The Straits Times, 4 October 1936

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  • 38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 250 Sunday, October 4, 1936 Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES .The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 250 Sunday, October 4, 1936 Price 10 cents.
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  • 1266 1 Preferred Jungle To Harley Street HOW DR. BRADDON AIDED DISCOVERY OF VITAMINS Found Cause And Cure Of Beri-Beri THE Sunday Times is able to relate for the first time the fuH story of how the great medical research worker and planter Dr. William Leonard Braddon,
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  • 262 1 French Decree To Control Prices Paris, Saturday. B!)i.N m;!st have turned in his i.ivc but this time with delight on publication of today's Journal OfficieJ decreeing the establishment of a French Customs Commission for the control of prices "in order to avoid any unjustified rise i<i prices by means of
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  • 18 1 Simla, Saturday. Indo-Japanese negotiations for a new commercial treaty were resumed hero U:day.— Reuter.
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    91 1 RJIR. CHARLES G. JENNHR, the captain of the S.C.C. cricket team this year, was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday to Miss Marjorio V. Horn, of Writtle, Essex. Mr. H. Elphicl'. managing director cf William Jacks and Co., gave the brido awr.y. Mrs. Elphick was matron of honour, and Miss
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  • 118 1 STARHEMBERG OUSTED FROM VIENNA GROUP Vienna, Saturday. pOLLOWING the action of Prince r Starhemberg in expelling Major Fey and Major Lahr. Vice-Mayor of Vienna, from the Helmwehr on the ground that they were aiming it destroying the unity of the Helmwehr. Dr. Schuschnigg. the Prime Minister,
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  • 15 1 Sir Joseph Byrne, Governor of Kenya, is sailing from Mombasa on December 22 pending retirement.
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  • 51 1 DISCOVERED UNHURT IN WASTELAND Perth, Saturday. The two Dutch airmen from Java. Rous and Van Eoekman, who had been missing sinc2 taking oft* from Perth on Wednesday on a holiday flipht around Australia, were found today uninjured in rugged country about 120 miles south-east of Kalgoorlie.
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  • 498 1 pOREIGN intervention against the: Japanese forces, who have seized control of the Hongkew district of the International Settlement and are now demanding the disarming of the Settlement's Chinese constables in the area, is foreshadowed by the calling of an extraordinary conference of the
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  • 39 1 jL'VfcKY week Imperial Airways send a news bulletin to The L'unJr.y Times. The last one to arrive, seen above, survived the fire which destroyed the aeroplane Athena at Dslhi. It was only charred round the edges.
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  • 101 1 HOLIDAY RULING BY FRENCH COURT Nimes. A STRIKE is not work within the meaning of the Act providing for paid ho'idays. Such is the dictum of the Conseil des Prud'hommes, an old legal tribunal composed of an equal number of employers and employees to settle
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  • 40 1 The Sultan of Selangor reached London on Saturday, says Reuter. He v/as met by Rear- Admiral Broml?y.l representing Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Mr. I V. A. Lowinger and Mr. G E. J. Gent, of the Colonial office.
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  • 147 1 Minor Offenders And "Grumblers" Berlin. IT is announced that 500,000 persons have benefited by the amnesty approved by Herr Hitler on April 23 for minor political and other offenders. These include 3.532 persons who in an excess of zeal for the cause of Na-tional-Socialism overstepped
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  • 154 1 Flag Hoisted On South Sea Islands EMPIRE IS NOW 80 SQUARE MILES BIGGER London, Saturday. QREAT Britain has unostentatiously asserted rights <»f sovereignty over a small but important prcup of South Se:i islands in the Phoenix Archipeh. n. A landing party from the warship Lait Leith hoisted the Union Jack
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  • 68 1 JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN BANGKOK (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok. Saturday. JAPANESE merchants and Japanese interests have formed a Japanese Chamßer of Commerce, thus following other foreign merchants, such as the Chinese and Indians, who all operate commercial organisations to support the trade of their countrymen and provide effective
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  • 38 1 The Netherlands Indian export duty on native rubber has been raised to 50 guilders for each 100 kilograms dry. Aft»r devaluation of the guilders the rate was raised from 37 to 47 guilders.
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    • 8 1 COMING! HEARTS DIVIDED WITH DICK POWELL MARION DAVIS
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    • 51 1 COMING! ANTHONY ADVERSE A WARNER BROS. EPIC. AYfAfcttAPPINESSfor you and Baby BEAR BRAND A DAY Milk gives AY€AR every child a wonderful start in life. Provide it daily and watch how robust and contented baby becomes. BEAR BRAND STERILIZED NATURAL MILK SOLE AGENTS FOR MALAYA JOSEPH TRAVERS SONS LTD. SINGAPORE
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  • 1706 2 A Sunday Morning in Malacca Dutch Grenadiers and Chinese Exiles The Great Graveyard V FORTNIGHT ago, when the ghosts of old Malacca were startled by a Rotarian invasion fro-n Singapore, I spent a very harpy Sunday morning sightseeing and daydreaming in that quiet backwater of European h story.
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  • 132 3 Tree-Planting Plan For Coronation PROPOSALS that Singapore should undertake some civic beautification scheme as a specific Coronation to King Fdwp.rd VIII are ly supported by many leading :ts of the u-iii pUni this nature have been announced throushout the Empire, nothing has yet teen done in
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  • 177 3 SIZE AND PRICE REDUCED (From lur Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Till: Malayan Agri-Horticulturai Association is busy again making arrangements for the supply of Christmas hampers of Malayan produce. They have been doing this for thiee years. But now they are going fo embark upon the experiment of reducing
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  • IN SINGAPORE TODAY
    • 150 3 Epjdal T:T.:i and Spc-ra: Dinne". CINEMAS UJVkMUUkI Eiily Billies with Donthy Lee, Woolsey and Wh:e'.cr 3.15, C.15, 9.15. < \P!TOL: Under 2 Flao* with Ronald Colman and Vi-tor McLaren. 3.: 5— 0.15 —9.15. GLOBE TiII. ATEE. GREAT WOULD Charlie Chr.n li. sharsh&i. M ARLBOROI TiI Gold Diggers
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    • 102 3 Corr.-s.wndiTu c tor transmission by r!i "via Netherlands" rr.usr be specially arc? clearly cue i K l. M An?tra.:v New Z-.-glami. Java and Timor Dilly by a > (Qantasi 7 p.m Sumatra uy jiir 7 p.m. Monday China (generally) H (Patrorlus) 8 am. 7 8 a.m. Mcda:i
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    • 73 3 Mai l from Europe etc. (London) expected today Ly air (Imperial) uilrbc delivered to boxholdcrs at 6 p.m. General delivery oi let tors on Mjndav at 8.25 a.m. M.iiU from (Amsterdam) expected today by air i Netherlands) wi!'. be deli'.ercd tc I cxholders at "i.30 p.m. General delivery
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    • 134 3 THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD Saturday. October 3. Ships alcn:sir>t tbc Wharves or expected U arrive GsJcirn Gate irast Wl-.arf Rohiu 22 1 Muinam "0 1 Ualn Wharf P.es: OarCeU 11 3 Patroclus 9 3 Tilawa 7 J Crr.pire Dock Ci'y of Florence 30 3 Rantaupandjang 34 Tweedbank M Bcn^'.oe 46
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  • 84 3 Vegetable growers evicted from Kallang Basin as a result of the antlir.alarlal campaign have been giver, one-acre plots in the low-lying section of the Cliua Chu Kang burial ground. These are likely to remain available !or at feast ton years, subject to stipulations. The Municipal
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    55 3 CLYDE PANGBORN, the American round-the-world airman, is to fly the Atlantic once more merely to deliver a new type of plane to a British firm. The machine, which is of unusual design, has twin engines developing 1.000 h.p. It is all-metal with a wide fuselage intended to act with the
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  • 112 3 Cave His Home To Shelter Beggars Hsla Yen-chin, an ordinary potato peddler, is today the proud recipient of a certificate of merit, given to him by the Wenchow district magistrate for his contributions to the poor. Hsia has been peddling his potatoes through the streets
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    • 8 3 ITS LOVE AGAIN aHctili JESSIE MRTTHEWS GREATEST PICTURE.
