The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 4 January 1939

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS. NO 15.66«. ESTD. 183 >. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1939. 5 CENTS
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  • 149 1 National Party Plan Causes Split THREAT TO CHINA WAR BUDGET Tokio, Jan. 3. i)Kl\< X KONOYE, the Premier, who was engaged m i number of conferences at the end of the year, is Uninu' the premiership before next week-end, according to circles. Baron Kiichiro
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    30 1 picture. MR. R. H. REDWELL. leader of the party of Australian schoolboys who arrived in Singapore yesterday, meets the Rev. R. K. S. Adams on board the Koolinda. Free Press
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  • 261 1 Firmer Stand Against Japan's Aims London, Jan. 3. THE Financial News today com--1 ments: "The stiffening of the American attitude to Japanese aims m China, combined with the offer of credits for import materials, encourages the hope that those whose financial and commercial interests m China are at stake are
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  • 99 1 German Author Faces Treason Ch a rge M. r m. Jan. a. *d this morning, of vn author. Ernst Nic- companions, charged Q| high treason. The trial i .several days and I be admitted. persons arc awaiting r^ e::;xvted ta appear with t may bo tried m batches. en under
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  • 21 1 London, Jan. 2. leath w:is announced today report!, ot Mr. Frank Smith. ommlssloner for Chinese He wai 81 years of age.
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  • 292 1 Oxford Pays Tribute To China Chiang London, Jan. 3. /\N the occasion of the New Year, a letter of homage sympathy to General Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang "sharer m your continual danger' and the Chinese people has been sent by a large group of senior members of Oxford University,
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  • 77 1 HPHE first man-eating tiger to be killed m south Johore for some years was captured on Bukit Pulai Estate. Masai, which is 00 the mainland opposite Pulai Übin. The animal had previously taken a Chinese tapper. The badly-mauled head and body of the Chinese were
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  • 196 1 UNEMPLOYED TAKE COFFIN TO DOWNING STREET London. Jan. 3. Members of the National Unemployed Workers' movement, who planned to deliver a coffin with a rolled -up umbrella inside at Ten Downing Street this afternoon were prevented from doing so by police. When Big Ben struck one o'clock, a closed van
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  • 84 1 London, Jan. 3. Mr. Motague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, will pay a brief visit to Berlin today or tomorrow. He will be the guest of Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who stayed with him during his (Dr. Schacht's) recent visit to
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  • 33 1 Berlin, Jan. 3. The Danzig Senate has deprived Heir Rauschnigg, former President of the Senate, of Danzig citizenship on the ground he made repeated attacks m the city on Germany's Nazi Government.- Reuter
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  • 440 1 DALADIER GETS A GREAT WELCOME AT TUNIS Tunis, Jan. 3. M DALADIER, the Prime Minister of France, arrived here m# aboard the cruiser Foch, at dawn. A dozen submarines and a squadron of torpedo-boat destroyers joined m a welcome and a squadron of seaplanes flew overhead as M. Daladier landed
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  • 123 1 London. Jan. 3 "THE Manchester Guardian, ccmnenling on the present battle In Spain, declares that more hangs on it than the future of Spain and the lives of men deserted or deceived by those who should share their democratic beliefs. "A few months
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  • 74 1 Barcelona. Jan. 3 IT is admitted m a communique here that Italians have made .slight ad vances m the course of daylong attacks "supported by a deluge of explosives' from Granadella. to the east, upon both sides cf the Sierra Dokillcna range. The .statement add*
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  • 85 1 Salamanca. Jan. 3. A COMMUNIQUE states that Rational- ists, m the course of an advance on the Catalan front, m which they overcame all enemy resistance, yesterday captured several important positions. "The enemy suffered as great, or perhaps greater punishment, than m previous days, for they abandoned
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  • 232 2 High Expectations In German Circles NO WARSHIP RACE Berlin, Jan. 3. THE Government's reply on the points raised m the discussion between the British and German naval experts will be issued m the next few days according to an article m the Essene
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  • 75 2 New Year Brings Many Tragedies To America New York. Jan. 3. 4MERICAS New Year holiday, which ended yesterday, was attended by no less thmn 327 violent deaths, 150 of which were car smashes. An unusual wave of suicides round about New York city and a disastrous hotel Tire at Rrrmford.
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  • 103 2 Great Flood Menace In China Shanghai, Jan. 3. YELLOW RIVER flood waters, which 1 burst the dykes during December, are Inundating an area of 3,000 square miles and are now threatening another 9,000 square miles of low lying country, according to the International Famine Relief Committee. After joining the Hrai
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  • 29 2 When an RAP. 'plane from Sealand Cheshire, crashed m a field at Whitwick, Leicestershire, landing upside down m a hedge, the pilot. A. Prast, of Bushey. Herts, escaped unhurt.
