The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 18 June 1936

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  • Title Section
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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS. NO. 14,882. ESTD. 1835. THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936. 10 CENTS.
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    IS MUSSOLINI BEHIND HAPSBURG MOVE?
    322 1 Startling Reports From Vienna w DUCE'S CAMPAIGN FOR A NEW LINE-UP IN CENTRAL EUROPE Tension With Berlin IT is now believed that Mussolini is behind the move to recall the Hapsburgs, states a Reuter Wireless message from Vienna. Well-informed quarters state that the Duce inforced
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    POLICE CLASH WITH MINERS
    80 1 Belgian Strike Scenes Brussels, June 17. SEVERAL ugly incidents have occurred m connection with the strike. The police clashed with 200 striking miners at Saint Walburge who were attempting to prevent trams running. An inspector and two policemen were seriously injured. Shots were fired and three
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    DANUBE DROWNING DISASTER
    66 1 Budapest, June 17. f_iV passengers were drowned when a ferry -boat plying between Gnat Island and the right bank of the Danube capsized and sank early yesterday morning. She was carrying 60 passengers returning from a fish supper on the island. It appears that the merry-mak-ing passengers
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    End To Nanking-Kwangsi Deadlock Expected
    377 1  - End To Nanking -Kwangsi Deadlock Expected Sin Chew Jit Poh SECRET MEETING OF KUOMINTANG MARSHAL Chiang Kai Shek has gone to Changsha from Nanking and a decisive action to end the deadlock between Nanking and Kwangsi is expected within a few days, states a Reuter report from Shanghai. A message
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    BRITAIN WILL INVOKE ESCALATOR CLAUSE
    135 1 Heligoland Re-fortifying London, June 17. rE naval expert, Mr. Hector. Bywater, of the Daily Telegraph, understands that Great Britain will shortly invoke the escalator clause of the London Naval j Treaty to allow an increase m the strength of destroyers which are atj present limited
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    A LAST-MINUTE ENTRY
    12 1 NOT SEEN AT THE INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW AT OLYMPIA
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    2-YEAR PLAN FOR ABYSSINIA
    61 1 Rome. June 17. TWO thousand three hundred miles of roads are to be constructed m Abyssinia at an estimated cost of 1 25,000,000 under a two-year plan approved by Mussolini. Plans approved for the agricultural development of Abyssinia include National colonisation thmugh authorised bodies and the
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    ALGIERIAN STRIKES
    65 1 Arabs Force Labourers To Cease Work Algiers. June 17. The strike movement has taken an ominous turn m Algieria. Armed bands of Arabs are over-running the countryside, forcing l.bourers to cease work on penalty of deatn. Crops on many farms have been destroyed. Police m armoured cars have
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    N.E.I. RUBBER FREIGHT
    115 1 Lowered To Meet Competition Batavia. June 17. IN order to meet competition, the Freight Conferenre has lowered the rubber freight to U.S. harbours from 15 to 10 guilders, for outstanding contracts, and from 17.50 to 11.50 guilders, where contracts have yet be 3 n concluded. Regarding rumours
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    SEVERE FAMINE
    30 1  -  Hong Kong. June 17. A severe famine has broken out m the districts m East Kwangtung. The Taipu District has suffered most, so far. Sin Chew Jit Poh
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    HUGE INCREASE IN BRITISH OVERSEAS TRADE
    101 1 HUGE INCREASE IN BRITISH OVERSEAS TRADE LATEST EXCHEQUER RETURNS Nearly £1,500,000 More From Customs London, June 16. 'THE Exchequer returns show that the total ordinary revenue, excluding self-balancinf items, amounts to £101,066,514 compared with £109,913,827 at the corresponding date last year. An Increase of overseas trade revealed In the ngures
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    CABINET VACANCY FILLED
    35 1 The King has approved that Earl Stanhope be appointed First Commissioner of Works, with Cabinet rank. m succession to Mr. o:msby Gere, who was recently appointed Colonial Secretary Reuter and British Wireless
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    28 1 SWEDISH GOVERNMENT Slockholm, June 16. The Agrarian leader. Mr. Pchrs_:>n, has accepted the task of forming a National Government on the broadest possible Par iamentaiy basts. Reuter Wireless
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    26 1 London. June 16. Major H C. T. Strong has been appointed military attache to His Majesty's legations at Belgrade and Prague from next November British Wireless
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    STOP PRESS
    41 1 London, June 17. TT is generally believed that a formal decision m favour of discontinuing sanctions, if such a course represents the feeling of the other Powers at Geneva, was taken at today's weekly meeting of the Cabinet. Reuter
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      11 1 There is no better Tea than BIGIA TEA GROWN IN MALAYA.
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    3,000,000 HOUSES
    146 2 Built In Britain Since The War London. June 16. The Minister of Health. Cir Kingsley Wood, speaking at Winchester today on national housing announced that the three million mark :n the number ot new houses erected since the end of the war m 1918 had now been passed.
