The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 11 March 1940

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 16,932. ESTD. 1835 MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940. 5 CENTS.
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    Axis Men
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    RIBBENTROP IN ROME: SEES MUSSOLINI
    735 1 Important Aspect Of Finnish Peace Talks Shifted To Italy JWLKS that may prove to have a decisive effect on the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations took place m Rome yesterday between von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, and Signor Mussolini, soon after the former's arrival m the
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    Motor Torpedo-Boat Raided
    78 1 Motor TorpedoBoat Raided INCIDENT IN EIRE STILL A MYSTERY Dublin. Mar. 10. iSN raided a motor joat which arrived at irbour from London on Od that three men m approached the torpedothla morning, succeeded m ::d threw a man patrolrk into the sea. Some r-d but it is not known
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    23 1 ONE survivors of an unBttllab steamer which was vr striking a mine have i at Flushing by a Dutch •vhlch picked them up.
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    STOP PRESS
    23 1 London, Mar. 10. Ministry i omm unique states U airtrait rond acted success--•xinaisMuir* flight over Vienna «M ayain last night Reuter
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    Agreement Basis Reached, Says Rome Radio
    101 1 Agreement Basis Reached, Says Rome Radio London, Mar. 10. ACCORDING to the Rome radio a tentative basis for a Soviet-Finnish agreement has been reached and M. Ryti, the Finnish Premier, is en route to Moscow, where the negotiations are being conducted. The announcer said a tentative understanding would not impose
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    "Finnish Cause Is Our Cause"
    107 1 PRINCE ON SWEDISH SYMPATHY SWEDEN'S sympathy for Finland was expressed yesterday by Prince Gustav Adolph, son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, when he spoke at the funeral of the commander-in-chief of the Swedish volunteers m Finland who was killed at the front. The Prince
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    29 1 London, Mar. 10. REAR-ADMIRAL the Duke of Kent yesterday presented Distinguished Service Medals to seven members of a submarine which had taken part m an important action.- British Wireless
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    ALLIED AID FOR FINNS AND SCANDINAVIAN ATTITUDE
    288 1 London, Mar. 10. AS SEEN m London future developments m the Russo-Finnish struggle are m the hands of the Finns and the Scandinavian Powers, says the London Sunday Times' diplomatic correspondent. Reprcnches that the Allies have not given sufficiently clear indications of their
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    13 1 IHIS r,\ \nt "DEFENCE BONDS" poster has been set up on Nelson's Column.
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    Hitler Extols German Soldiers' Sacrifices
    999 1 SPEECH AT WAR MUSEUM Berlin, Mar. 10. A PICTURE of the peace-loving Reich withstanding a rt savage onslaught by the Western democracies was drawn by Hitler m a hurriedly arranged speech here today m honour of the German dead. He spoke at a ceremony held
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    U.S. Envoy In London
    13 1 TO SEE HALIFAX PREMIER fgfgd Reuter dfdf British Wireless
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    TAMIL PAPER IN SUPPORT OF INCOME TAX
    135 2 AFTER the Governors lucid ex- pianation of the need lor raising as much money as possible to help Britain's ni elTort, without affecting the poorer classes, there is no room lor the proposals for indirect taxation advocated by the wealthier classes," says the
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    United Service Of Christian Witness
    116 2 ORGANISED under the auspices ol the j Malayan Christian Committee, it baj been decided to hold an open air j demonstration which will be a United Service of Christ icn Witness. This ser- vice wU be held m the precincts of St. Andrew's Cathedral on
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    Punjab Band Beats Retreat To-day
    91 2 TTHE BAND o: the 3th Battalion, 2nd. Punjab Regiment, will txv.t Retreat" on the S.C.C. padang to-day, beginning at 6 p.m. The programme will be: Retreat. Green Hills Ot Tyrol; March, My Native High and Home: Strathspey. I The Marker Place of Inverness. Reel. Piper
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    Dry Spells Broken In Singapore & Penang
    451 2 Dry Spells Broken In Singapore Penang MALACCA SUFFERS FROM WATER SHORTAGE COR the first time m 21 days, ram fell m Singapore shortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday. The fall was greater m some places than at others and at Kallang aerodrome 0.72 inches was recorded. Lasting some two hours,
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    MURDER TRIAL IS POSTPONED
    177 2 Counsel For Accused Assigned By State ■From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Mar. 10. A MURDER trial fixed to begin at the Johore Assizes to-day before Mr. Jus. ice Laville was adjourned to the next Assizes on the application of th*? defending counsel. Mr. Mark Morrison.
