The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 15 February 1941

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  • 20 1 I*tf SINGAPORE EDITION The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 16.323. ESTD. 1835. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1941. 5 CENTS
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  • 53 1 London, Feb. 14. and most successful it tack a of the n were made by Bight and during ;.s a oomheadquarters ind repeat?d peltni, mili- Bind and n bs. h attempted lanca was the Tirana on WednesI ngars, other >und at millt :rv
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  • 258 1 >k, Feb. 11. ihe cordial r»'latfcas e\;stn» *-iwern Thailand n is the theme of Micd the Th.iiment, whkh states: mtm irv)m various h n iliUry authorities I !u.(f, navil and air Ihii border adioinMate] States lead some people >•• that (ireat Rri- llh violate Thai rbc Government of
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  • 253 1 JAPAN'S FEAR OF ATTACK FROM RUSSIA Matsuoka To Seek Revision Of Triple Pact Clause "PRESENT WORDING MIGHT CAUSE CONCERN" HE ADMITS ATokio, Feb. 14. N admission that "the sion of Article V, which Ax is- Japan pact might cause some concern" and an assurance that he would seek its revision
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  • 448 1 From London, Tokio, Sydney: Reassuring Statements On Far East Situation London, Feb. 14. QUESTIONED about reports of inV creasing Anglo-Japanese tension, authoritative quarters in London told Reuter's diplomatic j correspondent to-day that while the j Far Eastern situation has been watched with growing attention j for sometime past and is
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  • 76 1 London, Feb. 14. RUMANIA is retarded as an enemy for trading purposes, according to a Board of Trade announcement, which says that the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Act apply in relation to Rumania as they apply in relation to enemy territory. It is accordingly
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  • 162 1 London, Feb. 14. -THE morals cf savages were being inculcated into millions of German boys and girls, said Mr. H. Ramsbotham, Minister of Education, speaking at Salford to-day. It would take, he said, at least a generation before Germany was lively to irake any
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  • 113 1 London, Feb. 14. TTO-DAY'S Italian communique mentions a daring escapade by British parachutists during Monday night in the Lucania district of Calabria, at the southern extremity of Italy. It declares that the parachute troops were armed with machine-guns, hand-grenades and explosives. The object of
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  • 225 1 PROTEST TO ANTONESCU London, Feb. 14. AF the Rumanian mission in London who were recalled to Bucharest in retaliation for ihe British recall of the Minister at Bucharest, only six minor officials have responded. Both the Charge d' Affaires, M. Florescu, and the Press attache,
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  • 90 1 Ma no I. Feb. It. r[E Turkish liner Izmir has been placed at the disposal of the British legation at Bucharest and is sailing for Const anza to take aboard the BriHsh Minister. Sir Reginald Hoare, his staff and British subjects still living in Rumania. It
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  • 204 1 British Progress In Eritrea Abyssinia Cairo. F^b. 14. A COMMUNIQUE issued from G.H.Q. in Cairo to-day says: Eritrea: Operations for the reduction ot Keren are proceeding while our troops continue their progress in the difficult country towards Arreza. Abyssinia: In co-operation with our activities, patriot forces are steadily extending the
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  • 65 1 london, Feb. 14. T«HE R.A.F. made another daylight sweep over German invasion bases olong the French roast this atternoon, iit is believed. At intervals fcr several hours heavy explosives could be hoard across the sea. while the slcy above the I French coast between
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  • 289 2 Argylls' Part In The Battle Of Waterloo A DESCRIPTION of how the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were formed of two famous regiments, the 91st Argyllshire and the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, the latter better known as 'The Thin Red Line," was given by Major L. B. Robertson last night, from the
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  • 175 2 King Queen Pay Visit To Manchsster London, Feb. 14. A LTHOUGH the visit of the King and Queen to Manchester had been a closely guarded secret, news of their arrival quickly spread through the city, and great crowds flocked to the streets along which Their Majesties drove. So great were
