Malaya Tribune, 8 December 1939

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    21 1 The Malaya Tribune VOL. XXVI- -No. 292. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1939 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune. Friday, December 8, 1939
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    BLOODIEST BATTLE YET IN RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE
    424 1 Finns Fighting With Cold Fury Soviet Steamroller Stuck In The Snow gWEDISH telegrams from Haparanda report a fierce battle (described as the bloodiest which has vet occurred) in the vicinity of Petsamo. It is estimated that 7,0(H) Russians were in the field when the
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    POISON GAS SHELLS USED BY SOVIET
    37 1 Reuter. Helsinki. Dec. X. Finnish News Agency thai "in an attack on fnm-h lotteries north of Lake 1.,: the Soviets used shells (MM on gas. Eleven oldiers were asphyx atfd." Keuter.
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    Finns Order 100 Spitfires From Britain
    81 1 Stockholm. Dec. 8. IT s reported here that Finland h, ordered 100 Spitefire feeler, fntm Britain. s are again preventing air I either side of Finland. ights of Soviet planes in ritcry are believed to have taken to explore the possibiandins trocos by kHnns
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    Air Force Casualties
    55 1 Reuter. London. Dec. S. Y< 'Miieenth casualty list of the KJLF. contains 48 names, compiled in action on active i\ •>{ whom were previously d missing), three missing ■i 12 died on active service. >> killed on active service Leader P. M. Watt, forAir Units in H.M.S.
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    Stock Exchange
    27 1 London. Dec. 8. Exchange, despite very I the tone was firm with lected foreign Governfter the recent downI leading industrials mostly veis. Wall Street was
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    PRESS CENSOR AND SERVICE CHIEFS
    132 1 Reuter. Sir Waiter Monckton is not resigning from the post of Director-General of the Press Censorship, said the Home Secretary in the Commons, when questioned in regard to recent newspaper reports which attributed the existence of diver gence of views between Sir Walter Monckton and
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    NAZI AIR RAID ON BRITISH COAST FAILS
    234 1 Battle Over North Sea Reuter. London, Dec. 8. H K gunfire was heard all along the coast of the Firth of Forth lr din ing a German raid yesterday and many British fighters £€n i cedirg over the North Sea. Uf Hn the
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    CONVOYED STEAMER SUNK IN COLLISION
    74 1 Reuter. London, Dec. 8. •THE Liverpool steamer Chancellor, 4,607 tons, is reported sunk in the Atlantic following a collision with another vessel in the convoy. The crew were rescued. An Ostend dispatch to the official German News Agency says that a Berlin trawler picked up
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    70 1 British Wireless. London, Dec. 8. A lighthouse keeper off the Firth of Forth was within 300 yards of the approaching enemy aircraft as they swept by in close formation from the northeast He saw British fighters dive to attack and watched as one of them cire'ed the lighthouse when turning
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    NAZI BID FOR TURKS' FRIENDSHIP
    158 1 Reuter. Istanbul, Dec. 7. HITLER'S latest envoy to TurP" key. Baron Yon Lersner, has been hard at work since he arrived four days ago to regain for the Reich the confidence of the Turks since Yon Papen's mission was considered to have failed completely, according
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    25 1 Mr. David Robertson (Conservative) was elected upopposed yesterday for Streatham. to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of the Conservative O. Sir William LarNM/tchell
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    France Completes New Maginot Line
    128 1 Reuter. Paris, Dec. 8. T AST night's communique from the Western Front s ays that there was increased activity by German patrols. A whole German company made an attack and gained ground, but the enemy were subsequently repelled by a French counter-attack. Heavy German losses
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    Five More Ships Sunk
    124 1 Reuter London, Dec. 8. riVE more ships have been reported sunk. On° was a Norwegian tanker which foundered off the English coast ?ast night. Six men are be'ieved to have been killed by the explosion. The Netherlands steamer, Tajanuoen. ct 8,000 tons wa r > torpedoed
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    GUARDS ON BRITISH PIER IN NEW YORK
    68 1 Reuter. New York, Dec. 8. SPECIAL police are being detailed to guard the Ellerman-VVilson pier, on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, while British vessels are docked there,, the New York Journal Slates. This step follows a new bomb threat against
