Malaya Tribune, 23 April 1941

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  • 23 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Saks Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Wednesday. April 2 194 1
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  • 187 1 Reuter 'respondent nnth thp ?r>i,th a* in Abyssinia) S Uth Afncan f° r^s London, Apr 2*5 i I >sn* goes on. The Italians who hax'e turned ighl the most stubborn resistance h Africans are fighting by nieht and in day Their clothes to shreds by the
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  • 90 1 Reuter. York, Apr. 22. f can only be won 1 defence of the mocncy going Is England," told a press NI won by one treat in Greece of the McdiP) added, the affirmative to asked whether he lat the defence of I be
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  • 64 1 Reuter. ndon, Apr. 23. Ire Medal" as aj hrH award has! I an amendment tl 1 Order cf the! r.niulgated in. tte last night. Hi bo ol si'ver, beara repreienta--1 and the motto of the words: "For and on the and Imperial vords •'instituted Fifth."
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  • 40 1 Reuter T London, Apr. 23. I me enemy activity si relay, mainEngland but no ted dropped in an Air Ministry hot enemy bemchann?l yesterday v known that two were destroyed by during Monday on Plymouth.—
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  • 24 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 22. Representatives Means Committee favour of the Trea- 'x bill to raise w revenue during ear Renter.
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  • 42 1 F' A.F. cadets a' work on one of the walls o; the -Aircraft Recognition' rooms. These silhouettes and paintings are to familiarise the cadets with various types of aircraft in theii studies at an Initial Training Wing.
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  • 281 1 Heavy Land And Air Battles Continuing 7ITRIfH APR 9° 1118 I{Y A N ITALIAN tvAR COR«i.^x^K^VV E -y. EPTIONAIXY STUBBORN," ACCORDING TO A MILAN TELEGRAM TO IUK NEUE ZI'RICHER ZEITUNG. The Greeks are clever in their use of the terrain and well prepared iefepces,
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  • 57 1 London. Apr. 23. Information brought 10 Istanbul by travellers from Sofia and Plovidiv. «Phillipopolis» reports that many trainloads of German wounded are going through from the Macedonian front, according to the Free French news agency. It is also leported that collections for the benefit of
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  • 149 1 Reuter. Athens. Apr. 23. The withdrawal of the Greek lines has been completed without serious incident, says a Greek war communique issued last night, adding that enemy air action continued intense but the enemy suffered considerable losses from the air force and anti-aircraft artillery. The communique says that
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  • 33 1 Reuter. New York. Apr. 22. A VICHY despatch to the New n York Post says that 187 Serbian p!an?s have landed i n Russia and are proceeding to Greece.—Reuter.
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  • 25 1 Heavy land ami air lighting continues along the whole length of the front in Greece, military circles stated in Cairo last night.
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  • 184 1 Reuter. Nothing is known in Zurich of any German proposals for the passage of German troops through unoccupied France and Spain but it is believed that they are anxious to secure Gen. Weygand's recall, regarding him as an obstacle to their hopes of using
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  • 134 1 Reuter. Washinglon, Apr. 22. THE Red Cross headquarters hi Washington have been swamped with inquiries by American doctors as to how they can respond to the call for volunteers to go to Fngland. Two hundred applications were received here today and the Red Cross office
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  • 63 1 Reuter Belfast, Apr. 23. THE Ulster Minister of Public Security, Mr. J. C. McDermott, told the Ulster House of Commons yesterday afternoon that up to the present. th e deaths in the rec3nt raid on Ulster amounted to 500, seriously injured 420 and
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  • 52 1 Reuter. Malta. Apr. 23. BRITISH fighter planes destroyed one enemy aircraft and probably destroyed another during a raid ov?r Malta on Monday afternoon. There were two more raids during the night, another raid yesterday afternoon in which bombs were drcpped but no serious damage or casualties
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  • 45 1 Reuter. Manila. Apr. 23. MORE than 2,000 United States troops arrived at Manila yesterday morning aboard the transport Republic. Fourteen hundred men, comprising two coast artillery units, will reinforce the garrison of Fort Mills at Corregidor. The remainder are replacements.—Reuter.
