Malaya Tribune, 16 April 1941

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    24 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune IV'tdr cs day, April r 1
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    U.S. WILL PROTECT OWN MERCHANTSHIPS
    91 1 ROOSEVELT'S DECLARATION Reuter. sevelt at a press conference to-day. United %Z a tl™ Vly v ng tW a 9 uer v whether this w as the MfifcSS u,s not (,uestion of polic v Mr Roosevelt declined to say whether United Mates ships going to the
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    JAPANESE TRAIN PARATROOPS
    64 1 Reuter. Shanghai. Apr. 16. JAPANESE army parachutists deJ mon&ttated their skill in the skies abcve Shanghai yesterday. Trcop-cairying planes, bombers and fighters have been flying over the foreign areas during the last tew days and yesterday, parachutists leapt from 30 large transport machines at about 10.000 feet.
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    Over 1,000 Nazi Tanks In Libya
    293 1 Reuter. Hubert Gough, Reuters Military Commentator > London, Apr. 16. 1 unfavourable state of affairs in the Balkans and ikely to last a few weeks. The German Army's ck on Yugoslavia has given her some important ges. It has not only cut into Yugoslavia's
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    KING GEORGE V: FIRST PICTURE
    20 1 received in Sing apore of the King George V, Britain's newest and fastest superbattleship afloat.
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    U.S. Aid To China To Continue
    139 1 Reuter. Washington. Apr. 15. AN early announcement of Amerin can aid to China under the Lease and Lend Act was indicated by the Chinese Ambassador, Mr Hu Shih. after attending a conference at the White House. The Ambassador was accompanied to the White House
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    Norwegians Raid Norway
    177 1 Reuter. London, Apr. 16. A FORMER United States war- ship led a raid on a north Norwegian port early on Saturday morn.ng. It was one of the American destroyers taken ever by Britain 'ast year, four of which are now sailing under the Norwegian flag The landing
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    Stimson And Knox Warn U.S. Nation
    313 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 16. THE United States is facing a "dangerous emergency which may be very prolonged." This warning was given today by the Secretary for War, Mr. Stimson, when testifying before the new defence investigating committee. "Our forces,'" he said, "must b: prepared
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    JAPAN'S PRESS LUKEWARM TO SOVIET PACT
    67 1 Reuter. Japanese newspapers adonted *J more reserved tone caution was urged and the vlpu, outstanding between he P two countr.es. the pact would be valueOne newspaper says that th* pact should not be construed as a gesture of goodwill to Japan but as a
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    BRITISH, NAZIS MASS MORE TROOPS IN BALKANS
    782 1 Germans Not Reached Main Allied Lines Yet Yugoslavs Make Many Counter-Attacks Reuter. I eaZd v r- B an >s growing more and more intense AhL, ea day Coincident with the news revealed by the Allies yesterday that fresh British troops have been sent
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    Nazis Fail In Two Attacks On Tobruk
    585 1 Reuter. Cairo A P r 16 -j/HL situation in Libya is now stabilised although aghting is still going on. This was indicated by news l from Libya yesterday, well-informed quarters in Cairo said. Strong British forces have taken up positions to give battle
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    South Africans To Fight In Balkans?
    54 1 Reuter. Pretoria, Apr. 16. FE South African military lorces are now likely to nave an opportunity of serving in Africa beyond East Africa and Abyssinia." This announcement was made by the Department of Defence in a statement yesterday calling for recuits for all branches
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    R.A.F. Play Havoc With Nazi Lines
    183 1 Reuter. R_ Athens, Apr. 16. A.F. fighters shot down five Junkers twin-engined bombers and severely damaged several others which ar c unlikely to have reached their bases yesterday morning when German planes attempted the first recorded divebcmbing attack on Piraeus harbour. Slight damage was
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    SUB SINKS BIG ENEMY TANKER
    41 1 Reuter. London, Apr. 16. £M armed and heavily-iaden tanker of about 10,000 tons. bound for a port in enemy-occupied France, has been sunk by the British Submarine, H.M.S. Tigris, states a British Admiralty communique last night.—Reuter.
