Malaya Tribune, 29 January 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1941 FIVE CENTS The Malaya Tribune Wednesday, Janu»; 2.:. 1941.
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  • 670 1 Reuter. r„_ Belgrade, Jan. 29. HE Fascist police have had to tire on demonstrators in Trieste, according to people arriving in Belgrade from Italy, these accounts follow reports of rioting in Milan and Turin. A number of casualties
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  • 159 1 Reuter. IE London, Jan. 29. I/Mil N1 de Brinon, the 11 Vifhj Government's I representative in Paris, kas returned to Paris from I Armani with Hitkr's re|pl\ to a message sent to I him I M irshal F'etain last Iptnth, according to the \<v-~ radio. Marshal
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  • 234 1 Reuter. 1 ndan, Jan. 28. UNDERWRITERS have issued a B revised schedule of advisory iur-ri.sk rate*. The rates to and from the United Kingdom m unchanged ai 10 per cent., but there have been some substantial reductions in other journe\ >. tween India and. the Red
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  • 24 1 «.t rWtli 'an 29: A.R.P. orgaN.E.I, will be enr cent. This is esost •> JGu.OOO guilders. rganUed also in Pa**ma% and Banks
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  • 148 1 Belgrade, Jan. 29. ALL Rumanian passports must be stamped with a special visa j before their owners can leave the country, according to a decree issued by Gen. Antonescu. The oider includes diplomats. Presumably it aims at preventing the escane of persons wanted by the Government for
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  • 151 1 Reuter. Cairo, Jan. 29. A hli ;}m hasty 100-mile retreat into Eritrea from the frontier, there are signs that the Italians have 1 to offer resistance at Agordat, an important town Iway running to the Red Sea. toriseo forces and ta- meanwhileclosing In on the
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  • 94 1 Washington, Jan. 29. t\ the considered opinion of some of the best informed Americans in Washington, Germany will attempt to invade Britain in April or May, but Britain will beat off the attack with American help and go on to win the war. This
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  • 59 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 29. could defeat Germany with the aid which the United States would give under the Lease and Lend Bill, Gen. George Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, told a press conference yesterday. He added that all the in dilutions pointed to Hitler
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  • 105 1 Reuter. Bangkok, Jan. 29. DESPITE the official armistice which was due to take effect at 10 a.m. yesterday, fighting between Thailand and Frencn, Indochina continued all day yesterday. A Thai communique says that Japan has been Informed of this. According to the communique, the Thai forces duly
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  • 64 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29. ENEMY planes were in the vicinity oi two towns in western and south-west Eng'and and one was in South Wales for a brief period shortly after dark yesterday night but no incidents were reported. The rest of Britain was free from raiders
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  • 57 1 Reuter. Malta, Jan. 29. POUR were killed and nine woundT ed among R.A.F. personnel when enemy bombs were dropped yesterday morning, according to an official communique which mentions that ther* was some damage to Government property. It adds that there were no civilian casualties'
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  • 126 1 Reuter. a a Washington, Jan. 29. A \MbKICA is about to embark on a virtual economic warfare. According to a forecast in authoritative quarters in Washington, the United States will shortly establish control of all American and foreign trade under a scheme which is stated
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  • 105 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29. AN Admiralty communique ann nounces that the British sub marine Triton is overdue and must be considered lost. The next of kin have been informed. The Triton had a normal complement of 53. She was the first of the new type of patrol submarine
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  • 309 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 29. "JF this Bill does not pass Congress, the British cannot continue to fight/ the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his testimony on Tuesday on the Lease and Lend
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  • 37 1 Reuter. Basle, Jan. 29. THE calling of a conference of German Catholic Bishops next month has occasioned surprise, according to the Berlin correspondent of the National Zeirang. Hitherto, the episcopal conference was held annually —Reuter.
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  • 217 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29. GERMAN aircraft came in a steady trickle over the eastern and south-eastern counties of England yesterday (Tuesday), after leaving- London and most of Britain severely alone for eight consecutive nights and almost all the intervening hours of daylight. An Air Ministry communique issued
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  • 121 1 Reuter. London. Jan. 29. )'HE King, who is one of the busiest men in the war effort in Eritain, accompanied by the Queen had a long talk yesterday with Air Marshal W. Sholto Douglas, Coiimander-ir.-Cnief of the Fighter Command, about night fighters and the difficulties of
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  • 140 1 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 29. AFTER conferring with Mr. Sum- ner Welles lor nearly an hour yerterday, Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, told newsmen that he expected to take up with the State Department, in the immediate future, the question of exports to Russia which Britain belivves
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  • 34 1 SPANISH-GERMAN COMMUNICA TIONS Reuter. A Madrid, Jan. 29. LOCAL newspaper, quoting from a German newspaper, mentions the opening of direct rail communication between Spain and Germany via unoccupied Prance instead of via Switzerland. Reuter
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  • 28 1 Batavia, Jan. 29.—Sixteen thousand Javanese farmers and their families, involving about 70,000 persons, will emigrate this year tq Sumatra, Borneo and the Celebes with the help of Government.