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  • 295 2 AGAIN, m his iliird recital of Schumann. Chopin and Liszt, m the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore, last night, the Russian ptitntst, Alexander Uninsky, revealed that he is undoubtedly an artist of outstanding ability. By the inclusion of four works of Li.-zt, his programme was not so
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  • 231 2 U.S. Medicine's March Of Progress Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3. A VAILABILITY of low cost medical care to the poor who need it most may be the beginning of a world movement for health comparable to the upswing of art and literature m the European renaissance period, Dr. Thomas Parran,
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  • 149 2 Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 3. Police were attacked by a crowd at Montaga Bay, north-west Jamaica, following a man's dca/h m a straggle with police at a labour demonstration. The fatal straggle y curred while Bnstamente (labour leader who figured prominently m the strike last Jnne) was addressing a
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  • 415 2 $1,000,000 Yacht's World Cruise Luxury Yacht At Singapore RACEHORSE OWNER'S CRUISE lI7TTH its wealthy .American race- horse owner and financier and party of friends aboard, the $1,000,000 British-built 900-ton motor yacht. Crusader, left Singapore last night for Penang, continuing a voyage round the world. Formerly one of the biggest racehorse
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  • 130 2 Dublin, Jan. 3. MR. ROBERT BRISCOE, Jewish member ot the Government Party m the Eire Dail, is sailing on Jan. 5 for the United States, where he hopes to make arrangements leading to tne transference to Palestine of 600.00 C Jews from Germany, Austria and Sudetenland
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  • 302 2 Charges Against Lorry Driver A FATAL accident on the Ponggcl Road, Singapore, on Sept. 1. last year, had a sequel yesterday m the Singapore Criminal District Court, before Mr. L. B. Gibson, when Ong Cheng Chione, a lorry driver, began his trial. He had two
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  • 223 2 London, Jan. 3. THE retreat from sterling which 1 developed m Intensity, alter Christmas holidays continued In evidence today. With the Continental centres reopening, after the New Year holiday, the pound met a fresh wave of selling which drove down the sterling dollar rate to
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  • 289 2 Boys Here On Tour From Australia QNE of many touring v organised by the Young Aum League, a party of 39 Au schoolboys from Western Ai. arrived m Singapore on the Kouli: yesterday evening. The boys will spend a week m Sin. pore. visiting all the special pU interest and
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  • 130 2 Attacker Fires Shot While Escaping (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 3. WHEN he retumrd to his shop opposite Bukit Blntang Park lar night, the proprietor was suddenly sei7ed from behind by a man. He managed to wriggle out of his assaliant grasp and called tor help, but when
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  • 108 2 ALLEGED SHOOTING OF PRISONER BY BRITONS Jerusalem. Jan. z. THE trial opened today before Chi Justice Sir Harry Trusted und ti other judges, one of whom is a Chn tian Arab, comprising a special cour of lour Britons on a charge m co:. nection with the alleged murder of *i
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  • 82 2 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Jan. 3. Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, eminent physicist of Chicago University and Nobel Prize winner m physics m 1927 said m a lecture at North CarolinaUniversity that he believed there migM be life on Mars. "Evidence led me to base
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  • 408 3 ALLEGATIONS BY CITY TAXI-DANCERS Charges Against Wife Of Chinese Merchant 'WITCHCRAFT' STORY TWO Singapore taxi-dancers, Chhan Ah Kam, 16, and 1 Hoh Sai Kau, 19, were complainants m the hearing of a case m the Singapore Third Police Court, yesterday when Tang Sui Fan, alias Suet Ying, described as the
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  • 51 3 picture. BQTU MOTHER AND CHILD wore u grim expression when photograph ei hy the Free Press cameraman on the La Plata Maru which arrived in StegaiMte yesterday. Over 80 Tokio Japanese immigrants were en board maklag for Santos. Brazil, where they will work on the land.- Free
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  • 323 3 STOLEN GOODS RECEIVED ]UL STORY of two attempts to sell stolen jewellery to a gold and silversmith shop m Singapore was related rrlm- da y^° Mr U B Gibson Sa Criminal District Judge, when Law Koon Fong, a vermicelli seller, was tried for dishonestly retaining
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  • 207 3 HOT SYRUP DOWN BACK rUJRING the bearing oi' a case In the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday, m which a man stood charged voluntarily causing hurt to another man by pounng syrup down his back, the magistrate, Mr. C. ?u inland*, ri the complainauc m the
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  • 86 3 guilty to a charge of coing n Lschtef by breaking the glass door <>f the station master's c of the Si tvj a pore Railway Station, W. 24. ct the K.A.S C, Alexandra vUL* fined $10 by Mr. K. A Btajftpm Fourth Police it yesterday. I
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  • 96 3 AN appeal for volunteers to form a corps of air raid wardens m Singapore was issued yesterday by Mr. Edwin Tongue, the new Director of Air Raid Precautions. It is stated members of all communities, especially the domiciled communities, are urged to place their services at
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  • 56 3 Warren. Ohio. Jan. 3. lOHN HAKES dog caused him Id lose his leg. The dog did net bite Hake —It shot him. Hake, on a hunting trip, called the dog. and the animal stepped on the trigger of a gun on the ground. The shot splintered Hake's
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  • 263 3 Court Warning For Chinese P a wnbroker s 1 OURELY as n warning," three Chinese pawnb r okers were yesterday fined Z5 each by Mr. W. J. Thcrcgood, the Relief Magistrate, for failing to take due care when accepting crUcles for pawn. This action was a sequel to a case
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  • 119 3 Philadelphia, Perm., Jan. 3 'THE Board of Education will tug at Philadelphia purse strings with a moving picture depicting the bad and good m the city school system. The movie, a talkie, will include a villain named "Less Revenue" who enters the plot after healthy, happy
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  • 131 3 pOH LIANG MUI, who knocked down and fatally injured a cyclist while returning from a Singapore cabaret shortly after midnight en Nov. 10, was exonerated of blame by the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, at an inquest on the cyclist, Soh Yong Kow, yesterday.
