The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 16 June 1941

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO 16,335. ESTD. 1835. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941. S CENTS
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    RAPID ADVANCE TO SYRIAN AIRPORTS
    745 1 push From Iraq Directed To A leppo, Palmyra ALLIES IN CONTACT WITH FRENCH ALONG WHOLE FRONT Ankara. June 15. THE British columns advancing m Syria from Iraq are reported here to be very rapidly advancing towards Aleppo and Palmyra. To-day's British G.H.Q. communique issued m
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    Nazi Troop Transports Head North Via Swedish Waters
    305 1 Stockholm, June 14. (VEMSH travellers just returned to Stockholm via the island of Gotland told J fht Inited Press to-day that German transports, m convoys each consisting of *fl| S >Hips, passed Gotland on June 6, 8 and 9, travelling north and
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    R.A.F. Fighters' Day Offensive
    98 1 i .nuiwii. June 16. of the British L ~o command were again over aid attacked m:- the Cologne area. atively learned that but km clouds made 10 observe the full re- icks. is missing from a] morning British CT c rF> icUrable strength veepi over the
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    29 1 L4»ndon, June IS. iiome says that the -.n-nt has adopted what It -effective retaliatory President Roosevelt's assets m the United jninedoate valuation eloDglug to the United be<»n ordered.- Reuter
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    STOP PRESS
    166 1 Cairo, Jane 15. fHk IAI m**** raided Calato aero- m Rhodes •■"Friday nighty *tai i number of Axis planes m the a^pfrvU srtA were set on fire, says toto. s R.A.F Middle East communique. TV am* ni<ht R.A.F. bombers heavily uu,\r4 Benghazi and started a namber «f Aitv.
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    15,000 Greeks Fought In Crete
    88 1 1 5,000 Greeks Fought In Crete London, June 15. HPIIE Greek Prime Minister has sent message to the Royal Greek Legation m Lon lon disclosing that the number of Greek forces who took part m the Battle of Crete was 15,000, II.COO of them belonging to the Army anil nearly
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    U.S. Yards To Turn Out 1,250,000 Tons of Shipping This Year
    93 1 U.S. Yards To Turn Out 1 ,250,000 Tons of Shipping This Year New York, June 15. AMERICAN shipyards are expected this year to turn out 1.250.000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping, according to the United States Marltime Commission, reported by the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. It is
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    HEAVY JAPANESE RAID ON CHUNGKING
    37 1 Chung kine. June 15. I npWENTY-SEVEN Japanese aircraft 1 made a heavy bombin? attack on Chungking's "lower town" Jhis after- noon. Several fires were started along i the Yangtse river front. Reuter
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    MATSUOKA ON ITALOJAPANESE FRIENDSHIP
    35 1 Romr, June 14. THE Japanese Irtreign Minister. Mr. Y. Matsuoka, has sent a message to th* Italian Minister m Tokio affirming he shares Mussolini's outlook on Italo- Japanese relations United Press
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    ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY
    46 1 London, June 15. 4jk FEW enemy aircraft last night dropped r\ bombs at a small number of places m west England," states an Air Ministry comI munique. The damage caused was slight and tne casualties we.c small. "One enemy aircraft v/as destroyed Reuter
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    Instructions Sent To Yoshizawa
    42 1 Tokio, June 15. INSTRUCTIONS to Mr. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, head of the Japanese trade delegation now m Batavia, were despatched yesterday afternoon, it is officially announced. This follows the reply of the Netherlands Indies rejecting the Japanese proposals,- Reuter
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    ENCIRCLEMENT OF JIMMA PROCEEDS
    55 1 Cairo, June 16. TO-DAY'S British GH.Q. communique issued m Cairo states that m Libya there is nothing to report. In Abyssinia patriot forces m considerable numbers are now completing the encirclement of Jimma, while Imperial troops continue their advance upon the town from the east. In
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    Show Of Force By Japan?
