Malaya Tribune, 3 May 1941

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    22 1 The Malaya Tribune Na Sales Exceed 16,000 Daily SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Saturday, May 3, 1941.
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    IRAQ ASKS GERMANY FOR AID AGAINST BRITAIN
    155 1 LONDON, MAY 3. T WAS RELIABLY REPORTED IN LONDON LAST NIGHT THAT RASHID A LI, HEAD OP THE IRAQ GOVERNMENT HAS APPLIED TO GERMANY POR ASSISTANCE AGAINST GRE VT BRITAIN. yesterday afternoon is as follows: "People of Iraq, disown Rashid All and thos?
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    Iraqis Fired First Shot
    475 1 Reuter. London, May 3. I concentration of Iraqi troops around Habbania which an unfortunate clash with a British force stationed was realised in London last night. requests for their withdrawal, these Iraqi troops I on Thursday and early yesterday morning. They fire on the cantonments, obliging
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    Purely Military Revolt
    226 1 R liter's 'Uploma:ic correspond s:—The movement in h is now terminated in with the British a purely military revolt •me of the student elements, as usual in Oriental counines, are in the thick of it. l< ments of the army in Iraq ■dways be ?n mixed up
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    Attack On Tobruk Repelled
    67 1 Reuter. t Cairo, May 3. I Axis forces are now taking the most sustained ;t delivered against jooruk, declared a British mfli*Pokesman in Cairo last J hey are using a con'derable number of tanks. k which has already ressing for two or three s directed against
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    Halifax Confers With Mr. Sumner Welles
    42 1 Reuter. Tj. Washington, May 2. 1 British Ambassador, Lord Mr J 1 1 'onferred to-day with Sumner Welles, Assistant v of state, on the general aal situation with partirence to the position in u rn Reuter.
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    22 1 Reuter. Cairo, May 3. aircraft were over Alexanbetween 9.20 p.m. and t Thursday night. No was done, nor were there dttes. Reuter.
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    Turkey Remains By Side Of Britain
    180 1 Reuter. Istanbul, May "TURKEY remains straightforward, sincere and faithful to her engagements with Britain," writes the Turkish deputy Yaltchin, commenting in the newspaper, Yeni Sabah, on the Axis propaganda stories that Turkey is revising her policy towards Britain. "However, this friendship "does not impede
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    "Thumbs Up, Not Hands Up"
    81 1 Reuter. Washington, May 2. DREDICTING an eventual British 1 victory in a fight to the finish after which we should enjoy ''the shape of things to come," the British Minister in Washington. Sir Gerald Campbell, described in a speech to-day the British motto as "Thumbs
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    Paid The Price
    34 1 London's antiaircraft guns put up a barrage that is intense and accurate. This picture show* the icreckage oj a German bomber ichich was flit by a shell during recent night raid.
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    How One Brigade Of Anzacs Held Two Nazi Divisions
    1290 1 War Office Account Of B.E.F. Evacuation London, May 3. H 0W a small Anzac force fighting against greatly superior enemy forces, held a gorge in the region of Mount Olympus while the main body of the British Imperial forces withdrew, is
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    Wife's Insensate Jealousy
    53 1 Special London Cable From H. L. Hopkin Via Cable and Wireless. London. May 3. WHEN Mr. Ernest Hudspeth was granted a divoice on the ground of his wife's cruelty, the judge said that the wife was Insensately jealous of the women employees in her husband's office.— Via
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    British Doctors To Increase Fees
    40 1 Via Cable and Wireless. London, May 3. THE Council of the British Medical Association has approved the proposal recoTnmending that general practitioners increase their fees by net less than 20 cent.— Via Cable and Wireless.
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    Engagement Broken
    29 1 Via Cable and Wireless. London, May 3. THE engagement of Miss Evelyn Dearman, the tennis with Flight-It. J. A. Sinclair, has been broken off—Via Cable and Wireless.
