The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 29 November 1940

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    20 1 LATE SINGAPORE EDITION The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 16,258. KBTD. 1835 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1940. 5 CENTS
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    SOVIET RUSSIA'S "NO" TO GERMANY
    306 1 Reported Opposition By Moscow To Nazi Plan for Dardanelles Push «N0 BALKAN CAMPAIGN" ENVOY TELLS TURKS Zurich, Nov. 28. I side Palestine and Egypt through Asia the Dardanelles ever existed, it has been ing to Soviet opposition, says the Istanbul the Xeue Zuercher Zeitung m
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    KING BORIS MEETS SOVIET DELEGATE
    101 1 Moscow, Nov. 28. AN interriew between King Boris ©f rk Bulgaria and M. Sobolov, head of the Soviet delegation to the Danube conference, was reported without comment m the Soviet Press yesterday. The return of M. Draganofi, Bulgarian Minister to Germany, to Sofia was mentioned
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    SOVIET AMBASSADOR'S TALK WITH BUTLER
    59 1 London. Nov. 28. M. MAISKY, the Soviet Ambassadci m London, saw Mr. R. A. Butlei, the Foreign Under-Secretary, at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon. Reuters diplomatic correspondent learns from authoritative quarters m London. It is understood that their talk dealt vrith a general survey of
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    Mr. Davis 'Chungking Stop On Way Here
    54 1 MR. Eric Davis, the new Director of Broadcasting, Straits Settlements, is leaving Chungking for Hong Kong en route ta Singapore to-day, reports Reuter from Chungking. He spoke over XGOY, Chungking, last night. The new 100-kllo\vatt station m Singapore is expected to be completed
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    Hitler Demand For Control Of Italian Army?
    108 1 Hitler Demand For Control Of Italian Army? Zurich, Nov. 28. P VENTS of the past few weeks have proved a great disappointment to Italy and notably increased the Italian's lack of enthusiasm for the war, according to American travellers arriving here from Italy. The fact that Italians are "feeling a
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    New Rubber Quota Fixed At 100 Per Cent.
    107 1 London, Nov. 28. ■"FHE International Rubber Regulation Committee to-day fixed the quota for the first quarter of 1941 at liO per cent., an increase of 10 per cent, over the existing quota. As already announced m the Free Press, the Controller of
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    M.P. Believed Killed On Active Service
    140 1 SIR ARNOLD WILSON, 56, WAS WITH R.A.F. London, Nov. 28. THE Speaker 01 the House of Commons announced to-day that he regretted to have to inform the House that Lieut.-Col. Sir Arnold Wilson, member for Hitchin, has been reported missing, believed killed, while on
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    STOP PRESS
    135 1 Washington. Nov. 28. Statements by Senator George, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that he personally favours aid for Britain and "will go the distance with the chief executive are taken to indicate that something definite will be done as soon as the new Congress
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    GREEK THREAT TO ITALIAN NAVAL BASE
    225 1 London. Nov. 28. flpO-DAY'S messages from Greece suggest that the Italians are new making a desperate attempt to hold a limited area of Albania m the north. In the south the Italians arc still clinging to Argyrocastro. The Greek advance up the coast is
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    THE TRUTH ABOUT "ANTIJAPANESE ACTS" IN INDIES
    221 1 3 Incidents Of Purely Local Character Batavia, Nov. 28. DEGARDING the expected strong protest from the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Y. Matsuoka, against "repeated acts of anti-Japonism m the Netherlands Indies", Reuter learns that the first incident apparently refers to an intoxicated Japanese
