The Straits Times, 20 December 1946

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times. MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY I IMIT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946 PRICK l'J ENTS.
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  • 636 1 AS STORE ASKS 1 OR ASSURANCES Straits Times Reporter Mif. ANTHONY BROOKE, the ex-Kajah Muda of •Sarawak, lum l>een refused permission to enter Singapore. He was leported yesterday to be still in llonx Kong. Endoreemetri «>i' hit pnsport has been refused because he would not
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    45 1 Members of a rescue party arriving at the Lowca No. 10 pit at Whitehavpn. Cumberland, after an explosion in the coal workings under the sea. The bodies of eleven men have been re coTer?d, and all hope has been abandoned for four men still trapped.
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  • 490 1 LONDON, Thursday. rE Secretary for the Colon ios, Mr. Arl-hui Creech- Jcne*. stated in th<? House ol Commons today that Mr. Anthony Brooke had been J refused entry to the colony of Sarawak because he had encouraged opposition to the Seeaion winch might cause strife and disorder.
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  • 191 1 The Times Correspondent PARIS, Thursday. M MARIUS MOLTET, the French Minister for Overseas' Territories, will leave Paris for Saigon this week-end, and will there meet the French High Commissioner, Admiral D'Argenlieu, who is leaving Paris a day or two before Moutet. This announcement ends rumours
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  • 158 1 LONDON, Thursday. MOSCOW radio charged today that Iranian Central Government troops had shot hundreds of persons in Azerbaijan province and had instigated attacks on Soviet citizens in the provincial capital of Tabriz. The broadcast contended that Government troops had broken Ghavam's agreement to enter peaceably Into
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  • 75 1 JERUSALEM, rhur- Tne: partition of Jerusalem :nto twoi separate boroughs, one Arab and one Jewish, under th? general con' ml of an administrative rounril Is reoommended in a report by Sir Wl lam Fitzgerald. Palestine's Chief Justice. Sir William was appointed in 1945 to draw up
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  • 181 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE housing shortage in the 1 urban areas of British Malaya was referred to in the House of Commons last night when Mr. D. Rees-Williams. Labour member, asked what was being done about it. The Colonial Secretary. Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, said adequate
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  • 88 1 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. i communique issued tonight from King's House, Kuala Lumpur, the residence of the Acting Governor-General. Sir Edward Geoit, at the conclusion of the plenary session of the Working Committee states. "Consultations at King's House, between Their Highnesses the Rulers and
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  • 244 1 WASHINGTON. Thursday. THE United States today dangled an untouched US $500,000,000 credit before the Government and people of China as an inducement to establish peace and unity. In what he termed the reiteration and elarificatifMi of this Government's policy toward China. President Truman said today that
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  • 189 1 NEW THREAT BY ARAB BODY IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Inursday. A PLAN of non-co-operation with the Palestito., (Government by Palestine's I, !?00,0(/<) \rabs wtkt discussed by the Arab Higher Committee at a twohour session last night, it was learned from a reliable source. "Non-cooperation" wouki be put into action ii che
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  • 159 1 BLUM TO BALANCE BUDGET PAKIS, Thursday. SEMI-OFFICIAL report i said this morning thai M Leon Blum and his all-oocian t Cabinet would later todaj present a balanced Government oudget for the first three months of 1947 to finance the Committee of tho National Vsembly. The report d ;he liscai u>
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  • 89 1 BENARES. Thur.v The Congress Socialist l^ad'T Jaya Prakash Narain, out forwfl e 1 what he called "my phn for freedom through revolution" at a meeting here tonight 'In the coming fight f©i in ■> dom" he declared, "Congress men shall not fill the jails as they
