Morning Tribune, 19 December 1939

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    14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE Vol. 4— No. 272. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, December 19, 1989. FIVE CENTS.
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    London TO-DAY H.L. Hopkin
    819 1 I On I ■Two Absorbing Interests In I Britain: The War And Football Pools. London, Dec. 6. ■pHERE are two absorbing in- terests in Britain now. The first ■js, of course, the war. The second is ■the Football Pool. perhaps you in Malaya, where ■betting is
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    AMAZING FEAT OF BRITISH SUBMARINE
    365 1 German Cruise r Sunk At Its Base Minefield And Powerful Defences Penetrated LONDON, DEC. 18. THE ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCED AT 10 O CLOCK THIS MORNING THAT THE BRITISH SUBMARINE URSULA REPORTS THAT SHE SANK A CRUISER OF THE KOELN CLASS AT THE MOUTH OF THE ELBE
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    REICH PROTESTS TO URUGUAY
    150 1 London. Dec. IH. I THE German wireless has an- I nounced that the Reich has I handed a sharp note o! protest Jo I Uruguay, alleging "flagrant breach I of international law m falling 10 allow the Graf Spec adequate! time for effecting repairs. The captain
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    Contraband Control At Aden Also
    69 1 London. Dec. 13. A new British contraband control office ha* bSi established at Aden. It will be used also for examining cargoes which may be of German origin on outward bound ships. London, Dec. 18. Sung, one of the three specimen* of giant panda owned
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    Hitler Reluctantly Ordered Graf Spec Sinking
    865 1 Berlin, Dec. 18. AFFICIAI. conflrmation that the Oral Spec was sunk on the orders of U Hitler .himself is contained m a High Command communique. H le gaTe the order to sink the Graf Spec only after arguments ,asting iveral hours with naval chiefs
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    Soviets Violate Norwegian Territory
    35 1 Stockholm. Dec. 18. rpneral Wallenius (Finnish commanGeneral wai informed a gffSfeswaa that Finnish machine-gun-l^an™ U the entrance o he road "as constantly watched.-Reuter. More details of fighting on page 2] Reuter
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      40 1 On Oilier I'ages Fighting In Finland Nazis Sic/c British Diplomat Malay Judge's New Post B M B C Talk People Places Women's Page j Raids On Britain j Picture Page Cinemas 10 Shipping M Sport U Markets X Late News
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    FIERCER FIGHTING IN FINLAND
    219 2 Soviets Suffer Heavily Oslo, Dec. 18. HEAVY righting has been resumed on the Finnish northern front, according to messages from Svanvik, where the Finns appear to be retiring towards Pitakajaervi and burning everything behind them. On the Norwegian -Finnish frontier a fierce battle has been raging
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    REPORTED MUTINY OF SOVIET SOLDIERS
    100 2 London, Dec. 18. REPORTS of discontent among Russian soldiers and civilians are coming from Stock-holm by way of Esthonia. I Late last night it was stated that the men of a Russian battalion had mutinied and had gone over to the These reports are followed
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    CHINESE ENTER KAIFENG
    43 2 A*t^~. tt Lf London, Dec. 18. NOTHER big Chinese attack on Kaif?ng m Honan Province is reported In Shanghai. At midnight, last, the Chinese claimed to have taken the southern and western Walls of the city after severe street fighting.