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    ARAB LEADERS ARRESTED
    58 2 Jerusalem, June 16. Fifteen more Arab leaders, all agitators, including a Moslem municipal councillor of Haifa, have been sent to the new concentration camp at Sarafand. It is understood a movement is on foot to divert the funds collected by the Friends of Abyssinia Committee m Iraq
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    GEORGE V MEMORIAL FUND
    28 2 London, Tune 17. Over .£70.000 has been received by the Lord Mayor of London m subscription to the King George Memorial Fund. British Wireless
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    FALSE ALARM
    77 2 Kuala Lumpur, June la. While on patrol duty m Pudu on Saturday night a Malay constable saw smoke and flames coming from tne window of a shop. He ran back to the police station and sounded the fire alarm. The Kuala Lumpur Fire Brigade was quickly on the
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    20 2 The importance of high birth-rate for Germany's military strength has been stressed by Dr. Guett. of the Ministry of Interior.
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  • Letters To The Editor
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      Wages of Sin
      1243 2 'PROGRESS 99 AFTER 4,030 YEARS OF CIVILISATION—WHY NOT MORE SINCERITY AND CHARITY?— KEEPING SECRETSLAWRENCE OF ARABIA AND RUDOLPH VALENTINO THIS "QUEER" AGE— WHAT IS HA PPINESS OR CHID THEFTS IN SINGAPORE "DON'T BLAME THE NAYY 99 To The Editor, Sir.— To do- full justice to the deeply
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    BANNED' FILMS
    191 2 2,047 Censored In S.S. Last Year The number of films of standard size which were censored m the Straits Settlements last year amounted to 2.047. giving a linear measurement of 6581.000 feet. In addition. 41.900 feet ot fllm for use m miniature machines were examined, giving a total
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    KRAUSS-GOLDBERG DUO
    50 2 To Play All Beethoven's Piano And Violin Sonatas It is announced that Krauss-Goldberg Duo will play the whole of Beethoven's 10 sonatas for piano and violin during their recitals at the Victoria Hall on June 21. 22 and 23. The sonatas will be divided over these three performances.
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      462 2 Statistics Office Library Notice The following publications were issued or received by the Department of Statistics, S.S. F.M.S., during the period June 6 to 12, 1936, inclusive, and are available for public use m the Reference Libraiy, Fullerton Building. Singapore. Applications may be made by members of the public resid?nt
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      197 2 Diary Of The Day High Water. 10.34 a.m. 8.3 ft.. 9.36 p.m. 9.2 ft. Sports: Soccer: Div. II Chinese II vs. Marines A.R.S. Div. 111. Indian RC. vs. S.R.C. at S.R.C. G.S. League P.W.D. vs. G.P.0., Post Office; F. SC.C II vs. 5.H.8., at S.C.C Cinemas VICTORIA Gay Love with
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    SINGAPORE-THE CRIMINAL'S GRAVE!
    772 3 How Police Protect Our Half Million Population FREEDOM FROM LAWLESS OUTBREAKS siKAPIIS are sometimes very interesting reading, especially 1/ when they record the social conditions of a country. Take the graphs which accompany the 1935 report of the Straits Settlements Police. They show more clearly and more
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    GIGANTIC CINEMA
    57 3 Moscow, June 4. The construction and equipment of a tremendous open stage cinema theatre, seating 15,000 people, has been completed in the Central Park of Culture and Rest in Moscow. The screen of the new cinema has a surface of 170 square metres; the distance from the projecting
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    30 3 Mr. R. B. B. Bennet, leader of the Canadian Conservative party and former Prime Minister, has intimated his desire to relinquish the leadership at the end of the present session.
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    19 3 MRS. ANTHONY EDEN, wife of the Foreign Minister, and their son, Nicholas, arriving for a ceremony in York Minister.
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    RANPURA CATCHES UP LOST TIME
    231 3 Back In Singapore To Schedule STORIES of the Ranpura's stranding outside Gibraltar on her outward voyage in mid-April with £10,000,000 of Chinese art treasures under her deckboards are still fresh in the mind but the treasures have been safely delivered in Shanghai and the liner
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    Former Municipal Chief Clerk On Trial
    213 3 TV M. DAVIES former chief clerk fr of the Miscellaneous Division. Municipal Treasurer's Department, was put on trial yesterday before Mr. L. B. Gibson, Criminal District Judge on four fresh charges of criminal breach of trust in respect of four amounts, viz., $464.42, $410.99,
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    29 3 During a recent military parade at Pola a gun-tractor, which got out of control, crashed into the crowd, killing five civilans and injuring 31 others, some of them seriously.
