Malaya Tribune, 8 January 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Wednesday, January 8, 1941.
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  • 164 1 Reuter. Stockholm, Jan. 8. AMERICAN troops are "occupying" Greenland, and American police have been posted in the town ot hit-tut, according to Kryolite miners, who have just returned to openhagen. They stated that communications with Denmark, to which Greenland belongs, have heen practically broken off, and
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  • 174 1 Reuter. Sofia. Jan. 7. V Iron Guardists have been in fighting in Kukilled in fighting in Ruin- h has been cut off the outside world for three messages from the i, Rumanian frontier. lrighting is reported to be beIron Guardist factions supporting General An- crnnicnt and
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  • 157 1 Reuter. Philadelphia, Jan. 8. ONE great and terrible evil about Adoif Hitler is that he has largely erased the old warrior virtues and substituted a complete and thorough-going code of faithlessness and ruthlessness in their place," iays the Philadelphia Enquirer oi Jan. 5. In
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  • 91 1 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 8. AMERICAN planes are operating with the R.A.F. in Egypt. This was revealed by a high R.A.F. spokesman yesterday who informed Reuters that Glen Martin bombers are doing reconnaissance work of vital importance. It ishoped that soon the supply 0 American planes
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  • 387 1 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 8. During the operations at Bardia, three Black commandera deserted their troops, leaving the lar commanders to fight on, states a special comfrom general headquarters yesterday evening, i (750 milts west of Bardia) was again raided heavily by WAV. bombers on
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  • 403 1 Roosevelt Creates Supreme Directorate Task Of "Critical Importance And Surpassing Urgency" Reuter. Washington, Jan. 8. A SUPREME directorate for the United States' defence programme to speed up arms production was established by President Roosevelt yesterday. The directorate comprises Mr William Knudsen as
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  • 235 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 8. NAVAL commander who dived into the sea in an attempt to save a man seen in the water after the plane in which the British airwoman, Mrs. Amy Johnson had crashed on Sunday, died soon afterwards from exposure. He was
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  • 127 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 8. THE heroine of the liner City oi Benares, Miss Mary Alice Clara Corr.ish. has been awarded the medal oi the British Empire for mcr.torious service. The liner was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk m mid-At'antic last September while
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  • 79 1 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 8. GREEK destroyers, sailing unmolested into the Adriatic MussolinVs "home waters"- have heavily bombarded the Albanian port of Valona. This was announced by the Greek Admiralty last night. Sixty shells were fired before the destroyers withdrew. This was the third time that
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  • 260 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 8. PRESIDENT Roosevelt again goes before Congress today with a statement hardly less important than his "we cannot let the democracies surrender" message on Monday. The President will present his budget recommendations for the new fiscal year of which the main interest will be
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  • 120 1 Reuter Rome, Jan. 8. I THE following statement j was issued after the Italian Cabinetf meeting:— "In the presence of puerile intrigues and absurd threats of enemy propaganda on both sides, of the ocean, the Italian Cabinet solemnly reaffirms the inflexible loyally of Italy, to the Axis
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  • 89 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 8. ANEW type of plane is being added to Britain's air strength, and is expected tfo play a useful part in the war. A light twin-engined bomber, the new plane is to be known a s "Botha I," and is the result
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  • 91 1 Reuter. Belgrade, Jan. 8. FIELD Marshal List, one of Ger mam s blitzkrieg experts, is to arrive in Rumania shortly with a staff of live generals to take ovei command <>f the German troops there, says a Bucharest dispatch last night. List, commanded the German troops
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  • 44 1 Reuter. London. Jan. 8. THE authorities in Holland have issued a decree under which German goods may be imported into the Netherlands free of import duty from lan 1. according to an announcement by thr German radio.—Reuter
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  • 26 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 8—For the second night in succession there was no enemy air activity over Britain up to a late hour last night 'Tuesday* .—Reuter.
