The Straits Times, 14 February 1937

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    38 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION No. 269 Sunday, February 14, 1937 Price 10 cents.l THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya. No. 269 Sunday, February 14, 1937 Price 10 cents
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    £2,000,000 TO MAKE BRITAIN A1 NATION
    466 1 All Sports Leaders As Advisers On Physical Training MORE GYMNASIUMS AND SWIMMING POOLS THE first great step towards making Britain an Al nation w ith a large reserve of physically fit young men who e-juld step into the ranks of the Defence Services in
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    Selangor Unemployment Inquiry Committee Selected
    58 1 Selangor Unemployment Inquiry Committee Selected (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. H.E. the High Commissioner has appointed a committee consisting of the acting Under Secretary, F.M.S. (Mr. Hugh Friser) as chairman, the Hon. Col. Cecil Rae, Mr. C. WardJackson and Mr. Choo Kia Peng, to inquire into the incidence
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    Dutch Premier Sees Drop In Rubber Price
    61 1 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. THE Amsterdam correspondent of the Financial Times states that in the debate on the Netherlands Indian budget, Dr. Colijn, Premier and Minister for the Colonies, stressed the view that the present price of rubber could not be
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    BRITONS SAFE IN MALAGA
    55 1 London, Saturday. IUO harm has befallen the members of tlie small British col>ny in Malaga during recent fighting. The British Consulate and private property have also escaped further damage. The British acting consul, who returned to Gibraltar or. Thursday, is proceeding tc Malaga today and will
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    KING AND QUEEN IN PUBLIC TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME
    115 1 KING AND QUEEN IN PUBLIC TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME London, Saturday. THE first public appearance to- gether in London of the King and Queen since the King's accession took place this afternoon when their Majesties drove through the streets to the East End of London to visit the new People's
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    CHINA-JAPAN AIR LINK NEXT MONTH?
    43 1 Shanghai Saturday. The Huitung Aviation Corporation, a Slno-Japanese concern, is preparing to inaugurate a line :rom north China to Fukura, In Japan, next month, Chinese reports state. Experimental flying is to. be undertaken in the next few days.
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    TO BUY AIR FLEET
    21 1 National subscription has been opened in Egypt for the purchase of an air fleet for defence purposes.
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    World's Richest Man Celebrates Jubilee
    203 1 Hyderabad, Saturday. /"OLOURFUL scenes were seen on the occasion of the celebrations of the iubiler of the Nizam of Hyderabad routed to be the richest man in the world, which be*an Tonight the city is dancing to soft music in a fairyland of shimmering electric
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    Ballerina Engaged
    28 1 rrHE engagement has been an- nounced of Elizabeth Miller, leading ballerina at Sadlers Wells, to Mr. Eric E. N. Causton. grandson of the late Lord Southwark.
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    Congress Capturing Seats In Indian Elections PRIVATE APPORTIONING OF PORTFOLIOS ALREADY
    130 1 Congress Capturing Seats In Indian Elections PRIVATE APPORTIONING OF PORTFOLIOS ALREADY Bombay, Saturday. 11/ITII the elections beginning in the major Provinces it is hoped the political situation will speedily lose some of its present obscurity. The latest returns show that the Congress Party is leading in the North-West Frontier Province
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    NANKING TRUCE WITH REDS?
    172 1 Outlaw Armies May Be Reorganised TEMPORARY EXILE FOR LEADERS Canton, Saturday. A CCORDING to a report received here the Central Government, at the instigation of Gen. Yang Hu-cheng is bargaining with the so-called Chinese Soviet Government," In other words the Communist leaders in Shcnsi. If expectations
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    AUSTRIA TO RESTORE MONARCHY ?
    50 1 AUSTRIA TO RESTORE MONARCHY Vienna, Saturday. WHAT is officially declared as a highly important speech will be delivered by Chancellor Schuschnlgg tomorrow. The speech may decide the future of the Legitimist movement in Austria. Fifteen hundred officials of the Fatherland Front." a Government organisation, will be summoned to listen.— Reuter.
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    MORE PAY FOR THE ARMY
    107 1 MORE PAY FOR THE ARMY THESE new attractions for recruits for the regular Army will be offered by the Secretary for War, Mr. Duff Cooper, early in March: Increased pay for all officers. N.C.O.S and men; Improved travelling arrangements, more free travelling; Increased marriage alloicances permission to marry to be
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    U. S. MOTOR WORKERS IN RIOTS
    114 1 U. S. MOTOR WORKERS IN RIOTS Mayor Asks For National Guard Mobilisation Anderson (Ind.), Saturday. TEN' people were wounded in rioting here today between members of the United Automobile Workers Union and non-unionists. The mayor has conferred with the Governor, asking for the mobilisation of the National Guard if the
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    TATA'S TO EXTEND STEEL WORKS
    46 1 FLLOWING the breakdown of the iron mergsr negotiations with the Indian Ir:m and Steel Company, the Tata Iron and Steel Company has dcided to extend its works to Jamshedpur and proouce an additional 170,000 tons of finished steel a year.— Reuter.
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    JEWS AND MADAGASCAR
    43 1 Paris. It is reported that France is opening her Colonies, especially Madagascar, ti> Jewish immigration. An inspector of the Gibraltar S.P.C.A., at great risk, rescued a goat which had been stranded for two day 3 on an inaccessslble cliff ledge.
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    CLOSING PRICES
    93 1 (From Our Own Corrcspond-nt i London, SaturJay. RI'BSER: Firmer. London, spot 10 11 Kid li. ,1. Apr-June 10 11 lCd 10, d. July-Sept 10\,d. 10 11 16 d. Oct.-Dec .10 9, 16d 10 B d. COPRA: Straits S D. Rott. (Jan.) £21 2i. Ml TAPIOCA: Singapore. Jan.-Feb., 1*«.
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      14 1 IMPORTANT ONLY 8 DAYS TO GO FOR THE PREMIERE AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE OF >
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      107 1 flf E li 4**n j I tt :ne LIGHT BRIGADE A Warntr Bros.. Road Show A Cosmopolitan Production. "try and sctln! Ct*** o e\ an d here *?*s> *si S^J**» n tomorrow i Extract from the "Sunday Times published on February 6th 1937. j ii^^T The fashionable /We clipwatch finished
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    Colony Cavalcade
    1706 2 Singapore A Century From Now Birth Control, The University and the Fortress Germs of the Future In The Present The Chamber's Next Celebration TUHEN the Singapore Chamber of Commerce celebrates its two hundredth anniversary in A.D. 2037, what will the Sir Shenton Thomas and the Sir John i'r.gnall
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    EUROPEAN POLICEMAN'S SIGNATURE FORGED ON CHEQUE
    513 3 EUROPEAN POLICEMAN'S SIGNATURE FORGED ON CHEQUE Charge Against Malay Orderly Magazines, a copy of a "Handbook of Malaya** with signatures scrawled all over the fly leaf, and a notebook dotted with simila- signatures, were exhibits in the third police court yesterday when Mr. W. G. Reeves, the third magistrate, held
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    27 3 f EN. Hayashi, a former Minister of War in Japan, who has formed a cabinet after Gen. Ugaki had failed owing to the opposition of the military.
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    Sir Andrew Caldecott On His Ancestry
    261 3 Hong Kong Scots 9 1 High Tribute To Governor PROPOSING the toast to the •Immortal Memory" at the annual Burns Nicht dinner of the St. Andrew's .Society in Hone Kornc. His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, said: •I am uendcring to what possible
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    PHYSICAL DIRECTOR TO EDUCATION MINISTRY
    51 3 Naiking. Mr. Chang Chl-wu, for the past decade Physical Director of the Nankal University and Nankai Middle School, Tientsin, has been appointed deputy chief of the Physical Education Section of the Ministry of Education. Mr. Chang arrived in Nanking on Monday and assumed his duties
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    FRASER AND CO.'s REPORT
    148 3 IN their daily share report issued at the close of business yesterday, Messrs. Fraser and Co. state that the market was very active and the price of tin rose 62>2 cents. There was a good demand for tin shares and among thost inquired for were Batu
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    SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE.
