The Straits Times, 6 January 1939

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    39 1 The Straits Times [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY. I THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA -1 PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939 PRICE 5 CENTS The Straits Times 2t i*a(;es SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY G, 1939 PRICE 5 CENTS.
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      205 1 SINGAPORE! 140. CECIL ST. CPHONE 5471 > tor Up-to-datft TAILORING.. MIEN CHONG You arc assured of real satisfaction. n Coleman St. *J^ Singapore. Richards British Tiles For Walls and Floors A. Clouet Co., Ltd. W.P.S. ZIA Compass ..^o^^ is more than ptf^£*j§f a Camera i it is a new system
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      394 1 FOOD PROBLEM WITH GASTRITIS For years, doctors wanted to find a food that would not irritate the inflamed stomach walls of patients suffering from gastritis and that at the same tilne would rebuild the patient's strength. In severe cases of gastritis solid foods are out of the question, even liquid
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      148 1 KUALA LUMPUR 25. JAVA ST. CPHONE 3683). Without Burning, Peeling or Freckling m^o^%7 —N Rawness mfm Kj small tube so. 65 mK^.^ large tube- 1.35 Blister s. Redness J_f f^. LOTION- 1 .35 AkP^ no grease ROBINSON CO., LTD. -r i -&__sr ________B___B_i v «r w^^ _^_M__^__,^ 11 ;^vBI t_>
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      22 1 Madame Page, Late 92. Piccadilly, London. OPENS NEW DEPr. Gowns Designed Created in her work rooms. $5 $30 13. BATTERY ROAD. SINGAPORE.
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      928 2 AGENTS WANTED j WANTED AGENTS for silk and woollci' cloths Terms liberal Security in advance unnecessary. Custom duty borne by us. Apply Alfred Palace ißegd.) Ludhlana. WANTED SMALL Bungalow, moderate rental. Wanted by European Bachelor. Apply Box 445, Straits Times. WANTED, Dancii.'g and French conversation kssonn. Stale 1-v.cst terms to
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      1061 2 BOARD RESIDENCE ••LOXTON" 7. Oxley Rise. Single double •oonu oxxlum Bathrooms oliilfmj uaragt* cardens. hea.jtliullj furrbhed. dully or monthU rites Prom K 6 o m Tej. 711', C ON THE SEA, "The Grove." 103 and 109 Meyer Road. Katong. near Swimming Club, large olry rooms, tennis, gardens, garages, attractive oosltlon.
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      496 2 miscellaneous singapore luggace Carrier co Casß»g» Transport. IVanshlßßirDl. Insurance A Forwarding Kornlturr Removals Rooking Agents foi F.M.S Kallwasa. T «l Addrem— "LUGGAGE. 1 IMIONE 2428 o, raU at 4f. The Arcade JTHER PUBLIC, AICTIOV, LEGAL A\D SHIPPING NOTICES APPEAR ON PAGE 7 BUSINESS CARDS Etc. J. E. HALL LTD. (DARTFORD)
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      622 4 P. 0. BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Incorooraiea in England) PENINSULAR IND ORIHUJTAI 8 N Co. MAIL f AbSbJNQER AND CARGO SERVICES UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT LONDON AND FAR EASI MAD SERVICE OUTWARD FROM LONDON FOR CHINA AND JAPAN Due Tonpiiit Spore //SOUDAN 6,000 Jan. 1J RANCHI 17.000
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      496 4 SHIPPING ANNOUNCEMENTS. (Incorporated in Jaoan) GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS FOR CUNARD WHITE STAR LTD TO LONDON Penanj. Colombo. Aden. Sou. Port SaM Naples, Marseilles. Gibraltar, London. Antwerp. Rotterdam and Hamburg Vessels Tonnage Due Sail •JHAKUSAN MARU ..10,400 Jan. 18 19 5 HARUI'A MARU 10,400 Feb. 1 3 S KATORI MARU 9.800
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      513 4 llJfl IjH mm I Jf I r q IVl| HOLIDAY CRUISES TO: BANGKOK SAIGON B; Luxurious One Class Motorships Displacement Tons From Penanc P. Sham Malacca Spore n».r "BORINGIA' <U.5M> 1«/1 n/1 «/l H/l m.s. "LALANDIA" (11.000) 31/1 l't t/t Mt m.s. "JUTLANDIA" (13,100) 21 2 22/2 23? tilt I
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      107 4 Incorporated 1 S "\n Qcrmanf 1 The undermentioned .s>r» tn» company id tended fixtures: OUTWARD FOB MANILA, HONG KONG SHAXiIIAI NORTH CHINA AND lAPAN. Due Tpoft 5 ELBE omits Taku Bar Jan. 7 GNEISENAO omits North China Jan. 19 FULDA omits Japan Jan. 31 HOMEWARD FOB HOLLAND HAMBURG tND BKEMEN
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      638 4 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. flncorporated in Stouts Settlements) Ocean Building, Collyer Quay, Singapore Tel. 51 SM Chartered Sank BuHding, Penang Tel. 1366J BLUE FUNNEL LINE. FAST WEEKLY SERVICE LONDON NORTH CONTINENT (in conjunction with the Glen Line) AND FAST FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE MARSEILLES GLASGOW. Due Sails FLINTSHIRE L'don, R'dam, H'burg. Ant. Mborough
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    WEAKNESS OF BRITISH GILT-EDGED
    163 5 Offerings Fairly Heavy And Few Buyers Lonaon, Jan. 5. THI-: r«lstent weakness of British < winment securities, which today registered further sharp declines, has provided the topic or discussion in CM. circles. Ii is pointed out that leading jobbers and dealers in gilt-edged have been bearish
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    NEW ZEALAND'S IMPORT LICENSES
    186 5 No General Ban On Jaoanese Goods Wellington, Jan. 5. RETAILS of further import licenses to be issued show that there is no general ban on Japanese goods. One importer reports that he has been advised that licenses are not being issued for Japanese cotton goods, English
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  • SHIPPING & MAILS
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      SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE
      269 5 Tooay Aden .Imperial) J p.m Bait Africa (Imperial) ..2 p.ra South Africa ilmDcrtali 2 p.m Burma (Imperial) 3 D.m. Whole Canada (ImDeiiml) ..2 D.m Egypt. Sudan and Palestine (Imperial) 2 DJH Great Brltaio and Ireland (Imcerial) 2 Dm Euroce except U Britain and Ireland (Imperial) 2 O-n*
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      SURFACE MAILS EXPECTED
      42 5 Maiis from Lurope (London mails) expected today. Jan. 6, by 8.1. (Rajula) will be delivered to boxholders at 9 a.m. General delivery of letters at 9 a.m. Mails from China and Japan expected on Jan. 8, by Manila Maru.
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      MALAYAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE
      152 5 Daily Weather Report Stations Yesteraaj Last Qtg;.t max. rain- bright niin temp, fall s'shine temp *F inches tar» *F j West Coast. Alor Star 83 Nil 0.1 72 Bayan Lepa* (Penang) 87 Nil 0.5 75 ISitiawan 87 Nil 0.4 73 Bukit Jeram 90 Nil 6.3 73 Malacca
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      Air Mail Arrivals And Departures
      267 5 INWARD Wearnes: from Penanc, lyota. and Koala Lampar. Arrives ever* evening. X.L.M.: From Netherlands Indies: Arrives THIS afternoon. QanUs: Fnn Australia: Arrives THIS afternoon. X.L.M.: From Europe: Dae last night: Arrive* THIS evening. Imperial: From Europe: Left London Dee. 24: Expected THIS evening. K.N.1.1.M.: From
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      PASSENGERS BY AIR
      68 5 Arrived from N.E.I. by X.L.M. plane '•PH-ARG" on 5.1 39: Mr. Ber?h v. Trips, Mr. Cattenburgh Left for Medan. India and Europe by X.L.M. plane "PH-ARG" on 5.1.39: For Medan: Mr. C. T. Longcroft, Mr. L. A. J. M. Eichholtz. For Bangkok: Mr. H. M. H. Baan,
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      VICTORIA
      41 5 The Victoria is due here at 11 a.m. on Sunday from Genoa, Naples, Port Said, Massaua. Bombay and Colombo. She will berth at the S.H.B. wharf and is expected to sail at 2 p.m. for Manila, IHong Kong and Shanghai.