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  • 63 3 A'leged to have bought a lottery ticket In a public lottery promoted by the Penang Turf Club, without being a member of the club, Lim Keng Kal. a 37-year-old Hckkien, appeared before Mr. K. A. Blacker, Singapore Fourth Police 'Magistrate, yesterday. Lim Keng Kai claimed trial
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  • 77 3 Boston, Mass, Jan. 3. Thomas Lucas. 40. is m gaol— his own request. He appeared beiore Judge Frankland W. L. Miles. "Your Honor," he said, "I'm under a six-month suspended sentence for larceny. I want you to revoke the sentence and sentence me to
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    46 3 picture. MAKING FINAL PREPARATIONS yesterday for the opening of the new Alexandra School by the General Officer Commanding, Malaya, Major-General W. G. S. Dobbie, and Mrs. Dobbie. tomorrow morning were Brigadier M.D. Gambier Parry (right), and Major B. St. J. Storrs, Command Education Officer. Free Press
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  • 160 3 New Muar Park Popular Rendezvous (From Our Own Correspondent) Muar, Jan. S. QREAT improvement has been made to the triangular plot of ground bordering Jalan Abdullah, Jalan Bakri, Jalan Yahya, and Jalan Maharani, since the Coronation tree was planted here by Towkay Lee Thian Soo. Formerly a bare plot of
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  • 52 3 Police bail ot $1,000 was extended when Sim So Kum. a 55-year-old Teochew, claimed trial m the Singapore Fourth Police Court, yesterday, to a charge of loitering m Coleman Street, on Dec. 31 for the purpose of bookmaking. The case was postponed for mention on
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    • 125 3 Appetites gladly respond mm **JV to the invigorating tonic properties of CHIVERS ©arc (BwUSt) MARMALADE CHIVERS fc SONS LTD.. THE ORCHARD FACTORY. HISTQN. CAMBRIDGE. ENO. I Try alto Olivers' Jams, Jelliei, Canned Fruits and Vegetables. I Agents V. R. VICK CO., Hong Kong Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE. I GEO. E. LEES
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  • 952 4 MEN WITH WINGS LIOLLYWOOD'S first air epic ever to be filmed m Technicolour is Paramount's "Men With Wings/ 1 which will open at the Capitol next change. It was produced and directed by a man who probably knows more about working m colour than any
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  • 93 4 QNE of the most novel cabaret acts to be introduced at a Singapore Hotel is that of the Prestons, roller skating wizards. They opened what should be a very popular season at Raffles Hotel last night with a dazzling exhibition skating with acrobatic variations. The Prestons—
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  • 713 4  - English men-Of The Future Joan Littlefield Britain On The Screen By IF you visit the Denhaxn Studios these days, you will be able to form a pretty good idea of the physique and characteristics of the Englishmen of the future. For schoolboy and young men types for their third British
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  • 94 4 QRACIE FIELDS has decided not to "go Hollywood"; her contract tuith Twentieth-Century Fox is not likely to run its full term She may only make "Shipyard Sally" fin March) and an unnamed film m November, 1939. Her contract called for four pictures at a salary
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  • 133 5 ■^■'*'iot-i»i&^BKo>sK'*' NELSON EDDY operate* the Technicolor camera. Je:»nette Mi.Do'Mhl. !,is rn-star m xv w tin, poses coyly. i< "Why all this attention,** questions Mickey Rooney, (picture left) not aware that the studio had not decided who was to play opposite him m a new film.
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  • 298 6 'TWO GOLDEN RULES' 9 tup «o Home, Jan. 3. pifc Regime Fascista,' a newspaper owned by Signor Farinacci, a former secretary of the Fascist party, has a leading article on how Italy should prepare for war and what her task would have been if
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    20 6 THE LIONS looked utterly forlorn and miserable m their wintry .surroundings at Whipsnade openair Zoo last week, after h?avy snowfall.