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    Mine Menace
    67 1 Reuter Faris, Dec. S. THE French Minister tor the Navy, M. Ci'mpinchi, staled at a Navy Council held in the Chamber yesterday that the German attack by mines could be considered broken from now on. He described the rapidity with which (he antisubmarine warfare had been conducted and
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    SIKH FATALLY INJURED IN LANDSLIDE
    80 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Sungei Patani, Thursday. A 3O-YEAR-OLD Sikh named Isa Singh sustained fatal injuries in a landslide at Bukit Tikam Batu on the morning of Sept. 25. He passed aww in the Sungei Patani Hospital on the same day. At th« inquest to-day
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    CHINESE WEDDING DINNER
    340 2 Singapore, Friday. OVER 200 persons sat to a sumptuous Chinese dinner last night at the residence cf Mr. and Mrs. Lye Boon Hong, at 74, Lorong 8, Geylang Road. The occasion was the impending marriage oi their eldest daughter, Miss Annie Lye to Mr. Wee Hian Teck,
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    37 2 It is understood that as the sailing of pilgrim boats is now permitted, Che Laedin bin Abdul Manan, First Assistant Director of Lands, Kedah, and the well-known golfer, proposes to makp the pilgrimage to Mecca this month.
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    32 2 Mr. W. G. Howse has been appointed to be an Unofficial Member of the Mejhs Meshuarat Keraja'an (State Council) of Negri Sembilan for a further period of one year from Dec. 15.
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    SEQUEL TO CLOSING OF CHINESE SCHOOLS
    1141 2 COURT HEARS CHARGE OF CHEATING Singapore, Tnursday. INTERESTING evidence was to-day given at the third day's hearing of the case in which Mr. How Say Huan, a prominent member of the Chinese community and a member of the Chinese Relief Fund Committee, faces a
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    BROADCAST BY FOOD CONTROL CHIEF
    142 2 »pHE Food Controller, Malaya, will talk to tne general public in a broadcast irom the 8.M.8.C. this evening at 7.30. Holder of one of th«» most important and difficult posts in Malaya's wartime organisation, the Hon. Mr. N. R. Jarrett, M.C.S., will give a general
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    WAR FOOD ALLOWANCES IN F.M.S.
    119 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. A DECISION made by the F.M.». Government to pay an allowance to aU labourers and artisans on the lines recently approved t»y the Straits Settlements Government in view of the increased cost of living, was officially announced this
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    Counterfeit Allegations
    100 2 Singapore, Thursday. CHEOW Ah Hoo claimed trial this morning in the Criminal District Court before Mr. J. L. McFall, on a charge that on Oct. 26, at 3, East Reclamation Road, he had a counterfeit 20--cent piece, which at the time he became possessed of it he knew
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    17 2 Dr. T. W. Hill, Deputy Municipal HeaHh Officer, Penang, having resigned his appointment, has left for Home.
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    CHINESE IN THAILAND
    61 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Dec. 7. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek has cabled to the Premier, urging the Government to extend full protection to Chinese working in Thailand. The Premier replied assuring the Generalissimo that there are no restrictions on Chinese who are observing the Thailand laws.
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    Ramakrishna Mission
    128 2 The Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira is trying to start a lesidential coMege for young men at Belur, in the district cf Howrah, India, affiliated to the Calcutta University. It is proposed to start the Vidyamandira en a plot of lana, measuring about 13 acres, to the west of the"
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    COULD NOT EXPLAIN POSSESSION OF IRON
    226 2 Singapore, Thursday. FINE of $25, or one month's rigorous imprisonment, was this morning imposed on Goh Keow, a 36-year-oid Hckkieu with three previous convictions, when he was convicted on a charge of fraudu ,o nt nossession of two pieces of iron piping, one hacksaw,
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    Bond For Causing Hurt
    71 2 Singapore, Thursday. Hans Raj Singh was this morning found guilty by Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the Second Police Court, on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt with a pipe to a compatriot, and was ordered to be bound over for a period of two years on
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    MAGIC CIRCLE
    32 2 The annual general meeting of the Malayan Magic Circle will be held at Circle House, Karikal Road, at 9.15 to-night (Friday). An impromptu entertainment of magic will follow the meeting.
