The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 24 September 1937

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS. no. u.in ESTD. 1835 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. IfITT 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    THOUSANDS DEAD IN CANTON AIR RAID
    496 1 Japanese Slaughter In Chinese City: Scenes Of Horror WORST BOMB ATTACK IN MODERN WARFARE A Chinese "Guernica" VIVID EYE WITNESS STORY OF STREETS OF DEATH Massacre Of Civilians THOUSANDS of people were killed in a series of devastating Japanese air raids on Canton yesterday.
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    21 1 I n,m (hew Jit Pan picture from the Shanghai front before the Umn withdrew It their new defence lines last week.
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    BRITISH HORROR AT "MASS CRUELTY"
    587 1 Savagery Barbarism Despite Japanese Assurances London. Sept. THAT the terms ot the JapaMM re- ply to th<» British Rota about Uw Hugessen Incident j I ae Governnen» n regarding the incideir -s «lhe opuuuu al the Conservative Press' which, howvpr. express** deep on&rn re? ftte
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    Bombs On Sun Yat Sen Memorial
    97 1  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Canton, Sept. 13. AN 'official report. i*W*sed by the Canton headquarters, admits that a portion of the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall was destroyed hy a Japanese bomb today. Damage was als<» done to the waterworks at Tanfu, a northern
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    Troops Pay Homage To Emperor
    51 1 Shanghai, Sept. 23. AT dawn today, Japanese troops ceased fire for ten minutes and turned their faces in the direction of the Emperor's Palace at Tokio, paying homage to him on the occasion of the Autumn Festival of his Imperial Ancestors. Fighting was then resumed.
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    56 1 cam -r ama n called. I HIS UNION JACK. 12 feet deep, is being painu«d on the side of the British freighter (ilenshiel, which is lying in Singapore harbour. Similar precautions are being fa 1 en with most ships sailing to the chin. i war zone. The painters wire away
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    Chan Chai Tong Reception Cancelled
    101 1 Singapore Protests Sequel THE reception which was to have been held at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday, in honour of Gen. Chan Chai Tong, the former Canton dictator, was officially cancelled owing to the fact that the General was "unwell." A section of
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    NEW PLANES FOR CANTON AREA
    48 1 A late Sin Chew Jit Poll DMSage, evidently officially inspired minimises the effect of the Canton bombing, and says there were only 100 casualti \s. It is admitted, however, that new squadrons of aircraft are being rushed from the North to defend Canton.
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    Young Officers' Promotion
    176 1 Significance Of New Appointment lxmdon, Sept. 23. KEEN interest is shown in British military circles in the appointment of Lord Gort as military secretary to the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha. It is regarded as a particularly timely appointment, and Lord Gort should be
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      47 1 dfsdsdf Tonight Cocktail Dance 630 to 8.30 p.m Dinner and Dance (informal) 9.30 to midnight NEW PROGRAMME SUCCESS SZITA ANIS ONE OF AMERICA'S FOREMOST DANCE TEAMS Featuring their <a=»ous and sensational interpretation of a Russian Dance OUTSTANDING CABARET ENTERTAINMENT Non-diners Sl.OO. RAFFLES ORCHESTRA Directed by Dan Hopkins
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      90 1 dfsdf SEA VIEW W HOTEL SATURDAY (formal) SPECIAL DINNER DANCE I DINNER DANCE MI'SIC BY THE I RELLER BAND NO AFTER DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE TONIGHT: rellers band being engaged to play at THE AOELPHI HOTEL FOR THE "C" SCOTTISH COY. SVC. DirNER-DANCE. THERE WILL NOT BE THE USUAL DINNER-DANCE AT
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    500 Manchukuo Troops Mutiny In N. Chahar
    211 2  -  Sin Chew Jit Poh Japanese Killed Shanghai, Sept. 23. CIVE hundred Mamhukuo troops mutinied at Changpei, in North hahar. yesterday and killed the Japanese director of the Special Affairs Department. Several Japanese officers are reported to have been kidnapped by the mutineers according
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    Siam Entirely Free From Cholera
    42 2 i From Our Oicn Correspondent). Bangkok, Sept. 23. CIAM'S 14.000.000 population has been declared entirely free from cholera cases and deaths for the first time since December. The figures released are for the neck ending Sept. 18.
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    Malayan Trade Increases
    181 2 August Figures MALAYA'S trade revival during the past 12 months is well illustrated by the August statistics published last night. Malaya's total trade during August was 144.405.000 compared with 1 $95,139,000 in August 1936. This brings 1 Malaya's trade for the year up to $1,095,733,000 compared with
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    £8,000 DONATION FOR ST. GEORGES
    40 2 London. Sept. £3. A donation of £B.COO has been made towards the building of St. George's Hospital. Westminster, by Mr. Harry i Oakes. This will enable thp rebuilding operations to begin next year,— British Wireless
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    Rawalpindi Passengers
    461 2 The following are passengers for Europe in the Rawalpindi leaving Singapore today. Sqd Ldr. and Mrs. J E. If. Bainbridge and child, Mr. H J. Barnard, Mr. J. M. Baber. Mrs. W. L. Blythe. Mr A W H. Binney. Mr. R. A. Birch, Mr Barren. Mr. and Mrs.
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    P. & O. LUXURY LINER LAUNCHED
    64 2 P. O. LUXURY LINER LAUNCHED London, Sept. 23. Counters Cromer today launched the 20.000-ton P. and O. liner, Strathallen, at Barrow-in-Furnoss. This liner will be the biggest and the most luxurious of the P. and O. Company's rapidly expanding fleet. The P. and O. and its associated companies last month
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    27 2 DANGER FOR AIR FORCE Grogan (Middlesex) steps sideways but White (Air Forte) heads away quickly in the iinal of the Warren Shield yesterday. Report on page 16.