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  • 28 1 Reuter. Vichy. Apr. 23 THE occupation of Thrace and Macedonia by Bulgarian troops will be completed to morrow, according to a despatch from Sofia —Reuter.
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  • 526 1 Reuter. London, Apr. 23. INDIA could produce 2,000,000 fighting men, said Mr. L. S. Amery, the Secretary of State for India, speaking in a debate in the Commons on India. Unfortunately, he added, that was not enough. He pointed out that the Yugoslav army of
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  • 107 1 Reuter. Bucharest, Apr. 2.' J. JJITLER'S attitude to Gen. Antonescu, the Rumanian Premier, was referred to by Baron yon Killinger, the German Ambassador, in an address to the German colony at Bucharest on Hitler's birthday. According to the Rumanian news agency, Killinger said that Gen. Antonescu
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  • 89 1 Reuter. Patiala, Apr. 23. THE establishment of two pre--1 paratory centres to train Sikh youths for commissions in the Indian defence forces were resolved by Tne executive committee of the Khalsa Defence of India League. The Maharaja ot Patiala, presiding, said that Khalsa <sikhs> must
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  • 63 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 22. I EGISLATION authorising the United States Government to take over and operate "any foreign vessel lying idle" in United States waters has been introduced by the chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee. The legal and international angles
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  • 59 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 22. COUTHERN coal owners have agreed to restart negotiations with the United Mine Workers for a resumption of work following an appeal by President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt appealed for an immediate re-opening of the soft coal mines which have been shut for
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  • 203 2 Ttf 0. I Malaya Field Ambulance, formed from non-British European and from Eurasian men and youths recruited in Malaya, is in need of books. In addition to doing the necessary squad drills recruits, who are getting well into their stride, have to attain a
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  • 15 2 Mr. A.N. Siebel of Thailand Tin Mines Is an inmate of the General Hospital. Penang.
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  • 253 2 Singapore, Tuesday. A DESCRIPTION of the life she led as a prostitute was given by a 19-year-old girl, Chan Yew Hong, when a woman, Cheo Mcc Neo, was charged in the third court to-day before Mr. L. C. Goh with knowingly permitting the house of
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  • 104 2 Singapore. Tuesday. CHARGED with criminal breach of trust in the, sum of $5,313. George Bennett Taye. alias Tay.9 Boon Guan. was acquitted to-day in the Criminal District Court. It was alleged that the accused became a trust ?e of an estate in 1029 and that In 1932
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  • 431 2 Singapore, Tuesday. JJJESCRIBED as having been allegedly concerned in an ''ingenious fraud," Lam Mai, Lam Chong Hoi and Lam Kuan Wing, employees of a pawnshop, appeared before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the Second Police Court, in a preliminary inquiry into allegations of having
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  • 459 2 Singapore, Tuesday. FURTHER evidence in the preliminary inquiry in which Teo Kwee Liang, who was alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust in respect of 314 cases of crepe rubber valued at $30,000 on Oct. 31, 1940, while he had been employed
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  • 106 2 Singapore, Tuesday. A GOLDSMITH, Ng Chaik Quen, was cautioned and discharged in the Third Court to-day on ar charge of criminal breach of trust of $20 which he had received as a deposit from a Tamil for certain jewellery which he had hired. It was stated for the
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  • 273 3 To Raise Money for War Effort (Tribune Staff Reporter) ,s s j* eme > s l»nsored by Dr. T. H. Silcock, sor oi Economics, Raffles College, for raising Americans to help pay part of the huge Britain has to pay for the
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  • 79 3 T Indian Sappers j difficult advance ci i it ly praised by v i .i i correspondent Fa. t. m a talk the Singapore ihe top of 3.000-ft v dominating the a, Keren has been h< world's strongest Here for nearly British and Indian rted by the
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  • 200 3 TO-DAY Is St. George's Day J —a day on which Shake- speare was born and on j which he died, the day of Zeibrugge, ihe day when the i men and the ships waited at J Mudros hefoie the landing j on Ilelles.
