The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 1 October 1941

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AND DAILY NEWS NO. 1C,127. ESTD. 1835. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1941. 5 CENTS
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  • 2653 1 Calls For Sacrifices To Keel) Russia In The Field Premier Warns "Do Not Expect Winter Lull" NAZIS SUFFERING HEAVILY IN WAR AT SEA STANDING before a House to which he had been forced to tell the •"'dark news of Dunkirk, Crete, Greece and the mounting
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  • 30 1 Ankara, Sept. 20. I is reported that Hitler has handed to Kin? Boris a final md to send an army corps the Soviet front.- Reuter
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  • 172 1 300 Bombers Raid Stettin Hamburg i.-.ii- -»ept 3d. B.TWELN 200 and 300 of Bri-t-ins h2avcst bcmbers ;ed Stettin and Hamburg night, it w.u understood here to-day. i-B ->tectin. Germany s most important sea base on the Baltiwas attacked last night by a powerful force of the Bomber mi MrMnvtn communique.
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  • 52 1 London. Sept. 30. |T 13 announced by the War Oirice that 600 enemy planes have now been destroyed by antiaf* fire over Britain. fhc 600 th bomber was claimed by i gunner m the north and it witnessed by infantrymen *ho saw it burst into names and crush i^/o the
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  • 359 1 RUSSIANS MAINTAIN INITIATIVE AT LENINGRAD Ixmdon, Sept. ']«>. THE Russian armies are holding the Germans everywhere, and it is learned m London to-day there is no indication m any sector of enemy advance. To-day's Moscow commiinioue reports continued fighting along the entire front during the nifrht. In the Leningrad Mdor
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  • 320 1 h.M.S. NELSON IS HIT London, Sept. 30. IT is officially stated he: j to-day that 13 Italian aircraft were destroyed during the recent attack on one ot our convoys m the central Mediterranean. Six ol these fell to fighters of the Fleet Air Arm and seven to the guns
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  • 112 1 Chungking, Sept. 30. /CHINESE forces at all points along the Changsha front launched a general offensive at dawn to-day, "with the most encouraging results, paving the way for a decisive victory m a day or two," Gen. Hsueh Yueh telephone from Changsha to-day, according to an official
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  • 107 1 SIR Hubert Wilkins, the Australian explorer and lecturer, has arrived m Sydney to conduct an Independent economic and social survey affecting cooperation between the United States, Australia, China, and the Netherlands Indies He said that he would submit the results of his survey, with recommendations,
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  • 67 1 London, Sept. 23. A SECOND Koyal Air Fore* squadron is now operating on the Eastern Front, affording to Moscow Radio to-day. In conjunction with the Russian air force, they shot tiimn 26 German plants m two days, the radio said, the British accounting for 17.
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  • 248 1 Third Polish Divi sion Is Being Formed On Russian Soil Moscow, Sept. 30. T*HE Polish Commander-in- Chief m Russia, Gen. Anders, revealed to-day he is forming a third Polish division on Soviet soil and is aiming at the formation of an army. Gen. Anders told British and American corresoondent here
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  • 54 1 Tokio. Sept. 30. THE Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Inc. reporting his inspection trip m northern Japan, told the Cabinet to-d v that, because of the heavy rains £ince September, crops might ni revived to c^ndit.ons prevailing m the middle of August, m the event experts' crop-savinp error*!
