The Straits Times, 16 November 1941

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    37 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES THE LEADING SUNDAY NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA frlNAL*** No. 517 Sunday, November 16. 1941 Price 10 Cents. THE SUNDAY TIMES The Leading Sunday Newspaper In Malaya No. 517 Sunday, November 16, 1941 Price 10 Cents
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    NAZIS HELD ON ENTIRE FRONT
    995 1 Invaders Are Caught In Below Zero Temperature SOVIET POSITION IS IMPROVING Germans On Defensive In Moscow Sector London, Saturday. ANOTHER day has passed with the Germans able to make practically no progress despite persistent fierce attacks anywhere on the long Eastern Front. The Germans are
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    Nazis Fiock Into Turkey
    122 1 London, Saturday. "TURKEY is becoming an in- reasingly popular spot for those great world-travellers, the Germans" said Martin Agronsky, broadcasting from Ankara for the National Broadrasting Corporation of New York. •The numirer of Germans tb Istanbul has increased by about 300 for th^ past few weeks,
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    U.S. Mines Carry On During Talks
    105 1 Washington, Saturday. PRESIDENT Roosevelt's cor ference. which was called to avert the threatened strike of 53.000 miners met again at Whi c House to-day. The President secured a promise that the mines would continue to operate while lugotia'Jons were going on. Mine-owners are to
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    62 AIRMEN LOST IN BIG RAID ON GERMANY
    55 1 Lciiuon, Saturday. CIXTY-IWO British ainne.i wire taken prisoner aft:r the big R.A.F offdUtva during the night of Nov. 7/8, according to the German radio to-day Tills was the night when, owing tc conditions. 37 planes failed to return after raiding Berlin, Cologne.
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    US. WARSHIPS IN ACTION?
    45 1 Reyjavlk, Saturday. INFORMED quarters In this Icelandic base state that they have heard nothing to confirm report* published In the United States to the effect that American warships have been In action Ji-;alnst German surface vessels near this coast.— United Press
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    " Position Better Than Week Ago"
    135 1 Position Better Than Week Ago" ITU the exception of the Crimea. *here the position I* one of > some gravity, the sltiu'ion on the RaiMan front is conOd-rably better than a week ace, states j Renter* military corre. nondent. Darin* this period the German* have been unable to claim any
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    70,000 NAZI CASUALTIES AT KALININ
    110 1 London Saturday. MORE than 10,000 German* have been killed and 60.000 woune'ei by Soviet arti lery x the Kalinin sretor during th* past month, according to the Moscow radio. "Our troops have consolidates themselves In new defensive portions and ar* holding their 1 nes carrying
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    Michael Of Rumania Looks At War
    29 1 Kinj Michael of Rumania, pressed by Hitler Into sending troops against the Soviet, fat seen, hatless, with Rumanian officers at the Eastern Front.
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    Looking For Loot Or Snipers?
    42 1 While fine *a-i soMter battcf* a /Lor. his c mpanton stands ready loith a machtntgun outside a house in a Russian town. This is what Nazis mean by a house-to-house search. Note the taped up window panes.
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    U.S. DELIVERIES TO BRITAIN
    101 1 Los Angeles, Saturday. THE del. v. i> of warplanes aid aeronautical equipment for Britain for the first eight months of 1941 totalled 5( U.5.) 330.000,000, acior i to the Ame-ican Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. Only $6,000 000 came und_T the Leas3-Lend Act as most com panics
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    GERMANY NOW TAKING WORKMEN FROM SPAIN
    56 1 Madrid, Saturday. THE lira batch of uorkcrs to be n-nt from Barcelona u> Geraif.ny will leave by train in about a week's tlmr This Is the first train -load and will take 600 workers, and n ill be ."cllowcd by further train-loads *t weekly
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    34 1 Washington. Saturday. THE United States Navy has awarded a contract to the Goodyear Company for the construction of 21 more non-rigid long-range ships for j strengthening the aerial >>atrol of the seas. United Press.
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    MALAYANS ARE STRANDED IN AUSTRALIA
    89 1 MALAYANS ARE STRANDED IN AUSTRALIA Sydney, Saturday. IT v learnt that more than 1M peoIple1 ple on holiday from Malaya, chiefly (.j,.-.. ■ent :t. .ai.t.-i. are B.randrd in Australia, many with little prospect of getting home for Christmas. I navoidnble In wartime, it Is Impossible to obtain bookings by air
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    STORY OF SMUGGLED GOLD IN SHANGHAI
    63 1 i. ffniiiintiT THE authorities in Shanghai refuse to confirm or deny reuauie report Uiat the river police have seize J 3,000.000 yuan worth of gold bars which were being smuggled into Shanghai. It Is alleged that they were conf"-'--< in t*- "-"lo room of
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    TOKIO FUEL SHORTAGE
    46 1 TJclo. Soturrtav. THE Government has decided that there will be no ?te»m h°«tin<» o* government ifflcw until Jan. 2. inrttad of Dec. 10, rs last year. It 1* understood that private business establishments r•" t'lil'dlr?- nnd U»lff'"< houses will follow suit— United Pres'.
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    Free Frenchmen Rescued By Navy From Vichy Ship
    335 1 London. Saturday. GEN. de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forc-s. sal' today at the Albert Hall, "Ojr ranks are swelling ev.ry day Once we were a handful of men. Now the Free French are an unshakable blook. Out of 'he terrific
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    Death Knell To Hitler's Hopes Of Winning In The Atlantic
    291 1 Death Knell To Hitler's Hopes Of Winning In The Atlantic London, Saturday. A MKKIC.VS decision to revise the Neutrality Act sounds the death knell to Hitler's already waning hopes of winning the Battle of the Atlantic," said Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Minister without Portfolio, speaking to-day in London. "Hitler now knows
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    Philippines Co-operation Pledged By President
    358 1 Philippines Co-operation Pledged By President Manila, Saturday. DRESIDENT Manuel Quezon. making his first speech on winning the general election and speaking at ths sixth anniver ary of tbe founding of the Commonwealth. pledged tl:e full co-operation of the Commonwealth with the I'nit <I States in the gigantic effort to save
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    THE STORY OF THE SINKING
    845 2 A lATE nuttif from Gibraltar continues the >4or>'. t«:d la p>|t 2, of thr sirklnt of the Ark Royal i began 10 -nxke down from t^e Wight deck and corked rails were phisluc! into thr Tl»en we saw the destrvycr pwttng in alongside. An omcer
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    22 2 Within 30 minutes of the opening of ♦he Liverpool Wa»-sh!n Week yesterday half of the tnre-t of £10.000,000 had been raised.— Reuter.
