Morning Tribune, 28 March 1938

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    14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE VOL. 3— No. 48 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, March 28, 1938. FIVE CKNTS.
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    80 JAPANESE PLANES RAID HANKOW
    516 1 Chinese Offensive Gains CHIANG VISITS THE FRONT: CHINESE TROOPS CHEERED Shanghai, Sunday. A CCORDING to an announcement to-day, 80 Japanese planes participated m what was described as one of the biggest air raids m the war, at 2.30 p.m. to-day on Hankow, working capital of
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    FROM SPEARS TO BAYONETS
    125 1  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Nanyang Siang Pau and Hankow, Sunday. THE RED SPEARS m Northern J Anhui have formed them- selves into a formidable force under the direction of military officers. A hundred of them, under the command of Gen. J Koo Hai. charged a point
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    PARIS PREPARES FOR WAR
    103 1 Paris. Mai-. 27. THE Minister of the Interior has decided to spend £2,700,000 on the air defence of Paris. The decision was taken at a meeting of Cabinet members with the Prefects and Police Chiefs. The expenditure will include 200 million francs for gas masks 135
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    Italian Air Force
    42 1 Rome. Sunday In commemoration of the anniversary of the lormation of the Air Force on Mar 29 new aerodromes will oe openea in Italy, Italian and North Africa, and 26 Mombassa station depots and I nve aeronautica^U|titut^sWiiylsobein-augurated.-B Reuter Wireless
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    STOP PRESS
    110 1  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Hankow. Monday. A WELL-INFORMED observer says that a collapse of the Japanese on the Northern Tsin-Pu railway is imminent m view of the fact that Japanese military trains on the railway have not returned north obviously being held in /eadmess to convey the retreating
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    Defence Fever Grips Britain
    235 1 London. Sunday. LORD WINTERTON. speaking on rearmament at Worthing, said that j there was an active desire on the part j of thousands of British men and women to participate m defence. I Many people abroad had formed the i false opinion that the British were
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    JAPAN DEFAULTS IN PAYMENT
    150 1 JAPAN DEFAULTS IN PAYMENT Yen 6,000,000 Overdue To Soviet On CE.R. Sale Moscow. Mar. 27 ACCORDING to reports to the A^encv from well-informed sources, the Manchukuo Government failed to redeem on March 23. according to schedule the last obligation amounting to about yen 6,000,000 given by the U.S^R. on account
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    GOERING'S NEW THREAT TO JEWS
    385 1 Reconstruction Of Austria Vienna, Sunda> FIELD Marshal Goering has arrived here. He was received by Dr. Seyss-lnquart. He outlined a programme of reconstruction naming seventeen points No. 1. A fixed ratio between the schilling and mark. No. 2. Immediate payment of 60 million marks held
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    RECORDS FOR CLOUSTON
    110 1 London. Sunday. PLOUSTON and Ricketts lauded at t Croydon at 5.41 p.m. yesterday, having flown from New Zealand in 5 days 18 hours. 34 minutes (as compared with' their time for the outward voyage of 4 days, 8 hours. 7 minutest This the first England-New Zealand round
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      35 1 j ON OTHER VAGES Page i Malacca Planters 2 Spore Swimming Club 2 Shipping Mystery 2 Burnt To Death 3 Negri Planters 8 i Racing Guide 18, 19 20 Race H'caps 21 Spore Cricket 23
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    LEAN PERIOD AHEAD FOR RUBBER
    321 2 MALACCA VIEWS Less Drunkenness On Estates 'From Our Own Reporter) Malacca, Sunday MALACCA, with its settled conditions, good health and cheap living costs, is m an enviable position," said Mr. W. A. Wilken. chairman of the Malacca Planters' Association, m reference to labour conditions on
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    Hospital Nurses Hurt In Car Accident
    236 2 SISTER Livingstone of the Genera Hospital was injured when the car m which she was seated suddenly skidded into the ditch and turned turtle a the 6 3 4 milestone Thompson Road, neat the Island Golf Club, yesterday morning She complained of severe pain
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    Mosquito Bus On Fire
    67 2 Koh Pong Wah, a Chinese bus driver' of Queen Street, suffered from burns last night when his mosquito bus caugh I fire at Holland Road There were burns on the face and the left hand but the injuries are reported to be not serious. While breaking
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    COURT HAS NO JURISDICTION OVER OPEN SEAS
    190 2 J 'From Our Own Reporter* i Ipoh. Saturday. REMARKING that the court i I* had no jurisdiction over the j area and so could not proceed with the hearing, the hon. Mr. j Justice Murray Aynsley m the I Perak Assize Court discharged
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    "IF I DIE, YOU DIE TOO," WOMAN WARNS HUSBAND
    260 2 Singapore. Saturday. "IF I should die, you shall die too." This was the statement made by a young Cantonese woman, named Ah Yong to her husband after a domestic quarrel at their home m Teluk Ayer Street on the night of
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    Singapore Swimming Club Has Successful Year
    715 2 Singapore Swimming Club Has Successful Year Singapore, Sunday WITH an increase m revenue, a reduction m the Bank overdraft and a substantial increase m mebership the Singapore Swimming Club has passed through a very successful year. This was revealed to members at the annual general meeting of the Club which
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING MYSTERY
    101 2 k CHINESE junk, believed to have come from a port m South China, was reported to i have carried passengers, who claimed to be refugees. The J wangkang arrived at Singapore after midnight on Mar. 24., when i it was stopped by the Marine I Police. The
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    HEAD MISSING
    274 2 Submarine Stoker's Corpse Found 'From Our Own Correspondent Malacca. Jlar. MR B F. Bridge, sitting as Coroner, 1,1 held an inquiry last evening into the death of Stoker MofTat, whose dead body was found washed on to Tranquerah beach on Mar. 8. Stoker Moffat was reported mlssine -rom
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      27 2 To Radio Owners. For expert servicing of any make of radios do not fail to ring up 3893 for immediate attention. Prompt and courteous service. Charges moderate.
