The Straits Budget, 4 January 1940

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  • 1136 1 a thing to be avoided —Straits Times, Dec. 28. **‘Our Food Problem and Its Relation to Our National Defences.” By F. Le Gros Clark and R. M. Titmuss. Penguin Books, Ltd. Harmondsworth, Middlesex. 6d. T announcement in Singapore IGO d exports to Malaya from orciit Britain
    a thing to be avoided —Straits Times, Dec. 28.; **‘Our Food Problem and Its Relation to Our National Defences.” By F. Le Gros Clark and R. M. Titmuss. Penguin Books, Ltd. Harmondsworth, Middlesex. 6d.  -  1,136 words
  • 998 1 already triumphed.—Straits Times. Dec. 29. The absence this week of sensational news about the Allies’ fight against Germany has again directed public attention to the wonderfully gallant stand which 1< being made by Finland against ar overwhelmingly stronger invader In the course of an American news broadcast heard
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  • 987 2 Straits Times, Dec. 30. There Ls one danger in the continued declarations that the Allies are fighting Hitlerism or Naziism and not the German people, but we hope we shall not spur Rationalist and The Troublesome Continental to further efforts if we direct attention to it. The
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  • 1060 2 traits Times, Jan. 2. Once again the Red Cross organization has begun its great work of alleviation of suffering in time of war, and in this people all over the world are uniting. The Duke of Gloucester, as Grand Prior of The Order of St. John
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  • 1135 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 3. The Blockade, 1911-1919 by W. ArnoldForster. Can Germany Stand the Strain? By L P. Thompson. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs (Numbers 17 and 19». Published by Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press Arr.en House. London. E C. 4. Price 3d. each. There is
    —Straits Times, Jan. 3.; The Blockade, 1911-1919 by W. Arnold-Forster. Can Germany Stand the Strain? By L P. Thompson. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs (Numbers 17 and 19». Published by Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press Arr.en House. London. E C. 4. Price 3d. each.  -  1,135 words
  • 78 3 THE lunerai tools piace at Bidauan cemetery of Private Robert Dempsey, 38, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Dempsey who had been with the Argyll for about 20 years, died on Sun* day. He is the son of Mr. James Dempsey, of Toome Road, Ballymena,
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  • DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
    • 59 3 On Dec. 26. To Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. B. D Peake, at Singapore, a daughter, Sarah. BELL.—At Singapore on Dec. 25, to Dulcie wife of Max Bell, a daughter. TREAYS.—To Inks, wife of Major W. H. Treays, Royal Engineers, on Dec. 27. daughter STEVENS. —At the Maternity Hospital on December
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    • 329 3 SIMMONS-DAY.—The engagement Is announced between George Simmons, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Simmons, London, and Amy Alexandra Mary Day, elder daughter of Mrs. and the late A.A. Dav, Singapore LOO —LIM.—The engagement is announced between Michael Loo Kok Cheng the eldest son of Mr. Loo Eng Gu&n Sc
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    • 146 3 DAVIES—WASSENBURG. —On December 25. 1939, at Penang, David James Davies, Malayan Public Works Service, to Maria Hcndrika Wassenburg. of The Hague, Holland. de ZILVA —BRUYNS. —At the Church of the Assumption, Penang, on Saturday, January 6. at 8 a.m. Lynn dc Zilva of Kuala Lumpur to Doris, daughter of
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  • 180 3 DEATHS LEE.—Mrs. Lee Chiow Hong <nee Boh Siok Kengi beloved mother of Mr. Lee Poh Hood passed away peacefully at her restdence. No 156 Tembeling Road, on Wednesday. Dec. 27, 1939, a* 12.30 A M. at the age of 61. OH.—Mbs Oh Twa Koh alias Miss Mak Anp Chew passed
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  • 637 4 THE Kajah Muda of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony (Peter) Brooke, is leaving Singapore shortly tor England where, the Straits Times understands, he will take up war work. It is not
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  • 79 4 Malaya ’s Hope For Early Victory THE first war New Year for 22 years was ushered in vigorously in Malaya on Sunday night. The public places of entertainment were crowded with revellers who uelc< med 1940 with just as much revelry as in peace time. While the principal toast drunk
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  • 152 4 CJNGAPORF/S road death figures for *3 1939 weie the lowest for six years. The number of lives lost during 1939. was 39. representing ten children and Z'J adults, compared with 63 in 1938 Not a single fatal road accident was it ported in the past w r
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  • 63 4 MR. JOSEPH LUCAS SHARPS, works manager of Leverszeep Fabrieken. iN. V Batavia, and son of the late Capt. h nd Mrs. E. Sharps of Port Sunlight. C’h* -.hire, was married at St. Andrew's Cathedral on Monday, to Mrs. Violet Bernice Duthie. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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  • 577 4 Mr. Hau Say Houn, th t Chinese business man who has been expelled from the Colony by the Straits Settlements Government, left Singapore on Sunday night bv train tor Penang, en route to Rangoon and Chungking. Several hundred Chinese saw him oil and just before
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  • 108 4 WEW R.A.F. promotions Include several officers who are known at Singapore and the Far East. Hioe are: General Duties Branch—Group Captain Claude Russell Cox to be Air Commodore* Wing Commander Vincent Buxton to be Group Captain; Wing Commander Hugh Granville White to be Group Captain. Equipment Branch- Squadron
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  • 16 4 Mr. G. Higgins, Agricultural Oiueer, British North Borneo, is spend* iru i shrrt holiday in Singapore.
