Malaya Tribune, 9 August 1935

Microfilm: NL4046
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    40 1 The Malaya Tribune Malaya's First National Newspaper: Guaranteed Largest Sales Vol XXII. -No. ISO SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935 FIVE CENTS, The Malaya Tribune. Singapore: Friday, Aug. 9, 1935. Malaya Tribune 20 PAGES. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1935. FIVE CENTS.
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      117 1 7tf*J TkDominant In <^Malaya WALTER HOENE Light Railway Materials KAILS, POINTS CROSSINGS, IT L* NT A BEES PLATFORM, lIH TANK HIMMN(, wagons JBBB 0F A, L DESCRIPTIONS STKAM AN!) DIESEL LOCOI or further particulars apply to SOLE AGENTS: (Incorporated i S.S. > j MILK AT ITS BEST j j SINGAPORF/S
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      343 1 IKK "CONTAX* CAMERA Stol* A it* 111* -mm THE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT CO, PjO. Box M. SINGAPORE. ■il I I mill ii. i ii i i f Himalaya Bouquet n »°se who do nut use HIMALAYA BOUQUET TOILET PS T VRATIONS cannot know just how r-erfectlv delightful they arp. I i
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    Shipping News & Notices. A TYNE RECORD
    501 2 Shipping News Notices. A TYNE RECORD Largest All-Welded Ship Launched MESSRS Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Wallaend, who a ten weeks ago delivered the largest allwelded oil tanker yet built, set up another record by launching the largest all-welded vessel m the world, a record hitherto he'd by America.
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    ATLANTIC TRAFFIC
    185 2 Normandie And Queen Mary May Co-Operate (By Air Mail* Southampton, July 22. An agreement may shortly be reached by which *he two giant Atlantic liners Queen Mary" and Normandie will not vie as rivals but co-operate to share the traffic of the Atlantic between them. This was the
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    THE LEVIATHAN
    392 2 Scheme To Use Her As A School Ship UNDER a $6,000,000 (£1,000.000 at par) works project, states Washington me.; sage, the United Statis Lines' Leviathan, which is now laid up in New York, would be used as a school ship, particularly with. a view to trabiing American citizens
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      424 2 STEAMER SAILINGS Pi Ward BRITISH INDIA I» 0 S N. Col SAILINGS: OUTWARDS. Due Tannage. Singapore. 1935. i>*j»j ik v 17,000 Aug. It MIKDWAN 6,070 Aug. 29 I AiPUTANA 17,000 Aug. <J0 i 11,000 Sept. 6 < HITRAL 15,000 Sept. 13 DMA! I 0,810 Sept. 25 i VTII V 15,000
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      450 2 HEAP ENG MOH S.S. CO., LIMITED. (RED FUNNEL LINE) (Incorporated in Straits Settlements) REGULAR PASSENGER and Cargo Services from Singapore to Java, j Borneo. Banka and Billiton. For BATAVIA, CIIERIBON AND j SEMARANG (Every Tuesday and Friday) S.S. NAM YONG Fri. Aug. 0 j b i BAN HONG UONG Tues.
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      208 2 N.Y.KJL IN E GENERAL PASSENGER AGEI«S. CUNARD WHITE STAR, LTD. (Incorporated in Jap* ll NEW KEDUCĔO FARES TO EUROPE VTA SUEZ. Ist 2nd. C4Q7 sr,.io $317 $348 Napll'S nnc B. ika Next Sailingss 8 lIARUNA MARU Aug. 22 Lt KATORI MARU Sept. 5 ss. KASHIMA MARU %J- nl YASUKUNI MARU
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      509 2 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE. BANGKOK LINE. Luxurious One Class Itotorships. Most Cabins have adjoining private bath. Excellent Cuisine. FOR GENOA, LONDON, ROTTERDAM. HAMBURG AND COPENHAGEN. From From From From Spore Malacca Port Penang M.S. Sham ERRIA 20-8 20-8 21-8 23-S LALANDIA 17-9 17-9 18-9 20-9 JUTLANDIA 8-10 8-10 9-l0 11-10
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      459 2 STEAMER SAILINGS NORDDEUTSCHE» LLOYD. W m (Incorporatjd m v Germany > The undernoted are the Company's intended fixtures:— OUTWARDS. 1930. "ODER" for Hongkong, Shanghai, North China and Japan Aug. "TRAVST for Hongkong, Shanghai, North China and Japan Sept HOMEWARDS. For Hot tenia m, Hamburg Br err. "FRANKEN" also calls Genoa,
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    TO-DAY'S MARKET POSITION
    201 3 Kl'BBER PRICE IP SLIGHTLY Little trading (ioiny On Singapore, I* riday morning. Ikt Singapore), 19\/> cts., up 14 cts. Market Tone: Quiet. .>; (Singapore), .S110%, down 1 Vfo 'jV day's Prices: lion: .")!|(i., down 1 16d. .i>.t; Tone; Steady after easier. York: 11 15 16 "cts., up
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    Financial News & Views LATEST SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS
    21 3 Financial News Views LATEST SINGAPORE SHARE QUOTATIONS Trie following share quotations are issued by Fraser and Co., and Lyail and Evatt:—
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    MINING
    589 3 Singapore, Friday, 10 a.m. Issue yaL' va.ut: a, uo. 6c cJvatt 4 Ampat 4 4 6 4 3 4 6 £1 A. Kumbang 33- 34- 32 ."i II A. Malay 5y 6 60 6 58 6 60 6 D- A. liitam i3 14- la- 143>1 A. Weilg 1.80 1.85
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    DEBENTURES AND LOANS
    153 3 itJSUEO 3Y FRASER CO. EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL Buyer» seU^w. 3% 1901 red. 1®40 MOO,000 tt Mar. SI, eept. 2Q 108 nom iy 2 1907 red. 1947 it 600.00U Interest M»r. 31 Sept 30 112 "I m 4V 2 °V i909 red 1955 $1,000,000 Interest
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    RUBBER
    369 3 Singapore, Friday, lv a.m. Italic Value. Krasx r Lyall and Simies. and C«> Svatt. 1 Allenby 1.55 1.05 1.55 1.65 IA. Gajah 1.00 1.10 1.05 1.10 1 A. Hitam 1.50 I.fMI 1.45 1.55 1 A. Molek 0.85 0.90 0.87 0.92 2A. Malay 2.75 2.85 2.90 3.00 1 A Panas
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    GENERAL
    379 3 "3 H U t> OU5> issue Fraser Ljali Value. Co. Kvatt. $2 A. Brick Ord. 1.25 135 1.25 1.35 $2 A. Brick 7*fc% Pre 1.75 1.85 1.65 1.75 $10 Atlas Ice 12.25 12.75 12.25 12.75 B..VT. 122 6 129 6 119 122« 40 B.M. Broadcasting .2V 2 dis. 2V
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    TEN YEAR NOTE ISSUE
    57 3 Canada Negotiating With United States Reuter wireless. New York, Aug. 2. The Canadian Government is reported to be negotiating here for the flotation of $76,000,000 ten-year note issue at 212 per cent., the proceeds being primarily for repayment of the one year bank loan contracted in
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    "BREEZE" IN THE TIN MARKET
    889 3 Strong Comment VNTI-BUFFEU POOL CRITICISM (My Air Mail) 1From Our Otrri Correspondent) London, July 24. /V\ E seems forced by recent events to one of two conclusions. 1. that the tin market is outstandingly steeped in iniquity, or 2. that the I.T.C. harbours a perversity
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    STOCK MARKETS
    27 3 British Official Wireless. London. Auft. 8. STERLING on New York is Ut--51«, Pans 74-1515, Gold 140>. 6d. Meek \laik».s com., but steady, British OfllcisJ Wireless.