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    Only One Man Lost From Ark Royal
    439 2 London, Saturday. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, announced today that the loss of life in the Ark Royal was one man. It had been announced previously that 18 ratings were missing. Mr. Alexander revealed that in (apt. Agnew's operations
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    i4ir Attack On Enemy Vessel
    28 2 Air Attack On Enemy Vessel This picture shows the concentrated fire which the Hurricane II brings to bear, during a machine-gun and cannon attack on German e*x>rt msjcL
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    Beaverbrook With U.S. Supply Chiefs
    65 2 A picture taken at a conference held in the offices of the Office of Production Management (U.S. equivalent nf the British Ministry of Supply) In Washington. Left to right: John Lard O'Brien. General Counsel, O.P.M; Edward R. StetUnins. Director of Priorities. 0.P.M. Lard Beaverbroofe., British
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    Malayan Mission To Chungking
    108 2 WHEN Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador at Chungking, stayed .eccntly in Singapore, he stressed the desirability of the Colony Government acquainting itself with the development of the modern China which has arisen out of the war with Japan in various aspects of its administration. The
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    CRITICAL MEETING OF JAPANESE DIET
    449 2 Personal Message To Be Read By Emperor To-day Tokio, Saturday. BOTH Houses of the Japanese Diet convened today for the extraordinary five-day session, which the Tokio newspapers describe as the most important session in the nations history, convened "in order to break through an unprecedented
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    AMERICAN WOMEN TO | VISIT BRITAIN
    141 2 AMERICAN WOMEN TO VISIT BRITAIN London. SaturcUy. DIfPRXSENTAIWES of 14 American women's organizations mill shortly arrive In Britain to :ee every aspect of the war work of British wumen. stated Miss Thelma Cazalet. I liairman of the represen ativa committee of British women, spoiisorea by the Committee of Woman Power,
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    M.P.'s Refusal Of Government Post
    192 2 London. Saturday. THE discloou by Mr. A. V. Alexander. First Lord < the Admiralty, in the House of Con 1 moii 1 debate on Thursday that Mr. E. Shinwell. who had been the most critical speaker In the debate on the King's Speech, had been
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    SHIP WITH CARGO OF WHISKY TORPEDOED
    63 2 New k>orc, Saturday. IT is reported that the British freighter Nottingham has been torpedoed and sunk en route to America. The Nottint.iiam was on her maiden voyage, according to marine circles here, carrying a load of Scottish whisky to the United States. She was
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    U.S. Warships Sink Many U-Boats
    53 2 London, Saturday. ALTHOUGH official quarter* claim they have no information, naval sources he.*e have reported that British and American naval patrols have destroyed many U-boats in the Atlantic. The Gevman U-boat offensive has met with highly sneccssfal action by British and American patrols, these sources
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    Anti-Nazi Spreading
    155 2 London Saturday. THE growth of salwtaße ana the dimoUties of admln'stra tion are evidenced in the la-es: Information reaching London from the territories occupied b 7 the German armies While lack of overset: ray .materla, is th-> main caus« jf hindrance to Oerman-controiiCMi European production, mis in creasing
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    Kurusu To Begin Talk With Hull
    296 2 Washington, Saturday. THE ordering of the United A States Marines from China, latest strategem in the intensified war of nerves with Japan, coincides with the arrival of Japan's special envoy to Washington, as mountinp evidence that the United States and Great Bntain are preparing
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    chungki?:g on kurusu objectives
    297 2 CHUNGKING ON KURUSU objectives Chungking. Saturuay. MR. Saburo Kurusu is nothing but spy-operating on behalf of the Nazis and putting up a smoke-screen to give the Japan- <" mi uarv ample rime to complete their preparatons for northward and southward move*, i d the influential Ta Kunß Pao in is
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    HILL CAPTURED
    39 2 Nairobi. Sa THE eap'ure of Kamant Hi. 13 mil>s n.rUi-fast of G<> Abyssinia. alter a biiarp on Wednesday. Is rtp-jrted in a joint Army and R A.l*, communique. This cllmiMf I Lallan outposts In the Volalch area.
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    Opposition In Eurooe
    188 2 these TiiUccpreaa "bUck eiJps." says the newrpaptr, Ls -chaos in the distnbut*o»» of food>tuffsi. In Ihltv n- bay* h->en a-rested for selling C'pp-T ulphate ebove the controlled |< Evasion and opposition to restrictions natuially leach the greatest intensity In .he occupied countries. There is direct re'lstanre in
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      482 2 RUN-DOWN TO THE VERY DEPTHS K Mother of Seven Children Tells of Great Benefit YeaitVifrJ RAPID le 3£i>yite dlciiitc I feel 1 must tell you after a week's <, I ■rour t?blet3. I was juat run-down to <, v ««t vitn iim of mnr*« in th»> u^tt'Si'iß'^^tr^i.ntSo to magnify Itself.
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    Crew Of Stricken Ark Royal Kept Calm
    558 3 Gibraltar, Saturday. THERE are nearly 1,600 officers and men at Gibral- tar to-day who still cannot realize fully that their ship the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal is at the bottom of the Mediterranean, writes a Reuter correspondent in the Western Mediterranean who was on
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    MOVEMENTS OF ALIENS IN U.S. RESTRICTED
    134 3 MOVEMENTS OF ALIENS IN U.S. RESTRICTED Washiru'Am, Saturday. PRESIDENT Roose»eli has issued a proclamation tightening regulations froverning the movement of alien citizens entering and leaving the Otiiteci States. No alien wCI oe permitted to depart if the iUac Department believes the departat*- would prejudice United Stat-s interests. Aliens must have
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    MANCHUKUO AND THE PACIFIC CRISIS
    116 3 Ilsimcing. Sat'-ir-icy. 1 problem are not ji such a nature as ran be solved by iiplorcaiic measures." declared the Director of the Msnchukuo department v.hie discussing Manchukuo's pjsitlcn via-a-vis the Pacific tension at a press conference. He said there was slight hope .ha: an amicable
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    ANXIETY IN TIMOR OVER JAPANESE
    65 3 New York, Saturday. THE NaUoaai Broadcasting Corporation intercepted the Australian radio quoting the Governor of Dilli, Timor, as stating that Infiltration Ol J.i;!i\n^.-.e .c-h--iiicians is creating anxiety. The N.B.C. also intercepted a Saigon radio report U:at two more crack Japanese regiments have landed on Hainan
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    WAR ON SHANGHAI PROFITEERING
    86 3 Shanghai, Saturday •THE Japanese Embassy spokesman told foreign co. respondents at a press conference here to-day that the Japanese were co-operating fully with the Shanghai Municipal Council in 1U fight against profiteering. Meanwhile, the Council is report~d to have completed a list of the maximum ptlces
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    BLANKET SHORTAGE IN NAZI PRISON CAMPS
    53 3 London. Saturday. T>ECENT official inspections of prisoner of war camps In O^rmany dLxlosed a shortage of blankets. Only one blanket is Issued to each man. The British War Office Is lnvesti?rting The shor age Is believed to be due to the demands of Germany's
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    "ABSURD JAPANESE PROPAGANDA"
    65 3 Bangkok. Saturday. tkTjrE have never double-cros. Ed Japan." said the official Bangkok radio commentator last night, supporting the Thai Premier's Interview on Tuesday, when the Premier flatly denied Toklo press allegations tha r Thailand was ungrateful to Japan ;.n i was turning r.ntl-Japanese and proBritish. The commentator
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    U.S. Radio Men Are Banned In Reich
    60 3 Berlin, Saturday. THE National Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System and Mutual Broadcasting System have been banned from broadcasting from Germany, it was officially announced last night. The ban was imposed because the American radio companies' representatives are said to have transmitted to New
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    NEW SHAH OF IRAN SWORN IN
    64 3 I snali of Iran, former Crown Prince Muhammed Riza Pahlevi. ttho 3iicre-i dto the throne on the abdication of hit father alter the o; Er.tish and Soviet forcrt into Iran, it neen tigting th* Oat'i Obedience to the conttitvtion in the Majl'.u t Parliament)
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    ROUNDING UP "PARACHUTISTS"
    20 3 Homt Guard* engaged in rounding up "parachute troop*" during exerdtet in the Western Command area f» Britain.
