The Straits Times, 2 March 1947

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARUESI NETI SALE IN MALAYA No. GO5 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    $90 MILLION AAEDICAL
    398 1 Second General Hospital Urged Sunday Times Reporter DECOMMENDATIONS for the expansion and mo- dernization of Singapore's hospital and public health services, to be spread over a period of five years and costing a total of $90 million— sl8 1 2 millions a year have now been presented
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    44 1 Sir MuiTord ripps, President ol .he Board of Trade, ijcsticulatrs as he outlines the Government economir programme tor 1947. stressing that food is more irrr-rtant man leisure. The programme aims at bringing thr year's exports up to 140 per cent above the 1938 level.
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    UK industry backs night work scheme
    252 1 U K industry backs night work scheme LONDON, Saturday. THE urge' I need for staggered hours in Britain has been general'y accepted by industry, and individual industries are now putting forward plans without delay, states the Prime Minister's Fuel Committee. The report on the "excellent 88" towards the practical application
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    FRENCH WELCOME NEW PACT WITH BRITAIN
    52 1 PARIS. Saturday. ENTHUSIASTIC acceptance of j the new Anglo-French 50-year i treaty of alliance, to be sign-.-d at Dunkirk on Tuesday, was contained in editorials in toe French Press, which were broadcast to the nation this morning because Paris newspaper workers are still on
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    JOE LOUIS TO KISS AND MAKE UP
    58 1 Bogota, Colombia, Sat. ■08 Louis, the world heavy- J weight boxing champion, arriving here on a tour, was quoted by the Colombian Press as j saying that hp was reconciled In I Mexico with his ex-wlfe Marva TtoCter and would marry her again
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    JET PLANES IN JAPAN
    28 1 Tlie first American jet-propell-' ed planes to arrive in Japan P-80 "Shoo. ing stars" are stationed three miles north-wesi of Tokio. says A. P.
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    BOMBERS MAY TRY TO STOP LAVA
    40 1 Rome. Saturday. THE Italian authorities were today considering the use of bombers and artillery to stop the relenless flow of lava from tnnt eruDting craters on Mount Etna, 10,758-foot volcano in Eastern Sicily.— Reuter.
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    NOT TO WEAR ROBES
    53 1 NOT TO WEAR ROBES Auri. Viscount Mountbatten will not wear viceregal robes tvmn he becomes Viceroy next month. He will retain his present uniform that of a rear admiral of the Royal Navy. He is seen with Lady Mountbatten posing outside their London home, during a snowfall, following announcement of
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    SOONG RESIGNS PREMIERSHIP
    339 1 NANKING, Saturday. CHINA'S Supreme National Defence Council has approved the resignation of the Prime Minister, Dr T. V. Soong. and named Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek, the President of the republic, to act. pending the appointment 01. a new pi emier. Dr. Soong's dratt ".ic resignation has stirred
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    BRITISH ARMY WIVES FOR JAPAN
    26 1 Families of 77 British Commonwealth occupation force officers and rru n in Japan have been called from Australia and England.—A. P.
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    Officers' club blown up
    121 1 JERUSALEM, Saturday. AT least four British officers were killed and 14 others have been sent to hospital following: a heavy explosion which shook the whole city and wrecked the Goldschmidt Officers' Club in King Georce Avenue. Jerusalem, less than 30 yards from the Jewi«h Agency building.
