The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 22 February 1939

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO i:».7OK ESTD. jsr> WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 11. ii. 5 CENTS
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    JAPANESE BOMB BRITISH TERRITORY
    229 1 Canton- Kowloon Railway And Road Attacked Plane Machine-Guns Fleeing Passengers AID RUSHED FROM HONG KONG Hong Kong, Feb. 21. SEVERAL bombs are reported to have fallen on British territory during: an air raid on the border village of Sumchun. Two Japanese planes, part of a squadron
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    JAPAN FACING DEFEAT?
    34 1 i 81. ■he .tphe Hankow tments, mark.ire exned and •.lriered Id 1 1 .ink Chinese lanot itiese but inKREATESI HOPI lies la the «rt. __-<■* on >j urming Bfh thi> Kuomintang. Reuter
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    "Air-Raid Helmets" For Public
    33 1 London te'» SI. dfl»\f r airi .tffl bebneti will be *.*>.M.t 17.000 .all ihlr* for the tirst lisiribtttlon Follewed by MM thf i \n ac- a f ter Reuter
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    ANOTHER VICTIM OF SHANGHAI TERRORISTS
    25 1 »1 .randson I ited in the tfteromml have ing reI ...men at Is motor-car e bulhs pave- < to hospital, Reuter
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    DATE OF CONCLAVE TO ELECT POPE
    35 1 Vatican City, Feb. 21. Tt is officially announced the Conclave to elect the new Pope will open on Mar. 1. and will be attended by all 62 cardinal?.- Reuter
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    73 1 Berlin, Feb. 21. A representative of the Ministry of Economics has gone to London to clear up certain questions connected with the visit of the British trade ministers to Germany in March Reuter LAST WEEK 23,000 Spanish refugee were herded without food behind three lines of barbed wire fencing on
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    Britain To Send Protest
    67 1 London, Feb. 21. TTHE British Government has instructed the ami assador in Tokio. Sir Robert Craigie, to protest to the Japanese Government regarding the bombing ot Hong Kong territory by Japanese planes. News of the bombing is eoniirmed in London, but full details are not yet
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    NEW CABINET IN BELGIUM
    63 1 Brussels. Feb, 21 A .v [net was announced today after Belgium had been without a Government for 12 days. M Pierlot Catholic Senator, is to be Prim? Minister and M. Soudan. Socialist, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Oi. members oi tne old cabinet are included in
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    Chancellor's Speech Causes Relief
    301 1 London, Feb. 21. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech yesterday was received with profound relief in Stock Exchange circles who, in common with other sections of the City, infer from the statement that no substantial increases in direct taxation are envisaged in the coming budget. The
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    Senator's Bitter Attack On Appeasement
    236 1 "IMMORAL, UNSUCCESSFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE" Washington, Feb. 21. unsuccessful and ultimately destructive," is how Senator Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Affairs, Committee, described, in a broadcast, the policy of appeasement. **[t is evident that no person can die more than once and his period of life
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    Hostile Crowds At U.S. Nazi Rally
    207 1 Hostile Crowds At U.S. Nazi Rally New YorV. Feb. 21. QUAftDED by what Chief Police Commissioner Valentine desrribed as "enough police to stop a revolution" 20.000 Nazi sympathisers today attended a rally of the German-American Bund hi Madison Square Garden. The rally was held "to celebrate George Washington's birthday." Outside
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    7 PLANES CRASH IN FOG AFTER BLIND FLYING
    94 1 7 PLANES CRASH IN FOG AFTER BLIND FLYING Cens;..ola, (Florida), Feb. AT least seven United States Nav. training planes crashed out 01 twelve caught in a dense fog today. One pilot was Icllled and one la missing. Several fliers descended safely with parachutes. According to officials, the planes flew blind
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    RELIGIOUS HALL WRECKED BY BOMB
    42 2 Belfast, Feb. n. The explosion ol a bomb placed outside, partly wrecked the hall of thc Ancient Order of Christians' Catholic Wtlon In B last night. Six aen inside had a lucky escape from serious Injury.- Reuter
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    JAPAN MASSING WARSHIPS NEAR FRENCH COLONY
    292 2 France Sends Vessels To Kwongchowan GUERILLA TACTICS USED BY INVADERS m m Chungking, Feb. 21. official report from South Kwangtung confirms earlier messages that over 30 Japanese warships and scores Of armed launches are being massed off the Peninsula l.mchow ready to effect a
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    28 2 AN OFFICER OF THE EGYPTIAN KOYAL GUARD makes a fine jum.) over a mule and cart during practice for forthcoming' horse shows at his regiment's headquarters In Cairo.
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    Simon's Statement On Arms Bill Welcomed
    311 2 LIBERAL PEER SPEAKS OF "GERMAN MENACE" London, Feb. 21. ■THL statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, on the maimer in which it is proposed to raise the defence expenditure was welcomed on all sides in the lobbies. Many accept it
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    Cheaper Petrol For World Airports ?
