Malaya Tribune, 19 December 1940

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Thursday, December 19, 1940.
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  • 314 1 NAZIS IN ITALY Reuter. Gen. Sir Hubert Gough, military commentator) London, Dec. 19. rr}H report that German forces J t> arrived at Naples and ns up some important pr lems, both political and Military in character. i a move has, in fact, c it will be
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  • 234 1 London, Dec. 19. c passes, Italy's quest oil will become increasdesperate, said an expert oil industry, appraising .tion in London yester- ling military and naval re- nts, Italy's" total oil contion m a normal peace yeai i lit 3.500.000 tens. Her own tion of crude oil is
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  • 162 1 New York, Dec. 19. |> < ►DUCTION not financial assistance to Britain, is the great- immediate problem in the United States, declares the Washington Star in a cautiously enthusiastic article on President Roosevelt's plan for leasing war supplies to Britain. newspaper says the scheme
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  • 53 1 Reuter. tmn, London, Dec. 19. rajah of Baroda has a further war contribution c ording to the All-India c sum will be used for >c of a trawler for the Navy for mine-sweeping "-submarine duties. The will be named Baroda. Maharajah has already milar sum for fighter
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  • 589 1 Italian Air Losses Over Ten To One Reuter. Cairo, Dec. 19. XHE British drive into Libya is being* carried on with relentless intensity. Late dispatches from the front indicate that part of the normal garrison at Bardia is retreating towards Tobruk. The remaining defenders include some
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  • 71 1 Reuter. New York. Dec. 19. PRESIDENT Roosevelt's plan for the leasing of war supplies to Britain is estimated by experts as" likely to involve about $2,500,000,000 worth of aircraft, tanks, ships etc. The estimate is contained in a message from the Washington corres'pendent of the
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  • 57 1 Reuter. Bangkok, Dec. 19. THE Thai (Siamese) Air Force has bombed seven towns in the north of Indo-China in retaliation for French attacks, according to a communique issued by the Thai High Command. "The Bangkok radio claimed yesterday that three important towns in the Province of
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  • 201 1 Reuter. (By Renter's special correspondent on the Albanian frontier) London, Dec. 19. THE Greek forces in the north launched a new attack at dawn yesterday against the Italian positions west of the village of Trivoso, covering the route to Elbasan, Italy's base south-east of Tirana. The
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  • 81 1 Reuter. London. Dec. 19. A LARGE enemy supply ship of between six or seven thousand tons wa: .sunk on V> dnr.sr' 4 by British motor torpedo-boats, says an Admiralty communique. The enemy ship was seen to break up before sinking. Torpedo-boats then engaged witn macliine-gunfire an
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  • 50 1 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 19. STANDING on the steps of the White House, Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday welcomed Princess Juliana of Holland on her arrival from Canada on a three-day visit to the White House, to be followed by a three-day stay in New York.— Reuter.
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  • 62 1 British Wireless. London, Dec. 19. /\N Oct. 31, the total number of U persons* detained in Britain under the Defence Regulations was 1,371. This figure is given in a White Paper dealing with the subject which also states that during that month 33 persons' were detained, all
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  • 438 1 Reuter. (By Fergus J. Ferguson, Reuters chief diplomatic correspondent) London, Dec. 19. 'J'HE crisis at Vichy does not appear to be over. Under German pressure Laval has been allowed his liberty, but has not been reinstated in office. The interview between Marshal Petain and Otto
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  • 121 1 Reuter. Berlin, Dec. 19. COMTE DE BRINON yesterday (Wednesday) formally assumed the post, of French Ambassador in Paris according to a Vichy dispatch to the German News Agency. The appointment was made by Marshal Petain in accordance with the decision taken at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting. Comte
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  • 35 1 British Wireless. J 7 London, Dec. 19. INCLUDING £1,611, from Malaya Patriotic Fund the Lord Mayor of London's National Air Raid Distress Fund now stands at £1,705,000. —British Wireless.
