Malaya Tribune, 6 February 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Saks Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Thursday, February 6, 1941.
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  • 702 1 LAVAL'S TREACHERY EXPOSED Reuter. i- London, Feb. 6. |V TITLER has informed Vichy that a "complete and radical j solution of the Franco-German problem must be found and put into effect before the end of February; 9 according to a despatch from the French
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  • 98 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. R.A.F. aircraft were very active over the English Channel and north-west France yesterday, states the Air Ministry. Fighter patrols have been maintained, resulting in the destruction of one enemy bomber over the Channel during the morning and a second during
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  • 37 1 Reuter. Washington, Feb. 6. LORD HALIFAX, the British Ambassador, had an hour's talk with Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary ot State, yesterday. The talk was confined to the general situation. Lord Halifax told reporters.— Reuter.
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  • 67 1 Reuter. Washington, Feb. 5. /AL lost his iiost in the .in Cabinet last Decemhe had completed v ith the Germans to have the use of the and to occupy bases at Bizerta, to information remi Europe, in welldiplomal k quarters in Laval's return to the
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  • 98 1 Reuter. Tokyo, Feb. 6. JAPANESE troops who made a hading near Hong Kong ■J Tuesday have occupied Sfcataa Kok and Shayuyung— h *< points <. n the Hong KongCniaese herder, according to a Canton despatch to the Domei am ncv. ITiej laim the
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  • 252 1 Reuter. London. Feb. 6. THE tussle between Hitler and Marshal Petain for concessions going- beyond the original Franco-German armistice terms seems to be swiftly moving towards a climax. Following the Cabinet meeting in Vichy yesterday. Admiral Dalian (French Navy Minister >, is hurrying back to Paris with
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  • 58 1 Reuter. Washington, Feb. 6. *HE House of Representativeyesterday accepted the Senate's amendments to a bill for the conduction of a fleet of 200 cargo ships. The bill was forwarded to the White House for the President's signature. Mr. Roosevelt recently asked Congress for the appropriation of $313,000,000
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  • 154 1 Reuter. Madrid, Feb. 6. A THREATENING tone is used by the Spanish newspaper Arriba in an article attacking the British blockade and those who, "within and without, are trying to paralyse Spain." After stating that thus far the Spaniards have been able to rest from their recent
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  • 139 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. A MESSAGE for transmission to the German people was left by Mr. Wendell Willkie before leaving England on his return home. 'T am of purely German decent.' states the "My family name Is not WiMkie but Willicke. My grandparents left Germany 90
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  • 69 1 Reuter. London. Feb. 6. ALTHOUGH there was some enemy activity off the east and southeast coast yesterday, very few enemy aircraft flew inland, states' an Air Ministry communique. Bombs were dropped at a point in north-east Scotland and at a place in Kent, but
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  • 49 1 Reuter. Havana, Feb. 6. PRESIDENT BATISTA has issued a decree restoring the constitutional guarantees of Cuba which he suspended on Tuesday morning, when he took swift action against the alleged attempt to overthrow him and deposed the chiefs of the armed forces and other officers.Reuter.
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  • 287 1  -  'By Col. Lowe Reuter's military correspondent) Reuter. London, teb. b. "»m1 with which Gen. Wavell is conducting the opera'':s in north and east Africa shows that he knows that, rnians, not the Italians, are the eventual enemy. Every 1,1 in;'s news of German
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  • 245 1  -  RETREATS BECOME "FLAT OUT" RACES (By Gordon Young Reuter's special correspondent with British headquarters in the Middle East) Reuter. London, Feb. 6. speed of the Italian withdrawal in Libya, Eritrea and Abyssinia has shown a marked increase in the last 36 hours. The Italian
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  • 130 1 Reuter. Khartoum, Feb. 6. FIFTEEN hundred prisoners, most of them white, have hitherto been taken by the British forces pursuing the Italians retreating towards the Red Sea by South Eritrea's only railway. Much material has been abandoned by the enemy. The mechanised Sudan defence force is
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  • 44 1 Nairobi, Feb. 6. OTRONG native African fighting patrols successfully attacked and captured Beles Gugani, a defended Italian post inside the Italian Somaliland border, according to last night's communique which adds that the pursuit of the enemy is being carried out.
