The Straits Budget, 3 February 1938

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      WE WON’T BE BULLIED!
      890 2 —Straits Times, Jan. 27. Tea is not the beverage that is usually associated with a sudden accession of courage! It seems, however, that on account of it the Malayan governments have at last decided to offer resistance to dictation from outside. They are going to make
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      TRANSPORT BOARD AND RAILWAYS.
      847 2 it will have to be revised. —Straits Times, Jan. 28. Mr. S. W. Nelson, Chairman of the F.M.S. Transport Board, presiding over a session of the Board held at Ipoh, said that he regarded bus services running parallel to the railway lines as a convenience to
      it will have to be revised.—Straits Times, Jan. 28.  -  847 words
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      How Can Do!
      726 2 produce miracles to order!—Straits Times, Jan. 29. Few men can have faced tasks going to such extremes of simplicity and difficulty as that undertaken by M. van Zeeland when he set out on his investigation of the causes of the world’s economic ills with the idea of
      produce miracles to order!—Straits Times, Jan. 29.  -  726 words
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      DESTROYING FOOD SUPPLIES.
      269 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. We publish in this issue a further letter from Mr.' Theodore Hubback on the subject of the conservation of riverine fish in Malaya. All we wish to do here is to emphasise once more that Mr. Hubback knows what he is talking about.
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      JAPAN’S GROWING ANXIETIES.
      1052 3 plete ruination of Japan —Straits Times, Jan. 31. There is no difficulty in obtaining an adequate supply of “news” describing the progress of the Far Eastern dispute from the point of view of either China or Japan. Indeed, the propaganda organisations of the two governments are now
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      WELCOME!
      142 4 Elizabeth Emm.— Straits Times, February 1. We join today with our Dutch friends in offering a very sincere welcome to a most distinguished stranger and respectful congratulations to her royal parents and grandparent. There is something more than the very warm friendship existing between the Dutch and the British
      Elizabeth Emm.— Straits Times, February 1.  -  142 words
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      Stupid Guesswork.
      879 4 the newspapers. Straits Times, Feb. 1. Before the month is out we may expect to hear that American warships have captured Singapore during the manoeuvres, that the Emperor of Japan has duly opened the graving dock at the Naval Base and that someone has run away with a
      the newspapers. — Straits Times, Feb. 1.  -  879 words
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      TIME CURES MANY ILLS!
      994 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 2. Demands for the introduction of new blood into that august body known as the Singapore Municipal Commission have been loud and frequent in recent years. For a long time there was a tendency among “the old gang” to deride all such expressions
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  • NOTES Of The DAY.
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      Smiles and Gestures.
      244 5 Smile s and Gestures. RECENT Reuter cables make It clear that Premier Hlrota’s assurances of Japan’s angelic intentions in Asia cut no ice at all in sceptical Washington. Japan’s word evidently is taken for little. Those unable to fathom the Japanese mind and those bewildered by the apparent contradictions to
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      Superior Light.
      89 5 Superior Light yHE Evening Standard in its review of “The Honourable Picnic” said: a brilliant exhibition of the Japanese mind, naive and Oriental, and the customs and circumstances of the people. With a very delicate irony, the moral philosophy of the Japanese Is made to shine with a soft superior
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      History.
      72 5 History r po find practical application of this superior philosophy it is necessary only to study any chapter in contemporary history. Here is a paragraph irom a report of League of Nations council proceedings, following the outbreak of the Shanghai fighting of 1932. On Feb. 21 the Japanese representative stated
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      R.A.F. Personnel.
      185 5 R.A.F Personnel QNE occasionally hears pilots who served in the R.A.F. in the War express misgivings over the remarkably small number of men in the service today who have undergone baptism by fire. The R.A.F. in its present form has been built up since the War and only a minute
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      Baptism Of Fire.
      116 5 is said to be no more terrifying experience for a novice than fighting, virtually alone, in the sky. The man in the trenches has some protection. And he is there to stay. Similarly, the man in a battleship has plenty of protection. He has dozens of other
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      War Crucible.
      82 5 War Crucible JT is thought in Services circles that Germany and Italy, confronted with this same lack of veteran pilots in their newly-created air forces, welcomed the Spanish War as an opportunity for providing their young airmen with experience of actual warfare. It was perhaps more for this reason than
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      Enthusiast.
      95 5 Enthusiast DECALLEL the other nignt was the story of the Swedish captain of a well-known Malayan coastal vessel who several y a ars ago would anchor nis sh'p off any fine sandy beach that took his fancy, call out “Ready, lads?” to the chief engineer and two other mem bers
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      Foul Poetry.
      94 5 Foul Poetry CROM a Johore Bahru reader comes this clipping of a poetic effort in the Daily Express. “Recite as You Chew is its official title. Way out in the Federated States of Malay The revenue’s up, they’re pleased to say, By nine thousand pounds on a year ago To
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      Hearst Man.
      184 5 Hearst Man ITARL VON WIEGAND. William Ran- dolph Hearst’s number one foreign writer, who is passing through Singapore, is far from what one might expect of a henchman of Americas great purveyor of sensational Journalism. Quiet-mannered, scholarly and hard-working, he has an owl-shaped head that gives him an enviably sagacious
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      Injured.
      93 5 Injured TIM MARSHALL, genial overseas writer for Collier’s Magazine (U. 8.), who was at the Adelphl for a day or two several months ago when he was on his way to China will leave Shanghai tomorrow for the United States. He will not carry home a bagful of stories. Instead,
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      New Air Route.
      95 5 DOYAL Dutch Airlines have dropped, for the meantime at any rate, their plans for a drastic revision in their Far Eastern air route it is understood. This revision would nave led to the dropping of Calcutta. Jodhpur. Allahabad and probably Singapore as stopping places. Instead, planes would
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      P. I. for Germany.
      249 5 P. I. for Germany CYNDICATE writer Preston Grover has been telling American newspaper readers that the Philippines should be given to Germany. Gist the rambling Grover argument is roughly this. Germany wants a colony or two. The United States has decided it does hot—at least not the Philippines. Germany used
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      Fleet Air Arm
      149 5 *J*HE participation of 30 aircraft from H.M.S. Eagle in the Naval Base opening ceremony, the first time that Fleet Air Arm planes have participated in a Navy “show” since the Admiralty took over control of the Arm. recalls the point mentioned in these notes a few days
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      Divided Control
      194 5 £ONTROL of Britain’s Fleet Air Arm always was a bone of contention between Naval and R.A.F. men, although the new system now Is generally acknowledged to be the best. Not long before the change-over, Vice- Admiral J. E. T. Harper (retired) wrote In the Morning Post:— One of
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      Titled Writer
      201 5 JJEARST correspondent Karl von Wiegand. mentioned in yesterday's notes, often works as an unofficial “team” with Lady Drummond-Hay. one of the Dest known women political writers in the world. Lady Drum-mond-Hay also is in Singapore now on her way to China. Like von Wiegand, she is an aviation
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      Royal Asiatic.
      73 5 jyjALAYA’S Royal Asiatic Society will glow with pride when they heard what Sir Andrew Caldecott several days ago told Ceylon about Malayan support of the R.A.S. Presiding for the first time at a meeting of the Ceylon branch of the Society Sir Andrew drew attention to the fact
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      Gale and Winter.
      91 5 Gale and Winter jypRE grist for *he Curry, Rice and Fish mill from a reader at Kuala Krai. Kelantan. When S.O.C. were carrying off the soccer trophies (memory bad due to senile decay) there were three excellent players—Hill and Oale, full-backs, and Winter on the left out-slde. It was a
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      Marcus Delay.
      56 5 Marcus Delay 'J’HERE is no hope of the new Marcus Show reaching Singapore before September. Plans have been altered completely and the great purveyor of American beauty now will make the grand tour of South Africa before visiting Malaya. His company has made more money in Australia than any other
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      America and England.
      91 6 America and England WITH Anglo-American co-operation one of the main political talking points of the day, magazines and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic are devoting plenty of space to the question. Alongside each other in the weekly magazine section of the Christian Science Monitor are articles on the
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      Expropriators.
      262 6 VJERE Is a paragraph from the Engllsh article It b i well-known characteristic of Anglo-Saxons never to commit themselves In advance; to leave a lot to "events" In the sure and certain hope of “muddling through.” This policy has this disadvantageIt leaves to bolder, often more brutal, minds the
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      The British Shield.
      190 6 The British Shield •pHE American writer visualises the British Empire as a shield for the western hemisphere. Some Americans, moreover, are coming to realise that whatever Its past defects may be, the British Empire today is an Institution which Is gradually moulding both white and coloured peoples along the lines
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      Fish Hunter.
      118 6 Fish Hunter Eduardo Qulsumbing, chief of the National Museum Division of the Bureau of Science, University of the Philippines, who is one of the Manila delegates to the Prehistorians’ Congress at Singapore, will tour Malaya after the congress to inspect botanic gardens museums and forest and agricultural plantations. He expects
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      Dancer III.
      155 6 CATHARINE Young, pretty young American dancer who made many friends In Singapore when she was here with the Marcus Show some years ago, Is seriously 111 with typhoid In Calcutta. Miss Young was reported in August to have been killed during one of the early Chinese bombings of
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      “Victoria”
      99 6 Victoria” I7ICTORIA the Great” has aroused more discussion In tidapa Singapore than any other Aim for months Non-Englishmen criticise It for its lack of Imagination and general shortcomings in technique. However. Italian Judges, of all people, selected Victoria from the Alms of all nations for 1937 for their principal award.
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      Showgirl Dies.
      124 6 rVA Alexander, of the Rex Storey Company, who died of typhoid in Calcutta last week, gave during 8torey's Singapore season one of the best turns in the show, a graceful Spanish dance. Spanlsh-looklng herself, Miss Alexander was the daughter of a fire chief In a California coast port.
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      Gracie Fields.
      67 6 Gracie Fields Oracle Fields had been hoping to appear in Singapore on her way to Australia this year, there is little likelihood now of her voice being heard in either place for a long time. In a letter to a Singapore friend, the Lancashire girl says that they seem to
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      Marriage Without Accents.
