The Straits Times, 19 May 1940

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    20 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION Sunday, May 19, 1940 Price 10 Cents No. 439
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    GERMAN STRENGTH EXPENDED
    8 1 "Never Another Such Large-Scale Assault"
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    Rumania Prepares For The Fifth Column
    40 1 PARIS REPORT OF 1,500 NAZI PLANES DESTROYED At King Carol's orders, Rumania is tightening measures against Hitler's fifth column men, and under the latest measures all foreigners with temporary visaes must leave the country.
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    Town Full Of Refugees Is Bombed
    900 1 Town Full Of Refugees Is Bombed ACCORDING to the New York Post very high quarters in Washington hay* 1 received by telephone uncensored information from equally high quarters in Paris as follows "The French have definitely established that eleven of Germany's twelve mechanized divisions are engaged and are suffering losses.
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    Changes In French Cabinet
    107 1 CHANGES in the French war cabinet were announced In Paris last night. Marshal Petaln, who wa* comman-der-in-Chief during part of the last war and who was recently French Ambassador to Spain, is Introduced as vice-premier. M. Daladler, former prime minister, becomes foreign minister, and M. Reynaud
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    AMERICANS TOLD TO LEAVE TURKEY
    29 1 Istanbul, Saturday. TPHE United States Embassy has re- commended to all Americans in Turkey that they return to America as soon as Dossible. Reuter.
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    FOR FIRE VICTIMS
    39 1 The Government o f Trinidad Is subscribing $1,000 for the relief of British West Indians who suffered in the big fire in Colon (Panama) on April 13, which destroyed the homes of 8.000 to 10.000 persons.
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    Expeditionary Force From Africa For East Indies
    393 1 Expeditionary Force From Africa For East Indies Pretoria, Saturday THE Netherlands Lcgatioi with the co-operation of the South African Government, is organizing an expeditionary Force of Dutch citizens for servict in the Netherlands East Indies. The first contingent win leave for Batavia shortly. The refugee problem is being carefully considered
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    PRECAUTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
    102 1 Johannesburg, Saturday. IMMEDIATE and active measures for dealing with the "Fifth Column" have been announced by Mr. Colin Steyn, Minister of Justice. He added that General Smuts was personally attending to the matter. This action, and the rush of recruits are the first result of the
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    QUEEN WILHELMINA
    59 1 London. Saturday. Cheering lustily ana singing papula songs, the sixth contingent of voiur teers from Newfoundland for the Prl tlsh Navy arrived at a west coast p*>r of England yesterday.— Reutcr. QUEEN WILHELMINA vesterrtav motored to a British naval port en the south coast to visit Dutch warships
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    Threefold Work Of The R.A.F.
    533 1 Threefold Work Of The R.A.F. THE formidable record of the Royal Air Force was admired by King: George when he visited a bomber command in Great Britain yesterday. He was wearing Royal Air Force uniform and he studied maps and reports of recent operations and warmly praised the work the
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    ATTEMPT TO MAKE PEOPLE PANIC
    92 1 Paris, Saturday. *T*IIE Germans are employing their flTCh'ToßFirm Tor a new use to try and shake public morale. Agents are being passed through many parties of refugees behind tn^lines. There they spread wild rumours that the Germans have broken through at cne point or another
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    "We Shall Have To Go Over," Say Americans
    135 1 "We Shall Have To Go Over," Say Americans "WE shall have to go over" is an expression being heard everywhere in the United States, reports Reuter from Washington, commenting on America's reaction to the grave war situation. When people In Washington heard of the fall of Brussels and Louvain and
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    ANTI-GERMAN FLARE-UP; IN CANADIAN TOWN
    49 1 Regina 'Saskatchewan), Saturday. A REPORT that pro-German elements were planning a meeting in the local hall caused disturbances in which several buildings Including two hotels, were damaged. Military police aided by the NorihWest Mounted Police, restored order. The pro-Germa.i meeting was riot held.— Rsuter.
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    RAEDER VISITS NORWAY
    37 1 London, Saturday. ADMIRAL Raeder. Co^mander-in-Chief of the German Navy, has made a three-day visit to Norway and inspected the coastal land and air defences, Including the base, at Trondheim, states a message Irom Berlin.
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    Shoot Down Enemy Planes
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    Cairo Sees Italy As Catspaw
    155 2 Cairo Sees Italy As Catspaw London, Saturday. THK Cairo newspaper Dastour points out that the great majorit> of Italians are against war. "This opposition is increase. they feel the Germans want to us? Italy as a catspaw." it says, "finally. America has begun, to foci that the question ol joining
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    GOEBBELS' SHAKES IN SUEZ CANAL CO.
    52 2 FarU ScUurcay. I "he Seine police avthorittei have issued an order sequestrating all money due on 100 shares in the Sum i Company owned by Dr. Goebbes, who hitherto fias obtained interest on the shares, wh'ch are Talued at approximate'y .£7.cuo. through a Luxembourg
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    Churchill Lunches At Japanese Embassy
    32 2 Churchill Lunches At Japanese Embassy London, Saturday. TTIE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, on Friday attended a luncheon at the Japanese Embassy in London at which the French Ambaszadtt was also present.
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    MESSAGE TO THE FRENCH NAVY
    450 2 Paris, Saturday. ADMIRAL Darlin, commander- in -chief of the French Navy r NMi an order of the day to the French Navy soon after General (Jamelin's historic Conquer Or Die messaic. In his message. Admiral Darlin said For more than eight months you have been
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    Nun Saves British Soldier
    104 2 I_IOW a French sister of mercy saved the life of a British soldier by prompt and courageous action is described in the latest issue of general routine orders by Gen. Viscount Gort, the B.E.F. Commander-in-Chief. The woman. Sir.er Hartense, was collecting for the poor of Francs
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    SWISS GIVES SPIES PRISON TERMS
    61 2 Berne, Saturday. DR. TRUEL, secretary of the Legal Department of the Swiss Army, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for espionage, his wife to four years and an Army accomplice to six years. Truel, who was described as a Lieut.Colonel on the Swiss Army
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    10,000 CHILDREN TO BE MOVED
    598 2 London, Saturday. THE British government has decided in view of recent developments to move 10,000 London schoolchildren, who were originally evacuated to the south east coast, to areas in South Wales. Arrangements have been made to complete the whole transfer in a single day, and
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    REDS ARIESTED
    33 2 The discovery of another clandestine printing and propaganda centre which specialized in the distribution oi seditious tracts in the Paris region has lei to the arrest of six more Com- munists.
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    m EMPIRE AIR TRAINING
    33 2 m EMPIRE AIR TRAINING A central air supplies depot, at which 1,500 persons will be employed, Is to be established near Montreal for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Empire air-training scheme.
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    LIBRARY STRIPPED
    25 2 Nazi invaders have stripped th famoos Charles University Library In Prague of most of the books, burnln all volumes in the Czech language.
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    HINDUSTAN HOUSE
    22 2 IHndusUn Community House, a set tlement for poor Indians In the East Fnd of London, has been opened in Stepney.
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    Ribbentrop's Press Conference
    49 2 The powerful Allied forces cc mentrafed in IJic Middle Fast hue bees further strengthened by the arrival in Esrypt of the srrond contingent of the Australian Imperial force. Picture shows two attorn »>i ihe New Zealand contingent wutchin- large- teak rombined manoeuvres in the Es.vi.tian desert.
