Malaya Tribune, 6 January 1941

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    Masthead
    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY, 6, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Monday, January 6, 1941.
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    BARDIA FALLS: BRILLIANT FEAT OF THE AUSTRALIANS
    1043 1 Reuter and British Wireless. London, Jan. 6. JarDIA'S Italian garrison has surrendered. The J""*.** pockets of resistance were mopped up by Ausflntr? shortly before six o'clock on Saturday evening. -sLuled down from the Inc *v_ rpsistance ceased. f ThuTin'si hours, Australian infantry, j
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    How The Australians Got In
    415 1 By Desmond Tighe, Renter's special correspondent now with the Imperial forces in Bardia* Cairo, jMif 6IT HAT remained of the Italian garrison of some 20,000 men alter 15,00» prisoners had been taken, has surrendered and the Italian flag has been hauled down from the mast
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    "TERRIBLE WARNING" SAYS CIANO'S SPOKESMAN
    236 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6. PREPARATION of the IU- than public for news of the J fall of Bardia waa «gj 7 'taken by Signer Ansaldo, ,ditor of Count Ciano S ne»s paper Telegrafo in a weewy i radio talk to the Italian i° rces «<r»nrv
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    "U.S. Should Convoy Supplies To Britain"
    285 1 Reuter. 1 x New York, Jan. 6. BOTH the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times yesterday carried items strongly favouring all aid to Britain. The former says bluntly that Hitler will not consider aiding W tain as an act of war
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    VICHY SPLIT: NAZIS ANGRY
    96 1 Reuter. Zurich, Jan. 6. —RE Wilhelmstrasse is very 1 dissatisfied with the resignation of M. Badouin, Foreign Minister and chief of the Prime Minister's office in the Vichy Government, according to the Berlin correspondent of La Suisse. The correspondent says that I bis departure is regarded
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    Chancellor's Tribute
    167 1 British Wireless. London. Jan. 6. c PEAKING yesterday afternoon, S the Chancellor of the Exchequer Sn Kinssley Wood, referred to the cheerful fortitude. aed endurance and grit of the Brttsh neco'e in the great cities, in ffffand villages which, he ?aid. had been the admiration of 'he world.
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    Blockade Leak: Russian Route
    265 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6. "THE blockade is very effective, though I should like the net 1 to be drawn tighter still," states Dr. Hugh Dalton, Minister for Economic Warfare, in a Sunday Times special interview. "Germany still has important supply routes —the route through Russia being
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    Chinese Sink 192 Japanese Ships
    75 1 Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 6. THE Chinese military authorities 1 have announced officially that Chinese mobile batteries along the Yanetsc River, during the past n I months beginning last January Sidl upf to the end of November had »tunk 192 Japanese vessels and damaged 18 more.
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    JAPANESE CONSUL FOR AUSTRALIA
    32 1 Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 6. Mr Tsuneo Hattori, Japanese Consul at Shanghai has been appointed consul for He is scheduled to leave Kobe at the end of the month.-Reuter.
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    INTERNAL POSITION OF RUMANIA WORSENING
    123 1 Reuter. Sofia, Jan. 6. THE internal position of Rumania is ing and the administration is scarcely able to maintain control according to information from the Bulga rian-Rumanian frontier. nr restA large number of alleged communists have been arrest ed and it is rumoured that many
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    Britain's Answer To incendiaries
    76 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6- 1 riREWATCHERS scored a signal T success during the Luftwaffes visit last night. f When three successive waves of raiders dropped hundreds of ncendiary bombs m one district, hrewatchers acted with such promptness that not a single bomb waValight long enough to
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    "RED" AIRMEN TO GET LONGER TRAINING
    90 1 Reuter. I Moscow, Jan. b. rE period «f eompalsory ttVuiing m the Red Air Force I been increased from three to four y A a new decree was published yes terdny. making this change bu-no explanation or the reason for it is given The
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    Luftwaffe Objective —Cattle
    90 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6. ANE enemy raider attacked East U A nglia in daylight yesterday fn d dropped a few small amount of damage, ana iured a few people. Elsewhere in East Anglia. machine-gun attacks by singe raiders were reported. One plane dived to open fire on
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    Britain To Aid De Gaulies Empire
    61 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6. DRITISH official recognition has given to "the Councd ot Defence of the Empire" ftabjfehei byGen.deGauUe Free French forces, at wrax»vu« l The°rrUifn' vern^ H !l a^v formed Gen de Gaulle that they iTbe happy to treat with him and the
