The Straits Times, 24 August 1941

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    18 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FlNAL**** 505 day, August 24, 1941 Price 10 Cents.
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    R.A.F. Resume Night Raids On Germany
    280 1 R.A.F. Resume Night Raids On Germany I.. i n don, Saturday. n^ilt. RA.F. night raids on Ger- many have started again after a brief lull caused by bad weather. Today's communique from the Air Ministry say* that last ni'jht British bombers were over both westen- <>rtv;»!iy and northern Frunce. The
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    "No Discrimination" Against Americans Say Japanese
    191 1 "No Discrimination" Against Americans Say Japanese Tokio, Saturday. GOVERNMENT circles continue to Insist that there is no discrimination against Americans wishing to leave Japan, although at least two Americans are reported to have had difficulty in obtaining permits. The new regulations coiiLo'.iing the departure of aliens are very complicated, and
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    GERMAN ADVANCE ON LENINGRAD COMES TO A STANDSTILL
    155 1 Nine Villages Retaken In 48 Hours Moscow, Saturday. COVIET troops under General Koniev are counter- attacking in the central sector of the front and have retaken nine villages in 48 hours. The latest wires from the front state the initiative still remains
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    Dnieper Line Still Holds
    1251 1 WELL-INFORMED military or- f cles in London have received no confirmation of any fight ing east of the river Dnieper in the lower reaches, and the impression prevails that the Germans have not crossed the riv r in any effective numbers, although small Isolated bodies succeeded
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    German Prisoners Reach Australia
    53 1 London, Saturday. rIE first tatcb of German prisoners of war captured in the Middl* East and sent to Australia to be interned arrived at Sydney today. The :ank and file were docile— "Just like lambs," according to a guard, but a group of officers was sullen
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    MORE ITALIAN TROOPS SENT TO CROATIA
    133 1 Rome, Saturday. 117HY strong reinforcements of Italian troops are being sent to Croatia, as repcr.ed from Zurich, is ex- plained in an official statement issued !at Zagreb by "Poglavnik" (Leader) Paveliton. says a Zagreb dispatch to th B ofnrial Italian news agency. The announcement
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    Lease-Lend Goods For China
    100 1 American Feeling On Burma Transit Dues London. Saturday. I VWaSATOC* o »«Mri«n i:«wsa«encles to their to. respondents In London for information about transit dues levied in Burma on goods intended for China, and provided under the United States Lease-Lei'd r rrs i sjements. Indicate there is
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    U.S. MAIL HELD UP
    82 1 Shanghai. Saturday UNITED STATES Consular officials In Shanghai have protested agai.ut the Japanese postal authorities in Shangnai holding up 750 sacks of mail from the United States. The Japanese excuse was that the mall had been "froeen." The mail arrived in the President Harrison on Aug.
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    JAPANESE CONTINUE TO EVACUATE PHILIPPINES
    55 1 Manila. Saturday. THE Messageries Maritime steamer Khai Denk sailed for Hong Kong and Shanghai to-day after piss-»igi\\. had been thoroughly questioned and mm lug^agcarefully inspected i-narr the direction »f the United States High Commissioner s office. The passengers aboard the vessel included ISO Japanese *ad
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    $244,000,000 FOR U.S. PUBLIC WORKS
    41 1 Washington, Saturday. PRESIDENT Roosevelt has signed the BUI authorizing tiie Navy Department to proceed with the construction of about $244,000,000 worth of public works and various shore facilities in the United States and Its possessions— Reuter
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    CAIRO COMMUNIQUE
    54 1 London. Saturday. A COMMUNIQUE from British G.H.Q. in Cairo to-day says that our patrols at Tobruk continue their activity. In addition, our artillery engaged and dispersed a large party of enemy Infantry. Enemy aircraft dive-bombed Tobruk harbour causing only slight damage. In the frontier area, there was some
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    PRAISE FOR R.A.A.F.
    44 1 THE British Air Ministry praises the help being given by Australians In the war hi the air. It states that the R A.A.F. already has flown 4.000.000 miles In operational nights over 70,000.000 square miles with convoys and In reconnaissance work.
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    GOEBBELS GOING TO VENICE
    47 1 Rome, Saturday. THE German Minister of Propaganda. Joseph Ooebbela. has accepted the invitation of the Italian Minister of Press. Pavolisi. and will arrive In Venice Aug. 31 for a visit in Italy of several days. It wan officially announced here to-day.— United Press.
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    31 1 Admiral Nomura, Japanese Ambassador In Washington, yesterday conferred with Mr. Cordell Hull. TJ.S. SecreUry of State. He said that the United States and Japanese shipping difficult!?; would soon be cleared up.
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    New Order For Export Of Goods To China
    150 1 New Order For Export Of Goods To China London, Saturday. THE Board of Trade to-day issued an order "prohibiting as from Monday the export of any goods, except under license, to China, the Japanese Pacific islands and Macao." The order continues: "This order does not apply, however, to goods exported
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    ARGENTINE PLANS TO BUY AXIS SHIPS
    86 1 Buenos Aires, Saturday. AFTER a short meeting, over which ac ing President M. Castillo presided, the Cabinet approved the purchase of eight Italan ships now lying idle in Argentine harbours, with aii option, conflrmable after the war, of purchasing eight ohers. Meanwhile, negotiations are
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    POLISH RESIGNATIONS
    49 1 London, Saturday. THE Polish President has accepted the resignations of the Polish Foreign Minister, M. August Zaleski. fnd Vice-Premier Kazimiers Sosnkowski, who have resigned in protest aganst the Soviet-Polish pact.—United Press. The Polish ambassador in London, Count Etward Raczynskl, has been appointed acting Polish Foreign Minister. —Reuter.
