passing over Telok Anson in a few years' time. No
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    547 14 \kT& recently papered the under- graduate world from Princeton, New Jersey, to Leland Stanford. California, with quesiionnaires asking for masculine comment on ftminine fashions and qualities. 1 hey came whipping back to us with an all-time high In percentage-of-returns. We found the college man frantically
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    AUSTRALIA PLANS TO GROW MALAYAN FRUITS
    340 15 Mazigosteens, Rambutans And Papayas For Queensland PLANTS AND SEEDS SENT FROM SINGAPORE |\,|ANGOSTEENS, jack fruit, papaya, rambutans •**and other varieties of Malayan fruit are being taken to Australia in the hope of building up a tropical fruit industry in Queensland. Malayan fruit seeds and
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    SEA MONSTER OFF TALAIMANNAR PIER?
    174 15 "OX-SIZED HEAL ON A THIN NECK" A sea monster has been sighted off Talaimannar Pier. It was seen by a party of young men who were walking on the sea-shore. One of them Mr. Patric said he noticed what he took to be a large
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    STILL ACTIVE AT 101
    31 15 J^jK. George Miller of Pcldon, ITI near Colchester, has just celebrated his 101 st birthday. He is still active, works in bis garden and walks to church.
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    BIG-GAME FISHING CRUEL?
    280 15 BIG-GAME FISHING CRUEL? R.S.P.C.A. SAY THEY ARE POWERLESS Sydney. pill American novelist, Mr. Zane Grey, who had said that he would r,o nnd fish somewhere else if he was not left in peace," and the Nay SMrth Wales Tourist Department, which had been deeply disturbed cwr the whole affair, waited
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    CARRYING POTEEN IN HIS STOMACH
    121 15 FARMER SENT TO PRISON An unusual prosecution took place at Castlebar. Co. Mayo, Irish Free State, when a farmer was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for being in possession of poteen (illicitly-distilled spirits) by carrying It in his stomach. He was Nicholas Mangan. The pro--1
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    IMAGE DID NOT GLITTER
    179 15 BUT IT WAS GOLD AN old man in Osaka who bought a dirty little image of Buddha for 60 sen at a night-stall in Nishl Kujo, Osaka, has discovered that his purchase is worth its weight in gold, reports the Japan Chronicle. At) earnest believer in
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    BRITISH GUARD IN ADDIS ABABA
    54 15 A HITHERTO unpublished picture of the Sikh guard at the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Not only did they defend the Legation from the Abyssinians when rioting and looting: broke out following the flight of the Emperor, but rescued the American Legation staff when the
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    JAPANESE PREMIER SUPERSTITIOUS?
    157 15 REFUSAL TO TAKE UP OFFICIAL RESIDENCE Tokio. IN an attempt to normalise the extra- ordinary situation created by Mr. K. Hirota's consistent refusal to take up residence in the sumptuous official Premier's quarters provided for him by the Government, unless something was done to the rooms where
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    NANKING'S OFFICIAL FASHION NOTES
    45 15 Nanking. Beginning thli month all women employed in Government offices in the capital must wear uniform dress ana* take a course in medical first-aid training The uniform will consist ol a short blue jacket, black skirt, black stockings, and black shoes.
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    CHINA'S YOUNGEST FILM ACTRESS
    232 15 SELLING PAPERS TO AID AGED MOTHER A LITTLE girl who is perhaps China's youngest film actress is I bravely facing hard times in selling newspapers t> support her aged moj ther. Her sad but inspiring story is told 'in the "Takungpao" which states that 'the girl,
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    The Keris As A Poisoned Weapon
    278 15 ""THE old European authors sptak of the keris as a poisoned weapon. In modern times the keris is certainly not poisoned, although many types of keris, which were made small to economise iron, were poisoned but as the keris got bigger it was found
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    Scientist Finds Peephole In Milky Way VIEW OF COSMIC OPEN SPACES
    387 15 Scientist Finds Peephole In Milky Way VIEW OF COSMIC OPEN SPACES New York. /"\l'R sun, once regarded as tite proud ruler of the universe, is more and more being 1 mate to feel its insignificance as astronomer-;, nightly peering at the hcavrns, compare it to a tallow caudle in contrast
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    ATE BOLTS OFF HIS CELL DOOR
    92 15 AFTER SWALLOWING RING When Joseph Shalopski was sentenced at Glasgow iv 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour for breaking into the shop of an antique dealer In EgUnton-street, Glasgow, and stftitnt fur coats and jewellery, it was stated that ho Stole a ring and
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    21 15 An order for 160 British fighting tcroplanes at a cost of £1.357.000 has been placed In Britain by the Austral^m Government.