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  • 730 1 High Canadian Official Lost In Atlantic Sinking Reuter. London, Dec. 19. How Captain Reid, commanding the Furness Withy liner Western Prince, went down with his ship although he could easily have saved his life after the liner had been torpedoed by a submarine on Dec. 14
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  • 149 1 Reuter. New York, Dec. 19. GERMAN submarines nave apparently been active in the Atlantic, and reports of three sinkings were received yesterday (Wednesday). According to Mackay Radio, the British Blue Star liner Napier Stai '12,300 tons) was torpedoed in the evening. The same radio station earlier
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  • 38 1 Reuter. Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 19. DRESIDENT Vargas has signed a 1 decree empowering the establishment of a Brazilian legation in Canada. This makes' effective the recent Brazilian-Canadian agreement for the interchange of Ministers—Reuter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 354 2 Rice-Crowing Subsidy Scheme Under Way (Tribune StafL Reporter) A DEFINITE start nas already been made with the Johore rice-prowing subsidy scheme by "tfay of the distribution of land to cultivators in the Endau district, it is reliably learnt. Cultivators are being paid initial
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  • 206 2 Singapore, Wednesday. A WEEK'S postponement was granted when the cases in which four Hamanese, who are charged with being members of an unlawful society and also with the murder of Tan Kah Eta, were mentioned before Mr. Cheah Soon Hock, acting Third Magistrate, to-day. The men
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  • 38 2 THE fifth anrmal exhibition of 1 paintings organised by the Society of Chinese Artists' will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hali from Dec. 19 to 21, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
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  • 127 2 Singapore, Wednesday. REMARKING that there was a conflict of evidence, the Sinaapore Coroner. Mr. W. G. Porter, to-day returned an open verdict at the conclusion of the inquiry into the death of Sepoy Sucha Singh, aged 28, who was riding a motorcycle in a convoy of
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  • 76 2 Singapore. Wednesday. CHARGED with burning joss papers to the annoyance of th? public in Thomson Road on Nov. 27. Lee Tarn, a Chinese woman, was fined $2. or five days' simple imprisonment, in the Fifth Police Court, to-day. "The defendant's action resulted in an accident
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  • 36 2 A NOTIFICATION in. the Kedah Government Gazette says that Messrs. I. w. Blelloch. M.C.S.. and L. D. Whitfield have been apoointed Local Examiners in Malay for the State of Kedah in respect of Malayan Establishment Officers.
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  • 258 2 1 1 has been decided that further continuous training of the Volunteer Forces shall be undertaken. The period of training will commence about Feb. 1. 1941, and will last for two months. If necessary, a second period will be organised for those who are unable to
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  • 65 2 Singapore, Wednesday. h CHARGE of housebreaking and theft was explained to Ibrahim bin Sulong, a young Malay, when he appeared in the Fifth Police Court, to-day. Ibrahim is alleged to have entered the third c!ass refreshment room of the F.M.S.R. station at Tanjong Pagar, and removed various articles
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  • 25 2 Dr. G.R. Handy, M.B.B.S. (Lond.), a younger brother of Messrs. J. T. N. and A. M. Handy, Of Singapore, h*s been appointed Government Pathologist, Colomoo.
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  • 20 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time.... THREE
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  • 8 2 Mr L. untitled i>: ii'irU l>a E»rnic, Gurun.