      116 6 C 7 gINGAPORE recently saw Jean Murat. husband of Annabella, glamorous French film star, when he passed through on his way from Java to Europe. He was on a round the world tour, he told reporters. An English film weekly tells why. So that Annabella’s English accent
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      “Inside Asia” ?
      94 6 “Inside Asia JOHN Gunther, author of that bestseller “Inside Europe," will be In Singapore In a few weeks. He and nis wife are winding up an eight weeks’ exercise of observation In India, after tours of Iran and Irak. They plan to spend some time In China and Japan. It
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      Nation of Hen Keepers.
      196 6 p NOLAND, the “nation of shopkeepers." has become a nation of hen-keepers, according to statistics issued in Berlin. Although Germany tops the list with 88.300.000 hens. England has the greater number of hens per head of population. Where are the brutes of the old bngade That
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      News of Kiwarra.
      71 6 pOSTCARDS have arrived in Singapore from Klwarra. the motor yacht that left here for Australia «wo months ago. Klwarra, whose crew comprises J. A. Oagen, A. G. M. Dawson and Mohammed All, a Malay, struck heavy weather and arrived at Calms, Queensland In a battered state The
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      Flying Boat Names.
      119 6 Flying Boat Names all the Empire flying boats to be used on the SlngaporeSydney run will follow Imperial Airways practice by bearing names starting with “C”, the Qantas company will depart from the English precedent of using Greek mythological names. Preferring Australian names to Greek, Qantas will name their big
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      Brighter Darwin.
      92 6 DUSTY ramshackle Darwin, where Malayans travelling by Qantas or Burns Philp Line catch their first glimpse of Australia, Is being brightened. The Government Is giving a lead by painting all Its buildings there green and white instead of the auu brown used in the past. Trees are being
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      Troublesome Empties.
      118 6 ritHE first problem encountered by the Government when It tackled the problem of a clean-up In Darwin was that of bottles. Darwin has no brewery. So, for 25 years “empties*' have accumulated In the town. When a Melbourne bottle firm heard of this they rushed a man to
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      Flag Stayers.
      80 6 /COMMENTING on the Darwin bottle surplus the Sydney Sun said: Upon the bones of the English, the English flag is stayed/' according to Kipling but with the flag came also the bright labels of Bass and Allsopp and Tennent; and Younger and Oulness were there also, for a
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      Poetic Theme.
      347 6 pnms poetic theme of the thrusting of the Man and the Bottle into the wilderness of the earth provoked in the Sun the following rhyme:— Beyond the farthest railway-head, or the motor-lorry’s track, Goes forth through lonely lands widespread the march of the men out-back: Through plain and
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    524 7 Miss Marjorie Snow has returned to Singapore from England. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pedlow are staying at Greville Lodge. Cheltenham. News has been received locally of the death in Ceylon of Mrs. Ebert, wife of Mr. F. W. Ebert, a proprietary planter. The Rev. A. D.
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    King’s Pavilion.
    383 7 Jan 17. In the morning the Sultan of Perak called on the High Commissioner, Sir Shenton Thomas, at King’s Pavilion and afterwards His Excellency returned the call on His Highness at the Istana Iskandariah. Jan. 19 In the morning Sir Shenton presented the Insignia of Honorary Knight Commander
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    GOVERNMENT HOUSE BALL.
    45 7 It is understood that the ball to be given at Government House. Singapore, in connection with the ceremonial opening of the graving dock at the Naval Base, has now been fixed definitely for Wednesday. Feb. 16. The original date was Feb. 10.
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    COUNCIL OF RAFFLES COLLEGE.
    51 7 The following have been appointed to be members of the Council of Raffles College for this year: Mr. K. K. O’Connor, Sir Ong Slang Song, Mr. Yong Shook Lin, Mr. Seow Poh Leng, the Superintendent of Education, Johore, Mr. R. Tessensohn and Raja Uda bin Raja
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    DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    39 7 ATKINSON.—At the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, on Jan. 27, 1938, to Madge wife of F. H. Atkinson, a son. HAXWORTH.—At the Maternity Hospital. Singapore, on Jan. 25. 1938. to Anne, wife of John L. J. Haxworth, a daughter.
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    MARRIAGE
    21 7 RODQER—MAYNE—At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on Jan. 28, 1938, by the Rev. Stephen Band, William Rodger tc Lilian Collls Mayne.
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    Saleswoman With £10,000 Expenses Is Malaya-Bound.
    162 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 30. A SALESWOMAN with £10,000 n for expenses will shortly arrive in Malaya. She is Mrs. Eugenie Daubeny, who leaves England next week to act, in her own words, as contact woman between British manufacturers and buyers in
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    1ST GORDON’S NEW O.C.
    65 7 Lieut.-Col. Charles M. Usher, who has succeeded to the command of the 1st Battalion, the Gordon Highlanders. Is 46 and was senior major of the regiment. He Joined the old 75th Foot at Colchester In 1911 and went with It to France. On his return he
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    Contents.
    269 7 Leaden— We Won’t Be Bullied 2 Transport Board and Railways 2 How Can Do! 2 Destroying Pood Supplies 3 Japan’s Growing Anxiety 3 Stupid Guesswork 4 Time Cures Many Ills 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Picture Supplement 17—20 Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following
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    CARNEGIE AWARDS FOR MALAYANS.
    128 7 THE Carnegie Corporation announces 1 additional awards to the following British Colonial officers: Dr. A. L. Lowther, Medical Officer General Hospital, Penang, for studies in opthalmology in Europe, India and Egypt; Mr. C. H. Parnell, Engineer, Posts and Telegraph. Kuala Lumpur, to study radio communication, and
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  • Obituary
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    18 7 DEATH ONO HUP KENO. partner of Messrs. Yeo Bian Chuan Co., passed away peacefully AW .January 27, 1938.
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    COUNCILLOR FOUND DEAD AFTER FLYING CRASH.
    449 8 Mr. Eric Newbold’s Plane Hits Six On Packed Esplanade. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Feb. 1. AFTER a flying accident witnessed by thousands of Chinese holiday-makers from the Esplanade yesterday evening, Mr. Eric Newbold, general manager of the Eastern Smelting Company and a member
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    N. I. AIR SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA.
    49 8 Reuter. THE Australian Federal Cabinet has decided to authorise the K.N.I.L.M. (Royal Netherlands Indies Air Lines) to start their extension service to Australia simultaneously with the Empire flying-boat service opening on Feb. 23. The Dutch service must operate not later than July I.
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    Ex-Singapore Major’s Rapid Promotion.
    84 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 31. MAJOR C. E. HUDSON, a staff officer at Fort Canning between 1928 and 1932, has been gazetted Brigadier of the 2nd Infantry Brigade. This appointment is described as being an "unprecedented peacetime promotion jumping over all colonels in the
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    WARSHIP’S CAPTAIN GIVES EVIDENCE.
    105 8 /'HEN AH MENG, personal "boy” of the Captain. Lieut. Commander D. G. P. W. MacIntyre, of H.M.S. Defender, who was charged with having been in possession of non-government chandu worth $4,800, at the Naval Base. Sele* tar on Jan. 22. was acquitted by Mr. H. A
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    REVELRY AT HOLLANDSCHE CLUB FOLLOWS ROYAL BIRTH.
    249 8 Formal Celebrations Tonight. |y|OST Hollanders in Sing apore received the first news of the royal birth when the Nirom chain of broadcasting stations in the Netherlands Indies interrupted their programme at 5.14 on Monday afternoon to play the Wilhelmus, National Anthem of Holland.
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    “ENEMY” FLEET MENACES FORTRESS
    396 8 Manoeuvres Open. Blueland Ships, On Way. Singapore, Feb. 1. MENACING Singapore today for purposes of the combined exercises is an enemy fleet, probably about .100 miles away in the China Sea. Singapore is the capital of Redland and the fleet of Blueland, an imaginary State 1,200
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    CHEMIST WANTED FOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.
    119 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 30. I QNDON newspapers this week advertise a vacancy for a chemist in the Geological Survey Department. F.M.S. Candidates are required to hold an honours degree of a British university and to possess experience of metallurgical analysis and of
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    RELIEF WORKER ATTACKS “ MACGREGOR’S BOUNTY.”
    370 9 RELIEF WORKER ATTACKS MACGREGOR’S BOUNTY.” Gifts To Well-To-Do: Nothing For Poor, Says John Hands. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 29. CTILL hammering at the conscience of Government is Mr. John >J Hands, champion of Selangor unemployed and destitute, in his January report as honorary secretary and treasurer of
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    SINGAPORE BISHOP’S MISSION ADDRESS.
    153 9 B. C. Roberts, Bishop of Singapore, told a mission meeting at Exmouth, last week, that many prominent Church people were unaware that the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge was the great grandmother of practically all the other missionary societies, including the S.PG. and the
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    SINGAPORE NOT TO HAVE NEW PUBLIC CLOCKS.
    52 9 A motion for reference back of a proposal for the provision of public clocks in certain main thoroughfares was lost at Friday’s meeting of the Municipal Commissioners. The matter arose on the adherence of Committee to their former decision not to proceed with
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    HUGE SECRET AREA FOR MANOEUVRES.
    141 9 A very large portion of Singapore island will come within the Official Secrets Ordinance during the combined manoeuvres from Feb. 2 to Feb. 5, the Straits Times is informed. Any person found sketching or photographing or committing any other offence under the Ordinance in those
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    Malayan Planters’ Provident Fund: A Query.
    190 9 Malayan Planters Provident Fund: A Query. To the Editor of the Straits Times, gIR,— Having but a few years’ standing m this country. I find myself puzzled as to the authority and working of the above-mentioned Fund. I am told that the authority for the Fund lies in a Government
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    Riverine Fish Conservation Is Vital Peasant Welfare Problem.