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    Defence Coalition In America
    68 2 Washington, Saturday. DLEDGES of support for President Roosevelt's large rearmament plans have been made by three leading Republicans, ex-President Hoover, Mr. A. Landon and Mr. Frank Knox. The latter two were the Republican nominees for presidency and vice-presidency respectively in the last election. Their endorsement of
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    U.S. ADMIRAL ON IMPORTANCE OF SEA POWER
    124 2 Newport. News, Saturday. T>EAR firmly in mind that sea power •t> defeated Napoleon, and it will be sc.s power to-day and to-morrow that will prevent another dictator v.ho Licks It from acquiring domination." said Rear-Admiral Yarnell < retired > v/ho was commander of
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    GESTAPO FOILED BY AMERICAN
    109 2 DETAILS of how an American saved the personal papers of the Brltis-.i Military Attache in Copenhagen from being read by the Gestapo when the Germans entered Denmark are new revealed. After arresting all those at the Bvitis!) Legation, the Germans sent m^n ro search the room
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    HITLER SAYS PEACE BY AUGUST 15
    72 2 Kaunas, Saturday. A CCORDING to information received In German circles here, Hit er gave at a recent conference to high Nazi officials a promise or peace by Aug. 13. It Is stated that this date Is belnj; widely spread ameng the German pei pie.
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    Americas Agree To Make Jomt Protest To Reich POPE'S SUPPORT POSSIBLE
    134 2 Americas Agree To Make Jomt Protest To Reich POPE'S SUPPORT POSSIBLE day. American governments, have now pro. to make a collectiive i Germany against the invasion of Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg. According to Vatican circles, the Pope, v/ho has confidentially expressed to the German Government o; his profound concern at
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    KING HAAKG ;'S MESSAGES TO HIS PEOPLE
    306 2 KING HAAKG ;'S MESSAGES TO HIS PEOPLE Larson. Saturday, wiil continue to re- sist the German arjgrecsor to the fill extent cf h. r power. Thrs was the £J«i of messages addressed to tho Batten by Kin Baakoa a. id ih? Norvegian Prim? Minister on the occasion of Norway's independence
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    The Pope Condemns "Thirst For Power"
    54 2 Vatican City. THE Pope blamed "'excessive human covetousness and thirst for power" 's causes of the war now raging in Europe, when he spoke briefly in St. Peter I Men, blinded by these passions, had "repudiated the laws of God" In loosing the horrors
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    OUTSTANDING HERO OF WAR
    52 3 Seaman from Norwegian vessels at British ports, determined to assist the Allies, are now undergoing training under the instruction of the military authorities somewhere in England. Picture shows Captain T. Weibust, formerly master of a cargo ship, practising with a bayonet under the watchful eye of
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    Capture Of Narvik Is Imminent
    114 3 THOUGH Norway has inevitably become of secondary importance while such a momentous struggb is being waged m the Western Front, the Allied forces are still pressing round Narvik, hi north Norway, where a German force is besieged. The Germans continue to hold the ci'.y, but
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    Substantial Number Of U.S. Planes Sent
    42 3 Washington, Saturday. 'I "HE Anglo-French purchasing mission states that a substantial number of the 4,000 aircraft finally purchased in the United Btat?s has already been delivered. Delivery of the remainder is proceeding according to schedule. Reuter.
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    ITALIAN PLANE CRASH
    40 3 Madrid, Saturday. OEVERAL persons were kill:d wh:n an I:al:ar. lir-llner of the Roiru-Madrld service crash-.-l Just aft~r tikli"; off from Barculo.ia The dead included th 3 secretary of ;ii? Italian Conmtota at Barcelona and two German-.— Hsuter.
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    R.A.F. Men Gain Many Awards For Gallantry
    166 3 London, May 18. MANY daring exploits have gained for officers and non-commission-ed ranks in the R.A.F. awards for gallantry and devotion to duty. Twelve Distinguished Flying Crosses and four Distinguished Plying Medals hay? betr. award d in the latest series of Air Ministry
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    " FURTHER SACRIFICES," GERMANS TOLD
    76 3 FURTHER SACRIFICES," GERMANS TOLD London, Saturday. The Germans W3 r e told of the necessity cr further heavy sacrifices in an official broadcast yesterday. The announcer declared: "".Ve are fully aware of the very difficult tasks that f till have to be performed. Thece tasks will heavily tax selfsacrifice boih
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    RUMANIA TO INTERN FOREIGNERS
    528 3 Bucharest, Saturday. THE Rumanian Government has taken 1 radical measures to guard against treachery. A decree Issued last night orders all foreigners with temporary visaes to leavj the country before the end of the month undei threat of being placed In concentration camps. Foreigners, such as
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    LIVING COSTS RISE 1 PER CENT. IN MONTH
    57 3 AT May 1, 1940, the official cost of living flgare was 80 points above the level of July, 1914, compared with 73 points at April 1, 1540. The rise of 2 points since April 1 is equivalent tc rather more than 1
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    Iceland Has "Legation" In London
    186 3 TWO fair-haired young men. working from a small office in Ryder Street, St. James's, are to-day Iceland's sole representatives in Britain. The senior of the two 33-year-old, Mr. Petur Benediktsson, descendant of Vikings, whose home is at Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, came to London at the
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    FURTHER GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS
    159 3 London, Saturday. FRTHER Government appointments are announced from No. 10, Downing Street, last night: Joint Parliamentary Under-Secrctaries of State for War Brig.-Gen Sir Henry Page-Croft and Sir Edward Grigg. financial Secretary to the War Office: Mr. Richard K. Law. Joint Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury: Capt. H.
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    PREMIER AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
    63 3 MR. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, in a letter to Mr. Neville Chamberlain states that as Prime Minister of a National government comprising three parties it would be better for him not to undertake the leadership of any one political party, and Mr. Churchill expresses the
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    STRINGENT CONTROL OF ALIENS IN SWEDEN
    32 3 Stockholm, Saturday. STILL more rigorous measures are being taken to control foreigners. S2arches are being conducted in private houses and private motor-cars iro being examined.— Reuter.
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    NIZAM'S NEW WAR GIFT
    56 3 Simla. Saturday. TniE Nizam of Hyderabad has offered Lord I Linllthgow, Viceroy of India, £50.000 'or >^c maintenance and equipment of the i Hyderabad air squadron, for which the Nizam .:ad previously Riven £100.000. It Is stated that the Hyderabad squadron i has already taken a
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    Three Men Now Direct All B. B. C. Broadcasts
    143 4 Three Men Now Direct All B. B. C. Broadcasts pHANGES announced by the 8.8.C. mean that all broadcasts are now directed by three men, writes the radio correspondent of the News-Chronicle. Basil Nicolls remains controller of programmes, except news, talks and overseas broadcasts. He will also direct the 8.8.C.'s listener
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    23 Nazi Reporters Killed At The Front
    50 4 TWENTY- three German war corres- pondents have been killed at the front since the beginning of the war, says the German news agency. Signal, Goebbels's new propaganda magazine, recently gave a page of war memorial cards of 15 reporters killed in the war.
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    New Source Of Power Claimed
    395 4 New Source Of Power Claimed rpHE isolation of a new sub- stance called U-235, a chemical twin of uranium, and a potential source of vast power, is announced by the Physical Review, writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The discovery, it is claimed, may prove to be
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    EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
    27 4 Five persons were injured and 10 houses collapsed when a strong earthquake shock rocked the village of Katouna In the Astacos district of north-western Greece.
