The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 6 February 1939

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 15,fc)J tSTU |£jj. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1939. 5 CENTS
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    22 1 l»- HENRI l»ni RUING, ttfl u f h»v uwd 3t tM Mont/. Uurirs uth he vurLrd al Prnang. >tor> 0 1 [>•»-* TWO)
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    ITALIAN TROOPS WILL NOT LEAVE SPAIN
    349 1 ITALIAN TROOPS WILL NOT LEAVE SPAIN To Stay "Till Fascist Victory Is Complete" MUSSOLINI'S REPORT ON WORLD SITUATION Rome, Feb. 5. THE riiHW (irand Council met last nig^ht and a communique 1 was issued stating that Italian volunteers would not leave Spain until after General Franco's victory was complete. Satisfaction
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    Martial Law In Hungary
    32 1 n-iii d.*>i. ft*. hi it provides Including all terror >mbi out- ia .4 people mostly nred. ten < t th-OH two band grenades I rshtppers leav- _ge-gl.es. lave Reuter
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    Anti-Gandhi Demonstration
    19 1 Boml > Feb. J. i marked Bei gal Conrcnce a L rid 6o_laiisl ted Subhas 'Down th Reuter
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    STOP PRESS
    63 1 I 'i.ii'.u. I eb. o. 10 bomb rtplnii— at l.,r;)ool thf rJtv.s tafej the s.enc UrHN «>f police buUdUu alter buil.H..- "-^N, hut j, Mrests. was x i mn, :r ■'•""t thc theory JV V l-". ihr ,ati,ns police •^rH ">>ilbt< dl|ri »»f the M <lt NWck lor
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    Governor On Malaya's Bonds With Siam
    489 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) CIR SHENTON THOMAS, in tn in^erv^^w^ Siamese journalists before he left Bangkok yesterday on the conclusion of his State visit, commented on the warm welcome extended to him and Lady Thomas. •'This, in my opinion," he said, "is due not
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    President Of Spain Fleeing To Paris
    190 1 President Of Spain Fleeing To Paris Pan*, Feb. IT IS announced in Perpiguan that Dr. Ne*rin, the Spanish Premier, and his ministers left Figneras this morning by air for Madrid. President Az»na is coming to Perpignan en route for Paris. The President is preceded by members of his household and
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    Singapore 120 Years Old Today
    42 1 SINGAPORE today celebrates the 110th anniversary of its foundin s as a British settlement by Sir Stamford Raffles. Special Fre« Press features on old Singapore appear on pages FOUR. FIVE, and SIX, Editorial comment on page EIGHT.
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    SUPPORT FOR GERMAN CLAIMS
    96 1 Rome, Feb. 5. 4«npHE democracies must get it into their htads what they have got to confer territories to recognise certain rights" says Relazioni Internazlonali, 1 commenting on Italian national aspirations. Referring: to Hitlers statement < that Germany would be on Italy's; side in I >"?
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    Capture Of Gerona: Claim By Italians
    64 1 Capture Of Gerona: Claim By Italians Rome, Feb. 5. The claim that the Italian Littorio Division had occupied Gerona v/a* made in a telegram from the Italian General Gambara. to Mussolini. The telegram stated: "At I.IiO p.m. i on Dec. 23 the Littorio Division smashied the enemy's front at Seros.
