The Straits Times, 14 December 1947
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Title Section22 1947-12-14 1 r M M fcDmniT THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 646 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1947 fRICE 10 CENTS22 words
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Article307 1947-12-14 1 ARABS ATTACK BRITISH TROOPS Two-hour fight in Palestine JERUSALEM, Saturday. CIGHTING between British soldiers and Arabs in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa no-man's-land yesterday and bomb explosions in Jerusalem and Jaffa today brought the death toll in Palestine to 218 as the Arab-Jewish rioting went into fourteenth day. New fighting started whenReuter; AP; UP - 307 words
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Article, Illustration31 1947-12-14 1 MR. GEORGE MARSHALL, U.S. Secretary of State, greets Mr. V. Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, at a lunch giver at the Soviet Embassy in London in connection with the Foreign Minister's Conference.31 words
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Article, Illustration36 1947-12-14 1 MAJOit-Gc^OflAL 11. REDMAN, Chief of Staff. GHQ, FARELF, inspects 132 Locally Enlisted Personnel at the passin? out parade at Johor e Bahru yesterday. Of the men on pan*' 119 were Malays, twelve Chinese and one Indian.36 words
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155 1947-12-14 1 LONDON. Saturday. BRITAIN has rejected Moscow's plan for a January meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Council inking to handle the preliminary stages of the Far Eastern peace treaty, it was learned authoritatively here today. The refusal is understood to be contained in repliesReuter - 155 words
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41 1947-12-14 1 PARIS. Saturday. TiE police confirmed today that 17 bodies and 23 injured passengers had so far been recovered from the wreckage of last nights head-on rail crash beI Fontmor and Riom, near Clermont Ferrand. —Reuter.Reuter - 41 words
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Article83 1947-12-14 1 BATAVIA. Saturday. NINE people are in a military hospital here today as the result of a mystery explosion last night in the midst of a crowd leaving the Capitol Theatre, in one of the main streets of Batavia, capital of Java. The explosion was thought toReuter; AP - 83 words
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Article291 1947-12-14 1 LONDON, Saturday. ?IL Foreign Office last night issued a statement clearing the name of a British secret service agent whose bulletriddled body was found in a disused well at Tanus village near Toulouse. It said that as result of inquiries in France last summer by291 words
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Article117 1947-12-14 1 RLSL'LTS of yesterday's Ipoh races are as follows: Race 1: LADY KALANG S4B and $16: May Prince Sl2. Content $9. Race 2: FRIAR'S LAST $19 and $7; Avail $7, Jimmy Boy $7. Race 3: GAME LAW $36 and Sl2; Prattle On $22; Bohrah $34. Race 4: AIR117 words
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Article113 1947-12-14 1 NOTTINGHAM, Saturday. IR. Arthur Beaking, Secretary*Sl General of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union, tonight warned that the "attempted Communist infiltration and domination" of the British trade unions would be disastrous, if it succeeded. "The continual interference and the launching of industrial programmes on wagesReuter - 113 words
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Article59 1947-12-14 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday'— Lieut.-Col. F. W. J. Linck. who is perhaps the only British officer to have been in Kuala Lumpur continuously since the re-occupa-tion, is quitting his post as Chief of Road/Rail Movements in Malaya and leaves for Singapore next59 words
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Article82 1947-12-14 1 A A .v expert in New York says a person can survive without too great discomfort on a diet containing only about lories" l S considered to be tne normal number of ca-rf-.v«SiX^h n "\°n consun YdV d «"'-> MO calories of food apiece for 4082 words
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Article42 1947-12-14 1 WASHINGTON. Saturday.— John L. Lewis has withdrawn his 530,000 United Mine workers from the American Federation of Labour, charging scornfully that President William Green and his fellow AFL leaders "were too afraid to fight" the Taft-Hartley Labour Law.— U.P.UP - 42 words
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Article124 1947-12-14 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. DUTCH plans tor the future status and organisation of Indonesia are' to be discussed in Batavia when Dr. Louis Beel, Dutch Prime Minister, who left Amsterdam by air today, arrives here. Before his departure today. Dr. Beel, says a Reuter message from124 words
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Article186 1947-12-14 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter HUTCH Karimon Island police authorities in conjunction with U the Singapore police, yesterday detained a 28-year-old Chinese on the island, in connection with a recent piracy .in Singapore waters, and seized three fully-loaded pistols. The Singapore police will arrange with the186 words