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    ROTARIAN'S PRAISE FOR GERMAN SYNTHETIC RUBBER
    1723 3 "It Is Better Than Our Natural Product" MR. L. CRESSON'S IMPRESSIONS OF WORLD TOUR "PINCE my return to Singapore, my interest has been aroused M by the articles m the local Press regarding German synthetic rubber. I have had the privilege of seeing this
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    St. Andrew's Mission Hospital
    387 3 St. Andrew's Mission Hospital IN NEED OF HELP THE resident stall at St Andrew's Mission Hospital consists of a European woman doctor three European sisters (one of whom is on long leave at present > and 18 Asiatic nurses. The ailing poor among the Chinese. Indian and Malay races receive
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    SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA
    47 3 Minsk. June 4. Printing of th I first volume of the "Soviet Encyclopedia" ol White Russia has been commenced in Minsk. The first volume contains over 3.000 articles Material for the second volume hai also been prparcd. The entire encyclopedia will consist of ten volumes
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    "ETHIOPIA IS NOT LOST," SAYS EMPRESS
    1079 4  -  GAIL HOFFMAN Exclusive Interview BY li'if following exclusive interview with the Empress of Ethiopia ivas obtained by Miss Gail Hoffman, an American journalist, when the Negus and his family were m Jerusalem on their way to Britain. Jerusalem, May 14. ttpTHIOPIA is by no
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    70 4 WITH IMPRESSIVE and dignified ceremonial Doni Marie Albert van der Cruyssen was installed m the new church as the lii'ty -third abbot of Orval. Belgium. The new church m which the installation ceremony took place has just been completed and rises _rom the ruins of another church that stood on
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    FRANCE'S NEW PREMIER
    356 4 Mr. Blum As Bibliophile And Connoisseur Paris, June 7. THERE are few wealthier Socialists that M. Leon Blum, the new French Premier, and few rich and distinguished men who take less trouble to look either rich or distinguished. His Paris home is a mansion m the He
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    1936 Aldershot Tattoo
    219 4 London, June 4. TTHE Aldershot Tattoo, which will be held as usual this month, dates back from shortly after the South African War. It is. as a spectacle. the greatest annual open-air show m the world. The moment one year's display ends, oookings begin to come m
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    20 4 There were 33,539,890 telephones In the world on Jan. 1 last year, of which 16,868,065 were m the United States.
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    MOUNTAINS MAY RISE FROM THE SEA
    311 4 Professor's Submarine Survey MEW mountains may be Kr(JW under the .sea. according lo Professor F. A Vening Meinesz 0 the State University. Utrecht who recently described the f h last submarine survey* at Roy^ School of Mines. London He travelled through large the Atlantic
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    STRENGTH THROUGH JOY
    145 4 STRENGTH THROUGH JOY Ambitious Nazi Plan Berlin, June 8. T__E Nazi organisation "Strength through Joy" has made a beginning on its ambitious project for building five special "Peoples' Bathing Resorts" capable of accommodating a million workers at once, on the North Sea and Baltic coasts. The foundation stone ot the
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    OPTIMISTS' CLUB
    63 4 J^OCTORS, lawyers, engineers, exofficers and State officials have formed an Optimists' Club m Szombathely. Its object is to fight the pessimistic outlook of present times and to lighten material difficulties by optimism. Each member must hold a lecturo at the ciub meetings, which are followed by charitable gifts
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    218 5 LAKGE CROWDS recently watched a steeplejack remove brick by brick the top of the steeple of Trinity Presbyterian Church at the junction of Southgate Road and Church Road. Islington. Alarm was caused when the steeple leaned over at a perilous angle after an attempt by 20 men to pull it
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    $10,000 CLAIM AGAINST BUS COMPANY
    660 6 $10,000 CLAIM AGAINST BUS COMPANY Passenger's Terrible Injuries After Accident SPEEDING ALLEGED PACTS of a motor collision which occurred on the night of Nov. 30 last opposite the St. James' Power Station were revealed m the High Court, Singapore, yesterday before Mr. Justice Adrian Clark m an action for damages
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    JAPAN'S GOODWILL FLIGHT TO SINGAPORE
    286 6 JAPAN'S GOODWILL FLIGHT TO SINGAPORE JAPAN hopes to extend her air lines •'soon from Formosa to Hong Kong, to link up with the Malaya-Hong Kong service of Imperial Airways and provide a through service to London Reference to the propos.d extension has been made frequentnly m the Japanese press recently.
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    SIR WALTER HUGGARD
    71 6 Rumoured Retirement From Chief Justiceship It is understood that Sir Waiter Huggard. the Chief Justice, S.S.. who went Home m January on special leave Shortly after his return from ordinary leave, on urgent business, will not be returning. The Hon. Mr. P. A. McElwaine. Attorney General, is
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    17 6 Russia, for the firs: time, has sent B workers' delegation to the Internaticn Labour Conference at Geneva.
