Malaya Tribune, 5 February 1940

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune y 0L. XXVII- -No. 30. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1940 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Monday, February 5, 1910.
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    GANDHI TO SEE JINNAH AFTER TALK TO VICEROY
    203 1 si Move Towards Unity In India Muslim Peace Offer To Congress Reuter. with India's fniZJ Brit,sh war aims have rfrank tilt and wiU afterwards league leader Xi Jinnah the Muslim gue leader. Mr. J.nnah will also see the Viceroy. Cabineffor Indian Congress
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    Heroic Effort Of Fishermen!
    45 1 British Wireless. London. Feb. 4. Sine SSKS» lor combat magnetic mines the -nine was aalted lor 200 to c—«<c magnetic mine. ..-ted 'hat neatly m" Bevin ali» state Q rt and 37 *000 members joined forces. j fallen victims to already
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    JAPANESE CLAIM KWANGSI VICTORY
    44 1 Reuter. Tokyo, Feb. 5. field dispatch states a JAPANESE field QP A that the bodies of and hug e were counted on the quantities of arms an fey ujWl* ?an f ne n ar Tann'mg P and Pin.yang, in K^angsTp^
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    ON OTHER PAGES
    18 1 *>..< Murder of Seamen to johore Straite 6 SXaWnference Ends X+B" AdvertUemenU Radio H Stft'S- Attach
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    "No Strikes" Agreement In Trinidad
    73 1 JMNIDAD ail field employers and arrived at a far--2 Vi-'i, j i s reerßent Signed on Feb. da*.piiSr' d dPclari an in- eviration,^<hfu ur. fha a war bonus. 0 a r joci-iation opages" clause arc tares of the agreement, onfirmed by ihe Lonol the oil
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    BODIES OF NAZI AIRMEN WASHED ASHORE
    77 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 5. THE bodies of three German air--1 men. one wearing an iron Cross, were washed ashore on tM Northumberland coast U is believed they were the crew w a Heinkel brought down off ne mouth of the Tyne on Saturday. A
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    20 1 A mine barrier between 30 and 40 miles deep and 500 miles ion ß t Sidl cff the eastern coast.
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    27 1 Y.M.C.A. work with the British Expeditionary mas. A Red rt trained f o t^ne th ce a x D e the first six months o£ war. I
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    STOP PRESS
    132 1 Reuter. Th c Shanghai, Feb. 5. *ne i VS. Luzon, with the American Ambassador, Mr. Nel«on Johnson, aboard, returned to Shanghai yesterday evening from Hankow. Regarding the allegation that the Luzon was endangered by a Chinese shore battery, Mr. Johnson declared mat the Luzon was not fired upon
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    SECOND BOMBING OF FRENCH RAILWAY
    108 1 Reuter. «daired by Japanese aeroplanes A FURTHER severe air raidwas J ng Kunining railA yes terday on the same bridge on^ the P Yesterda S raid wa /where a passenger t h on the spot. It more complicated than ever. The fact that the P^f^one
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    FRENCH ATTITUDE TO RAIL BOMBING
    83 1 Reuter. Paris, Feb. 3. that no demarche IT is understood lu French au--1 W ill be made by the cn bject thorities to Japan on 5 e lU c H«" of yesterday's bombing of me phong-Yunnan railway. The bombingattributed to toe mdiscipline of the local
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    FOUR BALKAN STATES FORM A SOLID BLOC
    273 1 Official Communique Reuter. THF Belgrade, Feb. 5. Jugoslavia, ended in Belgrade last nght Rumania and included a deWhile all power! will endeavour <« I 2 S Uth caste Europe, diplomatic and friendK re"at P ,7k thers natiw as possible «i,h neighbouring sta s
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    FIVE NAZI BOMBERS DISABLED
    32 1 Reuter. London, Feb 5 DURING yesterday's air raids on the east coast of Britain, it is announced, three Nazi hcmbers were brought down and two were badly crippled—Reuter
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    Police Injured In K.L. Affray
    131 2  -  (From Our Own Reporter. Kuala Lumpur, to a hotel and six people 'pVENTY-FIVE doltars damage was o{ yes terday morning were carried to hospital in the early Selang0 r Hotel in Batu w AV attempted t0 Road and approximate y make arrests. SK.l«< I. Friday.