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    TALK OF RESHUFFLE IN CHUNGKING CABINET
    197 3 Chungking, Saturday, i WHILE the main interest of the Chinese people centres at present on the outcome of the American-Japanese discussions and on the TipiTlOM military movements near the Indo-China-Yunnan border, interest In domestic affairs centres on two im- portant forthcoming conferences, one being
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    Gloomy Prospect For Shanghai
    94 3 Shanghai, Sa.urday. A GLOOMY future for Shanghai 13 seen by the Ch.nese American weekly China Weekly Review if the United States Marines leave Shanghai. The newspaper says that if the Marines leave, Shanghai may resign itself to the prospect ol being occupied by the Japanese army
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    BRITAIN GETS SHIP SEIZED IN 1917
    76 3 Washington, Saturday. THE American liner George Washing--1 ton. which carried President Woodrow Wilson to the Peace Conference after the last war, has been transferred to Britain. The Navy De partment reports that the transfer occurred on Sept. 26. The George Washington (23.788 tons) IH
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    RUBBER FROM GUAYALE
    60 3 Washington. Saturday. THE House of Represents, ives to-day unanimously approved and sent to the Benate the resolution br R<?oresentatlve Downey providing $25,030 for a S?ven Man Committee to conduc. a "full and complex s'u 'v and lawill gatlon of national defence matters '.Deluding the deve'.onment of rlom*-^
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    Thai Forces Keyed Up To High Pitch
    84 3 Bangkok. Saturday. "IT does not necessarily imply that there has been any grave development in Thailand's foreign relations during the last few hours." said a Thai cabinet member when interviewed by Reuter regarding the creation of a Thai Supreme Command. "But it does
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    Fifth Column Men Active In Thailand
    189 3 Bangkok, Saturday. EMPHASIZING the need for total preparedness for national defence, a Bangkok radio com mentator last night appealed to the whole nation to assist active ly the defence programme and to guard against the activities of certain foreigners who might b*' working as
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    DUTCH SERVICE TO JAPAN STOPPED
    43 3 rProni Our Own Correspondent) Batavia. Nov. 13. ECONOMIC measures taken by the Nethei land.-. Incites against Japan have resulted In the Java-China-Japan Line suspending its services to Japan. The J.C.J.L. now calls only at Chinese and Philippines ports
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    27 3 Batav'a. Nov. 13. UEINEKEN& Netherlands Indies brewerr and the flnr of Oco Webref have set ip I'iglas, Netherlands Indies Glass Ka'.torlDs, Ltd., with a cajrl'al of F12.500.C00.
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    Chungking Ready For New Raids
    110 5 LJI'GE solid granite rocks have been hewn oat with picks and shovels to accommodate the intricate and valuable tele-communication equipment ot Chungking, making it immune from future air attacks, newspapermen learned when they visited the automatic telephone exchange and telegraph radio and transmitting station. Some
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    Beating Germans Censors
    149 5 ftESPITE the vigilance of German censors, some l> -<>ple in Germany are still able to get news to their friends in America. One family wrote to a relation In Washington "It Is beautiful at sunset when the river reflects the rosy glow all the way down to
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    HE DOES NOT NEED FUR COAT NOW
    107 5 MfOSCOW radio broadcast L the following recently Winter has started In the Soviet Union. Snow is falling and the nights are frosty. The Germans needs iurs and warm clothing. "As II«rr Laag. ft German soldier, explained In ft letter to ft coUtftgue named
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    Abbey Damage Can Be Repaired
    92 5 THE Dean of Westminster, addra-sing 1 the Historical and Literary Circle of the Devonshire Club, said that, though the Abbey had suffered fairly extensively from air raids, .none of the damage was irreparable. The most serious loss was the roof of the lantern. If he
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    NELLIE GETS NEW HANDS & NEW LIFE
    142 5 NELLIE GETS NEW HANDS NEW LIFE LAMBERT has re I ceived new hands. She ent to Queen Mary's Hospital. Putney, and there was fitted with a pair of artificial dress hands, made to look like her own. But these hands are more ornamental than useful So they also gave her
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    CHINESE TRIBUTE TO SOVIET WOMEN
    73 5 A GROUP of Chinese women in Chungking has addressed a Joint message to Soviet women expressing sympathy and admiration for the part they are playing in the fight against Nazi aggression. The mesaage states that Chinese and Soviet women will henceforth fight side by side
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    Nazis Shoot Soviet "Joan Of Arc"
    171 5 DUSSIA'S extremity has; produced a modern Joan of Arc like her French counterpart, a humble peasant girl who chose death before vassalage. Her name was Varvara Kozyolova. Overnight she took her place In the lists of Red heroines. Varvara was chosen by the German
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    School Is Keeping Itself
    281 5 School Is Keeping Itself THE children at a school in the south of England have made local farmers open their eyes in astonishment. Lingfleld Central School, on the holders of Sussex and Kent, has ten acres five for games and five for the war effort. For the last two years
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    BARTERS LAWYER FOR PETROL
    84 5 MR. Lindsay Sands, Johannesburg lawyer, owes his freedom to the fact that Vichy authorities valued him at three cases of petrol. Mr. Sands was travelling by a Dutch ship which was torpedoed off the West African coast. After eight days In a lifeboat he and his
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    Miss Thompson Meets Czechs
    34 5 Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted American journalist, paid a visit to a Ciecho-Slovak Brigade during her visit to Britain, when she talked to the men and had tea with the officers.
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    Powerful Nazi Films: Superior Propaganda
    379 5 JHE inadequacy of British propaganda is exposed by captured German propaganda films which were screened in Cairo recently before senior Allied officers. piles. Within a few minutes of landing they were advancing to the attack with rifles, grenades, and m&rhine-guns. One saw them attacking slenderly-held
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    Sitting On The Fence
    1789 6  -  Nathaniel Gubbins By THE oparrew's wife was standing :r front of the little mirror in her Nest trying on a new hat she had made out of dr- grass and rose petals. She turned her head on one side and then the other, hopping round to
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    BOOKS Woolworth
    471 6 BOOKS Woolworth Five and Ten. (The 1 abulous Life of F. W. Weolwerth). By John K. Winkler. Robert Hale. 12s. Cd ALTHOUGH not a particularly well written biography, this story of an extraordinary man's rise from poverty to fabulous wealth is dramatic in the extreme. Prr\nk Woolworth was the son
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      379 6 They told him he jT 1 FACEO OPERATION jlyF Stomach Ulcer Eaft^ When Mr i H. J developed stomach _s^/(K^v| paias he rushed to hospital for an X-ray examination and was told to rest and live Thousa.-vJ* and inouMcifi:- ol otlicr suflmrs have Ui -Ji:n»' on milk. But business was
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      444 6 CONTRACT BRIDGE By The Four Aces THERt are ways of insulting your x partner at the bridge table, even though you keep your voioe low. your expression good-humoured, and your conversation pleasant and (outwardly) harmless. The easiest way to drive your bidding that you consider him a nrize nitwit. For
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    892 7 By The Onlooker CABLE news has been received by Mr. W. H. T. Abraham, Sanitary Inspector. Klang, of the death of Mr. M. Buell, at his residence at Araly. Jaffna, Ceylon, on Nor. 9, 194 i; a long and respected resident of Araly, and Klang. at the
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    169 7 Mr. Chia Chin Slang, second son ol Mr. and Mrs. Chia Keng Tye, and his bride, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mra, Tan Soon Keng. The bridesmaids are the daughters of Mr. and Mra. Urn Cheat Pang. Mr. Yeo Chiang Leek waa the best man. The wedding took place in
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    European Missing From Mail Train Found Dead By Line
    174 8 European Missing From Mail Train Found Dead By Line (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. WHEN the Singapore mail train arrived in Kuala Lumpur this morning a European who had been occupying one of the cabins was found missing. Information received later stated that the body of the European
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    Policeman
    10 8 A "regimental poliremnn" H the newly-formed Chinese Labour Corp*.
