Malaya Tribune, 5 February 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed J6,000 Daily SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Wednesday, February 5, 1941.
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  • 353 1 Reuter. (By Gordon Young, Reuters special correspondent, ni British headquarters in the Middle East) Cairo, Feb. 5. RIVING west along the coast from Derna, the British and Imperial forces have captured the town of Cyrene, about 50 miles west of Derna,
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  • 188 1 Reuter. Cairo, Feb. 5. R.A.F. bomber and fighter aircraft continued to attack enemy lines of communication on all fronts, states a communique from R.A.F. headquarters in the Middle East. The communique states that In Libya. R.A.F. bombers raided Berka aerodrome and Benghazi on Monday night,
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  • 181 1 Reuter. Cairo. F?b. 5. m lation of Cyrene by for--1 ts of British forces s announced In a comaling with the Libyan ..unties in Eritrea, the says that the Italian jm Agordat continues*, ps are nearing Keren, irentu, our troops are nemy in a southerly
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  • 58 1 Reuter. Nairobi, Feb. 5. iIGN of terrorism it? being n icted ii southern Abyssinia. Abyssinian patriots g j Kenya in tors tor fresh supplies ..ti ammunition. say that Italian given a free hand have been murdered st?aling stock, cvi s are reported v, that as the Italians
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  • 43 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. i flftcers and men Of c Thunderbolt, fortis, for courage, skill announced in the recall! the recent an Italian submarine, uch has been given Lieut. Stevens while a number ceive Distinguished r are mentioned Reuter.
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  • 78 1 Reuter. Basle, Feb. 5. OASTOR Martin Niemoeller, the P German Protestant pastor, who b.clme famous for resting; the Ki7i conception of the state in relation°?o religion and who w now in a concentration camp, has pc a Roman Catholic according Berlin correspondent cf the N newSs&
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  • 171 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. pOLLOWING reports of flooding and wintry weather in Hungary, there are accounts of heavy snowfalls in France and floods caused by the overflowing of the Tiber in Italy. Traffic has been dislocated by th. snow in the Paris district, and telegraph
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  • 196 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. THE military eoiresponcent of Ihe Dagens Nyheter states th:»i there is no doubt that fluctuations have occurred in the German schemes. It is not improbable that the invasion attempt planned was to rave been made s<>me time ago but abandoned. It
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  • 41 1 Reuter. Washington, Feb. 5. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has placed oil well refining machinery, radium, uranium, calf skins and kid skins under the export licensing system in connection with the national defence programme as from Monday next.—Reuter.
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  • 103 1 London. Feb. 5. ON the recommendation of General Wavell. Acting Brigadier A. R. Chater (Royal Marines) has been appointed a Companion of the Order o< Bath, in recognition of his distinguished services* in defending Eritish Somaliland.—Reuter. Brigadier Chater, now in command of the British Forces
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  • 104 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 4. APPARENTLY the Indian Reserve Bank continues to buy moderate gold offers in the Bombay Bullion Market on the Bank of England's behalf In order firstly, to decentralise and second ly. to acquire all tho available gold for eventual sale to the United States.
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  • 20 1 Reuter. Calcutta. Feb. 5. TWO Italian prisoners of war have cseaoed from a detention cam]) in Ram°iarh. Both are offlgtsrs.—Renter.
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  • 397 1 Reuter London, Feb. 5. YESTERDAY'S "bag" of four German aircraft brings the total number of enemy planes shot down in raids on this country since the beginning of this year to 30. One British plane was lost. Five German machines have been
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  • 294 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. WARNING to France not to place her hopes in a British victory was broadcast in French by the German radio station at Stuttgart last night. The speaker said that such an attitude showed "unexcusable frivolity bordering on high treason." He
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  • 48 1 Reuter. Berlin, Feb. 5. M ROGER LANGERON, Paris police prefect, has been disj missed from his post and is held under detention, according to a ieport described as cominer "from reliable quarters" to the German official news agency. M. Langeron was appointed in 1914.- -Reuter.
