Malaya Tribune, 21 January 1937

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    40 1 The Malaya Tribune Malaya's National Newspaper: Guaranteed Largest Sales Vol. XXIV. -No. 17. SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937 FIVE CENTS The Malaya Tribune. Singapore: Thursday, Jan. 21, 1937 The Malaya Tribune 24 PAGES. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. JANUARY 21, 1937. FIVE CENTS"
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      14 1 m I THE NEWS WITH YOUR BREAKFAST Try The MORMM. lIIIIM M I I
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      1395 2 BE ALWAYS IN TIME Take all Clocks or Watches that go wrong to:— YICK WOH HING 429. North Bridge Road (Near Middle Road) Contractors for the Repair of Clocks and to the British Array and R.A.F. Base in Malaya P.S. For any reliable and prompt Repair to Buildings etc Consult
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      338 2 THE NEW STRAITS UNION ENGLISH I SCHOOL I «AAn 122, Rob nson Rd iaa^ X 14\7 PRIMARY TO SENIOR CAMBRIDGE J IvUI AFTERNOON NIGHT CAMB. COMM. CLASSES. JOIN. NOW. PITMAX'S 4'OLLEUS-: Establish ?d in England 65 years. Singapore Branch, under European Management at UNTTEERS BUILDING River Valley Road (entrance Da
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    SHIPPING NEWS & NOTICES SHIP OFFICERS AND ENGINEERS
    287 3 SHIPPING NEWS NOTICES SHIP OFFICERS AND ENGINEERS Proposals For Increases In Rates Of Pay INCREASES in the rates of pay and 1 improvements of conditions of service of engineer and navigating officers of the Mercantile Marine were discussed at meetings in London, recently, of the respective panels of the National
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    55 3 Weak from exhaustion after three storm-tossed days in the Java Sea clinging to a half-submerg2d. capsized prahu. thre. Malays were rescued by the Netherland Line steamer "Tanimbar" early one morning when the ship was on a voyage from Oosthav-n. Sumatra, to Singapore. Four vessels had passed the prahu without hearing
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    16 3 Miss Bryant. Matron. Ipoh District Hospital, will, it is understood, shortly go on transfer to Penang.
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      396 3 STEAMER SAILINGS BRITISH IN D A r. O. S. N. Co.'s SAILINGS: OUTWARDS. Due. Tonnage. Spore. 1937. BEHAR 6,000 Jan. 25 DARTHAGE 17.000 Jan. 29 fciOUDAN 6.500 Feb. 12 NALDERA 16,000 Feb 12 RAN CHI 17,000 Feb. 26 CATHAY 15,000 Mar. 12 BURDWAN 6,070 Mar. 13 RAJPUTANA 17,000 Mar. 26
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      241 3 M. ML LINE (Incorporated in France) (MESSAGERIES MARITIMES) General Agents for Cie GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE Air-FRANCE MAIL PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES Homeward for Colombo, Djibouti, Port Said and Marseilles EXPLORATEUR GRANDIDIER 10,267 T. Jan. 23 JEAN LABORDE 11,414 T. Feb. 2 ARAMIS 17,536 T Feb. 13 ERIDAN 9,928 T. Mar. 3 FELIX
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      603 3 |r* 1 M. B. K. j [KOKUSAI LINE I j (KOKUSAI KISEN KAISHA) (Incorporated in Japan) For JAPAN, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK (via Panama) Due Due Sailing Doe Penang Spore Spore via New York j mls KOMAKI MARU Feb. 23 Feb. 26 Mar. 1 Keelung Apr. 13 I J m.s.
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      512 3 PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE. BANGKOK LINE. Luxurious One Class Motorships. Most Cabins have adjoining private bath. Excellent Cuisine. FOR MARSEILLES. LONDON, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG AND COPENHAGEN. 1937 From From From From M.S. Spore Malacca P.S'ham P'ng LALANDIA 2-2 2-2 3-2 5-2 JUTLANDIA 23-2 23-2 24-2 26-2 MEONIA 16-3 16-3 17-3 19-3
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      526 3 STEAMER SAILINGS NORDDEUTSCHER 1 LLOYD \r» \M (Incorporated in Germany). The undernoted are the Company* intended iixtures:— OUTWARD I OK .MANILA. HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, NORTH CHINA JAPAN Due Spore. 11*37. "STUTTGART" for Manila Shanghai only Jan. 26 "SAALE calls Uoilo, omits Taku Bar Jan. 27 "GNEISENAU" omits North China Feb. 6
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    "DEADLY GROWTH" OF COMMUNISM
    949 4 Outspoken Warning ACTION BY CATHOLIC HIERARCHY outspoken warning against Communism is contained in a joint pastoral letter from the Hierarchy of England and Wales which was read in all Roman Catholic churches in the country recently. It called for an "apostolate of the laity," and foreshadowed
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    PANIC PREDICTED
    294 4 Britain's Falling Population London, Jan. 7. IN 25 years' time Great Britain will be 1 "in a panic about its population." Sir William Beveridge. the famous economist, made this prophecy at the Geographical Association's conference here. He suggested that if air the forces of ♦he State were used
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    STRENGTH IN THE FAR EAST
    932 4 Russia And Japan FORMER SAID TO ril STRONGER rpHE increased tension created the signing of the German Japanese Pact synchronising u-;-the completion of the new TransSiberian railway, makes a study the strategical situation in the Far East of peculiar interest, write. Maj.-Gen. A. C. Temperley
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      239 4 Britain's WmM successful U— baby food now comes out East Ostermilk tnv VIITTD 611 i Wil 11 WwL Babies in Malaya now are lucky! ■W Ostermilk—Britain's successful baby food has arrived! mm In eight years, 400,000 British mothers Wflk W\ ft V tare seen the proof of Ostermilk goodness in
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      137 4 PILES can be Cured There are thousands of men and women who suffer awful agony day and night because of pile trouble, who do not know that every chemist stocks a special remedy that does most surely and quickly banish the misery of this wretched trouble. Make a confidant of
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    Legal Firm Obtains Judgment ON A BILL OF COSTS
    1426 5 THE DEFENCE i Special Contract Alleged Singapore, Wednesday. CLAIM for $723.44 by Messrs. ■ri Braddell Brothers against a former client, Lee Bay Neo. a married woman, to recover a bill of costs in a civil action, came up for hearing in
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    GENERAL ATTACK ON REDS
    89 5 CHIANG'S MOVE Fighting Begins In Snowstorm Reuter. Nanking, Jan. 20. HOSTILITIES between the Government troops and rebels under Gen. Yang Hu Cheng have broken out in a severe snowstorm at Huahsien, on the Lunghai Railway, 50 miles eastward of Sian. The Government forces claim that many
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    GENERAL ATTACK
    390 5 Decision Of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek Sin Chew Jit Poh. Narking Jin. 21. Marshal Chiang Kai has derided to launch a general offensive against the Communists in Shensi, Kansu and other provinces in the interior. He is summoning the civil and military leaders to Fenghua for a conFerence
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    HEAVY SNOWFALL
    241 5 Trenches AH Blanketed In White Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Jan. 20. UEAVY snowfall has occurred in Shensi and Honan, and the trenches from Tunghwan to Sian are blanketed in white. Central troops came to grips with the rebels on Monday night, and fighting lasted until dawn amidst
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    31 5 Cable news has been received by Mr David K. Kandteh f Inoh. intimating the death of his fa'her. Mr G M. iah of Kooav Nirth at Uduvil, Jaffna, Ceylon, on Friday.
