The Straits Times, 19 February 1940

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    38 1 FINAL EDTN. The Straits Times [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY.] MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— LARGEST NET SALES 16 PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1940. PRICE 5 CENTS. The Straits Times 16 PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1940. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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      776 2 FOR SALE GREY SQUIRREL FUR COAT. Perfect condition. Medium :ize. $150 or nearest offer. Can be seen by appointment. Box 265, Straits Times. FOR SALE: Small piece of valuable freehold land on the road-side of Telok Paku near the sea. Suitable for building, bungalows. Apply Box No. 244. Straits Times.
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    Fraser & Co.'s Singapore Share Quotations
    1252 4 Fraser Co.'s Singapore Share Quotations SATURDAY, FEB. 17. 1949: 1 P.M. Ampat Tin (4s) 5s 5s 6d Austral Amal (5s) 6s Ss 6d c.d. Austral Malay (t) 37s 39s c.d Ayer Hltam (C) 24s 9d 25s 9d Ayer Weng .70 .75 Bangrin Tin 21s 9d 22s 9d Batu Selangor ($1)
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    MAIL ARRIVALS AND DESPATCHES
    102 4 Mails close at the General Post Office to-day as follows TO-DAY China, Kunming surface 1 p.m. Indo-Chlna surface 1 p.m. Java surface 9 a.m. Sumatra, Medan surface 9 a.m., air noon TO-MORROW Aden surface 10 a.m. Ceylon surface 10 a.m. China air 9.30 a.m. Egypt surface
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    BRITISH TRADE ON THE INCREASE
    56 4 London, Feb. 18. JANUARY'S Imports totalled J £105,000,000, an increase of 18,250,000 on the previous month and an increase of £29,250,000 compared with the same month last year. Exports amounted to £41,000,000 an Increase of £1,000,000 on the previous month and an Increase of £1,500,000
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    FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS
    237 4 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Books Company Dividend Close TIN Austral Amal 3d. tustr&l Malay Sd. and 1|3 bonus Mar. 4 Berjuntal 6d. Feb. 19 fCamuntlng 6% int. less tax Jan. 29 Mambeu 5% Int. Feb. 16 Pangnga River 4% Int. tss tax Jan. 29 Raub 6d. Mar. 8
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    KILLINGHALL TIN
    386 4 Dredging Low Grade Ground r pHE tenth annual general meeting of 1 Klllinghall Tin, Ltd., was held in London on Jan. 31. Mr. Archibald G. Glenlster, M.lnst.M.M. presided in the absence of Mr. W. Arthur Addinsell, chairman of the company. Mr. Jack Addinsell read an address prepared by
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    PADANG LANGKAT RUBBER ESTATES
    349 4 More Hopeful Outlook •T*HE seventh annual ordinary general meeting of Padang Langkat Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held in London recently. Mr. H. A. Earrett (chairman), who presided, after referring to the retirement from the Board of Mr. H. D. Arbuthnot, said that the quantity ot rubber
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    AVER MOLEK RUBBER REDUCES COSTS
    938 4 Company In Strong Financial Position: 3 Per Cent. Interim A DDRESSING shareholders it the annual meeting of Ayer Molek Robber Co. Ltd. in Malacca on Thursday, Mr. Chee Ouan Chiang, the chairman, said: The net profit for the year, after providing for directors' fees and
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    LYALL AND EVATT'S DAILY QUOTATIONS
    247 4 Singapore. Feb. 17, 1 p.m. MINING Buyers Seller* Ampats 5/- 5'4 Austral Amalg. 6/1 hi fi>.' 2 cd Batu Seiangors 1.58 1.62 Hong PatU 1.23 1.25 Jelcbut 0.89 0.92 Kampong Lanjute 23/- 23/6 K. Kamuntlng 8/- 8 9xd Kamunting 12/- l3/-cd Klang Rivers ".07 2.12
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    GUTHRIE'S WEEKLY RUBBER REPORT
    189 4 IN a weekly report on the rubber mar- ket, issued on Friday. Guthrie and Co. Ltd. write:— The market opened en a firmer tone after the Chinese New Year holidays in sympathy with advances in London and New York. The price of tpot rubber on the
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    TIN SMELTING IN UNITED STATES
    309 4 THE relaxation of tin restriction has had the effect of bringing about a lull in the re-stocking movement of consumers and a fall in prices from the high levels to which they rose in the free market after the outbreak of the war, writes the
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      231 4 TIDE TABLES SINGAPORE To-day H. W. 5.45 a.ir 7.7 ft.; 8.35 p.m. 6.6 ft. L.W. 1.15 p.m. '2.9 ft. To-morrow H W. 7.11 ajn. 7.9 ft.; 9.35 p.m. 7.3 ft. L. W. 0047 a.m. 5.4 ft.: 3.36 p.n.. 3.3 ft. Wednesday. Feb. 21 H. W. 8.28 a.m. 8.4 ft.: 10.16
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      United States Securities Requisitioned By Government
      372 5 Precautionary Step Taken To Ensure Orderly Liquidation London, Feb. 18. *THE Treasury announces an order transferring to Itself all holdings by United Kingdom residents in 60 specified securities marketable in New York. Holders are to be reimbursed In uterling at the current New York
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      EXCHANGES
      176 5 Saturday, Feb. 17. The following are me exenange rates ihla morning according to the dally circular issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation SELLING London T.T a/4 1/16 London demand 2/4 1/16 Rate for freight 2/4' H Lyons demand 2057 Switzerland demand 208 Hamburg demand New York demand
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      CHINESE STUDENTS FOR ENGLAND
      36 5 Chungking, Feb. 19. ANOTHER batch of scholarship students A sent by the Slno-Brltlsh Boxer Indemnity Fund will leaVe Shanghai on March 1 for America en route to England for higher education. —Reuter.
