The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 19 September 1940

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  • 20 1 LATE SINGAPORE EDITION The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 16,19G. ESTU. 1835 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940. 5 CENTS
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  • 822 1 42 Planes Sliot Down In Terrific Battle Over Thames Estuary at i 4 4> London, Sept. 18. /^l least U German raiders were shot down in a terrific air battle which raged over the Thames estuary early this afternoon when a huge force of
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  • 429 1 "GOERING IS SEALING HIS DOOM" Air Minister On Horror Raids London. Sept. 18. Gla bringing disgrace his uniform and upo.i his launching savage and in- j tracks upon the civil- j ion of this country and; persons of the King ana* Jd Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air. speaking in London •Unable
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  • 72 1 London, Sept. 18. REPORTS cabled to neutral countries give Nazi military officials in Ber- iin as the source of the story that "it is highly possible that gigantic guns on the French and Belgian coasts are pounding London." It can be stated categorically
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  • 49 1 Tangier, Sept. 18. A BRITISH flyingboat is reported to have been shot down by a French < machine off the Moroccan coast. The two pilots were killed but the three gunners were picked up by .1 French submarine and have been interned at i Casablanca.— Reuter
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  • 26 1 Berlin, Sept. IS. THE official news agency announces that Ribbentrop, Nazi Foreign Mln- ister, left Berlin this morning for a j short visit to Rome. Reuter
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  • 48 1 London, Sept. 18. REPLYING to a statement lrom Ger- man sources that the Balgian Government has been officially dissolved at Vichy, Belg-an circles :n London state that two Ministers are In London tniurin? the continued existence o: Deteh 1 i .v:th full powers.— Reuter
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  • 255 1 London, Sept. 18. MIGHT after night, in every kind of weather, planes of the R.A.F. bomber command have been laying mines in enemy-occupied harbours and territorial waters stretching from the Norwegian coast to the Bay of Biscay, states the Air Ministry news
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  • 364 1 Situation In Egypt Now Mo re Active GEN. WAVELL'S POLICY London, Sept. 18. ALTHOUGH the Italian advance in Egyptian territory hitherto amounts only to about 60 miles, the attackers are permitted to go on for the simple reason that they cannot halt, writes Reuter's military correspondent. At Salum, there is
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  • 96 1 London, Sept. 18. CURTHER steps to tighten the blocka ade of Germany were announced to-day. The black list of shipowners is in future to contain a list of their ships which will not be granted facilities in British ports or Navicerts. A new ships' discrimination
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  • 48 1 Honolulu, Sent. 18. THIRTY United States warships are now proceeding to California to enable the crews tc go on leave. This move Is interpreted here as indicating that the fleet will continue indefinitely to be based on Hawaii. Reuter
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  • 73 1 London, Sept. 18. *THE House of Commons had another session to-day. An official report on the session says that a debate took place on the recent aerial bombardment of the country. Members representing I/mdon and o f her constituencies drew attention to many problems which
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  • 59 1 London, Sept. 18. A THIRD Irish ship has been sunk by the Germans, says an official statement issued in Dublin to-day. The ship war the Lulmneach, which was sunk In the Atlantic by a German submarine on Sept 4. The captain and nine members
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  • 236 1 Invasion Ports Given Fresh Battering BERLIN AGAIN ATTACKED London. S 18. THE Air Ministry states that attacks on a large scale v. cessfully undertaken last night by R.A.F. bombers on enemy shipping concentrations, barges and communications in rnemy-occupied territory and on ct rtain targets in Germany. This was the sequel
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  • 28 1 Budapest, Sept. 17. TWELVE persons ac< used of espion age were sentenced by a mill! tribunal frcm 13% to 15 years of Imprisonment.— Reuter
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  • 75 2 (From Our Own Correspondent) Bangkok, Sept. 18. THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a communique totally denying reports emanating from various sources to the effect that Thai military forces had advanced into I nd: i -(hma. It adds: "Proceedings are going on in a
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  • 94 2 j ILIAN RUSSELL," currently showL ing at the Cathay, is a 20th Century Fox attempt to picture the life of one who -.vas the toast of New York in the 1890's. It has succeeded admirably. Alice Faye as the woman who was surrounded by wealth and
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  • 307 2 PLAYING at the Happy World Covered; Stadium on Sunday, the All Blues BP i went down to the Excise Clerks' Club by four games to two. Results: (All Blues players mentioned first) Siojrles: Leo de Souza lost to Peh Teng j Slew 4—15, 6— 15; V. Dana
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  • 61 2 THE S.S. Police Band will perform under the direction of Mr. J. C. Hitch at Katong Park at 5 30 p.m. to-day: March. "Wiesbaden." Anderson: Overture, "Le Due D'clonne." Auber: Selection, "The Vagabond King." Frimel: Valse, "Confidence." Robinson; Intermezzo "Puppehen." J. Gilbert; Fox-trot, "Excuse Me Lady." Nicholls;
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  • 693 2 "Little Caesar' Getting Old MUSSOLINI is no coward, but he takes no chances. He has, writes Alan Moorehead, Daily Express correspondent with the forces in the Middle East, a large "villa" down the Via Nomentana, a little past the building which used to be
