The Straits Budget, 17 March 1938

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  • The Straits Budget
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      “PEACE AT ANY PRICE.”
      847 2 .—Straits Times, Mar. 10. Since Mr. Anthony Eden’s resignation of the post of Foreign Secretary, a great deal has been heard from the Opposition in the House of Commons of Mr. Neville Chamberlain’s willingness to ‘truckle to the dictators,” to sacrifice anything or anybody to selfish
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      REGISTRATION OF TITLE TO LAND.
      816 2 benefit from it). —Straits Times. Mar. 11. The system of land tenure known as Registration of Title was first introduced into England by the Transfer of Land Act 1862, but met with a remarkably small measure of acceptance until 1925 when, in the light of
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      A FLEET FOR SINGAPORE.
      937 2 -Straits Tftnes, Mar. 12. Whether a fleet could be sent to Singapore in the event of war, or in other words whether the base could be used for the purpose for whicn ir was built, is a question which has been discussed throughout the world in
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      We Breathe Again!
      885 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 14. After a week-end in which the danger of a European war seemed so near that we felt it necessary to keep the Straits Times presses ready tc start up at a moment’s notice, tension is lessening once more Austria is now as completely
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      THE TIN PRODUCERS’ BOGEY MAN.
      792 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 15. If Congressman Samuel: Davis Mcßeynolds of Tennessee had his way. life would go hard with. the tin miners of this and other countries. It was Samuel D.. who presided over the sub-committee appointed by the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs in
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      Nirom’s Lead.
      892 4 Straits Times, Mar. 16. With most of what Mr. C. WardJackson said in his challenging speech at the annual meeting of the Malayan Amateur Radio Society last month there can only be hearty agreement. An all-Malayan approach to the broadcasting problem cannot be delayed much longer, and the
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    NEW MAGISTRATE HAS SERVED IN EGYPT.
    147 4 Mr. A.J. Grattan-Bellew Coming To Malaya. ONE OF JOINT EDITORS IN LEGAL WORK. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Mar. 15. A NEW magistrate for Malaya, Mr. A. J. Grattan-Bellew, was formerly with the Department of the Judicial Adviser to the Egyptian Government, relinquishing his
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    PASSENGERS IN HECTOR.
    404 4 THE following passengers for Colombo, Port Said and Europe left in the Hector yesterday Mr. and Mrs. K. Alderson Barron. Mrs. V Robinson, Mrs. K .W. Zainal. Mr. and Mrs. D. Keir, Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison, Mrs. Halcrow and child (six years), Lt.-Cdr. and Mrs Felton,
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  • NOTES Of The DAY.
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      Applicant.
      504 5 VVERE in a snippet from another ap- plication for the vacant post ot advertisement copy clerk advertised a week or two ago In the Straits Times The applicant is a Chinese. He says he has passed Junioi Cambridge, if this young man has passed Junior Cambridge, it woulc be
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      Accounts.
      154 5 N English bachelor decided cookie had been robbing him for long enough. “Cookie, I am coming to the market with you in a few days,” he to’d the son of Hainan. Cookie thought his leg was being pulled. But he looked bnhappy when his employer later made a date
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      Cosmopolites.
      73 5 of cooks, there are a number of Chinese cooks working ln Singapore bungalows who have seen service outside Asia. There is one who ran a laundry In Toronto, another who was in a cafe In New York and another who was a steward in the Dollar Line. Such fellows
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      Informal.
      105 5 'I'HAT English word Informal" has had the reporters on L’Opinion, Saigon's number one daily paper, troubled. On their way back to the China Station from the Navy’s big graving dock party at Singapore, a number of British destroyers are visiting Saigon There has been the usual round of get-togethers.
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      Lost Timepiece.
      50 5 JEWELLERS In a leading city block of flats who for years have told the time and checked their watches by the big clock sitting on top of the Victoria Memorial Hall, And as the new Supreme Court building sprouts skywards that their view is going to be blocked.
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      Rubbernecks.
      143 5 gINGAPORE in the next week or two will experience* three more mass visitations by round-the-world tourists The Cunard Line’s smart Franconia, which will be here early next week, was the first of the cruise, ships to leave New York this season, but the Empress of Britain beat her to
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      Pampered Travellers.
      78 5 A LTHOUGH these ocean cruises undoubtedly are popular, it is hard to imagine a serious traveller being content to have himself shepherded, expertly perhaps, from port to port. On the Empress of Britain, before each port was reached, a deck steward even had to erect on the sports
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      She Couldn’t Remember.
      82 5 HPHE boy behind the Empress of Bri- tain’s oddly-decorated Knickerbocker Bar just before that liner left Singapore was heard to ask a group of the brightest girls on board if they had liked Singapore. “We Just can’t (“a” as in “pant”) remember,” the lovelies replied. They told
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      Happy New Year.
      173 5 COMMENT on the changed nature or Chinese New Year celebrations in Malaya is made in the current issue of the Malayan Police Magazine. What would Douglas. Conlay or Hannlgan have said if they knew that over last Chinese New Year at least one CP.O. and an Officer
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      Emden Relic.
      123 5 A TREASURED museum piece in H.M.S. Birmingham, the China Squadron’s smart new 9000-ton cruiser which arrived at Singapore yesterday on her maiden commission, Is a drinking cup from the German raider Emden. It was a personal presentation from a British naval officer. Before Birmingham left Portsmouth, the Dally
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      Bell Scoop.
      171 5 OTILL fresh in the memory of Austra lian newspapermen is the Sydney Morning Herald’s celebrated Emden bell scoop. After the bell had disappeared overnight from a niche In the Australian War Museum in Sydney, newspapers throughout the Commonwealth fell over each other in suggesting its fate. There was
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      Fig Campaign.
      166 5 Fig Campaign IT is seldom that a newspaper subscription contest plays an important part in the development of a State’s agricultural progress. But from such a beginning may be traced the present prosperity of the Smyrna flg industry in California. This fact is revealed in a recent study by H.
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      Away From The Din.
      95 5 Away From The Din pASSINO through Singapore today Is a man who, out of hls own choice, has left the United Btates, the country of hls upbringing, to seek a quiet and peaceful life In Europe. He is Mr. A. M Stumer. 26 years old former Johns Hopkins student, who
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      Graceful Living.
      109 5 Graceful Living pEOPLE who find little satisfaction in the hurdy-gurdy, noisy, plea-sure-seeking atmosphere of modern United States or, for that matter, England, can find in the Scandinavian countries a type of existence offering less on the surface but much more underneath, Mr. Stumer thinks. Germany. somewhat less now than in
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      Valckenier.
      129 5 ISTORICALLY-MINDED passengers in K P.M. ships sometimes ask why, when the name of nearly every Governor-General of the Indies appears on a ship. Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier has been forgotten. Valckenler’s name appears on no ship because no Chinese passengers would travel on that vessel. Although the happiest relations now
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      Intrigue.
      111 5 Intrigue INDIGNATION in Holland was as great as that In China. Baron van ImhofT. who held under Valckenier a position roughly equivalent to that of the Colonial Secretary in the Straits Settlements, for years had been fostering Intrigue designed to undermine Valckenier’s prestige, here saw his big opportunity. After managing
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      Patents.
      118 5 Patents DATENTS were granted in America recently for such peculiar objects as rubber spats, a doughnut-shaped cake of bath soap on a cord round the user’s neck (to prevent escape and the subsequent slip which in turn might lead to a hospital bed), a talking motor horn carrying any desired
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      Bargain Meals.
      138 6 Bargain Meals IT is so much taken for granted in 1 Singapore that a good hotel meal cannot be bought for less than the equivalent of about 7s 6d. that it is gratifying to And that on a Danish shipping line trading to these parts a first-class dinner, well-up to
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      Thirsters.
      172 6 *J*HERE was much gnashing of teeth on the waterfront yesterday morning among the big crowd seeing off passengers in the Comorin. Reason: no drinks could be bought on board. The P. O. people say the new rules about the amount of liquor that can be sold on ships in
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      Children in the Tropics.
      204 6 Children in the Tropics r J*HE problem of physical decadence in third and fourth generation European children in tropical countries hardly has arisen, and may not arise In Malaya. There are fourth generation tropical Hollanders in Java, out the ‘‘problem” is never mentioned there and pehaps docs not exist. However.
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      Boer War Memories.
      181 6 Boer War Memories fF it were not for an occasional function like the Gordon Highlanders’ Ladysmith Ball, the Boer War would be almost forgotten in this part of the world. Survivors of that campaign are mostly above the age at which men leave Malaya. But there are a few Dutch
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      No More Crux.
      107 6 No More Crux 117ITH the return from leave of Anak Singapura, the time has come for Crux Australis to make from this column as graceful an exit as possible. Crux now will have the dally pleasure of gazing across the office at a worried-looking Anak, Angers poised above typewriter, conceiving
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      1628 6 IN a valedictory note on Saturday Crux pulled my leg about the racquet-tailed drongo which caused so much mirth in Cecil Street when it appeared in this column before I went on leave. I have never been able to live down that confounded drongo: to my professional brethren it seems
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    286 7 Owing to sickness in the family Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Menon, of Singapore, were unable to sail for India on Mar. 10 as arranged. Dr. Mohamed Saileh, who returned from England on Saturday, has assumed duties as acting Johore Government Pathologist. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice
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    NEW R.A.F. STAFF OFFICER HERE.
