Morning Tribune, 5 February 1940

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    8 1 The Morning Tribune I Mon- Feb., 5, 194(1
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    Anti-Bntish Movement In Hangchow
    213 1 Anti-Bntish Movement In Hangchow SHANGHAI, FEB. 4. T HK I VTEST PLACE FOR 1 IBE AMI BRITISH MOVEMINT TO BE LAUNCHED IS HANGCHOW, 80 MILES SOI JH WEST OF SHANGHAI, ACCORDING TO THE CHINKSK PKESS. Anti-British posters were plaster1 in all principal thoroughfares, id an inventory of registration for 1
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    IMPORTANT DECISIONS REACHED AT BALKAN CONFERENCE
    790 1 "Never More Solid Than To-day" .Belgrade, Feb. 4. PROMINENCE is pven m to-day's l^svspapers to the statements made by the four leading delegates to the Balkan Entente conference, stressing the unity and strength of the Entente. The statements were made at a dinner given
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    Malayan Airman Decorated In France
    322 1 Malayan Airman Decorated In France C .MALAYAN has earned th< 1 uisti.M tion of Itiujj the first K.A.f. officer, a:>d the first m: m S her of the BE F, to be award**! i the Croix de iiuene. I The honour was ronfencd on S Satuida.v m Fiamp QCB. I
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    "STALIN HAS DOUBLE-CROSSED HITLER"
    127 1 "STALIN HAS DOUBLE-CROSSED HITLER" Rome, Feb. 4. MARSHAL BALBO'S newspaper today asserts plainly m a leading article* signed by the editor that Russia has double-crossed Germany. The article states that Stalin's action m the Balkans and especially the aggression m Finland went far beyond any previous accord with Hitler, and
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    56 1 Berlin. Feb. 4. THE official News Agency states that the Netherlands steamer Laertes, 5 825 tons, was mined m the Erm!i.sh Channel. There is little hope of fating the *hip. The majority of the crew have- left her. It adds that the Netherlands tanker Mamura has arrived at Rotterdam badly
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    Veteran Japanese Minister Challenges Policy In China
    181 1 Tokyo, Feb. 4. NATION-WIDE indignation has been aroused m Japan by Mr. Sailo, veteran member of the Minseito Party, who said m the Lower House yesterday afternoon that if the principles of Prince Konoye's statement were rigidly carried out, Japan wouid get nothing
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    SOVIET "HEROES'
    40 1 Moscow. hv\) i < „i»! lie Badlgln an i the ledov have been accorded the title hero ol the Bovlet Union and decorated with the Order of Lenin and gold .star modal each. They were also awarded 25,000 roubles.-
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    100 KILLED BY PLANES IN A DAY
    142 1 100 KILLED BY PLANES IN A DAY B Helsinki. Fftk 4. M <li; than 100 people were killed X ta the mosl wideX of Russian air raicis* since I v.v began. P wtg the largest deathroll H!' 1 1 !»ingl< day. Official figures ■1 •ndirat*. t| ul about 200 people
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    GANDHI & JINNAH TO SEE VICEROY
    52 1 GANDHI JINNAH TO SEE VICEROY New Delhi. Feb. 4 Mr Gandhi has arrived here and Will have a conference with Lord Linlithgo^ to-morrow on India's constitutional future. Mr. Jinnah will .see Lord Linlithgow on Tuesday. it is believed that arrangements are being made foi an interview between Mr. Gandhi and
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    FINNS CAPTURE MANY SOVIET STRONGHOLDS
    806 2 "Gangsters Gun" Masters New Russian Weapon Helsinki, Feb. 3. FINNISH communique describing the lighting near Summa, states: The enemy suffered great losses." North-east of Lake Lfldfcf*, the Finns have captured a number of enemy strongholds, where the Russians lost 200 dead, 70 prisoners. 25 tanks
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    Banditry In India
    63 2 N w Delhi. Feb. 3.— Two memoers o a 'military party were killed and t' wounded whett their cars mre held tj i fang irom across \hr boi-^' il British India. The hold Hip occm Bannu. The %oi% is reported nave looted and fired at the cars.
