Malaya Tribune, 10 January 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Saks Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Friday, January 10, ICIX
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  • 73 1 Germany entered the war, she signed the deafa warrant of her export trade, anc in particular th* e\uort of radio sets. Great Britain has now stepped in, and a great export drive i s going forrd to sell British radio sets from the Arctic to the Tropics.
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  • 667 1 TOBRUK ENCIRCLED Reuter. London, Jan. 10. BRITISH G.H.Q. at Cairo yesterday announced that preparations for the capture of Tobruk are proceeding, with mechanised forces operating west of the town. \n earlier R.A.F. communique yesterday had made it clear that the British forces had reached
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  • 212 1 FREE FRENCH ABYSSINIAN SUCCESSES Reuter. London, Jan. 10. TWO battalions of Free French troops, participating in the operations against Bardia, were among the first to reach .he road j to the west, cutting off the Italian retreat in the direc- lion of Tobruk. according to news received in well- J
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  • 74 1 (Fr< »m 11. L. Hopkinj London, Jan. 10. JHE Home Secretary has refused unces 1 for Sunday perform- a Pantomime in London, sarv n, UL Ulat l t was order end the existing law in It i«° Co j n Ply with the request *fnment
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  • 129 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 10. PRESIDENT Roosevelt summonea the Democratic leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives to a conference yesterday afternoon on legis'ation to give him virtually unlimited authority to lend and lease war material to Britain and the other nations wailing against the
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  • 403 1 Reuter. (By Ralph Walling, Renter's air correspondent) London, Jan. 10. rrHE inauguration of a nationwide pre-entry training for the R.A.F., providing 1 education and service training for boys between 16 and 18 years, was announced by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, yesterday. "We
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  • 184 1 London, Jan. 10. THE possibility of Germans using amphibian tanks in their invasion operations was mentioned in the course of a talk tc the press in London by the commander ot the newly-formed Royal Armoured Corps. "The Germans, I am quite sure, have the
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  • 130 1 (From H. L Hopkin) London, Jan. 10. AN official inquiry Is being held into the circumstances in which Amv Johnson (formerly Mrs. Jim Mollison), the famous airwoman, had lost her life, while flying as an Air Transport Auxi liary pilot. Amy, who was the
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  • 692 1 Reuter. THE Thailand Army is advancing steadily into Cambodia, the 1 most westerly province of French Indo-China, according to the latest Thai High Command communique. Fighting is stated to be on a scale greatly in excess of the recent frontier skirmishing. Ninety Thai aircraft, supporting
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  • 47 1 (From H. L. Hopkin; London. Jan. 10. CORRESPONDING to the fourpenny cut in the civilian" meat ration, restaurant allocations were cut by a further 22 per cent, yesterday. This is in addition to the previous cut of 50 per cent—Via Cable and Wireless.
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  • 78 1 Reuter. (From Reuters special correspondent on the Albanian frontier) London, Jan. 10. THE Greeks yesterday repulsed a vigorous Italian attack to the southwest of JVfoskopolis, some 20 miles from the Yugoslav frontier. The Italians are reported to have suffered heavy losses. Fighting further north was restricted to
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  • 40 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. I pOURTEEN regional heads of the t Fascist party have been removed from office, according to a Rome report quoted by the Swiss radio, which adds that their successors have already been appointed.— Reuter.
