Malaya Tribune, 25 January 1941

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Saturday, January 25, 1941
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    "CEASE FIRE" REPORTED IN THAI WAR
    337 1 /I REUTER telegram received in Singa<ZJL pore to-day stated that "hostilities have ceased between French Indo-China and Thailand, according to a Bangkok report quoted by the German news agency, and that an armistice agreement is being prepared.' 9 Both the Singapore Consul-Generals for Thailand
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    NO MORE "IDLE RICH" IN BRITAIN
    169 1 Reuter. Loudon, Jan. 25. rhi pre-war world has gone md the changes brought jbout bv the war will be no j,.. s real than those wrought by the last war t; t plans for a new and j ,||,-r post-war world could be left
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    CANADA GETS U.S. DESTROYER
    36 1 Reuter. C .-a. Jan. 25. t her former J I 'oyer, the dian Navy, destroyer announced the Navy ct iiference yesterday The destroyer -the Kootneay—is transferred to Britain bv the United States.—Reuier.
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    24 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 25. President Roosevelt has asked for th< immediate tion of $175 millions for and equipment for an roxhr.ately 1.400,000. men -Reuter.
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    BACK OF RUMANIAN REVOLT BROKEN
    691 1 Reuter. Belgrade, Jan. 25. pOLLOYVING yesterday morning's official announcement of the capture by regular troops in Bucharest of 600 rebels, Gen. Petrovicescu, lately Minister of the Interior, it probable that the back of the revolution has been genuinely broken. i: regaining possession of i barest
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    U. S. SERVICE CHIEFS' SECRET EVIDENCE
    158 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 25. GEN. Marshall, Admiial Stark and Major-Gen. Brett Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and Navy and acting Chief :f the Air Corps respectively, have oeclined to give evidence before the U. S. Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lease and Lend Bill except
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    National Council Formed In Vichy
    58 1 Reuter. Vichy, Jan. 25. A. BODY called the National Council, with some 200 members, na s been set up. Its functions will be purely consultative. Members will represent all the "essential elements" of French life. Meetings will be secret with the Head of the State,
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    Story Of Naval Heroism
    295 1 Reuter. Alexandria, Jan. 25. BEHIND the brief Admiralty announcement of the loss of the destroyer Hyperion through an enemy mine or torpedo is a story worthy of the best sea tradition— a story of how a small destroyer, protected by another destroyer, lay crippled in the
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    Roosevelt Welcomes Halifax
    365 1 Sets Precedent Reuter. Washington, Jan. 25. a precedent, President Roosevelt motored from the White House and boarded his yacht in Chesapeake Bay to meet Britain's new Ambassador and former Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, who arrived in the United States in Britain's newest and largest battleship the King
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    WEATHER REDUCES RAIDS
    150 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 25. AG g result of the weather, the R.A.F. raids on enemy and enemy occupied territory during the week ending Jan. 24 were on a very much reducec scale. On five nights, operations were complete'}' suspended. Nevertheless, during the week, bombing raids were carried
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    BRITAIN'S NEW BATTLESHIPS
    142 1 British Wireless. London. Jan. 25. THE interest aroused in Lord Hali- fax's arrival in America is increased by the fact that the mention of his sailing in the warship Kins: George Fifth is the first official intimation that the vessel is in commission. It was launched by
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    BRITISH FORCES ENTER ABYSSINIA: BIG RAF ATTACKS
    333 1 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 25. PREPARING the way in three directions for the continuation of Gen. WavelPs African offensive, the Royal Air Force was again very active on Thursday. While the British advanced troops are now patrolling a line about 100 miles west of
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    ITALIAN CAPTIVES OVER 100,000
    307 1 Reuter. (From Renter's Special Correspondent at Alexandria) London, Jan. 25. units of the British Navy, breaking through waves whittled by sandstorms sweeping seawards from the desert, continue 7 to pour their thousands of Italian prisoners into temporary camps at ports including Alexandria. Since the fall of
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    New Thrust By Greeks
    70 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 25. THE ItaJians have been forced to withdraw to new and strong positions much farther in the rear as -*< result of a new Greek thrust, state-; a Greek Press Ministry announcement quoted by the Athens Radio last night. The Greek advance followed
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    REFUGEE SHIP FOR SOUTH AMERICA
    56 1 Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 25. THE French ship Alsia with over 1,000 Jewish refugees from France, Holland and Belgium and 150 Spanish refugees, has left Marseilles for Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. The passengers include Senor Alcaa Zamora, the first President of the Spanish Republic
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    WAVELL PUSHES WEST
    164 1 Reuter. (By Desmond Tighe, Renter's special correspondent) Tobruk, Jan. 25. GEN. Wavell on Thursday made a tour of inspection of the fort* and defences of Tobruk, battered beyond recognition by British artillery and the bombs of the R.A.F. As he walked round, many buildings and dumps in
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    HONG KONG CELEBRATES CENTENARY
    110 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 25. THE hundredth anniversary of the founding of the colony of HongKong was marked by the passage by the Legislative Council of a resolution expressing its loyalty to the throne and devotion to the Empire's cause. The King has sent the following reply:—"l
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    3,770 SHIPS CONVOYED ACROSS ATLANTIC
    39 1 Reuter. Ottawa, Jan. 25. SOME 3,770 vessels, carrying a dead-weight tonnage of 22,260,000 tons, were convoyed from the American side of the Atlantic in 1940, said Mr. Mac Donald, the Canadian Navy Minister. —Reuter.