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  • 1206 3 Australia Malaya Ready For Any Eventuality British Press Sees Disaster For Japan If Tokio Makes Rash Move London, Feb. 14. -OMMKNTING on Far Eastern developments under the I title "Threat to Australia," the Daily Telegraph :.>-clay: The rich territories of the NetherI ,> Indies and Australasia are coveted by the
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  • 86 3 »angkok. Feb. 14. A COMMUNIQUE issued here today states that Major-Gen. Sumita, accompanied by members of the Japanese m ecTation commission, paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister, Inane Bipul Songgram, on Wednesday evening with a view to improving the understanding regarding the lines
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  • 150 3 Anglo-Turkish Staff Talks Concluded Ankara, Feb. 14. THE final meeting between the officers of the British military mission representing the Middle East Command and the Turkish general staff has been held here. Lieut.-Gen. J. P. Marshall-Cornwall and Air Vice -Marshal T. W. ELmhirst, who have Just returned from a tour
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  • 178 3 BELIEVED HELD AS PRISONERS OF WAR New Delhi. Feb. 14. A LARGE number of Indians have taken to the mechanical services, said the Defence Secretary in the Indian Assembly However, he declined to reveal the progress of mechanization of the Indian armv or to reveal
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  • 55 3 Calcutta, Feb. 14. CALCUTTA has just had its first V b^ekout test. The city's population =f 1,500 000 responded willingly to the "st and the blackout was so complete hat an observer in an aeroplane del;rred that it mi?ht as well have been a forest
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  • 103 3 r™™ NeW York Feb 14IHE transfer of 40 or more United States destroyers to Britain shortly appeared likely last night following a conference between President Roosevelt and the Navy Secretary, Col. Frank Knox, according to a Washington message to
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  • 268 3 Church Of England Social Reform London, Feb. 14. A VIGOROUSLY worded plea that members of the Church of England should more closely indentify themselves with social and economic reform, coupled with a criticism cf the existing sccial order, has been issued by the Archbishop of York. The proposals which the
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  • 58 3 Osaka, Feb. 14. MR. Vincent Peters, whose eight-year hard labour sentence was reduced to five years following an appeal, has filed a motion of appeal with the Supreme Court. He is a British subject, 47 years old, and was convicted on a charge of
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  • 72 3 London, Feb. 14. R.A.F. fighters intercepted and drove off a force of raiders during a thrilling battle over a south-east town this afternoon. The raiders were seen approaching at great height and Spitfires from the ground swooped upwards and met them over the Channel Guns blazed
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  • 748 3 Moral Ascendancy, Thorough Training Superior Equipment Gave Imperial Forces Victory In Cyrenaica London. Feb. 14. j eondoskMi of the Cyrenaica :^n enables a survey to <* given of this achievement bv general consent, will go hi *n ry as one of the most military operations everi and as an outstandexample
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  • 77 3 J London, Feb. 14. A TRIBUTE to the accuracy of the RA.F., who do not drop their bombs aimlessly resulting in the killing of innocent women and children, is paid by the Lord Mayor of Hanover, the German town in which military objectives have b«en
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  • 114 3 G^ T London, Feb. 14. EN. FRANCO refused to join the Axis in the war against Britain, according to reports from Virhy quoted by the Daily Kail special correspondent, at the meeting at the French frontier. The correspondent says that at the meeting at
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  • 43 3 Vichy, Feb. 14. rX-KIXG ALFONSO is suffering from heart trouble, according to a Rome disratch to the Havos regency. He has been ordered to remain in bed but his doctors state that "all danger has been removed/ Reuter
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  • 351 3 1 30 Greeks Took 3,000 Italian Prisoners London, Feb. 14. All Associated Press message liom Libya tells of a successful action bought by a party of Greeks against the Italians at the time Benghazi was attacked by Imperial forces. The Greeks, who numbered 130. had been interned by the Italians
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  • 31 3 Tokio. Feb. 14. LIEUT-COL. Yoshio Nakano has been appointed assistant Military Attache to Uie Japanese Embassy in Washington in plare of Colonel Takasu Nakamu-a, according to an official announcement. Eastern News
