The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 4 October 1941

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press AMD DAILY NEWS NO 16,430. ESTD. 1835. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, .941. S CENTS
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  • 453 1 MANILA PARLEYS ON CHINA"— C.-in-C. interview On Arrival For Important Talks CONFERS WITH U.S. COMMANDER IN FAR EAST Manila, Oct. 3. -TIIK Japanese will be correct in assuming that one objective oi' the Manila conference is to reate complete co-ordination between Great Britain mi the Inited States with regard to
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  • 95 1 Tokio, Oct. 3. "IN order to check subversive activities by foreign nations and to prevent leakage of information inimical to national defence and the futhering of propaganda activities of third nations," the Japanese Government will promulgate an Imperial ordinance subjecting all mail matter, including first class mail destined
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  • 580 1 "Gigantic Operations That Will Smash East Front"— Hitler Berlin, Oct. 3. s% A NEW phase has begun. In the past 48 hours there have been operations of a gigantic shaoe that will smash the East Front. The enemy is already beaten and will never lift his head again/' declared Hitler
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  • 48 1 London, Oct. 3. MR. Drexel Biddle, United States Ambassador to the Allied Governments, was received in audience to-day by King Peter of Yugoslavia, presenting his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. King Peter later received M. Bogomolov, Soviet Minister to Yugoslavia, who also presented his credentials.- Reuter
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  • 185 1 THE Japanese have made a new grab in Indo-China. French sources report that the Japanese military have now seized all warehouses, buildings and stores near the docks at Saigon, the M.B.C. said last night. The premises are privately owned and practically every large French commercial
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  • 282 1 Beaver brook Harriman Forced To Dine In Subway Moscow. Oct. 3. JkJH Averell Harriman and Ix)rri Beaverbook, leaders of the American and British missions to the Moscow discussions, sat down to dinner last night and had finished the first course of caviar, then sour cream rolled in blany, or Russian
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  • 604 1 Cabinet's Defeat In Labour Motion Vote Canberra, Oct. 3. THE Australian Cabinet headed by Mr. A. W. Fadden has resigned and Mr. John Curtin, Labour leader, has accepted the task of forming: a new Government, reports United Press. The Fadden Government was defeated
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  • 88 1 VS. FREE FRANCE Brazzaville. (Fr. Eq. Africa), Oct. 3. THE United States mission arrived at Pointe Noire yesterday morning and is expected to arrive here to-day. The mission, headed by Col Harry Francis Cunningham of the United States Army General Staff, includes Fleet Air Arm Commander Mitchell and Mr. Lawrence
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  • 39 1 Petain Commutes Death Sentence On Colette Vichy, Oct. 3. MARSHAL Petain has cum. muted the death sentence passed yesterday on Paul Colette by a special French court for the shooting of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat. French Quislings Reuter
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  • 76 1 Washington. Oct. 3. DRESIDENT Roosevelt reveal- ed to-day that he had asked Mr. Averell Harriman, while in Moscow as leader of the American mission to raise the question of religious freedom in Russia. Pending the return of Mr. Taylor, President Roosevelt said he preferred not to say
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  • 98 1 Tok*, Oct. GOVERNMENT officials refuse to confirm or deny reports of a Japanese protest to the Irananian Government against the suspension of diplomatic privileges of the Japanese legation in Teheran. Japanese officials even refuse to admit that diplomatic privi-* leges have been suspended, pending an
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  • 13 1 Washington, Oct. 3. rIE iormer Judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Louif Reuter
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    • 83 1 SUPPORT MALAYAN PPvODUCE DRINK BIGIA TEA RAFFLES HOTEL TODAYS POPULAR TIFFIN-TIME RENDEZVOUS LUNCH IN THE BALLROOM GRILL RIJSTAFFEL served from 12.30t0 2.30p.m. ORCHESTRAL CONCERT "to"- "night SPECIAL DINNER DANCE (formal) 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. NEW CABARET ATTRACTION ROSALIE LOUIS VMERIC AN BALLROOM AND ACROBATIC DANCERS BOOK YOUF TABLE SSnfrs°si.oo_
