Malaya Tribune, 18 March 1940

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    21 1 The Malaya Tribune VOL. XXVII- No. 66. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1940 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Monday, March 18, 1940
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    DICTATORS MEET AT BRENNER PASS TO-DAY
    1440 1 Hitler Seeking Support For New Peace Move? INTENSE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY PROCEEDING Reuter. HITLER and Mussolini are meeting in the Brenner Pass to-day, according to latest telegrams. Neutral capitals, including Rome, suggest that Hitler wants Italian support for a new peace offensive, but Rome doubts
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    65 MINERS ENTOMBED
    46 1 Reuter. St. Clairsville (Ohio). Mar. 17. CIXTY-FIVE miners are en- tombed and feared dead as the result of an explosion in the Willow Grove Coalmine here. Two members of a rescue party were killed while assisting in the rescue of 113 survivors. Reuter.
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    She Left The Nazi U-Boats Standing
    39 1 s new 85.000-ton liner Elizabeth", the largest c world, arriving safely York after a secret matge across the Atlantic aebank, where she was Her voyage is regarded as it victory over the German
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    DUTCH SHIPS ATTACKED
    36 1 Reuter. Amsterdam, Mar. 18. J th e Dutch motorship tons, which has arrived tated that she was bombed -armed by a German aero-'Uth-east coast of Engi} was hurt and no damage H. liter.
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    STOP PRESS
    197 1 Reuter. Bucharest. Mar. 18. Clodius, Nazi economic expert, Wires here to-day with a group of expi rts to renew the German tor supplies. Allied obserexpect the Germans will carry farther their recent assurances 7*| n harm will come to Rumania she will demobilize the hundreds UMMsands of peasants
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    NAZI DRIVE IN SCANDINAVIA
    367 1 "To Push Allies Out" Reuter. 4 PRRinn j.- Stockholm, Mar. 1!'. A north! f t d pk> r t,C POlitical activit >' unprecedented in the northern countries has now heo-nn tv,„ dearly; begun, the following points emerge of th^ r no!-the G rn rma 1 eX
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    Unity In Rumania
    64 1 Reuter. Bucharest, Mar. 18. REPRESENTATIVES of the German, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish minorities in the Rumanian Chamber and Senate have expressed their loyalty in the debate on the address in reply to speech from the Throne. Speaking for the German minority, Senator Roth said they would do
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    First War Birthday
    61 1 Mr. Neville Chamberlain celebrates his first war-time birthday to-day. He is 71, but the weight of responsibility he is now shouldering is far greater than the weight of age, in view of his position as Prime Minister of wartime Britain. While we wish him many happy returns,
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    HONGKONG MODIFIES TAX BILL
    95 1 Reuter. Hongkong, Mar. 18. TWO significant alterations from the original draft of the War Revenue Ordinance have been made. Firstly the bill makes it clear that the imposition of the taxes is tor the duration of the war only, by substituting the words "war taxation" for
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    WUHAN SONGSTERS SET UP THEATRICAL RECORD
    333 2 $2,000,000 Collected For China Relief (Tribune Staff Reporter) wWI ms m record without parallel in Malayan WHAT may be regarded as a »ecoui t Songsters VT theatrical annals, has been Wunan who have, during then- h china, hist over $2,000,000 (Straits currency) toi renei
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    7 2 Mr. A.J.W. Hocknehun pued onder AsMs'wnt Superintendent.
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    DEATHTRAP TO HEALTH RESORT
    169 2 (From Our Own iteporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. PUCHONG, once a death trap, is to-day a health resort, and no small measure of the credit for this happy transformation goes to Dr. I. G. Cameron. This was typical of the various tributes paid to Dr. Cameron at
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    Ownership Denied
    177 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. Sunday. A STILL with a capacity of 64 gallons was producrd in court to-day when Koh Ah Chi aopeared before Inche I Haron bin Ahmad to answer a charge of having been found to be in possession of a complete still for the
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    European Fined $7
    107 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. Sunday. W J. Wallace, a European planter. I and his driver, Ismail bin Abdullah, j were this morning produced before Inche Harm bin Ahmad. Wallace was charged with having used his motor car on the afternoon of Feb. 25 at the 5%
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    Family Film At Cathay
    197 2 Last Night's First Nights YOU see the Cartels everywhere. You I probably have neighbours Uke the Carters In fact, you might be the CarUrfyourself. Ani therefore you ought to make it a point to see. Our Neighbours—the Carters," which opened at ihe Cathay yesterday. The Carters
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    Musical At Alhambra
    136 2 KAY KYSER. complete with band, is the star of "That's Right. You're Wrong." which opened at the Alhambra on SaturIn the supporting cast are Edwar I Everett Horton, Adolphe Menjou. Lucille Eall and May Robson and togetner they provide excellent entertainment. The story is of a Hollywood
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    32 2 The High Commissioner has appointed Mr F H. Curtis to be the United Kingdom Food Exports Officer with effect from Dec. U The office of the Food Exports Officer is in Singapore.