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    STOP PRESS
    90 1 Reuter. New :>e'h', .Tan. 8. The Government of India has selected Mr. S. Putt at present additional deputy secretary of he Education Department as the next Indian agent m MaUya. Jo take charge at the end of March. __Reuter. Jan 6 The altered position in the Mediterranean has
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    Wops Not Interested In Fighting
    144 1 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 6. ITALIAN soldiers captured by tn6 1 Greeks frequently fcgpfcjg song loudly cheered by their TSJSiI correspondent of the Uhenf newspaper Ethnos makes his statement in the course of an Sttale in which he Question of whether or not ttgjß gfS Sat
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    Big Italian Ship Sunk
    123 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 5. IN ALBANIA, a highly successful I raid was made on road June ,J£? JSS other military objecnvel at Elbasan. Ali bombs fetf on the town and a large fire with heavy black smoke was seen to Photographs show thatj"*g direct hits were
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    99 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 6. DURING the week ended midnight Jan 4 the German Luftwaffe in raids on' Britain has lost three bombers, one on the night of Jan. 34, two on Jan. 4. The British lost one fighter on Jan. 4. During the same period, eigni British bombers tailed to
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    Change In Rural Education Policy
    336 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Sunday. gEGINNING this year secondary education in both Government and mission schools, in the rural districts, will undergo a change, in that the School Certificate classes will be abolished. The Education Department has thought it fit to effect this change
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    VOLUNTEER TRAINING
    63 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Sunday. COMMENCING from Feb. 1 this year, the Penang Volunteers will be embodied for continuous training for a period of two months There will be no break during this period. It is not intended as a general rule to release volunteers from training
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    PENANG MAN'S LOSS
    48 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Saturday. Mr. A. B. Roche, Immigration Officer, Penang, has received news of the death of his brother and his wife who were killed in an air raid near Richmond. Mr. Roche lost his mother recently in a Nazi air raid.
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    RADIO EXPERT ARRIVES
    74 2 THE Chief Executive Engineer of the Straits Settlements broadcasting organisation, a newly created post. Mr. W. R. Reid. administrative assistant to the Central Council on School Broadcasting of the BBC, has arrived in Singapore. Mr. Reid is one of the members of the staff appointed in Britain
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    Government Doctors Have Housing Problem
    348 2 AT the annual general meeting of the Alumni Association ol the King Edward VII College of Medicine, held at the Rex Hotel on Saturday night. Dr. B. J. Ess, immediate past president oi the Association, made a passing reference to the petition sent to the
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    PERAK ROYAL WEDDING ON SATURDAY
    147 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Sunday. PREPARATIONS are being maoe for a Royal wedding which will take place in Kuala Kangsar on Saturday, Jan. 11. The contracting parties will be Raja Osman, son of Raja Kechil Bongsu of Perak and Raja Nor Emah, third
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    TURKEY TO REMAIN FULLY PREPARED
    64 2 Reuter. Ankara, Jan. 4. ALL men over 21 now on active service with the Army will be retained for a further year with the colours. A decision to this effect was taken by the Government to-day (Saturday) following, it is said, a request by the
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    JOHORE STATE'S SPECIAL POULTRY EXPERT RETURNS
    228 2 Study Leave In Britain (Tribune Staff Reporter) A F'YR-SIGHTED action of the Johore Government regarding the question of self-sufficiency in the State in sending to England for special study in poultry breeding an officer of the Veterinary Department, may soon see a resuscitation of
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    Bombera From Cents
    23 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) .Total number of enemy planes destroyed during the week-end on all fronts up to midnight Londori time FIFTEEN
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    6 Months' Leave Becomes 19
    134 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) IMPARTING on leave for iq months, over a year and a half ago, Dr. H. 0. Hopkins, of the Pathological branch. Medical and Health Department, Singapore, is back after having spent 19 months in England. The reason for this "long" leave Is
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    Selangor Women Respond To War Work Appeal