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    Australia Will Play Her Part
    81 1 Canberra. Nov. 28. DRITAIN and Australia will take appropriate measures to safeguard British and Knipirc interests m the Pacific should they be endangered as a result of the new Japanese foreign policy. This assurance was given to the House of Representatives today by Sir Frederick
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    Konoye Confers With High Command
    67 1 Tokio, Nov. 28. IN Tokio to-day. Cabinet ministers headed by the Prime Minister, Prince Konoye, conferred for two hours with the vice-chief of the army and navy general staff. It was announced that this conference is the first of a series which will be held
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    Italians Admit Destroyer Was "Seriously Hit"
    223 1 Naval Chase Rome, Nov. 28. •pHE Italians admit that the destroyer Lanciere was seriously hit and had to be towed to port after the naval engagement m which Italian forces fled from British forces yesterday afternoon m the Mediterranean, south of Sardinia. They also
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    ALLEGED BOMBING OF MARSEILLES
    55 1 London, Nov. ?8. "TTHE p rotes; from the Vichy Govern- ment con^ernins the alleged bombing of Marseilles by the R.A.F. i? still under consideration and investigations are being mad?, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. Foreign reports suggesting that Marseilles was bombed deliberately by the R.A.F. are stated
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    Incident On Indo-China-Thailand Border
    111 1 IT is officially announced m Bang- kok that at 8 o'clock yesterday morning five French plane., flew over Nakhonpanom. near the border. Thai planes went up to protect Thai territory and were fired upon by the French planes, which also dropped two bombs, hitting police quarters
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    Heavy R.A.F. Attack On Cologne
    56 1 London. Nov. 28. TTARGBTS m and around Cologne* bore the main w°i7ht of a heavy and successful British bomb°r attack last night, according to on Air Ministry communique. The invasion ports of Antwerp, Le Havre and Boulogne and ■ftfCfl enemy aerodromes were al-o bombod One
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    NBW GERMAN ATTACK ON METAXAS
    58 1 London. Nov. 2£. ,THE German Propaganda Ministry to-day a^ain attacks the Greek .Prime Minister, Gen. ifftawit, for bis declaration that the Greeks are fitfhtins to restore tho ttfetfty of Albania The German r.^ws agency has )!j--tained a statement from an Italian puppet m Tirana exDreaatag
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    Indian Pipers Wear Kilts
    288 2 Highland Gathering INDIAN soldiers turned out m kilts yesterday when they competed alongside Scots m the preliminary pipers' contests at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday for the Highland Gathering, the finals of which will be staged to-morrow. Scottish pipers of the Argylls and Sutherlanders, the Gordons, and
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    SPY THRILLER WITH PLENTY OF COMEDY
    126 2 "^IGHT Train to MunicJi, winch openei at the Capitol yesterday, is an exciting spy thriller with plenty of comedy mixed m A 20th Century British production, the story deals with the attempt* of a British recrct agent ißex Harrison) to outwit the Gestapo. Margaret
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    R.N.V.R. Officer On Rash Driving Charge
    273 2 SUB-LT. E. E. F. PEAL, R.N.VJI., was tried m the traffic court yesterday before Mr. C. 11. Whitton, on a charge of causing the death of Mohamed Eusof bin Haji Omar, by rash driving along Serangoon Road, opposite Bidadari Cemetery, at about 7 p.m.
