The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 13 November 1939

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 15,933. ESTD. 1835 MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1939. 5 CENTS
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  • 56 1 POPE SPREAD OF DIVORCE IN U.S. Regret Is Expressed m Encyclical Vatican City. Nov. 12. tressed to United pates the Pope declares ihi j when ki .:> r bools m Istian -hing ol .hin i he orbit :rglVt ut Uir ('^sequences ol iisastrous. a pMMi ipChrtattan principles of (.-o-opera- inpluyet*s»
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    12 1 HIS bakteg ifl a handful his visit to an jrm* :Jt ton
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  • 46 1 London. Nov. 1! KCON with M. the French Rt--Frencli am'oul- > to urgan^e wJal h will be ernment. > .> issued by :i and to Lord provir. that ed'*h will pro »ulance. The 1 )ulanees and irjm British In France British W i reless
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  • 35 1 BOMBERS RECOVERED IN NEW YORK HARBOUR T New York. Nov. 12. d bombers aboard the rrday have were not point* found no il a pier awaiting -ssel to ship the >ank mysterious- tl'ir RAF Reuter
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  • 1023 1 Recalls Statement Of Prime Minister FREEING EUROPE FROM MENACE OF AGGRESSION HPHE official British and French replies to ihe peace appeal of Queen ilhelmina and King Leopold were issued last night. Both replies make it clear that the Allied governments are ready to consider
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  • 368 1 AMSTERDAM BLACK-OUT ARRANGED FOR TO-DAY U7HILE further defence measures are reported from the Netherlands, it is reported from Brussels that the Belgian and Dutch foreign ministers conferred on the international situation during the week-end. Telephonic communications with many parts of Holland were suspended on Saturday
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  • 97 1 Chungking, Nov. 12. Chinese field dispatches from the north Hrnoeh front predict an immediate outbreak of heavy fighting m southern Honan and northern Hupeh. The dispatches report heavy Japanese concentrations m that sector. Chinese circles are of the opinion that the Japanese forces will shortly
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  • 58 1 Copenhagen, Nov. 12. THE crew of the Norwegian ship which arrived at Haugesund to-day described the frustration of a U-boat attack on a British convoy. As the U-boat was preparing to attack, they stated, two warships swung over and dropped depth-charges. The U-boat appeared twice with
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  • 110 1 THE Polish Ambassador In London broadcasting on Saturday on the twenty-thir J anniversary of Poland's independence, said. •■We shall carry on the fight until the 1a.,: soldier of the invader leaves our country." A new Polish army, he said, was being formed on
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  • 44 1 All foreigners m Germany must now carry their passports wherever they go, and if they disobey they will be put m prison until their identities are proved. Germans m Czecho-Slovakia are also ordered to carry their identification papers with them Reuter
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  • 491 1 "Not The Mind Of A Single Man" London, Nov. 12. THE Parlismentry Secretary to the Ministry ol Iniormation, Sir Edward Grigg, m a speech yesterday said that Hitlerism which we p'edßed to destroy, was something much stronger and mo-re pervasive than thp in.iid and character o!
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    13 1 BRFN GIN carriers on their way the British front somewhere m I ranee.
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  • 268 2 Hari Raya Puasa Observed Today TKDDAY is Han Raya Puasa, the great Muslim festival at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. The new moon was seen last night m various parts of Malaya. < The public holiday, however, will no* be observed unt.l
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  • 127 2 < ape Town, Nov. 11. SOUTH A:: Prime Minister. General Smuts, has once again cellared that South Africa will come to the help of the ether British territories m Africa should they ever be m danger. This pledge was first made at a public meeting at
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  • 120 2 NOV. 11, 1939: 12 O'CLOCK NOON Buyers Sellers No. IX R.S.S. Spot loose.. 39^ 39^ No. IX R.S.S. F.O B. m cases November 39^ 39% G.P.A.Q. R.S.S. F.O B. m bales November 384 38% FAQ R S.S. F. 0.8. to bales November 38 38 4
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    36 2 This photograph is of enemy territory and was taken by the Koyul Air Force. It shows the approach of a railway bridge over the Rhine. Notice the closed gates across the rails at the bridge head.
