The Straits Times, 12 October 1941

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  • 37 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FlNAL**** No. 512 Sunday. October 12, 1941 Price 10 Cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya fo. 512 Sunday. October 12. 1941 Prlco 10 Cents
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  • 919 1 New Divisions Thrown Into Central Front Battle Progress Only By Superiority In Numbers Of Men, Tanks And Planes THK Germans in their gigantic pincer drive towards Moscow have advanced both from the west in the Vyazma area and from the south in the Bryansk sector.
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  • 33 1 London, Saturday. THK Royal Air Force sank a (.■■(•man ship in the entrance to Stavanger, blocking the harbour, according to the Exchange Telegraph's Gothen burg corresponent. United Press.
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  • 289 1 Tank Attacks On Tobruk NAZIS ESCAPE IN DARKNESS FOR .he third niht In succession on Thursday the enemy made tank attacks on the British garrison at Tobnik, says a Cairo communique issued yesterday. The first tank action was made on Tuesday night when enemy tanks tried to limit our patrol
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  • 64 1 Canberra. Saturday. AUSTRALIA Is now spending at thf rate of nearly £250.000.000 a year on the war, according to September figures Just L sued by the Commonweal :h Treasury. During the three months endei September expenditure was £58.354.00? but during B°ptember war co;ts ro--* steeply
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  • 72 1 Lonoon, Saturday. THE King has "lven orders for the appointment of Sir Firoe Khan Noon as Knight Conimrnder of the Order of the S'ar o' India In recognition nf hl« services as Hi?h CommLssicirr for India 1r London. Pir Klro7 left London recently on
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    56 1 Here operating is the Mooie detect r an appar&.us for detection of people buried under debr!*. The mouth of the loudspeaker Is placed over wreck, ge, aiiu the slightest sounds are amplified, and heard through earphones. A two-way switch on the apparatus allows the operator to speak through
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  • 238 1 Shanghai, Saturday. JAPANESE forces in the Cheng chow area In Honan Province are now on tJ»« defensive following Chinese encirciemen. »f Chengchow City, according to local Chinese Press reports. The Chinese clam the capture of all important positions around Chengchow. In celebration of the Double
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  • 24 1 Private the Earl of Waverly who is in the A.U.. takes vv rj duty over the El Adam road approaching Tooruk.
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  • 171 1 'U.S. Army Not Yet Ready For Combat' I/^REAT manoeuvres just crmI vl pictsd shew the United Bt&teJ Army needs a further six to 12 months" training be.'ore It is ready fDr combat, declares Major Hanson Bildwin mlitiry correspondent of the N^w York Times. Baldwin expresses the opinion that America ha3
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  • 78 1 New York. Saturday. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has announced that he Is starting a Government scheme by which 200.000 men who have been rejected for service with the United States Army on medical "rounds should be medically and dentally treated until they are fit. The
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  • 35 1 London. Saturday. THE Netherlands Admiralty an- nounces the ninelayer "Van Meerland" and the n<li <«we<per "Carllne'' have been laet by enemy action and the minelayer "Nautilus" has sunk following a collision Reutcr
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  • 39 1 London. Saturday. The Canadian Cabinet Is reported to have discussed far-reaching changes In war policy at a long meeting on Friday afternoon and night. This was followed by a session of the Cabinet war committee. Reuter.
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  • 157 1 London, Saturday. TAKING advantage of improved weather conditions more than 200 R.A.F. bombers took part on Friday night in the first night battering of German industrial targets (or nine days. The Ruhr and the Rhineland felt the full weight of bombs while attacks
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  • 87 1 Sailor-artist Annitare Is decanting the rough brick walls of the canteen at a wiinesweeplng base in a north- went port. Armitage, who in civil life was a painter and tommerctal artist, now serves as a signalman aboard a minesweeping trawler. He was former !y a
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  • 162 1 London, Saturday AS a result of an agreement with the United States, the Japanese Government has de cided to despatch three vessels to the United States shortly This was announced by the Japanese Foreign Office whlcn says %t the Japanese Government had been
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  • 233 1 Moscow, Saturday. STRONG reinforcements described as "a hravy striking force" are boiaf seat up to the central front to relievo Marshal Tlmoahenko's hard-pressed armies, according to a despatch to the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star. They Include heavy tanks, saotoriaod Infantry, artillery and cavalry. Describing how column after
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  • 47 1 Tokio, Saturday THE Kokumin Shimbun to-day quoted the Foreign Minister, Admiral Toyoda. as saying, m commenting on Japan's foreign policy, "Once a warship hat decided its course and set sail, it must go on in the face of any storm and raging waves." —United Press.
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  • 129 1 Manila, Saturday. I*HE 'recent Anglo-American t conferences in Manila, in which the Commander-in-t hW Far East. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham took part, are to be followed up with the arrival of the Chief of Staff of the Netherlands Indies Army. Gen. H.