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83 1947-12-14 1 PARIS. Saturday. NEARLY 5,000 tons of "friendship train" food contributed by the American people are due to arrive next Tuesday In Le Havre, where it will be loaded aboard 10 trains of 100 cars each for distribution to every corner of France in timeAP - 83 words
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Article21 1947-12-14 1 Sunday Times Stair Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. SaturdaySales of Victory Savings certificates up to Dec. 11, 1947, amounted to $650,397.50.21 words
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Article392 1947-12-14 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. *TOO many trade .unions in the Malayan Union were c-on--1 cerned with political considerations, declared Mr. E. XV. Barltrop, Labour Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, at a conference today after a three-weeks study of labour conditions392 words
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89 1947-12-14 1 POLAND FEARS NEW GERMAN WAR SPIRIT PORTLAND (Oregon), Saturday. T>OLISH ambassador to the I United States, M. Josef Winiewlcz, said here last night that Poland fears "the rebirth of the aggressive German spirit will start a new war. "The information we Polish have from Germany indicates that a new underground89 words
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63 1947-12-14 1 POLICE AND STUDENTS (LASH: 25 HURT I PANAMA. Saturday. rpWENTY-FIVE persons were reX ported today to have been injured in a street battle between police and University students who protested against a new agreement to lease the Canal defence base to the United States. The students for the demonstration, whichAP - 63 words
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Article28 1947-12-14 1 BRISTOL, Saturday.— A terrier dog has walked more than 300 miles from its new home in Scotland to an old one in Bristol. —Reuter.Reuter - 28 words
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Article, Illustration1156 1947-12-14 2 SPOTLIGHT on MALA VANS Clifford Peer Turns His AN artist who lov^es to paint Malays and Tamils, Mrs. FRIEDA SCOTT FLA DG ATE has completed many discerning studies during the nine months since she arrived in Singapore. She is the wife of Mr. C. F. Fladgate, head of Administration in1,156 words
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Miscellaneous262 1947-12-14 2 .m 9^^^^^^^^ a^^^^i^^ *Yftm^ 1 a\ m *i*"* ■Sflß A ft *T *J n^«»\ Papers; London Forum; 12.15 News; Mailbag; 10.20 Welsh Guards Band; RADIO MALAYA (SPORE J ,12.30 Close Down. ,10.40 Requests: 11.00 Boston Sym- 1 phony Orch.; 11.30 Close Down. 4 1 p.m. Julien Poorman Orch.; 1.40 UADIO262 words
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Article, Illustration314 1947-12-14 3 UNION TO HAVE TRAVELLING TAX OFFICE Many seeking jobs in Dept. Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE Malayan Union's income tax organisation which is to be set up next year will include a mobile office to deal with the outstations and the East Coast. The travelling office, to314 words
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Article, Illustration23 1947-12-14 3 JAMES MASON, the British film star, who plays the part of a doctor-killer in The Upturned Glass" at the Cathay, Singapore, this week.23 words
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Article140 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter (IHINEBE chestnut sellers »>.i the streets of Sinfapore a?ain after an absence •f three and a half years, pushing their three-wheeled carts complete with roaring slove and paper bags. The return of the popular d«Uc*cy has been welcomed, t\.n it the present prices140 words
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94 1947-12-14 3 Saaiay Times Start' Reporter FIFTY-THREE locally-recruited soldiers, who had been broupht before the Second Police Co\:rt last month on a charge of riotin«. again appeared in court yesterday. They were alleged to have attacked and a.si...;ited five watchmen of the Re:: Theatre, Singapore, at94 words
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109 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE spirit of Christinas prevailed at the Singapore Harbour 1 Board School in Raeburn Park yesterday when the school's 48 pupils tooK part in an entertaining concert. The programme consisted of Christinas caroLs, songs, dances, recitations and the staging of "Lochinvar"109 words
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Article185 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE beer drinkers are being swindled. A small •v number of people are collecting the labels of well-known brands of beer and are sticking them on bottles containing beer of inferior quality. These bottles are then sold to small shopkeepers. The Commercial185 words
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Article118 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE massive 30-ton boiler which is being transported on a Sherm?n tank transporter from Port Swettenham to Kuala Lumpur turned turtle at a point 12 miles from Kuala Lumpur at 6 p.m. this evening. It had successfully negotiated many118 words
