Malaya Tribune, 24 December 1941

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    29 1 The Malaya Tribune Net Sales Exceed 18,100 Daily 17th DAY OF MALAYAN WAR SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1941 FIVE CENTS. FIVE CENTS. The Malaya Tribune Wednesday, Dec. 24, 1941.
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    Churchill: “S’pore Defence to the End”
    1366 1 Big Offensive, United Action, Being Planned iTTKNDINC! PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON YESTERDAY, MR. CHURCHILL. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, TOLD NEWSPAPERMEN THAT SINGAPORE •ILL BE DEFENDED UNTIL THE ALLIES CAN TIKE THE OFFENSIVE IN THE FAR EAST. IT fOULl) BE HELD TO THE LAST.
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    BATTLEFRONT NEWS in one minute
    228 1 XEDITrRR VNEAN: British submarines tan sunk another six Axis transports ad vtpply ships. im\ Inqualified Imperial successes mtitnt Ixis still well on the run: tswt enemy aircraft destroyed. (Labi cables, see page 5). MONO KONG: Colony still fighting Hk undiminished intensify yesterday: •taation Canadian caMUa
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    N.E.I WAR ON ITALY
    141 1 Reuter. Batavia, Dec. 24. HE N.E.I, war declaration on -2ly has not caused surprise in k N.E.I. "At last," was the cornet frequently heard after the was received. It should be recalled that Nethernaval forces in the Med.terjjfcn have already for a long Jtbeen operating with
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    German Naval Base Raided
    67 1 Reuter. I GeL 0n Moa day night raided the •fco^ 3 naval base at Wilhelmshaven. I tR e mlddav communique from W »f}** T v on Tufsdav which is as Nd «t*.^T cre:t of the Bomber Comb** e<1 a naval base at WilhelmC nl 8bt. No
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    28 1 untitled Dec., 24: The Navy Minister. *hi>ouncofl lh»t the wi<t u esttri.vourlns to **curc I :ui«er to he name! r*m- t Penrttor Ov» building ol 4u*iniiipi) -unit: hmas
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    Duff Cooper Heads New Civil Defence Committee
    85 1 THE War Council has set up a Civil D fence Committee under the chaumans- ip of Mr. A. Duff Cocper (Resd nt Miii ter) 4 o inquire into the question of c vil defence. This committee fs advisory and makes recommends* kns to
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    SITUATION WILL BE RETRIEVED
    153 1 Central News. L London, Dec. 24. fcraii 5 s foll °wing closely the 'M a^f. 1 conferences now being N cwAJ" jneousiy in Washington -*h» if "King. sk? ment °f a supreme rC t Ued Ar mies will be ******* tne conference in .according to wellV;
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    MALAYA: “EVERYTHING WILL BE DONE”
    272 1 Reuter. London, Dec. 24. SIR Keith Murdoch, the wellknown Australian newspaper proprietor, replies in an article published in the Daily Mail to some Australian criticisms of Britain's handling of the Far East situation. Having discussed the situation of Malaya with members of the British War
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    Churchill Wants External, Not Internal, Knockout Of Germany
    325 1 AT a joint press conference with President Roosevelt in A Washington yesterday, Mr. Churchill declared that Germany's material lesses in Russia are probably not biff enough to affect Nazi striking power at the moment. The Allies, he sail, should bank on an
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    Nazi Strength: Churchill Utters A Warning
    607 1 Reuter. Washington, Dec. 24. AT the White House Conference, President Roosevelt said that I Mr. Churchill had already consulted the ministers of the »ntisu Dominions in Washington, and Mr Churchill reminded him tnai Canada and New Zealand were I definitely in the danrrer zone
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    Battle Of Atlantic Going Well
    149 1 London, Dec. 24. THE Battle of the Atlantic is go ing "pretty well," it is stated m authoritative quarters in London. The shooting down last week of two long-range Focke-Wulff aircraft shows that the British naval aircraft on convoy escort duty are, it is pointed
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    Australians Prepare For Most Memorable Xmas
    130 1 Reuter. Sydney. Dec. 24. AUSTRALIANS are preparing for the most memorable Christmas In its history and only Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Day are being observed In accordance with the Commonwealth regulations. that unexnected developments are possible, the people are serlouslv taking the
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    OIL BLENDING PROCESSES: ROYALTIES REDUCED
    98 1 Washington. Dec. 23: The conclusion of <*n agreement between five American oil companies for the Immediate reduction of royalties on blending processes for 100 per cent, octane petrol from 42 cents to 21 cents per barrel la announced by the United States Secretary for Interior,
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    M.A.S. Taking New Steps Following Penang Lessons
    72 1 T KSSONS learnt by both doctors and ambulance men in Penang are now being applied as rapidly as possible to the Medical Auxiliary Service in Singapore. Immediate steps are beins; taken to. have leaflets printed and illustrated hand bills and posters prepared to
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    STOP PRESS
    89 1 Reuter. New York, Dec. 24:—Radio reports here refer to the German suggestions that Hitler's a "sumption of control portends some new spectacular campaign. Radio j commentators suggest that inI formation received here indicates troop concentrations for action against Turkey and Spain in an effort to commence a gigantic
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    Axis Lose Six Ships In Mediterranean
    213 1 Reuter. London, Dec. 24. IN Admiralty communique states: "Six more enemy transports or supply ships have been accounted for by submarines cf the Mediterranean. "One of these was a large supply ship which had already been previously damaged by a torpedo by one of
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    NEW U.S. NAVAL CHIEF OF STAFF
    43 1 Reuter. Washington. Dec. 23: The Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, Bear-Admiral Russell Wilson, has been 'ppolnted Chief of Stair under Admiral Crnest J. King. Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet, It is announced to-day (Tuesday).—Reuter.