    156 3 Today Australia. New Zealand Java and Timor L)ll!v b-. nlr iO»nt8<.< 7 J m. Monday, February 15. Medan (Plancius) 9 a.m. Pengerang (8 Soon Hcnei 9 am Indo-Chtna (O. G. Pasquicr) 11 m Java Si Southerr surna"-- n\ air iNCherlanfle 4 J -t. Tuesday. February 16. Eastern
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    MAILS EXPECTED
    93 3 MaiLs from Europe etc. '!.ondcn> exp"cted today by air i Imperial) will be delivered to boxholders at 6 p.m. General tit livery of lett-rs on Monday at 8.45 am. Mails from Europe etc. (London mails) expected today by P. Sc O. Naldera will be delherpd to boxholders or
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    THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD.
    122 3 Saturday, February 13. Shin al«DC«><lc tk« Whirr's or expected t* anira EDtrancr '..ud-jnu ii.ilr East Wharf Hosar.7 20 1 Main Wha:f Kistna lu 3 Tablnta 12 3 Nieuw Zetland 10 3 Aram Is 6 3 Empire Dock Sllverpinc 32 3 Teirpslns 34 3 Bennevls 46 4
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    FIRST STATUE OF EDWARD VIII
    87 3 PIRST statue of Edward VIII In Europe is to be erected in Istanbul at the spot where he lanr' d last summer on a private visit to Kcmal Ataturk. Dictator of Turkey. The statue will be life-size, and will show the ex-King as the Turks
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    INFANT SON DIES
    58 3 The tleatn took place on Friday at 155. Ampang Read. Kua'.r. Lumpur, of the infant son of Mr. J. 8. M. Buckmiwewa, of Marr.cy's Rir.^apor", and Mrs. Buckrriiwcwa Mrs. Buckmiwewa s is a sister of Dr. L S. Perera of Kuala Lumpur. The funeral took place the
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    EIFFEL TOWER ASCENTS
    22 3 Nearly 70,000,000 people have ascended the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the construction of which was started 50 years a?.-\
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    JEWESS WHO VOTED
    23 3 A Jewess was sentenced in Potsdam to three months' imprisonment for casting a vote at the Reichstag elections last March.
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      159 3 MACNAIR— HOORWEQ.— At Singapore on the 13th Instant, Thomas Alexander, only son of the late Alexander Macnair, of Cawdor and Partick, and Mrs. Catharine Macnair, Edinburgh to Marcike Maria, younger daughter of the late Pieter Hoorweg, and Mrs. Johanna Hoorweg, The Hague. HBM CHRYSLER 18 THE CAR TSie world famous
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      83 3 tAIR TRAVEL SAVES TIME TROUBLE Singapore to England and Australia twice weekly by luxurious air liners. The fare includes everything— meals— hotels— even tips. Modem travel at its carefree best. Departures for London every Wednesday and Sunday Brisbane on Mondays and Fridays AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Bookings and Information from Boustead
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      162 3 IN SINGAPORE TODAY CINEMAS. Today. ALIMMBRA: The Last of The Mohicans Wttta Randolph Scott and Binnie Barnes. 3. 15. 6.15. 9.15. CAriTOL: Tarzan Esrapes with Johnny MVelssmuller. 3.15— 6.15— 9.15. GARRICK— GEYLANG: Takdecr. Hlndusta GLO a BE e THEATRE, GREAT WORLD: Under 2 l MAIiLBOROLGII 3 Cheers. Cantonese Talk i.
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      297 3 Monday. February 15. H. W. P0.59 a.m. 9.3 ft.; 106 p.m. 9 8 ft. L. W. 6.51 a.m. 1.8 ft.; 7.16 p.m. 1.7 ft. Tuesday. February 10. H. W. 1.30 a.m. 9.4 ft.; 1.51 p.m. 9 2 ft. L. W 7.34 a.m. 1.7 ft.; 7.b3 p.m. 2.3 ft. Wednesday. February
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    NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL MARRIED IN AMERICA
    691 4 Receives Doll As Wedding Gift From Farmer Husband CEREMONY PERFORMED ON OPEN ROAD But when nine-year-old Eunice Winstead, of Sneedville, Tennessee, was found to have married a twenty-two-year-o!d farmer named Charlie Johns, it provided the American and English newspapers with their best front-page stories for
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    ZAHAROFF CRYPT OUTRAGE BURIED JEWELS LEGEND
    154 4 ZAHAROFF CRYPT OUTRAGE BURIED JEWELS LEGEND I Paris. THE burial place of Sir Basil and Lady ZaharofX in the crypt of the private chapel at the Chateau de Balincourt, 25 miles from Paris, has been broken into and the coffin containing the remains of Lady Z^harofT forced oDPn. Lady ZaharofT
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    REMARKARLE ESCAPE
    33 4 REMARK ARLE ESCAPE Two French military pilots had a remarkable escape from death when their fighter machines collided in mid-air over Rhelms Forest, one being only slightly injured, while the other was unharmed.
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    POST DECLINED
    29 4 Vice-Adml. de Graaff, a former Chief of Staff of the Dutch Navy, has declined the League of Nations invitation to become the new High Commissioner for Danzig.
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    ROBBERS LASH WOMAN TO SAMPAN
    178 4 ROBBERS LASH WOMAN TO SAMPAN Boat Then Sunk T'liE body of a Chinese woman, roped and lashed to the thwart of her small river sampan, was dis- covered by police in Pootung in Shanghai last week. The boat was found submerged a ihort distance from the river bank and several
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    " WAR MORATORIUM "
    34 4 WAR MORATORIUM A proposal by Rear-Admiral Byrd, the Antarctic explorer, for a "sixmonths' moratorium on war," is to be brought to the attention of President Roosevelt and Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State.
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    47 4 l^R. Geoh Guan Chay, youngest tTI son of Mr. and Mrs. Yeoh Seng Khoe, of Broga, and Miss Hooi Lai Peng, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hooi Chee Yuen, of Kuala Lumpur, after their wedding in the reformed style at the Selangor Hokkien Association, Kuala Lumpur.
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    Ex-Convent Girl Posed As Man In Warship
    114 4 Paris. BECOMING suspicious of the auburn locks escaping from the beret of a workman, a naval officer on board the secret, unfinished battleship Dunkerque, snatched oil the beret. The workman was a girl. It was at first believed she was a spy, but
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    WAR DEBT SUGGESTION
    115 4 Mr. Lewis, of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, addressing the Senate, suggested that Britain. France and Italy should resume payment on war debts in the form of naval vessels, submarines and 'planes respectively. The death is reported of Ismail Sirry Pasha, the Egyptian engineer, who, as
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    PUNISHMENT TO FIT CRIMINAL
    279 4 A CURFEW FOR THE DANCE MAD GIRL LJOW the probation system could be used to "make the punishment fit the criminal" waa described recently by Mr. S. W. Harris. Assistant Under-Secretary of State to the Home Office. He was delivering the Clarke Hall lecture |in the
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      115 4 Kidneys Musi Clean Out Acids Tht only war your body can clean out health-deitroyinir Adds from your blood Is through nine million tiny Kldni-y tubes or filters but beware of cheap, drastic, irrttatlne drufra. Weak Kidneys usur.lly aro the real cause of GcttiiiK L T p Nights, NervouFnes*. Swollen Ankles,
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      147 4 "HELL DRIVERS" BREATH TAKING DISPLAY TODAY sp.m. (Weather Permitting) Off Alexandra Rd. Near foot of Tanglin Rd. ENTRANCE FREE:A collection will be taken on behalf of CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY st,ll oka«,ng K.COBO cbowds: 20,000 j Matinee Today 3.15 ATODAY3 IS^IS_9.IS pEQpLE RAVE SEEN LHAWIbKni SINCE TUESDAY! l^/NtV^DrVJV^rO The toNMCr c
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    SUBMARINE OFFICER'S SUICIDE
    983 5 Described As "Inventive Genius" By Captain STORY OF TRAGIC INCIDENT AT SELETAR BASE •A FTER writing a statement in which he alleged differences between his commanding officer and himself, Lieut. Arthur Claude Berlyn, of H.M. Submarine Rainbow, sat down at a table in his cabin, and holding
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    ASSAULT BY KICKING FOOTBALL A Goalkeeper Fined In Scotland
    214 5 ASSAULT BY KICKING FOOTBALL A Goalkeeper Fined In Scotland A FORMER Celtic goalkeeper, James Foley. now of Plymouth Argyle. charged at Edinburgh with assaulting a spectator by kicking a football in his direction during a Scottish Alliance match between Celtic and Heart of Midlothian on Nov. 28, was fined £2.
