Malaya Tribune, 2 January 1941

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Thursday, January 2, 1941.
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    "NAZI RAIDER WAS JAPANESE VESSEL"
    601 1 British Survivors' Stories TERRIBLE CONDITIONS ON BOARD PRISON SHIP Reuter. Melbourne, Jan. 2. 111 SHIP which sank the British vessel Komata in the Pacific is purported lobe a Japanese merchantship. This statement >sas made by survivors rescued from Emirau Island. •with the Japanese flag painted
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    "Invisible" Junkers
    65 1 Reuter. Vichy, Jan. 2—A new type en Junkers plane made of transparent material and stated to be scarcely visible at a height of 2,400 feet is being constructed at the big aircraft factories at Wiener Neustadt, Austria, according to reports reachthe German frontier. The machines ar e reported
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    ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE
    54 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 2. PRESIDENT Roosevelt, replying to a New Year message from Kins Victor Emanuel, said: "I extend to Your Majesty mv very sincere wishes for your personal welfare and my hope that during the year to come, the Italian people may be enabled to enjoy the
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    Compulsion No Panic Measure
    145 1 Reuter. London. Jan. 2. THE G decision, anI i unced b\ Mi Herbert Morri»n, the Horn- Secretmjry, on TiiesDapel the peooje il ecessary, to in up for fire-flght-do sudden change of policy panic n asure, says Reuters lobby corresp ..dent. who] |uestion nas been Consi ration
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    ROME ATTACK ON TURKEY
    66 1 Reuter. Rome. Jan. 2. BR ack i Turkey for its and often offensive atl ward Germany and It ma 9 yesterday by cia's lewspaper. Giorwh h complains that' be me "one of the trie ds of Britain and tifyii herself with every British manoeovie. ■ral eeks
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    Bombs On Dublin
    26 1 Reuter. London. Jan. Z. [1 was -ported from Dublin last Wednesday) that bcmbs dro ped thirty miles north DublL from an unidentified plane.—Ruter.
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    Another Naval Epic: British Ship's Fight With Raider
    417 1 Reuter. Wellington, Jan. Z. f, A yi x Jock of the British steamer Turakina, swore hi Mac from Sydney last August that if he met a be ore sa.l.ng from >y 3 m c fc hjs word ima raider he would ngni
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    Japan's "Untold Difficulties"
    130 1 Reuter. Tokyo, Jan. 2. i OUR Fl'Tl'RE is beset with untold difficulties," de- t elated the Japanese War Minister. Lieut.-General i ilideki Tojo. in a new year message to the nation. The minister said: "New that tlie < hina affair I has assumed world-wide limensions and the
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    Italian War On Spanish Vessels
    278 1 Reuter. Ixmdon, Jan. 2. ir.f-it or i'ushmv cssel.-, if not more, have been attacked and sunk by Italian or Gorman submarines in recent months, it was announced by the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London yesterday. This throws new light on the "Sink Spanish Ships
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    U. S. NAVY 10 STAY IN THE PACIFIC
    90 1 Reuter. New Ycrk, Jan. 2. FOR the first time in over 20 years, the United States Fleet will not engage in large-scale manoeuvre! this year. Instead, states a Washington despatch to the New York Times, it will be retained as a unit
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    NO MOBILISATION IN HUNGARY
    26 1 Reuter. Budapest, Jan. 2. REFORTS that Hungary had ord°red mobilisation or intended to do so officially has been denied in Budnnest -Renter.
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    PEATAIN MOVES FLEET UNITS TO NORTH AFRICA
    618 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. If' ARSHAL PETAIN'S torn action in sending units of the JkWWL French Fleet to North Africa has baffled Hitler, according to an independent French news agency. When Hitler demanded an explanation of the move he was told that the
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    Mussolini A Burden To Hitler
    157 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. A STIRRING call to. Mie Follsfa nation to endure still further for "the dawn La already high" cms made by Gen Sikorski. the Polish Prime Minister, in a broadcast to Poland. Gen. Sikorski said that the Germans had now traversed Hie
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    Italian Prisoners
    42 1 Reuter. Bombay, Jan. 2. The first batch ot Italian prisoners from the western desert-of Egrat arrived here yestsrdav, consisting of four generals, 300 other cfhceis' and 627 men. They t 't for -"mp in the interior of India.- R' uter.