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    • 131 1 FOR QUALITY AND ECONOMY DRINK BIGIA TEA sea View HOTEL TO-NIOHT I ROMANTIC NIGHT DINNER SERVED ON THE MOONLIT LAWK DANCING IN THE BALL-ROOM MUSIC BY RELLER S BAND DINNER $3.— NO AFTER DINNER ADMISSION CHARGE EXTENSION TO 1 A.M. SUNDAY MORNING 11 A.M. 1 P.M. POPULAR COHCIiI BY HELLER'S
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  • 319 2 Teheran, Oct. 3. 'THE Iranian transport organiza- tion is already capable of dealing with t*ice its former capacity and thousands of tons ot war materials have been delivered to Russia. This has been achieved within a month by the staff of British
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  • 54 2 MR. Alfred Duff Cooper, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who is on a special mission to the Far East on behalf of the War Cabinet, will be leaving for India at the end of this week. After a brief discussion with the Viceroy, Lord linlithgow,
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  • 86 2 TO-DAY: Noon fby Clipper) to Canada, Newfoundland, United States. Central and South A ™l£a.«\ d West Indies; Europe: the Philippines. Guam and Hawaii. At 12.30 .p.m. O>y air) to Aden. Africa. Australia, Burma Ceylon. Efcypt, Great Britain J™"*Java. Mauritius, New Zealand, Medan. Pal*mbang and Thailand. Clipper mails
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    • 205 2 HAVE YOU MET jL JOHN DOE YET? im^ltm TO-DAY 4 SHOWS PA I RONS ARE RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED TO COLLECT UNPAID RESERVATIONS BEFORE 9.15 P.M. OTHERWISE THEY ARE LIABLE TO BE SOLD. FREE LIST STRICTLY SUSPENDED Three reasons why "MEET JOHN DOE" i3 the f>«st picture produced in 1941! g J
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    • 163 2 rB Khalsa Association beat the SRC. second team 07 two goals to one at hockey on tUe padang yesday. THE ONLY WORD THAT DESCRIBES IT ACCURATELY IS 'GREAT/ GO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF, YOU WONT REGRET IT, j |4 SHOWS PAVILION V s 5 and 9.15 p.m. ADDED t( D
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    • 238 2 ROBERT MONTGOMERY IN HIS GREATEST ROUE CO-STARRED I with INGRID BE :iGMAM... famous FOR HER ROLE IN WAM HAD 4 SOUS"— 11 3.15, 6.15 9.1S I CAPITOL 4 SHOWS TO DAY A Grand I iJD^D^DI D^Dbld^^' n* k^l C W I A Metro-Gold wyn- 1 r Mayer Triumph CHIPS' tobeft
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  • 397 3 Nazi C.-in-C/s Appeal For Reinforcements London, Oct. 3. IT is authoritatively stated in London that it lis known the German thrust towards Kharkov is meeting with fierce counter-attacks. Similarly, down the Perekop Isthmus, the Germans are being counter-attacked and have failed to reach the Crimean
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  • 273 3 °yTE TO SIKHS in Simla, Oct. 3. iyi\ Sikhs are the grandest m fighters In the world. I lac it my company agains; a Jatt^ion of tne Germans' best." This tribute was paid to his fneu by the commander of a company of Sikhs belonging
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  • 119 3 Chungking. Oct. 3. THK Chinese Foreign Office today announced that M. P. fet, Counsellor to the French issy, called on the Vlce,;n Minister. Mr. P. C. Fu r lay and conveyed Vichy's .-esrefs for the incident at Hanoi 3; -6 :v v .\--n Um Chinese Jonsulate-General
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  • 52 3 London, Oct. 3. D« SBIA hai offered to sell oil nd gasoline to Turkey, ackng to Exchange Telegraph r:m Ankara. la not known what. Russia return but the offer is ■fedmd to be chiefly a gesture MXlWffl prcvioiLjiv made I oil 'rrtn Rlli»ifl whl 'h d
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  • 59 3 Rome, Oct. 3. C '*s. potatoes, cheese, milk and dried vegetables such as oeans. lentils and split peas will oon be rationed in Italy, according to an official announcement Ay. Meanwhile, the Stefani news is*ncy says ration cards for fats, and soap can be used for -hese products
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  • 33 3 Berne, Oct. 3. A ding to information rcct.ed by the Federal GotJr*ment, modus vivendi regardne release of Swiss assets in toe United Static t< t^ h» «»T«?ut- United Press
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  • 133 3 Biggest Raid For Months On Britain London, Oct. 3. oi anti-aircraft guns blazed for hours during the night along the 550 miles stretch of the eastern and south-eastern coasts of England and Scotland against German planes which, taking advantage of the brilliant moon, made the greatest raid for five months.