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    Italo-French Move And Great Britain
    166 2 Italo-French Move And Great Britain Better Outlook For Coming Talks London, sept. 0. p'REAT interest has been aroused here oy Press reports from Geneva that Signor Bova Scopper, the Italian permanent delegate to the League, called yesterday on the French Foreign Minister, M. Delbos, and reviewed the whole range of
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  • Letter To The Editor
    • Letter
      Chinese Critic Of B.M.B.C. Opera
      379 2 Chinese Critic Of B.M.B.C. Opera BROADCAST IN A HURRY To the Editor of the Fiee Press. Sir,— l tuned in last night to Singapore and heard Othello from the Credo onwards, and after listening to the way the records ware handled I feel constrained to write a few words. I
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    • Letter
      RABIES INQUIRY
      88 2 To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir. Hundreds oi dog lovers in Singapore would like the following information regarding the dog responsible for the present rabies scare: *1> Where did the dog come from?' >2> Whether it came from an infected area? (3> When it arrived here?
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    Endeavour I Located
    102 2 200 Miles From Azores New York. Sept. IS. MR. T. O. M. Sopwith's yacht, Endeavour I, was today located 200 miles south-west of the Azores, according to a coastguard official report. The Endeavour broke adrift in a storm iast week while being towed across the Atlantic after
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    NEW CHAIRMAN OF T.U.C. CONGRESS
    78 2 London. Sept. S3. Mr. H. H. Elvin has b?en chosen as next years chairman of the Trades Union Congress. Secretary of the National union of Clerks and for a number a member of th? general council of the T.U.C., he is well known abroad not
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    BRITISH INSTRUCTORS FOR TURKEY
    60 2 London, Sept. 23. The Turkish Government have engaged two British air force officers. Wing- Commander A. S. G. Lee and Squadron-Leader S. McKeever as instructors at the n^wly formed Turkish air force staff college. Contracts, which are to last for three years, with the possibility of
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    27 2 H.E. the High Commissioner has, with the concurrence of the Kedah State Council, awarded the Efficiency M-edal to Corporal Thomas Edward Upton, of tin- Kedah Volunteer Foroo.
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    Law Notice For The Day
    49 2 Law Notice For The Day Before the Acting Chief Justice at II a.m. Summonses in-Chambers and Originating Summonses. At 2.15 p.m. in Ist Court:-! Sum-mons-in-Chambers. Before Mr. Justice Home in the Znd Court at 11 .i.in. Bankruptcy. Before the Ag. Registrar at 10.30 a.m. Fixing list of civil cases.
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    PLANES BOMB FORTS ON YANGTSE
    50 2 A Reuter message last night reported further air raids in the Nanking district. At 6 p.m. 30 Japanese planes started bombing the stongly fortified Kiangyin forts where the Chinese have erected a boom defence across the Yangtse river. No details are available, it is stated.
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    SITUATION VACANT.
    28 2 British lady required as Assistant Teacher (certificated) at Children's School, Royal Air Force Station. Seletar; Commencing salary $230.00 per month. Apply in writing to Officer Commanding.
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    SITUATION WANTED
    40 2 Ex public school man, age 36, seeks position as planter in Singapore or K.L. district, or executive position of trust. Good organiser. Read and write Malay tiuently. Excellent references. Apply Box 65? care of Singa- Singapore Free Press
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      355 2 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Muzzle your Dog With a Grafton Muzzle. Obtainable from MEDICAL HALL, LTD. 3, Battery Road. BOARD RESIDENCE SEA-FRONT KATONG GRANGE— 77, Meyer Rd. (near Swimming Club) Board-Residence at moderate rates Large Gardens Tennis. Phone: 5758. j THE MANSION, OXLEY RISE NGN-LICENSED RESIDENTIAL HOTEL Daily and monthly terms. TEL.
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    STOMACH TROUBLES ENDED AT 62.
    217 3 Thanks To Chardox— The New Driitflesj* Remedy. twenty y t -ars she suffered with ...u h veiling worsi all the time. she tried one remedy i ithout success. Yet at if* ol 62. h*-r digestion is greatly a. M d .-.he is aDle to *?at
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    EVERY DAY IS FLAG DAY IN SINGAPORE
    113 3 PVtftY day is Hag day in Singapore now. OMmM girls anxious to collect money for the China relief fund are to be seen daily in the streets and at the amusement parks selling paper rs CunVt* -shop waitresses and barber girls are selling
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    STOLEN JEWELLERY RECOVERED
    75 3 From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Sept. 23. Smart work by the Negri Sembilan branch ot the police was relb.e lur the recovery of the major portion of the jewellery which, together w:th cash, was stolen from Tanah Merah estate lert-ntly. The local police put special detectives on
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    G.O.C. VISITS MALACCA
    28 3 The General Officer Commanding, Malaya will leave by car for Malacca tomorrow He will drive to Mersing on Monday and return to Singapore on Wrdnesdav
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    Chinese Woman Fined $750 For Forgery
    304 3 CONVEYED PROPER TIES IN MOTHER'S NAME AN elderly Chinese woman. Ho Ah Foon. who plsaded guilty at the Singapore Assizes held on Apr. 28 last. to a charge of abetment of forgery and two further charges of forgery, appeared before Mr. Justice Home yesterday
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    Counsel Objects To Police Questioning Witness For Defence
    350 3 MURDER CASE POSTPONED TO NEXT ASSIZES QTRONG objection to the police questioning a witness for the defence was raised in the Assize Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Home, when the case in which Yeo Hock Cheng stands charged with murder was mentioned.
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    MALAYAN MISSION TO CHINA FkONTS
    48 3 CINGAPORE Chines* leaders pro- pose sending a Malayan mission to the Shanghai and North China fronts to eonsole wounded soldiers and tell the fighting units that the Malayan Chinese are doing their best to raise funds to assist war sufferers and wounded men.