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    NEW YEAR BALL AT FORT CANNING
    476 2 pOUE hundred and fifty visitors crowded into the Command Gymnasium at Tanglin on Tuesday night for one of the most popular functions of the New Year festivities, the Ball given by the Fort Canning Garrison Sergeants' Mess. not vi mc uiiiucia uiiu men wives
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    War Only Beginning For Britain
    192 2 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. "YOUR LEADERS tell you that the war is already won. We regard it as only the beginning," said Mr. L. S. Amery (Secretary for India), broadcasting to the German people on Tuesday. Mr. Amery said that Britain never wanted war, and
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    32 2 Reuter. Bombay, Jan. 1. n™ Chinese vice-consulate in Bombay is raising the status of the Consulate from Jan. 4. The new consul Mr. Tsiang Chiatung i s a nving on Jan. 3.-Reuter
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    Chinese Aid In Local Defence
    211 2 JiJIK enlistment of overseas Chinese in the Singapore Volunteer Corps is a question which is being much discussed in the Chinese newspapers of this city. In several leading articles recently the Union Times has dwelt on the necessity of overseas Chinese taking part in the
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    DEATH OF MR. A MONTGOMERY
    222 2 THE death occurred on Tuesday 1 of Mr. A. Montgomery, known to many in Malaya as "Montgomery of Kelantan". He had spent many years in Kelantan as a planter and general contractor. Mr. Montgomery is survived by o.is mother and one sister in England The
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    12 2 Mr A.H.P. Humphrey. M.C.S. has butn. appointed to act as Resident, ll-
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    MR. TAN KAH KEE RETURNS FROM EXTENSIVE CHINA TOUR
    249 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) t EADER of the South Seas Comfort Mission which made an extensive tour of China some nine months ago, Mr- Tan Kah Kee, well-known local resident, has returned to Singapore. Mr. Tan, who is 67 years of age,
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    29 2 His Highness the Sultan of Selanger has appointed Mr. A. Glencross M C S to be a Magistrate of the First Class within and for the State of Selangor.
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    Bombers From Cents
    24 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) Total number of enemy planes destroyed on Tuesday and yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time SIX
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    GREEK CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
    32 2 Reuter. Athens. Dec. 3] Casualties among the population o; Greece as of Italian air attacks betw»- 29 and Dec. 23 were 88 IrJJ 296 wounded, it is official nounctd.—Reuter.
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    MORE AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN FOR CANADA
    36 2 Reuter. Sydney. Jan. 2 ANOTHER strong contingent of Australian air trainees ha rived in Canada, including Mr Peter Kingsford Smith, nephew oi the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, the famous flyer.—Reuter
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    BAN ON IMPORTS
    69 2 Reuter. New Delhi. Jan. l The Raj has prohibited the in port to British India of various types of iron and steel, including ingots, plates, sheets, tubes hoonj wheels and castings, bolts. The ban does not aff2ct iron and stee' imported for transhipment else* where or despatched
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    COLONY NEWSPAPERS
    17 2 Ar. official notice re&thW im newspapers in the straits Beu appears in page lv to-day.
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    Planes To Be Made In India
    144 3 Till. Government of India j have entered into a con- j trut for the purchase of military aircraft to be pro- 1 din ed by an Indian company. 1 he company when formed will establish an aircraft factory with the aid of Amerian experts.
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    MALAYAN MUSLIMS
    34 3 A PUBLIC meeting, to consider wav<? and means of helping distressed Malayan Muslims resident in Mecca, will be held by the AH Malaya Muslim Missionary Society at 830 Geylang Road on Saturday.
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    SIKH BROADCAST
    48 3 THE music party of the Singapore Sikh Missionary Tract Society will broadcast from Singapore on Jan. 4 from 11.15 a.m. to 11.45 a m On this day falls the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs and the founder of the Khalsa.
