The Straits Times, 15 February 1948

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  • 20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE fIV MALAYA No. 655 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 407 1 Landings on East Coast P Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. FEDERAL immigration authorities are j tightening up precautions along the East Coast, where during the last few days junks have been discovered attempting to land 158 j Chinese illegal immigrants from Hainan. On
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  • 184 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. i^HONG Piang, who escaped from police custody at L Kluang after being arrested following a gun duel helween armed men and a joint force of police and troops at Niyor in November, has been recaptured. A reward of $500 had
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  • 47 1 TOKIO. Sat. Complete counterfeiting plant with US$6,OOO in U.S. military payment certificates and 63.500,--000 yen in 100-yen notes have been seized in Korea, along v:th twelve men working the plant. The men are to be tried by a U.S. military court. -A.P.
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  • 101 1 ■yESTERDAY*S Singapore X race results are: Race 1: HAPPY LASS $25 and S10; Tin Plate $40; Fine Lady $15. Race 2: MAY PRINCE $23 and $9; Kanda $10; Sir Fresco $17. Race 3: HUNTER'S CALL $37 and $9; Smiling Through $9: Exeter $8. Race 4: PRATTLE ON
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  • 26 1 A bomb blew up the front of the Central Office of the Italian National Association in Rome yesterday but caused no casualties.— Reuter.
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  • 102 1 JERUSALEM, Saturday.— Haganah, the Jewish defence mllita, last night ordered all Jews to refuse to submit to searches or arrested by British security forces unless in the presence of Jewish police. This followed the accusations by the Jewish Agency earlier today that four dead
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  • 72 1  -  MANILA Saturday. rpHE United Kingdom is x sending the largest single delegation to the United Nations conferences on rice, nutrition and fisheries openIng in Bagulo on Feb. 23. Her 13-man team of experts headed by Dr. J. Clyde is expected to arrive on Feb.
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  • 232 1 THE HAGUE, Saturday. rpHE United Nations Good Offices Committee in the Indonesian dispute was attacked in the Dutch press yesterday as having "arrogated a new and important measure of authority to itself and kowtowed to Jogjakarta." The storm of criticism arose after Batavia reports quoted a spokesman
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  • 85 1 Sunday Tines Stair Reporter PENANG, Saturday. FNANG Customs officers have detained the crew of a Siamese Airways plane which landed at Bayan Lepas aerodrome yesterday. This followed the discovery of nearly 50 pounds of raw opium inside the plane. The opium is valued at several thousand dollars
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  • 87 1 BRUSSELS. Saturday. BELGIAN troops were today sent to power plants in the Ghent area after a breakdown in power production caused by a strike of gas and electricity workers. Elsewhere throughout the country, where thousands of power plant workers stopped work in sympathy with the 58,000
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  • 50 1 NEW YORK, Sat.— Mr. J. J. Singh, president of the India League of America, has cabled Devadas Gandhi asking birr, to send part of his father's ashes to the United States to be placed in a memorial proposed to be built in Gandhi's honour in Washington Reuter.
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  • 27 1 FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus, Sat —The Palestine High Commissioner has granted special entry Into Palestine for all unaccompanied children here under 18, numbering 4,000 in all.— Renter.
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  • 22 1 HAVANA. Saturday.— Dutch authorities have offered Java sugar for sale to the U.S. Army for use In occupied
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  • 80 1 A LTHOUGH it is a week today since the trooper WesJtX tralia sailed from Sydney for Japan with Malay deportees aboard, not one of the four Malays who did not Join the ship, has been traced, writes the Sunday Times Melbourne correspondent. The Melbourne Argus reports that the
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  • 25 1 PARIS, Saturday.— Thirteen firemen and policemen were Injured fighting a fire at an electricity plant last night which causei nearly £30,000 damage.— Reutcr.
