The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 18 August 1937

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AM) DAILY NEWS. NO ifi.'Mll ESTD. 1X35 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937. 10 CENTS.
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    Deep Concern In Britain
    362 1 COMMENT BY ALL NEWSPAPERS BKl TAINS dei-p concern lor wargen Shanghai and its imphca ,jred in the immense HNKC and literary pag.s m th- ast talks and dM features a tendency In political :.d editorials to regret that not made sufficient efforts Dl the situation deteriorating
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    Japanese
    25 1 t.ENKKAL SCGIYAMA, War Mm Mer of Japan, seen speaking in the Diet in Tokio. which during a reeenl mteting discussed the situation in Cbina.
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    Dramatic Evacuation Scenes
    249 1 Dramatic Evacuation Scenes ALL aboard tho Rajputana when she left for Hong Kong yesterday afternoon, were happy to be away from Shanghai but woe anxious about friends and relatives left behind. All were badly scared during the journey to Woosung. although the White ?nsi?n ?av3 them a sense of :ity
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    UNCHECKED FIRES RAVAGE SHANGHAI
    924 1 Lines And Pootung Ablaze City's Day Of Raid And Counter-Raid Leaves Fiery Trail JAPANESE EOMBS WRECK RAILWAY JUNCTION TWO BIG FIRES ARE BLAZING IN POOTUNG AS 1 ITS LEGACY FROM YESTERDAY'S JAPANESE AIR BOMBARDMENT. But not all yesterday's destruction was done by Japanese warcraft. Darkness revealed
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    CHEAP FARES FOR REFUGEES
    44 1 Japanese refugees from China wiil be accorded half -fare privileges on Government-owned and private railway lines effective today, the Ministry of Railway has announced. The reduction will be made upon presentation of the evacuation certificate issued by consular officials Domei.
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    First Britons Under Fire
    227 1 JAPANESE CONTROL IN NORTH THE first Britons— a handiul attached to the Settlement police station near the northeast limits of Shanghai 1 were under fire during the afterneon when Chinese troops pressed the Japanese back in a furious onslaught The Japanese resisted strongly but were forced
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    Chinese Beaten To Death By Suspicious Mob
    165 1 *T*WO Chinese were beaten to death ond six were injured by a mob which suspected chem of poisoning public tea urns on behalf of the Japanese. Scores of Chinese refugees who were beseiged overturned and tried to seize two lorryloads of rice in
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    Ironic Touch In League Agenda
    68 1 London, Aug. 17. f EN EVA provides an ironic touch by announcing the agenda of the next council meeting. The first item, entitled "Gift to the League," relates to Japan's offer of €2,000 in respect of their participation on technical committees. The League rapporteur who
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      52 1 IS- TONIGHT COCKTAIL DAHCE 6 .30 to 8.30 p. m. DINNER DANCE (informal) 9.30 to midnight POPI'I \R -AHARET ENTERTAINMENT THE WALLABIES twuunmm sensational whirlwind tumbling act XI so IRISH JIG BY BERYL AND LITTLE MARIE, AUSTRALIA'S SHIRLEY TEMPLE IMPERSONATING "DIMPLES" Non-diners 00 RAFF LES ORC HESTRA directed by Dan
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    20 2 vs. photo). An incident durinfc play in yesterday's first division match when the RAF. beat the Police seven-one. Free Press
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    HOME CRICKET
    226 2 Wet Wickets In County Matches London. Aug. l~ Home cricket results as cabled by Reuter are At Dover, Kent beat Somerset by 85 runs Kent 134 tWellard seven for 62) and 427 for eight declared (Woolley 193. Todd 114). Somerset 346 (Cameron 160) and 130 At Bradford. Yorkshire
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    Additional Money For Shanghai
    85 2 I y NDER cover of darkness last night, $500,000,000 in bank notes of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, previously withdrawn from circulation, were landed on the French Bund, rushed from Hong Hong aboard the Maron. Ounng to the abnormal demand for cash arising out
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    INSURANCE RATES
    110 2 Substantial Increases For Eastern Trips London, Aug. 17. SUBSTANTIAL increase.* in insurance rates on cargoes for the Far East are announced by Lloyd's underwriters. For example, voyages to and from Shanghai and Yanetse ports are three per cent including war risk or ten per cent, including war risk
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    AIRMEN BEAT POLICE BY SEVEN GOALS TO THREE
    450 2 Losers Fail To Last Pace In Anson Road Match R.A.F 7 Police 1 AFTER doing well in the fira twenty minutes, the Police gradually cracked up and were soundly beaten by the R.A.F. at the AriM.ii Ruad Stadium yesterday in a first
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    Death Roll In Shanghai
    145 2 •yHOSE killed in the Shanghai bombing im hide A. I). Williams, British, chief accountant of the North China Daily News, Prof Robert Reisihauer. American, of Princeton University, and Dr. Frank Kauiinson. the British-horn American missionary, and Mr. Montague Smith, a British employee of Imperial Chemical Industries.