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    PUBLIC CREMATORIUM UNLIKELY DURING WAR
    557 2 BUT PROJECT HAS NOT BEEN SHELVED (Trifiune Staff Reporter) it is approximately two years since the subject of a public crematorium for Singapore was brought up, the matter has by no means been dropped. The Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association is pursuing the matter, and it
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    Had Insurance Policies Round Her Waist
    151 2 4 mnTTivr *v i i. Singapore, Friday. A 1: T that she committed an offence under the Defence (Finance. Regulations, Riki Sakai, a Japanese «oma„ who was caught while trying to take 900 yen and two Me msurance policies out of the Colony, without
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    P.C. STOLE CLOTHES
    119 2 g\<s\K axt v- Singapore, Friday. 0^ bmBuSU a pclice conV st able, was convicted and sentenced to six weeks' rigorous Spnsonment by Mr. J. G. Rappoport, the Third Magistrate for having stokn dcthes to another Malay constable Sto It appeared that on Jan 7 Mohamed Sa'ad, a
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    Mr. Tay Lian Teck
    44 2 pE re-appointment of Mr. Tay Lian Teck (subject to the an Proval of Hfs Majesty Uie Kine)" as a nominated unomciaT memblr for« he f, C t? lony CoS for a further period of three yeAr" was gazetted yesterday. y
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    Bombers From Cents
    22 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all front? up to midnight London time SIX
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    ESTATE TRUSTEES' APPEAL
    219 2 Singapore, Friday. THE hearing was* continued at the Full Court of Appeal to-day before Sir Percy McElwaine. Mr. Justic3 Peyser and Mr. Justice A. K. a'Beckett Terrell of the civil appeal in which Mrs. Gordon Garth van Hien and Mrs*. Klara Theodora van Hien. the trustees of
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    CAFE PROPRIETOR MAY BE BANISHED
    276 2 Singapore, j £JONVICTED on a charge of having permitted pro assemble in the premises of the Modern C he was the licensee, Tan Kee Siang, proprietor i Cafe, was sentenced to three months' rigorous (his licence being forfeited), and was also n banishment by Mr.
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    Case Against Cashier
    155 2 Singapore, Friday. FURTHER evidence was recorded it the High Court to-day >n the case in which Victor Philip Baker, assistant cashier of Messrs. John Little and Co.. Ltd., stood his trial before Mr. Justice Gordon ?mith and a special jury on three charges of criminal breach of
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    21 2 No mails from the United Kingdom were conveyed by the eastbound British Overseas Airways Corporation flviner-boat which arrived in Singapore yesterday
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    GOVERNMENT GIVES UP JOB OF MAKING BEER
    365 3 Sells Brewery Which Was Gift From Hitler (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE Archipelago Breweries in Alexandra Road have been sold—arid so ends one of the most interesting jobs over undertaken by the Malayan Government, that of running a beer factory. Government was forced to
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    A.R.P. Warden Hurt: Court Sequel
    110 3 Singapore, Friday. ARISING out of the serious motor collision during the black-out on Jan. 22 at Kallang Road, a Straitsborn Chinese. Ong Soo Chew, was charged at the Traffic District (-'oirt this morning with causing I grievous hurt to an A.R.P. warI den. The Court
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    Wooden Undies!
