The Straits Times, 5 August 1941

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    38 1 FINAL EDTN. The Straits Times riSTABUSHKD NBARLT A CENTURY I MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER LARGEST NET SALES 6 PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. AUGUST 5, 1941. PRICE CENTS The Straits Times 16 PAGES, SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1941. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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      87 1 DANCERS and DINERS Your Popular Hostess Estelle Cowan Now Welcomes You At The Old Rendezvous COCONUT GROVE (PASIR PANJANG ROAD) OPEN EVERY NIGHT. DINNER A La Cart* Menu Chinese Chow EXTENSION EVERY SATURDAY AFTERNOON TEA BY THE SEA Kleiny Orchestra Cowan fir Bailey Singapore's Sunday Night Meeting Place Sl**6 RESERVE
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      143 1 KVALA LUMPUR 2b JAVA SI fPHOfil 16S3>. TROPHIES 4k CUPS c have in stock a wide range of E.P.N.S, or Silver Cups, Shields, Silver Medals and E. P. N. S, Tankards. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO CLUBS INSTITUTIONS ROBINSON'S RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE- For Tireless Enerqu J^OV/ILTINE ■^■Sf vs^ l 1 I Hi
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      8 1 ELSIE MARY Battery rioad. Morning Afternoon Evening Dresses
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      584 2 §Jk Straits iijws SMALL ADS? Minimum charge $1. tar wdvt. not exceedlac 4 Itae*. Mar* than ttmr lln« 25 cents per line (Six words) Box No. 25 cents extra. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES BIBTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ANNOUNCEMENTS P.P.C. CARDS are charted fS each prr intertion per Inch. Orer 1 inch 25
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      975 2 BOARD RESIDENCE SINGLE ROOMS available from August first MANOR HOUSE. Chancery Lane. Tel 2MA. CENTRAL, large newly furnished bedratting room and one smaller economical room with all modern conveniences M. 8. Phone 7209. "CORNER HOUSE." Furnished ->>.m vacant August 15th All conv?nirnces. T'le. 67M or MM. Mrs. Lancaster 332 RiveValley
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      589 2 LOST LOST Lady Silver ft crystal FOB watch. Saturday night, New World. Finder please phone *****. Reward. AUCTION NOTICES A UNIQUE SALE OF CURIOS. FOUR DAYS' AUCTION SALE Of Carved teak-wood furniture. Camphorwood lined chests, antique jewelled screens, jade, ivory, pictures ft jewellery etc, the property of Mrs. I. W.
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      265 2 MOTOR VEHICLES IF TOD WANT TO SELL your car ohoue SOW. Cash Paid VAUXHALL 14 SALOON, excellent condition. Apply 648, Stevens Road. Phone *****. CHEVROLET 1935 SEDAN, excellent condition. $975 or nearest offer Tele: Brisk. 7634 between 10-11 AM. FORD VS. SALOON 1 935/36. 30 h.p. taxed In excellent running
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      288 3 SHIPPING ANNOUNCEMENTS P. 0. BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Incorporated In England i PENINSI I.AX AMI ORIENT Al 8. N CO. MAIL PASSENGER ANU CARI'.O SERVICE. The iml poulblr serrlre* art oelni main talnrd by the P. O 8 N Co. from thr Strait* to then nsnal port* ol rail
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      228 3 incoroorated in Japan i GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS FOR CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE. TO SAN FRANCISCO Manila Bong Kong. Kobe Yokohama. Honolulu San Francisco and La* Angle* m.s. KAMAKURA MARTJ from Manila Aug S from H'kong Aug 12 ML YAMATA MARTJ from Manila Aug 23 from H'kong Aug 26 mj. ASAMA
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      443 3 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. BLUE FUNNEL LINE. Frequent Sailings to United Kingdom. Dates are not guaranteed, all cargo bookings subject to Conference War Clauses. WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE SHORTEST SEA ROUTE AT THE CHEAPEST FARE Regular Services to Fremantle (Perth) via Java by first class passenger ships. Single fare $192 (A £28)
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      235 3 Broadcasting TO-DAY SINGAPORE /HI. 1.4.1:1 <e/t rii: m.) ZHPI 9.89 me/1 <30.Sl m.) (ZHR 6.U5 ie s IJ.St m.) ZHPJ 1.M m>'/t Ml. in 01. > Zlll. ZHP.l, ZHP.2 5.00 p.m. Recorded modern Mandarin music: 5.35 p.m. New* in Cantonese: 5.58 p.m. News letter In Mandarin relayed from London; 6.05
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      230 3 Recordings by Albert Sandier and his Orchestra: 7-15 p.m. News commentary In Dutch; 7.30 p.m. Kronchong and Extra. 'Records): 8.00 p.m. News In Malay: 8.20 p.m. Recorded Arabic music; 8.35 p.m. News m Arabic; 8 55 p.m. European music on gramophone records; 9 05 p.m. News In French; 9.20 p.m.
