Morning Tribune, 5 October 1936

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  • 14 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE VOL. I.— No. 211. SINGAPORE. MONDAY. October 5, 1936. FIVE CENTS.
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  • 696 1 PHEPAItATION§ MADE IN NANKING SINO JAPANESE SITUATION J\l» Wl *l BLOCKADE OF THE YAXGTSt: Shanghai, Oct. 4. EXPECTING an outbreak of hostilities at any moment, the Nanking Government has started to make emergency preparations. According to information received from Japanese sources thfc Yanctse River has
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  • 269 1 Singapore, Sunday [JNHERALDED by any advance pubTr»Jt IClty i he tar "ous film director, nmt\ o sternr *rg, arrived in Singaivm! u a u lurda y in course of a leisure- '> louiid-the-world tour. rhino been travelling in Japan. n J Korea. Manchuria.
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    26 1 .Mr. W. Ormsby Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is presiding at the 23rd reunion of the International Colonial Institute, which opens in London to-day
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  • 51 1 SULTAN SELANGOR SUCCESSION Question To Be Raised At Home London, Oct. 4. FE visit of the Sultan of Seiangor is featured in newspapers. The Sunday Referee publishes an interview through an interpreter in which the Sultan is reported to have indicated hb desire to raise the question of the succession
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  • 67 1 Trouble In East End Of London London. Oct. 4. FEARS of distui ounces, arising from a PMCisi march in the east end of London, for which extra police were mobilised, were realised early when trouble broke out In the neighbourhood of the Minories. The police cleared Royal Mint
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  • 175 1 Mr. McElwaine Appointed Singapore, Sunday. |T is announced thai h.M. the King g h,is approved «he appointment of I the Hon. Mr. P. A. McElwaine. Attor- ney-General, Straits Settlements, to be I Chief Justice. &8, in tucceiSton to Sir J Walter flugguri Fifty-two years of
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  • 55 1 AIR MAIL DELAYED WITH ENGINE TROUBLE (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Oct. 4. fHE eastbound air mails, both Dutch and Imperial, only left Calcutta this morning and ure making a night stop at Rangoon, proceeding to Singapore to-morrow. The westbound Imperial machine which left Singapore this morning is. held up
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    • 31 1 S ON OTHER PAGES I Page I Anglo-Kg.vpt treaty 2 i,ocaJ weuu-ags 1 unemployed i u... ui.owiiifc I j *»«»ance J J uome soccer L ammUmt boxing -<» Local sport 6 1
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    • 115 1 India And Japan Simla. Cnt. 3. The Indo-Japanese trade talks were imed to-d.i.v. Reuter. j^ T I "THIS MILK KEEPS I q I REFRIGERATION!'^ |fj7 I V O W r W %RY Klim Powdered for all uses. Recommended X Whole Milk— the milk by doctors for even the frail- 1
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  • 2734 2 MR. ALSAGOFF S PARTY Allies For Over 100 Years Singapore, Sunday. MAY mention, in this connection 1 that during the last 20 years, I have carefully followed the developments in Arab countries, and have found that every dispute that took place between the Arabs and the
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  • 230 2 Several Ceremonies In Singapore Singapore, Saturday. A PRETTY wedding took place at eight-o-clock this morning at St. Joseph's Church, when Miss Irene Olive Olivero, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Augustas Olivero. was married to Mr Roland Carlos de Roza, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Leonard d'Costa.
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  • 159 2 Against Ex-Secretary Of Loan Society Singapore, Saturday. FURTHER evidence was recorded by Mr \t L. B. Gibson, District Judge. Criminal District Court, to-day in the case in which a young Straits-born Chinese Wong Tet Conn, formerly in the employ of a local newspaper, is appearing on two serious
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  • 24 2 Staff employed on Britistt railways in the week ended March 7, 1936. totalled 585.611. an increase of 4.845 on the corresponding week last year.
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  • 28 2 An intensive dockside search is being undertaken by Birkenhead detectives following the robbery of £500 in notes trom the Great Western Railway Company's goods depot at Morpeth Dock.
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  • 214 2 Govt. Policy Condemned London, Oct. 3 THE following resolution on defence and armaments has been tabled by the National Executive of the Labour Party for discussion at next week's Parly conference at Edinburgh: "That in view of the threatening attitude of dictatorships, which are increasing their armaments
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  • 46 2 Anti-Aircraft Guns In Action Madrid, Oct. 3. INSURGENT planes bombed the outskirts I of Madrid last night apparently aiming at the military aerodromes, but as far as is known no important objectives were touched. Government anti-aircraft guns were in action against the raiders. Reuter
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  • 51 2 Trade Relations To Be Re-Established Rome, Oct. 2. fGREEMENT on general lines is stated to have been practically reached between Britain and Italy for re-establisn-ing trade relations but a number of details are outstanding and hence accord is unlikely to be concluded until tne ena of next
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  • 1271 3 PROTEST BY Half-Yearly Meeting (From Our Own Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. thf half-yearly meeting of the mcorpor'ated Society of Planters was held at noon to-day^ at whfch the Acting Chairman, Mr. E. Mallen strongly criticised the procedure warding acting appointments adopted by certain groups of estates
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  • 283 3 A Brilliant Success This Year Singapore, Saturday. THE St. Andrew's School held a fair to-day which was organised by the staff and members of the school. Mrs. Tay Lian Teck opened the show at 3 p.m. and business continued briskly till U p.m. Nearly 1,000 people were
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  • 133 3 Malayan Health Officer Dead NEWS has been received of the death in England of Dr. Raymond Fearle Pinson. Health Officer, Malayan Medical Service, on Sept. 29. Dr. Pinson had been ailing for some time suffering from chest trouble (empyaema) for which he underwent operation. As a
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  • 120 3 Arrival In Singapore Delayed rE Dollar liner President Garfield afrived in Singapore on Saturday night at about eight o'clock from Manila. Owing to bad wither encouniered between the Philippines and Hongkong the vessel pu* into Manila 14 hours late and she left Manila for Singapore several hours behind
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  • 30 3 Until it is certain that the reduction of Is. a sack of flour, is stable the price of bread in London will remain at 8»/ 2 d. ner 41b. loaf.