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  • 28 1 Batavia. Jan. 29.—M. Douwes D?kker, the head of a native school in Bandoeng, has' been interned in connection with his writings which were hostile to the N.E.I, authorities.
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  • 296 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29. THE Greeks have smashed two 1 big Italian attacks in the central sector of the front according; to a Greek press ministry statement, broadcast by the Athens Radio last night. The first attack was broken up by well concentrated fire from
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  • 100 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 29. THE suppression of tne Commun--1 ist paper the Daily Worker was overwhelmingly endorsed by tha House of Commons yesterday after noon. At the conclusion of the debate, a substantive motion was carried by 297 votes to 11. Inter alia expressing the detestation
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  • 598 2 Johore Bahru, Tuesday. STRONG appeal to Government to disclose what passive defence measures it had in hand for the protection of the State, and to inform the police what they must expect in days of total warfare, and what the Government expected from them,
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  • 331 2 Johore Bahru, Tuesday. THE FACT that he had been 1 informed that heads of certain Government Departments in ihe towns had received from Johore Bahru "sealed orders" to be opened t-nly in time of emergency was referred to by Mr. D. G. A. Fraser at the
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  • 297 2 Johore Bahru, Tuesday. appeal to Government to reconsider its policy towards the growing of tapioca was made at the Johore State Council meeting to-day by Mr. Cheok Huan Cheong who stated that L~br P ro h fi e t. on,y loc&nm crop whkh Quoting a
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  • 78 2 Singapore, Tuesday. IK22 1 c nts from vari °«s Ite&A* thP M ?i ay y estcrda y celeX the Muslim New Year Ra o there h H an Iff Muslim at Vi ctoria Hall to under f celebration which was t222L the P at ronage of
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  • 10 2 News has been received in Kuala Lumpur of Dr. Hugo
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  • 13 2 Mr. G. W. Bryant. M.G.S. has been 14 C.B r w c Ti»vi.»r.
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  • 175 2 (rYom Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Monday. AT the outset of the annual general meeting of the Central Indian Association of Malaya held on Sunday, the following resolution, moved by Mr. N. Raghavan, president of the Association, was passed: "That this general meeting of the
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  • 75 2 Singapore, Tuesday. DLEADING guilty to a charge of I stealing one and a half gantangs of rice valued at 54 cents fiom the rice pool at the Empire Dock. Ibrahim Abdullah, a 30-year-old Tamil, was convicted by the third magistrate, Mr. J. G Rappoport. this
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  • 37 2 Messrs. P. S. Skinner. W. M. Curtts, P. M. Curtis, T Rodgers. C C Malett, S. W. Davis. C. H Burnle and W D Drennan have been appointed Junior Assistant Immigration Officers for the Settlement of Singapore
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  • 265 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Tuesday. THE only Muslim to be included in the recent New Year's honours list, Enche Abdul Hamid Khan bin Haji Sakhawat Ali Khan who is awarded the M.B.E. (military), was born on Nov. 1, 1900, at Tapah He was educated at the
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  • 58 2 Singapore, Tuesday DOBERT George Ellis, (50) ap--11 Reared before Mr. J. G. Rappopcrt. the third magistrate this rafrraing on a charge of using his identity card for an unlawful purrose at H.M. Naval Base on Jan He claimed triai and the case was postponed
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  • 21 2 .Total planes destroyed **m yesterday on/ a |j vjl up to midni-ht uS time.., i m^m TWELVB f
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  • 117 2 (From Our p. THE application of day was refu t K Tribunal yesterday i* Coope, the chaii it v/as a pec bunal's ground for »f»2f Ji that Mr. HaUid a] 4 withdrawn his tr>rjL2Pl exemption. Mr. Hallida. mo MalakofT Estate and the Hon C OT told
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  • 30 2 Mr. J. T. untitled Payne and th. Settlement,, have b*e n r -wmM bers of the B M Singapore constH Clerks Examinati n L^fl See 11 the a s &a
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  • 6 2 Mr. G. W. untitled a« SJfl
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  • 232 3 m a xrxr (Tribune Staff Reporter) jyjANY applications have already been received by the bmgapore Municipality for the erection of attap houses on land specially allotted for the purpose in Alexandra Road. The scheme to let out plots of land for the erection
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  • 125 3 Our Own Reporter) Srremban, Monday. I uK fu-vtire W. K. Home sentencM i irird'al Singh to death on .1 charge of njurdei of Inder SS h son of Suba Singh, at Khanc Road, Seremban. y gh %as charged tou s lather. Inder Singh, both del ended
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  • 61 3 Singapore, Wednesday. Shave I -en victims of a incident, a Chinese, his n and his 16-year-i-m-law, were removed ml Hospital from the 17th mil( Lim Chu Kang Road, late last night. had wounds on the neck, hands and legs, the ben !.ad wounds on the face
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  • 40 3 Reuter. New York, Jan. 28. THE Columbia Broadcasting Systems Berne correspondent quotes Balkan reports that 100 people were arrested at Milan after the recent demonstrations. If states that anti-Fascist leaflets were distributed in Milan on Saturday —Reuter.
