Malaya Tribune, 8 April 1941

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Tuesday, April a, 1941-
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    Secrecy Shrouds Benghazi Front
    125 1 Reuter. I Cairo, Apr. 8. retirement fast of 1" being tarried out fan nith a view to itioiia in due r red the British mihl l yesterday, ft <i "We are I enemy" east of veil of secrecy still f iation there, r rican front, it
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    Nazi Move Aimed At Suez Canal?
    106 1 Reuter. I K'kholm, Apr. H. L the German. I Balkans is Hl-1 I at the Suez Canal' t the Stockholm I a hose military cori i ays that alt Germans were tuny I an a-tack on Greece, t./ pi babiy not completco t for
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    Waves Of Raiders
    24 1 Reuter. Apr. ■':>. midnight, waves planes passed over Scotland, heading I had a short alert— j Fi idav which 'ne'e 3 I
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    Brother Officer Cited In Divorce
    56 1 Special London Cable From H.L. Hopkin 1 «don, api. a. i\' nisi has been granted J R. Langmaite on his wile's mtocoaH. A Urquhart. i led. ted that they were '13 and that the husturned to England in v ral years in India admitted that
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    HEAVY AIR ATTACKS ON AXIS TRANSPORT IN LIBYA
    274 1 Wop Aircraft Losses In Africa Reuter. Cairo, Apr. 8. II RITISH aircraft made heavy attacks on Italian and German transport in the region of El Agheila in Cyrenaica, on n«ht of Saturday and Sunday. Addis Ababa was captured, South African bombers nearby
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    BIG R.A.F. RAIDS ON SOFIA, STRUMA AREA
    528 1 GREEKS HOLD LINES DESPITE HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS British-Hungarian Break Reuter. from the Balkans, received to-day, indicate that (1) JLm Britain is breaking off relations with Hungary; (2) there is great air activity throughout the Balkans; British bombers have been in action in the
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    Belgrade Government Moves
    158 1 Reuter. Ankara, Apr. 8. IT is confirmed in Ankara that the Yugoslav Government left Belgrade for an unknown destination. All Yugi slava of military age, now in Turkey are called upon to report to the Yugoslav Embassy in Ankara or the Consulate General at Istanbul, ar.oriing to
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    EIRE SEEKS U.S. WHEAT
    82 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr r THIRTY THOUSAND tons of wheat from the United States we sought by the Eireann Government, said the Eire Defence Minister, Mr. Aitken. who is in Washington at present. With the Eire Minister to tne United States. Mr. Brennan. Mr. Aitken to-day visi'ea
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    Britain Breaks With Hungary
    110 1 London, Apr. 8. THE British Government has de- cided to withdraw their mission from Budapest. Reuters diplomatic correspondent learns. Instructions to the British Minister, Mr. Owen O'Malley, to withdraw the mission have been given, in consequence of the fact that Hungary has now become a base
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    Strike In U. S. Factory Settled
    89 1 Reuter. Milwaukee I Wisconsin), Apr. 7. UNION members have ratified an agreement announced last night by the Defence Mediation Board ior the settlement of the 76-day old strike a t the Allis Chalmers Company's plant which has held up defence producticn orders worth 545.000.000.
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    C-IN-C IN FAR EAST DEFENCE TALKS IN H.K.
    170 1 Sir R. Brooke-Popham To See P. I. Naval Chief Reuter. Hong Kong, Apr. 8. THE Far Eastern situation generally and the defence of Hong Kong in particular are reported to have been discussed by Air Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham (Commander-in-Chief, Far East),
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    Matsuoka Sees Stalin & Molotov
    108 1 Matsuoka Sees Stalin Molotov Berlin, Apr. 8. MR. Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, visited the Kremlin yesterday afternoon to resume his conversations with Stalin and Molotov. says a Moscow despatch to the official German agency. "My visit has served to strengthen my belief in th? victory of the .Axis powers
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    China's Huge Army
    30 1 Reuter. Chunjlitinj, Apr 8 CHINA has 5,000,000 troops fighting at the front, declared the Chinese War Minister, Gfm. H<> Ying-chin yesterday. Another 1.0.000,000 are under training.— Reuter.