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    • 341 3 I height of luxury fe t^ There is no such luxury in the air as is provided by the British air service, with its roomy comfort in great air liners equipped with four engines for perfect reliability and with its unequalled name for personal service 'on all its routes 10
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    • 145 3 TIDE TABLES SINGAPORE Today. 11. VI. 00.26 a.m. 9.8 ft.: 12.1C p.m. 9.8 ft. L. W. 6.11 a.m. 2.8 ft.: 6.39 p.m. 0.2 ft. Monday. 11. W. 1.13 a.m. 9.3 ft.: 12.47 p.m. 9.7 ft. L. W. 8.49 a.m. 3.3 ft.; 7.24 p.m. 0.4 ft. TORT SVVETTENHAM H. w. 6.SS
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  • 111 4 For Use During Time Of Disturbances Bombay. TPHE Bombay City Police are to be 1 equipped with wireless for use In times of disturbance in the city. This will bring them into line with the up-to-date police organisations of most big capital cities today. Hitherto
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    116 4 DROMOTEO last January, the wmwd's section of the Selangor Indian Association to now proving a very successful innovation. Mesabers of the Selangor Indian Association are wont to describe it as a strong more within their walls. Meetings are hold fortnightly, wKh Mrs. K.A. Mnkondan, wife of Rao Sahib K A.
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  • 993 4 First Stage Nearing Completion 1,200 WORKERS ON VAST EXTENSION SCHEME Berthage For Six More Ocean Liners {MANT travelling cranes handling 20-ton blocks of concrete as though they were lumps of sugar.. .steam-rollers trundling serenely over reclaimed land that was yesterday's seabed.... Coolies jog-trotting steel framework gaunt
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  • 449 4 Revival Of Drama In The F. M. S. Malacca Amateurs Play At Sungei Ujong Club (By Our Seremban Correspondent) AFTER years of inaction there to be a revival of flesh and blood drama in the country. Lower Perak I began It, Seremban followed suit, Malacca has continued, Singapore is at
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  • 42 4 Karachi Airport Health Plans *THE Finance Committee of the Indian Legislative Assembly approved at v MMslt meeting expenditure for providi:i£ a hial.l organization at Karachi airport to prevent disease, particularly yellow fever, being; introduced into India by air transport.
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  • 385 4 Now Is China's Great Opportunity CHIANG'S FERVENT APPEAL TO NATION Canton. IF we do not weed the present body politic of corruption, bribery oerfunctorincss, and ignorance, and establish in its stead a clean and efficient administration, the day will soon come when a revolution will be
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    • 462 4 ftri£UMATISM MADE HIM A WRECK A Different Man After 6 Months of Kruschen is the tni" story of a man who und rwent drastic treatment fcr rheumatism, and was left weak and ill at Hie end of It. He 1 his health— not by painful, lncon- methods, but by the
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  • 1063 5 I.S.P. TO APPEAL FOR BETTER CONDITIONS Unemployed Who Cannot Refuse Terms Offered (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. fjOMBINED efforts by the principal planters' bodies will probably be made to check exploitation of planters." "There are still instances brought to our notice of the exploitation
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    60 5 I lEUTENANT-General J. G. Dill, late Director-General of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office, leaving his home in Wimbledon to take up his new appointment as supreme military chief in Palestine. He has been entrusted with the task of "cleaning up" Palestine and putting an end to the
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  • 178 5 97 MEMBERS AND $6,000 IN SHARES (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban A MiM/OERSHIP of 97 and shares J» t^a'Kng $6,000 is the achievement of the Negri Sembiian Cooperative Stores within the few days since its registration. "If you succeed with your stare then you will be
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  • 65 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban The cases for the day at the Seremban magistrate's court on Friday were completed within an hour. "Being unemployed I took up icecream hawking." said a Chinese when charged with hawking without a licence. Pleading guilty he said that he had
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  • 55 5 The Police Band will play on Monday, at Katong Park at 6 p.m. Marcn. Steadfast and True (C. Telke) Overture, Thousand and One Nights (Svoboda) Selection, Arcadians (Monckton) Valse. Lustige Bruder (R. Vollstedt) Trombone Solo. Slidin Eas? (Harry L. Alford) Suite, London Again (Eric Coates) American Sketch, D3wn
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  • 35 5 I A message from Riga states that the Soviet Government has decided to purchase 100,000 barrels of British herrings of this season's catch, provided that the British Herring Board quotes a reasonable price.
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  • 180 5 Wives For 7,000 Japanese In The Philippines GIRLS TO BE TRAINED IN order to provide companions for about 7,000 Japanese young men, living in Davao, in the Philippine Islands, two well-known society women in Tokio, Mrs. Kataoka and Mrs. Hayashi, with the aid of Mr. Mori, captain of
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  • 132 5 "ALKAMETER" DETECTING SECRET TIPPLERS AN "Alkameter" which "blushes" a rosy red when it encor'iters an alcohol breath is one of the latest inventions for detecting secret tipplers in the United States. Mr. Frank J. Deßewal and Harry E. Spencer, inventors of the device say it is immune to cloves, mints,
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  • 42 5 It Is announced that tenders will bi•reived at the Colonial Secretary's Office, up to noon of Oct. 20, for the crsction of three quarters for the S.S. Civil Service at the junction of Grove r.oad and Arthur Road, Katong.
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  • 123 5 New York. A' REMARKABLE action has been brought against the Compagnle Generale Trans-atlantique in the Federal Court here by four cousins of 'he late Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahcarn, aged 68, who was buried at sea from the liner He de Prance on August 4.
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  • 138 5 Red Officer's House In China Raided WHEN Government troops raided the home of Kuo Ming, a Red officer and brother of Kuo Liang, secretarygeneral to the "Soviet Government of China" a few months ago, they found a veritable "millionaire's mansion" ir stead of an ordinary dwelling, according to
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  • 30 5 The petition of the leading industrialists In Hong Kong for a loan of $3C,000,000 for relief purposes has been rejected by the Hong Kong government, the Slnwenpao reports.
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  • 642 6 DUE TO POACHERS Natural Food Becoming Scarcer ORDER OF NATURE UPSET (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. DEOPLE in the suburb of Pudr are still talking excitedly about the big tiger which was shot the.r on Wednesday morning after it had mauled three. The population
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  • 46 6 A piece o* coral, believed to be the largest of its kind in the world and weighing over 150 kilogrammes, was found by a Japanese fishing vessel near Keelung, according to word from Amoy. It is estimated to be worth well 07er $10,000.