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    Bomber Lost Propellers, Gets Home
    165 1 Reuter. London, May 3. ALTHOUGH his piane lost both propellers and sustained other damage in an encounter with five German fighters and from anti-aircraft fire, a pilot of a British bomber which raided the oil tanks near Rotterdam during daylight on Thursday made a safe
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    U.S. Air Observers To Go To Britain
    73 1 Reuter. Washington, May 2. FIE United States War Department disclosed that a number of junior air corps officers is going to England as military observers. Some will cross the Atlantic In planes bought by Britain from the United States. The idea is to
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    Imported Goat Stock Not Suitable For Malaya Serious Difficu Ity For Breeders
    603 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) QOL. de Buriatte's plea in the Legislative Council early this week for more active steps to encourage goat breeding and the greater need being felt in this country to produce locally as much of its
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    Bombers From Cents
    22 2 (Cent-A-Ptane Fund) Total number of enemy planes destroyed during yesterday on all fronts up to midnight London time.. FIVE
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    53 2 Under the auspices of the literary section of the Indian Youth League. Sjt. A. Ramasubramania Iyer, 8.A.. who is the local Tamil radio announcer and who is attached to the Ministry of Information Department, will deliver a talk in Tamil on the "Utility of Associations" at the League premises at
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    3 Seamen Fined For Desertion
    213 2 Singapore, Friday. THREE seamen, who were charged with desertion from a British ship in Singapore harbour, were this morning fined S5 each by Mr. C. H. Whitton in the traffic and marine court. Mr. Whitton said that he was treating them leniently because they were
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    14 2 Mr, S. F. Owen has been appointed a Deputy Quae Warden for FKhansr. i
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    Accused Pleads Alibi At Maxwell Murder Trial
    485 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) TITF A„r Ipoh Frida >'- |Hft defence opened yesterday in the Perak Assize Court case in which Haji Sulaiman bin Haji Abdul Wahid is charged with the murder of Mary Zeinah Maxwell on the night of Nov. 6 last
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    F.M.S. Estate Duty Bill To Be Amended
    542 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday. (From Our Own Reporter) AS the result of suggestions received from public bodies several important amendments to the Estate Duty Bill will be moved by the Legal Adviser, F.M.S., at the next meeting of the Federal Council on May 6.
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    Cyclist's Death: Driver Charged
    206 2 Singapore, Friday. ANG CHIANG POH, a lorry driver, claimed trial in the traffic court to-day to a charge of causing the death of Goh Wan Tah by colliding with his cycle and a furfher charge of causing hurt to T,eow Choo Hong at the sixth mile
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    Aussies In "Action"
    12 3 i AI F >\;:ce arrival in Malaya in rphrunr,.
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    He Kept Stolen Cycle Parts In Naval Base
    293 3 Singapore. Friday. 4 SUBMISSION that, since the arrest of the accused, the c thefts in Singapore, had decreased from .1 month, was mack' in the third court to-day •dicer in the case in which a Malay. Mohamed D ah. ii Naval Base
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    Chinese Jailed On Defence Charge
    69 3 Singapore, Friday. AiDJCTJRNED yesterday, the case against Chin Keng Jce. on a charge of being in possession of records of information as to the movements of one of His Majesty's vessels en May I, was concluded In the third court this morning. Convicting Chin Keng
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    12 3 Mr F. A. Smithers. Assistant Accountant, F.M.S.R.. has returned from Home leave.