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    1893 16  - MAINLY ABOUT MALAYANS The Onlooker By 'A LTHOUGH Mr. G. B. Gardner is past the age at which Europeans usually retire from this country, his departure a few weeks ago means that a very real loss has been suffered by those branches of local scholarship which are concerned with Malay
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    696 19 Shock-Tactics In Make-Up Do Not Pay Max Factor's Advice SENSATION WHICH QUICKLY PASSES DERHAPS this is a caustic comparison, but many women use make-up in such a way as to make them look like too-colourful advertising- signboards. Like advertisements, they strive to catch a person's eye at the first glance
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    257 19 All was quiet in the kitchen, and nobody was about, so little Squeaker, the Brown Mouse, crept out of his hole behind the dresser to look for any stray crumbs that migiit be about. Then h e stoc 1 still in amazement, for right in front of him,
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    Panel Of Pleating
    89 19 LEONORA CORBETT wearing a lovely azure coloured evening gown and cape. Cut very simnly the sole trimming is a line of self-coloured flowers from shoulder to hem. The bodice Is cut low at the back and the front has a cowl effect; the skirt follows closely the
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    CUSHIONS FOR ROOMS AND CARS
    89 19 CUSHIONS complement most rooms. and almost always the new designs show just how charming, and I how complicated quilting can be. There is a cushion in pink-peach velvet to match a quilt for a double bed. A white velvet cushion w<\s bought recently to be
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    109 19 j_IOW often we miss the obvious Busy housewives who sigh for another table, but regret the fact that they have no room for them, might solve the problem with a folding table. This piece of furniture is being seen increasingly at home exhibitions. First, there are tables
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      41 19 STRANGE "It's a funny thing," said the fly as it walked across the ceiling, "that they always build these things upside down." DIFFICULT Teacher— "iVhat is the hardest thing to learn about farming?" Tommy "Getting up at four in the morning."
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    Do You Want To Put On Weight?
    469 20  -  Evelyn Forbes By Suggestions For The Woman Who Is Too Thin THE problem of the woman who is too thin is not as simple as i.er plump sisters imagine. It is a great deal easier to reduce t^an to put on weight, and
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    THE NEW FROCK MATERIALS
    477 20 "Rough And Ready" "DOUGH and Ready" is a good way of describing the new frock materials. Brown wools have black, knotted hairs scattered all over the surface, and wine wool marocain now has tag-ends in white wool standing out from ihe fabric. New ami popular is
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    Checks Spell Smartness
    39 20 CWAGGER suits are smarter than ever this year— especially when they arc made of boldly checked fabrics. In the suit sketched the coat has the smooth shoulder line and full back so warmly approved by fashion
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    110 20 I IT doesn't seem to matter how ornate I table mats are nowadays, for some of the new designs Include many materials. Dinner mats of linen, embroidered by hand in bright wools, are not only lined with chintz, but also edged with i braid. This design is most
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    A MIRROR ON-THE-SLOPE
    88 20 ALTHOUGH not new, there are still many women who have yet to discover the standing mirror which can be adjusted at a touch to any angle to catch all the available light when maklng-up. The mirror is simplicity itself to adjust. A finger touch tips it back
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    ORGANDIE GIRDLES
    117 20 IJNDERNEATH the frock comes the fanciful petticoat: but under the petticoat these evenings are the mest exquisite girdles. Some are made in fine materials .n:«_h as organdie, and they are daintily embroidered in pale colour i. They are comfortable and supporting enough to small figures. There are also
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    MODE GOES METALLIC
    48 20 Necklaces and buckles of beaten silver, copper coin buttons and gold accents trim the new day frocks, launching a vogue for dull burnished metal accents rather than shiny ones. Soft and dull coloured stones and crystals instead of brilliant ones also arc used as accents.