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  • 30 1 I uuiviti.u. inurs —two persons] were injured when police nu-d nine rounds to stop stone-throw-ing in Central Bombay last n a Bombay Government c munique announced today uter.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 14 1 \SCtSNTiFtC F v nS-L-svy^ 3 L OUALIFIEO I OPTICIAN D s monf, o o..ipoc
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    • 50 1 >jj^Kfiy w.npty beer bottles are only a ■W^r nuisance to you about the fj^z^ house and a nuisance to others if left about in public places but they are essential to your retailer. Send back bottles and crate* as promptly and regularly as y««« cnn. thank you MALAYAN tSaSWERIES LIMITED
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  • 285 2 S-W Africa Essential To Union's Security PRETORIA, Thursday. DROADCASTING on the United Nations decisions about South- West Africa and the Indians in South Africa, General Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, last night said: "The Union Government is determined to maintain at least the position
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  • 153 2 TOKIO, Thursday. lAPANESE guards in the J "hellship" Hofuku Maru, vaking 1,300 British prisoners of war from Singapore, "considered it a sport to wade in With iron staves among densely packed prisoners and beat ihem unmercifully," it was stated in an affidavit presented to the Tokic
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  • 118 2 LONDON, Thurs. -Said Sir Abdul Rahman el Mahdi Pasha, Independent Sudanese leader now in London, and other Independ ent political leaders of the Sudan, yesterday attended a meeting in Parliament with about 40 members who concern tbemsehrei with foreign aft airs It is understood that tne
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  • 51 2 NANKING, Thurs.- A crowd numbering 2.000 yesterday saw Tsi Hieh-yuan, one of China's old-time war lords, executed here by a firing squad. He had been condemned to death as a collaborator for having served as a member of the Central Political Committee in the JaDanesesponsored Government here.
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  • 52 2 LONDON. Thurs William Johnston Yapp, last of tihe original directors of the London tobacco firm of Can-eras left £4.501 437 it is disclosed. In his will, he said: 'I forgive all debts which may be owing to me at my death by any individual person <not being a
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  • 121 2 LONDON, Thurs.— Mr. Tom Driberg 'Lab.. Maldon) ir* :he Commons today asked tha Secretary fur War, Mr. Bellenger to take steps to improve living i conditions in the Ayer Raja Camp in Singapore. Mr. Bellenger replied that he was making inquiries Mr. Driberg countered with: Roughly
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  • 64 2 KARACHI, Wed.-An exciUsive Muslim League Ministry is expected to be forinod in S:nd Province before Chris rr.as following yesterdays genial tht.tion results, which gave the League 34 out of SO s<?\ s in the Assembly. This will mean Win Binous. who form 30 per crt of
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  • 70 2 LONDON. Thurs— The British delegate to the inter-governmen-tal refugees conference, Sir George Rendel said yesterday that Britain felt it was unable to contribute to the committee's budget on a fifty-fifty ryisi* wirh America. He added that Britain mid lost material assistance which once made
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  • 48 2 LONDON. Thurs.— Sir Stafford Cripps. President of the Board of Trade, announced in Parliament today that Britain's basic clothing ration from Mar. 1 to Aug. 31 will be 32 coupons— 32 for six months as compared with the present 30 for seven months.— Reuter.
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  • 247 2 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rHE International Monetary Fund yesterday accepted the existing rates of exchange of its member countries ex cept those of Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia, French Indo-China and the Netherlands Indies. Acceptance of these rates is not to be interpreted as a
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  • 144 2 DEN PASAR, 'Bah>. Ihur., i -The "Great East" "area ol the Dutch East Indies will have under the name of •E.iSi Indo- nesia" full equality with the Indonesian Republic In all the central organs of the United States of Indonesia. Lieu.enant Governor General oJ the Indies.
