The Straits Budget, 1 September 1938
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Title Section29 1938-09-01 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY./ No. 1203. SINGAPORE. THI/RSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1938. Price 25 cts., (S.S. Currency) or 7d.29 words
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Article, Illustration1194 1938-09-01 1 ‘•r»UARD the new colour as you guarded the old; let it ever r. main untarnished and may if lead GUi and those who come after you, to victory in the cause of freedom and Justice.” the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas told the 1st Battalian, Royal InniskillingStraits Times picture. - 1,194 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article737 1938-09-01 2 the F.M.S. Government.—Straits Times. Aug. 25. There wa.> another Chinese rioi yesterday, the scene being Ipoh this time, and the mob actually' seems to have forced its way .ftito the central police station. It may be recalled that it was an attack on the Kreta Ayer police stationthe F.M.S. Government.—Straits Times. Aug. 25. - 737 words
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Article336 1938-09-01 2 manding officer. -Straits Times. Aug. 25 Tomorrow Lieut.-Colonel Bruce will say goodbye to Malaya. He is returning to Er.giard to rejoin his own regiment and probably will never serve in this country again, but he will always be remembered here as the soldier whose name ismanding officer. -Straits Times. Aug. 25 - 336 words
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Article815 1938-09-01 2 Flashpoint xiticai time for Europe.—Straits 'irries. Aug. 26. Today's news from Berlin. London and Prague is ominous. Hopes of settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, held out by cabled messages earlier in the week, are fading again, and the stand now taken by the Polish and Hungarian minorities in this harassedxiticai time for Europe.—Straits 'irries. Aug. 26. - 815 words
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Article279 1938-09-01 3 Straits Times. Aug. 26. X*„ j< more than a month since Sir tent on Thomas, speaking at the pening oi the Singapore short-wave ration, indicated that although Govrnment was not yet ready to an ounce a definite broadcasting policy Malaya such an announcement fight be expected soon. then,Straits Times. Aug. 26. - 279 words
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Article870 1938-09-01 3 Straits Times. Aug. 27. Hopes lor an early and definite t.o\e towards peace in war-wrackco |pain have received a rude blow rom General Franco. His muchlela>ed reply to the Non-Interven-i°n Committee’s proposals for the withdrawal of foreign combatants la> keen construed in some quarters y a rejection. IfStraits Times. Aug. 27. - 870 words
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Article977 1938-09-01 3 Straits Times, Aug. 29. First impressions of the report of the Singapore traffic committee, submitted to the Legislative Council today, are decidedly satisfactory. The committee has spent eight months in studying Singapore traffic in all its aspects, under the able chairmanship of Sir George Trimmer, and has producedStraits Times, Aug. 29. - 977 words
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Article813 1938-09-01 4 —Straits Times Aug. 30. An ugly heading lor an ugly i subject Let no one read this article who is afraid to lace th?! realities of venereal disease in the Straits Settlements and particularly in the fortress of Singapore. It is necessary to discuss this subject j because—Straits Times Aug. 30. - 813 words
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Article239 1938-09-01 4 gestion in this city —Straits Times. Aug. 30. The letter published on this page today is particularly timely In view of certain comments made by the Singapore traffic committee in its report. The committee, in its list of causes of interference with traffic flow, includes the presence ofgestion in this city —Straits Times. Aug. 30. - 239 words
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Article725 1938-09-01 4 Straits Times, Aug. 31. Perhaps the most astonishing revelation in the report of the Singapore traffic committee is that it takes the better part of a year to get a motorist tried in the policecourts. The average period between the offence and the first appearance in court isStraits Times, Aug. 31. - 725 words
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NOTES Of The DAY.
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Article195 1938-09-01 5 Charlie Chan pHARLIE CHAN was not the most C j as hionable of film stars, but he a U ve a great deal of pleasure to Malayan audiences. This famous film detective will now disappear from the .screen, for his creator, Warner Oland. died recently. As an example of the195 words
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Article174 1938-09-01 5 Pre-War Movies ifY comments on a Malacca cinema programme of 1911. and my surprise at the discovery that film entertainment was available in this country as long ago as that, have prompted the following comments in the Malay Mail: “Such entertainment must have been a regular thing several years before174 words
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Article186 1938-09-01 5 Hope Springs u QNE of the more aggravating delights of a police officer’s life. sa ys the Malayan Police Magazine is tlie receipt of petitions and the demand for explanations for hose petitions and so forth. Here is the modus operand! of a King of Petitioners in Malaya. A constable186 words
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Article144 1938-09-01 5 Fence-Sitters *J*HE Cathedral Courier has discovered such a Jolly piece of satire about the Heaven-bom in the days of the East India Company that I really must lift it for this column: “Thirty years ago the E.l.Co.’s Civil Service was rapturously named the finest service in the world. To live144 words
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Article178 1938-09-01 5 Canal Trees gOMEONE wants to know what is the species )f tree with exceptionally long, broad leaves which has been planted recently along the Bukit Timah canal, opposite the Kandang Kerbau maternity hospital. This reader’s interest was aroused because he thought that these were teak trees, but that turns out178 words
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Article196 1938-09-01 5 J MUST say that some of the complaints about the Singapore Traction Company services sound unreasonable to people who are familiar with bus services at Home. For example, the Straits Times ha? received a letter from a resident of Katong complaining that S.T.C. buses only leave the Katong196 words
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Article183 1938-09-01 5 Poor Spoor J.JERE is an amusing yarn of a Singapore Chinese told by General Douglas Hamilton in “Records 01 Sport in Southern India.” General Hamilton was stationed in Singapore with a regiment of Madras Native Infantry in the forties and was extremely anxious to shoot a tiger. One day reports183 words
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Article140 1938-09-01 5 like Scotsmen. -**Joy telling stories against themselves, and so a member of the Colony Bar sends the following: I have Just been reading your remarks under the heading “Legal Harvest.” The version I have always heard of the anecdote you quote is that a lawyer, Just returned to140 words
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Article312 1938-09-01 5 Johore Hobby liniERE other people collect stamps, Johoreans collect envelopes This is a new and exciting hobby in Johore People go about hilariously waving their latest specimen, keen collectors spend hours swapping in clubs, and the finer points of enveloppery are rapidly becoming established. For this diversion in their dull312 words
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Article201 1938-09-01 5 August Rains coast of Malacca is the only region of Malaya which gets its heaviest rain in August, at the height of the south-west monsoon. Over most of the Peninsula this season is not especially rainy.” So says a school geography issued by the Malaya Publishing House last week, and201 words
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Article168 1938-09-01 5 Last Rhinoceros AN illustration of how quickly any of the larger Malaysian animals can die out, if left to rht* tender mercies of the native population, is afforced by the following extract from the annual report of the Curator of the Sarawak Museum: “A rhinoceros (Rhinoceros suma rensis) was reported168 words
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Article276 1938-09-01 6 Hill Miners PVERYONE who has motored down from Fraser’s Hill must have noticed the red scaurs on the hills overlooking the road shortly before it emerges from the foothills, and must have wondered how the Chinese miners who did that damage could have extracted tin from such high and steep276 words
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Article377 1938-09-01 6 Fur And Feathers VTSUAULY wc confine ourselves to Malaysia !n this column, but the following letter about a Shanghai garden (possibly bombed to smithereens since the writer saw it) is so delightful that it must be quoted “An architect in Shanghai built a house three miles out of the city377 words
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Article92 1938-09-01 6 Taking The Kira a JOHORE planter, going through cookie’s kira the other day, was delighted to find the following item cucumbles 10 cents What a beautiful word! In the same list was a mysterious charge of 65 cents for sole importers.’’ Long questioning failed to reveal the meaning of this,92 words
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Article232 1938-09-01 6 COR the “This England” section of 1 the New Statesman and Nation (assuming this also applies to the English in their colonies), I suggest the following extract from the report of the Singapore traffic committee: “It has been represented to us that some members of the motoring public may232 words
