The Straits Times, 3 January 1937

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 263 Sunday, January 3, 1937 Prtce 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 263 Sunday, January 3, 1937 Price 10 cents.
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    Amazing Cricket In Third Test Match At Melbourne
    1096 1 200 FOR 9 DECL.: 76 FOR 9 DECL.: 3 FOR 1 BATSMEN BAFFLED BY TRICKY WICKET Sievers Skittles England And Takes 5 For 21 Australia are in a strong position in the third Test matrh at Melbourne. With r.me wickets in hand
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    26 1 f rVIL war may be a grim affair, but this member of the Government Forces when it's raining roes to the front with an umbrella up.
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    15 1 A -MEMBER of the Spanish Government forces hot and parched stops to have a drink.
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    YOUNG FASCISTS IN ADDIS ABABA
    30 1 VOIING Abyssinia Fascists, waving flags outside the Fascist head--1 quarters in Addis Ababa, on the arrival of General Graziani recently, when he addressed Abyssinian noblemen.
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    Ratepayers Think Marble Hall Waste Of Their Money
    76 1 Ratepayers Think Marble Hall Waste Of Their Money Rangoon. A LARGE crowd of ratepayers gathered outside the City Hall recently jeering and booing as guests arrived for the Mayor's banquet. They objected to the banquet and to the proposed marbleflooring for the hall, on the ground that it was wasteful
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    The Pope Worse
    27 1 Vatican Citj, Saturday. The Pope's condition is worse but no immediate crisis is anticipated. His Holiness is more depressed after a bad night. Reuter.
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    TEA CONTROL
    92 1 No More Planting Or Seed Exports TPIiA restriction has tome into force in Malaya. A Straits Settlements Government Gazette extraordinary, issued yesterday, states that from Jan. 1, under the Tea Control Ordinance "No tea shall be planted on any land, which was not planted with tea on Jan.
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    "VERY GOOD PROGRESS"
    24 1 It is officially stated that the Duchess of Kent and the infant princess continue to make very good progress —British Wireless.
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    WANDERING DAZED
    26 1 Elinor Fair, a well-known film actress in the days of silent pictures, was picked up ill and dazed, wandering through the streets of Hollywood.
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    German Outcry Over A lleged A n ti-Nazi Insults In Holland
    270 1 BITTER CAMPAIGN AGAINST JULIANA'S FIANCE The Hague, Saturday. ry'TCII public opinion is astonished at th- outcry in the German press concerning alleged anti-Nazi insults in connection with the wedding festivities of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard of LJppeBiesterfeld. It
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    CLUB MAKERS DON'T LIKE U.S. BAN
    74 1 CLUB MAKERS DON'T LIKE U.S. BAN London, Saturday. •THF United States Golf Associa- tion's decision to limit the number of clubs a player can carry to fourteen has had a mixed reception in England. The English Professional Golfers, Association is likely to protest to the Royal and Ancient since it
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    Indian Girl To Fly To Australia
    74 1 Indian Girl To Fly To Australia MISS Susama Mukherjee. an m Indian girl pilot, aged 24, hopes to pass through Singapore shortly on a flight from England to Australia. Known as "the Jean Batten of India" Miss Mukherjee is now in London practising blind flying. She Is a qualified pilot.
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    SCHEME TO BRING IN £10,000,000 GEORGE V NATIONAL MEMORIAL FUND
    85 1 SCHEME TO BRING IN £10,000,000 GEORGE V NATIONAL MEMORIAL FUND London, Saturday. TIIE King Oeorge the Fifth natlonal memorial fund now amount to £381,895. During Memivjal Week, trxn Jan. 14 to Jan. 20, the Lord Mayor of London is making an appeal to peopla wit'i bank accounts to sign over
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    ITALY AND BRITAIN SIGN AGREEMENT
    44 1 Rome, Saturday. THE Anslo-Italian ayreeaient con- cerning the Mediterranean waf signed at noon today by Sir Eric Drummond, British Ambassador, and Count Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister. The text of the agreement will not be published for some day?. R'euter.
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    CHIANG AT FENGHUA
    22 1 It Is stated from Nank ng that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek left to Fon;jhua b» uir on Saturday morning.— Router.
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    30 1 The King has become Patron of the King Edward's Hospital fund for London and has appointee the Duke of Kent to succeed him .<.s president ot the fund.— British Wireless.
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      13 1 Cain Mabel" Starring CLARK GABLE MARION DAVIES A (ounopoliUn rrodartten Openiig WedMsday CAPITOL
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    COLONY CAVALCADE
    1536 2 Profits In the Arcade— Mr. Sastri In Singapore In A Rubber 800m Fifty Thousand Indians. PORTUNES have been made in rubber speculation in Singapore recently, and, as usual, they have been made by men who don't need diem who have a margin to play about with Two hundred
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      39 2 1:1 Kfl BU.vSK* "S. C. S." ON THE LABEL BEST BUTTER ON THE TABLE 1 M i y ■>.( r^ s^ j^*\. vi /i^4t /^&Bct*^/i <^ rw| r /WyAA^V- M V j^ y /^■L. l^m~ r^B PHONE: 5378 WPS. iM i
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    To Titillate Jaded Palates
    558 3 World Scoured For Delicacies For Malayan Tables By A Staff Reporter fREQUENT references have been 'rid: ovc the Christmas cidNno Year season to bh* wide variety of foods obtainable in Singapore probably wider than in any other semicivilised tropical city in the world. ftm of us.
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  • IN SINGAPORE TODAY
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      CINEMAS.
      159 3 All VMBRA: The Girl fr^m MandaUy With )inaj Nag?l end Kav LiMacM uiso Joe 10-.s and Jack S'.isricey Fight. 3.15, 6.15. 915. I TOl: Romeo end Juliet wl:h N^rma Sliea er and Leslie Howard. 3.15— C 15— 9.15. G.'.BSICK CEYLANG: Sherdll Auiat ■MMtMtf Talkie. G 15 9.15 pm. OLOM
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      AIR MAILS. INWARD.
      50 3 AIR MAILS. INWARD. Imperial: From Europe, due tonight. KIM From Europe: Due tomorrow. OITA'ARD <) ant as: To Australia: Maila close p.m. today. Dutch: To Java and Southern Sunatra: Mails close 4 put. tomorrow. Fully licensed Bar. Sat. and Bunday Cocktail Dance 6 p.m. E\ery Sat. Oala Night Novelties and
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      SPORT.
      27 3 Today Herkey: Combined Services vs. 1. A.. Tangl.n: Police vs. R.A.M.C., Depot. Sorcer: P. T. Con'.rolers Cup. I itiformed Officers rs. C'crlcal 3>ll. P O.C. ground.
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      SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE Today.
      46 3 Austrsna New Zfatano lav* •no Ttmoi DUly o» an •Qtniai 1 oa» Monday. Medan (Planclus) a.m. Pengerfing «8 Bo.m Heug) it a m Indo-China (O. O. Pa3<juiei) 11 am. Hoiho* (Hal Lee) 2 p.m. Java en.l Southern Sumaua Ur air <Nrtiierl«na» «pm,
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      MAILS EXPECTED
      58 3 Mails from Europe etc. .'london) expected tcday by air (Imperial) will be delivered to boxhoklers at 6 p m. General delivery of letters ru Monday at 8.25 a.m. Mails from China and Japar. on Monday by Kotohlra Maru. Mails irom China and Japan on Tuesday by Nagato Maru
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      THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD
      157 3 Saturday, January 2. Ships alongside the Wharves or expected t* arrive G*4own Wharf Kumsan? 22 Prominent 20 lain Wharf Klstna 18 C. of PttUburj 14 Bellerophon 8 TroUus 8 tapire Dock Taybank 30 Chinese Prince 32 Steel Scientist 34 Rosevllle S6 Merkur 46 Perak. Klnta 48-4»
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    69 3 DROBABLY to get some first hand information on the subject the Jackson Girls and George Queen, tbe famous animal impersonator, in his "goose" costume, left tbe London Hippodrcm*. where they are appearing in "Mother Goose" pantomime and went to Staines to visit goose farm there. The picture shows a "groose"
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    Singapore Tiger Leads Hunters A Merry Chase
    222 3 Singapore Tiger Leads Hunters A Merry Chase (SINGAPORE'S eight feet long tiger is leading its hunters a merry chase along the shores and the inskirting country of the north of the island. In its wake, it has left Chinese squatters bemoaning the loss of fat. grunting pigs, plump hens, and
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    FOUR PER CENT. DIVIDEND
    86 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. A dividend of 4 per cent, was declared at the annual meeting of the Seremban Family Benefit Society held at the Town Dispensary, under the chairmanship of Dr. S. R. Krlshnan J.P.. M.S.C. The annual report, which wai adopted at the
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    CHINESE FOUND HANGING
    32 3 A Chinese was found dead in the rear of a house in Amoy Street on Thursday evening. He was hanging from a beam with a rope round his neck.