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  • 75 3 London, Oct. 3. AXIS quarters in Ankara are spreading reports of an impending Italo-German attack on Libya, according to Exchange Telegraph. Coupled with reports of an imminent new German offensive on the Russian front, the rumours are regarded as German propaganda to cause confusion. Informed
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  • 69 3 Manila, Oct. 3. THE striking R.C-A radio operators have returned to work on the orders of Judge Vicente de la Crux of the Court of Industrial Relations. A preliminary conference in an effort to negotiate the dispute between the Philippines radio and Telegraph Workers Union and the
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  • 40 3 Moscow, Oct. 3 TWO German planes were brought down during a German attempt to raid Moscow last night, according to the Moscow radio. Anti-aircraft Hre and night fighters prevented the German planes from reaching the capital. Reuter
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  • 110 3 Japanese Strength In Manchukuo Is Doubled yyiTHIN the past three months the Japanese have approximately doubled the strength of their garrison >n Manchukuo, according to authoritative quarters here, who added that this does not necissarily mean they intend an immediate attack on Russia. They suggest the concentration may be designed
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  • 127 3 NAI PHOL, the Thai lightweight, enhanced his reputation at the Happy World stadium last night when he decisively outpointed Speedy Hassan. the Penang lightweight champion, over ten gruelling rounds in a programme staged in aid of flv Churchill Tank Fund. Phol weighed 9st. 8?ilb. and Hassan 9st.
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  • 126 3 Summit, New Jersey, Oct. 3. TREDDIE Cochrane, the world I welterweight champion, is reported to have received an offer of £10,000 to defend his title against Ernie Roderick, the British champion. Both Cochrane and Willie Giltenburg, his manager, are willing to accept for a date
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  • 13 3 ACTING sub- lieutenants Maurice Goldstone, Edward le Gresley Partridge, Peter Diclcson. Alexander
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  • 218 3 London, Oct. S. TOE truce lor the exchange of British and German wounded prisoners will extend from before sunrise to an hour after darkness, reports United Press. It is planned to carry out the operation entirely in daylight or as close thereto as
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  • 442 3 Vich^, Oct. 3. TERRORISTS dynamited six synagogues in Paris between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. to-day, when two people were wounded. An attempt to dynamite a seventh synagogue was frustrated. The attacks were apparently made by the same gang going from one :>f the synagogues tc
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  • 110 3 Nazi Warships At Brest Bombed London, Oct. 3. AN Air Ministry communique states: "Last night a small force v of heavy bombers attacked docks at Brest where the German warships are still lying. •'Aircraft of the Coastal Command bombed docks and shipyards at St. Nazaire. •'Fighter aircraft on offensive patrol
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  • 141 3 Chungking:. Oct. 3. CELEBRATIONS of the Changsha victory are being held in all important cities in free China, while congratulatory telegrams are pouring into Gen. Hsueh Yo from the whole country. Chinese reports say the Milo river was strewn with Japanese dead, destroyed tanks and drowned
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  • 63 3 Tokio, Oct. 3. THE Japanese Government has protested to Iran against the suspension of Japanese diplomatic privileges in Teheran. According to the Dome! agency, informed quarters regard the Iranian action as proof of "AngloSoviet enmity towards Japan." Dome! recalls the British accusation that the Japanese embassy
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  • 72 3 Bangkok, Oct. 3. REFERRING to a recent Tokk> newspaper suggestion that the British authorities in Thailand are spending large sums of money on Press and film propaganda, the Thai newspaper Nikorn makes an outright repudiation of the insinuation that the British Government is subsidizing the Thai
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  • 138 3 Ankara, Oct. 3. DESPITE the severest penalties for listening to British radio transmissions, these are very popular in Yugoslavia, according to a neutral from that country, who states everyone tries to listen to London, those succeeding then going to cafes to repeat the
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  • 248 3 Tokio, Oct. 3. THE Government spokesman, says Router, declared Lat to-day's Press conference that the possible sale of Netherlands Indies oil and other good* in large quantities to the Soviet would be interpreted by Japan as an unfriendly act. This statement was