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      191 2 Beware Kidney Germs If Tired, Nervous, Aching Are you Run Down, Nervy, suffer Aching, Swollen joints? Do you Get Up Nights Of suffer from Burning, Itching Passages. luz/.iness. Rheumatism, Circles Under Eyes, Puffy Ankles, Frequent Headaches and Colds, Loss of Appetite and Rnergy? These symptoms show germs are attacking the
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    Burnt To Death For Matter Of Few Dollars After Saving His Children
    256 3 Burnt To Death For Matter Of Few Dollars After Saving His Children 8-YEAR-OLD GIRL TELLS OF FATHER'S FATE 'Frovi Our Own Reporter) THE story oi how a 60-year-oid Malay, who alter saving his two cnndren when his house was on fire m the early hours one morning, returned to the
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    SINGAPORE WEDDINGS
    47 3 Penang, Saturday MR. QBOFPBR EDWARDS, executive engineer of the Malayan Publir Works Service, and Miss Joan Marguerite Nunn, cousin of the Hon. Major R. L. Nunn, who were married^^th^St^Andrew^sTathpdra^m Tribune MAJOR II IRMITAGI and Miss Margarie Kiishworil^^^^^m^r ried at the Tanglin Garrison Church on Tribune
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    SINGAPORE STRIKE STILL ON
    83 3 I AN official of the Chinese Protectorate informed a Tribune representative yesterday that no settlement had beei j made m the strike reported at the Unite j Metal Works. Yio Chu Kang Road It will be recalled that over 200 coolie downed tools on Thursday as
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      147 3 HM NAVAL BASE, SINGAPORE. A vacancy of one of H.M. Trawlers stationed ai S Sdates who must be BRITISH EUROPEANS under 50 years of g possessing a certificate as Ist Class En iineer under the Merchant Wgug Ordinance or other superior Quahhca tion. must apply to the undersigned wr a
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      90 3 NOTICE We have pleasure m announcing that, as from to-day s date, Mr. Julian Israel has entered our employment. S. E. LEVY CO. :sth March 1938. I HORSE HEAD I BRAND <4ND MADEINBURMAI CUTARAXTEED 100% BRITISH Q PES <i R" vv "A R Removes Dar d r v ff. |S
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      109 3 For Everything m School Books, Stationery Supplies, etc. Go to fET E R CHONG 9 Educational Suppliers, Printers, etc. MUAR NAN YANG HOTEL AGENTS. Express Service 3 times daily. 1 HAI CHEW HOTEL. 3j. Beach Road Singaoore. Tel: MIS 1. NAN YANG HOTEL, 41. Jalan Maha rani. Muar. T"l. 156
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      39 3 Law Notice For To-day Before Mr. Justice a'Beckett Terrell m 2nd Court at 11 a.m. Assizes: -Rex vs. Soh Chwee Hock. Rex vs. Sim Ah Poh. Before Mr. Justice Home at 11 a.m. Summonses-in-Chambers. Originating Summonses. Motion and Petition.
