Malaya Tribune, 3 June 1941

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  • 21 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales ExceedJ6,ooo Daily SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1941 FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Tuesday, June 3, 1941.
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  • 271 1 Reuter. ape Town, June 2. j GRAPHIC description j A of the scenes during j the action in which the I cruiser Cornwall sank a i (itrman raider in the In- dian Ocean was given by j a South African member of the ship's crew. He
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  • 104 1 Reuter. Washington, June 2l nt United States Ambassador to Britain. Mr. John Winant, has gj rnefi to the United States from S' n only for a general ex*nge of view, according to a by a State Department to the press. »ne official, seeking to allay
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  • 359 1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS WITH CAIRO STOPPED BY FRENCH Reuter. EVENTS HAVE MOVED SWIFTLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST THEATRE OF WAR FOLLOWING THE EVACUATION OF CRETE. Gen. Dentz, High Commissioner of Syria, has proclaimed a state of siege in eastern Syria, according to the Paris Radio,
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  • 136 1 Reuter. London, June 3. The passage of German warplanes eastward to Syria from the Nazis' newly-occupied Aegean bases has been augmented greatly during the past five days, according to reports from Turkey's southern frontier, stated Mr. Winston Burdett, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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  • 164 1 Reuter. Washington, June 2. SINCE the anti-English outburst on Saturday of Admiral Darlan, the Vichy Vice-Premier, no one can doubt that the officials in Washington now regard France as a part of Nazidom for all practical purposes and that henceforth, French deeds will speak louder
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  • 369 1 Reuter. New York, June 3. "lIITLER will not win," declares Mr. Harry Hopkins, the Lease and Lend Administrator, in an article appearing in the July issue of the magazine "The American. He bases his prediction on the four following essential facts: "Hitter has not
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  • 254 1 Axis C-In-Cs Dictators Meet Reuter. London, June 3. ACCORDING to the Lyons Radio, both the German and Italian Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Keitel and Gm. Cavallero, were present during part of the discussions between Hitler and Mussolini at the Brenner Pass yesterday, which lasted five hours with a brief interval for lunch.
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  • 21 1 Reuter. Dublin, June 3THE death roll from Saturday's German air raid is now 34. At least 500 people are homeless.— Reuter.
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  • 79 1 Reuter. Chungking, June 3. FE British Embassy was badly damaged and the French Consulate demolished -Alien 27 Japanese aircraft raided Chungking yesterday. There were no casualties among the Embassy staff Bombs landed immediately behind the office of the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Ken, but did not
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  • 265 1 Reuter. Pciping, June 3. JAPANESE operations in South Shan si have not been entirely successful and the Japanese arc suffering considerable losses, according to reports reaching Peiping. The'teports indicate that many Chinese units have broken north through the Japanese encirclement and that the fighting is spreading
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  • 116 1 Reuter. Cairo, June 3 AS a result of recent events, the GJkek Government has tendered its resignation to the King of the Hellenes who, desiring to employ certain ministers on mls>sions of nationa? importance abroad, and being convinced in the present circumstances that it is desirable to
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  • 72 1 Reuter. Lisbon, June 3 A HINT of possible rationing is contained in an article published by the Diario de Manna which, after pointing out the difficulties caused by the restriction of imports and calling for increased national production, says: "It may be necessary to control consumption
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  • 390 2 Reuter. Tokyo, June 2. PRESIDENT Roosevelt's ad- ministration is accused of a desire to minimise Japan's position in the Pacific preparatory to shifting strong units of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic" in an editorial in the Yomiuri Shim bun. deprecating reports in the United States
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  • 168 2 Reuter. Elizabethville, June 3. "THE achievements of the South. 1 African Army and Air Force have earned the admiration of the people of the Belgian Congo." This was stated by the GovernorGeneral, M. Ryckmans, in presenting a cheque for £500 to FieldMarshal Smuts' Birthday
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  • 53 2 Reuter. London, June 3. SLIGHT enemy activity off the 1 coasts of Great Biitain is recorded in an Air Ministry communique. It add« that a single enemy aircraft dropped bombs at a point In the north-east but only minor damage was done and no casualties
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  • 167 2 Neutral Commentator Says Enterprise "Risky" Reuter. Lisbon. June 3. I*lo reason for alarm at the Japanese threats in the Far East is seen by Major Alexandre de Morais, Portugal s best-known military commentator, writing in the Seculo. He says:— "Japanese attention
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  • 448 2 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipoh, Monday. CONVICTED on a charge of house-breaking with intention to commit theft on the nignt of Maj 3 at a house in La hat Road, Cheong Yui, was sentenced to a year's rigorous imprisonment when he appeared before Mr. P.F.Y.