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    Law Notice For The Day
    52 2 Law Notice For The Day Before the Acting Chief Justice in the Ist Court at It a.m. Summons-in-Chambers in Suit No 993/33— Daisy Aioozoo and on. vs. Amelia Aroozoo <md others. Before Mr. Justice Home in the 2nd Court at 10.30 am. Assizes: —Rev vs. Kav-ena Ismail Sahib and Kaveno
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    BRITAIN NARROWLY BEATS GERMANY
    61 2 White City At athletics Great Britain beat Germany by 69 points to 67 in a thrilling finish, the result of the contest depending on the result of the medley relay in which Brown. Britain, covered the last half-mile in 111-2/10 seconds Britain won all the track
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    Statement Of U.S. Policy Expected
    159 2 Statement Of U.S. Policy Expected Roosevelt and hull in i:oivfi:kem;e New York, Auff. n. AN important statement concerning United States policy either by the President Roosevelt, or the Secretary for State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in regard to the Far Eastern crisis is imminent, according to the New York Times. The
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    SHIRLEY'S DANCING IMPROVES
    155 2 Dimples" At The Alhambral Has Good Appeal So long as Shirley Temple remains the lovable child that she is. her pictures will always be a box office draw. There was no exception to this at the Alhambra yesterday, when "Dimples a 20th Century Fox release, had its
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      225 2 Less Profit For Ipoh Tin Co. BUT DIVIDEND INCREASES (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Aug. 17. r\IS APPOINTMENT is expressed in the City that the total income of Ipoh Tin Dredging Co., Ltd., for the year ending Mar. 31 last was only £92.910 compared with £114,321 in the previous year.
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      127 2 Diary Of I The Day The Tides High Water 8.58 am 7.2 ft 7.45 p.m 8.2 It. Sport Soccer SCC. vs. Chines? (Div I), at Stadium. H.Q. RAF <TO> vs. HK. Bank at Clerical Union. Cricket YMCA vs H Battery, ar BM. Tennis: S C.C. vs. S.C.R.C.; Tanglin 1 V
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    ALL ABOUT MALAYA 'S COPRA BUGS
    345 3 ALL ABOUT MALA YA 'S COPRA BUGS Local Scientists Study Pests: Night Life Of Insects (Free Press Special) HUNDREDS and hundreds of Malayan bugs, of all sorta and size, which attack copra are discussed in a Department of Agriculture bulletin published in Kuala Lumpur. The report which is the work
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    TATTOO MAY BE ANNUAL EVENT.
    70 3 A BIG military tattoo by the Singapore garrison may become an annual event. The display to be given at Farrer Park on August 27. 28. 30 and 31 is the first to be held here since 15>2b. Annual tattoos will quickly earn for Singapore the
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    MASSED BANDS AS TATTOO FEATURE
    249 3 This Month's Big Military Show 1 THE music of the bands of three 1 infantry battalions and the massed pipers of the Royal Inniskillins Fusiliers and the Gordon Highlanders will be a splendid feature of the big military tattoo to be staged at Farrer Park
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    DRIVING LICENCE 9 MONTHS EXPIRED
    88 3 A notice sent by the Traffic Police to the owner of a motor car that was driven without a rear light a'ong Orchard Road, on Ju'.y 13. led Albert C. Robertson of Goodwood Park Hotel, to appear before Mr. L. C. Goh in the fourth
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    MOTOR-CYCLE AND MCYCLE COLLISION
    53 3 Mai Sang Chew, ot tho Luid BtagapofY, was taken to j ny imbuiunce yestotflaj in ou condi*:>n following a betwecfl his irotor cycle and bicycle »n Lavender Street, near iaacttan of JTUan Besar The other ta.<en to hosoital. Ml KCBf Chew resaineu conscious- ■Bttal and no
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    6 MONTHS FOR MALAY WITH BAD RECORD
    75 3 This man is a police supervisee and has r»ine previous convictions." said Court Inspector Hamilton in the second police court yesterday when Mr. F V. Duckworth convicted a Malay named Ahmad bin Bachee on charges of fraudulent possession of property and possession of
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    Alleged Re-Registering Of Mortgaged Tonkangs
    383 3 Alleged Re-Registering Of Mortgaged Tonkangs \N elderly man, Kavana Ismai Sahib, was put on his trial at i the Singapore Assizes yesterday be lore Mr. Justice Home and a common jury on three charges ol 1 criminal breach of trust in respect of three tongkangs, which were mortgaged to thc
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    48 3 MR. B. GURNEY, assistant general manager for the Texas Oil Company in Australia, who is visiting Singapore on his way back from America and Km >pe. He arrived in Singapore accompanied by his wife and two children by the Nederland Line, (tiristiaan lluy- gens yesterday. Free Press photo
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    Former Hotel Clerk Surrenders To Police
    213 3 Former Hotel Clerk Surrenders To Police I^HOO Kheng Hoe. a Chinese clerk formerly in the employ oi Raffles Hotel, appeared before Mr. F. V. Duckworth, in the second police court yesterday when a preliminary inquiry into a proposed charge of falsifying ac- counts was begun. Mr. S M Arathoon. the
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    GERMANY AND ITALY AS MEDIATORS?
    49 3 Mcs-ow. tag. > The London correspondent o! the Soviet Tass agency reports, that Mr Eden has proposed to Germany and Italy that they should participate In mediation between Japan and China. These proposals evoke great surprise in London, particularly because Germany is Japan's ally. Tass
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    57 3 THE ITALIAN Army manoeuvres, between the iled and Blue mechanised divisions have just been completed ever 2!>o miles of mountainous country in the North of Italy. The Duke of Aosta. General Pariani, War Secretary, and Marshal de Bono are here seen watching the big parade of troops in Milan at
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    THE WEAKER SEX?