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  • 335 3 CHINESE SEND MORE TROOPS TO YUNNAN BORDER Saigon Reported To Have Accepted Tokio Demands DESTRUCTION" OF RAIL BRIDGES ORDERED Tin? nu- r> Shanghai, Sept. 18. Hb Chinese Press yesterday gave prominence to messages purported to have been received at Chungking from the 1 hinese Consul-General in Indo-China reporting that the
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  • 160 3 Bb T PREPARATIONS ARE CONTINUING London, Sept. 18. propaganda and German G .on are once again out of Churchill, the Prime the House of Commons the German high command on with its preparations for n of Britain. There is apro>pite in these preparapt such delay as
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  • 86 3 London, Sept. 18. T:m damage to Britain's pplies from the recent air Jeen one day's consumption irticular commodity, th^ ol Food. Lord Wool ton, stat.:is of these ten days s quite oovious. he said, that vai being made on food For the most part damage
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  • 62 3 I London, Sept. 18. t .vr less boasted to-day I in Labour Front in nd held its first public meet- h to-day. the key city in Switzera Socialist Council. The qcH recently Issued an I public assemblies by all m toflated German In Switzerland is
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  • 40 3 Vichy. Sept. 18. •ome into force in according to h states that high I haw been drastically re--17 firms have been riods up to three months aces, varying from 1.000--i to six months' imprison been imposed. Reuter
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  • 46 3 U.S. AUTHORITIES WATCH ON GERMAN CONSUL M London, Sept. 18. it'll Hull. U.S. Secretary of -Ntat3d to-day that the State t v/a.s closely watching the •I the German ConsulNew Orleans ained that this was being connection with certain muht occur in the "not t future." Reuter
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  • 207 3 Morale In Britain Very High U.S. AMBULANCE MAN'S TRIBUTE London, Sept. 18. IN an interview with the London correspondent of the New York Sun. Mr. Wallace Phillips, Director-General of the American Ambulance in Britain, said. "For the past six weeks at least the general morale of this country has reached
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  • 51 3 London, Sept. 18. LORD LONDONDERRY jesterday offered his Park Lane mansion Londonderry House, one of thm~st famous mansions in England, for housing families rendered homeless by bombings. The offer was made in res ponse to the Lord Mayor's appeal for the London distress fund British
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  • 42 3 Nairobi, Sept. 18. THE man who planted the first coffee in East Africa died to-day. He was Mr. John Patterson, pioneer and missionary. The late Mr. Patterson brought coffee seed from Aden 45 years ago.— Reuter
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  • 36 3 New York, Sept. 18. FIFTEEN of the crew of the Liverpool steamer Incemore which ran ashore at Anticosti Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, have been taken off. The captain and officers are remaining Reuter
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  • 94 3 Belgrade, Sept. 18. •"PHE Germans have virtually re- placed the International Danube Ccmm ss'.on on which Great Britain and France were represented— by a consultative commissicn permanently presided by a German. Herr Martius. who alone has the right to convoke sessions. It is reported that
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  • 85 3 Mexico City, Sept 18.. IN reply to a question regarding the possible resumption of diplomatic relations with Great Britain, which were broken off in March, 1938, following the expropriation of British oil properties by th» Mexican Government, President Cardenas stated to-day: 'Indirectly, the Government of Mexico
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  • 427 3 Consrress Waits On Coming GandhiViceroy Interview I Bombay, Sept. 18. C baa suspended civil discing definite instruc■tl ci.indhi. A resolution baa been passed by the mit tee. itioo adds that Mr. Gandhi suspension indispensable in iorthcoming interview with I ord Linlithgow, and as a of ooedience to law beto civil
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  • 90 3 MOVE TO ENTICE UP BRITISH FLIGHTS London, Sept. 18. FOILED at every turn in his bid to smash the power of the R.A.F. fighter force, Goering resorted to another new trick yesterday afternoon wear down the British pilots, writes Reuter's air correspondent. The aim of the
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  • 135 3 London, Sept. 18. MR. C. R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, intimated during the course of questions in the House of Commoas to-dav that the British Government intended to submit to Parliament in due course legislation to confer the necessary authority upon the Allied Governments in
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  • 68 3 London, Sept. 18. YESTERDAY morning several enemy formations dropped bombs on Malta, some damage being done to Government property. British fighters shot down three enemy machines One enemy pilot was taken prisonei In the afternoon an enemy formation flew over the island and British
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  • 77 3 Melbourne, Sept. 18. THE New Zealand chief of staff arrived here to-day to confer with the Australian authorities on mutual defence and on ensuring the security of the south-western Pacific, including co-ordination of naval movements and the provision in British Pacific possessions of bases for supplies and
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  • 97 3 London, Sept. 18. IT would nut be long before trainees would be passing out from Government training centres for munition production at the rate of 250,000 to 300,000 yearly, said Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, speaking in London to-day. Saying that the present long
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  • 57 3 London, Sept. 18. THE Swedish Government has sus- i i pended a Swedish newspaper for J three days because it is alleged to have published anti-Gemr.r. reports from its London correspondent. This is the first time that the Swe- dish Government has proceeded against any newspaper
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  • 25 3 R.A.F. Bomber crews are here seen receiving detailed target instructions before setting out on one of their devastating raids in Germany.