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Article273 1938-09-01 6 FRIEND of mine in the American Methodist Mission had an odd experience the other day. She was invited to an At Home by the new Con-sul-General for the United States, whom she had not met before, and on the appointed Saturday afternoon she duly drove along Grange Road273 words
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Article218 1938-09-01 6 A TRUE story of the first flight of a Wearne Brothers aeroplane to Kelantan some weeks ago deserves to be recorded for posterity, as an amusing incident of the pioneer days of aviation in the Peninsula. Before the aeroplane left Singapore cn this flight a telegram was sent218 words
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Article225 1938-09-01 6 Bras Basah Browsing FRIEND of mine is addicted to what he calls Bras Basah browsing. by which he means poking about in the little secondhand bookshops in Bras Basah Road. Every now and then he sends me a book he has picked up there, and his latest find is an225 words
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Article217 1938-09-01 6 'TALKING of secondhand books. difference between Singapore and the cities of Java in this respect s noteworthy. In Java there are secondhand bo:'*, shops almost as large as those fourd in any large town in England. Or.e i saw at Bandoeng had an impress;-.* collection of Dutch217 words
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Article236 1938-09-01 6 *pHERE Is a danger that further restrictions will be placed on public entry to the Government House domain as a result of the traffic report. Some time ago the Cavanagh Posd gate was closed, to prevent through motor traffic. That was quite readable, but as no side-gate was provided236 words
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Article32 1938-09-01 6 Mr. G. L. Jerram of the Survey partment of the Straits Settle man and Federated Malay States, has WJ® appointed to be a Demarcation O. for the Settlement of Malacca.32 words
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Article121 1938-09-01 7 Mr R A. Simcock, Senior Surveyor, Malayan Survey Service, has been seconded for service under the Government of Johore. t is notified in the Government o zette that Professor R. B. Hawes and Drntpssor J L. Rosedale have been coP ;red as members of th e Advisory121 words
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Article157 1938-09-01 7 From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Aug. 18. Mrs R G. Macadam, formerly of Johore. has settled at Crosshill, Ayrshire. Mr. R. C. Drew, formerly of the P yV.D.. and Mrs. Drew now live at Topsham, Devon Mr. H J. Simpson, Agricultural Officer. F.M.S.. is spending part of157 words
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DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
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Article138 1938-09-01 7 MORGAN —At the General Hospital. Muar. n Au’. 24. 1938. to Margaret, wife of S. Morgan, a son. McLACHLAN. —At the General Hospital Singapore, on Aug. 26, 1938. to Jinty, wife ol Thomas M. McLachlan. a son. CLARKE—To Prances Evelyn, wife of Frederick W. H. Clarke, on Aug. 25,138 words
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Article45 1938-09-01 7 koCKHAM-LONGMAN—The engagement is announced ot Harold Arthur Lee Luckliam 1110 Malayan Civil Service, son of Mr. and -Ir.'.. Luckhani of Do Vaux. The Close. Saliso «ry. and Mildred Christina Clara Longman, daughter of Mr. and the late Mrs. Longman o. Mill Hill. Hockley, Essex.45 words
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Article36 1938-09-01 7 DICKSON— SNELL.— At the Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh on July 20, by the Rev. J. Allan UTl George Jamieson Dickson of Allanton, Berwickshire to Margaret eldest daughter of an d Mrs. W. Armstrong of Durban. Natal.36 words
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Article120 1938-09-01 7 Thursday, Aug. 25. In the afternoon His Excellency presented a new King’s Colour to the Ist Bn. The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the Padang. His Excellency dined with Lieuten-ant-Colonel R. B. Leslie and Officers of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at the Officers’ Mess. Tanglin Barracks. Saturday, Aug. 27.120 words
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Article222 1938-09-01 7 CITY’S DISTRESSED GENTLEFOLK.” •"PHE increase in Singapore in the number of people known in England as distressed gentlefolk was referred to by Mr. E. A. Brown, at a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners on Friday. Mr. Brown suggested that the bottom of the Memorial Hall be opened to them once222 words
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Article158 1938-09-01 7 Four Assessors Named. TRIBUNAL TO SIT THIS WEEK. of the four assessors on the arbitration tribunal to inquire into the issues between the Singapore Traction Co. and its employees were announced on Friday The Chief Justice, Mr. P. A. MeElwaine, is chairman, the assessors being: MR.158 words
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Article174 1938-09-01 7 AS a prelude to his departure for Germany, via Italy, the Sultan of Johore, now recovered from his recent illness gave a dinner party to nearly 40 personal friends at Raffles Hotel on Friday. Although still walking with a stick, the Sultan looked remarkably fit174 words
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329 1938-09-01 7 Lance-sergeant Jona David Alfred Dunkason, who was found dead at Tanglin Barracks sports room on Monday morning with a rifle at his side, was a fine sportsman whose passing has caused widespread regret in the ranks of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He played a brilliant329 words
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Article260 1938-09-01 7 Leaders— More Riots 2 Flashpoint 2 Spanish Fiasco 3 Traffic Reform 3 Straits Brothels 4 More Reforms 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Pictorial Section 17—28 Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following page 32 Malayan General News—--30 M.P.H. Speed Limit For Singapore 9 City’s Big260 words
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Article81 1938-09-01 7 Singapore, Aug. 30. THIS afternoon's K.L.M. plane to Amsterdam will carry a large crate of Miss Joaquim orchids from the Hollanders of Singapore to Queen Wilhelmina. The orchids will be a novel token of esteem on the occasion of the Queen’s 40th jubilee, which falls81 words
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Article71 1938-09-01 7 CHINESE BANKER’ S FUNERAL. From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Aug. 28 TtfE f uneral of Mr. Chee Swee Cheng, 71-year-old banker and philanthropist, took place today at the family burial ground In BukitBruang, Malacca. Mr. Chee died at his home in Devonshire Road. Singapore. The cortege arrived here by train71 words
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Obituary82 1938-09-01 7 Tunnv DEATHS ikv» D Alan F -> late of Kuala Geh ho, tcs Ke lantan, died at his home at Peacer *3? e n Sussex, England, on August 14. rtTp luigiana, on i\upusi is. Lee Kia Joo (alias Lee Kee Sin) ■used away peacefully at his residence, 218 urn mein82 words
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1244 1938-09-01 8 ‘Gurusamy On Criminal Intimidation Charge. “SAND IN FOOD" REFERENCE AT SUM AY HEARING. CACING trial on a charge of criminal intimidation, in the Singapore Criminal District Court, on Sunday, M. Gurusamy, president of the Traction Company Employees’ Association, was alleged to have stood1,244 words
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Article280 1938-09-01 8 CAR DRIVING CHARGE. Cantonment Rd. Collision. AN a charge ot negligent drivv ing, Inspector J. A. Ellis, of the S.S. Police, appeared in the Singapore Traffic Court on Monday, as a sequel to an accident at the junction of Cantonment Road and Neil Road at the end280 words
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343 1938-09-01 8 Sultan’s Ban: Tungku Flies Back To Oxford. THE Tungku Mahmud of 1 Trengganu is determined to marry an English girl, Miss Joyce Blencowe, according to a Reuter message from London. After leaving for Penang by the P. O. liner Rajputana, the Prince has dramatically343 words
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Article42 1938-09-01 8 COUR Chinese alleged to be carry--1 ing revolvers, are stated to hav<? entered a house in Braddeli P > (J Upper Serangoon, at two o’clock on Monday morning and robbed twa Chinese women of their jewellery *he police were notified.42 words
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712 1938-09-01 9 30 M.P.H. SPEED LIMIT FOR SINGAPORE MANY ACCIDENTS DUE TO EXCESSIVE SPEED. Parking Over The Sea. 4 SPEED limit of 30 miles an hour for the greater •A part of Singapore city is one of the principal recommendations of the Trimmer Committee, which has been inquiring into traffic conditions in712 words
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Article493 1938-09-01 9 |"\EALING with parking sites the re- port says:— “We recommend that the following sites be set aside for garage parking:— a Clifford Pier. «b) Raffles Quay (adjoining the Association of Engineers’ Club). <c> Behind the building of Cable and Wireless. Limited <juncton of Japan Street and493 words
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Article251 1938-09-01 9 SEQUEL TO LAST WEEKS RIOTS. Chinese Leader’s Message. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Aug. 28. COLLOWING Chinese distur1 bailees in Ipoh last week believed to be connected with Singapore banishment arrests and in which baton charges were made by the police—an appeal has been made by251 words
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238 1938-09-01 9 are strongly ot the opinion that the best interests of the town of Singapore would be served from the traffic control and regulation standpoint if a Traffic Advisory CominTtc" be constituted and kept in operation presenting a report r,f its proceedings to the Government238 words
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Correspondence.