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    Films For Schools Plan Checked By War
    255 2 Difficulty In Buying Projectors (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE ambitious scheme of adding to the ordinary school curriculum by the showing of educational films has been held up by the war, and the Department of Education anticipates little progress in the scheme for the
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    Bombers From Cents
    22 2 (Cent-A-Plane Fund) .Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time.... THIRTY
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    Five 'Wings' In Penang Flying Club
    235 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Monday. PRESIDING at the seventh annual general meeting of the Penang Flying Club held last night at the Club house in Bayan Lepas, Mr. 11. E. Nixon stated that so far five "wings" had been secured by members of
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    DEATH OF S.C.C. "PANJANG"
    120 2 Singapore, Monday. nOPULARLY known a s "Panjang," B. Raimashah, tha head groundsman of the S.C.C. died this morning after a very brief illness. His loss will cause a sense of personal regret not only among members of the S.C.C. but many others in town. Raimashah had
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    16 2 Mr. D. Bailey. Malayan Public Works Service, has been appointed to officiate as Assistant Engineer. Perak.
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    "$400" DUD COINS IN COURT EXHIBITS
    400 2 Singapore, Monday. f Jp\VO parcels of Straits Settlements counterfeit coins worth $400 and a quantity of materials and instruments for manufacturing spurious coins were exhibits in a counterfeiting case which came on for trial at the Assize Court to-day before the hon. Mr. Justice
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    $200 Fine For Taking $7 Bribe
    82 2 Singapore Monday. CONVICTED on a charge of receiving an illegal gratification uf $7. a Municipal Inspector, K. C. Mittra, was fined $200. in dela tilt sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the Third Court. The case against Mittra was that on Feb. 17 he
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    8 Women Among Gamblers
    107 2 Singapore, Monday. IJIGHT women and six men pleaded guilty to-day in the Third Court on charges of gambling at noon yesterday at New Market Street. The occupier of a house fined $15. in default sentenced to 15 days" imprisonment. The others were fined $8. in default
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    New Local Lawyer
    74 2 Singapore, Monday. Mr. Eric Choa, 8.A.. L.LB., barrister-at-law, was admitted to the S.S. Bar to-day. The motion for admission was moved by Mr. Richard Lim before Mr. Justice Manning. Mr. R. H. Green who appeared on behalf of the Singapore, Malacca and Penang Bar committees, said that
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    22 2 H. H. The Regent of Kedah and his consort. H H. Tunku Asmah, have gone to Cameron Highlands lor a (short holiday.
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    Injured With Axe Allegation
    68 2 Singapore, Monday. SAID to have caused hurt to a compatriot with an axe, Teo Chung Kee. 55, and a woman. Lim Sai Heng, 45, claimed trial before Mr. Hon Sui Sen, in the Fifth Police Court, to-day. The incident was said to have taken place at
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    15 2 Majo r Harvey of the Salvation Army is an Inmate of the General Hospital, Penang.
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    Dutch Tribute To RAF.
