The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 24 May 1939

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press AND Daily News NO. 15,785. ESTD. 1835 WEDNESDAY, M AY 24, 1939. 5 CENTS
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    Greek Trade With Britain
    17 1 Gr eek Trade With Britain ngeh the been tag •up k prej :cesa n s. British Wireless
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    Bonfires Light Route Of Royal Train
    91 1 I WinniI late, to I children I Mm B un I first time. I permit 9 I l i- many B rmpse of I but the I 1 from 9 ipital :i ..OlltS. m I «»>a!t > Expressed 9 9 id the 1 >gUU--9
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    13 1 I Melbourne, Mav tfl National being org.Council of I -.his thai the Reuter
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    Bomb Thrown Into Seaforth Barracks
    46 1 London, May 23. A BOMB CONSISTING of 20 sticks of gelignite was thrown through a window of the King's Liverpool Regiment gymnasium at the Seaforth Barracks today. The bomb immediately plunged into a bucket of water and did not explode. Reuter
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    FRANCE'S PLAN FOR A SOVIET PACT
    477 1 System Of Mutual Guarantees genevaTreport .Jolt fedi; ;f Ut= The three countries to guarantee each other mutual ,h., Kr\e"re BEVS-Mi obligations towards other countries ff llh The correspondent adds that Lord Halifax and M Matsky may convey this plan to their Governments London, May
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    BEATING THE I.R.A. AT THE DERBY
    327 1 BEATING THE I.R. A. AT THE DERBY Richards Has A Dream SivuffT London, Mav 23. hCKET precautions are bem« taken at Epsom to provent any I.R.A. outrages interfering with the Derby. Flam-clothes men are posted at various parts of the rS LL d ft ay and all night and there
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    TALKS ON RUBBER, TIN BARTER
    118 1 TALKS ON RUBBER, TIN BARTER B. O. T. President Is Reticent London, May 23. A SKED In the Commons tonight what r% steps had been taken to advance further the proposals for a direct exchange of cotton, rubber and tin between the British Empire and the United States, Mr. Oliver
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    Canterbury Snubs His Holiness
    76 1 London, May H. The Archbishop of Canterbury, presiding at the Upper House Convocation of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey, today, referred to the proposal that the Pope should be invited to summon a conference of leaders of all Christian communions in the world. He said that from
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    7 1 GORDON RICHARDS A vision bv nig tit.
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    51 1 M London, May 23. ORE THAN 1.490 recruits joined the Royal Air Force last week, compared with 387 in the corresponding period of last year. This is a record entry for die second week in succession and for four consecutive weeks the numbers entered have exceeded the 1,000 mark- British
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    Britain Delivers Czech Gold To Germany
    302 1 £5,000,000 FOR REICH London, May 23. TPHE statement made in the Commons yesterday is taken by several newspapers as confirmation that the Czech gold, amounting to £5,000,000, held in London under the name of the Bank for International Settlements has been released to the
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    18 French Naval Vessels On Cruise
    39 1 Paris, May 23. EIGHTEEN WARSHIPS, including the battleships Dunkerque and Strasbourg, and the cruisers Georges Leygues, Gloire and Montcalm, left Brest today for a month's cruise in British, Belgian and Dutch waters.— Reuter
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    Derby Easy As A. B. C.
    102 1 fmrir London, May 23. JHE superstitious are backing oo, F °?v. Cub beca use Old Moore says the race is likely to be ™h a j ckey taring white and may possibly be ridden by a champion jockey y Indeed, fortune-telling is so me^en^^
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    QUEEN MARY'S CAR CAPSIZES
    127 1 l hhiN Mary was involved in a motor accident in a London suburb, today. Her car completely overturned. Her Majcttj was rescued "y a painter. She was shaken, but not hurt. She rested at a doctor's house before driving home. When the accident occurred the painter,
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      47 1 BROCADES fFOM FRANCE iilY 3 pcb 0& 36 mch \j I'..' I«. IV, >. I TONIGHT COCKTAIL DANCE AL EMPIRE DAY DINNER DANC£ ornil 'to to midnight nml hM, No admission char^r to Ball Kooui l^,! CMESTIU d d DAN HOPKINS Sr Pop I'LAR DANCE MUSIC IN TOWN.
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      86 1 MAKE YOUR DRESSES OF ALL OCCASIONS BY EUROPEAN LADY CUTTER DESIGNER AT SEA VIEW HOTEL TODAY EMPIRE DAY SPECIAL DINNER DANCE THE BALL-ROOM IS RESERVED TILL 10 P.M. FOR THE MFVIBEKS OF THE OVERSEAS LEAGUE. THE PUBLIC ARE ADMITTED TO THE DANCE (FORMAL) BEGINNING AT 10 P M AFTER DINNER
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    TOKIO PRESS CALLS FOR NEW PACT
    563 2 TOKIO PRESS CALLS FOR NEW PACT 'Can Never Co operate With Britain France A NEW WORLD ORDER Tokio, May 23. JAPANESE newspapers in Tokio again today stress the necessity for strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact on the occasion of the conclusion of the Italo-German military oact, some papers referring in
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    Japan's Feelings Now Hurt?