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  • 182 1 Reuter. WASHINGTON, JAN. It. FURTHER DEFENCE MEASURES WERE ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY (THURSDAY). Following Wednesday's intimation of naval reorganisation, Mr. Stimson (Secretary for War) has stated that the United States Army commands at Panama Canal and "in the Caribbean Sea are to be consolidated, in order to strengthen the
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  • 232 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. AN epidemic of scurvy has broken out in Holland and the A Dutch people firmly believe that Hitler's "grain and rye" loaf is responsible. So sure are they that they have named the nresent acute form of disease "Broodschurft." or bread
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  • 113 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. MR. Harry Hopkins President, Roosevelt's personal representative, arrived in London yesterday evening He declined to make any statement, nt present, concerning the nature of his mission. An air raid alert was in force and the guns were booming when Mr. Hopkins arrived
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  • 740 2 Mr. K. L. Chong Favours War Lotteries (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. WHILE members of the Federal Council resident in Kuala Lumpur were not prepared to make any statement when approached by the Tribune on the proposea Income Tax Bill, embodying the recommendations
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  • 54 2 Singapore, Friday. ALL persons resident in the Straits Settlements who have an effective controlling interest in any company set up or incorporated outside the sterling area are requested to report this fact, and to give particulars, to the Controller of Foreign Exchange, Union Building, Singapore,
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  • 16 2 Capt. Kenny. Adjutant of the Perak Battalion. F.M.S.V.F.. is an Inmate of the Batu Qajah Hospital
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  • 38 2 77ie wedding picture of Mr. Lim Chwee Hoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Siew Long, and Miss Pansy lan, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tan Hon a Tian. T*e marriage took place last Sunday.
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  • 180 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. AN order published in to-days FM S Government Gazette states'that all units of the Volunteer Fnrce shall be cahed up for continuous training during the year 1941 for the period between Fet) 9 and April 4 (both days inclusive),
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  • 80 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Thursday. AN accident involving an Indian Regiment despatch rider and a Tamil cyclist occurred yesterday afterncon near the junction of Belfield Street and Station Road. It appears that the soldier who was riding a motor cycle was 4 proceeding towards Brewster
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  • 49 2 Y. M. the Raja Kechil Muda son of His Highness the Sultan of Perak, will be n arrled to Raja Zulhayat. daughter of V M Raja Sharouddln. brother of V A.M. the Raja dt-Hiltr. at Bukit Chandan on Jan 14. Elaborate arrangement > are beinp made for the royal wedding.
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  • 14 2 Che Teh bin Mydin has been appointed to be Sub-Assistant Conservator of Forests, Kedah.
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  • 148 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) FOLLOWING up their successes of last year, Epworth leaguers of Singapore are now making preparations to give another concert in aid of the China Relief Fund and the Reel Cross Fund some time in February. Practices are new being held regularly on
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  • 172 2 Chungking. ALTHOUGH China has lost a large portion of her customs revenue as a result of the war, she has not resorted to an increase in the tariff rates to offset her losses, according to Mr. Loy Chang, director-general of Customs Administration of the Ministry of Finance.
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  • 21 2 Mr. M. J. Doshl of Kuala Lumpur left for India on Monday. He expects to be away for about six months.
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  • 293 2 PROM the frozen east ctoast of Greenland comes news of 4 Germany's first attempt to penetrate the Western Hemisphere—an attempt to seize five vitally important meteorological stations. It failed because the fifty members of the expedition— although fully armed with rifles, grenades and machine-gun* —surrendered
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  • 565 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Teluk Anson, Thursday. rnHANKS to the efforts of the District Officer, Lower Perak Teluk Anson has come in line with other bio; towns iii Malaya in regard to A.R.P. First the Blood Donors Society formed and now there is a move
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  • 34 2 Mr. Chan Yin Tit has been appointed a member of the Central Committee for th* F.M.S. under the Tin and Tin Ore (Restriction) Rules, in place of Mr. Choo Kia Peng, who has resigned.
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  • 18 2 Mr. P. H O'Flynn, Officer-In-Charge of the Traffic Branch, Ipoh. has been admitted to the Batu Gajah hospital.
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  • 126 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Thursday. SCOUTS, Girl Guides and other units of the Scout movement the world over to-day mourn the death of their beloved Chief Scout. Lord Baden-Powell, who pa&ec away at Nyeri, Kenya, after a prolonged illness at the agfi of 83. In all
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  • 112 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh. Thursday. THE death of Mr. R. Arokiam, father of Mr. A. Anthony, the well-known lccal State footballer, occurred at his residence in Siilbin Road yesterday afternoon, at the age of 60. The deceased, who was born in Trichinopclv, South India,
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  • 1311 3 Indian Agent's Criticisms -TRAINED teachers are still not attracted to estate choofe due to several causes. The result is that i jp school teachers find partial employment in the 1 office. In other places, clerks, dressers, conduced even kanganies with some pretensions to r
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  • 430 3 HURING the last war labour in U Britain caused much t™"*;in this war, it is heroically helping th- Empire effort to ensure and hasten victory. This contras is commented on in an editorial m the journal Britain, which after recalling occurrences during tne last war
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  • 17 3 A picture of members of the B-Ti defence forces, drilling in the parade so»are.