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    Sarawak To Buy In Australia
    211 8 Sarawak To Buy In Australia A MAN with power to spend at least 3.000 ,0t0 a year In \ustralia has arrived in Sydney. He is Mr. C. Pitt Hardacre, an ngllshman representing the -overnment of Sarawak, in North-West Borneo A circular has been sent out by the 1 rnment of
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    Had 1,300 Tubes Of Chandu
    125 8 (From Our Own Correspondent) Malacca, Saturday. pONVICTED on his own plea on a charge of posresEicn of non-Govem-nent chandu. Goh Seng Kee. a 35--year-old Chinese, was sentenced by Mr. W. i Thurogood in the criminal district coi rt yesteraay to six months' rigorous imprisonment and
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    GREETINGS FROM CLARK K£RR
    37 8 GREETINGS FROM CLARK KERR A MESSAGE cf greeting from the n British Ambassador to China. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, will be re-broad-cast by the Singapore rtation from Chungking at 10 05 pm. today provided reception Is sattfartory.
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    Health Specialist From U.S. Here On Way To Burma
    140 8 Health Specialist From U.S. Here On Way To Burma r\R- William Jeilison and Mr Henry A. Johnson, two members of the Medical Commission appointee by the United States Public Htaitn Department at the request of the Chinese Government, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Clipper from America on their way to
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    Fatal F.M.S. Plane Crash
    260 8 PLANE THOUGHT TO HAVE HIT TREE (From Our Own Correspondent) Koala Lumpur. Saturday. rIE fatal plane crash yes'.er day. in which Mr. H. M. Dofer, of Harrisons. Barker Co. Ltd and Capt. 11. G. Landray. an Indian Army officer, were killed is believed to have been
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    Volunteer Drills
    280 8 PROGRAMME of Singapore Volunteer Corps drills up to and for the week ending Nov. 23: Monday. Nov. 17: 1715 hrs. Headquarters, B.R.A. (v). Sec. Training; 1715 hrs. Headquarters, S.S.L. Bty. R.A. (v). Manning and L.G. Training; 1720 hrs. Headquarters. S.B.D. Sec. R.E. (v>. Lectures Messages and First Aid:
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    16 8 A tronp photograph ef~ air raid warden, and ■WHUffl af Bate r*h*U takes at Ueir he44ao*rtc*«.
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    Queen Scholars In England
    43 8 Malaya's three Qaeen Scholars (left to right): Mrssrv W. Boswril H. L. Wee (17). and O. Phipps. who left Singapore on Aug. 15 last, arrived safely in England on Nov. 7. They are all to study law at Cambridge.
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    High-Ranking U.S. Army Officers In Singapore On Way To Middle East
    239 8 High-Ranking U.S. Army Officers In Singapore On Way To Middle East TWO high-.anking United States Army officers arrived in Singapore yesterday from Manila on their way to take up appointments as military attaches to Gen. Auchinleck and Gen. Wavell in the Middle East. They are Brgadier-General Robert L. Maxwell and
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    Forced To Abandon Bicycle Trip Round The World
    191 8 'From Our Own Correspondent' Taiping, Saturday. r\ORAISAMY SUPPIAH, of Tai- ping, who set out on an in tended world tour on a bicycle or. Nov. 29, 1932 and had to abandoi the trip owing to the war, is now back in Taiping.
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    SNATCH THIEF
    77 8 (.From Our Own Correspondent Seremban, Saturday. A CHINESE, Hon Hin. was sentenced to six months' rigorous Imprisonment by the Seremban magistrate on a charge of theft of $214. the property of the Metropole Theatre. Seremban. I Accused was alleged to have snatched the money and made away when
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    Johore Amends Liquor Law
    52 8 THE new regulation defining A times when it is lawful to drink hard liquor has already been amended in the State of Johore. A Government Gaxette states that in the case of a dab extensions "up to 1 a.m. or exceptionally up to 2 a-m." may
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    "LOT'S WIFE
    204 8 At The Theatre PINE acting by a talented cart makes "Lot's Wife"—presented by the "Birds of Passage" at the Victoria Theatre last nightone of the most enjoyable comedies to be seen on a Singapore s_age for many months. A three-act play by FeUr BlackMore. "Lot's Wife is spiced
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    THE CAPITOL
    59 8 At The Cinema "JJEN of Boys Town," which waa given a midnight showing at Urn Capitol cinema, is M.G.M.'s gripping sequel to "Boys Town." that great picture ihich brought to the scrren the life of a unique settlement In America. Spencer Tracy and Mickey Kooney are again in
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    THE CATHAY
    44 8 "UOLD Back The Dawn," given a midnight screening at the Cathay cinema. Is an intriguing love story made more appealing by the fine a..i In? of Charles Beyer. The other t>kle.« of the usual triangle are OilvU de Havlland and Pau!ette Goddard
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    THE PAVILION
    117 8 ALL Singapore should see Target for To-nlitht." the stirring film of the RAP. at war. when it has JU opening at the Pavilion cinema en Tuesday. Those who went to the midnight showing considered 1t one of the greatest documentary films yet turned out In Britain. It Is
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    Yen Notes Hidden In Basket
    39 9 Be ire the Huso Maru left Singapore recently with JapMMM evacuees, the Customs, examining a wicker basket belonging to one of the evacuees, found a quantity of yen notes cleverly hidden in the struts.
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    To Confer On Mechanized Warfare
    135 9 To Confer On Mechanized Warfare MAJOR-GEN. H Gordon Ben nett. General Officer Commanding the A.I F Malaya, will be leaving for the Middle East very soon to confer with high officers who have had experience of modern mechanized .warfare He will be accompanied by ola Ai di'-Camp, Lieut Gordon IWMker.