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    VICEROY APPEALS FOR CO-OPERRATION
    90 2 VICEROY APPEALS FOR CO-OPERRATION London, Dec. 18. ''THE support of all parties m India A for the Allied cause was stressed by the Viceroy m a speech to-day. Speaking of the difficulty which has arisen over the Federation question, he expressed the hope that all parties and communities, considering their
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    "Again On Eve Of Big German Attack"
    127 2 "Again On Eve Of Big German Attack" Paris. Dec. 18. THE suggestion that we are again en the eve of a big German attack is made by Charles Mwice to-day. He rays that by increasing the number of raids and sending out more patrols, the German High Command are apparently
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    Japanese Statement On Yangtse Re-opening
    142 2 Japanese Statement On Yangtse Re-opening Shanghai, Dec 18. AMPLIFYING the announcement regarding the re-opening of the Yangtze, the Japanese spokesman stated that so fcmg as military operations' continued on the river, navigation and trade would be subjected to restrictions dictated by military necessity. I'd whether it could be taken tha:
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    ORAMATIC END OF GRAF SPEE
    1275 3 Viurns 80 Minutes From Stem To Stern SPITEFUL ACT TO BLOCK TRAFFIC (Berlin, Dec. 18. HE German News Agency says that Hitler, as Com-mander-in-Chief of the armed forces ordered the t uttling of the (iraf Spec. Monte Video, Dec. 18. A boat from the Argentine
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    Humiliating To German Navy
    193 3 Humiliating To German Navy London. Dec. 18. FE Times naval correspondent says the Graf Spec has come to a less glorious enc! than the brave officer whose name she commemorated. There would have been full justification for submitting to internment, but "scuttle rather than sui render" has beei adopted as
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    Nazis Seize Nazis Seize British Diplomat
    199 3 Nazis Seize Nazis Seize British Diplomat Moscow, Oec. 18. MR. George 'Jordon Vereker. Councillor of H_l British KmbftaW m Momww **»<* 1937 i- presumed to have been detained m Germany following the interception by a German warship of the steamer m which he was travelling to England. Mr. Vereker left
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    TRIBUNE FUND REACHES $1,266.86
    249 3 TRIBUNE FUND REACHES $1,266.86 T HK excellent Intel of lUftW* towards Ihe Tribune Christmas 1 <hu.r fund had been contributed up closinjc JSmWW* The fund was started with the object of raising the $2,000 required by LieutCol. Lord, of the Salvation Army, to provide Christmas cheer for 900 destitute Singapore
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    Malay Supreme Court Judge As Lecturer At Raffles College
    217 4 Mr. Justice Musa To Take Up New Appointment (from uur Uwn Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. r £HE Hon. Mr. Justice Musa, Supreme Court Judge, Negri Sembilan, will be going to Singapore to take up a new appointment as Lecturer m Law
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    ECHO OF ATTACK ON POLICE
    197 4 ECHO OF ATTACK ON POLICE A Singapore, Monday. S a sequel to a* raid carried out by Inspectors Ripley and Ahmad, of the Beach Road Police Station, and a -vo.se of ten detectives and ten policemen between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. to-day, four Chinese, a Hokkien
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    POLICEMAN CHARGED
    58 4 Singapore, Monday. Personal bail i m the sum of $100 was this morning i •offered to Khami s fCpl. 989 1 of the Straits Settlements Police Force when he claimed trial to a charge of dishonest misappropriation of $10 belonging to Seah Kwong Kia on Nov 11. The
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    $1,000 BAIL FOR CHINESE
    61 4 j Singapore. Monday.— C l aiming trial to a charge of theft of cash and jewellery to a total value of $700. Ho Kirn Seng, a 29-year-old Cantonese woman was offered bail m the sum of $1,000 m cne surety m the Third Police Court\ this
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    WARNING ISSUED TO MOTOR DEALERS
    246 4 i (From Our Own Reporter) Trr- v Kuala Lumpur. Monday. HE chairman of the Transport Board, mmJ^i\ i^lL h s isstied an announcement stating that some dealers m motor vehicles, spare parts and accessories of motor vehicles, are known to be concealing stocks of such
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    ALLEGED TO HAVE HAD STOLEN WIRE
    80 4 ALLEGED TO HAVE HAD STOLEN WIRE Tu-.-- Singapore. Monday. HREE Hokkiens and two Sikhs this morning claimed trial before Mr. C. H. Koh m the Third Police Court to a charge of dishonestly retaining stolen ?tTfi r i y i SJ COU 0f cable wire valued at $366. belonging to
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    MINE WORKERS AGAIN CO ON STRIKE GIVEN INCREASES ONLY THREE DAYS AGO
    213 4 MINE WORKERS AGAIN CO ON STRIKE GIVEN INCREASES ONLY THREE DAYS AGO Kuala Lumpur, Monday making a demand for a 40 per cent, increase m wages about 2,000 labourers from Sungei Besi mines Ltd., one of the biggest mines m Selangor went on strike this afternoon. This was the second
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    SINGAPORE TRAFFIC PATROLS
    109 4 CINGAPORE Traffic Branch motor-cycle and motor-car patrols began operating m town and suburban areas yesterday. It is stressed that the main object of these patrols is educational, that i s to say that they have been instructed wherever possible to administer a caution on the spot rather
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    2,000 Tapping Coolies Strike In Negri
    194 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Seremban, Monday. npWO THOUSAND Chinese tapping A coolies went on strike during the week-end on Laddang Geddes Estate, Bahau, one of the biggest estates m Negri Sembilan. The men, with the exception of one division, are coolie s under contractors,
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    Alleged III-Treatment Of Child
    65 4 Singapore, Monday.— Charged with assaulting and il? -treating a child named Kee Huat on Dec. 13, at 137, Anson Road, Ti 0 Kap, a 33-year-old Hokkien, claimed trial before Mr. C H Koh m the Third Police Court this morning. The case was postponed to Dec.