    48 3 THE schedule to the Prohibited Imports Order, 1940, was cancelled by an order under the Emergency Powers Ordinance gazetted last night. The new schedule ranges from dhall and gram to umbrellas and cosmetics. It includes "Underwear of Wood (sic) or Silk or Wool and Silk Mixed."
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    17 3 Mr. K. Visuvalingam of the Labour Office. Klang who went on medical leave to Ceylon, has returned.
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    Three Gunners On Theft Charge
    175 3 Singapore, Friday. A CHARGE of house-breaking into the Church of England, Changl, between 6.10 p.m. on Jan. 19 and 7.45 ajn. on Jan. 20. in order to commit theft, was explained to T. Veggars, 25, A. Osborne, 23. and S. Cormers, 25, gunners' in the
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    37 3 A GAZETTE notification issued last night says: "His Excellency the Governor records with deep regret the death of Mr. E. A G. Anderson, Assistant Superintendent, Malayan Police Service, which occurred at Sitiawan, Perak on Jan. 20, 1941."
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    Dream Seals Her Doom
    390 3 Story Of A "Haunted Flat" STRANGE story of how a Chinese woman dreamt that her flat, before she had come to occupy it, was the scene cf a tragedy in which a woman had drunk caustic soda and committed suicide, and how the dream haunted her
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    19 3 Mr. W. H. Gilliland Manager of Merbau estate. Jeram. who had been on leave has returned and resumed duty.
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    39 3 OWING to the Chinese New Year v there will be no St. John Ambulance Association lecture at the Bukit Zahrah School, Johore Bahru, on Monday, Jan. 27. The next lecture will be on Feb. 3, commencing at 6.30 p.m.
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    Singapore Double Murder
    119 3 Singapore, Saturday. AN elderly Chinese woman and a man were murdered last night in the Tiong Bahru area. Another woman, who was also involved in the stabbing, was removed to the hospital suffering from a wound on her side. The woman who died had a wound in
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    MONKEY KILLS OWNER—WITH A COCONUT
    134 3 (From Oar Own Correspondent) Malacca, Thursday. F'AM bin Haji Hamid, a 65-year-oid "Malay professional coconutI picker, was* engaged on Dec. 25 by j another Malay to pick coconuts at i his plantation at Pengkalan Perigi. He employed a monkey which was tied to a rope
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    54 3 The Indian community in Kuala Lumpur has presented to the Indian General Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, a wireless set and a gramophone and records for the i"* of Jl l? lan troops while patients ln SS**ISL. Tni g"t. organised by Mr. K. X Benjamin. ha s been received by the miUtary
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    HOLIDAY TENNIS STARTS
    328 4 Single Tie Lasts Nearly 1* Hours At S.C.C. rytlh Singapore Cricket Club Chinese New Year tennis tournament, proceeds of which «;re to be donated to the War Fund and the Malaya Patriotic Fund, begin yesterday when ties were played off at the Club courts. The handicap men's
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    GIRLS' HOCKEY TRIAL
    221 4 pLAYED on a very wet Girls' Sports Club ground yesterday, the Singapore women's second hockey trial ended in a 4-1 win for Colours' team, who beat Whites. As a trial the game could not have helped the selectors much, but it certainly provided good practice for the
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    New Year's Day Soccer For China
    114 4 ON Chinese New Year's Day the Banka Sports Club will meet the Kota Raja F.C. in a charity f'wUiall match at tbe Jalan Besar stadium. The two teams met on two previous otcaitoni recently, and ali hough" In both matches the Bank:i. won. each
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    "Spectator's" Selections
    49 4 —> FOLLOWING are Spectator's selections for tc-day's races at Ipoh. RACE I—RYE SEAMUS New World RICE 2—STORM AHEAD Gay Pnnce RACE 3—SALMON PAR Tredella RACE 4—iDUKE CARRLNGTON Empress RACE S—PYMBLE Irish J'£ RACE <>—ANTRLM Safariland RACE 7—ROSE QUILT Newzy RACE B—ADELE Jaguar RACE 9—ROYAL BEAU Sir Pal rick
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    ACCIDENT STOPS HOCKEY GAME
    72 4 THE hockey match between the R.A.F. (Kallang. and the R.E. at Pulau Brani yesterday was abandoned midway through the second half when Cpl. Davidson, of the R.E.s, was struck between eye and nose by a rising ball. Cpl. Davidson was rushed to hospital where it was
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    23 4 The inter-state hockey match between Malacca and Negri Sembilan which was to have been played to-day has been posiponed to Saturday Feb. 4.
