Shonan Times (Syonan Shimbun), 16 May 1942

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  • 29 1 THE SYONAN TIMES 140 Cecil Street, Syonan-to Telephone 5471. No. 74 SATURDAY, MAY 16, KOKI 2602, SYOWA 17 5 Cents Saturday Supplement SATURDAY, MAT 16, KOKI 2<>o2, STOWA 17
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  • 689 1 OVER CORAf, SEA Statements Which Have 'Let Cat Out Of The Bag' GLOOMY VIEWS EXPRESSED BY FORDE AND CURTIN Tokyo, May 15. By Radio. COMMENTING upon the enemy propaganda regarding the Battle of the Coral Sea, Mr. Tomokazu Hori, spokesman of the Board of Information, at
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  • 155 1 Lisbon, May 15. By Radio. ACCORDING to the Australian Radio, the headquarters of the anti-Axis forces in the south-west Pacific announced on Thursday that Port Moresby was subjected to another air raid by the Nippon air force on May 13. The report said that the
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  • 88 1 Tokyo. May 15, By Radio. THE distinguished services rendered by Capt. Ohira, chief of the air reconnaissance corps in Burma has been graciously heard by Tenno-Heika, the War Ministry announced on Thursday afternoon. Since the opening: of the Burma campaign, Capt. Ohira had fulfilled
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  • 324 1 Manila. May 15, by Radio. THE glorious war successis achieved by our forces in the occupation oi Corregidor Island and all naval bases along the mouth of Manila Bay were announced at 6 p.m. Thursday by our Expeditionary Forces in the Philipp.nes The results
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  • 179 1 Lisbon. May 14. Domei. v)OHY reports revealed that the V French Government had renewed its piomise to the United States tlwt vnrshios based at Martinique in the wS Indie? would not come into the possession of the Axis Powers. The report added thai, at the samj
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  • 578 1 Berlin, May 14, Dome). ACCORDING to a German High Command communique, the Geri.ian army Is now in pursuit of the routed Red Army in the Kerch Peninsula, while Kerch city was heavily combed by the German air force. A fierce fight is now In
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  • 318 2 Long Trek To Prison Camp In Mindanao Described By a Domei correspondent Malay-Balay, Mindanao, May 14. AN unending procession of haggard, war-torn, hungry and disillusioned Filipino and American forces, who surrendered to our forces following the- fall of Corregidor Island, to-day trudged along
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  • 69 2 Tokyo, May 15. Domei. DOUR hundred and fifty million perj sons last year attended dramas, I movies and other amusements showing a tea-million increase over the 1940 survey by the Police Bureau, the Home Office revealed. The statistics revealed an increased number of theatre-goers in the
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  • 63 2 Usbop. May 13 Domei. INDICATIVE ot the serious threat of 1 inflation in the United States which the Roosevelt administration is desperately attempting to stave off by various control measures, the United States last month spent an aggregate $3,421,000,G00 as war expenditure or an average
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  • 43 2 Lisbon. May 14. Domei. CHUNGKING dispatches reaching here indicate that the Chungking spokesman disclosed that vanguards of the Nipgon troops were now 60 miles west ofT»aoshan and 200 miles insidu the Yunnan border on thr Burma road
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  • 154 2 Berlin. May 14. Dome! DL\ EALING the successes scored by j German submarines against Amerl- can shipping, the German newsagency disclosed that 180 United States merchant vosels, aggregating 1,873,400 tons, had been sunk by the Reich U-boats during the pest five months. The report said
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  • 72 2 HEADING FOR INDIA-BURMA-CHINA BORDER Lisbon. May 15. By Radio. A CCORDING to a Reuter dispatch from London, the Nippon force.which occupied Myitkyina in Burm,t 500 kilometres north of Mandalay hav^ continued their ceaseless advance and are now pushing forward to the point where the borders of India. Burma and China
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 569 2 ADVERTISEMENTS PERSONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM byobderoi Personal or business adver- BEER GARDEN THE EASTERN AJTTO CO., tlsements will be accepted at the office of The Syonan Times 307. EAST COAST ROAD LTD. In Cecil Street Usual Sunday Cold Beer ■■nai A¥^ Rate- $2 per Insertion of one Open 10 a.m.—B p.m.