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    CIVIL AVIATION IN BRITAIN
    451 5 Report Presented SERVICES TO LARGE CENTRES British Official Wireless. London, Jan. 20. JPHE Committee appointed in the Summer of 1935, with Sir Henry Maybury as chairman, to consider the development of civil aviation in the United Kingdom has presented its report. The main recommendation is a
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      174 5 fATEST ADVERTISEMENT $1,000.00 REWARD. The above reward will be paid to any person or persons giving information to the Police at Singapore as to the whereabouts of ONG PENG CHIANG, formerly of Kelantan which will lead to his being found if alive, or giving proof satisfactory to the Police as
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      351 5 i i "The only thing i 1 that does me good for colds" E I Vapex is the only thing I that has ever done me g00d... I get a cold I at once take I a few drops on my hanky m and in a few hours I am
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    REUTER'S COMMERCIAL SERVICE
    450 6 LOXDOX COMMODITIES London. Jan. 20. Last Price To-Day Change Ton* Quiet Very Steady Spot Buyers. 10U 105 16 +116 Sellers. 10 5 16 10% +116 March. Buyers. IQU 10 5 16 +116 Sellers. 10 5 16 10% +1 16 Apr.jJune Buyers. 10' 4 10 5 16 +116
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    KEMPAS BUY NEW PROPERTY
    749 6 Pasak Estate I INCREASE OF CAPITAL APPROVED IN extraordinary general m? ting of the shareholders of Kempa s Limited was held at the register ci cfhc? at 4. Fort Road, Malacca, last Thursday. Mr. J. M. Sime occupied the chair and shareholders wer. present in person
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    THOS. COOK AND SON
    401 6 The Bankers' Balance Sheet THE very marked expansion exhibited 1 by the balance-sheet of Thos. Cook and Son < Bankers* at Oct. 31 last has not impaired the customary high ratio of liquidity. No doubt a greater inclination on the part of the public to travel,
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    STOUGHTON (PERAK) RUBBER
    365 6 Amalgamation With Sungei Reyla THE seventeenth annual ore::: A ral meeting of the Stouclr Rubber Plantations. Ltd \v. cently at 19 Fenchurch-sire: says th:- "Financial Nevis.' Mr A. P. Hadow. who pre that the result of the year'.--showed a net profit of £7 313. recommended the paymen:
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      541 6 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd. j (Incorporated In the Straits Settlements). i S Successors to I The Chinese Commercial Bank Limited, I The Ho Hong Bank Limited and t 1 Th* *)versea-Chinese Bank Limited CAPITAL: J t Authorised $40,000,000.00 Issued and Paid Up $10,000,000.00. I HEAD OFFICE, CHINA BUILD IN G,
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      133 6 THE EASTERN BANK LIMITED. (Incorporated In England) SINGAPORE BRANCH: D'Almelda Street. Authorised and Suoacrlbed Capital £2,000,000 Paid-up CaDitai £1,000.000 Reserve Fund 600.000 HEAD OFFICE: LONDON BRANCHES: Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Karachi, Madras, Amur a, Baghdad Bahrein, Basra. Klrkuk, Mosul and Singapore. CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and money received on Fixed Deposits oi
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    STOCKS AND SHARES
    1595 7 Issued by Fraser Cn w n Co. Lyau and Emtt Exckmge stoeh Rrohers MINING Fraser Co. Lyall Evatt 1- Ampat Tin 7™ £1 Asam Kumbang .33 6 34*6 Ml JP' £1 Austral Malay 55 56 34|_ I). Ayer Hitam 23- of X" 57 xd p J I*
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    TO-DAY'S MARKET POSITION
    166 7 Singapore, Thursday mora in*. RUBBER Singapore: 86** cts., up 1 ct Market Tone: Firm. L ndon: 10' t d., unchanged. Alaikct Tone: Firm alter easier. New York: ***** ctk, up 716 ct. Market Tone: Steady. OPENING PRICES Buyers. Sellers. s l ):)t 36V6 36% A eb 'Mar.
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    SHARE MARKET
    321 7 Messrs. Fraser Co.'s Report Messrs. Fraser and Company in then Sail) comment on the closing trend ol tne local share market, state: MINING. Tm £231 3 months up 15--ins market in Sterling un biuuea m London appeals to oe quid and unchanged. Locally there are buyers ol Hongkong
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    EXCHANGE
    190 7 selling Singapore. Jan. 21. London T.T. 2 4 1 16 london demand 2 4 1 16 London 4 months' sight 2 4'k Lyons demand 1230 Hamburg demand 141 New Yoik demand 57*4 I Montreal demand 57 3 16 I Batavia demand 104 J Samarang demand 103% Calcutta, Bombay and
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    FRASER & COMPANY.
    185 7 FRASER COMPANY. LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Corrninv rv i B 0ks CloSe Total for WttpMy Dividend and Dat e financial Hitarn 5<7 Int Ex Div Dat e Payable year to date. KampongLanjut, 6d' V8t' h a nd Bonus 1- j£' 20 jln 27 Sfr Kuala Lun pur 1|- (30th) 2*
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      169 7 BAJ\K OF CHINA" (Incorporated in China by Special Charter) 12, Cecil Street, Singapore. Telephones: Manager's Office 6444 Exchange Dept. 644J General Office 5188-9 Cable Address: "CHTJNGKUO" Paid Up Capital Reserve Funds in excess of Ch tZSj**! t«u, Assets mm IJgsS* HEAD OFFICE: SHANGHAI. Tse-Vung Soong, Chairman of Board Sung Han-Chang,
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    MADRAS AMATEURS
    102 8 Final Singapore Performance To-Morrow The well-known dramatic party th<: Madras Premier Amateurs, who have been touring Malaya gl* ivg perform ances in aid ox the Sri Ramakrishna Mission Students' Home and Orphanage, Madras, wll stage a far2well drama "Leela Sukhar," at the Alexandra Hall, Singapore, to-morrOw at 8.30
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    26 8 Mr. W. Tin. Divisional Superintendent, Burmese Railways, and Mrs. W. Tin, who ware on a visit to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, arrived on Thursday at Penang.