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  • 115 2 QE3PITE the sharp rfxmer of ■J which fell sho^j s f r assembled at CE 7 2r o hey Sophia Road yesterday > al over a hundred and fm nsnt^ Guides attended their f kr s tP irl party." nutting At this party, the Guides fcntn
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  • 6 2 Mr. Ong untitled has been untitled
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 189 2 For Radio entertainment value the Ussen "Alnwick" cannot be beaten. Specially designed to give trouble free reception in tropical climates and especially daylight reception of European •hort wave stations. Jt Is designed for battery operation but employs mains valves thus giving a reception usually associated with a mains It is
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  • 385 3 Cheer Fund Now $2,466.35 THE rRIBUNE Christmas Cheer Fund a f at $2,466,35. stands to-day 1 oi tne oalvation Armv tv, «-o* hsialment was handed over last last week, totalling $1,335.21. bject of the Fund is to 5,000, the minimum necesve some G.000 poor people draw
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  • 143 3 Previously acknowledged $2,380.40 Anonym ous" sa i e D f camera presented by an «r v do nor) 21 oo JJr. N R Mistri 10 oo J*. S N. Chia 5 00 Mr. Cheang Theam Kee 5 00 Misses Loo Loy, Loo Khim and Helen Yong
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  • 202 3 I a tt/1 Singapore, Wednesday. TAUGHT red-handed whil» in the !*J act of gcing through the pock- ets of a coat in a bedroom he had (broken into. Chew Yok Foon. a Chinese, was sentenced to four months" rigorous imprisonment X, A J r w Cl
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  • 178 3 Singapore, Wednesday. REMARKING that it was one man's word against the other, Mr. Cheah Soon Hock, acting Third Magistrate, acquitted Teo Jin Swee. a Chinese, who was charged with stealing $3.40 from Lim Hocn, a 60-year-old cake seller. In his evidence, Lim said that he had
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  • 81 3 i I FESTIVE atmosphere prevailed A at the Singapore Rotary Club's Christmas dinner held at the Sea View Hotel last night when a large gathering of members and guests turned up for the occasion. Unlike their ordinary meetings, there were no speeches madr. The loyal
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  • 39 3 MR. Tan Theam Hock died at his residenc? in Kampong Bahru Toad yesterday. He leaves behind his wife, four sons, a daughter and a son-in-law. The funeral will take olace at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Bukit Brown cemetery.
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  • 17 3 A notice to importers by the Controller of Restricted Imports appears on page 10 iof this Issue.
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  • 1066 3 MEDICAL EVIDENCE AT COURT MARTIAL JjJVIDENCE of a previous loss of memory was given by Flight Sergeant Press when making his defence at the court martial at Seletar, yesterday, i„ which he stands charged with desertion, improper possession of a service revolver and attempted
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 328 3 sfoMACHPAIN The sufferings of this poor Indigestion lizes burning stomach ariri «t martyr were beyond belief! "I obtained soothes and comforts the lacerated no relief whatever except when I was stomach wails, evacuates clogging given morphia to ease the awful pain. wastes. But be sure you see the sig--1 must
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    • 122 3 £3/ Tic more jgUfj mA stained m^\rf I THE EVERSHARP PEN IV CAN'T LEAKI II Stained fingers smudged papers, purses, I I clothes... bear witness that the ordinary fountain M P«n can leak no matter how carefully you cap it I I Evenharp'f Safety Ink Shut-Off has eliminated I I
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  • 43 4 TO-DAY HnrKKY ACS. Old Boys v H C Y K ii Y c'.A. Y.M.CA CSC. v Mountain Bakery, Hf ,^v C st. Andrew's* OB v Rl iloyals, Woodsville; Loyals v R.A.. Changl. r-nmmand RAXING: Malaya Command B Finals. .8.30 p.m.. Tanglm.
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  • 15 4 The hockey match between in. M S 4th was X at Anson Road was cancelled.
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  • 340 4 Police S India" Army 2 «N spite of slippery ground 1 conditions good hockey WW seen when the Police met and beat by three goals to two the Indian Army at Thompson Road '"luiiivan Played for the Police and three goals the
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  • 161 4 Manchesters 1 S.R.C. 3 PLAYING at Tangiin, yesterday, the S.K.C. scored a M win over the Manchester Regiment in a fast and interest, intr irame of hockey. V f End y to end exchanges the onenintf play, but the Recs took
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  • 39 4 Singapore Badminton ties for the week-end and Saturday at 215 p.m.: United Family BP. vs. Eclipse B P. Sunday at 101 a.rm: Amateur Athletic Union vs. J.C.S.A. Sunday at 2.15 p.m.: Marigold B.P. vs. Eciipse B.P.