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    ROUGH SEAS AT CANNES
    62 5 A terrific sale struck the Riviera at the end of January, on the first day of the season, and made huge breaches in the fashionable Boulevard de la Croisette. Great waves broke up beach kiosks and washed them out to sea, also jetties belonging to the
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    Sergeant Major Worried Over Money Matters
    446 5 SUICIDE VERDICT IN MALACCA (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. \I7ITH only a short time to complete his period of service in Malacca and then the possibility of severing his connection with the Army, Sergeant Major Thomas Augustine Cussack, M.8.E., took his life early
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    CHINAN UNIVERSITY WIN AT CANTON
    48 5 Canton. Making a brilliant debut on local courts, the Chinan University basketball team from Shanghai defeated the Pul Ying High School quintette by 47 to 22 points. Over 1,000 basketball enthusiasts were thrilled by the celever team play displayed by the visiting collegians.
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    18 5 Deposits in New Zealand Post Office Savings Banks at the end of 1936 showed an increase of £4.000,000
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    Woman's Fall To Death On Boat Quay
    112 5 Woman's Fall To Death On Boat Quay Shouts and scream? rang through Boat Quay. Singapore, yesterday morning, when the body of a woman was seen to fall from the top window of a three-storeyed house. The woman received revere injuries to which she succumbed -within a short time. Named Tang
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      11 5 TH( TRUE TONIC FOOD Ottolncblt ot ail Chmmuu ana Storm I
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    CABINET MINISTERS TALK ABOUT £400,000,000 DEFENCE LOAN
    404 6 FINANCIAL RESOURCES Denial That Britain's Industrial Prosperity Is Due To Building Of More Armaments London, Saturday. IT is now anticipated that (he debate on defence wiiich will be raised in the House of Commons on committee stage of the necessary financial resolution seeking
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    GERMANY'S PRE-WAR COLONIES
    148 6 How Australia Has Developed New Guinea Melbourne. TALK about Germany's right to raw materials and the return of her colonies is based on a misunderstanding," said the Commonwealth Minister for Repatriation. Mr. W. M. Hughes. "It is part of the propaganda in Germany to distract attention from
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    THE 'GOOD-TIME' GIRL
    150 6 THE 'GOOD-TIME' GIRL THE problem of girls who think only of having a good time is dealt with by the Birmingham branch of the British Social Hygiene Council in a report just issued. The report says: "The majority of young women who have appealed to the council for personal advice
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    A NEW YEAR TREAT FOR 350 CHILDREN
    92 6 Party Given By K. L. Chinese Club (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. WELL over 350 little ones attended the children's party given by the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club on the occasion of the Chinese New Year. The party was held at
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    British Experiments For Street Lighting In Wartime Conditions
    161 6 British Experiments For Street Lighting In Wartime Conditions London. Saturday. COME experiments were conducted early yesterday in th< str^ ts of Eedford in an attempt to establish the minimum amount of ligh; that would be required under war conditions to enable essential traffic to pro- ceed with safety along the
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    32 6 A group which Includes the Chinese Swimming Club committee The two pictures above are of some of the children who v.ent to the Chinese Swimming Club party yes' .rday in fan:-y tiros:;.
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    'Air Arm' For French Police
    127 6 TO HELP COMBAT CRIME Paris, Feb. 2. •THE creation of a French police' "air arm" has just been anno unced. It is to consist of the latest and fastest types of aeroplane, j Both machines and pilots are to bej supplied by the French Air
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    BELL'S CIRCUS
    90 6 Bri.Ua!]« imitation^ of Malayan birds by the Sung Tai brothers, trick riding and a thrilling lion and tiger act arc Matures of Bell's Circus which hi giving shows nightly at the Great World This is WLly Harmston's old shew and many of the fine acts that he assembled
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    CHILDREN'S PARTY AT CHINESE SWIMMING CLUB
    270 6 CHILDREN'S PARTY AT CHINESE SWIMMING CLUB A PIRA^i:, a fJh-Tttsfl i,od. an Airr.y officer and Venus rubbed shoulders with one another In a bubbling crowd ol nearly 100 children with their parents at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club children's fete yesterday. Organised by the club for tha first time, the
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    LITVINOFF IN MOSCOW
    27 6 M. Utvlnoff. the Soviet Foreign Commissar, who had intended to take a cure in Czechoslovakia, changed his mind and returned to Moscow from Vienna.
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      340 6 You will prefer Smart men the world over Til IC KJ f\ .f\l I ki are following London's lead IHI3 U U IYI in using BRYLCREEM— the H D C C C I M Perfect Hair Dressing. And L/KCJJIPIVJ* no wonder! Brylcreem keeps the hair glossy and in position with*
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    CORONATION ISSUES King And Queen On Straits Stamps In May
    738 7  -  Fred. J. Melville Stamp Collecting By ONLY last week I referred to the official announcement by the Crown Agents for the Colonies of the abandonment of the Edward VIII issue of Colonial stamps In a King's head design. Those stamps,
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      232 7 THE STAMPS OF THE TREATY FORTS OF CHINA AND OF FORMOSA by Captain H. R. Oldl.eld. LL.B. A comoiete history of this little known grouD of stamps. Prlec 4/9 post free. The Philatelic Journal of Great Britain. The oldest British Philatelic magaBlne. now in its 48th annual volume. Monthly 4d-
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      104 7 GREAT BRITAIN. The handsome Cl black stamp cf the Postal Congress Issue of 1929 In very fine used condition. Price 17/6 only. Wanted for cash or Exchange used stamps of the Straits Settlements and Hone Kong In quantities. BEFI-PEMBERTON A CO.. LTD., 12. South Molton Street. London. W.I. ENGLAND. RARE
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      258 7 S LONDON CAMS INSISTENTLY and enjoy at either HOTEL RUBENS Buckingham Palace Road. facing Buckingham Pa.ace •r HOTEL /»^te* REMBRANDI *SB&^ Soutß Kensington. 8 w M§9&» racing the Victoria and i'T'lfi?! Albert Museum. Erery attention in pleasing surroundings miner quktudk THESE COMFORTABLE HOTELS WITH ACKNOWLEDGED RENOWNED CATERING have running hot
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      139 7 ~IONDON The World Centre of Attraction for 1937 Two outstanding Hotels that meet all modem requirements including Hot and Cold running water and Central Heating. HOTEL GREAT CENTRAL Marylobon* Road, N.W.I CoM > I Ctnitllan, London HOTEL RUSSELL Russell Square. W.C.I Adjacent to each Hotel is an Underground Station that
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      610 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE-ZHL. Wavelength— £>s metres, 1333 kc/s (or 1.33 mc/s). 11.30 a.m. to 1? noon A talk: The Hebrides. By Madame Scotia. Madame Scctla. the Bardess of the Gors^dd. will give a talk on the Hebrides, those magical western Isles oft the coast of Scotlaud She will lllustratt
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      556 7 Mary, and innonnoraiFnii I" 05 a.m. llreeiiM-irb time *l»nal. I*2o a.m.— Close down. TOMORROW TRANSMISSION 4. The t olio* ing frequencies will be used:— From 5 15 9 pm. GSI 15.26 Wc/s (19 M m GBD 11.75 Me/a (25.53 ml GSB 9 Ue/a (31.55 m.) 1*35 a.m.— Bl.- Ben. Fred
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      402 7 PHOHI-HOLLAND. Station r.HI. Wavelengths 19.71 ra It. BB m. or 31.28 n. 6- 50 pm. Special broadcast for China. Japan and Further India by the Roman Catholic Broadcasting Association: (Wavelength 16.88 m.>: Music, political talk by Paul de Waart; mission news; talk; Journal Phohl programme for the Netherlands Indies (wavelength