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  • 151 6 Acid Thrown On Sleeping Family (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. T*HE Coroner's inquiry into the death of Abu Barkar and his daughter, about two years old, was held today before Mr. J. A. A. Faith, who sat as coroner. It will be recalled that a
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  • 233 6 ENDS WITH CAMPFIRE SINGSONG AN impressive display by the Victoria English School Scouts and other groups of the Singapore Boy Scouts Local Association was given a*, the school yesterday. Mr. F. C. Sands, Commissioner for Malaya, accompanied by Mr. H. A. R. Cheeseman, District Commissioner for Singapore, were
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  • 70 6 ALL-INDIA INDUSTRIES CONFERENCE To Be Held At Lucknow Simla. Lucknow has been selected as the meeting place of the eighth Industries Conference. These conferences are attended by representatives of the Central and Provincial Governments and Indian States. The conference will meet on Dec. 7 and 8, the dates coinciding with
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    23 6 CKOITP PHOTOGRAPH taken after the wedding last week ol Mr. Wilfred Rodriguez and Miss Christine Marlon P^rcira at the Church of St. Joseph.
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  • 62 6 A fine of $10, or 14 days in default, was imposed on Sain bin Abdul Rahman by Mr. J. P. Blddulp in the second court yesterday iyt the theft of an electric torch, valued at $1.50, from the motor car of an European at the
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  • 279 6 Baby Vanishes House Shaken By An Unseen Force (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, Saturday. CVERY night, beginning at eight and continuing till well past eleven, the planks, windows and the front door of their house have been given a vigorous shaking by some unseen force. Th's is the experience of
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  • 70 6 Meal Of Newspapers For A Bet Belgrade. j^ dispatch from Kurshumlyia, in Serbia, reports that an unemployed man, doubtless stimulated by the prospect of a salisji/ing meal, undertook to swallow a copy each of the Conservative Poli'.ika arid Vreme, two leadino Belgrn.de newspapers, for 20 dinars.' The man fulfilled his
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    • 403 6 W-' jjg -yte *-h4.^-r: CHINA AsiiKtfestion for a for»-iighfs jocal leave. ...Take French luxury liner from Singapore to Saigon "UjiBANC^wK (2 daytK »top over in Capital seeing the sights /VC dmm, ...Three days of picturesque travel by organised /f ■■■fT 1/ Jcoache*. with nichtly *top» at hill-station rest-houses. Wl Four
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    • 7 6 W$ JessieMttheJ, lOVIL, as Jer~ Av3A!rl aarxinQSrSinainQ
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    • 141 6 M s Wise Mothers know how Dinnimird's l't'aF. Fluid 'rtf-* N Magnesia relieves baby of Vind' and all stomach << HKL an<^ teething troubles and when baby has become i a happy, romping child, DlNNLFomrs is looked V „;/< _M?thl on w ''k Solitude and still given when uecessary. <:
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  • 459 7 'J'-HIS is the story of a young D who has combined her love of dogr, and her sympathy for human suffering in the furtherance of a great ideal, and thereby mode herself the idol of hundreds of men ~who have never seen her and who never will— the
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  • 768 7  - CORONATION COLONIALS Straits Issue In Preparation Fred. J. Melville Stamp Collecting By IT is now practically certain that Great Britain will have a small series of special stamps to mark the Coronation of King Edward VIII next May. The matter is still under consideration both by the Coronation Executive Committee
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    • 292 7 Till- STAMPS OF THE TREATY PORTS OF CHINA AND OF VOR.MOS* by Captain H. R. Oldflfld. LL.B. A commet* htstorv of this little known grouo of storms Price I 9 post free. The Philatr'ic Journal of QMM Britain The oldest B'ltish Ph:iatel:c magazine, now in its 46th annual v liiur.e.
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    • 154 7 or Is. Post Free. (or its equivalent In current unused stamps of any country). WE r.lll send you 50 different British Colonials 100 different New Europeans 20 different Air Btamps. 1.000 Stamp Mounts, a perforation gauge and a specimen copy of the Philatelic Journal of Great Britain. If you prefer,
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    • 470 7 CHANDOS COURT EF^" ADJACENT ST. JAMES PK.. j and enjoy at either ife^Q palace abbey HOTEL REMBRANDT <^S^ BEAUTIFULLY South Kensington. S W riIDUICUVn t?T Al<C facing the Victoria and FURNISHED rLATa frJgS^i- Albert Muvum For Long or Short Tenancies. ■I >4eT\ro^fi> Diinmc Constant Passenger Uniformed IfUDLBO TSi* Buckingham Palace
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 216 7 Today's Wireless Programmes EMPFE STATION. TRANSMISSION 4. Ttirce ol the following frequencies will be Uccd: C.SG 17 79 tIC/l (IG.7G m.) I 15.13 Mc/s (19 66 in.) I 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 rr. «.si» |1 (25 53 m.) U 5i 11. 1! 33 am Big Bin. The Children's Ilour. Tha <
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    • 222 7 Herbert Hughes at the pianoforte.* 6.57 p.m. A recital of pianoforte duets by \!ec Rowley and Edgar Moy. 7.20 p.m. Empire talk. 7.40 p.m. Marjorie llayward UiolinM tJA p.m. The London Palladium Orchestra; conductor, Richard Crran. 8.15 p.m. Weekly newsletter, sports summary, and announcements. 8. 23 p.m. Greenwich time signal.
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    • 433 7 in English on DJE, DJQ. and in Dutch on DJB. 9.35 "When the iny coloured flags wave." A Jelly houi of foiKsonGS. The German Choir under the direction of Rudolf Lamy. 10 OS Syv.phonv concert. Violin concert by Max v. Schillings; Svmphony in D major by Mozart: Conductor: Werner Richter-Reichhelm;
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    • 395 7 (pianoforte). 8.20 Press bulletins. 8.30 Relay The Eand of the 1st Battn Royal Ulster Rifles conducted by Bandmaster Alfred Hole, A.R.C.M. 9.20 Bis Ben: Excerpts from "The Mikado" (Gilbert and Sullivan). 9. 50 Close down. NIROM. 10 50 am —1.50 p.m. YDA 3.040 kc/s (19. C7 m.), and YDB 11.860
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    • 216 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT No "all correct" solutions were received In The Sunday Times $100 Crossword Puzzle Competition printed In our issue of Sept. 20 and the prize money will be divided equally among the following whose entries contained one error only A. L. Siebel, Kuala Lumpur; Chan Chee Chong, District
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  • 348 8 Syed Omar Alsagoff s Tea Party To Celebrate Anglo -Egyptian Treaty 'J'HE tea party given yesterday by Syed Ibrahim Omar Alsaj?off at his residence in Chancery Lane in commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Alliance and Friendship between Great Britain and Egypt
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    77 8 Mica Rosamund Fisher, daughter of Admhal Sir William Fisher, commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, and Lady Fisher, was married in the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey to Lieutenant the Hon. Richard Coleridge. R.N., the eldest son of Lord and Lady Coleridge. The four small pases were dressed in naval uniform cf
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  • 128 8 Soviet Air Lines In Far East OtEMARKABLE aviation developm*nts are taking place in Eastern Siberia, facing the frontiers of! Mar.chukuo, aceort ins to a Tass message from Irkuts 1. During tha past ten years the territory has become covere-i with a network of airways, airports, snd aerodromes. The main uir
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  • 107 8 DESIRE TO SHOCK AUTHORITIES WHAT he himself described as "outrageous sentence" was' inflicted by Judge Foster in Melbourne recently on a man who was found guilty in the Criminal Court of a charge of gross indecency. The Judge sentenced the man to ten years' imprisonment. "I am
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  • 343 8 MALACCA TEACHERS' MEETING (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. *THE annual general meeting of the Teachers' Association of Malacca was held at the High School play hall. Prior to the main business there w.»a very enjoyable tea at which, besides the large crowd of members, were present Mr. M. R.