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    Magistrate Warns Policeman
    385 2 Singapore, Thursday. rpHE evidence of a police constable was severely criticised by th Third Police Magistrate to-day at the continued preliminary quiry into an armed robbery charge against two young Canton. At the conclusion of the inn»» C. H. Koh, the magistrate J b:th the accused, Won*
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    $150 Bond For Stabbing
    112 2 Singapore. Thursday. (»ONVICTED in the Third Poiice Con on two charges of voluntarily caa ing hurt to two Indians by stabtu them with a penknife at Albert Sw on the night of Oct. 8. V. K. Pifll a middle-aged Indian, was this moo ing order rd
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    PUNJABI BAND AT THE CAPITOL
    88 2 The following is the programme to tendered by the pipe and drum the Punjabi Regiment on Saturn night at the Capitol preceding shewing of the U-boat 29: March, '"The Highland Vf* march, "My Native Highland vm strathspey, "The Market Pluce «J verness"; reel. "Piper O'
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    Appellant Says Detective Got Him Into Trouble
    214 2 Singapore, Thursday. J AM innocent," pleaded a second offender, Toh Toa Twa, unsuccessfully appealed against his conviction and sentence when he appeared in the High Court this morning before Mr. Justice Manning. The appellant, who was unrepresented, was sentenced by a Police Magistrate
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    REVOLVER BATTLE IN VILLAGE
    136 3 From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Thursday. MItPY old world village in Mines, close to Bruas, was [<f nc ot intense activity the night iire last, culminating in the arlof four .Malays. shopkeeper on going to t:r the early hours of the overed attempts being II burgle
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    37 3 untitled Thomas who has just untitled the appointment cf Sultan Abdu! Hamid ColI I Star has left for Singapore act for a short time as ■j Senior Inspector of schools. I Labuan. before he goes i leave.
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    15,000 BOYS AND GIRLS BEGIN HOLIDAYS TO-DAY
    456 3 PAST YEAR BUSY AND EVENTFUL (TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER) gXCEPT FOR THE 2,160 BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ARE SITTING FOR THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATIONS NOW IN PROGRESS, SINGAPORE'S 15,000 ODD SCHOOLCHILDREN BEGIN THEIR END-OF-THE-YEAR VACATION TOMORROW. ALL ELEMENTARY AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS CLOSE
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    Alleged Cheating Of Rice Dealers
    84 3 Singapore, Thursday, j TEN charge of cheating four wholesale rice dealer chopj> of 283 sacks of rice, amounting to $1,887.75, by false representation, during the montns of Jun e and July, were this morning preferred against Tiew Kah Thong, a 26--year-old Hokkien, in the Thiid
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    Relief For Dutch Bank
    42 3 Amsterdam. Dec. 8 —The Dutch High Court has granted to the Mendelssohn Company postponement of payments for 18 months from Aug. 14. 1938.— Reuter. m In August the Mendelssohn bank Ing firm was reported to be in difficulties.
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    Overseas Assurance Corporation
    209 3 rIE annual report of the Overseas Assurance Corporation. Ltd.. for ihe year ended Aug. 31, to be presented at a meeting of shareholders on Dec. 15, is as follows: Balance brought forward from last year $156,592.30; less payment of a dividend of six per cent. $39,000, transfer
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    25 3 An "At Home" will be held by the Biitish Resident of Se'angor 'the Hon. Major G. M. Kidd) at the Residency on Friday. Dec. 15.
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    15 3 Mr. W. A. C. Haines, Chief Police Officer. Malacca, goes on long leave this week.