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  • 55 3 Moscow. Ocl 3. A MEMORANDUM embodying the final conclusions reached by the six commitees of the tri -power conference vas signed in the Kremlin by the heads of the three delegations, M. Molotov, Mr. Averell Harrixnan and Lord Beaverbrook, this afternoon. Later the delegations visited Lenin's tomb as guests of
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  • 141 3 Nippon Submarine Sinks Following Collision Tokio, Oct. 1. rpHE Japanese submarine I-*l sank last night after a collision with a surface craft during manoeuvres off Kyushu, southwestern Japan, says an official announcement by the Japanese Navy Ministry to-day A part of the submarine s crew was rescued and efforts are
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  • 53 3 Tokio, Oct. A total of 32 persons are missing from the Japanese steamer Chogan Maru, which capsized and sank off Nagasaki on Tuesday the Kokumin Shimbun reports from Nagasaki. Rescue work was difficult because of the rough seas, but it will be resumed when the
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  • 1086 4 THE Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1941. A.I.F. In Malaya POM time to time, reports have appeared in sections of the Australian Press seeking to show that the A.I.F. in Malaya are dissatisfied. These reports are doubtless published in, good faith with the intention of helping to remedy the
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  • 249 4 T^HE statement made yester--1 day by Mr. V. G. Bowden regarding his post as Official Representative of the Commonwealth Government shows that Australia has at last accepted full responsibility for participating on the spot in the political and semi-diplo-matic activities now centred in Singapore, Mr. Bowden will
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  • 232 4 Social Reform In Australia A NEW CHARTER ANEW charter of widespread social reform is envisaged in the comprehensive interim report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Social Security, prenated to the Australian House of Representatives by the committee's chairman, Mr. J. A. Perkins. Post-war unemployment, generous pension provision for invalids,
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  • 98 4 Berlin, Oct. 3. rE Deutsche Zeitung, published in the Netherlands, carried in yesterday's issue the German military commander's announcement that four people had been sentenced to death and shot. Three of them were charged as ringleaders of a sabotage and espionage organization. The fourth was sentenced
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  • 42 4 Shanghai. Oct. 3. THEIR business In the Philippines suspended as a result of the recent United States freezing orders. 197 Japanese merchants and businessmen arrived in Shanghai from Manila. The evacuees are reported to be planning to return Japan.— Reuter
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  • 695 4 I>HE criticism of Britain's war strategy, and her lack of active assistance to Russia, which has appeared recently in the British Press, is crystallised in the "New Statesman." Attacking the staggering complacency which many officials show about the situation, it remarks The implications would seem to be that we
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  • 812 4 A Correspondent) MR. Winston Churchill, in his speech on Tuesday, referred to the satisfactory progress of the war at sea. Our losses have been reduced in the last three months to one-third of what they were in the April-June quarter; enemy lesses of shipping have
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  • 449 5 4 'Madhouse Experience" Over North Sea MALAYAN-TRAINED Sergeant Pilot P. S. Kendall, who is now with the R.A.P. in England, has to his credit a Heinkel. This news has just reached Singapore from the trilot himself, who also writes of the others who had their
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  • 178 5 ADMITTING that he had absent- ed himself from duty for three < weeks and had no intention of returning, Chan Peng Yong, a stretcher-bearer employed in the Auxiliary Medical Depot, was yesterday sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment in the j S-ngapore third court for absenting himself
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  • 180 5 (Special Cable) London, Oct. 3. rriHE foreign editor of the Daily Jl Herald gives some details of Nazi propagandists in the Far East. Fritz Wiedemann, who has been ejected by every State in the Western Hemisphere, on account of his subversive activities in the United
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  • 40 5 pHRISTMAS Day, New Years day and Chinese New Year's day. will be observed as holidays in the Harbour Board. No work will be undertaken except on payment of additional fees and provided special arrangements are made long beforehand.