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  • 105 2 NOAKHAU. T"nurs.— Mahatma Gandhi has advised Assam to retire from the Constituent As sembly when th P time comes for the Assembly to go into committee. th P Secretary of the Assam Congress ParHnmf-ntnry Party said yesterday. Hp had met Gandhi wuh a •e'ter from
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  • 188 2 LONDON, Thursday. THE House of Commons last night voted 362 to 204 for nationalization of Britain's inland transport, giving a decisive second reading to the iar-ivuehing Transport Bill which hid been under fire Horn Conservative members in three days of debate Concluding the cas P lor the
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    • 672 2 NOTICES MALAYAN RAILWAY. tppoinlmrntii Mechanical engineering Drpt Srnlul Works. mi TRADE APPRENTICES Application are Invited for the poets tif I;. ale Apprentices at Sentu) Works IN in f.illoviing tradra: Fillei Sheet Mt lal Worker Welder Millwright Coach Builder l KiiKine Wagon Builder le<hanic Joiner Electrical Kiuei Patternmaker Maker Wood Work
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    • 539 2 NOTICES UNITED ENGINEERS (SINGAPORE) LIMITED. (Incorporated in the Colony of Spore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extra-Ordinary General Meeting ot the above named Company will be held at the Registered Office of the Company at River Valley Road, Singapore, on the 28th day of February 1947. at noon, at
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    • 835 2 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE. Tenders will be received at the office of the Superintending Engineer, South Central Zone, Seremban, up to 12 noon of the 30th December. 1946, for the Manufacture and Supply of Furniture for Government Quarters in Negri Senibilan. Plans and specifications may be seen and all particulars
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    • 438 2 Be sure yoiu Eye.functioning normally i 'liem examined here tomoricw Glasses will be recommended OAH SIN OPTICAL HOUSE M N 'ii in Itniicr Kuad. S fm. r Proprietor— P. 8 D/JNG. OD. Phone «?04 Foinier General Manager of NAN SIN OPTKAL HOI-i Singapore and Kua.tt Lumpur. i-onncr Supplier to I
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  • 710 3 6chools. <2i extension of English Secondary Schools facilities for teaching general sciet.ee, (3) Establishment of a government commercial day school for post-school certificate students, (4) Extension of trade schools into "Junior Technical Schools." (5) Provision for vernacular poet-primary education, and (6) increase In administrative
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  • 353 3 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. WHEN one looks at the revenue which has accured to the Government by way of export duty on rubber a matter of $20,000,000 in excess of the estimated revenue from this source in the 1946 budget it would
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  • 230 3 CHAN HOCK LENG, a 16-year-old Chinese, who on his own plea of guilty to a charge of stealing two apples and two oranges at the Orchard Road market was convicted in the lover courts in July last and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, yesterday,
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  • 132 3 RANGOON Wed. MAJOR-GENERAL Sir Hubert Ranee, Governor of Burma, today laid a wreath in the name of the King at a service in the village of Thanbyuzyat, lower Kiirnia, commemorating those who perished in buuilin? the Burma-Siatn "death railway" during the Japan, sc occupation. Thanbyuzyat,
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  • 415 3 MALAYAN COAL MINES HAVE 70 YEARS OF LIFE MALAYAN Collieries, with about 50 million tons of workable coal, have a life of 70 years at the rate of 2,500 tons a day. which is the normal full output of the Brine, said the chairman. Mr. J. Drysdale, at the annual
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 329 3 Phone 1«44 21st. DEC. 1946 -^;r;O;^ J FROII 10 zm T0 midnight SPECIAL TIFFIN DINNER 9 POPKTATT 12 VARIETIES OF REAL o SCOTCH WHISKY AND BARS IMPORTED BEERS 22nd DECEMBER SUNDAY SPECIAL TIFFIN DINNER ALSO SERVED MONDAY 23rd Froir 11 a.m to 11 pm. IYE CHENG S Miss TAN LYE
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    • 254 3 FANCY ART JEWELLERS Agents wanted to sell a wide range of fashionable Ear Rings, Hcckcte, brooches, bangles etc. of most attractive designs first time Imported into this country from America. Preference j?iven to those who have connections with store-keepers in various Amusement Parks. Pull particular* from Box No. 223. ST.