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  • 314 3 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, TUtsday. THE ninth annual genera] meeting of the Jacobne Syrian christian Union was held at the Brickfields Road English School hall on Sunday, Mr. A. George, president, presiding. The president explained the steps taken to secure the of a priest.
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  • 67 3 Singapore. Tuesday. SAID to have stolen rive packets of cigarettes from a godown in the Singapore Harbour Board, Chan Thor. 46. claimed trial before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the second police court, to-day. Chan was alleged to have the cigarettes at 10 p.m. on Apr. 20.
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  • 48 3 Singapore, Tuesday. SENG Leng Swee was charged this afternoon in the Third Court with being a member of an unlawful society, the Hainanes9 Overseas Union. The accused claimed trial and the case was nostpcned to Apr. 29. Bail in the sum of $1,000 was offered.
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  • 189 3 [fHREE members of the Royal Singapore Flying Club obtained "A" licences during march. They were Mr. K. J. Maxey, Miss M. A. Woodyear-Smith and Mr. J. A. Wilkins. The captain's report says that flying hours amounted to 153. Two members*, Mr. b. M. Taylor
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  • 185 3 Singapore, Tuesday. THE Mandai murdei trial, winch, has been going on for mere j than a week* ii hkely to conclude by to-morrow ev*nine. All the witnesses for the prosecution which number about 30. with the exception of one. Inspector Ibrahim, (whose evidence has not concluded' have
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  • 97 3 Singapore. Tuesday. FOUR policemen had to take Ker Siew Hua out of the police court to-day when she was ordered to the House of Detention by the Third Magistrate for being a vagrant. She created a scene in the court and sat on the ground
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  • 50 3 DR. S. Dakshinamurthi. acting Director. Far Eastern Bureau. League of Nations, will sneak on "Organisation of Health Services," at the next meeting of the Lotus Club to be held at B. Raffles Quay, on Saturday, at 5.30 p.m. Both members and the public are invited to attend.
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  • 61 3 Singapore. Tuesday. CHARGED with having caused hurt to a com; at riot by means cf a pair of scissors at the wharf coolie lines. Koh Tew, 32, claimed trial before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the second police court, to-day. The case was postponed for mention on
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  • 76 3 Singapore. Tuesday. APPEARING before Mr. Kenneth M. Byrne in the fourth police court on three charges relating to liquor, Leow Scow Eng. a 50-year-old Chinese woman, pleaded guilty to all three charges. She admitted possession of dutiable liquor, fermenting liquor at a! house in
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  • 57 3 Singapore. Tuesday. FOUND guilty on a charge of pos-1 session of dutiable cigarettes, Lee Chee Kong. 29, was fined $10 or ten days" imprisonment, by Mr. Kenneth M. Byrne, the fourth ma-; gistrate, to-day. j He was arrested in possession of the cigarettes at the R.A.F. Seletar
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  • 199 3 Singapore, Tuesday. jyjß. P. T. CLIFFTON, acting Coroner, reserved his finding at the conclusion of an inquiry held into the death of an unknown Chinese who had died of shock and haemorrhage from multiple injuries. Mr. Teijiro Nakai. a mercantile ;tant In a local firm, in
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  • 120 3 THE Petrol Rationing Officer, 1 Singapore, Major W. Rose, advises thaj petrol coupons for May will be ready for issue at the Petrol Rationing Office «Bencoolen Street, entrance) as follows: rhursday, April 24: vehicles with registration numbers S. 1 toi S. 3000; Friday, April 25: numbers S.
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  • 34 3 Mr. Sadhu Singh of the tutorial staff of the Anglo-Chinese School. Seremban. who is an inmate of the General Hospital. Singapore, is in improved health and expect r to be discharged within a week.