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Article49 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. MALACCA, Saturday. A sum of $1,000 has been voted from Malacca welfare funds for the distribution of gifts to destitutes drawing relief from the Welfare Department. There are at present nearly 900 persons on the relief list maintained by the Depart-v ment.49 words
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Article102 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Traffic Advisory 1 Committee has agreed that the saie.y strip in front of the Orchard Road market should be extended 15 to 20 yards westwards. Municipal Commissioners were ir. favour of a<i extension of the strip eastwards, which would102 words
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Article38 1947-12-14 3 MALACCA. Saturday. A consignment of 77,040 tins of Milkmaid condensed milk has arrived in Malacca and is available for sale in retail shops. Out of this consignment 13,200 tins have been reserved for U.P.A.M. estates.38 words
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Article112 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A TAXI, after colliding with a trishaw and causing fatal injuries to its rider, struck two bicycles at Kallang Bridge, Singapore, carrying one of them on its bumper into Mountbatten Road. The accident occurred on Nov. 30 last. None of the112 words
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Article76 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. ANE thousand children from orphanages, schools and homes in Malacca this morning ate chocolates and screamed with delight at cartoons and funny shorts shown at the Capitol Cinema. The show, which was the first to herald the Chrtetmas season inix> the76 words
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Article165 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. ANTHONY BROOKE has sent the following telegram to the Malay National Union of Sarawak and the Sarawak Dyak Association "Please convey to all anti-ces-sionists in Sarawak my warmest thanks for the messages sent to m from all parts of the165 words
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Article225 1947-12-14 3 rro*. Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Film Circle of the Singapore Co-operative Stores LuST yJT Sta -5 t showin ff fi 'ms to members from ,^7, yea v- A was decided at the inaugural meeting of the Film Circle held at the MDU Hall on225 words
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Article399 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. AT a coroner's inquiry held today into the deaths of Lee 1.0/. H the gangster chief of the Malayan People's Self-Prelect ion Corp6. and his first lieutenant, Chan Shan, it was revealed that the Police trailed the movements399 words
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Article122 1947-12-14 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. The Singapore Social Welfare a sub-committee to investigate Committee has decided to appoint whether a Youth Council should be formed as a liaison body of all youth organisations in Singapore. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Committee last122 words
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Miscellaneous25 1947-12-14 3 MALAYAN TIDES Singapore: High 11.9 a.m., Low 6.2 p.m. Johore Bahru: High 11.29 a.m.. Low 5.11 p.m. Port Dickson: High 7.21 p.m., Low 1.43 p.m.25 words
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Article956 1947-12-14 4 AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER MELBOURNE, Dec. 4 (by Air Mail) IF, as seems likely, Sydney becomes the headquarters of a Pan-Paci-fic Bureau of the World Federation of Trade Unions, we can expect (a) at least the same degree of Communist domination as at the WFTU956 words
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Article656 1947-12-14 4 [l li I n it i"ii jlnf THE most remarkable thing about Mr. Norman Mansfie'd's book, FAILURE OF THE LEFT, is the way in which it is written. Take this for example: "....although the phrase given by Allied journalists in their early days to them656 words
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Article338 1947-12-14 4 SIMPANG LIMA - SIMPANG LIMA By WITH Western mcdi- cine and modern scientific knowledge penetrating to the remotest parts of the Malayan "ulu," the village bomo, or medicine man, is fast disappearing from the local scene. But though his appearances in the towns are few and far between, he338 words
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Article, Illustration51 1947-12-14 4 WIHS Bomo— wandering; Malay medicine-man and dispenser of charms came to town on the Royal Wedding day on one of his rare visits to urban areas. He is telling the crowd about the efficacy of his medicine and has in hand a bundle of charms, each with a yellow cord51 words
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Article292 1947-12-14 4 BRITAIN'S Crow n Jewels are once again on public show in the Jewel Boom of th? Tower of London, where they h V 8 rested since 1303, vxc pt for the World War II per o I. when they were removed lo a secret hiding-place, wh292 words