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  • 90 1 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. THE Greek troops ?re maintaining pressure all along the Albanian front, according to a Greek Press Ministry statement, broadcast by the Athens Radio. Many prisoners and a great quantity of war material have been captured. After fierce attacks, the Greeks another important height un
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  • 53 1 British Wireless. London, Feb. 6. GIFTS to the Lord Mayor's Air Raid Distress Fund, which now I stands at £2,099,000, included £20,000 1 from South Rhodesia and £7.3.6 I from the Bantu children of Wind- hock, a native location, who gave :up their Christmas treat to make
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    • 159 1 M. HASSAN, Electrical. Gu ft Water Contractor*, 34, 36. A 37, Brag Ba»ah Road. SINGAPORE TEX. 3411 For all your requirement® In *h® Installation or repairs of electne. gas and water pipe fitting». pl«a«e consult us and we will submit our estimate without obligation. WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED AND CHARGES MODERATE. We
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  • 207 2 j Singapore, Wednesday, j DECAUSE he acted as banker v among a party of gamblers in a house in Ord Road, Au Lye Tee, a Chinese, was fined J $200, or, in default, ten weeks' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr i I. G. Rappoport, the Third J
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  • 333 2 NEXT SUNDAY, Feb. 9. St. Peter's Chrrch in old St. Andrew's School compound will be used as a church for the last The service to be held in it was on Feb. 14, 1875, and in the intervening period it has been the
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  • 22 2 It Is notilled in S.S. Gazette that a miniB nnwt reti«.h th" »PP»*nng Tor th* »>oforc Itarrh S Pr P r *»*SSrtW»
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  • 197 2 A VFRDIPT r,f a *v v Wednesday. VbRDICT of death by misadventure was returned hv thP Singapore Coroner, Mr W- T Portpr \\T 3 a laceration of the brain. d hIS and SUstained was seen following a m ii l a t
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  • 46 2 M. 15 A RON who is now in Singapore acting for M. Guv dt Schompre, Gen cfe Gaulle's Far Eastern icpresentative. who is now visiting Hongkong. M. Baron recently arrived from India and was an administrator in French India previously.
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  • 103 2 j Chungking, Feb. 5. r<EN. Wu Te-chen, the Overseas VI Minister, has been cordially received by the Burmese Government and civic organisations in Rangoon according to the correspondent of the Chungking Ta Kung Pao. He* arrived at th- Burmese capital on Jan. 16. when
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  • 163 2 D\ an order made to-day, stall holder.; in public or privat* markets in Singapore are required U) "ticket" their wares. In future, each article of food exposed for sale on a market stall must bear a label showing the price at which the stall holder is wMing
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  • 20 2 Mr. L.S. Dodd has assumed duty as AsSSitam i dd has ass "mcd duty «s been transferred to ?erhs. h
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  • 143 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) TT is reliably understood that a 1 communique will be issued shortly concerning the part Malaya is playing- as a result of the deliberations of the Eastern Group Supplies Conference at New Delhi in October last. Remarkable secrecy has shrouded the
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  • 209 2 Bt^at™^ 11^1 01 0 Wednesday. ECAUSE he lighted a lire in the Naval Base dockyard. Tay Swec Song, 28. was fined $15 or. in default, three weeks' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr. J. g. Rappoport. the Third Magistrate When charged with lighting a fire :n an
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  • 11 2 Mrs. J. Boyle. Tencher. Superseete Onde D. English Schools. Peaune has
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  • 150 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) J*HE frequency and type of Singapore's next bl raid practices, it is understood, will be disci meeting of A.R.P. and passive defence sen iV, end. It is understood that details j will also be discussed of the eva--1 cuation plan
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  • 141 2 Singapore, Wednesday. I BECAUSE he found the Salva tion Army Remand Home for J80y.5 '•unpleasant," Teo Eng Wan, I a J 6-year-old Hokkien, will be I j kept In the Reformatory for two year*:. Teo was sentenced to six strokes iof the rotan and to
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  • 32 2 Andul Hamid bla Abdul Reuf has been Sfth 1 t», b,n Abdul nauf has f ves with the powers of a Police Offlk<UT, n i actln as of Sungei Kechil, Province Wellesley.
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  • 22 2 (Cent-A-Piane Fund) Total ni!ni!.( r <>f nnn Planes f £2 yesterday on" a „,idni«, tl Lot J THIRTY N
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  • 46 2 A SUBSIDY ol I rt paid to \Vk Ltd.. by the S Government, amount as m stood that the nder ment is also conl ol $13,000. The loss of a i storm ear!y la a curtailment ol by the company except for Bond resumed
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  • 17 2 Mr. untitled gamat. fag go'mc be succeeded by Mr P H nr H Malaya's tra.r. In i'■".
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    • 22 2 USE i T0 CLEAR DS J|f( EFFECTIVEIY^H VAPEX Fo f discerning [jfiMi Pa la te r^jSM Vintage wine well matured in wood.
