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Title Section17 1947-09-22 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 1 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1947 PRICE TEN CENTS17 words
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Article, Illustration586 1947-09-22 1 BANDITS PILLAGE JOHORE ESTATE Tell Injured Storeman "Back On Pay Day" RANDITS ARMED WITH LEE ENFIELD SERVICE RIFLES AND DRESSED IN JAPANESE MILITARY UNIFORM TERRORISED WESSYNGTON ESTATE (MALAYAN-AMERICAN PLANTATIONS) NEAR RENGAM, CENTRAL JOHORE, FOR THREE HOURS ON SATURDAY NIGHT. THEY SAID THEY WOULD RETURN "ON PAY DAY." THE BANDITS FIRST586 words
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Article113 1947-09-22 1 Burning Ship Makes Colombo COLOMBO, Sunday. TTHE 6,044 tons British India 1 Steam Navigation Company's ship Nirvana reached Colombo harbour early today with fire burning in her coil bunkers. During the voyage from Madras her crew hud been vainly trying to extinguish the fire and yesterday, when the vessel wasReuter - 113 words
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112 1947-09-22 1 Emperor Of Japan Tours Flood Areas TOKIO, Sunday. TTHE Emperor of Japan yes--1 terday visited several scores of Japanese marooned on housetops by floodwaters in the central Kanto plain. For more than an hour the Emperor cruised in a small launch over muddy flood waters standing five feet deep overAP - 112 words
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Article313 1947-09-22 1 LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN has made a qualified decision to surrender the Palestine mandate and withdraw her 100,000 troops unless the United Nations can produce a workable plan soon, writes Reuter's political correspondent. A special secret meeting of the Cabinet in London yesterday decided the principleReuter - 313 words
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62 1947-09-22 1 High Officials Arrested In Burma Purge RANGOON, Sunday. rKEE high officers of the Burmese Department of Civil Supplies nave been arrested by special police attached to the "theft prevention" committee which has begun work here, j A countrywide campaign to purge the Burmese Government and the Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League,Reuter - 62 words
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Article209 1947-09-22 1 Offending Areas To Be Penalised THE Municipality from to--1 morrow night wll pena-j Use areas not economising in electricity by cutting off th'.-ir, light and power duiing the 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. emergency hours. Blackouts will not be announced and will apply as soon as turbines reach the critical209 words
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Article155 1947-09-22 1 LUCKNOW, Sunday. ARMED peasants today at tacked the village of Pilkahana and killed 153 people and injured 83. Troops engaged the raiders and killed 20. Armed gangs were said also to be roaming the rural areas of Meerut and Bulandshar districts of the United Provinces, committing murderReuter; AP - 155 words
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Article652 1947-09-22 1 From Our Staff Correspondent < KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. j THE Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers at a meeting tonight decided to urge upon the Gc ernor, Sir Edward Gent, that the revision of basic wages proposed in the recommendations of the Wages Commission should have retrospective652 words
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Advertisement135 1947-09-22 1 .*y r***l7l2l\ Prize Winners' List No. 16 TIGER RHYMING COMPETITION M S^fs\ Below is the sixteenth list of •\'>& s &v*r4 prlie-winners. Succe.ssful entries ■RS .^T??} v are D uhl shed twice weekly watch tVx^ttf tne newspapers. With all my troubles, toll and strife, Misunderstandings with the wife. To this135 words
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Miscellaneous117 1947-09-22 1 Diary Of Crime By Our Police Roundsman Saturday night: 7.20 p.m. A father arrived at the General Hospital from the 10th Mile Yeo Chu Kang Road with his 42-year-old lisherman son. He said he had found him on the river bank with a gunshot wound in the head. The son.117 words
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Article57 1947-09-22 2 LAPAZ, Bolivia. Sunday.— Four- teen persons including eight United States army officers and one American weman were killed in a crash of a United States army transport plane flying from Lapaz, to the United. States. Among the victims were Lieutenant Colonel William A. Sullivan head of the American57 words