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    Quake Shocks In Greece
    71 2 Athens. Feb. I. SOMETHING approaching a panic exist* m the town of Katerini on the shores of the Gulf of Salonika as the result of earth-MU.-ike shocks which were felt m the district on Thursday and Friday. Altogether there had been 11 shocks, some of which
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    NAZIS' PLAIN MURDER OF NEUTRAL SEAMEN
    134 2 Oslo, Feb. 4. VOlvWA^ lost ten ships and a hundred sailors m the past ten days, bringing her losses since the beginning of the war to 40 ships, representing 118,000 tons and 248 sailors. During the whole of 1W4J1915, Norwegian losses totaled 60,000 tons
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    GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF THREE PLANES IN RAIDS
    187 2 GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF THREE PLANES IN RAIDS II is intimated th;it abi.utjoH (German lw;mbtr^ partkip^^B ed m to-day's raid* „n shippfnß off the British coa-i. --iU*ute r H A Hijih Command <• 1 that German recount H the North Sea yesterd M tLsh warships, armed m j merchantmen m
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    INFANTRY FIRE AT WEST FRONT
    66 2 INFANTRY FIRE AT WEST FRONT p. V \B THE banks of the Rhii !mv M echoing m tire past 24 m fusiladts between, infantry although exchanges appear to havei M[ military significance. On the western slopi 1 v l foothills. German patrolj 'iJ? I<O JMS French advance posts bui i
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    "AN EPIC OF THE WAR!
    110 2 "AN EPIC OF THE WAR! London, Ftf B DESCRIBING it as "one of tt W the war. 1 Mr. Ernest B^ijJ tribute m a speech on Sat H to the trawlermen's Immedi c to the Admiralty appeal for com™ magnetic mines. mireß He revealed that when tin discovered, the Admiralty
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    'SELF-GOVERNMENT WHERE PRACTICAL" SAYS ATTLEE
    534 3 Urges Mandates For All Colonies abour Party leader, m a speech on Saturday declared that lust press forward the policy of extending self--1> M;;". herever it was practical. t M gBl abandon any daim of special rights:' he declared, (!t to brin?> all our colonial
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    LEAVE FOR R.A.F. RESUMED
    71 3 London, Feb. 4. I^H*; Wl r oifice announces diai "hmiteu leave for the personnel of the B.E.F. for all stations within the United Kingdrm will be reopened on Tuesday next." It will be recalled that leave from the B.E.F was temporarily suspended on Jan. 30 owing
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    MORE NAZI DREAMS
    91 3 London Fcb 4 T4IE s?ie ilTival atßuen-. An- Frenrn vessel Jamaiqur disposes o the foundiitiuiilr.ss igO*tnn« cont. Ed Jn the r-vent German broadt 'ihi.s stated tliat thi- .'umaique, together with the Highland Patriot Highland Monarch and Andaluria Star was overdue, not having bt.n heard o for over
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    R.A.F. Saves More Lives At Sea
    177 3 London, Krl L FOR the second time m two flays, aircraft of the RAF coastal command have been instrumental m savhitf the lives of sea nun adrift on the open sra. On Friday seven men wen- picked up off the north east coast of
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    14 3 the southern and great western railOeneraJ heave was promised as soon British Officials Wireless
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    How To Fight Nazi Mines
    65 3 How To Fight N azi Mines London, Feb. 4. In a broad- weeping, said lha' c roughly of two mine lying on the j i moored unpack mine. expJodej when a ship i eld, and counainst it oonticted m -t over the mine- beiine was mocrod to the i detonated
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    15 3 (The bodies of two wn^a y;ere washed north-east coast of Scotburied yesterday British Official Wireless
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    Alleged Kidnapping Of Girl On Wedding Day
    223 4 TAMILS FACE SERIOUS CHARGE Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. L^l\ B Tamil.*., uho Wtn originally charged with kidnapping pleaded not guilh to the amended charge of rioting this morning m the First Magistrate's Court. The prosecution allege that the five men Waylaid I marriage part]
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    Thai Govt.'s Denials
    69 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Feb. pHITICISM being forthcoming- that the Government is entering into trade ventures with the intention of competing with private business, the Govt rnmeni announced this morning that it is only taking interest m small industries neglected by private enterprise. These industries are
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    WOMAN ADMITS SUICIDE ATTEMPT
    138 4 (From Our Own Correspond, Muar. Saturrfav \S elderly Chines, I i to-day produced "l i Inche Haron bin Ahmad I H S charged with having attempted i commit suicide by jumping I the Muar River at Tanjo.,* v S on the night of Feb 1 i
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    Sugar Prices Reduced
    51 4 THE Food Controller announces that from to-day (Feb. 5) the retail maximum selling price of Java sugar will be reduced m the Colony by one cent per catty. The new maximum prices will therefore be BV2 cents per catty m Singapore and Penang. and nine cents m
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    Jewel Thief Gaoled
    112 4 Singapore, Saturday. OENTENCE of two months' rfcort* imprisonment was this morning passed m the Third Police I »'Uri on a young Indian who recent I v pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of jewel* and cash amounting to $17$ from a safe m his employer's shop.
