The Straits Budget, 1 February 1940

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  • 1161 1 band, it will fade away.—Straits Times. Jan. 25. It j. diilicult to suppress a smile Japanese expressions of at the Asama Man. r(ient The position is free from comolieation. A British cruiser lopped the liner and searched her hen sht W as about 45 miles from J
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  • 1039 1 Straits Times, Jan. 26. Complaints regarding the local broadcasting service are confined i almost entirely to the quality and quantity of the entertainment that is provided. Little is said or written regarding the value of the 8.M.8.C. for propaganda—and there is tremendous scope for development in
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  • 1219 2 Straits Times, Jan. 27. A groat deal lias been said and written by British propagandists in defence of the Allied decision to extend the economic war on Germany to cover exports as well as imports. The arguments in support of the move are very strong, and
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  • 1105 2 us from that goal.—Straits Times, Jan. 29. Nearly five months after the declarations of war, the vast armies of the belligerents remain almost entirely inactive. People are becoming more and more perplexed at the course of what one wit, in an inspired moment, described as The Bore
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  • 1113 3 -Straits Times, Jan. 30. In his latest pep talk,” Mr. Winston Churchill avoided all reference to neutral States and thereby won the approval of the foreign Press except, of course, in Russia and Germany. At Home, however, our most volatile Cabinet Minister was rather less fortunate. The national sport
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  • 1165 3 -Straits Times, Jan. 31. The rubber share market continues extremely dull—nearly every share in the list could be obtained at quotations and buyers are showing an entire lack of interest.” This statement has appeared with monotonous regularity in market reports since the beginning of this year. The failure
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  • 136 4 lyiß. A. F. BRUCE, general manager of Penang Rubber Estates, Co., Ltd., and planting adviser of Straits Rubber and allied companies, was married at the Singapore Presbyterian Church on Monday to Miss Hazel Sobee. who arrived by plane from Australia on Sunday. Mr Bruce, who
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 123 4 SWEETLAND.—At Maternity Hospital, Singapore on January 28 to Mabel, wife of Leslie B. Sweetland, A.P.C., Pulo Bukom, a son. O’CONNELL on Jan. 27 to Lucila O’Connell, wife of Basil O’Connell, Colonial Police, at the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, a son (Donal Carlos Ross). BROOME.—At Maternity Hospital, Penang, on January 25,
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    • 44 4 EARL—TUBB.—The engagement Is announced between Lionel Richard Franklyn Earl. Malayan Civil Service, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Earl, of Reigate, Surrey, England, and Joan Mary Tubb. only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tubb. of London and formerly of Peking.
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    • 60 4 THE Wedding was solemnised on Jan. 23 1940, at the Roman Catholic Mission Church Changi, of Pte. Frank Bruce of the 2nd. Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders only son of Mrs. Bruce Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to Miss Ruth Mclntyre 2nd daughter of Mr. F S. Mclntyre, formerly Mines, of the firm
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  • 332 4 i readers— A Rod Herring A Lesson From Thailand The Seizure Of Exports The Bore War 2 Hecklers R"bber Shares 3 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial Nc v to date, following page Malayan General News— Refugees Make New Life For Themselves Here Value Of
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  • 133 4 (From Our Own Correspondent' Penang, Jan. 29. A TOTAL of 29 Chinese couples were married in Penang yesterday Several more weddings took place i n the rural districts but figures are not available. The large number of weddings was due to the fact that according
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  • 63 4 deaths Jan 24 at thp General Hospital Singapore, Dorothy Beatrice, wife of D. Smith. Mrs. Llm Cheng Swee (Madam Tan Pau Neo> ft(?e 69 mother of Mr. Llm Eng Hoe passed P?? ce^u lly at 141-d Devonshire Road 'rrr* orKi* u wcvunsmre Koaa. passed away peacefullv at 20, Duxton Hill,
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  • 33 6 The Brasil Maru, the new 13.000-ton vessel of the O.S.K. Line, arrived in Singapore last week in the course of her maiden voyage round the world.
