Malaya Tribune, 14 February 1940

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    21 1 The Malaya Tribune VOL. XXVII- -No. 38. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Wednesday, February 14, 1940.
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    TEN NAZI SHIPS MAKE DASH IN DARKNESS: TWO SCUTTLED
    721 1 Navy Watches Brazilian Coast Reuter. TEN German steamers have just made a simultaneous dash in the darkness from South American ports in an attempt to get home with cargoes of vital necessities to relieve the blockade. TWO OF THE NAZI SHIPS,
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    ANTHONY EDEN SEES KING FAROUK
    52 1 Reuter. Cairo, Feb. 14. MR. Anthony Eden, Secretary for the Dominions, who we'eomed a contingent of Australian and New Zealand trocps at Suez yesterday, travelled to Cairo where he was welcomed by King Farouk. To-day he will inspect Egyptian troops and will attend a diplomatic
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    VIOLENT RUSSIAN ATTACK
    64 1 Paris, Feb. 14. THE Soviet offensive on the Mannerheim Line developed with peal violence early yesterday, according to information reaching offrial quarters from Helsinki. ll is adder! that the Finns are -till standing linn. in the main offent week or so are estimated at between 30,000 and
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    ON OTHER PAGES
    66 1 Pa*«« Van Kleef Aquarium 1 B. and Nutritional Surveys 3 Hit. Tens O! Inhappy Marriage 4 Turkey and Russian Menace To Oilfields 5 i inemas 6 and 7 Swedish Defence Line Ready I Review The News"—C.H.S.J. German Troon Movements toward Balkans Sport 10 China News H K'dio
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    LOYAL SOUTH AFRICANS EXHAUST OPPOSITION
    197 1 Reuter. Capetown, Feb. 14. rPHE Union of South Africa Assembly finally passed the second reading of the Wa r Measures B ill by 79 votes to 59, after a record sitting of 28 hours and 47 minutes. After challenging the Government's war measures the HertzogMalan
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    IRAN MAKES UP WITH AMERICA
    69 1 Reuter. Waf hinffton, Feb. 13. IRAN lesumed full diplomatic rela- tions with the United States today, when the Iranian Minister, Mohammed Schayesteh, presented his credentials to Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Schayesteh was appointed Minister in December, following a diplomatic breach 'asting two years. Relations became strained
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    WORST VIOLATION YET OF NEUTRAL RIGHTS
    494 1 Reuter. Amsterdam, Feb. 14. HOLLAND-AMERIKA Line owners state that the captain of the Burgerdijk declared that the commander of the German submarine refused to examine the ship's papers but torpedoed her, contending that the ship and her cargo were destined for a British port.
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    Trawler Shot To Pieces By German Submarine
    252 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 14. A FTER 28 hours in an open boat eleven of the crew of the British trawler Togimo, all suffering from exposure and three seriouslywounded, were landed in south-east Eire. The trawler was sunk by a U-boat which shelled them
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    STOP PRESS
    111 1 Reuter. Tientsin, Feb. 14. A Chinese was electrocuted on the live wires surrounding the blockaded foreign areas last night. His body was found early this morning lying inside the British Concession, not far from the border of the French Concession. S< meone had evidently removed the body from
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    SWEDEN BUYS FAST PLANES
    47 1 Reuter. Washington, Teh. 13. IT is authoritatively reported that the Swedish purchasing mission has contracted for HI Vulture planes, are reputed to be capable of a speed exceeding: 400 miles an hour, at a cost of approximately ten million dollars.—Reuter. (SEE PAGE 8).
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    ARMS SPEED-UP PROPOSALS TO BRITISH UNIONS
    74 1 Reuter. Lcr.don. Feb. 14. Proposals for an Interallied effort to the engineering industry to speed up production cf armaments were handed to repfesentatlvea of 34 unions in the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions by Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour. The conference between
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    TRADE PACT
    34 1 Reuter. BrUEMIS, Feb. 14. NEGOTIATIONS which rave been proceeding for several weeks In London and Paris for a new trade agreement hetwer r. Belgium, Britain and France have DOW been concluded. Reuter.