    109 2 Cheaper Petrol For World Airports London. Feb. .1 A N lii: >nal conference, at which United Kingdom. South Africa. Australia, New Zealand India. Eire and the United States. together witn 45 ether foreign governments will be represented, opens tomorrow at Lonaon University to discuss the possibility of concluding an international
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    Nazi Press Attacks On Roosevelt
    60 2 Berlin, _[>. 21. President Roosevelt has again t'psc, Germany badly. Newspaper reacts here are being given the impression that he wants to force war o_ Zurope It is variously suggested he wants to boost the arms trade, is trying to divert attention from the bad
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    Trade Revival To Follow Loan Decision ?
    166 2 Trade Revival To Follow Loan Decision London, Feb. M. TTHE British public heaved a sigh ol relief as it opened the newspapers .today to find the general acceptance that the Chancellor's statement received In the House of Commons yesterday. Despite his warning about draw i "further conclusions" it is clearly
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    Comment On Trade Mission To Moscow
    162 2 Comment On Trade Mission To Moscow London. Feb. .1 I^EV/S of the mission o_ Mr. R. s Hudson, Secretary of the Overseas j Department of the Board of TradMoscow ls prominently displayed In all the morning newspapers. Some political as well as commei significance is attached to the visit by
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    Launching Of Battleship By The King
    232 2 Launching Of Battleship By The King london. lei,. 5] yHE King and Queen spent la night In the Royal tram on siding, alter travelling Northward for the launching of the £8,000.000 battleship King George Fifth the Walker naval dockyard. Newastie, this afternoon, she is thi lirst battleship launched In Britain
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    FROM PAGE NEWS IN GERMANY
    40 2 Berlin, Feb. Si:* John Simons statement is iron, page news in many German mom in" newspapers. No comment is madofficially, but the huge sum to be spent on armaments for Britain U prominentlv headlined. Reuter
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    BRITAIN MUST HAVE FAIR SHARE OF EXPORT TRADE
    196 2 of TV_de T_ bla lcy Pre id e"' of lhe Boanl fLTtrie.' Falf Sa. r ,hc He added that no individual exporter could successfully fight against a whole nation. Recent trade developments had meant that the whole weight of some nations was
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    WARNING TO PALESTINE OFFICIALS
    47 2 WARNING TO PALESTINE OFFICIALS Jerusalem, Feb. .1 A government statement i tains a warning that any Pale officials known to have contribut J terrorists funds will be dismis. The statement adds that the Govjcrnment has heard that demands ior considerable sums hare ed offi- cials lately.- Reuter
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    Report From French Envoy To Spain
    10 2 Report From French Envoy To Spain I or unofl Reuter
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    Palestine Jews Comjplete Their Case
    36 2 Palestine Jews Comjplete Their Case Y 'alks b British dele a di ed Jewish It heard the ful] J iul purpose could reviewed reached with I the Hr: thr p prom. I or falllni own Reuter
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    British Official Released By Spain Nationalists
    20 2 KlH_ I IT 1 Q SebftSl M: Mrs Go hospil Iy i offlria Reuter
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    Dublin Dispute Over Treason Bill
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    Police Search For Missing Car
    8 2 Police Search For Missing Car A Chan D
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    NEW GOVERNMENT IN WUILAN AREA
    8 2 NEW GOVERNMENT IN WUILAN AREA b I! 1
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    U. S. MUST KEEP RUBBER, TIN ROUTE OPEN
    725 3 U. S. MUST KEEP RUBBER, TIN ROUTE OPEN Significant Statement By Naval Chief POLICY IN ORIENT DECAUSE of America's need for rubber and tin from Malaya and the Netherlands Indies, the United States "must maintain an open route to the Far East even if the Philippines are abandoned." Admiral William
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    Asia's Oldest Airman ?
    48 3 Asia's Oldest Airman picture ROYAI SINGAPORI PLYING CLUB, Mr. I iresterdaj ta Jiis private autogyro Iff I unilon. who is .;u, is the eldest pilot in thc Dldest pilot in the East. I can alw.is^ things borertag in mid-air in this, but >ou ordinmr) plane." he >.>- Free Press
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    How Siam Ex-King Lives In England
    459 3 HE VILLAGE ROUND Our Own Correspondent) London, Feb. 7. Biddenden has had Jitterbugs" of tn Goldthorp i.i the Sunday DigIt the) disappeared when it >va< seen ervants were busy again at th? e\-f-year-old country home. Ihipok is in Kgypt, and Hiddenden feared in Bangkok
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    Boy King's Aunt Dies In Bangkok
    373 3 Boy King's Aunt Dies In Bangkok REUNION RECALLED DRINCESS Valai Alongkorn, the only surviving child of the Queen Grandmother <>i Siam, died at Bangkok Princess Valai Alongkorn was the daughter ot the famous Siamese ruler, King Chulalongkcrn. She was 55. Prince, s Valai Alongkorn visited Europe twice, and recently on
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    RANCHI TODAY
    31 3 The P. and O. liner Ranchi has left Hons Kong and is expected to arrive at Singapore at 9.30 a.m. today. She will proceed alongside the wharf on arrival.