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Article126 1947-09-22 2 LONDON. Sunday.— A two-day-old baby boy who was flown from B»rlin to Croydon for an abdominal operation was christened during the flieht by the hospital chaplain. A hospital official said: "The baby was 36 hours old when he had the operation. Tins la rare." The boy is In an126 words
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Article72 1947-09-22 2 BATAVTA, Sunday. rO airmen were killed and six injured when a 200-pound bomb fell off th e bomb rack of a Dutch Mitchell bomber and exploded inside the plane during bombing practice over Batoedjardjaa, west Java, Dutch Army authorities announced yesterday. Although wounded, theReuter - 72 words
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Article201 1947-09-22 2 STIRLING, Sunday. Princess Elizabeth was greeted by large crowds who waited in a downpour yesterday for the ceremony of granting her the Freedom of Stirling, the ancient capital ol Scotland, both in her own right and on behalf ol the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) ofReuter - 201 words
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Article41 1947-09-22 2 RANGOON, Sunday.— The Burmese Government yesterday announced grants totalling 15,500,--000 rupees for various govern-ment-sponsored projects. They include hydro-electric survey, a paper factory, sugar board and the state-owned oil industry, all of which are part of the rehabilitation programme. Reuter.Reuter - 41 words
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Article39 1947-09-22 2 FAKENHAM. Sunday. Robert South gate, 78-year-old Fakenham. Norfolk farmer, received fatal injuries when he was attacked by a bull on a dairy farm. He wa.< billeted at the farm when he was injured by the bull. —Router.Reuter - 39 words
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Article54 1947-09-22 2 LONDON, Sunday, A bomb disposal squad have found no trace of the unexploded bomb which was reported at the Saint Andrew's Church of England school in Roupell Street, Lemberth. The headmaster said "the squad had told him there was no danger and the school would be opened asReuter - 54 words
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Article59 1947-09-22 2 KARACHI. Sunday. "Globe Flivvers" George Truman and Andrew Evans, two American exArmy pilots making a leisurely flictht around the world left here yesterday to fly to Jodhpur in northwest India. Principal stops on the way back to the United States, which they exnect to reach in about aReuter - 59 words
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Article198 1947-09-22 2 NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana). Sunday.— New Orleans, one of the world's busiest ports, and nearby coastal towns were desolate yesterday after the passing of the hurricane which. In three days. has spread destruction across hundreds of miles of the Caribbean. Florida and Gulf of Mexico coastline. The "deadReuter; AP - 198 words
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Article89 1947-09-22 2 WASHINGTON. Sunday.— A plan to split the United States Air Force from the Army and to allot It 20,000 regular commissions and 400.000 personnel Is to be submitted for approval to Mr. James Forrestal. who was recently appointed to the newly created post of DefenceReuter - 89 words
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620 1947-09-22 2 U.S. ACCUSES VISHINSKY OF "LIBEL" Answer To Charge Of War- Mongering I YEW YORK, Sunday. THE United States permanent delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Warren Austin, yesterday accused the Soviet Vice-Foreign Minister, Mr. Vishinsky, of "absolute falsification" and libel. Mr. Austin flatly denied Russia's charges, that the United StatesUP - 620 words
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Article70 1947-09-22 2 LONDON. Sunday. -Guardsmen took lorries to Smithfi'-ld market yesterday when a strike of lorry drivers was continued. The strike began when 60 drivers, who normally deliver meat from the market to London shops, stopped in sympathy with four men who had been suspended because they refused toReuter - 70 words
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Advertisement812 1947-09-22 2 NOTICES NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that Lee Heng Kwong of No. 3 Branksome Road Singapore is applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalization should not be granted should send written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.812 words
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Advertisement704 1947-09-22 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Freehold land A Seaside Bungalow known as No. 34SA East Coast Road (Vacant Possession) Areas 1R 0 47P A 15.47 Poles to be held at our Sale-Room No. C (Ist. floor) D' Almeida Street on Monday. -2nd: September 1947 at 2.30 r.m. Pull Particulars Si704 words
