Morning Tribune, 9 April 1936

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  • 14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, April 9, 1936. VOL. I.— No. 59. FIVE CENTS.
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  • 226 1 tf. ZEALAND JOINT ACTION rOMPETITIOX WITH I '.S.A. TN order that no work shall be performed on Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Mornimr Tribune on Saturday morning. Wellington, Apr. 8. txTTRATING THE POSITION OF BRID TISH SHIPPING ON THE PACIFIC, THE LEGISLATIVE
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  • 128 1 Startling Position In l\S. Ships Tup m v- New York A P r 8 Washington correspondent of the sten in W t?° rk Times says that a* a first hnt the mv estigation of the alleged ma^iv ge K Of American "Wpa manned manly by foreign-born crews,
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  • 10 1 Mr: c. T. I. Wikie, of Eaglehurst SSifit Es2,« April
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  • 446 1 iNew French Plan For Peace Paris. April 8. THE French reply to Herr Hitler's memorandum of Apr. 1 consists of a communique, a thirteen-page memorandum, and a declaration containing the French proposals divided into twenty-five chapters The political section contains a proposal for a European Commission and
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  • 51 1 Page Where has the Negus gone? 2 A Sikh woman's suicide 3 Financial news 4 Fraser Cos report 5 Around Malaya 10 Radio programmes 19 Beauties of Italy 21 **Dua jalan" flying boats 22 Home holiday football 23 Fort Canning win Div. 2 Middlesex at soccer
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    24 1 The soccer XI of the Ist battalion, Middlesex Regiment, who made their debut m local football yesterday at the S.C.C. (report on page 24).
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  • 37 1 Budapest, April 7. THE Premier, M. Goemboes, and M. Eckhardt.. lead?r of the largest Opposition Party, have fought a pistol duel. Each fired once after which their seconds stopped further fighting. Reuter
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  • 147 1 Negotiations For New Tin Control House of Commons, Apr. 8. ]y[R. J. H. THOMAS stated m reply to Captain Peter Macdonald that he understood from the chairman of the International Tin Committee that negotiations were proceeding between the interests concerned regarding the prolongation of the restriction scheme, but the stage
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  • 179 2 CAR FOUND ABANDONED May Have Fled To The South Rome, Apr. 7. "WHERE is the Negus"? is th? Question obsferven on the Northern Front arc sating to-day. It is presumed he abandoned the motor-car which the Italians captured becaUM he feared it would attract the
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  • 68 2 It is learned that the British Ambassador m Rome received an assurance that the Italians will not bomb the open towns of Addis Ababa md Direda wa. The last of the Abyssinian rearpuards were dispersed yesterday, according to a war communique. A proclamation calling
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  • 107 2 Dead In American Tragedy Union Town (Pensyluniai Apr. 8. ELEVEN people were killed instuitly when a itmnfcontinenUU Western air liner crushed on hillside at Dulaney'a Cave, m the district known by pilots as "The graveyard oi AUeghenJ B 1 own- to many crush s there m Us
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  • 91 2 Political Crime In Mexico City Mexico City. Apr. 8. MINE persons ar reported to be and many seriously Injured as the result of the wrecking of two Pui: cars on i train trtfelUng between pirt Vera Cruz and Mexico City. A bomb which was placed on Mv
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  • 174 2 Terrible Tornadoes In U.S. Washington, Apr. 7. THE Red Cross headquarters state that 429 bodies have Already been recovered from the wreckage left by a tornado m the Southern States. Th? report adds that 1,727 person.; are reported to have been odiously injured and it is estimated that
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  • 131 2 Giant Zcpptlin On Return London, April 7. ABOARD the zrppelin Hlndenburg now •m its way h<nvv is til Bishop of the Falkland Islands, the first Anglican Bishop to travel m an airship, says Reuter's Special Correspondent aboard the Hindenburg. He is going to England to seek six athletic
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    22 2 An incident from the play m yesterday's soccer match, S.C.C. vs. Middlesex Regiment, which was won by the military newcomers 6 o.
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  • 15 2 il Rahman bin .Taffar I I H venue, jrred to K -uai nt District Officer.
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  • 72 2 Recovers From Attempt On His Life Shanghai, Apr. 8. GEN. Han Fu Chu, Governor of Shantung, has wired to Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang, saving that he has resumed duties. This indicates that Gen. Han has recovered from his wounds which were received from an attempt upon his life
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  • 58 2 Measures To Prevent Smuggling Shanghai, Apr. 8. THE Executive Yuen baa puted a com- prehensive plan for the suppression of smuggling m North China. Evidence submitted by the Tientsin Clistoms House shows that smuggling is increasing daily, and adds that unless this is effectively checked, the customs loan
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  • 135 2 America n Ar m y "Still Behind All The Others" Chicago, April. 6. THE American Army, as far as equip ment is concerned, is still considerably behind the armies of othtr countries," declared the Secretary of War, Mr. George H. Dern, speaking at the anniversary of America's entrant'" into the
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  • 103 2 Police Still Hunting For Fireman Singapore, Wednesday. THE police are still on the look-out for Lan Ah Tan. the Hylam fireman employed on the X.P.M. vessel Thedens. who has been missing since Tuesday night. Soon after the three men were murdered the quarter-master saw .1 man plunge into
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  • 119 2 Dardanelles May Have New Forts London, Apl. 7. HINTS that Turkey may repudiate the clauses of the Treaty of Lausanne m regard to the demilitarisation of the Straits if she cannot achieve the same end by negotiation, are contained m a message from Ankara stating that m view of the
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  • 23 2 London, Apr. 7. The Air Ministry has extended facilities to Colonel Lindbergh for private flying In the United Kingdom- Reuter Wireless
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  • 28 2 Inche Elahi Baksh. 0.C.P.D.. Kulai, has been transferred Vj Uuar as Traffic Officer m place of Inche Ali bin Haji Haitian, who has b:en transferred to Batu Pahat
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    • 37 2 SHARE OUR /^9^ ENTHUSIASM I 1 POWDERED WHOLE MILK 4Mp /^r^ is pure delicious fresh milk vK§A Jy^v^il/ m convenient powdered form. Try a tin to-day MfiSjJll tand be convinced. \hw \S4 Distributors: \X^^^T^-*-^2^k I BROS. CO.
