Morning Tribune, 18 May 1936

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  • 14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE VOL. I.— No. 100. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, May 18, 1936. FIVE CENTS.
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  • 446 1 10KU PEIIC I §PEAK§ ltl_.| T r _L 1 NECESSITY OF LEAGUE POLITICAL PARTIES I MTED IV \II" I Ml 111 BPERMANY is the most serious menace to the peace of the world it the present time, declared Lord Eustace Percy, forme-ly a member of
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  • 44 1 Mr. c. S. See will be the speaker at le meeting of the Singapore Rotary UUD to be held at the Adelphi Hotel 1 Wednesday. He will speak on his *orld tour and "out-reaches of Rotary" :r give impressions of America.
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  • 112 1 RUSSIA'S DESIRE FOR PEACE IN EUROPE London A mbassador's Statement London, May 15. WE desire to strengthen the Covenant and the League and build up collective security for every part of Europe," declared the Soviet Ambassador. M. Maisky. at a dinner of the Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee. He said the U.S.S.R.
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  • 39 1 Draft Of New Constitution Completed Moscow, May 17. A COMMISSION presided over by M Stalin has completed a draft new Soviet constitution providing for a secret ballot, equal franchise for industrialists and peasants and direct election.- Reuter
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  • 82 1 Warning From U.S. r Government San Juan, Porto Rico. May 15. AS a result of the recent demonstrations in which the United States flags were torn down and Nationalist banners hoisted instead, the Governor has sent a message to all island authorities to oroserute promotlv all desecrators of
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  • 273 1 Playing Fields Statue London, May 16. FE committee of the King George Memorial Fund has decided that the national memorials will take the form of playing fields throughout the country. Also a statue is to be erected in Westminster. An appeal for support will shortly be
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  • 149 1 Decision Hangs In The Balance Rome, May 13. THE decree announcing the annexation of Abyssinia will be rushed through the Chamber of Deputies to-morrow as urgency measures and it is possible Signor Mussolini will make an important statement Meanwhile Italy's continued membership of the League
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  • 14 1 An official decree ha.s been published Dromulgnting the Franco-Soviet Pact Reuter Wireless
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  • 24 1 HALLE BelESSle to!d Reuter that he intends to en to England and visit Geneva before thp next session of the League Council.- Reuter Wireleess
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  • 85 1 Yen 7,091,700,000 Required To Balance It Tokyo, May 17. THE Lower House passed the 1936-37 Budgeti totalling Yen 23,099.100,000 expenditure made up as follows: Navy Y*ns 503,900.000: Army, 5,083,100,000, Finance, Yen 4,975,600,000; Home Office, Yen 2 068.100,000; Communications Yen 1 964 900 000: Education Yen 1.423.800,000; Agriculture Yen
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  • 40 1 Troops Called Out In City Jerusalem, May 17. TROOPS were called out this evening after" a shooting *w£ wluch into a crowd leaving p a Tevolver an unknown man emptied The Jews were killed on uhe spot ana
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  • 444 2 MUNICIPAL a VERDICT Application Is Rejected I THE Board of Control (Victoria Theatre and Memorial Hall) of the Singapore ."Municipal Commissioners, at I meeting held on April 11. disapproved the application from MtMM. Hoon Seng A: Co. to hold sound film performances at the Victoria
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    118 2 Disarming Of The Heimwehr Vienna, May 15. THE intention to disarm the Heimwehr in due course was announced by Her. 1 Von Schuschnigg in a broadcast speech in the occasion of his taking up office as supreme leader of the Fatherland Front. He said that opart from the militia
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  • 48 2 To Be Held In New York A RESOLUTION, authorising President Roosevelt to invite \foreign countries to participate in a World's Fair, has bepn approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives. The fair will be held in New York in 1939.- Reuter Wireless
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  • 62 2 "For nearly 50 years I was in the service of Messrs. Hoare, bankers, to whom I am indebted for much kindness and consideration." This is a clause in the will of Mr. Henry John Tilden, retired bank clerk, of Foxley-lane, Purley, Surrey, whose property is worth £9.195. He left £300
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  • 93 2 Alleged Theft Of A Car Singapore, Saturday. ROBERT Kirkpatrick and Neil Mc Cartney. two soldiers from the Inniskilling Fusiliers were this morning charged before Mr. T.D. Hughes, the Second Magistrate, with theft of a Johore motor car valued $500 belonging to Mr. DIX. Thomas. The theft is alleged
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  • 57 2 Catalonia Represented THE new Cabinet under the Premier ship of Casarcs Quiroga contains no Socialists or Communists and is describable as of Moderate Republican tendencies, practically the same complexion as its predecessor. A feature is the inclusion of a representative of Catalonia for the first time He has
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  • 232 2 Wanted Hylam Not Found (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Sunday. FURTHER details are to hand concern- ing the shouting of a Hylam by a compatriot, whose name was given as Ah Gee, and for whom the police ail over Malaya are searching. It will be recalled
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  • 106 2 A Man H unt Round-Up Of Escaped McLester (Oklahoma), May 15. AMAN hunt by fifty police with bloodhounds, resulted in the recapture of two escaped convicts and two of the four warders carried off as hostages have also been rescued one ot whom is seriously injured. Eleven convicts remain at
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  • 13 2 London, May IT. The King's horse, Fairey, been scratched irom the Derby- Reuter
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  • 377 3 Below Standard Needs Cape Town. African waters particularly „N South nc "Lduced 'to naval ngT we have for far below our wJMJT" ThLs ures iar "J ordinary duues. *m» policing and 0 "£T Dy vice- Admiral statement was a a gonSiander-in-Chief S i Tottenham, Yr sinK
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  • 87 3 Big Increase In Loans Sanctioned SPEAKING at Bournemouth to-day, the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, said that the great advance which had been made since the war in the provision of health services in the rural districts of the country was illustrated by the amount of loans
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  • 44 3 Singapore, Saturday. The Detective Branch has received a report from a British sailor to the effect that he was robbed of $15 by four persons at the junction of Bras Basah Road and Bencoolen Street in the early hours of this morning.