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Advertisement699 1947-09-22 2 NOTICES NOTICE The Kegistrar of Businesses. M.U. (under Rule 13 of The Registration of Businesses Rules. 1947) hereby extends the time limit for registration to 31st October 1947. (or the following businesses brought into the Schedule by Gazette Notification No. 4120 dated 30th June 1947:— (6) Sundry Goods and Provisions699 words
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Advertisement181 1947-09-22 2 NOTICES ROBINSON ft CO., LTD. (Incorporated in the Colony of Singapore in 1920) NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVKN th*t the Annual General Meeting jf the Company will be held at the N T 6. Building, Singapore, on Saturday the 27th September 1947 at 12 o'clock noon for the purpose of receiving181 words
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Advertisement75 1947-09-22 2 A SMILIi THAT CHARMS VC^HITER mm T"? T7 ~T < 1" T I Hk. fco. iijr ill You can see she uses Pepsodent Pepsodent makes teeth so much whiter because it contains I rium, acclaimed by dental science as the most efficient cleanser of teeth ever known. Pepsodent is the75 words
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Article390 1947-09-22 3 Two Governments' Joint Conference NEW DELHI, Sunday. DAKISTAN and India Governments decided yesterday, after a joint two-day conference in New Delhi, to ban all inflammatory newspaper articles as a means of restoring peace and made a pledge to observe a spirit of co-operation in theirReuter; UP - 390 words
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Article154 1947-09-22 3 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.— One of the most noticable features of Malay Education in Malaya is the increasing number of girls in boys schools says the Director of Education. Malaya Union Mr. H. R. Cheesfinan. in a report. The report says that last154 words
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Article67 1947-09-22 3 U S— N.E.I. TIN DEAL The American I Market, quoted in the September issue of Tin. reports that Reconstruction Finance Corporation has arranged to receive 50 per cent.o t tin concentrates produced in the Netherlands East Indies this year. This will replace the contract to take 25 per cent, entered67 words
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454 1947-09-22 3 A BRASS band will play at the mass wedding in S ngapore's Victoria Memor al Hall at noon next Sunday of 35 Chinese couples. The Consul-General for China. Dr. Wu Paak-shing, will be "master of ceremonies." After the weddings the brides and grooms will454 words
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Article257 1947-09-22 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. BECAUSE of the serious drop in the price of rubber the board of Broga Rubber Estates Ltd. has decided to pay off most of its rubber workers on estates, in outlying divisions of Buklt Batu and Labugama in th c257 words
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Article114 1947-09-22 3 BRUSSELS, Sunday. Brussels today gave a tumultous welcome to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Viscount Montgomery, remembering him as the man who brought freedom to the Belgian capital just over three years ago. Crowds massed before the City Hall, living again the stirring hours ofReuter - 114 words
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Article159 1947-09-22 3 Swoop On Alleged Extortion Gang IN a police swoop on alleged extortioners on the morning of Sept. 17, 26 arrests were made among whom were men in possession of firearms and hand grenades. These men are believed to be members of a gang of extortioners called "Cher Yu Peng Ten"159 words
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Article121 1947-09-22 3 Dy A Market Correspondent The reaction of Singapore dealers to the report that the Siamese Government has decided to join the sterling bloc is on the whole pessimistic. It is assumed by dealers having connections with Siam that the motive behind the decision was to121 words
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Article254 1947-09-22 3 TTHE Singapore branch of the Malayan Communist Party yesterday replied to the Singapore Supervisor of Elections, Mr. G. Hawkins, who had expressed the view that a unanimous demand from the elected members of the Singapore Legislative Council for the inclusion of Singapore within a wider federation254 words