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  • 40 3 planting indusncluded as an 1 ler the Eater* the State, be discussed at (.1 the United ol Malaya. Javanese Jars it is stated Association has ranese labour v tier is being cir- rs of the Johore
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  • 38 3 Wednesday. lour oranges worth 25 cents, 29. was senlcs' rigorous imlollowed by six ipervision, in the ti-day. >iated to have les from a house Street In the ran. 28. l< d guilty, adconvictions.
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  • 226 3 SPECIAL SCHEME SUBMITTED TO GOVERNMENT A SPECIAL PAGE OF JOHORE NEWS (Tribune Staff Reporter) SCHEME to form a special estate blood transfusion service, in addition to the State Service now in operation, has been put forward by the medical authorities for consideration of
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  • 144 3 TT has been announced that 1 Gunner Gardner has been sentenced to live years' penal servitude and dismissal from the Service with ignominy as a result of the findings of the Court Martial. It will be recalled that Gunner Gardner was concerned in the Shinozaki case. The
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  • 14 3 Mr. L. H. Morrison has taken up duties as an Assistant Controller of Labour.
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  • 129 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar. CVUGHT carrying six and a half gallons of liquor, on which duty "Of $36 98 had not b 3 en paid, Eu Siong was produced before Inche Abdul Hamid bin Dato Mustapha, First Magistrate, and charged. The value of th? liquor
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  • 107 3 Singapore, Wednesday. TWO Chinese, ting Ii Kui, 23. and Li Chun Keng. 33. both of whom were employed as "boys" In the General Hospital, claimed trial when they were charged with being i members of unlawful societies beI fore Mr. J. G. Rappoport, the Third j Magistrate.
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  • 22 3 Dr. P. E. F. Routley has been seconded ed for service in Kedah and has assumed duty as Health Officer. Central Kedah.
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  • 115 3 THE Johore Planters' Association recently issued questionnaires to 200 estates in the State, regarding the cultivation of foodstuffs on estates as well as the rearing of livestock. So far. 144 estates have replied and below are the figures as summarised: Foodstuffs acreage Padi 22 Ragi
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  • 58 3 Singapou. Wednesday. ALLEGED lo have committed criminal breach of trust of $57 worth oj ship tickets with which he *as entrusted. Lee Hong Lim. a CMnose, claimed trial before Mr. J. G. Rapp oort, the Thirc MacnVrrate. to-dry. The ca*e vas postponed f or mention
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  • 132 3 ITNTIL the policy of providing Malay schools in all kunpongfl has been fully accomplished, the Johore Government will not grant votes supporting estate schools teaching Malay. This is the official attitude, revealed In a letter from the Secretary of State to the
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  • 76 3 It Is rumoured that if an Income Tax Department is established in the F.M.S.. Mr. E. M. Maedonald will take charge as Collector-Geneml of Taxes, with Mr. S. E. Field, who has had experience in njminlstering income tax in New Zealand, as second In command. It is also rumoured that
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  • 157 3 Singapore, Wednesday. PLEADING guilty en two counts of criminal oreach of trust Charlie Cheah, a former sales department clerk employed by Messrs. Bata SJhoe Co., Ltd., in Prince Edward Road, was sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment on each charge, in the Fifth Police
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  • 95 3 ARRANGEMENTS to continue the treatment of all urgent estate cases at Government hospitals, even in time of emergency, have been made by the Johore Government. This was disclosed recently at a meeting of the committee of the Jchore Planters' Association, when a report of the
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  • 183 3 Singapore, Wednesday. 'THREE Chinese, one ol whcni was i woman, were convicted en a charge of assisting in carrying on a Chap-Ji-Kee lottery, by Mr. J. C. Rappoport, the Third Magistrate, to-day. They were arrested as a result of a raid conducted by Inspector Cheah and
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  • 59 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar, r'O Malay women were produced before Inche Abdullah bin Ahmad, Second Magistrate, and charged with disorderly conduct at the Muar Club padang on Wednesday night, last week. Each accused the other of having started the fight. Both, however, admitted puiling
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  • 86 3 AT an hour when we await the full onslaught of the German air force," says Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircrait Production, in a telegram to the Governor of North Borneo, 'the generous heai ted people of North Borneo lortity our squadrons anew, bringing to us added
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  • 236 3 PRESIDING at an extraordinary general meeting ot the P.W.D. Athletic Association, Johore Bahru, Major G. R. Percy, the State Engineer, Johore, appealed to all members of the PW.D. staffs in Johore Bahru for support and cooperation, by becoming members of the re-organised Association, now being
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    • 132 3 WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILEWithout Calomel —And You'll Jump Out of Bed Full of Via and Vigour. Your liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing- freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decay* in the bowels. Gas bloat*
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    • 259 3 Home- mauu OELICIOUS I a/wayf fresh J COOL If you have not tried one ot f j our famous S.C.S. Pies you've f //•QiWL >^ missed a treat. They are really \v scrumptious because only the Njf jBL tenderest meat, poultry and aTi, Wm game are used to make them.