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  • 574 2 "OUR NATIONAL INTEREST" Chungking, Nov. 12. THE firm American policy m the Far East should give a further impetus to the U.S.S.R. to make her attitude regarding the Sino-Japanese conflict more definite, declares the Ta Kung Pao (L'lmpartial) m an editorial to-day which throws
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  • 104 2 China 's Optim ism For Future Hong Kong, Nov. 12. OPTIMISM permeates the National Government whose confidence m China's ultimate victory is very much m evidence," said Mr. John Morris, Far Eastern manager of the British United Press, upon his return today from a trip to Chungking. He iound optimism
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  • 69 2 Saturday's Home Rugby matches resulted: LANCASHIRE: SECTION Barrow 5 Widiies 1G Leigh 2? Oldham 11 Liverpool 8 8 Broughton 10 St. Helen's 10 Salford 15 Swinton 32 Rochdale H 11 Wigan 16 Warrington 7 YORKSHIRE SECTION Batley 6 York 18 Bramley 24 Keighley 3 Featherstone 3 3Dewsbury 21
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  • 68 2 London Hospita ll London I. L. W. 22 Rosslyn Park J 3 Guy's Hospital 3 St. Barfs Hosp. 12 King's Col. Hosp. 3 Aldershot Command 0 Mary's Hosp 18 Abertillery 6 Cross Keys 0 Cambridge Univ 1 1 Harlequins 12 Gloucester 28 Oxford Univ. 14 Llanelly 17 Aberavon
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  • 449 2 Social Services In The Colonies (Prom Our Own Correspondent) London, Nov. 1. THE anxiety with which M Ps regard tiie possibility that war conditions may Interfere with the efficiency oi social services Ui the Colonial Empire was a sain shown m Parliament the Other V veiling. Mr.
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  • 54 2 GREAT BRITAIN has had a record apple* crop this year, and it is estimated to be something round 9,000,000 hundredweight. Most people m England eat only about two apples a week so this year's home crop alone will be enough for several weeks and will probably last
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  • 43 2 Hong Kong, Nov. 12. SIR ARCHIBALD OLARK-KERR, the British Ambassador to China, who arrived here from Chungking is being entertained by Sir Geoffrey Northcote, the Governor. He will spend a week here before .proceeding to Shanghai. Central News.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 272 2 S. V. (^Drills PROGRAMME of drills of the Singapore Volunteer Corps up to and for weekending Nov. 19. are as follows: To-day, 5.15 p.m. headquarters S.R.A. (V) Gun Drill; 5.3 C p.m. headquarters S.R.E. iv) Wiring of Beach Posts; 5.00 p.m. headquarters S.F.C.R.E. <v> (Malay Sees.) Manning Forts; 5.30 p.m.
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  • 147 3 oR O TWEEDSMUIR AND PEACE OF THE FUTURE n i ur d Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, Kemembrance Day speech m French and m irkkk he said that when the war has been must provide a permanent settlement, and Make- made at the close of
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  • 35 3 Lstanhal, Nov. li. U' :-udd fore- i ion of an Ita.lo- J te-G:-* n sstoa part are i ra, where wellichMk us proquarters neithe reports and rations i Contacts--. Reuter
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  • 223 3 ARMISTICE DAY MESSAGE London, Nov. 12. AN exchange of Armistice Day telegrams has been made between the King and the President of the French Republic. M. Lebrun, after expressing the feelings of comradeship and confidence of the French for the British people, said: •Side by side,
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  • 329 3 U-BOAT MENACE MINIMIZED Only Neutral Ships Seized This Month G London, Nov. 12. FRMAN U- bouts have nul claiinec a .single British merchant ship sc lar this month. While total immunity is considered only temporary and the British Adi miralty is fully prepared for further losses, this fact is a
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  • 188 3 London, Nov. 12. rTHE AIR MINISTRY announces that ap--1 proval has been given for neutral civit aircraft, which are shortly to fly between Britain, Sweden and Norway, to be painted orange to distinguish them from military aircraft. The service is to be operated by Swedish
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  • 60 3 From Our Om Correspondent) Bangkok, Nov. 12. EVIDENCE of the feeling of Chinese m Thailaucl was forthcoming today when the Chinese m Bangkok did not observe the birthday of Dr. Sim Vat Sen m the customary manner. Previously the Chinese quarters o' the city have been much beflagged,
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  • 40 3 DURING the month of September, over 96,000 women m England and Wales were enrolled for service m connection with civil defence. This brings the number of volunteers since June. 1938, up to nearly half a mil] ion.