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    PETAIN RESIGNS
    337 1 Darlan assumes Powers Reuter. London, Dec. 24. cable from Reuters correspondent somewhere in Europe says that political observers understand that Marshal Petain has resigned, following the German pressure for the execution of the Saint Florentin agreement. Admiral Darlan is assuming Marshal Petain's powers. A Vichy message says that
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    Appeal Court's Decision In Mining Claim
    374 2 THE S.S. Court of Appeal, consisting of Sir Percy McElwaine, Sir Herbert Trusted and Mr. Justice Aitken, reversed the judgment of Mr. Justice Worley in the action in which Ho Chin Siew, a miner and landed proprietor, successfully sued Aaron Manasseh for the specific
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    Restriction On Sale Of Matches
    118 2 AN Order restricting the sale of matches to members of the public by retailers and prohibiting the sale or distribution of them for use in public places like hotels, tea rooms, restaurants, eating honses, coffee shops, or stalls, has been gazetted. By the Order no
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    Woman Fined
    83 2 TWO women, Mary Wong (32> and Daisy Lim (221 left their room last night with a shaded electric light burning. The alarm sounded and there was no one to put out the light. To-day, accepting responsibility for the light being on during the alarm. Daisy Lim was fined
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    MALAYAN SHIPPING
    37 2 The naval authorities have Issued a warning that any vessel or boat at sea off the coast of territory occupied by the Japanese Is liable to be sunk at sight by Brttish patrols. ■»T TT
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    INLAND TELEGRAMS
    27 2 Until further order no inland greetings telegrams or inland private telegrams at urgent rate shall be transmitted to any person, it was gazetted last night.
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    Security Identity Cards
    47 2 Large employers of labour In Singapore who fire prepared to undertake the work of Issuing Security Identity Cards to their staff and workmen are requested to notify Mr. H. T. W. Oswell. Department of Supplv, Pullerton Building, stating the number of persons they employ
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    R.A.F. Officer Drives Train To Safety
    187 2 Singapore, Dec. 23. BY commandeering a three or four carriage train and driving it himself, an R.A.F Flight Lieutenant brought h s ground staff and all station documents to safety, following orders to evacuate his station. He was the Accountant Officer, temporarily in command
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    Malayan War Distress Fund Reaches $133,489
    619 2 CINCE the inauguration of the Malaya War Distress Fund a week ago. donations to the extent of $133,489.92 have been received. Further lists of donations will be published weekly. Intending monthly subscribers are asked t 0 apply to their own banks for the necessary
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    LIGHTED CIGARETTE DURING BLACKOUT
    80 2 T IGHTING a cigarette during last night's alert. Koh Ah Soo was arrested by an \R P. warden. He was stated to have been on the side of a road when he strucs. Koh tC pVeaded guilty to a charge of being •disorderly and drunk' during
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    PENANG LESSONS APPLIED
    130 2 WITH a view to applying Penang experience to Singapore problems immediately, the Food Controller has arranged for the Food Supply Officers evacuated from Penang to rcinfcice the Singapore Food Supply organisation. In particular, Malor H. G. Keet. D.SO., MC. funtil recently Food Supply Officer Penang) has been
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    $10 FINE FOR TRESPASSER
    141 2 ORIGINALLY charged with having committed criminal trespass Wr.hid bin Yusop was convicted on a charge o! simple trespass and fined the maximum of $10 in default, seven days' simple imprisonment at the conclusion cf the ease for the prosecution in the second police court yesterday. Wahid,
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    Pacific Co-operation On Atlantic Model
    97 2 Washington. Dec. 23. ONE decision taken at the Washington talks will undoubtedly be a re-allot-ment of supplies to the front where they can best be used. Another will be to place the forces of one country under the commanders of another, if local military demand
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    Dutch hire Big Enemy Tanker
    978 3 JAPS LOSE MORE PLANES IN K.L. RAID THE Uth communique of the N p 1 frday and reads: "This mornin,' f*"?™* 8 was ksucd at P-m. yesthe Bay of Davao. With one bomb of 2«0 In a rtraft attacked enen in the latest enemy skip,
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    A.I.F. ON GUARD IN MALAYA
    297 3 (By lan Fitchett, Official War Coirespondent with the A.I.F. in B£zlaya) AUSTRALIAN trocps, in Malaya have yet to see action. Guarding one vi the country's mosi vital spots they have all been in thtir battle staticns for cv:r a fortnight wai *ng eagerly for an
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    19 3 A service will be in the Straits Chinese Methodist Church, Kampong Kapor Road, on Christmas Day at 10 a.m.