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Article345 1938-09-01 10 MR. STONE ATTACKS STRAITS TIMES. Two Leading Articles On The Dispute. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,- You add a loot-note to ‘Onlooker V' letter saying you have no Intention of prolonging controversy over the S.T.C strike, and right beside that note you publish a leader345 words
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Article212 1938-09-01 10 Chinese Tribute To The Straits Times. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—Par be It from us to belittle the services of those who tried to bring about a settlement of the transport strike. We submit, however, that it was the views and comments expressed212 words
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Article338 1938-09-01 10 Their Part In Settling Transport Strike. To the Editor of the Straits Times. SirNow that the Singapore Traction Company** strike has been called off and that the Company's employees have agreed to refer their case to an impartial court of inquiry as has been urged by you from338 words
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Article120 1938-09-01 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sirs, —We winder how the authorities could show such a tolerant attitude to the illegal activities of the so-called patriotic federations, such as the boycott Committee, National Savers’ League and other anti-Japanese bodies. These people are simply getting out of hand and120 words
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Article137 1938-09-01 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.—I have read the article from your correspondent “I.E.” with much interest, and I should like to give the following short reply. I should appreciate it if you will publish this Dear Mr. I.E., For the greater part I could not137 words
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Article555 1938-09-01 10 Capt. Cazalet In Singapore. GIVING UP ALLIANCE WI~H SOVIET. To the Editor ol the Straits Times. Sir, Few true Czechoslovakians would agree with Captain Cazalet’s view, as expressed in his local address a lew days ago, that Czechoslovakia should surrender her treaty ol alliance with France and Russia.555 words
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Article602 1938-09-01 10 Government Action Defended. PROTECTING STRIKf BREAKERS. To the Editor of the Straits Tir^ Sir,—In your leader in the Strajo Times of Aug. 18 you criticise the Gw emment rather severely for doing wiul a good many people consider to be Government’s first duty, viz. maintenance of law and602 words
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Article603 1938-09-01 11 OUR READERS. straits times view SUPPORTED. 1 the Editor of the Straits Times r __But for the fact that your editriji note which appeared under the by “Onlooker.” indicated that C had no desire to prolong contro- -V 0 ver the S.T.C. strike, you would evitably have603 words
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Article697 1938-09-01 11 Democrat Versus Blackshirt. ARMING TO DEFEND COLONIES. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —With reference to what has been said by Mr. H. C. van Hoogstraten, vide an article that appeared in your today’s edition. I should appreciate your publishing a reply to this gentleman’s opinion.697 words
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Article271 1938-09-01 11 Champion Of The Malayan Highlands. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.—Quite recently both the Straits Times and The Sunday Times reported an interview with Mr. R. J. Farrer, an ex-M.C.S. officer who is now living in retirement in the Preanger Highlands in Java271 words
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Article236 1938-09-01 11 Why Not Give Eurasians A Chance? To the Editor of tlie Straits Times. Sir.—-The reported decision by the military authorities to recruit 900 Malays in the Straits Settlements for military service with the Royal Engineers on Singapore Island is welcome news. This will no cio tbt assist the236 words
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Article365 1938-09-01 11 S.S. Association On Local Reform. SUB COMMITTEE AND THE PUBLIC. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—I am instructed by my committee to ask you to be good enough to publish the following matter, which U thought to be of public interest. You are perhaps aware that365 words
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Article116 1938-09-01 11 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.—Two “hit-and-run’’ cases—the one at Kallang, the other at the 8th. mile. Changi—taking place at night within the space of two weeks, cause one to wonder how much longer the reglect of Paya Lebar Road, the natural link between Upper Serangoon116 words
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Article44 1938-09-01 11 From Our Own Correspondent.) London. Aug. 28 I ONDON newspapers state that the Sultan of Johore will meet Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler during his forthcoming visit to Europe. The Sultan leaves Singapore today (Thursday* for Germany, via Italy.44 words
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494 1938-09-01 12 CAMPAIGN FOR WEEKLY HALF HOLIDAY. Some Chinese Assistants Work 17 Hours A Day. \UORKING 17 hours a clay is a common practice among Singapore Chinese shops. Luckier shop assistants get ofT with 12 to 1! hours while' factory girls work ten hours. Very few494 words
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490 1938-09-01 12 were recorded on Thursday by the Singapore Criminal District Judge. Mr. H. A. Forrer, against four Chinese who were charged in connection with an alleged assault on a Hollander, G. L. Oostergo, manager of the Hagemeyer Trading Company, in a Rochore Road shop on490 words
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417 1938-09-01 12 Dr. Pathv On Objects Of Municipal Promotion Scheme C PEAKING at Friday’s meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissiopers. Or. K. K. Pathy said that h was neither economically, socially nor politically sound to pu\ local men appointed to responsible ports in the municipal417 words
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295 1938-09-01 12 IMPORTANT REGULATIONS concerning the registration ct aliens were announced iy the Straits Settlements Government Gazette on I< riday. Every alien who is not exempted under the Aliens Ordinance must furnish the authorities with pa) ticulai’s set out in a specified form. This form requires295 words
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Article33 1938-09-01 12 trial to a charge of negligent driving along Anderson Bridge on May 6. a European, A. Elsworth, was fined $l5 by Mr. C. H. Koh, the Singa pore Traffic District Judge33 words
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439 1938-09-01 13 Government To Investigate Plan With Portable Transmitter. Kl'ALA LUMPUR PROGRAMMES TO STOP AT END OF NOVEMBER. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 22. jhk Malayan Governments are taking steps to investi1 ia te whether a chain of broadcasting stations would 'the best439 words
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Article64 1938-09-01 13 —°m Our Own Correspondent.) r- Seremban. Aug. 21. I half yearly general meeting of he Negri Sembilar. Mercantile CoSociety was held yesterday iI J Chartered Bank Chambers. Th following were elected honorary auditors:— Messrs. M. A. Silva, Beche:ir Singh, C. Arumugam. C. Ponnu‘■hamy, Nagalingam. Manikam. Sivapragasam of the64 words
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Article139 1938-09-01 13 From Our Own Correspondent London, Aug. 18. VET another indication of 1 the speed and determination with which the Dutch Government is accelerating completion of the Netherlands Indies defence programme is contained in the June “monthly statement" issued by the U.S. State Department139 words
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Article162 1938-09-01 13 Adjournment For Amendment Of Defence. “IF a fact in a statement of claim is not denied it must be taken as admitted.” sain Dr. C. H. WithersPayne to Mr Justice Pedlow in the Singapore High Court This was stated when Mr. D. G. Osborne-Jones. appearing162 words
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379 1938-09-01 13 A BILL to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, aimed at bringing provisions relating to smaller ships on local voyages into line with the Imperial Act, was published in an S.S. Government Gazette extraordinary, on Aug. 23. The objects and reasons for the Bill recall379 words
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501 1938-09-01 13 Anti-British Passages Mentioned At Preliminary Inquiry. CASE TO GO TO ASSIZES BAIL OF SI,000 ALLOWED. COULOWING a preliminary inquiry in the Third Police Court, a Japanese, Shichitaro Kashio, proprietor of a bookstore in Middle Road, Singapore, was on Aug. 23 committed to the501 words
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147 1938-09-01 14 OFFICIAL AUDITOR AS CHAIRMAN. A COMMITTEE to inquire into the organisation and administration of the Public Works Department in Johore was announced in the Johore Government Gazette on Thursday It is understood that the Committee- has already met and started its inquiry The terms y147 words
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36 1938-09-01 14 L. EL M. Lambert was on Thursday tined S3 in the Singapore Traffic Court when he pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to conform to traffic signals, on June 7.36 words
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226 1938-09-01 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. Aug. 25. "pHE Kuala Lumpur Coroner, Che Albakri. finding that there was negligence on the part of R. P. N. Napper. a European, at an inquiry today, directed that he should he charged, subject to the consent226 words
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Article, Illustration1348 1938-09-01 14 Picturesque Military Ceremony Ou Padang. "WE SHALL BL VERY SORRY TO SEE YOU GO.” PRESENTING the new King's Colour to the 1st. Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at a picturesque military ceremony on the Padang on Thursday, the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, urged—Straits Times picture - 1,348 words
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Article, Illustration989 1938-09-01 15 Planting Topics Sir Herbert Wright’s Views Find Little Support In Planting Circles. COMPETITIVE POSITION MUST BE IMPROVED. By A Special Correspondent. n 10 ITS of planters during the tst week have been discussing various subjects dealt with by r contributors to the special rubt.989 words
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Article148 1938-09-01 15 W/HEN a Singapore 'Traction Com- pany omnibus parsed him at the junction of Selegie Road at McKenzie Road, at a .speed well over 30 miles an hour Mr. P. L. Barclay Superintendent of Transport. Municipality, who was then testing a Municipal lorry, gave chase, lorcing148 words
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884 1938-09-01 16 McOwan Report On Plan For New Department. DIFFICULTIES OF GETTING PRACTICAL TRAIN INC. THE question of setting up an engineering department at Raffles College is discussed in a prepared by Professor (i. McOwan and issued on Aug. 25. The report prepared alter884 words
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Article93 1938-09-01 16 250,000 Doses Of Vaccine. SIXTEEN cases of anticholera vaccine, representing a quarter of a million doses, were shipped from Singapore to Hong Kong on Saturday in the Carthage. This is‘the first hall of the comoined contribution of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Governments to93 words
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68 1938-09-01 16 JUIRS A Kok. a European woman motorist on Thursday pleaded gulty in the Singapore Traffic Court to a charge ol failing to conform to traffic signals, on Aug. 11. Accused stated that she did not remember crossing against a traffic signal. She68 words
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274 1938-09-01 16 MOB DEMANDS MEN BE RELEASED. (From Our Own Corresponder* Ipoh, Aug. 24. DISTURBANCES in Ipoh nighf. believed to be connected with the detention :n Singapore of a number of Chinese on banishment warrar.N, necessitated three police baton charges against Chinese mob-. Several hundred274 words
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Article137 1938-09-01 16 •From Our Own Correspondent' London, Aug. IP A FRIEND who is visiting Aberdeen informs your Correspondent tnat a most hospitable and happy colon? of folk formerly resident in Malaya L established in that grey and somewna: forbidding granite city of the North Prominent members include Mr. am137 words
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Advertisement27 1938-09-01 16 By Appointment to H.H. THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK H.H THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI' is' ELLISON S. EZEKIEL 6« OPTICIANS AND WATCHMAKiP' ONLY ADDRESS—3, CAPITOL. BUILDING.- S'POft t*A27 words
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Article, Illustration384 1938-09-01 17 “VISTA FROM PE SANG HILL." This tine view non first prize for the Shanghai Studio (Penang> in the class for Landscapes and Sec scapes <Profcssional) at the Malayan Exhibition, held at Kuala Lumpur recently. s Gwen Manning, of Kuala Lumpur, gained first prize in photography Portraiturer m-jjur of the battalion—Straits Tifties p eturt.; Shaits Times picture.; Straits Times picture.; .— Straits Times picture. - 384 words
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More Leaves From A Woman’s Notebook.
