The Straits Times, 19 March 1939

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING &UNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FlitAL EDITION No. 378 Sunday, March 19, 1939 Price 10 Cents THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. 378 Sunday. March 19. 1939 Price 10 Cents
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    RUMANIA DEFIES HERR HITLER
    740 1 King Carol Says 'No To Fuehrer Rejection Of Reported German Ultimatum REICH MONOPOLY DEMAND TO BUCHAREST All Parties Rally To King Carol TTHE diplomatic correspondents of The Times and the Daily Telegraph give circumstantial reports of a German economic ultimatum to Rumania, It is stated that
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    "Hitler Personally Insulted"
    206 1 "Hitler Personally Insulted" SEQuEL TOSPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS WELL-INFORMED political circles in Berlin indicate that Germany may take strong diplomatic action in London over Mr. Duff-Cooner's attack en Herr Hitler in the House of ('■■niir.ons on Thursday. It is likely to take the form of a protest and a
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    POLES CRY "DOWN WITH HITLER"
    62 1 Warsaw, Saturday. A CROWD of 1.800 people demonstrated today outside the Foreign Office shouting Down With Hitler." They were dispersed by police. It may safely be assumed Col. Beck. Polish Foreign Minister, is gravely concerned by the inclusion of Slovakia In the German-protected zone, as
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    MR. HERBERT BAILEY
    21 1 The death took place yesterday of Mr. Herbert Bailey. managing editor of the British United Press news agency.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    69 1 iK.-cm Our O-.'. n Correspondent London, Mtturdat ■■Bta Veik. InU.) IT4* 7 IS 164. \nr.-Jum- 7\,<L 7 l.i ISd. pt. 7 13 I'M fa. '"<•.: Kd 8 1 ISd :> £7 Sv ti' d. K :>l tM, 2 month. 19 13. 1 :d. I >\ 5.07 d. PXCHANOISi
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    24 1 Tanks and armoured cars parading through Barcelona during a review by Gen. Franco in which 50,000 Spa lish, Italian and German troops took part.
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    Rubber Market Rattled
    202 1 London, Saturday. THE possibility of further Aggravation or the Central European situation, which the markets read into the confirmation of the news that Rumania has been presented with sweeping demands by Germany, is widely discussed in City circles. There are, however, no signs or panic as the
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    GERMAN CURRENCY FINISHED?
    141 1 Paris, Saturday. OEMAKKABLE revelations are stated to have been made by Dr. Brinkmann, vice-presi-dent of the Reichsbank, in a recent speech published in Economique et Financiere. He is reported to have said "We have been paying for guns a price for which we obtain normally ten guns
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    PROTECTOR NAMED
    14 1 Baron von Neurath has been appointed German Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.
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    PLANS FOR HITLER'S TRIUMPHAL RETURN TO BERLIN
    65 1 PLANS FOR HITLER'S TRIUMPHAL RETURN TO BERLIN Berlin, Saturday. lI ERR HITLER is not now expected to make his triumphal entry on his return to Berlin before Sunday evening. It will be. on an extremely grandiose scale and preparations suggest the route of the victory drive will be exceptionally long.
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    War Clouds Over Japan And Russia
    113 1 Tokiu, Saturday. yHE Japanese Foreign Office will' make efforts to avoid such an eventuality as war between the Soviet Union and Japan, although it is natural that the military authorities should make various preparations from the standpoint of national defence. This point was stressed
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    Chamberlain Calls Cabinet Meeting
    198 1 Instructions To British Ambassador In Berlin London, Saturday. J^K. Chamberlain h;m returned to London unexpectedly from Birminu'hiira and has called a Cabinet meeting for Saturday afiernocn. Sir Nevile Henderson. British Ambassador in Barlin, has been instructed to convey to the German Government the view of the
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    NATIONALIST TREATY WITH PORTUGAL
    36 1 Lisbon, Saturday A TREATY of friendship and norm aggression between Portugal and Nationalist Spain has been signed in the Foreign Office by Premier Salazar and Ambassador Nicolas Franco, brother of the Generalissimo.
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    MALAYA HAS ORDERED 20 OF NUFFIELD'S "IRON LUNGS"
    465 2 Heavy Demand From All Over Empire MASS PRODUCTION AT RATE OF SO A WEEK TWENTY of Lord NullieldV "Iron UHgft" have been ordered lor Malaya, and of these seven are for the Straits Settlements. Three will be for the General, Tan Tock
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    Singapore Gallipoli Reunion
    120 2 Singapore Gallipoli Reunion FOR the first time, it is hoped this year to hold in Singapore a reunion of those who served at Gallipoli during the Great War. The reunion is to be ina<le on Anzac Day, April 25, the 24th anniversary ot the historic landing. The campaign was disastrous,
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    KINTA ROBBERS USE BAMBOO PISTOL
    81 2 •From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. FIVE Chtiusc. wearing masks and armed with what appepred to he pistols, entered a Chinese house situated between Kampar end TanJong Tualans and ransacked ihe house removing all valuables. Owing to their hurried departure one robber left his pistol
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    UNCONSCIOUS FAMILY: FALL FROM WINDOW?
    54 2 •"■"•HE Chinese woman and two child- ren who were found unconscious in Tanjong Pagar Road. Singapore, about six o'clock yesterday morning are -o-.v believed to have fallen from a window about 20ft. from the ground Try woman, with her two children, arrived from Hong Kong
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    FERDNAND
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    MONTH'S GOAL FOR THEFT OF LATEX
    68 2 CENTENCE of a month's rigorous !m- prisonment was passed on n Chinese. Oh Eng Huat, in th* Singapore Fifth Police Court yost?rday, by the Magistrate. Mr. L. c ''oh He was convicted on a charge of theft of rubber latex from the Bukit Sembawang
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    A Canine Shopper
    106 2 Doitiy the shopping ar.d bring- ng it home unescorted is a rare ca:.i:ie feat but every morning "Viscount," a Labrador owned by Mr. Af. La Touche. of West Kensington, goes out ]or the e'.gs ar.d viilk. He barks for the number of eggs he icants, and or.
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    Holland Will Be Neutral Once Again
    83 2 Holland Will Be Neutral Once Again |4^ LLAND will be neutral again if war breaks out in Europe. Our neutrality is our stronghold. just as it was in the Great War." paid Mr. A. W. Sijthoff, director of the Haagsche Courant, the leading evening newspaper at The Haeue ro a
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    K. L. Destitution: Brigadier's Study
    107 2 (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala I.umpur, Saturday. DKI(;\I)I::k It. A. Lord, of the v Salvation Army, today concluded his study on behalf of the Selangor Government of the problem uf destitution and poverty in Kuala Lumpur on which he has been busy for several weeks.
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    JAPANESE "HANGING ON BY SKIN OF THEIR TEETH"
    277 2 r jTIIE Japanese are hanging on by the skin of their teeth! in occupied territory in China," a prominent British resident in CMm, wno has lived more than 20 years in the country told a Sunday Times reporter when he passed; ihrough
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    ALLEGED USE OF FORCE ON INSPECTOR
    409 2 ALLEGED USE OF FORCE ON INSPECTOR Rodrigo Appeal In High Court AN attempt at making a mountain out of a molehill" was *i comment made by the Chief Justice, S.S., Sir Percy McElwaine, during hearing of an appeal by C. G. Rodrigo in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Rodhgo appealed
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    GALA DANCES PROCEEDS FOR RELIEF FUND
    45 2 •"THE China Relief Fund has re- celved from the organising committee for the Gala Dances in aid of this fund held at cabarets in the "Worlds' $4,068.35 which includes the sales by auction and excludes the total expenditure $99.90.
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    AIR MAIL ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
    267 2 INWAKD Wearnet: Fram rmuni; Ipoh and Kuala I.umpur 4rriw< rvrrv -vrnliK Qantas Prom Australia Arriws tin afternoon Imperial Krom Europe Due yesterday Expected Monday. X.L.M. From Europe Arrives this evenins. K.N.1.1..M.: rn.ni Sethi-Hands Indie* \rrivrs Tnesda? afternoon EM Hi Ml from Saigon: Arrive* Wednesday afternoon
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    SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE
    18 2 Today *dCD .Imperiali ao m east Africa ilni&eri^li 3 p.m South Africa (Imperial) 3 p.m
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    SURFACE MAILS EXPECTED
    17 2 Malls from Europe (Londn parcel exported on Monday by Hector, rbm uf Uo-lm-y uncertain.