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      908 3 EMPIRE STATION Krwsra tttqutntt teneduM: Eastern rraasmsMtoa CIS o.m to II.M ••■a oa CSV I7J) aw/*: U.S4 Metres d« GS» ISM ac M It II metres. Froa 9*5 p.m II.M om an* GS1>— ll.1l nt ti.53 metrr* North Mnfruan Iranamisaioo CSO: GSC HI metre oandi «nd OKI (31 45 IB
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    U.S. CREATING "TIN BUYING EXECUTIVE"
    1030 4 Price May Be Equalized To All Consumers (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, July 12. AS anticipated in your Correspondent's last despatch, the United States Government is likely soon to create a central tin purchasing agency which will control the importation and distribution of tin throughout
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    AROUND THE MARKETS
    309 4 QUIET OPENING AND PRICES UNCHANGED FORWARD RUBBER IMPROVES Dy Oar Financial Correspondent Singapore. Aug. 5. THHE share markets opened quietly steady this morning after the holiday and expectations are that the market, will have a quiet day and there will be few chanres In price*. The announcement
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    Malayan Sharebrokers Assn. Singapore Quotations
    1391 4 Kin.tr. AUG. 1. I'M I 4 F.M. tamna own natmi Ampat (si) 2l IOHd 3s 14d Austral Amil Or) 7l 7s 44 c d Austral Malay f») *3s 6d 34s fd cd. Ayer Hitam (Si) 17a is* Ayer Weng (tl) .77' i .824 Banitnc nn
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    UNITED SUA BETONG PAYS 15 PER CENT.
    65 4 UNITED Sua Betom Rubber Estates Ltd. earned £313,823 in the year ended December last. This compares with £180.343 in 1939. The directors have transferred £50,000 to estates reserve; £15.000 to depreciation reserve and £100.000 to taxation reserve. Stockholders ar» to get a final
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    100 4 Slnraparr, Tacaday, Ait 5. mti. Umyn Mkn rriec* rrica N*. IX R.S.&. <Sp« Ink) U% U% No. IX K.S.S fob id run J*7-A a( ISeHir-t optiaa) 3«% »H G.F.A.Q. LSS f o.b. te bJa Jalj-Ang. (Seller's •ptiea) Mi MVi K.A.Q. R-S Sv l.a ia kale*
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    RUBBER SHIPMENTS RISE IN JULY
    21 4 f\CZKN shipments of rubber in July V/ totalled 80,057 tons, compared with 09,782 tons in June.
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      198 4 I THE ORIGINAL, LEADING AND ULTRA-MODERN CABARET IN THE PENINSULA (Where comforts Amenities are always Recognised) I I TO-NIGHT DANCE 9.30 p.m. to 12 IF YOU ARE SEEKING FOR PLEASURE AND ENTERTAINMENT CALL OVER AT THE N. W. CABARET FIRST TIME IN SINGAPORE tke new WORLD BOXING ARENA NIGHTLY AT
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      27 4 Hat juit the right alkaline character to neutralise after* dinner acidity F&N SINCA WATER. Mineral Water from :h«< Seletar Hot Spring.) Singapore BOTTLED BY Jpraser Neave, Limited
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      53 4 SINGAPORE TIDE TABLES TO-tUiJ H. W. t 54 a.m. t.4 ft.; r.ll p.m. M it. L. W. 1.15 a.m. 1.1 ft.: 3. 35 p.m. 4.9 ft. To-morrow H. W. 10.45 a.m. II ft.; 10.04 u.u. it ft. L. W. 4«t a.m. ft.; 4.16 «.f ft. Auyust Sunrlie Sunscl f.M IS
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    RUBBER INDUSTRY'S RATIONALIZATION BEFORE E.P.T. RELIEF
    1276 5 "Treasury Not To Subsidize Profitable Inefficiency" "ECONOMIST" DEMANDS RUBBER MANAGEMENT REFORM (From Our Own Correspondent) London, June 28. PRACTICALLY every Londonregistered Malayan rubber producing company report nowadays shows a drastically large diversion of earnings to taxation coupled with a disproportionately small allocation of profits
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    DONATIONS TO THE WAR FUND
    145 5 THE following donations to The War 1 Fund are recorded to-day:— K Han tan Planters' Association, Kelantan, proceeds of sal* of SalHlM hmig— labourers on estate* l.HI.M THiing TtaCTi Brtate $*3» Kuala O«b Brtaaa $700, Euh Pencan B*ato MOO. Kuala Pertan* B*ato $M0, Kerllla Bttote
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    BOMBERS ATTACK HANOVER
    70 5 London, Aug. 4. "I AST night, despite unfavourable weather, aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked Industries and communications at Hanover and Frankfurt-on-Maln." says a brief Air Ministry communique issued today. "Docks at Calais were also bombed. "Ope of our aircraft is missing.." There was slight enemy actirlty
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    QUIET BIRTHDAY FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH
    72 5 London, Aug. 4. TO-day is the Queen's 41st blrth- day, and messages of congratulation began to pour into Buckingham Palace from early this morning from many parts of the British Empire and the United States. There were no official celebrations, and the Queen spent the
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    N.Z. DECLARES FINLAND ENEMY COUNTRY
    78 5 Wellington, Auf. 4. FINLAND has been declared an enemy r country by the Government for the purpose* of enemy property and enemy trading regulations This brings New Zealand into line with other Empire countries, who have already taken such action. Sir Frederick Stewart Australian Minister
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    BROKEN HILL PROFIT £15,859 Lower
    113 5 BROKEN Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., reports a net profit, subject to audit, of £903.279 for the year ended May SI. This is a decrease of £15.859. According to the company's preliminary statement, the net result is struck after providing £1.050.000. for taxation, or £400,000 more
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    WALL STREET Dow Jones Averages