    68 7 PROUP Captain J. O. Andrews D.S.O,. M.C., who is to succeed Group Captain A. H. Peck, D.S.O., M.C., as Senior Air Staff Officer, Royal Air Force, Far East, arrived with his wife in the Somersetshire. Group Captain Peck, who has been appointed Officer Commanding, Royal
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
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      BIRTHS
      123 7 PENNINGTON—To Jocelyn, wife of T. W. Pennington of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Singapore on Mar. 9, 1938, a daughter. Both very well. SANDS —At Savernake Hospital, Marlborough on March 9, 1938, to Peggy, wife of A. L. Sands, Kuala Pilah, a son. BEM BROKE.— At the Maternity Hospital, Singapore
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      ENGAGEMENT
      31 7 The engagement is announced between Lieutenant Colonel J. C. P. Tosh, M.C. Royal Engineers of Changi, Singapore, and Mlss Rosamond Sillem daughter of Major General Sir Arnold and Lady Sillem.
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    Government House.
    150 7 Government House Mar. 9. IJf IS Excellency presided at a meeting of the Executive Council held at Government House this morning. Admiral Sir Charles and Lady Little, Mrs. Robinson and Mr. R. G. Howe arrived to stay at Government House. Sir Shenton and Lady Thomas dined with Mrs. G. T.
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    Contents.
    259 7 Leaders—- Peace at Any Price 2 Registration of Title To Land 2 A Fleet For Singapore 2 We Breathe Again 3 The Tin Producers’ Bogey Man 3 Nirom’s Lead 4 Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 25—28 Pictorial Section 17 20 Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following
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    TAMPENIS CASE FOR PRIVY COUNCIL ?
    334 7 TAMPENIS CASE FOR PRIVY COUNCIL Appeal Dismissed By S. S. Court. FOLLOWING the dismissal of 1 the appeal of Yeo Hock Cheng, a young Chinese school teacher, sentenced to death for the murder of his sweetheart, an application was made by his counsel on Monday for leave to appeal to
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    MR. H. H. C. MITCHELL.
    85 7 Death Of Consulting Engineer. A cable has been received announcing the death in London on Saturday of Mr. H. H. O. Mitchell, a partner in the firm of Messrs. Co kJo Wilson Mitchell and Vaughan-Lee. Consulting Engineers to the Colonia.' Office. Mr. Mit.nl ell was
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    DEATH FROM CAUSTIC SODA.
    61 7 Statements that a woman who herself had died from the effects of taking caustic soda had forced soda into the mouth of her husband as he slept were made by Chan Ah Sin at an inquiry into the death of Aw Yong Hee on Monday in
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    MR. LIM CHENG CHIN.
    34 7 Mr. LIM CHENG CHIN, Chinese Secretary of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, died on Monday aged 61. He had served the chamber for 30 years and leaves three children
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    Radio Engineer Acquitted On Breach Charge.
    294 7 Radio Engineer Acquitted On Breach Charge (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 14. YOUNG engineer from Shanghai, Alfred Cammiade, who formed a concern called the Radio Engineers of Malaya a few weeks after his arrival, was today acquitted on a charge of criminal breach of trust. The charge was
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    TAMIL FOUND WITH THROAT CUT.
    95 7 Open Verdict Returned At Johore Bahru Inquest. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Mar. 14. AN open verdict was returned today by Sheikh Abu Bakar in the Coroner’s Court on the death of an unknown Tamil whose body was found by the road side at
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    GAOL FOR SCISSORS STABBING.
    91 7 Incident At The Naval Base. pOR stabbing a compatriot with a pair of scissors at the Nival Base on Feb. 14, a Chinese named Chan Koh was sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore Third Magistrate. Mr. E. C. G. Barrett. Mr. D. W.
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    63 7 DEATHS HARDMAN.—At 5 p.m., Mar. 9, Ann Hardman, aged 6 years, beloved daughter of VA^ 8t, Ma J° r an <* Mrs- Hardman. 7^, HARIAH Dn March 10, 1938, at No. 441-D, Valley Road, Upper Serangoon, Mary oJx™, ra (D’Cotta) Zacharlah, 72 years. fc M T Seet Swee Hoe at
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    HISTORICAL BOOKS AND PRINTS FOR MUSEUM.
    315 8 Generous Gift From The Friends Of Singapore. IN accordance with their aim of stimulating interest in local history, the Friends of Singapore are to present to Raffles Museum a collection of old books and prints of Malayan interest. The collection, which was bought at
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    World’s Second Richest Girl On Franconia.
    397 8 EAVING New York on Jan. 6, the Cunard White Star liner, Franconia, arrived in Singapore on Tuesday, making the third world cruiser to touch this port in a fortnight. Most of the celebrities on board were mining, however, for they had decided to visit
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    European Charged With Disorderly Conduct.
    377 8 AN early morning scene at the Singapore Central Police Station, in which a European is alleged to have taken a rick-sha-puller by the throat and chased him round the chargeroom was described in the Fourth Police Court. The case was one in which J. W.
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    Investigation Of Malayan Mining.
    87 8 'THE present condition and future prospects of the Malayan mining industry are to be fully investigated in the near future by Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, formerly of the Geological Survey of India, who will report to the High Commissioner, Sir Shenton Thomas, on mining problems generally,
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    RACIAL HARMONY IMPRESSES CEYLON MINISTER.
    450 8 A Lesson That Senior Colony Can Learn F rom Malaya. 4r pHE co-operation and friendship of the many races in Singapore are sadly needed in other parts of the world today.” said Mr. S. W. R. Dias Bandaranaike, Ceylon Minister for Local Administration, speaking at
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    DRIVER ATTACKS JOHORE BAHRU OFFICER.
    128 8 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Mar. 14. LJOW he was struck on the head with a stick by his former driver, a Malay, was related by Mr. K. E. Webb, Town Supervisor, in the Third Magistrate’s Court before Inche Haron bin Ahmad. The accused.
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    CEYLON WANTS BIGGER TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA.
    336 9 Says Minister Back From Sydney Celebrations. Singapore, Mar. 14. THAT negotiations for increasing Ceylon’s trade with 1 Australia have been going on was revealed by Mr. S. W. R. Dias Bandaranaike, Minister for Local Administration, Ceylon, on arrival at Singapore in the K.P.M. liner
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    VOLUNTEER FORCE.
    139 9 New Member Of Penang Advisory Committee. Lieut.-Col. G. D. A. Fletcher, M.C., E. has been appointed to be a member of the Volunteer Force Advisory Committee for Penang, vice Mr. J. C. Innes, resigned. Commissions as second-lieutenants in the Straits Settlements Volunteer Fuice have been granted to Messrs.
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    S.S. APPOINTMENTS.
    98 9 Commissioner Of Estate Duties. The following appointments are notified in the SS. Government Gazette: Mr. E. Tongue to be Commissioner of Estate Duties. Mr. J. N. C. Hancock to be an Assistant Superintendent of Rubber Control for Singapore. Mr. T. D. Hughes to be an Assistant Protector of
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    THE SINGAPORE RURAL BOARD.
    44 9 The Governor, Sir Shentcn Thomas, has appointed the following to be members of the Singapoie Rural Board:—Messrs. J. A. Elias, Lim Chong Pang. S. A. H. Shirazee, J M. Jansen, T E. Andrews and Dato’ Mohamed Ghazaley bin Mohamed Ariffin.
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    First Malay Judge On F.M.S. Bench.
    335 9 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Mar. 14. UIGH tributes were paid in the n Supreme Court here today when Raja Musa bin Raja Haji Bot took his seat as the first Malay judge in the Federated Malay States. “To say of an incident that
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    VOLUNTEER R.S.M. LOSES DAUGHTER.
    62 9 iyiAKGARE'1 HARDMAN, daughter of Regimental Sergeant Major F Hardman, Instructor, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, and Mis. Hardman. died in the Singapore General Hospital on Mar. 9. < Margaret, who was six years old, had been in hospital for about three weeks suffering from malaria. A total
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    CHINESE BODY EXHUMED MONTH AFTER BURIAL.
    282 9 Coroner’s Inquiry. THE suggestion that deceased had beea caught gambling by his father and had died after being struck was put forward on Friday by Mr. D. W. McIntosh, A.C.P., at a Coroner’s inquiry into the death of a 20-year-old Chinese, Ong Tian Teng,
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    PRINCESS TO GO TO SCHOOL IN ENGLAND.
    139 9 Travelling With Former Queen Of Siam. j (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Mar. 10. |>RINCESS Bejr-ratana. the only daughter of King Vajiravudh ana Queen Suvadhana, the Queen who visited Malaya and Singapore with the King in 1924, is leaving Penang with her mother
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    MR. CHARLES H. WRIGHT.
    27 9 Mr. Charles H. Wright has been appointed chairman of the Java Rubber Plantations. Mr. Wright is a director of 10 other plantation companies.
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    PENANG MOHAMMEDAN ADVISORY BOARD.
    33 9 Mr. J. A. Harvey. M.C.S., has been j appointed to be chairman of the Mu- hammedan Advisory Board for Penang In place of Mr. R. J. F Curtis, M.C.S.
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    OFFICERS ON LEAVE.
    40 9 The following Government offioers have been granted leave: Dr. G I H. Braine and Messrs. E. W. Hull. W. G Griffiths. H. B. Sym. R. J. F. Curtis, G G Roberts, F. Sharp and W, i Dowson.
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    VALERIE SAYS DIFFERENCES WITH RAJAH SETTLED.
    180 10 KNEW “TEMPORARY ANNOYANCE” WOULD NOT LAST LONG. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Mar. 11. MRS. Bob Gregory, wife of the all-in wrestler and former Dayang Valerie, announced in New York yesterday that differences between her and her father, the Rajah of Sarawak, have been
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    CLUNG TO BOAT TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS.
    151 10 Saw His Friends Slip One By One. (From Our Own Correspondent.; Malacca. Mar. 11. How four Malay fishermen were lost at sea during a storm was told by the only survivor. Mohamed Lajln bln Mohamed at a Coroner’s Inquiry on the disappearance of
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    ATTACKED WIFE WITH CLASP-KNIFE.