    57 2 Tokio, May 23. THE JAPANESE counter-reply to the British, French, and United States Notes regarding Kulangsu states the landing of bluejackets of these countries was an "unfriendly act beyond comprehension, and done in defiance of a Japanese request. The reply reiterates that the Japanese live-point proposals
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    Chinese Push To The East
    121 2 Chungking, May 23 pOLLOWINO their I at Cl it polni the 11 Chinese i tegun th I push in In small ,-hir.' ni i re ambushed by Chinese tta tills ol the Tahung 80 mUea to the aorth-west I when 1,000 e were killed. Japanese
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    Boxing Title
    30 2 London, May tt. TTHK IfeAvoy-Hi An. whldb will be recognised by the British Basins Board as a world title bout, will be definitely held on June 22. Reuter
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    French Army Men For China
    88 2 Tokio, May 23 A GROUP of eight French military advisers, including two retired generals and four retired colonels of the French Army recently arrived in Chungking, via Hanoi, to serve in the Chinese Army, according to a message lrom Shanghai. Residing in the western suburbs
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    Week-end Clash In Manchukuo
    90 2 Usinking, May 23. ANOTHER CLASH occurred between Manchukuo troops and about 400 Outer-Mongolian troops on Sunday when the latter invaded Manchukuo territory. After brief fighting, the invaders were repulsed by Manchukuo troops On Saturday one of several OuterMongolian light bombers which Hew over Manchukuo territory was
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    Roosevelt On Trade
    206 2 Roosevelt On Trade Washington. May IZ. IN A SPEECH befON i lie National Retail Federation today. President Roosevelt delivered his long-awaited pronouncement on the Government's attitude towards business. President Roosevelt declared balancing of the Budget now or in the next year, was going to be difficult, if not impossible. He
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    M.P.'s Post-Mortem On Britain's China Interests
    165 2 M.P.'s Post- Mortem On Britain's China Interests JAPAN AND THE AXIS London, May 2:'. THE House of Commons China Committee i< meeting tomorrow with the view of appointing a deputation to interview the Foreign Secretary to thrash out the question of defence of British interests in China. Japan's rejection of
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    13 2 GOODBYE TO THE ANTIPODES SUMMER.— A May morning snapshot on a Melbourne beach.
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    Clipper Arrives
    30 2 London, "May 23. DAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS' huge Yankee clipper arrived at Southampton at 12.45 p.m. from New York, completing the first time-table crossing of the Atlantic by air. Reuter
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    Report On Danzig For Geneva
    62 2 Geneva, May 23. yilE LEAGUE COUNCILS Danzig A Committee today decided to make no change at present in the relations between Danzig and the League. It also decided to request the League's High Commissioner in the free city, Herr Burckhardt, who is Swiss, to return
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    STOP PRESS
    89 2 Hoylake, May i:\. Two boy prodigies cornered the limelight in the second round of the Amateur Clolf Championship. Seven-teen-year-old Kenneth Thoni, of Thorpe Hall, beat S. E. Banks, of Hallanishire, runner-up in last years English championship, 2 and 1 and 19-year-old James Kruen, Irish < hampion, defeated Leonard
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    Tokio's Scheme For Shanghai
    71 2 Tokio. May E& PNDING his talks with the For Office on Shanghai Internationa! Settlement problems, Mr. Yoshiaki Miura, the Japanese Consul-General will return to Shanghai today. Mr. Miura arrived in Tokio on If as and con i erred with Foreign" Office authorities on the settlement. It
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    Priest's Dismembered Body On Railway
    50 2 From Ou>: Own Correspondent) TOping, May 23. The remains of :i male Tamil wu« found in parts along the railway line, a quarter 01 a mile south of Taiptag this morning. The body war identified as that of ft T;amil priest, Rairulingam, of Kainpeng EoyajiTomnUv
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    Valentine Gets Double Century Against Notts
    26 2 Valentine G ets D ouble Cen tury Against Notts County i s Ind 141 (1 83),207 unfinished I cetter 2G2 (Gibb rnd 256 for i I
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    Sea Thrills At Alhambra
    39 2 A thi Ami am Pox's "Sain ed at th- Aihi it f 11 ol of Am< n of tl c n gun and I in muj id Richard rich i»nlii tx ard S.C I bcr
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    Crime Drama At Pavilion
    20 2 WITH 81 Blak job its Pavilion Instead whose 111 charged commit murderer I The c. The
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    Former Seletar Man Promoted
    34 2 fFI Iw 51IIl< 1935-38. He If offi r vnd .el if NO at Cotl He i demy v, i in till in the R he was eomn in a in.
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    DAMAGES AGAINST A WOMAN
    318 3 fjaim *y storekeeper Who Was Injured health impaired by car crash 1510. and svnoral damages of rded Mr. Justice Worley to Donald storekeeper emoloyed by Wearne's Air W. Jones in the Singapore -unlay. ired in« a motor collision while ing to Mrs. Jones, claimed that paired
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    Complaint By Taxi – Dancer Is Dismissed
    68 3 Complaint By Taxi Dancer Is Dismissed WS DEFENCE NOT CALLED ON was Fourth Mr C. H ted Chari charge Tai Poh >aret on hiid beer. men, he clr deas been lid, "and I should Ndd the -.d?red High iking the decided n made put respect of I ol the had
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    SUNIEST PLACE IN MALAYA
    29 3 SUNIEST PLACE IN MALAYA and I the wetnth. 20 min rain-•-v by Penang •■•< day. only lour tin, alI I in. d Port it places and there Qin p i
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    DELAYED MAIL
    36 3 Mail by the delayed castbound Imperial Airways flying-boat due at Singapore en Monday will be available at Singapore this morning. The circratt was delayed at Calcutta and a»ain at Bangkok owing to engine trouble
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    Round – The – World Flight By Invalid
    156 3 Round The World Flight By Invalid I From Our Own Correspondent I London, May 16. A DECISION "on the spur of the moment" to fly around the world will bring Mr. Henry F. McLean, a wealthy Canadian invalid, and his ine, Miss I. Atkinson, to Singapore in the near future.