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    • 302 3 GARRICK (irylanr Phone 8107S Today. 3.:5. I.M 9 I', p ni From thr China Inndrnt 1937 i* V-J Day! China's llrrnir Stand in thr Srrond Wurld War Rrpro.hn r/ Vividly in (lIIN\S VICTORY IN Illl' A Mandarin IMrtiirr To-morrow Xiilnirht: S1IHI" CHUNGKING Tanioiit I'ajar Phom- ;:'7 I .»>i 4 Shown:
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  • 823 4 Singapore, Friday. Dec. 20. 1946. Another Dose Of Socialism Tfo«? Bill to nationalise all Internal transport in Great Britain, which has been tine subject of a full-dress debate in the House of Commons this week, marks anot>r step forward by the Labour Government towards its goal of a peaceful revolution
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  • 179 4 The Times Diplomatic Correspondent. EXPEDITIONS from several countries are heading for the Antarctic, and as the knowledge of their intended destinations increases, tha whole confused question of territorial claims has been reopened. This activity can be explained to a certain extent as a normal post-war revival
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  • 81 4 WASHINGTON. Wed. -The United States Government voiced last night its official gra:iflcation that the Netherlands Government had approved the arrangements for the inde.ienderee of the Dutch East Indies With the Queen of the Netherlands a« sovereign The State Department .said 'Ii is the opinion of
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  • 75 4 COLOMBO. Wed King £;irouk of Egypt has sent a contribution to the Ceylon Muslim Scholarship Fund of Rs 6,800. In a letter to the President of the Fund the Private Secretary to King Farouk states: "Deeply touched by your very kind thought and much appreciating your noble aims,
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    • 425 4 47OUR leading article, "An I Overflowing Garrison", was timely, if not overdue. Yet it is doubtful whether all the facts have even now been stated. Basically, the housing difficuities experienced by everyone resolve themselves into the plain and unvarnished truth that Singapore iS
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    • 73 4 A CCORDING to your Penang i\ correspondent, the Penang Municipal President told the Commissioners at their last meeting that there will be nc leave for Penang Municipal employees this year. The Straits Times report also contained the following news:— "Before the meeting adjourned the President, Mr. W.
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    • 131 4 MAY I sketch the rather ugly picture of Malaya which I foresee if the previous discussions on the Federation are to be repudiated at the demand of the new Council of Joint Action. The Johore Malay masses, m spite of blaring propaganda from the M.N.P., are still
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    • 382 4 rHERE has lately been correspondence in the papers about the behaviour of Japanese PoWs and as to how they should be treated. Some of the charges were: (1) That they make a nuisance of themselves in public. <2) That they hoot at passing girls, and
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    • 161 4 IN Kelantan two Japanese PoWs were involved in a lorry accident. Both these men were placed in the 2nd Class B Ward of the Government Hospital. They are given extras, such as milk, eggs and bread. They are even supplied with Gold Flake cigarettes 1 do not
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    • 175 4 IN reply to Mr. H. H. Lie, I would like to put forward my views as regards taxi fa:- i He forgets —or is prooao£> ignorant of the fact—that taret fixed by the Municipality ar«; definitely not in wit> conditions obtaining at the present time, when
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  • 544 4 (A >} inp.it litl v- view >I UtC Siamese in KetJah, Iro.u a contributor who h.iy hail •KCepttMMU opportunities tf getting to know them in «»nt-of-the way districts, is given in this article, whirlreply to the contiihution by M. J. Din. of Alor Star, ptih li>hi-rl
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 767 4 CLASSIFIED ADS. KIRTH KilOK Al the Mnurni'y Ht»pua). nighi I H'cen.ber If; IMt, to Margaret 'Mrs Khor i NIiIMKiNN AMI WANTKI) rx curie! .:,.i. i..c lerk by it ChtoaM lin|Viit lind Kxixirt limi Must U- able to typo required to Box No VIC a and I K.imr Baja— required by
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    • 38 4 The "RIDINGBERY PRINCE' 1 Children Tricycles. Body stove-enamelled finish In two attractive colours; handle-bars and front fork Chrnn-lum Platrd. 50 <By post $30.60) Ontstations: Please send Ca.sh with order: no C O D '-1 63 High Street, Singapore.