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      London Stack Exchange Gilt-Edged Decline On Further Setting
      369 5 London Stack Exchange Gilt-Edged Decline On Further Setting London,.Jan. 5. HTHE Stock Exchange today was gen- erally quiet under find of account considerations. The undertone, however, remained moderately steady apart from gilt-edged which encoun- tered further selling. 1 Selected Kaffir issues were supported giving the list a fairly good appearance.—Reuter.
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    WALL STREET QUOTATIONS
    428 5 New York, Jan. 5. HOW JONES AVERAGES Yesterday's Todays Close Close Changes 30 Industrials 154.85 153.18 off 1.67 20 Rails 34.33 33.26 off 1.07 15 Utilities 23 20 22.96 off .24 40 Bonds 91.00 90.97 off "03 Business done total volume 1.570,000 shares. STOCKS Last Sale Jan.
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    BROKERS' COMMENT
    207 5 CWAN, UULBERTSON AND FRITZ report on yesterday's New York markets:— President Roosevelt's budget message implying additional taxes created selling especially near the close. Traders were cautious expecting further irregularity. Electricity output is continuing ahead of 1937 and construction awards are the highest since June 1937. Telephone stations are
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      514 5 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. (Incorporated id f.M.S.) LLOYDS AGENTS:BOOKING AUKNTB FJW.S. RAILWAYS AMI SIA.M STATUS RAILWAYS TELEPHONE: Freicbt 5433 Pas Mcc 5411 CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS, LIMITED. (Incorporated tn England) FARES SINGAPORE/EUROPE First and Cabin class from £106.7.9 Second Class from £74-14-3 AROUND THE WORLD FARES BY C.P.R. (."rchange with P. O.
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      70 5 McALISTER CO., LTD. (Incorporated in 3MU& 3euu merits) GBESHAM HOUSE. BATTERY ROAD. SINGAPORE. PiIUM »i;.; ELLERM AN BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in England) FOR HAVRE, iX>NDON. ROTTERDAM HAMBURG. Via iotU and Soar Canal Due julb tCITY OF MANDALAY Jan. 30 Feb. 2 tCITY OF FLORENCE Feb. 27 Mar. 2
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      349 5 ISTHMIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. lncoroorateo to 0.8. a) BOSTON !TO» TORB fl\f TIVORi VIA SDEZ CANAL Due 3«i;.' STEEL SEAFARER In port Today STEEL SCIENTIST Jan 21 Jan 26 STEEL TRAVELER Peb 22 Feb 2« KLAVENESS LIN (Incorporated in Nc -vi LOS ANGELES, SAM r'KANL'ISt O PORTLAND. SEATTLE TACOMA Umltea cut
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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      281 5 TIDE TABLE SINGAPORE Today H. W. 10.15 a.m. 10 ft; 11.46 p.m. 9.1 ft. L. W. 4.24 a.m. 4.6 ft.; 5.10 p.m. 0.4 ft. Saturday H. W. 11 a.m. 10.4 ft. L. W. 5.Q8 a.m. 4.4 ft.; 5.50 p.:u. 0.2 ft. Sunday H. W. CO. 25 a.m. 9.4 ft.; 11.48
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES—LATEST LOCAL QUOTATIONS
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      AROUND THE MARKETS
      429 6  -  FAIR INQUIRY FOR TIN SHARES RUBBER DULL AND EASIER Oar Financial Correspondent Singapore, Jan. 6. MARKETS are again cheerful at the opening this morning and there were a good few unsatisfied buyers of tin shares yesterday at prices which attracted sellers. In London the Stock Exchange was
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      LONDON FOREIGN EXCHANGE
      103 6 London, Jan. 5. *riit: romtodity markeu today were Kiiftrally tinn under '.he influence of President Roosevelt's message to Congress.- Router. London. Jan. 5. The following were today's closing mean rates:— t*arli 176 21 64 Athens 647H NewYcrt f«3',. Rio 3>T Montreal 4.68 sellers off- i» Brussels 27.51
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        MINING
        584 6 All snarej quoted above are fully paid. Issue Vox fia&er u Co. tyalJ (t Evatt wt Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Ampat Tin 3/9 4/3 3/7 Vi 4/11 Asam KumDana 26/ 9 27/9 26/- 28/El Austral Maiay 43/- 47/ n. 43/- 4c-n 6/- Ayer ttiian 21/6 23/- 22/- 23/1 Ayet
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        GENERAL
        443 6 2 2 Alex Brick Ord. 1.30 1.40 1.30 1.40 2 2 do 2 r Ptets. 2.35 2.45cd 2.37 2.45cd 10 10 Atlas Ice 5.50 6.50 5.50 6.00 1 1 B. M Broadcasting 0.50 0.60 0.50 1 60 10 5 B M. Trustee 8.75 7.50 6 75 7 50 £1
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        DEBENTURES AND LOANS
        273 6 ir'c Maynara Co. Ltd $30,000 tat. Apr. 30 Oct. 31 80 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL M l'JO) red 1940 S400.000 Int Mar 31 Sept. 30 102'/ a 1907 red 1947 SI. 600.000 Int Mar 31 Sept. 30 108'/ 2 t l z7l iMi red 1955 Sl.000.fl00 Int. Mar 31
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        RUBBKR SHARES
        375 6 (Shares are 31 unlnss otherwise stated) 1 Allenby Alor Gajab Amal Malay Ayer Hitam Ayer Molek Ayei Panas 9assett Batu Llntang Bedford Benta BorellJ Brogas Brunei Un Buklt Katll Buklt K B Buklt Kepong Buklt Timah (J10) Jhangkat Serdaug CJonneir.ara CJlenealy Planta-loa* Hamilton Paytor 'ndraglrl 'eram Kuantan <50
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      CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
      88 6 Friday, Jan. 6, Noon No. IX R.S.S. (Spot loose) 28><4 28", i No. IX R.S.S. r.o.b. In cases January 28 5/16 28 7/16 CJ.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales January 28 28!4 I A u R.S.S. r.o.b. in bales January 27>* 27 :i FUTURE QUOTATIONS. No.
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      EXCHANGES
      178 6 ZK? following are the exchar.g.rates this morning, according to the daily circular Issued by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Corporation SELLING London T.T. 2/3 13/16 London demand 2/3 13/16 Lyons demand 2040 Switzerland demand 236% Hamburg demand 132Vi New York demand 53 11/16 Montreal demand 54'/ 8 Batavla demand
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    SPECULATION IN STERLING
    239 6 Treasury Asks Banks Not To Assist London, Jan. 5. IN connection with the recent heavy speculation in sterling, Reuter learns from reliable sources that all Banks and Bullion firms have been asked by the Treasury to refrain from aiding speculation against sterling either by means of loans
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    DECLINING RUBBER STOCKS PLEASES
    221 6 Lewis And Peat's Weekly Report IN a weekly repjrt, on the rubber market, .ssi ed this morning Lewis and Peat (Sinraro c) Ltd., write:— So far the Me Yea. has brought no change to the "narkt which still appears to be in the same rut unable
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    SCRATCHINGS AND ORDER OF RUNNING ]
    59 6 SCRATCHINGS AND ORDER OF RUNNING Scratchings and order of running for tomorrow's races at Penang are: r Race I.— Ponies, Class 1, Div. 2, 6 J furs. Soho and Rosalie. Race 2.— Horses. Class 3, Dlv. 3, 6 I furs. Old Cow. Wee Jock and Vision. Race 3.— Horses, Class
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    MALAYA'S RUBBER EXPORTS
    519 6 CONTROLLER EXPLAINS POSITION •pHE Controller of Rubber issues the following official communique:— The permissible exportable amount allotted to Malaya for the year 1938 by the International Rubber Regulation Agreement was 331,100 tons. The estimated exports for the year, assuming an amount of 21,000 tons in December, vere
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      34 6 love everything thati old old frimdt, *ld limts, old manner*, old books. And need one s&y, the magnificent Whisky called "Old Rarity" COARANTUO 13 Y£AR.S OLD McALISTER CO., LTD. I ly Sol* Ag»»tfirSS.*fMS f
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  • FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
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      OUTLOOK FOR RUBBER MORE OPTIMISTIC
      406 7 Statistical Position Improves Greatly IN a weekly report on the rubber market, issued yesterday, Stanton Nelson and Co., Ltd., write:— The New Year opens with the usual I flow of optimistic forecasts based, in the case of the rubber industry, not only on wishful thinking,
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION
      176 7 Only 135 Tons Sold Yesterday r:E Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1415 th auction yesterday when of 379 928 lb. (169.61 tons' catalogued. 317.161 lb. (141.59 tons i were offered and 303.165 lb. 1 135 34 tons' were sold. London spot 8 3 15a.