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  • 239 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) AN amazing record of well over 40 years of Methodist A work in Sibu (Sarawak) District lies behind the retirement, which has just taken effect, of the Rev. Wong King Hwo, who has six children in Singapore, ome of whom
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  • 91 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Thursday. AS a sequel to the stabbing incident which occurred near the Kinta Swimming Club where a young Tamil woman was alleged to have been fatally injured as a result of a parang attack, Kunchiandi. a bui°y Indian, appeared before
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  • 193 3 HEAVY demands are now 1 being made upon the Wool and Material Fund of i the Women's Section of the j Malaya Patriotic Fund. 1 Thousands of yards of ma- terial have been ordered to j make up into garments for air raid victims in
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  • 58 3 (From Our own Ipoh, Thursday. l CHARGE of theft of $250 cash A was preferred against Lav Woon. when thl Mr P F. Y. Radchffe in the Police Court yesterday Represented by Mr X C Chan Lav Woon claimed trial to the was fixed for March 4.
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  • 16 3 Che Ismail bin Hanin Second Under Secretary to Government. Kedah. has re- turned from ieave.__ I
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  • 146 3 tFrcm Our Own Reporter) Penang, Thursday. HIS Excellency the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, inspected !™u A R.P. Wardens, 200 Auxiliary Fire Service members, 200 members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, 100 Local Defence Volunteers and 17 nurses at a parade on the poio
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  • 595 3 v X rp H E "wettest" December for 12 months did n °t S *°P Roval Singapore .Flying Club from putting up 201.45 hours of flying during the month, and increasing its total ot licence pilots for the year up to 50, thus beating
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  • 57 3 THERE wiU be a meeting of the Indian Youth League at the league premises on Sunday, Jan. 12 at 6.30 p.m. under the presidency of Sjt. R. Kumarasamy. Pandit Ram Avthar Sharma will dcHver a lecture in Hindi on "Our Duty" Mr. M. Narayanasamy, a member of
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  • 731 4 Improvements To Stadium, More Referees Asked For I the Singapore Amateur Football Association meets for its annual general meeting next week, the council will report a "successful year" and a profit of $496.65 on the previous yearTs working. It will also report that improvements are being made
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  • 49 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: Chinese v. Naval Police, Hons: Lim Green; S.C.C. v R.A.F. (Kallangi, S.C.C; S.R.C. R A F. (H.Q.», S.R.C; Indian Assn. v R .A.0.C.. Balestier. RUGGER: S.C.C "B" v R.A.F. «Seletari, S.C.C SOCCER: Australian Rules match in Aid of War charities, old polo ground, Balestier Road.
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    42 4 MAX SCHMELING Max Schmeling, the German heavyweight champion, has been seriously injured while training as a parachutist, according to the Swedish newspaper, "Aftonbladet." He is in hospital, and his wife, the film star Army Ondra, is nursing him, the report adds.
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  • 150 4 j (From Our Own Reporter) I Ipoh, Thursday. FOLLOWING weeks of negoA tiation, Ipoh promoters have succeeded in signing up Young Venturillo, the Filipino boxer, to fight again in Ipoh, this time against the Perak and Penang champion, David Dharmaraj at catchweights next week, Jan.
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  • 342 4 rpHE major sports event for the coming Chinese New Year holidays in Ipoh will be the North Malayan Amateur Golf championship meeting which will be held on the Ipoh Golf Club course and for which a record number of entries is expected. f The actual
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  • 151 4 BALESTIER Polo ground will be the venue for this evening's novel sports event, the exhibition Australian football game which will see teams representing Aussie airmen from Sembawang and Seletar doing: battle. The event is in aid of the war fund and the R.A.A.F. sports fund. A small
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  • 161 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Tttv c- Malacca, Jan. 9. HE Singapore Naval Base police on tour st <>PPed tett ill yesterday and »eat the Malacca Club by the odd goal in three. y d Though the home team was le V scratch comblnattor they enjoyed more
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  • 23 4 The women's January Bogey competition at the R.S.G.C., which was to have been played on Monday, has been postponed to Monday Jan. 13.