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  • 81 5 pOUPLES courting in dark places are liable to being victims of such offences," said Mr. F N. Griffith- Janes, DP P.. in the Court of Criminal Appeal, yesterday, when he opposed an appeal by a young Chinese who had been sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment for rosbing
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  • 60 5 JtfOTICE of appeal was lodged by Mr. A. J. Brmga counsel far Lee San<? Chuah who was sentenced to five months' rigorous imprisoriment in the •Sicjapore third court yesterday, after he was convicted of assisting in carry on a chap-je?-kee lottery In Lavender Street on the Aight of
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  • 64 5 Simla, Oct. 2. THE Viceroy has allotted Rs. 32,000 from the recent gift of five lakhs of rupees from the Ma ha rajah ot Mysore for the club for Indian troops in Singapore. Funds have also been raised from the Indian community in Malaya, and
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  • 100 5 SENTENCE TO STAND "*FHE appellant was one of three men who bound and robbed a woman in an attap hut off Balestier Road," said Mr. E. N. Griffith-Jones. DPP., in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. Mr Griffith -Jones was opposing against sentence of three years'
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  • 114 5 AJOHORE Gazette announcement states that the Postma^Ur-Grneral will, at his discretion, make allowance for unused postage stamps, whether affixed to any material or not. and for postage stamps that have been inadvertently spoilt or rendered unfit for use. Wh^re applications for such allowance are made, the value of
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  • 74 5 APPEALING against sentence of four years' rigorous imprisonment, a young Indian, Ramasamy Balakrishna. stood in the dock in the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday with tears running down his cheeks. He had no counsel and pleaded for a reduction of sentence. Mr. E. N. Griffith-Jones, D.P.K, said that
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  • 74 5 DOLICE bail was extended in the case of Joseph Tan when he claimed trial in the Singapore third court yesterday on a charge alleging that he cheated a Customs officer en Aug. 11 by falsely representing that he had not been dismissed from the service of any Government
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  • 73 5 I*HE flowing have been appointed Kathis for the Settlement of Singapore: Haji All bin Haji Mohamed Salleh (Chief Kathi). Abdul Rahman bin Omar, Haji Ismail bin Haji Abdul Rahman Imam Sheik Hussaln bin Abdul Rahman Alkalib, Sheik Osman bin Omar. Haji All bin Haji Slayman, Mohamed Sahib bin
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  • 32 5 T"HE Police band will pllay at the Botanic Gardens to-morrow at 8.30 D.m. at Katong Park on Tuesday at 5.30 P-m. a*"* P* Fairer Park on Thursday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 41 5 King Peter of Yugoslavia inspecting a Guard of Honour from a Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment whe n he accompanied Mr. Winston Churchill on a tour of the defences o f the South -East coast of England.
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  • 358 5 AN Indian labourer Manikam is to hang as a result of an unsuccessful appeal made by him before .he Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. Outlining the facts of the case as adduced by the prosecution, before arguing the appeal, Mr. K P. K.
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  • 460 5 CULL sen-ice honours, with the Manchester Regiment providing the mourning and firing parties, and officers acting as pall -bearers, were accorded the funeral in Singapore yesterday of Mr. W. A. Bates Goodall, J who. during the Boer War, served with the Regiment and
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  • 1252 5 •THAT transactions "of such a large nature and of such a speculative character" horrifled him was a comment made by Mr 'justice N. A. Worley in the Bankruptcy Court yesterday prior to granting the application of M. J. Nassim, a land, tin and rubber broker, for sanction
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  • 182 5 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE QOUTH Indian Muslims in hi laya, numbering about 30,00), now have their o\ n daily m paper. This is the Malaya Nantan, printed in 1 amil, which has been launched in Singapore this week The front pag of tin lruiuirural issue was attractively prinu-c.