    1048 9 Correspondence. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—It seems that the river fish of Malaya are to remain without any sort of conservation until there is nothing to conserve. The administration in Malaya has failed to show any interest at all
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    PAN-ASIANISM IS LOOMING ITS HEAD, WARNS SIR C. CLEMENTI
    797 10 Europe And America Must Stand T ogether. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 23. ”THEREcan be no doubt at all that the deplorable weakness of all European colonies and dependencies in the Far East ever since the Great War has been
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    “Fictitiously Large Profits” Done Away With, Says Mr. Rex.
    552 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 25. “FICTITIOUSLY large profits” would be done r away with, declared the F.M.S. Financial Secretary, Mr. Marcus Rex, in the Federal Council today, when he brought a motion to create a Renewals Fund of
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    NEW MALAYAN LEPROSY TREATMENT.
    101 10 A NEW method of treating leprosy, which has been elaborated during the past three years in Singapore, is to be the subject of a preliminary paper to be read by Professor W. A. Young, of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, at the Third International
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    ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE CERTIFICATE.
    76 10 r f*HE following candidates obtained the Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London, at the examination held from Nov. 25 to Dec. 3, 1937:— Adam bin Mohamed Salleh, Mohan Ram Balakrishnan, Digendra Nath Chatterjl, Karthigasu Chellappah. Marshall Stanislaus Danker, Edward Henry Holloway, Raja Khalid bln Raja
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    Malays On Guard At Government House.
    97 10 FOLLOWING a ceremonial march from Raffles Museum up Orchard Road, details of the Malay Regiment took up guard duty at Government House on Saturday from the Gordon Highlanders. The Regiment was on guard until Sunday. An escort of 100 men under the command of
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    ANNUAL FAR EAST POSTAL RIFLE MATCH.
    70 10 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 30. AN annual Far East postal rifle match is being organised for the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong, Ceylon and other colonies. The founder is Major D. H. Steers, who formed the Hong Kong Rifle Association a few years
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    MODERNITY IN CHINATOWN:
    31 11 A block of shops and, tenements in New Bridge Road just completed by the Singapore Improvement Trust and replacing 50-year-old houses choked with insanitary cubicles. —Straits Times Picture.
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    Municipal Committee Men: Member Pleads For Changes.
    417 11 QN the principle that a person v should not serve more than three terms on any public body, Mr. S. B. Tan at Friday's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners moved certain amendments to the appointment of Commissioners to standing committees. Proposing the appointment
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    Malaya And N. I. Officials Should Visit One Another.
    143 11 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 23. “JT would be of immense benefit to both Malaya and the Netherlands Indies if there were regular conferences at stated intervals between administrative officers,** said Sir Cecil Clementi, a former Governor and High Commissioner,
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    Whitehall Agricultural Chief Here.
    129 11 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, Jan. 28. “IT appears from reports and figures that Malaya has made a great advance in agriculture within the last few years, but I cannot give any definite views until I have seen conditions for myself,” said Sir Frank Stockdale* Chief
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    Fewer Indian Labourers Are Coming To Malaya.
    325 11 A DECLINE in the number of persons coming to Malaya from South India through Madras. Negapatam and the intermediate ports has occurred during the last few weeks, says the Negapatam correspondent of the Hindu. The British India steamer Rajula which sailed from Negapatam
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    Rex Allen’s Estate Insolvent.
    320 11 THE official Assignee, Mr. E. B. 1 Williams, was yesterday appointed receiver of the estate of Walter Raymond (Rex) Allen, the well-known local musician, who died suddenly at the General Hospital on Oct. 31. The estate is insolvent it was revealed in the High Court, yesterday,
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    Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
    26 11 The transfer of Acting Sub-Lieut. O. R. T. Henman, Straits Settlements Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, to List 11, S.S.R.N.V.R., has been approved.
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    City’s First “Black-Out” Next Saturday.
    215 11 SINGAPORE’S first blackout in a civilian area wifi take place between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday next, and a notification in a Gazette Extraordinary invites the public to co-operate. The areas concerned are as follows:— (a) The East Coast Road from Bedok Village
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    AIDING TRAVELLERS TO N.I.
    92 11 Dutch Open Immigration Office In Singapore. The new Singapore office of the Netherlands Indian Immigration Service. to facilitate the tourist trade and aid travellers was opened in the K.P.M. building on Feb. 1. At this office, which is in charge of Mr. L. F. Cavalje, travellers
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    Exercises Over 40,000 Square Miles Of The China Sea.
    398 12 FORT CANNING IN CONTROL BY WIRELESS. Singapore, Jan. 31. ALTHOUGH the combined manoeuvres which start on Wednesday will involve the participation of 10,000 men, 110 airciaft and 25 naval vessels, the public will see little or nothing of the operations. If
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    INVESTITURE OF TUNKU MAHKOTA.
    81 12 “I AM confident that when the time comes, and we pray that it may be still distant, the Tunku Mahkota will worthily follow in the footsteps of his distinguished father and will continue to uphold the integrity of Johore and to work for the happiness of
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    DANCER’S DEATH IN CALCUTTA.
    37 12 Miss Eve Alexander, talented Spanish dancer of the -Rex Storey show that appeared in Singapore some months ago, died in Calcutta on Jan. 21, from typhoid fever. Miss Alexander’s home was in California.
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    Cruisers Leave To Begin Manoeuvres.
    79 12 'T’HE cruisers Norfolk and Emerald, from the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, East Indies Station, and the sloops Hindustan, Indus and Investigator, from the Royal Indian Navy, have left the Roads and are on their way to a point well out in the China Sea, the Straits
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    A. A. M. Agent For Car Permits In Other Countries.
    186 12 A. A. M. Agent For Car Permits In Other Countries (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 31. f T a HE Automobile Association i Malaya has been appointed by the F.M.S. Government as its agent for the purpose of issuing international documents in connection with motor vehicles and drivers.
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    Volunteer Force Promotion.
    21 12 The promotion of Second-Lieutenant R. Lyne, Straits settlements Volunteer Forre, to the rank of Lieutenant has been approved.
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    Singapore’s Busy Port.
    81 12 SINGAPORE is one of the world's busiest ports. The Harbour Board’s report for the year ended June, 1937 states that: Three thousand two hundred and forty-two vessels, with a net tonnage of 9,708,417, berthed at the wharves last year, as compared with 3,131 and 9,636,798 tons in
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    2,000 Houses Searched For Smallpox Origin.
    111 12 MUNICIPAL Health officers have carried out a systematic search of 2,000 houses to discover the origin and contacts of a case of small? pox an Indian barber in the city last week. Although the case is still a mystery, health officers do not consider
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    CHINESE ATTACKED, EAR SLASHED.
    90 12 Alleged To Have Sold Japanese Fish. AN elderly Chinese, who, it is alleged, was a contractor in Japanese caught fish in Beach Road market was assaulted by Chinese in Hylam Street on Friday. They threw pepper in his eyes and slashed his ear with a knife,
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    NEW CHIEF ENGINEER FOR MALAYA COMMAND.
    51 12 I IEUT.-Colonel J. A. C. Pennyculck is appointed Chief Engineer, Malaya Command, vice Colonel CaveBrown whose tenure of office expires on May 17 next. Lieut.-Col. C. E. Hudson has been appointed to the command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of
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    BIG NEW DRYDOCK PLANNED BY HARBOUR BOARD.
    348 12 Bigger Trade Handled Last Year. INCREASED trade at the dockyards, plans for the recon1 stnictwn of the East wharf and the possibility of creating another drydock to meet the needs of the increased size of ships trading in and out of the l»rt
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    Sikh Acquitted On Fire Charge.
    88 12 QUDAGAR SINGH was acquitted and discharged of causing mischief by fire, destroying a building on Collyer Quay belonging to the Asiatic Petroleum Company. The Assize trial before Mr. Justice a’ Beckett Terrell lasted three days and Sudagar’s defence was a denial of all the allegations
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    SINGAPORE SHORT-WAVES: LONDON VIEW.
    56 12 ACCORDING to the Wireless World (London), Singapore may be heard by British shortwave listeners in March, when the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation opens up with two transmitters, ZHP and ZHO. on 31.48 and 49.9 metres respectively. The former will work on Saturdays and Sundays and the
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    IMPROVEMENT TRUST PLANS $3,000,000 TOWNSHIP.
    599 14 Great Modern Blocks Of Buildings For Tiong Bahru Estate. A BIG five-year housing scheme to cost about $3,000,000 and to cover the major portion of its large estate at Tiong Bahru, is planned by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the Straits Times understands. Spending more money
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    Singapore Wedding: Java Honeymoon.
    151 14 Singapore, Jan. 28. A SINGAPORE couple who were married at noon today will be spending their honeymoon in Java. The wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church and the parties were Mr. William Rodger, of the Straits Trading Co., Ltd., Singapore, who is the son of
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    SEREMBAN WEDDING.
    58 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Jan. 27. The marriage will take place at the Church of the Visitation, Seremban, on Saturday of Mr. Gilbert Peter Wooden, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Wooden, of Mengkarak, Pahang, and Miss Ellaline Maude Jumeaux, of Seremban. There will be a
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    SINGAPORE WENT TO OFFICE THROUGH MIST
    155 14 Singapore, Jan. 28. THOUSANDS of Singapore workers going to offices and factories this morning encountered a damp fog more reminiscent of a London autumn than the beginning of a day in the tropics. Visibility at six o’clock this morning was not more than 50
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    DOG QUARANTINE ACCOMMODATION.
    193 14 Are Better Facilities Needed IF the recommendation of the Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association, that all dogs entering the Colony should be placed in preliminary quarantine and no discretion was vested in the Government Veterinary Surgeon, is accepted, then even dogs from England and Australia with a clean
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    NEW P. AND T. OFFICER FROM INVERNESS.
    102 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 20. A CCORDING to the Inverness Correspondent of the Scotsman, intimation has been received locally of the selection for appointment to the Colonial Service as a superintendent in the Posts and Telegraph Department, S.S. and F.M.S., of
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    IPOH LAWYER’S DEATH.
    47 14 (From Our Own Corresponcent) Ipoh. Jan. 27 It is understood that the date of the inquiry into the death of Mr. H. G. Nelson, the well-known Ipoh lawyer. has not yet been fixed. Mr. Nelson was found dead in his house on Dec. 7.