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    YOUNG INDIAN ROAD LABOURER DISCHARGED
    214 3 Si ng a pore, Frida v. ABJUDICATED a bankrupt in n February 1937 with gross liabilities amounting to 52.133. a young Indian, V. Kanapathy, presently a Municipal road labourer, wy... granted a conditional discharge, from bankruptcy by the Chief Justice, Sir Percy McElwaine, in tne
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    Scrap Dumps To Be Kept Open For Three More Days
    206 3 go successful has Singapore Scrap Week been that the committee conducting it has decided to keep open for an extra three flays the three dumps that have produced the best results. They are these located at Clif- ford Pier, Grove
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    6 Months' Gaol For Lottery Offence
    90 3 Singapore, Friday. THREE Chinese—Koay Yap Chor, 1 28. Goh Yeang Kheng, 34, and Siew T?ck Koay, 26—appeared before Mr. L. C. Goh in the third court to-day on a charge of assisting in th? management of a chap-ji-kee lottery at a houje in River
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    Sequel To Hiring Car
    134 3 Singapore, Friday. ALLEGED to have committed criminal breach of trust in respect of a motcr-car, Soh Pong Sal claimed trial when he appeared In die third court this afternoon. Mr. J. Pillai appeared for the U nee. According to the prosecution, en July 4. last year,
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    S’pore Accident Ambulance Service
    66 3 SINGAPORE'S Accident Ambulance Service answered 357 calls during the month of April, 56 ,f these calls being outside the Municipal limits. Traffic accidents resulted in 85 rails; attempted suicide cases were ten with an equal number of shooting or stabbing cases; collapse cases accounted for 31
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    Chinese Art Uses No Lipstick
    1070 3 \N interesting history of Chinese painting was given in a paper, which was written by Professor" Liv Hai-su, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts. Shanghai, read by an announcer broadcasting from Singapore I last nitfht. The oldest Chinese paintings an; 1,000 years old. Then-
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    Case Called, Both Accused In Hospital
    84 3 Singapore, Friday. WHEN their case was called up this morning before Mr. Conrad Oldham, Wee Bah Yong and oon Nam Peng, the two accused, were both stated to be in hospital. It was stated that this was due to the fact that they had
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    Stole Anklet From Baby
    88 3 Singaoore. Friday. CAUGHT by detectives immediately after he had removed a silver anklet from the foot of a baby which was being carried on its mother's back, Lim Chee Yong. who had two previous convictions, was to-day by Mr. Conrad Oldham to a fortnight's rigorous imprisonment
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    SPRING GIRL, K.C.G. BEST BETS TO-DAY
    841 5  -  (BY SPECTATOR rCRATCHINGS have been fairly .heavy but the racing at Kuala J Lumpur should, nevertheless, be interesting to-dav final of the Selangor Turf Club's meeting. M Van Tooren's Spring Girl and Trainer Van Breukelen'« candidate in the seventh race, K.C.G., should make the
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    J.C.S.A. BEATEN IN FAST GAME BY AIRPORT S.C.
    170 5 THE Air] >rt outplayed the J.I >..\. on the J.C.S.A. i >iv. 2A match yestt ting them by three Th re was little to choose betwo teams in the firs 1, half Fxehanges w;re fairly even rt, how;ver, showed dash n their
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    LYONS MOTORS' SOCCER TEAM
    68 5 The fniin I s Jili vln g Players have been Motors t m J? Lyons Motors yt a ain st Malayan Same',: 1 11 a friendly soccer Sound 2, ay at Clerical Union Samad, ils Len Kwong. R. 5? Rim Nonis Eddie Cordeiro. lab t3 Hlrv
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    Y.M.C.A. Cricket
    56 5 Y .M.C.A. Cricket I wing have been selected r the V.M.C.A. against fution on Wednesday at itution at 2.15 p.m.": V. C Schubert, Cheong 8. Yogarajah, Tan Gl -ur. nh Au Tat Cnu Fun R phin e s L Velge, Robert P Loh. Ong Teik Sim. I t T oh
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    SELECTIONS
    45 5 Race 1: EAST LYNNE New Life Race 2: KALI LI Blaricum Race 3: ROYAL DESIRE Dordrecht Race 4: SPRING GIRL Thanksalot Race 5: STORMY NIGHT Lady Lustre Race 6: FLYING SCOTSMAN Marie Bruce Race 7: K.C.G. Sweet Collette Race 8: LADY ZENTA San Frisco
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    WEAK DEFENCE COSTS RECS POINTS
    246 5 THE Police beat the S.R.C. by five goals to two in a Div. 1 match p!ayed on the Stadium yesterday. Play was scrappy and the Police scored their gtals through weak defence on the part of the S.R.C. defenders. The S R.C attack was disjointed
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    17 5 Due to rain yesterday all ties in the S.C.C, S.C.R.C. and V.M.C.A. lawn tennis tournaments, were postponed.
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    HURRICANE B. P. BEAT BLAKAN MATI
    159 5 IN a friendly game of badminton played on their home court on Sunday, Hurricane BP. beat the Blakan Mati Sergeants' Mess BP. by 8 games to 1. Results: (Hurricane players mentioned first): p. Swyny beat Sgt. Leaney 15-7, 15-4; H. Schooling beat B. S.