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    RADIO TALK ON MR. CHURCHILL
    870 5 RADIO TALK ON MR. CHURCHILL ■"Greatest Living M. P. Of Our Time" In ATESMAN, soldier, man of letters, adventurer, and orator of unique powers, who now for the second time is head of the Brih Navy m time of war— such is Mr. Winston Spenser-Churchill, hose carta*, personality and exceptional
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    Illicit Beer Alleged
    101 5 Illicit Beer Alleged Singapore, Monday. ON the charge of having m their possession trade marks, labels and crown corks for the Tiger and Anchor beers for the purpose of denoting that these beers are the manufacture of a certain person, wlwse manufacture they were not, three Hokkiens were this morning
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    STABBED WITH TWO KNIVES, SAYS "BOY"
    768 5 Singapore, Monday. REMARKING that it was only after she saw blood spurting from n the t4 boy" whom she thought had been punched, that she realised that it was more than a punch, Mrs. Betty Ellen Vincett, a resident at the Goodwood Park Hotel,
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    FELL FROM TROLLEY-BUS
    59 6 Singapore. Monday. lit of a fall from a trolley-bu* h Bridge Road at about 10 a.m. v male Chinese a7M con- i <i to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital ln I a semi-c.mscious .state He sustained abrasions over the left j hand and was also .suspected to
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    People & Places
    911 6  - People Places Vera Ardmore tjOMAXCE was m the air yester- day! Three weddings of interest both m Singapore and at Home were celebrated here two at St. Andrews' Cathedral, the other at the Tanglin Harrison Roman Catholic Church. Bride No. 1. was Miss Kathleen Jarrett, who married Capt. Alfred Wall
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    MORNING TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 19, 1939. FREE MEN WIN
    330 8 MORNING TRIBUNE Tuesday, December 19, 1939. FREE MEN WIN latest war news records notable victories for the cause of democracy. News of the scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spec BUM .simultaneously with stories from Finland describing how the Rtd advance is being held up at all point* The end of
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    Nazi Airmen Machine-Gun And Bomb Merchant Ship
    286 8 Raiders Active Along j The East Coast, London, Dec. 18. •PHE Air Ministry announces that enemy aircraft appeared at several points off the East Coast late yes f erday afternoon. Anti-aircraft guns fired for a short time m the Humher district. Fighters engaged
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    JAPANESE SHIP RELEASED BY BRITISH CONTROL
    145 8 JAPANESE SHIP RELEASED BY BRITISH CONTROL London. Dec. 18. THE Ministry of Economic Warfare an--1 nounced yesterday afternoon: "The Japanese steamer Sanyo Maru, carrying a cargo of German exports, was re- leased from the contraband control base m the Downs this afternoon, after' a stay of 24 hours. Assuraaces were
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    464 CASUALTIES IN AIR FORCE
    74 8 London, Dec. 18. THE Air Ministry casualty lirt contains 1 the names of three previously reported missing and now killed m action two missing believed killed, twenty killed on active service, two missing believed killed on active service eieven (including two aircraft women)' died on
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    Nazi Plane Destroyed
    78 8 London, Dec. 18. A call for assistance was received a an east coast port after a motorshii had been sunk by a German plan about eight miles off the shore. Th crew W3re picked up by a fishing boi uninjured. It transpired that two Nazi machine attacked
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    EMPIRE AIR TRAINING AGREEMENT SIGNED
    175 8 Ottawa, Dec. 18. I^HE Empire air training agreement was signed to-day by Mr. Mackenzie King (Canadian Premier) and Lord Riverdale, head of the British delegation to the Empire air training conference. Lord Riverdale also initialled the agreement on behalf of Australia and New Zealand. Details
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    Winging Its Way Through The
    163 9  - Winging Its Way Through The Sunlit Heavens iM.imx; ELEMENT Left: This is the British aircraft which, with both wings severely damaged, managed to reach home after a successful reconnaissance flight over North-West Germany. On the port side of the aft. hall of the top skin is missing for almost the