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  • 410 1 Reuter. Berne, Jan. 8. Itf is understood that Ribbentrop saw Mr. FiloflF (the Bulgarian Prime Minister) on Sunday, states the Berlin correspondent of the Raster Naehrichtcn. The refusal of the WUhelms!rasse, however, to discuss the state of BulgarianGerman relations indicates that the negotiations had a negative result
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  • 82 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 8. IN the face of speculations in the European press regarding possible developments in the Balkans, Moscow remains silent. Apart from denying foreign reports that the Soviet Minister in Bucharest Is recalled, and publishing the latest Italo-Greek communiques the newspapers in the U S S
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  • 86 1 Reuter. Tokyo. Jan. 8. ALL the Tokyo newspapers yesterday morning asserted that President Roosevelt's message to Congress was a de facto declaration of war on the Axis powers. Thp Niehi Nichi Shimhun complains that Mr. Roosevelt's stateon ri| that tne United States must become an
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  • 195 1 Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 7. INTERESTING light on Franco-German relations is thrown by a statement made by the head of the French mission for the return of war prisoners, M. Scapini, an ex-soldier deput. who was blinded while fighting in the last war. According to the
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  • 65 1 Reuter. Rome, Jan fc AN official statement issued after yesterday's Italian comniuni que says that three Of the British WSrships which Hard: were .sunk; In addition, a liner Wi sunk and two cruisers, a sub marine, a destroyer, a euoboat and a monitor badly damaged. Reuter
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  • 178 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Tuesday. rHAT the buses in Penang are run without regard to the comfort and convenience of the travelling public for whom they are intended; the services are uneconomic to the operators and many vehicles ar c a potential danger on
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  • 179 2 Problem Not Pressing Now THE t JHL buuiapore imn temporary dwellings to h.,, 2-, ft-* accommodation elsewhere. This decision was made at a recent meeting of the Trust. It is stated that the nature of the problem at this stageno longer serious owing
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  • 311 2 Singapore, Tuesday POUND floating in a creek of the Kallang River on the b morning of Dec. 29, the body of a Chinese woman was later identified by Mr. Leong Boon Hong a cleik, as that of his 28-year-old sistel Leon S Wan 01
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  • 162 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Tuesday. ARGUEING an appeal on behalf of Abu Kassim bin S. Baboo, a bailiff of the Penang District Court, who was fined $30, in default, one month's rigorous imprisonment in the lower court for intentionally insulting one Haji Ahmad bin
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  • 83 2 Singapore, Tuesday. MY parents are dead, and I have no ielatives. There is nobody to support me." Thus said Sect Beng Neo, a young Chinese girl, when she pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted suicide in the Second Police Court, to-day. The accused
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  • 182 2 Singapore Tuesday. SPOKEN Thamil Made Easy" is the latest addition to the growing literature specially written for the use of those who desire to acquire a working knowledge of spoken Tamil. The author of the book is Mr. A. M. Doraisamy, of Taiping, who has to
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  • 66 2 j Singapore, Tuesday. A 64-YEAR-OLD inmate of Tan Tock Seng hospital, Chew Siaw, was not in the Third Police Court, this morning, to answer a charge of attempting to commit suicide. He was unable to come to Court because of his alleged
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    13 2 Mr. and Mrs. Wee Aik Koon, uhnere married at Tanjong Katong
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  • 95 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Tuesday. THE marriage of Y. M. Raja Musa. Raja Kechil Muda of Perak. son cf His Highness the Sultan ol Perak, to Y. M. Raja Zaleka Daughter of Y. M. Raja Shahrudin. will take place at Bukit Chandan. Kuala Kangsar, at
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  • 383 2 'Coffee Money' Demand Singapore, Tuesday. TWO Chinese, a lorry attendant and a fish hawker living* in a rubber estate, related in the District Court, to-day, how they were robbed of money wfck returning home at night by Malays in the uniform ol the Malay unit
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  • 13 2 Major S. P. Morton has been appointed \cting Lieutenant Colonel in the ?.M.S.V.F
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  • 19 2 Mr. J. R. P. Soper of the Malayan Agricultural Service has been appointed o officiate as Agricultural Officer, Krlan
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  • 25 2 Commissions as Temporary Second Lieutenants in the F.M.S.V.F. have been granted to Mr. W. A Tooke, Mr. J. P. Herbert and Mr P. L MeUiar-Smith.
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  • 23 2 Hon. Cadet Second Lieut. Mohamed Lazim bin Mohamed Ariffln. Malay College Cadet Corps, has been promoted to the rank of Hon. Cadet Lieutenant.