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  • 72 8 Paris, Saturday. I*HE notorious convict settlement at Cayenne will probably be dissolved in the near future according to pr?ss reports here which state that the Government is considering the closure of the establishment as necessary "for moral as well as economic reasons." The Minister o:
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  • 106 8 Translated The Bible Into English BURNED AT STAKE 400 YEARS AGO TODAY London, Saturday. 'THOUSANDS of churches tomorrow icill read portions of the Bible, as first translated into English 400 years ago by Tindale, ir. commemoration of the anniversary of his burning in Brussels as a heretic and for his
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  • 182 8 V. N. DANTCHENKO DOYEN OF SOVIET WAR CORRESPONDENTS Prague, Sept. 20 'THE celebrated writer, doyen of Rus- sian writers, Vasslli Nemlrovltch 1 Dantchenko, died here yesterday at the age of 92. Born at Tiflis in 1844, hq consecrated himself to a literary life at an early age and when still
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  • 82 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, crturday. The engagement is announced today between Mr. Francis Arthur Briggs. ol Kuala Lumpur and formerly of Singapore where he was a well -known lawyer, son of the Hte Mr w F Brlggs and Mrs. J. G. Brlggs,
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  • 51 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh. While attending to some repairs to electric wiring In a house at Batu Gajah a wlreman accidentally came In contact with a live wire and was taken to hospital where he succumbed to his Injuries. The man received severs burns all over his
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  • 77 8 Noon, Saturday. Buyers Sellers No. 1 K. R.S.S. In cases (F. 0.8.) Oct. 27? i 27 7/16 Good F.A.Q. in cases (F. 0.8.) Oct. 27 5/16 2%' m No. 1 K. R.S.S. (Spot loose) Awardmble Spore 27 U 27 5/16 October 27% 27 7/16 Oct-Dec. 27 7/16 27*4
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  • 415 8 Tyiß. Lloyd George on his return to England summed-up as follows the impressions he derived from his visit to Germany, says the Daily Telegraph. Germany does not want war, but is afraid of an attack by Russia. I have never seen a happier people
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  • 162 8 "T*WO planes are sii!l in the Ports-mouth-Johannesburg air race. They arc making bids to reach Johannesburg before the time limit expires at 6.30 a.m. British Standard Time today (1.50 p.m. today Makivan Time) to win the place pri. The two pilots are Mr.
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  • 105 8 I A STRONG appeal for support of the rebels in Spain was made recently in a public address by; Archbishop Duhig, Reman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, who said that the Spanish Government did not deserve recognition. "The so-called rebels are P.a.-i ;tie Spaniards." added Archbishop Duhig,
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    208 8 have a far greater effect upon pcjplo of this country than upen Geiniai.y "I l.aye always thcujht. aiu: think, that the- persecution of Jewa In Germany has been a great misfortune. But Germany Is not the or.ly cjuntrv that has persecuted Jews. We must not lorgct the pogroms
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  • 1767 9 By The Onlooker THE Sultan of Selangor will be spending most of this month in London, and as the autumn fog has already been reported he may experience seme cold weather. His Highness will see the Empire capital for the first time, am! it is expected that
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  • 495 9 |\V|R R. S. le May, former Adviser to the Ministry of Commerce and Communications in Siam, writing from Pembroke College, Cambridge, to The Times, London, pay.-, the following tribute to Prince Purachatra, who died in Singapore recently The death of Prince
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    • 207 9 ft^kw I've tried Mar i most brands ym > liJr of. cigarettes in my time now fve. settled down V to Craven 'A* JjaL because y^; f wBB&J'' r?\ I\ W "~wp m "■ll if! WL t" EASY-ACCESS" INNER FOIL WRAPPING 4 y *i«^.__ v*-s^3^ a feature of the io's
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  • 1525 10 THIRD OF THE FAMILY TELLS OF HIS FIVE WARS "War Is A Terrible Thing" A Toast To Rebellion. By Giuseppe Garibaldi. The Bodley Head. 12s. Mi "*rHE Garibaldi Tradition" is the text of this book, and the stories of five wars tell how Gen. Giuseppe
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  • 293 10 Farewell Romance. By Gilbert Frankan. Hutchinson. *s. fid. •¥*HE quality of Mr. Frankau's boors has always been Inclined to vary, but at least he always used to tell i good story. In "Farewell Romance," however, the stcry could have been told, with advantage, in
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  • 221 10 Autumn Books I Michael Joseph. MICHAEL Joseph's list of Autumn books is well worth writing for. Not only does it give details of some of the most interesting of the season's publications, but it is illustrated with 'eight disrespectful drawings by Audery Wynne C.
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  • 509 10 London Pride. By haw Desmond. Ilutchinson. Bs. (id. I ONDON Pride is a pageant of London from the beginning of the century down to the present day, and the saga of the Tancy family. The story Is long, very long, and full of asides,
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  • 213 10 Murder bi The Mirror. By Lee Lee Thayer. Hurst and Black ttt. 7s. 6d. /"\UR old friend, Peter Clancy appears ir. "Murder in the Mirror." wuerehe is still trying to solve the Diamond Button Mystery. In the meantime he stumbles upon a dastardly attempt to drive a
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  • 473 11 Foreigners Being Ousted By The Japanese PEOPLE AFRAID TO SPEAK IN CAFES OR STREETS Spies Everywhere f>l'!*;\<; the past few weeks more and more people are leaving this city. finding that it is becoming quite impossible for any hut Japanese to make a living here,
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  • 99 11 Paris. 4 RMAND Bo^ot, icho spent half his life hiding in his bedroom, has now walked out of his fa'her's house between two gsndI Bolo* icer.t to the front in AuguMt, i 914, and was injured. After leaving hospital he disappeared and teas posted a
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  • 155 11 LONDON M. P. BARTERS TROUSERS A STORY of how a London M.P. bartered his trousers for a reindeer skin was told when 120 public schoolboys landed at Hull after a six weeks' expedition to Finnish Lapland. The boys went out under the auspices of the Public Schools Exploring Society, and
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  • 148 11 Mountain Top Like Refuse Dump MOUNTAINEERS and local residents are indignant at acts of vandalism committed at the 4.406 ft. summit or Ben Nevis, in Inverness-shire. Recently concrete pillars were constructed on the mountain top by Ordnance Survey engineers for the new survey in Britain. The
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  • 69 11 One Of Germany's Oldest Colonial Pioneers HaKe, Sept. 17. One of Germany's oldest Colonial pioneers. Dr. Adolf Schenk. died at the age of 80 today at Halle. Dr. Schenk, who made ma;.y trips abroad, explored the newly-acquired German Co.-my of South-West Africa in the eighties and took
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  • 197 11 THE POPE'S HEALTH IS BETTER THAN HE THINKS THE Pope's doctors are trying to reassure him about his health, says the Sunday Express Vatican City correspondent. He has referred to the possibility of his imminent death in conversations with his intimates and in talks with groups in audiences. While he
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  • 32 11 Sir Murchison Fletcher, the new Governor of Trinidad, and Lady Fletcher have arrived at Port-of -Spain. They drove to the "Red House." where Sir Murchison took the oath of office.