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      338 7 Victor Banders (baritone) and Lindsay A. Lafford at the Organ. 9 20 p.m. London Big I~n. Music by Light Orchestras. 9.50 p.m. Close down. TOMORROW 11.50 a.m. European programme. Maurice Winnick and his orchestra. 12.20 p.m. Time signal and weather report. 12 23 p.m. Songs by Malcolm McEachern (bass). 12
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      221 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT No competitor succeeded In solving correctly The Sunday Times Crossword Puxzle printed in our Issue of Jan. 31, and the $100 prize money is divided equally among the following three readers each of whom submitted entries containing "one error" only: Miss Sara Do Rosarlo. St. Anthony's Convent,
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    Epic Seven Months' Trek In Unexplored Papua
    657 8 «A FEAT of exploration rivalling the epic journey of Mr. Jack Hides in 1935 is the official opinion of the recently-concluded seven months' trek of Mr. Ivan Champion, Mr. C. T. Adamson, and a party of native police and carriers in the hinterland
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    DOCTOR REACHES ISLANDERS
    323 8 DOCTOR REACHES ISLANDERS 67 Out Of 70 With Influenza SHORTAGE OF FOOD SUPPLIES Fort William. r\R. Allan Macdonald, of Carbost, Skjf. has crossed to the Island of Soay. where all bat three of the 79 inhabitants have been suffering from influenza. Dr. Macdonald has medical charge of the island, but
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    AFRAID TO SLEEP
    166 8 Woman Fears Being Buried Alive Bolton. Doctors are puzzled at the symptoms described by a woman at Deane, near here, who lives in daily fear of being buried anve. After sleep, she says, she is often fully conscious, but unable to move. While "alive" to objects familiar
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    MARCUS SHOW COMEDIAN
    117 8 DIES BEFORE TROUPE LEAVES FOR EAST MR. Elmer Coudy. aged 50. who had been principal comedian with the Marcus Show for the past fourteen years, has died at Grand Rapids, Michigan. For the past year, Mr. Coudy had been confined in a sanatorium at Grant Rapids. Mr
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    Mainly About Malayans
    1549 9 By The Onlooker MR. ADRIAN CLARK, who has juot left Singapore to take up the appointment of Legal Adviser to the F.M.S. Government, is a great loss to the Bench of the Colony, where he has quicklywon for himself a reputation for sound and outspoken judgments. Educated
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    Patriotism In Monasteries Buddhists Advance Drastic Points
    207 10 Patriotism In Monasteries Buddhists Advance Drastic Points 'THE life of the Chinese monk and 1 nun will hereafter be marked by a patriotic tenor if the r oposals advanced by the Wusih br. >eh of the China Buddhist Association to arouse the patriotic feelings of their religious comrades are adopted
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    MORE PAY TO GET MORE WORK
    34 10 Nanking. HTHE Ministry of Interior has instructed the various Provincial Governments to increase the salaries of administrative officials in the District Governments so as to secure greater efficiency.
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    16 10 ]\)|R- Khoo Cluan Chuan and ITI Miss Lee Boon Liam. who were married at Seremban recently.
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    ZOOS BABY CHIMP DIES OF PNEUMONIA
    80 10 June, the second chimpanzee to be born in the London Zoo, has died. She was the daughter of Sally, one of the Zoo's favourite chimpanzees, and a half-sister of Jubilee, the first chimpanzee to be born in captivity in London.. June, who was born
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    DESTROYED BY FIRE
    34 10 The chateau of Sury, near St. Etlenne, which belonged to King Henry IV of France, and was exchanged by him for the palace of Fontainebleau, has been completely destroyed by fire.
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    HAT WITH NO HEAD UNDER IT FLIES ACROSS MALAYA
    251 10 HAT WITH NO HEAD UNDER IT FLIES ACROSS MALAYA Owner Trundling Luggage In America ROUND WORLD AERIAL JOY RIDE A HAT passed through Malaya the other day. No one's head was under it. The owner was trundling luggage on a United States railway station while the hat was on an
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    Szechuan Fleas Given No Quarter
    235 10 HTHE poor fleas in Szechuan just don't have a chance. For the wily natives have evolved a simple little device tchich deals death to all fleas that come into contact with it. The word "contact" here is to be taken in its literal sense. That
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    Mad Engine Driver Broke Records—And Train Disappeared
    377 10 Mad Engine Driver Broke Records And Train Disappeared New York. A PUZZLE which mystified the whole of America fifty years ago has now been solved by the discovery of an old locomotive and a skeleton at the bottom of the River Colorado. The engine bore the number thirteen, which even
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    FIVE MONTHS FOR JEW-BAITER
    78 10 /^EORGE Preuss an enthusiastic supporter of Herr Adolf Hitler's anti-Jewish policy saw three darkcomplexioned men walking together in a Berlin street and shouted in derision Dirty Jews." Later In the day he started a fivemonth prison term. He was convicted on a charge of insulting foreigners.
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    21 10 lynt. Chiew Boon Thiam, of the Seremban Sanitary Board, and Miss Gan Piak Giok who were married at Seremban last week.
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    BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION FOR SCHOOLS
    248 11 We have received the following instructional books Conies Pour in Jeunnesse. A Grammatical reader for middle forms. Edited by N. W. H. Scott. Macmillan and Co. 3s. Physics mechanics, properties of matter, light and beat. By G. T. P. •larra.it. M.A., Ph.D., F.Inst.PJ.M. Dei.t and
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    "THE MASK OF PROVIDENCE"
    172 11 The Mask ot Providence. By MM B. Nichols. Ward Lock. 7s. 6d. "THE Mask of Providence" is not only an excellent historical novel, with a fine story to tell, but It presents a wonderful picture of England during a troubled period of her history, the Civil
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    The Days Of "The Druid"
    439 11 England In The Era Of Horse And Hound Bits of Character." (A Life of Henry Hall Dixon, "The Druid.") By J. B. Booth. < Hutch inson 18s.) LJERE is a surprisingly entertain--1 ing book, in which Mr. Booth sets out, with monumental industry and impressive
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    Fuad—The First Modern King Of Egypt
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    MONUMENT TO KING AND STATESMAN
    37 12 About £10.000 has been collected to erect a monument at Marseilles in memory of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and M. Barthou. the French statesman, who were assassinated there on Oct. 9, 1934.
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    20 12 Surgeon-Major Duke Parkes, aged 90. late R.A.M.C. who had lived at Mentont* for many years, died there penniless and alone.
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    Chinese Specialist On Industrial Problems
    278 12 U/HY do labourers go on strike? How should wages be paid? Do workmen deserve harsh treatment? Ask Mr. Tan Peng Liat, B. Sc. (Engineering), G.M.I. Mech. E., A.M. Works Management Association, latest expert on industrial problems. Recently returned from England, Mr Tan Stands as the
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    SPREAD OF DISEASE BY AIR AGAIN WORRIES WORLD'S NATIONS
    974 12 SPREAD OF DISEASE BY AIR AGAIN WORRIES WORLD'S NATIONS Australia's One-Man Army Of Defence The Quarantine Doctor RIGID ROUTINE AT DARWIN AIRPORT THE spread of disease by mosquitoes brought into countries by aircraft is once again occupying the attention of world authorities. In Queensland especially stock experts are investigating the
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    Soldier Heroes Save Girl
    155 12 New Delhi. DKIVATES Hull and Hill, of the York and Lancaster Regiment, j have heroically saved the life of an Indian girl at Barababulli. The two. soldiers were' attracted by the screams of a crowd round the village wel' and were told that a girl of
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    AEROPLANE EXPORTS
    27 12 The Bueker Aeroplane Company, of Rangsdorf. pear Berlin, has exported over 50 "planes during the past year to European countries, Brazil, South Africa and Uruguay.
