The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 3 February 1939

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 15,69?. ESTD. 1835. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939. 5 CENTS
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    SPANISH PREMIER SAYS "WE CAN TRIUMPH"
    389 1 SPANISH PREMIER SAYS "WE CAN TRIUMPH" Republicans Receive Arms, Fight On NEGRIN ON CONDITIONS FOR PEACE Figueras, Feb. 2. "U/E can and shall triumph/' declared Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the Spanish Republican Cabinet, speaking to the Cortes (Spanish parliament) which met here for the first time since assembling at
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    China Dislikes Nazi Methods of Barter
    32 1 China Dislikes Nazi Methods of Barter 2. half no I imL German rmed CWnrolfraia but say i M obrms and ncni, fc f ge n.n.Unmei.U Da to market. ino need produced >rldOtrman
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    MILLION GAS MASKS ISSUED
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    STOP PRESS
    124 1 I oiulo.i. leh "iinprehvHM>f> kImM for the «:inisati.»n ,it (IN j| defence, in■*N thr appointment of a re:i "''-»i priMkal fwr, is wnournfd b> Sir Jofca llilllllß. N|l "Hfr of CHrilUfl DtffCMCC. The n which ii pvactieall] tomplete. ■«N in shadow form in peace- rf *d> It oper.il^
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    NEW FRONTIERS IN S.E. EUROPE?
    127 1 Bucharest, Feb. 2. RUMOURS are circulating In southeastern Europe of possible teiritorial revision. It is thought some attempt may oe made to improve Bulgaro-Rumania relations when representatives of the Balkan Entente countries meet here next month These countries would like to see Bulgaria enter the
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    Japanese Allege Soviet Border Attack
    77 1 Japanese Allege Soviet Border Attack /okio, Feb. 2. The Manchukuo Government has vigorously protested to the Soviet, through the Soviet Consul at Harbin, over an alleged incident on the Man-chukuo-Sovlet frontier on Jan. 31. It Is alleged 100 Soviet soldiers crossed the frontier near Hengkosili and opened fire on a
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    Imperial Staff Chief In Egypt
    82 1 Cairo, Feb. 2. \/ISCOUNT GORT, Chief of the I™V perial JJaff. who arrived yesterday, will have talks with the Priwe Minister. Defence Minister and Britisn Egyptian army chiefs, on the de.ences of Egypt and the co-operation oi British and Egyptian forces. It is learned Viscount
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    Aftermath Of Chungking Raid
    47 1 TWENTY -SEVEN JAPANESE WAR PLANES raided Chungking one day last week and dropped bombs on the city area. More than 20 civilian houses were destroyed. About 124 persons were killed and 166 wounded. This picture shows relief work among debris after the raid.
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    U.S. Opposition To Roosevelt's Policy
    546 1 Washington, Feb. 2. A SENATORIAL bloc opposed to President Roosevelt's reported policy of "all aid to democracies short of war" is clearly being formed and may even develop as strongly as that sroup which fought the league of Nations in the World Court. At the
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    Anglo-French Visits In Mediterranean
    83 1 Anglo-French Visits In Mediterranean Gibraltar, Feb. Z. IT IS RELIABLY reported that General Ironside. Governor of Gibraltar, is making an official visit to French Morocco from Feb. 13 to Feb. ML A French squadron of cruisers left for Oran today at the close of a three-day visit. They were led
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    Minister's Statement In Commons
    171 1 London, Feb. Z. SIR SAMUEL HOARE, Home Secretary, told House of Commons tonight that 33 persons have been arrested and charged with various offences in connection with the recent explosions. Police were cor.tlnuing their mluiries and taking all possible steps to jrevent further outrages, the Home
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    Canada Would Fight For The Empire
    80 1 Canada Would Fight For The Empire Sydney. Feb. '•/WNADA raised an army of halt a million in the last war and will do it again if war develops," Mr K. Hepburn. Premier of Ontario, declared today at a State luncheon. Answering the "loose talK. ol college professors who are speaking
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    Home Football
    44 1 London. Feb. MATCHES in the FA Cup. plaved today resulted: Fourth RoVid West Ham 2. Tottenham 1 (won after extra time— second replay). Second Round: Norwich 1. Sheffield United 2. Southern League results: Walsall 0, Mansfield 0; Newport 2. Notts County Reuter
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    CHINESE WILL MOBILISE WILD TRIBES
    313 2 To Be Organised For Mountain Warfare JAPANESE OPERATIONS IN SHANSI HELD UP Chungking, Feb. 2. THE Chinese Central Military Committee, which has recently been reorganised, has divided the country into five military zones. Each area will be under a unified command headed by a selected
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    Dockyard Officials See Naval Base
    419 2 A USTRALIA is considering the establishment of a naval base in the eastern part of the Commonwealth as an adjunct to the Singapore Naval Base," Mr. Norman Frazer, managing director of Cockatoo Dockyard, Sydney, where new warships for the Royal Australian Navy are being constructed,
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    More Japanese Money In Manchukuo
    51 2 Tokio, Feb. 2. JAPAN invested about yen 430.000.00C in enterprises in Manchukuo last year, in the forms of private debentures and shares of corporations there. This showed an increase of about yen 100.000,000 over 1937, according to returns prepared by the Manchurian Ailairs Board.- Eastern
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    More Power For Rumania's "Strong Man"
    97 2 More Power For Rumania's "Strong Man" A Bucharest, Feb. 2. S the result of a reshuffle of the cabinet headed by Patriarch Miron Cristea, the Government's ''strong man" M. Calinescu, Minister of the Interior, who was responsible for the suppression of the Iron Guard now becomes also vice-Premier and temporarily,
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    To Study Building Of New Warships
    62 2 picture. MR NORMAN FRAZER (RIGHT) managing director of the Cockatoo Docka& y and Mr <*. R- Collett, superintendent engineer of the dockyard, who inspected the Singapore Naval Base yesterday. They are on their >\ay to England to study warship design, as new ships for
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    Extensions Of S.H.B. Meet Heavy Demands
    226 2 Extensions Of S.H.B. Meet Heavy Demands DL'T for the completion of the Singapore Harbour Board's West Wharf extension scheme, with its 11 new transit godowns, giving an extra 250,000 square feet of storage space, the Board would have experienced difficulty in meeting the recent heavy demands on its wharf accommodation,
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    CHINESE ENVOY IN MOSCOW TO BE CHANGED?
    35 2 Shanghai, Feb. 2. In place of Gen. Ytxng Chieh. Gen Wang Yao-huang will become Chinese Ambassador to Moscow, according to a report coming from Chinese sources. Eastern News
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    "Arms For Spain" Cry In New York
    86 2 "Arms For Spain" Cry In New York New York, Feb. 2. TWELVE THOUSAND sympathisers o* Republican Spain demonstrated outside the Italian Consulate on Fifth Avenue today, chanting "Lift the Amis Embargo," and demanding cessation of Italian and German assistance to the Nationalists in Spain. Armed with thousands of placards the
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    200 Chinese From Malaya Massacred ?