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  • 79 5 i i MPTS are being made arrange a cricket match Singapore which -will be ol the biggest attraction*, season. The teams will h, all-Malaya and Australia I jirt'liminary to thi* i ame has been probetween. Singapore and im drawn from units of lustraUan Imperial For. This
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  • 368 5 T ing are ihe entries for 1 S< Langor Tuii Club spring Wednesday and Satur- M and May 3. HORSES, Class 3. Ist run 2nd run H 9f s'of 9f Alicante x x Argoutat x x Autumri Bride x x x x Rathlirj Isle
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  • 78 5 FOLLOWING is the latest list of new classifications, transfers nnd deletions announced by the Straits Racing Association: HORSES TRANSFERS: From Class 1 to C'ass 2.—Distinguished, Pure Gold, kom Class 3 to Class 2.-Camba-fcng Courting, Jest On Julieta Nicotine. Shun. From Class 3 to Class 4.-Chatterbox. LgUf*.
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  • 443 5 Single Goal Decides om^.x 686 Athletic 1 R.A. (Hy.) 0 SCORING the only goal of the match nine minutes before halltimc, Chinese Athletic gained a signal victory over R.A. (Heavy Regiment) in a Div. I match ptaved at Anson Road stadium yesterday. The match,
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  • 55 5 Reuter. London, April, 22. FT wis announced from Montreal to-day that Mrs. Leight Little, formerly Dorothy Round the Wimbledon tennis champion, and Wightman Cup player, had turned professional by accepting a caching engagement with the Seigniory Tennis Club during summer. She went to Canada at the outbreak
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  • 254 5 JjX)IXOWERS of football will soon have a chance of seeing Lee Wai Tons:, the idol of Chinese football, in action in Singapore. Arrangements have been completed for the South China football team to visit and play several matcb.es In Singapore early next month.
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  • 230 5 Div. 118 match between the J.C.S.A. and the S.C.F.A. unexpectedly ended in a goalless draw on the J.C.S.A. ground yesterday. The match was exciting throughout, although both teams finished badly in their offensives. CF A. did most of the attacking in the first half,
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  • 43 5 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. league, Div. I. S.C.C. 1 Gordons. S.C.C; Police v Loyals. Stadium; Div. lIA. R.A.O.C. v R.AM.C Alexandra. S.H.B. v Moravia. 5.H.8.; Navy v R.A.F. (Seletar). N. Base; Indians v Kranjl. F. and N. TENNIS: SCC, SCRC. and YMCA. tournaments.
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  • 75 5 THE monthly mixed foursomes competition of Garrison Golf Club for April, played at Tanglin. resulted in a win for Mrs. J. W. Pinhey and E. V. Smith with a net score of 69/2 The following were the best returns:—Mis. J. W. Pinhcy and E. V.
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  • 26 5 Result of the President versus Vice-President golf match at the Island Club on Sunday, was a win for the President's team by 9 points to SVSt-
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  • 352 5 RAIN prevented S. C. C. and V.M.C.A. from playing off any of their ties in their tennis tournaments, but the B.C.R.C. succeeded in completing a number of matches scheduled for yesterday. The results:— "A" doubles handicap: John LUn and Ong Chew Bee —l5l beat Y. F.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

  • 182 6 Opinion J| OWE V E R benevolent a bureaucracy may be, it can never hope to attain that balanced judgment and sobriety which a virile opposition imparts to democracy. By the avoidance of direct taxation and recognition of the fundamental rights of man, a bureaucratic form of Government,
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  • 248 6 MANIFESTATION of the emergence of Malaya from its long lethargy and indifference to political rights—a process hastened by the impact of war-time restrictions—was the appeal made by Dr. Lim Chwee Leong (in his presidential speech to the Straits Chinese British Association) for enlarging the Colony Legislative Council by
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  • 150 6 JHE assertion of a nation's Civic and political rights being vital to its material progress, w e think it meet that ■J 1 of our public bodies should take up the question of legislative reforms so ably urged by Dr. Lim Chwee Leong, and impress on the Government
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  • 1443 6 Why Schooling Does Count In The Making Of FEW weeks ago a British Army officer, commanding an Officer Cadet Training Unit, wrote a letter to the Press upon the subject of Army leadership, which created a considerable pother. Jhe matter was immediately and more fully ventilated in
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  • 867 6 TJT ERE is a lesson for those in charge of British propaganda to AJL Italy. Skilful and well-directed propaganda against tired and disaffected troops can icin great battles without a shot being fired, as the Austrian Intelligence Officer, who tells this story, discovered in 1916. 'J'HE
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  • 224 6 Bicycles And MotorCycles—£4l,ooo,ooo fllE makers of British bicycles and motor cycles, whose Union has just completed 50 years' work, have sent £41,000,000 worth of their products overseas in the ten years from January 1, 1930. "It has been a great story says Britain's Minister of Transport Lt.-Col. J. T. MooreBrabazon,
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  • 563 6 E. T. Huang- "UERE i.s a questi should be a himself or herself i more that I can do rffort?' No nobler ca for which the British Emp .Ighting has ever inspired n f-<et us ensure that we 3ach night secure in hat during the day our
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  • 85 7 Athens, Apr. 22. ack on the suburb a mono the wide- m Greece ancommunique issued ol Public Security ties bombed and I Agrlnium l about ol Missok>n*»hl I [tie. among the c vi where refuses* in the Agrinium n gion and a's o in Gulf of Eubeus.