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    FALSE REPORT CHARGE AGAINST WOMAN
    86 2 (From On: Own Repnr+o, C. Ipoh Tuesday. HARGFD villi makteg a false report to the Police re the burning of her house, a young Punjabi woman claimed trial in First Magistrate's court yesterday when she appeared before Mr. p V p Radcliffe. "My house was
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    Gang Robbery Charge At The Assizes
    136 2 Singapore, Tuesday. THE Assizes case in which three Chinese, I\g- Hock, Tan Ah lee and Chew Kang Hoe, are charged with armed gang robbery, entered its >eccnd day of hearing to-day before the Hon. Mr. Justice Pediow and a common jury. The case is
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    Affray On An Estate
    115 2 (rrom Our Own Correspondent) Muar, Tuesday. AS a result of an affray on Gan Tian Estate. Bukit Pasir, on the night of Feb. 3 when there was a free for all fight, fifteen Indians, including five women, ail labourers on the estate were yesterday produced before
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    JOHORE PLANTER ON DRIVING CHARGE
    465 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johere Bahru, Tuesday. AS a result of a collision between n two motor cars at the 21st milestone Johore Bahru-Ayer Itam Road on Dec. 24, in which two European ladies, Mrs. MacPhail and her 63-year-old mother Mrs. Dorkins, were injured. Mr.
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    WORK ON THE VAN KLEEF AQUARIUM TO BEGIN SOON
    366 2 COMMISSIONERS TO PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY Messrs. Sime Darby Co., Ltd., of £8,715 for the supply and driving of concrete piles for the ft ,uftriM**i has been recommended to thn Cemmissioners, and this committee recommendation is coming up at the next open meeting
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    ABANDONED HER BABY
    170 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. DLEADING guilty to a charge 1 of leaving her new-born baby to die of exposure, a Tamil woman Kanniammah of Nigel Gardener Estate Batang Berjuntai was sentenced to three months' simple imprisonment dating from the day she was taken into
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    Pigs Which Destroyed Food Crops
    130 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) G uuar, Monday. AN EOK. a Chinese from Parit Fuiat. was yesterday produced before luan Sheikh Abu Bakei bin Yahaya to answer a charge of having found to have reared six pigs in a Ma!r- kampong. The accused admit ed rearing
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    22 2 The Dato Shah Bandar, of Negri untitled at present on a holiday in Singapore and s staying at the Oranje Hotel 1
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    107 Tubes Of Chandu Confiscated
    257 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar, Tuesday. VEO JOO TONG was t«-day pro- duced before Tuan Sheikh Abu Bakar bin Yahya and charged with being found to be in possession of seven tubes of Government Chandu in excess of the quantity he was legally allowed to
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    MILLIONAIRE'S GIFT TO HOSPITAL PATIENTS
    158 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Tapah, Tuesday. IOX Chinese New Year Day Towkav Lim S-ok Tan, a Tapah millionaire and prominent business merchant, proceeded to the Tapah District Hospital and accompanied by Dr. H. P. Samuel, the Assistant Mescal Officer of thr hospital, visited ail the
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    28 2 The Anglo Chinese School Old Boys' Reunion Dinner will be held in the A C.S. Hall Coleman Street, to-night at 8 p.m.. immediately following the annual general meeting.
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    MAKING CAMERONS FAMOUS
    193 2 Ipoh, Tuesday. IN an attempt to popularise the Cameron Highlands, an attractive pictorial poster was designed and circulated to a number of hotels, shipping and tourist agencies throughout the world, which has resulted in bringing numerous visitors to the hill. They now realise that the Highlands, as
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    POLICE RAID ALLEGED COUNTERFEITER'S DEN
    605 2 In the dock stood 59-year old Teh Peck Choon and 35-j'ear old Soon It Teck, the former charged with (1) possession of materials and implements for counterfeiting, and (2) fraudulent possession of one counterfeit ten-cent S.S. coin, and the latter with (1) counterfeiting 20-cent coins.
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    Rubber Returns
    48 2 returns reported for January l7^T.h Gajah I 6 *'i Australasia, 17.231 lb.; Ayer Panas, 82,000 lb Bukit Jalan Kebun 11,000 lb.; Kluang, 54,600 hai Wii 85 5 lb w TPini, 1 ib T amba ak 2l m j woo fb nson U53 lb and Ulu Benu^
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    26 2 It is officially stated that forgeries of the current Strait;; Settlements $5 note (Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co issue) are covered bear the prefix B;3 or 8.8.
