The Straits Times, 2 November 1947
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Title Section20 1947-11-02 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 640 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1947 PRICE IU CENTS.20 words
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255 1947-11-02 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FUR natives from the Cocoa Islands, about 700 miles from Malaya, are now visiting Singapore to examine the possibility of 800 Cocos Islanders emigrating from the Cocos group to Singapore and the Malayan Union. One of the visiting islanders,255 words
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Article, Illustration583 1947-11-02 1 INDIAN GOVT BARS KASHMIR TO PRESS Air lines seized to fly troops NEW DELHI, Saturday. MEWSPAPER correspondents have protested against an Indian Government order barring them from entering Kashmir. They claim that this is tantamount to censorship of news about fighting in the State. A Tnilitary spokesman said th cReuter; AP; UP - 583 words
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Article122 1947-11-02 1 AKRON, Saturday. A MERICAN motorists are soon A to have a tubeless tyre. The product of more than five years' research by the B. F. Goodrich Co.. the new casinr will probably be placed on the market before the end of the year. Besides dispensing with the customary122 words
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Article50 1947-11-02 1 The Nobel committee of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1947 to Quakers organisations in Britain and *he United States. In Britain the award goes to the Friends Service Council, London, and in the United States to the American Service Committee.— Reuter.Reuter - 50 words
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Article25 1947-11-02 1 NANKING, Sat.— Government commanders in Changchun are vainly attempting to strengthen its garrison with airborne troops to counter continued Communist infiltration.— Reuter.Reuter - 25 words
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Article110 1947-11-02 1 RACE I.— CARDIGAN $110 and $18; Thirteen $7; Sir (.eorge $31. RACE 2.— 8A8 A $8 and $5; Early Bird $6, Alpha $6. RACE 3.— DEMOCRAT $63 and $17; Missouri $11: Madang $17. RACE 4— FLEETING MEMORY $146 and $27: Game Law $9; Bon Ami $9. RACE110 words
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Article132 1947-11-02 1 LONDON. Saturday. LT.-GEN. Sir Brian Robertson, new British C.-in-C. and Military Governor of Germany, told the Germans in a broadcast tonight that the whole effort of the British there could now be devoted to constructive aims. Sir Brian, who took over his post yesterday inReuter - 132 words
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Article83 1947-11-02 1 LONDON, Saturday. DAVID WjchZMAN, barrister and Labour Member oi Parliament, and his three brothers, who were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from one to three years at London's Old Bailey last Wednesday for conspiracy to evade the Board of Trade orders regarding supply ofReuter - 83 words
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Article32 1947-11-02 1 PEIPING, Saturday. Tientsin police have arrested Li Pao Wu, a wealthy Chinese merchant, and his half German number two wife on charges of murdering his number one wife.— A.P.AP - 32 words
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Article89 1947-11-02 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. THE cabinet of Dr. Amir Sjarifuddin, the Premier of the Indonesian Republican Government, is threatened with a crisis, according to reports from Jogjakarta. This uneasiness is said to be caused by the latest demand of the powerful Islamic Party, Masjuml, for what it callsReuter; AP - 89 words
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182 1947-11-02 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. THE Pan-Malayan Government Workers' Council this morning sent a letter to the Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union requesting the Government to take immediate steps to include provisions in the Labour Code that will make "a lawful strike182 words
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Article320 1947-11-02 1 MALAYA SEEKS TAX EXPERTS Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. OFFICIAL circles in Kuala Lumpur would neither confirm nor deny strong reports here that certain Australian newspapers are carrying advertisements for income fax officers for this country. It is admitted that avenues for first class inland revenue officers ar320 words
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29 1947-11-02 1 BELGRADE, Saturday. Yugoslavia and Belgrade correspondents of the United Press and the New York Times have been ordered out of Yugoslavia within 24 hours. U.P.UP - 29 words
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Article33 1947-11-02 1 LONDON, Sat.— A British officer. Major Reid, has completely vanishes while serving wUh his regiment in India on Aug. 29 and there hag been no trace of him since.— Reuter.Reuter - 33 words