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      DECEMBER TIN-ORE IMPORTS
      84 7 P REIGN imports of tin-ore into the S. raits Settlements in D^cembor. totalled 1.561 tons compared with 1689 tons in November The total imports for the year 1938 are J7.TG6 tons compared with 31.169 tons in 1937. Of .he December imports. 863 ton> came from Siam: 368
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      FIXED TRUST QUOTATIONS
      107 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 3. British Empire "A" 18 6 British Empire B" 9 3 British Empire Cumulative 13 0 British Empire C'prehensive 14 6 British General "A" 18 3xd. British General "B" 16 0 British General "C" 14 6 Gold rroduc?rs First 25 Oxd.
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      208 7 Singapore. Jan. 5, 12 noon. Buyers Sellers Gambier V.50 j Hamburg Cube $13.50 Java Cube $12.00 Pepper White Muntok $12.00 White $11.50 i Black 8.25 Copra Mixed $3.00 Sun Dried $3.30 Sago Flour No. 1 Lingga $2.18' Fair $2.17' 2 Sarawak $2.12! L Jclotong Palembang $6.50 Banja
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      DECEMBER TIN-ORE PRODUCTION
      46 7 THE following outputs of tin-ore are reported from the respective companies in December: Piculs ore Malayan Tin 904 Southern Malayan 1.621 Malayjlam Tin 203 Rahman Hydraulic 700 Satupulo 303 The Satupulo dredge worked for 584 hours and treated 111.000 cubic yards of material.
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      GOVERNOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND VISITS BERLIN
      58 7 Berlin, Jan. 5. Mr Montagu Norman, Governor ol the Bank of England, who Ls paying a visit to Dr. Schacht, President of tht Reichsbank. arrived in Berlin today accompanied by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Norman were receivec by Dr. Schacht. Dr. Schacht
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      COPRA MARKET ACTIVE
      404 7 N. I. FREER SELLERS THAN SINGAPORE (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 20. ACTIVITY on the London copra market has greatly increased within the past few weeks, though the resulting rise in prices has been only moderate. Frank Fehr and Co., the leading icalers in the trade,
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      BRITISH INTERESTS IN CHINA
      190 7 Reprisals Urged Against Japan London, Jan. 5. CONTINUING the campaign for vigorous defence of British interests in China, the Financial News today, in a four-column article, details Japanese encroachment, particularly stressing the closure of the Yangtze while Japanese vessels ply on the river regularly. "In this
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      LONDON RUBBER MARKET
      448 7 FACTORS NOW GOOD DEAL MORE ENCOURAGING HECHT LEVIS AND KAHN'S REPORT IN a weekly report on the London rubber market dated Dec. 21, Hecht, Levis and Kahn Ltd. write Several new factors have made their appearance in the rubber world since we last wrote, and these on
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      LIGHT ON THE EGYPT OF 2,000 YEARS AGO
      160 7 LIGHT has been thrown on the ancient Egyptians' methods of land control by a complete papyrus manuscript in demotic characters, probably written in Ptolemaic times. It was discovered on the ancient site of Her'mopolls by the Egyptian University Field Mission under Prof.
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      REFUGEE PROBLEM NOT PURELY JEWISH
      86 7 London, Jan. 5. A LETTER to The Times today, signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Hinsley and representatives of the Free Churches of England and the Chirch of Scotland seeks to correct the impression that the refugee problem is a Jewish problem "which ought
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      GREETINGS AT SEA
      31 7 AH British ships at sea on Christmas Day received greetings on behalf of the 400,000 school children linked with the Merchant Service through the British Ship Adoption Society.
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      FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS.
      87 7 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS. Singapore, Jan. 5 5. 5 p.m. Company Dividend TIN. outhern Kinta t%% int. less tax iungfi Way Vii% Tkunpa 6d. Boots Close Dec. 28 Jan. 3 Jan. 25 Date Ex. Div. Payable Date Jan. 20 Dec. 29 Jan. 12 Jan. 4 Jan. 31 Jan.
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      650 7 OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING CORPORATION, LTD. Uncorpoiated in the Straits Settlements > CAPITAL Authorised $40,000,000.00 Issued Paid Up $10,000,000.00 Head Office: China Building Chulla Street, Singapore. Telegraphic Address "OVERSEA," LONDON BANKERS: Midland Bank. Ltd.. Lloyds Bank. Ltd.. NEW YORK BANKERS: Irving Trust Co., Chase National Bank BRANCHES: Amoy, Bangkok, Batavla. Batu Pahat.
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      576 7 BANK OF CHINA RANGOON AGENCY 55, Phayre Street, Rangoon. Telegraphic Address:— CHUNGKUO, RANGOON. opened for business. LEGAL NOTICES Re Jamrs Robertson deceased late of No. Stevens Road, Singapore, who died on September 21, 1938. NOTICE ls hereby given that creditors and thers having claims against the estate of th» above
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      333 8 t'COI'RS A CROWD," which drew Urge audiences to the Alhambra for the opening performances last night, is an excellent picture hy Wamr r Brothers. It is one of these gay and irresponsible comedies which are so popular nowadays and which, as it were, have dew loped a new technique of
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      357 8 IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI. I I clan Is universally I acknowledged as the 1 1 I greatest living pianist I fam\ I loda vmC *r% His rendering of WL&i .Mm I "Moonlight Sonata" Is X O^M Iso perfect in every I respect that some %A. I people have said that I
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      313 8 IHE STAGE PLAYSTARTED IN 1936 6c IS STILL RUNNING! NOW THE FILM! fS/SBSODXIGfIfI EVEN| NG STANDARD SAYS V^o V> "'HOUSEMASTER' RANKS AS ONE OF THE SIX BEST BRITISH FILMS SINCE ADVENT OF SOUND OTTO KRUGER IB DIANA CHURCHILL p^^M PHILLIPS HOLMES W^j£l m |AN HAY s great comedy 3ucsess "HOUSEMASTER"
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    "TUGBOAT MINNIE" TOASTED ...By New York Society
    663 9 "TUGBOAT MINNIE" TOASTED ...By New York Society Entertainment Review By Our Film Correspondent HOLLYWOOD'S Heiress Becomes Sales-Girl TODAY we go "all Society" and talk of "Tug-boat Minnie" who has had her coming-out party. The strangest Society function which even blase New York has known— to toast Wilnia Baard, photogmpher'i model
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  • Stories From Filmland
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      Anna Chooses Anthony
      140 9 rill.V iII.V pink-carnatioaed, even at 7..°.0 in the morning, Mr. Anthony Eden arrived home for Christmas in the liner Queen Mary after his 16 days' there-and-back trip to America. In America, so Hollywood reports, Mr. Eden received offers of stardom. Anna Neagle, who was a shipmate, said
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      British"thin Man" Sequel
      108 9 British"thin Man" Sequel lACK Buchanan puts his long- deferred film plans into production with a sequel to the "Thin Man" thriller, "Smash and Grab,' which he made last year. The story Is an original by Ralph Spence. There will be no singing or dancing. Jack himself v;i 1 play his
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      Jessie Coming To Singapore
      80 9 THERE Is a possibility that Jessie Matthews and her husband Sonnie Hale may visit Singapore this year. Jessio is w?ll again. She has been rehearsing hex iUwtr'-t at the Stoll rooma in Klngsway, which are tucked no somewhere In the ribs of the etnema in* time
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      tails Instead of Dinner Jackets
      80 9 tails Instead of Dinner Jackets /"*«OOD news: A contract was signed whereby all the Gainsborough films will in future be handled for the world oy Twentieth Century-Fox. That means they'll be able to spend more on them, make them suitable for the world market. It means giving tails to Messrs.