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    Japanese Threat To Thailand
    169 1 Japanese Threat To Thailand ACTIONS SAID "IMPROPER AND UNBECOMING" London, Saturday. A JAPANESE threat to Thailand is contained in a Domei agency report broadcast from Tokio in English today. The broadcast quotes Japanese observers in Bangkok, capital of Thailand, as saying that the Thai Government is taking precautionary measures against
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    GEN. WAVELL APPOINTED A.D.C. TO THE KING
    47 1 QEN. Sir Archibald Wavel». Commandcr-ln-Chief in India, has been appointed Alde-de-Camp to the King with eilect It'tx Au?. 17, in succession it Gen. Sir Bonham-Carter. who has completed th« tenure of his appointment, says a ■Mfcfc Wireless message from Lcncon.
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    39 1 A memorial service for Dr Rabindrana'h Tagore was held yesterday So*oji temp.c m Toklo under the loint •ju.'-nices cf the Ja»t>.India Society, the Ind*an Independents League and the Toa Doshikai. The Japanese poet Yone Noguchi delivered the eulogy. Reuter.
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    Widespread Resistance To Germans In Occupied Territories
    101 2 Widespread Resistance To Germans In Occupied Territories London, Saturday. \X7IDESPREAD resistance to the Germans in the occupied territories is reported in latest news fntn places as far apart as the Atlantic seaboard to Poland, and from Norway to Greece. France: Further drastic steps are to be taken. In Paris, the
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    TEST CRICKETERS MEET IN CAIRO
    101 2 Cairo. Saturday. TEST cricketers of England and Souih Africa renew their rivalry in a match which is being played between the Oezira Sporting Club ana the- first South African Infantry brigade. Both sidts include several internationally famous cricketers, -uch as Walter Hammond (England's test captain).
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    Mazarin Favoured For St. Leger
    270 2 London. Saturday. MAZARIN, son of Mieuxce, the French Derby and Grand Prix winner, proved hiriself the most genuine s:ayer engaged in St. Leger by winning the third successive St. Leger trial today and will undoubtedly challenge Owen Tudor for favourite t Tm-sday's callover. M.izarin won
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    SCOTTISH SOCCER
    106 2 London, Saturday. THE easy victories of Glasgow Rangers MM teams were again a feature of the Boottish football programme and Ringers' enthusiasts already have visions of these team.--nir.rtng their respective leagues and ■rovtdIng the curious position of meeting each other for the Scottish championship. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Albion 3
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    Attempts To Break Political Deadlock In Australia
    121 2 Attempts To Break Political Deadlock In Australia London. Saturday. THE Australian Parliament is 1 meeting on Wednesday, and it is reported today from Canberra that the Labour Party will in the m ..ntime consider the offer by Mr. R. G. Menzies. the Prime Minister, of half the seats in his
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    ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK. ON SEPTEMBER I
    54 2 New York. Saturday. DRESIDENT Roosevelt will broadcast to the nation from his In Hyde Park. Ne» Yorl:, on Monday, Sept. 1. Hi.s nJJ-css 1 expected to begin at 1745 hours gint and last for a quarter of an huur. S- pi. l is Labour
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    DRASTIC NEW LAWS IN FRANCE
    307 2 DRASTIC NEW LAWS IN FRANCE has sentenced five Army officers to death for Joining Gen. de Gaullp. One thousand arrests were made on Friday night In pol cc raids in the neighbourhood of the Champs Etysee. Today's Official Jcjrnal publishes the texc of a drastic new law providing for imprisonment
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    U.S. To Congo Air Route
    171 2 Washington, Sal .rday. REGARDING the move to speed up the delivery of American planes to the British toices in the Middle East and fores all any German move towards Dakar, Pan-American Airways has filed an application w th the Civ.l Aeronautics Board to onerate a
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    Anglo-U.S.
    289 2 London, Saturday. ]MR. Winston Churchill is under- stood to have given President Koosevelt definite assurances that, if the United States goes to war 1 with Japan as a result of Japanese aggression, Great Britain will' ieefSTC war against Japan and; come to the United States' assist* ance to the
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    Germans In Iran Sending Away Their Families
    350 2 London, Saturday. HPHE first effect of the energetic Anglo-Russian attitude against Iran's toleration of Nazi infiltration Ls seen in the arrival here from Teheran of 18 German women, wives of so-called Nazi specialists residing In Iran. The r>.nilies Of other Germans estnM' r
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    £25,000 TO CARRY ON WORK OF HER R.A.F. SONS
    128 2 London, Saturday. •THE Air Mlnstry announced today that Lady Macßobert of Douncslde, Tarland, Aberdeenshire. has s-nt £25.000 to the Secretary for Air for the purchase of a bomber to carry on the work of her sons who have oeen serving with
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    GERMAN CONSULATES IN MEXICO TO CLOSE
    64 2 Mexico City, Saturday. ALL German consulates in Mexico have been ordered to riose by Sept. l. 11-us brii"lntt Merino r>r<i (iorr-anv to Uk vergs of a complete rupture of diplomatic rclaMons, It was officially announced here t '-day. The action was a reprisal for
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    160 JAPANESE POLICE POISONED BY FOOD
    64 2 Tokio, I .turday. QNE hundred and sixty police officers were 111 of food poisoning to-day as a result of faulty refrigeration at the Budacho Restaurant. On Aug. 8. 60 others were also poisoned at the restaurant in the same manner. These occurences, it Is
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    Accord On Far East?
