Malaya Tribune, 3 January 1941

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Saks Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Friday, January 3, 1941.
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    SOVIETS WARN IRON GUARDS IN RUMANIA
    421 1 Reuter. m neuter's special correspondent on the Rumanian Frontier) London, Jan. 3. unhealthy internal situation in Rumania -in which Communists m d other Left Wing elements are coming into conflict with the Iron Guard—is the main reason for drafting more German troops into the
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    Britain Tackles Fire Problem
    287 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. BRITAIN b to take immediate step to deal with the danger Iron mrrniHMj bombs following tit bu fire in London on Sunday; lex has approved] tl ablishmcnt of a aion to be called the; Executive to secure prompt and vigorcus action by
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    SLIGHT ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY
    69 1 London, Jan. 3. I iemy air action yesterday was confined to Vhe Ministry communique J al s thai there was little damage a few minor casualties f, ci by the bombs which >ped on a town in Kent, "ived since yesterday mmunique, it is addeo. nail
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    Czechs' Tribute To British Army
    181 1 London, Jan. 3. THE Secretary for War, Capt. D. Margesson, has received a message of greetings from the Czechoslovak army serving in this country. The Commander-in-Chief writes: "Will ycu accept from me and the Czechoslovak army every good wish to you personally and to all
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    41 1 Reuter. Louden, Jan. 3. THE meat ration which is now at Is. lOd. per head per week will be reduced to Is. 6d. from Monday. From that date, pork and most of the ether meats will be included in the ration.—Reuter.
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    BEATING OF U.S. MARINES BY JAPANESE ALLEGED
    265 1 2 Forced To Sign Confession REPORT SENT TO WASHINGTON: FULL APOLOGY IS DEMANDED Reuter. Peiping, Jan. 3. A DEMAND for a full apology by the Japanese for an inJTTL cident which occurred in Peiping on Monday, when some United States marines were detained
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    Magnetic Mines Dropped Off Eire
    108 1 Reuter. Dublin, Jan. 3. THE fact that magnetic mines were dropped off the coast of Ireland was revealed last night by the Eireann Government Information Bureau on behalf of the Department of Defence of State The announcement says:— "Magnetic sea mines wcro dropped by parachute
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    BELGIUM WILL FIGHT ON
    76 1 Reuter. London, June 3 THE Belgian Army is firmly determined to continue the fight at the side of her British and French allies until the final victory which will liberate Belgium and King Leopold. M Gutt, the Belgian Minister of Defence, thus replied to the New
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    KING'S TRIBUTE
    62 1 London, Jan. 6. GEN Sikorski has received the following wire from the King in reply to a cab'e with his New Year v ashes. "I am deeply touched by your kind wire. Please accept my best wishes for yourself and your gallant forces whose valuable contribution and determination
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    NAZIS HAVE NO COMPLETE CONTROL OVER ALL LABOUR
    411 1 Reuter and British wireless. London, Jan. 3. EXACTS regarding wartime T labour conditions in Germany, revealed in London by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, show that despite the dictatorial powers of the Nazi Government it has not been able to achieve 100
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    EARL'S SON CASHIERED
    47 1 (From H. L. Hopkin) London, Jan. 2. SECOND-LIEUT, the Hon. f. A. F. C. Howard, of the Hampshire Regiment, the second son of the Earl of Effingham, has been dismissed from the service following the sentence of a general court martial.—Via Cable and Wireless.
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    Greeks Will Fight To The Last
    87 1 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 3. U7E begin 1941 resolved to fight ™to the last breath until the enemy has been exterminated, declared Gen. Metaxas, the Greek Prime Minister, in a New Year message to the Greek people. Gen. Metaxas added:—"We be* gin 1941 in the
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    19 1 Reuter. Moscow. Jan. 2—General Shadanko. Deputy Commissar of Defence, has been relieved of his post, it is announced. —Reuter.
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    "Italy No Longer An Independent State"
    297 1 Ix>ndon, Jan. 3. CifELD-MARSHAL Kesserling's Order of the Day praising the Italian air force who are returning to Italy has been followed by an Order of the Day from the Italian UnderSecretary for Air and Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Pricolo.