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  • 842 4 The Singapore Free Press Far East Tension SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 194L HTHE warning of the acting Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. A. W. Fadden that the war has entered upon a phase of the utmost gravity, and that Australia's safety demands the greatest effort for preparedness which the Commonwealth has
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  • 1350 4 By JOHN GUNTHER HAVE just spent one of the most fascinating: hours of my journalistic life in earnest talk with one of the most fascinating political leaders of our time, General Lazaro Cardenas, until last year President of Mexico. The main points that General Cardenas
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    13 4 WEtU> fQK YOU." THE NAZIS SAID, 'WE DEEPLY SYMJWTHIS&" -thhuocm rut umjmnc llais
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  • 1712 5  -  MARY HEATHCOTT Free Press Feature By ol held its roundly v:y yesterday at ouse in Paterson foul years old, and hite iced birthday ■andles. and decorr had place of ge table in the \\i> the Founder's be awarded yearly i he school. PJay Tn
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  • 104 5 japan Courting Disaster London, Feb. 14. COMPETENT commenta <ts. diSCttMing Far Eastern affairs, state that whie no immediate alteration n Pacific is expected, the situation there has deteriorated markedly during the past lew months. Japan, these commentators appears to have forsaken her independent line ol policy in obedient t German
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  • 185 6 Japanese Muster All Resources "THE Japanese Cabinet, at an extraordinary meeting, approved a draft bill to revise the general mobilization law. This l.iw or. vides fcr mobilizing all the nnt:pn's resources to counteract United States :mbargoes on t apane3e g ods It pr~>v ries for edditonal st3el outpu: int n
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  • 138 6 Scheme To Ration Spending Of Money By Britons DRITISII trade union leaders ::re considering a scheme for rationing the spending of money of everyone in Britain, to help ■tire wartime economic problems. The plan was devised by M Kaleki a prominent member of the Statistics Institute The irstitutc* was founded
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    64 6 An abandoned Italian naval gun captured on the Libyan coast, being hauled away by lorry. The Italian tenants of Bellavista, a well -constructed drg-out have discreetly withdrawn from this Western Desert "stronghold:' 6^ SkeeP in tor their camp of sayei idrii VUll? n he occasion of the visit to a
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  • 24 6 Part of a Polish Tank Regiment, equipped with French tanks brought over with them, at exercise somewhere in Scotland.
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  • 607 6 THOUGH the United States Administration is mainly pre--1 occupied at present with the grave dangers facing Britain within the next few months, Japan's moves in the Pacific are being closely watched. The Japanese threat to the Pacific has long been
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  • 35 6 f\NE thousand United States troops v v»ave arrived at St. John (Newfoundland) as the vanguard of the force which will man the UJS. air and naval base at Newfoundland
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  • 229 6 "VARDS will be established at Whyalla (South Australia) to build merchant ships up to 12,000 tons," said the Minister for Shipping (Mr. Ronald Cross)^ in a talk in London recently. Addressing the Royal Empire Society Mr Cross said Australia built onh a
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  • 98 6 Youth Who Regarded Hitler As Uncle Now Bitter Opponent EGON HANFSTAENGL, son of the exiled cc-founder of the Nazi Party, Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, is joining the United States Army. "I want to help to defend the American way ol life against Hitler and his gangsters," ne said. "Goering once told
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  • 53 6 Evidence of the effectiveness of an R.A.F. raid on an Italian base in Eritrea. 1 and 2 indicate buildings gutted; 3, read and buildings completely obliterated; 4, seven large buildings razed to the ground; 4, four buildings so destroyed as to leave no trace; two big
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  • 162 6 A MERICANS last week heard over their radios a striking new song by Irving Berlin, who describes his latest work as "a timely negro spiritual." He names the song "When That Man is Dead and Gone" Listeners believe the song refers to Hitler. The chorus runs;
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  • 121 6 f f HE Prime Mil Canada. Mr. MacKrn/., King. i n broadcast, announced that j was proposed to mi id m Canadian air squadrons m» seas. The Government planning to send Canadian division oured division It is estimate d :onntf quarters, that, on
