Malaya Tribune, 26 April 1941

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  • 22 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1941 FIVE CENTS. Saturday. April 2«, 1941. The Malaya Tribune
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  • 85 1 ~ml'>n. Apr 2fi. 11 rhrook, the ORIJ foi Aircraft Pro--1 recently coined .autifui bombs" ssage to all airrS) expressing past help and n for greater j in tuture. nee air frames h described a 9 lies with their ><;ineN wl ich magnificent ad;r's fashions, count
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  • 29 1 Apr. 2f.. I ih i. Sir Richard LI Col. John aken prisoner in this month, are a camp in P* neuter l. .i 11
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  • 28 1 Washington. Apr. 25. Si cretary of I -day that the w. continue to v lav re fusee Constantin (s its Mil iv Washing-
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  • 272 1 Reuter. fiuii- I*- London, Apr. 26. |HEdetenor.tK)ii in quality of Gorman armaments will result n n u i 0rU i of ferTOua alloys in Germany, decUtre.l Dr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, last night. He Mid that the bombs with which Germany was killing
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  • 55 1 Reuter. New York. Arr. 2b. PIGHTY-TWO per cent, of Ameri- cans believe that the United States will be Involved in the war before it is over, according to the iatest Gallup doI? taken between Apr. 10 and 20. x This contrasts with the percentage
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  • 124 1 Reuter. London, Apr. 2b\ 4 i i ship »1 16,006 tons was sunk one mile up Nieuwe Wattrweg soon after dawn yesterday morning, states the Ah Ministn news service. 7 d :n 25 feet, hit thrown ack smoke Th hip's crew re a'-o atid machineamp
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  • 54 1 _,j ?r London, Apr. 26. P~ wth of the air 6-•V"\ corps has necessitated of control In jj London. Thi s dcciAlr Secretary. Sir H Su* fair, s anno.iruod Ministry press conferif jji. within three nur.'hs has formed 95 Scotlauu -20 more i nvisaged for
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  • 154 1 Reuter. Washington, Apr. 26. DRESIDENI Roosevelt appeared to be purposely enigmatic when he parried a question about convoys at his press conference this afternoon but the general impression he gave was that the American 'neutrality patrols" would be extended further and further into the Atlantic.—Reuter. Cairo, Apr. 26.
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  • 56 1 Reuter. London, Apr. 26. THERE was little enemy activity over Britain yesterday. One bomber dropped bombs on a town near the south coast, causing a number of casualties and some damage. Subsequently, this bomber was shot down into the sea by British fighters,
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  • 56 1  -  SpeciaJ London Cable From H. L. Hopkin Via Cable and Wireless. London. Apr. 26. A DECREE nisi has been granted to Mrs. Beatty, daughter of Lord Southampton, on the ground of the misconduct of her husband, Major William Beatty. a trainer, with the usherette of a
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  • 53 1 Via Cuble and Wireless. London, Apr. 26. THE death in action is reported of Pilot-Officer Roger Hunter, a former policeman and well-known amateur boxer. He weighed 18 stone and was six loot eight inches tall, this earning him the nickname of the "Police Camera Via
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  • 75 1 Reuter. London. Apr. 26 THE Emperor of Japan yesterday 1 ratified the pact of neutrality between Soviet Russia and Japan and approved of the relative declaration signed at Moscow by the I plenipotentiaries of both powers. according to the Moscow Radio. On the Soviet slda, the Pre&di
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  • 30 1 Reuter. Rio de Janeiro. Apr. 26. LADEN with fuel, the German steam?r Babitonga "4.422 is repcrted to have left Santos yesterday for an unknown destination.—Reuter.
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  • 194 1 Big Battle Continues Cairo, Apr. 26. DESPITE very heavy fighting, the Empire forces in Greece are still holding unbroken their line against the advancing German hordes, according to reports received in Cairo last night. The situation of the Greek units who are still fighting is
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  • 120 1 Cairo, Apr. 26. COUTH AFRICAN troop*, advancing from Addis Ababa, are now within a few miles of Dessie— the hub of the supply system of what remains of Italian Fast Africa. The fall of Dessie would mean that the Italians would either have to try to retreat
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  • 78 1 Cairo. Apr. 26. TWO things arc deduced by wellLnformed circles from enemy cnslau D hts a ihISS Tobiuk —(11. that the British garrison is worrying the Axis QMrc «2». that .the enemy io. does not possess the strength of men and material with which tiie British
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  • 575 1 Reuter. Pittsburgh. Apr. 25. "'INHERE is no use in speeding up production here if our supplies for over there are to rest at the bottom of the ocean," said Mr. Wendell Willkie, commenting on Mr. Cordell Hull's and Col. Knox's speeches. He added
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    27 1 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth sign> the visitor's' book ai a London Ambulance Station during a recent tour of inspection of the city's air raid services.