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    STERLING EXCHANGE
    100 8 British Official Wireless. London, Jan. 20. Paris 10S 1 New Vork 4.90 13 16 Montreal 4.91 1 Brussels 23 12ri Geneva 21.38 1/ Amsterdam 8.96 1 4 Milan 93 9 32 Berlin 12.20 Stockholm 19.39W. Conenhagen 22.40. Oslo 19.90. Vienna 26*A. Prague Belgrade 213. Madrid nom Lisbon 110
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    CABLE AND WIRELESS
    40 8 The following index numbers represent the estimated traffic receipts of Cable and Wireless, Ltd., as related to comparable traffic in the year 1929 based at 100:— December 1936 96.4 Average for 1935 73.5 Average for 1936 74.4
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    OBJECTION TO JUDGE HEARING MOTION
    318 8 ANOTHER LA WYER LN TROUBLE IN JOHORE 'From Our Own Correspondent j Johore Bahru. Jan. 20. another motion in the matter of an advocate and solicitor was mentioned this monrng in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice J. V. G. Mills by Mr. F. G.
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    BAILLIE STEWART RELEASED
    116 8 Father Dies Too Soon To Greet Him Reuter. London. Jan 21 EX-LIEUTENANT Norman Baillie Stewart, who in 1933 was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for imparting information to a foreign power was released from Maidstone Gaol to-day to laoie him to att»:nd the funeral of his father,
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    MIDNIGHT WATCH
    358 8 Customs Officers Finally Rewarded 'From Our Own Correspondent) Jonore Bahru, Jan. 20. nOW two Customs outdoor officers O watched a still for the manufacture of illicit liquor m semi-jungle land be hind Kirn Kirn village, from mid-night till 6 a.m. hoping for its owner to come and operate
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    FORMER ROYAL YACHT
    67 8 Bangkok. Jan. 20. (Continued in previous column) The former royal yacht Mahachakkri, carryng officers and crews for the seven warships now being completed at the Trieste yards, left for T.taly this morning after being blessed by Buddhist monks. The yacht, decoratea with fresh flowers by the Council
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    BURIAL GROUND IN SINGAPORE
    221 8 Litigation After 60 Years Singapore. Thursday. originating summons concerning a burial ground in Singapore came up in the Supremo Court yesterday before Mr. Justio Adiian Clark. Mr. S. B Adit/an represented Teo H e Hock nnd Cheonjr Ilock Chye ipiain- ifTs» and f he defvntlant. Teo
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    THE HARBOUR
    80 8 Singapore, Jan. 21. East Wharf Gate 1) Van Heutsz 22. iviam Wnau (Entrance Gate 3) HakozakJ Maru 18: Ipoh 15; Talma 13: Medon 8: Pyrrhus 6. Empire Dock Entrance Gate 5) Karapara 36. Empirp Dock (Entrance Gate 4) Kin:a 47; lapanoell 48. West Wharf (Entrance Gate 4) Neuinark
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    VESSELS ARRIVED
    160 8 Timonbo, Dutch, 525 tons; from Sanghat Panjang 19.1, to Sanghat Panjang 21.1. Vyner Brooke, Sarawak, 720 tons; from Kuching 20.1, to Kuching 23.1. LdeaSaie, British, 1,001 tons; from Eatavia 20.1, to Batavia 22.1. Ban Ho Guan, Dutch, 904 tons; from Sourabaya 20.1, to Sourabaya 22.1 Siberg, Dutch, 1,128
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    HEALTH OF THE TOWN
    160 8 Statement Of Singapore Municipality THE Singanore Municipal health statement for the week ended Jan. 16 shows that there were 223 deaths, compared with 218 in the previous week, and with 229 in the corresponding week of last year. The Chief causes of death weie: Beriberi 10;
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    THE REICHSTAG
    98 8 Not To Be Abolished, Says Hitler Reuter Wireless. Berlin. Jan. 19. REUTER is authoritatively assured there is no truth in the reportthe Reichstag is shortly to be abolished Hitler at present is at Berchtesgaden preparing his Reichstag speech to br. delivered on Jan. 30 which is mainly concerned
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    RUBBER ASSOCIATION
    172 8 Singapore Chamber Of Commerce 1.313 rd auction. Jan. 20. 1937. Catalogued 1.170.102 lb—tons 522.37 Offered 1.058.163 lb—tons 472.40 Sold 954.282 lb.—tons 426.02 London—Spot 10 1 4d. New Yoik—Spot 20 5 8 cts. PRICES REALISED Ribbed Smoked Sheet Cts. per lb. Standard Quality 34 7 8 to 35 1
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    A FORMER PREMIER
    59 8 Attending Slave Traffic Conference Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Jan. 20. Mr. Hsiuny Hsi Ling, a termer Premier, has been ap;x>:nted the leade: of the Chinese delegatioi. to the women and slave traffic conference to be held at Bandoeng next month. He tmd his wife left yesterday
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    RAFFLES INSTITUTION
    95 8 New Premises To Be Built On Balesticr Plain Singapore, Thursday. THE Malaya Tribune understands ihat the new premises for Raffles Instituion will be buili on Government land at Balestier Flam. Old Rafflesians, however, are keenly disappointed because no steps hay- been taken to make a start with the
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    MONEYLENDER CHARGED
    88 8 Singapo-e. Wednesday. Nand Singh, a Sikh moneylender wa s S 'hismorning before the third mm t at? Mr W G R^oves committing criminal intimidation to one Pereira on Jan. 18 thereby causing him l °Dr a^ C a el ei J lry in a d g ecV,T S
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    STUDY OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES
    782 8 Rotary Club Addres, THE ABORlGlNFS OK MALAYA Singapore, Wedm-stL ]VfR. H. D Noone, of th Museum, who Has mad.- tx sive studies on the Malayan \> tive tribes and is in Slngap-.iv a party of Sakais, addressed tY Rotary Club at their luncheon i« at the
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    13 8 The Rev T. I. Joseph M untitled i"lned <bc >.l Knglisb Scbool K0.N2 >
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    GIBRALTAR FOR CEUTA
    747 9 Vice-Admiral's Idea j DEAL WITH SPAIN SUGGESTED London. IGESTIOK that Britain should ive up Gibraltar in exchange Spanish fortress of Ceuta. African side of the Straits, been put forward by Viceiral C, V. Usborne, who during war took a leading part in am's naval activities in the
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    18 9 untitled understood that Mr. J. V. Cowgill, return from leave, will be ap- to act as British Rest/lent,
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    BRITISH TRADE WITH CHINA
    513 9 Manchester Sees Bi ighfer Outlook Manchester A distinctly more favourable outlook regarding British trade with Chiigi and the Par East is indicated in the report of the China and Far East Section of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. But in sptt.e of this, the report declares,
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    15 9 Tenders are betas invited tor the reconditioning of Sydney Lake, in th? Gfatdins, Kuala Lumpur.
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    18 9 Mr. Oof Kim Chye, of the Kuala Kangsar Railways Office ii on leave with his family in Penang.
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    AWARD OF CHINESE HONOURS
    516 9 Many Foreign Personages Decorated 1 i j Nanking. THIRTY prominent foreign personages were decorated by the National Government on New Year's Day. according tc the honours list released by the Foreign Gfhce recently. Heading the list were Senor Manuel Quezon. President ci th' Philippines Commonwealth. M.