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      36 5 A MEMORIAL service for Lord Tweedsmulr was held yesterday at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church at Ottawa. He was an elder of the church. The Prime Minister of Canada and leading citizens were in the congregation.—British Wireless.
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      14 5 The costermonger comedian Gus Elen has died at the age of 77 reports Reuter.
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      120 5 Rice quoted per koyan 10 plculs. Other commodities quoted per plcul. except where otherwise stated. ouisap'jie, rcu. 11, iwuu. Buyers Seller* Gambler 7.50 Hamburg Cube $14.00 Java Cube $12.00 'epper White Muntok $14.25 White $13.75 Black 8.25 topro Mixed $3.45 Sun Dried $3.80 \ago Flout No 1
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      CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
      82 5 Saturday, Feb. 17. noon. Buyers Sellers Prices Prices No. IX R.S.S. (Spot loose) 38V, 38% No. IX R.S.S. f.ab. In cases Feb.-Mar. 39 40 Sellers option G.F.A.Q. R.S.S. i.ab. in bales Feb.-Mar. 37 37 U Sellers option FAQ. R.S.S. 1.0.D. In bales FeU.-Mar. 35% 36%
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      RUBBER EXPORT DUTY
      40 5 THE price of rubber for purpose of assessment of export duty in the F.M.S. has been fixed at 367/ 3 cents a pound for the period Feb. 16 to Feb. 22, inclusive, states a Government Gazette notification.
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      13 5 The amount of Malayan currency notes in circulation at Feb. 1 was $125,770,858.
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      AROUND THE MARKETS
      454 5 RUBBER AND TIN QUOTA DECISIONS AWAITED INDUSTRIALS STILL IN DEMAND By Our Financial Correspondent Singapore, Feb. 19. MARKETS open very quietly this morning there being no prices from London as all markets there were closed on Saturday. New York tin remained unchanged at 45% cents on Saturday
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      HOSPITAL FOR WIVES OF OFFICERS
      172 5 Widow As Guest Patient f\NE of the first war widows of the war Is a guest patient at the new maternity hospital for the wives of officers In the Navy, Army and R.A.F., which was opened last week at Fulmer Chase, a large country house
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      MR. ROOSEVELT INSPECTS CANAL DEFENCES
      76 5 Cristobal, Feb. 18. PRESIDENT Roosevelt, who is on a holiday cruise in the Tuscaloosa, today inspected defences on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal zone. After the Inspection, Mr. Roosevelt crossed the Isthmus of Panama by train and re-embarked on board the Tuscaloosa at
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      1421 6 POSITIVELY LAST DAY 1 TO-NIGHT 6.15 A 9.15 W^P*l^F¥% H^ I M *v AfUAUDDA AN A^ ZIN DRA^ of the :I*>*^ T J Unquestionably the film of the week .1 enjoyed 3.15, 6.15 9.15 AKjM%J\jnDM\A world-wide war on spies UUhMhUI every minute of it" (Daily Herald The Star of M
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    "SOVIET WILL NEVER BREAK THROUGH"—FINNISH C.-in-C.