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  • 205 3 Two Out Of Three Drop Out Singapore, Saturday. fHE three youths who set out to tour Malaya ou t>icycles some weeks ago progressed well as far as Butterworth, and had during their journey made some -.'udies of native life about which they .ntend to write a
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  • 71 3 died in the morning. Dr. F. Oleviero, in evidence stated he performed a post-mortem and death in both cases was due to shock from bums from a corrosive liquid. Alter the evidence of two more witnesses and Mr. Tunn. the Coroner returned a verdict ot murder against a per.son or
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  • 47 3 Law No tice For To day Before the Acting Chief Justice at 11 am. Summonses-in-Chambers, Originating Summonses. Petition and Judgment Summons. Before Mr. Justice Adrian Clark in the 2nd Court at 11 a.m. Assizes:— Rex vs Yasuhara Arima; Rex vs. Sim Kim Joo and Kwek Peng Kim
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  • 194 3 Javanese Murdered Malacca. Saturday THE brutal attack on a Javanese family at Ayer Molek when an unknown assailant flung acetic acid on them while they were asleep on midnight on Aug. 24, causing the instant death of Abubakar and his young female child and seriously injuring Zainah,
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    • 50 3 ASK I i^C>^»!M 111 »4^W \M^ I BHIl^lI I RAPID HARDENING CEMENT Look For This fjfifci Trade Mark When Buying A Watch. VERY ATTRACTIVE SELECTIONS IN GOLD, CHROMIUM ft STEEL. AT ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT MALAYA MODERATELY PRICED. TOLLY GUARANTEED. wmmm sold in malaya for 75 YEARS. Sole Agents: MONTOR LTD
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  • REUTER'S COMMERCIAL SERVICE
    • 150 4 London Oct. 3. RUBBF.R Previous To-day Change Tone Very Quiet Quiet 8^ Buyers 7 34 7 13 16 -Mill Sellers 7 78 7 78 November Buyers 7 3 4 7 13 16 .-MIM Sellers 7 7 8 7 7 8 December Buyers 7 13 16 7 13 16
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    • 80 4 London Oct. 3. Previous To-day Change "T.T. on Paris (closing middle rate» 105.78 105.43 —35 T.T. on Amsterdam (closing middle rate) 9.20 9.33 up 13 T.T. on Shanghai (closing selling rate) is. 2%d. is. 23 B d. T.T. on Bongkong (dosing selling rate) is. 2 15 16d. is.
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    • 32 4 London Oct. 3. Previous To-day Change HOW fine Bar per of. £710 SILVER 8 19 1516 20 116 up» 8 9 months forww* 19 W* 20 1 16 U P
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    • 94 4 London Oct. 3 Previous To-day Changt J. Si P. Coats 553 Closed Closed Distillers 108,3 Duniop Rubber 34 10 General Electric 90Guinness 1476 Imperial Chemical Industries 40 3 Imperial Tobacco 165j-Anglo-Dutch 319 Canadian Pacific 12-3 8 Gula Kalumpong 28 9 Langlaate Estates 23 4 London Tin 7
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    • 24 4 London Oct 3 fIM Standard. Previous To-day Change Cash (official price) £201-3 4 Closed Closed 3 months forward (official price* £198-3 8
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    • 52 4 New York, Oct 3 RUBBER Previous To-day Change Tone Steady Steady Boot Buyers ***** 16% up 116 Bellera 16% 16 9 16 up 116 Jan. Mar. Buyers. 16 916 16% up 116 Sellers 16 1116 163 4 up 116 TIN Standard TOne Quiet Quiet Spot 45»/i 45%
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    • 14 4 London's 101st automatic exchanu- -the new Waterloo exchange at souu wark— was opened recently.