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1121 1938-09-01 21 a\'E summer afternoon on IF leave I ?at shivering in lounge of what is comnlv known in England as Private hotel.’ I was so cold t he half dozen or so mips of coal in the grate *,ked so lonely that I had1,121 words
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Article, Illustration437 1938-09-01 21 IWO longer need the “mems” of Singapore be at the mercy of that mysterious little rod known as the daching. There now stand in the Orchard Road market up-to-the-minute weighing scales. For anyone who wishes to take the trouble, it is possible to learn to the last437 words
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Article117 1938-09-01 21 (From Our Own Correspondent» London, Aug 18. MALAYANS on leave who have visited recently the Malayan Court lit the Glasgow Empire Exhibition include the iollowing I Dr. R. D. Fitzgerald. Mr. and Mrs. G. Roberts. Miss J. D. Brown. Mr. W. J. Semple, Mr. and Mrs. W.117 words
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379 1938-09-01 22 CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GREAT BRITAIN. Should Be Maintained By All Means, Says Message. AN appeal Jo Malayan Chinese to keep law and order has been made by the Chinese Foreign Office, Chungking, following a report made to it by the Singapore Chinese379 words
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84 1938-09-01 22 FOLLOWING the presentation of the new King’s Colour to the 1st Battalion. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, a regimental guest night was held at the Officers’ Mess. Tanglin Barracks. Among those present were the Governor. Sir Shenton Thomas the General Ofllcer Commanding, Malaya, Major-General W. G.84 words
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Article22 1938-09-01 22 The resignation of his commission in the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force by Lieutenant D P McPherson has been accepted i22 words
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Article225 1938-09-01 22 Dr. Purcell At Big Universities. (From Our Own Correspondent) i Penang. Aug. 23. AFTER a study tour in China, the United States and Great Britain. in connection with the Carnegie Travel Award for educational purposes. Dr. Victor Purcell arrived back in Penang today. Dr. Purcell is succeeding225 words
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91 1938-09-01 22 'From Out Own Correspondent* Seremban, Aug. 26. OPSCIAL damages ot $432 and* general damages of $3,000 and costs were awarded Chm Yoong, a Chinese timber sawyer, who claimed $7,500 and costs from Tan Sow Him, a Sungei Besi miner, before Mr. Justice Raja Musa today.91 words
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Article, Illustration272 1938-09-01 22 Bomb That Burns Through Shown At Medical College. LFOW efficient Malays can be trained in decomamination squads was illustrated in an air raids precautions demonstration at the King Edward VII College of Medicine on Wednesday. College kebuns formed the squad and wore full protective clothing272 words
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283 1938-09-01 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) ur Kuala Lumpur. Autf. 23. controversial Business Registration Bill is not to be brought before the f ederal Council for second reading for the time being. following a petition to the High Commissioner from Chinese business men efforts are283 words
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228 1938-09-01 23 New Policy Announced By Inspector-General. RETIREMENTS AT 45. tHK gradual abolition of the European Inspee1 torate in the Straits Settlements Police Force is announced in an order which has just been issued by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. R. H. de S. Onraet. THE228 words
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285 1938-09-01 23 engineers action against firm. THAT Three months’ notice was "reasonable for a person of \!a cr G. B. Gould’s position was r <:cn of Mr. Justice Horne in -w Hjth Court case in which Major r/( .;.c \;ec: Dobb and Company for285 words
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Article114 1938-09-01 23 :r Our Dun Correspondents Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 24. Lumpur police want to get in with a European who is said to T r e fatal accident in Kuala r :a awan S Road on Aug. 16, Chinese woman was killed on /V'J* a lorry, while114 words
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Article259 1938-09-01 23 Regiment’s F are well To Commandant. (From Our Own Correspondent) Port Dickson. Aug. 25. Remarkable talent was shown by members of the Malay Regiment when they performed a pantomime. “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the regiments station in Port Dickson last night at a259 words
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Article141 1938-09-01 23 Governor Says Goodbye. AFTER a splendid record of work and service during* his six years with the Malay Regiment Lieut.Colonel G.Mc I. S. Bruce, the officer commanding, sailed to rejoin his own regiment in England by the P. O. liner Naldera on Friday. Among those141 words
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Article177 1938-09-01 23 Commission Against Use By Local Society. •yHE Municipal Commissioners are not in favour of the Friends of Singapore using the crest adopted by the Municipality on their stationery When Mr. T K Stone asked whv a committee had reported adversely on the application, the president. Mr177 words
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Article, Illustration47 1938-09-01 23 SOLDIERS from the Malay Regiment uaving farev:ell to their commanding officer, Lievt-Cbl. Bruce, who left Malaya to rejoin his own regiment by the P. and O. liner Naldera on Friday. He was accompanied 'oy Mrs Bruce. —Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 47 words
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203 1938-09-01 23 ABOUT 20 HAVE GONE ALREADY. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Aug. 23. ABOUT 20 European employees on tin mines in Perak have last their jobs, because of the closing down of dredges, and have left the country. A large proportion of those who have203 words
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57 1938-09-01 23 r-lE appointment of a third assistant Municipal Health Officer was approved by the Municipal Commission on Friday. The Commission also agreed to advertise for another assistant health officer consequent on promotions when the Health Officer. Or. J. A. Hunter, retires next year. Both positions are to57 words
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Article21 1938-09-01 23 Mr. H. K. Rockers, J.P.. has been the Committee of the Singapore appointed to unofficial member of. Sailors’ Institute21 words
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Article318 1938-09-01 24 Ministers Resign After Premier’s Broadcast. UNIONS TO “DEFEND" THE 40-HOUR WEEK. Palis, Aug. 23. ALTHOUGH at one time yesterday M. Daladier, the French Prime Minister, seemed to have overcome his Cabinet difficulties, political circles in Paris last night were buzzing with speculation in regard to the318 words
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Article91 1938-09-01 24 -Reuter. Berlin. Aug. 22 FIVE shoppers were killed by a military plane, which crashed in the busy Alexander Platz. in the heart of Berlin. The crowds stampeded as the plane, with its propeller still spinning, hurtled across the square, mounted a pavement and smashed into a-Reuter. - 91 words
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Article108 1938-09-01 24 —Reuc rs. Recovery On The Bourse w Continues. Berlin, Aug. 19. QERMANY’vS revenue from taxes and customs duties in the old Reich last year practically doubled that received from 1932— 33, the period of the greatest depression in Germany, according to figures published today. It is revealed—Reuc rs. - 108 words
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Article41 1938-09-01 24 —Reuter. London, Aug. 23. QENERAL EVANGELINE BOOTH, who intended to retire from the leadership of the Salvation Army this hristrr.a.' .las consented as the result ol many appeals to continue in office until October next year—Reuter.—Reuter. - 41 words
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424 1938-09-01 24 —Reuter messages. But Still Ready For A Final Effort. London, Aug. CRAXCO has little to gain and much to lose by his attitude towards the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain as indicated in his reply. This is the opinion of circles in close touch—Reuter messages. - 424 words
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Article156 1938-09-01 24 —Aneta -Havas A Rumoured Order To Sudetens. London. Aug 2i. IT is understood here that Berlin has instructed the Sudeten German Party to accept only a thorough Tension of the Czech Constitution whereb? Czechoslovakia would become a tederal State. As a result, informed quarters here entertain little—Aneta -Havas - 156 words
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Article76 1938-09-01 24 —Reuter. Move To End Deadlock Over Seized Oilfields. Washington. Aug THE United States Government n* 5 sent a new Note to the Mexican Government proposing, it is understood a compromise, regarding the expropriation of ldnds belonging to United States citizens. The Note, it Is understood,—Reuter. - 76 words