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    THE GROWING MENACE OF THE GIANT SNAIL TO ESTATES.
    2093 15 Planting Topics. Treatment By Poisoned BaitSatisfactory Results From Using "Meta”—Harmless To Plants But Dangerous To Animals. BY OUR PLANTING CORRESPONDENT. IN a previous article I referred to the increasing menace of the giant snail on some estates and in particular to
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    MANUAL OF RUBBER PLANTING.
    54 16 IN last week’s article in this page reviewing Manual of Rubber Planting, it was stated that the book was published by Kyle, Palmer and Co. Ltd. and could be obtained from that company. This is incorrect—the manual is published by the Incorporated Society of Planters and
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    49 16 Improvements in the water-supply of the district are to begin almost immediately at Segamat and a larger pump house is to come up on the Segamat River, along Jalan Sultan. Oema8 Bahru is to have a supply soon, a connection being made from Negri Sembllan, Just across the border.
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    IS THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT CONSISTENT ?
    370 16 IS THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT CONSISTENT (lorrespondencv. To the Editor of the Straits Times. SIR,- A year ago, under pressure from the Controller of Labour, the rates of pay for Indian labourers were raised from 40 cents, fmem 30 cents. women* to 45 cents and 35 cents, the excuse being that
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    GIANT FLYING-BOATS FOR MALAYA THIS MONTH.
    250 16 riANT Empire flying-boats are to be put on to the Britain-Malaya twice weekly air mail service from Feb. 23, the date on which it is proposed to start the aii-first-class-mail-by-air scheme, it was announced by Impenal Airways in Singapore, COMMENCING on Feb. 23 from
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    ONE OF MAN’S ANCIENT ANCESTORS FOUND IN JAVA.
    554 16 Scientists Told Of Rig Archaeological Discovery. THE story of his sensational discovery in Java of the skull of a most primitive man—one of the most important archaeological finds yet —was unfolded at the third Congress of Far East Prehistorians, in Singapore, by
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    JAPAN’S SIAM TRADE IMPROVES.
    78 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Jan. 23. THE Japanese trade with Siam in December for 30 main items of imports shows an improvement of 36.88 per cent, over the same items for November—the value of the imports being £61,019 or an increase of £16,439 over the
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    SUPPLEMENT TO THE STRAITS BUDGET
    757 17 Dato Sir David Galloway and the Tunku Mahkota photograph ed while awaiting the arrival of Sir Shcnton Thomas. Mr. L. A. Allen, acting General Adviser, Johore. 'T'HESE Straits Times pictures show the investiture of the Tungku Mahkota of Johore with the insignia of the Most
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    Government And Internal Air Service: Questions.
    259 21 r pHE European Association of A Malaya has decided to ask the Colonial Secretary whether .it is correct that Government has declined to grant duty-free petrol to Wearnes’ Air Services by recognising the service as an international one, and to state on what grounds
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    Batavia – Manila Air Service Progress.
    153 21 Batavia Manila Air Service Progress. CINGAPORE may be brought within one and a half days of Manila through the opening of a new Batavia-Manila service by the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways (K.N.I.L.M.), within a few months. The United States, after a year of inactivity, is now ready to negotiate v/ith
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    67 21 The forthcoming annual finance campaign of the Y.W.C.A., which is -o run from the middle of February to the middle of March, will attempt to raise $10,000, that sum being Its budget deficit. A similar sum was the goal of the Coronation Year Campaign last year and through the efforts
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    “MALAYA WITHIN JAPAN’S AMBITIONS.”
    335 21 Warns China’s Special Envoy “WOT only Hong Kong and Indo-China are being threatened by the Japanese but even the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago are within the orbit of their ambitions,” warned Mr. Chert Kung Po, Chines* Ambassador Extraordinary to Europe, and former Minister of Industry, on
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    Philippines May Have $1,000,000 Museum.
    150 21 THE Philippine Islands may have a new $1,000,000 museum, with equipment to cost $500,000, if the Government approves the expenditure. At the Congress of Far Eastern Prehistorians. at Raffles Museum on Jan. 26. Dr. E. Quisumbing said that the prospects of a new museum for
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    Madame Chiang’s Message To Malaya.
    155 21 (From Our Ovm Correspondent.) Penang, Jan. 27. 'J 1 HROUGH the medium of a signed letter in today's Pinang Gazette Madame Chiang Kai-shek joins with her husband, the Generalissimo, in sending greetings to “all loyal compatriots in Malaya and the Netherlands Indies." Madame Chiang, in
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    SIR AMBROSE STANTON.
    92 21 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 27. OLD residents of Kuala Lumpur have heard with considerable shock the news of the death of Sir Ambrose Thomas Stanton, the chief medical adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir Ambrose is well remembered here as
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    EUROPEAN MOTORIST FINED.
    32 21 For driving his car negligently along Stamford Road and driving without a licence, a European, Etienne Mejer, was fined $2O and $8 respectively in the Fourth Singapore Police Court,
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    Advanced Case Of Smallpox In Singapore.
    165 21 II7HEN an Indian who walked into Middleton Hospital, Singapore, last week was examined by doctors, he was found to be suffering from advanced smallpox. The origin of this case—the first to be found in Singapore since July, 1937—is still a mystery, but Investigations are
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    “RINGSIDE SEAT OF CHINA WAR.”
    158 21 Soldier’s Description Of Malaya. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 18. A LONELY British soldier, serving in Malaya, recently found in a tin of biscuits the girl packer’s factdry number, written on a slip of paper. Yesterday, the girl in question, who happens to work
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    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN MALAYA.
    101 21 Membership 99 Per Cent. Scots.” (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 20. PILMS showing the nature of the 1 work which the Church of Scotland, by co-operation between Its Colonial Committee and the Presbyterian Church of England, is accomplishing In Malaya were exhibited this week to
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    NEGRI PLANTERS’ SPECIAL MEETING.
    33 21 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Jan. 27. A special meeting of the Negri Sembilan Planters Association was held at the Sungel Ujong Club today. The press was not admitted.
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    BRITAIN AND HOLLAND HAVE SAME HIGH COLONIAL IDEALS.
    471 22 Netherlands Diplomat On Close Relations. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 20. CLOSE relations between Great Britain and the Netherlands in L. Malaysia were emphasised by the Netherlands Minister in London. Count van Limburg Stirum, speaking to a meeting ot the Royal
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    INDIA-CEYLON ASSOCIATION.
    49 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore, Bahru, Jan. 26. Dr. S. Luther, the chairman of the Johore India Ceylon Conlerence, who is going to India on leave, was elected president of the local India Ceylon Association at its annual meeting last night. Mr. N. Krishnapillay was elected vice-president.
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    Ex-Services’ Tribute To Poppy Day Workers.
    277 22 Ex-Services Tribute To Poppy Day Workers A TRIBUTE to the women of Singapore and the generosity of the public in connection with Earl Haig’s Poppy Day Fund was paid by Major R. L. Nunn, speaking at last Thursday’s annual member of the Singapore branch of the ExServices Association of Malaya.
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    $300 FINE ON WOMAN.
    69 22 A fine of $300, in default two months’ imprisonment, was imposed on a Cantonese woman. Low Chee Kan, who was convicted in the Sixth Singapore Police Court, on a charge of bringing a Chinese woman, Chan Au Niu into the Colony for the purposes of prostitution.
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    Letters Missing From Singapore Air-Liner.
    237 22 Singapore, Jan. 28. THE disappearance of five letters from the air mail compartment of a Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) plane between Palembang, Sumatra, and Penang last week is all that is known in Singapore of the thefts reported in a Reuter message from The Hague
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    RABIES LAW PARTS DIPLOMAT AND DOG.
    115 22 New French Minister For Bangkok. Singapore, Jan. 28. R/V. LEPISSIER, the new French Minister to Siam, was disappointed, on disembarking at Singapore yesterday in the President Doumer, at having to part company with his small butterfly spaniel Bouboule, because of the rabies restriction in
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    SHORT TEMPER ON HOT DAYS: JUDGES APOLOGY.
    236 22 Bar Tributes To F.M.S. Chief Justice. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 27. D1DDING farewell to members of the F.M.S. Bar, today, the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Whitley, said that he was extremely sorry if I have sometimes proved short of
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    ANONYMOUS PETITIONS A CURSE.
    142 22 Advice To Kedah Estate Staffs. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Sungei Patani, Jan. 26. A NONYMOUS petitions are the curse of this country and bring the greatest discredit on the writers and the class to which they belong, said Mr. T. F. Carey, Administrator of the Kedah
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    URN BURIALS IN CENTRAL CELEBES.
    124 22 Talk To Singapore Prehistoric Congress. ITRNS, filled with sandy loam and believed to have been used for burial by people of a pre-Mohamedan era, were found recently at an excavation of a field at Salbang, near Palopo in Central Celebes. The results of the excavation
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    Tide Of Battle Turns Against Japan.
    250 23 TOKIO REFUSES PLEA FOR MORE TROOPS. Shanghai, Jan. 27. DISASTER threatens the widely-scattered Japanese forces in China. Concerted Chinese attacks have prevented the various Japanese columns from massing for their major offensive on the Lung-Hai Railway front, and now harried by Chinese flying columns,
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    ROOSEVELT SEEKS FUNDS FOR CHINA.
    80 23 i.—Reuter. Wants U.S. To Raise £200,000 For Relief. Washington, Jan. 25. A N appeal to the nation to contribute $1,000,000 (£200.000) to help suffering civilians in China is made by President Roosevelt in a letter to the American Red Cross, stating: *’I feel that our
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    Soviet Splits With Japan.
    145 23 Soviet Splits With Japan -Reuter. Severs All Postal Relations. Moscow, Jan. 27. The Soviet has decided temporarily to break off all postal relations with Japan forthwith. The decision affects mails in transit, as well as direct mails between the two countries. The reasons for the Soviet action are alleged to
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    CULBERTSONS DIVORCED.