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    Rescued Man Awakes, Begins Singing
    87 3 A DRAMA was enacted in the Singa- pore River in the early hours of yesterday morning, when a Punjabi policeman. Corporal Maula Bakash. on patrol in Boat Quay near Magazine Road at 4 a.m., heard a splash in the water. He discerned a man struggling
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    Empire Day: Special Message To Malaya
    393 3 Empire Day Special Message To Malaya CELEBRATIONS TODAY MALAYA, in common with the rest of the Empire today 1 celebrates Empire Day. "I send you warm greetings, coupled with the earnest hope that the flame of loyalty to the Crown and of patriotic devotion to our world-wide Empire burns as
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    39 3 r™™ OF THE SINGAPORE GARDENING SOCIETY made a tour of Government Hou*e grounds on Monday afternoon fir The first Le buHdln- a mirin the herbaceous borders in front of The buildings leading down to the launs.— Free Press picture.
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    Steel Plate Kills Coolie
    127 3 Steel Plate Kills Coolie TRAGEDY AT HOTEL A VERDICT OF DEATH by misadven- ture was returned by the Singapore Coroner. Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday, at an inquiry into the death of an Indian, Shahal Hamid, who died as the result of injuries received when he was pinned between a
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    GOLDEN WEDDING OF FORMER SINGAPORE COUPLE
    109 3 GOLDEN WEDDING OF FORMER SINGAPORE COUPLE I From Our Own Correspondent London, May 15. Jl/IR. and Mrs. W. C. Suter, formerly of Singapore celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at their home in Southse:; today. They received many congratulations from relatives and friends both la this country and in Malaya. They
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    25 3 According to telegraphic advice received from Batavia, the Nethei lands Trading Society, has declared a dividend of nve-and-a-half per cent lor the year 1938. I
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    Parades And Tableaux At Schools
    121 3 Parades And Tableaux At Schools CINGAPORE schools will celebrate Empire Day today In different ways, but the dominant motif in every case will be pride in the freedom which is the heritage of every Briton. At some schools cadets and Scouts will be on parade, in others there will be
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    WALES LEFT OUT: COMMONS PROTEST
    188 3 London. THE Welsh M.P.s protested in the House of Commons against "the tendency in the phrasing of bills" to leave out the word "Wales." A Standing Committee was considering the Marriage Bill, a private member's bill which passed through the committee without amendment. It increases
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    Law Notice For The Day
    38 3 Law Notice For The Day The Chief Justice at Kuala Lumpur —Court of Appeal. Before Mr. Justice .Manning in 3rd Court at 11 a.m. Part heard:— O.S. 140/38— Re Will of Tan Kwan Kok deceased, (if not concluded).
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    25 3 Today and tomorrow will be observed as holidays by the Jewish community in celebration of the Feast of Pentecost. Jewish business premises will be closed.
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    Australia Prepares Against Siege
    145 3 Canberra, May 12. li/IR. R. G. CASEY, Minister of Supply and Development in the Federal Government, states that the principal aim of the new Ministry will be to place Australia in a position to stand a state of siege if war should come. to will attempt
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    108 3 J^ANK counts little with us," light-heartedly declared Captarn D. Wilson, son of the Governor of Queensland, and himself an officer in the Rifle Brigade now stationed at Gualior, India, ichen he passed through Singapore yesterday by Einpire flying boat, after a visit to his father. The father, Colonel the Rt.
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    Bombers For N.Z. To Visit Singapore
    162 3 Bombers For N.Z. To Visit Singapore (From Our Own Correspondent. London, May 16 MEW Zealand's recently purchased 20 Vickers Wellington long-range bombers are to be flown in easy stages from Britain to New Zealand via Singapore. The first four machines will leav* this country early in June and will pass
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    Plans For Immense Padi Area In Johore
    219 3 PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF ENDAU PLAIN DLANS for "an immense padi area" in the Emiau district of Johore, are discussed by Mr. A. G. Robinson, Adviser, Drainage and Irrigation, Malay States, in his report on his recent visit to Johore. Mr. Robinson thinks that
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    FILM DIRECTOR'S NAUTICAL SENSE IS "HAYWIRE"
    150 3 FILM DIRECTOR'S NAUTICAL SENSE IS "HAYWIRE" A SEVERE shortage of lighters for work between Bangkok and vessels loading at Sichang, an island in the Gulf of Siam about 50 miles from the capital, is causing delay to ships lyins at the anchorage there. Vessels which have recently been delayed at
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      217 3 Gland Discovery Restores Youth In 24 Hours Sufferers from lofs of vigour, nervousness, weak body, Impure blood, failing memory, and who are old and worn-oat before their time will bo delighted to l»-ara of a now glaiui di«OOVer| bj an A;;i-.ji. an L»octor. This new discovery makr.s it possible to
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    A Singapore MAN in LONDON
    2430 4 A Singapore MAN in LONDON London, May 17. TOR the first time for many months, we are enjoying what is desrrifood in diplomatic jargon as a detente. 'irue, Mr. Chamberlain has. in the f.. announced the decision the British and Turkish Governnta to si";n a defensive asreeent, nnd Stgnor Mussolini
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    Minister Visits Aircraft Factory
    686 4 basis and the formation of civil defence units are at last begins to be felt in the Industrial and commercial worlds. The nation is in a lair way to learning the answer to a question that has been posed ever .since the end of the war—
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    THE HERITAGt OF THE "FOOLISH" CHEMIST
    163 4 in the au in the scientifi for.unaw urn I time. There arc reall provirlrti for <• the 'fool! n Stockholm, th* physics, chemistry, w ■ISO for p'":> Naturally, tho« for medicini lit< orally ti.. public. Th N to men whe proved mvalual h men
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    WOMEN FIREFIGHTERS
    193 5 ABOVE: Women 11 re -fighters, v. earing i;as masks ainl decontamination suits, at a deinorstration fUpn in Be! c ,radc. RIGHT: Prepirations :\re beinr: made for the london Zou season and elephants are boinu" rehearsed for their task of jri\i»)ff the children rides' H»»re is Sully giving vounr
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    TRIBUTES TO MEMORY OF MANSON AND ROSS
    966 6 TRIBUTES TO MEMORY OF MANSON AND ROSS Malaya's Benefits From Tropical Researches APPEAL BY THE PREMIER v From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 15. THE Prime Minister, Chairman of the Court of Governors, 1 presided at the annual Manson-Ross luncheon, held at the Tx>ndon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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    POLISH QUESTION TO WAIT?
