The Straits Times, 22 August 1937

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 296 Sunday, August 22, 1937 Price 10 cents THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 296 Sunday. August 22. 1937 Price 10 cents
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    INDIAN TROOPS FOR SINGAPORE
    728 1 Congress Issue Statement Of Approval MILE-HIGH SMOKE PALL HANGS OVER SHANGHAI WAR AREA -J Chinese Must Bomb Warships Out Of Whangpoo River To Hold Ground Gained FOLLOWING a conference between Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, t'*e Commander-in-Chief, and groups from the Council, at which it was
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    War Babies
    50 1 ffWO births took place aboard refugee ship* between Shanghai and Hong Kong yesterday. Mrs. H. V. Rowland gave birth to a son in the Empress of Asia and Mrs. Brandt gave birth to a daughter in the Italian liner Victoria. The children were named Asia and Victoria respectively:
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    BRITAIN'S LOSSES ARE BEYOND COUNT
    491 1 THE loss to British property in Shanghai by bombs and shellflre is moderately estimated at £1,500,000 while the loss to trade and commerce, which is mounting daily, is at present beyond computation. Mr. Calder Marshall, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce told Reuter: "If
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    TIGER-KILLING GENERAL
    49 1 TIGER- KILLING GENERAL GENERAL (MAO TKNG-Yl made a national hero for his part in the Tungchow >nensive in which he was killed, won much fame in Hunan in 1918 when he killed a tiger in single combat. General Chao was then one of the attache* of General Fen; Yu-hsiang.
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    CHINESE FIGHTS FOUR JAPANESE PLANES
    105 1 CHINESE FIGHTS FOUR JAPANESE PLANES Shanghai, Saturday. DKITISH troops in the western D defence sector of the International Settlement this morning had a fuU view of the first Sino-Japanese air battle visible from the city. A solitary Chinese plane encountered four Japanese machines over west Shanghai. The Chinese pilot, finding
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    BRITONS RUN GAUNTLET OF FIRE
    135 1 BRITONS RUN GAUNTLET OF FIRE Two Attempts To Rescue Man And Sister Shanghai, Saturday. Britons belonging to the Armoured Car Company of the Shanghai Volunteers twice ran the ten-mile gauntlet of fire in a vain attempt to rescue a Swiss, Edouard Juvet, and his sister Rose, stranded in 110--mans-land in
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    GAOL PRISONERS TO BE FREED
    83 1 Shanghai. Saturday. A RRANGEMENTS have been made to evacuate the 7,000 prisoners, mo >t of whom are Chinese from Ward Road gaol, the largest ?aol in the world. The prisoners have been under heavy Sino-Japanese crossfire for several days. Chinese prisoners will be handed over
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      12 1 MODERN anq ARTISTIC FURNITURE SUN WAH Co., Victoria St. Phone 2425. Spore
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      62 1 BUY YUu,. CAMERAS A1 SINGAPORE PHOTO CO., SINGAPORE MALACCA HOME CRICKET, HOME FOOTBALL, LONDON CLOSING PRICES AND EARLY CABLES FROM CHINA ARE IN PAGE 8. WiITiAWAYS #NEW STOCKS 250 sets CRYSTAL WATER SETS This is a beautiful set cornsix pretty shaped tumblers to match. Delightfully moulded and very handsome in
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    Colony Cavalcade
    1384 2 Radio Entertainment For Malaya's Asiatic Popula tion What Other Countries Have Done IN THE FREQUENT discussions on the woeful plight of radio broadcasting in Malaya an important point has consistently escaped comment. It is the provision on a large scale of programmes for Asiatic listeners. Although more than
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    Two Heroines
    298 2 'TVKGCKOW has been tHe scene, first of the slaughter from air of some 400 Chinese soldiers of the 38th Division because of their refusal to surrender their arms at Japanese orders and then of the ghastly 7nassacre of Japanese cii Wans by the recalcitrant members of the Peace
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    Ship's Officer Wishes He Could Have Attended His Wedding
    315 3 MARRIED WITH BRIDE 11,000 MILES AWAY 11AP 3 IEST man in the X.P.M. Mf Nieuw Zetland, which left Singapore for Melbourne on Fridaj vas the young second officer. Mynheer K. Koldyk. He was all stiles. And there was good I for
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    CHILE'S £780,000 FOR AIR DEFENCE
    163 3 Orders For Germany And Italy Santiago (Chile). f EKMANY and Italy, it is announced here, will be given the lion's share of the aviation orders to be placed by the Chilean Government under its allocation of 100,000.000 pesos (about £780.000 at current rates) for new
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    POLICE BAND
    59 3 The Police Band will play today at Botanic Gardens at 8.30 p.m. March, Machine Gun Guards (E. Marechal) Overture, My Old Stable Jacket (Biltoni Selection. Gold Diggers of 1937 (Harold Arleni Waltz, The Golden Waltz (arranged by Aubrey Winter) Solo for Cornet. A Perfect Day Jacobs- Boniit Gipsy
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    Nudists In The Hold
    196 3 Fire broke out aboard an American cargo-boat in midAtlantic, and— Out of the blazing hold appeared a mystery man and a mystery woman in the nude. Houston, Texas. DUXOM Mrs. Esther Woman, a Londoner, and Abram Kiper, a Belgian, are detained at Galvestoiv Iby immigration officials
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    BAT, BALL AND INSURANCE!
    34 3 Triplet grandsons of Joseph McGee, of Kansas City, all received from their grandfather on their fourth birthday a bat and ball and an insurance policy covering damage to neighbours' windows.
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    HER MITE FOR CHINESE RED CROSS FUND
    123 3 HER MITE FOR CHINESE RED CROSS FUND rORMER wife of a rich Singa- pore Chinese, and now a taxi dancer. Miss Chan Yok Yip is the first cabaret hostess to offer her wages to the Singapore Chinese Red Cross Fund. She points out: "There are hundreds of Chinese taxi dancers
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    TYPIST SUES JOAN CRAWFORD £10,000
    91 3 TYPIST SUES JOAN CRAWFORD £10,000 New York. r\OROTHY ROGERS, a pretty brunette, formerly Press bureau secretary at R.K.O. studios, Hollywood, has announced that she is preparing a suit against Joan Crawford claiming £10,000. Miss Rogers alleges that the star used her influence to have h?r dismissed from her job. Mlss^
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    WHITE SETTLERS FOR KENYA COLONY
    107 3 WHITE SETTLERS FOR KENYA COLONY INDIAN OPPOSITION Nairobi. AN important motion Introduced by the Bwropean elected members of the Kenya Legislature, adopted by the Government and passed after d»baU without a division, asks the Government to appoint a committee to prepare a scheme to attract increased white settlement on a
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    BABY BORN AFTER MOTHER'S DEATH
    264 3 Court Order For Operation New York, Aug. 6. CH)R two days and nights surgeons in a Philadelphia hospital waited for a baby to be born or for its mother, incurably ill of tubercular meningitis, to die, so that they might deliver her child by a
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    38 3 Mrs. Gray and family wish to express their sincere thanks to all relatives and friends who attended the funeral of the late Mr. George Gray. They also thank those who sent telegrams, wreaths and letters of condolence.
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      400 3 America Imperial A irways A spontaneous tribute from 'Aviation', the leading aeronautical newspaper in the United States of America 'In all of its honourable his'.ory, Imperial Airways had never (iven anyone cause to suspect It capable of breaking out in a perfect rampafe of progress. Yet that's Just what H
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      544 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY CINEMAS TIDE TABLE T T SLNGAPOBK ILHAMBRA: "Dimples" with Shirley Tern- Today pie. 3.15 6.15 and 9 15 H. W. 11. IS a.m. 8.8 ft.; 10.50 p.m. 1'APiTOL: Shall We Dance' with Ginger 9.8 ft. iiid Fred Astaire. 3.15 6.15 A 9.15. L- W. 4.51 a.m. 1.5
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    Singapore Trapeze Star Shot
    175 4 LOVELY GIRL BORN IN HARMSTON'S CIRCUS Daring Act In Jungle Film r\NE of the most lovely girls in the sawdust ring, Vera Bruce, shot down in Long Beach, California, by her husband, Alfredo Codona, world's greatest trapexe expert, was born in Singapore. Her father, C. H.
