The Straits Times, 17 January 1937

Microfilm: NL1519
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    40 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA FINAL EDITION I No. 265 Sunday, January 17, 1937 Price 10 cents THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya, No. 265 S n4ay, January 17, 1937 Price 10 cents
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    SIAM RETAINS FRIENDSHIP FOR WEST
    261 1 No Preference For Japan STANDS BY POLICY OF EQUAL TREATMENT Interview With Foreign Office* Chief Of Staff ANY rumours that SJam is adopting a preferential attitude towards Japan, either in foreign policy or in her trade relations, may be entirely discredited, according to Mr. Chuen
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    SELANGOR WINS H. M. S. MALAYA RUGBY CUP
    45 1 SELANGOR WINS H. M. S. MALAYA RUGBY CUP THt H. M.S. Muluya l«u.^i.> Cup was won this year by Selangor who beat the Army by eight points to three on the Selangor Club Padang yesterday. A full report of the game is in page 25.
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    Sir Shenlon Thomas Sends Congratulations
    35 1 At the dinner in the evening after the g?me a telegram was read from Sir S hen ton Thomas as follows, "Heartiest congratulations on a very fine victory. High Commission**."
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    Malaya Aids Japanese Navy
    134 1 Malaya Aids Japanese Navy ILMENITE, a mineral obtained from Malayan tin mine slag heaps, and used for producLrv smokescreens for warships, is beinbought in steadily increasing quantities by Japan. In 1934 the tota! export of ilmenite from Malaya was only 50 tons. In 1935-36. however, exports increased steattily, and latest
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    SIR F.MAURICE ON GERMAN ARMS NO REASON FOR FEAR
    154 1 SIR F.MAURICE ON GERMAN ARMS NO REASON FOR FEAR E/lAJ.-GEN. Sir Frederick Maurice, president of the British Legion, in an address at St. Michael's Royal. College-hill, EC, said that a great many of his friends saw on the lSore Inevitable than were epidemic Ilseasos, which were eing conquered ■ith the
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    U. E. STRIKE TO END ON MONDAY?
    43 1 IT is understood that while no final settlement of the strike of workers at United Engineers, Ltd., has yet been arrived at, there are very good prospects of the men returning to work on Monday morning.
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    FOUR HUNDRED COUNTY POLICE UNDERGO GAS TRAINING
    78 1 All Hie police forces in Great Britain are iiut undergoing gas training. The aim of the authorities is t- have every policeman trained In the rudiments of anti-gas work. Squads consist of two sections rescue workers and de-contamination squads. The de-con-taminatior squads arc
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    Singapore's New Commissioner
    48 1 MR. K. J. Bennett has been appointed a member of the Singapore Municipal Commission in the place of the late Mr. A. E. Thornley Jones. Mr. Bennett is a director of Slot and Co., Ltd., general Import, export, shipping and insurance agents of Robinson Road.
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    NEW RED REPUBLIC IN WEST CHINA? Grave Turn To Revolt In Shensi Province
    535 1 NEW RED REPUBLIC IN WEST CHINA? Grave Turn To Revolt In Shensi Province Shanghai, Saturday. pIIINESE Soviet plans for the establishment of an independent state larger than Manchukuo were brought within sight of realisation today with the confirmation of reports that the rebel armies in Shensi and Kansu have combined
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    Additional Units For Sunday Times Rotary Press
    135 1 Additional Units For Sunday Times Rotary Press pOR nearly two years now The Sunday Times has been a minimum of 28 pages, sometimes reaching as many as 48 pages. The strain that has been put on the machinery by the printing of these large issues has made necessary the purchase
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    Cyclone Hurls Man 540 Feet"
    73 1 Capetown. A CYCLONE which struck a native kraal on a farm at Vrede near Newcastle (Natal) whirled five natives and eight oxen into the air and they were killed. The body of one man was found 540 feet away. The kraal was wrecked, trees uprooted
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    GERMANY CLOSES KIEL CANAL TO WARSHIPS
    65 1 Berlin, Saturday. *J*HE Kiel Canal, a short cut from the North Sea to the Baltic, will in future be closed to foreign warships, according to an announcement in today's Naval Ordinance Gazette. Henceforth permission for the passage of a warship must be sought. The
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    FIVE R. A. F. MEN FINED FOR THEFT OF CAR Escapade On New Year's Eve
    195 1 FIVE R. A. F. MEN FINED FOR THEFT OF CAR Escapade On New Year's Eve CIVE men of the Royal Air Force, who pleaded guilty a fortnight ago to the theft of a motor-car from Rangoon Road, at 12.15 a.m. on Jan. 1. were each fined $20, or three weeks'
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    KING TO VISIT KING
    36 1 The King of Sweden win pay an official visit to the King of the Belgians on Feb. 2, returning that paid by King Leopold and Queen Astrld to Stockholm in May, 1935.
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    RAS IMRU FOR ROME
    32 1 Ras Imru, the Abyssinian chieftain who was captured by the Italians last month, is being sent to Rome by Signor Mussolini's orders. He left A^.dis Ababa by aeroplane.
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      12 1 THE CHAR6E of the LI6NT BRI6AIE A Warner Bros., Road-Show. COMING SOON!
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      118 1 KAY FRANCIS in "Gift: ME YOUR HEART" (SWEET ALOES) A CMmopoiltaa Production PAVILION Wednesday FANCY OPEN END TIES ran Excellent Value in Silk and Art \fs~~^ "a Silk Wide End Ties. All Clean P|i^^! stock. Smart Des gns and Attrac- HHHWV 1 five Colouring*. Mutt be seen. m^r Usually 1.75
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    Colony Cavalcade
    1941 2 Rohna and Rajula The East Wharf Tableau A Passage Home For Twenty Dollars. DOHNA and Rajula are names which deserve to be better known in Singapore. They are well enough known already in shipping while they are housela to the fifty thoum this city, but >er quarters tl'.ere
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      48 2 "The proof of the I pudding is in the eating." AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF OUR CHILLED BEEF which ie d«licioualy tender, retaining all its natural juic9B and haying a flavour all its own. A triai will prove the truth of our statement PHOMC 5376. WPS 114
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    "More Matey' Atmosphere At The Swimming Club"
    702 3 There Will Soon Be TEA DANCES BETTER MUSIC CLOCK GOLF There Will Still Be NO WOMEN ON SUNDAYS 'THERE is still one corner in the world where women have not achieved equality with men. That corner is the Singapore Swimming Club. Out of
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    Mac West Tops Stars' Salary List
    180 3 fJOLLYYv'OOD makes a brave show in the years high salary list compiled from income-tax returns published by Congress. Whlla Mr William Randolph Hearst ha 3 the biggest salary in the United States— 100.000— Mac West heads the film colony with £96.166. Marlene Dietiicii is
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  • IN SINGAPORE TODAY
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      SINGAPORE MAILS CLOSE.
      162 3 Today. Australia. New Zealand. Java and Timor Dllly by air (Qantas) 7 pm. Monday. January 18. Medan (Pianolas) 9 a.m. Penperang <S Som Heng) > am. Sarawak (generally) Blntulu (Circe) 9 a.m. Indo-Chlna (O. G. Pasquier) 11 ajn. Java and Southern Sumatra by air (Nrtherlrrrio D.m. Tuesday,
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      MAILS EXPECTED
      56 3 Mails from Europe etc. (London) expected today by air (Imperial) will be delivered to boxholders at f p.m. General delivery of letters on Monday at 8.25 a.m. Malls from Holland etc. today by Poelau Tfllo Malls from China and Japan today by Tango Maru. Mails from China and
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      THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD
      114 3 Saturday, January 16. Ship* alonfsl-le the Wharves or expected to arrive Entrance Cod own Gate East Wharf Kutsang 22 1 Muinani 20 1 Main Wharf Corfu 18 3 Kistna 18 3 Pangkor 12 3 Talang Akar 8 3 Tango Maru 6 3 Empire Dock Silverycw 32
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    74 3 A PICTUKE taken at Mr. H. B Talalla's house In Kuala Lumpur, when the Mr Srinlvasa Sastrl arrived In the Federal Capital. Practically all officials who were associated with the Indian deputation's visit to the F.M.S. are In this group which Includes Mr. C. D Ahearne (Federal Secretary). Mr. W.