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    KEDAH ESTATE TROUBLE: NEW INCIDENT
    111 1 KEDAH ESTATE TROUBLE: NEW INCIDENT Sunday Tunes Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. WHILE all is now quiet at Bedone, where 600 rioters clash- j ed with the police yesterday, the I latest news from the Kedan planting areas indicates that the trouble has spread further south. At Tcnghurst Estate, S:uth' Kedah, all
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    SJAHRIR WARNS DUTCH AGAINST FORCE
    219 1 Malang, Java, Saturday. THE Indonesian R.publ:can Premier, Sutan Sjahrir, told the Republican Provisional Parliament today that, if the Dutch sought to reimpose their rule over Indonesia by force, they would be j met by national resistance. "If the Dutch want to preserve their interests in
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    MALAYA WILL HAVE DELEGATE AT BIG
    373 1 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MR. C. J. Pyke, Economic Adviser to the Mala an Union Government, leaves from Singapore lor Britain on Wednesday to attend a scries of British and international trade conferences in London. Geneva and Paris at which he will
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    NEW POWERS ANY VEHICLE
    156 1 NEW POWERS ANY VEHICLE BY an order kaacd yesaicuy under th 3 Essential Refutations Prosb.maricr., ar.d pubhs'.cd in a supplement to Singapore Government Qaaette, the Registrar of Vehi-le; is authorised w I requisition at h:s discretion i any mechanically propelled road vehicle registered in the Colony. The order Is kr.cwn
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    U.S. FOOD SURVEY
    47 1 WASHINGTON. Saturday. PRESIDENT Truman announw* I that he is havirc; a surve> i made of food conditions in tha Far East. He said that he wil. not know what funds he must 1 ask for world food relief un'il thi report is made— U.P.
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    SPOTLIGHT On MALAYANS
    1039 2 CLIFFORD PEER TURNS HIS DEHIND the patient, steady development of the United Malay National Organization stands the tall figure of the 42-year-old DATO PANGLIMA BUKIT GANTANG, who is Sec-retary-General, one of the eight great territorial chiefs of Perak and the first Malay lawyer to practise at the
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    CAMPAIGN FOR BACK PAY CRITICIZED
    351 3 CAMPAIGN FOR BACK PAY CRITICIZED Business leader on 'booby-trap Sunday Times Staff Correspondent Ipoh, Saturday. THERE was an ever-growing anxiety in every section of the business and trading communities over the "octupus-like growth" of the back pay controversy, said Mr. H. Kingdon Rowe, presiding at the annual meeting today of
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    64 3 Serjeant v J ...i. \...i.aru Aio-rt Farrani, aftci their v.edtflag ykft rd.iv at S nTapure 1 bj r ia Charck. Sgt. Farraii.. v s. h me is in brst- rhflrch, Knirland. is in the Royal Mar'n T..e bride, who was li'rmrlv .M s S .^il-^a Virh>t Mart* Anßci. ,s the
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    ROAD BLOCKS IN NEGRI ANTIRABIES DRIVE
    109 3 ROAD BLOCKS IN NEGRI ANTIRABIES DRIVE gundsj Tin-.es Corr^pcnd-nt KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. TH. Veterinary Dcpa.unei t and P I 1 -c r.re adopting stern I in N(j:i Srmbilan to widespread cutbrc?k of In the State following th^ < ol a ab d do; in Port i a recently. blocks h
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    500 POLICE BATTLE SIAM OUTLAWS
    237 3 Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. QEVERE fighting has broken out in the five central provinces O between detachments of police totalling 500 and strong outlaw bands, well armed and trained in jungle warfare. Casualties 0:1 both sides are reported and in some sectors trench warfare
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    NAZIS HAD MEN IN MALAYA
    102 3 WASHINGTON. Saturday. THE Senate Allied Services Committee discloses that nearly 40,000 Nazi Party members operatea outside Germany before and during the war. These Nazis included 335 residents and former residents in China. 710 residents and former residents in the Netherlands Indies. 337 in Japan, 50
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    GOVERNORS' TALKS AT FRASER'S HILL
    103 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, and the Governor of Singapore Sir Franklin Gimson, are going to Fraser's Hill on Monday for the periodic Governors' conference. Sir Franklin will remain at the Hill for a
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    'PREGOUS STREAM'
    40 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Sat "I ADY PRECIOUS STREAM," which had its first Malayan presentation in Penang before the European war, is shortly to be staged again by members of the original cast who are still \n Penang.