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    William Powell Prefers Town Life By Brian Young
    261 5 William Powell Prefers Town Life By Brian Young WILLIAM Powell is perfectly content to live his life in a city house surrounded by only enough ground to accommodate a swimmijig pool and badminton court. The life of a rancher does not appeal to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star, and he wants no
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    A Voice Iti Two Films
    145 5 CLIFF Edwards, the voice of Jimmy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio," also has a voice in "Gone With The Wind." Engaged by Dave Selznick for "Wind." Edwards felt that a milestone in his histrionic career had arrived. Director Victor Fleming had him prepare with grease
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    Rita Hayworth Joins "Susan And God"
    102 5 Rita Hayworth Joins "Susan And God" COMPLETING tne cast of principals for "Susan And God," Rita Hayworth has been borrowed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from Columbia lor the glamour role of Leonora, the actress. Joan Crawford and Fredric March share the starring roles. Miss Hayworth joins a talent group which also includes
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    This Week's Films
    131 5 This Week's Films ALHAMBRA Now On The Spirit of the People"' (Raymond Mass^y. Gene Lockhart. Ruth Gordon. Mary Howard. Alan Baxter). R.K.0.-Radio drama Next Change The Fighting 69th." (James Cagney. Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale. Frank McHugh). Warner Bros, drama CAPITOL Now On: "Mutiny On The Bl^okhawk/'
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    When It's 1828 It Can't Be 1940
    232 5 When It's 1828 It Can't Be 1940 F takes an eagle eye and the constant use of it to prevent forty anachronisms a day on the set of Universal's "The House of Seven Gables," according to Phil Karlstein, harried assistant director on the picture. It Is pr.rt of Phil's Job
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    C. Aubrey Smith In "Waterloo Bridge"
    68 5 C AUBREY Smith begins his 48th year on the stage and screen with his selection for a leading ieatured role in "Waterloo Bridge." The veteran character actor plays an English general and nobleman, uncle of Robert Taylor, in the picturization of Robert Sherwood's stage
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    75 5 Ashley Cooper, who plays the part of a young man about town in "Tony Draws a Horse," the Island Committee's next production at the Victoria Theatre in aid of the Malaya Patriotic Fund. The show win he given on June 13, 21, 22, 28 and 29. Clarke Gable (Rhett Butler)
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    FROM ACHES AND PAINS TO 'WALKING ON AIR'l
    234 6 How A Woman Made Life Worth Living If you have an aching Joint or a stabbing pain, if you are always listless or suffer from constipation, read this letter every word of it "I was hardly ever free from aches and pains.
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1743 6  -  Nathaniel Gubbins TELEGRAM FROM MR. LUCIFER: Gubbins Surrey England In reply your inquiry this is certainly war between good and evil STOP most other wars between evil and evil STOP advise you come in my side now STOP make you field marshal miles behind line STOP
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    360,000 YEN CASE ENDS IN ACQUITTAL
    371 7 Inspector Says That Crown Intends To Lodge Appeal INDIAN IS CONVICTED ON SECOND CHARGE UAZOOR Singh Narulla, a Sikh who was charged with im- porting 360,000 Japanese yen, equivalent to about $192,000 (Straits), into the Colony without a licence from the Colonial Secretary, was
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    MR. B. F. BRIDGE FOR SINGAPORE
    83 7 'From Oi-r Own Correspondent.) Malacca. MR B. F. Bridce. District Judge, will bo relieving Mr. E. N. Taylor, Official Assignee, Singapore, who Roes on leave, on May 24. Mr. W. J. Thorogood. i First Magistrate. Kuala Lumpur, will succeed Mr. Bridge in Malacca A
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    Funeral Procession Stopped By Police
    72 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. 'THE finding of the body of a 1 still-born child in a dustbin here has resulted in the Seremban police stopping a Chinese funeral procession. The funeral is said to have been that of the mother of the child.
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    Four Park Jagas Convicted On Riot Charge ACQUITTAL OF SEVEN OTHERS
    413 7 Four Park Jagas Convicted On Riot Charge ACQUITTAL OF SEVEN OTHERS AFTER standing a prolonged trial, fuurof 11 jagas employed by the Happy World Amusement Park were convicted on a charge of rioting at the Park on the night of Feb. 3, in the Singapore criminal district court yesterday. The
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    NAZIS' MASCOT
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    LOCAL MUSEUM PUZZLED BY 12 FT. ANCHOR
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    NINE MONTHS ON BREACH CHARGE
    142 7 'From O'ir Own Correspondent.) Ipoh. A SENTENCE of nine months' rigorous imprisonment was passed by Mr. P. F. Y. Radcliffe, in the Ipoh First Magistrate Court, on a middle-aged Tamil, sinnapan, who was convicted on three charges of criminal breach ot trust in respect of
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    NEGRI ASSIZES
    59 7 sess'jn of the Negri Sembiiai Assizes will begin on May 27 at the Seremban Supreme Court. Among the cises on the list is the one in which D. J. White is accused of bigamy. There was a large gathering at the marriage of Inche Syed Jaafar of the
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    "Did Not Do It Alone," Says Burglar
    164 7 "Did Not Do It Alone," Says Burglar "I DID not do it alone," claimed Tamby bin Abdul Kadir while admitting a charge of attempting to commit burglary by breaking the padlock of a door to a house, In the Singapore criminal district court yesterday. Asking for a long term of
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    POLICE BAND AT THE GARDENS
    75 7 The Police Band v/ill play to-day at Botanic Gardens at 8.30 p.m. March Pot-Pourrl, passing of the Regiments (Selected Arranged by Aubrey Winter): Overture, Masaniello (Auber); Selection, My Son John (Oscar Straus); Musical Idiom, old Folks at Home and in Foreign Lands J. Roberts) Entr'acte
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    FIRST AID AWARDS
    82 7 DATO Hussain bin Md. Taib. Bentong District Officer, recently distribute! St. John first aid certificates to the following: Mrs. M. Gall, Mrs. M. Gre.n Mrs. R. Samuel, Mrs. L. Sinnadurai, Mrs M. Sundrim, Bhai Ram, Kok Yew Jin. Lakh Ram, E. Mailvaganam. T. K. Nadarajah, Sit Kee
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    92 8 Books Of The Week I Shall not Want. By Norman Collins. Gollancz. Bs. 6d. MR. Norman Collins Is one of the most versatile o' authors. His subjects range from the idiosyncrasies of commercial travellers to fantastic Southern American republics and business trips to Penang, and he writes with an ironic
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    Westerns
    752 8 The Tenderfoot. By Luke Allan. Jenkins' Colonial Library. Bad Hombre. By Wells Jerome. The Kingdom of Mesquite. By Ormand Clarkson. Roth from Ward Lock. 3s. 6d. each. MR. LUKE ALLAN makes things mor." difficult for himself by staging his Western stories in Canada, so that his bad men are
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    THE PRICE OF ONE TEMPTATION
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    In Germany And Austria
    453 8 Sacrifice to Mars. By Averil Mackenzie-Grieve. Hutchinson. Bs. 3d. Storm Cloud over Vienna. By OUa L. Rosmanith. Murray's Imperial Library. "CACRIFICE to Mars" is published In Messrs. Hutchlnson's First Novel Library, yet the book Itself is an extremely mature and interesting study of the forces which
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    Secrets Of The German War Office
    323 8 Secrets Of The German War Office Th e Secrets of the German War Office. By Armgaard Karl Graves. Werner Laurie. 3s. 6d. THIS is a reprint of a book originally published in September 1914. so that the information contained therein is hardly new: but it is none the less most
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    Adventure Stories
    259 8 Murder in the Stars. By Jonat!i<>» Stagge. Michael Joseph. Ss. 3d. Dynamite. By Victor Baylev. The Pay Out. By Peers Elliot. Both from Robert Hale. Bs. 3d. each. lONATHON Stagge" has written another excellent story round the adventures of his susceptible doctor friend. Westlake, and rls lively small
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      397 8 CONTRACT BRIDGE RICHARD T. GOODWIN of Baltimore. !>„ THE FOUR ACES Md.. writes: "It Is rare indeed XA when an opportunity for a Grand Coup if they were placed with East. On this presents itself, but when it does and assumption, Mr. Walker carefully its execution is planned in advance
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    CHINA GOODS UNDERVALUED AT CUSTOMS
    362 9 Merchant Fined $4,225 In Up-country Court His Business Methods Criticized (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. A FINE of 14.229 was imposed by the first magistrate, Mr. W. J. Thoroeood, when he found V.'ong Ngan Thin, owner of Chop Kam Tick, guilty of evading Customs
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    Eurasian Sent To Prison
    86 9 ALLEGED to have dishonestly retained stolen property, stated to be part of the proceeds of a $200 theft from a house in Joo Chiat Place, Luke Rodrlguese, 20-year-old Eurasian, was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by six months' police supervision in the
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    ISLAMIC MISSION
    54 9 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang. Saturday. •pUAN Hajl Ibrahim Matin, n, leader of the Islamic Goodwill Mission from China, said in an interview here that Malayan Muslims are sending a goodwill mission to China in the near future., comprising four delegates from the F.M.S., three from the Colony
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    "Had Samsu For Relief Of Pain"
    260 9 "Had Samsu For Relief Of Pain" (Fram Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat, Saturday. '(I HAD pains in the stomach and 1 was told that samsu would give me relief, so I procured the lhiucr from the cheapest possible source," declared Ng Choon, a Hokkien, when produced befOTe Mr. K. G. A.