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  • 45 3 JOHN PETER, an Indian, was critically injured and a companion, J. W. Clamp, slightly hurt when a car m which they were seated overturned at the 5^ mile, Yeo Chu Kang Road, early yesterday morning. Both are overseers of R.A.F. building works. factory.—
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  • 200 3 R.A.F. Flight Over Berlin PILOT'S STORY DETAILS beyond the terse account given m official reports concerning R.A.F. flights over Berlin are now revealed. When the first pilot to make the flight reckoned he was over the German capital, he came down, checked his position and found he had made no
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  • 185 3 THE Gestapo are low looking for a definite suspect m the Munich beer cellar bomb explosion, says Reuter. Herr Himmler, chief of the Gestai>o, says that he is certain that the explosion was planned as long ago as August. He is now looking for a man with
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  • 47 3 The British steamer Mag- dapur is here seen breaking m two, as she sinks after being torpedoed by a r>hnat »fV the tfnytista coast. The picture was taken by a member i>t the crew of the lifeboat which went to the rescue.
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  • 656 3 "SPLENDID AND UNSELFISH HELP IN TIME OF TROUBLE" London, Nov. 12. THE Queen, in simple but effective language, last night 1 broadcast an Armistice Day message to the women of the Empire thanking them for the way they had answered the call for
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  • 37 3 London, Nov. 12. FOLLOWING a visit to No. 10, Downing Street, of his medical advisors, Lord Horder and Sir Russell Wilkinson, yesterday morning, it is reported that the Prime Minister's progress continues to be satis- British Wireless
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  • 49 3 Poppy Day Fund Gets $26,500 SIR Shenton Thomas announced m his broadcast soeerh last night that the Poppy Day collections locally had exceeded last year's total by 52,500. The sum collected up to date, said Sir Shenton, was $26,500. This he thought a very satisfactory response to the appeal.
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  • 244 3 Counter-Proposals Rejected Stockholm. Nov. 12. OTALIN declared to-duv that is unable to accept the Finnish counter-proposals m their present iorm and reiuses to renounce his claim for a mainland naval base, states a Helsinki telegram which adds that the Soviet is preparing a fresh memorandum. WnltlMtii
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  • 93 3 I ••■(luii Nov. 1!. A GERMAN plane 10-day attacked a. Frexu h channel steamer ihortly after she had left France with over 90 passengers. Two bombs were dropped m the sea and no one was hurt. The ship continued her crossing. The passengers saw the
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    • 5 3 Singapore celebrations, see Pa^e 5
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  • 640 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1939. Wartime Cost Of Living THE Malayan governments will do well to make a very thorough investigation into the increase in the cost of living since the outbreak of war and to ascertain whether recent industrial disturbances may be traced to this cause.
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  • 1222 4  -  Peter Evans By THE British Government have entered upon the present war with the fullest confidence that ultimate victory is assured. That confidence was obviously lacking during the crisis of September, 1938, when serious deficiencies m material and m organisation were disclosed.
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    23 4 VOICE FROM INSIDE (to Noah): JUST HAD A RADIO FKOM THE DOVE THAT Hh UOV7 tO Mf. BACK UNTIL WE CHANGE THE ANIMALS.
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  • 322 4 HITLER telah bermeshuarat lama bebt--rapa kali dengan ketua2 tantera-nya rtan menteri2-nya paaa hari sa-malam. Pehak Jerman makin bertambah2 sibok pada sa-panjang2 Medan Barat di-tanah dan di-udara. Orang2 British yang dmm dalam negeri Holland telah di-na&ihatkan dengan jawatan suroh keluar dari negeri itu oleh sebab bahaya barangkali /li-langgai
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  • 1324 5 •We Have Got Hitler Where We Want Him" A QUICKER VICTORY? I Thomas, m his broadcast on the war, said it would be a grave rate Nazi Germany. -She is desperate", nation m that state is formidable." Hai-ht. honker, there "seems to be just a we
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  • 412 5 ALL COMMUNITIES DO THEIR BIT A SURVEY of the feeling m Malaya today towards the Empire's war effort was made by Sir Shenton Thomas m his broadcast speech last night. He quoted a Malay newspaper which says "It behoves every Malay and Muslims i m
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  • 181 5 A MILITARY band and a choir were pre- sent at the Tanjjl:n Garrison Church on Saturday at the wedding of Mr Kenneth Stevens, of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Singapore, lo Miss Penelope Law. of J o h o r e Bahru. The service was taken
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  • 97 5 JOHN M. STAHL. Universal's director who specializes m problem stories has scored another success with "When To-morrow Comes." which had a midnight premiere at the Pavilion on Saturday. Irene Dunne, often starred m flippant comedy, follows his line of direction and (fives an unusually powerful emotional performance
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    13 5 Otic of the I- rent h balloons seen "somewhere on the Western Front."
