The Straits Times, 31 December 1933

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    37 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA. No. 106. Sunday, December 31st., 1933. Price 10 cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper in Malaya. No. 106. Sunday, December 3 1st., 1933. Price 10 cents.
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    JAPAN'S MENACE TO OUR BRITISH TRADE
    684 1 Dumped Goods Are Crippling Local Merchants SITUATION CALLS FOR STERN PREVENTIVE ACTION MALAYAN FACTORIES CANNOT COMPETE CINGAPORE'S manufacturers and nurchants are finding that the struggle against Japanese competition is becoming increasingly difficult. It is no longer fair competition, they declare but plain dumping. New
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    11 1 F.M.S.V.R. Forwards breaking away in the loose during yesterday's Rugby match.
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    POLITICAL UPSET IN RUMANIA
    281 1 POLITICAL UPSET IN RUMANIA ALL LEADERS OF THE IRON GUARD ARRESTED Bucharest, Saturday. PILLOWING King Carol's ap- pointment of M. Angelt-scii, Minister i° Education as Prime Minister, the Cabinet met to decide measures to be adopted as the result of Dr. Dura's assassination. The arrest of the leaders of the
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    SIX SHARE OUR $100
    141 1 FOOTBALL COMPETITION RESULTS AGAIN the btst forecasts In the Sunday Times Football competition was nine out Of ten. In competition Number 21, run in connection with the Home football matches played on D Hi-mber 23, six entries were received containing onlj one error, and the Benders
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER.
    62 1 Noon, Saturday. R.S.S. equal to London Standard Buyers Sellers Spot (loose) 14 144. (F. 0.8.) 14 1/16 14««. 6tandard R.S.S. on Tender Buyers Sellers Jan.-Mar. 11', 14' Apr- June U% 14. July-Sept. 14H 14%. Tone of Market Erratic Slightly Easier. Latest Cable per Ib. London Spot Sheet 4
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    Soviet Warns Japan
    388 1 RUSSIA WILL FIGHT FOR RIGHTS Moscow, Saturday. \M LITVTNOFF, concluding his survey A of the international situation before the U.S.S.R. centra' executive committee, noted the renewal of diplomatic relations with China win satisfaction. He regretted that Chir.* /till he to suffer invasion from a foreign enemy and
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    U.S. BANK SCHEME CONDEMNED
    110 1 New York, Saturday. The bank code proposed by hundr< i banks for New York district is meeti: with a mixed reception in Wa 1 Street. Bank shares h» respondeJ favourably as the new s^ieme aims t making the banks self supporting despite the present low lnterc#c
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    BATAVIA RUBBER CONFERENCE
    49 1 DRAFT QUOTA SCHEME BEING PREPARED Batavia, Saturday. The conference of European Rubber Growers appointed an executive committee to formulate the views of the conference. The committee met today and began the work of drawing up a draft quota scheme for early presentation to the conference. Reuter.
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    M.C.C. vs. CALCUTTA
    59 1 STAND BY TOWNSEND AND VERITY Calcutta, Saturday. YN the three-day match against Cal- cutta which commenced today, the M.C.CL team scored 206 runs for the lots of eight wickets. Walters made 67. Townsend and Verity are both not out for 52 and 48 respectively. Their ninth wicket
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    LEVINSKY DEFEATS Me CORKINDALE
    56 1 Chicago, Saturday. KING Levlnsky, the American, beat the South African, McCorkindale, on points In a ten-round contest. He won every round, flooring McCorkindala six times although there was no count. The American pummelled McCorkindale to the head and body. The latter showed the greatest puck and
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    FOOCHOW FEARS MORE RAIDS
    245 1 FOOCHOW FEARS MORE RAIDS REBEL TROOPS NOW IN ENVIRONS OF CITY •THE residents of Foochow, the capl- tal of Fukien, have petitioned the rebel government to withdraw all troops from the city in order to obviate the danct of further Central aerial raids. Cen. Tsai Ting-kai, to whom the petition
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    INTREPID CHINESE
    235 1 CYCLED TO ENGLANDWALKED BACK 'From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, Saturday. I*HE young Selangor Chinese, Wong Ah Chai, formerly employed as a fitter at Cycle and Carriage, Kuala Lumpur, who six years ago left on a cycle tour of the world, arrived in Seremban today. He used a second-hand
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    LONDON RUBBER & TIN.