    181 2 200 Chinese From Malaya Massacred (From Our Own Correspondent.! Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 2. T'HE Chinese Consulate at Kuala Lumpur is Investigating tho alleged massacre cf 200 Cantonese by two Japanese submarines outside Swatow. The report of this alleged outrage ap- j peared in Chinese vernacular papers. It was stated that
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    62 2 AS A FAREWELL tribute to Dr. J. S. Webster, leader of the St. John Ambulance Association, Singapore, who is leaving Malaya in March, members of the association assembled at Jalan Besar Stadium last evening for a group photograph. Here is Dr. Webster, who is professor of Medicine at the King
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    JAPAN WILL NOT PAY FOR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
    211 2 Ri?r>T vTMn Tokio, Feb. 2. IMPLYING to a question by Mr. Koichi Seko, at the nf fc aiy T$° n the budgetary committee of the House 2.V1 Zr n atlVeS? M^ Hachiro Al>ita > Foi ei Minister, Sn J£%n° V 5 linment
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    DOMESTIC OCCURENCES BIRTH
    11 2 DOMESTIC OCCURENCES BIRTH coode. o v v I Itef Cp, I
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    Attack On" British Plane Described
    186 2 Attack On" British Plane Described Japanese of lon,, Blnga»ore *l Hotel Ho i.s Vn- A ashman lor Ethv: is on a rived from h. evening and will bang early this m to Bingapon o i to London. -At least our plane the Havilland 86 was flytm at a normal course
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    Japan To Develop Oil Industry
    97 2 Juki". K STRESSING tin ing oil-fields in Japan, in or* help national defence, Bar Sakamoto suggested the of a five-year plan 300,000,000. at th. p< the Hou.se of P» I tods* Baron Sakamoto a necessary yen 00.01 appropriated in i> penses, as oil was Baron
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    Chinese Officials Replaced
    40 2 Horn ft yACANCIEi Chou Fo-hal. wl movement I Wang Ching-wel. &•*s£« f>jj the appointing and Mr. Y- :i crs.sors. iCCOfomi Chungking. Mr. Wang ha ral s.^ as a member otr srsTb ictini llf^ tor Bureau Eastern News
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    Record-Breaking German Fliers Here
    155 3 NEW LIGHT AIRCRAFT set up B new world distance record light aeroplanes, two German loliday, Commander Horst Pulkowski dolf Jennet landed in their Arado 79 gapore airport at 12.30 p.m. yesterday. ere greeted with a hearty handshake by lural, Dr. Adolf Windecker, and Lorenz-Meyer, manager of
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    Charges Of Attempted Murder
    98 3 Fte§ Yuet Pin. a Chinese woman. who. tosother v:ith three Chincce. Koh Ah Luat. Yoh Siev/ ChODf and Poll Ah j LABg was produced on a preliminary charge oi attempted murder oi Sim OKmg with a pistol In Canal Road on Dec 2. was discharged by
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    News In Brief
    422 3 The site for the new Ruffles Institu- t tion en the reclamation between I t Grove Road and the projected Guillemard Road is not regarded as satisfactory by the Straits Settlements s < Singapore) Asjociation because of its proximity to the Singapore Airport, j It was considered
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    Youth On Extortion Charge
    68 3 CLAIMING trial on a charge of attempted extortion Chan Ah Kim, a 20-year-old Hokkien, appeared before Mr. K. A. Blacker, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Chan Is alleged to have induced Tan Sul Eng, a Chinese woman, to deliver him two dollars by patting
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    ELDERLY RICE MERCHANT ACQUITTED
    216 3 Unanimous Verdict By European Jury CHEATING CHARGE COUNI) not guilty by a special European jury of 1 cheating a Chinese cashier of $1,000, Ong Mah Chi, a 61-year-old Hokkien rice merchant, was discharged by Mr. Justice Home in the Singapore Assize Court, yesterday. The jurors returned
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    Acquittal After Five Days' Case
    199 3 DECLARING thai the parties should continue their friendship, as before the case, the Singapore Sixth Police Magistrate. Mr. C. H. Koh. yesterday, acquitted Giam Beng Jim. a welldr?ssed Er/ ish-speaking Chinese, who was charged on three counts of voluntarily causing hurt to two Chinese women
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    Paintings Of Johore Judges
    68 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) Johorc Bahru, Feb 2. ADORNING the walls of the Johore Supreme Court are three oil painting pictures hung this week. They are those of three former Johore judge, Messrs. Brown, MacCabe Reay and Thorne. The pictures are the work of Mr. Hcnneke,
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    $150 Fine For Chinese Lorry Driver
    281 3 OONU KONG HOE. a Chinese lorry j driver who was charged in the Singapore Traffic and District Court i yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Whitton, on a charge of causing the death of a Chinese, Tan Kim Teck. a Municipal clerk, when his lorry
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    Law Notice For Saturday
    32 3 Law Notice For Saturday Before the Chief Justice in Ist. Court at 10 a.m. Magistrate's .Vipeal:— Mohd. Haniffa bin Abdul Kader vs. Rex. Before the Registrar at 10 a.m. Passing account. Thereafter—Taxation.