    93 2 Batavia, Apr. 1. ON the R.A.F 's 23rd birthday, the Sourabaiaasch Handehfblad published an excellent article on the Bri tish heroes of the air and concludes: "It is a privilege to us, free Dutch, to be able to say that we belong to the large number
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    Pleads He Was "Only Joking
    139 2 Singapore, Monday. "I was oniy joking and the complainant, could not stand my jokes," said Fong Mun Hon, an apprentice fitter at 5.H.8., when he c. 1 aimed trial to a charge of assaulting Bedin bin Akib a Singapore Harbour Board P.C. The case was
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    FINE OR PRISON FOR GAMBLING
    57 2 Singapore, Monday. FOUND guilty on a charge of gaming In public, Tan Siang Lee, 54. was fined $20, in default three weeks' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr. Hen Sui Sen, in the Fifth Police Court, to-day. He was caught gaming at a house at 16V2 mile,
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    Oranje Will Be Fine Hospital
    82 2 K f A MEMORANDUM to? conversion ment of the bos] shews that the shin the finest of its kind The cost is not monthly running estimated at bet? 500,000 guilders Alterations will a million guilders restoring the shj state after the w I ether half
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    Considerable Strengthening Of N.E.I. Defences
    171 3 i, M A Special Correspondent) Batavia, Apr. 7. pi'i'inJs Kasl Indies is experimenting with I A group lias already been formed, measures which are being" undertaken 1 ie defences. to a memorandum tabled in the local Volkaraau, ive been tonne*! for infantry, artillery and army
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    Johore Indians Hold Meeting
    90 3 THE inaugural meeting of the I i;... Association. Johore n hra was hfid on Saturday on th) a iation premises. About rs attended the i*unc- presidential address,' c Goho said that there i eed lor an Indian ation in Johore Bahru. ana j h was very
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    11 3 untitled Sub-untitled r r.n.v.r. bsd been graned to MR. r.b. ITS
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    LABOUR TROUBLE AT COLLIERIES
    216 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Apr. <. IT is understood that the labour force of Malayan Collieries at Batu Arang, where about 4,000 are employed, demanded increase of wages to-day and threatened to go on strike If the demands were not accepted. At present negotiations
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    NEW INDIAN AGENT ARRIVES
    139 3 (From Our Own Reporter > Penang. Monday. »R. S. Dutt. the new Agent of the Government of India for Malaya, arrived in Penang from India yesterday. Mr. Dutt was met by Mr. N. Raghavan. President of the Central Indian Association of Malaya, Dr. N. K. Menon.
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    46 3 Charged with fraudulently possessing 24 katies of rice, valued at SI on the landing steps at the Esplanade on Apr. 6. a Chinese. Goh Tong. claimed triaj yesterday in the Singapore Second Court before Mr. Ccnrad Oldham. The case was postponed for hearing to April 21.
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    16 3 Mr. R. G. Ladell. J.P.. has been appointed Deputy Director of Passive Defence for Province W'ellesley
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    Died After Being Kicked At Soccer
    306 3 Singapore, Monday. AN open verdict was recorded by Mr. W. (i. Porter, the Singapore coroner, at the conclusion of the inquiry held into the death of Ramli bin Haji Dahlan, a 20-year-old riding boy. According To the evidence led, it was stated that Ramli
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    MALAYA'S NEW AIRCRAFT
    24 3 Two types of r.tw phmes which have arrived in Malaya—the ii raw ays ft Of) picture) and the Hudsons (lowir picture).
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    22 Feared Dead In Singapore Mine Disaster
    309 3 Singapore, Monday. r I WENTY-TWu persons have died or are missing, presumed (tead, as a result of the mine fatality in Singapore las' Saturday morning, when the Admiralty mooring vessel, Buffalo, when proceeding to endeavour to salve an aircraft which crashed in the
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    33 3 Mr V. Ramalingam of the Posts and Telegraphs Department. Kuala Lumpur, has retired after 33 years' service. Mr and Mrs Ramalingam are leaving early next month for Ceylon, where they will settle down.
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    Climbed To 28,800 Feet On Everest
    242 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Singapore. Monday. IN Singapore to-day for a brief Btay is the only man alive to have ciimbed 23.800 feetr—Lieut .Gen. 3. P. Norton, until very recently military Governor of Hongkong, and in 1924 leader of that epic expedition up Mount Everest.
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    TRANSPORT OF FOOD QUERY
    51 3 Notices are being despatched to all food and rice dealers asking for particulars of the transport they use. Any dealer in Singapore who has experienced difficulty in obtaining lorries for the transport of food is requested to communicate with the Food Supply Officer, P.O. Box 275.
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    Killed By Stone
    84 3 (From Our Own Reporter) IpTh. Monday. WHILE assisting in blasting operations at the fourth mile, Goi peng Road yesterday, a young Chi- nese received fatal injuries, sucj cumbing to them later in the hosi pital. The man was standing on a ledge about 25 from the ground
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    44 3 A 40-year-old Sikh, Lachman I Singh, charged with stealing piece Igflbds valued at $75.30 on March [25, at Upper Serangoon Road, claimed trial in (he Singapore Third Court yesterday. The ease was postponed to April 15 for mention. Bail was fixed at i $200.