    349 7 "SOVIET WILL NEVER BREAK THROUGH"— FINNISH C.-in-C. Defending Forces Fall Back On Mannerheim Line Front Helsinki, Feb. 18. IN a proclamation to the Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus, Field-Marshal Mannerheim, commander-in-chief of the Finnish armed forces, states that the time has come when the enemy's advance has been checked
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    NAZIS AND ARMING OF NORTH SEA VESSELS
    61 7 Berlin, Feb. 18. rE British decision to arm all British merchant ships operating in the North Sea is regarded by Germany as a violation of the London Convention on submarine warfare, states the German news agency, which adds that German treatment of armed
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    BELGIAN COMPANY BUYS EIGHT U.S. LINERS
    52 7 EIGHT liners (seven between 7,000 and 8,000 tons and the 13,000-ton President Harding) belonging to the United States Line have been sold to a Belgian company. They will ply between New York, Belgium, Britain iind France. The price is reported to have been about
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    VICEROY SENDS £1,000 TO CIGARETTE FUND
    57 7 London, Feb. 18. THE Viceroy, on the recommendation of the appeal committee, has forwarded £1,000 from the Indian War Purposes Fund to the Overseas League Tobacco Fund. This means another million cigarettes to men on active service. Indian troops on the Western Front are
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    BRITAIN HAS A NEW WARPLANE
    156 7 TfllK world's fastest fighting plane is now in big production for the R.A.F.. says the Daily Herold Air Correspondent. This revealed in an Air Ministry statement. The new planes are considerably faster than Spitfires and Hurricanes and carry much heavier armament than present warplanes. They
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    Hore-Belisha Calls For Aid For The Finns
    125 7 London, Feb. 18. AN article of Mr. Hore-Belisha entitled "Shall we fight for Finland now?", which was an appeal for immediate and substantial armed support for Finland, is published by the News of the World with an explanation in parenthesis stating that a
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    Six Neutral Ships Lost
    237 7 More Vessels Sunk By Enemy Action London, Feb. 18. |T was learned in London to-day that the Swedish steamers Linia and Osmed. both of about 1,500 tons, have teen sunk in the North Sea. The Dutch steamer Ameian 4.500 tons, bound for the Netherlands Indies, is
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    BERLIN SAYS BRITISH BOMBER DOWN
    62 7 Berlin, Feb. 18. A HIGH COMMAND communique claims that a British Bristol Blenheim machine was brought down and the crew drowned when British planes penetrated Heligoland Bight yesterday. The British Air Ministry states it Is assumed that the aircraft claimed to be shot down may
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    U.S. ENVOY TO TRAVEL OVER BOMBED LINE
    72 7 Chungking, Feb. 18. THE United States Ambassador to China. Mr. Nelson Johnson, has arrived in Haiphong en route to Chungking. It is learned that he intends to proceed by train from Hanoi to Kunming via the French-owned Yunnan railway but the date of
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    28 7 IN Malta it has been announced that recruiting for the R.A.F. will be open to Maltese nationals under the same conditions as those existing for airmen in Britain.
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    YANGTZE TO STAY CLOSED?
    134 7 Tokio, Feb. 18. BLUNTLY declaring that the promise to reopen the Yangtze was used as a diplomatic bargain in negotiations of the then Foreign Minister, Admiral Nomura, with the United States on Dec. 18, the army organ, the Kokumin Shimbun, remarks that various quarters are greatly
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    The Straits Times SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1940. (171st. Day of the War.) Easy Money
    1214 8 The Straits Times SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1940. (171st. Day of the War.) Easy Money It has been suggested to us privately— and not by anybody of very great importance that in taking sides with those who oppose the imposition' of income tax in Malaya we are making an unwarranted
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    WAR NOT UNPOPULAR AMONG GERMANS
    1175 8 But Allies Being Enticed To Take Offensive By Our Military Correspondent London, Jan. 25. THE Prime Minister struck a somewhat gloomy note during his Mansion House speech a week or two ago, but he was fight to warn us that grimmer phases of the war
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    STRAITS TRADERS
    242 8 Shareholders Want More Information To th« Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—According to your London Correspondent, peace has been signed between Malaya's two sr..elting companies. With their usual disregard for shareholders, this very important, news wa£ not made known to shareholders by the directors of the Straits Trading
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    A NEW SPIRIT
    245 8 Plans For Organizing Eurasians To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—It is heartening to us that a tribute is paid to Malayan Eurasians by your well-known correspondent L.C.L. of Penang. His letter of Feb. 12 is greatly appreciated for the welcome and advice tendered therein. He
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    "KERALA"
    794 8 Disputed Definitions In Malayalam To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—Apropos the recent broadcast speech in Malayalam by Mr. M. R. Ramakrishna Plllai from Singapore and a letter that appeared in the Straits Times with reference to it. may I be permitted to point out that the etymology
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    UNDUE DELAY?
