The Straits Times, 4 February 1947

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 232 1 U.K. EXPERT DUE IN SINGAPORE AT WEEK END (HE officer who is to prepare Malaya for the intro- duction of income tax next year is due in Singapore at the week-end. He is Mr. R. B. Heasman, who is travelling aboard the Rotterdam-Lloyd Modjokerto, due
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  • 120 1 HAMBURG, Mon. pARMEN MORY— "black angel" and four other women and six men were sentenced by the Hamburg war crimes court today to die by hanging for crimes against humanity in Ravensbrueck women's concentration camp where British girl parachutists were shot by firing squads and
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  • 144 1 BATAVIA, Monday. I'WO British ships— the 500ton Kita Kami Maru, of Singapore, and the 400-ton Empire May Rover, of Hong tvong were intercepted by che Netherlands Navy, off the Republican port of Cheribon und brought to Batavia today under armed guard. According to the British Consulate here,
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  • 40 1 HONG KONG. Mon. General Sir Richard O'Connor. Adjutant General of the British I* rces, left Hong Kong today en route to England, via India. General O'Connor is on a wot Id tour inspecting British troop installations.-^. P.
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  • 110 1 Test Match A FIGHTING partnership by Morris and Hassett swung the trend of the Fourth Test against England at Adelaide yesterday At close of play on Saturday night England were m a strong position with two Australian batsmen out for 34 runs Hassett and Morris carried the
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  • 194 1 JERUSALEM, Monday. TH E Palestine Supreme Court today refused the application made on behalf I of the uncle of the condemned j terrorist, Dov Gruner, calling on the Commissioner of Prisons to show cause why Gru- ncr should be executed. A second application was filed
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  • 27 1 JOHANNESBURG. Mon.— The Siamese twins born m an ambulance to a coloured woman near Dunnotrar, East Rand, on Friday died over the weekend.— Reuter.
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  • 92 1 Aboard VANGUARD, Monday.— The battleship Vanguard, carrying the King and Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to South Africa, is now making straight for the Canary Isles and leaving behind the Bay of Biscay with its very dirty weather. The only real casualties from the
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  • 31 1 Rear -Admiral H.B. Farutoaib, Commander of the Ausirai an Naval Squadron (left), bring pipM aboard his flagship. H.M AS. Hobart, when he arriyed back In Sydney from Japan.
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  • 261 1 MOSCOW, Monday. 1 THE allegation that Field-Marshal Smuts, South Africa's Premier, "renounced" the United Nai lions because H w«6 not possible to "make the United Nations an instrument of domination over persecuted peoples" is made in today's Soviet newspaper Izvcstia which refers to the question of
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  • 63 1 S' pore Rubber Reaches Japan TOKIO. Mon. FE first postwar shipment of 1,100 metric tons of crude rubber to Japan has arrived at Kobe from Singapore, with a second shipment of 550 tons due at Yokohama from Singapore in a few days. Efforts were to be made by the Allied
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  • 138 1 LONDON, Monday. A great thaw spread slowly over Britain today, bringing m its train tens of thousands of burst waterpipes, including 2,000 mains m London alone. As plumbers, short m number and with inadequate supplies of Lad and paraffin for blowlamps, tried to cope
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  • 54 1 LONDON. Monday.— Mr. Bevin. the British Foreign Secretary, will sign the five satellite peace treaties in his office at 10.15 am GMT tomorrow the Foreign Office announced last night. The British Ambassador. Mr Duff Cooper, will sign for Britain at a formal signing reremmr/ in Paris on
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  • 147 1 BATAVIA, Monday. POLITICAL discussions were resumed this morning between the Dutch Commis-sioner-Genera) and the Indo nesian delegation. Amir Sjarifocddin, the Republican M nister of Defence, »nd A K. Gani, ths R?pu'oiicvv.i Minister oi woifaro, both members of tho Indonesian delegation, returned from Jogjakarta yesterday ac- 1
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  • 395 1 TRA CTION CHIEF GIVES REASONS FOR DISMISSALS THE statement made by Mr. R. K. Samy, President of 1 Singapore Traction Employees' Union that the present strike was precipitated by the Company's sudden dismissal of three inspectors, has brought a reply from Mr. A. A. Ewing, General Manager of the Singapore
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  • 198 1 HANOI, Monday. A BIO French attack begui. at dawn against Vietnamese positions in the outskirts of Hanoi is claimed to have been '"completely successful." As they withdrew Vietnam ese forces are alleged to have fired nearly a dozen houses and a church. French authorities m Hanoi tonight
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  • 86 1 NANKING. Honda 1 said yesterday that Generalissi;mo Chiang Kai-shek had flown to Hsuchow and spent the day inspecting the defences of that northern Kiangsu province city, which had been closely threatened by the Communists. The officials said the tlignt. made with the usual secrecy, %as to
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  • 265 2 Injured Man Not Yet Informed LISBON, Monday. THE sole survivor of the Air France Dakota crash A on Saturday night has not yet been told that his bride, who was travelling wi th him, is among the dead. He is Mr. Eugene Leonard, who was
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    33 2 A symbol of Naiism whvh the Allies have destroyed. The Ehrrntempcl at Munich, tomb of Nazis who marched with Hitler m the 1923 "putsch", as it appeared Jnst before it was blown up.