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    Court Sequel To fatal Collision
    119 9 .a in Bemb i ly, in whi.-h two persons wore killed, had a vquel j In the Singapore traili-.: court yesterday when a motoi -lorry j On| Tons Ha', an. Ir C. H. Whitton on wo 01 causing tecta by rtt driving and two charges
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    MEDAN FLYING CLUB
    51 9 (Prom Our Own Correspondent i TBatavla. Nov. 13. HE Medun Plying Club has bought two new Tiger Moths. One is to be .shipped from Java before the end of the month, and the other is ex- pected before the end of next month, i *mys the Dell
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    Display By Air Raid Wardens
    249 9 TTHL Director of Psus.ve DitUnot Mr. J. E. Jeans, Dr. R. B Maegregor and other leaders of the passive defence servicr.s vn>re present when the Tanjong Pagar division of A.R.P. wardens, an impressive parade and display of passive defence work on the occasion of the
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    Wanton Axis Raid Angers Muslims
    179 9 TMK Muslims of Malaya, in common with their co-religioni.-st.s in India and the Middle East, are highly incensed by the unwarrantable aL- raids on Egypt, culminating in the bombing on Wednesday night last of the Fayoum area, near Cairo. In this outrage G4 persons were
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    Airmen On Armed Robbery Charge
    96 9 TWO members of the R.A.P 1 (Tengah), R. W. Daykin and Saekville Bryant, appeared in the Singapore fourth court yesterday on a charge of armed robbery. Dayton and Bryant were alleged to have held up Tan Hai Sin at the 8\ 2 mile. Tampines Road,
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    LETTERS TO OCCUPIED TERRITORY
    60 9 IT is notified that the scheme which has been in operation for some time to enable persons to communicate with relatives and friends in enemy-occupied countries through the medium of Messrs. Thomas Cook and Bon. has been xtended to Include Finland. Pull particulars can be obtained
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    450 Japanese Leave On Asama Maru
    461 9 PEISHA girls mingled with fishermen, barbers, iron and tin miners, planters, and business men and waved Sayonara to Singapore yesterday as they left aboard the official Japanese evacuation liner, Asama Maru, r There were 450 Japanese men women and children aboard but left behind
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    SUMATRA QUAKE
    133 9 <Frotn Our Own Conespondent) Batavla. Nov. 13. A VIOLENT earthquake, which lasted over 20 seconds, was felt at Koeta Raja, in North Sumatra, on Wednesday at 1 25 p.m. The tremor was preceded by rumblings which seemed to come from th-> earth's rrusi and which frightened the people.
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    31 9 A meeting of the Lower Chamber of the Negrl Sembllan State Council will be held at Seremban on Dec. 2 and a meeting of the Upper Chamber on the following day.
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    MALAYAN WEDDINGS
    7 9 >IK. AND MRS. A. CROMARTY
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    Cromarty—Hern
    180 9 Cromarty Hern MR. Alexander Cromari.y, chartered accountant, Henr> Waugh and Co., Ltd. was married to Miss La-Vira Edna Hern, at the Presbyterian Church yesterday. The Rev. J. R Thorns jn officiated. The bridegroom s the on of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Crcmarty, of Edinburgh, and the bride is the
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    Hindmarsh-Berry
    144 9 (Prom Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Saturday 1 1* HE Bishop of Singapore con- ducted the service when, at St. Mary's Church this morning, the popular rugby player and Police officer Mr. John Hedlev Hlndmarsh. married Miss Joj Berry, only daughter of Mr and Mrs W Berry, of Kuala
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    Gifts Of Fire-Arms
    178 9 Gifts Of Fire- Arms THE Government wishes to express its gratitude to a number of residents of Malaya who have made gifts of their fire-arms to assist in the arming of locally raised defence forces. In some cases the gifts were offered before any call-in of fire-arms had been announced.
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    MUTTU MEMORIAL PAVILION OPENED
    104 9 (Prom Our Own Correspondent) Seremban. Saturday. THE Dr. Muttu Memorial Pavilion. an annexe to the Negrl Sembllan Club, in Seremban, was declared open when Mrs. T. V. Cowglll, wife of the British Resident. "Negrt Sembllan, cut a ribbon across thr entrance to the pavilion. 'Hie memorial
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    MURDER CHARGE
    58 9 (From Our Owii Correspondent Malacca. Saturday. A CHAKOE of munier was explained to Kang Chin Mm. a 54-year-old HokJclen, In the Police Court to-day. Kang Chin Llm was alleged to have caused the death, with a knlfs. of a compatriot, Tan Seng, at Buona Vista Road on Nov.
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    36 9 UO ChUu% Ntfoh, alias Chu Uat Hi:. 11 appeared before Mr. H. E. Kingdoo, Singapore Un:d magistrate, yesterday, on a tentative charge of murdering Tan Ka Su. The cose was postponed to Nov. 22 for mention.
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      178 9 ►v mm STOPS PAIN c HEADACHES IN 5 MINUTES T>AIN is common to all, and it is an everyday occurrence in households for<someone*to*bejthe*victim of a sudden seizure of pain. Harmful drugs narcotics or opiates —do more harm than good but ASPRO has brought harmless relief to countless millions of all
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    Opinion Planters And War Effort
    626 10 Opinion Planters And War Effort CORRESPONDENTS writing to the Straits Times last week drew attention to what they considered to be employment of fit Europeans on unessential work and the apparent lack of any rationalization scheme on rubber estates. One of the correspondents resides in Kuala Lumpur, the centre of
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    4649 10 Lord Gort's Dispatches From The Calm To The Clash THE dispatches by General Lord Gort, V.C., on the 1940 campaign of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders were published last month together with a vivid story of the campaign compiled from ihe dispatches by lan Hay. Here thtsc
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    Disastrous Opening Of The Gap
    74 10 Disastrous Opening Of The Gap Confusion In High Places r\ANGER loomed larger and nearer on May 15. when the Dutch Army capitulated. I.ord Oort says that he "anticipated that this would come as a shock to the Belgian Army" which was already sustaining terrible shocks. Moreover the adventure of the
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    Darkest Hours Of The Campaign
    754 11 ON May 23. the day on which Calais was isolated, ths French First Army pushed out. from Doual towards Cam bra), and both In London and in Paris the situation seemed to be misconceived. Ix>rd Gort thought »o and telegraphed to the C.I.G.S. (Sir John
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      265 11 P~"\that gjiklu *£fiQ V RUINS YOUR LUNGS! Ia cough NOW means more serious trouble later unless you take care I How can you face tha winter with your chest and lungs already weak■ll^^^^iM f ned by that constant cough, cough, cough. Stop PVJ that COUGHING AT ONCE by taking »E»O'S
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      524 11 Hk <-% A Sk -mJi m m ¥m 1 ■6b :ft*T^%i |L 51 Eft 1 fl^|^^^^^^H^S|Hfi -4. EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT He'll always be able to lau&h, for the Educations] Endowment for his father has fixed his will brin& in extra income just future. when it is most needed, and In fact
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    COMMENT ON ESTIMATES, IMPORTS AND "PUBS"
    809 12 The Week's Markets Singapore, Saturday. MONDAY was but a pup when It became apparent that my paragraph last week regarding fishy Imports had been read by at least one person. The passage had come to the notice of a merchant who was apprehensive of
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    TIN CONTROL AND THE SMELTING INDUSTRY Divergent Views On Proposal To Remove Ore Export Duty
    971 12 TIN CONTROL AND THE SMELTING INDUSTRY Divergent Views On Proposal To Remove Ore Export Duty London, Nov. 13. WITH the approaching completion of the Texas City smelter, the United States will resume tin refining after an interval of 17 years, says the Manchester Guardian. A second smelter may be erected
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    CHAJVfBER OF COMMERCF. RUBBER ASSN.