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    40 3 "Mr. HI V Dellsart. agent fa; I_._ M. and I_.?-.1.1..M. at Singapore, trie.* '•shooting" an airliner at the Singapore Airport yesterday v.ith the camera of the British new- reel cameraman. Mr. George Noble.— Free Press pi?ture. (See story page nine).
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    Club Fliers Return From Penang Rally
    296 3 AFTER performing well at the successful Penang air rally last weekend, nearly 20 members of the Royal Singapore Flying Club returned in the Club's fleet of 10 plar.es yesterday. In addition to spending a most enjoyable flying holiday, the club pilots performed useful work
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    French Far East Shipping Facilities
    282 3 CRITICISM FROM INDO-CHINA (From A Special Correspondent A WRITER in the Courrier of Haiphong, M, Lapicque, discusses the need for a repair dock for liners at Port Courbet, near Saigon. He says that in all French I Indo-China there is only one dry dock at
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    Siam To Abolish Poll Tax
    140 3 From Our Own Correspondent Bangkok, Feb. 19. T^HE Ministry of Finance has Issued a notification regarding the revision of certain taxes. As regards the Capitation Tax both the President of the Council of Ministers and the Minister of Finance have already intimated that they intend
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    ONCE A YOUNG "BIT PLAYER"
    636 4 Gary Cooper By Free Press Film Correspondent ONCE upon a time there was a young "bit player who happened to get a pretty good role in a big picture and he was mighty excited about it. He wore a 10-gallon hat, dungarees, high-heeled boots and
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    Important Thing About "Pygmalion"
    981 4  -  Joan Littlefield amm m^^_. Britain On The Screen P_PtL Smmmmmmmmm By THE English critics are as unanimous as were those of the American trade papers that the most important thing about "Pygmalion; is the acting of Wendy Hiller, 26-year-old Lancashire girl, for whom world stardom is
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    162 5 i.MI «no Metropolitan n Hall itminster. Ladji the Legion, throagh a mr. DR. II r SIT Aft As, the new Turkish Ambassador to the Court of St. lames, presented his .redentiais to the King last week. Dr. Aras. with Sir Sidney Clive, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, leaving the Embassy
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    Farewell To Arms
    56 6 The hand of a French soldier points to thc ground to tell the. Spanish soldier to drop his gun and ammunition, when he arrives at Le Perthus. The Spanish woman watches and her little baby plays with her necklace. A scene on the border, when thousands of
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    Shanghai Terrorism Perturbs Japanese
    478 6 MURDER OF CHEN LU Tokio. Feb. 21. IN view of the frequency of terroristic demonstrations in the Shanghai International Settlement, the opinion is gaining strength in Japanese quarters that the Japanese Government should take effective measures to eliminate such actions, even by means of force, if
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    Treason Bill For Eire
    149 6 Dublin, Feb. 21. THE text of the Eire Treason Bill. issued today, provides for the death penalty for treason, this consisting of levying war against the State or assisting or conspiring to levy war or attempting by any violent means to overthrow the lawful Government. Every
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    Dionne "Quins" May Live On A Farm
    104 6 North Bay, Feb. 6. ALLEGING that the Ontario Government was attempting to seize his farm, valued at £6,000, and convert lt into a new home for the Dionne Quintuplets, Joseph Duga.>, father of 16 children, employed a lawyer to defend his interests. H.
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    ITALIAN THRUSTS AT BRITAIN & FRANCE
    550 6 ITALIAN THRUSTS AT BRITAIN FRANCE Alliance Criticised In Rome Press POINTED JIBES TN SPITE of thc rebirth of Anglo-Italian "traditional friendt ship," the Italian press continues to make thrusts at Britain's close alliance with France. While Italians concede Great Britain the right to make anv alliances she likes, her friendship
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    Generalissimo Addresses Peoples Congress
    200 6 FRANK ATTITUDE Chungking, Feb. >i IN his opening address to the National Peoples' Con 1 which is in session here, General Chiang Kai-h.-i presided, emphasised the importance of national unit, j the present war of resistance. The congress comprises delegate- from all polity" factions, all professions,
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    Counterfeit Notes In The Holy Land
    363 6 Counterfeit Notes In The Holy Land Jerusalem. PALES" 'HE police, who have beenji seareh./.g for three years for a gang i of count tv*. feiters, were dismayed by ti discovery that one of the alleged lead- i ers was a police paymaster's clerk. They say that the clerk, an Arab
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    Protests By Lord Perth?