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    KLANG HIGH SCHOOL OLD BOYS
    85 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Klang. AT the inaugural meeting of the Old Boys ot the High School, Klang, following were elected offlce-beareis: President, C. W Bloomneld: vice-presi-dent, V. K. Chlnmah; honorary secretary Mohamed Nor bin Abu Nawas: honorary treasurer. Yeow Bin Chlat; committee, Teh Chin
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    SPECIAL SERVICES NEXT SUNDAY
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    European Not To Blame For Road Accident
    256 9 A EUROPEAN, William Neville Rothery, was yesterday exonerated by the acting Singapore Coroner. Mr. W. McQuarrie, at the conclusion of an inquiry into the death of an Indian cyclist, All Ahmad, who died from injuries received in a collision with a car driven
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    INDIAN SOLDIER NOT GUILTY OF MURDER
    282 9 INDIAN SOLDIER NOT GUILTY OF MURDER AFTER a retirement lasting three hours and 20 minutes, at th#» assizes yesterday afternoon, the special lory trying the case in which a 20 -year-old Indian soldier. Dial Singh, was charged with the murder of Sgt. Rakhta Singh, of the 1:15. Punjab Regiment, returned
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    School Children's Art Show
    166 9 TPHE fourth inter-school art exhibl- tlon will be held on June 11, 12 and 13. from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., in St. Andrew's School Hall, Stamford Road. The exhibition will be opened by Major General L. V. Bond, G.O.C Malaya, at 5 p.m. on Monday,
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    SOVIET ECONOMY
    74 9 OOVIET ECONOMY is the title of a talk to be given by Dr. T. H. Silcock. Professor of Economics at Raffles College from the Singapore station to-morrow at 7.30 p.m. This talk follows Dr. Silcock's previous talk on Nazi economy. He explains the essential dilference between the two
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    Eurasian Girl GukW Corrrrnv Formed
    6 9 Eurasian Girl GukW Corrrrnv Form ed
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    GRAMOPHONE IN TRUST CHARGE
    119 9 I EE Soo Hor, a 21-year-old Cantonese, appeared in the third court yes terday on a charge of criminal breach of trust In respect of a gramophone and a number of records, valued at $50. the property of Kong Chiang Chow. Lee said that he was
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    Tailor's Shop Broken Into
    114 9 'THIS has got to stop." warned Mr. J. McFall, Singapore Criminal District Judge, yesterday addressin? Ng Tong, a 24-year-old Cantonese whom he had convicted on a charge of house-breaking and committing theft of two rolls of cloth. Ng Tong. who admitted a previous conviction for house-breaking,
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    THAI KING MAY GO TO AMERICA
    709 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Saturday. TPHE Premier, on behalf of the Coun- cil of Ministers, has telegraphed to the Kins urging that as Switzerland Is unsafe the King should proceed to America or return to Thailand in order to continue his education. Tha
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    1252 10 munlcation from Eng and bearing one of those transparent "windows which combine the address on the envelope with that of the letter inside. "He was puzzled because the address said 'Transport Department, H. Dibley. F.M.F.' Inside was an advice slip concerning some aluminium solder ordered by Fry's
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    41 10 Members of the Geographical Society of the High School, Klanr, who cycled all over Selanfor vlsltinc places of reographlcal Interest during the first term holidays. Mr. A. Raiak Khan, who was in charge of the party, is on the extreme right.
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      389 10 ipßllJlj ■x I X 584 -74 tMtt* Moricnts, pout sukught, uamo. sngland. Aslhma Agony Curbed in 10 Minutes Since the discovery of Mendaco by an enables you to sleep, but also builds up the American physician it is no longer neces- system to ward off future attacks. For ineary for
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    Australian Tribute To The British Soldier
    396 11 Australian Tribute To The British Soldier '••THERE must be withdrawals in every war, but the British Empire can have every confidence in the British and French troops to stop the Germans," was the emphatic assertion of Mr. Frederick E. Baume, editor and war correspondent of a group of Sydney newspapers,
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    "N. 1. PREPARED FOR ANY EVENTUALITY"
    266 11 "N. 1. PREPARED FOR ANY EVENTUALITY" ALTHOUGH the Netherlands Indies were prepared up to the hilt for any eventuality, there was no fear amon? the people that the status quo of the islands would nit be maintained, not only by thr belligerents hut also by other interested nations, said Jonkheei
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    HISTORY OF THE STRAITS
    908 11 THERE is a man in Singapore whose job deals solely with the history of the Straits Settlements. He never looks to the future, but concentrates on bringing into clear relief the faith, hopes and fears expressed by administrators of the past in the future of the
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    Yesterday's Weddings
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    Underwood-Thomas
    128 11 UnderwoodThomas D Q. M. S. Richard Underwood, attached to Headquarters. Force Emu. was married to Miss Doris Myf anwy Thomas yesterday at th 2 Missions to Seamen Chapel, Singapore. The bridegroom Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Underwood, of Matlock, Derbyshire, and the bride is the daughter
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    MALACCA ROTARIANS
    59 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. AT a meeting of the Rotary Club of Malacca the following were elected office-bearers President, L. A. S. Jermyn: vice-president. Chan Choo Tiong: hon. secretary, K. T. Joseph; hon. treasurer, Chua Poh Slang; ser-geant-at-arms, Tan Eng Chye; directors Ho Seng Ong, F.
