Malaya Tribune, 21 October 1940

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  • 26 1 The Malaya Tribune NET SALES EXCEED 16,000 DAILY VOL. XXVII- -No. 252. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1940 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Monday, October 21. 1940.
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  • 236 1 LONDON'S CALM IMPRESSES U.S. Reuter. London, Oct. 21. \MERICAN aircraft are now reaching Britain in hundreds, and the number will steadily increase next year. Lothian announced this in a short speech hai landed in England by
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  • 207 1 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 21. SEVEKAL mililary successes agaiiNi Japan during the past let days are being claimed by the Chinese, who declare that the lapaaesc have been driven out ot Chneki m (hekiang Province, and trm the lenghsin area of Saagsi southern Anhwei is have be?n recaptured.
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  • 39 1 Reuter. London, Oct. 21. teured that between 30J 400 lives were lost in the which struck Bombay and rrounding district early las* it is stated by the Delhi Material damage is esti- about £370,000.—Reuter.
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  • 83 1 Reuter. Washington, Oct. 21. COLONEL Knox, Secretary for the Navy, in a special Navy Day message, urged servicemen to keep the United States Navy strong efficient and ready, "in this serious lime in the nation's history." The aim of the recent tripartite pact, he
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  • 29 1 Reuter. London, Oct. 21:-Berlin Radio has bsen saying that the v. a. in London has movedjto another English city An Embassy cfficial has described the German report as nonsense.—Reuter.
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  • 241 1 Reuter. British Wireless. London, Oct. 20. "U/E have reason to hope and expect that at long last'the war services of the Jews in Palestine will be used," declared Mr. Paul Goodman, presiding at the annual conference in London of the Zionist Federation of Great
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  • 16 1 Reuter. Bombay, Oct. 21:-Gandhi's disciple. Vinoba. who has been mak tag pacifist speeches, has been arrested.—Renter.
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  • 574 1 Fierce German Press Attacks On Boris Reuter. Umdon, Oct. 21. THF limelight moved at the week-end from Rumania, which 1 is now de facto if not de jure under German heel, further south to Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece. Mr George RendeL. British Minister |n Sofia,
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  • 384 1 London, Oct. 21. R.A.F. bombers staged a terrific and spectacular attack on the French coast shortly after dusk last night The bombing was so violent that ground on the English side of the Channel quivered as salvoes of bombs were dropped. The bombing appeared
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  • 29 1 Runter. Chungking, Oct. 21:-A reception vas given on Saturday afternoon by the British Ambassador. It was attended by the Chinese Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Finance, Economic Affairs and Fublicity.-Reuter.
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  • 78 1 Reuter. London. Oct.. 21. A MESSAGE from the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Afton Bladet says that Berlin has entirely chanced Its habits since the British bombing raidii began. It appears that Berilners arc having a large dose of their own medicine. A tour of
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  • 134 1 Reuter. Bucharest, Od. 21. PERMAN bomber*, with their cross marking. few over Buchaa») »y only a hundred feel ibnee theroof- IH,." were apparently intended as an intimKtat.nK m -nines 1 dh«d rfeep* exactly above the British Legation. Rumanian authorities are preparing the public for general air raid
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  • 313 1 Reuter. Berlin. Oct. 21. GEN. FRANCO had half mi hour's talk with Himmler, Chief of the Gestapo, who arrived in Madrid yesterday morning, says the German News Ag'mry. Himmler first saw Senor Smier, and had a conversation with him, after which, accompanied by Ifie German ambassador, he
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  • 388 1 Reuter. Cairo, Oct. 20. A SERIES of successful raids by R.A.F. bombers on important A Italian war targets, including Benghazi, from all of which operations R.A.F. machines returned safety, 1 is announced in an R.A.F. communique, which reads— t IC d v> "Aircraft of the
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  • 133 1 Reuter. Cairo, Oct. 21. ITALIAN aircraft bombed two 1 independent Muslim states--Saurii Arabia and the little island of Bahrain, in the Persian Ml. They new over the Holy Land near the city of Mecca The attack on Bahrein was official y announced U night It is
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  • 33 1 Reuter. Shanghai, Oct, 21:-The Japanese last night claimed that their bombers had again raided tn turma Road. In Chungking, Chinese officials are confident in their ability to keep the road open.— F. enter.