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    Broadcast Talks On Modern Germany
    71 2 THE first of two talks on "Modern Germany," by Professor W. E. Dyer, of Raffles College, will be broadcast from the 8.M.8.C. to-day at 7.30 p.m. The first talk will begin with Bismarck and end m 1919, when the Weimar Republic was launched. In the
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    ANOTHER PENANG CHINESE IS EXPELLED
    82 2 ANOTHER PENANG CHINESE IS EXPELLED (Prom Our Own Correspondent) PeiianK. March 10. ANOTHER Penang Chinese, Lam Phiet Chew against whom an expulsion order has been taken out by the Detective Branch following the street demonstration en Feb. 2, left for Rangoon en rente t3 China by steamer yesterday. Lam Phie:
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    DAVID NIVEN IN "ETERNALLY YOURS"
    122 2 HANDCUFFED behind the back, the Great Artruro, the magician, makes a parachute j;imp at 15.000 !eet m "Eternally Yours."' a Tay Garnett film which opened at the Cathay yesterday. This is one o: the breath-taking episodes of a picture of love and laughter which does
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    "BRITISH INTELLIGENCE" A TOPICAL FILM
    87 2 "BRITISH INTELLIGENCE" A TOPICAL FILM THE British secret service provides the background for the last-moving story of "British Intelligence,"' which enjoyed a successful midnight premiere at the Alhambra on Saturday. Although some of the minor characters are stilted m their acting. Boris KarlotT and Margaret Lindsay give such superb displays
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    CRUSHED TO DEATH
    24 2 -From Our Own Correspondent) Penang. IMar. 10. APENANG HARBOUR worker on board ship was crushed to deatil while loading cargo. dfd
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      133 2 Post Office Mail List MalLs close at tbe GeneraJ Pest Office as follows: TO-DAY Africa < East South .surface 10 a.m Ceylon surface 10 a.m. Java surface 9 a.m. Sumatra. Medan surface 9 a.m. Mcdan air noon TO-MORROW Aden ftii r> p.m. Africa East South > air I p.m. Burma
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    U.S.& ECONOMIC POLICY FOR POST-WAR PERIOD
    375 3 U.S ECONOMIC POLICY FOR POST-WA R PERIOD Elimination Of Trade Barriers As First Step To Eventual World Peace Washington, Mar. 10 •Mi to officials ot the State Department, the States Government is approaching every nation v.mie proposals for the post-war period, declaring tnat sowd commercial policy is essential for world
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    AUSTRALIA'S PART IN AIR TRAINING SCHEME
    52 3 AUSTRALIA'S Air Minister revealed yesterday that Australia will train 20.000 pilots and observers and 27.000 ground staiT under the Empire air training scheme. All elementary training and seventhi o: the advanced training will be clone m Australia, and the remaining two-ninths will bt- done
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    WHAT WAR COSTS N.Z.
    58 3 DETAILS of what the war is costing New Zealand are given m a broadcast yesterday by the Finance Minister. He said that up to the end of this month. New Zealand's armed forces would cost some £7.250.000 and that next year, their estimated cost was £33.000.00
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    Anglo-Italian Coal Dispute Settlement
    389 3 Anglo-Italian Coal Dispute Settlement London, Mar. 10. CIR PERCY LORAINV, British Ambasu sador m Rome, visited Count Cianc, Italian Foreign Minister, yesterday and informed him that the British Government had decided to release, together with their cargoes of coal, the 13 cargo ships which had recently been detained m British
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    Over 300,000 More Register For Service
    81 3 London, Mar. 10. PROVISIONAL figures of men who registered for military service yesterday are contained m a Ministry of Labour and National Service announcement issued last night. The total figure was 323.572. of whom 5.332, or 1.54 per cent, provisionally registered were conscientious objectors.
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    FRENCH CENSUS
    25 3 Paris, Mar. 10. A CENSUS of the entire French population is to be taken on Apr. 3 for distribution of ration cards. Reuter
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    HOOVER MISSION IN FINLAND
    63 3 The mission sent by Mr. Herbert Hoover, former U.S. President, arrived recently m Finland, to find out the best way of helping Finland m her gallant fight against Russia. The Finnish Colonel Villamo (left) accompanied the delegates to the front. Mr. Tuck, Mr. Stephens and Mr.