    70 10 'From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 11. CONVICTED on a charge of having caused grievous hurt to his wife, Er Put. with a clasp-knife, Yap Choon Kiat, a brick-making coolie who had been out of employment for the past two years because, his wife alleged,
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    MALACCA DECREE NISI MADE ABSOLUTE.
    72 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, Mar. 9. A DECREE nisi for the dissolution of marriage, granted on Aug. 12, 1937, to Queenie May Chan, a European woman, against Seng Chin Chan, well known in Malacca, was made absolute today by Mr. Justice Horne in the
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    Chances Of Getting Malaria One In 1,600.
    221 10 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Mar. 11. j “IN most 'tropical countries where malaria is prevalent it may occur at any time of the year, but usually there are certain months when it is at its worst," said Dr. C. H. Williams at
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    CHINESE GIRLS’ SOCCER FOR CHARITY.
    82 10 (From Our Own Correspondent. 1 Penang, Mar. 9. OENANG Chinese girls are taking to soccer, not for fun of the game, but through patriotism. Two school girls teams of the Hu Yew Seah and Fukien Girls Schools will meet on the Hutchings School ground on
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    Ashes Of Chinese From Europe By Air.
    136 10 AN urn containing the ashes of a well-known Singapore Chinese. Mr. Lim Chong Kuo, who died in Switzerland, arrived in Singapore by Imperial Airways aircraft and was buried on Sunday morning at Bukit Brown Cemetery. This is believed to be the first time
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    SINGAPORE BENCH CHANGES.
    57 10 AiVR. E. C. G. BARRETT, the Fourrn Singapore Magistrate, has taken the place of Mr. W. G. Reeves the Third Magistrate, who left for Britatn on leave on Friday by the P. and O. liner Comorin. Mr. Barrett’s place as Fourth Magis trate. has been filled by
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    ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO CUT EAR.
    71 10 A YOUNG Chinese, Tan Ah Kow charged with attempting to cut the ear of Chua Seh Hong, who was alleged to have sold Japanese goods, appeared before the Singapore Second Magistrate, Mr. F. V. Duckworth. The accused pleaded guilty and sentence was postponed to a
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    S.S. ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE.
    45 10 The Governor. Sir Shenton Thomas, has approved the confirmation in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, Straits Settlements Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, of Acting Sub-Lieutenants R. S. Tufnell. F. O. S. Man, R. C. Beavis, H. C. Butcher and L. R. Cooper.
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    European’s Bankruptcy Discharge Application Adjourned.
    141 10 by the Official Assignee as a European with a large salary who retired from Government service about four or five weeks ago, George Perkins's application for a discharge from bankruptcy was adjourned on Mar. 11, the Assignee stating that he would file a supplementary report.
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    CLERKS’ WAGES ARE TOO LOW, DECLARES CATHOLIC JOURNAL
    282 10 Accepted Owing To ‘‘Misery And Competition.” A SLASHING attack on the low wages paid to clerks and manual workers in Singapore is made in the current issue of the Malaya Catholic Leader, official organ of Roman Catholicism in the Peninsula. has the
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    Ceylon Cricketers Due Next Month.
    186 10 piNAL arrangements have been completed for the tour of the Ceylonese cricket team in Malaya. The team of seventeen players, all of them outstanding in Ceylon cricket, arrive at Penang on Apr. 7 and after loosening up at the nets there travel by motor-car to
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    EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
    40 10 An Instrument has been passed under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appointing Mr. J. W. de Piro to be temporarily an Unofficial Member of the Straits Settlements Executive Council in place of Mr. RWilliamson, on leave.
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    MASS MEETING PAYS TRIBUTE TO WORKERS WHO LEFT JAPANESE MINES.
    236 11 Belief That Ore Is Going To Munition Factories. THREE thousand Singapore Chinese gathered at the Great World stadium on Friday to pay tribute to 3,000 Chinese labourers who have sacrificed their jobs at the Japanese mines at Dungun, Trengganu, on
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    MALAYA-HONG KONG AIR MAILS.
    125 11 .—-Reuter. Two Services Weekly From Mar. 23. London, Mar. 11. THE Air Ministry announces today that, a new agreement with Imperial Airways for the air service to Hong Kong is being concluded. Two services weekly, each way, between Hong Kong and Bangkok via Undong Hanoi and
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    PYTHON LOOSE ON SARAWAK SHIP.
    109 11 Killed Only After Considerable Difficulty. AT Bintulu a Chinese was heavily fined for smuggling a live python, 15 feet in length, on board s.s. Auby under cover of darkness. The reptile, which, according to the evidence, was in an active and vicious condition, was brought
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    NEW CRUISER TO STAY MONTH IN SINGAPORE.
    156 11 Routine Exercises From The Base. BIRMINGHAM, the new 9,000D ton cruiser for the China Squadron, which arrived at Singapore from Portsmouth on Wednesday and was to have left for Hong Kong yesterday, will now stay at Singapore for a month, the Straits Times
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    MALAY DOCTOR BACK FROM STUDY IN BRITAIN.
    99 11 ■THAT better facilities might be provided for Asiatic students in Britain was the view expressed by Dr. Mohamed Salleh, who returned by the P. and O. liner Ranpura from Britain, after a course of study at London, Liverpool and Edinburgh sponsored by the
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    SIAM TO CONTROL LOUD SPEAKERS.
    59 11 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Mar. 11. A Bill to control the use of loudspeakers, particularly in crowded thoroughfares, where the noise of approaching traffic might be drowned, passed its first reading in the Assembly. The whole question of public nuisance in the way of
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    $2,000 Commission Awarded For Fish Pond Sale.
    381 11 JUDGMENT in favour of Lee Kim Seah for $2,000 as commission for the sale of 54 acres of fish pond was given by Mr. Justice a’Beckett Terrell in the Singapore High Court on Friday, recalling the malaria epidemic of 1936 when many fish
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    New Air Raids Precautions Expert For Hong Kong.
    221 11 “TflE air raids precautions position in Britain is now more reassuring and recently great progress has been made/* said Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele-Perkins, who passed through Singapore on Mar. 12 aboard the P. and O. liner Ranpura, bound for Hong
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    SIAM TO PROTECT WILD LIFE.
    131 11 Assembly To Take Measures. (From Our Own Correspondent. Bangkok, Mar. 11. WITH the support of the Army, the Zoological Society of Siam has been formed and it hopes to establish museums in different parts of the country. The plight of the wild animals of Slam
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    ANKYO MARU CREW IN COURT.
    108 11 riGHT of the nine members of the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Ankyo Maru who were charged last month with leaving Singapore without reporting to the Registrar of Aliens and entering Johore territory without an endorsement appeared in the Third Court on Mar. 10.
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    VALERIE’S ALLOWANCE IS BEING PAID, SAYS RAJAH.
    306 13 New York Reports Are “Entirely Incorrect.” A FURTHER denial that he had cut off the allowance of his daughter, the. Dayang Valerie, since her marriage in December to the all-in wrestler Bob Gregory, w T as made to a Straits Times representative on
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    GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR SCHOOLBOYS.
    231 13 Preference Over Pensioners Suggested. A SUGGESTION that schoolboys who have passed their Senior Cambridge examination should be given a chance for part-time jobs in the Government, in preference to pensioned Government servants, was made at the annual general meeting of the Christian Brothers’ Old Boys’ Association,
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    Sir M. Watson To Marry This Week.
    168 13 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Mar. 10. CIR MALCOLM WATSON, noted malaria expert, whose engagement was announced last week, will be married to Miss Constance Evelyn Loring at Sunningdale Parish Church, Berks, on Mar. 19. Major H. Lockwood Stevens. Secretary of the Ross
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    Singapore Volunteer Gunners’ Jubilee.
    179 13 of artillery activities of 50 years ago will be given by the Singapore Royal Artillery (Volunteer) which is to celebrate the golden anniversary of its foundation on Apr. 2. It is probable that the Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, will attend. It was in the year of
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    MR. W. S. EBDEN GOING ON LEAVE.
    57 13 fyiEMBERS of the Rural Board said farewell at Thursday meeting to their chairman. Mr. W. S Ebden, who sailed the next day on Home leave. Mr. J. A. Elias assured Mr. Ebden’s successor. Mr. C. W. A. Sennett. of the same co-operation members
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    THREE TIGERS SHOT
    54 13 THREE tigers are reported to have been shot by a Raub Chinese in the hills near Bentong, Pahang, one night last week. A Bentong report states that ten minutes after the first tiger had been brought down, two more appeared and were about to attark the man
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    Manila’s New Airport To Rival That At Kallang.
    253 13 'THAT construction of Manila’s new airport, with a flyingboat base similar in design to that at Singapore and calling for the Ailing in of a section of the bay has started was revealed by Major H. W. Prosser, of the U. S.
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    King’s Proctor Intervenes In Malayans’ Divorce Case.
    266 13 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Mar. 3. THE King’s Proctor intervened 1 in the Divorce Court today to show cause why a decree nisi granted in October, 1936, to Mrs. Starra Mary Elizabeth Matthews, who was married to Mr. Albert William Matthews at
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    Sir Shenton To Film Yacht Cruise
    138 13 Singapore, Mar. 11. Governor, Sir Shenton Thomas, and Lady Thomas will leave Singapore in the steam yacht Sea Belle II tonight on a fortnight’s cruise up the West Coast of Malaya. This will be the lir.it time Sea Belle has been used since she
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    “BIRA” TO DESIGN DRIVER’S MEMORIAL.
    82 13 (From Our Own Correspondent* London, Mar. 3 DRINCE Birabongse of Siam the racing motorist and sculptor, is to design the memorial to Pat Fairfield. British champion driver, who died irom injuries received in the Le Mans 24-hour race last year It is understood that the
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    K.L. BOARD WANTS START ON SEWAGE SCHEME.
    364 14 Further Delay Due To Investigator’s Illness. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 9. THERE is to be further delay in the provision of a modern sewage system for the Federal Capital, it was revealed at today’s meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary
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    RULES FOR NAMING OF ROADS.