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    Extortion By Threat Is Alleged
    57 3 ON a charge of attempting to extort $100 from Kuck Kow by means of a letter putting him in fear of injury, a Cantonese, Thara Yin. claimed trial before Mr. K. A. Blacker, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. The case was postponed to
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    Tamil Driver Exonerated
    83 3 At an inquiry into the death of a 12-year-old Chinese boy. Yuet Pek Yong, who was killed when he was knocked down on Jan. 11. by a Johore taxi, driven by a Tamil Christian. Samuel, the Coroner. Mr. W. G. Porter, exonerated the taxi driver from any
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    Like A Metal Whale
    69 3 Like A Metal Whale picture. LIKE SOME HUGE INANIMATE WHALE is this Jmll of the Qantat Empire Airways flying -boat Cocrong, wMeh loas vnLaclcd at Singapore yesterday after arrival from Dvrvcin by the Bums PhV.p vessel Montoro for trans'iipment to L*iglar.d, probably by the G'.en Line steamer Glengarry. Cooronn teas
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    Fingerprints Awaited In Excise Case RAID ON A HOUSE
    117 3 Fingerprints Awaited In Excise Case RAID ON A HOUSE CENTENCE was postponed until Feb. 6, for the return *^of the accused's fingerprints in an excise case in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday, when a Chinese, Tong Shun, was convicted on charges of possessing dutiable liquor, fermenting intoxicating liquor, and
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    Murder Attempt Charge Dismissed
    71 3 WHEN the case again, t Tens Poh C'huan. a Hokkien, who was charged with the attempted murder of Tan Keh with a knife at the junction of Conn aught Drive and Stamford Road, on May 27. was called before Mr. K. A. Blacker, in the Singapore
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    Czech Consul Leaving Soon
    66 3 FOLLOWING the closing of irtc Czech Consulate at Singapore on Feb. 23 the acting-Consul, Mr. J. V. Polodna. will leave Singapore for Prague on Mar. 2. by the Lloyd Triestino liner Conte Biancatnano. After the closing of the consulate here, all official matters concerning Malaya. British
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    Twenty-One Years Of Votes For Women
    1286 4  -  Marguerite Peacocke By The Things They Did To England you remember the votes for women days? The campaign kept everybody in Britain talking about it for nine years before the war. And this year they are going to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the
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    LIFE IN THE FIFTIES
    840 4  -  Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser By ■T^HE years after fifty should be the time of good health and contentment for those who have worked hard in their youth. M?n and women in late middle-age are younger for their years than they were a generation ago. They participate
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    Heads Up! ON HAVING FUN WITH YOUR HAIR
    204 4 Heads Up! ON HAVING FUN WITH YOUR HAIR "ons and pltft.). i!* 11 knots, hair drcs^' and over hats I dresses, making'h u? S an < 2 unit-these 5 iJ^N that smart women ta their hairdresser lor Evening comb, They rise likr steep cirs ■craped-up coiffure. have been m m\
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    62 5 The wedding of Mr. David Wallace— son of the Rt. Hon. Euan Wallace, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Miss Prudence Magor took place last tceck at St. Bartholomew's the Great in Smithfield. Police arresting one of the unemployed demonstrates ioho created a diversion during half time by walking on
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      152 5 _:d>w<r Topical Budget yfTCOODS DEPI JbfiL AR, P. -MARKED PROGRESS /C^ir v^^l^^L u*sT nifihTSVj Anderson 'tj V < v dreamed he had burcowed fT\ -A N^^V X 37 feet which Is 13 feel V '7 -f N *e night brfaw T^^ V.' '1 UMBRELLA /YjJ\ I V^B^v BUTUST PLOT p
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    Ex-King Now Real Estate Agent
    386 6 Ex-King Now Real Estate Agent AMANULLAH'S NEW ROLE Rome. rvNCE king of Afghanistan, Amamillah in his exile has turned .o real estate for a livelihood. Afghanistan's first king, and its most famous political refugee when a revolution caused him to flee to Rome in 1929, he has since become this
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    Caustic Comment From Berlin
    126 6 Caustic Comment From Berlin Berlin, Feb. 2. PRESIDENT Roosevelts statements before the Military Affairs Committee of the Senate have caused the impression in Berlin that he is trying to disturb the effect o! the Fuehrer's speech in the whole world, declares an inspired statement issued to the foreign press. It
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    China's New Military H. Q.
    188 6 Chungking, Feb. 1. /"VFFICIAU.Y announced today is the abolition of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Chungking provisional headquarters, as a result of the removal of the National Military Council to Chungking. There is no necessity for the continued existence of the Chungking headquarters. Aciordin;? to General Chang
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    Waterproof Air Mail Bags?
    90 6 Auckland, Jan. 24. AFTER receiving many damaged letters from the Imperial Airways flying-boat Calpurnia, which crashed in Lake Ramadi, near Baghdad res.dents of Auckland urge that greater protection be given to air mail At present the mail is carried in nne woven canvas bags, of light
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    ROOSEVELT A WARMAKER, HOOVER ASSERTS
    170 6 Dangers Of Meddling In Europe FOLLY OF CONFLICT Chicago, Feb. 2. fiS accusation that President Roosevelt was projecting an unprecedented expansion of foreign policy likely to lead to war was made by Mr. Herbert Hoover, former United States President, in a speech to the Council
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    Hitler Speech Relieved Panic
    87 6 Berlin, Feb. 2. fIFFICIAL quarters declare the world received Hitler's speech with a sigh of relief, because a panic atmosphere had been created. However, the real test <>, the effect of the speech would come when statesmen had time to digest it. It is felt that
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    China Press On The Speech
    128 6 Chungking-, Feb. 2. The? Chinese press has extensive editorials on Herr Hitler's Reichstag speech. The official Central Daily News thinks Germany's new objective undoubtedly is the demand for the return of the former German colonies, ior which reason future Anglo-German .relations will be worth closely
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    DEATH OF MR. S. B. DELWAR MORGAN
    55 6 Kuala Lumpur, Feb. I. Origins 1 partner fan the firm of Baker, Morgan and Co., Mr. S. B. Delmar Morgan has died In London Collowing an accident. He was 52 years of a°e. His brother, Mr. G S." Delmar Morgan, is director Of
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    Money Would Win A War
    113 6 London, Feb. 2. "W E are convinced we are in a posi- tion to win a prolonged war," declared Earl de la Warr, president of the Board of Education, speaking at the Franco-British Association last night. "We do not believe in the efficacy of a
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    Tokio Wu Stories Fiction
    89 6 Chungking, Feb. 1. Referring to Japanese rumours that Marshal Wu Pei-fu, who has retired, sent out peace circulars and accepted the chairmanship of the so-called Central Pacification Commission, with headquarters at Kaifeng, the former Honan provincial capital, the Chinese spokesman at a press conference said the
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    Dutch Planes For France
    60 6 r™*, Feb. 2. THE Air Minister, M. Guy le Chambre, announced today that of 50 planes bought from S-£>utch nrm the French Government was able to put 35 at the disposal of French colonici as there were now more rapid aircraft at the disposal of the
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    Italy's Huge New Naval Programme
    348 6 I Rome. taly this year :s engaged in the largest naval building programme In her histor-. The $100,000,000 «U.S.) naval conotructicn programme now in progress ■•viil augment this nation's sea power oy 12 new cruisers, four 35,000-ton i battleships, many destroyers and torpedo boats, and
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    Japanese Screw On China Customs
    69 6 Shanghai, Feb. 2 A CCORDING to foreign reports, the Japanese-controlled customs at Cnefoo are refusing to issue export permits unless the bills of exchange have passed through the Yokohama Specie Bank. The regulation Is aimed at maintaining the exchange value of the so-called Federal Reserve
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    No Excuse For Attad On Imperial Plane
    135 6 JAPANESE OUTRAGE I x t Hong KuM IVh i N regard to the Japanese attack on the Imperial '•> airliner Delia near Waichow Mancl. in Ta^kb? off the south-west Kwangtun^ Coast uflScii Hong Kong office of Imperial Airways \oU\\h that Imperial Airways liners
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    32 6 COUNT CIANO, THE ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTRI week. Here he is receiving the traditional bread iJIV I of Bell, Mana.tir, when he arrived irftfa r>emu s rORI th C l v lin '»viU|,
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    Another British Ship Bombed
    28 6 (.flln. t |^J A Briti::i <f Lim l given as Cfcrdin Harbour todaj bomb when I planes drop the port. Twelve h number 01
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    Are Recovery Hopes Fully Justified?