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  • 211 2 LONDON, Monday PEARS of possible clashes between Jewish group? and new political organisations led by former members of the British Union of Fascists has resulted m police reinforcements being despatched to London's East End. Police cars, equipped with radios are m constant touch with
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  • 70 2 BUCHAREST, Monday Mr. Tatarescu. Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the Foreign Affairs Committee that Rumania would sign a treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with Russia as soon as the peace treaty was in force, and would enter into similar pacts with other principal United Nations
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  • 71 2 PEKING, Mon.— Train services on the Peiping-Tientsin railway was resumed today after th-a Nationalists succeeded yesterday in mopping up Communist guerilla bands that cut the line In five places. According to the Eleventh War Zone authorities, the Communists burned the Wanchuang station and imprisoned a number
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  • 68 2 ROME, Sunday.- Alcide de Gasperi officially announced the formation of Italy's new coalition government today, 13 days after his resignation. De Gasperi remains Premier and President of the Council of Ministers. The Cabinet, as was expected, gives his Christian Democrat party six posts besides the
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  • 69 2 N\BAGRAM, (East Bangal) Sun.— Mahatma Gandhi told a voman that "a woman should most certainly take her own life ratiher than surrender when assaulted by hooligans." He added: "Surrender has no room In my plan of life. When it is a question of choice between killing
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  • 309 2 LONDON, Monday. NATIONALIZED only since Jan. 1, Britain's govern-ment-owned coal industry was in the midst of its second major crisis today and under attack from sections of the labour Party. The crisis was brought to a head by the Austin Motor Company's announcement on Saturday
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  • 94 2 AUCKLAND. NEW 7KALAND. I Monday.— A York aircraft belong- ing to British South American Airways has broken the England to New Zealand air record by making the Journey m 59 boon, thus reducing the record established by the famous Lancaster "Aries" by 50 minutes. The
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  • 87 2 CAIRO, Mon Foui persons were injured in the centre of Cairo yesterday when 100 WafdLst [youth members, shouting "Dow.: wlt>> the Government." clasn.ed with youths representing xixe parfy oT the Premier. Noicrashy Pasha Wafdists collected in front of the Saadist Party Headquarters and challenged Saadist Youtli
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  • 56 2 LONDON, Monday.— Gen. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, may visit Germany and Austria next month, it was learned reliably here last night Competent American informants said Gen Marshall would visit the two countries before March 10 Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference, to obtain first-hand picture of
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  • 106 2 STOCKHOLM, Monday. An epidemic of in uenza which Swedish Ministry of Health experts estimate is keeping one-sixth of Stockholm's population In bed has struck the Swedish Royal Family. Crown Princess Louise and Prince Carl, brother oi King Gustav, are confined to their rooms, but Crown Prince
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  • 219 2 TOKIO, Monday. rE International War Crirr.es Tribunal today reiusad to dismiss the war crimes charges against the lormer Premier, Hideki TojO. and '^5 other Japanese wartime leaders now on trial. Individual motions on behalf of each of the defendants had been ptwtnted. after the court declined to
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  • 40 2 CAIHO, Monday. -Th. 1 Arab League w.ll convene on Mur.-h 1 to study problems involving Palestine and Egypt. Invitations have been ten) to seven league states Eg/pt Transjordan, Iracj, Yemen, Arabia Syria and the Lebanon.— A.P.
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  • 184 2 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. FRIENDS of the actress Grace Moore, who was killed in the Copenhagen Dakota crash a week ago, say she was insured last year for £125,000 against accidental death, but they believe that the policy has expired. It was taken out by
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    • 1024 2 NOTICES DJ THE HIGH COURT OF THE COLONY OF SINGAPORE ISLAND OF SINGAPORE. Originating Su.r^> ons No. 66 of 1946 > In the' Matter of the Estate of Tan San Kay deceased. Between Tan Hup Nee Plaintiff Tan Beng Kee Defendant. PURSUANT to an Order oJ the High Court of
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    • 440 2 NOTICES. SALE BY TENDER. 1. The Custodian of Enemy Property, Malayan Union, will dispose of the plant and materials etc. specified In the schedule hereunder by public tender. 2. As his agent to deal with this disposal the Custodian of Enemy Property has appointed Messrs. Lindeteves (Malaya) Limited of 98.