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION
    169 3 Prices Realised At Weekly Sale Singapore, Thursday. THE Singapore Chambi-r or Commerce Rubber Association held its 1238ih Auction, to-day when there were:— Catalogued 1,364.498 lbs.—609.15 tons. Offered. 1.334.701 lbs.- 505.85 tons. Sold 1.142.335 lbs.—500.97 tons. London—Spot 5% New York—11.13 16 cts. prices realized Ribbed Smoked Sheet Cent
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    SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    87 3 DAILY PRICES CURRENT. Singapore, Friday noon. Buyers. Sellers. No IX.RS.S. in cases (FOB August) 19% Good F A.Q. in cases (F O B. August) 19 5 16 19/16 y 0 IX RSS. (Spot-loose) (awardable S'pore) 19% 19% Ho. Aue\ I9 a i 19% do. Sept. 19%
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    ULU PANDAN (S) RUBBER
    287 3 Profit For Year Of $36,391 THE report of the directors of the Ulu Pandan (Singapore) Rubber Estates, Ltd., for the year ended Apr. 30 and which will be submitted at the annual meeting to be .held at French Bank Buildings, Singapore, 011 Aug. 16, at noon,
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    SUGAR IN CHINA
    137 3 $2,000,000 Factory To Be Erected In Fukien Singapore, Friday. MR. Chen Shih, a member of the Ministry of Industry in Nanking, arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way back to China from Java. He has visited the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, looking over sugar factories
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      233 3 THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK LIMITED, .MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Tapital Fully Raid Yen 100,<HMM>00. Reserve Fund Yen 125,800,000. HEAD OFFICE: YOKOHAMA. BRANCHES I nndria, Batavia. ilamburg, Hankow, Harbin, Honolulu, Hngkong, Hsing, Kara hi, Kobe, London, Los Angeles, Manila, M ji, Nagasak Xagoya, New York, ft ping, Rangoon, Rio do Janeiro,
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      23 3 SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., (Incorporated in New Zealand). FIRE, MARINE, MOTOR and WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. L. C. MARGOLIOUTH, Manager OFFICE: 2. FINLAYSON GREEN.
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      290 3 MederJandsche HandeJ-MaatsciiappiJ, N. V. (NETHERLAADS TRADING SOCIETY) Established in Amsterdam. 1824. HEAD OFFICE: AMSTERDAM. WITH BRANCHES IN ROTTEROAAJ AiN u ilib HAGL b. BATAVIA. Branches throughout) the Dutch East Indies and y» the Straits Settlements, TMi*, China, Japan »nd Arabia LONDON BANKERS: The National Provincial liana. Limited, Correspondents in the
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      510 4 M. H4SSAN, I N4 f) ftRAP RASAB ROAD I SINGAPORE. r We undertake all sorts of work in electrical, gas and water service lines. We give prompt attention to all orders c fther big or small. Why not consult us about your requirements Estimate submitted upon re- quest without charge
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      657 4 PIANOFORTE STUDIO 75, SOPHIA ROAD. Lessons in Pianoforte Playing. Special THONE 2814. PUBLIC NOTICES. AUCTION SALE OF Valuable freehold la.nl situate at Orchard Road (near Angullia Park Road) Singapore, areas 26 082 sq. ft., 2,587 .sq. 750 b(| tT To be held at The saleroom < f Messrs. Cheong Koon
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      824 4 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. j NOTICE TO MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS VACCINATION The Munic pal Health Officer is anxious •o complete the departmental records as to the number of Vaccinations (excluding Primary vaccinations) carried out during the year. All Medical Practitioners are, therefore, requested to send in returns up to date (and thereafter monthly)
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      591 4 j ,Im, iii miiiiiimn i I* i! |t if it '1111 111 W mum nm m 9 I l^-BBOKTOBB"! A Marvellous Tooth-ache cure! I When toothache begins to make you sore It s time you ought to know I The pain will vanish from your jaw I W ith a
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      417 4 NOTICE. The public is hereby notified that the coffee shop business carried on by Ahmad Sultan at No. 320 Telok Ayer Street, Singapore, has this day been sold to Cheng Ec Moy and thai- the said business w.ll be carried on by the said Cheng Ec Moy. All debts incurred
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      283 4 If You desire REAL SATISFACTION I Bo sure you take all your CLOCKS, WATCHES GRAMOPHONES that go wrong to Yick Woh Hing 429, NORTH BRTDGE ROAD, (Near Middle Road) CONTR ACTORS FOR THE REPAIR OF CLOCKS W ATCHES TO THE BRITISH ARMY AM) R.A.F. BASE, MALAYA. ETESIGHT Safeguard your eyes—they
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    ROTARIANS GATHER AT SEREMBAN
    164 5 V isit Of The Singapore Club Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Aug. V. i j Club ol Seremban wore at to Singapore Rotartan dviBank Holidays. At Rhu Dickson, the President of the Club the Hon. Mr. J. W. W. om< d the visitors at tiffin. R Aaron
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    MR. LEE KONG CHIAN
    220 5 Kmbarking On Trip Round The World Singapore, Thursday. X ng Chiun. the managing Lee Rubber Co., Ltd.. pie Co., Ltd.. and the Lions, will be sailing by the next Tuesday for a trip r >und the world. Mr. Lee will proceed he will disembark and Europe
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    JOHORE NOTES AND NEWS
    123 5 Traffic Platforms In Use At Junctions Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Aug. 7. Hon Mr. YV. E. Pepys. General bore, who was a patient in tl Hospital, Johore Bahru. ft hosnital. Mi; a bin Yusof. Assistant Com- r ol Police: Johore Bahru, has lour months leave,
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    FRIEND MURDERED
    457 5 MARKET LIST The Current Singapore Prices MEAT Beef, steak, kati 32 Beef, stew or curry, kati 25 Fillet, steak, per.lb. 45 Mutton, Australian, per lb. 30 Pork, lean, kati 44 Pork, lean and fat (Ist quality), kati 35 POULTRY Capons locally reared), kati 50 Ducks, each 40 Fowls, kati 30
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    MARKET LIST
    180 5 WIRELESS FOR PAPUA Broadcasting Station To Be Erected It if understood that a broadcasting service will seen be in operation in Papua. A nev statioi to be known as iPM. win shortly be erected at Por:- Moresby, and eperat* on a wave-length of 221 m. The transmitter, wh'ch is of
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    WIRELESS FOR PAPUA
    150 5 BUILDING FOR SALE Where League's Secretariat Worked Geneva. The bui'd ng in whi h for the last fifteen yea:s Europe's post-war history has been made while housing -he Secretariat of the League of Nations, s for sale. Before the end of the y:ar it is hoped to move the six
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    BUILDING FOR SALE
    63 5 THE (BURGLAR) ALARM CLOCK RtocJ&oim. Roused by an alarm clock, a park keeper, Artur Johansson at Hasaiarp near Aangelholm was able to catch thieves ransacking his house. When his clock rang Johansson went downstairs and found thieves going through his possessions. They fled but one was Tho second man was
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    THE (BURGLAR) ALARM CLOCK
    6 5 FRIEND MURDERED Mbanian Monarch Orders investigation