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    19 9 Mr. H. H. Baguley. European Warder, Prisons, Straits Settlements, has been seconded for s2rv>-» nnriT the Government ot Johore,
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    DOCTOR'S DOUBLE ESCAPE
    432 9 From Death Fractured neck electric shock Sydney, N.S.W., Dee. 31. y&ITH his neck fractured, in a surf accident, a resident medical officer at the District Hospital at Manly, Sydney's famous seaside suburb, went about his duties for three days, not knowing the serious ness of the injury.
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    16 9 Mr Govlndasamy, chief clerk, Distrirs. Office Teluk Anson. i S at present an enwal Ho3^tal Wfi
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    DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES ENGAGEMENT
    48 12 TOK—ONG.—The engagement is announced of Mr. Tok Chong Beng, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tok Eng Wee, to Miss Ong Tee Neo, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ong Song Quee and the wedding will take place on the 22nd January, 1937.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    39 12 MRS. SEAH BOON HUNG and family beg to thank all relatives and friends who attended the funeral of the late Mr. Seah Boon Hung, and also those who sent wreaths and letters of condolence. F.M.S. papers please copy.
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    AGRICULTURAL TRAINING IN MALAYA
    700 12 jy|ALAYA and India are close neighbours, and the impressions made by this country on the well informed Indian visitor are always of interest. Such a visitor is Rao Bahadur M. R. Ramaswami Sivan, who was formerly principal of the Agricultural College at Coimbatore. Politically Mr. Sivan
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    WELSH NATIONALISTS ON TRIAL
    182 12 Special Trains For The Public Reuter Wireless. London, Jan. 19. SEVERAL hundred people travelled a special train and buses from North Wales for the re-trial of thret Welsh nat onalists. The jury at Carnarvon disagreed an: al at the O.d Bailey was r a Cicwn applicaiion
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    MR. RUNCIMAN
    97 12 No Statements In U.S.A. Reuter Wireless. Boston, Jan. 19. HE was nothing but on a holiday trip and was not commissioned to negotiate a reciprocal trade pact nor to discuss war debts or arrangements for a world monetary conference, declared Mr. Walter Runciman on his arrival here. He
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    THE POPE WORSE
    24 12 Reuter Wireless. Rome, Jan. 19. The Pope's general physical condition has grown worse following increased pain in his legs.—Reuter Wireless. M
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    NOTES & COMMENTS Farrer Park
    148 12 NOTES COMMENTS Farrer Park ■THE name Fairer Park is becoming familiar to the people of Singapoie, but it is still not generally known that In piat park the Commissioners have provided a fine and well equipped recreation centre. Now that the Turf Club has gone to new quarters, comparatively few
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    A Sports Centre
    140 12 J7ARRER PARK is, of course, the land which for so many years provided the racecourse. When the Turf Club decided to move to Bukit Timah the Commissioners wisely agreed to acquire the land for the purpose of providing a park and recreational centre, thus preserving a much
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    Hard Court Tennis
    195 12 IWORK has been in progress for some time, and Farrer Park has been made a very pleasant place. The open drains which existed in the old day-, providing interesting hazards when the racecourse was used for golf, have best) covered in, and two soccer fields ani a
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    Other Amenities
    161 12 »pHE Commissioners have done well in providing for recreational activities cf the people of Singapore. In addition to Farrer Park, we have the Park at Katong, a football stadium at Jalan Eesar, the Mount Emily swimming pool and other amenities of the kind. There has been a certain
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    Topics Of The Day
    454 12  -  Bv Looker On A CROCODILE is harmless as long as he is occupied,"" says an explorer. Nevertheless we still have no desire to be the occupant. A new tool, using gunpowder tor power, drives rivets through steel without the necessity of drilling. It is now h~»ped
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    STAMPEDE OF PANIC-STRICKEN PASSENGERS JUMP MADLY TO THEIR DEATH
    291 13 THREE HUNDRED DROWNED VESSEL STRIKES SUBMERGED ROCK IN CANTON RIVER Sin Chew Jit Poh. Q\ ER three hundred people were drowned when a Canton river passenger vessel struck a submerged rock. The passengers were too panic-stricken to use the safety devices
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    BRITISH STEAMER ON ROCKS
    129 13 Destroyer Stands By With Other Ships Reuter. Shanghai, Jan. 21. H.M.S.. DAINTY, steaming from Hongkong for Wei-Hai-Wei, has been ordeied to stand by the British steamer Ilsin Peking, formerly the Tungchow (2,000 tons) belonging to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Ltd., which strucK the Nemesis Rock, 24
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    REBEL SETBACK AT MADRID
    137 13 HILL LOST Government Troops' Success Reuter. Madrid, Jan. 19. FTFR beirr over two months in the insuixcnlN' possession* the Government forces have captured the whole Hill of Angels taking over 200 prisoners and a large quantity of munitions. The militiamen promptly renamed the position "Red Hill."
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    MALAYAN ENGINEERS
    99 13 Annual Meeting Of Singapore Section Singapore, Thursday. The annual general meeting of the Singapore Section of the Engineering Association of Malaya, was held at the Adtlphi Hotel yesterday evening and the following office-bearers for the ensuing year were elected: Chairman, Mr. F. H. Robinson; vicechairman, Mr. J. G.
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    MR. EDEN'S SPEECH
    33 13 (terman Reaction More Favourable Reuter. B:rlin, Jan. 21. The first official and political region to Mr. Anthony Eden's speech appears to be considerably less unfavourable than, the first press ccip-
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    EDEN'S OFFER TO GERMANY
    251 13 British Press Comment NOTHING LOST BY ACCEPTANCE British Official Wireless. London, Jan. 20. IY[R. Eden's offer to Germany is the subject of comment in the London Press to-day. The Times says the policy defin.. by Mr. Eden is the policy not only ol* the British Government
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    ARAB COMMISSION
    58 13 Reuter Wireless. Jerusalem, Jan .19. THE Royal Commission has concluded its work of hearing evidence in Palestine regarding the Jewish-Arab disturbances. Lord P?el, Chairman, accompanied by two members of the Commission left this morn'ng and is paying a short vW* tc Egypt. Th- whole commission will rait] for
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    62 13 Among the arrivals in Singapore by the Arizona Maru were Mr. and Mis Mark Coles, who will spend a holiday'in Malaya. Mrs. Coles is the sist'r of Mr. Joe Fisher and Mr. Julius Fisher. Mr Coles was for a number of years with the Cap- Times Ltd. With them returned
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    Following the attacks on Malaga and Valencia the Spanish rebels threatened to bombard Barcelona, the port of the Red republic of Catalonia. A tentative naval raid has already been repelled by land battelies and concerted attack is expect:d at any moment. In a bombardment the buiidinss in the wide Pasco de Colon, shown above, would probably be the chief sufferers.
    60 13 Following the attacks on Malaga and Valencia the Spanish rebels threatened to bombard Barcelona, the port of the Red republic of Catalonia. A tentative naval raid has already been repelled by land battelies and concerted attack is expect:d at any moment. In a bombardment the buiidinss in the wide Pasco
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    MOTOR STRIKE SPREADS
    47 13 TO BUICK FIRM Government Move For Settlement Reuter. Waslrngton, Jan. 21. M ISS Frances Perkins (Secretary for Labour), after discussion of the motor strike with the heads of the General Motors Corporation and Governor Murphy, announced "We hope that negotiations may be resumed." —Reuter.