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  • 74 1 Reuter. Shanghai. Apr. 26. I COLONEL Hu?h Chen-yuan, who commanded th? Chinese "doomed battalion" which beat off the Japanese for four days in Shanghai three years ago. has been stabbed to death in an internment camp in the International Settlement. Four men sprang on him from
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  • 69 1 Reuter. London. Apr. 26. A GREEK Cabinet meeting held in Crete, has instructed all Gietk Government officials and civil servants to remain at their posts on the mainland, according to the Swiss Radio.—Reutei. Borne* nere In dete, Apr. 20 The Greek Cebine,. held its
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  • 37 1 Reuter. Rome, Apr. 26. THE Greek Minister, with the Legation staff in Sofia have left j fcr Turkey, according to the official I Italian news agency, quoting a I Sofia despatch.—Reuter.
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  • 31 1 Reuter Cairo, Apr. 2(3. YUGOSLAV troops and plane have arrived in the Middle East to join the Allied forces to fight against tho Axis. —Reuter.
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  • 180 1 Reuter. East Coast Canadian Port, Apr. 26. rjOMMANDER Paul Cross, a j senior Canadian officer, re> ported that 40 lives were lost in the North Atlantic when a subI marine torpedoed the Etajputarn* j twice within two hours. The first torpedo struck th* Rajputana at 5.52
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  • 64 1 Reuter. Buenos Aires, Apr. 26. A CABINET meeting was urgently summoned yesterday by Senor Castillo, acting President of Argentina, at Ins residence. Afterwards, he told newspapermen that "important and serious questions affecting Argentina and determined by the European war" had been discussed. He said that iise
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  • 39 1 British Wireless. London. Apr. 10. GNE hundred enemy aircraft have so far been shot down this month ever Britain and around the ccasis. Of these 75 have been destroyed at night.—British Wireless
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  • 363 1 Reuter and British Wireless London, Apr. 26. Harlan, the Vichy Foreign Minister, has returned alter his visit to Paris, which is believed in Lonn connection with negotiations for closer co-operation French and German Governments. No information the visit is disclosed in Vichy but a meeting
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 659 2 THE QUEEN BEE (Tribune Staff Reporter) A LICE in Wonderland had nothing on a group of newspaper reporters and newsreel cameramen when they were given a demonstration of anti-aircraft shooting by R.A.F. personnel and members of a well-known Indian regiment "Somewhere-off-Singapore." High in a
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  • 81 2 AN Ordinance amending the Pro- bate and Administration Ordinance—to reduce the hardship of persons who have to collect small sums of money on deposit, or otherw'se payable, but which cannot be lawfully collected without letters of administration—was gazetted last night. The amendment empowers the Official
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  • 63 2 THE further blackout exercises 1 announced to take place in Singapore and Johore on Wednesday and Thursday. May 7 and 3, have been postponed. Ther e will, however, be an exercise for fire-watchers, and business houses in Singapore are asked to hav e their squads on duty.
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  • 35 2 Singapore, Friday. IN the traffic court to-day, Mrs. H I V. Morris pleaded guilty to a charge of negligent driving at the junction of Keppel Road and Cantonment Road at 10.15 a.m. on April 4.
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  • 410 2 part played by Malayan Trade Schools in supplying the R.A.F. with a growing- number of mechanics was referred to by Mr. R. Henderson, Organiser of Vocational Schools and Handicrafts, in a talk on "The Trade Schools of Malaya," broadcast from \he Singapore station last
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  • 89 2 The long-drawn cut dispute between the Malacca Electric Light ing Ltd.. and the Malacca Munici pality will be discussed, at the Company's 13th annual general meeting at Singapore, on Saturday next at 12 noon. The directors' report state tha a net profit of $87.830.04 was mad
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  • 23 2 Mr. Justice Pedlow and Mrs. Pedlow left for Australia yesterday on a holiday. They will be away for about five to six months.
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  • 22 2 (Cent-A-Piane Fund) .Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time. FIVE
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  • 350 2 Bills For Council rkFFICIAL confirmation of the 20 per cent, cut to be made in the maximum estate duty rate and several other amendmehts to be made to the Ordinance, announced in the Tribune yesterday, is given in a Gazette announcement made last night. Two
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  • 15 2 The Incorporated Society of Planters collection for the 1.8.P. I Fighter Fund has reached $24,033.
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  • 321 2 Singapore p. RECENT decision of the Municipal f in principle to increase the tax of $1 sterilised bitches, with effect from June I, ed as the result of the acceptance of a motioi Commissioners at their meeting to-day. The raotio Mr. T. W. 0
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  • 139 2 Singapore, Friday ALLEGED to br ed robbery at Mount Em night of Jan. 8 last when Eurasian, who was having a his fiancee, was forced I >ul with a sum of 41 cent- at th< of a knife, two Chinese, Teo A. Sai and
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  • 26 2 Mr. X P. Ifohai Indian Labour C» a '***** number ol M ncjv bo-day al T celebration of the birtl Prophet Muhamma I
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  • 1321 3 Social Evil Which Must Be Banished Commissioner Singapore, Friday, n :E was riddled with debt, which hung like a millind the neck of the debtor bringing with it ip, oppression and fear and it was a duty to see thing was banished from the lives of
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  • 19 3 The Indian Youth League has arranged a musical party for tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the League's premises.
