The Straits Times, 15 May 1940

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    51 1 FINAL EDTN. The Straits Times ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURA KUALA LUMPUR. 25 JAVA ST. (PHONE 3683). SINGAPORE, 140 CECIL ST, CPHONE 5471) MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— LARGEST NET SALES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1040 PRICE 5 CENTS, lfi PAGES The Straits Times fi PAfiES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940 PRICK 5
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      14 1 GOWNS, DRESSMAKER •ai DESIGNER s IS. Batterj Eoad Slnfßpere. Mi HOTEL MAJESTIC Kual» Lampnr.
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      868 2 FOR SALE SHELVADOH llefrigeralor Phone 3333. BERNARD Petrol Motors and Pumping Sets Hlndhede Co., L'd. LAND for sale off Stevens Road 32,000 sq. ft. at 15 ct. per ft. Apply 50 Stevens Road FOR SALE. Female Kittens— Siamese, find Blue Persian Crossbreed. $10.00. Apply Box 904. Strait"; Times. FOR SALE
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      616 2 BUSINESS PREMISES TO LET OKKlcfcS at i and 4-A pnnce 8c and 2U Raffles Place, \pdlv Sob Chen See 129 KUlinet Road GKESHAM HOUSE, Battery Road, 2nd Floor Office to let. Approx. 1,050 sq. ft. Secretary, McAlister Co., Ltd. GODOWN— OFFICE BUILDING— 3 Storey, 3,400 sq. ft. ground area, in
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      114 2 BUSINESS CARDS Etc. MANOR HOUSE CHANCERY LANE DOUBLE AND SINGLE ROOM. ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE. M.S. TEL. M«5 MRS. GRAHAM HUTCHISON MASSAGE HALL MANICURE AND MASSAGE Mrs. HARU and Miss HANA. 60. WATERLOO STREET. Telephone 7467. MISCELLANEOUS SINGAPORE LUGGAGE CARRIER CO Bactace transport. Transhipment Insurance Forwarding Ocneral Cargo (cases, bales A drum*
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      239 2 BORNEO MOTORS LIMITED asa> car BARGAINS PHONE 5088. GUARANTEED AUSTINS. AUSTIN 15.M SALOON DtLUXE MODEL. i I In perfect running order looks iikt very small mileage. Previous owner has left the Colony. PRICE $1475.1938 AUSTIN SEVEN TOURER $850.1936 AUSTIN SEVEN TOURER $750.1936 AUSTIN TEN SALOON $800.1935 AUSTIN TEN SALOON $*****38
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      TO-DAY SINGAPORE
      178 3 TO-DAY SINGAPORE 1 ZHL 1.33 mes (225 m. I ZHP 9.69 mci (30.96m.1 1.00 p.m. Miscellaneous new gramophone records; 1.30 p.m. News and mid-day rubber. tin and copra prices; 1.40 p.m. Miscellaneous new gramophone records (contd.*; 2.00 pm. Interval; 5.00 p.m. Hokkien Amoy drama: "Tan Sum Bua Kla.'t; 5.30 p.m.
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      PENANG
      68 3 ZHJ 6.08 mes (49.30 m. 830 pm. Indian programme; 5.45 p.m. New, In Tamil: 5.55 pm. Malay programme; 6.10 pm. News in Malay; 620 p.m. Chinese programme: 6.40 p.m. News In Hokkien; 650 pm. BBC. full news bulletin (relayed): 7.10 News in Thai; 725 p.m. Variety; 8.15 p.m. Military
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      TO-MORROW
      16 3 7.30 a.m. Light music; 7.50 a.m. 8.8.C. fu'l news bulletin (relayed); 8.10 am. Close down,
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      KUALA LUMPUR
      46 3 ZGE 5 ncls 60 m.l (Dally except Sunday,. 7.50 a.m. London news relay; 6.30 .m Records and news in Tamil; 7.00 pm. Hecords and news ln Malay: 7.30 pm Recorit and news ln Hokkien: 8.00 p.m. Records md new? In Cantonese and 8.35 new?
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      SAIGON
      13 3 11.78 tnr, (25.46 m.i News In English at 6.05 and 11.05 p.m.
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      MANILA
      21 3 KZRM 9.57 mes (31.i5 m.l 5.55 a.m. News In English: 5.35 p.m. News In Spanish and English; 8.10 D.m. Oversea.*
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      CHUNGKING
      11 3 XGOV, 11.9 mes '25.21 m) Prom 8.20 p.m. (local time).
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      NIROM
      84 3 TOB 965 mr <31.2« mi Vl>\ t«i mtM (49.6 m.); PMN 10.20 mes (29' m); VDB »»6 me, (15.J m.l: VDC 15.18 mr» (19.80 m.l. *-V> p.m. Programme preview: 4.53 o.m. Tea concert; 5.50 pm Popular concert 63f pm. Negro spirituals; 650 pm News and weather rpports; 715 pm
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      TO-MORROW
      65 3 "20 am °I>(1»lngI >(1»lng innouncrment; 6.28 am. Gymnastics; fi.4o a.m. Records; 7.20 am. ws 1: 72" am Record! (enntd >; 7■5.7■5.° n J, m- Close down. am- Violln and P|ano: "30 a.m. MornlnB devotion; 11 50 a.m. Cabaret: 12.20 pm/ Lunch'°" variety (I); J.lO pm. New» ira 'her reports:
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      EMPIRE STATION
      93 3 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.50 am on OSB J. 51 me* (31 5f m I 1-35 p.m. on GBD 11.75 mes (2S 53 m GSB 9.51 mc's (31 55 m 3 2° "OKy..™™ g -.Ji f 2<> Pm on GSF 15.14 nc s 119.82 m.l 6506'50 Pm on gg
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      MADRAS
      63 3 VIM! 4.92 mes ib 0.98 m.) 6.50 p.m. Music programme; 7 p.m. Ne<»« ln Telugu; 7.05 p.m. News in Tamil- 7 10 p.m Tamil or Telugu music programme; 7-50 P-m- News In English; 7.55 p.m Tamil <»n°" Telugu music and talks; 9.10 p.m. News In Telugu; 9.25 p.m. News
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      HONG KONG
      11 3 5 D', "I- ™iav J p n news las
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      BOMBAY
      12 3 2ZZ£.., News In English from 7.50 p.m. and 11.10 p.m. dally.