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Article206 1947-11-02 1 Sunday Times Reporter BATU PAHAT, Saturday. CHINESE. Lim Yew Thian. told the Batu Pahat Magistrate's Court today that gangsters armed with guns, revolvers, parangs and torches robbed his house and tried to set fire to him. His wile, he said, told him she206 words
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82 1947-11-02 1 JERUSALEM, Saturday. ¥>ALESTINE police headquarters K announced today that "certain police personnel" have been dismissed as a result of a threemonth probe into the disturbances in Tel Aviv on July 31 after the Irgun Zvai Leum' had hanged two British sergeants. Five were killed and aReuter - 82 words
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Article28 1947-11-02 1 ALEXANDRIA. Saturday. Egyptian police today seized 5.000 copies of the first issue of a new Egyptian Communist weekly "Isan El Arab (Arab Tongue)." Reuter.Reuter - 28 words
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Article, Illustration1134 1947-11-02 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford peer Turns His ANE of the most famous Malay teachers in the country, and also one of the foremost promoters of Malayan arts and crafts, 46--year old JA'AFAR BIN ABDUL GHANI is anxiously awaiting the revival of the Malay Arts and Crafts Society to help1,134 words
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Miscellaneous321 1947-11-02 2 KADIO MALAYA (SPORE) 1p m. Julion Poorman Orch BFEBS P-m. Orch. of Royal Marines: 4.40j 1*? Music. 5.03 Children s Corner! Oran c Network-7 p.m. Kuoyu. £i,£?, U J^ 443 D Pil e Muslc 5.30 Musical: 6.00 Sunday Bervi<* 7 15 English; 7.25 Review of Science fjl U f h321 words
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Article446 1947-11-02 3 Milestone In Education Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Malay Girls' College, the first residential Malay girls' 1 school in Malaya, established on the lines of the Malay Boys' College at Kuala Kangsar, was formally opened in Kuala Lumpur this morning by Lady Gent in446 words
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Article, Illustration18 1947-11-02 3 Mid L KIKI) and Patricia Hi;.-, in "The Brothers," which will be se«n at the Pavilion, this week.18 words
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Article142 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A TRAP laid by the Singapore Special Investigation Branch in co-operation with the Civil Police resulted in the arrest of seven Chinese on Friday at 11.30 p.m. at the 11th mile stone. Bukit Timnh Road. The seven Chinese went to the142 words
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83 1947-11-02 3 LIGHT air letter forms are on sale at all post offices in j Malaya. Each form has a 25--cent stamp affixed to it. The p'.blic may use other lieht air-letter forms, but they should be ones issued under the authority of the Postmaster-G€neral, Malaya.83 words
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Article186 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. SEVENTY people attended the j inaugural meeting of the Malayan Co-operating Committee of the International Student Service, which was held in the Medical College Union hall yesterday afternoon. Dr. A. A. Sandosham, the chair- j man of the interim committee, who presided, supported186 words
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Article32 1947-11-02 3 DanCE TUTOR'S SHOW The Singapore Association of Teachers of Dancing organised a "special night" at the Happy World Cabaret on Friday in aid of the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Fund. $242 were raised.32 words
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221 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Investigation and Security Bureau, the first private security organisation of its kind in Malaya, which commences operations in Singapore tomorrow announced yesterday that it had been approached by one of the leading European firms in the country to undertake221 words
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83 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Correspondent PETER Yap, a 20-year-old Chinese was charged before the Singapore Fourth Police Court 1 Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yes- terday, with theft. It was alleged that Peter, committed theft of a wrist-watch and $20. the property of Lt. D.83 words
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Article60 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, SaturdayTenders for Malayan Union Government Treasury Bills of three months tenor were accepted by the Financial Secretary, Malayan Union, to the extent of $2,500,000. Tenders at the rate of i.c per annum were allotted in full while tenders at rates in excess60 words
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175 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter V|EMBERS of the International j Committee for Chinese Indus- trial Co-operatives, headed by an American woman lecturer. Dr. Honsinger Fisher, are now visiting Singapore with the object of establishing a Malayan committee to serve as a link w th the industrial175 words