    402 7 Weekly Rubber Reports STANTON NELSON VIEWS THE world's markets are trying to hypnotise themselves into the belief that because Herr Hitler has spoken in terms less menacing than usual, the major problems of the world will peacefully resolve themselves, says Stanton Nelson Co., Ltd.'s weekly
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    Dull Tone In Local Markets
    170 7 THE market reacted favourably to! Herr Hitler's speech, but the advance was checked by a fair weight of first-hand selling in London at round about the Bd. level, says tht weekly report of Guthrie and Co.. Ltd. Prices have since eased again ana i reports
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    No More Foreign Cars For Japan
    78 7 Tokio. Feb. .1 JAPANESE newspapers report that Japan expects to close her doors to foreign motor-cars in 1941. Describing a four-year-plan for industrial expansion, the newspapers say that the domestic motor industry will have develop, cd sufficiently in another three years to meet Japanes?
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    Writer On India Visits Singapore
    68 7 Mr. Paul Brunton, the well-known journalist and writer on the Orient arrived in Singapore yesterday morning by the 8.1. liner Shirala from the Far East. Mr. Brunton, who is the author of many books on the spiritual heritage of India, will give an informal talk
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    CZECH WINS WORLD CHESS TOURNAMENT
    69 7 Moscow, Feb. 1. Salo Flohr, Czechoslovak chess master, won the international chess tournament here with 12 points. Samuel Reshevsky. United States, was second with 10 V 2 points; Ragozin, U.S.S.R., third with 10 points and one adjourned game. The tournament started on Jan. 3, at
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      82 7 THE FRENCH ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND BUT HE'S LEARNING FAST! PT^MOVNTS I AUGH-LOADED ROMANTIC RIOT "SAY it in FRENCH" JQKjJteffP' 3AY MILLAND OLYMPE BRADNA I fiP^^ N£XX WEEK AT PAVILION CAPITOL.. TOMORROW Morning at 11 o'clock t "DONALD DUCK" MATINEE Splendid programme of selected Cartoons, Comedies, Musicals, etc., including: DONALD
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      331 7 Have you seen this grand Adventure Epic? 4 HOLIDAY SHOWS TODAY! 11 A. M. 3.15 6.15 9.15 AT THE CAPITOL" RONALD COLMAN in Paramount's 44 if I iiipni 1 M MM^= 'aft jjfiißfiP^ l^ YMV ml: r JKWf* -^m\ mW&mwP*t£f s &^'■■^n^^^mt Packed with Thrilling Adventure and HeartStirring Romance INCOMPARABLE!
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939. Siam's Problems
    656 8 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939. Siam's Problems CIR SHENTON THOMAS' State visit to Bangkok this week unfortunately coincided with the discovery of a plot to overthrow the present Siamese Government and to restore ex-King Prajhadipok to the throne. The conspirators were rounded up, and apart from isolated
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    Photography Was Invented 100 Years Ago: Some Early Pictures
    1204 8  - Photography Was Invented 100 Years Ago: Some Early Pictures JOAN LITTLEFIELD Seeing London BY AN' exhibition is being held at the Victoria and Albert Museum to celebrate the centenary of photography. It includes pictures taken during the Crimean War of Balaclava, of various generals, of Russell, the famous newspaper correspondent;
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    THE DISAPPEARING TRICK
    36 8 PROFESSOR HJALMAR HORACE CREELEY SCHACHT: "B> order o/% ihc mana^rlhn r hand over the hat and tiand to llerr Funk. %vho will product the next rcbbit-1 trust ym^HiuK ***< closely as youhave^me.'J hm fl<
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      212 8 GIMLET \^y and hoc/ make it u/ith ROSE'S LIME JUICE caldbeck's pi PsiNGAPOREtI ENGLAND I 6k DAYS In under a week you can be back in England— m six and a half days of delightful flying, high above the heat and dust of the earth below. You travel in one
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      26 8 JUST ARRIVED A NEW SHIPMENT Of -WELDREST STOCKINGS'* IN LATEST COLOURS AT DOULATRAMS SILK LINGERIE SPECIALISTS B. H. T. DOULATfiAM CO. 48. 50, Hiyh Street Singapore.
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    Englishman's Petition For Divorce
    120 9 Englishman's Petition For Divorce pEI i i<> N i° r divorce by n John Hcnn <.im*:h against uili. Kli-t RMC (lOUgh. m withdraw Ufore Mr. l^tice Pedlon in the Singaput Hirh Court yesterday. i x itU \wi- rivea to Gouph Ul perrc i nen petition under D ifoniciled rules. upp'i'uring
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    Weil-Known Arab To Wed In Java
    56 9 I) vho is a mber o: the Arab the honorary -v medical officer I Jdni Board of re by the Planwbtfl he is to daughter of Syed lawi, of Batavia, who is owner in Batavia. r .;nied will return on I'd by Mr. and
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    $30 Fine In Quay Lottery Charge
    60 9 A c ha default, two aa imprisonment, was K A Blacker in the Police Court yester- U Ku. who pleaded -ge of assisting in the of the Gaming boatouf, W0 C(t^ tiv es went to ;> arresied Li on the fiveU had a cigarette
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    APPEAL JUDGE QUASHES A CONVICTION
    713 9 APPEAL JUDGE QUASHES A CONVICTION Loan Allegedly Raised While Bankrupt TEACHER INVOLVED (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Feb. 2. IJEMARKING that the trial magistrate had admitted "evidence inadmissible according to law and, that under the circumstances, it was his duty to allow the appeal, Mr. Justice Mills in the
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    Thaipusam Festival Today
    133 9 J\tfA/PI7SAM today id I be celebrated by HinJ&us all over Malaya wtth great enthusiasm and rt.ifjLv.s devotion. But tie greatest centre of mttrmoUm for the festival today Wi I be at the abode of Sri Subramania, on the sacred Palani Hills, in Scvih Jndia. Another place of
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    Weddings Walker—Meade
    182 9 Weddings Walker Meade AT THE Cathedra] of the Good Shep- herd jeHnlij evening. Miss Violet V>*. Mei.de. daughter of the late Mr. :.nd Mrs. Jolin Mcade, of Cardiff, was married to Mr. George M. Walker. chartered aeeotmtaist, of McAuiifte. i Turq-.iand. Youni Co. Singapore.! r.nd son of Mr. and Mrs.