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    THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD
    49 2 THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD Ship. .I.,,, i,. |Vh II in arrive. tnti.i. Location 1 Eth:> 1 i Sheen Wl i:< Main Wh.->rf Suv,r. Man 18 JuUaadU n 3 I 1 Hector 7 waln'.t a<; 2 3 Kajan- j Karc'iriKham 46 I S Polari.-- 5 Stentor l ItMBl 7 5
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      364 2 IN SINGAPORE TODAiT CINEMA Today ALII AM BRA ■White Banners" wLh Cla d? Rain;Fay Bainter and Jakie Cooper. 11 a..r. 3.15. C.15 and 9 13 p.m. CAPITOL "Marcus Follies of 1939." fc 9 30 p.r>. PAVILION Ant.t Bulldc" Dri'.mmor.d with John Howard and Heather Angel 3.1.\ and 9.15 p.m. BOXY
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    WORLD REACTION; TO PREMIER'S SPEECH
    1145 3 Satisfaction Words Were Not Minced, And Hope Deeds Will Follow Words MR. Neville Chamberlain's denunciation of the German seizure of Czecho-Slovakia, made in an outspoken speech at Birmingham on Friday night, was broadcast in German by the B.B.C. and was heard by °>,000,000 people. The
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    First Blow In Anti-Foreign Campaign ?
    182 3 First Blow In Anti-Foreign Campaign ABDUCTION OF BRITISH CRITIC OF JAPANESE Tientsin, Saturday. HplE abduction of Mr. H. F. Dyott, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce at Tientsin, is believed At be the first blow of a terrorist campaign which, according to rumours, is being inaugurated against foreigners. It
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    LOTUS CLUB TO BUY LAND
    142 3 A DECISION to buy a piece ol| land as soon as possible this year and build on it a clubhouse was made at the annual general meeting of the Lotus Club held at the Y.W.C.A. yesterday. Mrs. S. A. H. Shirazic presided. I* w.\s also
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    STELLA POLARIS
    48 3 THE 5.000-ton Norwegian motor yacht, Stella Polaris, carrying 100 world cruise passengers, who have had an Interesting voyage from New York, by way of Panama and the South Seas Islands, is due at Singapore in the course of her annual world cruise tomorrow at 7 a.m.
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    20 3 GENERAL H. ter Poorten, Inspector of Artillery in Netherlands India, passed through Singapore yesterday for a two-months* holiday in Holland.
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    STRAITS TRADING TO PAY 75 CENTS
    130 3 STRAITS TRADING TO PAY 75 CENTS •THE Straits Trading Co. Ltd. is to pay the usual dividend of 75 cents for the half-year ended December last. The accounts, which were Issued yesterday, show that after writing oft depreciation, making provision for bad and doubtful debts and Including a transfer of
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    SPECIAL JAPANESE ENVOY TO U.S.
    86 3 Need Stressed By Tokio Foreign Minister Tokio, Saturday. STRESSING the necessity of readjusting American-Japanese relations, Mr. Hachlro Arlta, the Foreign Minister. i«;ld the Diet yesterday that the Government would dispatch such a prominent personage as Prince Konoye, Minister without Portfolio and former Premier, to America.
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    Siamese Study Malayan Rubber Methods
    220 3 IN the course of their Malayan tour to study scientific rubber production. Momchao (Prince) Lakshanakara Kadicmsant of the Siamese Government Department of Agriculture, ana Luang Vichicn Dhatukarn, head of the Chemistry Division. Department c.t Science leave Singapore today for Talpnvi. Yesterday, the two Siamese Government
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    GERMAN AIR FORCE INCREASES AGAIN
    43 3 Berlin. Saturday. A NEW German air command called "Number Four" has been formed, comprising Austria, Bohemia. Moravia. Sudetenland and Silesia, commanded by Major-General Loehr, who played a leading part In building the air force of the Austrian Republic.
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    JAPANESE BOMB U.S. MISSION
    38 3 Shanghai, Saturday. JAPANESE planes bombed the American Southern Baptist Mission hospital at Chengchow yesterday, causing six Chinese casualties. The mission's refugee camp was also bombed, causing 200 Chinese casualties. No foreigner was hurt. Reuter.
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    British Youth's Suicide After Cabaret Romance
    162 3 British Youth's Suicide After Cabaret Romance Shanghai. Saturday. "Everything I own is to be left to Miss Vera Cheskova, of Crystal Cabaret. I cannot live without her. •Clemmy'." THIS note was among the evidence produced at the Inquest on William Ernest Clementson. 20-year-old British marine attached to H.M.S. Dorsetshire who
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    "TOTTERING FRONTIERS NEAR THE REICH"
    68 3 Prague, Mar. 17. 'THE whole of the Central European region, of which Bohemia is but a segment, will be rebuilt through the political will of the Fuehrer, declares Prager Tageblatt, which -nentlons "the fall of tottering frontiers near the heart of the Reich." The newspaper
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    U.S. SPEECH IS EXPLAINED
    48 3 Washington, Saturday. •T^E U.S. State Department explains that the reference by Mr. Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of State, yesterday, to the "temporary extinguishment" of Czecho-Slovakla meant that the United States will not directly or Indirectly recognise the legitimacy of Germany's acquisition ot Czecho-Slovakla.— Reuter.
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    GEORGE CHATER
    44 3 (From Our Own Correspondent > Bangkok, Saturday George Chater of Fraser and Neave, Ltd. Bangkok, who was three months previously In Singapore, died after h brief Illness in the nursing home hero last night, He was buried this ever.ins In the Catholic cemetery.
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    THE LINDBERGHS
    23 3 Col and Mrs. Lindbergh landed at St. Inglevert Aerodrome, near Calais, on their way from England to their home in Brittany.
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    Cathedral Wedding Mr.HUTCHINSON & MISS TODD
    116 3 Cathedral Wedding Mr.HUTCHINSON MISS TODD AT St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday Mr. F. Hutchlnson. a warder attached to Changi Prisons, was married to Miss Elizabeth Todd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. A. Todd of Thirsh. Yorkshire. England. The bridetrr the son of Mr and Mrs. T. B. Hutchlnson, also
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    'SWING' VERSION OF 'MIKADO'
    211 3 New York To See All-Negro Cast JUEW Yorkers will be presented with a theatrical novelty when a ".swing" version of Gilbert', and Sullivan's "Mikado," with an all-Negro cast, has its Broadway premiere. This production, by Federal Theatre Projects, has been running for five months in Chicago
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    And She Got £15
    90 3 "CHOW me how far you can raise your right arm," said Jud^e Dumas to a 2ii-year-o!d waitress, claiming under the Workmen's Compensation Act at Westminster County Court. She did so, and the judge asked, "Is that all?" Then the judge said, "Can you show me how
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    JAPAN'S CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE FUEHRER
    36 3 Berlin. Saturday. THE Japanese Ambassador It is learn- cd. telegraphed to Herr Hitler in Prague. "By order of the Japanese Government I cordla ly congratulate you on your unexampled success."— Reuter.
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      705 4 A GRAND NEW SHOW! THE FIRST ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME! BIGGER and BETTER THAN EVER! ■■P* V> *"^H WLI THE MARCUS FOLLIES of 1939 i ?V The Most Ravishing Spectacle of Feminine Beauty and Eye-dazz ling v f w\ Splendour yet seen in the East! k Wfj| 35 NEW SPECIALTIES!
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      "My Life Has Been A Glorious Singing Adventure"
      616 5 •THE life of John Valentine, the celebrated character baritone, who is giving a joint recital with Mr. Werner Baer tonight p.t the Victoria Memorial Hall has been what he describes as a "glorious singing adventure." Not only has this artiste appeared In
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      Marcus Show Programme
      75 5 A COMPLETELY new pro gramme. Marcus Follies ot 1939." will be presented tonight by the Marcus Show, which i.s enjoying a very success! ul season at the Capitol Theatre. There will be two further complete changes of programme before the season ends on Monday. March 27. with
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      Blues Singer
      124 5 MEW York radio broadcasting 1 star. Lillian Warner, eccentric blues crooner, who started her engagement at Raffles Hotel last night, began work as a switchboard attendant at the New York central telephone exchange. Bin American-born. FrencluGerman Lillian grew tired of saying "Hello" and began to realise that her
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      Competition For Waltzers
      94 5 a MIDNIGHT premiere of the M.G.M. film "The Great Waltz at the Capitol Theatre on the night of April 1 will follow a special Waltz Night at Raffles Hotel, where there will be Viennese and modern waltz competitions for which prizes will be awarded. Theie will be
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      Songsters
      52 5 'THE Wuhan Songsters will give a farewell variety conosrt assisted by local artists in the Victoria Memorial Hall on Wednesday, April 5, at 9.30 p.m. The concert, which Is being arranged by the China Relief Fund Committee, is under the patronage of the Chinese Consul-General at Singapore. Mr. Kao
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      Making Tests
      36 5 Giady.s Swanhout Is making tests lor a po.slble remark on "Th< 8ong" by Warner Brothers. Zasu Pitts, a dim absentee for some time, plays the part of a harpist in "Alwayi L?' Them Laughing."