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    • 182 4 Public Notices NOTICE. Mortgagee sale of lands situate at the junction of Banda Kaba and Bandasah Road, Malacca, held under Lot D. 433-Area 24.10 pis T.A. XXV Lot D. 434-Area 08.11 pis T.A. XXV fixed for sale on the 10th December, 1940 and postponed is coming up again for sale
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 482 5 Thai Prince's Exhortation To Malayan Rotarians (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. L siNG the fact that the New Year brings with it 1 rmortunities for service, especially for Rotar?oSii in a speech entitled "Bees In a h M! Bonnet" delivered at yesterday's luncheon
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  • 184 5 THE Serangoon Benevolent Society held meeting on Dec. 22 to elect officials for 1941. The following were elected:— Fatrons Mr. Koo Chin Peng re-elected. Mr Tan Cheong re-elected. Mr. Yeo Boon Kbit re-elected Mr. Tan Boon Khoon reelected President:—Mr. Baey Gek Seng Vice-Presidents:—Mr. Tan Hak Yong reelected Mr.
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  • 173 5 (From Our Own Reporter) j Taiptng, Thursday. HE drove me out of the house. I got) annoyed j when he further burnt some joss papers, so I hit him with t a wooden stool," said a Cni- nese woman in the Taiping Police Court
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  • 87 5 «■R David Lv, manager of the I Hongkong Bureau of the Centra mpwc who was in singa pore rtc ently has been appomtgd correspondent at Washington OC and is leaving for his new post •imp time this month. Mr Richard L. Jen, editor-m--thi/f
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  • 1027 5 EXPERT'S EVIDENCE (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday. AT the conclusion of the hearing of the case in which Friday. Jan. 10. urrident which occurred in the The case arose out of g?*™ at Batu Road, early Lours of the morn.ng of Oct.
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  • 116 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Teluk Anson, Thursday. MOTOR launch plying between Kampong Gajah and Teluk A Alison hit a large log in the Perak River three mile* away from Teluk Anson whilst coming down river on Tuesday about ,1 on «m. causing it to capsize. The
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  • 101 5 (Fn m Our Own liepuncr, Ipoh, Thursday. AT yesterday's meeting of the A potary Club of Ipoh held at the Hotel Majestic, the n A Thamsen. congratuiaiea Rotarlan Chiah Ghim Leng on the conferment on him of th- title oi OBE and on his appointment to the
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  • 40 5 -The History of the Royal Engineers'' is the title cf the talk to be oroadcast to-night (FtMay) the Singapore Station atJ lO P_rn_ This talk is one m the series The History of the Regiments.
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  • 36 5 Che Hamzah. M.C.S. who has retired from Government Service, has gone to Klane and assumed duty as Secretary to Hn Hijhness the Sultan of Selangor in place of Che Mohamed Othman. who has gone on leave.
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  • 260 5 Parit Buntar, Wednesday. A FATAL acciaent occurred a» Kulim on the road leading to Bandar Bahru when a T.imil cyclist was filled following a colUsion with a lorry. The cyclist was alleged to bo coming out of a lane into the main road and the lorry
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  • 29 5 Mr. P. H. D. Jackson has arrived from England to take the place of Mr. T. J. Rycroft O C P.D.. Krian who is going on transfer to Tapah.