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  • 120 2 S (From Our Own Reporter) S Kuala Lumpur, Sunday. S LEGISLATION concern ing the collection of estate duty in the F.M.S. j is to be revised. A Bill for j this purpose, the result of months of labour on th part of the
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  • 163 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. AN inquiry was conducted in the Second Court before Megat Yunus, who sat as Coroner, into the death of a Tamil named Kavundan. who was found in a disj used mining pool off the t% mile, 1 Klang
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  • 341 2 SINGAPORE CITY HEALTH NOT AFFECTED I (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE Singapore Municipality will be budgeting for an expenditure of $16,777,210 next year. This will be offset by an estimated revenue of $16,603,737, which is roughly $578,000 more than the amount expected to be
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  • 108 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Sunday. THE Perak Chinese Association has forwarded a telegram to the British Government, through i-he Chinese Embassy in London, welcoming the re-opening of the Burma Road. The telegram, signed by Mr. Cheong Chee, president of the Perak Chinese Association, reads as
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  • 93 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Mv i Per *ang, Sunday. Wlf e left my house because she is not willing to live with my mother.'' Lim kye told Mr Lim Koon Teck in the Third Court when he was summoned fcr negYo*Kooii mnintain nis lawf ui
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  • 186 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Seremban, Saturday. THREE Mohamedans Maideen, Ismail and Hussein, appeared before the Seremban Magistrate, Mr. J. A. A. Faith, to answer a i summons charge of assaulting ani ether Mohamedan, Syed Mohamed, at the 2 l 2 mile,
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  • 93 2 (From Our Own, Kpiu Kuala Lvi THE following hay *fe I to give evidc Commission of Mines Departmlie session to be I t pjr Council Chamber to-rtJ^-^C Messrs. Khoo i Kia Peng. Chont-. X] Cta Teik Ee. W. J. P Jumeaux. r a^d At its next
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  • 56 2 tfTom Oar Own lfpwten Pens.] Qot, I MR. F. N. Syer, p lfl Kennedy Co 0 share-brokers, who a before the First Magisl i i A. Forrer, last S h charges of breach 55 (Finance) Regular. was fined $800 on ho appealing to the Hi r understood.
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  • 598 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang-, Saturday, echo of a gang robbery a t a provision shop in Burma Koad, one of the busiest streets in Penang, in the-early morning of June 18, when the manageress of the shop and her granddaughter were robbed of some
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  • 117 3 i correspondent) sar, Saturday, into the death of a inesc mason. Wong «n a height of 30 rooi of the Malay held before Che Wan ,?ruddin who acted as Co- workman. Hoe Peng. Sept. 26. he was w itn Wong on the roof college. He
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  • 48 3 1 sam Our Own Reporter) Penang. Sunday, th has occurred of Mr. Produce Manager, of c East Asiatic Co.. Ltd.. at the Genera Hospital. Deceased leaves the widow and a son. He was a mteer and was popular w.ir. all who knew him.
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  • 396 3 A Singapore Woman's Courage (Tribune Staff Reporter) MORE excited at having been able to see a real live Zulu dance than at having escaped London's airraids and Hitler's U-boats and raiders, six Malayan
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  • 51 3 Singapore. Monday. MEMBERS of the Thailand Goodwill Mission this morning paid a visit to the Supreme Court, where 'hey were shown round by Mr. Ju tire a'Beckctt Terrell, the Aetna Chief Justice, and the Registrar The visitors spent over an I hour In the Supreme
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  • 241 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Saturday. S A MEETING of representa- J tives of various Chinese bodies in Pmang, held at ibe Chinese Chamber of Com- r merce, unanimously passed J the following resolution;— > •'That this meeting of re- > presentatives of Chinese i guilds,
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  • 349 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Saturday. IJOW a young Chinese, Chong n Yee, described by the prosecution as a "very talented person of no mean artisti'J ability and of high intelligence," had used these gifts in organising a bogus lottery and was finally apprehended by the
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  • 67 3 Mr. S. Chelliah, Chief Clerk. Customs and Excise Office Krian, parit Buntar, has gone to Port Dickson on transfer. Mr. Lee Hun Chiang, who was acting as Financial Clerk for sometime in place of Mr. Goh Ah Le?. who had gone on transfer to Kroh, Upper Perak. has taken his
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  • 47 3 Rev. F. W. J. Reynolds was recently inducted and instituted as Rector of St. Nicholas Church. Laindon, by the Bishop of Barking and the Archdeacon of Southend. Rev. Reynolds was a curate at St. Thomas's Church. Becontree, and before that, he snent four years in Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 13 3 Lieutenant A. T. Edgar, M.B.E., has been annotated to be Acting Captain, F.M.S.V.F.