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    R.E.'s To "Level" London Buildings
    155 1 London, Jan. 3. THE levelling by dynamite of the buildings in the city of London rendered unsafe after Sundays -arson" raid by German bombers will, it is understood, be carried cut forthwith. Supplies of guncotton, it-is stat, ed, have been issued to the Royai Engineers
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    HISTORIC Y.M.C.A. ROOM DESTROYED
    86 1 London, June 6. AMONG the premises destroyed by the fires started on Sunday night by the showers of incendiaries which fell on the City of LondM» is the historic room which saw the birth of the Young Men's Christian Association. Named after its founder the late
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    FREE FRENCHMAN'S GIFT TO R.A.F.
    100 1 London, Jan. 3. A GIFT towards the purchase of Spitfires which epitomises "the will to wttV spirit is acknowledged by the Minister for Aircraft Production, lord Feaverbrook. A vessel torpedoed in the Atlantic last week had a Spitfire Fund which had reached £100. The money
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    RAF Sets Bremen Ablaze
    274 1 Reuter. London, Jan. 3. rVENTY thousand incendiaries and a load of high explosives were dropped on Bremen during the first hour of Wednesday night's fierce bombing raid by the R.A.F. which turned the greatest seaport in Germany, after Hamburg, into a raging furnace. As the long
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    PORTUGAL EXPELS BRITISH JOURNALIST
    53 1 Reuter. Lisbon. Jan. 3. MR. W. Lucas, for many years the London Times correspondent In Portugal, has been ordered to leave the country within 48 hours on account of an article written by him in an American Review in wli*<ih he alleged that German influence existed
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    AUSTRALIAN ARMY CHIEFS IN PALESTINE
    43 1 Reuter. Jerusalem. Jan. 3. v THE Australian Army Minister. Mr. Spender, and the chief of the Australian Genera 1 Staff. LieutGeneral Sturdee have arrived at Palestine from Australia on a visit of inspection to the Australian Imperial Force.—Reuter.
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    IPOH'S NEW BUILDINGS WORTH MILLION DOLLARS
    478 2 fFrom Our Own Reporter) (*rom uui Thursday< rJwhrtT«hL% 555« were put up for Hnvernment employees. +v,5t« io annt.hpr office These houses are a area* from the usual type of wooden structures. Built of brick and cement, this settlement cost in the neighbourhood of $500,000
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    Pleads Guilty To Robbing Cashier
    1001 2 Singapore, Thursday. rjiHE trial of Quek Quee Hoe, a cooly formerly employed by A Messrs. Boustead and Co., who was one of the two men wo figured in the daring daylight robbery at Robinson Road on Dec 2 in which a cashier was robbed of
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    K.L. MAKES START WITH SHELTERS
    387 2 (From Our Own Reporter) J Kuala Lumpur, Thursday. SIGNS of the rapid progress being made with measures for the passive defence of J Selangor, since the decision was made known recently, I are becoming increasingly evident in Kuala Lumpur, and 1 during the past few
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    More Deaths From Tuberculosis
    121 2 MORE deaths from tuberculosis again marked the health chart of Singapore's population issued yesterday. There were 38 deaths from this disease for the week ending Dec. 28, as compared with 34 in the previous week, although inasfar as the respiratory type was conI cerned there were
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    New Year Mishaps Keep Ambulance Busy
    410 2 Singapore, Thursday. MEW Year's Day was a busy day for the Singapore Municipal Ambulance staff. The first call was at 1.56 a.m.. when the ambulance was called io Holland Road police station to convey an Indian woman, wno was said to have been assaulted,
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    43 2 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. The artist Joseph Mordecai, who painted the last portrait of King Edward VII and the portraits of the late King George, the Duke of Windsor, Lord Kitchener and many other famous people, has died at the age of 89.—Reuter.
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    Nazism Doomed To Be Defeated
    147 2 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. THE picture drawn in Hitler's New Year proclamation oi an impovernihed Germany in revolt against plutocrats must seem singularly unconvincing to the peoples of those countries in Europe whose resources are now being drained to supply the needs of an exacting
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    THAI PLANES OVER FRENCH INDO-CHINA
    32 2 Reuter. Hanoi, Jan. 2. GEN. Decoux* headquarters announce that on Dec. 25, a Thailand plane machine-gunned Napakasoum and on Dec. 26, another flew over and machine-gunned Pakse.—Reuter.