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Advertisement393 1947-09-22 3 (r GET THE BEST. YOU WANT I* fs3& y MODELLING CLAY i fWy//KA "-T Antiseptic, never hardens. Is not sticky. y/yyfl* m. —i f J but stays "workable" for years- Avall\KVZ%Vf\^-. > <*£*>■ able in ribbons and slabs. In many lE^ 4v «-J^ brUfht colouns V£^^^^^A MODELLING WAX Y\~ I/--393 words
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Advertisement170 1947-09-22 3 EXHIBITION PAINJIN^^-^ THEO.CHIPPINDALE SEPTEMBER 22 TO 27 IO A.M.T05.30PM AMBER ROOM RAFFLES HOTEL STEWART McINTYRE LIMITED ENGINEERS BUILDERS Our staff of experienced designers and engineers is at your service and enquiries for all types of constructional engineering are invited. 45, Orchard Road, Singapore Telephone: 4061 Telegram*: Construct SM/3. .ASSOCIATED •»w^7]170 words
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Advertisement155 1947-09-22 3 LAST 3 SHOWS: 3. 6.15 9.15 p.m. i ran nucu o» tbchmicom» •A SONG TO REMEMBER" A glorious enlrrt-iinmrnt ot thr Immortal works d < HOI'lN! Opening To-morrow ••ABBOT (OSTEIXO IN nOLLYWOOD" QUE ENS THEATRE LAST DAY: 3. 6.36 9 15 p m. Tracy Battle* Crime Parade In "DICK TRACY155 words
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Article1104 1947-09-22 4 Those who happened to pass Farrei Park yesterday morning were reminded by the meeting in progress there that a campaign has been launched to attack the constitution of the Federation of Malaya that is to be inaugurated next year, and that campaign will shortly spread from1,104 words
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Article107 1947-09-22 4 FILLING up of census forms was completed a fortnight ago, and no criticism so far has been received, though I have been waiting for it. The most important omission in the census is RELIGION. The census Is intended also for world statistics, and the world would like107 words
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1053 1947-09-22 4 EU CHOOI YIP - Elected Members Use Of Governor's Veto EU CHOOI YIP, M.D.U. REPLIES TO PROGRESSIVE PARTY By Secretary of the Malayan I Democratic Union. THE Malayan Democratic Union welcomes the reply by Mr. C. C. Tan, Progressive Party president, to Mr. John Eber's recent article in the Straits Times on the Singapore1,053 words
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356 1947-09-22 4 Man In The Street A Straits-Born Wife To Mr. Laycock MR. John Laycock's statement on the elections published in your paper on Sept. 16 gives the impression that he is championing the cause of the Straits-born. In reality, any one of the masses of the Straits-born, like himself, will agree356 words
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Article62 1947-09-22 4 lAM a British protected person, born in Perak, and have been a resident in Singapore for mor c than 15 years. From what I have gathered, I am unable to vote unless I become a British subject by naturalisation which will cost me $100.62 words
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Article213 1947-09-22 4 \f AY we ask what useful ITI purpose is served by the submitting of A.P. forms for import of goods from the U.K.? The information given on the A.P. forms can just as easily be obtained from the Customs Entry declaration if. it is213 words
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169 1947-09-22 4 Exterminate Or Banish The Bandits! J FEEL I must take this opportunity to thank you, on behalf of a great number of silent sufferers In this badly-administrated country, for your comments on "Handcuff-rig The Police." for you have said what thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of us have been thinking169 words
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Article161 1947-09-22 4 IT is absolutely disheartening to us peaceful and lawlV' ng citizens to load d;nly in our newspapers of the everincreasing number of case i ol extortion, kidnapping, and, above all, the ruth'ess shooting of innocent people as well a.s members of our magnificent but entirely161 words
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Article81 1947-09-22 4 r usually lead in report* of robberies in the papers that "the Police arrived at the scene of robbery |ust after the robbers had gom\" What we want to read is that "the Police arrived just in tima to arrest five robbers red-hand-ed" would81 words
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Advertisement836 1947-09-22 4 CLASSIFIED ADS VARDY: Wife of E. C. Vardy on 19th at Jobore Bahru Hospital a son. Both well. PERSONAL. WILL ANYONE who c»n pleare offer accommodation for an ei'Jer.y English J&dv as P.O. for a few week*. Realv Box No. A 448 S.T. RENDEZVOUS .In a little garden Keep that836 words
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Advertisement31 1947-09-22 4 Why we use a TIME -O- GRAF It is a most ingenious apparatus for controlling the timing, for ohecking minu'.e adjustments and tracing unseen faults In a watchmovement. Opposite Clifford Pier31 words