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  • 219 3 Singapore. Friday. REPLYING to Mr. A. W. W Ker who brought up the subject of indebtedness among Municipal employees in Singapore at the Commissioners' meeting to-day, the Prtsidei.*., Mr. L. Rayman 'aid that Mr. Ker had touch<d upon one of the difficult problems, not peculiar
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  • 225 3 I Singapore. FridaI HOLDING that no blame could be, attached to anyb In view of the fact that the deceased was definitely under the Influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, the acting Coroner Mr. F T Clifton, recorded a verdict
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  • 70 3 Singapore, Friday. SAID to have cheated a compatriot of a bicycle. Liv Weng Cheong. 13. claimed trial before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the second police court, to-day. Liv told the magistrate that he borrowed the bicycle from Chan Woo Kee. the owner of the
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  • 134 3 Singapore, Friday. THREE members ot the Naval Ease police force were charged before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the second police court, to-day Radi bin Mohamed Ghani. (21) and Mohamed bin Abdul Raman (25) were charged with having at £30 a.m. on Mar. 19, at the
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  • 175 3 Singapore Friday. A DAY after he had stolen and pawned a fellow worker's silver watch and chain. Mahmood bin pawood. (18» produced the pawn ticket and confessed to his fi iend, Idris bin Haji Said, that he had siolen the watch. The watch and
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  • 98 3 Singapore, Friday. FOR attempting to take out of the Colony two unstamped letters i;i offence under th? Defence H gulations (non-Postal Communications!— Lam Vat Chor, 51. a sailor, was fined $20 cr 21 dnys' simpio imprisonment, by Mr. Conred Oldham, in the second police
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  • 81 3 Singapore, Friday. CHARGED with fraudulent possession of an Admiralty two-gal-lon petrol tin and two gallons of kerosine oil, Henry SharrifT. a 45--year-old European, claimed trial before Mr. Conrad Oldham, in the second police court, to-day. He was said to have been found in possession cf
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  • 86 3 WARDENS POST NO. 16 WARDENS' POST. PHOTOGRAPH OF POST 16, GROUP 1 n t* DIVISION Weo Am^jJl 0 leH *<> right—Wardens Yeo Kian Chuan, Chua Chwee Hong, We e Cheng Wee, Tnf.inr VI l Clarence Joseph, Neo Pee Wan, K. V. Aiyer, Tan Chwee Soon, D. A. de Foe, C.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 92 3 re pcs, careful!? in and send to: < (Malaya) LTD. BOX 118. Settlements. BRUSH YOUR TEETH THE SAFE WAY yuan smtmsima f USC ITS CHARM /^^X seeon a yi veil deal sa Be. and you must guard ft wfcfa **«atoot ear*. Behind th* jUnoi your teeth ianijere— aBT Bia Y
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    • 153 3 SAUSAGES that mil mane if oh ask for a second helping It's always a treat when S.C.S. /L >3Br SAUSAGES are pat on the table. fEs7^ Every sausage is packed with K<v x goodness and flavour. Delicious, too, v& are our CHIPOLATA, COCKTAIL /># and TOMATO SAUSAGES. K^P X^^^^^f PHONE:
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  • 273 4 JX a Div. lIA League match played on the V.M.C.A. ground yesterday, the Singapore Harbour Board drew with the V.M.C.A. 3-3. The match provided plenty of thrills. Within a few minutes of play, the Harbour Board scored through Sze Kong, who sent in
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  • 119 4 DUE to the unplayable nature of tho ground resultant from the early morning downpour, ties In the V.M.C.A. Open lawn tennis tournament were cancelled yesterday evening. Ties In the S.C.C. and S.C.R.C. Spring tournaments were however completed. Results of yesterday evening s ties are:— S.C.C. Women's singles (levels:
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  • 58 4 The Geylang Gaylads Party will meet Triangle Party in a friendly ooectr game to-day at Gevlani stadium. Gaylads' team will be selected from the following: Ja'obar, Kens; Choon. Benu Haar, Hock Eene. Jalil, Amat Ismail, Pio Chong (captain), Zainal. s. M. Shahab, Hong Poh. Sah Lee. Dollar..