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    HISTORY IN COLOUR AT ALHAMBRA
    97 2 DavU arid pnroJ tou* 1 amor a. being siicwn at the inte popu.a--rU Not only are the evenU depict the story true m the mam D cap an described JJJpresents a tarn the rniasnialiou and Pr M sufficiently oroad "> yp es ot cinema v
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    FINE FOR SUICIDE ATTEMPT
    94 2  -  (From Our Own Correspondent Muar, Saturday. „Ka Haron bin Ahmad and charged"wUh having attempted to commit suicide by g£ the Muar River at lanjong Agas fading* t&l said that Pleading gu Un tlrl an couldl not sleep or walk nrSperly That was the reason w hy
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    JEALOUS MAN TRIES SUICIDE
    54 2  -  (Frcm Our Own Reporter. penang, savutuaj. LLEGED to have attempted to^comA mit suicide, g Koon Xeck S^he U MWdle e court In the sum of $25 a°rope'at "about ly hanged hlmse T w 12 He did this midnight on Jan. J coming to see his wile
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    GUILTY PLEA ON LIQUOR CHARGE
    55 2 lF rom Our Own gKgg r RE E Chinese, Pang x7n Ah Tung and Fah Bin Chin bin Ahmad and c r sea lh th distuled liquor at charge and the third accusea, ran Ch l^ch P e le Abdul 6^u y f bin Aman,
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    Malacca Acquittal
    199 2  -  (From Our Own Correspondent vmiul Malacca, »aiuru»y. REMARKING that W and K circumstantu sib mty, though that there wa j® e offences it was very unllkely Ifitted by vhe could have been with other P 1 658 B p Bridge. Disthe accused, Mr. the crimitrict Judge, aC r
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    THAI GOVT. TO HELP TRADERS
    57 2  -  (From Our Own Correspondent Bangkok, if eo. a. CRITICISM being forthcoming t a C the Government is entering into trade ventures with the intention of competing with private busmesst Government announced this morning that it is only taking interest m small industries neglected P enterprise.
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    Boy Hurt In 12-Foot Fall
    21 2 Singapore. Sunday. TTTTLE Javanese boy fell from a A SSot about 12 feet at the Quartos
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    untitled GIFTS FOR
    226 2 r 6 Women's Association of Ma/iv* a™ 7 have just sent to the Western Fmnt announce tha they consisting of 250 pultever, IK ne sh'Pment of garments Pairs of gloves. of socks 4 scarves and ten frr* from the inieraliiee dcs Anciens Combat- tarns, translated, reads as
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    Sugar To Cost Less
    38 2 T Food Controller announces that fro m to-day (Feb 5) the retail maximum selling Pnce of Java sugar will be "e--r^t J2J2 maximum Prices catty to Singapore and Penang, and n.ne ecnfc <n Malacca
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    Caught Distilling
    39 2  -  (From Our Own Correspondent Ciutcms, Prevemfv P 5?P c nt endent of secuted, aSedSEu «?i? nch wno poned to Fob 12 n 5i ence be Postof accused's ting ggg* the arrival mis w as allowed and' ti™
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    Sawmill Fire
    36 2 The Fire Tanjong Rh u a t six out f where a fire broke onf hls evening Only one stack of a a m The fire waTl r/ej within half an hou? S Unc!er
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    GERMAN MURDER OF SEAMEN & FISHERMEN
    262 2 GERMAN MURDER OF SEAMEN FISHERMEN CONTINUED ATTACKS ON SMALL SHIPS Reuter. London. Feb. i. mi fhe courage of seamen and fishermen were N UMEROUS .nslanees themM«T yes erday J> revealed machine-gunned the steamer YewTwo German a.rcraft bombedl and wl-fclre the dale, of 823 tons, -"""J** thre e members of the
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    Singapore Airman
    330 2 London, Feb. 1 JJELTER'S special c. rrespondent with the French forces reports that General VuiUemin. commander of the French Air I orce to-day decorated 28 airI men for acts of 27 were French and one Enilishtllghi Lieutenant Robert Yoase Jeff who was bom in Singapore. officii 1 L
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    LABOURERS HURT