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    HUSBAND'S ALLEGED ATTACK ON WIFE
    379 3 (From Ou' Own Reporter). Ipoh, Thursday. FOUR years of unhappy married life on an estate, broken by constant quarrels and disputes culminating finally with suspicion being attached to the wife of "carrying on an affair with another man are alleged to have led to a
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    STEADY RISE IN MOTOR CAR PRICES FORECAST
    981 5 Wearne's Annual General Meeting Singapore, Friday. jpORECASTING that the cost of motor cars of British, American and Canadian manufacture will rise steadily, Mr. C. F. F. Wearne, speaking at the annua] general meeting of Wearne Bros., Ltd., to-day said that factories in the
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    'The Island' Should Be A Winner
    283 5 HOW life in a small, restricted community reacts on its members is cleverly brought out in "The Island" which has its premiere at the Victoria Theatre to-morrow night A drama of an isolated military station and its community of officers and their wives whsea
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    Secret Weapon
    318 8 JJITLER.has made various dark alliens to a secret weapon to which he would resort if th e ordinary methods of German frightful "ess tailed. J n some quarters it has been asserted that this unknown engine of destruction fa the magnetic mine which has been" EEu*l S me
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    China's Problem
    121 8 (TONA w> 1 be handling one of situat LT* l u d€,icate di Plomatjc Assembly meets. Any misaffe C e U W Omentaly Meet her war of resistance aiainst Japanese aggression. Her reifta _tfn!_ lact u that she has been, and I We^s/ 0 'y in empathy witfthe'Vin
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    OPEN SOVIET THREAT IN BALKANS
    622 8 GERMAN PRESSURE ON TURKEY Reuter. TENSION in the Balkans is rising on news of Russian threats against Rumania and Turkey. The threats are in the form of a Press campaign, and from this and other news it would appear that Germany and Russia are together
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    BRITAIN'S SECRET WEAPON
    55 8 Reuter London, Dec. 7. J|R. huichill's reference to the a*Hc method of U-Baate uJus speech on the wmt at sea was the hrst use of the term in public Renter learns. The naval author*.' tics preserve complete secrecy about type hydrophone apparatu, f 0 e tecticn of
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    U.S. Considers Japan's Suggestions
    171 8 Eastern News. A tha\ SH j NGT N DuS S^ 11 Japan »nd the from the Ambassador. Mr. J. Grew Statin nd er consi *eration at the State Department. me In a press interview yesterday mwm relations were Sssed fn Se Amerlcan A A dmiral Kic
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    24 8 Copenhagen Dec 1. It is officially had alleged that Briti Qer man radio over Denmark t B T-'...,). v,. c ral d "ver the
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    ALLIES TO SUPPORT LEAGUE SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA
    994 9 British Labour On Red Traitors Finland's Appeal To The World Reuter. London, Dec. 8. THE Daily Telegraph diplomatic correspondent understands that Britain will support proposals expected to be made at Geneva that sanctions be imposed against Russia. Finland has not invoked the article
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    RUSSIAN PRESSURE ON ESTHONIA
    72 9 Reuter. Copenhagen, Dec. 7. rill reason for the visit of General Laidoner, the Estonian commander-in-chief, to Moscow this week, is Soviet nervousness over Esthonia's pronounced sympathy for Finland, says the Helsinki correspondent of the Berlingske Tidende, who adds that the Soviet is demanding that demobilise part
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    Rumania's Strict Neutrality
    91 9 Reuter. Athens, Deo 7. DUMANIA'S anxiety to keep the war from spreading to the Balkan! and the Danube Valley was stressed by the Foreign Miniver M. Gafencu in an interview oublished here. He expressed confidence that there as no conflict between Soviet and Rumanian interests. We are
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    QUEEN'S VISIT TO EVACUEE AREA
    83 9 Reuter. London. DfcC. 7. WHILE the King was continuing his tour in France, the Queen spent to-day on the home front visiting »p children in Sussex. Sr Majesty ate a three-penny lunch with 250 children at Chichester. Slip sat at the same table with them
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    GERMANY ALARMED BY SOVIET ADVANCE
    100 9 Reuter. Paris, Dec. i. T HE distrust between Russia 1 the Zurich correspondent of Le with Sweden dish ores, and both are trying to pick a quarrel w as an excuse to invade her. Great uneasiness is felt over the Soviet ambitions the cor respondent
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    SWEDEN FEARS NAZI ACTION
    77 9 Reuter. Stockholm, Dec. 7. DELI ABLE quarters here fear K German pres s attacks on M. banaler (Foreign Minister may be a v L lvd c to German action against Sweden. The reconstruction of th e 2*Xe ment without M. Sandler would tgae the wind out
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    30 9 Mr. O. L. Stephens, Settlement untitled pineer. Malacca, goes home on leav this week. Mr. K. Nankivell, who was there in 1926 and again from 1930, will succeed Mr. Stephens.