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  • 41 3 London, Sept. 18. AN official mission from Thailand will visit Burma, India, Malaya and Australia to further Thailand's friendship with the British Empire. It is expected that the mission will arrive in Rangoon on Sent. 23. Reuter
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  • 124 3 REPORTED OFFER BY DUTCH GOVERNMENT London, Sept. 18. r J*HE Netherlands Government Is reported to have decided to offer a contribution of £50,000 to the Lord Mayor's fund for relief of London's air raid victims. "In this way," says a Du:ch news agency, "the Netherlands
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  • 41 3 London, Sept. 18. TRADE talks between Denmark and the Soviet and Finland and Italy are about to begin. Two Danish ministers arr vrd t >day in Moscow, and a Finnish commercial mission has also arrived in Rome. Reuter
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  • 152 3 Mew V)rk, Sep! lg. A strik.ng tribute to the meaning of the Crown in Great Brita.n ..s pa'd by the Am?riean columns.. Mr E. A Jonos, wriiing in the Lou:<ville Courier Journal on the subject of the Kings v.sits to raided areas. Qucting
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  • 173 3 COMMODITIES EXCHANGES fProm Ou» Own (or?' '.KMiuenti London, Sept. 18. £GMMODITY and Exrn<nge markets closed a? follows with previous Quotation* in parenthesis:— KIBBhK: Dull. Spot ll^d 12d ri2d 12*d> Nov. ll- h d 12d (12d llltd) D^c- H 7 sd 12d (I2d H'.d* Jan-Mar. n\d 11 H d (1115 16d
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  • 38 3 London. Sept. IS. THE Pood Ministry announces that RMBM to imnort bananas from the Canary Islands will be granted previous importers on the ba«is of approximately double their Imports during the year ended Aug. 31. 1939. British Wireless
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  • 1741 4  - Singapore Women 's Party For Canadian Servicemen MARY HEATHCOTT Free Press Feature By Singapore Woman's Diary THERE has been renewed interest lately in private entertaining for the men of the Services stationed in Singapore. I was present at a function this week which was a very good example of how
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  • 272 4 Simla. JNDER the ■cheme for the expan- nion of the Indian Air Force. flying training will be divided into three stages. Initial instruction, under the direction of the Directi rate of Civil Aviation, will be given bv civil Hying clubs throughout India. Ground training and the
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 4 Some of the quests at the party for Canadian < 1 „.,<» I members of the Canadian Association in the garden of xit I Left to right Gnr. Goodman. L.A.C. Little wood Mr s I G. W. Pierej, LAC. II Wroot, Mr. k UteJ I k*****, I
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  • 219 4 British Troops Parade In Australia Sydney, By Air. piVE thousand A.I.F. troops crowding the Show-ground arena spontaneously cheered the Guardsmanlike smartness of 300 B.E.F. troops who marched paafl the Governor-General, Lord Gow i The voice of one Australian rang out acrcss the g.'<_i__.d; "You little beauties! We'll be as trood
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  • 24 4 Fifth-Column Liftboy Now Editor has armed Kn refugee. He revealed in*. bov ism.u t4Hm tilth 1 nlimm sen KessH added th, trol the leadiii
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  • 650 5 AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS IN EGYPT ARE HAPPY At Last Within Striking Distance Of Enemy WANT TO^GET ON WITH TOUGH JOB lOUSANDS of Australian soldiers are now encamped P t '.P re p arin B to help defend the countrv in WMd u in the last war, were trained the men "who.
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  • 79 5 i v n;._: pilot, broadcasting. n |U |kc I v t s biffgrest laugh ihe i.ir h„d been caused by ah >\ aper. uhhh declared: K. VF. has siuceeded in bombii \nd Italy by offering il mercenary pilots bo--1 > ior each nisrht raid
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  • 17 5 Summerskill MP.. during a visit to the of Cookery which is I Amy cooks.
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  • 30 5 n,i*9-boat manned by members of the Royal Australian Air Force, come, down low to inspect ifiree ships of the convoy, which its squadron is escorting.
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  • 706 5 *i man who wa-> in the Dunkirk :.haw will ucknowii te.at the hand of fence was stretched out to h ttn: h Army," said Lieut. P. 8 i. of the London Hah R speaking in is In com--3.E.F. men who
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  • 30 5 The King, surrounded by Australian soldiers, icatches with interest while they put up barbed wire entanglements at their training quarters, somewhere in England.