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Article, Illustration100 1947-11-02 3 THE \»TuJins of Lieut. -fi«L Wii&un Harry Copland, of G.H.Q., FARELF, son of Mr. William Copeland and the late Mrs. Emily Copeland of London, and Miss Eva Mary Aldridge, daugh »r of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Aldridge, of Luton, Bedfordshire, took place at100 words
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72 1947-11-02 3 FILMS featuring the activities of Princess Elizabeth will be shown by the Singapore Public Relations Film Unit this week at following dates: Monday, Nov. 3, Cher.g Hwa Chinese School, Bukit Panjang,. 1 Tuesday, Nov. 4, Bukit Timah Boys' Home. Wednesday, Nov. 5, Orchard Road72 words
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Article131 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. THE Bishop of Malaya, Monsignor Olcomendy, yesterday paid a visit to the aboriginal settlement at Labu, where about 150 "Orane Bukit" Catholics, better known as "Orang Mentara," live and have a chapel of attap and wood of their own. The visit131 words
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Article61 1947-11-02 3 TELUK ANSON, Saturday. HIGHEST floods for many years caused by last week's heavy rains flooded Teluk Anson on Thursday and Friday, causing damage to goods stored on the ground floors of shops. The flood coincided with the 18th day of the ninth moon of the lunar61 words
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Article271 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE .Singapore Princess Elizabeth Wedding Central (Vl<*--1 brations Fund, originally set for a target of $600,000 with which to build a block of modei workmen's dwellings, has raised the target to $1,000,000. The chairman of the Princess' Wedding Central Celebrations Committee,271 words
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Article62 1947-11-02 3 A 26-year-old Cantonese. Chan All Wan, was yesterday, charged in the Seventh Police i Court, Singapore, with atttmptred armed robbery at a watcadealer's shop in Bras Basan Road on Oct. 27. It was alleged that accus:d carried a hand grenade ana demanded some watches lrom62 words
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Article308 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE Electricity Department of the Malayan Union has sought an increase in the severity of the legal penalty for the setting of illegal electric pig traps in Malayan jungles. These traps are known to have already killed one man and308 words
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Article71 1947-11-02 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THIRTY-FIVE thousand kilogrammes of Japanese mushrooms arrived in Singapore yesterday by the Indo-China Steam Navigation vessel Hansang, The consignment was the largest to arrive in Singapore sinoa the re-opening of trade between Singapore and Japan. The cargo is to be unloaded in71 words
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Advertisement131 1947-11-02 3 Always beautiful She uses The subtly perfumed Icilma Creams keep your skin smooth and soft, while Icilma Face Powder gives your complexion a flower-like bloom. 4 Icilma will keep your beauty at its best always. IP^^^Bfck CLSAr<S NG Cott> CREAM W_ A FOUNDATION < HF.tM K-IC M-ISt indigestFon and its131 words
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Article, Illustration1067 1947-11-02 4 808 GILMORE details TN the week that Australia learned of the virtual dissolution of the British Pacific Fleet, she also learned that (a) because of manpower shortages, two Australian cruisers probably would have to be laidup to man two nowbuilding Australian air-craft-camera; (b) that Australia's nearest white neighbours,1,067 words
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Article694 1947-11-02 4 k T^ 9 'l w j^» a 9 I■l "8 TRY as you may, it is quite impossible to read everything that is published, and until the la.< few weeks the work of Mr. Peter de Polnay had escaped my notice. Now I have read two of694 words
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Article609 1947-11-02 4 K.S. Chia - K.S. Chia by CHINESE women yesterday observed the birthday of their most beloved goddess, Kwan Yin. This gentle Goddess of Mercy is considered the most perfect of women and her popularity finds a niche for her in nearly every temple and in th c heart of every609 words
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Advertisement316 1947-11-02 4 b^ THREE p BUSY WIVES *2j^_. went looking <Sc\ tor lovely clothes., and found m "CELSHUN6" T.isht weight, cool in texture," Sronrt Uny flonii pntterns for housecoats ■ad frocks 36 inch $2.75 y ar d "CELANESE CREPE DE CHINE h. nwk that will be cool and dninty, Peach and Sky.316 words
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Article85 1947-11-02 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Foochow Methodist Church. Singapore, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary today. Church members are holding a j dedication ceremony for their new $40,000 building at 90,1 Race Course Road, Bishop Edwin I F. Lee will perform the ceremony, which consists in85 words
