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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 4 February 1942, Page 6

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LIFE IN SINGAPORE J SINGAPORE. Feb. 3 —Morning and A . arc. becoming an 4 eepted feature in Singapore's ’he A. d evidence is accumulating that all 3 .d one are determined to carry on 3< en “business as usual” signs. nong non-Europeans, Chinese and E.irasians cire showing the r/-«-ate;t L.pacity to c..... ... Cnincfce heavily outnumber all other nationalities tP erefO: e their conduct is a valuable i •cu'.ying factor among non-Furo-jj-'ans. Civr.cce labour forces appar 5 tly are ready and willing to work U dangerous a r ea* despite frecjfient i'r attacks. Chinese shop assistants tarry on during alerts until the planes if e overhead and the signal given, ij "rnsion girls who are calm in de* ■j canour in times of danger, have von I JAPANESE TROOPS ON MOVE ! A Chungking spokesman ra’d ths* {hiring tho past ten days in East iThina, the railways have been bur ’y Loving Japanese troops from Imicr - Lo, where several divisions at" conj.ntrateu awaiting - pc r. He i.ded that an enormous nurr; r of I panese troops, including lank and i tiiiery divisions, are concentrated in ' c- -tliansnai area, -P.A. JAPANESE LOSSES IN IvIALAYA Cl NG, Feb. 3 \ Jr fkesman quoting intelligence reports Kid the entire Japanese eighteenth. t .:;-:on was annihilated in Malaya. ore than ten thousand inns contain* -.g the ar a* Japanese dead have [cached S:- : gon. WAR IN RUSSIA I LONDON, Feb. 3.—Fighting in Hu.--Jl3 appears to have become a vast J lies of interlocking thrusts, but there : • ensiveiy lor the purpose of staving the fierce unending Russian jabs.