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  • 166 5 N.I. Youth To StudyPlanes In Sydney 'THE German occupation of Holland 1 almost frustrated the lifelong ambition of a young Dutch boy, who has arrived in Sydney from Java. Ever since he was 10 Antonius Veringa had watched the giant Dutch planes pass over his home in Java, and he
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  • 195 5 MINISTER MADE HIS BERTH A SNUG ONE A GOOD diplomat assigned to the United States must know how to make his bed as well as lie on it, so the Australian Minister, Mr. I». G. Casey, recently discovered. While travelling by night plane from Chicago, he was thp centre of
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  • 20 5 DEVON County Council has decided to terminate the appointment of employees having conscientious objection to military service.
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  • 210 5 30/- A lb. Charged For Coffee A SHORTAGE of food throughout Italy li reported by a neutral traveller who recently visited the country, .states the British United Press. Even the army, he s t at e complaining about the quality and quantity of the food available
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  • 357 5 Einstein As Defender Of Atheism DROFESSOR Albert Einstein denies the existence of God. To a New York conference of 500 leaders in science, philosophy, and religion he said: "It is time to abandon the concept of a personal God In favour of a re of Good.'' The audience was startled
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  • 726 6 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1940. Support For De Gaulle ALMOST daily now comes fresh and encouraging evidence that the fighting spirit of the French Empire is far from dead. Too much importance should not be attached to unconfirmed rumours regarding 'the future of French territory in northern
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  • 301 6 The Fairey Swordtm Planes of The Fleet Air Arm H Fairey p the pra. brand: i won by this type There B lion of t Navy purpn-. H was at H Play a c< menccn- It 1, Aviaticn H their expo- K the vith th< &truction and H mKs of
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  • 1376 6 By A Special Correspondent Ottawa. CANADA'S determination to carry on her part of the war to her fullest possible capacity has been indicated in the budget submitted by Colonel J. L. Ralston, Finance Minister, in the House of Commons. Colonel Ralston who will later succeed the
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  • 289 7 General Smuts "Very Popular Capable" U.S. JOURNALISTS VIEWS sLTHOUGH there is very intense opposition to the war the Nationalist Party in South Africa there is bo doubt that the Dominion will continue the war side IIX .kle with the British Empire, because General
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  • 166 7 ALIBI ACCEPTED IN CECIL STREET MURDER TRIAL Al trial .or m-rder which ipied three dr.ys, a 26-year-old riu Tun Peng, who was acI im a compatriot in Cecil th night of June 11, was Mr. Justice Manning at re Assizes yesterday. The turned an unanimous verdict *ng for seven minutes.
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  • 137 7 Cit strict is the censorship of news J and radio broadcasts in Fr.-nch Indo-China that the people had not heard of the report of Thailand's demand for the return of former lhai territory in Indo-China when he visited Saigon on Tuesday, said a traveller who arrived
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  • 225 7 'Important' Red Arrested In Hotel AN "important member' cf the Malayan Communist Party was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore criminal district court yesterday for being a member oi an unlawful society. The man was Wee Suan Piow, a "boy" employed by a Chinese hotel in Beach
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  • 34 7 The next meeting of the Singapore Portnightly Club will be held at the Y.W.C.A. on £«pt. 23 at U.45 a.m., when the speaker will be L4rs. A. H. Dickinson; her subject wC. be "Speech."
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  • 559 7 Chinese Help Keep British Warships In Fighting Trim C In Singapore arc playing great par. in th? Empire war Thousands of them are empioyKii.ed mechanics and labourers 1 Naval Base. -hey ar2 strengthening and nlng 12 as a base for operations eeressor nations. They also P in fighting trim the
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  • 29 7 The King inspected recruits of the Royal Fusiliers in the London area recently, and is here seen watching re cruits on a Bren gun carrier.
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  • 272 7 SPENT A LI FETIME ON LIVINGSTONE TRAIL Missionary's Work In Africa A PROTESTANT missionary who believes he is the only white man who ever "shot*' the Luwe Rapids of of the Zambesi on a native raft, arrived ir Singapore from Africa yesterday. He Is Mr. Samuel Martin Konigmacher. An American,
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  • 364 7 Steps Against Return Of Evacuees HONG KONG HAS NEW REGULATIONS (Prom Our Own Correspondent) mw Hon_j Kong Sept. I. regulations to stop the return to Hong Kong of women and children who were evacuated from the Colony recently were gazetted by the Government to-day. These regulations apply to women and
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  • 110 7 WALKING unsteadily along a piank in a tongkang (lighter) in the Rochore Canal on Monday night, Ong Yew, a 60-year-old Hokkien, missed his footing and plunged into the canal. Two sampan men, Pho Peng Choon and Kee Ah Poo, were witnesses to the incident and both