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  • 126 6 Rochester, Minnesota, Jan. 3. JLfANUEL MUJICA CARASSA, 54; wealthy Peruvian mine owner, who underwent a gall bladder operation at Mayo Clinic was reported to be resting He entered the clinic alter he, his family and his private physician had flown 4,765 miles from Lima
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  • 104 6 reabody, Mass., Jan. 3. A 25-CENT handout was credited with having averted a $22,000 City Hall safe robbery. The quarter was given by Police Captain James F. Murphy to an exoonvict who promised "valuable information" m exchange for coffee and .sandwiches money and assistance m
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  • 123 6 Varsity Man Dies Alone And Penniless Pittsburgh, Perm., Jan. 3. The death that he welcomed and prayed for found James Moloy alone and penniless. Friends at the improvement of the Poor Homes here, where 65-year-old Moloy managed the restaurant, said he was a graduate of Harvard University and once was
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  • 359 6 Peru Cemen ts Relations With Japan San Francisco, Jan. 3. •J*HE Peruvian economic and cultural mission which has been studying the improvement m relations with Japan since last August, has sailed from here on its return trip to Lima. While the mission had no authority to make any new agreements
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  • 1325 6 Governor's Optimistic Review Of Year STORY OF PROGRESS AN OPTIMISTIC forecast Malaya, a review of rec< of agricultural and secondai of an article by the Goverr the January issue of the A LTHOUGH restriction schemes have grcally curtailed the exports of our two chief commodities,
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  • 58 6 Del mar, Delaware, Jan. 3. 11TORRY over the fate of two mules after fais death led Paul Culde.-, 45-year-old farmer to shoot the animals before committing suicide. Members of Culder's family said he had been despondent but that his chief worry was the fate of
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  • 126 6 British Charity For Czech Refugees London, Jan. 3. "THE report on the Czech Refugees Fund shows that hitherto £360,--030 has been used for the re'.ief of refugees. Grants totalling £260,000 have been put at the disposal of the Prague Committee for the Relief of Destitutes and Homeless. £30,000 has been
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    50 6 PIILVCE EDWARD and hi; fct« Princess Alexandra, children »f ,j», Duke and Duchess of Kent left Liverpool Street Station spend the New Year with ih< King and Queen at Sandringhan. Prince Edward and Prince Alexandra (who was two on t'l.r st mas Day) before leaving Live pStreet Station for Sandrinirhuri'
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  • 141 6 BEY'S WARNING Cairo, Jan. j "IT is the sacred duty of Egypt ia.. and Moslems all over the iron* to oppose the Fascist policy of terminating Islam m Tripoli turning the land into Italian hand* declares a manifesto issued toci.n b< Abdel Hamid Said Bey. National!*
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  • 69 6 Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 1 PLOYD NEWCOMER, of Rltt Ohio, probably Is Ohios honest hunter. Newcomer shot .1 ien pheasant by mistake. He tried to irrender himself to county game facials, but they told him to forget I it. Later the State Conservation D: sion received
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    • 152 6 Piles Quickly Heal YOURS WILL DISAPPEAR What would you not give to be really cured of those torturing, awkward piles t To find them surely growing lera and less until they healed and disappeared never to torment you again I A physician's startling discovery brings this comfort within reach of
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    • 104 6 CONSTIPATION hen admar.t that requires far more than s'mply yg3j^^sQk faking a laxative. For real relief, you must get at /l^ J^M WL the cause, restore the natural activity of the m- W&\ testines. Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is ideal for this MM Kfifc purpose. A gentle, but effective laxative,
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    • 156 7 FOLLOW THE CROWD TO SEE THE FIRST OF 1939'S BIG LAUGH HIT! OPENING TODAY AT 3.15, 6.15 9.15 p. MWARNER BROS. PRESENT THE THRILLING LOVERS OF ROBIN HOOD TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A MERRY, MAD MODERN ROMANCE I IHJJt^i\ <^ C^y OLIVIA 1 -^^B SS ES (^Syl ROSALIND
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  • 634 8 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1, 1939. A.R.P. Future "THE Government communique announcing the appointment of a Secretaary for Defence m Malaya and the creation of an Air Raids Precautions Department will be welcomed by the public as evidence that the authorities are about to speed up their plans
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  • 1512 8  - Modern World Chaos And Religion "Moral Rearmament" Dr. Frank Buchman A Western Spiritual Movement By A READER sends us these extracts from a recent 8.8.C. talk by Dr. Frank Buchman, of Oxford Group fame, on the new moral rearmament movement which has been endorsed by leaders of all walks of
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    • 162 8 caldseck's COX KINGS (AGENTS) LIMITED Head Office: King William Street House, London EC 4. TAKE CHARGE OF ASTERN KIT AT THEIR PORT SAID BRANCH HAVE IT LAUNDi::\D AND READY FOR YOU ON THE RETIRN JOURNEY Representatives board all homeward bound steamers at PORT SAID, MARSEILLES, LONDON AND LIVERPOOL to arrange
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    • 17 8 Wfi JAMS If»t* Small Stock o2 Pekin Rugs Just Received 18, BATTERY ROAD, FIRST FLOOR PHONE 7143.
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  • 1150 9 Nicobarese War Dance On Christmas Day TOP-HATTED IMAGES (From A Special Correspondent) A IWRTY of R.A.F. officers and men who have been A at Nancowry, Nicobar Islands, overhauling: the Short Suiuk»rland flying boat which made a forced landing during a flight from Ceylon to
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  • 26 9 Regatta For Airmen SOME OF THE MCOBARESE "aarsjii p! nnta tj l c canoes Ceded out tor the royal regatta m which the R.A.F. party participated.