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    12 2 Mr T.B. Voice has been appointed a Police Cadet. Malayan Police Service.
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    ACCUSED SHOUTS TO WITNESS
    150 2 (F r»m Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. rir»matic interlude in WHERE was a dam£ terday 1 the Selangoi Justice Cuaaen o. »l* "Lrged vith the murder oi a jou n* ut to accused siioc K u > hjch an witness and talk." interpreter on this
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    DEATH OF EUROPEAN ENGINEER
    70 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Saturday. THE death occurred of Mr. Hugh GUT H m ou, engineer of the Soutton Malayan Tin Dredging Co LtdLjK trie Batu Gajah Hospital on Thursday K>1 lowing a prolonged illness. Mr• Gilmour counted a wide circle 01 friends He was
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    34 2 The Resident of untitled has authorised Inche Abdul Rauf bin Haji Ahmad, Asatic Inspector of Police to exercise che powers of a Senior Police Officer m Perak und.r the Common Gaming Ht uses Enactment.
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    Women In Suit Over Mining Partnership
    429 2 tmm our Own Krp..ri-r> SaUu la> 4 CIVIL sua for the dissolution of partnerslnn ami the wind-up A of the Kirn Lin Mining Kongsi, property of the late Um&** Chew, deceased miner of Ipoh, was brought up before the, Ho. Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley
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    ATTEMPT TO STEAL $3,000 & CHEQUE FAILS
    84 2 ATTEMPT TO STEAL $3,000 CHEQUE FAILS (From Our Pw» ?f'P<" ln Penang. Baturo ACHETTIAR moneylender while walking alcng MaiK> about 10.30 a.m. yesterday. $3,000 cash and a cbequ snatched from his hands o> who threw pepper into his > The clerk was blinded temp raising an alarm, he ran tova-»
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    27 2 His Highness the Sultan untitled appointed Mr. R. M Ma .i Malayan Civil Service, to bt > a rate of the Second ClaM "i an State of rVrak.
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    9-Year-Old Boy In Police Raid
    159 3 Out Own Cor espondent) Muar, Sunday. information received, Subk hfunap bin Nawar led a pcsse [ice constables to an open umber yard in Jalan I surprised a party of j Police succeeded In arrests. Among thos? :.me-year-old boy. sted persons were this d before Inche
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    Illicit Chandu Convictions
    142 3 Oui Own Correspondent) Muar. Sunday. pad I ma Officers on a house milestone, Jalan Bakri ning. resulted in th? rsons who vrre prcauced he Haron bin Ahmad this n, Toh Liat. was charg- j been found »0 be m ur boons of non-Govern- The accused pleaded the
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    Rotary Meeting
    14 3 irt Rotary Club is holding meeting on Wednesday at the Adeiphi Hotel.
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    SINGAPORE MAN WEDS IN K.L.