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  • 460 11 Need For Positiv Ideal CALL FOR NEW KIND OF CONFERENCE "THE Bishop of Bristol, Dr. C. S. Woodward, preaching the Assembly Sermon" in St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva, took as his text Where there is no vision the people perish (Proverbs \i\ 18). He saw before
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  • 93 11 CONTROVERSY BEGINS IN AMERICA Chicago. 117 ON over by the entreaties of his wife and relations, Julian Tafel, a mechanic, has consented to an operation on his flve-day-old son, to which he had strongly objected. The operation was successful and the baby is reported to
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  • 251 11 Eastbourne. Joseph Dowdall. butler to Edward von Essen Mobcrley for 40 years created a sensation here by leaving his master £1.000 in his will. Exiled Duchess A NEW home at Hampton Court has been placed b> King Edward at the disposal
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  • 422 12 Malaya Within 30 Hours* Range Of Africa FORMATION OF CHAIN OF ISLAND BASES Network Of Air Patrols For Mobility SINGAPORE may shortly be brought within less than 30 hours' flying-boat range of Africa The Sunday Times understands that the bridging of the Indian Ocean
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  • 27 12 Herr J. Gunthard. of Lucerne. fainted while rock-climbing on the Sattelistock (6,890 ft.), in the Bernese Dberland. fell 3CO. f t, and was killed.
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  • 31 12 The Hungarian Foreign Minister, Dr. de Kanya, and the British Minister in Budapest, Sir Geoffrey Knox, have signed the British-Hungarian Extradition Treaty which modifies the agreement of 1902.
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  • 28 12 In the course of excavations at Arlon 15 Belgo -Roman tombs of the fourth century have been unearthed, five of them intact and fully furnished.
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  • 77 12 WIFE WANTS £20 A WEEK Husband Says She Has £80,000 Los Angeles. Ay Austrian count said in court today that he had only "four or five dollars" while h>s Enpl sh wife, who uas asking for £80 a month temporary alimony, was worth £80,000. He -xas Count Rudolf Stefenelii, a
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  • 67 12 Nairobi, AN appeal for a united opposition to the new Kenya income tax proposals of the Pirn Commission is made in a statement by Lord Pratxis Soott. former European unofficial inembe' of the Executive Council. The' statement is made on behalf of ali. the European elected
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  • 37 12 The Colonial Office Commission, presided over by Sir Alan Pirn, on the financial position and tax system of Kenya suggested in its recent report the imposition of an income tax in place of other forms of taxation.
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  • 219 12 72 THE ASH-TRAY [The Hon. Sir John Bagnall hat invented a new ash-tray. Burning cigarette-ends fall in it, and not on the table, as from the customary types.] It's the little things that maiter, not the big ones, people say, For there's never someone lacking to see they
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    25 12 IT is reported that M. Molotov, president of the Council of People's Commissars, has been involved in Stalin's "purp;c" and has been suspended from ofiice.
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  • 133 12 NEW YACHT SECRECY BATH (Maine). DLANS for the construction cf a now America's Cup defender are being prepared behind closed doors at tlie Bath Iron Works here. The public has been excluded from the yard. Mr. W. Starling Burgess, who designed Rainbow, the last defender, is at
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  • 222 12 Legal Conundrum In America New York. A DECISION that may materially affect the American gold clause should it be substantiated by the higher courts has been given at Kansas City, Missouri. The case involves a lease signed in 1890 requiring a realty company to
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  • 278 13 By THE FOUR ACES 'ASu rule, when grand coups are (iisiussi'ii. the Declarer by clever play makes a contract of six or seven. An unusual situation occurred in a re:ent rubber game in which the Declarer had Lo make a grand :oup in order to make his contract
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  • 22 13 VALUES of the FOUR-ACES SYSTEM. Ml. 3 KING 3 QUEEN 1 JAi K 1 1 Total Value Of Pack 26 Averages Hand <.'■.•.
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  • 1315 13  -  NATHANIEL GUBBINS By fpHE earnest and credulous lads and lassies of the pseudoscientific brotherhood which snoops round the Pyramids measuring tunnels and prophesying world disasters on certain dates according to the number of inches one bit of masonry is from another, have el to predict our
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  • 376 13 THEY MET THE KING Stained Coffee Cup To Be Heirloom Constantinople. A TAXI-DRIVER, a Moslem hod"r* ja" (priest), and a cafedji (coffee-stall keeper) consider themselves the happiest men in Constantinople because King Edward, during his recent visit here, talked with them, thanked them for their services
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  • 463 14 A Malayan Chamber AN all-Malayan Chamber of Com- merce, centred in Singapore— that is the idea mooted by Mr. J. P. Soutar at the meeting of the Penang body the other day. And a good idea, too: except that it wouldn't work Even a Colony Chamber might lead
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  • 1571 14 What Would singapore DO IN A GAS ATTACK? Present Precautions For Civilians Are Not Adequate TV/ HAT precautions are being taken to safeguard Singapore's civilian population against the possibility of an air attack? In this strong article a special correspondent of The Sunday Times questions the present secretive policy of
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    • 278 14 THE OPTICAL HOUSE REIRACTING DISPENSING OPTICIANS ASK TO SEE THE NEW FASHION FRAMES WITH LENSES TO 51 IX VOI'R VISION FOR OFFICE, THEATRES, GAMES: EXCURSIONS ETC. Optometrist: A. TAN. D.0., MJI.A.O. EU COI'RT 65. Stamford Road. Singapore. NER-VI008" i A STRENGTHENING TONIC (cuttM manures wm oiwimwr fmmub) INCREASES VITALITY General
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  • 427 15 What Would Singapore Do In A Gas Attack? Continued, from page 14 t lilid plan ttMTI Is ground for considerable anxicy. The situation of Singapore is such that there are few convenient outlying district* in which the civil population could find refuge with a guarantee of obtaining adequate food supplies.