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    MAISON de LUXE
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    Jap Strategy Aimed At Isolating Malaya
    385 3 London, Dec. 23. circles view with anxiety the situation in Hong Hoi;- Malaya and the Philippines, while expressing satisfaction and pleasure over Mr. Churchill's arrival in Washington and his conference with President Roosevelt. There have been no official communiques mentioning opposition put up by
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    $300 FINE FOR SHOWING LIGHT
    53 3 A F INE of $300 was imposed on n Chan Kan Chow, a boatman 'n the District Traffic court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to using an unshaded light on his tongkang during the brown-out on Sunday. The offence was stated to have been committed
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    AUSTRALIAN MINISTER FOR STOREURGED
    203 3 Reuter. Sydney, Dec. 23. JJRGING the immediate appointment of an Australian Minister to 1 Singapore, the former i Army Minister, Mr. Spen- der, said: "For my part, I would like to see an Australian Minister as Chair- man of the Singapore War j Council as I
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    Free Vernacular News Bulletins
    176 3 T~)AILY news bulletins are being printed I to wngliagea in Singapore during the present crisis for free distribution to the sections of tho population which cannot afford to buy newspapers. For Northern Indians there are thre" separate publications. There is the rourpago daily Hindustani newspaper Noor-E-I
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    Opinion
    238 4 Take Heart \0 help can reach japan. She is blockaded. The economic life is being squeezed out of her —she gasps for air. Nobody can help her. A year ago Germany could have sent help to Japan. Matsuoka Yosuke begged Hitler to keep open the lifeline but Hitler made
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    No Help For Japan
    188 4 is Japan's position in regard to steel —vital for ships, tanks, bombs, guns, and nearly every other instrument of death? Japan is a nation which has built her industries on imported iron and steel. The Japanese Empire produces in one year steel which the U.S.A. can
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    MORALE WINS WAR
    939 4  -  By Peter Howard I M MORALE is the secret weapon which wins the modern war. Morale is a dull word, yet it describes ten million deeds of self-sacrifice, both great and small, which together form the most shining hours in the history of a nation. Not long
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    HITLER NO MORE PROPHET
    193 4 Reuter. Ankara, Dec. 23. j THE assumption of the supreme; command by Hitler is the only topic in Turkey. The opinion; here is that it is the result of disagreement between Hitler and his Generals about some future move which is now Hitler's responsibility and not
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    China To Mobilise Man-Power
    195 4 Reuter. Chungking, Dec. 23. COMMENTING on the ninth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomta-. tang which has been in session her! during the past ten days and which is closing to-day, the Government spokesman declared that the conference had reached three major
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    India Deadlock As H.G. Wells Sees It
    792 4 Reuter. London, Dec. 24. THE noted author, H. G. Wells, pleads for the reconsideration of the attitude of Indian Congress leaders, while condemning the British official policy in India, in an outspoken letter which the Liberal organ, the News Chronicle publishes in a
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    CHIANG'S OFFER TO GOVERNOR
    107 4 THE Governor, Sir Shenton J Thomas, received this' message yesterday from Gen.« eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek j through the British Ambassa-j dor in Chungking. "The Generalissimo offers; you the fullest use of the J Chinese leaders in Malaya for the purpose of organising the' local Chinese and
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    BRITISH TANKS AID RED ADVANCE
    274 4 British Wireless. London, Dec. 23. P3E Ministry or Su :ply discloses that a large number of Valen.lne and Waltzing Matilda tanks have been taking part in the victorious Russian push which has led to »c "retreat of the German Army and the dismissal by Hitler
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    POPE'S BROADCAST TO-DAT
    32 4 Reuter. London. Dec. 24: >na cast at 10 30 a.m• *JJJJ not at 12.30 p.m. *5 An Enplish version of the w be radiated from the v»m«* 1.30 p.m.—Reuter.