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  • 191 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. JJURING the course of training this morning C. 0. Davies' candidate Bob-A-Nob stumbled and fell, throwing Harper, his jockey, clean out of the saddle. Luckily horse and rider escaped injury. Bob-A-Nob lav on the ground for B few seconds
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  • 163 4 THE women's golf match between 1 the Royal Singapore Golf Club and the Garrison Golf Club played at Tanglin resulted in a win for the home team by 33 points to 27. Details are as follows. R S G.C. players first: Mrs. R. Wakeford (12) 0
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  • 37 4 j Singapore Cricket Club's volunI teer snookers tournament final I will be played between H. M. I Vennik and Vaughan Jones and M. S. Robinson and W. H. PalI grave on Thursday at 6.30 p.m.
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  • 462 4 DALLYING late in the game, the Malays snatched a win from the Manchesters by three goals to two in Div. I match played at Anson Road Stadium yesterday. After a goalless first half the Manchesters led by two goals to nil but the Malay
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  • 346 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. j*HE following are handicaps for the first day of the Selangor Races: Lady Zenta 9.0 Speartown 8.12 San Frisco 8.11 Where Am I 8.6 Furious 8.4 Burraneer 8.4 Danger Zone 8 .4 First Ra 8.0 Flying Scotsman 7.13
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    552 4 AMONG the cricke t matches that the Indian Association will play this week-end is one against the Singapore Y.W.C.A. Team for this game will be: S. G. Singh Dr. A. C. Sinha. Ram Piara, Kuldip Singh, Wazir Singh, P. X Baskaran. Lall Singh <Capt.). M M. H. Namazie.
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  • 67 4 A soccer team to represent Tanjong Pagar Ranger s against Government Trade School at Trade School ground to-day will be chosen from the following: Baker Allapitchay. S. S. Ibrahim. S A Ibrahim K. A. Syed, V. O. Syed, *?yed. M N Syed, S. M. Shaik Mohamed, Kothari
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  • 52 4 SOCCER: Div L SCF dium; SCC v v serve Div.. Police Depot; Div. n Moravia. Alexandra Base Indiana v p CRICKET. SCO I S.C.C. II v SRC IT r»; B ee Canning v R v R. Navy. Bel* (H.Q.). S.C.R! C.S.C; Sinhalese McNair Roaci, V.M.C.A. AQUATICS: Slngapon pionshlps.
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  • 87 4 A CRICKET match between the n Singapore I rtn ss Si nak and the Police at Alexandra ye*, tcrday resulted in a p. in tor the former by a wide mar in i., r the Fortress, Wilkinson kn up a steady 55, uhih Webb* bowled well
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    • 18 4 @1 MINERAL WATER tntm th» Sclctir Hot Sprlag, Singapore, km alfcolmt drimtf irith NMjDtfa co*» roctivo propertit» ©F&M
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 186 5 Singapore, Friday 28. Goh eang Kheng, 34, and gjew Teck Koay 26, appeared be--0 0 Ml' lj C Goh ta the third court this morning on a charge of assisting in carrying on a pubiic lottery at 8.30 p.m. last night in a house
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  • 37 5 k VARIETY entertainment will bn hid a: the Victoria Theatrht at 6.15 p.m. i n aid irmelite Convent Building ma This entertainment will be t the Theatre on Monday, at lo p m.
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    24 5 and his bride Miss Mcrqarei Phyllis Massey, who wert a l fhe Church of The Holy Family. Thr Rev Father C. Gauthier officiated.
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  • 18 5 The Postal Department advises T?i?,L an air mail from the United Kingdom arrived on Thursday' norning a m
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  • 1062 5 Big Military Spectacle (From Our Own Reporter) WHILE Press cameras clicked and KSft. America and Australia made photoeranhir wJZZZl proceedings, one of the biggest and molt tapr^S^{|f. the spectacles that Kuala Lumpur has everwE£22i*JS Utary by huge, cosmopolitan crowds which lined the X*
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  • 136 5 A_ Singapore. Friday. T the continued hearing in the fifth court to-day. of the case in winch Lim Titian Soon is chargfd with extortion of $30 from Ng X.'m Heck, a sundry goods shopkeeper in Pasir Paniang, Mr S C Goho appearing on behalf of Lim
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  • 115 5 i CHANGE wil 1 be made in Singa- pore's radio programme timings as from tomorrow the children's broadcast will go on the air at 6.35 p.m. The British Broadcasting Corriation has announced changes, p'so to take effect from Sunday next. The news in French has teen
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  • 243 5 (Tribune Staff Reporter) GOVERNMENT'S own. rice null in situated withm easy access of rail, road and shipping- facilities is ready and will shortly he formally handed over to Government b Sme Darby and Co Ltd., who have been in charge of erectmg the new plant.