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    Rubber Smuggling Alleged
    108 2 Singapore, Tuesday. ALLEGATIONS that he had smuggled rubber across the Straits of Johore were made against a Malay, Andia bin Bedol, in the District Court today when he was charged with storing between 30 to 40 pikuls of rubber in a store at Bajau, opposite the Straits
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    REFERS COURT TO POLICE AND CUSTOMS
    146 2 Singapore, Tuesday. TAN Boon Lai, the managing partner of Chop Scon Hong Huat. a sundry goods shop in Changi Village, claimed trial in the Fifth Court to-day to a charge of selling Vb. cf Van Houtens Cocoa at 42 cents, one cent above the
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    N.E.I. Production Of Military Cars
    72 2 Batavla, Apr. 15. rvilE Volksraad has granted the x 30.0C0.000 RUilders requested for N.E.I defence. During the discussions in the Volksraad. the Commander-in-Chief *>f the N.E.I, forces, Lt.-Gen. Berenschot, disclosed, among other things, that the war industry in the N.E.I, is now producing a highly
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    VICE 'PROBLEM' AMONG SINGAPORE TROOPS
    452 2 Military Police Chiefs Comments In Court Singapore, Tuesday. 4 STATEMENT that the existence of a certain type of vice A among the troops was regarded as a "problem" by the army authorities was made by local Army's Deputy Provost Marshal, Malaya Command, giving evidence in
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    BOY KITE-FLYER RUN DOWN, KILLED
    201 2 HOW he saw the boy "trotting towards a car" while it was going along Bukit Timah Road from Newton Circus was described by a passenger of the vehicle, when giving evidence yesterday at the Traffic District Court in a case in which a young Chinese
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    Took Woodwork Allegation
    61 2 Singapore, Tuesday. A 92 Tamil was charged in the Fifth Court to-day with theft or alternatively retaining of stolen property, ten pieces of plank and ten bakau poles, valued SB, the property of Harnam Singh, at Tiong Bahru Road on April 12. The accused claimed trial. Police
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    25 2 Batavia, Apr. 15. Heer. B. J. G. untitled wind, who has been appointed the new governor oi West Java, will assume office on June 30.
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    INTENSIVE POLICE DRIVE TO SMASH CHAP JI KI RACKET
    248 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) MOST intensive drive to smash the chap ji ki lottery racket in Singapore is now being conducted by the Gambling Suppression Branch of the local Police. So far, it is estimated that approximately a hundred arrests and convictions
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    Thief Was 'Betrayed'
    102 2 Singapore, 'Tuesday. A DISLODGED pi ink betrayed the presence of a thief at Harbour Board coolie lines in Trafalgar Street and led to the arrest of a Malay, Ibrahim bin Suloh who was charged to-diy in She District Court with housebreaking on Mar. 24. Three occupants in
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    BOY ON FIRING CHARGE
    146 2 Singapore, Tuesday. POLICE bail was opposed by the prosecuting court inspector in the Fifth Court to-day when a charge ot committing mischief by fire with intent to burn down an attap house in Kampong Ban 900 San off Telok Blangah Road was explained to a 14-year-old
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    N.E.I. Press On Balkan Situation
    77 2 Batavia. Apr. 15. rpHE invasion of Yugoslavia was splash. Ed on all the front pages of the N.E.I, press. AH the editorials expressed confidence in the ultimate victory of the allies though they did not overlook the difficulties of the campaign in th« 3 Balkans.
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    FOOD STORE OWNER HEAVILY FINED
    167 2 Singapore, Tuesday. UAX Juan, the managing proprietor of Chop Jong Fatt, dcs- cribed as the largest provision store in Changi Village, especially catering for troops, was fined $500, in default of payment five months' rigorous imprisonment, for allowing a lb. tin of Ovaltine Rusks to
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    31 2 News has been received by cable that Mr. Mah Quat Lim, of the Singaix>re Municipality. Transport Centre, has passed the December. 194 C Final Examination of the Corporation of Certified Secretaries
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    Amendments To Rationing Rules
    152 2 FOR PETROL DEALERS AMENDING regulations to the Petrol Control Ord inane bring about the necessity of dealers—retailer., pump operators and importers—surrendering ali coupons and authorisation notes in respect of sales made by them and submit their returns weekly have been gazetted hist ni^ht By the regulations,
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    EURASIAN BOUND OVER
    60 2 Singapore, Tuesday. A EURASIAN. Vincent Minjoot, pleaded guilty in the Assize Court on Thursday last to an act of cross indecency with, a 12-year-Chinese boy. Tan Kirn Nee. Sentence was deferred till to-day, when he was bound over in $500 in two sureties. Mr*. A. J. Braga.
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    47 2 Batavia, Apr. 15. Central Java has collected over 1.600 kilograms of aluminium of which 850 have already been 6hipp?d to London. The total for Soerabaja is 2,500 kilograms. Some of these were received from the outer provinces. Djamber accounted for 1,500 kilograms. Macassar 300 and Probolinggo 400.