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    Bombers From Cents
    22 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all frents up to midnight London time NONE
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    Japanese On "Secrets" Charge
    92 2 Singapore, Thursday. DESCRIBED as a seaman. Soji Saito, a young Japanese, appeared before the second magistrate, Mr. Conrad Oldham, to-day, on a charge under the Official Secrets Act. The allegation against Soji was that yesterday he made a drawing within a prohibited place, namely, the area
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    JAPANESE CONSUL PASSES THROUGH
    97 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) MR. Katesuo Okazaki, the new Japanese Consul-General to Calcutta, passed through Singapore yesterday. Mi' Okazaki, who had been n Hong Kong for 18 months, is visiting Indte for the first time, but he hopes to find things very "pleasant" for him. He stated
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    Alleged Publication Of Libellous Pamphlets
    63 2 Singapore, Thursday. AHMAD bin Omar. 30-year-o: A Arab appeared beiore Mr. Conrad Oldham in the second police court to-day when a charge ol punting pamphlets in Arabic characters, containing certain word* defamatory of Abdul Wahab Aljtlang was preferred against him. Ahmad bin Omar claimed tna.,
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    Rice Prices May Not Soar
    375 2 rpHE policy of Government, since the inception of Food t>on--1 trol, has been to interfere with trade as little as possible. Although it has been necessary for Government to become the sole importer of rice for domestic consumption from Jan 1941, in order to safeguard
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      13 2 SOLD EVERYWHERE. I Agents: Naina Mohamed Sons, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Branches.
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      146 2 DON'T LET INDIGESTION SPOIL TEAT DINNER On the happy occasions when >hort leave enables hubbands. brothers or son* to gather together, the wise housewile wm -,cc to it that indigestion does not mar in pleasure of that special little dinner, wben tempting dishes and flowing wine may easily overtax the
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    MODERN MEDICINE BRINGS REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
    194 3 Municipality Wants More Health Visitors (Tribune Staff Reporter) (N view of the daily increasing number of patients anu out-patients to the three Singapore Municipal health clinics, the Municipality is now considering the addition of more health visitors for the city. Applications have been invited for
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    LEND AND LEASE PLAN READY FOR CONGRESS
    163 3 Washington, Jan. 2. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S "Lend and Lease" plan for war supplies to Britain is confidently expected by observers in Washington to be approved by the new Congress which opens to-morrow. The general feeling on Capital Hill has undergone great changes in recent
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    19 3 Mr X Selladurai. penlor Indian Interpreter of the Sungei Patani District Court, an inmate of the General Hospital. Penang.
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    CHARGES AGAINST EUROPEAN CASHIER
    594 3 Singapore, Thursday. A PRELIMINARY inquiry into allegations of criminal breach of trust and falsification of accounts against V. P. Raker, a European assistant cashier of Messrs. John Little and Co., Ltd., commenced before Mr. J. G. Rappoport, in the Third Police Court, to-day. Mr. E. M.
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    BATU PAHAT WEDDING
    142 3 Singapore, Thursday. A PRETTY wedding was solemnised at the Chinese Chamber id Commerce, Batu Pan it, recently between Mr. Julian Huan Teck Kwang, chief clerk in tne office of Mr. C. P. S. WJJJ. advocate and solicitor, and Miss Helen Tan Swee Hong, second daughter of Mr.
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    PERAK SPITFIRE
    106 3 THE Perak Turf Club's donation last month of an amount sufficient to pay for a Spitfire is gratefully acknowledged in a telegram to'the club from Lord Beaverbook. Minister of Aircraft Production. "Your gift for the purchase of a Spitfire," says Lord Beaverbrook, i 'brings encouragement and inspiration to
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    21 3 Dr. D. D. Chelliah. headmaster, AngloChinese High School, Penang, has been appointed headmaster of the secondary department, St. Andrew's School. Singapore.
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    26 3 Mr. M. J. Hayward. Secretary to the Resident. Is now acting as District Officer, Kuala Llpls. vice Mr. J. F. F. Gregg, who Is on leave.
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    NEW YEAR EVE BURGLARY
    151 3 Singapore, Thursday. qENTENCE was postponed in the rJ second police court to-day, when three youths, F. I. Bungar, 15-year-old Indian, Andrew Phillip, 13-year-old Eurasian, and Kenneth Thomas, 14-year-old Eurasian, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking into premises No. 37 Lorong X, Telok Kurau, at 8.30
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    29 3 Mr. S. Joseph. Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court. Ipoh. will succeed Mr. Qua Gong Kow as Financial Assistant, State Medical and Health Department. Talping, when the latter retires.
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    22 3 Mr. C. SP. Subramankam Chettlar. president of the Chettlars Chamber of Commerce (Perak Branch) has left for India on a short holiday.