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    64 5 The following members have accepted to play for S.C.C. first XI against the Army to-day and tc-mcrrow 2 p.m. and 11 a.m. at S.C.C.: H. L. Ward (Capt). T. V. F. Anderson, H. C. Brown. Dr. J. A. P. Cameron, C. Fitton 2jLt. P. B. Leckie, SjLdr. G P Longfield,
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    17 5 Keppel Golf Club's "Captain's Prize" competition will be Flayed for to-day and to-morrow on the club's course.
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    Sports Diary
    86 5 SOCCER: Div. I. SCF A. v Chinese Athletic, Stadium: Div. lIA, Fortress Signals v S H. 8.. Alexandra: Navy v RA i <BM>, Naval Hase; Div 118. Corinthinn.s Tost Office. Naval Base. CRICKET Rot v Australian Imperial i Forces. S.R.C S.C.C. v Army. S.CC; S.C.R C v St.
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    Mixed Foursomes At R.S.G.C.
    144 5 I The Royal Singapore Golf Club's mixed foursomes competition for April was played at Bukit Timah on Sunday afternoon and resulted in a win for Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Cramsie with a net score of 35 3 /4, 15 Cards were taken out and the
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    55 5 The following will represent the S.T.C. S C. against Johore Prisons Sports Club in a friendly soccer match to be played on Sunday, at the Town Board ground. Johore: Hashim; Narvas, Karim, H. Abdullah: 8. Omar, s. Ahmet, Dolmat; Mohd. bin Hussain, H. Gahan. Conceicao, Chye Hee. Reserves: M. Abdullah,
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    S.C.F.A's Late Recovery Beats Indian Assoc.
    368 5 S- CFA 3 LA 2. gY the odd goal in five S.C.F.A. defeated the Indian Association in a Div. 2B league match played on the Harbour Board ground yesterday. For three quarters of the time the Indians were leading by two goals to nil.
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    Y.M.C.A. Woter-Polo
    59 5 THE following have been selected 1 to play water-polo for V.M.C.A. (junior department) against Tiger Sports Club on Tuesday at Fort Canning at 5 p.m.: Tang Seek Wai, Lee Ah Chio, Lee Joh Ming. Chua Kirn Chiang (captain >, Tan Ban Hoe. Fong Kirn Choon, Tham Cheong Fai.
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    45 5 The first event of the 1941-42 swimming at the S.C.C. season will take place at the club on Sunday when the Novices Race will be held at 10.30 a.m. This event i open to members who have no previously won a prize at the club
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    SPORTS SHORTS
    282 5 THE Div. 2A. league soccer match I between the R.E. Malays and R.A.SC. which was to have been P-ayed yesterday was postponed. D S.G.C.'s women's monthly II medal lor May will be played on Monday. In the final of the women's Spring Cup for 1941 Mrs. C. A.