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    NEOL, CLARRISSA THE FLEA IMPRESS
    324 4 This Morning's Track Work MhOL, Clarissa The Flea and Snowy Owl were the outstanding workers this morning when training continued at Bukit Timah. The going was yeilding. A large number of horses appeared for work and most did medium-pace gallops. Clarissa Ihe Flea exercised with
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    RECS STAVE OFF DEFEAT WITH FINE RALLY
    327 4 YESTERDAY’S LEAGUE SOCCER S.R.C II Malays 3 MAGNIFICENT last-minute effort by the Reca enabled them to draw with the Malays in a Div. I league encounter at Anson Road Stadium yesterday. The Rocs were down 3-nil, until ten minutes before the end, but
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    Odd Goal Victory For H.S. Bank
    184 4 r |*HE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank beat Bramtoco by four goals to three in a Business Houses League match played on the Fraser and Neave ground yesterday. The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank attacked for the most part of the first half and had
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    Sports Diary
    34 4 TO-DAY SOCCER: Div. L Police v. Heavy Regiment. Stadium; Reserve Div.. Gordons v. V.M.C.A., J C.S.A.; Div. lIA, R.A.M.C. 1 v. Navy. Alexandra; Business i Houses' League, Chartered Bank v. N.A.A.F.I. S.H.B.
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    BUSMEN WIN AGAIN
    180 4 S.T.C. G.E.C. 0 DISPLAYING superiority in all departments the Singa* pore Traction Co. defeated General Electric Co. three goals .to nil in a Business Houses' League match played un the S.T.C. ground yesterday. Two goals were penalties. Getting early control of the '.•a me the busmen scored
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    Ford's Get Only Three Against Cold Storage
    209 4 Ford's S.C. 3; Cold Storage 0. ALL- ROUND superiority, earned Ford Sports Club a three-nil victory over Singapore Cold Storage in a Business Houses* League fixture at Balcstier yesterday. The game, which attraetef", plenty of attention before it started, fell, however, far below
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    MORTELL BEATS BERNAL EASILY
    101 4 (From Our Own Reporter) LPenavig. Monday. IVING up to expectations, Johnny Mortell, the Singapore flyweight champion, easily defeated Little Bernal on points in a ten round contest at the Fun and Frohc Park stadium on Saturday night. The following are the resultsDaniel <8.2 i lost to
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    Scratchings
    111 4 FOLLOWING are the 1 and order of running for to-morrow's Singapore races: Race 1: Ponies, class 1, div. G furs.: No Limit. Kace 2: Horses, class 2. div. 3— —6 furs.: Nil. Kace 3, Horses, class 2, div 4 (i furs.: Nil. Kacc 4: Horses, class 2. div. 2—
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    Moravians Beat Y's With Penalty
    195 4 MORAVIANS beat V.M.C.A. 4-3 in a thrilling Div. lIA match at the V.M.C.A. ground yesterday. Both teams were strongly represented and put up a very hard tussle. Excitement came early when In the first few minutes the Y.M.CJL were awarded a free kick, orton sent
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    SATURDAY'S WEIGHTS
    265 4 WEIGHTS for four races at Sm- gapore on Saturday are: Horses: Class 3—Div. I—6 furs. Cambalong 9 .4. Shun 8.13. Courting 8 13. Lady Zenta 8-9. First Ra r 9, Nicotino 8.7. Jest On 8.6, San Frisco 86. Bob-a-Nob 8.4 Hot Flash 8.2, Mill Rush 8.2, Slapdash 3.1.