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    More Views on Singapore University
    261 12 More Views on Singapore University To the Editor of the Sunday Times I READ in last weeks Sunday Times a well-known local Malay's views on a university for Singapore with Interest but I differ from him. and 1 herewith give my humble points ot view 1 "A university would be
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    WHAMPOA HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT
    110 12 $7,000,000 Worth Of Bonds To Be Issued BONDS amounting to $7,000,000 will soon be issued by the Whampoa Harbour Commission to cover the initial expense for the construction of the Whampoa Harbour. A petition to this effect will be forwarded to the Ministry of Finance for approval.
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    ILL-TREATED WIVES STILL IN LOVE
    214 13 "Great Mystery" "U/OMEN who are badly treated by the men they love, but still go on loving them, constitute one of the world's greatest mysteries." Mr. Percy Macbeth, the Salford stipendiary magistrate, made this observation during a case in which Mrs. Bertha Danzig, of Melbourne
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1328 13  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By HAVE often wondered how curates live that is if they live at all and are not thin, blue-nosed ghosts wandering earthbound in a doe collar and a foolish hat Thanks to an article on household management by a curate's wife I am at
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      408 13 CONTRACT BRIDGE By THE FOUR ACES A LLOWING the opponents every opportunity to guess wrong or make a mistake is one of the strongest features of Merwin D. Maier's game. In today's hand a fine defensive play by Mr. Maier presented the declarer with an absolutely even guess; the declarer
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    Totidem Verbis
    544 14 Quotations— And A Query, JUST two quotations from Sir John Bagnall's speech at the Singapore Chamber of Commerce centenary celebration "In 1897 there came into existence tht Straits Homeward Conference. perhaps I had better say nothing on that contentious subject save that we still have the Conference!" ■The
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    CHARTING THE WORLD'S SKY-LINES
    1254 14 CHARTING THE WORLD'S SKY-LINES Weather Science On The Airways THE ocean of the air is being charted, for the benefit of airmen, just in the same way as the sea has been charted in the interests of marine nayi fc ation. To investigate tropical storms in their relation to flying,
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    Chimpanzee With A Sense Of Rhythm
    328 14 T^HE London Zoo has a tap-dancer. He is Jimmy, the large chimpanzee in the Monkey House who enjoys making a noise and finds the sliding iron door at the back of his cage an excellent instrument for this purpose, say the Zoo correspondent of
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    LESSONS FROM SINGAPORE MANOEUVRES
    768 15 Air Patrols Efficient: Aircraft-Carriers Vulnerable FORT CANNING TACTICIANS SIFT THE EVIDENCE fHE impregnability of Singapore fortress against direct sea attack, the efficacy of the air patrols and the vulnerability of invading aircraft-carriers appear to be the most important lessons of the recent grand combined manoeuvres in
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    "Australians Don't Know How To Give"
    77 15 AUSTRALIANS who have the 'meanness to put one penny each in the collection plate at Church" are criticised in the Australian Church Record. It states that Australian Anglican giving stands at 4d. a head a year (about half a Strains Settlements cent a fortnight).
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    Drug For Safer Births
    210 15 Drug For Safer Births IK NEW drug which has had remarkable results in reducing the death rate from puerperal fevrr the dreaded disease that sometimes follows childbirth, was referred to in the House of Commons by Sir Edward GrahamLittle, physician, and Independent member for the University of London. Speaking during
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    Caught By Avalanche
    24 15 A party of 23 Alpine soldiers was overwhelmed by an avalanche in the Macra Valley, Italy, and al' feared to dead.
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    KANGAROO SOUP FOR M. C. C. ? Suitable Dish After Final Test
    163 15 KANGAROO SOUP FOR M. C. C. Suitable Dish After Final Test WILL the M.C.C. players now in Australia have kangaroo-tail soup after the final cricket test match? That is the question London courmets-cum-crickcters are asking themselves. It would be? a nice touch for the Australian Eleven, if they lose the
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    SINGAPORE AND/OR SHANGHAI
    39 15 HPHIS cartoon by Sapajou in the North-China Daily News follows many columns of correspondence in that newspaper on the "Shanghai Mind," a local manifestation, apparently, of what is known in this country as the "Malayan Mentality."
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    TWO'S COMPANY!
    116 15 fiFFICERS of France's 72nd Artillery Regiment sat up and rubbed their eyes as Private Charles Bocquet marched into the barracks carrying his two-year-old twin daughters in his arms. Private Bocquet is a man of resource (writes the Daily Herald Paris correspondent). His wife is expecting another baby, and,
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    EMPIRE IRON ORE FOR JAPAN YET SHORTAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN
    99 15 EMPIRE IRON ORE FOR JAPAN YET SHORTAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN U7ITH a world shortage of steel threatening to throttle production in Great Britain's heavy industries, Malaya and Australia are sending practically all their iron ore to Japan. Last year Australia sent ore valued about £150,0«0 to Japan. And with Japanese
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    MIXTURE THAT MAKES A JUDGE
    447 15 Lord Hewart Tells How Wig Helps '"THE life of a judge no doubt appears easy to those who have escaped it. Yet a little reflection seems to show that a good many things are expected of him," said Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, at
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    Malaya Not Playing Polo In Manila
    187 15 Malaya Not Playing Polo In Manila "THE Malayan Pclo Association last year received a verbal invitation from an American passing through the country to send a team of players to Manila to take part in international contests. Owir<* to expense, however, and the difficulty of arranging holidays and leaves, the
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    "0.H.M.5." Public Exhibition
    312 15 "0.H.M.5." Public Exhibition FINE STIMULUS TO RECRUITING I*HE British film, "0.H.M.5.," which so realistically illustrates life in the Army, was seen by large audiences at the first public "shows" in London, writes the military correspondent of the Morning Post. Members of the Army Council praise the picture for its faithful
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    F. E. BRITTELL DEAD
    39 15 The death is announced of Mr. F. E. Brittell, who was the first secretarymanager of the 'Spurs when they embraced professionalism in 1888 and became a limited company. Later he was manager of Plymouth Argyle.