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      75 5 L i ill i i. STILL CHEAPER AIR TRAVEL! H! > By I i I IMPERIAL AIRWAYS j I I 1 FOUR ENGINED AIRCRAFT I S I from I UIALftYA to LONDON —£140 j This special reduced faro is in force during the I I 'off-season' commencing 23rd July; normal
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      250 5 A Nightly Dose Will Banish Scores of DAILY ILLS Whether you are a victim of Lassitude, Liverishncss, Indigestion, Headaches, Lost Vitality, or Impure Blood, Beecham's Fills remove the CAUSE naturally and safely By Toning, f ßegulating and Purifying the System they bring about that harmonic and perfect functioning which is
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      195 5 BERLIN, SHORT-WAVE STATION Wireless Programme For To-Day (DJB: 19.74 Metres: DJN: .11.45 Metres; DJQ: 19.63 Metres). 4.05 pm. DJB, DJN Announcement (Germ., Engl.). German Folk Song. Programme Forecast (Germ.. Engl.). 4.20 p.m. Woman's Programme: I for You and You for Me. Women Students assisting Factory Workers. 4 50 p.m. News
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      380 5 PHOHI, HOLLAND Wireless Programme For To-Day (PCJ: 19.71 Mitres). 7.50 p.m. Dutch National Anthem and ipening announcement. 8 p.m. Records. 8.05 p.m. "Our children in Holland." Talk ay M ss E. Haafkens. 8.20 p.m. Records. 8.30 pm. Viol n recital by Louis Somer. 8.45 p.m. Records. 8 50 p.m. "Latest
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      249 5 TO-DAY'S EMPIRE PROGRAMME Herman Darewski And His Band TO-DAY'S Empire wireless programme is as follows:— TRANSMISSION 2. 620 p.m. Big Ben. An Organ Recital by Ernest W. Mayriard, relayed from Batn Abbey. 0.50 p.m. The 8.8.C. Dance Orchestra. Greenwich Time Signal at 7.20 p.m. 7.88 p.m. "Going Up!" By Cecil
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    JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW— TO-DAY'S SHIPPING
    152 6 JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW TO-DAY'S SHIPPING VESSELS ARRIVED Anshun. British, 1,869 tons, from Hongkong 9.8, to Hongkong and China 14.8 Kut Sang, British, 3,643 tons, from Calcutta 9.8 to Hongkong 10.8. Ardent, Norwegian, 1.101 tons, from Cochin 9.8 to Bangkok 9.8. Albert Sarraut, 1,132 tons, from Saigon 9.8
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    NOTICE TO MARINERS
    57 6 A message has been received at the Master Attendant's Office from H M.S. "Herald" to the effect that as a result of re-survey the red buoy marking the three southern banks in North Klang Straits has been shifted about 2% cables to north-eastwards, a position of 9.8
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    HARBOUR BOARD
    108 6 3H T PS ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE Singapore, Aug. 9. East Wharf (Entrance Gate 1) Nil. Main Wharf (Entrance Gate 3) Minderoo 16; Kutsang 13; Plancius 9. Empire Lock (Entrance Gate 3) Akibasan Maru 30; Himalaya Maru 32; Greystoke Castle 34. Empire Dock (Entrance Gate
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    MOTOR INDUSTRY
    184 6 Great Expansion In United Kingdom London, Aug. 8. STATISTICS issued by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, show a great expansion of the British motor industry. The industry gives work to nearly a million and quarter people in the manufacture, sale, repair and operation of motor vehicles
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    MAILS EXPECTED
    82 6 Mails expected from Australia, Netherlands Indies, etc., by Air time of delivery of boxholders' letters only 3.30 p.m. and general delivery of letters 4.05 p.m. to-morrow. Mails expected from Netherlands Indies, by Air (Netherlands*, time of delivery of boxholders' letters only 3.30 p.m. and general delivery of letters
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    MONEY MARKET
    209 6 SELLING Singapore, Aug. 9. London 4 months' sight 2 3 31 32 London 3 months' sight 2 3 15 16 London 60 days' sight 2 3 29 32 London 30 days' sight London demand 2 3 27.32 London T.T. 3 ''JJJ Lyons and Paris demand »63 Hamburg demand
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    STERLING EXCHANGE
    110 6 British Official Wireless. London, Aug. 8 Paris 74 59 64. New York 4.96 3 a Montreal 4.95 1/ 2 Brussels 29.39. Geneva 15.16'2Amsterdam 7.33. Milan 60 3 8 Berlin 12.29. Stockholm 19.39 1 2. Copenhagen 22.39 Oslo 19.90 y 2 Vienna 26V4. Prague 119 3 8 Helsingfors 226%.
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    PRODUCE
    189 6 Singapore, Aug. 9. R (Siam) W. Coast No. 1 per Koyan $142 R (Siam) W. Coast No. 2 per Koyan $140 R (Siam) W. Coast No. 3 per Koyan $138 Rice, B. Siam, No. 1 pc: Koyan $108 Rice, B. Siam, No. 2 per Koyan $105 Siam, Rice 1
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    PASSENGERS
    66 6 Singapore, Friday. 1 The following passengers arrived m Singapore from Europe by the Yasukuni Maru yesterday: Mr. S. Bunnag. MLss S. Bunnag, Miss T. Bunnag. Mr. Mrs. E G Enuland. M. C.i C. Kityakara, Mr.' ana Mrs. J W T Muson, Miss Mendelsohn Mr/and Mrs. G. W. Seabridge, H
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    DIARY OF THE DAY WHAT'S ON?
    180 6 Public Functions And Sports Fixtures TO-DAY, AUG. 9 High Tides.—5.26 a.m., 5 p.m. EAiiibition Tennis Match Dy Mr. Henri Cochet, Goodwood Park Hotel, 5 p.m Football: 15 Rugby Players v. 12 Soccer Players, S.C.C.; Friendly, S.J.I, v. R.L, R.I. ground. Rangoon Road School Sports,
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    AMUSEMENTS
    68 6 ALHAMBRA.—"Now or Never" and "Gift of Gab." CAPlTOL—"Sanders of the River.' EMPIRE. —"My Past.' GREAT WORLD—Cabaret Danclni Side-shows, Malay Operas, Chinese Wayangs, Cinemas, Talkies, etc. HOLLYWOOD.—DoubIe talkies. ISAKG'S ClRCUS.—(Kallang Road".— 9.30 p.m. MARLBOROUGH.—Indian Talkie. NEW WORLD.—Cabaret Dancing Side-shows, Malay Operas Chinese Wayangs. Cinemas, Talkies, etc. PAVILION.—"It's A Bet." RITZ
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    BRITAIN SPENDING MORE
    216 6 ndications Of Increased Prosperity London, Aug. 8. THE greater prosperity of the country is reflected in holiday exp nditure this year and of higher levels, of which there are various indications. Railway traffic returns are an example. The t'otai receipts of th: four main l;nf railways for
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    STOWAWAY REPATRIATED
    95 6 Australian Journalist In Search Of Copy An Australian journalist. Charles Edward St: wart, aped 31, who was sen tdßTed to one month'? simple imprisonment on July 1 in Colombo for stow ng aw;y on the M.M Athos 11.. was patriated in the M M Chfrnonreaux on July 29.
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    THE BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE
    38 6 The ETnardin de St. Picre Is due here from Pondicherry en Tuesday, Aucr. 13. at 7 a.m. and will sail on the Mine day at l p.m. for Saigon, Tom a:.- And Haiphong.
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      901 6 J ,i i i iiii i 11 1 4 1 1 ***^m*m_mv*. SINGAPORE HOffLS 7r mill ""I sg^ MALAYA'S PREMIER HOTEL J[ TO-NIGHT I COCKTAIL DANCE 6.:i0 TO 8.15 P.M. DINNER DANCE (informal) 9.30 to Midnight and BIG CABARET SUCCESS H i; UiAZING CONTINENTAL ACROBATIC ECCENTRIC DANCERS I ERIC GEHDA
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      25 6 PTGAHO l adies Hairdressers. PERMANENT WAVING By European Expert*. $8. $10 and $15 only. RAFFLES HOTEL, (Room 120) at 93, Bras Basah Road. TELEPHONE 2868.