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Article579 1947-11-02 5 RUBBER IS BEST EARNER' JohnHaytells shareholders I Sunday Times Staff Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. I'HE claim that the number of dollars received for British rubber exports to the United States this year may well be as great as, or even greater than, the nuin ).r received for the whole of the579 words
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Article, Illustration225 1947-11-02 5 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, was the 1 first to see the Colony's wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth when it was placed on public exhibition at Raffles Museum yesterday. At 11 a.m., Sir Franklin turned one of two gold keys225 words
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204 1947-11-02 5 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR COLONIAL JOURNALISTS Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. THE British Council, the Colonial 1 Ofl <> .d the Newspaper Society .o-operatine in DUtting into effect a scholarship scheme under which three young colonial journalists between the ages of 24 and 35, probably from Nigeria, from the Gold Coast and204 words
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Article112 1947-11-02 5 Sunday Times Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. DOCTORS who apply for the posts which are advertised in "The Times" today are promised arduous work in Sarawak. They are being invited to fill vacancies in the Colonial Medical Service for travelling medical officers in Sarawak. They must be112 words
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Article63 1947-11-02 5 I The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.B.S. Spot looso (nominal) S9^ 39% No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales Nov. 39% 39 7 4 No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Nov. 39% 39%63 words
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191 1947-11-02 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUANTAN. Saturday. Anew political organisation, with membership open only to Muslims. Is being formed In the states along Malaya's East Coast. Mr. Ghullam Gellanl bin Yacob, a, member of the preparatory committee charged with the formation of the new body, told191 words
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Advertisement319 1947-11-02 5 mQnough to eat yet undernourished Proper nourishment (or growing /^5 < children is not necessarily secured %sWvF^k merely by ensuring that they have liSffl^' *v) enough to eat. Doctor* point out ~rafcA*^ h that the nature ol our food is more JvwA- V*^ important than quantity \i"sy v -^*^t"^ //^"^V319 words
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Advertisement293 1947-11-02 5 There man y $m§2® imitations Insist on AERTEX that is your guarantee of getting the best of cotton, finely processed, and made into the famous AERTEX Open Weave, with its countless tiny cells: so feathervreight and cool to wear in summer, so pleasantly war.n in winter. For whatever you wish—293 words
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Advertisement319 1947-11-02 5 IMPORTANT NOTICE. The City Book Store takes great pleasure In announcing that they are now the sole aconts in S.E. Asia for the London miblishinc house of Lund HumDheries. whose publications include the works of Dr. W. Simon, the well known Chinese Language Scholar. We are in a nosition to319 words
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690 1947-11-02 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, NOV. 2, 1947. ON THEIR OWN SINGAPORE Government, in spite of charges that all its actions are determined in advance by directives from the United Kingdom, is taking an individual line in remembering the dead of the two world wars, for, in spite of the declared690 words
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Article, Illustration2042 1947-11-02 6 The Peoples of Southeast Asia: N0.3 By DR. E.H.G. DOBBY COUTHEAST ASIA was known to the Romans at any rate. That is why it is rather confusing to call the 15th and 16th centuries, when Arabs, Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutch and British were feeling their way towards2,042 words
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Article401 1947-11-02 6 IN DecemDer begins the big-game fishing season in Australia and sportsmen from all over the world will soon be on their way there, armed with their special rods with which they hope to set up new records for the size of marlin or shark they catch in401 words
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Article, Illustration51 1947-11-02 7 MAKK Anthony points t.» the I bloodstained toga of Julius Caesar as he makes the f;».mous funeral oration. A dramatic moment the Sinpapore Teachers' Repertory Ccmpany's production of the Shakespearean trasedy, to be presented at Raffles Institution Hall on Friday, Nov. 7, at 9 p.m. Adm'ssion is51 words