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  • 57 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 22. rrjll mans are still meeting I sition in some rei igoslavia from the which has not despite the German to the contrary. is! this has been rom neutral sources in est and Sofia, inued resistance of ps v ill certainly cause" some pre-oceupa-althongh
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  • 16 7 Tokyo Apr. 22 untitled a secretary of the ice, baa been apneril m Sydney, fL'Ci.il .innonnce-
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  • 472 7 Heavy, Light Units Active Reuter and British Wireless. LONDON, APR. 22. AN ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE STATES THAT A HEAVY BOMBARDMENT OF THE PORT OF TRIPOLI WAS CARRIED OUT BY OUR NAVAL FORCES AT DAWN ON MONDAY. THE BOMBARDING FORCE CONSISTED BOTH OF
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  • 139 7 Reuter. Ottawa, Apr. 22. Mackenzie Kinjr the Canadian Prime Minister, who has just returned from the United States, declared that his visit in which was arranged the joint utilisation of United States and Canadian resources proved "much better than a holiday." Officials expect the arrangement to
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  • 29 7 Reuter. Berlin, Apr. 22. IT is announced that re- ceived in Vienna on Sunday, Count Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister), who left for Italy on Tuesday afternoon.—Reuter.
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  • 65 7 Reuter. Shanghai. Apr. 22. IT was officially announced yesterday that advice had now been received from London that His Majesty's Government had preferred the titles of "China and squadron to a squadron t Royal Air Force panes paid for >y contributions of over £100,000 rom
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  • 162 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 22. 0 :;ED during the series of heavy attacks k and British aerodromes, ports and troops, R.A.I Hurricanes are now known to have destroyed planes over the Athens area on Sunday, rthday. Two more enemy aircraft fell to the g
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  • 554 7 Reuter. London, Apr. 22. MR. CHURCHILL had little to say at the present juncture when he was invited in the Commons to-day, at the resumption of Parliament after the Easter recess, to make a statement about the war position. The Prime Minister pointed out
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  • 285 7 Reuter. LONDON, APR. 22. THE RECENT BRITISH LOAN TO SPAIN WAS SHARPLY 1 CRITICISED TO-DAY BY OPPOSITION MEMBERS IN THE COMMONS. The Independent member, Mr. Josiah Wedgwood evoked some murmurs of agreement when he declared that "this money will go straight into Germany's pockets,"
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  • 19 7 Pittsburgh, Apr. 21:—This week's slight decline in the steel activity to 96 per of capacity reflects the coke scarcity.
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  • 320 7 Reuter. tßy Henry Stokes. special war correspondent wnn the Britisn imperial forces in Greece) London, Apr. 22. IHAVL just completed a toui of the new shortened British defence line in Greece, the withdrawal to which WW successfully accomplished ovei the week-end. Britisn forces fell back intact from
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  • 30 9 MR. MRS. MARK PEREIRA sincerely thank their friends and relatives who attended their wedding and also those who sent them valuable presents and congratulation messages and telegrams.