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      Ben McAtee
      182 5 BEN McAtee, the leading comedian of the Marcus Show at the C; pitol Theatre, bought that battered grey felt hat he wears every nigh* eight years ago when he was playing the role of Bobby Randall in Good News." Ben received a letter of commendation from President Wilson
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      New Show
      146 5 FOLLOWING their success with r George and Margaret," the Singapore Repertory Players have settled on a provisional cast for the record-breaking London success, "French Without Tears." Noel Corrie will play the lead with Joanna Archdeacon. The others selected include Eileen Folliott, who scored such a big success by
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      U.S. Secret Service
      46 5 Irene Rhodes, new contract player discovered by Warner Brothers at the Pasadena Community Playhouse, has been assigned the feminine lead in "Murder Plane." This will be the first of a series of pictures dealing with the activities of the United States Secret Service.
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      This Week's Shows
      129 5 ALHAMBRA Now On. "She Loved a Fireman" (Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan. Robert Armstrong). A Warner Brothers First National drama. Opens Wednesday. "Josette" (Simone Simon, Don Ameche. Robert Young, Bert Lahr. Joan Davis, Paul Hurst, Tala Blrell). A Twentieth Century Fox comedy romance. Following Attraction.— "Hold That Co-ed"
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    NEW SWIMMING POOL FOR SINGAPORE COSTING $45,000
    208 6 NEW SWIMMING POOL FOR SINGAPORE COSTING $45,000 To Cater For Big Increase In Number Of Bathers A NEW sea-water swimming pool, to be ready in six months, is being: built on what is now the compound of the Tiger Swimming Pool at Pasir Panjang. To cost $45,000, the 120 feet
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    Girls Dance At Bonfire Of Books
    161 6 Girls Dance At Bonfire Of Books Belgrade. CIVE HUNDRED women— F typists, clerks, mannequins, manicuri! > —danced round a bonfire of copies ol he latest book of 60-year-olu Ranko Todorovicb, a retired civil servant known as the greatest woman-hater in Jugoslavia. His new book, sold out in the first few
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    37 6 Si Mahmoud el Abdel Bey. heii to the throne of Tunis, has died and his body is lying in state. The body is dressed in ceremonial clothes and decorations and crowds have been paying their last respects.
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    DR. M. A. GABRIEL
    35 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang. Saturday. r\R. M. A. GABRIEL, secretary of the Klang District Boy Scout Association, has been appointed Instructor for the St. John Ambulance courses for Klang. m
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    28 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang. Mr. R. M. Middleton-Smith, Assistant Controller of Labour, Klang, who was temporarily transferred to the Head Office, Kuala Lumpur, has returned to Klang.
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    I,6OOft.WATERFALL FOUND Possibly Be Named George VI
    167 6 I,6OOft.WATERFALL FOUND Possibly Be Named George VI Georgetown. A NEWLY-DISCOVERED waterfall In British Guiana Is to be named George VI. Fall if Royal permission is given. It was found by Dr. Paul Zahl, Research Associate of Haskins Laboratory, Schenectady, during a visit to the Roraima Mountain region, in the Pakaraima
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    KLANG SCOUTS
    78 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Klang, Saturday. AT the annual general meeting of the Klang branch of the Selaiigor Boys Scout Association, the following office-bearers were elected: President, District Officer (ex-offlcio), Mr. J. R. Neave; vice-president, Mr. R. B. S. Unwin; hon. secretary and treasurer, Dr. M. A. Oabriel;
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    Notes From The Negri
    480 6 (By The Sunday Times Seremban Correspondent.) SERVING as places for the sale of vegetables, home-made cakes, locally grown padi and fruit, Malay" weekly fairs have become a feature of rural Negri Sembilan. According to the last annual report of the British Resident, these fairs have been
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    TAMIL TEACHERS
    85 6 if^rom Our Own Correspondent.) Klang. •"THE normal class for Tamil teachers 1 in the districts of Klang, Kuala Langat, and Kuala Selangor, has begun its sitting at the Government Tamil School in Klang. The instructors are Messrs. D. K. Rajakariar. of the A.C.S., Klang. and Mr. P. Govindasamy,
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    MALACCA BLACK-OUT
    72 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. WEARING gas masks, 22 Malacca men were put through their paces yesterday by Mr. T. B. Rogers who has come from Singapore to give them a week's Intensive training as A.R.P. instructors. Those who qualify will in turn be required to hold
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    32 6 Mr. S. Green, Electrical Engineer, Klang. has left on a short holiday to Shanghai, with Mrs. Green. Mr. D. E. Martin, of the Electrical Department, Kuala Lumpur, is acting for Mr. Green.
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    16 6 Mr. J. H. Tovey, Senior Assistant, Highlands Estate, Klang, has left on leave with Mrs. Tovey.
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    31 6 Mrs. J. R. Neave, wife of Mr. J. R. Neave, District Officer. Klang, left for England last week. Mr. J. R. Neave will be going on long leave sometime next month.
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    36 6 A bread cutting deviit- shov. n ai the Inventions Exhibition at Horticultural Hall. Westminster. The loaf is p!ac?d in a brass frame fitted with various slots of different thicknesses, in which the knife is inMT'.' (I.
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    66 6 His hands and arms paralysed, usinjr only his teeth v.itii uliich to In.lil his paint brushes, Mr. Richard Hext, of Ashburton, Devon, is at work on a painting in oi's for presentation to Prime- sc I.li/.ilnth and .Margaret. Peoplo iind it almost imp>s r ible to b~iieve ■'Mr. Hcxt capable
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    POLICE HAM)
    40 6 The Polic Band will play tomorrow at Botanic Gardens at 5.30 p.m. March, Voice Of the Guns <Alford); Overture, Martha 'Flotow); Selection, Carefree (Berlin): Senerade, Schubert (Schubert); Selection. Maid of the Mountains (Simsom; Vaisc. Nights of Gladness (AncllfTe).
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    Small Planes On Big Flights Due Here Soon
    222 6 Small Planes On Big Flights Due Here Soon yHK names of C. W. A. Sc.it. Mrs. Bettj Kkfqr-Gfeea and Fr;»u Klli RcsemejerBeinhorn are HMag Umm of "small plane navigators"' who will pass through Singapore in the near future. Fnn Rosenieyer-Beinhorn, known as the Flying Fraulein" before her marriage to the
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    SAFETY FIRST CAMPAIGN
    399 7 COURTS IN SCHOOLS ARE PROPOSED Combating Toll Of Death Injury On Up-Country Roads (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. CITTING at its first meet in if 0 this week, a Safety-First suh-committee of the Selangor and Pahang branch of the Automobile \ssociation of "Malaya formulated proposals
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    124 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. IN honour of his promotion to the rank of Assis'ant Commissioner of p->i! Inche Hashim bin Maridan,! O.C.P.D. Muar. gave a dinner at his quarters in Jalan Omari. Inche Hashim bin Maridan is the elder Brother of Inche Jaa'far bin Maridan.
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    97 7 fFi.im Our Own Corresponaeru Muar. INCHE Jaafar bin Mohamad Talu. Assistant Oulhct» oi Land Rivenup. and AT.i r has sailed for England where he will study lav.-. Inche Jaa'far bin Mohamad Tah.i is the winner ol tlv Sultan Ibra'iin Scholarship i 1938 Indie Jaa'far Is a keii
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    DANUBE COMMISSION
    28 7 As a result of prolonged negotiation Germany has joined the Europea: Danube Commission, the other mein ben of which are Great Britain France. Italy and Rumania.
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    31 7 Ten members of the crew of the BriUsh motor vessel Rugeley. 4.985 tons, liich arrived at Victoria. British olumbia. from Shanghai, have deve>ped smallpox, and 19 others are •nder observation.
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    STUDENTS ARRESTED
    23 7 About 100 Polish students who were alleged to have taken part in the recent anti-Nazi and anti-Government demonstrations have been arrested.