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      Selling Shaw's "Pygmalion"
      35 9 /CONFERENCE of cinema managers debated how to "sell" to the great British public the film "Pygmalion" on Its general release. Tho title, they decided, meant little. Mr. Shaw is not a renowned
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    AT "MARIE ANTOINETTE19 PREMIERE
    56 9 AT "MARIE ANTOINETTE 19 PREMIERE London society nocked to the opening of "Marie Antoinette," which is still tuning in the Capitol. Many wellknown personalities were present including Noet Coward and Mrs. Anthony Eden (above left) and Brroness Ravensdale and Mr. Hore Belisha, the War Minister (right). "Marie Antoinette' 1 is
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    The Newcomer Waited And Waited...
    198 9 QREER G ARSON, film new- comer, on Hollywood: They were sweet to me. They said what a lovely colour my hair is, and Luise Rainer said "I must have a wig for Frou-Frou just like Miss Garson's," which I think was a compliment, don't you?
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY
    62 9 VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL Alexander Uninsky, pianist, 9.30 pm. CINEMASCapitol: -Men With W.nga." Alhambra: "Four's a Crowd." Pavilion: "Housemaster." Roxy: "The Crowd Rcais." Marlhorough: "Chintamanl." Theatre Royal: "The Mysterious Pilot." DANCING. Raffles Hotel: Dinner dance i informal) 6.3:— 8.30 p.m. 9.30 to Midnight. New World Cabaret Danclns 9.30—
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    A BANQUET IN HONOUR OF INSECTS
    234 10 A BANQUET IN HONOUR OF INSECTS y arc glad that r that rminrnt representatives r commerce and industry take part t y year, held In London on > On the contrary. Jt Is to honour ory of two H ieiitlsta who were I i mimics of mosquitoes, Sir Ronald :i;
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    RESOLUTE & UNITED FRANCE FACES ITALIAN THREATS
    1818 10  - RESOLUTE UNITED FRANCE FACES ITALIAN THREATS M. WON DELBOS By Former French Foreign Minister THE claims put forward by Italy, in the form of prestaged outcries in a Parliament which has now been dissolved, followed by street demonstrations also prearranged, and by a Press campaign of vituperation, have, in reason
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    HAVE YOU TRIED KEEPING BEES?
    371 10  -  ERIC HARDY F.Z.S. BY |7VEN in Malaya, hives of bees arc successfully maintained, but they rio better in England. Bee-keeping in the picturesque old straw skeDs Is out of date: wooden, movable, bar-frame hives are now used, and average In England 30 lb. of surplus
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    When Animals Help The Troops
    505 10  -  MARY BRIDGE BY IN spite of tanks and all the new forms of mechanised transport the horst; still has his uses in the British army and most of us would be sorry to see the beautiful charger disappear altogether. The army hag 11,650 horses as
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    STORM OF ABUSE AGAINST PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
    346 11 German Press And Anti-Dictator Speech In Congress Berlin, Jan. 5. A STORM of anger has broken out in the German Press over President Roosevelt's speech on foreign affairs in Congress, in which he attacked the dictators. With complete unanimity they explain the President's bellicose
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    Chamberlain Accepts Gifts, Returns Money
    85 11 London, Jan. 5. •THE Trimc Minister, Mr. Chanibcrlain, has received, as a tribute to his efforts in the cause of peace, a generous present from the women of Malta consisting of a Maltese lac? tablecloth, a silver model of a Maltese boat and a cheque
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    Japan's Move To Fascism
    328 11 Japan's Move To Fascism Firmer Attitude By Britain Urged London, Jan. 5. IUEWS of the further move of the Japanese Government along the road to Fascism is not a good omen for the future of Great Britain's trade interests in China, states a long unsigned article in the Financial News.
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    U.S. TO REPEAL THE NEUTRALITY ACT?
    234 11 New York, Jan. 5. T l HAT President Roosevelt's speech is! conciliatory where American indusi trial interests arc concerned Is the con- sensu-s of opinion on Wall Street, which 'thinks it obvious that the address was primarily intended to pave the way for j
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    FRANCE TS PLEASED
    74 11 (Paris, Jan. 5. /"•REAT satisfaction in President Roosevelt's speech Is reflected In tlie French press, which discusses the da facto "rupture of G?rrr>.in-Amer!can 'diplomatic relations' Typical comment is tha laire, which states: "New hope and new ercrwra»ement comes to us from the other side of the Atlantic."
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    VNTI-SEMITIC BOOK IN WASHINGTON
    88 11 Berlin, Jan. 5. AGEriivIAN news agency message from Washington reports the pub- llcation there of an anti-Semitic boofcI let showing the number of Jews In 'American administrative life. Under the heading. Judah Rules In America," the booklet points out that there are 62.000 Jews in Federal
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    'DALADIER, NOT DUCE, IS OURT PROTECTOR'
    140 11 Gabes, Jan. 5. AN enthusiastic welcome was accoTded everywhere today as M. Dalai dier. the French Prime Minister, continued his tour of Tunis. At Sfax. tha Caid of Rfax presented the Premier with an olive branch as a symbol o! union and peace. M.
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    37 11 Genoa, Jan. 5. The Queen Mother of Egypt, accompanied by her four daughters, including the fiancee of the Crown Prince of 'Iran, arrived here from Marseilles. After a short visit to the city they left jfor Alexandria.-Reuter.
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    New Tokio Cabinet
    444 11 KONOYE TO HEAD PRIVY COUNCIL Tokio, Jan. 5. INVESTITURE of the new Cabinet ministers, headed by Baron Dr Kiichiro Hiranuma. Prime Mini i or. took place this afternoon in the j I presence of the Emperor at tr\o Imperial Palace. The Cabinet list is as follows: Foreign
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    Franco Italians Have Bad Time
    123 11 Barcelona, Jan. 5. AN Italian division which took part in attacks in the Castclladan zone came out with 2,000 casualties last Tuesday. The division was supported by 00 tanks, heavy artillery and waves of planes. A Republican communique says that only slight progress has been
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    CZECH ANGER OVER RED ENVOY'S ACTION
    73 11 Prague, Jan. 5. APOLITICAL sensation has been caused here by the; action of the Soviet Minister, M. Alexandrowsky, who sent editors of all Czech newspapers a copy of the Journal de Moscou containing a strongly-worded attack against the Prague Government. Each copy of the
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    The Straits Times SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 1939. Our Clerks
    1034 12 The Straits Times SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 1939. Our Clerks Since the European business man ir. Singapore has not been slow to criticise the boy from the local English school, or to criticise the school rather than the boy, it Is to be hoped that the business man I has
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    BOY SCOUTS FUND
    234 12 The following donations have been received or promised for the Singapore Boy Scouts Headquarters Building Fund A. Robinson $25, Uhulam Khan $25, Wassiamull Asscomull $5, E. C. Hicks $10, Singapore Japanese Boy Scouts *100, Dr. Loh Poon Lip $25, M. Sabapathy $5, K. M. Oil Mohamed $5,
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    H.M.S. Terror In Roads
    34 12 The monitor rerror which has left ihe Naval Base to arry out firing practice anchored in the Outer Roads yesterday. She will return to the Naval Base on Jan. 12.
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    MALAYA AND DEFENCE
    418 12 c More Speedboats Aircraft ASIATIC MANPOWER To the Editor ol the Straits Times Sir,— Malaya seems to be drifting and I Inert In a world that Is furiously arming. This country seems content to depend for protection on Great Britain, who may be completely occupied and unable
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    COLONIAL CHINESE
    220 12 1 First Loyalty Still For Motherland To the Editor of the Straits Times I Sir,— l have been interested to read letters in the Straits Times from Straits-born Chinese who would give sole allegiance to Malaya. I think that China— the land of our forefathers, whose culture and
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    SINGAPORE AND N. I.
    104 12 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— l notice in the Straits Times of today news to the effect that the Netherlands Indian Government Is sending an officer to reside in Singapore to promote export trade from the N.I. to Malaya, that this officer will
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    TUNISIA'S WAR PLANS
    701 12 A Maginot Line In The Desert In view of the visit of M. Daladier, Prime Minister of France, to Tunisia this week, attention has been focussed on the strategic position of this French colony, lying between Algeria in the west and the Italian colony of Libya in
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    LETTERS IN PAGE 18
    62 12 BY JUNK AND PRAHU. Who are the r.:al "sons of the soil?" MUSAFARKHANA. An appeal for a Muslim rest-house In Singapore. SINGAPORE DEGREES. A reply to "Fed-Up's" references to Hong Kong University. OVER-EXPORTS. Comment en the letter of the Controller of Rubber to the Straits Times.