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    • 164 4 Two Million Dollars Added In July THE revenue of the F.M.S. for July amounted to very nearly $7,000,000, the heads contributing largely to this satisfactory result being Customs (nearly $3 000,000). Interest and Rent on Government Property (more than $250 000i. Excise. Lands, and Mines, and
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    • 86 4 Luncheon In Honour. Of Mr. Eden London. Oct. 2. M. BLUM, the French Premier, arrived at Geneva by train this morning. He began a series of private talks at the luncheon which he save to-day In honour of the British Foreign Minister, Mr. Anthony Eden. Paris press reports
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  • 35 4 Terrehaute (Indiana), Oct. 1 Earl Browder. the Communist candi date for the Presidency yesterday telegraphed President Roosevelt and Governor of Indiana protesting igains any denial of his right to speak Reuter wireless
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    • 29 4 %mffj' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. FIRE, MARINE, IS WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION, MOTOR CAR I INSURANCE I AT REASONABLE RATES. Ws% W. J. DEXTER, Manager. -3-; Tel 592«. 8. Flnlayson Qrcen. jj||
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    • 17 4 Overseas Assurance CORPORATION, LIMITED, China Building, Chulia Street, PHONE 5808. SINGAPORE Fire, Marine, Motor VEHICLES WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
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  • 1355 5 Issued by Fraser and Co. Lyall and Evatt, Exchange and Stock Brokers 'Share ar e $1 unless otherwise stated). Singapore, Oct. 3, 1 p.m. I _f Fraser Si Co. Lyall Si Evatt *m? Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers 4|4ft 4|7ft 416 4J9 I r^wenT. gj* 5- Idris Hydraulic
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  • 158 5 (From Our Financial Correspondent) Singapore, Saturday morning. Rubber Singapore: 27 3U6 cts. Market Tone: Very steady. London: 7%d. f down 1 16d. Market Tone: Quiet. New York: 16 7|16 cts., up I|l6 ct. Market Tone: Steady. Singapore, Saturday evening. This morning's market opened very steady and remained
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  • 243 5 Transfer Of India Tyre Rubber Co. 'By Air Mail) (From Our own Correspondent London, Sept. 17. CHAREHQLDERS in the India Xyre and w Rubber Company Ltd., Inchinnan Renfrewshire, agreed at a meeting in Glasgow to the sale of the undertaking to the Dunlop Rubber Company for 11,131,000. Under
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  • 53 5 San Francisco, Oct. 1. That the Pacific Coast is facing a threatened stoppage of coastal shipping tl evident from the fact employers and unions have come to a deadlock on the question of new contracts, the present working agreements having expired last night. The unions represent 37,000 maritime
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  • 189 6 Singapore, Oct 3. The following were closing rates .n the local exchange market to-day:— *KLUNIi London T.T. 2|4 I|l6 London demand 2 4 116 London 4 months' sight 2 4V 2 Lyons demand 1220 Hamburg demand 142 New Lork demand 57% Montreal demand 57 Batavia demand 105% Samarang
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  • 168 6 Singapore, Oct. 2. R. (Siam) W. Coast No. 1 per Koyan $146 R. (Siam) W. Coast No. 2 per Koyan $140 R. (Siam) W. Coast No. 3 per Koyan $136 R. (Siam) "Sinhuay" No. Al $222 R. (Siam) "Sinhuay" No. 1 $175 R. (Siam) "Sinhuay" No. 2 $163 R.
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  • 337 6 Why Government Will Not Devaluate Berlin, Sept. 30. DR. Schacht, addressing the Central Committee of the Reichbank, said there would be no devaluation in Germany because Germany did not want to carry another element of uncertainty Into the confused international currency situation. We arc well aware the present
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  • 28 6 N.E.I. Export Duty Fixed Batavia, Oct. 4. The Netherlands East Indies export duty on native rubber has been fixed at fifty guilders per hundred kilograms Reuter
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  • 13 6 London, Oct. 3. IIIS Highness the Sultan of Selangor the Colonial Office. Reuter
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    • 26 6 i l| ABSOLUTE SECURITY Mot oii Vxi o n j INSURANCE COMPANY,. LTD. M^. AgenXM B/ SIME, DARBY A CO. LTD. Sfanfmpore A Branches m nA
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    • 343 6 The Singapore Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Assn. DAILY PRICES CURRENT. Singapore, Saturday noon. Buyers. Sellers. No. I.X.R.S.S. in cases (FOB. October) 27% 27 7|16 Good F.A.Q. in cases (F.O.B. October) 27 5 16 27% No. I.X.R.S.S. (Spot-loose) (awardable S'pore) 27 >4 27 5|16 do. October 27% 27 7|16 do. Oct.
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    • 44 6 THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD. (Established in 1880) Capital Subscribed (Fully paid up) Y. 100,000,000 Reserve Fund Y.130,900,000 00 Head Office: YOKOHAMA SINGAPORE BRANCH, MEYER CHAMBERS, RAFFLES PLACE. Manager, T. YAMAMOTO Tel: No. 6049 Manager's Room. 5021 5922 General Office. 5923 6472 Compradore's Desk
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  • 458 7 Seventeenth Annual General Meeting gistered office^" on Satur Eng Ck 'attend"ce representing the ~&&Stt?&». ana ♦vJ Auditors' Report were read. th The SSSes of the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting were taken as read and were confirmed. CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH In moving the adoption of the annual
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  • 251 7 Machine In Wind Tunnel At Farnborough London 4 FLYING Flea" was mounted in the Air Ministry's full-sized wind tunnel at Farnborough recently in preparation for the tests which are being undertaken at the request of the Air League of the British Empire, in the hope that
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  • 44 7 Berlin G ER t^ AN t are the latest addl--^"poU^ion^ o^^ rankS f r<onsHint re f to w u ear a s P eclal uniform. 4dld a ho rJ black ack <*. with tr 'H»ser bHPir K? Ider Straps Wack b^?Msraa and
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  • 143 7 Priceless Ruins Saved From Nile Alexandria IN order to save them from being completely submerged by the waters of the Nile, the ruins of the exquisite temples of Philae are to be moved. The ruins are situated on a small island in the Nile,
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  • 104 7 Latest Plan Of The German Army Berlin. THE carrier-pigeon section of the Reichswehr at Spandau, near Berlin, is now training a section of "flying spies." according to the "Lokal Anzeiger." Specially-selected carrier -pigeom are being equipped with miniature cameras. The pigeons are released near any district which
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  • 145 7 Geneva A HUE and cry has been raised in Switzerland for an American, Mr. Harold Payne, who, it is alleged, has taken away his daughter, aged ten, from the guardianship of a Swiss nurse named Anita Alody. writes the correspondent of the Daily Mail. About a
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  • 491 7 Ten Times As Great As That Of Natural Product <By Air Mail) (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Sept, 25. thf cSSiiSfit in P^ucing substitutes but he was a little more than doubtful that the coMatog synthetic rubber was only seven times as great as natural b
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  • 30 7 The French motor fishing trawler St. Isabella, of Caen, was escorted into Ply-, mouth 'recently by H.M.B. Dart the, fishery protection cruiser. and allepations of illegal fishing are being investigated.