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  • 1435 6 Singapore, Jan. 26. I'HF laneral of' Lt.-Col. William Joseph Curran Sharp, Officer Commanding the 4th. (Malacca) Battalion. Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, took place at Bidadari Cemetery this afternoon and was very largely attended. Many members of the Posts and Telegraphs Department
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  • 111 6 I (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang. Jan. 28. WE necessarily make the course at the Penang School a hard i one because we stress particularly the 1 practical aspect of agriculture, and we hope you will pay more attention tc the practice rather than the
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  • 157 6 BRASIL MARU ARRIVES New O.S.K. Liner On First Voyage OLYMPIC SWIMM ERS IN SINGAPORE CECOND of the new O.S.K liners, the 13,000-ton h-, Maru, arrived in Singapore nVr' hour last week. Sister ship to the Argentina \f, ril which came her on her maidei rinst July, the Brasil Maru is
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  • 112 6 WHAT is the Public Transport Committee?” asked Mr. E. J. Bennett in the Municipal Commissioners meetinc after it was proposed that he should fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. E. A. Brown. “This is the first time I have heard of it.” he
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  • 94 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. Jan. 28. A CAMPAIGN to stimulate the cultivation of food crops among Malay kampong dwellers and padi-growers Is in progress in Malacca. Over 3,000 pamphlets in Jawi relating to the methods of planting food crops have been received and
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  • 284 6 CHINESE in Malaya are already preparing for new year celebrations next week. The ancient custom of handing round red packets containing money will be observed. Although it is some years since the Chinese National Government abolished the
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  • 583 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 26. riuiF Overseas Chinese All-Classes Anti-Enemy Backing-Up 1 Soc j e ty had been for the past year controlled by the illegal i minunist party and had been actively concerned in the IrQiii/
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  • 242 7 A DECISION and a ruling affecting Municipal employees who have been mobilized were confirmed by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners at their meeting. It was agreed that a provision or ration allowance to Municipal employees mobilized under the S.S. Volunteer Ordinances should not be deducted
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  • 288 7 SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners last week welcomed three new members, and paid tribute to three “old boys,” as the President, Mr. L. Rayman called them, who had retired after long service The three new members are Mr. R. S. Nelson. Mr. M. N. Wardell and
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  • 273 7 A LEAD to grant cost of living allowances to subordi- nate employees who draw salaries not exceeding $llO a month is being taken by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. This decision was made last week at a meeting which
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  • 245 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 25. AMONG six persons convicted to- day on charges of being members ot an unlawful society—“ The Anti-Enemv Backing-Up Society” —were a reporter for the Modern Daily News and the headmaster of a local Chinese school It was stated
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  • 285 7 COR nearly l*/ a hours last week. Sln- gapore Municipal Commissioners discussed behind closed doors a decision made by a committee and it was announced when the Press were admitted to the meeting afterwards that they had confirmed the decision. This concerned a unanimous
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  • 1421 8 “THK philosophy of force, the religion of leader-worship and the art of goose-stepping do not appeal to the men and women of Ceylon,’ said Mr. V. Paramsothy, assistant master at Victoria School, Singapore, in
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  • 263 8 A LARGE number of Europeans, the majority of whom were women, were spectators at the Perumal Temple, in I'pper Serangoon Road, last week, when Hindu penitents underwent self-torture in observance of the Tnaipusani festival. Skewers were pushed through their noses, cheeks and tongue, and a
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  • 124 8 JLIIGH officers of the Services and prominent European civilians in Singapore were present at the reception in the Chettiar temple in Tank Road on the occasion of the festival. They passed through crowd' Tamil Hindus who were celebrating die festival in customary fashion, those who came
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  • 2000 11 OBLIGATIONS TO CLIENTS SHOULD B E STRICTLY OBSERVED Written Judgment In Recent F.M.S. Application (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 20. jl*]m;MENT of the greatest importance to members ot A jhe legal profession in Malaya was given yesterday in (he kmh Lumpur Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Poyser, Chief
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  • 236 11 20,000 Flowering Plants Grown Every Year GOVERNMENT HOUSE THE GARDENS (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 5. than 20,000 flowering plant have to be grown every year to provide decoration for Government House, Singapore, according to the current issue of The Field. Flowers are changed twice a week by the
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  • 289 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 21. THE December number of the Malayan Agricultural Journal, following established custom, is devoted to the task of giving a.i account of the selection and varietal experiments and of the manurial and cultural experiments on padi which have
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  • Planting Topics
    • 1471 13 By Our Planting Correspondent —ii.iT the progressive and useI Vn! ivorl; of the Incorporated ipU „f Planters continues to "Ire ahead in spite of the apparent of a large section of its rl‘ m t*ers might easily have
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    • 484 13 COMMENT on the recent discussion about cremation and the provision of a modern electric crematorium in Singapore was made by Mr. Tay Tiang Hoo, joint hon. secretary of the Singapore Buddhist Association (English section), when he read the
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    • 80 13 INTERFERENCE with the local mine-sweeping forces in the approaches to Singapore is being caused by the failure of some ships to obey the instructions laid down in Admiralty Annual Notice to Mariners No. 1 Part 111, states a notice issued last week. It requests all masters
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    • 102 13 <Prom Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Jan. 25 PRESIDING at the annual genera' meeting of the Indla-Ceylon Association last night. Dr. S. Luther appealed for a larger membership Started seven years ago. the association has now on its roll 113 members. an increase of 13 over