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  • 84 2 Reuter. Washington, June 3. THE House of Representatives today passed without debate, and sent to th* Senate, legislation permitting President Roosevelt to appoint an unlimited number of viceadmirals to have charge of "special and unusual" missions of the naval forces. High naval officials at recent
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  • 42 2 Reuter. Moscow, June 3. M ZVTV the Commissar for Finance, has announced by radio the flotation of an internal loan of 8,500,000 roubles. He declared that the loan was necessary for the fulfilment of the 1941 plan. —Reuter.
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  • 29 2 Mrs. R. A. Barbour has returned to Kuala Lumpur from a holiday in Australia, having left bar two daughter*, •ally and JBl, at school at Qeelong, Vic-1 torla. 1
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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.. EIGHTEEN
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  • 99 2 Reuter. London, June 2. IT is learned in London that in Abyssinia patriots have been active in the neighbourhood of Lake Tana. They have cut the road from Debra Tabor to Gondar and continue to harass the enemy round Chelga. In the south our troops are making progress
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  • 80 2 Reuter. London, June 3. THE French ship Winnipeg (8,379 tons) was intercepted by the Royal Netherlands warship Van Kinsbergen in West Indian waters, says a Royal Netherlands naval communique issued by the Admiralty The Winnipeg sailed from Marseilles ana had called at Dakar. When intercepted,
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  • 36 2 Reuter. Bombay, June 2.—The communal riot situation deteriorated to-day when three people were stabbed to death and nine others were seriously injured. Stray assaults continue and the total casualties are now 39 killed and 213 injured.—
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  • 149 2 Reuter. LONDON had tlWteSfiay W activity during Ma y ft v? experienced in any montxi?* intensive raids began last Only 12 alerts were on one night. There 5*5 nights during the month 1?' London was free from air art?? 1 The 12 warning, totalled hours.
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  • 74 2 Reuter. Chungking, June 3 THE. Chinese newspapers yesterday gave prominence to text of the letters exchanged tween the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordeli Hull, andDt Quo Tai-chi the new Chine* Foreign Minister. In which i United States agree* to relinquii her extra-territorial rights
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  • 112 2 (From Our Own Correspondent! Malacca Tuesday A pretty wedding was solemnise; yesterday morning, at Francis.' Church when Mr 1z Kirn Seng and Miss Low Xi Lian were married. Quite a gathering was unH| both at the Church and later r the reception at the Cap Dance Hall. Rev.
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  • 82 3 Li i Indiana), May 31. p. as a relief driver (his own D been forced out of piston troubles* won the famous 500 tpolis Grand Prix in 4 6.17 seconds at a peed of 115.117 miles fchich is the second fastest lime in history of the
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  • 370 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) '1 111- Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States Department of Commerce has undertaken a world-wide survey in respect of United States short-wave broadcasts, the ultimate object being t 0 discover what improvements can be
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  • 218 3 jpRANK JOYCE—23-year-old brother of "Lord HawHaw"—who was released from internment on May 9, has left his home at East Dulwich, for an unnamed destination. As soon as he was released he went to his home in Underhill-, road. East Dulwich, S.E., where he was welcomed by
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  • 45 3 Reuter. Chungking, June 2. HEAVY fighting is progressing along the highway from Hungtung, on the Tungpu Railway, eastward toward Wuhu, as the Chinese, after moving northward from the Chungtiaoshan Mountains are pushing against the Jaoanese, according to Chinese' field despatches. —Reuter
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  • 29 3 "A Dyak Feast" is the title of a talk to be broadcast from Singarore by the Rev. H. B. Amstutz to-night (Tuesday, June 3) at 7.15.
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  • 41 3 Deciding matters that affect the whole Far East is this conference at the Singapore Naval Base, H.Q. At the head of the table is Air Chief Marshal, Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, surrounded by some of his st".ff.