    285 2 (From Our Own Reporter> Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. A HEARTY response to the appeal f ,r volunteers to oiler their services for emergency First Aid and Nursing Work in Selangor has been forthcoming. Over 70 women attended a meeting at the Masonic Hall, Venning
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    102 2 Colonel J. A. L. Montgomery. untitled C.8.. father of Lady Thomas, the wife ol the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, died recently at Molville. County Donegal, tit the age of 91. He was a link with the early days of British administration 111 the Punjab. He was the son of Sir
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    JOHORE GIVES ROYAL WELCOME TO SULTAN, BRIDE
    2238 3 BRILLIANT SPECTACLE AT ISTANA BESAR Ruler Urges State To Grow More Food (BY A SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE) DAYLONG OVERCAST SKIES AND MISERABLE RAIN WHICH FELL CONTINUOUSLY FROM NOON THROUGHOUT JOHORE BAHRU AND SINGAPORE YESTERDAY FAILED IN ANY WAY TO DIM THE BRILLIANT SPECTACLE OF
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    New Post For Sarawak's Former Rajah Muda
    123 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) ftN his way back to Sarawak to take up a new official appoint- ment Mr A. W. B. Brooke, nephew of Sir Charles yner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, is in Singapore together with his wife and young child. Mr. Brooke,
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    Malacca Weddings
    217 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Sunday. IN Malacca the New Year was marked by several marriages. Tan—Khoo On Saturday, before the Senior Registrar of Marriages, Mr. W. J. Thorogood, Mr. Tan Teng Poey, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Chong Wee of Bona Vista Road, was
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    FREE FRENCH 1941 WISH
    45 3 THE following cable has been received at the Free French headquarters in Singapore from Gen. de Gaulle: "May the war year 1941 bring victory and liberation to France 1 that is the sole New Year wish of I nil Free French
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    "Galloping Gertie" Breaks Up
    194 3 rpHE great suspension bridge! over Puget Sound, near Tacoma, in the State of Washington, broke in half recently. Nobody was on the bridge at the time the break occurred, but a reporter who had gone out on :t in his car when it was first seen
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    Perak Sultan Entertains Rajas, Chiefs
    325 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar, Saturday. MEMBERS of the ruling house of State were present at an informal tea-party given by His Highness, the Sultan of Perak at the lstana L>kan4rial», in hen our of Raja Ngah AJU\ A.IXQ., Lenggong, on. bis. recent appointment
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    Happy Gathering At the Dance
    205 3 NOT since two and a half years ago prior to H.H. the Sultan's departure for Europe has the Johore Royal International Club .srtn a larger gathering than that which attended the function held last night in honour of the return of His Highness and Lady
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    Dance Association Formed In Spore
    125 3 AT its official opening at 511 A Serangoon Road, yesterday afternoon, the Singapore Association of Amateur Dancers met with a very popular reception. The primary purpose of the association, which, incidentally, has been registered with the Registrar of Societies in Singapore, is to improve the
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    NOMURA IN SHANGHAI
    74 3 Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 5. ADMIRAL Nomura, new Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.A., arrived I to-day from Nanking. A precautionary measure by the Japanese authorities was temporarily restricted in the traffic controlled areas. It is expected Admiral Nomura will be returning to Japan on Jan. 6 He is
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    Tigers Draw Keen Game With Municipal Team
    415 4 WAR CHARITIES SOCCER Ti<rprs .2; Municipal Services 2 IN spite of the afternoon shower of rain which rendered the £2 Municipal sclces w>, exceedingly interesting. U» cramp endine; in a draw of two all. The match was in aid of the Malaya Patriotic
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    BRADMAN MAKES TWO DUCKS
    60 4 Reuter. Melbourne. Jan. 4. DON Bradman was out first ball for the second time in successive matches to-day. Bradrran was playing for a side captained by himself, against a t-ide captained by VcCabe which won by an innings avfl 103 runs. The scores were, McCabe's side
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    North Side For Annual Rugby Match
    91 4 THE following have ueen selected by the Malayan Rugby Union to represent the North In the North versus South annual rugby classic to be played at Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 23: J. F. Keay (Penangi; D. M. Seward (Penan£), K. A. G. Hague, (Penang),
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    Swimming Club Competitions
    99 4 KEEN competition prevailed ,at the Singapore Swimming Club contests held yesterday. Two events—the Novices Race and the Jackson-Miller Cup—were held and both received an encouraging number of entries. Following were the results: Novices Race (One breadth*—l. D R. Yetton 2. G. J. Moxon, 3. L A. Chater.