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  • 21 3 The annual meeting of the Johore Planters' Association will be held at the Civil Service Club, Johore Jahru, I. MHMMNNi'Ii |M|:i|ii|:i|!i|;;|ii|ii|!i|';i"tii|M|niiilM;iliilHlii
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  • 35 3 Singapore, Saturdav. Bfht Indians and tWO Bengalis w_ injured in an affray that occurred at Kampong Bharu last night. The victims sustained nasty injuries and were taken to hospital by ambulance.
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  • 21 3 Before Mr. Justice Adrian Clark ln the 2nd Court at 11 a.m. Summonses-ln-Chambers, Originating Summonses and Motion.
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    • 24 3 MASTER LAMINATED STEEL PADLOCKS __B lil Pv^^J_i___L _ti Bl 3 I mJMim W ymflml -m-mm--mm\ b/_1 BH lrrH_Ul *SuWr j 'MAN LION" RAPID-HARDENING CEMENT
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  • 348 4 Trade Becomes Cautious Singapore Saturday morning. Rubber (Singapore) 26 A cts., up ct. Market Tone: Firm. Tin (Singapore) $100 3 /8 down $i/ 8 To-day's Prices: London: 7 7,16(1., up l|l6d. Market Tone: Firm New York: 1511(16 cts., up 316 ct. Market Tone: Very Steady. TIN London:
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  • 72 4 Special London Cable (By Our Financial CorresvondenV London, May 16. THE following were the closing prices for rubber, tin, gold, silver, copra and wolfram: Market Tone: Steady. LONDON RUBBER Spot: 7 7|16 (up 132). July-Sept.: 7 9 16 (up 1|32). LONDON TIN No market. LONDON GOLD Spot: £7.0.3.
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  • 284 4 Share of £1 denomination unless London. May 15 6.30 p m otherwise stated Previously Yesterday Rise or fall War Loan, 3ft p.c 106% 106 Com. Union Assce. (Units) 10 7 8 1013;iS Prudential Assce. "A" 373^ 37% __i Royal Assce. (£1 share 10s. pd.)
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  • 47 4 Yesterday's Closing Prices (By Our Financial Correspondent) London, May 16. rpHE closing prices were as follows: London New York Cross Rate 4.96^ (up i/ 2 London— Paris: 75 1132 (up London— Amsterdam: 7.34 4 (up 1). London Hongkong 1 J 21 32d. (down 3 32d.).
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  • 56 4 Buyers Sellers Spot. 26 26 1 8 '■US 26 14 26 3 8 July Sept. 26 12 26 5 8 Or* Dec 26 3 4 26 7 8 Jan Mar. 27 27 18 Tone: Quiet and easier after firm. REPORT OF LOCAL SHARE MARKET ON PAGE 21 TO-DAY
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  • 46 4 •Established in 1880 1 Capital Subscribed (Fully Re'serveTn* V.?qM Head Office: YOKOH^ 9 *****0 SINGAPORE BRANCH MEYER CHAMBERS RAFFLES PLACE M i n f8 e J- H. UNAGAMI Tel: No. 6049 Manager's Room 5921 5922 General Office 5923 6472 Compradore's Desk.