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    GOOD MUSICAL COMEDY AT CATHAY
    115 2 QTUDDED with song and packing a laugh m every other foot of film, Paramount's "Rhythm On The River," which opened at the Cathay last night, is well up to the standard of the host of recent musical comedies. M n JU Bing Crosby. Mary Martin
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    WILL FYFPE IN "THEY CAME BY NIGHT"
    131 2 (~)NE of the cleverest plots around which a story is woven is brought to the screen In 20th Century-Pox's "They Came By Night," which opened at the Pavilion last night. His brother's suicide just before the arrival by parcel post of a Taj
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    VICHY REJECTION OF HITLER'S PEACE TERMS
    275 3 fuehrer Offered To Sacrifice Mussolini's Claims On France London, Nov. 28. i.m Hitln peace terms for France were rejected after a ffvkh* < abinet meetinjf at which Laval th Vice-Premier Mgi Minister, and Gen. Huntziger, the leading tin dilo;ate. nearly came to blows is
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    "Must Change Oar Habits," —Lord Woolton
    203 3 London. Nov. 28. r THE people of Britain must change habits for the rest of the war. declared Lord Wooltcn. the Minister of Food, speaking at a luncheon of the British Refrigeration Council to- day. The British people, he said, had enjoyed a standard
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    "MURDER IN THE NAME OF THE LAW"
    100 3 New York, Nov. 28. SPEAKING of European develop- ments. the New York Times says m an editorial to-day "We are witnessing m Europe the murder of civilization carried out as systematically as the bombing of London. "As >t flares up m savagery m
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    U.S.&Singapore: Tokio Concern
    70 3 Tokio, Nov. 28. T"HK newspaper Yomiuri Shim- bun, one of Tokio's big: three, directs attention m ah editorial to Anglo-American negotiations 'or further American assistance to Britain. The newspaper asks what would be America's Far Eastern policy «f the United States acquired another permanent military base in^
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    Students' Anti-German Demonstration In Paris
    273 3 11 KILLED, 500 SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS CIVE hundred Paris students have been sent to concentration camps m Germany and others have been deported to unoccupied France following recent riots, according to information received m Free French circles. The Paris university has now been closed,
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    GIFTS FOR AIRCRAFT POURING IN
    107 3 London, Nov. 28. FROM Britain, the Dominions and Colonies gifts towards the Empire war effort continue to pour m. Taunton has sent the Minister for Aircraft Production £7,Boo— six shillings per head— for a Spitfire, while the Shetland Islands Spitfire fund has reached £6.ooo— also
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    SUSPENSION OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN PATNA
    66 3 Bombay, Nov. 28. CONGRESS members m Patna, who are prepared to practice individual civil disobedience, have been instructed to postpone courting arrest tor the time being. The step follows incidents at Patna, when Sir Krishna Sinha, premier of the Bihar Congress ministry, was arrested
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    OWNER & SALESMAN BOTH FINED
    131 3 OWNER SALESMAN BOTH FINED XjOR seUing a Un of "Aeroplane" cocoa at a price 29 cents above the controlled price, Chlng Chi Keong, a salesman, and Lee Chlew, the proprietor of Chop Leun Yick m New Bridge Road, were each fined $50, or two weeks' rigorous Imprisonment, by Mr. L.
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    GREEK SHIPPING FOR ALLIED WAR EFFORT
    69 3 London, Nov. 28. ffIHE Greek Government has taken measures to ensure that all Greet shipping shall be used for the Allied war effort. The Ministry of Shipping announced to-day that a Greek shipping committee m London has full powers of control over all Greek
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    TOHORE PLANTERS
    57 3 T OHORE PLANTERS HPHE hula-yearly general meeting of the Johore Planters' Association will be held at the Rengam Club, Rengam, at 11.15 a.m. on Dec. 12. One ol the items on the agenda is "to consider, and, if approved, to adopt necessary alterations to the rules of the Association, arising
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    Hospital Hit By German Raiders
    54 3 London, Not. 28. r Britain to-day o> small bombers *m eight. attacks against :uch were beaten ;rate sunnre. No l jfs;»n'>rtr»d wis seen flying a: great height. wen dropped. ||cd and two others when three bombs -jd m I^ndon area, to a southwest raided 11
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    Few Casualties In Night Raids
    75 3 <>nd« n. Nov 28 I England and suburbs bDre the las: night. **n m the south-west dark and continued GMT., states a md Ministry of ;que. In Lenin :e:m.t.ent .nd was a: no SC3 If :.»mage was dene to Hove; and s:3rage buildings explosive bombs,
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    Savoy And Carlton Damaged In Raids
    31 3 hoiels the 1 Acre tuna* d stated. The -r.ously dlinigWl result the rethe hct-el has :e period. ars re-' In the hotel to no Reuter
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    CHUNGKING TO IGNORE WANG PEACE APPEAL
    77 3 CHUNGKING TO IGNORE WANG PEACE APPEAL xio. Nov. 28. f the repub- t -day conferred j who has been ponaored adding since last has been de:!?nt. i: »Urn a --sident on reo mMng Wang •he government ma. newly acquired -a- he describU_:.\ tppeml to Gen. Chian* an bguMtfftli armistice -men
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    U.S. & Loans For Britain
    129 3 U.S. Loans For Britain SENATE DELAYS CONSIDERATION Washington, Nov. 28. THE Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee to-day unanimously postponed until January action on proposals to relax legal restrictions m order to permit loans to Britain. The proposals included resolutions for the repeal of the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, and to
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    QUERIES ON CAPTURE OF AIR MARSHAL BOYD
    206 3 London, Nov. 28. TPHE capture of Air Marshal Boyd m Sicily was the subject cf questions m the House of Commons. The Air Under-Secretary stated: "Air Marshal Boyd left England by air on Nov. 19 to take up duties as deputy to Air
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    SATURDAY'S RUGGER AT MALACCA
    132 3 In Aid Of Poppy Day Fund Malacca, Nov. 27. WHAT will be the first rugger match to be seen at Malacca for several years will be played on Saturday when Negri SembUan meet a team drawn from Malacca and North Johore on the Malacca Club padang.