    60 5 New York, Au« 4. THE following were the Dow Jones Averages when the New York Stock Exchange and Commodity Exchange closed to-day and Saturday:— 30 Industrials 128.22 120 17 20 Rails 30.76 30. M 16 Utilities 18.58 18.60 40 Bonds 91 63 91.51 Commodity ind«x
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    NEW YORK TIN AND RUBBER PRICES
    73 5 New York, Aug. 4. TTHE following were the prices of Straits tin and rubber in cents per pound on the Commodity Exchange today and last Friday Spot August September October November ,1'HRKR Spot September October December January Sales 52% 523/ 4 5200 52.00 51.75
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      168 5 'PLASTALEKE' jfittM s2.Hr\ FOR ALL V \±3=3£ap& -I REPAIRS \?~?v3B 9rHr 7 PLASTA LEKE will permanently QBj^spSspwflwV^ repair any leaky roof, and can y. 1 rl^T s applied with a trowel by the most v-_ nZ -r X v zs unskilled labour. An Asbestic-Bitu-men-C«meiif requires no mixing and f* an
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      492 5 PUBLIC NOTICES SEREMBAN WATER SUPPLY In order to carry out .epalrs to the Town Banks) Reservoir, it has become necessary to restrict the consumption of water stlH further. 1. As from Tuesday. 6th. August, 1941. the supply to the Town win be cut off daily during the following periods 9
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      326 5 IHE MERCANTILE BANE OF INDIA (TRUSTEES) LIMITED. Guaranteed and Controlled by ITI MERCANTILE BANK Of INDIA LIMITED Hie Company wnich v incorporated ta the 8.8. and registered as a Trust Company, undertakes the following duties: EXECUTOR OR TRUSTEE O? A WILL ADMINISTRATOR Ot ESTAIt OT DECEASED PERSON TRUSTEE Of A
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      696 6 THE CAPITOL'S OUTSTANDING ATTRACTIONS! OPENING TO-MORROW 3.is, 6.15 9.15 daily I LAST DAY of SPECIAL BOOK NOW RETURN ENGAGEMENT! ,^7 1 typ U* Tl s^ a Production of >*>- H j &A&7 txijp HTTQT"F"M'C .^BHBIb^Bw f^ V a \J f\Vi UOIL I^l ij _^BB I^Bw Bl?'L^ f B^r^^ nQK •^^iitW\^«v
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    JAPAN SUSPENDS SAILINGS TO UNITED STATES PORTS
    479 7 American Other Foreign Residents Are Virtually Isolated Tokio, Aug. i. THE suspension of sailings to the United States, announced A here to-day, has virtually isolated American and other foreign residents in Japan, since it is virtually impossible at present to obtain bookings to
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    FRESH N. I.-JAPAN TRADE PARLEYS?
    36 7 FRESH N. I.- JAPAN TRADE PARLEYS? Batavia, Aag. 4. IT is understood here that negotia- tions for the conclusion of a possible new trade agreement between Japan and the Netherlands Indies will be started shortly.--Eastern News.
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    U. S. Concerned About Dakar
    172 7 Axis Control Will Be Viewed Seriously 0 London. Aug. 4. "PRESIDENT Roosevelt has left no room for doubt that Axis control of Dakar will be taken very seriously by the United States," says the Manchester Guardian, commenting on Mr. Sumner Welles' statement regarding America's attitude
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    Tatuta Maru Sails From San Francisco
    47 7 San Francisco, Aug. 4. fHE Japanese liner Tatuta Maru 16,975 tans, which endured a week of uncertainty about her future following President Roosevelt's order "freezing" Japanese assets has now secured her clearance papers after discharging her cargo of raw sillc.— Reuter.
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    Indians Felicitate New Chinese Envoy
    99 7 London, Aug. 4. UNITY between India and China was emphasized in a resolution passed by the Indian Nationalist Committee in London offering felicitations to the new Chinese Ambassador, Jr. Wellington Kuo. The resolution stated the need for strengthening Indo-Chinese unity at the present moment when
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    Freezing Order Not To Affect Diplomats
    71 7 Tokio, Aug. 4. UNDER the request of the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, and the Australian Minister, Sir John Latham, the Japanese Government will exeiupt Britain and Australian diplomatic corps from the freezing of British and Australian assets in Japan and a general licence
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    Mass Troop Moves In Malaya Denied
    53 7 London, Aug. 4. rls learned In London that there Is no truth In the rumour that Britain has sent 100,000 troops to the Thailand border. The dispositions of the British forces in Malaya are purely defensive and no move of the magnitude indicated has
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      193 7 RAFFLES HOTEL To-night DINNER DANCE (informal) om to midnight chL_ BUSTER MAGGIE MMftUI \ON-OINERS $1.0« SUNDAY EVENIMC W THE PALM COURT MILITARY BAND CONCERT-830 to 10.30 p.m By tke Bm. oi üm MANCHESTER REGIMENT sea View HOTEL TO-NIGHT SPECIAL DINNER DANCE W*Uh£SDAY THURSDAY SAXOiiJiAY romanticTnights I DINNER SERVED ON THE
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      285 7 CATHAY rSC J*^ OF VOOR DREAMS.' Wbfrc Everybody Goe.t B»*r"m NEVER BEFORE SUCH \j£&*St< GLAMOUR! ALICE FAYE Jtfj NEVER BEFORE A STAR DON AMECHE 4Ppl) SO POPULAR AS "Jj»»i^ CARMEN MIRANDA ffljjl]g| THK DAZZLING P^W^^T "BOMBSHRIX," UjLm FROM RIO! P^Jn^n I 1 S W^saflisfl 50 -cent tickets on sale *^^%&St\
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    The Straits Times SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUG. 5, 1941. (703rd Day Of The War.) Taxes And Tactics
    1316 8 Taxation Is on the tapis again. It is all very hush-hush and, nobody knows a thing about what is going on. Obviously, therefore, since even newspaper writers must be included in such a comprehensive
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      THE M. B. C. BAND