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  • 146 9 THE battle-cruiser H.M.S. Malaya seems to have been allotted the role formerly reserved for the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal, of being "sunk" by radio every other week—v/hile remaining very actively afloat! The Berlin broadcast in Hindustani on Apr. 17 said: "Not a single day passes when
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    • 10 9 j TO-NIGHT AT SUN TALKIE (NEW WORLD) 7.30 9.30 P.M.
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    • 314 9 3 SHOWS TO-DAY ViC 3.15, 6.15 9.15 OLIVER ISTAGE SUCCESS BECOMES I nfl fl II P c 1 A SCREEN SUCCESS! f KUuM wMGilbert Wakefield', TWfl DARING COMEDY (I Comedy Greatest Team. SUPPORTED BY CHARMINGLY IRRES4 PONSIBLE (H\K\( I I R as Hadfford AND <,(tK< l nl s ADMISSION PRICES
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  • 20 10 Tfre engagement is announced between Miss DOROTHY YEE of Singapore and Mr. LEE FAH KOOI "of Ipoh.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 676 10 mĔĔ i ■tftf -W^mW Situations Vacant WANTED young house-keeper In Johore. State salary required Reply Box SH, Mafcty:i Tribune, Singapore. (No. 223H) WANTED TEACHERS for an Engll.-h School Please apply Box 532. Malaya Tribune. Singapore. (No. 250 II) WANTED. Experienced Ludlow Machine Operator, good prospects to right man. Apply Box
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    • 702 10 WANTED TO BUY house with compound. Kuakt Lumpur, 3 miles radius, value about $2,000,-. Apply advertiser, "H. Rawang. (No. 271H) WANTED a furnished room, modern sanitation, by gent prefer. Cheras Road. Apply Mr Yip, 67. Murray Btreet, Serembaa. (No. 237H) WANTED. Straits Produce Vol. XI Part 4. Vol. XII. Parts
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    • 704 10 Financial WANTED FINANCIER for sound established business extent of $500 to $I,ooo'-. For particulars apply Box 543. Malaya Tribune, Singapore. (No. 273H) WANTED an energetlo working partner with $500'- for a small Printing Press Bituated in a business quarter. Apply Box: 530, Malay* Tribune. Singapore. (No. 252H) EUROPEAN requires loan
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    • 721 10 Lost And Found LOST at Oemas Station brown Guitar, tutor, cloth-casing, file Reward. Yoon Keong. 15. Main Street. Kuantan. (No. 268H) Personal VACANT In HOME 2 large rooms with b.rs. Suitable 2 pals or couple with I[2 Oood kids. Apply Box 545. co Malaya Tribune, Singapore (No. 275H) Motor Vehicles
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    • 340 10 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL 3% I DEBENTURE STOCKS 1937 1938. I INTEREST DUE 15TH MAY, 1941. NOTICE is hereby given that the Transfer Registers of the above Stocks will be closed from the 2nd to the 15th May, 1941, both days inclusive. C. H. GOLDIE, Municipal Secretary. SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST TENDERS are
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    • 172 10 I For STYLE, COMFORT, ECONOMY, Consult THE ORIENTAL OPTICAL CO.. MANUFACTURING OPTICIANS Head Office: 162, South Bridge Rd Branch Office: 348, N. Bridge Rd" SINGAPORE. FREE TESTING LATEST WALKING STICKS Ju*t Received. BEACT.FLLLY HAND MAKE ORIENTAL *ARD WOOD STICKS MALACCA CANES AT SOLD R m¥ EARLY T AVOID aOLD OCT
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 771 10 {TO-DAY'S RADIO) SINGAPORE 7~" ZHL 225 m. 1133 MM. '"^A|)()V ZHP.I. 30.96 m. 9.69 met. r SV M.Si ttl 2HP.2. 48 58 m. 6.175 m|cs. P m f ii ii ZHP3. 41.38 m. 7.25 mica tsp 19.(1 m, >' ZHL. ZHPI, ZHP2 8i ZHP3. 615 p m a.m. DSD ■>;,
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  • 929 11 ,pore. Apr. 22. Buyers. Sellers MINING. 3 36 »,3 6 7»2 33 6 34:6 17 4' 2 18 IVa 0 80 085 E V. 12 6 14!J .j i j36 1.40 cd 93 99 i, 18 3 19 3 Cj 12- 13--0 13' 2 0.16 0.31
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  • 13 11 Wednesday, in and rubber c at noon toti\ RUBBER Sellers 39%.