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    FRASER AND CO.'s REPORT
    135 3 IN their daily repan on the share market Issued at th? close of business yesterday, Messrs. Fraser and Co., state that the local price of tin rose 12' 2 cents. The tin share mrrket was nrm and tr.ere was a good all round inquiry tor all
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    TWICE AS MANY GERMAN U-BOATS AS IN 1914
    61 3 TWICE AS MANY GERMAN U-BOATS AS IN 1914 17 AKLY this year Germany will have a submarine fleet twice as large as she t.ad at the outbreak of the war in 1914. The Naval Tear Book for 1937 just published says the fleet will include twenty-four U Boats of 250
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    Death Of "Modern Darwin"
    267 3 CIX Graf ton Elliot Smith, the I famous anthropologist and greatest modern authority on human evolution and comparative anatomy, died yest^-day at the age of 66, states a Rev' .r message from London. Sir Grafton was born at the township of Grafton, in northern New South
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    POLICE BAND
    68 3 The Police Band will play on Tuesday at Telok Ayer at 6 p.m.: March PotPourrl. Steps of Glory (Aubrey Winter): Overture. Morning Noon and Night (Suppe); Selection. A Day Wi Robbie Burns (Arr. J. Ord Hume): Waltz. Lustige Bruder (R. Vollstedt): Descriptive Piece, The Parade of the Tin
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    SLASHED ON FACE
    44 3 A BENGALI watchman lyirg on r.;s charpoy outside a house in Coronation Road was suddenly attacked. it Is alleged, by another Bengali armed with a knife. He was slashed across the lace and his nose was badly cut at the base.
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    NEW AIRCRAFT-CARRIER FOR JAPAN
    31 3 Toklo. The keel of the aircraft-carrier Chlyoda. sister-ship of the' 10.000-ton Chltose, which was launched on Nov. 29, has been laid at the naval dockyards in Kure.
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    89 3 Noon Saturday. No. 1 K. R. S S.. in cases (F. 0.8.) 37 13/16 37 15/16 Good F. A. Q. in cases (F.OB 37^4 37 No. 1 K. H S S. Tone of Market: Thin. Firm on speculator's baying: Latest Cable: London Spot Sheet 10'
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      470 3 /jZj^^\ AIR TRAVEL SAVES g§£^ TIME TROUBLE Siigapare to England aad Australia twice weekly by laxdrievs air liners. Thxs fare meters everythng— seals— hotels— evca tips. Modern travel at its carefree best Departures fer Lontien every WednesJa" and S-nday Brisbass on Mondays ami Fridays mum Booktags and information from Boutead
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    HE WAS AS ROUND AS A BARREL
    184 4 Protruding Stomach Made Him Look Deformed Excels fat Is unhealthy and unpleasant for both men and women. It should be got rid of whenever U appears, whether early In life or late. This man, for all his three score years anrl ten. determined
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    CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S ESCAPES FROM DEATH
    485 4 How General Was Caught At Sian Tientsin, Dec. 22. A GRAPHIC picture of the bian coup was unveiled yesterday before member of the Hopei-Chahar Political Council by a special emissary of Chan? K»ueh-liang, the Kokotsu News Agency reports. The mutiny, the report said, was as
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    ALL ABYSSINIA OCCUPIED
    115 4 Rome, j SIGNOR Mussolini received a Sword of honour from the Italian Senate when it met after a long recess I Expressing his thanks the Duce I said I deeply appreciate the symbolic value- of your gift. tfour act coincides with the integral occupation of all territories
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    Assassination Attempts In Past Years
    395 4 Assassination Attempts In Past Years VtfHEN Gen. Chiang Kai-shek was seized by Gen. Chang Ilsuehliang it Was not the first time he had been in danger; in his career J as a revolutionary leader and a military commander, he had escaped on mauy occasions certain death by a hair's margin,
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    PAVILION
    107 4 "To Beat The Band With Eric Blore, Hush Herbert and Helen Broderick. A FANCIFUL story, with a very thin plct. but a sufficient peg on which to hang a lively entertainment that will divert without causln any brainfag. Hugh Herbert and Helen Broderick form an admirable team Hugh Her
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    70 YEARS MARRIED
    35 4 An Australian couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frederick, of Shepparton, Victoria, have Just celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding. Mr Frederick it 100 years of age and his wife is 93.
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    Insulted Because They Were Not Tared
    158 4 Port Moresby, Papua. INHABITANTS 0/ a village in Papua have just insisted on their right to be taxed. When the Government tax-col-lector pasted through the village, which had been exempted from taxation, he was greeted witfi an indignant protest from the villagers. The chief
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    Talked 11 Days Non-stop
    185 4 New York. I ITTLE Maxine Yarrington, of Erie, Pennsylvania, cannot talk because she sleeps; Howard Stillman, of Ocala, riorida, cannot sleep because he talks. Stillman's case is similar to that of Emmie Wilson of Memphis, whom doctors cured by good feeding, but he was not under-nourished
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    RECORDING STRANGE LANGUAGES
    306 4 Efik, Ibo, Bini, Sobo, And Sakai MALAYANS with any knowledge of the Sakai language are 1 sure of a welcome in I/mul if they call at the new studio opened recently at the School or Oriental Studies, Westminster. At this studio, founded under a grant from the
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    R.A.F. AWARDS FOR PALESTINE GALLANTRY
    52 4 The Air Ministry announces that the King has approved the following awards lor "Gallant and distinguished services rendered in connection with operations in Palestine." Distinguished Flying Cross. —Flight Lieutenant mow Squadron Leader) Charles Herbert Tlghe, Flyir? Officer Richard Godfrey Seys. Military Cross- Pilot Officer William
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    26 4 Four Arab papers in Jerusalem, which had been taking part in the antiJewish campaign, have oeen suspended for periods langing from three days to three weeks.
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  • Correspondence
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      PLEA FOR MORE EMPLOYMENT
      326 4 MOW that iirms are enjoying good profit* with prosperity looming round the corner, one wonders why some employers who are enjoying fat profits do not employ more hands instead of slave drlvtng their poorly paid under-staffed clerks to do more than ont man's work to cope
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      DONALD DUCK, NOT DRAKE
      134 4 rvONALD Duck Esq I was listening-in some rwclv2 months apo in Em. and to one of a series of Mickey Move? Parties b-oad-cast by the BBC. On being asked to sine. Donald quacked out a ditty to the f^liwing effect: When I ucs still within the
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      NEW YEAR THOUGHT
      58 4 I HAVE a New leaz tboufchl af.er seeing the skill cf Malay paddLrs at the Sea Sports Why Ooeaat Lord Nuffleld send the Oxford crew to Singapore to sec what sperd in wutcr really means I'm sure it would be bctt than spending r.Js mon^y on buyintr
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    NATIONALISE BANKS
    32 4 M. Johaux, French Trade Union leader, stated that, since devaluat on had failed to provide the necessary resources for relief works, fun as should be raised by natknalisinc the banks.