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  • 212 7 PETAIN PUTTING HIS PALACE IN ORDER London. ARCHITECTS have been sen. to Versailles to prepare a wing of the palace reception rooms for Marshal Petain, reports the Daily Mail correspondent from the Spanish frontier. The palace has not been used as a residence for many years. Many changes are needed,
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  • 586 7 DR. ANDO DESCRIBES THEIR GROUPINGS HEALING with "Human Blood Groups and Blood Transfusion," chiefly in their historical and sociol* aspects, Dr. K. Ando, a vice-president of the Singan Rotary Club, gave a talk at the weekly meeting of the club at the Adelphi Hotel
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  • 244 7 THREATENED HIS FATHER WITH A KNIFE Boy Afraid Of Cane A 15-YEAK-OLD BOY. Tay Boon Km _J_ ad a charge of criminally int.; wtth"! i ls f lath 1 threatening him JiJ£_ a mfe ex P ]ai ned to him in the Singapore second court yesterday Through his counsel the
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  • 59 7 The prixe-distribution o! the Rochore Malay Girls' School 'the school for selectee girls from the Malay vernacular schools) will be held on Sept. 26, at 9.30 a.m. at the Rochore School In Palembang Road. Che' Aesh&h Isterl Che' Ishak bin Ahmad ha* consented to present the prises. There will be
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  • 365 8 Blow To Nazi News Service New York. CKIZURE in New York of the book., of the Trans-Ocean News Service recently is a serious blow at the German propaganada system. The action was ordered by Representative Martin Dies, chairman of the committee investigating subversive activities in the United
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  • 231 8 America Battle Of Britain London. THE outcome of the Battle of Britain will probably decide whether the United States will enter the war. William Philip Simms. foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, says this In a recent widely syndicated article. Washington observers are convinced England plans to shift
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  • 54 8 T New YorF_. WO ot the convicts who escaped from Little Rock prison farm (Ancansas^ were shot dead the other nay after a cha.se by police with bloodhounds. Of the 36 who escaped. 22 have been recaptured, and four are now dead The other
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  • 32 8 Britain is prepared as never before for an invasion. AH around the coasts, look-out posts have been installed. Here is one in the dunes on the East Coast.
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  • 330 8 i" ALMOST any pilot engaged on night bombing will tell you that it is just routine." So said a Royal Air Force pilot on being interrogated the other dav after a successful 1 raid. Buc this is what the Job really meant. Wi.h othsr
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  • 62 8 'HITLER MAS LOST THE WAR"— SMUTS Capetown. Sept. 8. THE South African Prime Minister 1 General Smuts, at a huge gathering, received a petition, with 034.714 signatures, asking for -peace through victory." "I have mucli military experience and I have the right to form my own i judgments. -I feel
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  • 99 8 Sydney. •nrilE Chinese save the bits of wood from sharpening a pencil." The State Controller of Salvage (Mr. Weaver) told members of the Housewives' Association recently urging co-operation in the Government's waste-saving scheme. "Cutting toe-nails is quite a ritual in Chinese families, because they are saved,
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  • 229 8 Pinned To Bed j By Girder London. THE shock of hearing evening air raid sirens killed a Sydney nurse recently who had been trapped all day in the wreckage of a London hospital. The nurse, Barbara Mortimer Thomas, 32, of Gordon, had been slowly 1 moved
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  • Malayan Press Comments
    • 123 8 JJUSSOLINI has not yet made his attack on Egypt. It is striking proof of his lack of confidence. There are signs, though, that he is timing it with a simultaneous invasion of Britain by Hitler. Strategically, a little more than half of Egypt is important. It is that part
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    • 57 8 America has now introduced conscription. She is that much nearer to active participation in the war. The country is now on a semi-war footing. The British Empire's ultimate victory is certain but America can bring the European tragedy to a quick end She knows that. This is the
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    • 92 8 The All-India Congress Committee, in asking for immediate and complete independence, must consider the welfare of India's 400 millions and the attitude of the British Government in these momentous days. If India Rets her indeoendence. can she defend it against aggression With which group
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    • 100 8 The Rubber Research Institute is playing a very important part In the rubber-plant-ing industry of the country, both in research and experimental work and in an advisory capacity. They are asked to help in the solutions of all problems, whether they concern soils or are botanical, chemical or
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    • 113 8 l p outbreak of war, In Malaya have been allowed to Xntt monev to Chma freely. When war began there were some restrictions but they were not so K^f^J* t0 incomm °de legitimate remitS2SS ow howeve r. Government wants to tighten the regulations, requiring the registS of
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    • 63 8 The Chinese Government Is observing today (Sept. is i as "Humiliation Day It would be more appropriate for the world' to observe »t as such, for the forces of evil are rarmnnt tnrou hout the world to-day. Ch^a i? P £t ni fighting a superior foe after