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  • 240 4 Leaders— Food Control In Wartime i After Finland j An Ancient Doctrine The Banner Of Mercy The Blockade Telegrams— Covering past week’s news 15-2 J Financial Supplement— Financial and Commercial News to date, following page 22 Malayan General News— Governor Warns Those Who Stir Up Trouble 5 New Shipping
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  • 255 4 AS there appears to te seme uncer- tainty among the public in Malaya as to the use ot British postal orders under war-time regulations. the following information is given There is no limit to the value of British postal orders that may be remitted to any place
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  • 32 4 SELANGOR’S 186,000 FOR WAR CHARITY From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur. Jan. 2. LOCAL contributions to the Malaya Patriotic Fund now total $186,***** states the Chartered Bank in a circular Issued to-day.
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  • 725 11 HOLT 25,000 letters, cards and parcels pass through the Postal Censor’s office, Singapore, daily for all parts of the world by air and ocean mail, but the delay in the passage of all this bulk of correspondence through
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  • 385 11 APE MAN NEW FINDS “Gap Now Seems To Be Solved” EXHIBITS at Ruffles Museum and speeches by prehistorians who have met in Singapore have made many Malayans interested in the problem of the “ape man.’’ There is a new angle to the story from Pretoria “The problem of man’s origin
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  • 256 11 CAR PARKING REFORMS UNDER CONSIDERATION Singapore Business Area Traffic Committee CAR-REACHING proposals submitted by the Traffic Advi--1 sory Committee affecting the car parking system in the business area of Singapore are now under consideration by the Government. These proposals hinge on the new ear park in Collyer Quay which is
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  • 539 11 «.From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Dec. 28. DENANG hawkers who are on strike say they prefer death to registration. After their representatives told them that the Chinese Protector had I no power to revoke or postpone the date of registration, speeches
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  • 173 11 COME 200 PATIENTS and members of the stair of the General Hospital, Singapore, spent an enjoyable 80 minutes last week listening to a concert organised by Madam Dietz. Kurt Blach, with an accordion solo, opened up the programme and kept his audience humming and singing wartime songs
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  • 159 11 A REFERENCE to a proposal that a local Muslim unit be sent to China with medical supplies was made in a speech by Mr. Kao Ling-pai, Chinese Consul-General, at a tea party at the Consulate last week in honour of the Chinese Islamic South Asia Goodwill delegation. Mr.
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  • 679 12 A GOOD housewife keeps track of her household expenditure but in this land where one is apt to shirk extra mental exertion, it is more often the rule than the exception to pay the bills without worrying unduly what they are
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  • 190 12 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, Dec. 27. TWENTY-SIX atfap houses on the 1 main road of Tasek Glugor, a village within 20 minutes’ ride by car from Butterworth, were gutted by a fire which occurred in the early
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  • 66 12 r PHE DEATH is reported at Home of a former Malayan, Mr. Walter R Porde. He was appointed secretary to the Straits Steamship Co., Ltd., in 1914 having formerly been with the Duff Development Company in Kelantan He was Captain of the Royal Singapore Golf Club
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  • 234 12 11VJR HARRY NORMAN CROFT', civil engineer of Topham, Jones and Railton, Ltd.. Naval Base, and Miss Eileen Amy Reddy, who arrived in Singapore from England lest week, were married at St. Andrew’s Cathedral by Archdeacon Graham White last week. Mr. R. A. Waddle played the
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  • 45 12 MR. John Kershaw Tattersall Fhckup, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Pickup, of Chiswick. London, was married to Miss Bertha Florence Godfrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Godfrey of Bayswater, London, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Archdeacon Graham White took th<* service.