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    Police Sent To Quell Disturbance
    226 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Tueadkv pOLLO\VIX(; a disturbanT 3 Friday night at a theatre between a party of Chinese and the management of the theatre, another demonstration was staged on Sato day niprht just before the first cinema show commenced. A number of
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    Died After Accident
    141 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang. Tuesday. jyHILE crossing Kuantan Road after alighting from the school's bus, a Chinese schoolboy, whose name was given as Chew Moo Hoe, aged 9, living at Kfuantan Road, was knocked down by a motor-car driven by a Chinese yesterday at 3.30 p.m.
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    BLACKOUT IN BANGKOK
    69 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Tuesday. A.R.P. exercises to-day and ton: row, beginning at six and en at midnight each day, are to launched on a big scale at and the envirous. Prior to the exercises, the military will give demonstrations of what required of householders and
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    Fined For Gambling
    81 3 Singapore, Tuesday. nt\TEEN Teochews were this S morning fined SI each or one lv s simple imprisonment when they pleaded guilty to a charge tying in a common gaming h,, t at 10". Crawford Street, ~ut 10.30 p.m last night, fhe raid was conducted by inspector James
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    CAUGHT IN ACT OF DISTILLING
    136 3 (Mir Own Correspondent) >»uar. Tuesday. S f arh morning ra.d by Customs on a ukia" at Bukit Dindin; at ::o a in en eb re sited in Tan I iang being caught r en act of distilling sanisu vv lit l i had no licence
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    Y.W.C.A FORTNIGHTLY CLUB
    55 3 ly Club was well attendhen Mr. Allan Eley gave travel talk. T .o of the Club will be b. 26, when members a pineapple factory, neet at the usual time x flu A Wednesday even •>• Malay" is being .ence as soon as ents. The class will
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    T.B. & NUTRITIONAL SURVEYS ON ESTATES
    460 3 T.B. NUTRITIONAL SURVEYS ON ESTATES WORK OF MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Tribune Staff Reporter) TUBERCULOSIS AND NUTRITIONAL SURVEYS ARE BEING 1 CARRIED ON BY THE STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH WITH HEADQUARTERS IN KUALA LUMPUR AND EN THE PAST YEAR THE INVESTIGATIONS WERE EXTENDED TO RURAL AREAS. 11 is
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    Governor Going To K.L.
    54 3 His Excellency the Governor and Lady Thomas, accompanied by the Private Secretary and the Aide-de-Camp. will leave Singapore by tram on Saturday tveiling, Feb. 17, en a visit to Kuala Lumpur. Hi, Excellency will leave Kuala Lumpur b- train on Saturday evening, Feb. 24. arriving at
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    ALLEGED THEFT OF MOTOR CAR
    178 3 Singapore, Tuesday. AX application for the accused to be remanded in twenty-four hours' police custody for further investigations was made to-day by Court Inspector D. R. Cowie in the Third Police Court, when two young Chinese, Lee Joon Tui and Tan Ah Chang, pleaded guilty
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    28 3 EXport of dry rubber, uncorrected figures. Brunei and Labuan January were- Mainland 52.779 tons: Straits Settlements blands 370 tons: Brunei 156 tons; Labuan .1 tons. Total 53.316 tons.
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    Camerons To Vie With Brastagi
    386 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Tuesday. pAPID progressive developments have been made by the authorities to improve Cameron Highlands to vie with Brastagi and other hill stations in the East, so that numberous amenities are now available for visitor, tourist or resident. lalkinn about improvements
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    ALLEGED THEFT OF IRON PIECES
    124 3 Singapore. Tuesday. When the case against a 35-year-old Teochiu. Tan Ah Goo. was mentioned thbY morning in the second police court before Mr. Conrad Oldham Court InsoiSor Charles W. Such asked that the case be postponed to Feb. 21 for mention as the accused was
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    Tung Oil Cultivation On Cameron Highlands
    396 3 AN informative article on 'Tung Oil on Cameron Highlands," by Mr, C D V Georgi, Chief Research Officer, and Mr. H. K. Ashby, Agricultural Officer, Cameron Highlands, appears in the latest issue of the Malayan Agricultural Journal. An editorial on the subject says: Tung
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    CAPTURED SOVIET TANKS
    72 3 The Finns won their greatest \*~*SJ£3+ Soviet 44th Dimsion on the 3 17.000 men. The operating against the Finnish wai w J- amount of %var material Finns took a thousand P™° ne d armoured including 1.200 horses, 40 tanks 100 fieldfit?tocher wittl ammunicars. field-kitchens and hundreds of
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    WEEK AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE
    130 3 Monday, Feb. 5. lit. L. G. Corney arrived to stay at Government House. Alter dinner His Exce'lency and Laay Thomas and party attended the performance of "Elizabeth and Essex" at the Alhambra Theatre. Tuesday. Feb. 6. Mr. L. 0. Corney left Government House. Wednesday, Feb. 7.