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    Bombers From Cents
    22 2 (Cent-A-Ptane Fund) .Total number of enem? planes destroyed durin? yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time.... SIXTY
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    $6,000 WORTH CHANDU MISSING
    100 2 From Our 0\vr. Report Ipoh. April IS ABOUT 20,000 tubes of chandu. valued about Sb.000 wm discovered missing from thtCustoms Warehouse, at the Ipal Railway Station eailv t h i< morning. The Jock leadinu to tl room where the chandu v. k was broken but only
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    23 2 CHARGED with untitled ts. lllll pl'i!!'' 5ern2nde, I'bircl l7ourt vest^r Ue c-! i native cnar«?V ol s! tsuni'iss s.o«en v.'< 5' Mss o^lpon^d
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    Teacher Shortage Due To War
    93 3 Batavia. Apr. 7. 3 Till interruption of all eommurniuioii with Holland on Ma\ 14 last year raised a considerable shortage of labour in an extensive field cf activities in the N.E.I. I'sualh it has been possible these posts by labour trained lure. More difficult, newevfi
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    High Blood Pressure Dangerous to Heart
    113 3 men and women past 4-j -a 3 of heart trouble ani of High Blood Pressure. Pressure is a mysterious disre deaths than cancer, people mistake the symp- stion or some simple trou«ymptoms are: Pressure in ida< bes ai top an d back of ye
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    S'pore Roadside Trees Dangerous?
    341 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) s lOULD Singapore's roadside trees be cut down or should they not? Are they dangerous? These questions are raise! by yesterdays incident in Stamwhen a tree, standing opposite the old St. 5 bcnool crashed across the drain on to the adly injuring a
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    High Dutch Ministers Arrive At Batavia
    32 3 Heer Van Kleffens 'D'dch Fc.eigr, Minister) and Heer WeUer 'Colonial Minister) photographed on their arrival in Batavia fro?: the U.S.A. aid Manila, bu special K.N.I.L.M. plane.
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    MALAYAN PILOT HONOURED
    72 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh. April 15. IT is learned that Pilot Offi--1 cer Graham H. Russell, who was; recently awarded the D.F.C is a Malayan. He was born in Kuala Lumpur and is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Russell of Renibau. Early
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    GIRL FOUND DRUGGED IN LOCKED ROOM
    104 3 From Our Own Reporter) lpoh, April 15. A YOUNG Chinese girl, who was taken to a lodging house in Hale Street, was alleged to have been drugged by a friend, a Chinese, and relieved of jewellery valued at about $100. The incident occurred on
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    Stole From Grave-Yard
    111 3 Singapore, Tuesday. CONVICTED on a charge of stealing iron stanchions from m;'\v-yards at the old cemetery. Bukit Timah Road, Sim Yew Kee was sentenced to six week 0 rigorous imprisonment and three months' police supervision in the Third Court to-day. The accused was arrested by a person
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    Chungking & The Tokyo-Red Pact
    167 3 Chungking The Tokyo-Red Pact FOLLOWING is an othcial statement issued yesterday by Dr. Wang Chunu-hui. the* Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Chungking in connection with the signing of the Neutrality Pact between the U S S R and Japan: "At the time of the signature of a Neutrality Pact
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    Y's MEN CLUB
    28 3 "THE V*» Men Club will hold a dinner meeting at the Straits Chinese Recreation Club, New Bridge Road, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 18.
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    LORRY DRIVER FACES CHARGE AT ASSIZES
    488 3 Mandai Murder Trial Singapore, Tuesday. yjHAT is known as the llandai murder, in which an elderly Indian shopkeeper, Sinniah Govindan Mudaliar, of Labis, was alleged to have been murdered by a Chinese lorry driver, on October 12 last, after which his decomposed body said
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    UNINTERRUPTED PROFITEERING IN LOCAL SALE OF CIGARETTES
    261 3 Shortage Expected To Be Relieved Next Week (Tribune Staff Reporter) r HE Position in connection with the present shortage of cigarettes in Singapore is expected to improve considerably by next week, the Tribune is informed by authoritative sources to-day. Substantial supples are due
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    3 Nazi Planes Downed By Greeks In Air Battle
    92 3 Reuter. Athens. Apr. 16. THE Greek town of Larissa. re--1 centlv devastated by an earthquake, was bombed all day yesterday b y numerous German Vanes in successive waves, according to a Greek Public Security communique Three German planes were shot down
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    20 3 Batavia, Apr. 15. The N.E.T. Director untitled l< .11. LntUavn. !,»t«>»»<'« >>' '.«.n» «n»> ,>»>>. -i.,u< ll' i— '"-«cl <!!'. ,>- cn. "X,, >»»l»s
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    DONS HOLD CHINESE TO A DRAW
    440 4 Yesterday's Div. 1 Soccer S.CF.A 1; Gordons 1. pOLLOWING their recent 4-2 defeat by Chinese Athletic, the Gordons showed improved form at Anson Road Stadium yesterday, when, in I Div. I match, they held S.C.F.A., to a one-all draw. The game, played on a
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    Naafi's Score Four Goals To Win
    217 4 AFTER leading one goal t<> nothing at the interval. Singapore Cold Storage cracked up to allow Naali to score lour goals in the second period of play in the Business Houses' League fixture played oIF at Clerical Union ground yesterday. Adaikalam. on the outside
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    Bowlers On Top In Shield Game
    257 4 IN a Clarke Bhield cricket match played at Malacca on Saturday Malacca High School beat Clarke Rangers by nine runs High School s victory was mainly due to the fine batting of Tain Kong Chee who scored 48. and the bowling of R La
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    S.C.R.C. TENNIS
    147 4 SCRC. tennis tics for V -morrow arc as follow: Championship singles: Low Ke > Pow vs. Low Kee Choc. Championship double.,: X T San and S. K. Gaw vs. C. K. Pang and John Lim. "A" singles handicap: Yap Ah Hian (-15) vs. P. L. Loh <-6-. "A"
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    KHALSAS IN DRAWN MATCH WITH R.A.O.C.