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    ROAD ACCIDENTS
    67 11 A CHINESE cyclist, who is reported tn have been knocked down by a motor f*ar in Thomson Road last night, died before the arrival of the ambulance. At the junction or North Bridge Road and Tan Quee Lan Street ear.ier in the day. a Chinese woman, who fe
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    Sta Maria-Pestana
    218 11 MR. Thomas Sta Maria, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. Sta Maria, of Kuala Lumpur, was married at the St. Joseph's Church yesterday tv Miss Grace Pestana, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Y. A. Pestana. The Rev. Father B. Dias took the service and
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    WOMAN WHO TRIED TO HANG HERSELF
    75 11 (From Our Own Correspondent. > Muar, Saturday. "I PLEAD guilty; I beg for leniency and I will not dare to do It again," said a middle-aged woman named Teo Twak when she pleaded guilty before Inche Haron bin Ahmad to a charge of having
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    Maggie Tan Back From England
    234 11 Maggie Tan Back From England NOW A DOCTOR MISS Maggie Tan, first girl In Malaya to win the coveted Queen's Scholarship she did it in 1931 has returned to Singapore after nine years in London. She is now Dr. Maggie Tan. After an absence of nine years, Dr. Tan rinds
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    At The Cinema
    164 11 THE ALHAMBRA CILMED entirely in natural colour r Isle of Destiny," an R-K-O Radio picture which had a midnight premiere at the Alhambra cinema last night, is good entertainment. William Gargan, Wallace Ford and June Lang have the leading parts and perform with credit. THE CAPITOL A
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    WESAK DAY
    30 11 H7ESAK day will be celebrated on Tuesday at Sakya Muni Buddha Temple, Race Course Road, Singapore. The Buddhists of Singapore ar*> cor* dially Invited to attend this festival.
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    Allies9 Task
    770 12 Allies 9 Task THE fate of our country and tha'. of our Allies, and the destinies of the world, depend on the battle now in progress. British, Belgian and Polish soldiers and foreign volunteers are fighting at our side and tha Royal Air Force is taking its full part with
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    Thyssen Warned Hitler
    505 12 Paris, May 3. LJERR FRITZ THYSSEN, the pov.vrful German industrial magnate of other days and a backer of the Nazis at their beginning, now having broken with Hitler, is publishing his correspondence with Goering and Hitler from his retreat in Switzerland, where he took refuge last autumn,
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    PRIVATE JONES
    188 12 When the strategists are cornered And their plans are in a mess And the little hives of Whitehall Hum with murmurs of distress And the military experts Take a strafing from the Hun And you're feeling ruddy awful There's just one thing to be done Leave the blinkin'
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    "They Shall Not Pass"
    119 12 Behold, ye rolling orbs, that hold high state. Amid the spheral splendours of the night, We have not lost our ancient gust for fight But kept our souls unsullied and yet great: The carth 9 s enfranchisement was dedicate Unto our cherishing, and for the Right
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    YUGOSLAV BAN ON GERMANS
    241 13 HERR ESSER, German Secretary of State for Touring, has broken short his visit to Belgrade and flown off to Berlin in a huff. German official quarters announced that his sudden departure was due merely to "internal reasons." I learn, however, that he left because of extreme
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    R.A.F. PILOTS TO BE TRAINED IN FRENCH EMPIRE
    224 13 FRANCE is to join in the pilot training scheme which is part of the Allies' great drive to obtain supremacy in the air. Training schools will shortly be opened in France and in parts of the French Empire. British and French pilots
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    8.8.C. Empire Announcer Fined
    65 13 HUGH Venablts, a BBC. announcer, of Hartington-Road, Chiswlck, was fined £7 at Richmond for driving at 28 m.p.h. in the black-out. He was said to work on Empire broadcasts and use his car for getting home at 3 a.m. Two previous convictions were reported, but because
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    Tennis Star Now In Uniform
    48 13 ADMAN (luist, one of the most popular of Australian tennis stars, has now completed his three months' military training at Victoria. Like many other Australian leading sportsmen he has sacrificed his snort in order to undergo a sperial training period in the Militia.
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    SUBVERSIVE LEAFLETS
    40 13 Subversive leaflets printed In French and many photographs purporting to show crimes committed by the Poles against women and children have been discovered at Verviers West station by a Customs officer. The box had been sent from Germany.
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    Georges Carpentier Referees
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    Nazi Pilots9 New Bluff
    116 13 Nazi Pilots 9 New Bluff ■THE R.A.F. has discovered a Nazi trick which aims at deceiving our pilots into believing that enemy bombers have been fatally damaged when in fact they have not, writes the Sunday Chronicle air correspondent. Nazi machines are carrying supplies of black smoke-making material in containers
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    Sam Was 'Drinks Stop Play' Man
    123 13 Sam Was 'Drinks Stop Play' Man 'TMIK man who so often inter rupted play at Lord's by bringing out a tray of drinks for thirsty cricketers died on May 3 aged 69. He was Sam Beton, Lord's dressingroom attendant for more than thirty years. He was known to every Test
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    Queen Wilhelmina Sets Up A Record
    143 13 QUEEN WILHELMINA has set up a new record. She has now had the longest reign of any Netherlands sovereign nearly 42 years. She has now reigned longer than her father William 111., who was on the throne from 1849 to 1890. Queen Wilhelmina. who
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    Chaucer's English
    141 13 Still Survives In Dialect Of Missouri A SURVEY which appears in "American Speech" of dialect used by the inhabitants of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri emphasises that the dialect is a survival of early English rather than a degradation of language. As with Pope and his contemporaries, the
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    BITTEN IN THROAT BY HIS TEETH
    125 13 BITTEN IN THROAT BY HIS TEETH A TENNIS player who bit his own throat is one of the freak accident claims compiled by an American life insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. The accident occurred when the player slipped in lunging after a hard-hit ball. His Jaws came together so hard
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    Polar Flier Defied Nazis
    34 13 CAPTAIN Rliser Larsen, who accompanied Roald Amundsen on two polar flights, was killed when he refused to surrender Pornebo airfield, Oslo, after Germans sent an ultimatum, says a Stockholm message.