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    Quads After Triplets
    53 3 Quads After Triplets QUADRUPLETS two boys and two girls— have been rx»rn to Mrs. Trlmbllene, In the town of Rokishkls, Lithuania. All four are doing well. Mrs. Trlmbllene became the mother of triplets in 1933. Her four nev* babies make the second group of quadruplets to be born in Lithuania
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    FRASER AND CO.'s REPORT.
    145 3 F their dally report in the share market Issued at the close of business yesterday, Messrs. Fraser and Co. state that the local price of tin rose 37 >/ 2 cents. There was very littl» to report from the tin share market. Prices of sterlings were
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    77 3 Closing Prices, Saturday. No. 1 X.R.S.S. In cases Buyers Sellers (F. 0.8.) 37 7/16 37 9/16 Good F.A.Q. In cases (F. 0.8.) 37% 37 7/16 No. 1 X.R.S.S. (Spot loose) Awardable Spore 37% 37 V* January 37% 37 >i Feb.-March 37 4 37% April-June 37%
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      84 3 London 81 days j Brisbane 31 days tS Four-engined air liners leave Singapore I for LONDON evsry Wednesday and Sunday— for BRISBANE oh Mondays and Fridays. I A Passengers enjoy every comfort. Nights are spent on land. M Hotels, meals even tips are included in the moderate fare. Bookings and
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      143 3 SEA VIEW HOTEL Special Tiffin and Special Dinner. CINEMAS. ALIIAMBRA: The Marinos are Coming with William Haines also Fight Peterson versus Harvey. 3.15. 6.15, 9.15. CAPITOL: Wives Never Know with Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland. 3.15 6.15—9.15. GARRICK— GEYLANG: The Wild Cat Hindustani TalUie. 6.15—9.15. GLOBE THEATRE. GREAT WORLD: A
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      142 3 TIDE TABLE SINGAPORE Today. H. W. 1.31 a.m. 9.2 ft.; 1.15 D.m. 9 8 ft. L. W. 7.09 a.m. 1.3 ft.; 7.40 p.m. I.S ft. Monday. H. W. 2.04 a.m. 9.2 ft.; 2.02 p.m. 9.3 ft. L. W. 7.52 a.m. j.l ft.: 8.19 p.m. 2.2 ft. PORT SWETTENHAM H. W.
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    HER LIMBS CRACKED LIKE DRY WOOD
    206 4 Suffered with Sciatica for 25 Years When your Joints start to creak and crack It is a sure sign that your system Is producing too much harmful uric acid. If you fall tc beed the warning, you are storing up trouble lor yourstlf. Read
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    ONE DAY'S GAOL AND $100 FINE FOR MEDICAL COLLEGE SECRETARY
    630 4 'Blunderingly Careless And Muddle-Headed In Dealing With Accounts' ACTED LIKE FATHER TO STUDENTS J\ESCRIBED variously as having acted "like a father to the students" nnd been "blunderingly careless and muddle-headed in dealing with the accounts," A. da Silva, secretary to
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    Oldest Firearm In World
    70 4 rpHE oldest firearm in the loorld is a notable exhibit at the collection of weapons on view at the Armoury Museum in Berlin. It is a Chinese hand-gun, dating back to the year 1377. It bears an inscription indicating the name of its bearer and his
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    WOMAN WHO KISSES COBRAS! Amazing Show At Zoo In Rangoon
    330 4 WOMAN WHO KISSES COBRAS! Amazing Show At Zoo In Rangoon Sydney, N.S.W. THE two king cobras now on their way to the Taronga Park Zoological Gardens, Sydney, have an unusual distinction for snakes. They have been kissed by a woman. The unusual scene was enacted before a large gathering at
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    PROTECTING THE POLICEMAN
    65 4 PROTECTION from sun and rain: The photograph shows an experiment which is being conducted by the Singapore police with a view to protecting traffic constables from sun and rain. The experiment, which is new to Singapore bat old in the F.M.S., is to be found at the
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    "The Bird" Would Mean A Blackout?
    93 4 I ISTENERS in Paris will soon be able to show their appreciation after each broadcast turn if the installation of a special system is approved by the French Post Office Authorities. At a given signal after the turn, listeners will be asked to switch
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    POLICE BAND
    57 4 The Police Band will play on Friday at Telok Ayer at 6.00 p.m. March, Lorraine (Louis Ganne) Overture, French Comedy (Keler Bela) Selection, Student Prince (Sigmund Romberg) Solo for Cornet, When The Ebb- Tide Flows (Stanley Gordon) The Entractes to Rosamunde (Schubert) Suite, Ballet Egyptian (Alexandre Luiglni) Pot-Pourrt,
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    Luise Rainer To Wed: Love At First Sight
    181 4 CM ART Broadway playwright, Clifford Odets. went to the movies in New York months ago and fell in love with a shadow on the screen. He was ashamed of himself, but when he saw Hollywood's new sentation, twenty-three-year-old Luise Rainer (pronounced Ryner
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    SISTER VAJIRA English Buddhist Nun Back In Ceylon
    117 4 SISTER VAJIRA English Buddhist Nun Back In Ceylon MISS E. Grant Robinson, the first ITI Englishwoman to be initiated a Buddhist nun, has returned to Ceylon from Bombay. She was ordained a few days ago in the Mulagandhakuti Vlhare, in Sarnath. Miss Robinson is the only child of in English
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      230 4 R. A. THOMPSON. D.O.Sc. 'Doctor of O.ular Science) Siecialliint Eyesight. Nerrows. squint, subnormal vision, problem cases. Glasses If ne**««!. 4, ARCADE. GROUND FLOOR. Phone 3002. 100 WHOLE RYE MEAL. An excellent food for Diabetic subjects. Makes most wholercme Bread Porridge. Restores healtn. rebuilds strength and revUaltoes the entire system Contains
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      405 4 GRACiE FIELDS A SINGS K»t jfc ROSE MARIE ]L^~ INDIAN LGVL CALL U Grane r tents. "Rom Marie" and "Indian Love Call' —these two beautiful love songs from Film Rosi Marie" need no introduction. Kvrn FrH* Kreuler wm inspired by thrlr rharmine melodies. On Bex Record. Gracit Fields, with her
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    CIVILISATION FAILS TO IMPRESS TEMIARS
    595 5 CIVILISATION FAILS TO IMPRESS TEMIARS MARVELS OF THE WEST FALL FLAT Liked Botanic Gardens Best DO NOT BELIEVE AEROPLANES CAN COME DOWN By a staff reporter JJOV/ would it feel to be projected two or three thousand years into the future? And to be brought into contact suddenly with the
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    The Living Cocktail
    65 5 Halifax, N.S. THOSE who take alcohol "only medicinally" have a notable recruit in Bruce Mealey, who was charged with violating the liquor laws in Truro, Nova Scotia. He told the court that he drank: Gin for his kidneys; Whisky for tuberculosis; Stout for his stomach; Rum for
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    A ONE-MAN STRIKE
    284 5 Osaka Janitor Locks Out Manager Staff SURRENDERS TO POLICE A 42 -YEAR-OLD janitor of the N.Y.K. Ticket Office, Osaka, de- j clarcd a lockout strike recently in an attempt to force the company to accept his request for a special allowance. He played a lone hand, however,
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    Woman Stages Dress Rehearsal Of Her Funeral
    107 5 \IRS. Satoko Yamada, 71, of Nagoya, Japan, wanted to know what her own funeral v:ould he like so she staged an elaborate dress rehearsal. Dressed in the prescribed white robes, she jas carried in a funeral car from her home to the cemetery.
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    SOLDIER COMES HOME TO MARRY
    129 5 SOLDIER COMES HOME TO MARRY Bride He Has Never Met Plymouth. A SOLDIER who has served 17 ot hts 18 years in the Army abroad because he dislikes living in Erig- land has overcome his prejudice and come home to marry a woman he has never seen. He is Lance-Corporal
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      8 5 Spot the SECRET AGENT' Tor rhrills and surprises
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      472 5 THOUSANDS OF "HUMAN WRECKS" gjpj LAWK^'-PVRE BLOOD, STRONG n Ti?oiTic M 111 ll '.T^ NERVKS OIANT vigour.... IARTHRITIS g\ I fl^icll U m n howVIXLF.K CKLKRy'i'-ERLES have given B! II p them lr«dom from the pain ol stilf, locked, i:iilaircJ it > 11 1 I 111 111 I ill «rthriuc
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    CAN GERMANY STILL TIGHTEN HER BELT?