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  • 94 2 Bangkok, Sept. 30. THE Thai Government will try to preserve the independence cf tne Thai nation above everything che said the Thai Premier, Marshal Luan^, Pibul winding up the 90-day session o; u.e National Assembly t*"is evening. The Hou-e cheered his announcement thit Thailand was
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  • 53 2 Quetta (itidU), Se.yt. 30. A NOTliiuß ear m tremor oi con- siderable intensity rocked Quetta at 8 p.m., G.M.T., yestprday. It lasted 15 seconds and awoke the inhabitants, who were mostly sleeping m the open. It was accompanied by heavy rumbling. Four more tremors were recorded during
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  • 145 2 (From Our Own Correspondent Seremban, Sept. 30. f^ MALAY woman, Sinah binti Mataii. was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment m the Negri S^mbilan assizes by Mr. Justice W K. Home to-day on a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The case bejan
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  • 473 3 VOROSHILOV PRESENT AT MOSCOW TALKS Six Committees To Deal With Aid Problems Moscow, Sept. 30. IJ VOROSHILOV, Soviet Commander-in-Chief m the northern sector of the Eastern Front, was present at the opening of the three-power conference m Moscow yesterday symbolizing the extreme urgency of the business. He was m excellent
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  • 243 3 I.ond >n. Se^t. 30. THOUSANDS of Czechs have be n ar jr.?d m Bohemia and Mvavia. including hundreds In Prague, the Daily Mail asserted m a dLspatch datelined the Gtrnrn frt ntier to-day. Tbes? executed ye^terd3y, according to thi newspaper, included ;*n editcr of a
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  • 60 3 THE demons '.ration of methods of dealing with incendiary bombs, the othrr clay m Raffles Plac^ by A R.P. Deportirrnt. is to be rep. aMI th re on each Friday during Oc'.ober, at 5.30 p.m. These demonare intrndpd for employers rv.ployees m btisiness houses, who igei to attend
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  • 31 3 Canberra, Sent. 30. T:iE Labour Party has decided to c what is equivalent to a ore motion agnir.st the Governm' nt on the budget m the ir.s^ of Representatives tomorr Reuter
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  • 140 3 Tokio, Sept. 30. HPHE Japanese InfDrmation Bureau spokesman, Mr. Koh Ishii. declined to comment at his Press ccn'erenee to-day on the Japanese- American negotiations at present gcing on m Washington. Mr. Ishii said the matter of dispatching a Japanese vessel dir?ct to the United Stites
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  • 139 3 Chungking, Sept. 30. puioL protection for Chinese nationals and property is demand- ed by the Chinese Foreign Office m identical protests sent to the French embassy m Chungking and the Vichy Government following two recent incidents m Hanoi. In the first case a party
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  • 94 3 Tokio, Sept. 30. WITHOUT elaborating, the Japanese Information Bureau spokesman, Mr. Koh Ishii, said to-day: "We admire Mr. Duff Cooper's frankness m his utterances everywhere he goes." Mr. Ishii revealed that the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, recently informed the Foreign Vice-Minister that he was going
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  • 484 3 Washington, Sept. 30. IT is reported m Congressional quarters that Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, plans to ask President Roosevelt to recommend the virtual scrapping of the Neutrality Act. Congress circles close to Mr. Wendell Willkie reported him as having advised them he would
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  • 26 3 Tokio s?nt. 30 rj^HE Japanese Foregn M nist?r, A Adm. T Toyodi, t?-dry reported on "the latest ti^nil si.ucti^n" at th? Cabinet's re?ul?r meptinsr United Press
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  • 91 3 London, Sept. 3#. rr is officially announced that Sir Walter Mom ton. DirectorGeneral of the Ministry of Information, will visit Moscow at an early date. The Ministry of Information to-day made the following announcement: "Many ques* tions have arisen of common interest between the Ministry
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  • 317 3 Indies Trade Expert's Talks Here I\R. W. A. F. Stokhuyzen, president of the Netherlands Indies Import and Export Associations, to-day concludes a short visit to Singapore. During his stay here Dr. Stokhuyzen has met officials ol t c Netherlands Consulate-General, the Netherlands Irdies Tra <* Commissioner and l^adi..? Netherlands businessmen.
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  • 707 4 The Singpore Free Press WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1941. Washington Talks A LTHOUGH secrecy, and even a certain amount of mystery, surround the reports from Washington and Tokio of discussions between the United States and Japan aimed presumably at lessening tension m the Pacific, there is very little evidence that Great
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  • 254 4 THE Government or. it may be. the Colonial Office, has earned the thanks of a large number of European parents In Malaya by the decision announced yesterday to lift the ban on Christmas holiday visits by children over ten who are at school m Australia. It has
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  • 93 4 Chungking, Sept. 30 MR. T. P. TSIANG, secretary to the Executive Yuan, as the official Government spokesman, yesterday voiced a hearty welcome to the United States and British experts coming to China. Sir Otto Niemarer and Mr. Merle Cochrane. '"Hiese two experts are not only well
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  • 41 4 THE organisation of the various wnr services m Bat a via is steadily forging ahead and other towns, such as Sourabaya, are also doing good work m preparing for eventualities. The municipal authorities are meeting to exchange vi^v^.