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    His Tenth Conviction
    147 4 Singapore, Saturday- I A REPUTED had character w» s l day sentenced to two m° Wt rigorous imprisonment by I Watson m thu Third Police I when he nlearied guilty to of loitering m a back law intent to cor unit an otter The accused. Sulaiman I
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    POLICEMEN INJURED IN FIGHT IN K.L. HOTEL
    292 5 Tamils Produced In Police Court (From Our Own Reporter.) 1 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. J^WKXTY-FIVE dollars damage was done to a liotol and six people were carried to hospital m the early hours of yesterday morning when four Tamils created a disturbance m the
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    JEALOUS MAN 'HANGS" HIMSELF BUT LIVES!
    79 5 JEALOUS MAN 'HANGS" HIMSELF BUT LIVES! I i From Our Own Reporter.) Penang, Saturday. [ED to have attempted to Dmit guicide, a Tamil was this jning bound over by Mr. Lim on Terk m the Middle Court m sum of $25 for six months. •he accused was said to have
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    Hon. Dr. S. R. Krishnan Re-elected
    48 5 h>. Excellency the High Commissioner. Hii the approval of His Majesty tho B has ben pleased to appoint Dr. H Radha Krishnan to be an Unofficial the F< deral Council for a H three years with effect Hi:. b 1. 1940. iiiclu-sive
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    Free-For-All On Estate
    129 5 (From Our Own Correspondent Muar, Sunday. a result of an affray on Gan lian Estate. Bukit Pasir. last night when there was a free-for-all iip.ht, .15 Indian labourers Including rive women were arrested by the Police. I Thirteen of the ai rested persons were produced before Inche
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    GAOL FOR MORE S.H.B. STRIKERS
    244 5 GAOL FOR MORE S.H.B. STRIKERS Singapore, Saiurda\ At the continued bearing of the case Agminet eleven strikers «»1 the Singapore Harbour Board Dockyard, six of whom wen 1 convicted yesterday. Mr. L C. Goh, Fifth Magistrate, Bentenced the remainder to-day to various terms of impris" ment. The chafgei r.yam.st the
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    Danish Ship Bombed: 8 Survivors
    105 5 Danish Ship Bombed: 8 Survivors Oslo, Feb. 3. pKJHT survivors of the Danish steamer Vidar (2060 tons) which was sunk m the North Sea on Wednesday, were landed at St^vanger by a Danish steamer. Sixteen others of the crew perished. The Vidar was bombed by an aeroplane and the whole
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    SNOWFALLS ON CHINA BATTLEFIELDS
    123 5 Shanghai, Feb. NUMEROUS sharp engagements between the Chinese and Japanese forces have taken place since Jan. 29 m the south-east and southwest of Tabling Mountain m llu!>ei m the midst of heavy snow: All Japanese attacks have b< pulsed with heavy losses inflicted on the enemy.