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    TO-MORROWS RACE H'CAPS
    286 4 JTOLLOWING are m ior the second day of the Bl races, on Wednesday. HORSES—CIass 2—Div. I—About 7 f 1 Alanda 9 0 Perak Thanks 8 13 DfHdlock 811 Lined Release 8 8 Blue Peter I Sunny Charm iitl Bybia Newzy at> Measure Lucky Prince 8 4 Trumpeter
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    WHITHER, THAILAND?— JAPAN HAS THE ANSWER
    581 5 Steady Penetration And Infiltration (From A Special Correspondent) i propose to give the "low down" on the pre tion in Thailand. At the outset, let me frankly i have not lately been in that country; but that tract from the truth of what I
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    HOLLANDS PART IN NAZIS' NEW ORDER
    360 5 Batavia, Apr. 1. "I'HE Netherlands will play an extremely important part in establishing the new economic order with which Europe will be blessed, thanks to the munificence of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich!" This was the kind of tale told by Rost van
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    MALACCA ROTARY
    52 5 (From Our Own Correspondent). Malacca. Apr. S. rjAPT. Bush of the A.I.F and a memoer of the Australian Broadcasting Commission gave a talk to the Malacca Rotary Club on Australian broadcasting. Others present wer c Major J B. .7. La-v--ler. Capt. Scrivener. Lieuts. Hlddlestone. Richard. Orr, McPhee and
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    Prosecution Case Completed
    612 5 BLACK-OUT NIGHT ACCIDENT Singapore, Monday. A REQUEST by Mr. T. W. Ong that the case in which Ong Joo Chin is being tried before Mr. C. H. Whitton, District Traffic Judge, on a charge of having caused grievous hurt to Mr. Wong Sze Lian, an A.R.P. warden,
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    BROADCAST ON H.M.S. MALAYA
    98 5 THE first of a new series of talks on "Ships of the Navy" will be given to-night (Tuesday) from the Singa-( pore Station at 9.15 by an 1 officer of the Royal Navy. The subject of this first talk is H.M.S. Malaya, a ship t well
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    Abusive Language Admitted
    113 5 Singapore, Monday. A EUROPEAN, James Wright pleaded guilty in the Second Court to-day to a charge of using indecent language to a police officer in uniform at the Naval Base on April 4. Wright was stopped by P.C. 295 for his identity card at the Sembawang Gate.
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    SHIP'S BOY ON CURRENCY CHARGE
    72 5 Singapore, Monday. WFE FOOT HONG, a "boy" engaged on a steamer, pleaded guilty to a charge of taking out of the Colony $175 (Straits) and $1 (United States* without permit. The offence took place at Clifford Pier on April 3. Mr. J. L. McFall, before
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    SOLDIER CAUGHT AFTER ESCAPING FROM BEDROOM
    337 5 Singapore, Monday. a drain pipe, a soldier entered the room of a sleeping young European girl, and when, on waking, she screamed, he ran into the bathroom and out again in an attempt to escape. He managed Io get away but a corporal, who
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    RADIO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
    227 5 Singapore, Tut d..v rpO-DAY 6.35 p.m relaj from LouJ a I of ;t talk b> J H Pr.estley. "Britain Speaks". ••IS: talk by naval nflßcei "Ships of the Boyal Navy: a M s Malays Wednesday 4.50 and 5.55 p.m: running commentary on the sixth and
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    Singapore Stabbings
    110 5 Singapore, Monday. TAMIL, behoved to have been stabbej In the back, was taken from the PW D. c oolie lines In Yto Chu Kaiiß li a l, to the hospital by the ambulance, las' night. He had a wound In the back, and wis shocked but conscious. At
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      243 5 YOU WON'T HAVE Rheumatism is due to a blood condition. If you have a tendency to acidity you are liable to it. There is a simple prescription for this. Acids accumulate in the blood when the liver is lazy and the kidneys sluggish. To tone up the liver and make
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    Balkan War
    110 6 Opinion liMT'i Hitler's attacks on both Yugoslavia and Greece*over the week-end, the war enters on a new and active phase, bringing our main adversary nearer to our roach. The significance of the Yugoslav resistance to Nazi aggression lies in the fact that the principles for which Great Britain
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    Russia’s Attitude
