Morning Tribune, 4 February 1939

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    15 1 THE MORNING TRIBUNE I VOL- 4— No. 4. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, February 4, 1939. FIVE CENTS.
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    ROOSEVELT OUTLINES U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: RHINE FRONTIER REPORT "A LIE"
    150 1 ROOSEVELT OUTLINES U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: RHINE FRONTIER REPORT "A LIE" Washington, Feb. 3. PRESIDENT Roosevelt to-day described as "deliberate lie" the report that he told the Senate Military Committee that the "American frontier was in France or on the Rhine." Addressing a press conference, President Roosevelt gave a fourpoint summary
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    Another Baby
    19 1 Leess Julians, who it is elUaislj led at The Hague is MillHtlur bother baby in August. Reuter
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    Minister Punched In Face
    123 1 Brussels, Feb. 3. ALE reinforcements have been sent to guard M. Spaak's house the assault on him by de-t strators. demonstrations have been due he election of Dr. Martens to Famish Academy of Medicine h has been a matter of heated rovers v. .Martens was sentenced
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    DESTROYERS COLLIDE
    21 1 8bi ka eb 3: The destroyers Griffin Grim? Wtre collision last night. "nn was holed while the Shikdamaged. Reuter
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    More Berlin Attacks
    85 1 Berlin, Feb. 3. rE press attacks on President Roosevelt continue. The VOLKISCHER BEOBACHTER says that President Roosevelt is a demon of strife, and compares him with the communist Dimitroff. The BOERSEN ZEITUNG speaks of "Penetration of Bolshevism into America** and describes President Roosevelt as a danger to
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    MRS. GANDHI ARRESTED
    37 1 Rajawi, Feb. 3. ||RS. Gandhi, wife of the Mahatma, was arrested on arrival here, to participate in the civil disobedience movement, which is banned in Rajkot State. She has beeiv^escorted outside the State. Reuter
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    DUCE MAY PRECIPITATE CRISIS TO-DAY
    171 1 DUCE MAY PRECIPITATE CRISIS TO-DAY London, Feb. 3. THE TIMES' Berlin corresportent 1 writes: "Well informed circles here expect that on Feb. 4 Mussolini will state m concrete terms what he wants hrom France and that a crisis will then have begun although it may not become sharp until 2
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    Japan To Call World Conference?
    95 1 Tokyo, Feb. 3. THE possibility of calling an international conference ln Tokio ln order to acquaint third powers with Japan's attitude towards the China affair was mentioned by Mr. Arita in Parliament to-day. The Minister thought, however, that there s\_- aid bt other means of
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    New Rules To Tighten Up Discipline In Red Army
    189 1 London, Feb. S. Times Warsaw correspondent states that the Central Committee A of the Communist party has granted the request of the Hifrh Command of the Red Army and has consented to curtnfl the power of political commissars over officers. The
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    SEVERE FORMS OF SELF-TORTURE TO FULFIL VOWS TO THEIR GOD
    220 2 SEVERE FORMS OF SELF-TORTURE TO FULFIL VOWS TO THEIR GOD Sipgapore. Friday. MAIS of self torture, mortification of the flosh and severe penances r marked the celebration of Thaipusam festival to-day when hundreds oi Indiar devotees marched through Singapore carrying Kavadis and thus fulfilling their vows made during the year
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    CZECHS TO SPEND MORE ON DEFENCE
    65 2 1 Prague, Feb. 3.— Czechoslovakia will .'.pend two million .sterling more on defence in 193D than 1938. according to ihe Federal budget which puts the i tottd expenditure at about twenty -three j and half million sterlin... of which about ten million three hundred
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    PURIFIED HIS SOUL
    81 2 PURIFIED HIS SOUL The expression on the face of this devotee is sufficient proof of th* seventy of this form of self-torture which he is undergoing, to fulfil a vou made to the Lord Subramanyan, G d of Charity and Virtue. Hundred of other Indians underwent similar forms of torture
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    TUNGCHI UNIVERSITY REOPENED
    72 2 TUNGCHI UNIVERSITY REOPENED Kunming, Feb. 2. THE National Tungchi University which i.s the only school in China conducted along the lines of German Technische Hoch Schule, with a few German instructors teaching in colleges of engineering and medicine, re-opened here yesterday after the second removal since the war started. One
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    U.S.. RELIEF BILL APPROVED
    29 2 Washington, Feb. 5. The Congress has finally approved th* 725 miUion dollars relief bill which is to be .«._nt to the Whitehouse for signature Reuter
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    MRS. HITLER SUMMONED FOR RATES, HAS 6 WEEKS TO PAY
    90 2 London Jan. 26 DAYMEN r in six weeks was offered by Mrs. Bridget Hitler, wife of aa* Hitler's half-brother, when she was summoned vesterday at Hi«»?a N.VV., for £9 i:\. lOd. rates The offer was accepted by Hornsey Borou* Treasurer.
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    ARAB ASSOCIATION
    108 2 The annual general meeting of the Arab Association was held at the association premises, No. 4. Foch Read, on Saturday, Jan. 28. After the preliminaries, the following were elected to constitute the committee 01 management for the ensuing yea— P.esident, Mr. S. Y. Afifl, J.P.; vice-pre-sident, Mr. S.