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      276 4 R. A. THOMPSON. D.O.Sc. (Doctor of Ocular Science) Spet-ialixinb Eyesight Nervous squint, subnormal vision, problem cases. Glasses if needed. 4, ARCADE. GROUND FLOOR. Phone 3*02. 100*o WHOLE RYE MEAL. An excellent food for D:..betlc subjects. Hakes most v.holc«:ome Bread Sc Porridge. Restores health. rebuilds strength and revitalises the entire system
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      102 4 RUTH ETTING Swdttheart of the F Air" as she is universally known, has cast h*r lot with f I REX. Her ttrs' »w Mty Rex Records were in I such a demand tha' they were lmrr.cd' fJ*^^^R>.' ately sold out upov bCCr +i the arrival of each BHMMKfZ; shipment Now
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      54 4 The most sensational boxing contest of recent times. JOE LCUIS Rightly named "THE BROWN BOMBER" vs. JACK SHARKEY Contenders for heavyweight championship honours. AND ALSO CONRAD NAGEL ESTftER RALSTON and KAY LINAKFR in "the GIRL from MAN DA LAY" From the novel Tiger Valley TODAY 3.15-6.15—9.15 ALH AM BR A
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      44 4 6th Day and Every Show Parked Out since the Gala Opening |CAPITOL~ SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY 3 P.M. CIS TONIGHT 9.15 M.C-M's Most Gkniou Achievement NORMA SHEARER AID LESLIE HOWARD "ROMEO and JULIET" With JOHN BARRY .MOKE EDNA MAT OLIVER and a cast of Thousands.
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      15 4 PAVILION -Today 3 SHOWS 3.15 MS 915 ALIVE WITH LAUGHS! Sparkling with Melody! Hugh H*rb*rl
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    MALAYA'S GAIN IN THE NEW TIN AGREEMENT
    895 5 WEIGHTED VOTING CLAUSE WELCOMED Basic Tonnages Cause No Surprise (By Our Financial Correspondent) MALAYAN tin-ore producers have, by a majority, signified their approval of the draft terms of the new Tin Control Agreement which started with the New Year as was fully reported
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    17 5 THE IBM DISTRICT KUANTAN SCOUT TROOPS of the Kuantan Government La»»ish School, photographed at their annual rally.
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    PAY IN THE MERCHANT NAVY
    194 5 PAY IN THE MERCHANT NAVY THE engineer officers' panel and the navigating officers' panel of the National Maruirr.e Bcarl met in London to discuts applications for improvements in pay and other conditions of service. On oehalf of the engineer ofilcers, the Marine Engineers' Association and ti Amalgamated Engineering Union presented
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    17 5 Mr CHIA POH HIN and Miss Lye Foonr Klow, after their wedding yesterday. See story > adjoining column.
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    Foreign Words To Be Banned In Germany
    58 5 rrHE Post Office Us joining in the campaign to purge the German language of foreign words. In the new telephone books the word cafe is to be excluded, and its place is to be taken by kaffeehaus" or "kaffeestube" (coffeehouse, or coffee-room) Other
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    "CONVERSION A GREAT SUCCESS"
    157 5 Dayang Muda Of Sarawak ONCE QUAKER, NOW A MOHAMMEDAN (From Our Special Representative.) London, Dec. 18. AFTER being a Mohammedan for nearly live years the Dayang Muda of Sarawak, 50-year-old wife Captain Bertram Brooke, brother and successor to the present Rajah Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, thinks
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    $200 FINE FOR SAMSU DISTILITNG
    59 5 $200 FINE FOR SAMSU DISTILI TNG (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban. A fine of $200 In default six months' rigorous imprisonment was imposed by the Seremban magistrate on Lav Ah Slan who was charged with illicit distilling of samsu. The man admitted two previous convictions. Mr. L. P. Barnett Smith
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    SCHOOLMASTER WEDS
    276 5 MR. CHIA POW HIN MISS M. A. LYE Mr. Chla Pow Hin. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Chla Nuik Shin of Kuala Lummir, and Miss Mary Agnes Lye Foong Klow. second daughter of the late Mr. Lye Ah Yew and Madame Cl.ung Swan Necng, of Singapore, were
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    30 5 MARY PICKFORn. the "world's sweetheart of the silent films days, and Buddy Rostra, film and radio star and dance band leader, who are to marry shortly p!iotocraphed in happy mood.
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    43 5 The members of the CambridgeLondon Tutorial Home assembled on New Year's Day to bid farewell to Mr. S. Sangarapplllai, their ex-principal and founder. Mr. Sangarappillai has been appointed Student Tamil Interpreter. Supreme Court. Johore Bahru. Mr. T. K. Vellu is the new principal.
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    "JAPAN AHEAD OF LONDON"
    169 5 Views Of Veteran Missionary r\R. John Batchelor, Archdeacon U of Hokkaido, and a missionary in Japan for nearly 60 years, has gone to England on leave for the first time for 28 years. He is 83. He would have been home a few months sooner, but
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    Toe Much Talk At Commission Meetings
    252 5 Toe Much Talk At Commission Meetings TIME LIMIT FOR SPEECHES? CEVEKAL of Singapore's Municipal Commissioners are uneasy at the length of speeches made by fellow Commissioners on the adjournment periods of monthly meetings. Among the decisions tabled at last Tuesday's meeting was the Inability of the General Purposes Committee comprising
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    DR. A. H. COLIJN CLIMBS MOUNT CARSTENSZ
    32 5 Dr. A. H. Colijn, son of the Dutch Premier, made the first ascent of the difficult snowclad Mount Carstensx, 16,,400 ft, in Dutch New Guinea.
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      78 5 Start the picture record "BROWNIES" 6.20 "KODAK" JIFFY "KODAK" The joy of Picture-nuking in ii. ,impl.« VOLLENDA Simple. Quick and take. Perfect P,c«ur« tjrm, ••m »*m w meet tn m <>* 1 Exacting requirements. Jiffy Kodak 6.20 M 41 4.50 Drownic o.i.U J? 00 "Brownie "6.16 $600 Pr.ce with Jiffy
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    'Rubber Price Should Be Controlled1
    375 6 'Rubber Price Should Be Controlled 1 RESTRICTION REFORM SUGGESTED Legislation To Curb Speculation (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. LJAVE rubber producers, dealers, marketers and speculators really learnt a lesson from the slump out of which the industry has only recently risen? When the price of the commodity, aa well
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    Princess Juliana's Wedding Marriage Register Signed
    137 6 Princess Juliana's Wedding Marriage Register Signed The Hague. DRINCESS Juliana, by giving notice on Dec. 20 of her intended marriage to Prince Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, inaugurated a fortnight of official festivities all over Holland. The Princess dressed in a green velvet ensemble and carrying a large bouquet of flowers and
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    The Snapshot Guild
    408 6 SNAPSHOOTING SHARPSHOOTING TJAVE you ever watched a sharpshooter in the act of pulling the trigger of his gun? If you have, you will agree that there would be little excuse for blurred pictures, if the snapshooter. in pushing the shutter release of his camera, would emulate the
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    U.S. TO BUILD NEW AIR BASE AT HONOLULU
    308 6 Future Link-up With China And Singapore OINGAPORE will find it difficult to keep pace with Lord Rothermere's recent advice that the local garrison and R.A.F. establishment in Singapore should equal that of Honolulu. The United States Government has authorised expenditure of more
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    LAVISH PRAISE FOR FILM BANNED HERE "Nothing Could Be
    186 6 LAVISH PRAISE FOR FILM BANNED HERE "Nothing Could Be More Reverent" '""THE Green Pastures," the religious film which has been banned in Singapore, continues to be lavishly praised by overseas critics. The News of the World says "Every tribute I previously paid to 1 The Green Pastures on evidence from
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    Japanese "Old Moore" Speaks
    123 6 GOOD CROPS AND TROUBLED DAYS FOR CHINA "pROFESSOR" Donsho Kodama, the Japanese astrologer, jcho enjoys the repvtation of Old Moore und his Almanack, has been looking into the future and has inte'csting suggestions to make regarding China in the present year. China icill be torn by
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    Chicago Gang Murder
    105 6 Chicago Gang Murder A GANG execution, reminiscent of j Prohibition days, was carried out in a cold-blooded manner in a billiard-room in Chicago last week. Three men, carrying revolvers and sawn-off shotguns, marched in with military precision and ordered some 15 terrified billiard players to put up their hands and
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    NEVER TAKE CHANCES WITH STOMACH TROUBLE!