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  • 281 9 CROPS POOR THIS YEAR (From Our Oun Coi respondent) Penang, Jan. 3. THE Penang clove season is now under way, and picking is being done throughout the 350 acres of clove plantations on the island, mostly situated on the sides of hills to the
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  • 321 9 Siam Premier Lays Down His Policy WHAT THE STATE WANTS (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Jan. 1. FOLLOWING the formation of the new Cabinet of Ministers with Colonel Luang Bipul Songgram as Premier, a meeting of the National Assembly was convened on Monday afternoon to pass a vote of confidence
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  • 181 9 (From Our Own ConvspDndent) London, Jan. 3. THE P. and O. Banking Corporation refuse to mako any statement concerning the taking over of its business by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which comes into effect on Jan. 30. An official of
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  • 66 9 fyfISS TONG LAI WAH, a Chinese woman, was fined $5 on each of two charges of driving without a licence and driving negligently m the Singapore Traffic Court Testerday. It was aT.eged the car mounted the pavement when she icas turning from Victoria Street into Bras
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  • 265 9 WORKED IN GLEN LINER (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 25. CEARCH is being made throughout London for a young doctor who was recently m Singapore and who has not been seen since he was at Sheffield more than a fortnight ago. He is
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  • 89 9 Mexico City, Jan. 3. Mexico should remain m the League of Nations, even though major world Powers have made much of the League's programme a failure. Senator Antonio J. Romero declared today. "The League is an excellent tribunal from which Mexico, even though a weak nation
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  • 533 9 REMARKABLE STORIES (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 25. DICTURES of Malayan life painted m the columns of home newspapers are less alarming and fantastic than they used to be, but some pretty highly coloured accounts of "life" m your part of the world continue to appear
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  • 175 9 Remarking that Bdr R. M. Wray or the Royal Artillery, the only witness for the defence, had given his evidence very well. Mr. C. H. Whittcn acquitted Ptc. Albert Nuttall, Of the Loyal Raiment, on a charge of negligent driving In the Singapore Traffic Court yesterday.
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  • 149 9 Although he was an employer, he had no right to inflict violence on his employees, least of all on a small boy, said Mr. C. H. Koh, Singapore Sixth Magistrate, to a Chinese tailor, Khon^ Siu Sou, yesterday. H« convicted Khong of a charge of voluntarily
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  • 82 9 Law Notice For The Day Before the llon'ble. Sir Pewy McEhvaine, Chief Justice, m the Ist. Court at 10.30 a.m. Magistrates' Appeal No. 92 38— The Official Assignee versus 11. J. Schefelaar. therefore Bankruptcy No. 406 38— Re Koh How Khoon. Before Mr. Justice Pedlow m the 2nd. Court at
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    18 10 COLOVftftJL COSTUMES AND A H> CftOWD made tli«- Foit C'annhi" party on New gear's pyr a great MCWM.
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  • 2167 10 Favourably Compare With Unrestricted System MR. C.V. STEPHENS'S VIEWS (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 21. TIN sentiment m London is no less variable than the weather. That is to say, while one day finds producers and dealers plunging into the coldest pessimism
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    28 10 iYi._iit,Lf_\l'S lamous yacht "Elettra," aboard which Ihe great inventor executed most of his experiments, haft been bought by the Italian government to be arranged as a Marconi museum.
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  • 105 10 Geneva, Dec. 20. CPANISH Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco has agreed to accept part of a 60,000-barrel flour 'shipment from the United States for distribution m Spain, Charles J. Ewald of Philadelphia, said on his arrival here from Burgos. Ewald, representative of the American Friends Service Committee,
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  • 37 10 Dave Palmer, the heavy-weight boxins champion of Australia, won the welter-weight and heavy-weight boxing championships of the Navy, Army, md Air Force Command In New South Wales, at Sydney. He was also runner-up In the middle-weight class.
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  • 63 10 Death Of Siam's Elder Statesman (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Dec. 30. The death occurred this afternoon of Siam's elder statesman, Chaophya Yomaraj, who was a member of the Council of Regency. Yomaraj had a long career of public service for the state, including duties m London, and administrative posts
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    • 396 10 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TENDERS. SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. Tenders. Tenders are now invited fox the following materials or services. For particulars, see Municipal Tenders Room: Supply of Sluice Valves Tor Water lor period May 1. 1939. to Apr. 30, 1940. Date of Closing. 4 p.m., Mar 0. 1939. C. H. GOLDIE, Munictaai Secretary.
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    • 542 10 BANK OF CHINA (Incorporated m China oj Special Charter). IS. CkIJ Street. Blnrap«r» reJepbanea: Manager'! Offlc* 1444 AssL Manager's Office 844J a Exchanfe Dept > 6441 General Office 5188 t Cable Address: "CHUNGS UO." Paid Up Capital Ch. 4t.ooo.Hi.af Restnre Funds In excess of Ch. t t.ttOO.tOOOt Total Asmt« approximately
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    • 502 11 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES From Exchange Telegraph Co. I From London 5.30 p. m. Yesterday The above are dealers' middle prices: Jobbers martins, brokerage and -'tni;i duty are not Inclnded. Ar oLVvITSTf Unl6M Utest 3 Uotatlons Previously i. version Loan. spc 1944-64.... 109*3 109->n .nding Loan. 4 p.c.