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    STRIKE SPREADS
    105 13 Reuter. Washington, Earlier. The strike has spread to the Buick fr ctory., rendering idle a further 15.000 men but the settlement of the Pit''bvreh Hass strike induces obs°rv r rs be mere optimist'c of an ea'lv end of the motor strike. The peacenik k- ing has moved to
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    TRIP TO JAPAN
    64 13 French Aviator Near Cairo Reuter. Paris, Jan. 20. THE French airman Doret, accompanied by a radio operator, Micheletti, took off from Le Bourget at 6.36 a.m. to-day on a flight to Japan via Rangoon and Hanoi and landed at Brindisi at 1.32 p.m. He left for Cairo
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    STOP PRESS
    124 13 EXCITING SESSION OF TOKYO DIET Reuter. Tokio, Jan. 21. THE attention of the whole nation is focussed on the Diet session which was resumed to-day. It is expected to be one of the most hectic sessions of the House in Japanese history and it is forecasted that political
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    BRITISH SHIPS
    48 13 Australia's Plan To Help Them Reuter. Sydney, Jan. 21. A plan to give British ships a large share in cargoes between Australia anr; China and Japan has been drawn op by Mr. Thorby. Assistant Minister ot Commerce, and wil shortly be discussed by the Cab'net. —Reuter.
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    ESCAPED CONVICTS
    18 13 Reuter Wireless. Guelph, Jan. 19. Only four of the escaped convict i arc still free.—Reuter Wireless.
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    Roosevelt's New Pledge To His People REMOVAL OF INJUSTICE
    273 13 Ten Millions In Poverty Washington, Jan. 21. A PLEDGE to remove the "cancers of in jus'ice" causing want amidst plenty was made by Pres'dent Roosevelt in his inaugural address. The Administration was determined, he said, to make every American citizen the
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    ON OLD FOUNDATIONS
    187 13 A New Structure For The Future Reuter. The President added that progress in recovery was obvious but the new order of things brought about smce 1933 meant more than tha By using the new material for social justice they had undertaken to erect on the old foundations
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    MANCHURIA TO BE ANNEXED?
    71 13 Important Confcrenc? Proposed Sin Chew Jit Poh. Shanghai, Jan. 21. IT is reported that the Korean and Manchukuo Governments have suggested holding a conference to discuss possibilities of abolishing the border line between the two countries. This whl mean inclusion of Manchuria within the Japanese Emoire.
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    CLAIM FOR ALLEGED WRONGFUL DISMISSAL AGAINST EUROPEAN FIRM
    671 14 BY FORMER BRANCH MANAGER "HAD TO PLAY SAME GAME AS JAPANESE" Singapore, Wednesday. ALLEGATIONS regarding the manner in which Anglo-French Bendixens Ltd., a well-known local European firm, one of the signatories to the Straits New York Rubber Conference are said to have
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    LONDON INTERVIEW
    291 14 Did Not Ask Director For More Salary "I told Mr. Burton that I had not asked for more in London, on his advice and I now looked to him to see that things were straightened out. I then read further through the agreement and further disagreed with the
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    STRUCK OUT CLAUSE
    397 14 Discretion Regarding Leave Pay And Passage "I was upset but not annoyed. I struck out the clause giving the directors discretion with regard to my leave pay and passage with the words 'not agreed to' and then signed it. A few days later Mr. Burton and I
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    DREW CASH
    371 14 Chits Always Put Into Safe "By the time I returned to Singapore I had drawn $915 on the firm's account. I put chits into the safe each time I drew out money. Before leaving Teluk Anson I drew a cheque on the treasury for $915 to replace the
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    "MUST RESIGN"
    335 14 "Cannot Hold A Dual Position" "Continuing Mr. Burton said. 'We cannot tell you now about it, but you will have to resign from Anglo-French Bendixens as for obvious reasons you cannot remain in the company and hold a dual position." "He then asked me if I agreed. I
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    NEW BATTLESHIPS FOR BRITAIN
    345 14 Three To Be Laid Down This Year Reute r Wireless. London, Jan. 18. PARLIAMENT is re-assembling to-mor-row and faces an abnormally heavy six months work from which coronation festivities will deduct several valuable days. Financial demands present a formidable total. Naval experts believe three new battleships
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    MALAY REGIMENT
    118 14 March To Mosque On Friday THE Malay Regiment who are in Singapore for the forthcoming combined monoeuvres, will march to the Mosque in North Bridge Road on Friday by the following route: High Street, St. Andrew's Road (Municipal Buildings on left), Stamfori Road, Dhobi Ghaut Road, Bras Basah
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    COMMODITY MARKETS REACTION
    276 14 NERVOUSNESS IN COPPER inmm*AND rubber Reuter. London, Jan. 20. rjHE reaction of commodity prices which began on Monday and continued yesterday has not perturbed the leading 1 commodity dealers. While the long term tendency still holds upw r ard, it is pointed out that since the beginning
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    TEXTILES QUOTAS PROSECUTION
    373 14 Further Hearing: In Singapore Case Singapore, Wednesday. JNDER SINGH and Hardia! Singh, of I the firm of Gian Singh and Co.. Battery Road, Singapore; were again before Mr. H. A. Forrer, DistrictJudge, Criminal District Court, to-day vthen further evidence was recorded in connection with the following charges
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    KARL RADEK
    82 14 Soviet Editor For Trial Reuter Wireless. If ARL Radek. Sokolnikoff and other prominent Russians arrested in recent months will be tried on Jan. 23 before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. The indictment alleges the accused formed a Trotskyite group which carried out espionage for certain foreign
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    ANOTHER PROTEST
    36 14 Sin Chew Jit Poh. Nanking, Jan. 20. The Chinese Foreign Office has lodged another strong protest against the landing of Japanese planes at Tsingtao and Tsinan, in Shantung, during October— Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    15 CONVICTIONS
    84 14 Malay Adds To A Black Record Singapore, Wednesday. WITH a record of 15 previous convictions, a Malay named Mohanied Deros bin Mohamed was sentenced ;c two years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. H. A. Forrer, District Judge, Criminal District Court, to-day, on pleading guilty to a charge of lurking
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    MASTER AND CREW DROWNED
    43 14 German Naval Vessel Sinks In Storm Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 21. THE commander and entire crew of 24 of thp German naval experimental shin Welle were drowned when he ship sank in a storm at Fehmarn, in the Baltic sea.—Reuter.
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    CANADA ARMING
    71 14 Nearly Fifty Per Cent. Increase Reuter Wireless. Ottawa, Jan. 1& CANADA is spending more on armaments. In the 1937 38 budget presented to the House of Commons, the largest single increase is in respect of defenc? for which $33,703,000 are allowed, repiesenting an increase of $14,368,000. part of
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    BREATH OF TRUST CHARGE
    71 14 Singapore Wednesday. Tay Hee Keng of Messrs. Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd. was charged this morning before the third magistrate M W. G. Reeves with criminal breach of trust as a servant In respect of se 1 English one pound nofs th* property o: Mr. E.