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    Australian Flagship Here Soon
    83 4 Australian Flagship Here Soon WEEK'S STAY •TTIE flagship of the Australia! Naval Squadron, the cruisi Canberra (Captain A. G. B. Wilson D.5.0.. M.V.0.), flying the flag en Rcnr-Admiral R. H. O. Lane-Poole C.8.. 0.8.E will arrive at Singapore on September 1 on a week's visit. On arrival she will proceed
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    Faulty Wiremen Beware
    131 4 Faulty Wiremen Beware Great Power For Electrical Dept. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. IN an effort to lessen the danger to life from faulty electric wirinp the Federal Government has given the Adviser on Electricity stricter control over wiremen and charge men. rcw rule published in the Gazette
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    KUALA LUMPUR WEDDING
    57 4 'From Our Own Correspondent. Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. MR. John James 'lan) Johnston, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnston of Clach lan Cults (Aberdeenshire) was married to Kathleen Margaret, elder daughter of the late Mr. J. V. and Mrs. Costelle, South Yarra, Victoria. Australia at
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    Nanking To Honour Java Chinese Flyer
    89 4 Nanking. AS an encouragement for his enthusiasm in promoting- aviation in China, the National Government will shortly bestow upon Mr. Khouw Kieh-hien, millionaire Chinese flier from Java, a wooden tablet on which will be inscribed the words; "National Salvation through Aviation." Mr. Khouw flew
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    POSTAL OFFICIAL'S THEFT OF TILS
    194 4 Chief Justice Dismisses Appeal THE appeal of Ismail bin Majid. a Post Office clerk, who was convicted of theft of three ties which came by post, and sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment by the Criminal District Judge, was dismissed yesterday by Mr. Justice a
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    BEER AND STOUT CROWN CORKS
    120 4 Three Chinese Charged With Possession I A LLBGKD to have been in possession of a large quantity erf crown corks and labels for various brands of beer and stout, for the alleged purpose of using them falsely to beverages not actually manufactured by the firms
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    HONG KONG CHOLERA UNDER CONTROL
    164 4 HONG KONG CHOLERA UNDER CONTROL Emigrants Inspected ■"THE cholera epidemic at Hong Kong is under control, according to a cablegram received at Singapore yesterday by the League of Nations Eastern Health Bureau. Steps are being taken at Hong Kong to inspect all arrivals and to inoculate crew and emigrant coolies
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    ROYALTY ON RUBBER WOOD REMOVED
    85 4 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 20. nOi'ALTY on rubber wood removed from alienated land will not be charged any more in the F.M.B. A Gazette notification today states that the order of June 14, which imposed royalty at the rates prescribed for timber
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      160 4 ENGLAND'S PROUDEST f 'IKSHMKKL£k SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT! ■HBH^BI "A PICTURE WHICH WILL BE (^^^Sm^sm^smlsssml CHEERED IN EVERT BRITISH I lINKM A IN rVHICH IT IS l&Sfc. SHOWN says the Dally MaH Jj^ V^l^K^lmHi FLORA ROBSOR IhO| (II I dll f« I il\i I Britain 1 Be* Film Since Henry VIII I
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      1013 4 Kidney Germs It (HEADACHtV N LrflflfldOUS IgmJSgSv V foizzlNEsn Diseases rg^li^s^ 1 Doctor tolls how to kill germi IWEAMJESS j^ LKl^smNj and romovo tho underlying causo fgj^T j?p# f u \mk 1 of Getting Up Might.. Uric AoM. Nervousness, Puffy Eyelids, Lost J Vigour. Dizziness, Frequent Headaches and Colds. A
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    GERMAN & AUSTRIAN REFUGEES FOR SINGAPORE
    231 5 GERMAN AUSTRIAN REFUGEES FOR SINGAPORE Party Of 50 Due Early Next Month TO BE ACCOMMODATED BY COMPATRIOTS ABOUT 50 German and Austrian refugees from Shanghai are expected at Singapore soon. They will travel down on the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Gneisenau. The decision to bring them as far south as Singapore
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    23 5 .MX. Katharine Cornell, celebrated American actress who, as reported in the Sunday Times recently, will appear on a Singapore stage early next year.
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    SINGAPORE BE A UTIES ARE SHY
    137 5 SINGAPORE BE A UTIES ARE SHY FILM UNIT STILL LOOKING FOR FEMININE LEAD QrNGAPORE girls are shy. And so are those of the rest of Malaya, it seems. At least, they are when it comes to nlrrs Paramount^ 'Booloo" nlm expedition, headed by Mr. Clyde E. Ellltv are still looking
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    24 5 A crowd of 200 natives at Tunis attacked t\e staff of the French newspaper "La Presse' and seriously Injured a journalist and a compositor.
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    FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR COURTS
    68 5 A FATAL accident that occurred opposite the police courts in South Bridge Road on Friday had a htqut'l in the fourth police court yesterday, before Mr. L. C. Goh, when the Chinese driver of a Johore motorlorry, Tan Thiam Theng, was charged with causing the death
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    Interviewed In
    114 5 scientists and writers were trampled on!" said Rubenstein. "Germans look upon Hitler as divine, just as they did Bismark and the Kaiser. They go ahead like so many wild bulls, but bulls are beaten by matadors little fellows who are clever enough to pierce their hearts with a
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    FOUR MONTHS' GAOL FOR SMUGGLER
    79 5 A FINE of $500, or four months' rigorous imprisonment, was imposed on an elderly sampan man named Ong Koon when he pleaded guilty in the fourth police court yesterday to a charge of smuggling a large quantity of cigarettes and tobacco. The magistrate, Mr. L.
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    FAMILY OF SIX LIVE WELL ON 10 CENTS A DAY
    212 5 I Javanese Diet Good, Scientists Say (From Our Own Correspondent). Batavia. TTHE recent economic revival in 1 Netherlands India has given i rise to a controversy, started in the Peoples' Council, concerning the I wages of the Javanese labourer and
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    10 5 Miss Sally Chan, "Carnival Princess" of Malacca for this month.
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    20 5 Mr. Ec Cheng Loon and his bride. the former Miss C'heonh Seok Choo. after their wedding at the Chinese Consulate-General.
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    ESCAPE TUNNEL BY CRATER
    93 5 I'From Our Own Correspondent Batavia AN escape tunnel about 32 yard* long, with exists to east and southwest and containing a small room in the middle, has been constructed at the crater of the Tankuban Prahu. near Bandoeng. This tunnel is to serve as a shelter
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    Noted Pianist Singapore
    181 5 Flies To Australia For Broadcasts •IT is no use breaking into bad language about Nazi Germany's savage treatment of Jewish artists," declared the famous pianist, Arthur -ibenstein, a Polish Jew, in an terview with a Sunday Times reporter. Mr. Rubenstein is rushing across the world by aeroplane
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      456 5 AN EXCITING COMBINATION j OF THRILLING ROMANC E M© W PERFORMANCE OF BAR OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT. CHARLES BOYER JEAN ARTHUR .n 'HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT' United Artists Release with LEO CARRILLO and COLIN CLIVE Matinee Today 2 P.M. HIGH TENSION also SAN FRANCISCO THE FORD V-8 FOR 1937 r£E£
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    THE WEEK'S MARKET ACTIVITIES
    772 6 Confidence In Face Of Far East Crisis BY THE SUNDAY TIMES FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT I7EATURES of the local market r during the week have been (a) the remarkable confidence which has been displayed in the face of the rapid developments of the Far Eastern crisis; (b the
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    242 6 Rice quoted per koyan 40 piculs. Other commodities quoted per picul except where otherwise stated. Singapore, August 21, 12 noon. Buyer Seller Gambler $8.00 Hamburg Cube $15.00 Java Cube $11.00 Pepper. White Muntok $17.50 White $17.00 Black $10.00 Copra. Mixed $5.35 Sun Dried $5.» Tapioca. Small Flake $4.00
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    MANILA GOLD SHARE MARKET
    57 6 The following quotations for gold shares on the Manila Stock Exchange are supplied by Messrs. S. E. Levy and Co.:— Aug. 21 Previous Totfar s Last sale priced Last sal epiices Antamok 0.75 0.74 Pesoe Bengaet Consolidated 10. SO 10.50 I X.L. 0.64 0.63 San Mauricio
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    DIVIDEND
    37 6 THE Union lnsnrar.ee Society of Can- ton, Ltd. has declared an interim dividend of 15s a share on account of the year 1937 payable on Oct. 22. The share register will be closed on Oct. 11.