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  • 1520 15 Mr. i?.L. Has tie's Farewell Interview To The Sunday Times DISAPPEARANCE OF COMMERCIAL MORALITY 'Increasingly Difficult For Honest Trader To Do Business* VERY outspoken comment on a number of local questions was made by Mr. R. L. Hastie in an interview which he ;;ave to
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  • 131 15 Remarkable Test By X.L.M. IT L.M. airliners in the Far East will j •in future be in direct communication with Amsterdam while in flight, and passengers will be able to dispatch messages to friends or business connections without making use of local transmitting stations. This remarkable
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  • 199 15 From Alameda To Tokio Contemplated Alameda, Cal. A FLIGHT from Alameda to Tokio, IX either via Seattle and the Siberian coast, or with but one hall I, at Nome, Alaska, is being planned by Mr. Benny Chojin and Mr. John Takcmoto, American-born Japan- ese. Chojin, 24
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  • 499 15 GUARDS OFFICER ARRESTS A POLICEMAN Went To Barracks About A Traffic Offence A LONDON police eansiabis enI framed on truffle duty in minster was placed under p.i; a Welsh guards officer rccrnil The policcmr.ii was put la til 3 Guard Room at Wellington racks. And he was not rel until
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  • 248 16 Saved by Flesh-Forminr Tablets This man hsiJ trm so terribly 111 that he most a thin and bony as a skeleton. ■■!;>>■ Lv taking a course of tiny, tasteless tablet:, he quickly put on pounds of firm. 1 In fact, he got heavier than h"
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  • 571 16 Water Splashing At Shrovetide BY OUR MALACCA CORRESPONDENT THROVE Sunday or Quinquagesima Sunday, called "Intrudo," was and still is a wet day among the Portuguese. Soon after morning Mass on this day men, women and children indulge in the pastime of playing with water and wetting everybody who happens to
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  • 241 16 T. F. Powys To Write No More Dorchester. DERSUADED by what he regards as significant signs that he should lay aside his writing, Mr. Theodore F. Powys, the 61-year-old member of the famous literary family of Powys bro- thers and an acknowledged master of the
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  • 207 16 Tablets To Stop Colds Successful rURTHER experiments in the search for a preventive of Ihe common cold are described by Dr. S. G. Tippett, formerly medical superintendent of the Nordrach-upon-Mendip Sanatorium, in an article in the "Medical Press and Circular." Dr. Tippett employed tablets manufactured from a special precipitate from
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  • 699 16 Customs Of The Early Descendants Of The Portuguese In Malacca (CONTINUED) the candles and lanterns are lighted on the boats, the firing of crackers and fireworks goes on too, continuing for about an hour, after which the owner of each boat invites brother fishermen to his house, there to put
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    • 579 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 correct 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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  • 1306 18  -  John Drinkwater By THE King returned home after a month of crowded and happy experience, a lot of important diplomatic work taken in his stride, his personal popularity enhanced all over the near east, with an entirely satisfactory report from his ear specialist in Vienna, and
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  • 324 18 Galli-Curci Now Has A New Voice PXACTLY twenty years after her debut in grand opera GalliCurci, famous prima donna, will stage her come-back in New York on November 18 with a brand-new "surgical" voice. She will no longer be a coloratura soprano. In future she will be a dramatic lyric
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  • 90 18 New Orleans. THE estate of Senator Huey Long, who i was assassinated a year ago. has now been valued at approximately £30.700. This is considered surprisingly small, as during his life-time Huey Long always had unlimited resources at his command through his system of
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  • 47 18 Work On The Kwammon Tunnel Begun Moji. Sept. 19. The first spade of earth was dug here today in the projected construction of the 2.8-kilometre undersea tunnel linking Shimonosekl and MoJl. The occasion was marked with appropriate ceremonies attended by high prefectural, railway and other officials.
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  • 604 19 A RE you one of those women who are forever pressed for time Do you dash from the house at the expense of your beauty time budget If so, you are in dire need of a thorough reorganisation of your
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  • 645 19 AUTUMN IDEAS IN ENGLAND OOUND dining tables have come i round again. But the newest tables are being made in small sizes to give a dainier appearance than did the large, round tables of Victorian days. The wood used is usually light. There are oak
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  • 158 19 BY their circular skirts will you be able to identify the smartest of the new autumn dresses. Snug abene the waistline and flared below is the sllbOQCtta that interests the designers of daytime clothes right now They have already anticipated the objection that full skirts
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  • 584 20 Make-Up For The Sun-Tanned CUX-TA.NXED beauties can look enchanting with the help of the right kind of make-up. If, however, they use the same kind of make-iip which they are wont to use when they are not tanned, the result is far from lovely. Faces look patchy and whitewashed," and
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  • 578 20 Flower Fashions For The Dinner Table A FEW flowers and often, is the maxim followed by women who like to decorate their dinner tables as fashionably as possible. Single flowers, small sprays of blossoms and little clusters are nut in an orderly line down the centre of the long table.
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  • 65 20 Chopped ripe olives make a fine addition to Thousand Island dressing Combine chopped olives with finely cut celery, radishes, cucumber, hard cooked egg, pimento, onion, sweet pepper to make an individual variation. Use the customary combination of mayonnaise and chili sauce or catsup as background, or substitute
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    • 206 20 CT'iT* ln simpler and I S-^y **f*r to nk fo^ I.JJS^^ "f.outhills"-whcn [/Ps&\ by doln you 'th V complete. J pror^ction." ioft' J~M loor'nng comfort Of all Chemists and Stores.... Sole Agents for Malaya: GRAFTON LABORATORIES. Singapore: GIFT SHOP SALON Flat 14. Capitol Mansions. Millinery. Hats made to order. Hats
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  • 26 21 TpilS well fitting swim suit Is in blue and white. It has a novel pattern^and ties at the waist. Model by Roberts.
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  • 630 21 DETAILS OF THE NEW BLOUSES fA BEVY of blouses lias been prepared which is every bit as attractive as the transparent kind ;which have been such a furore. There are simply-cut blouses in white eyelet hole embroidery, j Oyster-tinted satin blouses are soft and luxurious, and handmade
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  • 108 21 •T*HIS can be made with oranges. lemons, or grapefruit, but perhaps it is most tlelcious with oranges. Take three cupfuls of orange juice, and one cupful of wp.ter, and bring to the boll in a saucepan. Stir two tablespoonfuls of custard pewder to a smooth cream
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  • 35 21 In simDllcUv femininity lies thp appeal of the new clothes. Ther aren't fussy. Although sleeves have interest at the top. the squared shoulder-lln? Is oiean-cut, not exaggerated, and fla tors almost any shoulder.
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  • 1443 21  -  Godfrey Winn By THERE are so mar things that women can't do that I find myself in a quandary to know where to begin. Therefore, I have decided to be alphabetical about it. A. They Can't Argue **/^AN'T argue, indeed you protest loudly, remembering that argument
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  • 2842 22 SPEECHES OF MR. H. J. PAGE ANE MR. C. D. AHEARNE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. THE key-note of the I.S.P. Conference is the very cheerful spirit displayed by the planters v/ho have come to town —some with their wives— to listen attentively to
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  • 305 22 British Policy In The Mediterranean PROTEST FROM TURIN Rome. r TIIE Italian public is being trained to look on British Mediterranean policy as directed specifically against Italy. This idea ir> vigorously exploited in an oi'tsnoken article in the Stampa of Turin, one of the most serious
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    • 206 22 jNOVj Sthf §t raits %imt% JNOV. 1936 I 1936 <£JIH M ilAlo" will be Published in NOVEMBER TO OUR READERS You will find the Annual something new in Malayan journalism. It will be an interesting magazine informative and authoritative, and completely Malayan. The Annual will be well illustrated with pictures
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    • 123 22 Itch Cause Killed In 7 Minutes Tour skin has nearly 50 million tiny ae.ims or pores where tiny g«rm« or parasites can hide and oauso your skin to Itch. Crack. Peel, Hum, also Eo«ma, Dhoby Itch, Ringworm, Pimples, Acne, Crotch-Itch, and Slngnpore Foot. Don't waste time wlta ordinary methods. You
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  • 2043 23  -  "Nestor" By AMERICAN LAWN TENNIS AND GOLF INVASION CARPENTIER, DEMPSEY AND BATTLING SIKI THE years 1920 to 1922 were notable for the way in which Great Britain, pioneers of feport, were outclassed by competitors from overseas. In golf, in lawn tennis, in cricket and in
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  • 946 23 Interviews With A Sunday Times Sports Correspondent iirHEN asked how the Chinese Olym- pic team fared in the Berlin games Poh Kirn Seng, the Malayan AA A. champion, revealed that they failed to gain even a single point. Conditions, he said, were
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    32 24 ..em Moaning, niece of Mr. I. Hoahing, the Singapore lawyer, in p!ay during th«> French girls' lawn tennis championship which she won. Shortly before she had won the British junicr girls' championship.