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    124 13 CYUXEV Wooderson, holder of the world mile track record, has resigned from the London Auxiliary Fire Service following a dispute about time lor training and fulfilling running- engagement*. He hoped to da some running this season, so rang up the Fire Brigade's Amateur Athletic Association asking how he could get
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      580 13 DO YOU FEEL j£% AFTER LUNCH fflm^ TF you feel exhausted after a few Start taking Wincarnis at oncaj •■-houri' work in the morning and and regain whole-day energylunch leaves you drowsy and energy that enables you to work lethargic, it can mean only one hard and to enjoy your
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    Fraser & Co/s Singapore Share Quotations
    490 14 Fraser Co/s Singapore Share Quotations UKBfcNTLKfcS AND LOANS 0% Maynard and Co, 130.000 tnt Apr M Oct SI M. OO 100.0(1 ran SIKGAPOI* MUNICITAI. 6% 1901 red 30.9.40 1400.900 interest Mai 31, Sept. 30 100 101 oom C.I. 4V4% 1901 red. 30.847 51.800.000 tat tUt 31, Sept. 30 10* 108
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    • BRITISH FACTORIES' BIG EXPORT
    139 14 BRITISH FACTORIES' BIG EXPORT London, May 17. TCIE increase of £6,<h/ u ,uoo in United Kingdom exports In April, compared with March, was due principally to the larger exports of manufactured goods, the total value of which, at £39,000,000, was 16V 2 per cent, higher than the month before. The
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    95 14 Saturday. May 18. noon. Buyers Seller* Price* Price* No. IX R.SB. (Spot loose) 38' i 38* No IX R.S.S lob ID i-ASCt May- June Sellers option 38 S 39 (J.r.A.t). X.8.8 lao Id d la May- Jane Sellers option 37)4 38 r A.Q Ksd ion
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    FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS
    1103 14 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Commodity Prices Still At High Levels Singapore, Saturday. IN spite of disquieting war news, the markets this week have been remarkably steady. As in previous weeks, there has been very little business but there has also been a complete absence of selling pressure. In
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    New Premises For Robinsons
    213 14 ROBINSON AND COMPANY, LTD., will move into new premises about the middle of next year, it was announced by the chairman, Mr. W. H Macgregor, at the annual meeting of the company yesterday. The present premises which the company has occupied since 1891, "are not sufficient
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    612 14 fclce quoted per keyan M plculs. Other eammodltles quoted per picaL except •here otberwiae stated BY THE SUNDAY, TIMES FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT been particularly strong. After th« first burst of wild buying last week as a result of the Invasion of the Low Countries, the demand eased slightly,
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    SPY IN LOVE WITH COUNTER-SPY
    320 15 Shoots Girl And Himself After She Had Exposed Him To Gestapo Bucharest, Apr. 25. COR more than a fortnight now a German man and woman have been lying in the Bucharest mortuary waiting for some one to claim them for burial, writes Sefton Delmer, Daily
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    Chamberlain's Peace Flight Pilot Killed
    112 15 THE third of three pilots associated with Mr. Chamberlain's political flights to Germany has been killed. He is Capt. D. S. Kinu. a 33-year-old Londoner, who with his first officer and radio officer was found dead near Loch Lomond in the wreckage of an Airways
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    Champion Typist Hates "Was"
    109 15 "II7AS Is a bogey v.ord to Miss Grace Phelan, world's champion typist, who earned her title by striking 20.453 keys at the rate of II 1 2 keys a second and made only 11 errors. The reason is that she cannot make her ring-finger and her
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    OPEL CAR MAGNATE TO BE RELEASED
    89 15 Gibraltar. HERR Fritz von Opel, the German motor manufacturer, who was removed by the British authorities at Gibraltar from the Italian liner Conte dl Savoia, is to be released. An official statement issued by the British naval authorities says: 'When the Conte di Savoia
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    Aged 36, Mother Of 12 Children
    79 15 MRS. Editn Reay, of Burnley Road, Blackburn, who has given birth to triplets, two girls and a boy, now has 12 children, including twins. The triplets are healthy children and the mother who Is aged 36, is making good progress. Her eldest child is
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    Showgirls' Friend MRS. E. COMPTON IS DEAD
    182 15 Showgirls' Friend MRS. E. COMPTON IS DEAD MRS. EDWARD COMPTON, beauty of the Victorian drama, mother of famous children, and the chorus girls' "fairy godmother," died on May 4, aged 87. She was the mother of Compton Mackenzie, the famous novelist, and Fay Compton, the stage star. During her stage
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    SOVIET WILL GET GOLD, COAL, FROM POLAR REGIONS
    196 15 SOVIET WILL GET GOLD, COAL, FROM POLAR REGIONS Moscow. SOVIET Polar regions will supply coal, oil, gold, tin, nickel, molybdenum and mica, as well as timber and furs for many parts of the I.S.S.R. in 1950, according to Ivan Papanin, chief of the North Pole drifting laboratory and now head
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    Britain Finding Graf Spec's Secrets
    170 15 FROM its grave in the mud of the River Plate estuary the scuttled pocket battleship Graf Spec is yielding some of Germany's most cherished secrets to British naval experts. The work of dismantling the partially submerged wreckage is proceeding methodically, and though it was announced
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    EXPLORATION BY SUBMARINE
    179 15 Sir Hubert Wilkins' Polar Plans DESPITE the war. Sir Hubert Wilkins, the explorer, is continuing experiments for sailing under the Arctic ice in a pocket submarine." He wants to set up a weather station near the Pole. His Dlans are to sail his craft from Fort McMurray,
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    REMOTE LHASA BECOMING A MODERN CITY
    179 15 piGHTEEN hundred cases of British machinery were carried by coolies and mules over precipitous mountain paths to equip a generating plant just supplied for Lhasa, the forbidden city of Tibet. British enterprise is helping to transform this remote capital, home of the Dalai Lama,
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    Adviser To Lloyd George Dies At 50
    189 15 Adviser To Lloyd George Dies At 50 LIEUT.-COL. T. F. TWEED, chief of staff and political adviser to Mr. Lloyd George since 1928, died on Apr. 30, aged 50. Mr. Lloyd George said. "Col. Tweed was one of the most capable and experienced political organizers in this country. "His record
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    2947 15 A MERCHANT Navy man's tribute to the Royal Navy was paid in his own language by A.B. Jesse Jones, of Hull, a grey-haired sea-dog who has been nearly 50 years afloat. Jones was aboard the British ore ship Mersington Court in Narvik when the Germans captured
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    What The Stars Foretell
    745 16  -  By R.H. Naylor Hollywood, Mar. 17. fONSTANCE Moore has purchased a tricky, twopiece, grey silk crepe spring ensemble. The dress has cartridge pleating at the bodice waistline. The coat has wide, loose panels at the front sides, which start at the shoulders in cartridge pleats and
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    39 16 George Forniby is back in London after a four weeks' concert trur o' Mm B.E.I 1 •>• Prance. He i> seen here ai his London flat with his wife, Beryl, unpacking souvenirs presented by toe troops v unrig his iwur.
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      423 16 THIS WEEK FOR YOU LJERE, grouped according to JUNE (May 22— June 22) month of birth (irrespec- Earl V mid-week brings much activity and perhaps tome changes. A spot of worry tive of year), la a statement aoout domestic affairs. A mend gets into of probabilities to be expected difficulties—,
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    A Twisted Scarf
    77 17 HAVE you thought of making a hat from a scarf? Shetland wool scarves are the secrets of many delightful millinery successes this season. The scarves are twisted into toques and turbans, and in dark colours they are rich-looking and flattering. But for party occasions, pale colours yellows,
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      34 17 Practical And Trim vv T»HIS practical and attractive A top coat is made in a check of brown and yellow. It swings at the back a little, and buttons closely all down the front.
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      258 17 In Only 7 Days -This Amazing Change Mki Dorothy Bramball, 16, Southwood House, Southwood Rd., London, England hrn expressed her amazement at the astonishing effect of this New Beauty Treatment even in one week. R |LH£| I L ".^BcS y ja^ HgPy t^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ lads unbelievable bul U In one short
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    Beauty Tips For Those Women With Oblong Faces
    799 18 Beauty Tips For Those Women With Oblong Faces WOMEN whose faces are of the oblong type like Rosalind Russell's should not accentuate this basic shape, either through the* mrtiinm of make-up or coiffure. The long and comparatively narrow countenance presented by this facial type can be very attractive when its
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    Blouse Button
    683 18 •ATTRACTIVE buttons to trim a A frock or blouse are essential to its smartness, and if you wculd give the garment the most professional finish possible, you will make your own buttons, either by crochetting little circles and covering button moulds with these, or by using linen buttons.
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      24 18 Colour To Her Head J^ILLINERS are making toques from almost every material. Hero ITI is a conspicuously pretty design shaped from striped blue-and-grey silk.