    275 6 NEVER TAKE CHANCES WITH STOMACH TROUBLE Few complaints are serious in the beginning. The most common trouble to-day stomach disorder— usually starts in a small way. It may attack you as HEARTBURN, BILIOUSNESS. FLATULENCE or INDIGESTION, but its meaning is always the same and to is its remedy. It is
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    STAMPS OF THE SHORTEST REIGN
    799 7  -  Fred. J. Melville) Stamp Collecting (By |l ONDON and the Empire have I" been busy making history this week, and momentous events hav •< echoed round the world. We are here concerned with the reactions of these far-reaching happenings on the stamps we collect -\nd
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    LONDON THEATRE TO BE REBUILT A New Prince Of Wales's
    356 7 THE Prince of Wales's Theatre, in Coventry Street, London, is to be demolished and entirely rebuilt at a cost of £350,000. It will close I after a farewell jjpla performance on Saturday evening, Jan. 16, and it is hoped to
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      129 7 GREAT BRfTAIN. The handsome £1 black stamp of the roetal Congress issue of 1929 In very fine used condition. Price 17/6 only. Wanted tor cash or Exchange used stamps of the Straits Settlements and Hob? Kong in quantities. SEFI-PEMBBRTON CO.. LTD.. 11. South Molten Street. London. Wl. ENGLAND. 2.500 Collectors
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      206 7 LONDON The World Centre of Attraction for 1937 Two outstanding Hotels that meet all modern requirements including Hot and ('old running water and Centra! Heating. HOTEL GREAT CENTRAL Marylebone Road, N.W.I Cat, ft I Ctnttllart, London HOTEL RUSSELL Russell Square. W.C.I Adjacent to each Hotel is an Underground Station that
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      772 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT We give below the solution of the Crossword Puzzle printed In The Sunday Times on Dec. 27, in connection with which $100 prize money was offered. Competitors are asked to compare their copies of the solutions which they submitted with the solution printed herewith an 1 to
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      1149 7 Today's Wireless Programmes LMI IKb j'AliUll. (S.P., 1). Japan and further India by the Roman 7.30 p.m Locai-Ti.re Signal. Weal ict R*. 9. p.m. Knvol.t Catholic Broadcs :rm Association port, Stock Quotations and Announc>Tl} ANQMIQQIHN A. 9>ss pn Clom down. (Wavelength 19.71 ni): Music, politl- ments. HVrtllOfliJiJlUll TDAMCUICCinM 9 cal
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    GERMAN REPRISALS FOR PALOS SEIZURE
    379 8 Conflicting Stories Of Spanish Ship Which Ran Ashore WHY DID WARSHIP FIRE? Berlin, Saturday. THERE appears to be no end in sight to the German reprisals unless the passenger and cargo of the Palos held by the Reds in Bilbao, arc handed back to German},
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    A NEW YEAR WEDDING
    196 8 Mr. J. C. Chen Miss Kwan Hwee Koon QNE of the first New Year weddings in Singapore took place at the Straits Chinese Presbyterian Church, Prinsep Street, yesterday, when Mr. James C. Chen, of the staff of the Singapore Police Court, son of Mr. and Mrs.
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    "SUICIDAL STRIFE" IN SPAIIN
    83 8 London, Saturday. IN a New Year Diocesan message 1 the Archbishop of Canterbury refers to the situation in Spain. He says j "Although as I write there has been i a temporary slackening of the suicidal strife there seems little prospect of its cessation No one
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    BERLIN ISSUES COMMUNIQUE
    139 8 iLate News The encounter between the Koenlgsberg and the Spanish steamer Soton near Santander yesterday is the subject of an official communique: "In the course of action to obtain full satisfaction for the illegal detention of a passenger and part of the canto of the German steamer
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    FASCISTS TO FIGHT UNIFORM BAN
    73 8 London, Saturday. fFHE British Union of Fascists, which I has ordere.l Its members to cease to wear the blackshlrt uniform, now illegal under the Public Order Act, is understood to have rsked the police to provide a test case in the courts to establish what
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    LA PASIONARIA STILL LIVES : GREETS REDS
    45 8 LA PASIONARIA STILL LIVES GREETS REDS 'THE reported death in the civil war of La Paslonaria. otherwise Dolores Irriburl. the fiery Spanish woman communist, is Incorrect as Moscow has received a cable from her in characteristic language with warm New Tear's greetings to the Soviet.
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    SET FIRE TO HIS BED, HOUSE: FIVE DIE
    45 8 A 44-year-old man, William Hoffman, who fell asleep in bed while smoking and thus set fire to the house, causing the death of five persons, has been arrested in New York and charged with second degree manslaughter.
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    40lb.PigAs Eagle's Prey
    105 8 A BULLET put an end to the efforts of M American eagle which recently stoooped down near Fargo, Georgia, and carried off a pig weighing 40 lb. The incident wat> seen by Mr. C. N. Clark, a railway agent. He said that the eagle, which had a
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    SUM AND CHINA
    109 8 PROPOSAL FOR DIRECT SHIPPING LINE Nanking. AS a further step toward improving the trade relations between China and Slam, the Bangkok authorities have advanced a proposal to open a direct navigation route between the two countries. Mr. Vilas Ostananda, the Siamese Government trade Commissioner for China and
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    NAZI LEADER WHO PUT BAN ON CRUCIFIX
    128 8 NAZI LEADER WHO PUT BAN ON CRUCIFIX LJITLER has had to instruct Nazi Stormtroopers and Hitler Youth leaders in Oldenburg, North- West Germany, to stop anti-Christian propaganda, owing to a storm of protest among local fanners. This instruction countermands an order given by the provincial Nazi leader, Herr Karl Roevner.
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    DIVER'S CATCH
    123 8 UNWELCOME ATTENTION OF A LARGE PORPOISE London. When working on the demolition of Waterloo Bridge. Diver Tim Jamleson had a nasty shock. A porpoise weigh-, ing half a hundred-weight, attracted by nis light, loomed up and nearly knocked him off his ladder which he was Just descending. But
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    48 8 THE marriage of Mr. Paul Bong, son of Mr. and the late Mrs. Mrs. Bong Choon, to Miss Anastasia Lee, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kiah Wah, took place at the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul last week. Rev. Father R. Ashness took the service.
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    MORAL TRAINING
    249 8 Lectures For Tokio Cabaret Girls Tokio. "MORAL training" is now being ITI gi Yen Tokio's taxi-dancers in an effort to prevent repetition of the recent action of police in closing the city's dance-halls temporarily because of immoral conduct on the part ot some of the girls. Japan's dean
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    INTERNATIONAL POLICE SUGGESTED
    45 8 Dr. Rustu Aras, Turkish I*oreign Minister, proposed at the League Council meeting at Geneva that French and Syrian troops be withdrawn from Alexardretta and An.ioch, and than an international police force should be in control till the FrancoTurkish territorial dispute is settled.
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    A KING'S FUNERAL
    36 8 Denying reports that huge sums had been spent on the recent reburial of King Constantlne, Queen Sophia and Queen Olga of Greece, the Premier, Gen. Metaxas. declared that the cost was only £4.000.