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    ATTACKED NAZI, PANTS TORN OFF
    152 7 ATTACKED NAZI, PANTS TORN OFF CRITZ Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund which held a rally at Madison Square Garden, New York, was in the midst of his flery address when a man named Isadore Greenbaum clambered over the low rail dividing the speakers' platform from the orchestra pit. A
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    "People In The East Are Too Nervous'
    193 7 —SIR SAMUEL ROBERTS "I HAVE found people living out here who are much more nervous about the international situation than we are at Home," declared Sir Samuel Roberts, English industrialist and ex-politician, on his arrival at Singapore yesterday in the K.N.I.L.M. plane from
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    Simple Spellers Have War Chest
    253 7 Simple Spellers Have War Chest ARE you losing your yooth or your ueth Would you rather make a milion or a milyon Do you keep a spaniel or a spanycl Those are kwestyims or 4 kweschions which will have to be answered very soon. A committee of speech experts, in-
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    TWO DAYS ON MAD ELEPHANT
    96 7 A COUNTRY doctor clung for two days, without food or drink, to the bowdah of a mad elephant which roamed around Basti district, near Lucknow. The doctor had been riding on the elephant to visit a distant patient. When he was passing through a village
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    WAVELENGTHS
    24 7 M Muri. of Switzerland, was elected i President of the European governmental conference to revise the allocation of wavelengths, which opened at Montreux.
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    362 7 Bishop Talks On Life On Other Planets HOPE OF RECEIVING MESS A GES TIIK possibility of mtssages from living creatures on other planets was discussed by the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, in a broadcast address. When he sat quietly and reflected, he said, he was ever trying to see
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    Magistrate Convicts Two Women And Pays Fines Himself
    327 8 "I AM convinced that we do no il good whatsoever by harry- I ing: and harassing these un- t fortunate women," said Mr. R. < A. D. Forrest at the Central 1 Magistracy in Hong Kong when i he paid the fines
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    "Typical Wife"
    104 8 MR. MULLINS'S REMARK IN MAINTENANCE CASE 11/ HEN it was stated at London South-Western police court ihat a husband was in arrears on a maintenance order, the magistrate, Mr. Claud Mullins, asked the wife vrhat she wanted him to do about it. The Wife: Be drastic. Put him
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    16 8 The official German news agency has coined the word "Semlgrant" to describe Jewish refugees from Germany.
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    In Nineteen Years He Has Been Through Seventy Countries
    416 8 Motorist Declares Himself Apostle Of Goodwill Car Draws Crowds In Kuala Lumpur (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lurnpu Saturday. TAPTAIN Theodore Peter Osterhaus and Mrs. Osterhaus and their motor-car have come to town! Nothing extraordinary about them, you may think but
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    Princess Is Named "Pure And Noble"
    39 8 Toklo. The Emperor of Japan has named IMi newest daughter Princess Suganomiya Takako (Pure and Noble), In acI 1 nrdance with time-honoured Shinto rites. 1 The name was selected from an old sons.
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    20 8 Mr. and Mrs Lim Thiam Ho.- afier their wedding which took place at the Chinese Cl.amher of Commerce. Haiti Pi»bat.
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    MIGRATING BIRDS FIY 31 MILES UP
    174 8 MIGRATING BIRDS FIY 31 MILES UP QNE cf science's p.catc-st mysteries how even small birds arc able to fly for hour after hour over ocean? and desolate country has been partly solved. Pilots on the Pan-American Airways routes through the United States South America and across the Pacific were asked
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    Big Tree To Fall By Night
    192 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. COR eight hours on Wednesday night, a .Malayan trunk road will be closed to traffic because of a tree. On a corner of the Pahang trunk o.id. between its 53rd and 54th niles. stands a huge merantl,
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    Italy To Build New Aircraft Works
    49 8 Rome. LARGE aircraft works are to be built near Acerra. Naples Tlv; planes j have been approved by Signor ftfaOOlini. The workshops will include factories for experimental development as well as the building of aeroplane engines. The site covers more than 600 acres.
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    928 9  -  Onlooker ByThe —Read 0f....Mr. R.C.M. Kindersley Rev. H.J. Murphy Rev. G. N. Stevens Major F.N. White Mr. G. Maganlal TT is natural that obituary notices about Mr. R. C. M. Honest Ronnie Kindersley, who died in London this month at the age of 68, should have stressed
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    The Straits Settlements Police Officers' Mess
    125 9 Tl;is picture of members of the Straits MtttttmnU Police Ocitzis" Mess ;ca3 taken just before the retiring Inspector-General, Mr. R. H. de S. Onract, left Singapore. Left to right (Back row) H. J. Spinks, H. B. Syvi, N. G. Morris. J. G. H. Brett.
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      317 9 STEADILY GROWING POPULARITY! The last few years in the history of the UNITED INDIA have witnessed a spectacular succession of one brilliant achievement after another. Speaking, particularly, of fresh business, new Policies assuring for Rs. 15, 100,000 were issued during 1938, as •gainst Rs. 12,300,000 during 1937, and Rs. 9,000,000
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    Railway Hotel In Kuala Lumpur Is Now Modernised
    867 10 Roof Garden Among Many Amenities 'THE F.M.S. Railways' handsome hotel in Kuala Lumpur was built in the year 1910. The building is one of the architectural features of the town, but the interior accommodation, as designed 30 years ago, could not be
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    JAPANESE WOMEN TO DOFF HATS
    106 10 Tokio. EXCEPT in full formal dress. Japanese women In Western clothes will have to doff their hats where men are expected to do so. according to a new code of etiquette formulated recently by a special committee of the Education Ministry. Instruction will be issued
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      245 10 m HI I Did you MACLEAN your teeth to-day? Yes, it's thumbs up MACLEANS6) ie n feprtuntoihti PEROXIDE Madcans patented A. T. CiltaaaM* pure white nozxlr ro.»«ii7. TrtATU DACTC p> Ioolh •queezc to latt. If you us. a solid dentifrice, try Macleans Solid Peroxida Toothpaste 0&9flk A week ag ti
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      289 10 P. A. R. MALAYAN PAINT WORKS We bog to announce that our new Paint Works nt 610 TELUK BLANGAH ROAD, are now completed and have started production. The factory will be open lor inspection to everyone interested in the modern wny of p«int manufacture and we will be pleased to
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      THREE NEW NOVELS
      490 11 THREE NEW NOVELS Hoax Millions. By F. E. Mills Young. The B.idley Head. 7s. 6d. Open Wide the Gates. By Michael Hayes. Lover Abroad. By Richard Starr. Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library. UtJOAX MILLIONS" is a pleasing little story of a humble family coming into som? millions of money; of the
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      FALSE CLUES
      165 11 "Poison Unknown." By Max Dahlia n. Ward Lfek tt Co. Colonial Library. >FHK story opens on a Monday morn- ing when Professor Roseland isj found murdered, and closes with the solution on Tuesday evening. Francis Seymour, the demonstrator of the j Juliot Institute, takes charge and calls in
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      These Names Make Words—40
      282 11 These Names Make Words 40 J?VERY day ice use uords which commemorate the fame of some man or voman or place that would otherwise be forgotten. Few people knew hoic these names came to be common words and in this special Sundcy Times series of short articles the story tf
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      Germany's Attitude To The World
      892 11 Germany Speaks. By Leading Members of Tarty and State. Thorton Butterworth. 10a. 6d. TTHIS reviewer has often urged In these columns that one of the most astonishing aspects of the age we live in, though by no means a surprising one to students of mankind
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      PENGUIN BOOKS
      124 11 THE latest supply of Penguin Books Is unusually varied, comprising fiction, travel and adventure, memoirs and mystery and crime. The full list of titles of volumes 181 to 190. inclusive, is as follows: An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fotherglll. Night Flight by Antolne de SalntExupery. The Fight of