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  • 219 1 Shanghai, Saturday II7TTH the arrival of Sir Otti i Niemeyer and Mr. Mcrid Cochrane, heads of the Brltlsii and American financial mission* to China, the Anglo-AmeiL-an- Chinese economic conf eren opened at the Shanghai and Hongkong Bank Building in Hong i Kong, reports the Japanese
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  • 55 1 Sydney. Saturday. RKUTER learru that report.- the new Army Minister, Mr. F. v:. Porde, is sho-t'y vL«itlng troops o,' r' o A. I. P. In Malaya are somewnat pr»« mature, but It is quite possible he will visit Malaya after Christmas tor
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  • 58 1 London. Saturday. 'pHE engagement Is being announced on Monday of Sir John Anderson, Lord President of the Council and a member of the War Cabinet, to Mrs. R. P. WUrram. widow of Mr. Ralnh Wlgram. formerly first secretary to the r-itb* Er"brv«~v tn Ptls «ii d-vu^^'^r of
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  • 88 2 The crew of a Free French submarine give the "V" slg". on arrival back at a British port afttr an adventurous trip during v;h.ch tht craft lay at the mercy of the enemy for two Cays. After torpedoing a 4,000-ton ('crman sh'p in convoy, the submarine crash-dxed
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  • 462 2 URGENCY OF ALL U.S. AID NOW CALL FOR HELP TO SOVIETS ON IMMENSE SCALE London, Saturday. "THE conviction is growing in America that noth- ing less than the maximum contribution to the Allied war needs is worthy of the United States or will avail to ward off the imminent threat
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  • 228 2 New York, Saturday. TME Federal Bureau of Invosti--1 gaticn agent. William Friedman, testifying yesterday at the resumption of the spy trial here, declared that he had heard a confessed German tpy say thai the contents of all British diplomatic pou. hes bound for t the United Stats
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  • 116 2 London, Saturday. i^HINA oflicially celebrated the Dou- ble Tenth (National Day) yesterday for the first time since the Japanea? invasion four years ago. Thct is significant because of the confidence shown In the nation's future." writes the Liverpool Dally Post to an
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  • 64 2 London. Saturday. IN a broad.a&t talk last night. Mr Vernon Harleir. M.P said. "The Russians hs< been distressed because the British i. d Amer.can delegations to Moscow d'd not arrive sooner. The ok! suspicion* o f our good intention* had drifted up afaai towards the surface. They have
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  • 27 2 Dr. Cljdlus. who negotiated the new German-Turk tia^le agreement, left Ankara on Friday night for Istanbul en route to Berlin, according to the National Broadcasting Company.— Reuter.
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  • 153 2 London, Saturday. r THE Daily Telegraph says 1 that the life and death struggle In Russia has caused a renewal of the clamour for an invasion by ourselves iii the West. Exponents of these demands do not stop to ask themselves what possible ueneflt could accrue
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  • 99 2 London, Saturday. A NAVAL unit on v.hich I have Just returned io Britain brought anorher party of Axis naval prisoners consis ing of 26 Germans and 56 ItaLans. wr tes Reuter's eoßCapoDdent with the Home F!cot. The Germans we-e part of tincrew of the Gerrran freighttr Frankfurr, intercepwd
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  • 70 2 Canberra. Sa:vuii..y ktv^'E arc dcU-nctaed to do eve y- thing lii our power to work wltli other Empire peoples and our Allies In an enieavour to bring about a mplete victory," declsred Mr. John Curtin, itfcw Australian piinie liioister, in a cable to Dr. Hugh Dalton. Brltt&ii
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  • 46 2 London. Saturday. jgRTTISH shock troops who. one day. may storm the beaches of enemyoccupied countries, showed the King the amazing technique of modern mechanical warfare when the King spent a day with the -n of a combined training command somewhere In Scotland recently.
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  • 40 2 BEA VERBROOK SEES KING Ijondr-- 1 Saturday. IORD Beaver brook .s received In audience by the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon, it Is understood they lengthily dlscuaitd Russia, especially the effects of the German dnv» on Momow. Un!W Press.