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      349 6 IpQSUL IHULUCtHttI SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY Hongkong (Kutsang) 2 p.m. japan (Kutsang) 2 p.m. Western Canada and Western States ot V S.A. (Kutsang) 2 p.m. China (gem > ly), Hoihow (Kutsang) 2 p.m. Trenggai v generally) (Mahidob 2 p.m. Muntok (Plancius) 2.30 p.m. Soengei Liat (Plancius I 2.30 p.m. Java,
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    Position Of Squatters On Estates
    663 7 ARE THEY LEGAL TENANTS? Manager's Appeal written judgment asked for Singapore, Thursday. p] ORE Mr. Justice Burton, the k Acting Chief Justice in the c Court to-day a criminal came up for disposal the being Mr. A. L. B. Swaine, at the time of his
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    SANITARY BOARD FINANCES
    398 7 Kuala Lumpur Deficit Of $28,000 Next Year (From Our Own Reporter) A Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. DEFICIT of $28,000 is to be shown in the revenue estimates for 1936 of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board. This was revealed in the discussion over an item concerning revenue estimates for
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    PANAMA CANAL LANDSLIDE
    27 7 Reuter. Panama- Aug. 7. Heavy rains caused a landslide m the Panama Canal near Cucaracha. Traffic is not impeded but dredges are standme, by.—Reuter.
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    AROUND MALAYA
    274 7 Well-Known People In The News MR. F.. G. Pinch, Adviser on Drainage and Irrigation. Malay States, is on a visit t 0 Per 3 k. *> m The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Abraham, of Tanjong Rambutan, will be pleased to learn of the birth
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    FARMING AID
    61 7 Moscow Wireless as a valuaVe aid In farming Is for-shadowed by experiments claimed to have b en successfully carried out at Sverdlovsk. By exposing potatoes to ultra-slim, wave- M. Savin, who is conducting tile experiments, has increased the yield by ns much as seventeen-fold, says the Tass Agency.
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    FAIRBANKS RUMOUR
    144 7 Reported Marriage To Lady Ashley Quebec, July 12. DOUGLAS Fairbanks, Sr., and Lady Cynthia Ashley are reported to be planning to marry here to-day. No confirmation can be obtained regarding the report. Fairbanks recently returned to Hollywood at the behest of Mary Pickford, hrS former wife, in ord?*"
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      42 7 A REALLY GOOD TONIC WWB fe r i ne Tonic Wine contains all that 1» tast in a sound, pure wine, plus tibcae other alities which are generally assisted k h a course of medicine with strong WOJ ■ad nerve building propertiea,
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      268 7 Slender Young $8L Grace s *H HBMHi I In Leanogin-Dragees, according to Dr. qJ Kichard Weiss, an activated hormone pre rJ \*9LyukW paraxon based on scientific principles has gj been produced for the first time which effectively combats ..uses of obesiW. H Hp Leanogin-Dragees contain the requisite jv MmW mm
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      365 7 CLUB DIARY {There are numerous Clubs and Societies in Singapore, most of the members of which are readers of the "Malaya Tribune." .This Diary is provided specially for them. Secretaries are invited to co-operate in keeping it up-to-date and complete. Happenings of general interest will still be included in the
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    SUDDEN END TO CIVIL SUIT
    358 9 Rubber Estate Option Mentioned I Singapore, Friday. THERE was a sudden ending to a civil suit that came up in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice a'Beckett Terrell yesterday, when an objection was taken by the defence that the real nature of the action brought
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    SCULLY-CORNELIUS
    160 9 Wedding In Province Wellesley I A large congregation assembled in the Church of St. Anne. Cerok Tokoon, near Bukit Mertajam. Province Wellesley. on Monday when the marriage took piace of Mr. Joscelyn Hannibal Scullv. youngest son of the late Mr. Alfred Clarke Scully and Mrs. Anne Scully, and Miss
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    NEARLY TRAPPED
    671 10 Lumpur's fight for new market accommodation has been carried to the last ditch. That much is evident from the discussion which took place at the last meeting of the Sanitary Board when the markets question arose out of a debate on the revenue estimates which are to show
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    CAPT. CAMPBELL BLACK
    113 10 Flight To Capetown And Rark Reuter. London, Aug. 8. Capi. Campbell Black, wno leaves England this evening in hLs Dehavilland Comet moncpiane. named Boomerang, in an effort to fly to Capetown and back in five days, will travel via Cairo and the Imperial Airways route and hopes
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    FOUND WIFE HANGING
    130 10 Coroner Returns A Verdict Of Suicide Singapore. Friaay. The death of a 33-year-old Chinese woman, tne wne 01 <jron An Jow, a house-uoy employed at Government House, formed me subject of an inquiry held oy the Coroner, Mr. W. G. forcer, yesteruay. According to the evidence of
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    NAVAL DISCUSSIONS
    68 10 May Be Resumed Between France And Britain British Official Wireless. London, Aug. 8. It is understood that Captain Danckwerth is in Paris representing the British Admiralty and is in.touch with the French Ministry of Marine. His visit may lead within the next few weeks to a resumption of
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    SILVER JUBILEE FUND
    54 10 Amount previously acknowledged 123,967.23 Staff, Thomas Cook and Sons (Bankers) Ltd., Singapore 50 00 Mr. F. Isako (daily percentage, Aug. 2, 3, 4 and 5) 201.25 M.J.A., c o Capt. H. J. Abbey 50.00 European Officers, S.H.B. (July instalment) 280.23 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
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    Notes and Comments Pests In The Street
    217 10 »T would be well for the Police of j Singapore to have a couple of plain clothes detectives on duty in the evening at the corner of Stamford Road and Hill Street at the time when crowds are coming out of the cinemas.
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    Penang's Quake
    151 10 EARTHQUAKE shocks, fortunately of an extremely mild nature, are Becoming fairly frequent in Penang. The last, which occurred a few days ago, appears to have been of a similar intensity to its predecessor in 1933. being so slight as to be unnoticeable at street level. These seismic disturbances
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    The Far East
    275 10 JN an interview published exclusively in the Malaya Tribune yesterday. Mr. J. W. T. Mason, an authority on Oriental culture, summarised his views of affairs in the East. He was for 23 years New York correspondent of the London Daily Express. Before that he was general manager
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    No Major War
    221 10 1 IT is his firm belief that China is so i great a nation and has so great a culture thai she is going to understand, sooner or later, and learn Japan's progressive ways. He has talked with many Chinese of eminence and they ail admit thai.
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    Topics Of The Day
    322 10 By "Looker-On" THE fact that two journalists were recently captured by bandits provoked the cynical comment in a Hongkong paper that bandits are poor judges of livestock. A A A girl is funny. She would be ashamed to marry the fellow and yet she is proud
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    Seven Killed In Plane Crash: Sabotage Suspected
    132 11 ITALIAN ARMY MACHINE Disaster Near Cairo discovery by the R.A.F. Reuter. I Cairo, Aug. 8. Italian military plane carry A inJ four crew and three including the Italian Minister of Public Work« which tt;|s missing, since it lefi Cairo v t'sterdav morning for
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    POWER MEETING
    95 11 British Official Wireless. London. Aug- 8Till 11it» Voyssinian dispute and an* mints t«»r the coming „r i«i "he B. 'i"h. Trench and Miesenta'ives were disin fails yc ieiday when the h Pinnier it* visits irom I',. t -h \mba ador. Sir George klk ,h» Italian Ambassador. Count <)i
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    ROAD ACCIDENTS
    320 11 i l.uvvs During Holiday Period British Official Wireless. London 8. n. nt ft the K i Unf{ -he ay period 2S n p f, xceededan :d 138, injured •-,441 compared with 148 killec» and 5 621 injured in the n- V-endir.g AuC- i2 I it ed and 5.1C0
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    MADAME GALLI CURCI
    45 11 To Be Operated On For Goitre Reuter. Nt w Yoik. Aug. 9. M.danv OaHi t urci the famous :p;< w!;:i visited Singapore recentwill tnur hospital to be operated i) lot t;*i rt. whit h was discovered uiiiK, her visit to Japan. —Renter.