    95 6 Rome, Feb. 21. rpiERCE attacks on Franc: in a recent number of Relazzioni International* arc believed to have been brought to Count Ciano's attention by Lord Perth, British Ambassador in Rome, ichcri he interviewed the Italian Foreign Minister. Count Ciano is understood to hare replied that
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    33 6 General Kindclan (left) chief of the Natkmalist Air Force in Spain, who has organised all the air raids on the Barcelona front. He is with one of his skilled aviators. Major Garcia Morato.
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    New Protest To Franco
    134 6 New Protest To Franco London, Feb. 21. A SECOND protest against the seizure of the British merchant steamer Stangrove on Feb. 18 has been made to the Spanish Nationalist authorities. No reply to this or the first protest has yet been received. The Stangrove was reported to havo been captured
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    Gen. Gamelin Chief Of French Forces
    82 6 London, Feb. 12 T^HE Military Committee of the French Senate has informed that decrees are being issued appointing Oen. Gamelin as Chief of all the Armed Forces and Gen. Georges as Chief of the Army General Staff. It will be observed that the age
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    Italy's Tide of Empire
    33 6 Italy's Tide of Empire •>r Terrasi (leading: figure) with other Italian the rough temporary bridge erected during the work new bridge at Gogeb in Abyssinia. The piles of the seen decorated with flairs
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    Siam's Thirteen New Treaties
    11 7 Siam's Thirteen New Treaties 11 iiitry .':adist ill the for King >
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    Penang Least "Academic Of Settlements ?
    262 7 Penang Least "Academic Of Settlements n Own Correspondent. DENAMQ is easUy^hT^or^'b^k\W^V' l e three Settlements ta ral taste." write Diocles in th? mg Gazette Ule Singapore has its museum and Kriends of Singapore and sleepy Malacca her historical society, famous irorld over for its revelation Malacca i past history, there
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    Policemen's Feet Becoming Smaller
    77 7 Knid. Oklahoma. J feet arr becoming smaller, according to Dr. \v. Lee Austin, a chiropodist, who was locturin* at Oklahon iny policemen, ho said, suiter because their feet are not large enough for their weight and because of the hard pavements they tread on their beat
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    Christians Heed To Be Too Shy
    104 7 pEOPLE who consider it "bad m t0 talk Q oout their enristian beliefs were criticised by the Archbishop of York. Dr. Temple, in a London address last week 'One of the things we have to get over" he said, this shuness we have of
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    Patron Saint Of Toothache
    140 7 Koine. ■QLNTAL patients, and not a few dentists, made pilgrimages to shrines and Churches dedicated to Ste. Apollonla throughout Italy on Feb. 8. She is the patron .saint of dentists and toothaches. Ste. Apollonia suffered martyrdom by torture and burning in Egypt in the third century
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1939. Food Supplies
    633 8 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1939. Food Supplies A LL those who study the defence situation in Malaya feel a little anxious about the food supplies problem. If war came unexpectedly in the Far East, it is conceivable that this country would find itself very short of adequate
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    3 8 RADIO BABEL CALUNG
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    Peace By Strength: British Policy Stated
    380 8  -  Joseph Martin By IN the present state of political tension in international affairs one of the most hopeful features is the manifest desire of the masses of the population in ever\ country for a peaceful >olution of all outstanding prohlems. This desire has been
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    Antarctic Ship Sailing Toward Tasmania
    415 8  -  Lincoln Ellsworth By On Board motor-ship Wyatt Earp. A WIDE belt of heavy pack ice lies behind us and we are now ploughing our way through gray fog-laden seas toward Hobart, Tasmania, to which port we are hurrying in order to obtain hospital attention for
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    Belles Of Bali, Sydney
    18 9 M .i- fl (irkiii" Men *nd Be IhC 010*rid—teller ihau Here rdi irh an
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    Governor Will Open New Hospital
    36 9 Governor Will Open New Hospital SiglaT), on the osor I of ital in :i. The young their time OSided as an "ted bungalow ta 1. -.an. that cases of ured, •ill give scope -iding many more
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    FIRST BIG BLACKOUT TRIAL TOMORROW
    449 9 FIRST BIG BLACKOUT TRIAL TOMORROW Complete Co-operation Of Public Essential IMPORTANCE IN A.R.P. PREPARATIONS arc well under way ior Singapore's first complete black-out trial, to take place tomorrow nighl and early on Friday morning. With the co-operation ol every member of the public it i- hoped outdoor lights will be
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    FILMING 13, 000 MILES
    34 9 FILMING 13, 000 MILES man who I '-aids 100 000 ■Us, is taming olow the 1 from i ond hief S is Ltd ion. 4 c ll of i id. U ThC ri:, I
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    New Colonial Propaganda Film For N. Y.