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    SEVEN HURT IN IPOH CAR CRASH
    168 5 SEVEN HURT IN IPOH CAR CRASH (From Our Own Reporter.) Ipoh, Saturday. Assistant Penghulu, Che Ahmad of Parit, and eight of his friends including two infant children were involved m a serious car accident at the fourth mile Ipoh Batu (lajah Road yesterday, when the vehicle crashed into a telegraph
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    ADMIRALTY'S HARD TASK
    193 5 London, Feb. 3. TIIK weekly journal Economist, commenting on the control and co-ordination by the Admiralty of the construction and repair of both merchant and naval vessels as from Feb. If reviews Britain's present building: capacity of merchant ships. The Journal says: "At the outbreak of war
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    SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S ANNIVERSARY
    118 6 SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S ANNIVERSARY Singapoic, Sunday. TIIF M'vcnty-rißrhth anniversary «f Srimal Swami Vivrkanamla was oefltbrsted by the members of the Riimakrisbna Mission at their heart(|ii: itris m Nun is Road thi> MMV* ing. The proceedings begun with prayers followed by the distribution ol Prasa('mi (sweet meals), m the evening the celebrations
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    Prefers Prison To Rotan
    307 6 Sillffcpore, SatiiHav 4 VAIN appeal Mr further MMlUl'l imprisonment, instead OJ A itrokM of the rote* was rna<i<- l,y Abdul Salani, a youn* Mohani,,|(|;.n Indian, when In- pttftfed «***< Md conviction M a dHBIC ol theft irom a dwelling. Accii ed was charged m the lower
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    NEW BUILDING FOR TAPAH VOLUNTEERS
    75 6 'f'HK headquarters of the 1 18 th: Platoon F.M-S. Volunteer Force, Tapah, recently vacated the old local Police Station which it was ocrup> 'inff f«vr some years and removed to a new and spacious hnuse next to the Tunku Abdul Rahman Club, Old Hospital road.
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    R.A. OFFICER FINED ON MOTORING CHARGE
    261 6 Singapore, Saturday. OOLDIN(i the view that there was insufficient evidence to convict the accused on the major charge but that there was sufficient evidence to convict him on the alternative charge, Mr. C. H. Whitton, Traffic District Judge, to-day imposed a fine of $50
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    Boy Falls 12 Feet
    55 6 Siigapore. Sunday. A LITTLE Javanese boy lell Irom :i height of about 12 leet at the driver* 1 quarters of Goodwood Park hotel ]«St befoie six o'clock this evening. He sustained contusions over the front part of his body and face An 1 1 lbiilance removed
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    44 6 Singapore, Saturday. The F"ire Bri^ude were called out to Tanjon^; Rhu at six o'clock this eTenini; v-hsre a fire broke out at a sawmill. Only one stack of v/ood was destr )ve t The fire was brought unc*er contrn 1 within half an hour.
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    People & Places
    829 6 People Places MANY PtOPLt v I ARTED OFF 1 PKIVATL PAHIIS PARTIES ON SATURDAY MGHT, WENT ON TO RAF. FLFS OR THE CATHAY FOH A HOl'R OR SO AND THEN FINISHED UP AT TANGLIN CLUB. One of the most striking women m the room was Mrs. Peggy Anderson who IH
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    LABOURERS HURT
    46 6 Singapore Sunday* As a result of a fight among bourers at Tengah thLs r r M Chinese woman and a male mkh m bourer were injured. Both ol tamed injuries over the fac jM back. They were convey e a cral hospital by ambular
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      80 6 PUBLIC NOTICES I SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL ,4 .'a 1 DEBENTURE STOCK 1» INTEREST DUE IST MARCII. l^B Notice is hereby given that fer Register of the above Stock *-jm closed from the 18th to tht ary, 1940, both days inclusive m C H GOLPIi!" Municipal Secretary M Tenders are invited for
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    COLOUR in the NURSERY
    872 7 COLOUR in the NURSERY Walt Disney's immortal Snow White inspires the attractive nursery frieze i I shown above. Left, a perpendicular band which could be used to break J I up monotonous wall spaces. IfitMIMIIIMHUMMpII tMllll Ma J I have, from then s an instinctive love I !l( little baby
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    So Easy To Make!