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  • 246 5 Singapore. Friday. MEMORANDUM urging the need for a separate racial grouping of the Ceylonese in Ma.aya in the forthcoming decennial census has been submitted to Ma'nvn U^f n K rr V lent of Census. by o thp Ceylon Tamils' Association, Singapore. reSrt STSSS in the
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  • 35 5 A Singapore. Friday, i the Municipal Commissioners' meeting yesterday the President. Mr. L. Rayman, announced that the new sewerage extension scheme had been practically completed and had been put intc operation since Monday
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  • 17 5 Rules and Regulations of the Tin and Tin-Gr? War Risks Insurance Order have been gazetted in Kedah.
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  • 152 6 Planters Fund Opinion ONE reason why charitame organisations should get creator public support in a 'period of prosperity, like the artificial one through which we are now passing, is that the calls on such associations are likely to increase when the causes which produce that prosperity cease to operate with
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  • 125 6 CIXCE the inception of the 0 Fund by Statute of the Federal Council in 1912 it has disbursed to beneficiaries— chiefly widows and children over a quarter of a million dollars. Unless a substantial reserve is built up now. when rubber is experiencing a mild boom, this
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  • 160 6 Asiatics Demand IT may not be out of place here to refer to the efforts beincr made by the Estate Asiatic Staffs Association to persuade employers to start a provident fund for the benefit of Asiatic employees. Although a tin mining group in the F.M.S. has already started such a
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  • 139 6 Rotarians Bill INSTEAD of the various industries tackling the problem piecemeal, it would be better if Government would step in and make provident funds compulsory in all private indus tries. It was with this object in view that the Rotary Conference, which recently met in Ipoh, appointed a committee to
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  • 254 6  -  llv James Hilton 'TAKE the character who is probably the best known in all English fiction—Sherlock Holmes. He lived, as everyone knows, in Baker Street, London, about half a century ago—and a very pleasant time and place to live, believe me. The facts of life
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  • 457 6 IT is natural, when we realise these strange and terrible truths, to wonder why the storm should have come upon us—to seek to pierce behind the veil of outward events towards some inner pattern, just as the victim of a motor-smash may think further than
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  • 299 6 IAM not going to blame the scientists—that would be too easy and too futile an alibi. It is not for a technician to hold back his skill because someone may misuse it. It certainly was a piece of sheer good luck for the last century that its
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  • 369 6 WE know now—or we are beginning to know—that i: was not enoueh. W e are already turning on the exterior lighting and turning on the central heating—we are already relight inn the h ros 01 iau to match the opposing fiic s of hatred. We
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  • 162 6 IET us thank God that a sen-.e J of Destiny has already returnid to our cause. The fires had burned low. but they will not die now of neglect. Our task now Ls to defeat the Great Conspiracy that threatens to put them out by force. It
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  • 241 6 THERE are signs from across the ocean that the Great Conspiracy is meeting its first real resistance. There are signs on this side of the ocean that the facts are being faced with ever-increasing resoluteness. Hitler has —quite unintentionally—done us some good as well as much
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  • 143 6 ONE thing is certain—whatever the outcome—it will be a vastly different world when this war Is over. If the Great Conspiracy succeeds, it will be a hard, implacable, leientless world in which individual freedom may disappear for :o long that mankind may even forget what it
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  • 254 6 To me, as an Englishman who loves America, one thing is to-day the brightest hope in a pretty hopeless world. It is the emerging shape of something that may eventually be born —not out of a clause in a treaty, like the League of Nations—but out of
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  • 185 6 MALTA, despite its many air raids, has benefited industrially from the war in the -Mediterranean. Lieut -Colonel A. V. Agios, first Trade Commissioner for the island to Britain, who has been in Eng- land for ten years, says: "Three trades formerly controlled j almost exclusively
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  • 215 6 ANCE in a generation an author pens a book Owhich contains the germ of Such an author is James Hilton and the hook Goodbye, Mr. Chips." None who read toe story or saw the play will soon forget "Chips ?St most lovable understanding and whimsical of schoolmasters.