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    • 707 2 TENDERS BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS, FAR EASTERN AREA (M.0.8.) 1. The British Stores Disposal Board. Singapore, is authorised to receive Tenders for the following items:— Located at H M Dockyard. Singapore Lot No. I— Minesweeper No. 199— Q: 1 R.
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  • 492 3 CEYLONESE AND THE CONSTITUTION From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DEFINING some of the points in the Federal constitutional plan, Mr. K. K. O'Connor, Attorney General, Malayan Union, in a speech to Ceylonese from all parts of Malaya at a conference in
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  • 203 3 Straits Times Reporter QIX Chinese, Indians and *j Malays, among whom will probably be a Malay woman, will represent Singapore public bodies at an Juiter-Asian Conference sponsored by the Indian Council of World Affairs to be held m New Delhi m the last week of March.
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  • 116 3 TWO Chinese, Phua Joo Soon and Ng Lek Chet, who robbed a fish dealer of $100 at the imic'iOTof Hill Street and Chin Na^i Street in the early hours o f Nov. 9. la^t year, and then gave cum $5 "for expenses, were each sentenced to
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  • 104 3 AT a meeting of Ceylonese neld m Singapore on Feb. 1, a resolution to lorm a Caylonese Association m Singapore, was passed unanimously. A provsional committee v;ai elected to draw up the constitution and to enrol members. Membership t:> the Association is open to all Ceylonesa residing m
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  • 75 3 DA1L of $2,000 was offered Lee xy Shiu Nam of Penang when he? appeared in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on a tentative charge of cheating Tang Sony Chiow of four sacks of rice v hud at $645.60. L e was alleged to have
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  • 60 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday.— me Stock «3x-::ang e Gazette emphasises thot Am?ric*n rubber consumption figures are showing a eon■ii tent trend towards the use of an increasing proportion of natnrel rubber m relation to syn':'!us movement will undly grow, as supplies from plantation* increase "which
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  • 86 3 THE Chinese Consul General m Singapore, Dr. Wu PaakShing, has written to Mr. T. P. P McNeice, SecreLary for Social Welfare, thanking him for u*C care given by the depart mem to Chinese recently repatriated from China. He says, "The existence of your department has certainly
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  • 31 3 P TV McKerron, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, t .re, who nas been on leave to ihe United Kingdom, will arrive at Kallang aerodrome by 8.0.A.C. plane at 5 p.m. today.
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  • 39 3 The Singapore Fire Brigade were called out to deal with two fires yesterday. One was a small lallang fire at Lornie R ad, and the other was at Kolam Ayer Lane whore some rubbish was on flre.
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  • 302 3 AN 11 -year-old Sikh, Karpal Singh, found dead m a lilt nt Caailol Flats. Sinsapore, on Nov. 28 was said to have been electrocuted. On his right shoulder and his right hand were burr, marks which it was stated may have been caused by his having
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  • 130 3 rO B.Oit.'s, Thomas Hughs:n and S. J. Qilmartln, who were found m illegal possess on of a Japanese automatic pistol and f>2 rounds of ammunition m Riv»r Valley Road on Oct. 29 last year, were each sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment al the Singapore
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  • 62 3 16-y^ar-old Malay gir>, Tati-1 mah binte Yusof, and a 27 year-old Indian, R. S Suppiah claimed tr.al m the Singapore Fourth Court yesterday, when they were- charged with fradu'ent possession of 50 tins of burter. 28 tins cf margarine and 54 tins of ghee found at 908, Alexander
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  • 78 3 l vi ».K Hxu .<,.».' Muslim women's public function held on Sunday at Viet r.a Schocl m honour of th« hirihda» of the Prophet Mohamed. Top picture: Members of the Women's Committee (left to right): Che Buang binte Haji AH, Chr Aninaii Kwong hussain, i:he
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  • 620 3 A CALL to the people of Britain to insist that a delegation of Members; of Parliament and Trade Unionists should come to Malaya and "find out things for themselves" is made by the Malayan Democratic Union in a bulletin issued in Singapore yesterday. At
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    • 1116 3 factory financial arrangements being made, the directors consider that the company wl>. be in a position to meet the demands of our consumers in the concession area according to the dates the dredging companies and others anticipate being ready to take supply. FUEL PROBLEM It must not be forgotten, however,
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  • 1666 4 LONDON LETTER- BRITAIN IN SERIOUS POSITION Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived: Economic Abyss? LONDON, (BY AIRMAIL). The position of Great Britain today is extremely serious. Today, at last, the British Government stee'.s itself to tell the truth to the great mass of the people. There is no immediate paradis? of
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  • 572 4 LONDON, (Air Mai!;. CLINGING to the belief that Col. P. H. Fawcett, the British explorer, in still alive after 21 years of absence, an expedition headed by Mr. C. R. Springs will soon travel to Brazil to search the jungles for him. Primarily the
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  • 396 5 Control Board Raises Deposits For Bags From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Mon. THE 800,000 people of Bangkok and the west bank city of Thonburi, who are depending on the government rice distribution system for their weekly ration, are threatened with the breakdown of the
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  • 161 5 BANGKOK, Monday. I'W'O Latvian Buddhist priests, the only two Euro pet»n Buddhist priests m Siam. are likely to be deported for '"unpriestly ac'ivities", it was I*. v tied by police quarters. Self-styled Archishop Karlis A. M. Tennison and High Pr.eit Frederic W. A. Lustig. recognized as
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  • 115 5 F Our Own Correspondent JOHOKE BAHRU, Mon.-Public Works Department labourer-; j n Jonore Bahru made a demonstration before beginning wDr>c yesterday morning in order to press the:r claims fcr back pay for two months. They wanted the payments mmedl tely sta ting that the Malay
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  • 45 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon.-rerm;ts Will be issued to town residents -.f Taiping next week by the Land Office to buy cloth at controlled price. Only holders of rice cards with five or more persons are entitled to one coupon per card.