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201 1938-09-01 24 Reuter. New York, Aug. 22. pURTHER testimony on how the Dutch" Schultz gang ruled the “policy" (lottery) racket was given today at the continuation of the trial of James J. Hines, Tammany leader who is charged with bribery and operating lotteries. A bulkyReuter. - 201 words
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493 1938-09-01 25 Negotiations Mow In The Final Stage. SIGUESS IS HELD TO BE CERTAIN. London, Aug. 24. DEI ILK learns that the Anglo-American trade negotiate lion- are now considered certain of successful conius'on i hough they may take some weeks to pul the <v a M!t into493 words
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Article72 1938-09-01 25 1,000,000 men.—Aneta-Trans-Ocean. Cairo, Aug. 23. pONSCKIPTION will be introduced in Egypt on June 1 next year, it is authoritatively stated here. The conscription law, which provides for two years’ compulsory service, has been in preparation for some time and is nearing completion. After compulsory military training1,000,000 men.—Aneta-Trans- Ocean. - 72 words
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Article384 1938-09-01 25 -Reuter. Friendship Of Ileich And Hungary Affirmed. FRESH EASING OF TENSION IN EUROPE. London, Aug. 25. FURTHER easing of the tension in Europe is 1 reported today, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, after conferring yesterday at the Foreign Office with Lord Halifax, has resumed his-Reuter. - 384 words
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Article, Illustration198 1938-09-01 25 —Aneta-Trans-Ocean. -British Wireless. Scheme Said To Have Been Submitted To British London. Aug. 25. A NEW plan for solving the Palestine problem has been advanced by King Ibn Saud, i according to the Evening Standard, which understands that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,—Aneta-Trans-Ocean.; -British Wireless. - 198 words
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Article44 1938-09-01 25 British Wireless. London, Aug. 24. RECRUITING for regular army last week showed a substantial advance on the returns for the past two months. The intake was 960. an increase of 34.' or 46.5 pe~ cent, over the figures lor the corresponding week last year.– British Wireless. - 44 words
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Article114 1938-09-01 25 Reuter. Berlin, Aug. 25. interest has been aroused in Berlin by the virtual pledge to respect Hungary’s frontiers given by Herr Hitler when proposing the health of Adm. Horthy, who is leading a Hungarian mission to Germany, at last night banquet. r he Fuehrer stated: “NowReuter. - 114 words
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Article45 1938-09-01 25 F euter. New York, Auk. 24. J7RANK Hawks, known In American 1 aviation as the “Human Bullet.” died today in hospital after a crash in which he and his companion, who is critically injured, hit telephone lines and fell in a field near East Aurora.—F euter. - 45 words
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Article529 1938-09-01 26 Reuter. PEACE UNDERSTANDING IN DANUBE BASIN. Geslure By The Little Entente Powers. ITALY’S HAND SEEN IN MAY AGREEMENT. London, Aug. 24. A SETBACK to Germany’s plans for domination of the Danubian Basin is seen in the nonaggression understanding between the Little Entente States (Rumania, CzechoslovakiaReuter. - 529 words
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Article191 1938-09-01 26 Reuter. CO!\FIDENCE VOTE. Gestures By Socialists And Communists. Paris. Aug. 2b. M DALADIER. the French Prime Minister, is now winning all along the line in his effort to modify the 40-hour week, increasing it to 48 in firms engaged in national defence work. The Radical SocialistReuter. - 191 words
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Article49 1938-09-01 26 Router. Marseilles. Aug. 27. Tile Government has ottered the striking dock workers at Marseilles increased wages and a new scheme of working conditions. An accompanying statement declares that labour troubles cannot be allowed to drag on in France in view of the internal and international situation.—Router. - 49 words
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Article62 1938-09-01 26 —Reuter. Washington. Aug. 25. CETTING what Public Works Administration officials termed a “new speed record,” actual construction has begun on 5152.000.000 worth of the P W.A. projects under the new programme. This fact, coupled with the recently announced distribution in September of 5127.000.000 worth of cotton—Reuter. - 62 words
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Article18 1938-09-01 26 —Reuter. Brussels, Aug. 25. Tlie Belgian Government has taken stops to stop foreigners from illegally entering the countrv.—Reuter.—Reuter. - 18 words
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106 1938-09-01 26 BOYS DISCOVERY OF THE “MISSING LINK -British Wireless. London. Aug. 24. AT the British Association meeting at Cambridge yesterday a paper was read on anthropus robustus, a hitherto unknown species of ape which lived in the Pleistocene period The remains )1 a skull oi this early anthropoid were found by-British Wireless. - 106 words
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Article207 1938-09-01 26 Reuter. **S. AFRICA WOULD ASSIST.” Smuts Speaks His Mind. Cape Town, Aug*. 25. PEN. Jan. Smuts, Minister ot* Justice of the Union Government, speaking- in the Assembly today, declared that it was his personal opinion that South Africa would assist Great Britain if she were in dangerReuter. - 207 words
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182 1938-09-01 26 Cheers Greet Premier’ s Assurance. Reuter. Cape Town, Aug. 2(3. “QEN. JAN SMUTS (Minister of Justice) has stated, and stated quite rightly, that if England were involved in a war in which she was the party attacked there was no doubt what the South Africans’ attitude would be.” Thus declaredReuter. - 182 words
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Article51 1938-09-01 26 —Reuter. Malta, Aug. 26 AN attack on the Grand Harbour. Malta, during a black-out, by motor torpedo-boats in conjunct n with planes from the aircraft-carr < Glorious was a feature of a success tu* test of the efficiency of delete arrangements. Parachute flares asst* ed—Reuter. - 51 words
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653 1938-09-01 27 PREMIER’ S ‘WE WOULD FIGHT’ POLICY REAFFIRMED. be continued—Reuter and British Wireless. Sir John Simon And The Czech Problem. TRK main points in the anxiously awaited speech by che 1 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, at Lanark, or Saturday, were:— Reaffirmation of British policy towards Czechoslovakia as outlinedbe continued—Reuter and British Wireless. - 653 words
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Article145 1938-09-01 27 Japanese Story Of Secrel Agreement. Paris, Aug. 23. A JAPANESE newspaper report that France has secured a long-term lease of Hainan Island is denied by the Quai D’Orsay. The report stated that the leitse had been granted on condition that. France should give military assistance to145 words
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Article49 1938-09-01 27 -British Wireless. London, Aug. 28. COME. 120 new recruits for the Palestine police force left London today. Another 230 are expected to leave before the end of September. An infantry brigade will next month be sent to reinforce the garrison :n Palestine. —Briti $h Wireless.-British Wireless. - 49 words
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Article83 1938-09-01 27 —Renter Paris. Aug. 28. 1ML DALADIER. tin French Prime Minister, is consolidating his position after the recent crisis. A delegation of the Left Wing parliamentary parties today passed i resolution virtually endorsing his poliey. They have reached an agreement with M. Daladier on the maintenance—Renter - 83 words
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Article81 1938-09-01 27 Renter. Prague, Aug. 26. y\VO Sudeten organs have been confiscated for publishing an alleged circular to the Communist Party, purporting to be signed by the leader of the party, saying that Lord Runciman’s mission is obviously to try to satisfy the Sudetens. and involve the denunciation ofRenter. - 81 words
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Article497 1938-09-01 27 Reuter SUPPORT FOR '.AIMS OF SUDETENS. Aug. 27. T'HE German Government has made a demarche to several Powers stating that it will support the Sudeten German claims with all its resources, according to the Prague newspaper Prager Abendzeitung (reports Reuter). The demarche, it is stated, expressesReuter - 497 words
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173 1938-09-01 28 “POSITIVE ACTION’' BY GERMANY SOON? Partial Mobilisation Is Sa’ul To Be Under Way. GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITLDE MAY AVERT DISASTER. London, Aug. 29. 'FHE European situation is nearing a climax, according to latest cables. Partial mobilisation is renorted to be under way in German frontier areas,173 words
