Morning Tribune, 19 February 1940

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  • 9 1 The Morning Tribune v-m 14, Mon. Feb. 19, 1940.
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  • 132 1 London. Feb. 18. I» ARTICLE by Mr. Hore-Belisha. A 'Shall We Fight For ■^inland Now?" which was an Kpneal for immediate and substantial unied support for Finland Ls published by the News of the {voritl. with an explanation m ■parentheses stating that a number ■of
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  • 103 1 FRENCH REPEL NAZI ATTACK AT FRONT I Paris, Feb. 1 French v communique says Hut during last night enemy Hunit<-, amounting m strength to one ■company, unsuccessfully attacked, two uf their outposts. During the ■day. there was .some artillery fire. ■particularly m the region of the Yi>si»es. Berlin communique claims
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  • 61 1 U. S. Ships Sold To Belgian Concern I, Tf ITT New York, Feb. 18. i liners (seven between 7,000 and 1 tons, and the 13.000 ton liner ent Haidin- i belonging to a United toe have been sold to a Belgian hrn, lv l)ly be tween New York, Bel'"ni England
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  • 14 1 I London, Feb. 18 Thp coatermniwr j^edian o» s glen died to^day^ a«^ed Reuter
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  • 49 1 \S Celebrate Victory 2 rk ftf Sk 'PFr's Version I Sin l °J Scalded Ch »d 4 H ls Mother 5 Women's Pa ce ''Ghost Army M 10 Denies Blackmail 11 l Haunts Hitler 1» 'fied Advtv. 13 rjffi v s "o. n 1 Jte ews
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  • 55 1 New York, Feb. 18. PRESIDENT Roosevelt who has been holidaying aboard the Tuscalocsa is arriving m the Panama Canal wne early on Sunday to inspect defences on thp Atlantic side of the Canal. His Secretary said that President Roosevelt will confer with military, naval and civilian authorities
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  • 106 1 GERMANY ALSO WRONG, SAYS NORWAY Oslo. Feb. 18 M. KOHT, the Foreign Minister, m a speech at Trondheiu; referring to violations of neutrality, said: "The worst case was the Alt. mark, but it is clear that it we arr 1 unable to defend neutrality, («ermanv has «iot acquired the ri^ht
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  • 156 1 Berlin, Feb. 18. 1 1 is officially announced that seven men were killed In the Utmark incident, and another is missing, presumed drowned. Five were seriouily wounded. Mr. Churchill is expected to make a statement m the Common.s on the incident. About 150 of the 250 Altmark
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  • 655 1 BRITISH REPLY TO NORWAY: CLAIMS ACTION FULLY JUSTIFIED No Option But To Stop Alttnark London, Feb. 18. JT is authoritatively learned that the Norwegian Minister was summoned to the British Foreign Office yesterday afternoon to hear the Government's views on the Altmark incident. Simultaneously he lodged an official protest on
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  • 780 1 Berlin, Feb. 18. ACCORDING to the official News Agency, "incredible indignation" has been aroused throughout the whole of Germany by the Alt mark affair. Newspapers continue to incite vehemently against the "pnucy, and "murder.*' The Voelkischer Beobachter remarks:— "Let it be known m London that the tragedy
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  • 154 2 "Soviet Forces Will Never Break Through" Says Marshal Mannerheim Helsinki, V\b. ft. IN t piotlamition to the inm>h 1 tirupfc on the Karelinn Isthmus, Marshal Mannerheim sla'.e* tb« tim*' ha> com- when the enemy s advance his oeen chetUed before the BCH positions manned b> fresh Finnish troops and artillery
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  • 61 2 CHINESE CELEBRATE VICTORY Chungking, Feb. 18. tMRK crackers were let off m abundance throughout Chungking as news of the I Japanese withdrawal from Nanning spread like wild fire. Hitherto there has. however, been no official confirmation of the reported victory. Usually reliable circles claim thai big fires have been raging
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  • 116 2 FINLAND'S WORST DAY OF AIR RAIDS Stockholm, Feb. 18 FINLAND on Saturday suffered the worst day of bombing since w war started, according: to c-orrr. pondcnts of the Tidningen. d Over 300 Russian warp an^ r^ at lea&t 14 towns outside the war bit cnly a handful were killed ana