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    • 211 2 NOTICE This is to inform the Public that I will pay very good prices for slightly old second-ham: Watches oi the following makes —OMEGA. MOVADO. ELGIN LONGIN. WALTHAM. MIDO ETERNA. VULCAIN. CYMA TISSOT. ETC. S. P. H. DE SILVA, Watchmaker and Jeweller. No. 53, High Street. 73—76. NOTICE Re Messrs.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 209 2 LEARN NIPPON-GO! (NIPPON-GO O MANABE!) We are all now Tenno-Heika's subjects! (Warera wa subete Tenno-Heika no tami da!) LESSON No. 72. English Nippon-Go Pronunciation What are you nani o kaite imasu nahnee oh kaheeteh writing? ka? eemahs kah? I am writing a watakusi no kyodai watahkshee noh keeohdai letter to
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  • 651 3 Serious Plight Of British And U.S. Forces 1 Buenos Aires. May 14, Domei. 'HE serious plight of the British I forces in Burma in the face \ot the lightning swiftness of our advance into Northern Burma and sabotage by the Burmese populace, who are openly supj
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  • 113 3 THE following is the programme of music to be played at the Eyonan Gekizyo by the Syonan Orchestra to-dav and to-morrow. The Orchestra is under the direction of Geza Gerentser and will i bo conducted by Feri Krempl. 1. National March, Aikoku Kooshin, Kyoku. Arranged by
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  • 85 3 Wavelength: 25 m. 225 m. Frequency: 12 Mcs. 1,333 Kcs TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME 11.30 a.m. Special Sunday Morn ing Broadcast: Malay music by the Sakura Party from the Studio. 12.20 p.m. Interval; 6.00 Special Programme for the entertainment of the Imperial troops; 7.00 Nippon-jo News relayed from Tokyo;
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  • 173 3 Tokyo, May 15, Domei. "THE Nippon radio which is being heard in Iran is effectively blasting unreliable enemy propaganda and is winning its battles in this war," Colonel Kazuo Murasawa, Military Attache to our Legation in Teheran, declared yesterday on his return. He added
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 344 3 NOTICE RE ESTABLISHMENT OF MAIL SERVICES BETWEEN SYONAN-TO AND OTHER PARTS OF MALAYA The postal letter mail service has now been restored between Syonan-to and ail parts of Malaya, with the exception of Kelantan and Trengganu. Former rates of postage apply and the following classes of postal matter are admissible
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    • 100 3 PAYA LEBAR METHODIST CHURCH (Opposite Paya Lebar Police Station). SUNDAY Divine Service of Worship at 11.30 a.m. (Tokyo time). CEYLANC STRAITS CHINESE METHODIST CHURCH (Meeting at St. Hilda's Church. 11, Ceylon Road). SUNDAY Divine Service of Worship at 1.30 p.m. (Tokyo time, METHODIST TAMIL CHURCH SUNDAY 9.3C (11 Tokyo time)
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    • 402 3 YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LTD. (Incorporated In Japan) 21. Collyer Quay, Syonan Tele. No. 6922 Manager 5930 Sub-Manager 5939 Accountant's Dept. 3i)38 Current A/C. Dept 5937 Cashier's Dept. 7851 Compradore's Room 7842 Manager's Residence BUSINESS HOURS:— Weekdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Tokyo time) Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Tokyo
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  • 180 4 Tokyo, May 15. Domei. THE brilliant victories scored by our Navy and naval 'air arm during the .six months following the outbreak of the Greater East Asia War, will be handed down to posterity as a 245-page document, replete with action pictures including
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  • 247 4 Buenos Aires, May 15. Domei. THAT the heavy demands of priority materials on the limited shipping space have left virtually no space for ordinary commercial exports from the United States, was revealed in the Time Magazine of May 11. The journal quoted shipping agent, Edwin
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  • 110 4 Berlin. May 14. By Radio. THE Canadian Government on Tues- day announced the sinking of an American freighter by an Axis submarine in the St. Lawrence Rive-. The German newsagency DNB on Wednesday also confirmed the sinking as having been the act of
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  • 369 4 Campaign To Restore Peace Order In Central Hupeh From an undisclosed Nippon tease in Central Hupeh, May 15. Domei. THE cardinal objective of the current lanre-s-^le Nippon military campaign in central Hupeh Is aimed not only at the complete destruction of the Chinese Communist forces in that nrea, but at
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  • 305 4 Nankin?, May 15, Domei. IT is reported that consternation reigns in Chungking with the Chungking, British and United States leaders conferring feverishly on the defense of the Southern Chinese border as the Nippon forces from Burma
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  • 116 4 Canton. May 15. Domei. FOLLOWING the recent promulgation of the national military service registration system, a great number of youths in areas under the Chungking regime are becoming: priests, monks or seeking some other means to evade conscription, information reaching here from Chungking
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  • 108 4 Manila, May 15. By Radio. MR. George H. Vargas, chief administrator of the Philippines, has decided to hold victory celebrations on May 18 at various places in the islands. In order to congratulate the Imperial Nippon forces on their brilliant victory and to
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  • 73 4 Buenos Aires, May 15. By Radio. THE western coast of the United States is exposed to Nippon air raids, U.S. War Secretary. Henry L. Stimson, admitted at a press conference on Wednesday, when newspapermen touched on the topic of frequent black-outs along the western
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  • 104 4 Berne, May 15. By Radio. THE Exchange Telegraph corres- pondent revealed on Wednesday that the British forces to Burma who have retreated to India under the command of Gen. Sir Harold Alexander lost half oi its 30.000 men, with numerous wounded among the enemy
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  • 123 4 Lisbon, May 15, By Radio. WITH her supply routes from her granaries in India and Australia cut as a result of deteats sustained in the Greater East Asia War, the shortage of tood in Encland is becoming much more Jtsrioue. a London dispatch Indicates.