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  • 245 3 Tokio, Saturday. COINCIDENT uith German military advances on the central Russian front, Germans here arc preparing a diplomatic counter-attack in the Far East designed to offset Anglo- American efforts to secure Japan's withdrawal from her pact with the Axis. At the same time Japanese military
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  • 72 3 New York, Saturday. fi\he Standard OB Ounpanj 1 Jersey hi s rejee ted the recent Mexican OoveraoMOt proposal tat an oil settlement. Since the p/oposed mctho of valunt'on di 1 net 1m" h.; rights and would have eliminated value for oil deposits, it inu^t tlieroiore
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  • 53 3 }Liin'<Unß. Saturday. r[E bubonic p'.anie wMdl brc',:c ou*. Jersey has rejected the recent Mexlchukuoan capitnl in S piember lias ended, and restrictions have been lift**-"!. The plague claimed several victims. Th" affect?ri area was Isolated and more than 100 houses burned down as a
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  • 58 3 London, Saturday. FIE War Office publishes the llrst description of amphibi- i ous shock iroops secretly trained to iand on enemy coasts day and i n «ht and operate independently without the support of communications or maintenance. I Their training includes guerilla operations, ju-jitsu and the abi'lty
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  • 46 3 > New York. Saturday. TjNITED States army and air force? o>' Tin? 80.000 riuare mtles from tr.e Cnrclinas to Ma.s«.chuctts en- y to repel an "enemy" lanriins preluded by divebombings. Foity thousand civilian volunt-crs aided the mili'ary In watch- i ing for enemy planes. United Press. I
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  • 206 3 Peshawar, Saturday. TIIE brilliant feats of Indian troops abroad, especially in Abyssinia and Eritrea are due In great part to the hard lessons learned amidst desolate mountain fastnesses at the North-west Frontier Army School of Frontier Warfare, writes Reuter's special correspondent with the Northern Ind
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  • 35 3 Vichy, Saturday. P. ANTE'S four major political parties, excepting only the French Social Party, have been fused into a single political council pledged to collaborate asain.t Scmitism and Communism." United Press.
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  • 76 3 Washington, Saturday. "TTHE American people may well 1 .vilute a country which, in defending itself against an invader, has done valiant service for American security in the Pacific." declares the Washington Post In an editorial on the Double Tenth. "The Chinese have loaded down the
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  • 44 3 Washington, Saturday. PRESIDENT Roosevelt's request for authnri^atlon to Arm United States merchant ships has brought the usual division of opinion and reaction in Congress. However. Congressional leaders generally expect passage of the measure by the end of next week. United Press.
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  • 276 3 Melbourne, Saturday. MAJOR-GEN. H. Gordon Bennett, G.O.C the A. IF. B Malaya, has received from ths Minister for the Army, Mr. P. M Forde. a cable as follows:— "On assuming duty as Minister fothe Army I desire to convey my greetings to you and to
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  • 91 3 a NEW kind of barbed-wire now being mass-produced in Australia for home defence and export is part of tl.e strongest wire in the world, said the Minister for Munitions, Senator MeBride, speaking in Melbourne. It has a tensile strength of 110-tons to the square Inch,
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  • 53 3 London, Saturday. IT Is authoritatively understood that the Duchess of Gloucester Is expecting a baby probably In December The Duke and Duchess were married In the private chapel of Buckingham Palace In November 1935. Before her marriage, the Duche*s was I*dy Alice Scott. This will b* their
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  • 310 3 THE FUEHRER'S DEATH-KNELL NOW TOLLING' London, Saturday. "LJITLERS death-knell is toll Ing," declared the Nether lands Prime Minister, Prof. Dr. P. S. Gerbrandy, in a world- w de broadcast to-day, reports the official Dutch Aneta news agency. In a special message to the "V army in occupied countries, the Premier
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  • 142 3 A WOUNDED Australian Digger hobbled to his friend's grave at Tobruk and r^ayed the "Las. Post" on an Ita'li n bugle, thus keeping a compact the two had made. A padre at Tobruk told the story to Dally Telegraph correspondent. "I know two Australians
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  • 42 3 London, Saturday. r THE Prime Mlnls.«r of Burma, Mr. V. Saw. arrive! at a wet England airport yesterday, bringing a peaonal vrltien me^pse to Mr. Churrnl:! He will have talks with members of the Government on the war situation. —Reuter.
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  • 774 5 Australian Soldier Wins Three Titles At Malayan Highland Gathering WINNER of the New South Wales open championship for Highland dancing when he was 14 years old, Signaller Raymond Downs, of the A.1.F., who is now 23, added three more prices to the 13 cups, seven shields and .140 medals he
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  • 123 5 A 52-YEAR-OLD Chinese. Wu Shun Pah, appeared in the Singapore third court yesterday on a charge of corruption In was alleged by Uie prosecution that, at the office of Shun Pah it Co Wu corruptly gave $100 to an overseer, M. 8. Chaudry, employed by the Deputy Commandant,
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  • 40 5 I'HE death has occurred of Mr. Thong Yee Teng, father of Mr. Thong Ah Chong, of St. Paul's Institution. Seremban aged 72. The funeral took place at Uie Roman Catholic cemetery, Mantln. Rev. Fr. Auguin officiating.