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  • 275 3 LTMARK SKIPPER WAS PREPARED TO LOW UP SHIP Oslo, Feb. 18. Norwegian Achnirahy issued the following account of the Altmark's Norwegian torpedo-boat, escorting the Altmark, placed between the Altmark and the Kritish destroyer. Intrepid, when, with Her destroyer, she intercepted the Altmark. |v Altmark proceeded towards the ■Vllowed by two
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  • 135 3 London. Feb. 18. j Tllh part played by the Air Foice m the release of the I Miriam prisoners is described m an Aii Ministry annouiue--1 mrnt which -tates that after lo- eating the Alt mark and carrying; out long-ran«j* reconnaissance flights m
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  • 67 3 U. S. AMBASSADOR TO USE YUNNAN RAILWAY Chungking, Feb. 18. B United States Ambassador, Mr. Kelson Johnson, has arrived at Hai--1 en route to Chungking. It is rnfd that ho intends to proceed by m from Hanoi to Kunming, via the ned Yunnan railway, but the of his departure has
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  • 93 3 London, Feb. 17. mcialiy announced that th.? next Ration date lor men born between 1915 and Mar. 9, 1920, will be on ar 9 next. those previously registered t all have been called up for serneed for another registration r after that of Feb. 17 is
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  • 27 3 Feb. 17.- The Australian nion. A. J. Stubbs, won th Wales mile championrecord m '8 mins. 15 2 5 hla OWll nrpvinn, r,,nrrt i«2 5 mt. Reuter
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  • 545 3 DETAILS OF THE FIGHT barked on the Cossack, she proceeded out of the Fjord and joined the rest of the British forces. The Ivanhoe during the afternoon rescued the crev< of thr tanker. Bnldiu. which sruUlcd herself and all the British ships proceeded m company without molestation on their homeward
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  • 242 3 GERMAN CAPTAIN'S VERSION Berlin, Feb. IX. TIIK < iptain of the Altmaik madp a report, declaring that t i AKmark on Friday sailed along the Norwegian convt. Three Brit i-h planes repeatedly fleu over Ikt \Mmark, obviously In comfaunicJitkHi with naval forces. A British cruder and five destroyers approarhi-d. lint
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  • 61 3 London. Frb JANUARY'S imports totalled €105 m.iJ lion an inrroaso of £18' million on the previous month, and an Increase of £29', million torn pa red with the same month last year. Exports amounted to million, an increase of £1 million on th previous month, and
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  • 218 4 SCALDED CHILD COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED pillow. She .shouted for help and her father-in-law, Yeons Pek San, cam P to her aid and applied some native powder on the scalded parts. The child then became quiet On th P next day, the child's condition became .serious and she took her
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  • 197 4 (From Our Own Reporter) Penang, Saturday. JIIK tragic story of how a thermos flask filled with hot water was suddenly overturned and its contents fell on to the bed m which a 11--year-oldI 1 --year-old baby girl was sleeping, was related by the bereaved mother, Ng
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  • 116 4 PAID to have been stabbed on the head and arm shortly before four o'clock yesterday afternoon, a well-dressed middle. ag»»d Chinese was conveyed to hospital m a critical condition. He was found sittine; on thi roadway at the junction of Queen Street and Ophir Road, with an incised
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  • 70 4 UfHAT might have been a serious lire broke out on the ground floor of a three-storey house m Teo Hong Street shortly before 8.45 last night. The quick arrival of Iwo engines from the Central Fire Station, however, had the flames checked before much damage was
