The Straits Times, 19 April 1939

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    38 1 The Straits Times [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY.] THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA t P.UiES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1939 PRICE I CKNTS. The Straits Times 24 PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1939 PRICE 5 CENTS.
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      145 1 Z.nCAPORE: 140, CECIL ST 'PHONE 6471). PINAI FHTM kuala luvpur: 25. java st. 'WML C,U I W. 'PHONE 3683). for Up-to-date TAILORING... MIEN CHONG Vc v arc assured m real satisfaction. *iA Colani.Ki St. Singapore. Phone 4816 -x^* m '*f/ /m I /,^7 0,/match'box MADE IN ENGLAND Don't write your
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      21 1 Madame Page, DRESSMAKER and DESIGNER Taiiormade Gownt for all occasion! in Stock from $5 $30 13, Battery Road. Singapore. Tei. 6327.
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  • The Straits Times DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENT
      41 2 The family of the late Mr. Wee Cheow King 1 I TSpn Ihdr heartf.lt. thanks to a! n ends and relatives who so kindly atu-uti-ed the fumral and thow who «ent scroll wreaths, telegram, and letters of coiutaUM papwaplcMß copj
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      649 2 SHUTER.— On Apr. 16, 1939, to Mr. «nd Mr*. W. P S. Shutcr, a son. The rnnarcmont is announced between Mr A E Tliowless, elder son nf Mr. and Mrs. a! Thowlcss of Essex, and Miss P«t^ 1 Nixon, younger ciauvhter of Mr. and Mrs H. E. Nixon, Pcnang. lh.
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      658 2 FOR SALb. RACHEL'S PIANO, in very Rood condition $250. A Bargain G.E.C. 4tt cubic ft. Refrigerator. Perfect running orcicr. $100. Box 182. SUaits Times. FOR SALE Philco Table model. 11 valve Radio recently overhauled f«0. 1 Indian carpet In good condition *10. R ply Box No. I 199, Straits Times.
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      592 2 LOST tOST black end white terrier. Cluny Road district on April 17 Reward. Tinder please communicate with Box 197, Straits Times. Q BOARD RESIDENCE d WHITEHALL. 32. Calrnhlll Rd. vacancy Double or Single English M.S. T.I. 4747. PALM BEACH, 740, East Coast Road, b l A Milestone Road to Volunteer
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      791 2 AUCTION NOTICE AUCTION SALE of high grade modern d-sign polished teak sitting, dining and bedroom furniture of every description, crockery, glassware and silverware etc., etc. To be held at the saleroom of Messrs. Cheong Koin Seng it Co. Ltd., Nos. 8 and 10, Chulia Street on Saturday 22nd. April 1939
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      508 2 TENDERS P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be receiv. d at the office ot j the State Engineer. Per«k. Talping up to noon o! May 3. 1939 for the construction of Clerks quarters as under: 8 Class VI quarters. 16 Class VIII quarter*. 8 Class IX quarters. 44 Class
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      172 2 BUSINESS CARDS Etc MASSAGE HALL MANICURE AND MASSAGE Mrs. HARU and Miss HANA 60. WATERLOO STREET. Telephone 7467. EDUCATIONAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL and holidjy IOME in south-west Eiißland; write Box 13f. Straits Times. LATIN TI'ITION by a Graduate of the University of London. Apply to A. Francis. 100, Selfgle Road (2nd
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      687 3 SHIPPING ANNOUNCEMENTS P. 0. BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Incorporated In England) PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S.N. Co. MAIL PASSENGER AND CARGO SERVICE* OUTWARD FROM LONDON FOR CHUU AND JAPAN Xonnage Due Spore RAJPUTANA 17,000 Apr. 2] RANCHI 17,000 May BHUTAN 6.100 May BEHAR 6,000 May 1! RANPURA 17.009 May 1!
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      526 3 i nyjj^j|M|i|j (Incorporated in Japan) GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS 3 FOR CUNARD WHITE STAR LTD. TO_LONDON L Penang, Colombo, Aden. Suez, Port Said 3 Naples, Marseille*. Gibraltar. London, 3 Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg. 5 Vessels Tonnage Dv Sail HAKOZAKI MARU 10,400 Apr. 28 29 2 SUWA MARU 10.700 May 11 18
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      655 3 LUXURY with ECONOMY ONE-CLASS MOTORSHIPS. CABINS WITH PRIVATE BATH. EXCELLENT CUISINE. MODERATE FARES To: MARSEILLES, LONDON, ROTTEK. To: PALESTINE ROTTFRDAM RAM DAM, HAMBURG AND COPENHAGEN WMIND COPENHAGEN R^fiV.r» a MALAYA abt. Apr. 26 SELANDIA May 23 KINA May 2& FP^SS^ June i 3 JAVA May 30 LALANDIA July 4 DANMARK
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      533 3 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Ocean Building, Collyer Quay, Singapore 5151. Chartered Bank Building, Penang jeL 1.154. BLUE FUNNEL LINE. FAST SERVICES MARSEILLES, LONDON, N. CONTINENT AND GLASGOW (la conjunction with the Glen Line) AJAX Mars, Casa. L'don. R'dam. Ham, 6c Ogow Apr"23 Apr 2« GLENAFFARIC L'don. Rdam, Ham. Ant. Mlddl. Apr.
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    Wall Street Quotations
    435 4 New York, Apr. 18. rE following quotations were those ruling when the Stock Exchange closed today DOW-JONES AVERAGES Yesterday's Today's dose Ctae LD»fif*> JO Industrials W»J* oS IJI ->0 Rails bM 38 15 Utilities »1» 21M I 40 Bonds 87.87 W.T7 oB .10 New York Stock Exchange—business
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    BROKERS' COMMENT
    143 4 OWAN. CULBERTSON AND FRITZ report on yesterday's New York triarket* Amid quiet trading the market extended yesterday's decline with loues ranging up to threo points or more among the higher priced Issues. Because of the foreign unsettlement there was no demand and any selling caused a decline. Unfavourable
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  • SHIPPING & MAILS
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      SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE
      207 4 T«Uy Kcrtch <Prach»tipnki pjn. Japan (Manila Mam) P" 3 Jfedan (Merak) 3 p.m. Fonriana* Knom Ho«> 8 o« Ftulippine Island (Manila Maru) 4 pa. TIMIIIH Aden (Corfu) J 3outh Africa (Boissevain) W»East ft South Australia (Nleuw Zeeland) 2J»P Burma (Khandalia) I ij» Canada except West f Corfu)
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      FROM MALACCA
      163 4 Correspondence for transmission by i air via "Netherlands'* must be fullj prepaid and clearly superscribed' -By RLM." Mails will close from Malacca ai foUows Toaay. China, Japan, tzst Siberia. Philippines ft Western United States of America Talma > P-m. Hong Konf (TalnisO E pra. Tctnotrow. Inn Am^ord.irr. ft
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      THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD
      164 4 The foilcnti&ff >hlps are «'""e't<<» the Singapore Harbour Board wharre* or ex- pected to arrive: East Wharf. Umn Gate 1; Exit 1:— Wyvern 22. Mate Mkart. EMrwr Gate 2: Exit J:— Corfa II: Allpore 16: Djambi 14: Bolssc- vain 11; Kllas 10; Manila Maru 7. t.-n-irr
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      WORLD CHARTERING MARKET
      116 4 IjUORTH AMERICAN TRADING COR- PORATION has received a cable from Its New York principals which says:— "Hirer Plate continues active, six vessels fixed today to OX May June loading. Madras Coast paid 275. fld for linseed to U.K. loading May 15 to May 31. "There Is no
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      RELATIONS BETWEEN SPANISH AND FRENCH MOROCCO
      34 4 Rabat, Apr 18. A mission of high Spanish officials I has arrived here from Spanish Morocco to discuss with French authorities relations between Spanish and French Morocco.— Reuter.
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      Air Mail Arrivals And Departures
      267 4 rsvucn Wearnes Fros* n—m Ip«h and Kuala. Lumpur. Arrives envy evening. K.I..M.: lr« .HetBcrlsaas Indir*: Arrive mi «f trw Ewsm Arrives tMCrow IMfe| Imperial Fr« Earape Dm Uaorr** alters Hutu 1'rssB Auntrarra Arrive* FridaT K.X.LL*: rram Netacrlaasa todies: Arrite* Tuesday aftcritau. K.X.I.L.M.: Fraa> Safeon: Arrives
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      SURFACE MAILS EXPECTED
      73 4 Malls from China and Japan expected today. Apr. It. by Corfu. Mails from Sontta America. South and East Africa expected today. Apr. 19, by Manila Harm. Mails from Europe (London parrel mails) expected tomorrow. Apr. 20. by Aeneas delivery uncertain Marts from Europe (London malls) r expected
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      867 4 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. (Incorporated in P.M.S.i TELEPHONE: Firitbl &4U Passat* M3l. CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS. LIMITED. (Incorporated in England) FARES SINGAPORE/EUROPE First and Cabin class from £105.17.9 Tourist class from £75.8.8. AROI'M) THE WORLD FARES B* C.P.R /P. O. First and Cabin Class Tourist Class From AMBT4U From £126.12.7. Dirrct connection
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      323 4 FOOD PROBLEM WITH GASTRITIS JV>ryears, doctors wanted to find a foekl that would not irritate the inflamed Stomach walla of patients suffering irorrt gastritis and that at the same timer would rebuild the patient's strength.. Jn severe cases ot gastritis solid foods are out of the question, even liquid foods
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      143 4 MALAYAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE Diifv Weather Report Stations Yesterday Last night max. rain- bright mir temp, fall s'shine temp "P inches hrs *F West Coast. Alor Star 80 0.31 Ml 72 Bayan Lepas (Penang) 82 0 04 5.5 73 Sitiawan 88 Nil 3.4 71 Buklt Jeram 90 Nil CJ 73 Malacca
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      540 4 TIDE TABLE uv.troii Today R. W. 10.37 a m. 8 I ft.; 19 40 p m. IS ft L. W. 4.30 a.m. 1.5 ft 4.37 p.m. 3 tt. Tomorrow Jt. W. 11.15 a.m. l.4f; 11.10 p.m. 6 (t. L. W. 4 55 a.m. 1 ft.; 5 08 p.m. 2.1 ft.