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  • 111 1 DES MOINES, lowa, Saturday. rpHE Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, today A warned the American people that if the Marshall plan were cut to "inadequate assistance" they must expect to see Western Europe pass under the same control as the "satellites" of
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  • 74 1 'FIERCER FIGHTING' SAYS COL SEC HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Sat. ]iy|R. A. CREECH JONES, Itl British Colonial Secretary, arriving here today on his way to United Nations meetIngs in New York, said that the ariivai of the United Nations Commission in Palestine "will be the occasion of fiercer fighting." Britain, he
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  • 227 1 >tw uiLi.ni, aaiuraay. PANDIT Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, in a broadcast tonight said that he was "distressed beyond measure to learn of the whisperings about vital differences" between Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Deputy Premier, and himself. He added: "India should know that these
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  • 58 1 JERUSALEM. SaturdayCovered by automatic fire by Jewish forces, Jewish battle squads early today planted bombs beside a house owned by HaJ Amin El Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, which demolished one room and damage the doorway. The nephew of the Mufti, who was in the house
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  • 232 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter EFFORTS to secure reforms "in the quickest possible time" so that Singapore Malays might march forward with other races in the Colony were pledged yesterday by Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, who wll contest a seat in the Singapore Legislative
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  • 67 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. MR. ALFRED WAGG, former newspaper correspondent in India, will present to the United States national archives here, records of speeches by Mr. Gandhi, claimed to be the only known official recordings of Mr. Gandhi speaking in English. All-India Radio and Mr. Wagg made the
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  • 65 1 PACIFIC AIRLINE AGREEMENT ENDS THE agreement by wnici the Australian Nation a Airways operate a trans-Pac: He air service for the Brit sii Commonwealth Pacific Airlines will not be renewed when it expires on April 21. Mr. H. F. Walsh. General Manager of the Australian National Airways, stated last night
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  • 2171 2 by. ..THE DUKE OF WINDSOR Lloyd George shocked my family: my robes caused a April and May are lovely months in England but for me in 1911 they were a kind of misplaced hour. The first two weeks cf April I lived in
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  • 259 3 S.H.B. DEGINS ON DIRECT LABOUR Switchover is hailed Sunday Times Staff Reporter j THE Singapore Harbour Board last week assumed responsibility from three labour contractors for employing its 6,000 stevedore* this switchover fro mindly P lTie Department of Labour has been see the traditional contract labour systems of B™gM by
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  • 275 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AT least 5,000 babies have been helped into the woria during the past 26 years by Madame Teo Chye Neo, who, at 53, is one of Singapore's oldest practising mld MaSme Teo, who started her life's work when shP was 27 says:
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  • 19 3 TIE titular feast of Our Lady of Lourdes will be celebrated at the Ophir Road church today.
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  • 135 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter LORD Listowel, Minister of State for the Colonies, arrives in Singapore on Wednesday, when he will be welcomed by the acting Gover-nor-General and High Commissioner. Sir Edward Gent. Lord Listowel. who will be In Kuala Lumpur on Friday, will spend 17
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  • 56 3 Sunday Times Staff Reports OINGAPORE unionists will 0 celebrate the second an- niversary of the founding of the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions with a teaDarty at the premises of the .ieaman's Union in Seah Street today at 2 p.m. The President of the Singapore Federation of Trade
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  • 268 3 S'pore soldiers learn religion Sunday Times Stall Reporter ORIGADIER the Rev. A. ML Davidson, M.C., JHAv D DJ>., the Deputy Chaplain-General, who is in Singapore on a tour of inspection of Far East Land ForceT visited the new FARELF School of Religious I Instruction on Mount Serapon, lakanjr Mati, yester-
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  • 51 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. rpHKTY-TWO banishment X orders were made in the Malayan Union in January. This brings the total of orders as at Jan. 31. this year, to 233. Of this total. 187 were in respect of persons with a conviction in
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  • 158 3  -  Sunday Times SUB Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. 17IFTY labourers of the r State Anti-Malarial Department lost their Jobs yesterday after a six-day "wildcat" strike. They were part of a labour force of 180 men who stopped work a week ago because of an
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  • 60 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Governments of the t Federation of Malaya and Singapore have decided that the flour position now permits its removal from the list of rationed items with effect from Feb. 16. Ration card holders may therefore purchase whatever quantity of flour they
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  • 26 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT, BUNTAR, fiat.— The local Indian community paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at a ceremony on the Padang here.