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    WOMAN ROBBED AFTER BEING ROUSED FROM SLEEP
    189 3 dribune Staff Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. SEQUEL to a daring robbery that took place on Wednesday night U the Flying Club, when Leong gen. an elderly Chinese woman as tied up and gagged, and her )U se ransacked and $45 worth of uellerv
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    Promotion For Former Commodore, Malaya
    150 3 Till, following appointment is an--1 nounied bv the Admiralty: Captain M. L Clarke. D.S.C. to H.M s "Courageous" in command. and to H.M.S. "Furious" in command on transfer. Captain Clarke's last appointment was >mm_cH._\ Malaya, where he was suctded by the present Commodore, Comfldore T
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    British Firm To Build Siam's New Radio Station
    58 3 ,Fron i Our Own Correspondent) tHE B) Bangkok, Friday. i. h hrm. Standard Telephone ■ontract V at)1 s have been awarded the USess Ban Kkok's new 100 kilowatt °n on open tender, to the value of over £80,000. Tenders were submitted from
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    Burgler Makes Haul Of Eggs & Oranges
    186 3 Burgler Makes Haul Of Eggs Oranges Kuala Lumpur, Friday. (Tribune Staff Reporter) AFTER making a vain attempt to force open a drawer containing money and jewels, a burglar on Tuesday night helped himself to orangts and eggs kept in a plate in the dining room of a house at the
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    GRAND OLD LADY OF JAVA DIES
    86 3 GRAND OLD LADY OF JAVA DIES Singapore, Fr.day. NEWS has been received in Singapore of the death at the nie of 101, of Mrs. Lawu Sim, grandmother of Mrs. lim Enj; Hae, at Soekaboemi, Java, on Jan. 30. Her family is well-kncwn in Java over a number of years, and
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    Teacher's Appeal Succeeds
    158 3 Teacher's Appeal Succeeds {From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Thursday. JESUDASON. a former teacher ot the English College who was sentenced to a fine of $150 in default two months' rigorous imprisonment for obtaining credit to the extent ot $200 without disclosing that he was an undischarged bankrupt, appealed 'I
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    MARRIAGE
    62 3 The marriage of Mr. A. Sa..dai_am. dresser. Asiatic Hospital, H.M. Naval Base, eldest son of Mr. and M*\s. Mariasoosay. with Miss Rose Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valen Piliai of Singapore, Mount Emily P.W.D. Quarters, will be .solemnised on Feb. 9 next at the Church of Our Lady
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    Imperial Airways Command
    132 3 Imperial Airways Command IMPERIAL Airways announce the appointment of Captain L. A. Walters, formerly deputy Air Superintendent at Croydon, to the supreme command of the company's flying personnel with the title of Establish ment Officer, Navigating- Staff. The appointment takes effect on Feb 1. It will place in Captain Walter's
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      LONDON COMMODITIES
      149 4 London. Friday Previous To-day Change kiikrci Quiet Steady Quiet Steady flnot^ auyert 713 16 7 78 +116 op l SeUers 778 7 15 IC —-hi 16 Ist Forward (March) Buyers 713 16 7 78 +116 Sellers 778 7 15 16 -+1 16 2nd Forward (Apr. ;June) Buyers 778
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      BULLION MARKET
      27 4 (JOLD London. Friday Fine Bar oei o» £7.8.7 1 2 £7.8.7 2 SILVER Spot *****G 2 0 4 months' forward 19 5 a 19 1116
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      METAL MARKET
      20 4 London, Fridav TIN STANDARD Previous To-day Chanoft Spot (afternoon (closing price) £2lsft £215 ldn Forward £214 ft £214
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      Further Anglo-U.S. Credits For China
      285 4 London. Feb. 3. REUTER understands that the Chinese Government Purchasing Commission is likely, in the very near future, to sign contracts for 300 three-ton and seven-ton lorries, payable from the British Credit to China of £500,000 agreed upon in December, for service on the BurmaYunnan
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      TIN EXPORTS
      27 4 The estimated total exports. J Malaya, of tin, and tin-in-ore bajea rai assay value of 75.5 per cent., v. month cf January, are approxima--4.800 tons.
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      LONDON SHARE LIST
      116 4 London, Friday. previous To-day Change Distillers 90 6 90 6 24 4 1 -l-lftd x)unlop RjM*f 7411 A 74 3 +iy 2 d. General 'Electric lS*t? -j 0 9 +4ftd. imperial chemical iMM 30.4ft m ™*fc Imperial Tobacco JHK 23 iu Anglo-Dutch 23 1 »l 2 SKEW
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      FOREIGN EXCHANGE
      67 4 London. Friday. Previous To-day Change T.T. on Paris (closing selling rate) 176.95 Unchanged T.T. oo Amsterdrm (closing middle rate) 8.69 3 8 8.69 5 8 -f.ft T.T. <m 81 inghai (closing selling rate) Bft 87|16 lil6 T.T. on Hongkong (closing selling rate) is. 3d 12 31J32 —132 T.T.
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      NEW YORK CABLE
      50 4 mwrmmw-w, New York F B 2. IauBBKK Previous To-day Chang* Market Tone Steady Steady BP°t8 P° t 2gerB 15ft 15 9|16 SeUers 15% 1511H6 -fl'l6 Forward AprtllJune Buyers 15 ft 15 9116 +116 BeUert is& 8 15 ll'i6 -1 |l| Market Tone Quiet Quiet 8»* 46% 46
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      CHINA'S ARMY DOUBLED
      226 4 Shanghai, Feb. 3. "JHE total strength of the Chinese army at the time of the Lukouchiao Incident was only 1,000,000 men. Its present strength has increased to 240 divisions." So declared Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Central Yuan, to-day. "At the time of the fighting around
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    STOCKS & SHARES
    711 5 STOCKS SHARES Issued By Fraser Company I MINING I Singapore, Feb. 2, 5 p.m. 3i6 4 m 26 1- 27 1K Kiunbang 40- 45 1 -nom r ,r, Malay >2 2 3 Hitam 0 55 o.60 WenS 20 ;6 22 6 ■grin Tin j 25 1.30 seUm^'r 1(J 10 9
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    FRASER & COMPANY
    79 5 FRASER COMPANY List Of Current Dividends Singapore, Feb. 2, 5 p.m. Tot,* i (nt Company Dividend Books Date Ex Div. year. Close rnvaOle TTN GENERAL Kuala Lumpur Tin 1|- Feb. 6 Feb. 17 40% Petaling 5 r c final &5% int. Jan. 24 Feb. 6 Jan. 25 5% Thabawleik l|6Feb.