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  • 403 7 Mr. Montagu Norman's Wishes Practically Completed (By Air Mail) London, Sept. 17. THE reorganisation of the Foreign Exchange Committee in accordance with the wishes of Mr. Montagu Norman has now been practically completed declares the financial news. And the result of the change is that the discipline
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    • 158 8 I BE K m m&%jt& A I Ifl roam the Bad I I HO HADIO PICTURE 9 /Uill/mlflDlmA fSt*Jt+flt^C*to MGHT 6-15 9-15 IN SWTE OF ENORMOUS SUCCESS MUST FINISH TO-NIGHT TO MAKE WAY FOR TO-MORROW'S PREMIERE! uMMIAIIiM MHllMlllHll ft TO-MORROW PLANS RAPIDLY FILLING! JESSIE MATTHEWS "IT'S LOVE AGAIN" A j~
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    • 159 8 Now I JUST A GOOD LITTLE GIRL SHE W H O'S ALWAYS "IN B AD"I dancing Irl JEJ^ filled J^m^ A^ I with v^^(|[£u r JANEWITH6RS A THRILLS J ALMAMttHA NEXTCttANGfi LAST NIGHT \^A rZ^ JbT Gaumont British MMHM I Picture's Brightest And KH Most Stirring Musical Hi Comedy Entertainment!
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  • 283 9 Every now and then a motion picture comes along which provides an houi ar so oi delightful entertainment fo* even- member of the family. Just such nicture \s the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production. The Suicide Club.' oased on Roberi Louis Stevenson's famous story of
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  • 96 9 NEW STAMPS PLEASE HOLLA ND But Photo Not Recent Enough Amsterdam. i| LE imjlicitj ol the desiffii ot the turn British .1 imps has won u.uversiil approval from Dutch philatelists. out that Lfte photoraph the Kins apoears to have beer. Ulcec sometime ago, so thai it resembled the youthful Prince
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  • 145 9 Graves Flames To Warn Them Downieville, California. A FAITHFUL dog saved the lives of two miners here by plunging through a fire and running for 300 feet down a smoke-filled tunnel. The men. Joseph Stark and his son, Herman, had left a fire in the
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    • 178 9 A Picture to Look Forward To! TpffßK^fj^^^g^Mß If there> s anything better than wySßp^ SWjj^SHH a Ina to lovr it>s tuo men!" v f?t/^ JEAN HARLOW M.-G.-M/s exhilarating story oi a Heautiful American show-girl in the web of Wartime Espionage in Paris! < oming to llw CAPITOL SOOM TEA DANCES
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  • 623 10 APPEAL BY POLICE Placard Headed "Murder" London. OUTSIDE every police-station throughout the country recently was exhibited a large poster headed "Murder," with the following message in blod type: Scrutinise your lodgers. The couple may he with you now. This dramatic appeal, signed by Sir
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  • 335 10 Had Done Right* "WO girl can tell which way love will n turn. She should heed the call of her heart. Though I was crazy with grief, I knew I had done right." These were the words of Miss Doris Florence Greep, aged 24, a telephonist, of
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  • 71 10 King Leopold's Latest Portrait Brussels. NEW stamps bearing the latest portrait of King Leopold 111 are to be issued in Belgium. The values aftectcd are the 70 centimes, (inland letter post) one franc (overseas postcard rate) and fr.l"s (foreign letter rate). It is understood that the colours—
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    16 10 Carrying the colours at Saturday's General Inspection of Singapore Boy Scouts on the Victoria School ground.
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  • 126 10 Document And Postal Equipment Brussels niCTURE postcards, with their stamps I obliterated by a special cancellation n irk win be Issued at Brussels No. in Post Office on November 7 to commemorate the opening of the new post office museum here The museum will contain documents
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  • 251 10 Air girl Forced Down During Gale i London AFTER braving a gale for more than an hour at the start of a 400-miles air dash from Lossiemouth to London, following the death of her father, Mr. Norman Spicer, as the result of a 75ft fall
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  • 117 10 Bullock Turns On The Taps A BULLOCK which escaped from t.ne slaughter yard pf Mr. E. J. Elton. butcher, of High-street. Orpington. Dashed into a living room behind the shop; Climbed the stairs; Wrecked one of the front rooms on the first floor; Got into the bathroom, where
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  • 136 10 Woman Helps To Fight Flames Ilfracombe. /IOASTGUARD officers and a. U>nd° t man and wife fought a fire wnlcn badly damaged a tent and a trailer a Widmouth Point. Urracombe. m KB than ten minutes. fcll i The tent and its equipment belonii to Mr. and Mrs. E.