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    WIFE TELLS COURT OF "UNHAPPY MARRIAGE"
    751 4 SINGAPORE MAN'S ALLEGED ADULTERY Singapore, Tuesday. CO-WORKER was cited as co-respondent in a divorce case which was heard before the Hon. Mr. Justice a'Becket Terrell in the Supreme Court to-day. The petitioner alleged that her husband had committed adultery on several occasions with the
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    18 4 A free publie lecture on brotherhood will be Lod« of tl Thl w h Pcn at the Singapore
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    Staff Of U.E Entertain Mr. Kong Gwi
    124 4 MEMBEKS of the staff of the I'nited Engineers Ltd., Singapore, entertained Mr. Ong Kong Gwi at dinner on Saturday at the Tai Thong Kestaurant at the New World. Mr. Ong Kirn Seng, proposing the toa.sL lo the guest of honour, .said: "We are
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    Crop Returns
    86 4 The following crop returns for January are reported Ayti Kilning (F.MS.i Rubber Co., Ltd. ill.so*> lb Badek Rubber Estate Ltd iSt-itiiei ■state) 24.000 !b Bmdvall (F.MS > *Rubb Estate Ltd. 59.000 lb.; Chersonese (F.M.S tatCi Ltd. 80.000 lb.; Dennistown Rubber Estates Ltd. iDcmi'stown Estate) 55.000 lb Highlands Lowlands
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    Successful Muharam Show At Muar
    126 4 Muar, Feb. 11. j DECOn crowds gathered at the P Muharam show held on Feb. 9 and 10, at the Muar Club grounds. The Hon. Dato Kadir, State Commissioner. Muar, performed the opening ceremony on the first day of the show. Unlike previous years, when
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    MORE JOIN FUNERAL SOCIETY
    123 4 Singapore, Tuesday. THE thirty-fourth annual general meeting of the Singapore Christian Euneral Society will be held at the Clerical Union Hall. Rangoon Road, on Sunday. Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. The report of the committee of management for the year ended Dec. 31, and the audited
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    PRISON FOR MAN WITH BAD RECORD
    240 4 a house in Bunnah Road. Accused admitted ten previous convictions, and also said that he had been released from prison a week prior to his arrest. It was alleged by the prosecution that on the morning of Jan. 29. the complainant. a structural engineer,
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    RUBBER AND TIN RISE DURING LAST WEEK
    750 7 FRASER GO 'S REPORT ON THE MARKET fTHE most significant War news of the fortnight since our last review is the disembarking of a large force of Australians and New Ztalanders at Suez. The efficient mobilisation of the Empire goes on apace, state
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    Charlie Chan Thrill Film At Cathay
    175 7 Last Night's First Night A s the nam c indicates, most of the n action in the newest Charlie Chan thriller, now at the Cathay, takes place at San Francisco's Treasure Island. "Charlie Chan at Treasure Island" has suspense, humour and all the elements
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    Lightning Kills Man
    101 7 Singapore, Wednesday. CHINESE, believed to be a cook, was fatally injured, another knocked unconscious, and a third slightly injured, when a huge tree in a compound off Kirn Yam Road, under which they were taking shelter during a violent rainstorm yesterday afternoon, was struck by lightning. The
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    Distress — And The Remedy
    216 8 Distress And The Remedy rpHE subject of destitution among Eurasians in Malacca, raised by the Hon. Mr. Claude da Silva at Monday's meeting of the Legislative Council, is part of a general problem which merits the closest consideration by Government. Under war conditions, the scale of relief granted by the
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    Greater Unity
    150 8 PROM the outbreak of the war the Tribune has contended that a conflict of such magnitude, and for such objects, must induce important social and political developments in the Colonial Empire. Closer unity of the different races in the emergency is one important effect already making itself evident,
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    Sweden's Boden Line Completed
    196 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 13. SWEDEN'S northern line of fortifications against the Russian threat to central and western Scandinavia—the "Boden" line—is now in the highest state of efficiency and preparedness, learns the Daily Telegraph's Stockholm correspondent. The central Boden fort, constructed between 1900 and 1902, has been
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    WOMEN'S ARMY IN FRANCE
    51 8 Reuter. London. Feb. 13. IT is learned that a number of women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service aie now on duty in France. The exact number is not known but it is believed that it is only a proportion of those who will eventually be overseas.—
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    NAZIS TRIED TO STEAL TURKISH SUBMARINE
    194 8 Marines Were Told! Reuter. London, Feb. 13. WHE Turkish Government is reported to have thwarted a Brazen German attempt to steal a Turkish submarine, states The Times I Balkan correspondent. Last week-end marines occupied Dart of the shipyards in the Golden Horn where Krupps
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    Metal Rises Permitted
    44 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 14. rrHE Ministry of Supply announces increases ranging from £2 to «£4 for copper and £1 to £2 for lead spelter, in the maximum prices of non-ferrous metals for amounts under four tons, effective from Feb 10.— Reuter.