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  • 327 3 A N UNUSUAL CASE* Woman Without Worries Singapore, Wednesday. ,t is a very rare thing for a Sikh to commit suicide m Malaya, the i to co .o f a woman. So »«man named Sama Kaur plenty of Tntmst w^s taken m the proceedings. she was
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  • 161 3 Singapore Transactions Total $8,595 Singapore, Wednesday. DROPERTY to the total value of $8,595 1 was sold by public auction m the saleroom of Messrs. Cheong Koon Seng and Co. Ltd., 30. Chulia Street, Singapore, this afternoon Land and house No. 14. Hokien Street, area 1.138 sq. ft., bought
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  • 130 3 Entertaining Musical Comedy ANN SOTHERN, Jack Haley and Roger Pryor, teamed together m "Tht Girl Friend," which opened at the Alhambra Theatre yesterday, provide a full evening's entertainment m this screen musical comedy. There is plenty of fun throughout the story which deals with the adventures of three
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  • 57 3 Confers With Dominion Commissioners London, Apr. 7. BEFORE Mr. Eden left for Geneva to attend the Committee of Thirteen and the Locarno talks, he conferred with the High Commissioners for South Africa, New Zealand and Australia with regard to the British attitude. Lord Halifax is joining Mr. Eden
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  • 150 3 To-day In Singapore HIGH TIDES:— I2.IS p.m. FOOTBALL:— S.A.F. A. League Div. I, R.A.F. v. S.C.F.A., Anson Road Stadium; Div. 11, R.A. II v. P. Inniskilling Fus. II Changi; Div. 11l Medical Services v. M.P.H., S.R.C. CAPITOL:— "A Tale of Two Cities", with Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan. PAVILION:— Robert
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  • 14 3 Inche Ahmad bin Haji Hussein, Second 0.C.P.D., Johore Bahru, has been appointed 0.C.P.D., Kulai.
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    • 77 3 I-aw Xotico For To-day Before the Acting Chief Justice in the 1st Court at 11 a.m. S.257I35— Wong Yan Lai vs. cmia Kim Chal 2 ors. Before Mr. Justice Adrian Clark in silt No gig St lf am M0tl0n ln •"111 I l"|'i|i!|i,|ii|ll|ii|ii|ll|i •l.|M|M|'i|ii|ii|Mliilli|il|ll|li|ii|i>|!i|ii| > i|!i|ii||i|ji|ii|ii|:i|M|i:|;:|i:|::|"l :i|M|l'l.i|Hl J J THE
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    • 40 3 j -MAX LlOi\" I I i RAPID-HARDENING CEMENT niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiii«iniiii>«ii»»«»» ll ll|ll|lll irit 1 *****1 1 64 MASTER LAMINATED STEEL PADLOCKS J1t1 111 .H,n 1 1 1 NiH|..|.,iM1U| I.iHlN|]1 .iHIN|], l 1..1...ni^l ..l...ni^ YELLOW LABEL I /^^vye^v y k j^y^^r y^
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  • 350 4 London, April 8. 6.30 p.m. Share of £1 denomination unless Previously Yesterday Rise or fall. otherwise stated War Loan, 3*4 p.c 107 518 107% Com. Union Assce. (Units) UVa H'/s Prudential Assce. "A" 37»/ 4 37»/ 4 Royal Assce. (£1 share 10s. pd.) 9%
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  • 123 4 Attention Focussed On Industrial Issues London Apr. 3 AN the Stock Exchange there was a v ready response to to-day's bunch of smallish industrial issue, involving about £1.750.000, m which the lists were heavily over-subscribed, which constrasted with, the limited nature of business m othei directions. The recent
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  • 28 4 c °uJPUt of the Renong Tin Marrhis Ltd f r the mo th of rp^ 280.13 piculs No 3 Dredge 862.22 piculs Total 1,142.35 piculs
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  • 88 4 London, Apr. 4. On the money market an influx of foreign capital and large dividend disbursements continued to swell the unbroken credit stream which, although favouring borrowers, causes discount houses some concern, as it frustrates all their efforts to improve the discount rates. The latest issue of the
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  • 53 4 London, April 7. TOMBINED manoeuvres of the Army and Navy are being arraimed to take place at MiMord-on-Bea (Hants) according to an announcement by Mr Duff Cooper m the House of Commons. Air Force units will also co-operate m the Army exercises between July and
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  • 83 4 Special London Cable I (By Our Financial Correspondent) London, April 8. THE following were the closing prices for rubber, tin, gold, silver copra and wolfram Market Tone: firm. LONDON RUBBER Spot: 7 19.32 (up 132). July-Sept: 723 32 (up 132). LONDON TIN Spot: ttll% (down I 3;). April-June:
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  • 52 4 Yesterday's Closing Prices (By Our Financial Correspondent) London, April 8. The closing prices were as follows: London New York Cross Rate L 94 11 16 (up 9 16). London— Paris 74 31 32 (dnwn 1 32). London— Amsterdam: 7.27 2 (down 2 L( ndon— Honskon?: Is. 313 16d