    226 4 LACK of time forced a draw in a match played en Sunday betvcen R.A.O.C. and the Singapore Khalsa Association. R A .O.C. scored 131 for 9 I declared i and the Khalsas 83 before time intervened. The match was played at Khalsa Association's t,round.
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    SEVEN FOR 18 AGAINST A.I.F. AT MALACCA
    233 4 JX a match played on Sunday a team from the A.I«F. defeated Clarke Rangers by 18 runs. H Shah of the Rangers bowled splendidly to capture seven wickets lor 36 runs. A IF Grant c and b H Shah 12 Thane C and
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    This Morning's Track Work
    207 4 SLOW pace work over a mile was the programme of training' followed by candidates for Saturday's races who appeared this morning on the track. Training was done on the third track on soft going. San Frisco, Lulai and Kalo were given easy work. Kalo confirmed its
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    Saturday's Weights
    333 4 W FIGHTS for Singapore races on Sati .day are: Horses. Class 1. Div. 1. 6 furs.: Bay Dragon 9.10. Eelgrass 9.0 8.13. Jack Druce 8.6. Royal' Hampton 8.5. Tonroe 8.4, Harpo 8.3, Mediation 81. Never Set 7.12, Carloca 7.10, Honey Moon 7.5. The Needles 7.4. Top weight not
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    Sports Diary
    26 4 soccer: Dtv. 1. Manchester* v BJtC Stadium: S.CC. vR A. <ac-act.' B A.M.C Blakan Mati RoTRMMis• rETS Malays v RAF.. Seletar. rEHHU. b.C.C. tournament.
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    31 4 In a Dy. 28 League match between Kranji and Fort Canning yesterday. Kranji won by three goals to nil The match was Dlay- d on the J C S.A. ground I
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    BECHUANALAND'S 2 SPITFIRES TO R.A.F.
    39 4 mHt London. Apr. 16. yHE people of Bechuanaland Protect >- rate have contributed £10.000 to :i special local fund for the purchase of twj opitnres to be named respectively BechUa M and Kalahari British Wireless
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    36 4 Batavia, Apr. 15 The K.N.I.L.M. planning to extend its service betw—n »"avia and Soerabaja with one extra niKbt both ways. In the late afternoo 1 Evenlm? Landing! will b,. mud.- at Bat*\ia, MtHMranf u nd Soerabaja.
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    WEARNE'S LOSE ANOTHER MATCH
    209 4 CIME Darby nut lVeari*ii Busmts* Houses' to-day, and won U T one, inflict ini» on WearnV (her to the *ve ra they have sustained reeentk Play at the start v nous kicking about and 15 minutes did the fir t pear. Wearne's gi Peters, whose opj
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    Australian Air Traffic Increases
    111 5 Batavia. Apr. 7. i Way 1 the Dutch Air- will have an office of in Sydney. This will be run by Mr. for seme time 11 presented Dutch Australia, Ip till new the company Is headquarters in X: M Otters, but the extended air services N.K.I,
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    "WATERLOO BRIDGE"
    120 5 ENTERTAINMENT It the Capitol). terl o Bridge." her first appearand since the with the Wind" Vivien her performance as in the pan and that the !::ic-t dramatic actresses ened at the Capitol last -n ease premiere and I a large audience. tons Vivien is co-starred raylor who turns
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    16 5 untitled has commission of TexnporSec Lieutenant in the unteei Force to Mr. tiar C1,i,.1,, i zHueio.