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101 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Correspondent RAUB, Saturday. THE price of a cup of coffee or tea will be reduced from 20 cents to 15 cervts with milk and 15 cents to 10 cents without milk nt all coffee shops in Raub Bentong. Kuala Lipii and101 words
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Article211 1947-12-14 5 Ordinance is amended Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINGAPORE Co-operative Societies, which did not pay War Tax in 1941, will not pay income tax as the recent Tax Ordinance enacted in face of the opposition of the Unofficial Members contained amendments to this effect. The honorary secretary211 words
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Article, Illustration28 1947-12-14 5 Vt/wKKMI-.N putting the finishing touches to TT the new landing stage at the end of Clifford Pier. Singapore, which will bring into use two new flights of stairs.28 words
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Article133 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter XTEARLY $3,000 has been spent by the Singapore 11 Government on the erection of two flights of landing steps at Singapore's Clifford Pier. Most of the steel and wood work used in the construction of the steps was collected by the133 words
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Article50 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KLANTAN, Saturday. TWO Chinese hunters, Messrs. Foo and Piab. have killed a tiger said to be the second largest shot in Kuantan area. The tiger, which was bagged at Jagor, was taken round the town in a jeep. The flesh was then sold.50 words
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139 1947-12-14 5 spore prefab cour: open tomorrow Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO of the five temporary prefabricated buildings to relieve congestion in the Singapore police courts will be opened tomorrow One of these court houses is situated at tiie back of the South Bridge police courts, and the other at Outram Road,139 words
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Article66 1947-12-14 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were [o. 1 R. S. S. Spot loose nominal :<>. 1 R. 8. S. fob in bales Jan. [■•■>. 2 K 8. 8. fob in bales Jan. it). 3 R. 8. 8. fob in bales Jan. ilarket tone66 words
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Article26 1947-12-14 5 Family remittances to China for the month of November amounted to $1,151,369.38 from Singapore and $334,041.11 from the Malayan Union, it is announced.26 words
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Article137 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONO Bee Hiang. a middle-aged woman, carrying a baby in her arms and sobbing bitterly, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft before the Second Police Court Magistrate. Singapore, yesterday. It was alleged that she stole six tins of provisions and137 words
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87 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. S. N. King, Resident Commissioner, Penang, is to open an exhibition of pastels by Mrs. Judith Heard-White, the Singapore artist, at the E. and O. Hotel, Penang, on Wednesday, Dec. 17. The exhibition will close on Dec. 21. Mrs.87 words
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67 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Bishop of Singapore will be 1 the guest of honour at the annual Cambridge Night dinner and social to be held by the senior boys of St. Andrew's School at Cecil's Restaurant at 7.30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 19. Members67 words
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Article180 1947-12-14 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. THE Commissioner of Police, Malayan Union, Mr. H. B. Langworthy, this morning on the Seremban Police ground presented eight Long Service Medals and one Bar to four serving members of the police and five pen r oners of the F.M.S. Police180 words
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Advertisement332 1947-12-14 5 VALUABLE GIFTS 1948 Apoointment Book $6.00 Oscar Wilde Selected Works 9.00 The Best Loved Poems of the American People 9 20 Bun Vat-Ben. His Life Ita Meaning 10.50 Toward Freedom— J. Nehru 15.00 Thunder Out of China T.H. W. A.J 9.00 Basic Wrltines of Thomas Palre 12.60 The Works of332 words
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685 1947-12-14 6 SINGAPORE, DEC. 14, 1947. RUSSIAN TRADE IN Uie economically stricken world of today, no oountry can afford to allow political differences to interfere with mutually advantageous business. That is why the news of the trade pact between Britain and Russia has been so warmly welcomed, for it will bring not685 words
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Article, Illustration1561 1947-12-14 6 K. JALLEH - K. JALLEH BY THEY are becoming part of the landscape of Singapore the Bugis seamen and their boats, high-masted prahus, naked without their broad white sails, lazily pushed about by the gentle waves as they float on the waters in front of the Esplanade, while not1,561 words