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    ADDIS ABABA BUSES
    123 6 Rome, June 9. The first omnibus service m Addis Ababa was opened yesterday. It runs from the station to the airport. A clear distinction is to be made between 'buses for natives and those for white seiUers. Read .construction is proceeding rapidly. A national festival yesterday was
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    A DRUG ADDICT
    270 6 Coroner's Finding In Dr. Webster's Inquest 'From Our Own Correspondent I Klang, June 17. The Coroner this morning returned the following \erdict at the inauest on Dr J. S. Webster: M I fina that James Webster was a drug addict and that death was due to an
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    NEW PRIESTLEY PLAY
    150 6 Interesting Allegory In Shavian Manner 1 J B. Priestley's new play. "Bees on the Boatdeck." called a farcical tragedy, has as its scene the deck of a d. -relict cargo boat moored m an estuary. Bushes insinuate themselves over her side, and there are bees m the
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    "AVENUE KIPLING"
    140 6 London, June 6. "Avenue Kipling" will soon be a feature of Ypress. the Mayor and Council of the town having decided to give the Empire poet's name to the avenue which forms the prolongation of the Avenue Marechal French, writes a Morning Post correspondent. Mrs. Kipling has sent
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    AIR PASSENGER LISTS
    43 6 By Aircraft G— ABTK Athena from Penang. Siam. Burma and Karachi ariived Singapore on June 15: Mr. Philp, Mr. Brickly and Mr Moxham. Aircraft VH-USD Brisbane for Brisbane. Darwin and D.E.I, left Singaoore on June 16: Mr. W. R. Taylor.
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    STEREOSCOPIC FILM
    245 6 Audience Provided With Spectacles London. June 4. A stereoscopic moving picture, a novelty which has never before been I shown publicly m a London cinema, will appear m the programme of th? Empire Theatre. Leicester-square. It was shown privately yesterday, writes a Morning Post correspondent. It is by
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    25 6 A trade pact between Brazil and Germany has been signed at Rio de Janeiro as a preliminary to a general treaty of commerce and navigation.
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    FOUR WOMEN CAUGHT BY LANDSLIDE
    222 6 One Dead— Three Escape MINING TRAGEDY Ipoh. Jun, A LANDSLIDE which had i,., *»c consequences occurred yesterday at noon at th, on < Vat Lee Tin Mine at Gunt«n c about four-and-a-half nilrs from Ipoh. when four s\» m *> n were trapped m the
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    3 PROCESSIONS PLANNED FOR THE CORONATION
    266 6 The King May Go To The City London. June 7. A COMMITTEE of experts is to drau up a programme lor the Coronation, which takes place at Westminster Abbey on May 12 next year. It will include representatives of thf Privy Council, Home OfTtoe,
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      197 6 ■STOMACH SUFFERER SINCE CHILDHOOD. To be perfectly fit and able to eat anything after ever 20 years oi _cute stomach trouble is more than most people would dare hope for— yet this has actually happened to Wl{\ A. C. These are his own w.rds: "I must tell you how thankful
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    U.S. COAL BILL
    58 7 Washington, June 17. A substitute lor the GuiTey (Coal Industry* Bill, with the sections to which the Supreme Court objected deleted has been passed by the House of Representatives by 161 votes to 90 with an amendment limiting the life of the Bill to two years/ The
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    FULL TRUTH ABOUT BOLIVIA'S TIN ARREARS?
    1318 7 FULL TRUTH ABOUT BOLIVIA'S TIN ARREARS? Insufficient Labour Or Deliberate Delaying Of Supplies (From Our Own Correspondent) London, June 2. T__lS WEEK'S eagerly awaited meeting of the International Tin Committee proved, m the event, something of an anticlimax. Once again, the Committee has been forced to defer its ruling as
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    CYCLIST KILLED
    296 7 Knocked Down Bj Motor-Car _M (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, June 16. A verdict of accidental death was returned by Inche Abdul Rauf third i magistrate, at the conclusion^ oi the inquest on a Chinese cyclist who died as a result of injuries sustained when i he
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    39 7 The concert m aid of the 6th Company Boys' Brigade Fund, that is to be held at the Paya Lebar Methodist School on Friday. June 19. has been postponed, owing to unavoidable circumstances, to the following Friday, June 26.
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      564 7 WHAT'S ON AT SINGAPORE'S LEADING THEATRESCAPITQLI [PAVILION! |ALH AM BRA 6.15 TONIGHT 9.15 6.15 TONIGHT 9.15 6.15 TONIGHT 9.15 Last Night of M.G.M.'s Novel The world-famous Pocket Prima- T| in rf_\f I T HINfZ Operatic Murder Mystery donna W/nVUVUIWU "MOONLIGHT LILY PONS sx <H J PTKKS I MVI KS v
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    DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES ENGAGEMENT.
