The Straits Times, 28 August 1940

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    37 1 FINAL EDTN The Straits Times [ESTABLISHED NEARLY A CENTURY] MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER—LARGEST NET SALES II PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1910. PRICE 5 CENTS. The Straits Times Ifi PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1940. PRICE 5 CENTS.
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      832 2 PUBLIC NOTICES In the matter of the Companies Ordinance and In the matter of HUNG PHUNG MAI HONG COMPANY (HONG KONG) LTD. (a company Incorporated in Hong Kong). At an Extraordinary Oeneral Meeting ot the Members of the above company held at the Registered Offlce of the Company at No
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      351 3 SHIPPING ANNOUNCEMENTS P. 0. BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Incorporated in England) PENINSUI.AR AND ORIENTAL S N Co MAH PASSENGER AND CARGO SERVICE The best possible services are being maintained by the P O S N. Coy irom the Straits to their usual ports of call in China, India, Ceylon
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      320 3 (Incorporated In Japan) GENERAL PASSENGER AGENTS FOR CUNARD WHITE STAR rO LIVERPOOL Colombo, (Bombay), Durban, Cape Town. and Lisbon Sol! S'DOTC t KASIMA MARD Sept. 30 Oct. 1 t Omits Bombay TO SAN FRANCISCO lions Ron*. Kobe Tokohama Honolulu San FraneUr* ana l.o« Anretaa KAMAKTJKA MARU leave H'kong Au«t 30
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      526 3 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. BLUE FUNNEL LINE Frequent Sailings to United Kingdom. Dates are not guaranteed all cargo bookings subject to Conference War clauses. WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE SHORTEST SEA ROUTE ATTHE CHEAPEST FARE Regular Services to Fremantle [Perth] via Java by first class passenger ships. Single fare $192 (A £23) Frequent
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      235 3 FAST PASSENGER SERVICE SINGAPORE TO SAN FRANCISCO. VIA MANILA HONG KONG Sail S'pora Arrive s P as CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Aog. 27 Sept. 20 1.3 CITY OF LOS ANGELES bept. 10 Oct S •J. CITY OF NEWPORT NEWB Oct. S Oct 29 ■J. CITY OP NORFOLK Not. 6 Nov.
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      604 3 Broadcasting TO-DAY SINGAPORE ZHI UiS nn «sra| ZHP 9.69 met ,30.96 m.) 1.00 p.m. Miscellaneous new gramophone records; 1.30 p.m. Warning to mariners. Programme summary. Mid-day tin, copra and rubber prices; 1.35 p.m. News; 1.50 pm. Miscellaneous new gramopnone records i (contd.) 2.00 Interval. 5.00 p.m. Hokklen Amoy dramast 5.30
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      677 3 EMPIRE STATION Transmission 2 (6.00 p.m -9.05 p.m. Malays time) will be radiated on he ollowing wanlengths: GSH— I3.97 nn: GSI- '9 Kb m; GSJ— U J m; GSG— I6.B6 m; GST-13.9J tn; and ci GSP—l9.<:n m until 7.20 o-rx. .nd on GSV--16.84 m from 7.35 p.m. Transmission 3 (9.20
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    London Stock Exchange
    346 4 London, Aug. 27. r)-PAY'S record of Stock Exchange dealings proved uninspiring, dealings fcr the most part being confined to certain leaders. Gilt edged were supported and Rails met small provincial offerings. The recent firmness of Egyptians was unimpaired by the latest political developments. Rubbers were inclined to
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    COMMODITIES & EXCHANGES
    172 4 COMMODITIES EXCHANGES i*"rom Ou* Own Correspondent) London, Aug. 27. POMMODITY. and Exchange market* closed as follows t/itb orevWs Quotations tn parenthesis:— BIBBER: Easy. Spot 12 7 16d12 9 Ibd <12'-<iV2 11 16 d) Sept. 12 7 16d 12 9 16d (12 9 16d 12 11 I6d) Oct-Oec 12>*d 12Hd (12
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    Europe's Legion Of Missing Relatives
    108 4 EUROPE'S legion of the missing Is beginning to reach staggering proportions. Again and again the staff at St. James's Palace In the department called "Foreign Relations" has had to be enlarged to keep pace with the streams of Inquirers, says the Evening News. The "Foreign
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    BRITISH CALM NOT DISTURBED
    77 4 London, Aug. 27. REFERRING to the fact that last week British aircraft workers turned out more bombers and fighters than ever before, the Daily Express says, "This provides an answer to Germany's mass raids, her tip-and-run expeditions, reconnaissance flights and solitary night bombings. "Resort to screaming
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    "EVERYTHING INTO A COMMON POOL"
    61 4 *T*HK leader of the Australian Labour party 1 yesterday reaffirmed Australian labour support for the war effort. He declared that Australian labour stood Inflexibly In support of the British cause. He suggested that everything must come into a common pool and personal Interests must be
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    Malayan Sharebrokers Assn. Singapore Quotations
    1290 4 DfcBKNTV'BJEtJ AM) I.OAK* 4'c Maynaro and OD. $30,000 let 4pr W Oct tl 90.30 100. Q<H» SINGAFOI* tfUNICTTAI ■j i-ii;i red 10.9.40 540U.900 intereti Mar 31. Sept. 30 100 101 noro c.l. 4H% 1907 red. 30 647 t1.600.000 let Mai 31, Sept. 30 i 4
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    MAIL ARRIVALS AND DISPATCHES
    86 4 Mails close at the Genera! Pa t Office v follows:— TOMORROW Africa (South) surface s) a.m. America (South) surface 9 am. Java surface 9 a.m. air 9 a.m. 5 p.m. Palembang air 9 a.m. fc 5 p.m MAIL ABHIVALS Malls from Great Britain. South and East
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    8% FINAL FOR MALACCA UNITED
    116 4 8% FINAL FOR MALACCA UNITED The directors of the United Malacca Rubber Estates Ltd. report a pro .t foi the year ended April at) of $91,339 compared with $28,682 for the same period last year. A final dividend of 8 per cent. Is recomended making 12 per cent, for the