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  • 33 4 Government Of Ecuador's Decision JT is reported that the Government of ltiiHn U ?> r on April 4 formed the cented vernmen as it has accepted, m principle, to neeotiat^ Reuter
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  • 171 4 Prices Realised At Weekly Sale THE Singapore Chamber of Commercp Rubber Association held its 1272 nd auction to-day when there were:-'. Catalogued 674,091 lb—tons 300Q7 Offered 633,877 lb—tons 282 S Sold 548,891 lb.-tons 245 04 London— Spot 71|2d. New York— Spot 15 15,16 cents. PRICES REALISED RIBBED SMOKED
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  • 159 4 Government Servant Fined $250 C™™t^,t™ Singapore, Wednesday. ONVICTED on a charge of giving false evidence, a Sikh named Puran Singh who was employed as a cook to the Sikh police contingent, was sentenced to'a fine of $250. by the District Judge Mr L. B. Gibson, yesterday ri^° r
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    • 23 4 mm m BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY ITD (Incorporated m New Zealand) Fire, Marine, Motor and Workmen's Compensation. W. J. DEXTER, OFFICE Z, FINLATSON Gm*"'
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    • 39 4 THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD. (Established m 1880) Capital Subscribed (Fully paid up) Y. 100,000,000 Reserve Fund V.129,150,000 Head Office: YOKOHAMA SINGAPORE BRANCH MEYER CHAMBERS RAFFLES PLACE. Tel. No. 6049 Manager's Room 5922 General Office. 5923 6472 Compradore'i Desk.
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    • 45 4 t^JJ^B ■or Areuraey A Beaiili K^Ji rh« lIE!ST Wairh '■\V^I inouii Km world ovci 3I A Ti:lt 1 1; i I 9' 1 Jr\ J/tm dl rn walch making history! n 'r lifl Successors of k^Hl_ Moine Comte Co., Ltd. I Sole Agents for Malaya:
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  • 1053 5 FRASER CO.'s SHARE LIST Singapore, Wednesday. 5 o m. MINING Buyers. Sellert SSsv*" sT s: Austral Malay 15 3 Ayer Hltam (55.) 14 Aytr W 1916 Idris Hyds (SS-) 513 8!-xd IpohTins '16-) 32 JJ %-*,«>" !2 95 99 Kam Kamunting (55.) 6,6 7,--gSp Lanjut IJ9 18,6 m "is.. S
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  • 956 5 Fraser Co 's Share Report FRASER and Co's report on the Singapore share market for the weekended Apr. 7 state: During the past week no new developments of any moment have taken place m the European situation. The various National Dictators, veritable Juggernauts m trousers, still preach
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    • 22 5 i j t .yl X ill! I T v T ■*t r V V 1 J f j Agents: j j i
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    • 220 5 Oversea-Chinese Banking Corpora ion Ltd. 'Incorporated m Straits Settlements). SUCCESSORS TO THE CHINESE COMMERCIAL BANK. LTD., THE HO HONG BANK, LTD., AND THE OVERSEA-CHINESE BANK, LTD. CAPITAL: Authorised 540.000.000.00 Paid Vn .510.000.000.mi. HEAD OFFICE: CHINA BUILDING. CHTTTA STREET, SINGAPORE. LOCAL BRANCH: 458. NO*?TR BRIDGE ROAD. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Cheo Swee
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    • 212 6 Read the Enthusiastic PRESS REVIEWS! Hear the (ireat Opinions of Everybody who have seen this picture! CJ\ DMHT f\ I I SPECIAL MATINEES M I I W I— DAILY AT 3 P.M. I I I 6.15 NIGHTLY 9.15 ACCLAIMED EVER A GREATER TRIUMPH THAN "DAVID COPPERFIELD' if Sweeping across the
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    • 318 6 CINEMA DIARY PAVILION CAPITOL TO-NIGHT:— "The Ghost Goes West", TO-NIGHT:-"A Tale of Two Cities" with Robert Donat, Jean Parker and with Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Engene Pallette. Allan. ALHAMBRA |MARLBOROUGH TO-NIGHT:— "The Lucky Texan" and TO-NIGHT:— "The Girl Friend", star- "Secret of the Chateau." ring Ann Sothern. NEXT CHANGE:— "The
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  • 526 7 Ghost Comedy A t Pavilion -cniNARILY when an apparently sane ARDINAKU^i. lk throug h U nKin ,X of his living room, or utterly the rtinc the formality of opening f- r Ton door before attempting to eSer it his family assumes a worried "Snf when handsome Robert
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  • 61 7 Winfield Sheehan. producer of the film version of "Cavalcade," has entered into arrangements to produce ten pictures a year for Paramount, states a cable from' Hollywood Each year four of these will be personally 'produced by Sheehan. and the remaining six will have his supervision. His unit Will hv a
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  • 65 7 Production of a film based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, "It Can't Happen Here, has been ordered to stop by Mr. Will Hays, the unofficial censor m America. The reason given, is fhat the film dealing with Fascism m the United States involves partisan politics and might offend