    93 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Ma 7 acca, Aug. 17. An excited crowd in Kampong Pantei, Malacca, one of the busiest thoroughfares of the town, witnessed an infuriated Chinese woman in the thirties belabour a tall, hefty male compatriot, with a wooden clog. None of the interested pedestrians,
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    98 3 was at one time employed by the accused. Marican was asked to allow these tongkangs to be registered in his namp and when he refused his services were stopped. Muttiah Chettiar. the proprietor of the moneylcnding firm in question was the first witness called and was examined at length, and
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    DAYLIGHT STABBING AND ROBBERY
    77 3 Shortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon a Chinese, a dea'er in se-cond-hand goods, walked into the Tanjong Pagar police station and complained of having been stabbed and robbed. He was b'.eeding trom a wound in the left side He said he was walking along Trafalgar Street
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    BAN ON HORN-SOUNDING AT NIGHT LIKELY
    132 3 Municipal Committee Agrees To Police Proposals ONE of the major disturbers of Singapore "s sleep, the unnecessary horn-tootter will find his opportunities greatly untailrd police proposals to restrict horn sounding at n.ght. already agreed to by a majority of Municipal Com nuttce No. 1.
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    BREACH OF $400 WORTH OF JEWELLERY ALLEGED
    79 3 A TAMIL named Vythilingam Vanriayar. v?H known in the local Tamil community, was produced before Mr W G. Reeves in the third court yesterday charged with havin» committed criminal breach of trust in respect oi jewellery valued at $400. tht property of one
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    CHINESE TRADE FAIR TO BE POSTPONED?
    81 3 Should the war in Nor'h Clum n>htinuc MmlMlled, it may be MOMHtff to po-stpon- Ihe DpeolOC '>' thr 'IMurd Annual chine.se Trade Fail achedaled to bej?in in Ortoh*r Xl thf Om( Pifli I i.s imderstxid that, 9WlB| I filit'.es in Btamstial PhnnihmJ Met chants
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    WORKING DAY IN GERMANY
    50 3 Acoocdlns to i report a 'ho Prague newspapers, tin* hi- id of ItW Pje>Bureau ot the OcffßUl .Ministry <»l labour. Mm pecentlf HMMKid officially the toith u:nn,", OOMUMMI decree providing lor f 'v <»flwi«l i»r> longation o! the vorfcing c!ay n Cermany t ■> tea IMNKI
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      52 3 To BELAWAN DELI (SUMATRA.) Reduced same vessel return tickets now available. Singapore Lelawan return Ist class $80/Interchangeable with Straits Steamship Company, for first return sailing of the ss Kedah 1 to Singapore, after arrival of X.P.M. Steamer at Belawan. For particulars apply to: K. P. M. LINE, FINLAYSON GREEN, SINGAPORE.
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    HE WAS AFRAID TO CROSS A STREET.
    181 4 Lo<t His Nerve After 12 Months' Agony SufTering from acute rheumatism in both his knw joints— treated in hospital twice without result so unnerved that he was afraid to cross a street -hew readily every rheumatic sufTe'Pr w'll sympathise with this man. Read
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    Financial Opinion
    585 4 Financial News IT Is unfortunate that there is no Marshalsoa Prison available for the incarceration of the leading Ministers of wilfully defaulting debtor countries. The representatives of Greece would have been th-re some time ago. Few countries have shewn a greater disregard for the decencies of international financial
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    IN THE BRITISH PRESS LAST WEEK
    688 4 Review O i Views Daily Express ARE you having an Fi^lish breakfast? Bacon and c?,gs and all that? Breakfast certainly, bit probably not English. ihr Denma'k issues its agricultural export figures to make you doubt. Thev report that we bought all her bacon. iwothirds
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    FOREIGN NEWS
    788 4 A TEAM of physical-culture experts are swimming 1.000 mites in easy stages from Russia's Arctic port oi Murmansk to Moscow. They set out a fortnight ago and have now swum the White Sea. They will continue along the White Sea Canal and then, along a number o* rivers,
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    HOME NEWS
    672 4 FAR-REACHING measures to improve the livuig quarters ;md conditions afloat of officers and reamen In British merchant vessels and to abolish "sea-slums" will shortly come into force. Th^se improvements have b?en agreed to after a joint inquiry lasting sev -n y<\i! I by the Brard of Trade and
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      143 4 The r\^p^ I\l-Z y ANNUAL THE PREMIER ANNUAL OF THE FAR EAST Will contain several full pq&es of coloured prints pio tonally portraying the infinite charm of Malay.i Several full-pa^e colour plates depicting the vivid beauty of I Malayan life aiui 'landscape. i\ lj» These plates will be splendidly V
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    AIR MAIL PICTURES FROM EUROPE
    207 5 TWO Ml KBUD AND FIFTY INGOTS of gold, weighing about one hundredweight, arrived in llßilHilrt recently from Paris and were deposited in the National Bank of Rumania. The gold b being loaded on to a lorry outride the railway Nation in Bucharest. Him M.I HIS
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      53 5 PARKINSON'S J/M CELEBRATED JM CONFECT!OHER)J| I Ye Old Treacle Humbugs 1 Ye Olde Mixed Fruit Drops A\. *CJ Old Fashioned Butter *'*^V V> J V^Ni^ 1 Drops. JL **^^W >>^^^^^^-^^i Englisfi Doncaster Toffee wrAh\. Royal Doncaster Butter English Rum and Butter I t fJ\f&f\ PHONE: 5376 (4 Lines) i iii
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    Equipment For Jungle Film Arrives
    97 6 Equipment For Jungle Film A r rives II 77/7 10 tons of the most up-to-date, portable, light and sound equipment ever built to go on location for filming jungle scenes, the reynainder of the technical party for the making of ''Booloo" in Ma ay a by Paramount arrived yesterday/ by
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    54 6 IB FILM Vi!;n who will make the Malayan jungle picture, "Booloo," photographed lofOUMf when the M. M. Jean Laborde arrived yesterdty morning hanging the last three of the unit. From left: II de Sou/;i <:tnimais>. Kegl (sound), John Buroh (assistant riirrrtor). Bfn Wetzler (second cameraman), Carl Berger (head cameraman), and
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    Inspector Admits Report Was Only Hearsay
    316 6 THAT a report made by a police inspector which was th? resu't of his investigations and which was put in as an exhibit was not evidence and was mereiy hearsay was alloged by Mr. T. C Spenser Wi kinson. defending counsel, to Mr. H.