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    Wall Street Cable
    173 6 Aug. 18. 19. 20. American Can. Com. 109 lOB,< 2 107 i, 4 American Telephone and Telegraph 169 3 /4 170& 168^ Atcheson Railroad 77 V 4 76% 76 l 4 Chesapeak 50% 50',^, 49>/ 2 Dupont 162 163 160^ s Firestone 34>/4 33% 35V 2 General
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    82 6 Saturday, Aug. 21, Noon. No. 1 K. R. S. S. in eases (FOB.) Aur. 2*?« 3fl'v Gvod F. A. Q. in bates (FOB; Am«. 29 3/i6 W** No. 1 K. R S. S. (Spot loose) Awardable Spore 29^ Mft Aumst 29% 30 September MVi 29
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    SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
    1283 6 Fraser and Co,'s List Closing Prices Saturday. Aug. 21. MINING Buyers Setters Ampat Tin <4s> 8s 6d 7i Asam Kumbang 36s 37i Austral Malay If) 58s 60s c.d. Ayer Hitam (5s) 34s 9d 36s 6d Ayer Weng (fl) 1 35 1.40 Ba:.grln Tin 26s 27s
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    Current Company Dividends
    241 6 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. Sintapor*. Aug. 21, 5 p.n Total for Books Close financial Company Dividend To Date Ex. Div. year ITO Paymtole Date to dat« Austral Malay 3V* Int. Sept. 3 Sept. 10 Sept. 4 10% 3?4% Bonus Ipoh Tin 15%% Final Aug. 3
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      195 6 S. E. Levy Co. Bb*ngh*], Hongkong, Manila. Singapore. investment Bankers and Brokers in Securities and Commodities. Daily Foreign Market Cables and Quotation Service. MEMBERS. NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. COMMODITY EXCHANGE, INC. NEW YOaK COFFEE SUGAR EXCHANGF. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE CANADIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE. SHANOHAI STOCK EXCHANGE. HONGKONG SHARE BROKERS' ASSN.
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      313 7 TESTASA jam TElTAjft wiSUn I pit] 7 OR ENERGY, VITALITY A FIT, IT'S A TESTASA YOU NEED— I you have any difficulty In obtaining this restorative, write to Sole Agents. Malaya. IINNAM LITTLF DISPENSARY LTD. Singapore. CORONATION STAMPS of the BRITISH EMPIRE This unique oiler Is not only a wonderful
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      483 7 I WHERE TO STAY j) LONDON. PINES! ¥E1 QUIETEST POSITION HOTEL STRATHCONA (The Srathcona Residential Club* LANCASTER GATE. HYDE PARK A few vards from Hyde nark and Kensington Gardens 1 Buses and Tube; to all oarts Hot ana > cold water and gas Ore Ui bedrooms Ample bathrooms Central Heatinu
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      762 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE ZHL 1 SI Mc/» (ZZS H.) 11 30 LJgbt orchestral cotucrt, played by the Tanglin Club Orchestra, under direction of Rex Allen. Relay from the Tanglln Club: March. "Old Comrade:." Telke. Waltz. 'Voice of Si-'rin,; 1 Strauss. Overture. "Huncari&n Lustsplel", Keler ■&.la. Fant aisle. "La Boheme".
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      419 7 TRANSMISSION 5. (.si. 11.75 Me/* (tS.S m) GSB 9 51 Me a (31 5 ra 6.40 "London Log."* by Walter Fitzgerald 6.50 Big Ben. Crieff Highland Gathering (Chieftain: Sir James Denty Robert*. Bart). RuanuiR commentary* on some of the events, by B. F. Dunnett. From the Games Ground. Cried. 7.20
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      702 7 BERLIN. DJB 15. 2* Bc/l (19.14 m.J; DJN ».M mc/i (31.45 m.); DJE 11. It me i (16.89 m.i and DJQ 13.28 mc/s (19.63 a.) CIS Call DJB, DJN. DJB. 6.30 Concert of light music. 7.20 News in English. 7.35 Concert of light music (continued). 8.15 Greetings to listeners. 8.20
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    CHINA CLAIMS JAPAN HAS 100,000 TROOPS IN NORTH
    498 8 Fresh Crisis Looms At Tsingtao LANDING EXPECTED BY NANKING INO-JAPANESE trouble is expected at Tsingtao, Shantung port, while in the neighbouring; province of Hopei Japanese >rceg have been increased to 100,OCO, according to a Nanking i'oreign Office communique issued last night by
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    HOME FOOTBALL
    103 8 Results of football games played yesterday in the Scottish Leagues: I IJ" O :eltic 4 >undee 4 'alkirk 4 libernian .0 lotherwell 5 •artick 3 it. Johnstone 6 It. Mirren 1 "hird Lanark 1 Mo. on 0 Clyde 1 Aberdeen 1 Rangers 0 Artoroath 1 Kilmarnock 0 Hamilton
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    HOME CRICKET
    91 8 Lord's Middlesex 277 Kent 126 for 6. Oval Yorks. 344 f or 4 (Hutton 13, Leyland 77) vs. Surrey. Eastbourne Somerset 358 for 6 (Cameron 102 no, Meyer 125) vs. Sussex. Cardiff: Leicester 152 (Clay 6 for 66 v Glamor fan 183 for 2 (E. Da vies 81
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    CLOSING PRICES
    62 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) London. SsUrdaj. Gold: 16 19b. fd Silver (Spot): 19 IS/lCd. two morals 14 IS/16d. Cotton: 5 'Ha EiHimra: New York. 4.MH; AawtcnUm, Ml Coffee: RobnsU Ufanda, f a.« Aug -Sept. «ns M. Sac* Flour A«« S«pt rif lw. M. Palm oil: Malayan, kom. c
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    New Warships To Netherlands India Soon
    92 8 New Warships To Netherlands India Soon (From Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia. ry RING the debate in the Peoples' Council on the Naval budget for 1938, Rear Admiral Ferwerda declared that a decision would soon be made on the building of a cruiser and fonr torpedo boats for Netherlands India. The
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    JOHORE MALAY WEDDING
    59 8 (From our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. A LAROELY-attcnded wedding took place at Jalan Mohd. Amin last night, when Inche Rahman bin Mohd. Solleh, Assistant Collector of Land Revenue, Pontian. was married to a daughter of Che Mohd. Said bin Abdullah, the retired Deputy Superintendent of Chandu
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    EARTHQUAKE ROCKS PHILIPPINES
    41 8 Manila. Saturday. /"\NE person was killed ai..* 33 Injured v when two earthquake shocks rocked the Philippines just as the first batch of American refugees arrived from Shanghai. Many houses collapsed. No foreigners are among the casualties. Renter.
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    WOMAN STABBED TWELVE TIMES
    26 8 An Indian woman 'bring in Joo Chiat was attacked by an Indian man yesterday and taken to hospital with twelve stab wounds.
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    MORE BRITONS EVACUATE SHANGHAI
    34 8 Another 212 British subjects left Shanghai for Hong Kong yesterday in the British coastal steamer Shengking. All were women and children except a few men accompanying their wives, says Renter.
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    SECRET ARSENAL
    20 8 About 100.000 cartridges, SO revolv ers and Mauser rifles were found con cealed in a house at Marseilles.
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    SHE IS SEEKING a DIVORCE
    35 8 Keno. Saturday. MRS. F. S. MOODY, better known as Helen Wills many times a world lawn tennis champion, is now at Reno seeking a divorce on the grounds of cruelty.
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    Danger Of Appalling Catastrophe
    240 8 Danger Of Appalling Catastrophe STRONG U.S. PRESS COMMENT New York, Saturday. THE New York Times, in an editorial on China draws attention to the growing danger of an appalling catastrophe. The journal says that there is every sign that the Chinese resistance in the North, particularly is supported and directed
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    HEROISM TO SAVE RICE FOR REFUGEES
    99 8 HEROISM TO SAVE RICE FOR REFUGEES Shanghai, Saturday. A GALLANT five-hour fight against flre caused by a shell which destroyed a £50,060 cargo of cotton insured but not against war risk, was led by a Briton, Frederick William Poate, of Stanmore, Middlesex, managing director of Mackenzie and Co. Using the
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    MALACCA ROTARY
    28 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.* Malacca, Saturday. Dr. A. L. Hoops will address the Malacca Rotary Club on Sumatra at the luncheon meeting on Tuesday at rssthouse.