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  • 62 7 A German publishing firm is anxious to record the thoughts and feelings of the average soldier during the Great War and is preparing a book of soldiers' "letters. In his appeal for the loan of such letters it is pointed out that what is sought is not literary merit but
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    • 133 7 A DASHING GHOST WHO MADE LOVE p"<"- I IN ENGLAND TO EVERY PRETTY GIRL HE WTET! Zl i^vn* 1 i j ever Overflowing with mirth and surprising situation^ this romantic cofnedy tells the incredible adventures A6 SEEI^ BY "i Of a ghost who had a way with the ladies. h^thequeen
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  • 324 8 REMINDER TO JAPAN U. S. A. Proposal To Britain 'pHE Far East is likely to see more British warships m the future than at any time m the past, if a plan sujrcested to the Admiralty by U.S.A. materializes. According to the information gathered
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  • 27 8 *Sf**B^s M Denr, band S "P«'ntenMalay SSS? aWi!fftl| tl J!r lefatfd has been erintin aits Settlements, H.ven days' eavo on^n months and from Ma/eh fte, todfiße^ effect
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  • 159 8 Hundred Huts Razed In Outbreaks Shanghai, Apl. 1. SEVERAL hundred persons were rendered homeless as a result of two fires m Chapei. m which about 100 huts were destroyed. Two persons were detained by the police for inquiries. The first outbreak was reported at Chung Shing Road, about
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  • 154 8 US. Businessman In Hong Kong Hong Kong, Apl. 1. AN his sixteenth visit to the Far East V Mr. A. J. Okis arrived m Hongkong from Manila. Mr. Okis. who represents the Ameiican Lead Pencil Company, is known m Manila and Shanghai as "The Pencil Kins" A
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    34 8 Two of the negotiators of the Anglo- Egyptian Treaty m Cairo MajorGeneral Sir Charlton Spinks, Inspe ctor-General of the Egyptian Army (left) and Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, InspectorGeneral of the R.A.F. (right.)
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  • 248 8 After Twelve Years In America Boreham Wood. Herts, Apl. 1. HERE'S news for fat worn pardon- I mean ladies who are not so rolte as they might be. Phyllis Rawlings. the Woman with the Magic Hands, has just arrived m England after spending the last twelve years
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  • 223 8 Offer From Tay Garnett Ceylon. k REWARD of Rs. 10,000 to the person who can claim to have seen the Rope Trick and can show how it is done, is offered by Mr Tay Garnett, the noted film producer and director, now m Colombo. Mr. Garnett, who
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  • 18 8 The troopship Cameronia, bringing 800 soldiers from India, arrived at Southampton four days late owing to propeller trouble.
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    • 39 8 j THE EASTERN UNITED ASSURANCE j CORPORATION LIMITED. 'Incorporated to th. straiu Settlement i HRE, MARINE, MOTOR, ACCIDENT WORKMEN'S COMPENj SATION INSURANCE UNDERTAKEN. TOLL PARTICULARS AND RATES APPLY 1«D, CECIL STREET I. o. JOHNSON. •S 1 m General Manager.
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    • 84 8 SUN TALKIE (New World) 7.15 TO-NIGHT 9.30 M.CMS Jungle Thriller "TARZANandHIS |New World Cabaretj j Saturday 11th April I J NON-STOP BALL t l k axt.^ peclal Van( leville Turns I By sliai THE CABA RET FLASHES By S p«c.al re,ae st Dance Music by Da Silvas Orchtstra and Hl
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  • 304 9 LARGEST IN J WORLD Seiv Homes For Ministries London. TH K Ministers of Air. Trans- hMt ni take ten years to complete. With 'i frontajre of 550 feet and a yjdi "of 123 feet, it will be 20 feet hi,hor than the surrounding buildin^ The
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  • 154 9 Following In Steps Of Amy T H fi h rs Turkish BM to learn to fly, the npnni Hano^ has thrilled 40 mi? P le i Of her countr y by travelling plan?! a glider towed b an acr Eskww 6 !u c m ht fr om Ankers
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  • 167 9 Police Coup In Ceylon Gampaha, (Ceylon.) Mar. 30. A RAID to secure forged currency notes was affected last night at the Miriffama resthouse, by sub-Ins-spector Percy Seneviratne, of Mirigama. The sab-Inspector had received information abou; the forgery of Rs. 1,000 currency notes and he informed Mr. K. F.
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    17 9 The King of Sweden, who is a keen tennis player, photographed during the Tournament at Cannes recently.