    976 6 Postponement Of "Settlement" fHANCELLOn HITLER, it is underrtood in well-informed quarters In Berlin, reports the Mewl Chronicle correspondent, proposes to postpone) the iettlexhcni* 1 Of the Danzig and Corridor issues until arter this year's Nuremberg Nazi rally, to so held, as i.cnal, in BeptembtT. "Congress of
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    15 6 ILFOBD (ESSEX) AIR DEFENCE CADETS being inspected by Air Marshal Sir John Salmon last week.
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    Sensational Decline Of Yen
    51 6 Sensational Decline Of Yen LOW LEVEL IN SHANGHAI MARKET today MH Todays Icvd ii sin BtW iinanctai eirdts u count for the i atth, cescrt;,,,: 3 sea? Money-chan areas in Central Chh have dc id, for the not, merclal Bank, a Sinol tutlon recent *m by the r t^ 5S
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    Japanese Police Beat British Subject
    192 6 200 CHINESE ARRESTED IN KULANGSU Kulangsu, Mav 23. DEPORTS have been received alleging the severe manhandling: of Chinese arrested and taken to Amoy after the recent landing of Japanese bluejackets in the International Settlement here. The exact number of arrests is not known but it
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    Italy's Exhibit At World Fair
    180 6 TML big today was the ItaLan Pavilion wit th mi the Fasd l lime. The buildup is of til surmounted by goddess Roma, from whoi cade falls 150 feet Into This symbolises the mj the exhibit [t is 1 <te role of waff r-po<w< r
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    Nazi View Of Future War
    253 6 "SEARCH FOR QUICK DECISION" Berlin, May 15. THHE Ticwi held by the German General Staff about the character of a future war are authoritatively outlined in a pamphlet, "Defence Policy," by Lt.-Gen. Horst von Metzsch, a wellknown writer on military subjects. During the war he
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    Spain May Join Nazi Alliance
    186 6 Comment In Japan Tokio, May 23. COMMENTING on the Italo-German military pact, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun says that Japan, as a signatory to the Anti-Comintern Pact, hails the pact which is destined to have a "far-flung influence on the international situation." It is not too
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    Politics And Markets Do Nothing
    692 7 FRASER'S WEEKLY REPORT tempo of events in Europe was slower this week but was enlivened by the spectacle of the purest of white shirts in England dying aloud for the apparently reluctant affections of the Russian Red, state Messrs. Eraser Co., Singapore, in their weekly
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    PIG-OWNERS FINED
    46 7 PIG -OWNERS FINED Thirty owners of piss ware summoned before Mr. C. H. Koh. in the Smganon Fourth Police Court yesterday, to answer charges of rearing piss withou'. the necessary permit On their pleading guilty, fines ranging from XL. K& ™re. Health Officer. Rural Board, prosecuted
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    Pin Tables In Woman's Home
    206 7 Pin Tables In Woman 's Home DETECTIVES' RAID A fine of $50, in default one month's simple imprisonment, was imposed by Mr. L. C. Goli In the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday, on an elderly Cantonese woman, Ngow Ah Ninon, who was convicted on a charge Of Allowing her premises
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    Raub Geld Mining Output
    115 7 Raub Geld Mining Output ■yHE Raub Australian Gold Mining Company advise the following output for the four weeks ended May 20. '"Crushing No. 54<i Battery treated 4.997 tons of ore returning 1.450 ounces of bullion equivalent to 1367 ounces of fine gold. 4> Retreatm?nt Plant treated 7,669 tons of tailings
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    2 BURIED ALIVE IN TRENCH
    64 7 TpWO Municipal Tamil coolies lost their lives yesterday when thr shoring at the side of a trench in which they were working collapsed at j Paya Lebar where sewage work is in J progress. They were buried beneath timber j and earth. One body was
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    Sikh Alleged To Have Had Gun
    76 7 A LLEGED TO HAVE BEEN in posses sion of a pistol and eight round of ammunition, without a, licence, In the Naval Base on Monday afternoon Kishan Singh, a 37-year-old Sikh, we? produced before Mr. K. A. Blacker, In the Singapore Third Police Court
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    SENTENCES ON CHINESE
    82 7 IN a report of the case concerning two Chinese, Chan Fook Lam and Far Fock Chon", which appeared in th» Singapore Free Press yesterday, it wa. statod they were sentenced to IS months' rierrous imprisonment bv Mr Conrad Oldham. in the Sin^op^rf Criminal District Court, for goini
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. The Veil Lifted
    633 8 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1939. The Veil Lifted DEMARKABLE progri has £X been made with the AngloSoviet negotiations .since Mr Chamberlain spoke In the House of Commons on Friday last. The Prime Minister then admitted that there seemed to be a veil .separating the two governments, and