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  • 33 4 Delhi, Sept. Z9. THE working committee ci the All-India Muslim League will hold a meeting m Delhi on Oct. 26. The council of the League -rill also meet on that day.
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  • 31 4 Chmnfkin?, Sept. 34. CEVENTY-TWO Japanese planes *3 rained hundreds of bombs on Chlukwan In Kwangtung yesterday destroying the American Bible Society s orphanage school, according to official reports hsre. United Press
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  • 422 4 •THE myth that Australia Is predominantly an agricultural country, with little possibility -of developing heavy industries to world standards, has vanished af ter two years of war. This history of Australia's munitions industry is a record of resource and energy which has worked the miracle of achieving what so
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  • 1227 4  - New Towns For Old In Great Britain Clough Williams— Ellis By NOBODY, so far as I know, has yet made a Thorough reconnaissance of all Britain's bcmoed cities. I certainly have not done so myself. But I have now seen a good deal; perhaps enough to enable me to formulate
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    3 4 BLUNTING THE BUTT
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  • 54 4 T Simla. Sept. :*<•. HE Stiuidin;; Immigration Committee ia meetinT on Oct 6 at Sim]:, to consider th? draft terms of the a?r.»cment reached by the Indo-Ceylnn exploratory conference The Frder»tio-i el Indian Chambers of Commerce end Industry ha.i requ^t^d he overnment of ind'a to publish the draft
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  • 53 4 OIR SHENTON THOMAF hat received a tele-ram from the Secretary of State for the Cofenies asking him to ronvev t -j f he Sultan of Tre.n??anu and the Tengku Ampuf.ii. the Briti-h CovcrnmeiiT s warm thinks for the joint contribution of $2 000 ppJd to thr Tr
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  • 54 4 I<ondnti. *>pt. :;a. SXRRY PASHA, Egyptian P-lm« Minister, has broad -a t an appeal for economy m food and cto'jhin*. King Parouk is setting an rramole by cutting down all nn-als In the na!ace to thrp« rources md reducing official banouets from trn courses to six. states (he
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  • 43 4 Teheran. Sent 30. GEN. Sir Archibald WaveH C-in-C India, left Tpheran at 10 a.m. to-day m a big Pou«*la« passenger plane for Baghdad. It is expected he vill return to Teheran If h<» finds further discussions with the Soviet necet- Reuter
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    • 133 4 WAKE UPYOUR LIVER BILEWithrat Calsssel AW Ym'U iwmp mmt of BW fa tW Mmfaff Fdl «l Vkt. The liver should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your boweis daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn't digest. It just decays m the bowels. Wind bloats
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  • 213 5 CO-OPERATORS PLAN TO STAMP OUT DEBTS IMPLEMENTING POLICY OF GOVERNMENT THE desire of the Government Servants' Co--operative Thrift and Loan Society to stamp out indebtedness permanently among its members, thus implementing the policy of Colony Government, was expressed by Mr. A. K. Isaac who presided at the half-yearly general meeting
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  • 277 5 LONDON APPRECIATION lOYFUL news" is how the Soldiers. Sailors and Airmen's Families Association describes the receipt of another substantial ium from Malaya. A letter received by Sir Shenton Thomas from the acting chairman of th*> Association, sta* s, inteT alia: WY have just received the joyful news
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  • 114 5 *rpHE Shepherd of the Hilis," which oponcd at the Pavilion yesterday. Has captured vividly the atmosphere of a rough, rural community, half Lterate. and gv>vemed only by the law of the fun. nis old -fashioned, superstitious r.ng comes a stranger who possesses more money than
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  • 94 5 |TEN I N .yaaia. one of three Jap- an- o who were charged on Saturday under the Defence y Finance Re- t~s. \ras discharged when he appeared b lore Mr. J. L. McFall m the S:-<rapoTe Criminal District Court :.iv I u:r. instructed to withdraw the ehajv-..' m
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  • 185 5 THE Australian Minister for Air, Mr. J. McEwen, has revealed that a R.A.A.F. Buffalo squadron is stationed m Malaya, "wnere its presence is a great acquisition to the defensive strength of R.A.F. and R.A A.F. squadrons m that area." Othr R.A. A. P. squadrons are also