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  • 22 2 (Cent-A~Plane Fund) Total number of enemy plahes destroyed during yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time FORTY-TWO
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  • 83 2 Singapore, Tuesday. THE case against L J. Kenlay and Clement Woelz, tne two Europeans who were charged before Mr J. G. Rappoport. the Third M trate, was postponed for hearing to Mar. 13. Mr. A. J. Braga has been retained by Kenlay who is charged with
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  • 113 3 Singapore, Tuesday. THERE will be a ceremonial opening of the first Singapore Asfor 1941 which open in the Hi?h Court on Monday. Before the work commences there will be a service in ot Andr- Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. at which the judges, officials and members
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  • 580 3 "Many More Urgently Required"—Dr Allen (Tribune Staff Reporter) CEVERAL Singapore volunteer blood donors who have registered for war work have already begun t<> nlay their part. A Chinese clerk from the Municipality has given his blood in an attempt to save the life
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  • 105 3 HEAVY floods caused by th e rain during the last few days have practically put Mersing, on the east coast of Johore, out of Singapore's reach. In a message received by the A.A.M. from the State Engineer, Johore, it is stated that along the Kluang-Mersing Road water
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  • 111 3 ON Saturday, six French planes dropped 14 bombs on Amphur Khcmmarat and on Amphur Chanuman where no military objectives exist, states a communique from the Thai Consulate General. There were no casualties as the bombs' fell in the forests and &»<». Our planes later located the
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  • 128 3 THE first marriage in Singa- j pore under the newly enforced Civil Marriage Ordinance took place yesterday at the offices of the Registrar-General of Statistics, when 20-year-old Miss Wee Yam Cheng, schoolteacher, became the wife of Mr. Tang Ec Seng, Singapore merchant. Mr. Tang i
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  • 175 3 THE death took place at the Government Hospital, Kluang on Monday afternoon of Mr. Charles T. L. Hadd?r at the age of 55 years'. Mr. Hadder who was engaged ln construction work in the district, was an ex-serviceman and had spent 29 years in Malaya.
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  • 19 3 Mr Nallakaruppan Chettiar. Manager of the Klang Chettiars School, Is shortly leaving for India on a few months' holiday.
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  • 17 3 The title of the appointment of the Chief Kathi, Selangor, has been altered to Kathi Besar, Selangor.
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  • 27 3 The transfers of Capt Mohamed. Second-Lieut. A. P. Atkins and Lieut. Tengku Hussain bin Tengku Tahya. from the F.M.S.V.F. to the Reserve of Officers have been approved.
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  • 197 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Tuesday. 'J'HE Penang Tribunal, composed of the chairman, Mr. A. E. Coope, Mr. J. A. Black, M.C.S., and Mr. E. V. C. Thomson, sitting at the Supreme Court yesterday, heard and allowed two applications. One application was by Mr. G. H.
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  • 110 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) OWING to the fact that "everyone of the Belgian community in Singapore is too old to join up" —to quote the words of the Belgian Consul—the announcement made a few days ago by the Belgian Government of the decision to reconstitute a fighting
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  • 87 3 THE death occurred yesterday at her residence in Serangoon Road. Singapore, of Mrs. Agnes Prudence Rodrigues, at age of 77 years. She is survived by her son, Mr. Harry Rodrigues. who is Junior Assistant Auditor. Malacca, and two daughters. Mrs. Alfred Pereira acd Mrs. Gill de
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  • 476 3 Singapore, Tuesday. piNES totalling $200 were imposed by Mr. Conrad Oldham, the r acting Traffic Magistrate, to-day on Corporal John Tonks of the R.A.F., Seletar, who pleaded guilty to charges of driving his car in a negligent manner on Christmas day and causing grievous
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  • 275 3 Singapore, Tuesday. TWO Malay youths, Abdul Razak and Sarwari bin Abdulla appeared before Mr. Cheah Soon Hock, acting second magistrate, to-day, on a charge of housebreaking and theft at night. They were alleged to have broken into premises No. 81, Geylang Road on the prosecution, Court, Inspector
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  • 48 3 A special double attraction is being arranged at the Capitol tomorrow (Jan. 9) for Hari Raya at the midnight show to celebrate the Haji by the screening of two outstanding pictures, Ambikapathl and Seva Sadan. Seats may be be booked in advance at Kannabiran Co., 10-A, Raffles Quay.