    44 2 I Singapore, Sunday sff a t Tengah this morning a hnm£ WOman and a male Sikh latm?HS w re in Jured. Both of them susbar" "Jjuries over the face, arms and l Tn .ey were conveyed to the General hospital by ambulance
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    24 2 British Secret Service men untitled SJJS recently. The kite he bad been SEX ty** to be attached to an p n<U nnrl other equipment
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    VOLUNTEERS' NEW BUILDING AT TAPAH
    72 3 headquarters of the l*th Platoon, F AfS \olunteer Force, Tapah re (cnllv vacated the old local Police Station which it was occupying for some years and removed to a new and sparious house next to the Tunku \l»dul Rahman Cluh, Old Hospital road. The new
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    Breach Of Trust Charge At Muar
    90 3  -  (From Our Own Correspondent Muar. Sunday. GOPAL NAIR, an EnglishIndian, was this morning produced Lnche Haron bin Ahmad and ri with having committed crimitch of trust in respect of a sum being the money from sale and rue. while in the emJ E H
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    Concert In Aid Of Nuns
    109 3 RINGAFORf musi, lovers will have 1 yti another opportunity of hearing Wnn (Hga Coeibo, the world-famous I"", and guitarist, H nen she jives a charity recital at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Feb. 8. will be given in aid of i- and for the Carmelite
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    31 3 untitled High Commissioner, ,l vi His Majesty the ili ased to appoint Dr. Sre< Krishnan to be an Unofficial I ederal Council for a three years with effect i. 1940. inclusive.
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    32 3 Mr. untitled Kinloch was untitled Mary Francis, at St. Swinton, on" Dec. 23 last. Mr. G L Kinloch. was formerly of the Naval Ba.>e. Singapore, and also of the Naval Yard, Hongkong.
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    CAR FALLS INTO THE STRAITS OF JOHORE
    84 3  -  NARROW ESCAPE OF AUCTIONEER (From Our Own Correspondent INf'HP i 1 Johore Bahru, Monday, was ST'! J f ma,U<lin the «■«"-known Johore auctioneer, and into tho StraitlT f W i u" th Ci r he Wils ,rivin g ran "ff the road mio
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    Malacca Rotary Address
    47 3  -  (From Our Own Correspondent At the i Malac ca. Sunday. in? held nvv a Rotar y Club tea meetM?io 011 FriGa y afternoon at the P,mn C H a rest house Rotarian P Q amadasa spoke on Malacca roan names and their historical association
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    32 3 A new Troop has been started at Government English School -he r-crmts now number 30 Th.pv a*. raine <l by Scoutsmaste; baud l >~ -»lhd. Amin and A. g. _e W j s
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    Penang Chinese Expelled
    82 3 MR. Ch'ng Beng Lee, honorary"■assistant secretary of the China Distress Relief Fund, has been ordered, under an expulsion order, to leave the Colony by Tuesday night. The expulsion order has been issued not because Mr. Ch'ng w an official of the Relief Fund t ommittee but on
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    PARLEY OF 10 STATES AT THE HAGUE
    152 3 AT IMCIT c j liOlMkm, Feb. f>. LEAGI I of .\u s committee consisting of reprwenUtivei of ten btates-mcludmg- Australia. Argentina. Tnrkev Relginm Portu^jSwitzer,and andth «»«3 kSST: meet.s at The Hague on Wednesday. This body arises out of the recom- rr i« n
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    RAMAKRISHNA MISSION CELEBRATION
    116 3 Singapore. Sunday. j THE seventy-eighth anniversary of Srimat Swami Vivekananda was celebrated by the members of the Ramskrishna Mission at their headquarters in Norris Road this morning. The proceedings began with prayers followed by the distribution of Prasaeam «sweet, meats). In the evening the (chelations commenced with
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    TIN EXPORTS
    23 3 January exports ot tin from Malaya amounted to 14.016 tons, an increase of 10.220 tons compared with exports during January. 1939.