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    84 5 MUMM li:<,'h laces ls.B.L.'s television cameras alter making a flight which viewers watched in an autogyro. Miss Bllgh's duties as a television announcer have brought her many exciting experiences. She has been "rescued" in a flre-flehting display: has acted the part of a road-hoc in a safety-on-the-road demonstration; and In
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      194 5 DUtributors- GRAFTON LABORATORIES LTD. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. flßnißl SJH*^^^ tfaan^^^^^fifc^P^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ■Ifp' '> |Sr j^JSmflUms^^g^m^M I vyt^ t v grtniff !%SSa*niA2s3*^9^^ %Jm, *^L^^^^Un^E -^#^tnM SM a^Vil J* I n^Bnw^^av^*! ■M B^^^T^B9^nlH/7(iß^X i E I Wnw^^Bß*^^ Obtainable from all dealers or /rom THE CHLORIDE ELECTRICAL STORAGE CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Eitgland.)
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      317 5 1939 AM PD fCAN H.M.V. RAOiOS Mod-I 8-Ql-SRCA Tubes S.S. Price SIS.'. 518.5A Monthly >...- I* months Sole A«ents Ma..,.. KEE HUAT RADIO CO. 122-124. Orchard Ko ul. Singapore Phone 43£fi Received New Shipment of National Transmitting Parts. WORLD WIDE RADIO CO. 98, Robinson Road, Singapore. NOTICE. M KZKKIKI. A
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      1149 5 Broadcasting SINGAPORE EMPIRE STATION NIROM TODAY TODAY TODAY ™f£M t Z£L TRANSMISSIONS 2 AND 3 K mT^JT JSS St Pf GSR 21.47 me I UJ.97 m CSG 17.71 YDB ll.il« WtH \zi.Z a.)* 1.30 Mid-day lubber and tin prices me/s 1 16.86 m.i; OSF 13.14 me i (19.82 m.j: PMN
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  • STOCKS AND SHARES—LATEST LOCAL QUOTATIONS
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      AROUND THE MARKETS
      541 6 EASIER TREND IN ALL SECTIONS RUBBER RECOVERS YESTERDAY'S FALL By Our Financial Correspondent. Singapore, Apr. 19. ITNFORTUNATELY there is still no bright news to report, in la. t uneasiness appears to be increasing and it seems unlikely that any favourable developments can be expected until Herr Hitler's
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      MANILA GOLD SHARE MARKET
      103 6 Manila, Apr. 19. TH>: following were yesterday's (mutations and this morning's quotation! foe sold shares on the Manila Stock Exchange. All the shares navi' a par v^lue of 10 ccntavos. and the qu >taUODJ are In pesos Previous Today a.-kcd bid asked bid 0.31 0.30 0.31
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      MINING
      592 6 Issue Val. Fraser Si Co. Lyall Evatt Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers 4/- Ampat Fin hi- Austral Amal £1 Austral Malay 5/- Ayer Hitam 1 Ayei «Vmg £1 Bangrin Tin 1 Batu Selangor 5/- Eltjuui.iI £1 Burma Malay £1 Chenderiang 50 Hitam Tin 1 Hong Fatt 5/- Hong Kong Tin
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      GENERAL
      459 6 2 2 Alex Brick Ord 1.30 1.40 UN 140 2 2 do. 7',2% prefs. 2.15 2.20xi 2.27>' 2 2.J~cd 10 10 Atlas Ice 4.75 5.25 S.00 5 50 1 1 B M. Broadcasting 0 50 0.80 0.50 1 60 10 5 B M. Trustee •■> 75 7 50 8
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      DEBENTURES AND LOANS
      262 6 5n Maynarc <fc Co. Ltd. $30,000 im Apr. 30 Oct. 31 ..00 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL jr e igol reci. 1940 $400,000 Int. Int. li.'ar. 31 Sept. 30 100 i]-,", 1907 red 1947 $1,600,000 Int. Mar. 31 Sept. 30 106 4'i'i 19CP red 1955 $1,000,000 Int. Mar. 31 Sept
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      RUBBER SHARES
      383 6 Fraser Si Co. Lyall ti Evatt Ailenby 120 1.30 1.20 1.30 Alor Gajah 0.90 0.97 2 0.90 100 Amal. Malay 1.35 1.45 i 4C 1.45 Ayei HItam 0.90 100 090 100 Ayer Molek 0.90 1.00 0.90 1.00 Ayer Panas 1.15 1.20 1.15 1.20 Bassctt 0.47 05! 0.48 0.52
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    LONDON FOREIGN EXCHANGE
    87 6 London. Apr 16 The following were todays ilwlnf mran rates Paris \-,6 tt <N Athens UT'i New York 4.68 1 32 Rio 2', Montrrnl *.',ci\ tellers ofTlcltl Brussels 27.24 Belgrade 210 Geneva 21. F7 Bucharest tM Amstert'cni t Brenos Aires 202.Vj M'.luli I'J Montevideo 18 j Madrid
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    84 6 Wednesday, Apr. 19, noon. No. IX R.S.S. i Spot !<>• m i 27>£ 2?>/« No. IX R.SS. f.ob. In cases. April 27 5/16 27 7/16 G.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.ob. In bales April 26: 27 FAQ. R.S.S. fob. in bales April 26°4 26*4 FITIRE QUOTATIONS Tone of
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    EXCHANGES
    186 6 The following are the exchange rates this morning according to the dally circular Issued by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation SELLING London T.T 2/3 23/32 London demand 2/3 23/32 Lyons demand 2035 Switzerland demand 240>4 Hamburg demand 134 New York demand 64 Montreal demand 54 3/16 Batavla
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    POLITICAL FACTORS CAUSE QUIET SHARE MARKET
    806 6 Fraser And Company's Weekly Review Of Movements IN a weekly report on the share market, issued at the close ot business yesterday, Fraser and Company write: Our review this week covers a period of a fortnight owing to the Easter holidays having Intervened. This
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    London Stock Exchange
    439 6 Easier Trend During Afternoon Session London, Apr 18. AN the Stock Exchange today, the v market bravely attempted to assume a cheerful expression at the opening and prices were generally higher. In the absence of support, hwum, and in the face of small offerings, gilt-edged during the
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  • FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
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      U.K. OVERSEAS TRADE FALLS IN FIRST QUARTER
      216 7 Imports, Exports And Re-Exports Show Declines On 1938 London, Apr. 17. lINITED KINGDOM exports in March were valued at W 111,634,577, compared with £42,155,373 a year ago. Imports amounted to £77,976,375 against £84,853,649 and re-ex-ports were £4,923,288 against £5,468,269. The figures for the
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      ANGLO-FINNISH TRADE TALKS START IN U.K.
      126 7 Government To Watch Developments London. Apr. 18. 'PI-iE n i d ilegatton from Finland 1 anivt-d in London today for a stay ,1! about iunnizht in the course of which they will have discussions wiih British Indu trialists and will pay visits to many
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      207 7 Singapore \i U i cm sin e Buyers Selleri S "-50 Hamburg Cube $13 00 Java Cube MM I'cpvct White Muntok $12.75 Whit $12.25 BU k 3.00 C ojna Miv.i 83.10 MIX. '.I Sun D:i»*d 53 40 Haw flout No. l Ungga KM $2.50 Fair S2.50 $2
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      AERIAL SURVEYS MORE POPULAR IN CANADA
      125 7 Used In Prospecting And Mining: /CANADA leads the world in the use of air photugraphy ior survey purposes having mapped some 777.5J0 square miles by this iv.-w technique. Ot this total more than 550.000 square miles can be classed as strictly exploratory mapping. Aside
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      CANADA'S EXPORTS HIGHEST PER CAPITA
      103 7 CANADA 'S EXPORTS HIGHEST PER CAPITA CANADIANS hive chalk"d up inotbar record as that of exporting possibly more per 'pita th:in any other .lotion la the world. During 1933 per capita exporti of the Dominion amounted to SlOO. This is followed by Great Britain witli $57: Germany 534: and the
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      GERMANY BUYS APPLES FROM CANADA
      75 7 Halit^x. \kTll::>i the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg made a special call at this port last month to take on a cargo ol 25.000 barrels of fresh Canadian apples desline-J for Germany, it brought Aie total shipments of local apples to that country to a high mark
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      Rubber Export Rights Transferred During First Quarter
      89 7 pHK uufteiiioted transfers of rubber export rights between mtmlmktntktm in the Malayan regulated area took place in the first quarter of this car. according to fl?ures furnished by the Controller of Rubber. Total transfers Net transfers Administration! From To Prom To lb. lb.
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      FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS.