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    LYALL & EVATT'S QUOTATIONS
    200 5 LYALL EVATT'S QUOTATIONS Singapore, Thursday. Buyer* Sellers Ampats JjJ Batu Selangors 1 30 135 Hong Fatts 0.68 0 72 Hongkong Tta 16J> 17 6 Jelebus 0.00 0 65 Kamuntinr Tin 81- 8,9 Katu Tin 22;9 23!6 Killinghalls 1516 JJP Kramats 9i3 10|Kuchais 125 1.29 Laruts 4 5|Linguis 1-50 160 London
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    DEBENTURES AND LOANS
    241 5 Milliard Co. Ltd. $30,000 "U Apr .30 0ct .31 90 100 nom SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY 1901 red 1940 $400,000 J nt. Mar. 31 Sept. 30 102ft 103ft nom P 1907 red. 1947 $1,600,000 108ft 110 nem M lom 1 Mar 31 Sept. 30.,.. n W red. 1955 $1,000,000
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    ITALIAN ARMS FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN SPAIN
    145 7 ITALIAN ARMS FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN SPAIN tial to the establishment of peace: firstly the independence of Spain must be guaranteed; secondly, the Spanish people must be allowed to choose theii own regime; thirdly, there must be no reprisals after the war. The Premier continued: "We shall ft?ht to save
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    GOVERNOR'S VISIT ENHANCES FRIENDSHIP WITH SIAM
    1142 8 GOVERNOR'S VISIT ENHANCES FRIENDSHIP WITH SIAM Bangkok, Feb. 1. YBBTEBDAY afternoon the British Minister. Sir Josiah Crosby was host to a gathering of over five hundred al the Legation invited to meet H.E. the Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States, and Lady Thomas. As
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    Self-Torture To Fulfil Vows
    26 8 Self -Torture To Fulfil Vows Above and below, two forms of self-torture which hundreds of Indians underwent yesterday on the occasion of Thaipusam. (See pare I)
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    Russia To Build Three Seaports In The Arctic
    488 9 Moscow. H7ITHIN the next tMM months Russia will btffo buildiilf three large >> -.ports within Ihe Arctic Circle. They will be started at three points where there are already in xistence small radio *nd scientific outposts serving shipping alon.ir p .northern sea
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    ELEPHANT RUNS AMOK IN GAMPOLA
    97 9 ELEPHANT RUNS AMOK IN GAMPOLA l N j'ephant belonging to?fimr. *2J r the ViUa e of Amba hreu h« V am P°la. ran amok and C fib? ,ts kee^ r of W then. l i" er ract «jred. The aniLbout u.ii. out of control and ran tri d 'v the
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    CEYLON TO PRODUCE PIG IRON?
    224 9 piG iron may be produced in Ceylon to meet all local re- quirements if a scheme now before the Department of Commerce and Industries fructifies. I The Government Mineralogist has left. for Kosgoda to make a geological I survev of the place as it i.s
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    LINK BETWEEN PEKING MAN AND AMERICAN INDIAN
    219 9 LINK BETWEEN PEKING MAN AND AMERICAN INDIAN MEW light may be shed on the I origin of the fast-vanishing American Indian through research carried out by two scientists of the Rockefeller-endowed Peking Union Medical College into the remains of the "Peking Man." it was learnt here recently. The studies were
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    HAVE DONE MORE THAN ANYTHING To Advance Child Welfare
    215 9 Ottawa. THE Dionne quintuplets, living in their home at Callander, Ontario, have done more to advance child welfare than anything else in the last five years. Dr. Allan It. Dafoe, physician to the famous family, told a public meeting here recently.
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    76 9 Mejb with a wandr.lust are saved the necessity these days of running away to sea. for a< Gravesend, Kent, there is a school for sailors where boys who want to go to <;i are trained to be deckhands or stewards on merchant ships. Here is a general view of the
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    MORNING TRIBUNE Saturday, February 4, 1939. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
    323 10 MORNING TRIBUNE Saturday, February 4, 1939. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT I IKE a voice from the past comes the statement of Mr. Herbert Hoover, former President of the United States, who declared that the foreign policy set out by President Roosevelt is likely to lead to war. There will be few of
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    TO-DAY May Decide
    685 10 BEOWULF thinks The Issue Of I Peace Or War* WEEK ago I said, on this page, that the crisis on the issue of the Italian demands was very dose and that a feu days might decide the issue of peace or war. To-day may bc decisive. This
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    150 10 Boys with a wanderlust are saved the necessity these days of run away to sea, for at Gravesend (Kent) there is a school for sailors er boys who want to go to sea are trained to be deckhands or stewards merchant ships. The boys range in age from 15 to
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    Dutch Airlines To Abandon The Douglas Shortly?
    1114 11 Dutch Airlines To Abandon The Douglas Shortly? r a b ...llll"' l*«»r. the u K,n 1 g ;s nP „f the new De Hav, Fhn "SO monoplanes, he will ■.JT n,«n»" h in U,eWOr d L„ s urge an air liner. probably also be tbe Ar_t C -delivered, because this
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    48 11 Lven tne speed of the spcel.est lens deviled by man could not snap the picture of Captain George E. T. Eyston piloting his Thunderbolt car at about 350 miles an hour, without getting this movement on the film, during the record -break ing run on Utah's salt flats.