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    POLICING OF SETTLEMENT
    181 8 NEW ARRANGEMENT REACHED AN arrangement for the policing of areas north' of Soocbow Creek appears to have been reached between the Japanese authorities in Shanghai and the Municipal Council. Owing to heavy shelling and bombing in this area Municipal police were withdrawn last week and the Japanese
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    POR-TOR FESTIVAL IN MALACCA
    71 8 i From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. The Malacca City Park made special arrangements to celebrate the Por Tor (feeding of hungry ghosts) festival. Huge, moving paper gods and priests chanting prayers received offerings of sweetmeats, cakes, fruit, vegetables and other articles. The judges awarded three
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    BOY IN HOSPITAL AFTER COLLISION WITH CYCLIST
    31 8 A Chinese cyclist and a 13-year-old Chinese boy collided in Club Street yesterday. The boy was taken to the General Hospital in an ambulance.
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    BUCKINGHAM PALACE GARDEN PARTY
    24 8 A. fckt... tMtfaflga to the QssMß while another shake* hands with the Kin* at a rarden party at Backsntham Pala«e.
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    Mainly About Malayans
    1041 9 By The Onlooker FBLANTAN'S new British Adviser, GEORGE ALEXANDER de CHAZAL de MOUBRAY, belongs to the small school of M.C.S. officers which is deeply interested in sociology. Although he ha* served on the East Coast before Trengganu in 1927 he has never previously been to Kolantan, ye;
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      133 9 i.lows, tamps and q v :alls never announce .v\* h'-ir coming but LH t^^k 4 fv* with Sloan's Liniment cA* handy you are ready for tf these bruise-makers. o A Immediately after the accident pat Sloan's gently on the painful spot. Its comforting /j9K\ warmth will quickly Wfllffin penetrate into
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      260 9 «/<V A "m. "T y*^?*^'"" JOAN JOAN BLONDELL J^f^^\ GIVES THE SECRET/^^'" ''^^^j.C-i| L of a flawless )W wl&^ COMPLEXION 4/; |j r I think your complexion is simply yr fi f beautiful, Mollie. I only wish mine >?L fi I were the same." ft "Weli. why not do as
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    DARWIN DEFENCE LINK WITH SINGAPORE
    363 10 Valuable Support In Far East Emergency AERODROME SITE FIXED Troops Building Barracks And Mounting Guns AF vital interest to Singapore is the fortification of Darwin, Australia's northern base. Plans are ready to make it a defence base of more than ordinary importance. One of the
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    Four Seats For 39-Stone Witness
    74 10 Four Seats For 39-Stone Witness Vicnjia. THIRTY-NINE- STONE Frau Laliola, "world's second heaviest woman," was pushed by one man, pulled by another up the staircase of the Vienna Central Court to give evidence in a woman's slander suit against seven-foot Frau Zambo, "world's tallest woman." When she had sat down
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    Sequel To Gold Hoard " Discovery "
    161 10 Sequel To Gold Hoard Discovery Panama. AS a sequel to the remarkable story that Spanish gold bars worth over a half million sterling had been found in a long-lost mine in Panama, the Governor and police chief of the Province of Chiriqui have been removed from office. It turned out
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    BRITAIN'S LEAD IN SHIPPING
    175 10 Large Percentage Of New Tonnage QREAT BRITAIN and Ireland still 1 possess the largest percentage of new merchant vessels. Of the tonnage registered in Great Britain and Ireland 80.7 per cent, is under 20 years old. The corresponding percentage for the rest of the world is
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      MURDER IN A NUDIST CAMP
      431 11 MURDER IN A NUDIST CAMP Th<? Nudist Murder. By Trail! Stevenson. The Master Spy. By Arthur Gask. The Cups of Alexander. By Pearl Bellairs. Nurse to Dives. By Paul Trent. All from Jenkins' Colonial libraryIJERE is a collection of light fiction by a number of authors who are well known
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      The Times' Birthday
      80 11 I The World and The Times. Tributes j on the Occasion of the 150 th Birthday lof The Times and the Publication of the History of The Times. Vol. 1. "The Thunderer in the Making." A handsomely presented volume containing a remarkable and impressive selection of tributes
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      The Head-Hunters Of The Philippines
      327 11 Little-Known Tribes Of The Interior The Lost City. By Rene Jouglet. Robert Hale. 12s. 6d. FEW of the remaining portions of the globe which are still comparatively unknown are as savage as the remoter Philippine Islands. Not only has nature prepared unpleasant traps high mountains,
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      PLEA FOR UNITY OF MONOTHEISM
      228 11 Wayfarers. A plea for the Unity of Monotheism. By t. C'ranfurd. Rider and Co. ss. THIS book has a limited interest. The author is constrained to show that there is one God and the same for '.he different creeds. He is more particularly inter?sted in
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      HILARIOUS TALE
      106 11 A Curate in Bohemia. By Norman Lindsay. Werner Laurie 7s. lid. THE greatest joy about Norman Lindsay's books are that he illustrates them himself! The line drawings in "A Curate in Bohemia" are worth every word of the letter press, although the adventures of his young and downey
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      130 11 MALAYAN JINGLES 118 FAR EAST, 1937 War falls upon the world once more, A tear for conquest, war for trade, And brave men die, as oft before, For war's grim price must e'er be paid. Red blood flows free when Statesmen fail, And War Lords get their gruesome way; Pacific
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      476 11 I "It is a serious r matter for a doe \Sk 1 to be off his food" This treatment— which I the formula for which I disdiscovered over 40 years covered over 40 years ago. ago is always successful For a dog to lose his appetite BETTER HEALTH, BfcITER is
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1758 12  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By \17HAT did I miss most during a month's abstention from reading newspapers? The National Funny Morning 1 Newspaper's reports of the war in Spain? No: though, of coutwi, I yearned for them frantically for a whoh» week and began to make up little
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      355 12 Tired? -not at all "1 hai* found Sanatogen really maruellou*. Undei tht trying conditions on* ha* to lux in thu* country Sanatogen is a boon to thaw who ar' run-douro." writes Mr F.D 8.H.. Motihari. Bt India. Woakneo. listlewneM and fatigue will *x>n disappear «iter a short course ol Sanatogen.
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      172 12 Daby's first i TmWt)) fWf 1 Tne nrst Uttle tooth has come peeping l 3 K&Mi®" y&Z%10& through. Other precious baby teeth will > follow, and all must be kept strong and t^m m^*>S T&fJirZt healthy to ensure a perfect set of sound =^»I.*- ISgp^ permanent teeth later on. &?^3
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    MONEYED GLOBETROTTERS MISS THE FAR EAST
    217 13 War Diverts Stream To Europe And West Indies MALAYA'S LOSS WHEN TOURIST BUSINESS BOOMS |_|AD it not been for the out11 break of hostilities in China, Singapore could have looked forward in the next few months to possibly the biggest tourist influx in its
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    30 13 THE Singapore immigration authonties often have difficulty deciding whether a newcomer is an adult or a child. Doubtful cases stand against a fixed scale: above the mark adults, below children.
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    AIR MAIL PLAN DIFFICULTY
    207 13 13 Nations Refuse To Reduce Rates f\F the 14 European countries coming within the new air mail schemes from England. Germany is the only one which has extended reciprocal facilities. Under the new scheme all letters and postcards are dispatched by air without extra charge from
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    EXPELLED FROM ITALY
    28 13 Dr. Franz Klein, correspondent of the "Basler Nachrichten," a leading Swiss newspaper, has been expelled from Italy because of his criticisms of Italy's foreign policy.
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    100 SCHOOLS CLOSED
    37 13 One hundred schools in an area or 50 square miles around Melbourne (Australia) have been closed owing to the swift spread of an epidemic of infantile paralysis. Foui deaths have so far been reported.