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    NOTES Of The DAV
    825 12 NOTES Of The DA V j The Free School y^HEN listening to Mr. H. R. Cheeseman's talk on English schools In Malaya on Wednesday my mind went back to the time when I was a Junior reporter in an English provincial town and I used to report the prize glvlnga
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    NEW JAPANESE CABINET & MILITARISTS9 WISHES
    203 13 NEW JAPANESE CABINET MILITARISTS 9 WISHES Special Consideration To Services Requests WAR MINISTER ON AIMS OF POLICY IN CHINA Defence Programme And Powers' Attitude JAPAN'S new Cabinet formed yesterday with J Baron Hiranuma as Prime Minister, and Prince Konoye (ex-Premier) as Minister without Portfolio, will give special consideration to the
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    "CLUMSY JAPANESE ATTEMPT"
    296 13 JAPANESE planes iiew over ther International and French Con-: cessions in Shanghai yesterday and dropped thousands of pamphlets al- j 1. tfinjr thr.t various Chinese leaders wanted peace on the basis of Mr. Wang ChinK-wei's proposals. They added that only the "obstinacy" nr General Chiang Kai-sieV: prevented
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    GERMANY PLEASED WITH NEW CABINET
    147 13 "Quick Settlement Of Crisis Was Necessity" Berlin, Jan. 6. pERMAMT appears to be extremely u tttlaflrd with the position of the Ik v Japanese Cabin (see page 11). Baron Hiranuma, the new Prime Mil isier, is regarded as a statesman of grjat experience, while the
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    ROOSEVELT KNOWS JAPAN'S WEAKNESS
    77 13 London, Jan. 6. IT would be rash to rely on time to accomplish Japan's defeat for she is now managing: the war with remarkable economy and may soon benefit from her control of China's natural resources, states the Manchester Guardian. On the other hand, ber absolute
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    British Plans In Emergency Evacuating Children From Big Cities
    265 13 British Plans In Emergency Evacuating Children From Big Cities London, Jan. 6. AS a far step in formulating plans for evacuating 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 children from big cuies in the event of an emergency, the Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Elliot, has circularised local authorities, requesting them to co-operate with
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    BRITISH INQUIRY IN SPAIN Charges Made By The
    185 13 BRITISH INQUIRY IN SPAIN Charges Made By The Nationalists London, Jan. 5. j IN connection with recent incident of a 1 the British consu'ar bag in Spain, it was officially stated tonight that the a Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, has a directed that an inquiry shall be held r at
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    Vital U. S. Role In World Affairs
    389 13  -  British Statement By Prime Minister BERLIN SURPRISE London, Jan. 5. MOBODY who is charged with the heavy responsibilities of government could fail to be impressed by the solemn words with which President Roosevelt greeted the elected representatives of the American people." Thus says
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    COL. BECK SEES HITLER
    35 13  -  Berlin, Jan. 5. pOL. JOSEF BECK, the Polish Foreign Minister, had a long talk with Herr Hitler at Berchtesgaden yesterday afternoon. Herr von Ribbentrop. the German Foreign Minister, was also present.
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    "A TREACHEROUS INSULT"
    89 13 Rome, Jan. 6. AS a sequel to the Italian flag incident at Tunis on Jan. 3, members of Italian institutions have voiced a solemn protest to the consulate, says a Tunis message. The protest speaks of the M treacherous insult to our glorious national flag," and expresses
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    Franco's Forces Closing In
    146 13 Franco's Forces Closing In "Scissors'* Threat To Barcelona Saragossa, Jan. 5. TOE Nationalists have entered the fertile Urgel plains which, they allege, have been flooded by the Republicans opening the sluice gates and diverting the canal. Artesa de Lerida and Pulgvert de Lerida have been occupied. It Is claimed 3,000
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    DALADIER'S TUNIS TOUR ENDS
    199 13 Military Parley Foi Algiers Today Bizerta, Jan. 5. M DALADIER, the French Prime Minister, arrived here today from Susa and embarked in ■Ac I French cruiser Foch for Algiers, 'where he is expected tomorrow morning. General Nogues, the Resident-general of Morocco, has arrived in Algiers to
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    "Role Of Dupe Is Over"
    65 13 Paris, Jan. 5. Commenting on M. Daladier's tour, La Journal says: "The role of dupe Is over. Islam asks r.o more than to rely on French will. "We must reply to the magnificent loyalty it has displayed by an impartial policy of national defence and
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    NEW AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS FOR BRITISH NAVY
    180 13 London, Jan. 5. 'THE great new aircraft-carrier Ark Royal, which is joining the Home Fleet for the spring cruise this year, is the first of five ships designed exclusively for the naval air service. Her immediate successors—lllustrious. Victorious, Formidable and Indomitable will be 23,000 tons,
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    America Budgets For Big Deficit In 1940
    578 13 America Budgets For Big Deficit In 1940 HUGE SUMS FOR DEFENCE Washington, Jan. 6. ANOTHER heavy United States deficit is budgetted I for in 1940 owing to the huge increase in defence expenditure. Receipts are estimated at $5,669,000,000 and expenditure at $8,995,000,000, giving a deficit of $3,326,000,000. The United States
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    NIGHT MAIL DERAILED IN SOUTH PERAK
    329 14 Engine And Six Coaches Affected By Crash ONLY MINOR INJURIES AMONG PASSENGERS (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. THE south-bound night-mail train which left Penang for Kuala Lumpur last night was derailed at Slim River, 70 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, in south
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    Brother To Crown Selangor Sultan
    97 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 5. 'THE Raja Bendahara of Sclangor will pace the crown upon the head of Sultan Alam Shafi of Selangcr at the Coronation at Klang on Thursday, Jan. 26. This, it is understood, will be performed at the request
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    FORMER INDIAN AGENT'S DAUGHTER WEDS
    47 14 tthe marriage of Misi Leela Mukun- dan. daughter of Rao Sahib K. A. Mukundan. formerly Agent of the Government of India in Malaya, and Mrs Mukundan, with Mr. E. K. Srei nivasan took plp.ee at Cannanore, Sou'a India on D?c. 29, 1938.
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    ALLEGED CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST
    89 14 t> All. of Sl.OOO was allowed to a Chin- ess, Liam Goon Seng, in r Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday when he appeared on a charge of criminrl breach of 'rust of $594.23, when employed as a bill collector and canr by Lens Chuan and
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    ISAKO'S CIRCUS
    21 14 Isako's Circus will present a :peciaily selected programme tonight at 9.15. The Governor. Sir Shenton Thomas, will bs attending.
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    AMUSEMENTS
    196 14 NG&KMK. umu iiuiLi Dinner Dance (Informal) 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. 9.30 to Midnight. (iAKKKK lili..\li;t dtU.i.Mj Jeanetic Mac Donald in The Firefly, also Dorothy Lamour In Jungle Princess 7.45 to 11 p.m. CiKhAl WUKLU Cabarrt: Today C.30 to 8. 30 9 p.m. to Midnight. (Uobe Theatre: In Old Chicago.
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    DISMISSAL OF 300 TEACHERS
    155 14 Official Circular Sent To Schools COLLOWING the dismissal or r about 300 teachers of Chinese •schools in Singapore, the Educa- tion Department has circularised the schools pointing out the effect this will have on retarding the progress of the school. It is believed that before the
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    NEW 5430.000 JOHORE P.W.D. WORKSHOP
    88 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Jan. 5. JOHORE Bahru is to have an up to date P.W.D. workshop in place of the eld one near the hospital. The new building has been completed at Jalan Kebun Teh, about a couple of miles from town.
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    PLAN TO BEAUTIFY MOUSQUE GROUNDS
    54 14 (From Our Own Correspondent. Johore Bahru, Jan. 5. THE vacant plot of land between the 1 Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque and the newly-erected $50,000 banqueting hall is to be turned Into a flower garden with a fountain in the centre. Over $4,000 is to be
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    MALAY JUDGE ON LEAVE
    170 14 Raja Musa Going To Europe /^■OING on rive months leave to Europe, Mr. Justice Raja Musa and his wife, sailed from Singapore this morning in the Rotterdam Lloyd liner Baloeran. Raja Musa bin Raja Haji Bot is the first Malay Judge of the F.M.S. Supreme Court
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    INDIAN AGENT TO GO TO NEW DELHI
    176 14 To Be Consulted Over Emigration Issue From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 5. rbe on hand during the visit to India of the Malayan delegation j on the suspension of Indian emigration to Malaya, for consultation by the Government of India, Mr.