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      LONDON COMMODITIES
      126 4 Land* 26 Previous To-day Change X Steadier Steady Ton# r 7 ifi f)i —3 16 «P* 55K ?i 6 5116 -3 16 Ist Forward (April) Buyers 716 316 Sellers Jg ZV\6 2nd Forward (May) Buyers J% M ft Brd Forw;M Mulv :,ept Buyer, M|M jjJJ I' 'I OIL
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      LONDON SHARE LIST
      145 4 London. Mar. 25 Prfmous To-day Chang* Distiller* 92G 9 2 6 Dunlop Rubot: 2l 6 27 3 —3d. General Electric rq fi r- Q M Imperial rre-nira! In matrix J0 3 Imperial Tobacco 135 1344 1 7» 2 d Anelo-Dutch 0 22 9 Canadian PMlfic 55^ 5
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      FOREIGN EXCHANGE
      66 4 London. Mar. 26. Previous To-day Change on Paris fclosinsr middle rate) 162.31 163.87 -1.06 r.T. on AmstprHqm (closing middle rate, 8.97 1 16 8.96 —3 16 FT. on Shantcivv rclosinjr selling: rate) 12 18 Unchanged tt. on Honpi- fclosine selling rate) 12 15 16 Unchanged T.T. nn Japan
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      HAYTOR RUBBER HAS BETTER YEAR WITH HIGHER PRICES AND LARGER CROP
      569 4 Singapore, Mar. 26. THE nett profit for the year amounts to 530,1"6 93 (subject to directors' fees) as compared with 517.343.75 for 193 b. The increased profit is due to the better prices ruling for the commodity and to
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      Money Market
      73 4 London Mar. 26 Despite a drop amounting to about £10 million m bankers' deposits as revealed by this week's Bank of England return, loans continued fully ample for borrowers needs. Discount brokers received the result of Friday's treasury bill allotment with mixed feelings as. while tht average rate
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      BULLION MARKET
      29 4 GOLD London, Mar. 26. d o Previous To-day Chnn «> ci??/™ 7 0 £7-0-3 2 +\Vg Spot 203 8 203 8 'orwaro 20 1 16 20^ -1 16
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      NEW YORK CABLE
      53 4 RUBBER New York. Mar. 26. Previous To-day Chani Tone Quiet Dull spot Buyers *****5 12 11 16 Sellers 12 13 16 12 13 id July/Sept. Buyers 13 i 8 13 xl 6 —1 16 TfN BeUen 13' 4 13 316 -116 Tone Steady Barley Steady 41^ 40
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      METAL MARKET
      19 4 Ji\ .standard London. Mar. 26. Previous To-day Changi Spot (afternoon pnew) £134*4 Closed Forward £1843 4 Closed
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    STOCKS & SHARES
    821 5 STOCKS SHARES issued By Fraser Company Singapore. Mar. 26 1 p m MINING Ampat 36 3 Asam Kumbang 28 30 Austral Malay .V 42 .6 47 6nom Ayer Hitam 2 0- 21 xd Ayer Weng 0 .55 0.65 Bangnn Tin 20 21 Batu Selangor 127ft 135 Burma Malay 2 6*3
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    LYALL & EVATT'S QUOTATIONS
    173 5 LYALL EVATT'S QUOTATIONS Singapore. Saturday. MINING Buyers Sellers Ampat 3 6 4Batu Selangor 1.35 1.40 Hongkong Tin 17,6 18,6xd Hong Fatt 1.02 1.06 Jelebu 0.72 0.77 Kramat 10,6 116 Kamunting Tin 8|- 9 Killinghall Ill- 16-xd Katu Tin 22|- 23Kuchai 1.08 1.13 Larut 10j- 11- Lingui Tin 1.15 1.25 London
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    Mail Delivered
    18 5 The Air Mail Netherlands > despatched irom Singapore on Mar 20 WU dell m London Mar SS.
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    DEBENTURES AND LOANS
    193 5 6% Maynard Co. Ltd. $30,000 g5 m norn Int. Apr. 30 Oct. 31 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY 5% 1901 red. M 0 J 400,000 m 104 norn 4%% 108 HO nom. Int. Mar. 31 SepJ- 4fc% 1909 red. 1 £f 0 K 00 113 IM om 4% 1913 red.'
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      233 5 I S. E LEVY CO. Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore. H Im99mtmienf Bankert and Brokers m Securities and CommodiHet. Daily Foreign Market Cable and Quotation Servic: Members: NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. COMMODITY EXCHANGE, INC. OF N.Y. NEW YORK COFFEE SUGAR EXCHANGE. CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. CANADIAN COMMODITY EXCHANGE. SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE.