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    ALLEGED ATTACK ON WOMAN
    108 3 j Singapore, Monday. A St-*YEAR-OLD Cantonese woman was said to have been badly assaulted by a gang of Chinese at abo»t 3 o'clock this morning >)ttUMe the Ythedral of the Good Shepherd. Passers-by fonnd th 9 woman in a semi-nude condition, lying in a drain P
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    Islamic Delegation At Malacca
    111 3  -  (From Our Own Correspondent H... tu Malacca, Feb. 4. JI Ibrahim Ma Tien Ylr»g, Imam \*r Ta Wu and Mr. Othman Woo Kien Hsun. the members of the Chinese Islamic De'egation, are in Malacca in the course of a tour of Malaya. The delegates were sent
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    LEAVE FOR R.A.F. RESUMED
    59 3 T k"JK be X recanod that Leave from the RC F was temporarily suspended on tnn 30 owing to wintry weather conti J and" SU >«'ye was re-oprned the southern and great western ran W General leave was promised as soon as C condrtions became norma
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    Defeating The Nazi Mines
    92 3 London. Feb. 4 A naval eye witness" in abroadcast talk on mine-sweeping said tha German mine.s were roughly ot W£ types—the magnetic lying on w LlTbottom,ana a moored The former explodes **^Jg m passed into its magnetic field and coun ter measures against It trailing a
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    22 3 Reuter. The Russians again bombed untitled yesterday and destroyed JJJW houses. Durinc Saturday s raids a hundred house* were burnt at _ortavala.—Reuter.
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    CAR CRASH DISRUPTS TELEPHONE SERVICE
    151 3  -  (From Our Own Reporter. Ipoh, Saturday. A .FORMER Assistant Penghulu, Che Ahmad of Parit, and eight of his friends including two infant children were involved in a serious car accident at the fourth mile Ipoh—Batu Gajah Road >esterdav. when the vehicle crashed into a telegraph
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    MORE NAZI DREAMS
    87 5 I London, Feb. 4. L fe arrival at Buen-s Aires of the n vessel Jamaique disposes of nationless suggestions contain c recent German broadcast fi ated that the Jamaique, to|ier with the Highland Patriot, r t d Monarch and Andalucia Star, f overdue, not having been heard
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    Transition Era
    361 6 WHAT THE WORKER WANTS TT IS NOT STRIKES OR ACRIMONIOUS DISPUTES WITH HIS EMPLOYER BUT GREATER SECURITY AND A CHANCE TO SHARE IN ANY INCREASED PROSPERITY. We are certain these things will come. In the meantime there is an awkward transition period, in which both workers and employers
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    RIDDING WORLD OF BARBARISM
    582 6 Labour's View Of War Reuter. London, Feb. 3. IN a broadcast speech, Mr. C. Attlee criticised the condonation, in the first place, of German aggression which has bred more violence and allowed ruthless cruelty to become rampant. He described Nazism as an outstanding menace to civilisation
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    FIRES IN GERMAN TERRITORY
    65 6 Reuter. Berlin, Feb. 3. Careless workmen were blamed for nres in German territory seen from Basle yesterday, according to an official News Agency widen states that four petrel tanks exploded at Estemer K'.otz between Exingcn and Gegeningen. The acjenc: r adds that near the scene of
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    THE NEWS
    245 6 WHEN the Balkan Conference opened I remarked that it 1 might prove decisive, for war or peace, for over a hundred million people. If the cables are right it has already proved decisive—f or peace, at least for the time being. j On the way .to the conference
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    Deadlock Over?