    189 9 New Colonial Propaganda Film For N. Y. 5 being ed by Shaw, an Eng] min rt Soul for ohov.* on tl is a aim. th< ta Gen Smu Is: I ell-being and develop- able to stand by lhe: unci. r i. tr. .nous Jtions of the modern world red tr
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    100 9 Law Notice For The Day Before Mr. Justice Pe4k> in hid. uurt al M a.m. 5.497 38— C. H Smith and another vs. Hume Pipe 'Far East> Ltd. Befeff lr. Justice Home in 3rd. ourt at 11 a.m. Part heard: 5.41 C non vs. I. 11. Thangasamy (w.). rt heard:
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    How A.R.P. Warden System Works
    389 9 DETAILS of the air raid wardens organisation now being planned In Singapore are published in the A.R.P. handbook issued by the Air Raid Precautions Department. It is stated the town will be divided into warden's sectors. In each sector there wiil be a warden's post,
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    Two Late Flying-Boats
    76 9 Two Late Flying-Boats §EVI R alayun Rotarians atte \di a tht <<?..' re. In Siam up in Bangkok through the eastbound pcrial Ain.. I 24 ho I ind '<* g to a telegram from Bangkok corresp ndent r>/ thi Free Pu The G took the last seat in the Ditch
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    CITY BACK TO WORK TODAY
    375 9 Holiday Ends CINGAPORE'S half mill: return to work this morning, aft three holidays in which Chin. —and non-Chinese together had the opportunity of celebrating the Chinese Nev As the first da: the First Moon of the New Year -'.he 28th Republican Year, fell on Sunday,
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    More Than 300 Seek City Clerical Post
    399 9 More Than 300 Seek City Clerical Post EMPLOYER'S COMMENT h rom A Special orrespondenl A SINGAPORE business man who recently invited applications for a po-t as clerk in his office received 347 replies within four days. If took him a day to sort the replies, and select six candidates for
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    57 9 I'M ture. Th»- < apiain u( th R 11% in- Club, Mr. <.. photographed with his wife on Iheii return vrsterda> in the Hubs V, hit ney Straight cabin inorw.pl, nr from the successful Tenant ai, rally Mrs. Franks partnered I i» ut King (lark, who won tU intrr.hu, obstacle
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    Police Band Concert Tonight
    89 9 The band of the Straits Settle m< Police will play at Katong Park at 8.30 p.m. today under the direction ol Mr. S. Chapman. The programme March "Distant Greetings'* D Overture "Zampa" old Selection "Cavalcade" Coward Idyl Glow Worm" Lin Valse "A.-.oretten Tanze" Gung'l -Selection "Icianthe"
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    "Liars' Heaps" In Borneo
    148 9 -<~piE Dyakfl of Borneo are Ul edly one of i. I have come across, ..aid Bl Logie Danson, formerly of Bor a speech at Edinburgh. r r por'r The Scotsn. If he left a and was away for a year the first tl that Od happen
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    HAD DIZZY SPELLS FOR 3 YEARS.
    196 10 A Result Of toitifestion. re taking Kruschen," a woman write i had very bad dizzy .speiLs and hot flushes, bad spells of indigestion, and I was so nervous at times that the lent thin:-, would upset me. bout ii. in that condition I could
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    U. S. Assembles Naval Might
    271 10 New York. Jan. 31. rut great Armada ever sembled by the United Stat. for naval manoeuvres is occupyii. positions on a 2,000-mile front extending from Norfolk. Virginia, to the Panama Canal and including the Caribbean Sea. Before tho end o. February the Fleet I be
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    LIQUIDITY AND STRENGTH
    771 10 British Banks Prove Their Solidity MONEY CIRCULATES FREELY London, Feb. 12. "IT should give us confidence to know that our great; financial institutions can sustain the shock of so grave! a crisis as that of last September," said the chairman! of a leading British bank in a
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    Industrials And Rubbers Improve
    424 10 Share Report TIN PRICES SAG QWING to the Chinese New Year holidays Fraser and Company*.-. review this week covers only foiu working c\. Locally conditions have been better. The week started well as the pi ices of rubber rose immediately to r eight pence per pound
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    59 10 .s WATCH lest, ui.h i oncrete bomb deflectors. A number of M.P.s. representatives of thc Home Office and certain of the Ser\i:e Department > watched tests at the Hounslow works of Concrete Ltd.. with the use of concrete bomb deflectors t-. a means of reducing damage. Here a l.'JOOlb. bomb
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      425 10 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TENDERS. E SINGAPORE MUNICIPAUTY. iti now Invited for the following materials or services. For part.cui.u_. -ee Municipal Tenders Koom: Supply ot Sulphate ot Alumina lor, S period Jui to May 31, 1940 tc ol Closing 4 p.m.. Apr. 3, 1939. .ply ol :>0 to l tad >1 Iron,
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      108 10 BOARD a: RESIDENCE. SEA FRONT KATONCI G_UM_— 77. Meyn na (near Swimming lub. Hoard-Residence at moderate rate* l.ar.e Gardens Tennis Pbone: 5758. THEMANSION OXLEY RISE PRIVATE HOTEL Tel. *****. EAST ANGLIA OXLEV US! SINGAPORE i mlns. to town nigb level, garages, dally cr mentniy retee. large grounds, excellent cuisine tennis,
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      90 10 BANK<_7^., 'rporatcd *l/\ 12. ,j Telephm Paul Lp Reserve Funds exrws <,f ToUl Assets approximate! v m Tse-Vur Sung nan-, 7* London. \>w yj LONDO> Midland Ba NKV\ J Irvintr ill BR\V< < Mrrespomteotj CURRENT -3 POSIT ACO FOREIGN Cun ascertained oi EXCELLF-. GODOWN COLLECT!. SHIPMENTS GENER i business tra..