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  • 226 5 Marked Increase Causes Concern (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, Sept. 30. A MARKED increase m typhoid cases m Ipoh is causing some concern among the health authorities here. Already 27 cases have b_en reported with a number Ox suspected ones, while seven deaths have been reported
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  • 58 5 DR. VICTOR PURCELL, DirectoTGeneral of Information and Publicity m Malaya, who is visiting .*u?tralia, s'.etcd m a press interview that one of the greatest impressions ne had rained was that Australia was not sacrificing precision to quick output He was surp-ised to see th# proportion of machines In
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  • 102 5 At 10 a.m. Before the Judges Summonses m Chambers, etc. Before The Hon*ble The Chief Justice m Court No. 1: At 10 a.m. Mag. Appeal Tan Yee S<x> vs. Rex Judgment. Thereafter 2 Motions m S 374 41 and 379 41. Before The Honble Mr
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  • 59 5 Sumatra, Sept. 30. fPHE first instalment of over *i 3 000 nrnees has been remitted to the Viceroy's War Pumoses Fund by British Jndian residents m nwiiilm TMs voluntary contribution is noteworthy since British Indian residents m Sumatra are not wealthy, and also are contributing generously tc
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  • 19 5 Improvised rafts are used for transporting guns and gun crews across rivers m Northern Ireland.
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  • 139 5 TTHERE is no need whatever for regular fire-watching at the present time, states a communique from the Department of Information and Publicity. But it is certainly necessary, and obligatory*, that all schemes should be perfected, and approved by the local Director of Pastive Defence Services.
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  • 132 5 THE important part plajed, by rubber ia Uie war is strikingly illustrated m an attractive two- page array of pictuivs m the latest issue of "Freedom," the fortnightly publication for chikuen, irx^English. produced by the Department "of Education and published by the E>epartment of Information
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  • 123 5 DECAUSE the complainant m the casdid not app?ar m ccurt yeHttrfay, Ngun Soo Hai was granted a discharge DBt amoum-iiig io an acquuuu uy Mi*. Ft. Moor, Singapore third magistrate. Ngun was charged with criminal breach of trust m rr?v -;t of s v al
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  • 43 5 THE seventy-third birthday of Mahatnia Gandhi win be i»*'tirated on Thursday. In Singapore, the Tamil 11. KLc-:hc. A c soriat'on fs holding a r ne^"> i 5 I which several addresses on the life and work of Gandhi will be delivered.
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  • 91 5 "TN view of the fact that they A were found m possession of thousands of documents, and are obviously prominent officials, 1 ask for a heavy bail," said Mr. G. E. Devonshire, Assistant Superintendent of Police m the Singapore District Court yesterday, when two young:
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  • 187 5 AN ENGLISH-speaking Indian, John Ldwara, was charged hi the Singapore fifth court yesterday wita cheating six Chinese women oi various sums of mone> oy dishonestly representing to tht m that he was collecting jnon.y for the War Fund. The uffenGfeC were said, to have lxcn committed
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  • 86 5 THE story of how 30 unsouuped letters were found by Customs officers, hidden m a large tin, part of the luggage of a Chinese who had just arrived m Singapore from China, was told m the Sirgajxr-e s rond court yesterday Forty-six-year-old Tiew Chun appeared
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  • 1103 5 CINGAPORE paid Sir Ong Siang 3 Song a final tribute yesterday when, as a token of the high regard and esteem m which he was held, he was accorded a funeral with full military honours. His coffin, swathed m a laxge Union Jack, on
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  • 196 5 "U7E helped m the air defence of Britain, and we are prepared to do the same for Malaya, should the occasion arise." An airmen. "We're ready to handle Singapore's biggest guns with the greatest confidence," A gunner. These two men were among the hundreds of
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  • 67 5 "MALAYAN Chinese are ft most ITI patriotic lot," declared Mr. Li I Neng-kern, Chinese Vice-Consul of Singapore, before he left for Rangoon. Thy have done excellently m raising funds for relief t ork m China and Great Britain, he added. Mr Li, who a 1 r.ved m
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  • 39 5 MR. LI YEN. Chinese Consul at Singapore, who is leaving soon for Chungking to assume a new post there, will be given a farewell party by the Cantonese Guild of Singapore on Oct. 12, it is learned.