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  • 224 6 Food Stocks GOVERNMENT'S decision to monopolise the importation of rice into this country has perhaps not been fully understood by dealers, particularly the retailers. There has. therefore, been much criticism of the policy, despite the fact that Government has pointed out its purpose in taking such a step. The
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  • 223 6 JJICE dealers have been circularised by the Food Controller to the effect that the law regarding minimum stocks will be strictly imposed, now that Malaya has big stocks of rice of an assured economic price. This is certainly a golden opportunity for Vice dealers to replenish their stocks
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  • 145 6 DRESIDENT Roosevelt can rightly be called the world's greatest record breaker. His eight years of presidential rule have witnessed a series of startling changes in the country's political, economic and social life—changes which no previous presidents ever dared to attempt. The fact that he never promised a thing
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  • 977 6  -  In The Country's Blood Transfusion Service OPEN LETTER TO ASIATICS By Khoo Teng Eng \dTANY months have passed ifl since Dr. G. V. Allen first made an appeal for blooddonors. At the beginning the response was most encouraging. Isut so far, only half the iequisite number
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  • 154 6 SOUTH America has bought 1,000 kilos., a first order, of a new British material like spun silk. It is a mixture of spun silk and a long staple rayon specially pro duced for it and blended from half of each. The aim is the production ol yarns and
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  • 513 6 A 28-YEAR-OLD W.A.A.F sergeant was on duty in i an armoury when enemy bombers heavily attacked an R.A.F. fighter command siation. Although a large amount of ammunition was stored near her office, she manned the telephone, passing instructions to the various defence posts. She
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  • 257 6 AN Italian offer to America" has? evoked lively—and ironic— comment. As the New York correspondent of The Times records: "The American public are enchanted by the offer of Mario Appolius, in Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'ltalia, to give them Canada, Newfoundland, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica and
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  • 581 6 JJPCOUNTRY pc ,i e w heard to mv pores movie palaces n line for our ciiu ma hi they visit this city But tl ble at the box-office tak their zest for sampling the forts of the air-condition/! terior. Cinema-goers in other fcL towns, especially the cheaper
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  • 866 7 PREMIER ON LORD HALIFAX'S MISSION Reuter. LONDON, JAN. 9. PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN UNITY: %1 THE PRESENT CRUCIAL WORLD PHASE WAS EXPOUNDED: v VVINSTON CHURCHILL TO-DAY IN AN ADDRESS TO "THE j p, n K |YiS" AT A LUNCHEON TO LORD HALIFAX BY THE
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  • 114 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 9. DO! ITICAL correspondents t that new legislation will shortly be introduced to hen Britain's manpom r for war purposes. tood that legislation conscription age to bring in 18's and 19's i being considered. to military service is at ited up to 41.
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  • 65 7 Reuter. untitled Jan. 9.—Although loing everything poind production, the v" little chance o! r »ilorts to extract ibe basin countries and fibre supplies I would be imported Thi raea markets. contained in a reot the foreign section ra] Department Dr. William Strauss i failure to lack or ers, labour shortin
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  • 29 7 IHtle Poiirt Prime Minister, he Mrs. Churchill and General S'KorsKt tne rot making a nr«^«^jsr^ churchm prise wur uj be seen in the background.
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  • 355 7 THVENTY-TWO-Y EAR-OLD Anthony Drew, bankrupt a year 1 after inheriting £10,000. told the Eireann Bankrupt* Court in Dublin that he had left his £10 a week hotel to fj with a woman old-age pensioner. She is poor, he said, but she charged h,m nothmg
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  • 88 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 8: Import license. Vii] be issued for all wines and sciriti exported to the United Kin"dom before Jan. 20 and arnvn~ Wore March 20, but no hccnlc*. except for certain quantiUes of rum, will be issued lor hipments after Jan. 20. This
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  • 48 7 Among the many passengers who arrived from London recently was Mrs. v X Lim the wife of Dr. G. K. Lim, whe is now practising as a specialist in Lon don Mrs Lim is on a visit to her parents Mr <fc Mrs Chew Boon Hean of Penan"?