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    Fascist Plans In South America
    217 11 Fascist Plans In South America Washington. fERMANY. Italy and Japan are making "actual military preparations" in the Americas. Dr. David Efron, a New York Universitv professor, who is a native of Argentina, produced what he called documentary evidence of Nazi-Fas-cist activities in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru. Argentina. Chile, Guatemala, Mexicc. Ecuador.
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    Air Bombings Do Not Win A Conflict
    112 11 Air Bombings Do Not Win A Conflict Washington. THE belief that the hostilities in China will continue for a long while yet was expressed to press representatives hy Mr. Nelson T. Johnson. United States Ambassador to China, following his conference with the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull. "China's resistance
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    STRUGGLE IN STATES
    72 11 Bcmbay. Jan 26— The pace of agitation for popular reforms in Kathiawar and Gujarat States has been quickened. Kepcrts received from Bhavnagar, Palitana and Jamnagar indicate thai constitutional reforms on the lines of thoso granted in Rajkot are likely to bo p ranted soon. A Dharangadhra message
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      174 11 THE TRUE TONIC FOOD Ottekwemh ef all CbmnAu em* Storm I m***w*mmma*ma***m*m CHANGI ROAD TRAFFIC lake notice that owing to works iri progress on the Changi Road, general traffic between the 10th and Ilth milestones, will be discontinued for a period of approximately 7 weeks Irom Saturday 4!h February, 1939.
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    Royal General Opens College Extension
    175 12 Royal General Opens College Extension The Duke ei GltMllf.ef taking his place in the group of the *taflF of the Col letre for the official photograph. Planet News Major-General the Duke of Gloucester opened the new Senior Win? of the Staff College at Minley Manor near Camberley. Surrey. Here is
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    Seven Die In Rescue Drama
    356 13 Seven Die In Rescue Dra ma ftfcaben ai the St. Ives Lifeboat crew when thev visited London to receive awards for Gallantry— left to right —Coxswain Thomas Cocking (aged 63): Second Coxswain William Peters. Matthew Barber: John B. Cocking: John Thomas: Thomas Corking, Junior: Henry Peters: William Barber and Phillip
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    Keep On The Right Side Of
    1645 14 FASHIONS FENCE Below centre a sophisticated black roun It embroidered in gold and topped by a vivid little jacket bl lipstick red, enlivened in lhc same smart and glittering manner, fallow right dancing ladies ioim the novel pattern cn this fteaaaMf inch of black
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    DAINTY WATCHES FOR MILADY
    239 15 RENE U" WATCTriS n has jU5t received by Air Mail some tiny JEWELLED WRISTH**e fometa n -S" 1 1 that th(y have to be SEEN to be APPRECIATED. he little pirpttt a J ort& but among the nicest, we considered were ne of aiiPt* ones set
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      446 16 BYP&OandBRITISH INDIA LINES INCORPORATED IN CNOUUfD) Outwards Dae Om Tonnage S'pore Tonnage S'pore 1939 1939 RAWALPINDI 17,000 Feb. 10 I BANGALORE 6,000 Apr. 3 BURDWAN 6,070 Feb. 11 RAJPUTANA 17,000 Apr. 21 CANTON 15.500 Feb. 24 RANCHI 17,000 May 5 1 SOMALI 6,800 Mar. 10 BHUTAN 6,100 Maf 6 CORFU
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      395 16 \k TO FRENCH PORTS 1 1 1 1 I* CHARCEURS REIINIS I i HOMEWARDS. ADEN Marseilles. Havre, Antwerp. Dunkirk F b CAP TOURANE For Marseilles. Nantes. St. Nazarie Bordeaux Mar 3 ITO SAIGON INDOCHINA CAP TOURANE For Saigon, Tourane and Haiphong Feb 3 CAPT ST. JACQUES For Saigon. Tourane and
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    SHIPS IN DOCK
    136 17 SHIPS ALONGSIDE THE WHARVES OR EXPECTED TO ARRIVE KEPPEL HARBOUR Main Wharf: Lch. Hilda, Anastasia. T. J. R. hopper No. 8, Tomori. Lch. Panji. Kampar (K.P.M.) Oil Wharf: Nil. Coal Wharf: Nil. VESSELS IN DRY DOCKS Tanjong Pagar: Albert Dock: Lipis. Victoria Dock: Kudat. Keppei Harbour: King's
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    Soviet breaks with Hungary
    233 17 Soviet breaks with Hungary Moscow, Feb. 2. ]tf. LITVINOV has informed the Hungarian minister that the Soviet Government has decided to sever diplomatic relations with Hungary owing to German pressure on Hungarian affairs and Hungary's adhesion to the anti-Comintern pact. M Litvinov informed the Hungarian Minister that the Soviet legation
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    ALLEGED THEFT FROM ESTATE
    101 17 [From Our Own Reporter] Ku Ua .lumpur, Friday. TTIE loss of two rubber rollers from an estate at the 5*4 mile, Selak South, has been reported to the Police. lt appears that this estate had been closed for the last six months. Tho owner of the
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      72 18 ON THE AIR TO-DAY TO-MORROW FEB. 4 SINGAPORE ZHL *!25 metre* <I.M «nci») ZHP 30.9C. metres (9.60 mcs) \%M Light orchestral concert by Reller's Hungarian Band, directec by C Reller (relayed from thc Adelphi Hotel). 1 30 Midday rubber prices. 1 32 Light orchestral concert <rela> ed from the Adelphi
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    FUNERAL OF MR. CHUA KEH HAI
    1370 19 JHE funeral of Mr. Chua Keh Hai, former Singapore Municipal Commissioner, whose death occurred last Saturday, with startling suddenness, took place yesterday, and was very largely attended. Chinese community leaders turned up in full force to pay tribute to one of their number, whose
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    A TALE OF TWO SUITS
    270 19 [From Oar Own Reporter] SrrPPrau u Kuaia Lumpur, Thursday. t a admitted two previous convictions, one fa India lor theft, was sentenced to Vvn months' rigorous imprisonment to be followed by six months' police supervision, when he was found guilty by Mr. A. J. Gl*ttan
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    GIRLS ON UNLAWFUL SOCIETY CHARGE