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  • 217 5 Sequel To Accident In Woodlands A CHINESE lorry driver, Khoo Yong Cher, was fined $100 by the Traffic Judge, Mr C H. Whitton, yesterday for driving: his lorry m a negligent manner along Woodlands Road on Aug. 21. Originally, he faced a charge of causing the
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  • 51 5 |IM Ah Chui was charged m the Singapore third court ycs!rrday on two counts of 6t aling a bicycle r'ynprno ty longing to Abdul KacLr and K. N. Naina Mohamed respectively at Ocean Building m Collyer Quay on Monday. Lim plcadrd guilty to the charges. Sentence vms def"T-r»xi
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  • 410 6 London, Sept. 30. IN a messace to Czechoslovakia lost night, on the third anniversr.ry of the Munich agreement, Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, referred to the fact that "Hitler has now sent the Gestipo bulry Heydrich to crush by martial law the evergrowing res'stance of Czechoslovakia."
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  • 118 6 London. Sept 30. TTHE Dutch have found a new way to annoy the Nazis. They now •v*y It with bell*." A short time a?o. says a report m the Nazi-controlled Dutch paper AJgonen Hande'sblad. the rarillcn of S". S?rvp.tiu<; Church at Maastricht played continuously throughout the night
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  • 57 6 Melbourne, Sept. UO. A RRANGEMENTS have been made for immediate manufacture of 1.000 to 1,500 Austra-lian-designed Owen sub-ma-chineguns, announced Senator P. A. M. Mcßride, Minister of \!unitions, to-day. The defence authorities say the ftm, which waa Miccessfully tested yesterday, has features which have been sought for many
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  • 221 6 London, Sept. 29. THE failure of Nazi propaganda and pressure to evoke any practical enthusiasm for Germany's war against Russia, euher m countries like Rumania and Bulgaria which she virtually controls or m other European countries on which, for geographical ur political reasuns, she is
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  • 382 6 London, Sept. 30. HEAVY bombing by the R.A.F. of dozen Italian towns and passage of an important British convoy through the Sicilian nanows with comparatively trifling loss will come as a fresh reminder that Italy is as impotent against Britain by air as by sea, says the Daily
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  • 170 6 Lor>"->n. Sept. St. BRITISH prisoners of war m Germany and 503 chaplains and medial services personnel wUI probably be repatriated next month. ba Ss was announced by Mr Duncan Sandys. financial secretary to the War Office In a broadcast last night The repatriation will be
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  • 136 6 London, S*pt. 3K PRESIDENT Roosevelt's persoral re 1 presentative to the Vatican, Mr. Myron Taylor. Mt for the Un'tPd States yesterday. Before he left he conferred with the* American Ambassador. Mr. John Winant,. and the American Minister to Eire, ISr. David Gray, rim arrived unexpectedly from
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  • 65 6 Tientsin Sept. 20 A GRADUAL relaxation of tie Jan? n e c freezing rfguir-.tions is yhown by the American Consulate's export 1 flguril which will be pub ish^d next vrek Am^ricrn exnorts between Sept. 1 and 25 totalled G&60O.O00 comnaroi with Gs2O A .o^ m the mcn.h
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  • 106 6 Lusaka, Xihern R\od<- m. Sep. 30. THE product In of ■■BUloai |MN is progressing rapidly, aid the first consignment acrep-'d by '^.c Sou Rhodesia war supplies c^niriiifp», ha*; been o>-cr;b i as beins of 100 per ant. quality. It is hoped more mines will seen mike nun >ions,
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  • 133 6 New York, Sept 29. INFORMATION regarding British shipping was broadcast for Germany over a secret raaio ■Jilrm. according to a statement at the can- tinucd hearing of the espionage trial In Now York to-day. The statement quoted Axel WheelorHill, one of the 16 c'ef^ndarits,
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  • 201 6 "AMERICA CAN GUIDE WORLD TO PEACE" Vichy, Sept. 30. j AMERICA has power to guide r the world to pea:: or to an I inter-continental war, decbred Marshal Petain m an exclusive interview with the United Press. 'If it i«? toward pea?e, France win follow with all h r heart
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  • 145 6 SPEAKING at a banquet v he gave last night m hoof the Govern* r of th-» P-, Sir Bertrand Olancy. a net Glancy Sir Sikandar Hyat X!; Premier of the Pur, ib. mid the war was coming nearer I and. but for th^ mairni^-^rt Russian stand and