    126 8 Handling Of Harbour Board Strike To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—While HE. the Governor has made it plain to the agitators and seditionisis that every pewer at the Government's disposal shall be brought against them, you have rounded the right note to the critics who thought
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    BRITAIN WANTS "HELL SHIP" INTERNED
    1194 9 Representations Made To Norwegians QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT "PERFUNCTORY" SEARCH Altmark Took Part In Graf Spec Raids rpHE British Government last night published an outline of the communication made to the Norwegian Minister in London by Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary. It complains of the way
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    Nazis Join Soviet In War On Capitalism
    75 9 THE Washington Post In an editorial states. '"Anti-Communism has proved merely a cloak without any basic meaning or substance. Indeed, to-day there is extremely little to distinguish Nazi Germany and Communist Russia who are like two peas in a pod. "It is no
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    TIME BOMB IN ALTMARK
    854 9 Prisoners Plan A Mutiny London, Feb. 18. 1I7HEN the Altmark's prisoners came ashore at Leith a number were interviewed. A young seaman from the steamer Ashlea, who was among the first to be taken on board the Altmark, said the last two days on board were
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    German Steamer Captured
    48 9 London, Feb. 19. r T*HE German steamer Morca (3,000 tons) with a cargo of manganese ore has been captured by a British warship. She was brought into an English port yesterday. Seven officers and 23 men of the Merea were sent to an internment camp.—Reuter.
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    Japanese Giving Up Nanning?
    171 9 Japanese Giving Up Nanning? Big Chinese Success In South Claimed Chungking, Feb. 18. CIRE-CRACKERS were let off in abundance throughout Chungking following reports that the Japanese were withdrawing from Nanning, former Kwangsi capital and chief base of the Japanese thrust into south-western China. Hitherto, however, there is no official confirmation
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    BRAVERY OF MEN OF COSSACK
    464 9 Thrilling Story Of The Fight On Altmark ONE of the released Altmark prisoners, Aubrey Jenkins, of the Doric Star, told a thrilling story of the bravery and daring of the men from the Cossack. He said. "Immediately grappling irons were fixed to the sides of
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    NAZI WARNING TO NORWAY & SWEDEN NOT TO AID FINNS
    517 9 NAZI WARNING TO NORWAY SWEDEN NOT TO AID FINNS Soviet Attacks On Mannerheim Line Said To Be Slackening Paris, Feb. 19. ACCORDING to authoritative information received in Paris last night, Germany has officially informed Norway and Sweden that she would regard any direct aid given by those countries to Finland
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    10,000 ITALIANS FOR FINLAND
    53 9 Paris, Feb. 19. A LEGION of 10,000 Italians liv- ing in Fance. headed by Signor Camillo Marabini, president of the Italian Garibaldians who fought in the Argonne during the Great War, is leaving for Finland shortly, according to a statement by Signor Marabini to the newspaper
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    Nazi Attack On French Outpost Repulsed
    54 9 Paris, Feb. 19. I AST night's French war communique states. "After very heavy preparation with trench-mortars, the enemy attacked one of our outposts to the east of the Moselle river. The Germans failed entirely. "On other parts of the front there was patrol activity
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    BRITISH SHIP SINKS AFTER EXPLOSION
    50 9 London, Feb. 19. THE captain and a fireman lost their 1 lives when the 3,656-ton British steamer Baron Ailsa sank after an explos'.on in the North Sea on Saturday night. The remaining 34 members of the crew were saved.—Reuter. (More neutral ships tank —page 7)
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    WAR ROLE OF MALAYA
    156 10 American View Of Position A STATEMENT on British Malaya's role in wartime is made in a report of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations in Washington. The report points out that British Malaya is incapable of undertaking a broad anc! industrial and military
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    DATO WONG YICK TONG'S SON ENTERTAINED
    90 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Feb. 18. LIEUT.-COL. Ma Ting Wai and Flight-Lieut. Wong Nang Win?, of the Chinese goodwill mission, were entertained at Seremban yesterday by the Negri Chinese at a tea party. Dato Wong Yick Tong, who is the father of Flight-Lieut.
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    AUTOMOBILE ASSN. OF MALAYA IN MALACCA
    122 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Feb. 17. "I7ERY little has been done in Malacca during the past year of a spectacular nature, so far as concerns the A.A.M.", states the annual report of the Negri-Malacca branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya. "Your committee
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    AMUSEMENTS
    168 10 SINGAPORE RAFFLES HOTEL Cocktail Dance 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dinner Dance (Informal) 9.45 to Midnight. SAKKK'K THEATRE. GEYLANG Chandrasena. A Hindustani Talkie at 6.15 9.15 p.m. SBEAT WORLD Cabaret 9p.m. to Midnight. Globe: Straight. Place <fe Show. Sky: Black Bandit Gambling Ship. Atlantic Theatre: Chinese Picture. iAPPY WORLD
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    SPECIAL REGISTRIES FOR CIVIL MARRIAGES
    585 10 What Chinese Leaders May Suggest To Government BRINGING NEW ORDINANCE INTO FORCE IN COLONY By The Straits Times Chinese Correspondent GOVERNMENT may be asked by Singapore Chinese leaders to set up special registries for the performance of marriages under the Civil Marriage Ordinance, which Chinese
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    "Golden Boy" Is A Great Picture
    441 10 "Golden Boy" Is A Great Picture "Golden Boy" (William Hoi den, Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou) Colombia. At the Capitol. fOLUMBIA has made a fine picture of Clifford Odet's great story of Joe Bonaparte, a boy whose ambition tears him away from the music that he loves almost to destroy all
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    Brigadier's Talk On War To-night
    134 10 Brigadier's Talk On War To-night BRIGADIER M. D. GAMBIERPARRY will broadcast from the B.M.B.C. Station at 7.30 p.m. tonight on "TMfe One-Front War." In two previous talks in this series. Brigadier Gambier-Parry (rave an account of the Maginot and Siegfried Lines and the present general situation on the Western Front.