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    Perak-Penang Win North Rugby Trial
    80 4 Ipoh, Sunday. pERAK-PENANG defeated Selangor-Negri by nine points (two tries and a penalty) to three (a try) in the North rugby trial match played at Ipoh yesterday. pprak—Penang led six-nil at half-time Littledyke having scor,ed a penalty goal and Goodrich a try I Snortlv after
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    Sports Diary
    20 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: Chinese v A.P.C., S.C.RC; Post Office v Mountain R<?gt.. Post Office: V.M.C.A. v Mountain 8.. V.M.C.A.
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    Bramtoco Beat Sime, Darby At Table Tennis
    78 4 IN a table tennis friendly match played on Friday, the Bramtoco Sports Club beat Sime Darby Sports Club by three games to two. Results (Bramtoco's players mentioned first): Lim Lian Lock beat Cheong Hoy Foh 3—o, Ong Cheng Kiat beat Tan Kirn Poey
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    Y.M.C.A. Hockey
    65 4 The following ha.ye been selected to play hockey for the V.M.C.A against the Mountain Battery on to-day at 6.10 p.m. at Anson Road. V. N. Pillay; K. Muthukumani. Lee Fong Lim; A. C. Edgar, G. L. Day, Wong Fatt Lim; Low Heck Yang. Gan Kee Tian. L B.
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    KEPPEL GOLF CLUB
    41 4 Keppel G.C.s Consolation Prize i competition played at the weekend resulted in a win for G. Cockburn who returned a score of 90-21 69 The January medal competition J tboßey» will be played off on Saturday and Sunday.
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    Selangor Whip Malacca 6—0
    353 4 (From Our Su „day. nadanir yesterday by six goals to nil. Malacca were saved from a b igror defeat partly due to the steady display by Major Jacksorii and: Reeve u/ho were the pick of the deience, W nd Srtlv due to the fact that Selangor
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    32 4 The hockey match between the Post Office XI and the Punjab Regiment fixed to be played at Tyersall yesterday evening was cancelled owing to the soft and unplayable nature of the ground.
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    HOME SOCCER RESULTS
    158 4 Reuter. London, Jan 4. RESULTS of English and Scottish football matches played to-day weie:— LONDON CUP —Section A Aldershot 1. Chelsea 0. Bientford 2, Crystal Palace 2. Fidham 4, Queen's P. R. l Section "B" MHHrafl 1. Westham 2. Reading 2 Arsenal 0. Tottenham 3, Clapton Orient
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    New Kind Of Football Game By Aussie Airmen
    84 4 FOOTBALL fans will be served with novel fare on Friday, when two Australian Air Force teams meet a,t the old Polo ground.. Baltster Road, in as exhibition ram? of Australian rules f-.-ctbali. Fast, spectacular and very exacting on the players, the game
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    Government To Be Asked To Aid Malayan Muslims In Mecca
    354 5 Singapore, Sunday. A LARGELY attended meeting of Muslims held in the premises of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society in Geylang yesterday unanimously decided to render all possible assistance to Malayan Muslims, numbering over 1,000, who were reported to be in
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    Boy, Sister Drowned
    235 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) K. Kangsar, Saturday. mi A jsjd my wife went out to work I iU; d on our return we found there were only two of our four children left." said Wong Cheng, giving evidence before Che Wan .aruddin at ah inquiry into the
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    Sino-Soviet Trade Pact
    58 5 Reuter. Chungking. Jan. 5. THE second section of the SinoSoviet barter agreement providing for the exchange of Chinese wool tor Soviet machinery and military supplies was signed here n Jan. 2. according to the newspaper Ta Kung Pao. The first section providing for the exchange of tea
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    28 5 Reute r. Vichy, Jan. 5. Admiral Leahy, the new United States Ambassador to Vichy, arrived at Perthus. in the Eastern Pyrenees, on route irem Spain yesterday (Saturday' evening.—Reuter.