    242 3 Kuala Lumpur, Sunday. 1 HE wedding took place this evening at E3t. John s Church, Bukit Nanas, of Mr. Geoffrey D°an Proctor, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Procter, of Norbury. London, and Rani Winifred, daughter cf Mr. and Mrs. C. Gray, of Sefton
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    Tin Industry Opposes Income Tax
    143 3 A RESOLUTION opposing income tax was passed at the annual meeting of the Dredging Association of Southern Malaya, held last week. It was revealed that the present tm ore duty represented a taxation at the Se of 22% i*i cent, of net profits C f
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    FINED $1,500 FOR PRINTING LOTTERY TICKETS
    111 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang. Saturday. AN attempt to defraud the public by printing and selling lottery tickets was frustrated by the prosecution of a Chinese in the Penang Police Court today when Mr. Lim Koon Teck. fined a Hainanese, Ooi Tat Chit. 51.50
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    NEGRI THRIFT & LOAN REPORT
    112 3 NEGRI THRIFT LOAN REPORT (From. Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. Sunday. rIE Negri Sembilan Mercantile Co-ope-rative Thrift and Loan Socie f y, Ltd.. of Seremban, presents an interesting annual report which stages that the year opened with 48 members on the register. During the period under review there were 13 admissions
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    TWO HURT IN MOTOR SMASH
    121 3 AN accident occurred at the junction of Bencoclen Street and Bras Basah Road at 9 45 last night when a ear SN. 1535 collided with anrther car. One car landed on its side. A Mrs. Horgan. who was sitting beside her husband in on 2
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    Miners Give Up Holidays
    61 3 Reuter. I London. Mar. 13. I TEN thousand Nottinghamshire miners, at a week-end meeting, pledged themselves to attempt to work as regularly as possible, to surrender recognised holidays at Easter. Whitsun and August and a portion of their summer holidays, and to work alternate Saturdays, in
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    27 3 Reuter. Paris, Mar. 18—The French Government announces measures similar to those planned by Britain, prohibiting under heavy penalties all canvassing by unauthorised persons to procure government contracts.—Reuter.
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    HITLER FEARS WELLES MAY SWAY MUSSOLINI
    799 3 U.S. ENVOY OFFERED ITALY CREDFFS MADAME TABOUIS WRITES HITLER is convinced that, apart from all personal considei n ations which prompted Roosevelt to send Sumner Welles to Europe, there was above all the desire to find the answers t0 WmT-Berfin-Moscow Bloc" be formed?— Will
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    NAVAL FUNERALS AT BIDADARI
    72 3 The funerals of two naval men who met with fatal accidents en ships now in Singapore took pace at Bidadan Yesterday The R r v Father Driscoll officiated at the interment cf Leading R aman William Donnelly, and the Rev. H. Amstutz at the funeral of
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    To-night's Broadcast
    39 3 Professor W. E. Dyer, o- Raffles College, will give the second of f wvo talks on ''Modern Germany from the B M B.C. at 7.30 to-night. The title of 'his talk will be "The Rise Of Hitler."
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    18 3 untitled J.W. Clark untitled Acting Captain whilst ■econd-in-comm»nd or "B" (M. G.) Company. Thud BatUlk», B.M Volunteer Force.
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    Spanish War Ace Released
    77 4 Madrid, Mar. 1. HAROLD Dahl, the American airman who was reprieved from death during the Spanish Civil War after his actress-wife had made a direct appeal to General Franco, was released to-day. With seven other American prisoners he left Salamanca for Seville, en route to the
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    CORONER HOLDS INQUIRY IN HAPPY WORLD DEATH
    273 4 ALLEGED ASSAULT BY SOLDIERS Singapore, Monday. AN affray at the Happy World Amusement Park on the night of Feb. 7, which resulted in the death of a 28-year-old Chinese, Tan Choo Seng, was the subject of an inquiry which began before the Singapore
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    ALLEGED THREAT TO WORKERS
    278 4 Singapore, Monday. War! bin Hassan claimed Uial tins morning in the Criminal District Court before Mr. J. L. McFall on a charge that he on Feb. 15. at land adjacent to the Singapore Rubber Works. Kepp 1 Harbour. Singapore, threatened Ali bin Sidin, Surat Mm bin
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    ALLEGED ASSAULT
    194 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Sunday Before the Seremban magistrate, Mr. J. S. H. Cunnyngham Brown yesterday, four Chinese appeared to answer a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a Tamil, Narayanan. The four Chinese were Tan Miau, Tan Tooi, Ta n Chiam and Siah Chit and the