    560 6 Growing Unrest Over "Guns Instead Of Butter Crusade" MONEY FOR THE MEN IN SPAIN BUT NONE FOR FOOD AT HOME (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, Saturday. Large scale intervention by Germany in the Spanish civil war may lead to an accentuation of the internal
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    TWO CHINESE MARRIAGES AT TAIPING
    211 6 BOTH IN REFORMED STYLE iFmm Oui Own Corespondent) Taiping. Saturday. TWO Chinese marriages in the reformed style took place today at the Cantonese Hoav Kuan at Taiping. In the nrst mainage the bridegroom was Mr. See Ton Tuck second son or Madam Wong Ah Ngan,
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    CAPT. BUSH DIES IN BANGKOK AGED 82
    72 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, Saturday. THE death has taken place of Captain John Bmh, who was born in Scotland on Christmas Day 1854. He was the last living descendant in Bangkok of Admiral Bush, the first harbour master for Siam and founder
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    You, The Wife And The Kiddies
    178 6 You, The Wife And The Kiddies WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY? IE AS your wife ever turned to you and said: "The children are my affair. Please leave them to me." If so, did you agree This is talking point for every parent. And this is what Mr Roland Burrows, X.C.. Recorder of
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    GRATEFUL JEWS
    111 6 Jews in Singapore are asked to plant a section of the "King George V. Forest" in Palestine as an "everlasting monument of the gratitude of Singapore Jewry to the British Empire." The appeal is being made under the auspices of the Zionist Association and contributions should be addressed
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    SPANISH "DARE-DEVIL" OF THE AIR
    128 6 Bullet Wound Reveals "He" Is A Scots Girl AS a result of a machine-gun bullet wound received in an aerial fight with three enemy planes, it has been revealed that "the dare-devil of the air" or the Spanish government's "ace of aces, with 24 antigovernment
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    BATTLE WITH SIX PLANES
    301 6 It was assumed that she had met with disaster, but all searches proved futile, and finally her parents came to the conclusion that she had been kiUed. A few days after the disappearance of Miss Gllmore the Spanish Press began to speak of the advent on
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    Cosmopolitanism In Cooks
    53 6 IN order to cater for different castes and religions the British Inola 1 steamers on the Singapore-Madras run (described in "Cavalcade today) have to carry four kinds of cooks, all of *horn are represented in tns picture. Standing (left to right) :-Mohammedan. Head Cook Mohammedan). Brahmin. Sitting:
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    AMERICAN WOMAN VICTIMISED
    96 6 Bag-snatcher Caught After Chase Pleading guilty to theft of a bag from a woman at Armenian Street, on Jan 11. Low Ang Ngan was fined $100, or two months' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr. W. G. Reeves in the third court yesterday. The prosecution stated that the complainant,
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    FORGED PASSPORT CHARGE
    45 6 The case against John Bernard, who is charged with having fraudulently used as genuine a forged passport, was postponed to Mar. 4 by Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Criminal District Court yesterday. Mr. C. P. Burke Is retained for the defence.
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    "SHABBILY DRESSED DETECTIVES"
    181 6 Censured By Police Magistrate (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. IN acquitting a Chinese charged with theft of certain articles of clothing. Mr. J. A. A. Faith expressed dissatisfaction with detective police constables who appeared in court to give evidence in cases. Addressing himself to ChiefDetective Inspector E.
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    PUNJABI AND MALAY GUARDS FOR GOVERNOR
    199 6 PUNJABI AND MALAY GUARDS FOR GOVERNOR IT is officially notified thut duties at Government House will be taken over for two days each by men of the Malay Regiment and the 1 2nd Punjab Regiment, respectively. The Malay Regimen, will provli-'j the guard from 9 a.m. on Jan. 23 to
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    THE BUSY STAMP YEAR
    738 7  -  Fred. J. Melville) Stamp Collecting (By pONTINUING our rapid review of the end of the year's crop of new stamp Issues we note two additions to Estonia's regular set with the portrait of President Konstantln Pats. They are the 4 senti purple and 60 sentl magenta.
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    EIGHTEENTH CHILD
    75 7 Berlin. The eighteenth child has been born to a milkman at Schrotz. The Infant, Is said to b 3 doing well and all other members of this large family are alive and healthy. The late President. Field-Marshal Paul von Hlndenburg. and the present Chancellor. Herr Adolf Hitler, are
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    PENROSE MEDAL
    59 7 In recognition of his past services in geological research Dr. A. P. Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University cf Toronto, where he occupied the Chair from 1890 to 1922. was awarded the Penrose Medal of the American Geological Society at the annual banquet recently of the
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      222 7 THF STAMPS OF THE TREATY POSTS OF CHIN I AND Or FORMOSA oy Captain H. R. Old Ret, LL.B A complete history of this little known grous of s'ampa. Price 19 part tree. The Philmtr'k Journal *f Great Britain The oldest British Philatelic maga«ine. now In it* 46th annual volume.
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      105 7 GREAT BRITAIN. The har .some Cl black stamp ot the Postal Congress Issue of 1939 la v ry fine used condition. Price 17/6 only. Wanted for cash nr Exchange usei stamps of the Straits Settlements and Hons Kong in quantities. SEFI-PCMBESTON A CO.. LTD.. 11 South Helton Street. London. W.I.
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      200 7 LONDON The World Centre of Attraction for 1937 Two outstanding Hotels that meet all modern requirements including Hot and Cold running water and Central Heating. HOTEL 6REAT CENTRAL Marylebone Road, N.W.I Cabin Ctnttllarl, London HOTEL RUSSELL Russell Square. W.CI Adjacent to each Hotel is an Underground Station that links up
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      198 7 S LONDON CAr.LS INSISTENTLY and rnjoy at either HOTEL RUBENS Buckingham Palace Road. facing Buckingham Pa.acf •-S^^V or HOTEL REMBRANDI j£M& south Kensington. S.W facing the Victoria and W# Albert Museum. Every attention in pleasing surroundings PERFECT QUIETUDE THESE COMFORTABLE HOTELS WITH ACKNOWLEDGED KENOWNtI) CATERING have running hot and cold
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      887 7 Today's Wireless Programmes SINGAPORE -ZHL. transmission 2. <V;ivHen,-th 225 mrtrrs, 1333 roe roltowtmt frequencies wU be \m&:— kc* (or 1.13 me) GSH 21 47 Me/. .13.97 m> 1 t ..m. to p m -Speech and record- "-ft JJ-.J JJ{£ £;> cd music. 6 ?0 p m ._B*« Ben. The BBC
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      847 7 6.20 p.m. Concert of light mask. 12.lt p.m. Time signal and weather report. 7.2* p.m. News in English. 12.23 p.m. Military band music. 7.35 p-m. Concert of light music (continued). 12 M p.m. Press bulletin, weather forecast, 8.15 p.m. Greetings listeners. tune and announcements. 8.24 p.m. News and ..view of
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      392 7 CROSSWORD PUZZLE RESULT Twenty-eight readers share the $100 offered in The Sunday Times Crossword Puzzle Competition printed in our issue of Jan. 3. Each ot the following submitted entries in which there were "no errors" and the priz? money is therefore divided among them in equal proportions: SINGAPORE: E. N.
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    THE KING TO MAKE EMPIRE TOUR?
    390 8 By Flying Boat From India Through Malaya And On To Australia VISIT TO DELHI THIS YEAR FOR CROWNING MOW that a new King: is on the Throne speculation has been revived as to the prospects of a Royal Empire tour in the near future.
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    Christian Scientists Meet Here
    15 8 "THE interior of the Christian Science building in Orange Grove Road.