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  • 275 4 S.C.C. CEYLONESE SHARE FOUR GOALS C .S.C. 2 SLC,C 2 ALTHOUGH they led twice ih the first half of the game, the Ceylon Sports Club wore held to a two-all draw by the S.C.C. in a fast and vigorous contested hockey match on the Padang yesterday. Toe Ceylonese opened the
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  • 128 4 Singapore, Wednesday. THERE will be a ceremonial opening of the Passive Defence Services Club at Farrer Park on Friday, Dec. 27, at 5.30 p.m., ihe opening to be performed by Mr. L. Rayman, M.C.S., President of the Singapore Municipality. Members of the corps
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  • 77 4 (From Our Own i Correspondent) Malacca, Dec. 18. FOR the Inter-Settlement hotkey match against Singapore at Malacca on Saturday, the following have been picked to play' for Malacca: Wee Tiam Hong, Major W. H. Jackson (Capt.), Tarn Chee Lim: H. A. Rodrigues, R.
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  • 217 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Dec. 19. TRAINING for Penang Christmas and New Year races began this morning In drizzle. With many outstation horses still to arrive, a small number was seen on the track. The most impressive gallop was put in by
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  • 70 4 Singapore. Wednesday. PLEADING guilty to a charge of criminal trespass by entering the ope-, property of Mr. I. T_ B [lowland of 20 Bournemouth Road on Deo 11 Lim Soon Hee. Enghsh<=peakmu Hokkien. 13. was bound over for three months by Mr. Conrad Oldham, the Second
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  • 40 4 S.C.R.C. annual "At Home" will be held on Saturday. Dec. 21. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. to he followed by a tennis exhibition match at 5 p.m. and dancing from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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  • 128 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. [> AN amended proposal that a diary body to the Selangor B< ing Board of Control to organise and control amateur b Selangor subject for the appi the Selangor Board of Control b<: i formed was carried by a maj
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  • 54 4 The following will Brinkmann Sports Club in a friend Ily game of soccer aga Singapore Airpcrt Sports Club to morrow, on th? latter's ground Said. Keng Jean. Yew P Yoke. Hoy Seng. Scon Hock mon Smith. Karim. Chy l Ibrahim and Thian Siew. Reserve David Ho. Ec
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 333 4 There Is Peace Prosperity Plenty Here In Malaya. Why? WHAT PRESERVES THEM FOR ITS? I\G THIS. 5J Fverv time you think of "HiUerism" is linked in the LFJffi dollar and then pgfi of decent people. decide to lend it to Britain Your dollars help to supplj instead, you are adding
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 1106 5 Dutch Information Chief Interviewed (Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore, Wednesday. 'J'HE necessity for closer co-operation between British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies was emphasised by Mr. G. H. Ritman, former newspaper editor and at present Director of Information, N.E.I., at a Press interview in the office
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  • 219 5 Singapore, Wednesday. TE point is, not that he stole a tin worth forty cents, but that he damaged a wall which might have cost $100 or more," said Mr. Conrad Oldham, the Second Court Magistrate, to-day when he convicted Chan Fook Kow, 16-year-old Chinese on
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  • 108 5 ENTERTAINMENT (At the Pavilion) rOUGH it Ls one of those British comedy-dramas in which a killing or more is inevitable, we do not get the fatal blow until the last few flickers in "A Window In London," the Pavilion's new film. Fate and coincidence work pretty
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  • 429 5 ~CD~~ Singapore, Wednesday. «TT will warp his nature if this corporal punishment (ten 1 strokes with a light rotan) is carried out," was the plea put forward by Mr. N. A. Mallal before the acting Ghiet Justice, Mr. Justice Terrell, in the High Court
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 131 6 INDIA, as we all know, is a partner of the British Commonwealth, but she is not a full partner in the sense that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are. Though she has been promised Dominion Status as soon as the war is over, she is not
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  • 138 6 UAVING rejected this compromise, Congress launched a technical revolt in the form of "Individual Civil Disobedience." Such action, however, could not be tolerated in wartime and, as a result, many Indian leaders were arrested for violation of defence regulations. Up to the present, the political situation remains unchanged
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  • 122 6 UE regrets all the more Government's necessity to deal with the disobedience movement "which does not in the least correspond to the true feelings of the country." So great and difficult a problem as India's constitutional reform cannot be settled by a stroke of the pen. The people