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    Ban on mailing of banknotes
    68 3 Sunday Times Lorr.spondent KI'ALA LUMPUR. Saturday THE export fro/n Malaya by post of Bank of England notes and bank-notes and currenc> notes of any country outs'de the sterling area to any place outside Malaya is prohibited except with the written permission rsf a Foreign Exchin??
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    ESTATE STRIKES MAY BE SETTLED
    109 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE authorities are optimistic of an early settlement in the strikes ameng estate labourers in the Ulu Langat dis rtet of Selangor DlacUMtooa yesterday ended, it is stated, on a more hopeful note and there are signs not only
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    JOHORE STRIKES
    60 3 LABOURERS on Sedenak Estate, Johore, yesterday joined those at Paloh and Yong Peng Estates, further to the north, by going on strike and the Deputy Commissioner for Labour for the area visited Srdenak yesterday morning. A Government spokesman said that the Sedenak strike was not looked upon as
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    I. L. 0. DELEGATION
    16 3 The International Labour Office delegation will arrive in Singapore on March 17.
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    TO STUDY INFANT WELFARE IN U.S. & BRITAIN
    173 3 TO STUDY INFANT WELFARE IN U.S. BRITAIN GOING ABROAD Sunday Times Reporter. r study the system and method of infant weliare work in America and Bri> air., with a view to improving further the infant welfare service provided by the Singapore Municipality, Dr. Mar> Tan, Lady Medical Officu\ Municipal Health
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    PENANG FEARS LOSS OF COPRA
    138 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday PSNANG may now expect to iose her rich copra and coconut oil market to Singapore. Tins was the reaction of local millers and exporters to the imposition cf tlie excise duty as from this wink on exports ot bothjiommodities irjni
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    CLOTHING GRANT FOR EX-B.M.A. MEN
    94 3 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. BRITISH officers and other ranks released locally by the British Military Admnistration in Malaya are eligible for a Rrant of $250 in place of a clothing oi.tfit which Ls nomally issued in the United Kingdom. An official statement adds
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    CEYLONESE ASK FOR REPRESENTATION
    207 3 Sunday Times SUIT Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday EMPHASISING that a Ceykn Ma'ay has sat in the Ceylon State Council since 1929, the Dejktt Federation of Malaya, preventing their views to the Consultative Committee in Kuala T.uii-pur today, urged that the Ceylon commun! y m Malaya srculd
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    UMNO CONDEMNS VIOLENCE TALK
    369 3 Sunday T'.mes Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. THE appeals of certain Malay stations for the sacri* fice of blood for the attainment of independence were strongly condemned by Dato Onn bin Ja'afar*. speaking today at a gathering of 2,000 on the padang which marked the opening of the
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    JOHORE WEDDING
    38 3 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE. Saturday. THE marriage took place -his afternoon before Mr. T. R Hepworth, senior Registrar of Marriages. Johore, of Capt. Llewelyn Harry Wakeford, of 221 Vehicle Company, Johore, and Nanda Kruithof, of Johore.
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    U.S. SHIP NOT TO RUN N.I. BLOCKADE
    243 3 U.S. SHIP NOT TO RUN N.I. BLOCKADE BAT A VIA, ria urday. fHE U S. Liberty sh p Mar,:t Behrman today abandons her attempt to run a mul i million dollar cargo of rubber sugar and quinine from Rcpubli can Java through a DuVh na"al blockade at Cheribon Mr Walter
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    TEST PILOTS A T SCHOOL
    465 4 "THE R.A.F. station at Cran--1 field, near Bedford, which had such a fine operational war record, is now the home of the Empire Test Pilots' Schcol and also of the College of Aeronautics. Test Pilots' School, commanded by Group Captain H. J. Wilson, A.F.C., who
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    SOME NEW BOOKS
    946 4 pHARLES Miliers conV tribution to our knowledge of Borneo may, perhaps, be doubted, but there can be no doubt about hi 3 contribution to the safety of nations. "Black Born«V' has no maps, and it is not at all easy to find out exactly where Mr. Miller
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    PLEA FOR THOUGHT ON THE NEW ASIA
    903 4  -  E. W. Tipping The Australian Scene— by MELBOURNE, Feb. 18. INDIAN world traveller 1 Farrukh Sayer Shakeri, who describes himself as a tobacco manufacturer, took in Australia in a lightning tour this week. He remained only a few days but he talked to
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    21 4 Pretty Martha Mitchell enjoying her bubble bath surfboarding down Florida way. Sarf-riding is winning a new popularity in the United States.