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    Looking Languid
    83 19 IT is a great mistake 'hese days to think a pale complexion in any way interesting." It is more likely to be thought an indication of neglected health. If your face is broad, use a little rouge low on your cheeks, and near your nose. A thin face
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    An Oven Apron
    102 19 AN oven apron is one of those small kitchen items which would not exist if it didn't serve a useful purpose. It is usually made from coarse crash, and always ties firmly around the waist, and has two deep padded pockets which are useful for lifting hot
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    Escalloped Potatoes And Mushrooms
    100 19 Escalloped Potatoes And Mushrooms 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 1 cup milk 5 cups cooked potatoes, sliced 1 2 teaspoon salt i pinch pepper 1 tablespoon chopped onion 6 tablesroons buttered broad crums or cornflakes. Empty the cream of mushroom soup in a saucepan and stir well. Then
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    Egg And Anchovy Dressing
    68 19 1 tablespoon dry mustard 3 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon anchovy pasta 1 cup salad oil \'z cup vinegar 3 4 cup condsnsed tomato soup 1 hard-cooked egg, chopped Combine dry mustard, sugar, salt and anchovy paste. Then add salad oil. vinegar and tomato
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      757 20 EVEN MORPHIA did not stop her .STOMACH iWp^k *5» i Have you ever known the des- How pain is driven away by pair and haunting dread that Maclean Brand Stomach Powder comes with unbearable suffering j Almost form rf st()mach that nothing relieves? Then you trouble is due to excess
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      2135 20 Wireless Programmes TO-DAY EMPIRE STATION j NIROM w% 0%.w%w» The following is a summary of the 8.8.C. *UD 9.65 mcs (31.20 «n.) YDA 601 mcs SIinGArOKL overseas programme: <«-6 m.); PMN lu.Jii iocs (ftil in.); YDB 6.05 p.m. Piano recital; 6.25 p.m. Music by 11.86 mcs (25.3 m.) VDC 15.16
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    SINGAPORE BADMINTON ASSOCIATION MEETING
    161 21 Changes In Committee <By Our Badminton CorrespondonO rE eleventh annual general meetIng of the Singapore Badminton! Association '.ield last week proved to be a very brirf affair, there being prac- j tically no questions asked on the re- port and accounts submitted at th-r meeting. However,
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    MAKEPEACE B.P.
    181 21 In a friendly badminton match played on the home court last Sunday, the Makepeace BP. beat the Sykes B.P. by five games «.o two. Results (Makepeace first): M. A. Lange bsat Max de Souza 15—1, 15—9; W. Dana beat John Klyne 15—6, 15—9; C. P. Lnnge beat K.
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    \i.\KIGOLD B.P.
    599 21 At the eleventh annual general meetlnj ot the Marigold E.P. hold last JSunday tho following were elected efflce-bearers: Preu(itiU, Goh T~ck Ec; vice-presidents. Koh Hun Quee. Kftong Wocn Kc.v, Tan Chorg X.at. Rim Hoon Seng; hon. secretary. Tay Bon^! Boo; hon. treasurer. Ng Chia Heng; hoi. asst. secretary.
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    Garrison Sports Notes
    2191 21 THE Services were good value for their mone? in their match with the Saigon touring football team, beating them by four goalo to one. Tills season the Services side appears to be better than last year. Playing together for the first time, their combination and understanding was
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    REVIEW OF THE TRIANGULAR BADMINTON TOURNAMENT
    1655 21 ONCE again Perak failed In her quest for the coveted Leong Sin Nam Cup which Penang retained for the second time In the sixth triangular badminton meeting between Penang, Perak and Selangor which ended on Monday in one of the closest encounters seen. This
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    FINAL DAY OF THE PEN ANG RACES
    749 22 FINAL DAY OF THE PEN AN G RACES Good Dividends Paid (From Our Own Correspondent) Penan?, Saturday. THKKi: was a good attendance and good dividends were paid on the final day of the Penang Turf Club's extra meeting to-day. The going was heavy, as intermittent rain had fallen in the
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    Manchesters Beat The Loyals
    1132 22 THE Manchester P.eglment beat the Loyal Regiment at cricket at Tanglin yesterday by six wickets. lOYALS Ccoper lbw.. b Pic'.:bs 4 Frecmsn c Gardner b Gldham 10 Clancy b Pickles 6 Roberts lbw, b Gardner 35 Burden c Gunning b Gardn?r 21 Parkinson not out 31
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    M.C.U. Beat The R.E. (Changi)
    207 22 I HE Medical College Unicn yesterday beat the R.E. (Changi) by 40 runs In their cricket fixture played at Changi yesterday. R.E. CHANGI Hibbard c Durairatnam b Alvis 0 Webb b Hera Singh 9 S. M. Ally c Ebert b Swee Law 1 Dowling c
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    Le Mercier's 90 Not Out For V.M.C.A.
    186 22 A DRAW was the result of the V .MCA. —lndian Association cricket match yesterday on Balestier Plain. V.M.C.A. Suratta c and b Bhatri 59 Goldsmith c Retnasamy b Bhatri.. 13 Nathaniel c Varma b Fernandez 2 E. Le Mercler not out 90 S.
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    NEGRI CLUB TEAM
    62 22 THE Negri Sembilan Club of Seremban will meet the Tampin. Recretatlon Club at cricket on Sunday at Tampin. The N. S. Club will be represented by: W. Seneviratne, Lee Moh Hon, A Kunaretnam, B. J. D.onysius, J. E. Edmonds, V. S. Thamboe, Chua Huat Seng, F. de
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    MUAR CUSTOMS BEAT FOUNTAIN
    296 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. IN an even and keenly contestea tirst division soccer match the Custom' Sports Club narrowly beat the Fountain football team (champions of the second division last .year) by fie odd goal in three. On rhe run of the play ire Fountain
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    Seven Runs' Win For Chinese
    182 22 PIE Straits Chinese R.C. beat St. Joseph's Institution by seven runs at cricket on Hong Lim Green yesterday. S.JI. T. Campbell b Kerg Siew 11 D. Conceicao b Keng Siew 4 D. Woodford c Kee Ngiap bL. P. Tan 24 C. Campbell run out 4
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    Airmen's Team Too Good For Boys
    215 22 AN R.A.F. (Seletar) cricket team beai St. Andrews School by 65 runs en the school ground yesterday. R.A.F. (Seletar) L. A. C. Moore b Meyer 21 L. A. C. Winfleld b Hope 7 Cpl. Thompson b Meyer 12 Sgt. Burt c Lim Koon b
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    Fernando Retires With Score 55
    240 22 A Singapore Recreation Club team were well beaten when they met a Ceylon Sports Club side in a cricket match at Balestler yesterday. Scores SRC. O. C. Aerla lbw., Thuraislngham 1 J d'Almeida c Perera b Pereira 1 L. d'Almeida b Thuraisingham 2 R. Minjoot
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    S. C. C. Draw With S.R.C.
    209 22 ■yilE S.C.C. and S.R.C. drew at cricket on the padang yesterday. S.C.C. J. B. H. Leckie lbw Labrooy 8 G. W. S. Waites b P. de Souza 9 J. W. Ewart b Labrooy 15 Capt. E. Dynes c P. de Souza b Labrooy 42
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    Schools' Close Game
    211 22 THE Anglo-Chinese school yeskrday beat Raffles Institution by six runs in their cricket fixture p'.ayed on the latter's ground. ANGLO: CHINESE SCHOOL Un Hon Wing c Sivalingam b Ponnambalam 25 Tan Hock Chye run out 6 Cheong Thiam Swee lbw Vijaratnam 9 Au Tat Chu c Vijaratnam
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    MALAY SCHOOLS* DRILL AND GAMES .
    83 22 MALAY SCHOOLS* DRILL AND GAMES (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. TTHE finals of the Malay Schools annual drill and games competitions will take place at Bandar Hillr Park on May 23, at the conclusion or which Mrs. W. S. Ebden will distribute the trophies. The following schools, winners of
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    POWER STATION B.P.