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    LABOUR UNREST IN FRANCE
    315 11 Hopes Of Settlement ANXIETY CONTINUES AT BREST Reuter. Paris, Aug. S. OOPE of a settlement of the seamen's strike has been aroused after a conference between delegates of the Seamen's Union with the Ministry of Marine, after which it was reported that the Government would reduce
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    BLACK TROOPS USED
    339 11 Rioters Fire From Roofs And Windows I Toulon, Aug. 9The worst trouble occuried in neighbourhood of the Maritime fnpnire here The mob tore dovi. the scaffolding for ba,Ti "^f ers A w b r a i Cf S^ C fodear h while "«chlihts swept the roofs and
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    EMERGENCY STEPS
    166 11 Reform Of Banking And Investing Laws Reuter. M. Laval eaid that the Government were introducing '.he decre? to protect the investing public against sv mc.lers, tc reform the bankniptcv law. to mciease the responsibility of company directors and also annulling the impcr. quota system lor srme industrial pio
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    STIUATION SERIOUS
    72 11 Reuter. Toulon, Aug. 8. It is reported that three people were killed and 50 wounded during the rioting by dock-workers as a protest against the pav-cuts. 1 he situation is becoming serious. Shots are exchanged between the police and rioters and 100 have so far been arrested. 'I
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    STRIKE ON SHIP SETTLED
    25 11 Reuter. Paris. Aug. 8. The strike on ttye Frcnch shipping line, Compagnie Ge*:trai? iiuns-ju anaque, has been set tie a.—F.eu ,r
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    ALLEGED ENTICEMENT
    48 11 A young Indian. Veeran. was charged at Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday with enticing away a married woman named Sartharay, the wife of Arumugam, on July 28. The accused claimed trial, and vi* case was postponed to Aug. 14. Ban was fixed in the sum of $50.
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    TIN QUOTAINCREASE LIKELY
    130 11 Meeting- Of Committee SEQUEL TO AMERICAN COMPLAINTS (From Our Own Correspondentt London, Aug. 8. IF circumstantial reports are true, the International Tin Committee, at to-morrow's meeting, will be unusually generous as regards quotas. For once, Dutch desires exceed those of the British, who did not want a
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    LOSS TO PENANG
    163 11 Siamese Consul Leaving On Transfer 'From Our Oxen Correspondent) Penan?. Thursday. It la understood that Luang Bhnsa Bhiraj, Hi> Siamese Maiestv's Consui Penang. is leaving on Monday. Aug. 12. o take up an aopointment in the Foreign Office. Bangkok. His successor will be Vim Hung Phrakhun Luang
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    STRIKE THREAT
    68 11 100,000 New York Workers Involved Reuter. New York. Aug. 8. A GENERAL strike in all works in progress under the administration throughout, the cit>, possibly affecting 100.000 workers is scheduled for to- day as a protest against the Government's wage scale of 593.50 for a three-week month for
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    PENANG HARBOUR ACCIDENT
    89 11 While engaged in cleaning one of the funnels of the YD "Heyden" on Tuesday in the Penang harbour a Javanese •eaman fell off his perch on to <<he deck below He was rendered unconscious by tne fall, the height from the deck to the »op of the
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    OFFICIALS DEATH AT SEA
    145 11 Headmaster Returning To Malaya (From Our Own Correspondent) I Seremban, Aug. 9. j NEWS has just reached Seremban that Mr. R. J. Huddle, of the Malayan Educational Service end late headmaster of King George V School, Seremban, who was returning to Malaya after home leave died
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    ON OTHER PAGES
    31 11 FINANCIAL NEWS, 3. WIRELESS PROGRAMMES. 5. CLUB DIARY, 6. SQUATTERS ON ESTATES. 7. SPORTS NEWS. 14. 15 and 16. CINEMA TOPICS. 18. NEXT ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. 19.
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    RUSSIA IN NEED OF RUBBER
    124 11 Sale Of Wheat TO OBTAIN MORE FUNDS Reuter. London, Aug. 8. T'Hi: morale of the international wheat markets have recently been somewhat disturbed by Russia re-entering the market as a seller lor ihe first time for two years, brokers recalling the debacle caused bv Russian
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    Anglo-Japanese Conference In The Pacific?
    58 12 THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE A Tokyo Report DENIAL BY BRITISH EMBASSY Tokyo, Aug. 8. THE Japanese newspaper, Jiji 1 Shimpo, learns that Britain, through Mr. Matsudaira, Ambassador in Britain, has proposed to Japan an Anglo-Japanese Conference to be held in Tokyo in the Autumn for
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    NEED OF CO-OPERATION
    161 12 Reuter. THE Jiu Shimpo declares tha* the conference has been proposed apparently In an icipaticn of the failure of the London Naval Conference Surprised by Japan's rapid worldwide economic advance after withdrawal from the League. Great Britain realises that he need cf Japan's co-operaticn in the maintenance
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    SIR FREDK. LEITH ROSS
    311 12 New Constructive British Policy In China London, Aug. 8. The departure of Sir Frederick Leith Ross for China is noted by all papers and is generally regarded as the most important step Great Britain has taken in the Far East for many years. There are solid
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    SPECIAL ZONE
    217 12 J\umoured Japanese Demand In North China Reuter. wP Peiping, Ai.g. 9. J It Is rumoured that the Japanese have demanded the creation of a special J zone to include the five provinces in North China, namely Hopei, Charhar, Suiyuen. Shansi and 3hantung, wherein Kuomintang activities will not be
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    NORTH CHINA OFFER!
    58 12 Japanese Asked To Guard Railway- Reuter. Tokyo, Aug. 8. THE Nichi-Nichi reports that the Chinese authorities in North China have offered to entrust to the Japanese the task of guarding the Peiping-Shanhaikwan Railway, in order to prevent the recurrence of recent "incidents." The Japanese authorities in North
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    HIS GREATEST GAMBLE
    236 12 Drama Of Divorced Couple's Child WHAT happens to children of divorced or separated parents? In which parent's care do they fare better? Which parents are better equipped to foster the education of these quasistranded children? These age-old questions are currently aired on the motion picture screen in
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    BAND PERFORMANCE
    107 12 1st Bn., The Wiltshire Regiment By kind permission of Major R. Eve-lyn-Smith and officers, the 1st Bn. Wiltshire Regt. will, on Tuesday, Aug. 13, at 9 15 p.m., at the Botanic Gardens, perform the following programme of music (subject to alterations without notice): 1. March: "Ferozashah"; Pearce. 2.
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    JERSEY COW
    133 12 New World Record For Production Toronto, June 12.— (CP). World milking records have been broken by Brampton Basilua. Jersey cow owned by B. H. Bull and Son, Brampton, it was learned to-day. She has completed her second year of sensational production, going on test at seven years of
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    FORGERY OF SWEEP TICKETS
    336 12 Leniency For Man Who Was Cat's Paw (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. lAW Mook Kwong, a young Chinese printer, at present unemployed, pleaded guilty before Mr. F. K. Wilson, the First Magistrate, yesterday, to forging sweep tickets purported to be issued by the Tong
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    ACCUSED DISCHARGED
    34 12 Singapore. Friday. Chla Chan Tock. who was charged with fraudulent removal of property, was discharged by the District Judge. Mr. H. A. Forrer, this morning. No evidence was offered by the prosecution.