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  • 411 7 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 9. v AN R.A.F. communique issued m i Cairo reveals that toPJjg V forces have now reached Gazaia _a point betweenMJ I andi 40 miles west of AoD F UK would appear to be the point in Cyrenaica yet reachen by the
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  • 152 7 nongKong. TOKYO reports stated that Japanese military chiefs have taken a serious view of the arrival of bombing squadrons, a division nf submarines an d an additional cruiser to the Philippines. This question was discussed in the last interview between Foreign Minist-r Yosuke Matsuoka and American Ambassador
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  • 106 7 U.S. LEND LEASE BILL Reuter. Washington, Jan. 9. FE United States "Lend and Lease Bill" has been com- pleted by Administration ex- t perts. It may be introduced i to Congress to-day and pro- posals will be made for rushing it through by joint hear- i ings with the Senate
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  • 209 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 9. GENERAL de Gaulle has called on his fellow countrymen to rally round the Cross of Lorraine. That upright cross will stand high aloft when the crooked Swastika is in the dust and the banner of Joan of Arc—the standard of the General's
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  • 168 7 Reuter. Boston, Jan. y. i PASSENGER from African ports, arriving in the liner City of New YorW, reported today that 100,000 British troops were waiting on the KenyaAbyssinian border for the end of the rainy season before invading Abyssinia. In London there was no
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  • 81 7 Reuter. Melbourne, Jan. 9.—Australia is to form a corps of the A.I.F. which will include an armoured division. The Commonwealth War Cabinet, announcing this decision, stated that ether eouipment which would cost millicns of Dtunds would be manufactured »n Australia.— Reuter. London, Jan. 9.—The French Admiralty
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  • 50 7 Print Franz (Putzi) Hanfstaengl, Hitler's former secret envoy who fled to Britain on the outbreak of war and was interned, is now under lock and key in Canada. lie tried to teach Hitler the piano, and had the Fuhrer at his mother's house after the Munich Beer Hall I Putsch.
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  • 177 8 Chungking IN order to strive for ultimate victory and hasten the collapse of the enemy, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has circularised the military and civil authorities throughout the country, enjoining that vigorous efforts be made to fortify the nation's will and strengthen its fighting ability. As the resistance
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  • 99 8 Hongkong. THK outbreak of beriberi in Canton owing to undernourishment is to be checked by the shipment of synthetic vitamin bone capsules from the United States. During the past several weeks, about a thousand people died in Canton owing to under-nourish-ment and high prices of foodstuffs. Mcst of
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  • 38 8 Recenly losing his mother in an air r:s:d on Britain. Mr. A. B Roche. Immigration Officer, Penang. has now received news of further family bereavement, his brother and sister-in-law having been killed near Richmond ln an air raid.
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  • 297 9 Chungking. AFTER more than ten months' travel deep in Inner Mongolia, a party of cameramen of the China Motion Picture Studio returned to Chungking recently with more than 20,000 feet of films of the conditions of that region. The film covered every phase of the life
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  • 125 9 Chungking. HHHE refusal of General Baron A Sadao Araki, former War Minister to Japan, to join the Konoye Cabinet in the recent reshuffle was due to his desire to form a dictatorship should the present cabinet collapse under the burden of heavy domestic and diplomatic strain.
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    • 1369 10 SINGAPORE LONDON ZHL 225 metres (1-333 kjcs) GSG—I6 8« metres m 0 ZHri 30.96 metres (9.69 m cs) GSF-19 82 metres Jg'J »a, ZOP3 41.38 metres (7 25 m cs) GSD—2oS3 metres m 8.20 a.m. News in English (every GSL-49.10 metres e,l ttt «i I morning). G58—31.53 metres From mmtU
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  • 116 11  -  L Spoil Wheat L In Argentine r (By Reuter Tin 8: The MiniSt .ir/ has reduced the states of wheat F r C „d of linseed by 17 per rUsMit of damage from L a r Sil wliich has also P'thi- quality. t reductions are w F' «heat,
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  • 43 11 L Jan. 8: United Kingdom rents of Egyptian cotton fceforth be purchased by ir strv of Supply's Cotton "from the British GovernBuying Commission in T*o Control will consider ii 0 n< for import licences for contracts not yet shipped. r» 1
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  • 31 11 Reuter. Mi Jan 8: Rubber ruled The Ministry of Supply mred a Mibstantial qrantity ruary February shipment pa lid. F O B. but is still I further offers.— Reuter.