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    30 1 London. Feb. 5. Mr. Alex Henshaw took oil f«*" Grave^end at 3 35 a.m. in an attenjpt 1 to fly to t*>* f!arM> and back In under 'four days Reuter
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    51 1 j Knoxville, Feb. 3. The Tenneszeo .Valley authority has announced that it has reached a basis of agreement under which the authoi- ity and local pubi^ agencies •vili i acquire all THUMfaes electrical pro- periies of th? Cor. i *cmvealth lad i Southern Corpora, on Rt o DfiSi Oi $78,600,000-
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    Governor At Bangkok Party
    37 1 Governor At Bangkok Party THE BRITISH MINISTER, Luang F.adit. the Siamese Minister of Finance, and sir Shenton Thomas. Governor S.S., photographed at a British legation garden party given during Sir Shenton's visit to Bangkok. (Picture by air)
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    Rotten Eggs Hurled At Italians
    77 1 Panama. Feb. 5. ADMIRAL Somiglio and other officers from the Italian cruisers Savoia and Duca d'Aosta were pelted with rotten eggs as they passed through Panama City this morning returning from an official visit to the president. Dr. Juan Arosemena. One assaiiant was arrested. Police
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    New Defence Chief Returns From India
    73 1 London. Feb. 5. f ORD CHATFIELD, new minister for the Co-ordination of Defence has arrived In England on return from India, where has been studying pro blems of Indian defence. Lord Chatfleld told Reuter his committee had studied Indian defence problems in every aspect
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    Prison Bombed By Terrorists
    455 1 ARMS ISSUED TO POLICE London, Feb. 5. JL FRESH bomb outrage occurred at Liverpool last night when an explosion tore away part of the brickwork from the wall at Walton Gaol, where many Sinn Fein prisoners were kept after the Irish Rebellion, and where number of
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    OIL KING WHO WORKED AT PENANG
    506 2 Death Of Sir Henri Deterding JOB IN THE EAST STARTED WAY TO SUCCESS SIR HENRI DETERDING, the oil magnate, died yesterday at St. Moritz, Reuter reports from The Hague. Sir Henri, who was former Director-General of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., was a junior
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    Tragic Plight Of Retreating Army
    249 2 Perpignan, Feb. 5. TN consequence of the fail of Gerona and heavy air-raids on Figueras, the Spanish Government is withdrawing from Figueras, according to reports reaching here. It is not known whether the government will go immediately to the Valencia-Madrid zone, or remain a few
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    Nazi Leader Admits Bad Standard Of Life In Reich
    112 2 Nazi Leader Admits Bad Standard Of Life In Reich Vienna, Feb. 5. I MIST admit that the standard of life in Austria has not improved since the Anschluss and a greater number of people is now grumbling against the Government," said Herr Ruercke. Vienna's new Nazi party Leader, speaking at
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    SUCCESS OF "FITTER BRITAIN" CAMPAIGN
    177 2 SUCCESS OF "FITTER BRITAIN" CAMPAIGN London, Feb. 5. IN anticipation of the world congress on recreation and leisure, which wiil meet in London next week, and will bo attended by delegates from 20 countries, the National Fitness Council —the body set up to advise the Government on the national fitness
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    Japanese For Shanghai Customs
    43 2 Tokio, Feb. 5. Seventy Japanese are to be engaged as Customs officers as the result of the reorganisation of Chinese maritime customs at Shanghai, it was stated by the Foreign Office spokesman i n the House of Representatives. Reuter
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    36 2 Flying Officer G. B. M. Bell has been appointed personal assistant to the Air Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force Far East, Air Vice Marshal j T Babington, i n succession to Flying 2T^ UmBmore who on
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    Decrees To Speed-Up France's Production
    51 2 F Paris, Feb. 5. OUR decrees have been issued to implement the scheme of M. Reynauds, Finance Minister, for speedingup French production. Three are designed to encourage industrial and commercial establishments to improve plant. The fourth aims at reducing charges for com- panies which reorganise.
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    HUNGARIAN LEGATION LEAVING MOSCOW
    33 2 Moscow, Feb 5. Ooeymg .summary instructions 'from Budapest the staff of the Hungarian Legation is departing immediately The Polish legation is temporarily taking charge of Hungarian in Moscow.— Reuter
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    17 2 Rome, Feb. 5. Signor Mussolini's flying instructor Signor Biseo, has left for Brazil' piloting a land-plaro. Reuter
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    MILITIAMEN RETURNING TO SPAIN
    39 2 Reuter Twelve hundred Republican militiamen have arrived at Bayonne from Catalonia. According to a Bayonne telegram, all have expressed their desire to return to Nationalist Spain, where they will be sent as .soon as ossible
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    Supplies From Britain Delivered
    55 2 Perpignan, Feb. 5. The Earl of Antrim and Captain Lennox-Boyd, who left London last week with seven lorry-loads of food and medical supplies from the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief, crossed the frontier yesterday afternoon and delivered the stores to Figueras. They afterwards entrained at