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    GRASS FIRES
    33 12 Singapore. Friday. The Fire Brigade was summoned tc two grass fires yesterday afternoon to Mount Emily and Clayton Road, Katong. In both cases, the outbreaks were extinguished in a few minutes.
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    LOCAL TEACHERS AND DRAMATIC ART
    434 12 Fine Show By Singapore T.A. n.< Singapore, Friday. AN excellent entertainment was given to a crowded hall at the Raffles Institution last night, when the Dramatic Section of the Singapore Teachers' Association put up a dramatic show in the School hall which had been very
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    SCHOOLBOY INJURED
    36 12 Singapore. Friday. A 14-year-old Chinese schoolboy attending the Serangoon English School received a compound fracture of the arm when he accidentally tripped over a rope. He was taken to the General Hospital by ambulance.
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    DOUBLE ATTRACTION AT THE ALHAMBRA
    296 12 A Real Pot-Pourri Of Entertainment AT THE CINEMAS A SPLENDID double feature programme was presented at the Alhambra Theatre yesterday to full houses. "Gift of Gab," Universal's latest, featuring Edmund Lowe and Gloria Stuart, provided a real pot-pourri of entertainment—drama, music and comedy being attractively
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    SHORTS BANNED
    220 12 New York Girl Hikers Must Wear Skirts New York. Week-end hiking, which is beconvmr increasingly popular among the girls of New York, received a severe blow when the town council of Yonkers, a suburb On the Hudson River through which ma°.y hikers pass in order to enter the
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    SWALLOWED SAFETY-PIN
    101 12 Boy Flies 1,000 Miles For Operation Seattle. Because he had inadvertently swallowed a safety-pin 1,000 miles away in remote Cordova, Alaska, litt'e George Wray, aged 8, enjoyed an aeroplane trip all the way to Seattle, where a surgical operation was performed for its removal. His conditon after the
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    KENT (F.M.S.) TIN DREDGING
    781 12 Mr. F. E. Mair's Speech MALAYAN PRODUCERS POSITION (By Air Mail) (From Our Own Corresponded* London, July 26. gPEAKING at the eighth ordinary general meeting of of Kent (F.M.S.) Tin Dredging, Ltd., held at Redruth on Wednesday. July 24, the the Chairman (Mr. F. E. Mair),
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    Five Gospel Preachers Invade Singapore
    588 13 FROM AUSTRALIA IN A KETCH To Establish Branch jKIIOVAH'S kingdom AT HAND" Singapore, Friday. I t he harbour of Singapore lies a 21-ton auxiliary ketch which has i' all the way from Australia on :,i<jue mission. On board are five i«r Australians, all members of
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    PAID TO GO TO SCHOOL
    98 13 Educational Experiment In America Los Angeles. Ten HhhmsikJ ftiKteuti are being paid to attend cl&ssei :n school hen-. If they udsi their c'assos, their pay M "dOcltod." This is a unique educational experiment sponsored jointly by th-.* County R. litf Administration and tho Depart meni
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    ASIA'S HIGHEST VOLCANO
    56 13 Moscow The highest volcano in Asia—the Ktfuchev Volcano in Kamchatka. Soviet Russia —has been climbed by iwj young Russians. They took four days to reach the crater. 15.750 feet above sea level. Often they were forced to climb at an angle of 60 degrees while violent snowstorms
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    HEALTH OF THE EAST
    427 13 League Of Nations Bulletin THE following is the health bulletin of the League of Nations Eastern Bureau, Singapore, for the week ended Aug. 3*— Plague: Rangoon and Colombo have again this week notified the presence of human plague, the former port reporting 2 cases and the
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    A SPOOK STORY
    163 13 Ghost Milks Cows And Waars A "Boater" Rock Is"and, Illinois. A GHOST which s said to have milked cews rnd to have been seen wearing a snsippy "boater," has been givlni sleepless nights to a farmer George Billiiigshy. and his family who live neai the loral cemetery
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    PHYA SUPON SOMBAT
    121 13 Siam Ex-Minister To Britain In Singapore Singapore, Thursday. Phya BupOn Somoat, former Siamese Minister to Great Britain, is in Singapore on his way back to Bangkok on retirement. He had been holoing that post m London for the last 2 1? years, and is now returning to
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    Famous Filipino Flyweight In Singapore JOE MENDIOLA ARRIVES
    310 14 No. 2 On Ranking List WILLING TO LIGHT HERE (I'.y "K.O.") Singapore, Friday. WELL-KNOWN to local fight fans and one of the leading contenders for Ihe flyweight championship of the world, Joe Mendiola arrived from England yesterday, accompanied by his wife. .Vlendoila
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    GARRISON TENNIS
    121 14 Draw For Annual Tournament j Singapore. Friday. THE following are the entries and draw for the Garrison Lawn Tennis Association tournament to be played at the Garrison Officers' Tennis Club, Tanglin, play starting at 4 p.m. each day. Details of times and dates of matchea will be notified
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    HORSES FOR INDIA
    132 14 Large Batch Shipped By The Anglo-Irish Agency Tile Anj,lo-Irish Axency, of 27. Old Bond direct, London, purchased and shipped a number of horses to India recently. These included: Feiland bay gelding 3 yrs by Felstead —Imp. Mi qu.rader brown gelding 3 yrs by Highborn ll.—lrette. Winner 2
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    SERANGOON ENGLISH SCHOOL
    585 14 Successful Annual Sports Meet Singapore Fr.day. PORTS Day, is always looked forward to with keen interest by boys and girls and this was exemplified at the annual ahietic sports of the Seraiigoon English Schcol held on their own ground in Simon Road, off Upper Serangoon. yesterday afternoon.
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    WIGHTMAN CUP TENNIS
    111 14 The American Team MISS JACOBS ELECTED CAPTAIN Reuter. Now York. Aug. B. rpHE following have been selected to represent America against Britain in the Wightman Cup Tennis competition which will be played at Forest Hills: Miss Helen Jacobs (Captain). Mrs. Palfrev-Fabyan. Mrs. Dorothy Andrus. Mrs. Burkhardt Arnold.
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    MISS DOROTHY ROUND
    154 14 Will Lead British Team Against U.S.A. London, July 13. Miss Dorothy Round, Great Britain's No. 1 woman tennis player and last year's Wimbledon singles champion, is to represent her country against the United States in the Wightman Cup after all. Surprise was caused when the Lawn Tennis
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    NOVEL FOOTBALL
    161 14 Rugby Fifteen To Meet A Soccer Eleven A novel game of soccer will precede the Services annual rugby meeting this evening, when fifteen rugby players will be opposed to twelve soccer players in a friendly game. The rugger teams will have three full backs, four half backs and
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    Y.W.C.A. SPORTS CLUB
    72 14 Conclusion Of Spring Tennis Tournament The Y.W.C.A. Sports Club will hold their annual distribution of the Spring Tennis Tournament on Saturday, August 10 at, 5 p.m., to which members and their friends are cordially invited. The distribution of prizes will be preI ceded by the finals of
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    SINGAPORE GOLF CLUB
    34 14 j Monthly Mixed Foursomes Competition < i The usual monthly mixed foursomes competition will be played on Sunday afternoon Aug. 18. The Band of the Wiltshire Regiment will play from 6.30 p.m.