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    • 109 8 Tr^°ri_^ 5t S?" 1 0m Eg yPt suggest that Iralv may ?oon make an attack on thai Thl, will probably be made from the north from Libya, from the south-west from Libya or from the west from Taheida or from all three directions simultaneously" The man
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    • 90 8 To-day a great proportion of Britain's fi^&Jf being directed t0 the support of che fighting forces and Is not being wasted in fat living on the home front. The people Kl%£ hat H they are up a alnst and^hey a fl f nni the S+£l« the
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    • 74 8 Hong Kong, like Singapore, is in a state ttseif reP T a t re neSS i, aX,d Can Wel1 take c «e of itself, it is well supplied with guns of a range and calibre capable of blasting out of the *ater any naval guns in
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    • 64 8 Methods of warfare have changed With em h^L gone Brit ain's Immunity from attack^ The recent air raids on 'London have been the severest ever. But the people of Britain are stiH unbroken P P Meanwhile, the German air force are ET&fiF&T* Thk may -s jSHsrwaSaVvs
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  • 1005 8 Australia Welcomes Help Of America By A Special Correspondent THE Australian Press is enthusiastic about the recent Anglo-American exchange of j bases and destroyers. The Sydney Morning Herald calls it "one of those supremely daring moves which here and I .here, in history, have altered the whole course of inter-
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  • 78 8 THE curator i B has eonmunicat a H tfarlffrhael the H protesting aga H to Mussolini by tl the Italian ba H the Holy Land B This demand c H indention of Italj B of Islam. Or. be! .lan B interested in the afi_: B the
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  • 30 8 I THE Aircraft Prcdu B Lord B»»dverb r ook' B received £4.081.000 in the I B for the purchase ol air fi P.A.F. B Of the tot B abroad fi
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    • 18 8 L w i JEs L 1 ___kh.^____-- a fiUKI Vfi I fi al 1 11 BBifi^ I finiHffik
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    • 161 8 PRUDENTIAL Monthly Budget Savings Plan Illustration of the MONTHH BIDGET SAVIV.n PI IK Date o* Bin!. Age Guaranteed uUtmi Cash. at Ist Jan. 1910 30 £1.750.0.0 55 GUARANTEED CASH RFIIRN Amount available in Cash at Age 55 Total of Deposits (25 12 v £4 15.0' Excess of Guaranteed Return over
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  • 977 9 Malayan Sharebrokers Assn. Singapore SEPT. 18, 194t: 4 P.M. MINING Bayer* seller. 3s 3s 6d 5s 3d 5.s 9d xd I *3s 6d 35s 6d I J* V* .90 1.00 16* 3d Vn 3d 1 40 |.4I •t 6d ft 6d I 6d 2is ua co x 12s I3s 16
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  • 204 9 Lord Redes dale Denies He Is A Fascist D Redeadafe, lather of Lady Mosley and Miss Unity H wade a statement recently when he returned don from the Scottish island of Inchkenneth. pen to a reporter "in :est i o n s in the ..:nons concerning myn&j home in Scotland
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  • 149 9 The Bfaagana Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association neld its 1.504th auction yesterday and there were cataloged 2,049.924 1b— 915.14 trtis: offered 1.660,378 1b.— 741.24 tons; sold 1.185.871 1b.— 329.41 tons. London Spot 12d. New York Spot 19 c^. PRICES REALIZED Ribbed Smoke Sbeet Cents Per Lb. Standard
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  • 225 9 Fired At On Way Down London. ROYAL AIR FORCE pilot who jumped from a plane nearly lour miles up fell 12.000 ieet (more than two miles) before his parachute opened. He landed in the sea and was p.cked The rush of air tore off his boots
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  • 150 9 Melbourne. ABOUT 700 pnysical training instruc"tors have been drafted into the Australian Army since the outbreak of war from the new Army Physical and Recreational Training School. The intention is not only to maintain fitness en active service, but to povide sports .'nd games.
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  • 130 9 KITES, as alternatives to balloon... will be used by convoys to preven: German dive-bombing says the naval correspondent of the Daily Herald. These, he adds, have been made in all sorts of weather In crder to discover the bes: way to keep bombers from ships'
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  • 63 9 GERMANY CLAIMS AVERAGE WHEAT HARVEST London. GERMANY'S wheat harvest amounts to 24.000,000 tons, which, the German Statistical Bureau announces, is only two per cent, below the average of 1934-38. The estimate does not include ihe harvest of Germany's new eastern (formerly Polish) provinces This is expected to total at least
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  • 77 9 Auckland. CASES ol feeding bottles and bales of nankins have arrived in Egypt for Australian and New Zealand troops. The bottles and napkins were accumulated In England months ago for civilian reh<V. in Finland, after the Russo-Finnish war. When the German occupation of Norway cut off
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  • 69 9 Ottawa. SINGLE men between the ages of 19 and 45 who are registered for^militarv service in Canada total 988.725. The Defence Minister (Mr. Gardiner; announces that 77.983 men of the 21--vear-old class will start training in October, and that two batches, each of °0.000 will
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    48 9 On a recent visit to a north-east town, the Kin;- and Queen pre en ed the 0.8.E. io Mrs. Norman Cardwell, a farmers wife, who single-handed arresled a German airman who had landed by para?hu> from a damaged machine. She is here seen b?ing presented tj the King.