      152 7 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS. Singa( pore Apr 18. 5 pm. Book: CMfMV Dividend Close TIN. Date I Payable Bx Olv Date luiai roc financial feat to date Kiutnal 3d Apr. 19 Takuapa 6d. Apr 1't Ulu Piali 4% Apr 22 Apr. 26 Apr 29 Apr 28 Apr. 20
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      EDINBURGH RUBBER TO RECONSTRUCT
      138 7 Capital To Be Cut And Then Restored 1 From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Apr. 18. •THE directors of Edinburgh Rubber Estates Ltd. a company which owns estates in Selangor, propose a capital reconstruction scheme. They propose that the issued and fully-paid capital be reduced to £58.437
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      CANADA IMPORTS LESS IN JANUARY
      92 7 IMPORTS into Canada during January amounted to $43,742,684 which 'vas a decline from the corresponc'ins month last year. Chief contributors to the Dominion's Janvary imports were as follows, with comparative figures for a year ago in parenthesis: United States. 528.790.2i7 1 532.329.977 1 United Kingdom.
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      TIN ORE PRODUCTION STATISTICS
      96 7 •yhE following statistics relating to tin- art production refer to March: Hours Yardage Piculs ore Kill. 'in. .W. !23 000 1.020 Rmon; Caiuol 573 207.000 (SO Ratrut Basin 457 63 000 35C l> estimated cost 01 the output from Katu was $17,200; from Renong. 516.000 and
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      CANADIAN WHEAT SALES JUMP THIS YEAR
      57 7 Winnipeg. jyiARKETING 01 wneat by Canadian '"grain farmers in the Prairie Provinces for the 29 weeks to Feb. 17 of the current crop has amounted to 260.524.839 bushels. This compares with 105.541.074 bushels marketed in the corresponding period of the preceding crop year, reflecting
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      LUKUT TIN DREDGING
      93 7 L UKUT TIN DREDGING IN the first quarter ol this year the 1 dredge of Lukut Tin Dredging Ltd. j treated 125.570 cubic yards of material and produced 414 piculs of tin-ore. The net value of the ore was $26,400 and the mine costs were $22,300. The dredee restarted digging
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      WAR DAMAGE IN CHINA
      592 7 SHANGHAI LOSS TOTALS 5 4.000.000,000 LARGE BRITISH AND AMERICAN TOLLS AN attempt is made in the Customs survey of China's trade in 1938, to assess property md industrial loss caused by the hostilities, says the North China Daily News. At present these estimates cover only Umited
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      JELEBU TIN DREDGING QUARTERLY RETURN
      111 7 "THE dredge of Jelebu Tin Dredging 1 Ltd treated 217.700 cubic yards of material In the first quarter of this year and recovered 374 piculs of tinore. The net value of the ore was $25,300 and the mine costs were $26,100 The secretaries say that
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      ORIENTAL ASSURANCE NEW BUSINESS
      30 7 'THE amount of new life assurance business written by the Oriental Government Security Life Assurance Co. Ltd. last year was 53.388 policies assuring Ks. 9,76,85. 3&>.
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      597 7 AUCTION NOTICES ATTRACTIVE AUCTION SALE of ultra modern, fascinating In design. luxuriously and specially made-to-order. sound in craftmanship. High crude cross-grain pattern wax polished teak household furniture comprising leather and tapestry upholstered spring seated sitting, dining and bedroom suites In splendid condition, one "Moutrte" 3-peUal cottage piano In excellent condition,
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      356 7 BANK OF CHINA i incorporated In China in Spbtlai Charter i 12. Cecil Strrrt Mnpiswr?. Telephones: Manager's Office b4U Asst. Manager's Offlrc Gl4? Exchange Dept. 6111 General Offire 51M-A Cable Address: CHINfiKKt." Paid Ip CaplUl C'h. S 40.Mn.n00 UV Kewrre Fund* In excess of <h. 5.2 M.001 o.' Total Assets
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      257 8 OPENING TODAY AT 3.15, 6.15 9.15 P.M. "WE CAN? HAVE EVERYTHING WE WANT...BVW! AT THE ..ih«i»'»olw«ytap«nolty* Vhj^flj .^^J claim him for my own I" s 4H^t ck /^Plo MARSHALL JM <^ lAN HUNTER th CESAR ROMERO UNN BARI ftl im i* 1 j" 1^ -f *SS' BIKNIE BARNES JOHN RUSSELL
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      141 8 r s>nc«"j I tovtt Hot wM .u|f I Nancy. .iu<* fmXjfa^ JM Other cinema entertainment announcements appear in pages two and four. THIS WEEK-EMO AT PAVILION 6th GREAT DAY —SEASON EXTENDED! PAVILION TODAY 3.15 6.15 9.15 THORSE SMITH'S HILARIOIS SEQUEL TO -TOPPER' 'TOPPER TAKES A TRIP' > l *"**"*s. MM
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      211 8 THE FIRST OF A NEW SERIES OF FAMILY STORIES BY THE PRODUCERS OF THE POPULAR "JUDGE HARDY" SERIES! {%/k QITAI f 3 SHOWS TODAY wMr~l UL II 3.15 <;.ir> 9.15 LEW LIONEL AYRES BARRYMORE LYNNE CARVER NAT PENDLETON JO ANN SAVERS SAMUEL S. HINDS WITH EXCELLENT SUPPORTING PICTURES Just The
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    ROBERT STEVENSON IDEAS ON FILMS
    1117 9 By A Special Correspondent poiiKKT Stevenson is a young man who is going to count as a director of films as much, perhaps, as Alfred Hitchcock does. His pirtures, though mostly inexpensive, have the distinctive mark of an original mind, and two of them have
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    LONDON MUSIC FESTIVAL BEGINS NEXT WEEK
    704 9 CROM Apr. 23 to May 28 the eyes and ears of the worlds music- j lovers will be focused on London,! attracted by what is probably the! greatest organized event in Britain's musical history the London Music Festival. Uniquely honoured by the joint patronage
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    Charlie Chaplin's New Film
    162 9 pOLLOWING a MnfCfOKC ffltH Charles Chaplin. Murray Silv.Tst me. chief of world- widi' operations fur United Ai lists, lias announced tliat the famous producerstar has completed the story for h;< next feature production "Tlip Di--tatorr.' Chaplin will place li s ncwo.-t <-..- medy before the cameras
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      410 9 Glands Made Young -Vigour Renewed Without Operation If ftm bsl aH b*-for^ your lime or sulT.-r f, .m d< nr«, bnln .-"■<! phyi leal weakm you will Him! n,-w bapplnesa -ui<\ lu-alfh In oven which r.-- ,iit tif til vigour ifiicl vitality quicker [land operations. It i.s a simple aotns
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    207 10 •Ann*? Alone.' By Owen Rutter. Michael Joseph. If. bd. OOMEHOW one associates Owen 1^ Rutter's name with stories of Malaysia. In his npw novel "Anne Alone," we get a bo.)k with a completely English background. The story Is that of a girl, born just before
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    85 10 Dinghy and Small Class Raring. By T. Nornam Hinton. II. F. G. Witherby, Ltd., 10s. <i PASSING reference to having "very rashly sailed a 15-footer singlehanded from Singapore to Rhio" is j made in this book, but beyond describing a Malay fishermen's knot the author does not elaborate
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    486 10 Criticism Of Creed Its Past Thinkers Life Within Reason. By Ivor Broun. Liberal Book Club. Nicholson Watson. 2s. i.d. /"\NE of the big consequences Of the Great War was the practical extinction of Liberalism from the councils of Great Britain as a driving and participating force. This
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    LULL UNTIL HITLER'S REPLY TO MR. ROOSEVELT?
    226 11 "Delusion To Imagine The Axis Cannot Be Defeated" London. Apr. 18. CO far no reason has been vouchsafed for Herr Hitler's delay in replying to President Roosevelt until the Reichstag meeting, arranged for Apr. 28, which could have been constitutionally called within a
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    110 11 DANZIG COUP IS FEARED IN PARIS Fresh Hitler Triumph Before April 28? Paris. Apr. 18. ATTENTION of the Press today is focussed on Hitler's decision to call I the Reichstag Berlin correspondents of Paris newspapers are pessimistic and voice the opinion that the delay until Apr. IS is due to
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    115 11 Hong Kong, Apr. 18. TAKING further precautions against I p .>sible Japanese air raids, the Ministries of War. Foreign Affairs and Finance in the Kuomintang Government have made arrangements to evacuate from Chungking The Ministrie, It is stated, may transfer to places within a radius of
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    217 11 Large Armed Bands Dispersed London. Apr. 18. pURTHER progress had been r made during the past month toward the restoration of order in Palestine, stated Mr. Malcolm Mac- 1 Donald, Secretary of State for the| Colonies, in reply to questions in the j House of Commons
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    U. S. Trade Reprisals Against Japan ?
    98 11 U. S. Trade Reprisals Against Japan Washington, Apr. 18. CENATOR KEY PITTMAN. chair- man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, disclosed today that the "cash and credit" provisions of the Neutrality Act will probably be allowed to expire on Apr. 30 in spite of the European crisis. Senator Pittman had
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    29 11 Brussels, Apr. 18. Senator Plerlot (Catholic) today succeeded in forming a CatholicLiberal coalition government. The Socialist Party yesterday decided against participation in the new government. Reuter.
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    IS. Summons Lind Bergh For Active Service
    42 11 Washington, Apr. 18. pOL. LINDBERGH, the famous ar- man, has been summoned to active orvicc. Firm tomorrow he will be ."signed to the office of the Chief of le Air Corps lor special duties.— -leuter.