    84 12 CHAMBER OF COMMERCF. RUBBER ASSN. HUvapwra. SatvnUy. N«w. IS BajTwi* 8 Ultra rIcCS rnfM No IX B.S.S. (Sp-t loMt) SSH Mf4 Nc LX R.S.S l^b la «mm NoTUtber MV. 39 G.F.A.Q R.S S. t.o.b. la btln rmber M^i MH F.A.Q R.S.B f o-b. In bale* November 3794 37H FCTL'CE QUOTATIONS
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    Share Quotations
    486 12 THE following alterations were nade yesterday in the list of share quotations issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers' AASociation TIN Pungah 19s 3d 19s 9:1 RUBBER Perak R. Valley ($1) 1.30 1.35 INDUSTRIAL Gammon ($1) 2.634 2.67% stimulants. No doubt some of them needed alcoholic sympathy, but although my
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      871 12 THE RULES OF HEALTH y[ Vl B t T flf SH IsaP waaaaaaaak ,t\ '3s^ask 4'? unless t&e bloodstream is purified ot all poisons 81 which collect through modern conditions ot living I if^^H you cannot expect to look or feel well. Andrews I^^^^H^l JLiver Salt purifies tnc blood. 3,
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      627 12 _^tt& |Mr NECK'S SO If~ rr 1 Ml STIFF I CAN'T C I wk^ K< TURN MY r*^J UP l-l W aP&iP HEAD" [SLOAN'S t^ Jm^^T~ [will nx mf ■j-»-«-^^^^^^^^^ roujt either wait until Nature L^i VAT M wK^M NATURE m fl_cA\^AlJ tkJri work Asthma Germs Killed in 3 Minutes
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    AIRACOBRA PILOTS ARE CONFIDENT: "CAN BEAT ANY GERMAN PLANE"
    397 13 NO atroj.l.uie produced in recent years has been the .Miiicct of so much discussion, controversy, and ill-informed criticism and over assessment aa the American-made Bell Airacohra fighter, which is now in operational service with the R.A.F. Fighter Command, writes The Tuius
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    NAZIS EAT IN TURKEY
    68 13 TURKEY, one of the few countries in Europe where food ration!ng Is unknown, recent'\ banned the dispatch of parco-s to Germany, says United Press The Turks have no objection a new arrivals from Axis counties stuffing down everything from lobster to souffles mide with real eggs.
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    14 TIMES ESTIMATE
    59 13 TWO landing grounds estimated to cost £49,500 actually cos "703,000. states a report of the •ommittee of Public Accounts, issued in Britain recently. While considering that expenditure on Militia camps in 1939 and 1940 was not exceptional as the •ase was urgent, the Committee sneaks of "unfortunate
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    50,000 Books Were Wrong
    183 13 AFTEK 50,000 copies of a new arithmetic textbook had been printed, officers of the Victoria (Australia) Education Department discovered a mistake. Under a drawing of a polling booth showing a results boari giving details oi voting for three candidates, a series of questions in set out
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    NAZIS STEALING NORWAY'S BELLS
    150 13 SWEDISH papers recently published an order issued by Terboven, Nazi Governor of Norway, according to which aI: church bells in Norway must be dismantled and handed over to the German authorities, states the Daly Telegraph. Many bells have already been taken down and sent to Germany
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    A MAN WHO COULD NOT END HIS LIFE
    190 13 A MAN WHO COULD NOT END HIS LIFE BECAUSE he ould nut pay a fine of £10 for having been drunk in charge of a car. Gordon Forbes Davidson, a New Silks vorth (Durham) fish-monger, began to gamble. He got Into such a desperate financial condition that he decided to
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    PICTURE FOR TROOPS BY AIR IN FUTURE
    312 13 PICTURE FOR TROOPS BY AIR IN FUTURE THE British Government Is trying to arrange an airgraph picture service to tvoops in the Middle East. Men who have become fathers since they left Britain for abroad will be able to see their son or daughter for the first time. Fiances will
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    INJURED GUNNER CARRIED ON
    103 13 EXCUSE me, sir, may I fall oat? I've just lost two fingers." This was now a gunner in Scottish anti-aircraft division reported to his sc-tion commander after his hand had been caught in the gun mechan'sm. For continuing in action during a mid after this injury
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    V.C. GUNNER JOINS R.A.F.
    57 13 ONE of the latest recruits to the RAP. Is Frederick Luke, V.C., a pre-1914 regular soldier, states the London Times Aeronautical correspondent. He has Joined as a ground t.unncr. Ho won the Victoria Cross at L*Cateau, during the retreat from Mons, for saving British suns, under
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    What The Stars Foretell
    798 14  -  R. H. Naylor By SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 16: Thl". year's game of life Is a see-saw, with love at the one end, with war at the other, and luck balancing midway between the two. In November. 1942, you will at least be able to say, "I have
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    418 14 JANI'ARY (Dec. 21— Jan. 19): You feel optimistic, in good health the whole week. Hence you cope with financial and domestic difficulties Monday and Wednesday with little effort Saturday best day of week for most purposes FEBKUAZY (Jam. SO -Feb. 18): Domestic upheavals somehow affect your
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    Your Hair
    543 14  -  Max Factor By ONE beauty maxim wnich remains steadfastly true is that a beautiful head of hair is woman's crowning glory." We may all readily note bow thow women who command the greatest degree of appearance glamour Invariably have healthy, lustrous hair. This Is a tmism wh^h applies
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    Crying For The Camera.
    454 14 By R. A. Thompson, D.O.Sc. (Dr. ot Ocular Science.) No man but what has acceded to some feminine request because of tears. He may pander afterwards on the wondrous ability of women to cry when it will do them the most good; but he never arrives
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      336 14 AGB oeed not taka {ran you taa (auaoss? of a youthful akin. Nstura did not masa four skin to becoma old aad withered. Ska) meant the fresh new akin which ia slams ITowint underneath to take thl place of Ins ola drird-up >kia and keep roo trtr rounf tali beautiful
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    BOMBER COMMAND-VIII
    1526 15 Vital Part in Epic Of Dunkirk (CONTINUED FSOM YKSTERI) \V S STRAITS TIMES) AN important part was playeJ by our bombers, especially the Wellingtons, between May 2., and June 4, while "Ovrptirr. Dynamo," the code name given to the -evacuation of Dun kirk, was proceeding iTif 1 laboured
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    Blown-up Woman Doctor Continued Her Work
    390 15 "{"•ROS3 exaggeration," gnun-Dublin-born Dr. Bernard Doyle, who has practised in London for 25 years, when he read in the London Gazette the story of the bravery that had won him the George Medal. "Sure, I did nothing at all." he Insisted. "Go and see
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    Br'ton Lights Nazi's Cigarette
    42 17 British patrols at Tobrvk have captured many German omt Italian troops <n th -ir nightly raids on the enemy's forw.rd positions. Picture shows a Britirh military police corporal lighting a German prisoner's cigarette before attending to His own.