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  • 277 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. IMMEDIATELY after returning from bis lightning trip to Eire, Mr. Wendell Wilikie had tea with the King and Queen. Mr. Wilikie told Reuter that he had three h< hits' conversation with Mr. Eamon de Vaiera. yesterday, during one of which he was
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  • 52 1 Japanese Land Near Hongkong Reuter. Shanghai, Feb. 5. yyiTH the support of warships, Japanese troops landed in south Kwangtung, northeastward of Hongkong, early this morning with the object of cutting off the Chungking arms supply route running northward from Shayuchung, thirty miles nOrth-east of Hongkong, according to a
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  • 419 2 No Serious Complaints Now, Says Official Report (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. WO complaints of special significance were made either during inspections or at Labour Offices or Protectorates. It was evident, however, that the mo ern n dian labourer knows his rights and
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  • 221 2 Singapore, Tuesday. THE armed robbery case which, on Monday, was postponed to enable a defence witness to give his evidence, was continued to-day at the Assizes before Mr. Justice Gordon Smith and a common jury. In this case, a milk-seller, Rajbali Rai. is alleged to have
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  • 83 2 Singapore. Tuesday. BECAUSE he shouted an alarm to warn gamblers in a house in Sago Street, when Inspector Cheah Teng Cheok was about to conduct a raid on the place. Chan Chew, who pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing In the arrest of other
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  • 450 2 Singapore, Tuesday. THAT, although he had neither money nor a job. he was willing to furnish a house by borrowing money and support his wife and four children, was the plea of Joseph Elias before Mr. Conrad Oldham, the Second Magistrate, when he
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  • 86 2 WAR Savings Certificates in Malaya are now bringing in money for the war at the rate of more than SBOO.OOO a month. The latest total is $3,173,580, which shows an advance of $834,610 over the total of a month ago. The rapid rise in the monthly
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  • 235 2 Singapore. Tuesday. SENTENCE of six months' rigorous imprisonment and eight strokes of the heavy rotan was passed on a young Chinese. Gian Giok Cheng, in the Second Police Court, to-day, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to an Indian
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  • 30 2 The annual general meeting of the Literary and Debating Section of the Malay Union will take place at 3 p.m. on Saturday, at the premises of the Malay Teachers' Association.
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  • 239 2 Singapore, Tuesday. POR ill-treating a mui-tsai. Goh f Lai Wah, by beating her with a cane causing her to suffer unnecessarily, a 75-year-old woman, Ng Bee Koh, was to-day fined $10 or ten days' simple imprisonment by the fifth magistrate, Mr. L C. Goh. Bee Koh was
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  • 313 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang-, 1 TN order to make the public more A.R.P. minded date the work done by the A.R.P. organiaat and Province Weliesley demonstrations were beli icus centres yesterday. The first screening of A.R.P. work in England was shown at the
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  • 34 2 Btncapore, Tuesday FOR causing hurl by stabbing hirr ing knife, Palany sentenced to i i imprisonment by Rappoport, the Palany admitb d Sinnasamy at l (i 1 25, at the RAF tar.
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  • 28 2 (Fvom Our Own >»Tesj*>ndent| Malacca, Feb. 4. j The funeral of th Mr Et Kong Guan. J.P. a ,> to-day and was veiy tended.
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  • 17 2 The first dinner meeting of untitled Singapore V's Mci held at the Cathay day at 8.30 p.m.
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  • 50 3 picture* of SinaaRegiment "sons of equipped with ihe modern warfare. d their homeland invader. They are h y<-ldiers. ere taken reeenth, Malays took part vi especially for lh> Top photo siiOKM a v. v itft riflemen cm hidden in typical station; the smaller working party condefence stockade.
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  • 52 3 jure, Tuesday. ive fatally woundA at riot, Khamis Tatunife, a 30-year-old m Syed Patch All ad shah, was prothe fifth magistrate, to-day. A charge xplained to him. was alleged to have tted in a house at Kasterday. Ed was remanded ln dy for 24 hours, bail
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  • 40 3 THE following conversation between Hitler and Mussolini Is reported to have taken place at their last meeting: Hitler: "And your Army, Mussolini—all right. I suppose?'' Mussolini: "Mem Fuehrer, meln Army, she is in fine running order."