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    • 54 4 SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in New Zealand). FIRE, MARINE, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, MOTOR CAR INSURANCE AT REASONABLE RATES. W. J. DEXTER, Manager. Tol. 5926, 2, Finlayson Green. 5 M|!i|i'l"l"l;ili i"«:i|Ht'<|<i| l i|uii'|"|ii|i!|i'liilii|i i i i i Overseas Assurance CORPORATION, LIMITED, China Buildinjr. Chulia Street, PHONE 5808. SINGAPORE. Fire, Marine,
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    • 111 4 SEASON EXTENDED OWING TO SUCCESS! POSITIVELY LAST TWO NIGHTS of this Grand Stage and Screen AT USUAL PRICES! TO XIGIIT. ALHAMBRA tJ3 and ».i> i— 1 i i J ON THE SCREEN ON THE STAGE Fox-20th Century's SPECIAL PRESENTATION Thrilling Dramatic g y Production— REX STORY'S f l GREATER •NOW
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  • 112 5 The Dictatorship In Austria Vienna, May 14. THE reconstruction of the Cabinet 1 in which the Chancellor becomes dictator, marks a victory for Herr Von Schuschnigß's democratic Catholic Party over Prince Starhemberg, the Fascis, Heimwehr leader, and means the fli st SeS defeat of the idea of
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  • 989 5 FRASER CO.'s SHARE LIST tngapore, Saturday, May l«h 1 pjn. Alor Gajah ($1) .90 1.05 Amal. Malays ($2) 3.32 V 2 3.42 y 2 Ayer Hitam ($1) 1.35 1.45cd Ayer Molek ($1) .95 1.05 Ayer Panas ($1) 1.40 1.50 Bassett ($1) .55 .59cd Batu Lintang ($1) 1.05 1.15cd Borelli ($1)
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  • 169 5 Seasonal Changes In The Schedules OWING to Monsoon weather conditions in Lower Burma and Northern Siam, certain slight seasonal modifications to the present eastbound and westbound Imperial Airways schedules will comt into force at the end of the current month, and will continue until further notice As from
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  • 55 5 A legacy of £2.000 to her nurse-com-panion, Mabel Draper, was provided in the will of Mrs. Emily Bailv, of Beli Moor. Hampstead Heath, who left £60.041. She also left money to six friends "as a token of friendship and regard." including £500 to Louie Hasted, £250 each to two others
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  • 19 5 A green roller canary hen belonging to a Hamilton (Ontario) breeder, has hatched twin canaries from a doubleyolked egg.
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  • 72 5 The directors of Cellon Limited, London, propose to write off against the profits for 1935 the new issue expenses incurred in that year reduced by the premium received on the issue of Preference shares, the net amount to be provided being £6,500, to increase the reserve account to £25,000, by
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  • 358 6 Dick Powell's Singing NO two actors get to stardom the same way They converge on Hollywood from ail directions and at varying speeds. There is no well-known path to film greatness. Dick Powell, who has one of the stellar roles in the Warner Bros, picture "A Midsummer
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  • 23 6 Within his nine-month affiliation with Paramount studio, Frederick Hollander, internationally-known composer-conduc-tor, has completely scored more than a dozen pictures. His latest is "Desire."
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  • 31 6 Dickie Moore, popular child movie star, met for the first time, his radio idol, 18-year-old Jimmie Allen, on the set of Paramount's "Timothy's Quest," in which Dickie plays a prominent role.
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  • 25 6 Bennie Bartlett, seven-year-old actor recently given a Paramount contract, will make his first screen appearance in Paramount's "Anything Goes" with Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman.
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  • 264 6 What The Stars Are Doing ITICTOR McLAGLEN bragging to Mae J West about the five blue ribbons his two Irish wolfhounds won at a recent dog show Bing Crosby trading off some of his thoroughbreds for brood mares which he is shipping to Rancho Santa Fe. Carole
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  • 94 6 With a motion picture studio as its background, and with a cast of Hollywood favourites to give it authenticity, Paramount's "The Preview Murder Mystery" offers audiences a double-barrelled treat— an exciting mystery story and a glimpse behind the scenes in the world's movie capital Reginald Denny. Frances Drake,
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  • 37 6 Carole Lombard, a Paramount piayer. is filmdom's greatest tennis enthusiast. She plays every day, sometimes arising at 6 o'clock in the morning when she is working in a picture, to get in her two sets a day.
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    53 6 Fred MacMurray and Dean Ja:..ei. both of whom are in Paramount's U Hours by Air," have been in half a dozen pictures together and are paN on the screen as well as on. so ni lie Hale, Jessie Mathews and the beautiful girl in "First a Girl^" which opens at
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    • 266 6 AM. RECORDS SMASHED: T i Hundreds are coming back AGAIN and A(.AIN! .j. t\ _m IU Till I NIGHTLY J J Arl I Wlj 6.15-9.15 4. •i* MNAL MATINEE WEDNESDAY AT 3.15 T -f^' ""^^Ti'WnilMWtriiHßiPfff*!^ J&Qj^mmmmmw*^ 4 _KS'x.'S_^^^< < siiCv''' v »#^^^'S^____l).?^_o__ ¥_F-;ia_r^ '<\ Vv O F Ylrffi'' Bff*\ J__l
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  • 288 7 'First A Girl' On j Tuesday THE music in the new Gaumont British film, First a Girl." which opens at the Pavilion to-morrow and presents Jessie Matthews with her partner, Bonnie Hale, will be familiar in every home by the time picture-goers see this delightful comedy.