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    18 8 Herr HiUer received Muhammad Hashim Khan, the Afghan Prime Minister, wno Is on an official visit to Germany.
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    TREASON SENTENCES
    25 8 Thirty-two Communists, Including 10 women, were found guilty at Munich of "planning high treason" and were sentenced to long terms of penal servitude.
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    THE CHILD TODAY IS TALLER AND HEAVIER
    325 8 DOYS and girl* of 12 years of age at elementary schools in Great Britain today are over an inch taller and seven to eight pounds heavier than their parents were at some a,;e. This is one of the many striking facts brought out
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    MORE RECRUITS FOR R. A. F.
    115 8 BOY CANDIDATES THE MOST FIT MEDICAL examinations were carried out on 20.431 candidates for enlistment as airmen during 1935, states a report on the health of the Royal Air Force just issued. Of these 11,120, or 54.4 per cent., were found fit for general
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    1905 9 By The Onlooker A Malayan who figures largely in Mr. Bruce Lockharfs much-discussed book "Return To Malaya" is Mr. Freddie Cunningham, of Port Dickson. Mr. Cunningham succeeded Mr. Lockhart as a "creeper" on the Third Mile Estate, Port Dickson, some 25 years ago and has lived there
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      123 9 MALAYAN JINGLES 85 THE WARNING ff hen rubber stood at twopence The struggling planter said 14 If only it were sixpence Yd paint the old town red. 1 l.alvr he got his sixpence, But the paint-brush idle lay, For then he sighed for eight pence v Make the consumer pay!**
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      247 9 5SSSk'\ ioci c* a K i j GROUND FXurlng the Season (September-April) short llK^ mJ vacations In Indo-Chlna are inexpensive. y iBANG^Mf< Beautiful scenery, healthy hill-station resthouses, i /^V jW^rrorr wonderful motor roads Inexhaustible field of IS archaeological and historical wonders. Old time W\ '^EfSAIGON courtesy to visitors. large touring
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    DEATH TOLL ON SINGAPORE ROADS
    609 10 H. K. Hales, 39 YEARS A MOTORIST WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT Gives Remedy BANISH THE HORN PAN Singapore reduce by 50 per cent, its annual road casualties Mr. H. K. Hales, 69-year-old motorist who has driven a car for 31; years through half the countries in
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    DIVORCE OF THE INSANE
    330 10 DIVORCE OF THE INSANE M. P.s Criticise New Bill "EXPERIMENT FULL OF DANGER" I*HE question whether incurab'.o insanity should constitute grounds for divorce was discussed by the Standing Committee of the House of Commons which is considering the Marriage Bill. The purpose of the bill is "to strengthen the institution
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    16 10 The Council of the Peope's Commissars has appointed M. BogomolorT Soviet trade representative in Great Britain.
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    DUELLING DOCTOR OF BUDAPEST
    73 10 DUELLING DOCTOR OF BUDAPEST ryt. FKANZ SARGAS, the duel- ling doctor of Budape>t. who has already disposed of two adversaries in defence of his wife's eood name, has received 100 new challenges. In the meantime a hire purchase firm has threatened to seize his furniture if be does not pay
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    Every Woman Will Agree With This
    90 10 New York. J FUR COAT and six pairs of shoes are essential to every woman who aims at being well dressed. That s the opinion of Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli, the famous fashion designer, now visiting Nejo York. "Every woman" she says, "should have in
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    WOMEN SWEAR TO FIGHT FOR SOVIET RUSSIA
    554 10 "Not Wailing On Their Husbands' Necks" Moscow, Dec. 18. THE women at the Leningrad congress of "Fighting Friends" largely wives of Red Army officers are surpassing all others in their fierce nationalism. When the meeting continued today, one officer's wife asserted: "When war
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    LORD DAWSON
    59 10 NEW CHAIRMAN OF ARMY MEDICAL BOARD It is announced by the War Office that Major-Gen. Viscount Dawson of Perm has been appointed chairman of the Army Medical Advisory Board In succession to the late Lord Moynlhan. The vacancy thus caused In the membership of the board has been
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    NEW ZEALAND POPULATION IN PERIL
    186 10 NEW ZEALAND POPULATION IN PERIL STATIONARY IN 1960 Wellington (N.Z.) A WARNING against the dangers of a too small population for New Zealand was made by Mr. W. E. Barnard, Fpcakcr of the House of Representatives and a prominent member of the Labour Party, in a speech on immigration which
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      440 10 BRITAIN'S FAMOUS SPA If you suffer from the effects of prolonged residence in tropical climates you will be well advised to recuperate at Harrofate. The exhilarating moorland air and natural mineral waters and treatments combine to make Harrogate the health retort for toning you up after the tropics. tr« C
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1358 11  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By THE TIMES (a long way after others) has drawn attention to the well-known fact that producers are incapable of producing a reporter on the stage who has the resemblance to a reporter. Tney are obsessed by the notebook which the most successful reporters
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      323 11 CONTRACT BRIDGE ILiERWIN D. Maier, like most fine By THE FOUR ACES players, is a somewhat optimistic bidder. But his play of the While we think that both Mr. Maler cards is so fine that we would think and hls partner over bid. he justified it foolish of him to
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      The Prince Of Robbers
      1236 12 STORY OF JONATHAN WILD MAKES MODERN DETECTIVE FICTION PALL "Jonathan Wild Prince of Robbers." By Frederick J. Lyons. Michael Joseph Ltd. 15s. OF Jonathan Wild the Newgate Calendar says: "Of all thieves that ever infested London, this man was the most notorious the name and memory
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      A GRIM ROMANCE OF PLASTIC SURGERY
      332 12 No More Remains. By Leonard O. Mosk-y. Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d. n«R. Mosley's first book J'So I Killed Her" was haileu as being "of almost shocking brilliance" and the story under review Is a definite advance even upon that successful debut. It is a
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      New Character Joins Band Of Sleuths
      331 12 New Character Joins Band Of Sleuths Goring's First Case. By Peter Kippax. Michael Joseph. 7s. 6d. MR. Kippax has thought out a very original plot for the story in which he introduces a character that seems likely to take a prominent place among the famous amateur sleuths of detective fiction.
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      Collected Essays Of H. W. Nevinson
      406 12 Collected Essays Of H. W. Nevinson Representative Of The Past 20 Years Between the Wars. By II W. Nevinson. Hutchinson. 15s. Cd. "T^HIS volume of collected essays, representative of Mr. Nevinson's work over the past 20 years, does full justice to a gifted Journalist and war correspondent, whose outlook is
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      WRITTEN WITH HUMOUR AND FACILITY
      355 12 WRITTEN WITH HUMOUR AND FACILITY The Knight Errant. By Edgar Jepson. Deadly Decree. By J. C. Lenehan. Jenkins' Colonial Library. THINK, in fact, I am almost sure that Mr. Jepson wrote two stories and then found that neither was long enough to make a full length novel, for the two
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      Three Amusing Stories With Thrills And Mystery
      577 12 Death in Pursuit. By George Leaderman. Burst and Blackett. 3s. 6d. Death Calls the Jester. By 11. E. Wheeler. Jenkins' Colonial Library. Murder in the Family. By James Ronald. The Bodley Head. 7s 6d. LJERE are three well-written and amusing mystery stories, with
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      Lena Ashwell Looks Back Over Her Years As An Actress
      428 13 Lena Ashwell Looks Back Over Her Years As An Actress Mjself a Player. By Lena Ash well. Mil had Joseph. 15s. m«ISS Ashwells long stage career brinss her down frcra the heroic days of Sir Henry Irving anrt Ellen Ti rry to the present day, and in between 6he has
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      PENGUIN BOOKS
      143 13 My South S^a Island. By Eric Muspratt. The Surgeon's Log. By James Johnson Abraham. With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet. By Alexandra David -Nrel. Some Experiences of a NewGuinea Magistrate. (I vols.) C. A. Monckton. The Penguin Books. The B«dl«y Head. 6d. each. 'THE publishers of tlie famous
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      THREE PLEASANT NOVELS
      418 13 THREE PLEASANT NOVELS Sr.obs in Suburbia. By Judith Greb!e. Robert Hale. 7s. 6d. Thorston Hall. By O. S. Macdoneil. Selwyn and Mount. 7s. 6d. House-Master. By lan Hay. Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. Fy|ISS GREBLE has concentrated on some of the more unpleasant aspects of that modern phenomenon, the garden
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      Grand Tale With Humour And Wit
      269 13 Grand Tale With Humour And Wit Highly Unsafe. By Max Salt- J marsh. Michael Joseph. 7s. Gd. |li|RS. Saltmarsh's first novel, "High- ly Inflammable," was greeted with! I a chorus of praise from the critics, who found much resemblance to the ear-' lier and more exciting stories of John Buchan
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      WODEHOUSE'S NEW NOVEL
      129 13 Laughing Gas. By P. G. Wodehouse. Herbert Jenkins. 2s. Gd. IMAGINE the complications which set in when Reggie, Earl of Havershot, owing to some sort of side-slip in the fourth dimension, changes bodies with Joey Cooley, Hollywood child film star. Ratncr fatuous perhaps. But when P. G.