    88 7 So Easy To Make! PEPPERMINT CKKAMS 2 cups castor su^ar pinch cream of tartar 2 3 cup watT 2 teaspoon efIfKQCC of peppermint Place sugar and water In a saucepan I Stir over a slow heat til! BUfftV is dU--1 solved, then bring to boil. Add cream of tartar. "Boil
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      64 7 r SAUSAGES that will make I/ok ask for a second helping [fa alv/ays a treat when S'.C.S J' j SAU&AGES are put on -the table fert f Every .sausage ts packed with 'v^jp?^. KOOdOOtt una flavour. Delicious >v < SB l too, are our CHIPOLAT A. COCKTAIL and TOMATO J7
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    MORNING TRIBUNE Monday, February 5, 1940. Blackmail Too Late
    304 8 MORNING TRIBUNE Monday, February 5, 1940. Blackmail Too Late DELIBERATE boaeiag of a French railway property near tin- hordcr '»f Indo-Chiiu hv Japanese airmen is the latent illustration ef hie contention ye ha\e made frequently thai Japanese politicians who talk incessantly of efforts to improve relations with the Western powen
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    VICTORY MUST ENTAIL SACRIFICES — Mr. Stanley
    854 8 VICTORY MUST ENTAIL SACRIFICES Mr. Stanley New War Minister's First Public Speech LONDON, FEB. B HAVE ONLY ONE WAR AIM-TO k jj^ W (o\]riK|| THAT PEACE SHALL BE LASTING, DECLARED V!Jvr ST \NI Fl f THE NEW WAR MINISTER, SPEAKING AT xiVcASTLE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE SERIES OF WEEKLY GOVERNMENTAL
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    FREQUENT INTERRUPTIONS
    83 8 FREQUENT INTERRUPTIONS Tbm were frequent interruption? from a few people during the War Wr nister's speech. Six men were fj< from the hall after repeated warn" Leaflets headed 'The war is ii vain" were showered from the nai" rony. The leaflets were published by the Newcastle branch of the independent
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    FIRES IN GERMAN TERRITORY
    58 8 Berlin. Feb. I Careless workmen were Warned fires m German territory srei Basle yesterday, according to an t News Agency wl.ich states that iw petrol tanks exploded at Esiemer &JJ between Exingcn and Gegcnin-;ii i« agenc adds that near the s.cn explosion rocks have been blasted
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    LAST WEEK In Singapore
    146 9 LAST WEEK In Singapore Hlhove: A group picture taken at Mrs. ■I I). Munueirs "musical morning." Hi row. leit to right: Mrs. A. 11. H)jfkiiison and Madame Coelho. 2nd Bow. leit to right: Mrs. H. D. Mun- >!• M Mrs. RL. Nunn, Mr. Werner Baer, ■M Howard Pedlow, Mrs. Murray.
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    HOW BRITISH NAVY MAINTAINS SEA MASTERY
    219 10 HOW BRITISH NAVY MAINTAINS SEA MASTERY London, Feb. IT is pointed out m naval circles 1 to-day that when the Achilles joined battle with the Graf Snee she had steamed 134,000 mile> since her last refit. Ships of the Royal Navy have been at sea on an average of 25
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    ENGLISH HISTORY IN ALHAMBRA FILM
    179 11 ENGLISH HISTORY IN ALHAMBRA FILM hint-ina Review Fneli/h history, pre--1 lm The Private Lives of. Fivnn. which is now. V the Aiaambra It 1 past could oe mterf tabiv to the case of h v Ssona i<n school E bhc events depicted m IF m the main but they N
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    LITTLE RUMANIAN PRODUCE FOR REICH
    39 11 Berlin. Feb. 3. t agency denies retrace on the railway x-cupied Poland has etely stopped but states, it only a lew hundred produce reached Germany nia since the agreement to two months ago.— Reuter
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    First German Machine Crashes On English Soil
    1076 11 THRILLING AIR BATTLES LONDON, FEB. 3. THE AIR MINISTRY ANNOUNCES THAT A NUMBER OF ENEMY AIRCRAFT APPROACHED THE NORTH-EAST COAST OF BRITAIN THIS MORNING AND ATTACKED SHIPPING. R.A.F. FIGHTERS WENT UP AND BUCCESBFITL INTERCEPTIONS WERE MADE. TWO HBINKELS WERE ENGAGED BY OUR FIGHTERS,
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    12 Killed In Air Raid Shelter
    244 12 12 Killed In Air Raid Shelter Helsinki, Feb. TUVKLVK people IT«f« killed when i bomb hit an air raid shelter at Bjorneberg during yesterday*! extensive air raids on towns and villigefl m Finland. One bomb also hit the red cross emblem on i hospital and demolished the building, but patients