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      280 10 RADIO PROGRAMMES SINGAPORE TODAY /HI BIS metres. CBP .;*.9b* metres. 5.00 Hokkien Amoy I 5.30 Selections from Pi 6.00 Old Favourites 3." 7.00 Gypsy I 7.15 >oprano; 7.30 Tin news announcement?. 7.50 S 8 50 from London Spelling B 10.00 Close clown. TOMORROW 5.00 C*. 6.00 astral r 6. 1S
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      LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS & SHARES
      198 11 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCKS SHARES Last Night's Quotations from London 5.30 p. m. Yesterday I Vork onces quoted tn U.S currency, -tie above are dealers middle prices jobbers margins, brokerage dut. are not included ..nomination unlest Latest Quotation* Previoueiv red U, SPC 1944-64.... 11li b u m l°J Iff*
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      THE COMMODITY MARKETS From London 5. 30 p.m. Yesterday
      158 11 THE COMMODITY MARKETS From London 5. 30 p.m. Yesterday RI'RBER: Firmer London: 8> /B d. 8 3 16d. Previously: 8116d. 8 3 16d Apr.-June: 8 316d. 8>/ 4 d. Previously: 8l 8 d SSJI July-Sept.: 8i 4 d. 8 5 16d. Previously: 83 16d. 8 5 16d. Oct.-Dec: 8 5
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      THE METAL MARKETS From London: Latest Quotations
      36 11 THE METAL MARKETS From London: Latest Quotations ii.>: easier. Spot: £213 7s. 6d. Previously: £213 12s. 6d. Three months: £212 12s. 6d. Previously: £212 17s. 6d. Opening price*: 45.50 Previously: 45.67. £41 15s. Previously: £42 ss.
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      SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser And Co. s List
      1293 11 SINGAPORE STOCK AND SHARE PRICES Fraser And Co. s List From Exchange Telegraph Co. SATURDAY, FEB. 18, 1939: 1 P.M. MINING Buyer* Sellers Ampat Tin (4s) 3s 3d 4s Asam Kumbang 26s 27s Austral Malay 40s 45s cd. Ayer Hitam (ss) 21s 22s Ayer Weng ($1) .55 .60 Bangrin Tin
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      Current Company Dividends
      88 11 List Supplied By Messrs. Fraser Co. SATURDAY. FEB. 18. 1939: 1 P.M. Total for Company Dividend Boaka Financial TIN Close Date Ex. D.v. year Austral Malay 9d. No. 48 3d. bonus Feb. 24 Mar. 3 Feb. 25 s'c Raub sd. final, 2d. bonus Max. 8 Mar. 15
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      Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations
      65 11 Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations ■■■iMBB^BBBaBHBHHMBBI^HHHHHMDMHB^HB^BM^^^nBBBBBI^^^BMH^Hai^HHHHBHHHi^Mi^HMBB^MHBBMHHHaBBBn Method ol Parity oeiore Latest Centre Quoting 20-9-31 Rate Previously Paris Franc to 124.11 177 177 New York... $to 4.8655 4.63 11 16d. 4.68% Amsterdam Guilders to 12.10 8.75 3 s 8.741/2 HongKong.. Per dollar Is. 215 16d. Is. 2 1516d. Shanghai... Per
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      Chinese Story Of Puppet Minister's End
      100 11 Honi Kong. Feb. 21. C f l Foreign Minister j d Government" in Lnated at 7.15 p.m. i dence in Yu Settlement. 'hinese territory. 15 took part in till at large. ers. Two of the s bodyguards, into Chen's nuts at Chen. h his
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      R.A.F. Recruiting Has
      389 11 PRODUCTION STILL FASTER I London, Feb. ;8. THE R.A.F. have the world's fastest lighter planes, the longest-range bombers and a famous British war pilot told me yesterday the world's finest pilots to fly them, writes Victor Ricketts in the Daily Express. Latest figures show that R.A.F. recruiting
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    U.S. MAY RESTRICT VEGETABLE OIL IMPORTS
    1061 12 Renewed Agitation For Restriction NO MARKET FOR MALAYAN COPRA PRODUCERS MALAYAN copra producers and others in this country interested in vegetable oils are unlikely to find a Digger market in the United States. Reports from Washington indicate that at I present there is a
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    29 12 NEW RUMANIAN MINISTER presents credentials.— M. Tilea. the »ew Rumanian Minister, before he presented his credentials to the King leaving the Berkeley Hotel for Buckingham p a j a<