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  • 310 4 H.Q. Beaten In Final After Extra Time jJY single try R.A.F. Ttni>ah won the Royal Air Force InterUnit cup, heating R.A.F. Headquarters in the final which was played at Jalan Hesar yesterday. For the greater part of the time rain fell in torrents and
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  • 38 4 A meeting of Sin gapore cricketers will be held in the upstairs lounge Of the S.C.C. on Monday next I 530 p.m. to decide the season s fixtures. All club convenors and representatives are invited attend. 1 I
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  • 12 4 I TO-DAY HOCKEY: Ceylonese v St. Andrew's Old Boys, Woodsville.
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  • 93 4 c -ptain G. Kinloch, R A. beaL j Captain T. K. Murphy, R.A.M.C., I seven and six, in the club chamI Pionahip final at the Garrison Goll Club (36 holes*. The following is the draw for I me first round of the Governor's to
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  • 371 4 Recs Score Another Win Over Sappers Miners 5.R.C.... i niimvp Sappers and Miners. o A^Ani.N G themaehre* better to the wet condition, caused"„ a result of rain the SRc kamh n 48 Sappe,, and Miner, when they ciS in IS "-key ntatch on the Padan, yesterd"!-. of t^^^y%rzr& tS&fZZ? 0
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  • 169 4 <At The Cathay > A mazing shots of the storming and capture of Bardia by the Australian forces, and the British naval bombardment, are now bein«> shown at the Cathay. This Australian official record of the amazing progress of Imperial arms on the desert front tells
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  • 61 4 (At The Pavilion) TOUR Daughters." Warner Bro- Hhers' outstanding hit of sisters who become rivals i n love, is back lor a return screening at the Pavilion. It stars the Lane sisters John Garfield and Jeffry Lynn' ana for those who saw it before and those who missed
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  • 344 4 JiHIRTY-NINE amateur boxers have been selected by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association for the special contest j n a i of the War Fund to take place at the Happy World Covered Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 22. This one will
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  • 182 4 Wiwi the arrival of more hor* f ««i mllopa this morning ofTndS T™* n '•«7 P~ved exceptionally tram,n Saturday* were *mpressiv< lamb?t nd T d H ateS v Ee,Brass W lanTo Need,es a d ConSprinn c m WhoS ch for the mv*« wortoSJT he C Urse
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    • 300 4 Bedsfcads has been for many y Ca<s tlfeir extreme di> standard of finish. Jfa.*. |iist tli» right alkaline li.ir <■ t> r to neutralise after* dlv nt r .1 1 nl 11 y SING A I I H Mineral Y\ »v Seletai JI v t Spun" Singapore bo th 11>
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 983 5 been seen from the medical point of view that ditions prevailing in Malaya, in general, and articular, segregation was a farce and will always will not work owing to the social stigma, ignores of the domiciled races; and medical examinat borough and 'safe' must
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  • 158 5 THIS morning the Comnian-der-in-Chief (Far East), Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Broolfe Popham, inspected 1 units cf the S.S. Volunteer i Forces. These units went into training only on Saturday last, but their general !;eaiing indicated that they had retained the lessons they had
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  • 93 5 (From H. L. Hopkin» London, Feb. 5. THE death has occurred of Mrs. Gertrude Brown, the daughtei of the late Captain John Blair who was formerly in Singapore. The death has also been reported of Mr. Edward Duncan Lane at the age of 74. Mr. Lane
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  • 149 5 OWPTC, to conditions arising liom the war, some 1,500 Malays in Mecca and Jeddah have unfortunately been unable to maintain themselves. The Malayan Governments have come to their assistance. This relief is being given through the agency of His Majesty's Minister and His Majesty's
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  • 19 5 Mr A. E. Mills, M.C.B., has been appionted for m &J5 an Aslant District for the Settlement of Singapore
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  • 467 5 ALLEGED to have committed criminal breach of trust in reaped of $542.70 in cash and cheques and falsified three accounts relating to the sale of two motor trucks and an Austin car, Lee Chin Yam, til! recently a ledger clerk in Borneo Motors, Ltd., was
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  • 44 5 Messrs. G. D Cameron. Chong Khoon Lim A. Arbu'hnott, D. T Waring, H. S. Lee, R Ramani, and D r E NororihH Dr Teh Yok Chee and Che Abdul Rahman bin Idrls are appointed unofficial members of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board for 1941.