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      291 5 Septic Germs Lurk Everywhere The Least Scratch will lei* them in! To leave healing to chance is to them. No germ can get into a invite trouble. Practice SAFETY cut once Cuticura is applied. No j FIRST by keeping a tin of germ can live in contact with Cuticura Ointment
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    Make It "Full Out ALL THE TIME"
    152 6 Opinion MALAYA has been exhorted ■to go <4 full out all the time" in her war effort. It is a fine conception and every endeavour should be made to realise it, but there is little chance of that while the authorities, for reasons
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    Kid Glove Methods
    123 6 THIS war will never be won by adherence to kid glove I methods. It will never be won by strict adherence to rules which may have worked wel) in the days of chivalry. BUT THERE IS NO CHIVALRY IN MODERN WAR AND RULES ARE EXTINCT AS THE
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    Voluntary Effort Has Palled
    206 6 THE reason is that the authorities have not got a satisfactory answer. They them selves know quite well where public opinion in this connection lies. At least they should do if they pretend to be in touch with public opinion. And they are equally aware that
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    Hard Facts
    100 6 JF the Governments of Malaya wish to see a "full out all the time" war effort, they must recognise hard facts and give the people what they want. Their job is to help win this war in the shortest time possible and to do that they must encourage
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    U.S. Car Producers To Help In Mass Production Of Planes
    711 6 r JpHIS country's automotive industry, which produces 100,000 cars and trucks weekly, is turning its technique of mass production toward building a United States air armada of 60,000 planes. The added job of the automobile manufacturers will be: Production of
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    Dartmouth Opened To Poor Boys
    279 6 jQARTMOUTH, the Navy's "Sandhurst," is to be open by scholarship to boys from secondary schools and to ratings' sons. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced this in the House of Commons. He has drawn up a scheme by which the Royal
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    "DIDDLER" MACHINE RACKET AGAIN
    468 6 Troops On Leave Fleeced For Profits THE "Diddler" machine .is flourishing again in Britain, especially in side-street clubs and cafes where soldiers on leave get together. "Fruit-machine" gambling, which became .widespread .in London in 1938, was practically stamped out by the outbreak of war after the
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    HUN DEBT TO THIEF
    213 6 Plane Built From Stolen Plans GERMANY OWES HER BEST FIGHTER PLANE, THE MESSERSCHMITT 110, TO PLANS STOLEN FROM THE FRENCH BEFORE THE WAR. This was revealed by a Free French officer in London, concerned in initial experiments with the French machine. The ME 110 is, he
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    Pencils Of All Kinds Over The Seven Seas
    205 6 BRITISH pencil makers have set up a new record by their foresight in laying away great quantities of Virginian red cedar w«.»cd during the last months of oeace. These stocks, with new deliveries from Kenya, are enabling Great Britain to ship more
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    THROUGH CHINESE EYES
    563 6 E. T. Huang. THERE are common eharacte tics in human nature &nJZ out the world irrespective o a creed and environments r/ of these common 3£Js£ there are common social nrl. Prevailing in every difference is only on e of degree In view of this fact, international
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    NAZI TANKS FALL TO BRITISH AT TOBRUK
    456 7 Successful Counter Attack Reuter. JO-DAYS COMMUNIQUE FROM BRITISH HE ADOUARTFRS TELLS OF A BRITISH COUNTER- ATTACK IN TORRHK IN WHICH 11 ENEMY TANKS WERE DESTROYED T0BRUK IN the "utef th8 6nemy continued to attack me ouier aeiences ot Tobiuk. In one sector British
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    CIVILIAN AIRPORT OPENED IN TOKYO
    126 7 Tokyo, May 2. THE largest civilian airport in the Orient was opened at Chofu out-, side Tokyo at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning with due cer?mony. Built at a cost of 4,600.000 yen the airport covers 408 acres and is triple the size cf the
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    Cat And Mouse Operations
    201 7 B A P Crosse, Renter's c riespondent in the stern Desert*. Till Germans Hung out a small column of their advanced forces from Solium on Thursday afternoon. They sent an armoured ear patrol along two coastal roads leading east from the village, but when the British
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    LABOUR DAY IN CHINA
    24 7 Reuter. Chungking. May 1. I ABOL'R DAY was observed throughout Free China. All newspapers carried les yesterday, while the beflagged.—Reuter.
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    IN CABINET
    15 7 Lt.-01. Meore-Brabazon who is new in the Cabinet as Minister for Ainraft Production.
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    Col. Llewellin Found Malaya A "Grand Place"
    319 7 f*OL. J. J. Llewellin. the new Minister of the combined ministries Of Transport and Shipping and formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production came to Malaya in the early part of 1938 when he came to Singapore to attend the opening
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    21 7 Mr M. H. Blacker. M. C. S has been appointed Director of Passive Defence Service) for the district of Kuala Pilah.
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    "ALL SHIPS IN COMBAT ZONES TO BE RAIDED"
    142 7 Reuter. Stockholm. May 2. ILL ships, including American n warships, are liable to German attack within Germany's proclaimed war zones, according to an official German declaration, says :he Berlin correspondent of the Dagens Nyheter. This app'ies, continues the declaration, irrespective of whether
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    LIQUIDATION OF STOCKS
    25 7 New York, May I.—The British Treasury's agent announces that further 19 stock and five bond is sues were completely liquidated during April.