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    NETHERLANDS INDIAN ARMY NEAR 50,000 MARK
    215 16 "Great Enthusiasm For Military Training" DEFENCE OF OIL PORTS (From Oar Own Correspondent.) Batavia. IN an interview in Amsterdam with correspondent of the Bataviaas' h, Nieuwsblad, General Boerstra, Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Indian Army, who is on a fl/ing visit to Holland, stated that
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    WORLD'S LARGEST TEA AUCTION
    72 16 TPHE Lord Mayor of London opened on Jan. 29 the world's largest tea auction room at Plantation House Fenchurch Street, London, and he marked the occasion by conducting In person a public auction of 200 lb. of rare tea. After the auction the Lord Mayor poured
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    2 PEOPLE TO A SQUARE MILE 12,000 TO A SQUARE MILE
    95 16 2 PEOPLE TO A SQUARE MILE 12,000 TO A SQUARE MILE Australia London AUSTRALIA, with a population of 6,789,139, has an area of 3,000,000 square miles. Greater London, with a population of 8,250,000, has an area of 693 square miles. These figures illustrate an Empire contrast. The Australian total of
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    This Year's Ford V-8 Trucks
    437 16 A MAJOR change in front end appearance with horizontal radiator grille bars,— bonnet louvres and radiator shell of new design, along with a number of mechanical improvements, mark the introduction of the 1937 Ford V-8 Trucks. Chief among the mechanical improvements, is the use of
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    Runaway Cage Of Lions
    128 16 Brisbane. U7HILE crossing the Albert River, about six miles from Beaudesert, on the way to Canungra, a trailer carrying a cage in which were several lions belonging to a circus became detached from the lorry and ran back down a steep cutting and turned over on
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    MORE MENTAL CASES IN LONDON
    207 18 MORE MENTAL CASES IN LONDON RECORD TOTAL IN 1935 TTHE number of mental patients under the care of public authorities in London increased from 15,670 at the beginning of 1890 to 34,020 on Jan. 1, 193G, according to the report for 1935, issued by the London County OoVKti on mental
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    "LIFER'S" WIFE CAN REMARRY
    93 18 New York. A MAN serving- a life sentence Is "legally dead" in New York State, and his wife Is free to marry again without a divorce. So the Supreme Court has ruled and sent Mrs. Gertrude Brockman, whose husband Is a lifer." to her betrothed. This
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    GARRISONS CUT TO THE BONE
    368 18 "Madness Further To Reduce Them GEN. SIR WALTER KIRKE ON RECRUIT SHORTAGE pEX. Sir Walter Kirlce, Director- General of the Territorial Army, stated at Oxford that it would be madness to let overseas garrisons whose strength had been cut to the bone fall below the
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    She Used A Shell As Bed-warmer
    150 18 PiR years Mrs. M. Jones, aged 73, of Newhall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, has used a 16--pounder shell as a bed warmer. A war relic, it had brought her nightly warmth since she acquired It after the Armistice. Although it was complete to look at. the
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    "SO HEAVY HE COULD NOT BREATHE"
    103 18 32-Stone Man's Death LJERBERT SAVAGE, aged 24, of Lower Higham. Kent, who was said to be Kent's fattest man, and who died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, following a fall, was stated at the inquest to have weighed 32 stone, and was six feet
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    44 18 At Butcher's Cross, Five Ashes, near Mayfleld, Sussex. Mrs. Florence Farnee. of Read Pond Walk, Gldea Park. Essex, nirther of Mr Kenneth Fames the Essex cricketer, was killed in a motor accident. The car In which stie was travelling struck the kerb and overturned.
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    THE SNAPSHOT GUILD
    28 18 Seems to be moonlight, but it's sulight. A snapshot with a small lens opening, preferably when the sun is low, will get pictures like this.
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      360 18 What Do You Know? Do you know that— pleasing, particularly If a portion of Slight overexposure la always pre the building is in shaaow? ferable to underexposure? If, when making portraits, a hand, A small stop opening must be arm cr leg of the subJect is "tended used when both
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    592 19 ANOTHER DIP INTO THE POSTBAG Manila, Philippine, Republic. Dear Mr. Factor: I have always wanted to be a blonde and was on the verge of having my hair bleached. However, I am a little doubtful as to whether or not it wiU be becoming. I have medium
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    LOVELY COMBINATIONS
    65 19 METAL fabrics can be stiff and formal, or be backed with fine tulle and lacy substance. The prettiest derm-toilette ensembles are of fine laces, both dull and shining. Black Chantllly, slightly trained over white taffeta, has an early twentieth century air, an effect which Is assisted by hanging
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    Tray Of Mixed Drinks
    374 19 |)RINKS of all kinds— long and short, soft and not-so-soft, are much in demand just now. Here are the methods of making some which may be new to you, but I leave you to judge, either by intuition or experience in which category the various concoctions
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    Tiny, Cosy Cushions Are Now In Fashion
    551 20 Tiny, Cosy Cushions Are Now In Fashion DIG cushions may be attractive and imposing, but they are not always so comfortable as many little cushions on the divan, or armchair. The small size, called an elbow cushion, rests one's head, or forms a cosy wedge at one's back. Crushed velvets
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    Vogue For The Big Chiffon Handkerchief rothing Novel
    144 20 Vogue For The Big Chiffon Handkerchief rothing Novel TTHERE is nothing novel in the vogue for a big, chiffon handkerchief with an evening frock, but the handkerchief mode still persists since women like to finger the soft chiffon. The consider their hands more expressive that way. So the large chiffon
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    GINGERED APPLES
    97 20 WHEN a jar of preserved ginger U almost empty the syrup and the few remaining pieces of ginger mnbe used up satisfactorily in the following way: Peel and core a few apples and bake them whole in a fireproof dish. When they are done lift them out carefully
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    GINGERBREAD
    161 20 A NICE gingerbread, which keeps well, is made as follows'— Put four ounces of butter into a saucepan and let it melt without boiling. Add a teacupful of treacle (or half treacle and half golden syrup) £nd stir together over a low heat until well mixed. Sift together nine
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    CHEESE CREAMS
    60 20 WELT 2oz. of butter ever a low w gas, stir in a teaspoonful of flour, and when well mixed add slowly 2 eggs beaten in 2 tablespoon nils of cream. Cook slightly, ihen add 2oz. grated Cheddar cheese, stirring all the time. Mix in a few grains of
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    KIDNEY SAVOURY
    43 20 UAVE ready a cooked veal kidney and half a small cooked onion. Pound together with salt, pepper and a little chopped parsley. Heat, stir In a beaten egg, put into the ramekins and decorate with a small piece of stuffed olive.
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    South African Dishes Which Originated In The East Indies
    665 21 VL7HEN the Dutch colonised the Cape of Good Hope as a halfway station on their sea route to the East Indies, the returning ships brought many Malays to act as servants to the pioneers. These people introduced Eastern spices and flavourings
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    CAREERS FOR GIRLS IN MALAYA III Dental Surgery
    1143 21 CAREERS FOR GIRLS IN MALAYA III Dental Surgery Continuing The Series Written Especially For The Sunday Times HENTAL surgery is a pro- fession for which there is great scope in Malaya. Here, teeth are, on the average, bad rather than good. Various explanations of this have been adduced. The popular
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    MARSHMALLOW SOUFFLES
    121 21 Separate the yolk from the wi ite of one egg and beat up the yolk. Heat one gill of milk in the top of a double boiler, add the beaten yolk and cook till the custard thickens, stirring all the time Then pour it Into a basin and
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    WOOL AND FUR
    155 21 Woo. and fur are cmbjjeo to provide some of the mom striking costumes for winter day* in town, on the campus and evtn in the country The luxurious ones of course, star silver fox, sable and mink and are destined co bo worn only by the chosen
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      44 21 When Baby starts showing off his tricks jv^j^Sfc^fTfrtPEg^V "Lecto&en" babies are invariably full of BK!^~>sB ILlivll fun because they are invariably lit and &et vrfm~ plenty of energy from their food. So wise 11 /n^Tßlfi) W mothers feed their babies on ll^AjiHa IACTOCEN >^g|P
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    21 22 A group of members of the Amateur Athletic Union photographed during the sixth anniversary celebration at Mr. Aw Boon Haw's bungalow.
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    172 22 Group photograph of the committee ■embers of the newly -formed Moar Diftrir£ lUdminton Association taken prior U the departure of the President, II H Tengkn Temmengocg Ahmad, on transfer U Jobore Bahnj Seaied (left to right) Inche Ooyab bin Manas Independent delegate), Inehe BMIn bin Login (hon lihisiii) Inche Majkd
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    CHINESE NEW YEAR LAWN TENNIS
    718 22 Comolete Results Of Games Played DESULTS In the Singapore Crick.-; Club's Chinese New Year lawn tennis tournament are as follows: HANDICAP MSN'S SINGLES First Bound: Lt. Pearse (scr.) beat R. Johnson (plus 15), 3 6, 6—3, 6 3. J. V. B. Brooke (scr.) beat R.