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    $50,000 BAIL OFFERED IN BIG RICE CASE
    193 5 $50,000 BAIL OFFERED IN BIG RICE CASE Sunday Times Correspondent PARir BUNTAR, Saturday BAIL in the su *10,000 in respect of each charge was offered a Siamese. Nai Hor Pai. master of the motor vessel Bhuke; and two prominent Chinese merchants of Kuala Kurau when they w:r e produced before
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    RUBBER PRICES
    79 5 rE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's rubber prices *t noon yesterday were: Cte. CU. per Ib. per Ib. So l R s.S. Spot luom 417% 42 <fo. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales March ...41 43 so Z R.S.S. fob in bales March 42 H 42S So. 3
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    MONEY SOUGHT FOR ROAD SAFETY Needs stressed
    420 5 MONEY SOUGHT FOR ROAD SAFETY Needs stressed Sunday Times Reporter THE deliberations of the Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee and the recommendations that the body makes regarding plans to reduce death and injury on Singapore roads, will be "time and paper wasted" unless immediate and sufficient provision is made for funds
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    PIANO RECITAL
    73 5 MR Clifford Huntsman, the fl pianist, will toirght give a recUal at the Tan?Un Club. This will be the last but one of the series of concert and broadcast recitals he is giving in Singapore before leaving for th? Malayan Union to perform in Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh.
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    SI. GEORGE S SOCIETY
    46 5 THE Royal Society of St. George will hold its first meeting since the war at the Singapore Cricket Club at 5-15 p.m. on Friday when a committee will be elected and plans will be discus-r-fd for this year's St. George's Day celcbrat.ons.
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    MILK CHARGES
    34 5 Four shop-keepers in the Rating area. Singapore, were charged with refusing to sell condensed milk during the past week. All claimed trial to the charges in the Singapore Second District Court yesterday.
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    Big jump in opium price
    63 5 Sunday Times Reporter THE black market price of opium in S'ngapore has rocketted recently, following; new control measures by tbe Customs Department resulting in little opium getting through to feed the market for at least a fortnight. The price of this illicit opium, has rfsen
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    MORE SERIOUS BOOKS URGED IN PENANG
    155 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. A complaint that there was too much fiction in Fer.ang Library was read out at the annual general meeting of the Library held yesterday evening. Dr. Ong Ohong Keng, the honorary librarian, told the meeting that 50 per cent.
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    INQUIRY COURT FOR SPORE BUS STRIKE !
    73 5 INQUIRY COURT FOR SPORE BUS STRIKE MR. E. N. Taylor. M.C S has been appointed by the Governor of Singapore to hold a court of inquiry into the t^ceatj strike oi employees ot ihe I%f\ Koh Vat Bus Company under the Industrial Courts Ordinance. 1940. Mr. Taylor has been asked
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    BONUS FOR CHINESE QUALIFICATIONS
    68 5 A Malayan Establishment Otlice circular states that the Government will pay a bonus of $500 to any Government officer who passes an ?xaminat:on in Chinese character of the same standard as that required in the second examination for officers taking Chinese as a prescribed language This
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    SMOKES' CONTROLLED
    55 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG. Saturday. WITH cigarettes and tobacco coming under the Price Control Ordinance from today, there has been a rush lor licences at the Price Control Office which to date has approved of 2,357 applications. Any vendor selling cigarettes without v licence is liable to prosecution
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    ANOTHER STRIKE ENDS
    50 5 Tho two-month-old strike at the Ho Hong Oil Factory ended on Friday following the signing of a new agreement between the employers and the employees at the factory's office on Thursday, under which the employers agreed to give a special bonus to employees for the past y3ar.