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    Singapore Chinese Women Making Bandages
    115 3 Singapore Chinese Women Making Bandages OANDAGES for Chinas war wounded are being made by Singapore Chinese women. Cloth and lint is being distributed en Sunday evenings from the Singapore Chinese Consulate -Gtneral to those who are willing to assist by making bandages. Singapore Chinese women have collected nearly $6,400 Straits)
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    DAILY INTERNAL AIR SERVICE NEXT WEEK
    62 3 Malaya's internal air service, which has been operated thrice weekly between Singapore. Kuala Lumpur and Penang for nearly three months by Wearne's Air Service with the De Havilland Dragon R-apide Governor Raffles, will on Saturday be increased to daily, except Sundays. The second De
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    RED CROSS FUNDS MAY BE AMALGAMATED
    59 3 In view of the widespread campaign among Chinese in Malaya to collect Red Cross funds for China, all Malayan funds may be amalgamated into one Fund A meeting of Chinese from all over th? Peninsula is to be held on Oct. 10 at Kuala
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    DUNEARN RD. DEATH: ONE ARREST
    51 3 Arrested on Wednesday morning, a 25-yeaf-old Hokkien. named Tei Yew Huat. appeared in tfhe Singapore Second Court yesterday in connection with the death of the letterwriter whose stabbed body was found off Dunearn Road. A postponement of a week was allowed on application of the
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    PASSENGERS BY AIR
    183 3 The following were passengers by Dutch planes: Arrived lrom N.I. by KNTLM plane PK-AFK Sept. 21: Mr. Chang Hsiang Huo. Mr. Lee Chile Chi. Mr. R. Armour. Left for N.I. by KNILM plane PKAFK on Sept. 22: Mr. G. Wehry. Mr. C. A. H. Schuak. Arrived from
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    Appeal Against Conviction
    184 3 FOR ATTEMPTED EXTORTION FAILS TAN KIM YAN, clerk in charge of inward oar goes of the Messageries Maritimes, and Tan Eng Hin, superintending clerk of Singapore Harbour Board godowns one to five inclusive, are each to serve four months' rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of $300,
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    RAFFLES LIBRARY
    208 3 The undernoted newly added nonfiction and fiction works will be readv for issue tomorrow Shakespeare and Costume, Elustrated, Cumberland Clark; Three Worlds. Carl I van Doren; Science Front, 1936 Gerald Heard; Peter Lee, Jack Lawson; King Wren: The Youth of Henri IV, Heinrich Mann; Thy Neighbour, Illustrated, Lord
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    THIRTY PHTHISIS DEATHS LAST WEEK
    99 3 A death-rate of 21.58 a thousand a year was recorded in the Singapore Municipality last we?k, compared with 24.38 in the preceding week and with 26.08 in the corresponding week of last year. Phthisis, which claimed 30 victims, was th? *hief cause of death last
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    33 3 THE 10,000 TON CRUISER H.M.S. DORSETSHIRE, left Devonport dockyard for a years commission in the China Station. Ihe Couimander-in-chief Plymouth Station, Admiral sir Reginald Urax. is seen inspecting the crew before they departed.
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    SINGAPORE NURSK LEAVES FOR CHINA
    81 3 10 Men Cio To Join Army \fiss y™ Choo Lam, a 15-few-old Chinese yirl totiu was formerly a nurse in the Singapore General Hospital, and ten Chinese men, left Singapore yesterday for China to enlist for active work. Miss Yeo will join the ambulance troops
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    Resisted Son's Arrest
    204 3 Resisted Son 's Arrest SENTENCE VARIED ON APPEAL (From Our Own Correspondent Jnliuir Bahru, Sept. 23. STATING that it was proper to bind them over under the circumstances as this was their first offence, Mr. Justice Mills in the Supreme Court yesterday set aside the sentence in. posed by the
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    27 3 Heralded by the tiring of crackers and followed by bands the funeral of Mr Lau Sam Lai, a prominent local merchant, took place at Seremban on Wednesday
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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      120 3 VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL Under the Distinguished Patronage of H. E. The Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, g.c.m.co.b.e. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd AT 9.15 P.M. THE SINGAPORE MUSICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS HANDEL 'S ORA TORIO "JUDAS MACCABEUS" PRINCIPALS IDA KINLOCH SOPRANO DOROTHY MACLEOD- .CONTRALTO HAROLD HAINES i TENOR RICHARD CAUNCE BASS FULL CHORUS and
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  • WOMEN'S INTERESTS
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      WAGES FOR WIVES?