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    Accident In Saw Mill
    100 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Mar. 26 A CHINESE named Leong Seng, 38 years old, sustained injuries while working m a saw mill m Kluang on Feb. 19, where a huge log of wood fell en his waist. He was removed to the Kluang Government
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      246 6 LAST NICHT of EXTENDED SEASON L£J P b.l «>——"• 1 o \tA*^% MYRNA LOY «W' \%''£i\ TONE- RUSSELL W^ f m^l MAN-PROOF f^fo 7 \W -^WALTER PIDGEON A^ 11/ HER BEST n Diractad V R'ch.rd Thorp. Pr»duc»d ky Loui* D. Lighten j^^W^^ ¥^^7 S K\^pX(^Mw^n[^tX?u^x ROLE! With an excellent supporting
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      259 7 S CECIL B. de MILLE crowns 7-\ \v CAM ~\Z r H*« j saved a nation! j j "THE BUCCANEER'" Jt^jL In Aid Of The Children's Aid Society At The VICTORIA MM AMU MISS JOAN HAWTREY presents •Peg O* My Heart" A Comedy m Three Acts (By J. HARTLEY MANNERS).
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      222 7 Sf.. Bf A Mmmmm^^tmi 4 dfa. A^mmW d_^_Wmm\mW—i! «Xk v KAY FRANCIS ERROL FLYNN IN THE WARNER BROS. PICTURE "ANOTHER DAWN" with lAN HUNTER FRIEDA INESCOURT (co-stars of "Call it a Day) AND SUPPORTING CAST Ol IHOL'SANDS! THEATRE ROYAL MARLBORfGH I 6 p.m. TO-NIGHT 9 P-m. |«P m. TO-NH.HI The
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    PREVENTING STRIKES ON ESTATES
    448 8 Malayan Government And Planters iFroni Cur Oien Reporter 'PHE annual general meeting of the Negri Sembilan Planters' Asao- j ciation took place this morning at the Sungei Ujong Club. Mr. D. J Farquharson. J.P.. M.S.C., presiding over a large attendance. In his presidential address. Mr. Farquharson
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    AMERICAN SHARE MARKET QUOTATIONS
    936 8 THE following quotations from New York were received from Messrs. S. E. Levy Co.. by air mail yesterday: STOCKS Last Sale Mar. 18 Mar. 19 Adams Express 8% Aileghany Steel Co. 15% 15 J4 Allis Chalmers 44 U 45,2 Amer. Can 82 2 83_ 2 Amer.
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    Malayans Consuming More Beer Nowadays
    1037 8 ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR "TIGER MANUFACTURERS was Singapore. Saturday. A net profit of over 5187.000 was disclosed at the annual general meeting of the Malayan Breweries. Ltd.. held to-day. A final dividend of six per cent, was declared. The demand for the company's pro-, duct—
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    Malayan Cities Praised
    208 8 Singapore, Saturday. 'TEW countries are so neat and picture- as Singapore, Penang and Kuai x Lumpur. The local muricipalities must be congratulated on the efficient manner m which their civic activities are carried out "We are greatly pleased to learn that the menace of malaria and other
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    Repairing & improving War Machinery
    541 9 Repairing improving War Machinery WHILE RESISTANCE CONTINUES IN CHINA Cash Awards For Wounded Soldiers A concrete example of how China is repairing and improving her war machinery after se\cn months of heroic resistance may ber.t be seen from the Increasing care and treatment that she is rendering to her wounded
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    350 M.P.H. 'Plane For U.S. Army
    208 9 ANEW sub-stratosphere aeroplane designed for the United States army, has received unqualified endorsement after a test flight, from Mr. Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary pf War. The [Machine is reputed to be capable of sustained flight at 350 miles an hour. Mr. Johnson, who travelled
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    HELIUM FOR NEW ZEPPELIN
    149 9 HELIUM FOR NEW ZEPPELIN Washington. DC. A LICENCE for the export of 2.600.000 cubic feet of helium to Germany for use In the new zenoelin LZ-130. has been granted by the State Department Germany has asked for a total of 17 900 000 cubic feet of helium for tho new
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    BIGGEST BRIDGE IN EUROPE
    63 9 BIGGEST BRIDGE IN EUROPE Colocne '^it™ of 1.870 feet, the Chicago, Illinois r(-logne bridge will he one of the hro i£m2 bridges m Europe, the other beim the one over the Elbe at Hamburg. Anart from the concrete masonry on fjoth banks the brfdw will be built en- rlv of
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    AROUND THE WORLD IN A CANOE
    229 9 AROUND THE WORLD IN A CANOE Met/- A ROUND-THE-WORLD trip m a canuc is being contemplated by the world champion acrobatic canoeist", Lieut George Smyth, who has been giving dc mon.strations of skill and speed on the Moselle. Arter visiting Luxembourg, Brussels, Ghent and Ostcnd, he intends to visit England.