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    14 9 Reuter London, Dec. 7. Three men were executed m Berlin this morning for Mgh
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    SOVIET CLAIMS BIG DEFENCE LINE BROKEN
    136 9 Reuter. Moscow, Dec. 7. v 4kat the Soviet forces have advanced AN official the feo jg A tw£nty miles south Finnish main defence line claimed, the Soviet forces have broken along Ihe Vuoksi water system. Washington, Dec. 7. j> fible to President In the
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    FIRST DAY OF IPOH WINTER MEETING
    466 10 PUNTERS HAVE GOOD TIME (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Thursday. JTAVOURfTES had an excellent day at Ipoh to-day for the first day of the Ipoh Turf Club's winter meeting. Though dividends were on the small side—as were fields—the tote wa s well backed and
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    Tennis Star Engaged
    40 10 MISS KAY STAMMERS the British tennis star, whose engagement to Mr. Michael Menzies a young: Scottish business man now training for an Army commission IJL™!""* states a Reuter message. They are marrying early in the New Year.
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    Dividends At A Glance
    76 10 Race 1: Bay Rose $14 and $7. Rosalie $11. Race 2: Phar Phar §17 $11 Char $18. Race 3: Pretty Quiet $15 Sc $8 Policy $10 Rebel King $9 Race 4: Pat Burke $2.3 $7 Faith $7 Beveran $12 Race 5: Inez $48 $14 Clifton Lad
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    AMATEUR BOXING TOURNEY
    210 10 I W. Mitchell presided at a speI cial meeting of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Club yesterday i evening at the Happy World I Representatives from the 2nd. Batt the Loyals Regiment, the Manchester. Regiment the Gordon Highlanders, the Johore State Police, the Singapor P Police Depot and
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    Sports Diary
    25 10 TO-DAY •HOCKEY Pclicp a-** In dian Assn. «<a,'> RUGGER: S C.C. Wvs For, ning, S.C C. rt Can TENNIS: YM C A r»
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      244 10 WEAK KIDNEYS CAUSE B RHEUMATISM j Only a Kidney Restorative con help you I organs, when working I and pass out from the system the poisons definitely acting on the kidneys These I and impurities that cause pain. But P 1,ls stimulate and strengthen the kid- I when the kidneys
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      264 10 to hps It's easy to make your Up, rcfiect their natural loveliness. Ti catches and holds a beauty that me! .dmire. For Tangee cant Painted look; it isn't paint. (W. in the stick, it changes on your 4s to blush rose, the shade most coming to you. Its special cream
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    First Aid And Home Nursing Examinations
    635 11 ftrl ais *Z LT resUlts of «arninatlons m the St 25£ A m w nure i n held recently by tne St. John Ambulance Association: FIRST AID Peni n hospital (Oct. 25): Le e Ah safe as ss LiS'miuS^S? 1 (OCt 27): Tsan Chew
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    INTER-VARSITY SOCCER DRAWN
    38 11 Reuter. London, Dec. 7. THE annual Oxford v. Cambridge soccer, played to-day outside London for the first time in history, was drawn 2—2. Cambridge equalising in the closing seconds. At half-time Oxford led I—o.— Reuter.
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    S.C.C. HOCKEY
    57 11 The following have accepted to play for S.C.C. vs. R.A.F. II to-day at the S.C.C.:—Major F. E. Robertson: Lt. M. F. Francis, R. G. K. Thompson; K. E M. Hatchard. J. Fietcher-Cooke. FOfir. S. M. Maclldowie; M. W. Cole. Lt. H. Huleatt. FOrTr. C. D. Layers. A. C
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    RIFLE ASSOCIATION
    46 11 I The 30 yardr- range of the Singai pore Rifle Association will ba availabl? from 4.30 p.m. for revolver practice from Dec. 14. Commencing Jan. 3, 1940. and until further notice a Spoon Shoot will ba held on Bukit T.mah Range at 8 a.m.