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    England's Narrow Rugby Win Over Ireland
    525 22 London, Saturday, i AT Twickenham today 00,000 people saw England beat Ireland in a, Rugby Union international game by Dine points to eight. The weather was dull and the ground soft after yesterday's rain. The teams were:— ENGLAND: Owen Smith; Butler, Cran.ncr. Candler, Sever;
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    SAILORS' HOCKEY VICTORY
    186 22 DEFEAT MALACCA CLUB BY 3—2 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Malacca. Saturday. Playing on the Padang the sailors from the H.M.S. Perseus and H.MS Delight again proved worthy sportsmen when they beat the Club by three goals to two at hockey this evening. It was a fast and
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    SCOTTISH CUP
    72 22 Second Round Ties Albion R 2 CMtlc 51 Partlck Th. 4 Arbroath 1 Cowdenbeath 9 Solway Star 1 Falklrk 0 Motherw?!l 3 Duns 2 Dumbarton 1 Queen of South 2 Airdrle 0 Dundee 2 Queen's Park 0 Hamilton 2 Hibernians 1 Clyde 3 St. Johnstone 1 St. Mirren
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    SCOTTISH LEAGUE (Div. II)
    116 22 Ayr 5 St. Bernards 2 Edinburgh 1 Stenhousemulr 3 Morton 5 Ralth 1 BIG SOCCER GAMES At Selhurst Park on Saturday In the Army triangular soccer tournament the British lost to the French o—6. At Belfast In an amateur Inter national soccer game Ireland beat England
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    Home Football
    976 22 DESULTS of games played in the leagues yesterday are, say» Reuter: DIVISION I Charlton 1 Manchester C. 1 Chelsea 0 Preston 0 Derby 3 Bolton 0 Grimsby 2 West Bromwich 3 Leeds 0 Birmingham 2 Liverpool 0 Middlesbro 2 Manchester U. 1 Brentford 3 Sheffield Wed. 0 Arsenal
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    SEGAMAT HOCKEY SEASON NEARING CLOSE
    600 24 Europeans To Meet Malays In Final INDO-CEYLONESE MAY PLAY IN SPECIAL FIXTURE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Segamat. progress has been made in the Segamat and District Hockey League for the Wills Trophy and only one match remains to be played. Since the season is fast
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    SEGAMAT TENNIS FINAL
    547 24 SEGAMAT TENNIS FINAL EX-CHAMPION IN POOR FORM (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. A CCURATE placing and hard hit- ting coupled with mishits by his opponent at critical moments earned Khor Beng Hoe the Cheah's Cup for good in the finals of the Segamat teachers' lawn tennis tournament (1936) played on
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    MALAYAN JINGLES
    149 24 91 SOCCER AGAIN Soccer is here —Play up Play up And always play the game," In manly quest of majestic thrills No other sport can claim, Keep it on the island Don't slam it in the sea! Shoot* you fool Don't fiddle I" comes The frantic follower's plea.
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    NINE HOLES WITH ONE CLUB
    323 24 Novel Competition At Kulim G. C. IN order to ensure a good attendance at the annual general meeting of the Kuim Club, a one club golf competition was held last Wednesday for a prize presented by Mr. G. S. Rels of Batu Kawan Estate The
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    S. R. C. AVENGE HOCKEY DEFEAT
    183 24 BY THE R. A. F. (From A Correspondent). Seletar on Friday the S.R.C avenged their recent hockey defeat by the R.A.F. by winning by three goals to one after an excellent game. The S.R.C. were without Sullivan, D. Ross coming into the team on
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    S.G.C. WOMEN'S FOURSOMES
    27 24 In the final of the Singapore Golf Club women's foursomes Mrs. Bloomfield and Miss Lucas beat Lady Bagnall and Mrs. Wise 4 and 3.
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    All-Malayan Cricket Eleven MORE NAMES FOR THE SELECTORS
    448 24 All-Malayan Cricket Eleven MORE NAMES FOR THE SELECTORS To the Editor of the Sunday Times IM AY I answer ycur Seremban correspondent on nis sports notes with regara to the Malayan XI against Sir Julien Cahn's cilrVetr. Your jorr?spondent does not appear to hay? looked very far for his side
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    JOHORE STATE CRICKET TEAM
    311 24 JOHORE STATE CRICKET TEAM J. C. C. Takes The Lead REFERENDUM OF ALL CLUBS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. TPHE prospects of Johcr<s fielding a 1 State side in Cricket are brighter than ever. What was sadly lacking was a club to take the initiative, and now the Johore
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    SAILORS WIN SOCCER GAME AT MALACCA
    137 24 EASY VICTORY OVER THE £T. FRANCIS ASSN. (From Our Own Correspondent). Malacca, Saturday. A SOCCER team from the H.MS. Perseus and H.MJS. Delight beat the St. Francis Association by six goals to nil on the Club Padang. The sailors gave a good display, being
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    KEPPEL G.C.
    109 24 The following are ths results of the Keppel Golf Club Chinese new year competitions: Stapleford System: Fifteen cards were taken out and the following returned: J. M. Harper 36 points, F. P. Bradley 32, G. McGuffln 31 2 F. W Peachcy 30, B. la Cloche 27. Mixed Flag:
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    'Keeper Saves From Goalmouth Melee
    34 24 avajc, the Leeds goalkeeper, save? from a melee in the goalmouth, in the rup-tic football came ajainst Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, won by Chelsea by four foals to nil.
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    All-Malaya Malays Lawn Tennis Tournament
    360 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpr.r, Saturday. pEATURES of today's play of the second All-Malaya Malays lawn tennis tournament were the notable success of th Johore and Singapore players who reached the semi- finals of the men's open singles and doubles events of the competition.
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    OLYMPIC AT TOKIO
    95 24 SHANGHAI JAPANESE SAVING FOR TOUR LOOKING forward to 1840 when they will visit Tokio to attend the Twelfth Olympic Games, almost 100 Shanghai Japanese residents have begun saving S3 50 a month, which will enable them to defray travelling and I expenses in the Japanese capital. The
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    TWO GOOD PARTNERSHIPS PULL GAME ROUND
    651 25 Selangor Indians* Cricket Game With Singapore Indians TWO good partnerships enabled the Singapore Indian Association to place themselves in a comfortable position in their annual cricket encounter with the Selangor Indian Association on Balestier Plain yesterday, for the cup presented by The Indian." AT
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    40 25 L. to R Miss Walker Taylor, and N S. Wise beat Mr. and Mrs. J.V.S. Brooke 1, 6 3, yesterday in the open mixed doubles of the Chinese New Year lawn tennis tournament on tne Singapore padang. Sunday Times Photograph
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    YACHT CLUBS TIE ON POINTS
    401 25 Port Dickson Win Last Race MRS. CROZIER DOES WELL UOPES that the lead they had established on Friday would help them to victory in the series of interport sailing races against the Port Dickson Yacht Club were dashed for the Royal Singapore Yacht Club yesterday
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    CYCLING CARNIVAL GREAT SUCCESS
    256 25 Full Results. GOOD sport was provided at Jalsn Besar Stadium yesterday at the Cycling Carnival organised by Mr. G. Mahmood of the International Cycle Agency. There was Keen competition in all events, and great skill was display-?'! by many competitors in negotiating a bad patch at
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    WOMEN'S HOCKEY IN KUALA LUMPUR
    71 25 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Saturday. The Ipoh Y.W.C.A. gained the championship in the triangular hockey tournament today when they beat the Kuala Lumpur Association by the only goal scored. Miss J. Laßrooy netted the goal in the second half. The Swallows gained an
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    GAME NOT PLAYED
    20 25 The hockey match be b ween tho Inmskillings and the Ceylon Sports Club was not played yesterday.
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    SEMI-STATE SIDE BEATEN BY MALAYAN COLTS
    421 25 SEMI-STATE SIDE BEATEN BY MALAYAN COLTS AT HOCKEY Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. DRILLIANT combination and solid D defence v/ere the features of the All-Malayan Colts side which met and defeated Mr. Jumeaux's eleven a side consisting mostly of State players by the wide margin of 5-3 on the V.M.C.A. ground today.
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    N.S. W. ALL OUT FOR 231
    191 25 M. C. C. Bowlers Strike Form Sydney, Saturday. MEW South Wales were dismissed for 231 by the M.C.C. in the four day match which began at Sydney today and at close of play the tourists had scored 24 for the loss of two wickets.