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  • 54 3 Mr. and Mrs. Tan Chi Lam, who were married recently at the Ec Hoe Hean Club, Singapore. The bridegroom is a son oi the late Mr. and Mrs. Tan Wi Van, and the bride is a daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Khoo Kay Hian. Dr. Lim Boon Keng
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  • 108 3 (From H. L. Hopkin) London, Jan. 29. MISS AVNE BROOKE, niece of the Rajah of Sarawak and the third daughter of Mr. Bertram Brooke, is marrying Mr. Arthur Bryant '41) to-day. Mr. Bryant is tre eminent historian and author. He succeeded the late
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  • 52 3 His Excellency the Governor, Sir Stanton Thomas, accompanied by Lady Thomas, and attended by the Aide-de-Camp and the Private Secretary, left Singapore by the night mail yesterday for Kuala Lumpur. The party will return to Singapore by the night mail leaving Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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  • 37 3 Singapore, Wednesday. SAID to have taken a solution of caustic soda, a Chinese woman was conveyed to the General Hospital by the ambulance early this morning from a house in Telok Ayer "Street.
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  • 22 3 Mr. E. N. Taylor has been appointed under the Bankruptcy Ordinance Official Assignee for the Settlements of Singapore, Penang. Malacca and I.abuan.
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  • 786 3 a very real friend of Singapore, I am naturally >cry glad to speak about our English ways and doings here. I hope 1 will not be thought biased if I say that the English who have to live in Singapore are lucky, because
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  • 186 3 Hongkong. JAPAN and the Nanking regimes are still making efforts to induce the Central Authorities in Chungking to accept peace terms, as the Japanese army sees no prospects of bringing an early end of the "China incident" by force. What are the overtures is
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  • 50 3 An important notice by the Registrar of Imports and Exports, S.S., to shipping agents, Chambers of Commerce, etc., appears on page 10 of this issue. It relates to the requirement, as from Feb. l, that a duplicate copy of an Import declaration be furnished to the Registrar. 1
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  • 326 3 Johore Bahru, Tuesday. TWO new members of the Johore SUte Council took their seats for the first time when the Council met to-day. They were the Hon. Mr. A. L. Birse and the Hon. Y. M. Syed Alwi bin Tahir AlHaddad. The Council was presided ever
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  • 46 3 THE Child Welfare Society of Singapore wishes' to inform those friends who have received invitations to attend the opening of the new premises at N3W Market Road that the ceremony has had to be postponed unavoidably till Friday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m.
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    • 382 3 'i j litrlc thing rubbing the eyes yet jt > a definite sign that all is not well. Eyes that are thoroughly healthy and happy J JF 9 Jon t need rubbing. Even spectacle wearers e«fl JHjgK re pie who think that they are taking «tra care of their eyes
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  • 800 4 Yadi Wins Malays 9 Title JJAIN, which int erf erred with both the holiday tennis tournaments played in Singapore was indirectly responsible when, owing to lack of time, one doubles final of 'the S.C.C. tournament, had to be abandoned, but the club overcame the
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  • 99 4 ONE of the best hockey matches of the season should be played to-morrow j when the Rest meet the j Europeans in the annual game. Selectors have made I their choice for the two sides and the teams will be: EUROPEANS: Gilb- Hawkin, McMillen; Peel, Cronin, Kellett, Evans,
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  • 165 4 J*HE Singapore Indian Association won the Katyal Cup for tennis from the Selangor Indian Association yesterday. I>ut only after a very close i«ht Selangor actually losing by a single tie. Singapore won eight of the 15 ties played. To-day's tennis' ties resulted as
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  • 286 4 Indian Army 2 Combined Indian Assns. 0 fAST and interest,,* hockey W>, served up on the Indian Association ground at Balestier Plain yestenlav when the Combined Indian Associations clashed with the Indian Army The game resulted in win for the Indian Army
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  • 187 4 Colls Tourney Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 28. U/ITfl a three-one victory by the F.M.S. over the Colony at hockey on the V.M.C.A. ground fyis evening, the Golts' inter-State hockey tournament was brought to a successful close. v o Wpf Proving great opportunists and displaying better
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  • 594 4 PLAYING a very fast game the S.C.C. "A" securedT smashing victory over the Kallang "B" in the seven-a-side rugby tournament on the Padang yesterday, winning by 19 points (three tries and two goals) to nil. me Fortress R.E. "A" won by the
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  • 66 4 Two {.ames are .scheduled for to-nigh; in the S.C.C. sevcn-a-Mdc -ueoy tournament. The S.C.C. A meet Sembawang A and the Heavy Ac-Ac Battery play the Loyp.'s a To-mcircw will see the seminnala and the final. The winners •»i S.C.C.-Seinbawang game to-night meet the R.E. Fortress Co.