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    Mammoth Welcome For Mr. Tan Kah Kee
    115 5 MR. Tan Kah Kee, who recently returned from an extensive ►our of China, was welcomed by over 10,000 Chinese at a mass meeting at the Happy World Stadium yesterday. Mr. Kao Ling Pai, Chinese Con-sul-General, was among those present. Mr. Tan Kah Kee
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    Teluk Anson Housing Dangers
    232 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Teluk Anson, Saturday. ALTHOUGH no deterioration, has followed" the original subsidence which caused the collapse of Dennison Road for a length of about 80 yards at the beginning of 1940. the chairman of the Lower Perak Sanitary Board has issued a memorandum
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    HONG KONG VITAL IN EMPIRE DEFENCE
    510 5 Hongkong, Dec. 28. gPEAKING on Hongkong's position in Britain's Far Eastern defence scheme, His Excellency Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, lately appointed Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed Far Eastern Command, told the local press yesterday that the Colony's role, should the war extend to
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    Opinion
    265 6 Defence Policy MR. D. J. Slaw, Chancellor of ITI the Hongkong University and Chief Delegate to the Eastern Group Conference, gave an interesting radio talk from the Hongkong Broadcasting Station last week about certain facts concerning the Delhi deliberations. Those are the very things which the Malayan public have
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    Savings Certificates
    211 6 WE hear very little about the progress of the sale of War Savings Certificates, in spite of I the fact that the campaign has been launched for many months in conjunction with the War Loans. Though we are sure that the organisers will spare no effort to make
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    War Economy
    128 6 IT is admittedly true tnaL saving is only possible when we have money to spare after purchasing the necessities of life. There is, however, another factor in the practice of war economy that we have to bear in mind. An article published some time ago in the "Sunday
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    The Most UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER I've Ever Known
    1993 6  -  By KAY BOYLE I KNEW her in England, just one summer in Devon, and only for a little while. She wasn't English, but there she was sitting on the edge of England's coast above the lime cliffs with a kerosene stove before her
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    Army Doctors Improvise Cheap Rheumatism Cure
    186 6 FACED with rheumatism, the scourge of armies, British Army doctors have found how to siveto sufferers first-class treatment with the most primitive of apparatus. Rheumatic conditions call KM three forms of treatment: rest, warmth and purgation. Under normal circumstances rest is given In the
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    Carpets Sell Over The Seven Seas
    182 6 DRITISH carpet manufacturers report increasing wartime exports to Empire and certain neutral countries although they have turned out more than one million blankets for the Forces. In one week a big Scottish firm received orders for carpets from the Faroe Islands. Trinidad. Peru and
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    Founded On 5s.
    185 6 SINCE the war began, one famous London firm of patI turners has not only increased I its exports, but, in the flow of 1 regular monthly shipments, not a single crate or bottle of scent has been lost. The firm's founder came to London at th e
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    625 6 IN times of peace and plenty we can afford to indulge in all sorts of food fads. We forsake plain and wholesome food for the glamour of synthetic foods. Tc who eat polished rice feel they are many steps above these who unpolished rice. The war is
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    U.S. Industry To Be On Wartime Basis?
    198 7 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 4. j fJPME placing of national industry on a virtual wartime I reduction basis will, some officials believe, be called v for in the message which President Roosevelt is to deliver j lo Congress on Monday and which the President
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    Early Stages Of Bardia's Fall
    487 7 Reuter. CAIRO, JAN. 5. IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT A DETACHMi".NT OF MARINES OF THE FREE FRENCH FORCES HAS SUCCEEDED IN CUTTING THE ROAD ROM BARDIA TO TOBRUK. GENERAL UWELL HAS MEANWHILE TIGHTENED HIS STRANGLEHOLD ON BARDIA. SINCE NIGHTFALL YESTERDAY, OVER 15,000 OF THE ITALIAN
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    PLAIN WORDS TO DE VALERA FROM FRIEND
    82 7 Reuter. W York, Jan. 4. field Malone, a proattorney, and an Mr. Df> Valera, sent New Year's cable to •r, aya the Los There will be m left if, under I friendship, one Prussian governors is down the streets h a hillelagh (club)
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    NAZIS DEMAND VITAL RAILWAY FROM VICHY
    482 7 UNDERGROUND ROUTE TO ITALY Reuter. London. Jan. 5. A REPORT that the Germans have demanded from the Vichy Government control of the Mont Cenis route to Italy has aroused considerable interest in London. Reuters diplomatic correspondent learns. One high French authority remarked: "Control of
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    U.S. PROTEST TO JAPAN REJECTED
    74 7 Reuter. Peiping, Jan. 5. rE Japanese authorities have rejected the American protest against the alleged detention and illtreatment of American marines which is said to have followed an incident with Japanese gendarmarie on Monday. Announcing this, the statement issued by the Japanese military says the
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    R.A.F.'s SMASHING ATTACK ON BREST
    251 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 5. THE invasion port of Brest was attacked by British aircraft at dusk on Saturday. Three direct hits were registered on an enemy destroyer. One German fighter plane was hit and broke up in the air. One British plane failed to return.