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  • 91 3 r speed up the training of acr.«<l navigators for the rapidly expanding United States Army Air Corps. Pan-American Airways are training the first group of some 850 Air Corps cadets in Pan-Ameri-can methods* of navigation and meteorology, developed over a decade of experience
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  • 416 3 Singapore, Tuesday. a charge of aimed robbery said to have been perpetrated with the aid of two other Cantonese on the morning of Oct. j7, 1939. in Towner Road, off Serangoon Road, So Hung a 26--year-old Cantonese, claimed trial to-day at the Assizes before
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  • 122 3 Singapore, Tuesday. A CHINESE coolie employed at the Civil Airport. Kallang, stepped on the sharp end of a piece of wood while working one afternoon, and injured his foot. He went home and applied some Chinese medicine to the injured foot, but it became worse and,
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  • 19 3 Mr. A. E. Mills M.C.S., has been appointed a Police Magistrate for the Settlement of Singapore, Penan? and Malacca.
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  • 249 3 FREE COURSES FOR GOVERNMENT POSTS (Tribune Staff Reporter) JN step with the progressive outlook of the State, the Johore Government has already sent ten candidates for special training at the Technical School in Kuala Lumpur in order to lit them for posts in the Drainage
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  • 168 3 I (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. 1 H. F. Stilwell, a planter employed on St. Leonards Estate, Port Dickson, i who was a member of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club, was killed in a flying accident near Kuala Lumpur this
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  • 101 3 GUY de Schomprc, Gen. eral de Gaulle's Far Eastern representative, left his headquarters at Singapore on a short visit to Hongkong, returning in three weeks' time. If. Charles Baron, who recently arrived from India, is acting for M. Schompre at Singapore. M. Baron
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  • 159 3 Singapore, Tuesday. DESCRIBED as promoters of gambling going on in a house in Duxton Road, when the police raided the place on Jan. 27. Tin Lee and Kin Chun, alias Tui Choon. were convicted by Mr. J. G. Rappoport, the Third Magistrate, on a charge of
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  • 739 4  -  S.C.F.A.'s Final Skirmish On Question Of Names (By rwl. x "Ajax" T IKfch notches 111 the Business Houses' League on Monday win open the soccer season in Singapore. The league proper will begin next month, and greater interest is being centred
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  • 214 4 POSTPONED from Jan. 28 owing to the numerous requested cyclists wH, did not want the event to clash with the Chinese New Year celebrations, the Singapore track cycling championships will be held at Jalan Besar Stadium oil Monday (ThaipuMm). A feature of
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  • 217 4 THE Royal Singapore Golf Club s February medal competition was played at Buki t Timah on Naturda.v and Sunday and result--1 71 a in for Markham 2,? d,VJS »on with a net score °L, 7, j» a win tor A. Stone in B division with a
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  • 156 4 I work was ihe order i at Bukit Timah this I mornin° but only a compa- rativelv few horses appeared on the course for work. I An interesting candidate I uas Pinaftffe who did a me-dium-pare run. Pinafore's chances ran be considered good for this
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  • 15 4 V. Natkuham won the Ceylon Tamils Association's recent handicap badminton tournament. Run-ner-up was V. Ponnampalam.
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  • 27 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: Chinese v Argylls, Hong Lim Green; Royal Navy v Post Office, Post Office RUGBY: R.A.F. final at Jalan Besar I Tengah v HQ.)
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  • 230 4 'J'HE Selangor Turf Club vviii run their Gold Cup meeting beginning on Saturday, March 1. There will be two runs each for all horses in classes 1, :j, and 1 und ponies of class 2. Entries close at neon on Feb. 19. Class
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  • 40 4 Owing to bad weather the Royal Singapore Golf Club women's competition has been postponed to Monday. Feb. 17. and will be played in conjunction with the women's 18-hoie competition oi thi: date. ;he fh>; nine holes to count for medal.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 874 5 NEED TO HARNESS WATERFALLS URGED THE urgent need to harness the Robinson Falls lor the distribution of water power in the Highlands stressed by Mr. Fred Wickett, Chairman of the ameron Highlands Society, addressing the Society's annual meeting. time has come, sai
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  • 504 5 1 THE official Australian film S cf the capture of Bardia. the Italian fortress on the j coast of Libya, will be shown in Singapore thh week. "A Historic Document" is J how Captain Frank Hurley, who is in charge of the t Australian Department
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  • 17 5 A Commission as Paymaster Sub-Lieu-tenant in the SS. R.N.V.R has been granted to Mr. M. W. Cole.