    75 1 LONDON RUBBER TIN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. RUBBER. (Quotations as supplied by Symingtoa and Wilson.) Spot (Buyers) 4 11/33. (Sellers) 413 32. January-March 4 15 32. April- June 4 9/16. July-September 4%. Market tone Firm. SILVER. Spot 19 1 Kid. Two months 19 3 16d. CROSS RATE. London-New
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    MAINLY about MALAYANS
    2908 2  -  The Wanderer By A MACABRE story was told at the Rotary convention in Kuala Lumpur some days ago. It appears that three or four miles outside Ipoh there is a colony of decrepit Chinese, men and women, some of them blind or nearly so, living In a
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    The WORLD of BRIDGE
    1309 3  -  Ely Culbertson by World's Champion Player and Greatest Card Analyst AT tlmea the necessity of obtaining the lead so far outweighs the value of a single trick that we must gladly sacrifice that trick In order that we may ultimately gain two or more tricks In
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      1099 3 Assets exceed $12,000,000. Assurance in forre over $35,000,000. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. < Incorporated tn tha Straits Settlement*) HEAD OFFICE Great £a»Uni Li*« Building, Cecil Stre«t. Singapon. LONDON OFFICE x 27, Old Jewry. E.C. Th« Company has £20.000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England and eompliei
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      139 3 Our Crossword Puzzle CLUES. ACROSS. 22. Wedding 23. Delayed 1. Movement 25. From 4. Drew out rc^cnin. g people 10. Relating to dinner 31. 12. Sparser i>pecie« 14. Wireless J0 M seas -16. Loiter 17. Dread 18. Giant 24; overthrow Solution Of Last Sunday's 26. Quench 29. Employ Puzzle. 30.
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    AROUND the CLÜBS
    889 4 AROUND the CL ÜBS r A m icable Association. DURING last week-end, the premises of the Amicable Athletic Association were gaily illuminated on the occasion of the presentation of souvenirs to Messrs Teo Kho Hee, Loh Hood Klang and Koh Swee Chiang, former hon. treasurer, hon. general secretary and hon.
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    Eggs And Egg Problems
    1245 4 Eggs And Egg Problems Poultry Notes A LTHOUGH eggs are among the most: common things on earth, there are very few people who have any knowledge of what they contain or of how they are made. We all] know that eggs are white, while others are blue, tinted or brown.
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    The Fatal Fascination of Side
    901 4  -  "Cueman" Billiards By MORE than a hundred years ago a man named Bartley discovered the use of "side" in billiards, and it has been a flame for the moths ever since. Never Is there a man taking up a cue for the first time but
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    BOXING
    89 4 BRADY vs. SUARES Sergi. Brady <R.A.F.> will r. •> the ring ext Sa'urday when he meets Arthur Suares at the New World Arena over twelve rounds. Suares is a lightheavy who comes with a good reputation from India and should fully oxtend the airman. In the semi-final Leslie Gallistan
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    HOCKEY MATCH CANCELLED
    30 4 OWING to the non-appearance of th? visiting team, the hoc. match to have been played between 111 and the Co 1 at Sele ar yesterday, was cancelled.