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    WILL GIRDLE WORLD
    290 6 AUSTRALIAN ENVOYS OF THE SESQUICENTENAKY Will Pass Through Colony CTR Keith Smith, who. with his brother, the late Sir Ross Smith, was j the first airman to fly from England to Australia, may pass through Singai pore next February as one of Australia's two envoys in a
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    108 6 DEX STORY, well-known throughout the East as a comedian-impress-ario, will arrive in Singapore shortly with his new troupe of performers comprising ten exceptionally talented artistes, inc.uding seven beautiful girls, who are seen above. Mr. Story, comes to Singapore after particularly successfu! engagements in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila where "The
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    HEALTH PROPAGANDA IN RURAL ASIA NEEDED
    300 6 Psychology I n Reforming Village Dwelierj Bandoeng, Anf« 15. THE URGENT need ior the orranised dissemination among rural Asiatic communities of health and sanitation propaganda was stressed at the Bnn'oenT Health Conference by Sir Mirza Ismail, chninnan of the Commission on Rural Construction. Co-operation
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    ARRESTED SWEDE DISCHARGED
    74 6 Car! A'bert Eklund. a Swede, who was arrested on a warrant and charged with bigamy, that on June 26, 1934. w.iile having a wife he went through a form of marriage with another woman, was charged by Mr. F. V. Duckworth in the second court yesterday. Court
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    $1,000 BAIL FOR CHINESE
    76 6 Charged with having imported into th.° Colony, at Thompson Road, regulated textiles of 5,875 yards of artificial silk without a licence on Aug. 9, a Chinese named Sin Ah Lee appeared before Mr H. A. Forrer in the Criminal District Court yesterday. The accused claimed trial
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    NAVY OFFICER DISMISSED HIS SHIP
    368 6 21 Whiskies In A Morning 'I lEUTENANT Commander John Edward Caffin. of the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes, was sentenced to be i dismissed his ship and severely reprii marded by a naval court-martial at i Devonport. He was found gui'ty of being drunk on board
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    MIDDLESEX TO LEAVE ON FRIDAY
    134 6 MIDDLESEX TO LEAVE ON FRIDAY A bout im mi Thr Middles, n i tjcfii ordered toHoti pencv measure m crisis, are lik» v tthe Blue Funnel Battalion ord< i.evening by tIM Lt -Col. O H Id on. that the battali<>n 1. families, wi 1 pi on or about Friday The
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    P & O. LINERS TO MISS SHANGHAI
    166 6 P O. LINERS TO MISS SHANGHAI German Boats Omit Call OHANGHAI will be omitted as a port of cal' by P and O. liners while it jis a theatre of war As far as is known in Singapore, most of the other mail liners are still scheduled to call there.
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    FEDERAL COUNCIL MEETING
    68 6 •m Our Own Kuala Lmnpui lug It is exneeted that missmmr 'Sir s lenlon T make an am; si ufTs duti<s at the F< Meeting on Aug 26. ;n i the promise he rr. i S B. Pnlrner who ifl urged reduction .>: Apart Irom this an<
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    GEN. SUNG CHEH YUAN TAKES A HOLIDAY
    34 6 Gen. Sung Cheh Yuan, who recently resigned from the command of thr 29th Army, has gone from Paoting to Hokien in central Hopei for a holiday Domei
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      121 6 fight the common r* J *M 4f ->#^^^*fc SCUM w e all know by now that a defence m&«- agajnst coughs and colds is to use a WP^r f really efficient mouthwash and gargle Jr^ regularly. Dettohn is the modern weapon against mouth and throat infection. jp Gentle as Dettolin
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    PEIPING UNDER COMPLETE JAPANESE CONTROL
    281 7 "Our Enemy Is Lawless Chinese Army WITH ttic entry of Japanese troops into Peiping, China's nt capital found itself iin,i,r rompletr Japanese military i iinutioii. mint the Japanese n.iiumcl warned against \uth its "tactical opera- •>: whether such parties dmah or organizations.' the id, "violators
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    Full Pay For Conscripts
    84 7 JAPANESE FIRMS AND ARMY Most Japanese commercial and industrial firms are maintaining on full pay the members of their staffs who have been drafted for service with the Army in North China, a War Office survey showed. Less liberal are the Government offices, which have placed
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    S.C.C. WIN DOUBLES IN KLINEY CUP
    168 7 Chinese Lead By Two Matches To One Playing exhilarating tennis. N. S. Wise and Roy Smith, the S.C.C. doubles Dair. very convincingly beat their opponents the two S.C.R C. players. Yong Loon Chong and Tan Huck Toe, in two straight sets 6 2. 6—2.
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    Y.M.C.A. CRICKET
    68 7 The following are selected to play cricket for the V.M.C.A Junior Depart mem against the 7th Heavy Battery today at B^akang Mat! at 2 p.m K. Leembruggen (capt.J. Suratta bin Ibrahim B. S Varma, J. B. Shaw Tan Guan Kiat. M. F Koholoff. E. E Ebert B. M.