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      RANGOON
      12 3 XYO 6.007 r.ics 49.94 m.) 10 p.m. Ne vs >n E"alisl>
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      SAN FRANCISCO
      23 3 (TREASURE ISLAND) K(.H 9.53 .nc s (31.48 m.) News in English from 1.20 ■> m. 7.50 pai 9.50 D.m. and 10.50 D.m
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      305 3 (Ineorporaced In Japan) GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS FOR CUNARD WHITE STAR TO LIVERPOOL Colombo '•■'■n Snex. Port Said Naples. Marseilles, Gibraltar, Casablanca A Liverpool Sal) S'nnre HAKONE MARU June 12 13 SUWA MARU June 22 23 4CaliS Bombay TO LONDON DURBAN MARU May 24 GENOA SERVICE Aden, Port Sudan, Sues, Port
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      569 3 I MANSFIELD CO., LTD. BLUE FUNNEL LINE Frequent Sailings to United Kingdom and United States of America. Dates are not guaranteed, all cargo bookings subject to Conference War Clauses. WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE SHORTEST SEA ROUTE AT THE CHEAPEST FARE Regular Services to Fre mantle (Perth) via Java by first class
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      352 3 FAST PASSENGER SERVICE. SINGAPORE TO SAN FRANCISCO. VIA MANILA HONG KONG Ball Spore Arrive 3 P. m. crrsr op Newport news June 19 July is s s CITY OP NORPOLK July 17 Aug 10 SJ. CITY OP BAN FRANCISCO Aug. 10 Sept. M. CITY OP LOB ANOELES Sept. 7 Oct.
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    Fraser & Co/s Singapore Share Quotations
    1312 4 Fraser Co/s Singapore Share Quotations VL'ESDAV, MAT 14, 1940: 3 P.M. MI.NIMO Bayers Seller* Ampat Tin (4s) 4s 6d 4s 10 4 x.d. Austral Amal. (ss) 5s 8d 6s Austral Malay 35s 37s Ayer Hitam 21s 21s 93 Ayer Weng .(S3 67 Bancrln Tin 21s 22s Batu selangor ($l) ..42
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    FLEW IN FORMATION WITH ENEMY PLANES
    564 4 Narrow Escape Of R. A.F. Pilot AIR BATTLES OVER HOLLAND London, May 14. A PILOT officer of the K.A.F. fighter command had an anxious few minutes near Rotterdam early on Monday morning when, after fhooting down a Junkers 87 bomber in flames and attacking
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    Germans Lost 31 Ships Last Week
    149 4 London, May 14. •T*HE Admiralty announces that during the week ending May 12 no Allied or neutral ships were sunk by enemy action. Only one British ship of about 6,000 tons, was sunk, while the Germans lost 31 ships totalling 171 000 tens during
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    SWISS PRECAUTIONS AGAINST QUISLINGS
    55 4 Basle, May 14. THE Swiss Government has already sent a protest to Germany against the bombing of a Swiss railway .-,n rriday. The Swiss General Staff yesterday announced the creation of a home grard on all Swiss cities, towns and villages as a defence against "fifth
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    SOUTH AFRICA'S £100,000 FOR REFUGEES
    66 4 Cape Town, May 14. THE National Assembly has voted £100.000 for the relief of suffering in Holland and Belgium.— Reuter. burst at only 100 yards range and crashed into the sea. I Most of the other Nazi aircraft were j damaged by the Blenheims' guns,
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    POSTING OF MAILS
    311 4 Restrictions To Be Eased XHE Post Office is now permitted within certain limits to announce the impending departures and arrivals of mails. The publication of a Post Office daily list is not, however, being resumed at present, and all available information concerning mails will be communicated to
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    "Inflexible Resolve" Of Britain .
    126 4 "Inflexible Resolve" Of Britain London, May 14. ALL. the nev.spapers welcome yesterday's demonstration by the House of Commons of the "rock-sold unity I of the British people in the face of the gravest threat Britain has ever had to meet." The Times says: "Mr. Churchill's brief speech was in every
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    TIDE TABLES SINGAPORE
    41 4 To-day H. W. 3.16 a.m. 7.8 ft.: 5.05 p.m. 7 ft. L. W. 10.03 a.m. 1.7 ft.; 10.26 p.m. 4.2 ft. To-morrow H. W. 4.36 a.m. 7.4 ft.; 6.19 p.m. 7.1 ft. L. W. 11.18 a.m. 2.2 ft.