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    The Tragedy-Of A Genius
    1118 5 The TragedyOf A Genius Nijinsky. By Romola Nijinsky. Gollancz. 10s. (id. i/kLL those who are Interested in the A amazing history of the Russian ,Ballet In Western Europe, as well as those who remember it in its heyday .before the War, when Vastilav Nijinsky ,was its bright particular star, will
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    Tours Of The Prince Of Wales
    217 5 H.R.H. A Pictorial Biography Edited by Ed par Middle ton. The Bodley Head. ss. |X>R this book Mr. Middleton has got together a most comprehensive collection of pictures Illustrating the life of the Prince of Wales from hte earliest flays down to events which
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      THE VICTORIAN ERA
      434 5 THE VICTORIAN ERA Trumpeter, Sound! By D. L. Murray. Rodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. A COLOURFUL period of Queen Victoria's long reign is covered by this vivid account of the life story of Mark Woodrofe, beginning with hisj apprenticeship at the age of nine to an wholesale chemist in London
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      MID ARCTIC WASTES
      345 5 MID ARCTIC WASTES Ice. By Lennox Kerr. The Bodley Head. 6s. ENNOX Kerr haj been a sailor most of his life, and so can gauge the probabilities and possibilities of the story in his latest book better than the mere landlubber. But to the ordinary reader it is to be
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      Three Readable Books
      543 5 Three Readable Books Death Dances Thrice. By J. C. Lenehan. London Luck. By Mrs. Alfred Winrate. Nine Days Blunder. By W. G. Elliot. Jenkins Colonial Libraiy. "OOSTON Belle," the quec of all the forgers, makes anothe. appearance in "Death Dances Thrice" and once more Charl'e Ryan and his uncle Peter,
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      The Perfect Robot
      216 5 Button Brains. By J. Storc-r Clous ton. Jenkins' Colonial Library. IF you can imagine a robot so per- fectly made as to deceive the unwary into thinking it is a real person, and that the said robot has been made to resemble the good-looking young cousin of
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    THE BOOTLEGGING BUSINESS
    569 5 THE BOOTLEGGING B U SI NESS Contraband. By R. McKinley and E. Rodwell. Falcon Books. Bs. fid. IF any arguments were still needed to prove what a failure Prohibition really jwas, both in the United States and in Norway, tnls book, which wu dictated by two authentic rum runners, would
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    A THRILL ON EVERY PAGE
    287 5 A THRILL ON EVERY PAGE One More Chance. By Neville Brand. The Bodley Head. 7s. Sd. IN 'One More Chance" Mr. Neville Brands favourite character, Henry Barradyne, very nearly takes the one chance too many when he comes up i against an international gang of cri- j minals engaged in
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    An Epic Of Our Time
    285 5 Dawn Of Darkness. By Balder Olden. Jarrolds. 7s. (id rpHERE are some books which fill the reader with a burning pity, a sens." of futility and a profound conviction of man's inhumanly to man. "UncleTom's Cabin" is one o' these; and Balder Oldens "Dawn of
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    PRESS to SUIT your TYPE
    1017 6 (By Our Own Correspondent.) Suhdat Times Office, Fleet Street, Dec. 7. A FULL three weeks be'ore the Old Year slips quietly away and the New Year takes its place amidst sounds of revelry and feasting, I am sending my good wishes .'or 1934 speeding over
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    Seen in and About Town
    891 6 "yES. tne la»t week was a really hec■l tic ono with dances, parties, and the other Christmas jollifications that come but once a year. But that is not the end of it. There is more to come— with the merriment that will take place tonight
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    If You Are Short....
    323 6 A READER who confesses to being short and stout has written to ask what she should do to appear taller and slimmer than she is so this is for the benefit of all those who find themselves In the same box If you belong to the
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      96 6 New Beauty Secret gave her Natural appearance Men wondered about her lips. They looked artificial, so conspicuous. Then she switched tr Tangee. Unlike ordinary lipsticks, Tangee cannot make your lips look painted. It i-> unique. As you apply it to your lips it changes color to the one shade just
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    SYNOPSIS.
    148 7 Monty Bodkin, who has been dismissed from the Mammoth Publishing Co., by the proprietor, Lord Tilbury, gets a job at Blandings Castle as the Earl of Emsworth's secretary. Sue Broun, Monty's former f\-anc-ee, who is now engaged to Ronald Fish, Lord Emsworth's iecretary, la at the Castle. The Earl
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    HEAVY WEATHER
    3070 7  - HEAVY WEATHER P. G. Wodehouse By *'O F course il would, my dear fellow. You are quite right. He shall be turned out Immediately. Where is he? I will go to him instantly." "Better let me send him to you out here. More dignified. Don't «.o to him. Let him
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      33 7 FT 1 1b Sjffy delight Jlf^ |g; 1 Jr 9bHH c sea H and I ON THE CHANGI SANDS— /^6^\ V lb^Bk "Come on Rover let's have our \TVx%>\ 'NESTLES CHOCOLATE. N*Wr f|l£
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    TOTIDEM VERBIS.