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  • 162 11 (From Our FinmHai Cnr*o<;nnnri«nt) fctnßnoore. Wednesday. 'pHFRE was littlo movement In dollar t'n tharA« hu* s om" absorption of Australians. Quotations f" r K?mLan hits and Pungahs eased but Kramats Kualn Kampar s And Kundlncs we-o all taken on the basis of previous bmlness.
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  • 52 11 New York, Apr. 21:—The absence of pressure heartens Wall Street, presaging an early technical rebound on any good news. The cotton weather continues more favourable. The market expects a renewal of the agitation Tor higher loans if President Roosevelt and Mr. Morgenthau successfully maintain their opposition to higher
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  • 23 11 Alexandria. Apr. 21:—Last week's cotton purchases by the British Government amounted to 8,949 bales while fre3 market purchases totalled 2.341 bales.
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  • 48 11 Dunde?, Apr. 21:—Arrivals of raw jute have been small and several months b?lated but they were about equal to the reduced consumption. The demand for Hessians exceeds supply at the recently fix?d maximum of six pence for 10V 2 otfnce and 4.62 for eight ounce qualities
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  • 132 11 (At the Capitol) —lots of it—drums, crazy dancing —including The Conga—and catchy songs run through "Strike Up The Band," the Capitol's new film, featuring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, in a manner that has seldom been seen before on tne screen. Famous Paul Whiteman's orchestra
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  • 134 11 (At the Pavilion) 1 tjRIGHT. sparkling and a trifle daring. "Room for Two" opened at the Pavilion last night. Based on Gilbert Wakefield's play, spicy dialogue and delicate situations make the film a brilliant comedy. Frances Day. as Claire Spencer whose husband carries on an intrigue with
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  • 144 11 (At the Alhambra) I ONG before a plane can take to the air hours of work both mental and physical must be done. "Men against the Sky" is R.K.O.'s effort to show the process from the moment the Idea is born until it gets into the
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  • 150 11 (At the Camay) LOVERS of adventure in the air will be In their element at the Cathay this week with "Charter Pilot" which opened Its season yesterday. Lloyd Nolan takes the male lead as King Morgan ace pilot who always brings home the bacon. But his sweetheart, Marge,
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  • 337 11  -  OUR SPECIAL FINANCIAL SERVICE By REUTER Cable London, Apr. 22. AS a beginning, the Yugoslav ships which have been offered, will be largely employed outside the combat zones and between the United States and Allied ports. A fair proportion to expected to be used
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 138 11 SILVER PLATING I by Tlk Singapore ElectroPlating Works Orchard Road, Cavenagh Road) So mi. I 1111 l 1 HUBBUCKS ■Hi LINSEED OIL Hubbuck's Pale Boiled Linseed Oil is made lIKSSSIRbIBbI •specially for Hot Oi mates for mixing with our Patent White Zinc It does not discolour whte or ocher del,catc
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    • 29 11 #Plct»»Di to lake,l BROOKLAX Chocolate Uxatrvt befogs gentle, thorough, natural relief to even the most stubborn cases of Conaajfji if i pal ttipatioa. It cannot a»*~* disturb SOLD EVERYWHERE
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    • 426 11 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA (TRUSTEES) LIMITED Guaranteed and Controlled by THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. The Company, which is incorporated in the S.S. and registered as a Trust Company, undertakes the fallowing duties:— LXECUTOR &OR TRUSTEE OF A WILL. ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF DECEASED PERSON, TRUSTEE OF A
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    • 314 11 STEAMER SAILINGS BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES For all information apply to: P. O. S. N. Co., The Agent, Collyer Quay, Tel. 5961. 8.1.5. N. CO., BOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, MOJL KOBE OSAKA. For PENANG, RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special Holiday
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    • 324 11 INDIA The best possible services are being maintained by The P. O. S. N. Coy. from the Straits to their usual ports of call in China, India, Ceylon and the United Kingdom. Passeng ers are requested to regista their requirements buf under present circumstance sailings are perforce res tricted. All