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  • 64 12 A FURTHER shipment of comforts for the troops has been sent by the Inter-Allied Women’s Association of Malaya. The shipment includes 163 pullovers. 101 scarves, 70 pairs of socks and 30 pairs of gloves. Shipments up to date consist of 618 pullovers, 168 scarves, 86 pairs of
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 34 12 ADELPHI THE HOTEL IN TOWN SEA VIEW THE HOTEL ON THE SEASHORE BOTH HOTELS ENJOY AN ENVIABLE REPUTATION FOR FOOD SERVICE WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT THE FAVOUR OF YOUR PATRONAGE H. O. WASER. GENERAL MANAGER.
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    • 27 12 F or CLEAR VISION Eyesight Examination hy European Kcfrartioni>t ELLISON S. EZEKIEL CO. OPTICIANS Watchmakers <fc photographic dealers. Repair? to binoculars also undertaken 3, CAPITOL BUILDING. SINGAPORE.
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  • Planting Topics
  • 73 13 '■TIE GOVERNOR has appointed the fol- lowing to be Municipal Commissioners for Singapore with effect from Jan. 1, 1940’ Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers (re-appointed >, Mr Tan Chin Tuan (re-appointed), Dato Mohamed Ghazaly bin Mohamed ArifTln, J P (re-appointed), Mr. K I. Tan (re-appolnt-ed). Shaikh Yahya
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  • 229 13 A BRIDE on her 18th birthday was Miss Monica Margaret van Cuylenburg, who was married at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd last week to Mr. Terence Clifford Chiole, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Chiole, of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa.
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  • 267 13 ABOUT 100 pocr Eurasians from homes scattered all over Singapore, sat down to a Christmas dinner last week at the Salvation Army headquarters in Tank Road and were then entertained to a show’ of song, music and magic. They went home with a present each. The
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  • 273 15 -Reuter. Paris, Dec. 26. THERE has been no Christmas truce on the Western ipi ont. The Germans have been almost as active as i;sual in sending out patrols and reconnaissance units. They have been particularly active
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  • 118 15 —Reuter T*IE iormer President of Poland, M. 1 Moscicki, with his wife and children. are going to Switzerland from Rumania, where they have been since they left Poland. M Moscicki’s health has been bad ior some time and the Rumanian Government has given him special permission to
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  • 109 15 Reuter. PEOPLE from Tallinn (Estonia) orv,, arrivin in Copenhagen tell an >S' n l, story the bogus governr 5“ w hich the Russians have set up at in Finland. i TM S vern ment has now acquired nn K v arm y and as
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  • 233 15 —Reuter London, Dec. 27. ALARMING, and doubtless exaggerated. reports are now beginning to circulate in Moscow and to gain credence in the absence of any official denials or details of what is taking place in Finland, says The
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  • 151 15 London, Dec. 2C. A WAR trade agreement has been signed between the United Kingdom and Sweden the object of which is to adapt existing AnglcSwedish trade agreements to wartime conditions with a view to maintaining trade between the two countries at a normal level. A
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  • 34 15 -Reuter. London, Dec. 27. PASSENGER rates between Europe and the Netherlands Indies are to be reduced by 10 per rent, by the Netherland and Rotterdam Lloyd steamship companies.—Reuter.
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  • 124 15 —Reuter. Geneva, Dec. 27. CEVERAL leading Swiss newspapers publish to-day an advertisement by a Berlin company offering to sell various German patents to powerful enterprises. Industrial and financial quarters in Switzerland are wondering whether
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  • 136 15 -Reuter. Zurich, Dec. 28. /GERMANY’S economic policy will be completely reorganized in the near future, declares the Berlin correspondent of Neue Zurcher Zeitung. who says that since the outbreak of war Germany’s economic structure has not come up to expectations. Increased taxation
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  • 115 15 London, Dec. 27. rIE German Government, having apparently satisfied itself that the British Government, in accordance with international law and practice, is not detaining career diplomatic or consular officers of enemy nationality passing through British controls, has decided to release Mr. Gordon Voreker who arrived in Oslo
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  • 79 15 Brit'sh Wireless. London, Dec. 27. IT is believed that in four provinces alone in Gorman-occupied Poland, 15,000 people, including many priests and women, had been shot recently. Something resembling systematic and ruthless extermination of the natural or potential leaders among the Poles would appear to be
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  • 37 15 Reuter. Moscow. Dec. 27 IT is revealed that AstakhofT, counsellor to the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, was relieved of his post by a decree of the Council of Peoples Commissars dated Oct. 28,—Reuter.