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    DOMESTIC SCIENCE TO BE TAUGHT IN JOHORE SCHOOLS
    233 3 New Education Em (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE introduction of domestic science in Johore Bahru schools, together with a fully equipped science laboratory at the Johore English College, the seat of English education in the State, is indicated by the decision to put
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    32 3 Che Yusof bin Haji Osman. Chief Clerk Health Office. Kiang is to be transferred to the District Office. Kajang. Mr S. Rama lingam of the same office will be aypointed Chief Clerk.
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    New Year Honours For Malayans
    653 3 TWO CMC's SEVERAL O.B.E.s (BOTH CIVIL AND JJJ? 1 TARY) A CBE AND TWO M.B.E.s ARE AMONG THE NEW YEAR HONOURS CONFERRED ON MALAYANS. In the Straits Settlements, Mr. S. J. Chan, well-known barrier and leader of the Chines, community becomes a Companion of the
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    FMS Malay Chiefs Have New Scope
    322 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Wednesday. THE TRIBUNE understands that Territorial Chiefs will have seats as unofficials on the Sanitary Boards of their respective districts. This new policy will come into force from this year as the result of a wish, expressed by His
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    OVER $4,000 COLLECTED BY DUTCH CHOIR
    212 3 rHE Singapore Dutch Choir had a mon successful season over Christmas when they went Caroi singing at different places in the colony. In all, more than $4,000 were collected. Detailed lists of the contributions are given below: Mrs A H. Dickinson party $26'). Anon
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    TIN, RUBBER AS PAYMENTS TO AMERICA
    88 3 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 31. President Roosevelt indicated at a press conference to-day that his lending-and-leasing programme to Britain might embrace the repayment of America by Britain sending raw materials to the United States The President had recently spoken of replacements in kind under a
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    Indian Liberals Vote For Britain
    64 3 Reuter. Calcutta, Dec. 1. BY supporting Britain, India would be supporting herself,"' declared Sir Chimanlal Setalvad at the Indian National Liberal Conference here on Tuesday. He was moving a resolution, which was carried, expressing appreciation of "Britain's heroic efforts," and asking for the wholehearted assistance
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    30 3 Mr. Loe Poh Son of the Kedub Clerical Service who has been attached to the State Surgeon's Office for the past 18 years, has entered on leave prior to retirement.
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      33 4 TIDE TABLE This week's high tides: To-day: 1.45 am., 9.1 ft.; 109 p.m., 9.6 ft. To-morrow: 2.16 a.m., 8.9 ft.; 150 p.m., °.2 ft Saturday: 2.50 a.m., 8.7 ft.; 2.34 p.m., 8.6 ft.
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    PENANG RACE RESULTS
    555 4 JHiE third day of the Penang races, run off yesterday, provided more surprises, several big dividends being paid. rerniet, riaaen oy uarrara, once more proved a surprise packet when it won the fifth race and paid $88. BIG SWEEP. Total Pool: $53,130. First Prize $23,908 Second Prize
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    WEIGHTS FOR 4TH DAY AT PENANG
    296 4 THE following- are weights for the fourth day of the Penang Turf Club's X'mas—New Year meeting on Jan. 4:— Horses, Class 1, Div. I—6 Furs. Cimon 9.12 Kaolin 9.7 Bridge Law 8.13 Jack Druce 8.13 Smoke Dreams 8.7 Mediation 8.5 Carloca 8.4 Lord Bug
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    NEW YEAR LAND AND SEA SPORTS
    566 4 FIELD SPORTS Thrills In PROVIDE FUN Boat Races FAVOURED by splendid weather, Singapore's annual New Year land sports were run off successfully before a huge crowd at the Anson Road Stadium yesterday. Thrills jolly "mix-ups"—owing to the hundreds of eager competitors in each event—and
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    New Empire Batamweight Champion
    41 4 Reuter. Dundee, Jan. 1. A LOCAL boxer, Jim Brady, won the British Empire batamweight championship by outpointing Kid Tanner, triple champion cf British Guiana, in, probably, the firs* open-air contest held in Great Britain this year.— Reuter.