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  • 182 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MUSLIM women from all over Singapore are enrolling themselves at the first Muslim omen's trade BG u»l to be organised in the Federation of Malaya 01 Singapore. The rush has become so great there is great pressure on accommodation. /ixious
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  • 102 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. HARI Singh, aged 21, who broke into a Hindu temple and stole cash and a gold ornament was sentenced today by the District Judge to six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined $100. Court Inspector Osman said that Harl Singh, with two Indian
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  • 5 3 Soldier students R^^i^sir asrjssjs sabers
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  • 200 3 POLICE ARE GUARDING TREASURE Sunday Times Staff Reporter QINGAPORE police are ij guarding "many millions of dollars worth" of India's latest industrial products and art treasures which have been assembled at the Great World amusement park for the Indian Exhibition which opens there on Feb. 21 Special precautions are being
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  • 91 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter 4 DIVIDEND of five per A cent la proposed by the directors of Lunae Rubber Estates Ltd. for the year ended October last. The report states that the profit for the year was $46,079. The chairman. Mr. v. a. Potts says
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  • 78 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. 1 w O. Porter, recorded finding of misadventure at an inquest yester day on a labourer, Ang Ah Oh, who fell from the roof of his nouse in West Hill Road, Sembawang, on Feb. 3. Ang was
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  • 180 3 Sunday Times Staff fteporter ONE hundred and twenty young Singapore workers, shop assisants, students, schoolboys, mechanics and stenographers of all races will be visited by the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson. this week. They are the members of the Malayan Air Cadet Corps,
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  • 524 4 Getting That Close- Up PHOTO NOTES ryou are like most photographers you are probably given to wondering how the pictures you see in various publications featuring fine photography were made. And it may well be that the "how" of big close-ups has puzzled you. You may have asked yourself. "What
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    583 4 AMONC THE NEW BOOKS •THERE were three of 1 them in the room; two women and a man. One of the women an unfaithful wife who had killed her illegitimate child, the other a lesbian. The man had died in front of a firing squad. Not
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  • 701 4  -  Bob Gilmore Australian Newsletter" by MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. (by Air Mail). A USTRALIA has just seen ita Commu-nist-governed Sea-, I men's Union impose a three-week "domestic maritime blockade" on the Labour-governed State of Queensland. As the Adelaide Advertiser writes: "It is as though the other States had reached
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  • 140 5 HUSBAND AT SOCCER WHEN WIFE DIED Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A VERDICT of suicide by hanging was returned by th? Kuala Lumpur acting Coroner, Inche Rani, at the conclusion today of an inquest on a 17-year-old Malay gin. Zaharah binti Hajl Jamil. Zaharah's body was found hanging
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  • 396 5 For discussion next month Sunday Times Staff Reporter A MALAYAN Wholesale Co-operative Society to act as a supply organisation to consumer co-operative societies operating stores, is to be proposed at the All-Malaya Co-operative Union Conference which opens in Kuala Lumpur on March 6. The resolution, along
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  • 104 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rpHE first church to be built A in the new Federation the Garrison Church at Malaya District Headquarters— will be dedicated next Thursday by the Assistant Chaplain General, FARELP, the Rev. J. M. J. Steele. The church will be
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  • 61 5 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib. per ib. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 39% 40% No. 1 R.S S. fob in bales Feb. 40V& 40% No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Feb. 39 4 39% No.
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  • 353 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent ris not often that the business community, particularly the share market operators, has a good word for the frequent closing of markets for public holidays, but last week's two-day Chinese New Year closure was a real blessing. On Monday the Stock
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  • 78 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter /CHINESE New Year house\j cleaning cave the Singapore Municipality an extra 108 tons of rubbish to clear away daily daring the past two weeks. The usual daily rubbish load amounts to 230 tons. The carpet of red cracker paper which covered Singapore's streets during
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  • 110 5 IN-LAW TIFF IN ADVANCE Sunday Times Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. F)R 111-treating a 12-year-old girl who had been given to her by the mother as a prospective daughter-in-law, a Chinese woman, Wong Poh. was fined $250 in the Kajang District Court yesterday. Wong, Living in a village near Semenyih. was q£iarged
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  • 46 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. Members of the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce are entertaining to dinner Mr. H. 8. Lee on Monday night at the Chamber. The function is to mark their pleasure over the award of the C.B.E. to Mr. Lee.
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  • 49 5 NEW 'ALL RACES' CONCERT IN K.L. Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. rpHE eighth of the "all-cor-n munitles" series of concerts sponson by the Department of Public Relations will be held at the Lucky World Amusement Park on Friday, Feb. 21, under the patronage of the High Commissioner.
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    • 377 5 RADIO MALAYA SPOB* 7 p m f "ADIO AUSTRALIA 1 p.m. Julien Foorman Orch Review of Science 6c Arts; Topical w# SuUons— 9.30 a.m. 2.00 Relax To Music- 345 At Talk; 7.45 French; 8.00 Siamese: Operetta; 9.45 Sweet Music in The Piano; 3.00 Classical Con- I- 3 Indonesian; 8.45 Dutch;
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  • 24 6 Mr. and Mrs. Ow Ah Lcong thanic all friends and relatives for their condolences in the loss of their beloved daughter I Ceceila.