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    BUKIT K.B. DIVIDEND
    39 4 At the annual meeting of the Buklt K. B. Rubber Co., Ltd., to be held on August 31 at Malacca a dividend of five per cent, will be recommended The profit for the year was $12,688
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    List Of Current Dividends
    241 4 Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Booka Company OMtiend data rw Austral Amal 3d Austral Malay 3d. 13 bonus Sept. 2 Ipoh Tin 3s. final less tax Auk. 5 Kuala Kampar 6d. No. 19 Sept. 8 Kundang Ib. No. 6 Aug. 26 Raub 44. lnt Sept
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      1141 4 FREE CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE Increasing Exports From Free Ports Chungking, July S. ALTHOUGH Cliina's foreign trade showed A an unfavourable balance of $20,938,000 during the first five months of 1940, the ports of Free China continued to make impressive gains in the excess of exports over imports. During the first
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      79 4 TIDE TABLES SINGAPORE Ma H. Vi. 6.05 a.m. 6.7 ft.; 5.24 p.m. 7.9 ft. L. W. 10.56 a.m. 5.3 ft. Tomorrow H. W. 7.53 a.m. 6.9 ft.; 6.55 p.m. 8.9 ft. L. w. 00.48 a.m. 3.4 ft.: 12.34 p.m. 5.5 ft. Friday. Aug. 30 H. W. 8.58 a.m. 7.4 ft.;
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    AROUND THE MARKETS
    386 5 Public Interest Aroused In New War Loan Issue K> Our Financial Correspondent) Singapore. Aug. 28. THE price of rubber In London yesterday was down one sixteenth at 12 7'l6d. The Spot tin price in London lell 355. to £258 ss. and the three months quotation fell by
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    Fought With Six Chinese Gunmen
    202 5 Shanghai, Aug. 28. WHEN six Chinese gunmen attacked Lieut. Pierre Blanchet, acting director of the French Municipal Police, yesterday morning, he displayed great courage, engaging his attackers in a gun-fight although twice wounded. This is the first time in the history of Shanghai that a
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    SINGAPORE PRODUCE PRICES
    65 5 pore, Aug. 28. noon Buyer* Gambler Hamburg Cube Java Cubo Sellers 8 7.75 513.00 312 50 Pfpper White Mumok White Black 512.25 5U.75 t 6.73 Copra Mixed Sun Dried 52.30 Sico flam No. 1 litv'ga $4.10 Fair $3.2r. Sarawak f.~.i Irotona Palembang Ban jo Sarawak o nioca
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    RANEE ASKED TO DENY EVACUATION CRITICISM
    82 5 From Our Own > orrespor.dent London. Aug. 27. THE latest Issue of Truth calls upon tr.e Raree of Sarawa'; to ceny the statemenv: cKe^cd to bam been -iade by her critic. rln? Qm evacuation scheme foi children sen' »o Car.r.da. The journal adds that
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    Nazis' Scientific Looting
    303 5 Methods Used In The Occupied Lands London, Aug. 28. JUIE.THODS by which the Nazis arc hypothecating to their own purposes the resources of countries Avhich have come under their domination was carefully analyzed in an article in the journ.il Economist under the title Scientific Looting.' The writer
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER ASSN.
    86 5 Wednesday, \ut 3». noon Buyer* Seller* Prk« Tice* No. IX i'. S.S. Spot lootc) 37H 37*; No. IX R.S.S. f.JJ. In caaes Aog.-Sept. (Sellen' Option) JB*i 38 s G.K.A.Q. R.S.S. f.o.b. In bale* Aug.-Sept. (Sellers' Option) 3«% 37 r.A.tJ. R.S.S. f.o.b. in bale* Attg.-Sept. (Setter**
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    Hungary Lodges Protest
    76 5 Hungary Lodges Protest Late Cables Bucharest. Aug. 28 HUNGARY has lodged a strong protest concerning the Incident in which a Hungarian plane is stated to have been brought down by a Rumanian plane and landed on Hungarian territory. A Rumanian plane and a So/ie plane are alleged to have been
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    Greece Taking Precautions
    53 5 Greece Taking Precautions Athens. Aug. 28. THE authorities in northern Greece have taken precautions, but the easing of the Italian press and radio campaign has given rise to a more optimistic feeling. Independent observers here believe that Germany is exercising a moderating influence, being unwilling to see a configration in
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    Nazi Atrocities In Poland
    154 5 Shanghai. Aug. 28. "pERMANY cannot succeed." declar- ed Mr. John McCutcheon Raleigh, American newspaperman radio commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting System, who was in Berlin at the outbreak of the present European conflict and who saw most of the fighting in Pcland and the Low Countries,
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    French Envoy In China Is Pro-Petain
    124 5 French Envoy In China Is Pro-Petain Shanghai. Aug. 28. BROADCASTING to Frenchmen throughout china yesterday evening, the French Ambassador, M. Henri Cosmo, appealed for unity and urged a.l Frenchmen to support the Vichy Government. He asked Frenchmen In the Far East not to allow themselves to b? influenced by any
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    Nazi Plane Attack On Passenger Train
    66 5 London, Aug. 28. A GERMAN raider la believed to have been shot down in southwest England last night. Raiders in north-east England machine-gunned a passenger train. Passengers clearly heard the bullets striking the roofs of the carriages. The train proceeded until it reached a
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    EXCHANGES
    177 5 The following are the exchange rates this morning according to tha iaily circular Issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation:— SELLING London T.T. j/4 i/i 6 Lor don demand a/4 i 16 Lyons demand Switzerland demand 206 Hamburg demand New York demand 44 15 '16 Montreal demand 51
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    17 5 Mr. Churchill, the Prime Minister, had an audience of the King at Buckingham Palace last evening. Wtrele-M.