    133 14 Tributes To PublicSpirited Men. THE Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board Committee which has been dealing with the numbering of houses and naming of roads has now laid down the following precepts for selecting road names (1) Roads should not be named after any individual still resident
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    SULTAN OF JOHORE TO VISIT N.I.
    53 14 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru. Mar. 9. Sultan of Johore will be leaving for a holiday in the Netherlands Indies and Ceylon on Apr. 1. It is expected that he will be away for six weeks. The Tungku Mahkota will be proclaimed regent
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    Quota For Chinese Women Immigrants
    161 14 |MPOSITION of a quota on the number of Chinese women entering the Straits Settlements is expected following an official announcement that as from May 1 the existing exemption of women from Part I of the Aliens Ordinance will be revoked. It is intended to impose
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    New Closing Times For Air Mails.
    92 14 rpHE closing times of Imperial air mai's to Great Britain has been changed from the week-end. Instead of closing at 6.30 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays the mail for England now closes at the same hour on Sundays and Wednesdays The alteration in Imperial
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    Chinese Clerks Want Sunday Holiday.
    95 14 THE Singapore Chinese Clerks’ Association and other Chinese industrial organisations are urging the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to take a lead in petitioning the Straits Settlements Government to declare Sunday a compulsory public holiday. Following considerable recent agitation, mainly by Chinese clerks and shop assistants,
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    Court Sequel To Friends’ Money Transaction.
    318 14 FRIENDS and colleagues in the same bank for some years Emile Michael Lazaroo and Lawrence Samuel were parties to an action in the Singapore High Court on Mar. 10 following a money transaction, Mr. Justice a’Beckett Terrell giving judgment for Lazaroo for $800 and
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    GOVERNOR AMONG GUESTS AT LADYSMITH BALL.
    193 14 Gordons’ Sergeants As Hosts. MORE than 500 people were present on Mar. 9 at the Ladysmith Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall, held annually by the sergeants of the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders in commemoration of the relief of the Natal garrison town
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    MANY PRECEDENTS FOR MALAYA.
    269 14 Money And Ships From The Colonies. rvURJLNG the list few weeks ‘says the United Services Review of Feb 17) the Mother Country has received a number of welcome '’cntributions to the expense of Imperial de fence. Malaya has provided £300.000 for the purchase of two air
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    GENERAL DOBBIE BACK FROM TRIP.
    73 14 MAJOR-GENERAL W. G. S. DOBBIE. General Officer Commanding. Malaya, returned to Singapore from Siam and French Indo-China on Mar. 9 in the Messageries Maritimes liner Aramis. Major-General Dobbie was accom panied by Mrs. Dobbie and his aide-de-camp. Lieut. P. E. Johnston. R.A. Another passenger from
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    AN UNFORTUNATE END TO PROMISING MALAYAN INDUSTRY.
    2265 15 Planting Topics Nipah Estate Closes Owing To Lack Of Monev. GOVERNMENT BLAMED FOR FAILING TO LEND FUNDS. An Open Letter To Colonial Office Agricultural Adviser. By Our Planting Correspondent MALAYA is fortunate in having 'had a person of Sir Frank Stockdale’s wide knowledge
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    37 15 In an article in this page on Mar. 3 on the subject of production costs, an item of 11.11 per cent for cultivation and planting was inadvertently omitted from the paragraph relating to the distribution of earnings.
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    MALAYAN CO-OPERATION IN CASE OF WAR.
    848 16 MINISTERS DISCUSS NA VAL BASE FEATURES. “IF Singapore were ever threatened, every citizen in the Peninsula would have to play his part declares Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, in a symposium of Cabinet Ministers’ views on the Singapore base published
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    TEN SHARKS SEEN IN OUTER ROADS.
    102 16 oi H.M.S. Birmingham saw ten sharks, some of them 12 ft. long, breaking the surface with their fins around the ship’s sides shortly after she anchored in the Outer Roads on Mar. 9. “The shares seemed ravenous ana were snapping at floating tins.” said
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    Health Officers Are Watching Hong Kong Smallpox.
    312 16 RIGID precautions are being taken by the port health authorities to guard against any risk of the introduction of smallpox infection to Singapore from Hong Kong and Indian ports, where there have been rising death rolls in recent weeks. Discussing the noticeable recent
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    17 16 Mrs. L. J. Koster sailed by the Dutch liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt on Mar. 10 for Europe.
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    250 PASSENGERS LEAVE SINGAPORE.
    248 16 Friends Crowd Docks. MANY Singapore people were kept busy on Mar. 11 say- ing good-bye to nearly 250 friends who sailed for Europe in two liners—the Nederland Line vessel Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and the P. 0. liner Comorin. DOTH liners were full ships after u more
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    Sarawak Disappointed With Rubber Assessment.
    179 16 DISAPPOINTMENT at the size of the basic quota allotted to Sarawak in the proposed terms of the new International Rubber Regulation Agreement, was voiced by the Rajah of Sarawak on Mar. 10 before he left for England in the Comorin. The Rajah said most of
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    Wild Boar Kills One, Hurts Two Tappers.
    123 16 QNE man has died and two others are in Port Dickson Hospital, one seriously hurt, as a result of a skirmish with a wild boar on Sua Betong Estate. The three men, tappers on the estate, saw the boar when out in the
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    JOHORE’S LAST PUBLIC HANGING.
    95 16 (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 11. ALTHOUGH Singapore has chang- ed a lot I do not think the people are any happier today than they were 30 years ago” said Mr. E. D. Butler, during an address to the Fortnigntly Club on ‘‘Singapore Thirty
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    “LIFERS” FREE IN KEDAH.
    54 16 (From Our Own Correspondent.* Alor Star Mar. 8. THREE prisoners, two of whom were serving life sentences for murder, and the other 12 years for culpable homicide have been released at the pleasure of the Sultan of Kedah in honour ot his 76th birthday which fell
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    Straits Budget Pictorial Section
    833 17 The Singapore house seen above teas Dr. Sun Yat-scn's home for five years before he formed the Chinese Republic. It has beer purchased from Mr. Teo Eng Hock /left) by local Kuomintang members, who plan to pn serve the budding in memory of Dr. Sun's connection
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      Are You Looking Ahead To Retirement?
      1086 21 WE have all got to retire some time or other, or eke out a miserable old age in this country when our faculties are long past their best. What have you done about it? What are you doing? Apart from those fortunate few who
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    57 Years With Local Store.
    126 21 QNE of the most widely-known Chinese shop assistant in Singapore, Seet Swee Hoe, from the drapery counter in the department store of Robinson and Co., Ltd., died in hospital last week after a short illness. Swee Hoe. who was 67 years old. had been with
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    British Traders Losing Ground.
    188 21 Says Ex-M.P. DRITISH traders and manufacturers will lose all that they have ever gained in Asia if they do not introduce more effective marketing methods, according to Mr. H. K. Hales, former M.P. for Hanley and a wellknown manufacturers' agent. Mr. Hales is concerned directly with
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    Indians Replace Chinese On Dungun Mine.
    160 21 THE report that the entire 1 Chinese labour force of approximately 3,000 employed at the Japanese iron mine at Dungun, Trengganu, has left the service of the company has been confirmed by the Singapore office of the mine, the Nippon Mining Company. It Is
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    Finance Handicap For K.L. Housing Schemes.
    144 21 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 9. 117ITHOUT control over its fin- ances the Sanitary Board is unable to embark on large housing schemes as undertaken by the Singapore Improvement Trust. At a meeting today, when a list of insanitary buildings in Circular
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    NEW BODY FOR RUBBER RESEARCH.
    93 21 London Conference Soon. THE Rubber Growers’ Association has approved the agreement for trans-' fer of its research and propaganda activities to the new organisations envisaged under the International Rubber Regulation Scheme. Mr. A. P. Hadow. chairman of the Association, has been appointed to represen 1
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    NEW DEPUTY MASTER ATTENDANT.
    51 21 iFrom Our Own Correspondent. > Malacca. Mar 9.. COMMANDER J. C. Derrick. trate and Harbour Master, Malacc n is going to Singapore on transfer on Mar. 22 as Deputy Master Attendant, Marine Office, Singapore. It is understood Mr. G. E. Turner from Seremban will succeed him
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    U.S. Warships Can Hire Singapore Naval Base.
    260 22 .—Reuter. London, Mar 10. J?ORE!GN warship* can use the Singapore naval base dock, it was inferred in. the House of Commons last night Whether Britain would be prepared to enter into negotiations with the United States for the use of the Singapore naval
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    PORK v. BEEF PROBLEM AT K.L. MARKET.
    86 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.; Kuala Lumpur, Mar. y. Characteristic of the East is the problem which is now engaging the attention of Kuala Lumpur’s Town Engineer. Malay patrons of the town marKer have complained that the proximity the pork section to the beef
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    Soviet Behind China, Claims French Writer.
    259 22 /CLAIMING to have secured secret papers in China proving strong Soviet influence in the Chinese Central Government, Claude Farrere, the French writer, who has been studying the Sino-Japanese question during the last few months, arrived at Singapore on Mar. 10 by the Messageries Maritimes
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    BRITAIN HOPES FOR EMPIRE AID TO FINANCE AIR MAIL SCHEME.
    276 22 THAT the Malayan and other Governments whose count- ries are benefitting from the new Empire air mail scheme will offer contributions towards the cost of the scheme is the hope expressed in a White Paper issued in London. The White
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    HOUSE ASKS ABOUT MALAYA’S NEWS SUPPLY.
    102 22 London. Mar. 9. MALAYAS “foreign news famine” was the subject of a question in the House of Commons todav, asked by Lt.-Commander R. T. Fletcher. (Lab.—Warwick Nuneaton). Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore. Secretary of State for Colonies, told Lt.-Com. Fletchetr, that there was no
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    Love Notes To Girl Before Suicide.