    133 6 ALMOST simultaneously with the Axis declaration of war on Yugoslavia came news of the signature of a new nonaggression pact between Yugos1 ia and Russia. While it is 1 early yet to say whether tl friendship implied in this pact will ever be translated into active military aid,
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    New Opportunities
    204 6 UITLER lias at last been forced to meet someone whom he did not wish to meet, giving us wonderful diplomatic opportunities to retrieve whatever blunders our pre-war statesmen might have made. In respect of Yugoslavia, Britain and Russia can clearly find common ground. Here is a promising field
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    Three-Front War
    177 6 j THERE is much in the present ituation thai can be turned f<> our advantage. If in the field of diplomacy our outlook i bright, militarily the outlook is brighter still. It was a I well recognised, indeed a prime, I factor of German strategy to t at
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    THIS SHIP WILL BENEFIT EVERY NATION
    840 6  -  BY ARTHUR LAMSLEY THE Royal Navy's so vie to hit inanity are many, ma have a long history. Blotting out the slave trade, rescue work in natural calamities, charting the seas all have been pari of its work. Here Arthur Lamsley, wett-knaz'A British naval
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    German Enemy Of Hitlerism
    298 6 ANOTHER powerful enemy, of Hitlerism has been brought, to London by the invitation of the Labour Party. Hans Vogel. President ol tne German Social Democratic Party, has arrived from France, via USTHIRD FLIGHT Kerr Vogel formerly was a member of the Reichstag. He was elected President
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    Barefooted Men On The Job Again
    199 6 THE King's African Rifles, sons of Africa's warrior tribes, are bark at the job they know and like best —fighting They have been hard at it chasing the Italians out, of Kenya. Fifty years "id. the regiment were actually 30 years on continuous active
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    Empire Air Fighters
    223 6 L r |*HE number of pilot officers and sergeants trained under Britain's Empire Air Training Scheme is now over one-third more than the total originally aimed at. The first contingents of them have been posted for active .service in the United Kingdom from the Empire Training Schools
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    584 6 I R. R < uR. James Marshall, speakii a recent meeting of the C Perak Planting Ass ciati this comment on Chinese on estates: "The übiquitous, In Chinese labourer, true to been as quick as ever to where money is to be made and so with additional
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    NAZIS EXPECT REVERSES IN THE BALKANS
    151 7 Reuter. I Midon, Api ~i t ,,.rnian radio to-day T i German public U&lt;M t easj victories I '°\h B ilKans. "The Gerj j e it cannot blitakrief M tne Our troops are ,n difficult ground; i ~P c ra. have always been hters
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    FASCISTS SHOOT ITALIAN
    40 7 H &gt;me Apr. 1. s! ,1 an Italian I the: allege was p,r;t sh paraI in Italy remcement of the that the victim, iato Picchi, was i by a special def&lt; nee of the parachutists I sahotace.
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    ITALY LOSES 250,000 MEN IN AFRICA AND ALBANIA
    88 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 8. WELL over 250,000 Italians have been taken prisoner, killed or wounded in Africa and Albania, according to an estimate issued in London. The total of 283,000 includes 140,000 prisoners in Libya, 20.000 in Eritrea and Abyssinia, and 30,000
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    Massawa Expected To Fall In 2 Days
    152 7 Reuter. Asmara. A nr. 7. iVjASSAWA is expected to fall in two or three days, giving the British a convenient port to supply the troops in Eritrea. The British and Free French forces are within eight miles of Massawa, while the Navy stands
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    MILITARY CHIEFS CONFER IN TOKYO
    53 7 Reuter. Chungking, Apr 7 AN important military conference is taking place in Tokyo,for making plans for now operations in China*. claims an influential Chinese naper. It says that all the military commanders wer r summoned to a conference which will last from Apr. 10 to
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    Yugoslavs Open Action Against The Italians
    664 7 Reuter. CJ&gt; London. Apr. 7. Tf/ 11} guns all along the Yugoslav-Albanian frontier went fj into action to-day heralding a Yugoslavian offensive against lh&lt;&gt; Italians in Albania. Messages picked up in London to-day from unidentified Balkan Radio stations gave this news in tlif world.