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  • 60 3 THE Bismarck finally became victim to a force consisting of three battleships, one unnamed aircraft carrier and several cruisers and destroyers," snid the Berlin Radio in its Hindustani broadcast on May 28. Eeilin's reluctance to name the aircraft carrier is understandable. It was the
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  • 25 3 Reuter. Washington, Jun* 2. PRESIDENT Roosevelt has sent Congress a message recommendin? additional appropriations of $125.000.000 for special defence highway construction.—Reuter.
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  • 20 3 Mr. E. H. S. Bretherton. of the Malayan Educational Servlre. has been appointed to officiate as Inspector of Schools, Sflangor.
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  • 688 3 Hongkong, May 21. TRIBUTES to the sterling qualities of the new Commissioner of Police, Hon. Mr. J. P. Pennefather-Evans, and pledges of co-operation and loyalty were expressed by Mr. Abbas Khan, Hon. Commissioner of Police Reserve, and Mr. H. J. Ruttonjee, jun., in
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  • 26 3 Commissions as Temporary untitled lieutenants In the PMB.V.P. have been frrant«d to Mr. E M. Scoular. Mr H. E. Deach and Mr. H. A. P. Brooke.
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  • 152 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) POSTPONEMENT of the opening of the local Colleges to firstyear students to perhaps early July has been officially decided upon. This is the sequel to the late arrival of the detailed results of the Cambridge Examinations, it is learnt. The Education
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  • 263 3 Lonc'on, May 31. PRIVATE the Hon. Power Edward Ford Le Posr-Trench, 24-year-old son ol" the fifth Eirl of Clanearty and hall-biother of the present peer, gave evidence at his court martial at Aldershot on charges of desertion and tatting worthless cheques. He said that he had
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  • 39 3 THE Royal Johore International Club will hold a dance on Sunday, June 22. Music will be supplied by the orchestra of the Johore Military Force*, by kind permission of the Commandant. His Highness the Sultan of Johore.
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  • 580 4 Yesterday's Ipoh Races (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER) IPOH, MONDAY. TRAINER VAN BREUKELEN HAD AN EXCEPTIONALLY 1 GOOD SPELL AT THE SECOND DAY OF THE IPOH RACES THIS AFTERNOON WHEN HE SADDLED FOUR WINNERS IN SEVEN EVENTS. w~% a m w-i m 1_ Except for
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  • 257 4 Race I—Char $39, $9 Shoot Up $8 Spring Girl $10 Race 2—Remember Me $18, S9 Spitfire $21 Royal Desire $11 Race 3—East Lynne $76, $19 Danse dv Ventre $16 Marnell $15 Race 4— Luluai $24, $9 Argoutat $14 Sir Merton $8 Race s—Nightshade $30, $9 Phariol
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  • 397 4 rREE goals scored in the j first half earned Ford S. I C. victory over Brinkmann > S. C. in the Business Houses. League. The match which I was played at Anson Road. Stadium yesterday, was the j last match of the season for Ford's. Ford's thus
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  • 605 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. THERE was an exciting ending 1 to the Penang-Seiangor cricket match to-day when Selangor just failed to beat their northern rivals, who, given 161 runs to make in two hours after Selangor had declared, stone-walled their way through
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  • 32 4 Reuter. Chicago, June 2. Perry and Budge won the world's professional doubles championship beating Stoefen andGledhill 6—4, 6—4, 6—3. The winners showed much superior team work.—Reuter.
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  • 423 4 rpHE Rest beat the Europeans by six wickets in the Clarke Cup cricket match on the Padang yeserday, thanks to a fighting innings by Heera Singh and useful scores by Muthucumaru and La Brooy who scored 31 and 30 respectively in the second innings. ,1.4.1
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  • 72 4 TO-DAY SOCCER: Div. I R A F. v. S.R.C., Stadium; Div. HA. R A O C. v. R A. (8.M.), Gillman: R N v R E. «Malays». N. •Ba*e Div. 118. H.M.B. "Sultan" v J.C.S.A.. 5.H.8.; N B. Corinthians v. N. B. Indians. N. Base. Indian A<.sn. v.
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  • 412 4 EUROPEAN—Ist. INNINGS Major Cole b Schubert 4 Major Castor c Wong b Heera Singh 4 Barnes lbw Thoy 15 Bowley b Wong 6 Capt. Duke b Thoy 24 G. K. Stein lbw Thoy 5 Capt. Whiting b Sundram 1 Capt. Hope b Thoy 4 A. C. Growder b
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  • 39 4 Ipoh, Monday. AT the conclusion of the Perak tennis championships this evening Lope Abdul Aziz made history when he captured the singles title, being the first Malay to win the title in Perak.