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      ALLEGORY AND A MORAL
      235 11 Golden Island." By Eden Phillpotts. Michael Joseph. 6s. J\/|OST authors In these days nght shy of allegory or of a moral. But Eden Phlllpotts in "Golden Island" has succeeded In writing a most delightful story which contains both and yet should appeal to grownups and children
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      186 11 "Storm Canvas." By E. Laurie LoneWard Lock Co. Colonial Library. A STIRRING talc of the days wheni Nelson was a young man endeavouring to put down smuggling from America to the West Indies. His task was made more difficult because those in authority in the islands not only
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    2022 12 From An A rticle By Edwin Muller, Originally Appearing In "The Commentator" THERE'S one story that the newspaper correspondents don't send from Germany. It's surprising how much they are allowed to send. Stories of violence against the Jews, of priest? r.nd pastors sent to prison without trial,
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      360 12 i-EEL "LIVERISH 11 Take Nature's Own Tonic LJvensh, UTit-Me, depressed SallowtkiuD«d, pimply, far too fat. SluggKb, tired, •o energy for anything. Thousands of men and »ocrn thro.igb Malaya feel like that to-day Tbousanis more will never ieel that way again, for Nature's own clear, sparkling waters are cleansing their systems,
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    Behind The News
    707 13  -  Crux Australis By DASSENGERS arriving in Singapore the other day in a steamer that was overhauled (that doesn't sound the right word for a ship) in Hong Kong recently tell .strange tales. When the Hong Kong dockyard firm Dulls out the electric wiring and rearranges circuits. It
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    1249 13 IWAS showing a friend the sights of Kuala Lumpur last week and was driving along the stately Victory Avenue which on its way into town presents a picture no one can fall to admire when the friend cried. "What a pretty avenue Alas. I was unable— never having
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    Gamblers, Gangsters, And Goodbye
    1368 14 Gamblers, Gangsters, And Goodbye THERE were many nights in Singapore when a Municipal Chinese drain inspector and a Tamil joined gamblers in dens in Chinatown, where the haze of smoke was thick, and the clatter of Chinese dominoes and the rattle of dice were music to the ears. The inspector
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    36 14 TTiE Sunday Times end week the series of articles by its crime reporter on Uio cases which distinguished the career of Mr. R. H. de S. O the Inspector-General ol who retired last montl
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      327 14 AS NEW AFTEIT) J&rL X FIVE YEARS— thanks to rf SUNLIGHT SOAP'S safe washing^ mf^^^f\ N ROUGH HA RSH HANDS f^gig^Ec^^gW. \N I .^gfl Cheap harsh toap* make the /*^*T\ vl hand* rouKh and han»h. Sunlight it very thorough, hut f-V I g t j, M f c f or
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    1343 15  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By •"THE typical modern English reaction to any deep emotional stress Is to pretend it is not there I think it began witb our ruling class about two hundred years ago The English who had hitherto been regarded as an emotional people pretended to
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      441 15 CONTRACT BRIDGE CINCE Contract was young, a g v THE FOUtt Ar^<J great many people have main- X nC/ ruUK AChb tained that the only drawback to The bidding the game lay in the fact that the south w^t v Declarer, having the use of twenty- West Nort six cards,
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    218 16 The Straits Times Opinion r.IMIORI.M.. MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street. Singapore. Encouragement Wanted CTRONG criticism of the lack of British entries in the Royal Singapore Yacht Club's Jubilee Trophy race for lifeboats Irom merchant ships, voiced by the commodore last veek, was fully Justified. €ingapore a British port, yet
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    Black-Out
    174 16 THE completeness of the black-out held in Singapore last week was ample evidence that people of every community have learned the lesson taught by affairs in Europe. A year ago Singapore might have treated a complete black-out with amused contempt, or at least boredom, but with the news of
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    2124 16 The Story Of The Three Rajahs Of Sarawak The Three White Rajahs. By H.H. the Ranee of Sarawak. (Cassell and Co. 12s. 6d.). "CARAWAK belongs to the Malays, the Sea Dyaks, the Land Dyaks and the Kayans and other tribes not to us. It is for them we labour; not
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    BURDEN OF BRITISH REARMAMENT
    436 17 Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia And New Zealand Should Help To Lighten The Load Arctic And War Hero Visits Malaya "glNGAPORE, Hong Rong, Australia and New Zealand should begin as soon as possible to build light naval craft, aircraft and munitions and do their share in taking
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    Does Church Believe In The Creed?
    202 17 Does Church Believe In The Creed? CKKIOI'S cliff ere. ices in the huri-h of England over the Interpretation t*t certain clauses in the Creed are referred to by the Bishop of El; in the diocesan gazette. After commenting on "tiv flat refusal" of the Upper House of Convocation to give
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    BRITAIN'S TEN NEW MILLIONAIRES
    73 17 BRITAIN'S TEN NEW MILLIONAIRES i""R£AT Britain's millionaires increased by ten in 1936-7. according to the Inland Revenue report for the year ended Mar 31. 1938. Millionaires are people with incomes above £40,000. There are now 539 of j them. Their yearly incomes total £41,815,880. Of this £40.000 to £50,000 a
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    MR. J. P. BOURNE Death Of Peiping Hotel Manager
    210 17 MR. J. P. BOURNE Death Of Peiping Hotel Manager THE death has taken place of Mr. John Philip Bourne, manager of the Grand Hotel Wagon Llts In PelPlng. He was born In California but was of English extraction and he reverted to that nationality during his stay in Hong Kong.
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    CLARK GABLE'S £60,000 DIVORCE
    102 17 CLARK GABLE'S £60,000 DIVORCE CILM star Clark Gable's wife, Mrs. Rhea Gable, obtained a divorce in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Mar. 7 on the ground that he had deserted her In 1935. The hearing took place In the absence of Mr. Gable, who Is in Hollywood, engaged on a film.
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    Italy Has 25 Radio Tongues, Britain 6
    269 17 Italy Has 25 Radio Tongues, Britain 6 "{GERMANY is broadcasting in English with the greatest care, intensity, and skill." said Sir Stephen Tallents, Public Relations Officer of the B.B.C.. addressing a meeting in London. Sir Stephen, who was speaking at I a meeting arranged to help th« Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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    GOLF CLUB WINS ON APPEAL
    226 17 £1,500 Award Set Aside N° course is dangerous unless it contains something in the nature of a trap or concealed danger. Otherwise danger only arises from the carelessness or ignorance of the players." This opinion was given by Mr. Justice Babington when the Northern Ireland
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    LAUGHS FROM THE COURTS
    87 17 LAUGHS FROM THE COURTS Husband: My wife and I fell ir love at first sight The trouble was we didn't possess second sight. Woman: She accuses me of ogllni her husband. How can I, ichen m\ husband fills my eyes? Witness: I had not the slightest intention of causing trouble;
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    Pearl Diving In South Seas
    15 17 A Cartoon By Sapajou in The North China Daily Neva.
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    BROADWAY MANSIONS SOLD TO JAPANESE
    49 17 BROADWAY MANSIONS SOLD TO JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS for the sale of the Broadway Mansions, Shanghai, bj the Shanghai Land Investment Co. tc Japanese interests have ended. The purchase price will be $5,100,000, and it is expend that the purchasers v.lll take over the building before the er.<i of this month.
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    23 17 A Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament. Dr. Rost Van Tonningen, was expelled during a debate which led to a free fight.
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    PLANES TO FIGHT WOLVES
    72 17 CINNISH army piunes are to be sent to flght packs of wolves which are terrorising whole districts In Lapland, it has been decided by the authorities in Helsingfors. Thousands of reindeer, on which a large part of the population depend for their meat supplies, are said
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    TURKISH BUDGET
    14 17 The Turkish Budget totals £43.500,000, an increase of £2,000,000 over last year.