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    U.S. "Mercy Ship" For Greece
    68 7 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 5. THE "mercy ship." Kassandra-Lou-loudis. is leaving New York for Athens about Jan. 15. with medical and relief supplies worth $1,176,000. The supplies will include comolete field hospitals and 25 ambulances and ha s been contributed by the American Red Cross. The
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    55 7 Reuter. Chungking. Jan. 5. WHILE no definite decision has been reached, it is understood '■he Government is contemplating estab'ishina consulates in th<> Hear East, Iraq. Persia and Arabia to promote trade relations between China ami the Near East. There is a po.-sibilitv al c o that ministers will be exchanged
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    Too Many Spitfire Gifts
    71 7 Reuter. New Delhi, Jan. 5. SO many gifts for Spitfires for the R.A.F have beer, received in India that the. Government has issued a statement declaring that the British Ministry for Aircraft Production had received "an embarrassingly large number of contributions" for this type of fighter
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    EIRE'S NEUTRALITY A BOOMERANG?
    391 7 Vital Decision Confronts Mr. De Valera Reuter. London, Jan. 4. (By Ralph Walling, ReuterV Air Correspondent) FAR from profiting the Axis, German bombing of Eire and the Nazi reinforcement of the Italian air force may haVe a boomberang effect and Britain may, directly or indirectly, benefit
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    Bremen Turned Into A Sea Of Flame
    325 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 5. DREMEN, second biggest port in Germany, was illuminated by a vast sea of flame last (Friday) night during the third successive night raid by the R.A.F. The attack was as heavy if not heavier than the first in which
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    Phillips Returning To Rome
    34 7 Reuter. New York, Jan. 5. After an absence of five months the United WataN Ambassador td Rome Mr. William Phillios. left to-day on the way to Italy to resume'his post.-Reuter.
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    Music Cure For Girls
    221 8 CIRLS sent to a south-vest i Home Vfice training I school because pi crime are j getting a new slant on uje— through music. It is helping them to over- I come their difficulties, to y look forward to the tune t when they can go
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    He Sang K-K-K-Katie
    198 8 ,N the war of 1914-18 Walter Wi!RhS was singing Bones and making others sing them One of the songs was K-K-K-Katie." You remember, it went something like this: K-K-K-Katie, beautiful Katie, You're the only g-tj-g-girl that I adort, When the m-moon shine* en the c-cowshed mm I'll
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    Japanese Paper Attacks Roosevelt's War Policy
    89 8 Reuter. Tokyo, Jan. 5. "THERE is no more dangerous game for America to play," declares the newspaper Asahi Shimbun to-day in an attack on President Roosevelt's policy of more aid for Britain. "Who can guarantee that the U.S. will not join in the war
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    Doctors' Action 'Disgrace' --Magistrate
    158 9 ram ("harks Self. 75-year-cld r.#»r o! Tenby-road. pleaded RuiltV at c !>„!ire Court, to ob,!;\'U-»^-^ fa] c pretences, it was saia v we < klv on a total disable;.Mon for himself and ten f or his wife—tart she had I with him for ten years. ,c
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    47 9 Working in conjunction with leading scientists, Westminster's Medical Officer of Health is completing experiments which it is believed will enable an antiseptic, non-irritating solution to be projected into shelters in a fine mist I so that any germs likely to cause 1 infection can be made harmless.