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  • 124 15 -Reuter. London, Dec. 27. INURING the week ended Dec 23, the British Contraband Control intercepted 6,824 tons of contraband goods suspected to be destined for Germany This total included 4,568 tons of petroleum and allied products, 660 tons of cotton, 614 tons of foodstuffs
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  • 396 15 -Reuter. London, Dec. 28. THEIR ship cut in half by a German torpedo, the crew of the London I tanker San Alberto (7,400 tons) re- turned to the surviving stern half, got up steam and made a
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  • 320 16 Reds Heavy Losses In Warplanes THOUSANDS OF SWEDES JOIN THE FINNISH DEFENDERS Reuter. London, I)cc. 27. CINNISH air and naval forces destroyed at least 23 Soviet F planes, and possibly 29, on Christmas Day, when hundreds of Red planes carried out raids on Finnish towns, it is officially announced in
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  • 58 16 Reuter. Chungking, Dec. 27. DEPORTS that Mrs. Mao, the divorced wile of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was killed during an air raid on Chlnkou on Dec. 12 are stated to be incorrect. Reuter learns that although Mrs Mao was there at the time of
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  • 90 16 -Reuter. 1 Helsinki, Dec. 27. THREE members of the Lotta Svard, Finnish women’s defence organization, are rcpiMod to have been killed while serving at the front—two on the Arctic coast and one in the eastern wilderness. These women, who are the first to be killed in
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  • 181 16 Moscow, Dec. 27. IT is announced that the Soviet 1 Government has appointed trade representatives to Japan. Meanwhile, after eight meetings at Chita, the joint frontier commission composed of Soviet, Japanese, Outer Mongolian and Manchukuoan delegates has concluded its discussions after
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  • 36 16 .—Reuter. T ty 0 Moscow, Dec. 27. HE Soviet and German governments LVf con cluded a convention to establish regular mail and passenger air services between Moscow and Berlin. starting on Jan. 3.—Reuter.
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  • 417 16 -Reuter. London, Dec. 27. THE first contingent of the Australian forces to reach 1 Britain since the outbreak of the war landed at a south coast port yesterday. They are all members of the
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  • 73 16 Berlin, Dee 26. THE oHicial German news agency revealed yesterday that the death-roll in the train collision on Friday night has risen to 99- the figure given originally was 50. The number of injured is 82. This smash was the second in Germany on
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  • 187 16 -Reuter. London, Dec. 26. THE Nazis chose Christmas Day to torpedo the British steamer Stanholme (2,473 tons) which was sunk without warning by a U-boat oft the west coast with a loss of 14 lives. Ten survivors were injured.
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  • 70 16 Paris, Dec. 27. THE Western Front was quiet yester- day. In fact, it is believed that not a single shot was exchanged between the German and British lines. Perhaps, says Reuter, the Germans were quiet because Hitler was among them distributing parcels and Iron Crosses,
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  • 59 16 TIGHT M.P.s are serving in the Navy. They are: Capt. A. Marsden <who moved the Address in reply to the King’s Speech), Cdr. R. T. Bower, Lt.Cdr. R. T. H. Fletcher, Lt. the Hon. W. W. Astor, Lt. J. G. Braithwaite. Lt. A. Hopkinson,
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  • 173 16 -Reuter. 11/lUCH interest and curiosity have been aroused in Britain regarding the origin and authorship of the quotation with which the King concluded his Christmas broadcast:— ‘7 said to the man who stood at the gate of the years. Give me light that I may
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  • 355 17 Reuter. London, Dec. 28. INDIA has now stepped into the arena in the l second Great War, telegraphs Reuter’s special correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France. The first Indian contingent is now disembarking at a French
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  • 115 17 -Router JJEAR-ADM. RICHARD BYRD, the famous American explorer. jTr--nexpectedly at Wellington 1 v Zealand) on Dec. 27 aboard Polar exploration ship North ota: en route to the Antartic. tr 1 r, l pas ;:i^e out was uneventful until into a gale but the ship and deluding
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  • 21 17 Reuter on koy gland specialist. Dr. sailed from New si- r3pe direct bone and *.V 1? operation for wounded n Prance.—Reuter
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  • 108 17 -Reuter. London. Dec. 28. IT is now learnt that the six survivors of the torpedoed British vessel Arlington Court were saved by the skill and seamanship of an 18-year-old deck boy named Malcolm Morrison. When the ship sank he and six others escaped in a
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  • 127 17 Reuter. REUTER learns that three men with distinguished German war records have joined the South African Active Citizen Force units, including one 01 tl>- most famous pilots Germany ever produced One German said. I fought hard tor Gt:many
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  • 176 17 -Reuter. New York, Dec. 27. yilE newspaper New York Wo rid-Telegram states. “It must make Hitler sick to see what is happening to the Russian Army in Finland. ‘lt turns out Hitler could have moved on Russia with perhaps the same speed
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  • 272 17 GERMAIN DESTROYERS AND PATROL SHIPS BOMBED R.A.F. In Series Of Encounters With Enemy Planes Surface Craft London, Dec. 28. DRI1ISH planes had several encounters with enemy air and u surface craft in the North Sea yesterday. A BRITISH coastal aircraft sighted two enemy destroyers and four patrol vessels near the
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  • 100 17 -Reuter. Paris. Dec 28 JJURING the last, three weeks, two enemy submarines have been successfully attacked by French patrol ship.', last night’s French war communique discloses. One of the submarines was accounted for by the sloop Commandant Duboc and the other by the destroyers Sirocco
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  • 32 17 Reuter. New York. Dec. 27. AT least 378 persons met violent deaths in tlie United States during the Christmas holidays. They included 438 traffic victims.—Reuter.