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  • 114 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 8: There are ru-| mours that the American Reserve Company may buy more than 75,000 tons 1 originally contracted for. The next meeting of the International Tin Committee is due in London on March 20, by which time it is' hoped that
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  • 68 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 8: The Stock Exchange opened quiet, with most issues ruling firm. Oils were harder; also Kaffirs, on Cape buying. In mid-session, business continued to be light, apart from fair Cape buying of Kaffirs, especially of non-producers. Later business was patchy but there were several good
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  • 17 11 Reuter. Calcutta, Jan. 8: There was a strong demand at the tea sales.— Reuter.
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  • 138 11 L i lal Correspondent Singapore, Friday, butefc were closed yester--0:i Wednesday, there was Hong Fatts which 18 sellers at which likely to open to-day. as in Australians, rithere was a very good deter Kuala Kampars and rianas recorded a slight rise 3d Other business included in Bentas
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  • 18 11 I Singapore, Friday, rices of tin and rubber Singapore at noon toRUBBER pOl '.T Sellers o7yB
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  • 69 11 Reuter. Dublin, Jan. 10. PETROL rations in Eire are to be reduced by 75 per cent, beginning to-day. states an official announcement issued here last night. Supplementary allowances will be granted only in cases of essential national services which must be maintained. The price is fixed
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  • 208 11 Singapore, Jan. 10. The following 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 1,16 London demand a|4 l|lo Switzerland demand (T.T. only) 2021 /2 New York demand 47 3|32 Montreal demand 51 27j32
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  • 652 11 A. F. S. Men For Trial WE have done nothing wrong, and cannot understand how this can be sent for trial," protested a London auxiliary fireman to the Marylebone magistrate when he and a companion were committed to the Old Bailey. The two
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  • 321 11 IN the .first nine months of 1940, China exported N.C. $400,000,000 worth of goods through Hongkong, according to a recent issue of the Hongkong Ta Rung Pao. Of the total, goods valued at H.K $97,000,000 or approximately N.C. $300,000,000 have been re-exported, the rest awaiting
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  • 136 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. »rHE Norwegian Government has 1 issued a statement declaring null and void the appointments made by the authorities in Ger-man-occupied Norway without regard tc the established laws. It is authoritatively seated In Norwegian circles in London that the newly-established posts in
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  • 100 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. HIS characteristic loyalty has landed M. Sjoerd Gerbrandy, son of Holland's exiled Premier, in a Nazi gaol in Holland. The Free Dutch newspaper in London Vrij Nederlfnid relates thit the Nazis ordered the arreFt of M. Gerbrandy as "a reprisal
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  • 83 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. ABOUT 200,000 Germans are now settled In Polish territory vhich has been incorporated into the Reich, according to figures available in Polish quarters in London last night. Almost three auarters of tne Cermans recently repatriated from the Baltic states are now in Poland
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  • 80 12 Reduced To Ranks Prison Singapore, Friday. SENTENCE was pronounced to-day in the court martial of Fit. Sgt. G. C. Press, of the R.A.F., who was charged on three counts of desertion, conduct to the prejudice of good order and Air Force discipline, and attempting
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  • 68 12 Hungarian Rumanian Conference Soon Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 10. HUNGARIAK-Rumanian disputes ar? to be discussed at a conference to be held In the middle of January, states a report from Bucharest to the official German news' agency. The Rumanian delegation will presumably be headed by M. Valerian Pop with the Iron
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  • 32 12 Mr. Mohamed bin Shaikh Daud. Station master of Sungei Bakap. Province Wellesley for the past two years, has gone on transfer to Genuang. He has bee? 1 succeeded by Mr. K. Subramaniam.