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  • 210 6 IJUNDREDS of tons of snuff are still being sent overseas from Great Britain every 12 months. In the last year of peace the quantity was 6G2 tons, but most of it was used for killing insects. Of the whole amount six torn, only was for
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  • 526 6 R.B Ooi. IN up-country Chlnt took umbrage at mj con on Sino-Malay friendship because I did not follow lines of thought. He reminded me that the are a great race and our tion and culture are amoi highest in the world. I tin for his thoughtfulness in
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    • 113 6 Some singular people—many ot them ivith a claim to real fame died during 1940 almost unnoticed by the general pv. u Mc. Here are some of the names ?>/ a list compiled by W. E. Farbstent, arid given by the New Yorker THE man who made the first Ted1 dv
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  • 125 7 Shanghai, Apr. 2b. i -yuan, commander L ta's "doomed battalion" world-wide fame by its rear-guard action against tnese in the Shanghai bat--1937. was stabbed to death ay morning by four of his men in an internment camp lational Settlement, in command, Major -sze, was also
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  • 320 7 200 Dessie Wops Dead Reuter. YESTERDAY the enemy made a f,.r«h Cairo A P r 25. fences of Tobruk. This attack Zt against the outer deihe e.,emy who left in our hands m PU,Sed with heav V to whom a number were
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  • 67 7 Reuter. Pr 25 —Mr. David BaSf;S tlsn missionary arrested in tSk 1 1 f rovince J a«t September and held in confinement since, has been sentenced to tour years' imE ll 1 1 by a Japanese military SS?V' Thl was in a rehi y cd° ln
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    116 7 Reuter. And Australians, now reinforced by fresh arrivals who are Helping to protect Singapore and its approaches, are ieadv for an equally determined defence of the northern gateway to the vital area of the Southern Pacific The Times adds tnat there is obviously some soreness in Australia over
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  • 23 7 REUTES. M.Uri "W? VOU ARRIVED AT AIOSI L. IN THE IR4O mi HFLDS. ACCORDING TO SSS SSS 1 ERENCH
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  • 222 7 U.S. COMMENT Reuter. miin o London, Apr. 25. THE British are in no worse a position than had they reM utefl passive, bui the Germans says the New York Heraldiripane, commenting on the situation in Greece. British losses in troops and equip men! are
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  • 99 7 Reuter. THE Akron Beacon Journal states: 1 "Until rscently one notable characteristic cf the European war has been the comparatively small death toll In the ranks of the opposing armies. "If estimates are correct Germany's advance to Greece has already cost 50.000 lives and
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  • 50 7 Reuter. Port of Spain (Trinidad) Apr 25 DETACHMENT of United States troops arrived at Port of Spain yesterday. Its arrival follows the signature on Tuesday of a 99-year Crown lease granting the United States the site for a naval base in Trinidad under the Destroyers-for-Bases agreement.—Reuter
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  • 196 7 Reuter. THK Times mili+.~ London, Apr. 25. »ho Greek fore h,h QUestion arises of how far were previoul v atfonJdC'iT 'V*""* the PinCerS r lauoned farther south, will be able to Dro- long their resistance. He says that it is not possible hv fin ri
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  • 105 7 Reuter. Tvn? n London, Apr. 25. H fi It P ermans are swarming like Europe y o!' e 2** S* fair o prL ?t P ne day there shall be a IZu Cl !f ng; declared Dr Hugh Bffi3«ta Ministe r of Economic day. speech m L
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  • 109 7 London, Apr 25 MR. A. G. Walkden «Labour* ask"fj n th House of Commons yesterday whether Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Home Secretary now proposed to detain Miss Unity Freeman-Mitford. one of the Daughters of Lord Redesdale and who returned to England from dent many laSt
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  • 77 7 (From H. L. Hopkin) I London. Apr. 25. i TEN days must elapse before the 1 doctors will know whether the [sight of Air Commodore Patrick Huskisson the bomb expert to whom the Minister of Aircraft Production, Lord Beaverbrook paid a tribute in the
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  • 383 7 Reuter. London. Apr. 25. JHE Anzac Day luncheon held at Overseas House, London to-day was a function which reflected the drama of events on the anniversary of Gallipoli in the same corner of Europe today. Mr R. O Menzics, the Prime Minister of Australia,