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  • 382 7 PASSIVE DEFENCE WORKERS EXTRA LIFE PREMIUM policy-Holders Are To Seek Government's Assistance ÜBMBERS of the Passive Defence Services who are M by life insurance policies are seeking Government a»istance or relief in cases where some insurt <>mpanies are asking for extra premi a to cover m tor -uch war risks
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  • 326 7 HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT h Empire once more V 1 Regiment stands with men from Great India, as well as are now joining ksb forces and others •n that new arm. the a well-illustrated v Regiment issued of Information. fhf booklet is written in
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  • 138 7 TTERMINATION of their commissions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve of the fo. lowing officers, who will not be available for mobilization owing to the needs of their essential civil occupations, has been approved Lieut Claude McLaren Reid; Lieut. William Charles Downing Ball; Lieut. Hubert Gordon
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  • 98 7 LATIFF bin Haji Jaffar, a former employee of the police armoury at *,he Depot in Thorrson Road, was sentenced to two months rigorous imprisonment in the third court yesterday for the th A w°e^ s o°Latifl pleaded giulty to stealing the pistol and the
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  • 86 7 Mr A G. Masson of Dobb and Co.. Ltd, who was granted a postpone■n#nr certificate from continuous SSSiin- with the depot recruits last ye^r had his certificate cancelled by the local tribunal Mr J C. Cobbeti, chairman of the Tribunal which also consisted of Mr par
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  • 257 7 A GONSTABLE'S EVIDENCE ON duty near the Cenotaph an hour after midnight on Sunday, Jaffar bin Mohd. Sa'ad, a police constable at,ached to Hill Street Police Station. aw a man some distance away leap frcm the Esplanade escarpment into the sea. He
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  • 126 7 HPHE award of a clasp each to the Effi- clency Medal to the following members of the P.M.S. Volunteer Force, has been announced: Staff Sergeant Instructor Abdul Aziz bin Mohamed Noordin, Armoured Sergeant Mohamed bin Lachi, Corporal Percy Frederick Blakcy, Corporal Mohamed bin Abdul Rais. Efficiency
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  • 32 7 MORE land is being acquired by Government for extension to the civil wireless receiving station off St. Mirhael's Road. The total area involved is 33 acres.
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  • 73 7 AN order calling: up members of the Volunteer Air Torce for continuous training at Singapore for two months this year has been published. The commander cf the Force will direct the place and times at and during which members shall attend for continuous training.
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    31 7 Italian prisoners, captured during the British advance in the Western Desert, are seen here resting after a long march fiom the forward areas, guarded by the crew oi a Bren gun-carrier.
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  • 95 7 A CHARGE of cheating involving nve shipments of goods valued at $2,755.65 in Shanghai currency was brought against Lim Joo Kiang in the third court yesterday. It was alleged that Lim cheated Koh Siak Hoon by obtaining the delivery of the goods, which are worth
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  • 77 7 INCREASED cost of living allowances to Government employees have besn announced for February. In the case of Classes I <n> and II (a) employees the increase is 10 cents per month, bringing the allowance to $2.90. In all other Classes I <a> and II <b),
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  • 62 7 A CHARGE that while he robbed Malhuru Ram of three gold talisman cases valued at $70, and $17 in cash, he also hurt him with a knife in a back lone cff Onan Read on Thursday at 4 a.m., was explained to 46-year-old Hoo Wee Sjon in the
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  • 54 7 ALLEGED to have rubbed Tang Swee Cheng of $92.80 in cash at Jurong Road on Wednesday at 11 pin, 23--year-old Choo Tiang appeared in the fifth court yesterday. A charge of robbery was explained to him, and the case was postponed a week for mention. He was
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  • 35 7 'HTHE Postal Department advises that *no air mails from the United Kingdom etc. were received by the East-bound British Overseas Airways Corporation tlying-boat which arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon.
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  • 33 7 MR. L. H. Gorsuch has been appointed Commissioner for Civil Defence, Malaya, while Mr. B. A. R. Gather has been appointed Deputy Commissioner, Local Defence Corps, Penang and Malacca.
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  • 34 7 pOR widening Holland Road from the 5% milestone to Bukit Timah Road and Changi Road between the 11* milestone and the I£H milestone, land is being acquired by Government.