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    • 120 13 SIR Arthur Jackson, managing director of Sir John Jackson (Singapore» Ltd., the firm which was engaged in the construction of the Naval Base, died in England last week. He was the nephew of the founder of a company which has become world renowned
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  • 1160 14 WARRANT ENGINEER TRIED BY NAVAL COURT MARTIAL Found Guilty Of Act Prejudicial To Good Order Discipline PIED by a Naval court martial in Singapore last week, Hercules Wright, Warrant Engineer, R.N., attached to one of His Majesty’s ships, was found guilty of an act prejudicial to good order and Naval
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  • 215 14 [NSTEAD of running from corner to corner of the watehroom in order to receive and put through calls and to deal with tire alarms, watehroom operators of the Singapore Fire Brigade can deal with all calls now while sitting in a chair. This is made
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  • 131 14 THE Governor, Sir Shenton Tho--1 mas, has been informed by the National Y.M.C.A. war service fund that the Y 5,000 recently sent from the Malaya Patriotic Fund is to be used to provide Y.M.C.A. centres in France named after this country. It is
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  • 138 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Jan. 23. COUND guilty of negligent driving. Dr. Edward Laidlaw Thomson, of Singapore, was fined $3O by the Ipoh magistrate, who also ordered the endorsement of his driving licence. While Dr. Thomson was driving to Ipoh last Saturday his car
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  • 76 14 lyiß. F. M. Still, accountant of the ITI Johore Public Works Department, has returned from home leave and resumed duties. Inche Ismail bin Abubakar, who has been acting for him, resumes his ap pointment as Assistant State Treasurer. Johore Mr. Still, who is also Inspector
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  • 248 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Jan. 23. li/IR. J. William Webb and Miss Cora Scharenguivel, who were partners in a sweep ticket which recently drew a first prize of $25,000, were married at the Church of the Assumption yesterday. c The bride is a daughter
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  • 739 15 THK magnificent contribution of Australia to the Empire’s 1 ar e ffort, in both men and material, and her staunch that Nazi tyranny shall be crushed, were u k clear by Pilot Officer H. C. Stumm, an
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  • 110 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 24. THE Daily Express New York correspondent reports that the Ranee of Sarawak was “surprised and excited" by the action of her husband, the Rajah of Sarawak, in depriving their nephew, Mr. Anthony (“Peter") Brooke, of his title and powers
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  • 262 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 23. IT is announced to-day that Mr. John Adams Hunter, who was formerly an M.C.S. officer and who served in the Colonial Secretariat in Singapore, has been knighted on his appointment to be Governor of British Honduras.
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  • 342 15 HONG KONG S.S. TRADE Merchants And Restrictions IN co-operation with the Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers’ Union, representatives of the Singapore Chinese Manufacturers' Union may shortly make an appeal to the Straits Settlements Government to lift the prohibition on the import of certain Hong Kong products into the Colony. Three representatives
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  • 146 15 PTE. FRANK BRUCE, of the Gordon Highlanders, only son of Mrs. Bruce of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was married at the Roman Catholic Mission Church. Changi. to Miss Mary Ruth Mclntyre, second daughter of Mr. F. S Mclntyre, formerly of Lahat Mines and of the staff
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  • 68 15 THE control of the Singapore Fire Brigade is to come under the Municipal committee which deals with parks, open spaces, swimming baths, the Van Kleef bequest, the aquarium scheme and the accident ambulance service This decision was confirmed by Singapore Municipal Commissioners at their meeting
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  • 211 15 P*FFORTS made so far to collect funds to provide entertainment for the Indian troops now stationed in Singapore have been successful and over $3,000 has been raised by the committee. The accounts of the committee show that a sum of $1,957.09 has
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  • 204 15 POUR young Eurasians, two of whom were girls, were rescued last week by two members of the Chinese Swimming Club as they clung to their capsized koleh about 300 yards from shore off Katong beach. The rescuers were Mr. Sim
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  • 81 15 HTHE death occurred at his residence in Petain Hoad. Singapore, last week oi Dr. K. Markandu, a Government pensioner and brother-in-law of Dr. P. Thillainathan. Formerly with the F.M.S. Government, the deceased was stationed for many years in Taiplng, Ipoh, and Kuala lapis. After retiring in
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  • 296 17 British Wireless. London. Jan. 23 CINKINCtS due to enemy action during the last eight days J Avm Jan. 15 to midnight Jan. 21 were four British ships <((t j]i nir 23.843 tons and 11
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  • 64 17 -Reuter. London, Jan. 21. THE A.r Ministry announces that 1 ngaged in reconnaissance 'V(-r the North Sea yesterday morning, British aircraft sighted four enemy patrol vessels which opened heavy anti-aircraft tire. Th f aircraft retaliated, dropping b'cnb.- some of which were seen to fall within
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  • 169 17 Reuter Paris. Jan. 23. famous pianist, M. Paderewski, m*r President of Poland, was l," President «Speaker) of Poland's 1 Parliament to-day. meeting of the Provisional was held in the richly orn *ite Louis XV ballroom in 1 ‘l’ Polish Embassy. his age and physical weak-
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  • 184 17 FRANCE U.S. SAFETY ZONE ‘Cannot Renounce Our Rights’ -Reuter. Paris. Jan. 24. PRANCE cannot renounce her rights under international law to take counter-measures against German activities within the 300-miles maritime security zone proclaimed by the American republics declared the offieial French reply to the note from the Government of Panama
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  • 61 17 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 23. THE U.S. State Department has protested to Great Britain against the treatment accorded to United States shipping in the Mediterranean area, particularly at Gibraltar, where it is alleged American ships are detained three times as long as Italian vessels. It
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  • 43 17 GERMANY LITHUANIA SIGN AGREEMENT Kaunas, Jan. 24. GERMANY and Lithuania have signed an agreement for transit through Lithuania of goods between Germany, Russia and Manchukuo Owing to the shortage of German rolling-stock. Lithuania has sent 100 trucks to Germany to fetch coal.—Reuter. Reuter.