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  • 154 5 :-enrs of your youth to r in an enervating cll- jrs taking their toll of < kly. robbing you of farce, draining you of In life? Most men and 'o only natural out here", .mate, and resign them- vitable—when all they the addition of a
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  • 602 5 Singapore, Wednesday. IN my view, I have no doubt that 1 in a case of this description, for the prosecution to succeed, it is essential that it be proved that the owner of the premises had guilty knowledge that unlawful gaming was in progress. *s abundantly
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  • 208 6 TUME and time again we nave done what little we can to warn the people of Malaya against political inertia that has given rise to a multiplicity of* ills, the most destructive being the widespread tendency to fight shy ol" responsibility which is rightly theirs. Enough has
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  • 236 6 AS long ago as December. 1930, Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, one of the most brilliant legislators this country has ever produced, prepared a memorandum on the need for Council reform. It is, therefore, idle to deny the existence of public demand for reforms. It is just over 17
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  • 139 6 IF in the reconstruction that followed the 1914-18 war, the Imperial Government felt obliged to enlarge the Council and to recognise the need of appointing at least one Asiatic to the Executive Council, it is a fairly safe guess that a similar, but perhaps more pressing, situation will
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  • 1407 6  -  (by W. ARTHUR WILSON in The Crown ColoimL" "lVf new Cotony," wrote IVI Stamford Rallies from Singapore in June, 1820, after he had founded the settlement, "has received an access of population reaching 5,000, principally C hinese, and their number is daily increasing.
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  • 456 6 JOB seekers I ritism pi I ment of office I I tirrns, select.. «I fluenced by 1 i 'to have vaca I j their I Applicant Bl vions and < I passed ovei I limited or no t ml gaged. Bin »1 engage clerk j I chief
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    • 22 6 TAILORED HV DI'XLOI' I, 0 N D O N COT AND f^WKW Throe lengths to eath jfl t if', HK'WHITEAWAYS Kuala Lumpur-~lpoh~SlNGAPQßE~~Penang~Taipeng.
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  • 454 7 Reuter. LONDON FEB 5 I ORD LLOYD. SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES AND U LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, DIED PEACE I I V IN HIS SLEEP ABOUT MIDNIGHT LAST NIPHT IT WAS ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING 10HT Until comparatively recently Lord Lloyd was one of
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  • 46 7 Eastern News. Saigon, Feb. 5. Raishiro Sumita, Japanese military French indo-China and delegate to the armistice conference, will remain in Saigon to supervise the tuation between French mm -China and Thai. i the original scheme expected to return '.erday.—Eastern News. 1
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  • 140 7 Reuter. London. Feb. 5 jyjK. WENDELL WILLKIE left London early to-day on the first stage of his journey back to America. He was seen off by members of the Red Eagle Squad and the Home Guard who wished him ben voyage. He shook all warmly by
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  • 274 7 Reuter. T London, Feb. 5. He existence oi a .Free Rumanian Committee was divulged L *>y the former Rumanian Minister to London. IM. Viorel Tiela, i n a statement to Reuter. I 'Members of this Committee," he said, "believe that the rights of a nation cannot
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  • 226 7 Reuter. Cairo, Feb. 5. lIRGED on by British Imperial v troops, the Italians in Libya are inn easing the speed of their withdrawal towards Benghazi. So far 400 stragglers have been captured. This is revealed in today's communique from Britisn headquaiters in Cairo. Meanwhile Italian
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  • 42 7 Reuter. New Feb. 5. IT is learnt that the Commander- in-Chief. Indian Army. Lt.-Gen Auchinleck. will broadcast to India and the Indian troops in th? Middle at 2.55 p.m. (G.M.T. t on Feb 9 from New Delhi.-Reuter