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  • 110 5 Winston Churchill 's Broadcast A feature of exceptional interest m the 8.8.C. overseas programme to-day, will be the talk by Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty. This will be broadcast at 7.20 p.m. and will be rebroadcast by the B.M B.C. It is entitled "Ten Weeks of the
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  • 211 5 GOVERNOR S VIEW OF THE MUNICH BOMB SIR Shenton Thomas, m his broadcast speech last night, gave his personal view of the Munich bomb explosion when Hitler narrowly escaped. He said: It seems that a large proportion of the world's Press is inclined to
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  • 130 5 GENUINE ATTEMPT ON HITLER'S LIFE London, Nov. 12. "T"HE explosion m the historic Munich beer cellar was possibly engineered by the Gestapo, like the Reichstag fire, but more likely it was a genuine attempt on Hitler's life, writes Reuter's chief diplomatic correspondent. With so many of Hitler's Aryan subjects regarding
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  • 155 5 (To the Editor of the Free Press.) Sir,—May I be permitted to express through your columns my thanks to Tungku Ahmad Zainal Abidin for a generous gift of money for providing comforts for the Malay ratings of S.S. RN.V.R. now serving at sea with the
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  • 104 5 LIOW Malayan leper children are 11 helping to raise money for the Patriotic Fund was described by Sir Shenton Thomas, m his broadrust last night. -There is m Malaya a small ramp, or school, of children who are suffering from leprosy." he said. "To helo
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  • 626 5 THE ARCHDEACON AND MEMORIES OF 1914-18 IN spite of a very heavy rainstorm, a large congregation, including the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, and Lady Thomas, attended the Remembrance Day service at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday. Others present included Major-Gene-ral and Mrs. L. V. Bond.
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  • 142 5 Sun Yat Sen Singapore CHINESE m Singapore regarded yesterday as a day of special significance as it was the 72nd. anniversary of the birth of the late Dr. Sun Vat Sen, "Father of the Chinese Republic Flags were flown from many Chinese houses and big shops closed the whole day,
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  • 326 5 THE death took place suddenly on Thurs day of Mrs. Elizabeth Brace vudow of the late Mr. William H Brace The funeral took place the following day at the Bidadari Cemetery The Yen Archdeacon Graham White officiated Among those present besides the sister Miss Emma
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    • 382 6 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TENDERS SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenders. Tenders are now Invited for the following materials or services. For particulars see Municipal Tenders Krom: >ly of Pumping and Auxiliary Pontian Ketchil PumpIng Station (Deposit $100). Date lining. 4 p.m.. Mar. 4, 1940. !v and fixing of Steel Roof russei etc. for Rangoon
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    • 371 6 BOARD RESIDENCE. SEA FRONT KATOM(i GRANGE— 77 Meyer lU. (near Swimming Club) Board -Residence at moderate rates Large Gardens Tennis. Phone: 5758. NAPIER HOUSE MNER ROAD. TEL 7406. Superior residential establishment overlooking Garrison Golf Course Cool. Quiet. English Cuisine One vacancy from Nov. 1. EAST ANGLIA 6. OXLEY RISK SINGAPORE.