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    LYALL AND EVATT'S DAILY QUOTATIONS
    245 4 Singapore. May 14. 5 p.m. MlM.no Buyers Setter* Ampals 4/7 -./lOxd Austrai fiiDß.lt 5/7 '.j 6 Batu Selangor* 1.4S 1.50 Hong Fata 1.11 1.13 Jelebui 0.73 0.78 Kampong LanJuU 22 3 23 K. Kamuntinj! 8/6 9Kundang 14/6 15/Kent 22 2/5 Klang Rtrers 1.70 1.83 Krainats
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    FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS
    180 4 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS 300k3 Company Dividend Close TTS Ampat Tin 12% 'ess tax Apr. 29 Pahang 10% int. less tax Apr. 24 Putch 121/4 Int. ..Hay 20 Rawang Cone Is No. 26 May 20 Bungel Kinta ..19 Final less tax Apr. 30 Tanjong Tin 6% Final less
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      815 4 AUCTION NOTICES IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS SETTLEMENT OF SINGAPORE. SUIT Not «31 OF 193. In the Matter of the Estate »f Vow Nfaa ran deceased Bctwern 1. Lee Wai Tin (ft 2. Leong Woon Kheng i." PUlntlfli And 1. Wong Ah Tarn 'f i 2. Vow
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  • FINANCIAL ABD COMMERCIAL NEWS AROUND THE MARKETS
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      AH Sections Uncertain
      206 5 1'... Our Financial Correspondent Singapore, May 15. WAR news naturally continues to overshadow everything and the latest development in Holland is bound to have a temporary adverse effect. The New York stock market had a further collapse and, with the Dow Jones averages for Industrials down about
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      EXCHANGES
      184 5 The following are the axchange rates this morning according to the Sally circular Issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation:— SELLING London T.T 2/4 1/I6 Loi.don demand 2/4 1/16 Lyons demand 2060 Switzerland demand 208 Hamburg demand New York demand 48 15'16 Montreal demand 51 11 '16 Batavia
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      London Stock Exchange
      547 5 May 14. The following are to-days closing middle quotations. Shares are ot £1 denomination Tli? Java Guilder was this morning quoted at 87/4, unchanged from the last quotation several clays ago. It is not yet known what effect latest developments will have. The Dutch Guilder is still
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      AMALGAMATION OF TIN COMPANIES A SUCCESS
      754 5 ing both capacity and dredging depth, when a suitable opportunity occurs. The Puchong dredge Li berns remodelled; when completed it will be capable of digging 340,000 cubic yards a month from a maximum depth of 105 feet. Capacity can readily be further increased to
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      sPerCent.Paid In First Year
      428 5 AUSTRAL AMALGAMATED n TIN, Ltd., made a net profit of £45,756 for the year ended December last, the directors announce in their first annual report. The company was formed last year as the result of an amalgamation. Two dividends, totalling 3d. per share (5 per cent.)
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      CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
      85 5 Wednesday, May IS, noon. Buyers Seller* Prices Price* N*. IX K.S.S. (Spot loose) 39^4 40 i No. IX X.5.3. 1.0.8. la cases May 40 40% G.r.A.Q. E.S.S. f.o.b. ln D.lei May 39H »9?i K.A.Q. U.S.S. f.o.U. In oaie* Mar C 9 394 FUTURE QtOT.VriO\S No.
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      141 5 a.b. illllll! 172 All Classes Agents ot Insurance jJLJL&sAs^LJmILJL Throughout Malaya Che IRov>al Exchange Hssurance: Xon&on ME AC OFFICE FOB MALAYA 6. CHARTERED BANK CHAMBERS SINGAPORE. a apb la IRIUM THRILLS MILLIONS jr"to¥Jiff| H^M >> Otium in. PcfXdodutt Tooth Paste is thrilling S millions morning after morning, by the new
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      286 5 FEET feel \1 blazing m\!PHot? *Hyyy/ (*cior| The skin-pores of your feet should be constantly eliminating acid Impurities. When your feet feel blazing hot, when they ache and swell, it Is because those pores have become choked, and acid Is piling up inside them. Then you suffer foot agony. Corns
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      312 6 AGAIN.. THE TOWN'S OUTSTANDING ATTRACTION! AT THF POPULAR THEATRE Capitol l- 15^Universal^ Sweeping spectacle of MAN'S LUST FOR POWER. Red. Raw, Ruthless. then as it is TO-DAY! CLASH of VAST ARMIES. GRISLY HORRORS of TORTURE DUNGEONS. POMP and PAGEANTRY of the AGE of CHIVALRY and ROMANCE! WITH A CAST of
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    REICH USING 6,000 PLANES ON BELGIAN FRONT
    190 7 German Airmen Ordered To Bomb Civilians Mercilessly Paris, May 15. THE German High Command has ordered its 6,000 planes A on the Belgian front to attack ruthlessly both civil and military objectives, says a Havas agency message from Brussels. The dispatch says Since
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    MENZIES' CALL TO AUSTRALIANS
    81 7 Canberra, May 14. MR. R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, appealed for recruits for overseas service in a broadcast speech today. He pointed out that Australia's home defence was more assured than a y^ar ago and urged the necessity for rapid training of troops for
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    MANY GERMAN PRISONERS SENT TO GREAT BRITAIN
    151 7 London, May 14. MANY more reiugecs from Holland arrived at an east coast port today, including the French Minister to The Hague; Madame Babinska, Norwegian commercial attache; and the British vice-consul. All refugees were without luggage. Among refugees arriving in London was an
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    Nazi Threat To Shoot French Prisoners
    62 7 Berlin, May 13. THE official news agency an1 nounces: "The German Foreign Office has presented a memorandum to the Governments in London. Brussels, Paris and The Hague through neutral representatives stating the military position of German parachute troops." The German High Command states that
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    Mary Pickford Plans Come-Back *
    92 7 Mary Pickford Plans Come-Back MARY PICKFORD, now 45, Is proposing to return to the screen after a long retirement. Still looking extraordinarily youthful, she said in Hollywood recently that ..he was now negotiating for a suitable story. I will be co-started," she said "with perhaps two or three well-known actresses,
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    NAZIS CONFISCATE HITLER BOOK
    126 7 AN order has been Issued In Germany for Immediate confiscation of all copies of "Our Fuehrer," an illustrated book dedicated by the Nazi party to Hitler on his 50th birthday on Apr. 20 last year. The confiscation follows a complaint by the Russian Minister In Berlin
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    ALL FRENCH SOLDIERS ON LEAVE MUST RETURN
    35 7 Paris. May 15. A communique issued last night by the French Ministry of National Defence orders all soldiers released for farming work to rejoin their units immediately.— Reuter.