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  • 1987 11 THE ONLY BOND, MONEY 4 'Shanghai Is Not China" PKIDE of place is given in "The I I istener" of Aug. 12 to what was apparently a broadcast talk recently delivered in London by Mr Richard Pxke in the Round The Corner In The Far East
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  • 118 11 Roy Makes Boast To Police Chicago. A CHOIR boy, Roland Munroe. aged 15. is reported by the Chicago police to have confessed to the murder of a cripnlfd widow. Mrs. Agnes Roffeis, aged 55. by beating her to death with a small hammer and a stirk Munroe is
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  • 301 12 MORNING TRIBUNE THE UNEMPLOYED Singapore: Monday, Oct. 5, 1936. Acting Chairman of the Incorporated Society of Planters, Mr. E. M. Allen, speaking in the absence of the Chairman (Mr. W. Leggatt) at the halfyearly meeting of the Society on Saturday, in Kuala Lumpur, made a timely reference to the exploitation
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  • 923 12 IN these days of wireless, refrigerators and all the other amenities of what we are pleased to describe as civilisation, mankind has a tendency to put an ever-increasing distance between itself end nature in the raw, and just by way of reminding humanity that it is not omnipotent
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  • 331 12 Mr. C. H. Hilton, of Shanghai Estate Klebang, is leaving on transier to Taiping. His place will be taken by Mr. E. C. Smith of Sitiawan. Mr. J. Shelton, of the Institute for Medical Research, Kuala Lumpur, accompanied by Mr. Shelton and child are due back from Home this
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    33 12 Mr. Anatole Shister, the well-known Russian painter, and Mrs. Shisiet. who have been spending a few days in Singapore on their way to Midland. They sailed Friday morning on the J. V. Aldenbarnevelt.
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  • 646 13 APPEARS IN ENGLAND Spanish Prisoner Plot •Bv Air Mail* London. Sept. 16. THi: *orld's most famous swindle ha*, reappeared in a new form a n >ult of the Spanish CivU War. Tor more than half a century enterprising" Spaniards, or unscrupulous foreigners operating in
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    26 13 A general inspec'ion of Singapore Boy Scouts took place on Saturday at the Vicoria School ground by Mr F. C. Sands, the Scouts' Commissioner for Malaya.
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  • 219 13 Record Of Eight Air Captains London. CIGURES which have just become avail- able show that eight of the veteran pilots of Imperial Airways have, between them, now spent a total of 83.506 hours up in the air. These eight Air Captains, with their respective figures for flying
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    • 30 13 !\rlV^' rHAR MINGI.Y HTV/mD MOTH rN THK ISI AM> l H rS!r W ACCOMMODAIION VVITh EVBftT COMFORT "CKTAIL MAR AMI RESTAI'KAM IS "THK" PLAO FOh '(M KTAIMI LtIMCHgQN (Mi IMNNKM
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  • 221 14 Pictures Of General Interest This Lord Mayer of London embarkine H.M.S. Scimitar at J^ J^J^/Jd to journey to Gravesend to open Chatham Navy Week Photo shows:-The Lord iSavor being piped aboard the H.M.S. Sdmita^at Tower Pier. A large number of Swiss visitors arrive* in London recently and b tours to
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  • 1928 16 Books and AUTHORS Siegfried Seasson's "Sherston's Progress" -Four Volumes of Fief ion "CHERSTON'S Progress' show no signs d of hustle. It is six years since he was left, an infantry officer protesting against war, in the shell-shock hospital at Slateford, outside Edinburgh, to which it was thought safest by Authority
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    42 17 Walter Greenwood terms to good account his knowledge of the theatre and theatrical folk gained when his "Love on the Dole" was turned into a successful play. He does not flatter them, but more important fo rthe reader —he makes them amusing.
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    • 74 17 LUGGAGE CARRIER I SINGAPORE LUGGAGE CARRIER CO. Baggage Contractors ft Forwardlnf Agent*. Booking. Agents for TMJB. j Railways. Baggage Agents for:— Blue Funnel Line East Asiatic Une Nederland Una 8.1.8.N. Co, LW., etc.. etc o J^™ AddrM|: TtfOOACWr phone 2428 or call Union BWf EYES PRACTICE UMTTBD TO TBB Iff
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    • 135 17 DRY CLEANING RESTAURANT Biirftol Quick rioaners for same day service Goods handed in by 10 a.m. can be collected by 6 p.m. same day. 178, Orchard Rd. Phone 7776. HAIRDRESSER IQQ a^ l i^ 1 n^ i«^' m^ 1 i^i m^i >«*"■ y^"n^^« I Maison Marcellc I i For a
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    • 157 17 Grand Opportunity! To show every lady in Singapore what is a nice natural permanent wave, we have decided to reduce our rates for perming by 33 per cent, which makes it possible for you to have the very best wave for $10 only. Everything is under the control of and
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    • 72 17 CHEMIST ftaUtttEM CONTROLS THE HAIR in any Desired Position Yet Keeps tt SOFT and GLOSSY BRYLCREEM CONTAINS VALUABLE NATURAL OILS BUT NO GUM OR SOAP AGENTS DISTRIBUTORS: THE FEDERAL DISPENSARY LTD. INC. IN F.M.S. RAFFLES PLACE FURNITURE VASHiHS LTD. FOB FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS BEAUTY cfurothy more... has just received her
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    • 485 18 BYC&OandBkITISH INDIA LINES Outwards. Due Due Tonnage Spore. Tonnage Spore. 1936. 1936. RANCHI 17.000 Oct. 9 RANPURA 17.000 Dec. 18 BURDWAN 6.070 Oct. 22 1937. CARTHAGE 15.000 Oct. 23 Tonnage Spore. NALDERA 16,000 Nov. 6 RAWALPINDI 17,000 Jan. 1 SOMALI 6.810 Nov. 18 BHUTAN 6.100 Jan 14 CAMORIN 15,000 Nov*.