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    32 3 London, Nov. 28. BRITISH patrols m the Gallabat and Kassala areas m the Sudan continue to harass the enemy, says a Cairo communique. On other fronts there is nothing to report. Reuter
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    Ahntonescu Acts Following Mass Killings In Rumania
    174 3 Ahntonescu Acts Following Mass Killings In Rumania London, Nov. 2S. leader. Gen. aken drastic iseU from the px-King Carol's which took military prison *n c?nita! before ..o Cabinet D Antonescu Guard chief, respansibility political priat politic--1 Bucharest Home of new aimed country adhrr»c to th» Axis-Japan pact. It has been
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    Bomber Downs Messerschmitt
    172 3 Bomber Downs Messerschmitt London, Nov. 28. AN R.A.F. bomber's unusual feat of shooting down an enemy fighter by night is described by a sergeant air-gunner. "We were on our way back from bombing Hamburg," he said "Two anti-aircraft shells had hit us but the aircraft was still m good shape.
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    Finland's President To Resign
    66 3 Helsinki, Nov. 28. IT is understood that Dr. Kallio, 67- year-old president of Finland, who had a serious illness m September, has decided to resign. Public elections m the present international situation will probably be avoided by a special law enabling a successor to be chosen
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    COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES BANNED IN U.S.
    40 3 New York, Nov. 28. rPHE Dies Committee has published a handbook containing documents stated to show that the Communist party intended to oppose any imperialist war by impeding the actions of belligerent nations Reuter Reuter
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    They Did Not Know Of Raider
    438 3 DUPERT and Vernoo Brink mar. two yount Tasmanians who reached Sydney recently m a 28ft. ketch, are innocents abroad, writes the Sydney Sun. They left Tasmania and came to Sydney about five years ago. Then they went to New Zealand, where they were employed
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1940. The Navy's Task
    646 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1940. The Navy's Task CINCE the capitulation of Prance, the whole of the British Commonwealth of Nations has borne a burden without parallel m history and has faced trials and adversities before which less stout-hearted peoples must have quailed. In the months that
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    My First Day In London At War
    657 4  -  W. L. WHITE By son of noted American editor William Allen White, of the Emporia Gazette. THE story of my first day *m London is important because I came here with that advance picture of the town which has been painted m the
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    4 4 THE EYES HAVE IT.