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      Exciting Stuff From Men Who Know What They Are Writing About
      480 13 Malta Fever. By Vice-Admiral C. V. Usbarne. Mid-Atlantic By "Taffrail Murder Train.' By Gavin Holt. Hodder and Stoughtai. 7s. Gd. each •TENSION in the Mediterranean, war plans going astray, new and impenetrable armour for aeroplanes, an unsuspected spy and
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      Maoriland History
      371 13 NEW ZEALAND'S "SOVEREIGN CHIEF" Check to Your King. By Robin Hyde. (Hurst and Blackett. 7s 6d.) IJERE Is potted history In entertaining form— that of the romantic story of a man who made it. As is frankly admitted, there has been a certain use of the "novelist's licence,"
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      PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM AGAIN
      360 13 PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM AGAIN Judy of Bunter's Buildings. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Hodder and Stiughton. 7s. Cd. Duel with Diamonds. 15y Henry L. K.ilT. The Hamadryad. By H. E. Rayner. Both from Robert Hale. 7s. Cd. each. JUDY of Bunter's Building io one of Mr. Oppenhcim's less international tales, but has
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      345 12 £?f will It always be so? It is easy enough to shirk unpleasant subjects when one Is happy, In a good job and enjoying the best of health. But Is It fair to those you love? What would happen to your wife and family if you died or if you
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      32 13 ■ft JBBP Whatever your upUcul requirements KAN-SIN has exact!? what you want plus efficiency and economy. Ring up 6363 for convenient appointment complete aatUfactlon guaranteed, or your money back with a smile.
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      217 13 FULL CREAM SWEETENED CONDENSED SWISS MILK t^g^flKß?S|pS^p^gjl Oledge Brand swoeiI^C!^^** ened condensed R Bill cream SWEETENED CON DEKSO I. i Milk has its origin I f\GE fi/5 in the Berneee A1 P 3 ilV w^ amid surroundings 3 v to redolent of wholej somenees and health. Jb 4 P urar
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    SINGAPORE MAN GAINS 1Oths. IN WEIGHT
    195 14 Chest Complaint Disappears. Loss of weight is a dangerous sign, for the thin, scraggy hollow- chested i man or woman can very easily fall a victim to serious ills. Up to now, the only way to put on flesh has been to j take
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    Totidem Verbis
    572 14 Rubber Frenzy •"THERE is need for cool heads in the rubber world, especially among the speculating "small fry," who so often Just "miss the bus" (or fail to dismount in time) and consequently suffer burnt fingers —if we may make a thorough job of mixing our metaphors. It
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    The Washington Treaty Is Ended What Now?
    791 14 The Washington Treaty Is Ended What Now? By A SUNDAY TIMES STAFF REPORTER VUITH the expiry of the Washington Treaty and its non-fortification clauses Great Britain will push ahead with her plans for converting the towering peaks of Hong Kong into a Far Eastern Gibraltar. From this hornets* nest of
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    How England's Cricketers Spend Christmas
    885 14  -  H. HARVEY DAY By fRICKETERS who tour with M.C.C. sides often find themselves in strange surroundings during Christmas, but everything is done to make them thoroughly at home, and the atmosphere as festive as possible. They are usually reminded more forcibly of Christmas than if
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    RARE FINDS IN EGYPT
    333 14 Draughtsmen Made 5,000 Years Ago Cairo. I^ISOOVERIES of great historical interest and rare artistic value have been made by the chance excavation at Sakkara, near here, of an Egyptian cemetery of abou l 3,000 B.C. Makramallah Effendi, working on behalf of the Department of Anti-i quities.
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      39 14 The New World Cabaret TEA DANCE (ADMISSION FREE) TUESDAY. THURSDAY AND SATURDAY AFTER DINNER DANCES (ADMISSION 50 CTS.t EVERY NIGHT FROM 9 P M. TO MIDNIGHT PIANO I TUNING REPAIRS REMOVALS HIRE E. CHARLES. Phone 2902. 74. Orchard Rd
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    SINGAPORE'S FICKLE FILM-GOERS
    505 15 But Most Cosmopolitan In Their Taste CHAPLIN BIGGEST BOX-OFFICE HIT OF LAST YEAR fHARLIE Qhaplin is still Singapore's favourite actor his "City Lights" was the biggest film box-office success ot year. Robert Taylor is the most notable actor to have reached the front rank in the past
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    DUTCH ARMY INCREASE
    221 15 Defences In N.I. To Be Strengthened TO RESIST SURPRISE ATTACKS The Hague. THE Second Chamber has passed the budget for the Arwy and Navy for 1337, as well as the Bill under which the defences of Netherlands India will be strengthened. Up to a recent date the
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    It Was O.K. -By The Parrot
    93 15 Reading, Pennsylvania. JiACK up there! It's O.K. to back up!" Relying on this loud-voiced intimation, a lorry dviver unloading kegs of beer outside a restaurant here put his lorry into reverse and duly "backed up." The lorry ran straight into a large trse and
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    FEWER PIPES IN ITALY
    65 15 Rome. •"PHE Italians are smoking more cigarette* and home-made cigars. Pipes and snuff are going out of fashion. Tobacco is a State monopoly and the Treasury's gross takings from i's sales during the past fiscal year approximated £34,000.000. Before the Great War Italy was able lo
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    HIGH TREASON
    28 15 Thiitcen former members of the German Social Democrat party were sentenced at D;;3scldorf to long terms of penal servitude on charges of preparing for high treason.
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    The Best Time Of The Day
    39 15 JUST before bedtime when babies should feel tired, is usually just when they wake up, which is proved by the mischief in the eyes of these two bonny kiddies in their evening bath.
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    POLAND AND HER FRIENDS
    348 15 Colonel Beck On His Policy THE PROBLEM OF COLONIES IN a general review of Polish foreign policy in the Sejm, Colonel Beck, the Foreign Minister, referred to relations with Russia saying "We are arranging our mutual concerns in a normal fashion giving no cause for shocks
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    DEATH FOR CURRENCY OFFENDERS
    48 15 NEW GERMAN LAW Under a lav now promulgated an -.xnesty is granted to all offenders gainst German currency regulations who admit before Jan. 31 that they have not declared money or property ..broad. After that date offender will be liable to the death penalty.
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    21 15 M. Antonesco, Rumanian Foreign Minister, has arrived in Paris, where he will discuss Franco-Rumanian relations with M. Delbos, French Foreign Minister.
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    11 15 Charlie Chaplin as he appeared in his last film. "Modern Times."