    139 19 GIRLS ON UNLAWFUL SOCIETY CHARGE [From Our Own Reporter] Ipoh, Wednesday. GROUP of 71 voung Chinese, mostly school hoys and girls, were convicted and fined $5 each by the Ipoh First Magistrate this morning when they wer* produced on a charge of being members of an unlawful society, namely, tho
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    Chinese Suffrage Movement
    57 19 Chinese Suffrage Movement Chungking, Feb. 2. Local authorities are launching a na-tion-wide suffrage movement campaigning for seats in the forthcoming provincial People's Political Councils which are serving as liaison organs between the Central Government and the people. In a circular to the nation's women Chungking feminists urge their sisters to
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    SELECTIONS FOR IPOH RACES
    2109 20 Selections Race 1— PRETTY QUIET Princess Prim Race 2— COSMETIC Saratoga Race 3— UDICON Littlehurst Race 4— NIGHTSHADE Queen Beon Race 5— PANTOI Blossom Time Race 6—KALILI Lucky Life Race 7— A.D.C. Pay Out Race 8— NEWZY July the Seventh. The main event of the day
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    DAWN OF THE REFORMATION OF NATIONAL ECONOMY IN CHINA
    342 21 \938-a significant Period of progress Chungking, Feb. 2. HE vear 1938 has gone down in China's history as it is not only a significant period of national reconstruction despite the ar but also the dawn for the reformation of national econoWith
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    RADICAL CHANGE
    95 21 I Next In importance in China's economic programme Is the Improvement of -omnmnica tions. In the production field, the Chinese government has aimed at self-sufficiency •■nrou»h increasing output and minlmistog waste, giving special attention 0 the improvement and development of Agriculture manufactories and mining. t Gn l time
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    Russo-German Trade Agreement
    64 21 Russo German Trade Agreement Berlin Feb. 3 —It Is understood that jprrr! Xlsting trade agreement between rma ny Qnd Russia will be prolonge d "tner year but authoriative circles de■c* Germany has not the intention seiin.n war material to Russ i a either 1 cash or exchange for Russian materials."
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    Malayan Sharebrokers Association
    224 21 New Scale Of Brokerage Now In Force FE Malayan Sharebrokers Association announces that the following scale of brokerage is now effective in respect of all contracts entered into by its members: Local Stocks Ordinary Shares and Preference Shares 40.00 30 m M 60.00 V 2 ad. valorem
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    Y.W.C.A. NOTES
    311 21 THE Y.W.C.A. classes and clubs have started their sessions for the year. The dressmaking class under the expert guidance of Mrs. W. Lake includes a course of ten lessons beginning from Feb.-on Tuesdays, 9.30 a.m.. Wednesdays, 5.15 pm. A Malay class for beginners including a course of ten
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    Women & Girls' Part In China War Told In Televised Broadcast In London
    191 21 Women Girls' Part In China War Told In Televised Broadcast In London London, Feb. 3. MISS Pao Sun Tseng, grand-daughter of the famous viceroy Tseng Kuo Fan, founder of the Ifan Girls' College, Changsha, has arrived in London from the Madras International Missionary Council Conference. She is the first Chinese
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    Another Success For The Wuhan Songsters
    186 21 Another Success For The Wuhan Songsters THE Wuhan Songsters further enhanced their reputation as artists in the truest sense of the word, at the concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. They brought into their singing an earnestness and sincerity which imbued their audience with everv emotion that their
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    JAP SUBMARINE SUNK
    35 21 Tokyo. Feb 3.— The Ministry of Navy announces that submarine 163 collided with another submarine at Bungo Straits yesterday morning while participating in manoeuvres. Submarine 163 siinki Rescue work is proceeding Reuter
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    16 21 Oslo. Feb 3— The Parliament unanimously voted half a million kronen to nolo European refugees. Reuter
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    FERGUSON S.A.O.B.A.'s BEST GOAL KICKER
    212 22 Mr. Johnston Presents Cup Ccoring eleven out of a possible of twenty points. John Ferguson yesterday won the 5.A.0.8. 'Kicking Cup' presented By Mr. J. H. Johnston their coach for annual competition. William Ferguson, the winners brother, was second with eight points. There was quite
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    N. MALAYAN TOURNEY DURING CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAY
    201 22 THE North Malayan Golf championship will be played during the Chinese New Year Holidays at Penang. BOGEY COMPETITION On Monday morning. Feb 20, the second round will be held while a bogey competition will be held over 18 holes under the lowest
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    BEST KICKER
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    Selangor Club Draw With Malays
    263 22 (Tribunc Staff Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Friday. PAST hockey on a ground which did little to help the players was seen on the P.W.D. field this evening when the Selangor Club and the Sultan Suleiman Club met and played a goalless draw. The Club played ten
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    Gunboat Smith Beats Joe Kumuras
    119 22 Gunboat Smith Beats Joe Kumuras Ipoh. Friday. AFTER a long absence boxing was OOM again resumed in the Jubilee Park last night with Gunboat Smith and Joe Kumuras, featuring in the main event. The fight was scheduled for 10-2 minute rounds and ended in a win for (tunboat Smith on
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    Snooker Prize
    33 22 Alec Brown, the 30-year-old Londoner, wen the Gold Cup—Snooker's No. 1, prize by beating Svdnev Smith (Doncaster > bv 40 frames to 31 in the deciding heat of their match in London.