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    65 12 R VIEW return alter non-stop lit record to Australia. Squad.R. Kcilcti. I light-Lieut U. T_ ind Pilot Officer M.I. (iaine. three of the members of the K A.r. i Development Unit whieh est a world non-stop flight rd to Australia hi November. i at Tilbury on the s.s. Orford, a
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    Roosevelt's Hint Reacts On
    347 12 Market Report rv\VING Lo the Chinese New Year holidays our review this week In Mondays market, state S. E Levy and Company. The London market had then begun to show signs of returning confidence, perhaps not altogether convincing signs, but still encouraging, while New York, although
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    Germany's New Idea About Colonies
    254 12 Germany's New Idea About Colonies STATEMENT SOON London, Feb. 12. a CLEAR and definite statement by the German Government on the demand for colonies is expected to be made soon, says the Sunday Times. When it is made, the British Government is ready to deal with it without delay. Il
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    Germany's Bill For Rearmament
    215 12 London. Feb. 12. '•QERMANY'S expenditure ior military purpose from the inception of th* Nazi system to April l. 1938 has totalled at least 42 milliard marks— £2.800.000.000-and she is spending at the rate of at least 18 milliard marks— £1 200.000.000— per annum on military preparation."
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    Canada Is No "U. S. Corridor"
    150 12 London, I eb. 1 A PROTEST against the allegation that Canada is being used as a corridor for the exportation of United States goods to Britain was made in London yesterday, when Mr. Lionel Andrews's presidential address was read to the Canadian Chamber of
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    Bootleg Mining Kills Thirty-Two
    54 12 r Philadelphia Thirty -two "bootleg" miners lost then- lives in the anthracite coalfields ot Pennsylvania last year. This is a decrease of 20 as compared with 1937 nf tle mining" was the product of the depression, when unemployed mineri worked, abandoned or _eized unused mines, and
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    38 12 1..\00A MILES TO ?,?.IKIU .->li ,s .^-^^i-___B daughter of Mrs. Webster, Chester fi 1 at the end of the month to Melboui Ranold Maclu "Cn. Mr Maclnrkin where he is employed by the An, do-, her home I.
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    Air Mail Arrivals And Despaches
    291 12 INWARD Imperial: From Europe due Wednesday, Friday, Satnrdaj mornlni Wearnes: From Penang, Ipoh. and Kuala Lumpur. Arrives overs evening. KLM.: From Netherlands Indies Arrives Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday afternoons. Qantas: From Australia: Arrives Tuesday, Friday, Sunday mornin K.L.M.: From Furope: Arrives Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday evenings. K.N.1.L.M.:
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    SINGAPORE HARBOUR
    59 12 pore ii i Main I, Ran Cua Empire Dm-k. Int 34; Oak! Empire Dock, I nl Khandal] i Weal wu.,,, Oldenburg i Sadhana 58. New Section I Kit: i.J er? :i. »< U.in Wharf: Oil Ml Uh wi ESSI LS Tanj.m. i' Albert Deck: Victoria Docl I Harboor:
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      189 12 SURFACE MAIL DESPATCHES TODAY Australia:— Whole Qan Kemasek and Dungun Hong H am h 2 pm! 110 0 11 1 11 am N.l.:— Bagan and Belat Pa Hong Thong 3* 1 Djambi and Toengkal T Java. South-West Sumatra. 3. -J Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas and Timor Dilly x k.n.i r. Java
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      620 13 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. Ocean Building, Collyer Qua* Singapore Tel. 5151. Chartered Bank Building Prnang Tel. 136C BLUE FUNNEL LINE. FAST SERVICES MARSEILLES, LONDON. N. CONTINENT AND GLASGOW (in conjunction «ith the Glen Line) Dm Saßs DEUCALION Mars., L'don, R'dam, H ourtj and Glasgow Feb. 26 "Mar. 1 GLFNEARN Mars., L'don,
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    BARFORD WINS EVENT IN YESTERDAY'S RACES
    1750 15 Gold Point Beaten In Thrilling Finish KO YAL HAMPTON AGAIN in whi <* Barford and Dewberrv re ?61 respectively, dividends were moderate large holiday crowd wa_j present «i aa hoMm g, duo .<, heavy a i n earlier Ideal weather however, prevailed the racing.