      1023 4 Fin Money Women— What Godfrey Winn Thinks. n.HAT are your vieus nn the at-sorbing iop:c of wages for ivives? Should a woman give up he* maternal duties in order to gain o 'it'le extra pin moniii? 1 am not out to start a controversy, writes Mignon. Social
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      KEEP THE PEACE AT BREAKFAST TIME
      511 4 A Wife With Brains Can Humour The Worst Table Tyrant C"VKN the BK»t perfect husbard becomes a tyrant at the breakfast table. He 10 variably <• looses breakfast time to thow thr worst sid.' of his nature. Ii devolves open ttuperfeei wife to il
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      Fingernails Go Gay
      66 4 Fingernails Go Gay ]W|°Sl (it it Ufc 1 I Ik,' u\>* disc:- ••;!>■ null ur <t di the day un. MM 11 in. i i i i. hew A ut'v. eolomd I > r-s.-mblr th conception al i nocess:ir\' :v.':n the nail In t!u> i n varnished red tip It
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      196 4 DOCTORS AMAZING DISCOVERY RESTORES YOUTH k V TO FADED |M WRINKLED 9P^| P| A ienoa Medii Jonrn. the late t tiiump.i of h^s the ij.im oi unnJ kou. ih*\ >i a i.t tt'tiu t M ewn prandmot: frf.«,h < lt-.»i orai-li'Mon ol ptfkood W<* unwni;kUd j»km oj youth i\ h.ir
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    Aga Khan's Presidential Speech To League
    231 5 THE AGA KHAN addressing the League of Nations Assembly for the first time since his election as Presiden ol fhc V^e^ibly TIIF LORD .MAYOR OF LONDON, followed by the Charter Mayor of Roniford Councillor C. H. Allen, inspects the Guard of Honour of RE\s
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      87 5 On sultry days the mere sight r of a large hot joint wi!l often r destroy appetite. Cooked Corned Siivertide, COLD COOKED Pr ed 6 f cooked MEATS Ham, Windsor Sausage, make a pleasant and satisfying contrast, and will be much ap- PretSed UX TOttgUe, precial^d. Cut from tender juicy
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    MAN ON MURDER CHARGE SENT FOR OBSERVATION
    132 6 Certified insane Shortly After Aiieged Offence ON the application of Mr. Paul Storr, Crown Counsel, at the tatac Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Home, Wee I.} i* Tenf. who stands charged with murder, was sent for observation. QHORTLY after the alleged of- fence
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    "WAR WILL WELD CHINA INTO UNITY"
    153 6 "WAR WILL WELD CHINA INTO UNITY" Italian Finance Counsellor Here (Xti his way back to Italy. H. E. Signor Albt rto De Stefani. High Counsellor of the Chinese Government, arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Lloyd Triestir.o Conte Biancamano. Signor de S'efani has just finished the task allotted to him
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    SEREMBAN NOTES
    91 6 From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Sept 23 Mr. Goh Eng Thye. proprietor of the Negri Sembilan Aerated Water Co.. and Mrs Eng Thye. who went on a holiday to Rangoon, have returned to Seremban TP TF V Mrs. J R. Sta Maria and daughter of Seremban. who were
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    $170,000 For Red Cross Fund From N.S. Chinese
    102 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Sept. 23. A LTOGETHEI? $170,000 in Chinese i currency has been remitted to China for the Red Cross Fund by the Negri Sembilan Chinese and more subscriptions are coming in daily. Recently $90,000 was sent This was
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    MALAYS WANT TO RE SOLDIERS
    130 6 Chance To Join Regiment Valuable field training has been done by a company of the Malay Regiment at Taiping. The company will leave on its return to barracks at Port Dickson on Tuesday. Malay youths continue to show great interest In flie Regiment and enthusiasm
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    13 6 IHE DIKE and Duchess of Kent a* C'roydon aerodrome, following their continental holiday.
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    SELANGOR BEAT MALACCA DANCERS
    72 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 22. Selangor beat Malacca in the interjt.Jte ballroom dancing final. The winning team comprised MLss Jenny Khoo, and Mr. Khoo Hong Chow. Miss Violet Lje and Mr. Michael Tan, Miss Ivy O:i and Mr. Yep Mook Ki:n, Miss Corothy
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    YORKSHIREMEN'S DINNER NEXT MONTH
    51 6 ECngftpore Yorkhirem^n will unite it the tenth annual dinner of the .cciety cf York.shiremen in Malaya to be he'd at Rafftes Hotel at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15. The president of the socizty is the Hon. Mr. A. B Jordan. Secretary for Chinese Affa.rs in
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    SEREMBAN WEDDING
    53 6 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Sernnhu:!, Si pt i3 The marriage tock place recently at Seremban of Mr Chun Chee Wong of the Seremban Police Dept son ol Mr. and Mrs Chan Boon Cheong. and Miss Lee Cbee Yoong at the Negri Sembilan Chinese Miners Attociatlon Hall, where a
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      248 6 I 6 One of the world's I greatest transport I OlffC* sf AIYI6 J^ HIS SPONTANEOUS TRIBUTE TO ■^Utjlwllld IMPERIAL AIR W AYS APPEARED 04 'NEWS WEEK, A WELUCNOWN I AMERICAN NEWSPAPE* I Since its organisation twelve years ago, Britain's Imperial Airways has been one of the world's greatest air
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      156 6 ft 4^ 4^ Doggy sensibilities, at least as tar as taste, hearing and smell are concerned, arc actual I v mow acute than human beings'. Do you realise, win n yimr dog finds an interesting scent, that be is similarly excited by interesting food r Imagine yourself getting always the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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    ACTIVITY IN BRITISH SHIPBUILDING
    346 7 Three Destroyers Launched In 20 Minutes London, Sept. 23. pIK *reat activity in British shipbuilding is marked this week by the launching of an exceptionally large number of rssrls. At Messrs. Vickers Armstrong's naval construction works at Barrow on Tuesday, three destroyers for the Argentine Government
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    India Act Repeal Resolution
    52 7 Poona. Sept. Ti. A RESOLUTION calling for the repeal of the India Act, and its replacement by a Constitution framed by a Constituent Assembly was moved in the Legislative Assembly by the Prime Minister of Bombay. Mr. Kher. a Congress member, and carried by votes to
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    BRITISH PROPERTY LOST IN AID RAID
    96 7 Embassy Staff Working Aboard H.M.S. Bee Nanking. Sept. 23. A hulk belonging to the International Export Company, a British eggpacking firm, was destroyed by yesterday's Japanese bombing of Nanking, and one Chinese workman was killed. Four others were injured. Five splinters from an anti-aircraft
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    Eastern Port Health
    437 7 Shanghai Cholera 726 Cases TPHE health bulletin ol the League ol i Nations Eastern Bureau lor the week ended Sept. 18, states that Karachi was the only port in the Eastj to report human plague during the week, two deaths having been notilied, while Colombo reported rodent
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    SIR HUGHE LEAVING HOSPITAL TOMORROW
    148 7 Health Cruise On Dutch Vessel In East Indies Shanghai. Sept. 23. Sir Hugh? Knatchbull-Hugessen told Reuter tonight thai he is leaving hospital on Saturday, and will sail with his family on Oct. 4 for a tour of the Netherlands Indies. returning to Shanghai at the
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    MANILA GOLD SHARE MARKET
    45 7 Manila, Sept. VS. Last Sale Prices Previous Today Antamok 0.54 0.55 Pesos Benguet Consolidated 9.80 9.80 Consolidated Mines 0.012 0.013 IX. L. 0.51 0.52 San Mauricio 0.51 0.53 United Paracale 0.455 0.46 By Courtesy of Messrs. Levy and Co., ol Singapore.