    33 23 .—Reuter. New York. Jan. 27. Mrs. Ely Culbertson, of the famous bridge partnership, has been granted a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. The couple will, however, play bridge together.—Reuter.
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    Australia Celebrates Her 150th Anniversary.
    266 23 Sydney, Jan. 26 DISTINGUISHED visitors from all Parts of the Empire and many °ther nations are gathered in Sydney tor the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of New South Wales. Goodwill messages were received from most foreign countries. A feature of today’s
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    Italy Wants Trade Pact With U.K.
    84 23 Reuter. Rome, Jan. 27. AN Italian delegation headed by Signor Alberto Dagostini, Director General of Foreign Exchanges will visit London at the end of next week to negotiate a trade agreement. The agreement is expected to result in Italy buying more British goods. It
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    Lost Province To Japanese: Shantung Chief Is Executed.
    180 23 —Reuter. CTANDING in bitter cold under a cheerless drizzle. General Han Fu-chu, Governor of Shantung, met his end before a firing squad at Wuchang, across the river from Hankow. The most expensive coffin procurable was ready to receive the body. The death
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    BOYCOTT ALARMS STOCKING MAKERS.
    88 23 Reuter. Only Ten Per Cent. Of Price For Japan. New York, Jan. 25. THE growth of the anti-Japanese boycott alarms silk manufacturers, who point out that only ten per cent, of the price of silk stockings goes to Japan and the balance goes to American industry.
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    CATHOLIC CONGRESS BANNED TO GERMANS.
    48 23 —Reuter. Budapest, Jan. 27. A SENSATION has been caused by an official announcement that 25.000 German delegates will not attend the Eucharistic World Congress to be held in Budapest this year as the German Government has informed Germans their presence is not desired.
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    Base Opening Pretext For Manoeuvres With U.S., Japan Claims.
    108 23 Tokio. Jan. 26. ORITISH and American joint naval manoeuvres are being held under the pretext of the Singapore naval base celebrations, Tokio newspapers fantastically claim. 44 Having succeeded in joint military expansion/’ the HochiShimbun says, 44 Britain is now reported to
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    Britain And France Agree On Policy.
    155 23 .—Reuter. Paris, Jan. 26. DRITAIN'S Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, en route to Geneva last night had conversations with Mm. Chautemps and Delbos (French Premier and Foreign Minister) at the Quai d’Orsay, after which a communique was issued stating the international situation had been
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    Heavy Death-Roll In Spanish Raids.
    93 23 —Reuter. Valencia, Jan. 27. A LTOGETHER 125 people were killed and 208 v/ounded in an Insurgent air raid on Valencia yesterday afternoon. Six planes heavily bombed th e port and then the town. The casualties include Arnold Crone, captain of the small British steamer Doverabbey,
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    WINDSORS TO STAY NEAR PARIS.
    27 23 —Reuter. Paris, Jan. 28. THE Duke and Duchess of Windsor have decided to rent a small chateau near Versailles for four months.—Reuter.
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    Blamed For Panay.
    101 24 COLONEL KINGORO HASHIMOTO of the Javanese Army, who is charged ivith responsibility for the firing by his men on the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee and the machine-gunning of the American gunboat Panay. A controversy has arisen between the authorities and the colonel, who is a Fascist
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    Weakened Japan As Prey To Russia.
    130 24 -Reuter. Germany’s Fears Over China War. London, Jan. 27. THE danger that Russia might intervene against a weakened Japan is widely discussed in Germany, cables the Daily Telegraph Berlin correspondent. The correspondent states that serious misgivings about Japan’s ability to bring the war with
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    Soviet Preparing For Far East War.
    293 24 —Reuter. ‘JAPANESE REPORTS FALL SHORT OF THE TRUTH.’ VAS'l preparations by Soviet Russia for war in the far hast air described by an eye-witness who has just concluded a tour of Soviet Far East territory. Japanese reports of these preparations, he states, are not
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    Roosevelt Is Against Pay Cuts.
    205 24 Reutt r Washington, Jan. 26. PRESIDENT Roosevelt in a press conference last night emphasised that he opposed wage reductions because the markets for American industry depend on the purchasing power of the working population, which must be increased and not decreased if they wanted to
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    Nature Stages “Show” For Europe.
    146 24 Reuter. London, Jan. 26. y HE most brilliant display of the Aurcora Borealis in living memory was visible in the ichole of Britain and most of Europe for several hours last night. Innumerable thousands spent the evening watching the gloiv which spread out like a
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    BIG PUSH STARTS IN PALESTINE.
    72 24 .—Reuter. Troops Clean Up Hebron Area. Jerusalem, Jan. 26. COLLOWING increased lawlessness in the Hebron district, British troops, composed of the Royal Scots, the Black Watch and the Border Regiment, commanded by BrigadierGeneral H. C. Harrison, and supported by armoured cars started before dawn on
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    CHINESE CASUALTIES SAID TO TOTAL 750,000.
    89 24 “AUT of 1,500,000 troops which China has put in the field since the outbreak of the conflict, 50 per cent, have either been killed or wounded,” declared Gen. Sugiyama, the Japanese I War Minister, in a speech in the Diet, reports Aneta-Domei. He further
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    CHINESE PLANES DO HEAVY DAMAGE.
    203 24 20 Japanese Aircraft Blown Up: Oil Depot On Fire. TWENTY Japanese planes stationed at the 1 aerodrome at Nankins were destroyed during a Chinese air raid on Jan. 26, according to an official statement by the Chinese Aviation Headquarters at Hankow. It is also announced
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    Heavy Fighting In Abyssinia.
    210 24 Reuter Italians Deny All Ethiopian Claims. London, Jan. 27. VIOLENT fighting is taking place in several provinces in north-west Abyssinia, according to a statement issued by the Ethiopian Legation in London. Attempts by flying and motorised Italian columns to recapture lost positions met. at the most,
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    JEAN BATTEN MAKES 1937’s BEST FLIGHT.
    60 24 ,—Reuter, London, Jan. 27. The Royal Aeronautical Club announced yesterday that Jean Batten has been awarded the gold medal of the International Aeronautical Federation for the greatest flying achievement in 1937. Twenty-two nations were represented at the Federation’s conference, the Royal Aeronautical Club representing
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    NATIONS SHOULD CO-OPERATE, SAYS VAN ZEELAND.
    778 25 —Reuter. Suppress Quotas, Stop Exchange Control, No New Tariffs. London, Jan. 27. AMONG the factors needed for an expansion of world trade, as outlined by M. Paul van Zeeland, Belgian economiststatesman, who has presented the report requested by the British and French Governments, are
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    ‘Benno Wants A Boy; I Want A Girl.’
    97 25 Amsterdam, Jan. 24. “I WOULD myself prefer a daughter. Benno wants a son, and, of course, I know that would please the people more" Princess Juliana has written to a friend The letter is to Mevrouw Roell, of Hilversum, near Baarn wife
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    SOVIET ARMS FOR CHINA.
    74 25 “Considerable Quantities” Sent From Russia. SOVIET arms are reaching China in considerable quantities, according to trustworthy sources, reports Reuter from Peking. These consignments comprise mostly armoured cars and aeroplanes, the latter being principally of the fast flgher type, but there are some multiengined bombers. It is
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    Duty-Free Japanese Sugar Dumped In Shanghai.
    19 25 Vast quantities of duty-free Japanese sugar are flooding the Shanghai market, reports Reuter.
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    Japan Fears Soviet Naval Activity In Far East.
    120 25 Reuter. London, Jan. 26. COVIET military and naval activity in the Far East is causing intense anxiety in Japan, according to the Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Fears that Russia may intervene, previously lulled by the belief that the Soviet was
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    WHAT CHINA WAR IS COSTING JAPAN.
    89 25 .—Reuter Navy Ministry’s Silence. The Tokio Navy Ministry spokesman yesterday declined to confirm a forecast by the Hochi Shlmbun that the total Japanese Navy’s supplementary budget for the coming financial year in regard to the China war would total 1,500,000,000 yen. The spokesman said
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    LABOUR HOLDS SEAT.
    52 25 Reuter. London. Jan. 28. The Farnworth by-election, caused through the death of the sitting member, resulted as follows G. Tomlinson (Labour), 24.298. H. F. Ryan (Conservative), 16,835.— Reuter. At the last election figures for Farnworth were:—G. Rowson (Lab.), 22,040; E. G. Unsworth (C.), 16,839; J. M. Erskine
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    America Sends Stiff Note To Japan.
    228 25 .—Reuter. Washington, Jan. 28. THE United States Govera- ment yesterday handed a protest to the Japanese Government, through the Ambassador in Tokio, against the treatment of United States nationals in Japanese occupied areas in China. The Note published for the first time yesterday, was
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    EMBASSY OFFICIAL ASSAULTED.
    102 25 Struck By Japanese Soldier. Shanghai, Jan. 28. IN connection with an incident in which Mr. J. B. Allison, third secretary at the United States Embassy at Nanking, was assaulted yesterday by a Japanese sentry, a Japanese army spokesman stated Mr. Allison was slapped on the face by
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    JAPANESE NATIONALS MUST BEHAVE.
    66 25 Shanghai, Jan. 28. THE Japanese authorities have ap- pealed to Japanese nationals to take no action tending to besmirch the good name of Japan. They threaten merciless punishment to offenders. The appeal is welcomed as providing evidence of the deep concern caused to many high Japanese
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    Britain Has An Unshaken Faith In The League.—Eden.
    418 26 Britain Has An Unshaken Faith In The League Eden. Best Instrument Yet For World Peace. Geneva, Jan. 28. DRITAIN retains unshaken faith in the aims and ideals of the League of Nations declared the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, when addressing the hundredth session of the League Council at Geneva
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    “Japan Not To Land Forces At Hainan.”
    215 26 “Japan Not To Land Forces At Hainan >. —Reuter. Tokio, Jan. 28. “THE Japanese Navy has no mten- tlon of landing forces at Yulin or elsewhere on Hainan Island, and the Navy has never attempted this,” declared the spokesman of the Tokio Navy Ministry (reports Reuter). This statement followed a
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    Inaction Of League Is Condemned
    354 26 —Reuter. DR. WELLINGTON Koo (China) condemned the lack of courage of the League in standing by its principles. He said the world’s peace and security were confronted by a lawlessness and i violence seldom before witnessed in history. International law, instead of being a rule
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    POLICE SURROUND JAPANESE SHIP.