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    SIX WEEKS FOR THEFT OF CIGARETTES
    90 11 Singapore, Monday. LEONG HONG YOCK was this morning sentenced to six weeks' rigorous imprisonment, to be followed by six months' police supervision, by Mr. Conrad Oldham m the second police court on a charge of theft of ten. cartons of torchlight cigarettes, valued at
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    GAMING CHARGES
    114 12 GAMING CHARGES Singapore. Monday. 800 Tiong claimed trial this morning m the second police court, before Mr. Conrad Oldham, on a charge that he assisted m the management of a common gaming house at Malay Street, at 11.20 a.m. last Saturday. On the application of Court Inspector Charles W. Such
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    LOTTERY CHARGE
    110 12 LOTTER Y CHARGE Singapore, Monda>. VIIFR Ah Kow and Ng Sieu Tian thz last-named a woman, mad© their second appearance before Mr Conrad Oldham m the second police court this morning on a chaise of assisting m the management of a public rotten, chap-ji-ki, at Jalan Sultan at 1.40 p.m.
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    SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR Wpore FOOTBALL ASSN.
    962 13 SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR Wpore FOOTBALL ASSN. PROFIT OF $1,097 REPORTED I r £\{E annual general meeting of the Singapore Amateur Football Association will be held at Anson Road Stadium on Friday, Jan. 5, 1940, at 5.30 p.m. Ihe agenda includes the election H the President, three vice-presi-■ents and three independent
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    ALLEGED KNIFE TTACK IN STREET
    84 13 Singapore, Monday. AID to have been attacked by a crowd ol Chinese, armed with knives, at ie junction of Club Street and Ramah reet at about 8.20 to-night, a male unese was taken to the General Hostal by ambulance. He received an incised wound of
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    VAN KNOCKS DOWN BOY
    61 13 VAN KNOCKS DOWN BOY Singapore, Monday. The ambulance was summoned to the jetton of Selegie Road and Sophia Road •tly after ten o'clock this morning attend to a seven-year old boy wh > it! been knocked down by a motor-van Selegie Road. boy sustained contusions over the k of the
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    MEETING OF BOXING ASSOCIATION
    323 13 THE tenth annual general meeting of the Singapore Amateur Boxing 1 Association was held last evening at the St. Andrew's School under the chairmanship of Mr. Paul Storr. The minutes of the last meeting were read and passed. The election of officials for 1940 resulted as
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    Prison For Possession Of Dagger
    155 13 Singapore, Monday. UO Ah Kou pleaded guilty this morning m the second polite court before Mr. Conrad Oldham on a charge of being m possession of a dagger without a licence. Court Inspector Charles W. Such told the court that at 11.45 p.m. on Dec.
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    CHINESE INSTITUTE HOLDS SOCIAL
    124 13 CHINESE INSTITUTE HOLDS SOCIAL Singapore, Monday. SPEECHES stressing the importance of enhancing knowledge during the spare hours were made to-night at the tea-party given by the Overseas Chinese Institute at the close of a successful term. Among those present at the function were Dr. Chen Su Lan, Mr. Yap Pheng
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    Arab Woman Charged
    73 13 Singapore, Monday. AN Arab woman, Midah Binti Ali, claimed trial this morning m the second police court before Mr. Conrad Oldham on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Hock Ah Chew and Hoo Soon Lee with a penknife at 11 p.m. last Saturday at Johore Road
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    GUNNERS BEAT S.C.C. IN EXCITING HOCKEY
    343 14 Poor Ground Conditions Spoil Game 3rd Ac Ac Regiment 2; S.C.C. "B" 0. GROUND conditions were not conducive to good hockey on the padang yesterday when the 3rd Ac Ac Regiment beat an S.C.C. eleven by tAo goals to nil. *v*r*^ «£olaaaW Piayers kept
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    MATCHES CANCELLED
    48 14 MATCHES CANCELLED Owing to the bad ground conditions, i two hockey matches had to be cancelled yesterday. One was between the S.C.R.C. and the Malaya Command (Signals* which should have been played at Alexandra, while the other was between the C.S.C. and the Colts at the formers' ground.