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  • 295 5 Says he didn't know there was a war going On... *u u *u u Singapore, Tuesday. IT° the charge that he mad «rawlng on Jan. 1, 1941 within Ihe prohibited area surrounding the islands of Blakan Mat* and Pulau Brani. which drawing was calculated to
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  • 285 5 "THE GREAT DICTATOR" (At The Capitol) fHARLIK CHAPLIN once wrote of his $2,000,000 film "The Great Dictator" (now showing at the Capitol) that he did not mean it to be a propaganda film, that he produced it because he hated dictators, and that he wanted the world to laugh.
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  • 255 5 Singapore. Tuesday. A 14-YEAR-OLD Chinese schooln boy, Loh Mong Cher, was injured when the bicycle he was riding collided with a motorlorry, which was pulling a trailer loaded with sacks of coke at the junction of Tank Road and River Valley Road, on Jan 16.
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  • 89 5 Singapore, Tuesday. ALLEGED to have committed an act of gross indecency on Kassim bin Awang, an 18-year-old Malay, W. D. Lambert, a Britisher, appeared before Mr. J. G. Rappoport, In the Third Police Court, to-day. The alleged offence, which is punishable under Section 377 A
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  • 170 5 Singapore, Tuesday. "I TH-VK I can say I am not at all prejudiced against her but to avoid even the appearance of evil, though there is absolutely no reason for it, I shall grant the application," said Mr. J. L. McFall, the District Judge, when Mr. M.'
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  • 132 6 Dr. Purcell's Pamphlet JJIS profound scholarship, intimate acquaintanceship with the hopes and aspirations of the peoples of the East and wide experience of Colonial administrative affairs entitle Dr. Victor Purcell, new head of our Department of Information and Publicity, to talk with authority on world issues from a Colonial
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  • 114 6 INSOFAR as the main object is apparently to discredit the violent fulminations of the Xazi lie factories, the pamphlet serves its purpose moat admirably. Nevertheless, none who studies this work can fail to be struck by the considerable Pains the author has taken to stress some obvious facts
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  • 122 6 J)K. PURCELL makes some provocative statements that cannot, however, go unchallenged. He gives four excellent reasons for the painfully slow growth of democratic institutions in Malaya, namely, -'our peculiar constitution, the diversity of races, the migrant habits of a large part of the population and the undeveloped
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  • 162 6 JjKRE are two recent examples Sir Shenton Thomas: What would the Chinese member who opposes this Bill (War Taxation) say if I W ere to turn round on him and suggest that the Chinese in Malaya have contributed sufficiently to the China Relief Fund and that
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  • 250 6 With the Greek Army in Albania. T £UK leader of one of the greatest exploits of the Greek-Italian war described how, with fifty-three chosen comrades, he penetrated a great distance of Albanian territory in disguise firing enemy ammunition dumps and blowing up enemy communications. "When I
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  • 1757 6 Trend Of Public Opinion Q\ September 27 an alliance was announced between the governments of Germany, Japan and Italy by which the three nations agreed to "stand by and co-operate with one another in regard to their efforts in Greater East Asia and regions of Europe
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  • 232 6 JHE name of the R.A.F. pil« it who shot dcwn Major Helmut h Wieck, Germany's greatest air ace, will never l>e known. me pilot died with two companions in a grim battle off the Isle of Wight on November 28 against a flight of M.K. 110's
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  • 487 6 I AST week a man Riving false evid passing sentence th remarked, He is q professional witness been telling a pack Professional "lawyer burok.s"" i characters who I of lawyers' oflic* illiterate that th< legal knowiedg* They chum up wit] to pick up any latter may drop
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  • 109 7 I A recent picture taken of* His Highness the Sultan of I Selangor, icith religious lead--1 ers, at a meeting of the Religious and Customc y Committee of the State ol 1 Selangor. From left to ric/h': Sitting, Y. M. Tengkn Manmood Zohdi fSheiknm -islam, Selangor),
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  • 419 7 VICHY WILL NOT GIVE UP FLEET Reuter. London, Feb. 4. V* amessage sent from Vichy to New York states iat M. Laval will probably be re-admitted to the Cabinet to-day, news of Marshal Petain's refusal aborate with Germany beyond the terms of the tice comes from
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  • 22 7 Reuter. Alexandria. Feb. 3; Last week's cotton purchases by the British Government totalled 18,221 bales, while free market purchases were 3,695 bales.—Reuter.
