The Straits Times, 30 January 1942

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  • 36 1 FINAL EDT.J. The Straits Times [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY! MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER— LARGEST NET SALES h I'AGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. 1942 PRICE The Straits Times H PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942. PRICE 5 CENTS
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    • 199 1 Brown out time «4» p.m. U 6 46 a.m. Moon riaea at 508 p.m. and rcti at 4.47 a.m CREDIT ACCOU NTS ROBINSON CO., LT D, Our December Accounts have been despatched. May we remind all our customers that amounts outstanding on 31st December must be paid by 31st January
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  • The Straits Times DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 45 2 GOfcDON MARRIOTT —At Singapore on Slst January 1942 leaving wiUow and son surviving. CHARLES JAMES KLAS6. age 21. third son of Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Klass, was killed m the air raid. Buried In the morning of the 29U1 at Bidadarl. Deeply regretted.
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    • 635 2 SITUATIONS VACANT WANTED IMMEDIATELY several food hinders. Apply X Straits Times. WANTED IMMEDIATELY two Reception Clerks, two Telephone operators. Apply Raffles Hotel. I.ADY TYPIST for Commercial Mrm. Sate salary required. Apply Hex No. 320. Siraits Times. \V\\TKI> at once Office Clerk If possible with hotel experience. Apply Msnai,'pr CHwdwood Park
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    • 486 2 LOST LOST .small light brown terrier, female. Half Australian, Penang num jber on collar, strayed from Rex Hote! last Thursday. Reward St Expenses. Rogers. Rex Hotel. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS WOMAN returning Australia will gladly transact business /or firms wishing to extend their business connections there G.P.O. Box No. 586. FOR
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    • 22 2 TAI TIOIG RUBBER WORKS, LTD. CHANGE OF ADDRESS All correspondence etc. to be >ddraet>d to No. 22. MICHAELS ROAD. SINGAPORE. Telephone:— 3T62,
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    • 635 2 AUCTION SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FIiRMTI RE ETC. Comprising: Wardrobes, dressing tables, single bed with mattcM's. SeSti and arn^thAtf; tfth mattress and back cushions. "Frlpidalre" refrigerator, rattan chicks, gla^s. crockery, kitchen utensils, etc. To be held at 26, Capitol Flats. On :-uturdty, JUt January, lMf. At 2.15 T.M. Now On View.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 179 3 RAFFLES HOTEL TO-NIGHT DINNER 7.30 TO 9 P.M. DANCE 8 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT ADELPHS |li|il HOTEL GRILL ROOM DINING-ROOM TABLE O-HOTE LUNCH «1. 7» Z DINNER SZ. »S ORCHESTRAL SELECTIONS BY THE RELLER BAND SEA VIEW HOTEL TABLE D'HOTE LUNCH $1.75 O'NNER i%. IS SUNDAY II A.M. 1 P.M. POPULAR
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    • 355 3 FOUR SHOWS DAILY 11 a.m. -2 p.m. 4 p.m. -6 p.m. CATHAY 'Phone 3400 It's The Most Exciting Triangle That Ever Jop\ Made A Man Run '<*4^^^L Around In Circles! GIVE YOUR BLOOD TO SAVE AN AIR RAID VICTIM The lives of hundreds of men, women and children, victims of
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    • 561 3 P. ft 0 BRITISH IROIA (Mil H r (Incorporateo nrWNH LIHL. m England) PENINSLLA* ANU ORIKMAI 8 N CO MAIL rASSKNGtK AND CARGO SERVICE Tut ten ponttbu termcet ir« Ocino maintained oy t/te A O S. N. Co from t/te Strati Ct (/lev tuua. oori* Oi call m China mdtn
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  • 456 4 There have been a few straws m the wind lately which suggest that Soviet Russia may lake a hand m the Pacific war rather earlier than had been hoped. One thing that is vei7 certain is
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  • 371 4 Hundreds of people m Singapore to-day owe their lives to the speed with which they have dived into slit trenches c'.urlng an air-raid. Many who are dead and many who have been wounded might be alive end well to-day if they had been able to take cover m
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  • 216 4 In a recent leading article we suggested the formation of a corps of European volunteers to drive members of the Services back to cantonments late at night. We believed some such arrangement to be necessary because oi the absence of bus services and taxis during the hours of
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  • 158 4 Painted Cars. Some time ago members of the motoring community m Singapore were told to outline their cars m bold white paint. I have observed, however, that many buses are painted with a dull aluminium preparation which does not appear to be as effect ye as a
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  • Letters To The Editor
    • 369 4 Work For Idle Hands And Minds To the Editor of tbe Straits Times Sir,- -There are thousands of pcopl? from up-country now in Singapore, merely sitting around waiting (or something to turn up In the way of a ship, or an idea of what is the best thing to
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    • 202 4 Short Hours And Profiteering To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir, In spite of government orders and app?als concerning hours of business, housewives are finding marketing an almost insoluble problem at present The majority of working people now shop early, between the hours of 6 am .and 8.30
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  • 35 4 AN Admiralty communique says t> it tbe Free French Teasel Rosalie rammed a U-boat while on convoy escort duty without suffering any casualty or damage. The Rosalie then dropped depth-charges. No prisoner was picked up.