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  • 503 3 (From Our Own Reporter) I|H>h, Saturday. •'THERE are other ways and means which should be adopted to obtain the necessary funds for the prosecutmn of the war, one of the simplest being the holding of a war lottery as il(1 „ptcd in
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  • 33 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: SRC vs Singapore Hornets, S.R.C; S.C.C. vs. Raffles College, S.C.C; S.C.R.C. vs. Indian General Hospital, Tyersall Park; Indian Assn. vs. Post Office, Balestier. TENNIS: S.C R.C. and V.M.C.A. tournaments.
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  • 125 4 S.C.R.C. Tennis DAIN prevented the final of the veterans' doubles handicap in the S.C R.C. open invitation 1 lawn tennis tournament which was to have been played off yesterday, when Dr. S.H. Tan and Chua Choon Leong —3O) were to have met Evan Wong and Seah
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  • 24 4 #The death took place recently at Barley Down House, Ovrington Hants., of William Langham-Car-ter. Mr. Langham-Carter was Resident Councillor of Malacca for several years.
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  • 293 4 Early Games Produce Poor Standard Of Play 'fHE Singapore badminton championships made a start yesterday when four ties —two men's singles and two women's singles—were played off at the Clerical Union Hall. One further tie in the men's singles was decided by one of the contestants
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  • 77 4 Negri cricket is poorer by the departure on leave for Australia of Dr. John H. Strahan, for the past two seasons the State skipper Dr Strahan captained the Negri Sembilan side very successfully last year. With H. T. Stiven and P X Raman he has been mainly resixmsible for keeping
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  • 81 4 fiROUP pictures taken at the pahit party given by the Con-sul-General for Thailand ana Madame Vudhisara Netinat; at Tanjong Balai yesterday. Top picture, right to left:—Captain Luang Dhamrong Navasicsti leader of the Thailand Goodi .11 Mission, HE. the G.O.C Lieut General L. V. Bond, the Actina Chief
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  • 272 4 Reuter. London. Oct. 19. The following are th e latest football results; NORTH Blackburn 2. Rochdale 0. Bradford City 3. Leeds 6. Chester 1. Everton 0. Chesterfield 2. Sheffield United 0. Crewe 2. New Brighton 3. Grimsby 3. Doncaster 2. Huddersfield 1. Barnsley 2. Hull 2. Newcastle
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  • 375 4 (irom Our Own Reporter) rnnn,,, 'Poh. Oct. 20. WEIGHTS for the first day o the Ipoh race meeting or Saturday are: HORSES, lass 1, I)i v I—s' furs straight. Eel Grass g g Kaolin 9 7 Bndgelaw 819 Jcck Druce 8 9 Smoke Dreams 8
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  • 247 4 MANY U.S. sport headliners were recently asked to donate their services for the Finnish Relief Fund. Among them were America's six top-notch professional tennis players: Donald Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bruce Barnes, Berkeley Bell and 47-year-old Bill Tilden, back in the U.S. after
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  • 101 4 Reuter. Ow™ r> London > Oct. 20. F a l ain Bntl sn air patrols have been responsible for saving survivors from a sunken British ship. Blenheims of the Coastal Command saw white specks fluttering on the water. Investigating they found a raft and several
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  • 234 4 THE Consul General t„r Ihaihml 1 and Madame udhisar.i Netuuti entertained over 300 p< opfe to a pahit party at Tanjon» Balai on Sunday m honour of the visiting Thailand Goodwill Mbsmb Pahits and a buffet luncheon were served. Among those present were X E the
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  • 60 4 Reuter. Shanghai, Oct. 21. TONY RICKETTS won the ama- tetir golf championship ot China to-day. for the fourth successive year, with thp final wore of 295. Lewis Carson was .second With 311. A. B Davis and W. H C Hugget tied for thirn place with
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  • 673 5 ALLEGED SHE HAD BEEN INSULTED YOUNG soldier who sat in the vestibule of the court at A Oxfordshire Assizer with his head on his hands, broke n d wept disconsolately when he heard that his girl-wife sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the second tl
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  • 135 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. REMODELLED and enlarged at a cost of approximately $40,000 one of the oldest buildings in Kuala Lumpur—it was first constructed as far back as 1896—will shortly house the Bank ol China, one of the biggest banking corpolations
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  • 208 5 v [-LAND YARD have been v d by the Pest Ofhce Speation Branch to assist a crook who is robl ifflces by a trick which in at least £S a day. the man is believed to grand style on the avelling from one end mtry
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  • 65 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. PROBATION of offenders under the supervision cf paid or voluntary Probation Officers will be introduced in Selangor next year, the Malaya Tribune understands. The Bill to make provision for the system will shortly come before'the Federal Council, but it will
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  • 35 5 THE State of Brunei has telegraphed $30,000 to the Crown Agents to be handed to the Imperial Government. This tea towards the prosecution of the wai from the proceeds of special wai taxation in Brunei.