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  • 698 4 "Heritage To Be Cherished" Says Broadcast Speaker "JT is on these playgrounds of land and water and recently of air too, we find the best comradeship between the many races of this city. It is in games that all mingle on the b® 81 terms and many
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  • 254 4 DLAYING three men short F the St. Andrew's Old Boya rugby team went down to the R.A/(Changi) by Beven points (a try and a drop goal) to nil in a rather scrappy game at Woodsvilk yesterday. Ground conditions were not conducive to good rugby and. in
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  • 333 4 Loyals 8 pts. S.C.C. "B" 0 pts. pASTER wing three-quarters, ably supported by forwards, who handled well despite the sodden ground and slippery ball, gave the Loyal Regiment victory by eight points (a try and a goal) to nil, when they
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    39 4 A terrific leap and a catch in mid-air—high marking—are highTiahta of Australian soccer. The picture allows just such an incident in vesterdara practice match when R.A.A F. (cams from Swibawanj and Seletar met in a practice match.
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  • 496 4 |"F the war lasts long enough and Aussie airmen here play more of I heir own code of soccer eum-rughv-basket-ball Malaya will have a new exciting, muscle building sport added to its list. The Aussies played their first game In public yesterday at the Balestie: Polo
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  • 75 4 FIXTURES for Singapore Badminton Association's inter-club league are as follow: Saturd a y at 2.15: Devonshire BP. vs. Marigold BP. The following players will probably represent the teams: Devonshire:—Yap Chin Tee, S. A. Durai, Cho Kirn Hock. Yap Chin Tee and Pat Neubronner; Low Keat Soo and Peh
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  • 60 4 HOCKEY: C S C. vs. I nd aociation, C.S.C.; Post rJ£ vs. Customs, Post Office f nese v. Loyal.,, Alexandi* SOCCER: S.C.C. house, 6.30 p.m This week's high TO-DAY: 6 a.m., 8 3 p.m., 6.9 ft 7 «H TO-MORROW: 7am R« 8.45 p.m., 7.3 ft S S FRIDAY:
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  • 46 4 London, Jan FOLLOWING are results v i lom 1 soccer and ragbj a (h played yesterda\. SCOTTISH LCAGI Dumbarton 2. Falkirk 1 Morton I, St. Mirn Rangers 2, Celtic 3. SOCCER nUENDLDES Queen's South 0. Presto RUGBY LEAGI E Middlesex 11. Army XV 16.
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  • 29 4 Reuter. New York Jan untitled ILICE marble beat Mary Harduick at Madison Square garden last night in their first tennis appearance. Ths score »1 8 6 8 6.—Reuter. %as
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  • 170 5 Singapore. Tuesday. Rl MARKING that he did not find, rhr evidence of the complainant Pliblc Mr Oon Khye Kiang, sith, m the Relief Court to-day, Quitted Cheong Yok Lin, 22, and uTKeng Sam. 21, two detectives, •he conclusion of the case in which the detectives were charged
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  • 177 5 Designed To Prevent Income Tax Evasion? SPECIAL regulation promulgated by H.E. the Governor under the Emergency Powers .(Defence) Act, 1939, gazetted yesterday, incorporates an amendment to the Defence (Finance) Regulations, prohibiting the transfer of businesses from the Colony except with the consent of the Financial
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  • 477 5 Singapore, Tuesday. •JX a deliberate swallow dive" as one witness put it, Lance Corpora] Robert Hughes, a soldier, dived from the second floor of the Alexandra Military Hospital on to the concrete floor 60 fe< t below on Dec. 29, the day after his admission.
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  • 193 5 A COLOURED poster, showing in a striking way the relentless and methodical smashing of military objectives in Germany and Italy by the R.A.F., is shortly being issued by the Department of Information and Publicity. as already reported in the Malaya Tribune. The number of major attacks up to
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  • 135 5 Singapore, Tuesday. THE application of Mrs. Edna A. Paulusz, wife of a local solicitor, to eject Mr. C. W. Warren, assistant manager of the Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd.. Robinson Road, from a house at Barker Road, was dismissed by the Rent Assessment Board consisting
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  • 99 5 TTNKNOWN to Malaya about ten years ago. the products of the manufacturing firm of Messrs Bengal Chemical Pharmaceutical Works, Ltd. of Calcutta and Bombay, India, whose local agents are Messrs. Naina Mohfemed Sons of Malaya, have earned great popularity and demand throughout Malaya. Thailand, and
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  • 220 5 NOTIFICATION published A Jn Gazette Extraordinary to-day contains maximum P» ices a t which firewoe d and charcoal may be sold in Singapore by wholesale and by retail. Referring to this order, a ioimnunique issued by the Food Controller, Malaya, says that there is actually no"
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  • 299 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Taiping, Tuesday. A TEN-YEAR old Tamil girl, Pooperanam, was burnt to death on Sunday at the P.W.D. coolie Lines near the railway station. The girl, it was reported, went too near a Are, with the result her skirt caught fire. A neighbour
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  • 37 5 The number of major agricultural scholarships (F.M.S.) to be offered to the School of Agriculture. Serdang, In 1941 is announced to be eight and the number of minor scholarships for the period has been fixed at six.