      1755 8 And Drink, And "Ads" And Cinemas And Things To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— Your leader headed: "Winning the War— with Music" will doubtless have been read with considerable Interest by many. You have expressed, with a pen occasionally dipped in vitriol, an
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      WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
      663 8 "Complex" Interest Of 3 To 4 Per Gent. To the Editor of the Straite Times Sir.— After publishing my letter advocating an immediate issue of $100,000,000 War Loan you followed up with a "correction" of my remarks about War Savings Certificates. This later statement reads very much
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      "SPUDS"
      145 8 To the Editor of the Straits Time* Sir,— While in Sydney two months ago. the radi > there announced a surplus of potatoes on the Australian market, and later I was informed on good authority that a number ot farmers were relusing to dig the remainder of their crop
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      INDEBTEDNESS
      122 8 To the Editor of the Strait, Times Sir, May I suggest a method which, in my opinion, would free the Junior Subordinate Civil Service from the worries of serious Indebtedness? Government should delete General Orders 24 (1) and take no notice ol its employees' financial embarrassments with money-lenders. If
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      83 8 Arrlred Safely! IXATHEBETTE CABINETS OF CUTLERY. Old English patterns put up In Fancy Gift boxes. Made In Sheffield, ENGLAND. No. 1248. 16 pieces $12.50 No. 4050. 24 pieces 1500 No. 2020. 24 pieces 19.50 Postage Extra. O. B. KIAT A CO.. LTD., 6 8. Robinson Road Singapore. Don't Neglect Yoar
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    BRITISH FORCE REPORTED OFF N. FINLAND
    406 9 Landing In Arctic Believed Likely ALLIED CHANCE OF SUCCESS IS HELD TO BE "GOOD" 'AH Practical Economic Aid' From U.S. To Russia fJEW YORK newspapers featured yesterday cables from London suggesting the possibility of a British invasion in the Arctic, reports Reuter. They draw
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    HUGE NUMBERS OF GERMAN WOUNDED ARRIVE DAILY
    223 9 London, Aug. 5. AN enormous number of wounded German soldiers are being distributed in the Nazi-occupied territories, according to the Moscow j radio quoting a Geneva report, says Reuter. The announcer added that 18 to 20 trains of wounded troops arrive daily in
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    Reds On First Nazi Miscalculations
    155 9 Moscow, Aug. 5. ASSERTING that Germany threw in forces two to three times stronger numerically than the Red Army stationed on the frontier. Pravda, the Communist organ, computes that the Germans used 30 divisions (roughly 600.000 men), 10.000 first-line aircraft and 15.000 tanks. Pravda continues:
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    SHOW-DOWN IN EAST COMING?
    251 9 SHOW-DOWN IN EAST COMING? Britain And U.S. Free To Act Chungking, Aug. 5. ll/ITH Germany bogged in Russia, it is believed in many quarters that Great Britain and the United States may turn their attention to the Far East. These circles point to many indications that a shew-down is being
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    Japan May Move In Three Weeks
    109 9 Shanghai, Aug. 5. JAPANESE action against Thailand is expected by informed circles here in three weeks' time, by which time it is expected the Japanese will have consolidated their new holding in Indo-China. Both foreign and pro- Chungking Chinese newspapers here urge that prompt
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    Stiffest Tax In History Of U.S.
    105 9 Washington, Aug. 4. THE House of Repiesentatlves to-day passed a $3,206,000,000 tax bill and sen, it to the Senate. This 1s the stiirest tax bill in American history. It is designed to raise about $€29,000,000 from Individual Incomes, about $1,332,000,000 from corporations and through
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    52 9 London, Aug. 5. REGARDING" Sunday night's raid on the Suez Canal areas the German official news agency claims that a merchant ship of 10.000 tons and a freighter of 8.000 tons were sunk by direct hits and a passenger ship- of at least 20.000 tons was seriously damaged by hits
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    Leaders Of The Soviet Military Mission
    32 9 Mr. Iran Maisky, the Soviet Ambassa dor to Britain, with Gen. Gohkov. leader of the Soviet Military Mission and Adm. Kharlamov, photographed at the Russian Embassy.
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    Deadly Accuracy Of Bombing In R.A.F. Day Raid
    81 9 Here is photographic endence of the accuracy of R.A.F. bombing in the daylight offensive against enemyoccupied territory. Comincs was attacked by bombers of the R.AS. during a daylight sweep on Northern France, the principal objective being the power station. Direct hits have
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    "NO FURTHER CESSIONS"
    321 9 Vichy Assurance To Washington Vichy, Aug. 5. THE Petain Government has assur1 ed the United States in an authorized statement that it refuses to give up military bases anywhere In i the French Empire to Germany or any other power after the cession of military facilities to
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    JAPANESE ATTACK AGAINST U.S.
    251 9 Tokio, Aug. 5. PREJUDICES abroad have prevented a fair understanding of the Far Eastern situation, declares the Japan Times, organ of the Japanese Foreign Ofllce. which affirms that the policy of Japan is "a harmonious world under one heaven." The newspaper complains of America's pursuit of
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    N. I. OIL & TIN FOR JAPAN?