    128 26 Reuter. Chinese Challenge Crew To Fight. Boston, Jan. 30. police are stationed around the Japanese freighter. Keiyo Maru. as the vessel’s agents have reported to the police that they have been warned that something might happen. The Keiyo Maru is a sistership to the Hiye Maru
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    China Has Lost 27 Warships & 659 Planes.
    181 26 China Has Lost 27 Warships 659 Planes. I TP to Dec. 31, China had lost 27 warships and 659 aeroplanes, including 281 shot down in air duels, accr iing to ViceAdm. Yonai, Japanese Navy Minister (reports Aneta-Domei). Speaking before the House of Peers, auios pauonuaui jaisjuiw Aavn am interesting figures
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    Japan Will Reply If U.S. Navy Is Increased.
    120 26 —Reuter. Tokio, Jan. 30. that the Japanese Navy attaches great importance to the Vinson Bill (providing for American naval reinforcement), the Tokio Nichi Nichi states that if the United States plans to build above treaty strength Japan will be compelled to take
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    Empress Weeps.
    24 26 The Empress of Ethiopia xoeeping in her carriage as she lejt Victoria Station, London, for Jerusalem, where she will stay three months.
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    Joint Anglo-French Production Of Aircraft?
    83 27 Reuter. London, Jan. 28. THE possibility of Anglo-French co-operation in the production of aircraft will be studied by a French military mission of five eminent Government experts who are arriving in London today. This is the latest development in conversations started in December when the
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    ‘Mosquito Boats’ Are New Mystery Vessels.
    135 27 .—Reuter. Washington, Jan. 28. •THE new types of small vessels for which President Roosevelt recommends an appropriation not exceeding $15,000,000 (£3.000,000) are, it is reliably understood, “mosquito” boats, fast well-armed tor-pedo-carrying craft as used in the Mediterranean by the Italian and later by the
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    HUGE DEATH-ROLL IN MUNITIONS EXPLOSION.
    321 27 .—Reuter. Mussolini Rushes From Wedding To Aid Rescue. Rome, Jan. 30. ACCORDING to estimates given by doctors and survivors over 100 people were killed and 1,000 injured in the Signi (Tivoli) munitions explosion, though the official communique speaks of only “a few dozen.” Hundreds of
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    U.S. NAVAL PROGRAMME WILL COMMAND SUPPORT.
    285 27 Three New Battleships, Eight Cruisers, Two Aircraft Carriers. WITH illusions of immediate billions for armaments destroyed by President Roosevelt’s defence message to Congress on Jan. 28, prices dropped on Wall Street by from one to three points for armaments, steels, coppers and industrials, but
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    Greece Denies Dictatorship.
    75 27 Greece Denies Dictatorship Reuter. Athens, Jan. 30. DEFERENCES to yesterday’s events in Greece are contained in a statement by a semi-official news agency, which emphasises that it is “incorrect to say that a more rigorous form is given to the regime.” The agency adds that several former politicians, “whose number
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    PRESIDENT EXPLAINS.
    100 27 —Reuter. Canal Widening Being Studied. Washington, Jan. 29. President Roosevelt, replying to questions at the Press conference today, said the size of the two new battleships mentioned in his message to Congress has not been fixed. With regard to the widening of the Panama Canal to take larger
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    Hand-Grenade Thrown At Japanese Censors.
    37 27 Shanghai, Jan. 28. A hand-grenade was thrown at the offices occupied Japanese censors supervising Chinese newspapers. The missile missed the window, hit the woodwork and rebounded, exploding be safe," said the President.
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    Roosevelt Says America Rearms For Peace.
    535 27 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 28. PRESIDENT Roosevelt’s message opens with recapitulation of the Government’s efforts to find a way to limit armaments and to establish, at least, the probability of world peace.” America could not and would not abandon her active search for an international
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    ANGLO-U.S. CO-OPERATION GREATEST YET.
    162 28 Reuter. Close Contact Between Naval Authorities. ANGLO-AMERICAN collaboration, on both naval and diplomatic questions, has probably never been so full as at present, declares the diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in an article published in London on Jan. 31. During the past three days, he
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    Japanese Push At Standstill.
    162 28 —Reuter. Chiang Kai-Shek Is Optimistic. Shanghai, Jan. 31. HTHE Japanese attempt to close the 150-mile gap between their forces along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway is virtually at a standstill. Clashes are occurring but nothing in the nature of a major battle has begun. The Chinese claim that
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    PICTURESQUE FRENCH PRIEST HONOURED.
    80 28 —Reuter. Father Jacquinot Is Decorated. Paris, Jan. 30. CATHER ROBERT JACQUINOT. picr turesque one-armed French priest, who is vicar of St. Peter’s, Shanghai, has been appointed a Chevalier of th e Legion of Honour _for “Thirty years’ service in which he specially distinguished himself during the
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    Danish Prince In Car Smash.
    58 28 No one icas injured. Aneta-Trans-Ocean. Copenhagen, Jan. 30. pRINCE FREDERICK of Denmark had a narrow escape when his motor-car, which he was driving, came into collision with a car belonging to a local tradesman. The Prince's car was only slightly damaged, but the other car
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    Year Of The Tiger Begins In China.
    124 28 !.—Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 31. *J"HE Chinese New Year, now known as the Spring Festivals is being celebrated all over the country but owing to the war the festivity is subdued, especially in Shanghai where the authorities have banned the traditional discharge of fireworks.
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    Nine Killed In Colliery Fire.
    38 28 i.—Reuter. London, Jan. 31. FIRE in a colliery at Kilsyih, Stirlingshire, resulted in the death of nine miners, who were cut off by flames. They were found by rescuers suffocated by the fumes.—Reuter.
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    British Dockers Ban Scrap Iron For Japan.
    174 28 —Reuter. London, Jan. 31. A MEETING of London dockers yesterday considered supporting the Middlesborough dockers in refusing to load pig iron on the Japanese ship Harana Maru which had to depart without cargo. The meeting passed a resolution calling on the Government to
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    “CLAY BIRDS” FOR BRITISH GUNNERS.
    82 28 attained by nodern planes.—Aneta-Trans-Ocean. New Principle In Anti-Aircraft Work. London, Jan. 31. DRITISH anti-aircraft batteries will in future use in their practice a novel target which is described by military experts as “an adaptation of the clay pigeon-shooting principle.” Targets hitherto were towed by planes,
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    Mystery Planes Shadow Japanese Warships.
    157 28 Aneta-Domei. Tokio, Jan. 30. aeroplanes are shadowing Japanese warships and aeroplanes operating in South China, according to the Japanese Navy spokesman. The spokesman said that these mystery planes usually follow Japanese warships and aeroplanes for a long time but they show no emblem r ««nJw
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    350 Killed In Rebel Air Raid On Barcelona.
    151 28 .—Reuter. I Barcelona, Jan. 31. THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY people were killed and 700 injured during two prolonged air raids on Barcelona yesterday. Six insurgent planes participated in each raid and dropped about 40 bombs. The second occurred while ambulance workers were
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    JAPAN’S POPULATION PROBLEM.
    84 28 -Aneta-Domei. Italy And Germany To Co-Operate Tokio, Jan. 31. JAPAN. Germany and Italy have shaken hands under the antiComintern banner and they may possibly co-operate in the future in the solution of the population question.” declared the Foreign Minister, Mr. K. Hirota, in the House of Peers.
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    29 28 Gen. Matsui, Japanese commander-in-chief in the Yangtse valley, whose recent statements in Shanghai aroused considerable resentment abroad, may shortly be recalled, according toTokio reports, says Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    14 Die While Preparing For Royal Birth.
    103 28 14 Die While Preparing For Royal Birth gating. Straits Times copyright. (From Our Own Correspondent) Batavia, Jan. 28. preparing fireworks with which to celebrate the birth of Princess Juliana’s baby, 14 women were killed when an explosion occurred in a fireworks factory at Rembang, North Java, yesterday. Five of the
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    Corinthians’ Great Victory After Being Two Goals Down. GALLANT FIGHT BY SINGAPORE XI.
    745 29  -  By “Echo.” NINETEEN minutes to go—Singapore leading 2—0 It 1 looked long odds on the Islington Corinthians being beaten at Anson Road stadium on Sunday. But they struggled on determinedly, at last found the way to interpret
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    TITLE FOR ELKINS.
    84 29 Wins North Malayan Championship. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Jan. 31. U7. H. ELKINS, of Selangor, for- mer Malayan champion (1931 and 1936), won the North Malaya amateur golf championship on the Ipoh Golf Club course today, beating Che Laidln, of Kedah, in the 18 holes final
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    CAPT. MILLING WINS G.G.C. CHAMPIONSHIP.
    117 29 Golf. The Garrison Golf Club’s championship competition, played during the last fortnight, was won by Captain Milling. The following are the full results: Ist round: Capt. J D. Newman beat Capt. B. J. Mahon 5 and 4; Capt. H. G. B. Milling beat Lt. R.
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    SOUTH’S NARROW WIN IN RUGGER “TEST.”
    562 29 Simpson's Brilliance The Feature Of The Game. ANE point decided the issue in favour of the South team at Anson Road Stadium on Saturday, when they beat the North by eight points (a penalty and a goal) to seven (a drop goal and a
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    IRELAND’S TEAM TO MEET ENGLAND.
    54 29 IRELAND S TEAM TO MEET ENGLAND. .—Reuter. London, Jan. 30. r THE Irish team to meet Enrland in the rugger international on Feb. 12 at Dublin Is as follows: A. N. Other; Daly (Harlequins), Bailey, McMahon, Lyttle (Collegians). Cromey, Morgan; Alexander, Graves, Irwin, (North Ireland), Mayne, Megaw, A. Loughtin (University
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    Jack Sharp: England, Lancashire And Everton.