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    The Way To Get A Job
    64 9 MAN, young unreliable, dlsnonesi. lasj. doesn't want position but Ptedl me; assistant manager, personal conittltant etc; short hours, big pay." This advertisement has appeared m a newspaper bare. The man who inserted it has since received 76 offers of work. Previously, employment agencies had
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    TRAVEL FOR BUDDING AUTHORS
    89 9 TRAVEL FOR BUDDING AUTHORS Cologne. VOYAGES to Madeira, Italy, and Norway are the prizes offered by the ("Strength through Joy" movement to budding authors who submit their manuscripts to the movement, i Already some 1,400 manuscripts from 580 writers have been received. These include 1.070 novels, 150 .short stories. 62
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      41 9 HUDSON'S EUNENTHOUUJUBES tnue to Tain publ,, confidence throu K h their (enu.ne worth. When used Ilai.y they ..reserve the teeth by the mouth m a NWtf, health, condition. soli; importers SIME, DARBY Co., Ltd. BUMISII MALAYA SARAWAK W P S 13
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    MORNING TRIBUNE Singapore: Monday, Mar. 28, 1938. HORRORS FROM THE AIR
    272 10 MORNING TRIBUNE Singapore: Monday, Mar. 28, 1938. HORRORS FROM THE AIR lESSONSI ESSONS to be learned from the Spanish Civil Wai and the Sino- Japanese conflict reveal that the civil population is exposed to as many dangers as the men who are righting at the front. With improved technique m
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    AN AIRPORT ON THE THAMES
    893 10 AN AIRPORT ON THE THAMES SUGGESTED EMPIRE BASE A SET of proposals for a seaplane base on the Thames just below Tilbury, with an aerodrome along side it on the Essex coast. has been laid before the Air Ministry, the City Corporation, and the Port of London Authority. Delay on
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    75 10 S^KSriKy H !i ■»"V"*?ii equipment took possession of Bregenz, the capital of the Austrian province s JinatJi 2' .t Wl Aust ai l J 1 have over guard duty on the Austro-Swiss frontier. Brefeni German tLJ___" _?£ZSi "tf f La *"L Ccmstance a »<* near to both the Swiss and
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    PERSONALITIES
    49 10 The Hon. Mr. Lai Tet Lake has returned to Kuala Lumpur after a visit to Dutch Borneo. The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of his Commission In the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force Reserve ef Officers by Lieutenant H. C. Abraham, with effect from March 14.
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    £4,000 OFFERED FOR MAN'S BODY
    652 11 RARE CASE OF PERSON WITH 57-YEAR-OLD ITALIAN APPENDIX AND LIVER ON WRONG SIDE Mt. Barker, West Australia, Feb. 28. |N a tent at Mt. Barker, a 57-year-old Italian who has two hearts was interviewed. He is James Alvaro, a native of Calabria m Southern Italy,
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    LIKE AESOP'S FAIRY TALE
    173 11 LIKE AESOP'S FAIRY TALE London. AESOP might almost have written these two true stories of cats that were saved from death one, altruistically, by a dog, the other, for gain, by a man. In a nursing home standing m woods 1 near Arundel a cat and dog have been brought
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    POWER LINE BUILT IN EIGHT HOURS
    152 11 POWER LINE BUILT IN EIGHT HOURS Ada, Michigan, FIVE construction crews working for eight hours have succeeded m giving Mr. David Hill, an 87-year-old farmer, his doctor's prescription. Mr. Hill was critically ill with pneumonia and his doctor, Dr. R. J. Hutchinson, prescribed short-wave diatherny. Mr. Hill, however, could nor
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    DOLL SAVES CHILD'S HEALTH
    347 11 DOLL SAVES CHILD'S HEALTH gRINGING Cynthia Lee Farley 3,000 miles on a one-day visit to London just to mend a broken doll has cost an American mother £400. She has paid gladly, though £2 would have bought a doll just as fine. Yet m a London nursing home that mother's
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    Nautical Breeze At Calais
    120 11 Valenciennes. MOVE your trawler so that the crosschannel boats can come alongside the quay,'' M. Renneteau. Calais Harbour official, said to M. Auguste Magniez one day last July. "Why should I?" said 11 Magniez. "Move your boat," said M. Renneteau. "I'll be— ed if I will."
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    STORK DERBY CASE WINNERS
    138 11 FIRST four., winners of the Toronto "Stork Derby" were announced by Mr. Justice Middleton m court at Toronto recently. They will have a share m the £150,000 left by Charles Vance Millar, an eccentric millionaire, to the Toronto mother bearing most children m the ten years
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    AUSTRIAN DRAMA IN PICTURES
    197 12 The Austro-German frontier at Kufstein. one of the points at which German troops marched l into Austria f~m_ •g^_-*g*£. regime The building m the picture is the Customs House, occupied jointly by the Austnan and German officials— an arrangement maae countries were on terms of friendship.