    191 6 was once described by an j American writer as •'Champion i Sulker No. 1." The reference, of course, was to his several fasting periods. That the description is crude is proved by the refusal of the Mahatma to sulk over the Viceroy's tailure to give an undertaking of
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    Radio Hint
    104 6 niSCUSSING radio programmes heard V in Malaya, I have suggested Rangoon at 9 p.m. for a clear and fairly fuU ew bulletin. Now I suggest trying Penans (almost the same wavelength. 49 metres' at 6.50 for a relav of the full London news bulletin at that hour. H
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    GERMAN ENVOY
    29 6 Reuter. Mf Berlin, ten. 5. THE German Embassador to > loS 1 cow, CounHvon der M-nulen-bur*, has R./a en route to Berlin, acc» n^lo a Riga Ingram. g
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    BALKANENTENTE'S TRIBUTE TO ITALY'S POLICY OF PEACE
    563 7 Conference Delegates Declare Neutrality Reuter. Belgrade, Feb. 4. PROMINENCE is given in to-day's newspapers to the statements made by the four leading delegates to the Balkan Entente conference, stressing the unity and strength of the Entente. The statements were made at a dinner
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    MILITARY PARTY ATTACKED NEAR BANNU
    72 7 Reuter. New Delhi. Feb. 3.—Two members o a military party were killed and thws wounded when their cars were held tj by a tr'.bal gang from across the border of British India. The hold-up occur:-33 near Bannu. The gang is reported y have hoted and
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    Earthquake Causes Panic In Turkey And Greece
    110 7 Reuter. Athens, Feb. SOMETHING approaching a panic exists in on the shores of the Gulf of and 'make shocks which were felt in the district on 1 riday > la «hocks some of which were Altogether there had been 18 cks demofohed or
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    LANDSLIDES ON BRITISH RAILWAYS
    65 7 London, Feb. 5. QNE woman was killed and several other passengers were injured when a London, Midland and Scottish Southampton to London train ran into a landslide near Watford. Five landslides were reported on the Southern Railway during the 24 hours. In the landslide near Watford
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    BOMB EXPLOSION IN A BUS
    71 7 Reuter. London, Feb. S FOLLOWING tne explosion of a boTb in an omnibus in one of the Birmingham Corporation transport department a garages early to-day a searcn revealed bombs hidden in the seats of buses at a number of other corporation garages. There was only
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    STALIN'S DOUBLE CROSS
    127 7 Reuter. Rome, Feb. 4. MARSHAL BALBO'S newspaper to. day asserts plainly in a leading article signed by the editor that Russia has double-crossed Germany. The article states that Stalin's action in the Balkans and especially the aggression in Finland went far beyond any previous accord with Hitler,
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    Wall Against Barbarism
    83 7 Amsterdam. Feb. 4. rp*iE Dutch newspaper Ha*.delsbiad, comment!!!*; on the Vatican reports of the treatment cf the population of the Polish stale, says tnat this may be considered a warning to the western lre G to form a wail against oarbaii^m. The worid. looking on, o asking
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    "THIRD REICH A SEALED TOMB"—ANTHONY EDEN
    409 7 EMPIRE'S STRENGTH REAFFIRMED Reuter. London, Feb- rpHE Dominions Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, n»tion«i 1 savings meeting at Stratford-on-Avon to-night refuted "gribes ot Goebbels" and "taunts of Hitlet" that the British Empire was a crumbling institution, and asserted that the Third Reich was a sealed
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    EXETER SAFE
    72 7 Reuter. Buenos Aires, Feb. 3.—The cruiser Exeter which was damaged in the battle with the Graf Spec is safe at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, according to newspapers here. They state that she has been undergoing repairs, according to a statement from a doctor accompanying the British Medical Mission
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    RUSSIAN AIR RAIDS KILL 100 IN A DAY
    165 7 Reuter. MORE than 100 people w?re killed yesterday in the most widespread of Russian air rams since the war bega.n. This wa s the largest deathroll for a single day. Official figures Indicate that about 200 people were injured. Thirty of tne
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    NATIONAL SAVINGS GROUPS STARTED
    59 7 London, Feb. 4. 1 AST WEEK, 1.255 national savings L erouos were started with a member Slip of some 200.000. Some 8.149 groups have been formed in ten weeks since the war savings campaign began. Sales of national savings certificates for the week were £2,676,200, and
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    SINGAPORE WILL NOT ENTER FOR TOURNEY
    668 8  -  Badminton Association's Gift To Patriotic Fund FOONG SEONG CUP COMPETITION (From Our Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Sunday. CERTIFICATES instead of cups will be presented to winners in the forthcoming Malayan badminton championship tournament to be •held at Ipoh during the Easter holidays, and the
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    Training At Bukit Timah This Morning
    182 8 THERE were some excellent workcuts at the Bukit Timah race course this morning, in spite of it being a day for slow work. Best performances were done by Sweet Collette and Ganderdown. Carter took out Sweet Collette and worked her fast over four furlongs.