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    ALLEGED MURDER AT BARRACKS
    118 4 Singapore, Monday. STABBED in the abdomen and on his arms and hands, 32-yeair-old Quarter Master Havildar Rakha Singh, of the Punjab Regiment died in hospital yesterday. The stabbing is alleged to have taken place at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday at the Tyersall Park barracks. An ambulance
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    Happy World Jagas To Get Fresh Bail
    158 4 Singapore. Monday. TRANSFERRED from the second police court, the 12 Happy World jagas who are charged with rioting at the Happy j World Park on Feb. 3. appeared before Mr. J. L. McFall. in the Criminal Dis- j n ict Court this morning
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    NO PEACE WITH NAZIS
    291 4 Reuter. London, Mar. 18. THE Times, in a leader, declares that the unanimity with which the idea of any patched-up peace is scouted in the Western democracies must have been very clearly Impressed on Mr. Welles' mind. "President Roosevelt's broadcast on Saturday showed that he also
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    63 4 Reuter. Amsterdam, Mar. 18. I The Rotterdam collier Sint Annaland. 2.248 tons, which was subjected to machine-gun fire by a German aeroplane In the North Sea a fortnight ago, struck a mine yesterday afternoon. I The crew were saved by another Rotterdam collier named Schieland. which was also a victim
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    Woman Who Found £900 And Kept It Gaoled
    342 4 THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Kathleen Chapman was a highly respectable resident of Ram field-crescent, Wellington, Shropshfre. Her husband held a position of trust. They had a child of three and were looking forward to the arrival of another. A shopping visit by Mrs. Chapman
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      616 4 tTRGENT! A MESSAGE TO ALL WHO ARE LOSING WEIGHT All over Malaya, „her c are men women who are gradually logins First their cheeks begin to Re thinner-then their dresses seem to hang a little mon» loo". They try not to noUce but haunted by a dread they will They
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    WHAT READERS ARE SAYING pHE INCOME-TAX ISSUE
    780 5 We welcome intelligent letters on any subject from readers, but in publishing them ice do tiot necessarily associate ourselves with the views expressed. Editor of t-ie Malaya Tribune.) un with you about lotteries as attractive and effective fcxpeVaising substantial sums of war funds,
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    FOR INCOME TAX
    272 5 (To the Editor of t!i? Malaya Tribune) Sir, —It is most astonishing to hear all the squealing from certain sections of the community over the proposed introduction of income tax. Who the people are who belong to these sections is fairly obvious If they find it so
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    MR. WARD-JACKSON CRITICISED
    382 5 (To the Editor of thĕ Malaya Tribune* Sir.—The anti-war tax campaignists who expected something new from Mr. Ward-Jackson must have been disappointed. Loyalty and patriotism have as much to do with income tax as any other war tax. At no time is a tax of any kind
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    LET MALAYA GIVE £25,000,000!
    814 5 >To the Editor of the Malaya Tribune) Sir.—s2lo,ooo,ooo is approximately 1.25 000,000. If this country contributed such a sum as a gift to the Home Government, would the demand for tne imposition of income tax I evident rj made und°r pressure from Whitehall' be dropped? It
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    CALL A PUBLIC MEETING
    199 5 (To the Editor of the Malaya Tribune) Sir, —Is it not about f ime that a public meeting was called to protes, against the imposition of an income tax in the F.M.S.? We are not concerned with the S owhere its introduction proved a failure on
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    AVOID WASTAGE OF MANPOWER
    655 5 (To the Editor of the Malaya Tribune) Sir, I have road with interest your published account of Mr. Ward Jackson's broadcast on the subject oi income tax with which I think L e majority of your readers will be in agreement. Mr. Ward Jackson covers most
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    NO PREFERENTIAL DUTY FOR LOCAL BEER
    792 7 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. A NfT PROFIT OF $278,(;07.t)7 FOR THE YEAR WHICH IS THE HIGHEST ON RECORD AND WHICH IS SOME $104,000 MORE THAN THAT EARNED IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR WAS ANNOUNCED BY MR. J. A. CLARKE AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE MALAYAN
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    20 7 The Hon. Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley. l v.lln n»6 noon patient <n VunUZar Nv5pltsl. l<ualu Lumpur. «U5 re*.urne6 l Ipan.