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    First Of Defenders Of Tobruk Home
    1055 17 A BRITISH soldier to whom a weeping Italian general handed his sword belt on surrendering after a tank battle on< side Benghazi has armed in England with his trophy. Tlie soldier, 21-year-old LanceBombardler William Malloy, Is one vl cipht men on sick or compassionate
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    IS HITLER BLUSHING?
    129 17 BECAUSE Mr. Quentin Reynolds called Hitler by his real name of SchicJcelgruber (Mr. S. lor short) in a broadcast recently Dr. Goebbrls went on the air to all Nazi stations and asked Germans: "Don't you blush wiih shame when you hear your Fuehrer abused?" He went on:
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    N.l.'s JUVENILE GUARDS
    56 17 (From Our Own Correspondents Batavia. Nov. IS. I*JIE Board for Local Defence Volun- teers and Home Guards has Just completed plans for establishing a youth organization of the so-called Juvenile Guards. Boys from the sffondary schools will be eligible for this preiarakTV military training, ro th*» <•*
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    Iranian Navy's Flagship Sunk
    29 17 The flagihip of the Iranian Navy, the Babr. which vmt sunk at KhQrrarr.siaJv during the opening stag's of the British and fMM occupation 0/ Iran,
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    FLY THE ATLANTIC AGAIN CHARLES LINDBERGH
    856 17 Writes QUENTIN REYNOLDS act American newsman, in this letter from London to America's leading isolationist. JJT£ Dear Colonel, I know you dislike newspapermen, but forgive my presumption in addressing you. After all, were both Americans, and then, too, we are practically neighbours. 1 spend
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    General Blarney On Army Policy
    228 17 Melbourne. Saturday. GEN. Sir Thomas Blarney, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Australian forces Li the Mi-idle East, now back in Australia on a short visit, emphasized here tnat the use of Australian troops at single, undivided strength was now the "determined policy" of the Army. However, that
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    Last Day Of Singapore Winter Race Meeting
    1801 18 Last Day Of Singapore Winter Race Meeting MODERATE dividends were the order of the day at Rukit Timah yesterday, the final day of the Singapore Turf Club winter meeting. A feature of the day's sport was whr-n Depot re-lived some of her old glory when she won the main racr.
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    THE DOUBLE TOTE
    55 18 The double tote on races six ana eight paid $111 on each of 86 -inning ticket*. THE BIG SWEEP (1) SAMORY 184*4 (2) RELEASE '<>■»' (3) DISTINGUISHED ***** Starters Roisterer. 47C60 Canton. *****; Kalo. 28«26; Thanks. *****; Trumpri -i, *****. Total Pool: $218,890; First ($71,139); Second I
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    Indians & I.G.H. Share Six Goals
    193 18 Indians I.G.H. Share Six Goals THE Indian Association and the Indian General Hospital scored three goals each in a hockey match played at Balcstiar yesterday. Thj 1.0. H. attacked constantly tn the first half but met with no success. The I A. netted five minutes alter tbe start through Dass.
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    MEDLEY FOOTBALL
    95 18 FERE was great excitement and fun during a medley football match at Pulau Branl yesterday when the Pulau Branl Tigers met the A.I F. (Engineers* in a foe-a ll game, the first part of which was played to rugby union rules and the <econd to Australian code football.
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    A. I. F. To Meet British Army In Return Game
    117 18 A. I. F. To Meet British Army In Return Game THE A.I.F. and the British Army will meet, for the second time this season, in a Malayan Rugby Union war charities match at Jalan Besar stadium next Saturday. The A.I.F. put themselves o^ the local rugby football map when they
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    S.C.R.C. Tennis
    159 18 rpHE following are the results of Saturdays ties in the S.C.R.C. open invitation lawn tennis tournament: Open Singles: Chin Kee Onn beat V P Wee. 6—2, 3—l (retired). Open Doubles: Low Kee Pow and C. K. Pang beat Jimmy Kam and S. R Wong. 6—2, 6—2. Veteran Singles
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    Chiengmai Cup Won By Hanson's Crew
    282 18 Chiengmai Cup Won By Hanson's Crew THE race for the Chiengmai Cup for senior fours, the t?4«jt race competed for at the Royal Singapore Yacht Club, was held on the breakwater yesterday. Conditions were fair with a slight cro&s wind and with very little tide. The crews were: Chaytor's: bow
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    POLICE BEAT ARMY & NAVY TEAM AT HOCKEY
    83 18 POLICE BEAT ARMY NAVY TEAM AT HOCKEY THE Police beat an Army and Navy eleven 2 l at hockey at the police depot in Thomson Road yesterday. Half-time score was I—l. with ths Army end Navy having opened the scoring through Twiddy. N. Sullivan notched both goals for the police.
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    WEIGHT-LIFTING
    63 18 A WIN r to unavoidable circumstances v th; Malayan weight-lifting championships have been postponed to the next Easter holidays. The open Singapore Junior weightlifting championships will be held Instead by the Singapore Amateur WeightLifting Federation during January. The closln. date of ent-y will be Dec. 31 1941 Intending competitors
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    123 18 MERRY TNION 8.P., reserves beat Ihe Kangaroo B P. "B" by seven gam»s to one. Re«ults (Merry Urlon firsts Andrew Chia beat Ch'ia Ah Bah 15—3, 15 8: On? Boon So»^ beat Ch'ia G"«n Seng 15—8, 15—8: Tan Boon Tiom Irat Lim En? chran B—ls. 3—o: 15—12: B. C. Man
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    S. C. C. Beat An A.I.F. Rugby Team
    473 18 S. C. C. Beat An A.I.F. Rugby Team DISPLAYING marked superiority over their opponents the S.CC. convincingly beat an A.I.F. fifteen in a rugby game on the padang yesterday by 24 points (three goals, two tries and a penalty goal) to six (a try and a penalty goal). The game
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    R.A.F/s Narrow Win Over Graham's Team
    256 18 R.A.F's Narrow Win Over Graham's Team A PENALTY try awarded them in the closing stages of the game enabled the R.A.F. lo heat Major Grahams rugby fifteen by nine points (two tries and a penalty try) to six (a try and a penalty goal) at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Exchanges
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    WILLIAMSTOWN CUP RACE
    99 18 (From Onr Own Correspondent) Sydney, Saturday. HpHE WUiiamstcwr. Cup run tod o x resulted Throttle 6.11 (I nkovichi (2) 1 El Golea 8.7 (Creighton) (11) t Tranquil Star 86 (Bea*>y) (7) 3 Time. mln. 34', sec.; won by a neck, th rer quarters of a length, one
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    TO DEFEND TITLE
    37 18 New Yoik, Raturdav. EREDDIB Cochrane. of the United States N»vy. will defen'l k welterweight ben ing title against th* yountr Negro. Ray Robinson, over 15 rounds at Madisct Square Garden early m February Reuter.
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    RHEUMATISM CREPT OVER HER
    170 19 Began in Knee, Spread to Arm, Neck and Back The insidious thing about rteumatbm is that like age it creopb on unnoticed until one day you find yourself in the cruel grip of the uric arid fiend. That is what happened to this woman: "I first
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    Selangor Beat The Military At Hockey
    111 19 > rom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Saturday. THE Seiangor S:ate side gave one of their best hockey displays this evening when they met the local military and won by the odd goal in seven. In the Army side were Ghulam Nabi, Arokiasamy and
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    LESNEVITCH KEEPS TITLE
    33 19 New York, Saturday. piGHTING at Madison Square Gaidcn last night. Gus Lesnevich. 173 lb outpointed Taml Maurielle, 173 4 lb. over 15 rounds, and retained the world's light-heavyweight championship. Reutsr.