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    Polish Forces To Be Trained In Canada
    95 7 Reuter. Ottawa Apr. 6. A JOINT declaration of faith in the Allies' triumph was signed oy Gen Sikcrski. the Polish Prime Minister, and Mr. Mackeiv/ic King, the Canadian Prime Minister, before the former left for Washington The declaration includes the announcement that arrangements
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    35 7 Mr. A. W. Just, who joined the Perak Civil Service M a Junior Oihcer mi long ago as 18!12. and retired from the Malayan Civil Service in 1920. dud recently U Letchworth. Bert*., aged Tl
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    BERLIN STUNNED BY SOVIET PACT
    129 7 Reuter. Zurich, Apr. 7. THE Berlin correspondent of Neve Zurcher Zeitung says, "The conclusion of the Kusso-Yugoslav Pact has caused a great sensation in political circles in Berlin, owing to its obvious demonstrative character in the present circumstances." The Yugoslav- Soviet friendship pact was signed
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    China In Vanguard In Pacific
    146 7 Reuter. Chunking. Apr. V I'HE recent Chinese viet. try m North Kiangsi should Rlv« great encouragement to th Anglo-American stall conversationin Manila, declares the official Central Daily News. The Japanese recently launches a drive in North Kiangsi aimed primarily at enabling the Japanese High Command
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    NAVY'S PART IN BALKAN CAMPAIGN
    378 7 London, Apr. 7. ■BEHIND the successful landing of British fortes in Greece lies the story of a tremendous and unprecedented effort on the part of the British Navy, writes S. Martin Chisholm, Reuter's naval correspondent. The Navy's first task was to ensure the safe arrival
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    S. AFRICANS MAKE MILITARY HISTORY
    134 7 Reuter. Cairo. Apr. 7. SOUTH African troops advanced more than 100 miles in two days to occupy Addis Ababa yesterday thus winning a race against the rams. in s Ea&gt;t African empire is in its last days, a military spokesman sari last night. Gondar, Lessie
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    Income-Tax In Britain Raised To 10s. In The £
    605 7 Income-Tax In Britain Raised To 10s. In The London, Apr. 7. SPEND as little as possible. Lend as much as possible." This was the appeal made by Sir Kingsle* Wood. Chancellor of the Exchequer when outlining before the House of Commons to-day his schemes foi financing what he termed the
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    859 11 :&gt; Apr Buyers. Sellers. MIM* 6 3 7 a T'n *1 1 4 C 10' 2 c 34 6 v t£ 7 9 18 6 1 6 14 40 ali 10--19 3xd 12 13i- &gt;&lt; rl rs B t 9 -&gt;6 24 lf 24 U 9etfA
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    Mid-Day Prices
    26 11 t ipore, Tuesday. i ibices of tin and rubber or mure at noon to- ii were:—" v TIN j BLBBKR j Sellers 38-Ya j
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    Dull Share Market In Tin & Rubber
    157 11 Dull Share Market In Tin Rubber From Ou r Financial Correspondent Singapore, Tuesday. THERE was an all-round marking down in the tin share market vesteiday on the Balkan news. Hong Fatts to 125' i, Ulu Klangs to 99 and Rentau to 1 72. Sma'l business was done in Austral Amalgamated
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    Sun Life's Progress
    164 11 TN presenting the 70th annual report of A the Sun Life Assurance Company ol Canada, at the annual mooting In Monfci re&gt;ul recently, the President and Managing Director, Mr. Arthur B Wood showd that the assets of the company now stooj at OW Canadian millions, an ln-
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    Prophet's Birthday
    105 11 THE birthday of the Prophet' Muhammad will be celebrated ln Slngapo*-! to-day with recitation of vend norn the Holy Quran, hymns by KtUdOUa the Al-JunM School and talks In Maliv. Urdu Tamil and Arabic broadcast from 5 to 635 p.m. and 820 to 8.35 p.m and lee Lures
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    America May Double Tin Reserves
    283 11 OUR SPECIAL FINANCIAL SERVICE REVTER Cable London, Apr. 7. r riN opened quiet. The turnover was 200 tons. The market was desultory, lacking week-end incentive from the United States and the East. Trading was mostly in forward, with cash neglected despite offers below the Ministry's
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    IRAQ REGENT'S APPEAL TO COUNTRY
    134 11 Reuter. Cairo. Apr a. J ACALi, to the Iraqi people *o reject the Prime Minister. Sayied Rashid el Gailani. who seized pover by a coup d'etat last week has been broadcast by the Regent of Iraq who has arrived In Basra. The Regent, Emir Abdul
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    PUNJAB SQUADRON IN THE R. A. F.