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    S.C.C. RUGBY
    65 14 The following have accepted to play for the S.C.C. 'A" vs. R.A.F. "A" on Tuesday. Dec. 19 at S.C.C.:— D. A. Blunt; H. P. Kelway. J. P. Wood, T. P. Jones. D. M. Seward: I. M. Scott, R. Laird; H. T. Grieve, B. M. Purser, A. S. Cassels.
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    Handicaps For Penang Races
    238 14 THE following are the handicaps for the first day of the Penang Turf Club's X'mas-New Year Meeting. Tuesday, Dec. 26. Horses— Class I— Div. I— si 2 Furs. ROYAL HAMPTON 9.12 SMOKE DREAMS 9.07 COOLTIPT 9 05 BOMBUS 8.13 TOYMAN 8.12 TOVARICH 8.10 KAI TERE 7.13
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    S.R.C.'s ONE-GOAL WIN OVER GORDONS
    368 14 S.R.C. "B" I| Gordon Highlanders 0. A solitary goal scored by Forest seven minutes from the end gave the S.R.C. "B" a well-deserved victory over the Gordon Highlanders when the teams met m a hockey match at the Padang yesterday. Played under terrible ground conditions,
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      214 14 SPORTS DIARY To-day HOCKEY: V.M.C.A. Juniors C.8.C., V.M.C.A X M'GIIY: SCC "A" vs. rapa p J —Padang. A TIDE TABLE TO-DAY High Water: 4 00 A.M 8 2 lt 357 P.M. 7 5 ft! TO-MORROW High Water; 4.50 A.M. 8 1 ft 5.12 P.M. 7.1 ft BOMBAY SPORTS CLUB The
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      BULLION MARKET
      19 15 London, Monday. Silver Spot 23 7 16 Silver Forward 9'lo" Bar Gold, Fine, per oz. £8.8.0 j
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      LONDON SHARE LIST
      105 15 London, Monday. Distillers 66 3 Dunlop Rubber 30 General Electric 74 lO l^ Imperial Chemical Industries 29 3 Imperial Tobacco 119 4 x 2 Anglo-Dutch 27/6 Canadian Pacific 7 London Tin 4 9 Kubber PI. In. Trust 34 14 Linggis i' l^ 2 Ayer Hitams 24 9
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      LONDON RUBBER
      41 15 London, Monday. Market Tone Quiet But Steady Spot 11 15/16 b 12 s ilst Forward) January 11% b 12s 2nd Forward) Jan/ March 11 15/16 b 12 I 3rd Forward) Apl/ June 11 13/16 b ll 7/ 8 s
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      PRODUCE
      66 15 London, Monday. Palm Oil (Malay) m bulu ugSept. S'ment Not given Copra (Straits FMS) eptember S'ment £11.0.3 Sellers Sago Flour (Sarawak) )ecember S'ment. 20, 6 Value Tapioca Seed Pearl, Ft Quality 'Singapore) )ecember S'ment. 2L6 Sellers Pepper (FAQ) White luritok Dec Jan. S'ment. 4 s/ s Paid Buyers .ampong
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      TIN
      19 15 London, Monday. Ca^h (Official Price) £258t 2 Buyer* £259 Sellers Forward (Official Price) £256 Buyers £256*2 Sellers I
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      FOREIGN EXCHANCE
      49 15 London. Monday. T. T London on Paris 176.00 fT London on Amsterdam 7.52 T T London on Shanghai 4 7 8 T T London on Hongkong Is. 3 1 32 d. TT London on Japan Is. 2 11/32ct. 4 «7T London on New York 402.00 to 404.00
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    DOMINIONS AIR SCHEME
    153 15 London, Dec. 18. IN the announcement regarding the 1 Dominion air training scheme, .signed at Ottawa yesterday, the Air Ministry recalls that its object was the establishment of additional training schools m the Dominions possessing advantages of space and climate as well as virtual immunity from enemy
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    Rise In Local Tin Price
    280 15 Singapore, Monday. pOLLOWING the rise m the local r price of tin on Saturday to $129 y 2 up 3 /4. and to-day to $130% up 5 8 there was a much better enquiry for tin shares and business showed an all round improvement. Bear
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    SIR DAVID GALLOWAY
    34 15 The many friends of Sir David Galloway. who was recently m hospital, will be glad to hear that he is now fu.'ly recovered, and is up and about, looking vsry fit.