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  • 28 17 -Reuter Montevideo. Dee. 27 FIVE British mercantile marine captains and 55 seamen who were treed from the Nazi “pocket-battle-ship” Admiral Grat Spec left to-dav in a British steamer.—Reuter
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  • 212 17 Reuter London. Dec. 28. THE Food Minister. Mr. W. H. Morrison, stated that meat rationing is not likely to begin before February. In regard to the sugar ration, which has been fixed at the rate of 12 ounces per head a week from Jan. 8.
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  • 102 17 Reuter London, Dec 29. •THE Distinguished Flying Medal hat been awarded to Air Gunner Charles Ronald Driver, aged 18. of Stockton, for the part lie olayed in the air battle over Heligoland Bight on Dec. 18. Special reference is made in the official report of
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  • 32 17 Ttcuter New York, Dec. 2 1 THE Liverpool freighter City of Singapore. I which went aground to-day inside .Sundy I Hook, has refloated without any serious 1 damage —Reuter
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  • 440 18 ITALIAN STATE’S DISPUTE WITH VATICAN ENDED Historic Visit Of Pope To The King Queen At Quirinal Reuter. Rome, Dec. 28. THE bells of St. Peter’s pealed as the Pope left the 1 Vatican this morning for a visit to the King and Queen of Italy at the Quirinal. The visit,
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  • 51 18 Reuter. 1 Wellington, Doc. 29. NCREASE.S in pay for New Zealand forces overseas ranging from 17s. 6d. daily lor colonels to 6d. daily for privates are announced by the Defence Minister. Coloners pay is increased to 425. 6d and a private’s to 7s. 6d
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  • 30 18 FRESH (lasses will be called to 1 the colours in Germany in the New Year, according to a Berlin dispatch to Kaunas (Lithuania), reports Reuter.
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  • 323 18 Reuter. London, Dec. 29. \17HAT has happened to the Nazi official into the bomb explosion in the Munich beer cellar on the night of Nov. 8 And what has become of Captain Best and Major Stevens, the two Britons who were kidnapped by the Nazis at Venlo,
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  • 239 18 QENERAL SIR HUBERT GOUGH, who commanded the ifth Army during* the last war, does not think very much of Russia’s chances in a war, pointing out that her powers of organization of men and material are miserable. The Russian bogey, he says, is
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  • 471 18 Reuter. London, Dec. 30. MINIMUM estimates of the death-roll in the earthquake in I*l Turkey are now given as '30,000, reports Reuter from Ankara. An area of 60,000 square miles that took the full force
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  • 87 18 U. S. Navy Officials 65,000-Ton Ships -Reuter. Washington Dec. 29. IT IS BELIEVED that U.S. Navy officials are ready to support the proposal, if and when made, to start building at least four 65,000ton battleships in the next few years. Na\al experts argue that at a cost of V 32,500,000
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  • 171 18 -Reuter. London, Dec. 29. THE Minister of Supply. Dr. Leslie Burgin, announced that since the war began the output of shells had been doubled and it is now ten times as large as the same period in the last war. In some cases, gun production had
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  • 29 18 Reuter. London, Dec. 30. C*IVE HUNDRED Indians, mostly 1 students,, at a meeting here yesterday offered to serve with the civil defence forces. They unanimously agreed.—Reuter.
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  • 450 19 -Reuter Paris, Dec. 30. I STATE categorically that, without material 1 and positive guarantees, France will not lay down her arms,” declared M. Daladier, the French Premier and War Minister, addressing the French Senate yesterday. “Just as
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  • 119 19 Reuter. THE anti v London. Dec. 29. 1 u -Nazi secret German radio *en nm Un i? S that 377 P ers °ns have rxf'rm n la y admitted to have been iuthrp.’J l n v Germ any between the th war and Christmas, fell o.i*,
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  • 318 19 AVI V 4 WIUVV A o WVt W IIWV K/V, VU.i vi UlilVV* had not more courage than the men.—Reuter. London, Dec. 30. DE VOLTS are reported to have broken out among the Red Forces at Murmansk, base of the Red
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  • 65 19 Reuter. Oslo, Dec. 29. THREE of the crew of a German plane shot down by a Roval Air Force plane over the North Sea on Wednesday have been landed at Kopervik. on the Norwegian coast, by a Swedish steamer They were rescued after being
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  • 83 19 Reuter. Stockholm, Dec. 30. THE newspaper Dagbladet states that Germany’s political attention is being focussed ever more closely on events in Scandinavia. It is being seriously asked in Berlin whether the Scandinavian countries are considering the possibility of departure from their traditional neutrality.