    271 8 It is becoming clear that the reaction to Sir Cecil dementi's decision to appoint a Straits-born Chinese consultative committee is not quite as favourable as might have been expected, and the reason is to be found in the general feeling that although His Excellency may be willing to
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    PLACE-NAMES and THEIR MEANINGS
    700 8 PLACE-NAMES and THEIR MEANINGS EXAMINATION of the six-mile to an inch Map of Malaya reveals many curious names of rivers, mountains, and Kampongs which impel one to pause and reflect on what event in the remote past could have been responsible for them. Thus in the extreme north of Negri
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    WANTED-for MURDER!
    1002 8  - WANTED -for MURDER! Gwyn Evans by "And the price is thirty shillings sir! Beddenbrekfuss. Wot you'd call an 'ome from 'ome." The Man in the Brown Suit glanced furtively at the tight-lipped landlady with her professionally ingratiating smile, and his fingers fumbled with the pig-skin wallet in his breastpocket. She
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    41 8 "The dope's no good, doc. The only hope is for you to cable all those other blokes, tell them that even the jaga has gone back on dm now, and say that Ananias refuses to carry on alore for another week."
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    A Malayan Watering Place
    650 8 A Malayan Watering Place WEA-SIDE resorts in Selangor are at a discount, and the only two in existence that I know of are Morib and Pulau Angsa. The latter, some hours by launch from Port Swettenham, off the Klang islands. < large mangrove reserves) and near Jeram. has, I understand,
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    CHINESE CHARGED
    107 8 Goh Ah Kow. a young Hokien woman, who was originally chargei with infanticide, was produced yesterday before Mr. N. A. Worley, the acting criminal district Judge, to answer a reduced charge of disposing the dead body of the child. It will be recalled that the child was found
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      103 8 A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR PATRONS! CAPITOL Holiday Matinees Tcdav Tomorrow 3.15 M.G.M.'s Gmr.d Banquet of tht Stars "DINNER AT EIGHT" Acclaimed by Enthusiastic Crowds Nightly as the Year's most Brilliant Picture! PAVILION MATINEE 3.15 LAST DAY First National's Spicy Comedy Hit "SHE HAD TO SAY YES" WIITH
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    Lost Continent Found ?
    160 9 Lost Continent Found Calcutta, Saturday. rprtACfiS of Lemuria, the fabled lost ■I continent said to be sunk in the Indian Ocean, are believed to have been discovered by the Murray Oceanographic Expedition. They report having found 10 submarine hill-ranges running northwest south-west across the Gulf of Aden, and between India
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    ANCIENT RITES REVIVED.
    69 9 Canton To Honour Gods Of War And Confucius. Canton. Dec. 25. The South-West Political Council recently adopted a resolution submitted by Gen. Chan Chai-tong for the revival of sacrificial rites lor Confuslus. Kuan Kung and Yueh Fei. Kuan Kung and Yueh Fei were war heroes in the
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    CITY'S YOUTH FACES A GREY FUTURE
    452 9 CITY'S YOUTH FACES A GREY FUTURE LOCAL INDUSTRY CANNOT ABSORB TRAINED MECHANICS IT is doubtful whether many of the youths who are being trained in the Singapore Trade School can ever be absorbed by industry locally. Many of the avenues of employment that were once open to these boys rubber
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    Planter's Adventurous Voyage
    362 9 Planter's Adventurous Voyage ACROSS ATLANTIC IN SMALL SHIP Three thousand miles in a 65-foot motorship was the experience recently of Mr. Reginald Phillips, a former Malayan planter who after six years with a rubber company in Kri.iru.fi was one of the hundreds of victims of the slump "axe" in 1931.