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Advertisement73 1947-09-22 4 ffl*^ OPTICIBM jtitow of the lost. Ophthalmic Opticlars (En; nnen Fellow of the Worshipful v^jmp.iny of Spectacle-Makers (Eng.) Freeman of the Cltv of London OPTICIAN BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. FORCES SOUTH BAST ASIA RAFFLES PLACE fOPP.* IRTUM) PHONE ***** H. B. WINTER Merchant Tailor and Outfitter JUST RECEIVED WHITE73 words
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Article, Illustration515 1947-09-22 5 MASS MEETING VOTES AGAINST ELECTIONS Federa tion Plan Condemned AMASS meeting in Farrer Park yesterday unanimously supported the People's Constitutional Proposals drafted by PUTERA and the AJI-Malaya Council of Joint Action. The meeting, sponsored by PUTERA and the All>lalayan Council of Joint Action, was largely attended. A resolution was passed515 words
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Article103 1947-09-22 5 MALAYA TO GET FULL UNIVERSITY? From Our Own Correspondent I.OVDON. Sunday. THE Oommissicn on Higher Education, in its report new with the printers, will recommend a full university for Malaya omitting the stage of a university college, I learn from Informed sp expect that the site for the university w*ll103 words
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Article54 1947-09-22 5 Governments of the Malayan Union and Singapore I appointed Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes to be a member of the Joint Transport Advisory Board in place of Mr. H. B. Basten. Mr. L. Rayner has been appointed an officer of the Colonial Legal Bervlce on the Malayan Establishment54 words
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Article334 1947-09-22 5 Johore Weekly Letter JOHORE BAHRU. Sunday. £OR the first time the celebra--1 tions in conntctitfn wth the Johore Sultan' 6 birthday] have stretched Into three days and Johore has been in holiday moo,! for the greater part of the week. The pre-war custom of awarding birthday honours was revived this334 words
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Article74 1947-09-22 5 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.— j< The title of the proposed municipality for Kuala Lumpur is to be discussed at Wednesdays meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board, ll The municipality is expected to' come into being from thu first of next year. The74 words
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Article187 1947-09-22 5 The first million cigarette < produced by the liritKh American Tobacco Company. Chcrili.in cist Java, will be distributed free to Army personnel and civilians in the town. The company has made an inspection of its cigarette factory and will begin production soon. Ine condition of tb« various187 words
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Article349 1947-09-22 5 From Our Staff Correspondent LONLK)N, Sunday. AN extraordinary general rrK-etmg of Tanjong Tin Dr dging Limited on September 11 approved the dn.ft agreement for the acquisition by the company of the whole of the property, undertaking, and as ets of Sungei Lu. 3 Tin Dredging Ltd.349 words
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146 1947-09-22 5 COUPLE CLAIM SON-IN-LAW ROBBED THEM A Chinese rubber tapper and his wife who were assaulted and robbed in their home at Parit Amat Darat. Muar, on Friday night by 'hree masked men <*lalm that one of the men was their son-in-law, Ng Kian The rubber tapper. Chiew Ah Kow, alleges146 words
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Article339 1947-09-22 5 By A Market Correspondent rE Singapore market in Java white sugar, already suffering from the severe competition of imports from Taiwan, has been given further blow. Dealers holding stocks have tried to dump their holdings before the arrival of imports sponsored by the Dutch from Java. As339 words
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Article273 1947-09-22 5 A CHILD born after midnight will not b? included in the census count, but ;i person who is in Singapore at midnight and leave immediately afterward* will be included, says a Public fMatlona release. As it is impossible to count between flvt and six million people273 words
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179 1947-09-22 5 It was agr l that in view of the hrl;j that Or; and the C-yiun Qovernment had rushed to tiii-ir compatriots in Malaya Immediately after the libcrati n. it aus only fair that Malaya sMmiW' now reciprocate, From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday.179 words