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    61 11 1 Berlin, Apr. 18. pHINESE circles here report that i a barter agreement has been concluded between Germany and the Chinese Government, under which Germany will supply I $10,004,000 (Chinese currency) j worth of finished foods monthly in exchange for raw materials. particularly iron
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    168 11 Call To All Men Up To The Age Of 50 Washington. Apr. 18. AN appeal to every man up to the rt age of 50 to be prepared to defend his country in the event of an emergency was made by Mr. M J. Savage,
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    AUSTRALIA'S NEXT PRIME MINISTER?
    43 11 Canberra, Apr. 18. Mr. R. G. Menzies, former Attorney t General, was elected leader of the United Australia Party and prospective Commonwealth Prime Minister today. He defeated the wartime Prime Minister. Mr. W Hughes, by a narrow majority.— Reuter.
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    SHANGHAI OUTRAGE
    72 11 Shanghai, Apr. 18. c Wang Hsien-mlng, junior official ot t the Nanking puppet government, was I assassinated in the French Concession last night. His body was found in an alleyway next to a popular cinema cove-red with deep knife and bullet wounds. I Pinned to his clothes was
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    ALL-YEAR TRAFFIC ON BURMA ROAD LIKELY
    103 11 Improvements Planned London. Apr 18 IN the House ot Commons today. Colonel Muirhead. Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the India Office replying to a question regarding the j Burma-Yunnan Road, said the Burma I section was now open to all vehicles exceeding five tons graft It
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    JAPANESE PROTEST TO SETTLEMENT
    56 11 Shanghai. Apr. 18. THE Japanese Consul-General. Mr. Y. Miura, has protested to Mr. C. S Franklin, chairman of the Municipal Council, over the assasslnat'on of Mr Si Shih-tai, director of the Police Affairs Bureau of the Municipality of Greater Shanghai. The killing occurred in the International
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    49 11 Nancy, Apr. 18. A 26-year-old Ftenchma Francois Gruneberg, was shot today by a military squad on chaise of espionage for a foreign power during the I September crisis. He was the first, civilian to be shot for spying in France since the Great War. Reuter.
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    CONSUL'S KILLERS GET 15 YEARS
    61 11 Baghdad. Apr. 17 TWO youths were sentenced to death tor the murder of Mr G. E. MonckMason. British Consul at Mosul* who was killed during a demonstration j which followed the death of King i Ghazi of Iraq on Apr. 4. As both are under
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    LARGER CRUISER FOR CHINA STATION
    49 11 London. Apr 18. I*HF Admiralty announces that it has been decided that H.MS. Cardiff, at present serving on the China Station, will return to the United Kingdom, leaving about the end of April, to be replaced in due course by a arger cruiser —Reuter.
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    38 11 M Maisky, Soviet Ambassador In London, left by air yesterday, reports Reuter, en route for Moscow, whither he has been recalled in connection with the conversations being held with the British Government.
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    148 11 China 's Policy In World War Statement By Dr. ang Chung-Hui Chungking, Apr. Id. r\R. WANG CHUNG-HUI, Chinese Foreign Minister, in an interview with Chinese and foreign correspondents today, outlined China's policy in the ->vent of a world war breaking out. Whatever happened in Europe, Dr Wang said. China would
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    CHINESE CONTROL IN SEIZED AREAS
    144 11 Large Regions Still Under Chungking London, Apr. 18. r% EPLYING to a question in the House j of Commons today regarding the j situation in China Mr. R. A. Butl.-r Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said reports had been received of fighting at Kaiieng. Honan. but
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    The Straits Times SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APR. 19, 1939. Without Russia?
    1013 12 The Straits Times SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APR. 19, 1939. Without Russia 1 ••If we arc going in without Ira i c help of Russia we are walking into a trap."' said Mr. Lloyd George In the i House of Commons a fortnight ago, when the British guarantee to Po- land was
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    110 12 Washington, Apr. 18. ORESIDENT Roosevelt has summon- > ed his rhief financial and economic advisers, including Mr. Henry Morgenthau. Secretary of the Trea1 sury, Mr. E. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. F Eccles chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Mr. Jesse Jones. Chairman of the
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    52 12 t London. Apr. 18. i MEOOTIATIONS between Turkey and j Britain, arising out of the guarantee lo Balkan countries, are pro- <1 1 ding amicably, it was stated autho- lilaiively today. The Bulgarian minister in London li tt London today tor Sofia, for conlultaUoa with the Bulgarian prime
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    749 12 "Straits Patriotism" Criticised THE SERVICES AND SINGAPORE To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— It is not often possible to quarrel with views exprr-ssed in editorials in the Straits Times, but I may be forgiven if I express amazement at some of the opinions contained in
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    IN THE SPICE ISLANDS
    819 12 Living On Copra The K. P. M. A recent British vioitor to the Moluccas, Mr. Steven Ruru-iman. has set down some impressions of Dutch rule in those islands in an article in The Times, a portion of which is reproduced beloiv. MODERN hygiene is wholly admir-
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    NOTES Of The DAY
    700 12 Malay SMWTVijgM RECENTLY we in the Straits Til >e» office were puzzled by a lU in a letter received for publication, W the rffcit I hat Malay pilgrims U> Mecca paid thfir expenses in f he Hcdjaz in gold sovereigns. The sovereign is no longer in
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    CABINET CONSIDERING DEFENCE MEASURES TODAY
    834 13 Ministry Of Supply To Be Discussed CONSCRIPTION NOT THOUGHT LIKELY IN BRITAIN Releasing More Men For Territorial Army CEVERAL important national defence measures are expected to be considered at the weekly meeting of the British Cabinet today, writes Reuter's Ivobby correspondent. These include the creation
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    PREMIER ON MINISTRY OF SUPPLY SCHEME
    335 13 Will Make A Statement In Near Future London, Apr. 18. ASKED in the House Of Commons tonight whether he was in a position to announce any new mea j sures designed to increaie British abl- j lily to discharge the recently extendtd commitments, Mr.
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    EX-HONG KONG GOVERNOR
    43 13 London, Apr 18. i SIR MATTHEW NATHAN, who served i J as Governor of the Gold Coast, t iong Kong, Natnl and Queensland at 1 'arious times between 1900 to 1926, died oday at the a»;e of 77 years.— Reuter.
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    REICH NAVAL EXERCISES
    137 13 Squadron To Call At Tangier Berlin, Apr. 15). TWENTY-FIVE warships, together with auxiliary vessels, participating in the annual Spring exercises of the German fleet, began assembling yesterday off Heligoland. The battleships and submarines left the Kiel naval base during Monday night and the remainder of the squadron
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    Tangier Reports Denied By Spain
    211 13 ISo Forts Being Built Near Gibraltar London, Apr. 18. THERE have been rumours ol the intended Spanish occupation of Tangier, in North Africa near Gibraltar. Inquiries in official auarters in London have elicited the statement that the British Consul-General In Tangier has been given an
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    M. Daladier Stresses Vigilance Need
    53 13 Paris, Apr. 18. MORE decree laws were adopted at this morning's meeting of ministers, including one concerning a new organisation lor buying war materials During the meeting M. Daladier. the Prime Minister, made a statement on the international situation, In which he emphasised the need
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    SERIOUS FIRE IN GIANT LINER
    39 13 Le Havre, Apr. 19. A SERIOUS fire has broken out on board the 34,000-ton liner 1 Paris. The fire is blazing in the interior of the vessel in spite of the firemen's efforts. Reuter.
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    M. GAFENCU FOR LONDON
    207 13 Official V isit ill Last Three Da>& London, Apr. 18. THE Rumanian Foreign Minister, M. Gafencu. will arrive in London on Saturday on an official three-day visit. The programme of talks in which he will be engaged has not yet been fixed. M. Gafencu arrived in
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    Muslim Anger Against Italy Is Steadily Rising
    280 13 London, Apr. 18. JLIANY reports reaching London 1 from Muslim countries in the Mediterranean area give evidence of the disillusionment created by the Italian occupation of Albania, which has aroused intense indig nation. This resentment has found particularly vehement expression In Syria, Iraq
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    Will Poland Give Danzig As Birthday Present To Hitler?
    124 13 Bei'lin, Apr. 18. QKSPn X official denials rumoiT persists that Germany has been treating with Poland for the peaceful return of Danzig as a birthday present for Herr Hitler. Distinguished foreign guests and high officers ol' the inntd forces are pouring
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    HOUSE CHEERS FOR PRESIDENT
    152 13 General Support For Peace Statement London, Apr. 18 TTHE general satisfaction among members of the House of Commons at President Roosevelt's appeal was reflected by the cheers with which Mr. Chamberlain's reference to President Roosevelt was received, says Reuter's lobby correspondent. In the past the United
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    31 13 Washington. Apr. 18. A BILL authorising expenditure of $277,000,000 dollars for improving and enlarging the Panama Canal was approved today by the Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representatives. Reuter.