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    Singapore Coronation Festivities MILITARY & AIR PARADE
    616 15 Singapore Coronation Festivities MILITARY AIR PARADE A GAY CITY Special Programme For Children Singapore, Thursday. THE Malaya Tribune is in a position to give below the arrangements which have so far been made for the Coronation celebrations t« be held in Singapore. While they wilS more or less be on
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    THE MISSING SURVEY PARTY
    212 15 Thrilling Antarctic Adventure British Official Wireless. Londcn, Jan. 20. rURTHER particulars have been receiv- ed regarding the survey party from the Royal research ship Discovery II, missin?' in th° Antarctic and later found. Landed at Esther Harbour, King George Island, on Jan. 6, the par.y had
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    ST. ANDREW'S MISSION
    50 15 The annual meeting oi the St. Andrew's Church Mission (founded in 1856» will, be held at 8 p.m. to-r:>>rrow at the St. Andrew's School Hall. The meeting will be preceded by a short entertainment. All members and friends of the Mission are cordially invited to be present.
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    COURT INQUIRY POSTPONED
    497 15 Travellers' Cheques HANDWRITING EXPERT TO BE CALLED Singapore, Wednesday. in a preliminary inquiry before the third magistrate. Mr. W. G. Reeves, this afternoon, Tan Yew Boh was charged firstly with fraudulently and dishonestly using as genuine a forge 1 document purporting to be valuable securities, namely, one
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    COLONEL'S SUICIDE
    52 15 Reuter Wireless. Metz, Jan. 16. A Russian Colonel Alexis Las Totchk ne, formerly attached to the Tsar's General Staff and who escaped death when the Royal family was executed, threw himself in front of an exnress train at Florange Station and was killed instantly. He was aged 53
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    VIOLENT BLIZZARDS
    45 15 Reuter Wireless. Beyoglus, Jan. 18. Temperatures of 85 degrees below zero have been recorded in parts of Anatolia which has been visited by violent blizzards. Sixty peasants have been frozen to death and large packs cf famished wolves are attacking isolated villages.—Reuter Wireless.
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    DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
    32 15 Reuter. London, Jan. 20. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will take UP residence at York House, which will be their town house, about the end of March. —Reuter.
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    INDIAN LABOUR
    14 15 The Rohna has arrived at Penang with 131 stated-aided labourers from Madras.
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    37 15 Speed classes for members of the Gregg Shorthand Writers' Association will be resumed commencing Monday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. A beginners' class for Gregg Shorthand is being arranged. Particulars can be obtained from the hon. secretary.
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    MALAY TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN K. L. ALL-MALAYAN MEETING
    206 16 THE ENTRIES Pahang s Sultan In Four Events (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala, Lumpur. Thursday. AMONGST the entries for the second al! Malaya lawn tennis championship received so f*»t is one from H. H. Sir Abu Bakar K.C.M.G. Sultan of Pahang who
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    ETONA B.P. WIN
    123 16 In a friendly game of badminton, the I.tdaa B.P. "B" defeated the Rex B.P. B" by five games to two on the former's court. Results 'Etona B.P. players mentioned first >: Singles: Loh Hun Khoon lost to Yulen Chan 15—8. 12—15, 12—15; Billy L. H. Beng beat
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    WON BY ODD GOAL IN SEVEN
    192 16 V.M.C.A. Hockey Against The Indians Singapore, Thursday. THE V.M.C.A. beat the Indian Association by lour goals to three in a hockey match played on the latters' ground yesterday. The first goal for the V.M.C.A. came after some ten minutes of play when Leembruggen flashed
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    F. A. CUP REPLAYS
    80 16 Blackburn Beat Accrington Reuter. London, Jan. 21. THE following replays in the third round of the F.A. Cup competition took place to-day: Accrington 3 Blackbuni 1 (after extra time». Blackpool 1 Luton 2 Pol*on 1 West Ham 0 York 1 Bradford City 0 League games played
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    BRITISH BOXING BOOM
    166 16 A New "Golden Age" Has Dawned London. CONCRETE evidence of the boom in British boxing is the £30,000 wh cl. was taken at the Wembley and Harrlngay tournaments inside a fortnight. Excellent valu& for the money wa-j given at each of the shows, and the only occasion
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    SELANGOR BADMINTON
    128 16 Singles Championships Semi-FinaLs 'From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Thursday. The semi-finals of both the junior and open singles badminton championships will be played on Saturday in the V.I. Hall. In the junior singles, Tang Whai Yew meet Lim Teng Hin and Alimat will oppose Tan Chin Tooi.
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    HOME RUGBY
    24 16 Reuter. London, Jan. 21. The following were rugby matches played to-day: Bristol 10 Royal Navy 0 R.A.F. 11 Cambridge U. 3 —Reuter.
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    Miss Etlin and Adam who were beaten by Miss N. Hopkin and S. Abed at Farrer Park yesterday in the tennis championships. (Tribune) .
    23 16 Miss Etlin and Adam who were beaten by Miss N. Hopkin and S. Abed at Farrer Park yesterday in the tennis championships. (Tribune)
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    ENTRIES FOR PERAK RACES
    316 16 THREE DAY FEBRUARY MEETING BELOW is given the list of the full entries for the Perak Turf Club February meeting. to be held on Jan. 30, Feb. 3 and 6. There are altogether 138 entries 57 for class 2 horses. 40 for class 3. horses, 24
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    NEGRI HOCKEY
    139 16 Team Selected To Mc-2t Malacca (From Our Ottn Reporter) Seremban. Thursday. THE following have been selected to represent Negri Sembilan on the return hocky match against Malacca on Saturday it Malacca: A. Emma nuel; Md. Ali, Dr. G. Van Geyzel; R Lopez. J. E. Theophilus (Capt.> B. Sibcrt;
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    SWIMMING CONTEST IN AUSTRALIA
    254 16 Annual Championship Results Sydney. Jan. i2. HISS Evelyn de Lacy <West Australia*, who represented Australia at *he Olympic Games, won by a touch the 110 yards free-s\yle championship of Australia, at the North Sydney Olympic Fool and equalled Miss Kitty Mackay's Australian record of 1 min.
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    HOCKEY TEAMS
    87 16 t.u.u vs. Middlesex Regt. to-day a> S.C.C.:-P. W. F. Mills; F. F. Kinsey Capt. N. L. Hammond; H. G Shaw Ĕ" W. Reeve, H. Sardeman; A. T Aird' A H. Marshall. E. V. Smith, T.A D Hewan Lt. D. P. G. Stewart. Umpire J. K Gale' On Monday,
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    CHINA'S CHAMPION WRESTLER
    472 16 WINS AGAIN "Afghan Assassin Subdued Shanghai, Ji t;, t; WONG Bock Cheung brough: another spectacular viet St. George's last night. m,i Mohamed Abdul, "the Afgha: /v.. ssin" by two falls, the bout k the full six rounds. Harbans Singh disposed of another of Wong's former victin >.