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    Sports Diary
    39 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: C.S.C. v Mountain Regt., CSC. The following were elected office for the tennis section foi the year 1941. Captain, Chua Choon Leong; Vice-Captain, John Lim: Convener. C. K. Pang; representative to S.L.T.A., Chin Kee Onn.
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    RACE EIGHT
    60 4 DOUBLE FILE (Flannery) 8.09 1 RACKAROCK <Martin* 8.12 2 MEPRY WIDOW (Garrard) 8.09 3 MOONLIGHT SONATA (Lewis) 3.09 4 (Winner trained by Major Fox) Time: 1 mm. 15 sees. Distances: 3. 2. head. Totes: $18, $8, $14, $9. Cash sweep: 1. 2159 ($1,441), 2. 1737 ($720». 3. 1228
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    BRITISH WARSHIP SINKS 4 ITALIAN SUPPLY SHIPS
    441 5 Graziani's Air Force Smashed Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 2. Rapidly and relentlessly, the pilots of the Middle East R.A.F. Command are smashing Graziani's supposedly formidable air force in North Africa. Since the 24-hour bombing hold-off on Christmas Day, the R.A.F. has resumed the aerial
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    "Hitler Is Through" Says U. S. Paper
    107 5 Reuter. Washington. Jan. 1. THE Saint Louis Post Despatch writes: "If coloquialism is permissible in the circumstances, last night Mr. Roosevelt spat in Hitler s eye! This great, rich, powerful and virile nation is not going to fall over and play dead now
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    CHAINED TO A BURDEN OF FATIGUE?
    258 5 Tired to death—sleepless—lrritable—ageing fax too quickly —these are the trial* which beset too many men and women who live out their lives In the Tropics. Yet it need not be so. The system is only crying out for a tonic, stimulating diot. rich in
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    Japanese Casualties 1,700,000
    52 5 Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 1. THE Sao Tung Pao, the official news organ of the Chinese army, estimates the total Japanese casualties since the commencement of hostilities at 1.700.000 killed and wounded, while during the period January tc November the Japanese casualties are estimated at 384,618 killed and
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    British Press Hails Roosevelt's Speech
    546 5 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. (Renter's Special Commentary). THE British press is unanimous in expressing gratitude to 1 President Roosevelt for his "fireside" talk on Sunday evening, which the Times says will rank among the greatest ot the many great speeches the President has made upon
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    U.S. MISSIONARIES LEAVE CHINA
    68 5 Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 1. When the President Coolidge sails from Shanghai at daybreak to-day she is taking from China more than two hundred missionaries and nearly all women and children. This is the largest contingent cf missionaries to sail from these shores since the American evacuation
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    HOW LONDON USHERED IN NEW YEAR
    153 5 Reuter. i London, Jan. 1. HUNDREDS welcomed in the S 11 new year as it has always been welcomed in London— t with the singing of Auld I Lang Syne from the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral, i There was something strangely dignified this
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    Eire's Food Position Serious
    112 5 Reuter. Dublin, Jan. 1. 44 »rHE food position in Ireland is 1 rapidly becoming more serious." declared Mr. James Ryan (Minister of Agriculture), broadcasting from Dublin. "I am quite positive." he added, -that within a very short period, supplies of imported food may be cut off
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    Trawlers For Royal Indian Navy
    121 5 HIS Highness the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, who has already generously contributed £50.000 for a flight of fighter aircralt for the R.A.F., has now offered to contribute a further sum of £50.000. This will be used; for the purchase of a trawier for the Royal
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    AXIS UNITY
    81 5 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. Germany and Italy are allied for life and death, declared R^bentrop in a new year message to the Italian Foreign Minister, published in the Boersen Zeitung. and broadcast by Rome radio last Tuesday nl ßeplying to his fellow Foreign Minister, Ciano said:—"The German and
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    MAHARAJA'S £45,000 GIFTS
    41 5 Reuter. Bangalore, Jan. 1. The Maharaja of Mysore has cabled £37,500 to Lord Beaverhrook and £7,500 to the Lord Mayor of London for air raid victims He paid a tribute to the fortitude of the people of Britain.—Reuter.