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  • 152 4 (From Our Own Reporter) S i !uk Aiimui. Saturday. i i COINII f l)ew Koad near the A DrmiMfC and Irrigation De- > partment. Tcluk Anson. just where i Quern Strtet meets it. has now sunk uKmt six inches below roatl level and therefore road WH I has
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  • 115 4 NAZI CLAIMS HOLLOW London. Feb. 17. AN excellent answer to Germany's claims to a successful U-boat campaign li given m the January Board of Trade returns, issued to-day. It is revealed that imports for Uie month shew a large rise compared wiin January 1939, m practically all categories. The biggest
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  • 256 4 London, Feb. 17. MR. HUGH DALTON, who was Parliamentary Foreign Under-Secre-tary m the Labour administration of 1929-31, spoke yesterday on Labour peace aims. V/hile labour could not make peace until the Nazi regime was overthrown, he said peace talks could begin at once with a German
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  • 157 4 (^ASHING into a tar-boii J driving along Kota Tirl Road at about 11 o'clock on Sat! day morning, Private William jH bertson of the R.A.M.C. Tar.giß died m the early hours of yesu^B morning at the General Hosp!»aM Private Robertson, who w as linn lowards the
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  • 270 4 C^uj2ua^^_^-/v^ f"I II FORD ODET'S famous play I "Golden Boy" makes one of the I most inspiring pictures m recent I times. For those who like their entertainment^H serious, "Golden Boy,"' which opened the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, ought! to appeal greatly. H| This is one
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  • 151 4 A DEEP study m psychology la prea m the film "Three Son..' win the principal attraction at the Alnni ior the next few days. It is the story of a man who bwwsjg one of the world's largest department stores from the ashes of old
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  • 153 5 OLD MOTHER "GO DIE": HIT HER ALSO ■Rom Our Own Reporter) X Fenang, Saturday. 11l story of how an adoptfe d son struck his moH er with a broom-stick Hs related before Mr. Lim Eon Teck m the Middle Kurt this morning m an Hsault summons case, m I Song
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  • 223 5 MUSLIMS TO CELEBRATE PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY X Singapore, Saturday. Mr S. I. 0. AKagofT, J.P., presided E t the Muslim Public Meeting ■<><! at the headquarters of the AH■alaya Muslim Missionary Society win afternoon. There was a repre■fniativp pitherinf of various MusB'M races. V v.as unanimously decided to celem> the birthday
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  • 51 5 Singapore. Saturday, '•voman who was alleged a dose of raustic *oda tc -veci by the ambulance this (evening from a house m Canal Road. j She was suffering from shock and showed rifM of soda poUonlng. She was removed to hospital where .she U«i m a critical
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  • 156 5 WAR 'S EFFECT ON INDUSTRY London, Feb. 18. THE Transport and General Workers Union delegates discussed postwar problems at a conference yesteiday. Mr. Ernest Bevin said that it was Trade Unions' duty to examine the probability of post-war conditions, am. visualise a sudden cessation of war production. It was not
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  • 137 5 nRIGADIER M.D. Gambier-Parry, M.C., A.D.C., will broadcast from the 8.M.8.C. at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 19, on "The One^Front War." In two previous taJks m this series, Brigadier Gambier-Parry gave an account or the Maginot and Siegfried Lines and the present general situation on the Western
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  • 72 5 Singapore, Saturday Four Chinese, Including two men, a woman and a boy, were injured wnen the motor taxi In which they were driving up Thomson Road overturned near the Island Club into a drain, this afternoon. Two of the injured were picked up m a semi-conscious
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  • 81 5 Ihv Kiiii; s l«imrcliaii Vl/HEN the King visited a little market town 'somewhere m England" to inspect troops to-day a grey mongrel dog at- tached itself to the Royal par- > ty and refused to budge. He even saw the king off when he S left.