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  • 404 12 Reuter. AM London, Apr. 22. QiN the Crreek Iront, the situation remains serious. To-day's communique from British headquarters in the Middle East shows that the Imperial Forces have now occupied defensive positions south of Lamia, which is about 50 miles
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  • 123 12 Reuter. London. Apr. 22. GERMAN troops' continued their advance over the Pindus mountains and have reached the town of Annima. thus contacting th? main line of retreat of the enemy fighting on the Italo-Greek front, states to-day's German High Command communique. It adds that Italian forces from the
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  • 173 12 THE Germans are har^tt"' P 22 hoardings, out of sight of th? demolition and repair at Kiel *V' U i new areas, shipyards and the f P r of i h K e P rt were «w4t shattered by high explosives in t fire
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  • 94 12 Reuter. D London, Apr. 23. ECLARING that deeds of heroism among the bombed hospitals were legion, the Health Minister. Mr. Ernest Brown, addressing the Mansion House Hospitals Day meeting yesterday told a "simple but wonderful" story of a hospital telephone girl. Though lying
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  • 58 12 Reuter London, Apr. 27. THE alert sounded In the London area somewhat Inter than the times at which the two recent severe raids began. A few planes approached from the direction of the Thames Estuary and gunfire was heard Immediately. Enemy aircraft wis also reported
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  • 230 12 Reuter. London. Apr. >3. THE reason for Ihe liveh differ--1 ence of opinion which has arisen between Marshal Retain and the Vice-Premier, Admiral Harlan, is said by the informed Indenendent French agency to be Admiral Darlan s act on in handing over to
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  • 99 12 Reuter. London. Apr. 23. CINCE the beginning of the year. 18 French ships have been intercepted by the British. Eleven were taken into Gibraltar, two into Freetown, two to Table Bay. two to Durban and one to Mauritius. Four were outward bound from unoccupied France, one
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  • 259 12 Reuter. New York. Apr. 22. jjAVAI/S schemes for handing over the French air and naval bases to Germany were revealed to Marshal Petain by a French air ace of the last war. Major Fonck, who learned of these plans from Goering's entourage in
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  • 38 12 Reuter. London, Apr. 22. TREE French naval headquarters announce that a Free French submarine has carried* out a successful attack on a large tanker eflf the Norwegian coast. The tanker was hit by a torpedo and prcbably sunk.—Reuter.
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  • 43 12 Reuter. London j i F1 ALY and German them lost 996 pi; and on the ground East since Jan. i the latest official The Allied losses I against both the Germ Italians. Many R saved.—Reuter.'
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  • 12 12 Reuter. Washing Apr, untitled THE United States untitled air observer. Colonell -Reuter.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 50 12 PETROL RATIONING has forced many of us to seek entertainment at home, during our leisure hours. j HIS I MASTER'S j VOICE 1 It Ii COIt II provide the most perfect home entertainment. MOITTRIES j have a large and comprehensive stock and the prices are still at pre-war level. Masters-2
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    • 137 12 it TV J PSYCHOLOGIST). Over 11 JJar;?£ ar of study J n East and m a )aZZLmM w, t so you will receive reliable and Instructive advice to au T wh o are in trouble regard--1"?;.^ uslness Domestic. Financial. Health stHnt gl arrla g e and love affairs, etc RSmS
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    • 190 12 ••■■KfT ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES A quick-boiling Jug that has a The most hMi.tif.iii, capacity of 10 cups-suitable for Toaster on th mark-J ad-round purpose L market. AutoP matic device enable you to toast two slices of bread at a time and Just fill in with water, switch tne t0 P can
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    • 76 12 -for Uniii^ NOURISHMENT ENERGY HEALTH HOWARD AMERICA'S OLDEST RADIO MAMTACTIRFI 13 to 550 meters R F stage on all bands Push-Pull output with totem to*** radio system-equals to any good A C set. Full particulars from Sole Agents SPOT RADIO LTD., 58, Orchard Rd., Singapore 15 TEETH J/yV I \\t\
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