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  • 162 4 (From Our Own Reporter) DENANG troun P cca a seia'n^ r Ua h holders), in th e El f Foong Seong Cup competition 1 Hhe convincing margin 0 f a* matches to nil at the Free Hall to-day, all the match* mg won in straight sets. Penang's
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  • 243 4 Post Office 4. Fort Camion 1 THE Post Office Sports Club played consistent 1 yesterday on their own /round to beat Fort Cuming by four goals to two. One-time Malayan Cup playx r, Mat Noor, showed that he still j force to be reckoned with, when
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  • 48 4 A HARD fought game at untitled resulted in R A F <Tni?ah' defeating the R A F (Seletar*. in a Div. 2A fixture, by one goal to nil. The Selctar men fought bac'< well and a draw would have been a fairer indication of the run of play.
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  • 282 5 DR. QUO TAI -CHI'S BROADCAST D" Q H UO TAI CH /V eW FOrdgn MinisTitTnation. w,de broadcast from Washington asked the United States for bornb.ng and combat planes, guns and raw materials to help China fight Japan. The United States could keep Japan out
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  • 107 5 Reuter. Louisville i Kentucky), June 2. THE propesa. 1 that the current American i roduction of 500 bombers monthly be cross the Atlantic on an air highway 200 miles wide as a .1 to the cenvoy problem is made by Mr. John Souett, President cf the
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  • 15 5 untitled Gin Sabtu. an officer is Malay Officers* Scheme, .nted to act as D?pu*y Merslng.
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  • 20 5 Mr. and Mrs. L. Rodrigues, who were married at the Cathedral of Good Shepherd yesterday, Whit Monday.
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  • 333 5 Ma London, May 11. AJOR-GENERAL Giffard Le Q Martel, Commander of the Rcyai Armoured Corps, told me yesterday: "Battle as they may m th e air, in the Mediterranean, or the Atlantic, this war will be \ycn by Britain on land," writes John Mac
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  • 61 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Ipch, Monday. THE. Accountant General, 1 Federated Malay States, has reeehred from Mr. A. G. Shaik, Perak Match Factory, Teluk Anson, a sum of $5,030 as a loan to His Majesty's Exchequer for the duration of the war and free of ininterest,
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  • 206 5 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Monday. CONVICTED on the alternative charge of dishonestly retaining stolen property, namely, one coat, a shirt and a towel, a Philippine youth, Manuel Montana, was yesterday sentenced to seven days' simple imprisonment from the date of his arrest and
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  • 179 5 London, May 11 UISCOUNT Simon, the Lord Chan--1 cellor, speaking at Malvern said that it was a formidable fact' that for the time being the area of Europe, under Hitler's rule was as great as that controlled by Napoleon at the height cf his power But, he
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  • 67 5 A well-known Malayan planter Mr. Thomas R. Lamb, is now managing a vast German estate In the Cam won s. West Africa, on behalf of the of Enemy Property Sent from Malaya by the Colonial Office to help to super- vise the German-owned estates in the Cameroons under British Mandate.'
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  • 223 5 Tokyo, June 2. I MOVING to stabilise exchange transactions in sterling and sterling-affiliated currsncies in view of the unstable prospects for currencies in the present world situation, the Ministry of Finance has notified foreign exchange banks of the Foreign Exchange Losses Compensation Act effective yesterday. Sterling currencies
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  • 38 5 Reuter. Ankara, June 2. IDMIRAL Darlan's attack on Turkey in his recent statement has mad 3 a "deplorable impression in Turkish circles." A semi-official intimation to this effect has been issued in Ankara.— Reuter.
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  • 90 5 The following members of the Sekmgor Defence Corps have passed In First Aid to the Injured In an examination held ar Klang: Messrs. T. C. Stuart. W J. S Price. H. B. Clifton. H. H. Harper. G. M. Browne. D. Nicholson, T. M. Latimer. C. A. Farebrother. O. C. Pringle,
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  • 35 5 Mr. H. P. Clancy, acting Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School. Klang. has been appointed Director for Passive Del fence. Klang and Port Swettenham *n I place of Mr. P. W. Douglas, who hab j resigned.