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    SKULL CLAIMED TO BE 130,000 YEARS OLD
    71 17 Rome. A human skull of great antiquity ha* been found In a cave near Mont* Clreco, an isolated promontory, 8( miles south-east of Rome. The plac« has often been regarded as one described in the Odyssey. According to Piof. S^rgl, Um skull ii
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    THE WEEK'S MARKET ACTIVITIES
    806 18 Political News Causes Slump In Values lUST when markets had given proof of their ability to go ahead and when confidence had become more than mere desire. Herr Hitler has de- cided to upset the world by another of his upheavals in Europe. This time he
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    191 18 Singapore, Mar. 18, noon. Buyers Sellers Gambler 7.50 Hamburg Cube $13.00 Java Cube $12 00 Pepper White Muntok $13.25 White 512.75 Black 8.50 Copra Mixed $3.25 Sun Dried $3.55 Sa-.J Flour No. 1 Llngga $2.37 Vi $2.37Vj Fair $2.30 Sarawak $2.25 Jetotonti Palcmbang $6.25 Banja $6.25 Sarawak
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN
    72 18 Saturday, Mar. 18. noon. No. IX R.S.S. (Spot loose) 27^ 27V4 No. IX R.S.S. f.o.b. in rases March 27»» 27V* G.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bales March ..27 27 Vi F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bale* March 26*4 26% FUTURE QUOTATIONS No. IX R.S.S. on Registered tender
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    MANILA GOLD SHARE MARKET
    105 18 Manila. Saturday. TUB following were yesterdays Quotations and this morning's quotations for gold shares on the Manila Stock Exchange. All the shares have a par value of 10 contrives, and the quotations are in pesos. Yesterday Today asked bid asked bid Anidinok. 0.43 0.42 'i 0.43
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    EXPORTS OF TINNED PINEAPPLES
    101 18 r\UHING the week ending Mar. 11, 1939, exports of canned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 54,677 cases, of which: 18,371 (34 per tent.) cases were to the United Kingdom. 650 (1 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 31,547 (58 per cent.) cases to
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    SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser And Co.'s List
    1319 18 SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser And Co.'s List SATURDAY, MAR. 18, 1939: 1 P.M. I MINING Buyers Seller* Ampat Tin (4a) is 6d 4j Austral Amal. (5s) 4s 9d 5s 3d A usual Malay (S) 39s 44s Ayer Hltam (5s; 20s ua 21s bd Ayer Weng ($1) .67 .71
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    191 18 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. SATURDAY, MAR. 18. tttfc 1 P.M Company Dividend Book. TIN Close Renong Consold 6d. No. 25 Mar. 17 Rt BBER Ayer Panas 4% Mar. 30 Bcnta Mar. 20 Buklt Kepong 3% Final Mar. 21 Changkat Serdaug 2y 2^ Apr. 5 Haytor
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    Fronts With No Force Behind Them
    1362 19  - Fronts With No Force Behind Them H. G. Wells By I COME back to London to find political life in an even more jumbled state than when I left it last December. There has been no revolution. Violent and sanguinary revolutions are not to my taste, but I admit they
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    2727 20  - What The Stars Foretell R. H. Naylor By THIS WEEK'S GOOD DA\S FOR:B LYING: Business deals: Thurft 23rd— Fri. 24th. Personal shopping: Wed. 22na— Fri. 24th. SELLING: Mon. 20th— Tues 21st —Sat. 25th. ENTERTAINING: Today 19th Mon. 20th— Fri. 24th. SPORT: Thurs. 23rd— Sat 25th. "THOSE born in March, April
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    Beauty For Brownettes, The Degree Between Blonde And Brunette
    176 21 Beauty For Brownettes, The Degree Between Blonde And Brunette Max Factor's Advice lA* undertaking an article on the proper make-up practices for brownettes, I am immediately stepping into a field which is very re(jv.larly conducive to arguments. The reason for this is that many jeminine appearances which really should fall
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    735 21 TOLD ha.s returned to fayour as the fashionable medium for decorating china. It is seen inside cups which are coloured with a plain mushroom-red hue outside. The whole of the insides of the cups, and the centres of the saucers show a small trellis
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    Latest Handbags Are Simple, Well-Fitted And Streamlined
    625 22 Latest Handbags Are Simple, Well-Fitted And Streamlined Improvements In Cosmetic Section WOMEN who can afford the best in handbags should look for the latest designs which are distinguished for being simple, streamlined and exceptionally well fitted. The most fastidious woman will be delighted with a smooth square calf handbag which
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    25 22 pOR certain types admittedly the younger ones this rose felt bonnet adorned with a spotted veil knotted under the chin, represents a supremely happy choice.
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    110 23 3. Set to work that day blithely, instead cf with the rather reinstead of with the rather resigned feeling with which I had been starting the day 'alelyNo man can understand quite how much a new hat can mean to a woman. If he did, he would
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    321 23 Can Understand How Much A New Hat Means To A Woman sometimes before buying his wife a new one! Non-Medicated Tonics COMETIMES I think It would be a good Idea i f someone started a new sort of rest home for women who are "edgy" and depressed, a home to
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    154 23 YES, I have bought a hat and I badly needed it. There had been so many expenses lately hnt taking a good look at myself a few days ago, I decided that if I wore the hat I had much longer, I should develop acute melancholia. A new
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    25 23 A charming evening gi lof printed floral satin in many bright colours, worn over a taffeta slin which gives a rrinoline effect.
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    ARMS USELESS ON A WET DAY
    203 25 Rheumatism Made Work A Torture Here Is a remarkable Instance ol the manner in which damp weather can affect the Joints of one who Is subject to rheumatism "I had been suffering irom rheumatism very badly a man writes "and had had such pains
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    WHAT TAKES PLACE DURING AN HOUR?
    333 25 "Probably nclhing much" would be tlie first thought of most people when nske this j question. An hour, what's an hour? Just 'sixty minutes, that pass quickly when we are pleasantly occupied and never seem to have an end when we have nothing to
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      673 25 Today's Wireless Programmes •jUlVlrti \/l\Ei summary, Saturday sport and annouuce«u1 L *?L > !!!2 C L 9 5 Greenwich time signal. IMF M96 metraa. fl 20 B)g Ben c^ y^ Table."* 9.40 "Orchestral hour." 11.00 Military band music.r 10.40 Grand Cornish Concert.* from Ccn11.10 Light orchestral concert. Relayed from urejjatlonal
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    MUAR SOCCER LEAGUE
    173 26 (From Our Own Corresponding Muar. F Is understood that the 1939 league soccer competition will start next week Nine t?ams will take part compared with eight year. Government Services. Police, Johore Miltary Forces. Custom:; Sports C!ub. Gubahan Stia Club. Bakn Football Team. Muar Hospital Sports Club. Muar
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    NEW CRICKET TEAM FOR SEREMBAN
    391 26 Ceylonese Colts To Meet The Nondescripts (By The Sunday Times Seremban Correspondent.) ANEW cricket team will take the field at Seremban today when the Negri Sembilan Ceylonese Colts will meet a picked side called the Nondescripts. The following will play for the Colts:— A. Kunaretnam,
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    S.R.C. TENNIS
    102 26 SRC tennis ties for next week are: MONDAY h. million' hip Singles: P. D'Almeida vs. R. S. Barth; E. G. Wheatley vs. R H. Bain: Dr. S. L. Oehlers vs A Watts. Champion Doubles: H E. Hughes and S. Morelra vs. C. B. Webb and H. D'Rozario: J.
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    Easter Cycling Carnival
    105 26 Easter Cycling Carnival i From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. Saturday. AN elaborate programme has been drawn up for the third annual j Perak cycling carnival which will ba held It Ipoh during the Easter holidays. This carnival is open to all cyclists in Malaya. As has been the case In
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    KELANTAN HOCKEY
    141 26 (From A Correspondent) Kota Bharu. TTHIS year Kelantan is taking a very lively interest in hockey. Hitherto, the game has b;en neglected due to Ue lack of a proper playing field. This shortcoming has been greatly redressed by the assistance of Captain A. C. Baker, the British Adviser.
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    97 26 The Batu Pahat Government School football team (above) which re-cntly beat the Young Men (below), by three goals to one. School: Front Row (left to right): Musa Ahmad, Kam at Salleh, Kadir Said. A Amran (capt.) Buang Nasir. Back Row (left to right) Jamil M. Noor, M. Amran, Chew Huat
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    Genuang Meet United ' Services At Cricket Today
    531 26 Genuang Meet United Services At Cricket Today (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. QBNUANG'B stirTcst cricket match of the season will be played today when the United met-t them for the first two-day lixturr in Johore, at Genuang. The Club is out to finish t!i? reason without a defeat and the
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    LAD FOOTERS
    50 26 The following will represent the Lad Footers again.st the Fort Canning second eleven at soccer today at 5-15 p.m Cheng Seah. Ah Chye, Eng Cfcje. Ah Wing. Kal Seng. John. Kai Tr-flc. Ah Bah. Swee Heck <Capt). Sum Winß. Yew Tim, Chin Nen. Chin Cheong and A'i Lam.
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    19 26 G.P.O. soccer learn (above) which beat the Mental Hospital (below) by five roals to nil at the Mental ground.
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    1667 27  -  "Nomad" By CERVICE business," culmln- ating in Thursday's blackout, has had a disastrous effect on service sport this week, only an odd match here and there being played. Next week, however, we are promised an abundance of sport, Xor members of the visiting naval vessels will be
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    A.C.S. WIN AT PORT SWETTENHAM
    225 27 A.C.S. WIN AT PORT SWETTENHAM From Our Own Correspondent.) Tort Swettenham. •T*KE Port SweUenh;.m Recreation Club were beaten by the AngloChinese School. Klang. at cricket. P. SRC. T. Ponnudurai c R. Benjamin b Lee Sens Teng 11; M. Nonis c and b Lee Seng Teng 2; A. Sithamparam b Lee
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    K.L. RAILWAYS BEAT PORT SWETTENHAM
    232 27 K.L. RAILWAYS BEAT PORT SWETTENHAM 'From Our Own Correspondent.) Port Swettenham. WISITING Port Swettenham, the v Kuala Lumpur Railway Institute defeated the Port Swette. iam Recreation Club at cricket. P. SRC. M. Nonis lbw., b Leembruggen 0; T. Ponnudurai b Sineveratne 4; V. S. Ramachandram c Andrew b Leembruggen 0;
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    B.P. BASKET BALL AND TABLE TENNIS
    164 27 'From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. "THE following are the results of the matches played In the basket ball and table tennis leagues for schools and clubs. Table Tennis. (Schools): Chen Siew "C" beat Kong Nam (Jelutong) 3 games to 2. Chen Slew "B"
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    MEASURE WINS GOLD CUP IN THRILLING FINISH
    1957 28 Rain Mars Final Day Of Selangor Races HIVI HIVI PAYS $75 IN FIFTH EVENT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. IN a thrilling finish Mr. Lee Nam's horse Measure, ridden by Dodd. won the Gold Cup today on the third and final
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    17 28 LOH AH I .I'M, cricket captain of the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club. He is a skilful bowler.