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    19 8 JTHE SNAIL AND THh WHITING (TOGETHER): "WILL YOU. WON'T VOLT, win VOI >YOU JOIN THE DANCE/" irREVISED Hr«SI(hN 0
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    Italy As Weak Ally Of Germany In War
    1175 8  -  L. F. PALMER BY C(X JHE military strength that Italy C OH Berlin-Rome Axis in event of a war, of f opicc (Pfci this week with the signing of the Italo-Gcrmon alliZ appraised in this article by a veterun u«r corrtipondr. military
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    COOLIES DEMAND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS
    343 9 COOLIES DEMAND BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS Spread Of Aerodrome Labour Trouble WORK OF AGITATORS? M 0 .I!!"; 1 U m mm and W inen employed by n construction companies and eontrQpf/>%. k« l.a>c ben 'hronls „r,Kc if ,lcman<l s afc M Z, TT nE Petition to the contracton carries a time-limit
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    Husband Cut Hair To Dishonour Her
    471 9 YOi G WIFE'S STORY r J por and a 15-ye of v I and d as u»ms Deva- i cently villaf m thct and guilty of .avon. ItAND 01 IDTLTBBBB M Dcvjiraja. K| (i^rsv^d «.r her hair it ui,dersto<Kl that she rutttj „f jfross
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    World Cruise Ketch Launched
    121 9 LOWERED Into the water by a 15--ton crane, the 42 ft. ketch built by the former U.S. Army flier, Capt. K. Hcrndon, in a Singapore furniture company's yard, was launched at the Harbour Board's wharves yesterday. The ketch wu christened Nolausa, the letters In the name
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    Struggle With Armed Chinese
    263 9 MAN WHO CARRIED AUTOMATIC PISTOL j ALLEGED to have been ioimci in ;j possession of an automatic pistol and six rounds of ammunition, after 1 being arrested by detectives while heat•ingr food by the roadside in Tiong Bahru Road, Ng Hong Geok, a Chinese, was sentenced
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    Selangor Chinese Appeal To League
    110 9 'From Our Own orrespcndent Kuala Lumpur, May 23. Jj^ PLEA for League of Nations action against Japanese aggression in China is contained m a telegram dispatched today to the Secretary-General of the League, by the Chinese Chamber •I C o m m e r c
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    Rural Board Criticised By Magistrate
    255 9 Rural Board Criticised By Magistrate ACTIONS AGAINST "POOR SQUATTERS" "'J'HESE people appearing in Rural Board cases are poor squatters and if kept waiting for such long i periods before hearing from the Rural Board, they have some justification for their action. In a good many cases I have been compelled
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    MUNICIPALITY'S EXAMPME
    134 9 '"In another case beiore me this morning. Mr. C. Da Silva, appearing on behalf of a defendant, stated that similar applications made to the Municipal Commissioners are dealt with in a quicker manner, and mentioned to me an instance where a permit for minor works can be obtained
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    Suicide Of Girl Who Was Caned
    284 9 JURY ASKS FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION \LRDICT of suicide was yesterday returned by a jury sitting in the Singapore Coroner's, Court follow, ing an inquest held by the Coroner, Mr. W G PorW into the death of a Chinese girl, Soo Ah Hen* who died
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    CASE AGAINST SCOTSMAN POSTPONED
    76 9 Remarking that he would risk for definite instructions whethsr the case should be heard in this court, or at the District Court. Mr. L. C. Goh, in the Singapore Fifth Police Court >(.-,- terday, postponed a case tgainst Douglas Fraser Gordon Stables, a 58--year-old Scotsman, who
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    CAR LIGHTS ON DURING BLACKOUT
    171 9 European Fined PLEADING guilty to a charge of failing to comply with the Lighting Control Ordinance, at. 4.15 a.m. on Mar. 17, during the Singapore blackout, a European, D. Whltehead, was yesterday fined $40 in the Blngapon Traffic District Court. Court Inspector Frew, In ing
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    BRITISH TRADE RECOVERY UNDER WAY
    1385 10 Rapid Progress Towards "Full Employment" CONFIDENCE ON 'CHANGE (From Our Own Correspondent) London, May 12. A LTHOUGH the City still regards international politics as the predominant factor affecting the business outlook, considerable satisfaction is being 1 generally expressed with the steady improvement in domestic trade'
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    45 10 LTCENCH OFFICERS ARRIVE on visit to England. A party if one hundred French officers, arrived r.i Sonthamviton on a visit to En«land sponsored by the United o a n i»i France Thii ;.> General Dnfienx of the French Army beiny: greeted by a British army ollucr.