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  • 605 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE FEB. 15, 1948. STEADY DOES IT. 1J movement in Britain reached the point when one-third of all the wheat imported into the country was milled by them and when retail sales in the shops of the many societies exceeded £250,000,000 annually, there were many heartbreaking moments
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  • 1364 6  - Temple Snakes Drove Him From Home CHIA KAY SEE by TODAY, the sixth day of the Chinese first moon, thousands of Chinese in Penang will make a pilgrimage to the Snake Temple at Sungei Kluang, to pay respects to a Chinese deity, Chor Soo Kong, who is-_often erroneously called the
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  • 810 6 Military Observer by a WITH the sailing of Tt the troopship Cheshire from Singapore for England on TuesHay the 2nd battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers again leaves the Army List, as it did once before on Oct. 24 1814. The battalion is being reduced to a small
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  • 234 6 INSTALLED as Dato Muda Lakesmana while he was still at school, INCHE WAN MOHAMMED bin DATO LAKESMANA HAJI MOHAMED ALI WASI, has succeeded to the title of Orang Kaya Kaya Dato Lakesmana, Territorial Chief of Lower Perak. The new Chief was born at Teluk Anson in 1903
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  • 52 7 RETIRES AFTER 20 YRS Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday.— After more than 20 years in the Municipal service, the Municipal Treasurer and Secretary Mr. J. E. A. C ark is leaving Malaya in May on retirement. He will be succeeded by Mr. S. V. Adams, at present deputy Treasurer
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  • 315 7 Must get out this month Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipal Secretary, Mr. W. W. Duncan, yesterday warned stall-holders and hawkers at Waterloo Street, China Street, Ramah Street, Hindoo Road and Aliwal Street, that if they failed to remove by the end of
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  • 152 7 SINGAPORE WOMAN HONOURED PENANG. Saturday. rpHREE Penang residents who J helped the Allied cause during the war are to receive decorations and medals from trie High Commissioner. Sir Edward Gent, at the Governci -General's Residency on Friday. Feb. 27. The recipients are Mrs. S. K. Mackenzie, who receives the M.8.E..
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  • 259 7 Sunda imes Staff Reporter pLANS are now being considered for building a Sandes 1 Soldiers' Home in Singapore for the benefit of British soldiers stationed here. A site has been earmarked, but work cannot start until sufficient funds are raised. Architects have drawn up preliminary plans,
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  • 38 7 Sunday Times Correspondent THE Estate and Other Indian Workers' Union, Bahau Branch, have decided to erect a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi at Bahau. A committee will be formed to collect funds for the purpose.
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  • 129 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TO make sure that cruel methods are not used in training a black Malayan bear which a circus performing locally has acquired, Mr. G. Hawkins the president of the Singapore S.P.C.A., intends to make every effort to see the training.
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  • 311 7 S'pore women want to go shooting Sunday Times Staff Reporter FIVE Singapore mems last week <L cussed a post-war T future for the Singapore Women's Rifle Association. Reminiscing on old times when they used to shoot for silver spoons and buttons at the rate of one for every seven bulls
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  • 83 7 SuwUy Tim«S Staff Reporter THE distinction of being the first Malayan doctor to have passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists goes to 40--year-old Dr. B. H. Sheares, a specialist in midwifery at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Dr. Sheares. who Is now
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  • 60 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE policemen dived into the sea and recovered the body of a Malay constable, who was drowned v.l.ile swimming shortly after noon on Friday in the sea off Katong. The dead constable is Mahamood, 28. attached to the Geylang Division Police
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  • 63 7 KUALA LUMPUP Saturday. for Federation of X Malaya Government Treasury Bills of three months' tenor were accepted by the Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya, to the extent of $500,000. Tenders at the rate of J per cent per annum were allotted in full while tenders in excess of
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  • 83 7 S.P.C.A. MEETING NEXT WEEK Sunday Times Staff Reporter rwMIE first annual general meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Singapore since the occupation will be held in the old Council Chamber at 5.15 p.m. next Wednesday. In view of the re-awakened interest in the prevention
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  • 98 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. THE High Commissioner and Lady Gent will attend the Police Torchlight- Tattoo at the Police Depot. Rifle Range Road, on the night of Thursday, Feb. 19. The Rulers of the Malay States will attend the Tattoo on Wednesday night. The Tattoo
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  • 87 7 IN the recent article on the history of the Federation of Malaya, there was inadvertent omission of the name of Mr. A. Williams as a member of the legal sub-commit-tee on the Working-Commit-tee of the new constitutional proposals. Mr. Williams who is now acting Financial Secretary in