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    'FRONTIER GANDHI' & THE CONGRESS
    207 7 'FRONTIER GANDHI' THE CONGRESS Peshawar. Apr. 23. «|_|OW can I leave the Congress? I belong to the Pathan race who are never ungrateful. We are part and parcel of the Congress and will for ever remain with the Congress." These remarks were made by Khan Abdul Oaffar Khan, the "Frontier
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    U.S. Fleet Is Ready For Anything
    62 7 »*H/ITH what we have now, our Fleet »f is prepared to go anywhere the national policy may send us." This declaration was made by the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Charles Edison, at a Press conference at San Francisco, answering to questions regarding
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      249 7 ITU Oil Whea TO-DAY lIIINY Everybody MAUYA'S CINEMA OE LUXL Goes 3.15 6156 15 9 BOX OFFICE PHONE 3400 THE MOST DISCUSSED FILM MALAYA HAS EVER SEEN! 2^P/c f 1 1 tW/W AN The Englishman defends f/mfr, his home! W ENGLISHMAN'S HOME Ft* i ji_ i_ ■i_ reduced by England
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  • SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940. (256 th. Day of the War.)
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      PRICE OF VICTORY
      1182 8 There is more of grievous disappointment than surprise in the announcement that the Netherlands Commander-in-Chief has called upon the forces under his command to cease offering resistance to the invader, except in Zeeland. The German attack was delivered with the utmost violence after most careful preparation. Allied
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      NAZI PLANS IN NORWAY
      878 8 Aerial Attack On Britain? (FROM OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.) London, May 1. AFTER the campaign in Poland, Germany withheld her bombing aircraft until the time should again arrive to launch a major offensive. That time arrived with the campaign against Norway. About six hour? before war was
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      THE ALLIED CAUSE
      759 8 Remember The Advice Of Oliver Cromwell! To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir.— l shail be glad If you will find some space for these words, which appeared in the October. 1939. issue of a well-known quarterly periodical published in England: One other word must be
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      NATIONAL SONG
      93 8 Chinese Wants Something More Impressive To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— l often hear children singing the national song of Chung Wah Ming Kuo but have not yet heard adults Joining in. I love music, but this tune sounds to me like a children's play song,
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      A WAR LOAN
      422 8 Delay Is Unfair To The Public To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir, The reply to reports in Singapore Chinese newspapers, published in your issue of May 9. in which an official spokesman told a Straits Times reporter that these reports had no foundation, makes very
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      SEX EQUALITY
      495 8 A Chinese View Of Concubinage To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— There is nothing new in Mrs. Lord's fight for sex equality: nor are the arguments of "Cosmos" in support unfamiliar to the average newspaper reader. We have heard them off and on during the last
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      36 8 gjl l Have your NEW SUITS t EX PERT TAILORS moderate" prices Latest Woollen Palm Beach Suitings alwaut in stock TAI HENG CO. 23-5 Coleman St. Phone 3375 Sport JOHN DUKE Manufacturing Optician. 21. BATTERY ROAD.
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  • GERMANS OVERRUN HOLLAND
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      Dutch C.-in-C. Orders Troops To Cease Fire
      604 9 Dutch C.-in-C. Orders Troops To Cease Fire rpHE Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands armed forces announced last night that an order had been issued to his troops to cease fire in the struggle against the German invaders. Resistance is to continue only in one area in Zeeland. The Netherlands Legation in
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      PROGRESS AS EXPECTED
      346 9 Germans Making Supreme Effort 'J'HE following statement was issued by the Ministry of Information in London last night: 'It was learned in London that the operation in Flanders have gone much according to expectations. i "Operations now in progress reveal that the enemy is about to put
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      U.S. CONCERN OVER ITALY
      147 9 Americans Told To Leave A MERICAN citizens in Italy are being warned to leave th< country, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secre tary of State, told his Press confer ence last night, reports Reutei from Washington. This represents a change In the Government's attitude towards the possibility
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      Allied Reassurance To Spain
      293 9 London, May 15. AN official denial was given in London last night of malicious reports that the Allies are preparing to take hostile action against Spanish possessions. As has already been stated in the House of Commons, the British Government intends to respect the strict neutrality
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      9 More Ministers Appointed
      224 9 London, May 15. THE following nine more appointments to the new all-party ministry under Mr. Winston Churchill were announced last night Lord Caldecote Secretary of State for the Dominions. Mr. Ernest Brown Secretary of State for Scotland. Lord Bea verbrook Minister for Aircraft Production (a newlycreated
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      R.A.F. Bombing Enemy Troops
      305 9 DEUTERS special correspondent with the R.A.F. somewhere in France writes Bombers of the RAF, advanced striking force are attacking with the fullest possible vigour the German armies engaged In a fresh thrust from Belgium round the corner of the Maginot Line. No details are yet available,
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      Fighting On The Meuse
      172 9 Paris, May 15. THE French communique states: "In Belgium north of the Meuse we continued our advance movements and our organisation according to plan. "The enemy has attacked our actual front at two points. He was repulsed with heavy loss to his tanks. "On the Meuse
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      Belgian Troops In New Positions
      115 9 Brussels, May 15. A BELGIAN communique states: "During the night of MondayTuesday, Belgian forces took up, in good order without suffering any losses, the new defence positions in accordance with the plan of operations. "They are supported by the Allied armies. "At Namur our troops
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      ANTI-PARACHUTIST FORCE IN BRITAIN
      166 9 London, May 14. ris officially announced that a new force will be created to the known as local defence volunteers The force will be voluntary and unpaid, and the ages will be between 17 and 65 years. The volunteers will be armed, and the force will
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      WAVE OF PRO-ALLY FEELING SWEEPING UNITED STATES
      207 9 WAVE OF PRO -ALLY FEELING SWEEPING UNITED STATES Americas May Make Joint Protest Over Low Countries' Invasion Washington, May 14. ment is sweeping the United A WAVE of pro-Ally sent States, reports Reuter. President Roosevelt's speech to the Pan-American Scientlc Congress on Saturday, which was considered somewhat daring In certain
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      U.S. ArmsPlansTo Aid The Allies President Roosevelt'a
      245 9 U.S. ArmsPlansTo Aid The Allies President Roosevel t'a New Proposals Washington, May 14. TT is learned in reliable quarters L that President Roosevelt's defence proposals, which are brinesent to Congress to-morrow, will definitely assist the Allies. The main plan is expected to be provision for the rapid expansion of aircraft
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    JAPANESE PROTEST IN NETHERLANDS INDIES
    407 10 Consul-General Alleges Agitation By Hollanders CHINESE CONCERN OVER FATE OF DUTCH COLONIES THE Japanese Consul-General at Batavia, Mr. Otsoji Saito, lodged a strong protest on Sunday with the GovernorGeneral of the Netherlands Indies against the increasing anti-Japanese agitation among the Dutch inhabitants of the islands,"
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    121 10 "An Englishman's Home" (Edmund Owen and Mary Maguire) Initrd Artists. At the Cathay. FEW pictures could be more timely or more topical than this s'.ory of the invasion of an Englishman's home by parachute troops, who have come ♦o protect a beam radio station established in
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    122 10 "Keno" (Ri-hurd Dlx. Gail Patrick. Anita Lcuise and Hobart Cavanaugh) R. K. O. Radio. At the Alhaiubra. THE story of Reno, the divorce city, 1 from when it was a busy silver mining town to its present position <s well told in this picture.