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    106 15 Berlin. One- third ol the slag Irom German iron works 15 turned Into building material, calculates Dr. Fritz Keil, of Dusseldorf, writing in the German trade paper Bitumen. Another third is turned into road metal or material for concrete and only one-third is really wasted. An
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    Indian Cup To Stay In The North
    353 15 £ARRYING their 1 ht second innings score of 111 runs lur wickets only to 123. the Singapore Indians collapsed today under the deadly bowling of Gorbex Singh, thus losing the Indian Cup to Selangor, for the second year in succ by 102 runs.
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    TAIPING TURF CLUB
    34 15 •From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping. Feb. I!). It is understood, the Taiping Turf Club will run an Extra Skye meetin j this year on Friday, Mar. 31 and Saturday, Apr. 1.
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    NO PLAY ON THIRD DAY OF TEST CRICKET MATCH
    302 16 South Africa Robbed Of Possible Win DRAW IS LIKELY RESULT Johannesburg, Feb. 21. THERE was no play in the fourth test cricket match 1 between England and South Africa, to have been resumed today. At the close of the second day's
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    Vanrenen Wins Northern Golf Title
    133 16 Vanrenen Wins Northern Golf Title iom Our Own Correspondem., Ipoh, Feb. 21. THE Northern Malayan amateur golf championship played here was won F Vanrenen. with A. L. Blrse, er-up. Those who qualified were: whit.-, e 14 Bcoular, D. J. Allen, B. M. Jones. W 8 Paterson, J. M. Auld. ,>....
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    Perak Win In Malays' Hockey Tourney
    280 16 Perak Win In Malays' Hockey Tourney i Our Own Correspondent* Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 21. PERAK COLTS became champions the All-Malaya Colts' tourney irith a clear cut three goals to lctory over their itrongest rivals. the Selangor Colts. I i doing io they put up a magnificent show, and were clearly
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    Locke vs. Whitcombe
    33 16 London, Feb. M. A >00 challe ge foil match between i Reginald Whitcombe, the British champion and Bobby Locke, the mii champion, will be play- 31 and June 1. Reiter.
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    180 16 VJivn Joe _r<». Dharmaraj and Neil Hemchil on the i 'rd. there should be plenty of good boxing at the covered um on nd ay. Ow the bc ul talent in Malay., at present, Eagle and Acquerro had to b^ brought, from Batavia. where they have been
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    Yon Bin Mian Wins Malays' Singles Title
    155 16 (From Our Own Correspondent. Kuala Lumpur, Feb 21 pOR the third year hi succession Yon i„ in Mhm became singles champion in the All-Malays tennis tournament deieatins H. Kamis 6—4 (5—4 _n strenuously fought sets, wherein the champion's courtcraft won the day over
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    London Likes Basketball
    244 16 London. Feb. lu. DASKETBALL sounds like a p Mite game for young ladles. But at Harringay last nlghl four teams of 61 1. supermen— two English and two American, and each live a side—showed us :t was the fastest game on foot England has ever seen. Th's
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    Polo Player Is In Critical Condition
    48 16 TNew York, Feb. 21. HE well-known polo player, Capt. Patrick Roark, is still in an unconscious condition as a result of the skull operation performed to determine the nature of his concussion Surgeons have little hope of his re- Reuter co very.
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    Home Football And Rugby League
    31 16 London, Feb. 21. A first division football match resulted:— Grimsby 2, Arsenal 1. Rochdale Hornets beat Featherslo 2 6 In the Rugby League c tion.— Reuter
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    Smith Beats Wise In S. C. C. Singles Final
    578 16 NEW YEAR TOURNEY ENDED CPECTACULAR tennis was seen in the Singapore Cricket u Club Chinese New Year tournament finals yesterda\. All sections of the tournament were concluded with the exception of the final of the men's handicap singles. Results were Open
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    Jumeaux's Team Beats Malayan Colts
    222 16 Jumeaux's Team Beats Malayan Colts (Frem our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 21. THS annual hockey match between the Malayan Colts and Jumeaux XI played on the padang this evenin? ended in the former trouncing the Colts G l. This match brings the annual Colts tournev to a close. This
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    Singapore Beat Penang Colls
    219 16 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 21. THE Singapore Coits retrieved their reputation somewhat with a threenil hockey victory at the expense of the Penang Colts, whom they met this morning. This was Singapore's second win and thev deserved lt. Penang. howevar. gave their ponents
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    Singapore Win Indian Hockey Fixture
    139 16 Singapore Win Indian Hockey Fixture ONE GOAL TO Nil \JBE Singa] annual crick I r day. beat tl only goal ta a Played at Bale! Ibrahim bin •■nai three mil v.- nger, Sandosham The gam the reputatl this could be b and t>>e ground Slightest pro* responsible Langor had flrst
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    Dinner For The Visitors
    47 16 A l K nun n dinner Asso SUtion H< 3or hockey ing Dr. A A Board pore Did short but h Mrs the ind:, ing Dr laugor liseetion rep local a visit TV capt to insist The night msll oft by the b-
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