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    Bomb Threats To Newspapers
    109 13 Bomb Threats To Newspapers Pro-Japanese ferrorisls Active In Shanghai Shanghai, Apr. It. A THREAT to use bombs and bullets unless they give honest views and opinions has been received by lour British-owned and two American-owned Chinese language newspapers published in Shanghai. All of these newspapers arc strong critics of Japan's
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    Safeguarding Dutch Frontiers
    59 13 Safeguarding Dutch Frontiers The Hague. Apr. 18. j THE Government has introduced a bill extending compulsory military .service from 11 months to two years i of which six months Is to be served with the frontier battalions. The measure was introduced with a view to maintaining sufficient trained j troops
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    CHINESE PUSH CONTINUES
    130 13 CHINESE PUSH CONTINUES Russians Manning irtillery? Peipinp, Apr. IS. JAPANESE official dispatches J claim thai the Russians are assisting the Chinese in the offensive in South Shansi. According to Japanese spokesman Russian tactics and methods of firing are beinjr employed by Chinese artillery on this front. A.sked if Russian-trained Chinese
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    500 MORE POLICE FOR EX-GERMAN COLONY
    132 13 "Prevention Is Better Than Cure*' Windhoek, Apr. is. piVE hundred police from the Union are expected to reach Windhoek, South-We:t Africa, tomorrow. Meanwhile, police from various stations in South-West Africa are concentrating at Windhoek where hasty arrangements ,tr» being made to accomodate them. Mr.
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    FOOD CONTROL SCHEME FOR MALAYA
    439 14 Legislation To Be Passed At Next Council Meeting ENSURING ADEQUATE RICE AND MILK IN EMERGENCY FOOD control legislation to be published this week is expected to pass all stages at the meeting of Legislative Council on Monday. Rice and tinned milk, of which Malaya carries
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    53 14 A RADIO variety programme will be given from the B.M B.C. stations Irom 8 50 to 9.30 o'clock tonight. There will be songs by Elsa Hacknieier and piano items by Harry Hackmeier. while comedy will be provided by "Dismal D.'smond." an English comedian well known to radio
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    112 14 SINGAPORE RAFffUfl HOTEL CocktaJJ Dame 7 pm to 9 p.m. Informal) y.45 i.MiliKK THEATRE, OEYLANG I Ive Love" id The Curtain" (Double Egyptian TaUUec) at 7.45 GUI A1 HiiHI.1) C3U to 8 4.i and 9.30 to Tin- Chaser. I World The i nli Amtuemenl le of Arc;-..-irr. II \1-IV
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    92 14 Singapore And U.S. Fleet Move (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Apr. 18. /COMMENTING editorially on the "immense strengthening of our sea power as a result of the decision of the I'nited States Government to move its fleet to the Pacific" the Evening Standard says: "That precaution relieves us of the
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    SPAT TWICE AT POLICE
    199 14 Incident Outside Japanese Shop IWHILF. a crowd of about 200 Chinese gathered outside a Japanese shop in Middle Read on Monday night, a European Police Inspector. Mr. M C. Boyle, who arrived with a party of policemen officers, tried to disperse them. One man spat at
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    MALAYAN PASSENGERS BY THE RANCHI
    89 14 CAPT. J R Booth, of the 14th Punjab Regiment, is a passenger for Penang in the P. and O. liner Ranchi, which sailed from London on Apr 6. Singapore passengers in the ship (which is due to dock in Penang on May 3 and at
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    Fingerprints Of Bus & Lorry Drivers: New F.M.S. Bill
    325 14 Fingerprints Of Bus Lorry Drivers: New F.M.S. Bill (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 18. BY an amendment to the Road Traffic Enactment, to be intront the n°xt Federal Council merlin!,', professional bus and lorry j drivers, applying for a licence, may be required to record their fingerprints so
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    COUNCIL ON MONDAY
    341 14 Busy Meeting In Prospect DEFENCE GIFT TRAFFIC RULES MONDAY'S meeting of the Legislative Council will be one of. considerable importance. Besides the Food Control Bill, which is expected to pass all stages, and the £1.000.000 Imperial defence gift proposal approval will be sought for the Traffic Regulations
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    "YOUNG DR. KILDARE" AT THE CAPITOL
    220 14 At The Cinema Medical Man's Fight For Recognition VOl NG DR. KILDARE" (Lew Ayres. Lionel Barrymore. I.yune Carver, Jo Ann Sayers, Nat Pendleton, Samuel S. Hinds. Emma Dunn. Walter Kingsfordi. M.G.M. 1 At the Capitol. BECAUSE its "Judge Hardy" films have been so successful,
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    19 14 Major Lindsay Years. aide-de-camp to the Sultan of Perak. arrived at Singapore from Kuala Lumpur by train this morning.
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    Modernistic Cycle Shelter
    29 14 A striking semi-circular arch will shelter cycles at the new Monk's Hill School, Clemenceau Avenue, to be opened this week. See Page 15.— Straits Times picture.
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    WON TROPHIES—HAD NO PERMIT TO DRIVE CAR
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    Singapore Cable & London Strike
    95 14 Singapore Cable London Strike London, Apr. 10. ■yilK Admiralty last night took action at Siemens electrical engineering factory at Woolwich, near London, where a strike is holding up important government work. Their employees are loading barge- with a submarine cable (or Singapore. This is Admiralty property made by Siemens under
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    ORDERED TO PAY HIS WIFE
    238 14 European Who Changed Religion SECOND MARRIAGE BY MUSLIM RITES fVAVID JOHN WHITE, the Euroj pean ex-warder who adniiit< <i in the Singapore Criminal District Court last Saturday that he hart changed his religion and had been married again to a Eurasian woman under Mohamedan rites,
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    STOP PRESS
    85 14 Hong Kong. Apr. 19. poKKM.N sources claim that the Chinese forces have completed the encirclement of Canton and that people in Shameen. Canton international settlement, ran now hear gunfire. The Chinese north column, after braving Japanese artillery fir.-. has already crossed the Sainum River and h at present
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    TRAFFIC RULES' POWERS OF ARREST TO BE MODIFIED
    225 15 Changes Will Be Considered By Council On Monday AUTHORITY TO STOP ANY VEHICLE TO GET NAME ADDRESS THK much-criticised wide powers of arrest granted to 1 all police officers in uniform under the draft Traffic Kit; illations (193!)) are to be greatly
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    SINGAPORE JAPANESE PAPER ON SPYING
    138 15 "Despicable Business," Says Journal SINGAPORE'S Japanese newspaper I commented Last night on the able business of spying" and d the new anti-spy bill which is generally regarded as a measure j ed against the .i.tiuties of j nts in S: l/apore. Tlie newspaper stated "Singapore's
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    MALAYAN PASSENGERS BY THE ACHILLES
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    LLOYD GEORGE ON THE CRISIS
    45 15 ■yilt l-ree Press will tomorrow publish an exclusive Interview with Mr. Lloyd George on the present European crisis. Mr. Lloyd George is one of the few surviving wartime statesmen and his views on the crisis are, therefore, of special interest.
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    German Claims To Colonies: Dutch View
    224 15 German Claims To Colonies Dutch View "THE ideas of leading Germans on colonial questions will net do. Their whole conception of the lace problem would make it difficult tor them to deal with many noes." This was the opinion expressed to a Straits Times reporter yesterday by a former n.
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    28 15 Mr. E A Noble, who left ftfebja la 1936 after 11 years with Om Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd. Is now accountant to the Boro' Billposting Co.. Ltd., Loiiuon.
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    593 15 Naval Officer Married At Cathedral IIERDMAN— BROWN K/[ISS BARBARA MARY BROWN, and Paymaster LieutenantCommander Claudius Alexander Herdman, R.N., were married at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday, by Archdeacon Graham White, who was assisted by the Rev. D. E. J. Hodge. Miss Brown is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A.
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    A.R.P. DIRECTOR ON VISIT TO PENANG
    47 15 jlilR. EDWIN TONGUE. Director of Air Raid Prefautions in the Straits i Settlements, flew from Singapore to Penang in the Imperial Airways flyingboat yesterday in connection with A.R.P. work in the northern settlement. He Is expected to return by flying-boat tomorrow.
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    INSURANCE AGENT GETS NINE MONTHS' SENTENCE
    234 15 CENTENCED to nine months' rigorous imprisonment an insurance agent, Tan Chuan Beng, waved cheerfully to friends as he was being escorted from the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Throughout the trial, Tan maintained that he was not, employed by the complainants, the Java Sea and
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    No Parking: More Roads To Be Included
    187 15 No Parking: More Roads To Be Included THE number of Singapore StntH in which parking during certain hours will be prohibited is to be increased. Provision for this is made in a new clause to be inserted in the Traffic Regulations 1939) which will come before Legislative Council for approval
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    PENANG HILL-CLIMB NEXT MONTH
    85 15 A HILL-CLIMB tor SMMT-can BIM motor-cycles will be held by the Penang and Kedah branch ot the Automobile Association of Malaya M Mount Pleasure Hill, Penang, on Sunday. May 7. beginning at 9 a.m. The course is about a-third of a mile long, and the average
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    CRUISER HERE
    52 15 PROM the New Zealand Division oi the Royal Navy, the 7,C00-ton cruiser Achilles, which has been recomniissioned by Captain W. E. Parry lor another term ol service In New Zealand w-iters. arrived at Singapore today from England ond proceeded to the Naval Base. Achilles will leave fur New
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    24 15 Sir Frank A. Swtttenham has been appointed a director of Glasgow River Estates, Ltd in the place of the late Mr. W. S. Reeve-TuAcr.