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  • 559 6 BALKAN ARMIES ON WAR FOOTING Middle East Looks Like Storm Centre TURKEY'S seizure of the German-owned Krupp ship-yards on the Golden Horn at Istanbul, coincides with or is followed by: Rising fears that south-eastern Eu rop e will be involved m war m the spring; The review by the French
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  • 496 6 And More Labour Will Still Be Required BRITAIN'S tremendous arms programme will not only absorb die present unemployed army of 1,360,000, but will also demand the recruitment of another factory force at least equal to that figure. Experts believe that before the war is over
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  • 137 6 Spy— Loses British Officer Rank i nONALD Owen Reginald Ad fjH V self-confessed spy. h0 |Q^B S months ago was sentenced JM i seven years' penal servitude, n^« i been deprived of his rank W > lieutenant m the Br.u li Arni ,^H The announcement m *m V nights London
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  • 43 6 The British CW*ff{f J&M sorshiphas established afl edß m a northern town, n o in-niOW scores of society wOin fV Jf moj workers, who have no neea g and are drawing salane.s w Expr ess| or more, alleges tte gung^ I
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    763 7  -  H.L. Hopkin IL B m—— mmmmmmmm^r vJn ■■•■mm* Interview With Mr John Adams Hunter: ncr Malayan New Governor Of British Honduras:' William Peel In London: Chinese AuthoressOn Western Women. V London, Jan. 29. mj along yesterday evening E,,, Mr. John Adams Hunter, n member of the Malayan ■crvii--'
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  • 375 7 The Morning Tribune Monday, February 19, 1940. HUSH, HUSH a word has been said by any Government official or by any Councillor m Malaya on the subject of war lotteries. Are the people of Maiaya to regard this silence as another illustration of the saying that "no news is good
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  • 868 10 A JOURNEY WITH DEATH LURKING I HROM the battle ground of he and snow on which the Finns are operating :uv u*f their huge toe a pern I correspondent sends an account of a trip lie made with a Finnish supply patrol. Moving by supply sled
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  • 324 10 TOOK POISON TEST FOR BROTHER CorMcfl A GIRL who brought mediciaH man m the dock on a afl charge at Cork court house vm allowed to give it to him untiH drank some herself. The man was her brother, <■ two-year-old Thomas MacCurW| cuffed to a warder as he stoom
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  • 344 11 London. Feb. 4. DEFERENCb was made to an unsuc- cessful breach of promise action against a young peer m May, 1935, when Dr. Charles Alexander McPherson, Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Surrey, was summoned at Chertsey police court by Miss Ivy Maud Dawkins, who is Angela Joyce,
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  • 472 11 !lANY has two new-type bomts—but their secrets are ER NO. 1, a four-engined seaipable of carrying 20 bombs. first appearance when the unTitish steamer Highwave was uid machine-gunned. now Germany has us?d only ned Hainkels and Dorniers to "itish shipping, w bomber is believed
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  • 104 11 delicate lily-of-the-valley is reputed to make a lady\s heart beat faster. Its perfume is known to all cold country dwellers. It is a favourite flower with brides. But this fragile white flower has other uses. From its plant chemicals which make the heart beat slower,
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  • 126 11 I the conviction of two ationS ls nder the defence re-tiaißr-mL ,2** offi cers of the ation w d" h of Scotland Yard startet ed at vUai CO H?f b OUt of men cm i defence centres. jr^aton w?^ op u ments are expected. lS has
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  • 36 11 Pleasant Reflection! And any reflection about Oreer Gari'mi vi pleasant. She was the MOM newcomer who won all hearts In "Good bye Mr. Chips." She is to be teamed with Robert Taylor m her next aim.
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  • 696 12 (From Our Own Correspondent). London. Feb. 2 A WHITE HAIRED figure stoops over a war map of Europe and moves Mtl? DaDer flags with trembling hand There's a puzzled look on his wrinkled, S Tt F is the^ex-Kaiser a pathetic shadow of the am-gant Emperor
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  • 220 12 PRESS NOT FAIRLY TREATED! A PROTEST agamst^r n of newspaper men while \SB out their duties at ports l^H places under Government SJJM was made at the annual conS? ni W the National Union of JoSrnS Leicester recently. uur naiisu A resolution was pas.sed asfan. M Government to instruct Service