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    DANCER'S DEATH MYSTERY
    230 9 SIR Bernard Spilsbury travelled to Brighton after being summoned by Det.-Supt. Felling, Chief of Brighton C.1.D., to help to solve the mystery of the death of Mrs. Jack Buckley, the dancer. After a long conference with Sir Bernard and with Mrs. Buckley s son, who is in
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    DESPERATE ITALIAN ATTACKS IN ALBANIA
    282 9 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 5. VIOLENT local Italian counter-attacks in the coastal and I V centre sector of the Albanian battlefront have beentoe phief feature in the fighting during the past 48 hours. These a measure of the Italians' plight than an «ttemnt by them to
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    69 9 Two days after Thomas Callo and Ruth Hoffman were married in j Chicago they appeared in court, where the bridegroom was asked about a matter of £30 owing in hack payments to his former wife :md three children. Thomas lo'd me all about his former wife and children." said t::e
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    Navy Hurls 300 Tons Of Shells Into Bardia
    337 9 (By Massey Anderson, Reuters special correspondent with the Mediterranean Fleet) Alexandria, Jan. 5. THE Navy's biggest bombardment of the war in the Mediterranean accompanied the land attack on Bardia on Friday. From a battleship, I watched the battle fleet hurling at least
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    Fisheries Worth $40,000,000
    91 9 THE production of Canada's fisheries in 1939 was valued at 40.072.976 dollars, of which the sea fisheries contributed 33,972,301 dollars or 85 per cent, and th 2 inland fisheries 6,100.675 dollars or 15 per cent. The salmon fishery was by far the most important, its value amounting
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    53 10 marriage CHFANG SIOW.—-The marriage took place on Jan. 4, No. 23, Lorong 13, G^ a nB,j pore, between Mr. Gheang 1 an Hock, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Cheang Kay £hong,and Miss Siow Lim eldest rianahtcr of Mr. and Mrs. &iow Cheng Urn. The Rev. Goh Hood
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    Market Price List
    435 11 I Singapore. Jan. 3. W Price Bticle meaX< ft flew kati I,?ea a 48 K lean and fa Hst uall F OLXTRY H,>ns 'locally reared); katl t3ch 44 domestic; unfledged, Ens. lld 22 ft 10 3 k re fish! fresh on jfl p, tph (Pomfret); kati 1.20
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    61 11 According to Dr Spester, of the ha- lty c{ Pennsylvania, who ItKnn ne much excavating in Ran ?h amia wntten language beaS vi more than 5,400 years used a ether seal of laDis lazuli or some hte in« i mi precious st one to mark oUimuf into word Pictures to
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    35 11 Mrs. Callo confessed she didn't. kr W o* v lawyer d id y° u l Ui t u'„ y 1 a tnir d former wife laintSf** ''""dren?" The six r, Call was sentenced "Will imprisonment.
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    Local Tins And Rubbers Active
    144 11 (From Our Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Monday. A FEATURE of the tin share market on Saturday was the upward trend in Hong Fatts, which were taken up to $1.38. Improvement was also noted in Kundangs, which were dealt up to 19s. 6d. Other transactions included Tongkah
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    Mid-Day Prices
    24 11 Singapore, Monday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 37-y 8 Sellers 37"/» TIN $133, unchanged.
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    Exchange
    199 11 Singapore, Jan. 6. I The following are the exchange stock quotations this morning according to the dally circular Issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. SELLING London T.T. 2|4 116 London demand 1 10 Switzerland demand (T.T. only) *»g New York demand JVonH Montreal demand 51 Ttum Batavia
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    WOOL QUIET
    39 11 Reuter. Boston, Jan. 4:— Holidays and inventories slowed up the wool market considerably. There was some demand for fine foreigns at heavy rates. Little news has been received from the west where manufacturers are operating at lull-time.—Reuter.
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    WHEAT MARKET SATISFACTORY
    29 11 Reuter. New York, Jan. At Dec. 31, tne expiration date for loan applications, 27M11.0JU bushels of J940 wheat were m store under the loan programme.—Rev ter.
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    U.S.A.'s Little Julius Streicher Liquidated
    392 11 RULLYING Joseph McWilliams wanted to be B Julius Streicher, and three months a o it one-man campaign to *rt M Jewish population would be rewaiaeu wiw success. I TT Every day he took nis soap-uu* round YorkviHe, New York's Ger-man-town, and as day followed day
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    16 11 Mr. Hon Sui Sen, S.S.C.S. has been appointed a Police Magistrate for the Settlement of Singapore.