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    DANES RESCUE BRITISH FLYERS
    39 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 14. COPENHAGEN wireless states that four British airmen drifting in a rubber float were picked up by a Danish ship. The message adds that a British warship later took the airmen aboard.—Reuter.
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    NATIONAL REGISTER FOR NEW ZEALAND
    83 8 Reuter. Tup Wellington. Feb. 13. HE establishment of a national register as part of the general scheme or surveying New Zealand's manpower was announced by Mr. Fraser. Deputy Prime terence 1 peninß a recruit ing drive conWhile a great deal had been done it could
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    Famous Finnish Runner Killed
    29 8 Reuter. Helsinki, Feb. 13. QUXNER Hoeckert, the famous Finnish runner, who was holder of the 3,000 metres world record has been killed at the front.—Reuter.
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    Spitfires Dive 14,000 Feet After Heinkel
    158 8 Reuter. rpHREE Air Force fighters dived A 14,000 feet in pursuit of a Heinkel raider off the mouth of the Thames Estuary yesterday evening. London, Feb. 14. Just as darkness was falling over southern England yesterday, three British Spitfire machines on patrol spied a
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    STATE CONTROL OF RUMANIA'S RAW MATERIALS
    85 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 14. ACCORDING to the Rumanian Legan tion in London a contro. 1 board to cover production of home consumption and exports of all kinds is shortly to be set up by the Rumanian Government. The institution of this board will form
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    25 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 14 FIELD Marshal Yon Brauchcitch, Gery man Commander-in-Chief, has gone to Danzig to inspect reconstruction work according to a German radio Reuter.
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    THE NEWS
    194 8 rjERMAN troop concentrations r ported near the Dutch and Rumanian frontiers show thai the threat technique is being em] again, with the object ol these two richer neutrals to goods and raw material the Nazis at Nazi prices. And the Nazi price is liit| t more than a
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    Effective Blockade
    168 8 •THREATS "to Rumania seem likely to be worked up with some intensity for the rest of this month. German troops are on the move again through Bohemia and Moravia to Slovakia, which shares some of the lower Carpathian range of mountains with King Carol's oil and grain country.
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    Stalin Waits
    168 8 rHUX of the problem in the Balkans is what the Allies Turkey will do if Rumania is ed by Russia. Their joint guarantee to come to the help of I kingdom applies only in the ca German attack. THAT IS THE PAPER PI I AND UNLIKE SOME OTHEK
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    GERMAN TROOP MOVEMENTS TOWARDS BALKANS
    247 9 Preparation For Czech Rising ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP RUMANIAN FORTS Reuter. London, Feb. 13. attempt to blow up Rumanian fortifications on the Danube has been frustrated by Rumanian guards, states the French radio in a Polish news bulletin. It is added that the would-be perpetrator
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    BRITISH PURCHASES FROM TURKEY
    55 9 Reuter. Istanbul, Feb. 13 THE British representatives of the Ministry of Supply now at Ankara have concluded a contract to purchase nearly 0.000 tons of dried raisins and figs. Other British delegates have contracted to purchase nearly £1.000,000 worth of tobacco annually. These amounts may be
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    U.S. SENDS NO PETROL TO RUSSIA
    112 9 Reuter. Washington, Feb. 13. A SHARP decline in the exports of high grade aviation spirit in the last quarter cf 1939 and an abrupt stoppage of supplier to Russia at the beginning of December are revealed in the latest figures of the United States
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    U-Boat Sunk In Attacking
    125 9 Reuter. LONDON, FEB. 13. IT IS REVEALED THAT THE 5 U-BOAT WHICH SANK THE GREEK VESSEL KERAMIAI WAS ITSELF DESTROYED. The Admiralty states that three Britis.i and three neutral merchant ships were sunk by enemy action last week. The British losses totalled 19.585 tons, and in
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    THIRD N.Z. CONTINGENT