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    ARMIES' 125 MILES IN 14 HOURS
    108 13 Rome. *T*HE remarkable rapidity with which a modern army can move has been shown in the first day of the manoeuvres in Northern Italy. The vanguards of the Red, or attacking, force and of the Blue, or defending, force came into contact near the
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    POLICEMAN'S DEATH
    46 13 Walking In his sleep on the roof of the police headquarters at Beisan, i Constable A. G. Chapman, of the Brl- 1 tish Palestine Police, stepped over the I edge and fell to the ground, dying m hospital at Haifa from his Injuries. j
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    R.A.F. Display At Zurich
    93 13 FLIGHTS BY'FURY' FIGHTERS Zurich. A FINE display was given by the four "Fury" fighters of the Royal Air Force, which gave exhibition flights at the International Air Rally here. The changing of formation during looping and other innovation evoked praise from professional onlookers. Ten Italian military
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    MR. SMALL TELLS CEYLON OF NEW GOVERNOR
    115 13 MR. SMALL TELLS CEYLON OF NEW GOVERNOR lUIR A. S. SMALL, Colonial SecreITI tary of the Straits Settlements, going home on leave was interviewed by the Times of Ceylon In Colombo. "Ceylon is fortunate in getting Sir Andrew as Governor," said Mr. I Small. "You could not meet a j
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    CONTRACT BRIDGE
    373 13 BY THE FOUR ACES pRED Kaplan, the New York attorney who has rapidly come to the fore in Bridge tournaments in the past two years is a very spectacular player. This is how Mr. Kaplan describes his style of bidding: "When the opponents open the bidding, I like
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      450 13 CKII'PLED BY PAINS IN THE LEGS. Physical Instructor Loses Use Of Limbs. If rheumatism is crippling your limbs, and making life miserable for you, read how this man obtained relief from the same trouble: "I am swimming and physical Instructor. Early this year I had violent, stabbing pains in my
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      231 13 Don't blame the climate if you feel /MaIUJL^ Jl^am^^ll the heat if you were consist- \w fe^kg/|V// ently fit you would never feel I fl MM W^^ depressed and fagged out. Your system is incapable of meeting the demands made upon it because it lacks the energy-building properties contained in
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    Totidem Verdis
    169 14 Cool Heads U/E would repeat a compliment and a plea of a week or two ago. The compliment Is to the Chinese and Japanese in Malaya on their excellent behaviour in circumstances naturally trying to the temper and discretion of them both: the plea is that they shall
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    Radiophun
    182 14 'T'HERE Is a Gilbertian touch about this radiophone business. A < smile is quite in order. One day it is announced that experiments have failed and Malaya is to be denied the blessings of wireless telephony; another it is revealed that the F. M. S. Government proposes to spend
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    Young Men
    193 14 /"\NCE again the young men of Singapore are under discussion in the Women's Supplement, of course! It seems that they haunt bars rather than dance halls, play golf and tennis (mixed games sternly declined) rather than go "necking" (as our American friends so delicately describe it). Some of
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    The Seeds Of Decentralisation Are Planted
    2470 14  - The Seeds Of Decentralisation Are Planted Sir Laurence Guillemard "Trivial Fond Records" HI by Continuing extracts from a book to be published next month Governor and High Commissioner in Malaya for seven years follotcing the end of the Great War. THE Colony has for many years been a settled and
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      68 14 Jim, like all weh-aressed young men, pays attention to details. He selects his handkerchiefs with care to tone with nis suit, his shirts or his ties. He's more than a dozen different ones to choose from and they're all Pyramids. >^Ss£OTk See them at your stores. In a J^K^^BK^* w
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    WORLD-GIRDLING AIR ROUTES PLANNED
    530 15 From Asia To America By Way Of Europe TWO LINES WILL GO THROUGH SINGAPORE POUR great through air routes from Asia to North America by way of Europe and the Atlantic will probably be in operation within a year. Two of these, the services of Imperial
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    State-Wide Sparrow Hunt
    172 15 Sydney. (XNE spnrrow is causing alarm among the farmers of Western Australia, icho have organised a great State-wide sparrow hunt, with a reward for the capture, dead or dive, of the bird. The sparrow in Austra.xa is an imported pest. From the original two or three birds
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    SUCKED DOWN BY QUAGMIRE
    204 15 Dying Man's Cries For Help Ignored Paris. A 28- YEAR-OLD ag. .cultural labourer named Marcel Ray was found dead in the fens near Mauguio, near Camargue, in the Rhone delta, with only his head protruding from the mud. Peasants living in the region had heard the
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    Java Wants Offices To Close Earlier
    91 15 Java Wants Offices To Close Earlier (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Batavia. nrHE suggestion for early office closing is gaining support all over Java. It is reported that questionnaires will be circulated presently to find out what technical reasons there are against early closing, and which closing hours are In the
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    HE COOKED FOR THE MIDDS.
    42 15 "pHRIS," ship's cook of the Menelaus, the boat taking the Middlesex Regiment's first battalion to China, was in what he described as a "fair cow of a hurry" on Friday as he baked yards of jam rolls.
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    HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE'S DEBTS
    78 15 HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE'S DEBTS »THE idea that a husband is always responsible for debts contracted by the wife is not true," declared Judge Wethered at Taunton County Court recently. "If a husband makes his wife a weekly allowance, which is agreed between them, whether it is reasonable or not,
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    SEAGULLS AT NORTH POLE
    260 15 Bears Visit Soviet Camp ARCTIC GROWING WARMER COI R seagulls have flown over the Soviet Meteorological Station at the North Pole, according to a wireless message received from M. Papanin. A female bear and two recentlyborn cubs have also been visitors to the camp. Definite evidence
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      76 15 HILDREN fed on Cow Gate are Happy because S they are Healthy. The stream of Life runs f vigorously in their veins— their bodies are strong and muscular— they are vital and activ even in the U^od And "Smiler," the little King of Health, says to all Mothers xsj**'**' "GET^THE
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    ONE THING BANDOENG CONFERENCE DID NOT TALK ABOUT
    343 16 ONE THING BANDOENG CONFERENCE DID NOT TALK ABOUT Over-Population Was On The Agenda But Not Birth Control WHILE delegates at the Inter-Governmental Far Eastern Rural Hygiene Congress, which concluded in Bandoeng last week, discussed every topic from sanitation to nutrition and over-population, a discreet silence was maintained on the subject
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    13 16 pEN. Jose Miaja. commander of the Madrid forces in the Spanish civil war.
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    Lottery Tickets Seized
    112 16 MORE than 2,546 Australian lottery tickets have been confiscated by the Colombo Customs authorities. The tickets arrived in Colombo by the Australian mail and were detained on suspicion, the addressees being notified in the usual manner. The tickets (obtained in Queensland) were sent to various Colombo residents
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    YOUNG STUDENT RELEASED
    164 16 Served Five Months Of 12 Months' Gaol RONALD HUGH STOWELL PHILLIPS, aged 18, son of the Rev. R. S. Phillips, vicar of St. Peter's, Hunslet Moor, Leeds and an undergraduate of Leeds University, has been released from prison after serving five months of his sentence of 12
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    WISE KING: TRUE FRIEND: GOOD SHOT
    109 16 Nepalese Tribute To George V Windsor. REPRESENTATIVES of the Nepal- ese Mission, who have been tn England for the Coronation, made a special visit to Windsor to place a wreath on the memorial to King George V. The wreath, which was nearly five feet
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    THE POPE BUYS A NEW CAR
    173 16 American Replaces German THE Pope gave evidence of his returning vigour when he announced with a smile that he was buying an American motor-car and giving up his German Mercedes. In view of the tension between the Vatican and Berlin the Pope's action caused
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    Questions And Answers On Many Problems
    642 17 Questions And Answers On Many Problems DECENTLY, a friend said to me, "How can you write a column every week? Why don't you run out of subjects?" "Well," I replied, "I won't run out of subjects until women run out of beauty problems." And that is just the point. Some
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    CHEESE SAUCE RECIPE
    151 17 Show me the person who doesnt love cheese." a famous epicure once remarked, ana you show me a person whose soul Is dead to the Joys of life." One of the easiest ways to prepare a tasty cheese dish is to serve a cheese sauce. This sauce
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    LAVENDER SUIT
    93 17 11THEN another suit really is a necessity to accompany the many sweaters that have been collected, then one might choose a suit in a fine cotton-and-wool mixture in a soft lavender colour. The jacket is in the fashionable Jumper style being buttoned to a moderately high V-neck and
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      269 17 To BELAWAN DELI (SUMATRA.) Reduced same vessel return tickets now available. Singapore Eelawan return Ist class $80/Interchangeable with Straits Steamship Company, for first return sailing of the ss Kedah' to Singapore, after arrival of X.P.M. Steamer at Belawan. For particular* apply to: K. P. M. LINE, FINLAYSON GREEN, SINGAPORE. says
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    Things To Remember When Children Refuse To Eat
    727 18  - Things To Remember When Children Refuse To Eat Judy Brown By Simple Blouse In White Crepe I CAN never make up my mind who deserves the greater sympathy the mother who has to waste much-needed minute.; in coax'ng a child to eat or the unfortunate child who has to submit
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    How To Look Slim In Your Bathing Costume
    620 18 IF you want to look as slender as possible in your bathing costume avoid wearing anything that is patterned bright harlequin effects are only for those whose figures are on the slender side. That does not mean that your suit, or shorts-and-brassiere
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    CURRIED FISH
    118 18 FLAKE the remains of some white Ash. about half a pound. Melt a tablespoonful of butter and fry a roughly chopped onion In it until golden brown. When half-cook€d. add a chopped apple and cook for another minute or two. Stir In half a tablespoonful of curry powder,
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      360 18 < >*• For over it yean tfce wellknown l houae of Figaro has specialised l in dressing the hair of ladies who I I Insist on nothing but the best. JA Figaro Coiffure Is both beautiful distinctive. It is the work of an artist who Is also a hair expert,
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    Are You Thinking Getting Married?