    113 9 N. I. OIL TIN FOR JAPAN? Exports Likely Despite Freezing THE Netherlands Indies authorities have agreed to grant export licences to Japan for good.*; such as oil, rubber and tin. payment arrangements for which were settled prior to the Netherlands Indies' action freezing Japanese assets, says a Japanese report from
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    'Most Conspicuous Bravery' Of N.Z. Airman Wins Victoria Cross
    393 9 'Most Conspicuous Bravery' Of N.Z. Airman Wins Victoria Cross London, Aug. 5. "THE Victoria Cross has been awarded to Sergt. James Allen Ward, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force No. 75 Squadron, in recognition of "the most conspicuous bravery." On the night of July 7 Ward was the 1
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    U.S. Launches 34 Naval Vessels In One Month
    61 9 Washington, Aug. 4. A CRUISER, three destroyer*, one submarine and five minrtweepers were among the 34 naval vessels launched during July, aclordinc to a Nary Department an. nouncement mzde to-day. Keels were laid for 63 vessel*. Including an aircraft-carrier, two cruisers, ten
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    WAR FUND ADVANCES BY MORE THAN $1,000
    318 10 Contribution From Sale Of Fighter Badges In Kelantan PUBLIC holidays have led to a reduction in the number of contributions to The War Fund, but the amount of the various items is substantial and the daily advance is still well over ,Sl,000, making
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    TRIBUTES TO SIR A. HYDARI
    248 10 Indian States' Luncheon Bombay, Aug. 5. (THE Jam Saheb, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, speaking at a luncheon in honour o( Sir Akbar Hydari, who is relinquishing the Premiership of Hyderabad State in order to take up membership of the Viceroys Executive Council, hoped
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    REPRIEVE FOR MAN WHO KILLED RIVAL
    219 10 Indian Now To Serve Life Sentence ANOTHER Singapore man under sentence of death for murder has been reprieved by the Governor-in-Council. He is now to serve a life sentence. He is Syed Fuieh bin All Shah, an Tndian, who fatally stabbed another man named
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    PAN-AMERICAN CLIPPER IS DELAYED
    61 10 PAN-AM ERICAN CLIPPER IS DELAYED THE Pan-A..... i. Clipper £»oas San Francisco is now expected to arrive in Singapore on Friday and to dppart on Saturday. The latest time of posting at the General Post Office. Singapore, to connect -with mails for despatch by the return flight for the Philippines.
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    AMUSEMENTS
    96 10 SINGAPORF KAI-TLKS HOTEL Dinner Dance rlnformal)rInformal) 8 pm to Midnight t.K! II WOBI D Cabaret: Night Dance 9.30 to Midnight C.lubo: Texm Rangers Ride Agaii Sky: Thr Fighting Devil concluding chapters. KAPPT TIIEATU (Happy Worldi I Spy Hunt. SeßMiie: Dr:n.i the Mohawk. NKH WORi :> locauat anu cinema* Side
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    Americans In Japan Can Still Get Home
    74 10 Washington, Aug. 4. MARITIME Commission officials today said that their emergency shipping division could arrange to repatriate Americans from Japan should the State Department deem it advisable. Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, said, in the meantime he is studying the problem.
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    Japanese Liner Sails From San Francisco
    56 10 San Francisco, Aug 4. THE much-delayed Japanese liner Tatuta Maru sailed to-day from San Francisco with 350 passengers on board, most of whom were Japanese nationals. Her only cargo was 1,577 barrels of lubricating oil. for which an export permit was granted by the
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    POSITION OF THAILAND
    247 10 POSITION OF THAILAND American Help Is Needed Urgently Bangkok. Aug. 5. rxiPLOMATIC commentators sum up *J the situation at the moment a* follows Viewed against the background of the Thai Government's statement on foreign policy on July 29, the latest developments can bear only one interpretation. Whether the Thai Government
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    "WITH UNITY, FREE MEN WILL WIN"
    121 10 Mr. Cordell Hull Calls For Maximum Effort Washington, Aug. 4 "WITH unity of purpose and the maximum of effort the remaining free peoples of the world will win and the victims of the forces of barbarism will be liberated." said the United States Secretary
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    35,000 PILGRIMS AT WAILING WALL
    67 10 Jerusalem, Aug. 9. A RECORD pilgrimage, estimated at well over 35.000 persons visited the historic Walling Wall in the old city of Jerusalem during Saturday and Sunday In observarce of the anniversary of the destruction of the Second Temple In AD. 70 Among the pilgrims,
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    Malayan M. P. Demands Better British Propaganda
    452 10 Malayan M P Demands Better British Propaganda (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, July 7. tyJALAYA'S new M.P., Capt. L.D. Gammanri, successful Conservative candidate at the recent Hornsey election, and former officer of the Malayan Civil Service, made his ?naideiv speech in the House of Commons this week. Speaking during a
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    Australian Tank Crews In Syria
    19 10 Australian tank crews cooling off during a halt in the Allied advance into Syria.
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    G.O.C. IMPRESSED IN TOUR OF A.I.F. UNITS
    268 10 G.O.C. IMPRESSED IN TOUR OF A. I.F. UNI TS Efficiency Of Signalling And Radio Equipment A REPORT of a tour of the Australian units in Malaya by the General Officer Commanding, Malaya, Lieut.-Gen. A. E. Percival, and Major-Gen. H. Gordon Bennett, G;O.C, A.I.F. in Malaya, has been received by the
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    MALTA CHURCH BOMBED
    46 10 MftlU. All*. 9. "rpHZRE were two alarms on Sunday night and a small number of raiders dropped bomb*," .«tat« an official communique fmtn Malta. A large cfauixh In a thickly populated district was h* by a random boob during I recent raid*.— Reuter
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    TWO QUEEN'S SCHOLARS
    257 10 Are Leaving For Britain Shortly TO STUDY LAW AT CAMBRIDGE AFTER waiting lor almost two years. Wilbur Boswell. aged 20, and Oliver Phinps, aged 19, winners of the 1939 Queen's Scholarships, will sail for Britain in the near future to study law at Cambridge. In July last
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    U.S. WOMEN HOARD SILK STOCKINGS
    98 10 Great Stampede At New York Sales Yesterday Ntw York, Aug. 4 T*HE hoarding of silk stockings by American women incrsases and Fifth Avenue shopkeepers summed up as "madhouse" to-day's stampede of women anxious to get as many as possible pairs while they are still obtainable.