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    • 186 18 •an. n. i4w«. (Incorporated in France) (MESSAGERIfcS MAKlTlMfcS) General Agents Cie GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE Air-FRANCE MAIL PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES Homeward (or Colombo, Djibouti, fort Said and Marseilles 8 DARTAGNAN 15,105 T. Oct. 13 5 SPHINX 11,374 T. Oct. 27 ARAMIS 17,536 T. Nov. 10 FELIX ROUSSEL 16,774 T. Nov. 24 MARECHAL
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    • 111 18 GENERAL PASSENGER AG EN CUNARD WHITE STAR, LH).. (Incorporated in Japan). To LONDON, Tia Penan*, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles Gibraltar. s.s. HARUNA MARU Oc g s.s. KATORI MARU O C J f, s.s. KASHIMA MARU J, sr si s s s 2 s t Higher fares. To Japan via Bonfkonc,
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 264 18 TpOSTAL INTELLIGENCE j 1 STEAMER MAILS DESPATCHES FOR PER DATE AND TIME China (generally), Hoihow Patroclus Oct. 5 8 am Medan Op ten Noon Oct. 5 9 am Hongkong Patroclus ,,5 8 am Pcngtrang S. Soon Heng ,,5 9 am Java, South-West Sumatra, S.East Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas and Timor Duly
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    • 61 18 Mails Expected Mails expected from Japan by the \>yama Maru, due at Singapore, or Monday. Mails expected from Japan by tne -Jagato Maru, due at Singapore, on Monday. Judfe U* AUen Clark, a retired judge of Texas, and a prominent juror, who is in Singapore with his wife in the
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      38 19 i Mrs. Freeland (left) and Mrs. Young, who arrived in Singapore on Saturday by the President Garfield enroute to Bahrein, in the Persian Gulf, to join their husbands who arc with the Standard Oil Co. of New York.
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    • 77 19 -m ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES 3H OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE Entrance Godown Gate 22 1 MM 20 j op ten N° ort 18 o To>ama Man Dakar Maru Oleniffer Pres: (.arfield J Klang. Kudat 3 Kantaupandians *J J Benjfloe JJ J Nasaio Man 4 Riinau J j Glengarry
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    • 22 19 ucester, Grand Presi- of Merry, has appointed Lord Brocket to be honorary ,ue In place of the of Chipstead. Iter Hugga a.
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 278 19 IMRXS PHILP LINE. (Incorporated In Australia) NEXT SAILINGS. MERKUI Oct. 28 NOT. 3 bpeciai cneap round trip ticketa Horn Singapore to Australia Issued at th following rates. First Class passengers may transfer at Singapore, Brisbane, Sydney or Mel »D^li r ne t0 the connecting K^J4. Vessel. BRISBANE SYDNEY return 1642J6
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    • 386 19 JhKw y/^_ TO FRENCH PORTS U^i^""sT\ 1 gT Tb homewards. 4 £^Ki^J?fi^L*,Z or MarseUies Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux Oct. 16 CAPTOURANE For Marseilles, Nantes, St. Nazaire Bordeaux Nov. 13 UNOIS For Marseilles, Havre, Antwerp Dunkirk Dec 4 4 (from Marseilles). IOHf 2a^ToU C R^ AUX P r B<UgOn TollrlLne Haiphong.
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  • 235 20 Coronets Robes For Coronation COMPLETE SET £200 Orders Placed By Peers London. MANY of the 250 peers created since King George's coronation in 1911 have already placed orders for coronets or robes for the coronations on May 12 next year. Most of these recently created peers will probably attend, as
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  • 130 20 Obtained 1250 From Man In Six Years London rass i aitr*s£sr 8 K °m5 Sarah Brown 37. of PluvfleWroat Burnt Oak. was committed tor trial at. the Old Bailey char,ed wHh stealine £16 10s from "Mr A a loc.i garaie propr*»r. and dem.ndms mooes „th menace, a
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  • 32 20 It was reported by Reuter last DMnth that two missionaries, Mr. C. Mitchell, a New Zealander. and Mr. T. L. Devers, a Canadian, were killed by tribesmen :i Southern Abyssinia in May.
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  • 32 20 A film at the Regal Cinema, Beccles, Suffolk was set on fire by the sun's rays shining through frosted glass windows, and three reels and winding gear valued at £300 vere destroyed
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  • 165 20 He Proposed To 500,000 Girls Belgrade A YUGOSLAV bachelor has proposed to about half a million brunettes through the medium of advertisements in two Belgrade newspapers He seeks the acquaintance, with a view to marriage, of a brunette with a blameless past. His advertisement states
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  • 182 20 CAST LE SEIZED IN THE WAR Woman's Claim Against Germany Washington DISSATISFIED by awards totalling 0 pear!* an American woman related to President Roosevelt by marriage is Reeking £64.000 more from thfl German Government for a rustic seize" iurin:, 'lie Great War She Mrs Kathe'ir.e Drier rIMM? story m p-
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    23 20 Miss Bessie Anderson, of Los Angeleswho is going round the world by the President Gar field, which arrived in Singapore on Saturday night.