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  • 138 24 THE second annual Johore Olympic weight-lifting championships will be held on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Theatre Royal Hall. Jalan Station, Johore Bahru, beginning at 8 p.m. Competitors are Fly-Weight A. Hamld b. Mansour. Yusof b. H. Sirat. Ng Siak Cheon*. Wong Fook Pol and Ahmed b. Hassan
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  • 222 24 Malacca Hockey EURASIAN VOLUNTEERS IN WINNING STRIDE iFiom Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. Saturday. On the Kubu field the Eurasian Volunteer Ccrps "A" prided another win r list of victc ries when they j l) at me Alor Gajah Recreation Club by tin odd gcal in
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  • 92 24 In deference to the wishes of several competitors. the annual JohoreSlngapore walking race provisionally fixed for today has been postponed to Sunday, Nov. 1. There has been a strong entry from the Police and the Royal Inniskilllng Fusiliers but the response from other quarters has not been as
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  • 606 24 First And Second Days (From Our Own Cd espondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. FOLLOWING are the handicaps for the first day (Saturday. Oct. 10) of the Selangor Turf Club Autumn meeting. RACE 1. HiiiM-N. Clajw 4, s'j furs.: Stormy Night 9.0. Closing Tune 8.11. Unity 8.10.
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  • 253 24 HOCKEY MATCH WITH INDIANS DRAWN THE S.C.R.C. drew I—l with the Indian Association at hockey at the I.A.'s ground yesterday, although on their play they should have won by a good margin. They were slow to get going and finished the first half by losing a goal
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  • 150 24 (From Our Own Correspondent; Seremban. Saturday. The Negri Sembllan lawn tennis team is to be congratulated on the very fine showing against Malacca during the week. Despite losing th» singles matches, Negri got the better of the doubles. This display clearly revealed the progress that has been
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  • 93 24 The Y.W.C.A. Sports Club held an "At Home yesterday at the hostel. Fort Canning. About 50 members and friends were present. A start was made in the final of the mixed doubles of the lawn tennis tournament. Miss E. Peechey and Mr. B. van Cuylenberg
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    36 24 Golden Noble, owned by Mr. J. E. Cottrell, won the Hammersmith Selling Plate at Hurst Park. Surrey, with Can't Stop second and Omegan third. In the picture Golden Noble is leading a furlong from the finish.
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  • 45 24 Johore Rifle Club scores for September: Nett Cup: RJ3.M. F. H. Carpenter, R.E. 34+33+31=98, first; Captain H. E. Pike, R.E. 29+33 32=94, second. Handicap Cup: R.S.M. F. H. Carpenter, R.E. 98,000, first; Mr. F. K. McNamara, (Adjutant, Johore Police Forces) 97,278, second.
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  • 368 24 NEGRI RUGBY LIST OF FIXTURES FOR THE SEASON (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. I AM obliged to Mr. R. Briggs, the honorary secretary of the Negri Sembilan and Malacca Rugby Football Association for a copy of the fixtures for the season 1936-1937. I note that Mr. E. F. Murphy
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  • 285 24 NEGRI -MALACCA LOSE HEAVILY (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. DL'NGLED tackles and poor scrummaging were responsible for Negri-Malacca's ignominous rugger defeat at the hands of Se!angor I here today by 32 points (five goals, a try and a dropped goal) to nil. There was a feeling of nervousness about
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  • 57 24 In the handicap sinsles Class 3 of the V.M.C.A. tennis tournament yesterday, J. Manasseh l5) beat T. Nagashima (scratch) 6— 2, C l. The tie in the mixed doubles betwe3n I. A. AlsagoiT and Mlsj Wcmyss (—15.3) and Yap Ah Hian and Mrs. Pennefather, which was fixed
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  • 453 25 PADANG RUGBY FORM IMPROVING WITH EACH GAME The Rest 14; Newcomers 0. pi RTHER improvement, especially among the backs was apparent in the rugger game yesterday between Cricket Club Newcomers and The Rest on the Padang. Although they did well in the
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  • 762 25 BRILLIANT boxing in the light- weight, junior flyweight and fraihrnvcijrM divisions enlivened thr Jina!s of the Singapore Amateur Uox; teanuußeaf at th,- Drili Hail las'. > There was a. glcrinu-? bout between ,v ar.<l Fustier Long, both cf the Royal Innlslviiling Fusiliers. ias PHUR It wu a
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  • 207 25 PENANG "A"s HEAVY FORWARDS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang. Saturday. PLAYING a strong side which included eight or nine probable StaY; Rugby representatives Penanj 'A' defeated Perak Asiatics by 18 points to i ths afternoon on the Esplanade. TIM visitors fielded a gjed side but louna the
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  • 103 25 Rujjby matches played at Home on Saturday resulted, says Reuter, as follows: Rosslyn Park 11, O'.d Bluos 3. Bath 8, Torquay A. 3. Bradford 3, Headingley 10. L'aneily 3. Swansea 8. Mosclcy 10, Bedford 6. Newport 6. Cardiff 9. Neath 3, Aberavon 5. Glasgow Acas 22. West o
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  • 148 25 31—0 VICTORY IN RUGGER MATCH (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. *THE Negrl Sorr.bilan All Blues wsrc b?aten by the Selangor Club "A" XV in a rugger fixture en the padang today by 31 points (five goals, cne penalty goal and one try) to nil.
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  • 178 25 9 Heavy Hrix.de 3. 7th Heavy Battery 0. The 9th Heavy Brigade (Changl> trained a Rugby victory j over the 7lh Heavy Battery (Biakan Mati) yesterday at Biakan Mali. The victory was as impressive as >t v.-as deserved and while the horn? team played gamely tD
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  • 1200 25 DESULTS of fames played yes- x terday in the leagues are, says Reuter DOSITIONS in the leagues including yesterday's (tames Charlton A. 4 Chelsea 1 Derby Co 2 Grimsby T. 5 Hudderafield 3 Liverpool 2 Manchester U. 2 Sheffield Wed. 0 Stoke C 2 Sunderland
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  • 476 25 DV defeating the Services by the broad margin of 10 to 5 at poll yesterday, the Civilians won the Innis killings Cup, presented to the Singapore Polo Club by Major U. G. S. Cox M.C. The Civilians were nndcubtedly the superior ride, cemb?nin£ extra ordinarily wcii. The
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  • 98 25 (From Onr Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Saturday. The third annual encounter between the Old Boys of the two premier Brother Schools in Perak. St. Michael's. Ipoli, and St. George's, Taiping. began this evening on the former's ground. The Old Michaelians. who were winners on the first two occasions, are
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  • 55 25 OFFICE-BE ARERS At the annual general meeting of the New Club. Taiping. the following were elected efnee-b arers lor th^ ensuing years President, Mr. E. T. Jacques: vice-president. Mr. A. F. Dennett; Committee Messrs T. A. Crcsbie. Dr. W. R. Duff. J. N ilson. G. E. Pow, C. U. Stafford
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    • 68 25 TESTASA 5i TESTAtA FOR ENERGY, VITALITY FIT, IT'S A TEST ASA YOU NEED— If you have any difficulty in obtainin; this restorative, write to Sole Agents. Malaya HINNAM LITTLE DISPENSARY LTD. SINGAPORE. t| LEABN TO MMI Trith rrrace, rhythm; to lead a novice partner Into flc llr.g :t I :s
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  • 756 26 Delayed Tournament —Is A Change In The Rules Necessary? More Entries For Women's Events By Our Badminton Correspondent TTIIE postponement of matches in the men's smjjles and doubles badminton championship tournaments is fuithcr delaying the conrh:sion of the tournaments. This has been occasioned by
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    25 26 Members of the Port Dickson Recreation Club badminton teams. In th: centre is Inche Mohamed Idris (District Officer. Port Dickson) who has proceeded on transfer.