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    Controversy Over Foong Seong Cup Competition
    822 13 IHCAPORE DECIDES HOT TO COMPETE (From Our Own Correspondent) I Johore Bahru, Sunday. IffiCATBS instead ol cups will be presented to winners m the forthcoming Malayan badminton championship tournament to be at ipoh during the Easter holidays, and the average amount for vear^pent on
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    Home Soccer And Rugby
    60 13 London, Feb. 3. |N the South-Western divis.cn, Plyi mouth beat Bristol City 10—3. All the other English and Scottish regional and Rugby League matches were postponed. In Rugby Union fixtures, Neath beat the Royal Air Force 28—3; Swansea lost to Swansea Valley 3—ll and Torquay beat
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    SELANGOR TROUNCE PERAK
    184 13 SELANGOR TROUNCE PERAK (From Our Own Ueporter) Koala Lumpur, Saturday. AFTEB I series of missed ch«HT*H m the first-half. Selanjror. playing better m i team than ever before this season, scored four quick foalfl late m the second-half against Perah who were unable to score ill the inter-State hockey match
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    CHANGI GUNNERS TOO GOOD FOR JOHORE
    312 14 (I rom On. Oun Keportel Jokart Hahni. Satuidav THE HA. (i bai i (Mrai.-d Johors l>> 11 pointi (one pal. one ptMstl and two tries) to three poinU (a |MMialty fOsU) m y mttch played here this al'ternoon. The iigptrior s]Km*H (it tllC \isitiMK
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    Peng Soon Wins Selangor Title
    114 14 Peng Soon Wins Selangor Title "OUTSIDERS" SUCCEED IN BADMINTON TOURNEY Kuala Lumpur, Saturday FOR the first time m the history of local badminton "outsiders 1 Selangor's most important badminton titles this evenini Wong Peng Soon of Johore won the men's singles championing Selangor s Alimat, and Miss Lee Chee Neo
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    North & South Hockey XIs
    96 14 North South Hockey XIs FOLLOWING ARL XOIUH AND SOUTH 1 1 AMS FOR IHK ANNIAL HOOKEY EN(OIXT>K:_ SOUTH MANUEL (XKGRI SfclYißlMNj FORTIX (SINGAPORE TAX (HEL UN (MALAC(.\k JACKSON (MALACCA;. CRONIN (SINGAPORE) I .ASK AR AN (SINGAPORE. KOSS (SINGAPOKL). SHAIK /«lUSIAPHA (NEGW SEMBILAN). ARIOKASAMY vSIXGAFOKti GULAM NABI SINGAPORE >. SVED HASSAN
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    SINGAPORE BEATS MALACCA
    52 14 SINGAPORE BEATS MALACCA iFrom Our Own Correspondent* Malacca, Sunday. CONSIDERING their lack of talent, j Malacca acquitted themselves .very well m the two intei hockey matches played durii week-end. Yesterday they drew with Nee Sembilan each side scorn goals. When they met Singapon they lost narrowly by the odd god
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    EXETER SAFE
    57 14 Buenos Aires, Feb. 3.- Tin Exeter which was damaged m with the Graf Spec is saf( Stanley. Falkland Islands. ac< newspapers here. They has been undergoing npaii to a -statement from a doc: panying the British Mcdii which has just returned Stanley. The mission went British .sailors wounded
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    More Help For Exporters Urged
    364 15 i London, Feb. 4. I iol work's Parliamentary m Sunday Times devotes II .^ration of the eca- which is described as m the "second phase. the editorial suggests, I /h.-tablishmentofthcne. control, whereby the Ice n eedful commodities m i y bought by the Govlr gUm
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    Mrs. Nunn & Mr. Baer Score In War Fund Concert
    502 15 Mrs. Nunn Mr. Baer Score In War Fund Concert ONCE AGAIN Uir SI (lair organ lived when Mr. Werner Baer. popular Singapore organist, was heard to advantage m several numbers at last night's i ccital at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The recital which wu m aid of th« Malaya Patriotic
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    £73 1/2 MILLIONS FOR WAR FROM SAVINGS
    68 15 £73 1/2 MILLIONS FOR WAR FROM SAVINGS London, Feb. 4. LAST WEEK, 1.255 national saving* groups were started with a membership of some 200,000. Some 8 149 groups have been formed m ten weelti since the war saving campaign began. Sales of national savings ceitincate.s for the week were £2.676.200,
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    CEYLON S. C.