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  • 149 6 IT is well to remember that victory in this war is as vital to India as it' is for Great Britain. Nazi domination would mean the end of India's aspirations just as much as of British ideals. India's independent status depends more on the exertion of her present
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  • 190 6 hphe instinct in man to 1 GAMBLE CAN NEVER BE TOTALLY ERADICATED. And, instead of being on the wane petty gambling in mis country is practiced under various forms more widely to-day than ever before, despite the efforts of our admirable police forcp to
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  • 297 6 THERE need not be any qualms about the public taking to "chap-ji-kee" etc. again after the war State lotteries need not be abolished then. They could be run so that the huge sums realised could beneficially be directed to a hundred and one channels such as the building
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  • 268 6 THE President of the Singapore 1 Municipality has rightly for another contribution to tne War Fund. This is a significant fact, but it cculd not be Those who could give much, have given generously. Those who could not afford to do so in a big wa> would
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  • 285 6 IT has been pointed out that since no petitions or representations have been made to Government with regard to the institution of war lotteries, in spite of the Tribune's lead hi this matter and the numberless letters in newspapers suuporting the project it cannot be considered
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  • 145 6 Let it not later be said that these brave people of Britain, who perish not because their courage Is found wanting, died, not because they were not equal to the task entrusted to them, but because those whom they depended upon to help them have withheld that help
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  • 64 6 I BATHURST (Australia! unionists i are threatening to declare beer -black" because hotelkeepers have l educed the size of glasses in order ro meet the increased excise duty, but at Lithgow have apparently accepted the move philoThis is the more surprising in view of the fact that
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  • 417 6 Britain's Naval Progress I HAVE been seeing for myself the story behind the increasing strength of Britain's sea power, writes A. J. McWhinnie in the Daily Herald. Around the coasts in our biggesc shipyards men are clanging and banging, swaying in high cradles, welding and
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  • 610 6 jyjAN'S inhumanity I how Mahatma Gai I described rkkskaw-piuUng. SU I it forms part of the I system of Malaya;, town I tention has been givi. I who take the place of > v. tween the shafts. In this era of mechanical tnu port the rickshaw is
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 380 7 Enemy Columns Routed In Desert Thrusts Reuter. I»Y (iOKDON YOUNG, RFIITFR'< cnm WITH ADVANCED R HEADq"ar^ E C RsT ESP0NDENT «>1 I COSTS WHERE THE ARMY'S FRONTUN AD°IIMITR 1«; CARRIED OUT IV rnYTnrri AWMiMSTRATION i-ssSSHS t patrol and other military igence work contributed to British
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  • 86 7 Reuter. Montevideo, Dec. 18. r>ASTING the prosperity of "the glorious British Empire," Dr. Guani. the Foreign Minister at a reception to the British trade mission said thr.t all hoped for "a rinai definite triumph of the moral and chivalrous virtues always shown by the British
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  • 80 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, Dec. 18. IN an interview with foreign newspaper correspondents yesterday. Mr. Ko Ishii, acting spokesman of the Information Board of the Cabinet categorically denied the foreign press reports that the Prime Minister, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, the Navy Minister, Admiral Koahiro Oikawa, th
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  • 342 7 Reuter. London, Dec. 18. I 1 THE British Ambassador in Spain is making "further vigorous representations" in S t "very definite" language about i the recent Spanish assump- t tion of services hitherto de- pendent on the international J administration in Tangier. A categorical statement on
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  • 35 7 Reuter. Kunming, Dec. 18. JAPANESE planes attacked bridges ever the Mekong River and other points on the Burma Road yesterday and to-day. No definite information is yet available regarding the damage sustained.—Reuter.
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  • 71 7 Reuter. Tokyo. Dec. 18. CONTRARY to previous reports, the officials in Durban have so j far refused to release the Osaka i Shosen Kaisha freighter Kwanto I Maru, the spokesman of the Cabinet j Information Board told foreign correspondents. The vessel was en I rout?