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    Shipping Losses
    68 15 London, Dec. 18. THE total tonnage of British ships sunk between Dec. 10 and 16 was 22.727. The total for neutral tonnage m the samd period is 20.244. Two German vessels captured m th»; same period totalled 7,920 tons. During the first ten days of December. 1,100 vessels
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    Nazi Bomber Down In Sea
    85 15 London, Dec. 18. k GERMAN bomber chased by British tish planes and biased at by shore batteries provided a spectacle for hundreds of people at an East Coast town yesterday. According to one eyewitness the bomber eventually dived into the sea. Heavy explosions of gunfire
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    CHARGED WITH ATTEMPT TO STEAL TAXI
    72 15 S_n_jap ic Monday. Produced hi the Third Police Co-urt thu morning. F Ahern. a 24 -year-old Britisher, claimed trial to a charge of attempted theft of a motor-car, vaiuert at $1*00 in the early hours of this mormni! .tt Bras Basah Road. Mr C.
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    Had False Coins. Gaoled
    104 15 Singapore. Monday Cheow Ah Hoo was this afternoor sentenced to four months' rigorous im prisonment by Mr. J. L. McFall m fh< Cirminal District Court on charges (a that he on Oct. 26. at East Reclamatior i Road, had a counterfeit 20-cent piec whu-h .he knew
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    LOSSES BY MINE ALMOST NEGLIGIBLE
    95 16 LOSSES BY MINE ALMOST NEGLIGIBLE ANY tendency to exaggerate the importance of recent sinkings of shij .s by mine is corrected by some remarkable figures received m Singapore from the Admiralty last night. The total number of ships convoyed up to Dec. 13 including neutrals, was 4 645 and the
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    MORE DETAILS OF BREMEN EPISODE
    144 16 FURTHER details of the episode m i which the giant German liner Bremen was sighted by a British submarine within torpedo range have been received m Singapore from the Admiralty. A fact not hitherto published locally is that the submarine, after sighting the liner through
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    INDIAN NEWSMEN TO MEET
    103 16 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. ARRANGEMENTS are being made for Indian journalists m Malaya to meet m conference m Singapore m January. The conference will follow that of the Malay journalists held recently. Arrangements are being made for the Indian journalists to meet His
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    $8,000 Fire In K.L.
    145 16 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. DAMAGE amounting to $8,000 was caused when fire broke out at the Weng Fatt Engineering Works, Sungei Besi Road. Kuala Lumpur, m the early hours of yesterday morning. The work of the firemen, who were quickly on the scene
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    'Fantastic Story" Of Complainant
    388 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Monday. DESCRIBING the story of the complainant as fantastic, Mr. J. B. Weisi, the first magistrate, Johore Bahru, acquitted K. R. Panikar, a dresser attached to the R.A.F. Tengah, at the police court to-day without calling for the defence. Panikar
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    Malaya's Great Generosity
    206 16 Malaya's Great Generosity t>URTHER comments on the gift r of £80,000 from the Malaya Patriotic Fund to British war .charities are made m letters which have been received from London by H.E. the Governor. I "This great generosity," writes Sir Frank Bowater, Lord Mayor of London, 1 "is a further
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    RAIDING CAREER OF GRAF SPEE
    328 16 AFFKTHFR dOll Dec W. J k. attounl «s now ava.L able of the Graf Spee activir during the 8« a month" of her 3 ing career. ra On Oct. 2, it claimed its first vwJ the 5 000 tons steamer the Clement 51 warship came
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    STOP PRESS
    128 16 MORE BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE NORTH CHINA Peiping, Dec. 18 THE Durham Light Infantry detachment, which has hitherto been carrying out guard duty at the British Embassy, left by train tonight en route to Hongkong, leaving one platoon of the East Surreys, ol roughly 35 men under two officers.
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    MORE RESTRICTIONS ON SHIPPING
    49 16 London, Dec. 18. The Admiralty has forbidden foreign ships to send out wireless messages within territorial waters of the United Kingdom except to wireless stations m this country, and only English and French languages may be used. Distress signals are naturally excluded from the order.
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