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  • 138 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon.— The women's section 01 the Malay League of Perak (Larut and Matang branch* held its annual general meeting at thy- Kempe Club on Thursday with Che Maznah m the- ohair. Th following were elected offlc bearers for 1947. President: Che
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  • 68 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUCHn*^, Sun.— The Kuching CofTeeshop Employees Association, formed last year, at a meeting held during the week-end dorided to present four demands to ihe Coffeeshop Association comprising owners and proprietors of cafes and eoffec.;hops> lor consideration. The four points comprise requests
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  • 327 5 rliE loan granted this week 1 by Austral* to the Nethi r lands East Indies is a fitting sequel to the friendly relations that grew up between the two countries during the Pacific wa i numbers of Dutch and Indonesian evacu os sheltered In
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  • 319 5 The Times Correspondent SAIGON. Monday. IN no corner of the French Union would a Franco-British alliance be more welcome than among the French in IndoChina. They are nearly all warmly pro-British and must be unique as a community in hav ing affectionaie memories oJ an
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  • 81 5 c »'>di-_te_ for Regular commissions m the Indian Army have to pass the tests of the Services SOecMon Board at Mecrut. The candidates are require I to do some indoor and ou:<iuor exercises where they are judged for leadership, initiative, resourcefulness, ingenuity and several other qualities
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 671 5 Iwgg BjMgl I The purposeiess retention ci a wesi upenea inn aiamona *e.i, trump cost today's declarer a ?.nd E;;st captured dummy'* Jacic. great many points! East thought for a moment about South, dealer. returning a diamond, but it was Nor h -South vulnerable. almost inconceivable that it was West
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  • 55 6 IN LOVING MEMORY of Laura Violet Wright, who passed away on February 3rd, 1945. at Southend. Essex, at the age of 79, after internment m Singapore. Beloved v.lfe of the late J. P. Wright. "Others shall take patience to their heart and hand From thy hand, and thy
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  • 1115 6 It Ls becoming increasingly clear that the only way to put an end to bus strikes in Singapore Ls *,o get rid of the busmen. Before the war the employees of the Singapore Traction Company w^re continually
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  • 60 6 LONDUtt, Sunday. DES1DENTS or Clack Street m the London dock area nad 'a whale of a time" when gallons ol warm whale oil flooded the Ftreet from a broken tank. Several hundred wome n and children with bowls and bucket? t>cuoped up whale lard.
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  • 44 6 CHINESE National Government troops have taken over the Lakusliao power plant on the Yalu river, 80 miles north-east of An- tung, Manchuria, from Soviet i troops, after an agreement signed by the Chincsa and the boviet authorities, says P.