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  • 142 17 Reute r Moscow, .Jan. 2 i. “IMPRESSIVE Allied troop concentrations” in Egypt, 1 Palestine and Syria is the subject of an article in the Soviet General Staff organ, the Red Star, which says that such a concentration should not be under-estimated in putting pressure
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  • 54 17 They Sank Two Nazi Cruisers U-Boat The crew of British submarine Salman home in triumph after the mo,t daringly successful individual exploit of the war ai sea. She spared the Bremen hut pene.rated the minefields of the Heligoland Bight, and there sank a German U-boat, and torpedoed two German cruisers
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  • 124 17 DESTROYER CASUALTIES 8 Ratings Killed 73 Missing London. Jan. 23. yHE Admiralty last night announced that no officers were among the casualties in the loss of the destroyer Grenville which was sunk by enemy action last week. Eight ra:ings were killed and 73 are missing and presumed dead—a total of
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  • 72 17 Reuter. London, Jan. 24. THE Admiralty announced last night that the destroyer Exmouth had been sunk. It is feared that there are no survivors. The Exmouth carried a complement of 175 and she was a ship of 1.475 tons The Admiralty also announced that
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  • 155 17 Helsinki, Jan. 24 S KV ERAL Soviet warships are reported to have been badly damaged during a Finnish air taid on Kronstadt the naval base. The warships at Kronstadt are completely icebound. A Finnish war communique states that north-east of Lake
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  • 72 17 Reuter. THE Czecho-Slovak National Committee has begun enrolment of Czecho-Slovak volunteers from its citizens living in Britain for the Czechoslovak army in France. Dr. Benes, chairman of the committee, has issued a proclamation declaring that it is a normal human and national duty as well as an
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  • 116 17 Reuter Washington, .fan. 23. LOIU) Lothian, the British Ambassador in the United States, visited Mr. C'ordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, to-day to discuss particularly the situation created by the suspension of U.S. tobacco imports into Britain as a result of import control measures to
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  • 159 18 ACCORDING to information from Berlin, Hitler is reported *Mo have given Signor Mussolini a formal guarantee that at no time will Russia be able to violate Italian and Hungarian zones of interest without meeting (Jerman resistance, -fates
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  • 174 18 Reuter. London. Jan. 24. I*, the House ut Commons to-day, Mr. Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. asked whether the announcement i General Lord Gort, Commanding the British forces in France, to the etie'T that if Belgium were attacked the Frant t-British guarantee
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  • 135 18 -Reuter. Oslo. Jan. 25. IT s announced here that since the war began Norway has lost as a result o! German submar.nes and mines 22 fchips. ot a total tonnage of 112,000 tons, and 1 .">() sailors have lost their lives. Fourteen of the crew
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  • 50 18 In the Home ot Commons on Jan. 24 Mr R. R. Hudson. Civil Lord of the Admiralty stated that special orders :.d been Klven to H.M ships with a i*‘w to frustrating the renular praetlee ol crews of German merchant of scuttling their ships to avoid ipture
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  • 74 18 Reuter. Helsinki,Jan 25. L'INNISH soldiers on the north Lake Ladoga front, who have heroically and successfully withstood the latest big-scale Soviet offensive. declare they have seeii the “Angel of Mons in the form of a large white figure of an angel with
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  • 190 18 —Reuter. London, Jan. 24. IN the HoU.se ol Commons »o-flov one Prime Minister, M: Chamberlain, replying to Mr. M. P. Price (Lao Gloucestci said that ihp Japanese Government had issued a statement that a movement for a new central government in China was
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  • 105 18 Oslo. Jan. 24. NINETEEN members of the crew ot the Norwegian steamer Sydfold 1 2.433 tons i. sunk oil the Scottish coast, were landed at Haugesund today. They had been rescued by another Norwegian steamer. Pive others of the crew are missing. ■he first
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  • 125 18 -Reuter. London. Jan. 25. THE Air Ministry casualty communique number 18 was issued to-day as follows: Killed in action or previously reported missing 11; Missing. 20 Ki'led, or. missing on active service and believed killed. 24; died on active service. 13.