    1196 19  - Are You Thinking Getting Married? TERENCE SWEENEY By Elegant < Ensemble Then By All Means Go Ahead *r>IVORCE REFORM BILL PASSED.' "SPECIAL COURTS FOR MATRIMONIAL CASES." ENGLAND BECOMING LAND OF EMPTY CRADLES." THESE recent headlinessuggesting that marriage and bliss are far from synonymous—have given the croakers on both sides a
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    LATEST NOTIONS IN JEWELLERY FASHIONS
    608 19 ]X jewellery fashions, the t notion is to wear a bracelet, or bracelets, and little other jewellery. Silver bracelets and eombracelets in bright colours are worn in I and sixes en one arm. are chosen to contrast with the colour of the dntt. Some of
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    PRUNE CHUTNEY
    124 19 2 pints vinegar 1 lb. Demeraia sugar >s oz. salt 2 )b. prunes 4 cloves ol garlic 1 lb. onions 1 teaspoonful sround gmgn J tcaspoonlul cayenne pepper '.4 teaspoonful grated lemon rind li ttaspoonful allspice. WASH the prunes, cover wiin water, and soak overnight. Drain oft the
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    JELLIED FRUIT
    116 19 fIRAIN tho Juice from a small tin of fruit salad and a small tin of cherries. Add a tablespoonlul of lemon juice and make up to threequarters of a pint with water. Dissolve half an ounce of gellatlne in it, and leave to get cold. Cut up the
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      609 20 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 entry containing the smallest number
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    ALLEGED RECEIPT OF ILLEGAL GRATIFICATION
    1241 21 Judgment Reserved Against Former Police Clerk In Seremban (Prom Our Own Correspond*nt.) Seremban WONG Yuen Ching, until recently a clerk in the Traffic Office of the Seremban Police Department, appeared before the Seremban magistrate. Mr. M. J. Hayward. summoned to answer the following charge:— •That
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    13 21 Chinese schoolteachers of Srluigor who held an annual dinner in KiuU Lumpur recently
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    THINGS LIKE THIS ARE OFTEN DIFFICULT
    142 21 THINGS LIKE THIS ARE OFTEN DIFFICULT When the English tongue we speak Why is "bread' not rhymed with "freak"? WUI you tell me why it's true? We say "sew" but likewise "few" And the fathioner of verse Cannot cap his "horse" with "worse"? "Beard" sounds not the same as "heard,"
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    PTOMAINE POISONING
    12 21 Eight persons are suffering from ptomaine poisoning in North Holland.
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    Preparations For Chinese Feast Of The Dead
    370 21 BY A CHINESE CORRESPONDENT CINGAPORE'S Chinatown is prepar- Ing for one of the biggest feasts of the year, the Feast of the Dead. This feast once justified its title when a Chinese, recovering from the effects of excessive food and drink consumed during
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    11 DIE IN FLOODS IN PHILIPPINES
    61 21 FLOODS, landslides and collapsing dykes, following a foot of rain during the past five days, have taken a tell of at least eleven lives and millions of pesos damage to crops and public works in five provinces in Central Luzon, which is largely under
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    THE TRAGEDY OF THE TIRED MAN
    189 22 Nature never meant man to work strenuously day In. day out, amid the heat and levers of this climate. Naturally the exhausted bodies of all who have to work for their living, cry out In protest. Your own energy Is not enough to carry
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    34 22 Group photograph taken at Kuala Pilah at the reception riven to His Highness the lane di Pertuan Besar of Negri SembUan on his return from England alter being a guest at King George's Coronation.
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    SIX-A-SIDE HOCKEY
    96 22 S.R.C. te*mi for Monday's sU-a-side hockey: 5.15 p.m. Team "A*: A. M. Jansen, a. C. Ross, M. H. Scully. A. R. P. Omra, O. C Aerta, D. C. Perreau vm. Team "D": C. J. Alphonso, J. O. Ritchie, K. L. Mathlew, A. M Valberg C. Dumbleton. C. O.
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    S.R.C. TENNIS
    87 22 Singapore Recreation Club lawn tmnii tournament ties for Monday: SinclM Handicap "A": A. J. Vai (piu« V vs. B. LeMercier (—15.3). O. A. I*>tt-> (—3) v». I. M. Eber (—3), Dr. B. H. Siieares (—3O) vs. M. O. Eber (—3). Stacks Handicap "B": A. M. Janaea (—15.3) vs.
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    MALACCA VOLUNTEERS
    53 22 (From Our Own Correspondent >. Malacca, Aug. 20. Results of the M.V.C. Battalion Rifle Association monthly shoot are as follows: "A" Class Nett: C.S.M. and I. Beadnell, 61 pta.; Handicap; Sgt. Osman bin All, 63.43 pts.; "B" Class Nett: Pte Ong Seng Watt, 43 pts.; Handicap: Pte. Yeoh
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    SWIMMING POOL FOR PEOPLE'S PARK,
    183 22 SWIMMING POOL FOR PEOPLE'S PARK, (By Oar Seremban Correspondent.) COME months ago I put forward a suggestion in the columns of The Sunday Times that as a Coronation gesture the Seremban Coronation Committee "might attempt to beautify the park commonly known as the People's Park to the Asiatic man in
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    S.C.R.C. TENNIS
    123 22 S.C.R.C. lawn tennis tournament t.es for Monday •B" Singles Handicap: Dr. Poh Chee Juay vs. Tan Peng Cheow: T. W. Ong vs. We? Keng Cheng. "C" Singles Handicap: Lo-v Kwang Teiig vs. Tay Yew Wee; Ong Swo Kong vs. Kiong Chtn Enj. Tuesday: "A" Singles Handicap: Dr. T.
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    Negri Handicap Tennis Tournament Entries
    425 22 •TTHE entries lor the annual Negri Sembilan Lawn Tennis Association handicap tournament hove now closed and the games began yesterday. Tl:. following have entered: Men's Singles A:— B. K. Ryu (—l5). M. R. Bralthwalte (—l5). Tan Kee Kons (13.2). Chong Ah Kal (—3O), S. Nakata
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    More Than 30 Years In Malaya
    134 22 More Than 30 Years In Malaya MR. A. KANDIAH. Senior Hospital Assistant. Kuala Pilah. whose death took place recently, was one of the original members of the Tamil Platoon of the Selangor M.V.I. He came to Malaya in 1905 from Ceylon and was educated at the Victoria Institution and the
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    WELL-KNOWN INDIANS MARRIED IN SEREMBAN
    158 22 WELL-KNOWN INDIANS MARRIED IN SEREMBAN A WEDDING of interest to the Indian community of Negri Sembilan took place at the Wesley Church, Sercmban, when Mr. David Arumai Nathen, ot the General Post Office. Seremban, eldest son eft Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Devasagayam of Seremban, was married to Miss Grace
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    31 22 A group of Seremban chettiars with Dr. S. Koiwai, a well-known Japan«M resident of Seremban as the central figure. Dr. S. Koiwai has returned to Swiutban froai a visit to Japan.