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    FINE ACTING IN STORY OF SCHOOL LIFE
    150 14 At The Cinema "Housemaster" Opens At The Pavilion '•Housemaster" (Otto Kruger, Diana. Churchill. Phillips Holmes) Associated British. At the Pavilion. /CHARACTER acting of a high order makes lan Hay's story of public school life a fine flln in the British tradition. Honours go
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    AVIATION'S PROGRESS TOLD IN COLOUR
    101 14 "Men With Wings." (Fred MacMurray, Ray IVlilland, Louise Campbell, Andy Devine, Lynne Overman, Walter Abel) Paramount. Directed by William A. Wellman. At the Capitol. T*HIS Is an excellent air film. It Is the first real cavalcade of aviation. Technicolour lends new beauty to its scenes.
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    Methodist Speaker Warns Malaya Of Drink Evil
    229 14 A WOMAN speaker at the Methodist Conference in Singapore yesterday said that alcohol "is getting a bad hold on the people of Malaya." The speaker was Mrs. Moffatt Clow, an American from lowa, who Is a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union
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    MME. CHIANG'S MESSAGE TO MALAYA
    368 14 Suggests Powers Will Take Measures Against Japan "THERE is evidence that both 1 are now realising that Ja terests and influence of the de and are preparing to take coun Chiang Kai-shek in a message the Singapore Chinese Consul- 1 Japan talks liberally about forming
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    COMPENSATION FOR MINERS
    289 14 Two Months' Pay Gratuity EUROPEANS WHO WERE RETRENCHED (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 6. TWO months' salary, in addition to other payments already notified, is to be paid to men recently retrenched by one mining company in the Kinta district. This information has been given by
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    32 14 The visiting Wuhan Songsters will broadcast a Mandarin and sacred song recital from 8.M.8 C. stations tonight from 6.30 to 7 o'clock. The broadcast will be directed by Mr. Tsia Chzeo Chiew.
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    MAN PEERED INTO HIS FACE AM) FIRED AT HIM TWICE
    434 15 Sundry Goods Dealer's Story At Duxton Rd. Shooting Inquiry w 1 im;ss suggests case of mistaken IDENTITY AS EXPLANATION "A short man, about my height, came up to me, peered into my face and when I asked him why he
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    Is Tiger On Prowl In Pasir Panjang ?
    148 15 Is Tiger On Prowl In Pasir Panjang MARKS closely resembling the pug prints of a tiger have been reen in the virinity of Pasir Panjang. A Chinese boy from the Cadets Mess bungalow, Labrador, Pasir Panjang E'oad, declares that he has reen the tiger. A Singapore European informed a Straits
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    Raja h's Da ugh ter 's Film Career
    88 15 (From Our Own Correspondent.) New York, Jan. 5. AAKS. Gregory, wife of wrestler Bob Gregory, announced today that there had been a complete reconciliation with her father, the Rajah of Sarawak, over the question of her proposed film career. 'He is letting
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    Alleged STOWAWAY LEAVES SHIP
    69 15 AN ALLEGED stowaway, an Austra- lian under police escort aboard the Burns Philp liner I.iansola, lying In Empire Dock, and bound for Australia, was missed from the ship early on Wednesday morning. The Australian, it is reported, went t> the lavatory and when he failed to
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    CELEBES NICKEL
    58 15 I (From Our Own Correspondent.) 1 Batavia, Jan. 3. THE nickel ore potentialities of the 1 Celebes are being explored by a geologist, Mr L. C. Craton, from i Cambridge. Massachusetts, on behalf 1 of a big Canadian nickel concern. It is hoped that mining of nlcke! 1
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    Children's Party At Flagstaff House
    68 15 "of the children, who enjoyed themselves iirmcns?ly at the party given by the G.O.C, Malaya, MajorCeneral W. G. S. Dobbie, for children of officers of the garrison and the Volunteers Force at Flagstaff House yesterday. From left: Ann Benjamin, Jennifer Broicnrigg and Barbara and Margaret,
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    Japanese Envoy On His Way To Tokio
    227 15 Japanese Envoy On His Way To Tokio PARIS PRESS ON HiS DEPARTURE A LTHOUGH health reasons are ad- vancsd officially for the return of the Japanese Ambassador to France, Mr. Y. Sugimura, who passed through Singapore yesterday in the Yasukuni Mr.ru, th-j French Press claims that differences of opinion exist
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    SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DOMINION STUDENTS Study In Social And
    103 15 Political Subjects London, Jan. 6. POUR post graduate scholarships each r valued at £300, tenabe lor one .-ear and to commune in October, 1939, are being offered to Dominion graduates by the British Council to enable them to study subjects which are
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    ARE HAWKERS TO BLAME FOR THEFTS FROM EUROPEANS?
    299 15 Police To Keep Special Watch In Residential Areas ITINERANT hawkers peddling silks, lace, cloths and brass 1 trays are believed to be responsible for daylight thefts from European homes in Singapore. Action is to be taken by th? police in all districts.
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    Car Registrations: New Record?
    115 15 MOTOR-CAR registrations at the beginning of this year are expected to set a record. Halfyearly registration is now due and about 10,000 cars are concerned. Reminders arc being sent out by the Vehicles Registration Office to car owners. It is pointed out that when the completed
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    NEW FERRY NEAR BATU PAHAT
    70 15 A FERRY service is now in operation day and night at Tongkang Pechah across the Sungel Simpang Kanan at the 4th mile on the Batu Pahat-Parlt Bilal-Tongkang Pechah Road. Information to this effect has been received by the Singapore central office of the Automobile Association
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    BICYCLE THEFTS IN JOHORE BAHRU
    93 15 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Jan. 5. REMARKING that bicycle thefts were again on the increase and the best way to stop them was by imposing deterrent sentences Sheikh Abu Bakar. the Second Magistrate, fined Salim bin Kamis, a Malay P.W.D. coolie, $50 or
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    GIRL ACQUITTED ON CHARGE OF STEALING FRIEND'S WATCH
    373 15 QTATING she shared a hotel room with a man because he wanted her to become his wife on condition she shared the room with him, a pretty coffee shop waitress, Leong Pui Fong, was acquitted by the Singapore Fifth Police Magistrate yesterday
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    COLONY AIDS REFUGEES
    269 15 $14,000 In Local Jewish Fuiul GOVERNOR TO BE AT CHARITY SHOW JHE relief fund for German and Austrian refugees has now risen to $14,000, the Singapore Jewfeh Refugee Committee announced yesterday. The fund is expected to be swelled by the forthcoming charity performance of the historical film,
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    G.O.C. GIVES PARTY FOR 100 CHILDREN
    130 15 Ii the spacious n v Ilagotaff House. 1 the G.0.C., Malaya, Major-General W. G. S. Dobbie, had a busy time directing a treasure hunt and musical bumps, when he and Mrs. Dobbie entertained 100 children at a pr.Ky for j children of officers of
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    SELANGOR SPENDS $2,000,000 TO MAKE SWAMP PADIFIELDS
    1043 16 250 Sq. Miles Of "Dead" Territory To Become State Granary PROJECT GREATER THAN DRAINING OF ITALY'S FAMOUS PONTINE MARSHES By The Straits Times Kuala Lumpur Correspondent. A "NO MAN'S LAND"— the fever-ridden swamp forest ol Tanjong Karang which has for long been the
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    GANJA AND TOBACCO BY EXPRESS FROM BANGKOK
    615 16 (From Our Own Correspondent > Penan g, Jan. 4. i THE story of an attempt to smuggle a large quantity of 1 Indian hemp (ganja) and Siamese tobacco by the Bangkok Express was related in the District Court, Penang, when four Chinese, Poo
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    HOW SEGAMAT WAS NAMED
    323 16 HOW SEGAM AT WAS NAMED Bendahara'sGrav c Under Zinc Roof (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat, Jan. 5. QN slightly raised ground, a mile out of town, on the road to Muar, stand four zinc-roofed sheds protecting old tombstones where lie buried the early founders of Segamat and their descendants. In
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    Cigarette In Spirit Causes Mail's Death
    129 17 Cigarette In Spirit Causes Mail's Death 4 LIGHTED cigarette, accidentally dropped into a tin of spirit, which exploded, resulted in tho death of a Chinese. Chin Yen Fan, erof a Chinese dispensary in j Upper Nankin Street. •Yea Pan received extensive burns when the flames caught his clothes. This wai
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    CORONATION TREE DOES WELL AT MUARj
    142 17 <F» om Our Own Correspondent.) Ifnar, Jan. 4. GREAT improvement has bern made to the triangular ;:>lot of ground bordering Jalan Abdullali. Jalan Bakri, Jalan Yahya. :ind Jalan Maharani. since the Coronation tree was planted Towkajr Lee Thian Soo. F r-verly a bar.c plot
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    1565 17 Manchester Textile Expert's Plea For Action Now PREDICTS JAPAN WILL DOMINATE MARKET AFTER WAR ABANDONMENT of the policy of free trade by the Straits Settlements is advocated by Sir John Barlow, a director of Barlow and Co., a director of the Manchester Chamber
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    Parents See New Garrison School Opened
    67 17 Some of the parents oid friends -v'io attended the official opening of the. new garrison school at Alexandra yesterday.— Straits Times picture. tin. Dobbie. wife of tht Qens'ai Officer Commanding, Malaya Ma-Oi General W. G. S. DobMe, jutt alii sht had reaivsd the key
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    ESTATE MANAGER BAGS COBRA
    44 17 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Jan. 4. VR. S. Nadarajah, of Pantal, bagged a large cobra in a ravine near the estate he manages. The reptile had bitten a dog belonging to a kepala on the estate and killed it.