    103 1 Show Of Force By Japan? Chungking, June 16. SOME units of a strong Japanese naval force, consisting of over 100 warships and reported to have concentrated off the Chekiang coast, are stated to be steaming southwards. It is suggested here that the warships' presence may mean some major move by
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    General Leading French Forces Is Wounded
    163 1 General Leading French Forces Is Wounded London, June 15. TREE French headquarters m London announce that Gen. Lengentilhomme has been wounded on the Syrian front. His arm was broken by a* bomb splinter during the bombing of a road by airciaft with Tricolour markings. He was operated m a field
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    "Week-end" Pilots Destroy 900 Raiders
    122 1 London, June 15. "\I7EEK-END Pilots," as Britain's "auxiliary air force pilots are still chaffingly called because of their prewar "spare time" training, have now destroyed more than 900 Nazi planes over Britain. This is a quarter of the total shot down by the Fighter Command
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    Reich Seeks French Aid To Offset Italian Drag
    428 1 London, June 16. GERMANY is finding Italy more and more of a liability than a help and that is why German efforts are at present directed towards securing even closer co-operation with France, especially m the economic and industrial fields, writes Reuter'3
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    Cyprus Has Second Raid Alarm
    80 1 Nicosia 'delayed) June 15. CYPRUS had its second a: arm of the war on Friday afternoon, when bombs were dropped on two villages m the western end of the island. It is officially announced that on* villager was slightly hurt and no damage was done.—
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    LOCAL DEBUT OF "THE ROTTERS"
    199 2 Repertory Players' Fine Performance WOULD you like to make the acquaintance of a charming family? A family, that is, prim and proper and shining with respectability, but m which the most delightfully disreputable traits appear when you manage to take a peep into their drawing
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    39 2 London, June 15 |T is reported from New York that the British Ambulance Corps there announced that 13 ambulances of the desert type which were shipped about two months ago foi Australian and New Zealand troops have arrived safely.
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    Magic Circle's Shows For The Troops Begin
    355 2 Magic Circle's Shows For The Troops Begin THE first of the Malayan Magic Circle's new series of productions for the men of the fighting forces m Singapore opened a r the Victoria Theatre last night and was voted a success by all who saw it. The Ccmmander-in-Chief, China Station, Sir
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    Unite That Took Part In Greece Fighting
    87 2 1 onrion, June 15. THE Wr«r Office stated last night that m addition to Dominion forces, the following United Kingdom and colonial units took part m the recent operations m Greece: Royal Armoured Corpseboth Hussars and Royal Tank Regiment. Royal Horse Artillery, Royal
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      212 2 POSITIVELY LAST 3 PERFORMANCES 9.15 P.M. »\l. rl AMfcll(lA| What Did Kitty Fo 7 U A TRUTHFUL CONFESSION Have Thai You from a career girl whose con* Haven t Goi?^^^^^ 9^^ fessions are worth hearing t i&jfßF*\\p ROGERS FOYLE ;(J J| The Natural Hutory or o Worn on Also The
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      141 2 VICTORIA THEATRE FRI., SAT. 9.30 20th. 21st JURE 9.30 I ORCE RIGHTLY H. F. MALTBY'S BRILLIANT LANCASHIRE COMEDY THE ROTTERS FROM THE GARRICK AND KINGSWAY THEATRES, LONDON. REPERTORY PLAYERf PRODUCTION HAWAIIAN "BOOKING-AT" MOONGLOW LITTLE'S SYNCOPATORS PHONE 5167. SMOKING IS PERMITTED HER FIRST SOLO STARRING ROLE! The Popular Sin^in^ Favourite of
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      109 2 Q WHAT IS f. HIEF ATT RIBIiT^ ACCOUNT FOR ITS OVERfihELfr.iaJ T^T Q IT J HAS ONE SELDOM SEES ON THE SCIIKKN N (^Lui^ !N iuis P^WITH BURNING UFALIBM ||BBOLDLY WRITTEN, 80 GRIPPINGLV i P^KD THAT NO OTHER MOTION VinVMi. <\\i ITS MANIFOLD \T'! HIDItV CO -STARRING PI !Ni;RII) BKRr.MAX
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    SOVIET PERTURBED OVER NAZI TROOP MOVES
    687 3 ||j n es All Roads Leading 0 Bessarabian Frontier jPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED SOON I Ankara, June 15. gnSB :he majority of well-informed persons m Turkey m that the concentration of huge forces on both f t he Russo-German frontier is bluff m order to
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    SOVIET MINISTER TO LEAVE BUCHAREST
    54 3 Rome, Jane 15. fHE Budapest evening papers report- ed yesterday that M. Lavrentiev, Soviet Minister to Rumania, is leaving Bucharest for Moscow m a few days' time, according to the official Italian news agency. A Charge d'Affaires, M. Koeascov, is stated to have arrived m
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    Loaded Mines For New York Harbour
    236 3 Loaded Mines For New York Harbour BUT MOVE TAKEN 4 JUST FOR PRACTICE' Washington, June 16. PREPARATIONS to sow mines m the lower bay >f New York harbour, were disclosed by the United States Navy Department last night. It was indicated that loaded rather than mere practice mines would be
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    Britain's "Deadly & Invisible" Secret Weapon
    88 3 Britain's "Deadly Invisible" Secret Weapon London, June 15. TPHE British Army may soon be equipped with a secret weapon. It is the inrention of a Cambridge graduate who is now an officer m the Royal Engineers. He is 24 and at Cambridge took honours m mechanical science two years ago.