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    BARDIA SIEGE ACTIVE AFFAIR
    745 5 Reuter. (By Gordon Young, Reuter' .<? Spcciol Correspondent at advanced headquarters outsidi Bardia) London. Jan. 1. Did guns thundering throughout the night, their flashes illuminating the sky, and the short but intense patrol skirmishes, make this battle of Bardia a more active affair than would appear
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    Japan's Civil Service Reformation
    81 5 Reuter. Tokyo, Jan. 1. The reformation of Japan's civil service system which the Konoye Cabinet decided to carry out, following public demand for changes and eradication of inefficiency, has been finally approved by the Pnv> Council in the presence of the Emperor, ays a semi-official JapanC
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    26 5 The British Resident. Perak. and Mrs. Marcus Rex have donated $1 h p > Spitfire Fund organised by the Perak Turf Club, which now stands at 16.260.
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    Opinion Income-Tax
    132 6 THE restricted scope of its terms of reference has robbed the report of the Joint Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Committee on income-tax of much of the public interest which it would otherwise have aroused. It was appointed merely "to study problems connected with income-tax common to
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    Cut-And-Dried
    174 6 IT, however, confirms what we have suspected for a long time—in fact, ever since Sir Shenton Thomas made his first income-tax broadcast—that the Government had already committed itself to the principle of income-tax as a means of raising money for the war. If that be so, the Government's wilful
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    Will Finance Two Hours Of War
    137 6 EVEN the veriest tiro in public finance will admit the truism that no system of indirect taxation alone, however carefully it may be graded, can be made as fair in its incidence as even a comparatively simple form of direct tax on incomes. The
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    Procrastination
    113 6 ten million dollars a sufficient price for Malayan public opinion? We think not. By all means collect the ten million dollars, but do help us to contribute a sum fair in proportion to Malaya's huge trade turnover which at approximately $2,000 million this year sets up an all-time record.
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    BRITAIN'S BEST SELLERS
    149 6 OHAKESPEARE and the Bible remain the "best sellers" in the vast total of £2,605,281 worth of books sent overseas, despite the paper shortage, by British publishers during the first nine months of 1940. Australia was easily the bigge;| purchaser with the United States second, and South Africa,
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    466 6 fHILD'S definition: An adult is one who has stop ped growing exc-pt in the Btttt. It's not how old you are but O "J™/;; e e £f ess i e r Some men grow under responsibility, others only S ™Margot Asquith's tentous lady of the British aristocracy. Recutita-, platitude,
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    212 6 "Keep The Enemy At A Distance" T\o Axis dreams of conquest envisage an attack on India? If they do, is such an attack possible, or practicable? These are the "sober considerations" that are engaging, more and more, the minds of Indian ]eaders. Behind India's splendid, and growing
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    329 6 HITLER dreamed of the same gigantic expansion. The upflingI ing of a new Turkish State, nauseated by the taste of Kaiseriam and resolved not to savour Hitlerism, put a barrier in his road. Hitler, however, developed a new weapon. He aimed it—the weapon of intensive, utterly unscrupulous
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    610 6 NEITHER the collapse of France nor the propaganda of Rome and Berlin has altered the fact that Britain still controls the Mediterranean, which means that the main forces of the enemy can be kept at a distance from Ii dia This, in conjunction with natural conditions, remains the
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    Conchies Complain
    262 6 WAR Minister Mr. Eden has ordered a court of inquiry to investigate allegations of ill-treat-ment of certain conscientious objectors, it was announced in Parliament. Major F. E. Pritchard, K.C., will be a member of the Court, said Sir Edward Grigg Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office. Sir Edward
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    631 6 ONE of the most common topicof conversation is gambling. Like the fisherman who loves to talk of the big one he manaeec! to hook so the gambler takes a great delight in recounting how he beat the table with his masterly p.a This kind of talk one
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    532 7 Millions More Wanted For Britain's Civilian Defence Reuter. London, Jan. 1. KEEP at it" in the battle for freedom is the slogan for civil defence services, says Mr. Herbert Morrison (Minister of Home Security) in a message to these services. Each day, he says, "sees
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    Raid On Chengtu
    42 7 Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 1. ChengtAi had cne of the longest air raid alarms ever experienced, but no bombs were dropped on the city, the raiders concentrating on the south airfield which was machine-gunned. Some bombs were also dropped there.—Reuter.