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    DAY & NIGHT EXERCISES
    261 11 DAY NIGHT EXERCISES Practice For All Passive Services ALL units of Singapore's Passive Defence Services will, within the next few weeks, undergo a series of intensive practices which will culminate in a big programme of day and night exercises covering the whole island. Arrangements have been made for various divisions
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    HEALTH HEADQUARTERS MOVING TO IPOH
    92 11 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Aug. 5. THE Perak Medical Department headquarters in Tailing will be shifted to Ipoh between Aug. 16 and 23 and will be housed in the former Times of Malaya building in Brewster Road which at present is partly occupied by,
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    EVACUATION OF MANILA IN EMERGENCY
    67 11 THE National Broadcasting Corporation, in a broadcast from Manila, reporter' that plans are being completed to evacuate 300 000 Filipinos and American women and children from Manila in the event of a threat to the capital, states a New York message. The announcer said that
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    DUTCH WARSHIPS TAKE VICHY SHIP TO BATAVIA
    81 11 THE French swamer Dup'.eix. which was detaim d by Dutch warships "somewhere in tlie South China Sea" and escorted to Batavla for examination is well known In Singapore. The Dupleix was believed to be headlnt for a Vichy port in Africa or France
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    How Singapore's Bishop Was Consecrated In Hong Kong
    554 11 rO Chinese bishops and the Rt. Rev. Ronald O. Hall. Bishop of Hong Kf.ng, assisted the presid- ing bi.Oiop, the Rt. Rev. N. S. Binstead, of the American Episcopal j Church in the Philippine Islands. I at the consecration of the Very
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    Transjordan Frontier Force
    26 11 One of the British-officered mechanized units, comprising Arabs, Egyptians, Circassians and Sudanese which form the Syrian border patrol of the Tran&jordan Frontier Force.
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    TRADE DISPUTES BILL TO OUTLAW STRIKES
    572 11 Protects Essential Public Transport Services STRIKING while employed in essential and public transport services, subsidizing a strike and incitement to strike are among acts which the new Trade Disputes Bill, shortly to be introduced in the Legislative Council, seeks to make unlawful. The Bill
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    TO TOUR JAVA & MALAYA
    141 11 TO TOUR JAVA MALAYA Journalists From Australia 'THE Governor-General of the 1 Netherlands Indies has approved a suggestion by the head of the Department of Information, Mr. J. H. Ritman, that a party of Australian Journalists should make an air tour of the Indies before going to Malaya. They will
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    TRAVEL IN BORNEO
    42 11 A. TRAVEL talk on the rivers of Borneo und the mhaoitants of that country is to be broadcast by Dr. H. B. Amstut? from Singapore at 7.15 pm. to-day. Dr Arnstutz has recently returned from a journey to Borneo.
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    MAHARAJAH OF PATIALA
    171 11 To Lay Foundation Stone Of New Club rPHE Maharajah of Patiala, who is expected to arrive shortly on a visit to Indian troops stationed in Malaya, will lay the foundation stone of the new Indian troops' club which is being built on Raffles Reclamation. The ceremony will
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    MILITARY BAND AT PEOPLES PARK
    80 11 F[E programme cf music *)7 the Band of the Manchester Regiment at Peoples Park at 530 pm. on Aug. 27 will be: March, Florentiner. Fucik: Overture Morning. Noon and Nisht. Suppe Waltz, Dreaming;, Joyce: Selection Snow White anl the Seven Dwarfs Disney: V '.od'.e. Un
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    84 MORE "DIGGERS" ESCAPE FROM CRETE
    88 11 84 MORE DIGGERS ESCAPE FROM CRETE Melbourne, Auf 2. rE first official despatches received from Liput. R. R. Macartney, the Melbourne Vwrpallst appointed to Gen Blarney's stair to writ* detpatebes of the A.IJV's exploits, state that six members of the A.IF. have Just been picked up near the Libyan coast
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    SINGAPORE BROADCASTS TO BRITAIN
    67 11 A SINGAPORE speaker last night broadcast a flve-mlnute commentary on the Par Eastern situation to be picked up In Enjtland by the 8.8.C. The spcakti made only a few references to the «yen's in indo China and Thailand and discussed the r>ossibility of a Japanese move
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    ST. ANDREWS SCHOOL SPEECH DAY
    49 11 ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL will hold its annual spee.-h day and iistribuMon of awards at Woousvllle on Friday, Mis. Graham White will distribute the awards. St Andrew's Old Boys' Association Is holding Its annual re-union dinner at the Adelphi Hotel on Founders Day, Sept. 8.
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    ARGENTINE GOVT. CLOSES NAZI SCHOOL
    49 11 Buenos Aires, Aug. 4. BECAUSE the children of Germans are taught to respect the Nazi swastika only, ejid to consider themselves German citizens and not citizens of the land of their fathers, the German school In Guanequaychu has been closed by the provincial authority.—Reuter.
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    PRIME MINISTER'S SON JOINS A.I.F.
    27 11 Melbourne, Aug. 4. |L|R. KEN MEN/iBS, the 19-year-old eldest son of the Prime Minister, has enlisted in (he Australian Imperial Force.— Renter.