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Article468 1947-12-14 7 MDU ATTACKS GOVERNMENT BUNGLING' Extravagance charge made Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN the second anniversary of the founding of the Malayan Democratic Union yesterday, its chairman, Mr. Philip Hoalim, attacked the Government as being "rotten, bureaucratic and extravagant." "The people who govern Malaya," he said, "are first-rate bunglers. This is468 words
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154 1947-12-14 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. SINGAPORE and the Malayan Union will be represented at the 1948 British Industries Fair, to be held in London and Birmingham from May 3 to 14. Arrangements ar? being made to (1 splay at the lair an exhibition;154 words
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Article, Illustration165 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter "PUREE Indonesian women representatives of Kowani (Indo--1 nesian Women's Organisation) who are travelling to India by air to attend the All-India Women's Congress, arrived in Singapore yesterday. They are Mrs. Sunario Mangunpuspito, president of Kowani, Mr*. Utami Suriadarma who is attached165 words
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Article82 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Singapore Harbour Board has cancelled its decision to build a wall around its compound to check pilfering because of the sharp decrease in thefts. Nevertheless, the Board has embarked on a scheme to repair and replace the steel fencing around82 words
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Article88 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. THE Singapore Government will spend $15,000 in replacing and repairing nearly half-a-mile of steel fencing around the Telok Ayer Basin within the next fewi months. The fencing which formerly guarded the godowns in the Basin i was removed by88 words
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Article36 1947-12-14 7 BAN'GALOP.E. Saturday.— tight people have been killed anA 77 injured in communal clashes, which started here yesterday and continued today in spite of rigorous enforcement of the curfew in the affected areas. Reuter.Reuter - 36 words
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Article171 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. OWING to the very extensive and efficient coverage of local a:.d international news, a really i good nexs scoop is a rare thing these days." said Mr. Eric JenI ning.s, the Editor or the Singapore Free Press, addressing a luncheon meeting171 words
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Article130 1947-12-14 7 THE Anglo-Clunese Continuation School, Old Boy's Association. Singapore, was revived at a general meeting at the A.C.C.S. Kail on Friday. The following were elected: Patrons: Bishop Edwin F. Lee. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek and Rev E> S. Lav. President: Mr. Fu Wa Chu: vice-presidents. Rev.130 words
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Article56 1947-12-14 7 A newsreel featuring Princess Elizabeth will be shown by the Public Relations Film Unit this week at the following places: Monday: Ying Siri Branch Sciiool, Buona Vista Road. Tuesday: Kallang Air Port. Wednesday: C.I.D. Headquarters Robinson Road. Friday: Pnsir Panjang Girls' Home. Saturday56 words
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Article138 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. PAST and present War Department employees are due for an ex-gratia payment, says an official statement. To qualify, they must have been employed by the Army in a clerical capacity, i.e., typists, stenographers or clerks, at any time between138 words
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Article103 1947-12-14 7 Sunday limes Stall Reporter. A ROYAL Air Force search plane late yesterday afternoon located the missing Beauflghter from Butterworth Aerodrome on the beach of Karimon Besar Island, 40 miles south of Singapore. The plane took off from Butterworth yesterday morning on a routine meteorological observation flight103 words
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Article, Illustration36 1947-12-14 7 MR. G. C. KIi»I.EY. A.S.P.. who was wounded during the flpht on Friday night between police and gunmen in Orchard Road. Singapore, when one of the gunmen was shot dead. Mr. Ripley's condition is not serious.36 words
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Article167 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. fTOMORROW at 4.15, Mr. Yap 1 Pheng Geek, vice-chairman of the Singapore Social Welfare Council, will preside over the eleventh and last meeting of the' p-esent session of the Social Wellare School. The school.- which has during the last 11 weeks167 words
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270 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter WHEN Bukit Panjang School, the repairs to which have now been completed, reopens next term it will be the first of the regional schools proposed by the Singapore Education Department under its 10-year education plan. Pupils will be taught in270 words
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Article50 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Stan* Reporter Three Chinese, one of whom had a pistol, robbed a Chinese woman of two pairs of gold bangles, one pair of gold earrings, one gold ring— valued altogether at $635— and $120 cash in a house in Bali Lane on Friday night.50 words