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  • 18 5 Miss E. M. Bain Nursing Sister of the Malayan Nursing Service has been seconded for service In Johore.
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  • 356 5 DEPORTS of nava! and air activity off Gibraltar have drawn attention to th e important role that this fortress still plays in the defence cf the Mediterranean. Widely different opinions are held by military experts about the Rock's ability to resist a German attack. Many
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  • 587 5 T/HE Tommy gun—or to give it its full patronymic, the Thompson sub-ma-chine gun—la now one of the weapons of the Indian army In Malaya A lanje number of these guns and their sp*.;<*i ammunition have been Issued to infantry battalions and Indian troops have
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  • 239 6 It's Time They Woke Up THE manner in which the great naval engagement in the Atlantic last week, resulting in the destruction of HM.S. Hood and Germany's crack battleship Bismarck, was played up by propaganda authorities in Malaya has once again served to emphasise the need for far-sighted prescience
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  • 182 6 DUT the report that the Home Fleet was chasing a solitary battleship was misconstrued in some circles in this country. Remarks were made to the effect that it took the whole British Navy to settle accounts with Bismarck. The inference to be drawn is that the Navy
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  • 168 6 £LL that was perfectly well understood at Home and in America. It was not so well understood in Malaya. That is where the authorities made the bad miss referred to in the opening paragraph. If they had been alive to the situation they would have lost no
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  • 261 6 ANE of the oddest friendships ever formed in j the London Zoo reptile house is now amusing j visitors. The "chums" are a gharial, or fish-] eating crocodile, and a large Burmese turtle. There is no mistaking the reason for this friend- shiD. It is patently a
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  • 1200 6  -  By Ben Bennison pOR a week I lived in the r Isle of Man. A flip in the air from Derbyhaven to Liverpool, on to London, and here I am writing to the crumps of guns, the whistling and explosions of bombs, death at the common elbow.
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  • 140 6 VISCOUNT T ARB AT, thirty-six-year-old Highland laird, it learning Gaelic in a German pri son camp. He is a major in the Seafortn Highlanders and was taken prisonei last June. Writing to his wife who is at Castle Leod, Strathpeffer. Lord Tarbat says: "Officers
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  • 571 6 upcountry gentleman one told me that those who joined the Straits Settlements Association did so to obtain publicity! While this is no doubt too sweep, ing a statement to make, yet then seems to be some suspicion of truth in it as indicated by a statement made
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  • 473 7 Spirit Unbroken By Hellish Conditions Reuter. Cairo, June 2. BRITISH naval vessel slipped slowly into a Middle East mainland port on Thursday, May 29. Down her gangways poured the first battle-weary troops to be evacuated from Crete. After tacmg the lull power
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  • 173 7 Reuter. Dublin, June 2. A GOVERNMENT statement issued last nisht declares that the pped on Dublm on were of German origm. protest, together with a for compensation. has addressed to the German Government. The statement says:—"The Govment regret to announce that result of the bombs
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  • 127 7 Reuter. Melbourne, June 1•I HAVE never learned to I admire and reverence any people more than the simple people of Britain,' said Mr. R. G. Menzies when speaking at his home city, Kew, where he received a terrific welcome. He said that he had not returned
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  • 260 7 Reuter. London, June 2. lIEAVY British tanks, sappers and infantry were landed from barges on a section of the "invasion" coast of England recently in one of the greatest tests yet staged on the threatened beaches of the south. The exercises had the dual purpose of
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  • 49 7 Eastern News. Hslnking. Jun e 2. THE German-Manchukuo trade untitled ment which expires on June 31. h" 1 been renewed indefinitely by an agreement signed in Hsinking between the two Government representatives on Saturday, it was announced to-day. The German-Manchukuo trade agreement was concluded on September 14. 1938.—Eastern News.
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  • 252 7 Reuter. Cairo, June 2. A BEARDED lance-corporal of th e Royal Marines, whose exploits in Crete had already become legendary, was last seen near Canea against a background of burning trees, blazing awiy single handed at German dive-bombers with an antiaircraft gun which he commanded for
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  • 115 7 Reuter. Chungking, June 2. REPLYING to recent charges by a military spokesman in Chungking that Communist troops are not participating in the South Shansi operations, the Communist leader, Mr. Chou Enlai, has issued a statement saying that the Communists are not afraid of the
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  • 185 7 Reuter. Cairo, June 2. struggle for water amid the hail of machine-gun bullets from German dive-bombers was only one of the difficulties which confronted the British troops during the iinal stages in Crete. "Our 30-mile march to the coast was a terrible ordeal," a New
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  • 107 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, June 2. THE pact continues to form the oasis of Japan's foreign policy. Foreign Minister. Mr. Yosuke Matsuok., emphatically declared, disnvssing reports appearing in some American newspapers that Japan was becoming indifferent to the Tripartite treaty, in a special interview on Saturday.