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    EDUCATIONAL POLICY Or THE METHODISTS
    403 8 EDUCATIONAL POLICY Or THE METHODISTS WORK WHICH WILL HELP BOYS TO FIND WORK FOR the first time in its history, the Methodist Mission is shaping its educational policy to answer the modern cry for a practical education. Out of $74,000, allocated for the Improvement of its schools in Malaya, the
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    Mrs. Eddy's Followers Active In Singapore
    320 8 •JIANY people in Malaya know m little of the activities of Christian Scientists, beyond the fact that one of the foremost newspapers in the world emanates regularly from Boston headquarters of the Christian Science Publishing Society. With the completion, however, of a new church
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    And The Army Wants Men
    133 8 GUARDSMAN Alfred Corton, aged VJ 22, pleaded guilty at Woklng, Surrey, to stealing two overcoats and two pairs of gloves from cars. A young lieutenant of 2nd Coldstream Guards told the court that Corton had a good character. The clerk Yon will take him back
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      10 8 Who is the /"N •-/SECRET J I agentT TIGER BEER
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    Mainly About Malayans By The Onlooker
    1603 9 Mainly About Malayans By The Onlooker WITH the Malay Regiment in Singapore at the present time are four particularly interesting young men. They are the first regular Malay officers ever to bo commissioned and, it will be recalled, they were ceremonially presented with their swords by His Excellency tii High
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      716 9 PEEK FRBAHSf^^ combining the wh'olesomeness of pure r^>-^r*~*-^V^B fruit and the crisp rrunchiness of Wr^ hard pastry. Available with Jam >r ;4 Qr "^2? Agenti /""S /y 'l«t^H JOSEPH TRAVERS SONS, LTD. y^ji SANDILANDS BI'TTERY Co., Penanf. COMMON SENSE iTREATMENT you must Remove the cause of: RHEUMATISM, PAINFUL JOINTS, LUMBAGO,
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    TWO TRAVEL BOOKS
    290 10 My Legacy Cruise. By Mrs. AleeTweedie. Hutcbinson. 18s. Two Worlds. By Lester Cohen. Gollancz. 10s. 6d. IUOTHING could be more amusing 4 than to read these two travel books side by side. Covering, as they do, substantially the same ground, the difference In the authors' outlook and
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    Household Poetry
    146 10 BOOKS of the WEEK THE TRIALS OF OUR DAILY LIVES Such Things Happen. By Brendon Moore. Herbert Jenkins. 3s. 6d. AMK Moore's book of household poetry ls dedicated to tired wives, For all whe lead domestic lives; For those in flats; and for the many Who live in
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    The Careers Of Three Girls
    251 10 Silver Mountains. By Prudence O'Shea. Bijou Merle. By A. A. Thomson. Jenkins Colonial Library. IN '■Stiver Mountains" Miss O'Shea traces the careers of three girls who set nut to conquer the stage-world. Perdita achieves success, and accordIng to the new tradition becomes a veritable Marlene,
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    Ghosts & The Biter Bit
    250 10 Ghosts The Biter Bit Haunted Abbey. By Patrick Leyton. The Hand of Justice. By Francis Duncan. Jenkins Colonial Library. UR. LEYTON believes in doing his ghost stories thoroughly, and there is lots of atmosphere about the haunted abbey of Charngrave. Not only is it haunted by a whole chapter of
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    DEVELOPMENT! OF THE MODERN AMERICAN RACE
    344 10 DEVELOPMENT! OF THE MODERN AMERICAN RACE The Roofs of Elm Street. By William McNally. Durst and Blackett. Bs. 6d. I*HE author has tried to show the development of the modern American race after the Civil War, when emigrants from every country in Europe poured Into the United States, and a
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    HINTERLAND OF GREENLAND
    248 10  - HINTERLAND OF GREENLAND i. M. Scott. Snowstone. By Hodder and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. RJIR. J. M. SCOTT is already well- 1"1" 1 known for the biography of his friend and companion Gino Watkins, the young Arctic explorer who lost his life off the coast of Greenland, and Snowstone," his first
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    Stalking Game In Northern India
    579 10 Stalking Game In Northern India SUlkinr in the HimaUys and Northern India. By Lt.-Col. C. U. Stockley, D.5.0., 0.8. E., M.C. Herberts Jenkin* 15s. pOLONEL STOCKLEY begins this, book by asking What is stalking and in his first three chapters gives very definite and detailed instructions regarding how to stalk
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      117 10 MALAYAN JINGLES 87 LAMENTATION They want me ■to lighten taxation, They want me to spend far less money; Doing nothing's a most pusillanimous crime, Doing something is worse (I do wrong all the time)^ This being a Governor's funny! They call me a very good fellow For that I am
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    WHEN BORNEO WAS A DARK MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
    837 11 Turbulent Times HARDSHIPS OF PIONEERS IN BRINGING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS HAYS when Government officers worked without pay and lived without furniture, had to get the Rajah's permission before repairing their bathrooms, and dared not go for a walk without an escort of
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    FOR JULIANA
    16 11 AN archway erected at Tanjong Pinang, Rhio archipelago, in honour of Princess Juliana's wedding.
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    Woman Plays Football At 68
    192 11 Plymouth. n/IRS. Alice Mary Skilton, aged sixty-eight, of Turnchapel, near here, is receiving abusive anonymous letters because she played in a woman's football team last summer. Mrs. Skilton is keeping the letters in the hope that she may be able to trace the handwriting and
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    BRITON ASSAULTED IN HONGKEW
    157 11 CHINESE THROWS ACID IN HIS FACE IUIR. J. F. Knox, British subject, ITI employee of the works department of the Shanghai Gas Co., is lying in the General Hospital with serious burns in the face as a result of a sulphuric acid attack by an unknown
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    "NOISE KILLS"
    84 11 DROF. A. M. Low, addressing the Manchester Publicity Club recently, discountenanced the popular fallacy that people can get accustomed to noise. "You cannot get used to noise," he said. "You can train your body and nerves to put cut sufficient energy to counteract the effects of noise. That
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    GREAT ROMAN HONOURED
    414 11 Epitaph Re-erected Near Tower Hill PROTECTED BRITONS AFTER RISING I ONDON has just placed in her streets her first memorial of an official of the Roman city. Not in haste, for Rome's occupation of Britain ended 15 centuries ago, writes a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. You
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    41 11 The General Purposes Committee of the Corporation of London is recommending that authority be given to the Alexandra Park Trustees for the dlsposa 1 of "Long Tom." the Boer gun which was given to the City after the South African War.
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    HOW TO TREAT A STOMACH PAIN.
    202 12 When your stomach is healthy and well, you never think of its existence. But when it is out of sorts for any reason you know all about it. Pain sets In— sometimes very severe, nagging pain What are you to do? You certainly must
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1262 12  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By 1 GENTLEMAN writing in the Press about insomnia asks Why all this tossing and turning? Why all this fretting and cursing? What you want to do immediately on becoming awake is to say to yourself, Hurrah, here I am again awake and conscious,
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    "Apple A Day" Precept Not In Favour Now
    230 12 "Apple A Day" Precept Not In Favour Now THE apple a day precept for keeping the doctor away was discussed by Prof. V. H. Mottram at a conference of health visitors and school nurses at Bedford College. Prof. Mottram, who is professor of physiology in the University of London, and
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    CONTRACT BRIDGE
    378 12  -  THE FOUR ACES By J7VEN though East was vulnerable, he felt that it was incumbent upon him to attempt to push his opponents, who had a partial score, beyond their depth. While he might have been set two or three tricks, his trump suit was so strong that
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      163 12 SOUND INSULATION simply explained and localises the sound waves (K/^'A/) The scuttle cmbodic* m ""^pP^^piCi^^" T^ in thousands of "dead" air pressed siccl bulkhead j4^ji!&^^^s^**. Wl'^ fi&H effectively absorbed. driver and passengers not W^r^ (I-*/') The enpinc is mounted but also from heat and fumes. f^BrWL^SSBB^D^S^ Mu/// 'W^^T^r/fJIil on blocks
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    NO NEED FOR WOMEN IN THE FORCE SAY SINGAPORE POLICE
    324 13 "Nothing For Them To Do" GUN "MOLLS" HAVE NOT YET APPEARED CIiANGHAI has introduced women police to fight crime and perversion in the city. Singapore, though, will have none of them. They are not required in this country." the police
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    38 13 At a meeting of the council of the Library Association the following were elected to the register as fellows Miss E. D. Eastwood (Geological Society of London). Miss G Jones < University of London), and Miss I. Smith <Flnsbury>.