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Article69 1947-09-22 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.— Sir Edward Gent who has recently returned from a tour of Pahang. visited a number of re- mote villages on the Pahang River. At Temerloh. he and Lady Gent saw the Agricultural Experimental Station, the Government Bullalo Farm, ai.d a number °f other Government ins'itutions.69 words
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Article37 1947-09-22 5 THE OuV-er Administering the Government Mr. P A. B. j McKerron has appointed Lieute-nant-Commander Edward Hugh Lee. D.S.C., Royal Navy, as hono- rary aide-de-camp In place of Lieut. -Commander R. L. W. Moss. R.N. i37 words
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Article70 1947-09-22 5 CEREMBAN. Sunday. The following Mi lay Girls have' gainea entry Into the n<w Malay Gills' CjUege: Hal raali binti Mohd. 1 b Capt Mohd. T ,-ib. Malay Regiment, T. Z van bn'i IT. .Zakariah f: m Tua-.ku M<^hr.med S'h .ol, Kuala P.a >. T. H limab b70 words
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Article39 1947-09-22 5 AT a meeting of the Negri Scmbilan branch of the Ceylon Federation of Malaya held last night at Vivekananda Hall. Seromban. It was unanimously i agre> d to collect funds for the J Ceylon Flood Relief.39 words
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Article35 1947-09-22 5 Mr. H. J. C K. Tims. Chairman ,of the Straits Steamship Co., Ltd firs recovered from his recent att?rk of malaria and i will be returning to business today.35 words
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Miscellaneous123 1947-09-22 5 TODAY: Special general meeting. Malaya Cup Veterans' Football Club, Raffles Cafe. BC. Bras Basah Road, 5.15 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Cooking class, new session In popular Chinese dishes, Guide Hut, Clemenceaux Avenue, 5.15 p.m. Non-members are welcome. Y.W.C.A. Malay class, 11. Leonle Hill Road, 5.30 p.m. Gala variety performance and dance. In123 words
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924 1947-09-22 6 A . Market Correspondent - A Market Correspondent Weekly Share Market Review By CURPRISINGLY, conditions on Malayan markets improved during the week and a fair volume of business was written, mainly at firming prices. Industrials provided the bulk of the turnover and Australian tins a moderate amount, but dollar tins924 words
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Article280 1947-09-22 6 American Business Revival NEW YORK, Sunday. INTEREST in stocks revived I sharply last week, The market scored the first advance for a five-day period since Aug. 1. After an almost sluggish start on Monday, when only 500.000 shares were traded, dealings picked up to 1,260,000 on Wednesday for the fastest280 words
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Article20 1947-09-22 6 Sept. 18 Sept. 19. Stocks 63.86 63.73 Industrials 178.31 IHLII Railroads 48.68 48.3? Utilities 35.15 35.24 A.P.AP - 20 words
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319 1947-09-22 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MACHINE lools, removed from a German aeronautical research station as part of the German disarmament programme, have arrived in Malaya. They are being assembl ed in the Government Trade School at Kuala Lumpur, to form part of319 words
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Advertisement227 1947-09-22 6 LAST DAY-TO-DAY LAST FIVE SHOWS 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 4.15, 6.30 9.15 REX FAREWELL TO BATMAN ROBIN! A RECORD-BREAKING RUN OF 9 DAYS RNOS TO-DAY! CONCLUDING CHAPTERS' 16 REELS m*^^^* SEE THE AMAZING *£%*J*\ FEATS 0F CAPTAIN A rsw$ > W^'' MARVEL! flyri, ~^fd^^^ He f lies like a oiTd227 words
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Advertisement289 1947-09-22 6 9L ACIFK VVEKSEAS /miRLINEft \WIIAM/ CTD. HAVE COMMENCED SCHEDULE AND CHARTER SERVICES AS UNDER LUXUHI DAKOTA AND SKYMASTEJk SERVICES STOKB BANGKOK 1 1 1 HONGKONG i.os WGKLFS SHANGHAI MANILA (VIA Gl!A>l "WaKE^ISL. TOXT OEPART»'R*S FOB BANGKOK 0800 hrn. on Thursday 25th S.-pl.-mh r Iftnfkok connection* m follow* i ■Innckong— snan289 words
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Miscellaneous435 1947-09-22 6 I iiEQI'ENCIES »-30 p.m-1176; 9.30 p.m. to 10.30(7 ('Work id South-East Asia') (CUT OUT FOR REFERENCE). P«n— ls.2. 11.81, 11.76, 15.32; 10.30 p.m THURSDAY (11.00 11 15 am). The following frequencies in -V^T 1 1 1 11<81 1176> 15 32 Story for Std ('Perry Pint megacycles <as calibrated on all435 words