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    Italians May Move First
    184 8 jgALKAN and Near East tension may be expected to grow acute as Nazi Germany makes her final drive to secure economic and political domination of these regions. That it is the final drive of its kind, and that military action will follow if it fails, is
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    Outlook For The Neutrals
    194 8 "DV assessing the probable attitude of the neutrals we can form another idea of how the war situation is to be developed. Neutrals can be classed under two headings—those whose desire for strict neutrality is genuine, and those whose wish to remain outside the quarrel of
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    Morale Will Drop When Peace Hopes Fade
    1480 8  -  Inside Germany By Otto D. Tolischus New York Times Berlin correspondent. SWIFTLY and inexorably, the German war machine, which now has conscripted 100,000,000 people into its services, is beginning to press down alike upon its devotees and its victims and to grind them,
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    VOLUNTEERS BEING DISBANDED
    51 8 Reuter. London, Mar. 17. Volunteers accepted for the British contingent of the International Volunteer Corps for Finland are now in the nrocess of disbandment. They have been notified by ttv Finnish Aid Bureau that the ratification of the peacj treaty rendered their assistance no longer necesaai j
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    THE NEWS
    126 8 \yHAT price Mussolini moving first in the Balkans, and on his own, after his meeting with Hitler? II Duce is hardly likely to support a peace offer doomed in advance to failure. If he has not lost his grip, he will act before long. Inaction in the face
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    Three Alternatives
    159 8 ASSUMING the failure of the peace move there are three courses open to Mussolini (1) to join the Allies, (2) to back the Nazi-Soviet bloc, and (3) to move his forces into certain territory without reference to the interests of either side. No. 3 seems most likely. It
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    Know Your Malaya
    174 8 k NOTABLE achievement by the Aut> mobile Association of Malaya is the production of a most useful compendium of information which is too modestly described as a Handbook. In a handy size for the car pocket, with stiff covers for hard wear, it tells you everything you
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    Making Friends
    68 8 IF we fail to find friendly neighbours we must make them friendly says the Ruhrarbeiter, a Nazi paper "Poland and Czechoslovakia also, when they abandoned the natura'ly-given paths of central European neighbourliness, were simply restored to that neighbourliness by force. It is to be hoped that now all
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    FIRST CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN GERMAN AIR RAIDS
    307 9 BOMB KILLS MAN IN HIS DOORWAY Reuter. London, Mar. 17. fHE first civilian casualty of the war as a result of German air raids occurred during the raid on Scapa-Flow. A man residing near the civil aerodrome at Stromness was killed by a
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    Colonial Civil estimates Up
    71 9 Reuter. xr London. Mar. 17. r latea for foreign and imt vices issued on Saturday total of £14.185.469 for red with £18.128.273 in 1939. 1 net estimatp of 1939 7,203, but three supplemenraised th p total to £18.128.273. ncipal decreases are of India and Burma serI
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    BRITISH PLANES BOMB NAZI NAVAL PATROL
    36 9 Reuter. London, Mar. 18. T [E Air Ministry announces that 1 course of yesterday's reconnaissance over, Heliht the British machines a number of German naval ;lg between Borkum and (I.—Keuter.
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    British Bombers Over Heligoland
    276 9 London, Mar. 17. D mSH and Nazi aircraft have been very active The Germans b ttacked Fleet units at Scapa Flow, and British bombers vsited t£n«22£ on Scapa Flow was made test night, and 14 of the reached their objective. M ries shore defences and fighter
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    ANOTHER NAZI LIE EXPOSED
    118 9 Reuter. Washington, Mar. 17. C GOVERNMENT officials are fjj--1 sensed at German reports ping thai Mr. Joseph henly, US Ambassador to Lon- told the State Department, it rCoiions between himself the British Government had become strained. The Gemn reports attribute this mlation to unnamed sources in
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    3rd Week Of Dublin Strike
    102 9 Reuter. Dublin, Mar. 16. rpHE strike of Municipal employees here entered its third week and the capital was further harassed to-day by a lightning unofficial strike of a section of the city's bus company employees. After some hours the men returned to work. People to-day
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    FRENCH NAVY SINKS TWO MORE U-BOATS
    77 9 Reuter. Paris, Mar. 17. TRENCH naval circles an- nounce that they have received information about the sinking of two more German submarines, and they express the belief that a new wave of U-boat is heing sent out from Germany. It is believed in Paris
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    14 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
    29 9 Reuter. Rome, Mar. 17. A commercial nlane on the MilanTripoli service has crashed at Stromboit. Ten passengers and four of the crew were killed.—Reuter.