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    Prayer Books Instead Of Bouquets
    452 20 Jl/lANY brides are now carrying prayer books instead of bouquets. Apart from other reasons, Prayer Books are excellent souvenirs of the event. A bride in an ivory velvet gown has already been seen carrying a prayer book bound in velvet. Vellum-covered prayer books tone beautifully
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    TAILORED PETTICOATS
    126 20 I JNDER some evening frocks, the slip: are as elegant and charming as the frocks themselves. There is a style in mauv? silk to I wear under a mauve satin frock. which is cut low at the back with a j brassiere top. snd the narrowest of shoulder
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    CROWN BRACELETS
    37 20 Crottn bracelets have made their debut in the fashion world. A golden knob In the shape of a crown topped with one brilliant jewel clamps two crossed bracelet bands, one black enamel, the other gold.
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    Party Frocks For Small Girls
    681 21 l ITTLE girls go to parties in pretty knee-length frocks ,j with flowers on their heads,! and flowers on their wrists, too. Most little girls are thrilled with their flower bracelets which arcj part of their party attire. I believe the fashion originated when bridesmaids
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    1915 21 BY OUR WOMAN CORRESPONDENT jitfANY inveterate women racegoers must have noticed in recent years the remarkable change that has come over the types of dress favoured by women at the rac Formerly, Bukit Timah was a glorified fashion parade. Women went there "to see and be seen" and wearing
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    FATHER DAMIEN'S BODY TAKEN BACK TO BELGIUM
    828 22 Ship Met By Crowd Of 100,000 Headed By The King 25 YEARS AMONG LEPERS ON MOLOKAI ISLAND Antwerp, May 3. A CROWD HM.OOO, headed by King Leopold, watched the arrival of the Belgian sailing cadet ship, Mercator, with ths body of the heroicFather
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    94 22 Cycling Carnival Ng Choon San (left) and M. A. Bakar who cycled from Kuala T.nnmur to Singapore In one day. They are here to compete in the cycling camlval at the Great World on May 30 and 31 and June 1. They left Kuala Lumpur at 2 a.m. and arrived
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    ELEPHANTS BREAK LOOSE IN JAPAN
    148 22 CIRCUS ANIMALI DASH INTO STATION ROOM Shimon a 1:1. pouß circus etophanU, about tj ba shipped to Korea, played hay s with the railway time-table as their merry romping forced the ROthorltkaa to stop all trains outside the itai As the trainer was leading th
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      262 22 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT HOW TO CLAIM $100 PRIZE MONEY Nine entrants .submitted all correct solutions in the Crossword Puzzle Competition printed In The Sunday Times en May 3 and they therefore share the $100 prize mcr.cy in equal proportions. The winners are: Miss C. M. Smith, c/o P.W.D., Malacca; M.
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    THE TEAM THAT BOB JACK BUILT
    2040 23 Plymouth Argyle's Great Captures Famous Players Famous Clubs 31: Plymouth Argyle CINCE football \v?s resumed following the Great War, Plymouth Argyle have gathered 870 League points, which is an average of over 51 for each of the seventeen seasons. No other club can point
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    15 23 F. A. McCa.Tery. (he well-k.. :i Singapore footballer, makes a hefty clearance in characteristic style.
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    NEW SWIMMING RULES
    239 23 JAPANESE MINISTER'S IDEAS APPROVED IN addition to b.'in^ known as the shajj-tongued :-:''.:?:man of ths Japanese Fcre'gn OfT:c? Mr. EijiAmau looms as I po*.?ntial .f-.rmer of the rules in aquatic eoim?::tion. In a medern \erslon of the :>ld adage that a prophet c.t?n aoes unnoticed among his
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    15 23 A new German moto: sp mile, long, b'.tveen Hail ai:d Leipzig, is open to traffic.