    260 2 and Soya straits are "legally open" to international traffic, but the question of their use for the present purpose offered complications. Reuter. TOKIO PRESS COMMENT Tokio, Sa.urday. \I7HILE American air' to the Soviets via Vladivostok ontinues to attack sustained atten ion of the Tokio press, a
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    JAPAN AND THE SPRATLEY ISLES
    110 2 Tokio, Saturday. WHEN asked if the strategic Sprat'ey islands and Hainan Island would be returned to China, the deputy spokesman of the Information Board replied that the Spratl?y Islands have already been inrorpcTated under the jurisdiction of the Formosan Governor-General as "Shinnengunto,' while Hainan I>*!->nd
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    DUTCHMEN CROSS THE NORTH SEA IN FRAIL CANOE
    472 2 London. Saturday. TWO Dutchmen have made history oy crossing 80 mi'es of the turbubnt North Bea in a frail canvas-d'-cked i collapsible cance. They are youn,' officers now in th* Netherlands Le"i >n in Britain, and their remarkable ad- venture was crowned
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    AUSTRALIA'S G. O. C. ON ARMY & AIR TEAMWORK
    147 2 AUSTRALIA'S G. O. C. ON ARMY AIR TEAMWORK Sydney Saturday. I VIJE can on y succeed I|UM :piily tra ""td European armies by thorough training on our part." sad Major-G.'ii b:r Iven Mackay, newly nppolnted General Officer Com- manding AusJ^ilian Home Forces, on his arilval in Sydney yesterday. "Junior leaders
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    Convoy Captain Tells How U-Boat SunK
    238 2 Convoy Captain Tells How U-Boat SunK London. Saturday. A THRILLING battle in the Atlan'.ic which ci.'led in his mcrchantship sinking a I t was told by the captain on arrival at a port in Rritiir. (oH.iv. It was dark, ho saic., wnen his chief officer reported I "h'inj some blade
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    German Complaint To Argentina Rejected
    150 2 Bueno Aires. Saturday. THE German Ambassador has com- p.'ained to the Argentinian I Office regarding po'lee measure* wh!cti an Argentinean jud^e rrdered against German citizens. He was toll that the Forei?n Office w\s unable to intervene as the proceedings wore carried out la Meormne* law.
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    Briton's Praise Of Moscow Air Defence
    257 2 uondon, Saturday, EVIDENCE by a Britlh visitor of the stoutness of the defence of Moscow againo*. German air raids has been brought hacK to Britain by Prof. W. N. rhomaa. of the Research and Experiments Derailment of the Air Ministry. The German air utack.
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    1,000 BRITISH & ANZAC TROOPS CARRY ON GUERILLA WARFARE IN CRETE
    320 3 1,000 BRITISH ANZAC TROOPS CARRY ON GUERILLA WARFARE IN CRETE Mountain Caves As Hide-outs Of 'Lost Battalion' London, Saturday. WIDESPREAD organiz- ed guerilla warfare in the Ger m a n-occupied Balkan countries is increasing daily and is becoming one of Hitler's major problems, according to authoritative reports reaching London. Crete
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    First Picture Of Newest British Aircraft-Carrier
    22 3 This is the first picture released by the Air Ministry of the new British aircraft-carrier Victorious.
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    Soviet Army Grows Stronger As Nazis Suffer Colossal Losses
    1065 3 German Newspaper's Admission Moscow, Saturday. CO VIET casualties in the first two months of the war with Germany were 700,000, and the German losses were 2,000,000, says the Soviet Information Bureau in a special supplement to the midnight communique. It adds
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    BOGEY OF BLAST FROM BOMBS IS DISPELLED
    242 3 London, Saturday. TEAMS of expert invest gators who tour blitzed towns immediately after raids are providing the Ministry of Home Security with valuable data. Upon informaton collected by these "raid reconstructors," recent alterations and improvements in official shelters are Lnsed. The findings have
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    Thanksgiving For Deliverance By The R.A.F. During 1939
    163 3 London, Saturday. IN many churches throughout Britain, Sunday, Sept. 21, will be set aside as a day of thanksgiving for the great deliverance wrought by the R.A.F. a year ago, states the Archbishop of Can.erbury in the Diocesan Gazette. The Primate says
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    Japanese War On Red Cross & Churches
    96 3 Japanese War On Red Cross Churches Shanghai, Saturday. THE Tokio radio admitted that one Japanese plane was shot down by Chinese anti-aircraft fire at Fengchieh. In southern Saechuan Province, during a raid on Wednesday. The entire crew of four are •aid to have killed. Japanese plane* subjected the western suburbs
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    NEW ADMINISTRATOR OF ST. VINCENT APPOINTED
    37 3 Lieut-Col. A. E. Beattie. Colonial Secretary, Oibraltar, has been appointed Administrator of St. Vincent. Windward Islands, in succession to MaJ. W. Bain Gray, wh* has been appointed Governor of St. Helena.
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1390 6  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By rpHE Sparrow's Wife was sitting by the fire In The Nest rolling a tiny bandage. She held a safety pin in her beak. At the moment of her triumph, when the last inch of the bandage was secure, it dropped from her claw
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    260 6 f Book Review A House of Children. By Joyce C»ry. Michael Joseph. Is. MA HOUSE OF CHILDREN" Is a beautifully written and often incredibly dull book. The children arc a large family of cousins, varying in number from six to eight, and the house Is large and old.