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    Big U.S. Loan As Good As Million Soldiers For China
    95 3 Big U.S. Loan As Good As Million Soldiers For China Chungking, Mar. 10. Till*: grant by the United States of a loan of $20,000,000 to China on the eve of the establishment of the new puppet regime under Wang Ching-wei is as important as 1,000.000 United States soldiers fighting m
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    Facts About Demonstrations In Palestine
    113 3 Facts About Demonstrations In Palestine THERE have been Jewish demonstrations m Palestine against the new land law regulations. Certain foreign broadcasting station? have been spreading stories about thest demonstrations, saying that they have taken the form of widespread rioting, resulting m the death not only of Jewish rioters but also
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    BOMB EXPLODES DURING GERMAN FILM SHOW
    44 3 Montevideo, Mar. 10. A BOMB exploded m the German Chamber of Commerce to-day during a private showing of a banned film. The windows were shattered and panic was caused among the spectators but no one was injured. Reuter
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    CHIEF OF AUSTRALIAN GENERAL STAFF
    35 3 Melbourne, Mar. 10. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL Sir Cyril Bingham White has been called from retirement and appointed Chic I of Australian General Staff, which post he held from 1920 to 1923.- Reuter
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    Finns Stream Across Border
    94 3 ACCORDING to a MtfUlft irom Haiparanda, on the Swedish -Finnish bonder, increasing number* of Finnish refugees chiefly children, are pouring over the frontier into Sweden. Officials of the Central Finland Fund are working at high pressure day and night to deal with the influx. Meanwhile, the
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    Rumania's Defence Budget Biggest In History Of Country
    101 3 Bucharest. Mar. 10. THE Finance Minister, M. Constantinescu. stated m the Chamber that the 1940-41 'national defence" budget— the biggest m the history of the cou n t r y— w ou 1 d total 160,000.000,000 lei, including 142.200.000,000 lei for the
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940. Ecstatic Patriotism?
    640 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940. Ecstatic Patriotism? MR. WARD- JACKSON'S case against income tax unfortunately concentrated on the point of view of the Malay States. Opponents of income tax m the Malay States have a special reason to put forward against the official proposals which is not
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    8 4 "DID YOU MACLEAN yoUR TEETH TODAY? (With acknou.icilfmm
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    March To Berlin-Sir Nevile Henderson
    1506 4 March To BerlinSir Nevile Henderson A Letter From England [From Our Own Correspondent! IF any of you have any I worries about this war may I recommend you to read the book which is .shortly to be published by Sir Nevile Henderson, formerly British Ambassador m Berlin. Sir Nevile, for
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    MR. WARD-JACKSON STATES CASE AGAINST INCOME TAX PLAN
    2390 5 MR WARD-JACKSON STATES CASE AGAINST INCOME TAX PLAN Comment On Speech Of The Governor WARNING OF INQUISITION AND CORRUPTION natural and accumulated wealth m Malaya the .1 income and the potential productive capacity agricultural, mining and commercial equipment if Pr-i J would provide ample rtlUr ft ulfi"«ng the high purpose
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    19 5 Tungku Mahkota. with a silver trowel laying: the foundation stone of the 82,000,000 Government offices at Johore Bahru yesterday.
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    Tungku Mahkota Lays Foundation Stone
    791 5 $2,000,000 BUILDING FOR JOHORE GOVERNMENT WHILE 300 ministers and officials of the State :tnd guests of all nationalities, stood m silence, Sir Ismail, the Tungku Mahkota, Regent of Johore, patted cement into place with a silver trowel and laid the foundation stone of Johore's $2,000,000
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    ARMY BEAT CRICKET CLUB BY 19 RUNS
    378 8 Good Batting By Pierce, Elsmie And Leckie DOWLING GETS 7 WICKETS pATSMEN fared well m a cricket fixture yesterday at Tanglin, when the Army defeated the S.C.C. by 19 runs. Batting first the Army gathered 214 runs, Pierce and Blsmie coming off best
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    FURTHER TIES IN Y.M.C.A. TENNIS
    161 8 FURTHER ties m the V.M.C.A. tennis tournament, are: TO-DAY Men's open singles (semi-final) Wong Thian Teck vs. Kamis: Chin Kee Onn vs. A. I. Pereira. Men's open doubles: Wee Eng Lock and Tan Huck Tos vs. T. Kobayashi and I. Nakagawa. Open mixed doubles Capt.