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    NAZI TARGETS ATTACKED
    76 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. TARGETS in Germany and the low countries were attacked by British bombers in the course of reconnaissance operations on Tuesday, says an Air Ministry communique. The weather was unfavourable, but bombs were seen to fall on a factory in Cologne. Objectives at Rotterdam
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    Nazis Lose Over 3,500 Planes Around Britain
    250 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. RRIUSH tighter planes have destroyed 3,090 enemy planes rimmir the year in defence of Britain, in protection of ■hinn l" and over the French coast. The Air Ministry new add-- hat anti-aircraft gunners, blnoon-barr'ales and other units have helped
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    Shanghai Customs Revenue At New High
    133 7 Reuter. Shanghai. Jan. L A MARITIME customs statement shows that the total revenue collected in 1940 was 475.740.000 as compared with 331.320.000 in 1939 It surpasses the record collection of 1931 of 385,000.000. In accordance With Chinese Government instructions, no payments were made from
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    Women Prominent In Honours List
    820 7 Reuter. London, Dec. 31. IN thvj Honours List, women figure prominently—four becoming Damos Commander of the British Empire, namely, Miss Trene Vanbrugh, for services on the stage; Stella Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Chairman of the Women's Voluntary Services for civil defence; Raneira Stanley, for public
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    15 Thais Killed, Say French
    53 7 Reuter. Vicby, Jan. 1. rTFTFFN Siamese, including tuo r officers, were killed when a reconnoitring force from Thailand engaged an Indo-Chinese motor cydTplatoon north of Poipet says Hanoi despatch to the HaVBl rews a&^ncv'. It adds that the only casualty on the French side was
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    NIGHT ATTACK ON ITALIAN POSITIONS
    265 8 Reuter. (By Maurice Lovell, one of Reuters special correspondents in Greece j Athens, Jan. 2. ONE of the deadliest and the most weird engagements so far in the ItaJo-Greek war was fought throughout yesterday in the Klissoura sector. The Greek troops, who during the day
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    STOCK EXCHANGE
    59 8 Reuter. London, Dec. 31. THE Stock Exchange finished the year quite cheerfully. Easy monetary conditions assisted the upward trend of gilt-edged, where small investors are showing keen interest. Industrials displayed some bright spots and home rails showed more I life. Other sections were quiet. The Stock Exchange will
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    Four Courses Open To Hitler
    448 9 Reuter. (By Fergus J. Ferguson, Reuters W o THE YEAR 1940 ended on a note of confidence and subdued 1 optimism in Britain. On the threshold of the new year, Germany finds herself opposed by the unconquerable spirit and tenacity of the British peoples, now
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    RAW MATERIALS CONTROL IN ITALY
    72 9 Reuter. Rome, Jan. L SWEEPING powers to control raw materials and factory products for the duration of war are taken by the Government under a decree published yesterday. The Minister of Corporations, Signor Ricci, is authorised to intervene in the management of any factory or
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    Americans Toast Britain, Allies
    181 9 Reuter. New York, Jan. 2 WITH many toasts to early victory for Britain but with jollity tinged with badness over the state of affairs in Europe. Americans I u?her?d in 1941 with one cf the most vociferous celebrations of recent years. Many watchnight services throughout the
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    Churchill The Man Of The Year"
    70 9 Reuter. New York, Jan. 2.—Mr. Churchill has been selected the Man of the Year" for 1940 by the magazine Time. This designation is given every year by the editors to the man or woman who has effected the most dramatic change in the course
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    Navicerts Extended To Cover Eire
    76 9 Reuter. London, Jan. 2.—The British system of navicerts (commercial passpoits) is being extended to exports from Eire. The Minister of Economic Warfare announcing this says that from January 22, it will be necessary for exporters in Eire to obtain navicerts for shipments to a number
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    FASTER PLANES TO REPLACE SPITFIRES?