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    Prayers For The Pope
    31 13 A PICTURE taken during the Mass held at the church of St. John Lateran in Rome recep'ly for the speedy recovery of the Pore from his illness.
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    Film Of "Grandfather Volcano"
    141 13 Film Of "Grandfather Volcano" RJIR. AndrO Roosevelt, in a Curtiss monoplane pilots by Mr. James Gray, has mace the first aerial crossing of the volcano Chimborazo. 20.700 fee' high, in Ecuador. The machine was accompanied by another. Both belong to tho Ecuadorean Military School of Aviation and were specially equipped
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    AUSTRALIA'S CONTINGENT
    34 13 Gen. Sir H. Chauvel, w;,o cotrmanded the famous Australian Light Hors? at Galllpoli and in Palestine andSjna during the war, will head Australia's military contingent at the Coronation of Kin; George VI.
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    Diehards Concert Party
    52 13 RJIEMBERS of the Die Tds Concert Party. Ist. Batt. Middlesex Regiment, at a fart «11 meeting prior to Mrs. Newmans return to England. In the group are: Mrs. Newman. Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Thomas, Sergt. West, L/c. Rogers, Pte. Aikman. Pte. Cook (Army Dental Corps), Pte. Wright, and
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    'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' PSYCHO-ANAL YSED
    548 13 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' PSYCHO- ANAL YSED "Oh Dear, Oh Dear," Says The White Rabbit. ACCORDING to a New York psycho-analyst "Alice in Wonderland" is anything but an innocent fantasy. Lewis Carroll, it appears, suffered from preponderant oral sadistic trends of a cannibalistic character." This astonishing verdict is that of Dr.
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    The Latest Silly Record
    85 13 Winnipeg. IHHE xoorld's non-stop chair rocking championship is being claimed at Kitchener, Ontario, by Mr. Joe Harrison, a Western circus performer. At a local dance hall, he has succeeded in rocking a chair for fifty-five hours and fifteen seconds. There were two brief passes necessitated by
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    BEQUESTS TO ARAB WOMEN
    184 13 KINDNESS REWARDED AFTER 50 YEARS THE kindness of a native family to an Englishman in captivity during the Sudan rising of 1885 is rewarded in the will of Mr. Malcolm P. Lupton, an engineer, of Lamarsh, Essex. Mr. Lupton, who died four months ago, aged 77,
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    EDITORIAL. MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street, Singapore. Totidem Verbis
    600 14 EDITORIAL. MANAGERIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICE: Cecil Street, Singapore. Totidem Verbis An Indian Patriot MR. SASTRI has come and gone, and we shall hear In due course what opinions he has formed on the more serious objects of his visit. Like the wise man he is, he refused to commit himself
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    Commander Of World s Largest Arm Arrives In Singapore This Week
    1946 14  - Commander Of World s Largest Arm Arrives In Singapore This Week Burgess Barnet By Her Soldiers' Swords Are Songs MALAYAN SNAKES AT THE LONDON ZOO THE commander-in-chief of the world's largest standing army is expected to arrive in Singapore this week. General Evangeline Booth, head of the Salvation Army with
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    This Is Just All Lies!
    254 14 AS THE MEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER OF ROYAL PREVARICATORS GATHERED ROUND A BLAZING FIRE AT LONDON, ONTARIO, ONE OF THEM HAPPENED TO MENTION THAT IT WAS A COLD DAY. "Do you call this cold?" asked another member of the Order. I remember one winter
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    "WHAT I'M AFTER IS THE DATE"
    480 15 Professor van Stein Callenfels Has A Year To Find It WHEN DID MELANESIANS SWEEP OVER MALAYA FROM NORTH INDIA? "We Are Now On The Way To Something Big" "WHAT I'm after is the date." Professor van Stem Callenfels, back after a visit to Oslo
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    Young Actor Found Shot In Hollywood
    127 15 Young Actor Found Shot In Hollywood DOSS ALEXANDER the Demetrius of the film, A Midsummer Night's Dream," has been found shot dead in a barn at the back of his Hollywood home. His six- months bride. Anna Nagel. a film actress, told the police he had followed a day of
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    FRAU VON SEECKT
    43 15 Frau von Seeckt, widow of the former commander of the German Reichswehr, has received, a telegram of condolence from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Premier, to whom Gen. von Seeckt acted as military adviser from 1932 until early last year.
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    FATHER OF TWINS AT 100
    68 15 FATHER OF TWINS AT 100 HTWINS have been born at Ridgway. Pittsburg, V.S., to Edward Lee, 100 years old, and his wife Alice, aged thirty-six. One of the twins has died. The other is being adopted. The father, formerly a miner, is on relief. Last September the newspapers told of
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    CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS
    136 15 TOTAL OF £19,610,240 IN 1936 ACCORDING to a statement of Chinese Maritime Customs for the year 1933 submitted by Sir Frederick Maze, Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs, the total customs revenue collection for 1936 under all headings amounts to dollars 324.583,291, equalling, at Is. 2'/ 2 d.,
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    SLOW INCREASE OF FRENCH POPULATION
    39 15 The population in France has increased by only 71,000 In five years, according to official census figures. The population is 41.906,000. of whom 2,453.000 are foreigners. Algeria has 7.250.000 inhabitants, including nearly 1,000,000 Europeans.
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    Gen. Booth May Broadcast To Malaya
    307 15 Gen. Booth May Broadcast To Malaya CTRONG head winds, heaving seas and the troubles in China and Japan have upset the arrangements of General Evangeline Booth, 71-year-old head of the Salvation Army, who, when she leU England in November last, had contemplated a world tour of her far-flung Salvationist outposts.
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    Man Given a New Skull
    81 15 Man Given a New Skull Sydney. A MAN who owes his life to an operation described as a "miracle of surgery" has been awarded £500 compensation by the Australian Workers' Compensation Committee. In an accident he received Injuries to the head and brain and lost an eye. A piece of
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    "Execution" By Dynamite
    426 15 SHOT AND LEFT TO BE BLOWN UP New York. A DYNAMITE explosion in a privately-owned powder-house, which broke a number of windows in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and shook buildings over a radius of 59 miles, proved to have been one of the most unusual executions in
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    THE HORSE CHANGED HIS MIND
    55 15 WHAT happens when a horse changes his mind in the middle of a Jump is clearly shown here, when F. B. Wilmhurst. and his entry in the Millburn Horse Show, New York—" Balebrente" parted company half way over a fence. The rider landed one side
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    SLIMMING FOR ALL HIS WOMEN SUBJECTS
    415 15 A Rajah Orders THE Rajah of Aundh dislikes fat women. So, being 1 absolute ruler of an independent Indian State, he has ordered them all to slim. He has devised an elaborate set of exercises which they must talce cuJa day. And they must
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    NEW R.E. COLONEL COMMANDANT
    103 15 The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Colonel (honorary Major-General) C. Coffin, V.C., C.8., D.SO., as Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, in succession to the late Major-Oeneral O Walker. Born in 1870. Major-General Coffin was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1888 and retired
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    Couple Married 500 Times
    139 15 Warsatc. XIR- and Mrs. Aaron Lubelski have been married 500 times. They made a living out of it. They pretended to be poor orphans about to be married but without means for the xcedding. They wrote to rich people begging them for help for the ceremony
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      165 15 FOR BACKWARD BABIES BRESTOL HUMANISED CREAM, a Cow Gate product, which Is now being Introduced and distributed in Malaya, appears to supply a much needed want. The composition of Brestol corresponds more or less to that of the cream in breast milk, and its administration constitutes a useful method of
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    Direct Railway Next Year From Canton To S'hai
    158 16 CHEKIANG-KIANGSI LINE TO REPLACE LIGHT RAILS Nanking, Dec. 29. TPHE Chekiang-Kiangsl railway has decided to spend about $6,000,000 on replacing the light rails on its 350 kilometre long section between Hangchow and Yushan, so that by next June through traffic between Shanghai
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    WILL SUIYUAN SOON BECOME A STORM CENTRE OF THE FAR EAST?