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    • 106 4 CHRISTMAS PRICES "BOSTON" Elii.N«i<---.tret«h (.AKTKRS $1 80 r..nts "PyRAMID" KKR( IIIKFS H. 8 ffkttl $11 50 down All-Elastic ARMKANDS $0.50 pair FINE CASHMERE FANCY SOCKS, 'nil lenrlh. $1 .in BRACES, stout (boys," mens'l $1.80: «2 00 Daatic It 9* L4DIFS HATS, straw, felt, "cork-tail." from $10 BANGALORE GAY-WOOL RUGS TARPFTS
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  • 453 5 Sir Edward Gent On Constitution Plan A STRONG CENTRAL GOVT. VISUALISED THE hope that the "general expression of views which are to be sought from all interested circles in Malaya will be views expressed after very careful consideration of the broad interest of the
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  • 189 5 Govt. Will Back SSLS Applicants GOVERNMENT will be willing to support the applications oi thost' members of the Stiiiits Settlements Legal Service who possess the necessary qualification for appointment t<> the Colonial Legal Service. n.is lUttemcnt wa.s tabled at the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday in reply to a question by
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  • 156 5 14- YEAR-OLD RINGLEADER AT ASSIZES ALLEGED to have been the n ringleader of a gang of Chinese who robbed two Indians In Kitchener Road. In the Jalan Besar area, ore night recently, a 14-year-old boy was among four accused in the dock before Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes
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  • 67 5 Forty-three Singapore Muslim* who journeyed to Jeddah nealy three months ago. have returned to Singapore by the Blu P Funnel !.ner Phrantis after completing their first pilgrimage to Mecca in seven years. According to the plgrims. nearly 250,000 pilgrims from all parts of ih P world visited
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  • 172 5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. MISS Ong Keng Bee, former Matron of the Kuala Lumpur Federal Home for Vagrants, has joined the police force as the first woman constable in Ipoh, said Mr. J B Masefield, O.S.P.C. Kinta, at today'smeeting of the Kinta Town
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  • 130 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. THE lightermen's strike in Penang took a dramatic turn today when lighter owners served a legal notice on the men to give up possession of the vessels immediately. The lightermen, who have been using the tongkangs as their homes,
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  • 113 5 DAST students of the Technical College in Kuala Lumpur have formed a body called the Technical College Alumni Association. It is proposed to have the body legally registered as soon as possible. The Director of Education, Malayan Union, Mr H S. Cheeseman, and the acting Principal of
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  • 55 5 FIFTY-EIGHT Burma Road truck drivers and mechanics from China, are expected to arrive today by the Wosang. The men are accompanied by their families, numbering 23 women and 15 children. The returning Chinese will De met by representatives of the Singapore Social Welfare Department and
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  • 284 5 WITH a great deal of charm and good humour, the Tudor Players are making tflieir contribution to Singapore's Christmas with a special Christmas show, presented in tine Little Theatre. Armenian Street. Carols and Christmas readings form the first and most successful half of tJve night's <?nt
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  • 205 5 $1 0 Million Loan For Singapore TO meet a deficit of approximately NB million in Stag* pores 1947 budget, the Government is to horrou a further $10 million by the issue of the balance of >he rehabilitation loan. On the motion of the Financial Secretary, Mr. M« Jones, the Advisory
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  • 127 5 THE Austin .saloon CM Lk to the Singapore Harbour labour contractor P K. M<> I Yusoff, who WM kidnapped while driving Into town from R on Moi. day morning and foi sisn cheques totalling $13,400. was recowrcd on Wednesday noon a short distance trom he deserted
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  • 91 5 IN order to meet ihe great de- mand for passages to Europe and the United Kingdom next year, the Nederlar.d Line (Roya! Dutch Mail) have added an ex^ra voyage to the sailing list of their luxury liner Oranje during the first five months of 1947 While
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  • 42 5 SIR GEOFFREY CATOR Sir Geoffrey Cator will make a .special broadcast on Labuan at 7.15 p.m. 'Malayan Time) on Dec. 24 over the Far Eastern network. The talk will be relayed by Radio Malaya in the 19. 25 and 44 metre bands.