    366 9 Reuter. it*D i j a London, Jan. L MR. Leonard Engel, the American journalist, in an a rt c lt, lch a PP e ars in the United States Magazine entitled Flying and Popular Aviation" gives the alleged details of the complete new line of
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    Year-End Quiet In Local Markets
    118 9 (From Our Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Thursday. THERE was little doing in any o: the markets at the year end The little business transacted ii tin shares included Batu Selangors, at an improved price, and a slight rise also took place in Kuala Kampars. A few
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    45 9 Mr. D. S. Thomson, B.Sc. (Agric..Edin) who is in charge of the Technical Department of Jugra Land and Carey Ltd., has been appointed Manager of the Rubber Research Institute Experiment Station at Sungei Buloh, a vacancy caused by the death of Mr. T. N. Dickson.
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    23 9 Mr. A. J. Minjoot, J.P. and Mr. W. C. Taylor, M.C.8., have been appointed Municipal Commissioners for the Town and Fort of Malacca.
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    23 9 Singapore, Thursday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 37%, Sellers 38. TIN $132%, unchanged.
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    52 10 ENGAGEMENT CHEAH KOH.—Engagement is announced between Mr. Cheatt Kuan Oon, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Cheah Soo Tuan of 34, /Acheen St., Penang, and Miss Catherine Koh Swee Hong, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Koh Pang Koon of 1331 A, Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore. Penang papers
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    GERMAN WOMEN DECOYS
    250 11 pOEBBELS, Nazi propaganda V chid", has given instructions a large contingent of Gerfilm stars —men and ien —to go at once to Hollywood. Their object is: To ea 'ure as many as posof the big salaries, so that ii xchange may be availwitb which Germany can purchases,
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    100 11 noi LOWING the lead of Mr. i raid Colman. famous stage and reen stars Miss Vivien Leigh and Mr. Laurence Olivier have just cheque for fifty pounds to p. Comforts Fund, 20 Berkel y Square, London, W. L horn Hollywood the put the money las irettes
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    Mother Had. To Sleep In Tube—Killed Her
    219 11 AN A.R.P. worker walked into a London police station and, it is alleged, confessed to strangling his 75-year-old mother. I did it to sine her beinir dragged round to the shelters," James ML'ler. aged 45, et, Bethnal Green, red on remand at Old-street
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    Potential Dangers To Rubber Industry
    1517 11 Singapore, Tuesday. "J-HE prospects of rubber during the current year are satisfactory- A good price and a good quota are likely to combine to give a good profit for 1941," declared Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, C.8.E., when addressing shareholders at the annual general meeting of
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    29 11 The office of reporter. Colonial Secretary's Office, has been declared to be a pensionable office so long as lt shall be yy tne present holder. Mr. P. c. D'S'.lva.
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    100 Soldiers In One Bomber
    260 11 RETAILS, of the Douglas Bomber 8.19, which has been built to fly to Europe and uack with "a heavy load of bombs" without touching the ground, have been revealed by General H. H. Arnold, chief of the U.S.A. Air Corps. The new machine is the
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    32 11 Wan Abullah bin Hajl Wan Ismail, Assistant Superintendent, Monopolies and Customs, Sungei Patani. will be EO'.ng on long leave shortly. Tuan Syed Soft Aljaffri from Kulim will succeed him at Sungei Patani.
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    Friendship With Spain
    185 12 Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 2. THE prediction that the friendship between the Anglo-Saxon and Spanish peoples would grow strcnzer in the coming months was made by Sir Samuel Hoare (Fritish Ambassador), speaking at the New Year reception given by the British and American communities at the British-American Club.