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  • 171 5 APPEALING against MwHtfan *n4 sentence of seven years' rigorous imprisonment and three years' polioe supervision for misappropriating $30,000 worth of crepe rubber belonging to th« Bata Shoe Company, Mr S. C. Ooh« submitted in the court of criminal appeal yesterday that his client's case had not
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  • 777 5 "HOME, IMPERIAL DEFENCE NEEDS COME FIRST" AUSTRALIAN needs and Imperial defence requirement* must be served first, and if, as a result, merchants here find that Australia is sometimes unable to supply what they want, they must not be disappointed," declared Australia's official representative in Malaya, Mr. V. Gordon
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  • 1058 6  -  MARY HEATHCOTT B% A FTER its successful birthday concert last Sunday, the Musical Society goes into rehearsal on Monday for the next concert which will be given in December. Any instrumentalist of the requisite standard who is not yet a member but who would like to
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  • 69 6 MARKING the centenary of Brooic* 111 rule in Sarmirak. the Shell Group have offered to provide an Orthopa< die Hospital in Sarawak at a cost of £25,000 and to provide annually the sum of £3.000 fo rteri yean* for payment of medical staff. This gesture of the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 572 6 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT TENDERS SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenders Prnders are now invited for the following materials or ser-r vices. For particulars apply Municipal Tenders Room. Supply of Fuel (Coal or Oil) for St. James Power Station, during 1942. Date of Closing. 12 noon. Oct. 30. 1941. Supply of Lubricating Oils and Grease
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    • 712 6 TENDERS Tenders will be received up to noon on Oct. 31. 1941, at the Colonial Secretary's Office for the following services for the Department of H.M. Customs and Excise for a period of one year commencing from Jan 1. 1942: (1) Making cf copper pans, sizes and dimensions as desired
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    • 406 6 TENDERS Tenders will be received up to noon on Friday, Oct. 31, 1041, at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Singapore, the Resident Councillor's Office, Penang, and the Resident Councillor's Office, Malacca, from persons desirous of contracting for supplies for the Government at Singapore, Penang and Malacca, respectively, for a period of
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    • 329 6 SITUATION VACANT Stenographer, male, with experience of office indexing systems, able read and write Chinese, speeds shorthand 100, typing 50 words per minute. Salary $125 per month; temporary appointment. Apply in writing with full details of experience to Commissionei: of Police, Johore Bahra. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO OWNERS OF RUBBER
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    • 236 6 THE ROYAL IAftERY BAKES FINE BREAD ANO CARES v Entrust the mal'ing of you r trj*^ special Cake to the care and j[ -J 1 v^ N^^^^S^ i ll^" 1^ of our Master *!j&4 rvT*" 1 "/^yT Baker. Let him create bonv 1 fO« Vi i r thing unusual for
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  • 71 7 Ottawa, Oct. 3. FOURTEEN experts from among friendly aliens who were brought to Canada from Britain have done such valuable work for the munition industries that gun production at one point In Canada is seven months ahead of schedule, stated Lieut.-Col. R. Fordham, commissioner of refugee
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  • 28 7 London, O. t. 3. ALL of Moscow's radios went off the air at 905 p.m. yesterday and remained *ilen 4 until 9.40 pm- United Press
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  • 350 7 London, Oct. 2. TN a leading article headed "Towards Air Mastery" The x Times analyses the Prime Minister's recent House of Commons statement in wliich he said: "The enemy's only shortage is in the air." This, The Times states, conveyed sober encouragement to the nation;
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  • 240 7 London, Oct. 3. A WARM tribute to China's resistance and strategy is paid by The Times in an editorial on the "withdrawal from Changsha." It says one of the most striking revelations of the war against China is the power of an ill- rmed but morall.