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  • 856 6  - "Haram silenced a Johore heckler "PENINSULAR MALAY" LEMBAGA KESATUAN MELAYU By IN the Straits Times of Jan. 29 mention was made of the LEMBAGA KESATUAN MELAYU, of Johore, having sent a telegram to the Consultative Committee regarding the Federation proposals. This particular association had been previously referred to by an
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    • 572 6 THE implications in Major-General Ullman's statement reported in your issue of Jan. 31, that the Army may have to close down on local building unless contractors lower their charges, are clearly that contractors are either making fantastic profits on their j contracts or that they
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    • 191 6 THE main factors in the rise of building costs, as far as the Army is concerned, are their methods of letting, and particularly paying for. contract work. My own firm have carried out a very small proportion of Armv work, approximately $80,000 worth, which has been completed for
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  • 434 6 QURELY "Semper Sursum" w» has rather overlooked the point that the majority of wives of Service-men come to this country m transport provided by the three Services to occupy quarters provided by the Services, and is it not clearly up to the civilian population to
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  • 618 7 Extension Of "Four Freedoms" Sought Straits Times Reporter A LLEGATIONS of corruption and persecution by the Government m the Malay-speaking state of Pattani, m southern Siam, were made yesterday by Che Mahmud Mohyiddeen, son of the last Malay Rajah of his family to be
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  • 186 7 IHE feast of Thaipusam, knuwn to Hindu devo'ees as the day on which the God Subramaniar revealed himseli to them riding gaily on a gorgeous peacock, is being celebrated officially today. In Singapore, however, the feast began yesterday when the image of the God
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  • 67 7 MR. ANTHONY BROOKE, exRajah Muda of Sarawak, had tea yesterday with the GovernorGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. This was their seoond meeting. The first took place on Jan. 24. before Mr. Mac Donald's last visit to Ncrth Borneo and Sarawak. Yesterday, as en
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  • 61 7 [EIGHT Chinese detained hy pole? m Cr;ss Str:et and Cecil Street en Saturday, made an appearance in the Singapore Third Pol ce C^urt yes erdav charged w th rioting. They were alleged to have us:d bottles of aerated water as weapons of offence. A'l were r mat:ded
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  • 408 7 A i^l ♦?/c7 had b n torture d by the KempeiUl m J* 1944 told a Singapore War Crimes Court yesterday lhal the memory wouid live with her "all through life She was Miss Doris Mypin who gave evidence yesterda y at UM trial of Staff
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  • 34 7 Dr. E. H. O. Dobbie. Head of the Department of Geography at Raffles College. Singapore, will broadcast at 9.45 p.m. today. The subject is "New Nations round the Indian Ocean".
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  • 305 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday ptENGGANU, Malaya's most smallpox ridden state, reach- )E .^a new hi S h in cases when during the week ending Jan. 85, 319 new cases were discovered by the Health Officer and his band of vaccinators working in isolated
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  • 71 7 Ihrre thousand Muslims man h »<j m profession throurb the l\?V? of s 2"* a or yesterday m celebrations to mart thl s'J^ d a. «°tS rt M ha T >Cd Picture bel w 1,,h y 2L A A lAtt^f' Inche dam H *i' Ibrahim (Chairman I
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  • 159 7 Straits limes Reporter ■jELIVEKY m this country ol V the first plane f c r use m Malayan Airways, Ltd. an internal Malayan service i.< expected about Feb. 20. Target date for starting the service is April 1. The Straits Times ur.dersiar.cU that another
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  • 210 7 rthe thud-thud of the Malay drum, the rattle of tambourines and the chant, ing of "A!lah-hu Akbar," over 3.000 of Singapore's Muslims, in a half-mile long procession, passed through the city's streets ;n commemoration of the Prophet Mhoammrd's birthday yesterday. It was one or the biggest
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  • 62 7 COUR men, Lim Thou Leng. Ln, 1 Ah Huat, Charanjit and i Pi'lai, who were charged Hi tIH Fingapor° Fourth Court on Noi last With stealing 26 ras-.s j! p ston rings valued at $i 3.000 a223 Base Ordinarre Depot on N<>\ 16 were acquitted
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  • 31 7 Tn > s ngapore Rotary Clufc v/11 m:e: at the Adelphi Chit tomorrow at 1 p.m. when Mr Tnoi Chan B;e wiU sp.ak n •'Problems o; Home. School and Industry
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  • 315 7 IN a statement in Singapore yes1 terday, replying ta charges that it is not sufficiently representative of the people of Malaya, the Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action declares: "We make bold to claim that in Malaya today no otiier public organization has a bigger and
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  • 591 8 The Human Factor In Air Travel DLANE crashes are now so frequent that air travel must be considered as somewhat unsafe for the time being. What is the reason? Are the planes at fault or does the blame rest on the men who fly them? There
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  • 87 8 NEW YORK, Mon.— With steels, motors. r??ls, sugars, chemicals, wetstocks .eading, the market showed on balance gains up to one point or so m late trading. Stiffening was cautiouo and halfhearted and influenced by the recovery of cotton, grains and some good earnings. The Department of Commerce