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  • 168 5 rE of the most remarkable war films ever to be brought to the screen is provided by the Capitol, where is now being shown the official Australian story of the whirlwind capture of Sidi Barrani. The film, which claims to be a world "scoop," shows
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  • 71 5 Singapore. Tuesday. A LOG of wood worth 50 cents sent Wong Ben, a 28-year-old Chinese, to prison for two months. Wong took the log from a compound house in Tras Street on Jan. 6. and was caught in the act. He claimed trial when charged with theft
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  • 426 5 Singapore, Tuesday. DR. Muriel Grace Ellen Clark, a lady medical officer in the Municipality, to-day successfully applied to the Rent Assessment Board for leave to take ejectment proceedings against her tenant, Mr. H. S. Arathoon, from a house at Telok Mata Ikan. Bedok. She was represented
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  • 185 6 Our Daily Bread AF the various special departV menta set up to tackle problems arising out of the war, the work of none has been more immediate in effect or more closely connected with our very existence than that of the Food Controller's department. The control exercised by this
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  • 214 6 UOWEVER, there is an element of danger in the rice situation which is not properly appreciated by the rice dealers. As a result of the Government's new contracts with the supply countries—Thailand, Burma and the Netherlands East Indies—it may be expected that stocks in Government warehouses will be
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  • 199 6 STRIKING example of the effects of abnormal conditions on diet and health is provided by the experience, of Denmark during the last war. Up to 1918 Denmark exported, both to Germany and the allies, practically the whole of her enormous production of dairy output and, as a consequence,
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  • 219 6 DR. Goebbels is not conspicuously endowed with humour, but in a recent Dutch broadcast he pulled a good one. "Our motio," he said, "is truth and clearness. We are sometimes sharp but never rude." This was setting rather a high standard for Nazis, veracity and
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  • 1130 6 Australia Seen As A AUSTRALIA, while sending thousands of fine troops overseas, can best help Britain by becoming a vast supply organisation, and is now striving with all efforts to this end. So said Australia's Minister for Labour and National Service, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Holt,
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  • 695 6  -  By Professor Allan Ferguson (President of the Physical Society) "WHAT is the use of it?" said a young reporter to me, as he watched my old friend, Sir Ambrose Fleming, who, youthful and enthusiastic despite his ninety years, was demonstrating to the physical society a new
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  • 315 6 a SWEDISH newspaper corA respondent writes frankly about conditions in France. Journeying through unoccupied France, he says, one becomes quickly convinced that France is slowly but surely awakening. Everyone in the unoccupied territory is obsessed by the thought •Will England hold?" People listen three and
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  • 231 6 VET another strong contingent of Australian air trainees has safely arrived in Canada, the fourth t reach there in three months. The potentialities of the Empire Air Scheme as a threat to the Nazi ambitions grows daily more evident as hundreds cf determined young Australians stream
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  • 567 6 nOULTRY farmers and are much affected th crease in the price lb The wholesale price per pi, now $2.25 and the $2.50. Before the price ol and chicken rice w copra cake was selli] $1.50 a picul. The price of copra a i a picul, while low
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  • 52 7 A seemingly endless chain of prisoners arrived at Sidi Barrani after the fortress had fallen L o < Forces. /Is soon as the British store ships arrived, the Italians were put to work to snowed no disinclination to help, probably because the exercise helped to