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  • 194 7 After Thirty Years THIRTY years have passed and sister acts still go on, but there certainly is a big difference in the poundage That was the discovery of the middleaged Steele Sisters, who launched their act in burlesque thirty years ago, and who were on hand at
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  • 33 7 Studio executives believe that Fred MacMurray's naturalness and charm are disnlaved to best advantage when the populai Melding man is cast opposite the screen's sophisticated women— Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard and Joan Bennett.
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    • 106 7 CIMEMA v DI CAPITOL PAVILION TO-NIGHT:-Charlie Chaplin in "Mo- T O-NIGHT:-John Mills and Grete dern Times," with Paulette Goddard. Mosheim in "Car of Dreams, witn Robertson Hare. Jll UAMDDA TO-MORROW :-Jessie Mathews in ALHAMBRA "First A Girl." with Sonnie Hale and TO-NIGHT:— Rex Story's "Nine O'clock Anna Lee Revue" and
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    • 290 7 S Positively LAST NIGHT of the Rollicking BRITISH Musical Comedy! MSB BBBSB -BBB BBBBBBBI^p. a M _^_^_^_^_«-_^_^_^_^_M-W* MO **JH--_____________________________l _T*^ I *.jF. :*-.> JgS IL v %3l ■£> -M Wk M V_^_i -__m!__-K&^ _&_Wf_&pßp_^_^B I 8 CAR w DIIE AMS 1 IWith Grete Mosheim and JOHN MILLSI TO-MORROW \H.IIT:- g
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  • 331 8 TEXT OF NEW BILL Large Issue Of Stock London. May 5. rpHE text of the Tithe Bill, hy which the Government proposes to abolish tithe rent charge, has now been made public. The main provisions of the Bill, which does not involve; any net additional charge
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  • 30 8 The coffin fell to the ground when an assistant undertaker collapsed and died at a funeral in the Old Cemetery, Forest Hill. S.E. The widow, who was chief mourner, fainted.
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  • 53 8 Fifty thousand people have now seen the Queen Mary in the King George V dry dock at Southampton. There was another big influx of visitors from various parts of the country, and 8 000 sightseers passed in long queues round the hull of the liner. There were five special trains
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    214 8 Girts Fate After Car Skid London ONE man and a girl were killed and two men and a woman seriously injured when the car in which they were driving skidded and crashed on the chertsey arterial road near Twickenham Bridge. The dead man was George Morgan, of Kingston-rd..
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  • 25 8 Major-General Sir Alliston Champion Toker. believed to be the oldest General in the British Army, died at his Bedford home, at the age of ninety-two.
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  • 341 8 On Empire Air London, May 4. AIR Force stations of Great Britain and the Empire will be "at home' to their owner— the Man-in-the-Street —on May 23, Empire Air Day. Thousands of people are then given an opportunity for a "close up" of the work
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    • 61 8 «aiiiM<i •iiriiii•iii i i i r i ii.iiiiiuiii.h. mi ii iu ihi:i i'i'tii|ii|ii|!,i;iHiii inn t THE I. A.ST I- ll. I MUD ASSURANCE CORPORATIO* LIMITED., I Oncorporated in the Straits Settlements) FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR, PERSONAL ACCIDENT, BURGLARY, J WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND PUBLIC LIABILITY IN-/ SURANCE UNDERTAKEN. I Full particulars and
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    • 95 8 PALACE Theatre (EU TONG SEN STREET) 7 15 TO-NIGHT 930 p.m. "The SHANGHAI REVUE" Company of 50 Star Artists from Stage Screen in Spectacular Dances, Singing, Clowning and Acrobatic Acts. PLUS THE YONG SISTERS. Prices: 20c. 40c, 60c, 80c SI 00. TEA DANCES From sto 7.30 p.m. j Every Tuesday,
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  • 537 9 EXPERTS SAY YES i German Keep-Fit Methods London. i\ GERMANY a post-war systern ol national physical trainin- has produced a nation of healthy young athletes fit for military service. n Britain a big percentage of our young men are turned down as C3 by
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  • 42 9 MP h?pf,f olonel A J Mulrhead. Ministrv r a ™ntary Secretarv to the A f 2L of labour, has apnointed Mr. K tLmSVA p hls Drivatp secretary ha hpf„ 0f Mr P H St J WIls °n. who as Dee n promoted.
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    278 9 Cheque Signed At Gun Point Dublin. POLICE are seeking a robber who held up a Dublin woman in her home and at the point of a revolver forced her to sign a cheque for £50 and to telephone to her bank manager instructing him to cash it. He
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  • 43 9 Vera Gladys Stonebridge. 13. the daughter of Police-constable Slonebridge. of Ascot House. Redhill Street. W.. was found by her father, lying dead in the kitchenette of their flat. It is believed that she fell on to an electric fire and died from shock.