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      226 5 THE MOTHERS WATCHWORD "AGNESIA" FOR BABY AGNESIA Antiseptic Dusting POWDER is unequalled as a Nursery Powder, Obtainable Everywhere Product of: GRAFTOM LABORATORIES LTD. Singapore Kuala Lumpur Penang, PUBLIC NOTICES UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Notice to hereby given that the Autumn Term will commence on Monday. September 9th.. 1940. Supplementary Examination*
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      339 6 The Happiest Show You Will See This Year! To E Sa N y G ktHAMbftAl 3 9 15 1 5 6 P.M The Gay and tuneful Romance of the GIRL IN THE ALICE BLUE GOWN! I/ 1 a 1 ct c,*' MMi pnouui-f d and II E II I) E
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      168 6 i anil ■> F7488 In a little Rocky Valley There's a Boy come home on leave Laura Evans-Williams Soprano F7477 Songs my mother taught me The Fair House of Joy Sidney Burchall (Baritone) F7473 God Will Remember The Grandest Song of All Inn Andersen (Sophisticated Songstress) F7469 Luxury Cruise Two
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    NAZI REBUKE TO SWITZERLAND
    63 7 "'Surprises'* Warning By German Newspaper Rome. Aus. 27. ANOTHER sharp rebuke to Switzerland is -contained In the German newspaper Voelklscher Beobachter toil ay, quoted by the official Italian news agency. The newspaper declares that the BwlM mentality, with its attitude of antipathy towards the Axis powers
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    Awards To Navy For Gallantry
    99 7 Awards To Na vy For Gallantry London, Aug. 28. AWARDS to naval men for good services off various coasts are annornced by the Admiralty in a supplement to the London Gazette. In connection with operations off the Dutch. Belgian and French coasts there are five awards of the Distinguished Service
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    DUKE OF BEDFORD DIES AT 82
    101 7 London, Aug. 28. THE death occurred yesterday at Bedfordshire of the Duke of Bedford, one of the four richest Dukes and owner of several parts of London. Aged 82. the Duke had been partially blind for sometime. Ho had beer in failing health since
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    GREECE NOT INTIMIDATED BY ITALIAN BLUSTER
    311 7 How Rome May Try Effectiveness. Of British Guarantee London, Aug. 28. A LTHOUGH there is no decrease in the Italian Press and radio campaign against Greece, the situation has not deteriorated materially and there is no new evidence that Italy means to break the
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    AXIS MOVE IN AMERICA
    83 7 Bid To Prevent Aid To Britain New York, Aug. 27T^HE Axis powers have a "definite programme" In the United States, according to Mr. Martin Dies, chairman of the Congressional committee investigating unAmerican activities. Mr. Dies told the Press to-day that he had evidence that the programme
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    U.S.-Canada Defence Board Discussions
    69 7 London, Aug. 27. DISCUSSIONS between the United States and Canadian representatives on the Joint defence board set up by the two countries are continuing to-day. Yesterday's meeting lasted four hours. Afterwards the chairman of the U.S. representatives, Mayor La. Guardla, of New York, described the board
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    OVER £300,000 WORTH OF SALVAGE LAST MONTH
    114 7 OVER £300,000 WORTH OF SALVAGE LAST MONTH London, Aug. 28. MR. Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Supply, stating that the national domestic salvage campaign had made a very good start announced, "The value of salvage for July was a little over £300.000 with returns from about 50 small local authorities
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    30 7 London, Aug. 28. ris announced that casualties in the destroyer Hostile (1.340 tons*, which, was sunk by an enemy mine, were j four rating killed and three wounded. j |Reu;pr.