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    More Nazi Press Attacks On Roosevelt
    152 2 Berlin, Feb. 5. THE newspaper Nachtausgabe, com- 1 menting on President Roosevelt's denial that he said American frontiers were in France declares: "President Roosevelt's statement is not a denial at all and is only intended to throw dust in the eyes of the American
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    Japan Trying To Get Trade Pacts
    69 2 Tokio, Feb. 5. The Foreign Office spokesman has announced that negotiations are proceeding for reciprocal foreign trade arrangements with Germany, France. Finland, Venezuela. Argentina. Paraguay and Uruguay. He added that similar agreements have already been concluded with Turkey. Italy, Poland and Australia. The spokesman
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    FOREIGNERS ASKED TO LEAVE RULING
    65 2 Shanghai. Feb. 5. IN a note handed to the Italian Consul-General here. Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, Consul-Genera! of Japan, has urged Third Power nationals to evacuate Ruling, mountain resort on the Lushan. before Feb. 10. It has been also requested that foreigners should report to the
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    "GERMAN PEOPLE WANT TO GET RID OF HITLER"
    205 2 T f £T man pe °P le th emselves are longing to get rid ol Hitler, but as yet no one can utter a word against him without being bundled off into a concen,nSf C fT p omk A r y an
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    Big Reverses For Japanese In Hupei
    127 2 Big Reverses For Japanese In Hupei flGHTING ln°5»^l favour of the rw, Japanese tro -'"'J shan-Chu:. J C An enemy oy Chines, district yesterday, ld J h airmen were triiled <m ril In North Kiangsi, thTchS 1 ed a small Wet when arSlrt^3 ments were destrovedS planes. Cfau the week-end
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    Trouble Growing Over Siberia
    52 2 Hour K.» »t» DUSSO-Jnpa-ic-t Soviet attempts to ery areas In East B I ed to be ver. latest messages Border fighting, war China by the 6 tion in Europe may serious crisis In But I cuiarly the pr<>. where most I have taken place observers think
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    Selangor And Perak Volunteers Draw
    73 2 I From Oui Kua..- Lumpur. W IOUKPRISINCn.V seen on the pa j when the Sela jeers met the Pei 'turn match. Pi jthe ground. The draw cation ol how JSelangor played a forward lira- Wd attack somewhat After ten jr.. broke through the I taking
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    Tennis Test At Durban
    59 2 Tennis Test At Durban purbi" Results In the ViS African tennis to* English players 1 FIKST DA\ Valerie BeoM be^OWO" 1 2—6. 6—3. Shayes vs. Faruuharsuii ed), 2-6. B nIY Filbylost to VO Kiro>;; Butler andMi«S(»tt |snj H harson and Un t- 6—2, 3—6. Mrs McKrhi.- bv.it Wm phew 6-1.
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    Davis Cup Dates
    14 2 The Davis **fff£ be played on LJ Merion pricket Pennsylvania- Reuter
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    LORD STRABOLGI VISITS SINGAPORE
    478 3 LORD STRABOLGI VISITS SINGAPORE Here 30 Years Ago As A Midshipman PADANG MEMORIES DEARER of a 600-year-old title Lord Strabolgi (the 1 u is silent, and the g hard) is in Singapore. He is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Petrie on a rubber estate at Masai, South Johore.
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    Court Cases Keep Emden's Name Alive
    455 3 /V0 REST FOR SKELETON a\ No\. Wl J ulls boomed over the Indian Ocean. 8 11.M.A.5. Sydney sank the German raider Emden. It *a* an outstanding incident of the Great War. Yet *h<> ot those gallant men on either warship could have dreamed that
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    Labour Peer and Hosts
    72 3 V \B<>l<l tliirJ from left) Chief \Vhi,» of ttas I.aWmir OpHou.sr of Lords, on the airport jetty after his arrival Ni«>rda) from Australia by Qantas Empire flying-boat Mr and Mrs. Bruce Petri*. whose ffuest he is at Masai. h ronUaattl to England by air on Tuesday,
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    Law Notice For The Day
    78 3 Law Notice For The Day Before the Chief Justice. S.S. Acting j Chief Justice, F.M.S. and Mr. Justice Home in the Ist. Court at 16.30 a.m. Court of Criminal Appeal. Appeal No. 30 3&— Poh Choo Lai vs. Before Mr. Justice Pedlow In 2nd. Court at 11 a.m. ISummonses-in-Chambers. Originating
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    Murder Charge Against Chinese
    68 3 (From Our Own Correspondent > Johore Bahru, Feb. 4. As a result of the discovery of the dead body of a Chinese at a plantation in Gelang Pa tan, buried in earth with two abdominal Injuries and a vegetable cuttng knife sticking in cna wound. Mah
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    Strolling Singer In Penang
    165 3 (From Our Ov.n Correspondent) Penang, Feb. 4. A WELL-KNOWN character bariton Mr. John Valentine, who has act* and sung in 40 countries of the worl Is now in Penang on a brief visit. 1 has been travelling from the a^e of 1 20 years ago, but
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    "Australia Must Have Naval Base"
    477 3 "Australia Must Have Naval Bas e" "A USTRALIA must have a naval r, base," declared Lord Strabolgi J (formerly Lieut. -Commander Ken- j worthy in the House o£ Commons), j Chief Whip of the Labour Opposition j in the House of Lords, when he ar- j rived at Singapore from
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    28 3 Fifty sets of plans have been received for the new St. George's Hospital. Hyde Park Corner. Announcement of the design chosen will te made iu a few weeks.