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  • 525 9 J ONDON.— After having given birth L to a daughter in an Anderson I air-raid shelter recently, a mother I with her baby has remained there ev» r since. They share the shelter with the father and the other children dur alarms. London. When
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  • 139 9 1500 Planes Can Be Used For Warfare I Washini THE United States army ha planes which can b? used warfare, declares the C. Army staff. OenenU Ac in reply to power. Of these. 500 types, fitted will tanks, armoured fuselages, < ion, there w_r». a number
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    • 409 10 P.&O. and BRITISH INDIA LINES (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND) P. O. S. N, COS SAILINGS. The best possible services are being maintained by The P. 0. S. N. Coy. from the Straits to their usual ports of call in China, India, Ceylon and the United Kingdom. Passengers are requested to register
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    • 319 10 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. (Incorporated in F.M.S.) TELEPHONE: Freight 5432. Passage 5131 mSkvm Mafic n||^o*^^ (Incorporated in England) Regular service from the Orient to Vancouver by GIANT EMPRESSES— Across Canada through the Canadian Rockies— Lake Louise— Banff. Trans-Atlantic by EMPRESS DUCHESS or MONT steamers to the United Kingdom.— All under one
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    • 408 10 MANSFIELD CO., LTD BLUE FUNNEL LINE Frequent Sailings to United Kingdom. Dates guaranteed, all cargo bookings subject to r/, 6 n War Clauses. onf^ence WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE SHORTEST SEA ROUTE AT THE CHEAPER Regular Services to Kre mantle I Perth via by first class passenger ships. Single fare $192 [A
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  • 41 11 jl THREE- DAYS exhibition of a collection A of eld and new Chinese paintings as well a_ caUigraphir mar,terp:err>s will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall in Singapore, commencing to-day, up to and including Saturday. Admission is free.
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  • 544 11 Background To Talks In Netherlands Indies A kJSLZTZ* th at Japan s s P ecial en ™>'> Mr. Ichizo the nSKS!*. T co ferring the Governor-General of Dailv M^fl 71 an a tic,e Froom Tyter in the heaL «Whi^° n i° n)
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    34 11 Sir Malcolm Pobertson, ex-Ambas-sador to the Argentine, Is now a member of the Local Defence Volunteers in Britain. He is seen here (on right) handing cartridges to a fellow Volunteer when changing guard duty.
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  • 269 11 THE Batavia correspondent of the New York Herald- Tribune states in a despatch sent before the arrival in Batavia last Thursday of Mr. Ichizo Kobayashi. special Japanese envoy to the Indies, that Japan has been asking the Netherlands Indies to sell her 2,000,000
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  • 142 11 -Co.MK people appear to be under u a misapprehension about the quantity of nee wiiic fi they can purchase," states the Food Controller m a communique on the consumers registration scheme. "There is no necessity to purchase the full amount of rice which is
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  • 376 11 I) O N A T 1 O N S to the Malaya Patriotic Fund amounted to $1,935,588.68, according to the latest list. This is an increase of $25,898.43 over the previous list. Immigration and Passports stafT $41.08: All Ceykmen Section $153.75; The Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya,
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  • 131 11 FREE interesting "pictures with a purpose," have been made in Britain for the Ministry of InformatiC They are: "Now You're Talking." "Dangerous Comments, ana ah Hands." They show how easy it is for casual talk to be used by enemy agents to the disadvantage of
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  • 332 11 Complaints Of Rice Buyers Answered THHE Food Controller, Malaya, states that tne Registration of Rice Purchasers order will shortly be amended so that rice retaJers and exporters may register with the wholesalers from whcm they ordinarily buy, without restriction as to number. In the same way, wholesalers may register wi.h
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  • 145 11 HUGE rafts of timber, it Is suggested in shipping quarters, could be towed across the Atlantic to replace supplies of Scandinavian and Baltic soft wood. This would save valuable tonnage if the plan were successful. A similar project was discussed during the last war. It
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  • 876 11 CASE CONNECTED WITH SALE OF SHARES ABROAD (From Our Own Correspondent) I'enanjr, Soj)t. Lfc PHARGED in the district OOUlt before Mr. H. A. Foi under the Defence (Finance) Regulations. F. x. Syer f principal partner in Kennedy and Co., Penang sharebrokers, was fined
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  • 113 11 THE SINGAPORE C. OF C. RUBBER ASSOCIATION I>\ll.l PttlChS CI KKFAT Sent. 18. 12 o'rloek noon No. IX R.S.fl S' No IX i;ss Fo i\ m •O option |7% 38 BPa 9 R8 I r. o h m kale Sept. -Oct Betters K FAQRfcS e O B in bales Sept.
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    • 367 11 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TENDERS ■_M^————^_-_-—l SINGAPORE Ml NICIPALITY Tenders. are now invited for the atertala or services. For see Municipal Tenders U'ated Asbestos RoofI Ridges for Bukit Tlmah aping Station Filters. ing. 12 noon, Nov. 27, I mid Steel Wash Water Buk'.t Timah Road Filters. Date of closing. Oct. 2, 1940.