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    10,000 PLANES A YEAR U.S. PROGRAMME
    59 7 THE United States Is building alr- craft at the rate of 10,000 machines a year. An amendment to the Compulsory Military Service Bill, adopted yesterday, fixed at 9C0.000 the number of conscripts who can be under training at any one time. It also restricts
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    Similarity Between Trotsky And Hitler
    115 7 New York, Aug. 27. BETWEEN Trotsky (exiled Bolshevist leader who was killed a few days ago in Mexico City in a hammer attack) and Hitler there is a remarkable resemblance," says the Louisville Courier Journal. "The similarity is between red and brown Bolshevism. "If there
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    D.S.O. For Air Ace With Bag Of 18 Nazi Planes
    202 7 London, Aug. 28. ACTING Squadron-Leader M. N. Cro&'Jey, the air ace, who was yesterday appointed Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Is stated In an official account to have now destroyed a total of 18 enemy aircraft and possibly another
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    RED CROSS FUND RISES BY £9,000 IN A DAY
    70 7 RED CROSS FUND RISES BY £9,000 IN A DAY London, Aug. 28. THE Lord Mayor of London received on Monday 500 for the Red Cross fund from a sergeant in an anti-air-craft battery stationed in Kent. The same night the fund reached a total of £2 677,000 rising by £9,000
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    The Straits Times SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1940. (360 th Day Of The War.) "OUR PLAYFUL TREASURY"
    1098 8 The Straits Times SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1940. (360 th Day Of The War.) "OUR PLAYFUL TREASURY" In the course of a speech broadcast from London last week, Sir i Archibald Sinclair, the Secretary of State for Air, gave an assurance that all emergency measures which restrict the liberty of
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    REJOICING
    174 8 R.A.F. Triumphs Should Be Celebrated To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,— ln most countries, a victory is always celebrated. If "round one" of the war has been won by Britain, why not celebrate it? One may ask how this should be done. Order every public building in
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    BOMBING RAIDS NOT WORRYING LONDONERS
    4370 8 Our London Letter This London Letter was received by air mail and describes the Home scene as it was just over a m-mth ag'J. As the cabled London Letter published on M 'lid iv shows, it is still surprisingly topical. The Strails Times hopes t.>
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      70 8 THE BOOK OF WOODCRAFT By Ernest T. Seton. This book tells you how to make camp, how to forecast the weather, how to build a flrr?, ike a bow and arrow, and how to identify trees, animals, .snakes, birds-play game and givg fir:-t aid in emergencies, etc. Price only $3.00.
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    LARGE R.A.F. FORCES BOMB 29 NAZI AERODROMES
    716 9 Enemy's New Bases In Forward Line WIDESPREAD ATTACKS ON GERMANY AND ITALY Large Synthetic Oil Plant Set On Fire In Raid TWENTY-SEVEN aerodromes of use to the enemy were visited by large forces of R.A.F. bombers on Monday. This Air Ministry announcement, made
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    SMALL RAIDS ON BRITAIN
    369 9 Fierce A.-A. Fire In London London, Aug. 28. AN air raid warning was sounded in the London area again last night. It came within two or three minutes of the time of Monday night's warning. Anti-aircraft guns were in action in north-west, north-east and southwest London
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    'LESS RUINOUS FOR NAZIS BUT NO MORE SUCCESSFUL'
    233 9 THE conclusion to be drawn from yesterday's air raids, said Mr George Slocombe, broadcasting from London to-day, is that Hitler has abandoned his shock tactics in favour of a policy of air attrition. Hitler's raiders," he said, are now coming as slippery
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    315 CHILDREN LEAVE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
    84 9 London, Aug. 28. THE lir.st contingent of British 1 liildren for South Africa ur.d -r the children's evacuation reception .sehnne lias left Britain. The party numbers 315 and comes from different count ulclitn will ipend their first night ii-lmre ,n Boutti Aiii<;i at the
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    Raid On South-east Scotland
    38 9 A Nazi bomber scored a direct hit on this working: class tenement in a town in south-east Scotland. So strong was the structure that the main part of the building: withstood the terrific explosion.
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    ANTI-PETAIN REVOLT
    228 9 Chad Region Joins Free French London, Aug. 28. A PROCLAMATION issued at Fort Chad on Aug. 26 by the Governor and military commander declares that the French African colony of Chad will continue to support the Allied cause. The proclamation added that the res oration of French greatness
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    Reshuffle In Vichy Government
    65 9 Reshuffle In Vichy Government London, Aug. 28. IMPORTANT diplomatic changes are I to be announced in the French official gazette to-day, according to the Lyons radio. Eighty-three officials are to be retired, including 15 ministers, three counsellors of Embassy, 19 consulsgeneral ard 23 counsellors. The Allies now control the whole
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    WORKERS STAND IN THE FRONT LINE
    130 9 London, Aug. 28. SIR Walter Womersley, Minister of Pensions, in a broadcast speech last night, explaining details of the civil injuries compensation scheme, said, "This is the first time in the history of any nation that the ordinary working people have been recognized by
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    Neutrals Show Up Nazi Lies
    297 9 British Statement Of Air Force Losses London, Aug. 28. AS announced in Air Ministry communiques, Britain has lost 287 planes during the period Aug. 1 to Aug. 26 on all fronts, including the Italian front. Since the beginning of the war up to date, according
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    Tokio Attitude To Britain
    160 9 Statement By Envoy In London London, Aug. 28. DEUTER'S diplomatic correspond1X ent writes "The recall from abroad of 40 Japanese diplomats to Tokio has been variously interpreted in both the foreign and Japanese Press, but the following statement by the Japanese Ambassador in London, Mr. M.