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    Diluted Beer; Gaoled For 9 Months
    174 3 Singapore, Thursday. SENTENCE of nine months* P rigorous imprisonment on each of two charges, the sentences to run concurrently, was passed by Mr. J. L. McFall, the District Judge, on Ti Geok Koi, a small sundry shopkeeper, who was convicted on two charges of
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    Suner Explains Tangier Tangle
    491 3 MADRID, JAN. 2. REASONS FOR THE SPANISH OCCUPATION OF THE IN--11 TERNATIONAL ZONE OF TANGIER WERE GIVEN BY THE SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER, SENOR SUNER, IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED IN THE REVIEW HAZ. Asked what had been the reaction of the other powers to Spain's action, Senor
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    31 3 Mr. G. G L. McLecd. Inspector of Schools Penan* has been posted to Klne; Edward' VII School. Talping. Mr. P. T. Laldlaw from Talping takes Mr. McLeod s place ln Penang.
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    Hitler's Designs On Britain Miscarry
    622 3  -  (By General Sir Hubert Gough, Renter's military commentator) Reuter. London, Jan. 2. What are Hitler's plans? It is not likely, in my opinion, that Hitler will attempt an invasion of the British Isles this winter, partly owing to the immense difficulties created by the sra
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    TO-MORROW'S RACE SELECTIONS
    885 4 (By "Spectator") THE Penang Christmas—New Year meeting draws to a close 1 to-morrow after a memorable series of big dividends which will possihlv, remain a record. Trainer Harry Sleigh who had a bis bag of surprises, should round off his run of successes with more wins to-morrow,
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    Final Gallops
    158 4 Penang, Friday. SOME good gallops were seen on the track this morning when horses running to-morrow were given final workouts. Harpo looked impressive to an all out gallop. It is in ternhc form and should make its presence felt in to-morrow's big race. New Cello looking very fit,
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    Neil Hemchit's Surprise Defeat At Malacca
    110 4 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Jan. 2. "JJEIR Hemchit opened 1941 with a surprising defeat, given to him by Gunboat Smith at the Malacca City Park on New Year's night. There were two preliminary events in the first of which Boy Ahmat (Bst.7) knocked
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    BRITANNIA STILL "RULES THE WAVES"
    255 4 Reuter. (By Fergus J. Ferguson, Renter's diplomatic correspondent) London, Jan. 2. 'J'HE British mastery of the seas has brought swift and complete retribution on Italian propagandists whose pet sneer until not so long ago used to be "British successes with evacuations." When the British forces
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    Sunday's Football
    41 4 The Chung Wah Football Club will meet the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in a friendly match of soccer at Farrer Park on Sunday. At 4 p.m. Chung Wah second XI will meet a team drawn from an Indian club.
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    I.S.P. FIGHTER FUND
    20 4 The total of the Fighter Fund of the Incorporated Society of Planters on Jan. 2 was $8,730.
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    Sports Diary
    10 4 TO-DAY HOCKEY: Chinese v Field Company, Tyersall Park.
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    NAVAL POLICE SPORTS TOUR
    107 4 THE Singapore Naval Police Force hockey team will be leaving Singapore to-day on a tour to play a series cf hockey matches covering Se'angor and Malacca. The tour is elpected to taKe a week and the team will be accommodated at the Old Police Depot, Kuala
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    Scratchings
    145 4 FOLLOWING are the scratchings and order of running for tomorrow's races at Penang: Race one: Horses Class 3, Div. 5 6 furs. Scratchings: Spitfire, Four O'clock, Little John. Race two: Horses Class 4, Div. 1* 8 furs. Sciatchings: Last Crusader. Dancing Foam. Pride of Penan*. Race three: Horses Class
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    AT THE SEA SPORTS
    55 4 Ordinarily the tioo men in this boat would have been Ush, but they declared a holiday on New Year's day and had vlenty of fun in the boat races at the New Year Sea Sports. Incidental\ they won a race and did not lose any money
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    HITLER TO MAKE INVASION IN 1941
    346 4 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. INVASION must be regarded, for a long time, as "standing—on Hitler's menu" but no invasion could succeed unless the Germans had conditions of pretty effective local air control. This view was expressed on Tuesday by a high officer of the