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    Football Referees Who Fail! To Turn Un
    265 22 Football Referees Who Fail! To Turn Un (Tribune Staff Reporter) Kuala Lumpur. Thursday. pOOTBALL referees who on the slightest excuse fail to turn up for fixtures thus causing much anxiety and last-minut* search for substitute referee were discussed at to-night 1 annual meeting of the Football Association held at the
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    Wei-Hai-Wei Cup: Garrison vs. Sepoy Lines
    129 22 Wei-Hai-Wei Cup: Garrison vs. Sepoy Lines THE following are the Garrison GjJ 1 Club and Sepoy Lines GM i™ teams for the first round In wj Wei-Hai-Wei Cup competition, u played at Tanglin to-morrow \ea day) (Garrison names first):— 9.00 a.m. Lt. Col. N Clow- S. English. n F 9.10
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    Pera To Meet Selangor In -ast Inter-State Match
    155 23 Ipoh, Friday. .raK-s last inter-State hockey fix- rake place to-morrow on the JL" wSng when the State will meet Lnsor in their return fixture. Thp Perak Hockey Association is making special seating arran*ephts for this end of the seasons E£e de resistance'
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    Ceylon's Cricketing Collegians Coming?
    115 23 I [From 0-j.r Own Reporter] I Ipoh, Friday. I TF the arrangements being made at present in Perak materialise, a cricket team comprising players from the different colleges in Ceylon will be touring Malaya during the Easter Holiday*. The team, it is understood, will be ider
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    WORLD BOXING
    50 23 TIGFR t ,r. New York Feb 3. I mS l Ck Fox s P° k ane Negro, meets York Mt Bett ina from Beacon, New test fn? /f-n^hfs fifteen rounds con-cl-amSonshin WOrld,s 14^theavy-welght York t p as in New sodaMnn e The Nation al Boxing Asjohn Henry Reuter
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    Japs Shoot A Mystery Plane
    80 23 Japs Shoot A Mystery Plane l el t- 3 \7 A m V ster y Ptene of :j „/"> nationality flew over Waichow j. 1 Jon Jan. 31 and attacked. as however, repelled by the Japa- h \rin ,i orces th ere.a spokesman of told for alty Rear Admiral Kanazawa,
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    MORE BOMB OUTRAGES IN ENGLAND
    273 23 COMB-OUT OF IRISH QUARTERS ORDERED London, Feb. 2. Two explosions occurred within a few minutes of each other in the left luggage offices of the Tottenham Court-Road and Leicester Square Tube stations. A ticket collector of Tottenham was sent to hospital seriously injured. Fire brigades
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    The Summer Brings Fears To Chungking
    300 23 The Summer Brings Fears To Chungking Chungking, Feb. 3. FEARING air raids, the inr habitants of Chungking art? becoming apprehensive as the good weather season approaches. Weather in Chungking, which is extremely cloudy and foggy in winter has kept Japanese bombers away and is popularly referred to as the air
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    32 23 London. Feb. 3: Captain A. M. Peter., has been appointed to command and commodore, second ciass. in charge of naval establishments in Hongkong in succession to Commodore h. B C. Dicken Reuter
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    Japanese Flooding Shanghai With Drugs
    166 23  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Hongkong, Feb. 3. FURTHER evidence of the Japanese attempt to flood North and Central China areas with opium and drugs, sensational reports concerning which were made recently, has been forthcoming. A Japanese warshio. loaded with 1. 000 cases of opium, left
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      102 23 -D ■__i--f--.___. r --n___* *'^b TO-DAY High Tide: 10.15 a.m. (9_B feet); 11.31 p.m. (9 feet > Low Tide: 4.26 a_m. (4.4 feet): 5.05 p.m. (5 inches) Hockey: S.C.R.C vs. RE. Pulau Brani-Pulau Brani; CSC. hockey gala, Balestier Plain, 4 p.m. Football: R.A.F. vs. Chinese. Seletar. Rugby: 5.A.0.8 vs. The
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    REPUBLICANS PREPARE FOR FINAL STAND
    345 24 FRANCOS MEN 19 MILES FROM FRENCH BORDER Hendaye, Feb. 3. PUSHING beyond Berga, which has fallen into their hands, Nationalist columns claim to have reached a point 19 miles from Puigcerda on the French border, and isolated at least 30,000 Republicans between And orra and
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    FOOD ARRIVES
    75 24 Burgos, Feb. 3. NINETYFOUR loads of treasures were removed by the Republicans from the famous Catalan Monastery of Monserrat, before the evacuation of Barcelona (state the Nationalist Restoration Service I Two Italian food ships have arrived at Barcelona. One brought food for the civil population and the other
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    GERMAN RAIL CRISIS
    100 24 Munich, Feb. 3. THE wholesale cancellations of 1 passenger trains is nounced. This is the MMmM <Wtlopment in Germany s increasingly grave railway situation. t ins Already many express trains have been" cancelled this year, and passengers have been standing in corridors or left behind altogether through
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    NATIONALISTS SUE UNITED STATES
    74 24 NATIONALISTS SUE UNITED STATES Washington, Feb. 3. FE Department of Justice announced that the Spanish Nationalists are suin* the United States Government Agencies and a private steamship line to four shipments of silver sent from Barcelona which the United States purchased from the Spanish Republicans, rj It is understood that
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    ARCHBISHOPS APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS
    127 24 London, Feb. 3. THE archbishop of Canterbury in a letter to the Times asks all Christians of England to pray for the Palestine conference during its sessions. •Pray God may give right judgment to all who have the grave responsibility of participating it so that it
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    A UNITED POLICY FOt CENTRAL EUROPE
    72 24 A UNITED POLICY FOt CENTRAL EUROPE DEFERENCE H^^tL 11 foreign policy" LmSfti M. Gafencu i„ aa^^.. ing talks with M sEEi* fol Gefencu declared' £2STS Yugoslavia would welrom* ?f 4 friendly relations and fe J** great power whenever shown They would pursue a .•nite..' and aim for the consSngtuS*! Central
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    Actors Forbidden On The Stage
    90 24 Berlin. Feb POR 'trying to make Party and st Insultatlons ridiculous" in fl stage performances, five theat* artists have been forbidden to appear the German stage In future, by on of Dr. Goebbels. The principal artist is Werner Fb well-known reconteur. whose witty marks concerning
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    TENNIS TEST
    50 24 Durban, Feb. 3. I IN the first British— South African lanl tennis Test. Valerie Scott <Briti_j)| beat Olive Craze 7—5, 2—6, 6—3. I Farquharson (South Africa) was lead-l ing from Shayes 6—2. 6—5, when plrf was abandoned owing to rain fl*| match will be concluded on Sunday-! Reuter
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    STOP PRESS
    87 24 Shanghai, Feb. 4: The authorities have temporan ly c o^ed the Pearl River because of military "fl* 4: At tbe g** tion of the conference on the kan alliance, a communique afluw ed that the Baltic states favour^ a policy of neutrality and me* g peace in conjunction
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      13 1 MORNING TRIBUNE Sports Supplememt 83. Feb. 4. 1939.. EDITED BY HERMES Every Saturday.