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    JAPANESE TAKE LARGE COAL-MINING AREA
    151 9 Reuter. Peiping, Mar. 17. DV a combined advance from the west and north into the western hills, assisted by bombing planes, the Japanese after meeting with only slight resistance, occupied Chaipang, a largo coal-mining centre about 40 miles west of Peiping. It is reported that
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    Welles' Long And Cordial Talks In Rome
    212 9 Reuter. Rome. Mar. 16. AN official communique on Mr. Sumner Welles' talks with Signor Mussolini and Count Ciano states that the conversations were long and cordial. Count Ciano to-night gave a private dinner, to which Mr. Welles, the American Ambassador to Italy, and
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    TURKEY CALLS UP MORE N.C.O.'s
    58 9 Reuter. Istanbul, Mar. 17. ANOTHER step towards the calling up of all non-commissioned officers in Istanbul district was taken to-day when 11 c'asses of infantry non-com-missioned officers were ordered to report for 45 days training. Non commissioned officers in ether brigade service, such as artillery,
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    New Dutch Order To Shipping
    110 9 Reuter. Amsterdam, Mar. 17. IT has transpired that the naval authorities' advice to vesse's not to leave po rt until further orders were received, applies only to shipping at Flushing. The advice followed reports that three more ships had been sunk in the neighbourhood, one
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    ANGLO-ITALIAN TRADE TALKS
    37 9 Reuter. London. Mar. 16.—1t is staled that a representative of the British Treasury is now en route to Rome tc resume trade negotiations with the Italian authorities, especially on the question of clearing agreements.—Reuter.
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    204 10 The experience of an Australian girl. Miss M. Hlgsins, o! Tumbulgum, Tweed Rivers. New South Wales, will be read with interest by all who are anxious to improv their appearance. "Since I have taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills so many people have remarked
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    SPLENDID BATTING IN ANNUAL PADANG GAME
    885 10 SIEBEL SCORES 90, LA BROOY 67 i SPLENDID knock of 90 by Siebel, and a ehanceless 07 by la Brooy, followed by a collapse of their opponents nearly saw the S.R.C. turn the tables on the S.C.C. in their two-day cricket match on the
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    MALAY TEACHERS
    68 10 The following were elected officebearers for the ensuing year at the annual general meeting of the Malay Teachers' Co-operative Society held at the Gevlang Malay School: Chairman: Mr. Abdul Hamid bin Haji Abdul; Hon. Secretary: Mr. Jumaat bin Bedin. Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Aman bin Ahmad; Committee: Messrs. Abdul
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    Chinese Win 2-Day Game With Indians
    763 10 a BRILLIANT unbeaten century A by Chia Keng Hock and the j splendid partnership between the j same player and Ong Swee Keng j which realised 92 runs were the features of the two-day cricket match in which the S.C.R.C. beat the Indian Association
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    64 10 TO-DAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div i Police vs. R.A.F., Stadium Royal Navy vs. Gordons val Base; Reserve 'Division S.C.C. vs. SRC R<\ S S.C.C; Division II •B. Cv tom s vs. Indian Assn., Clerical' Union; B.H.L. Cold Storage vs. Strait.s Time* 5.H.8.; Uniteers v.s. A P C. F.
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    SOCCER & RUGGER RESULTS
    434 10 SOCCER RUGGER RESULTS London, Saturday. ASSOCIATION and rugby football matches played in various parts of England and Scotland to-day resulted as follows:— SOUTH IT Arsenal 2. Wcsi Ham 3 Brentford 5. Southampton J pull Lam 2. Charlton 0 Mil wall 2. Chelsea 3 Portsmouth I, Tottenham 2 SOUTH "IT Bournemouth
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    LEAVE POSTPONED ON WESTERN FRONT
    143 11 London, Mar. 18. War Office announce that "owing to unforeseen delay men home on leave from the B.E.F. have been temporarily Normal leave will be resumed as early as possible." Paris, Mar. 17. German patrols have been i on the Western Front the past 48
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    29 11 Reuter. untitled Mar. 17.—Twenty-one publics have protested to inst the sinking of the aTian waters on Feb. 13. appealed to the bellip the war away from the atrality zene.—Reuter.