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    Kept On Verge Of Starvation Aboard Raider
    491 3 London, June 15. ANE of the most thrilling sea stories i of the wax is told by survivors of the British steamer Kemmendine, 7,769 tons, who landed at a British port yesterday, 11 months after their ship was J sunk by a German
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    Agent Urges Unity Among Indians In Malaya
    561 3 Agent Urges Unity Among Indians In Malaya P! °J Our Own Correspondent) L Kaala I.umpur, June 15. of action could ignore ac fact that what was good Indian m India was notj > ?ood lor him m Malaya. l\s S Dutt. 1.C.5.. Agent for t of India m Malaya. option
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    U.S. May Arm Merchant Ships Against Air & Submarine Attack
    361 3 U.S. May Arm Merchant Ships Against Air Submarine Attack Washington, June 15. lUIDESPREAD Congressional support seemed yesterday to be developing for whatever protests or demands the State Department may dispatch to Germany as a result of the torpedoing of the United States merchantmen Robin Moor. In Congressional circles there is
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    "Go To War" Demand
    174 3 Washington, June 15. GO to war was yesterday's outspoken demand of the Washington Post. "If we are m a state of war then we must act as if we were m it and without any subterfuge," says the newspaper. "Hitler has flung m our faces his
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    Thousands Starving In Foochow
    89 3 Foochow, June 15. ALTHOUGH everything is very quiet, conditions m Foochow are rapidly deteriorating. The economic situation is especially deplorable with insufficient quantity of cash because of frozen funds, business being completely dead and cost of living soaring. Thousands of people are starving and there are
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    Thai Condemnation Of Japanese Stories
    68 3 Ran* itok, June 15. THE harmful nature of Japanese I correspondents' despatches from Bangkok continues to be the theme of editorial! In toe Thai newspapers. The Varasab reveals that a legislator contemplates urging the cabinet to control foreign correspondents. The Sieng Thai says stories like
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    Anti-Fascist Move Grows In Italy
    79 3 Cairo, June 14. THHE young anti -Fascist leader, Dr. Vitorelli, editor of the Corriere d'ltalia, which recently published allegations of Mussolini's guilt m the Matteotl murder, told the Press to-day the freedom movement was growing m Italy and the colonies. "Communists and inti- Fascists have
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    How Rashid Ali's Govt. Broke Up
    135 3 How Rashid Ali 's Govt. Broke Up Jerusalem, June 15. jjOW the cabinet of Rashid Ali Iraq rebel Premier, began squabbling and finally disintegrated Is now revealed m reliable circles In Jerusalem. It is stated that it was when Dr. Grobba, German Ambassador, returned to Baghdad— after an absence since
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    RAIDS ON BRITAIN
    42 3 London, June IS. AT least one enemy bomber is knows to have been destroyed m last night's nemy raids over this country. Bombs were dropped m the west of England, but few casualties were caiivd and little damage resulted.