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  • 76 5 \m lUTARY manoeuvres on a fairly Iterge scale will be held on Singapore Island during this week, commencing to-morrow. Oct. IS. Negri SembUan Teachers' Association new office bearers are: President, 8. P. S. Kannu; vice-president. A. T. Kulaslngham: hon. secretary, S. K. P. Slvam; hon. treasurer, Yong Yew
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  • 1640 6 OUTSIDE The Other Sparrow's Nest a 1 ale hammock of dried grass was slung b tween two twigs. Inside the hammock was The Other Sparrow In a spider's web negligee. She was putting the last touches of lipstick to her l« ak when The Sparrow, tired
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  • 313 6 VJLpjES exceUent bidding by the W opponents has robbed you of a slam, there is still the consolation of rolling up as large a penalty a* possible West. Dealer. Neither sine vulnerable. The bidding East and West could have made six hearts with the greatest of ease, but
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  • 1611 7 Mainly About Malayans By The Onlooker Y\K. George A. Lopez, son 01 a former secretary of the Seremban Sanitary Board, has joined the R. A. M. C. responding to the recent call for doctors. Or. Lopez, who has received a commission in the R.A.M.C, was born in Malacca and was
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  • 803 8 The Budget TO-MORROW the Financial Secretary will present to the Legislative Council his draft estl mates of revenue and expendl- ture for 1942. In these day*, I estimates of expenditure must bs largely guess-work and the main I Interest to-morrow will be taken I in the measures by which
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  • 1614 8  - France, Germany Italy D. G. Osbornc Jones Three New Books Reviewed by Past, Present And Future Aspects Of The War Truth on the Tragedy of France. By EUe J. Bota. Dodder and Mouth ton. 7* Cd. THE truth behind the collapse of France last year has still to be told,
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  • 199 8 Melbourne, Saturday. CORTY- EIGHT decorations for r members of the A.I.F. are announced. They include a Military Medal to Corporal C. B. Hayes who, with two companions, killed or wounded the whole of an enemy attacking force of 26 whil* defending an observation post
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    • 15 8 THE SUNDAY TIMES EDITORIAL, MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE Cecil Street, Singapore. SUNDAY. OCTOBER. 12. IMI.
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  • 516 9 Writer Believes 'Many Agreements 9 Exist A LTHOUGH high officials in the Netherlands Indies "give a wide smile" when talk turns to the subject of an Anglo-Dutch alliance in the Far East, Royal Arch Gunnison, oae of the North American Newspaper Alliance's team of writers,
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  • 72 9 ADVANC'NO tbe occasion of the Double Tenth as an extenuating circumstance, 12 Chinese pleaded guilty in the Singapore third court yesterday to a charge of gaming in a house in Traf Street at 2 am. yesterday. Stating that he would let them off with a light fine,
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  • 111 9 STRONG measures axe no* being taken by the health authorities in Ipoh to check the spread of typhoid, which is caus ing some alarm among residents. Chlorine has been added to the town's drinking water supply. while anti-typhoid innoculatlonr are being carried out by the hos pltal
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    98 9 MR. Joseph Monteiro, son ol Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Monteiro, Singapore, was married to Miss R. Monteiro, dr.ughter of Mr. and Mrs. V. Monieiro, Singapore, at the Church of St. Joseph, Victoria Btreet, yesterday. The bride was given away by her father and Mr. M. Toledo was best man.
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  • 196 9 ACCEPTING Mr. G. E. DevonA shire's submission that the Malayan Communist Parly was not pro-BrltLrh. Mr. C. H. Whitton, actirtf Singapore Criminal Distrh t Judge, yesterday sent?nced Tan Qhheng Ban and Tan Chheng long to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment each for ass'stlng in the management of
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  • 895 9 IMPORTANT announcements on Singapore's war efforts and taxes for 1912 are expected to be made by the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, and the acting Financial Secretary, Mr. A. Sleep, at to-mor-row's budget meeting of the Legislative Council. It is probable that both wll speak