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    178 6 The Million Heiress. By Paul Trent. None Better Loved. By Leila S. Mackinlay. Ward Lock's Colonial Library. MR. Paul Trent has written an amusing and almost plausible tale on the theme of the poor little rich girl who changes places with her secretary, with all the usual
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    Mainly About Malayans
    1736 7 By The Onlooker PRMER editor of the Malay Mall and author of distinguished travel books on Malaya and Ceylon. Mr. Ashlev Gibson Is now a pilot officer in the RAF. and adjutant of a Spitfire squadron somewhere in England. A veteran of the Great War. he told
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    Praise For A.l.F.'s Job In Malaya
    86 8 UPON arrival in Darwin yesterday from his visit to the Netherlands Indies and Malaya, the Australian Minister for the Interior and Minister for Information, Senator H. S. Foil, said that the A.I.F. in Malaya was playing an important role in Pacific defence. The men
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    Piecegoods Of Japanese Make Special Concession To
    150 8 Piecegoods Of Japanese Make Special Concession To Local Merchants CIMiAPOKE merchants who own piecegoods of Japanese manufacture now stored in Thailand are to be permitted to bring them to the Straits Settlements on certain conditions. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce circularized merchant members morning informing them ..iat if they held
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    Japanese Leave Up-Country Businesses
    190 8 Japanese Leave Up-Country Businesses 'From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Saturday. JAPANESE nationals in Penang, In common with their countrymen in other parts of Malaya, are leaving by the "International Express" to Bangkok. Women and children are among the evacuees, and on one day last week no fewer than 16 Japanese
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    Detective Fined On Traffic Charge
    114 8 Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. ONG KEW HOCK, a detective, was convicted by Mr. W. J. Thorogood in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of negligent driving and fined $50, or one month's rigorous imprisonment. The prosecution alleged that on the night of July
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    DEATH OF MRS. LEE ER IN BATU PAHAT
    66 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat, Saturday. rE death occurred on Thursday at the Cantonese Club, Batu Pahat, of Mrs. Lee Kr. nee Quek Ah Gik. formerly of Singapore, at the age of 05. after a short illnes*. She leaves four sons
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    BOY DROWNED WHILE SWIMMING IN RIVER
    80 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. Saturday. k YOUNO Chinese pupil of the Oovern- ment Eneltsh School at Batu Pahat lost hi* life on 1 ursday when a party of boys returning from a cycling trip to Kluang decided to swim in the Semerah
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    38 8 Mr. C. R. Menon will deliver a lecture on Indian Educational Systems and Politics at the Ramakrishna Mission, Norris Road, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Davis S. Isaacs will preside. The meeting is open to the public
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    Foreign Businesses Move From China To Singapore
    200 8 BURMA ROAD'S IMPORTANCE GROWING IT Is understood that the Texas Oil Company is transferring its Far Eastern main office to Singapore because of the increasing importance of China business through the Burma Road plus the virtual stoppage of north and central China trade
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    Cpl. E. H. Selwood & Miss C. Robertson
    303 8 Cpl. E. H. Selwood Miss C. Robertson Weddings /"•ORPORAL Edward Horace Selwood, of the Royal Australian Air Force, was married to Miss Catherine Robertson at the Wesley Church. Singapore, yesterday Miss Robertson is a daughter of Mrs. N. Robertson of Singapore and the late Capt. R. S. Robertson. Cpl. Selwood
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    Sgt. W. Hood And Miss M. Perreau
    100 8 CERGEANT Walter Hood, R.A.F.. was married to Miss Myrtle Perreau daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Perreau of Tanjong Rhu, Singapore, at St. Andrew's Cathedral yestorday. Sgt. Hood Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hood of Birmingham. England. Archdeacon Graham White
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    Bentong Fete Raises $9,000 For War Fund
    211 8 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Temerloh, Saturday A PETE in aid of the War Fund which reallxed $8,927 was held in Bentong recently. The fete was opened by Mr C. C Brown. British Resident. Pahang who tttariked the various communities for their efforts to
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    Three Women Sent To Prison COMPLAINT BY SOLDIERS' CLUB
    294 8 Three Women Sent To Prison COMPLAINT BY SOLDIERS' CLUB A "BITTER complaint" by the Aiua Club that their members were be'ng accosted by prfts'.itutes near the Club premises in Bras Basah Road and Watrrl<>» Street led to plain-clothes policemen ke ping a watch in that area and to the arrest
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    129 8 WOMAN DIES WHILE CROSSING FOOTBRIDGE THE di3covery o.' the corpse of a 1 weman. 58-year-old Leong Kow Mah. lying ;n a drain near a footbridge at Depot Ropd, Alexandra, on the morning of Aug. 15. was inquired into by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G, Porter, yesterday. According to Inspector
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    149 9 Deatli Sentence Quashed Order For Retrial Maxwell Murder 'I'io.u Our Own Correspondent i Ipoh. Saturday. pRKSIDDiO af the F.M.S. Court 1 ol Appeal to-day, Sir Percy McElwaine ordered a retrial in the rase oi Haji Suleiman bin Haji Abdui Wahid, who apoealec! against conviction and .sentence ot' death imposed on
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    261 9 I From Our Own Correspondent > Klang. Saturda". VALAUTHAN. an Indian labourer on Emerald Estate, Klang. was fatally stabbed with a folding knife by Krishna Nalr, a labourer on Kampong Bahru Estate. Kuala Selangor, it was alleged before Che Suleiman bin Md. Dru.s. the Klang
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    333 9 Programme of Drills ud U> and far ibe week ending Aug. 31: Monday. August 2s. 1715 iK.i bead^uai^vs I S.R.A. (v) Night laying and B E.L. mming; 1715 hrs Headquarters SSL Bty RA. (v> Manning and L.G. troii'i.v:; 1730 nr* Mt. Ruslc Rd. No. l Sec SB
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    MEETING IN MEMORY OF DR. R. TAGORE
    78 9 A PUBLIC meeting will be held at 5 p.m. to-day at the Indian Association playling field. Balestler Road, Singapore, to pay tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Rablndranath Tagore, the Indian poet. Mr. S. C. Goho will preside, and Messrs. K.