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  • 91 7 Reuter. Washington. Feb. 4. THERE is whole-hearted praise for the Netherlands Governments reply to Japan's suggestion that the Netherlands East Indies should enter into an "intimate and inseparable re'ationsh.p" with Japan which is contrasted with French uido-China's submission to Japan's demands. The Washington Star calls the
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  • 196 7 New Delhi Decisions Being Carried Out Reuter. i ttqkdmi j Jerusalem, Feb. 4. Ais s^ lread y pursuing the decisions laid down at the recent Eastern Group Supplies Conference at New Delhi, declared Mr. R. G Menzies (Aus- ralian Premier), who has arrived
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  • 57 7 Reuter. London. Feb. 4 TWO Italian transport ships were 1 sunk on Sunday by an unidentified submarine near the Jugoslav island of Vis in the central Adriatic, according t 0 reports from the Albanian frontier. One is definitely identified as Vittorio Veneto, about 5.000 tons.
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  • 50 7 Reuter. Aden. Feb. 4. THIS years Mecca pilgrimage is described as most successful by the first pilgrims to arrive In Aden from Mecca. Although the attendance from STersea* has net been large as in oeace time, many thousands came from Palestine. Syria and the Arabian hinterland.-Reuter.
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  • 15 7 Mr. W. C. Taylor has been appointed Registrar of Deeds for the Settlement jf Malacca.
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  • 198 7 REUTER. G lstanbul, Feb. 4. ERMAN diplomatic circles are highly annoyed at the activities of Col. Donovan, President RoosevelVs personal envoy, which they hold to be encouraging the Balkan states to show a bolder front against Axis pressure. The Germans have been heard to be
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  • 58 7 Reuter. London, Feb. 3. ACCORDING to a New York report four leading New York banks' namely the Chase National, the National City, the Guaranty Trust and th? Bankers' Trust have formed a huge coalition for the purpose of expediting and co-ordinating the fcnancing of
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  • 49 7 Reuter. Calcutta. Feb. 4. A PROCLAMATION has been issun ed for the arrest and attachment of th? property of Mr. Subhas Bose as he did not present himself In ccurt to answer a charge under the Defence of India rules. Mr Rose is still missing.—Reuter
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  • 42 7 From H. L. Hopkin) A London. Feb. 3. DECREE nisi has been granted to Mr. H. T. C. Pepppr IPwas awarded damages of £1.000 tJh co-respondent was Dr h D Spackman Via Cable and Wireless.
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  • 18 7 Reuter. London. Feb. 3—The Stock Exchange at 3 p.m. instead of 2 p.m. as from F?b. 10 —Reuter.
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  • 117 8 THE Indian Youth League had a 1 very successful season last year. The membership increased from 719 to 1514. Among the various activities of the League one of toe most outstanding was the celebrations in honour of Mahatma.Gandhi which started on Oct. 2, 194U I and lasted
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  • 56 8 A T the annual general meeting ot the Chett Auditor: Muthu Kr. Ar. Kr. Ar. c^ sbt£rrM°r M %rKa^n P V PI Subramanian Chettiar; N A. M Antaumalai Chettiar; Pr. P. Ye KaslCh.tttar. Al. T. SocKalingam CheSar; Vr. M. P. PalanlaW» CWM, Pr P. N. Panayappa
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  • 34 8 Reuter. London. Feb. 3.-In the freight mirlttt the continued keen ore demand for the United States and Sit, was arranged foir Colachei to Northern Range at $25 while Vizagapatam to Baltimore was worth $20.—Reuter.
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  • 22 8 Reuter. New York, Feb 3.-It is announced that an additional 1 o? British-owned bond stock issues has been entirely liquidated.— j Reuter.