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    "Hotel For Women"
    296 11 Last Night's First Night r pAKE the light things seriously and the serious things lightly" is Elsa Maxwell's advice to tne young heroine of "Hotel For Women," now on at the Cathay. Accordingly, the new picture at the Cathay must be taken .seriously for it is a
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    41 11 A meeting will be in the club on Tuesday, Dec. 10. with the purpose jof electiii£> a Captain and Vice-Captain for bowl? fur the ensuing year. All members who are interested in bowls are invited tc attend the meeting.
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    DECEMBER SPOON
    51 11 The replay between Miss M. Brown and Mrs. R. W. McCreath at the Keppel Golf Club for The December Spoon resulted in a win ior Mis.s M. Brown with a sco~e of one down. The December LG.U. Medal was won by Mrs R.J. Fannie with a score of
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      203 11 /*lt a$ a Nil "A martyr to LUMBAGO I and RHEUMATISM!" S. S. fought a losing fight he double scourge of Rheuitism and Lumbago until he disered Fynnon Salt. His letter, which begins," I want to let you know of the wonderful benefits I have I from your product Fynnon
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      165 11 Jllllllj Apply Cuticura Ointment to your Eczema. At the very first touch you feel its marvellous soothing effect. Within five minutes that terrible, sleep-wrecking itch is dispersed. Then, after each application, the affected part looks healthier as the eruption dies down. It shrinks in size daily. Scaling stops, weeping dries
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    LONDON DENIES CABLE REPORT
    66 12 Reuter. London, Dec. 7. IT is authoritatively stated here that a United Press message, alleged to have originated in published in Shanghai on Dk. 5 and repeated by lv hun^n S f adio, to the effect that the British Government has decided to avoid depriving Japan
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      73 12 TOPPING ALL OTHERS IN VALUES SELECTIONS GIAN SINGH'S GRAND ANNUAL X'MaS £alef is the talk of the town is the STORE FOR ALL YOUR X'MAS GIFTS These are a few of the bargains RADIUM SILK SAREES y I with Fancy borders "VOT SHIRTS TO CLEAR Sizes 1«", ISW, 17" $1.00
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      320 12 I LET OS HANDLE CLOCK WATCH p E P MRs V lOD W,LL BE A ss,; RED PROMPT SERVICE v\ D R£ SATisF.ic rioN YICK WOH HING 429, NORTH BR1D( jI: ROAD (Near Midd!e Road) PHONE NO. Contractors for th, f Clocks and Watches to th, Army R.A.F. Base i
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      607 12 TO-DAY'S RADIO 1 M ■HtllflllMfl SINGAPORE LONDON j 7.HL 2* metre. (133 mc!*). TRANSMISSIONS 2 &3 I ZIIP 30.H metres (9.69 mc|s>. GgG njg Mc,s (16.86 metres) I (iSF 15.14 Hell (13.92 metres) P ir GSJ 21.53 Mc|s (19.82 metres) I fl5 miscellaneous programme of Gramophonj m records §;21 L'.rht
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      516 13 n n«^^M WANTED: AGENT fo r sundry food product*. Box 219, Malaya Iribune, Singapore. 1906-B» assistant cashier, small salary I A .ply Box 218 co Malaya Tribune SirT a P° ie (902-B* i WANTED: A Dispensary Bottle Wash nth Fourth Standard education" 56, Victoria Street, Singapore. (925 B) iVANTED: One
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      584 13 Educational menctag 4.1-40 Fee: $2. Special After wee. $1. Five qualified teachers. Easy for _XS >ff ss_ IV fc tboo Guarantee E %fiSS° n s; EH EE PROS'- T CHUNG HWA MANDARIN School Buildtog). Short Street, Stagapore. 034 B> YOUR CHILD'S mwTMi X V Ji ICAL EDUCATION; CLASSES opening in
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      630 13 I M '&t Satk i 1 FOR SALE. Imported, RI R B Orpingtons, B. Rocks., L. Sussex,' Eec *6.U0!>10.00. Eggs 25 cis.. Chicks 75 cts. Apply 21 Kampong Java Read, Singapore. (953-Bi FOR SALE. Home bred Turkeys Capons. Chickens, Ducks, Fowls, Oc Guinea Fowl,, and GoaU. OOcainabiJ front:— mavfield kennels
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      497 13 Domestic Occurrence DEATH. WEE—Mrs. Wee Chim Kay nee Teo Laiak only daughter of Mr. Teo Yeong Ghee passed away peacefully at hir residence No. 54, Tanjong Pagar Road, early on Thursday morning at the ag. 1 of 31, leaving behind her, her beloved husband, father, one adopted sister, and relatives.