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    MONOPOLIES TAKE FULL POINTS
    568 14 Stubborn Display By S«C «C» Singapore, Thursday. PLAYING without the services of several of their regular players, the Government Monopolies took full points in a Second Division match to-day, when they defeated the S.C.C. by 2 to l on the padang. The Monopolies gave a good
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    BOXING IN KUALA LUMPUR
    143 14 Remarkable Position FIGHTS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Singapore, Friday. REMARKABLE ixisition seems to have arisen in Kuala Lumpur in regard to boxing-, for there are 10 be two promotions on successive evenings—to-morrow (Saturday) un-l Sunday. In Saturday's promotion, at the Hollywood Amusement Park, Bukl 4 Bintang
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    WELTERWEIGHT TITLE
    52 14 Silver Belt To Be Presented Singapore, Friday. MR. Sng Chwee Seng will present a sdver belt to tin. winner uf the Gunboat Jack—Young A'de fight for the welterweight championship ot the Orient, at the Olympic Stadhun on Friday, Aug. 16. The belt is to be won oat I
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    SINGAPORE CRICKET
    280 14 Team For The Week-End Games THE following are the teams for the principal cricket fixtures to be played off during the week-end: S.C.R.C. VS. S.R.C. (the following will play for the S.C.R.C. v. the S.R.C. on Saturday at 2 p.m. on the S.C.R.C. ground; Chua Choon Leong (Captj,
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    TOO MUCH SUN?
    201 14 Question Of Importance To Cricketers Professor W. A. Osborne. Professor of Physiology at the University of Melbourne. raises a question of importance to cricketers when he asks, Does chasing the sun around so affect the bodies of athletes that they become played out through lack of the
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    Henri Cochet Arrives In Singapore
    226 15 Hen ri Cochet Arrives In Singapore GLAD TO BE ABLE TO PLAY Exhibition Games sr ckssful tour OF JAVA Singapore, Friday. M Henri ehet, the famous j. t h K: ''star," who is now .-ionaK rived in Singapore 11 i:.i 1 l ie Johan van Olden- in n» Java for
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    AMATEUR FOUR-BALL BILLIARDS
    79 15 Results Of Ties In TournamEnt Singapore, Friday. T* .oili/'.ine are the results of last p iy in the Amateur (fourB: i 5. urd Championship competiC! ::ig Moh < A A.A.) beat Ng C'iiiii by 300 to 252, and Mah Vik C.SA.i boat Tan Keng Sin "g Boo>,
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    STRANGE RECORD
    111 15 Man Has Walked 32,160 Miles I <> Remove 48 Police Chiefs Belgrade. :"o "record" is claimed by SvoPrHjitch. and old man who lives village of Jezevitza, near Tchat«•hak. t*— p»- 5 h» the past 67 years, he has made <• arjfes againrt the local authorities. 48 <"hief* of
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    CHINESE GIRLS' SCHOOL
    462 15 Sports And Games Meptinor VV tlllg Singapore, Friday. 1 LARGE crowd thronged the school ground to witness the Singapore Chinese Girls' school sports and games yesterday. Delightful dancing by the school girls, accompanied with music, and sports events made the occasion most enjoyable. There was a large
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    THRILLS AT COWES
    143 15 Success Of Mr. Sopwith's Yacht Endeavour Reuter Wireless. London, Auk. 5. Glorious weather prevailed at the ooeniftft cf Cowe's Week at which Th-u. Majesties and the CTetm of aristocrat were present. ffcafclin Tii> Endeavour won the oayic\ lienor'*] for the Big J Class event an. led tl
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    AERIAL DAREDEVILS
    88 15 Los Angeles. Two aerial daredevils. J. H. HedLy ?nd Chi rles Weaver, jumped out of two separate aeroplanes into two Other machines flying beneath fjiem The two men had small baToons attached to their bodies. Weaver same Q7OO feet before he manoeuvered himself into position above the aeroplane
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    T.K.O. IN THE FIRST ROUND
    45 15 Camera's Conqueror JOE LOUIS' SUCCESS OVER LEVINSKY Chicago, Aug. 8. TOE Louis, the negro boxer, J who recently battered the Italian giant, Primo Camera, scored a technical knock-out over King Levinsky in the first of a ten-round bout. JOE LOUJS
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    TO FIGHT BAER NEXT
    152 15 Reuter. fPHE boxing promotor, Mike Jacobs, has now matched Joe Louis against Max Baer and the fight will take place in Chicago or New York either on September 26 or 27. A decision as to the venue is expected later to day.—Reuter. RECOGNISED CONTENDER Levinsky was
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    SCHMELING vs. LOUIS
    46 15 Plans For Fight Have To Be Abandoned New York. July 12. The Twentieth Century promoters have announced that plans for a Schmeling-Joe Louis boxing match have been abandoned due to Schmeling's exorbitant demands. The Garden is still negotiating for a Baer Schmeling fight.
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    S.R.C. SPORTS
    124 15 Programme For Athletic Meeting Th? following programme has been drawn up for ihe Athletic Sports Meet Ing to be held by the Singapore Recreation Club: MONDAY. AUG. 12 100 Yards Scratch: Preliminary heats 5 p.m. Long Jump: Preliminary heats 5.15 p.m. Throwing the Crickrt Ball Finals 5 30
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    PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOSE AT CRICKET
    99 15 Remarkable Bowling At Cheltenham London, Au<*. 8. THE Army beat the Pubic Schools at Lords in a two-day match by 61 runs. Army: 117, (the Etonian, Rees Davi s taking 5 w'ckets for 34) and ,310 (Stephenson 118. Ree- Davies 3 for 74, Mu.ray Wood
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    FAMOUS RACEHORSE
    29 15 Death Of The Tetrarch The Unbeaten Reuter. London, Aug. 9.. THE famous unbeaten pre-war racehcrLC. The Trtrareh, who later became a very successful stallion, died in Ireland.—Reuter.