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      THE CURTAIN FALLS AGAIN
      1228 1 Rugby swansong Time flies it seems but a few short weeks ago that we were hailing the advent of the new rugby season and looking forward to pleasures in store* And n0w curtain. |i I matter of regret to many of us^ Malayan rugby season is
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      42 1 Pesluna in action in the North and South match. He is about to pass cut after a clean heel from a loose scrum. Pestana played a grand aame and again justified his nomination as the best Asiatic player Malaya has yet produced.
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      Rugby review of 1938-39
      167 1 Rugby review of 1938-39 Fthe rugby review which faincorporated in to-day's Supgement you will And plenty of date concerning rugby past and present in addition to notes on the various states and their fortunes in the 1938-39 season. The story of the M.R.U. and the officials of the 1939-40 season
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      ANOTHER GOOD YEAR FOR YORKSHIRE
      115 1 ALTHOUGH the Yorkshire County Cricket Club reports a profit for 1938 o_ only £90, they had a highly satisfactory year. Income exceeded expenditure by over I ...000 and the club has been able to allot £885 In bonuses to clubs on whose mounds matches were
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      151 2 „,.,_,j r, virtorv at Anson road stadium last week-end bv 15 The teams in the annual M.R.V. North vs. South match, in which the .cored •""IJJjVji in white. Reading from left to right, thev points (four tries and a pena.tv goal) to s.x (a try and a penal ty goal).
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      SELETAR GETTING DOWN TO NEW SOCCER SEASON
      675 2 BY "FLASH.' WITH rugby football finished, and the hockey fixtures almost completed. interest at Seletar has completely switched over to association footba.l and Section trials are now in full swing. Friendly matches have been pro- j visionally arranged against the Gordon Highlanders, the
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      OIL YOUR BATS, THE SEASON IS NEARING!
      418 2 OIL YOUR BA TS, THE SEASON IS NEARING! Cricket On The Way CRICKETERS in Singapore are already busy making arrangements for the forthcoming season, while a meeting is being held next Monday to arrange fixtures. Cricket is also becoming a popular topic in all the clubs and prospects of the
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      Last State Game In Selangor To-day
      387 2 Last State Game In Selangor To-day I AST of Selangor's iiiter->tati matches will be played thi evening at Ipoh where the retun match with Perak takes place. Th team chosen is the same once agai as that which has done so re martably well during the past thnt months of
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      Commercial XV's.
      28 3 M.tl.tv;:. commercial organi- out repiesentatlve rugby »n«r ii,. t0 time— as strong, if not -tate side. Thc Dunlop Co 1»4. the APC ln 1926 and 1936
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      MALAYA CUP NOW 18 YEARS OLD
      480 3 THE Malaya Cup is one of a pair of trophies presented to sportsmen in Malaya by Captain H. T. Buller and the officers of the battle cruiser H.M.S. Malaya in 1921 on the occasion of her visit to this country in January of that
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      ALL MALAYA
      1209 4 Who's who in the fIINETEEN thirty nine will becomef an historic year in Malayan* rugby for the fact that for the first time a side representative of All* Ma'aya has gone on tour to Hongkong for a series of matches in that I port. The tour was thc
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      ASIATICS NOW IN STATE CLASS
      573 5 THOUGH they have always shown a lively interest in the game, Asiatics in Malaya took a long time to regard rugby seriously enough to adopt it for themselves. Soccer they took to easily and naturally, but the more vigorous form of football did not make
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      Negri's Matches
      47 5 last 3-H vs Selangor won vs Perak on 8e! ctar drawn 3-3 vs Johore a n 3 vs Singapore Yost 3-17 vs Pemng drawn 0-0 FAR»H ROBERTSON TtfOPIIV vs Perak WT won 14 3 MALAYA CUP S IST™ 0 oil! vs Johore won n s
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      CUPHOLDERS HAD THEIR UPS AND DOWNS
      671 6 CUPHOLDERS HAD THEIR UPS AND DOWNS SKLANGOR'S present period ot domination of rugby in the north had its beginning in 1930-37, when ihey had that super fifteen which won ihe Malaya Cup and went through a very h.?avy season's programme without once being defeated. Few of that team are still
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      22 7 The Army XV who lost 'he Ct.p 'inal to Selorifjur at K.L. ir. January but carrw.l all before View in the south.