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    Ramona Wins Second Guillemard Trophy Race
    623 7 Ramona Wins Second Guillemard Trophy Race THE second race for the Guillemard I 1 Trophy was sailed last Sunday morning under what were probably the I most thrilling conditions of the year. J The start was in a Mght and fluky south-easterly air with a heavy storm I iin the
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    GUNNERS BEAT S.C.C. II
    185 7 Margin Of Five Goals In Padang Match The 11th Anti-Aircraft Battery. R.A had no difficulty in beating the S.C.C B" 6 l in a friendly game of soccer on the padang yesterday. They scored four goals in the first half, then the c»ub came out of
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    YESTERDAY'S TENNIS AT TANGLIN
    183 7 Tics Drawn For Play Tomorrow Results ol yesterday's ties in the Tanglin unnis tournament were WOMEN'S DOIBLES HANDICAP Mrs. Elphick and Miss Owen (+2) beat Mrs. Coltart and Mrs. Gregory »scr.» 6—3. 10—8. Mrs. Percival and Mrs. Streeten i) beat Miss Robinson and Mrs Watherston <
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    MUSICAL COMEDY AT CAPITOL
    114 7 Fred Astaire And Ginger Rogers Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire appear as a team again in "Shall We Dance." a delightful RKO musical comedy that started at the Capitol last night Built on much the same lines as the earlier Astaire-Rogsrs successes. "Shall We Dance" nevertheless
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, AUGUBT 18. 1937. Malaya And The Crisis
    596 8 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, AUGUBT 18. 1937. Malaya And The Crisis CINO- JAPANESE hostilities must inevitably have an important influence on Malaya, a large section of whose population is so closely linked with China, and while Shanghai and the Yangtse is a theatre of hostilities the situation ha.s o
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    Divided China Has Helped Japan
    1439 8 DELATIONS between China and Japan during the past GO years are discussed in these concluding extracts from a popular book on Oriental affairs, "The Problem ot the Far East" by Sobei Mogi and H. Vere Redman, and published by Gollancz (London 55.) Earlier extracts were
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    395 8 TTHERE are considerable difficulties in presenting the news of the China crisis in a form easily understood by all the Singapore newspaper public Large numbers of people. Chinese. Japanese and European, understand the significance of every happening; they know Shanghai almost as well as they know Singapore,
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      59 8 AFTER ALL mere la case tor the pedestrian, writes a motoring correspondent. It is usually made of polished oak with brass handles. There is a very strong case for covering your car with a GAFLAC MO TOR CAK POLICY G ENFRAL ACCIDENT FIRE V LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION LTD (Incorporated in
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    Big Finance Inquiry In Canada
    71 9 Big Finance Inquiry In Canada To Pave Way For Reforms Ottawa, Aug. 16. 'THE Prime Minister of Canada has appointed a commission to .eport on financial relations between the Doninion and its pr&--v mces. The Comnnss'on is of the highest importance as. in fulfilling its task it will pave the
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    50 INJURED IN BIG CALCUTTA RIOT
    44 9 Calcutta. Aug. 16. were injured and 100 arrested ir. a olxsh with police breaking up a marching to the Town Hall In connection with socalled Amans' Day r^lHbrjted throughout India in sympathy with hunger-striking prisonhe penal Islands- Reuter
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    NO IS. DESTROYERS FOR BRAZIL
    38 9 The proposal for the United States iHtfOfdl to Brazil Ls definitely postponed, following a conference Kb Cordell Hull and the Aruba&sador. Senor Ecpil. It is red unlikely Congress will conmeasure when reconvened. Reuter
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    ESCORTS FOR FRENCH SHIPPING
    31 9 ESCORTS FOR FRENCH SHIPPING On account of recent attacks on "rgu .v>K in the Mediterranean the uthorities at Btzerta have del u> provide nuvuJ and aeroplane I French merchant ships Reuter
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    CREATOR OF "BULLDOG" DRUMMOND" DEAD
    21 9 CREATOR OF "BULLDOG" DRUMMOND" DEAD Jeath is announced in London >ut Colonel Cyril McNeile, who 'Sapper." th*» rrr>atnr nf Riilirintr Reuter
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    SENATOR BLACK AS NEW VS. JUDGE
    27 9 I 13 to 14 votes, the Senate JudiCommittee approved the norn of Senator Black as a member Suprtrne Cour r Reuter
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    22 9 ;a.MP LEADER NEVILLE: "Wkai do you u,ant. fellows'" DAVE THE TRAMP i "N»#*fc» We're tvauhin 1 %*hat you puts in thai pot."