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    "BOBBY" JONES FEAT ECLIPSED
    444 16 131 Strokes For 36 Holes SAM KING, the assistant professional of Knole Park, who "burned up" the South Herts (Totteridge) course with a wonder round of 64 the previous day, was not quite so good yesterday. He went round in 67, which was only eight strokes
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    LOST BY THE DEAD SEA
    115 16 Hungry And Exhausted Hikers Rescued Cairo. Lost In the wilderness of the Western shore of the Dead Sea. five hikers Wbo had been without food or water for a considerable time, were picked up by motor vessel returning from a pleasure trip to liaasachv A
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    UNIQUE MEDICAL CASE
    93 16 Doctor Follows Patient To Operating Table Spokane, Washington. In the midst of an operation which he was performing here for appendicitis. Dr. Vernan Stevenson was himself over come with appendicitis. He Insisted on finishing the operation. Then. P.s soon as the patient was removed. he lay down
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    STREETS PAVED WITH GOLD
    84 16 Port Alberni. British Columbia. When Paddy of "Tipperary" famesang about streets being "paved With sold." he did not know he might have been speaking literal truth. The roads of this city are paved with gold. The streets have just been repaved and the gravel for the
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    TAIPING TURF CLUB
    358 16 Entries For Professional Meeting rHK following are the entries for the two1 day professional meeting to be held bv the Taiping Turf Club on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 16 and 17: Horscw Clans 3— Runs. 1st 2nd About. 5F W° t r Mile 100 yds. Sparkling Eves
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    SMIAITS RACING ASSOCIATION
    203 16 Latest Classification Oj Horses And Ponk-s THE following is the latest classified list of Horses and Ponies .is 1 by the Straits Racing Association HORSES Transfers:— From Class 2 to Class 1.—Gahe Fly. From Class 1 to Class 2,— Pel' Punkawalla. From Class 3 to Class 2,—Equei
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    A "FREE HOLIDAY"
    80 16 Cairo Ordered to pay a fine of £3 or serve 13 days' imprisonment, a man here I f>nu-d a -'double," an unemployed man, who gladly accepted 6 to serve the sentence. He regarded it as a "free holiday." But a few days after the "bargain had been
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    LOCAL CHINESE NEWS AND NOTES
    197 17 Chinese Education In Malaya—Nanking's Interest —Two New ,u!s In Singapore—In Yeo Chu Kang And Peck ISeah Street— rAnother Vernacula r Newspaper For The Colony —Heap Eng Moh Compa ny's Shipping Deal Amsterdam Report Denied—Chinese Chess Boom 'By Our Chinese Correspondent) Singapore, Wednesday. .,i;j v c
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    ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL
    269 17 Children In Yeo Chu Kang .<: coincidence that this Chinese education in v va has come at a lime when new are being opened in to be established at Guild in Peck S da lOiher is to be opened p f po Chu Kang. rf-mou district, it
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    HEAP ENG MOH
    383 17 Company's Purchase Of Steamers A recent Amsterdam dispatch states that the Royal Packet Steamship Company of Amsterdam, jointly with the Heap Eng Moh Steamship Company ot Singapore, will found a new large Dutch shipping company in Singapore. The intention, the report further states, is to place 20
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    SCHOOL CONCERT IN JOHORE
    151 17 om Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru. Aug. 8. econd annual school concert of "hore Private Preparatory School, aid of school funds, was given Theatre Royal, Johore Bahru, by j pupils of the school. A'nong those present were the Hon. Ismail. Mrs. Ismail and Miss Molly Inche
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    MALAYA TIN STATISTICS
    216 17 DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, as presented by exports from Federated Malay States, Unfedercted Ma'ay States, and Strait* Settlement* (Settiemen of Malacca), of Tin and Tin-in-Ore at 75.6%, during the month of July, 1935 Tons Tons Federated Malay State 5,206 Unfedcrrted Malay Btates Johorr: 54 Kedah 32 Perlis 31 Kelantan
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    PESTS REMOVED
    109 17 1 Monster Crocodile And Giant Eagle Shot Pietersbung Tran&vaa\ A monster crocodile measuring 15 1 2 leot from its nose to the tip of its If.'. 1 and with a priilh of nearly six feet has been shot in the Limpopo River by Mr. T. P. Eisebeth, of
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    EASTERN EXTENSION
    67 17 Transit Time For Cables To London The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company announces that the transit time on full*rate telegrams from Singapore to London on Aug. 8. were as follows: Telegrams handed in up to 5 p.m. 6 minutes. Telegrams handed in up to 5.30 p.m. 4 minutes. Telegrams
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    PASSENGERS BY AIR
    61 17 Arrived from N.E.I, by KNILM-r-lane on Aug. 6: Mr. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. Boluyt, Master Boluyt. Left for N.E.I, by KNILM-plane on Aug. 7: Mr. Haglund. Arrived from N.E.I, by KLM-plane Lijster on Aug. 7: Mr. Wijkema, Mr. Huele. Left for India and Europe by KLMplane Lijster
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    The Genius Of Katharine Hepburn
    703 18 A DEEPLY MOVING ROMANCE i "The Little Minister" NEXT CHANGE AT THE PAVILION OTARiiING the brilliant Katharine Hepburn, Sir James M. Barrie's much-loved romance 'The Little Minister" comes to the talking pic- ture screen, at the Pavilion Theatre on Sunday as a vibrant, actioni'ul and
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    AT THE THEATRE ROYAL TO-NIGHT
    326 18 Philo Vane: In u Tht Casino Murder Case" IN "The Casino Murder Case," which opens at the Theatre Royal to-day, a new and entirely different Philo Vance has been presented to the screen to thrill the theatre public in S S. Van Dine's gripping murder
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    WE'RE RICH AGAIN
    320 18 Marion Nixon Shows How To "G°t Her Man" TIIERF are many ways by which a clever woman may "get her man but prcbably none more naive or :-uecessful than the methods employed by Marion Nixon In "We're Rich Again." which comes to the Capitol Theatre shortly. This
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    SHIRLEY TEMPLE "BRIGHT EYES"
    372 18 Her Finest Role In New Picture SHIRLEY TEMPLE, most sensational screen discovery of the year, at last has "the perfect screen vehicle." That, at any rate, is the gist of the enthusiastic advance accounts which precede Fox Film's "Bright Eyes" to the Capitol Theatre, where it
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    "GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935"
    642 18 Chorus Girls DECLARED THE Most BEAITTIFI'I. fFHE widest door through strong but invisible wall* that surround Hollywood, is located Busby Berkeley's office. More girls get into the magic land of motion pictures through that entrance than through any other. During the past two years Uusliv Berkeley
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    NEXT ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
    527 19 lor M 2 Minutes I \pi:i)IT10NS BEING PREPARED -parties of British astrono- will travel half way round .-1,1 to watch the total eclipse til. in on June 19, 1036. ,r K. M. Stratton, Director I s«»i:tr Physics Observatory at will yo to Japan to a
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    SPEECH MAKING
    438 19 Interesting Programme In Malacca (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Aug. 7. UNDER the auspices of the Indo-Ceylon U Association, a very interesting night of speech making took place at the High School Hall. No less than seven associations and clubs were represented and the subjects were varied and
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    ALLEGED ASSAULT
    80 19 Singapore. Thursday. Alleged to have been assaulted by three compatriots in Buffalo Road yesterday afternoon, an Indian was taken to hospilal by ambulance. He was bleeding Irom the nose and mouth. On the way back the ambulance had to deal with another case in which a Chinese cyclist
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    LONG TACK SAM
    240 19 Famous Chinese Troupe Coming THE management of the Capitol Theatre, Singapore, announces that arrangements have been completed for the appearance of the famous Chinese troupe, headed by Long Tack Sam. The company which will appear here is identical, both in personnel and presentation, with that which has
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    CHANDU RAID
    82 19 Woman Offered Hail Of $5,000 Singapore, Thursday. Bail in the sum of $5.000 was offered an elderly Chinese woman, who was charged before the District Judge. Mr H A Forrer, this morning with jjossession of 300 tahils of non-Goveinment chandu valued at $2.400 A raid was made in
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    QUETTA RELIEF FUND
    75 19 First Instalment Of Rupees 1,500 From Malaya H E. the Viceroy of India has acknowledged the receipt of Rupees 1.500 sent by the Indian Association for the Quet a ReV'ef Fund. The second instalment will 3«' forwardtd to India on Aug. 14, before which time the public
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    WILEY POST
    32 19 Reaches Alaska En Route To Moscow Reuter. Seattle, Aug. 7. Wiley Post, accompanied by Will Rogers landed at Juneau. Alaska on the second stage of their flight to Moscow. —Reuter.
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    PLEA WRITTEN IN VERSE
    370 19 Woman Asks Roosevelt For False Teeth Washing ten. SISTER Callie Fancy, a negro "singing preacher," from Lath- Rock, Arkansas, v. anted a §M of false teeth. So she sent a "poem" n 41) verses to President Roosevelt explaining her Deed. And now, as a result, sn
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    SUICIDE AT 107
    51 19 Sofia. An old man found hanged m a public park here has been identified by relatives as Peter GotchelT Vukoff, aged 107. from the village of Bistritza, near Sofia. His relatives say that he had been very depressed of late because all his friends and contemporaries were
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    HEALTH OF THE TOWN
    193 19 Statement Of Singapore Municipality TWO fresh cases of smallpox with no death were reported in the j Municipal health statement lor the J week ended Aug. 3. There were three new cases of the disease with five deaths on the previous week. The number of deaths
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