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  • 191 7 Tientsin, Oct. 3. DESPITE widespread opposition among the local White Russians "White House" headquarters of the Japanese-sponsored Russian anti-Communist ccmmittee in Tientsin— is continuing the registration of young Russian emigrants for military training to fight th? Communists. The third batch comprising 81 White Russian men were
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  • 69 7 Los Angeles, Oct. 3. r T e HE newest version of Vultee Vanguard pursuit plane is now being manufactured in quantity for China. Several craft called P-66 have been completed and are ready for shipment. Vanguard planes had been on order for the R.A.F. but because
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  • 178 7 London, Oct. 2. REPORTS from Nairobi regarding the surrender of the Italian garrison of Wolchefit, holding a key position 50 miles north-east of Gondar, to the Imperial and patriot forces, show that the garrison numbered 71 Italian officers, 1,560 Italian troops and 1,300 African troops, and
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  • 24 7 Ankara, Oct. 3. IT is learned from high Turkish sources that a Turkish-German commercial agreement will probably be signed on Monday or Tuesday.- Reuter
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  • 315 7 London, Oct. 2. IN his Hcurc of Commons statemrnt on the focd situation the Parliamentary Secretary to tha Ministry of Food (Mr. G. Lloyd Georg?) said that rt one time shipping losses had becoms so serious that real anxi?iy was caused
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  • 334 7 London, Oct. 2. T*HE declaration of a state of emergency In six districts of the Czechoslovakian provinces of Eohemia and Moravia which, according to Prague radio last night, has now been extended to three more districts is the culmination of Czech resistance in every walk
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  • 212 7 Moscow Oct. 3. THHE revelatioij tnat heavy Ger- man guns have been transferred from France to Russia was made in a supplement to Uic midnight Russian communique, which states that this was learned from a large £.oup of Genran officers and soldiers who were recently transferred from
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  • 275 7 Washington, Oct. 2. A STATEMENT Issued from tin House to-night expre-se« the hope that an "entering wed^e" for the practice of complete freedom of religion in Russia was "deflnitc?y on the way." This statement follows an outburst of criticism aroused by President Roosevelt's assertion at
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    • 377 7 To-Day s Broadcasting SINGAPORE ZHP3 6.40 a.m. Opening announcement* ZHL 225m. 1.333 k es.; ZHPI in French; 6.45 News in French*; 20.96m. 9.69m cs.; ZIIP2 48.58m. 7.00 News commentary in French* 6.175m es.; ZHP3 41.38 m. 7.25 7.15 News in Mandarin; 7.30 News in m <*• English; 7.40 Malay music;
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  • 1463 8 Annie Rooney, Lisadln Best Bets To-day AIOUI ROONEY and Usadin appear to be the best bets at Kuala Lumpur to-day, the first day of the Selangor Turf Clnb's Autumn meeting. Ai. ic* Lvocncy seems to be back *omt it.? like her early form ;:ia SIM will find
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  • 113 8 SELECTIONS for to-day's race* ai Kmala Lumpur are: FREE PKESS Race 1: fUwt Lyne, Danae in Ventre. Race 2: Cumberland, Lepanto. Race 3: Kissing Cop. PharioL Race 4: Annie Rooney, Freedom. Race 5: Ltedin, Alanda. Race 6: Cool Court, Banco. Race 7: Tonroe, Counsel. Race 8: Pro Patria, Tale
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  • 506 8 Athletic Beaten By An Only Goal ySoS, by Boon aio^'tte on^'onHn* the ■game, enabied A the SDartans to hurdle their third obstacle in the SA-F^-ChallengeCup competition, when they met the Chinese Athletic at Anson Road stadium yesterday. ine ganie w«w ii*v^*wv— o fell below
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  • 152 8 Chinese Win Three-One S.C.B.C. Si *MC*' H The Y's equalize* shortly afterwards hockey was s«n soon after the restart, when the Ys worked hard for the lead. Thf Chfnese, however, forced ptay tn the opposite end where Kee Pow 2?5r second goal after flfe mlnUteS
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  • 864 8 rriHE fixtures ior the closed season i A football competition, which is being organized by Lt. Cook of the Portress Signals, will be announced very shortly complete wil-h all details. The response has been most satisfactory, and more teams than were Owtty arui"ip?.ted are competing. Enthusiasm and
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  • 516 8 Laureate Firm A.J.C. Derby Favourite TO-DAY'S AUSTRALIAN RACPG (From Our Australian Racing Correspondent) Sydney, Oct. TO-MORROW see3 the start of the big: spring meeting, which has lost little if any of iu peace-time popularity. The A. J. C. Derby candidate. Lauhis three-year-old colt's success. f**JmMf he were the only horse
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  • 276 8 League Championship Depends On Result TO-DAY'S piay-ofi at Road stadium between the Royal Air Force, the holders, ana the Straits Chinese Football A&sr.ciation to decide the chanv: ship in the first division of the S A F A league competition i should produce some of
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    • 69 8 Week-end Sports Events Soccer: S.AJ.A. Icacur. urst division play-off. RAF vv S I 4 Ans<»n Road stadium 5.15 f.as:by: S.C\<". v% Hiflilano Brigade. S.C.C.; Mrdk-al ViAUtr w Manchester*. ULC.T'. Hockey: S.R.C II v*. Air Headquarters U, SR.C: A.C.S: firsts v> Rl firsts, K.I ACS. sftcond> R.I. seconds. Oldham Hall. Kh*ls»
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