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      550 10 RADIO programmes SINGAPORE TODAY ZIIL 2!5 metres. ZHP 30 06 metres. p.m. *.00 MLscellanoous {.rcgramme ui new gramophone records. t 1.30 Mid-day rubber and tin price-.. 1.32 Miscellaneous programme icontd) 2.00 Interval. 5.00 Hokkion Amoy music. t 5.30 "Cias-sified character singing in Peiptng p!ayi 6.00 Radio Vaudeville— featuring Wa«lg Zen
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      143 11 LONDON AND NEW YORK STOCK SHARES j^gl Night's Quotations from J° n 5 3 0 P- m Yesterday mt^lL?* pHeaai jlllfc« margin*, brokerage out> are not included. Ut- Quotation.. Previously I W% 108 "*>; «7 4 17s. Gd. 51"- •> V*. »v'J— r\ J 99s 41 c: 100s. r?s. lo^d.
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      131 11 From London 5.30 p. m Yesterday RUBBER: Firm. London: 8 1 16d. 8 316d. PreriotttlT- w I vim Nev, York: 16 .i 0 ,ents_ IG.IO ,eS Uverpooi '////////.l* 21P93 tor^ (4JM fl tC nS) Strait. BJ>. Rotterdam: £11 12s. 6d. Previously: .£ll 12s. Id. 1200? T^ untok
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      58 11 TIN: Easier. Spot: £225 12s. 6d. Previously: £225 2s Gd Three months: £223 12=. Gd. Previously- £223 12s 6<? NEW YORK TIN: 48.80. Previously: 48.30. Yesterday: £7 Bs. 54d. Previously: £7 a? 51 od bIL\LK. Spot: 20 1 loci. Previously: 20 Three months: j9 7 h d.
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      60 11 Foreign Exchange Rates London Closing Quotations Method oj Parity oeiore Centre Quotin? 20-9-31 Rate Previously Paris Franc to 4> 124.11 176 3 176 3 4 New York... $to 4.8655 4.68 316 4S3lb Amsterdam Guilders to 12.10 8.71 3 8 872*3 HongKong.. Per dollar is.2ls;i6d. 15.215|16d. Shanghai... Per dollar S^d.rioin. u
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      112 11 London Lisbon Ties Stressed Lisbon. May 22. HTHE Prime jvlinister of Portugal, Dr. Antonio Salazar, stressing in the Assembly today Portugal's firm adherence to the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, declared "I know I am speaking for my coun/y when I say we will fulfil faithfully our obligations to the alliance. "The visit
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      87 11 London. May 23. The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Oliver Stanley, said in the Commons tonight that no precise information was available, when asked what proportion of the trade between Japan and India and between 'Japan and Australia was carried under the Japanese flag. He
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      1251 11 From Exchange Telegraph Co. Fraser And Co. 's List TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939: 5 P.M. MINING r.i.w:» Sellers Ampat Tin (4s) 3s 3s 6d Austral Am^l. (Os) *3 7Vi.d 3s l^d Austral Malay (£> 38s 42a Ayer Hitam (ss) 20s 2is Aver Weng ($1) .08
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      80 11 List Supplied liy Messrs. Fraser Co. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1939: 5 P.M. rofcu for Company Dividend Boot* Financial TIN Close Date Lx Olv. year Hong F&tt Ife% May 17 May 28 May 18 ftfc* Raub sd. int. June 8 June 14 June 9 sd. Rawang Cone 6d.
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      66 11 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSOCIATION Sellers I "ji I 27 r, 16 •MC*****C mh bale.; Muy 23% 2i% Future Mouths Quotations No. IX R.SB on Kegistered Tender May 28*; Mtt .Tune 28U July Sept. 28*4 -'B** Ott.Dec 28'^ 28 Jan. Mar 28% 28^ Tone of Market: Steady quiet. latest Cable:
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      Queen Wilhelmina Visits Belgium
      60 11 Brussels, May 23. Queen Wilheimina, returning the visit of the King of the Belgians to The Hague last November, arrived in Brussels today, accompanied by the Foreign Minister, Dr. Patijn. The Queen was greeted at the station by King Leopold and cheered by crowds in the
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      Cabinet To Discuss Soviet Pact Today
      86 11 London, May 23. THE CABINET held a special meeting this morning to clear off domestic business so that Wednesday's meeting may be devoted to consideration of the Anglo-Soviet negotiations. Among the important business discussed today was the Bill for establishing a Ministry of Supply,
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      Mr. Chamberlain To Go To Scotland
      56 11 London, May 23. THE PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Chamberlain, will leave London on Thursday for Edinburgh, where he will be guer^ of Sir John Gilmour, who, as Lord High Commissioner, has taken up residence at Holyrood Palace for the General Assembly of the Church «f
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      Daily Share Report
      60 11 Daily Share Report "J «L%8tt ft UO. AT IF u,K t or BUSINESS ftSTOLDAY '"vis*, M mitta? was ■kattl in London 4 inquiry fa, thl 5^ "r s it rubber *p«t28 J™ Jul> -^ntember 28 easier after being HDafl revival n bb^ today "^tket t, hf Austria! tiJu UhUe <;am,nons
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      180 11 MA* 23 tfKLUMG Ixndoii T.T. 2,3 25 32 Ixmdon deman^ 2 3 25 32 Lyons demand 2040 Switzerland de^ian.. 240 Hamburg demand 134 New York demand f>4H Montreal demand 54 V* Batalva demand 106^ Samarang demand 100 t» Calcutta. Bombay Rangoon demand 155U Madrai Colombo acmand 255*4 Hong
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      Italy's Big Bill For Imperialism
      46 11 Kome, May 23. ITALY'S EXPENDITURE in the past three years exceeded her revenue by 40.000,000 lire. 38,000,000 lire therefore were spent on behalf of the Empire and armaments. This statement was made oflicialiy in a debate in the Chamber today Reuter
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    AXIS POWERS ANNOY TOKIO
    326 12 Traffic In Arms With China Continues NEW BARTER AGREEMENT? Hong Ron£, May 12. ARTICLES In the Tokyo newspapers today reveal a recrudesce nee of Japanese irritation at the continuance of material aid to China by Germany and Italy, Japan's principal partners in the Anti-Communist Pact. The
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    48 12 T ra who broke into the Roman Catholic Church of St. Edward the Conlessor. Chandler! Ford, near Easileigh, Hants, tried t i open a .sale but left empty handed, after writing on a card: 'Why lock your doors when you have n thin to loa Ora Pro Hobis."