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    The Singapore Free Press and Daily News MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941. Berlin And Moscow
    667 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941. Berlin And Moscow CPECULATION is again rife about i relations between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. There are indications that the world may be, about to witness as dramatic a i change of policy as was implied for both countries when the
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    I Was A NAZI PARACHUTIST
    950 4  - I Was A NAZI PARACHUTIST KARE NOHLE BY The German who wrote this article was one of Hitler's parachutists who dropped m Belgium, just as thousands of Nazi parachutists came down for the invasion of Crete. TN the eerie greyness of early dawn we stood at ease m front of
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    CHINESE MILITARY MISSION'S SUCCCES
    30 4 'Tin: C9MMM rnili^ry miss" leadership «>f Oe« left Kunming by mot« rScM indicates fßvour.it. c c<l eaertell) Burma v inMrtr Dr The <- from I n> Reuter
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    U.S. PROPOSAL TO AVERT STRIKES
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    VICAR APOSTOLIC OF FOOCHOW DIES
    8 4 VICAR APOSTOLIC OF FOOCHOW DIES vuarat* o. > Reuter
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      153 4 Piles Quickly Heal YOUBS WILL DISAPPEAB What would you not give to be really eared of those torturing, awkward piles I To find them surely growing less and less until they healed and disappeared never to torment you again I A physician's startling discovery brings this comfort within reach of
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    New Anzac Club Building May Be Opened In July
    1363 5  -  MARY HEATHCOTT Free Press Feature By WORK will soon begin on the r the new Anzac Club pore, the triangle of .I'ctly opposite Raffles and the committee the building will be x: month. :ie a central rest room, ion and reading
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    "UNWISE TO FIX GAZE ON SYRIA EXCLUSIVELY"
    226 5 "UNWISE TO FIX GAZE ON SYRIA EXCLUSIVELY" TT would be unwise to fix our gaze exclusively on Syria and Cyprus," says the diplomatic correspondent of The Times. "There are other possible objectives for /the Germans." "They have again shown the value of bombers, especially dive-bombers, not opposed by fighters, against
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    Churchill Needs "Team Of High-Powered Propaganda Dive-Bombers" At Whitehall
    288 5 Churchill Needs "Team Of High-Powered Propaganda Dive-Bombers" At Whitehall THE lack of drive m British propaganda, for which the Ser--1 vice Ministers are blamed, is said to be exhausting the patience of the Minister for Information, Mr. Duff Cooper, says a London message to the Sydney Sun. Mr. Duff Cooper
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      154 5 THE /SI4A'D COMMITTEE PRESENTS: JANE COBB JOHN WOOD JACK McNAUGHTON ROGER BARRY "BISIGN for LIVING" I eT* r^fßa^B^Bß^B^Kß^B^ M fl^Ll Br^ Jfr> b^bb^^^b^EvL^b^Hb^K B^Bl^^^^^^or^ '*b^bb b!bk^b^b^b^^9F i J- k bH. j^BC^b^B" i*?^B B^BB^^^-*^^".i^B^Bfc^^b^H R^BwH Blb»^bP j?m »i 'jf% <L T Bh^ bP^B J^b^b^l!^^ V^iafl Lvfl Hft tfV-TB L *^B c
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      134 6 Malaya is m the fight to-day with her men labour and money. Money is building 1. War Loan is a gilt-edirod planes, tanks, guns— a never ending stream of them. BUT WE MUST HAVE MORE! security backed by G*reminent. You purchase Successes on the financial front are just as important
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    NEW COLONY & F.M.S. WAR LOANS FLOATED TO-DAY
    650 7 NEW COLONY F.M.S. WAR LOANS FLOATED TO-DAY Further $20,000,000 To Be Raised yET another opportunity of assisting the Mother Country 1 towards the successful prosecution of the war will be affonkd m Malaya to-day when the new $10,000,000 War I „m- of the Straits Settlements as well as the Federate
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    MINE EXPLODES AT SINGAPORE
    55 7 rNTERING Singapore harbour on Saturday afternoon, a Swedish freighWr, Nin?po. picked up a floating mine by her screw. The mine exploded and the ship was damaged but not sunk. There were no casualties. Th« terrific explosion was heard m many parts of Singapore. The Ningpo is
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    SOCIETY DISSOLVED
    35 7 THE dissolution of the "Ling Tung Athletic Association" is announced m the Straits Settlements Government Gazette. It is stated that the Association is being used for purposes incompatible with its objects and rules.