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    Theft By Club Clerk
    127 9 Convicted oi theft on his own plea, a 32-year-old English-speaking *Hokkien. Tan Chin Choon, formerly employed in the office of the Royal Singapore Flying Club, was nned $50 or six weeks' rigorous imprisonment In default, by Mr. Conrad Oldham. in the Singapore Second Police Court, yesterday.
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    Unlawful Meeting Charges
    109 9 Unlawful Meeting Charges Four Hokkiens, Ong Tang Hock, Yap Moh Choo, Ong Boon Chia and Ho Kiam Peck, were produced before Mr. K A. Blacker, in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, on a charge of attending an unlawful society meeting in Teck Un Road of Feb. 1. The first,
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    More News From China
    87 9 pROM today, the Free Press will receive, through the Chinese Consulate-General, lengthy daily radio dispatches from Chengtu, prepared by Central News, the v. ell-known semi-official Chinese agency. This newspaper then will provide Chinese readers an unrivalled service of war and political news from their homeland. In
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    Fitzpatrick's Singapore Travelogue
    205 9 Fitzpatrick 's Singapore Travelogue CPLENDID shots ot the Sultan of Johore reviewing the Johore Military Forces are the highlights of a technicolour travelogue produced in Singapore and Johore by the celebrated James Fitzpatrirk during the visit of the Empress of Britain last year. The film, an M.-G.-M. release, was shown
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    Indian Bound Over For Year
    70 9 Indian Bound Over For Year Con vie Led of a charge of attempted thelt of a leather bag containing articles worth about $128. belonging to another man, G. Singh, on Wednesday, an Indian, Amar Singh, was bound over for a year on a personal bond of $100 by the Singapore
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      20 9 ln 'VIOV ;ood FOOD If '""^"li CONVENIENCE fieforf or After the Show D| NE 8c WINE vi THE CAPITOL RESTAURANT
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      357 9 OBTAINABLE AT ROBINSON'S BERNESE ALPS. IT S >■ r -JLijiJ, J^-rry^r OT I STERILIZED t Nn SAPE! yS '^"-^=-^y"~ r ?f B *^^aJa«B^a^^^^^^^F^» fa^HHaPk. L^aH I *^a^aV I L^B aVl^^aVß^L^l^lU^aM^L^L^L^ir^«^#*t f H j^S^ KJ y e»enic Swss /|J l^k^hk^ a^Lm BB 23 UUGH At Yourf^H OLD SELF WWt_ Yeast Vite
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    Australia's Drive For Recruits
    62 10 M R WU LYON^ f^-rPrilne nirrhf i er made a statement toS fve °S. a e iH S r^.° f the bruiting mYnfi' e d that the Incr ease of the mmtia to 70,000 was within fi lS ht The £63.000,000 defence programme was being carried
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    India To Burma Railway Needed
    138 10 A Calcutta, Jan. 24. RAILWAY link between India and Burma is believed to have become a more urgent strategic need in consequence of recent Far Eastern developments. Its value was first recognised during the Great War, when a single German cruiser rendered the Bay of
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    Death Of Guerilla Leader
    168 10 Sian, Feb. 2. £)NE of China's most intrepid volunteer commanders in Manchuria, General Wang Teh-lin has died after prolonged illness at the age of 62. at his native town of Chishuei in southeast Shantung province. General Wang, who played a prominent part in resisting the Japanese
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    China's Casualties Total 2,000,000
    165 10 London, Jan. 24. r»HINA has suffered 2,000,000 casual- ties since the outbreak of hostilities with Japan, 830,000 men have been killed. This was the estimate given by Mr. Itagakl, the Japanese War Minister, in reviewing the military operations of the past year in the Japanese Parliament.
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    52 10 JU?£ u. u rand of Califomten oranges, which is being placed on the Singapore market for the first time Trrtt r,J^ UCed i° lar e ga^ering of Li f, eal€^, who attended a cinema and dinner at the Southern Hotel given by Mr. J. A Alkow. repre'ran^s"° Z C^' il
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    CHINA ATTENDS TO HER PURSE STRINGS
    219 10 35,000,000 Industrial Co-operatives FIGHTING ENEMY GOODS H. Chungking, Feb. 1. AND in hand with defensive measures, the Chinese Government has since last August been strengthening the nation s economic defence by the gradual establishment of thirty-five million .industrial co-operatives throughout the country with a
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    Lindbergh Tore Up Million Dollar Film Contract
    127 10 New York, Jan. 24. I INDBERGH could have been 1-1 a film star, with a million dollar contract. He signed it, then tore it up. Soon after his epic flight from New York to Paris, he said, Lindbergh was approached by a famous
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    Observatory To Mark Hitler's Rome Visit
    413 10 Observatory To Mark Hitler's Rome Visit Rome Jan *4 MONUMENT of steel/stone and "brick win shortly rise on the heights of Monte Porzic, net? Rome a permanent record for future Ital'ian May'TgT f HltleF S ViSit to Italy in This monument will take the form or the most modern observatory
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      541 10 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TENDERS, SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. Tenders. Tenders are now invited for the following materials or services. For particulars, see Municipal Tenders Room: Supply of Sulphate of Alumina for period June 1, 1939 to May 31, 1940 Date of Closing. 4 p.m., Apr. 3, 1939. Supply of Mild Steel Wash Water
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      153 10 BOARD RESIDENCE. SEA FRONT KATONO GRANGE— 77. Meyer Bit (near Swimming Club) Board-Residence at moderate rates Large Gardens— Tennis. Phone: 5758. THE MANSION OXLEY RISE PRIVATE HOTEL Tel. *****. EAST ANGLIA 8. OXLEV RISE SINGAPORE. 8 rains, to town high level, garages, dally or monthly rates, large grounds, excellent cuisine
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      425 10 BANK OFchik7 Oneorporatea u> 0 **^A Reserve rand. i n Ch. t t| «xce« of ToUl Asseu Co. i •PProUmatrl, r IM H SH O '™^JS u N n i rt p i PWANCmo 0 OENERAL BANKTtt/--business transacted IN ana QCBAIQi Pull Particulars on ,nniir.M OVERSEA CHINESE BAKK|«; CORFJRATION, LT
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      458 10 RADIO PROGRAMMES SINGAPORE TODAY ZHL 225 metre* 'HP 5t.96 metrm. p.m. 5.00 A recitation of the Koran 5.20 Arabic scngs. f .5.40 Songs by Miss Julia t 6.00 Teochew Guakang selections, t 6.15 Teochew Guakan* dramas t J- 5° Children's programme. (English). inenftT' Weather and ncws announceI'nn Z rom The
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      ToNDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS & SHARES
      307 11 ToNDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES Last Night's Quotations From London 5.30 p. m. Yesterday r.m:natlon un!esa Latest Quotations Previourly stated 5 PC 1944-64.... 110*2 ]10i^ i l«*« 107? 107', 2* A" 35<k 35 l**> 85)..« 51 4 £9fc. 6d. Bank 5125).... £1. 15s £83 10s. emtio... b* r.u 255.