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    PENANG'S NEWEST HOBBY IS MODEL AIRPLANES
    228 5 Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. TWO dozen men and an idea have given Penang its most interesting hobby since the war. Building airplane models from kits sent out from the United Kingdom or constructed from their own designs, these youthful enthusiasts gather on the
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      400 5 Talking of dogs, by bos martin Mr. Bob Murtin lux |-jhl ovei hfty ycaiV experience of dogi. anj h knor n to Im k ievcrywherr *■< m le«^ii'< BaglU autluirity oo caniiM wc:i i. ALWAYS SCRATCHING? In my experience, dogs rarely scratch from habit. The cause is usually impure blood,
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    IN MEMORIAM
    23 6 In loving memory of Joe Brooke David who died on the 2nd March, 1946 Sadly missed by his Sisters und Brothers.
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    SINGAPORE, MAR. 2, 1947. Saving Citizens
    550 6 SINGAPORE, MAR. 2, 1947. Saving Citizens THERE are at last real signs that progress is being made with one of the gravest and most pressing problems that faces Singapore today the widespread juvenile delinquency which is a direct legacy of the turbulent occupation years and their aftermath. The magnitude of
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    WHY RUSSIANS SO OFTEN SAY NO'
    1284 6  - WHY RUSSIANS SO OFTEN SAY NO' ELEANOR ROOSEVELT by Last week, on one of the rare occasions on which they have done so, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations said 'yes' expressing general aggrement with the merican claim to control the former Japanese mandated islands. Mrs. Roosevelt, who is
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    POWER FROM SUN AND MOON
    751 6  - POWER FROM SUN AND MOON JOHN LANGDONDAVIES by A READER look me to task the other day for saying that the coal age would be over in another ten year.*. Well, it has taken one outsize b'.izzard in Britain to show the world that coal has "had it." 1 do
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    BACK IN MALAYA
    68 7 Mr. S. Rajaratnam, who left Malaya 12 years ago to study law in Britain, returned to Singapore yesterday with his wife, after working for some years on a London newspaper and as correspondent of the Bombay Free Press Journal. Mr. Ka arainam, who is the son of
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    PENSION BACK PAYMENTS
    90 7 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Pension's Special Provis.o 1 Ordinance, which is bring introduced into the Union Adw scry Council, enables the period I of enemy occupation in Malaya to j count for pensions and othfr similar purposes. Dther objects are to enable r ..respective
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    Allegedly cut off wife's hand
    110 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday. A MALAY who was charged j with cutting off his wife's right banJ was commuted to stand his trial at the Perak l Assizes on a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt today. He was Pin bin Mat, and
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    POLICE HUNT EXTORTION GANGS
    455 7 POLICE HUNT EXTORTION GANGS Victims robbed of big sums Sunday Times Reporter CINGAPORE detective officers are busy hunting: 1 down the highly-organized extortion gangs who have been demanding thousands of dollars from Chinese businessmen with threats of death and injury in the event of payment not being made. The police
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    SMALLPOX IS UNDER CONTROL IN PERAK
    128 7 Sunday Times Correspondent TAIPING. Saturday. AT a Town Board meeting, Dr. Blakemore, the Health Officer for North Perak, stated the smallpox situation was well v.ncier control and there was no cause for alarm. Taipir.g had three cases, all discovered, he ssid. The vacc;r.at:on campaign
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    Court decision in Marudu inquiry