    213 29 “CAPPED” AT SOCCER AND CRICKET. Reuter reports the death, at Liverpool, of Mr. John Sharp, double international (cricket and soccer) at the age of 59. He would have been 60 next month. At cricket, he was in the Lancashire county eleven from 1899 to
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    WELSH XV TO MEET SCOTLAND.
    53 29 T*HE team to represent Wales 1 in the rugger international with Scotland at Murrayfleld (Edinburgh) on Feb. 5 has been selected as follows, cables Reuter: Jenkins; Clement, Idwal Rees. Wooller, Bassett; Tanner, Jones (capt.); E. Morgan, Travers, H. Rees, F. L. Morgan, Watkins, McCarley, Vickery,
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    TOURISTS OUTPLAY CHINESE. SHERWOOD THE OPPORTUNIST GETS FIVE GOALS.
    1089 30  -  By "Echo." ENGLISH amateur soccer at very nearly its best—that is what we saw at Anson Road stadium last Wednesday, when the Islington Corinthians touring team outclassed the Chinese, Singapore champions of last season, and beat them 5—-0. Playing cool, skilful,
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    S. C. C. WIN FINAL OF RUGGER “SEVENS. ”
    345 30 S. C. C. WIN FINAL OF RUGGER “SEVENS. Beat R. A. M. C. By Lone Try In A Moderate Game. AS last year, the S.C.C. won the club’s seven-a-side rugger tournament, their “A” team beating the R.A.M.C. by three points (a try) to nil in the final on the padang
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    CANTABS CRUSH GUY’S.
    28 30 On their own ground on Jan. 26. a cables Reuter, Guy’s Hospital were heavily defeated by Cambridge University. the score being 25 points to nil.
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    MATHISEN RETAINS MEN’S SPEED TITLE.
    79 30 The European championships in speed skating were held in Norway on Sunday, says a further telegram. The title of European champion for 1938 was won by Charles Mathisen. Though he was first only in the 1000 and 500 metres events, he had good placings also
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    F.A. Cup Replays.
    91 30 STOKE BEATEN BY BRADFORD. The replays of Saturday’s drawn matches in the fourth round of the F.A. Cup competition took place on Jan. 26. Reuter cables the results as follows: Tottenham H. 5, New Brighton 2 Manchester U. 1, Barnsley o Stoke 1, Bradford z Liverpool 1,
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    Scottish Cup—Eight For Partick.
    96 30 THISTLE RIDDLE STRANRAER DEFENCE. Scottish Cup first round replays also took place on Jan. 26, results being: Arbroath 1 st. Johnstone 3 Partick 8 Stranraer 0 The second round draw—matches on or before Feb. 12—now stands Aberdeen vs. St. Johnstone. St. Bernards vs. King’s Park. Partick
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    WOLVES WIN AT BLACKPOOL.
    77 30 Matches in the English League played on Wednesday last week resulted cables Reuter, as below DIVISION I. Brentford 3, Everton 0 olton 2, Huddersfield 0 jeec^s 1, Grimsby 1 Middlesborough 0. Portsmouth 0 West Bromwich o, Charlton 0 Blackpool o, Wolves 2 DIVISION II. Plymouth l,
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    Miltondale And Meadowman Dead-Heat In Big Race At Ipoh.
    972 31 ORMOLU WINS FROM STARLIGHT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I D Oh Jan OQ A DEAD HEAT between Miltondale and Meadowman in the big race featured the opening day of the Perak Turf Club’s Meeting. Another dead heat, for second place, occurred
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    BUDGE IN FORM.
    69 31 —Reuter. Outplays Bromwich In Australian Final. Adelaide, Jan. 29. IN the Australian lawn tennis championships singles final Donald Budge beat John Bromwich 6—4, 6—2, 6—1. Bromwich failed to reproduce the form with which he beat Von Cramm. He was no match for Budge's fluent stroking and merciless
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    SELANGOR WIN AT SEREMBAN.
    223 31 Hockey. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Jan. 29. Selangor got three quick goals to beat Negri Sembilan 3—0 in a reserve hockey match here today. Just before the whistle went for the interval, LaBrooy, one of the full backs, scored from a short corner, the ball
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    BEN FOORD BEATEN BY SCHMELING.
    318 31 —Reuter. South African Outclassed But Gives Gallant Display. IN a twelve rounds fight at Hamburg on Jan. 30 Max Schme1 ling, the former world champion, outpointed Ben Foord, the South African, winning decisively, cables Reuter. The Hanseatic Hall was filled to capacity by a crowd
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    SELANGOR WELL BEATEN.
    333 31 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 24. CHERWOOD, goal-scoring centre-forward of the Islington Coru inthians, brought his Malayan "bag” to 12 today, out of the team's total of 22. He got both the goals by which the tourists beat the Selangor State XI on the padang,
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    WOLVES HOT ON THE TITLE TRAIL.
    1658 32 Two Sheffield 'Clubs In High Scoring Thrillers. DY beating Brentford, Wolverhampton Wanderers—the D eland team—become favourites for the English League championship. At the other end of the table a grim struggle for points is being waged. In Division II five clubs are in the
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    GLIMPSES AT THE GAMES.
    391 32 Chelsea Crowd Peevish I From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan 30. 'THERE were minor demonstrations at Chelsea where the home team’s game was back to the standard that once made them the butt of music hall jokes. The crowd sang ironical songs throughout the match. Mannion
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    EIGHT FOR ENGLAND.
    48 32 Welsh Amateurs Heavily Beaten By Rhyl. AT Rhyl on Saturday England were guests of Wales In an amateur international soccer match. England (cables Reuter) were much the stronger side and won as they liked,” the final score in their favour being eight goals to two.
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    VILLA & COVENTRY BOTH BEATEN.
    148 32 VILLA COVENTRY BOTH BEATEN. Two matches were played on Thursday in Division II of the English League. In them the two leading clubs were defeated, one of them on their own ground, the results being (cables Reuter): Blackburn 1 Aston Villa 0 Coventry 0 Bury 2 The Villa and Coventry
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    LONDON STIR OVER U.S. SHIPS’ SINGAPORE VISIT
    790 33 Misquotation Of Straits Times Causes Concern. Singapore, Feb. 2. GARBLED quotations of news items in the Straits Times and Singapore Free Press about the American cruisers’ visit, allegedly contained in despatches to the United States from Karl von Wiegand, chief foreign correspondent for
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    Daily Telegraph Alters Leader.
    127 33 r FHE Daily Telegraph leading article referred to in the accompanying news story has been altered in later editions of the newspaper, according to late Reuter messages from London this morning. This alteration apparently signifies that the Daily Telegraph now is aware that it has Incorrectly
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    SINGAPORE “WAR”
    250 33 Air Patrols Scour Seas For Enemy. Singapore, Feb. 2. QUIETLY, almost unobtrusively, the large scale manoeuvres began in Singapore today. Twenty-five naval vessels stole out of the Naval Base last night for an unknown destination several hundred miles out to sea from where they are ready to converge
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    43 33 Mr. J. R. Farquharson has been appointed a director of Ta’erng Tin Dredging, Ltd. in the place of Mr. Ernest Miller. Mr W. Lindsay, Gaoler, Grade III, Prisons, S.S., has been seconded for service under the Government of Johore, with claim to pension.
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    “Mother’s Approval” For Valerie’s Wrestler.
    156 33 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Feb. 1. T'HE Ranee of Sarawak has 1 given her blessing to the wedding of her daughter, Princess Baba, and Bob Gregory, the all-in wrestler, whom the Ranee calls “such a goodlooking boy.” Mother’s approval to the mar nage which
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    THREE PEOPLE CUT BY CHINESE.
    130 33 Alleged Attack In Coffee Shop. A SUDDEN attack on a Chinese named Leong Kim Yeow, sitting In a coffee shop in South Canal Road by another Chinese who was walking along the road brandishing a knlft resulted in three people being severely slashed on Tuesday.
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    Air Chief To Represent Australia At Base Opening.
    155 33 THE Chief of Staff, Royal Australian Air Force, Air ViceMarshal Richard Williams, will represent the Commonwealth at the opening of the graving dock at the Singapore Naval Base on Feb. 14, it is officially announced. *J'HE Federal Cabinet has decided that owing
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    SHEPHARD—YATES ENGAGEMENT.
    65 33 'THE engagement of Mr. Theodore Dudley Shephard, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Shephard, to marry Miss Sylvia Bertha Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Yates, of Wootton Court, near Canterbury, has been announced in The Times, states the Straits Times London Correspondent.
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      CONSUMPTION OF TIN INCREASES LAST YEAR.
      668 1 DECEMBER PRODUCTION AN ALL TIME RECORD. RESEARCH COUNCIL’S STATISTICS. THE following explanation of the decisions taken at the December meeting of the International Tin Committee is published in this month’s issue of the International Tin Research and Development Council’s statistical bulletin: At the meeting
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      FIXED TRUST QUOTATIONS.
      119 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 31. The following are today’s “bid” quotations for Fixed Trusts:— s. d. British Empire “A” 20 0 British Empire “B” 10 0 British Empire Cumulative 16 0 British Empire Comprehensive 17 IV2 British General “A” 19 9 British General “B” 17
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      DUTCH TEA CONTROL.
      52 1 Amsterdam. Jan. 21. TTHE Netherlands Indies Government has submitted a draft decree to the People’s Council providing for a renewal of the tea restriction scheme from Apr. 1, 1938. to Mar. 31. 1943. The conditions of the new regulation are practically the same as those of the
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES.
      213 1 Singapore, Feb. 2, 12 noon. Buyers Sellers Gambier $8.00 Hamburg Cube $15.5o Java Cube $11.00 Pepper. White Muntok $14.01 White $13.51 Black S8 7f Copra. Mixed $3.55 Sun Dried $3.90 Tapioca. Small Flake $3.80 Fair Flake $3.60 Medium Pearl $4.75 Small Pearl $4.30 Sago Flour. No. 1
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      LONDON PEPPER PRICES RAISED.