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    • 138 11 l>Sl ED BY FRASER AND CO. AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS YESTERDAY MINING. Tin at midday was lIIU, down a The market opened very quietly for tin shares after the holidays hut prices were uell maintained.. A few quotations today were Southern Kintas 54.70 4.80. Lupines $1.58/1.62,
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    • 123 11 JAN. 3, 1929: 12 O CLOCK NOON Bayers. Seller*. ■•a IX R.S.S. Spot loose 2«U 28 i No IX R.S.S. P. 0.8. »v rases January 28% 28% O.P.A.Q R.S.B. P. 0.8. In bales January 28>s 28V* 'AQ R 8.8. P.OB iv bales January 27% 27H
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    • 180 11 JAN. 3 SELLING y° n on J T 2 3 13 16 London demar.J 23 13 16 Lyons demand 2040 Switzerland demand 237'i Hamburg demand 132 1 New York demand 53^ Montreal demand 54 1 Batavia demand 98 h Sam^rang demand 03 u Calcutta, Bombay and Rangoqn
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    • 181 11 I From London 5,30 p.m. Yesterday RUBBER: Firmer. London: 8 3jl6d. 8 5i16<3. Previously: 8 3 16 d 8»/ 4 d Jan.-Mar.: 8i/ 4 d. 8 s|l6d. Previously 8V 4 d' 8 5!16d Apr.-June: B%d. 8 7!16d. Previously: 8 516 d 8 7 I6d July-Sept: 8 7
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    • 68 11 I From London: Latest Quotations TIN: Firm. Spot: £217 2s. 6d Previously: £216 15s. Three months: £218 7s 60. Previously: £217 15s NEW YORK TIN: 'Opening price): 46.50. Previously: 46.70 COPPER: Settlement: £44 12s C< Previously: £44 12s. Gc GOLD: Yesterday: £7 10?. >4d Previously: £7 9s.
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    • 67 11 I London Closing Quotations I Method oi Parity oeiore Latest Centre Quoting 20-U-31 Kate >J revijusl? Paris Franc to 121.11 176 V 176 13 16 New York... to 4.88 4.627 c 4.65*4 Amsterdam. Guilders to 8.96 3 8.51 *i 8.55y 2 Hong Kong Per dollar is. 3d-
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    • 1339 11 Last Night's Quotations Fraser And Co.'s List TUESDAY, JAN. 2. 1939: 5 P.M. MINING Buyers Sellers Ampr.t Tin t4s> 3s 9d 4s 3d Asam Kumbang 25s 273 Austral Malay (£> 43s 47s oom Ayer Hitam t5s) 21s 6d 23s Ayer Weng <$1) 59 .64 Ban^rin
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    • 152 11 iF'i^m Our Own Correspondent). London, Dec. 20. AN extraordinary theory concerning the value of eucalyptus as an "antidote" against Malaria forms the substance of a letter addressed to the "Daily Telegraph" totiay. The writer, 85-year o.d Mr. Cal?b Morwish, of (nllingham, comments upon a report that a
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    • 101 11 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 1939: 5 P.M. Total for company Dividend Books Financial TIN Close nat* Bx. Dl*. year Southern Kinta 2V 2 int Dec. 28 Jan. 20 Dec 29 7V<>% Sungel Luas 3% Final Dec *>A Jan. 5 Dec 28 10%
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  • 573 12 Europe In 193S Good Year Finds Her In Strong Position INTERNATIONAL SUCCESSES Warsaw, Dec. 20. CND of the year 1938 finds Poland apparently m a k stronger position than ever before. Internationally she has scored victories over Czechoslovakia and Lithuania while at home general elections
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    • 178 12 CASTLE LINE LIMITED PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION Arrives Sails Dae New York m.f. PENRITH CASTLE Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Peb. 24 mv MUNC ASTER CASTLE Feb. 7 Feb. 12 Mar 29 m.v. RABY CASTLE Mat. 7 Mar. 12 Apr. 28 LIMITED PASSENGERS ACCOMMODATION. BEN LINE fOB LONDON. ANTWERP. ROTTERDAM. HAMBURG. LEITH AND
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    • 586 12 SHADOW Air Mail Arrivals And Despatches INWARD Imperial: From Europe: expected today. Wcarnes: From Penang, lpoh. and Koala Lumpur. Arrives every evenlnf. X.L.M.: From Netherlands Indies: Arrives tomorrow. Qantas: From Australia: Arrives Friday. X.L.M.: From Europe: Arrives tomorrow. K.N.1.L.M.: From Saigon: Arrives Wednesdays. v K.N.1.L.M.: From Netherlands Indies: Arrives Tuesdays.