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    Only Rattan, But
    763 14 - It Can Be Lovely If You Plan It Well DURING the last decade, it is wonderful to think what strides have been made In furniture, m Singapore to any of the furniture makers, and you can have your pick of the most lovely designs for your dining,
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    When Friends Drop In
    318 14 YOUR store cupboard is a most important Place, especially here where people have a habit of dropping m for *pahits' and staying on for 'pot-iuck-for unless you are well stocked with tinned provisions, your invitation, through it sounds so pressing may be made with a sinking
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      27 14 MAISON PERM Telephone 4610 j takes pleasure m announcing i the OPENING I of their new ultra-modern and I I AIR-CONDITIONED Ladies Hairdressing Saloon 79, Stamford Road.
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      66 14 V Wk V B V H fl E*l This attractively shaped settee looks so up-to-date with its own little table fitting snugly into the circular opening A click of the switch— and you're cool! Instal a farrier PORTABLE AIR CONDITIONER We invite you to call at our offices m River
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    Let Fabrics Help Your Room
    443 15 Let Fabrics Help Your Room Choose Cretonnes And Chintz With Care THE appearance of your home is often i 1 either made or marred by the fabrics you choose to go with the rest of your furniture, your walls and floors. So often one will see a really lovely room—
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    ALL ABOUT BRUSHES
    219 15 ALL ABOUT BRUSHES Your household brushes will give you better service and longer life if they are cleaned properly. First, remove all fluff then clean the handle, scrubbing it if it is of plain wood and washing it more gently ii it is varnished. Next, get some warm, soapy water
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    Little Things To Know
    204 15 Little Things To Know prevent spaghetUfr^^over, add a teaspoon,! salt m the water and the shells will not crack cr break. when t them if you HARD boi ed egg.s *M -oj ij tc fime wh ji e cutting. dip your knife m water from time £Umej s your P
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      47 15 STONF FLOORS if you have tone Boor i s eoara scrubber, coarse cloth, hot water and •oda, or sandstone, but remember to treat tiled- floors more carefully. These should be scrubbed or washed with soap and hot water and when they are thoroughly dry. polished n liked.
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      430 16 BRITISH IK'DIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD (APCAR LINE) FOR HONG KONG. MOJI. KOBE AND OSAKA 8 A M T II I A SAILING APRIL 7, AT 3 P.M. The above vessel has excellent modem accommodation for First Saloon and Second Saloon passengers. Special Holiday Return tickets to China and Japan
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    Missing Car
    116 17 Singapore. Saturday. A PENANG car which was reported to have been stolen at about 12 noon to-daj from Raffles Square, wa.s found m Telok Ayer Street, where it knocked down an eight-year-old Chinese lad who sustained a fracture of the left -nigh and other minor injuries. The ambulance
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    69 17 rnuiP m. London, Mar. 23. THE War Risk Rating Committee and Lloyd's Underwriters have jointly Jssued a new schedule for China war ii.sk insurance. The principal alteration is the reduction of the rate for voyages to and from ports to the south of Shanghai from f 1 sterling to 10
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      287 17 j 818 NS PHIL P LIN E (Incorporated m Australia) NEXT SAILINGS MERKUR ,P"% n Sai 'sMARELLA Ant' hU 3 fo^ifme S rOUlld tFiP tiCk6tS fr m aWOW to Australia issued^? the first Class passengers may transfer at Singapore, Brisbane Sydney or Melbourne to the connecting X.P.M. Vessel/ >aney cr
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      247 17 N. K. LINE GENERAL PASSENGERS iGENTS CUNARD WHITE STAR, LTD. (Incorporated In Japan). To LONDON via Penang, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles Gibraltar. •M.s. TERUKUNI MARU Mar. 30 s.s. HAKUSAN MARU Apr 14 s.s. HARUNA MARU Apr. 28 Rates to lst Class 2nd class Naples $574 $621 $634 ft >{81
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      137 17 I POSTAL INTELLIGENCE] L STEAMER MAILS DISPATCHES TODAY Medan Tandjong Pinang £Phir 2 89 Pontianak Tg. Pinang 5* 0 J*Germany .Parcels only. fr an^ kor 28 2 nm" Denmark (Parcels only. y°gtfcnd 28 J JJJ coma 28 7 p.m TO-MORROW Fort de Kock. Padang. Pakan Baroe and Siak T Bong
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      123 17 SHIPS IN DOCK SUPS ILONGSIDI THE WHARVES OK nracm to auun 1 trance Exit shi (iodown (iute (iate Hong Biana 19 i i Marudu 14 2 3 Menestheus 14 2 3 Calchas U 2 3 Havana Maru <j 2 3 Kutsang 7 2 3 Ophir 7 2 3 Taybank 30
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    GUIDE TO CURRENT RACING FORM
    5344 18 GUIDE TO CURRE NT RACI NG FORM PENANG EXTRA MEETING Candidates For First Day (Compiled by 'Marcus Supcrbus") RECENT form of all horses entered for April 2. the first day of the Penang Extra race meeting, showing at a glance how the candidates have fared m their three most recent
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    FRASER & COMPANY.