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      RMY BEST IN SOUTH AGAIN
      786 7 bave become quite accustomed in recent years to seeing the limy start off the season as a somewhat mediocre side and then ;h up strongly and steal the honours in the south. The 1938-39 on has been no exception. team of the previous year, which
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      Inter-club trophy.
      38 7 The trophy for which the S.C.C. and Selangor Club have played regularly eac!. sason watt presented in 1912 but the match itself dates from ten years earlier, and was the first Inter-State fixture in Malayan rugby.
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      Penang Retirement.s
      42 7 In Penang In the last season W. D C Erskme Crum and A. E S. Talbot, both forwards, gave up playing. Both men formerly played for Singapore and each have been capped by the MRU. both for North a_nd South.
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      Public Services R.F.C.
      30 7 The Public Services rugby rlub WM formed in Singapore in 1919 and enjoyed a successfu' career until 1936. when it »m disbanded owlne to lack of support.
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      Nine cup finals.
      33 7 D G Barr Perak wing thre<\ played in nine cup finals for P*rak and only save up the game in 1936 because he broke an arm nnd had to res*
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      CUP FIN OF 1939
      414 8 CUP FIN OF 1939 tji_LAiS.l_<JK*S fo urth cup final victo the Spotted Do g ground on Jan. I of the Cup. it w as the third success had scored a tn» mph in thp previoo Army took the field favourites this) of the year and tn eir forwards had was
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      Singapore Had A Grand Pack Again In 1938
      768 10 Singapore Had A Grand Pack Again In 1938 A. P. Craigie piayeci his best season for a long time this year and was one of Singapore's most reliable defenders. Here he is in action against the Army. Seletar Services, a game in which the threequarters showed little initiative and the
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      32 10 J Jfc___*? M !_H Wd BC rv.-n -^alf for Singapore Ind'thS? m 2 He Mft centre three and then changed position and vas twice caDDed y T ftr t ay scrum >■ avaa
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      UNKNOWN
      769 11 I\r Services (Navy and Air Force) cannot be ned it they regard themselves as the most unide in the country in the season just ended. n their early form there was every reason to Ugact rSd make a really strong Md tor U» Ca» in the south this y2P.r
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      HIGH HOPES FAIL IN THE NORTH
      601 12 DOTH «-r«K and Ponang Started cut on the 193^-39 season with high hop?s. Perak's ari.tition was to cUmb out of the despond of the jas. few stasis ard begin to reassert that domination of northern rugby which they enjoyed between 1125 and 1931. Fenanj.
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      All-Malay 1924
      85 12 All -Malay 1924 HE All-Malaya XV of 1$ onlv previous occasion on' a representative XV has take lc£d, was: Dr. H. W. Jack (Sel) B. E. Ablitt (S'pore) G. H. Warren S'pore I D. S. Robertson (Spore) W. J. Gibb (Sel) W. A. McMichael (Sel' H. P. Bryson (Perak) R.
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      Negri till Need Backs
      197 13 Negri till Need Backs 1 forwards have long had a ridable name in Malayan and the pack of 1938-39. led by Lieut. Graham, maintained aditions despite one or two 5 outside the scrum that the ere none too well served and lack of centres necessitated T P Crawford out of
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      DEFEAT DID NOT DISMAY JOHORE
      605 13 DEFEAT DID NOT DISMAY JOHORE JOHORE agr.i: collected the wooden spoon of the i>- l thpm seetlfi? cf tne Cup competition this year, uut for ail that they can look back witb considerable satis. ..ction on the scasu. They had a better side than vi a.:y vear for a long
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      NORTH VERSUS SOUTH
      813 14 t.QRTH vs South, the match which brings thc Malayan season to a lo«e i ach oanuary, is thc only i 'T.nl representative game it If postile to crowd into the short playing on 1:1 thia country From time to tune the suggestion has been made that it
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      Matches of the vear.
      150 14 Results of the principal friendly and other matches of the 1938-31 son are given here for easy refert Selangor 14 Negri SHangoi "A" 24 Neeri A Selangor Club 25 F.M fc P(*« S.S.V.K 8 F.M.S VI Self tai f Johore Negr* 2? All BI Negri 19
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      MATCH RECORD
      585 15 1 qre eight annual fixtures of importa"" on the Malayan mZ The results of these from K oi their inception are given in ■es below brought up to date to the season just ended. Ntrth vs. South vear of the M.R.U. North vs. Kture* was 1927-28, the season
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      Retirements.
      59 15 Singapore rugby men who retired from Stati nSSI durln* the 1938-39 se son were DA Johnston and K. C. GUlett. botu members of the Malaya Cup side for several seasons past. Johnston was one of the best winding forwards of the year in 1936-37 and K C. Gillett. a
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      State Sides Of 1938-9
      512 15 State Sides Of 1938-9 FOR obvious reasons it would be impossible to give here a complete list of all the players who took part in state and Malaya Cup rugby in each of the states during the season just ended, but in each case the team given represents more or
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      Records of NORTH vs SOUTH UP-TO-DATE
      1348 16 Records of NORTH vs SOUTH UP-TO-DATE Following is a complete list of piaye.. who have represented the South in the tnnual M.R.U. end-of-the-season mate., mee it was first played in 1927-28: Ablltt. B. E. (S'pore). 1928 Anderson (Malacca). ly2B Anderson. A. D. (Spore), 1928, 1936 Anderson. A. R. (Spore), 1933.
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