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    BURGLARIES IN SELANGOR
    264 15 Slolm Pn>prrly Returned COURT SEQUEL TO NELSON (ASK (From Our Own Correspondent) Koala Lumpur, Apr. is. CEVERAL Kuala Lumpur people who had their hotuea burgled .some months ago and lost valuables, hud tlv'ir prop* rty returned to tin ra today in tnc Supreme C^in by the Chief
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    33 15 Mr. M R(id. who baa been i Mansfield and Co.. Lid, since 1913. may not return to Malaya. He Is at present on leave and Is spoiling most of his time in London
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    NEW MONK'S HILL SCHOOL TO OPEN NEXT WEEK
    210 15 THE new Monk's Hill Government 1 English School, Clemenceau Avenue, will probably be opened when the second term begins on Monday. As a little finishing work has yet to be done, it is not known definitely whether the school will be ready
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    MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF 50-DAY-OLD BABY
    455 16 Caused By Corrosive* Poisoning: Coroner's Open Verdict MYSTERY surrounds the death of a 50-day-old Chinese baby, CkMW Hon Mm, who died in the General Hospital on Apr. 12 as the result of corrosive poisoning. At a Coroner's inquiry yesterday, Mr. W. G. Porter returned an
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    37 16 A tins;* 1 python which was tied to a D front of a cjlT'. c shop in Main Road. 8 -lairiii Suddenly attacked a Chinese boy who wxs wa'ching it The boy wu taken to Talplng hospital.
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    HOUSE "BOY" STEALS PROM HIS EMPLOYER
    103 16 WHEN a Chinese. Han Hi Guan, pleaded suilty before Mr. K. A. Blacker, in the Singapore Third Police Court, yesterday, to a charge of theft oi cub .i'.kl jev:el!crv v-!uPd at $110 belonging to Mrs. K. M. Selfe. of ;jpas!r P&njanf, it was stated
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    ATTACK ON SLEEPING MAN ALLEGED
    86 16 i From Our Own Correspondent. Johore Bahru, Apr. 18. ON a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a compatriot, Lee Yong. at the 31st. mile, Kulai Road, on the night of Mar. 2, Lai Kim, a Chinese, was committed for trial by Sheikh Abu
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    SINGAPORE CHRISTIAN FUNERAL SOCIETY
    72 16 AT the annual meeting of the Singapore Christian Funeral Society the following were elected: President: Mr M F Gomes (reelected i; vice-president: Mr. L. A. Joseph i re-elected honorary secretary: Mr Harry Norris ire-ciectedi honorary treasurer: Mr W R Armstrong (re-elected i Committee: Mr J P
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    CHINESE WHO TOOK ACID DIES IN HOSPITAL
    79 16 A VERDICT of suicide was returned by the Singapore Coroner, yesterday, at an inquest into the death of a middle a<;ed Chinese tin-smith. Hoo Yun Nyap, who died as the imR of acid poisoning on Apr. 11. It was revealed in Court that
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    Kelantan River Scene As Hotel Mural
    65 16 i lie Kelantan river scene selected by Mr. Julius Weiitxcher, the painter and sculptor, as his subject for a tuiyt mural decoration in the lounge of the Station Hotel has been greatly admired by visitors to Kuala Lumpur The mural took two months to
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    Wreaths On Cenotaph For Mr. B. E. Ablitt
    580 16 Wreaths On Cenotaph For Mr. B. E. Ablitt TRIBUTE TO AN EXSERVICEMAN ABOUT 50 wreaths were placed on the Singapore Cenotaph last evening as a tribute to Mr. B. E. Ablitt. former president of the Singapore Cricket Club, who died in England on Monday, at the age of 43. Mr.
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    GOVERNMENT HOUSE
    152 16 Apr. 11. The Raja Muda of Sarawak arrived to stay at Government House. In the ifternoon His Excellency presided st the annual meeting of the Union Jack His Excellency and Lady Thomas dined with Brigadier and Mrs. M. A. Studd. Apr. It. Sir Shenton and tady Thomas dined
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    SELANGOR AIRMEN FLY TO SUNDAY CURRY TIFFINS
    376 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 17. AN several occasions cross-count ry flights to Sunday curry tiffin parties have been carried out by members of the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club. In his report, the Chief Instructor, Mr. G. W. Haigh, remarks that
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    MORE GOLD & IRON MINED
    342 16 MORE GOLD IRON MINED Malaya's Mineral Products In 1938 bauxite shows bh; increase (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 18. ALTHOUGH increasing amounts Of A iron ore are being mined in Malaya, the annual report of the Geological Survey Department potn&s out that the whole of the :ron mined
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      FROM THE VOLUNTEER POINT OF VIEW
      719 17 Colony Generosity Should Begin At Home To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— l agree with. "Ex-Temtoriai" that the Colony's £1.000,000 gift should not bo paid over In its entirety to th? Imperial Government but that part of it should bs paid to
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      A CHINESE ON HITLER
      356 17 His Bullet-Proof Glass Screen To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.— ln reply to your correspondent who signs himself "An Admirer of Hitler." I would point out that greatness of a certain kind is no justification for base action repulsive to mankind. The greatness of
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      "THE SOONER THE BETTER"
      145 17 To (he Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— ln the event of a war lam j ully confident that Great Britain and j 'ranee, with America and Russia on heir side, would undoubtedly defeat heir enemies. The British lion has not 'ecome old and weak on
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      THE SINGAPORE SULTANS
      364 17 Family Graveyard In City RELICS OF SWAMP To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— With reference to the letter on Singapore kramats and the old Malay cemeteries in the neighbourhood of Jalan Kubor and Jalan Sultan, published in your columns a few days ago, I can
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      "EVERYMAN'S CAR"
      93 17 Id il.e Editor of the Strait-. Times. Manager o: the I M 8 Railwayi must have h when he read the .r in I Apr. < have r.ot j It v.-as only 111 1 in the I t-j lure 1 into the railway wag* 1 i.ivr harm to
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      AT WAYANGS
      258 17 Chinese Music For Europeans To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— l was listening to the fe.M.BC. broadcast of Teochew music and drama the other evening, when I remembered "Anak Singapura's' 1 remarks about the general lack of appeal to European ears of Chinese music. It was
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      CHINESE OPINION OF NEW NEWSPAPER
      675 17 JAPAN'S VOICE IN SINGAPORE To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir.— l would Ilk. 1 to support your comments on the Singapore Herald. In fact, your leading articles have been so comprehensive and to the point that there is not much else to say.
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      KATONG WAITS FOR THE POSTMAN
      74 17 To the Editor of the Straits An Sir.— When the mall us<d to br> »ried at tr.e General Post Oil Katong received our first dem about 9.30 a m.. but now that have been "i-peeded up' b; mail at the Katong Pi..; 1 ceive cur
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    CEYLON JOURNAL DEPLORES COMMUNAL FEELING
    535 18 "Indians As Much Indigenous Ac Sinhalese And Tamils" Colombo, Apr. 10. fc THE 'Reforms' agitation lias upset the equilibrium of more than one community, but none with ampler justification than the Indians. The Indian community has been the victim of circumstances which have been exploited
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    THE STOLEN GOLD CASKET
    61 18 THE GOLD CASKET that was presented to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru by the Indian community of Singapore when he visited here two years ago has been stolen from the Allahabad Municipal Museum. The above picture taken at the time of Pandit Nehru's visit shmes the casket in
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      "HIGH LEVEL OF PUBLIC TASTE"
      194 18 "HIGH LEVEL OF PUBLIC TASTE" British PubliristV Tribute Colombo. Apr. 8. "THF. OMMt encouraging thing 1 found iv India was the extraordinarily high level of public taste i among the English-speaking population." said Mr. Allan Lane, the "Penguin" books publisher, to a Times of Ceylon reporter on his, arrival here.
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      Lathi Charge In Madras
      245 18 Lathi Charge In Madras Ki\al PgOCtMJ— B Conn- To Clash Madras. Apr. 10. A CLASH occurred last evening between some members ot an anti-Hindi procession and some, persons forming part of a Congress, procession at Peddunaickenpet, resulting In a lathi charge by the police. Half a dozen persons sustained injuries,
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    ANDHRA PROVINCE FORMATION Adverse Reply From Secretary Of State
    135 18 ANDHRA PROVINCE FORMATION Adverse Reply From Secretary Of State Madras OEPLYING to questions in the Madras Legislative Assembly regarding the Andhra Province question the Premier, Mr. C. Rajagopalachariar. said that on May 11, 1938. Intimation was received from the Government of India that It had communicated to the Secretary of
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    "DAMAGED LIVES" BANNED IN U.P.
    70 18 Luc know. Apr. 11. THE Governor of the United Provinces has declared uncertified the fllm entitled "Damaged Lives" produced by the Columbia Pictures. In the form in which It was certified by the Bengal Board of Film Censors as suitable for public exhibition, In the
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    NO PROHIBITION IN BHOPAL
    25 18 Bhopal, Apr. 6. rE Bhopal Legislative Assembly rejected by an overwhelming majority a resolution to Introduce total prohibition In the State.
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    MADRAS MAIL'S TRIBUTE TO MAHATMA GANDHI
    349 18 "He Has Made The Congress Mouthpiece Of The Nation" Madras. MR. Bose affirms that there has been no breach between hlmielf and Mr. Gandhi. But his whole itatement reveals a cleavage between their political methods and between his views and Congress practice," says the
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    TEMPLE-ENTRY IN GURUVAYUR?