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    Public Opinion Changed Over Conscription
    400 12 London, May 8. TEN days have sufiiced to cause a complete reversal in A public opinion on conscription. A week ago the News Chronicle published the results of a survey taken by the British Institute of Public Opinion between Apr. 21 and 26, which showed
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    A.R.P. Lectures In Berlin
    209 12 Berlin, May 10. EVERY Berlin resident is compelled to attend six A.R.P. lectures a year, under a police decree now published. Officers in charge of police districts are empowered to allocate and enforce attendances. In the A.R.P. week which has opened in Germany 13,000,000 people, it
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    Marquis To Help War Office
    228 12 London, May 10. FREDERICK MARQUIS is to as- fist the War Office in providing the great quantities of clothing reauired by the new Militia and the expanding Territorial Army. it v/as announced yesterday that he h:is been b minted honorary adviser ou the production o!
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    ECONOMIC TALKS WITH GREECE
    124 12 London, May 23. INURING the past week Sir Frederick Leith-Ross has had a number of meetings in Athens with the President of the Council and Minister of Finance and with the Governor of the Bank of Greece at which financial and economic question of common iiierests
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    South Africans Rush To Enrol
    88 12 Cape Town, May 8. pREAT enthusiasm prevailed today u on the opening of the Voluntary National Reserve registration scheme drawn up by the South African Government. All members of the Union Cabinet registered early. Some of them, notably General Hertzo?, the Prime Minister, and General
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    Ban On Dancing At Oxford
    159 12 Oxford, May 9. OESENTMENT has been caused in Oxford by the announcement today thai the Oxford Union Eights Week party will not be held owing to a Proctor's ban on dancing. No reason is given for the ban, but if is stated that dancing is
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    52 12 "STRANGER' 1 WAULED INTO A prhate meeting of .M.t'.s at the House of (oninioi-s, joined in their discussion, and none of those present realised that lie was not an MP. himself. He was ("apt. G. Burgess, a f<n-nuT Army officer, interested in the \\elf.\re of limbless ex-service-men, whose pensions were
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    Farewelling The King And Queen
    64 12 WARSHIPS FIRE SALUTE AS KING AND QUEEN PASS 8Y.— 17 ships of the Home Fleet were drawn up at S pithead and fired a salute as the Empress of Australia steamed past on its way to Canada, with Their Majesties on board. The crew "manned
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    U.S. Alarm Over Dragon Throne Of China
    613 12 UNGUARDED ON QUAYSIDE New York, May 10. A REPORT that the Imperial Dragon Throne of China rt had disappeared during an Atlantic crossing led to a frantic search at the New York docks today. After several hours of anxiety, during which G-men were
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    Discovery II Back From Round-The-Pole Cruise
    213 12 London, May CPICK and span in her coat of 11, Government research vessel. to London Bridge yesterday and St. Katherine'g Dock. The tide of City workers was streaming homeward over the bridge as she passed through the dock gates. Her crew had not been
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    Search Made In Holland
    121 12 Amsterdam, May 10. •T*HE directors of the Holland-Amer- ika Line, as well as the directors of several museums in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and also shipping agents, spent several anxious boon tonight trying to establish whether the missing Imperial Dragon Throne of China was in the country,
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    Franco Claims £1,000,000 In LONDON INQUIRY
    241 12 Franco Claims £1,000,000 In LONDON INQUIRY '"'■m to Lan, MortO,, ta tcrd Ttoebon. trust rund tor refugee i, the present gp tralnlna hearta nl ownership nita m i Reding, i s posed administi also m wed to OoTcrnmcnl :iUMIt ()1 Mr. a. Grant, Ki Governm nt, said tl Oovernmeni tra
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    15 12 A wild eat, ::<; Uichei fi ox tail, waucaufht by Mr r gameke*T^r Ol CaM fOX
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      321 13 Air Mail Arrivals And Despatches INWARD Imperial: From Europe dueMonday, Thursday, Friday afternoons. Wearnes: From Tenang, Ipoh, and Kuala Lumpur. Arrives every evening. K.L.M.: From Netherlands Indies: Arrives Tuesday. Thursday, Saturday afternoons. Uantas: From Australia: Arrives Tuesday, Friday, Sunday afternoons. K.L.M.: From Europe: Arrives Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday evenings. K.N.1.L.M.: From
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      379 13 MAILS EXPECTED Air (K L tSP\ Europe etc 'Amsterdam) *V day. are ex P ected to Singapore toDttSd"l»*& Chlna by Ban ealore are ex-P-tiea m Singapore today. CLEARANCES Me^theuL B m a Cap Nelson* f Recorder*, ?Am SSL (Brit ->- President Harrison S Hn, f 1 Tomohon, Gewang (Dut): Ann
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    256 14 London, May 10. MR. ERIC F. FULLBROOK, a solicitor, successfully opposed the use of an Act of 1825 in the summoning of a motorist at Reading yesterday. He was defending John Winch, commercial traveller, of Wendover-way, Tilehurst, Berks, who denied that he left his car for
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    936 15 D,R. Jardine On Changes In Cricket WEST INDIANS' START THFPir u s *i. i London, May 10. pihKL is food for thought m 22 yard*, writes D. R. Jardme. Deduct the crease which is every batsman's heritage and there remains less than 21 yards
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    35 15 n U j>i>-i<<\ff wrn Watrhcd by a crowd under umbrellas in the rain the EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA LEAVES^FOR ™«™<>™ to ,~0i»«» f. tb. lepaxture of the Kto* ►Ja^res. »f Austmln w ««n .nj Q.teen (or Canada.