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    BRITISH OFFICERS AT GERMAN MANOEUVRES
    90 7 London, Sept. is. Field Marshal. Sir Cyril Deverell, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, Commandant of the Imperial Defence College, and General Sir Edmund Ironside flew yesterday in a R.A.F. aeroplane from London to Warnemuende, on the Baltic coast of
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    Still Nervous About Franc
    136 7 Continent Buys £700,000 Gold London. Sept. 23. THE Continent, still nervous about the franc and unsettled by the recent behaviour of Wall Street and other Stock Exchanges, today invaded the London bullion market, buying nearly all the £700.000 of gold which the authorities offered, fixing the
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    128 7 Scene Shifters To Produce Blrd-in-Hand Y.M.CA. Players Return w rilK Seme Shifters (The dramatic society of the Y.M.CA.) will present Bird in Hand at the Victoria Theatre next month. Bird in Hand is a play In three acts by John Drink water, and the following cast has been selected Miss
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    KUCHAI TIN DREDGE STOPS FOR REPAIRS
    48 7 During recent operations the Kuchai Tin Lbd. dredge encountered some obstacle which bent the ladder Dredging has been stopped and repairs are being proceeded with immediately. The dredge should begin operations again about the middle of next month, state the company's secretaries.
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    45 7 Berlin. Sept. 23. Replying to an invitation to participate in the discussions of the League Far East Committee, the German Consul -General in Geneva has been instructed to say that Germany "for well-known reasons" cannot participate in the deliberations Reuter
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      42 7 THE STRAITS TIMES says:— This film is one of the most thrilling seen in Singapore for some time. JILHAMBRA TONIGHT 6.15 9.15 iaughAsYo^ThnU! n^^^yl ft, m^ f SJ5 A POPULAR SUPPORTING SHORT INCLUDING PATSY KELLY IN TWIN TRIPLETS" (HILARIOUS TWO REEL COMEDY).
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      331 7 Rollicking comedy In a background of m m m u m f^ I Alpine sofiwrv. Miss Colberts artin« is DL \M I II 111 on a plane well above Hollywood aver- w mm 1^ afe. She is x born comedienne. r akji/>ut a c O 1 C S. FREE PRESS.
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    614 8 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937. Holland And Britain In The East QREAT Britain has more than a passing interest in the steps taken from time to time by the Dutch administration to provide bigger defence forces for itcolonies in the East Indies adjacent to the British colonies
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    No Cheroots Now In Valencia
    805 8  -  W. F. McDermott A Journalist In Red Spain By "THE war strikes deeper in 1 Valencia than in Barcelona. The people are graver and more anxious. There is a hurried and harassed air about the town which was not noticeable in the capital of Barcelona.
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    430 8 IWJK. J B Clark, the BBC. Empire dir:ctor, who is in Singapore this week, is probably surprised how "short-wave minded" is the radio listening pubUc in Malaya. Even though the Singapore medium wave station can be pick?d up on a low power receiver, most listeners have
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      184 8 ALLS OP PS I I eyeiy I time 1 C a I d b e ck's EiIIIAIIC r/%ifiuii9 from SCOTI AND pj|||| ro SINGAPORE DON'T BE VAGUE s Haig NO FINER WHISKY GOES INTO NY BOTTLE SOLE AGENTS JOHN LITTLE CO., LT D. (Incorporated in England). SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR. PENANG
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    "JAPANESE INVASION WILL BE FRUITLESS"
    225 9 Geneva-Bound General's View Of Chinese Conflict REAL ISSUE OF WAR A LTHOLGII they have five divisions there, the Japanese invasion of Shanghai has proved fruitless," General T. L. Tsiang a high military officer at Nanking and adviser to General Chiang Kai Shek told a Free
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    64 9 n tIORI nI I.IANS NKW PALAC K: nish architecture is incorporated i«* the desitn of the new istana oein? built foi the Sultan of Johore at Buk i* Sirene. commanding a magnificent view of the Johore Strait. THIS IS THE VIEW of the Johore Strait the Sultan and Sultanah of
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    British Measures To Check Nutrition Troubles
    359 9 MOVEMENT TO STRENGTHEN LEAGUE ACTIVITIES SPEAKING in second committee of the League Assembly, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Htalth described the measures taken In the United Kingdom on the problem of untrition. He recalled the interim report of the British Advisory Committee
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    8 9 >IK. A. EI>KX sUninjj the Nyon anti-piracy agreement.
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    Moscow Sees Works Of Blind Sculptress
    118 9 Moscow Sees Works Of Blind Sculptress THE Moscow Museum of Fine Arts has on exhibition a group of sculptures made by Lina Po, portraying seven dancers. These figures appear remarkably light and dynamic. Lina Po had been a brilliant graduate of the Kiev Ballet School and her d performances in
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    COASTAL LIGHTS TO BE MAINTAINED
    34 9 Shanghai. Sept. 23. It is announced that Sir Frederick Maz- chiof of the Chinese service, has concluded an arrangement wheneby the service of ccastal lights of China tlon. Reuter
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    "Both Sides Guilty Of Negligence "
    243 9 "Both Sides Guilty Of Negligence COURT SEQUEL TO CITY ACCIDENT AS a result of an accident in which two Europeans. P. E. Smith and E. J. P. Burley. were involved, a young Chinese Ho Choon Kiat, ffgl yesterday fined $20. in default one weeks' simple imprisonment, by Mr. L. C.