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  • 156 7 WILL PUT FEAR INTO DICTATORS Reuter. Washington, Feb. 5. the second clay's debate on the Aid for Britain Bill in the House of Representatives Mr James Richards renounced his former Isolationist'stand and I urged Congress to pass the
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  • 114 7 Reuter. Shanghai, Feb. 5. ATTENTION In Shanghai is focussed on the reconvened special ratepayers' meeting which is assembling to-day. A poll on Mr. Hayashi's amendment to the Council resolution for a 40 per cent, surcharge on Municipal taxes will be taken when th? ratepayers reassemble, according to
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  • 87 7 Reuter. Malta. Feb. 5. "IF Malta becomes th? scene of active operations, I am perfectly confident that all the Intruders, whether German. Italian or anyone else, will be decisively and rapidly dealt with." said Li:ut.-Gen. W.G.S. Dobbie. acting Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief, in a broadcast to
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  • 53 7 Reuter. New Delhi. Feb 5. TjESERTERS from Italy's Abyssinw forced 'evies have testified to the destructiveness and accuracy of British artillery and air bombardment. Artillery sniping fa destroying the enemy morale Indian battalions /ia ve shown a conspicuously high standard of trjinin? and their supply organiR°"te proved
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  • 145 7 Eastern News. Batavia. Feb 5. MR. RITMAN, the spokesman of 411 the Netherlands East Indies Government, told Japanese newspaper correspondents during a weekly press conference, tha* the continuation of the JapaneseNetherlands East Indies conference in Batavia would be difficult unless reasons for the rejection of
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  • 557 7 Reuter. V nine/. Renter's special correspondent ivilh the British forces in Libya) London, Feb. 5. \|HILE the forward elements of Gen. Wavell's army were striking further west, I entered Berta Giovanni, formerly IEI Gubba, about 25 miles from Derna. The British Im- rces
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  • 78 8 Mrs. Ee Kong Guan, Messrs. Ee Yew Cheng, E2 Yew Kim, Ee Yew Lin, Ee Yew Ghi, and family wish to express their heartfelt thanks to all relatives and friends who attended the funeral of the late Mr. Ee Kong Guan, C.H., J.P., as well as those
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    • 257 8 The TOWN'S BIGGEST Event! Mfc TERRIFIC ENTHUSIASM! HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY Shown the world over at Increased j jf~ PRICES, but YOU see it at Zlw fflfflP OUR USUAL PRICES «Se I 4 SHOWS DAILY... .10.30 A.M.—3.15—6.15—9.15 AT THE CAPITOL CHARLIE CHAPLIN t in his new comedy THE GREAT DSCTATOR' With
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    • 246 8 AIR QUEEN CONTEST j i iti:i: 111 KIT Singapore to Batavia Return j 4T\ To-Morrow! Jtm froth blowers contest j INTER-SERVICES I 3 P :rson s to represent each unit I NAVY, ARMY OR AIR FORCE j j 3 Lar c Pewter Beer Mugs will be iy|r~ TUESDAY j MAKING
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    • 341 8 LATEST AVERTISEMENTS Situation Vacant LABOUR SUPERVISOR. Box No" ?2. Applicants are thanked and notified that the position has now been filled. Lost And Found LOST—Australian terrier *****, black and tan. Apply: HEBDITCH, 20. Dalvey Road, Singapore. Telepone *****. Reward. Public Notices MUNICIPALITY TENDERS TENDERS are now Invited for the following
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    • 145 8 I STILL DRAWING CROWdTd" I HOUSES NIGHTLY! Daily 4 Shows 11 a.m., 3.15, 6.15 ,^^c, <f Hale D,^tfd b r MICHAEL CURTIZ A WARNER 8R05..F,«, V/ fenta PUv by How.rd Koch «nd Setoo I. Milltt Muiic b, Erich W'oll,.„ g A/r-M«/ "BRITISH ALWS THE GREATEST NOVELTY SHOW IN A GENERATION!
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  • 377 9 Singapore, Tuesday. THt truce agreement, wa.s signed between Thailand and France ,on board the Japanese cruiser Naton on Jan. 31. at 6 p.m. i estates a communique issued by i the Thai Consulate-General, Singa- pore>. The R ist of the agreement I is to prevent
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  • 72 9 THE Cnettiar community will offer 1 up prayers for a British victory at the Chettiar Temple In Tank Road, as part of the religious celebrations in connection with the Thaipusam festival which will start on Monday. Owing to the present conditions, there will be no fireworks