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  • 450 4 G.S.C 3 X.1,., p. JJISPLAYING all round superiority the Girl feated the Kuala Lumpur Posts and Tel i three goals to nil, when they met on the i > yesterday. The game was marred to a muddy ground. Xt J
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  • 19 4 TO-DAI HOCKEY: Ceytonc Balestier; Chii bads S.C.C C SC C rfS SR C RUGBY: S.C.( tournament. Padang
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 269 5 NEW WARDS BUILT AT T. RAMBUTTAN (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Tuesday. A STEADY increase over several years in the number of patients at the Central Mental Hospital, Tanjong I ta J' which resulted in congestion, provided the Medical Department with the problem of
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  • 11 5 Mr. R. Ackrill has been appointed Assistant Superintendent of Police. Penang.
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  • 194 5 Our Own Reporter) lYnang. Tuesday. SI officials, lawyers |j crs »>f various comnded the wedding of l> Hushes, the Penang >,r |U .1 and Miss M.C.C.C. r, Malayan Nursing f nt attached to the T f Hospital, which took ianch of St. George put t H.
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  • 138 5 .4 in the number of Chinese students going to r i ies for advanced study since the outbreak of been reported by the World's Chinese ration in Shanghai. Though by no means complete, the federation has on its record only 487 scholars* at the time
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  • 42 5 (From H. L. Hopkin) London, Jan. 28. THE Rev. H. S. Fox, the Rector of Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, has been granted a decree nisi on the ground of his wife's desertion. They have four children.—Via Cable and Wireless.
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  • 217 5 (From Our Own Reporter Penang-, Tuesday. "IT is not a comforting i thought to realize that 1 the whole of the justice of i Penang when it comes to administering to Punjabis is going to revolve around this young inexperienced man. If an enemy were
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  • 71 5 Singapore, Tuesday. GEORGE O'Connor (34» was charged before Mr. J. G. Rap poport ihe third magistrate, with using indecent and threatening language to Staff Captain Woolatt In a ship at the Naval Base on the afternoon of Jan. 27. O'Connor was also alleged to have
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  • 21 5 Mr. E. J. Phillips has been appointed under the Civil Marriage Ordinance a Registrar of Marriages for the Settlement of Singapore.
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  • 457 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. MR. A. K. Sen. advocate and solicitor, Kuala Lumpur, who was on a professional visit to Kuantan In connection with the Special Assizes held at Kuantan on Jan. 20. paid an official visit to the Indian Association. Kuantan,
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  • 458 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Tuesday. Penang Tribunal, consisting of Mr. A. E. Coope, the chairman, Mr. J. A. Black, M.C.S., and Mr. E. V. C. Thompson, unanimously granted exemption from training to three European officers attached to the Customs Department, when they sat in the
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  • 180 5 Singapore, Tuesday. THE death took place to-day of Mrs. Julia Cecilia Cordeiro, at the age of 83. Her husband died seven months ago. She leaves one of whom is the Rev. Father Lionel Corueiro I of Batu Gajah, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The funeral,
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  • 200 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Tuesday. THE funeral of the Rev. Brother 1 Hubert O'Leary, who died at tho General Hospital yesterday morning, took place at fiv e o'clock in tho afternoon. The remains were buned in the Brothers' Plot in the Western Road Cemetery.
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  • 132 6 The Indian Issue A V rm r the forthrightness of Mr. Edwin Harvard's talk on India, broadcast from Singapore Station on Monday night, is in refreshing contrast to the vagueness and obscurity j of most of the recent statements on India, emanating from India itself and Whitehall, we cannot
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  • 161 6 JHOUGH it is possible that Mr. Haward intended his talk to bo somewhat in the nature of a prologue to the Indian problem, his wide experience of Indian affairs (he was lor several years Editor of the "Pioneer" of Allahabad) would have justified his attempting to face
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  • 199 6 fjr me various grievances of Indian labour to which Mr. fs. Raghavan drew attention m his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Central Indian Association of Malaya held in Kuala Lumpur last week none stands in need of more urgent attention than the rubber planters'
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  • 92 6 jucal, Governments and most commercial firms have re Minted the need to g ive special war-time allowance! to their employees. Mr. K«h2 for" fun*™"! at tor full production and the re b suT coe of 0f th UrP r U s. labour as result of the Indian ban
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  • 1422 6 5,000,000 Square Miles Of I/ERY few Australians are aware f that Australia possess territory --inclusive of her continent that aggregates two-fifths of the entire British Empire and which is actually larger than the great French Colonial possessions. The Commonwealth embraces an area of approximately three million square miles.