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    'Buffalo Bill's' Son Dies A Pauper
    108 15 PHARLES RAVEN CODY, who claimed to be the son of Colonel William Cody, the original Buffalo Bill, has been buried in a pauper's grave at Chester. He had thrilled thousand.- of people in the principal towns of the world with his cowboy feats. Mr.
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    15 15 The hotel and restaurant strike in Oslo which began on Dec. 3, has been settled.
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      89 15 Nothing will be more vZwml K you cannot feed him valuable to your boy %yfflM? yourself get Cow in after-life than good J^^^^^^K^ P PU ar Make no mistake in the W? realise in years to come critical and vital period /p W? you gave him the best of his
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    Women Fight 'Honour' Code To Save Girl
    245 16 New York. A FTER a second trial, Edith Maxwell, 22-year-old Virginia schoolteacher, has gone to serve 20 years in prison for killing her father. And the twelve stern farmers v.ho sent her there, as jurymen, are satisfied that they have faithfully observed the
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    CIERVA AUTOGYRO PLANS
    176 16 CIERVA AUTOGYRO PLANS DEAD INVENTOR'S WORK TO GO ON FVEVELOPMENTS of tie Cierva autogyro which were indicated by Genor Juan de la Cleiva beforo his death are m be furthered by th» company whir 1 bears 'iis name. Senor d? la Cierva was killed recently in the air li«ur crash
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    RELATIONS RESUMED
    48 16 A message from Monrovia states that Great Britain has resumed diplomatic relations with the Republic of Liberia. Great Britain withdrew recognition early in 1931 as a result of revelations cf slavery in the territory contained in the report of the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry
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    2,000 PINTS OF FROZEN CREAM FOR U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
    234 16 2,000 PINTS OF FROZEN CREAM FOR U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW New York. TWO thousand pints of pasteurised cream, frozen by a special process which is claimed to keep it fresh for two years, has been shipped to Moscow for the use of the new American Ambassador and his wife, Mr.
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    79 16 Warsaw. ris now possible to telephone from Warsaw and other Polish cities to Ceylon at the rate of 35 zloty (about 275.) for three minutes. The first three minutes' call to Ceylon from England costs £4 16s. With the maximum rate between London and Warsaw
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    21 16 Two telegraph boys helped a keeper to rescue an 11-year-old schoolboy from the clutches of x bear at the Grenoble Zoo.
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    616 19 Precautions Which Make Things Easy WHEN the Queen of Sheba went travelling via the "Camel Limited" she must have gone well equipped. She was sufficiently lovely at the end of the journey to charm King Solomon, who, it seems, had already seen a
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    29 19 INSTEAD of a felt hat and a ribbon trimming, this beret-cap is made from brown petersham, and trimmed with a cockade of deeper brown felt.
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    369 19  - Lacquer In The Home ENA GLEN By jpAINTED or enamelled furniture, being cheaper than polished furniture, ia one of the most attractive features of modern decoration. Since Princess Mary ordered a suite lacquered by ex-service men a few years ago the vogue has spread. Many housewives are timid about doing
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    456 20 If Grey Suits You nrO remind us that Coronation is on the way, a cosmetic case has just been ingeniously made on the lines of a sceptre. Large and imposing, it i.s made of chromium complete with a long, coloured tassel. Every inch
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    1427 20 Rosita Forbes Says "THE unhappiness of Englishwomen is frightening it is terrible, appalling" the young man's words were interrupted by a terrific lurch which sent us in a heap on to the knees of the driver. For we were sharing the front seat
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    673 20 Things For The Younger Generation DARTY frocks for a big sister a girl of sixteen or so are frequently made from taffetas, this semi-stiff material being excellent for such fashionable trimmings as scallops and pinked edges. A not-too-closely-fltting princesse shape, with a broad velvet sash at the waist, and epauleltes
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    24 21 THE high waist line is the feature of this alluring gown of s himmering satin coronation red. Model by Margaret Marks.
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    346 21  - MEDDLERS IN MARRIAGE January Mortimer By WERY rarely do a couple marry with the complete and cordial approval of all their friends and, relatives on both sides. There is always someone who is of the opinion that Jack is too good for Jill or that Jill has made a sad
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    901 21  -  VAUGHAN VANE BY ILL parents make sacri- fices, at some time or other, for their children. It is one of the privileges of parenthood Some parents have to make sacrifices all their lives. "We felt that only the best was good enough for our
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    108 21 A DELICIOUS minced meat roll can be steamed in the bottom tier of a steam boiler whil? two vegetables are cooked above. To make it, put a pound of minced st\ik into a t>owl and mix with half v pound of finely chopped bacon, four ounces of breadcrumbs,
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    726 22 How Games Are Progressing SINGAPORE RECORD INTACT SO FAR IN the b?skct-ball matches played so far for tho Malayan Chinese trophies, it io curious that when the women of one State won in the first match of the evening the men j of the same state, too,
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    609 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. WHAT a deplorable standard local badminton has This fact, which was made evident at the annual district tournament, was again revealed at a friendly match between the Johore Bahru Companion Party and the Segamat Chinese Recreation Club at Segamat last
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    77 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. The December Womens Medal ac the Kulim Golf Club was played during the last week-end and the leading scores were as follows Mrs. O. S. Reis (22) lup Mrs A. V. Perrln (16) all square Mrs. T. Kltching (32) 1 down
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    1292 24 Many Scratchings On The Course Course slratchlngs: Cheerful Lady, Beth and Penang. Also ran: Jtratra 9.4. Hearts Content 8.9, Troubadour 8.9. and Spotlight 7.13. Won by 2 lengths: half length between second and third; l'-i lengths between third and fourth. Time 1 mln 53
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    115 24 Y.M.C.A. VISIT BLAKAN MA' 1 (From a correspondent.) The V.M.C.A. had a fairly easy task in disposing of the 11th Heavy Battery (R.A.) at hockey at Blakan Mati yesterday, winning by 2 o. The visitors had a pronounced superiority in speed and although their backs took some time to settle
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    65 24 The following have been invited to play Rugby Footbill for S.C.C. "B" XV .3. Police on Jan. 8 at S.C.C: J. M. Praser; R. A. Hooper, J. P. Turcan, M. S. Robinson. A. H. Marshall: A. F. Barclay. E. J. P. Burley: H. C. Peterson. R.H. Green. C.H.W.
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    440 24 (From A Correspondent.) "THE Blakan Mati gunners superiority was well established in the strenuously contested Rugby game with St. Andrew's at Blakan Mati yesterday but they were in no way flattered by their score of nine points to nil. They were without the services
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    659 24 AMR BEY WINS SQUASH TITLE AGAIN •THE Amateur Squash Rackets Championship came to its inevitable end at the Bath Club when W. D. Amr Bey, the brilliant Egyptian player, defeated E. Sncll in the nnal round by three games to none (9 4, 9 o, 9—2), and thus won the
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    42 24 Spence, the Chesterfield forward, recently played his 600 th League matcn. He has been a professional since 1919. Before that he worked in the pit. He was a Manchester United stalwarc many seasons, wearing their colours in more than R 0 match**
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    VOLUNTEERS BIG WIN OVER THE POLICE
    326 25 Rugby Game Played In A Drizzle /"OCCASIONAL splendid combined movements with a soggy ball env livened what was otherwise a dull game when the Singapore Volunteer Corps beat Police at rugger by 20 points (a goal, five tries) to nil on the Singapore padang
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    10 25 JLIISS Waileen Wont, one of Singapore's leading women badminton players.
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    22 25 A tangle of legs round the ball during the Volunteers vs. Police Pun by fame on the padang yesterday. Sunday Times Photograph.