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  • 181 4 TWO British destroyers enraged a Japanese force consisting of one cruiser and three destroyers off Endau on Monday night, the Admiralty in London discloses. A running fight ensued, one Japanese destroyer being sunk and a second damaged. One British destroyer was sunk. The Admiralty communique
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  • 195 4 London, Jan. 29. A MILITARY commentator here expressed the opinion that the Japanese convoy in the Macassar Strain has been battered so heavily that it is unlikely to achieve whatever object it was intended to achieve. He declined, however, to ■peeolmta on the convoys possible objective, says
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  • 193 4 Batavia. Jan. 29 JAPANESE troops have landed at Pemangkat, on the west coast of Borneo, south of Kuching, I while at the same time, also on land, heavy pressure was exerted on oar troops operating In those regions," says the communique issued to-da> by Headquarters of the
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  • 432 4 Batavia, Jan. 29. A EUROPEAN officer of ths Sarawak Government, who escaped after the Japanese occupation and has arrived In Batavia by a circuitous route, told United Press how the Kuching Regular Army garrison of Indian troops and a handful of European volunteers
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  • 618 4 Japs Held Despite Heavy Pressure LJEAVY fighting continues m Johore where (he 11 Japanese still persist m their dive-bombing and machine-pun attack** on the AutraßaN and British troops. While the pressure on our forward i.ne is funsiderable, we are, however, resisting solidly v,d, giving way to the
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  • 102 4 Rangoon, Jan 2'. THE destrv.rtl-r. of eijrht more rne-r>v l«lrrr?ft Is rrportf-d h) rr> R A. P. "VQ'.*. R»':r«vn va? ■ttockcd by m-my I brcvb-r^ <nj Tiy -clay r.:;:ht. No dania?? wsls done to the acro- rlmT.e. and one M our flrh'er^ wza I
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  • 46 4 Melbourne, Jan. 29. MS R.A.A F. communique sta es tv-at Japanese shipping at Pa ul hr.rbour wos bombrd la- r'. it. A flirect hit was observed on one shi-> and ano.h^r was probably rtruck. All the Australian planrs returned safely.— Eeuter.
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    • 304 4 BRIIISH Addtv. Protection Several BUSINESS WEN by* j already moved r«t of their j OOires to p:ivntc taaOMI j taking »?!unble rocords ";ucn ">s t stock-books, dcbtors-ledsrrs. con- J trart-i. etc. after office Hours I ■Hong tt thrlr rtsioenccs. We are fortunately m a pofitlon to oHer ADDITIONAL I'KO l
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    • 7 4 JOHN DUKE hLmufacturiiit Optician. 21. BATTERY ROAD.
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  • 1982 5 Substantial Aid For Malaya Sent MAIN STRATEGICAL DECISIONS SOUND DV 4«i voles 1© one, the House of Commons yesterday approved the vote of confidence m the Government asked for by Mr. Churchill. In the course of his reply to the threo-day debate, I r. Churchill referred
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  • 182 5 'Never More Confident Than Now Churchill Mil. Churchill was loudly cheered when he declared at the conclusion of his speech m reply to the threeday debate m the House of Commons yesterday: "I have tried to lay the whole position before the House as far as public interest will allow,
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  • 421 5 JHE arrival m Northerr. Ireland of "a powerful American army and air force" will c.-.ahk- Kritaia to dispuirh seasoned divisions of the Uritish A; my to war theatres Wfttmm, and also enable substantial supplies of weapons and niunilions now being made m
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  • 90 5 Washington, Jan. 29. A UNITED States War Department communique states: "A third attack by heavy Ameiican bombers on Japanese shdoping m the Macassar Stra ts resulted m .he destruction of one enemy transport m Balik Papan harbour. Another transport was set on flre. "Philippines theatre: Bradlong
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  • 612 5 r\EALING v. tl. Ike canioaign is Libya, Mr. C%mcllll] m his sr>ee<:'.i m the Hju«>3 of Coaontonj yesterday, asked: What wcie tiM reasons vhich made tlia: sary operaiion?" H2 r-.-c-t-Ued: Tlrrtly, wo 'hepod to naore and we probab'.j have rtmoved t'.ie menace to xhs Nile Valley
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  • 134 5 Moscow, Jan. CO. ASK- LCIAL announc juieni c". )15 that between Jen. 12 and I' 7 the Russians advance > 100 kilometres and cautured 4.00<» inhabited points. The Gcrmsuis ist 25.000 killed and several hundred prisoners. The Soviet midnight eoramuniqar c Uin.s the recapture of SuhcTicbl and
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  • 36 5 According to the Sydney »adto, Japanese transports sunk m tke 1 battle of the Straits at Mara^xr arc 111 1 r tiii-.ii rd to have carried at least I 25 000 Japanese troops Seuler.