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    Governor's Tour Of North Malaya
    77 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Thursday. IN connection with His Excellency the Governor's tour of Northern Malaya on Jan. 7, Capt. G. Hawkins, chairman of the Co-ordination Committee, Passive Defence Service, has invited views' from variow local Chambers and Associations regarding the proposed defence measures
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      316 4 NOW WE GIVE YOU \2 INSERTIONS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE 6 in the Malaya TRIBUNE 6 in the Morning TRIBUNE The Small Advertisement Page of the Malaya Tribune Is Read By 100,000 People j Every Six Days, and by 25,500 in the case of the Morning Tribune—making 125,500 in
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    "ABOLISH MacGREGOR BOUNTIES"— Mr. Hands
    1111 5 A Step Towards Social Equality THE need for a greater measure of s«;ial 1 stressed by Mr. John Hands M.C.H., Honorary ?eeretary and Treasurer of the Selangor Asiatic Un employment Committee, in his report for December In these Malay States, he says, the PW»^"™ justice
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    Masked Men Alleged To Have Robbed Indian Milk Vendor
    208 5 Singapore, Thursday. AN account of how he was relieved cf $105 in cash by three armed Chinese in Jalan Eunos while on his way home on the night of Nov. 18 last was related Sy Rajbali Rai. an elderlylndian milk vendor,
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    Clerk's Last Cup Of Coffee
    123 5 Singapore, Thursday. SHORTLY after returning from a coffee shop with a mug of coffee on Dec 23, a Chinese clerk, Goh Kirn San. was found lying in a semi-conscious condition In his room, his lips and mouth corroded. He was removed to the General Hospital
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    New Year's Eve Air Truce
    90 5 Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 2. TARGETS of military importance were bombed in London on Tuesday, according to a High Command communique. Further attacks were directed against railway stations and a port in south-east England, doing considerable damage. Four enemy aircraft attempted to penetrate the West German
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    Rotary Talk On Progress Of Trade Unions In U.S.
    677 5 "WHATEVER degree of despotism labour organisations in the past have seemed to produce in some of their activitieswhatever their minqr or major shortcomings—the fundamental ideal behind the whole labour movement, whether conscious or unconscious in the minds of the leaders, is
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    9 5 v vr Rala Abdul Aziz. Technical I Kuala Kanjaar.
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    13 5 to MIM 4 Hockey on a represented ™?Y nd Lis also played Malaya.
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    Opinion
    117 6 Nazi Blunders JJITLER used to be very decisive about dates, and was generally credited with accurate predictions in the opening phases of the war. The conquests of Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France were accomplished according to schedule, but when he came to the invasion of Great
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    Faced With Reality
    139 6 £YEN Marshal Goering, General yon Brauchitsch and Admiral Raeder, the Big Three of the German fighting services, have been vague in their commitments. They know that the German Air Force, in spite of its size, is unable to gain local superiority over the British Isles. They know
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    Battle Of Wits
    216 6 BATTLE of wits has been going on for some time between Marshal Petain and Hitler over the future status of Vichy. The old Marshal, who is willing to co-operate "wholeheartedly" with the Reich on economic matters, is nevertheless firm on his noninvolvement policy as far as the
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    Relied On Treachery
    103 6 first he relied on the treachery of Laval, the exChief Deputy of the Vichy Government, to achieve his end, but the prompt action of Marshal Petain to remove Laval from office has deprived the Fuehrer of an important instrument for the formation of a Vichy-Berlin Axis. As
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    Hitler MUST Shorten The War
    785 6  -  By Vernon Bartlett (In the News-Chronicle). rpHE Greeks, the Germans used to tell me before Mussolini became Hitler's friend and lackey, were the real founders of civilisation, while the Romans were mere parvenus. Germany was the only great modern country which had turned to Greece
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    Punk Or Art?