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  • 284 5 AS she tended wounded German airmen, a V.A.D. commandant beard that the place where her husband was working had been heavily bombed. She tried to phone him, was told that it was impossible to uhone the spot. The woman, Mrs. Hilda Young, returned to the
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  • 284 5 rpHRKE airmen of the South African Air Force had to make j 1 a nightmare 150-mile trek through the waterless bush when they were shot down over a South Abyssinia air base. They have just made a reconnaissance flight over the b^ajato. Asmado, well
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  • 54 5 11/ HEN a grenade exploded, during ft a training course of the Home Guard in Perthshire, recently, the commander, Major F D. f Mirrielees of Garth House, Aberfeldy was killed, and four men were WU«JJ- One of the injured men, Mr. Dugald McNiven, of Kenmore,
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  • 23 5 Mr. Sant Singh, Secretary, Sanitary Board, Kuala Kangaar nas r p a ft y with his family for India on six months' leave.
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  • 408 5 nvr AtJSE of the war-time ban on the sounding of maroons to DECAUbfc ot ine «.i lifeboat was call together the crew, the MA g J (lespera tely to not launched to the rescue ot two boy* dinging a canoe a mile out at
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  • 146 6 JJJALAYAN educational machinery has been in a moribund state for over half-a-century. If the aim of all education is to enlighten, to humanise the masses, the educational system obtaining in this country is a negation of these ideals. The members of the teaching profession themselves will admit
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  • 152 6 JHE child-mind in Malaya, a* in other Empire countries, w in the midst of vast social changes, shocks and set-backs. Those who direct the tional machinery in this country are aware of this and to meet this new condition of things one can safely predict vast changes in
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  • 101 6 JjOW that the Burma Road route has been opened to China for the transport of all types of war materials and supplies, the position with re. gard to the Hongkong route needs clarification. Although much has been written on this subject, in actuality the Hongkong route has
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  • 145 6 I JN addition, by sea, a fairly heavy volume of traffic was maintained between Hongkong and Swatow, and thence by rail and lorry to Shiukwan, seat of the provincial government after its flight from Canton. Swabue, Haiphong and other ports also served. But between Oct. 1938 and Oct.