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    Police Raid Kongsi Houses At Batu Arang
    207 5 Hopeful Situation At Collieries (From Ourfhvn Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. >1 RPRISE laid was carrfd out just before daylight to-day party of police utfler the C.P.0., Mr. H. B. Lang, i-t-rtam kongsis b Malayan Collieries mine at Batu Arang. aid appears to jfeve
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    SPECIALISED TRAINING FOR CHINESE MECHANIC
    282 5 THE good work of the Bishop and 1 Mrs. Roberts is stressed in the annual report of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital and St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital just issued. Mrs. Roberts* "'zeal, unbounded energy, organising ability and professional r.plp'' have been of invaluable service since
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    Government Should Accord Full Support To Live-Stock Industry
    698 5 Speech At Conference Of Veterinary Surgeons (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 15. r rHE live-stock industry should receive the full support of the Government, declared Mr. M, G. Thiagarajan, retiring president of the Malayan Veterinary Association, in a speech at
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    War New Zealand's Primary Concern
    66 5 Reuter. Wellington, Apr. 10. WINNING the war takes precedence over all other conisiderations in New Zealand to-day. Lhe Prime Minister. Mr. Peter Fraser. told the annual Labour Party conference. This was not the time for differences among I electors, he declared. In the meantime, restrictions
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    Cameraman's Broadcast To Malaya
    80 5 WAR correspondent for British Paramount News in North Africa and the Balkans, Mr. E. P. Genock, acecameraman, will broadcast from the Singapore station on Thursday night, at 9.15. Mr. Genock saw the fall of Bardia, campaigned with the British Imperial Forces in Eritrea, flew into Ethiopia
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    TALK ON MALAYA'S FORESTS, TIMBER
    42 5 FORESTS and Timber Production" is th* title of the talk to be broadcast from the Singapore station on Friday at 7.30 p.m. by Mr. J. G. Watson. Director of Forestry. S.S.. and Adviser on Forestry, Malay States.
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    N.E.I.'s Huge Gift Of £1,000.000 To R.A.F.
    88 5 Batavia. Apr. 15. pARTS of a German plane which was shot down will soon be arriving from London. The parts will be sold or exhib'ted for the benefit of the joint Prince Bemhard and Spitfire Funds. Meanwhile, the Funds have sent *hfl monty
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    New Textile Factory Set Up In Java
    78 5 Batavia. Apr. 15. THK Soer.tbrijasch Haudelsbad reveals A iii.it definite plans for the establishment of a textile factory at Pasoerocii in East Java have been made. Tlie plant will employ thousands of Indonesian workers. The new industry w'.U consequently will be of great
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    21 5 Mr. R. A. Altson. Plant Pathologist. Agricultural Department. S.S. and F M.S., has been anpolnted to act as Senior Plant Pathollogist.
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    Movement Helping To Create Friendship
    599 5 Rotary's Achievements (From Our own Reporter) I poh, Apr. 14. THE achievements oi Rotary International in general and the part it had played in cementing friendship and goodwill between the Latin American States and their two great neighbours, the United States of America and Canada,
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    Serdang School
    201 6 Opinion THAT within less than a decad? f it s incept ion ihi a l Agricultural School, Serdang, should bo turning out trained men some of whom fail to st cure employment is most regrettable, particularly so at a time when the need to replace foreign sources of
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    Employment Prospects
    96 6 us first take the School itself. First started mainly with the object of supplying the Government departments with suitably trained men to be in charge of field work, it was generally expected that private employers would in course of time absorb a growing number of students graduating from
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    Two Disabilities
    172 6 APPARENTLY, the Serdang School is at present labouring under two grave disabilities. The first is the general backwardness of students that stands in the way of their taking full advantage of the advanced scientific instruction provided in the School. Referring to the 20 applicants who had to be
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    A Hackneyed Slogan
    105 6 CONSIDERING the general Poverty of the Malayan soils and the consequent need of expert advice on soil conservation and the gradual neglect of food crop farms (as a result of the compelling charms of rubber that has now re-emerged from its pre-war distress) the benefits derived from
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    1104 6  -  Baruch From New York Asks: 'Can Britain maintain daylight mastery of the air? 'Can Britain keep her docks open to the flood of 'materials from America which the Lease-Lend Law will release?' McCrary from England Replies: 'To both these questions my answer is
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    301 6 JHE crippling of the Italian fleet at Taranto is the second most important British victory in the war, states Maj°r P. A. de V. Robertson, V.D., the authority on aeronautics. fpaTn e f says the derll p t! 0 Germatl air attack on Great
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    CURIOUS, ISN'T IT?