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    • 539 6 SHIPPING NOTICES. wi— —^fc— —i«ui i inr— HENDERSON LINE (Incorporated m England) SAILINGS Passenger Steamers Between Rangoon, Port Sudan, and England. Owing to the uncertainty regarding the actual date of arrival and departure of the company's steamers due to the outbreak of hostilities list of sailings is suspended for the
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    • 196 6 ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION AT the annual meeting of t&e St. John Ambulance Association the following were elected: President. Sir Alexander Sym Small; vicepresident. Dr R. B. MacGregor. Hon. treasurer, Dr. W. C. E. Diamond; committee Messrs. C O. Howell and- J. Jen, Dr W. Linehan, Mr. E. N. Woollerton,
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    • 604 6 TO EUROPE AND AMERICA VIA SINGAPORE AND PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAf, SUE?. PORI AJLEXANDRIA. NAPLES GENOA, MARSEDXES AND NKV\ Arrfm Leaves Le»»»« R'pere Spore Prn^ x PRESIDENT MONROE Nov. 15 Nov 21 No- ?lt| PRESIDENT ADAMS Oes Dec 5 r>c JaD J x PRESIDENT VAN BUREN Dec. 12 Dec 19 Dec
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  • 585 8 HIGH STANDARD OF MARKSMANSHIP FOX the tir^t time m the history of the Singapore Rifle Association, live members of the King's Hundred, have fired together m Singapore. This happened at the Bukit Timah EUfIC Range, during the 1939 Singapore Bisley Meeting which concluded yesteriay. The live
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  • 166 8 t S.t f I KfJ.4l s v r Moults at Bukit luinii m (<•• tn -i day of i tnSinjapuiv I urf Club's winter mrrtinf. wttr js lollosv J hj<r i _j)AMiN(, FOAM $11 W MIM I-acr $15 Nightshade Mo ♦:-H.\! TABAKIN 520 and $1* t.M|uirr <14
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  • 124 8 PERAK played brilliant hockey to heat the Combined Services by four-nil at Tanglin Barracks on Saturday. Superior m all departments, the visitors gave a rare exhibition of fast and clever play. There was not a weak link anywhere m the Perak team, but particularly outstanding
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  • 124 8 WEIGHTS tor the three further races at Bukit Timah tomorrow are: fonics i lass I— Div. I—l>1 1> turs. Pinafore 9 i; 4 Empress 8.09 Madam 9.02 Soho 8. '9 Murray Court 8-j2St. Charles 8. 07 Happy Sal .8 lJQuisana 7.13 Punt«->— < lass I— Div. 2—
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  • 433 8 <Fn»Mi Our Own Correspondent; Kuala Lumpur. Nov. 11. PERFECT understanding among the S.-langor threec.iurters. who were playing together ior tne first time, enabled SflaiifA't t<> r amine Johore in a lugger frlend!y here to-day by 44 points t seven goals and three Maaj to nil. The game
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  • 33 8 picture. thrilling rugby was witnessed on the S.C.C. padang on Saturday when tlit- K.N. a*»U RAF. held Singapore to a draw. This picture shows the match m progress. Free Press
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  • 514 8 Singapore Held To Draw In First Cup Rugby Match DALLYING magnificently m the later stages of the game Singapore forced a last-minute draw with the R.N. and R.A.F. m -he first Malaya Cup Rugby game of the season m Singapore on Saturday. Both teams
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  • 55 8 To-day's ties In the V.M.C.A. lawn tennis tournament "A" class singles: A. I. Pereira (—3O) vs. S. H. Da wood < 15). Mixed Doubles: Mrs Cohen and J. Manasseh (—3) vs. Miss P. Eber and Yap Ah Hian (—15.3); Miss Nathan and H. Nathp.n (—3) vs. Miss Con.sigliere
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  • 59 8 AN English-speaking Malay was stabbed m the arm by three men said to have been Chinese, m Aljuneid Road, Singapore, at 9 p.m. yesterday It was reported that his assailants tried to rob him. The wound is not serious. Translations of the Governor's speech ir Hokkien, Cantonese and
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  • 233 8 A.A.M. To Hold Road Courtesy Campaign On Nov. 26 A motor rally and driving tests, styled as the "Road Courtesy Campaign" of the Singapore branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya, will be held at Bukit Sembawang rubber estate, Tampenis Road, on Sunday, Nov. 26, commencing at 4 p.m. The
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  • 61 8 DLAYING at the depot m Thomson Road on Saturday, the Indian Army j beat the Police by eight goals to five m a keen game of hockey. The Indian Army took a long time to settle down and were two goals m arrears at
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  • 845 8 Saturday's Home Soccer Results Tables ARSENAL HELD TO DRa\ A RSENAL'S winning sequence was stopped ft* !l rt they were held by Norwich to a draw, mAul once. Everton beat Manchester City by three nil, but the Wolves were held to a draw by _J goals being shared in the
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  • 23 8 The liorkey mai^h !:Xi: q3 day betwe.il the SinW Club and the Punjab wg^^ sec was n<M ptared Staff conditions
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