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    • 508 9 HEAL UGLY SKIN BLEMISHES i v^LW IYour happiness depeodi to mucil oo tbe Wauty ol your tkm. tor even tbe irost devoted admirer n repelled by blemishes. So pimples, blotches and angry rmsbea »rv..ik) fa* brakd at -luKklv aa puaaibk II you bave nr.n twd l> D.I) Pratcrlplioa m hr
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    • 236 9 AwtT dull hair for hand«ntn«, lively-looking hair use TW I¥l Brvlcrrem. Brvlcreem »«tt your hair without gumming, I J A^Z/A. plastering or Marching it. Moreover, the natural oil* and -j jm\ special ingredient* from which Brylcreem U made, act >* a tonic V r/M\ to the hair rooti. They quickly
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  • 234 10 THF.KK are no chances in the share quotations as published in the Straits Times yesterdav. It is proposed, so a newspaper says, to limit the sale and consumption of alcoholic stimulants to certain hours. Not only the sale, mark you. Just what these hours are Is of small
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  • 111 10 (From Our Own Correspondent! London. Oct. 10. pOMMENTCNQ on the suggestion to remove the protective smelter duty of $30 a plcul on the export of tin-ore exported for smelting In non-Empire countries. A. Strauss and Co. Ltd. in their monthly review of the tin market
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  • 80 10 Sanfapare. Saturday, Oct. 11. noon. Bayer* Seller* Prices Prices No. IX E.S.S(Spot loos*) 38* 38 ■<-i No. IX R.S.B. r.o.b. ta cases October 38% 39 H G.F.A.Q. R.B.S. f.o-b. la bales October 38 Vi 3*H F.A.Q. R.S.S. f o.b. in bales October 31% 38 FUTURE
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  • 31 10 Singapore, Oct. 11. Buyers Sellers (rambler 7.60 Hamburg Cube $12.25 Java Cube $1200 Copra Mixed $2.68 Sun Dried $2.90 Pepper White Muntok $18 25 White $17.75 Black 8.25
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  • 931 10 The Week's Markets BY THE SUNDAY TIMES FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT annoyance under the guise of aiding the war effort. Send Mrs. Grundy back in the next plane, passage paid! And just In case anyone thinks that 1 hall from North o' the Tweed that
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    • 804 10 Til r a^ss^s^ss^S^B^B^B^Bjm^s^ms^r^m^mVMVmVKl int IfTOM are few and Wt/ 0^ 4r simple A^ n\M S Vmf aft -r" *^T^ >' Fikst take care of your body uutOt Andrews Liver Stlt does this for you ffl&fHb I more sure *y tl»n anything else, for ffipU^ "aw Andrews gives you deep down
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    • 546 11 K sV^sl fl flslV 4aP Wt~ S^aL WEIGHT^a HOSPITAL BED/ Those who are losing weight steadily, is this Halibut Liver Oil that one tingle day by day, live in the shadow of a tiny drop equals in Vitamin A content a nameless dread. They know, although whole spoonful of Cod
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    • 425 11 TOO TIRED TO ENJOY A REST?. Bow do 7011 feel towards th* end 0/ the day eager to fret th* washing-up don* and tuck th* kids into bed t Looking forward to a cheerful evening with th* radio t Or do you Bop into a chair too worn out to
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    • 1334 11 Wireless Programmes EMPIRE STATION TASTERN SERVICE on CSV— 17.81 m/cs.; 16.84 metres; GSF— 15.14 m/rs.; 19.81 metres; GSO— 11.75 m/cs.; 25 53 metre*. 6.15 a.m. News; 6.25 News analysis; 6.35 War commentary; 6.40 London calling; 6.45 News in French; 7.00 Greetings from Beaver Club; 7.30 Weekly programme rerlew; 7.46 American
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    • 672 11 SYDNEY (VLQ 9.615 me s (31.2 m.) The Department of Inlorma don, Australia la conjunction with Lie Australian Broadcasting Commission is now broadcasting programmes of news, talk; and supporting musical Items n. ten dally transmissions to various parts of the world. Transmissions II aad IV ire for North and East
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  • 1083 12  -  R.H. Naylor By SUNDAY, OCT. 12: life win be well worth living for the next twelve months. There Is the extreme probability of a financial Improvement and of more congenial worldly circumstances. The people to extract the most from the year's stars will be: (1) The
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  • 396 12 JANUARY. (Dec. 21-Jaa. 19>: Life still rather strenuous. An argument or a disappointment about family finances. Business conditions good: friends helpful. Health better FEBRUARY. (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Not a good week for travel, stay at home. Lucky for speculation, though. Business affairs move rapidly, co^d news.