    139 15 Singapore. Saturday. THE following 1 were elected office bearers of the Ceylon Sports Club for 1940, at a meeting held at the Clubhouse on Balastier Plain, to-day. President. Dr. N. Mootathamby; Vice-President, Mr Ben Dudley; Hon. Secretary, Mr. V. Paramsothy, Hon. Treasurer, Mr. P. Retnasabapathy Chairman Board
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    Credits Are Plentiful
    77 15 .omi o u. Feb. 3. IN the money market which was I helped by some Urge dividend r^ymems. wredit supplies ueit ample. With Government funds now being augmented by a good inflow of revenue. So^Vet^ M 3SE vSZm rt as 1 ,n c s i since tbje
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    NEDERLANDSCHE HANDELMAATSCHAPPU, N. V.
    99 15 NEDERLANDSCHE HANDELMAATSCHAPPU, N. V. Established by Royal Charter A.a 1844 incorporated m the Netherlands. Netherlands Trading Society) BANKERSAMSTERDAM aaa Paid Up Capital f -*PJtf&\ Reserve Fund 1C.50f.q0.* Ixmdon Correspondents NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED. Head Office: AMSTERDAM Branches: Holland -.-Rotterdam, The Hague, anA 64 biar-ches and sub-branches a» >,maller places. Netherlands
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    NO TRAITOR AMONG THE POLES
    103 16 NO TRAITOR AMONG THE POLES London, Feb. 4. THE Polish Minister for Social Welfare declared yesterday that neither Germany nor Russia had managed to form sham governments m the parts of Poland they seized because they could not find a single Pole to play the traitor. Hfc was speaking at
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    B. B. C. CHIEF COMPLETES TOUR OF WEST FRONT
    130 16 London, Feb. 3. IVIiV F w OgJivie, Director General lfl 01 Urn B 8.C., has just completed Ins tour of France. He expressed himMlf a.s satisfied with the arrangements for the social broadcasts for the troops at the front, and said
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    TRAWLER ELUDES AIR ATTACK
    119 16 TRA WLER ELUDES AIR ATTACK London, Feb. 4. 1 HOMEWARD bound British trawler yesterday succeeded m eludinu the dives of machine-Kunninf* German aircraft until British fighter planes arrived on the scene. The attack wa.s witin fti by resident* on two Scottish Islands, who heard the enemy machine i considerable time
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    FRANCE TRYING TO BUY 400 M.P.H. FIGHTERS
    175 16 FRANCE TRYING TO BUY 400 M.P.H. FIGHTERS London, Feb. 4. !T is understood that the French Mission to the United Suites aro m negotiation for the purchase of as mar.y Of the new type of single-seater interceptor plane known as Aeronca as can be bought, according to authoritative aviation circles.
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    EDEN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HELP FROM DOMINIONS
    406 16 "Reich Is Sealed Tomb" I'ondon. r t j kpHE Dominions Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, s^akin^ at a nat,,, savings meeting at Stratford -on -A von to-night refuted Vj| Goebbefs" and "taunts of Hitler" that the British Empire wag a crun,^' institution, and asserted
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    Absurd German Claim
    136 16 Absurd German Claim London. Feb. M JHE German High Command J munique claimed to have sJ 14 ships during yesterday's raids. This claim is declared! authoritative circles m London! be 'absurd." I While it is impossible to state exact number of the German raiders,! U estimated they numbered 12 at
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    BOMB EXPLODES IN BIRMINGHAM BUS
    68 16 London, Feb. FOLLOWING the explosion of a bo" t> m an omnibus m one of the Birmingham Corporation transport dep\rtmenffl parades ».arly to-day a search revealed bombs hidden m the seats ji buses at a number of other corporation garages. Tiiere was only one other
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    No French Protest On Bombing
    77 16 Paris, F(b. IT w understood that no demand 1 will be made by the Fmuli authorities to Japan on the subject of yesterday's bombing of ttw Hal phong--\ T iinnan railway. The bombing is attributed to tMI discipline of the local forces. The French, however,
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    GERMANY CRITICISED BY DUTCH PAPER
    71 16 Amsterdam fl I r |Ufc Dutch newspaper H commeniiiis on the Vatu Of the treatment oi the l the Poiish .stale, says thai U coniifiered a warniiig to the lre n lotions to form a v DarbarUan Thp wund. lookii.K 0 r/heuce Germauy derive right
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