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  • 70 18 -Reuter Istanbul, Jan. 24. r HE Minister of Commerce announ- cod to-da.v that Turkey will shortly sign a trade agreement with Germany. The trade involved will not exceed €1.500.000 and the agreement will contain no time-limit. The shipment clauses ot the TuncoOerman agreement exclusively favour
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  • 74 18 -Reuter The Hague. Jan. 24. •/k BILL Is being dratted voting 100.000 eullders to the Dutch Red 1 1 Cross for the use of the Finnish Red Cross, stated thr Prime Minister.; Jonkheer D. J de Geer, in the Nether- I lands Parliament yesterday,
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  • 94 18 CHIANG’ S PLEA TO POWERS FOR “POSITIVE” HELP -Reuler. Chungking, Jan. 21. pKN, hiang Kai-shek in a 'message to friendly power.' 1 declares that the peace terms alleged to have agreed on recently between Japan and Wang Ching-wei. cast Kuomintang leader, proves that Japan has not chang< her policy of
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  • 378 18 NAZI MENACE TO RUMANIA AND SCANDINAVIA Large Troop Concentrations On Baltic Coast In South Paris, Jan. 21. RETAILS concerning German troop concentrations alon-; U the Baltic coast, the Rumanian frontier, and the western frontier from Coblenz to the North Sea, just received for publication, show that the large troop concentrations
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  • 66 18 Hokio. Jan. 24. A HUNDRED people demons! rated in front of the British in Tokio yesterday against 11 stopping of the Asama Maru aiv the Embassy gates had to locked and heavilv guarded, repor Reuter. The police allowed the rrou l *i, elect a deputation
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  • 908 19 —Reuter and British Wireless London, Jan. 25. rrUTHER disclosures from Vatican sources of the martyrdom of Poland are described as constituting the u(>r t religious persecution in 1,000 years of history. These disclosures, contained in
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  • 85 19 —Reuter. Tsingtao, Jan. 26. JAPAN’S proposed puppet govern- ment in China is to be called the National Government of the Chinese Republic and will use the Kuomintang flag (the flag of the i Chinese government at Chungking). Its capital will be at Nanking. This was
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  • 31 19 Reuter Paris Jan 25 A CREDIT of 15.000.000 francs for the relief of Turkish earthquake sufferers his been authorised by a decre? published in the official Journal —Reuter.
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  • 220 19 Paris. Jan. 26. A GERMAN submarine was suc- cessfully attacked by a French patrol ship, states last night's French war communique. The communique adds that a German freighter Albert Janus (1,600 tons) was scuttled on being intercepted by another French patrol ship.
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  • 38 19 London, Jan. 24. THE second contingent of Empire noval volunteers arrived at a northwest port to-day. All Newfoundlanders, they numbered 170 The men are proceeding to several ports in the British Isles for training.