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    Soccer Season Opening Soon
    377 4 just over three months' rest, the Singapore football season opens again on Feb. 10, when the Business Houses* league starts. Seventeen teams have entered for the Business Houses League, four of which will be making their hrst appearances in the tournament— Biinkmann's S C., Bramtoco SC.,
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    KEEN PLAY IN SEVENS RUGBY
    568 4 the fixtures in the seven-a-side rugby played on the S.C.C. padang yesterday, provided thrills and some fine play was seen. The best game of /the evening was between the Sappers and the R.A.F. which ended with the R.A.F. snatching victory by the only try scored
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    Sports Diary
    51 4 TO-DAY RUGBY S.C.C. seven -a side tournament. Padang, 4.30 p.m. North v. South, Kuaia Lumpur HOCKEY: Chinese v Malays Signals. Alexandra; Hornets v Mountain Battery, Farrer Park IR C 1 V RA f Malaya TENNIS: S.C.C. Chinese New Year Tourney, S.C.C; AH- 1 Malays' War Fund tourney Y.M.CA.
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    FINE RUGBY AT K.L. EXPECTED TO-DAY
    455 4 NORTH vs. SOUTH JHE beginning of the end oi the Malayan rugby season will be signalled this evening when the annual North versus South match is played at Kuala Lumpur for the second time since the series started. The absence of the "Malaya" :up
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    Inter-Unit Boxing Meet
    134 4 COME good boxing V the Police Deuot v M night when boxers nij tried conclusions w,/' 1 boxers draw from thr neers. Of the 11 fi won eight and ca honours. wied FEATHER-WKK.ii j Rec. Ahmad (P., b e Hamid (RJS.) Sapper Ghani inn i Tan Ban
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    SWIMMING MATCH AT PASIR PANJANG
    38 4 AN Sunday the firs! and y teams of the RJtF the respective team s 0 f Tht 5* Par Swimming team at wrU at the BtawtSr _The games will begin al n, ltr
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    FORMER PRISON STOREKEEPER FOUND GUILTY
    114 5 our <>wn Correspondent) Muar, Friday. ;i Hajl Sawall, former k epei and photographer thi Muar Prisons', was Inch? Abdul Hato Mustapha, First Mah urged with having criminal breach of icl of two casee of cl linseed oiL the Muar Prisons. Lumed trial to the art
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    20 5 untitled who has been British Adviser's Omce. eedlng t3 Malacca to M Smith as Police Magis- Collector of Land Re-
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    Plea To Lay Down Time Limit For British Pledge To India
    241 5 Statement By Sir M. Singh By Radio. T New Delhi, Jan. 23. £N an interview with the Editor of "Great Britain and the East," Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, has just made a further appeal
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    Sikh Watchman On Assault Charge
    112 5 Singapore, Friday. A YOUNG Sikh, Karta Singh, stood his trial in the Fifth Police Court, to-day. on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Loh Heng Kiat. a Hainanese cook, at Fv Court, on the night of Jan. 8. The ccmplainant alleged that the accused,
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    38 5 Mr. P. V. Ormiston, Agricultural Officer has been appointed to take the place of Raja Mahmud. Agricultural Officer for the Coast Districts of Selangor, who has br"n transferred to be in charge of the Inland Districts. Kuala Lumpur
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    Indragiri's Profit Of $195,679.56
    1102 5 Singapore, Friday. our desire is a fair price for the commodity and an honest return for capital invested, none of us would wish this object to be achieved as the sole result of a disastrous unheaval such as is now taking place in Europe and Africa.
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    Foodstuffs Prices Fixed
    112 5 MAXIMUM prices have been fixed for the sale of locally slaughtered meat, live ix>ultry, eggs, fresh, dried and salted fish, vegetables and curry stuffs in the Singapore markets in an Order made to-day by the Food Supply Officer. It is an offence for any person to demand,
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    36 5 Mr. L. M. Smart, General Manager of F.M.S. Railways and Mrs Smart have arrived in Sydney, after spending nearly four months in other parts of Australia. Mr. Smart expects to be back ln Malaya in April.
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    COOLIE'S FATAL SLIP
    159 5 Singapore, Friday. WHILE carrying a bag of nuts weighing about 200 katis at Teluk Ayer Street on Oct. 2G, a 58-year-old Chinese, Chua Bah Chee slipped and fell. He died at the General Hospital on Jan. 19 from septicaemia following fracture of the spine. A verdict of
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    INDIAN NEWS IN BRIEF
    220 5 By Radio. New Delhi, Jan. 23. SIR Andrew Clow, Member for Communications in the Vice roys Cabinet, to-day opened the Road Congress which was attended by doctors, school teachers, journalists, merchants, as well as by engineers frcm all over India. S'r Andrew briefly welcomed the delegates.