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  • 774 9 power has recently been obtained and found beneficial by the Edinburgh. Lowestoft, and other corporations. A council armed with it serves a notice requiring the nuisance to be abated, and failing compliance can bring the offender before a magistrate or a higher Court. The Court can
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    • 60 9 LOCAL FLIGHTS j S OVER i SIXGAPORE j i EASTER MONDAY S IN A QANTAS 5 j 4 ENGINED AIR LINER. S i S Svnts 5.».00 j t Children under 7 years fare children under 3 years free v Seats can only be S Obtained by advanced booking with >i\\%rii
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  • The MORNING TRIBUNE
    • 268 10 J^ EARLY two decades after the ■owing, Europe i.s reaping the harvest of the Versailles Treaty a harvest of discontent and resentment, suspicion and recrimination. Germany has re-armed, has resumed full sovereignty, without any by-your-leave, in the Rhineland, and demands equality in peace relationships and consideration of her
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  • 530 10 THE Kuala Lumpur district has for the last week or so been subjected to unusually heavy rains. The duration of the downpour has caused less concern than the intensity with which the rain has fallen, and there have been serious fears that repetitions of the floods experienced m
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    29 10 Blankets and provisions were drop ped by aeroplanes to seven boys marooned on an ice floe adrift m Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. The boys were later, rescued by coastguards.
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  • 224 10 Mr. W. J. Warm and Mr. R. T. O. Lammert are leaving for Kuala Lumpur on a business trip to-night. Miss Gunner has arrived m Malaya from University College Hospital, London, and has taken up duties at the District Hospital. Taiping. Mr. W. H. Gillilland, manager of Merbau estate.
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  • 828 11 A LOCAL FACTORY Exper intents In Pineapple Singapore, Wednesday. rnHAT Singapore is becoming I" mor e and more self-support-ing is evident from the number «h variety of local industries t^Vare being established here. With two European breweries m island to supply the needs of Froth Blowers/
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  • 50 11 Mr. W. Eagle-Bott, late of Walbrook Estate, Sitiawan and Dusun Durian Estate, Banteng, Selangor. who left the country last October, with Mrs. Eagle Bott on retirement has now taken over the North Devon Country Club near Westward Ho. Among recent visitors was Major Columbine, late of the Burma Rifles, Taiping.
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  • 247 11 When Mr. D. B. Nivison, assistant works manager of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company at Brough, near Hull, read tTTat Cassidy— his great honour forgotten by the "public— was earning 4s. a week m a Government occupational camp near Scarborough, he at once communicated with the "Daily
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    • 45 11 5<)33 JI"N Telegraphic Address: PHONE j 9^ j| GOODWOOD The most charmingly situated Hotel m the Island. Ideal for permanent residents RESTAURANT Table d'hote and a la carte. COCKTAIL BAR LOUNGE TENNIS. Special Dinner Dance On Wednesday, April 15 DINERS $1.50 NO AFTER-DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE.
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    • 69 11 TO-DAY TIFFIN: SlOO. Creme De Florentine Fish A La Palace Chicken A La Kins, PUaw Rice French Bsans and Boiled Potato Cold Meat and Salad Chocolate Ice Cream Cheese, Fruit, Coffee. Try Our SPECIALTIES. FRESHIi: nors D'Oeuvres Varies "Capitol" Baked Alasca A Choice of Over 100 other dishes. Thont 4906.
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  • 43 12 Lady Ashley and Mr. Douglas Fairban ks, who were married m a Paris registry office recently, photographed after the ceremony. A picture from Korea, a per feet paradise for the hunter. Above J built and ovnl Germ* 1
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  • 65 13 In celebration of Charles Dickens's birthday, the old Rochester coach, which the novelist immortalised, drives into the yard of the Old George Inn, Southwark. Koreans and a deer they have shot, before a hunting box Russians. rThis^picture^w^fiff 11 Rhineland zone were met by large crowds who
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  • 596 14 IN Somerset Maugham's new book of thirty stories the entertainment is both rich and varied "Cosmopolitans" exhibits all the expert ness which reader^ of Maugham have come to expect. The characterisation. necessarily eketchy, is done with sharpness and economy. Many of the tales are Oriental m locale,
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    15 14 Jewellery cabinet m lacquer and small lacquer screen. The gilded bronze Buddha is from Shansi.
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  • 331 14 Mr. Maugham, to be sure, has shown himself m the past not to be without his caustic moments. But he hao seldom, if ever, shown himself so caustic, so sardonic, as he appears m certain of these pieces. Take the one called "Mr. Know-Ail," about a man
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    16 14 A beautiful eighteenth century eight-panelled screen m Chinese lacquer, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Rene Ullmann.
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    • 8 14 j Maison (MmWk Perm j j 4010 /f=^*
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    • 74 14 PORTUGUESE SAItIHMA »l Not just plain H. I small fish, but p GENUINE Jj sardines from [wfc#jCs^>:. Portugal, a tin f JM/Tv-^ if <)f whlch con fI I^fy^X tains more vita--1 Vy^ a^ m ins than a litre of Cod Liver Oil. Try Oasis once and you will have no
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    • 94 14 Dorothy more gives Zota Foam reducing baths m her new salon.. Invaluable for Rheumatism, Sciatica Lumbago. 2ND FLOOR, 18, BATTERY RD. Phone 6995. 1 FREE SAMPLE OFFER I I J 1 I j Send 10 cents m cash or stamps, to cover postage I I and packing, and a free
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  • 95 15 KELLY and Walsh have received a large shipment of Rlne Ribbon books. These are standard works and some outstanding non-fiction best sellers. They are printed on good quality paper, several illustrated by Steele Savage, others with photographs, and vtuy reasonably priced at $3.00. Some of tne books
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    20 15 Another fine Chinese screen has lacquer on one side "ith inlaid figures of ivory and semi-precious stones on the reverse.