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    Saturday's Soccer Results
    76 8 SATURDAY'S league soccer matches resulted as follows: FIRST DIVISION: Malays and the Fortress R.E. drew at the Stadium, neither side scoring. The other first division game between the S.C.C. and the Royal Navy, to have been played at the Naval Kase. was postponed owing to the unfit
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    Ceylonese Beat Tengah Airmen
    236 8 IN a cricket match played at Tengah yesterday the Ceylon Sports Club beat the R.A.F. iTengarn by five wickets and 86 runs. The scores were CSX. K. Thiliainathan lbw. Thomas 1 V. N. Pillay c Beales b Farnhill 25 V. R. Sabapathy c Wyrlll b Thomas
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    Old Boys Beat Colts By Wide Margin
    291 8 TAKING six wickets- for 18 runs, H. Shah helped St. Andrew's Old Boys to beat the Singapore Colts by 91 runs at the school ground yesterday. The SA.O.B.'s total of 138 came as a result of good play by the Armstrong brothers. Arthur
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    S.C.C. SPRING TENNIS
    27 8 ENTRIES for the Singapore Cricket Club's Spring lawn tennis tournament close on Wednesday, Mar. 13. and the tournament will begin on Monday, Mar. 18.
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    RUGBY LEAGUE
    64 8 London, Mar. 9. YORKSHIRE SECTION Castleford 18 Halifax 4 Dewsbury 10 Leeds 4 Huddersneld 1 Bradford 13 Hull K. R 15 Peatherstone 12 Hunslet 17 Batley 3 Keighley 2 Bramley 8 York 0 Wakefleld 8 LANCASHIRE CUP Wigan 4 Barrow 9 St. Helen's 3 Broughton 10 Liverpool 6
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    TOLLEY CUP BOXING AT HAPPY WORLD TO-DAY
    244 8 CINGAPORE boxing enthusiasts will be m for a treat at the Happy World stadium to-night, when over 40 of the 120 Services and civilian boxers, will contest the first round of the preliminaries m the Tolley Cup competition. There are nine clubs and
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    Race Results On Saturday
    182 8 Dace results m brief on Saturday at Kuala Lumpur were: Rare 1. Squeeze Sl4 and S7 Burraneer $8 Just My Luck $8 Ract 8. Sweet Colette $29 and $8 Speranza $6 Lt Touquet $7 Race 3 Gold Point $15 and $7 Saladin $11 Hybla $10 Rate
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    S.R.C. Beat Pressmen By 71 Runs
    232 8 IN a cricket match played on the A S.R.C. ground yesterday the S.R.C beat the Straits Times by 71 runs Martens, on the S.R.C. side, bowled well to take seven wickets for 20 runs The scores were: S.R.C. R. H Bain c Baker b
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    At Stadium
    32 8 A phase of play m the first division soccer match on Saturday at the Stadium m which the Malays and R.F shared points m a scoreless game. Free Press picture-
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    CHINESE BEAT S.C.C. IN PADANG CRICKET
    336 8 Keng Siew And Staunton Reach Their Fifties DKIGHT batting by the S.C.R.C. was feature m their game v against an S.C.C. XI, whom they beat by 66 runs on the padang yesterday. Batting first they collected the formidable total of 203 runs—their main contributors
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    SEPOY LINES G.C.
    56 8 THE women's monthly medal competi- tion for March at Sepoy lines Golf Club resulted: Miss V. V Blake 47—14=33; Miss S. Lucas 43-8=35-Miss Rintoul 54—18=36; Miss H G Jf ce /x 48 11=37; Mrs D Gr ay 45-7= E^ S i S h F -48 S X
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    S.C.R.C. TENNIS
    32 8 Entries for the Straits Chinese R C's Spring lawn tennis tournament close on Saturday, Mar. 16. Events are open singles, open doubles, singles handicap, doubles handicap and veterans' doubles handicap.
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    MADRAS-PUNJAB DRAW AT I.A.
    215 8 MADRAS-PUNJAB DRAW AT I. A. Balestier Cricket Tournament ■"PHE Madras team drew with the Pun- jab team m the final of the Indian Association cricket tournament played yesterday at the I.A. ground at Balestier Road. The scores were as follows:— PUNJABS Choor Singh c Baskaran b Dharmaraj 10 Amar Singh
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    MIXED FOURSOMES AT BUKIT TIMAH
    53 8 THE first oi the mixed ioursomo; matches for March at the Royal Singapore Golf Club was won by RearAdmiral and Mrs. T. B. Drew with a net score of 32. The replay of the tie In "C." division m the March medal was won by
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    NEGRI SOCCER
    56 8 From Our Own Correspondent Seremban, Saturday. THE oflicial soccer season m Negri Sembilan will begin on Mar. 13 with the si::-a-side and junior league competitions. The N.S.F.A. league and Hose Cup competitions will be held later m the season. Sixteen teams have entered for the six-a-side competition and
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