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    FRENCH SPIRIT REAWAKENING
    118 4 FRTHER evidence of the growing revolt m France against the policy oX the Vichy Government is quoted by a, correspondent of the Swiss newspaper, the Neve Zuericher Zeituns, writing from Clermont Fcrrand. Even the strictly censored Press, he says, reveals this increasing antagonism to "the plans, attitude
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    The Spirit Of Britain
    432 4 B > lir itanniciis JHIS is be!, nil(l<t %V ■far bombardments thai has yet experience? Eight million Lon tne very real, tho sheltered, and those wtV their ears, are hea. ing din -the crtckly fi* ft anti-aircralt g their exploding shells n whme of the falling
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    GALE HAVOC ON GREAT LAKES
    38 4 GALE HAVOC ON GREAT LAKES AT least 78 a:< mostly seam«-n. which affec.ed thstruck the Otei 1 New York m- Two lake freight pieces, and the en mp 35, are i eared I Property ttamai millions of doll
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    Patrol In The Desert
    159 4 AUSTRALIAN Air Force pilots are now stationed at the most advanced posts m Egypt's Western Desert. They are being called upon to make long flights over waterless, treeless country. Always they are faced with the possibility of being forced dcrwn and left for days without help.
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    Child Dancers Of Singapore
    1991 5  -  MARY HEATHCOTT Free Press Feature By QOOD Christmas entertainment VJ for the children will be "Dancing Through 'The Ages" th<> new show which will be staged by the Fay Hamilton School of Dancing at the Adolphi Hotel roof crarden on Dec. A show by children for
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    EMPIRE WORKERS URGED TO UNITE IN DELIVERING MIGHTY BLOW FOR FREEDOM
    852 6 EMPIRE WORKERS URGED TO UNITE IN DELIVERING MIGHTY BLOW FOR FREEDOM THROLGH the crash of falling bombs, a dramatic appeal to Empire workers to unite with their British comrades m a mighty blow for freedom, by more and more production tor the fighting forces, was made m a special broadcast
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    SAFEGUARD FOR FEVER VICTIMS
    86 6 You are not finished with lever when XX t^ mp at r has gone down Your body [3 undermined a:-d not till voi N up are yillJ T v h- truth is that lever weakens th, at iood" d v l akeS v'"''u tak n,u r
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    FREE FRENCH UNITE IN PACIFIC
    132 6 A PARTY of French soldiers, tra- veiling to New Caledonia to joia the Fr:c French Army there recently arrived m Sydney from Tahiti Members of the party said they would join an expeditionary force being raised m Noumea, which would totl j< U Uh Gencr^
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    GERMANY PLANS FOR BIGGER FAMILIES
    101 6 QERMANY is planning for bigger families which will be housed m larger homes with bomb-proof she" ters. "SSpi; i? T Ley has been mg ,che°m n e miS lOner fOr a SoCial hous wilfb- d b d uil° n l houses 30 °000 flats "'The
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    He Lived To Fight Again
    133 6 TWENTY-THREE years ago, dur- ing the Passchendaele fighting Lieutenant John Hayes, a 20-yeaV-' old Geelong member of the old 22nd Battalion, was carried grievously Now a major m the new AIF he met m Palestine recently, for' the first time' since Passchendaele the man who
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    Potash For Australia From Dead Sea
    300 6 Potash For Australia From Dead Sea CUPPLIES of potash, recovered from the Dead Sea. will be shipped to Australia throughout the war. This was siated by a representative m Sydney of Palestine Potash Ltd commenting on reports that Australia taced a shortage of potash, which is required m the production
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    AUSTRALIA'S MARCH OF TIME FILM
    49 6 •"THE March of Time film on Australia made by My. Victor J. Jurgens. has oeen mailed to America for editing In Canberra, Mr. Jurgens filmed the American Legation, the U.S. Minister to Canberra (Mr. C. E. Gauss), and members of the Advisory War Council
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    VETERAN TRAWLER STRAFES GERMAN BOMBER
    57 6 VETERAN TRAWLER STRAFES GERMAN BOMBER QNE morning recently a German v bomber attacked the paddle-wheel u7^ SWe oP er Soutn Sea 322 tons). >hich is 27 years old. and was a fishing trawler until war came on fh^of?"? Sea tUrned her Z™* on the attacker and destroyed cSJ I^ damage
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    Minesweeping Is "Dirtiest Job" In The Navy
    663 6 Minesweeping Is "Dirtiest Job" In The Navy I^yiTlf their Oropesa sweeps, those strange and mysterious inventions of the Great War, cutting a broad swathe 60 ft. below the surface of the ocean, Australian minesweepers put to sea recently to carry out a routine examination of the coastal waters. They have
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    Activity In Western Desert
    37 6 Officers of a British armoured car unit m the forward area on the Lybian frontier make good use of a -Brolly- at the side pf thkir car during a halt m the desert.