    1573 16 WILL SUIYUAN SOON BECOME A STORM CENTRE OF THE FAR EAST? By The Sunday Times Chinese Correspondent THE situation* in Suiyuan, one of the three provinces in Inner Mongolia, which, is gradually becoming the storm-centre of Asia, is complicated in the extreme. A thousand battles have been fought there between
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    35 16 General Sliiang Tine-wen, former Pacification Commissioner of Fukien Province, who was detained in Sian where Chang Hsueh-liang, the former ousted Commander-in -Chief of the Mam nurian Forces, revolted, was later released. International News Photo Service.
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    CHINESE WOMEN SOLDIERS
    92 16 jN order to solve trie unemployment problem amons college and university gradivues the Nanking Government has Juat evolved a scheme whereby every six months 500 graduates of both sexes who have been workless for over three years are selected by competitive examination and trained for six months
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    Wholesale Execution of Drug Addicts
    76 16 Peiping, Jan. 3. y//£ Tientsin authorities have started their new campaign against drug addicts and pedlars with a vengeance* according to the "Ta Kung Pao," which sayt that yesterday, in the Wuching district in Tientsin. 128 people, including robbers and drug addicts and pedlars, were
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    PATENT MEDICINES
    228 16 New Control Laws In Force in China NO MORE APHRODISIACS Nanking. 'THE prohibition of the use of heroin is one of the main points I embodied in the revised regulations governing patent medicines recently promulgated by the National Health Administration to be enforced from January 1. 1937. The
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    NOT DRIVERS FAULT
    73 16 As six-year-old Dennis Sims lay dying after having been knocked down by a motor van, he whispered to his moth°r:— "It wasn't the driver's fault mummy." Dennis, the sin of a metal polisher of Darum Street. Birmingham, was killed on Guy Fawker' night. His mother told the
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    CLAIM COMMON COLD IS CONQUERED
    270 18 Two London Doctors Experiment On Themselves TTWO LONDON DOCTORS, DAVID AND ROBERT THOMSON, BROTHERS FROM SCOTLAND, HAVE PERFECTED A DISCOVERY FOR WHICH MEDICAL SCIENCE HAS BEEN SEARCHING ALL THIS CENTURY. IT IS— A PREVENTATIVE OF THE COMMON COLD. It took them twenty years. Most of
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    71 18 Paris. PVERY Frencn soldier will In future receive a minimum of one pint or red wine a day, states a War Ministry circular. Maginot Line (German frontier) soldiers, many forced to live ten miles from a village and sixty feet underground, will
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    725 18 One Man Holds 125 At Bay When Police Siege Flat New York, Dec. 15. LJARRY Brunette, wanted on several charges of bank robberies and kidnappings, was captured I early this morning after a battle with police in a West End Avenue flat. His woman companion was wounded, but there were
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    91 18 Washington. 'THE Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, has announced the appointment of Mr. Frank Wilson as chief of the United States S«-ret Service, succeeding Mr. William H. Moran. who has retired. Mr. Moran. In an interview with the press, bitterly p^salled
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    "UFA" FILM SHOWS GOOD RETURNS
    113 18 1935-6 Production Increased All Round Berlin. Jan. 3. TPHE annual report of the leading German motion picture company "UFA "for the financial year 1935/3« shows a total of the gross receipts of £4.665.000. Film production during the period under review Increased considerably in nearly all
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    "BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE"
    570 18 MANY experienced sportsmen who can't be accused of being "softies" have been giving attention of late to hunting and fishing photography. They are trying to get on film, for permanent record and lasting enjoyment, flashes of outdoor drama that stamp themselves on their memories but which
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    25 18 Hunting with the camera offers many a thrill. This trophy was "shot" against the lifht of a clouded sun on supersensitive film.
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    Softening, Your Features
    484 19 HOW MAKE-UP CAN TONE DOWN HARSHNESS SOME women are just naturally sharp-featured. Sometimes the sharpness of but one feature can give an appearance of harshness to the entire face. For instance, a pointed nose or chin. Yet, many entire faces seem to be drawn with a meticulously
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    ESPECIALLY FOR SPORTS
    86 19 WOMEN who have a knack of "picking up the latest in dress accessories are charmed with the new sports belts. They say these belts almost transform a "tired" frock One such belt is most ingenious. Made from coloured leather links, it fastens with metal rings, and from
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    The Crime Of Conveying Infection
    626 19  - The Crime Of Conveying Infection DR. ELIZABETH SLOAN CHESSER By TVERY doctor dislikes and disapproves of the word cold," which is a misnomer for catarrh of the respiratory passages due to the invasion of a germ, or rather a group of germs. "Colds" are not caused by cold, but by
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    Informal Wear
    29 19 |7OR inlormal wear here is a slim fitting dress fashioned in brown fancy weave crepe. It has long gathered sleeves with pointed edge to match the neckline.
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    Jewels RelieVe Austerity Of New Evening Frocks I
    211 20 /"VNE bright jewelled ornament res the austerity of some of the smartest new evening frocks which are one-coloured, or white. The flash of colour may b; a very large buckle at the waist, or a clip which fasten:, the shou!de r sprry
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    36 20 tl you are going lo a cold climate remember that when one pelt meets another, as in this smart coat, fashion demands that both shall be flat. Here, Persian lamb and Kolinsky ensure a graceful alliance.
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    HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
    135 20 IJOLLANDAISE sauce Is made of butter, egg yolks, lemon Juice and a little boiling water. The Bureau of Home Economics. U.S. Department of Agriculture, suggests one-half cup of butter, four egg yoiks. two tablespoons of lemon juice one-quarter cup of boiling water one-quarter teaspoon of salt and a
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    Originality In Handbags Has Riotous I Time
    493 20 Originality In Handbags Has Riotous I Time 'INHERE is another dress accessory in which originality has a riotous time this season the new handbag. Softest black suede made in a square cushion shape, has a long loop hanging from one point, with a bow of the suede on the front.
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    ON BUYING BIRDS FOR TABLE
    221 20 ON BUYING BIRDS FOR TABLE MUCH of the success of an all-important dinner depends materially upon the flavour and delicacy of the principal dish. If you have decided to have a turkey, a goose, a duck or a chicken, then the age of the bird should be very carefully taken
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    RUSSIAN TEA LOAF
    79 20 Five egg yoUcs, three-fourth cup granulated sugar, pinch salt, one and cne-half cups top milk teaspoon gelatin, two tablespoons cold water, pint whipping cream Beat egg yolks with jugar and salt. Scald milk, add slowly to egg mixture. Return to douole boiler and cook to soft custard
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    15 21 C.IOULDER draperies put the finishing touch to this very sophisticated evening gown of flowered chiffon.
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    No End To The Story Of Bathroom Accessories
    526 21 DATH ROOMS may have been the last rooms in houses to be gaily coloured, but the story of new accessories all in matching colours is not yet ended. A pink bath is matched by basins and such small items as corner cupboards,
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    WALNUT-LAYER CAKE
    228 21 Whisk the yolks of four eggs with two tablespoonfuls of water, add one and a half cups of castor sugar, and whisk for ten minutes, until thick and creamy. Sift two cupfuls of fine white flour with a pinch of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and
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    MEAT CROQUETTES
    110 21 Here is a recipe to use ud cold meat in *o appetising way. Mince finely some cooked meat, after removing any gristle. Add equal parts of mashea potato and fine, stale breadcrumbs. Season with nm-ly minced onion, herbs, cayenne, oelery salt, and mace Mix with enough neaten egg
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    HARE PIE
    107 21 Cut the hare up into Joints divide the back Into six pieces, and take out the largest bones. Take the thin pieces and the ribs, and boll them with pepper and salt to get all the strength out,. In water, and when reduced to about a pint remove
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    Why Women Should Never Fear Old Father Time
    1210 21  -  LADY LAWFORD BY ALAS and alack When the a verage woman reaches the 'late forties' she is inclined to 'give up* the unequal contest against Time and submit to grey hair, a figure all tumbled in or out, 'easy' shoes, and clothes
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    UNBELTED GOWNS
    71 21 After seven years of belts on ball gowns, something new from Molyneux Is a slim, straight evening gown without a belt. On some models a loose cord In silk or wool, complete with tassels, Indicates the waistline. He does his on daytime and evening things. His version of
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    Attractive Two-Piece For The Older Woman
    40 21 AN attractive two-piece for the older woman. It is fashioned in navy blue aad white printed marocain. The novel collar on the coat lined with white adds a refreshing note. Model by Margaret Marks.