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    KING'S RACING MANAGER DEAD
    20 16 London, Jan. 21. The death is renounced cf Brigacif Tomkinson, the King's racing manage -Reuter. Reuter.
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    HARD COURT TENNIS TOURNEY LADIES' SINGLES FINAL
    436 17 TO-DAY'S TIE fti.'nv Close Games V esterday Singapore, Ihursday. P ULII progress was made in the i i. Tii Tennis Tournament at I lk y. .terday with the play,t. l natch s in the Kandi- i i j i and Ih Open Mixed
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    S.C.C.Team Against Air Force
    65 17 lHi wfam have bet n invited to for S.C.C. vs. R AF. on January, 23 at S.C.C.: w. N. V. P. H. Pearse, K. A. HadJ. C. Coske and R. A. Ward; n and C. T. Owen; D. It A G. Mitchell. E. N. GrLffitn G
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    Match Cancelled
    23 17 Singapore Wednesday match between the SingaTeachers and th? ComSchool to have been played on the ffl Institution ground this evening cancelled.
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    Boon Mah, the Siamese feather-weight who will fight Cauder at the New World on Feb. 5.
    17 17 Boon Mah, the Siamese feather- weight who will fight Cauder at the New World on Feb. 5.
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    LATE GOALS DECIDE GAME
    196 17 Changi Gunners Beat The S.C.R.C. At Hockey Singapore. Wednesday. TWO quick goals within the last few minutes of The match enabled the Royal Artillery (Changi* to boat the S C.R C. by 2—1 at hockey at the Hong Lim Gieen this afternoon. The exchanges were tame
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    DRAW OF 1—1
    212 17 Police Hold By The S.C.C. Singapore Thursday. THE probable S.S. Police team who arc to unet the F.M.S. Police in their annual hockey encounter on Sunday were held to v draw of one-all by the Singapore Cricket Club in a match played on the Padang this evening.
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    FAMOUS CRICKETERS
    72 17 Announced Their Intention To Retire London. Three famous cricketers have announced the'r retirement from ths came. They are J W. H:arn« (Middlesex), J Smart 1 Warw ckshne png Harry Elliott (Derbyshire» Hearn:. at his own wish, is retir irq from the M.C.C. staff became c: hU3loess reasons. He
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    TERROR BEATEN
    28 17 Singapore. Wednesday. The SR.C. "B" team beat the H.M S. Terror by two goals to nil in their hockey match played on their ground this evening.
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    EXCITING RUGGER AT THE S.C.C.
    578 17 PROGRESS OF SEVEN-ASIDE TOURNAMENT Singapore. Thursday. VjjfJTH the playing oi two more ma.ches yesterday the first round in ttw S.C.C. Seven-a-Siue uiyby tournament was brought to an end and the is set for the commencement to-day ol the .sec:>nd stage the competition. Thff A" :>idc
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    LEPERS AND TEST CRICKET
    231 17 Scores Signalled To Island Darwin, Jan. 6. CUT off though they are from contact with their fellow-men, patients of the Channel Island leper station are not cut off from the Test Matches. Each evening, from Darwin, the scores are signalled across the 14 miles of water
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    "SWIMMING CIRCUS"
    102 17 New York. CIX members of th: U.S. swimming team at the Berlin Olympic Games have been signed up to tour the United States this winter, giving exnibitions as part of a "swimming circus." Miss Dorothy Poynton Hill, Miss Georgia Coleman. Miss Jane Fauntz Manske and Mrs. Lenore Kight
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    TELEVISION IN A CINEMA
    193 18 Impressive First Public Demonstration London, Jan 5. THE first public demonstration of television on a big screen has been given here before an audience of 3,000 at the Dominion Theatre. The television programme was given during the ordinary film shows on a screen measuring about eight
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    MORE COTTON GOODS SOLD
    497 18  -  To Dominions RECAPTURING TRADE FROM COMPETITORS (By Air Mail Manchester, Jan. 16. BRITAIN'S exports of cotton piecegoods to Australia, Canada. New Zealand and South Africa, between January and November last year amounted to 321 decimal 5 million square yards, an increase of 13 decimal 4 million
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    A scene from Everything is Rhythm "in which Harry Roy, the famous oance band leader and a popular favourite with radio and variety fans maices nis debut as a film star. Playing opposite him in this big musical which opens at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, is his wife. Princess Pearl, the second daughter of the Rajah of Sarawak. The wedding of Harry Roy and Princess Pearl is still fresh in the public's memory and trie story of 'Everything is Rhythm" is said largely to reflect the popular couple's romantic courtship.
    91 18 A scene from Everything is Rhythm "in which Harry Roy, the famous oance band leader and a popular favourite with radio and variety fans maices nis debut as a film star. Playing opposite him in this big musical which opens at the Capitol Theatre on Sunday, is his wife. Princess
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    LONDON TO BE ADVERTISED
    509 18 Cost Expected To Reach £1,000 LONDON is to be advertised— at a cost of £1,000. For some time the General Purpose, Committee of the London Court* y Council has considered th e problem of advertis ng London and its amenities, and it now recommends the Counc'l
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    £72,000 DEAL
    108 18 Brisbane, Queensland. Jan.6. One of the biggest pastoral deals in Queensland for some y.ars has been completed with the sale of Alice Downs Lancevale. and Anthony North stations in th? Blackhall district, for a total of £72,000 cash. The purchaser is Mr. H. Rubin, who lives in London,
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    EMPIRE YOUTH AND CORONATION
    368 18 Service In Westminster Abbey London THE Coronation of King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth is to be mad; the occasion for knitting togetre; in bonds of closest friendship the youth of Britain and the Empire. On Wednesday May 19—a week after th; Coronation—an Empire service
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    FATHER'S REVENGE
    151 18 Shoots Daughter's Faithless Ix)ver Belgrade. DEAUTIFUL Mil a Dimitriyevich, just 21. P member of one of th e high st families of Belgrade, shot herself because her lover jilted her. While giving evidence at the inquest, her father whipped out a revolver, fired twice at the lover, Zvctozar
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    51 18 It is understood that Mr. R. W. E. Harper. A.P.C., who underwent a serious operation som e time ago in the Batu Gajah Hospital, will shortly leave for home with Mrs. Harper. Mr. Harper was until recently O.C.P.D. Ipoh. Mr N. B. Thomas is now acting as O.C.P.D in his
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    31 18 Mr. L. Strachan of Boustead and Co., the popular goal-keeper of the Selango'r Club hockey team, [eft Kuala Lumpur on Monday night on transfer to the Singapore branch of his firm.