    208 22 passages to a Chinese girl, written in an exercise book, were found by the police during investigation of a case in which a 19-year-old Chinese, Poh Chee Tian, took his own life by drinking poison. At the inquest, before Mr. W. G. Porter, it
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    First Malay To Act As Supreme Court Judge.
    269 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 9. THE first Malay to take his 1 place on the Bench of the F.M.S. Supreme Court, to act temporarily as judge during the next Seremban Assizes, will be Raja Musa bin Raja Haji Bot,
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    K.L. BOARD CONSIDERS JOBS FOR WORKLESS.
    71 22 (From Our Own Correspondent! Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 9. AN effort to try to help some of the 20,000 mining coolies who may be thrown out of work by the latest tin quota cut, was suggested at the Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board Meeting this morning
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    Selangor Rugby Player Marries.
    395 22 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 9. *pHE wedding took place at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church today, of Mr. Robert Lefevre Leach, of George Blunn and Co., Ltd., son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Leach, of Singapore, and Miss Phyllis Eileen Mamie, whose parents,
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    Commons Approve Defence Policy.
    802 23 PREMIER EXPLAINS BRITAIN’S PLANS IN WAR. THE Government’s defence policy was approved by the House of Commons on Mar. 7 by 347 votes to 133, after a Labour Opposition amendment had been defeated by 351 votes to 134. An elaboration of the policy behind the defence
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    Japanese “War Games” Near Hong Kong.
    105 23 Hong Kong, Mar. 9. British newspaper China Mail reports that four Japanese cruisers and several destroyers and armed trawlers are engaging in war games adjacent to Hong Kong and the Portuguese colony of Macao. Aircraft, apparently participating, have dropped pamphlets on Chinese coastal villages
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    New Change In Carol’s Love Affairs.
    212 23 The probability of the return of Princess Helena of Rumania, to be followed by an annulment of her divorce from King Carol, is being discussed in Rumanian ministerial circles, Reuter understands. Crown Prince Michael is believed to have been one of the most important
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    600 Drowned When Rebel Cruiser Sank.
    250 23 —Reuter. CIX HUNDRED men are estimated to have been killed in the sinking of the rebel cruiser Baleares, including the Admiral, Commander and senior officers. The heavy deathroll is ascribed to the crew’s refusal to obey the signals of the British destroyers Kempenfelt and
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    SPENDING £100,000,000 THIS YEAR ON ARMS.
    47 23 —Reuter Paris, Mar. 8. 'THE Minister of Finance, M. Mar- chandeau, revealed today that expenditure on armaments amounted to £22.000,000 for the first two months of this year. It would, however, total more than £100.000.000 before the end of the year.—Reuter
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    INDIES NICKEL FOR GERMANY.
    69 23 .—Reuter Berlin, Mar. 7. The Netherlands Indies are going to ship between 1.000 and 1,500 tons "f nickel ore containing 3 to 5 per cent nickel to Krupps. according to the ne'4spar>f r Metalwirtschaft. A second consignment w 11 follow in the middle of March. Krupp’s
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    BRITAIN’S LIGHT GUNS ARE GOOD.
    55 23 .—British Wireless. London. Mar. 9. He was satisfied the present equipment of the British Army in anti-tank rifles and light guns was equal in each type to that of the German and French Armies, the War Minister, Mr. L. HoreBellsha. told the House of Commons
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    BRITAIN MUST REORGANISE CIVIL AVIATION.
    454 24 Committee Criticises Imperial Airways. RADICAL reorganisation of British commercial aviation is recommended in the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Civil Aviation, under Lord Cadman, released in London last week. The committee was set up in November to investigate charges of inefficiency. The most important
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    THE death has occurred in Edinburgh of Sir Reginald Johnston, eminent Chinese scholar who from 1919 to 1925 was tutor to Mr. Henry Pu-yi, former “ Boy Emperor ” of China and now Emperor of Manchukuo.
    34 24 THE death has occurred in Edinburgh of Sir Reginald Johnston, eminent Chinese scholar who from 1919 to 1925 was tutor to Mr. Henry Pu-yi, former Boy Emperor of China and now Emperor of Manchukuo.
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    HUNGARIAN CABINET CHANGED.
    129 24 Rcuter. New Arms Plan Ready. Budapest, Mar 9 THE Hungarian Cabinet has re- signed. The new cabinet includes the Premier, Dr. Kalman Daranyi, and five other members of the old cabinet. There are new ministers of agriculture, justice and finance, while M. Imredy, at present President of
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    Gandhi Sees The Joke.
    25 24 GANDHI enioying a joke with SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE new president. of the Indian National Congress, at the 51st congress at Haripura.
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    Hate Policy Drives Blind Peer From Labour Party.
    68 24 —Reuter. London, Mar. 9. FOLLOWING a similar step by 1 Lord Arnold, the blind peer, Lord Sanderson, is resigning from the Labour Party on the ground that its foreign policy involves hatred of other powers. It is prepared to go to war
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    Hailsham Is New Lord President.
    163 24 London, Mar. 10. yiSCOUNT HAILSHAM has been appointed Lord President of the Council in succesj sion to Lord Halifax, now Foreign Minister. Lord Maugham has been appointed Lord Chancellor in Lord Hailsham’s place It is felt in political circles that the appointment of Lord Maugham
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    SHANGHAI EDITOR RESIGNS.
    41 24 .—Reuter. London, Mar 8, Mr. Edwin Haward has resigned the editorship of the North China Daily News, Shanghai, to take charge of the Indian section of Great Britain and the East. He has had considerable experience in India.—Reuter.
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    Trotskyists Would Sell Soviet To Germany.
    183 24 TROTSKYIST plotters were pre- pared to conclude a military alliance with Germany on the basis of the surrender of certain Soviet territories, the rupture of pacts of mutual alliance between the Soviet and France and Czchoslovakia, declartd M. Bukharin, former editor of Izvestia and
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    JAPANESE FOUND IN MILITARY ZONE.
    78 24 —Reuter. One Fined In Cape Town. Cape Town, Mar. 7 The two Japanese, who were arrested last week in a military area, were found guilty. One was fined £3 or one month’s imprisonment and the other, who Is a youth, was reprimanded. The magistrate said
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    Changes In British Army Routine Announced.
    576 25 Officers To Get Quicker Promotion. DRASTIC changes in the Army were described by the War Minister, Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, when introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons on Mar. 10. One of the most important changes is an increase in the complement
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    Japanese And Indian Independence.
    41 25 ’’—Reuter. Tokio, Mar. 10. A NATIONAL economic conference here yesterday unanimously resolved we will do our best to support the India independence movement with a view to striking the root of evil disturbing peace in the East.”—Reuter.
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    POLAND RECOGNISES ITALIAN EMPIRE.
    105 25 —Reuter. Col Beck’s Toast At Rome Banquet. Rome, Mar. 9 POLAND has officially recognised the Italian Empire and the conquest of Abyssinia. Ai a State banquet last night, the Polish Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck, who is on a goodwill visit to Rome, said “*I raise m.,
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    Deputy To Minister For Air.
    91 25 London, Mar. 11. LORD WINTERTON, M.P. for Horsham and Worthing, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has joined the Cabinet. He will be an additional member of the Air Council and will act as deputy to Lord Swinton, the Minister for Air, and will deal
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    Asama Maru Afloat Again.
    140 25 Reuter. Hong Kong, Mar. 12. 'T'HE Japanese Uner Asama Maru (IS,000 tons) which went ashore in last August’s big typhoon, luas refloated last night after months of homeric labour by a Japanese salvage company. The tide in Hong Kong last night was higher than at any
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    AUSTRALIA SEEKS NORDIC MIGRANTS.
    57 25 -Aneta-Trans-Ocean Sydney, Mar. 10. AUSTRALIA plans to augment the stream of immigrants, and should the number offering from Great Britain be insufficient, selected migrants of the Nordic type will be encouraged. the Minister of the Interior, Mr. McEwen. announced in Canberra He was thinking primarily of
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    BAER OUTPOINTS TOMMY FARR.
    65 25 Reuter. New York, Mar. 2? MAX BAER outpointed the British champion, Tommy Farr, in a fifteen rounds bout at Madison Square Garden, last night. This was an eliminating contest in connection with the world heavyweight championship. Baer will now meet the winner of the fight in
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    Drug Supplies For New York Society People.
    84 25 Drug Supplies For New York Society People —Reuter. Paris, Mar. 9. FOLLOWING sensational drug revelations, eight arrests were made today by the police, acting on information from New York. Warrants were issued for the arrest of 20 other persons believed by the police to be connected with a sang engaged
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    MORE BRITISH WARSHIPS BOMBED.
    63 25 London, Mar. 7. HTHE British destroyers Blanche and Brilliant were attacked at noon yesterday “in the vicinity of the naval battle” oiT the Spanish coast by five unidentified warplanes. th e Admiralty announces today. Several bombs were dropped but no damage was done. The destroyers did
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    British Opinion Is Roused By Coup.
    408 25 mighty, shall we feel safe "—British Wireless London, Mar. 13. DUBLIC opinion in Great Britain has been deeply roused by events in Austria. The strength of British feeling on the subject and the measure of British anxiety regarding future repercussions are expressed in the
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    AUSTRIA GOES NAZI IN A DAY.
    599 26 Chancellor Gives Way Under Armed Invasion Threat. London, Mar. 12. 'PHREATENING an armed invasion, Germany issued an ultimatum yesterday to Austria demanding the cancellation of the plebiscite, the resignation of the Chancellor, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, and the formation of a Nazi Cabinet. Yielding
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    JAPANESE TANK UNIT WIPED OUT.