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  • 225 7 I*HE discovery, by revenue officers, of 1,030 gallons of fermented rice buried in drums and Jars in a swamp in a kampong off Thomson Road, was described in the fcurth court yesterday. Two men, Ong Teng and Ong Chwee Teng, were charged
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  • 639 7 Warning Of 'Immediate Action f Against Offenders DEVISED market prices were published yesterday, and iV it is announced by the Food Controller that these prices will be strictly enforced from now onwards and immediate action will be taken against anyone found to be selling
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  • 197 7 CHANGI LAND ALIENATION GOVERNMENT'S 3CO odd acre land In Changi has not yet been fully alienated to vegetable gardeners. It in expected that the work oi dividing up the land and handling it over to suitable gardeners will take some time Only those market gardeners who have
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  • 75 7 WHILE the third court was sitting yesterday, a ycuns Chinese named Chua .Ah Tec* walkd in with a !1 cigarette In his nnnd. Ke was in-rn :A alely spotted bv *hf court ccrr>:rsl wh-< arrested him and put him in the dork u rU
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  • 131 7 FALLING 40 fei-t. from the roof of i godown in Te-k Guan Street to the concrete floor underneath, a labourer, Chan Goh Soon, a.-cd 33, died in hospital several hours after of shock and l>ar>rrorrhage from multiple inVunes This was part of the evidence
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  • 16 7 Mr. W. A. Ward has been appointed Secretary to the High Commissioner for the Malay States.
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  • 581 9 Judgment Reserved In Boxing Promoter's Claim Against Board Of Control TREASURERS EVIDENCE J L^S Z?* 5 the High Court yesterday by Mr. Justice br ?\i hI/k? in a civil action for the recovery of $1*37 brought the Sin«no?s r a xin P rom °ter, against the Board of Control of
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  • 405 9 f\NE of the busiest air routes in the v world to-day is the trans-Atlantic air service now being operated three times weekly by Pan-American Airways between New York and Lisbon via Bermuda. With only one trans -Atlantic American steamship company still
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  • 127 9 DAILY PRICES CURRENT Feb. 14, 13 o'clock not n Buyers Sellers No. EX R.S.S Spot loose 37^4 S7H I No. IX R.S.S. F.0.8. tu ca.es Feb.-March Sellers option) 37H 38 GF.A.Q. R.SS. F.OB, in ba'.es Feb.-March (Sellers option 37 37 »-j FJi.Q. R.S.S. F.0.8. in
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  • 543 9 TO-DAY I SINGAPORE zhpi iMmc/i ZIIP3 1-2& me* '41.38 oa.) (ZHL, ZHPI and ZHP3) 10 a.m. Kronchongst; 11 ajn Indian Music; 11.45 am. Kokklen Muslct; Ppl Ji^ pm Chinese Programme Summary. Pdgeng Uranjas-; 12.55 p.m. Tin, Ck>pra and R u °^f pri^s in HckJden; 1 PJ m. European
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  • 1299 9  -  NOMAD By THE Dons are going ahead with their preparations for the celebration of., the anniversary of Ladysmith; which falls next Friday week! and there will be few, if any who do not take some active part in the day's festivities. An athletic meeting Is the nrst
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  • 95 9 To-day: Dances at Manchester** and R.A.F. (Tengah) Sergeants' Messes. Carnival dance, R.E. (Changi) Sergeants' Mess. To-m>rrow: Tombou at R.E. (Changi), Nee Soon, R.A, (Changi) and Loyals (9.30) Sergeants' Messes. Monday: Whist drives at R.A.F. Married Families' Club, (Seletar) and Manchester*' Sergeants' M?ss. Tuesday: Whist drives at R.A. (Changi)
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  • 348 9 INITIAL section league soccer match of the season was played at Sel?tar Sunday be.ween a Squadron r.nd a D?pot Section. It was a keenly- fcught ccnUst between two veil-balanced teams with the Squadron making the most of their opportunities to win by two g^als to nil.