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    CEYLON SPORTS CLUB MEETING
    137 8 Singapore. Saturday. THE following were elected office bearers of the Ceylon Sports Club for 1M». a m**tinff held at the Clubhouse on Balestier Plain, to-day. President. Dr. N. Mootathamby; Vice-President. Mr. Ben Dudley; Hon. Secretary. Mr. V. Paramsothy: Hon. Treasurer. Mr. P. Retnasabapathy; Chairman Board of
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    HOME SOCCER
    59 8 Reuter. London, Feb. 3. IN the South-Western division. Ply--1 mouth, beat Bristol City 10—3. All the other Fnglish and Scottish regional and Rugby League matches were postponed. In Rucby Union fixtures Neath beat the Royal Air Force 28—3; Swansea lost ♦o Swansea Valley 3—ll and Torauav beat the
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    TEAMS FOR ANNUAL HOCKEY GAME
    100 8 FOLLOWING ARE NORTH SOUTH TEAMS FOR ANNUAL HOCKEY ENCOIiv? ER:— >! SOUTH MANUEL (NEGRI SEMBII \v FORTTN (SINGAPORE 1 TAN CHEL LIN (MALACCA JACKSON (MALACCA? CRONIN (SINGAPORE*) 15 ASK ARAN ROSS (SINGAPORE) SIIAIK MUSTAPHA v t SEMBILAN). XI ARIOKASAMY iSlXui. GULAM NABI < it V.
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    Commercial League Commences
    162 8 nriTH the first game of the Biw ness Houses League thi- evening, Singapore's lengthy so tt X* son commences. There are i.\tf>en teams in this season's "HI. which is an increase by i<>ui teams over tho number that entered the competition last year. Comprising as it doe
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    Malacca Defeated
    52 8 tFrom Our Own Cor Malacca, Sunday. CONSIDERING their lack of talent, Malacca acquitted themselves very well in the two inter-state hockey matches played during the week-end. Yesterday they drew with Negri Sembilan each side scoring three goals. When fohey met Singapore to-day, they lost narrowly by the odd
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      427 9 N^^^^iVMzzzIz^.z^ i KD: —Chinese salesman having I rVnections vith the local firms 1 ttienced in cosmetics, provision 1 at medicines as well as knoweneral office routine. State f and references to Box 423 J Tribune, Singapore. iJaJJtED Tutor lor English lessons between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. V lays weekly.
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      538 9 Educational BENNETT COLLEGE POSTAL TRAINING (Established 1900) Few Shillings Monthly. Courses: Matriculation, Cambridge, Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Accountancy, Secretarial, Sanitation, Draughtsmanship, Building, Architec ture (A.R.1.8.A.). Engineering: B.Sc.. Civil (A.M.1.C.E.), Electrical <A:M:I:E:E:), Surveying (P.A.5.1.) Radio, Wireless. Write: P.O. Box 103. Singapore. (No. 404-C). YOUR CHILD'S MUSICAL EDUCATION; NEW CLASSES opening in January, 1940.