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  • 202 7 TRIBUTES TO MR. TAY LIAN TECK Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN the loss of Mr. Tay Lian 1 Teck, Singapore had lost a good citiaen and the Chinese community a good leader said Sir Han Hoe Lim at a memorial service held for the late Mr. Tay at Bidadari cemetery
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  • 64 7 MALAYAN internal air mall service has been accelerated by 45 minutes owing to a change In departure schedules of Malayan Airways planed. All air mail letters should reach the General Post Office Singapore, by 2 p.m. instead of 2.45 p.m. Closing time at the G.P.O. for
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  • 57 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE than 400 guests, including two Members of Parliament, who are trade union delegates on a visit to Singapore, attended a social and dance held by the Singapore Teachers' Association at the S. V. C. Drill Hall last night. The M.P.S are
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  • 159 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. nRIVEN out of their Home for the Aged in the Lung V Thau Nagu Cave Temple, Chemor Road, by the Japanese to make way for ammunition stores, -13 Chinese have now returned to their old quarters. The Hor which
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  • 112 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH. Saturday. rj\EN times Teh Say Leong, L proprietor of a salt-Jsh shop in Hugh Low Street, had been convicted for obstructing the rive-foot-way with baskets pt salt-fish. Four times the Town Board had warned him ovei the offence. Yesterday. Teh, charged with
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  • 249 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE British Council is rapidly extending its acti--1 vities throughout Malaya and the islands of the archipelago. More representatives have been appointed and plans for several new ventures are well advanced. Mr. A. T. Baker, recently arrived in Singapore from Egypt, has
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  • 28 7 At the Singapore Rotary Club meeting on Wednesday next at the Adelphi Hotel, Dr. J. Grove-White will speak on "Some Aspects of the Leper Problem."
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    • 171 8 1 Sunday Times Crossword [^B^^H I I I B^B^sl I I 1 J ACROSS DOWN 1. Facility (4), S. Show off (5), 1. Literary composition (f). 8. Ruminant (4), 9. Part erf the 2. Incentives (5). 3. Guard (6), foot (4), 10. Astonishing; (10). 4. Marry (3), 5. Scents (6).
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    • 441 8 WH1JLK we have pretty well if covered th« subject of the take-out double, there hare been so many niiKOp.cepti-jns concerning tola most useful of all bids that some further clarification Is desirable. A recent experience proves highly illuminating. On one occasion, partner doubled an openIng bid of one diamond. The
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  • 345 9 pHILDREN always delight in having a special cake of their own for a birthday or a party so why not try these delightful ways of producing a decorated cake without icing sugar. Simple Cake YOU need: Four ounces of flour, three ounces castor or fine sugar,
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    330 9 New Look NOT everyone surely can be as lucky or as clever as a friend of mine who has a New Look coat. She took a chance last winter and chose the full, swing back, tented silhouette. The coat is deep purple, lined with lustrous coffee colour- Ed satin, with
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  • 970 9 MARY HEATHCOTT Also Finds Time To See LONDON, Jan. 28 (by Air Mail). VEFTERDAY I 1 sat on a perishingly cold sound stage at Gainsborough Studio's, Shepherd's Bush, and watched Lord Byron bid a touching farewell to Teresa Guiccioli, the last and perhaps most cherished—of his
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  • 631 9 My husband is constantly urging me to earn money. I am 35, married 14 years, and, unfortunately, no children. I don't know what 1 could do, as I am not trained for any job. I would hate office work. I would hate any job. Is it better to
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  • 65 9 REMEMBER TXON'T leave things mJ damped down and roll\ed up for long. If you do, mildew stains may result, I especially in sultry weather. f T\YE which has spread MJ from one material to 1 another can usually be re- moved by rubbing with a cloth dipped in methylated l
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    • 95 9 I CROSSWORD SOLUTION Across: 1 Ease. 3, Swank. 8, i Deer. 9, Inch. 10, Stupendous. 13, Arrest. 14, Snip. 16, Yesterday. 17, Try. 18, Code. 20, Sleet. 22, Saner. 23, Heed. 25, Ham. 26. Recovered 29, Fuss. 31, Marine. 32. Propaganda. 34, Lava. 35, Rage. 36, There. 37,. Neat. Down:
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  • 125 10 LAST night's wrestlinß bout at the Great World stadium, Singapore, between the Turk. All Rlza Bey, and the Hungarian. King Kong, had a sensational ending. The men continued fighting outside the ring and police officers had to Intervene to separate them. The referee counted out
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  • 154 10 Lon^n Hospital 0, Stroud 3; Northampton 0. Pontypridd 9; OMT 8. London Welsh 21; Penarth 11. Abertillery 3; Richmond 5, Blackheath 27; Redruth 3. Balmouth 0; St. Barta Hospital 8. Penzance 24; St. Thomas Hospital 30, Aldershot Services 0; Barnstaple 3. Exeter 0; Rufby 3, Nuneaton 9; Bedford
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  • 41 10 The Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police and the Singapore Police Force will meet at tne Police Training School tonight in the Police Cup boxing tournament. The fights will start at 8.30. There will be bouts in all divisions.