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  • 999 8 CXCAVATIONS have been resumed by the Palestine Department of Antiquities in the Citadel on the western side in the present walled city of Jerusalem, near the Jaffa gate. They tend to confirm doubts which had arisen as to previously accepted beliefs about the extent
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  • 131 8 WASHINGTON, Monday. The War Department announced today the award of the Medal for Mvrtt to Jack L. Warner, Vicepresident in charge of production of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. rhe award covers Warner's services to the War Department from September, 1939, to September, 1945. The
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  • 93 8 SYDNEY. (By Air Mail>:—Australia will play Britain m a chess match by radio, probably m April. The British Chess Association has officially accepted a challenge from Australia. Some confusion was created by an unofficial suggestion that Australia wished to play a matcn against Canada. The match w:th
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  • 62 8 WASHINGTON, Thuri. American eft:rts to simulate Japanese exports to rais? Nipponese liv:r.g standards and help pay occupation costs are making st3ady progress The lat.sf announce sa'€ of Japanese products was 4,450 reams of Japan** no '„\cr. I was sold under sealed bids by the U.S. Commerc
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  • 292 8 VANCOUVER (Air mail). INTO Canada's Death 1 Valley"— a strange tropical freak m the Arctic north, where cannibal head-hunters are reputed to guard a fabulous hoard of go'.d— wiil go next summer ten U.S. ex-Marines with airplanes, parachutes and army ducks. They are not goins
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    • 103 8 NOW! Seats are Available! HOME BY AIR 1 1 M> 4 TO SY DKt V Now, air passages may be reserved by nonpriority travellers, for early departure, on the Kangaroo service to Sydney and Lomlon. Whether on business ot pleasure bent you can ;'y m spacious air-line comfort with full
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  • 1502 9  -  HENRY P. VAN DUSEN By President of the Union Theological Seminary, New York [In this article (which is reproduced from The Spectator) is something out of the ordinary, for m it a leading American Protestant churchman declares that the United Shtes must support the. Kuomintang against
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  • 1001 9 After Total WarTerrorism By "Liberator" m The Observer (London) TERRORISM fights back. In some 20 countries it has become a regular instrument of politics during the last 12 months. It ranges from the Asturian antiFranco maquis m Spain to the anti-Communist maquis of the Banderovci on the frontier of Eastern
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  • 600 9 MALAYA -SIAM BANDITS GET SECOND CHANCE Close Police Co-operations fOMPLETE accord for the surrender of bandit gangs on the Siam-Malay border has now been reached between the Siamese Government and the British authorities following inter-Siamese-Malayan police talks which have just ended here. The scheme actually represents a compromise offer worked
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    • 149 9 IRRITATL\G,PAI.NFI L FEET- PEELING SKIN AND CRACKS BETWEEN TOES RELIEVED OVER-NIGHT If your feet irritate, are hot and painful, look between the toes. That's where Singapore Foot starts. First it causes tiny blisters, then peeling skin and irritating, painful cracks. Treat this infectious complaint at once with AERO-PED, the new,
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  • 22 10 Two new studies of Vera Zorina m "Lover Lome Back' with, centre, the latest portrait of Olivi de Havllland.
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  • 458 10 Hollywood (Air Mail). THE American film indus1 try's most ambitious location trip, to the Swiss Alps, is under preparation here by a young producerdirector who envisages the use of helicopters and porta ble radio equipment to facilitate Aiming his $625,000 picture. He is Edward Dmytryk,
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  • 119 10 He-re is a story just to show what tlhe screen can do for an author. Miss Vera Caspary spent 18 morctihs writing Laura. Th? novel had a rather slow sale. Then it reached the screen with Gene Tlerney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. A box-offlce cleanup,
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  • 499 10 TELEPATHY has been proved by scientific experiment. But it is one thing to establish the facts of this mind magic, and another to explain it From time to time m nearly every home something happens like this: Father mentions an old acquaintance whom the family
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  • 274 10 IVAVID O. Selz.uck, has signed a seven-year contract with Alida Valli, Italian screen star. and representatives of the Seiznick Organization are making every effort to arrange her tansportation to the bnitea States in time :or hfft to play leading feminine role in his rv:xt picture. "The
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  • 101 10 THE U.S. Immigration Service is "not supposed to be cultured" and therefore may be excused for alleged discourtesies to the daughters of two prominent Chinese families, the Chir.e&e Consul-General at San Prancuco, Mr. T. K. Chang, told A.P. Miss Lin Yu-hau, 15, daughter of Dr.
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  • 28 10 Britain will buy 500 000 tons oi wheat from Ars uvna, for delivery In spring s-,o ojrly summer, m exchange for caustic soda, says U.P.
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  • 104 10 JUDY Campbell has two tions to win an Oscar award, and to liave two children. Until now. it seemed that Judy, who was co-starring* with Bybfl Thorndykc In Clpmeuce DbSC'l play "Cn'l Home ♦•he Heart" had settled tor the Oscar But she recently left the
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  • 186 11 SHANGHAI, Monday. AWING to the immense and ever increasing financi al v difficulties, many American businessmeiv are now preparing to evacuate Shanghai, it was understood today. Most of them are preparing to transfer to Manila and Hongkong or to Japan, in view of future business.