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    £5 BUYS A £500 HORSE
    160 11 RACEHORSES worth between four and Aye S hundred guineas in peacei time were sold at prices i varying between five and ten guineas at Newmarket on S Oct. 15. The drop was caused by 5 the uncertainty of races for J two-year-old horses next >6
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    DEALINGS IN NEW WAR LOANS GRANTED
    51 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 4: The Stock Exchange committee has tormally permitted dealings in the two new Government War Loans, namely the two and half ncr cent. National War Bonds, 1946/48 and the three per cent, saving bonds 1955 oj, available for subscription at par.
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    TREASURY DEPOSIT RECEIPTS MATURE
    35 11 Reu ter. London. Jan. x»»v».w.. o £20.000.000 worth of Treasury deposit receipts will mature next week, the Treasury has only asked the banks to subscribe £15,000,000 in respect of new receipts.—Reuter.
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    Japanese Currency Jumble
    154 11 Reuter. Tokyo, Jan. b. CHINESE Maritime Customs dues now paid in Central China notes of the Japanese-sponsored Huahsing Commercial Bank of Shanghai will be payable in the notes of the new Central Reserve Bank of China (Nanking) with effect from Jan. 6. it was announced by Mr.
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    INSURANCE OF NORWEGIAN SHIPS
    77 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 4: Lloyd's and warlisk insurance companies have renewed covering Norwegian ships under 1 control which was first arranged in April 1940 and renewed last July, up to the end of 1940. The policy covers nearly £130,000.000. The policy covers vessels which had reached
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    MORE PLANES FOR TRAINING
    137 12 A NUMBER of Airspeed Oxford, twin-engined monoplanes were being obtained from the United Kingdom and would be used in Australia for advanced training tyork similar to that for which Avro Ansons were now being used, Australia's Minister for Air (Mr. McEwcnt has announced. The first had
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    20 12 Trawler Drifter Sunk British Wireless. THE Admiralty announces that the trawler Kennymcre and drifter Harvest Gleaner have been sunk.—British Wireless.
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    Elbasan Battered By R.A.F.
    213 12 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 5. A HIGHLY successful raid on read junctions and other military objectives at Elbasan by British bombers yesterday is reported by R.A.F. headquarters in Greece. All the bombs fell on the town and a number of fires was started. Elbasan is now the
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    BIG BATTLE FOR ELBASAN BEGINS
    211 12 GREEK SUCCESSES Reuter. London, Jan. 5. LAST-MINUTE efforts are being made by Italians to stem the Greek drive to Elbasan, while the remnants of the Duce's cracK troops are fortifying the route to Elbasan from the main port, Durazzo The Italian left flank is still
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    ASIATIC INSPECTOR WEDS TO-MORROW
    122 12 MR. Cheah Kirn Swee, former Penang hockey player, will be married to Miss Alice Kathenne Chee to-morrcw at 7 a.m. at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Tank Road. Mr Cheah is th e third son of Mr. and Mrs. Cheah Eng Bee, of Penang, and
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    16 12 Mr F.E.E Hindly has been appointed nn Assistant Controller of Restricted Exports for the Straits Settlements
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    45 12 Mr. V. Muthucumarasamy. Indian Interpreter, magistrate's court. Port Dickson, has resumed duty at Klang court in place of Mr. S Chelliah. who has retired on medical grounds Mr. V. Nagendram. who acted temporarily for Mr. Chelliah. has gone back to the magistrate's court Kuala Lumpur.
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    Italian Collapse Imminent
    212 12 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 5. j J THE ruthless crushing of the Nazi enemy is urged by i Mr. P C. Spender, Australian Army Minister, in a broadcast )rfrom Cairo last night, in I which he expressed pride in the Australian success at Bardia. He declared that British
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    Italians Are Hitler's Tool
    318 12 British Wireless. Loml on, Jar. I rpHE capitulation of Bardia means more than a lo the Italian Empire as Lybia was, in 1939, declared metropolitan Italy the same way as Algeria is France. At this time in Italian history, the followers of the Duce may remember
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    Big Malaya Methodist Conference In Singapore
    618 12 I HE annual conference of the Methodist Church. Malaya, was climaxed by a united service of worship held in the Victoria Memorial Hall, yesterday afternoon. Tne hall was filled to overflowing with a congregation of almost LOOU worshippers, including a choir ot ever 200.
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