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    BALTIC STATES ENDORSE FINNRUSSIAN PEACE
    83 11 Reuter. Riga, Mar. 16. COMMUNIQUE issued at the close of the conference of Baltic foreign ministers states that any intention of aiming at "the establishment of just and lasting peace would be supported by Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania by all means in their power." The
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    YUGOSLAV SHIP LOST
    37 11 Reuter. London, Mar 17.—The Yugoslav steamer. Slavn. i.oOO tons, sank in the Bristol channel today. Al' the crew were saved, except the fireman who returned to the forecastle to get his money and belongings.—Reuter.
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    ARMY DRAW WITH CEYLONESE
    431 11 was the order of a two-day fixture that was played at ylon Sports Club during the week-end when the Army CSC. drew. Army XI was all out on Saturday for 273 runs. The C.S.C. Sunday with 122 in the first innings and, following on, they 159
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    POLICE BEATEN BY ST. ANDREW'S OLD BOYS
    218 11 THE St. Andrews Old Boys' Asso- ciation proved too good for the Police, passing the latter's meagre total of 61 with six wickets intact, when these two teams met on the Depot ground yesterday. The following were the scores: Police Kirn Tat b
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    Saints Beat The A.C.S.
    230 11 ST. ANDREW'S school played an interesting home cricket match against the Anglo-Chinese School on Saturday. The Saints won by 62 runs. ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL: Chewßee b Edwin 5. Meyer c Hock Chye b Edwin 8. Anchant c Soon Chuan b Thiam Siew 26. Guan Hong lbw
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    HOLE IN ONE
    40 11 Singapore, Sunday. MR. P. T. Bowers performed a rare feat at the Royal Singapore Golf Club this afternoon when he did the fourteenth hole, (180 yards) on the old course in one, while playing with Mrs. Bowers.
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    JOHORE WAR FUND DONATIONS
    675 12 rE contributions to the Malaya Patriotic Fund for the State of Johore now tol <1 $47,158.58. Some of the contributors have requested that their names withheld from publication ani their wishes in this matter have been respected We give below a list of donations to the
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    CONCERT FOR FINN RED CROSS
    415 12 THE Finnish Red Cross Fund will benefit considerably as a result of a highly .successful concert organised by singer Barbara Gilmar and Lt. Comm. R. I* Bridges, R.N.R. (Ret.) at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. A distinguished audience headed by H E the Governor
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    FINNS LEAVING CEDED AREAS
    341 12 Helsinki, Mar. 17. 'JENS of thousands of sad-faced Finns continued to migrate froni tl ceded areas, some travelling by trains, some by car and mot. and others by sleigh or on foot. The Finns are making a hercule; to complete their evacuation within the short time
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    Suez Canal Traffic
    39 12 Reuter. Pom?. Mar. 17.—it is announced thai Italy continued to occupy second piace among the countries using th Canal during February Britain first in the list, and after Italy < mt Holland. Greece and France I 1
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    WHAT LEFT-WINGERS WANT GANDHI TO DO
    439 14 BOSE PREPARED TO FOLLOW MAHATMA Jhansi, Mar. 4. «,F a general commits a mistake or hesitates to lead theforces itis 1 the duty of the rank and file to replace this genera can hit the opponent left, right and centre. I am still prepared
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    201 14 Jaipur, Mar. 7. SETH Jamnajai Bajaj has issued the following statement: "I have had two long frank and cordial interviews with Col. Gyannath. Premier of Jaipur, on the present situation with regard to the Praia Mandal. I told the Premier that I was definite that
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    Sathyamurthi's Comment On Gandhi's Statement
    143 14 Bombay, Mar. <>. THE view that Gandhiji's latest statements and utterances should provide enough food lor thought for British statesmen, but if they refused to read the writing on the walls and persisted in their perverse logic and political bankruptcy the Congress could not avoid
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    30 14 At the first meeting of the Cuttack Provincial Congress Committee, Mr. Radhakrishna Blswasrpy was elected president. Mr. Roy secured 74 votes as against hi.-, rival, Mr. Oodavaris Misra securing 65.