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    Opinion
    120 6 The Time Is Now JF the last meeting; of the Legislative Council did nothing else, it clearly exposed the need for an unofficial majority elected for regular terms of office by th e votes of the respective communities. Take the debate on war lotteries, for instance. The I Governor
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    Brake On Progress
    85 6 JHEKE are some who maintain that the country is not ripe for a drastic reform of this kind. That is mere talk inspired .by nothing else than a pachydermatous conservatism which is a brake on all real progress. It has been stated again and again, and no
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    Must Start Some Time
    164 6 THOSE who contend that the Colony of the Straits Settlements is not yet capable of governing itself in the orthodox democratic way are mere spell binders and time servers. If a country is to govern itself it must begin some time and the sooner it begins,
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    Self-Government
    98 6 REAL progress will never be made until the goal;of selfgovernment is attained. At the start there is bound to be not a little acrimony but no u ?*y evw learned to govern thlh es f sen c e u of the matter is EiL Start t0 *>e made some
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    A Public Duty
    88 6 JHE local Government cannot m*tf e Xpe ?M ed t0 move this S_2*i Untl L the P ubIic bestir themselves. Associations should make the wishes of their members felt by organising meetings and passing resolumanne? a Pr0PGr rthodox cii! 01 extrem ely rare oceans th a pub
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    The Man Who TIGHTENS THINGS UP For Britain
    193 6 jT is by no means just because the air service looms predominant in the present war that an Air Chief Marshal. Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, has been made Britain's Comman-der-in-Chief in the Far East. Sir Robert, who has arrived at Singapore, is one
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    Civil Post In Iraq
    279 6 IT was when Sir Robert was in 1 Iraq, as head of the Iraq Air Command in 1928. that the sudden passing of the High Commissioner caused him to step in the post in an acting capacity. This was his first service as a civil administrafußy
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    Germans Rounded Up
    168 6 UJITH the crisis of September, ff 1&38. Kenya hastily organised itself for the worst. This Sir Robert found a useful dress rehearsal, and when war actually broke out last year, comprehensive machinery of organisation was ready for action. The day war was declared, Sir Kobert rounded up
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    Keep Farms Going
    164 6 CIR Robert also had worked out V a scheme for keeping the £l m L£ n < mng the field s Producmg both for food and for export Si n whit a p dopted universal sss SiJ™f males registered and ipnoli as to P h y sic
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    Long Service In France
    189 6 CIR Robert reached France in the u World War on Aug. 12 T914 and left only in February,' 1919 in iJ2 11 15 England early when the P™sent Air Training agreement had been acRobert was sent out to SoutrT Africa on a similar mission as Liason
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    AIR CHIEF In AIR THRILL
    482 6 1 F A ™M ARK ABLE BRITAIN ON THE DAY TH/rr .Cavt. J. c. Kelly Rogers >h t > 35-year-old Irishman who flew on the first regular S%. in 1939 anH i rans 'Atlantic service ed Ca?JS? d H br S ught the rnaroonConnn in
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    League Of Nations Union Carries On
    227 6 \yiTH undimmed optimisrr the League of Nations Union are carrying on their propaganda. Latest posters declare: "The war is the result of letting down the League; an international authority is essential to lasting peace; return to peace must mean return to the League." To-day
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    The Beer Was Too Strong
    163 6 GAULEITER Joseph Buerckel, -Quat, square-jawed, fair haired ex-schoolmaster and Nazi nio(respons ble for terrorising Lorraine I Lorraine and the Saar, he is Smark ne region of W( c »J? Uer kel has no br ain, but twc heavj'lists. He achieves by oar ing those flsts
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    610 6 JHE more you read the r 1 Council speeches th feel that you are' School. You are bein B the sins and dangers ol of darkness, and that y< D jT ut€ r saved in spite of you You are made to reel guL ashamed of your
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    THAI DENIES PEACE TALKS
    495 7 GREAT AIR ACTIVITY Eastern News. Bangkok, Jan. 24. N official statement broadcast by the Bangkok radio last night emphatically denied the Vichy reports of peace negotiations by the French charge d'affaires M. Roger Garreau. The announcer said that the Thai Government could not understand the French
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    2 KILLED IN U.S. AIR CRASH
    29 7 Reuter. St. Louis, Jan. 24. TWO people were killed and 12 .njured when an airliner crashed near an airport here yest( rday morning.—Reuter.