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    26 7 Mr. William P. .Millar has been appointed an Assistant Immigration Officer. Singapore. 9 The Singapore Bar Association has been exempted from registration under the Societies Ordinance.
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    In A Naval Base Machine Shop
    38 7 In 1 is recent broadcast the CommanJer-in-Chief, China Station, refeured to the increased activity at the Singapore Naval Base. This picture was taken m one of the machine shops at the Base.
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    Telephone Service With North-East Coast To Begin Next Sunday
    203 7 Telephone Service With North-East Coast To Begin Next Sunday CRDM eight o'clock next Sunday morning, telephone communication with exchanges m Kelantan and the northern portion of Trengganu will become available. The Posts and Telegraphs Department, announcing this, states that for the present, telephone communication with Trengganu exchanges south of Kuala
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    "CHINESE DO NOT KNOW FINAL DEFEAT"
    193 7 AT the '"IV Man's Club luncheon meeting m Singapore on Saturday, Ca.pt. H.W.K. Sandy spoke of the rise of Modern China. Capt. Sandy has had many years of experience and travel m China, and he referred to some of the critical events which had
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    LUCK FOUNDED ALMA BAKER FORTUNE
    220 7 LUCK FOUNDED ALMA BAKER FORTUNE (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, May 20. A singular piece of luck laid the foundation for the immense fortune which the late Mr. Charles Alma Baker, mining magnate and patriot, accumulated m Malaya. This is disclosed m an obituary tribute published m the journal British
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    SOLDIER-ARTISTS PERFORM AT H.K.S.R.A. CONCERT
    242 7 ONE hundred years have passed away. Since the birth of the H.K.S.-R.A. And we know that they will never pause, To stand valiantly for the Empire's cause. This verse, chalked on one of the doors of the mess of the Hong KongSingapore Royal Artillery barracks
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    AMBULANCE SERVICE
    119 7 TOE increasing use that is being made by the public of the Singapore Municipal accident ambulance service is shown m a report on the service which is included m the review of the work of the Municipal Fire Department last year. Ambulances attended 3,764 calls— an average of
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    PRISON FOR SOLDIER
    45 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, June 15. PLEADING guilty yesterday m the First Magistrate's Court, V. W. Milner, a soldier, admitted removing a car* from outside the Bukit Bintang amusement park last month and was sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment.
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    12 7 The Penang Indian Muslim League has been registered under the Societies Ordinance.
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    Record Number Of Fires But Actual Damage Was Greatly Reduced
    555 7 MORE HYDRANTS PLACED AT STRATEGIC POINTS THERE were more fires m Singapore but year than m A any other year m the history of the Singapore Fire Department. But while the estimated value of property at risk amounted to $2,891,000,
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    Palestine Delighted At March Into Syria
    118 7 I'HK l>i.i >»i i.i.n 11 lino \«.»;i has 1 deiighted the population of Palestine, according to a former Palestine businessman who arrived from that country yt*t«»rday on his way to the Nethtvlanis Indie* to start a new lile. The Palestinians were, up to the
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    MORE RECRUITS WANTED FOR LOCAL A.F.S.
    250 7 ]HE experiences to which Lomlon Coventry and other large citionave been subjected m air raids leave little doubt as to the responsibilities which may devolve upon the Auxiliary Fire Service should hostilities involve the Far En:-t This statement is made by Mr A Newberry,
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    FLYING TO AUSTRALIA FOR SON'S WEDDING
    45 7 TO be present at his son's wedding m Melbourne next week, a Tel-Aviv (Palestine > businessman is flying all the way from the Middle East. He is Mr. I. Korman, whose son, Mr Jacob Korman, is a businessman m Australia.