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    MENACE TO SINGAPORE MOTORISTS
    623 22 Poor Road Lighting System TRAFHC AUTHORITIES PERTURBED (By A Special Correspondent) TTHE recent Singapore Assiie case in which a European motor-car owner-driver was involved, brings forward once again the danger to which motorists are subjected by the extremely poor road lighting system of the island. Motorists'
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    Indian Flying To Singapore
    76 22 CETH MOTILAL SANGHI, an Indian business man, proposes to fly from Delhi to Singapore this month on his way to Australia. He will study trade conditions along the route in order to find markets for Indian goods. He also desires to invite a number of leading
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    Cantonese Talkies To Continue
    290 22 Nanking Grants Petition I ESS than a month ago, Mr. K. R. Shaw, head of Shaw Brothers, Singapore, sole distributors in Malaya of Chinese talkies, predicted that the supply of Cantonese films would not dry up suddenly in spite of the proposal of the Nanking Government
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    BISHOP ON "TRIAL TRIP" MARRIAGE 3
    241 22 He Thinks Results May Be Disconcerting. •"THE proposal that there should be no petition for divorce until five years after marriage is criticised by the Bishop of Winchester (Dr. Cyril Garbett) in a pastoral letter to his diocese. After admitting that thtre are some
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    HOCKEY COMPETITION FOR THE WILLS TROPHY
    895 24 First Matches To Be Played This Week EUROPEANS FAVOURED AS WINNERS (Fr;.ni Our C'xn Correspondent.) I Scramat. CEGAMAT is to have its iirst hotkey competition, for a trophy •i ted by Mr. D. Wills, the It has teen decided to pl?.y two matches a
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    PERAK DRAW WITH SELANGOR 3—3
    98 24 Home Team Give Poor Show In First Half (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, Saturday. After playing poor hockey in the first half, Perak were lucky to draw with Selangor, each team scoring three goals. Selangor led one-nil at the interval through Martin. Hotly attacking at
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    ERICS DRAW WITH WHITE SHIRTS
    200 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. THE Erics put up a very good show to draw I—l in the hockey match against the White Shirts. A few minutes from the start. Abbas opened the scoring for the Erics but Wahid soon equalised. The White Shirts
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    SINGAPORE BADMINTON DIRECTORY
    70 24 SINGAPORE BADMINTON DIRECTORY DADMINTON in Singapore has. dur- ing the last few years made extraordinary progress and to such a stage has the sport advanced that the first Singapore Badminton Directory has Just been published at a price of 20 cents. The diiectory. which contains numerous photographs of itfficials and
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    20 24 TWO WHITES "FORWARDS" starting a dribbling movement in yesterday ,s viee -versa Rugby match on the Padang. Sunday Times Photograph.
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    0.8.A. GO DOWN TO WARDEkS
    210 24 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Alor Star. •pHE Warders after a hard fight beat the 0.8.A. at hockey by two goals to nil. In the first half there was no scoring, both sides being equally balanced.- Swee Teng, keeping goal for the 0.8.A. had a very
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    V.M.C.A. HOCKEY FIXTURES FOR THIS WEEK
    130 24 V.M.C.A. HOCKEY FIXTURES FOR THIS WEEK The following have been selected to represent the V.MC.A. Junior Department against 6th H.K.S. Battery on Tuesday at Anson Road ground at 5.15 p.m.: Looi Eng San. E. C. M. Hope. M. Modder, Ong Swee Kong, B. S. Varma, G. Newman, B. M. Barker.
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    NO GRIFFIN P\CES AT NEXT MEETING.
    38 24 Contrary to an earlier statement, the secretary of the Straits Racing Association announces that there will be no races for griffins at the Febru ary (Spring) meeting of the Singapore Turf Club.
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    24 24 LJERE is Don Bradman caught by Allen, bowled by Veto, for a duck in Australia's first innings of the second Test Match at Sydney.
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    BIG HOCKEY GAME TODAY
    28 24 *THE Singapore-Malacca hockey match which was washed out yesterday owing; to rain, will be played this morning, at ten o'clock on the S.R.C. ground.
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    Rugby Laughs On Padang FORWARDS AND BACKS CHANGE PLACES
    498 24 Rugby Laughs On Padang FORWARDS AND BACKS CHANGE PLACES THE few spectators who braved the 1 elements on the padang yesterday and saw Colours beat Whites by nine points (three tries) to nil, even if they did not see anything that could be classed os dashing Rugby certainly got a
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    VINES BEATS PERRY WINNER "DECIDEDLY SUPERIOR"
    139 24 VINES BEATS PERRY WINNER "DECIDEDLY SUPERIOR" Pittsburgh, Saturday. Ellswc-th Vines beat Fred Perry here today 6—3, 5—7, 6—4, 6—l. Vines has fully recovered from his influenza and the first set seemed to prophesy the result. Perry, after four deuces, smashing set point well out. Perry won the second set from
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    COMMERCIAL INTER-TEAM BADMINTON
    196 24 COMMERCIAL INTER-TEAM BADMINTON •THE Commercial inter-team tournament, held for the finst time here since championship tournaments were first inaugurated in 1929, began yesterday at the Clerical Union Hall when the Bramtoco Sports Club met and defeated the Straits Times Press Sports Club by the big margin of five games to
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    48 24 A WHITES THREEQUARTER brought down In yesterdays vice-versa Rugby match on the Padang. Hamlyn. the "State forward, through playing at wing threequarter. lives up to hi? refutation of always being up with the ball and seems to be about to fall on the tackled man. —Sunday Times Photograph.
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    M C. C. Batsm en Make Merry
    309 24 OLDFiELD SAVES COMBINED XI FROM A ROUT Hobart, Tasmania, Saturday. THF M.C.C. are well on the way to a win in their match hrre against a Combined XI, for at the -ml of the second day's play they are 355 runs on with
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    POOR SHOOTiNG LOSES GAME
    134 24 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. TTHE Police A boat the White Shirts at heckey by tl c enly goal of the game. Bith teams were equally strong and piay was fast. Ismail Ahmad at centre-half played a g:eat game for the White Shirts but the
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    OLDFIELD CUP GOLF DRAW
    133 24 Draw fcr the Oldfi-ld Cup annual golf competition run by the Singapore Rotary Club. First Round. J. Graham (22) vs. E. Satchell (21); F. D Harrison (17) vs. E. C. Martin (14); J. A. Clarke M) vs. K. Morino (24); E. G. Mozar (20) vs. It.
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    SELANGOR'S GREAT MALAYA CUP VICTORY
    1340 25 Superiority Of Forwards Beats Army 8 Points To 3 STATE'S THIRD WIN IN TOURNEY High Standard Of Play Despite Greasy Ball And Slippery Field (From Our Ov-n Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. THE superiority of Selangor forwards, notably in the loose, gave the State team victory
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    TENNIS RANKING IN AMERICA Surprise Decisions
    162 25 TENNIS RANKING IN AMERICA Surprise Decisions New Yor»;. IUIANY American lawi. tennis f ollowerc Jfarncd with surprise that the United States Lawn Tennis Association ranking committee had ft commended Miss Alice llarble lor first place In the women's national Kii.flrs and placed Miss Hpler. Jacobs second. The decision is based
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    TERROR WIN POOR MATCH
    273 25 SOUTH JOHORE NOT AT FULL STRENGTH (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. IN a poor Rugby match, H.MJS. Ter- ror beat South Johore this evening by eight points (a goal and a try) tc three points (a try). South Johore were not at full strength
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    TEN GOALS SCORED IN FRIENDLY GAME
    190 25 R.A.F. 5 Government Services A friendly game of socrer was play ed at the Jalan Besar Stadium yestei day between the R.A.F., and the Government Ser/Ves whicli resulted it; a draw, each sid scoring five goals. The Government Services, who were decidedly the better
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    England's Win Over Wales
    570 25 London, Saturday. CIXTY-FIVE thousand people saw v England beat Wales at Rugby at Twickenham today by four points (one dropped goal) to three points (one try)The weather was sunny and after early rain the ground was soft. Numerous Welshmen were distinguishable by their scarlet berets, daffodils
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    Teams For North-South Match
    195 25 Teams For North-South Match FOLLOWING the Malaya Cup Rugby final the following teams were chosen to represent the North and the South in the annual game at the Anson Road Stadium, Singapore, on Jan. 30 NORTH D. R. Harper (Sel.) C. W. F. Hartley (Perak), J. Keay (Penang), A. J.