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    "TOWER OF LONDON" FILL OF ACTION
    136 10 'Tower of London." (Basil Rathbone. Boris KarloiT. Barbara ONcil, lan Hunter. Vincent Price and Nan Grey) Universal Pictures. \t the Capitol. AN historical film, which depicts some of the most dramatic, though crue!. pages of British history, the •Tower Of London" is a picture
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    SALVATION ARMY'S FIFTH YEAR HERE
    98 10 A COMMEMORATION Of the iirth anniversary of the opening of th« work of the Salvation Army in Malaya will take place at the Army Headquarters. Tank Road, on Friday, May 31. Mr. S W. Jones, the Officer Adm(n!«tering the Government, will be one of the
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    ANTI-BRITISH MOVE IN CHINA REVIVED
    95 10 Peiping, May 14. SURMISES that the Japanese might use the intensified European situation to create further difficulties for British interests in China would seem to receive support from a statement by the Japanese-directed AntiBritish Society in the local press that the anti-British movement will be
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    GERMANS IN W. INDIES INTERNED
    56 10 Willemstad, W. Indies, May 14. MANY Germans in the Dutch WestIndies have been sent to the concentration camp at Bonaire. Their leaders are being kept in prison at Curacao. Several Netherlands subjects, some of them prominent figures in the Colony, are also confined in prison,
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    DESPERATE BID BY HITLER
    282 10 What Neutrals Think Of Invasion NAZIS GAMBLING FOR HIGH STAKES London, May 14. OEUTER'S diplomatic correspond1X ent learns that neutral circles in London regard the German invasion of Holland and Belgium as a desperate bid for victory before the Allies are able to develop their resources
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    TOLL OF GERMAN SHIPPING
    73 10 London, May 15. BRITISH submarines continue to take toll of German shipping off Norway. It is officially announced that since the beginning of May at least nine more enemy transports and supply ships have been sunk in Norwegian waters. Germany's total mercantile losses are now nearly
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    NAZI BID TO CAPTURE LEOPOLD'S MOTHER
    58 10 Paris, May 14. Fis revealed here that detachments of German parachutists descended at Chateau Laeken, where Queen Elizabeth. King Leopold's mother has been staying during the past few days The Germans were quickly mopped up. The Queen's only comment was that it was an
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    BODY FOUND IN POOL AT ALKAFF GARDENS
    62 10 DECOMPOSED almost beyond recognition, the body of a man was discovered in the lake In Alkaff Gardens yesterday afternoon. The caretaker, a Japanese, saw the body floating near the boat landing and informed the police. It Is believed that the man. whose nationality
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    U.S. Move To Speed Up Navy Building
    63 10 Washington. May 14. T*HK United States Navy Depart- ment has recommended that Congress provide immediately an additional $300,000,000 to speed vp 1 the completion of 68 combat and auxiliary ships now under construction. It Is estimated that from three to seven months will
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    Belgians Repulse Attacks And Retain Positions
    183 10 BROADCASTING on the military situation, M Pierlot, the Belgian Prime Minister, said that since Monday many attacks had been made at many points on the Belgian front. The Belgian troops resisted admirably and at the end of the day had retained all their positions.
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    A TOKEN OF ALLIED SOLIDARITY
    87 10 London, May IS. THE Treasury announces that the British Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Belgian and French finance minister* hare concluded a tripartite financial agreement, whereby reciprocal financial facilities for the settlement of their expenditure are granted as between Belgium and France on the
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    K. L. Book Club's Building
    27 10 Th; new building of the Kuala Lu;;ipur Book Club, which is to be opened by the British Resident, Selangor, on May 20.
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    DHOBY STRIKE TO END TO-MORROW
    278 10 CEVERAL hundred Chinese laundries will reopen to-mor-row following a full settlement of the dispute over wages and better living conditions between 2,000 members of the Singapore Chinese Laundry Workmen's Mutual Help Association and the Singapore Chinese Laundry (Owners) Association which is reported to have taken
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    LOCAL DUTCH WAR FUND Money To Help Wounded
    147 10 LOCAL DUTCH WAR FUND Money To Help Wounded A FUND to aid wounded Nether- lands soldiers and to relieve distress among civilians was inaugurated in Malaya yesterday. A provisional committee has been formed, presided over by the Netherlands Consul-General, Mr. H. M. J. Fein, and donations as well as regular
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    ALLIED EMBASSIES NOT LEAVING BRUSSELS
    35 10 Brussels. May 14. THE semi-official Belgian news a?ent states that the situation cont'n to improve and adds that there is r question of the Allied embassies leavir the capital. Reuter.