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  • 89 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 9. CONDITIONS in alien camps in Great Britain are now "very nearly satisfactory" said Lord Lytton, Chairman of the Advisory Council on Aliens, to-day. Tent camps had been abolished before the winter set in, medical arrangements to prevent epidemics had been overhauled, and
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  • 152 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. rE observations of Admiral Platon, Marshal Petain's Colonial Minister, in an interview on j Thursday that Britain wished to appropriate French colonies so as to use them as bargaining counters if a compromise peace was' offered her, have been noticed with regret
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  • 103 12 Reuter. Ottawa, Jan. 10. rfO contracts for the manufacture of Bren guns have been placed by the Canadian Government, states the newspaper Ottawa Journal. The contracts were placed with the John Inglis* Company, after the cancellation of a single contract which the company had
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  • 109 12 Reuter. Nyeri (Kenya*, Jan. 10. j ORD BADEN-POWELL, the Chief Sccut. was buried yesterday afternoon in the tiny cemetery here. The funeral was carried out with full military honours befitting Lord Baden-Powell's rank as a Lieutenant-General. Lady Baden-Powell was not present as shs had been
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  • 52 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. MX moxe Po'es have been executed by the German authorities for >eing in possession cf firearms and •oncealing munitions, according to n olish quarters in London. A Polish peasant in Kalisz was sentenced to death for an attack m a German prison
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  • 32 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10:—Mr. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, announced yesterday that the Ausfralian War Cabinet had decided to offer Britain another army cooperation air squadron for service in the Middle East.—Reuter.
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  • 280 12 Cairo, Jan. 9. rpHE R.A.F. have again caught the Italian air force napping and struck with remorseless energy at squadrons of enemy aircraft on the ground at their bases. The latest R.A.F. communique states:—"Bomber aircraft of the R.A.F. continued yesterday their intensive bombing of
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  • 95 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. nOR the lIKt time in four nights PSfW Planes and anti-aircraft mns w-re heard in the London s£'and enemy planes were repor >d over widely scattered districts in England and Wales The raiders over London were kept at a high altitude by
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  • 60 12 Reuter. T > »> b J «M Dublin. Jan. 10. THE bombs dropped at Rathdown Park in Dublin on the nignt or Jan. 1-2 and on Doncre Terrace in Dublin on the night of Jan. 2-3, have now been identified as of German origin, says
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  • 64 12 Reuter. Paris, Jan. 10. THE registration ot Jewish businesses in France is proceeding steadily, according to a report from Paris to the official German news agency. Over 7.000 Jewish businesses in Paris have been registered, though th» authorities think that all Jewish firms have
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  • 71 12 Reuter. Bombay, Jan. 10. SPECIAL prayers for the annihilation of Fascism and Nazism wLre offered by Muslims throughout India at the feast of Idulzuha :n Wednesday. Prayers for the safety of Muslim countries in the Near and Middle East were also offered while in Rhopal,
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  • 63 12 Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 10. rHE Japanese Military Mission arrived at Berlin last night, according to a German radio announcement. The Mission, headed by Gen Yamashita, is expected to remain in Germany for some time, and extensive contacts in the military sphere are expected as provided
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  • 74 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 10. MEN over 30 yean; of age, due to register under th? Military Service Act on Jan. 11 or 18, may apply for vacancies in the civil defence forces in lieu of military service. This was announced by Mr. H.
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  • 19 12 Mr. W. L. Stapleton. Inspector of Mines, Perak North, stationed at Kuala Kangsar has gone on transfer to Kampar
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  • 58 12 Reuter. Washington l THE joint purchase if if worth of BriUsh-o can secunties is the J* tentative plan submtff 5 group of leading mves: T to the Treasury and t tie s and Exchange This scheme, if r ;5 would be the largest Government securities
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  • 127 12 London, J:THE Prime Minister inspect the first American moj .squadron of the Horn -Qd the Horse raiaceT The squadron is mi American business and prolea men resident in London. formally recognised as a i the Home Guard by ar. i -council last September. Fifty men of
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  • 34 12 Berlin, Jar.. 3 ADMIRAL Leahy, the new Ud ft States Ambassador to Vidqd lalf an hour's talk with M r etain yesterday afternoon i wording to a Vxchy report-M
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  • 37 12 Washington. Jar. Id "MY heart goes out t< w these days of ncr stated President Roosevelt added "I pray that the people may soon again blessings of peace wits eouality and fraternity."-RM
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  • 237 12 Reuter. Saigon. Jan■ J SIAMESE aircraft ncn, killing two persons J mounding eleven. Siamese m also made several raids on wj China territory. During the nR of Jan. 7, French airciai out "severe" reprisals on > ur territory. _..^J It is denied that j*g troops entered Indo hma
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