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  • 79 20 Saves Woman 's Life Glastonbury Connecticut A WOMAN here owes her life to a bump in the road. She was having dinner v.'ith some friends, when she accidentally swa lowed a plum stone It lodged in her throat and threatened to choke her Her friend- immediately put her
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  • 112 20 Toronto AN intensive chive against stock markrt rackoteeis here has been succeFsfu'. according to Mr. John Godfrey, Ontario i securities commissioner, who declares that I hifch pressure salesmen and sharp pushers" are rapidly leaving Toronto A number of men had been told politely but firmly, he
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  • 584 20 Channel To Be Made Wider And Deeper WIDESPREAD interest has bCfIU aroused over the plan of oir Frederick Maze. Inspector General or Customs, to blast the teacherous shoals alonß the upper reaches of the Ya*.«Ue and to widen and deepen the channel. Sir Fredericks proposal
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    • 36 20 THREE GREAT TOGETH *< AT THEiR GREATtST. STANWYCt |S| BO? ES I ALAN HALE v MONA BARRIE mff HERBERT MUNDIN P6^3l o DARRYL F ZANUCK HT^^3pi3 Century Production K«^ Pieiented by Joseph NVSchenck SHOWING THIS WEEK ALHAMBRA
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1963 21 f 11.05 pPi m. Casti le^Joaquin Nin). 12 25 p.m. Call DJA. DJB (German 10.20 p.m°- End° 'of d.-.tM i ,r r 1 English) German Folk Song V p.m. A Musical Miscellany. TO-MORROW Hriiinh Empire m j H^dr^h orch He 2S&F 2E^ |iro!inimme ?g3SSft /"ISSS^^SSSS^^^S^ vK*?"? ITT S "^5 SSL
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  • 339 22 ROAD DEATHS IN BRITAIN Drastic Measures Envisaged London. WHILE road deaths in Great Bri- tain are mounting, the authorities are considering drastic measures to reduce them by amendments to the law. these may include revising the system of punishment, efforts to keep dangerous drivers
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  • 144 22 Regular Postal Service Soon Simla THE Chinese authorities in Sinkiang hope to arrange shortly for a regular postal service between Kashgar and °At present the only regular service with the outside world is through Russia or back to Peking via Urumchi. The postal arrangements on these routes
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  • 38 22 In memory of the 255 officers and 4,027 other ranks of the D.C.L.I. who fell in the Great War, a wreath was placed at the Cenotaph by Major-Gen. Sir B. E. W. Childs, K.C.M.G., on Sunday September 13
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  • 551 22 Views Of American Shipping Experts EXPERTS of the U.S. Government shipping agencies are already turiimg their attention to the modernisation of the merchant marine, state^ Ul2 •New York Journal of Commerce. These experts envisage two sui^eicabin liners as fast as the Queen i\*ary or Normandie, but with
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 238 22 OX THE RADIO (Continued from page 21) (d) "2 Scotch Songs." Mr. H. L. Vincent Songs. (a) "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" (from "The Indian Queen") (Henry Purcell). (b> "The lute player" (Francis AUitsen). ic) "The manly heart" (G. Baker). (d) "Passing by" (E. C. Purcell) Madame Felicia
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    • 59 22 7.10 p.m. Dance music. 7.50 p.m. Italian music (recorded). 8.20 p.m. Classical concert by Nirom Orchestra, conducted by Carel van der Bijl. 9.20 p.m. Phohi sports bulletin. 9.35 p.m. Recorded music. 9.50 p.m. Close down. TO-MORROW 6.20 a.m. Gymnastics. 6.35 a.m. Recorded music. 6.50 a.m. Time signal. Recorded music continued.
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  • 3431 23 PROBLEMS OF COLONIAL GOVERNMENT ANOTHER B. B. C. TALK niaiMT AXO IXDIRE(T FOIIM of urn; nnOFESSOR R- Coupland in the 9th 8.8-C- talk on the ivitwh i Commonwealth dwelt on a form of colonial acl- I'tion which is familiar to people in Malaya, also discussed the application of indirect rule
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  • 1410 25 MORE SOCCER SHOCKS Results And The Tables MSI were a number of surprises I 1 in Saturday's Home football matches full results of which^ as Sled bv Reuter,. are given below Joiner with the current league table*. mm teams are tie-ing on points in r
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  • 41 25 Dutch Holiday-Makers In Australia Perth. Oct 3. THE Dutch airmen, Rons and Van Beckman. who had l-een missing since they left Perth on Wednesday, on r holiday flight round Australia WWJ found uninjured 120 miles south-east of Kalaoorlie. Reuter
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  • 14 25 Police/ probationers who visited the cuy coroner's court recently were empanelled as a jury.
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  • 446 25 Big Shortage In Singapore Singapore, Saturday. CINGAPORE postal officials and clerks w have been working overtime last night and this morning in a great endeavour to have the salvage mails from the Imperial Airways liner Athena which were brought by relief plane to Singapore, delivered as early
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  • 1199 26 SPLENDID BOXING IXXISKILLIXGS WIX TOLLEY CHALLENGE CUP THE Singapore Amateur boxing championship competition was brought to a very successful conclusion at the S.V.C. Drill Hall on Saturday with the finals. Excellent boxing was seen in every one of the contests, including the special bouts.