    322 20 FRASER COMPANY. List Of Current Dividends Company Dividend TIN Books Close A. Hitam 15 ~c Int. less Tax Mar. 3 Burma-Malay 6d. div. Mar. 24 Hongkong Tin 10 r e Int. less tax. Killinghall Vk% int. less tax 3d. Bonus Puteh Tin Mfi Int. Mar. 26 Rawang T. Fields 3d.
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      1349 20 lon THE RADIO BRITISH EMPIRE U. S. A. SHORTWAVE PROGRAMME PROGRAMMES jaSSTcifiTJff GSO SStf- m ffS Transmission 3.— 9.15 p.m.— 0.20 —The llocnln Almanac a.m. GSH 13.97 metres (21.47 mcs); *JP (El _>Jew York. W2XE GSG 16.86 metres (17.79 mcs) and o\ -20 13 9 GSF 19.82 metres (15.14 mcs).
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      409 20 PROGRAMME OF B. M. B. C Singapore Station On 225 Metres < I 600 pm— Malav Music (Gramophone formers." By Variety Stars. "The Boat Records' Drama: "Kain Tabohan." Sung Race." By Clapham and Dwyer. Don't by Che Nor'.ia and Amat. Kerinting. forget 'he old folks." Quentin Maclean 630 pm —Chinese
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      40 20 2 Ro, Rome 25.4 metres (11.810 kcs). 6.20 p.m. Opening announcement. News m English. News m Chineae. Chamber music. News m Italian. VK6ME, Perth Wavelength 31.28 metres (9,590 kcs^ Broadcasting daily, Monday to Satur. day (inclusive): 6.20 p.m.— 8.20 pm
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    WEIGHTS FOR FIRST DAY OF PENANG RACES
    488 21 Three Day Extra Professional Meeting Starts On Saturday Next (From Our Own Reporter j Penang. Saturday. MTEIGHTS for Saturday next, the opening day of the Penang extra race meeting, are as follows: HORSES, Class 1, 8»_- furs. Release 9.7 Lordlogy 9.0 Deepdene 8.13
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    HOME RUGBY
    115 21 London, Sunday. DESULTS of principal rugby football matches played yesterday are as follows: The Army 15. Royal Air Force 7. Bath 5. Bridgend 3. Bedford 0, Northampton 6. Birkenhead Park 6. Waterloo 3. Bradford 8, Blackheath 13. Bristol 7. Neath 16. Gloucester 14. Llanelly 5. Harlequins 7, London
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    Chinese Swimming Club To Spend $79,000
    443 22 NEW BUILDING POOL President's Handsome Contribution Singapore, Sunday. IT the twenty-eighth annual geH neral meeting of the Chinese Swimming Club held to-day on the Club's premises, 21, Amber Koad, Tanjong Katong, reference was made by the vice President, Mr. G. H. Kiat. who presided
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    ENGLISH & SCOTTISH LEAGUE SOCCER RESULTS
    1297 22 ENGLISH SCOTTISH LEAGUE SOCCER RESULTS West Btmwich Albion Hold The Arsenal To A Goalless Draw DKSTLTS of English and Scottish X League soccer matches played on Saturday, as cabled by Renter, and League tables revised to date, are as follows: ENGLISH LEAGUE. DIV. 1 SSSSST j |2Fon W J We*
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    RIFLE SHOOTING
    107 22 Good Scores At Bukit Timah Singapore, Sunclav A HANDICAP spoon shoot was held by the Singapore Rifle Association a: Bukit Timah range to-day. The sews were as follows: 300 500 (.00 total Davev 28 39 31 98 Bradshaw 27 38 :-7 lu: Smith 19 30 21 7C Irian
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    International Hockey
    21 22 London. Ii In an international men's ma-.ch played at Llandudo. Scotland beat Wales by four goals to one -Rtuter.
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    Irish Soccer
    125 22 Irish Cup soccer matches played on March 12 and 13 resulted il follows KISH LEAGUE CITY (IP Cliftonville 1. Glentoran 1. Coleraine 4 Belfast Celtic 3 Distillery 4. Ards 1. Glenavon 4. Ballymena 1 Lame 0. Derrv City 0. Linfield 2. Newry Town 1 Portadown 2. Bangor 1
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      78 22 FA. OF IRELAND (EIRE> CGF SEMI-FINALS St. James's Gate 2, Distillery (Dublin) Dundalk 2, Shamrock Rovers 1. LEAGUE OF IRELAND (EIRE* Shelbourne 3, Bray Unknowns 1 Cork 1. Brideville 2. Waterford 8, Drumcondra 0. Tides TO-DAY: 8.04 a.m, 7 ft. 2 m- 7 ft. 2 ins. y TO-MORROW: 8.59 ajn.,
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    ALL THE WEEK-END CRICKET
    1034 23 Services Beat S. C. C. In Thrilling Match Singapore, Sunday "THE United Services were victorious m their first major cricket fixture with 1 the Singapore Cricket Club on the Tanglin ground this afternoon, winning the match by sixteen runs m a thrilling finish. Lt. R. G.