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  • 49 19 -Reuter. Nairobi, Dec. 28. AN official statement reveals that with certain exceptions wartime military expenditure in the East African territories will be met from Imperial funds. The Governments will be asked to pay only 25 per cent, annually above their peace time military expenditure.—Reuter.
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  • 290 19 -Reuter. London, Dec. 30. IT is officially announced that the British battleship which was hit by a U-boat torpedo on Thursday afternoon has now reached harbour under her own steam. She is not seriously damaged. The casualties are four men missing and presumed dead, and one
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  • 99 19 -Reuter. Amsterdam, Dec. 29. THE Netherlands Government has decreed that all fit male civilians are liable to be called to assist in military non-combatant activity The work they are expected to do is repairing roads and bridges, erecting or pulling down fortifications or other demolition work
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  • 464 19 FOUR MONTHS’ R.A.F. WORK Coastal Command Long Patrols Reuter. London, Dec. 29. Authoritative figures issued today give details of the work done by the Royal Air Force in the first four months of the war According to these figures, up to Christmas Day, aircraft of the Coastal Command had flown
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  • 319 20 Reuter CIIROIJDKI) in deepest sectccy, the naval yards of the Allies and Germany are working at full pressure, 24 hours a day and seven days a week, in the most dramatic naval race for centuries. Germany is
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  • 150 20 Reuter London, Dec. 28. E*VIDLNCE of ill».* deliberate use of neutral t* rrltorial waters lor the preying upon o[ shipping in dellance of all principles of international law is contained in the testimony of the survivors oj the British
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  • 61 20 Reuter Amsterdam, Dec. 28. OLPLYJNG to a question by Wynkoop ‘Communist member of the Second Chamber» about the alleged existence at The Hague of a central bureau lor Western Euv>pc ol the British Intelligence Service, the Minister of Justice. M (iosellng. stated to-day that
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  • 313 20 London, Jan. 2. MhAKIA 2.000.000 people are a dieted bv a Royal proclamation issued last night, making liable for military service all those who are above 19 years but not 2S on Jan. 1.1910. Six age groups are involved, these being men of 19
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  • 213 20 ug'jTiuy Reuter Tokio, Jan. 1. CETTLEMLNT of two outstanding questions between Japan and Russia is announced. They are Firstly, the matter ol the final instalment overdue to Russia for the transfer ol tin* North Manchuria Railway, formerly known as the Chinese Eastern Railway, and Secondly,
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  • 293 20 Reuter. CTK1K1NG views about the course of the European war were expressed by Viscount Kano, London manage; of the Yokohama Specie Rank for some years and vice-chair-man of the council of the Bank of International Settlements.
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  • 68 20 Reuter. Stockholm, Jan. 1. IT is learned from Finnish sources that Germany has decided to resume trade relations with Finland. When the war between Finland and Russia began. Germany suspended trade negotiations which were proceeding and stopped all exports and all payments for ttoods rveived from Finland.
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  • 157 20 Reuter. Shanghai. Dec. 29. THE biggest mass air raids since the outbreak of the SinoJapanese hostilities were launched during the past three days on Lanchow. capital of the northwestern ppv.-ince of Kansu and an important centre on the supply route lrom
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  • 193 20 Reuter. Pretoria, Jar:. 1. pEN. J. C Smuts, the Prime Minister, broadcasting a New Year message, said that the war alter lour months, had been full o: I surprises and hitherto no grea battle had been fought on land, in the sea or air. “Who knows,”
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  • 36 20 Reuter. Washington, Jan. 1. THE Maritime Commission has ap' proved the sale of eight United States Line ships to the North Atlanta Transport Company, a Norwegian com i cern.—Renter.