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    INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE.
    84 9 An open competative examination for admission to the Indian Civil Service will be held in London In 1934. The closing date for the receipt of applications by the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, will be May 1934. The regulations for the examination may be inspected, on application,
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    FIRST AIR MAIL LEAVES TODAY.
    497 9 FIRST AIR MAIL LEAVES TODAY. NEW BRITISH SERVICE ANEW page in the history of commercial aviation in Singapore and the Empire will be written today. Shortly after noon the fir t homeward 'plane of the Imperial Airways service between London and Singapore will leave Seletar. The service was established a
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    TAX METHODS.
    142 9 They Worry The Lives Of Small People." Judge Lalley. on the subject ol In-come-tax officials, at Portsmouth County Court recently said: "They seem to devote themselves to worrying the lives out of small people who do not understand them, and let the big fish go. "If a small
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    WILTS. HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR
    166 9 fpHE stay of the Ist Battalion, the A Wiltshire Regiment, in Singapore has been extended another year. No official communication In tulr regard has, however, been received by the Military Department, the only intlnation to the troops so far being a statement In The "Times."
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    "TONGUE TWISTERS."
    132 9 Accused Who Made A Judge Laugh. Even the judge. Lord Blackburn, laughed in Glasgow I\ih Court when he heard a story of tongue twisters put to a motorist by a doctor. I asked the accused to go through certain tests, said Dr. Robert Kennedy Watt, who was called
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    32 9 Miss Margaret Grice, who retired from the F.M.S. Medical Service recently after working for some years as an Infant Welfare Sister, has been appointed to a School and Health post at Gulldford.
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    Strengthening Our Air Defences
    245 9 Strengthening Our Air Defences BOMBER SQUADRON DUE SOON PORMERLY couun^nder of No. S3 Squadron of the Roytl .Mr Force. Squadron Leader R. A. Groige will arrive in Singapore on February 4 To take up duty at Seletar as senior air staff officer. Incidentally, the personnel of No. 100 (Bomber) Squadron
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    STATES AND FEDERATION
    91 9 New Delhi, In the Assembly today Sir B. L. Mltter. replying to Mr. S. G. Jog. said that adherence of the State to Federation would be a matter for individual negotiation after the Constitution Act was passed. There had. therefore, been no occasion for obtaining the views
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      25 9 X Haig NO FINER WHISKY GOES INTO ANY BOTTLE SOLE AGENTS JOHN LITTLE L C°L T INCORPORATED IN EN6LAND) SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR, PENANG, C IPOH.
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    How China Can Become United
    431 10 How China Can Become United LOCAL MERCHANT'S IMPRESSIONS AFTER an absence of more than two yrars, Mr. Lim Nee Soon, J.P., the well-known rubber and pineapple planter, returned to Singapore from China last week. He resided in Northern China and! during his long stay took a keen interest in national
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    17 10 Mr H. N Ferrers is expected to arrive in Singapore about Jan. 25 by the Yasukuni Mara.
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    Women Not So Brainy!
    227 10 London, Saturday. WOMEN are up In arms against recent medical pronouncements that they are less intelligent than men because their brains are not so heavy. These pronouncements are the re- j suit of investigations all over the world into brain capacity and weight be- fore and
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    ALLEGED ARMED ROBBERY
    178 10 In the preliminary inquiry into a charge of armed robbery against Wee j Tian Chong and Ong Chai Kan and abetting the offence against Swee Pan before Mr. R. J. F. Curtis, the third magistrate, yesterday, his worship reserved his decision until Jan. 2. After further evidence
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    61 10 Mr. Tay Cheng Hoon, of the office of the Assistant Treasurer. F.M.S., Kuala Lumpur, was placed first in order of merit in the F.M.S., for having passed with distinction the F.M.S. and S.S. Government book-keeping and accountancy examination, held at the Federal Council Chamber, Kuala Lumpur, on October 24. He
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    37 10 "Ardmore." Steven's Road, formerly the Tuan Besar of Gruthrie's residence, which is now being demolished to make way for a block of flats. Thus passes another of the homes of the merchant princes of Queen Victoria's day.