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    NAZIS DENY FLIGHT OVER EIRE
    78 9 Berlin, Aug. 27. /JERMAN responsibility for dropping bombs on Eire is disavowed by the official German news agency. The agency says It is learned In authoritative military circles that the "route over Irish territory is not used by German planes flying to England. "Furthermore," the
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    WAR CLOUDS DARKEN OVER THE BALKAN STATES
    306 9 Rumanian Troops Moving While Hungarians Allege Incident London, Aug. 29. DUMANIAN troops are still moving to Transylvania and, it is understood, by the week-end Rumania will have aa many men under arms as during the Russian crisis, reports Reuter from Bucharest. Rumanian troops
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    NEW BRITISH NAVAL ACTION
    75 9 Bombardment In Libya Harbour Cairo, Aug. 27. T\URING the night of Aug. 23-24, British naval forces attacked the Italian harbour of Bardia, where there were troop concentrations, and the seaplane base at Bomba, both on the Libyan coast,*' says a naval communique issued here to-day. Both
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    SUBMARINE NOW LONG OVERDUE
    28 9 London, Aug. 28. AN Admiralty communique announces that the submarine Spearfish (Lieut.-Comdr. J. H. Forbes) is considerably overdue and must be presumed lost.— Reuter.
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    U.S.-CANADA DEFENCE TALKS SUCCESS
    80 9 Ctawa. Aug. 27. THE newly formed U.S. -Canada 6c- fence board to-day finished the first phase of its studies here and adjourned until the resumption of its deliberations at Washington. Meantime, mili.ary members of the board will tour the east coast of Canada to study defence
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    CHINA STATION C.-IN-C. FOR HONG KONG
    55 9 Shanghai, Aug. 28. VICE-ADM. Sir Geoffrey Layccn, new Commander-in-Chief China Station, ■ad Lady Layton have left fcr Hong Kong. They are travelling in the same liner as the British Ambassador, Sir j Archibald Clarke Kerr, who is en route to Chungking, where he will
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    MORE CHINESE HELP FOR THE WAR FUND
    569 10 Rubber Dealers' $30,000 In To-day's Donations List THK War Fund to-day totals $3,532,799— an increase of x:il,(>sl over the total reported yesterday. Expectations that The War Fund would be considerably augmented as a result of the appeal to Chinese Guilds and ciations throughout
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    WAR FUND DIARY
    54 10 EMMMAIVMKVIs and other tutu lions arranged in aid of The Uir ru:id u ill be listed in this diary, but it is a londitinn ot inclusion in tli.- list that thp entire proceeds thall l>c civrn tii the (und. l.»-da> und Sept. 21: Centre IntHlci tuel Fraaeafti
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    DOCTORS FOR COLONIES Service Vital To War Effort
    212 10 DOCTORS FOR COLONIES Service Vital To War Effort 'From Our Own Correspondent.) London, July 17. '•'THE maintenance of an efficient Colonial Medical Service constitutes a vital part of the national v. ar and It is most importa::f. he Service should be assured of luate supply of doctors.*" This is the
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    At The Cinema
    246 10 DR. CYCLOPS" AT THE CATHAY In Cyclops" With Alb*r» D.Wei, r.ogan. Thomas foley, and ChartM ■atUa, Paramount. At the Catliay. Till.s fantult of the discovery of an einlnI "duco all human bem--. to one-sixth their nornuli .1 retainii:? their faculties and i r flexes, is very entertaining.
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    AMUSEMENTS
    144 10 BIMGAFOn K »H I I i HOI t I Informal 8 p in. i Mldnißlit. i.tKKHK riiniKf amruuto Old y Girl SU Doable Fr.itti.-p c at 7.45 p.m. I H i Mil It Cabaret: 7.30 to 9 A: 'j p.m. t» Midnight. Globe: Hunchback of Dame. Sky: Klil lIU'PT
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    VOLUNTEERS RETURN
    606 10 Congratulated By Commandant fJi^ heartiest congratulations on a very good job of work," was the message heard by several hundred men of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force early this morning when, prior to breaking up camp after six weeks continuous training they listened-in to a broadcast by their
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    28 10 Mr. H. H. A. Crevels, representative of a group of rice merchants in Java arrived in Singapore yesterday from Batavia to study conditions in the local rice market.
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    Alleged Trafficking In Chinese Children
    422 10 'From Our Own Correspondent i Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 27. ALLEGATIONS that accused had rk introduced Into this country 11 youn? boys and five young girls were made by the prosecution in the case where Ng Kirn, a Chinese woman, was 1 with bringing into the
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    35 10 Depot recruits of the Singapore Volunteer Corps had a practice shoot at the Bukit Timah rifle range on Saturday. Here a machine gun section is all set to fire at the target. Straits Times picture.
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    Good Reception For Colony War Loan
    364 10 Good Reception For Colony War Loan ALTHOUGH the prospectus for the $25,000,000 war loan has been in the hands of the public only since yesterday, there are already indications that support will be forthcoming in generous measure. A well-known firm of sharebrokers In Singapore has received several Inquiries and even
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    More Warships For Indo-China
    36 10 DETWEEN 30 and 40 French war- ships are reported to have arrived at Tourane, on the coast of French Indo-China, from an undisclosed base, possibly Madagascar, according to the Hong Kong "Telegraph."
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    25 10 Mr. Kenneth Hume Glllan, late of the Sarawak Government Service, died, aged 37, at Hillingdon < Middlesex > County Hospital, on July 11, reports our I/mdon Correspondent.