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    New Arrivals For Radio Station
    110 9 MR. A. HKBBERT and Mr. Peler Hunie have arrived from ■■*> land by ship to join the Malaya Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Herbert, who is >• be the Director of Programmes, was 8..8 C. Education Officer for the whole of the east of England. He has
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    Evacuation Plai Rehearsal This Morning
    350 9 Evacuation Plai Rehearsal This Morning AN evacuation exercise for tne East Coast evacuation area of Stnsapore will be held this morning. The area lies to the south und south-east of Kallang Road. Geylang Road and Changi Iload, bounded on the west by Crawlord Street, on the east by Telok Paku
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    THE ALHAMBRA
    109 9 At The Cinema WAi.iKR PIDGEON, Joha Wayne, and Claire Trevor give splendid performances In Dark Command." a finely -directed nun which was shown at the Aihambra cinema at midnight. A Judicious blend of action, sentiment and humour, this film is extremely entertaining and may be warmty recommended. THE
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    Fell Through Roof: Soldier Fined $2
    134 9 Fell Through Roof Soldier Fined $2 drunken prank" was haw Chief Inspector Poulaln described lav the third court yesterday the exploit of a soldier, J. Gwynne, 28, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who climbed to the asbestos roof of the Capitol Flat* on Thursday night and fell through it
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    MALACCA APPEAL FOR 700 BLOOD DONORS
    184 9 From Our Own Correspondent" Malacca, Saturday. SEVEN hundred more blood donors are badly needed in Malacca so that the medical authorities, civil and military, responsible for a blood bank, may be prepared for any emergency stated Dr. A. Bear block. Chief Medical Officer, Malacca
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    First Case Of Its Kind Under Insurance Plan
    211 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Saturday. UK. Justice Carey in the Penanjr Supreme Court today was asked to decide whether newsprint used solely lor the purpose of production of a newspaper is or is not insurable rompulsorily under the War Risks Goods
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    First Australians To Become Officers After Training In Singapore COMMISSIONS IN BRITISH ARMY OPEN TO THEM
    465 9 First Australians To Become Of ficers After Training In Singapore COMMISSIONS IN BRITISH ARMY OPEN TO THEM COR the first time in history. Australian officer cadets have been trained in Singapore for commissions in the Australian Imperial Force and the British and Indian armies. Thirty of these newly graduated Australian
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    Attap Classrooms As Temporary Measure
    263 9 Talping Saturday. THE original project of the Talping Hwa Uan School biggest public school tn Perak. for building four additional classrooms to cope with the expanaion of the school ha* been postponed owing to lack of building material*, it Is understood. To find room for
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    WOMEN WORKERS FOR CHINA RELIEF FUND
    94 9 (Prom Our Own Correspondent > Taiplng. Saturday. npHK women's section of the Talping branch of the Ohlna Relief Fund have held their annual general meeting at which officebearers for the year were elected: President, Madame Chew Kuan Mel. vlce-prt aident. Miss Lee Slew Taong.
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    ILLEGAL POSSESSION
    57 9 W WHISRY ALLLUED ALLEGED to have been found in fraudulent possession of one bottle of whisky and three bottles of beer in Holland Road on Friday, Chang Ah Chek. a 50-year-old Cantoneae woman, claimed trial in the Singapore Fifth Court yesterday. Ball of $50 was offered when the
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    MEN BURIED ALIVE
    60 9 A CHINESE labourer working for Ounmon n Malaya Ltd. in Buklt Tbaah wa» burtod alive yeaterday morning then a heap of large rock* coUapaed ax him while he waa at wort boring into the aide of a hill i Mr vv G Trewtn, aeUnc Chief DeUeUt* ln<T»rctor.
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    15 10 EDITORIAL, MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE Cecil Street. Singapore. SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1941.
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    Opinion
    827 10 Mines Inquiry rLEVEN months after it was appointed, the Commission which investigated the conduct and management of the F.M.S. Mines Department issued its report last week. It is a most disquieting document, If not the most disquieting ever Issued by a Government in this country. The CommLjsion made an
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    Consequences Of Quisling How A Traitor Defeated His Masters: Benefits Of A Betrayal
    1546 10 Consequences Of Quisling How A Traitor Defeated His Masters: Benefits Of A Betrayal QUISLING has not only given the world's vocabularies a new and rich idiom for an old and dastardly function: he has in spite of himself played a most important part in defeating exactly what he set out
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    Anti- Japanese Feeling Rises In America
    378 11 Anti- Japanese Feeling Rises In America r\S the United States west coast, bands are playing "The Yanks! Are Coming," for the first time since the war began, says Richard Hughes, Sydney Telegraph roving reporter In America, in a message from Los Anir*<es. In the last week or so I have
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    27 11 Members of the Corps of Military Police are put through an intensive course of training at Aldershot. Picture shows recruits with their motorcycles.
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    Daughter's Missed Car Lift Costs Irate Father £105
    214 11 Daughter's Missed Car Lift Costs Irate Father £105 A LICENSEE who wrote to the education authorities de- scribing as craven and unmanly the attitude of an official who did not give his daughter a lift home in his car after an air raid was ordered to pay £105 damages for
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    WOMEN EXCEL AT SHELL-MAKING
    63 11 CCOTTISH employers are unanimous that in making shells women munition workers give the greatest possible satisfaction. The explanation of Mr. W. K. Denholm, Divisional Chief Inspector of Labour Supply for Scotland, is that women are not affected by monotonous repetition work. He had seen them turning