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    Japan Approves U.S. Peace Plan
    69 9 Washington, Aut 16. TpWENTY-FOIR more nations, including Germany, Italy and Japan, have now formally approved Mr Hull's enunciation of I'nited States' peace policy which was approved by 3? other nations last week. Japan's reply expresses concurrence, and adds that Mr. Hull's objectives are only attainable
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    Polar Airmen May Be In Alaska
    177 9 Polar Airmen May Be In Alaska Are Soviet Aviators Still Alive? THERE is no real anxiety for the Soviet trans-polar fliers. In the opinion of the Soviet Embassy, it is thought the airmen might be forced down in some region between the North Pole and Alaska. The latest reports from
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    BRITISH EXPORTS: JULY RECORD
    56 9 British exports in July were the largest for seven years, totalling £47,569,000 compared with £50.746.--000 in July 1930. They increased by £3.196.000 compared with June and £7.483.000 with July 1936. Imports for July reached £85,505.000. a decrease of £2.611,000 compared with June but an advance ot
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    GERMAN PLANE FLIES THE ATLANTIC
    33 9 The German plane. Nordmeer. landed at Long Island Sound completing her ftrst survey of the Atlantic from Horts, Azores, where she was catapulted from the mothership Schwabenland. Reuter
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    U.S. Monetary Policy & "Hot" Money
    160 9 U.S. Monetary Policy "Hot" Money NEW TWO-POINT PROGRAMME Washington, Aug. 16. TTHE United States Govern- ment will seek international acquiescence, or co-operation, between now and the next regular session of Congress, of its two-point monetary programme towards discouraging the influx of "hot" money, and establishing a permanent type of gold
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    Raffles Pupils Pass London Exams
    122 9 Raffles Pupils Pass London Exams List Of Singapore Successes The following students passed the London City and Guilds Examination held at Raffles Institution in April. Machine Design— Grade 1 Patrick Boon. Maurice O. K. Simmonds. Chan Chin Koon. Edwin B. Carlos. P. Kunju Sankaran. Structural Engineering Final (Second Class) Foo
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    FASCIST TROUBLE IN SOUTH AMERICA
    52 9 Rio de Janeiro, Au?. 16. Fifteen persons were killed and 30 wounded in a clash between police and a crowd o r 10.000 at an Integralist (Fascist) party meeting at Campos where the police dispersed a crowd with machineguns. The infuriated crowd subsequently manhandled the
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    REVOLT IN ASUNCION: NEW PRESIDENT
    38 9 Asuncion, Aug. 17. Dr. Lalva has been sworn in as President in succession to Col. Franco who resigned after the bloo'less coup d etat. It Is ret>orted Col Franco has been arrested.- Reuter
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    Big Floods In India
    66 9 Lucknow, Aug. IG. t\\ I H 2,000 villages in the United Provint-es are either completely submerged or segregated, us the result ol flooding of seven tributaries of the Ganges by incessant monsoon rains. The suffering caused by loss of hie, and damage to property, is heightened
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    Big Insurgent Offensive At Santander
    107 9 Big Insurgent Offensive At Santander PARTIAL SUCCESS CLAIMED Salamanca, Aug. 16. A BIG insurgent offensive against Santander opened yesterday. It is claimed the first Basque lines were fairly easily taken and an im- portant breech in positions near Soncillo was made, and a number of i villages occupied and much
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    R. A. F. CLERK'S FUNERAL
    551 9 Singapore Pays Tribute At Bidadari THE funeral of the late Mr. George Grant Gray, chief clerk at the directorate of works at the Royal Air Force, Seletar, took place at the Bidadari Cemetery yesterday afternoon, and was very largely attended. The Rev. Father Gauthier officiated.
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      LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS & SHARES
      483 10 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES Last Night's Quotations Front London 5.30 p. m. Aug. 17 Share of £1 denomination unless Yesterday Previously otherwise stated reversion Loan, 5 p.c. 1944-84 113 113 Funding Loan. 4 p.c, 1960-90 110% 110y 2 War Loan. 3»/ 2 PC 100 100 Com. Union Assce.
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      183 10 i Aug. 13. 14. 16. American Can Com H0 3 4 109% 108 American Telephone and Telegraph 17U 170% 170V 2 Atcheson Railroad 82% 81 V 4 Chesapeak 52 52 l 4 51 2 Dupont ItSft 164l 2 164 34 3 4 34| 4 34%| GlllWiri Electric
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      61 10 Aug. 17 Gambler T.T. S 8.00 White Cube 15.00 Jiamburg Cube 15.00 White Muntok Pepper 17.q0 Black Pepper 9.75 Copra.mixed 5.50 Copra, sundried 5.80 Small Flake Tapioca 4.00 Rice Saigon Al $185 Rice Siam, W.C. No. 1 $175 Rice Siam, W.C. No. 2 $165 Rice Siam, W.C.
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      Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association
      93 10 Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association Aug. 17, 12 o'clock noon Buyers Sellers No. I.X.R.S.S. in cases (FOB. Aug.) 294 29 3 4 Good F A.Q. in bales (F. 0.8. Aug.) 28 8 29 8 No. I.X.R.S.S. (Spotloose) (awardable Singapore) 29», 4 29 2 August 29% 29% September 29% 29 3
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      187 10 From London 5.30 p. m. Aug. 17 RUBBER: Steady London: 8 Il;l6d 8 13i16d Previously: a 11 I6d 8 13 16 d Oct. -Dec.. 8"?/ 3 d. 8 1516 d Previously: B%d. 8 15j16d Jan. -Mar. 9d. 9 l|l6d Previously. 8 1516 d 9d. Apr-June: 9 116
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      63 10 From London L atest Quotations TIN: Firmer Cash: £266 17s 6d Previously: Easier at £265 5s Thi-ee months: £264 17s tid Previously: £263 17s Gd NEW YORK TIN: 59 75. Previously: 59 62 COPPER: Settlement €57 2s Gd Previously: £57 os GOLD: Saturday: id 19s 6d. Previously
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      Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations Aug. 17
      84 10 Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations Aug. 17 Method of Parity before Latest PreCentre Quoting 20-9-31 Rate vlously Paris Franc to 124.31 132 13 16 132 13 16 New York to 488 4.98 7 16 4.98 3 16 Amsterdam Guilders to Is. 2 15 16d Is. 2 7 B d.