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    20 28 A. S. SAMUEL. Kuala Lumpur badminton star, at present ii England where his skill has earned him title "Malayan Wiiard."
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    WEARNE'S WIN OVER M.P.H.
    223 28 YIELDING a well-bi.le.Mced soccer side, the Wearnt's Sports Club yesterday defeated the M.P.H. by four goals to nil, in a Business Houses League fixture played at the Police Depot. The winners were superior throughout and from their showing yesterday are the likely champions in the league.
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    S. R. C. GIVE GOOD BATTING DISPLAY
    266 28 S. R. C. GIVE GOOD BATTING DISPLAY HTHE Singapore Recreation Club gave a sound display of batting In their first match played yesterday on the padang against the Public Works Department Batting first the Club declared for 228 runs for the loss of eight wickets. H. N. Balhetchet. former Colony
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    MANCHESTERS BEAT S.C.R.C.
    261 28 THE Manchester Regiment beat the S C.R.C. by 63 runs at cricket on Hong Lim Green yesterday. MANCHESTERS L. S. Wood c Boon Unn b Swee Keng 5 Bdm. Hake b Swee Keng 5 Pte. Wilkes c Kirn Wah b Hon Hing 4» Lt.-Col. Clowes c Kee
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    CENTURY FOR WILTON
    256 28 TTHE V.M.C.A. forced Fort. Canning to a draw at cricket on the V.M.C.A ground yesterday. FORT CANNING Telford b Lyne 48 Wilton run out 1«2 Evens lbw b Chrysostom T Dowling c Suratta b Barker 0 Baker b Barker Curbls b Xavier 12 Tristan b Xavier 5,
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    KHALSA BEAT WEARNE'S
    176 28 I^HALSA Association cricket team playing on their own ground y«■*terday beat Weame's team by 25 runs. KHALSA G. Singh c and b Sullivan 34 K. Singh b Sullivan C Ram Piara b Angus 33' Selakhan Singh c Mitchell b Sullivan 3': Ram Singh lbw Sullivan 31 Teja
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    S.C.C Beat Indians By 55 Runs
    251 28 THE Singapore Cricket Club's team beat the Indian Association's cricket team by H runs in a single lining match on the Fa.lan< yesterday. There were no high scoreus. 'jut Sandosham bowled well for the Indian A.ssociation to take si\ wickets for 13 runs. Growder
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    REST TEAM AGAINST THE EUROPEANS
    64 28 From Our Own Correspondent i Seremban. Saturday. The Europeans meet the Rest in a cricket match next Saturday and Sunday for the Goh Eng Thye shi< id. The Rest team is: P. K Raman (captain). T. K Sukumaren, F De Silva. Guardia! Sin'ili Majld. J
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    R.A.F. (H.Q.) WiN
    59 28 SLIPPING and slithering all the field yesterday, the R.\ (HQi soccer tea:.: beat the Nav:i: Police by three goals to one. m a. second division "B" na:: J.C.S.A. ground. In the first half, thy wtnnei i two goaLs through the opportum Wilkinson, and in tho second, a
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    AIRMEN OUTCLASS THE MANCHESTERS
    285 29 Hay Scores Six Qi His Side's Seven Goals DLAYING at the Stadium yesterday in the first division of the league, the Royal Air Force displayed excellent form to beat the Manchesters by seven goals to one. Leading the attack for the Airmen, Hay was a real
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    Year's First Rowing Regatta
    301 29 FOR the first rowing regatta this year, the Boyal Singapore Yacht Club forsook the dsral course inside the breakwater for the more picturesque channel between the islands of Blakan Ml and Pulau Brani. It was preferable, too, because outside a swell was runnlnc; and the crews
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    Y. M. C. A. TENNIS
    71 29 Tuesday's ties in the YM.C.A. lawn tennis tournament are: "A" class semi -finals: Yap Ah Hian vs. Llm Hee Chin; M. I. Reshty vs. A. Llm. Results of Saturday's ties: "B" class final: H S. Ong beat L. C Goh 6—3. 6-3; Knowles Cup: Yarii
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    H. M. S. KENT TEAMS ON THE RANGE
    239 29 H. M. S. KENT TEAMS ON THE RANGE I*EAMS from the Singapore Rifle Asscciation and the Chinese Company of the Singapore Volunteer Corps fired against teams from H.MJS Kent, flagship of the China Station, at Bukit Timah range yesterday. Scores: I SPOON SHOOTS The following are the scores for the
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    Y.M.C.A. CRICKET
    64 29 The lo lowing have been selected to play cricket for the V.M.C.A. Junior Department against H.M. Minesweepers on Thursday at 2.15 p.m. on the Anson Road Giound: 8. Hope. Au Keng Chu. L. Newman. J. B. Shaw (captain), B. M. Barker. H. Lewis. G. J. Moxon. Edward Wee.
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    MRS. H. GILD WINS
    28 29 Mrs. H. Gild won the replay of the t'e in the bronze division of the February women's medal at the Ro;al Sinr^pore Golf Club.
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    RAIN SAVES OLD BOYS
    195 29 OAIN saved St Andrew's Old Boys' cricket team from a defeat by the Ceylon Sports Club yesterday. c.s.c. Dr. Balasingham c Shah b Sullvan 47 A Nathaniel b Shah 1 Weijeweira std da Silva b Kohloff 24 Vindargen b Sullivan 4 Gunaselsara b Kohloff 0 A.
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    ST. JOSEPH'S BEATEN
    207 29 IN a game of cricket played at the St Joseph's ground yesterday, the school were beaten by the S.C.C. second team by 72 runs. S.C.C. Lt. Pierce b Olivelro 16 J. E. Jeans b Oliveiro 15 A. D. Dant b Kleinman 1 A. T. Grieve b Oliveiro
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    BOXING CHAMPION GOES BLIND IN ONE EYE
    113 29 Detroit, Saturday. JOHN Henry Lr vis, world's light heavyweight boxing champion, is almost blind in h»s left eye, according to official reports of two doctors called upon to examine him on behalf of the Michigan State Board of Athletic ControL Following the reports
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    ENGLAND BEAT SCOTLAND AT MURRAYFIELD
    331 29 Murrayfleld. Saturday. SEVENTY thousand people gathered here to see the International Rugby match between England and Scotland, played on a soft pitch and won by Insland by nine points (three penalty coals) to six points (two tries). The teams were: EnglanJ: E. J. Parsons (R.A.F.).
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    North Perak Cricket
    286 29 'TAIPING cricket will start lr earnest this week-end with a two-day matcti batween a team of over 32 captained by E. N. W. Oliver and a team of under 32 captained by Augustine. The Talplng Cricket Association has also drawn up a long list of fixtures lor
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    HOME FOOTBALL
    1506 29 DESULTS of yesterday's English and Scottish league football games with tx the league tables up-to-date:— Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0 Aston Villa 3 Stoke 1 Blackpool 0 Bolton 0 Brentford 0 Leeds 1 Derby 3 Charlton 1 Evcrton 4 Birmingham 2 Grimsby 1 Preston 1 Huddersneld 0 Middlesbrough 1
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    OXFORD WIN SPORTS
    60 29 W He City, Saturday Oxford beat Cambridge by 76 points to 41 in the annual inter-varsity athletics contest decided over thirteen events. J. N. liv.'in < Oxford) won the 220 yards low hurdles In a new intervarsity record time of 2V, sec. T. L. Loekion (Oxford >.