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Article266 1947-11-02 7 Sunday limes Staff Co -respondent SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioi ers are stU! awaiting a proper reply to the request they sent to the Britisti Council for a monetary grant to help restore the Victoria Memorial Hall or?an, ruined by the Japanese during the occupation. Ih e only266 words
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Article113 1947-11-02 7 APPEARING yesterday in the Seventh Police Court, Singapore, in connection with a charge of armed robbery, a 20-year-old Hokkien. Chua Theng Kwatig, was alleged to have taken $900 from a Chinese tradesman in Kallang on Jane 11 and, while being chased, thrown away $200 and113 words
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116 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Correspondent. RENGAM, Saturday. THE Government of the Malayan Union has allocated a small donation to Johore for the purpose of celebrating Princess Elizabeth's wedding. The money will be distributed to all districts in the state, which have arranged programmes as follows: Joho.*e Bahru. aquatic116 words
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Article69 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BAIL in the sum of $2,000 was allowed to Tom Prince, an European charge hand of labourers in H.M. Dockyard, who was charged before Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. F. Bernard Oehlers, yesterday, for criminal breach of trust of 11 cases of white69 words
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166 1947-11-02 7 SPORE CORONER ISSUES WRIT FOR DRIVER Sunday Times Staff Reporter ASSISTED into the Singapore j Coroi.ers Court because of a leg injury, a Chinese woman, Ng Ah Yen, alleged yesterday that she and her husband were knocked down by a jeep driven by a man from whom her husband had166 words
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Article71 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter fIROM today, Singapore's Big Ben on the top of the Victoria Memorial Hall is expect/ J to work smoothly again. The clock stopped one day last week, whtn rain dripped into its mechanism. It -was Immediately put rigiit again by Motion Smith and71 words
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Article537 1947-11-02 7 Social survey next month Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARLY next month will begin the Singapore Depart- ment of Social Welfare's survey into social conditions in the city. A party of volunteer students from Raffles College ?nd the Medical College will visit 3,000 households, interviewing them and entering their537 words
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Article127 1947-11-02 7 THE Secretary of State for t he Colonies has approved the following appointments:— Messrs. D. A. Maby and S. R. L. W. Bell to be cadets, Malayan Customs Service; the secondment of Mr. E. L. Lawley, an officer of the Home Civil Service, to be127 words
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Article78 1947-11-02 7 A quarterly session of the Board of Licensing Justices for Singapore will be held in the Court of the First Police Magistrate, South Bridge Road, on Dec. 15. Applications for the issue or transfer of ordinary licences should be lodged in writing in quadruplicate with78 words
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Article45 1947-11-02 7 It is officially announced from London that Subadar Pritam Singh and Jemadar Mian Khan, of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, have retired and relinquished commission respectively, as from October 10. Jemadar Mian Khan has been appointed to the Indian Army45 words
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Article112 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONE graduate of Raffles College nominated by the Stamford Club the Association of the Raffles College, will be given a seat in the Council of Raffles College if a Bill about to be introduced in the Advisory Council of the Colony112 words
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Article142 1947-11-02 7 are waiting fo: special parts from England to do so. In the meantime during the past few days, the firm's Chinese woTkmen scraped away the rust, and repolished parts of the mechanism. The work was carried on without interrupting Big Ben's time-keeping. After this temporary overhaul,142 words
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Article241 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent ORDERS have been placed in the United Kingdom for one 25,000 kilowatt turbo-alternator and two 187,000-lb. boilers for the Singapore power station, but this new piant will not be in commercial operation until July 1951, says the Municipal Electrical Engineer, r Mr.241 words
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295 1947-11-02 7 Sunday Times Stall Reporter rO European women, the wife of a Brigadier and the wife of a bank manager, have answered the call of the hard pressed medical services in Singapore and are helping in the fight against tuberculosis. They are Mrs. Baillie, wife of295 words