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    Dutch View Of Strength Of Allied Dispositions In Asia
    361 11 "AUSTRALIANS can rest assured that Allied dispositions in the Far East could more than hold any aggressive move by Japan," said Mr. William S. Boas, managing director of the only two Dutch newspapers (apart from the Indies Press) which are free
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    DEFENDERS OF SOVIET TOWN SMASH FIVE TANK ATTACKS
    369 12 100 Nazi Armoured Cars And Hundreds O£ Lorries Destroyed Moscow, Aug. 4. A FIERCE battle developed near the town of K, where five large German tank attacks were repulsed with terrific losses to-day, according to the latest Soviet communique issued here to-day,
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    Navy Intercepts Nazi Sleamer
    88 12 London, Aug. 4. j TpHE German steamship Frankfurt, i 5,529 tons, has been intercepted by British patrols while attempting tc run I the blockade, str.tes an official i Admiralty communique. The Frankfurt was reported to have sailed from Kio de Janeiro, where she arrived on June
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    Duce On Japan's Part In War
    310 12 Duce On Japan 's Part In War London, Auk. 4. •«THE struggle between Fascism and 1 Bolshevism has a, last arrived: It is an honour and privilege for you to take part in this battle of giants." declared Mussolini at Mantua in a farewell address to a Blackshirt legion which
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    Nazi Tale Of Civilian Exodus From Moscow
    60 12 Zurich. Aag. 4. ASSERTING that the evacuation of men unfit for war as wel' as children from Moscow has begun, the Frankfurter Zeltung says the Russians have profited by the experience of the French campaign and strictly forbidden refugees to use railways and
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    BRISTOL BEAU FIGHTER HAS MOST POWERFUL ARMAMENT
    275 12 London, Aug. 4. COUR cannon and six machine-guns comprise the armament of one of Britain's newest long-range day and night fighters the Bristol Beau fighter details of which are released. This is the most formidable armament known to have been fitted to any
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    R.A.F. IN SUCCESSFUL RAID ON AIR BASE IN ITALY
    336 12 Cairo, Aug. 4. THE R.A.F. carried out a successful attack on a number of Italian fighters on the ground at Reggio, in Italy yesterday. Fragments of aircraft were seen hurtling into the air as a result of the attack and it
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    JAPAN'S NEXT MOVE MAY BE AGAINST BURMA ROAD
    236 13 U.S. Senator Discounts Possibility Of Attack On Philippines Washington, Aug. 3. ANY future move by Japan from Tndo-China will probably involve an attack on the Burma road, according to Senator Walter George, retiring chairman of the Senate Foreijm Relations Committee, in an
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    Complete Ban On Trade Urged
    247 13 Appeasement Is Only Meat Drink For Japan Shanghai, Aug. 4. BRITAIN and especially the United States are criticized by the American- owned 8unday Mercury :f.r "halfway measures" to check Japan's s uihward expansion In an ed.torial the newspaper says Japan passes from one piece of
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    N.Z. Linen Flax For Great Britain
    152 13 Wellington, Aug. 4. rE New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Ftaser, has cabled stating that the United Kingdom Government has agreed to buy for the duration of the war and for the year thereafter the New Zealand linen flax crop from 25.000 acres. Prices
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    Nanking Attempt To Levy Income Tax
    112 13 Shanghai Aug. 4. COREION and Chinese firms alike r whether situated In the foreign or Japanese-controlled area* here have received notices from the Nanking Ministry of Finance concerning payment of Income tax. According to the notification, tax will be levied according to the total
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    Big U.S. Drive To Save Petrol
    124 13 London, Aug. 4. THOUSANDS of petrol filling station* in the United States were shut down last night from 7 o'clock and did not open till 7 o'clock this morning as part of the big drive to save petrol. The ban on sales of fuel
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    Memoranda On Hindu Law Of Succession
    190 13 Simla, Aug. 4. THE Hindu Law Committee baa now cuta1 pitted the hardest part of It* task I It hai concluded a general review of the law of succession and prepared four memoranda on the subject. It It learned that the whole law of
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    Mexico's Firm Reply To Nazis
    316 13 Mexico's Firm Reply To Nazis Berlin Told To Mind Its Own Business London, Aug. 4. A STATEMENT has been published by the Bolivian president to Justify the expulsion of the German Minister and the arrest of several notorious Nazi sympathizers. The German Government retorted by an order to the Bolivian
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    ROOSEVELT MAY MEET ATLANTIC C.-IN-C.
    50 13 Washington, Aug. 4. PRESIDENT Roosevelt, who left New London, Connecticut, for a holiday cruise last night, may meet Adm. King. Commander of the Atlantic Fleet, at sea for a conference on the Atlantic patrol The President's movemenU will be kept a strict secret.— United Press.
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    SIN KIE & MRS. CARTER RETAIN THEIR TITLES
    962 14 SIN KIE MRS. CARTER RETAIN THEIR TITLES Australians Beat Robert Chia Hee Chin In Straight Sets (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, An;. 4. If HO Sin Kie, the Chinese Davis Cup player, retained his men's singles title, while Mrs. R. K. C. Carter, last year's women's singles champion, also
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    Malayan Tennis Champions
    144 14 THE follow in; are the refill's of all the fin-s In tbi> laljyan lawn tennis iiirnnionships Men* SinTi-s Kho Sin Kie beat Chin Kee Onn G— 6-->. Men's Doubles: S. nrenkspear and G. W. i'iuiikett heat Robert nil and l.im Hee Chin I—4, R— 6. Women* Singles:
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    ANNUAL TROPHY SOCCER
    347 14 ANNUAL TROPHY SOCCER S.C.C. Win Five-Nil S.C.C. -S: Krlancor C lob P.AYINQ more constructive soccer. the Singapore Cricket Club had little dlffl- cuity In beating the SeUnfor Club In the annual trophv match on the SCC padang yesterday. Holders of the trophy, the 8CC. won by five goals to nil
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    FURTHER RESULTS IN POLO TOURNAMENT
    183 14 rB Singapore Services, playing Pahang A" In the first round of the Malayan Polo Association's MacDougall Cup tournament at Balestler yesterday, elmlnated Uieir opponents by half-a-goal. The Singapore Services scored three-and-a-half goals to Paining "A's" three goals. The Singapore Services received one-and-a-half wals on handicap.