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  • 334 21 -Reuter Montevideo. Jan. 1 E German steamer Tacoma T («268 tons) with the crew of the scuttled German "pocket batitnfp" Graf Spee aboard, has chosen internment in the Uruguayan wcitcrs The- Uruguayan Government’s action taken on the ground that the TaVor-t intervened
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  • 59 21 -Reuter Washington. Jan. 1. QCrTN Elizabeth has been nominated The woman of the year oy the M rry-Go-Round, which is a syndicatrd column to 400 newspapers. It spaces the reason is because ’.rrivir.g in an aloot and critical counry Tie -completely conquered it,
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  • 35 21 ?v:it.- London. Jan. 1. Sir Charles Little, the Second 4 s i L ord, to-day married his cousin Mary n’.e. at Westminster Abbey. Sir nar .:rst wife died in Mav last year.--
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  • 289 21 Reuter Istanbul, Jan. 2. P‘> IDENT Ineunu of Turkey has at the city of Erzincan. t of the dead,” accompanied by 1 ’tors cf Health and Interior y Inspector-General of the Erzincan suffered most severely ‘iutliquake. President, immediately on his 'Parted a tour of
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  • 383 21 has been achieved.”—Reuter and British Wireless. London, Jan. 1. i 1 AN ADA'S second contingent of troops landed on Sunday at a west coast port, lustily singing Roll out the Barrel and “Tipperary” as they marched ashore.
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  • 50 21 -Reuter. Dublin. Jan. 2 THE biggest quantity of ammunition so far discovered following the Phoenix Park armoury raid by IRA agents was recovered by the police and military near Dublin last night. The dump contained 200 bombs weighing between seven and eight tons. —Reuter.
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  • 47 21 —Reuter. Chungking, Jan. 2. GEN. Knu Pei-keng, counsellor of war operations, reviewing the Sino-Japanese war during the past year, declared that the Japanese sustained 400.000 casualties in 1930 in more than 6.000 engagements. The General expressed confidence in an ultimate Chinese victory.—Reuter.
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  • 179 21 London. Jan. 1. THE Italian Government has invited its Moscow Ambassador, Signor Augusto Rosso, to return to Italv on leave, it is learned here. The step has been taken in reply to the Soviet Government’s action in recalling its new Ambassador to Rome. M Gorelkine. as
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  • 144 21 ReuteT. GREAT Britain has now formally notified the League of Nations that she is taking steps to help Finland i her gallant fight. In a telegram to the Secretary General, the British Government says that it has already put into effect its intention to give
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  • 233 21 Helsinki. Jan. 'l. LJOW 18,000 Russian troops were caught in a trap, held there for len days by the Finnish forces and then practically wiped is revealed in Helsinki. Meanwhile, violent Russian assaults on the Mannerheim Line have again been repulsed, according
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  • 314 21 Reuter. London. Jan. 2 THE Admiralty announce that sinkings due to enemy action for the week trom Dec. 24 to Dec. 30 inclusive were three Britisli and two neutral vessels, a total tonnage of 4.699. A Norwegian steamer. Torwood (254 ton?) was sunk on Dec.
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  • 951 22 (From Our Own Correspondent) Penang, -Jan. 1. rVANGKROUS Lover was responsible for the biggest upset U of the current Christmas-New Year meeting here to-day when she won the second race to pay SUM* on the win
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  • 104 22 C AM RI>\VS race results at Penang in brief are as follows; Rare K 111 P GUESSING S4ft A Ml Monte Vid»*o Sll Amazon Ml R»*e SPEARTOWN S27 s7 Suita \nita Si I nrioils >S Ka e 3: ZOLFANELLA $l(i K S10 The Emperor $15 Race HI.
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  • 765 22 THE Europeans beat the Rest by four goals to two in the annual hockey match played on the S.C.C. padang on Jan. 2, thus winning the honours for the second successive year. While last year’s
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  • 156 22 —Reuter London, Jan. 2. YESTERDAYS Home soccer matche. 1 resulted as follows; SOUTH A Charlton 2 Arsenal SOUTH B Queen’s P.R 3 Reading 0 EAST MIDLAND Doncaster 1 Sheffield U WESTERN Liverpool 7 Crewe FRIENDLIES Blackburn 4 Huddersiitid Barnsley 5 Sheffield W 0 Bolton 3 Preston Bury
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 45 22 BIG SWEEP Th* draw- tor the bi" swe?p resulted Quisana ***** Pratique ***** Nightshade ***** STARTERS N'js *****, 16G92. *****. 107feu. *****, *****, *****, *****. DOUBLE TOTES First double paid $49 on each ol 43 tickets. Second double paid $481 on each of 5 tickets
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    • 54 22 DOlRLE TOTES I'h* 1 first double foie paid $49 on ejrli of 50 winning tickets. The second double tote paid .$2« on each of 9tJ winning tickets. the hh; sweep I'he draw on the big swe*p resulted as follows: KIRST 5471$ SECOND ***** THIRD ***** Star.ers 542iil. *****. ***** *****