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    MANY COURSE SCRATCHINGS DUE TO HEAVY GOING
    2675 24 Jockey Lawler Rides Three Winners THIRD DAY OF SUMMER RACE MEETING AT BUKIT TIMAH Rain Clears An Hour Before The First Event Bl XII TIMAH'S luck in regard to weather held for the third day of the Singapore Turf Club Summer (Governor's Cup)
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    SELANGOR BEAT THE NEGRI
    136 24 WIN INTER-STATE SOCCER MATCH (From Our Own Co-respondent) Seremban. Saturday. Se'angor beat Negri Sembilan in an j inter-State soccer match here today |oy five goals to two. A heavy ground caused play to be slow. Despite the fact that Selangor won by a margin of three
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    JUNIOR SINGLES BADMINTON
    202 24 pURTHSR ties in the Singapore r men's junior singles badminton championship tournament were played yesterday at th e Clerical Union Hall I and the high standard of play set In j the opening games last week was well maintained. The following were the results: M. Hodri (Pcrhimponsji
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    SOMERSET'S LOSS
    83 24 'From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 1. Somerset have lost one of the L"; brothers J. W. Lee. who ha* accept cd a post at Mill Hill School, and wil? b 3 unable to assist the county excepi !n August. Gimblett may become first-wicket partner to F. Lee;
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    Local League Tables
    323 24 I.A.F. (6) Chinese <2> Innis. Regt. t.A. (5) Malays (4) I.E. <1> dldd. Regt. J olice (P) 5.C.C. (7) r. 8 6 7 8 7 6 4 5 7 w. 5 4 3 4 3 2 2 0 0 i. 2 1 1 3 3 I 2
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    COLLEGE BEAT THE TRADE SCHOOL
    317 24 PENANG VISITORS TO ALCR STAR (From Our Own Correapcndent.) Alor Star. rjiHE Government Trade School. Pc- nang, visited Al:>r Star and mot the Sultan Abdul Hamid Coll fcotball at the College Green. The J —nil victory for the Colleg? wma well deserved in view of
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    MALACCA SOCCER
    55 24 (From Our Own Carrespcndent.) Malacca. Friday. Playing on the Kubu Plain yesterday j evening ti.e Chinese baat the Rangem by four goals to two. K. C. Chin and IR. P. Leon scored twice each for the Chinese and Lopez and Lim Hock Guan fcr he Rangers. The game
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    JOHORE SHOULD RUN A STATE CRICKET TEAM
    494 25 PLENTY OF TALENT AVAILABLE Lockhart's Bowling Average To Date Of 3.2 STRADLING HEADS BATTING (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. D A. M. STRADLING and H. Lock- hart, both of the Genuang Cricket Club, are in fine form this year and at present head
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    PERAK MALAYS' TRIAL
    244 25 ANNUAL ENCOUNTER WITH KEDAH (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping. Pcrak Malays staged a trial In Kuala Kangsar to select tneir team to travel to Sungei Patani next month to mcc. tr>e Kedah Malays In their annual en counter. Good and last football was seen on the North
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    NEGRI A. A. A. TO HOLD MEET
    402 25 TRIAL CRICKET GAMES WANTED (From Our Own Correspondent.) Serein ban, Saturday. ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the Amateur Athletic Association of Negri Sembilan to hold a championship meeting shortly. Athletes in this State would certainly welcome such a meeting. Last year's event turned
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    17 25 r: tfcnaoka. v.inr.cr of the lii^rli jump and lone jump at the recent Nc;ri Scmbilan Japanese sports.
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    NORTH PERAK TENNIS
    510 25 NORTH PERAK TENNIS CHIN SEN 800 LIKELY TO KEEP TITLE (From Our Own Correspondent) Taiping. The North Ferak lawn tenn'.s tournaments will be held during the Whitsuntide holidays. At the time o; writing the entries are not known, but I expect they will outnumber thor of last year. Organised some
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    RAIN STOPS CRICKET
    57 25 nilN prevented all cricket matches beins played in Sineapore yesterday. The matches cancelled were S.C.C. vs. Indian Association at Pad an g. S.R.C. vs. R.A.F. (first day) at S.R.C. C.S.C. vs. Inniskillinjjs at Tanglin. V.M.C.A. vs. H.M.S. Terror, at Naval Base. Nondescripts vs. Khalsa. at Khalsa. St.
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    41 25 B" and "C* class yachts out at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club on Friday. The "B" class yachts sailed the usual Frid?" ~?~c d*H »he "C" class the first of a series of races for a Club trophy. —Sunday Times Photograph
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    BATAS WIN
    21 25 The Bata Shoe Company beat the Post Office by six goals to two In a friendly soccer match yesterday.