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  • 680 12  -  Max Factor By •T AM 5 ft, 7 inches in height. 1 What should I do to lessen the apparency of this tallness This problem was recently presented to me In a letter from a 19-year-old college girl. My answer to her question was: "Don't try to do anything
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  • 315 12  - We Need The Eyes Of Oar Ancestors R- A. THOMPSON. Br D.O.Sc, (Doctor of Grular Science). Eye specialists undertake a tough job when they attempt to keep a man's eyesight up to the task of seeing under modern life corditlons. For hundreds of years animals, birds, inserts and fish have
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    • 174 12 FOR THE DISCRIMINATING WOMAN ELIZABETH ARDEN'S BATH PREPARATIONS —J^^^ aSsa^saT^^^ saaaaaas^^" The smart, sophiscated modern woman knows the charm of using one scent throughout hrr toilet preparations. For her Elizabeth Arden has prep? red her famed "BLUE GRASS SEQUENCE," based on th.» exquisite fragrance of her Blue Grass Perfume, inspired
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    • 280 12 NBVER l« the nn staal your birthright of* youthful ikan. Nature meant your complcsioai to be renewed and refreshed with erery osy that passed. She meant the drying outer skin imperceptibly to dusolre and to make way for the fresh new skin which is always growing underneath. But for most
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  • 256 13 TTHREE months after the start of the war the blacksmith In a small Yorkshire village was told that a shed and part of his shop w >uld be requisitioned as storage space bv a regiment. The regiment left the district three weeks lu'er and did
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  • 124 13 Cm Hugh Walpole, the novelist, who died In June, left £43,216 gross (net u \.^o d recently Among his bequests were The Walt it Scott letters known as the AbbotsTord correspondence to tbe National Library of Sect land. Sixteen n anuscript volumes stf the Herries Chrn:iicles and
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  • 164 13 BECAUSE the Nazis tortured her brother to death, a 20--year-old Soviet girl joined a guerilla unit and shot 14 German officers and men. A special correspondent of Red Star, Soviet Army Journal, give? this as one of outstanding sidelights on the Russian front during
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  • 538 13 THROUGHOUT the last two years of war, while nations and aniies have been dyinp Jacob Migdcn, Manhattan gangster, has been running running for his life. He has devoted all his time, thoughts, money, and energies to obliterating his known personality and eluding the G-men huntlng him down
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  • 156 13 AUSTRALIA has already received £9.000,000 worth of orders for aircraft and air-craft parts, and this is only a beginning." stated the then Aircraft Production Minister, Senator S. W Leekie recently. The Minister was commenting on the departure of an Australian-made Bristol Beaufort bomber for a three(iav
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    52 13 Thfe South African Flying Officer with the R.A.P. Fighter command reported back to his base, 20 minutes niter taking off. ha* in shot u two MesMrtchißrtt 109 F*. in the ■pace of half-a-minnte. This brings his score ap to a certain fowr and a probable five with a total of
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  • 153 13 pORPORAL Frances Maud McV* Conchie. 41. ot the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the first woman to be court- martlallcd, has been reduced to the ranks. Tbe proceedings were characterized by good feeling and amiability, and though the prisoner was under escort she has not
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  • 135 13 pRITZ Thyssen, millionaire Oerman industrialist, and hl< wife committed suicide in prison in occupied Fiance, according to an American, Mr. Robert Plalsance, who has Just returned from Cannes (French Riviera). Plaisance said he saw Thysson and his wife arrested by the Nazis in occupied France. He
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  • 102 13 CHARITIES UNIVERSITY WILLED £400,000 ÜBQUESTS to charities and educa- tionai institutions in Victoria, Australia totalling more than MOO.OOO are to be n.t.ie from the estate of Mr. Ernest Edward Truby WULams, retlreJ investor. He died on August 15. The will directs that half the estate shall be held In trust
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    • 468 13 [FEET feel i blazing Tbe skin-poros ot your feet snouia oe conntantly eliminating acid impurities When your feet fee) blazing hoi. when they ache and swell, it ia because those pores nave oecome choked ann acid is piling up inside ,lhem Then you tuffer foot agony Corns and calloußec oegin
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    • 431 13 G e tt ing Up Nights Makes You Old Before Your Time According to statistics 86 out of every 100 men sooner or later are started on the road to premature o'd age by prostate gland trouble. One of the commonest .symptoms of this dangerous and mysterious glan3 aliment U
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    • 393 13 Days art t^^K now Care fret Sanitar^Protection is now worn Women everywhere are entbusias- strenuous exercise. Tampa* db* tic about Tampax, the wonderful prnsrs entirely with b«lis, pint new form of sanitary protection. and bulky pad*, and eliminates Tampax is worn internally. It it so all chafing and odour. Doctor*
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  • 1660 14 From Our Own Correspondent: Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. r»ASTSTEP equalled the I Malayan record for six furlongs to-day, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club's autumn meeting. A feature of to-day's races was a maiden victory for Audas, one of the new Jockeys who recentb
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    99 14 Picture t ik-n when tlir IlepLirchian- BK relebratetl Us rrond anniversary. -ittU'c (left to right) I Lhn Tec, Sm,. Un Swrr Kiat. M.«« Kate. Ml«s Chew. Mlas A. In Tan. J. M. Jumabhor (president), Mis* Jessie Lee, Mis* Haby. Teo M lloe: Beng Slew Glap. Standing (front row) Zalnal, laher
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  • 290 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. THE Royal Artillery scored a big rugby win over Johore todav in a fast and vigorously contes.ed game on the Johore Civil Eervlce Association ground, the margin j beins 38 points (seven goals, one penalty goal) to 10 points (two
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  • 187 14 DISPLAYING marked superiority, the Ceylon Sports Club ran out comfortable winners by four goals to one over Raffles' Institution in a hockey match played at the RJL ground yesterday. The Ceylone&e were a better ba'.anccd team, more forceful in the attack and consistent in defence.