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  • 279 26 Greenkeeper As England's Foremost Champion? (By Air Mail) London. CHARLES Venn, a greenkeeper at Berkshire, has a right to consider himself England's foremost golf champion. On the two course of the Sunningdale Club, Berkshire, Venn Won the Artisan Golfers' Championship from a field which, prior to the
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  • 62 26 Result Of One-Day Match In Colombo Colombo. Oct. 3. IN the one-day cricket match with All-Ceylon the M.C.C. team travelling to Australia for the Test matches won by five wickers and 83 runs. All-Ceylon made 149 for 4 and declared. The M.C.C. replied with 232 for 5
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  • 180 26 Johore Championship On Thursday THE second annual Johore Olympic weight-lifting championships wili be held on Thursday next, at the Theatre Royal Hall, Jalan Station, Johore Bahru, commencing at 8.00 p.m. Prices of admission are 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1; children half price and 15 cents. The full list
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  • 415 26 Inniskillings' Cup Singapore, Saturday. BRILLIANT riding and accurate shooting gave the Singapore Civilians an easy victory by ten goals to five m po i 0 against the Services at the Singapore Polo Club ground this evening The Civilians thus won the Inniskillings Cup presented to the
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  • 106 26 Mann Keen Games hi Union Matches London, Oct. 3 TO-DAY'S matches in the Rugby Union 4 resulted" as follows: Coventry 17 Leicester Devonport Serv. 15 Bristol Gloucester 11 O. Cranleighan.s iu Guy's Hospital 0 U.S. Portsmouth A Harlequins 13 London Scottish Manchester 15 Waterloo s Old Alleynians St.
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  • 22 26 The Katong Golf Club moi.in--medal (bo-ey) will be played JJ' week-end (Pri. Sat. Sunday) providrn it least eight members enter.
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  • 669 27 GAME FULL OF INTEREST Jones' Splendid Kicking Singapore, Saturday. iMSPIAYtNC. aM round superiority D he KrVt defeated the Newcomers if, i hi- innual Rugby fixture on the fcC. sround to-day by (two goals a i .fun tries) 16 points to nil. ftottft beaten by such
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  • 368 27 Sale By Auction Next Month THE Singapore Turf Club Committee have purchased through the British Bloodstock Agency. Ltd.. twelve two-year-old English and French Thoroughbred Race Horses at a cost of £300 each, landed Singapore It is proposed to follow the procedure adopted in November 1934, viz.
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    4 27 G E. M. Jones
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  • 116 27 Mr. C. G. Jenner Wedding At Cathedral At Week-End THE wedding of Mr Charles G Jenner, captain of the S.C.C. cricket team, to Miss Marjorie V. Horn, of Writtle, Essex, took place at St. Andrew's Cathedral on Saturday The bride was given away by Mr H. Elphick. managing-director of William
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  • 117 27 Great Eastern Life Hold A Dinner Singapore, Saturday. THE Great Eastern Life Assurance Company held a dinner at the New Life Restaurant at the Great World to-night in honour of the founding of a new Sports Club of the Company. The dinner was a success. Mr. J.
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  • 45 27 London. Oct. 3. THE result of the Imperial Produce Stakes. 6 furlongs, run at Kempton Park to-day, was as follows: Lovers* Path JAli Pasha Ruby Tiger Eleven ran; won by 3 4; n c Betting s—l Lovers' Path, 7—2 Ali Pasha. 5—2 Ruby Tiger. Reuter
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  • 190 27 Good Win Over Negri Kuala Lumpur. Oct. 3. IN fine weather and before a large crowd, Selangor outclassed NegriMalacca in the first inter-State rugger fixture at Seremban to-day by 32 pointsione drop goal, one try, and five goals* to nil. Selangor were superior in all departments and thoroughly
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  • 56 27 October Ladies 9 Spoon At Keppel FOURTEEN cards were taken out for the Keppel Golf Club October ladies' spoorf which resulted in a tie between: Mrs. W. P. Douglas 2 down I Miss B. H. Egger 2 Mrs. P. G. Pollard 2 The tie is to be played
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 29 27 /y //4I FINEST AUSTRALIAN BISCUIT Gem ~~-C Crisps Afternoon Tea Roval Assorted Cream Crackers Cre?- r^oc-late Oriental Assorted. rwllTHniFcfSlTD (Ine ln ss> Sole Agents VjU I lll<|C^\gliy to* 7
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  • 62 28 Anglo -Egyptian Treaty Celebrated The Hon. Mr. A. S Small (second from ri«ht)) Brigadier A. T. Shakespear (extreme right) and Mrs. Shakespear extreme left. Mr. and Mrs. P. Y. Tan, arriving for tot function, being fretted by Mr. AlsagofT, Another photograph of the gathering showing leaders of the local Arab
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  • 123 28 Incident At Singapore Races Singapore, Saturday. WEAVING his car at the owner-drivers' car park at the Bukit Timah Race Course on the afternoon of Sept. 19. a European resident of Singapore proceeded to the grand stand. On returning to the car park aftei the races, he lound his
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  • 28 28 Notice boards stating that paths through Warnford Park. Hamsphire, which belongs to Mr. H. C. Woods, were for the use of parishioners only, were found tarred and feathered.
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 46 28 m aO V^^^ssr^X I t a ii c H n«»iftbe4o«itowf^ COMFORT I V V V f 1 j^ machine* for tb« tf CV C I I CONTROL 2L Sorprmogly low KfcT^ g I "Zlu. l«pfk».lW*M<f«« w VWM letter, on ROf^E.o LTD., 3, Malacca Street, SINGAPORE. clress
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