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    AMERICAN TOUR FOR GENERAL BOOTH
    52 9 London. Sept. 23. General Evangelin: Booth, chief of the Salvation Army, left Southampton in the Jiner Berengaria on a two months' visit to the United States. She will address three big conferences at New York, Chicago, and Atalanta (Georgia* and will visit Wlnnepeg and Montreal.
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    SECOND EUROPEAN CHOLERA VICTIM
    47 9 Hong Konjf, Sept. 23. The death is announced o! Mr. J. Holden, the second European victim of th? Hong Kong cholera epidemic. He was a native of Preston, and formerly in the Royal Engineers. Recently he was employed at the naval yard Reuter
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    QUEEN ELIZABETH AT WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
    37 9 London, Sept. 23. Queen El s "abeth visited the small village hali near Balmoral yesterday and attended a joint meeting of the Craithie and Birksall branches of the Women's Rural Institute. Ruter
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    Australia Gets Splendid Radio Fare
    239 9 Australia Gets Splendid Radio Fare B.BX- Chief Praises Commonwealth THE Australian Broadcasting Com- mission is doing great work In bringing out great artists to a huge sparsely populated country." declared Mr. J. B. Clark, the 8.8.C. Empire director who arrived in Singapore yesterday. T.ie proportion of radio licences to the
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    CHEATING CHARGES
    177 9 Collected Money For School Is Alleged A PRELIMINARY inquiry into charges of cheating and forgery preferred against Leong Soon Kim was commenced before Mr. W. G. Reeves in the third Singapore Police Court yesterday. Accused was represented by Mr. P. C. Nathan and evidence for the prosecution was
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    SOVIET FOOD POISONING CHARGE: 4 EXECUTIONS
    69 9 Moscow, Sept. 23. Two members of the Soviet Red Cross anti-gas division, and also two military workers, were sentenced to death today at a Baltic Fleet court martial in Leningrad for an alleged attempt to, poison the food of Red sailors. The sentence has,
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    CHINESE ACCUSED OF THEFT OF $250
    488 9 Cash And Jewellery Removed From Singapore House A LLEGED to have robbed a Chinese woman. Ong Toh, of cash and jewellery valued at $248.50. a young Chinese. Lim Teck Guan, appeared before Mr. H. A. Forrer, the Criminal District Judge, yesterday. Mr. M. Mitter
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    HAINAN TRAITORS PUT TO DEATH
    45 9 (From. A Chinese Correspondent) According to a Hainan resident who has just arrived In Singapore, seven Chinese traitors including a former manager of Mr. Tan Kah Kee's branch store at Holhow, the trading port of the island, have been executed.
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      503 10 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES Last N ight's Quotations From London 5.30 p. m. Sept. 23 Share of £1 deciomination unless Yesterday Previously otherwise stated Conversion Loan. 5 pc. 1944-64 113% 113 Vi Funding Loan. 4 p.c, 1960-90 Ill's HI War Loan. 3& p.c 100% 100% Com Union Assce.
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      200 10 Sept. 20. 21. VI. American Can. Com. 95> 4 96U 97V 4 American Telephone and Telegraph 161 > 2 160 1 161 Atcheson Railroad 6V 4 60' B 61% Chrsapoak 41% 42~ 8 42 3 8 Dupont 146 148 3 4 M**i Firestone 26 7 8 28
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      THE COMMODITY MARKETS
      185 10 From London 5.30 p. m. Sept. 23 RUBBER: Steady. London: 8 7 B d. 9d. Previously: 8 7 B d. 9d. November: 8 15 16d. 9d. Previously: 8 15,^. 9 1 16d. Jan. -Mar.: 9 1 16d. 9VBd. Previously: 9 1 16d. 9 3 16d. Apr.-June: 9
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      72 10 From London: Latest Quotations TIN: Easy. Spot: £261 ss. Previously: Quiet at £261 15s. Three months: £259 15*. Previously: £260 12s 6d NEW YORK TIN: 59.37 (Opening Price) Previously: 59 62 COPPER: Settlement: £51 17s. 6d Previously: £52 2s 6d COLD: Yesterday; £7 Os. 6d. Previously: £7
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      Foreign Exchange Rates
      75 10 London Closing Quotations Sept. 23 Method of Parity before Latest PreCentre Quoting 20-9-31 Rate viously Paris Franc to 124.21 144 1116 144 15 16 New York to 4.88 4.94 13 16 4.95 1 2 Amsterdam Guilders to 8.97 3 4 8.96' 2 897* 2 Hong Kong Per
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      LOCAL EXCHANGE RATES
      182 10 Yesterday's Singapore Quotations Sept. 23 BELLING London. T.T. 2,4 1 16 London, demand 2!4 1 16 London. 4 months" sight 2,4*8 Lyons, demand 1680 Switzerland, demand 250 Hamburg, demand 142 New York, demand 57-*'4 Montreal, demand 57 11 16 Batavia. demand 104% Samarang. demand 104% Calcutta. Bombay
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      SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
      1218 10 From Exchange Telegraph Co, Fraser and Co. f s List THURSDAY. SEPT 23. 5 P.M. Closing Quotations MINING Buyers Sellers Ampat Tin (4s) 5s 6d 6s 3d c.d Asam Kumbang 34s 6d 36s 6d Austral Malay 56s 57s 6d Ayer Hitam (ss) 33s 34s 6d
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      211 10 ISSUED BY ERASER AND CO. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY MINING. Tin at midday was Sl3O If, down Cabks from London this morning indicated that the Stock Exchange there again improved but there was not much business passing. Orders from London today were mostly on the
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      Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association
      82 10 Chamber Of Commerce Rubber Association Sept. 23, 12 o'clock noon Buyers Sellers No. IX RS.S. in cases (F.OB. Sept.) 30' 3 30% Good F.A.Q. in bales (F.OB. Sept.) 29% 29 9 16 No. IX. R.S.S. < Spotloose > award able Singapore) 30 30 1 8 October 30^ 30% Oct.-Dec. 30%
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      63 10 Sept. 23 Gambier T.T. 8.00 White Cube 15.00 Hamburg Cube 15.50 White Muntok Pepper 17 00 Black Pepper 11.00 Copra, Mixed 5.05 Copra, sundried 5.30 Small Flake Tapioca 4.50 Rice Saigon Al $175 Rice, Siam. W.C. No. 1 $16fi Rice Siam. W.C. No. 2 $155 Rice Slam.