    56 8 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES ENGAGEMENT. SWAN- ROBERTS— The engagement is announced between W. H. Swan, Singapore Municipality, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Swan. Dunoon. Argyll, Scotland, and Hylda Margaret Roberts, elder daughter of Mr. F. E. Roberts and the late Mrs. Roberts, Bombay. India, and Bristol. England. The
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936. Clerical Indebtedness
    1088 8 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936. Clerical Indebtedness T_> THOSE who spare any thought for the great army of clerical workers who form such an important section of the community the last meeting of the Legislative Council must have caused consider able uneasiness. This feeling arises not only
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    83 8 Mr. W. D. Lovell. Chief Engineer of the Perak River Hydro-Electric Company, who has been lying seriously ill m Batu Gajah for some time, is no worse, though no improvement can yet be said to have taken place. Last week Mr. Lovell received a visit from a specialist from Singapore
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    Navy, Army And Air Force
    1530 8 A Weekly Services Letter From A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT London, June 6. THE cruiser Capetown. Capt. D. A Budgen, which has just arrived at Portsmouth from the China Station, is to be paid off at once into dockyard control lor an overhaul previous to recommissioning for
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    FIERY MEETING OF LOCAL CHINESE
    554 9 Frenzied Interruptions At Chamber Of Commerce Discussions CABLE TO SOUTHWEST POLITICAL COUNCIL UNUSUAL scenes broke out at the mass meeting held yesterday at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to discuss the advisability of sending a cable to the leaders m Kwantung and Kwangsi, urging them
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    OXFORD LECTURESHIP FOR CHINESE SCHOLAR
    182 9 Tenable For Three Years FIRST EVER TO BE HELD AT BRITISH UNIVERSITY London, June 17. THE first lectureship ever to be I held by a scholar of Chinease birth at a British University has been founded at Oxford by wealthy residents. Mr. and Mrs. Spalding.
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    GERMAN AIR CRASH MYSTERY
    80 9 Official Denials London. Junw 17. rkESPITE Official denials m Bcr.in, Danish sources adhere to the report that a German naval seaplane crashed m the sea during naval manoeuvre* at Skagerak when all seven occupants were killed. A message from Copenhagen states that people m the neighbourhood
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    51 9 aght from China and we want one <>: the younger scholars from the best hinese Universities. Two or thr fe e narries are alr.ady being considered. but no decision has yet been made. Travelling expenses will, of course. be allowed and it is hoped that the lecwill begin work next
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    YOUNG INDIAN CHIEF
    79 9 Visits Singapore With His Tutor The Kumar of Sardargarh. 16-year- minor chief of a small North Indian .State, is m Singapore on his i tour outside his country. He ar™ed uith his English tutor and guardian, Mr. R. a. Howell, m the lanpura yesterday as round-trippers horn
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    41 9 s< Singapore llj which flew CO] 1 w and Melbourne to survey the empire Oyiaf-boat route will return to gapore today from Australia. The machine will arrive from Batavia ne machine will arrive from Bntavi.i „r a *>Ut 2 p m.
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    AGREEMENT WITH CANADA
    112 9 To Be Revised London, June 16. TN a Parliamentary answer today, the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Walter Runciman announced that preliminary discussions with view to a revision of the Ottawa agreement with Canada would begin shortly. The Association of British Chambers oi Commerce, the
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    BRITAIN BUYING GOLD
    136 9 Sequel To French Demand For Banknotes London. June lfi. Interest has been aroused by today's Bank of England gold purchase amounting to over €1,400.000 sterling [following yesterday's 1.200,000 which I was the largest over the last three years. These big acquisitions bring the bank's total of gold
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    24 9 Passengers leaving Singapore by the Nieuw Zeeland today are Mrs. J. T. Johnson, Miss M. I. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dominguez.
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    Astonishing "Fault" In Ocean Bed
    194 9 i UNDERGROUND VOLCANO? London. June 17. A REMARKABLE "fault" has been discovered m the bed of the ocean off the South African Coast, which has aroused the interest of geologists. A Dvi ban report states that the Union Castle liner, Athlone Castle, on her maiden
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    SINGAPORE AIR BASE
    85 9 Question In Commons London, June 17. REPLYING m the House of Commons to Mr. Day, who Inquired concerning the Singapore air base, Sir Philip Sassoon, the UnderSecretary for Air, said that the air force base at Seletar was being extended. The total expenditure incurred so far. Including
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    SHIPPING BOOM
    193 9 Big Orders For British Shipyards London. June lb. A fast passenger liner for service ion the London-Bombay run is at prei sent under construction on the Clyde for the Ellerman line, states a British i Wireless message. A fast cargo liner is under construction for the same company.
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    GEN. HERTZOG'S WARNING
    103 9 World War If League Is Abandoned Cape Town, June 17. "We have no right to be unfaithful to the League merely because we fear others are going to be untrue to it," declared Gen. Hertzog m the Assembly. "If other nations, like Great Britain and France, are
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    CIVIL GUARDS FIRE BUILDING
    98 9 CIVIL GUARDS FIRE BUILDING Occupants Shot As They Emerged Madrid, June 16. The situation m Malaga is quieter, following the action of the Govern- ment m disarming the population and closing down the headquarters of trade unions and anarchists. Three civil guards, patrolling the village of Cordoba were fired on
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    COUNTERFEIT LABEL ALLEGATIONS
    587 9 COUNTERFEIT LABEL ALLEGA TIONS Printing Company Charged THE finding of 160.000 labels for tinned pineapples, which were alleged to be counterfeit, on the premises of the Lee Printing Co. Ltd. was related to the second magistrate, Mr. Trevor D. Hughes, m a preliminary inquiry held yesterday into charges made against
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    AUSTRALIA AND SANCTIONS
    68 9 AUSTRALIA AND SANCTIONS Lost Markets .Melbourne. June 17. llfß. LYONS has announced that Australia's view on the I übject oi sanctions has been forwarded to Mr. Bruce for trim. ......m to the British Government. Th> contents I thi iW not been disci. -cd. but w ,ut rl rudy understood th.it
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    HON. MR J. A. HUNTER
    44 9 LTo Act As Depvtj For Mr. A. S. Smaii Durlni the aboenc <• < mw-cr Administerim. the Q a Mr A S Small, oti lis up- I ?r\ t ,nr the Hon. Mr. J. A Hunt.: w\ h H his deputy.