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  • 22 6 QOWS will have ration coupons nil eedhS"«f& distri butin s aniIt proposes to divide livestock lations according to the G„v„n
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  • 399 6 yHE highest circles in Washington are more concerned over totalitarian France and Petain's capitulation to Hitler than they are over the Axis in the Mediterranean. Mr Matthews, American Charge d'Affaires in Vichy, has neve r been able to obtain any details of th e French concessions to
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  • 201 6 A MONC the Pil„t-Officer s under training at a Royal Air Force F| yintr Schoof are two young Australians who have seen jce as n o Janan China "nd »lZ£2 have both had some excx P One who n g eace tmie was a schoolmaster !itie
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  • 516 6 COME time ago I column that a able and suitable for office workequestion was recen h before the c, Straits Settle] Association uih gested that m< ness staffs should be open shirts and Though the that dress refor withinthe.se;, those interested the matter drop the health and
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  • 426 7 Truce Prospects Jeopardised Bangkok, Jan. 28. K prospects of a truce agreement and cessation of hostilities seem jeopardised if the SecretaryU vvrA of Indo-China is correctly reported as saying lighting will only end if Thai forces are withdrawn lately from Inlo-C.hina. Reuter learns in
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  • 37 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 28. UP to a late hour, London had no air alert. This is the capital's eighth successive raid-free night. No raids were reported in any other parts of the country.—Reuter.
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  • 290 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 28. NI V» plunder" in Europe is Holland's version of the new order, according to Dut< h s(»urces in London. The itation of the Netherlands vinte the invasion has resu led in ?reat poverty and the people are now forced, it stated,
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  • 18 7 untitled Trek has been re-untitled ntinated Unofficial Member lative Council of the Straits in rod of three years.
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  • 34 7 Vegetables are an important item in the Army's food, and these pictures show soldiers unloading large quantities of freshly picked Brussels sprout- at a Command supply depot in the West Country
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  • 229 7 Reuter. Washington. Jan. 28. j*HE British Government has no secret treaties for territorial distribution after the war, Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador, told a press conference here yesterday. Questioned regarding the British war aims, Lord Halifax said:—"l may have the opportunity soon of saying
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  • 118 7 Reuter. Berlin. Jan. 28. THE responsibility of Ministers and high officials to the head of the state in unoccupied Franc? is* fixed by an act of constitution issued by Marshal Petain, according to a Vichy message to the German cfficial news agency. The new act has extensively
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  • 127 7 Reuter. Rio de Janeiro. Jan. 28. DRESIDENT Vargas to-day signed two decrees concerning Brazil's policy towards belligerent and neutral nations. By the first decree no belligerent is permitted to maintain wireless transmitters and receivers in Brazil. No vessels are permitted to use their wireless in Brazilian territorial
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  • 73 7 Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 29. A GERMAN merchant ship abou'i 3,000 tons which, it is stated, had been sailing the Atlantic, has been grounded on the island ot Ons near Vigo during a storm. The vessel's name is not stated. With the assistance of a
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  • 303 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 28. DEBATE was held this afternoon on the resignation of Mr. Robert Boothby, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary for Food, following an inquiry by a select committee into his conduct in connection with Czech assets. Mr. Boothby made a long statement declaring that his activities had
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  • 113 7 Reuter. (From Reuters special correspondent on the Albanian Frontier/ TOUNTER-ATTACKS by ihe Greeks in the extreme north sector have resulted in the capture of heights of great strategic importance among the environs and villages of Maline Hondishte with violent fighting. The Greeks are Standing up to the
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  • 89 7 Reuter. New Delhi, Jan. 28. THE need to concentrate on whining the war should not *tand in the way of a peaceful preparation to meet the new conditions that will come with peace, said Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar, n member of the Government of India,
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  • 254 7 Reuter. (By Reuters special correspondent with the British Army in Libya) London, Jan. 28. JN a utility van, I am following the British advance forces towards Derna, which is the next "port of call" for General Wavell's army. At the present moment, we are nearly