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    RUBBER RESEARCH IN HOLLAND
    921 11 part Of International Plan To Stimulate New Uses 11l -34 the leading rubbericing countries decided to reI;: output with a view to ut a reasonable price level r .»nd latex by means of the ol equilibrium between tiid consumption It was that 'i~iat method was only
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    228 11 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. Singapore Sept. 23. 5 p.m. Total fo» Bookc Close 9nanclal jmpany Dividend To Date Ex Dlv year riN Pr.y»ole Date to daw 3% Int Sept 29 JJ Hitam Tin 3<K'« Int. Sept. 7 Sept. 27 Sept. 20 3O'/« •ar:: ,Ma 6d.
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    15 11 R.A.F. FLYING BOATS, comprising two squadrons, ordered to th«* Mediterranean to join the anti-piracy patrol.
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    UNDERLYING STRENGTH OF TIN MARKET
    836 11 LONDON PRESS COMMENT COMMENTING on the tin position, i the Financial Times writes: "The course of the tin mar- i ket during the past tew months I may have disappointed the high i hopes prevailing at the end of the first quarter of the present
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      255 11 HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION (Incorporated in the Colony of Hong Kong) The liability of members Is limited to the extent and in wanner prescribed by Ordinance No. t, of 1929 of the Colony. Authorise*! Capital $50,000,000 i Issued and Fully Paid-up $20,000,000 1 Reserve Fund: Sterling £G,b00,000 Hong Kong Currency
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      502 11 CHARTERKI) BAM Of INDIA, AUSTRALIA AMI < lIINA (Incorporated In Bnaiand uy (Royal Chart«'r> 3 aid up capital in 600.000 shares of £5 Mali £3,000,000 Reserve Fund Jl^.ooo.uou Reserve Liability of Proprietors i 3 immj.oou HKAI» OfPICB: :;.y Kislu»psK^U-, i^iuion, h<' 2. Agencies and Kran<-h«'s. llor Star Uoilo <oa \miitsar
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      515 11 RADIO PROGRAMMES FOR TODAY SINPAPORP 7 Merkelbach concert. ***** vjrixv-fivi^ g 30 piano .syncopations by ihe Nutcrackers." 1.333 kc/s (22.5 m.) 850 Rad^ play 9.21) Swing rates>. pm 9.48 Exchange rat.-s G.OO Malay music (records). 9.50 Time signal 6.45 Children's programme (English). I 9.52 Recorded music. 7.00 Piano recital by
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    41 12 THE LLOYD TRIESTTNO, 24.000 -TON. ONI K BIANCAMANO, in yesterday is the largest liner on the regular Far Fast run and has recently been rebuilt to conform with the requirements of the tropic*. Sh<* was formerly on the South American service.
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    27 12 The Nederlmnd Line R mail liner "Johan van Oldei li expected to berth Nas 4 and 5. G pore Harbour Boarc tt v and tail for l
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    CLAIM FOR $4,450 AGAINST STRAITS STEAMSHIP
    959 12 Penang Harbour lollision (From Our Own Correspondent) Peiiang, Sept. ZZ. r FHAT the onus us on the s.s. Ktdah to prove thai she was right at the time of the collision was the submission of Mr. E. A. de Buriatte, counsel for S. K.
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      479 12 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. (Incorporated In P.M.S.) TELEPHONE: Freight 5433— Passage 5431 LLOYDS AGENTS. BOOKING AGENTS FOR FEDERATED MALAY STATES RAILWAYS ROYAL STATE RAILWAYS OF SLAM. CANADIAN PACIHC i!SSSS>SXS!S!ii (Incorporated In England. THE "EMPRESS" ROUTE offers TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES via HONOLULU or direct IMPRESS to VANCOUVER— ACROSS CANADA by TRANS-CONTIN-ENTAL TRAIN without
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      172 12 RED FUNNEL LINE HEAP EN6 MOH S.S CO.. M Incorporated m Straits S'ttlemeou) REGULAR PASSKNGtK and < arf» S«*toJ from Singapore to Ja\o, Bornry, Bank* Billiluii ion it\n\i\ «-iu:kibhn SEMARANi. it.very Tunsdav and PrkUrl BAN HON< i LION NAM VONCi Ft SOLRABAYA AND BANDJEBMASH (FortiUKhtly Srrvkr) I I GIANG >
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      578 12 Local And Foreign Mail Dispatches And Arrivals BY TRAIN Bangkok every Saturday 7 p.m. Thursday 7 45 a.m. Swettenham, Taiping and Telok Anson; Weekdays* 7 p.m Kota. Bahru, Kuala Krai Thursday and Friday* 7.45 a.m. Sundays 7 p.m Kr.ala Lumpur and Penang: Weekdays* 7.45 a.m. and Sundays 7 pm Malacca,
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      260 12 VESSELS ABUVBD Ban Hong Liong Br 1.003 ton£. from Batavia. 22. to Java. 24 Ipoh. Br., 528 tons. Irom T Anson. 22. to T. Anson 25 Banka. Br.. 318 tons from Rengat 22. to Rengat. 24 Meerkerk. Dutch. 5.050 tons from Darwin 23. to P. Swettenham. 23 Rawalpindi. Br 9459
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      386 12 SINGAPORE HARbOltt The following art- m wharves or expected t East Wharf Kntrauce Cat* i\ llt Opften Hoort 21!. i- J Main Wharf Inlraii. t- < at Rawalpindi. Cur'!., go ig 3 Maru 16, G. Mount Kjrilene Bai Empire I>»m k kntrun,< < IIU Lipis 30 K xu 2 Klias
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      481 13 mm jKI-i-^-TTT^T J k S^^H '^M SsVsTiii^^^^llTfaT-si < i BY P&O and BRITISH INDIA LINES INCORPORATED IN P. O. S. N. GO'S SAILINGS, OU I WARDS !>"• Due Tonnace S'pore. Tonnage Spore. 9 37 1937 RAJPUTANA ***** Nov. 5 i-ARTHACE 15,000 Sept. 24 SOUDAN 6 500 Nov 19 BANGALORE 6.000
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      482 13 Unvaryoiatea in Straits Settlements.) ELLERMAN BUCKNALL S.S. Co., Ltd, (Incorporated in England.) "ELLERIV AN LINE" FOR UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL Steamer Due Sails x CITY OP BAGDAD Havre, London, Rdam. H'burg, Glasgow Sept. 29 Oct. 2 CITY OP PITTSBURG Havre, London, R'dam, H'buig, Glafgow Oct.