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      545 9 Miscellaneous Consumptives, Asthmatic and Diabetic patients will please consult Rev. U. N. Charles B.D. at 134 A Serangoon Road or 130 Joo Chiat Place for cure or lonfe life. i FISH CHIPS.—The best at "Snaci: Chop", Opposite Roxy Cinema, Katong. (406-C 1 TIFFINS Delivered offices—Special monthly rates according to requirements/Soecial
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      598 9 I Domestic Occurrences ENGAGEMENT Lim-Ho—Chong: The engagement is announced of Mr Lim-Ho Chooi Seng, eldest of th 3 late Mr. Lim Mah Tong and Mrs. Lim Mah Tong (nee Ho Chye Chee) of Penang, to Miss Chong Swee Lee second daughter of the late Mr. Cnong Koo and Mrs. Chong
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      765 9 j Wanted 1 WAJ^TED:—Two Axe Lamp Resist ances 30 amperes all voltages *****. Also one converter llOv D.C. secondary *****0 A.C. V 2 KW output. Apply Boy 422, Malaya Tribune, Singapore (415-C> WANTED a small furnished bungalow at Katong seaside for a few months, Rent must be reasonable. Apply Box
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      339 9 Singapore Cold Storage Co.. Ltd. Singapore. CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Our Retail Establishments in Singapore will open as follows:— Bth February, Thursday (CHINESE NEW YEAR'S DAY) 530 to 7 a.m. for the sale of Ice, Milk and Bread only. 9th February, Friday (PUBLIC HOLIDAY) 530 to 10.30 a.m. for the
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    News Brevities
    146 10 The office of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee which was shifted from Congress Ho.use after the fire disaster is now located at No. 7 General Patters Road, Royapettah, Madras. Excepting for a number of old files, it is stated the office sustained no serious loss as a result
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    Narain Condemns Bose's Holy War
    357 10 Lucknow, Jan. 25. FUS APPROVAL of Sj. Subhas Bose's action in carrying on a 'holy U war' on the rightists was made by Sj. Jai Prakash Narain, General-Secretary of the Congress Socialist Party who is now m Lucknow in an interview to "The National Herald.*
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    DESPERATE EFFORTS TO AVOID STRUGGLE
    191 10 Wardha, Jan. 24. "'pi IE Independence Day is an annual feature in the Congress programme and is unconnected with civil resistance. Hence celebrations must nut be mistaken tor a declaration of civil resist Met," says Mahatma (tundhi in the course of an article written for
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    Restrained Optimism In Delhi
    248 10 New Delhi, Jan. 21. DOLITICAL observers point out that Gandhiji's reference to the Viceroy's Bombay speech is only 'obiter dicta. It is suggested that Gandhiji seems to accept Dominion Status within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster as independence at he has often stated in
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    RECORD DONATION
    65 10 Mr. O. Ramasamy Nadar President of the South Indian Community Sub-Committee of the Malaya Patriotic Fund, Singapore, which has collected the handsome amount of $26,707. Mr. Nadar's contribution of $5,000 is the biggest donation from any individual member of the Indian community in Malaya towards the fund. Mr.