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    PHYSICAL TRAINING OF THE NATION
    496 18 No Compulsory System In Britain London. THERE is to be no system of compulse v physical training in Great Britain, where the subject has been arousing much interest for some months. This is inferred from a speech b> Mr. Oliver Stanley. President of the Board
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    ABORIGINAL ROMANCE
    269 18 Wife Elopes After Wedding Darwin. Northern Territory Jan 12 NORTHERN Territory police* have many 2 strange tasks to perform in their aeahngs with ahorigines, but one of the most difficult tasks that now confronts a local force somewhi-re in th e bush within a radius of 50 miles
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    AUSTRALIA'S TRADE
    152 18 I Exports Of £4,299,000 For Five Months Ended Nov. 30 I Sydney, N.S.W.. Jan. 12. Exports from Austtalia during the five months ended Nov. 30 were 44 299.000 an incr l a tstg 3,130,000 on the value of exports of Th C r exr^ ndi ig fiVe months
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    LONDON'S CITIZEN ARMY
    787 18 Needs Of The Infantry TRAINING FOR N.CO POSITIONS the air defeno most important portion Territorial Army in Londoi infantry. There is a tendency tain quarters to emphas'se the need* of the specialist units; but, exdnd. Ing the Royal Tank Carps, the in,., cisc form of the Territorial
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      2077 19 Malayan Listeners* Radio z HISINGAPORE Broadcasting Daily On cata Prelude (Purcelb. From 'Kreis- KUkKAMMha TOE new Singapore radio station A Recital Of Operatic J&mm***+*-mm#*m> **£?*^£X?c^tt Joseph Holbrooke) Serenade On flcw L transmissions. The now broadcasting (test Transmis-) MUSIC No- 5 (Rachmaninov) Gopak (Bax?' SSS?" after the call- sio ns) daily
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    SURVEY PARTY FOUND
    95 20 Reported Missing From Research Ship British Official Wireless. London, Jan. 19. THE survey party, consisting of six officers and men from the Royal research ship Recovery Second, who were reported missing yesterday in King George's Island South Shetlands, where they had landed, have now been found. Early
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    N.E.I. RUBBER
    112 20 Stocks Up To End Of November AT the end of November, 1936. the stocks of rubber in the Netherlands Indies, converted to long tons of 2.240 lb., amounted to 21,126 tons. This includes, native rubber held by Licensed dealers in Outer Islands, rubber held by licensed dealers and
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    POOR STATE OF FINANCES
    432 20 Malayan Amateur Radio Society's Report AN appeal to members of the Malayan Amateur Radio Society in order -o draw their attention to the fact th the present finances of the society merelv form a working capital of three monthis containtd in the annual report of the
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    ARCHBISHOP'S CALL
    204 20 "Dreary Catalogue Of Platitudes" London, Jan. 5. "THE Archbishop's sermon appeared to me to be a rather dreary catalogue of platitudes." This criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury's broadcast "Recall to Re-; ligion" was made by Mr. J Howard Whitehouse, Warden of Bembridge School, at the annual conference
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    STABBED IN STREET
    65 20 Singapore. Wed:. Write ambulance was called to 1 tion of Victoria Street and Ara yesterday morning, where a Chini found lying in a pool of blooc: He was in a semi-consciou> said he had been stabbed with by another. He sustained three stab wound P* right side
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    39 20 The Malacca Agricultural Medical Board will consist of the follow.n t members of this year: The Chief Officer, Malacca, and Messrs W. Wilken. J. F. S. Carmicha 1 T p Simpson, Loh Kirn Swi. J.P.. »nd Keng Bock, MJB.E.
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      1907 20 Malayan List eners' Radio berlin station DJB 1974 metres (15,200 kcs DJA (Continued from page 19) 5138 metres (9,650 k^DgM^J tres (15.280 kcs.); DJE lb.sa meire» RADIO-COLONIAL, FRANCE "THIS IS ENGLAND" to-day "to-day Engine Driver Talks About 12.25 p.m. can dja, djb (German, Wavelength: 25.24 metres (11.885 kcs.). His Life
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    THE LEAGUE AND THE SPANISH WAR
    1894 21 ALLEGED INTERVENTION BY GERMANY AND ITALY rpHE Spanish Government, on Nov. l 27, requested that, in the supreme interests of peace, the ncil of the League be convened ie of Article 11 to take the v steps to examine the situation in Spain. ote
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    THE RESOLUTION
    715 21 Maintenance Of Good Understanding At a subsequent meeting, the Council unanimously adopted a resolution stating that good understanding between nations ought to be maintained irrespective of their internal regimes and that it was the duty of every State to respect the territorial integrity and political independence of other
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    IMPAR TIALITY OF ENGLISH LAW
    1313 22 LECTURE BY HONGKONG'S CHIEF JUSTICE >JiHE European V.M.C.A. Literary and Debating Society provided their best treat to members th:? season when they obtained His Honour the Chief Justice. Sir Athol! MacGregor. to address them on the subject of law. Tn a comprehensive address, sum marised
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    GROWTH OF EQUITY
    1105 22 Ensuring: Fair Play For The Underdog The growth of Equity as a branch of English substantive law is most interesting but it is outside the scope of this lecture. It was originally the discretionary law administered by the Lord Chancellor to secure substantial iiistice, to temper and
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    AIR SERVICE
    65 22 The Centaurus Makes Excellent Flight Reuter Wireless. Brindisi, Jan. 17 THE Imperial Airways fly in k Centaurus, carrying the" f;I sengers and mails ever fl from Britain to countries of the E-ni arr.ved here after an excellent flight The Centaurius is car; passengers, five crew and over t0n
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    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OFFICE HOURS
    610 23 To the Editor of the Malaya Tribune) Sir,—In your issue of the 11th inst. Mr Khoo Teng Eng has bravely and j l( tlv championed the cause of the poor Ruir.mtile clerks, and he deserves their tV nk-s and admiration. Heads of business houses
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    CORONATION BONUS
    265 23 (Tc the Editor of the Malaya Tribum, Sir.—Whenever there is a great State aon, such as a Royal wedding, or b tter still, a Coronation, prisoners are let free, the whole nation rejoices, and everybody tries to do something to commemorate the event. I can think of no
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    ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE
    46 23 Washington. Jan. 16. piM-tecl here Mr. Walter Runclmeet both President Roosevelt Cordeil Hull, Secretary of State, arr va l nex week. Rn/ there are no indications Mr. i? lman empowered to negotiate, it A will formally discuss American trade and monetary re11t uter Wireless
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    PLAN FOR COTTAGE HOMESTEADS
    1194 23 HOPE OF WORK FOR ELDERLY UNEMPLOYED THE plan for cottage homesteads la quite novel as an organised effort in this country and offers most interesting possibilities. The case for it is strong. One 01 the most serious features in the problem of the Special Areas is
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    CHOICE OF LOCALITIES
    697 23 Co- peration With MinV.ry Of Labour The choice of the localities for %*sfih schemes would, no doubt, be made in close co-operation with the Ministry of Labour. Figures are available rhowing the state of industry and demand COT juvenile labour at every exchange ir the country. It
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    GERMANS ABROAD
    181 23 1917 Class To Enrol For Army Service Reuter Wireless. Berlin. Jan. 19 IN connection with the instructions being Issued to German Consuls abroad to enrol -1917 class compatriots for military service and in labour corps official circles interviewed by Reuter express the opinion that if such Germans can
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