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  • 368 7 Anzar Leadership Landed Tin j,.• 1j• London, Apr. 25. leadership of Generals Sir Thomas Blamev and B. I rev berg was stressed by the Dominions Secretary 7 m his Anzac br °adcast to Australia and >( w /t aland to-day. try that always plays for safety," said
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    • 212 9 You Must See "VIRGINIA" 1 —i At »he CATHAY TO-DAY 3^6., 5 9.|jl Madel, »<^m^ :arro,, iU Para '»*unts newest To-morrow at 11 a.m. MatineeBy Popular Request Full Length Feature Cartoon in Technicolor <><Lnvi;ns travels Grand Midnight PremiereTo-ni'ght 12.15 O'clock I \DVENTURE! ROMANCE! 'A CFDRIC HARDWICKE Jenme Cowan Si) 111
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    • 604 9 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS Domestic Occurrence ENGAGEMENT CHRISTIB-D(JRATSAMY.—Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Christie of Seremban announce th e betrothal of their daughter Annabella to Theodore Doraisamy, of the AngloChmcse School, Singapore, eldest son of the late Rev. and Mrs M P. Doraisamy of the Methodist Mission of Malaya. Situations Vacant Agents, Salesman
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    • 253 9 TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT GRAND OPENING OF ASMARA DHAIVA (No. 1 OPERA DIRECT FROM JAVA) THE OPERA OF OPERAS I THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN MALAYA 65 SELECTED ARTISTES Including RADIX ISMAIL, Java's AM-round Character Actor MUSTAJAB, Java's X„. 1 Character Actor JUSOF, Java's well-known actor IDRIS, IJURIAH, The Nightingale Of Java And
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    • 772 10 Sf5!^^iIp«iiiEP-flPs^ Situations Vacant WANTED LADY TEACHERS for nn English School. Box 57«, Malaya Tribune, Singapore. (No. 334H» TEACHER FOR STD. VI. Appiv personal. 7 Le Mercler School 218 Queen Street. Singapore. (No. 324H> WANTED LADY TEACHER, state single Or married salary required Box No. SCO. Malaya Tribune Singapore. (No. 302H)
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    • 819 10 To Let MODERN BUNGALOW, lOC. Branksone Road. off Arthur Road. 3 bedrooms. 3 baths uttached. rent $90-. immediate possession. "Phone Akerlb, 5811 or ***** After office hours. (No. 308H) TO LET Rooms In private residence near Farrer Park, single person preferred Enquire at—2o4, Serangoon Road, Singapoie. (No. 325H; TO~LET Bungalow
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    • 749 10 Financial EUROPEAN requires urgently loani J $300 repayable monthly Instalments, gjly Box* 565. Malaya Tribune Slngapore. WANTED FINANCIER for sound establish ed business extent of $500 to $1.0001 For particulars apply Box 543 MaLiy-i Tribune. Singapore (No. zun. Personal VACANT in HOME 2 large rooms with bnl Suitable 2 pals
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    • 550 10 AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE LEASEHOLD FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES TO BE HSLD AT THE SALEROOM OF MESSRS. CHEONG HOCK CHYE CO., LTD. No. 1-A, (First Floor) Raffles Place, Singapore. On Thursday, Ist May, 1941, At 2.30 P.M. Lot 1. No. 68 Middle Road, area 1,047 sq. ft., 999 years' lease. Rent
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    • 57 10 HCAI R t jjj For STYLE, COMFORT, ECONOMY, Consult thf ORIENTAL OPTICAL CO.. MANUFACTURING OPTICIANS Head Office- 162, South Bridge Rd., Branch Office: 348, N. Bridge Rd., SINGAPORE. FREE TESTING Buffer from^ Abdominal Pain Indigestion Loss ol Appetite Headaches Sleeplessness Nerves (olds and 'Flu Weariness CONSTIPATION Can be the cause
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    • 349 10 National Employers' MUTUAL GENERAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION LTD. (Incorporate! In England.) Merer Chambers, Raines Place, SINGAPORE. Tel: 2845. ASSETS EXCEED £2,C00,000 GENERAL RESERVE FUND £600 000 CAREFUL DRIVERS' MOTOR POLICY. 33 1 3% NO CLAIM BONUS Fire Workmen's Compensation Third Party APPLY FOR AGENCY TERMS SELAXCOH Tl «F CU B SPRING
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    • 757 10 SINGAPORE LONDON ZHL 225 m. 1333 k\c*. EASTERN TRANSMISSION ZHPI. 30.96 m. 9.69 mci. CSV -1684 m <nk i 2 ZHP 2 48.58 m. 6-175 mjcs. 615 p.m. to m s > ZHP.3 41 38 m. 725 mjcs. GSF 19 «1 m ZHL, ZHPI, ZHP2 ZHP3. 6.15 p.m to 11.
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  • 721 11 Singapore, Apr *>5 *nv',v-« Buyers Severs MINING. Tin (4s) '3;- 3 i6 Amal. (ss) 6.414 6 9 i Malay 3316 34|e n> < ss > 17;4>/ a 18,1 >i v. ng ($1) 0.80 0 85 Tin 12 6 ML, Q| r ($1) 135 1.38 cd I
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  • 169 11 THE Singapore Chamber of Com--1 mercc Rubber Association sale Wednesday, resulted as follows: Catalcgued 1.749.225 1b5.—780.90 tons. Offered 1.568.474 1b5.—700.21 tons Sold 1.451 743 1b5.—648.10 tons. London—Spot 14% d. New YorkSpot 223 8 cts. Prices realised were: Ribbed smoked sheet: Standard quality 39U to 39% cents;
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  • 25 11 MR. Yap Pheng G3k will address the V's Men's Club on "In Vacant or in Pensive Mood" at their weekly luncheon to-day.