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    • 169 9 PUBLIC NOTICE. FEDERATED MALA\ STATES RAILWAYS Notice le hereby given that it following passenger trains will not ru on Tuosday, Feb. 18. 1941:— (1) 5.55 a.m. ex Kiuang all statici to Gem as „..(2).6 .1 5 ajn. ex Geinas all statior to Singapore <3> 7.00 ajn. ex Kiuang all statior
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  • 1237 10 GOLDEN MELODY DADABHOY BEST BETS TO-DAY Edie's Choice To Win Spring Cup FINAL DAY OF SINGAPORE RACE MEETING POLDEN MELODY and Didabhoy should be the two best bets of the afternoon, to-day, the final day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting at Bukit Timah. Edie's Choice is chosen as
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  • 352 10 AUSTRALIAN NINE MEET YANKS FOR FIRST TIME "\UE are afraid of the Australian blitzkrieg, but we hone to fare better against it than the Italians did," said American Consul-Gencral Kenneth C. Pation. manager of the Singapore American Association baseball nine, yesterday. Th<?
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  • 101 10 1 1 "yifE following were re-ele?ted oHicc- bearers of the Amateur Sport ng Association for the current year at the annual general Metinfl en Feb. 8: Patun. Lim Hock Seng: president. Chew Keow Bo:k; vice-president:, Teo Hoe Kan-4, Klong Eeng Hong. Yeo Siew Chuan; hen.
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  • 76 10 TTHE following have been selected to represent the Heptarohians Badminton Party in a fr.endly game ol badmnton consisting of five siFiiilesi and two doubles against the Merry Union B.P. at the Clerical Un on Hall on Thursday, Feb. 20, commenclns at 7 30 p.m.: Lim Swce Kiat. Quek
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  • 54 10 |£EEN :oo..bail was seen at the Depot j yesterday when Bramtoco beat Harper Oilflllan by the odd goal in three in the Business Houses' League i corr petition. AH (he were scored in the first fallen opened accounts for Bramtoco. Osman equalising. Before the interval Kui Seng
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  • 80 10 TO-DAY RACES Singapore Tr.rf Club's Sprins: meeting:, final day, Bvkit Tiniah. BOCCKS: 8.H.L., Guthries vs. Uniteers, stadium: Chartered Bank vs. Ford Sports Club, Depot: Sime Darby vs. A.P.C., Para Lebar. HOCKEY: Wardens vs. Ambulance Brigade, Farrer Park. TO-MORROW BASEBALL: In aid of War Fund, Americans vs. Australians,
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  • 126 10 Mails clcs? at the General Fast Office as follows TO-DAY Australia air 12.30 p.m. Brunei surface 12.30 p.m. ;J a V* au- 12.30 p.m. Labuan surface 12.30 p m Njw Zealand air 12.30 p.m. North Borneo surface 12.30 p.m. Saratrak (All parts. surface 12. 3) p.m
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  • 31 10 DEV. w. E. R. Reeder of the Watch '±~wer B ble and Tract Society has been exemnted from the provisions of tn? Compulsory Service (Local Forces) Ordinance.
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  • 151 10 J^ON RICHARDS, the Australian boxing champion, announced yesterday that he would retire without any further matches, writes a correspondent in the Sydney Morning Herald of Feb. 4 R lP h rds said tnat he was not Interested in any of the matches that
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  • 458 10 C^LFCTIONS for to-day's races at Bukit Tim ah are: FREE PRESS Race 1: Rosalie, Clarissa ?he n?a Race 2: Teddy Boy, Baffler. Race 3: Swelter, Lisa o in. Rice 4: Golden Melody, Pro Patria. Race 5: Edie's Choice, Irish Jig. Race 6: Lord Bug, Sultana. Race 7:
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  • 12 10 r> S£ D Wallac a s been appointed I Public Prosecutor. IJ
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  • 260 10 N.A.A.F.'Beat N.A.A.F.I.By Only Goal m the 1., yesterday, Wi after having K r «f the season 0 beat the lafiT* 1 On Tuesday form to beat B. Wearnes the Wearn s vou ?oais but f<r th Hutchings. who after time in th The losers w a sub titute turn {eft
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  • 26 10 ANNUAL MEETING N.S. CLUB a Our Own c ri-niban. I tk 13 piIS annual ?en« i N'egri Beml an <. t Sor^mban on I >ov.-£i!l will pr
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