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  • 283 26 PORT DICKSON R.C DOUBLES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seromban, Saturday. A GREAT deal of interest Is bein shown in badminton in Negr. Sembilan at the moment. The intcrparty tournament has just begun while the tournaments arc in the closing stages. This week three finals will be played.
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  • 63 26 Members of the Chinese Friendly Association are requested to note tbat the special general meeting will be held at the Association premises, 126. Albert Street, top floor, on Tue.st. 8 p.m. After the meeting the subcommittee meeting of the anniversary celebration which will be held on Saturday
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  • 954 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. pOOI) progress was made in the Selangor badminton impionships when the semi-fina* rounds of the junior doubles and the women's singles and doubles were played at the Victoria Institution Hall last week. A start was also made in the
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  • 110 26 A team from the following will represent the Social Athletic Party in a friendly game cf soccer against the August Badminton Party today at the Fraser and Neave sports ground, kick off at 5.10 p.m.: Sim Ah Pang, Koh Chye Tuan, Leong Hock Kee. Tok Som Mul, Teo
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  • 62 26 The following players will represent the National Badminton Party against the Playfair Badminton Party on the former's court at Silat Road today at j 2.30 p.m. Tan Peng Hock, Sng Beng Teck, Sng Seng Heng. Tan Kck Ann. Koh Leong Kirn. Lee Kirn Teck. Low Hock Chiang, P.
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  • 39 26 Members of the Argonauts Badminton Party, Malacca, are requested to note that the eighth annual general meeting of the party will bo hold at the residence of Mr. Lye Bor Soo. U. Gaja Berang lioad, at 11 a.m. today.
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  • 122 26 MR. J. DEVLIN (From Our Own Correspondent). AS a result of representations made by the Straits Times to the 8.8.C. in London, it has now been decided to include in Transmission II (the transmission intended for Malaya) an electrical recordin,; cf a talk on badminton
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  • 177 26 (From Dur Own Correspondent Scr;mb2.n, Sa.urd^y. Further progress has been macl>- In the Negn Sembilan State rjadmiiwou tournament and the latest results uc: Mi::ed Doubles (Gemi-finals> Mi:t: Wong Foong Mcc and Chan Yocn Kan beat Miss Chu Tsuk Lin and S. V.? rapan 21—18, 21^2: Miss P.
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  • 1039 27  -  "ECHO" BY Little Prospect Of Making A Livelihood Plans For Improvement Of The Stadium rrUK GUNNEBB deserve hearty congratulatioiM on their victory in thr^ S.A.F A. Cup final. They •were expected to win. as I wrote before the match, but as Mr. remarked this has been
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    9 27 Tha Chinese Recreation Club of Batu Pahat football team.
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    15 27 Athletes of "Spade House" champions for 10SC at the Batu Pahat Govment English School sports.
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  • 502 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) iilor SUr. Th? following are the results ofCKc 1 Dublin Golf Club monthly medal (bogey) for September Syed Abdul Rahman (winner 201 3ther returns. C. H. Mackay. H. A. Campbell. Wan Ismail. Che Din, L. J. rhompson, T. KHchlng. R. Homer and L.
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    22 27 Photograph taken on the occasion of the inter-State lawn tennis match between Negri Sembilan and Malacca. Malacca won by a narrow margin.
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  • 81 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. Thanks mainly to a splendid set of halves, the Government Services beat the English School at hockey by three goals to one on the School Padang. Jabbar bin Mohamed Salleh, better known on the soccer field, shone at rentre-half. Of the forwards, D.
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  • 67 27 SPADES HOUSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIP (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu ""ahat. THE annual athletic sports the Government English School, Batu Pahat. were held on the school ground on Wednesday before a large gathering. The individual champion for "A" was won by Abdul Manan b. All (Hearts
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  • 219 27 REGENT'S CUP TWO GAMES PLAYED IN FIRST ROUND (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. In the first round of the cup-tie competition for the Regent's Cup, the Abdul Hamid Sports Club, holders trounced the Posts and T i?graphs by 11 goals to 1. The Spoi^ Club was decidedly the better
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  • 37 27 The concluding ties of the Useful B.P. open singles badminton championships to be played during the next week-end are Saturday, Oct. 10: Wee Kirn Wee vs. Chiang Tiong Wah; George Chen vs. E. Hock Chiang.
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  • 148 27 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. Pcnang travelled to Sungel Patani and played the Sungci Pr.tinl Club at golf. Penang won by four matches to three. Scores (Penang first) F. Gordon Smith and W. Anderson beat G. Holliday and J. F. Fletcher 2 and 1. G. A.
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  • 77 27 (From Our Own Correspondent > Seremban, Saturday. The Negrl Sembilan Japanese Association bc-t the Port Dickson Club in the Chang Seng Long Cup lawn tennis tournament. The results were: M. Sakata beat Capt. Denaro 6 2, 6—l T. Oda beat Major J. T. Bretherton 6—4. 7
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  • 46 27 (Prom Our Own Coi respondent) Taiping. The following are the Perak Golf Club fixtures for October. Oct. 4 Men's Medal (Bogey) Oct. 11, President's Cup Qualifying Round; Oct. IC. Women's Medal (Bogey) Oct. 25, Presid?nfs Cup First Round Oct. 31, Men's Medal (Stroke).
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  • 163 27 Segamat C.R.C. Beat Gemas R.I. (From Our Own Correspondent)' Segan.a' T^3 Sesamat Chinese Recreation Club secured a harc'-earned one-nil against the Gemas Railway Institute, at Gemas, last week. The ground victory in an exciting soccer game was a great handicap to fast soccer but keen rivalry between the
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  • 31 27 The monthly general meeting of the Amateur Sporting Asscciation will be held tomorrow at 0 p.m. at the residence of Mr. Ithoo Ens Watt, 41, Craig Road, Singapore.
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  • 64 28 First Trans -Atlantic Flying-Boat On Trial THE SHORT FLYING-BOAT Caledonia, the first of the aircraft scheduled for the Imperial Airways experimental trans-Atlantic service, on the slipway while undergoing constructor's trials at Rochester before going to the marine aircraft experimental establishment at Felix:. towe to undergo official trials for a certificate
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  • 70 28 One of the many armoured giants of Britain's mechanised army which moved menacingly across Salisbury Plain during the special manoeuvres devoted entirely to tanks. SIR JOHN SIMON, the Home Secretary, golfing at St. Andrews. MISS BETTY SLADE (London Diving Club) the woman springboard champion of
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