    39 26 More than 20 Japanese tanks and armoured cars were trapped by Chinese Communist troops near Koping, in South-eastern Shansi, and in the ensuing fight the crews were wiped out, reports Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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    Nazis Demonstrate Throughout The Country.
    578 26 Hoie People Reacted. —Reuter. Vienna, Mar. 12. JMMEDIATELY the decision to postpone the plebiscite was made last night, Nazi demonstrators at Graz broke through the cordon of police who had been holding them at bay all day and took possession of the whole of the
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    RAMSAY MacDONALID LEAVES £25,000.
    17 26 —Reuter London, Mar, 13 Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, former Prime Minister, left £25,000— Reuter
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    DEATH AWAITS 18 SOVIET CITIZENS.
    586 27 ,—Reuter. —Reuter. dramatic speeches mark CLOSE OF TRIAL. Moscow 'Mur 13» IN one of the most significant trials in Soviet history, 18 prominent Russians* were sentenced to death today for planning to betray the Soviet Union to Germany and Japan. All the 21 accused were
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    Nationalists Have Complete “Walkover.”
    81 27 Nationalists Have Complete Walkover :.—Reuter. Saragossa, Mar. 14. TPHE Nationalist advance is des- crlbed here as apparently becoming a walkover.” An area of 1,075 square miles has been captured in four days, and the Nationalist vanguard is now only 60 miles from the Catalan coast. Villages are being captured which
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    HOW IMPERIAL AIR SUBSIDY COMPARES.
    108 27 i.—British Wireless. Less Than Other Major Companies. Cadman committee report has a number of appendices, Including one analysing subsidies paid over several years to European air transport com panies. This shews the subsidy received by Imperial Airways in 1937 represented 23.8 per cent, of its
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    CHINESE AIR RAID.
    50 27 .—Reuter. Claim Ten Japanese Planes Destroyed. Shanghai, Mar. 11. NANKING was raided two squadrons of Chinese planes yesterday, and ten Japanese planes on the ground were destroyed, according to Chinese reports. It is stated that the raid was a complete surprise, and anti-aircraft-gun-ners did not open fire.—Reuter.
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    GENERAL MURDERED IN SHANGHAI.
    76 27 —Reuter. Shanghai. Mar. 7 ANOTHER terrorist murder was committed in Shanghai today, this time in the French Concession, the murdered man being General Chow Feng-chi, former head of the 20th Route Army. He was shot dead by two armed men when leaving a house inside the
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    47 Die In Indian Mine.
    33 27 47 Die In Indian Mine —Reuter. Hyderabad, Mar. 13. FORTY -SEVEN men were killed and 40 injured in an explosion at the Singareni coal mines, near Hyderabad. Three Europeans are among the dead.—Reuter.
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    Britain Keeps Close To France.
    235 27 London. Mar. 13. A SPECIAL meeting of the Cabinet was held yesterday to consider the situation arising out of German action in Austria, which has aroused intense indignation and acute anxiety In Britain. At the conclusion of the meeting, the following communique was issued* “The
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    PRINCE BERNHARD LUNCHES WITH KING.
    53 27 -Reuter. London, Mar. 9. Prince Bernhard, husband of Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, who has now completely recovered from his motoring accident 'in November, arrived in London today. He was accompanied by his brother Prince Ernest. Both visitors lunched with the King and Queen
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    New C-in-C. For East Indies Squadron.
    33 27 —Reuter. London. Mar. 9. Vice-Admiral James Somerville will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay as Commander-In-Chief of the East Indies squadron. He assumes the command about Aug. 7.—Reuter.
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    Fuehrer Visits Parents’ Grave On Victory March: “My Mission Fulfilled.”
    271 27 Fuehrer Visits Parents Grave On Victory March: “My Mission Fulfilled -Reuter. WHILE thousands of steel-helmeted German troops were marching on Vienna on Sunday, Adolf Hitler silently and unaccompanied walked to the grave of his mother and his father in a little cemetery at the Austrian village of Leonding. After laying
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    German War Minister’s Challenge.
    234 27 —Reuter. Berlin, Mar. 13. “WHO has any right to inter- fere when Germans want to come closer to Germans 1 asked Field-Marshal Goering, Iierr Hitler’s War Minister, when addressing a huge meeting today in the Berlin State Opera House. The meeting was held to commemorate the
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    HITLER TAKES COMMAND OF AUSTRIAN ARMY.
    361 28 Soldiers Must Swear Allegiance Oath. OITLER has incorporated the Austrian Army in the German Army and placed it under the command of General von Boeck. All members of the Army, which numbers about 37,000, are to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler as
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    We Averted Civil War, Nazis Claim.
    190 28 We Averted Civil War Nazis Claim. —Reuter. London, Mar. 14. r\R. SCHUSCHNIGG acted entirely on his own initiative, without consulting his colleagues in the Cabinet, and announced unexpectedly and in open contrast to the letter and spirit of the Berchtesgaaen Agreement, his decision to hold a plebiscite within three days,
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    DON’T WORRY, BRITAIN ASSURES EGYPT.
    49 28 .—Reuter. Cairo, Mar. 8. The Egyptian Government has issued a communique revealing that Great Britain has assured Egypt, in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, that she will agree to do nothing in the Anglo-Italian conversations which might affect Egyptian interests, without first consulting Egypt,—Reuter.
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    Blum Selects New French Cabinet.
    146 28 —Reuter. Paris, Mar. 14. jU| BLUM has formed a Govern- ment of Radical and Socialist complexion. Its personnel is as follows, with the previous Ministers in parentheses:— Premier and Finance: M. Leon Blum (M. Chautemp6). Vice-premier and National Defence: M. Edouard Daladier (unchanged). Foreign Affairs:
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    “I Shall Never Forget This.”
    402 28 —Reuter. “J SHALL never forget this declares Hitler in a telegram to Mussolini, thanking him for his attitude toward events in Austria. Three points were made by Hitler in his letter to Mussolini. Firstly, his action in Austria is only to be regarded as an
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    Three Dreams Of Middle Europe.
    24 28 These maps compilcd b V the New York Times, show the alliances which Germany. France and Ha y crave.
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    20,000 Londoners Demonstrate Against Hitler.
    101 28 -Reuter. London, Mar. 13. A MAKING scenes were witnessed in Trafalgar Square today when 20,000 people demonstrated against Hitler’s invasion of Austria. The meeting unanimously passed a resolution urging the British Government to refuse to continue negotiations with Germany and Italy until German troops are
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    CRICKET GAMES IN SINGAPORE.
    518 29 Clock Saves Airmen Against S. C. C. TWO centuries were scored in cricket matches plaved in Singapore on Sunday. Lieut. Simpson hit up a dazzling 132 not out. in a score of 229 for six wickets, for Changi sappers against St. Andrew’s Old Boys, and N.
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    BRYAN’S RETURN.
    51 29 /L FTER an absence of several years, G. J. Bryan, of the Royal Engineers, former Kent county cricketer, is back in Singapore, having arrived on Monday, by the Somersetshire. When here previously Bryan, a brilliant lefthand batsman, played many fine innings, and was also a more than useful
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    TIE FOR GOLD MEDAL AT SEPOY LINES.
    184 29 Golf. Miss Lucas And Miss Lacey Each Return 68. Eleven cards were taken out in the women’s March stroke competition at Sepoy Lines Golf Club, played on Monday and Tuesday. The result was a win for Miss Lacey with a score of 44—14=30.
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    HOCKEY INTERNATIONALS.
    24 29 Hockey international matches played at Liverpool on Saturday resulted as follows, cables Reuter: Men—England beat Scotland 7—o. Women —England beat Ireland 9—2.
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    Home Cup Draws.
    69 29 PRESTON MEET VILLA IN SEMI-FINAL. J REUTER cables the draws for the Home soccer cup competitions as follows: F.A. CUP—SEMI-FINALS. (March 26). Preston North End vs. Aston Villa. On Sheffield United’s ground. York City or Huddersfield Town vs. Sunderland. At Blackburn. SCOTTISH CUP—4th ROUND. (March 19). Kilmarnock
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    YORK’S BIG ADVENTURE ENDS.
    148 29 Out Of Cup At Last. York City, gallant team of mostly part-time "pros.” have made soccer history this season—a chapter which closed on Wednesday last week. They, a Division III (North) team, have reached the 6th round of the F A Cup competition, and only after
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    GERMANY BEAT ITALY AT RUGGER.
    26 29 Aneta Transocean Stuttgart. Mar. 8. In an international rugby match played here Germany beat Italy by ton points to nil.—Aneta Transocean
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    SCOTTISH CUP.
    160 29 East Fife Win At Aberdeen. There were also on Wednesday two replays of Scottish Cup third round ties, which resulted Ayr. C 4 Morton 1 Aberdeen 1 East Fife Z East Fife’s victory at Aberdeen was a surprise. Ayr visit Kilmarnock In the fourth round on March 19,
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    SAID’S FINE DISPLAY IN GOAL. R. E. DO MUCH PRESSING BUT FAIL TO SCORE.
    532 29  -  By “Echo.” IN a*e best match of the week the Malays gained victory over the R E. by the only goal, scored near the end in Friday’s Division I league soccer match at Anson Road stadium.
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    Mountain Stream And Wicklow Bay Win Class I Races.
    1006 30 MAC KONGSI’S FINE DOUBLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 12. dividends featured the opening day of the Selangor Turf Club’s Spring Meeting today. Jonathan won the first event to pay his backers $77 on the win tote, the biggest
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    “GIBSON GIRL” BUYS ROYAL MAIL.
    85 30 “GIBSON GIRL BUYS ROYAL MAIL. —Reuter. London, Mar. 12. MAIL, the joint favourite for the Grand National, was publicly auctioned after the first race at durst Park today and was purchased by Mrs. Evans, formerly Miss Camille Clifford, the original Gibson Girl and picture postcard favourite. for 6,500 guineas. The
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    NEITHER TEAM WORTHY OF VICTORY. ATTACKS WITH HARDLY A SHOT IN THE LOCKER.