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      561 13 NOTICE. CHANCE OF TELEPHONE NUMBER. For the convenience of our customer? we have installed additional telephone lines and announce that the new number is 5393 (Eight Lines) Sime, Darby Co., Ltd. SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT*" TRUST. TENDERS are invited for the supply and delivery to .site of ironmongery and door furniture for
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      414 13 THE OVERSEAS ASSURANCE CORPORATION LTD. NOTICE 10 HEREEY GIVEN that the Transfer Books of the Corporation will be closed from the 9th to the 15th December. 1939, both days inclusive. Ey Order of the Board, G. C. CHIA, Secretary. Singapore. 2nd December, 1939. THE OVERSEAS ASSURANCE CORPORATION LTD. NOTICE IS
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      351 14 MALAYA*S PfteMIEQ HOTEL A TO-MORROW I SPECIAL DINNER DANCE f»MM FIE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME BY THE POPULAR AND TALENTED ARTISTES MI Ml JOSE MEXICAN DANCERS OF INTERNATIONA!, FAME EXTENSION TO I AJU. I ENTERTAIN YOUR FRIENDS AT RAFFLES CAFE r COMFORT AND SOCIAL ATMOSPHERE I SEA VIEW HOTEL TO-NIGHT AND
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      938 14 PUBLIC NOTICE. N. Eliyathamby Insurance Agent. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all my clients and the public that I have revanquished the «JoreaenUtton .of uic General Accident, Fire and m- rornt Ltd.. as from 26th Sopiem be? l? 39 P and I have Agencies for other reliable and substantial Insurance
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      220 14 GOLD LEAF TEA "A nice cup of Gold Leaf Tea" certainly .sounds and may even look less romantic than draughts of Rhenish and Tots of Glenlivet. But it gave anybody a headache, never kindled tempers, drew swords, fired pistols, or gave cause for dolelul and repentant Morrows. SMBaBBmaSSBBSSBBBBBBI■■■ SSBB1881 LAND
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      186 14 Have you heard best food in Orchard Restaurant Bar 38, Orchard Road, SINGAPORE. mmmmmmmmmmmmm How To Help Children Enjoy Their Christmas. For weeks children look forward to the festive season, counting the day to Christmas, and great is their disappointment if at- this time they ar? laid low by sickness
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    REUTER'S COMMERCIAL SERVICE
    284 15 NEW YORK New York, Dec. 8. B. S. X Tone Dull 19V 4 19y 2 L rd Apr. June 18 18y 4 11 t »ne Quiet 5iy 4 BULLION MARKET London, Thursday. 23 5/18 rd 23 V 2 Gold, Fine, per oz. £8.8.0 LONDON SHARE LIST London,
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    14 15 Singapore, Dec. 8. The price of tin at noon in Singapore to-day was:
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    15 15 The price of rubber at noon in Singapore to-day was:— Buyers: 38*4; Sellers: 3SV>.