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      130 8 Broadcasting TO-DAY SINGAPORE ZHL 1.333 (2?L ZHPI 9.69 BC/i (28.% at.) (ZUP2 €.175 me/8 4«.5« m.> ZHP3 7.J5 rat (41^8 sm.) ZHL. ZHPI. ZHP2 A ZHTJ 7 15 am. Musict; T. 20 a.m. News. Relayed from London; 7.30 a.m. "Listening Post": German propaganda analysed. Relayed from London; 7.35 a.m. The
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      145 8 tor Saion Orclw j»u a Manners News; 14. VV a *Hi. aWS'S 5 p.m. Canton^/ m Cantonese: 5.u0 p. m H 6 p.m. News 111 Hokki, ing to ItoriD-rs; c from London; 6.3:> p J feS Hour." ReUyed from I^nd o: U Children's Pnignrnmr- wini^ 650 P.? Auntie Barbara; 7.15
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    Greater Speed In Syria Advance Is Urged
    124 9 Greater Speed In Syria Advance Is Urged Cairo, June 15. /^REATER speed m the Allied advance m Syria is urged m a leading article m the Syrian-owned Cairo newspaper Al Afokattam. "There is one point m the Syrian campaign to which we wish to call attention," says the newspaper. "Those
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    PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT REMAINS INDOORS
    64 9 Washington, June 15. PRESIDENT Roosevelt remained in- doors at the White House yesterday for further treatment of his sore throat. His condition was stated to be about the same as on the previous day. His temperature is about one and a half degrees above normal. The
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    Lighting Rules For Black-Out Exercises
    510 9 Lighting Rules For Black-Out Exercises IN connection with the ailMalayan A.R.P. practices on Wednesday and Thursday, June 18 and 19, the following summary of a new Lighting Restriction Order (which is to be published m the S.S. and F.M.S. government gazettes) has been issued officially. MOTOR CARS, LORRIES AND VANS
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    MAILS MARKED FOR THE WRONG AIR SERVICE
    279 9 MAILS MARKED FOR THE WRONG AIR SERVICE I ARGE quantities of corres- pondence are still being posted m Malaya for transmission by air to East Africa, South Africa and the United Kingdom although this service has already been suspended, and the only means of disposal li by surface despatch. In
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    THE SINGAPORE C.-OF-C. RUBBER ASSOCIATION
    118 9 DAILY PRICES CITRBENI Jane 14. 12 o dork noon B«yer« S«n*rs No. IX R.S.S. Spot loose 39 Vi 39>>. No IX RS.S FOB. In cases July 39 39\ OFAQ R S.S. F OB m bales July 38% 39^ PA Q R S.S. P. OB m
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      138 9 -f»?i T off «:e mail list as follows:^ the Gene ral Post Office Mails from Java (air) general delivery 8.15 TO-DAY »m. to-morrow. Bu-m a air 4Dm Mails from Java Sumatra (air) general Ceyion II H air 4 £m! deUv «7 1*0 P-m. to-morrow. ERypt ,l\\ air 4 P.m. Air
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    TIME ROBS CRICKET CLUB OF VICTORY
    451 10 TIME ROBS CRICKET CLUB OF VICTORY Annual Match Against Selangor Club VICTORY just eluded the Singapore Cricket Club m their cricket match against the Selangor Club which was played on the padang yesterday. Batting first, the S.C.C. scored 164 runs. Several of the team entered double figures. The highest scorer
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    Fort Canning In Strong Position
    443 10 Fort Canning In Strong Position LARGE UNITS CRICKET COMPETITION IVITH nine wickets la hand and 62 rmns to ret Fort Canning are la a very favourable position to beat the Manchester Recteent la the area final of the Large Units Cricket Competition which wa« played as Taagtia yesterday The Manchester*
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    veierans' & Women's Games In Singapore Badminton
    456 10 v eierans' Women's Games In Singapore Badminton Yl ITU the Hi .o juixior siumles and doubles 0" tnpletuxi. the veterans' -nd m the Singapore badminton i h •TppAxui.ii,.. are now m progress. ■Hi m ihe men's junior singles is d on the claoh between Tsmmi bin Marion tDevorv>liire>. the Johore
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    Chinese Defeat Police By 3 Wickets
    254 10 Chinese Defeat Police By 3 Wickets THE Sirmiia Chinese Recreation Clmb I beat the Police by three wickets at cricket on Hong Urn Green yesterday. The Club's highest scorer was Bu Cheow Chye. with 48, while Harbajan Singh got 38, and Dennison Smith 36, for the Police. The scores were:
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    HIGH SCORING AT CHANGI
    259 10 Gordons Declare And i Are Beaten CINE iwo-figure contributions by Lieut. Hamp. and Capt. Barber and Capt. Pearson (both of the last named played unbeaten innings) enabled the R.A. officers to score a five -wicket victory over the Gordon Highlaners m a cricket match played at
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    HARVARD BEATS YALE IN ANNUAL REGATTA
    73 10 New London (Connecticut), Jane 14. Uarvard made a dean sweep of the 11 seventy-ninth Inter- Varsity regatta on the Thames river here to-day, beating Yale In all three events. Harvard have now won 40 regattas and Yale 39. The senior four-mile race resulted In
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    Japanese Edge Out Americans Six To Four
    446 10 Japanese Edge Out Americans Six To Four War Fund Baseball IS what was generally considered the best baseball *sme of t**^ date the Japanese Ctab edged out the American Association, six to fo«r to a War Fwnd contest at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Among the distinguished spectators were the Governor,
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    CEYLONESE EASILY BEAT MEDICOS
    280 10 DASSING their opponents' score with six wickets m hand, the Ceylon Sports Club stored an easy victory over the Medical College Union m a cricket match played at BaU'Stier yesterday The scores were: M.C.1?.: Seah Cheng Siang b Muthucumam 23. K. S. Retnam c R. V.
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    A.I.F. BEAT NEGRI BY 43 RUNS
    372 10 (Prom Oar Own Correspondent Seretn ban. June la. THE AM. versos Negri SembiUa cricket match ended m a win for the Australians by 43 runs, it being agreed to play only one innings. Features of the match were the tine totting of Pettit and
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    SINHALESE & C.Y.M.A IN DRAWN GAME
    191 10 SINHALESE C.Y.M.A IN DRAWN GAME THE Sinhalese Association drew with i the C.V.M.A. m a cricket match played at the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Tt\e scores were: Sinhalese Association: K. Morando b Lewis 10; E. Jay&koddy b Lewis 0; J. H. Fernando st J. Anthony b Lewis 57; G. R&natunga b
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    Thoy Takes Six Wickets For Two Runs
    296 10 S.R.C. TROUNCE INDIAN IN BALESTIER GAME DRILLIANT bowling by R. Thoy, who took six D two runs, was a feature of a cthfcH ra x *f at Balestier yesterday m which the Siniraiw.™ pla^ Club easily beat the Indian Association by Msrun! eili<
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    Vichy Govt. Rejects British Suggestion
    49 10 Vichy Govt. Rejects British Suggestion THE Vich, Go^ T X 15 both countries if M*rs£fe« Gorernment instructs thVir f to offer no resistant* *£>*?* sures the Allied f«, m J* U prevent Germany fro£ lt Syria as a base of TL against them, states th f vT news agency.- Reuter
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    Chinese Guerillas Wreak Havoc
    95 10 THE Japans anny^^r U extensive moppmg ud ZUH against Chinese guerilla. LSfi areas surrounding Shanghai foX many recent train wrecking aW ing to the AmorKan-owr^ T" Weekly Review It is stated that only approximate half these wreckings find their wa "I*° print v. Onl> fre uem
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    500 Bombers A Month Programme
    47 10 Washington. Juor i; SUM ol $1,000,000,000 is to be pn* vided by the Fed- rai Loan Administration to buiid factories lor th* 500 bombers-per-month progrr^ This action is beir.^ hf Mr Jesse Jones. Federal Loan Administrator, under his new defend power Reuter
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      "LITTLE NELLIE KELLY"
      67 10 JUDY GARLAND womMWII m the starring role of th« M.G.M. picture, "Littl? Nellie Kvlly *h»cto bM midnight screening at the C;*piu>l on Sfu:day. A& a married wjman she is not a cinq. she looks too young and uusophitf»ctf« for such a grown-up part, bu: she »<*«,"*:' makes
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      "KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED"
      21 10 "KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED" FEW film* more pacteu with a.iioc come to Singapore to tUl^^ to every sequence «nd it-
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