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    Sunderlands More Than A Match For New Nazi Fighters
    489 6 Sunderlands More Than A Match For New Nazi Fighters D A.A.X Sunderland flying-boats manned by Australians can challenge Germany's latest fighter-planes. Extracts from the log entry about an encounter recorded m the Onerations Record Book" of an R.A.A.F. squadron m England Here are some of the extracts writes Kenneth Slessor.
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    Noel Coward On Pre-War Mistakes
    154 6 Noel Coward On Pre-War Mistakes mistakes." famous B n tj .w|J Wrfcfci .hi hers ,f honour m Sydney n In June. "1\ proval oi including n pSe, "I returned w w^r was inevn. While I Wi H ouse Con.n, should or shou of two mont September. "Mr. Chanib, into a
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    U.S. AND MEXICO TO CO-OPERATE
    48 6 U.S. AND MEXICO TO CO-OPERATE JT is unofficial!/ nd the United SI on co-oneration Armed forcer will be granted naval and air bMi An official of th< said: "Tru-r is nrever, the Admin is ledged that gen< sions with \:< k\ the statement Ls mer c has been m
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    POLICE USE DOG TO TRAIL KILLER
    793 7 Manhunt Follows Report Of Triple Murder EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES r n |he M time m nearly 20 years, a trained do* was *md h> the Singapore police yesterday m an attempt the trail of a man suspected of bein? responsible L
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    FRESH SLIP ON HIGHLANDS ROAD
    230 7 Difficult Driving a Our Spectel Correspondent) 1 in.ih Kata. Nov. IS. rv s up or down Cameron Ki-gh-1/ still rather like a u^n P.W.D. labourers on the road ever Und^L'ps began last let and Tapah there ist fifty or sixty sepa.::h or stones, though ;^h
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    Divers Recover Nearly All Cargo From Wreck
    402 7 Divers Recover Nearly All Cargo From Wreck CALVAGING of the cargo from the WTeck of the 4,914-ton Norwegian motor ship Hoegh Transporter, which sank m a protective minefield m Singapore Harbour on the night of Oct. 3, last year, has almost been completed, without a single accident. On the Instructions
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    Salesman Kept $2,103 For Himself
    135 7 TAN GUAN SOON, former salesman m a sundry goods store m Upper Circular Road, was sentenced to five months' rigorous imprisonment m the third court yesterday on a charge of committing criminal breach of trust of $2,103.32 which had been entrusted to him as a
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    IRON WEIGHT ALLEGEDLY TIED TO BODY IN RIVER
    499 7 THAT he saw a 66-kati iron weight A attached by means of wires to the body of a friend while it was being brought out of the Singapore River near the Marine police station, was part of the evidence given by Hassan
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    M. Gs. Await The Signal
    42 7 The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers bring up an imposing array of machine-guns m their training m Britain. The Regiment has already made the acquaintance of the Germans m Belgium and are ready nay anxious to meet them again.