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  • 269 11 1 company called Victory Tin, is being formed m Melbourne to sluice for tin on leases being acauir~d at Stannifer, seven miles from Tingha, New South Walos Prospectus was lodged at ttie Titles Office, Melbourne on Jan. 16. The capital is £10,000 m 2,000 shares
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  • 173 11 LONDON, Mon. nECLARING that there will be "no financial crisis" m Britain the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Hugh Daltor., said tonight that there would have to be economy m regard to 'charitable expenditure abroad.' He stated: 'As Chancellor of tht Exchequer I have always been
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  • 66 11 NANKING, Mon.— R;p rts from Pelping said that Sun Yueh Chi vico chairman of the NRCA said that China's steel output was more than sufficient for domestic requirements. Ha also sad that Mukden factories will make 800 railway coaches this year to increase railway transportation
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  • 107 11 NANKING. Mon— A committee tor the promotion of exports is scheduled to be formed tomorrow with Premier T.V. Soong as Its Chairman, accord-; Ing to Chlneae press reports. The Committee, to be established by the Supreme Economic Council. U designed to engage In export trade and measures
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  • 371 11 SHIPS positions alongside the Singapore wharves vp to 3 p.m. yesterday were MAIN WHARF Godovm 31-32: Seahaw:;. Godown 33-34: Fort Chesweli. Godown 36-37. Bamtruth. Qodown 38-39: Andrew Jackson. Godcwn 42-43: Tresslliana. WEST WHAKF Godown 12: Denbighshire. GodownB-9: Samwye. Godown 10-11: Samdak. Godown 12: Kepong. Godown 12: Kepong. Godown
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  • 103 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Monday. THE local market was qu.et to1 day and business was purely local, Kuala Lumpur share brokers being olosed for business. Industrials were firm and there was a good demand for Hong K^ng Banks with sellers reserved Malayan Collieries were
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  • 318 11 SINGAPORE, Monday. TODAY'S produce price* were: RICE: Siamese No, 1 SIM. No. 2 $94. PDLOH RICE: Siamese $M. Rangoon $48 RICK NOOUI.CS No I Slame** $85, Kedah $51, Indo-Chin* $S3. China $95. Local MS. Burma M 7 RICE FLOUsV Siam 135 and $30 TAPIOCA FLOUR: No. 1 $M.
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  • 71 11 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associations rlbber prices at noon yesterday were: Ctn. CU. per lb. per lb No. IBS S. Spot lom 41% 'v Nr 1 B.S.S. fab taWbsFeb a 41>« N«. X B.8.8. f«fc faibAlesPek 42>4 4 N«. S 18.8. f«k IntMtksFeb 42 MVt Ton*
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  • 22 11 SHANGHAI. Mmday.- Today's auotat'ons on t*e Rhnn^hai black-market exchange areU.S. dollar— CN $7,600: '.»rd CN $407,000: Hongkonp dollar--CN $I,4OO— UP.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 90 11 RADIO MALAYA Singapore «ED NETWORK (Chirac indur. f24 metre*: aba 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. 4.3JJ megacycle* per M-cond (61 metre Iwnrt) •ad 7.4S p m. to 9.30 p.m. 4.78 met* cycles per second («1 metre band) BLUB NETWORK: (Mala, Ens lisb 485 metrea; also 12 p.m. to i p.m.
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    • 96 11 8.15 p.m News headlines; 8.18 p.m. Listener's post; 9.00 p.m. Concert music series; 9. IS p.m. Tunes across the table; 9.30 p.m. News: 9.4S pjn. Talk; 10.00 p.m. Test match relay; 10.10 p.m. Oeorre Gershwin; 10.30 p.m Isn't it peculiar 11.00 p.m. News headlines and close down. BJ.C FEB. 4
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    • 112 11 SINGAPORE TIOES High tides today will be J| 9.17 a.m. and 11.19 p.m. Radio newsreel; 10.45 p.m. Australia vs. England; 11.00 pm. London call-i-.g; 11.05 p.m. Forces favourites; 11.30 pjn. News; 11.40 p.m. Prom todays papers. Feb. 5 7.30 a.m. Radio newsreel; 7.45 a.m. Short story; 8.00 a.m. The brains
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  • 1043 12 ADELAIDE, Monday. A DETERMINED display by Morris and Hassett gave the honours in the third day's play of the fourth Test match to Australia, who had lost two wickets for 24 at close of play on Saturday. When the Morris-Hassett partnership was
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  • 74 12 ENGLAND— 1ST INNS. 4«C AUSTRALIA— 1ST INNS Morrii e Evans b Bedser 121 Harvey b Bedfter 1! Bradman b Bedaer I Haaaett e Hammond b Wrifbt 71 Miller not oat 3: Johnson not oat 3 Extras i: Total (far 4 wtcketa) 28; BOWLING O. M R W. Bedser 18
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  • 223 12 I'I'HE S.C.C. playing their first socI cer match since the liberation, defeated the Jollilads Athletic Union by throe goals to one, on the padang yesterday. Credit must be given to the Jollilads for a spirited display against! opposition whirh made them look like novices at the
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  • 84 12 In a ruby match at Seletar on Saturday. Seletar defeated the S.C C. by 15 points (one goal, one penalty, one try, one drop) to 5 points (one goal Seletar owed their success to the grappling power of their forwards, combined with a sound defence.