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  • 49 9 The paintings by the Hon. John Collier nB5O-1934>, which were recently the subject of a gift bv his widow, are now on exhibition at the South London Art Gallerv. Peckham Road. The paintlags consist of "The Maenads." "Meadow Sweet." Touchstone and Audrey." "A Devonshire Orchard." and "The Hartz Mountains'"
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  • 137 9 London, May 2. British music is again being heard in Italy. As a result of representations made by Mr. Leslie Boosey, chairman of the Performing Right Society, to the International Confederation of Authors' and Composers' Societies, the ban imposed by the Italian Government as part of
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  • 19 9 Property valued at £10,869, but no will has been left by Mrs. Lilian Fairbrother. of Dean Priors. Meadowfoot-rd., Torquay.
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  • 387 9 Reach Mother After 19 Years Cupar, Fife. INSPIRED by a German broadcast se- ries, a Letter has just reached a mother, aged eighty, describing the gallant death in the Great War of her son. For nineteen long years she had been without definite news of his fate.
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  • 287 10 The MORNING TRIBUNE Singapore Monday, May 18, 1936. S.S.A. NOMINEES THE argument ai to the position of Straits Settlements Association nominees on the Board of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners will be resumed at the annual meeting of the Association next Friday, when Mr. John Laycock, one of the nominees affected,
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    591 10 THE report that the Malayan AgriHorticultural Association made a profit of $2,272 on last year's exhibition is indeed very encouraging, and shows plainly that this annual exhibition of I local products is receiving the support that it deserves. The growing popularity of these shows is strikingly evident by
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  • 207 10 Mrs. T. R. Jones and J. Jones have arrived in Penang from Madras. Miss Andres and Miss Symons are inmates of the Penang General Hospital. Mr. G. E. Pow, Manager, Chartered Bank, Taiping, has gone. on a brief holiday to Hongkong. Messrs. J. C. Grand Macindoe and H. C.
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    • 64 10 WESTINGHOUSE REFRIGERATOR i 118 ___H This Refrigerator is leading in this market backed by the finest service throughout Malaya. Four Years Guarantee. Hire Purchase Terms to suit your pocket. v Uvnvviil i'-lt't'irir Co., Ltd. Singapore Kuala Lumpur. bta i nable from: UNITED ENGINEERS, LTD., (All Branches), JOHN MOREY CO., Singapore.
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  • 736 11 Breeding Cattle -Dogs In Singapore THE DROVER'S FRIEND History Of The Species Singapore, Sunday. ry)G fanciers in Singapore U are many and varied are the pedigree dogs that are to be seen in the island. At the recent Dog Show held in Singapore a most comprehensive collection of members of
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  • 189 11 Design Approved By King London, May 2. The designs of the new Royal Cypher for use in England and tahe Dominions and of the Imperial Cypher for use in India have been approved by the King and are now published. The Royal Cypher is that used by all
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    • 42 11 Telegraphic Address: PHONES 5y34 GOODWOOD The most charmingly situated Hotel in the Island. Ideal for permanent residents RESTAURANT Tahle d'hote and a la carte. COCKTAIL BAR LOUNGE TENNIS. Special Dinner Dance 0 n Wednesday May 20. DINERS $1.50. NO AFTER-DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE
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  • 248 12 ROYAL MAUND THE WITH CEREMONY: TIEST M.P. f v A recent picture of Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P.. who seems to have deserted the writing of articles for the sterner work of Parliament, where he has already made his mark through summonsing the Kitchen Committee for seeing drinks after hours.
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  • 966 14 Books and AUTHORS TO the vast majority of people the _iame of Loachman is probably unknown—the lot of so many of England's heroes. It Is duo to Major N. N. E. Bray that Colonel Loachman— the hero of Mesopotamia—has escaped the oblivion that has been the fate so many of
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  • 38 14 "Grey Owl And The Beaver" ANIMAL lovers will be delighted with "Grev Owl. and the Beaver," by Harper Cory, two chapters being contributed by Grey Owl himself. The numerous illustrations show some flnt photographic nature and animal stu-
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  • 41 14 gives beauty treatments in her restful salon, where her special radium creams and lotions are also obtainable. She has just received new bath powders, bath foam and nail varnishes in beautiful colours. 2ND FLOUR, 18, BATTERY RD. Phone 6995.
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    • 106 14 JADE TREE RAFFLES HOTEL We have been instructed to hold a stupendous "close down" sale $40,000 worth of the finest selection in China to be sacrificed for whal you can afford to give. SALE IS NOW ON. Come in and make your offer. W< will accept it if we can.