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    Early Morning News Relay To Cease From Sunday
    216 7 QN and from Sunday, the Singapore Station will discontinue the early morningnews broadcast at 8.15 a.m. This early morning transmission originally included bcth the French and English bulletins, but owing to changes by the 8.8.C. the transmission has for some time included
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    LORRY-DRIVER STOLE PETROL
    94 7 A LOPRY-DRIVER, Ng Leong Keng. A employed by Chop Guan Hoe, admitted m the third court yesterday that he had drained his lorry of four gallons of petrol on Wednesday evening. Tan Ah Yong, a cleaner employed by the Sin Sin Motor Garage, admitted that he had
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    EUROPEAN CHARGED
    83 7 A CASE m which Vincent Phillips Baker, a young European, employee of John Little and Co., Ltd., was charged with committing criminal breach of trust of $8,865.22 of the firm's money, came up for mention again m the third court yesterday. Court Inspector D. R. Cowie, stated he
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    THEFT FROM EUROPEAN ALLEGED
    149 7 yENG LOH KIAN, 55, was charged In the 1 third court yesterday with the theft of a wallet containing $54 belonging to a European, Byerikan Carolus, outside the Solar Cafe m Stamford Road at 11.30 p.m. on Nov. 12 Alternatively, he faced a charge of criminal
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    POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH
    180 7 POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH Mu/der Of Fellow Constable Alleged OENTENCE of death was parsed by Mr. Justice Pedlow at the Assizes yesterday on a young Sikh police constable, Amrik Singh, on a charge of murdering a tellowconstable, Harbajan Singh, at the barracks at Pearls Hill. The jury returned a majority
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    CHARGE AGAINST R.A.F. OFFICER WITHDRAWN
    137 7 FLYING. OFFICER H. D T. Leach, of the R.A.F.. was acquitted m the traffic court yesterday before Mr. C. H. Whitton on a charge of failing to give to the police the name and address of the driver of his cai after an alleged offence
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    Americans Say Hitler's Race Theory Is "Bunk"
    224 9 ♦•|T is lucky for America," says I the New Xork HeraWTribune, "that Hitler's theory of race and racial purity is bunk. Otherwise a glance at the list of names drawn m the draft m this city would lead to the conclusion that America
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    SIX REASONS WHY GERMANY WILL BE DEFEATED
    657 9 "Strategicus" On Nazis 9 Missed Opportunity IS it possible to discover Ithe1 the truth about the war? For my part I am completely convinced that the British Empire will defeat the Germans and Italians militarily, writes "Strategicus/' the wellknown commentator. And I base
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    Forty Years To Wipe Out London
    84 9 DEFERRING to Mr. Churchill's 1V statement that m two r?cent weeks German raiders killed ab3ut 2,000 people and wounded 8,000 cut of London's total population of 8 to 10 millicns, the well-known American correspondent H. R. Kinck^rbo^ker writes: "At tha: rate, leaving cut of
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    AWARDS GIVEN TO MALAY AMBULANCE MEN
    477 9 AWARDS GIVEN TO MALAY AMBULANCE MEN I IFE is precijus, and there is no more honourable jcb than yours —to say? lives,' declared Capt. N. M. Hashim yesterday, after he had presented vouchers and A.R.P. badges to members of the second Malay division of ih3 Sc. John Ambulance Brigade at
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    CHRISTMAS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
    66 9 CHRISTMAS Books For Children is the title of a talk to be given to-ni«ht by Margaret Ro?e from the Singapore Broadcasting Station at 7.10. Mrs. Rose arranged Lhs children's programme for the station during 1937 and 1938. and hM b3 f" J^ing again since her return
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    LAW NOTICE FOR THE DAY
    99 9 Before The Hon'ble The As: Chief Justice m Court No. 1 at 11 a.m. Summonses m Chambers etc. Before The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pedlow m Court No. 3 at 11 a.m. Assizes Rex vs: Seah Jin Quee. Rex vs: Lim Chin Seng alias Lim Tian
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    FRENCH IN SYRIA REJECT ITALIAN DEMANDS
    167 9 FRENCH IN SYRIA REJECT ITALIAN DEMANDS LI OPING to gain valuable advant- ages m the Middle East campaign, the Italians recently made sweeping demands of the French administration m Syria. They expected tame compliance, but the Cairo correspondent of The Times reveals that nearly all the demands were met either
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    Berlin Radio's Exaggerations
    136 9 London, N»v. "VJ. rvESPITE picturesque Nazi claims of military damage inflict3d by the Luf.wafTe on Brila n. with the liberal use of superlatives m such broadrpsts as one frr.m Berlin describing the recent raid on Bristol, "with its many large harbors" and "enormous shipping traffic," there is
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    63 9 Mr. D. G. Pritrhard, Deputy Director o/ Air Raid Prec autioiis>. Johore, has b*< n appointed to perform the duties of Dirtn tor of Air Raid Precautions Johore. Dato A L Birch, the A.R.P. Director, has been granted ]<;ave and lias therefore relinquished his appointment as Director, states the Johore
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      254 9 POST OFFICE MAIL LIST •/£&»>?" tne Oencral Post Office TO-DAY r le a;r 4 p.m. Au tea a j r 4 r> m Aas^! S Uth) 10.30 Sim. Australia Bnti,h Columbia .7 1% urm air 4 p.m. air 4 p.m. Colon surface 1 p.m.. air 4pm China: Amoy. Canton. Cnuan
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    Singapore's Two State Games This Week-end
    510 10 Singapore's Two State Games This Week-end Hockey Notes TE^M WILL BE H4RD TO BEAT THE Singapore State hockey tram travels up to Kuala Lumpur to-ni^ht and it will be ver% >urprisins if it does not return triumphant after its two inter-State matches against Perak on Saturday and Penang on Sunday.