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  • 69 7 London. May 31: It is generally assumed that Japan will fix the sterling rate at around 14 pence as has prevailed for a considerable time. The mov e was a surprise to banking circles and was welcome, apart from the political aspects, for the fact that it may
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  • 146 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, June 2. THE Japan Broadcasting Corporation is shortly opening three highpowcr shortwave transmitters in Ibaragi Prefecture. One of the transmitters will be of 50 kilowatts and capable of reaching listeners in all parts of the globe while the other two will b?
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  • 124 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, June 2. 1 THE next week is likely to witness the peak of th- conversations in i i Eatav'a. for better or worse, dcclar- I ed Mr Kenkichi Yoshizawa. eh ef Japanese delegate, in an exclusive iMtPrncticnal radiophone interview with the Yom'uri
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  • 197 7 Eastern News. Tokyo, June 2. WHETHER the strongly worded statement by th e Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. van Kleffens, coinciding with increased United States aid to the Netherlands East Indies and the concentration of the British and Australian air forces at Singapore, signalises the actual
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  • 368 7 Reuter. (From Kenneth Anderson, Renter's Special Correspondent. At a Middle East port). June 2. ACCORDING to the wounded who left Crete on Saturday fierce fighting continued till then, our troops having taken up fresh positions in the hills where there was better cover from dive-bombers.
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    • 206 8 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS Domestic Occurrences BIRTH THA'M.—At Labuan Villa" Singapore, on Monday, June 2. 1941. to Mrs. Tham Ying Yin, a daughter. Both mother and child are doing well. ENGAGEMENT Hie engagement was announced on 1-6-41 between Mr. Leong Seong Yin, youngfr brother of Mr. I eong Seong Kwre, and Miss
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  • 145 9 Reuter. Ottawa, June 2. AT the opening of Canada's $600,000,000 Victory Loan campaign, Mr. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, expressing confidence that it would be successful, said:—"Your comradeship during this mortal struggle fortifies the people of these islands." He added that nobody doubted that
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  • 17 9 Mr B. R. Sharma. first grade technical assistant, P.W.D.. Johore Bahru. has been transferred to Batu Pahat.
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  • 382 9 Reuter. London, June 2. nECLARING, "Every month will see more Canadians with you to share in your defence," the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King promised Britain big new reinforcements in the course of a two-way broader st with Mr. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister,
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  • 266 9 Reuter. New York, June 2. THE launching of a full campaign against the Free French leader. General de Gaulle, and energetic action" to regain colonies which have declared for General de Gaulle is being held up by Italian objections against Hitler's plan
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  • 262 9 Reuter. London, June 2. EARLY reports of Sunday night's heavy and concentrated raid on Manchester indicate that fatal casualties were not particularly heavy considering the fierceness of the bombardment. A thousand incendiary bombs and many tons of heavy high-explosives were rained down indiscriminately and objectives
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  • 156 11 PRIORITIES rk, June 2:—The insti:::orities does not come to informed quarters another cut in auto--::on and probable ructions in other civi- qscs soon. the position, which is 3 for the plate supply, rskn of large sheet rfy shortly. It is bethe British require
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  • 86 11 Reuter. Berlin, June 3. "YOU have proved to all the world the words of the Fuehrer— there are no unassailable soldiers," says Goering in an Order of the Day to the German Air Force, says the official German news agency. While paying a glowing tribute
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  • 428 11 Reuter. LONDON, JUNE 2. r\ BIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS AT THE 40TH ANNUAL 11 INFERENCE OF THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY WHICH «OPENED AT THE CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER, ON MON'D \Y THE PRESIDENT, MR. JAMES WALKER, THE PEL EG \TE OF THE IRON AND STEEL
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  • 55 11 Proa Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Monday. fBS I the Pay Ttck School rtained their parents and a concert at the Royalty Ba esterday. The programme i mostly of Chinese songs ltly rendered hy the girls the music teacher of the is to be complimented on of her efforts.