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  • 38 7 Extern News. Vatican City, Doc. 18. THE Pope will distribute ChristI mas gifts among war prisoners it was announced to-day. It is understood that papal nuncios and apostolic delegates will distribute gifts with contributions by various Governments.—Eastern News.
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  • 202 7 Reuter. A New York, Dec. 18. BOUT 50,000 German troops are concentrated at Naples and Bari, with huge quantities of war material, according to messages received in New York from Belgrade. It is claimed that the reports come from a reliable source. Whether the (troops
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  • 27 7 Eastern News Oslo, Dec. 18. THE Nobel peace prize of this year has not been awarded, ac cording to an announcement by the Nobel Peace Committee—Eastern News.
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  • 82 7 Reuter. New Delhi, Dee. 18. MAHATMA Gandhi has called a truce in his campaign to hinder the war effort in India until after the Christmas holidays. In a nussage to the Provincial Congress '©mmittees, he states that the illegal activities for which a number of prominent Congressmen
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  • 23 7 Mr. A S teep untitled Johore. to going on leave to Australia thtj woek. He will be succeeded by Mr A L Birse.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 182 8 This programme offers a first-rate evening's entertainment. Worth the price of admission alone is "BRITAIN CAN TAKE IT" STRAITS TIMES (yesterday^ I i 1 "~T~ZIZZ!ZZZriII!III I TO-DAY CAPITOL 3,5 6< |s 9.|5 H THE ONLY BIG LAUGH SHOW IN TOWN! SHE BROUGHT GUT THE &6<?fr IN HIM? He was a
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    • 188 8 I GREAT WORLD CABARET To-night 9 p.m. to Midnight X'MAS NEW YEAR X'MAS EVE EXTENSION TILL 2 A.M. McH Father X'mas decorated and 12 prizes will be given away. Double Band—The Marcell's Swing Tand The Honolulu Melodians X'MAS DA Y—Danee Hostesses Competition in Waltz. Four Cups will be presented to
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    • 621 8 Public Notices FRASER NEAVE LIMITED. Customers are requested to note that our factory and office will be closed on the 25th and 26th December, 1940, and on the Ist January, 1941. AUCTION SALE of Various Useful and Gift Articles j Comprising American and European make ladies' dress clips, brooches, finger
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    • 255 8 I The Most Thrilling Spy drama ever Screened Hefe's Britain's Answer to America s I "CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY" A RUTHLESS GANG U OF NAZI AGENTS ARE WV) M PUT ON THE SPOT I K#%l I WHEN THEY AT- D\F 3? TEMPT TO STEAL WmW ADMIRALTY SECRETS. ggjg with
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    • 282 9 5 T «i« CATHAY TW >"l Where Everybody Goes. PHONE 3400 I War on,he High Seas.Jhe firs, fUm story taken hreclly from the vivid newspaper headlines of I I The Mightiest Sea Spectacle ever seer, 1 >»•< ton the Nazi Sdv Rin«- ,*f <v a I ti v A T
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    • 404 9 !J? y ;f^ er f r °m NERVES? I r/ie Mo* Vacuum fl conjen/ 5 BIOZYGEN YEAST-VITAMIN I cures an nervous co?r:plaints S 3 S^J 0c Stam V f° r tr M to I J G.P.O. Box 439 Singapore. I aaM NoAsthma Tears o£ W °rln»2. aeo l( *arts. Hamilton.
