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Evening Star, Issue 24137, 6 March 1942, Page 6

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DUTCH KKSKXTMKXT. BAXDOKXG. March s.—Sir Stafford Tripp's omission of reference to tho 'XothcrlniKl liulios in his broadcast Ims caused astonishment in Bandoeng, The general public comment is bitter that in the very hour in which Dutch and Allied troops are fighting stubbornly to stem the Japanese advance before it reaches Australian shores a leading British statesman, .summing up Britain’s Allies, considers it superfluous oven to mention Java, as if voicing the opinion that the Java battle is already lost and an issue about which it is better not to talk. JAPAN US K CLAIM. LONDON, March 3.—According 'to the Borne radio the Japanese claim to have captured Rangoon. HALF A MILLION K STATU Probate was granted of the will of the late Air T. B. AleDougall in ' the Supreme Court this morning, the estate being sworn at under £500.000. Death duty payable on the estate will Ire approximately half. The chief beneficiary is Airs McDougall, and shares in Anisebrook and Co. arc divided between her and her three daughters. Tho trustees arc Messrs A. C. Holmes and B. H. Webb.—Christchurch P.A.