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    83 15 Today's Contract Bridge Problems La Bruce raid i adci A I a trump. Led a diaone and iury I H Died his I our 9 bidding, M b heart. I ntract 9 p to i M partner h hai d, and a live J9 the coi 8 9 have jB
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    Marigold B.P. Beat Useful B.P.
    109 15 Iu a friendly b idminton match the Marigold B.P. beat the Useful B.P. by six games to one Results, Marigold players mentioned first: Singles:— Tan Chong Tee beat Wee Kim Wee-. 15—4, 15—4; Low Seak Chuan beat Lee Yang Chim, 5—2 15_4; Tan Ch^ng Hoe
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    Ipoh Club Tennis
    44 15 tFrum Our Own Correspondent* Ipoh, May t*. In the final of the mixed doubles in the Ipoh Club tennis tournament Mrs. J L. Woods and H^wan beat Dr. K. T. Khong and Miss Helen Khong. The score was 3-6, 3, 6—3.
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    28 15 picture. HEADS WELL IN THE AIR at the Stadium yesterdaij when the Malays did veil to beat the Chinese. 2 l Free Press
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    Wooderson Prepares For Race At Princeton
    435 15 London, May 10. UROM now on Sydney Wooderson will be gradually working up to peak condition for the star event of his young life the "Mile of the Century" at Princeton, New Jersey, on June 17 in which we hope to see him establish
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    Ryder Cup Date Changed For The Better
    367 15 Ryder Cup Date Changed For The Better London, May It. f ENE SARAZEN, who will be playing against us in the Ryder Cup golf match, has ho liking for the course the American authorities have chosen. It is a seaside one at Pcnte Vedra, Florida, and so out of the
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    Fort Canning XI
    57 15 The following will represent Fort Canning vs Y MCA. (Junior Dept\> rf cricket at Tanglin today at 12.30 p.m. Major Bird <C\ipt.), Capt. levers. Mr. Smith, Sert. Dowling, SfSgt. Wilton, Cpl Turner, L Cpl. Teliord. Pte. Stott, Pte. Whltsman, LCpi. Bectoo, Bit. Baker. Reserve, Pot. Mason, Pte.
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    52 15 The following will play uricKet ior the Y.M.C.A. against the 7th Heavy Eattery R.A. on Saturday, at 2 p.m. on, the Prince Edward Road ground Suratta, Lyric Chrysostoni, Xavi r, Frank, Wilton, Hop. 1 Barker. Ivl »liidcen. Lefjssftts, NVo Hock Ltm, An i Kong Chu.
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    MALAYS TAKE POINTS FROM CHINESE
    713 16 Three Years' Superiority Is Broken 2-1 RESULT AT STADIUM THE largest crowd seen at the Anson Road Stadium 1 this season watched the Malays defeat the Chinese by two goals to one in a first division soccer encounter yesterday. It was the first time the
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    Late Goal Wins Match For Mental Hospital
    486 16 SIGNALS BEATEN 3-2 UMTH a late goal in the second half, Mental Hospital scored a three-two victory over the Signals in a second division (A) soccer match at Alexandra ground yesterday. Had the winners made full use of their opportunities, their victory might
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    Negri Team To Play Services
    96 16 •From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, May 23. •THE FOLLOWING have been selected to represent Negri Sembilan in a Malaya Cup soccer match on Saturday at Singapore against the Combined Services: Goh Wee; Ghani, Dollah; Adam A. K. Retnam (Capt.>. Syed Hamld; Awang, Wong Chick Won,
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    36 16 picture th 1 S H w- AJV °J l h l c t hinese and Ab *»t Rahman, of th e Malays, during the Stadium first division match yesterday. The MalaJ w™. *'i 9 Free Press
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    32 16 The S.C.C. cricket; nets will be reserved today and tomorrow for members of the European's side to play The Rest for the Clarke Cup over the \vee!>end.
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    City Boxing Championships Begin
    467 16 City Boxing Championships Begin r*OOD boxing was seen in the preliminary and quarter-final contests of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Championships, which wer e held at the Happy World stadium last night. There were several narrow decisions given, one of which was the D. RonaldPte. Bates bout in the featherweight preliminaries.
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    Y.M.C.A. Basket-Ball
    31 16 The foh for the Y.M.C against the Sim today at 5.15 pja Road b r rc ch )M Lim NJit KbOO Teck Soo Bteni Bei Lim, Lokc Vw B
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    Kamis And Yadi Are In Good Form
    712 16 Kamis And Yadi Are In Good Form PURNELL BEATEN BY ABED QOOD progress was maintained in the tennis championships played at the *X'.(\ courts yesterday. H. Kamis and Yadi, holders of the men an easy passage when they accounts! for H. S. Ong in straight sets, 6—3, 6—2. Kamis showed
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