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  • 117 15 TWO novels worth noting, both in stock at Kelly and Walsh, are "Young Men in Spats" by P. G. Wodehouse and "A Cloak of Monkey Fur"j by Julien Duguid. ALSO on order at Kelly and Walsh is "Naval Warfare" bv Commander John Creswell, R.N. This book, which has
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    • 128 15 LUGGAGE L CARRIER +^m I SINGAPORE LUGGAGE CARRIER CO. Baggage Contractors ft Forwarding j Bo*** s f r FMS Baggage Agents for- Blue Funnel Line V East Asiatic Line Nederland Line J BIS.N. Co., Ltd., l etc.. etc. t J Tel Address.- "LUGGAGE'' J i PHONE 2428 or call Union
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    • 92 15 A TO I MIST'S SHOPPING GUIDE STATIONER New shipment of ship-soiled 3 6 and 76 NOVELS arrived! I To be cleared at .1© CTS. EACH. GOOD TITLES by well-known Authors Come earlv for better selection E. M. GLOVER Co. 9, The Arcade, Singapore. jEm-am*^ 4 Ar-«de. **r I. Qualified Eye
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    • 97 15 TAILOR Fresh stocks of English Suitings and Shirtings of various quali- I ties* Please come or tvrite to i us so that we could come and t see you for a trial order. Best i workmanship at very low prices. j BARKAT ALI j BROS. Civil Military Indian Tailor-, j
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    • 162 15 CHEMIST NYAL FIGSEN. $060 A pleasant way to remedy constipation Nyals Figsen may be eaten like Candy and will act on the bowels, liver and stomach Agents. FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD., (Inc. in F.M.S.) 8, Raines Place, Singapore. SILK STORE GLAMOROUS GOW\S TAILORED WITH EXACTING PRECISION BY EXPERTS Tajjmalial Slore 23,
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  • 62 16 THE following passengers are due at 1 Singapore by the East Asiatic Company's "Meonia" on June 12. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Swyny, Port Swettenham. For Singapore, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. C. Leech, Miss T. M Luckham, Mr. and Mrs. H. Pallister Clarke, Miss Mollie Green, Mr.
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  • 85 16 Moscow. Mav 10. THREE floating concrete dry-docks are 1 now beine: constructed bv the Commissariat of Water Transport for repairing shins in the open sea. One is being built in Leningrad for work in the Baltic Sea, and two will operate in the Black Sea. Two of the
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  • 126 16 (Incorporated in France) (MESSAGERIES MARITIMES) MAIL PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES Homeward for Colombo, Djibouti, Port Said and Marseilles PORTHOS 12.700 T. Mav IS CHFNONCEAUX 14.825 T. May 26 JEAN LABORDE 14.595 T. June 9 DARTAGNAN 15.104 T. June 23 Also Calling Madras. Pondicherry To Saigon, Hong Kong Shanghai
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  • 258 16 I»REK. MONROE IX PORT A LARGE number of passengers disembarked here from tke Dollar liner, President Monroe, which amved in Singapore on Saturday morning. Mr. Henry L. Hill, who is connected with the E. C. de Witt Co., Shanghai is visiting Singapore on business. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
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    68 16 KEPPEL HARBOUR Main Wharf: Leh. Dolphin. Leh. Spmtan, Leh. Mary Rose. Duymaer van Twist. Sipora, Singkara. Pangkor. Keppel Harbour King's Dock: Nieuw Holland r floating V No. 1 Dock: Singkel. No. 2 Dock: Tug Naga, Marudu. Mr. A. R. Shannon a well known attorney of Chicago, who
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  • 152 16 H.A.L. Places Big Orders Hamburg. PARTICULARS of the Hamburg Ame--1 rica Line's new building progran me for modernising its service have been announced by Dr. Hoffmann Chairman of t'ne Board of Directors As a start the Hamburg Americ Line has placed an order with the Deutsche Werft for
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  • 62 16 Hongkong. May 1" THE Kinkai Yusen liner H 1 Maru 1.4G3 tons, went aground the Horcmushiro Straits, the K last week Owing to the rough seas, the was imperilled and she sent oui SOS A relief vessel was sent b\ the Hakodate Salvage Companv Immediately It is
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  • 30 16 The Porthos is exnected to arrive in Singapore from Saigon to-day at 9 a.m. and sail on the same dav at p.m. for Madras, Pondicherry. Colombo, Port Said and Marseilles.
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    • 449 16 j i -l.ii. .i.. tm i T M !_B*fc_r____/ 'Ck. mm __r__i ___*^^___*ta^___ i^ _B mw* m m^^.mm\ Z^^__te_^___~ P. a O. SAILINGS nu in araSm Tonnage S'pore. Tonnage S'porn 1936. 1936. RAWALPINDI 17.000 Mav 22 RAJPUTANA 17,000 July 31 BURDWAN 6.070 June 4 CHITRAL 15.G00 Aug U CORFU 15,000
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  • 39 17 News Of The Day m.,mn Mr and Mrs. Henry Graper of Memphis, Tennessee, are making a J easu e trip around the world. They disembarked from the President Monn* and will visit Java and Sumatra, before proceeding to India.