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  • 400 7  -  (By General Sir Hubert Gough, Reuter's Military Commentator). Reuter. London, Jan. 7. I/IHM*(.II the tail of Bardia was fully expected, the magnitutic ui the victory in its rapidity, the number of prisoners <i:>t;ire<l and the smallness of the casualties suffered, could
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  • 148 7 Reuter. Ankara, Jan. 7. j THE National Assembly has J adjourned for a two- months' winter recess after j having approved a bill pro- longing, by one year, the term of service of recruits j of 21 and over at present with the colours. In order
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  • 261 7 Roosevelt Said To Favour War To The Very End Reuter. r New York, Jan. 7. ALTHOUGH official secrecy is still observed regarding the purpose of the visit of Mr. Harry Hopkins (Mr. Roosevelt s special representative to London), the belief is growing in New York that
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  • 1054 7 MORE SHIPS, PLANES, TANKS, AND GUNS TO BE SENT Washington, Jan. 7. ET us say to the democracies 'We Americans are vitally concerned in your defence of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, resources and organising powers to give you strength to regain and
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  • 162 7 Ottawa, Jan. 7. PRESIDENT Rooseve't's speech has placed, the United States in a state cf undeclared war against the dictatorship. This is the view oi most Canadians and although the President rpeke hi generalities about further aid tor Britain when the Canadians were hoping
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    • 295 8 ANOTHER M.-G.-M. WINNER Acclaimed by Press Public as one of the Best Adventure Films seen in Singapore for Years P| I 3 SHOWS TO-DAY *it 11" *J 3.15 6.15 9.15 4 HOLIDAY SHOWS TO-MORROW 11 a.m. 3.15 6.15 9.15 TRIUMPH FOR TWO GREAT STARS! LAN HUNTER^^B^^H^?^ '''fe' Peter tORRE Paul
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    • 172 8 BY SPEfIAL BEOII^T! Return Screening of The Mystery Comedy Thriller) AltiAMiitA Next Change MkmBMCON jr j i EVER READY TO WELCOME AND ENTERTAIN YOI T at the xkiit after Mi.ni THE HOUSE IS IT LLY PACKED TO LISTEN AND j DANCE TO THE SWEET STRAIN OF j DE SILVA'S POPULAR
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    • 146 8 A N ew RFTURNS TO THE SCREEN! 1 3.15, 6.15 9.15 p.m. To-morrow f Holiday Shows II a.m. 3.15 6.15 9.15 *^fe f cargo uu MARJORIE RAMBEAU ALAN HALE m iSS&na JANE WYMAN RONALD REAGAN W E t R J. ROS Presented with A Timely Short Subject "YOUNC AMERICA FLIES"
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    • 17 8 9wl EMPIRE OPENING 9TH JAN. < «f 1 ft Ul KEDOK (Toping) t" i% t« -1 KETAWA" ITAiM"
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    • 162 9 CATHAY omm TODAY mm Where Everybody Goes 3J5 6* 15 9J5 40 0 Morning Show To-morrow at II O'clock WOMEN KNOW THE ECSTASY AND TERROR OF LOVING ■^^^^^^^^^■j But for him a kiss, a caress, is I mm not enough! He builds a bonfire rrmtr of women's souls to satisfy
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    • 432 9 DANCE FLOOR OF A THOUSAND SPRINGS I SCIENTIFICALLY CONSTRUCTED TO PUT "SPRING' INTO YOUR DAIJcE HAPPY CABARET EVERY INCH A BALLROOM OLD FAVOURITE TUNE NIGHT Tea Dance 7—9.3o—Night Dance from 9.31 NOVICES D^^ECHAMPIONSHIP Partners DISPLAY D 4o opens jan. 20th 4M Professional Dancers COMPETITfON BRINGS OUT YOUR BEST DON'T HESITATE
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    • 188 9 I 'I OPENING TO-DAY I PAVILION I TO-MORROW AT ft.ll A DIFFERENT KIND OF THRILLER THAT WILL MAKE YOU CLING TO YOUR CHAIR! ANTON WALBROOK (sixty glorious years) DIANA WYNYARD (CAVALCADE) I FROM THE STAGE PLAY BY PATRICK HAMILTON yaw ADDED ATTRACTION GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS. VAIKIXDA EAKADASI TAMIL Programmes at
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  • 39 10 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The family of the late Mrs. Agnes Prudence Rodrigues wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all relatives and friends who attended the funeral, as well as those who sent wreaths, telegrams and letters of condolence.