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Article185 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times Staff RqMftcr THE Singapore Teachers' Union will hold a general meeting of all teachers in Singapore next Saturday to protest against the recommendations of the Salaries Commission Report, it was decided at an S.T.U. committee meeting yesterday. Some members ol the Union ure canvassing support185 words
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Article46 1947-12-14 7 Sunday Times StaiT KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday.Mrs. Louise Pemberton iion. secretary of "Spare Time and Talent Enterprises." will b-' givins a radio talk from Kuala Lumpur on "T.N.T." on Tuesday at 9.45 p.m. The talk will be relayed by ill stations of Radio Malaya.46 words
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Article393 1947-12-14 8 WINNING CONTRACT BRIDGE mn HAVING discussed at some length Just how and when to use the take-out double, we now come to tne or;rallv Important subject of responding. When a player makes tmkeou' doubt* he shrxild realise: 1. That his partner may hare a complete bust: 2. Any minimum resDon^e393 words
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Advertisement263 1947-12-14 8 BMIAkN'S TASJKSf SAUCE IS IN GOOD SUPPLY NOW It'- tmy i^rji i)\ inn |<> be able to tend |ilrutiii! -up|ili.« of 11 I. Saac* to oar fririxN in M.iljvu. Th« flavour of this appetising MM* i- <1. h. mm an »Iw:i\- li m.ikrKiur/i adifTcronCF P|? to mruU twybodv enjoy* it.263 words
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Advertisement303 1947-12-14 8 LOOK AfTER THE HEALTH OF YOUR KIDNEYS. A s sufferers know only too well, backache is fir *A a verj painful ft experience- the 1-t^HLT^ cause is usually j^* :■> traced to weak I kidneys which HtWW^V^'at «re failing to do bilyrrV thet: work of VW V expelling the pulr.^nous303 words
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Miscellaneous633 1947-12-14 8 THIS WEEK FOR YOU —What the Stars Foretell— SAGITTARIUS (Not. 23-Dee. PISCES (Feb. M-Mar. 21)— GEMINI (May 32- Jane K)— VIBGO (Aug. 24- Se pt. 22)22)— A strong week for your Avoid all arguments with btiai- Hold a tight rein on impul- Keep your mind strictly on personal ambitions, bat633 words
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Miscellaneous363 1947-12-14 8 «k «k fl| HI ■MV P Jj^^k IB jr L What U the iifferenct be- who signed the Potsdam Declatwe'en a ptarmigan and a ptero- rations? dactyl? 7. Animals having a pouch in Four of Shakespeare's which they carry their young plays have been filmed and are known as marsupials.363 words
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Article350 1947-12-14 9 YOU may like to use up all your mincemeat this Christmas in the traditional mince pies, but in case you have some to spare, you will enjoy these puddings that can be made with mincemeat. STUFFED APPLES TAKE one apple for each 1 person and peel and core350 words
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Article, Illustration704 1947-12-14 9 MARY HEATHCOTT DESCRIBES SHOWS- LONDON, Nov. 27 (by Air Mail). THE exhibition of art from the Dominions of India and Pakistan opened here this week at Burlington House, while India still -^ikes the front page of the world's newspapers. It is safe to predict704 words
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Article96 1947-12-14 9 Across: 1. Caress: 4. Recipe; 6. Spa: 8. Tarts; 10. Bet; 12. Temper; 14. Uproar; 16. Interior; 17. Stag; 19. Needed: 21 Pen: 23. Ere; 24. Orchid; 28. Arms: 29. Hopeless; 31. Slower; 33. Rising: 36 Ear; 37. Riven; 38. Sea; 39. Attire: 40. Expect. Down: 1. Cast;96 words
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Article199 1947-12-14 9 Wtiat would you say to a widower who always talks about his first wife, compares the present one with her, and even shows his first wife's phvtowaphs around? SYMPATHISER. UUELL, anyway, he's easier to deal with than the one who is completely locked up witti his memories. This199 words
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Article406 1947-12-14 9 ONE of the most useful plants in Malayan gardens in Tecomaria capensis, which was formeriy known as Tecoma capensis. It makes a good specimen shrub growing by itself on a lawn, is excellent in a mixed border, and is one of the most free-flowering pot plants406 words
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Advertisement55 1947-12-14 9 Don't let that Cold take hold Check it at tne start with double* action THERMOGENE Medicated Rub— a penetrative, vaporising ointment, which is valuable in the trcatnii-nt of many common ail* menu. As an inhalant, it bring* speedy rebef of head colde and catarrh. As a penetrative Rub, relieves bronchial55 words
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Advertisement346 1947-12-14 9 Here you will fine P^^R the famous creams and i /V. lonics, the fashion \V% right lipsticks, the flattering powders that \oA 1 1 J have made the name of Elizabeth Arden nl/ famous the world over/ Jg f Sole Azcvts for Singapore MAYNARD CO LTD 1 1 BATTERY ROAD346 words