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    Chinese Councillor Kidnapped
    191 7 Reuter. Shanghai, May 2. WRITING another chapter in Shanghai's fast-moving history, the new provisional Council to govern Shanghai's International Settlement held its first meeting yesterday. The Council unanimously elected Mr. J. H. Liddell, China-born British, aged 41, chairman, and a Japanese, Mr. I. Okamoto, former Japanese Ccnsul
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    NATIVE TROOPS DISINTEGRATE
    109 7 Reuter. Cairo, May 2. VHE attack on Tobnjk appears to have been made by Italian troops and tanks, according to a military spokesman in Cairo. There is no evidence of the Germans participating. Reports hitherto are scanty and it is difficult to ascertain exactly what is happening
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    Roosevelt Jr. Sees China Military School
    123 7 Reuter. Chungking. May 2. CAPT. James Roosevelt, who is visiting China as military observer for the United States Government, and who is accompanied by Major Gerald Thomas, U.S.M.C.. made a trip to Chengtu. capital of Szechuen Province on Wednesda> morning by plane. They inspected
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    486 7 B.E.F. Retreat: Details Reuter. (By Desmond Tighe, Renter'a Special Correspondent evacuated with the British forces from Greece/ London, May 2. TIRED-EYED and unshaven gunnery major told me how, with other officers and a handful of men, he reached the embarkation port after fighting
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    268 9 Singapore, Friday. "D E w H r P iSad nt re the fi din retu ™<> by Mr. W. G. Po ter the Singapore Coroner, at the conclusion of the .nqun-y into* Coroner's Court this morning, into the death of a Hadam boy, Foo Kok
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    34 9 New Delhi, May 1. The residents of Jhana In Bihar have presented another fighter plane to the Royal Air Force. Already the Provincial War Committee of Bihar have cabled £5.000 to Lord Beaverbrook.—»By Radio).
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    DECREE NISI MADE ABSOLUTE
    98 9 A nprnr n Singapore, Friday. DECREE nisi granted to Mrs. „prf Mar K thleen Paglar, who sued in October last for a dissolution of her marriage with Dr. Charles Joseph Paglar, a private medical practitioner of Singapore EJ* made absolute, with costs! cy Sir Percy McElwaine
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    82 9 Singapore, Friday. A CHARGE of attempted murder 1 J* was explained to a 29-year-old Cantonese. Cheung Chan Chau. Uias Fei Chai Chau. in the third court this morning. Cheung was alieged to have "red a revo'ver at Ng Kirn Poh with the intention of
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    76 10 CHOO Mrs. Choo Cliwee Hock, nee Kang Cheung Neo, passed away ut 52, Upper Weld Road, Singapore, on 28th April, at 11 p.m. at age of 78, leaving behind her to mourn her loss—3 sons, Hong Bock, Buan Hai, Hong Thiam: 1 daughter, Mrs. Fang Cheng Yean:
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    893 11 Malayan Sharebrokers Asso. Report r omgapure. May. z. Uuy. .s. Sellers MINING. 3.- 3;s A" i 6 41 a 6;9 33 6 34 6 17 4>' 2 18,1 V a IP 0 75 0 80 12 6 14 i 1 30 1.33xd 9.3 9.9 t) 17 6 18 6 12-
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    430 11 DEVELOPMENT footages for the V period amounted to 1,036 feet, the same as for last period, states he April report of kaub Austra•ian Gold Mining Co. Ltd., issued yesterday by Derrick and Company, Singapore. «r^J?. < ieral review of the situation has poimitted arrangements being made to
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    79 11 New York. May ,—It is believed that the Government will subsidise the re-opening of the high-cost, copper mines as and when it is necessary to fill the huge demand, while certainly leaving the basic 12 cent price unchanged. Such subsidies will be considered as a last resort as Government prefers
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    435 11  -  By REUTER Cable INDIAN COTTON Bombay, May 1: There has been extensive buying of old April /May broach by potential squeezers which forced the advance on Monday and attracted liquidation, but the undertone aeain strengthened in sympathy with America. The relative absence of support, except for
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    236 11 ALTHOUGH the difficulties confronting interior China with regard to salt have not yet all been overcome, the situation is improving. The provinces of Szeehwan, Yunnan. Kansu, Shensi, Kwangtung. Chekiang and ,Fukien together produced 24,000,000 piculs of salt last year as compared with the