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    Malacca Sports Commentary
    560 23 BOXING BOARD OF CONTROL By Our Malacca Correspondent &4*.LACCA'ii bcxing enthusiasts owe gratitude to the tentative committee, selected from well-known and qualified residents interested in this .sport, which is organising a public inaugural meeting to be held on Thursday Aug. J6, at 7 p.m. at the Malacca
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    AROUND THE CLUBS IN MALACCA
    1048 23 TTHE Malacca Chinese Chamber of Commerce at a large gathering entertained Mr. Ngim Wee Chiow to I tea at the Capitol dance hall on the eve of his departure to China. Dr. Ho Pao Jin presided in the absence of Mr. Chan Kang Swl, the
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    8 23 The Klans Anglo-Chines* School Old Boys' Association dinner.
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    MUNICIPALITY AND PLAYING FIELDS
    98 23 Prom Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. THE Municipal circular, resentment of which te now felt by soccer clubs and teams, states that a dollar is to be charged for a cricket game for a twohour period. Most cricket games in Malacca last much longer than two
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      255 23 EALTH the morning after. When in the cause of good fellowship rules have Co be relaxed, when the evening's entertainment is more than usually gay, and the gaiety of the dance leaves utMC one more limp than usual, then last night's indulgence Wv.o^ 1 1 1 may be counteracted by
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    MAN & WIFE BREAK RECORDS
    583 24 MAN WIFE BREAK RECORDS Dutch Swimmers Set New Marks At Y. M. C. A. Carnival 1 W. van Daatselaar, Dutch Olympic water polo player and holder of the Dutch record for the 100 metres, smashed the men's open 120 yards free style Singapore record at the 18th annual swimming championship
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    KUALA LUMPUR BOXING
    188 24 From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. Last night's boxing at Bukit Bintang Park provided good sport. It was In the nature of an inter-State contest. Four bouts were staged, two being won by Penang and the other two by Kuala Lumpur boys. In the preliminary Marlasoosay
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    S. C. C. Meet Combined Schools
    324 24 S. C. C. Meet Combined Schools IN reply to the S.C.C.'s first innings score of 157, Combined Schools in the first and second innings of their match compiled 61 and 93 for four respectively. The ganw started on Friday evening and was continued yesterday. S.C.C FIRST INNINGS W. N. van
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    MAKE 46 AND WIN BY 22!
    198 24 SEVEN "DUCKS" IN S.C.C. SCORE The Singapore Khalsa Association beat an S.C.C., team at cricket by 22 runs at McNalr Road yesterday. KHALSA. Ram Piara c sub. b Wheeler 4 Tharam Singh b Wheeler 7 Tahlr All c Jaeger b Rolf e 13 Makkan
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    45 24 At Harrow School the Ebrington cricket cups have been awarded as follows: Batting. R. A. A. Holt; Bowling, W. G. Stewart: Fielding, C. A. Halllday, M. M. C. Kemp's prize for the best catch, R. A. A. Holt. Throwing the cricket ball, G. A. Churcher.
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    SAPPER ROGAN WILL TRY IT AGAIN
    110 24 Coliowing controversy in Kuala Lum- pur newspapers regarding the abiity of Sapper Rogan to run three miles in under 15 minutes, a supporter of Rogan arranged for a challenge attempt to take place at 6 p.m. today, at Jalan Besar Stadium. At the Malayan
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    JUNIOR DOUBLES BADMINTON
    170 24 COUR further ties were played yesterr day In the Singapore men's Junior doubles badminton tournament, and the best game of the day was provided by the Novice's pair, P. Neubronner and Lim Som Chuan, who beat Ahmad Mattar and Lee Kirn Seng of the Dlei hards In
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    40 24 On July 28 Paynter scored 322 for Lancashire at Hove, and R. H. Moore, the Hampshire captain scored 316 at Bournemouth. This Is the first time that two batsmen have hit 300 runs on the same day In first-class cricket.
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    Big Game Today In Segamat League
    322 24 Big Game Today In Segamat League 'From Our Own Corespondent) Segamat ""PHE key match In the Segamat and District league will be played on Sunday between the Chinese, last year's runners-up and hot favourites this season, and the Government Ser- vices, champions and winners of the Sooi Cheong Challenge Cup.
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    CLOSE OF JOHORE CRICKET SEASON
    190 24 iFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. 11/ HAT was probably the season's con- eluding cricket match wa.s played on the Civil Service padang or; Friday v/lien the Education Department met the Medical Department. The match I ended in a draw in favour of the EduI
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    40 24 The fly-weight contest between Peter Kane, of Golborne. and Jim Warnock, of Belfast, the winner >t which Is to meet the world champion. Benny Lynch, for his title, will talc-? place at Anfleld Football Ground Liverpool, on Thursday. Aug 24.
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    MIDDS. WIN WITH SCRATCH TEAM
    350 25 Play Good Soccer To Get Four Goals Against Engineers Middlesex 4 R.E. 1 IN spiie of fielding: a depleted team the Middlesex played surprisingly good soccer to beat the R.E. by four goals to one at the Anson Road Stadium yesterday in the First Division
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    MALAYAN POLO TOURNAMENT
    127 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Kangsar, Saturday. QAMES In the Malayan polo tournament here today were: Perak Cup: Penang beat Pahang by six goals tn nil. A. E. McCrea scored five goals and R B. Little one. Polo Cup Handicap: Singapore Polo Club R. A. beat the
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    THIS WEEK'S SOCCER
    77 25 S>ccer matches in Singapore this week Include the following: S.A.F.A LEAGUE DIVISION I. Aug. 24: Middlesex vs. Inniskillings. at Stadium. Aug. 25: S.C C. vs. R.A., on padang. Aug: 27: Malays vs. Chinese, at Stadium. DIVISION n Aug. 23: Publishers vs. InnlsKilllng 11, at SUJlum. Aug. 26:
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    POLICE WIN AT CO-OP. SPORTS
    317 25 HARNAM SINGH CHAMPION |7INE weather favoured the fourth annual sports meeting of the Singapore Urban Co-operative Union, which was held at the Victoria School ground yesterday. The Police department was the most successful and carried off the •Bayer Cross" shield in the relay race and
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    MALACCA BADMINTON
    58 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. Results in ties played yestjrday at the M.V.C. Drill Hall: Men's Doubles: Charlie Scow and Johnny Koh beat Mali Tian Kit and I. B. Sen 21—11, 21— 3. Men's Junior Doubles: Wong Kotc Pont; and Yap Chuan Choon beat T. Molsslnac and
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    All-Johore Asiatic Cricket Team Suggested
    334 25 All-Johore Asiatic Cricket Team Suggested (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. Amove 1» a:oot here to field an AllJohore Asiatic cricket team and play a few games before the season is out. Mr. Rajah, the captain of the Segamat Cricket Club, is in charge and I understand that he is negotiating
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    INTER-CIRCLE FOOTBALL CUP
    230 25 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. rE Muar police football team qualified for the final of the inter-circle police football competition for the cup presented by the officers seconded for service from the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States when they beat the Batu Pahat police by three
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    SOUTHERN POLICE BEAT NORTHERN
    149 25 (From Our Own Correspondent). Batu Pahat, Aug. 19. A Police team from the southern section (comprising of players from Kota Tinggl, Johore Bahru aad the Depot.) easily beat a side from the north (Batu Pahat, Muar and Segamat) by four goals to one, in a slow
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    Rugger Men Talk About Women
    196 25 Rugger Men Talk About Women (Froai Our Own Correspondent.) Kua a Lumpur, Saturday. ARt women to invade the last stronghold of mascu.mity In j. .m.5. rugger? Ht-men at the Seiangor Club Rugby annual meeting looked sceptical when the question of allowing the fair s x to attend the annual Rugby
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    KUALA LUMPUR SPORTS MEETING
    161 25 63 Seiangor Schools Take Part (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kua.a Lumpur, Saturday. CIXTY-THREE schools, entering 1,000 competitors, took part in the second Seiangor Chinese Inter-School Meeting which concluded this evening on the Victoria Institution ground. Schools from the remotest parts of the State sent their picked
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    COUNTY CRICKET CHAMPIONSHIP
    213 25 Point scoring: Win 15: tie 7M>: win Ist Inns 5: loss on Ist. Inns. 3: rpsult 4 ptj each: no play, match ignored; no play for two days, one lnnlnc match, win 10, loss 3. Position* Up To Date. P W L Points W L. Ist Inn.