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    PREVIOUS RESULTS
    156 25 QESULTS of previous Malaya Cup i IX finals:— 1922 Selangor beat Singapore 5—3 1923 Pcrak beat Negri Sembilan 3 o 1924 Selangor and Singapore (no match, ground unplayable). 1925 Singapore beat Selangor 30—13 1926 Singapore beat Perak 18— 3 1927 Perak beat Negri Sembilan 14 3 1928 Singapore
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    HOME FOOTBALL
    342 25 DESULTS of football games played in the leagues yesterday are says Reuter DIVISION 111 (Southern) Bristol C 2 Watford 2 Clapton O. 2 GillinKham o Notts Co 3 Newport Co. 1 Torquay U. 1 Southend U. 4 Crystal P 2 Swindon 0 DIVISION 111 (Northern) Barrow 0 Lincoln
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    LEAGUE TABLES
    731 25 Swindon 24 9 9 6 .5 37 24 Cardiff 24 10 10 4 33 40 Bristol Roy 23 9 12 2 34 41 20 Bristol City .24 8 12 4 44 48 JO Torquay 25 7 12 G 30 46 20 Crystal P 24 7 11: 5 33
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    HOME RUGBY
    99 25 DESULT of Rugby games played at home yesterday are, says Re u tor; Biikenhead Purk 34, Manchester 3. Brist>k 11, The Army 5. Richmond 16, CambrMge Univ. 5. Cardiff 3. Dath 0. Coventry 3. Gloucc-ric 8 Leicester 3, Moseley 0. London Scottish 6. Waterloo 12. Northampton 3. Royal
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    BADMINTON'S RISING POPULARITY IN MALAYA
    1676 26 Lack Of Facilities For Playing The Game Need For Suitable Halls Prospects Of Coming Season BY OUR BADMINTON CORRESPONDENT ■"THE p;u-t year has again been a very active one for all the parent badminton associations throughout the country. In addition to the regular number of
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    13 26 •THE Jlef-at Cver*reen Badminton Pari» members who did well the recent district tournament.
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    30 26 RE. Donough and Foo Soon Fatt (left) beat A. M. Janscn and G. C. Meredith in the final of the open doubles badminton tournament of the Vehicles Department Sports Club.
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    FLOWER OF LIBERTY
    88 26 The following are office-bearers f or the year 1937 of the Flower of Llbercy Musical Party: Patrons, Dr. K. Raghunathan, J.P. and Mr. K. S. Danam, (both re-elected); president, Mr. See Bong Him (re-elected); hon secretary, Mr. James T. Benpole; hon. asst. secretary, Mr. Tan Chan Seng;
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    MUAR OFFICIALS
    88 26 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar. AT a general meeting of the Muar District Badminton Association held at the Muar Club the following were elected office bearers for the year: President. H.H. Tunku Ahmad vicepresident, Inche Majid bin Ahmad honorary secretary, Mr. Tan Eng Hoe honorary treasurer, Inche Bidln
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    COMMERCIAL HOUSES TOURNAMENT
    43 26 Ties In the commercial badminton tournament are: Today, 10 a.m., A.P.C. I vs. Nestle and Anglo-Swiss; at 2.00 p.m. j Robinson and Co. vs. Oversea Chinese Bank. Both ties will be played at V e Clerical Unlcn Hall, Rangoon Road.
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    ROSEHILL B.P.
    56 26 At the inauguration meeting of the Rosehlll Badminton Party held on Jan. 10 the following were elected office bearers for the year ending December, 1937: President, T. Ra.ioo; hon secretary. Tan Heng Hong; hon. treasurer. Low Hiang Tee; hon. auditor, M. Sockallngam; sports captain. C. B. Nair; committee.
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    KEDAH CHINESE SPORTS MEETING
    95 26 From Our Own Correspondent) Alor Star. For the first time an all-Kedah athletic meeting will be held at Sungei Patanl today. All schools In Kcdah will participate and eliminating heats will be run at t> am. in the morning. The sports will start at 3 p.m
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    REX B.P
    54 26 The following players will represent the Rex Badminton Party "B team against the Spartan B.P. "B" team today at the former's court at 3 p.m.: Dickie Wee, Ong Swee Kee, Sng Bock Eng, Sim Yong Patt, Jimmy Gwee, Douglas Neo and Leng Lee Choon. Reserves: Teo Thiam Nam
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    INTER-PARTY GAMES
    41 26 (From Our Own Correspondent) Alor ptu, Badminton parties are playing the game seriously again in view of the coming inter-party tournament. The Sunroc B.P. has opened a new court at Jalan Raja, at the back of the Star Dispensary
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    134 26 A GROUP photograph taken at the dpening of the tit. Anurcw's Hospital Sports Club at Telok Mata Ikan. Bottom row (left to right) Miss Ling Tung Ling. Miss Grace Kok, Mrs Ella Chan, Dr. Ivy Tong, Dr. P. R. Elliott, Mrs M Perera, Miss Maria Kwan. Mrs Annie Ng. Standing
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    Badminton Tour To Hong Kong?
    159 26 Badminton Tour To Hong Kong? (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. IT is understood that Mr. Leone 1 Hoe Yenp. the Selangor badminton and lawn tennis player, is planning t.» send a team of lending badminton players to give exhibition games in Hong Kon.T some time in November. Should
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    SIEW SIN SIA
    168 26 Members of the Siew Sin Sia are reminded that the tenth anniversary celebration will be held at Mr. Aw Boon Haw's bungalow on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 23 and 24. The annual dinner will be held on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. and the Chinese Teo Chew mus'c
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    MANAGER SUSPENDED
    112 26 For Failing To Arrange Welterweight Bout Now York Dec 30. TPHE Boxing Commission i.aye lnde- finitely susper,dea Sam Plan, the Chicao co-manager >f Barney Rcis, the world's welterweight champion, because of his failure to negotiate for d title bout with Ceterino Garcia, one of the contenders for the
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    THOUGHTS ON MALAYA'S COMING CRICKET SEASON
    940 27  - THOUGHTS ON MA LA YA 'S COMING CRICKET SEASON "ECHO" By Importance Of Fielding Where Many Runs Are Made Or Saved Perak s Report [.TOW v.ho did win at Kuala Lumpur yesterday V Does the ruj. «ier cup repose grandly among that very Lavish collection of trophies in the "Dog"
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    S.C.C. HOCKEY
    53 27 I sfc.C. Against Combined Schools on Monday on the padang: R. U. Green, R. H. Cain. C. E. Brooke, C H. Marshall. E. W. Reeve, P. M. E. Smith, G. Williams, P. O. :S. Man. P. P. Kinsey, W. J. Henman. J. E. D. Graha.u. Umpire— Mr. E.
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    13 27 j VKDSIAKK clean-bowled by M (.ormick daring Urn second t*»t matcn. at Sydney
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    18 27 THE teachers and boys of the Chwng Hwa Chinese School, Siuicci Lembing, during a recent visit la Kuantan.
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    S.C.C. BILLIARDS
    110 27 Ties To Be Played This Week The following ties will be played in Ue S.C.C. billiards tournament this •reek CHAMPIONSHIP. Monday A. F. Hunter vs. Carl Lawson. Tuesday E. J. Riches vs. Major H. Phillips. Wednesday K. C. Gillett vs. H. Gray. Thursday L. G. Smith vs. J.
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    G.S.C. MATCHES.
    87 27 The Girls' Sports Club have played matches on the past two Thursdays, beating the Y.W.C.A. in a flr«t team match 7—l and in a second team match I—o. Other matches arranged are: Today, vs. Europeans, Ist teams, B.C.C. ground. Thursday, Jan 21. vs. Y.W.C.A., Ist teams. Tuesday, Jan.
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    Sports Notes From Negri
    631 27 When Negri Sembilan Was In Cup Final Past Teams And Scores Two Negri Men In Selangor Team N^gri Sembilan Back Selangor To Win By Our Seremban Correspondent A LARGE contingent of Negri Sembilan rugger enthusiasts will be at Kuala Lumpur today to witness the all important
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