    436 7 Sunday Times Reporter FINDING that although the Master and Chief Officer of the 1,400-ton Straits Steamship vessel Marudu were "not entirely blameless for the mishap" in which the ship was involved near Merundunß Is'and on Nov. 2. 1946, a Marine Court of Inquiry sitting in
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    CHINESE CABLE TO WHITEHALL ON FEDERATION
    239 7 CHINESE CABLE TO WHITEHALL ON FEDERATION THE Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce of Malaya, representative cf Cninese merchants in Singapore and the Malayan Union, consider that Singapore should be included in a "United Malaya.' 1 In a caole to the Secretary of St£te for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Citech Jones,
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    INSURING THE GOVT. AGAINST LOSS
    133 7 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. AN ordinance being introduced in the Union Advisory Couno'l ;makes provision for a guarantee lund w^h regard to securities to |be furnished by pubic officers in the Union. A bill follows witn modifications in legislation previously in 10-C3 in
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    MOVING EXPLOSIVES
    53 7 Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. FE main Ipoh— Kuala Kangsu.Read will be closed at the Chemor bridge between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Monday in order to remove explosives left in the abutments in 1941. Traffic on the North South trunk road will be diverted to the
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    TONIGHT'S CONCERT
    71 7 I THE programme for the MuslO i for Everybody' concert at the Vftoria Memorial Hall tor.inh- at 8.30 o'clock, is as follows Overture: Hous Haling— M:;srhnc; j Sure for Siring- from •King Arthur Henry Puree!!; Symphony No. I In --i 'Minor (Unfinished)— Schubert: Dan.--i Macabre Sans Weance; Two
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    IN LOST DAKOTA
    38 7 BIMGADIER J. 11. ALMS, Chief of Intelligence to H.Q. South East Asia Land Forces, who is among those missing in the Dakota aircraft which disappeared while on a flight from Singapore to Saigon last week.
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    U.S. TROOPS LIVE IN LUXURY, SAY BORs
    319 7 Sunday Times Reporter THE contrast between the luxurious living conditions of the *merican troops in Japan and the "austerity" conditions under which British troops lived, were referred to by many of the soldiers who arrived in the troopship Rajula yesterday morning from Japan.
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    BIG MASSACRE TRIAL SOON
    256 7 Sunday Time- Reporter SIX Japanese including two generals, will face trial at a War Crimes Tribunal at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Mar. 10 for events connected with the massacre of several thousand Chinese just aftrr the Japanese occupation of Singapore. The accused are: Lt. Gen.
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    TAIPING NEEDS 200 NEW HOUSES
    102 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. TAIPING, Saturday THE acute housing shortage In I Taiping was discussed at Town Board meeting held heir. I The Chairman, Mr. K.J.L. Jumit I son, stated the Board must urgeni- ly prepare some plans lor at least 200 build ngs to relieve
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    A woman looks at Britain's fuel crisis
    815 9  - A woman looks at Britain's fuel crisis MARY HEATHCOTT by London, Feb. 16. INEVITABLY, talk this 1 week in the fish queue has contred almost exclusively on the electricity cuts, the Government, the weather. "I don't know whose fault it is," said the grumpy woman who cuts the bits and
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    Sweet corn on the cob
    159 9 SWEEI corn on the cob can be so delicious if carefully chosen when you gather it from your own garden, or when you buy it in the market. The care that you choose ears on which the grain is greenish white rather then golden yellow.