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    Malayan Sun-Bears Get Wanderlust In Britain
    360 10 THE Zoo's Malayan sun-bears, of 1 which there were six before war broke out, have now been reduced to three. And their enclosure is a much more peaceful place, for the three which have gone were high spirited and were the catfse of frequent
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    Hari Raya Haji In London
    41 10 Prayers were read at the Islamic Institute of London on the occasion of the Hari Raya Haji festival. The only European representative among the worshippers at prayer was a woman wearing a fur coat and barefooted.
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    EXPERIMENTAL COLONY FOR OVERSEAS CHINESE
    253 10 Four Districts To Support At Least 100,000 Settlers TO provide a permanent home for overseas Chinese who may want to return to their fatherland to work and to live, the Yunnan provincial authorities have designed the four districts of Chehli, Fuhai, Nanchiao and Chenyueh, on
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    35 10 THE death has occurred of Sir Charles 1 William Cayzer, Conservative M.P. for the City of Chester, since i#22, reports Reuter. Sir Charles, who was aged 44, saw active service during the Great War. —Reuter.
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    GOVERNOR & ROTARY
    179 10 GOVERNOR ROTARY Message Sent To Singapore Club ■FHE Governor, Sir Shenton Tho- mas, contributes a message to the 500 th weekly letter of the Singapore Rotary Club issued today. He writes "The issue of this 500 th Weekly Letter of the Rotary Club of Singapore is a mark of the
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    REGISTRATION OF FIRMS
    323 10 F.M.S. Law In Force From March 1 OFFICE IN KUALA LUMPUR (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 18. /"OFFICES for the Registrar of Businesses. F.M.S., have been secured in Clarke Street and. as has been announced in the Gazette, the Registration of Businesses Enactment will come
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    SOLDIER KILLED IN JOHORE CRASH
    157 10 THE death occurred at the General Hospital yesterday morning of Pte. William Robertshaw, R.A.M.C.. Tanglin, and son of Mr. William Robertshaw of Hu.me, Manchester. The funeral took place at Bidadarl cemetery at 5 p.m.. the band of the Loyal Regiment being in attenance. Pte. Robertshaw
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    SOLDIERS APPRECIATE MALAYAN WOOLLENS
    584 11 More Than 8,000 Articles Have Been Sent To Britain FURTHER OFFERS QF KNITTING HELP WILL BE WELCOMED THE value of the work which knitting parties in Malaya are doing was brought home to many a radio listener in this country recently when a British officer at
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    S.V.C. DRILLS
    253 11 S. V. C. DRILLS DROGRAMME of Singapore Volunteer Corps drills up to and for week ending Feb. 25. TO-DAY: 1715 hrs.. Headquarters, S.R.A. (v). weapon Training; 1715 hrs.. Headquarters, S.R.A. (v) Officers and NCOs., Cadre Course; 1730 hrs.. Headquarters, S.R E (v), Section Training. TO-MORROW: 1715 hrs., HQ for For
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    GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S DAUGHTER HERE
    91 11 A DAUGHTER of the GovernorGeneral of the Netherlands Indies, Miss F. Th. TJarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, passed through Singapore this morning on her way to Holland. When she arrived at Singapore aboard the Nederland liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, which stayed in port j for two hours, Miss
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    NEW OFFICE-BEARERS OF OLEH OLEH PARTY
    100 11 At the annual general meeting of '.he Oleh Oleh Party, Singapore, held recently the following were elected office bearers for the current year: Patrons: Messrs. Chan Joo Hal, Chee Gucn Chian, Chee Soon Keng, Chua Swa Chwee, Wee Cheong Whye and Yeo Wah Hln;
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    Typewriting Test In Selangor Court
    145 11 (From Onr Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 17. INSPECTOR HUSSEIN was chal■L lenged to a typewriting speed test in the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court while he was giving: evidence in a case in which three Sikhs are accused of causing the death of another. Inspector
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    Rubber Director And Taxation Of Industry
    338 11 Rubber Director And Taxation Of Industry PAYING MORE THAN FAIR SHARE? (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Feb. 1. WRITING to the Financial News, from his home at Sunningdale, Mr. Cllve H. Mears, chairman of Beau Sejour Rubber Co., Ltd., declares that rubber growers are contributing more than their fair share
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    BRIGADE TACKLES FIRE IN TERRACE HOUSE
    90 11 AFIRE broke out in a block of terrace houses in Tio Hong Road in the Bukit Pasoh district shortly before 10 o'clock last night, but the Fire Brigade prevented serious damage. Within a few minutes of the call two engines were on the scene.