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    • 689 10 CLASSIFIED-ADS Situations Vacant j WANTED —Chinese Stenographer required by Employer c!o Box »09 Applicants thanked Post filled. (No. 093F, WANTED Commercial Student* as apprentice for local office. For particulars apply Box No. »81 c|o Malaya Tribune. Kuala Lumpur. (No. 98«r) WANTED Senior Cambridge boys fresh irom School. Knowledge ot Book-keeping
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    • 866 10 WANTED to buy compound house or bungalow, 3 to 4 miles from town. Price |3,000,- to $4,0001-. Send particulars to Box 097, Malaya Tribune, Singapore. (No. 30O) WE BUY your second hand school books, magazines, etc., at better prices. Please call at Mickey Mouse Book Store. 43, Bras Basah Road,
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    • 746 10 ~l Lost And Found LOST from 3-A, Lincoln Road Singapore Ist Jan. Blue Grey Persian Cat. male 2 yrs. old. answers to name of Shan Reward. < No 13G> Board And Residence "TENBY" Institution Hill. Singapore. English board-residence centrally situated M S Good cooking and personal supervision. One vacancy. Terms
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    • 684 10 Financial 1 11,000 00 or WANTED partner w J Winchester $500.00. Apply personally 22C, vm Hoube, Singapore. Photography YC-UR PHOTOS painted gjgjSHJT ttst in Lllywhite Studio. Singapore, phone 6601. Vegetable Seeds ONE DOLLAR ft* JEJ JarLeaf Vegetables). Enough rge f e den. Send remittance Bukit TlMalayan Vegetable Seeds. <». mah
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    • 556 10 January, 1941. m &3S!%th January, 1941. Bank Xa&* of the «ittee, GATTEY BATEMAN, Secretaries. NOTICE KIM ANN CO. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ChS Swee Teck, a partner abovenamed Firm of Kirn Ann> Co carrying on business at No. 243' Orchard Road, Singapore, is rlurinTfrom the said Itajj im >£om
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    • 28 10 8 mm MOVIES JUST ARRIVED Amateur Photo Store, 109 North Bridge Road, Meyer Mansion. Tel. 6550. THE YJH.C.A. SCHOOL* Morning Commercial Classes start Monday, Jan. 13th. ENROL NOW-TEL.
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    • 1331 10 TO-D AY'S It A h i(j SINGAPORE LONDON zhl 225 metres (1.333 klcs) flcn WHPI 50.96 metres m|es> GSG—I6.B6 metres (17 15p3 X3B metres (7 25 m|c«) GSF-19 82 metre" 8 News Bngllsh (every GJfr-g $3 metres In mornlna) GbL—49lo metres 6 n ttts i Sfflf ZHPI Jk ZHP3. GSB-31.53
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  • 904 11 Singapore, Jan. 7. buyers. Sellers. NING 36 «N It Tin C4s) fl0 i' 2 71/2 F A £1 35.- 36jr 21 22 6 0 B5 0.90 '($1) 1» Vol I!* 3 20 3 iIV 12- 131- K ,.f/ 017 0.20 r 17> 18 6 r rsl»
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  • 37 11 lim, Jan. 7. bvloudy importit i Mr Roosevelt's official Bri.r ed last .thoritarhe President's j gnised as the itement on i v vet delivered. sely studied in official ii..: n lust night with fion
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  • 87 11 Rome. Jan. 7. speech has angrh Popolo Di Roma u.\s tne President udices and theoagainst totalita- v we ask why he i re wai against the Mr. Rooseveit s amI) and hypocritical tactics ire aim d at putting the American people, who are hostile to interI n, into
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  • 144 11 Frcm Our Financial Correspondent Singapore, Wednesday. rN shares continued firmly active yesterday. Hone Fatts, after good business at $1.40, closed witn sellers at that price. A few transactions were done in Kuala Kampaxs. where, however, the demand is still unsatisfied. Kramats. on the bumper December output of
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  • 23 11 Singapore, Wednesday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 37%, Sellers 38. TIN $133, unchanged.