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    FUSILIERS' BAIL
    77 9 In connection with tbe rep which appeared yesterday. <.: the preliminary inquiry into the chary l rettery against Pusllieri Leonard <; trlay Mid Stuart Wilson. 11 is point th.it U|e application i< r bell ole so that accused QOUld or Bd m military custody. In rep a QMS
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    24 9 The wed din took oi.i week at the Presbyterian OhurcU Penang, ol Mr. Samuel Doonan oj Tin. to Miss Marg.ret Cam Hanul ton, Scotland.
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    FREE PRESS SPECIAL COMMERCIAL SERVICE
    206 10 LAST NIGHT'S QUOTATIONS By arrangement with the Exchange Telegraph Company, Ltd., the Singapore Free Press is able to offer to its readers this complete and reliable service of commercial news from London, New York and other centres. This* the first occasion on which a newspaper
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    LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS & SHARES.
    541 10 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES. From London 6 p. m. June 17 The above are dealers' middle prices; jobbers, margins, brokerage and stamp duty are not included. Share of £1 denomination unless Previously Yesterday Rise or Pall otherwise stated Conversion Loan, 5 p.c, 1944-64 117% 117% +V 8 Funding
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    185 10 June 13. 15. 16. American Can. Com. 129» 8 130 130% American Telephone and Telegraph 168% 168% 169» 4 Atcheson Railroad 73> 4 73 75» 8 Chesapeak 58»/ 4 58 58 >/ 2 Dupont 1473.Q 1493/4 Firestone 29 29 29* 4 General Electric 39 38 3 4
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    Yesterday's Rubber Auction
    165 10 r pHE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1.282 nd auction yesterday when there were catdogued 845.135 lbs.: 377.29 tons: offered 702.374 lbs., 313.56 tons; sold 585.477 lbs 261.37 tons. Spot London 7.5 16d. New York 15$; cts. PRICES REALISED Ribbed smoked sheet cents per
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    37 10 Mr. A. W. Swyny. general manager, Valambrosa Estates, Ltd., Kapar, has returned from leave. Mr. C. H. Preedy, manager ol Tekka, Ltd Kampong Kapayang, will be going to England on leave aWut ftfee tnd oj this month.
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    THE COMMODITY MARKETS.
    184 10 From London 5.30 p. m. June 17 RCBBER: Steady. London Spot: 7 5 16d. 7 7 16d. Previously: 7 5 16d 7 7 16d July-Sept.: 7 3 8 d. 7' 2 d. Previouslv: 73 8 d 71 .d Oct.-Dec: 7* 2 d. 7 9 16d. Previouslv: 7>,d
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    THE METAL MARKETS
    72 10 J From London 5.30 p. m. June 17 m^^^^^^ m^^^^^^^^ m^ m^^mmmmmmwmmm^^ma^^mmmwmm Tin: Weak. Cash: £180 12s. 6d. Previously: Firm at €181 10s Three month: £178 17s. 6d Previously: €179 17s 6d New Tin: 4L3T Previously: 4162. Copper: Settlement: £36 5* Previously. £36 2s 6d Oold: Yesterday:
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    Foreign Exchange Rates.