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    • 602 12 WOMAN BOUND IN COTTON WOOL. Helpless For Weeks With Rheumatism. She was bound from head to foot m cotton wool. She could not sleep without the use of sleeping draughts. Yet, within two weeks' of starting to take Kruschen Salts, she was on the road recovery. "Although I am a
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    • 358 12 m *wL jSasi Wa I VP^^bYjsW^V^ VF^ *ftr% asT% j|^K^^^^^^ To North America PO^oß Wni 'S^Bn fortiiishuy sailings cc Victoria md Vancouver Direct or via Honolulu ship's-slde rail *>nWjmdr rhls tlme SO via Canada oook K&fmk I^Ps^^^ vonr passage on Canadian Pacific's W«ra%Z^^ >^^^^*~ srreat. white Empress of Japan or
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    • 111 12 PASSENGERS BY AIR Arrived from N.I. by KLM plane PH-ARE on Dec. 31: Mr. and Mrs. Pilgrams, Mr. and Mrs. Grayton, Mr. Menahem, Mr. Bergisch and Mr. Grijzen. Left for Medan, India and Europe by KLM plane PH-ARE on Dec. 31: Mr. Bergisch and Mr. Grijzen (Penang). Arrived from Europe.
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    • 271 13 r o I ALWAYS GO BY p&o IT'S MORE COMFORTABLE CHEAP RETURN TICKETS TO CHINA. JAPAN. E COLOMBO AND BOMBAY •le for two months KROM SINGAPORfc To.- Ist. Class 2nd. Class Hong Kon 6 5137.14 Slo2Bb Shanghai $188.5? 5137 14 Kobe or Yokohama 5223.86 5154.29 Colombo 5292.H6 SIHX.S? Komhar 5300.00
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    • 373 13 McALISTER CO LTD. (Incorporated m Stratts Settlements.} GRESHAM HOUSE. BATTERY ItD.. SINGAPORE. PHONF. 5173 ELLERMAN BUCKNAU S.S. Co., Ltd, {Incorporated m tngiana.) HAVRE LONDON ROTTERDAM HAMBURG VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL Steamer Due Sai|s CITY OF NEWCASTLE Calls Aitverp Glasgow In Port Jan 6 CITY OF MANDALAY Calls Glasgow Jan.
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    • 851 13 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. i lncorporated Id Straits Settlements) Ocean Building, Collyer Quay. Singapore Tel. 5151: Chartered Bank Building. Penang Tel. 1366. BLUE FUNNEL LINE. FAST WEEKLY SERVICE LONDON NORTH CONTINENT (In conjunction with th* Glea Use) AND FAST FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE MARSEILLES GLASGOW. Due B*Ua MENESTHEUS Mars., C blanca, L'don, R'dam,
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  • 458 14 Swettenham Divorce Sequel PURCHASE OF AN ANNUITY (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Dec. 21. ARRANGEMENTS for the maintenance of Lady Swet- tenhan, divorced wife of Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham, formeily Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, were discussed, m the Divorce Court today before Mr. Justice Henn Collins. It
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  • 353 14 Pa«engers by the T.S.S. Nleuw Holland due at Singapore on Jan. 9, are as follows: Mr. and Mrs. J. Aitken, Capt. C. Alexander, Miss E. L. B. Andrews, Mrs. L. Arnold, Mr. E. Baber. Mr. and Mrs. V. P. Bar bat. Miss A. M. Barbat. Mr.
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    • 47 14 9.5.-1 Talk (Bengali). 10.10 Commercial nsws. 'Bengali* 10.15 Local r.ev.s. <B?r«3ali». 1Q.21 News and weaiiier rtDOtt (B^n »a'l> 10.35 Ne^s. n.so local nev,T,. 19. M Commorci?i rewr, and announcement 9 11.00 London's riv?r. 11.31 Orc'ieitral intcrluu?. 11.3"« A talk. 11 33 A Radio pIR". 12.2) Close dorn.
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    • 599 14 qRERICAN PRESIDENT UNES, LTD. TO EUROPE ROM SINGAPORE AND PENANG TO COLOMBO, BOMBAY. SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA. NAPLES. GENOA. MARSEILLES AND NEW YORK. Arrives Leaves Leaves Arrives Spore. Spore. Penang. New York. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN Jan. 14 Jan. 17 Jan. 19 Fcb 2» PRESIDENT HARRISON Jan. 28 Jan. 31 "eb.
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    • 658 14 Q. S. K. LINE »OU AFRICA AND SOUTH AMtKICA fLa Plat* Mmro Buenos Aires via Colombo. Durban. Cape Jan. 3 4 Town, Rio de Janeiro. Santos and Montevideo Syvnko Maro Dakar via Rangoon, ramatave. Durban. Jan 7 7 Loblto. Matadl. Douala. lakoradi. Port Bouet. Moarovia, Lagos, Colcnou, Accra, Conakry, Bathurst
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    • 679 14 RADIO PROGRAMMES SINGAPORE I TODAY ZHL 225 metres. ZHP 50.96 metres p.m 1.00 Miscellaneous programme of new gramophone records. 1 30 Mid -day rubber prices. 1.32 Miscellaneous programme (continued) 2.00 Interval. 5.00 Honkien Amoy music. S3) Peiping musical lnterlude.t 5.36 Peiping drama»i 00 Fcochow music. t 0.30 "Old Favourites"— No.