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  • 35 11 untitled cards returned in the mixed foursome at Island li n-Leader and Mrs. Lewis 50- :<^3s and Mrs. Pope B Taddy and Mr. B. Wood- to- Hi t -363 4 -Com and Mrs. Barhan 49—
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  • 141 11 (From Ov Financial Correspond*at Singapore. Tuesday. 'THE market was generally quiet at opening this morning after the Whltsun holiday. Industrial shares continue In very go<v demand with orders for Straits Trading. Steamships, United Engineers and Fraser and Neaves unsatisfied In the tin share market, there
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  • 22 11 Singapore, Tuesday. Prices of tin and rubber in Singapore at noon today were:— TIN KUBBKK Buyers 40, Sellers 40 1
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  • 164 11 From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Monday. LEADING two goals to one for the major part the game, the Tamilians Physical Culture Association weakened in th? final stages to lose four-two to the South China soccer team to-day. However the TPCA.
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  • 465 11 Reuter. London. June 2. pAUfIfK comment on the Vichy Vice-Premier Darlan's references to Turkey in his statement on Saturday appear in the editorial of the Turkish newspaper ITus on Monday, cited by the Ankara Radio. "It would be better for Darlan to choose his weapons,
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  • 55 11 Reuter. London. June 2. LEICESTERSHIRE beat Northi amptonshire by ten wickets in a one-day country cricket match, dismissing their rivals for 57 before lunch. Smith taking six wickets for 21 runs. Then Dempster, the New Zealand batsman making 36 and Berry 23 scored enough in the
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  • 28 11 Reuter. Indianapolis. Jane 2. Licyd Davis and Mauri Rose were declared joint winners of the Indianarolis Motor Grand Ptta. The only previous joint win was in 1924. -Reuter
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  • 14 11 In a Reserve Division match at Gillman yesterday, the Loyals scored a three-one victory.
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  • 351 11 Ipoh, To-day. FOLLOWING are handicaps for r the third day of the Ipoh races to be held to-morrow: THIRD DAY Horses, Class 1, dir. t. 5> furs. str. Mercury 9.0 Caricca 8.13 The Fox 8.12 Double Esso 8.9 The Needles 8,9 Kentucky 8.7 Toyman B.f Annie
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  • 52 11 Reuter. Nottingham, June 2. jkiOTTT SG HAMSHIRB heat DerfcyW shire by ten runs, scoring 139 and then dismissing their opponents for 129 hi spite of a fighting 31 by Payton. Woodehead (Nottingham) took rive wickets foe 15 and Mitchell Derbyshire i six far forty had the bes*
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  • 29 11 Playing a fine game. Fortress 3Lmals added another good vicro y to their tt&t when they defeated the Malay Regiment six-nil n a Div. HA match at Alexandra yesterday.
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  • 192 11 Reuter. London, June 2. BRITISH Amy beat the 33 R.A.F. by eight grmh to two in the final for the InterAllied Services Cup at Stamford Bridge toMiay. Eight thousand spectators watched the game. As a curtain raiser army teams from Norway and Beigiom, who had
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  • 241 11 rr defeating RAO.C. by three wickets in a closely contested match at Alexandra, yesterday, the Singapore Portress Signals qualified to meet the Loyals Regiment in the Gillman area final of the Large Units cricket competition. RJLO.C. batted first and compiled 143 towards which
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  • 214 11 PI a cricket match played on the Khalsa Association ground on Sunday. Windsors "A" beat Newton Rocklites by eight runs in a thrilling finish. The following were the scores: NEWTON ROCKLITES G. Campos b Rosarto G Singh b de Soum p Campos lbw Tham Koon Poh 11
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  • 151 11 MAJOR L R. Graeme won the men's breast stroke event over 5u metres in 512 5 seconds at the fc*n**i»re Swimming Club yesterday. MTrUe Spurgeon won the same event for women in 59 seconds. m The following are the full results of the
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  • 42 11 Reuter. Oxford, June 2 CAMBRIDGE University beat Oxford University by eight matches to seven in a varsity lawn tennis match here to-day. The Light Blues won the 3xn«ies by five matches to one but lost the doubles by three matches to six.—Renter.