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    Indian Association Win By Only Goal
    227 10 Indian Assn. 1: Hyderabad Rest. 0. ONE of the lew hockey games to be played yesterday, the Indian Association fixture against the Hyderabad Regiment, resulted m a one goal win lor the Association. Play was not of a high standard although the gam? was
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    ANNUAL HOCKEY OFF
    30 10 /VvVING to m? rain Urn innual hockey fixture between the old boys and present beys of Ratios Institution, arranged to be played restorday. had to bo postponed.
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    State Hockey Teams At Kuala Lumpur
    479 10 State Hockey Teams At Kuala Lumpur FIVE TEAMS WILL BE SEEN IN ACTION (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Nov. 27. less than flve State hockey sides will be seen m action at Kuala Lumpur over the coming week-end. On Saturday Selangor, who were badly beaten by Ncgri Sembilan last
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    PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY'S AMATEUR BOXING
    256 10 A REMINDER is given to all competitor*, and reserves m to-night's amateur boxins show at the Happy World Stadium, that the final weighin will be held at the arena at 6 p.m. The programme, which has been drawn by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association and
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    $1,000 DONATION TO CHURCHI BIRTHDAY GIFT
    1604 10 Decision At Cricket Club's Annual General Meeting "SATISFACTORY STATE OF ACCOUNTS" AN announcement that the finance subcommittee had n recommended that the funds of the club were m such a satisfactory state as to make a further donation to The War Fund possible was
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    Scotland Meet Rest At Rugby To-day
    169 10 Scotland Meet Rest At R ugby To-day pnkiv,,, players t»* Sin,,, r paaan? this land men ,1 Rufby 1T..,,,, b charities. The two tet chosen, al! being included only to be ex of the match .mally wroi the Rest app team. With Pt. Scotland v Re si m 'but the
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    LESS RUMANIAN OR FOR GERMANY
    57 10 DEPORTS real. New York Tim» coming a serious perhaps bnriimr of perhaps becMi Rumai :iii Th^ Londo: "Rumania's oil pr flagging. The drop expected to M tons monthly a fa duction from 6.500 t sidered this reduced for some tlm^ 1 It Rumania to send
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    ANNUAL POPPY DAY FOOTBALL
    121 10 tFrom Our Own Correspondent i Kuala Lumpur. Nov. 27. r\N Saturday, the Police Depot, who are League champions this year. will meet the T.P.C.A., winners of th^ F.A.S. Cup, m the annual Poppy Day soccer match. The trophy for this match is the Poppy Day Cup.
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      391 10 To-day's Sports Events RUGGER: Scotland v«. the Rest, S.C.C. HOCKEY: S.C.R.C vs. V.M.C.A.. Prince Edward Road: S.R.C. vs. Singapore Colts, S.R.C. BOXING: Amateur programme, Happy World. dent's proposal that the port and accounts be adopted. Mr. S. J. Vincent paid a tribute to *ht j members of the committee for
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