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Article164 1938-09-01 28 Reuter. To Itcporl To Foreign Secretary. London, Aug. 28. I3ECALLEL* for consultation, the British ambassador in Berlin Sir Nevile Henderson, arrived in London today. He will meet Lord Halifax, t hi** Foreign Secretary, tomorrow. Sir Nevile Henderson was last in London lor consultation during Fob ruary InReuter. - 164 words
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Article63 1938-09-01 28 Reuter THE Italian authorities have ordered all French people owning lands at Vallon and Chastlllon, near the ItaloFrench trentier, to give up their properties immediately Farmers have been granted a month in which to remove their cattle and gather crops. Alter that period the military authoritiesReuter - 63 words
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Article164 1938-09-01 28 -Reuter REICH'S NEW FAITH. "Campaign To ipo On I Christianity.** Berlin, Aug. 28.. THE anti-Catholic campaign in Germany was denounced in a pastoral letter read today in all Catholic churches in Germany with the exception of the churches in Austria. The letter, which was approved at-Reuter - 164 words
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Article48 1938-09-01 28 Reuter. Tsingtao, Aug. 29. A SAILOR of H.M.S. Folkestone. William Baker, who had a leg bitten off by a shark on Saturday while bathing alongside the warship in Tsingtao Bay, died this morning on board his ship. The burial takes place today at Tsingtao.--Reuter.~ Reuter. - 48 words
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Article297 1938-09-01 28 established —Reuter and British Wireless Reign Ol ’Terror At Jaffa. BOMB KILLS 23. Jerusalem, Aug. 26. i PALESTINE terrorism flared up afresh today. Twentythree people were killed when a bomb exploded in a crowded vegetable market in .Jaffa, followed by severe rioting. Snipers have been busy onestablished —Reuter and British Wireless - 297 words
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Article108 1938-09-01 28 -Reuter. Berlin R csuines AntiCzech lacks. Berlin, Aug. 28. \X/ITH the departure from Berlin of the Hungarian mission led by the Regent. Admiral Horthy. the Nazi Press has turned its guns on Czechoslovakia. Boersen Zeitung publishes a so-caU-ed balance sheet of teiror, enumerating acts of aggression alleged-Reuter. - 108 words
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Article191 1938-09-01 28 —Reuter If REICH ATTACKS PRAGUE. Entente Parley: A Sequel. Berlin, Aug. 26. DENEVOLENT neutrality n the event of eon diet with Czechoslovakia is believed in well-informed foreign circles here to be the limit of promises Adm. Horthy, Regent of Hungary and leader of the diplomatic mission—Reuter - 191 words
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Article111 1938-09-01 28 Plans For Storage 01 Food. ’T'HE ten-hour day is to be reintro- duced in Germany. The decision was taken at a conference oi industrialists and local Nazi party leaders called by Goering. as Commissioner for the Four-Years Plan. This step is stated to be neces.v' owing111 words
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Article69 1938-09-01 28 -Reuter. Trivandrum. Aug pATTOM THANU PILLAI. pr esl dent of the Travancore State Congress, was sentenced to a year’s simp* imprisonment and fined 6() participating in a campaign of P rc te f. against an orde** by the 25-yoai'- 0 Maharaja of Travancore. wide powers-Reuter. - 69 words
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914 1938-09-01 29 Australians Out Twice For Total Of 324. BRADMAN AND FINGLETON UNABLE TO BAT. London, Aug. 24. ENGLAND won the fifth Test by an innings and 579 runs, the most decisive trouncing ever given in Test matches between the two countries. In reply to914 words
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73 1938-09-01 29 London, Aug 24. DRADMAN spent a restless night and slept late. Interviewed by Reuter this morning, he was cheerful but keenly disappointed at being unable to carry on in the match. He expressed his appreciation of the many messages of sympathy sent him. Bradman watched73 words
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Article148 1938-09-01 29 London, Aug. 24. V EADING critics comment as follows on England’s victory: C. B. Fry—“England won by an innings, three wickets and 579 runs. If we allowed Bradman 150 and Fingleton 100 in each innings, we still win by an innings and 79 runs. The pitch was148 words
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Article21 1938-09-01 29 —Reuter. London, Aug. 24. Reports of his engagement to a girl in Leeds are emphatically denied by Hutton.—Reuter.—Reuter. - 21 words
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Article79 1938-09-01 29 Glasgow, Aug. 24 MATCHES in the Scottish League, first division, played today resulted as follows Aberdeen, 3. Partick Thistle, 0 Albion Rovers, 3, Arbroath, 2. Hamilton, 4, Hibernian, 1. Hearts, 4. Third Lanark, 2. Kilmarnock, 0. Celtic, 0. Queen of the South, 4, Motherwell, 3. Ralth Rovers. 3.79 words
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Article231 1938-09-01 29 Rugby. CTATE and other Important rugger matches in the coming season wil! be as follows: OCTOBER Sat. Ist—Johore vs. R.N. R.A.F. (State), Stadium; Army Trial, Tanglin. Sat. Bth—Singapore vs. R.N. R. (State), S.C.C.: Army vs. Johore (State), Johore Bahru. Sat. 15th—Singapore- vs. Johore (State), S.C.C.: Army231 words
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139 1938-09-01 29 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Aug. 24. V IEUT. I. S. GRAHAM, of the Malay Regiment, has been elected captain of the Negri Sembilan-Malacca combined Rugby team for the forthcoming season. The choice has been highly praised. An excellent back row forward. Graham, who played139 words
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Article21 1938-09-01 29 W. A. C. Henderson holed out the 14th hole, Old Course, at Bukit Timah (180 yards), in one.21 words
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733 1938-09-01 30 Bryn Jones Scdres First Goal For Arsenal. London, Aug. MATCHES were fairly close when the English League season was started yesterday before large crowds. Arsenal, for whom Bryn Jones scored his first goal, beat Portsmouth 2-nil, but the Wolves were733 words
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257 1938-09-01 30 The Non-Benders were in poor form against the S.R.C. in their match on the Padang on Sunday.. Not one batsman reached double figures, and they were all out for 43. S.R.C. passed this total with seven wickets in hand. R. Thoy was in257 words
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Article482 1938-09-01 30 London, Aug. 28. THE first round of English League soccer matches yesterday attracted 820.000 spectators. The ArsenalPortsmouth game alone drew 58.000 people, who cheered Bryn Jones’ first goal for the Arsenal. Arsenal led by one goal at the interval and added another on resumption. Portsmouth482 words
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Article46 1938-09-01 30 -Aneta. Berlin, Aug. 23. A new world record in the hammer throw has been established by the German Olympic champion. Karl Hein. Hein achieved 58.24 metres, thus improving considerably on the existing record, set up as far back as 1913, of 57.77 metres.—Aneta.-Aneta. - 46 words
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Article63 1938-09-01 30 —Reuter. London. Aug ’7 IEONARD HUTTON, 22-year-old cricketer who made 364 for England' in the fifth Test against Australia recently—the highest score ever made in a test match—has been given €1,000 by Mr Arthur Whitelaw, a wealthy Australian, who gave Don Bradman the Australian captain, a—Reuter. - 63 words
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Article43 1938-09-01 30 Golf. London. Aug. 15. A D. LGCKE. the brilliant young South African golfer, beat A. H Fadgham. former Open champion, by two holes in their 36 holes challenge match for €100 a side, on the Selsdor. Park Club’s course yesterday.43 words
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146 1938-09-01 30 (From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Aug. 27. •yHE F.M.S. police forced an honour* able draw in their two d*j cricket match with United Services (Singapore 1 United Services declared yesterday a: 107 for nine. Longmore batting well lor 39, Denison Smith, the left146 words
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Article233 1938-09-01 30 Averages ol tne Australian tourists are Times Highest Inns N Out Runs Inns Aver D. G. Bradman ..25 5 278 118.1C W. A. Brown ..26 3 1550 265* 67 39 A. L. Hassett 25 3 1371 220* 62.3! C. L. Badcock 28 3 1324 198 52.96 C. W.233 words
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91 1938-09-01 30 The two points they won on Thursday have placed the Chinese in a very secure position, for with 30 points and two more matches to complete the series—against the Sappers and the S.C.C. —last year s champions are almost sure oi retaining the trophy. The91 words
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Article, Illustration1684 1938-09-01 31 “Captain Dash - By “Captain Dash/' RACING at Bukit Timah on Saturday, first day of the Singapore Turf Club’? Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting, reached a high level. The attendance was a record for an opening day1,684 words