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    S.C.C & S.R.C Reserves Draw
    339 23 S.C.C S.R.C Reserves Draw Singapore, Saturday. A FEATURE of the cricket match on the S.C.C. Padang yesterday between the second strings of the S.C.C. and the S.R.C. was the brilliant knock of 58 runs by Lt. W. D. H. Duke. The military man hit all round the! wicket, and was
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    Airmen Beat St. Joseph's
    215 23 THE RAX II and St Joseph's Institution met at cricket on the school ground last afternoon. Going m first the R.A.F. scored freely to total 152. FO Larkln did well to hit up 45 runs m quick time. G Webb was the best of the institution
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    Blakan Mati Soccer
    99 23 Singapore, Sunday IN a friendly soccer match played at Blakan Mati to-day the R.A.M.C. easily beat the R.A I Blakan Matß by 2—o. The first half was rather tamely contested until DafTern scored with a rattling drive from 30 yards' out The interval arrived with the R.A.M.C.
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    Thrilling F. A. Cup Semi-Finals: Huddersfield & Preston Win
    400 23 Thrilling F. A. Cup Semi-Finals: Huddersfield Preston Win London, Saturday HUDDERSFIELt* Town and Prtiton North End qualifled to meet m the F A. Cup Anal on April 30 at Wembley. To-day's semi-finals resulting as follows: Preston N. E. beat Aston V. B—l, at Brammall Lane. Huddersfield T. beat Sunderland 3—l.
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    SELANGOR TROUNCE PERAK
    408 24 INTER -STATE CRICKET Win By Innings And h Runs Frou Our Own Reporter, Kuala Lumpur. Sunday. PERAK received a severe trouncing at the hands of Selangor m their inter-state cricket encounter here during the week-end. which finished to-day. The homesters won by an inning! and 81 runs.
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    F. M. S. XI V. CEYLON TOURISTS
    100 24 'From Our Oien Reporter, Kuala Lumpur. Sunday. THE following have been selected to represent the F.M.S. m the cricket match against the Ceylon team, which is coming on a tour of Malaya, to be played at Kuala Lumpur during Easter week-end: T. M.
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    BOON MAH BEATS HEMCHIT ON A FOUL
    147 24 'Frojn Our Own Reporiei > Kual? Lumpur, Sunday. iIEIL HEMCHIT 9.11 lost to Nai Boon Mah 9.9 on a foul m the third round iof their fight to-night at Bukit Bintang Park. The decision took eveivbodv by I surprise. Boon Mah had rushed
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    Tanglin Soccer
    40 24 In a soccer match played at Tanglin yesterday the Skin's third string bea the Delta Rangers by 3—2. The scorer for he Skins were Quinn (2) and Pag while Bah Chee and Chin Ann replied for the visitors.
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    CAR THEFTS, ROBBERIES, ETCETERA...
    374 24 CAR THEFTS, ROBBERIES, ETCETERA... SINGAPORE POLICE TWO Cantonese, armed with pistols, are reported to have committed a serious robbery at Kirn Keat Road on Friday, when they decamped with $46 87 cash. The victim is alleged to have been threatened with murder if they reported to the police, who, however,
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    A REAL TRAGEDY
    66 24 S IT is now ascertained that the Chinese motorcyclist, who V i was killed instantaneously on Friday afternoon when he was thrown ofT his skidding motor- cycle m Balestier Road, was a revenue officer attached to the Excise Department. The motor- cycle was only recently bought i
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    Cricket At Blakan Mati
    224 24 St. Andrew's Old Boys beat the Blakan Mali Gunners m a cricket match at Blakan Mati on Saturday by 34 runs. Scores: ST. ANDREWS 0.8.A. R Thoy b Gardener P. Hill run out H. van Cuylenburg c Arthur b Gardener 13 M. Kohloff c Johns b
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    WAR SHORTS...
    75 24 Hankow. Sunday Over 30.000 Chinese wounded soldiers who have recovered have left the hospitals m Kiangsi and have joined the ranks on all fronts. Unknown persons threw two smaii bombs m Nanking Road, Shanghai, on Friday night. There were no casualties The Szechuen Government have appropriated $10,000,000 worth
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