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Article74 1947-11-02 7 TWO Chinese, Tan Chew Scan and Ho Gew Leng, yesterday appeared in the Second Pol cc Court, Singapore, on a charge of dishonestly disposing of a motorcar alleged to have been stolen from Mr. H. W. Roberts and s:ld to the general manager of the Malay a74 words
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Article58 1947-11-02 7 Dr. Ong Chons Keng, member of the Malayan Union Advisory Council, who went to China earlier this year as the Malayan Union delegate to the UNESCO Meeting in Nanking is to give a talk on the Blue Network of Radio Malaya tonight at 9.45 p.m. His58 words
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Advertisement434 1947-11-02 8 Vc-* i Only a little care ot your slun each night is enough to ensure the loveliness of your complexion. Kcrnem- I her that Nature made your skin a succession of layers, so that as the outer, exposed skin became worn and weather-beaten, it should liradually disappear and give place434 words
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Miscellaneous506 1947-11-02 8 HAVING discoursed at some length on when a double ts for take-out purposes, we now come to the all-important question: When should a take-out double be used? In its simplest form, the takeout double is mide by the player who immediately follows an opening bid of one In a suit.506 words
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Miscellaneous1196 1947-11-02 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU —What the Stars Foretell^ SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22). AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19). TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21). LEO (July 24 -Aug. 23). This can prove a most favour- Health is important to the Keep an eye open for the unex- Calmness and poise can settle a able1,196 words
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Article, Illustration888 1947-11-02 9 MARY HEATHCOTT FINDS LONDON, Oct. 18, (By Air Mail). DV the time you read this it will not, perhaps, seem too soon to be talking about Christmas. Writing about it now does seem too soon, and yet already the label "Christmas Gifts" is appearing in the shops.888 words
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Article407 1947-11-02 9 I trfr Ytfrr 31 m IF gaiueneis expect their gardens to continue giving good results, they must make sure of retaining the fertility of their soil by frequently adding organic and chemical manures. It is not sufficient to manure only for the first flowering or first407 words
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Article305 1947-11-02 9 •TINNED food in your 1 store cupboard pvc* vides the answer to present day transport- difficulties, especially if you know a few secrets about serving it "in "isguise." A little imagiii tion with some tinned fish can help to make delicious meals. Grilled Sardines LIFT the305 words
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Article240 1947-11-02 9 have been married 30 years, and in spite of worries I'm still a very happy woman and my husband a happy man. I think a good recipe for happy married life is "Feed the brute" and "Keep your sense of humour." I'm a granny now. but I'm told240 words
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Miscellaneous109 1947-11-02 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1. Combat; G. Taper; 10 Hall; U. Expire; 13. Attain; 14. Intact; 16. Sh»d; 17. Only; 19. Sue 20. Enrol; 22. Bars: 23. Imp. 25. Fine! 26. Represent. 29. Hews. 30. Sum. 31 Hose: 32. St<^d; 35. Ape; 36. Buys--37. Robe; 40. Vendor; 42. Stored; 43. Cinema;109 words
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Article195 1947-11-02 10 'J'HE Singapore Police scored their sixth consecutive rugger victory yesterday when they beat an inexptrteDMd Singapore Medical Collaffa XV, by 27 points (three goals and four tries) to nil at Thomson Road. Overwhelmed, the College boys neverthe'.t ss fought every inch of the game, and195 words
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Article72 1947-11-02 10 THE 223 Base Ordnance Depot trounced H.Q. Singapore District i by eight goals to two in a football I match at Alexandra on FYiday. S.Q.M S. Barnes, the 3.0.D. centre forward, played well for his side by scoring a hattrick in each half, whila S?t.72 words
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385 1947-11-02 10 Services 2 Civilians 1 IN a fast but unattractive game of soccer for th c Tay Lian I Teck Shield played yesterday at Jalan Besar, the Combined Services defeated the Combined Civilians by two goals to one. Only 2,000 watched the game and the385 words
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Article184 1947-11-02 10 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent RENGAM, Saturday JOHORE defeated Negri in the first J inter-state H.M.S, Malay* ruccer series by 30 points to nil. The match which was plavod at Rengam did not commence until 5.45 p.n.. owing to the Negri team arriving late Johore had the best184 words