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  • 51 12 All sporting organisations m Kuala Lumpur and S;iangor are invited to send m a <ist of Iheir future fixture^ and other notices of interest to Malayan sportsmen to our office at N... 15 Old Market Saup.re, Kuala Lump".." The telephone number of our Kuala Lumpur office is XL.
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  • 59 12 From Our Malay Correspondent BATU PAHAT Monday— Playinß with only 10 men, one was Injured early m the game, the Batu Pahat Club soccer team beat the Indians by two goals to nil m a Victory Cup match. The injured player was removed to hospital early In
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  • 56 12 NEW YORK, Monday.— A new wond indoor mile record of 4 mias. 9.4 ;ees. was created by Oil Dodds, America's outstanding mile runner, when winning the Wanaker mile race at Madison Square Garden tonight. The world Indoor record for sixty yarckhiKh hurdles was equalled by Harrison Di!lars
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  • 30 12 Pontlan District PA. and Johov Rangers played a two-all draw at soce-v The scorns Indicate the run or pla>, which was fast and even on the Rangers ground.
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  • 187 12 223 Base Ordinance Depot opened their cricket fixture list for the season on Sunday with a comfortable win against HG Singapore District Batting first on their ground In Alexandra the BOD. reached the 100 mark In under the hour, and at the luncheon Interval declared
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  • 136 12 PARIS, Monday— Marcei Cer- dan, French mlddlewei^.i: ooxins? champion, knocked fit '^eon Fouquet, Belgian title holder, m the first of a fifteen-round fight for the European title hers this afternoon. Thus m the space of aaout nineteen hours France collected two European titles as Robert Villemain
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  • 103 12 IPOH Monday— Little L-x>:i. ast I night, won the bantamweight title of Peralc, taking a points decision over Jagir Singh in a 12 two-minute round fight. Little Loon has accepted an invitation to fight in Australia and understood his first opponent there is likely to
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    4 12 ARTHUR MORRIS
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  • 114 12 Outstanding features of yesterday's play m the Test wereMorris's century was his second successive Test match cniury When Hassett bad made 62 he scored his 1,000 runs m first ?lass cricket this season. The 189 partnership between Morris and Hassett is the largest of the match at
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  • 249 12 LONDON, Sun. KHO Sin Kie, Chinese Davis Cup lawn tennis player and winner of the British hardcourt sir.gle s championship m 1938 and 1939, died m the Royal Northern Hospital, London. He lived m London a number of years and was taken ill last Friday and was
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  • 292 12 ENGLAND 'S A TTACK STOOD UP WELL (By W. M. Woodfull, former Aust. Test Captain) r DAY'S cricket has been a grand duel between bat and ball and thin as England's bowling line is, it stood up to trying conditions valiantly and gave ground only for one short period in
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  • 70 12 SYDNEY, Monday. DEPORTS state that Austra- lian Test players Ray Undwall and Sydney Barnes have signed on to play m the I, .in ashire League Club next season. Commenting on the report*, Lindwall said: "1 have not signed a contract with St. Helen's. I have received
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  • 187 12 I TAIPING. Monday— Good entries I h*ve been record for the annual tennU tournaments of the Chinese Recreation Club. Taiping. The draw for the open singles and the open doubles are as follows: Open Singles: Lee Kirn Loon (holder) I vs Yeoh Teng Khoc; Chung Ah Kee
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  • 144 12 Prom Out Ov n cov *puiHl»M TAPING Monday— In a holiday i Badminton fixture played nere the j Arrow Party from Penang defeated Talping scratch team by (our matches to three. RetulLs were as follows (Penang play en first > Singles'. Cheah Thean Kiu beat Khoc Boo
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  • 208 12 At a general meeting of the Brighton B P the following were elected Office Bearers for the year 19*7: j President. Mr. Scan Ah Kow: vicepresidents, Mr. Ho Mun M.ng. Mr. Sim Im Peng: hon. secretary, Mr. Henry Scan (re-el3cted): hon. treasurer. Mr. Harold Seah (re-elected):
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