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    • 196 8 I THE GREAI EASTERN OPTICAL CO., Manufacturing OpU< tens tttamished in 1928 Optician C. Y. PAN IV Quality superior Workmanship guaranteed Charges Moderate. Testing free. GLASSES FROM #4 UPWARDS CROOKES I The Management of the HAPPY WORLD Extend Greetings for A HAPPY XEW YEAR to Our Chinese Patrons and an
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    • 124 8 I WISHING ALL OUR CHINESE PATRONS A HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Spectacular Attraction Await you AT THE 1 NEW WORLD (YOUR BEST AMUSEMENT CENTRE) TO-DAY and TO-MORROW Specia I Display Of FIRE WO 11 itS AT THE ISOYI\4, AHEM And Numerous Other Free Side Shows. Come, bring your family
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  • 276 9 Moscow. fAPAN ia facing a serious crisis both economically and politically and the present Konoye-Hiranuma coalition ia only a temporary expedient and is not likely to last long, said the Red Star, the Soviet Army organ, in a lengthy article reviewing the present international situation. In
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  • 459 9 fEN incendiaries a head was the fire-fighting record of a southeastern hamlet recently, when LOO men, women and girls put out 1.000 blazing bombs. Their hamlet ta bo small that Ihe gazetteer describes it only as a locality, credits it with "p »>.," but
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  • 121 9 liOnrlon, Jan 23. THE cordial co-operation of British employers and workers in speeding up the war effort is shown by the announcement that, th? Minis'cer of Labour, Mr. Ernest Bevin, will meet in joint confer one? to-morrow representatives of the British Employers Corporation and the Trade
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  • 361 9 N BWB leaking ou, of H aly reveals t g, ltim spreadi X rap.dl> in he Army a „d among the civilian population. aourwea oj wnony reliable of oil and other raw materials lack ol* many foods has become Kalian "victories," even of the widespread
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  • 42 9 Messrs A.untitled Rovd and F. C. Cox have been appointed under the Compulsory Serviro (Volunteer Enprtm*nt members ol the l,oc<ti Tribunal for thr Olstrlctb of Jolnre Bharu Kota Tingr' Pontlan and Kluang. vice Messrs H V II Patf and R CJ. Rodtn
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  • 42 9 Mr. R. untitled Farrer. C. M. G. has been iippointrri under the Compulsory Servlrp (uOC»l f\>rc> Ordnance th" Propc-i- Authority lor tbe Settlement of Sinßaponfor thr purpoaa of th« foresaid ordinance la plaoi ol Mr. If. V Dpi Tuio m c s
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  • 58 9 DEATH D R( i/.ARIO; On 28fcJi January 1941, at 320. .loo Chiat Road,' Shigapore, W i 11 i a m Willie> r* Rozario, 38 years. The funeral c rtepe will leave his residence i't 4 45 pm. to-day for the Church of St. Joseph. Victoria street, and thence
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  • 39 9 The family of th/o i ate Mr John Pobert. Jonathjfi v.isli to express their heartfelt, thanks to all n latives and fHends who attendrd thr funeraV as well as those who sent. wrenfJis, telegrams and letters of condolence.
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    • 165 9 LATEST ADVE RTISEMENT Bargain Lounge suite, diningroom suite and bedroom suite. Must sell immediately. 'Phone HAPPY Theatre (GLYLANG) "PRINCESS KAMONING r ~m t j General Screening Commencing From Friday, 3M January, 194] If!!!! 1 HUBBUCKS PALE BOILED LINSEED OIL Hubbuck'i Pale Bo.led Linseed Oil is rmde especially for Hot Climate
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    • 266 9 pavilion! to day at 6.15 9.15 f C RIME and COMEDY? CROWDED HOUSES WERE I ENTHUSIASTIC WITH THISe UP -TO THE MINUTE THRILLER I pRT MUYLMINff U VAtfRIE HOJSO^ Hi 4 /TS &4{/CY7 fFS EXCITING! I /r:V rWj? /TS MYSTERIOUS! ITS the BIG BRITISH HIT! NEXT CHANCE brand new copy/
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    • 728 10 tinssif np-nonaaSigi Situations Vacant agents, salesmen, salesgirls for saleable perfumeries. Apply Manufacturer 274, Jalan Besar. Singapore. (No. 283Q) WANTED BY IMPORTER—Salesman with knowledge of essential oil* and oil products. Apply Box No 104 Malaya Tribune, Singapore. (No. 280G) 1 m TEACHERS, either sex. Senior with oral. Apply Clive Institution. Rawang
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    • 730 10 Financial WANTED; $3,000,'- for a very sound and profitable proposition. Apply Box 103, Malaya Tribune. Singapore. (No. 286 a i Property For Sale FOR SALE building site, sandy ground about 8.000 sq. ft. eacb lot, freehold, price cheap. Apply 523, Balestler Road, Singapore. (No. 2530) FOR SALE new bungalow. 2
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    • 620 10 Vegetable Seeds SEEDS:— Reliable, germination-guaran-teed, flower, vegetable and graas seeds at 15 cts. per good-sized packet. Write foz full lists from Po Gardens, Ipoh. (No. 854G) Lost And Found LOST 3 boxes of ladles' wearing apparel between Raub and K.K. Bahru on 14th Jan. 41 $50|- will be awarded to