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    New Manager For Malayan-American
    68 3 New Manager For Malayan- American (From Our Own Correspondent) Penan*. Feb i. It Is understood that following Mr. M. D. Knapp's retirement from the East, Mr. U. A. N. Laing has been appointed manager of the MalayanAmerican Plantations Ltd. Mr. P. Purnell who for several years has been in the
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    Two Weddings In Week-End
    603 3 Clarke-McComiick <Ficr.i Ovr Ooai Co.Tc;pcncent» Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 4. f TTHE wedding t:ok placo today, at St. f Mary's Church, o! Miss Oriel Davrn j J McCorraic!:, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. McCormick, of Rav;ang. and Mr. Henry Clp.rkson Clarke, son Of the lot? Mr.
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    22 3 Professor G. R. Girdlestone Nuffleld Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Oxford University, has tendered h'.s resignation owing to pressure of other duties.
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    Queen's Scholar Complains Of 'Closed Door'
    317 3 WELCOMES TO MR. PONNIAH (Frcm Our Own Correspondent) •eremban. I|R BENEDICT PONNIAH, F.M.S. Queen's Scholar, who is on a visit to Malaya before taking up an appointment in the Ceylon Civil Service, has been the guest of honour at several functions in Malaya. The
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    21 3 This year's conference of the T.U.C. which was to have taken place r.t Bournemouth in September, has been transferred to Bridlingrton.
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    Raffles Place In The Fifties
    22 4 A CORNER OF RAFFLES PLACE AND JOHN LTri'LE AND CO'S premise* in 1854. From an old print
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    THE TREATY
    845 4 Signed On Feb. 6, 1819 TREATY of Friendship and Alliance concluded between the Honorable Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant Governor of Fort Marlborough, and its Dependencies, Agent to the Most Noble Francis Marquess of Hastings Governor General of India &c. t &c, &c, for the Honourable English East
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    SINGAPORE'S EARLY HISTORY BEFOpp THE SETTLEMENT WAS FOUNDED
    1699 4 A Great Massacre In The 14th Century FLAGS WILL FLY TODAY VLAGS will be flown from Singapore buildings today and ships in port will be dressed. Otherwise the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Colony will have no public celebration. CINGAPORE,
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    The Island's Trade Ninety Years Ago
    644 4 JUNKS FROM CHINA WITH TEA CAMPHOR A MERCHANT who knew Singapore in the days when It was supreme as the entrepot of Malaysia, Mr. F. Davidson, wrote in "Trade and Travel in the Far East" published in 1846, the following description of Singapore trade:
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    SINGAPORE AS IT WAS IN THE PAST
    104 5 All except two of these pictures are from "One Hundred Yetrs of Singapore." SINGAPORE in the Forties. SINGAPORE 184«. SINGAPORE in the Fifties. THE FIRST OCR! HOUSE. THE OLD S.CC. PAVILION. ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL showing Raffles Statue on its orifinal ,itr >»:«H\R|> road
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    Singapore In The 19th Century: When There Were Only Seventy-Five Europeans Here
    5327 6 Singapore In The 1 9th Century: When There Were Only Seventy -Five Europeans Here place, he has, .so retires and dons "the oasy, cool, upper dress o* India." Banquet Menu Sherry and bitters stand on a side-table for the gentlemen to partake of, and whet their torpid appetites, after which
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    THE BEST WAY TO CLEAN TEETH
    90 6 THE BEST WAY TO CLEAN TEETH And protect mouth and <-'■ At the -amotintf Many pwi* ll :i I brushing the:: I protecting B is only half tn* seem to be I decay If the) B protected H Mom). B causes of looiftl delicate •< B cavities whkH develop I
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    Reich Breaks "Chains Of Versailles"
    1252 7 Berlin, Jan. 26. T IBERATION of the German people from the "chains u of Versailles" has been a principal plank in the Nazi's political platform since the foundation of the Party. Having just passed on the sixth anniversary of their ascent to power, the Nazis
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    36 7 H.M.S. GRASSHOPPER, a new British gunboat was launched last week at Thornycroft's Yard at Woolston, Southampton. The launching ceremony was performed by Mrs. F. G. Howe. Picture shows H.M.S. Grasshopper in the water after the launching.