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    THELATESTFOR EVENING WEAR
    56 9 "Lui.-,y Chain" u» the title of this evtning sandal mad? oi tiny gold kid daisies, jewel-studded on na-rcw straps. AT" strap (just returning to fashion) links with a daisy-covered ankle strap, fastened with a topaz buckle. The platform of the gold kid shoe, by John Marion of
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    FLOWERS FORYOUR HOUSE
    384 9  - FLOWERS FORYOUR HOUSE 'Kebun' /n yo«r garden by PUT flowers are rather an expensive item on the monthly budget if you don't happen to produce your own. In fact probably most of you did Just what I did before I managed to grow my own, and that is to do
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    581 9 At 26, tired of waiting for the "right man" and seeing ail ray friends marrying, I decided to accept the proposal of a man nhwif friendship I vahieu I hay;* regretted It ever s'nr.e. We are miserable. I would lit. i.> be releas?d, but he won't let
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    NAVY SURPRISE RAF IN LEAGUE
    488 10 NAVY 5 R.A.F 3 FVO down within the first three minutes and still behind three j;oals to two with 10 minutes to go, the I Navy played great football to beat the much-fancied R.A.F. \Ave goals to three in the S.A.F.A. league match at Jalan
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    FAVOURITES SEATED IN THE F.A. CUP
    525 10 lomc Football LONDON, Saturday. WHILE League football had more setbacks from the weather today the sixth round Cup ties— quarter-finals were carried through with accompanying up- sets, particularly the defeat of j the favourites Sheffield United. Preston, also humbled by London's only remaining representatives,
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    EX-CHAMPION OUT IN ROUND ONE
    95 10 HOLLYWOOD. Saturday. THE farmer world middleweight chan:pion. Fred Apostolt. was technically knocked-cut In 1 mm. 50 sec. of the first round of his scheduled ten-rou'.rt bout with Bcbby Yolk of Portland. Oregon, at Hollywood stadium yesterday. Apostoli, who is now 33. trying a comeback which
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    Merrytime B.P.
    112 10 At the annual general meeting of the Merry*-ime B.P. held last Sur.day, the following were el:cted officebearers for the year 1947: Patrons: Messrs: Edmund Yeo St ChiorJi Kan Klat: president: Mr. Soh Keam Hiap: vice-presidents: Messrs. Lim Kirn Peow. Gan Poh Yew. M.M. Alkadree and Tan Seek Leng;
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    Today's Sports Events
    42 10 Crick t: S.C.C. hume-and-heme, S.C.C, 11 a.m.: S.K.C. v 1.A., SR.C, 11 am.: RE. v. Ceylon S.C.. V c'.orla School, 11 a.m.: I,A. "A" v. 61st Ccy RASC (G.T.), Btdadari. 11 a.m. Soccer: Army v. R.E., Thom-son-r^ad, 5 p.m.
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    ALL MALAYAN CHINESE SOCCER PLAN
    477 10 ALL MALAYAN CHINESE SOCCER PLAN Sunday Times Correspondent IPOH, Saturday THE end of the hockey season in Perak is in sight with the final of the district knock-out competition drawing t<-i a close. Eight teams have cnt2red for th*s tournament and the position row is that the giant-killing school boys
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    C.S.C. CRICKET
    91 10 T!ie following will represent the Ceylon Sports Club at cricket against the Royal Engineers (Singapore) to-day starting at 11.00 a.m. at the Victoria School ground: K. Muthucumaru (capt.;; V.R. Sabapathy; R. V. 8. Sundram: F. Van Rooyen; C. Thuraisingam: Narendra; c Yogarajah; V. N. Pillai. S Kulasingam: A
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    NEW INCENTIVE TO WIN BADMINTON TITLES
    461 10 NEW INCENTIVE TO WIN BADMINTON TITLES (Sunday Times Badmin.on Correspondent THE incentive to win the op.n single* and doubles of the Malayan championship to be held at Kuala Lumpur, during the Easter holidays, has been cor siderably heightened by the knowlc that winners in these two even a are likely
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    NORTH, SOUTH HOCKEY DRAWN
    453 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. NORTH and Soulh hockey sides splashed away through a miniature lake that was the padang to fight out a M-'oreless draw in the final heckey match of the season. Rain Mi throughout the game. Both teams were keen to
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    CLUB WIN 5-1
    115 11 THE S.C.C. proved too good for the Pulau Samboe XI whom they beat by five goals to one In a soccer match played on the padar.g yesterday. Samboe opened the scaring througn Osman, but thereafter the Club had things much their own way. They were served well
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    24 11 One or two of the principal races each day at the Sandow.i Park Grand Military Meeting, on March 21 and 22. will be televised.
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    Leijssius Scores 36 Not Out
    315 11 IfK a heme-acd-home cricket match played on the Padang yesterday. Theo Leijssius's XI defeated Dr. Leo da Silva's XI by 72 runs, scores being 114 runs to 43. The best bowling performances camp from Westerhout and Yzelman who took reven wickets between them for nine
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    Beat RAF In League
    25 11 The Navy soccer team which beat R. A. F. 5—3 in a S. 4~F.~A." league tame yesterday. (Report in page 10.)