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    Early Motoring In Singapore
    538 10 Ea rly Mo to ring In Singapore DRAWBACKS OF "THE GOOD OLD DAYS" L^FW people here now perhaps recall the introduction of motor cars to the East and to Singapore. The first cars to arrive here were of one cylinder and generated from six to eight horse power. They were
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    Salesman On Serious Charge
    181 10 Salesman On Serious Charge IN the middl of 1927. when the Borneo Company, Singapore, suffered losses between $20,000 and $30,000 owing to a chain of swindles, a young salesman named Kwah Oh Cheng absconded. Yesterday, however, the youth was arrested and taken by Detective-In-spector T. E. Wray before the Criminal
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    An Old Landmark Passes
    183 10 An Old Landmark Passes A RDMORE," oft Stevens Road, one •"of Singapore's finest European residences in the early 70s. has been razed to the ground. Modern residential flats are to be built on its site Thus passes another of the homes of the merchant princes of Queen Victoria's days. The
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    CANTONESE SENTENCED HOUSEBREAKING CRIME
    141 10 CANTONESE SENTENCED HOUSEBREAKING CRIME ON his own plea of guilty to a charge of housebreaking and theft a Canto- ncse, named Lang Ng Tim was sentenced to eight months' rigcous imprison- I ment by Mr. N. A. Worley, the acting J criminal district judge, yesterday. According to the prosecution ory
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    280 10 HOW OUR BUREAUCRATS IMPROVE THEIR MINDS (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. Foreign publications read by Kuula Lumpur people vary in their interest*. Literary, scientific, humorous and similar publications command good sales. But periodicals providing light reading matter are much patronised Of all these British and American publications, cinema
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    36 10 Tenku All. son ot the Sultan of Trengganu, visiied Devonport on Monday. Dec. 11. and was the guest of the officers of H.M.S. Malay, battleship presented to Great Britain by the Malay Srat.es. during the war
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    18 11 MALAY AN LESS ON OF THE OL YMP IAD S POR TING INT ERSTATE GA MES REVIEWED CHAPTER
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    THE OLYMPIAD RESULTS REVIEWED.
    943 11 Many Surprises In State Team Matches. I*HE Federal Capital had a very happy sporting Christmas which drew crowds of Chinese to the Stadium to witness the second All-Malayan Chinese Olympiad, the Sikh community to the Central Workshops ground for the second All-Malayan Sikh sports at Bentul.
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    PENANG
    1402 11 FEW SPORT ACTIVITIES LAST WEEK II7ITH all local Chinese sportsmen away at Kuala Lumpur for the All-Malaya Chinese Olympiad and the races occupying the attention of almost everyone to the exclusion of everything else, Penang had a dearth of other sport during last week and up to the time
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    FOOTBALL FINANCE IN SINGAPORE
    984 12 Annual Accounts Reveal A Satisfactory Position OfHAT may be taken as a definite sign in the general Improvement •f conditions in Singapore is contained in the annual report and accounts of the Singapore Amateur Football Association which were published during the week. A profit of $3,032
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    22 12 Doctor L. M. Ram. former Cricket Captain and Tennis Member of the Necri Sembilan Club who has left for India for rood.
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    530 12 Lessons Of The Hockey Defeat WELANGOR was distinctly unlucky J not to have got away with honours last Saturday, when they were opposed to Malacca on Malacca soil. This was their second defeat of the season, and from the same quarter. Local hockey enthusiasts all turned out on the
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    WILTSHIRES DEFEAT S. JOHORE
    430 12 GOOD MATMI ON Ml DDY FIKLD South Johore nil Wiltshire Re*t. 9. Nine of the representative players of the South Johore RFC. failed to put in an appearance on the Civil Service Club ground at Jchore Bahru yesterday for the Rugby fixture with the Wiltshires consequently
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    41 12 The Singapore Badminton Team that played in the all M.ii Chinese Meet. Standing: (left to right) Mrssrs. Ong Siok Tan retary). Koh Ken* Sianr (capt). Charlie Chua. \e» Hiai .Vm. Sitting:. Messrs. Lim Boon Guan, Lim Tian Win, Leow Kirn Fatt.