    118 22 (From Our Own Correspondent! Muar. Saturday. The Power Station B.P. beat the Muar Hospital S.C. by five matches to two. Results (Power station first): Johari bin IsmMl beat A. V. Nathan 15—9. 15—3: Khoo Hon;: Kirn beat Lim Hock Seng 15—10. 15—*; Basit b?at Syed Ahmad 11—
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    R.A.F. And Army Meet At Seletar
    195 22 I "HE Royal Air Force and Army began a two-day cricket match at Seletar yesterday. Batting firsi the R.A.F. knocked up 115 runs. Their first two wickets tell for eight runs. Then Spencer and Stevens took the score to 94 for 4 before the
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    A.P.C. Lose To An S. C. C. Team
    229 22 PLAYING on their home ground at Paya Lebar yesterday, the A.P.C. lost by 29 runs to an SC.C. team. A.P.C. C. J. Jennings c Gill b Pinhey 8 Chin Hee Hin c Da vies b Johnson-HiH 3 R. A. Laurie run out
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    Teachers Beat An S. R. C. Team
    228 22 THE Singapore Teachers beat an SRC. team by 65 runs in their cricket fixture on the padang yesterday. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION Low Kee Pew b Jansen 12 Tharam Singh b W. Ess 10 V Paramsothy b Loveday 31 H. N. Balhetchet b W. Ess
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    V. S. O. BADMINTON
    95 22 In a friendly badminton match against the Catholic Young Men's Association at the latter's court, the V.S badminton team of the Naval Bas<* won by four games to one. Result* (V.S.O. first) Paul Llm beat G. V. Santhou 10—15. 15—3, B—s retired i; Stephen Chew, wo
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    SINGAPORE CIVILIANS BEAT SAIGON TOURISTS 1-0
    290 23 SINGAPORE CIVILIANS BEAT SAIGON TOURISTS 1-0 IN spite of fielding a stronger team than the one which lost to the Combined Services on Thursday, the Saigon football tourists were beaten for a scond time at the stadium yesterday, losing to the Singapore civilian team by the only goal of the
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    Johore Cup Soccer
    777 23 (From Our Own Correspondent* Muar. JOHORE cpens her H.M.S. Malaya Cup soccer programme on June 1, when the Sultanate will be at home to Malacca. The progress of Johore in the Malaya Cup competition this year will be followed with greater interest than in previous years on
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    Championship 1 ennis 1 les
    379 23 Championship 1 ennis 1 les TIES for Monday and Tuesday in the Singapore lawn tennis championships are MONDAY AT S.C.C. M:n's Single;: s. A. Dawood vs. Low Keo Pew, T. Kobayashi vs. R. P. Smith, Choo Keng Kiat vs. Pang Chiap Yong, I. B. Abed vs. H. C. Lim. P.
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    CHANG SENG LONG CUP
    71 23 'From Our Own Corrasoondent) Seremban. IN the Chang Seng Long Cup lawii tennis tnter-club tournament the Nei'ri Sembiian Chinese Recreation Club "A" team beat the N.S. Club. "A" t T.m 3—o and th? N.S. Jnpanese Association "A" team beat Ulii Muar CluD 3—o. The Singapore Civilians
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    SA.F.A. LEAGUE TABLES
    521 23 r TV A-'. J-'. MT LO IS X3 1 2 45 11 26 Oversea C. Bank 15 11 2 2 51 12 24 Hongkong Bank 13 9 3 J 40 16 19 Wcarnes 15 8 6 1 29 26 17 A.P.C 12 7 4 143 23 15
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    Football
    321 23 THIRD round results In the F.A. war-time cup competition are Fulham 2 Note. Forest 0 Everton 1 Stc'.ce O HuddcnsSeld 3 West Ham S (after extra timei Coventry 0 West Eromwleh 1 (after extra tlme> 3arnrley 0 Blackpool 1 Arsenal 1 Birmingham 2 Elrckbur-i 3 Sunderland 2 Newcastle J
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    Segamat Beat Muar At Cricket
    264 23 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. RAIN and failing light robbed the Muar Cricket Club of the chance Of avenging a previous cricket defeat sustained at the hands of the Segareat Cricket Club, when these two sides met at Muar. In the first match Segamat won
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    INTER-VARSITY ATHLETICS WON BY CAMBRIDGE
    29 23 London, Saturday. CAMBRIDGE beat Oxford by 67 points to 49 in the return intervarsity athletlcn. Cambridge won nin? events and Oxford f our. Reuter.
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    Batu Pahat Junior Inter-Club Tennis
    301 23 Batu Pahat. THE final of the Junior inter-club tennis tournament started on Saturday between the Chinese Recreation Club and the Batu Pahat Malay Club. The first two matches will be the firsr, and second singles, the other three cames to be played on Sunday and
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    MALACCA ATHLETICS
    44 23 T^HE fifth annual inter-school sports for Chinese schools will be held at the Fish School ground on May 24 md 25 Mrs. W. S. Ebden will give away ths prizes and trophies at the conclusion of the sports on the second day.
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    SINGAPORE AND NEGRI TO MEET AT CRICKET?
    141 23 SINGAPORE AND NEGRI TO MEET AT CRICKET? (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. SINGAPORE cricketers want a game with Negri Sembiian. According to the Singapore Free Press of May 17 'a State game with Negri Sembiian rou i do much to keep interest alive in cricket during the interval between
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    PENALTY DECIDES THE ISSUE
    254 23 (From Our Own Correspondents Muar. UCK favoured the Government Offices when they met the Johore Military Forces in a first division league match played at the Muar Club padang. A penalty awarded them a minute before half time saw Osman Hussan scoring what proved to be
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    North Johore Cricket
    290 23 •From Our Own Ccrr-spondent) Segamat. BATSMEN are doing better tnan bowlers in North Johoro cricket this season and several good scores have been put up by Genuang and Se^amat players but nothing conspicuous has been achieved with the balL D. S. Matthews of Genuang tops the batting
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    POLICE WIN CRICKET BY FIVE WICKETS
    31 23 POLICE beat the HAT. (Tenf cricket at the Depot ycsterdr.y. Police scored 185 rurs for five wickets while the RAF <verr; all "Ut for 33.
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    V.M.C.A. TENNIS
    59 23 TPHE semi-finals of the men's d rubles championship la the V.M.C A. lawn tennis tournament, which were play:d yec.erci "d as fellows: Kr.mls and Wee En 3 Hock beat I A. Alsagoff and A. I. Pereira 6 2. I P. C. Tan and T. H. Tan beat Koh
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    MALACCA SHOOTING
    57 23 (From Our Own Correspondent i Malacra. Baturday. WINNERS in the monthly s;uot of the Ifalaeea Volunteer Corps B.R.A. lor May: Class "A" r.^tt. C.G M.I. B. Beadneli, 8C; Class "A" handicap. Cpi. Hassan bin Tawl. 02.29; Class "B" nrtt, P. l o Tnn Soon Gnan. 70: Class "B"
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES
    34 24 The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. 439 Sunday, May 19, 1940 Price 10 Cents A.T.S. women are in charge of several of the telephone exchanges behind th« lines In France
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    Auxiliary Territorial Service Women Behind The Lines
    18 24 Auxiliary Territorial Service Women Behind The Lines A picture taken in the headquarters of the A.T.S. in France.
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    Big Gun On Tractor
    39 24 This formidable looking trench p.^c oi artillery mounted on a tractor, which permits manoeuvring over the roughest of territory, is being driven on to a freight truck en route for the front line in France.
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    "Lame Duck Gets Home"
    83 24 A LOCKHEED Hudson of the R.A.F. Coastal Command, received direct hits from anti-aircraft euns when on reconnaissance over Norway. Shells pierced both wings and shrapnel spattered the fuselage, starboard engine and punctured the right tyre. A petrol tank was holed and many gallons of spirit were
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