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Article317 1947-09-22 7 LONDON, Friday. AFTER some initial hesitancy following the Russian outburst at the UNO conference, the London Stock Exchange turned firmer following a bout of bear covering. This was strengthened when it was known that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was expected to make an important statement later in317 words
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Article37 1947-09-22 7 Sir Evan Meredith Jenkins. X.C.5.1., K.C.1.E., until recently. Oovernor of the Punjab, has accepted a seat on thi board of tn« Eastern Bank Ltd., the Singapore afßce of the bank has been Informed by cable.37 words
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Article361 1947-09-22 7 REHABILITATION of the dredge of the Klang River Tin Dredging Company Limited has continued, electrical equipment has been installed and progress was sufficiently advanced for machinery tests to be carried out at the end of July. This is shown In the general manager's report, which will361 words
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Article103 1947-09-22 7 WASHINGTON, Sunday. Gold was coming out of the ground In the United States at a faster rate in July than at any time since 1942, the Bureau of Mines reported. July production of 197,148 fine ounces was 30,000 ounces mare than the June output and 11103 words
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Article51 1947-09-22 7 NEW DELHI. <By Airmail).— Fhe formnlatlon of a price and mport policy for rubber acceptable o all the interests In the country irill be the main task of the re:ently Inaugurated Indian Rubber Joard The Board has been constituted under the Rubber (Proiuction and Marketing) Act,51 words
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Article205 1947-09-22 7 rC Oula-Kalumpong Rubber Estates estimate that the current year's rubber crop will be 4,000.000 lbs., with a copra output of 893 tons. The company report makes no mention of forward sales. With the fall In the rubber price, it is presumed that the company will be fortunate205 words
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161 1947-09-22 7 PRODUCTION of tin by the United States' Loorhorn Smolter I at Texas City for the first seven months of this yrar was 19,873 lon* tons, says the September Issue of th c Magazine Tin This was a decrease of 7.147 tons over the correspondlnj period161 words
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Advertisement243 1947-09-22 7 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YOKK AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Passe n :<r A Freight PRES. MONROE Singapore Arr "ept 21 Sis. Sept. 28 Penang 1* Sl*. Oct. 1 Freight Only MOINT DAVIS Sip-apore Sept. 28 f'rr Oct. 6 AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. MON HJKI. TIIS: fi??<t243 words
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Advertisement373 1947-09-22 7 RUBBER The Singapore Chamtier of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon on Saturday were: Buyers Sellers Cta. rts. Der lb. 'er lb No. 1 R.S.S. Soot loose nominal 29 V, 29% No. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales Oct 30 30 No 3 RB.B. fob in bales Oct. 29% 29% No.373 words
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Advertisement644 1947-09-22 7 EUERMAN KLAVENESS LINE B U C K N A L (Incorporated with LimitcC s.s. Co. an. i os \m;h ks (Incomoratea in Enaland) cam mmvcivih HAVRE. LONDON MIN rKAMIMO a.a. CITT OP KHARTOtnw VANCOUVER Loading CDN 4/5 LONDON ANTWERP "OR ANVII I F- nJ S.S. CITT OF r\SHSLB GRAN\ILI.F Dae644 words
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331 1947-09-22 8 Ibanez Takes One Minute To Win By Our Boxing Reporter DABY Baltazar, lightweight champion of the Orient, sustained a sensational first-round technical knock-cut at the hands of Nai£om Pong, welterweight champion of Singapore, at the Happy World Stadium last night. This was one331 words
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Article, Illustration45 1947-09-22 8 Steps have been taken to provide Bukit Timah racecourse with the best stabling facilities in Malaya. In addition to repairs to existing stables, two new blocks are beinc built. This Straits Times picture shows some of the new homes for horses.45 words
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Article93 1947-09-22 8 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. HARD-RUNNING threes, who combined well, and a pack which was superior in the loose enabled the Combined Sen Ices to beat the Se lang or Club by 17 points (a goal and four tries) to nil on the padang93 words
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Article355 1947-09-22 8 Helen Heng Is Junior Champion MISS Helen Heng of the United Family B. P. won the Singapore junior singles championship for women by beating Miss Ng Sai Noi (Amicable 8.P.) 11—9, 11—8 in the final at the Clerical Union Hall yesterday. In the men's veteran singles semi-final. Seah Eng Llat355 words