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    IMPORTANT MILITARY MOVES BY GERMANY?
    193 4 Reuter. Vichy, Dec. 23. PE retirement of Von Brauchitsch and the assumption of the. Army eemmand by Hitler 4, m ght well be the signal for important pnd decisive military action and other operations in theatres of war other than the Soviet front." The suggestion
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    DEVASTATION OF PONTIANAK
    211 5 Reuter. Batavia, Dec. 23. ft MEDICAL Mission which left for Pontianak the day after the indiscriminate Japanese bombard-i ment of that city, has now returned by air. The members of the Mission were too tired from strenuous un- interrupted work for two days and two nights and
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    SILHOUETTES OF ENEMY PLANES
    52 5 A pos:er to help people to distin guish between British and Japanese aircraft is being produced by the Department Of Information and Publicity and will be ready shortly. .It will show silhouettes of types of aircraft In use by the Royal Air Force Mid the enemy
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    UNQUALIFIED IMPERIAL SUCCESSES IN LIBYA
    542 5  -  Advances By Leaps Bounds Cairo, Dec. 24. pOLLOWING up- the rapid land advance in Cyrenaica, the whole fighter and bomber squadrons of the R.A.F. now mtving bodily forward 50 or 100 miles at times every few days so that the air may give ever closer
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    Malayan European Evacuees In N.E.I.
    80 5 Reuter. Batavia, Dec. 23. THE British Consul-General in Batavia has received the following telegram from the Governor of the Straits Settlement, Sir Shenton Thomas: "Please convey to the Government and people of the N.E.I, the heartfelt thanks of the Malayan Government and myself for the
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    Philippines Food Measure
    107 5 Reuter. Manila, Dec. 24. PRESIDENT Quezon, in an Executive Order, authorises the Commonwealth Food Administrator to take over the cultivated or uncultivated lands and put them to productive use. The Order requires all able-bodied citizens not engaged in other occupations to work on farms or in some
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    90 5 The following is the relief committee for Mersing evacuees approved by the Assistant Adviser, Batu Pahat: Chairman: Monamed bin Abdullah (P. 1.5.); Organiser: Syed Mustapha bin Agil Shahab; Committee: Raja Monamed Amin bin Daud, Syed Ahmad bin Alwee Shahab, Abdul Wahab bin Haji Mohd. Ariff, Hajl Abdul Shukor bin Haji
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    THAI PLEDGE TO JAPAN
    82 5 Reuter. Tokio, Dec. 23. THE Thai Premier, Marshal Luang Pibul Songram, in a congratulatory message to the Japanese Prime Minister, General Tojo, on the occasion of the signature of the pact of alliance between Japan and Thailand, declared that X will further the prosperity and stabilisation
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    Germany's Labour Shortage
    236 5 Reuter. London, Dec. 24. EVIDENCE of the inability of Germany to replace losses in equipment because of the withdrawal of skilled workers and Increased absenteeism has been received by the Ministry of Economic Warfare, stated an official of the Ministry in London. Absenteeism Is increasing among industrial
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    R.A.F Masters Of Desert Air: Retreating Axis Strafed
    556 5 Cairo, Dec. 24. MIDDLE EAST R.A.F. communique states: "During Dec. 21 22. retreating enemy forces in Libya were constantly attacked by our aircraft, particularly in the region of Jedabya. "H ea v y casualties were caused among enemy troops and great damage
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      346 7 Tin: SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD. CHRISTMAS DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY The Fublic is notified that Christmas Day and New Year's Day w.ll be treated as ordinary working days. J. R. WIGGS, Secretary. The Singapore Harbour Board. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA CHINA. The undermentioned branches of the above Bank are
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    20-30's Register For Passive Defence Work
    398 8 REGISTRATION of all males in Singapore between the ages of 20 and 30 commenced yesterday at various centres in the city 4 Tribune icporter who visited the various centres where regis-ration was going on found large crowds eager to register. Chinese were particularly anxious
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