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    • 665 10 THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS NO. 64, CHULIA STREET, PHONE NO. 7755. General Auctioneers, Commlssior Agents, Etc., Etc. The Organisatior For Prompt, Courteous to Efficient Services. ■iiiiuiiiiiiiiiii NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given by J. N Dadlani, Sole proprietor of Dadlani's modern silk store," 43, Station Road, Ipoh, that he has sold the
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    • 659 10 BY ORDER OP THE CONTROLLER OF RESTRICTED IMPORTS, S.S. AUCTION SALE Comprising:—Dhobies' water blow3rs, playing cards, cigarette papers, sharks' fins, brass taps, oil paintings, dolls, glass birds and animals, jade trees, brooches, cloth umbrellas, Chinese tea in metal canisters, leather wallets and purses, Chinese medicines, GINSENG, Child's rompers, Silk komonos
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    • 123 10 EX-SERVICES ASSOCIATION OF MALAYA (Singapore Branch) The Annual General Meeting of the above will be held in the Cardroom of the Singapore Cricket Club at 6.15 p.m. on Friday, 31st January, 1941. All members are earnestly requested to attend. ?HE FINEST FRUIT IN MALAYA: "PENANG RAMBTJTAN." V ]M THE MALAYAN
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    • 117 10 I Jl ST AREIVH Amateur Photo Store 109 North Bridge R*g* Meyer Mansion. I*l pi l i 5 GUARANTEED tWf WITHOUT OPEBAIW Piles U a dan disease. Early treat is advisable. Messrs. Lav and Lav Pinp Usiang many years in a very of this disease. Fees will be refu: is
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    • 916 10 TO-DAY'S R AIHoj SINGAPORE LONDON CENTRAL TRAvCmt ZHL 225 m. 1333 *|cs. GSG—I6.B6 metres 7m S,0l ZHP.I. 30.96 m. 9.69 mcs p.m. GSF—I9.B2 U*t&?,£*l r o7> ZUP-3. 41.38 m. 7.25 mjc*. 9.05 p.m. GSD—2S ,3 J., 14 ZHL. ZHPI ZHP3. from 7.50 p.m. GSB— m Wies) from 9.20 p. m
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  • 253 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 28. AMPLE evidence" that the Soviets are exporting Russian to Germany and replacing them by goods import- the United States was cited by Mr. Hugh Dalton Economic Warfare, in the House of Commons today- was asked whet.antities of American other
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  • 62 11 Bntavia Jan. 29: During November, the amount of deposits in the N.E.I. Post Office Savings Bank increased by 585,000 guilders. Fifteen thousand depositors handed the annual interest due tc them for the purpose of strengthening the N.E.I, military defences. The donations amounted to WO.OOO guilders
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  • 207 11 Cricket THE Selangor Indian Association won the three-day cricket match against the Singapore Indian Association by six wickets yesterday and thus retain the silver cup presented by "The Indian" for the fourth successive year. With 45 runs to win, Lall Singh, the Selangor player, continued his overnight
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  • 90 11 AT water polo, yesterday, the Loyals, playing at Gillman Barracks, beat the Singapore Swimming Club by five goals to three. The Loyals' second team lost to the S.S.C. by three goals to one. Bradley was prominent for the Lovals. Playing at the Haw Par Swimming Pool on Sunday,
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  • 318 11  -  Good U.S. Consumer Demand For Tin (By Reuter London, Jan. 28. TLN opened firm. The turnover was 150 tons. The good American consumer buying, reported to be of 400 tons mainly of "afloat" tin due to the Far Eastern situation, caused a London rise, which was aided by
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  • 16 11 The resignation of his commission in the S.S.V.F. by Second-Lieut. G. A. Machado has been accepted.
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  • 222 11 Singapore, Jan. £9. 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. 214 I|l6 London demand 2 4 116 Switzerland demand (T.T. only) 202 y 2 New York demand 47 3|32 Montreal demand
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  • 44 11 Reuter. Cape Town, Jan. 29. THE South African Government has agreed to accommodate 20.000 Italian prisoners captured in the Western Desert in order to spare \ae ships whinh wuld >;e needed to convey them to India. The British Government is paying fcl] the costs.—Reuter.
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  • 186 11 Singapore, Wednesday. THERE is very little of note in the tin share market this morning, where, at opening, all quotations are unchanged from those of Saturday. There is a small inquiry for Takuapas at the lower prices now obtaining, and there are unsatisfied buyers of Kuala Kampars
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  • 39 11 Batavia. Jan. 29.—The 60 Dutch aviation cadets, who escaped from Holland to Britain were trained in the N.E.I. Hundreds of Dutch and Indonesian ycuths were trained with the Army and Navy Air Arm owing to the lack of instructors.
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  • 27 11 The Hon. Dato Sir David Galloway. S.P.M.J Kt. Bach., has been re-ap-pointed a Member of the Executive Council of Johore for a further period of one year.