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  • 248 6 Li) it. lon, S r> the Oenam Epokeanaas 1 mir.« that tho rapture c nir.srrod mn y be Projected br? t i md of next week is r^ro as mere vUhful thinking. culatod to impress the public with the precision o "vi^toiious advance" of the
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  • 38 6 BRITISH STUDY OF INDIAN METHODS R. COUP 111 ItSlcw rf n-j 1 -;j c'] '->rror<» the ;ir tor J prmcdeal md c. inn- undertakvA, fir tii" c of '«hn dc opment of ins i.uti* n5 m Inc.a Reuter
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  • 120 7 London, Sept. 29. T"OLLOW.NO an agreement under which at least one and a half million Potas m Soviet territory will be f r?jst?d full relipious fr^dom. It was •tnted m p->l!sh circles h^re to-day that t^e Soviet Governzrent will return church iKT.perlv to role*; and, where ti
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  • 42 7 Cairo. Sept. 30? •f*!i£ i' Jt .v/Wing official ccmmuni- f<re was issued here to-day: A. heavy dust storm ypsteiday hampered our gene. c°tivi;y outside the perimeter res. "In the frontier area our itr )ls cor* tinp'id t^<^in r "iessiv^ l Reuter
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  • 35 7 Bombay, Sept. 30. A FURTHER sum o* £10.000 has ~>een remitted by the Bombay War Gifts Funds to the Air M' libtry for the pure v i se of a fighter aircraft for the PA
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  • 20 7 Voluntary Red Cro->s workers m Singapore visit patients m A military hospital as part of their "duties."
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  • 298 7 London, Sept. 30. HOCUMENTARY evidence of the plans of the Vichy Government to mislead French public opinion is contained m a selection of daily orders issued to the press m unoccupied France by Adm. Darlan. These have fallen Into the hands of General de Gaulllc's
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  • 316 7 NO TURKISH CHROME FOR REICH Ankara, Sept. 30. THE Turkish Foreign M nister, M. Sarajoglu, has innrm?d the German Ambassrdor, jYanz vrn Papen, and the German economics exrert. Dr. Clodius. that Turkey will not sunply G«rmrny with chrome, an authoritative source revealed here to-day. The sgnature of a trade pact
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  • 79 7 THE second of the two twin--1 engined aircraft reported missing on Monday night has been found, announced the Singapore station kist night. The announcement stated that the first machine had been located earli3r. The crews of both machines are safe. The announcement broadcast on Monday night stated two
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  • 738 7 Cable News For A.I.F. Melbourne, Sept. ;!0. THE Minister tor Aircraft pro- ducacn, Senator Leckie has announced that the Australian aircraft production programme provides for torpedo carrying Beaiuorts and Wirraways, at least, to t\\e end of 1943. Maximum production of twinrow Wasp engines will bs reached with
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  • 1450 7  - "Gratitude Letters" From London To Women In Malaya MARY HEATHCOTT By IT is always pleasant to know that your gifts are appreciated. The women m Singapore who spend so much time and thought making the clothes and comforts which are sent Home to the Services and to air raid victims,
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  • 94 7 HOW TO ENTERTAIN SERVICEMEN I V7ALAYx\N residents v.iio v....a to eatortain men of the Sentcea but co I not know quit^ how to get abr t it. u;ll find may useful sugg stiooß, cv liiblp for clubs as wsil as private hoam, m a pamphlH entJtled "Our Gucsto. the Servic
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  • 72 7 London, Sept. 30. A PEW enemy aircraft flew over this country last night and the little activity was mainly restricted to the eastern coastal districts of England and Scotland, says an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique. Bombs were dropped by single enemy aircraft at
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  • 42 7 Washington, Sept 30. REPRESENTATIVE Andrew May today intrrdueed a bill m the House of Representatives authorizing the appropriation of funds to the Civilian Defence Director for adequate protection of United Stales territories and possessions against bombing attacks. United Press
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  • 62 7 THE ban on the return of children over the age of ten ye*** from AustitLia for the holidays has been lifted, it is officially announced. New regulations will be published shortly. This action by Govrnznent follows agitr.tiou by parents m Malaya that children schooling m Australia should
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  • 35 7 Delhi, Sept. 30. DEFENCE bonds to the value of Rs. 236,000 were purchased by several prominent citizens and merchants of Delhi this afternoor. or the occasion of the Chief Comrrissioner's visit to the Ramleela grounds.