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  • 768 6  -  By KENNETH WILLIAMS A THOUGH it may be from the French Empire that Italy fain would annex the <rreatest i quare mileage of territory for the Greater Italy of which the Fascists have always dreamed, there are at least four points which the
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  • 107 6 Reuter. Vichy. Oct. 19. T HE Socialist leader and ex-Pre-I mier. M. Leon Blum, is the latest to be charged in the so-called war guilt trials at Rion. The formal indictment against him is of betraying the duties cf hl L° mce while Prim
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  • 318 6 gRITAINS invisible "thin red line" lies i n wait for the enemy in a wide bay most likely to be chosen mand Were attempted in the Southern cS- f 22? right up to the shore's edge permits any warship up to destroyer size tn on™l within
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  • 1040 6  -  Historic Roads Of Palestine BY IAN C. FITCHETT, (With The A.I.F. In Palestine) JIHE roads throughout southern Palestine have become familiar to all Australians here, but not so many have travelled out to the Egyptian frontier and on through the Sinai Desert to the Canal.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 76 7 ihnosa daily, bombers of the R.A.F. Middle Eas t Command are din, Italian air bases in North Africa. This picture illustrates successful raids. It was taken from 4,000 feet, when five Wellesley mbers attacked Asmara aerodrome. Many direc. hits on buildings wire made. On the right can
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  • 53 7 THE TRIBUNE UNDER- V I >T\NDS THAT HIS HIGH- 1 S NESS THE SULTAN OF I JOHORE HAS MADE A PERSONAL LOAN OF THE J 1 SUM OF *****.000 TO THE R X IT I S H GOVERNMENT, i v FREE OF INTEREST FOR
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  • 142 7 Reuter. I >ndon, Oct. 20. "THE face of Britain has been 1 carred bu r its spirit remains unchang cd and unconquerable declared Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Minister Without Portfolio, speaking at Wakefield to-day. Mr Greenwood said one could at this juncture prophesy who going to
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  • 95 7 Reuter. Quincv (Illinois), Oct. 19. MR. Landon, unsuccesstul Rerublican candidate for tne nresidcncv in 1936, told a campaign rally that if Mr. Roosevelt were returned "we can except an unlimited term for this chief cxc cutive. the gradual destruction of Congress, of the judiciary and of
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  • 233 7 Reuter. Chungking, Oct. 19. pKNEKAL Chiang Kai Shek is- determined to keep open the Burxa Road at all costs. He ha< already taken extraordinary precautions against cts of Japanese a:r attacks. Anti-aircraft batteries have led and vast supplies of road construction and building s1
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  • 77 7 Reuter. Shanghai. Oct. 20. Mr Alex Henderson. 47. a Scotchman man died suddenly of heart fail ure while playing golf this momin He was participating in 1M Chtaa open amateur champ.onSh Mr Henderson was a member of the St. Andrew's Society and president of Shanghai for
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  • 651 7 Disaffection In Iron Guard Reuter. T HE position in Rumania is stead ly 1 While the Germans are plundering food supplies the cost of living is rising to record heights resulting in vigorous> GROWING WB- RKPOKTni, AMONG IRON C.UARDISIS
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  • 100 7 Reuter. Moscow, Ocl. 20. J ENGINEERS must develop fortifications from the i| view point of remembering that we are going to fight on alien land—on ths land of the enemy who attacks us" declares Major-General j Khrenov. of the Engineering Corps, in an article in the
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  • 24 7 Reuter. will broadcast to the Frenchi nation to-day at 7 35 p.m. G,.M speaking first in English and then in French.—Reuter.
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  • 180 7 Hongkong Retraction Reuter. Tokyo, Oct. 20. rpHE Hongkong Government is 1 still forbidding transport ot munitions and other supplies to Chunking controlled territory despite the re-openmg of the Burma Road, according to a semi-official Japanese ieport from Hongkong. The Colonial Secretary on Fridav issued a
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  • 57 7 Reuter. Athens, Oct. 19. VISUALLY well-informed circles here deny reports that the Axis powers have made certain demands on Greece. On the contrary, responsible Greek circles believe that there is evidence that the recent tension between Italy and Greece, exemplified in the violent Italian Press
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  • 54 7 Reuter. Madrid. Oct. 19. Herr Himmler, Nazi Gestapo chief, arrived at Burgos on Saturday afternoon accompanied by General Sagardia. chief of the armed Spanish police. They were welcomed by the Mayor. Senor Suner and other members of the Cabinet met Himmler. He is to meet Franco
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  • 37 7 Reuter. Madrid, Oct. 19. The British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare. had a very cordial interview with General Franco co Saturday. M i All outstanding questions be- tween Britain and Spain were dis- cussed.—Reuter. i
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  • 411 8 London, Oct. 20. JHE British offensive against Germany was directed in three spearhead attacks to-day. They were: Arelic firele |*HE German seaplane base a Tromsoe, on the north coast o Norway, and well within th Arctic Circle, hat.' bsen successful!; attacked by naval Swordfish am Skua
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  • 100 8 "TOVARICH" is back for a return season at the Pavilion, and seeing it a second time is just as entertaining an experience as attending its premiere. This brilliant comedy with a very fine cast loses nothing in its charm and appeal by a second screening, and
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  • 52 8 Reuter. Shanghai, Oct. 20 APPLICATIONS of American n women and children wishing to e\acuated the Far East total mor* than 3.600 states the local office of the American President Lines. A large part of the American women in Shanghai are oelieved to be preparing to leave as soon as possible
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  • 35 8 Penang. Saturday.—A Chinese bcv who was admitted into the General Hospital after drinking boiling water at his home, died at the hosnital a few days later The boy's name was given as Tan Boon Swee.