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  • 209 11 Singapore, Jan 8. The iollowing are the exchange stock quotations this morning according to the daily circular issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. SELLING London T.T. 2,4 116 London demand A I AO Switzerland demand (T.T. only) M *g New York demand 7 JK Montreal demand ol
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  • 61 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 8. AN Air Ministry and Home Security communique states "Bombs were dropped at a number of places in this country yesterday. Damage was done to houses at several pcints in the London area, in a town in the Midlands* and in a few other
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  • 398 11 Singapore, Wednesday. THE third day of the deliberations I of the Malaya Annual conference of the Methodist Church was marked by heaw business, it was found necessary that an extra session of the Conference be held Tnpsdav afternoon m order that ?Se business be finished
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  • 27 11 The December outputs of the Renong Tin Dredging Co. Ltd.. were: No 2 Dredge—29s.4B piculs: No. 3 Dredge—2sl.4o piculs and Gombak Dredg? 696.74 piculs.
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    • 94 11 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA. (TRUSTEES) LIMITED teed and Controlled by HU MERCANTILE «ANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. which is incorporatSJ3 and registered as a >any, undertakes the Ring dunes:— »R OR TRUSTEE OF A ADMINISTRATOR OF 01 DECEASED PERRON, <)I A SETTLEMENT OR nON OF TRUST, AND uj i OTHER
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    • 115 11 PILES GUARANTEED CURE WITHOUT OPERATION Piles is a dangerous and painful disease. Early treatment always. is advisable. Messrs Lav Kirn I ing and Lav Ping Hsiang have spent many years in a very careful study of this disease. Fees will be refunded if no cure is effected. w% .1 Have
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    • 123 11 Etta*."** 5 6lAr BOOKS FOR THE FIT TO KEEP FIT! I Practical Acrobatics by Bertram S. Ash; Illustrated >0 Walk ng For Road and Track by George Gumming. Illustrated. g-JJ Physlca! Idealism and the Art of g»l»tby L. A. Woodford. L Hormbrook PP G. H. KIAT CO.. LTD., 6 8,
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    • 819 11 Public Notices STATE OF JOHORE IN THE COURT OF THE JUDGE AT JOHORE BAHRU. Civil Suit No. 29 of 1940. Between Tham Kiow of No. 84 Senai, Johore, the administratrix of the Estate and Effects of Chia Thai Fo otherwise spelt as Kia Tee Pong also spelt as Chia Tai
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    • 628 11 STEAMER SAILINGS BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES For all information apply to: P. O. S. N. Co., The Agent, Colly er Quay, Tel. 5961. 8.1.5. N. CO., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR) LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE, OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special
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  • 18 12 The untitled of his Commission in the F.M.S.V.F by Lieut. (Acting Captain) A T Edgar has been accepted.
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  • 400 12 CORRUPTION PROBE EVIDENCE (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. REMARKING that the Commission had heard allegations of criminal offences having been committed by two Mine Overseers (who gave evidence at the resumed hearing of the Commission of Enquiry into allegations of corruption in the
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  • 46 12 Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 7. THE Soviet-German agreement of Mar. 1, 1938. dealing with goods traflic and financial dealings between Germany and the U.S.S.R. which was extended to Dec. 31. 1940. has now been further extended until Aug. I, 1942. according to the official German News Agency.—Reuter.
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  • 317 12 London, Jan. 8. a commentary on the fail of Bardia was transmitted yesterday by the Rome wireless for the benefit of the Italians living abroad. The Fascist propaganda machine tries hard to minimise the importance of the defeat of a large part of an
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  • 519 12 DISINCLINATION to travel on the part of the unsophisticated labouring classes who, "in spite of dissemination of information, are not altogether free from entertaining credulous rumours during war time," was partly responsible for the considerable fall in the volume of migration between India and Malaya.
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  • 334 12 Reuter. Wa> ihittgleta, Jan. 8. Oil the eve of President Knosere t's budget speech, which is hardly less important than Monday's message to Congress beer use it will indicate the concrete proposals for implicating thr President's "more aid f° r Britain policy, the Washington Poh writes: "The United
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    • 92 12 m~m PROF. ILMUDDIN PSYCHOLOGIST) Over 37 years of study In East and M West, so you will receive reli-.li-'rv.c:.-.- ;;d\: all who are ln trouble regarding, Business, Domestic. Financial, Health. Travelling Marriage and love affairs, etc Strictly confidential. Consultation Daily 9.00 to 7.00 P.M. REX HOTEL Phone 2600 SINGAPORE. ROOM
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    • 39 12 THROAT RT ERSE I Black Currant made from pure the juice of choic currants, by ;i which conserve and flavour ol th Dissolving si BURYS PASTU I I mildly astringent effect which stop allays further pi trouble IfSlenbuw V^p'PASTIUB
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