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      LOCAL EXCHANGE RATES
      203 10 I Yesterday's Singapore Quotations Aug. 17 selling London. T.T. 24 1 16 London, demand 2 4 IH6 London. 4 months' sight 2.4 Lyons, demand 1540 Switzerland, demand 250 Hamburg, demand 142 New York, demand 58 3 16 Montreal, demand 58 x 8 Batavia. demand 106 3 16
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      Daily Share Report
      233 10 ISSUED BY FRASER AND CO. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY MINING. Tin at midday was $130 94, down The tone of the London Stock Exchange was reported to be quiet and the tendency is for lower prices under the influence of the Far Eastern situation. There
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      SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser and Co. 's List
      1221 10 SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser and Co. 's List From Exchange Telegraph Co. TUESDAY, AUG. I?, 5 P.M. MINING Buyers Sellers Ampat Till (4s> 6s 6d 7s Asam Kumbang 36s 37b Austral Malay it* 58s 60s cd Ayer Hitam (ss 34s 9d 36s 6d Ayer Weng ($1) 1 35
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    Mr. Ormsby-Gort "Grilled"
    75 11 Mr. OrmsbyGort "Grilled" Geneva, Aug. 4. U today Mr. OrmsbyCoionial Secretary. ;ai inquisition by the Commission cm the tfr? Palestine Man- ill two years. sked the Commission a matter of urgency. in for partitioning th-3 Ar. b Hid Jewish States lei today wished to li any. the ManBritain* was responsible
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    NO TREATY RIGHTS IN SHANGHAI
    62 11 I Policy In North China rights authorish troops to Sh.irm~nan of the Japanese admitted in an inter|o press correspondents r he said "an B China and Japan of peace and wM -h China has Bade in reply to > whether Japan would kn ronner t
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    MANILA COLD SHARE MARKET
    40 11 Manila. \un. 17. Previous Today's Lis' Sale La.st Sale Prices Prices 0 76 0.75 Pesos unquoted 10 25 0.64 096 09»> 0 69 0.69 i r ions are supplied 8 E Lew md Co., of Sin-
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    MALACCA V.C. NOTES
    152 11 'From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Aug. 15. SECOND -LIEUT. C E. P.. Darby is appointed O.C. 'A' (M.G.) Coy.. with effect from Aug. 9. vice Capt R. W. Watscn-Hyatt on leave. e e e e e e Lieut. A J Minjoot is granted sick leave from Aug.
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    LONDON VIEW OF TIN PRICE PROSPECTS
    464 11 August Rise In Stocks Antici pated n Correspondent) London. An?. 10. I :,<>ndon Metal Exchange p -rock Exchange are d in the contradicvhirh have arrived ipore and Kuala Lumpur oni crning the effect of Valley drought upon tin production. s have suggested the i
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    Winning CONTRACT
    382 11 Winning CONTRACT S^Vv^CAJ^&JU* David Burnstine, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby and Howard S&henken, world's leading team-of-four inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence. CONTROL SHOWING •yilt' natural slam-bidding methods ot the Four Aces system make it a very easy matter to show not only first.
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    LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE BOOM POSSIBLE
    666 11 Liveliest Bank Holiday Market For Years (From the Fiee Press Correspondent) London, Aug. 6. BUSINESS on the London Stock Exchange during the week vhich include^ August Bank Holiday is usually exceedingly meagre, and the tone of all markets extremely weak. This year, however, precedent has
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      289 11 HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. (Incorporated in the Colony of Hong Kong) The liability of members is limited to the extent and in manner prescribed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1R2!) of the Colony. Authorised Capital $50,000,000 Issued and Fully Paid-up.. $20,000,000 Reserve Fund: Sterling £6,500,000 Hong Kong Currency $10,000,000 Reserve
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      500 11 CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. AUSTRALIA AND CHINA (Incorporated in England by (Royal Charter) Paid up capital in 600.000 shares of £5 radi C3.00n.0n0 Reserve Fund .000 000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors CS.OOO.fHtf) HEAD OFFICE: 38, Rishopscatr. London, F.( 2. Agencies and Branches. Alor Star licilo I Rangoon Amritsar Ipoh Bangkok
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      284 11 RADIO PROGRAMMES FOR TODAY SINGAPORE 1.333 kc/s (22.5 m.) p.m. 6.00 Chinese music. (Teochew records). 7.00 Dance music (records* 7 30 Time, weather, news and announcements. 7.50 Organ and piano recital. I records). 8.15 "Princess Ida'' by Gilbert and Sullivan. 8 50 The news and announcements, relayed from London. 9.15
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      149 11 AIR DEFENCE BUREAU IN TOKIO The enactment next year of the Japanese anti-aircralt ttefOMt law is now being drafted. A Bur?au of Aerial E>elence will b" established in the Home Office Dr Eiichi Baba Minister of the Interior, announced in the House of Peers Domei. 6.20 Alfredo Campoli Trio. 6.50
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    WARNING TO SHIPPING
    150 12 Owners and masters ol shipping are lequester to keep their vessels as clear > of the range as possible during the 'machine gun practice, which will take place from Telok Paku <Chan<>i Area' 1 on Aug. 23. and 24. at 9 am and Aug 25. and 26.