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2279 1947-12-14 10 EPSOM JEEP - EPSOM JEEP llv Objection against winner upheld IPOH, Saturday. EUREKA won Ihe class 2, div. 1 stayers' race from an objeetkn to pay the best dividend of the day ($B5) at Ipoh today, the last day of the Perak Turf Club's December meeting. Blank2,279 words
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Article290 1947-12-14 10 DEFEATING his most serious rival, On* Poh Lhn (Devonshire 8.P.), in two straight sets, the Malayan champion, Wong Peng Soon of the Mayflower 15. P. showed that be is still as good as ever in yesterday's semifinals of the men's singles in the Singapore Badminton290 words
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Article91 1947-12-14 10 From Epsom Jeep THE Straits Racing Association, ruling body of the Malayan turf, will bold its most important meeting of the year at the Ipoh Club at 10.30 a.m. to-day. Delegates of the four turf clubs will draw up the racing schedule for the 1948 racing91 words
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Article23 1947-12-14 10 The Singapore Swimming Club are meeting the Tiger Swimming Club at water polo at Tanjong Rhu today at 11 a.m.23 words
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Article144 1947-12-14 10 Sunday Times Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Saturday. rE annual quadrangular Malay hockey tournament will be held at Kua' Lumpur during Uie Christinas holidays. Ths competition was started In 1935, the participants being the four former Federated Malay States— Perak. Selannor, Pahang and Negri Sembilan. The tournament was resuscitated144 words
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Advertisement417 1947-12-14 10 $WBb 'i 9 Out if IO of you ca» i^y I have good health if you &SB RENOURISH Hour BLOOD &NERVES v^^^t AMAZING FOOD TONIC RICH IN VITAL |y MINERALS, VITAMINS and FOOD lODINE YOUR HEALTH, STRENGTH, VITALITY! £JkJB cut of 10 people are Nervous, Weak, Rundown, gal flP' Tired417 words
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Advertisement148 1947-12-14 10 Servieo" saves time* troubtc FLYING BOAT SERVICES LEAVE SINGAPORtfor LONDON Departing Monday, Wednesday, Saturday. Arriving Friday, Sunday, Wednesday. far SYDNEY Departing Friday, Sunday. Tuesday. Arrivine —Sunday. Tuesday, Thursday. LANCASTRIAN SERVICES LEAVE SINGAPOREfor LONDON Departing Wednesday. Friday, Sunday. Arriving Friday, Sunday, Tuesday. far SYDNEY I Departing Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Arriving —Wednesday,148 words
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Article209 1947-12-14 11 J^.A.V Sole tar 2nd XV fought out a boisterous game of rugger with the Singapore Police to a scoreless draw at Seletar > cstorday The ground was under water and the wet and heavy ball was very difficult to handle. At times the game developed into209 words
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Article, Illustration449 1947-12-14 11 LONDON, Saturday. NON-LEAGUE clubs had a good day in the second round of the F.A. Cup competition today. Colchester United beat the crack Third Division, Northern, club Wrexham, and Stockton, Gillingham and Shrewsbury Town all lived to fight another day. Perhaps the best effort ofReuter - 449 words
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Article176 1947-12-14 11 NEW YORK. Sat. LIGHTWEIGHT ch-mpion Ike Williams scored his ninth straight victory by winning an easy n<->r.-'itlt» ten-round decision over welterweight Tony Pellone. before 12,000 fans at Madison Square Garden, last night. The defeat suffered by the bloodsmeared New York Italian ruined Pellone's chance cf gettingUP - 176 words
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95 1947-12-14 11 A. .a OUMM basket ball team is expected in Singapore this week to play a series of three games wi:h Singapore basket ball teams, beginning on Thursday at the Happy World St&dium. The proceeds of the games, after deduction of tax. will be absorbed by95 words
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Article112 1947-12-14 11 CINGAPOBE Chinese Recreation Club •3 hockey teams this week are: Against Khal^a Association on Tuesday: Lee Ah Chio. Cham Chim Bock Ong Swee taw Low Hock Chye Goh Chiai Chye. Au Tat Chu Patric Yee. Harry Fang. Seah Keng Siew. Chong Kow Tai. Lim Ktnp Wah. Reserves.112 words
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Article210 1947-12-14 11 BOMBAY. Saturday. |£HAN KON LEONG fully maintained I his reputation as Malaya's mixed i doubles champion when, partnered by ■Mrs. Pinto, he beat a strong local pair, Shirke and Mrs. Soman 15-3. 1 7-15. 18-17. The diminutive Mrs. Pinto was no match for Mrs.Reuter - 210 words
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Article31 1947-12-14 11 PETER MXJIR of Scotland will referee the European bantam weight title bout between Peter Kane of Britain, the holder, and Joseph Cornellis, of Belgium, at Manchester tomorrow.31 words
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Article29 1947-12-14 11 A committee meeting of the Singapore Badminton Association will be held at the Clerical Union on Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. instead o* Monday as previously announced.29 words