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      1061 13 P^^ REPRESENTING SHIPPING THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE (Occam Aberdeen and Common wealth IBM Steam Ship Co., Ltd., and Chiua Mutual The llua Kfiiow Steamship Co., (1922) ltd Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.) C unard While star Ltd. The Straits Steamship Co., Ltd. Shaw Savill and Albion Co.. Ltd. The China Navigation
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      694 14 K. P. M. OP TEN NOORT— Friday, Sept. 24, Muntok (passengers and mails only), and Bataviu, thence per m.s. "Ophir" to Semarang and Sourabaya. KNKKAAI. VAN DER HE YDEN— Friday, Sept. 24, Belawan-Deli. M l JER— Friday. Sept. 24, Rhio. Blinjoe, DJeboes, Soengei-Llat, PangkalPinang. Koba. Tanjong-Pandan and Batavia. TOBA— Saturday.
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      558 14 HOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE <^m/AMERICAN [MAIL LINE TO EUROPE. FROM SINGAPORE AND PENANG VIA COLOMBO. BOMBAY, SUEZ, PORT SAID. AM-: XANUK I A. NAPLES, GENOA, MARSEILLES AND NEW YORK. ..Arrives Leaves Le&VM Arrive* S'pore. S'pore. Penan*. New York. Pres. Garfield Oct 3 Oct 5 Oct 7 Nov. 16 Pres. Hayes Oct.
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    83 15 Lacey Wins Dun lop Metropolitan London. Sept. 13. THE t>unlop Metropolitan gol tournament was won by Arthu l.acey. »f Berkshire, with rounds of 71 and t>B and 70 and 67. He plord the last round with a swollen wrist due to a torn lit; i ment. Pat Mahon. of Royal
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    700 15  -  J. V. RAINBOW BY DILLIARD players generally in my experience are all for "finding things out." They want to know and learn and execute the correct stroke in the correct way. That must be for the game's good. Must be. because that
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    24 15 London. Sept. 22. Resvlts oi home rugger as cabled bj Reutsr are: Clifton tost to Bristol 3 lB Rugby lost to Northampton
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    39 15 IT has been decided to start the first race of the Selangor Turf Club autumn meeting on Saturday at 2.15 p.m. instead of, as usual, at 2.30 p.m. The unlimited sweep will be drawn on rare 8.
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    SIX-ASIDE SOCCER AT THE S.C.R.C.
    47 15 In the S.C.R.C.. six a side tourna merit of soccer played on their own ground. Jimmy's team beat T. W Ong's team by five goals to one and Seng Watt's team brat Ah Chiian's i -a in l>v six tfoals to two
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    253 15 Handicaps f*or Second Day TTHE following are the weights for five races on Wednesday next, the seccn4 day ef the Selangor Turf Club's Autumn Meeting: Horses. Class 3. Div. 2, 594 furs. Popover 9.0 Nuit d'Amcur 8.11 Miss Sardis 8.10 Rex 8.8 See You Loiter 8.7 Silver
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    JOHOKE CHAMPION RETAINS TITLE
    100 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore. Sept. 23. Yon bin Mian, for the fifth year in succession, won the singles championship in the Johore lawn tennis tournament, when he beat Wong Thian Teck 6 4, 7—5. today. P. C. Joseph and P. F. D? Souza beat A.
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    HORSE DROPS DEAD AT K.L. TRAINING TRACKS
    351 15 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 23. KUALA LADDIE, a bay English gelding, owned by Mr. A. Van Tooren and trained by J. Duval, collapsed and died at the training tracks this morning. KUALA LADDIE has been on the easy list for
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    S.R.C. TENNIS TOURNEY
    63 15 Ties for today in the S.RC. tennis tournament are: Miss Z. Clarke (sen will play Mist M. Clarke (—3). Miss H. Jenkins (+3) will meet Mrs. M. G. Eber (--30) in the women's handicap singles. J. S. de Souza and C. A. Norris <— 3i will play
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    22 15 London, Sept. 22. In th? third division (Southern League Notts County beat Bristol City by two goals to nil Reuter
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      200 15 CX UCIUI I wanted to aak you about blood poisoning. The children arc always scratching their hands and cutting their knees. And now Mrs. Edwards' boy, you k now. is in bed with a terrible leg. Tell me, is there something pleasant I could keep handy, some really reliable precaution
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      152 15 The ANN U A L THE PREMIER ANNUAL OF THE FAR EAST Will contain several full pa§es of coloured prints pictorially portraying the infinite charm of Malaya, Several full-pa^e colour plates depicting the vivid beauty of t f\ jK M Malayan life and landscape. f *J Q D m These
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