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      Local Exchange Rates
      168 11 FEB. 1 t SELLING London T.T 32 1 London demand 3 "j** < Lyons demand Switzerland demand mm£ Hamburg demand New York demand i Montreal demand M Batavia demand J Samarang demand 99; I Calcutta. Bombay and Rangoon j demand 22 Madras and Colombo demand IM% Hong
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      THE COMMODITY MARKETS
      183 11 From London 5. 30 p.m. Yesterday RUBBER: Steady I London: 713 16d. 715 16d. Previously: 713 16d. 715 16d. I Apr.-June: 7T B d. 7 15 16d. Previously: 7 1516d. Bd. I July-Sept 715 16d. Bd. Previously: Bd. 8 l'l6d. I Oct.-Dec: Bd. 8» 8 d Previously:
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      SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES
      1339 11 From Exchange Telegraph Co. Fraser And Co. s List nUESDAT, FEB. 2, 1939: 5 P.M. MINING Buytrt Sellers Tin «,4s> 3s 6d 4s Asa n Kunsbana If) 26s 27s Aus.iaJ Maiav (f) 40s 45s noir Iftr Hitam i5s) 22s 23s Wcng Si) 55 .60 3an£Tin
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      THE METAL MARKETS
      66 11 II From London: Latest Quotations I TIN: Easy. Spot: £2ls a*. Gd. Previously £216 10s. Three month*: £214 Ite Previously: £21f 7s. Id NEW YORK TIN: 'Opening Price-: 46.20 Previously: -6.40. COPPER: I7i Od Previously: £42 lis. Gc GOLD: yesterday B7 s 2 7-.d PreYioualy: £< Ss.
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      Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations
      59 11 Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations Mettiod oi P«ntj oe:ore Latest Muttl Quoting »-WI *>rev!ousiv Parts Franc to 124.11 I*7 rn Ne* York... $to «*JJ* Amsterdam. Guilder* to ft 12.10 f- 69 > Horg Kong. r»er dollar If. 2 15 16 is. 3a. S°a!%hai .55 dollar 83 8 d nom
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      Italy Len ds 31,000 Workers To Germany
      410 11 Rome. OR some time now Italy has rejected the policy of emigration. One oi ie first actions decided upon by he Duce after the March on Rome /as that of abolishing the Emigration :ommissariat A sell-respecting nation cannot adnit that her sons wander
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      Current Company Dividends
      89 11 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. THURSDAY, FEB. 2, 1939: 5 P.M. Total ror Company Dtvidena Books Financial TIN Cloae D&i* Ex Dlv. yea> Kuala Lumpur Tin Is. Feb 17 Feb. 17 ft* Petallng 5% final and 5% int. Jan, 24 Feb. 6 Jan. 25 40%' Takuapa
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      Yesterday's Rubber Auction
      95 11 Yesterday's Rubber Auction n C -m'oer of Commerce lon held its 1,419th when there were .os. '528.08 tons) 232 lbs. «492.98 tons) M 401 83 tons) Spot 7 1316d. 15' 2 cents PRICES REALISED c '^ed Smoked Sheet Cents Per Lb. 26^ Two lots 26%) Q lality 26 to 26*8
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      CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSOCIATION
      97 11 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSOCIATION h 1 U O'CLOCK NOON Bayers Sellers. 1 QR i 26% 26% 1 0 B. to 26% 27 I:,. J" S PO B. to 1 <•<< Va? 7 26% 26% ll£ r 108. in gS M 25% bales February 25% 25% Flat Bark Crepe F.0.8.
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      New Burial For Perugino
      75 11 Rome. The remains of Piero Vannucci, called the "Perugino," are to be removed from the humble little church where they hSf» lain for centuries at Fontlgnano, where Perugino died while working on his last fresco. Now the body Is to be given worthy burial at Perugia
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    TIN BUFFER POOL CRISIS IMMINENT
    1513 12 U.S. Consumption Is Hanging Back POSSIBLE CUT IN QUOTA (From Our Own Correspondent* London, Jan. 24. HAILURE of the long-anticipated recovery in the American tinplate industry to materialise is threatening to precipitate what may well prove to be the most dangerous crisis in the eventful
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    71 12 THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, SIR FRANK BOWATER, received a party of 22 boys at the Mansion House to wish them luck before they sailed for Australia. They are going to Australia under the auspices of the Big: Brother Movement, and this will be the first party to sail under
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    Princess Remembers Her Teacher
    90 12 Rome, Jan. 24. the guests who thronged the 16 salons of the Quirinal Paiace at the wedding reception of Princess Maria, youngest daughter of the King of Italy, and Prince Louis of Bourbon Parma, was a white-haired Englishwoman, on whom the Princess bestowed her warmest greeting.
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      183 12 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. (APCAR LINE) FOR HONG KONG, MOJI, KOBE OSAKA s. s. TALMA 10,000 TONS SAILING FEB. 9 AT 3 P.M. The above vessel has excellent modern accommodation for First Saloon and Second Saloon passengers. Special Holiday Return tickets to China and Japan (interchangeable with P.
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      492 12 BOUSTEAD CO., Uo (Incorporated in 9M8.) TELEPHONE: freight &m-Pa** r M3l lißf^.^r^^^^a (Incorpoiatrd in England THE "EMPRESS" ROUTE offers TBANo. SERVICES via HONOLULU or direct n. P !5 IFlc VANCOUVER-ACROSS CANADA by TRA\im? to ENTAL TRAIN without change-thence by C^f PACIFIC ATLANTIC SERVICES TO E\Ti *vn' AN the CONTINENT-all under
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      416 12 Air Mail Arrivals And Despatches INWARD Imperial: From Europe due Wednesday, Friday, Saturday mornings. Wearnes: From I'enang. lpoh. and Kuala Lumpur. Arrives '.rer? eveninf. K.L.M.: From Netherlands l/idies: Arrives Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday afternoons. Qantas: From Australia: arrive* Tuesday, Friday, Sunday mornings. K.L.M.: From Europe: Arrives Tuesday. Thursday. Sunday evenings. K.N.1.L.M.:
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      87 12 Mails from Australia. Netherlands Indies etc. by Air (Qantas) are expected in Singa- pore today. Mails from Japan by Tokyo Maru are expected in Singapore today. Mails from China and Japan by Buenos Aires Maru are expected in Singapore, Sinday, Feb. 5. Mails from China and Japan by Africa Maru
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      461 13 jyp^ndBRITrSHIMDJA LINES P-' DtOORPI Hi ENGLAND) p. 6i O. S. H. GO'S SAILINGS, or"n>YRDS Dae i>ue I online. Spw«. I.'nnafp S porr. m m ::.000 pcb. 10 bangalors e.ooo Apr. s 6.070 Feb. 11 RAJPUTANA 17.000 Apr. 31 .5.500 Feb. 24 RANCHZ 17.000 May 5 6.800 Mar. 10 BHUTAN 6.100
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      390 13 McALISTER CO., LTD. (incorporated in Strait* Settlements.) <*RESHAM HOUSE, BATTERI BD.. SINGAPORE. PHONE 5172 ELLERMAN BUCKNALL S.S. Co., Ltd. l ncorporatcxi in Engiana > HAVRE LONDON ROTTERDAM HAMBURG VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL Steamer Due Sails CITY OF FLORENCE Calls Glasgow Feb 2 7 Mar 2 CITY OF BEDFORD Mar.