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    LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
    73 12 SPLIT OPEN AMIDSHIPS from Keel to bridge, the Belgian Channel steamer Princesse Marie Jose, with 750 holidaymaker* aboard, was raced to Dunkirk and beached in the outer Harbour with onl> seconds, to spare. The ship collided with the 6,WW-ton c%rgo ship, dan MacNeil while on her Hvay
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    127 12 The lollop; wharves or < East Wharf Entrance «...i» i M Kiangsu 20 Main Wharr Entrance <..«!. ,ut Ginyo Maru 18 Boud lion 14; Mr: Kashima Maru 7 Empire Ikn-k Intian.t Karoa liv, HlvcMraln Empire Dock Kudaix. «.,i, j u( Uoegh BUverligl Crefeld 48 West Wharf Entrance (.at,
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    702 12 LONG PASSAGE BY SMALL MOTORSHIP Clyde Built For Canadian Owners London. AN ocean voyage of 9,600 miles under her own power by a motorship of 199 gross tons was successfuly completed last month, when the Lady Silvia reached Vancouver. B.C. She proceeded via Las Palmas and ihe Panama Canal without
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      509 12 mmmmW*^£Wb%y%{ Jft Fortnißhtly sailings to Victor!* ■^T53SkS^?H*» Rnri Vancouver Direct or vl» Wm *~*XttW& Honolulu shlp l s-sidc rail conwFi T^^mm SfrWF- nections at Vanmuver. This time r^> via Canada book 7 Mm W^ y° ur Passage on Canadian Pacific m\ JpWl^*^^ grcai, white Empress of Japan I j^- ,y/
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      558 12 Local And Foreign Mail Dispatches And Arrivals j BY TRAIN Bangkok every Saturday 7 p.m. Thursday 7.15 a.m. Swettenham, Taiping and Telok Anson: Weekdays* 7 p.m. Kota Bahru, Kuala Krai Thurs. and Friday* 7.45 a.m. Sundays 7 pjn. Kuala Lumpur and Penang: Weekdays* 7.45 a.m. and Sundays 7 p.m Maj&ka,
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      212 12 VESSELS ARRIVED Ban Ho Leong. Chin.. 210 tons, from Palembang 17. to Palembang 19 Merkus. Dut. 595 tons ♦ram S. Pandjang 17. to Tarempa 19 Kampar. Brit 499 toni. irom P Dickson 17. to Muar 16. Upis. Brit., 460 tons, irom Malacca 17. to Malacca and Muar 17. Hoegh SilveTligrit.
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      17 12 SIBAJAK The Rotterdam Li arrive alongside tin Ml Friday at 7 a.m .l-.g Europe at M am
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      705 14 K. P. M. MAETSI'YCKER— Wednesday. Aug. 18. Batavia. Semarang, Soerabaia Part Moresby. Samarai. Rabaul. Port Villa. Noumea. Auckland. Wellington and Sydney. M KASSER— Wednesday. Aug. 18. P Samboe, Poelce Kidjang, Sapat. Tembilahan. Poeloe-Pallas, Pengalian-Estate and Rengat. THEDENS— Wednesday Aug. 18. Munlok and Palembang. TOGLAN— Wednesday. Aug 18. P. Samboe, Toengkal,
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    505 15 WILL "KLINE Y" TROPHY IMPROVE TENNIS Victory Will Be Main Objective Of Clubs Competing THE COMPETITION IS EXCLUSIVE FREE PRESS WEEKLY SHORTS GOSSIP OIMIAPORK tennis enthusiasts have a lot t<» thank the energetic secretary of 3 tlit* Malayan Lawn Tennis Association, Mr. H. I). Kleinmann, for this season uiid many
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    414 15 Is It A New S. A. F. A. Rule? Cup (Competition Problem (BY SIMKiMi, 'PHE latent -tcp b> the Singa- pore Amateur Football Asmm ution. in connection with the Singapore (up competition is likrly to prove embarrassing. Havt any oi you ever read in you" Association rules or heard yet
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    KLINEY CUP TEAM FOR TODAY
    55 15 KLINEY CUP TEAM FOR TODAY The SRC and V M.C A. teams for Kliney Cup match at the SRC btca chosen as follows SRC. N A Hannav and R H «»"üblrs n A Hannay and G A YM.C.A. G Haridas and H Kamis will r h^ singles and doubles Noo
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    315 15 Middlesex Departure The League (BY NIMKOD) rLs with considerable regret that soccer enthusiasts view the premature departure of the Middlesex Regiment from Singapore to Hong Kong The "Die hards"— fine sportsmen!—had an excellent chance of finishing within the first three in the I Singapore league, while they were among the
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    M.R.U QUASHES RUGBY TOUR OF BURMA
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    562 15 (By Surf Rider) MEN and women swimmers from all over Singapore will meet at i Fort Canning pool this Saturday for the biggest aquatic event of the i year: the 18th annual championship swimming carnival of the V.M.C.A. Recognised in this country as the official
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    113 15 The following have accepted to play cricket for S C.C vs. Combined Schools on Friday at r > p m and Saturday 21st at 2 p.m. on S.CC ground Lt. W D H Duke. A C Crowder P. W Holt. L A Hygate. C G Jenner. G H
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    482 15 Fahmy 's Lesson In Finer Points Of Ringcruft /^UNBOAT JACK gave a brilliant exhibition of th«- liner jx>ints of -1 boxing at the Happy World last Saturday s/hcfl Me dearly outpointed ttse Egyptian middleweight champion. Mohamed Fahmy Youth and strength had to bow before long
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    236 15 The Fret- Press understands the Japanese Olympic Council has written to the Japanese Club in Singapore inquiring whether the Singapore or Malayan Ilocke> Association are affiliated to the parent body in Paris. The Singapore Hockey Association is affiliated SI the Association of England, hut this may not
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      83 15 which i s v r h 1 b frf\c io i e r r f in t h i o 4 r A quarter of an hour to go before dmnerj waiting for the couple who are alway. late, sippmg a Martmf, looking over, your; glass at someone you have
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    601 16 Century For Hardstaf f Vivian Saves N. Z. From Collapse PAGE INJURED AND OUT OF MATCH EARLY London, Aug. 17. PNOLAND retained the Ashes today when the third Test L« finish* I up in a tanie draw. Robins declared England's
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    ENTRIES FOR SINGAPORE GOLD CUP MEETING
    1201 16 Several Newcomers To Local Track Nominated rO HUNDRED and thirty nine horses and ponies have been nominated for the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting, which opens on Saturday week. All of Malaya's best horses, including several new-comers te the local track, will be
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