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  • 78 19 Near East Alliance To Meet Red Menace -Reuter. London, Jan. 25. THE Dailj Mail’s Cairo correspon- dent states that the Governments of Iran and Afghanistan are renorted to have prooosed to lr?q that the Saaditnbad (I-an) non-aggression ract between those powers and Turkey should be converted into a military alliance
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  • 222 19 -Reuter. London, Jan. 21. AN agreeable relaxation ol rationing I announced for to-iporrow. Bacon land ham are so plentilul that, the I Government is permitting the pur- chase, without coupon, ot cooked oacon ind !iam. TiiO manuiacturp of "m.icon is ing discontinued, and
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  • 79 19 Reich Neutrality In Finnish Conflict. -Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 26. A DECLARATION of neutrality regarding the Finnish-Soviet war was made by the official German wireless announcer last night. He repeated a denial of reports that German pilots had acted as air raiders for the Russians, saying, Germany has never sent pilots
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  • 143 19 Router and British Wireless London, Jan. 27. AN agreement has been reached between the British and Greek governments following conversations 1 which have been taking place in London wit h M. Apostolidis. Greek Finance Minister, and M. Varvaressos, Governor of the Bank of Greece on economic
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  • 49 19 Router London, Jan. 22 SEVENTY per cent. o‘ the Polish navy has succeeded in escaping and have joined the Allied forces, states a communique issued by the Hi«h Command of the Polish army in France and broadcast oy the French wireless Reuter
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  • 530 20 Reuter London, Jan. 25. 4 WARNING that a large-scale German attack may be expected at any time between one and IV2 months from now is given in French military circles. It is urged that the present land-locked condition of
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  • 29 20 Reuter London, Jan. 24. *T»H E I anions tennis Mayor Miss Kay Stammers was married to Michael Menzies. Second Lieutenant in the* Irish Guards, to-dav. pouter
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  • 38 20 IJCullT Paris, Jan. 24. IN a speech at the Polish National Council Clen. Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister and Corn-mandrr-in-Chief. said the reconstructed Polish army in France would shortly have 100.000 men.—
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  • 184 20 Two More Neutral Ships Sunk Norwegian Swedish Vessels Hit Mines Reuter. Amsterdam, Jan. 26. THE Norwegian steamer Biarritz (1.752 tons) struck a mine and sank during Wednesday night north-west of Ymuiden. Twenty-one survivors from the Bir.rritz, consisting of 14 passengers and seven crew, have been landed at Ymuiden lrom another
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  • 82 20 Ja I) a ki Shanghai, Jan. 26 ai an is seeking to discover another scapegoat on which the Japanese pcopi<> can safely vent their pent-up leehngs declares the Chinese-owned Lnglish language, China Press, i n an ditoiiai on the Asama Maru incident Ihe paper declares
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  • 90 20 .—Reuter. Tokio, Jan. 24. rpilE question of other JapanA ese liners now en route to Japan is claiming the Japanese Government’s attention, according to the Domei Agency. The liners are the Laplata Muni and the Tatsuta Maru, from the United States, and the Ginyo Maru,
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  • 283 20 -Reuter London, Jan. 25. RETAILS of seizures from United States mails by the British authorities and the methods whereby citizens of German origin of America attempt to use the United States mail to transport valuables and food to Germany are
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  • 138 20 -Reuter. London, Jan. 25. pOR some time there has been an organization in the United States collecting subscriptions irom German sympathizers. It promised to send money by wireless to Holland on the understanding that parcels of food and other articles would be sem to the donors’
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  • 38 20 British Wireless London. Jan 25. J[ HE Admiralty announces that the total number of missing, presumledto be dead, from H.M.S. Grenville is now known to be 68. and not 73 as previously stated British Wireless
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  • 398 20 -Reuter. Ottawa, Jan. 26 AN “immediate appeal to the country” was announced by Lord Tweedsmuir the GovernorGeneral of Canada, in the >j)e»ech from the Throne at the opening of parliament last night. The announcement which cam* as a complete surprise indicates a winter
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  • 99 20 -Reuter Amsterdam. Jan. THE Government has instituted a ne form of censorship. The Service has sent letters to foreign respondents telling them tli f following items must not be their reports: Firstly, information of pin*' l rumours about the defence of ih'linj Secondly, information which involve
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  • 470 21 London, Jan. 29. a 1 I RTHER important step towards perfecting \nglo-French co-operation was made during a throe-hour discussion between the French Depute* n ow in London and the Anglo-French Parliamentary Committee, when M. Yvon Delbos, former French foreign minister,
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  • 72 21 -Reuter. M», tin Moscow, Jan. 27. 'Vinston Churchill has been s,vrn Position of "greatMoscow m p r e°i the U,S S R M bY the 'broadrL* Says: The speech should m- Saturday last) unviptv 7 r -hurchiirs alarm and ,i,M.t (a USe attem Pts to inI
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  • 55 21 -Reuter. New York, Jan. 25. THE most extensive aircraft purchase programme ever undertaken in the United States is now under consideration for the British and French governments, according to the Wall Street Journal, involving between $1,000,000,000 and $1,700,000,000 for 6,000 to 8,000 bombers and a
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  • 121 21 British High Command.—Reuter and British Wireless. London, Jan. 29. TTHE R.A.F. has been strengthened by several hundred Polish airmen who are attached to an air station in England and who were inspected yesterday by Sir Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister. The men wear the same