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  • 1377 15 Europe In 1938 "Buffer" State Is Now Under German Sway WAR THREATENS EUROPE Prague Dec 21 THE year 1938 made Czechoslovakia the vortex of a 1 political whirlpool that threatened to drag- an entire continent to destruction. This last year saw armies march across established boundaries, saw
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  • 890 15 Little Activity In Holiday Period Fraser 's Report REVIEW OF THE YEAR \I/ITH exchanges closed for the greater part of the past week, nothing- specially worthy of comment has ppened, states Fraser and Company's weekly share report. The dislocation due to the Christmas and New Year brations is just one
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    24 15 MR. ANTHONY BDBN returns fro m America. Mr. Eden, accompanied In his wife, arriving back m London after his brief visit to New York.
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  • 405 15 S.C.R.C. Football Teams In Action MONG JOO'S XI WINS 2-1 gether with the Premier and the President, constituted the Central Government. Economically there can be little doubt that the new state will opsrate strictly m Berlin's orbit. Always dependent upon Germany for the trans- I portation of her goods to
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  • 48 15 can reckon with Czechoslovakia as a factor m keeping the balance of power m Europe from swinging too far m favour of Germany, Some observers go so far as to say that Czechoslovakia has, to all practical intents and purposes, become a subject state of Germany—British United Press.
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  • 629 16 England Declare At 559, i South Africa 213 For Six NOURSE UNBEATEN WITH 74 Cape Town, Jan. 3. INDICATIONS at the doM of the third day m the second Test cricket match between England a.nd South Africa are that thifl match,
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  • 119 16 Australian Equals World Cricket Record Sydney, Jan. i. IN a Sheffield Shield cricket match between Queensland and Victoria today D. Tallon, wicketkeeper m the Queens'and eleven, dismissed twelve batsman m two inn m us. catching six m»n on and Ntu m pine six. T.il.rm thus equailed the world record of
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  • 388 16 11-5 VICTORY ON PADANG AGGRESSIVE m the first half, the S.CC. "A" rugger team beat a Royal Engineers (Changi) side by 11 points (a goal a try and a penalty) to five (a penalty try converted) on the padang yesterday. The Club practically
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  • 117 16 London, Jan. 3. QNE of the greatest soccer sensations v m years was caused by the announcement of the findings of a jojnt committee of the Football Association and the Football League, appointed to investigate an alleged breach of the rules of the Association and of
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    19 16 picture. ANOTHER STATE HOCKEY TRIA'_ was held yesterday en the S.C.C. padang. A moment during the play Free Press
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  • 71 16 New York, Jan. 3. |N what is expected to be the hardesl -hitting: tennis duel of all tlm* Donald Budge, newcomer to the professional ranks, will play Ellsworth Vines at Mad son Square Garden tonight. Betting is abou even, but Vines is slightly more
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  • 257 16 Good Boxing Programme For Friday THREE bis events head the card for 1 Friday night's Dox'ng promotion by i George E. Lee. They are 'the Hill j Mendiola. the Carrie-Boy Qu?e and the Fernandez-Hemchit bcuts. Whether or not Frank Hill will lowar the Filip'no's colours remains to be seen. Mendiola
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  • 244 16 London, Jan. 3. MATCHES m the Scottish League today resulted as follows: DIVISION I Arbroath 1 Hearts 1 Ayr 3 Aberdeen 3 Celtic 0 Queen's Part 1 Falkirk 4 Kllmarnock 0 Hibernian 2Raith Rovers 1 Motherwell 3 Albion 1 Partick Thistle 2 Rangers 4 St. Mirren 2
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  • 62 16 MALAYAN GOLF CHAMPION BREAKS BANGKOK RECORD (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Jan. 2. A former Malayan^ golf champion. Mr. W. J. Gibb, yesterday established a new course record for the Royal Bangkok Sports Club links, when m the monthly medal competition he returned a score of 65. The previous record
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  • 446 16 LESSONS OF HOCKEY TRIAL (BY NIMROD) YESTERDAY'S hockey trial must have been m nature of a lullaby which soothed the nerves of the selection committee It was neither a failure nor a flop, but it proved that the Settlement's greatest weakness unless the players have
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  • 79 16 A FURTHER TRIAL will be he'.J tomorrow at 5.10 p.m. on the S.R.C. ground. Teams arc: PROBABLES:— V. N. Pillai. X Karth, Lt. McMillan, Lt. LeonardWilliams, Sgt. Cron,n, L.A.C. Nash, R. Thoy. I. Suratta. C'pl Plummer, G. B. Armstrong and Ibrahim bin Esa. POSSIBLES:— Patrick Yee,
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  • 273 16 Further Weights For Penang Races (Prom Our Own Correspondent Penang, Jan. 3. Additional weights for th? founli aid final day of the Peuang Tin f Club's New Year meeting, on It (urday. are as follows: Horses: Class 3. Div. 1, 6 fan.:— Orofmo 9 04 Duclu»ss II 8 04 Miss
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  • 84 16 THE qualifying rjund of the nub championship will be played I Saturday at the Garrison Golt Club The following is the draw: p.m. C3O Rev. A. S. Giles and Major M R Davidson. 3.35 C. F. Jennings and Majjr H. C B. Milling. 3.40. Capt. C. Ryan
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  • 29 16 The R.S.G.C. January medal competition (bogey) will be played on Saturday and Sunday ovrr the new course. The women's January medal competition will be played on Monday.
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