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    WELL-BRED HORSES TO RUN AT PENANG
    501 11 Malayan Turf Topics Sunday Times Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. FO horses which have run in excellent company on the Australian turf will be among the eight new importations making their debut at the Governor-General's Cup meeting next week. Invest, brought over by the trainer M.
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    LESNEVICH KEEPS HIS TITLE
    127 11 NEW YORK, Saturday. CIS LesneTich, 174 lbs., retained th« world li*ht- heavyweight boxing championship by knocking oat Billy Fox, 172 lbs., of Philadelphia In the 10th round c their fight at the Madison Squan Garden last night. I.psnevlch, 30 an old. was the underdog In the
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    STORE BADMINTON ASSN. HAS NEW PRESIDENT
    325 11 Anew president, Mr. T.itp chuan Geok. was elected at the annual general meeting of the Sinjranore Badminton Association, held at tiia Clerical Union clubhouse yesterday afternoon. He succeeds Mr. O. H. Klat, who in a short address just before the election of office-bearers, asked
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    RAIN LIKELY TO CUT TEST BY TWO DAYS
    179 11 From Bill Bowes SYDNEY, Saturday. DAIN caused a complete abandonment of the second day of the fifth Te«t. The rain began at midnight and pools of water were standing on the wicket when the game was due to begin. The rain continued
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    OEHLERS SETS NEW HIGH JUMP MARK
    366 11 r spite of the bad ground conditions due to yesterday's rain, keen competition was witnessed at the lOtb Annual Athletic Meeting of the King Edward VII College of Medicine at the Medical College Union grounds. James Supramanlam, was champion athletic with 12 polnin, while
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    ARMY LEAGUE SOCCER TABLES
    271 11 Latest positions in the Army soccer leagues are: P W L D P APts. GHQ SEALF 7 6 0 128 7 13 Base Group RE. 10 5 2 3 30 12 13 4 S'pl Wrls Regt. 8 5 1 2 33 12 12 1 Seaforths 8
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    ARMY v R. E. TODAY
    81 11 THE Royal Engineers will take on the 1 Army soccer team in a match to be played this evening at the Thomson Road ground. Teams will be: RE.: Renfree, Stevenson Kenndy; Johnson, Ltttle, Martin; TaUanlyre, Galloway. Flnlayson R id. Barnes. Reserves Moore Chaplin Scobte. Army
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    20 11 THE cricket match between the S.C.R.C. and the 8.0.D. which was to have been played at Alexandra yesterday was cancelled.
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    HOW TO LISTEN TO A SPEECH
    55 12 rive ways of listening to a speech denio:istratcd by Cabinet Minbters hearing the viens of the Prime Minister, Mr CKment Attlee, at the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Left to Rieht: Herbert Morrison, Arthur Greenwood, Ernest Bevin, wi h Aneurin Bevan behind him and,
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    29 12 The new world ligure skating champion is 18-year-old Ottawaborn Barbara Aam Scott, who tx-at P»phn» Walter (BnUun) in the finals at Stockholm Sh« had earlier wan the Enr©i»e»n championship
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    28 12 Above: "Radiotherapy wa^ used to treat Mnnojula, 18-year-old Olympia Circus elephant when he got fibrositis in his trunk —and he also enjoyed the f-nt'p touch of his MBM
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    30 12 Right: Odette S.uisoin, who won the George Cross working with the underground in Europe. ?"'t her marriage to »«r former commanding rv-- r rapt Pet«r ChurcHiH. DS O M C
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    32 12 Crc"ting the King of Trans Jordan on his recent vteit t<» Palestine is Brig &hn#n«| Da vies, ecaunaiiaing 9th Infantry Brigade. la the background is Gtabb Pasha, who commands the Arab Legion
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