    102 9 Wellington, Feb. 13. WITHIN 21 hours of the arrival of the troops from New Zealand and Australia at Suez, the New Zealand defence Minister, Mr. Jones, announced to-day that a second contingent for overseas service was only 753 men short of lull strength. He declared that within
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    TIN AND RUBBER BARTER WITH SOVIET OFF
    57 9 Reuter. London. Feb. 13. T C nons to-day. asked wha r commercial transactions had taken tain and Russia in the Sir Andrew Duncan, the Board of Trade, aids the agreement with the Soviet ior •imber against rubber nd formed it had not been
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    MACHINE-GUNS DROPPED BY RUSSIAN PLANES
    552 9 ENORMOUS LOSSES IN BIG OFFENSIVE Reuter. STOCKHOLM, FEB. 13. JUE RUSSIANS ARE ESTIMATED TO BE LOSING ABOUT 3,000 MEN DAILY IN THE OFFENSIVE ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS, ACCORDING TO REPORTS RECEIVED HERE. Since the offensive began about a fortnight ago, the Russian casualand prisoners are
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    POLES LINED UP TO DIE
    146 9 Reuter. Amsterdam, Feb. 13. HOW German troops avenged themselves on the Polish population was told by a Nazi officer who recently arrived here. First, he said, when a German soldier was killed or disappeared in the occupied zone, they shot three Polish prisoners or "suspicious'
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    POLISH SHIP CARRIES AUSTRALIANS
    250 9 London, Feb. 13. THE contingent of the Australian troops who landed at Suez yester. day with the New Zealand expeditionary force arrived to-day in camp at Palestine. They travelled part of the way in a special troop train, and completed their journey In a fleet of
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    EUROPE FROZEN
    92 9 Reuter. London, Feb. 13. k NEW cell' wave is sweeping over Europe. Holland is experiencing the coldest winter in her history and icebreakers are making frantic efforts to break down ice barriers on the River Waal. Houses in dangerous positions are being evacuated and ships are being moved
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    'COULD HARDLY MOVE WITH PAIN'
    191 10 —now absolutely free! Damp, tropica! heat gave this ship's stewardess such agonising aches and <>::in< that she could hardly move, but three dose* of a natural remedy put her right. Read this grateful letter. "This is what Fynnon Salt did for me. \Vhen going through
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    Busmen Beat Bankers In Debut Match
    595 10 S. T. C 2; o. C B. S. C 1. MAKING their debut in local competitive soccer this season, the Singa- pore Traction Company team scored a well-earned victory over the Overseas Chinese Bank who were beaten by the odd goal in three in
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    Half Yearly Regatta At R.S.Y.C
    98 10 ON Saturday, Feb. 17, the half yearly regatta will take place at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club. Classes will start a* follows: "C" Class—Caprice Challenge Cup—Start 3.45 p.m. "A** Class—Lundon Challenge Cup—Start 355 p.m. "B" Class—Boden Kloss Match Cup—Start 4 0b p.m. 14 foot Class—United
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    WOMEN'S GOLF
    113 10 The following Is the result of the first round of the Royal Singapore Golf Club's women's competition:— Mrs. P. G. R. Brittorous beat Mrs. G. V. Allen 1 up. D. Kaye beat Mrs. K. A. Jackman 1 4 rS 3 W B Ruddock 1 Mrs R L Nu
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    WHAT TO BACK AT BUKIT TIMAH TO-DAY
    997 10 SINGAPORE SPRING RACES BELOW are the full acceptances for the second day s races ot U»,. w pore Spring Meeting to be run to-day:— RACE 1—2.30 P.M. PONIES Class 1 —Division 2—5 l 2 Furlongs 0 4 0 THE ANNAN 9.04 "Seagate Stable"
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    75 10  -  (By "Spectator" Race 1—SHOOT UP» Dancing Foam Race 2—GUARD OF HONOUR Fighting Finish Race 3—NEW CELLO Cluny Race 4—PRIDE OF PENANG Kabinda Race 5—GOLD POINT Artful Sailor Race 6—FURIOUS Strathpeffer Kac e 7—TOYMAN Nieuwsgieiig Race 8—PINAFORE Soho By Tresspasser Race 1—SILV ER LACE The Annan Race 2—FIRST RA Amazon
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    SOCCER ON SATURDAY
    117 10 The Banka Sports Club will meet a team from the R.A.F. (Seletar) in a friendly match of soccer at Farrer Park on Saturday. Kick-ofT will be at 5 15 p.m. The RA F. will field a team which will include a number of first team players and
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      30 10 SPORTS DIARY TO-DAY RACES: Second Day of Singapore Meeting, Bukit Tim ah. SOCCER: Business Houses' League, Straits Times Press vs Wearne Brothers S.C., Stadium; Singapore Cold Storage vs. Thornycrofts, S.H.B.