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    19 25 Chew Chonc Tin?, winner of the eight miles open cycling championship at Jalan Bcsar on Saturday. Sunday Times Photograph
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    LOCAL INDIANS' VICTORY
    408 25 Selangor Beaten 2-0 At Hockey WITH the result of their cricket match in the balance, the hockey Eame between the Singapore Indians and their Selangor compatriots provec to be a keen struggle in which the local side eme-sed victors by two sals < als to nil. P»ay
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    18 25 Start of the three miles newcomers (open) cycling final at Jal.ui Bcsar Stadium on Saturday. —Sunday Times Photograph.
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    Chinese R. C. Trounced
    266 25 Raffles Win By Six Wickets THE SCRC. were trounced at crkkot by the Raffles Institution yesterday on Hong Lim Green Th? Chinese elected to but but wore only able to put together 93 against the school bowling. Watts capturin? five tor 28. The school passed their
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    SELANGOR CLUB TENNIS
    254 25 SELANGOR CLUB TENNIS From Our Own Correspondent* Kuala Lumpur Saturday. Following are the results of today's matches in the Seiangor Club Chinese New Yv'ar lawn tennis; tournament. WOMEN'S HANDICAP DOUBLES Mrs. Stocks and Miss Sauair 3) beat Mrs. McGregor and Miss Luckham (+3) 6—l, 7—5. Miss Cunnyngham-B-vwn a..U Miss Gray
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    SUCCESS OF COMMERCIAL INTER-TEAM GAMES
    1000 26 May Become More Popular Than The Inter -Party Tournament High Standard In Women's Singles Final When Will State Game With Selangor Be Played? BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT •THE baUminlon season in Singapore can really be said to have been brought to a close last week
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    28 26 The Raffles College and Medical Collect badminton teams >>ic>-. met in the inter-collere contest at the Victoria Bridge school courts. Raffles won by four ram es to two.
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    SWALLOWS LOSE TO IPOH GIRLS
    214 26 Lively Play In Match At Pudu Road (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Feb. 11. The Ipoh Y.W.C.A. gained a 3—l victory over the Kuala Lumpur Swallows on the Pudu Road ground today. Play was fast and thrilling. Pcrak opened accounts midway in the first
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    NEGRI MEDICALS
    200 26 Seremban. A LARGE number of entries have been received for the Negr! Sembi.an Medical Department Club badminton tournament, which begins next week on the knock-out system. The entries are: Men's Singles: Chelliah, Thllllampalam, H&mn bin Abdul Glianl. Lee Kee Siong, K Vettivelu. Neo Kong Kow. Dr. S. Rama
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    WEI YANG A.P.
    158 26 i lie Wei Yang Athletic Party's Ping Pong championship began on Friday at the club-house in Robinson Road. First Round: Chan Chue Yuan vs. Llm Seong Lin. winner plays Ng Hock Khoon; Tan Yeou Yoo vs. Tan Seng Kan, winner plays Cheo Boon Kuan; Yeo Cheng Koo
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    Popular Segamat Officer On Transfer
    391 26 Started Hockey League (From Our Own Correspondent) Segamat. AN the eve of his departure on v transfer to Kelantan, Mr. D. Wills, Assistant Adviser, Segamat, was entertained to a farewell dinner by the staff of the Government Offices at the English School Hall, on Thursday.
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    PRISON TWILIGHT B.P.
    105 26 A friendly badminton game of two singles and three doubles was played between Llm Song B.P and Prison Twilight B.P. on the latter's court. Results (P-lson Twilight first): Singles. Che Din bin Junid defeated Ah Choong 13—13 C>— s); 15-12. IS -12: Che Hussaln lost to Sye
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    BOMBAY'S BIG PACE
    112 26 Bombay, Jan. 30. The Maharaja of Indar s Australianbred Heritage 11., ridden by T. Burns, won the Eclipse Stakes here today. The Nawabzada Yemin-ul-Mulk's Ma« D'Antibes was second, and Mr. Edward Esmond's Rosecrag third. The winner received 50.000 rupees (approximate^ €3.750) and a gold cup valued £250
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    WHY WORRY B.P
    46 26 The following will represent tMe Why Worry B.P. against the Etona B.P. today on the home court, Lorong 32. Geylang. at 3.30 p.m.: Syed Sallim, Mohamed JafTar. Abdul Rahman. Madon and Mohamed YusofT; doubles: Syed Sallim and Midon. Ahmad Marican and Mohamed Sinin.
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    MUAR DISTRICT BADMINTON
    175 26 ASSOCIATION NOW ON FIRM GROUND (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. I%UE to the work of Mr. Tar. Enj who takes a keen interest in badminton, the Muar District Badmlr.ton Association is at last on lirm ground. With the formation of a district association, inter-party and inter-dis-trict
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    ST. MARY'S ENGLISH SCHOOL
    88 26 St. Mary's English School. Malacca, office-bearers for the year: Literary Association: President, Mr. T. C. Josepn (headmaster): vice-president. Mr. George Mathew: secretary. Maniprav Devadason: treasurer. Chee Kuan. Song; cemmittee: V. Krishna Pillai. Lew Peng Hoe and M. M. Sundaram. Sports: President. Mr. r. C. Joseph; spcrtsmaster.
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    NATIONAL B.P
    96 26 Over thirty persons including several guests attended a dinner at the Wing Choon Yuen restaurant. Great World being the third anniversary dinner of the National BP. The following are office-bearers for 1937. President, Mr Two Ah Mai (reelected): vlce-prtsidents. Messrs. P. S. Nalr < re-elected > and Henry
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    22 26 Group phcUrraph of members of the Merry Youngsters Badminton Party, taken at the first anniversary celebration at Mr. Aw Boon Haw's bungalow.
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    BUSINESS HOUSES SOCCER GOES AHEAD
    599 27  -  "Echo Pleasant Change Froir The Commercial Cup Conditions Cricket Now Under Way— Plenty Of Good Boxing By THE SAF.A. can already feel that they made a very successful change when they substituted the Business Houses League for the Commercial Cup competition with conditions ensuring that
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    DISAPPOINTMENT FOR SEGAMAT
    104 27 Selangor Cricketers Cancel Match 'From Our Own Correspon Jent.^ Segamat. The match between the Selangor Sikh Union Ut was not the Indian Association who were coming as stated last week) and the Segamat Cricket Club, fixed for the Chinese New Year holidays, had to b" cancelled due
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    29 27 A photcrraph of the staff of the Pahang East health department taken on the occasion of the transfer of Dr. W. B. Wolfe from Pahanr to AJor Star. Kedah.
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    Sports Notes From Negri
    604 27 The F. M. S. Hockey Team General Satisfaction At Mustapha's Selection Why Was Martin Left Out?— Negri Motorist's Success Award Of Silver Cup —Visit Of Ceylonese Cricketers To Malaya By Our Seremban Correspondent "THERE is general satisfaction in Negri Sembilan over the choice of Mustapha bin
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    CEYLONESE BEAT WEAK PERAK TEAM
    143 27 CEYLONESE BEAT WEAK PERAK TEAM MAYO TOPSCORES WITH 85 (From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh. •THE first match of the Kinta cricket season was played during the Chinese New Year holidays and provided interesting cricket. A team representing the Ceylonese skippered by Saravanamuthu defeated a veak Perak team by five wicket*.
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    No "Fancy" Name For Civil Aerodrome
    337 28 JUST "SINGAPORE AIRPORT" MO "fancy" name is to be given the new civil aerodrome at Kallang, destined to become one of the greatest air junctions of the Far East. It will be known simply as the Singapore Airport, The Sunday Times understands. There should
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    177 28 Luxury Flat On Wheels •r A VERITABLE palace on wheels has now been completed at Gloucester for the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, designed by Herr Muthesius who was responsible for the Maharajah's Palace which is stated to be the most modern in India. The new railway
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