      53 1 —Reuter. London, Feb. 1. THE Pepper Sales Control Committee 1 has raised the price of spot Muntok pepper to 4d. a pound in bond and to 4y 2 d. a pound duty paid, with only limited quantities available at these prices. The advance is one farthing
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      LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
      325 1 London, Feb. 1. The following are today's closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange: Shares ol £1 denomination unless otheArise stated: rlm our or Pali Conversion Lean 5 o.o. 1944-64 115% funding Loan o.c 1960-90 113% War Loan, 3% p.c 102% Com. Onion Assce. (Units) 10
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      SINGAPORE TIN PRICES.
      17 1 Jan. 27 Tin, S’pore Price $90.50 per picul 88.12 29 87.75 Feb. 2 89.25
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER PRICES (Sellers).
      55 1 9??/ 1 Feb I ar A P r June July-Sept. Oct.-Dec. London 28 IVv 5& 24 24 247 7 29 116 24% 2i% 247* 7 3/16 31 llfr 24V 24% 24% 7 3/16 Q~vf 22 w H 24 24% 24% 7% Feb. 2 S? I?V4 Apr
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      Reasonable Prospect Of Excess Stocks Being Absorbed.
      783 2 Rubber Market Review Reduced Quota For Second Quarter Welcomed. LEWIS PEAT (SINGAPORE) LTD. In their weekly report on the rubber market issued on Jan. 28, write What the plight of the rubber market would have been had the committee not reduced the permissible
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      SINGAPORE TRACTION PROFITS RISE.
      139 2 —Straits Times cable. £20,000 For Depreciation And Renewals. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 28. JHE accounts of the Singapore Traction Co., Ltd. for the year ended Sept. 30, show that the profit, after charging debenture interest and London office charges, was £65,926 (compared with £62,134
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      EXPORTS OF CANNED PINEAPPLE
      93 2 INURING the ’reek ending Jan. 22. canned pineapple exports from Malayan ports amounted to 38.290 cases, of which: 31,767 (83 per cent.) cases were to the United Kingdom. 975 (3 per cent.) cases to Europe, 475 (1 per cent.) cases to Canada, and 5,073 (13 per
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      RUBBER EXPORT DUTY.
      29 2 J7OR purpose of assessment to export duty, the price of rubber from Jan 28 to Feb. 3, inclusive, has been determined at 23 cents a pound
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      Colony Has Budgeted For $2,385,000 Deficit.
      424 2 THK Straits Settlements Government has budgeted for a deficit of $2,385,343 during the current year. Final estimates just published in the Gazette show REVENUE $37,790.667 EXPENDITURE RECURRENT 31,337,176 SURPLUS $6,453,491 EXPENDITURE EXTRAORDINARY 8,838,834 TOTAL DEFICIT $2,385,343 The actual revenue in 1936 was $35,124,137 and
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      PERAK RIVER VALLEY RUBBER
      343 2 PROFIT RISES FROM $30,866 TO $73,736. DIVIDEND RAISED TO 121/2 PER CENT. yHE report of the directors of Perak River Valley Rubber Company Ltd. states that the profit for the year ended Sept. 30, last was $73,736 which compares with $30,866 for the preceding year. An
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      ROYAL DUTCH BIG REDEMPTION.
      138 2 £8,000,000 4 Per Cent. Loan. Amsterdam. Jan. 21. DOYAL Dutch Petroleum Company will redeem on May 1 the four per cent guilder loan. 1937. totalling FIs. 72.000.000 i £8.000.000). This loan, owes its existence to til? offer by the company to holders of the four per
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      PETALING TIN HAS RECORD PROFIT.
      1580 3 Capital Increased: Issue Of Shares At Premium. NEW DREDGE ORDERED: INTERIM DIVIDEND DECLARED. OPPOSITION TO BUFFER POOL. ADDRESSING shareholders at the annual meeting of Petaling Tin, Ltd. in Ipoh, the Hon’ble Mr. Q' L. Green, teh chairman, said:— Before moving the adoption of the report
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      OIL EXPLORATION IN DUTCH GUINEA.
      60 3 Satisfactory Results. Amsterdam, Jan. 17. OIL exploration in Netherlands New Guinea has met with satisfactory results, it is stated in the Netherlands Indies Press. Experimental drillings are expected to start shortly. The concessions are being explored bv the Netherlands New Guinea Oil Company, in which
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      FURTHER TIN QUOTA CUT LIKELY.
      120 3 Trade Demand Very Poor. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 28. experts agree that a further cut in the tin production quota for the second quarter is essential at the next meeting of the committee which takes place at the Hague on Feb. 18. This
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION.
      145 3 550 Tons Sold. THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce 1 Rubber Association held its 1.366th auction on Jan. 26 when there were catalogued 1,620.206 lbs (723.30 tons); offered 1,366,416 lbs. (610.01 tons); sold 1,232.830 lbs. (550.37 tons). Spot London 7%d. New York 15 cento Prices Realised. Ribbed Smoked
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      FEDERAL EXCHEQUER RETURNS.
      350 4 Revenue $13,000,000 More Than Expenditure At End November. THE Federal Exchequer returns show that the total revenue received in November was $5,342,839 bringing the total for the 11 months of 1937 to $74,874,981. This compares with eleven-twelfths of the 1937 estimates of $55,978,998 and with $61,858,282 collected
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      25 4 A GOVERNMENT Gazette notifica- tion states that the Currency Commissioners issued $255,432 in exchange for sterling received in London during the week ended Jan. 26
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      AYER MOLEK RUBBER.
      507 4 STRONG RESERVE TO BE MAINTAINED. $500 BONUS FOR STAFF. ti A DDRESSING shareholders at the annual general meeting of Ayer Molek Rubber Co., Ltd., in Malacca on Saturday, Mr. Chee Guan Chiang, the chairman, said:— It is gratifying to note that the year’s working has resulted in
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      ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE.
      480 4 agreement may affect PINEAPPLE CANNING. OTTAWA INTENTIONS MISCARRY. (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 22. MALAYA’S pineapple canning industry might be adversely affected by the anticipated AngloAmerican trade pact if the margin of preference in the Home market at present enjoyed by Empire canners were reduced. This warning
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      RECORD TIN PRODUCTION AND ABSORPTION.
      167 4 ment Council issued today.—Straits Times cable. Visible Stocks Rise 3,000 Tons. (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 27. WORLD t in production last year is estimated to have been 206,000 tons, a rise of 26,000 tons from the 179,345 tons produced in 1936, and is
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      SUMATRA TEA EXPORTS.
      19 4 Amsterdam, Jan. 23. Tea exports from Sumatra in 1937 totalled 13,410,756 kilograms, against 13,700,583 in 1936.
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      World Rubber Stocks Rise 63,000 Tons Last Year.
      144 4 World Rubber Stocks Rise 63,000 Tons Last Year Straits Times cable. ABSORPTION 8,000 TONS BELOW ESTIMATE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 31. stocks of rubber outside the regulated areas, but excluding rtocks in the hands of manufacturers in the United Kingdom, at the close of 1937 totalled 497,217 tons
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      STOCKS AND SHARES.
      1190 5 Issued By Fraser And Co., EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, Feb. 2, 1938, 10 a.m. MINING. Baysr* Sdlin 4/- Ampat Tin 4/6 5/ei Asam Kumbang 30/3 32 6 €i Austral Malay 50/- 55/-cd 5 Ayer Hltam 25/- 26/1 Ayer Weng 0.70 0.75 £1 Bangrln Tin 24/l Batu
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      JAPAN’S EXPORT TRADE DROPS.
      50 5 —Reuter. THE Japanese Empire’s January imports amounted to 208,950,000 yen ($104,475,000 Straits) and exports were 172,270.000 yen ($86,135,000), compared with 319,930,000 yen ($159,965,000) and 208,490.000 yen ($104,245,000) for January 1937. This is a reduction of 110,980,000 yen ($55,490,000) in imports and 36.490,000 yen ($18,245,000) in exports.—Reuter.
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      RUBBER SHARES.
      587 5 London Exchange Prices On Jan. 25. Allagar (2/) 1/2; Alar Pongsu (2/) 2/; Analo-Malay 11/; Ayer Kuning 28/1%; Badenoch 22/; Bagan Serai 20/; Bahru (Bel.) (2/) 1/11; Banteng 15/; Batang (2/) 1/: Batu Caves 15/3; Batu Tlga 28/1%; Bekoh (2/) 1/3; Bertam Con. (2/) 3/2%; Bldor 32/8; Blkam
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      EXCHEQUER RETURNS.
      33 5 British Wireless. London. Feb. 1. EXCHEQUER returns show total ordinary revenue amounts to £622,869,231 against £590,942,740 a year ago. Total expenditure, less selfbalancing items, is £815,306,925 against £668,554,995 a year ago.—
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      TIN SHARES.
      157 5 London Exchange Prices On Jan. 25. Ampat (4/) 4/4%; Anglo*Burma (5/) 11/9; Ayer Hi tain (6/) 1 3/16; Bangrtn 1 5/32; Oopeng Corn. (6/) 9/6; Hongkong (9/) 1 7/32; Mrla (5/) 6/3; Ipoh (16/) 1%; Karnpong Lanjut 24/10%; Kamunttng (ft/) 10/3; Kepong 13/16; Killinghall (6/) 18/3; Klnta (5/>
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      AMERICAN STOCK AND COMMODITY PRICES.
      299 5 Singapore, Feb 2. HTH& following quotations are pub. llshed by courtesy of Messrs. S. K. Levy and Co., Singapore. Messrs White Weld and Company, New York, report Dy cable regarding yesterday's markets DOW-JONES AVERAGES Yesterday’s Today’s Close dose UhftOm 30 Industrials 121.87 123.97 up 2*lo
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      FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS.
      218 5 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS. Singajore, Jan. 29, 1 p.m. Total for Books Close financial Date F.x Dlv. rear Company Dividend Payable Date to date TIN. To Austral Malay 9d. 5% 3d. Bo..us Burma Malay 6s Special Bonus Feb. 3 Feb. 10 Feb. 4 K Kamunting 3d. Feb. 11
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