    337 6 don't like the family Stein: There is Gert. there is Ep and there's Em; Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And nobody understands Em. pLENTY of people—including Critic Adolf Hitler—would agree that punk is a mild word for Jacob Epstein's statues. But those people would
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    A Cocktail Full Of Vitamins
    242 6 A FLAKY white powder that can be turned into a bubbling cocktail, rich in vitamins, has been perfected by Berkeley chemists. The pov/der contains all the known "B" vitamins extracted from yeast, together with additional calcium, phosphate and iron salts Dissolved in water, it effervesces
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    THROUGH CH INESE EYES
    608 6 THE point stressed by Guieral Wu Te-chen in the speeches he delivered in various paru 0 f Malaya is that co-operation between Malayan Chinese and the authorities should be not only f o r the prosperity of the country but also for the security of the
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    GERMAN AIR UNITS SENT TO AID DUCE
    520 7 London Not Surprised By Axis Move Reuter. Rome, Jan. 2. OECTIONS of the German air force have arrived in Italy, b Bta4ea the official Italian news agency. The agency quotes Order of the Day issued by General Pricolo, Chief of the Air Force,
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    Enemy Raids On Britain
    116 7 Reuter. The famous Free Trade Hall in Manchester, where many important political speecnej' haje been made, was among the buddings damaged in recent raids on th The Ci Cotton Exchange, and the Royal Exchange, one of the largest of its kind in the wend ana a
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    MYSTERY RAIDER OVER EIRE AGAIN
    67 7 Reuter. Dublin, Jan. i. BOMBS were dropped last night > by an unidentified plane b3tween Drogheda and Jullanstown m County Meath. 30 miles north' gSbllr? It is believed damage was caused. The plane also a e ppelred over Killiney near DU Thr n ee bomb
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    NAZI BOMBS DROPPED IN EIRE
    300 7 Reuter. j Dublin, Jan. 2. MORE bombs were dropped on I«» Eire territory early this morning. High explosive and S incendiary bombs, dropped last night, killed and seriously injured a number of British l people. i One of the incendiary bombs I picked up was
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    WILL FRENCH FLEET FIGHT AGAIN?
    304 7 Washington, Jan. 2. DESPITE .h, fact that ril Government offices had closed for U the New Year holiday yesterday Mr. Cordel M> Secretary of State, put in an early appearance at the bta Department to confer with his chief advisers on the moving world events.
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    WAR LOSSES COMPARED
    314 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. GERMANY'S now famous railway centre, Hamm, suffered 82 raids by the R.A.F. during the last year. Hamburg had 61 raids, Gelsenkirchen 39, Berlin, Wilhelmshaven, Soest, DuisburgRuhrort, 35 each, Cologne, Mannheim, Osnabruck, 34 each, Bre- men, 32. These authoritative figures show that in these
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    Canada's War Effort Reaches New High
    81 7 Reuter. Ottawa, Jan. 2. I PANADA'S production has now I reached record levels' and according to present plans, before theend of this year this country will be producing at the rate of some •Miner cent, greater than during S*£ak of our efforts in the
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    Democracy Must Be Destroyed—Hitler
    304 7 Reuter. Berlin. Jan. 2. HITLER in a New Year Order of the day to the German Army, stated that when the German people, after years of collapse, were united by National Socialism then leaders were determined to create the future of the nation by peaceful work
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    NEW ZEALAND THANKS ROOSEVELT
    164 7 Reuter. Wellington. Jan. 2. ♦we in New Zealand have par-ti-ff cular cause to be thankful for the American policy as defined by President Roosevelt,'' declared Mr. p. Frazer, the New Zealand Premier, commenting on Mr. Roosevelt's "fireside chat." He added, "Mr. Roosevelt's words provide a powerful
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    Premier's Broadcast To Turkey
    221 7 Reuter. London, Jan. 2. "'THE friendship of our two A nations has stood the test of hard times and I am sure that in the better days that are coming, it will become a fact ot immense importance to the future of the world and to
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    Argentine's Maize Surplus Problem
    99 7 Reuter. London, Jan. BRTTISH-owned railways operating in the Argentine hare rtceived a cable from the Argentine authorities suggesting that the companies should buy maize for fuel at twenty pesos per ton from the Government. Though it is recognised that this constitutes rubbish prices compared with the
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    Cotton Import Licences
    59 7 Reuter. London. Jan. 1— The Board o Trade announces that licences; foi the import of raw cotton and lintera from the British and French Hmmreu will not be requireo despatched to the United Kinldom before Jan. 13 and imSrted Tnto the United Kingdom Ke Mar. 13. thus