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    • 286 17 BI'RXS PHII.P LINE. (Incorporated in Australia) NEXT SAILINGS^ MARELLA May MPRVAR June 28 Spec^fcn^ round trip tickets from Singapore to Australia Issued at the tuaToaa^Saammm may transler at Singapore. Brisbane. Sydney or Mel bourne to the connecting KP.M. Vessel. $430.71 2nd class SoS™ 1 5£%-SS fi SSS Sn. Case THE
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    • 600 17 11 H fif^^S I t S DESIRADE For Marseilles, Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux May 29 J I D'ENTRECASTEAUX For Marseil let, Havre, Antwerp Dunkirk June 4 CAP TOURANE For Marseilles, Na Ues, St. Nazaire Bordeaux July 27 r J LINOIS For Marseilles, Havre. Antwerp Dunkirk July 4 J i For
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  • 1675 18  -  (By Air Mail) London, May 5. THE Parks are a riot of green these days, with masses of pink and white blossom falling from the trees. And now that the bus conductors and drivers arc wearing their white cap covers, we all expect continued One weather.
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    • 1964 19 7~T7 A< 1.50 p.m. Recorded music. Close 3.50 p.m. Talk on events in France. j_^mm+~~-~~~-~ <*+*** l]imimmt down H 4.05 p.m. Records. T*^ 1 5.20 p.m. Retorded music. 4.35 p.m. News in French. r__i^--i--l __i^ Wm m ■--->■ 550 p.m. Time signal. Half-hour 5.05 p.m. News in Engl wn A
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  • 915 20 METEOROLOGY RESEARCH First Hongkong Airmail TO visit Meteorological Department of the Air Ministry, in Kingswav. London, and to study the working of the Weather Bureau at the Crovdon air-port, is to obtain fascinating glimpses of a system which, in its comprehensiveness, accuracy, and speed, is now
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  • 130 20 To Be Fortified By The Turks Ankara. •turkey wants to refortify the DarI deneiles and Bosphorus ana also her European frontier. A request to amend the 1934 Straits Convention, attached to the Treaty of Lausanne, to enable this to be done, has been made by Rustu Aras, the Turkish
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  • 200 20 Grisly Present For London. IN a Brighton churchyard a box containing a human toe was found With it was a letter, which read:— "Knowing now that you do not love me, I am sending you this first token to show you how much I love you. Bv the
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    • 43 20 B____ -—PB* v^^^ _^f^ BB BM I_l* Ji "1 l fl _^B mv^ JH a__v _B i B _T^_b _^l _B _h i I W 1 i _> i _^_l _^_T^S B iii gB B B 881 SIME, DARBY CO., LTD., Kuala Lumpur Ipoh
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    • 224 20 o.\ THE RADIO (Continued from page 19) from the Augusteum," Rome, in com- the New '"Z.H.1." studio:— memoration of Franz Listz. Conductor. Mrs. J. McNeish— Songs. tkT 0 B (T Molin ari. (a) "Us Two." nrnwV Dante Symphonic Poem for (b) "Vespers", by A. A. Milne-Fra-u£ lra ..p ld c
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  • 609 21 SACRIFICES TO Demand For Fair Treatment (By Air Mail) (From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 6. MALAYAN tin producers are not lacking a vigorous champion in the present delicate pass at which the International Tin Committee has arrived. I learn that, from the distractions
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  • 111 21 Unaware Of Children's Death London A GRANDMOTHER left Lowestoft foi London recently unaware that her two grandchildren, as well as her son-in-law, are dead. It was revealed that Mrs. Hathway, whose husband and their two daughters, Phyllis, aged six, and Betty, aged four, were found dead from
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  • 47 21 Moustaches Crazy But Expensive Hobby Rpriin JS. made iSerlca* and nothing l °He° took one walk through the town. as much as £8 for some of the more wSnS^hether to move further Sfleld in search of fresh hair, or whether to await the next crop in Srbobran.
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  • 41 21 rpnrv readjustment. If however. Bolivia has not caught xw to the extent of several thousands of on witt "her deficiency by the time the Committee holds its Mav meetings, it is taken for -ranted that the general quota will be enhanced.
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  • 191 21 To-day In Singapore HIGH TIDES:— B.27 a.m., 8.36 p.m. FOOTBALL:— S.A.F. A. League, Div. I, Middlesex Rgjt. v. q.C.F.A., Anson Road Stadium; Div. 11. Marines v. Fort Canning, Pulau Brani; Com. Cup, M.PH. v. F. and N., F. and N' Straits Times v. 5.H.8., S.H. B Govt. Services F-A. League,
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  • 92 21 Clothes Found At Lonely Jury's Gap PILOT'S clothes found on a lonely I stretch of beach at Jury's Gap, near here are believed to belong to a man from Biggin Hill Air Force station. Kent. A soldier on look-out dutv found the sodden clothing and reported the matter
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  • 271 21 Insurance Of Liner In London A BEGINNING was made in the London market on April 15 with placing of the insurances to cover the Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary when she is in service. These insurances will take effect from the date of delivery of the
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  • 133 21 Cleaner And Ring Worth £18 London. IFTER a fortnight in custody, Florence Morris, a young married women, of Avalon-rd., Fulham, was put on probation by Mr. Ronald Powell, at Westminster Police Court, on a charge of stealing a ring worth $18, belonging to la tailoress at a Brompton-rd.