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73 1938-09-01 31 Police Protect K. L. Referee From Crowd (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26. Spectators rushed the field and surrounded and threatened the referee in the Cup replay between the T.P.C.A. and the Malays here this afternoon. The Malays were leading by two goals to one when the incident73 words
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Article152 1938-09-01 31 Cricket —Reuter. MIDDLESEX DRAW WITH LANCASHIRE. London, Aug. 26. Nottinghamshire beat Worcestershire by six wickets. Worcestershire 73 (Woodhead seven tor 24) and 399. Nottinghamshire: 364 and 109 for four. Yorkshire beat Scotland by eight wickets. Scotland 193 and 56 (Smailes seven for 24», Yorkshire 210 (Laidlaw—Reuter. - 152 words
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Article33 1938-09-01 31 —Reuter. Helsinki, Aug. 26. Nikknnen. Finland, established tt world’s javelin throw record with a distance oi 77.87 metres. It previously stood at 77.23 metres and was held by JarvJnen of Finland.—Reuter. - 33 words
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Miscellaneous77 1938-09-01 31 Double Tote The double tote paid $231 on each of the 24 winning tickets The total pool was $5,557. The Big Sweep The total pool of the big sweep on race eight was $57,290 The draw resulted us follows: GILDED ItOUTH ($*****) ***** 1 SAENDEN ($10,885) ***** 2 SILVER MONK77 words
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709 1938-09-01 32 Sports Review. PROGRAMME OF FOUR MATCHES AT CHRISTMAS TIME. A JAVA hockey team has been invited to visit Singapore at Christmas time this year and to play four matches here. The invitation follows the visit of a Cricket Club and Army team to the709 words
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127 1938-09-01 32 A SUGGESTION that regular Tuesday and Friday teams be formed among S.C.C. rugger players this year, A XV matches to be played on Tuesdays and B XV on Fridays, has been made to the incoming S.C.C. sub-committee by the retiring sub-committee.127 words
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Article114 1938-09-01 32 London. Aug. 29. CARNES took 15 wickets when Essex beat Glamorgan in the present series of county matches. Yorkshire strengthened their position with a win over Kent, by an innings margin, in two days. Details:— Essex beat Glamorgan by an innings and 87 runs. Glamorgan, 150114 words
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116 1938-09-01 32 London, Aug. 23. BRADMAN'S injury occurred when he bowled for the second time with the score at 887. He slipped in the bowler’s foothold and fell as he was fielding a hard return from Hardstaff. He lay prone on the ground while his116 words
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Article64 1938-09-01 32 Tennis. —Reuter. WITHDRAWAL FROM U.S. CHAMPIONSHIPS. New York. Aug. 23. PLLOWING their defeat in the inter-zone final against Australia, the German Davis Cup team has re* ceived cabled orders from Germany to withdraw from the American national championships and to return home forthwith. Representations made—Reuter. - 64 words
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Article43 1938-09-01 32 -Reuter. New York, Aug. 23. URS. HELEN WILLS MOODY has cancelled her entry in the American singles championship to begin on Sept. 9 at Forest Hills. Mrs. Wills Moody has been suffering from severe neuritis since her return from Wimbledon—Reuter.-Reuter. - 43 words
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Article34 1938-09-01 32 New York. Aug. 25. In the semi-final of the American women's doubles championships Miss Alice Marble and Mrs. Fabyan (America) beat Misses Kay Stammers and Margot Lumb (Great Britain). 6—2. 6—234 words
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Article50 1938-09-01 32 .—Reuter. Calais, Aug. 25. THE German swimmer, Frau Wendell, who left Cape Grisnez last night succeeded in swimming the Channel in 15 hours 25 minutes, according to information reaching port authorities. She then returned to Calais in the fishing boat which escorted her during her swim.—Reuter..—Reuter. - 50 words
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Article42 1938-09-01 32 —Reuter. Paris, Aug. 23. DRIGADIER-GENERAL CRITCHLEY was married today by the British Consul-General, to Miss Diana Fish wick. There were 25 present. The pair will spend their honeymoon in America, where they will compete in the American championships.—Reuter.—Reuter. - 42 words
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Article105 1938-09-01 32 London. Aug. 29. COCCER matches played today re suited as follows: FIRST DIVISION. Charlton Athletic, 4, Stoke City. 2 Wolverhampton, 0. Leicester City, o SECOND DIVISION. Bradford. 1, Swansea 1. Bury. 0, Fulham, 2. Chesterfield. 0, Manchester City. 3 Sheffield United, 0. Coventry, 0. Tottenham. 3. Sheffield Wednesday.105 words
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Article128 1938-09-01 32 London. Aug. 23 Home cricket results are as follows Notts beat Yorkshire on the first innings Yorks 320 (Sutcliffe 100, Heane six for 74) and 267 for five. Notts 433 (Harris 103). Somerset and Surrey played a draw Somerset 357 (Lee 141). Surrey 181 for128 words
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Article76 1938-09-01 32 —Reuter. London. Aug. 25 Essex beat Derby by six wicket Derby: 190 <Rav Smith four for 48• and 160 < Peter Smith five for 55 > Es* sex: 173 (Mitchell seven for 51) n 178 for four. Somerset beat Kent by 27 rul15 Somerset: 225 (Lewis six—Reuter. - 76 words
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Article42 1938-09-01 32 -Renter London. Aug 2 Olive Hall established a women* world record over 880 yards, cover 1 1 the distance in 2m. 19 7/10s. This be the 2m. 26 6/10s. set by Miss Line also of Great Britain, in 1923.-Renter - 42 words
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687 1938-09-01 1 In Peace Or War-More Raw Materials Needed. FRASER AND COMPANY’S WEEKLY SHARE MARKET REVIEW. IN a weekly report on the share market issued at the dose of business on Tuesday, Fraser and Company write:— Central Europe continued to dominate world affairs during the week687 words
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Article79 1938-09-01 1 GOVERNMENT is not prepared to amend the Volunteer Ordinance to provide for the granting of compensation as a right to officers and volunteers or to their dependents in respect of fatal and serious injuries received in training,” was an answer given to Lieut.-Col. G. D. A.79 words
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Article114 1938-09-01 1 From Our Own Correspondent.! London. Aug. 29. The following are today’s “bid” quotations for Fixed Trust: s. d. British Empire “A” 20 0 British Empire “B” 9 6 British Empire Cumulative 14 9 British Empire C’prehensive 15 4*2 British General “A” 18 6 British General “B” 16114 words
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Article130 1938-09-01 1 Reuter. Reflection Of Fears Over Central Europe. London. Aug. 30. DRISK bidding for American dollars trom the majority of Continental centres featured the opening of the foreign exchange market today and. although the British Exchange Fund supplied dollars liberally. the sterling-dollar rate appreciated sharpie toReuter. - 130 words
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Article223 1938-09-01 1 Singapore, Aug. 31, 13 noon. Buyers Sellers Gambler 7.25 Hamburg Cube $13.00 Java Cube $11.00 Pepper White Muntok $13.00 White $12.50 Black $8.25 Copra Mixed $3.05 Sun Dried $3.35 Tapioca Small Flake $3 60 Fair Flake $3.50 Medium Pear) $3.90 Small Pearl $3 70 Jeotono Palembang $9.00223 words
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Article69 1938-09-01 1 Declaring that the united Kingdom Designs < Protection > Bill did no: really afford sufficient protection to Home manufacturers. Mr. E. C. H. Charlwood, a Singapore unofficial member, suggested, at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday that supplementary legislation to provide extra safeguards should be introduced The69 words
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64 1938-09-01 1 T"*HE public is now being protected bv the action of the Public Works Department, commenced last year, In inspecting electric lamps and holders Protection is being given, the annual report of the department points out. against cheap but inefficient lamp bulbs and against some64 words
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52 1938-09-01 1 Date Spot Sept Ot.-Dec. Jan.-Mar. Apr.-June London Aug. 25 27% 27% 28*4 28% 29'4 8 1/16 26 27% 27% 28*4 28% 29’4 8 29 27% 27»/* 27 7 4 28' 28% 30 26% 26%, 27 27 28 774 31 27 1 i 27 'i 27% 2852 words
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277 1938-09-01 2 M. C. S. Officer Appointed For Special Duty. COMPLETE SURVEY OF NEEDS IF EMERGENCY ARISES. IIINTS that Malaya has a food control plan or- ganised for an emergency are slowly leaking out. Mr. C. A. Vlieland, M.C.S., has been seconded for special duty in277 words
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95 1938-09-01 2 Hast Africa Exports. Amsterdam. Aug. 21. concern is felt here at tl)cmarked increase of tea exports from British East Africa, states the Tel' graaf.” Exports from that territory in the restriction year 1937-38 amounted to no less than 20.000.000 lb. against 3,500,000 in the previous95 words