    488 30  -  By “Echo. THERE will most probably be new champions of the S.A.F.A. League this season. There must surely be a better team than was seen in the opening senior division match at Anson Road stadium. In opposition
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    SCRAPPY SOCCER IN LEAGUE GAME.
    393 30  -  By “Echo." JJAVING seen four teams in action so far, one doubts if one 11 has yet seen this year’s S.A.F.A. League champions. Neither the R.A. nor the R.A.F. who met last week at Anson Road stadium in a Division I match, appear to fill
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    BRILLIANT GOLF BY JAPAN’S OPEN CHAMPION.
    836 31 Breaks Course Record At Island Club. DEADLY accuracy was revealed by C. S. Chin, holder of lJ Japan’s open golf title, in a four-ball exhibition match at the Island Club on Sunday morning. Going round in 67 strokes—five under bogey—Chin broke the course reeord
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    TEST TEAM SELECTORS.
    96 31 'THE committee appointed to 9e- lect England's teams for the cricket Test Matches against Australia in England this year will be, cables Reuter: Sir Pelham Warner (chairman). Mr. P. A. Perrin (Essex). Mr. A. B. Sellers (Yorkshire). Mr. M. J. Turnbull (Glamorgan). THE EIGHT-BALL OYER. A further
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    MAX BAER TROUNCES TOMMY FARR.
    391 31 —Reuter. Clear Points Victory In Title Eliminator. New York, Mar. 12. A capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden last night saw Tommy Farr’s hopes of another title fight fade as he took terrific punishment from Baer. Baer was a clear winner in a stirring battle
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    THE WINNER’S REWARD.
    41 31 —Reuter. New York, Mar. 13. FOLLOWING his decisive win over Tommy Farr on Friday night, Max Baer has accepted terms for a w’orld title fight in September against the winner of the Louis Schmeling contest, scheduled for June.—Reuter.
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    ROYAL MAIL FOR SALE.
    69 31 —Reuter. Reuter. London, Mar. 9. The Grand National favourite. Royal Mail, last year’s winner, whose owner, Mr. Lloyd Thomas, v/ho was recently killed, was riding him, is to be auctioned without reserve, probably at Hurst Park on Saturday.—Reuter. London, Mar. 9. Discord, one of the best
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    RUGGER WIN FOR WALES.
    340 31 Harass Irish Defence At Swansea. By 11 points to five Wales beat Ireland in the international rugger matck played before a crowd of 40,000 at Swansea on Saturday, cables Reuter. Wales scored a penalty goal, a goal and a try and Ireland’s points came from a
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    OXFORD’S VICTORY IN ’VARSITY SPORTS.
    102 31 Athletics —-Reuter. Brown Wins Half-mile And Quarter In Good Times. London, Mar. 12. The introduction at the White City stadium today, of the system of scoring by points, Instead of by the number of events won, coincided with Oxford’s first victory over Cambridge in the
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    CROSS-COUNTRY TITLE.
    40 31 J. T. Holden, of Tipton Harriers, won the English cross-country championship over a course of ten miles a* Reading on Saturday. His time, cables Reuter, was 55 min. 38.8 sec. Mitcham, won the team championship with 91 points.
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    Middlesbro, Beating Arsenal, Join In Division I Struggle.
    1617 32 WOLVES LOSE AT GRIMSBY. WITH Arsenal and Wolves both defeated, and Middlesbro, Preston and Charlton all winning, Saturday’s soccer matches in Division I of the English League opened up the championship issue. Though still in the Cup, Aston Villa are maintaining their
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    GLIMPSES AT THE GAMES.
    322 32 Grimsby’s Gallant Victory With Only Ten Men (From Our OwnCorrespondent.) London, Mar. 13. MIDDLESBROUGH'S attack was inspired and gained them their first m home win against Arsenal for 15 years. Fenton scored their two goals and Bastin got Arsenal’s. The half-time score was 2—o. Blackpool strove
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    LINCOLN & AINTREE CALL-OVERS.
    184 32 LINCOLN AINTREE CALL-OVERS. Takvor Pacha Favourite For Steeplechase. Reuter cables the latest call-overs on the Lincolnshire Handicap (March 23) and Grand National (March 25) as follows (odds taken and offered except where otherwise stated): LINCOLNSHIRE 100/8 Bel Ami offered. 100/7 taken. 15/1 Galsonia. 100/6 Squadron Castle offered 18/1 Thankerton. 18/1
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      AMERICA USES LESS RUBBER.
      221 33 —Straits Times cable. Consumption Lowest For Five Years. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Mar. 15. CONSUMPTION of rubber in America in February was only 23,868 tons, the lowest for any one month for a period of over five years, and was less than half the amount
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      CRICKETER WEDS BRISBANE GIRL.
      235 33 MR. A. C. GROWDER MISS IV A NORMAN. A W E L L-K N O W N Singapore cricketer and former Queensland player, Mr. Alexander C. Growder, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Growder, of Brisbane, was married on Tuesday, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral to Miss
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      NEW LAWYER.
      54 33 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Mar. 15. AN addition to the Johore Bar is Mr. John Pillai, sin of Mr. M. V. rillai, a senior advocate and solicitor. He was admitted by Mr. Justice Mills Mr. J. C. Corbett supported the petition. Mr. C. G. Toh was
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      Monsoon Whips East Coast.
      64 33 THE North-East monsoon whipped the Trengganu coast with all its fury on Tuesday. Heavy rain and a high wind continued all day and at Kuala Trengganu 11.17 inches of rain fell. Kota Bharu had 7.30 inches of rain. According to the Meteorological Office in Singapore there
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      BUFFER POOL REFERENDUM LIKELY.
      161 33 Committee To Consider Terms. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 16. THE Advisory Committee under the Tin Restriction Enactment has not yet met to consider the terms of the proposed buffer pool, the Straits Times understands. It is, however, learned that this committee will meet
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      SINGAPORE NOT “CESSPOOL OF EAST.”
      70 33 (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Mar. 8. “A CITY of the Malays run by the A British for the benefit of the Chinese,” was the description applied to Singapore by Mr. Bert Neyland, of the Posts and Telegraphs Department, Malaya, when he addressed Neath Rotary
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      JOHORE SULTAN’S GIFT.
      62 33 UIS Highness the Sultan of Johore has made a second gift of $5OO to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Before he sailed for Europe on leave in April last, he made his first gift of $250 to the Little Sisters. He greatly appreciates the efforts of
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      SELANGOR WOMAN PETITIONS FOR ALIMONY.
      280 33 Husband Who Won *35,000 Sweep. (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 15. A PETITION for the custody of two children during their respective minorities and fo r permanent alimony during her lifetime was made hy Mrs. Mona Margaret Frank, who was granted a divorce
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      Dutch Augment Their Army.
      138 33 —Reuter. “DEEPLY IMPRESSED” BY AUSTRIAN EVENTS. Amsterdam, Mar. 16. THE decision of the Netherlands Government to enforce immediately the recent law authorising an increase in the period of military training from five and a-half to 11 months was announced by the Prime Minister, Dr. H. Colijn,
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      JOHORE BAHRU ASSIZES.
      53 33 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Johore Bahru, Mar. 15. WITH Mr. Justice Mills presiding a session of the Assizes will open on Sunday. The calendar comprises a case cl voluntarily causing grievous hurt, one of unlawfully returning from banishment and two of kidnapping. The session is expected to
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      T.P.A. COUNCIL BACKS BUFFER POOL.
      171 33 earliest possible moment. Straits Times copyright cablegram. Essential Element For Stabilisation. (From Our Own Corresponds t.) London, Mar. lr,. 'THE Council of the Tin Pro- ducers’ Association, in approving the draft terms of the proposed buffer pool for u n recorded its approval of the
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      EUROPEAN GIRL DRIVER FINED.
      84 33 Says Did Not Know Traffic Laws. PLEADING ignorance of the charges of driving along North Bridge Road Singapore, without a licence on Jan 20, and failing to report an accident, an 18-year-old European girl. Miss William, was fined $20 by Mr. R A. Ward, the Singapore
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      SELANGOR TECHNICAL SERVICES ASSN.
      99 33 TTHE first annual general meeting of the Technical Service Association. Public Works Department, Se’angor. was held at the P.W.D Athletic Association premises with Mr. J H Roberts, State Engineer, Selangor < exofficio President) in the chair. The Senior Executive Engineer, Works and Buildings Mr. W. Laurie
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      MR. F. M. ADAM WEDS IN BRITAIN.
      74 33 (From Our Own Correspondent > London, Mar. l- r v MR. F. M. Adam, of the Singapore staff of Mansfield and Co., Ltd.. v lS married at All Saints’ Church. v> lasey, Cheshire, to Miss Joan Sr t only daughter of Mr. and
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT.
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      REACTION TO EUROPEAN POLITICAL UPHEAVAL.
      1276 1 Share Market Review IN their weekly report on the share market issued at the close of business on Mar. 15, Fraser and Company write:— Business men and all individuals throughout the world who are possessed of capital in cash or goods or property of any
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      TIN EXPORTS EXCEED QUOTA.
      97 1 •THE domestic production, as re1 presented by exports from the F.M.S. and U.M.S. of tin and tin-in-ore at 75.5 per cent, tin content, during February totalled 4,270 tons. The F.M.S. exported 4,156 tons; Johore 57 tons; Kedah 19 tons; Perlis 13 tons; Trengganu 22 tons and
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      LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
      353 1 London, Mar. 15. The following are today’s closing middle prices on the London Stock Exchange: Shares of £1 denomination unless otherwise stated: Yester* Fife day or Fall Conversion x>an 5 d.c. 1944-64 114% Funding Loan 4 d.c 1960-90 112% —1*4 War Loan, 3% p.c 100% —1% Com.