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    • 149 8 AIR QUEEN CONTEST iihiiiiiiiiiiiiiMll 1 111 i IlllllllUfl FRIDAY Following LasTweek's Success I Froth Blowers Contest I I Biff |Sh tome on Navy> Army 01 Air Force I I ML Jj MAKING SARONG HISTORY I WEE'S SAROXG I I» Ait AIIE '/a J 25 LOVELY MANWIfUINS TO BE FILMED BY
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    • 284 8 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS Domestic Occurrence ACKXOWLEDMENT Mis. Tan Thean Seang and Family i wish to tender their sincerest thanks to the relatives and friends who attended the funeral cf the late Mr. Tan Thean Seang and also these who sent wreaths and letters of condolence. Situation Vacant WANTED IMMEDIATELY young und
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    • 161 8 "Hundreds have come back to see it again and ARE YOU GOING TO MISS USEE IT TO-DAY! Daily I Show s j SĔSjI ALHAMBRA Adventure Story with the VLSO LATKSI Mi; U\ll -BRITISH XjEWV; jThe greatest novelty show in a generation! SATURDAY AT MIDNIGHT ALH A M B lIA 10RRE
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  • 625 9 Singapore, Tuesday. REPLYING to criticisms raised in the Legislative Council yesterday by the Unofficial*, Mr. ft Weisberg, the Financial Secretary, said that their prompt duty was to ensure that ihe defence of Malaya was made as complete as possible, and that the proceeds of
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  • 172 9 <Fiom Our Own Reporter) A M Ipoh, Feb. 4. NOTHER magnificent donation of £10.000 has been made by Mr C Alma Baker. C.B E, Batu Oaiab. to the Imperial war coffer* for th* 1 purchase of two Tornado aircraft, ihe latest type of
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  • 145 9 Tokyo. Feb. 4. A REGULAR liaison conference between the Government and tbp fiiph Command was held yesterday afternoon at the Prime Minister. Prince Konoye's, official rei Idence Views were exchanged between 1 them freely and frankly regarding Important liaison affairs At the conference the Oovernment wa
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    • 281 9 PATH AY OPE] *iNir to-day" V/l 1 llrk 1 3-15 p.m. p.m.-9-15 p.m. li kre Everybody Goes BOX OFFICE 'PHONE 3400 DOROTHY LAMOUR more charming than ever in an M-iling story of the great Teak wood forests of Burma! 3 Dorothy lomour f|H S3" Robert Preston Preston Foster "MOON 'f^W!
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    • 246 9 XATIOXAL Theatre mile Pasir Panjaug) "TOAST I. I' A IIII" POPULAR PRICES: NEXT CHANGE ON 7fii ft- Bth j I» 2» 35 CENTS. "REBEL SON" j SPECIAL OFFERS! THE BOOKS lOR vol Formrilv Now The Fall Of Tne Kaisei l>v Maurice Banmontll $4 TMI Forvunnera <>f American Fascism by r
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    • 140 9 I SAFEGUARD FOR FEVER VICTIMS You arc not finished with f>ver when your temperature has gone down. Your body is undermined and not till you have built it up are you i-eally out of danger. The tftitti is that fever weakens the stomach and makes it unfit to take solid
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    • 261 9 RETURN SCREENING of WARNER BROS. OUTSTANDING HIT! I pavilion I T„ Z? the st tern's to«r/ man heart in a r\ii is story so human,y I i BĔm m Wtn, so render you A V/ft/ will never forge' it! Daughters h PRISCILLA LANE ISP^^S ROSEMARY LANE LOLA LANE H GALE
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    • 654 10 p^l^CIHSSItilD-HDS^BBS^ Situations Vacant WANTED gu boys passed seventh by Motor Unn Will train them as mechanics. Apply Box 144. Malaya Tribune, sixuta- (No. 366Q) WANTED male teacher for private school. Ural English essential Apply 0.P.0. aox MS. Singapore. (No. 305G) WANTED immediately—Experienced lady eacher. Apply Box 114, Malaya Tribune. Singapore
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    • 694 10 WANTED a girl steno-typlst, intelligent, i At»piy Box No. 148, Malaya Tribune. I Singapore (No 379G> WANTED experienced mechanics by motor firm. Apply Box 145. Malaya Tribune. Singapore. (No. 367Q) situations Wanted EXPERIENCED coirespondence-accountg clerk requires, part-time work Apply Box 149. Malaya Tribune. Singapore (No. 377G) REFINED and educated young
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    • 714 10 Lost And Found LOST—In the vicinity of th e Municipal Animal Infirmary, a white half bred Siamese cat. Finder please 'phone 6819 Reward. (No. 381 C.) LOST 28th, between Singapore and Seremban one spare wheel and tyre for Ford 10. Finder rewarded. Box No 129 c,o Malaya Tribune. Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 616 10 Photography j YOUR PHOTOS painted by qualified nrtist ln Lllywhite Studio Singapore. Telephone 0601. (No. 383G) Vegetable Seeds RELIABLE local vegetable eeeds may be ld at 1° cents per packet from Majus. 3J. Orchard Road. Singapore. (No 359G) Stamps f2£*£ P Straits Settlements Gibbor.s o, at: Nos: 1 to 9.