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    • 119 11 KERR STEAMSHIP COMPLY INC. flncorpoiatea n, a.; STATES AFRICA EAST INDIES SERVICE Regular sailings to Boston, New York Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans via Panama Canal. For space please apply to: HADDEN r JOMPANY LIMITED Phone No*. 4916/7 'incorporated in A«enu: KERR STEAMSHIP CO., INC. (Incorporated tn US.Aj JOINT SERVICE
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    • 208 11 Post Office Mai! List Malls close Bt The ii ,st OSQ-e ■jlowe:— TO-DA. Africa (South) gS__?° ■urface H a m." f hina: Chui nd Kunmmj. su/. 9 Indo-China ru \Javzn p' m 2J* aLr -rn. Pah-mLunR il)r -am TO-MOKK<»W Au lr ana fur 5 t Australia F^ist and South >
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  • 1050 12 Draw In S.C.R.C. Open Tennis Tournament BELOW are given the full draw and, I the handicap events, the handica] allotted to ea r h player. In the Stral Chiie_e Recreation Club's open invltatic ICM_t_ to'irnament, uhich begins on Satui da> ef*ernoon. OPLN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP Holder: Chin Kee Onn. H\<* Chin
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  • 76 12 THE f v .lowing ties in the Singapore junior badminton championships will be played at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning: Semi-final: Syed Sallm (Devonshire) vs. Pat Neubronner (Sphinx). Finals: S. Takada and Y. Yasuda (Diehard) vs. Nellie Chia and Lilian Tin 'Eclipse and Diehard^; Yong Sook Lian <Merridale)
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    41 12 picture. Snowy Owl, E. Donnelly up, scored a double during the Singapore Gold Cup race meeting:, and lias 1>een sent i«n to class one. Tills picture shows the horse coming in after his second victory last Saturday.- free Press
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  • 398 12 LOYALS HELD BY POLICE 1 Loyals 1 Police 1. THE Police held the Loyals to a on j -all draw in their return first division S.A.F.A. league fixture at the Anson Road S adium yesterday. The game was well contested and the result a fair indication
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  • 37 12 T'HE Singapore English School'3 eighth annual athletic sports meeting will be held at Jalan Besar Stadium at 3 p.m. to-morrow. The Old Boys' race (440 yards) will be run at about 5.15 p.m.
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  • 136 12 OOYAL Singapore Gclf Club quallfy*x ing round for Club championship 18 holes on Saturday, Sept. 21, and 18 holes on Sunday, Sept. 22: 2.30 and 8.30 D. E. Rintoul and J. F. Eber 235 and 8.35 R. F. C. Markham and R N McKern, 2.40 and
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  • 230 12 THE following are the teams and starting times for the golf match between the American Association and the Sepoy Lines Golf Club, to be played at Sepoy Lines on Sunday morning. The Sepoy players are mentioned first: 8.30, P. Sharp (6) and
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  • 605 12 O'Donnell Plays Good Game For Winners Gordon Highlanders 3; Customs 0. THE Gordon Highlanders found little difficulty in putting* the Customs out of the S.A.F.A. Challenge Cup competition in a qualifying round match played on the padan.tr yesterday. They scored three goals they should
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  • 58 12 PLAYING on their own ground at Balesticr yesterdav. the Colon Sports Club second team were beaten by the A.C-S. hockey team by two goals to nil. CHINESE WIN THE hockey match between the S.C.R.C. and ihe Naval Police, which was played at Hong Lim Green yesterday,
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  • 459 12 S.R.C. Start Hockey Season Well 1 S.R.C 9; R.A.F 0. r THE S.R.C. have opened the hockey season very proi misingly and should again be one of the outstanding teams in the Colony for, meeting the R.A.F. (Seletar) on the padang yesterday, the Recs emerged
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  • 46 12 THE Maxrli Badminton Party will i« oT^ SF ?P arta n Badminton Party in a friendly badminton match of four Wo? \n S S2& three doubles at the Great S d da S y. atlng rink at 73 P' m on
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  • 185 12 TIES played yesterday in the S.C.C. autumn lawn tennis tournament resulted as follows Men's singles handicap: S. C. Woolmer (4-15) beat A. Greenhill (-4-15.3) 6 6 4; C. J. Bembroke (scr > beat A. Sewell (.15.3) 6—3. 6—l. Mixed doubles handicap: Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Smith
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    60 12 pxiuif Butler, the Ro>al Navy goalkeeper, in the ad of punching the ball i» a in Tuesday's first division football match at Anson Reid >ndium which the Chinese beat the Saiiors six -one. Though ih, Mores d suggest it, Butler pla>ed a fine game, and prevented the umnrr*
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  • 127 12 BJUr. Z__d. XI vs. hinese 2nd XI, stadium: league second division (a), S.H.B. \s. Publisher* J padang. Tennis: S.( < and Hi tournaments Hockey: (Jg pg, H__J Hornets, Bales.j. r .M Mountain Regiment. M< M IHI M( Men's doubles handicap and Robert Tan f— ls 3» be_■Bi
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    • 56 12 PENANG. S.S. j TRAOC y^^ißy^sV MARK m\ f# y 0 Zxjj^^ REGISTERED try these delicious RITZ Sauces Tomato Chilly Sauce Black (Worcestershire) SaUCC Obtainable from all Pro\i>i'»n Merchants Sole Distributors for M 1 Singapore Cold Storage Co., W* BUY BRITISH EMPIRE PRODUCE PHONE 5 376 FIVE U" E s S.
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