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      566 13 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Ocean Building, Coßyer Qua> Sing*por t TeL 5151. Chartered Bank Building Penang TeL 1366. BLUE FUNNEL LINE. FAST SERVICES MARStILLtS, LONDON. N. CONTINENT AND GLASGOW (in cenjraetion with the Glen Line) Dae Sails NELEUS Ldon, R'dara, Htmrg. Ant., MTwough Feb. 4 Feb. 7 SARPEDON Mars, L'don. R'dam,
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    PROTECTING SHIPS IN WARTIME
    680 14 Ports Where Arms Will Be Stored TRAINING FOR SEAMEN London, Jan. 24. THE measures announced by the Admiralty to extend *to seamen of the Mercantile Marine the training in defence already available for officers indicates the thoroughness with which the problem of ensuring the safety of
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    Canada Doubles Milk Production
    48 14 Ottawa. T|AIRY production In Canada has almost doubled In the past 16 years, the quantity of milk produced increasing from 9,000,000 pound* in 1921 to 17.000.000 pounds in 1937 it is estimated that 3,000,000 cows are required to produce this quantity of Canadian Newsletter
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    SINGAPORE HARBOUR
    156 14 The following ships are alongside the wharves or expected to arrive. East Wharf: Entrance Gate 1; Exit 1: Plancius 20. Main Wharf: Entrance Gate 2; Exit 3: Shirala 18; Benioniond 16; Coburs 14; Garoet 11; Kamuning 9. Empire Dock: Entrance Gate 2; Exit 3: Taybank 34; Granville 36;
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    "Lifeline Cf The Empire"
    135 14 London. Jan. 24. CPEAKING at a meeting of the Overseas League in Liverpool yesterday. Sir Evelyn Wrench described the Merchant Navy as the life-line of the Emp re. It would, ho said, bo a dastardly deed to permit it to decline. In the ports of the
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    Anchor Line
    105 14 London, Jan. 24. A NCHOR LINE, of Glasgow, is pass- ing the half-year's dividend on the Five and a-Half per C?nt. Preference shares due Feb. 1. The draft accounts for the year ended Sept. 30 last £hov; a net profit of £37.764 before charging depreciation on the fleet.
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    FLOODS FEAR IN EAST ANGLIA
    78 14 London, Feb. 1. Zero hour is approaching in low-lying areas of the fens, where it is possible thousands of tens of flood-water may burat through hastily built defences and inundate farms and villages. After a night of ceaseless preparations, during which hundreds of workmen piled
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      544 14 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. jaJs^sssMM^fc^u!^ jfa^C^ r ==3to TO EUROPE FROM SINGAPORE AND fENA.NG TO COLOMBO. BOMBAY. SL'EZ, PORT SAIO. ALEXANDRIA. NAPLES. GENOA. MARSEILLES AND NEW YORK. Arrives Leaves Loaves Arrives Spore. S*p»re. Penang. New York. PRESIDENT HAYES Peb 11 Feb 14 Feb. t G Mar *8 PRESIDENT POLK r
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      571 14 O-S-K. LMi FOB AFRICA ASU SOUTH %MLRi t^ "^^^^J tßuenos Aires Mara Buenos Aires via Colombo D, lr h London, Port EUwbeth. Cape SSrSV 6 F^ hr^ elrO> H SantOS Montevideo V homeward voyage. R!o Grande and uJL fAfrlca Mara Buenos Aires via Colombo. Maeadivo I basa. Zanzibar. Dar-^-Salaam rt
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    Today's Contract Bridge problems
    233 15 Today's Contract Bridge problems David Bruce D Ifmfer, Oswald ard Srhenk.n. :);i vid Burnstone, Y and you held: I QXI H I that your side your hand Is not bid diamonds spadea ,>r two spades, diamonds (this hand inoUBh fOr hcnc <\ the other bid. lermbte. Howard I bldl one
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    Galento May Meet Nova, Not Farr
    138 15 G London, Jan. 24. abroad Two-Ton" Tony th be« man. champion *ipe heavy-weight cVass. M» going to meet bi would. He is I Lou Nova the r as his oppo««i t, put his stuff, He has just 4 l Argentine chamone of the somen"
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    Demonstrators At West Ham
    27 15 ed L d'e°,n n^f^' m A ATCH^L Eye on the crowd, when unemployed demonstrator, caused a riot at West Ham during Vic intend.
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    Workless Invade Football Fields
    223 15 Workless Invade Football Fields CHASED OFF BY POLICE W ADF London, Jan. 24. UKKLLbb invaded the playing pitches at Highbury and West Ham at half-time and held up placards calling for support for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. At Highbury, where Arsenal beat Charlton 2—o, the management had been warned
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    Scored 71 In 12 Minutes
    106 15 London, Jan. 24. pROM Wollongnng iN.S.W.) comes a claim for a new cricket record. Athol McDonald collected 71 runs in 12 minutes, including six sixes and a four in one over (eight-ball over, obviously). They say it's the record knock for the South Coast. Of
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    Freight Trade Co-operation A Success
    245 15 Freight Trade Co-operation A Success London, Jan. 24. AT a meeting of international shipping interests on freight co-opera-tion, held at the Chamber of Shipping in London yesterday, appreciation was expressed at the remarkable measure of success achieved during a very difficult trading year. It was the third meeting of the
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    Tomorrow's Home Football Fixtures
    233 15 LJOME FOOTBALL fixtures for tomorrow are as follows: SCOTTISH CUP Dundee United vs. Motherwell. Edinburgh vs. St. Mirren. Queen of the South vs. Badcock Wilcox. Blair Gowrie vs. Buckle Thistle. Aberdeen vs. Queen's Park. Third Lanark vs. Cowdenbeath. Dundee vs. Clyde. Hearts vs. Elgin City. Rangers
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    HOME SOCCER MARKSMEN
    461 15 London, Jan. 23. pKEETHAM <Q.P. Rangers) and Asquith (Barnsley), the jointleaders, failed to score on Saturday, but retain their lead. Patrick, Asquith's closest challenger in the Northern Section, scored once, and is only one behind the leader, but there was no change in the first five places
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    VON NIDA TO COMPETE FOR OPEN TITLE
    853 15 Promising Player Who Has Beaten Locke CHANCE FOR AUSTRALIA QF the new personalities to be seen in Britain this year, most promising is Norman von Nida, whose achievements proclaim him to be the best professional golfer in Australia. How good he is may
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    Hockey Cancelled
    25 15 The hockey match between the Y.M.C.A. and the Fort Canning team which was to have been played at Aixson Roag y«*t*rdajr. was cancelled.