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  • 285 5 Cairo, Jan. 30. DURING the past 24 hours iho enemy's main forces m Msu have turned West and Northwest, says a Middle East «a: communique, v>hch continues' "Enemy columns including tank.', made contact with our advanced troops south 01 Bsngiiazi, vrtiil: at the same time strong f.nemv
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  • 743 5 London. Jan. 30. THE recent confident expec tion that final victory miglit come this year was reea led yesterday by Mr. Noel Baker (Labour) when he resumed thdebat? on the war situation and ;he vote of confidence demanded by the Government m the House of Commons.
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  • 997 5 Capital Ships' Gamble JHE capital ships Prince of Wales and Repulse were Mat out to Malaya m the hope of deterring Japan from jroiwar or from sending convoys into the Gulf of Siam. said Mr. Churchill m the House of Com mons yesterday. The capital
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  • 286 6 Staff Of Asiatic Petroleum Co. Sends Further Contribution NEARLY $600 is added to The War Fund to-day and more than $500 of it comes from members of a local staff who have given consistent support since the Fund was launched. The cheque Is for
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  • 525 6 Remarkable Record Of Hurricane Sergeant AFTER shooting down a Japanese liom.irr over Singapore Island yesterday morning, an \.l Hurricane pilot who last work destroyed two enemy aircraft, tackled three other bombers and silenced all three rear-gun-ners, says the Air Ministry News Service. Discussing yesterday's morntof'i action, the
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  • 161 6 AN imiK>r!ant section o thr A.R.P. organization is the Salvage Corps ■whose SDcit«l duty lt Is to look after the penooal effects of victims of enemy notion. Form?rt lone before war came to Malaya, it has been doin^ uspf»l service ever since the first bomb
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  • 47 6 m. Jon. 29. •*»"HE war has ?one On too long," 1 w;\<5 the simple exu'mation given hy a rw^ cf O°r m nriKCinors <nVpr, hrtvpfn J;>n. 20 «|1 24 fn the Mojalsk sector, whom foreisn Preas rpnr,^sentJ>tive!! were allowed to question. They had mm udered voluntarily Reuter.
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  • 29 6 SINGArORK BAFTIES nOTEI nimiPi and Dunce QCCCW* (,iyian<; Helurii of Krank Janifts 3 7 BOXY |«tOM Nu allows uiitll further notlrt. 3VL^^s r4IJUM Klmn Thow Phor. A Matwlnrin
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  • 112 6 AN urgent need for blankets and sheets or bed covers was at once discovered by the new section of the Malaya Distress Fund rreated to give Immediate relief to tlr raid victims, as soon as the section started operations yesterday. The first thing most people
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  • 71 6 Batavia, Jan. 29. A FOn\fEß Japanese editor of the Netherlands Indies paper, Tehlndo Nippo, has been arrestod at Bangka. He had been deported for stirring up trouble between the Chinese and the Indonesians. TTie Japanese smuggled him back in-.o the Lndiei In I it rnj
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  • 90 6 THE Governor has awarded the Malayan Certificate of Honour to Yeo Hiok Howe, Medical Auxiliary Service, for devoir d services on Jan. 21, when he worked for many hours, including alerts, in getting badly wounded persons into un ambulance and thence to hospital. He carried
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  • 480 6 Admiral Of Fleet On Astonishing Decision London, Jan. 29. IN the House of Lords, the Admiral of the Fleet. Lord Chalfleld, said The fact that we should have to suffer sonv- 1 humiliation in the Far East at the present time was due to the
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  • 1057 6 I TWO appointments to the DLs t.nguished Service Order--cne for an officer of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and the other for an officer of tlio Indian Army— are outstanding items m the list of military decorations m Malaya, issued yes lerday With the announcement of the
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  • 550 6 Order For The Welfare And Protection Of Public BEGINNING to-night, curfew is to be m force m *J Singapore from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m. The order is for the welfare and protection of people m Singapore and its effect will be to
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  • 182 6 SINGAPORE had a record number of raids yesterday when Jap raiders flew over the Island nine times, four times during daylght and five times af.er dusk. But proof that the people of this island fortress can lake It was sho-vn this morning when from an
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  • 79 6 CINOAPORE'S new street watchers by the Singapore Chinese Antl-Aggr^asion Mobilisation Council, took up their posts yesterday. These watchers, more than 3.000 m number, are scattered all ove- the town, m every street, to assist the Police and other elwl defence authorities entrust to them. A| know well the