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    Mission Conference Delegates Here
    49 17 The Rt. Rev. J. C. Mann, Anglican Bishop of Kyushu, Japan and Dr. Y. China, chairman of the Japanese Bpiist Convention and leader of the delegates from Japan to the Mad a Y/t rid Missionary Conference, photographed on arrival at Singapore 'crday.— Straits Times picture.
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      413 18 Musafarkhana For Singapore APPEAL TO LOCAL COMMUNITY To the Editor of the Straits Times. S.r. —It is a pity that in a large city like Singapore there is no Muslim Mu.safarkhana dree rest-house for poor travellers), although there are such institutions of the Hindus and the Sikhs— their
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      116 18 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.— l am afraid "R's" suggestion of the employment of female servants, ins'.ead of the ujual practice of engaging males as domestics, will not produce the desired results. After all. we never know how prostitutes rate their own occupation. Can it
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      TO MALAYA BY JUNK AND PRAHU
      986 18 Present-Day Politics And Racial Claims To the Editor ot the Straits Times. I Sir,— As such a lot has been said and i written on behalf of the rights, claims, preference etc. for the Malays, I hope you will grant me space in your
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      A SINGAPORE DEGREE
      817 18 Local-Born Reply To "Fed-Up" EDUCATION ABROAD To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— l have iead "Fed-Up's" letter in your columns on universities, and wish to state that ns a Malayan I disagree in toto with his views expressed therein. I propose to deal with his
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      ASSESSMENTS The Controller's Letter
      214 18 ASSESSMENTS The Controller's Letter To the Editor «f the "Straits Times" Sir,— You are to be thankfd for your two leaders on the over-export of rubber. The letter from the Controller which you published makes matters worse, for it s?.ows that the highly paid Assessment Committee has erred. This committee,
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      THE RICKSHA PARADE
      308 18 Living On Women's Earnings To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— ln reply to "R" in your Issue of Dec. 29, I must say that I disagree with his assertion that girls are driven to prostitution. Allow me to inform ,'iim that ths girls on the
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    INDIAN GORED TO DEATH BY BULL
    58 18 (From Our Own Correspondent. l Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 3. AN Indian labourer was gored to death yesterday at the dairy farm at Fraser's Hill by one of the stud bulls there. The farm lies about 3ft miles from the post office at Fraser's Hill
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    HALAYA FROM AN INDIAN POINT OF VIEW
    773 19 "Second-Class Citizenship" In The Protectorates MR. N. RAGHAVAN'S SURVEY OF 1938 AS regards equality of treatment the case for the Indian has been stated over and over again both in the pres.and on the platform ever since it was made clear to him
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      1192 19 Congress To Discuss New Approach Bombay. THE main subject for discussion at the next meeting of the Congress Working Committee at Bardoli this week is the communal question. Now that the negotiations for a settlement with the Muslim League have definitely ended, the Working Committee wants finally to
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      CHILDREN'S COLONY
      327 19 A New Scheme For Bombay Bombay. IT is understood that the Government of Bombay will provide in the next budget four lakhs of rupees for the new Children's Cclony sch?me. A committee has been appointed to inspect and to advise the Government whether the plot of land, hundred
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    IMPORTANCE OF DEFENCE CO-ORDINATION
    442 19 How Recent European Crisis Influenced New Delhi New Delhi. THE nsn appointment announced recently of Mr. A. dc C. Williams to the Secretariat of the GovernorGeneral in connection with deftnee co-ordination is very important. Mr. Williams will in popular language be the "Sir Thomas Inskip of
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    OFF TO INDIA NEXT WEEK
    281 19 /)r ■utff Controllef of Labmir, SfalayOi "''■-> rtß sccompafty Malayan G;n rumen it delegation to Hew Dilhi nexi week as Secretary. Mr. Barren recently acted for the lecond true cs Controller of Labour. solely with the fighting forces. A number of thr civil departments ar*
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    28 19 Information has been received that the Imperial Council of Agricultural Reseirch has made a grant of Us. 9,920 to Travancorc for the improvement of paddy in the State.
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    1032 20 "MUST NOT GET BARRACKBOUND," GENERAL GORT ADVISES SOLDIERS (From Our Military Correspondent London, Dec. 22. A WELCOME broadcast by Sir Maurice Hankey about the Dominions and their participation in the work of the Committee of Imperial Defence, came at a moment when it was badly needed. He
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    14 20 Girls clapping: S^nor Mussolini as he arrived on a visit to Ciampino, near Rome.
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    "Grave Days Ahead For Europe"
    86 20 Rome, Jan. 4. THE newspaper Popolo di Roma says that there are "many signs" indicating that. the Berlin-Rome Axis is on the eve of new and heavy trials. The future of Europe, it is stated, now more than ever before depends on the stability of
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    NEW A.R.P. MEASURE IN GREAT BRITAIN
    101 20 PROVISION of a British national reserve of switch-gear transformers and other electrical equipment under the administration of the Centr .1 Electricity Board as a special A.R.P. measure lias been decided upon as the result of discussion between the Ministry of Transport and representatives of
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    MANY DROWNED IN STORM.
    46 20 Istanbul, Jan. 1. J^ANY casualties and heavy damageITI have been caused by a terrinr hurricane which swept the Black Sea. Twenty-two members of the crew of a Turkish freighter are reported drowned and numerous other seamen are missing and feared lost.— Reuter.
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    UNIFICATION OF TRADE
    402 20 Reich Industry To Be Reformed fJR. funk, the German Minister of Economics, in whom largely increased powers were recently vested by Field-Marshal Gocring. Commissioner lor the Four Year Plan, has become the dictator of Gerjmany's economic life. His new [duties make him virtually a combined Minister of
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    SAID CONSTABLE SHOT PRISONER ON GROUND
    56 20 Jerusalem. Jan. 5 Kar Streikei. one oi the eight Germans from Jaffa who gave evidence "t the British constable, trial, were called when the hearing was resumed. t r eiker, who is a Christian, testified h saw a policeman in blue unilor: shoo a
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    MIRROR'S FIRE WARNING
    38 20 A mirror which fell and smashed when the cord was burnt through awoke and warned the family of Mr. Frank Hooper Smith, of Bushey Vowley Farm, Wootton Bassctt, Wilts, that the house was on fire.