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  • 131 14 The R.A.F. Reserves will meet the Manchester Reserves In a match to decide the S.A.F.A. Reserve soccer division championship at Anson Road stadium to-day. The Sepoy Lines Oolf Club women's monthly medal bogey competition was won by Mrs. M. Jamieson. one down. Intending competitors in the S.C.R.C. open
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  • 287 14 (From Our Own Correspond"!*'*) Ipoh, Saturday. MAKING a grand recovery ui the clos'nß stages, Penant :beat Perak by 12 points (a go*l. I a drop goal and a try) to 1 points (two tries and a goal) IB a rugger match played here 10 aid of
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  • 190 14 THE S.R.C. and the Indian Asso- ciat on drew one-all in a keemy-contcsted hockey hxiure on the padang yesterday. The game produced a good standard of Hockey which was played at a last pace. Defences proved better than the vanguards. Tncre was no scoring
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  • 69 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. ITLANO Club beat Selan-or Club by six points (two tries) to three (one try) on the padang this evening in a fast rugby game which was one of the best seen here in the last month. Good tackling was a
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  • 63 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. NEGRI SEMBILAN-MALACCA beat the R.A.F. at rugger here to-day! by 16 points (two goals and two tries) to five (one goal). The first half was dull and uninteresting. Negri-Malacra leading by three points to nil In t*->| second half, the
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  • 573 14 CONGRATULATIONS to the Royal Air Force soccer team. Meeting the Straits Chin ese Football Association at Anson Road stadium yesterday in the second replay to decide the championship in the first division of the Singapore Amateur Association Football league competition, the Airmen won
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    • 709 14 '■mmmmmmmmmmm' •And smart men \jkf always use Anzora Vr^^ lor their hair. The reason is that Anzora is the best, most healthful hair dressing you can buy. Il prevents scurt and dandruff, and keeps gjnj the hair in perfect condition and the head cool. L I MASTER YOUR ft]QMW i
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    • 241 14 WHEN VIGOUR a™ VITALITY are Drained Away Hefti t*« QUICK, CERTAIN way to restore y*ur ENERGY AND £>. STRENGTH AM Life in the tropics rus 3H*s&^p~ I pleasure*. Il also carries '''fFUE^yj psins and penalties Fner- II fJ* rating days, sleepless nights !f" V^JrfjD sap your strength. Only too 1
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  • 1685 15 V» TH a view to the big Services hockey eames, the flrst of the Services' trials will take place at TangUn jn Tuesday, bully-off at S p.m Tbe two teams selected do not represent the Services full strength Many of the players axe newcomers to Service hockey
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  • 585 15 I (By Our Badirinton Correspondent) I'pHE match between the Devonshire B.P. and the Amateur A.U. In the open Inter-club badminton championship, which takes place at the Clerical Union Hall at 10 a.m. today, will be nn interesting prelude to what seems likely to be a thrilling challenge for the
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  • 112 15 IN thf Singapore Inter -club badminton tournament the Mayflower B.P. bet: the Marigold B.P. yesterday by flv games to nil. Result* (Mayflower first): Wong Chonc Teck beat Low Scan Chuan IS— l2. 14—14 (3—2); Wr Boon Hal beat N* Chla Heng 15—5. 15—5; Seah Eng liat beat Low
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  • 51 15 Merry Union BTV reccrves to nie .t the N.A All. B team to-day at IJB p.m. at the Haw-Par gymnasium Rangoon Road: Andrew Chia, Tin Boon Hong. B. C. Mah. Tan 6e-k Leng. Yeo Hlok Kun. L. Kdwards, Leo Keng Leng, Cbua Hcnf Lee, Soh Keam Htap, and ArUfln bin
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  • 190 15 A GRAND display by the S.C.C forwards who were ably backed by their halves and threes enabled the Club to score u comfortable 13 points (two goals and a penalty goal) ;o nil victory over the R-A.F. In a padang rugby fixture yesterday. With the
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  • 402 15 i Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Scremban, Saturday. THE 6—4 defeat of an AIP. 1 baseball team by the Japanese has arc used keen interest and speculation in baseball circles amonsr A.T.F". units iri Malaya. Perhaps lt is not generally known that several of Sydney's leading ball players arc
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  • 86 15 The Malayan weight-lifting championships win be held at the Happy World covered a'adium during thChrfetmas holidays. The lifts wul be two hands press, two hands snatch and two hands clean and >erk with barbells. Entries are inviVd for the following, classes. paperweight, flywplght. bantaunwviirht. fratherwelght. Mghtwelitht. middleweight, llghtheavywelght and
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  • 25 15 The rugby match between the RAF fSclctsr) and the Medical College which was to have been played at the Sepov Lines ground yesterday, was cancelled
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    • 278 15 >A I I Tlm« marchet on. yrjWPj Methods o( travel change. Also medicines. Now we don't have to take nasty-tastm( oils, inconvenient herbal brews and griping purgatives. Medical science gives us LAXOBAC— the modern chocolate laxative. Laxobac tastes lust tike chocolate because it it chocolate. Yet a small tablet will