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Article56 1938-09-01 2 —Reuter. Loans Readily Obtained. London, Aug. 26 |N spite of a drop from €105,700.000 to €101,600.000 in bankers’ deposits as revealed in this week’s bank statement, loans have generally been readily obtainable and even non-clearing institutions lound three-quarters per (en*. against bonds about the maximum that borrowers were—Reuter. - 56 words
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Article191 1938-09-01 2 STOCKS ON ESTATES 3,000 TONS HIGHER. JN a weekly report on the rubber mar ket issued at noon on Friday. Lewis and Peat ‘Singapore! Ltd. write Although the European situation i> s;.l! giving cause lor anxiety, rubber has advanced a cent during the w’eek. Buying191 words
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Article161 1938-09-01 2 PRUDENTIAL’S “A SHARE INTERIM. 1 sual 25 Per Out. Tax Free. '■'HE Prudential Assurance Company has declared an interim dividend of 5s.. free ol tax. -per “A” share, payable on Sept. 8. This is equal to 25 pel cent. net. the same* rate as in the three preceding years, and161 words
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377 1938-09-01 2 Many Properties Might Have Been Saved T is Way In Slump. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 28. AN appeal for a land mortgage bank was made by Mr. Cheok Huan Cheong, of Singapore, speaking at yesterday's meeting of the Malayan Estate377 words
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Article336 1938-09-01 2 U.S. CONSUMPTION ESTIMATES. IN a weekly report on the London rub- ber market dated Aug. 17. Symington and Wilson write:— Since our last report the rubber market has In the main been dull and inactive. The opening on Thursday was firm but by the evening the market336 words
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173 1938-09-01 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. ~F “DURING the close-down period, the labour force receives a maintenance allowance only and am pleaded to say that this arrangement has been accepted in spirit by our mine staff" said All-. D. H. Hampshire chairman, when173 words
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541 1938-09-01 3 108 Acres Abandoned Owing To Flooding. ADDRESSING shareholders at A the annual meeting of New > idai Ltd. in Singapore on FriMr. II. S. Russell the chairman. said: j iu profit for the year amounted to >4)271.95. whieh. with the sum of >'551.75541 words
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Article40 1938-09-01 3 Amsterdam. Aug. 19. Amsterdam Trading Company, which owns a large number of sur un d other plantations, has requester le N e^ er l an ds Indies Government V ran t it a lease of a large territory Aachln i*<M40 words
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Article150 1938-09-01 3 SMALL PHYSICAL OFFERS LOCALLY. GUTHRIE CO.’S REPORT. /'■UTHRIE CO.. LTD in their report issued at noon on Thursday, write In spite of the uncertainty of the Central European situation and the fact that certain London sellers evinced some willingness to meet the market at the 8d.150 words
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Article161 1938-09-01 3 393 Tons Sold "THE Singapore Chamber of Com- merce Rubber Associaton held its 1.396th auction on Aug. 24< when of 1.*****9 1b '627.26 tons) catalogued. 896.3241b. '400 14 tons) were offered and 881 565 1b <393.56 tons) were sold. PRICES REALISED RIBBED SMOKED SHEET Cents per lb.161 words
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104 1938-09-01 3 THE total revenue collected by the F.M.S Railways in July was $1,270,473 compared with $1,139,195 hi June. The total revenue for the seven months ended July is 59.085.168 which compares with $9,682,023 in the corresponding period of 1937. Of the July revenue, $432,679 was104 words
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Article719 1938-09-01 3 NEW WATER-BOATS PURCHASED. INCREASED SALES LAST YEAR. A DDRESSING shareholders at the annual meeting of W. Hammer and Co.. Lta. in Singapore on Saturday. Mr. A Robinson, the chairman, said: Before proceeding with the ordinary business of the meeting I should like to make brief719 words
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Article334 1938-09-01 3 KEEN DEMAND FROM NEW YORK. NO CHANGE IN QUOTA JUSTIFIED. IN a weekly report on the rubbef market issued at noon on Thursday. Stanton Nelson and Co.. Ltd., write The market responded promptly to the only positively good political news tor months, and prices have risen this334 words
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Article44 1938-09-01 3 •From Our Own Correspondent.; Kuala Lumpur. Aug. 26 T*HE price of rubber for assessment to export duty in the F.M.S. for the period Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 inclusive has been determined at 2cents a pound, states a Gazette notification today.44 words
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Article830 1938-09-01 4 Dividend Policy Explained. ADDRESSING shareholders at the; annual meeting of Puteh Tin Dredging Co. Ltd. in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, Mr. D. H. Hampshire, the chairman, said:— As you will observe irom our report, the dredge run practically continuously throughout the year and obtained a recovery materially830 words
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Article130 1938-09-01 4 Not To Be Raised Again. (Four Own Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 30. DUMOURS that the F.M.S. Govern- ment will announce at the next meeting of the Federal Council, on Sept. 1, restoration of duties on sugar to former high levels have caused increased activity in the130 words
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Article247 1938-09-01 4 Sequel To Weekly Experiment. FOLLOWING its experiment with the weekly fair at the Malay Settlement, Singapore, the Malay Union may start a daily fair in the near future. The Union is trying to secure u different site from the one at piesent occupied by the weekly247 words
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Article107 1938-09-01 4 —Reuter. London, Aug. 30. f\N the Stock Exchange today, uncertainty pending clarification of the European situation restricted trading. In the early period the tone was more cheerful but prices generally eased though some sections later recovered part of their losses. In the Foreign Exchange market continental buying—Reuter. - 107 words
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254 1938-09-01 4 THE gross value of Malaya’s foreign trade in July shows a rise ot $2,669,000 exports being $5,065,100 higher and imports $2,396,000 lower than in June. Exports in July were valued at $46,986,000 compared with $41,921,000 in June, bringing the value of exports in the254 words
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Article381 1938-09-01 4 Agreement On Chief Tariff Rates. ONLY DETAILS STILL TO BE SETTLED. New York, Aug. 30. AGREEMENT has been reached on the principal tariff rates under the .impending Anglo-American trade treaty and only the details remain to be settled, according to a bulletin distributed to its members by381 words
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Article1207 1938-09-01 5 Issued By Fraser And Co., EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, August 31, 10 a.m. MINING. u -uc Val. Buyer* Seller* 4 Arapat Tin 4/- 4/4* £1 Asam Kumbang 28/6 30/6 £1 Austral Malay 44/- 48/- ncd 5 Ayer Hitam 28/8 28/6 1 Ayer Weng 0.66 0.71 £11,207 words
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133 1938-09-01 5 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS. Singapore, Aug. 30, 5 p.m. Rook* rorai tor Dividend Close Date Ex. Dlv. financial year TIN. °av&b)t i>au» u> ost* t Malay 9d. div 3d bonus Sept 0 Sept 9 Sept 3 10% 1111 3d. No. 24 Aug. 31 Sept. 7 Sept. 1 10%133 words
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Article587 1938-09-01 5 London Exchange Prices On Aug. 23. AUagar (2/) 1/; Alor Pongsu (2/) 1/10; Anglo-Malay 9/3; Ayer Kunlng 23/9; Badenoch 19/3; Bagan Serai 17/9; Bahru (Sel.) (2/) 2/OH; Banteng 13/9; Batang (2/) /7%; Batu Caves 16/6; Batu Tlga 26/3; Bekoh (2/) 111%: Bertam Con (2/) 3/; Bidor 23/9; Blkam587 words
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Article333 1938-09-01 5 Prices Generally Easier. London, Aug. 30. THE following are today’s closing middle prices >n the London 8todt Exchange: Shares of L dsnominauon unless otherwise stated: Yesterday Rise or Fall Conversion Loan o o.c 1944*64 *114% Funding Loan 4 ox 1960-90 113% War Loan 3% p.c 102% Com.333 words
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Article157 1938-09-01 5 London Exchange Prices On Aug. 23. Ampat (4/) 3/9; Anglo-Burma (5/) 12/6; Ayer Hitam (5/) 1 7/32; Bangrin 1 3/32; Oopeng Cons. (5/) 9/3; Hongkong (5/) 1 3/32; Idris (5/) 7/3; Ipoh (16/) 1/7/32; Jelapang 31/3; Kampong Lanjut 18/6; Kamunting (5/) 9/3; Kepong 19/32; Kllilnghall (5/) 17/3; Klnta157 words
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Article21 1938-09-01 5 Aug. 25 Tin. S’porc Price (98.25 per picul 26 99 29 98.50 30 98 87H 31 98 2521 words
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