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    F.M.S. CLERKS & WAR EFFORT
    372 10 F.M.S. CLERKS WAR EFFORT 'Baseless Rumours* Refuted (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 28. 'THE General Clerical Service As--1 sociation of the F.M.S. in Its magazine, refutes baseless rumours that owing to their dissatisfaction with Government's attitude to the question of the revision of their salary schemes, among other
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    12 10 A meetinar of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners will be held on Friday.
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    DIRECTORS DENY FIRMS IN CONTRACTORS RING
    3154 11 Europeans' Evidence At Loveday Court Martial ALLEGATIONS thai their firms had been in a ring of contractors were denied hy James Alexander Piersou Strachan, managing director of United Engineers Ltd., and Herbert Fancott, director and secretary of Gammon (.Malaya), Ltd. at the trial by
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    "GANGSTERS" IN SINGAPORE
    340 11 Indian Robbed In Taxi "THAT two Indians adopted "Amer- lean gangster methods of bundling a person into a car and I later taking him for a ride to one of the most desolate spots that can be found on any road in Singapore.' was the comment made
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    Better Houses For Perak Labourers
    169 11 A GREAT advance, in the last two or three years, in the housing accommodation for labourers on estates and also to labourers in Government employ, is reported in the 1939 account of the economic and social progress of the people of Perak, Issued by the
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    " FOOTLIGHTS PARADE " OF COMBINED SERVICES
    94 11 FOOTLIGHTS PARADE OF COMBINED SERVICES BOOKINO for the Combined Sent.es variety show, "Footlights Parade," op*ns on Friday at John Littles. The i-how is under the patronage of the Commander-ln-Chief. China Station, the G.O.C. Malaya Command, Major-General L. V. Bond, and the Air Officer Commanding Malaya. Air Vice-Marshal J. T. Babington.
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    "UNCONSCIOUS & BLEEDING"
    349 11 "UNCONSCIOUS BLEEDING" Murder Verdict Of Coroner A VERDICT of murder against some person or persons unknown," was returned by the acting Singapore coroner, Mr. Walter MacQuarrie, at the conclusion of an inquiry yesterday. The inquiry was into the death of a Tamil mandore, Alagappan, employed by the Per- manent Way
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    Damages Awarded For Loss Of Ann
    116 11 A TAMIL woman named Vellama who had lost her right arm as a result of Injuries received in a motor accident was awarded general damages j and special damages amounting to $920 by Mr. Justice Pedlow in the, Higb Court yesterday. Vellama was seated
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    TROUBLESOME ILLEGAL SOCIETIES IN PERAK
    103 11 lIJNLAWFULI IJNLAWFUL societies of a "patriotic" I type, mainly engaged in enforcing I a boycott of Japanese or supposedly Japanese goods by means of threats and violence, were ve/y troublesome in 1 1939, states Mr. N. F. H. Mather, acting British Resident, Perak, In his
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    Threw Iron Away When He Saw Detectives
    189 11 I MAY as well be killed If I cannot walk on the road wi hout being arrested, 1 declared Buang bin Haji Eusop, a 30-yrar-o'd Buds, wh appeared before Mr. J. G. Rappoport, Singapore third magistrate, yesterday. Buang was .charged with being a
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    DISPUTE OVER PREMISES IN CHANGE ALLEY
    297 11 Rent Board To Send Case For Police Investigation DEMARKING that one of the parties must be lying, and that he was tending their statements to the police to let them investigate the matter, the chairman of the Rent Assessment Board, Mr. Murray M. Jack,
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    Alleged Murder By Chinese Squatter
    178 11 AT the conclusicn of the preliminary inquiry in the Singapore lii.li cour» yesterday, in which allegations that he had murdered her husband were made against a Chinese squuiu-r Khoo Ah Ti?p, by a woman named Ng Cheng Thiang, Khoo Ah Tir.p was committed to the
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    ALLEGATION OF QUARREL WITH SUB-TENANT
    68 11 DECAUSE she allcpcd that her sub-tenant had quarrelled with her, a Chinese woman. Yew Siew Ong, yesterday applied to the Rent Assessment Board to eject Lee Yik Yin. a married woman living in a house in Choon Guan Street. As the respondent was absent the
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    FATALLY INJURED BY FALLING TREE
    60 11 A 30-YEAR-OLD Chinese labourer who was I** engaged in felling trees at the site of the new Municipal reservoir at the 1 1 mil?. Mandai Road, yesterday evening, was fatally injured when a tree fell on him. Received a fractured skull, he died in the
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    41 11 TTHE South Indian Muslim League Is hoUVm a tea par.y at the Cathay Cafe at 5.15 p.m. on Sent. 11, in tumour of Mr. Adam N. Haji Mohamed Ibrahim, who was rccen.ly appointed a Jutice I of the Peace for Singapore.
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    NIGHTFALL TO DAWN RAIDS ON GREAT BRITAIN
    632 12 Small Number Of Planes Were Over London For Six Hours London, Aug. 27. HITLER unleashed his biggest air attack on Great Britain from nightfall yesterday until dawn to-day. In these night raids, the most extensive since the war, a coastline of over 500
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    Egyptian Cabinel Rumours Denied
    39 12 Egyptian Cabinel Rumours Denied London, Aug. 27. THE Prime Minister of Egypt has denied reports that the Egyptian Cabinet has tendered Its resignation. Earlier reports stated that King Farouk had asked the Premier to form a new government.— Reuter.