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      SUNGEI CHOH RUBBER.
      60 1 'THE directors of Sungei Choh Rub- ber Co. Ltd., have recommended payment of a dividend of 5 per cent, for the year ended Dec. 31, 1937. They also propose to transfer to general reserve €2.500 and to transfer to Income tax reserve €1,000. ET these recommendations are
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      CHERMANG DEVELOPMENT REACHES TAPPING STAGE.
      1099 2 Estate Now Equipped With Modern Factory Smokehouse. fPHE fact that Chermang Development Ltd. would soon be reaching the revenue-earning stage was disclosed in the chairman’s address to shareholders at the annual meeting of the company in Singapore on Mar. 14. This company owns an estate
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      LESSONG TUJOH RUBBER.
      911 2 CLONAL SEED BETTER THAN BUDGRAFTS. PRODUCTION COST OF 12.32 CENTS. A DDRESSING shareholders at the annual meeting of Lessong Tujoh Rubber Estates Ltd. in Penang on Mar. 11, Mr. C. B. Graburn, the chairman, said:— You will see that we have made a profit of $22,575.18 compared
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      SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
      172 2 Singapore, March 16, 11 noon. Buyers Sellers Gambler S7S(J Hamburg Cube si soo Java Cube JllOO Pepper. White Muntok sis White SH7S Black $9.00 Copra Mixed $3.30 Sun Dried $3.70 Tapioca. Small Flake 3 q o Fair Flake $370 Medium Pearl $4 50 Small Pearl $4 25
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      China Exchange Outlook
      516 3 BANKERS HOPE REGULATIONS MAY BE MODIFIED. Shanghai, Mar. 15. THE pessimism and gloom which pervaded Shanghai business and 1 banking circles yesterday following the announcement of new foreign exchange regulations, has given way to a general feeling of resignation, coupled with vague optimism that the new regulations
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      CONNEMARA LIMITED.
      488 3 1937 Earnings Double Those Of 1936. PROPOSING the adoption of the report and accounts for the year ended Dec. 31, 1937, at the annual meeting of Connemara Ltd. in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Mr. E. N. T. Cummins who presided in the absence of Mr. F. B. Gough,
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      DETAILS OF TIN SCHEME.
      727 3 SMALL PRODUCERS NOT TO PARTICIPATE. QUOTA RIGHTS NOT TRANSFERABLE. IN view of the possible effect of the reduced quota for the quarter April/ June. 193&, upon the labour situation In the mining industry, the following scheme, which is designed to deal witli the situation according to
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      RUBBER HOLDS ITS OWN.
      262 3 OTHER COMMODITIES MARKED DOWN. IN a wegkly report on the rubber market issued on Mar. 11. Lewis and Peat (Singapore) Ltd. write:— The world never seems to be quite free from some form of political disturbance and this week the French cabinet has provided the excitement.
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      FEBRUARY RUBBER CROPS.
      47 3 •THE following rubber crops were harvested by the respective estates in February: lb. Alor Gajah 13,200 Australasia 13,000 Ayer Panas 62,000 Bukit Kubu 9,000 Glenealy 51,000 Jalan Kebun 11,800 Kluang 39,000 Pajam 135,000 Port Swettenham 9,700 Tambalak 12,500 Teluk Anson 57,885 Ulu Benut 28,800
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      Jelebu And Lukut Tin Ore Production.
      24 3 Jclebu Tin produced 280 piculs of tin-ore in February and the sister company, Lukut Tin produced 250 picu’s.
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      22 3 A GAZETTE notification states that the Chinese Salesmen’s Association has been registered within the Settlement of Malacca with effect from Mar. 1.
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      Low Estimates Of American February Consumption.
      399 4 Low Estimates Of American February Consumption Rubber Market Review but better market tone NOW EVIDENT. IN a weekly report on the rubber market, issued on Mar. 10, Stanton Nelson and Co. Ltd., write Just as there appeared signs oi returning confidence, yet another perverse speech by President Roosevelt. declaring the
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      T.P.A. APPROVE BUFFER POOL.
      27 4 —Reuter. London, Mar. 15. THE Council of the Tin Producers’ Association has unanimously approved the draft of the buffer pool scheme for tin.—Reuter.
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      SINGAPORE TIN PRICES.
      24 4 Mar. 10 Tin, S pore Price $92.00 per picul 11 91.37 ’jt 12 90.00 14 90 00 15 93.00 16 91.75
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      COLONY RUBBER STOCKS DECLINE.
      92 4 COLONY rubber stocks in the hands of dealers and harbour board and railway godowns, on Feb. 28 totalled 51,282 tons compared with 54,282 tons on Jan. 31. Of the February total 42,593 tons were in the hands of dealers and 8.819 tons in port and railway
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION.
      168 4 564 Tons Sold FE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held its 1.372nd auction on Mar. 9 when there were catalogued 1.698,652 lb. (758.33 tons); offered, 1,329,984 lb. <693.14 tons); sold 1,263,058 lb. (563.86 tons) Spot London 6 1516d New York 14Vi CAPRICES REALISED Ribbed smoked sheet
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      EXPORTS OF TINNED PINEAPPLES.
      131 4 f\URING the week ending Mar. 5, U 1938, exports of tinned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 88,727 cases, of which: 82,090 (93 per cent.) cases to the United Kingdom, 1,830 (2 per cent.) cases to the Continent of Europe, 1,913 (2 per cent.) cases to
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      OIL PALM BONDHOLDERS TO GET $4.
      495 4 MAIDEN DIVIDEND AFTER TEN YEARS. AFTER waiting ten years for a dividend, bondholders of series A bonds in Oil Palm Plantations are to be rewarded with a distribution of $4 a bond in respect of the year 1937. The report, which was issued on
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      Rubber Experiment In Philippines.
      62 4 'T'IIE Goodyear Rubber Com--1 pany’s experiment of planting rubber trees in the Philippines will pay for itself within five years. Mr. Paul V. McNutt, United States High Commissioner to the Philippines, said in an interview at Washington recently. Mr. McNutt also said that it was imminently
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      UTAN SIMPAN RUBBER.
      295 4 PROFIT RISES FRCM $34,172 TO $85,308. DIVIDEND INCREASED TO 15 PER CENT. A PROFIT of $85,308 was earned by Utan Simpan Rubber Co. Ltd. in the year ended Dec. 31 last, which compares with $34,172 in 1936. An Interim dividend of 7 Vi per cent was paid
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      FEBRUARY RUBBER EXPORTS.
      34 4 THE Controller of Rubber states that the exports of dry rubber from Malaya, Brunei and Labuan, in February totalled 33,462 tons. This compares with a proportionate monthly quota of 35,116 tons.
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      COMPANIES STRUCK OFF REGISTER.
      172 4 A GAZETTE notification states that the following companies were struck off the register on Mar. 8: “The Gambier and Pepper Society, Ho Chong Seek and Company, Limited, Haslewood and Co., Limited, The Malacca Marine Motor Service and Lighterage Company. Limited, The Singapore Poultry and Dairy Farm,
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      STOCKS AND SHARES.
      1192 5 Issued By Fraser And Co., EXCHANGE AND STOCK BROKERS. Singapore, March 16, 10 a.m. BONING. Buyers Sellars 4/- Ampat Tin 3/6 4/£1 Asam Kumbang 28/- 30/£1 Austral Malay 46/- 50/-n. 5/- Ayer Hitam 21/- 22/-xd 1 Ayer Weng 0.60 0.70 £1 Bangrln Tin 21/6 22/a 1 Batu
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      SINGAPORE RUBBER PRICES (Sellers).
      58 5 Date Spot March Apr.-June July-Sept Oct.-Dec. London Mar. 10 23 23% 23% 24% 24% 6 15/16 11 23% 23% 23% 24% 24% 6 15/16 12 23% 23% 23% 24% 24% 6 15/16 14 22% 22% 23% 23% 24 6 15 23% 23% 23% 24% 24% J
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      RUBBER SHARES.
      588 5 London Exchange Prices On Mar. 8. Allagar (2/) l/l%; Alor Pongsu (2/) 1/8%; Anglo-Malay 9/3; Ayer Kuning 26/7%; Badenoch 18/6; Bagan Serai 1S/9; Bahru (Bel.) (2*/) 1/9%; Banteng 13/9; Batang (2/) /10%; Batu Caves 13/9; Batu Tiga 26/3: Bekoh (3/) /11%; Bertam Can. (2/) 2/9%; Bldor 27/6; Blkam
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      AMERICAN STOCK AND COMMODITY PRICES.
      260 5 Singapore, Mar. 16. J a HE following quotations are published by courtesy of Messrs. 8E. Levy and Co.. Singapore. Messrs. White Weld and Company, New York report by cable regarding yesterday’s markets:-— Last Sale Stocks Mar. 14 Mar. 15 American Tel. ft Tel. I30%xd 131%
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      TIN SHARES.
      152 5 London Exchange Prices On Mar. 8. Ampat (4/) 3/9; Anglo-Burma (5/) 10/6; Ayer Hltam (5/) 1 1/16; Bangrln 1 1/16; Gopeng Cons. (5/) 7/6; Hongkong (5/) 15/16; Idris (5/) 4/6; Ipoh (16/) 1%; Kampong Lanjut 20/; Kamuntlng (5/) 8/3; Kepong Killlnghall (5/) 16/6; Klnta (5/) 14/3; Klnta Kellas
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      FRASER & COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS.
      410 5 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS. Singapore, Mar. 15 5 p.m Total for financial Books Date Es Die rear Company Dividend Close Payable Date to date TIN. Ayer Hitam Tin 15% Int. less tax Mar 8 Mar 28 Mar 7 85% Burma Malay 6d. Div. Mar 24 Mar 31 Mar
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