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    Negri Sakai Who Have Adopted Christianity
    507 11 Negri Sakai Who Have Adopted Christianity RUBBER ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Feb. 18. WHILE Malayans generally believe that Sakais are still exclusively a Jungle folk living in tree tops or wandering about the ranges of the Peninsula as nomads in search of prey, there is a Sakai
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    S.S. POLICE BAND
    89 11 'r"HE S5. Police Band will perform the following programme at Farrer Park at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow, under the direction of Mr. J. C. Hitch: March, "Blaze and Glory." Holzrnan; Overture, "Luetpiel." Bela; Selection, "Fest.val of Empire," Rogan; Valse. "EstudianUna," Waldteufel; Intermezzo, •■Secrets," Ancllffe; TTombone Solo, "Sliden Easy,"
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    MALAYA PATRIOTIC FUND
    690 11 TTHE LATEST LIST of contributions to the Malaya Patriotic Fund, acknowledging donations received up to Friday, shows a total of $1,058,078.61. Previously acknowledged $1,009,600.94; staff of the Verification Office $7; G. G. C. Wilson $20: M. N. Wardell $25; Gammi ter and Co. $100; Singapore Badminton Association
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    BRITISH, NORWEGIAN & NAZI VERSIONS OF ALTMARK CASE
    1260 12 BRITISH, NORWEGIAN NAZI VERSIONS OF ALTMARK CASE Rescue Of 400 British Seamen From Armed German "Hell Ship" BOTH the British Admiralty and the Norwegian Admiralty have issued full details of the incident in Josing Fjord (Norway) when the Nazi "hell ship," the Altmar, was captured by a British destroyer and
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    R.A.F. LOCATED THE ALTMARK
    115 12 London, Feb. 18. rIE part played by the air force in the release of the Altmark prisoners is described by an Air Ministry announcement, which states that after locating the Altmark and carrying out longrange reconnaissance flights in support of H.M. ships on Friday, coastal command
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    Unarmed Victim Of A Nazi Bomber
    35 12 Smashed davits and deck fittings in an unarmed Trinity House ship which was bombed and machine gunned by a Nazi bomber. One man was killed and 32 were injured.
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    "Norwegians In The Wrong"
    499 12 Allowed Neutrality To Be Exploited By Nazis THE New York Times' Sunday edition refers to the Altmark as a "floating Nazi concentration camp." The Washington correspondent of the newspaper states: "The view is expressed here that if the Altmark was a naval auxiliary cruiser, as tie
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    Magnificent Courage Of H.M.S. Exeter's Wounded Men
    263 12 London, Feb. 18 A GRAPHIC description of the heroism of the wounded in H.M.S. Exeter during the River Plate battle was given In a boadcast last night by a midshipman who took part in the action. Describing the scene after the marines' turret
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    SEARCH FOR PRISONERS
    538 12 'Superficial And Perfunctory' TTHE Norwegian protest regarding the Altmark incident has been received in London, Reuter reports, and, according to an authoritative statement on Saturday night, "amiable discussions are now proceeding with the Norwegian Government." The statement, which makes plain the British Government's attitude, states: It had
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    300 FIREMEN FIGHT BIG LONDON BLAZE
    95 12 London, Feb. 18. A LARGE fire broke out late last night in a north London wireless valve factory. Before the fire was finally got under control more than 300 firemen, auxiliary fire service men end women, using 60 fire-fighting appliances from all over London,
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    LITTLE BOY'S WEIGHT WENT UP LIKE MAGIC !
    260 12 LITTLE BOY'S WEIGHT WENT UP LIKE MAGIC Read this Schoolmaster's Story How anxious fathers j»nd mothers get when they see their little ones losing weight. Those thin, pathetic little arms and legs, those ribs sticking up through the flesh, those hollow little cheeks do they mean that some far more
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    MORE MEN ARE CALLED UP
    145 13 257,800 Register At Week-end London, Feb. 18. IT is officially announced that the next registration date for men born between Jan. 1, 1915 and Mar. 9, 1920, will be on Mar. 9, next. Though those previously registered will not all have been called up for
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    The Codfish And The Hen
    135 13 rIS little verse is quoted in the current issue of the Bradford Chamber of Trade Journal: The codfish lays a million eggs, The little hen but one. But the codfish doesn't cackle To inform us what she's done. So we despise the codfish and The
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    Finnish President Visits Front
    21 13 President Kallio of Finland with a Finnish officer, during his visit to the southern front in Karelia.