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    STOP PRESS
    319 10 DUTCH C.-in-C.'s STATEMENT fens Of Thousands Dead In Holland WHY HE ORDERED "CEASE FIRE" IX/K wen forced to lay down oar i arms because there was no other choice," said Gen. Winkelmann, the Dutch commander-in-chief, confirming over the radio last night his orders to halt fighting, reportt Reuter.
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    NAVAL BASE POLICEMAN FINED $200
    522 11 Alleged Absence From Duty Without Good Cause COURT ASKED TO TAKE A SERIOUS VIEW OF CASE and above this, I have been i have suffered from stomach ps fed up, left the Base and c 1 LIVED in an attap house surrounded by a swamp.
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    $3,000 FINE FOR CHINESE
    144 11 Assisted In Running A Lottery THE maximum fine, $3,000 or 12 months' rigorous imprisonment. Jor committing the offence of assisting in the running of a chap-ji-kee lottery, was imposed by Mr. J. G. Rappoport. Singapore third magistrate, yesterday, on a Chinese shoemaker, Lum Lee Soon. Lum
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    DISTRIBUTED OBSCENE BOOK : FINED SlOO
    108 11 DISTRIBUTED OBSCENE BOOK FINED SlOO WILLIAM ROY ALLEN, wearing the uniform of the Royal Air Force, pleaded guilty in the third court yesterday to a charge of distributing an obscene book to a minor. Mr. D. E. Nickels, A.S.P.. who pro- i secuted, before outlining the facts of! the case,
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    TEACHER ARRESTS THIEF ON ROOF
    113 11 A RRESTED by Mr. Francis Thomas, a senior teacher in St. Andrew's School, a Chinese, Teow Tai, pleaded guilty in the third court yesterday to a charge of stealing flve lead shests off the roof of St. Andrew's House. Chief Court Inspector Tunn said that
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    General Adviser
    54 11 Mr. W. D. Barron, M.C.S., Comptroller of Customs, SJS. and FM.S., has been appointed to be General Adviser to the Government of Johore, with effect from May 7, says a Johore Government Gazette Extraordinary published on Monday. Mr. Barron recently succeeded Mr. W. E. Pepys, who went to
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    ARREST OF PROGERMANS
    364 11 Wives Detained In Indies ALL the wives of pro-German Hol- landers who were arrested in the Netherlands Indies soon after the Invasion of Holland have been detained by the Dutch authorities, who have forbidden all public meetings of any description. This was told to a reporter yesterday
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    PENANG RICKSHAS
    90 11 (From Our Own Correspondent Penang, May 14. AT a Municipal Commissioners' meeting to-day it was decided by a majority vote of eight to three to rescind the decision of the Commissioners in committee to reduce the number of rickshas in Penang. Dr. Ong Chong Keng moved the resolution.
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    ON CHARGE OF MURDER
    311 11 Young Soldier At The Assizes SEQUEL TO DEATH OF SERGEANT APPEARING In uniform, Dial rt Singh, a young Indian soldier of the Punjab Regiment, was yesterday tried before a special jury, at the Assizes on a charge of murdering Rakhta Singh, a quartermastersergeant of the same
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    SAN DIEGO ZOO EXPERTS HERE
    327 11 T\R. Harry Wegefcrth, president of the San Diego Zoological Gardens Society, and Dr. R. L. Koch, of the same society, arrived in Singapore by ship yesterday to take back with them three parrots and a tapir. The famous San Diego Zoological Gardens was organized 25
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    Prison For Five Chinese On Intimidation Charge
    361 11 'LIE thumbed his nose at me, said 11 he was not coming back to work, began abusing me in filthy terms, and shouted to my other employees: 'Brothers, you all must not work with this man.' These were a few of the allegations
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    YOUNG MAN & AN ACTRESS
    301 12 YOUNG MAN AN ACTRESS Chinese Charged With Kidnapping (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar, May 12. LOW Ec Tian, a young Chinese of Bukit Gambier, was to-day committed for trial at the next Muar Assizes on a charge of kidnapping. It was alleged by the prosecution that the victim was a
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    JEALOUSY MADE MALAY PLAN A MURDER
    689 12 But He Was Killed As Well Out Hunting CHINESE WHO WROTE HIS CONFESSION IN BLOOD jIjURDERS planned to appear as accidents, murders for lVl gain, crimes of passion, murders arising out of old feuds, and murders of convenience, figure in last year's report on
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    FOUND OUT RENT COULD BE RAISED
    164 12 "U/E reduced the rent in October last year because we thought the ordinance applied; It was not until recently that we saw in the Press that it did not apply, to increases which took effect before Aug. 1 last year" said a representative of
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    RENT BOARD DISLIKES ADJOURNMENTS
    164 12 "THIS BOARD does not like adjourn1 ments. The members are busy men and give us two afternoons a week to attend this court. Their time should not be wasted by postponements of cases. If you cannot attend on the date fixed you should Inform the clerk
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    BIG FESTIVAL FOR BUDDHISTS Vesak Celebration On Monday
    485 12 BIG FESTIVAL FOR BUDDHISTS Vesak Celebration On Monday SIGNIFICANCE THIS YEAR THE Vesak Festival observed an1 nually by Buddhists falls en Monday. In Singapore, the significance of this day is known only to a few, and a Singapore Buddhist has prepared the following brief account. Vesak was not only the
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    ACCUSED OF REMOVING SEA SHELLS
    98 12 ALLEGED to have removed sea shells from the beach at Padang Terbakar without being authorized to do so, two Tf.-chews. Mm Ah Tee, 50, and Lini Tiu Chia, 63, appeared b'u'ore Mr. Conrad Oldham n the Singapore second court yesterday. "We admit removing the shells
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    GREAT BATTLE IS BEGINNING
    603 13 "We Are On Eve Of Big Moment" Gen. Gort ALLIES POUR INTO BELGIUM BIG French and British reinforcements of men and material have been arriving steadily throughout Belgium in the last 48 hours, reports Reuter from Brussels. The strong resistance of the Belgian troops to the
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    PARACHUTISTS "TORN TO PIECES"
    93 13 A Belgian High Command communlcue broadcast by the Brussels radio ctates: "There have been numerous local engagements at different points of our positions. Our troops are resisting energetically the pressure of the enemy's forces. During the night advance elements o2 our troops were compelled to retire."