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      IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL WORKERS IN WARTIME
      799 21 30,000 More Propagandists To Aid The Fighting Services FOLLOWING Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's recent dictum that in the present stage of hostilities political work is of even greater importance than military operations, the Political Affairs Board of the National Military Council is assiduously working on
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      " MINIMUM ACTION OPEN TO POWERS "
      161 21 MINIMUM ACTION OPEN TO POWERS Chinese View Of Loan From Britain Chungking JAPAN has no ground for raising any objection to British loans to China declared a Foreign Office j spokesman commenting on reports of an impending loan for export credits to China "Even if the British loan is intended
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      PEARL RIVER NOT TO BE OPENED Japanese Statement
      86 21 PEARL RIVER NOT TO BE OPENED Japanese Statement Canton. IT appears that the Pearl River Delta. from the cea tt Canton, will remain closed to foreign shipping until ti^e Yangtse c.ucstion has been settled, although only recently thp Japanese Authorities premised that the River v.ould be opened by the end
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      China Adopts "Food Will Win War" Slogan
      650 21 "|7OOD will win the war was a i Blogan in the United States during the Great War. China to- day is engaged in a life-or-death struggle against Japanese aggres- sion and along with other things, :he needs food to feed her armies as
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      N. China Politicians' Move To Curry Favour With The Japanese
      880 21  -  TANG LEANG-LI By jV^ORE than a dozen "veteran i I*"* Chinese politicians" in iPeiping sent out telegrams re- i jcently, urging leading figures |in the political, business, and j educational fields throughout China to rally together and es- tablish "a
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    SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
    587 22 Annual Meeting To Be Held On Tuesday THE report and accounts of the Sin; tion reveal that the working ace comparison with a loss of $886 for I account shows a profit of $368 in co: The season under review was a successful one, says
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    New York Refuses To Suspend Farr
    54 22 New Yo:k, Tuesday. THE New York Boxing Com1 mission has rejected the request of the British Boxing Board of Control that Tommy Farr be suspended in the United States. The 8.8.8.C. suspended Farr until he paid £750 awarded to Syd Hulls, the promoter, for
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    OBSTACLES TO FARR'S RETURN
    411 22 London. A PECULIAR position arises out of the new rivalry by London boxing promoters for the services I of Tommy Farr to fight Len Harvey or some other British opponent. Both the Welshman and Harvey have spurned British titles. Farr relinquished his heavy-weight championship, and Harvey
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    A. 5. A. PRIZE WINNERS
    316 22 Distribution On Saturday Night The Amateur Sporting Association's annual tournament was successfully carried out and the following are the winners and runners-up for the year 1938:— Singles Handicap Championship: winner. Low Cheng Koon, runner-up. Chan Yew Chong, consolation. Tan Kirn Yong. Open Singles Chan-.ploiiship (A.S.A.
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    Delaney Strengthens Claim For Empire Title Fight
    318 22 London, Dec. 21. QAN'ADIAN heavy-weight champion, Al Delaney, strengthened his claims for a British Empire tit le fight by knocking out the tough Spaniard, Pancho Villar, after seven gruelling rounds at the Empress S (lium, Earl's Cou.'t, London, last night, writes James Butler
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    16 22 Zcrtrarr., Charlton goalkeeper, makes a fine save, in the match in which Charlton beat Chelsea I—o.
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    R.A.O.C. AND RECREATION CLUB DRAW EIGHT-ALL
    137 22 R.A.O.C. AND RECREATION CLUB DRAW EIGHT-ALL THE Singapore Recreation Club, scoring a goal and a penalty goal, drew eight points all with the R.A.O.C, who scored a goal and a try, in the rugby match played on the padang yesterday. A i.eavy downpour t. rain made the conditions bad and
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    IMPRESSIVE GALLOPS ON PENANG TRACK
    638 22 Empress Is Likely Winner For Tomorrow (From Our Own Correspondent. 1 Penang, Jan. 5. CEVERAL smart gallops were witnessed on the track at Penang and among those who impressed most were Burraneer, Dangerous Lover, Silverlaw, Sheila 11, Wotan, Temple, Sang Ayah, Clever Alec, Harlequin, Lucky
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    SINGAPORE HOCKEY TEAM COULD BE IMPROVED
    544 23 Plummer And Gupta Have Been Passed Over By "Rodmm. TONIGHT an eleven which is not Singapore's best by a long chalk goes to Kuala Lumpur for two hard hockey matches against Selangor and Negri Sembilan. These are the players: Pillai- Barth and Lieut. >acmillan;
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    DEATH OF MR. F. W. RINDER
    313 23 Grand Old Man Of Aston Villa 1 SSOCIATION football has lost one of its most respected leaders by the death of Mr. F. W. Rinder. who died in Birmingham on Christmas Day. aged 81 years. He had a seizure after returning home from a
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    ALEXANDRA DEPOT BEAT FORTRESS TEAM
    39 23 Playing at Alexandra yesterday tne Depot beat the 35th. Fortress Co. by three goals to one. Leydon. Fox and Kelly scored for the winners and Weeks scored a last minute goal for the Sappers.
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    S.C.C. BOWLS
    45 23 Entries for the S.C.C. triples bowls tournament will close tomorrow. unlikely as they are playing on their I own midden. Perhaps the only consolation is that Singapore goes up with a defence which does not look all wrong but should be all right!
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    22 23 r.c.u.-e ,al:en Okr.Kfl tne rugby match, wrdch was drcwTi B— ail yesterday, between the SRC. and the R- A.O.C.— Straits Times picture.
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    FARCICAL WRESTLING IN KUALA LUMPUR
    281 23 (From Our Own IT is well that last night's wrestlinj to be staged in Kuala Lumpur. ling by Kartar Singh and Jeji Gold been a thorough disappointment. In the preliminary match of three rounds between Kartar Singh and Goldstein, some excellent holds were seen. Goldstein
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    NEGRI HOCKEY
    58 23 <Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Jan. 4. The following will represent Negri Sembilan in an inter-state hockey match against Singapore at Seremban on Sunday, Jan. 8. B. Manuel; Staff Sgt. Rich and Khalid; Santhok Singh.] Lieut. Morris (capt.) and "Lee Moh j Hon; J. E. Edmonds. F. P.
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    LINESMAN STUCK IN THE SNOW
    73 23 During the match between Crystal Palace Reserves and West Ham Reserves at Selhurst Park one of the linesmen slipped and fell backwards into a pile of snow. The referee, Mr. S. J. Dunning, ot Surbiton, stopped the game to give him time to struggle out.
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    C.S.C. CHESS FINAL
    54 23 The Chinese Swimming Club chess championship final between Lo Kum Woon and Tan Peng Choo will take place at the Club house on Sunday, at 10.30 a.m. Lo Kirn Woon was at one time champion of the Singapore Chess Club while his opponent is the holder of
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    S.C.C. SNOOKER
    55 23 Entries for the S.C.C Volunteer snooker tournament will close tomorrow. Henry Armstrong, the world lightweight and welterweight boxing title-, holder, will meet Baby Arizmendi (Mexico) in a welterweight championship light at Los Angeles on Tuesday. Armstrong will be defending his titl? for the third time in six weeks—an
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    THE SPORTS DIARY
    45 23 TODAY Boxtaf Happy World, 9.15 p.m. Rufbj: Loyals vs. Alexandra Depot, GiliTwan Hockey: 8.C.R.C. vs. Combined Schools, S.C.B.C- S.C.C. vs. Manchester Regiment, 8.C.C.; A.P.C. vs. R.N., Pay* Lebar; 8.R.C. vs. R.A. (C^ant.1). Changl; I. A. *S. S?vcn'.h Hw Battery (Changi), I. A.
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    BUDGE WINS AGAIN
    22 23 DUDGE beat Vines 6—3, B— 6—4 at Boston in the second exhibition tennis match of their tour yesterday. Heater.
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    TONIGHTS BOXING Good Programme Assured
    92 23 TONIGHTS BOXING Good Programme Assured English featherweight Frank Hill and Baby Mendiola of Manila provide the main attraction in tonight's boxing card at Singapore's covered stadium. Hill made a good impression a fortnight ago. when he held Young Choon to a draw. Mendiola packs a hard punch, however, and if
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    706 23 Scratchings and order of running for tomorrow's races at Penang will be found in page six of the second edition if received before going to press. INDIGNATION is being manifested in Singapore Hockey Association circles at the allegation made in this column a few days
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    80 24 Ci'.d \wather in Britain over Christmas and the Nov. V-;-r ran, formed these falls near Edale. Derbyshire. Into a veritab'e fairyland. ow interferec' with transport in many parts of Bri.a!ii, but it brought fun to th?se schoolchildren at Keston. Kent. (Above)
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