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    Sumner Welles On Way To Rome
    121 13 New York, Feb. 18. MR. Sumner Welles, Assistant Secre- tary of State, and Mr. Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, sailed t-board the Italian liner Rex for Italy yesterday. Mr. Sumner Welles, who Is visiting London, Paris, Rome and Berlin, declined
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    21 13 The 9.473 inhabitants of Morpeth, Northumberland, have subscribed an average of more than £2 a head to the national savings campaign.
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    DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIES
    167 13 Labour M.P. On Tasks After The War London, Feb. 18. DR. HUGH DALTON, who was Parliamentary Foreign Under-Secretary in the Labour administration from 1929 to 1931, spoke yesterday en Labour's peace aims. While Labour could not make peace until the Nazi regime was overthrown, he said, peace
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    READING LIGHTS IN TRAINS
    36 13 All the Southern Railway's electric suburban trains in England are being fitted with the form of reading light which has been used experimentally on sections of the suburban system since early December.
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    "WE WILL GATHER COMRADES AS WE FIGHT ONWARD"
    902 13 Minister For Co-ordination Of Defence On War Progress WE are fighting a battle for the good of the world and I feel that the greater part of the world realizes it. I believe that the Allies will gather comrades as we fight
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    Pilot Took "The One Chance"
    153 13 Chancy" pAPTAIN J. C. KELLY ROGERS, Imperial Airways ace pilot, took "the one chance" of bringing home the flylng-bcat Corsair from the Belgian Congo. He succeeded. The Corsair made a forced landing last March in a river only 50 yards wide, and Infested wilh crocodiles
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    Hitlerism Must First Be Destroyed
    103 13 London, Feb. 18. A CONFERENCE of 400 delegates met at Newcastle yesterday to discuss Labour's pef.ee aims. Mrs. Ayrton Goult, Labour party chairman, said that similar conferences would be called all over the country because full peace preparations must be made while the war was
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    SON FOR WIFE OF ROYAL OAK COMMANDER
    51 13 THE birth of a son at Camberley to Mrs. R. F. Nichols wife of Commander R. F. Nichols of the battleship Royal Oak, which was sunk by U-boat action In Scapa Flow last year, Is announced In London. Commander Nichols wu among the
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    "MINORITIES CROP UP LIKE MUSHROOMS," SAYS GANDHI
    1223 14 Emphasis On The Word 'European' Must Be Entirely Removed IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY MAHATMA AFTER INTERVIEW WITH VICEROY New Delhi, Feb. 7. "THE vital difference between the Congress demand and the Viceroy's offer consists in the fact that the Viceroy's offer contemplates the final
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    MUSLIM MISSION TO ENGLAND
    80 14 New Delhi, Feb. 5. THE Working Committee of the Ail-India Muslim League sitting here passed a resolution that a delegation on behalf of the All-India Muslim League consisting of Mr. Fazlul Hug. Premier of Bengal, Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, Premier of the Punjab. Sir Nazimuddin, Home
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    NEGRI CO-OPERATIVE STORES' SUCCESS
    137 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Feb. 17. 'FHE Negri Sembilan Co-operative Stores Society has made good progress. The society was registered in September 1936 with a foundation membership of 15. The membership is now nearly 300. The shop wa«, opened for business on Mar. 30, 1937,
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    FUND FOR ENTERTAINING INDIAN TROOPS
    82 14 THE following further contributions to the Indian Troops Entertainment Fund ars announced by Ral Bahadur Prithvi Chand, hon. secretary of the fund: Previously acknowledged $2,872; Messri. Amir Sons $23; I. N. Benjamin $20; H. Mohd. Ibrahim $50; Alkaff Co. $103; Khan Sahib Mohd. Amln (further
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    Indian Soldiers On Parade In France
    33 14 Detachments of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps and Veterinary Corps have recently arrived in France This picture shows their camps and a parade with their mules.
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    LEAGUE HOLDS VICEROY'S REPLY "UNSATISFACTORY"
    975 14 LEAGUE HOLDS VICEROY'S REPL Y "UNSA TISFACTORY Lukewarm Support Of Bengal And Punjab Premiers New Delhi, Feb. 4. MR. M. A. JINNAH, president of the All-India Muslim IVi League, placed the correspondence that passed between him and the Viceroy regarding the constitutional problem of India at the meeting of the
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    To Check Tribal Trouble
    133 14 New Delhi. ■yHE whole system of protection against tribal trouble in Waiirlstan is believed to be under review and the examination of the problem is expected to be carried on to an important stare as a result of the consultations which will be held here on
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    MR.HUQ'S MOVE FOR UNITY
    524 14 Invitation To Hindu Leaders New Delhi, Feb. 6. I HAVE never been so keen to have a communal settlement as I am now. For this purpose I had issued a joint statement with the Hindu Mahasabha leader, Mr. B. C. Chatter ji, last week from Calcutta.