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  • 267 15 NEARLY three years ago Captain von Rintelen related m The Dark Invader his war-time machinations as an enemy agent m the United States, which included fomenting a Mexican revolution, blowing up munition stocks intended for the Allies, and planting "cigar bombs" with delayed fuses m the
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    • 68 15 i SINGAPORE I LUGGAGE 1 CARRIER CO. j < East Asiatic Line Nederland Ltae I BIS.N. Co., Ltd., I FOR LATEST STYLES Ladies' Underwear VISIT Tajmnhal Store 23 HIGH ST. CURIOS Chinese Wellknown Shop Chinese Art Work Beautiful Carving New Design Camphor wood chests, Ivorygoods, Emd. linen table cloth, hand-
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    • 174 15 A TOURIST'S SHOPPING GUIDE RESTAURANT Real European 1 Food Come and have your steak cook- ed as you like it on an open charcoal nill by JOHN, Slnpa- J pore's leading Chef. OPEN TILL MIDNIGHT Arcade Restaurant CoUyer Quay, Phone J825.S I BOOKSHOP BASIC ENGLISH BOOKS, BASIC ENGLISH. A general
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    • 96 15 EYES *visi&iP^*s"ifc^ Thompson Qualified Eye Specialists. Eye Examinations. Eyeglasses. Exclusively. Phone 3002. GRAMOPHONES COLUMBIA GRAMOPHONES and RECORDS NEW MODELS J I i $21 to $50— i ROBINSON PIANO Co^ SA Ll* Winchester House, Collyer Quay, Singapore. l opposite the NEW PIER. •8* TAILOR stocks of English Suiting I and Shirtings
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    • 55 15 NYAL CORN REMOVER 50 cts. Nvals Corn Remover forms a protective cover over the Corn and gives immediate relief. Agents: FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. (Inc. m F.M.S.) 8, Raffles Place, Singapore. CAMERAS AND FILMS II if^l I HAIRDRESSER 4. 4 S m/| s pi^^ni Maison P^WgMarcelle Hi 35 Stamford Rd. 1
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    32 16 Mrs. Gifford Hull of Hongkong who is a passenger on board the Ranchi, on her way Home to England for a holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Hull formerly lived m Singapore.
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  • 81 16 SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE Mam Wharf: Lch. Lucifer. Lch. Dolphin. Lch. Kittiwake, Tung Son?. Loudon, Tug Pentower, Centaur, Kudat. Keppel Harbour No. 1 Dock: Subok. Godown Gate No. Muinam 20 1 Ranchi 18 3 Eumaeus 13 3 Kutsang 9 3 Javanese Prince 30
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  • 76 16 Tinombo. Dutch, 525 tons; from Pakan Baroe 7.4. to Pakan Baroe 9.4 Kofulai Maru, Japanese. 4,279 tons; from Yokohama 7 4 to Mombasa 8 4. Giang Ann. British, 545 tons, from v abaya 8 4 t0 Sourabava 10 4 Myer Dutch. 1.127 tons; from Batavia 7 4 to
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  • 25 16 The Chargeurs Reunis liner Cap varella is due at Singapore from Colombo on Apr. 13 and will sail for Saigon the same day.
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 265 16 A 11.I 1 O. S O^ Al £«'S SAILINGS. I*ne Due Tonnage Spore. Tonnage Spore. 1936. 1936 5»/SHTr ANA 17 000 Apr 10 CORFU 15 °00 J «ne 5 AN 6JO Apr 12 R ANCHI 17.000 June 19 S^S^P 6000 A P r 19 SOMALI 6,810 July 1 £s?^^ 15
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 239 16 MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY Pengerang (Aik Soon) 9 a.m. Karimon (Tong Heng) 9 am Tandjong Pinang (Silver Gull* 10 am Pfnang (Kedah) 10 a.m. Western Canada and Western States of U.S.A. (Tilawa) 1 pm China (generally) Hoihow (Tilawa) 1 p.m. Osak a (Tilawa) 1 pm Japan (Tilawa) 1 p.m. Hongkong (Tilawa)
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  • —News Of The Day
    • 265 17 Year's Total Losses Summarised London, Mar. 30. irHE annual summary of casualties to I shipping during 1935 has been issued by the Liverpool Underwriters' Association, and deals with steam and motor vessels of 500 tons and upwards. This shows that there were 111 vessels reported as totally lost, these
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    • 259 17 Unions Accept Offer Of Employers London, Mar. 30. FOLLOWING a conference m London the executive of all the shipyard trade unions decided to accept the ofTei of the Shipping Employers' Federation for a general wage advance. The terms offered by the employers are: An advance to male employees,
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 305 17 'm i it i i i i i i i i i i i i ■> i i i i iiiiiiiinimniiiiniiiiiimminiiiiiiiiiininiiiiniiiininiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiifiiiMiiiiumiua !M K\S PniLP LINE. (Incorporated m Australia) NEXT SAILINGS. Due Sails. MERKUR Apr. 28 May 3 MARELLA May 28 June 3 Special cheap round trip tickets from Singapore to
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    • 493 17 yg TO FRENCH PORTS J\ i "^T J^ HOMEWARDS. V ANGO For Marseilles, Havre, Antwerp Dunkirk Apr. 10 C CAP VARELLA For Marseilles, Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux May 2 DALNY For Marseilles, Havre, Antwerp Dunkirk May 5 j DESIRADE For Marseilles, Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux May 29 OUTWARDS (from Marseilles).