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    • 163 15 They told him he BB^^!B| FACEO OPERATION jWW Stomach Ulcer fiS§l When Mr. J. H. J developed stomach pains he rushed to hospital (or an X-ray examination and was told to rest and live 22^^^^^ on milk. But business was bad. and Mr. 3 ttory to uii of tmmeoae relief
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  • 174 16 A FTKR having kept the King,' his entourage, and an Auxiliary Territorial Service guard of honour standing without over- J coats in the rain for 15 minutes,! the Queen stepped from her car! and sai'i: 'Oh, dear, am I late?'"; This
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  • 129 16 THE German practice of concealing losses is now applied even to battlefield cemeteries, says Moscow radio. In a village recaptured by the Russians in the central sector, there were 40 graves each with a cross bearing the name of German soldier. But
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  • 92 16 A WOMAN living at Croydon has r regulr.rly uted her meat co>-pcm to buy good quality imported meat for her cat. She maap no secret of It. At the Ministry ot Pood the Doilv Herald wo* told it might not be "right" that people should give
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  • 25 16 East India Cannon- Armed Spitfire Spitfires now in actum have greatly increased flre-potoer. Picture shows a cannon-armed Spitfire of one of the East India, Squadrons.
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  • 171 16 A SERIOUS operation performed with a sailor's claspknife to remove pieces of shrapnel pressing on his lungs saved the life of a British seaman. His ship had been torpedoed and, with 17 comrades, he wa3 adrift in an open boat in the Atlantic.
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  • 79 16 Munitions Worker Fighfrr Pilot J^ FIGHTEE pOot want to a munitions factory to address the worker*. After his modest and grateful speech one of then asked how much he was paid far his Job of shooting down Hans. "About It a week," said the pilot. "And how much do you
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  • 164 16 PAR-LOBELESS, Nasl pilot! Baron Franz von Werra. who returned boasting to Berlin after his third escape frvm captivity, is dead. He has been killed on the Russian front. Von Werra was shot down near London la« September. In October he got away from a North
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  • 133 16 \TERY nearly done up las* night while out on patrol," wrote Lieut. H. C. Salisbury, ot Tobruk, to Miss Kathleen Yorston, of Brisbane. -Will you marry me IJeut. Salisbury wrote the letter on Auk. 18. Telling about the night of Aug. 15 he said Managed to
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  • 91 16 A SURPRISINGLY large number of farm-workers have found their own remedy for the tobacco shortage They are smoking hedgerow tobacco oak leaves, docks and the foliage of a flowerless hedge plant which Suffolk men call "monkey tobacco." A farm-worker at Tattlngstone, near Ipswich, declared to a News
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  • 54 16 IN hit wUL dtapoalnc h* S.Stt estate. Mr. Oeo. Arthur Murrav an EUtnw fHerU) land agent, after leaving the bulk to his wife, stated: "Should my wife remarry, I desire it to be clearly understood that such a step would have my full approval In fact. I should
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  • 38 16 IN a raffle which raited £300 for a fl«htln« forces find. In Auckland recently, one prise, a permanent wave, was won by a bo Id -headed merchant. and a let of pork went to a man nfim*rl Tfrlfartrln
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  • 130 16 FANTASTIC prices were patd when thousands of salvaged toys were auctioned in London recently. Tin motor cars which before the war were retailed at 6d., realized 5 '6 each. Ninepenny pop- guns, minu.; corks, fetched 5 '6: bow and u row sets which sold at 1/3
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  • 83 16 CUC pilots of the American Eagle Squadron undergoing training have been dismissed and sent back to Uv United States. The Evening News says that they refused to go on operations unless they were paid from 250 to 350 U.S. gold dollars a month. The men were warned
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  • 121 16 Moscow Radio Badgers German Housewives About Frau's Bone Soup QNCE again Moscow has apperfed direct to the housewife this time with a joke. The Soviet radio quotte advice from the Austrian newspaper Grazer Tagespost to housewives exposing the poverty of food supplies. "Don't use bones only once tJ make good
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  • 285 16 A SAILOR, while trying to clamber into the ring, was neatly knocked out by a woman at Darwin Stadium one ni»ht recently, durinr one of the fiercest free-for-all brawls ever witnessed in an Australian boxing ring. The sailor finished up under the ringside seats. After
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  • 62 16 THE "extremely rrre" occurrence >f air getting Into the blood stream after a lung operation was responsible for the death of Mrs. L. R. C. Michel!, formerly Peggy Seunders. who was twice holder of the wcrnan's doubles tennis championship with Mrs. Blakstad: played for England, aid
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