    112 6 PIN has a head but has no heir; A Cl there S faC€ bIU 710 mcvlh Needles have eyes, but they cannot see; A fly has a trunk but no lock or key; A timepiece may lose, but cannot, win; cornfield dimples w'thout a chin A hill
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    LIVESTOCK FROM THE WAR ZONE
    246 6 JJRITAIX continues in the midst of war to s< nd pedigree livestock across the sea* to several remote corners of the world to the value of £100,000 a year. Sheep from Romney Marsh have recently been landed on the 2 iS?"* 01 Ascension in the
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    541 6 R.B Ooi. rjFFICE workers wii contemplate th" b /hich will set In bo old to work w to tntroduce find for the benefit si'e the pensionaoj. Wiich was passed ai R(tary Conference held Hnce the memb. :sh::; Roary Clubs in A! largely of tarims are in a
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    Italy's Very Strong Protest To America
    53 7 Reuter. ington Apr. 15. J i S latest note t• > lhe 1 nited Staies re- yarding the seizure of y Italian >hips in United ports makes a v "most igorous protest linst this arbitrary and challenges !lil> of the act oi the nited
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    BIG AUSTRALIAN LOAN
    46 7 Reuter. A] r. 15.-Australia is > I 000 I Australian I DOG ai which will be i ad the remainder k including strateand roads. The loan in two ;>ections —one j aiing interest at 2 1 2 the other a longer j cent. Reuter.
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    War Now In Its Decisive Phase
    201 7 What U.S. Help Means To Britain Washington, Apr. 15. 1 war is now in its decisive phase," the British ter in Washington (Mr. Nevile Butler) stated >eh to the Continental Congress of Daughters American Revolution. unting passion for liberty in Britain can be an
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    Greenland Bases For All The Americas
    51 7 Reuter. Rio de Janeiro. Apr. 15 FE United States Government has iniormed Brazil that all the facilities gained by establishing American bases in Greenland will be available to the planes and ships of the other American renuolics for the common defence of tne Western
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    APPEAL TO N.E.I. WOMEN
    65 7 Batavia. Apr. 15. N E.I. press has published an np- peal to the women In the N.EI to show their sympathy for Queen Wilhemma by sending their signatures wh.en will b» presented in engraved wooden boxes by Mrs. Van Kleffens. wife of the Dutch Foreign Minister,
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    YUGOSLAVS RECAPTURE 2 TOWNS: COUNTER-ATTACK
    577 7 NAZI TANK COLUMNS MASSING AT FLORINA Reuter. .1 New York, Apr. 15. r g' mans in Libya are reported to be using three Panzer I divisions, according to the correspondent of the Columbia Broadcasting System broadcasting from Ankara. The correspondent adds that GerAan quarters claim
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    23 7 Batavia, Apr. 15: The suggestion that a flying club be formed in Bandoeng for boys of all nationalities has been put the Volksraad.
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    15 Nazi Tanks Destroyed In Tobruk Battle
    454 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 15. WAR Office communique issued in London to-day states thai regarding the situation in Libya in the reP l,lse of the German attack n fobruJc yesterday about (itrman prisoners were ,a »en and over 100 enemies er Wiled. At least
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    ENEMY CLAIMS
    316 7 Reuter. fin: pursuit and encirclement of "huddled remnants" of the Serbian army and the destruction of 30 British armoured ears daring the advance in Macedonia are claimed by the German High 1 ommand communique yesterday. It says that notarised trnopi and storm troopers thrusting southward in northern tireec*
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    NAZIS DRAINING ITALY OF VITAL FATS AND OIL
    154 7 Reuter. TNew York. Apr. 15. HE Nazis in Italy are compared to "a plague of locusts"' by a writer in the New York Post toI clay. Not only are raw materials lackj ing but Germany has drafted skilled Italian labour into German
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    Raiders Driven Off By Heavy Barrage
    146 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 15. 'pHERE was little enemy activity ovtr this country last night, says an Air Ministry communique but bombs were dropped at points on the north-east coast and south 'England. The damage was not serious but at one place on the south
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    Britons In China Thanked By Premier
    51 7 Reuter. Shanghai, Apr. 15. h*R. Churchill, the Prime Minister, has sent a message to the Briti h communities in China expressing his •'heartfelt thanks" fcr the continued support of the R.A.F.. thus playing "a noble and Important part in securing the triumph oi our
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    HARRY HOPKINS' NEW JOB
    43 7 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 15. PRESIDENT Roosevelt lias placed Mr. Harry Hopkins, his special envoy, to be officially in charge of the purchasing and acquisition of war materials for all countries which are benefiting under the Lease and Lend Act.—Reuter.
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    Surrender Of Very Able Wop General
    285 7 Pursued, Hunted Reuter. Addis Ababa, Apr. 15. QNE of the Italians' ablest and most elusive divisional commanders, General Mino Santini, was brought into Addis Ababa on Monday after surrendering to a group of South African officers. With him were Brigadier Sirigatti, three colonels, forty
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    DEATH.