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  • 100 21 -Reuter. Paris, Jan. 27. THE French radio told German listeners last night not to take it for granted that the Allied General Staff would sit still and wait until it pleased Hitler to act. The coming months would reveal the secrets both sides have
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  • 196 21 DY not launching a big offensive at the outbreak of the war u Hitler, who had been preparing the Germans at full wartime pace for three years, had already lost his chance, said Mr. Winston Churchill, First
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  • 319 21 Reuter. New York, Jan. 23. IUITHOUT more foreign active support than is at present "'forthcoming, Finland cannot hold out for much more than ten weeks, according to reports from the European agents
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  • 105 21 Reuter Paris, Jan. 29. THE BriMsh embassy communique announces the establishment of a British recruiting office in Paris. British subjects resident in France between the ages of 20 and 50 who desire to volunteer for service in the British Army are asked to communicate with
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  • 50 21 Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 28. SURVIVORS of the French steamer Toursy. which was torpedoed by a U boat off the Spanish coast on Wednesday, state that another French ship the Alsacien, 3,819 tons, was torpedoed in the same convoy at the same time The crew’s fate is unknown.—
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  • 687 22 THIRTKKN was a lucky number for the South side on I Saturday, for they defeated the North in the thirteenth .Malavan Kutfby Union match by thirteen points (a drop goal,*a try and two
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  • 108 22 ANNUAL RUGBY DINNER DANCE MALAYAN rugby players were in high spirits on Saturday night when they attended the end-of-the-season Malayan Rugby L’nion dinner and ball at Rallies Hotel. Besides the North and South fifteens, there were about 30 other present and past players at the dinner. In the chair was
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  • 378 22 THAT the outbreak of war in Europe 1 had seriously affected the turnover during the autumn meeting of the Singapore Turi Club was revealed by Mr. R. Williamson, chairman, at the annual general meeting last week. “During
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  • 491 22 ALTHOUGH beaten, Negri Senibilan put up a very good showing against Singapore when the two teams met in the return State hockey fixture on the S.C'.C. padang on Saturday. Singapore won by two goals to nil, netting both goals in the
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  • 81 22 London. Jan. 27. /’'VWING to bad weather few games were played in the English and Scottish soccer leagues to-day. All Rugby Union and Rugby League games were postponed. Soccer games played (the others being postponed) resulted: SOUTH A Clapton 1 Mill wall 2 SOUTH B Bournemouth 2 Brentford
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  • 106 22 COLLOWING were Saturday's r results at Ipoh in briei Race 1: RAWANG s:>o Auboss $7 Wait-A-Bit S 9 Race 2: SALMON PAR s•>♦, V(1 Authentic SI 1 Danse du Ventre si' 1 Race 3: PRATIQUE $l5 Nightshade $l7. Winsome $l9. Race 4: ADELE $3B sio Constant Light
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  • 98 22 London, Jan. 27. "THE Red Cross steeplechase run at Leopardstown to-day resulted: Jack Chaucer (Brogan) 1 Sterling Duke (Hyde) 2 Knockadroleen (Magee) 3 Twenty-two ran. Won by two lengths, eight lengths between second and third. Betting: 4—l; 12—1; 20—1. Also ran: Royal Danielli (Moore),
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  • 89 22 Sydney, Jan. 27. IN the Australian lawn tennis championship semi-finals to-dav. Jack Crawford beat John Bromwich, tne holder, 6—4, 6—l, 9—7; Adrian Qulsj beat Vivian McGrath 6—4, 10—8 6—3In the women’s semi-finals Thelma Coyne beat Mrs. Hopman 6—4 2 6—3; Mancy Wynne beat Joan Harti* gan 6—o,
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  • 50 22 -Reuter. London, Jan JThe Jockey Club announces the Epsom spring and summer meetings have been abandoned the Derby will not be held at Eps it is doubtless that the substitu** r fJ lor the Derby the Oaks will b* r probably in Newmarket as In l years 1915-18.—Reuter.
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  • 19 22 Reuter. London, Jan v IN a South “B” match played Chelsea beat Brentford by goals to two.—Reuter.
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 59 22 DOUBLE TOTES The first double tote paid s>(h> on each of nine winning tickets. The second double tote paid $6O on each of 37 tickets on the winning combination. THE BIG SWEEP The draw on the big sweep, value 890.469, resulted as follows FIKST ***** SECOND .*>llo4 THIRD ***** Starters:
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT
    • 623 1 a weekly report on the sharj 1 market, issued at the close of ijusine»-. "U Jan. 30. Fraser and Co. write:--Atlairs in Europe have produced no important changes since our last rejort. Finland's audacious and courage* us resistance to Russia continues
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    • 155 1 ALTHOUGH the net profit earned by Perak River Valley Rubber Cc., Ltd. in the year ended September last was more than in the preceding year, shareholders are to receive a slightly smaller dividend. The report shows that the net profit
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    • 115 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) London. Jan. 29. The following are to-day’s “bid” quotations for Fixed Trusts: s. d. British Empire “A” 16 9 British Empire ‘B” 8 9 British Empire Cumulative 13 6 British Empire C’prehensive 13 9 British General “A” 18 9 British General “B” 14 9
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    • 233 1 collected by the F.M.S. Government in October exceeded expenditure by $1,085,924; revenue was $6.376, 936 and expenditure $5,291.012. Total revenue collected in the ten months ended October, however, is $2,030,209 less than the total expenditure, the figures
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    • 102 1 INURING the week ending Jan. 20. U 1940, exports of canned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 2,309 cases, of which: Nil < per cent.) cases were to the Unfied Kingdom. Nil p«r cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe. 1.150 <5O per cent cases to
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    • 28 1 THE output of tin-ore by Sungei Way Dredging Ltd. in the last quarter of 1939 was 5,128 piculs. The estimated mine profit was C 29.800.