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  • 74 5 CEVERAL hundud.s of t i Canadian potatoes ami Ings arrived in Singapore day by the Java Pacific Lli si Bantam from Vanr is also a shipment ol oats ■j:i board :or Penang and Port Swettenham. Among the six p&Mengen .tis- pmbarkin-* at Singapore »a,v Mr. JG.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 123 5 "MILL" BEER HERE AGAIN FOR X'MAS I SI m BREWFTI BOTTLED IN HOT/rANT> 'J4,^90 r quay. s/»<s*j>o x c pwo#t> zs<nt LEE KIM SOO LIMITED Coal Tar Merchants and Sole Proprietors Of Hi."KLKAYES 11 Group of Factories Matches. VuK n.inwiil.il Flooring TUes, Kjtrthenware Anti-Malarial Suhcrtl Pipen, Omrnt Concrete Goods Of
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    • 103 5 PARIS LONDON NEW YORK The FULL RANGE ot Helena RafeuMeiM world famous Cosmetics lire now obtainable from MEDICAL HALL Battery Heart DORIS CEDDES Little Shop Rattles Hotel Tht- appointment ot other mam Stockists in Singapore and throughout Malay* will be announced Shortly Sole Ajjentv FOIIRPOINTS LIMI T E D 146
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  • 114 6 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. WHILE short-term padi planted early in the season has come to maturity and has been harvested in nortii Kedah and Perils, about 2,000 relongs— 1,400 acres— of medium-term varieties within a radius of seven miles of Alor Star hare
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  • 169 6 COMMERCIAL FIRMS FAKE ADVANTAGE OF SCHEME From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday A SCHEME is being developed by the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department by which all commercial establishments with valuable property unguarded except for jagas can be kept in contact with a
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  • 304 6 Murder Charge Against Three Chinese From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Thurs. DRESIDING at a preliminary inquiry into a charge of murder against three Chinese in he Malacca Magistrate* Court yesterday Lieut. Com. T F. Penney was told a sensational story of piracy and murder alleged to have occurred near Pulau
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  • 77 6 AGRICULTURAL SHOW IN KUCHING From Our Own Correspondent KUCHING, Thurs. THE Government agricultural exhibition opened on Sunday and in spite of the short notice to exhibitors the number of exhibits surpassed all expectations. Opening the show the Governor. Sir Arden Clarke, stressed the need for making the country self-sufficient in
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  • 71 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Thurs. rOR smuggling 48 wrist watches and 230 wrist watch straps a Chinese, LJm Chua Pool, was produced in the Alor Star District Court today and fined $4,000 or to undergo one year's imprisonment. The prosecution officer said that the
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  • 36 6 With reference to the Penang repori that Japanese labourers int paid $1.40 and oflirers $4 30. we are informed that the money is not paid to ihem by ownerfarmers but to the Government
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  • 134 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thursday. IJEFERRING to a proposal by Penang traders that free importation of rice into Malaya should be allowed, the Resident Commissioner, Mr. S. N. King, at a press conference today pointed out that Burma and Siam had surpluses of rice which
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  • 49 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Thurs. AFTER a lull of several months bicycle tihieves struck again j last night when a Chinese woman v.as stopped Fish ane and robbed of her bicycle by three Chinese who blindfolded and warned her not to raise the alarm.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 287 6 Ci, VM A%# 11a.m., 2, 4.15 Phone £**4 I n/\ T 6.30, 9.30 3400 ALAN I.ADI) TAC KLES A TOVOfI PROBLEM, A RUTHLESS GANG OF RACE TRACK SWINDLERS. IT MBANB KOI (ill AND READY SHOOTING! HP9^^^^^H tv"^^"'^^ißi Mc v 1 1"'* lifc an >n 1 T*V^^^^^^^^^^ outlaw bor.c v.d a