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    FAVOURITES OBLIGE AT PENANG RACES
    1605 15 Remember IVis Wins For The Third Time In Succession (From Our Own Correspondent) Pennng, Aug. 4. U/ITH the exception of mild upsets by Fernlet, who paid $30 in the first race, and New7.y, who paid $48 in the last race, all to-fkiy's winners in the
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    CHILDREN'S EVENTS AT SWIMMING CLUB
    91 15 rpHE following are the rssulu of the Cliildren's novelty rexes held at the Sintapcrc Swimmlns Club yesterday morning: Three -Legged Race for Girls: 1, Lvdia Albert and Diana Lucas; 2, Pamela Harrison ur.d Beatrice Bailment. Blindfold Race for Juniors: 1. Albert Balgent; 2. Donald Franklin;
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS EVENTS
    49 15 SOCCER: SJI.F.A. league, first division, Loral* vs. R.A. (Heavy Regiment), CMlman- S.K.C. vs. Mancbesten, Stadium: second division (a). R.A. (8.M.) vs. RE. (P. 8.). Blakan Mati: R.E. 'Malays) vs. Signals, Changi; second division (b). Air Headquarters vs. Customs, Geylang Stadium; Poet Office vs. R-AI (Kaltorur). P.O.
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    AUGUST TEAM WIN AT TABLE TENNIS
    279 15 (From Onr Own Correspond nti Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 3. r PHZ table tennis team of the August Badrr.ir.ton Party of Singapore defeated In friendly matches the Selangor Chinese Athletic Association by four games to one in singles on Frllay. and the Confucian Middle School
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    DEVONSHIRES WIN AT KUALA LUMPUR
    150 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 3. Tr*HE Devonshire Badminton Party, one of the strongest teams In Singapore, were lucky to beat the Sans BatSminlon Party of Kuala Lumpur this evening by three games to two in a friendly match. The local player Chan
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    COLONY BEAT STATES BY TEN WICKETS
    110 15 (From Dur Own Correspondent) Penang, Aug. 4. JUST averting an innings defeat after being forced to J follow on, the Malay States were beaten by ten wickets by the Colony in the annual cricket match played here yesterday and to-day. •ollta. It lond 4
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    West Indian Takes All Ten Wickets
    91 15 London, Au» 4. THE two-day week-end cricket match in which a British Empire etCTea beat the Metropolitan Police by 153 tuns was featured by mine remarkable bowline T. Oliver, of the rottee, took six wicketa for S5 runs, including a hat-trick, in the Empire's
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    TAMILIANS BEAT C.S.C. FOR FIRST TIME
    301 15 (Pruag Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Ii»im|wir. Auf. 4. COR the flrwt time since the annual fixture r >u started 13 yean ago. the T.P.C A. of Kuala Lumpur to-day defeated the Ce/lon Sport* C2cb of Singapore in the annual cricket encounter by the narrow
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    LEAGUE SOCCER RESULTS IN BRIEF
    156 15 piAYDfO at Changi yesterday, the 111 I I beat the Argyßs by three goals to oae 1 In a first division league soccer natch. V < The Uancheeters beat Argylls by the odd goal In three In a reserve division leneue soccer match played at
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    AUSTRALIAN MINISTER FOR ARMY GIVES STERN WARNING TO JAPAN
    568 16 Further Aggression Will Be Opposed Sydney, Aug. 4. A STERN warning to Japan against further ''unblushing aggression*' in the Far East was uttered in Sydney to-day by Mr. Percy C Spender, Australia's Minister for the Army. "Australia is looking at the
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    96 16 Melbourne, Aug. 4. riE Australian Prinn Minister, Mr. R. O. Menzirs, announced to-day that Major-Gen Sir Iven Mackay. rommandini; Australian forces in the Western Desert, has been appointed Commander-in-thief of Home Forces. The Army Minister. Mr. I. C. Spender. Mid the appointment was made in
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    GEN. SUMITA IN BANGKOK
    89 16 Tokio, Aug. 4. UAJOR-Gen. Sumita, head of the Japanese military mission to Indo-China, is now in Bangkok, according to the Asahi Shim bun. This newspaper published an interview with Major-Oen. SumlU at Bangkok to-day. In which he declared Japan's construction of a New Order in i
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    MOSCOW WARNED NOT TO JOIN ENCIRCLEMENT OF JAPAN
    211 16 Tokio, Aug. 4. "IN view of the United States' Increasingly hostile attitude towards Japan, there is no room left ior the two countries to attempt to readjust their relations," says the important newspaper Asahi to-day. Now is '.he tme for Japan to
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    Effective Defence Of Malaya Is Certain
    107 16 "TN Singapore and throughout Malaya great satisfaction has been caused by the announcement made by the Australian Navy Minister, Mr. W. Hutrhes, that Britain would be able to send a fleet to the East if necessary/ said the R.B.C. new announcer last night. He
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    Japanese Occupation Of Indo-China Complete
    353 16 Saigon, Aug. 4. IAPANESE troops have now occu- pied all bases granted to Japan under the agreement with Vichy for "joint defence" of French IndoChina, announced the Japanese military headquarters here to-day. Disembarkation of troops has been completed. The general picture of movements during the
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    205 16 "Japan Obviously Playing For Time Tokio, Aug. 4. THE absence from Tokio of Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassatior, and also Sir John Latham, liaa Minister, and the return Of Mr. Joseph Grew, American Ambassador, in a cheerful frame of mind, possibly indicate that nothrious is coming immediately obvious that Japan
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