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  • 60 6 THE Chinese hi Singapore should be on their guard against an unfounded rumour, spread bj Fifth Columnists, to the effect that riots have occurred between Malays and Chinese m Johor r Bahru. There is no truth m this ni>noi>r. as m Johore Bahru and Singapore
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  • 251 6 TRIBUTES to the courage of the 1 people of Malaya are contained In telegrams received by Sir Shenton Thomas from Lord Ilifte on behalf of the Duke of Gloucester and Mrs. Churchill. Jusc at the time, in early December, when Malaya became a battle front
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  • 34 6 'THE registration centre for the public service register will be transferred from the Victoria Theatre to the Munvlnul BtiiHlng from Feb. 1. states an official notice published In page 2 to day
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  • 38 6 (From Our Own Correspondent i London. Jan. 30. yHE Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation announces that In view of uncertainties m the Far East lt will be unable to make any announcement regarding the final dividend for 1941.
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  • 235 6 "Malayan Owners Must Be Aided" (From Our Own Corresp ndent) London, Jan. 30. (XJMMENTING on the alleged Singapore opposition to the London proposals regarding Malayan war damage compensation, the Financial News says: "It is quite clear that Malayan propcr'.y owners cannot be abandoned U* meet their losses
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  • 112 6 Bombay, Jan. 21 I 1 position of policy-holders In Malay* and othei enemy-occupied countries, who have Insured wlUi Indian Life offices, was reviewed at tn» tncetlns of t*e I-i.Han LJ'e Assurance Offices A&toclatlcn In Bombay. It was agreed that claims might M paid In the
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  • 140 7 Chungking, Jan. 29. '•oy grouping Hong Kong and D Malaya under the category of 'areas absolutely essential for defences of Greater East Asia', Japan unmasks her intention to hold them as colonies, declared Dr. Wang Shlh-chieh, the Chinese Government spokesman at a press conference, when he
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  • 61 7 "VTAJOR-GEN. RusseU Hartle, yesteri" A day 3&ld that once his men are challenged ''we shall carry the fight to the challenger," report* United Press. He expressed supreme confidence i.i his troops, adding. "It is a distinct privilege to be in the British Isles, njchtinc
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  • 25 7 Ne;;tKiat'ons are expected to begin •barvy for the establishment of diplomatic relations between Iraq and China, a:cortinrr to a report received m New Pcliii. Reuter.
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  • 401 7 Red Pincers Closing On Three Bi g Towns London, Jan. 29. POWERFUL thrusts of Russia's Red Army are being directed against Germany's second line, starting from the important railway junction town of Veliki Luzi, m the north, to th« Bryansk area, m the south-western section of the Moscow front. Soviet
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  • 171 7 Washington, Jan. 29. INFORMED diplomatic quarters express the opinion that Sweden will join the Allied nations against the Axis if she is forced to abandon her neutrali:-'. The most serious threat to t.-e cnly remaining Scandinavian neutral is expected to come this Spring. The possibility of
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  • 118 7 New 1 ork, Jan. 28. i THE Federal Grand Jury to-day j returned an indictment accusing members of the German High Command and their alleged New York representatives for conspiracy to sell in the United SI ates markets millions of dollars worth of
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  • 93 7 Chungking, Jan. 29. f|HE Chinese war ccmmunic.u': yesterday indicates that a severe battle is developing in South China in wide areas on the north banks of the East River, where the Japanese lannchcd an attack in three columns. The defenders offered stliT resistance, taking
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  • 90 7 Mew York, Jan. 29. EUROPEAN radio* report that heavy toowstorms In Eastern Europe have paralyzed traffic in many arras in Sweden nnd Turkey. sw«1en Is having the coldes: January In 200 years. The Berne radio reports snowstorms in Turkey, Bulgaria, Rum. j and Hungary. It
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  • 83 7 Chungking, Jan. 29. 'pIIE famous little U.S. N»vy Yangtze FMrol gunboat U.S.S. Tutuila ha» made her last voyage (or the duration of the war. For the past three years ihe has been anchored off Chungking. She wiled for an undisclosed dcatuuuioo, where her crew have dismantled ner
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