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    • 154 6 SMASHED ALL MIDNIGHT RECORDS! GALA OPENING (TEL. 5281) i "V «5^ W £&L*-~-^**"^ V i ft *IH) v^ v vßk. 'I? a. V >^BY wM mm mm ffl^B—P/ «•<".. i. ih. )OHH VINCIMIA CK*r*ct«r» Create** by l*Jg»* Rice fturrtvght Rk. t'^'^^B Bfc, Offilrdby frodvcfdby Wr»-ijS 35K^^^H-; richard THORri rr«d«r^v si.phoni
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 512 6 At times the defense consists solely of guiding the declarer to the wrong finesse. Fo r example: South, dealer East -West vulnerable NORTH ♦K Q 6 V 94 S t 5 S 10 9 8 7 WEST EAST «974 A J 10 D f j 1(6 3 VKB ♦QJIO 84
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    • 207 6 for a third. North might tiira up with a spade stopper. West led the diamond queen. South won, cashed two ciubs. then led a spade toward dumni^, hoping to find th c ace in front of the king-queen. East dashed that hope by capturing th e queen with the ace
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  • 70 7 Singapore, Thurs. THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's rubber prices toda T at noon were: Buyers Mktl Cts. eta. per Ib per Ib No 1 R S S Sih>» IPi 41 No I R S S r»t> iff bales Jan. 43 i «Jv No 2 R s.S
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  • 95 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Thurs Sir Walden Smther s .Cons Orpington) in the Commons yesterday askod the Presidenv of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford Cripps how much rubber was still in Government handj and what was the profit or loss on sales and
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  • 286 7 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Thursday. I^UCHAIS were a feature of the local share market today. They were in keen demand at $1.65 after business had been done yesterday at $1.60. Kampong Kamuntings had improved and were inquired fo. up to 13/9, the only declared
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  • 403 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs TODAYS produce price* were: RICE: SUnies? No. 1 $100. No. 2 95, No. 3 $90, Indo-China No. 1 $30. No. 2 $27 Broken $30 50. PULOH RICE: Siamese $10. Kedah $70. Riff. NOOIILtS No I Slames« $85. Kedah $65. Indo-China $62, China $S5. Local No 1
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  • 194 7 Company Reports A DIVIDEND of 25 per cent on the ordinary shares and clearing off the accumulated dividend on the cumulative preference shares by paying the full amount due from Jan. 1, 1942 to Sept. 30, 1946 are the recommendations contained in the report of the directors
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  • 82 7 Satisfactory progress in production was reported by the chairman Mr H D. Mundell to the shareholders at the annual general meeting"' of the Tapali Rubber E-tates Ltd on Wednesday The account* for the period from the re-occupation of Malaya to Aug 31 1946 show a loss of
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  • 108 7 At thp twentieth ordinary general meetirg of New Scudai Ltd!, held on Tuesday, a profit of $33,748 for the period from April l. 1941 to March 31 1946 was revealed by fhe chairman. Adding $30,088. brought forward from the last account, the total profit of the Company accrued
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  • 98 7 I The eighth ordinary general mr^tlng of Kuchai Tin Ltd, was held on TMt- oay at 96 Market Street Mr c F Smith, the chairman. informed iht i meeting that owing to serious reduction •in tr-~ supplies of coal, the mine ha? ■Nad to b« shut down since
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 746 7 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. iiir iriH>iai*o »ri *nttapore) BLITF FUNNEL LINE Sailings to and from I'nited Kingdom rr" Imm I K for Java Ports In Port ••Rhe*en<»r" from |i K for Java Ports In Port Thniiilis" from ISA. for Java Ports In Port -f.lenbeg" from! K for Hongkong Shanghai In Port
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    • 489 7 PRESIDENT LINE. Sailings NEW YORK A HA\XN\ tU India and Mediterranean Porta JACKSON VICTORY Cue Dec. 31 PRESIDENT MONROE Hue Jan S S mtUI VK'KERV Due lan ?7 S.S. MARINE ADDER due Jan. 12 IDENTICAL WITH MARINE FALCON (or Madras and Bombay returning San Francisco via China FARFS Cabin Class
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    • 148 7 ELLERMAN BAMTWBBD For New York ami Halifax Due Mngaparc Dae. 26. KLAVENESS LINE. FOR PACIFIC PORTS Sailing* mi oc resumed <horil\ Agrnu:— McALISTER 6t CO., S pore LTD. PHONES ;237~JV0« COMMKRCIM. AIKI.IMS i\^ Next Departures Dec 10 JJ T. BANGKOK HONCKONC MANJU FOR P^niICVJARS APPLT BOUSTEAD A CO.. LTD TEL