    69 11 Reuter. Lahore, Apr. 8. WITH the approval of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, it has been decided to form a special squadron of fighter planes to b° known as the Punjab Fighter Squadron. It will be a permanent part of the Royal Air
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    R.A.F. DOWN TWO NAZI RAIDERS
    46 11 Reuter. London. Apr. B. TWO German aircraft were destroyed by British fighters, one off the Suifolk coast and the other near Cap -Gris-Nez yesterday, says the Air Ministry. There has been little activity over [Britain. No bombs were dropped PH land.—Reuter.
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    BURMESE KEROSENE
    45 11 Reuter. New E&gt;elhi, Apr. 8. IT is learned that the only immediate action which the Raj propose to take under the new IndoBurma trade agreement is to remove the 11% Pies preference which kerosme from Burma enjoys in India over foreign kerosene.— Reuter.
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    Chinese Stabbed
    50 11 Singapore, Tuesday. A CHINESE labourer, believed to have been stabbed by another, was removed to the General Hospital in a semi-conscious condition. The incident occurred at the Nelson Road, Singapore Hart Board coolie lines, early this morning. He had a wound over the left arm which bled profusely.
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    MR. S. ALSAGOFF FETED
    39 11 The Arab Club entertained Mr. S I O Alsagoff, to a tea-uarty at trie residence of the Club's President, Mf. S. A. Bin Yahya yesterday. In honour of Mr. Alsagoff's appointment as a Municipa Commissioner.
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    Keynes Compulsory Saving Scheme
    102 11 Reuter. London, Apr. 8. THE famous economist Professor I J. M. Keynes, champion ol compulsory saving, left his office Ui i the Treasury last night, with the knowledge that 4.0G0.000 British j taxpayers will participate in a form of his long-advocated and hotlyopposed scneme of compulsory
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    AYER MOLEK
    22 11 The Aver Molek Rubber Co.. Ltd cron for March, was 29.595 lbs. Hie total for five months was 148.61 lbs.
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    22 11 The Bukit Katil Rubber Estates Limited, crop for March, was 32.4Pf lbs The total for 11 months wa.« 356.508 lbs.
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    CONTINUED EXPANSION OF BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT
    1418 12 BUDGET FIGURES: TAXES ON WINES, TOBACCO NOT RAISED Reuter. London, Apr. 8. TX the course of presenting the budget in the House of Com--1 mona yesterday, during which he revealed that income tax had be~n raised from Bs. fid. to 10s. in the (see
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    JAVA MAN WEDS HERE
    29 12 Mr. Tiocng Hon Lin of Batavia and Miss Annie Khaw, daughter of /■lrs Khaw Beng Liew of Singapore, who were married at the Singapore Registry.
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    86 12 Reuter. Nairobi, Apr. 8. rE Government analyst. Mr. H M. Fox. was the chief witnes when the hearing ef the charge against Sir Delves Brough+on for the murder of the Earl of Brroli was resumed in Nairobi yesterday Mr. Fox said that he was satisfied that both the
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    235 12 The Turkish N 1 I meeting on Mo 1 ]'^m unanimously appr&lt;n h I de r which offieei &lt; of I can be called up v age limit ior pa I Mrvice within 1 states an Ankara disj I Vichy news agem i&gt; GREEK High &lt; munujue. :n
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