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    RUGBY UNION
    104 29 15UGBY Unicn games played on x Saturday resulted: Aldershot Serv. 13; Harlequins 16. Bath 3; Devonport Eery. o. Gloucester 12; Neport i>. Leicester 12; London Welsh 6 London Scottish 6; Blackheath 3 Manchester 14; Salo 3. Moseley 6: Coventry 5. Northampton 3; Bedrord 9 Nuneaton 3: St Bart's
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    72 29 Rugby League played on Saturday resulted Barrow 9; St. Helens R. 5. Bradford N. 14; Leeds 13. Bromley 7; York 7. Featherstone 5; Wakefleld 17. Dewsbury 0: Huddersfleld 26. Halifax 4: Oldham 12. Hull 13; Swlntcn 9. Hunslet 13: Warrington 5. Relthley 11; Hull K.R. 6. Liverpool S.
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    NEW RECORD
    35 29 London, Saturday. Arthur Spencer, the Yorkshire billiards champion, beat Kenncrley'a record aggregate of 1.218 (made yesterday) scoring 1.266 during his semifinal against T. H. Jones, the Surrey Champion, In the British amateur championship.
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    SINGAPORE BADMINTON MEETING ON APRIL 1
    600 30 AT a meeting of the manage- ment committee of the Singapore Badminton Association held on Wednesday, Mar. 15, with Mr. C. Mlsson (vice-president) in the chair, reference was made to the death of the President, Mr. Chua Keh Hai. All trios*- present at the
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    SEGAMAT TENNIS
    99 30 (From Our Own CjrrsspondenD Segamat. Saturday. V. A. MATHEW (—l5) forced his way into the finals of the lawn tennis handicap tournament run by the Segamat Teachers for the Cheah's Cup by beating A. K. Mahadev 6—3. 2—6. 6-^l. In the other section. Khore Bens Hoe has to
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    JOHORE LIFTERS
    55 30 At an annual general meeting of the Chinese Amateur Weight Lifting Party, of Johore Bahru. the following were elected office-bearers: President Phang Ginn Hca: hon. secretary. Boey Quee Beng; hon. asst. secretary, Cheong Peck Chee, hon. treasurer, Lea Kirn Cheong; hon. auditor. Chew Mung Wah; committee. Wong Fool;
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    HUMORISTS LOSE
    129 30 The table tennis team of the Confucian School, Kuala Lumpur, beat the "B" team of the Humorist tab'.e tennis party, Klang, by five games to two Results (Humorist first): Chan Wah Lee teat Lam Kiew, 18—21. 21—18. 21—16. lft— 2l, 21—19; Chan Peng Hon lost to Lee Kam
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    SIX GAMES TO ONE
    122 30 (From Our Own Correspondent) Klang. 1 The Confucian School table tennis tarn of Kuala Lumpur lost to the i Anglo-Chinese School table tennis team by six games to one. Results 'ACS. first): Loo Teck Leng beat ;Mah Slew Kok. 21—15. 21—12; Chan IThlan Seng beat Lee
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    Malaya's Badminton "Wizard"
    512 30 (From Our London Staff.) London, Mar. 10. ALTHOUGH A. S. Samuel, of Malaya, was knocked out of the semi-fln&l round of the All-England badminton championships by T. Madsen (Denmark) this morning, he Is hailed by sound judges as the most outstanding British player of the year. He
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    15 30 A group of Negri Sembilan Chinese women who celebrated Women's Day at a special function.
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    AUGUST B.P.
    114 30 The following will represent the August B.P. against the Endeavour B.P> at the tetter's court. 21, Rambai Road, at 3 00 p.m. today (free transport will be provided): Yap Meow Slew, Tay Kheng Ann, Lee Leng Thong, Khor Tian Hock, Ong Hong Tee, Llm Nan Kok, Sse Chin
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    24 30 Nepri Sembilan Chinese cigar manufacturers who gave a charity show ?t Seremban In aid of the China Relief Fund which realised more than $2,000.
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    Selangor Badminton
    689 30 (By Our Kuala Lumpur Badminton Correspondent.) »rHE Honorary Secretary of the Selangor Badminton Association tells me that Mr. Ho Liang Tian has recommended to the Association a sit3 near Buklt Bintang as most suitable for a badminton hall. Mr. Khoo Telk Ee. the president, will shortly make a
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    21 30 On the right the Bose Badminton Party which beat the Indian Youth League B.P. by six games to one last Sunday.
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    TOVARICH HAS A GOOD RECORD
    363 31 Latest Addition To Malaya's Class I Horses mi HORSE that has run with the flying Mlrxa II owned by H.II. the Afa Khan will shortly be making his first appearance In the Malayan turf. He is Tovarich (late Epicae), who is the latest addition to
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    55 31 The Clarke Rangers cricket team which beat the RAF. (H.Q.) by 63 tuns last week-end. The K..\ F. (H.Q.) cricket team which lost to the Clarke Rangers by 63 runs last week-end. Bark from left: F/O Blake, Greeno, Jrnvey. Vicary, Grice. and Cave. Front from left: F I.t. Marchbank, Seymour,
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    Opposition Wanted For Marquez
    535 31 Boxing Notes IT Ls time promoters of boxing In Malaya imported real opposition for Ventura Marquez. For a long time the Mexican has been cock o' the walk in the feather and lightweight divisions and he came within an ace of duplicating the feat of Henry
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    NATIONAL FINAL ACCEPTORS
    131 31 FINAL acceptors ior the Grand National, to be run on Mar. 24. art.-. Royal MfiU (Dnnny ItefUl), Royal Danic',i (Mcdrci. Dunhtll C?.st'.e (Wal.vyni. Cocios.i iPawcusi. Rockquilla (Carey), Jovial Jud™ (Goodwill i. Brendan's Cottage lOweni. Dc:rlnlck's Cross (Everett). Tcme Willow (Rimiili. Perfect Part <Ward>, I.i:ck Prnny (Major Moseley).
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    KAMPONG GLAM BEAT B.P. RANGERS
    105 31 'From Our Own Correopondent.j Batu Pahat. A LARGE crowd saw the soccer defeat of the Batu Pahat Rangers by Mm Kampong Glam team ot Fngapore. Dy two goals to nil. The betU-r combination of the visitors, and the poor finish of the local team probably
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    76 31 Photograph takes at the tea-party given by the Muar Chinese community to Mr. F. K. Wilson, Assistant Adviser, Muar, prior to his departure on leave. Seated (left to right): Mr. Teo Kal Swee, Mr. T. P. Cromwell. Mr P. H. Andrews. Mrs. Cromwell, 11.-n'ble Dato Abdul Kadir bin Dand, Mr
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    Segamat Soccer
    277 31 Segamiit. JIN a keenly contested match, the Gov- eminent Services had to be content with a draw when they met the Police at soccer on the town padang. Each side scored a goal The Services have ben league champions in the district for several years but the Police
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    WOMEN'S GOLF
    128 31 There will t a women's match between the Keppel Golf Club and the Island Club at Keppel on Wednesday. 3.25 p.m. Mrs. McMorine (17) vs. Mrs. E. Hitcham (20); 3.30 p.m. Mrs. K. C Eu (22) vs. Mrs. A. B. Menzies (24): 3.35 p.m. Miss Haines (23) vs.
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    MARQUEZ BEATS EAGLE AT K.L.
    168 31 (From Our Own Correopondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 18. AST night's long awaited and twice postponed Ventura Marquez-Joe Eagle fight, at Bukit Bintang Amusement Park ended suddenly in the second round when the fight was awarded Marquez on a technical knock out. It was a great
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    LINCOLN HOPES FOR WEDNESDAY Owners & Trainers Confident
    322 31 LINCOLN HOPES FOR WEDNESDAY Owners Trainers Confident London, Saturday. /"VWNKKS and trainers a*re spending a busy weekend preparing candidates with final gallops for the opening of the flat-racing season at Lincoln on Monday, with a special view to the Spring doable, the Lincolnshire Handicap to be run on Wednesday and
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    BATU PAHAT SOCCER
    67 31 From Our Own Correspondent.) Batu Pahat. OWING to last minute withdrawals and entries the Batu Pahat football league, which was to have started last week, was postponed to tcda?. The Drivers, Malay Teachers and the Rangers have withdrawn while the Military and the P.W.D. have joined. Last
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    VIKING'S ENERGY FOR EVERY MAN
    221 31 The Vikings of old werr gods among men. Superb hi physique— energy and vitality pulsed through every muscle and sinew through nerves, body and brain. Their diet was rich in fish laden with strengthening Vitamins. The Halibut, caught in the Ice-cool waters ol the North,
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    Singapore's New Supreme Court
    14 32 The Supreme Court as It appeared a few days ago.
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    Opening Expected In August
    232 32 /\NLY the final touches remain to be made in most sections of Singapore's new Supreme Court. The building will probably be opened by the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, early In August. The four court-rooms arc virtually complete, except for the laying of the special-sound absorbent cork
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