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    Two Dewans' Statements Compared
    263 14 Madras. MR. G. Ramachandran, member of m the Working Committee of the Travancore State Congress, in the course of a statement issued to the Press says: "The following sentences which occur in the speech of Dewan Sir R. K. Shanmukham Chetti which he delivered at the
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    Sjt. Rajagopalachari's Message To America
    325 14 Calcutta, Mar. 6. CLARIFYING the position in connexion with the Congress Working Committee's resolution Mr. C. Rajagopalachari, ex-Premier of Madias, in a message to America says:— "Without any difference the Gandhi-cum-Working Committee position has been made more than clear that .the relationship of England with
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    MIRZA URGES PILGRIMAGE TO VILLAGE
    226 14 Calcutta, Feb. 7. I SUGGEST that the time has come for the young men cf our country to make it part of their training for the coming years cf activite civic life to make pilgrimages to the village where lives the patron saint of all
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    238 15 M'k E*t*liange fixes Minimum l»ii<'4'* Certain Loan Issues London, Mar. 18. mmittee of the London Stock Exchange announces that T winning from to-day, minimum prices have been fixei for stocks. The committee adds that the revised minimum p the other trustee securities will be announced later, lv prices
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    220 15 Singapore, Monday. The following are the exchange stock this morning according to the daily circular issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. SELLING uondon T.T. 2 4 M 6 London demand 2 4 Vile Lyons demand mm Switzerland demand 208 4 Hamburg demand New York demand 4G 15
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    FOOD RATIONING POSSIBLE IN THAILAND
    46 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Mar. 17. mHE possibility of foodstuffs being 1 rationed owing to the continuance of the war is envisaged by a Government notification, urging the neoule to practise economy so as to Spared should rationing become necessary.
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    Traders' $1,294,000 Profit
    299 15 A TOTAL profit of $1,294,876.71 as A at Dec. 31, 1939, is shown in the accounts to be presented to shareholders at the ordinary general meeting of Straits Trading Co., Ltd., which is being held in Singapore on Mar. 26 at the Company's offices at noon. It
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    ROOSEVELT ON WORLD PEACE
    107 15 Washington, Mar. IT. THE world was seeking for a moral T basis for peace/ declared Presides Roosevelt m a broadcast speech m conSwttoi with the Foreign Mission Conneacc -if the small nations most .ive neuter. London. Mar. 17. President Roosevelt's broadcast yestercla e fonthee t senUa^
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    HAYTOR RUBBER ESTATES
    473 15 Singapore, Saturday. A NET profit of |16,632£8 for the year as compared with $14,441.76 for 19-8 was announced by the Hon. Mr. C. R Cherry presiding at the annual general meeting of the Haytor Rubber Estates. Limited, held at the registered office of the Company, French Bank,
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    NIZI PLANES ATTACK ALL ALONG SCOTTISH COAST
    293 16 Beaten Off By Defences At Every Point \T is learned that all along the coast of Scotland Gem tried to bomb naval and military objective < night. Heinkel bombers tried to reach Forth Bride* h beaten off by British fighters and never cot
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    Air Force Casualties
    67 16 Reuter. I ATI ST Air Ministry sualty V munique contains 59 names, including Sist:r A. S. Ketley among eight wh i have dead on active service She is th fourth woman attached to th? Air Forci to die on active service, the oth t being aircraftwomen. Apart
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    Nazi Threat Of Terrible Air War
    129 16 London, Mar. 18. nURING yesterday's British raid on Heligoland one British aircraft it is learned, sighted naval auxiliary vessels east of Borgum, swooped j from 6.000 to a few hundred feet and dropped a salvo of bombs on the formation. One or the vessels
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    COPPER MINE STRIKE IN RHODESIA
    55 16 Reuter. Johannesburg. Mar. n. SOME 650 workers at Mufilira copper u„ mi J ie in Nk ana concession of LunKgwa district of Northern Rhodesia 2X2? JS&k dem anding increased and other concessions It is expected th e workers on other I kana area will com
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    EXPLOSION IN PADDINGTON
    65 16 Reuter. London, fear. 11. THE noise of an expL.di .g bcmb, followed by a shorcer of rltss, awakened A.R.P. telephone fir's sleeping in a hut behind Pcddington Town Hall ycsiiidny. They thought German raid ri had arrived. It is believed the bomb w: s d c to
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    614 16 Palm Springs, Cal, Mar. IT. JHE death has occurred of the eminent lawyer Samuel Untermever who was one of the highest paid lawyers in the United States. m me neignt 01 rus career he is sa d to have earned as much as £200 for
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