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  • 66 9 Reuter. Cairo. Oct. 19. THE Sudan can resist all enemy attacks, declared Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Symes. retiring Gov-ernor-General of the Sudan, In message to the Sudanese people en the eve of his return to England He added that he was sure that the political
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  • 98 9 Reuter. London. Oct. 20. THE Cestapo are very active in Poland trying to stop the people listening to the news bulletins in Polish from London, according to Polish circles in London. German newspapers In the occupied territory publish every day reports of sentences imposed by
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  • 42 9 Reuter. New York, Oct. 19. Ninety per cent, answered "yes" to the Gallup poll on th e question should the Government forbid the sale of arms, aeroplanes, gasoline and other war material to Japan —Reuter.
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  • 392 9 Reuter. London, Oct. 20. •THE German air offensive on Saturday night was on a somewhat larger scale than on recent nights and was at its height during the early hours of darkness when three mair attacks were in progress, namely, against London, against the
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  • 12 9 Lieutenant H. Knight. F.M.S.V.F. has been promoted to the rank of Captain.
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    • 475 10 AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES. To be held at The Saleroom of Messrs. Cheong Hock Chye Co., Ltd., No. 1-A, (First Floor) Raffles Place, Singapore. On Thursday, 24th October, 1040 at 2.30 P.M. Lot 1. No. 26 Duxton Hill, area 1.251 sq. ft. 2. No. 40 Emerald Hill
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    • 146 10 NOTICE Intending purchasers are hereby informed that the sale of rubber lands and fruit plantation situate at Machap. Malacca, to be held at Messrs. Khoo Chee Guan Sons' Saleroom, No. 298, Jonker Street, Malacca, on Wednesday. 23rd October, 1940, is POSTPONED SINE DIE. KHOO CHEE GUAN SONS, Auctioneers Appraisers. Malacca.
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    • 1302 10 j TO-DAY'S RADIo! j J SINGAPORE London ZHL 225 metre. (1 338 kl«t> JJL"r?"""»W 2 t ZHPI 30 96 metre. (9.99 m cs) GSF Ul4 Mc s (9.82 n ZHP3 41 38 metre* (7.25 mice) GSJ 21.53 Mc,s (13.93 m. 8.20 am. New. la («W GSG 17.7» Mc i 6
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  • 460 11 Singapore, Oct. 18 Price MEAT k kati 40 •tew or curry; kati 35 lb Australian; lb. 38 *t Flesh; lb. M lean; kati so n and fat htyi; kati 40 POULTRY locally reared*; kati 52 35 E [SallJ reared); kati 45 domestic; fledged; pair 75 domestic; unfledged;
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  • 64 11 Reuter. T Calcutta, Oct. 21. ralian delegation to the ter n uroup Conference, led Sir Walter Massy-Green, has by air and will leave toDelhi, where the conferilch lias been called to mate war supplies in Empire 'ies, opens on Friday. r >rne members of the
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  • 249 11 Reuter. Cairo, Oct. 21. DURING the past five months, the railway revenue in Egypt has increased by £239,000, and the harbour dues by £172,000. because of the arrival of troops and war material from the British Empire. Figures such as these not only show that both
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  • 76 11 Plans are in hand for tne 101 motion of a Jewish National Army, recruited from all over the world, to take its place beside the Allied Armies. Mr A. Abrahams, head of tne political department of the New Zionist Organisation, said at a London conference that it
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  • 365 11  -  By I Reuter London, Oct. 21. experts believe that Japan, China and Manchukuo would soon feel hunger if the war spreads to the Far East. Japan's 1940 wheat and rice crop were disappointing and substantial imports of United States, Pacific
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  • 118 11 Frcm Our Financial Correspondent Singapore, Monday. T»HE markets were quiet and steady, and only a very small amount of business was transacted on Saturday, and prices showed no appreciable change. In tin shares, some Ulu Klangs and Hong Fatts changed hands, while in the Australian
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  • 24 11 Singapore, Monday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 38 Sellers 88%. TIN $132%, up $14.