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    SELANGOR CLUB LOSE TO ALL-BLUES
    224 12 (From Our Own Correspondent) Seremban, Saturday. The Negri Sembilan All-Blues pur ud a splendid performance when they dertated the Selangor Club by five polnr c to three at Seremban yesterday. Conditions were ideal for Rugby. In the initial following th; kick-off the All-Blues had play
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    214 12 SELANGOR BEA T THE NEGRI EXPEKIMEM \l. SIOE'S si CCESS (From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lurrour. Saturday By lour goals to one fl defeated Negri Sembilan aftrr a duT'.cult second half. Solan, <r men trying an experimental M forwards and oressed most ni the tin:•-. The Negri were not at
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    930 13 ACCIDENT MARS MEETING Horse Destroyed FAVOURITES JUSTIFY CONFIDENCE <From Our Own Correspondent.) Pertang, Saturday. The fourth day's races today attracted a bigger crowd than previous days, while the betting was also heavier. The sport again proved interesting, the big race once again yielding a three figure
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    364 13 SURPRISING NUMBER OF DRAWN GAMES London, Dec. 30. The following home football matches were played today: First Division. fg Birmingham 0 Arsenal 0 Chelsea 2 Stoke City 0 Derby 2 Middlesbrough 0 Leeds 4 Blackburn R. 0 Leicester 1 Aston Villa 1 Liverpool 1 W'hampton W. 1
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    1039 13 How They Slood Before Yesterday's Game The following were the positions of teams in the English and Scottisn League tables prior to yesterday's games First Division. P. W. L. D. F. A. P. Arsenal (1) 22 14 3 541 20 S3 Huddersfleld (6) 22 11 4 *****
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    87 13 London, Dec. 10. The Army played their first representative hockey match of the season against Beckenham on Dec. 9, and were defeated by the only goal scored, netted in the first half by J. E. Marks In another important match, Win; bledon beat Portsmouth United Services a I
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    1428 14 INTERESTING RUGGER Good Work By The Home Forwards. <By Our Rugby Correspondent) S.S.V.F. .22 pts. F.M.S. V.R. ..8 pis. Ar'er a very enjoyable gam? In which the Straits Volunteers forwards played an all important part the S.S.V.F. defeated the F.M.S.V.R. by 22 points (two goals and
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    619 14 Seven Two CHINESE IN GREAT FORM Chinese 7 S.R.C. 2. j YESTERDAY'S charity soccer match between the SRC. and Chines^ I developed into a very one-sided affair after the S.R.C. had opened in such promising manner that they snatched i a two goal-lead In the first five
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    140 14 EUROPEANS v». THE REST A trial match In connection with the Europeans vs. The Rest will be played at the S.R.C. ground on January 5. The teams will be: Colours: Cheok Wah (S.C.R.C.); Muthucumaru (C.S.C.) and Ch: tterjee (1.A.); G. Ross (S.R.C), G. E. N. Oehlers (S.R.C.) and P.
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    977 15 CRITICISM OF BADMINTON ASSOCIATION "HPHE Editor, The Sunday Times: May I crave space in your "World of Badminton" page to reply to the remarks of "One Who Krows' published last week. "One Who Knows" and his frior.ds claim to have rendered valuable services (unofficial) to the committee. 1
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    1953 15 the World of BADMINTON Results Of All Malayan Chinese Olympiad Matches Discussed Singapore's Defeat By Penang Many Surprises Lessons Of The Tournament Low Standard Of Play Of Local > Exponents. |/"EEN Interest was shown In the tournament held In Kuala Lumpur during the Christmas holidays under the auspices of the
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    180 15 After Suffering for Many Years What a great thing It must be for this woman, after suffering from rheumatism for many years, tc be free from pain again at her age. She writes:- "I should like to tell you that since I commenced taking Kruschen
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