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  • 148 4 Berne, May 14. Domei THAT Churchill may shirk the unpleasant task of presenting the House of Commons with a review of the British disasters on land, sea and air in the SouthWest Pacific in the promised debate on the war situation, was indicated
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  • 119 4 Buenos Aires, May 14. Domei. IT is reported from Melbourne that Sir Keith Murdoch, the Australian newspaper owner, writing in the Melbourne Herald, warned against underestimation of Nippon and asserted that the Americans and British who were trusting their leaders to make full dis positions for
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  • 155 4 Buenos Aires, May 14. Domei INDICATING the frantic BritLsn efforts to rally the United States people to the British war effort, is the impending appointment, say London reports, of Mr. Harold Butler who WM for many years Director of the International Labour Office,
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  • 474 5 Need For Relieving Distress Amo ng Poor ON my return from Tokyo, I found that peace and order have been established in Syonan and that the Nippon authorities both civil and military are trying their best to make the citizens of this town happy and prosperous
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  • 234 5 AN African eclipse has cast a I dark shadow over Canada which has hitherto been maintaining unchallenged the unique distinction of being the proud possessor of the only living quintuplets (the Dionnes, all five girls), in the whole world, states a Domei report from Vichy. The
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  • 152 5 A DOMEI message from Lisbon states that, testifying to the effectiveness of the Nippon naval action in the Pacific, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a 22--year-old seaman, who arrived In Australia, revealed that four separate ships in which he served were sunk by
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  • 98 5 Berne, May 12. Domei. |T Is reported from Washington that the increasing shortage of rubber supplies was indicated In the War Production Board's latest, order cutting down the amount of elastic fabrics usable in women's foundation garments hy approximately 50 per cent. The War
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  • 467 5  -  RAO AS AVAKINAjM The time has come, the walrus said To talk of many things, Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings. L. Carrol. 'THE news of the sinking of the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga initiates an interesting line of thought in my
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  • Article, Illustration
    618 6 IT was only the other day that the hope was expressed to this column that something would :be done to introduce the Nippon touch in the aesthetic embellishment of Syonan. Since then we have had the welcome announcement that a Shrine, "Syonan Zinzya," is to be erected
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  • 2259 6 "Health Is Wealth:" V THE fifth talk in the series "Health is Wealth" will be on "food." The first part of this talk on "food constituents" will be dealt with this week. The second part on "energy values of foods and requiremenits, constitution
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  • 799 6  - Radio Flashes Comments —CHARLES NELL. MR. JOHN CURTIN, the Prime Minister of Australia, relerred in the House of Representatives, the other day, to the recent Great Sea and Air Battle in the South West Pacific, in an atmosphere of tense silence. He said that although this battle would not decide
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  • 486 7 AN interesting story of a 11--year-old Burmese youth nicknamed 'Taro' who aided our forces in Moulmein area acting as interpreter-chauffeur was told by the Army Press section correspondent in Burma to Domei. The correspondent said: "While on Press duty in a small village,
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  • 59 7 THE Military Administration in Malaya is planning the creation of a large research institute at a cost of ¥3,000,000 which will study the religious, educational, ethnological, geographical and historical aspects of Malaya as well as carry on industrial, financial and administrative research, Domei reports. Leading Nippon
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  • 277 8  -  Tate Ikkei no Okimi o, Hikari to towa ni itadakite, I Sinmin warera mina tomom, Mutu ni sowan daisimei, Yuke, Hakko o it to nasi, Sikai no hito o Mitibikite, Tadasiki hciwa utitaten, Riso wa hana to Saki kaoru. (3) Ima ikutabika waga ue ni, i
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