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  • 85 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Sept. 2. THE International Rubber Regulation Committee Bulletin for August shows that in July, 134,200 tons of rubber were shipped by world producers. World absorption totalled 74,511 tons, so that there was an excess oi supply over demand of 59.689 tons. In June
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  • 365 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Aug. 26. PRESIDING at the annual meeting of Ipoh Tin Dredging. Ltd., in London to-day, Mr. D. T. Lewis said that for the year ended Mar. 31 last, the net profit was £94,554, an incrzase of £71,189 over the previous
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  • 244 12 T HE seventh attacks on London opened tonight with the appearance ot Ge?-. man machines and a heavy answering barrage "c*vy tii22i observer s state their continued surprise and admiration at fi n T Ue in which Londoners ;ii;n I
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  • 56 12 Reuter. London, Oct. 20. WINDOWS were shattered over a wide area but on the whole damage was remarkably light in relation to the ferocity of the German reply to the British bombardment across the Straits of Dover. An early estimate puts the casualties at only one killed and two wounded.
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  • 242 12 Reuter. London, Oct. 21. QPERATING al great height, German planes were mainly over south-east England yesterday. The damage they did, says an Air Ministry communique, was not heavy, nor casualties numen us. Five were destroyed. i»iesserscnrrmt iignterbomber was shot down in a London street. The
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  • 85 12 Reuter. Vichy, Oct. 21 IT was announced yesterday that 1 three French and four German members of the Armistice Control Commission were killed in an an disaster on Oct. 10. The plane in which they travelling crashed in the Mediterranean. Six German non-com-missioned
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  • 221 12 London, Oct. 21. I t THE good humour and 1 J mutual helpfulness of S Londoners in the midst of the bombing ordeal is an encouragement and inspira- t tion to visitors from the J J country, the Bishop of Truro 1 >
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  • 449 12 Reuter. r London, Oct. 21. German <iir force i* now favouring more and mere the substratosphere in the daylight air war over Britain. says Ralph Walling, Reuters Air Correspondent. This is another sequel to the failure of the day bomber squadrons to penetrate the
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  • 65 12 Reuter. London, Oct. 20. A yellow-nosed Messerschmitt bomber was shot down in a London street this afternoon. The pilot was killed. Another is believed to have been brought down off the coast. It was seen streaming off towards France with a flgWplane in pursuit and
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  • 35 12 Mr. A. E. Coope, District Officer. .Province We'iesley. has been ap- ocimed Chairman of the Penang ttibund] under the Ccmpu'sory [kervtCe (Local Force*) Ordinance .during the temporary absence of I the Hon Mr. Justice Aitken.
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  • 465 12 Reuter. (By Col. T. A. Lowe, Reuters Military Correspondent) London, Oct. 20. THE official delay in revealing the attempted German invasion of Britain on Sept. 15 can only be interpreted as meaning that the hour has not yet arrived for self-congratulation on
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  • 70 12 Reuter. Cairo, Oct. 21. A successful action in the Sudan was announced in a British headquarters communique issued on Sunday night. It says that in the Sudan, one of our mechanised units fought a successful action en Oct. 19 at Feteb in the Kassa.'a Details have not
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  • 62 12 Reuter. MR. EDEN lfl on Thursday official announcer night. He was aocoenpanied v Sir Archibald Wave] in-Chief of the Middl Mr. Eden inspec of the garrison su, tine. On Friday he vis and was received tr Er of Trans-Jordan A detachment Legion formed th( honour. Later,
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  • 85 12 Reuter. f Cairo. Oct. 21.— All the Cabinet and all 0 f the front who signed Egyptian Treaty. cxc Former Prime Ifii indisposed, attended given by Sir Miles Lampson Embassy Gardens. nl fc Meanwhile, the growing m troops from the British p 01 continues to reinforce'
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  • 174 12 Reuter. Tokyo, Oct 19. "JT would appear that the Soviet Union does not altogether approve of Japan's pact with the Axis," declares the imiuer.. tial Asahi Shimtun in an article reflecting- Japan's anxiety over the talks between the United States and the Soviets. Chungking. Oct.
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