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    71 19 Chinese sports Association track and I eld team, winners at the recent Singapore (ltinrcr sports meeting. Front (left to right) Tham C«ng Choon, Cbeong Khal Seng. Cbow W.ng Hhai. Lo« Chung Chee (captain), Won; Hocng Hin, Tai Cheong Cbon*. Kwan Yhif Mont; (president), Ng Liang Chiang, Chrah llouc Kong, cbow
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    Garrison Sports Notes By "Doc."
    1203 19 Garrison Sports Notes By "Doc." •pHE boxing season is now In full swing. The various novices competitions have been completed and many of the boxers who took part in these competitions will be seen in the senior events. The first of the senior competitions are the Battalion (-pen competitions the
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    706 19 Qt§ Our Perak Correspondent) DERAK rugger history was made last week when nine Asiatic players represented the State in a friendly game against Negri Sembilan at Seremban. The side, after giving rurprlslngly good display, won by 6 points (two tries) to 3 points (a try), and this
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    763 19 (From Our Badminton Correspondent) THE annual Married vs. Singles match for the Tan 800 Teck trophy, comprising two men's singles and one men s doubles games, the distribution of prizes won in the various tournaments helJ during the year, and an "At Home," which will all take place at
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    Johore Beaten At Rugby By An Army Team
    204 19 Johore Beaten At Rugby By An Army Team (From Our Own Correspondent) Johore Bahru, Saturday. IN a Rugby match played for the greater part in heavy ra-n, an Army team defeated Johore by six points (two tries > to nil on the Civil Service Club ground to-day. The Army kept
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    540 19 (From Our Own Corresponded deremban. Ilflß R. H. V. Rintoul, who ha^, played a prominent part ir. Negrl Sembilan sport is going or. leave. Since Mr Rintou. arrived in Negri Sembilan re nas takci a great interest in \anous formof sport both as official anl as
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    "Super Planes Will Outlaw War"—Wright
    444 20 "Super Planes Will Outlaw War"— Wright ARVILLE WRIGHT, American plane inventor and the first man to fly, celebrated his seventieth birthday recently. His message to the world is Planes eventually will be revered as the instrument that outlawed war, not waged it. At the moment they are in their infancy."
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    79 20 KAHRS nt'DDE, woman Nazi controller, was put in charge of the Norwegian Nurses' Association. She dismissed Norwegian chairwoman Bertha Helvestad, who had served the association many years. Ihe executive left at once In a body. Of 3.700 members, 2,200 resigned in a week. Kahrs voted
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    199 20 THIS is the story of Sheila, 1 girl worker in an aircraft factory, whose love and kisses saved the lives of a R.A.F. bomber crew of four and of the pilot who claimed her kisses. The bomber had to fly through A.A. fire over
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    137 20 Duce Booed In Italy T\ESPME the efforts of the Italian censor, news has filtered through of aston shins incidents during a (jur Mussolini made of Northern Italy. At Forli he was met with violent abuse from the crowds and left the town hurriedly. At Bologna he drove through packed but
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    HUMANITY IS A CRIME IN GERMANY
    55 20 DECAUSE he ate at the same table bis Polish prisoner labourers a German farmer has been sent to a concentration camp and his land confiscated. Reporting this, a German newspaper comments: "The Polish race is of a brutish lowest-animal standard, an I therefore the
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    90 20 MRS. Winifred Joy Duveen. Malthouse Farm, West End, Chobham, Surrey, was granted a decree nisi with costs against her husband, Pilot Offr. L. L. Duvcen, in the Divorce Court In London. Mr. Justice Langton referred to the husband's evidence that when he visited Mrs. Markie with whom
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    DECEIVERS EVER
    29 20 MRS. Sophie Bathlott, 73. of Chicago. has divorced her husband, Herman, 88. whom she married a year ago. .she said he told her he was only 80.
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    272 20 VV F: are not th husbands oar v.ives used to know we are grumpy and sjg drink more than is good for us." said Mr. S. Simpson, metallurgist, of Hong Kong, to the Sunday Telegraph when he arrived in Sydney on his way to Melbourne to
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    96 20 RELIEVED by racing experts to be the first woman to hold such a position in Great Britlan. Miss F. M Gregory, of Broughton, has been appointed the new secretary of Manchester racecourse, succeeding t!ie late capt H. L. Busby, whose secretary sh? wps for a
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    107 20 A SWISS watch— price 235. lid. to the public— was bought by the Importer for 45., and sold by him to another man for 16s 6d This man resold the watch for 18s. 3d and the next buyer added a strap and charged 235. lid. to
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    50 20 JACKIE COOGAN has married at Mlnden, Nevada, Flower Parry, 19-year-old Hollywood bionde. Jackie, adult star now and ence Charlie Chaplin's stooge hi The Kid." is serving in the U.S. Army. His first marriage, to Betty Grable, in 1937, when he was 21, was dissolved :ast year.
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    British & Red Troops Fraternize
    53 20 British Red Troops Fraternize Soviet soldiers shoved great interest in the arms and equipment of British and Indian troops who visited the Russian lines <n Irmn recently. Top picture shows a Red soldier getting the '•feel" of a British rifle, while above a Russian soldier txamines the khukri (knife) of
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    Britons Carry On Warfare In Crete
    302 20 T>RITISII troops are acting a, guerilla In Crete. They have joined forces with the islanders, a J from hill fastnesses are raiding the Nails in coast towns. They are making their own ammunition and using weapons captured from the Nazis. The mountains arc very
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    WHITNEY IS ON PAROLE
    174 20 RICHARD WHITNEY, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, has left Sine-Sin; Prison after .serving a three years and four months' sentence for grand larceny, following the C 2.750.000 failure of his Wall Street brokerage firm. As a prisoner on parole he Is not allowed
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    Germans Cut Out Of Baron's Will
    127 20 IN a codicil to a will made many years ago Baron Rudolf Bruno Schroder, the London merchant banker, who on his death last December left €50?,502, with net personalty nil, cancelled bequests to the German branch of his family. He revoked legacies to any
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    99 20 Women Cannot Clean Windows BECAUSE of their fear of heights. women In Britain have fallen down on one branch of war work window cleaning. A firm of cleaners, who tried training women for the job, has abandoned the experiment after finding that they 1 ould not look at anything but
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    DROPPED DEAD
    38 20 WHEN John Welsbrocker. 27. wa? examined for military serrice at Bau Claire (Wisconsin) the doctor said "You're in fine shape. Oo home and await your call to service." Welsbrocker Immediately dropped dead of a heart attack.
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    PETAIN CHOOSES GRAVE
    46 20 MARSHAL Petain. once the defender of Verdun and now the figure-head of Vichy France, has reserved spac. for his grave in the military cemetery at Douaumont, one of the great fortresses near Verdun, the battles for which cost hundreds of thousands of casualties.
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    24 20 A GERMAN officer taken prison? declared, according to Moscow radio. There won"t be any Germans left alive to celebrate the victories
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