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    French War Minister Predicts Recovery, Renovation
    211 7 Reuter. Vichy, Jan. -WOUNDED France is not Huntziger, Minister of War ana message Chief of the French to the people of! Syria Jj« Commander-in-Chief. t*en. nuiuiisci 6 ot to keep their confidence in France and f™™* heartedlv in France s task of recovery «d
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    Acute Oil Shortage In Axis Countries
    204 8 Reuter. Zurich, Jan. 2. TYIFFICULTIES surrounding V the transport of Rumanian petrol to Germany are discussed in the Gazette de Lausanne which quotes the Petroleum News Service. It points out that the freezing of the Danube which occurred unusually early this year leaves the
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    More Greek Successes
    273 8 Reuter. Athens, Jan. 2. OEVERAL Italian positions have been taken by Greek troops in an important action in the Klisura region, stated an official Greek spokesman at Athens last night. As a result of the action, which was fought in bad weather, the Greeks advanced their line
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    16 8 Reuter. London, Jan. I—An Italian CabiSTy *22££S wil i be held °n SaturReuter g BerHn radio
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    No Escape For Bardia Wops
    291 9 Reuter. LONDON, JAN. 2. RARDIA CAN BE REGARDED AS f«™fJS* 15 AND THERE ARE NO MEANS OF ESCAPE FORTHE ITALIAN TROOPS THERE APART FROMtBEMCTTHAT A FEW MIGHT BE ABLE TO ™£KLE BRITISH LINES IN THE WIDE SPACES WmCH OPERATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE, TAIN THAT THE
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    ROME CLAIMS BAG OF 3 BLENHEIMS
    104 9 Reuter. Rome, Jan. 2. ITALIAN artillery effectively shelled British motorised columns in Libya and Italian tighter formations repeatedly attacked concentrations of mechanised forces inflicting severe losses, according to a communiaue. On the Greek front. Italian fighter and dive-bombing planes co-operated with the land forces
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    Tin Committee
    75 9 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has informed the International Tin Committee that Mr. Dermot J. Mooney has been appointed to represent Nigeria on the Committee, following the resignation of Captain Oliver Lyttleton on his appointment as President of the Board of Trade.
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    R. A. F. Has Best Band In Britain
    123 9  -  (From H.L. Hopkin London, Jan. 2. rE Royal Air Force, the youngest of the services, to whom is primarily due the foiling of Hitler's plans for an invasion of Britain, has sprung another big surprise. It has the best dance band in
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      762 10 l^n««««U'Nuz^^^,W Domestic Occurrence ENGAGEMENT. TAN LEE. The engagement is announced between Mr. Henry Tan Hoay Gie, eldest son of Mr. Mrs. Tan Kirn Chiang, and Miss Lee Choon Lan, youngest daughter of the Late Madam Leong Ah Keow. Situations Vacant WANTED —Chinese Stenographer required by Employer c|o Box 909 Applicants
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    Malayan Sharebrokers' Asso. Report
    810 11 Singapore. Jan. 2. Buyer*. SeUere. A mpat Tin <«•) austral Malay 22 6 S l!n D M 0.87 «Hngrin im ou oifl SrJUDM (53) JI SPlangor J») 1 ,>3 20? p in na Malay awMiMaiCf) 0 17 0 20 55 (50 ts 0.37Va o.4fixd JW—Tto fSC
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    U.S. ANTI-INFLATION MEASURES
    238 11 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 2. TIM: Federal Reserve Board is to .eek from Congress 1 powers to prevent inflation arising from the United States defence hi announcing the Board's J proposal, Mr. IVlarriner Eet Us, Chairman of the j Board, said that the move was purely precautionary. Inflationary
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    26 11 K&i n r i ce M C.S.. Mr. Cbttb top J- Smith and Dr. K. M. Dii c hav bee appointed Munlci«miirilWui of George Town, Pc-
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    Indian War Boom Proceeds
    183 11 Presumably it is difficult for anyone living in Berlin to keep in touch with affairs in India but that hardly excuses the curious ignorance of the industrial war boom in India that was revealed in the Hindustani broadcast from Berlin on Dec. 26. "Indian foreign traded
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    British Exports To Sterling Areas
    124 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. THE Bank of England has issued a notice showing how payments for export*; from New: Zealand should be made. Exports to the Sterling area must be paid for in Sterling. Exports to Canada and Newfoundland, the Netherlands Indies, the Belgian Congo
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    Girl Wife's Story Of "Rich Friend"
    897 11 Alleges Husband Forced Her To Live With Man MARRIED to a man many years her senior, a 17-year-old wife alleged in amazing evidence at Marlborough-street that her husband forced her to cultivate the friendship of two men, and that he threatened to kill her.