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  • 671 18 PLAY'S GREAT SUCCESS Woman 's Gamble Succeeds (By Air Mail) London, Mar. 25. "I ADY Precious Stream." the play which has put China on the London stage has now reached its 500 th performance nere and Londoners are still flocking to see it The play,
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  • 241 18 Demonstration Given In Court Oxford. Apl. 1. TAN you pick up a penny from the floor with your teeth? There is c doctor m Oxford who can. He did it twice a special performance for the benefit of the court at Oxford Quarter Sessions, and the
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  • 95 18 Mrs. Beatrice Elizabeth Le Fanu, of Glisson-road, Cambridge, loved her cat "Teddy" so much that she directed m her will that the animal should be painlessly destroyed and buried m the same grave as herself and her little daughter. Mrs. Le Fanu's interest m the welfare of
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  • 213 18 Governesses In Demand London, Apl. 1. THE "old-fashioned" governess seemr to bq coming into her own again. "Employment has been much better lately than it has been for many years," an official of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution said. "Employers are returning to the old ideal of the
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  • 135 18 R.A .F. A pprenticeship Opportunity London, Apl. 1. AWING to the expansion of the R. A. F. 800 well educated boys between fifteen and seventeen will be required m August for training as aircraft apprentices, and 200 m September as boy entrants The most highly skilled trades
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  • 343 18 Developing A Aew Invention London, Apr. i TELEVISION broadcasting will fctta by the end of May or early m jS Mr. Gerald Cock, 8.8.C. dL* o r television, has acquired complete power for developing the new service >*¥ iC L nOt n ob tain these w^out
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    • 28 18 THE WORD IN THE ART OF BREWING J ■flHim k r^^^:fo^^^>\ a rana H^. Sole Importers: »J« ™««APOM KUALA LUMpUB pj^™* <fr (l nll■ ■■■■nun, Uftn nu fj
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 1528 19 down. 8.35 a.m. Talk by Mmc de Gramont. lxr v 5.20 p.m. Recorded music. 8.50 a.m. Relay from the theatre. End V 5.50 p.m. Time signal. Bach pro- of transmission. ,k T rjT«l7 If %111 II I indUdlng BrandenbUrg COn US Ne a wsin English. Vfl■ i^ I ili lirmMf-l-Tr
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  • 627 20 After Night Club Visit AT the Central Criminal Court m London, John Dimente, 28, described as a signwriter, pleaded "Not Guilty" before the Recorder (Sir Holman Gregory, K.C.) to a charge of stealing a necklace and other articles of jewellery, of the total value of £8,000, from the
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  • 7 20 Gloomy View On Crisis
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  • 382 20 Paris. UNDER the title "The Race to the Abyss" m the Ere Nouvelle, M. Herriot gives strong approval to the British White Paper on rearmament. At the same time M. Herriot takes a gloomy view of the process of rearmament m Europe, which, if continued, can lead only to ruin
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    • 54 20 C l cd r, Nur i c J y Rhymes (b) A st ory, The Crowded Hour." 7.25 p.m.—"The Messiah." Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the BBC 2 lr n d Orche stra, with Huberr Eisdell, Tenor; Harold Williams, Bari- B^s^^ *»™>'- 9.00 p.m.— Close Down. I I I l ■"•llllHllllllll|iHiHiftimi4,nini,(
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    • 290 20 OX THE RADIO (Continued from page 19) 10.05 p.m. Songs for Holy Wept 10.20 p.m. "Das grobe TotensrL by Ernst Wiechert. 1120 p.m. Close DJA, DJB dtv (German, Engl.). DJN 2 Ho. Itom^ Wavelength 25.4 metres (11,810 k CS j TO-DAY 9.20 p.m. Opening announcement News bulletin m English. Summary
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  • 2746 21 MR- LA YCOCK 'S ADDRESS Holiday Hint To Rotary Singapore, Wednesday. T HE beauties of Southern Italy and I the attractions that Italy offers t the average man on holiday were Hi's ussed bv B Mr. John Laycock m nterestin* address he delivered the weekly meeting
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
    • 53 21 v j m will rank among the best films of 1936 if you miss this picture >ou miss something which you may never have a chance of seeing again V STRAITS TIMES, (London Letter) IJOth January. 1936. PETER IBBETSON M A Paramount Picture Starring. GARY COOF'ER ANN HARDING «J« Next
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    • 57 21 I (Jrand Sinjrap >re Premiere lI^IV II 615 TO-NKJHT 9.15 THEATRE Hff li%|^ Matinees Daily from Friday to Monday at Mi Here at last is the picture you've been waiting for— sew Theatres Ltd. present featuring Miss Rajkumari, Miss Jamuna, Mr. Saigal and Lilting Song Hits! Side-splitting Comedy! Hear the
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  • 412 22 NEW IMPERIAL AIRCRAFT The Short-Mayo Composite PARTICULARS of the Short-Mayo composite aircraft, now under construction for Imperial Airways, show what a remarkable advance m aeronautics is made by this latest invention. On routes such as the Atlantic, where very long non-stop stages are involved, the range