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 389 7 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: Hirh Wat^r: 8.30 am 8 ft. 8 in.; 9.36 pm Bft 4 in TOMORROW: Hi K h Water- 9ft am 9 tt. 10 23 p.m 8 ft. 6 in Along The Singapore Waterfront SHIPS' position? Ir Sinpfipore yestei- Hone Knno rv.^. a (tan were iSSJtfi 8 BanBkOk
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  • 745 8 (From Norman Preston, Reuter's Special Correspondent) SYDNEY, Thursday. ATSTKALIA won the second Test here today, the last England wicket falling with the tolai at 371, leaving Australia victois by an innings and runs. Australia have now won the first two Tests. Ed
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  • 112 8 Int land: Ist. Inns. 255. Australia: Ist. Inns HI for S de< I K\<;i.A\l>— 2nd. inns. Mutton bit wirket b Miller 3? Wash brook c M Cool b .Inhii-.ni «1 Kdrlrli b Mr< unl ||g iirnpton r Bradman b Frrer 54 Hammond c lo*h.«.k b M. < •xj 3*
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  • 137 8 SYDNEY. Thursday. AUSTRALIA S team for the thuci Test against England starting on IH«W Years Day at Melbourne will be .chosen from the following twelve players I Don Bradraan (Captain) Sltf Barnes. Bruce Dooland, Fred Freer Lindsay Hasyett, lan John*on Ray LJnd- vail. C. McCool. Keith
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  • 67 8 I mimi Our O»m Correspondent a Thurs A goal i. d h- Xi r -:in:i>iimv in the last tt\c iiiinn..- ol play iiiabli d 1 1 i■ Indian Spurti Club to beat the Fuurih Mobil. Workctaapl in a second round (rtctory ni.m. yesterday, at nly mati-hi-d
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  • 120 8 BLACKPOOL. Thurs. PRED DA VIES, brother of the world snooker champion Joe Davis, made a snooker breaK of 139. here this afternoon when i playing against his brotiier. This |;s one point higher than Joes world record. After examination of the table by Harry Myers who
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  • 92 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed. A scratch XI from the N.S. Hockey Association defeated the Ki'.ix George V School in a fast anJ in c-isuna hockey mntch played ben rtU ?t« thret goai.% to v.n The schoolboys played well ,n the, fjr.st half which saw an xiire
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  • 73 8 <Frum Our Own Correspondent) IPOH Tluir^. W. S. Paterson, an looh golfer, returned eight strokes below par this week doing 18 holes in company of three others of Ipoh's best golffrs Going round the Turf Club course, he shot nine birdies and right bogies to return
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  • 22 8 The Captains and the Vice CaplaiJi's drew 33 point* c?ch in the bo»ls match played at the S C.C. yesterday
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  • 371 8 Home Soccer Fix lures j IJOiiE football firures for ChrtataM and Boxing day? are a& follow. FIRST DIVISION v. Portsmoutll* Aston Villa v. Huddersneld Blackburn R. v. Blackpool Bolton v. Manchester U. Chel» n a v. Preston N. E Everton v. Derby Co. Grimsby Town v. Charlton Leeds U:d. v.
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  • 310 8 L'OLLOWING tiiejr \l. lory over 1 RAF. (Seletar> on Moiiday. the 2nd. Division Crosskeys added to their launls when they beat the Singapore Chinese Football Association 2 l at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Thi. afternoon the Croyskeyj condude the tour with a game against a i-ombtned Navy
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  • 338 8  -  W. M. W.x.iliiill. former Australian Test Captain) (By SYDNEY, Thursday. TDRICH, who was the corner stone of England's minor ■J episode on Friday, was still the pivot of her effort today. He has always risen to an emergency this tour and should prove the thorn
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  • 47 8 The S.R.( hockey XI v !nd Halt, today «tn the padang will be K Rozario: B. Pinto. Pansy: C. Halse, I. Ferguson, <). (amplxll; \V C.aiistan. R. Bellettv, C. B. von llaght, A. Bcllcty, F. Ebert. Reserve N Ralhctchet. H. Hoeden, M Modder. Umpire R. Minjoot.
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