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    Racquets Stolen From A Padre
    52 7 1 <Frora Our Own Correspondent) t Penang, Feb. 4. The Rev. H. J. Paine.^the Colonial r Chaplain, who returned to Penang t from a short holiday in Sumatra yes- > terday, found that two of his tennis racquets were missing from the St. George's Parsonage
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    7 8 •CHEER UP. OLQ*_GAL: MISTER CHAMBERLAIN HAS PROMISED-
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1939. 120 Years Old Today
    574 8 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, F EBRUARY 6, 1939. 120 Years Old Today CINGAPORE today celebrates the 120th anniversary of its foundation by Sir Stamford Raffles. The observance of the anniversary has in recent years been almost forgotten. It was not so in the early days of the history of
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    French Deputy Revives Channel Tunnel Idea
    1242 8 COSMOPOLITE GOSSIP By A Special Correspondent CHIPS and waterways, greater and lesser, are in the news. On the greater side are the renewtd discussions about the famous unc'er-waterway, the Channel Tunnel, which Marcel Boucher, deputy for the Vosges Department, Started again by his resolution
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    BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN FAR EAST
    382 9 BRITAIN AND RUSSIA IN FAR EAST Labour Peer Urges Collective Security POSITION OF REICH ''JAPAN is the arch enemy of the world." Thus declared Lord Strabolgi (formerly Lieut-Com-mander Ken worthy), Chief Whip of the Labour Opposition m the House of Lords, when he arrived at Singapore from Australia by Qantas
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    Woman Interested In Malayan Bachelors
    108 9 7 AM VERY LONELY" LONELI English woman who read in a Immtom Sunday rsptper thai humi great i\ outnumber women in Malaya n\.<i: to tt in touch with bachelors in this country. Madge H. Lewk, of In^lefield. 19, Highbury real London. N.5. i i utj
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    Malays' model Village
    40 9 the 'tow of a hill *> v r »oo^»njf their model village, happy >„,,,,:, natch a ship coming into Keppc- Harbour.— Free Press picture. StMgapon Harbour Board's model Malay village at B*rr.'m the Singapore Uu\t Club. Free Press picture.
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    Indies Coconut Oil For Canado
    94 9 Ottawa. 'Tiir. Kctneritmdt liuies are the mail tosret of supply for COCOJtaii vi! imported into Canada. Imports into Canada in the month of October included 337.112 gallons of non-edible oil frr use in the manufacturing of toap 270.869 gallO7u of non-edible oil for refining purpose
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    Port Quarantine Procedure
    213 9 A DEFENCE of their action :n not ■!<■ lowing through passengers to land at Singapore from the Danish East Asiatic vessel Selandia, which was quarantined with the Bey King of Siam aboard when it arrived with a bad case of smallpox, was made to the Free Press
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    Memories Of The "Victoria"
    172 9 Memories of pre-motion picture dayr, whin long queues used to line up outside John Little and Cc. Ltd., at 6 a.m. on the day of a dramatic performance at the Victoria Theatre were recalled by the 30th anniversary of the theatre yesterday. The advent of motion
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    Mace For Johorc Supreme Court
    69 9 tProm Our Own Correspondent) Johorc Bahru. Feb. 4. At the ceremonial opening of the first Johore Assizes today, a mace was presented by the Tungku Mahkota, the State Regent, to the Johore Supreme Court. Accepting the present, Mr. Justice Mills expressed thanks to the Regent
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    Cool Air For Sime Darby Clerks
    272 9 U7HEN the 27 clerks on the third floor of a building in Malacca Street return to work this morning, they will be the first in Malava to experience a day in an airconditioned general office. Hitherto, onlv "tuan besars" have had airconaitioned offices in
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    Rice For Leg Of Grandmother ?
    124 9 Rice For Leg Of Grandmother 'From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Feb. 4. A fine of $100, in default two months' simple imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. Lim Koon Teck, the Penang Third Magistrate, yesterday on a young Chinese woman, who appeared before him on a charge of having in her
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    21 9 The army committee of the French Chamber has unanimously adopted the bill ror maintaining the two years' term of military service.
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    Escape For Chinese Girl
    119 9 Y\1 T E vo the exceptionally high tide in Singapore yesterday a four-year-old Chinese girl war. nearly drowned in the pool aU ihe Chinese Swimming Club in the morning. Prompt response to her mother's cries for help by a member, Mr. Kim Teck. saved the girl
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    Gort Lauds Overseas Tommies
    246 9 Gort Lauds Overseas Tommies •i.-c:n Or Own Co'r.:spt> -ae-u > London, Jar. 2s. yjSCOUNT GORT, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, wilft is sh.rtly to visit Egypt and Palestine, las*, night broadcast a speech in praise of Ihc British soldier doing his duly in remote parts ot the Empire. He
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    Penang Flying Club Rally
    208 9 THE Pcnang Flying Club rally this year promises to be entertaining. It is to be held on Feb. 19, and it !s estimated about 40 planes from the other clubs in Malaya, the Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force, and the Royal Air Force, will participate. On
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    211 9 New Royal Artillery Commander pOLONEL A. D. Curtis, Commandant cf Shooburyness Garrisor., has been appointed Commandei Royal Artillery, Malaya, with the temporary rank of Brigadier. Colonel Curtis baa been in Command at Shoeburyness since Feb. 1937, During tho war ho was if ttoocd la india. and has served at Bomb
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    Bankrupt Lived Extravagantly
    242 9 •.Frjni (Xir Csvn CoOTttpandtntt Ipoh, Feb JHAT his bankruptcy wa; due Y» gambling, dancing and extravagant livinj? was tne statement made oy a young Chinese, bankrupt. Y U) Lam Chan, who described himse'r u an insurance etnvaiKf at his pubiir examinaticn held at the Idoli Buarcne Court
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    17 9 Tractors had to free a French air liner from mud on its land'ng at Croydon last week.