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    ENTRIES FOR WOMEN'S EVENTS DISAPPOINT
    756 26 When Will Veterans Be Numerous Enough For A Tournament? BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT *T*HE closing stages have now been reached in the Singapore men's j junior singles and doubles badmin- ton championship tournaments and as the entries for the women's junior singles and doubles events,
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    JOHORE C.S.C. TENNIS
    94 26 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johorc Bahru. In the f.na' of the men's doubles handicap of the Johore Civil Service Club tennis tournament A. Reiser and K.H. Bancroft beat H.D. Grundy and F.K. McNamara 6-4, 7-5. McNamara lias won the open singles final. Two more ties remain to
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    CLERICAL UNION
    102 26 The Clerical Union badminton tournament will begin shortly. There will be two classes. A and "B," and competitors will be cli.sslfled according to their standard of play. An entrance fee of 25 cents will be charged and all games will be played at the Clerical Union Hall, either
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    45 26 Tbe 1937 Penan* junior badminton inter-team champions, the Hu Yew Seah. Left to right: (standing) Chee Choon I.eng, Lee Keng Leong, Tan Teik Lim, Lun Seng Hin, Lim Swee Sianc (Sitting) Lim Chong 00, Foo Yeow Teng, Tan Teik Choon (capt.) and Tan Jin Yean.
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    RANGERS TOP BATU PAHAV LEAGUE
    187 26 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. AS was expected the Rangers are top of the local football league with ten points having lost only one match and that to the Military. The soldiers started badly with two drawn games but later found their form and
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    MERRY UNION B.P.
    84 26 The Merry Union B.P. and the General hospital Recreation Club met at the tatter's court. The former lead by four garner to nil when two singles and one doubles were postponed owing to the weather. Results (Merry Union first): Richard Tan beat I. Yusofl" 15 3, 15—11;
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    Tournaments In Kuala Lumpur
    1273 26 MR. Ho Liang Tian, patron of the liukit Bintang Girls' School badminton team, which recently won the senior and junior Selancor inter-girls school championships, entertained the girls to an At Home at Kirn Ling Cafe. In complimenting the girls for their achievements Mr. Liang Tlan said
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    SEGAMAT BADMINTON TOURNAMENT
    287 26 SEGAMAT BADMINTON TOURNAMENT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, DOOR weather has been responsible for holding up many of the ties in the Segamat Badminton Association's annual tournament. Three ties have been played in the open singles while nothing has been done so far as far as the doubles are concerned.
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    ADAMEVEANS B.P
    148 26 <Trom Our Own Correspondent!. Malacca, Aug. 20. Further results in the Adameveans B.P. annual tournamrn's ore as follows: Men's Handicap Sin;le*: Tong Hon Kone (—3) beat Lee Kum Moon (—4) 15—14. 11—15. 15—11: Scow Chui Chiang (—10) ctat Tarn Seat Wah (—2), walk-over. Women's Handicap Singles: Miss Esther
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    OEI KHEE ASSN.
    127 26 The members o' the Thong Yew Koo Laic Poih. better known as the Oel Knee Association, and friends spent an enjoyable evening at the club house last we?k end In honour of Mr. Wee Thiam blew who has consented to be the patron of the Association. The
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    JOYBELLS B.P
    84 26 Tli" final tie in the open singles championship tournament of the Joybells BP. between O. Isaac and Ooh Tlan Ohy will be played today at 5 p.m. Eighteen entries have been received for the Inter-team h*ndlcap singles tournament, which will begin on Aug. 29. Players will be divld-d
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    PENANG INTER-TEAM DOUBLES
    291 26 PENANG INTER-TEAM DOUBLES LJU Yew Scan's doubles team scored a great victory last week-end In the inter-team doubles championship when they beat LJmstead in the semifinal by two matches tv one, and Mayfleld by three matches to" nil. Hu Yew Seah thus wrested from Llmsteads the trophy which Llmstead had
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    CHAMPIONSHIPS
    88 26 I The following ties in the Singapore men's 1 junior singles badminton championship I tournament will be played at the Clerical Union, Haw-Par Hall, today at 10 a.m. Loh Nginn Llm (Marigold) vs. Pen Teng Slew (SJC.C.B.P). Ho Yuen (Mayflower) vs. Chung Cheng Hock (Marigold), Low Kong Ann (U.CA)
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    TOURNAMENT ENTRIES
    82 26 List of entries received for the following Singnpore badminton tournament events WOMEN'S JUNIOR SINGLES Miss Mary Wee (Devonshire), Miss Annie Wee (Devonshire), Miss F. Horll (Japanese Club), Miss Hilda Gchelkls (A.A.U.), Miss I Lily Boey (Merridalo, Miss Lee Hong Sze (Marigold). Miss Lee Shao Ming (Marig.ild) ■and Miss
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    UNITED A.P.
    57 26 The following will represent the Unred A.P. against the Green Hill B.P. in a frlen lly return badminton match at the home cojrt at 3 pjn. today Richard Tan. C. B. Neir, A. f. Rodrigues, Raymond Lee, Iltyd Rodrlgues. Lyonett Schelkis, Tham Ah Yew. Ferdinand Rodrigues, Yeong Teng
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    26 26 The United Confederate Funeral Association's nineteenth annual general meeting will be held at the Club premises. 183. Joo Chiat Road, today at 12.30 p.m.
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    ISLAND CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY
    626 27  -  'ECHO" Finalists Are Kelly, Course Record Holder, And McMullan Who Is Right On Form BY IF conditions are good, some first-class gclf should be seen in the Island Club golf i championship final over 36 holes today, between S. N. Kei- ]y and W. McMullan. Kelly,
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    22 27 Victoria institution (top) and St. lohn's Institution (bottom), of Kuala Lumpur, drew o—o0 0 in the Thomson Cup and share the trophy.
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    SOCCER SEASON CLOSES IN THE NEGRI
    578 27 ""THE curtain has been rung down on Negri Sembilan soccer with the final of the Hose Cup competition which was played at Seremban last week-end. The Yang dl Pertuan Besar of Negri Sembilan and a large crowd of spectators saw the Malay Regiment beat
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    BATU PAHAT MALAYS BEAT PONTIAN MALAYS
    237 27 BATU PAHAT MALAYS BEAT PONTIAN MALAYS (From Your Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. POR the first time since the forming of their team, the Batu Pahat i Malay cricket club won a fixture when 'they beat their compatriots from I Pontian by 90 runs. BATU PAHAT MALAYS Raman Musa b A.
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    S.CCS $4,171 Surplus
    149 27 A SURPLUS of $4,171 of income over expenditure is revealed In the annual report of the Singapore Cricket Club issued yesterday, to be presented at the annual general meeting on Aug 30. An increase of M In the number of active members is recorded. The active membership
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    WOMEN'S SHOOTING
    39 27 Singapore Women's Rifle Association August monthly spoon was won by Mrs. Jemmett. Mrs. Ker was second. The •cores were: Mrs. Jemmett Mrs. Ker 100 200 300 Total with handicap. 32 28 25 103 20 22 38 102 <*
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    590 27 Johore Bahru Badminton Finals (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. A very high standard of badminton was reached in the final matches played at the Ayer Moleh Malay school courts on Friday in the Johore Bahru district tournament. There was present a large attendance Including Mr. F. M. Still, the
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    PENANG BOXING
    85 27 'From Our Own Correspondent i Penang. Friday. Making his first apearance in the Malayan rin? after an absence of sevei years. Terry Ocampo, the Fllipiru, featherweight, convincingly outpolnteu Harold Windsor, the Singapore Eurasian lightweight, over ten thress tonight at Wembley Park arena. Despite having half a stone weight
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    151 27 (From Our Own Corresponden; > Batu Pahat. IN the singles of the Batu Pa:... section of the Johore State lawn tennis tournament Daud b Md. Amm Is expected to qualify, though Teo Pak Hoe will i?l.,- him a hard light. Either of the two
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    565 28 SINGAPORE HAS ITS COMMAND PIGEONIER 45 High Speed War Birds Kept At Fort Canning p<>KT CANNING keeps pigeons. Believed by the local military authorities to be the only remaining pigeon loft in the British Army, the Fort Canning pigeon department houses 45 high-speed war
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