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    • 545 7 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS DOMESTIC OCCURRENCE DEATH Mrs. Regina Wee Cheng Scon vassed away peacefully at 5.30 am. on Sept 30. 1941, at 425 paslr Paniang Road. She leaves r^hind to mourn her loss, her husband Mr. Wee Cheng Soon, a ion and daughter-in-law, Mr. »nd Mrs. Wee Peng Leng, four daughters
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    • 210 7 Rr Hktec^ jffi K$ tf ml li %>. ...v^kt. Jo*, YOUR SKIM MUST "BREATHE" TO STAY BEAUTIFUL To keep your skin beautifully the merest trace will stop smooth, soft and clear, it is shine and keep your compVxion important to use a face powder fresh and petal smooi'i far that
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  • 338 8 TWO-NIL VICTORY IN CUP SOCCER GAME Indian Association 2; Chinese Athleetic Juniors 0. FOLLOWING up their victt^y over the Airport on Sunday, the Indian Association yesterday cleared another hurdle m the S.A.F.A. Challenge Cup competition, beating the Chinese Athletic Juniors two-nil m a preliminary round
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  • 305 8 NOVA THRASHED IN MAD ONSLAUGHT New York, Sept. 20. JOE LOUIS retained his .vorld heavyweight championship, beatinz Lou Nova by a technical knockout m the sixth round of their 15--round bout at the Poio <» rounds last ni-ht (Monday). Punished to the verge of insensibility with
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  • 86 8 THE following will be the Windsors' hockey team to meet St. Joseph's on Friday: J. Basil: Seng Hood Soo, Heng Teng Kwee: H. Klass, T. de Silva, Quek Kok Chua: Song Hood Poh, G. Pennefather. R. d: Rosario. L. Delekan, Tan Wee Hock. Umpire A. de Rosario. Windsors
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  • 37 8 lIWE Combined R.A.S.C. and R.IAS.C. 1 beat the Khalsa Association by one goal to nil m a hockey rratch played at Khaba ground yesterday. The winners' goal was scored by Edgelcy to the second half.
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  • 123 8 Melbourne, Sept. 30. South Australia: League finalNorwood, 9—16 (70) defeated West Adelaide, 6—9 (45). A Grade baseball final, Goodwood (9) defeated West Torrens (2). New South Wales: National code— Eastern Suburbs, 7—lo (52) defeated South Sydney, B—3 (51)). Rugby League:— Nawtown (19) defeated Eastern Suburbs (16). Soccer:— Leichhardt
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  • 55 8 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Challenge Cup, preliminary round, R.A.F. (Seletar) Reserves vs. R.A.F. (Kalians), Anson Road stadium. Hockey: Medical College vs. Raffles Institution, M.C.U.; A.C.S. Old Boys Association vs. St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association, Woods ville: S.R.C. "A" vs. V.M.C.A., S.R.C.; Indian General Hospital vs. A.P.C., A.P.C. Tennis: Autumn
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  • 503 8 BUT M.C.U. WERE GALLANT LOSERS R.E. (P. 8.) :>3 M.C.U. pROSSI^G over no less than seven times, the R.E. (Pulau Brani) beat the Medical College Union Rugby fifteen by 23 points (one goal and s>ix tries) to six (one try and a penalty goal) m
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  • 135 8 SPECULATION is rife as to whether the Royal Air Force will remain champions for another year m the first division of the Singapore Amateur Football Association's league competition, or whether the honour will go to the Straits Chinese Football Associaticn. Both teams have finished the series
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  • 61 8 r[E following will play hockey for the A.C.S. Old Boys against the St. Andrew's Old Boys at Woods ville at 5.13 p.m. to-day: Wong Tong Seng. Cetil Wong, Gan Kee Siang, Cheong Thiam Slew. J. Day, Ong Swee Keng, W. Dana, W. J. Doraisamy. jSwee Lim Swang,
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  • 54 8 THE following will represent the Singapore Recreation Club "A" team m a hockey ma.'eh against the V.M.C.A. on the padang at 5 p.m. to-day: S. Rodrigues: R. H. Barth (capt.), M. Madder; R. S. Barth, L. S. Reutens, G. ClarkeR. Thoy, R. Barker, R. Jansen. J. G.