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  • 361 12 DEING a refugee m England is becoming not only a pleasant, but a prosperous life. One woman had a refugee housemaid to whom she paid 255. a week and insurance. She has just married a refugee who joined the Army as a tailor last week. -She
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    • 166 14 I nqurslionabl^ thr HLM OF THK WEFK I I I KNJOVIU KVKRI MINI O: OF IT— (D»Uy Hrruld AND SO DID THE HUNDREDS OF SINGAPOREANS WHO FLOCKED TO THE AIR-CONDITICNED < Al*l lOL DURING THE WEEK-END! I COLUMBIA'S 4 SHOWS T<»-I>AY I lc cic die dramati< tJ.IS 6.15 9.15 Pro4
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  • 935 15 Iq r rr*r- London, Feb. 18. BUST men to leave the Altmark were a batch of West Indians. A M! rvivor from the Doric Star, William Curtis of South Shields, said he NS ;is <>n the Altmark ten weeks, and added: "We
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  • 359 16 A SPINSTER claims to know why so many marriages fail. Sht Ls Miss M Biid senior pjobation olficer at the Stratford, bNI, Poli< Court. Hundieds of couples whose mairied lives have inded m the courts -lave taken their problems to her. Now judge for yoursell. from h?r
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  • 909 17 Ilrilliant Play In Annual Hockey Classic The barks m the second half failed to hold the North attack as they did m the first half. Tan Chee Lim and Jackson had difficulty m clearing, and Fortin did not come up to expectations. Cronin and Baskaran
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  • 216 17 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. PLAYING on a sodden ground where water lay m pools, the Loyals defeated Johore by five points (a goal) to three (a try) m a rugger match at Johore Bahru to-day. Johore played with several military men. Both packs
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  • 62 17 Berlin. Feb. 17.— The prize court at Hamburg confiscated two of five captured neutral ships, also the cargoes of two of the three releasrd ships. A Latvian steamer with cargo of timber was released, two Greek steamers on their way from Finland to Egypt with timber uere released but their
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  • 158 17 HOME SOCCER RUGGER London, Feb. 18. Dlisri.TS of to-day's so<t»t and rugby matches arc as follows; SOUTH "C" Brentford 4. West Hum 3 Chelsea 5. Southampton 1. Millwall 2. Fulham 0. Tottenham 2. Charlton 0. SOUTH V Clapton O. 1. Watford 1. Crystal p. 4, Reading 1. Snuthend 3, Norwich
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    • 257 17 Public Notices THE JEKAM KI'ANTAN RUMU ■STATE, LIMITED (Incorporated m the Straits Settlements NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN that t!, Twentyeighth Ordinary General lleetlni of this Company will be held at the Registered Office, Amber Building, 5. Malacca Street, Singapore, on Tuesday, 2nd April. 1940, at noon, at which the Directors
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  • 241 18 YACHT CLUB REGATTA Singapore, Satun I TWUCH the weather con^J were not favourable i r I owing to light breezes, rain "s^ I and a lumpy sea, the Roytl $2 I pore Yacht Club, which" hi I bi-annual At Home and Rt>JJ this afternoon, had a succS I day. I
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  • 148 18 SATURDAY'S RACE RESULI RESULTS OF SATURDAY S RACES AT BUKIT TIMAH Race 1: Shoot Up $11 and $6. Pat Burke SlO. Dancing Foam ST. Race 2: Zolfanella S4B and Sl6. j Red Dot Sl7. Golden Blaze SlO. I Race 3: Sultana $20 and $8. Royal IVorlington $8. Race 4: Mallanuit
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  • 573 19 ECONOMY AS A BIG WEAPON OF WAR London, Feb. 18. important of maintaining exbrt trade was emphasised m a L at Nottingham by Sir SaHoaie, who discussed the on of where a balance bethc rival claims of the fightrvices and of export induwas to be fixed. rnment were very conscious
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    • 34 19 I London, Saturday, on Amsterdam 7.53 London on Shanghai 4% Jjndon on Hongkong Is. 2 15|16d. on Japan is. 2 9 32d. ■n on New York 4.02V 2 to 4.03 V' 2
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    • 12 19 IL New York. Saturday. knT Iteady 8 Dull 45 18
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  • 648 19 London, Feb. 17. TWE Board of Trado announces that the Government* of the United Kingdom and France have agreed that effect should be given to the conclusions recently reached by the President of the Board of Trade and the French Minister of Commerce with a view to