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163 1947-12-14 11 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. LEE KONG CHIAN, the well known Singapore businessman, who is president of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and has served on the Singapore Advisory Council, has accepted an invitation to be patron of the Singapore Chinese Football Association.163 words
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277 1947-12-14 11 Margin Of Hockey Win Flattered Singapore From Our Johore Sports Reporter ALTHOUGH Singapore fully deserved to win their inter-State hockey game against Johore the margin of victory flattered them, for apart from the absence of Sgt. Collins and Fernandez the consequent reshuffle of the team upset the combination. Collins, who277 words
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527 1947-12-14 11 DANES SHOW GREAT FORM IN INDIAN BADMINTON By Sunday Times Special Correspondent BOMBAY. Saturday. THE Danes arrived here a week ago and contrary to all expectations, they have ehown brilliant form. Even Samuel, who has r i! *yed against Tage Madsen, was surprised at the former AllEngland champion's showing. Thus527 words
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Advertisement346 1947-12-14 11 SSHOWS-lUh U5 .4.H.6.4& 9soph iM£i£-M. s Open i n g TODAY We ProtuUy Present -k JAMES MASON BRITAIN'S OUTSTANDING SCREEN STAR IN HIS GREATEST ROLE OF A MAD DOCTOR p iis mason tnsi t^DSAMUNO PAMELA jii-Iii«o THE UPTURHED CinSs •v wiTOTw wmoKAi ■^'/<:i:v: :v: :;x|:;:iw J>k> P. M»na han A346 words
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Advertisement263 1947-12-14 11 "YOU'RE A ONE-WAY TICKET TO TROUSLE But Im Buyin'!F -^a^^U^uLa^^^s iff 'ikiilil|!l Y^^^^jP j S wow CAPITOL* ii- SHOWING r IM ft 9.15 J Air-Conditioited Phone BUS UMMr7 <4# LADD LAMOUR ■SA^^^f ROBERT UOYO 03* WM*\ PRESTON NOLAN. Rex Children's Matinee To-day at 11 am g^ \L 4\ "YOU'LL NEVER263 words
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Article754 1947-12-14 12 ARTHUR MAILEY - ARTHUR MAILEY i*y Indians Get 188: Australia 28-1' (Exclusive to the Sunday Times) SYDNEY, Saturday. INDIA fought back gallantly when play was resumed today, the second day of the six-day Second Test against Australia. Although at one stage they were only 98 for six,754 words
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Article133 1947-12-14 12 INDIA— IST INNS. Mankad b lindwall 5 Sarwate b Johnston 0 Gal Mohamed c Brown b Miller 29 Haiare b Miller 16 Amarnath b Johnson 25 Kishenchand b Johnston 41 Adiklnri Ibw b Johnston Phadkar c Miller b CcCoot 51 Navudu c&b McCool Amir Elabi c Miller b McCool133 words
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Article276 1947-12-14 12 INDIANS facing FINANCIAL LOSS rCRE is some misapprehension about the financial aspect of the Indian cricket tour in Australia owing to the weather. It is safe to say that In a normal season the tourists' share of gate receipts would now be well ahead of schedule, but solely because ofReuter - 276 words
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Article63 1947-12-14 12 THE Singapore Hockey Loague fixtures scheduled for yesterday, between Police and I. A. at Thomson Road, anil C.S.C. vs. S.C.R.C. on the padanjr, were postponed due to the heavy afternoon shower which flooded Singapore's sports fields. The rugger match to have been played on the Thomson Road63 words
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Article401 1947-12-14 12 fOHORE extended the Singapore Civilians to the full in their J H.M.S. Malaya Rugby Competition match on the Singapore padang yesterday. The final score was Civilians 9 points (3 tries), Johore 6 points (2 tries). The game was pl«iyed under very bad conditions, with many401 words
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Article315 1947-12-14 12 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent rE Singapore Combined Services proved far superior to Negrl Sembllan In their return match In the H.M.S. Malaya Rugby competition when they beat them yesterday by 45 points (six goals, four tries, one penalty goal) to nil. Negrl did well in the early315 words
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Article147 1947-12-14 12 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent pLAYING all out from the start to r finish, Selangor beat Perak by ight, points (a goal and a try) to hree (a try) on the Ipoh padang yesterday. Selangor rcored their first try In the tenth minute when Dawson went over.147 words
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Article, Illustration485 1947-12-14 12 By Our Badminton Correspondent TJADMINTON doubles received an impetus when the Singapore Doubles Championship Trophy was presented to the Singapore Badminton Association by the United Chinese Amateurs in 1929. There was not sufficient time for the controlling body to run a doubles championship so the485 words
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Advertisement314 1947-12-14 12 I SPECTACLE WEARERS! T* Spectacle wearers often suffer more than others from nervous tension Where can this tension most easily be broken? Tbe answer ls^ through the nerves of the eves by relieving the congestion of the myriad of tiny veins in the eyeball. The very act of douching the314 words
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