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    BELGIAN RESERVISTS CALLED UP
    36 13 Brussels, May 14. A WIRELESS broadcast announcement this afternoon states that all men between the ases of 16 and 35 belonging to the recruiting reserve are to report for military service. Reuter.
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    DUTCH RESIST BRAVELY
    257 13 Situation In The South Serious I London, May 14. IT is learned in authoritative quarters in London, that the position in the south of Holland is without doubt serious. Early this morning the first Dutch communique of the day said that isolated German forces in th» south
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    Queen Thanks Those Who Care For Evacuees
    109 13 London, May 14. THE Queen is sending 3 personal message by post on a specially designed card to every householder who cared for children, mothers and others moved in the early part of the war under the Government's evacuation scheme. The total recipients
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    GERMAN STORY OF BRITISH RAIDS
    49 13 Berlin, May 14. ALLEGED British raids on "open towns In western Germany" continue to be reported by the official German news agency. linnich. Essen, Moers and Aachen are mentioned as having been raided and casualties to civilians are said to have been caused.— Reuter.
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    GERMANS CLAIM LIEGE IS NOW IN THEIR HANDS
    190 13 Berlin, May 14. A HIGH COMMAND communique issued here to-day states: "In Holland we have extended psnetration of the Grebbe line to the south-cast of Amcrsfoort and advanced towards Utrecht. "Additional forces are being brought from the south to the fortress of
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    MAINTENANCE OF STATUS QUO IN NETHERLANDS INDIES
    362 14 Mr. Arita Tells Foreign Envoys Of Japan's Deep Concern Tokio, May 14. FOLLOWING the visit of M. Reuchlin, First Secretary 1 of the Dutch Legation to Mr. Yutaka Ishizawa, chief of the Third Section of the European and Asiatic Bureau of the Foreign
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    Japanese Navy & U.S. Building
    227 14 Japanese Navy U.S. Building Toklo, May 14. A PAMPHLET has been issued by the publicity bureau of the Japanese Navy Office on the eve of Navy Day, which is annually celebrated on May 27 in commemoration of the Japanese Navy's victory over the Russian fleet in the famous Sea Battle
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    GERMAN FORCES AT OSLO RETURNING ?
    86 14 GERMAN FORCES AT OSLO RETURNING Stockholm, May 13. AN indication that Germany is bringing troops back from Oslo is contained In a report received here from the Malmoe correspondent of the newspaper Aftonbladet who reports that a German ship described as the Campania, whose loss as the result of striking
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    Britain Gives An Assurance
    155 14 ASSURANCES that Great Britain fully shares Japan's concern over the maintenance of the status quo in the Netherlands Indies and that she has no intention of intervening in those islands have been given to the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, by the British Ambassador, Sir Robert
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    SERIOUS MOMENT FOR THE ALLIED CAUSE
    196 14 i Mr. Duff Cooper On The Present Struggle London, May 13. MR. A. Duff Cooper took over his duties as Minister of Information from Sir John Reith to-day. Meeting British editors this afternoon. Mr. Duff Cooper said that It was a serious moment for
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    IMPORTANT CHINESE VICTORIES REPORTED
    67 14 London, May 13. A TELEGRAM from Chungking dated May 11, received by the Chinese Embassy in London, states, Dispatches from Honan and Hupeh fronts report Important victories for the Chinese. One report estimates that the Japanese have sustained over 10,000 killed and wounded up to yesterday
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    CANADA'S CONSERVATIVE LEADER RESIGNS
    44 14 Ottawa, May 14. DR. R. J. Manion, Leader of the Conservative Party, who lost his seat in the recent general election, submitted his resignation to a meeting or the Conservative members of Parliament to-day and it has been accepted. Reutcr.
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    "British Navy Was Marvellous"
    443 14 Refugees Arrive In Great Britain London, May 14. BETWEEN 400 and 500 men and wjmen, the last to be evacuated from Holland, returned to England yesterday alter crossing the North Sea In a steamer, says Reuter's special correspondent aboard the vessel. The voyage took 20 hours.
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    Singapore Lawn Tennis Championships
    967 15 Singapore Lawn Tennis Championships DRAW MONDAY'S TIES FOLLOWING is the complete draw for the Singapore lawn tennis championships, which will be played on the courts of the Singapore Cricket Club and the V.M.C.A. from Monday onwards: MEN'S SINGLES Top Byes: Chin Kee Onn, Ang Watt Kirn, Paul Clerc. First round:
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS EVENTS
    36 15 .v<«<t: first division, Malays vs. S.R.C stadium; Man .hosiers vs. Gordons, Tanelin; reserve division, S.C.C. vs. Manrhesters, S.C.C., second divuim (b), R.A.F. (h.q vs. RAF. Kallanr. J.C.S.A. Tennis: S.C.R.C., S.R.C. and V.M.C.A. tournaments.