    52 8 Nco: Neo Ong Joo, aged 59, passed away peacefully at 10 p.m. yesterday at his residence No. 241, Onan Koad, Singapore, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters to mourn his lass. Th e cortege leaves his residence tomorrow. Thursday. 17th April. 1941 at 10 a.m. to Bukit
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    Nanking Ban Exports From Shanghai
    69 9 Reuter. T Shanghai. Apr. 15. HE exportation of 28 commoditie.s from Shanghai to the South China port.s. Kwangchow gay. Hong Kong. Kow.'oon. Macao, Burma, and French Indo-China has been banned since Apr. 7 by the Nanking Ministry of Finance. The list includes copper, copper goods,
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      287 9 Public Notices SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS. I TENDERS are now invited for j the following materials or service. For particulars see Municipal Tender Room. Supply of Ltquki Chlorine ior rur period 17 41 to J§!6;42 12 noon. If June i;>| supply oi Lump Bteam Co;ii during 2n,-i hall ~f UN] (DcpofUf
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    Malayan Sharebrokers' Asso. Report
    860 11 Singapore, Apr. is. Buy en. Sellers. MINING. IS] 3 3 3 7i/ 2 »ss) 6 3 6 6 33 6 34 6 im «ss) 17 9 13.6 $1, 0 80 0.85 12 6 14MJ 135 1.40 cd 9:6 io|--18 3 19,3xd g 121- 131- q ($1)
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    Mid-Day Prices
    21 11 ngapore, Wednesday, trices of tin and rubber Singapore at noon touere:— TIN < •nn i,. RUBBER ?SV 2 Sellers 39%
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    Tin, Rubber Share Market Dull
    123 11 (From Our Own Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Wednesday. rTHERE was little doing in the tin share market yesterday after the holiday break. Petalings were taken at the price unchanged from last week. Hong Fatts had buyers at $1.20. A few Kampong Lanjuts were taken at a
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    "RAISING OF E.P.T. TO 100% A MISTAKE"
    336 11 London, Feb. 24. DRESIDING at the adjourned 1 fourteenth meeting of Southern Malayan Tin Dredging, Ltd., the chairman, Mr. C. V. Stephens, said interim dividends had totalled 32 1 2 per cent, and a final dividend of 5 per cent, was recommended. 'In
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    Dr. Quo Tai-chi Gives Farewell At Home
    98 11 Reuter. London. Apr. 16. MR. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was among those who attended an At Home given by Dr. Quo Tai-chi, the retiring Chinese Ambassador, at the Chinese Embassy yesterday The American. Russian and Belgian Ambassadors, and the Greek and Thailand
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    35 11 Batavia, Apr. 15: A fire in a rubber untitled tate in West Java destroyed 75,000 guilders worth of the material. Ten thous nvi pounds of rubber in sheets in the smok:ig house were also destroyed.
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    "New Russo-Japanese Pact Of Little Value"
    837 11 /k LOCAL expert on Japanese affairs, commenting on the jCjL recent Russo-Japanese friendship and neutrality pact, declared: The announcement ot the conclusion between Japan and Russia ol a treaty Of friendship and neutrality is the hlghligut of the news. While it is a little
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    Pearl River
    24 11 Reuter. Canton, Apr. 16. THE Pearl River has been reopened by the Japanese. It was closed to shipping traffic on Apr. 12.—Reuter.
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    No Licences For Tin To U.S. In May
    346 11  -  OUR SPECIAL FINANCIAL SERVICE By REUTER Cable f-irxT i r, i London, Apr. 15. 1™ °P ened The turnover was 125 tons. The Ministry of Supply's cash selling limit is £270.75. United Kingdom weekly stocks total 3,061 tons, an increase of 57
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    Produce
    75 11 Singapore. Apr. 15. Gambier 7.50 Java Cube 3 2.00 Hamburg Cube 12.50 White Pepper 14.00 Muntok White Pepper 14.50 Black Pepper 7.25 Mixed Copra 2 25 Sundried Copra 2.50 Medium Pearl Tapioca 8.50 Small F?arl Tapioca 8.50 Small Flake Tapioca 7.50 Fair Flake Tapioca 7.00 No. 1 Sago Fiour
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    18 11 Reuter. Ottawa. Apr. 15. MR. I'ackenzie King, the Prime Minister, left Ottawa for Wash--1 ington to-day.—Reuter.