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  • 522 10 LONDON, Saturday. ARSENAL virtually made certain of the soccer championship today when they scored a decisive 3 o victory over their nearest rivals, Burnley, to establish a commanding eight points lead at the head of the First Division. Biggest surprise of the day was Fulham's victory
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  • 57 10 HONO KONG, Saturday THE Hong Kong non-Chinese soccer team today beat the Shanghai visiting team by one goal to nil. The match was evenly contested. There was no scoring in the first half. The inside right, Cunningham, scored the winning goal in the tenth
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  • 29 10 LONDON, Saturday. Ireland beat England by 11 points (one goal and two tries) to 10 (two goals) In the Rugby Union international match at Twickenham today. Reuter.
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  • 305 10  -  EPSOM JEEP Turf Personalities No. 18 By fHARLES W. TURLET, trainer of Mont Blot and Golden Grove, two of the biggest money-spinners on the Malayan turf, has been in this country for over 37 years, much longer than any other trainer. He nrst came to Malaya
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  • 98 10 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. SIX Selangor and four Perak players have been included in the North side for their hockey match against the South, to be played off on the Selangor Club padang here on Feb. 21. The other player is from Penang. The
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  • 112 10  -  LONDON. Saturday First round, second leg ties: Belle vuc Rangers 10, 'Liverpool Stanley 8; Bradford N. 15, 'Huddersncld 2: 'Buslingthorpe Vale 2, St. Helens 13; •Ca.stleford 7, Wigan 19; Dewsbury 10, 'Batley 4; •Halifax 17, Barrow 4; Hunslet 5, Wldnes 3 (to be replayed) Leigh 10, "Feathei
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  • 511 10 FEATHER Badminton Notes ...by AT the meeting of the Malayan I Badminton Association held in Singapore on 27th December 1947, it was decided that the 1948 Malayan championships are to be neld in Kuala Lumpur. One of the most important decisions was to restrict the number of
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  • 307 10 Governor's Shield for BOD HQ XI Fa thrilling encounter on a sodden ground, HQ Civilians defeated No. 2 Sub-Depot (Clothing) by four goals to one In .the final of the 8.0.D. socciir competition for the Governor's Shield, played at St. George's Road yesterday. At the game, Brig. H. F. King,
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  • 128 10 rS British wrestler, NapoliU.no, beat the Bangkok Chinese. Lambonff by two pin falls to one after five rounds in the wrestling promotion at the Happy World stadium. Singapore last night. Napolitano secured a fall in the second round, but Lambong got on level terms in round
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  • 35 10 Today's cricket fixture between Singapore Cricket Club and the Malayan Jockeys' Association, which was arranged to be played on the padang, has been cancelled owing to the sodden condition of the ground.
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  • 337 10 rE seven-aside Rugby knockout tournament ended on a thrilling note when the K.E.s emerged victorious, beating Seletar II in the final on the Padang yesterday by five points (a goal) to nil. Better understanding between their threes and grim determination throughout assured the Engineer's of victory.