    81 10 London Closing Quotations June 17 Method of Parity before Rate PreCentre Quoting 20-9-31 Yesterday viously Parls Francs to 141.21 76 7 16 76 9 16 New York to 1.88 1 3 5.031 5.04'« Amsterdam Guilders to 12 91 7.44', 7.45' 4 Hong Kong Per dollar Is 3
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    LOCAL EXCHANGE RATES
    208 10 Yesterday's Singapore Quotations June 17 SELLING London. 4 months' sight 24 332 London, 3 months' sight 24 332 London, 60 days' sight 2 4 lie London. 30 days' sight 24 116 London, demand 24 1,32 London. T.T. 2 4 1 32 Lyons and Paris demand 889 Hamburg,
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    SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
    1154 10 Fraser and Co.'s List WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17, 1936 Nyalas ($1) *> is Pajam ($1 1 .60 i Punt Piiak «sli Pcrak R. Valley ($1) h Punggor isl» Jl 2 Rad< Ila iss> **f Sandycroft ($2) ao 9* SunKoi BaKan is2> 1*45 2 J Sungei R^mal
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    93 10 June 17 Buyers Sellers Oambier 5 00 Java Cube 8.50 Hamburg Cube 10.50 White Muntok Pepper 16 00 Black Pepper 8.00 Copra, Sundried 4 95 Copra, mixed 4.70 Small Flake Tapioca 4 00 R. B. Siam No. 1 per koyan 1 10 Banja Jelotong 6 50 Sarawak
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    A.A. MEETING
    126 10 From Our Own Correspondent!. Seremban. June I.V A meeting of the committee ol the Negri Sembilan branch of the Automobile Association oi Malaya was held at the Sungei Ujong Club. Mr. John Wishart presided. A number of new members wenelected. It was agreed that Hit branch should bear
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    Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association
    83 10 Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association June 17. 1 o'clock noon Tom oi M.nkci Dull I,l'c c ible I. .nu .n Bf) 7 5 Hid on lb New Ymk Spot WbWtK US 15% per lb. liu>rrs Seiko No IXKSS m cases FOB Junt) 25 7 H 25 II M Good F
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    DULL CONDITIONS IN SHARE MARKET
    1328 11 World Problems Retard Business Activity o\< again we regret we can strike no cheerful note regarding the local share market during the past week, as conditions have remained extremely dull and business equally restricted, write Fraser and Co. m their weekly report dated, Singapore, June
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    Winning CONTRACT
    375 11 Winning CONTRACT (Xofc David Burnstine, Michael Gottlieb Oswald Jacoby and Hoicard Schenken, world's leading team-of-four and inventors of the system that has beaten every other system m existence. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 11/E spend a lot of time talking about bad habits of Bridge players. Per- haps the very worst
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    FIRST DAY'S PLAY OF LADIES' OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
    823 15  -  BERNARD DARWIN Mrs. Vare Beaten By Miss C. Glutting COMMENTS ON PLAY BY Southport, Lanes. May 18. Tl\K American army of invasion was intact when the match play stage of the Ladies Championship began at Southport this morning, but it is so
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    KINGS CUP AIR RACE
    28 15 TTHE Duke of Kent is among 28 who have entered aeroplane for Kings Cup Air Race to be flown on July 10. British Radio
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    LALAGE SELECTED
    272 15 Olympic Games Representative AFTER three long days of strenuous competition the yacht Lalage (Messrs. Belville, Boardman. and Leaf) has been chosen as trie British, 1 representative m the SixMetre International Class at the forthcoming Olympic Games. Mr. K. L. Grogono has been selected as the British helmsman m
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    CYRIL TOLLEY BEATEN
    336 15 London. A Stanley Anderson (Hindheadi. who captained Scotland m the boys' international match ten years ago. won the inaugural tournament for the Metropolitan Shield on the Walton Heath Club's old course by defeating Cyril Tolley. the former British amateur champion, by 3 and 2 m the final
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    37 15 FLEUR, ridden by T. Lowry, won the Juvenile Selling Plate at Sandown Park. Plane Sailing was second and Maid of the Myth third. Picture shows Maid of the Myth, ridden by Herbert, leading, with Fleur lying second.
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    Aliens Selection May Be Omen For Australian Tour
    91 15 LORD'S TEST TRIAL RESULTS IN A DRAW TTHE Test trial at Lords was concluded today and resulted m a drawn game. For the North. Hardstar. compiled 89' not out and Robin's for the South secured 5 for 78. Turnbull who is considered
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    MALACCA CRICKET
    213 15 Genuang Club Win By Good Margin <From Our Own Correspondent' Malacca. June 15. The Malacca Club was severely trounced by the Genuang Cricket Club, on Sunday on the Padang. R. A M. Stradling collected a brilliant lli and then retired. Getting runs fre< l\ all round the wicket,
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    WIMBLEDON WORM WAR
    153 15 Thousands of worms are dying m order that Fred Perry may defend his Wimbledon lawn tennis championship on a perfect court. As you read these words the work of distruction is going on. "We soon got rid of the flies." Mr. William Coleman, head groundsman at Wimbledon,
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    "TAKE THE STRAIN! HEAVE!"
    64 15 "TAKE THE STRAIN! HEAVE WITH the latter command, two police tug-o'-war teams from "C" Division and the Marines, pulling m the heats at the Singapore Depot sports on Saturday, tugged away and then tumbled backwards over one another as the inch-thick rope snapped m the middle Four other teams had
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    GOLFING EVENTS
    100 15 GOLFING EVENTS Leeds. June 13. Richard Burton beat Matthews by 3 and 2 m the thirty-six hole final of the Yorkshire Evening News tournament. Matthews was brilliant m the morning aid became four up with a score of 73 to 76. In the afternoon Burton made an amazing
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    729 TICAL DIVIDEND AT BANGKOK
    67 15 (From Our Own Correspondent' Bangkok, June 17. The end of the racing season at Bangkok w;s marked by the fact that seven races out of ten produced thrilling finishes and on one race a tote dividend of 729 ticals was paid for one Aye tical
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    MALACCAS MALAYA CUP TEAM
    61 15 Malacca, June 16. Malacca's team Icr Saturdays Malaya Cup match against Singapore will be selected from the following Abdullah bin Haji Bachee: Choc Soon Lee ;A de Silva. Goh Jit Sin: Hassan bin Arshat Ismail: G A Kessler; Leman: Low Ah Sang: R P Leon: J.