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  • 146 22 Device To Foil The Snatchers A "SIREN HANDBAG^r^bag- tmtchen has been .-fcvLsed by a Sydney inventor. Mr. C. E Lewis aftor Ihret years of experiment H O y», ba nk 'i; cash baR fitted w ith the device looks an ordinary bag, but beneath its handle is a
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  • 73 22  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Chauffeur Blinded In Night Eye Shanghai, Apr. 7. DUBLJC indignation m Shanghai was aroused yesterday by an unknown Japanese who is alleged to have failed to pay his fare for a motor-car hired from the Southern Motor-car Company. He is further alleged to have
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  • 269 22 Planes In Blanket Of Fog EMERGENCY conditions, with no fewer H than 15 aeroplanes heading through foe towards the same spot, recently gave Croydon Airport its severest test of wireless control. Visibility was extremely poor. The pilots were entirely dependent on their compasses. Yet men, working before
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  • 136 22 All Live In One Block Of Flats London, Apr 1 A BIG block of flats m Poplar, Oban House, Oban-rd. contains 300 people, all of whom are related to on* another. And this is how! The new tenants come from Orchard House, Bow Creek, Poplar, a peninsula
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  • 73 22 Alleged Housebreaking To. Commit Theft Singapore, Wednesday A EUROPEAN named J. R. Martin was charged this morning before the second magistrate <Mr. T. D. Hughes i with housebreaking m order to commit theft of a single-barrelled gun and 23 round of ammunition, valued at $SH, by unlocking the padlock of
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    • 153 22 J!ll!lll|iillillilll|i!llilll|li|!!|ii|ii|ii|il|li|ii|ii|ii|i|lilii|:i|ii|ilt'i|ii|iiliilii|!i|i!lii|itrilllllii|n|'.i|ii|i;|lltJllilliillllilllllii|iitM|li|iiimii|i.|; I j .1 *f More exciting than "THE INVISIBLE MAN"! i More thrilling and Weird than "THE MUMMY"! S U I I I ALHAMIWA OPENING TO-MORROW J Sln 1 S I SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEES DAILY AT 3.15 i Universal, producers of the most famous thrillers bring a New Sensation
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  • 652 23 Singapore, Wednesday. Till) following matches m the Eng--1 ijsh and Scottish Football Leases "ill be played at Home during the Easter Holidays: GOOD FRIDAY FIRST DIVISION irsenil v. West Brom A. Xston Villa v. W'hampton W. Blackburn R. v. Liverpool Bolton W. v.
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  • 237 23 Light Blues Win By Odd Fighf London. CAMBRIDGE beat Oxford m the any nual inter-Varsity match held at the Cambridge Corn* Exchange by four fights to three, but the decision remained m the balance until th? last fight, although Cambridge had early on secured a winning advantage of
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  • 498 23 Ft. Canning Trounce Monopolies 5—1 In Second Division Match DESPITE the fact that they were without the services of several of their regular players Fort Canning took full points m a second division game this evening, when they defeated the Government Monopolies by s—l5 1 at the Anson Road Stadium.
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  • 78 23 Alfred Padgham Wins Daily Mail Tourney Bramshot (Hampshire) Apr. 3. ALFRED Padgham, the British Ryder Cup player, won the £2.000 Daily Mail Golf Tournament with a score cf 284 for 72 holes. His individual rounds were 73, 73, 70 and 68. the last round being course record
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  • Page 23 Advertisements
    • 35 23 |:r il RACKETS ;yEp^ RFSTRINGTNG \tf There is only DX RELIABLE II PLACE 1 1 111 rr N S U 3, Prince Street. Phone Telegrams 7634 "Tennis" English, Australian American Ciut, only used. No other.
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    • 151 23 TH fc* GREAT EASTERN LIFE GREAT by reason of the fact. l I that m a period of little more than a quarI ter of a century it has I (1) built up a large business all over Asia; I (2) acquired a thoroug hly sound financial posiI tion; I
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  • 1211 24 CRICKET CLUB TROUNCED Newcomers Make Impression Singapore, Wednesday. k DELIGHTFUL game of football was provided by the men of the Middlesex regiment when they made their debut m Singapore soccer this evening m a friendly match against the S.C.C. They won by six goals to
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  • 15 24 Inche A "caul Hamld (D.P.P., Johore) has returned from Muar after attending the Assizes there.
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  • 210 24 Witness Who Read Report Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday THE publicity given by the Press to a local divorce case which came up m the Supreme Court on Monday was the means of enabling the petitioner Mrs. Theresa Ho to locate a vital witness who gave cvi- deuce before
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 39 24 Millions of Radio-listeners the world over have heard him nrJIJ J 1 Nowjie wiH be seenjn a full-length BRITISH Musical Hit i i HENRY HALL and his 8.8.C. ORCHESTRA j "MUSIC HATH CHARMS" A Coming ta the CAPITOL A
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