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    • 557 10 Public Notices NOTICE RE CLOSING OF ROADS. Notice If hereby given that all roads over the Bukit Sembawang Pubber Company Limited property will be closed on Sunday the 9th February, 1941. T. E. ANDREWS, Manager. THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS NO. 64. CHTJLIA STREET, PHONE NO. 7755. General Auctioneers, Commission Agents, Etc.,
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    • 255 10 NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that Mr Lee Heng Choon is no more in our employ. As and from the date hereof h e has no authority to collect cr accept any money due to us or to transact any business on our behalf as our agent or employee. this
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 746 10 T O-D A Y'S~rT»ToT i SINGAPORE Tnvnr.v ZHL 225 in. 1333 kci. CFVTIMi ZHP.I. 30 96 m. 969 m\cs. GSG-16 86 _..I M v ZHP.3. 4138 m. 7.25 mcs. p. m o§_L£T2* S ZHL. ZHPI ZHP3. 905 p.m c;si)- I |J:_ Lagu Melayu. Eg, »«X 1100 Indian Music /g ll
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  • 903 11 Singapore, Fob 4. Buyers. Sellers. MINING. J i 3 36 I 66 7[-od 35 36|--2- 226 0 80 0 85 14 6 15 6 $1) 1.38 1.42 9 9 10 6 19- 201- 12i- 131--*1) 0 17 0.20 I 0 40 0 43 (tl) 134 1.38
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  • 23 11 ipore, Wednesday. I es f tin and rubber i Singapore at noon to- RUBBER I j. Sellers 36":.. i iin unchanged.
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  • 157 11 from Our Financial Correspondent Singapore. Wednesday. I [JUSTNESS was extremely difficult *»to transact in the tin share market yesterday Buyer.4 were ivluotant to ooerate, and sellers did not press." In local tins, Mambaus and Lukut.s were dealt in with little change in price. Among Austra'ians, there
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  • 20 11 The mine output oi Hong Fatt •Sungei Besi) Limited for the month of January, was 2.300 plculs
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  • 23 11 The Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited, output was 1.509 ounces of fine gold for the four weeks ended Feb. 1.
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  • 80 11 Reuter. Madras. Feb. 4. k COMET with a long tail was seen la&t night. It is believed to be the same seen at Colombo on Feb. I.—Reuter. It will be remembered that a comet was also reported to have been seen in Singapore from last Friday.
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  • 506 11  -  (By Reuter. Cotton Industry Exhibition Oldham. Feb. 4. THE Cotton Industry War Exhibition, organised by the Cotton 'Board, which opened to-day, j graphically illustrates the vital ipart which the Lancashire Cotton Industry is playing in Britain's national war effort. The export trade section forms i the most spectacular
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  • 60 11 Reuter. Chungking. Feb. 5. THE United States Ambassador to China. Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, will be transferred to Australia, according to American reports in Chungking. The transfer is b?ing made at Mr. Johnson's request as his family cannot join him in Chungking because of
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    • 192 11 L YE ST v,TA i' THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA (TRUSTEES) LIMITED nd Controlled by ™I MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA. LIMITED. which is incorporatS.S and registered as a v undertakes the •Mowing duties:— 5&IOR TRUSTEE OF A IT NISTRATOR OF »f DECEASED PERSON, ')P A SETTLEMENT OR ETON OF TRUST,
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    • 78 11 O-CEDAR POLISH MAKES THAT CLEAN DUSTLESS HOME FRIENDS ADMIRE. CLEANS AS IT POLISHES BEAUTIFUL FLOORS are easy with O-CEDAR POLISH. It M L quickly "cleans and polishes" all kinds of surfaces removes V spot* and stains, and imparts a beautiful, rich, dry, lasting hwtrt. O CEDAR POLISH is the safest
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    • 296 11 STEAMER SAIB i\<!.S 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., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE, OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special
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    • 356 11 BRITISH INDIA The best poss?bk services are being maintained by The P. O. S. N. Coy. fror the Straits to their usua? ports of call in China India Ceylon and th( United Kingdom. Passengers are requested to registe:, their requirements bul under present circumstance sailings are perforce res trictcd. Special