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  • 250 12 Reuter. Cairo, June 3. TWO hundred and forty-four enemy aircraft were definitely destroyed in the Middle East during May, says a statement issued by R.A.F. Headquarters, Middle East. The R.A.F. have lost 65 aircraft, but the pilots of a number are safe. This
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  • 256 12 Reuter. London, June 8. 'J'HE people of Britain have responded well to the Government's appeal not to travel unnecessarily this Whitsuntide. A comparative few who attempted to visit seaside resorts such as Southend and Brighton were turned back by the police. In London,
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  • 50 12 Reuter. Washington, June 2. THE War Department has submitted to Congress a request icr legislation authorising the President, during a national emergency, to requisition property jf any k nd "necessary to national defence." .Officials said that this was similar to powers assumed by Presi cient Wilson during the Great War—Reuter.
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  • 202 12 Eastern News. Tokyo, June 3IF Japan can obtain sufficient petroleum from the Netherlands East Indies by peaceful means, then the Weiss Bill now before the United States Congress for an embargo on US. oil for Japan would be futile, it is pointed out by
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  • 35 12 Reuter. London. June 3. Up to an early hour this morning were no night raids on Biltain. Enemy machines were reported near a town on the northeast coast but no bombs were rev< rted dropped.—Reuter.
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  • 190 12 Reuter. London, June 2. WHILE it is believed that Mosul, whose Governor is reliably reported to be sympathetic to the British, is in the hands of friendly Iraqis and that all the numerous Germans who were in Mosul have left, one cannot at present
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  • 37 12 Reuter. London June 2.—Ambassador John Winant's consultations with President Roosevelt are not likely to be of long duration, Reuter'r diplomatic correspondent learns. Mr. Winant is expected back at the London Embassy In a week or ten days.—Reuter.
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  • 65 12 Special London Cable From H. L. Hopkin London, June 3. RUBBER brokers report that the organisation of dealings under the new system of limited control is working smoothly. About a week ago, there were reports that the American Government was taking steps to control the
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  • 128 12 London, June 3. TIME was when there was a glut of lawyers on the market and quite a few of them had difficulty in making ends meet, and some of them found it paid more to go into other fields of endeavour, like writing
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  • 221 12 Reuter. London, June 3 COMMENTING on Crete before the v announcement of the evacuation, the Gothenburg Handels Tidning said: "The British have no longer any prospects of driving out the Germans from Crete. "It is only a question of time when the last British soldier
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  • 68 12 Reuter. A TT Melbourne, June 3. USIRALIA is to supply 3.300.00U pairs of service boots for the Imperial forces- overseas and the Australian troops. The country had originally contracted to supply 1,000,000 pairs each to the Imperial and Australian forces but after representations from the
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  • 32 12 Mr. W. L. Blythe, Deputy Controller of Labour (Chinese), S.S and P.1f.8. haa gone on leave to Australia. Mr. C. H Dakers is acting for Mr. Blythe while he is on leave.
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  • 273 12 Reuter. 4TTITI rtTII London, June 2. I comment on the withdrawal from Crete shows i that there will be no effort to minimise the consequences of this development and many the lack of air support. The Daily Telegraph writes:— 'This stubborn battle will rank
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  • 547 12 Germans Held Up By 3 British Tanks 3 Aussie Bren Carriers Reuter. (By Kenneth Anderson, Renter's Special Correspondent) Cairo, June 3. HOW three British tanks and three Australian Bren-gun carriers fought a rearguard action over the white mountains of Crete and held the advancing Germans at bay while the British
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  • 335 12 Reuter. Cairo, fan* 3. FJEAVY R.A.F. raids in Crete, Libya and Syria, with the' destruction or damage of a number of enemy aircraft as well as th protection of the forces being evacuated from Crete, are the high spots of the R.A.F. Middle
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  • 394 12 Malaya-Thai Oil Pact Reported Reuter. Bangkok, June 3. THE Thai press is gratified at the success of Major Vilas Osthanar.da's mission to Singapore. Bangkok newspapers prominently feature Singapore dispatches announcing the virtual conclusion of an agreement between the Major 'and the British authorities for the supply of fuel
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  • 597 12 Reuter. London, June GENERAL Sir Hubert Goueh Re* v ter's military commentator states that the loss of Crete doubtedly a temporary setback tot from these operations we ca dm very valuable lessons, both strat* gically and practically, and we mar be sure that we will not fail
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