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    153 10 The Future. An An/ fo Tltt Rii'lu fhim V. Whatever the future Im d cue tiling is certain, you will U-..•_> face reverses ol fortune, u tL-. a with greater equanimity it u strong ana healthy. Nothing pulls your spirit down t than ill-health, it undermines V self-confidence, makes vou
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      453 11 I" TO-DAY'S iV.VIMo I m SINGAPORE I fUI SH metres (1.33 mc». I /\\V >6 ,netreß ■*€«*>• B neous programme of B one records. jj c mid-day Rubber, Tin and prices. Ali Gasek (Malays. Music. Dramas. B Selections. m-° Programme. <EngMM' I ather, News and Anil' ii I aspects of
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      358 11 <f a ">MII| ,J PHOHI STATIONS F-m 8.00 (loca, time). BANGKOK p.m. ItSBPJ 31M metres (9 51 mc|»). B.2o"National Song and Opening Announce, 8.25 News in Thai. Utoaiorn M dem Thal So** B !'S News in English. 9 20 Medley of Tunes (contd 10 25 SSta? riwn^" 11 88 PARIS
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    Fast Fighters For France
    171 12 Reuter. I London, Feb 4 T is understood that tne French Mission to the United Slates ar> M negotiation for the purchase of as of the new type of single-seater interceptor plane known as Aeronca as can be bought, according to authoritative aviation circ.es The plana
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    500 BOMBS DROPPED ON ONE CITY
    110 12 Reuter. Vipuri, Feb. 5. A SERIES of air raids on Saturday resulted in 150 direct hits obtained by 47 Kusfian aeroplanes, which poured ever r 9O bombs ;nto the town. Building's directly hit included the old cathedral and four banks but all .he principal
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    RUMANIAN PRODUCE FOR GERMANY
    52 12 Reuter. Berlin, Feb. 3. THE official news agency denies reputs that traffic on the railway ihrough Soviet-occupied Poland has been ccmpletely stopped but states, however. that only a few hundred trucks of produce reached Germany irom Rumania since the agreement to open the railway two months
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    AIRMEN SAVE SEAMEN
    179 12 British Wireless. London, Feb. 4. COR the second time in two days, aircraft of the RAF coastal command have been instrumental in saving the lives of seamen adrift on the open sea. On Friday seven men were picked up off the north east coast of Scotland a
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    FIERCE ATTACK ON MANNERHEIM LINE
    312 12 Russian Shock 1 roops Again Repulsed Reuter. Helsinki, Feb. 5. piERCE fighting continues on the Karelian Isthmus, where the Soviet Army is making repeated attempts to break through the Mannerheim Line. Such intensive action was not expected by observers until the Spring. Since the war
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    Poles Have No Traitors
    102 12 London, Feb. 4. I JHE Polish Minister for Social Welfare declared yesterday that neither Germany nor Russia 'had managed to form sham governments in the parts of Poland they seized because they could not find a single Pole to play the traitor. He was speaking at
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    ARCTIC PIONEERS DECORATED
    24 12 Reuter. Moscow. Feb 4 cr?w P of ln th! a d m «n*>ers of the si a\. arced 25.000 roublec— Reuter.
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    FRENCH WIN SHARP SCRAP WITH NAZIS
    151 12 Reuter. L A «T night', communique from the Western v Feb 5 sharp enccunter with an on« I r2nt s P<>aks of a morning. The attack turned to Z^T mit yesterday who had the better of h" l n fT* <* the French forces".
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    Soviet Strongholds Captured By Finns
    778 12 Reuter. Helsinki, Feb. 3. A FINNISH communique, describing the fighting near Summa, i tales: "The enemy suffered great losses." North-cast of Lake Ladoga, the Finns have captured a number of enemy sticngholds, wheie the tout 200 dead. 70 prisoners, 25 tanks and three field guns.
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    Trawler Beats Air Gunners
    103 12 Reuter. London. Feb. 4HOMEWARD bound British fr**** yesterday succeeded in elmhni the dives of machinc-eunnir.s f ,fr man aircraft until Briti lighter planes arrived on the scene. The attack was witnessed by on two Scottish islands, wh pnemv machine a considerable fore it came into view.
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    LIMITED LEAVE FOR B.E.F.
    29 12 Reuter. I London, Feb. 3 .—The Waj ncunces that limited leave sennel of the B E.F. fur within the United Kingdom cpened on Feb. 6.—Reuter
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      307 12 STOMACH SUFFERER AVOIDS OPERATION Only those who have experienced the agony of an ulcer in the stomach or duodenum can fully appreciate what it means to gain complete relief. So often does this dreaded disorder lead to an operation that when Mr. J. D. gained his freedom, without goin* on
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