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    France Betrayed : Strange Orders : Only 1,300 Out 0f3,000 Planes Used : Nothing Done To Hold Up Germans
    140 12 France Betrayed Strange Orders Only 1,300 Out 0f3,000 Planes Used Nothing Done To Hold Up Germans New York, Aug. 27. A FORMER French Air Minister, M. Pierre Cot, in an exclusive interview over the New York radio to-day, declared: "Petain and Weygand gave our country to Hitler." M. Cot blamed
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    Monday's Bag Of 47 Aircraft
    231 12 Fleet A. A. Guns Have Shot Down 122 Planes London. Aug. 27. AN Air Ministry communique says that further reports show that enemy aircraft losses for Monday totalled 47. One of these was shot down by anti-aircraft guns. It is new known that of 15
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    JAPANESE ARMY PLANES OVER KWANGSI
    59 12 Tokio. Aag. 27. JAPANESE Army air units yes:erdav staged mass air-raids on Kwangsi towns, bombing military establishments and munition dumps, a field dlspatcn reports. Military establishments were de- molished at Lungchow while munitions i j dumps were bombed and set afire on i the highway
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    Enemy's Shipping Losses Mount
    149 12 Total Tonnage Sunk Is Now 1,187,000 London, Aug. 27. IT Is authoritatively announced tim mercantile losses for the week ending Aug. 18-19 were ten British ships totalling 41,175 tons, on? Allied ship of 7,592 tons, and two neutral ships totalling 4,000 tons. The total is slightly
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    DEMARCATION OF DISPUTED AREA
    143 12 Hsinking, Aug. 27. •THE succeoolul conclusion of an agreement for the demarcation o: tha disputed border area near Nomcnhan was announced in a joint communique issued yesterday by the Manchukuo-Ouuer- Mongolia Border Demarcation Mixed Commission which has held six mestings at Chita since Aug. 3. The
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    They Will Stay With Hollywood Stars
    44 12 A number of children from the Actors' orphanage at Chertsey are to travel to Hollywood, where they will stay for the duration of the ivar as guests of famous screen stars. Picture shows "shoe inspection" at the orphanage.
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    IRONSIDE ON MAJOR "WHO BECAME A NUISANCE"
    175 12 London, Aug. 27. GEN. Sir Edmund Ironside, Com-mander-in-chief of the British Home forces, was among the principal witnesses called at the resumption to-day of the trial by court martial of Major A. D. Wintle. M.C., Royal Dragoons, who Is charged with conduct prejudicial
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    U.S. ADMIRAL URGES AID FOR CHINA
    94 12 Tokio, Aug. 27. T^HE Japanese Foreign Office spokes- man declined to comment on a statement, attributed to Rear-Adm. Harry Yarnell. former Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, urging American assistance to Chungking In the conflict against Japan. The spokesman said: "I can hardly believe
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    10TH NAVAL CONTINGENT FROM NEWFOUNDLAND
    22 12 London, Aug. 27. '"THE tenth naval contingent from Newfoundland arrived at a west coast port fo-day.— Reuter.
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    FRESH BRITISH AIR RAID ON GERMAN CAPITAL
    373 13 R.A.F. Drop Six Tons Of Bombs On Industrial Targets In Italy Ixmdon. Aug. 27. AN Air Mini<tr> communique issued in London to-day states that R.A.F. bombers delivered successful attacks on a number of military objectives in Germany and Italy lad flight. The correspondent
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    "Repeated Violations Of Swiss Territory"
    71 13 Berne, Aug. 27. ACCORDING to the Swiss telegraphic agency the Swiss Government has "examined the situation arising from repeated violations of Swiss territory by British airmen and charged the chief of the political department to make a serious demarche to the BriUsh Minister with a
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    N. IRELAND'S DRIVE FOR SPITFIRE SQUADRON
    38 13 AIMING to provide a full squadron of spi.flres for the R.A.F.. Northern Inland has provided funds tor i Ight machines r. IS civs. th° total raised so far being £40,000. British Wlreleafc
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    21 13 Buenoi Aires, i\ PRESIDENT Ortiz, of the Argentine, has Withdrawn his resignation following the refusal of Congress to accept it. Reuter.
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    Nazi BombsHave Smashed
    82 13 Eire's Illusion Of Safety" New York, Aug. 27. "THK German bombs that fell on Ireland yesterday have smashed the illusion that there is any safety in neutrality." says the New York Times to-day, adding: "They have proved that Ireland is at (Germany's mercy to-day just as surely
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    BRITISH ENVOY LEAVES FOR HONG KONG
    48 13 Shanghai Auk. 37. rB British Ambassador to China, Btr Archibald Clark-Ken-, left here early this morning for Houg Kong aboard the Empress of Asia. It Is reported that the British Ambassador will go to Chungking from Hong Kong by air Eastern News.
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    44 13 Londoners to-morrow evening will hear the band of the fifth New Zealand Infantr-" Bri^ac'". n r nrr rvM ed In BrlUin. This Is the latest of a aeries of evening concerts In Trafalcar Square and other open spaces In London this sunnier.— British Wireless.
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    A.-A. GUNS KEEP OFF 60 NAZI RAIDERS YESTERDAY
    771 13 Bombs Fall On Park Golf Course London, Aug. 27. CNEMY planer were reported in the vicinity of south- east coastal towns and the Midlands this afternoon. Two raiders are believed to have been brought down in the Midlands, where bombs fell on
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    16 13 Princess Elizabeth and her yovng sister. Princess Margaret Rose, on a pleasure trip in their ooat.