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    24 12 It is understood that Mr. C. A. lieland MC S. has ceased to be or will shortly cease to be Secretary for Defence. Malaya.
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    18 12 The Rev. T. N. Koshy has been granted a licence to solemnise marriages within the State of Perak.
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    ITALIANS PREPARE NEW DEFENCE LINE
    357 12 Greeks Make A. Fierce Bayonet Charge Reuter. Athens, Jan. 2. ANEW line of fortified positions discounting the possible future loss of Tepelini, Klissura and Valona is being prepared by Italians across central Albania, according to normally reliable sources. It begins north of Valona, centres on
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    ITALIANS' MORALE AT LOW EBB
    127 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. MANY Italian officers, who are among the prisoners recently captured by the Greeks, state that the Fascists have little hope «I holding their positions rnucn longer in the Tepehm. Klisurra sector, according to the Athens radio which says that the officers
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    ARABS PAY TRIBUTE TO JEWISH LEADER
    116 12 Reuter. London. Jan. 2. i ALL shops were closed and all traffic suspended at Telaviv yesterday during the funeral of Doy Hos the Jewish labour leader and deputy mayor pi Telaviv who. with his wile, was killed in a motor accident. Arab delegates from
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    Japanese Army At A Standstill
    94 12 Reuter. Chungking. J an ,<! JAPANESE casualties during J tfcrce-and-haU years cf war totalled about 1.600.000. The Chinese nad 6COGOO kil'ed and woundaccording to Gen. Ho YingChlns the Chinese War Minister. !k a "survey of the war operations issued yesterday. He estimated that 83 per
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    Norwegians Resent 'Protection'
    128 12 Reuter. Lor\don, Jan. 2. THE feeling in Norway against 1 measures taken by the Nazis, in accordance with their policy of ••protecting" the Norwegian people is daily becoming stronger, says a tVegram received by the Norwegian telegraph agency in London. Quisling storm-troopers have been given the freedom
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    72 12 Mr. H. B. Dudley, manager of Padang Gajah estate. Kapar. Is shortly leaving the country on retirement. Mr. Dudlcv Is a leading planter ln Kiang District, a keen tennis and golf player, and a veteran member of the Kiang Club. He originally came out as a European Master of the
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    LONDON CARRIES ON AMIDST AMAZING DESTRUCTION
    668 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. rjYNAMITE is to bo used to make the "city* of London safe, writes S. Martm Chisholm. Hundreds of royal engineers and pioneers have arrived within the historic square mile area to speed up the work of demolition, necessitated by the
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    London's First Alert Of The New Year
    84 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 2.—The first alert of the New Year was sounded in the London area several hours aft?r dark last night It came much 'ater than usual, and it was the first time since Sunday that sirens had been heard in the
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    9 12 A recruit in the Sudan Defence Forces.
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    309 12 Reuter. THE R A.F. raided Taranto and Naples during the night ol 1 Dec 30 31, says a R.A.F. Middle East communique, toluw naval units were the objective at Taranto where 11 bombs wete seen to burst around the target. British aircraft als 0
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    GIBRALTAR READY FOR THE ENEMY
    113 12 Reuter. Gibraltar, Jan. 2. PE fortress of Gibraltar has bee. exposed to attack ever sine 4 the capitulation of France brought the Germans to the border of Spain, declared Sir Clive Liddsll. the Governor, in a New Year broadcast. He added that the fact that
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    U. S. LABOUR PLEDGES AID FOR BRITAIN
    200 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. THE establishment of a United States nationwide committee "to provide relief and aids of all kinds to their British comradesis predicted in a telegram from Mr Matthew Well, president ol the League for Human R hts Freedom and Democracy
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    77 12 Reuter. London. Jan. 1 NO RAJF. operations were carried out over Europe during night of Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, Reo« is officially informed. n British reconnaissance carried out in dayiigh' 1 ly stated. It is learned thai furtrier ot TuViay's succ il. operations
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    14 12 Mr. V. R. Tt preter Courts. Bitlewen p i fcrred' to the Man;-'! Dickson.
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