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    SHARE MARKET VERY ACTIVE
    140 11 From Our Financial Correspondent Singa,pore, Friday. THE New Year opened with considerable activity in the tin share market yesterday. Hong Fatts, on the declaration oi tne December output of 4,250 pikuls, rose to $133. Other business transacted included Kuchais, Sungei Ways, and Ayer Wengs, all round
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    Mid-Day Prices
    21 11 Singapore, Friday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were: RUBBER Buyers 37%, Sellers 38. TIN
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    212 11 Singapore, Jan. 2. The following are the exchange stock quotations this morning according to the daily circular issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. SELLING London T.T. 2,4 I|l6 London demand 2|4 i|io Switzerland demand (T.T. only) 202V2 New York demand 47 3|32 Montreal demand 51 27 32
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    Produce
    127 11 Singapore, Jan. 2. Siam Rice (Special) Per bag $14.70 No. 1 $13.80 No. 2 $13.35 No. 3 $12.45 Siam Rice (Broken) Per Bag No. 1 $1155 No. 2 $11.10 No. 3 $10.65 Rice Saigon Al Rice Saigon 1 Rice Saigon 2 R. Rangoon "S.Q." Meedon Singhway "Small Mill" Rangoon
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    Shell Dividend
    61 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. THE Shell Transport and Trading Co. announces an interim dividend of six pence per ordinary share or pound stock tax-free for the year 1940, compared with one shilling previously. The market feels that the Company's decision to conserve its resources in view of the
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    Emergency Relief In Nanning
    106 11 Kweilin. IN view of the large number «f refugees in Nanning totalling more than 40,000, Gen. Huang Shu-chu, Chairman of the Kwangsi Provincial Government, has ordered the appropriation of $200,000 for emergency relief purposes. 1 Gen. Huang is now in Nanning supervising the work of rehabilitation
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    Britain's Industrial Effort
    112 11 Reuter. London, Jan. 1. ♦«r|UR great industrial effort, with II the United States added to our own. will ensure overwhelming superiority in 1942, hut British industry must bear the strain and provide the main requirements in 1941," says a New Year message from Lord Dudley Cordon, President
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    Steel Output
    71 11 Reuter. New York, Jan. 1. THE Iron. Age reports the steel production at 97 percent, of capacity accompanied by rismg scrap prices in some districts. While many products are plentifully available for the first quarter, the fact that all mdls hold a sufficient capacity in reserve for defence
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    NAZI WAR CLAIMS
    167 12 Reuter. Berlin, Jan. 3. THE statement that the German navy and air force have sunk 190 000 tons of British warships during the second half of 1940 is made in a report of the High Command on the war operations for that period. It declares that the
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    STOP PRESS
    181 12 Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 3. The Kuomintang authorities announce that two representatives of the party in Nanking. Lv Hsuan-lan and Chen Cho Wu, who were active secretly in Nanking were arrested by the Japanese in August and executed by a filing squad in November.— Feutcr. Chungking, Jan. 3. Chinese
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    How R.A.F. Keeps The Seas Open
    425 12 Reuter. (By Ralph Walling Reuters air correspondent with the Atlantic aerial patrol) London, Jan. 2. R.A.F. living-boats, showing an uncanny new skill both in locating their charges and in close protection work, have just escorted in, by relays, yet another convoy bound for the
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    TURKISH DEFENCES POWERFUL
    514 12 London, Jan. 2. "THE establishment of German air bases in the neighbourhood of the Rumanian oilfields constitutes a threat to Turkey, though it would have no serious direct effect upon our position in Palestine. Even the occupation of Bulgaria would not bring the Luftwaffe within effective range
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    56 12 Reuter. Manchester, Jan. L THE Chairman of the Cotton Board, reviewing the year 1940. >ays that Lancashire has maintained her cotton export trade, bringing more overseas currency than did the greater yardage In 1939, despite service demands. The year 1940 has brought better times to cotton firms, represented by more
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    "Britons Will Not Permit Churchill To Weaken"
    83 12 Reuter. Ottawa, Jan. 3 "PAR from the German viei Mr. Churchill, the Prtnv ster, is a dictator, impost nu his «_j on the people, it is the Iron will or the nation which is imposed Churchill. The nation wouli •permit him to weaken
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    SOUTH WALES TOWN BOMBED
    99 12 Reuter. London, Jan. 3 A TOWN in South Wales was the: main target for Nazi airmen during last night. Fire bombs dropped on the town followed by high explosives but generally speaking, the attacks weie not heavy though enemy planes l reported in several parts. Casualties,
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    "REGIMENT" BROADCAST
    48 12 The "History of the Royal R giment of Artillery" is the title af a talk to be broadcast oy an official of the regiment from the Singapore broadcasting station to-night at 7.10. This talk forms part of j new series entitled the "History w the Regiments."
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