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      537 13 Educational FLEASE COME, join your Hokkien and L-antonese classes now. Prospactus free Apply Y. N. Hwang, 1, Kreta Ayer Road, Singapore. (487-C> t^ EN COLLEGE POSTAL TRAIN ING—FEW SHILLINGS MONTHLY. All necessary books Free. Success Guaranteed. Cambridge, Matriculation, Bookkeepmg. Shorthand, Journalism Accountancy. Secretarial, Sanitation, Draughtsmanship (Architectural Electrical*. Engineering: Civil, Structural.
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      563 13 Miscellaneous WE can supply Rubb r Coagulant 90'; Strength. Best Manufacture CrUaranteed. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Certified by Government Analyst. Not subject to Government Restriction. Use guaranteed brand and be satisfied. Apply Bacco, 152 Racy Course Road. Singapore. (493-C). THOUSANDS of people come to "Happy Garden" day and night.
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      442 13 TWO SOLDIERS, Scotch, wish to make female acquaintances not necessarily English. Box 434, Malaya Tribune, Singapore. (447Tailoring Millinery etc. ROOM 35, RAFFLES HOTEL, Sports Suits in Silk and Cotton Sarongs. APB 1 Offices, Godowns To Let TO LET Offices: 20, Malacca Street (portion Ist floor). 124 120. Robinson Road (2nd
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      825 13 NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the powers conferred by Shaik Obood bin Oon Din Talip on Shaik Said bin Talip by a Power of Attorney dated the Bth May 1929 have been revoked. Dated this 10th day of February, 1940. SISSON DELAY, Solicitors for Shaik Obood bin Oon Dm
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      359 13 BY ORDER OF THE CUSTODIAN OF ENEMY PROPERTY, SB. AUCTION SALE Of one lot Bakerlite-ware and fancy furniture handle-fittings and also perfumes, lotions in large jars. Etc., Etc. To be held at THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS' Saleroom No. 64, Chulia Street. On Friday, Feb. 16th 1940 at 11 A.M. THE SINGAPORE
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    GANDHI'S OPPOSITION TO STATE-OWNED INDUSTRIES
    1446 14 Implications Of Revised Pledge Bombay, Feb. 2. J HOLD that the coming into power of the proletariat through violence is bound to fail in the end. What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence," writes Mahatma Gandhi in the "Harijan v in
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    209 14 Bannu, Feb. 5. FURTHER precautionary measures to piotect the life and property of the citizens of Bannu from tribal incursions are announced. The District Magistrate has issued an order permitting civilian arms licenceholders to be organised for watch and ward duties if prepared to
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    LORD MESTON'S FIERCE ATTACK ON CONGRESS
    220 14 London. Jan. 29 WRITING in the 'Manchester Guardian' Lo rd a former Indian administrator" and president of the 1.2 Party Organisation made fierce attack on the i«h National Congress. After*" gretting the Viceroy ot nouncement with regard to th distinguished record of those i!