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    199 11 Billeting Ban On Wives Of Officers VWiVES of officers and men sta- tioned in Dorsetshire who have been staying with their husbands in billets have been told that either they or their husbands must leave! the billets. This is a result of an order issued by the commanding officer of
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    99 11 T. Tarrant, of St. John's Wood, is anxious to buy elephant tails. He expresses this desire in an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph. He explains that elephant tails are the "raw materials" of his business. From them he fashions articles that make an appeal to
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    Armed Hunt For Mystery "Officer" In Battledress
    270 11 ARMED police, Home Guards and military units were engaged recently in a search for a suspected Fifth Columnist disguised in Army officer's battledress. The hunt has been on for a fortnight says a Daily Herald report. It was extended to cover hundreds of
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    321 11 'NO— From A Scot Just Means NO THERE is a streak of Scottish doggedness in Murdo Mackenzie, who is 55 and comes from Cawdor, Nairn, writes a Daily Mail reporter. It earned him a month's gaol when he appeared before Sir Kynaston Studd at the Mansion House recently for not
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    97 12 3tn«apove Aur 2S. o-abia, r^r fis? "«■»"?«<«»• «12JS ■*»a Cube tireo Covra W'-ed UM Sun Dried ej < 5 Whl»/< aC;nUV CI 23 9UM BlB $775 i "n««a M.4* 45.45 I lr mm v.m Small P)ak« *j M Pair Flakr SI M Meciram-Pcjart tie. 9o Sma»l pean
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    77 12 Singapore. s*ca>r«ay, A-r ti Buyer. Mssn Price* frtMf IX B.S.S. <>pi tmmt) Jf!i M« 4 N*. IX R.K.S r.*.k. hi rase* Auj.-Sei*. (Selleri ofllH, M* r;.F.A.Q. R.S.S. f.e.k. In tote* Aaf.-Sept. <HUM'S t*% StU P.A.Q. US. M *m toie* \»e -S^T»t- iSvßers puut) tJ% U
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    203 12 Singapore, Saturday. Tb« fimwiißi are a* ctcitmsm, etum «al morning accor<!Uw to tbe CUUU* ch-Pdmr tsau». Dl thi Nonikaoi too 3hancb«i B^otln* nuns umooo r.i a/« i/ji London demand 2/4 S/si Swiuerland (T.T. only) 20a.46 Nmt York demand 47.10 Moocmi dtntoo fcl.tt Batavia demand SB.il daßwrang f*-»f»r «g Calcutta
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    1204 12 Singapore, Batarday. THE business community In Singa pore was pleased this week by tn announcement of Mr. W. A. Fell appointment to head the Departmer of Supply. By this appointment Xh Government evidently now realize very late in the day, how desirable is to have at
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    British Paratroops In Raid Over France
    159 13 WRECK PLANES AND CAPTURE PILOTS, SAYS REPORT DRITISH paratroops recently landed at Berck-sur-Mer, v about 25 miles south of Boulogne, in France, destroyed Nazi aerodromes, wrecked 30 planes, captured 40 Germans, including some pilots, and escaped by sea, according to a despatch from the
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    226 13 THE German Command for Belgium and Northern France has decided that Belgian newspapers, though controlled by Germany and produced In every case by supporters of the "new order," may no longer be sent abroad says a Belgian Correspondent of the Times. London. At the same time
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    NEW YORK'S A.R.P. PLANS
    151 13 PLANS for the defence of New York against air attack were extended recently when Mayor la Quardla announced a scheme to recruit 100,000 auxiliary fire-fighters for roof-spotting and A.R.P. duties. Additionally, the city will recruit a large force of volunteers for repair work in addition. New
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    "Spiritualists" On Increase DISCOVERY IN BRISBANE
    184 13 "Spiritualists" On Increase DISCOVERY IN BRISBANE DEMARKABLE evidence ot the actl- vlties of spiritualists in Brisbane has been uncovered by police as a result of the death of Aircraftman Ellis Francis Sturgess, 28. Sturgess, a trainee from Evans Head air school, was found drowned in a lagoon at Casino. It
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    SENT GIFTS TO DANCER
    202 13 /^IFTS to a well-known dancer who afterwards married into the family of the Duke of Devonshire," were referred to at Bradford County Court, recently. Judge Frankland relused an application for discharge from bankruptcy by William Womersley Gaunt, who was adjudged bankrupt in July. 1930. with liabilities
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    LIGHTS INVITE ROMRS
    34 13 There is definite presumptive evidence" that evsry isolated bomb which fell in Cumberland in recent raids was dropped because lights were being shown, states Col. BallantineDykes, the A.R.P. Controller for Cumberland.
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    Woman Describes Drama In Plymouth Hotel
    431 13 Amniviviui/ wuiuau, an ix.rt.r officer and a Free French naval officer figured in an early morning drama at an hotel described at an inquest in Plymouth. The inquest was on Ferdinand Louis Charles Gamier, a lieutenant in the Free French Navy, who was killed
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    30 13 A hufe cloud of smoke rises over the Western Desert as Australians blow up captured enemy ammunition which they find is of no use to them
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    Nazis Ban Dancing Once Again
    79 13 •"■"•HE curious psychological methods 1 which the Nazi leaders find necessary were demonstrated again when, under the orders of Hlmmler, the Gestapo chief, a ban was again placed on all dancing in Germany "in view of the war with the Soviet." A similar ban has
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    158 13 Russians Find Tamerlane •T*HE skeleton of Tamerlane tne Great, which was disinterred recently at Samarkand, shows that the right leg was shorter than tne left, says a Moscow report. After removing the three-ton marble slab on which the famous dark green jade cover used to rest, the excavators
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    QUEEN MARY GAVE HIM A LIFT
    123 13 QUEEN MARY, seeing a 19-year-old aircraftman trudging along a ccintry road in England, stopped her car, offered him a lift, invited him to sit beside her. and set him down near his own village in time for Sunday dinner. As young Teddy Knight— his
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    GETS UP LIKE A LARK !
    233 13 GETS UP LIKE A LARK No More Tired Feeling How grateful I am for -jood health once more! I used to su<Ter terribly from headaches but since I started taking Fynnon Salt tna: tired feeling Is all gone and I get dp in the morning like a lark!" (Mrs. A.