    118 18 Madras, Apr. 11. IN connection with the enforce- 1 ment of the Malabar Temple- I Entry Act. the Collector of Malabar will shortly prepare electoral < rolls of Caste Hindus elidible for I franchise to the Provincial Legislature, i After the rolls have been pre- pared, where
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    "AN INDEX TO INDIAN UNITY "
    119 18 "AN INDEX TO INDIAN UNITY Mr. Krishna Menon On Triouri Congress London <By Man I A DDRESSING a meeting of the India League. Mr. V X Krishna Menon comprehensively surveyed the activities of the Congress session at Tripuri He expressed the opinion that tnej session represented "an index to In-
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    Eire President's Party For Children
    48 19 Dr. Douglas Hyde, President of Eire, who cave a garden party to 600 schoolchildren at his residence in Phoenix Park, Dublin, is seen accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. de Valera, as he came out on to the lawn where he received the children.
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    Sir P. Chetwode On His Mission
    321 19 Hundreds Of Lives Have Been Saved In Spain FOUR hundred death sentences were remitted by Gen. Franco (■wing to the intervention of the British Commission for the exchange of Spanish war prisoners, which was heacieel by Field-Mar>ha: Sir Philip Chetwode. The Commission niso succeeded
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    Racketeers Control New York's Food
    89 19 RACKETEERS have a strangle- hold on the food supply of the 12.000,000 people in New York State, declared Dr. Frederick Howe, former Counsel for Consumers attached to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, at a meeting nf the National Monopoly Committee in New York. Dr. Howe advocated
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    Italians' Women Prisoners
    147 19 THE private s3cretary to H&ile Selassie, who is also son of the Minister 'or Foreign Affairs to the i ex-Emperor ot Abyssinia, asked in Probate Court, London, for grant of 1 letters of administration of his father's I estate. He is the second and only surviving ion
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    28 19 Tour men were killed when two United States Navy planes collided in mid-air during the launching of a new aeroplane carrier, the Wasp, 14.700 tons, at Quiney, Illinois.
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    Woman Who Lost These Thirty-Eight Years
    393 19 riAHOLINE Agnes Jolliff Dyer Uied V in Bioadnioor Criminal Asylum, from natural causes, it was decided at the inquest on her recently. She was 69 years old. was sent to Brocdinoor after an Old Bailey murder 1 trial in which .sho was found guilty
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    YACHT SAILED AWAY WITH "SPANISH GOLD"
    409 19 160 Packing-Cases Unloaded Under Guard In Mexico ANE hundred and sixty pack-ing-cases, so heavy that five men were needed to lift each one, are reported to have been unloaded, under military guard, from a mysterious yacht which quietly entered the Mexican port of Tampico
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    22 19 Prince Francois de Broglie. an officer of the Legion of Honour and a retired lieutenant-colonel, died In his Paris home, aged 87.
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    CHINESE IN COMMANDING POSITION IN KWANGTUNG
    327 20 Significance Of Latest Gains Near City Of Canton Chungking, Apr. 18. POINTING out the significance of the Chinese recapture of Tsengshing, a' highway town 60 kilometres east of Canton -"id of Fayuen, a highway town 50 kilometres north ot Canton from the viewpoint of
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    CHINA WATCHES U.S. NAVAL MOVE
    101 20 Collective Action In Far East Urged Chungking. Apr 17. THE Chinese press evinces great Interest in the sudden transfer of the American Fleet to the Pacific. One journal comments, Now that the United States Is turning her attention to the Far East she should effect
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    "No Special Mission," Says British Envoy
    82 20 Kunming (Yunnan), Apr. 17. 1VI V return t0 t hungkini; is to "'maintain coiiti-rts with the Chinese Central Government. Be. j sides that I have no special mission," dzclared Sir Archibald (lark Kcrr. the British Ambassador, in an interview here. Sir Archibald reports that
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    'SCORCHED EARTH' ON HAINAN
    114 20 Japanese Claim New Advances Hoihow (Hainan), Apr. 18. •TWO more ports and another two towns on Hainan Island have been captured by the Japanese forcei. A Japanese detachment driving southward from the northern part of the island has occupied Kachek. a town on the eastern part
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    JAPANESE TROOP " TRANSFERS "
    78 20 JAPANESE TROOP TRANSFERS Hong Kong. Apr. 17. MYSTERY still surrounds the recent larse-scale Japanese troop movements between Shanghai and Nankin?. Considerable numbers of troops have arrived at Shanghai from Soochow and are being billeted at jWoosuns? and Klangwan. outside Shanghai Large quanties ot munitions and supplies have also arrived at
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    OFFENSIVE DENIED
    279 20 Mere Propaganda, Says Itagaki Tokio, Feb. 18. REFERRING to the Chinese general offensive reported to have l-een ordered by Gen. Chiang Kaishek, the Japanese War Minister, Lieut-Gen. Itagaki, told pressmen that it was mere propaganda anri was not worthy of mention. He, however, ascribed the obstinate attitude maintained
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    MONGOL PUPPET REGIME
    252 20 Disclosures By Prime In Chungking Chungking. DETAILS about the so-called Mon- I golian Federated Autonomous Government were disclosed by Xi Patsan lineal descendant of Genghis Khan, who has arrived in Chungking after escaping from the Japanese in Inner Mongolia. This "government." which fits in with the Japanese
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    MISSIONARIES HELP CHINA'S WOUNDED
    80 20 Chungking Apr. 16. MORE tlian 70 foreign missionaries In various parts of "free China" are rendering valuable assistance to the Christian. Service Council for wounded soldiers in transit, which is fdot completinc the organisation of 120 service stations along highways to provide disabled men with drinking
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    18 20 A bait digger uneaiihed at EKal a glass bottle believed to be a MWM tlagon 350 yeais old.
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    China's Reaction To Peace Plea
    267 20 Chungking Trifote To Mr. Roosevelt CnungKing. Apr. 17. rSSIDENT Roosevelt's message tt the dictators is given prominence by the Chinese press, winch emphasise its application to the Far East. "In? official Central Daily New.; points out that the very fact Mr Roosevelt had raid "a
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    16 20 Glasgow is to have a new grain »ilo capable of storing 20.000 tons, and costing £100.000.
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    Japan To Invade Fukien Soon ?
    40 20 Japan To Invade Fukien Soon Foochow. Apr. 17. "T^IE Second Squadron of the Japanese Third Fleet plans to effect landinus on the south ukien coast, it is reported here. More than 13 Japanese warships have concentrated off Amoy. eniral News.
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    1183 21 Humber, Hillman, SunbeamTalbot, Commer And Karrier Molars And Motoring Higher deliveries of Humber and ITillman r.irs since the Motor Show ihnn in the corresponding: period of in:! 7. Simhram-Talbot sales up by nearly 40 per cent. Karrier business increased by 85 per cent. The
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    FORD'S 27,000,000th CAR
    86 21 PRD MOTOR CO. assembled Its 27.*****0 th automobile at the branch plant at Richmond, California, on Feb. 15. Mr. L. P. Cutler, president of the Go.den Gate International Exposition, which was officially opened on Feb. 18, took the wheel of the car as it came eff the
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    MODERN MOTORING
    47 21 1*HE March number of Modem Motoring Is a sporM ?'--t' v > »->.i--ing number and contains a number of interesting articles. James T. Sinner. t'-.e motoring correspondent of the Financial Times contribu'es a special account of a motoring journey through Scotland. This number is profusely illustrated.
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    THERE WAS FROTH ON THE BEER
    120 21 T ORD HEWART. the Lord Chief Justice, and Justices MacnagMen and Cassels had to decide recently whether froth remained on a glass o: beer for 20 minutes. Sittinß as a King's Bench Divisional Court they dismissed an aDpeal by Mr. George Reed, landlord of
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    STEEL-LESS SHIP LAUNCHED
    79 21 A SHIP with no iron or steel in her: was launched recently in the River Dart. She Is the rion- magnetic exploring -hip Research, which will spend her: life roamiti!; thr> ccean so that scientists may study the mystery of electricity, its currents and its storms. She
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    GUNNERS WIN THREE-NIL AGAINST MANCHESTERS
    241 22 Losers Yet To Open Accounts In League eCOUING their second win for the season, the Changi gunners beat the Manchester Regiment by three goals to nil in first division soccer at Tanglin yesterday. The Tads, who lacked a goal-getting forward line, have still to win
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    SEREMBAN PLAYER SCORES 7 GOALS
    171 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.' Seremban. Apr. 18. ITooi Cluck Won, tlie Negri Sembilan M;ilaya Cup player, was in excellent iorm today when he scored seven goal.s in the league match in which the Negri Sembilan Chinese Recreation Club trounced the Persidangan Bella Club of Seremban
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    S.R.C. LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
    104 22 Furt.nei ties were played off in the SR C. lawn tennis tournament yesterday. The results were Singles Handicap "A" C. A NorrlS I :',i received a walkover from R. S. Barth (wet.); R. E. Hughes <scr.> beat J. Scull] facr.t, 6-1, 6— Single* Handicap "B" A.
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    FEATHERWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT
    44 22 Providence. Rhode Island Joi-v Archibald is defending his world I eatbu weight boxing championship against Leo Rodak. of Chicago, In a 15-round contort. It will be the nist world championship ever held at Rhode Island The betting Is about L-v-ii Heuter.