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    20,000 Japanese Prepare For Attack
    206 10 Chungking, Feb. 5. THE number of Japanese warships near Waichow Island, in the Hong Kong Bay region off south-west Kwangtung, has been increased to thirty, including a number of transports and a few aircraft carriers. Meanwhile the strength of Japanese troops on the island and
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    CHINA'S POLICY UNCHANGED
    178 10 Current Rumours Are Not True CONTINUED RESISTANCE Chungking, Feb. 5. CHINA'S national policy remains unchanged. The rumours about the reorientation of policy at the recent fifth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Party are untrue, Mr. Yeh Chu-tsang, new Kuomintang Publicity Minister, told
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    China Looks For British Credits
    167 10 Chungking. Feb. 5. I ONDON reports that Parliament has passed the export guarantees bill, wherein the amount of credits guaranteed is increased from nfty million sterling to seventy-five million sterling, were warmly received by the official Central Daily News, which interprets the move as an
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    Ships Detained, Protests Lodged
    140 10 Hong: Kong, Feb. 5. INDIGNANT over the Japanese illegal 1 detention of the Norwegian steamers Haidah and Haithor, and the British steamer St. Vincent de Paul, British and Norwegian shipping merchants in Shanghai have petitioned to their respective consulates to lodge protests with the Japanese authorities.
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    Tense Situation In Kwangtung
    105 10 111A Hong Kong, Feb. 3. ■THE military situation south-west of Kwangtung, on the coast of south China, remains tense. Japanese warships in the Tongklng Bay area are feverishly preparing to land troops and their planes are daily raiding the sites. However, according to a Tokio dispatch
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    Big Offensive In The Offing
    127 10 Kweilin, Feb. 5. pHTNESE military observers believe that the Japanese will further attempt to cut China's international routes In the north-west and southwest of China. Because the Japanese troops are over-exhausted at the time of reorganisation, they think it is unlikely that the Japanese will
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    Support For Roosevelt
    156 10 Chungking, Feb. 5. ORBSIDENT ROOSEVELT'S support of democracies against the totalitarian States continues to evoke Chinese editorial comment: The Influential Ta Kung Pao says: "If America's east frontier is in France, then the United States' west frontier lies undoubtedly at the western shore of the Pacific. "Although
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    99 10 QUEEN MARY'S god-daughter married at Windsor Castle During a heavy snowstorm which almost led to the postponement of the ceremony, the Hon. Anne Wigram. god-daughter of Queen Mary, was married to Mr. John Leslie Harvey at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, the first wedding there for more than 25 years.
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    How Studies Go On In Time Of War
    177 10 How Studies Go On In Time Of War Chungking. Feb. 5. THE Ministry of Education announces that out of ninety-four Chinese colleges and universities fifty-three have been removed to the interior of China from war zones, seventeen are partially removed: three are being removed, eight operate in war zones, and
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    No Chinese Forces On British Ground
    150 10 Chungking:, Feb. 5. JAPANESE charges that Chinese troops were concentrated near British property in Kiukiang in order to seek protection under the British flag from air raids, and that when the Japanese occupied Kiukiang, the Yangtse River treaty port, about midway between Nanking and
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    China's Trade Figures
    30 10 Hong Kong. Feb. 5. China's unfavourable balance last year was $123,558,511, registering a reduction of $67,186,438 according lo the statistics of the Chinase maritl*n° administration.- Central News
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      564 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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      208 10 BOARD RESIDENCE. I SEA -FRONT KATONCi GRANGE— It. Mejer Rflt (near Swimming Clab) Board-Residence at moderate rates Large Gardens— Teanla. Phone: 5758. THE MANSION OXLEY RISE PRIVATE HOTEL Tel, *****. I EAST ANGLIA OXLEY BISE SfNQAPOUL t mlns. to town High level, {(traces, dally or monthly rates. Urge grounds, excellent
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      281 10 SINGAPORE HARBOUR The following are ships alongside the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves or expected to arrive: East Wharf, Entrance Gate 1 Exit 1•— Ophlr 22; Rajula 20. Main Wharf, Entrance Gate 2; Exit 3:— Lalandia 18; Ocwang 16; Conte Verde 14Perak 13; Jerantut 10; Neieus 9; Chinese I Prince 7.