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    100 13 Fat Dissolved 5 Pounds a Week Are you too fat? Would you like to nave a. beautiful figure like the famous Cinema Stars of Holly wood? A California phyci< lan in treating famous actors and actresses has discovered a safe secret method of cuickly dissolving excess fat /ithout drastic dieting
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    849 14 Dramatize Your Appearance Max Factor's Advice IF you were the casting director of one of Hollywood's motion picture studios, you wouldn't think of casting ingenue Judy Garland in a role which demanded that she present the appearance of a cosmopolitan ultra-sophisticate. Or, to approach this same subject from an opposite
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    355 14 By Marion Morton QNE of the most important things on a woman's dressing table is her handglass. But many of us don't realize it, judging from the number of women who look most attractive until you get a sideways or a back view of them. And as these
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    1365 15  -  R.H. Naylor By SUNDAY, AUG. 24: In time to come you will remember this year of your life as one of the strangest and perhaps one of the happiest you have cv.t experiencea. You will be surprised not only by what happens to you but by
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    1589 15 SHORT of a miracle happening, this weekend it seems that this year's finalists for the Command cricket competition will be the Command Signals and the Manchester Regt. Ihe Signals were given quite a fright by the H.K.S., R.A., in the semi-final. In the first Innings the Gunners scored 104
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      322 15 'THIS WEEK FOR YOU 1 JANUARY (Dec. 21 -Jan. 10) First part of week Important (or business. Clash with old friend or a colleague about Friday ReI latives much In evidence. FEBRUARY (Jan. 30— Feb. 18): If mari ried. advantages through husband/wife. If single, new business link-up or friendship Domestic
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      1494 16 Wireless Programmes and rebroadcast of London's Malay Newsletter; 8.00 p.m. News in Malay; 8.20 pm. Recorded Arabic music; 8 35 p.m. News in Arabic; 8.55 p.m. European Music (records): 9.05 p.m. News In French; 9. 45 p.m. French programme; 10.45 p.m. Close down. NIROM TDB 15.31 me/a (1941 sa.) IDC
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      896 16 EMPIRE STATION EASTERN SKKVK I 6.10 p.m. 11.50 pan. on GSV 17.81 m/cs; 1b.84 metres. GSF 13.11 m/cs: IT.BI metres. GSD 11.75 m/cs: 23.53 metres. NORTH AMERICAN SEBVICE GSD (25 metre band* and GRY (31.25 metres; 9.60 m/est .05 a.m. News: 6.20 a.m. Listening Post An analysis of German propaganda:
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    ACE B.P. MEETING
    66 17 AT the half -yearly meeting of the Ace B P the following were elected offlce-b'-arert President, A. M Ibrahim; vice-president. Low J Wan Soo; hon. secretary, K. Supplah; ho*:, assistant secretary and treasurer. K. A Jalauddin: committee. Misses Low Slew Yon* and Janet Khong and Wong Ah
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    653 17 <By Chir Badminton Correspondent) i THE men's and women's individual Singapore badminton championship events will ?nd this morning when the finals of Uv men's and women's open doubles and the open mixed doubles tournaments will be played The rapid progress made in the running c' these events speaks
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    C.Y.M.A. CRICKET
    92 17 I THK following will play cricket for toe 1 Catholic Young Men's Association against the Ceylon Sports Club on th» I C.V.M.A. ground at St. George's Rwl. i to-day: D. S. Pernandes (Capt.>, V. Lewis, A. Lewis, B. Snares, .Joseph An- thony, John Anthony. Jean Pierre, John Pang.
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    Gelling Up Nights Makes You Old Before Your Time
    373 18 According to statistics, 65 out of ever) 100 men sooner or later are started on the road to premature old ace by prostate (land trouble. One of the commonest symptoms of this dangerous and mysterious -land ailment to the necessity of
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      El Camarilla Upsets To Pay $156 For A Win
      2208 18 THE outstanding feature of the first day's racinf of the Singapore Turf Club's Autumn Gold Cup Meeting at BukiC Timah yesterday was the Mg upset by 'Miss Bella Cinderella's" Australian mare El Camarilla when she won the fifth race to pay
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      Chinese And Malays In Low-Scoring Game
      276 18 BOWLERS of both s.des had a good day at the S.C.R.C. yesterday when the home t^am beat the M.F.A. by 19 runs In a low scoring same. Bowling honours went to Boon Unn ar,< Swee Keng who captured five wi.kets each for 27 and
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      Hull Cup Soccer
      327 18 •From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Saturday. SCORING the winning goal iwo minutes before the end, Belia Clur> tx-at Ponl'.an football association by ths narrow margin of four goals to thie; in the second fixture of the Hull cup competition at the Trade School ground. The opening
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    Three Finals In Singapore Badminton Championships
    622 19 Three Finals In Singapore Badminton Championships MRS Chioiih Hick Chor, of Roseray 8.P.. better known as Miss Wang Sicw Eng, made a brilliant return to i the game yesterday by easi'y winning I Singapore women's open singles badminton title, defeating Miss Youne Book L:an, of MorridaJes by 11— 3, 11-0.
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    Raffles College Athletics
    411 19 SCORING first places m four principal track events, and taking 12 points, E. J. Dorsisamy won the individual championship ai the Raffles College annual atnletic meeting on the college ground yesterday. Cheong Hock Leng, vith seven po nus i (a first place and twe second places), was
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    TALLON'S9FORII
    178 19 BRILLIANT bowling by Tallon of the V.M.C A., who took nine wickets lor 11. w\% tMp outstanding feature of yesterday's cricket match between the V.M.C.A., and the R.A.O.C. played on the V's ground. The V's won by nine wickets. R.A.O.C. Wilson b T iUlii 0; Thomas not out 24;
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    Diamond And Milling To Meet Again
    249 19 Diamond And Milling To Meet Again AN excellent programme of profes- sional fights has bsen arranged for Friday, Sept. 5. at the Happy World stadium, the net proceeds of which are to be devoted to war charities. Two old rivals. Joe Diamond and Rush Milling, top the bill, and Nal
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    Singapore Malays Win In Penang
    165 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penane. Saturday. r\ISAPPOINTING soccer was seen on the Western Road ground this afternoon when the M.F.A. of Singapore beat the Penan* Chinese by one gcal to nil. The Malays appeared to have been aflicted by their strenuous upcountry tour and gave
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    S.C.C. And S.R.C. In Soccer Draw
    111 19 OOINTS were shared between the S.C.C. and tne SRC in a first division league match played at Anson Road stadium yesterday. each side scoring twice. The S.R.C. took the lead early In the first half through Valberg, Hayter equalising Just before the Interval. Hayter
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    Cheah Cup Tennis
    279 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) Batu Pahat. Fthe third annual tournament for the Cheah Cup, Kluang beat Batu Pahat by four games to one, and meet Segamat, the holders. ticme very fine matches were seen, the best being the singles between the first pairs. Daud bin M. Amin
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    J.M.F. BEAT PRISONS
    100 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Saturday. BY five goais to '-wo the Johore Military Forces oeat the Prisons In the first round match of the Hull Cup soccer competition at the Trade School ground yesterday. Attacking from' the start the soldiers showed the.- w:re decidedly the
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    AUSTRALIA MEET ENGLAND AT CRICKET TO-DAY
    125 19 AUSTRALIA MEET ENGLAND AT CRICKET TO-DAY Test Wicket-Keeper Barnett To Play B. A. BARNETT, the Australian Test cricketer who succeeded W. A. O'.dneld as Australia's leading wicketkeeper and who recently arrived in Singapore with the Australian Imperial Forces, will make nis first appearance in Singapore cricket to-day on the Padang.