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    HOME RACING
    182 22 Lilli Bullero Wins Great Metropolitan The Great Metropolitan Stakes run over two miles and two furlongs at Epsom yesterday resulted: James de Rothschild's LILLI BULLERO (Lynch 1 Miss Dorothy Pagefs FOXCHASE (Sibbrltf 2 H. S. Lester's HOLNECHASE (Gordon Richards' 3 Betting: 100 to 6; 100 to 7; 100
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    INDIANS BEAT POLICE IN NEGRI LEAGUE
    158 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Apr. 16. Playing an inspired game In the second half the Negri Sembilan rndian Association beat the Negrl Sembilan Police by 2 goals to 1 in the first round of the Negri Sembilan Football League today. After being down
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    CHINESE WIN MUAR LEAGUE MATCH
    84 22 i From Our Own Correspondent, i Muar, Apr. 17. Displaying all round superiority, the Muar Chinese trounced the Hospital Club to the tune of five goals to one in a league match played on the Muar club padang yesterday evening. The Chinese gave a fine
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    SIGNAL LIGHT TO START
    31 22 Signal Light, who was earlier reported lame, has Improved and is a likely starter in the Guineas. His stable companion Foxbrough is a very doubtful starter. Reuter.
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    17 22 i'ne X.M.C.A. Juniors who beat a team from Vie Manchester Regiment by 11-0 yesterday.— Straits Times picture.
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    JOE LOUIS KNOCKS OUT ROPER IN ONE ROUND
    170 22 Los Angeles, Apr. 18. JOE LOUIS knocked out 36-year-old Jack Roper, of California, in the first round of their world heavyweight title bout. Quickly warming to his task after a few quiet exchanges, Louis eagerly accepted this his latest sacrifice, knocking out
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    WOMEN'S MEDAL AT R.S.G.C.
    165 22 The Royal Singapore Golf Club's April LOU. medal played at Bukit Timah resulted in a win for Miss S. Lucas in Silver Division with a net 75 and in a tie between Mrs. R. Wakeford, Mrs. H. W. Hamilton and Mrs. J. L. Sinclair In Bronze
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    KEPPEL GOLF CLUB
    96 22 Twer,ty-f.ve cards were taken out tor the Keppel Golf Clu'j April Medal and the following were the best jeeres returned. TELEGRAPH CUP The following qualified for the Telegraph Cup and the draw for the first round to be played off on or before May 7 resulted as
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    Y.M.C.A. Win 11-0 At Water Polo
    161 22 THE V.M.C.A. Juniors gained a run- away victory by 11 goals to nil over a team from the Manchester Regiment at water-polo at Fort Canning pool yesterday. Playing an aggressive game the Juniors scored six goals In the first half, five in the second.
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    NEGRI CRICKET XI FOR KUALA LUMPUR
    80 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.! Seremban. Apr. 16. The Negri Sembilan Club cricket team will travel to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday to play the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club. The Club will be represented by: W. Senevlratne. R. Seneviratne. B. J. Dlonysius. F. de Sllva. V.
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    TWO PLAYERS SENT OFF AT BATU PAHAT
    49 22 (From Our Own Correspondent. > Batu Pahat, Apr. 16. Two players were sent off the field by the referee, when the P.W.D. beat the Police 4—24 2 in one of the fixtures of the Batu Pahat league played yesterday. Both were polio.- players.
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    HOME RUGBY
    14 22 In a Home rugby league match Oldham beat Halifax 14—2 yesterday.— Reuter
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    PRESS BEATEN TEN-ONE
    190 22 Bankers Score Easy Win In B.H.L. rE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank severely defeated the Straits Times by ten goals to one in their Business Houses League soccer fixture played on the padang yesterday. The winners gave a good account of themselves and dominated play throughout. The Straits
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    ISKANDAR POLO CLUB "AT HOME"
    221 22 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Kangsar. Apr. 17. Recalling his association with the club 30 years ago, while he was still at school, His Highness the Sukan of Perak spoke to a distinguished gathering at the Iskandar Polo Club at an "At Home" given in
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    Today's Soccer Matches
    76 22 'TODAY'S soccer matches will be as below: Soccer: Div. 1, R.K. vs. SRC at stadium; Div. 28. R.A.F. (HQ) vs. S.H.B. at 5.H.8.; Friendly: SCO. vs. R.A. at S.C.C.; 8.H.L.: G.E.C. vs. Uniteers at S.H.B. s.C.S.F.C. vs. Wearne Bros at Fraser and Neave. Other sports events today
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    CUSTOMS LOSE THREE-NIL
    181 22 PLAYING at Anson Road yesterday the V.MC.A. beat the Customs Department 3-nil. The exchanges were better distributed than tho score suggests, but the Customs finished poorly. The game fluctuated during the first 15 minutes, both goals being threatened. The V.M.C.A. put more power into their kicks, but
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    S.C.R.C. CRICKET
    156 22 S.C.R.C- cricket teams for thLs weekend are: I Saturday vs S.C.C. "A" at S.C.R.C 1 i p.m. Chua Boon Unn Chua Boon Yew. S*e« Lim Svang. Pong Kirn Wsh. P L. Tan. K. T. 001. dig Kirn Hoc. Ong Swt-e Keng Ong ISwee Law. Yap Ah Chuan. Cecil
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    Y.M.C.A. TENNIS
    31 22 V.M.C.A. open invitation tennis tournament ties fixed for yesterday will be played off tomorrow, the Junior championship matches at 3.30 p.m. and the men's handlcan singles at 5 p.m
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    Y.M.C.A. BEAT "TADS"
    102 22 A swimmint meeting between the smaller members of the V.M.C.A Junior Department and the Man- 1 Chester Band Boys yesterday resulted in the Junior Department winning all four events. Rogerson was the only Manchester competitor to secure a piace. Pesults 80 yds. breast stroke: 1, Fong Kirn
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    SULTAN'S CUP GOLF AT ALOR STAR
    67 22 Results of the Sultan's Cup golf between the Kedah Club and the Kullm Club at Alor Star are (Kullm Club players first): HallicUy and Wollaston, 1; Laldln and Hall, 0. Spowers and Campbell 1; Ivery ana Scott, 0. Cambridge and Carey, 0; KeUagher and
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    S.A.S.A. CHAMPIONSHIP MEETING ON APR. 29
    131 22 Organised by the newly-tormed Singapore Amateur Swimming Association, a cliampionship meeting will be held at th<. Singapore Swimming Club on Apr. 29. Entries close toda\ With van Daatselaar. who beat Malaya's fastest swimmer Yeo Jui Mok last year In the V.M.C.A. championships, likely to
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    26 23 fussing the ball back to the goalkeeper in the water polo match beiveen the YM.C.A. Juniors and a team from the Manchester Regiment yesterday.—Straits Times picture.
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    NEW HORSES TO RUN IN SINGAPORE
    367 23 DERFORMANCEB of additional newcomers to appear at the coming Singapore Summer nwe'.irig arc given below. Performances of other new horses were publLshod in Monday's issue of the Straits j ones. Cli<mii bajn. MiEfrtc-WltitKood 4 vrf. Tiun 15 umos as thrre year»-old won once. piared
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    Weights For Second Day
    407 23 lITEIGHTS for Wednesday, Apr. 26, the Second day of the STC Governor's Cup meeting, are: Oder of running wfll he pubbshed aTWT ■cceptaoeec do* en Tuesday. Apr. 25, mt noon Weights for two rares on the third dar. Apr 29. are: ■NW MOOS Bjrraiiecr 5»v Taa
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    CANNING CRICKET
    43 23 The following will represent Fo: I Canninp in a cricket match again.- ithe Gordon Highlanders at Tanglin |at 230 p.m. today: Majjr 3ird, dpi levers. Sgt Doling. S Set. Wiiton, Sgt. Baker. L/Cpl Turner. Pte stott Set. Burrcws, Bdr Mason, Smith.
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    GANDERDOWN AND PURE GOLD IMPRESSIVE
    661 23 Slow Work At Bukit Timah This Morning A 1 -THOUGH slow and medium pace g&Qops were seen at this morn- frig's track woric in preparation for the Singapore races, several horses displayed good action, indicating they are in form. Of these Pare Gold once more
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    SELANGOR SUMMER RACE MEETING
    111 23 The Selangor Turf Club's Summer meeting wUI be held over three days on June 17. 21 and 24. There will be two runs lor all horses class one two runs ior class three and two runs lor class one ponies. Entries will close at noon on
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    INDIAN SCHOOL' SPORTS
    102 23 I The second annual athletic sports meet ol the Saradamani Girls" School ajid the Vlvekananda Boys' School was. held at the Mission Recreation Ground on Saturday. The follo*in» nt the Ha at cup-vtnner* lin the lutrr-houat event* ol both Uw .school*.— The Svaprafuaro Cup nt von ty
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    FRIENDLY SOCCER
    56 23 i The foUomnr wtß represent Con's XI against ttoe 11th AJL B?y R A Chanp on Saturday at the Clerical Union rxound P. dt Soua, Ahmad. Seng Chyt- iCapt) Tack Totx.-. R. Gemrr.ell T. Minjoot, Pcnr Qoee. I Jane Ping. Bene Chang. If ue Bouam 'Choo Lim. H*s
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    STADIUM SOCCER
    21 23 The S.AP.A. tootball team to visit Saigon will play the Malays at Anson Road on FYicuy .it 1.11 p.m.
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    S.R.C. SNOOKER
    62 23 Singapore Recreation Club billiards tournament finals will be played on Friday as below: SINGLES (HAMnOKSaV 6.15 p.m.: A G Valberg vs. P I" de Souza. DOTBLES HANIHCAP I 7p.m.: W A Aeria and C C iOehlers <scr.) vs A. G Valberg and HE Woodford '-40V SINGLES HANDICAP "A"
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    21 23 race for pOMMsiM hi iJondcVg btuincu houses league garnu in u'Atcft Jaiks beat Joseph Travers by 9 -nil. —Straits Times picture.
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