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      438 10 Air Mail Arrivals And Despatches INWARD imperial: From F.urope due Um nesday, Frida.v, Saturday Wcarnes: From r en an«. h and Kuala Lumpur. Arrives JJ evening. K.L.M^ From NetherUnds I ldlß Arrives Tuesday, Thursday Si»«, day afternoons. Qantas: From Australia rrim Tuesday, Friday, Sunday morning K.L.M.: From Furope rr im
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    A Singapore MAN in LONDON
    2282 12 A Singapore MAN in LONDON London, Jan. 27. "A RMS for Spain" demon- strators in Whitehall and Downing Street have shouted on several occasion? recently. The same shout mingled with the cheers when Mr. Neville Chamberiain returned from Rome. It is just another illustration of the changed times in which
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      307 12 HENDERSOU LINE SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS By Fortnightly Passenger Steamer Between Rangoon, Port Sudan. Marseilles and England. HOMEWARD SAILINGS Leave Rangoon 1939 SALWEEN Feb 18 KEMMENDINE Mar. 4 AMAR APOORA Mar. 18 SAGAING Apr. 1 PROME Apr. 15 BURMA Apr. 29 YOMA May 13 PEGU May 27 SALWEEN June 10 KEMMENDINE
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      425 13 jv p s 0 BRITISH INDIA LINES RPOEATI IN ENGLAND) i O. S. N. CO'S SAILINGS, OOTWf RDS ftMMft Spore. Tonnage, s porr. Ftb. 10 BANGALORE 6.000 Apr 8 Feb. 11 RAJPUTANA. 17.000 Aor 21 5 son Feb 24 RANCHI 17,000 May 5 Mar. 10 BHUTAN 6.100 May 6 i
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      392 13 iteAUSTER COTTtdT (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) GRESHA.M HOLSE, BATTERY RD. SINGAPORE. PHONE 517' ELLERMAN BUCKNALL SJ. Co.. Ltd, {Incorporates tn England.) HAVRE LONDON ROTTERDAM HAMBURG VIA PORTS AND SUEZ CANAL Stcam *r Due Sails CITY OF FLORENCE tails Glasgow Feb 27 Mar. 2 CITY OF BEDFORD Mar. 27 Apr 2
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    Shipping Proposals Are Not Too Costly
    405 14 BIG ISSUES INVOLVED London, Jan. 28. FURTHER reflections on the proposals which the shipping industry has submitted to the Government would seem to indicate that the cost of the remedies are by no means too high a price to pay for the possession of
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    69 14 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok. Feb. 3. A contract for a 100-kilowatt new wireless station at Bangkok was awarded today after open tender to the British firm of Standard Cables slw! Telephones. It Is valued it ever n (.0.000. Other tenders uere received from Holland, America,
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    72 14 France is to spend millions ot francs this year *n developing six of the ports in h< r Afvi?an colonies giving than added value tiom the military a* won as the commercial point of view. The six ports are: Dakar, on the west coast oi ASM! in Senegal: Conakry, in
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    Bettina Beats Fox On T.K.O.
    132 15 Ne w York. Feb. j. Beiore a crowd of 10,000 people at Madison Square Garden last night Emilio Bettina, of Beacon, New York, technically knocked out Tiger Fox Negro from Spokane, in the ninth round of a fifteen round fight for the world's cruiserweight title,
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    Banka S.C. Beat St. Matthew's
    135 15 IN a friendly football game .played on 1 Farrer Park, yesterday, a Banka Sports Club team beat a St. Matthew's Young Peoples Guild stfe by two goals to one. Seven minutes after play began Chin Geok, Banka S.C. inside left, sent in a powerful drive
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    WAH HIN & COMPANY'S ANNIVERSARY
    306 15 WAH HIN COMPANY'S ANNIVERSARY The tenth anniversary party of Messrs. Wah Hin and Company heM at their premises. 62. Robinson Road, on Saturday was attended by more than 50 guests. Among those present were: Mr. A. Heiser, Mr. P. H. J. Podger, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tate. Mr. R.