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    Chinese Open Basket-Ball Championship
    349 25 TTHE first game of the Singapore Chinese open basket-ball championship was played last night at the Great World. The teams playing are those from the Yayu Athletic Club and the Ai Tong Old Boys Association. Interest in the open tournament has somewhat waned, since last year's
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    15 25 Poll Soo JLi, winner of the teachers' race at the Anglo-Chinese Continuation School, Singapore, sports.
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    SCHOOL FOOTBALL
    363 25 I SEREMBAN VISIT TO SEGAMAT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. •yHOI/GH possessing a superior for- ward line the King George the Fifth School of Seremban were given i a very hard fight by the Segamat English School when they met in an j Inter-school football match on the
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    MALACCA SOCCER
    52 25 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. A big crowd saw an Interesting soccer match between the Municipality and the Public Works Dept. on the Kubu Plains. There were no goals in the first half but in the second session R. P. Leon, the Municipal skipper, scored three goals
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    CLAYTON SHIELD COMPETITION
    305 25 SCHOOLS TO SHARE TROPHY (Fr^m Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. rpHE Clayton Shield football compeA tilion open to all Malay schools situated in North Kedah ended last week when the final between the Sungei Korok School and the Hasba School was played at the Kedah Football Association
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    KEDAH SCHOOL SPORTS
    531 25 ARIFFIN CHAMPION ATHLETE (Frcm Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star, Saturday. THE annual athletic sports of the Sultan llamid College «.">•» held on the collejje green yesterday. Tfc* weather was ideal l.ut rain Mm previous night made the ground soft and slippery. A birr crowd was present including
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    IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SERVICE IN BADMINTON
    908 26 JUNIOR PLAYERS OFTEN CARELESS Best To Stand Back From The Net By Our Badminton Correspondent •THi: large crowd present at the Clerical Union Hall last weekend to sec the opening games of the season was further evidence of the ever increasing popularity of badminton
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    8 26 The Chim Slew basket ball team, Batu Pabat
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    WOMEN'S SINGLES
    219 26 In the women's singles of the Penang junior tournament. Miss Keat Eng led in the first set at 2—2. Mr. Toll Teow Poon calling 4 ail and C all drew applause from the crowd who were appreciative of the tussle by the fair competitors. Miss j Keat Eng
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    ALLEGRO B.P.
    108 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) AJor Star. The Allejro B.P. of Alor Star under the captaincy of Shuuib bin Osman travelled to Penan? and met ths Oreen^ters B.P. The Allegro sccred a preat victory of five games U> cnc. Results (Allegro mentioned first): Hashiin t~ Yahaya beat Sham Osman,
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    SIEW SIN SIA
    93 26 Ac the monthly general meeting of the Slew Sin It was decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary on Sunday, June 21, by touring Singapore Island by sea in a launch. The charge lor each member is Si including refreshment. Members who wish to join this trip are
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    8 26 The Ec Yung basket ball team of Singapore
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    NO TRIALS YET ARRANGED
    622 26  -  Smash By NORTHERN STATES' BADMINTON Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. While both the northern states, Perak and Penang. are busy making preparations for the annual interState triangular tournancnt which will be played in Ipoh durli. the Whitsuntide holidays, lovers of ti.j game in Selangor will be disappointed to
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    29 26 The Yale Bines of KUnc Standing (left to right) Low Thuan 800. Teh Boon Kiat, Cheong Tin Hoe. Lee Sim Ben;. Sitting Tan Teck Bee, Moey Liang Teck (leader).
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    Penang Junior Tourney
    753 26  -  Shuttlecock By Penang. I AST week-end new champions were crowned in the Junior tournament conducted by the Penang Badminton Association when the finals were played in the men's singles, men's doubles and women's singles events. Among the large crowd present were Mr. F. H. Grumitt, Capt. D.
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    WONG WEI KEE WINS SINGLES TITLE
    522 26 KEDAH BADMINTON TOURNAMENT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. The open championship tournament of the Kedah. Badminton Association came to an end last week when the two remaining semi-finals in the men's singles were played. Great dis- j appointment was caused when it was
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    WAKEN LION A. P.