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  • 147 9 Reuter. Mr? m g. Bombay, Feb. 5. M's A Hydari, bidding God Indian 00 l°- the flrSt batch O f iini PH I l rrhm, lans Koing to the United Kingdom under the Bevin adequate response was a further respcns r ol the common feeling
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    • 720 9 I CATHAY J'Z, TO-day Goes 3.15 6.15 9.15 THONE 3400 UTI Al'DKH BY ALL WHO SAW TIIIS YESTERDAY \j)()R( )Ilfy LAMOUR more charming than ever! A THOUSAND LOVE THRILLS...JUNGLE THRILLS! t Dorothy Lamour I |rqj «r VI Robert Preston v A fc pJ' restor l/ oster «oo"„ si'f.f 1AL First
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    • 2993 10 BUY SELL LOSY FOUND CLASSIFIED-ADS RENT AUCTION HIRE SERVICE Stamps STAMPS Straits Settlements Gibers j 1938 Cat: Nos: Ito 9. 12. 16 IV}* a 10 84. 94 to 121. 126 to 156. 161 to 213 to 239. 241 to 255. Most VV"f«J condition—B to 15 cents per sh M*"V g
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    • 622 10 Public Notices THE SINGAPORE AUCTIONEERS NO 64. CHULIA STREET, PHONE NO. 7755. General Auctioneers, Commission Agents, Etc., Etc. The Organisation For Prompt, Courteous Efficient Services. WAH HIN CO. NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore subsisting between Ong Poh Eng, Ong Poll Huat, Lim Teck Koori, Tan Kwang Chye
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    • 263 10 THE SINGAPORE CHAMBER Ol COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN. NOTICE is hereby given that the Rubber Market will be closed officially on Monday, lOih February, 1941, being a Bank Holiday. By Order of the Committee, GATTEY BATEMAN, Secretaries. NOTICE RE CLOSING OF ROADS. Notice is hereby given that all roads over the
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    • 146 10 fc S Why suffer from AT I r/ie Mfirt Wo*' !W 3 I 5 MOZYGEN YEASI j 1 cures all nervous j I 5 Send 50c Stomp w I S G.P O. Box 439 Sin I 'mWH I Why you should b>»3 1 RED MENTHOL CONE BAGLE-BRAND I Years of
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    • 999 10 TO-DAY'S RAtHo I SINGAPORE LONDON I ZHL 225 m. 1333 k{ct. CENTRAL 1i 1 ZI1P 1 30 96 m. 9 69 m!cs. GSG —16.H6 metr. I 7HP V 41.38 m. 7.25 m t Cf. p.m. GSF—19-82 m. o 1 v I ZHL ZHP1 ZHP3. 9.05 p.m. GSD-25 Z from 7.50
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  • 679 11 pr J J ogapore, fth 5. BJ Buyers. Bellert. MINING. ■J Sf- 3'6 I 6(3 6 !»cd I 35 36 I M 21 I 0 80 0 85 14 6 .1 38 1.42 10 6 18 9 19 6 12 13j- J» 0 .17 0 .20
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  • 42 11 pOKEIGN imports of rubber dur--1 big the month cf January tolulled 26.985 dry tons, according to ngures just issued by the Statistics Department. This total is 3.156 less than the total imported during the corresponding month of last year
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  • 175 11 From Our Financial Correspondent rTM v Singapore, Thursday IN shares continued to slide yesQ^ ter ay witn bu y ers holding off limits S lnclined t0 reduce their Hon? Fatts eased to $1 35, where a few buyers came in. Jelobus were done down to 75 cen's,
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  • 31 11 Dr. W. E. Holmes, who prior to going on leave last year was Health Officer to tne Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board is now officiating as Health Officer for the Kinta District.
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  • 22 11 Singapore, Thursday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— RUBBER Buyers 36» i, Sellers 36U* TIN
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  • 55 11 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. THE Supply Minister, Sir Andrew Duncan, announced in the House of Commons that in order to meet the demands for other lorms cf steel production, tin plate will be progressively reduced some «5 per cent, below the level n.t which the industry
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  • 43 11 (From 11. L Hopkin) London, Feb. 6. Tlxh Minister oi Supply, Sir An--1 drew Duncan, yesterday received through Lord Nuffield, five tons 01 soft lubber. The donors control riober estate-- in Malaya—Via Cable and Wire.'ess.
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  • 27 11 Mrs. untitled. wife of Mr P. B. r 0 k ,m Aa n son Sate T hoiicHv has sailccl for Australia ou holiday accompanied by her children.