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  • 402 11 Singapore, Thursday. JT mlghu. reasonably .have >been expected that the sequence of events on the Miore s of the Mediterranean would hay t.er rlsed a pronounced effect on prices, out actually there is no important movement to record in any of the market*, states the weekly
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  • 492 11 F.S. LEAD COTTON New York. Apr. 24: United States lead production in March totilirri ting to tons and storks ni 46.000 tons compared with the fn5 n S, fn reS f *****: and 56 600 tons, respectively Cotton mill support of local cov
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  • 84 11 Singapore, Apr. 25. Gambler 7 50 Java Cube 12 00 Hamburg Cube 1250 White Pepper 13 75 Muntok White Pepper 14 25 Black Pepper 7 25 Mixed Copra 2 25 Sundried Copra 2 50 Medium Pearl Tapioca 8 50 Small P?arl Tapioca B*so Small Flake Tapioca 7 50 Fair
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    • 368 11 STEAMER SUJLI\f.S 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., EOUSTEAD CO., LTD., Tel. 5497. 8.1.5. N. CO. (APCAR LINE) For HONGKONG, SHANGHAI MOJI. KOBE OSAKA. For PENANG. RANGOON CALCUTTA. Regular Sailings: Special Holiday
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    • 329 11 BRITISH INDIA The best possible servi.es are being: maintained by The P. O.S.N. Coy. fron the Straits to their usu;S ports of call in Chin; India, Ceylon and th> United Kingdom. Passens ers arc requested to regzsta their requirements buf under present circumstance sailings are perforce res tricted. AM vessels
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    26 12 Another new cruiser for Britain's Royal Navy, another guardian of the life-lines of the British Empire, takes t the sea at a British yard.
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  • 219 12 Orderly Withdrawal Reuter. ATHENS, APR. 25. FOLLOWING AN ULTIMATUM FROM GERMAN FORCES r WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY OCCUPIED THE ISLAND OF SAMOTHRACE. 30 MILES TO THE NORTH-EAST. A GERMAN CONTINGENT AT 5 A.M. TO-DAY LANDED AT LEMNOS. THE STRATEGIC GREEK ISLAND NEAR THE ENTRANCE
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  • 104 12 Reuter. Washington. Apr. 25. WHATEVER may be the outcom of the present phase of the j war in Greece. I believe that the Greek people will ultimately achieve victory with regard to the political independence and the territorial integrity of their country," declared President
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  • 105 12 Reuter. Stockholm. Apr. 26. ITALY alon? would not have succeeded in conquering little Greece." declare the newspaper Dag-ns Nyhetcr. "The final outcome was certain when the Germans started but even during the last phase the Gre-K name shines undimmed in lustre. Discussing the
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  • 126 12 Reuter. Bombay, Apr. 26. THE police opened fire yesterday at three different points in the centra of Bombay city, following a recrudescence of communal rioting. Since the riots broke out last Sunday, four hav<* been killed and 90 injured in Bombay. The situation is now
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  • 70 12 Reuter. Simla. Apr. 26. THE training of Indian officer cadets for the army was personally inspected by Gen. Auchin'eck. the Commander-in-Chief when, as part of a scries of tears of rnilitarv establishments in India he recently paid flying visits to training centres at Mhow
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  • 29 12 Reuter. London, Apr. 26. MR. Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, will be broadcasting in the heme and overseas programme of the B.E.C. at 8 p.m. (Greenwich time > to-morrow. —Reuter.
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  • 276 12 Axis Troops Possibly l here Reuter. WASHINGTON, APR. 25. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT GREENLAND HASBEEN PARTL* 1 OCCUPIED BY AXIS FORCES SAID PRESIDEM ROOSEVELT AT A PRESS C°N F ERLNCL ADDED THAT HE HAD NO DEFINITE INF ABO I T raa He leplied
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  • 71 12 Reuter. London, Apr. 25 The Indianapolis Star says regarding the R.A.F. raids on Berlin: "The average German lacks the bulldog tenacity of the Briton, many Germans being arrogant in victory but whining when the going is very tough. •The Nazis have been fed on propaganda on the aerial invincibility, and
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  • 108 12 Reuter. New York. Apr. 25. THE speeches of Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and Col. Frank Knox, the i Navy Secretary, are given great prominence in manv S morning newspapers and in- y terpreted by editors and broadcasters as strongly sus- gesting an
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    • 589 12 Public Notices ASIA INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) Proposed hsue of Duplicate Certificate Application has been made to the Directon ol the above Company by Turn Soen Nio of No. 63 Branksome Road, Singapore, married woman and We? Sin Choc, Managing Director of Messrs. Cheong Koon Seng
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    • 92 12 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS. TENDERS are now invited for 'he following materials or service For particulars see Municipal Tender Room Supp'.v of Liquid Chlorine for "the period 17 41 to so 0 42. 12 noon, 10 June 1040 Supply of Lump Steam Coal during 2nd halt of 1941. (Deposit $50.. 12
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    • 142 12 I CLAREMOXT j No. 144. Klang Road, Kuala Lumpur. 3'» miles from G.V.O. Board Residence In large airy Compound House with spaci- ous balcony and running water to each room. Modern sanitation and garage facilities. Very moderate Daily and Monthly terms. Apply: No. 5, Market St., or Telephone K.L. 2754,
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    • 69 12 HI mm\mmW The high curative value of a pare Castor Oil for constipation is recognised but the unpleasant taste is disliked by many. No more need now for camouflages and trick ways of disguising the taste. AILENBURYS C. a STOR 011, is really tasteless, and it carries the guarantee of
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