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    • 722 9 A. C. C. A. CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS INTERMEDIATE EXAM. SSS Sflx?m eireBdy COmmenced Admlsaion definitely close* 3rd Jan. for ass s^crsLrPHONE 6551. A FLAMING STORY OF COURAGE HEART-THRILLING I *X 4Bk love B fi-HH_h_-_K_MI hhl OPENS TO-NIGHT 6.15 9.15 *Ait v coop i: it In His Greatest Outdoor Action Picture Th
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  • 143 10 tan. Mr. Tan Thiam Hock passed away peacefully at 9.05 a.m., on the 17-12-40, at his residence, 49, Kampong Bahru R° ad leaves behind his beloved wile, •i sons, a daughter and son-in-law, Mr. Goh Beng Wee to mourn his loss Funeral on *>lst Dec J 40,
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    • 2565 10 BUY SELL LAST FOUND CLASSIFIED-ADS RENT AUCTIDN HIRE SERVICE Financial 1 WANTED Finance I*** <* Stf^Sfc tural enterprise in j£j p For guaranteed after 2 years r ln ox No run particulars apply (Nq 842F 57, Singapore. Miscellaneous CHRISTMAS OCCASION try. dinner. "Orchard Restaurant 38, ur chard Road, Singapore. |m»«
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    • 517 10 THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS (By Order Of Mrs. A. Clarke of Changi Farm) GRAND AUCTION SALE Of really beautiful, P£&** Alsatians <males females) Imported and local, Afgan Hound, Bull Terriers, Cattle Dogs mann Pinschers, Cockerspaniel Fox Terriers, Persian Cats Kitten* (All the Dogs are real good, handsome, Dogs with P**&*** v
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    • 1278 10 !TO-DAY'S radio; I SINGAPORE &3 LONDON I CENTRAL TRANSMISMos ZHL 225 metres GSB 951 mc5(31.55 n>; GSC i v ZHPI 30.36 metre. <» g Jgg (31.32 m.); GSD 11.75 mc s 5! n i ZIIP3 41.3S metre* <l£*3i l <■*••» "-86 mc s (25 29 m <,sf i 8.20 .-m.
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  • 1046 11 Singapore. Dec. 18. Buyers. Sellers. AmP at Tin (4s) 3|4ft 319 Amal (ss) 6|7ft t> 2SsJ Malay »6 85 (ss) 20|6 22';vv:ig (II) 0.75 0.80 kaogrln Tin 15J- 181A?rjWsl (58) 0|- 9,6 S!. a Selangor ($1) 1.50 1.55 cd vjnM Malay 19|9 20t9cd CU«u«er:uug 121- 131S
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  • 23 11 Singapore, Thursday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 88%, Sellers 3SV>. TIN $132%, unchanged.
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  • 121 11 From Our Financial Correspondent Singapore, Thursday. TIN shares were a firm market 1 yesterday, Hong Fatts toss* to $1.28V 2 and Taiping Consolidateds to $1.97%. The main interest, however, was concentrated on the Australian section where Kuala Kampars improved to 13s. 6d., Kampong Lanjuts to 24s*. 3d.,
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  • 164 11 THE increasing interest evinced in Malaya by industrialists in Australia is shown by the number of businessmen who are now visiting this country to collect data. Among the most recent arrivals is Mr. E. V. Dunbar, who arrived from Sydney en route to India. Mr. Dunbar
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  • 49 11 A profit of £118.641 was made by the Renong Tin Dredging Co. Ltd., last year. The Board has recommended a final dividend of 12 1 2 per cent, payable on Jan 11. 1941. An interim dividend of Tft per cent, was paid on May 4.
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  • 24 11 Mr. I. J. Menon and Mr. Mathews Thomas have passed the Intermediate examination of the Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants. London.
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  • 108 11  -  MARKET REPORTS B y Reuter London, Dec. 18. fHE Chairman of the Pahang Tin, in his speech, said that the Company's earnings now considerably exceeded the Excess Profits Tax standard, but the Company intended fully to produce the allotted quantity in the national interest.
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  • 54 11 London, Dec. 18. THE Stock Exchange opened slow and barely steady. Kaffirs wer 3 easier and Japanese were higher, later the Stock Exchange became heavy. Oils were lower except Anglo-Egyptian. In the afternoon the Exchange was uncertain, with bears seeking opportunities. Kaffirs were easy while coppers were supported.