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  • The Straits Budget FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT
    • 765 1 IN a review of market conditions in 1989, issued on Jan. 2, Fraser and Company, sharebrokers, write: Viewed in retrospect trade during 1939 was sharply divided between prewar and war conditions. After the Munich agreement
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    • 98 1 DURING the week ending Dec. 16, 1939, exports of canned pineapples from Malayan ports amounted to 6,790 cases, of which Nil per cent) cases were to the United Kingdom, nil per cent) cases to the Continent of Europe. 4,725 (70 per cent) cases to Canada, and
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    • 336 1 London, Jan. 2. AN the Stock Exchange to-day, week-end v accumulation of buying orders caused early brisk activity which, however, was not maintained, though prices held initial gains. Gilt-edged and Home industrials were particularly prominent on good investment demand from the provinces.—Reuter. The following are to-day’s closing
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    • 124 1 ■"PHE output of gold from Raub Australian Gold Mining Co.. Ltd. in the four week ended Dec. 30, was 1,999 fine ounces, compared with 1.975 fine ounces in the preceding four weeks. The local secretaries say Crushing No. 554 Battery treated 5,186 tons of ore returning 1.386
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    • 46 1 Date Spot Jan.-Mar. Apr -June July-Sept. Oct -Dec. I/mdon Dec. 28 38% 38% 36% 35% 34% 11% 29 38% 37% 36% 35% 34% 11% Spot Jan. Feb -Mar. Apr.-June July-Sept. Oct.-Dec. London Jan. 2 37% 38 37% 36% 35% 35% 11 11/16
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    • 111 1 ACEAN shipments of rubber from all Malayan ports in 1939, including re-exports of rubber imported from foreign sources, totalled 553,324 tons, or 26,413 tons more than in 1938. Statistics issued by the Regis-trar-General of Statistics this morning show that shipments in December were 41,568
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    • 181 1 COUNTRIES that do not admit certain of the codes now allowed for telegrams between the United Kingdom and all colonial dependencies are given in a statement issued by Cable and Wireless Ltd. Countries that do not at present admit any of the permitted codes are the
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    • 113 1 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, Jan. 2. The following are to-day’s “bid” quotations for Fixed Trusts:— s. d. British Empire “A” 16 6 British Empire “B” 8 7V& British Empire Cumulative 13 3 British Empire C’prehenslve 13 6 British Oeneral “A” 18 9xd British General “B” 14 0
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    • 43 1 THE price of rubber for purpose of assessment of export duty in the F M S. for tiie period Dec. 29. 1939 to Jan. 4. 1940. inclusive has been determined at 38 >. cents a pound, states a Government Gazette notification.
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  • 1150 3 MINING Val Buyers Sellers SU Ampat Tin VI 5/6 i Austral Amal 5/5 V 3 h Austral Malay 37/- [1 Ayer Hltam 2*/6 25/6 i a vpr wenK 0.90 0.95 Uangrin Tin A > KnSrrr.. im ii% Burma Malay 23/3 2V3xd jj chenderlang 17/-* 18/- Hone Kong
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  • 38 3 official price of tin in Singapore on Dec. 28 was $124.75 per picul of 133 l/3rd lb. on Dec. 29 $124.75 on Dec. 30 $125.50; on Jan. 2 $125.62 1 /2! on Jan. 3 $125.25.
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  • 347 3 A SHARP rise in profit for the n year ended September last, compared with ‘the preceding year, is shown in the accounts of Indragiri Rubber, Ltd., issued last week. The proposed dividend is 10 per cent, which is Rouble that
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  • 313 3 IN a weekly report on the rubber market. Issued on Saturday, Guthrie and Co., Ltd. write:— During the past week the market has been very quiet and dull owing to the holidays, and consequently the
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  • 138 3 A DDRESSING shareholders at the annual meeting of Katu Tin Dredging Ltd. in Kuala Lumpur on Dec. 28, Mr. C. R. Thurstan, the chairman, said:— Our assessment under the restriction scheme, in spite of numerous appeals, remains low and unaltered but we were successful in
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  • 127 3 Singapore. Jan. 3, noon. Buyers Sellers Gambler 7 60 Hamburg Cube $14 Ot Java Cube $13 00 Pepper White Muntok s 16 SO White $1625 8.75 Copra Mixed $3.45 Sun Dried $3.80 Sage Flour So l L'ngga $7.10 7.10 Fair $7.10 Sarawak $7.50 triotono Patembaiig $12 50
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  • 195 3 FRASER COMPANY LIST OF CURRENT DIVIDENDS Singapore, Jan. 2, 5 p.m. Books Total for Company Dividend Close Date Ex Dlv. financial year I’IN Payable Date to date Kuchai 10% lnt. Jan. 13 Jan. 19 Jan. u 15% Lin &ui 5% lnt. Jan. 1(1 Jan. 19 Jan. 17 5% Southern Klnta
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