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    Negus Enters Abyssinia— Sees Subjects
    56 7 Reuter. Khartoum, Jan. 24. VMPEROR. Haile Selassie has en- tered Abyssinia. He flew to the Sudan-Abyssinian border in an R.A.F. bomber, escorted by fighters. After reviewing the Abyssinian troops drawn up within the Abyssinian frontier, he continued into the interior of his kingdsni on a
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    More "Aussie" Airmen For Overseas
    99 7 Reuter. Melbourne, Jan. 24. The' number ot Australian air force squadrons serving overseas will be more than doubled in a few months, it is officially an r.ounced in Melbourne. "There will be doubling and redoubling of these squadrons in a comparatively short time." declared the
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    23 7 Reuter New Delhi, Jan. 24. THE grand total subscription of the all-India Defence Loans up to Jan. 18 was nearly 480,000,000 rupees. —Reuter.
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    Japanese Official Held For Dramatic Shanghai Shooting
    683 7 Shanghai, Jan. 24. JJELIABLE sources state that Japanese officials are considerably perturbed by what they describe as yesterday's highly regrettable incident when Mr. W. J. Keswick, a British subject and chairman of the Municipality, was shot at but not seriously wounded at a
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    BRITAIN MASTER IN MEDITERRANEAN
    289 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 24. THE Gothenburg Mytid states:— After the battle of Bardia and the quick offensive on Tobruk, there seems hardly any acute danger threatening the British dominion of the Mediterranean." "The Goteborgs Posten says:—•'The possibilities of the ItalianGerman tiger springing from 91--cilly to Africa,
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    Changes In Japan
    101 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, Jan. 24. PORMALLY opening the new Aus- tralian Legation, Sir John Latham, first Australian Minister to Japan, on Wednesday, in a press interview, declared he would do his utmost to improve relations between Japan and Australia. "I was a member of the Australian economic
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    ANTI-SEMITIC MEASURES IN BULGARIA
    68 7 Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 24. THE Bulgarian anti-Semitic measures have been reestablished in the Bulgarian official gazette, states a Sofia dispatch to the official German news agency. Jews are deprived of ihe franchise, forbidden to own agricultural land and there is a limitation on their participation in
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    Fire Damages Historic Dublin Castle
    89 7 Reuter. Dublin. Jan. 24. AFIRE, which is still raging, has caused considerable damage to 700-year old Dublin Castle which, until 1922, was t,he official residence of the Viceroy and the official centre of the Government. The famous Saint Patrick's hall and the State Rooms were
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    ATTACHE TO CHINA
    50 7 Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 24. THE new British military attache to China, Major-General Ernest Dennys, M.C., arrived at Chungking from Burma yesterday morning by air. He was greeted at the airfield by representatives of the British Embassy staff. Gen. Ho Ying-ching, the Chinese War Minister and other officials.—Reuter.
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      277 10 THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD WHARF DEPARTMENT Holidays—Chinese New Year's Day Monday, 27th January, 1941. NOTICE is hereby given that vessels alongside and working before 11 a.m. on Sunday, 26th January, 1941 will be worked after 11.15 ajn. on that day without extra charge provided they complete and sail before 6
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    808 11 Singapore. Jan. 24. Buyer*. Seller*. MINING. T'n <ss) 3!3 3|7% Malay <£> 35 JJfc Hltam (ss) 211- 221« a i H Tin l$D 136 139 Tin (ss) 18|- 191--fsil 514% slloi*cd 24'- 28|-xd I? 2516 0.79 0.82 'm '20 cts.) 0.29 0» 21- 213 i' fngiaU
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    Little Likelihood Of Inflation In U.S.
    627 11 "fHE country dreads an inflationary price movement, and there is no sound reason why such a movement should develop, in view of the abundance of raw materials, the idle labour and capital, and the technical resources that can be drawn upon to increase production,"
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    POLICE FIRE ON CROWD, 3 KILLED
    719 12 INQUEST STORY (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Friday. ]\|R. J. A. A. FAITH, the Seremban Magistrate, to-day held an inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of three Chines*?—Wong Choy, Wong Chan and Wong Long, who were shot when the police were forced to
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