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    Reserves Draw On Padang
    400 15 l'olice Res. 2, Malay Res. 2. j POINTS were shared by the Police and the Malays in a reserve division soccer fixture on the padanr yesterday, when they drew two foals o all. t Missed opportunities by the Police g forwards robbed them of the game,
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    Boxing Finals To Be Broadcast
    227 15 Boxing Finals To Be Broadcast A running commentary on the Singapore Amateur Boxing Championships, which will be staged at the Happy World stadium on June 3, 4, 5, and 7, will be relayed by the Singapore Broadcasting station in the final night of the competition. Commentator will be Mr. R
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    TIE IN MAY MEDAL AT KEPPEL GOLF CLUB
    160 15 rE May Medal at the Keppel Golf Club resulted in a tie between E. Ellison and R. J. Fennie, who each returned scores of one down. Ellison and Fennie are required to return another card by Sunday. BALL SWEEPS Saturday: first nine
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    WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY'S RACES IN PENANG
    338 15 WEIGHTS for Saturoay, the nnai day cf the Penang Turf Club's extra meeting are Horses, olass S. div. 1. 5 Vi furs Honeypuss 9.01 Sanu Anita 8.02 Buund Farr 9.03 Perak 8.02 Golden Blaze ».C1 The Qiiperor 8.01 Excve 8.10 Ordination 8.00 Red Dot
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    AIRMEN & CHINESE SHARE POINTS AT STADIUM
    506 15 AIRMEN CHINESE SHARE POINTS AT STADIUM Defences Prove Too Good For Opposing Sets Of Fowards R.A.F 0; Chinese 0. MEETING for the first time this season before a huge crowd at the stadium yesterday, the Royal Air Force and the Chinese played a scoreless draw in the first division of
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    Soccer Teams To Meet Saigon
    117 15 THE foil win? have been scln ri to represent tho Combined Services again';' tho Salmon fmtb»ll tourists at ill Aivmi Road :adium to-morrow: Mace (R.A.M.C.): Collins (R.A.F), Sharpies (Locals) Hall (R.A.F.), Sless?r (Arrylls), Wint (R.A.F.); Taylor (Lojals). Peters (R.A.F.), Fields (R.E.), Garrett (R.A.F.), Rrodie (Argyll*).
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    S.C.C. CRICKET
    123 15 TTHE following members have accepted 1 to play cricket for the 8 C.C. vs. the R.A. on Saturday at 2 p.m. ai the T. G. D. A. Cooper (capU, J. W. Ewart, W. K. Jagger, SLdr. R. A R. Rae, Capt. R D Dynes. W!Comdr G. Farnhill. FOffr.
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    Four Centuries In Home Cricket
    83 15 London, May 1 I IN a three-day cricket match at CamI bridge between Cambridge Univer- sity and a British Empire XI, Cambridge j University won by an innings and 108 I runs. There were four centuries scored during the course of the gUM The scores
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    ENGLAND BECOMES SEAT OF DUTCH GOVERNMENT
    479 16 Premier And Ministers Arrive In British Warship London, May 14. THE Dutch Government will henceforth carry on its 1 duties from headquarters in England similar to the Polish Government at Angers, in France. The Government will administer both the Netherlands and the Dutch colonial
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    DUTCH QUEEN'S BROADCAST
    265 16 'Our Cause Will Prevail" London, May 14. PROCLAMATION by Queen Wilhelmina broadcast by the wireless states: "As soon as it became certain that we and our ministers could no longer freely direct our country in Holland we decided, much against cur desire, lo transfer the seat of
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    Egypt Takes New Precautions
    50 16 Egypt Takes New Precautions Egypt, May 14. CIVIL inhabitants of frontier towns in the Western Desert near the Libyan frontier are being evacuated where necessary. The military governor has ordered reservists of the army and navy now on the retired list to hold themselves in readiness for instant recall.— Reuter.
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    New Anti-Allied Demonstrations
    115 16 Additional Guards For Embassies In Rome Rome, May 14. TTHE Italian news agency reports further anti-Allied demonstration in various parts of the country "protesting against misuse of the An-glo-French contraband control." Some additional police guards have been placed outside the British and French embassies and the British
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    S. AFRICAN INVITATION TO DUTCH QUEEN
    82 16 London, May 14. GEN. Smuts, the Prime Minister of South Africa, said In the Union Parliament that If It became necessary lor Queen Wilhelmina and the Netherlands royal family to find refuge in South Africa, the South African nation would regard it as a
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    DUTCH PRINCESSES IN WEST END GARDENS
    55 16 London, May 14. PRINCESSES Beatrix and Irene were seen out In the gardens of Wesl End Square in the charge of a unllormed. nurse to-day. Princess Beatrix walked while Princess Irene 3lept in a peiambulator. Princess Juliana Joined them for short time before driving
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    FOUR BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN BELFAST
    47 16 London, May 14. PUR bomb explosions occurred outside news-agents' shops in Belfast to-day Nobody was injured though the shops were damaged. The outrages are believed to be connected with the I.R.A. campaign against Mr. de Valera's Dublin newspaper, the Irish Press. Reuter.
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    LLOYD GEORGE WARNS OF "HITLER'S PARTNER —COILED AND READY" By
    1343 16 LLOYD GEORGE WARNS OF "HITLER'S PARTNER —COILED AND READY" By THIS article by Mr. David Lloyd George was written before the House of Commons debate on Norway, which led to Mr. Neville Chamberlain's resignation, but it is still of interest because of his outspokenness. Congratulating Mr. Winston Churchill on his
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    Allies' Success In N. Norway
    185 16 Landing Carried Out North Of Narvik IN the half-light of early dawn yesterday morning I watched from our flagship the naval bombardment and capture of Bjerkvik. on Herjand fjord, Just north of Narvik, reports an eye-witness from somewhere in Norway. Under the cover of guna
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    ACTIVE CITIZEN FORCE MOBILIZING IN AFRICA
    32 16 Johannesburg, May 14. Fis officially announced that four units of the Active Citizen Force, including the Transvaal Scottish, aie mobilizing almost immediately for iulltime service.— Reuter.
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    FRENCH AND ITALIAN NAVAL STRENGTHS
    142 16 Though the French Navy Is generally more modern than the Italian, naval power as between these countries would turn upon the new battleships In which Italy is ahead. Both have a programme of four of 35,000 tons each. The Italians, It Is believed, have Just
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