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    179 15 Singap:re, Thursday. THE Singapore tin market was declared at 117% to-day. Rubber was again lower at 38 l 2 December 36 7/ 8 January March and 34 3 4 April June. Things were more lively to-day in the tin share market. Jelebu were carried up from 98
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    EXCHANGE
    255 15 Singapore, Dec. 7. The following are the exchange stock th?s morning according to the daily circular Issued bj the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. SELLING London T*T. 2 4 I|l3 London demand 2 4 lit, Rates for Freight 2 4 18 Lyons demand 2051 5 8 Sv -i/ir xnd
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      440 15 WEAKNESS AFTER FEVER When your temperature begins to fall and you feel you're getting better, then is the time to start to rebuild your wasted nerve and muscle tissues. Doctors have proved time and time again that Horlicks is not only easily digested > but also stimulates your faded appetite
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      301 15 STEAMER BAILINGS. BRITISH INDIA v. in England) P. 0. S. N. CO.'S SAILINGS. The best possible services are being maintained to the United Kingdom, also to Hongkong and Shanghai. Passengers are requested to register their requirements, but under present circumstances sailings are perforce restricted. All vessels may call at ports
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      332 15 BRITISHIINDIA\ PASSENGER FREIGHT x SERVICES,>-~ > For all information apply to: P. O.S.N. Co., The Agent, Collyer Quay, Tel. 5961. 15.1.5.N Co., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD., (Apcar Line). For Hongkong, Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe Osaka Fortnightly For Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta Fortnightly For all
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      161 15 I THE 1 I EASTERN BANK I LIMITED. I I HNGATOKS BRANCm II 1 4, D Almeida I I J*l££ capf« ffcjjgj I I Heserre Fund ZjS* II I HEAD OFFICE: LONDON I Branches: It I Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, II I Karachi Madras, Am arm, Baghdad, 1 I Bahrein. Basra,
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    Warm French Greeting For British King
    275 16 "Vive Le Roi!" Reuter. Paris. Dec. 8. Before luncheon yesterday the King spent another energetic morning inspecting a number cf headquarters establishments as well as units of the B.E.F. A feature of the tour was the enthusiasm with which villagers turned out and children
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    EARLIER SUMMER TIME
    47 16 British Official Wireless. London, Dec. 7. The Home Secretary, answering a Commons' question, said that while he was disposed in favour of the earlier introduction of summer time next year he thought it unnccessarv to decide the exact date so far ahead.—British OfficiaJ Wireless.
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    HOLLAND ENRAGED BY SINKING OF TAJANDOEN
    284 16 PREPARATIONS FOR NEW NAZI THREAT Reuter. Amsterdam, Dec. 8. HOLLAND is filled with indignation at the torpedoing of the Tajandoen, the eighth ship and the third largest Holland has lost in the war. It is pointed out that the disaster follows immediately on Germany's
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    SIX MISSING
    85 16 Dutch Steamer Was Torpedoed Reuter Amsterdam, Dec. 7. THE Duten steamer, 'iajandoen, 8,159 tons was torpedoed in the Cnaimei and sunk en route to the Netherlands East Indies. She carried a complement of 67 including the crew. London. Dec. 7. A boat containing 28 of the crew ana
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    KING AND PRESIDENT AT FRONT
    185 16 Reuter. AN historic ftnwlu in a French provincial hind the lines yesterda, h heads of the British E.J" France clasped hands cl The King had invited Precis i,ebrun to meet him ana Hi T ldeni entertained M. Lebrun d M "15?* dier (Premier* to lunch,
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    BRITAIN PREPARES TO INCREASE EXPORTS
    466 16 Neutral Shipping Chartered rujp rr r London, Dec. 8. Nt House of Commons agreed to the after rejecting by 226 **mt 31 a Libera! amendment 3L.52? Government was not taking dequnti measures to develop the ex»crt trade. S:r Jchn HUscn, Shipnmg Minister c P.ir- t-
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    U.S. AND GERMAN EXPORTS
    170 16 Reuter. Washington. Dei 7 XT is learned that the United States has reserved all rights under international law in connection with Britain's Onier-in-Coun-cil regarding the seizure of German goods on neutral ships. It is understood that this reservation has been communicated to Lord L> thian for
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    BALTIC STATES TRADE THROUGH GERMANY
    40 16 Reuter. OwTxrr* Riga. Dec. 3 WIIS.O lo the danger to shippinc in the North Sea the Baltic States are arranging transport of goads destined o«w 2. and and Be teium v!a Hambur: ana German waterways.—Reuter
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