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Article115 1947-09-22 8 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. Four d üble.s and two singles wcr played off in the quarter finals of Sd&nfor open badminton champion-.-.hip here yesterday. Results are as follows: Lim Kee Pong and F. A. L. Goi.zaga beat Wong Peng Wah and Wong115 words
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Article319 1947-09-22 8 By The Sports Editor THE spectacular comeback by The Patha n at Ipoh on Saturday to pay $136 recalls a similar performance in similar circumstances by Favourite at the Kuala Lumpur Easter Races last April. Favourite won over the nine furlongs in soft going,319 words
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Article263 1947-09-22 8 Prom Our Racing Correspondent IPOH. Sunday. The .s.K.A. Stipendiary Ste. ward's report on yesterday's racing follows: Race 4— The Pathan from No. 4 at the barrier jumped in. wards and continued to hang in for a furlong, causing interference to Avail, Gay Selection and Golden Oak. Bagby,263 words
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Article55 1947-09-22 8 The President's Prize of the Royal Singapore Golf Club tournament was won yesterday by IJ n'nn and Patterson (plus 6) at Bukit Timah. The following were the scores: Smellie and Tabor (plus 5), Craik and McMullan (plus 4), A. It. Anderson and Goodrich (plus 3) and Bra55 words
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Article208 1947-09-22 8 Wallabies Swamp Counties LONDON, Sunday. rE combined Gloucestershire and Somerset XV, suffering frequent injuries, provided no real test for the physically superior and fitter Australian team at Gloucester yesterday. The Australians won by three goals, two penalty goals, and three tries »30 points) to one goal, one penalty »oal (8Reuter - 208 words
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Article104 1947-09-22 8 The fine opportunism of Loo Thiam, who scored seven goals, enabled the Tiger Swimming Club to beat GHQ FARELF and R.A.F. Seletar combined by eight goals to three in a keenly-contested water-polo match at Haw-Par Swimming pool yesterday morning. The servicemen provided strong opposition in104 words
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238 1947-09-22 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sunday. "Till: Negri Sembilan All Blues in their first game of the 1 rugger season gave a creditable performance although they were beaten by the 26th Field Regiment, R.A., at Tampin yesterday. The regimental team had a goal238 words
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Article174 1947-09-22 8 From Our Staff Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Sunday. ywiNG to heavy rain at Batu Pahat, the venue of the Johore open lawn tennis championship meeting was transferred to Kluang on Saturday for the completion of the finals of ttie open singles, open doubles and novices' events.174 words
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Article152 1947-09-22 8 LONDON, Sunday. BARNET defeated the Sing Tao tourists five goal to three here yesterday. The Chinese team fully extended the Athenian League side in their last match in England before they travel to the continent. The stronger finishing power of the London amateurs, who are formerReuter - 152 words
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Article71 1947-09-22 8 RAF. 59 M.T. Coy. drew twoall with the Nelson Sports Club In a friendly game of soccer at McPherson Road yesterday. The R.A.F. scored first from a penalty which \*as taken by Keily. A few minutes later, Jaffar netted the equaliser. Shortly before half-time,71 words
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Article375 1947-09-22 8 IN one of the fastest games of soccer .seen in Singapore this season, the Singa-j pore Rovers beat the Seaforth Highlanders by two clear goals at Jala n Besar Stadium yesterday. i was a hard-fought struggle between two strong teams, the Rovers fielding six men375 words
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Advertisement41 1947-09-22 8 IF YOU REALLY WANT A GOOD BEER ASK FOR: GUARANTEED YOU WILL BE SATISFIED Obtainable everywhere at wholesale price $20. 00 per Cartons of 2 dozen pints bottles. r-lif V/^iT-^M- TTI~~M~TITM~T~I~~W 34. -BOAT QUAY, e/*Q*TORC f-V O W «T Z 541 words
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Miscellaneous24 1947-09-22 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today: High water 2 53 p.m. (8 3 ft). Tomorrow: 4.41 a.m. (6.8 ft.) and 3 42 p m. (7 9 ft24 words
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