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Article132 1947-11-02 10 QNE of the most eagerly awaited return fights since the liberation will come up for decision at the Happy World tonight when the lightweight champion of the Orient. Ba. v Balta«ar. and the welterweight champion of Singapore, Som Pong, clash over ten rounds Both boxers132 words
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Article, Illustration382 1947-11-02 10 Combined Services 6 pts. Singapore Civilians 5 pts. LEADING by a penalty goal in the first haJf, the Combined v Services beat the Singapore Civilians in a hard-fought game .of rugger on the Padang yesterday by a try and a penalty goal (six points) to a382 words
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76 1947-11-02 10 VICTORIA, Saturday. yiCTORL* carried their over- night score of 208 for seven to 273 all out in their match against Uie Indian tourists. They are thas 130 runs behind India's total k. the first Innings of 403. 3atting a second time, the76 words
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Article164 1947-11-02 10 INDIA—IST INNS. 403 VICTORIA—IST. INNS. Mervyn Harvey c Hazare b Amarnath 4 Meuleman c Irani b Rangachari 4 Lindsay Hassett b Rangachari 1 Loxton c and b Maaka4 77 Neil Harvey c Amarnath N'ayudn 87 Fothergill Ibw b Mankad 54 lan Johnson b Mankad G Freer run out 14164 words
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Article160 1947-11-02 10 CLARKE RANGERS WIN FIVE-NiL iT^HE Singapore Clarke Rangers 2nd I team defeated the R.A.F. Base 2nd XI by five goals to nil at Se!eta>yesterday. Lav Hock Chye was outstanding in the Rangers* centre half position, providing rr.o«t of the openings for the scorers Mohan Shikh opened accounts soon after the160 words
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Article31 1947-11-02 10 The Joyful Junior Sports Club are holding a general meeting at 28, Breeze Road (off Nelson Road). Singapore, today at 12 noon. All members are requested to attend.31 words
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48 1947-11-02 10 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday.— ln an evenly-contested game of hockey, the Johore CC and the Indian Association. Singapore, drew one-all yesterday. The Indians led in the first half by a goal scored by Ponnusamy. Sgt. Col'ins scored the equaliser.48 words
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559 1947-11-02 10 SELANGOR BEAT PERAK IN LAST 10 MINUTES Sunday Times Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur. Saturday J^ PENALTY ten n.inutes from the end and a goal which followed soon afterwards gave Selangor an eight- nil victory over Perak in the opening match of the H.M.S. Malaya competition. For 50 minutes the game559 words
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Advertisement355 1947-11-02 10 LOOK AFTER THE HEALTH OF YOUR KIDNEYS. A s sufferers (know only too well, backache is fw a very painful I ™A experience the ■P^M*' cause is usually f^; 1 > Craced to weak I mt~' £i kidneys which If a j!a\ PW-- 'c\ are tailing tv do w^TMwmf their355 words
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Advertisement422 1947-11-02 10 VJi ty£AK,UUNf)QWN, Wr mpmmmf Yltftlo3wfl' Hour SoJto** j WHELP'S 9 Minerals, Vitamin* and Food lodine NOURISH your body in Nature's own way! j^B^l r%^ rfS"la Today more and more people Stt^t suffer oeoiuse they lack those BE? it life-giving Minerals and Vitamins which build up the W p m blood422 words
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Article2213 1947-11-02 11 Two Horses Pay Over $100 By EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Saturday. r DAY'S races at the Penang Turf Club's autumn meeting saw many upsets. The very first event, for griffins, resulted in a. surprise, Cardigan winning to pay $110. Fleeting Memory, however, paid an even better dividend,2,213 words
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Article325 1947-11-02 11 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. JTOLLOWING are the weights for Monday's card of seven races to be run here: Horses Class t, Div. I—61 6 Furs Desert Predominance 8.06 Queen 9.07 Kandy Kid 8.04 Airmail 9.02 Gold Stream 8.04 Everest 8.11 Gula Malaka 8.04 Gay Chief325 words
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86 1947-11-02 11 NEW YORK, Saturday. A LTHOUGH giving away a stone in weight, Gus Lesnevich. world Ughtheavyweight champion, gave Taml Mauriello. former leading American heavyweight, a terrific beatini? at Madison Square Garden here last night, and won on a technical A ..vkout in the 7th of aReuter - 86 words
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Advertisement377 1947-11-02 11 j^^^^*± CHILDREN'S *4TTNEE tO-UAY at 11 am. "RtoHciNG IN THE ROCKIES" f/% (A Full Lenrlh 3 Stooges Comedy) f a O^^ I And OUirr CARTOONS. V (Mpin Nti) lfllffff!PH V phone mjnrwpyjij V^>ffimrafni Now Showing AT SWOPD'S POINT CLOTHED IN MYSTERY HE MET HIS ENEMY DARING ALL FOR AN EMPIRE377 words