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  • 1249 11 THE foil,,wins: IS a biography of Lord Lloyd, Secretary of Slate for the Colonies, whose death has oceurrpH Lord Lloyd. Secretary of State fo r the colonies since May. spent most of his me as an Empire-builder in action. On BUS own
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    • 31 11 Revoke .ited powder > and heals freckle? marks, discoloraps. dark- 'y, pearl»nd makes younger -inst Mr for 130 i I t '-CO. I Singarx)re. N l S .T, ant skin it iMrsMrt
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    • 146 11 TONG NAM PILES CLINIC HBtf I GUARANTEED CI RF VVITHOI T OPERATION HI Piles Is a dangerous and painful disease. Early I treatment always is advisable. Messrs. Lav Kirn 11 Ping and Lav Ping Hsiang have spent many ■iHP H years in a very careful study of this disease. V
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    • 302 11 GOLD BIRD CEYLON TEA BETTER THAN MO^ SiN^PORTTRADERS HIGHLY.STRUNG CHILDREN are the most gifted But you should watch out for these DANGER SIGNS of nervous overstrain I \^vrr ninK ,h type. She is so much quicker, n'uro ,u„k v ,h,n h ,V U <n^' y vivid in hor reactions than
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    • 399 11 STEAMER SAILINGS P.O BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES For all information apply to: P. O. S. N. Co.. The Agent, Collyer Quay, Tel. 5961. B.I.S.N. CO., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. B.I.S.N. CO. (APCAR LINE) FOr .HONGKONG, SHANGHAI MQJI, KOBE, OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings; Special Holiday Return
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    • 355 11 IP& OmI BRITISH INDIA The best possible servicei are being: maintained b? The P. O. S. N. Coy. from the Straits to their usual ports of call in China. India Ceylon and the United Kingdom. Passeiig* ers are requested to register their requirements br?? under present circumstance sailings are perforce
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  • 197 12 Reuter. (By Massy Anderson, Reuters special correspondent with the Mediterranean Fleet, on board a British battleship) London, Feb. 6. UNDETERRED by the new threat from the skies, Britain's powerful Eastern Mediterranean Battle Fleet has once again put to sea. Taking up the gauntlet flung
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  • 58 12 Reuter. Lisbon, Feb. 6. ||yiR. WENDELL WILLKIE arrived I™ by air yesterday afternoon 1 from England on his way back tc the United States. The Dougla* air liner that brought him landed at Cintra aerodrome behind stationary Junkers machine witi? the swastika painted on it. Th<
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  • 57 12 Via Cable and Wireless. (From H. L. Hopkin) London. Feb. 6. yiSCObNT LambtOD, the 20-year old son and heir of the Earl of Duihan was found dead in the tamiiy home at Northumberland with a gun by his side. He wa? due to be called
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  • 112 12 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. LARGE-SCALE sabotage of food supplies for Germany has been reported to Berlin by German agricultural agents in Prague, according to news reaching London. The message says' that last year, 250.000 pigs, many calves and cattle were secretly slaughtered and at least
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  • 81 12 Reuter. London. Feb. 5. AFTER all his brother officers hao n been killed or wounded. Capt. J. C. W. Lewis, of the Welsh Guards, held the remnants of his company for 36 hourj in the street of Boulogne last May despite intense enemy lire until he
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  • 317 12 Reuter. Stockholm. Feb. 6. THE Svenska military correspondent states that the European situation is characterised by a aalm before the storm. Not long ago, the European African power, under Axis leadership, was the main theme of the Axis press and the situation in Africa
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  • 44 12 Reuter. London, Feb. 6. AFTER being head of Reuters' for the last quarter of a century, and having completed 40 years service with the company, Sir Roderick Jones, who succeeded Barcn De Reuter in 1915, has resigned his position as chairman and managing director.—Reuter.
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  • 249 12 Reuter. Cain v F IGHTER squadron of the South Afiic had repeated successes supporting th« Eritrea. It attacked the landing ground near Italian machines, already bombed, were set During an engagement in the Asmara area, aircraft of the same squadron intercepted enemy fighters and s'liot
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  • 44 12 Via Cable and Wireless. (From H. L. Hopkhi) London, Feb. 6. GUNNER Jim Mcl&urray, formei heavyweight champion of the Indian Army, was kil.'ed when bombs struck 4 hotel in a southeast coast town in which he was employed.—Via Cable and Wireless
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  • 92 12 Reuter. THE Treasi i Senate Fo:- -jmittee that three m owned indus; ri Brothers, the Corporation ai Company--as j rate holdingsthe list of as.sel I Government nation to show th i* it arr >:- -i run out of dollar excharil j ing war supplies This informatior
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  • 142 12 A DIMINUTION British m N >. Cnina is indicati w j reports. Mr. R. A. Euller the 13 eign Under-S* i i written repl] I Alfred Knox g:rj sulr-im I Japanese officials' actinas Mr Butler said m thm was a cci press agitation. Mr. Kan asU
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  • 68 12 soi FF*j THE RESIGNATION OfJ BAGRIANOFE, BILGAW PRO-AXIS AGRICI LTVU MSTER. WAS DUE TOE FERENTES WITH HIS IwJJ COLLEAGUES OVER WU TION'S ECONOMIC POull I It is clear thfl agreed wih the rianoff brought cent visit to the Axis cu--where he was and Mussolini On his return
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  • 10 12 Mr. untitled Lumpur, In re rel trip in Th I
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    • 95 12 Just Arrived! 12 of the Orient's Most Beautiful and Talented Dance Hostesses, Specially Engaged From Shanghai APPEARING FROM SATURDAY «TH FEB. Come, Be Among The First To Dance With Them SEW WOULD DANCE PALACE j Malaya's Largest Finest Air-Conditioned Cabaret CABARET STARS ON PARADE! Shanghai) H^^^l^^^l Winner of numerous Th
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