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    71 15 \VORST FLOODS FOR MANY YEARS IN FIVE COUNTIES— Five counties in England are experiencing the worst floods for many years. At Ipswich and the surrounding district villages have been marooned and people have had to be rescued by rowing boats. Here is the isolated village of Bramford, entirely cut off
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    Cheeky Pays $115 At Ipoh Races
    1035 15 GOOD DIVIDENDS RETURNED (From Our Own Correspondent) A DIVIDEND of $115 was returned by Cheeky in the fifth race on the last day of the Perak Turf Club's meeting yesterday. Dividends, except in the third and last races, were fairly high. The going was
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    "GEORGE & MARGARET" BOOKING OPENS
    37 15 "GEORGE MARGARET" BOOKING OPENS Bookings for "George and Margaret" is open at Robinson's. The play Is to be presented by the Repertory Players, at the Victoria Theatre, on Wednesday. Friday and Saturday, Mar. 8. 10 and 11.
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    ARSENAL WITH THREE SUBSTITUTES BEAT SUNDERLAND
    1610 16 Brentford Miss Vital Penalty RANGERS WIN CUP MATCH London, Feb. 5. ARSENAL although without Bryn Jones, Crayston or 4 Copping, proved a thrustful side in their match with Sunderland yesterday and won by two clear goals. Bastin scored in the first half and Lewis
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    Wales, 11, Beat Scotland, 3
    227 16 Cardiff, Feb. 5. IN' un iatcr national Kugby match played here today in iia? weather before a crowd of 55,000 people Wales beat Scotland by eleven points (one goal. one try, on3 penalty rroal) to three points (one penalty goal). Th? tackling on boUi sides
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    Davis Cup Draw
    141 16 New \>rk, Feb. X^I 7. dMV ior thf* Davi-. Cup resaltod as taUowi: European ?.onc- DTCi lr.t> t'ao :ouiiu: Czechoslovakia. Norway. Balgium. india. Italy, Monaco. First round niatche.-r. Vußcslavia versus Ii eland. Rumania versus Hungary, Poland ffWn Holland. Cerniany versus Switaerland. Further byes into the second round:
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    29 16 SINGAPORE'S new woman I j llMwj champion. Miss Chce Yu Lan, leading the beaten champion. Mi ,s Maureen Taye. during their race yesterday for the title. Free Press picture.
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    K. L. Cross-Country Race
    72 16 From Our Own Correspondent* Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 5. CELANGORS first inter-club cross- country race held this evening between the Selangor Harriers and the Police Depot was won by the Depot. 63 i»cints to 73. Twenty athletes ran tne mOes through mud and slush, up hill and
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    Malayan XV Draw, 19-All
    48 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) lions Kong, Feb. 5. THE Malayan Rugby touring 1 XV drew 19-all with the lions: Kong: Cricket Club hi their first match at Hong Kong. Gordon Lmidon, Singapore whig threcquartcr, left the field with an injury in the first half.
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    Keppel Club
    85 16 The Kep;3cl Oclf Club'o Fabruary Iv»sdal (stroke) will ba played fcr on Saturday and Sunday. The qualifying; round of iho Nibioek Cup, open only to members with handicap; of 34 and over, will be played off in con junction with tlie Fef:ru?.ry medal. Twenty-tvro caic>> trm taken out
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    Hutton Gets A Move On
    67 16 Bulawaro, Feb. 5. In u three- day. .natch against Rhodcjia tha M.CC. touring: cricket team batted first yesterday and at the close had made 152 for two wickets. Hutton is 73 not out, hL; runs bains made in 94 minutes with eleven fours, and Payn
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    153 16 Goal po3ts will be up for practice from today for S.C.C. members. East Fife (5) 25 17~~T 474 41~38 Airdrie (4) 24 13 6 5 58 46 31 Dunfermline (7) 23 12 8 3 64 48 27 Dundee U. (14) 25 11 10 ***** 26 Dumbarton
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    Girl Cycling Champion Dethroned
    506 16 Girl Cycling Champion Dethroned MEN'S TITLE IS RETAINED U/INNING all the open events, Ismail bin Osman f T champion in th e second Singapore evdir ships held at the Jalan Besar Stadium Hln i)r, Ismail annexed the mile the thro,, j^j miles races from large iielas. an^ h| Keen rivalry
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    Raffles College Win Tennis Contest
    87 16 Raffles College Win Tennis Contest 1X of Medicine Jhe n« in the annu contest for t h **g yesterday. nm C^ Results are a p,*, its« Players On Ra0?? c SINGLH Tan Hln Jin b:..t PUj Lm. C. Lowe beat Mvm^ iJ- i Z 1 c _GohKen R MNMJH Peng
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    64 16 In spice ol the downpour before and during the samp Mfe 'vater-logged cooditioo :lie St. Andrew*; School Old ,helr last Rubgy flrtcre PW» on Saourday. ths ReJ b.-dtiJ-' Old Boys by flv;> p, |nt (a hrrje (a try» It wa: a forward to llnish. th-jro
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