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  • 30 11 London, Dec. 18. TIN opened steady. The turnover was 200 tons. There were moderate United States consumer and official purchases overnight. After official- hours there was no business.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 43 11 THESE IUM DO YOU REALISE THAT 23rds. OF YOUR PAINTING COSTS REPRESENT "WAGES"? WHY THEN TRY TO SAVE A FEW CENTS BY BUYING AN INFERIOR GRADE OF PAINT USE THE BEST THERE IS AND SAVE IN THE LONG RUN USE Warms 2 1
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    • 197 11 IF YOUR BREATH HAS A SMELL YOU CANT FEEL WELL Unless 2 pints of bile juice flow from our liver into our bowels every day, our movements set hard and constipated and our food decays unnaturally in our 28 feet of bowels. This decay sends poison all over our body
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    • 410 11 STEAMER SAILINGS BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES For all information apply to: P. O. S. N. Co., The Agent, Collyer Quay, Tel 5961. 8.1.5. N. CO., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR) LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI MOJI, KOBE, OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special Holiday
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    • 354 11 BRITISH INDIA The best possible services are being- maintained by The P. O. S. N. Coy. from the Straits to their usual ports of call in China, India Ceylon and the United Kingdom. Passengers are requested to registei their requirements but under present circumstance* sailings are perforce restricted. Special Holiday
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  • 397 12 A SLIGHT decline in both exports and imports compared with September is the outstanding feature of Malaya's trade in October, the statistics of which were issued this morning. Exports in the month under the previous month. The figure review totalled $11,251,499 as for
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  • 69 12 Reuter. Hanoi. Dec. 19. Vice-Admiral Decoux (Governor of Indo-China) told pressmen here yesterday: "Every act of aggression committed by Thai forces will meet with severe reprisals by the Indo-Chinese forces." He added that retaliations wfll only cease when the Thai authorities stop "acts of aggression." He expressed readiness to resume
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  • 43 12 Reuter. London. Dec. 19. YESTERDAY has been another raidless day. A German bomber was shot down off Dover in the afternoon by British fighters without loss to themselves, according to an Air Ministry communique, which adds that otherwise there is nothing to report.—Reuter.
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  • 209 12 Reuter. London, Dec. 19 T ORD Lothian, late British Ambassador at Washington, shortly before his death, declared that the famine menace to the German-occupied countries was greatly exaggerated. His statement seems to be con firmed by a report of the Berlin Institute for Business
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  • 32 12 Mr. A.I.G.S. Robertson. Drainage Irrigation Engineer, Perak Central Kuala Kangsar, has left on six months' lei-ve. He Is succeeded by Mr. M. C. Perry, formerly of the Drainage Irrigation Department, Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 137 12 When the crisis is past in illness, recovery may still be a long way off. The real turning point for the better comes when the patient begins to fill out and pick up noticeably from day to day. The decisive factor in that quick recovery
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  • 119 12 Reuter. tv, T °kyo, Dec. lT The Japanese Governmen ls urged to conclude a UmTv. basic fishing agreement X hshin, agre1menr.i lh Tr°vS tona The new fishing treaty should aim at seeming fi3£ SSJSJ?. Stab i Hse fishin S man! according to the Asahi attention to the fact
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 117 12 Razor Blades FITS ALL SAFETY RAZORS. 100% British Product SOLE AGENTS: Bilakhia Company. Phone. 52 CECIL STREET P. O. Box 7803. SINGAPORE. 90. LIME O ORANGE "V BARLEY WATER j Jf 1 j y IS RENOWNED //^ISSS?*^ But for the Kiddies I*S BRL E V /I INSTRUCTIONS IN EVERY 1
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    • 335 12 BEAUTY ATTRACTS NOTICE OUR SERVICE FOOD ALWAYS ATTRACT DINERS. We also cater for Dinner Parties— MARYLAND, CAFE RESTAURANT. 264, Middle Road, WHITER SKIN makes you look prettier, younger I TRY THIS AMAZINO NEW WAY TO EXTRA CHARM AND BEAUTY No more can Malaya's sun deprive you of the pale loveliness
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    • 474 12 The popularity of "Diamond" Bedsteads has been pre-eminent for many years on account of ti.etr extreme durability and high standard of 6nish. I*l To LADIES- I British Glandular Products Ltd., London, H 1 offer their I OVERONES Brand Tablets I I the established remedy for all functional disorders of the
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