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  • 66 19 London, Feb. 17. iN the Stock Exchange, supplies of i loanable funds continued to be JfJ borrower* 1 favour. Contrary to general expectations, discount houseb failed to obtain their quota of Treasury billsat a better rate than !trt weok's. The actual average rate was agam i}-°-*^ while the
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  • 101 19 NEDERLANDSCHE HANDELMAATSCHAPPIJ, N. V. Established by Royal Charter A-D. 18*4 Incorporated m the Netherlands. (Netherlands Trading Society) BANKERS AMSTERDAM Paid Up Capital f *°-™>**>' Reserve Fund 1C.50t.00London Correspondents NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED. Head Offie*: AMSTERDAM Branches: Holland: -Rotterdam. The Hague, and 64 branches and sub-branches a4 smaller places. Netherlands East
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  • 105 20 U.S. "PEACE ENVOYS" OFF TO EUROPE New York, I'Vb. IK. MIC Sunnier Welles and Mr. M>n»n T.tvloi i tied aboard the Italian liner. Hex, for Italy 10-du*. Mr. Welle* declined lo discuss arrangements of his mission, aid added fir had no plan t« eonfn with the P«.pc. luit aRT^Pd that
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  • 142 20 Amsterdam, Fob 18 rilK Dutch steamer Amclan, 4,500 tons bound for the Dutch Indies, U iinkinK m the North Sea 3 l 2 nountfter leaving Rotterdam. Her crew were rescued by another )uirli reswl London. Feb 18. The Swedish steamer.: Liana and tamed, both about 1.500
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  • 95 20 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Sunday. rAN KOON KIAT, 42, a Government Clerk attached to the Malacca General Hospital, appeared before Mr. J G. Rappoport, m the Police Court yesterday on a charge that he. on Feb. 2. being entrusted with $100, committed criminal breach
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  • 276 20 REMARKABLE HEROISM OF BRITISH SAILORS IN SPEE BATTLE lon dun. X**»> H k (,i;\l'lll( description of the v A heroism of the wounded m II M S i vter durSEm the River HaW battle was Riven m a broadcast on vilurday by a midshipman who took part m the action.
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  • 164 20 DEIFTING ON ICE FOR TWO YEARS SAFE Mosco»\, Feb. 3. FIFTFLN voun« Russian scientists who were rescued after drifting for 2 years 3 months and 16 days amid the ice of the North Polar regions, have arrived at Murmansk m their ship, the ice-breaker Sedov. With the Sedov came the
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  • 89 20 IT the tenth annual general meeting of the Society for the Protection 01 Hindu Children held at the Ramakrishna Mission yesterday, the following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing President, Mr. N.D. Pillai (re-elect-ed); Vice-President. Mr. X R. Naidu (reelected Hon. Secretary. Mr. K.S. Ananthanarayanan <
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  • 47 20 Falling off a moving trolley bus at about 11.30 yesterday morning at Kallang Road, a sixteen-year old Chinese youth was removed to the Tan Tocic Seng Hospital m a semi conscious condition. No external injuries were detected, but the boy was unable to walk.
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  • The Morning Tribune
    • 90 20 FIRE GUTS RADIO VALVE FACTORY London. F< A LARGE fire broke uut late lac r m a North London wiitfeij factory Before the tire was finally got ia control, more than 300 firemen, j liary fire service men and wonien, fire-fighting appliances from an t London, had been at work.
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    • 91 20 THE death occurred at the Genifl Hospital on Saturday oi Mn fl Constance Moreland, at the a^e of S^H The funeral took place the >a:iiefl at Bidadari Cemetery. H The Revd. Graham White olUciifl the funeral service. There was a large gathering at i
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  • 138 20 Washington. Feb. The Washington P«*t A ,^JM -Anti -Communism has |)i^< timer™ a cloak without basic nicanin?. m substance. Indeed to-day there extremely Uttle to distinguish Germany from Communist They are like two peas m<' m no ioneT Communism lnlt l H J« lism. which the Nazis regard
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    • 107 20 POSTAL INTELLIGENCE TO-DAY Mail* for: CHINA Kunming (Steamer* 1.00 p.m. INDOCHINA (Steamer) 1.00 p. m JAVA (Steamer) 9.00 a.m SUMATRA Medan l Steamer) 9.00 a.m. Medan (Am Noon TO-MORROW ADEN (Steamer) 10.00 a.m CEYLON (Steamer) 10.00 a.m CHINA (Air* 9.30 a.m EGYPT (Steamer) 10.00 a.m GREAT BRITAIN EUROPE generally (Steamer)
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