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Advertisement226 1947-11-02 11 "PAY CATHAY 1 TODAY LAUGHS? EASILY THE LOUDEST LAUGHS ARE HEARD HERE THIS WEEKEND! nUff 100 million moviegoers will howl l at the stage riot that wowed dtfi^i^K 10 million playgoeisl NEXT CHANGE r .W^ THOSE TWO LOVABLE, UUGHABLE "ERKS" ARE r^tSJt^™ CNCE MORE ON THE ,^^m£Spp|iiH SCREEN! L^^£^^^^J praygggjF^gCjCT226 words
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Article497 1947-11-02 12 ARSENAL UNBEATEN IN 14 GAMES LONDON, Saturday. ARSENAL, First Division leaders, kept their unbeaten record in their 14th match of the season by drawing with Chelsea who kept their unbeaten home record in a scoreless game at Chelsea's ground, Stamford Bridge, before a crowd of 67,000. The gates were closedReuter - 497 words
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352 1947-11-02 12 'THE Singapore Hockey Association's league started yester--1 day with the Army and th c Singapore Chinese Recreation Club winning their games against Ceylon Sports Club and Indian Association respectively. The Army played clean, forceful hockey to beat C.S.C. three-nil on the Padang while the352 words
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Article211 1947-11-02 12 THE Singapore Colts Hockey Club held the Johore Cricket Clu'o to a twoall draw in a fast game of hockey played at Johore yesterday. The Johore team started off in whirlwind fashion and. although they had the better of exchange, they failed to get past211 words
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Article19 1947-11-02 12 fTHE Hornets hockey defeated R.A.F. Base Ist team by three goals to nil at Seletar yesterday.19 words
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Article225 1947-11-02 12 LAST year's Singapore table! tennis champion, Chan Poh Ying, lost his title to Lai Ying Hon last night in a thrilling four-set encounter at the Great World Park before a large crowd. Lai Ying Hon delighted the spectators with his aggressive play, which was in225 words
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Article34 1947-11-02 12 BADMINTON: Singapore open < 'ii:impion.-hips. Clerical Union hall. 10 a.m. BOXING: Som Pong vs. Baby Baltazar. Happy World, 8.45 p.m. SOCCER: Pulau Brani XI vs Pulau Samboe S.C., Pulan Samboe, 5.15 p.m.34 words
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396 1947-11-02 12 JOHORE INTERDIST. HOCKEY NEXT WEEK Sunday Times SUIT Correspondent Johore Bahru. Sat. ARRANGEMENTS have now been completed for playing inter-district hockey matches and next week Johore Bahru District will be taking a team to Kluane to meet a north Johore side. Invitations have been sent to all districts to send396 words
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Article184 1947-11-02 12 WELSH International trial, Probables 1 18, Possibles 18; County Cham- pionship: Cumberland 10, Yorkshire 11; Lancashire 23, Cheshire 12; Club games: London Counties 8. Australians I I 20; Blackheath 19, Royal Marine Corp3 I 9; Guy Hospital 17, Old Blues 8; Lon- don Irish 9, Rosslyn Park 6;184 words
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Article32 1947-11-02 12 Hornets beat R.A.P. (Seletar) threenil in a hockey match at Seletar yesterday. The winners led twonil at the Interval. Scorers were: D. de Cruz (2) and H. Boudewyn32 words
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Article83 1947-11-02 12 'J'HE Singapore open badminton cham- pionships started yesterday at the Clerical Union Hall when the following ties were played: Men's Open Sinfles: Ismail Marjan (Devonshire) beat Michael Tan (Diehard* 15-9. 10-15, 15-3; Yap Chin Tee (Devonshire) beat George chen (Useful) 15-3. 15-10. Women's Open Singles: Miss Ng83 words
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Article71 1947-11-02 12 Lancashire Cup Final: Bellevue Rangers 7, Wigan 10; Yorkshire Cup Final: Wakeneld Trinity 7, Leeds 7 (Replay takes place on Nov. 5) Hull 13, New Zealanders 7; Barrow 23, Hull K. R. 12; Bramley 6. Worklngton Town 13; Dewsbury 10, Huddersfleld 4; Featherstone R. 19, Batley 3; HalifaxReuter - 71 words
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Article50 1947-11-02 12 MEE Soon 2nd XC and R.A.F. (Chang i) played a scoreless rugby match at Changi yesterday. With a heavier set fo forwards the Airmen often had tho advantage in the loose and set scrums, but Nee Soon did most of the attacking especially, in the first session.50 words
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Article19 1947-11-02 12 H.M.S. Dockyard beat 2nd Echelon GHQ FARELF Nee Soon fourthree in a game of soccer yesterday.19 words
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Article470 1947-11-02 12 By Our Badminton Co rrespondent JN 193J, ;t ranging list of the ten best men badminton players in Malaya by "Racquet" placed the following r'-yers accordl'i' 1 to their order of merit: 1. Tan Clung Tee 2. Seah Enj Hee 3. Wong Peng Soon 4.470 words
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Advertisement28 1947-11-02 12 QUEENS THEATRE Today! 3.00. 6.30 9.15 p.m. A City of Gold Men of Brass, And Ruled by Lead that's "VIRGINIA CITY" Starring: Errol Flvnn Miriam Hopkins Randolph Scott.28 words
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