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    58 12 Reuter. London. May 2. ACCORDING to newspapei reports from Ankara, th* Iranian Ambassador in Turkey has denied a Vichy report that Iranian troops have been sent to the Russian frontier The Ambassador is stated to have added that there have been no Soviet military movements near the
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    156 12 Reuter. Gibraltar. May 3 "HITLER has tried repeatedly to drag Spain into the war with a view to attacking Gibraltar and closing the Straits." declared Lieut.Gen. Sir Clive Liddeil who is relinpuishing his post as Governor of Gibraltar in a farewell broadcast speech from his tunnelled headquarters in the
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    109 12 London. May 3. THE demobilisation of all Greek troops has be:n ordered by the War Minister in the Crc«k Quisling Government, according to the German Radio. 1 lie Prime Minister. M. Tsolakeglu. has i--ued a proclamation savins that further resistance is useless i: is added.- Renter. (From Our
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    669 12 Counter Measures laken Reuter. London, May 2. rpHE Unse situation in Iraq came to a head at dawn to-day A when Iraq artillery began shelling the British air base at Habbania, 60 miles west of Bagdad. The British forces were compelled to take counter-action. The
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    Inspects Sailors
    23 12 Mr Winston Churchill. BrL.ish Prime Minister, is seen inspecting >ailor s of the Free French Naval Forces at an English port.
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    U-BOAT. GUNNED BY SINKING SHIP
    216 12 Reuter. London, May 2. THE Battle of the Atlantic was revealed in human terms by the story of how women and children faced an attack by a German U-boat which torpedoed and sank their ship, when the passengers landed safely at i 11 A A.
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    EMPEROR OF JAPAN CABLES TO HITLER
    29 12 Tokyo. May 2. rHE Emperor of Japan yesterday cabled a message of felicitation 'o Hitler en the occasion of Germany's labour holiday Rcutec.
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    FIRST CLIPPER HERE THURS.
    91 12 ;-T is officially announced that the I first American plane with mail icr Malaya under the new Clipper service via Manila left San Francisco yesterday and is expected to arrive In Singapore on Thursday next. The second flight is due on May 27. and thereafter every
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    64 12 Reuter. London. May 2. THE Vichy statements about Free French and British troops menacing French Somaliland are denied in London to-night. It is stated that there are no troops at Zeila. a port in British Somaliland near French Somaliland, and that British troops in adjacent
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    222 12 Reuter. Cano Ml n 0 TO-NIGHT'S R A F. communique says thai 1 ers and fighters, which appeared in Largi Tobruk to support operations of their ground tro gaged by our fighters and at least three Me were shot down in flames. I The communique adds
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    216 12 Reuter. Washington, May 2. WHAT amounts to the first suggestion by a leading newspaper that the United States should enter the war was made to-day by the influential Republican organ, the Baltimore Sun. In a double column front page editorial headed •Britain Must Not Stand Alone."'
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    102 12 JHE French Jibuti, ever si when they Wire' with Vichy, hav< i operation with Bi latest official reaffirmation rf this attitude wi yesterday. But livin? condition have deteriorated tery has broken out. h the Jibuti authorities v< turn* to Britain—the only q which help could
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    65 12 Reuter. London. May 2 A SQUADRON of Yu planes is still ftghl the Cairo corresponds i,; uj Free French news a| < He adds that the V shortly re-establish siderable air force with American materia; ready on the way. According to authoiv slav circles, several hundreds i
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    40 12 Reuter. London. May 2 sources in B H firm that the G ace. Lieut.-Ccmmai r been missing since April 13 RM* learns. According to the Nazi* the Royal Oak in B also some 200.000 tons shipping.—-Reuter.
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    178 12 Melbourne, May. 2. J['HK evacuation of the Imperial forces from Greece has now been completed," says General Sir Thomas Blarney, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, in a dispatch to the Australian Army Minister, Mr. Percy Spender. He added that the total who got away v as 43,000
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