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    Omission From London Tennis Team
    366 15 BARRISTER'S FORM London, Jan. 24. QF all the likely candidates fcr Briv tain's Davis Cup team next summer, I doubt whether any man is playing better lawn tennis than Lauri Shaffi, a young London barrister, is doing at the moment, writes Geoffrey Simpson. He looks
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    Tennis In The Doldrums
    188 15 London, Jan. 24. I WISH to goodness I could think that that autocratic body, the Lawn Tennis Association, was trying to build up some young players for our next Davis Cup team. I made a number of inquiries last week, and I found that it is
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    HEMCHIT'S FIRST ROUND KNOCK-OUT SURPRISE WIN
    416 16 Sudden End After A Fierce Start TWO DISQUALIFICATIONS AT HAPPY WORLD MEIL Hemchit (9.SV 2 scored a kno^out over Boon Mah (9.B Vj) in the first round of a 10 3-min. round contest at the Happy World, Singapore, last night. Both boys looked in
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    Vacuna, E1 Shadeed Win Changi Races
    189 16 COMMODORE'S TROPHY THIRTEEN 1 boats turned out for the lirst race of the series for the Vinette Trophy. Nyamok and Vacuna were first over the* line, only io be recalled. A fast reach was sailed to the Changi Bouy with the fleet well bunched,
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    Changi Sailing Notes
    147 16 oeed. Astra and Lunar Bow established an early lead, but before reaching the mark Lunar B\>w was forced to retire in a water-logged condition, allowing Vacuna to come through to third place The boats ran free on the second leg to the distance mark and positions remained
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    Rugby Team Reaches Hong Kong
    41 16 Hong Kong, Feb. 2. THE Malayan Rugby team arrived on !h? Ranpura today. Bourne will iiot be playing on Saturday as he has a poisoned toe. but should be fit for the game on Wednesday. Reuter
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    GAMES TO BE BROADCAST
    42 16 Commentary on the three matches to be played in Hong Kong by the Malayan rugger side tomorrow and on Wednesday and Saturday of next week will be broadcast from Hong Kong, oeginning at 3.20 (Malayan tlme> each day.
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    Racecourse Open On Thursday
    32 16 In preparation for *he Singoooro Turf CluVs Spring Meeting the raceM«cm »H1 b? officially open for trainin? on Thursday at 5.45 a.m., when tnvsual coffee arrangements will be
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    League Champions Celebrate
    60 16 IN celebration of their winning the S.C.F.A. League championship, the Siong 800 Athletic Association held a dinner at the Great World last nisht. Over 100 people attended the function. Mr. Lim Hock Seng, president of the Association, congratulated the playing members of the team for the ruccess
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    K. L. Golfers And Caddies Insured
    117 16 (From Our Own Correspondent* Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 1. MEMBERS and caddies of the T1 Selangor Golf Club are covered by third party insurance to the extent of $10,000 in one year, for which each member is charged the annual sun^ of $1. This insurance
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    Lack Gf Support For Hockey
    85 16 I ACK ct finance and lack ci support from spectators prevented Singapore from being the centre of interi national hockey in the Far East, said Mr. J. Msyger, President of the Singapore Hockey Associationi at the first hockey Association dinner held at the New World
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    Preparations For Cup Final At Wembley
    275 16 \7voTPDniv London, Jan. 24. VtSTERDAY morning, m the bright sunlight that stirred o J n T r st ful th T oU ht s of tees, fairways and bunkersespecially bunkers-I trod the Chip Final pitch, at WembteT Finlf iTvortf O r u a t.
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    Weights For Tomorrow's Races
    356 16 Weights For Tomorrow's Races IpOMPLETE weights for tomorrow, the third and final day of the Perak Turf Club's meeting, are as i follows: Horses, Class 2. l'i miles, rlskander Plate). Hivl Hivi 9 04 L- Touquet 8 00 Deepdene 9.01 MountaJ-i Stream 7 13 (Viola II 8.07 Victory Parade 7^1
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    Police Boxing At Harringay
    148 16 London, Jan 24 QN Feb. 1 policemen of various w nations will try to show each other at Harringay just what they do to people who don't behave. For 13 years there's been an Open Police Boxing Chamiponship meeting and this year more foreigners than ever
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    S.C.C.V SNOOKER
    42 16 S.C.C. V SNOOKER S.C.C. volunteer snooker semi-finals for next week are: MONDAY E. H. Coleman and M. F. Outler va H. L. Boumphrey and F. V. Read. TUESDAY M. Melville and J. A. Gagan vs Major Nevill and SiLdr. F. E. Watts
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    Cup Final Referee To Be Manager
    105 16 London, Jan. 24. jyiii A. J. JEWEIL, la;t years Cup Final referee, is to become manager of Norwich City F.C. F.veryone in football will wish him success. He has been one of the most competent referees on the t.A. and Footba!! League lists. The
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    French Rugby Has A Black Sunday
    335 16 French Rugby Has A Black Sunday London, Jan. l\. I WITH tventa shaping mere kinrtly towards a nvrumpticn of playing relations between Britain and France on the Rugby field— l am sorry to report that French Rugby had a black day last Sunday. No fewer than eight player.s were turned
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    S.C.R.C. Soccer Tournament Final
    346 16 S.C.R.C. Soccer Tournament Final GAME DRAWN 1-ALL SLITHERING on sou,,, n B 7 players in the sc r u tournament final fixture L2?* the "A" and B teams f£S* Kallant one-all draw fought a Hong Lim Green ><Stei o! By virtue ot the reniii team, captained by m, t r
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    21 16 picture. "A" AND "B" TEAMS in the S.C.R.C. football tournament played a one-all draw en Hongr Lim Green yesterday. Free Press
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    Davis' Brother Is Good
    178 16 London. J.u». M TF you wear gla >ses and pl.iv you will bo interested in the W that Fred Davis, jroonfer brother I the champion, gave Alec Broi other great match ttiii veefc hi second time this leaaoa He Brown at the start oJ thlf level,
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