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS EVENTS
    36 15 SOCCER: Business Houses League, Singapore Traction Co. vs. Straits Times, Stadium; Guthries vs. Singapore Cold Storage, S.H.B. ground; G.E.C. vs. Sime Darby, F. N. ground Chartered Bank vs. Oversea Chinese Bank, V.M.C.A. ground.
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    SCHOOL BEATEN IN SEREMBAN CRICKET
    261 15 SCHOOL BEATEN IN SEREMBAN CRICKET (From Our Own Correspondent) Serembsn, Feb. 17. BALACHANDRAN. the State hockey player, was the enly player to make an impression with the bat, when the Rahang Youngsters cf Seremban defeated the King George Fifth School team in a low scoring cricket match to-day. The scores
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    A.P.C. BEAT GUTHRIES IN B.H.L. SOCCER
    168 15 PLAYING at Paya Lebar on Saturday in the Business Houses League the A.P.C. beat Quthries by three goals to two. A last-minute goal decided the issue in favour of the A.P.C. Play was very keen. Both sides displayed good defensive work but the forwards
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    TO-MORROW'S SOCCER
    61 15 rE Katong Parish Association will meet St. Joseph's Institution at poccer on the S.J.I, ground to-morrow and the K.P.A. team will be selected from: L. de Silva. A. Conceicao, John J*eo Ban Teck, S. Humphries, C. W. Oliveiro. A. de Silva. J. Peters, B. Nofronha, J. Bheem, J.
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    SIGNALS WIN 1—0
    31 15 rE Malaya Signals beat the Manchester Regiment by one goal to nil in the semi-final of the Command Email Units hockey tournament yesterday. Thompson scored for the winners.
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    Only Goal Decides Malays' Hockey In Muar
    409 15 Only Goal Decides Malays Hockey In Muar (From Our Own Correspondent) V Muar. IN a fast and evenly contested hockey match the Muar Malays scored a creditable win over the Johore Bahru Malays, whom they beat by one goal to nil when the sides met at the Govfcrnment English School
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    Grand Prix Canters Home
    23 15 Grand Prix winning the sixAh race at Bukit Timah on Saturday from Smoke Dreams and Toyman. Straits Times picture.
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    NEGRI SEMBILAN F. A. HAVE GOOD YEAR
    582 15 Annual Report On Malaya Cup Prospects (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. a THE Negri Sembilan Association had a successful season last year, in spite of initial setbacks at the onset of the H.M.S. Malaya Cup matches, owing to injuries sustained by some players,"
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    RACE RESULTS ON SATURDAY
    163 15 CATITRDAY'S races at Bukit Timah resulted Race 1 Shoot Up $11 and $6. Pat Burke $10. lancing Foam $7. Race 2 Zolf anella $48 and $16. Red Dot $17. Golden Blaze $10. Race 3 Sultana $20 and $8. Royal Worlington $8. Race 4 Mallanuit $32 and
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    ANNUAL MUAR TENNIS MEETING
    134 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. AT the annual general meeting of the Muar Lawn Tennis Association it was disclosed that two cups have been presented to the Association, Mr. F. K. Wilson the former president of the Association and Mr. C. D. Westwood a keen sports
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    LEAN HOCKEY SEASON OF SUNGEI UJONG CLUB
    72 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Feb. 17. REFERENCE to the somewhat lean hockey season of the Sungel Ujong Club of Seremban is made In the half yearly report which states: "Lack of players stopped us from carrying out our full fixture list. Messrs.
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    R.S.G.C. WIN CUP GOLF AT BUKIT TIMAH
    36 15 IN the final of the Wel-Hai-Wei Cup golf final at the Royal Singapore Golf Club course yesterday, the R.S. G.C. beat the Island Club by seven matches to nil.
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    NORTH BEAT SOUTH IN ANNUAL HOCKEY TEST
    738 15 Winners Dominate Exchanges After Early Reverse (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. IS. CULLY worthy of being the high spot of the Malayan hockey season was the North versus South annual hockey match played this morning on the padang, and which ended
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    Paid Best Dividend
    22 15 Zolfanella, who paid the highest dividend on Saturday, returning: to scale after winning- the second race. Straits Times picture.
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    Six-a-Side Soccer At Cricket Club
    233 15 COMPETITION STARTS TO-MORROW THE Singapore Cricket cli-.b slx-a-side soccer competition will begin on Tuesday. The following are the teams in the competition: Team "A": P. Hutchinson fcapt.\ P. W. Dunhill, K. Black. A. Morgan, D. Brennan and P. w. Stephens. Team "B": A. Ferguson (capt.).
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    208 16 Mobile Dark Room Unit ORITISH official pictures in this D page show how the R.A.F. makes use of its magnificent aerial pictures of Germany —a series of which was published in the Straits Times last week. HELIGOLAND: A. new harbour, with
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