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    354 14 His Excellency continued: "When I left the country some six months ago I saw little reason why the Constitution of 1935 should not work satisfactorily. "The responsible ministries were, no doubt, subject to criticism but that is an essential feature of responsible and democratic
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    REUTER'S COMMERCIAL SERVICE
    268 15 LONDON TIN London, Tuesday. Official Price) £242y 4 Buyers £242 V 2 Sellers (Official Price) £242 Buyers £2421/4 Sellers LONDON RUBBER London, Tuesday. BBSsa B L Tone Quiet, Steady 127 a b *****16 s ward) Mar. 12 13 16b 12 *****s *ard) Apr. 12 716 b 12
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    181 15 Singapore, Feb. 13. knowing are the exchange stock this >rdlng to the daily circular Issued bj and Shanghai Banking Corpora SELLING I T.T. 214 1116 i -md 2|4 I|l6 t 2057 lam! ci rJ °mand 208 J? b «n? demand aid 46 718 g md 51 sB 8 8«
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    FRASER & CO.'S SHARE REPORT
    813 15 FRASER CO.'S SHARE REPORT Singapore. Feb. 13. MINING Atv Buyers Sellers Ampat Tin 2. 5 6 Austral Amal 6 6 Ccd Austral Malay 371_ 39 Led Ayer Hitam 2 4!9 258 Ayer Weng 070 075 Bangrln 2119 2219 Batu Selangor 162 167 Berjuntai 10<9 ii ;9cd Burma Malay 23,3 24!3
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    TO-DAY'S SINGAPORE MARKET
    255 15 (By Our Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Wednesday. rpO-DAY'S London rubber price shows an advance of ljl6d. from yesterday to 12" B d., while in New York the quotation is 19 cents, down Vs ct. The share market opened en a slightly healthier note to-day, with inquiries for sterling
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    15 15 Singapore, Wednesday. The price of tin at neon in Singapore to-day was:— $*****, down
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    15 15 The price of rubber at noon in Singapore to-day was:— Buyers 38% cts., unchanged.
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    WORLD CONFLAGRATION THREATENED – U.S. Admiral
    412 16 WORLD CONFLAGRATION THREATENED U.S. Admiral Danger Of Being Dragged In Reuter. Moral Embargo Cry Washington, Feb. 13. The civ on a embargo against Japan has again been raised by Senator Norris. It is generally thought, hovv:ver. that In the most vital aspect, namely oi'. this is inapplicable. Wa: material experts
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    34 16 Peiping. Feb 13. iT is learned that the Peiping- Hankow Railway has been interrupted since Feb. 6 as a result of Chinese mirrilla activity, trains being able to run only as far as Paoting.
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    In Open Boat Fifty Hours
    100 16 Reuter. London, Feb. 13. TEN shipwrecked sailors—eight lying exhausted in the bottom of a drifting lifeboat which the other two were trying to row—were saved from the North Sea on Monday by an R.A.F. coastal command plane which guided two minesweepers to the spot. The
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    ROYAL GIFTS FOR RED CROSS FUND
    80 16 Reuter. London. Feb. 13. •THE latest contribution to the Lord Mayor's Red Cro Fund, now totalling £1.108 000. included gifts of £29.000 from the Irish Red Cross, and a second gift of £10.000* frcm the Hongkong branch of th P British war organisation fund.
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    ENEMY RAID FAILS
    119 16 Reuter. Paris, Feb. 14. IAST night's communique stated: "East of the Moselle an enemy raid, preceded by trench mortar and artillery preparation, failed completely. There was infantry and artillery fire on the Rhine, also aviation activity during the middle of the day."—Reuter. Pans. Feb. 13. Despite the
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    48 16 Reuter. Chungking, Feb. 14. Midame Chiang Kai She* left hen \<-tcrduv by air for Hongkong for 1; :i !<>t. It ii- reported that be maj a. ccond rdnai opt ration. It is recalled that sir* underwent j sinus (bone and ti- lie) 0] ration cently.—Reuter.
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    INDIAN ARMY SCRAP WITH TRIBESMEN
    66 16 Reuter. New Delhi. Feb H 4 BRITISH officer ana an lnchan s por were killed and live sepoys wer? wounded in a clash between troop uri armed tribesmen seven miles north-iot of Bannu yesterday The righting took place vheo the troops were on reconnaissance duty
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    LATVIANS PREPARING FOR DECISIVE HOUR
    197 16 RIGA. FEB. 11 HAY E NO RIGHT TO CHERISH THE ILLUSION THAT EVERYTHING WILL TURN OUT FOR THE BEST." DECLARED RL ULMANIS. PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF LATVIA BROADCASTING A WARNING THAT 1910 WOULD BE A DN I I CULT YEAR. "The requirements of national
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    CHINESE VICTORIES IN SOUTHERN KWANGSI
    276 16 Japanese Claim Success In The North-West Chungking, Feb. 13. JfimHEK successes in the Chinese counter-offensive in Southern Kwangsi have been claimed in the latest Chinese military despatches. Over 16,000 Japanese are said to have been killed or wounded in three days' fighting in the neighbourhood
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