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    BRITISH SOCCER TROUBLES STILL NOT SETTLED
    175 19 BRITISH SOCCER TROUBLES STILL NOT SETTLED London, Satuiu. >. A LAST-MINUTE effort to reacu a *y football armistice failed when I sixteen clubs in membership of the London Football War League rejected the Football League s proposal for end- j ing the dispute over the fixture problem. When the Football
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    Kinta Indians Beat Singapore For The Bardhan Cup
    245 19 Kinta Indians Beat Singapore For The Bardhan Cup (From Our Own Correspondent.) BSeremr»an. Saturday. V defeating Singapore Indians by three goals to one to-day at Seremban the K.nta Indian Association of Perak won the Bardhan meI morial trophy. This competition is run on the lines of the H.M.S. Malaya Cup,
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    LEAGUE TABLES
    530 19 The following tabk shows the positions of the teams in the S.A.F.A League up to date FIRST DIIVISION r. n. jj. v. r. a. rvs Chinese (B.CPA) 23 16 2 6 65 23 37 30 14 3 3 M 19 31 Loy»b 21 13 5 3 59 28
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    Negri Sports Notes
    481 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ssremban, Aug. 19. 117TTH the rugger season fast ap- proaching prospects of NegnMalacca in the Malaya C\ip rugger competition appear to be very bright if the services of Australian players are available. In both state sides there are players of international reputation. Having
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    Malacca Junior Badminton Finals
    402 19 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Saturday. THE Junior events In th*> Malacca Badminton Association tournament were completed during the week. Results were: Junior Singles (Pinan: Sit Cheng Guan 'Sykes* beat Suicnß bin Mahmud 'White Rose) 13— lt>, 15—12, 15—5; Junior Doub'es (Finale Abdul Rahman and Abdullah
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    F.MJS. Volunteers Meet Police
    310 19 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur Saturday. I*HE F.M S. Volunteer Force com- plied 200 runs for seven wickets against 92 runs scored oy the Malayan Police in the first Innings in their cricket match which started to-day on the Padang. Play will be continued at
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES
    18 20 The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. SO5 Sunday, August 24, 1941 Price 10 Cents
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    First Woman To Pilot A Bomber Across Atlantic
    332 20 WHEN I saw the first woman across the Atlantic she was her pluck and flying skill, but a Daily Herald reporter. to pilot an American bomber being admired, not only for also for her stockings, writes She is Miss Jacqueline Cochran. who
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    Batsman Who Was Ploughed Out
    104 20 A NARBOROUGH, Leicestershire. batsman was "ploughed out" in the match between Carllon Haves Hospital and Narborough, and the official entry of this unique dismissal is in the score-book. It reads: Fox. ploughed out. n. Winter 9. The turning over of part of tht cricket field
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    Torpedoed Thrice, Australian Cook Is Fed Up With Hitler
    90 20 Torpedoed Thrice, Australian Cook Is Fed Up With Hitler AN Australian cook who has been on board three torpedoed ships say 3 he is "bloomin" well ted-up with Hit'er' He is Alf Dal ton, who described his experiences to the Seamen's Church Institute In Philadelphia < Pennsylvania After one torpedoing
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    Italy Bombed Only Seventy Times In Year
    116 20 POM the time Italy entered the war— June 11, 1940 until last week 844 air alerts had been soundec I in various places in Italy. The actual number of raids in j which bombs were dropped was only 1 70. The number of
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    Edinburgh Gayest City In Britain
    248 20 Edinburgh Gayest City In Britain EDINBURGH looks much like it used to, except that It has been invaded by the English, writes a Daily Telegraph war correspondent. The Invasion from the south is probably because Edinburgh has not been touched by Nazi bombs since October 1939 when Rosyth naval base
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    ITALY'S GRAIN CONTROL
    33 20 •TPHE Italian Minister of Agriculture has ordered the compulsory declaration of all grain in the country. In future the State will control the sale of cereals at a fixed price.
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    P.G. Wodehouse Replies To His Critics
    82 20 P.G. Wodehouse Replies To His Critics I*HE English author. P. G. Wodehouse. in a broadcast over the German radio, answered attacks on his action in speaking over the air from Germany by stating: "My talks are designed s.nrniy to acknowledge the hundreds of c ympathetl: lett^rr from Ameri-rms. "My broadcasts
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    Captured British Generals Tend Vegetable Garden
    268 20 POUR captured British generals are now living a Swiss Family Robinson existence at Sulmona. Italian prisoner-of-war camp, 30 miles east of Rome. One-armed and one-eyed Qen. Carton de Wtart, V.C twice wounded in the Boer War. eight times wounded in the Great War and
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    Shaw Calls Stalin No. 1. Statesman
    138 20 QEORGE Bernard Shaw rates Stalin first, President Roosevelt I second, and "the rest nowhere" among world statesmen. Shaw says this in a ne e on the flyleaf of a book lent him by an official of the People's Convention, a Socialist organization in Britain.
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    Fresh Nazi Campaign Of Terror
    163 20 THE German Gauleiter Greiser, Governor of Wartheland. in occupied Poland, has added to his crimes one without equal even in German occupations. His newspaper, the Ostdeutscher Beobachter, published on June 10 an announcement by the German Chtet Attorney in Wartheland that by Greiser's order three
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