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  • 189 21 The market on Saturday was very active in all sections. There was a good demand for rubber shares encouraged by the strength of the commodity. Prices showed a sharp advance and the weak holders of last week disappeared The statistical position continues very sound and improving conditions are
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  • 2253 22 HEAVY GOING AGAIN But No Major Upsets By "Capt. Hawk" Singapore, Sunday. THE weather cleared up shortly before the first race on Saturday for the third day of the S.T.C. Summer (Governor's Cup) Meeting and kept fine ail throughout the afternoon. The going, however,
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  • 792 23 TEAM LEADER SPEAKS Good Standard Of Play Here Singapore, Saturday. ijt Wai Tong, the well-known fti Chine* Olympic fqotball team „,tij.i commented on the S.A.F.A. Malaya Cup Probables who lost by four *©»l- to the Olympics. ht Singapore Malaya Cup ProKahlM %tt much weaker
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  • 274 23 £1,500 Rings Outwitted In His Own Shop Bristol DINGS worth £1,500 were snatched by a raider at one of Bristol's principal jewellers' shops. He used a familiar subterfuge of distracting the proprietor's attention, dashed out of the shop with the jewellery and escaped in a motor-car. The; car. which is
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  • 79 23 Somewhere ln Germany, over the North Sea or perhaps even in England is flying an eagle worth £350 and answering to the name of Satan. The eagle escaped from a circus at Flensburg (Schleswig-Holstein), when the door of its cage became undone during unloading. It was claimed to be the
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  • 229 23 "Sly And Unhealthy Associations" Sheffield rE infants' school and the girls' school are the province of women. The boys' school should be entirely the province of men. Boy nature will out. If it does not, the man will never groi to full statuie." Thus Mr. P. E. Agar
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  • 87 23 Troubles Never Come Singly Shoreham. MR. C. O. Luxmore,. who is works manager for a yacht and boatbuilding company, and his mechanic, Mr. Reginald Head, are spending an exciting holiday in their launch Roma, Twice within 45 hours they have been rescued by lifeboats. The first time they
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  • 133 23 Soviet And Tht Far London. May 17. RUSSIA will sign no treaty which does not give 'her tlie right to have kn the Baltic a fleet capable of resisting the German Navy and in the Far East, one able to defend her coasts against the Japanese Fled, says
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  • 84 23 A debate "That the time has come for Singapore to have a university, will be held at the Y.M.CA. on Wednesday, May 20, at 8.15 p.m., between the Y.M.CA. and the Anglo-Chinese School literary and debating societies. The ACS., which take the affirmative side, will
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    • 29 23 ___.__fflJlr--B RACKETS V ~.'\*jM RESTRINGING there is only nS RELIABLE Btt PLACE II QUEEN'S 3, Prince Street. Phone Telegrams 7634 "Tennis" ntfll«h Australian American Gut, only used. No other.
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  • 999 24 GOOD BOWLING BY DEAN United Services Beaten I Singapore, Sunday. GOOD bowling by W. W. Dean and bright batting by Goodman. Lei-Js-sius. Gibson and Riches enables the Singapore Non -Benders to secure a declLve victory over the United Services at Tanglin to-day. the veterans winning
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  • 32 24 Birmingham, (Alabama) May 17. Forrest Towns, a Georgia University undergraduate established a world record for the 120 yards hurdles of 14 1 10 secs. beating Beard's 14 15 sees.— Reuter
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  • 127 24 Radical Socialists Agree To Collaborate Paris, May 13. THE Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Radical-Socialist party has unanimously accepted the Socialists' invitation to collaborate in the next Government. There Is no doubt the decision will be retified at the full meeting of the Executive Committee. The general
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  • 13 24 Athens, May 17. ino death is announced of the exPremier. M. Tsaldris Reuter
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  • 193 24 Scores In Weekend Matches London, May 17. THE following are the close of play scores in the English County Cricket Championship matches begun on Saturday:— Sussex v. Leicester At Hove— Sussex 297. Leicester 83 for three wickets. Derby v. Surrey At Derby— Derby 175 (Go ver five wickets
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  • 107 24 CAPTAIN HAWK GAVE FIVE WINNERS "PAPT. HAWK" of the Morning m Tribune tipped five straight winners in Saturday's laces Mountain Stream, Belle Edna, Blue Peter, Ormolu and Devon King. This included the Double Tote on Races 6 and 8. Two horses tipped for places came first La Gai and Popover.
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  • 66 24 Results In European Zone Second Round London, May 17. THE following are tn* results of the second round in the Davis CupEuropean Zone At Dussddorf, Germany beat Hungarj by 3 matches to nil. At Montreaux, Switzerland beat Denmark by 3 matches to nil. At Oslo, Belgium beat Norway
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