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    Great R. A. F. Bid To Gain African, Balkan Mastery
    456 12  -  'By Rolph Walling Reuters Air Correspondent) Reuter. London, Apr. 16. THE R.A.F. are shooting and bombing" their way through the Luftwaffe in a great bid to establish air superiority over the Balkans and Africa where the British armies were reported
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    BRITISH MOVE IN BALKANS WAS CORRECT
    222 12 Reuter. London. Apr. 16. rHE Yorkshire Posts military! correspondent states that '"the, point whether we should have completed the conquest of Libya oy going through to Tripoli wi'l oe an argument even when the war is over. •Libya did not stand alone, however, as
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    Unemployment In Britain Decreases
    114 12 London. Apr. 16. THE number of men and boys reaistereri at employment exchanges m Britain as wholly unemployed at Mar. 17 was 172.660, a decrease of 44.88G as compared with Feb. 10. Of this total. 36.408 have been classified as unsuitable for ordinary industrial employment. The
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    HOSPITAL IN MALTA HIT BY RAIDERS
    56 12 Reuter. Malta. Apr. 16. A SERIES of night raids v.ere made n on Malta on Monday night. Lombs were dropped in several localities but Government property was not damaged and there were no serious casualties. A hospital in the country was hit. one patient
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    Nazi Administrators In Occupied Yugoslavia
    62 12 Reuter. Berlin, Apr. 16. HITLER has appointed Nazi civil 11 administrators for the German occur ied Yugoslav territories of luwer Syria, Caiinthia and Carmola, the former Austrian territory incorpoiated in Yugoslavia after the last war. lhe civil administrators will be directly responsib'e to Hitler. The
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    BRITISH CHIEFS LEAVE TURKEY
    46 12 Reuter. Ankara, Apr. 16. T lEUT.-GEN. Sir James Marsha 11Oornwa 1 has left Ankara for Egypt. He was accompanied by Mr Marshal Elmhirst. He arrived in Turkey from Egypt at the beginning of April to re:ume talks with the Turkish General Staff.—Reuter.
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    FRENCH CONSUL AT MAURITIUS
    61 12 Reuter. London. Apr. 16. THE exequator of M. Pierre Henri 1 Oraiga de Gaffory, a French citizen, as consul of the French republic at Port Louis. Mauritius, has D*en revoked and the official recognition accorded to him in his consular capacity has accordingly been withdrawn. This
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    BALKANS & N. AFRICA BLACK SPOTS IN THE WAR PICTURE
    295 12 BALKANS N. AFRICA BLACK SPOTS IN THE WAR PICTURE LORD HALIFAX'S FRANK SPEECH Reuter. New York, Apr. 15. IN a frank talk on Britain's war situation to the English speaking Union in New York to-night, Lord Halifax (British Ambassador) described the Balkans and North Africa as "black spots in the
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    Greenland Will Be Returned To Danes
    81 12 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 15. GREENLAND will be restored to Denmark as soon as Denmark is independent and not a government under duress, declared Presidnt Roosevelt at a press conference. The decision to protect Greenland, he said, was taken under the Monroe Doctrine. The step
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    Wop Sailors Indicted
    40 12 Houston (Texas*. Apr. 15. THE captain and 22 of the crew of the Italian ship Mongioia < 6.000 tons*, recently seized by the United States, were indicted by the Federal grand jury on charges of tampering and conspiracy
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    Two Nazi Fighters Downed Over Channel
    88 12 Reuter. London, Apr. 15. D A.F. fighters carried out offensive patrols over the Channel and Northern France during- daylight yesterday and shot down two German fighters. A German bomber was also destroyed by fighters over lhe Channel. One British fighter is missing. No bombs
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    Widespread Enemy Raids Over Britain
    103 12 Reuter. London, Apr. 16. THOUGH German planes were last night reported over many parts of Britain, no concentrated attack on air, area had developed ud to early this morning. A south coast town was the only place in England to report any bombs. No serious
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    Torpedoed Britons Landed In Brazil
    45 12 Reuter. MmFTFPv 11 0 Brazil Apr. 15. MLNETEXN survivors of the crew cf a British steamer were landed here to-day from a Brazilian Reamer which picked them up on Sunday. The British vessel is reported to have been toroedoed -cuter.
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    MALAYA & THAI RICE: BANGKOK STATEMENT
    81 12 MALAYA THAI RICE: BANGKOK STATEMENT Products May Be Restricted Reuter. Bangkok k. \yiTH reference of rice exports j! enquiries at the i\ Economic Affaii reply that the rice and rice pro be exported to .V the current somewhat rest the lower yield of so far, this has tory to Malaya."
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    Cruiser Torpedoed
    25 12 Reuter. HIS Majesty's ship B has been torpedi ed ?s an escort to a conv< Bor.aventure is a 'ons and was launch ago.—Reuter.
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