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    GOOD RECOVERY
    309 25  -  R. A. F. BY Beat South Johore After Losing o—B0 8 Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Saturday. AFTER leading B—o8 0 South Johore went down to the R.A.F. by eight points 'a goal and a try) to ten points (two goals) today at the Johore Civil Service Sports
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    WEAK SELANGOR RUGBY XV WIN
    206 25 NEGRI-MALACCA WELL BEATEN (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. THAT the Eelangor Rugby team is in fine form for the Malaya Cup final was demonstrated here today when although playing reserves, they bea r Ne"H-Malacca by 19 points 'two goals and three tries) to 3
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    23 25 The Volunteers away with the ball at their feet dartnr the Rufhy cane aratast the ioUce on the Fadar.j yesterday. Sunday Timet Photograph.
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    A. A. A. INDCOR MEETING
    275 25 To Be Staged At Wembley AN agreement of much importance ta athletics in England has been signed between the Wembley Stadium authorities and the Amateur Athletic Association. By it the A.A.A. have undertaken to stage their indoor championships at Wembley for the next three years,
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    383 25 ■THERE was only one game played In the S.C.F.A. football league at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, the came between the Stong 800 A.A. and the Chinese High School, which is closed for the holidays, being postponed. The Social Athletic Party, one oi the
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    25 25 - The hockey match between the Ceylon Sports Club and the Sikh Police, to have been played on the CSC ground yesterday, was cancelled.
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    389 25 ShouM Do Well In Europe AN Australian women s team will visit Europe next year. Wimbledon and the championships will be their main objective, but the tourists will also engage In a series of international matches. Great Britain, France. Germany and probably America will be among
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    107 25 DI'GBY games played at home on Saturday resulted, says Reuter as follows England 16, Rest 0. Bristol 5, Cardiff 3. Bedford 34, Rosslyn Park 8. Gloucester 29, London Scottish 13. Blackheath 11, U.S. Portsmouth 17. Richmond 6, Bath 6. St. Bart's Hos. 3, Harlequins 3. Swansea 10, Leicester
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    355 25 DESULTS of football games played in the leagues yesterday arc says Reuter Arsenal 1 Huddersfleld T. 1 Birmingham 0 Chelsaa 0 Brentford 2 Everton 2 Grimsby T 3 Boltor. W 1 Leeds U 2 Stok3 C 1 Liverpool 1 Charlton A 2 Manchester U. 2 Derby Co
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    1127 25 DOSITION in the leagues IncluJinj yesterday's games are: P. W. L. D. F Arsenal 24 12 5 7 5* Charlton 24 11 5 8 31 Brentford 23 12 6 5 46 Sundcrland 24 13 9 2 50 Middlesbro' 24 12 8 4 43 Derby Co. 24 11 8
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    2179 26 SINGAPORE'S GAMES AGAINST PERAK PENANG Unbeaten Record Of Two Years Goes Comments On All The Matches— Local Tournaments BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT •FHK local governing body completed its inter-State programme for 1936 with a victory over Perak in Ipoh a week ago on Saturday by six games to three and
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    19 26 i right I-e f)M Leone > Perak), Miss Helen Khong (Perak, Miss Won* Pek Lin (fcrai). Taa Cheng Plior (Perak).
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    67 26 The Malay Scholars Badminton Party held their annual meeting at the M.V.I. Club with Che Zalnul Abldln. the retiring president. In the chair. The election of office-bearers tor the ensuing year resulted as follows: Patrons: Y. M. Raja Kamalbaharln and Che Zainul Abidln; president, Che Mahamed Taib;
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    JOHORE VISIT TO MUAR AND MALACCA BADMINTON WINS
    438 26 JOHORE VISIT TO MUAR AND MALACCA BADMINTON WINS (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. •THE Johore Badminton season was brought to a successful conclusion last week when the Johore Badminton Association in the first outing scored a narrow win over the Malacca Badminton Association by six games to five. It
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    347 26 SEGAMAT G. E. S. OLD BOYS LOSE TO CLUB (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. MAKING use of a number of consecutive holidays some former boys of the local Government English School visited their home town and met the Segamac Cricket Club at hockey on the School padang. The result was
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    SELANGOR SINGLES
    321 26 CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGIN TODAY (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. 'THE Selangor Junior and open singles badminton championships begin today at the Victoria Institution Hall. Foo Lum Choon. the Selangor champion, will defend his title. Only ten eitrles have been received. Including A. S. Samuel, the former singles champion
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    209 26 Extracts from «ie third annual report for the session 1935-36. presented to the fourth annual general meetin? of ',he Cambridge-London Tutorial Hone held recently state: The following pupils were successful In their Cambridge local examinations: Mr. S. Sangaraplllais Sets: Senior IMS: S. H. Tan. Junior 1934: F. K.
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    797 27 Covered Stands Will Mean Bigger Crowds Getting Ready For Sir Julien Cahn's Cricketers Malaya Cup Final Prospects By "ECHO" THEY are very satisfactory accounts which will be submitted at the annual meeting of the S.A.F.A. on Tuesday next week, and the Association and Stadium Committees are
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    22 27 The Nerri Sembilan Volley Ball team who will meet Johore in the Inter- State volley ball competition ai Seremban on J»nuar> 18.
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    SUNGEI PATANI SOCCER
    215 27 Penang I. R. C. Beat Kuala Muda Club THE football game bstween the Penang IR.C. and the Kuala Muda Club, played at Sunge! Patani, was fought out keenly from bfginnlng to end and the score of 2—l in favour of the Penang team was a true indication
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    198 27 SEGAMAT POLICE HOCKEY TEAM HAS TALENT (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. THE Police, who have been training for well over a month, played and lost their first hockty game of the season, being beaten by the India Ceylon Association 'A' team by the odd goal in three. The game was
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    577 27 Bright Prospects For State Cri:ket Europeans vs. Rest Match Suggested Basket Ball Enthusiasm— Will NegriMalacca Be Represented In North vs. Sout Rugger Match? (From Our Own Corresponded t.) Seremban. CIR Julien Cahn's cricket tourists *J will miss Negri Sembilan in their itinerary but it is a
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    275 27 WHITE SHIRTS BEAT THE O. B. A. (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. f\NLY one league hockey match was vf played last week, the White Shirts being opposed to the Sultan Abdul Hamid Old Boys Association. The game was very keenly fought out and good hockey was seen.
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    158 27 I If names only counted, and yea:, did not, the batting strength seen In the Press reserve at the last Test Match would give a start and a beating to either England or Australia In run-getting. Here are the names of some of the willow cum-pen cum-type writer
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    151 27 BRADDOCK TO MEET SCHMELING EARLY NEXT YEAR New York. Dec. 11. T ll2 New York Btate Athletic Com- mission ruled today that the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, James J. Braddock. must fight the former champion. Max Schmellng of Germany, in a title bout during
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    59 27 Miss J. Gardner, the woman pro fessional billiards champion, beat Miss R. Harrison in a match of 1.000 points up at the Burroughs Hall on Dec. IS) by 1.000 to 956. During the game Miss Gardner made breaks of 51. 44, 70. 59 (twice). 60. and 63. the highest runs
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    318 27 LEAGUE SYSTEM OR KNOCK-OUT? (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. WITH January here the Town Padang is again open. I think it is now time that the hockey competition for the Wiils Cup is begun so that it can be completed early, thus -\.abling the early start of cricket.
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    93 27 Tfce monthly general meeting of the Slew Sin Sia will be heir* tcday at Mr. Gwee Ah Sye's residence 139, Neil Road, at 1 p.m. and a committee meeting wi!l be held zt the same place after the monthly gt .oral meeting adjourned. The following were elccied
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    44 28 AT HOTELS. CLUBS, AMUSEMENT PARKS, New Year's E*» waa appropriately celebrated by hundreds of revetters and the*e pictwes nn taken by a staff photographer at S«* View Hotel, whatc cacminU hata, v the photos •how, were very nraeh in eridemce.
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    51 28 THE HAPPY BABY PRINCE: These air-mail pictures of Prince Edward. 11-nionth-old son of tho Duke and Daehew of Kent, were taken in Beifrave S^aare Garden* a few days before the birth of hfe swter on Christmas Day. The prince Is the Kin? and Queen's yonnrect
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