    25 26 Mr. Tan Chong Beng, former honorary English secretary of the Waken LJon Athletic Party, has severed his connection wl h ihParty.
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    CHINA OLYMPIC FOOTBALLERS MAY MEET SERVICES
    745 27  -  "Leighton By Visit To Java "A Happy Family: 9 Hard Task For Selectors PHOSE who missed seeing the surest field of any keeeper In Slngarhinn Olvmnir uu>r>pr t»m in I POro today action against Singapore's probable Malaya Cup XI on Thursday will probably have
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    Tuck Wing Favoured For Selangor Singles Title
    773 27 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. TIIL iiUcr-Statc lawn tennis competition for the Storch cup resulted in a battle between the; old rivals, I'erak and Selangor, who fought keenly for the main honours with Negri Sembilan making a vain but gallant effort to
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    FAHY IN FORM
    332 27 72 AGAINST THE JOHORE C.C. (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. At Pulau Brani. the Johore Cricket Club beat the Royal Engineers. Changi, by three wickets. Batting first the Sappers made 155. Fahy was in form and made it well compiled 72 which included two sixe« and
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    17 27 The Tophani Jones football team which lost to th* Straits Times 4—l. on Friday. Sunday Times Photograph
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    P.W.D. LEAGUE
    70 27 (Frcm Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. A fine rally towards the end enabled the Johore Bahru P.W.D. to sharu points with the Batu Pah at P.W.D.. In a match in the Johore State P.W.D. football league, played at the Istana prulang yesterday. The result was 3—3. In
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    OLYMPIC BELL
    67 27 Berlin. The "Olympla bell," which will ring In t^e opening of the Olympic games in August, has been hoisted into its position in the seventy-six metres high tower, which has been especially erected for it on the Reich sport field in Berlingrunewald, where the games will b- held.
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    Malacca Preparing For Inter-State Football
    331 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. rpHE inter-State football matches are fast drawing near. The first fixture will be played on May 23. One trial match has been played already. The selection committee of the Malacca Amateur Football Association will be faced with an unenviable task
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    ST. ANDREW'S SPORTS
    68 27 Old boys of Bt. Andrew's School are Invited to send to the sports master by Thursday. May 28. entries for the 100 yard- (Old Boys Racs) to be held at tie St. Andrew's School annual sports on Thursday. June 11. There will also be a half-mila race,
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    TWO GOALS SHARED
    50 27 An evenly-contested football match at Batu Cajah between the Nondescripts and the Government English School ended In a draw of I—l. Sevam scored for the Nondescripts and Mahmood for th? School Tilly er kept a fine goal for the Nondescripts and Mahmood was best for the School.
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    S.C.C. BOWLS
    258 27 The following are the results of last week's matches in the S.C.C. lawn bowls triples championship tournament W. W. Edwards team brat O. P. GrifflUi Jones' team 22—5; C. V. Mlless beatE. H. R. Bower-man's \4 10; E. J. Cassel's beat H. R. L. Dyne's 11—7; W. Y.
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    H. S. Ong Captains Cambridge
    169 27 3 CHINESE IN VARSITY BADMINTON TEAM 'pHREE Malayan Chinese represented Cambridge in the annual intervarsity fixture against Oxford this year. They were H. S. Ong. T. S. Lee and C J. Wee, who also tool: part In the Al.^-England badiv.lntjn championships. H. S. Ong has
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    The Origin Of Chinese Brass Bands
    261 28 DRASS bands, a familiar sight in the streets of Singapore and other Malayan centres, used extensively for celebrations of nation i 1 anniversaries, weddings, funerals, and even for advertising, were first introduced into China by Sir Robert Hart, former Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime
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    20 28 Back From The Austrian Tyrol Mr. 1). Lavarrack arrives in London from a winter sports holiday in the Austrian Tyrol.
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    15 28 Masked Man Sells Programmes A masked man selling programmes at a London May Day Meeting.
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    20 28 HOMEWARD BOUND on the last cruise of the se.\ son, these eishtecn-footcrs are coming up SydncHarbour, where summer is declining.
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    19 28 Kbbbjr VtUk riaing through the blind hoop at the Bank Holiday motor-cycle rodeo on the Crystal Palace football ground.
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