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  • 26 11 Singapore, Wednesday. I Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon to- S day were:— RUBBER Buyers 36",, Sellers 37. TIN $183%, unchanged.
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    • 103 11 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INPIA (TRUSTEES) LIMITED Guaranteed and Controlled by THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. The Company, which is incorporated in the S.S. and registered as a Trust Company, undertakes the trustee of a WILL ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON, TRUSTEE OF A SETTLEMENT OR DECLARATION OF
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    • 319 11 KI-AGAROIL AN IDEAL LAXATIVE FOR Habitual Constipation Palatable like Ice-cream. From all Chemists Stores. Agents: THE MEDICAL HALL, SEREMBAN. NOW WE GIVE YOU \2 INSERTIONS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE 6 in the Malaya TRIBUNE 6 in the Morning TRIBUNE The Small Advertisement Page of the Malaya Tribune Is Read
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    • 278 11 STEAMER SAILINGS BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES For all information apply to: P. O. S. N. Co., The Agent, Collyer Quay, Tel. 5961. 8.1.5. N. CO., BOI'STHAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, MOJI. KOBE, OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special Holiday
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    • 361 11 BRITISH INDIA The best poss?blo services are being maintained by The P. 0. S. N. Coy. from the Straits to their usual ports of call in China India Ceylon and the United Kingdom. Passeng ers are requested to register their requirements birl under present circumstance! sailings are perforce res tricted.
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  • 356 12 London, Jan. 28. COMMENTING on the six nights 1 of freedom of the capital from visitations by Nazi aircraft, the evening newspaper Star says that Britain may be certain that the lull in the night bombing was the enemy's strategic decision. "Several explanations are being
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  • 36 12 Mr. G. W. Bryant M.C.S. has been appointed under the Compulsory Service Local Forces. Ordinance a memo*- of the local tribunal for the Settlement of Malacca in place of the Hon Mr W S Ebden. M.C.S
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  • 145 12 Reuter. Bucharest, Jan. 28. pi MAM will march withcut hesitation on the side of the "great Fuehrer and the Dnce," General Antonescu, the Rumanian dictator declared in a statement on his new cabinet to-day. He said, "The Government I have set up has the sole
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  • 71 12 Reuter. Cape Town, Jan. 28. officers and native troops J frcm the Congo will fight sideby side with Britain in the Sudan said M. Dcvi Belgian Minister for the Colonies yesterday. He is paying a visit to South Africa. Other troops from the Belgian he said, would follow
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  • 208 12 Reuter. ROME, JAN. 28. BOTTAI, MINISTER OF NATIONAL EDUCATION AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF FASCISM AND LEADERS OF THE MARCH ON ROME, IS THE LATEST MINISTER TO FOLLOW CIANO TO THE FRONT, IT IS ANNOUNCED IN ROME THIS MORNING. With him goes Gorla. who
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  • 94 12 QUIETLY celebrated at the Tanglin Garrison Church yesterday afternoon was the marriage of Miss E. Marsh and L/Cpl J. Fraser, R. E. The Rev. Headley officiated at the ceremony, and Mr. Riley ious ihe best man. The bride, zvho was given away by Lt. Colonel Mead, R.E., chose
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  • 287 12  -  (By Gordon Young Renter's special correspondent) Reuter. Cairo. Jan. 29. the British Imperial forces were carrying all before them in their drive along the Libyan coast. Free French trocps, it is learned, carried out a daring and successful raid on a strategically important group
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  • 9 12 The Hon. Mr. B. J. R. Barton has been
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  • 20 12 Commissions as Second-Lieutenants in nii «V P ye be en granted tn Mr L and Mr. J, E Miliar M
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  • 8 12 The promotion of second-Lieut H. G. tenant rank
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  • 260 12 Reuter. TM London, Jan. 28. jiN Eritrea, British forces are driving the enemy towards the sea and closing in on Agordat but the town has not vet been taken, it is learned authoritatively in London to-day In the Eritrea sector, the bulk of the trooos are
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  • 340 12 Reuter. London, i, jy|R. Wendell Wilikie again had a busy day St. Paul's in the morning, he had a long tall Montagu Norman at the Bank of England during of the clay. The second alert sounded while Mr v the House of Commons, where he
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  • 80 12 Reuter. Calcutta, Jan. 27. SUBHAS Chandra Bose, wellknown Congress leftist leader, is missing. Nothing has been heard of him since Sunday when he left his bedroom where he had been confined through ill health since his release from detention on Dec. 5. His relatives are anxious. Bose, who
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  • 84 12 Reuter. THE liner Ztr .t is pointed taX» .tUc* The S.O.S. said to h.« iron, the ship .utedl*?JLS Dakar 0 S me 2UO This would m a an thai h. British port would't 'S she wafsafe 116 suggested the Germany most probably anxious to fee! the whereabouts
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