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  • 180 12 PLOWING tributes to the late Mr v M. W. Pett, till recently Chief of the Shanghai Brigade, who was fcrmerly Superintendent of thSlngapoie Fire Brigade in 1910-11 were paid at a function in Shanghai a fortnight ago. The event was arranged by
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  • 411 12 »m LONDON, FEB. 4. JT IS NOT THE LEAST SURPRISING, SAYS THE NEWS m m£ H S? NICLE> THAT THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT IN LONDON HAS REACTED UNFAVOURABLY TO TO! RTOENT REMARKS OF THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER, MR. Y. MATSUOKA, REGARDING TTIE %£FJL
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  • 278 12 Reuter. New York, Feb. b. VIGOROUS denial that he was setting up a dictatorship In Cuba was given by President Batista, v. no is Cuba's "strong man." in a broadcast. He declared that he had taken the stops in the interests of democratic government He said that
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  • 33 12 ADMITTING that he had begged for alms and that he had received one cent from a passer-by c e 1Ve foot wa V ot Boat Quay He Third Police Magistrate.
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  • 306 12 Reuter. Tokyo, Feb. 4. THE situation between Japan and the United States has never been marked by greater misunderstanding than at present, said Mr. Y. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, to-day. At the same time he wanted to make it clear to Americans that Japan
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  • 232 12 Reuter. Thrilling >„.,,.,• m Ijondcn > Fe 5. boats b, officer! Bm d endu for .lays i„ open an iojd i n a special supplementary London Gazette. <->ne group of cxhuief^ WW If *W> afloat Xh be U C ben" up. another n
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  • 7 12 Mr. G. F. Gripper has been appointed
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  • 144 12 Reuter. p«idon, Feb. 5. "j i»:es in Tepelinj indicate tbej {he Italian* are prep*** JJs to leave and aic destroy!** lhat s tat es the Athens kadro. quoting ;i f; ree k Pres Mmistn statement issued yesterday a t******** from Athens ■m,: ilat lhp oreek acU °n
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  • 87 12 Reuter. mr t *„r- Berlin, Feb 5 m Bardoss y- Hungarian "■Minister in Bucharest has in l, appo,nted Forei S n Minister in succession to Count Czaky says a Budapest despatch to the officii German news agency M. BagrianorT. the Bulgarian Minister f Agriculture, known for
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  • 365 12 (By Kenneth Anderson, Reuters special correspond, the Abyssinian bush/ is the sixth day of cur trek into the unei ness. and although fatigued and with trucks battered we have sighted our objective horizon. r We c?n now look back on many tccie mi.'cs of a
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  • 36 12 Reuter Shanghai i AVER 9.00(1 v have been severe fighti nan Proving central China J** days accord press rep« n that the Ch have eaccessi the attacks 0I) Reuter r< »»tw-i
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  • 45 12 o- i#ij An 8ingapoi THE death occurre, at five o'cfax Abeyanayake. at of th e oldest s to Singapore. H president of the s s halese Assoeiati<,r. by his* wife and t« The funeral will afternoon at five a: s'" burial ground.
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    • 104 12 THOMPSON OPTICAL Co 4. ARCADE BUILDING Specializing:; Ocular Muscle Anomalies. Crossed Eyes. Intricate Visual Glasses if needed. Ij^hßW R A. Thompson Dr. of Ocular Science. 35 years' European Clinical Experience. 'Phone 3002. mj A little Oilit' goes a long way and does a lot of work. v Z Ol 1
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    • 18 12 {silver pLaTincT by The Singapore ElectroPialinir Works 211, Orchard Road, rp /OPP- Cavcnagh Road). I Tel. No. 4351
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    • 33 12 quality does w*^,/// difference! LSfjy* do. that Craven A ThiC PP d nCVCr ffcCt the throat. An/h. 1 A- r In .Cellophane' wrapped PACKt Sol 10 good ,dc«. LONDON MADE BY CARRER■ LTD"^"■■■■■■■■■■■iaßßßßAtf
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