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    BOY SCOUTS RACE
    150 15 The Singapore Boy Bcoiltl Local Association's annual message carrying race was held on Saturday over a iour-mile course around the Farrerj Park and Balestier Plain. This competition is open to junior Troops, i.e. Troops lrom teeder schools, and the shield known tt the Braddell Shield is awarded
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    HANDICAPS FOR FRIDAY
    379 15 Skye Meeting At Kuala Lumpur THE handicaps tor the first day of the Se] angor Turf Club Summer Skye meeting on Friday, are as tol lows: Rarr I Tonics: Clan- Div. 2. 4«, fur*. I 30 I* ."VI Anaronda 10-10. Movalong 10-0 Iconic 9-13. l.ady Nr In
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    SELANGOR ASIATIC SIDE
    79 15 From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 15. The following have been invited to represent the Selangor Asiatic side that will meet the Combined Servic.s team on the padang on Friday: Kam Pak; See Hu and Kai Ban; T Mori. Taib. -\nd Jahn Mohamed: Mahmood. Ismail. Henry.
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    NETBALL
    33 15 The netball match played bei ween the GSC and Raffles Girls School netball team on Monday was won by Fi'afne.s Girls and not by tho GSC as stated m our Tuesday's issue.
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    MIDDLESEX FAIL TO SCORE IN FIRST DIVISION MATCH
    547 16  -  Nimrod Police Win Anson Rd. Game 1 -Nil REGIMENT OFF FORM Standard Of Football Only Mediocre By Police 1 Middlesex Regt 0. 'THE Police surprised the Middlesex Regiment yesterday m their First Division encounter. They comparatively easily held their own and were
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    GOALKEEPER-THE HERO
    288 16 GOALKEEPER- THE HERO S.C.FwA. Beat Medicals S.C.F.A. 11l 2: Medicals 1. OAK TONG. Government Ser- vices goalkeeper, was the hero of yesterday's third division match between the Medical Services and the Chinese third string. Quick on his feet, he stopped shots with safe hands, and it is to him that
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    LAWN TENNIS
    60 16 Result Of Play At Tanglin DLAY m the Tanglin Club tennis tournament yesterday resulted: GRIFF CDF Marriott and Bateman <ow.> beat Godfrey and Tyer 'plus 2' 7 5. 2 5, 6—4. Open Mixed Doubles Mrs. Baughan and Knight beat Mr and Mrs. Jemmett 2-6. 6—4. 6 4 Mr.
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    WIMBLEDON DRAW
    180 16 London, tune 1* The Wimbledon draw resulted: Top quarter Perry ana Grant, second Quist and Budge, third Austin and Alli.on. fourth Crawford and Von C:amm. In the first round Kho Sm Kie meets G. P. Hughes, the second quarter winner meets Wheatcroft or Lesueur, Choy meets D^lcastillo I
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    HOME CRICKET
    146 16 The iollowing are details of home cricket supplied by Reuter: At Manchester Lancashire and Middlesex played a draw. Middlesex 114, Lancashire 110 for 6. At Horsham Warwickshire beat Sussex by 5 wickets. Sussex 233 <Cook 95. Santall 5 for 59 > and 109 (Mayer 7 for 51 Warwickshire
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    FRIENDLY SOCCER
    122 16 Cricket Club Seconds Score 1 Goal In 7 Seven goals were scored on the Padang yesterday m the friendly soc--1 cer match between the second strings Of the S.C.C. and the R.E. and the club's share was just one goal. The match revealed no redeeming feature. The standard
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    YACHT RACING
    193 16 Events Drawn For Week-End f\N Friday, there will be the usual afternoon Races starting at 5.20 p.m. On Saturday June 20. there will be a Women's Rae^ for the Santry Challenge Cup starting at 4.50 p.m. On Sunday June 21. the "B" Class will sail the 2nd Race
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    BADMINTON
    207 16 The dr.w for the Ladies Junior Doubles Championship will take place at 230 p.m at he Clerical Union Hall on Saturday, 20th. Inst. Inter-School Championship: The closing date of this competition has been extended to noon on Saturday, any school which has not entered can do so at once,
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    SOCCER MATCHES POSTPONED
    70 16 2nd Division It is notified that the match H.M.S. "Terror" versus Marine Department, fixed for Thursd iy. June 25. has been postponed, and will be played at Anson Road Stadium on Thursday, July 2, at 5.15 p.m. .*>rd Division The match Indian Recreation CUib versus Medical Services
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    HUNT CUP RESULT
    41 16 The Hunt cup ran today at Ascot over 7 furs, resulted: Guinea Gap 1. Voltus 2. Rose Crag 3. I Won by length and ft length. 31 ran. Betting 28 to 1, 33 to 1. 33 to 1.
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    221 16 i Confidence Of Contestants New York. June 17. ALREADY .over £100.000 sterling has been taken for the Schmolin'. Louis fight tomorrow. Despite th? recent rain, the weather report for the contest, which will be heid m the open air at The Yankee Stadium, is favourable and a
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