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  • 32 8 Tokio, Sept. 30. JHE nationwide air defence drill for ten days beginning on Oct. 12 will be extended four days m the Tokio prefecture only, the Home Ministry announced to-day United Press
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  • 935 8 PRESENT STANDARDS MUST BE SACRIFICED WE must do with much less; we must spend less. Some of our standards must be sacrificed—our standards of entertainment, hospitality, presents, dress, service, housing, transport, food and drink, even some of the things that we consider necessary
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  • 176 8 fFHE following are the results of ties played yesterday m the S.C.C. autumn tennis tournament: Men's Singles Handicap: Capt. E. CT>. Thomas (—2) beat J. T. Chester (—4) 6—3. B—6. 6—2. Mixed Doubles: S. C. Woolmer and Mrs. Rowley-Conwy beat Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ward 4, 6—2.
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  • 79 8 Shanghai, Sept. 30. *PHE trade rights of United States nationals m China depend on the outcome of tho current Japanese- American negotiatons, the Japanese embassy SDokesman intimated here to-day, when he said the present Japanese-Nanking freezing regulations would be extremely elastic subject to a day-to-day change
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  • 249 8 S.C.R.C. 4; Post Office 1. SUPERIOR m speed and stickwork, the S.C.R.C. ran out comfortable winners by four goals to one m their hockey match against the Post Office at the Hong Urn Green yesterday. Neat concerted efforts and a solid defence gave the Chinese their
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  • 107 8 On the French frontier, Sept. 30. AN official Rome annouueement says that Sunday night's R A. F. raids on ten lUIUn cities caused a great sensation throughout Italy, according to news reaching here from Milan. The Italians are impressed by the growing strength of the R.A.F.
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  • 250 8 London, Sept. 30. THE British people aie ready for 1 radical measures to speed-up help to Russia, declares thi Manchester Guardian, m an editorial urging the Government to realize this fact when Parliament next meets. The newspaper says: "If, as we all hope, we are
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  • 41 8 T I HE final of the Royal Singapore Golf Club's championship between M. M. Paterson and Dr. E. Laidlaw Thompson has been postponed from this Sunday to the following Sunday. Oct. 12. The match will start at 8.45 a.m.
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  • 35 8 ST. Andrew's School b°at Victoria School by 15 points (two gals, a try and a renalty gOftl) to nil m a Rubgy match n]-vcd "t Wbodsrllle yesterday. Mr. H. C. R. Rendle refereed
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  • 196 8 Chungking, Sept. 30. A TELEPHONE message direct from Changsha this morning states that the Chinese are s':li holding intact tbeir line nortnward of the city. The message adds that a desperate battle is rngin? on pH irrnts. the outcome of which *iil determine the fate of
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  • 77 8 I.R. A Men Planned Tunnel Escape London, Sept. 30 IT is learned to-day that thr-e members of the Irish P publican Army. dHain^d ?t th? internment camp at P*el, Id? of Man, were arrested yesterday. It is alleged they were con e»ned m the ccnstruciicn of a tunn 1 through
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  • 67 8 Peipinp. Sept. 3C. THHIS morning's Toa Shlmjo 1 withdrew thr tcmrr !<wu urtir't direr t d again t Mrs Aiko Cltrltt, as 'net fully .n ajvCrdrnre w h the facts" snd rejrevted the staf ments made m the arttcle were of a nature calculated to
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  • 79 8 Batavia, S^pt ANE of the new industries tsi&blis; °d m the Netherlands Indies af r the invas-on of the Ntth rlands diamond -cutting A facujry was cpf-r ed six months ago at Bandoeng by a well-known family of d.amond cut. from the Antwerp. Amsterdam i Holland and Antw
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  • 73 8 Rome, Sept. 30. THE Council of Ministers ende w its session at 12.30 a.m. to-day and announced it had decided to impose a wine tax of 25 lire per 100 litres sold, the application or which will be announced later. The Council defined the limit of consumption
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