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    • 42 1 Date Spot Feb-Mar. Apr.-June July-Sept. Oct.-Dec. Ix^ndon Jan. 26 37% 37» 4 35% 34% 34% 11 15/16 29 36% 36% 34% 33% 33% 30 36% 36% 34% 33% 33% Hi 31 37% 37% 35% 34% 34% 11 13%6
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    • 359 1 London. Jan. 30 A LTHOUGH trading was quiet on the Stock i Exchange to-day, gilt-edged continued to improve but the recent demand for Home rails was somewhat smaller. Indian Stocks encountered some request in sympathy with gilt-edged—Reuter. The tollowing are to-day's closing middle quotation: Shares are of
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    • 106 1 IN the four weeks endec* Jan. 27. Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. Ltd produced 1,900 ounces of tine gold compared with 1.999 ounces in the preceding four weeks. The crushing battery treated 5.460 I tons of ore returning 1.215 ounces ot bullion equivalent to 1.153
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    • 40 1 THE price of rubber for purpose of assessment of export duty for the period Jan. 26 to Feb 1 inclusive has been determined at 35 7 M cents per pound states an F.M.S. Government Gazette n diflcation.
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  • 1013 3 MINING Buyers Sellers Tin 4/9 5/ Amal 6/- 6/6cd \lulay 37/- 39/-cd .itam 24 25/ !lg 0.80 0.85 Tin 22/6 23/6 langor 10/9 11/9 Malay 23/3 24/3xd ,'iang 16/6 17/6 lin 0.43 0.46 att Tin 1-24 1.26 •long Tin 24/9 25/9 vdraulic 7/3 7/9xd 14 33/- 34/.i„
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  • 63 3 THE Japan Chronicle says that two Japanese firmr have each placed an order in Bangkok for 500,000 tons of Thai rice to be delivered this year The two firms are the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha. The orders represent more than
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  • 295 3 IN a weekly report on the rubber market, issued on Jan. 26, Lewis and Peat «Singapore) Ltd., write:— Although London has been quite a firm market, practically no support has been coming from New York and prices here have fallen considerably during
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  • 197 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Jan. 12 AS your correspondent cabled to you yesterday, the directors of the Singapore Traction Co., Ltd. are recommending a final ordinary dividend of 5 per cent., less tax, making 7>/ 2 per cent, for the year to Sept 30 last,
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  • 124 3 Singapore, Jan. 31, l-00. Buyers Seller* Qapiblei 7 50 Hamburg Cube *l4 00 Java Cube #l2 00 White Muntok $14.50 White $14.00 Black 8.25 Copra Mixed $3.45 Sun Dried $3.80 saoi> Flour No 1 Lingga $5.75 Pair $5.75 $5.75 Sarawak $6.50 fe to tong Palembang $14.00 Banja
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  • 163 3 MALAYA Is prepared to undertake further new planting of rubber during the current year, over and abdve the 5 per cent, allotment conferred by Article 12 (b) of the International Rubber Regulation agreement. This decision was revealed at a committee meeting of the Johore Planters
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  • 90 3 OUTPUT and estimated profits of a number of Malayan tin companies lor the quarter ended Dec. 31 are shown In the following table Output Estimated of tin mine ore nroHl Tons f Tronoh Mines 313 37.339 Southern Tronoh 294 35,260 f Sungei Besl Mines 364 Vi 37,483
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  • 41 3 THE official price of tin in Singapore on Jan 25 was SI2O per picul of 133 l/3rd lb. on Jan. 26 $120.75; on Jan. 27 $122; on Jan. 29 $122; on Jan. 30 $122.50; on Jan. 31 $122.50.
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  • 202 3 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Singapore, Jan. 30, 5 p.m. Books Total for Company Dividend Close Date Ex Dlv financial year TIN Payable Date to date Austral Amal 3d. 5% Austral Malay 9d. and 113 bonus 10% Kampong Kaniunting 3d. and 74d. ')onus Feb. 0 Feb. 16 Feb. 7
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