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    NINE HURRICANES TAKE ON
    641 14 150 RAIDERS OVER ESSEX Canadian Czech Airmen Score Successes In Dog-fights London, Aug. 27. AN Air Ministry bulletin states that three waves of German bombers and fighters were thrown against south and south-east England yesterday. The first, at noon, attacked a Kentish town ana aerodrome. The
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    Germans Sink Same Ship Twice
    129 14 London, Aug. 27. REALIZING the necessity to c d 1 f y the world with some immediate result, however sMght, of the loudly proclaimed imposition of a total I blockade of Britain, the effects of i which are certainly not discernible here, the German propaganda
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    GERMAN ABUSE OF THE RED CROSS
    222 14 Berlin, Aug. 27. I^HE German Foreign Office has re- quested the Swiss Government to convey a protest to Britain, asserting that a number of cas»>s has occurred in which German "ambulance seaplanes" had been exposed to attacks by the British lorces. The note declares
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    GERMAN AIR FORCE IS NOW MASSED IN FRANCE
    155 14 Heavier Attacks Expected, But The R.A.F. Are Ready For Them London, Aug. 26. IT can be stated authoritatively that tho Royal Air Force has A a very clear idea of the present disposition of German bomber and fighter aircraft. A large proportion
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    Coming Japanese Talks With N.T.
    160 14 Political Matters Also To Be Discussed Toklo, Aug. 27. JAPAN'S policy towards the Netherlands Indies remains unchanged, while the Japanese Government's statements. including that for the maintenance of the status quo in the Dutch possessions in the Far East, still hold good, the Japanese Foreign
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    Saturday's Boxing At Happy World
    144 15 ALL is set for the big boxing programme at the Happy World covered stadium on Saturday. Postponed from last Friday owing to the Illness of Ron Dennis, the bouts will definitely take place en Saturday, as Dennis, who is to meent Ventura Marquez over ten
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    AMPLIFY AND DADABHOY MOST IMPRESSIVE
    351 15 Several Horses Show Form In Morning's Slow Work ALTHOUGH slow work was the order of this morning's training on the second track at Bukit Timah, several interesting workouts, in which the efforts by Amplify and Dadabhoy were best, came under notice. The going was very
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    Draw For Women's Golf Championship
    166 15 THE draw for the qualifying round of the women's golf championship of Singapore, which will be play.'d over the first nine holes of the old course at the Royal Singapore dolf Club on Monday, is riven below. The first eight will qualify for mit-h play.
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    Warner's Plans For Australian Tour
    200 15 JACK WARNER, manager of the Puerto Rican middleweight, Atilio Sabatino, and of the ex-Australian amateur lightweight champion Ron Dennis, intends to take back to Aus- tralia with him Johnny Mortell, Young Vcntruillo. and Flashy Sebastian, the welter-middleweight who created quite I a stir in Singapore
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    ISLAND GOLF CLUB'S BOGEY COMPETITION
    77 15 SOME of the best cards returned In the Island Golf Club's August Bogey competition were: A DIVISION T. Shoda (15) all square, winner; Capt. I. R. Mclntosh (7) two down T. Uchida (9) two down; B. Woodall (9) two down. B DIVISION Dr. T. Y.
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    26 15 Jafaar. the Malay goalkeeper, saves in yestrrday's reserve division fojtball came on the padang in which the RAF. beat the Malays two-nil. S '.raits Times picture.
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    AIRMEN AVENGE FIRST ROUND DEFEAT
    552 15 Malays Beaten In Reserve Football On The Padang R.A.F 2; Malays 0. DE VERSING a decision earlier in the season, the R.A.F. reserves beat the Malay reserves by two goals to nil in a S.A.F.A. league fixture on the Padang yesterday. The Airmen fully dsserved
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    TO-DAY'S SPORTS EVENTS
    90 15 SOCCER: second division (b), Chinese vs. Moravia, J.C.S.A. man sent across a fir. pass from the, middle to Foreman on the right wing. Foreman intercepted neatly, crossed in with the ball and sent in a powerful i drive. Jaafar failed to prevent the ba>l trom entering the
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    MIXED FOURSOMES AT KEPPEL GOLF CLUB
    95 15 FURTEEN cards were taken out for the Keppel Golf Club's August Mixed Foursomes and the following were tlie scores returned Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Fennie 4&— 9>i 36 3 4: Capt. and Mrs. W. J. Holohan 47— 9V 2 =37'/ 2 Miss D.
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    GAS DEPARTMENT ATHLETIC PARTY
    25 15 I*HE soccer match which was to have been played on Monday between the Gas Department and RaebMrn's ;occer XI was postponed.
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    Second Day's Weights In Singapore
    371 15 Second Day's Weights In Singapore U7EIGHTS for Wednesday, Sept. 4, the second day of the Singapore Turf Clubs Autumn (Gold Cupi meeting at Bukit Timah are: Horses, Class 3. Div. 1, 6 furs. Old Cow 9.00 Topla 8.09 Golden Melody 8.13 Shun 8.06 Autumn Bride 8.12 New Moon 8.05 Stella's
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    26 15 in a women's golf match played at Bukit Timah on Monday, the Royal 'Singapore Golf Club beat the Gsrrison Golf Cluo by 44 points to 27.
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