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    • 247 10 HrUCt'Lt. TV ELI nTffjfJ '-> ,end your next leave at ihe cornrr of Bussex in *a!ava at an altitude t 1700 ft! R.'lax In an ■iiok flreola'ie and -naff a tankard of ale. •'at and enioy our horne:rown vegetables, poultry md ?Rgs. Central position, facing golf course No connection with
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    • 493 10 JElnough to eat yet undernourished Proper nourishment for growing /^^^t^\ children ia not necessarily secured j|jb/ (/W-L sserely by ensuring that th.y hare Jii^ —ooah le eat. Doctor* point out '!PvC-* K that the nature ol oar lood U more ■■w; A important than quantity W^^T*^ >T"*'" V V To
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  • 345 11 Indians recover after bad start GEELONG, Saturday. BATTING first against the Country XI here today, the Indians were all out for 375. Rangnekar hitting his first century of the tour. An e^rly morning shower had made the wicket lively, and four wickets fell quickly, three to
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  • 123 11 INDIA—IST. INNS. Ranxirsinhjl b McArthur S Sen eA. Brown b MrArthnr S Adlkharl b BfcArthw o Kaagnekar lbw b Taylor 128 Gal M»hom*d b Taylor It R*i Slagh bA. Browr 29 Khhwhind ibw b Young IS Phadfcar c Brown b Young 88 Hasaro c b Taylor 74 Amir Elahi
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  • 155 11 CHINESE Y.M.C.A. SPORTS ACTIVITIES JPOLLOWINO are the Singapore Chinese V.M.C.A. sporting activities for this week: Tomorrow: tabletennis "MX" team 5 pjn. to 8 p.m. "SH" team 8 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.: tabletennis match against Shine Wah team at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday: badminton and basketball 5 <p.m. tabletennis— "KA" team 5
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  • 33 11 VICE-CAPTAIN NAMED ADELAIDE, Saturday. It was officially announced here th.it Lindsay Hassett has been appointed vice-captain of the Australian touring team in England this summer. Don Bradman will be the captain. Reuter A.A.P.
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  • 351 11 PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD, Saturday. ANE of the umpires, Mr. Henderson, was the target \J of resentment by the crowd because of two unpopular decisions in the second Test here yesterday. After the final over of the day he had to be escorted by police through
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  • 105 11 ENGLAND—Ist. Innings 362 WEST INDIES—Ist. Inns. G. (>rfw Ibw Lake* It 7 A. Gantcaume c I kin b Howorth lit E. Weeke b Butler M F. Worrell c Evans b Cranston 97 C. L. Waleott c Butler b Howorth 20 G. Gomes low Laker 62 R. Christian! not oat
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  • 89 11 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Saturday. fHE Johore Medical Sports Club sprang a surprise yesterday by defeating the Dapat Party at table tennis by six games to one. Results were as follows <J.M.S.C. players mentioned first): Monamed Kassim beat Jamaludin Hj All 3—o; Loh Thin Loke
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  • 84 11 C.Y.M.A. SOCCER TEAM The C.V.M.A. (Church of th* Sacred Heart) open their soccer season tomorrow when they meet the St. Joseph's Institution on the S.J.I, ground. The kick-off wilJ be at 5.15 p.ir The C.V.M.A. am will be th» following: Tham Ah Mun; Tseng Yueii Lin, Chua Kee Tong: Roland
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  • 365 11 JJESPITE the sodden ground, fair standards were recorded at the 10th. annual athletic meeting of the Raffles College. Singapore, which was held on the College grend yesterdl.y. It was me College's first athletic meeting held since Uie re-occupa-tion Two events, the 120 yds. high hurdles and
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  • 45 11 DAVOS PLATZ. Swlterland, Saturday. Richard Button (U.S.A.), yesterday won the world figure skating championship. Second was the defending champion, Hans Geswichler (Switzerland). Third was Ede Kirey (Hungary). Then came John Lettin Garver (U.S.A.) James Grogian (U.S.A.) and H. Graham Sharp England A.P.
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  • 114 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. JOHORE Football Assocla- tlon has decided to begin League matches in the early part of March so that the league season can be finished by July. The cup competition will begin immediately after the end of the fasting month which falls on July
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  • 155 11 Sunday Times Johore Sports Correspondent JOHORE CRICKET ASSOCIATION has decided to stage two early matches this season in order to give trials to players likely to represent the State in inter-state matches. First of these will be a North v. South match to
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  • 262 11  -  £)EADLY bowling by their skipper Umapathy, and Syed Mahmood enabled the Medical College Union to trounce the Colonials Cricket Club by 86 runs in their match on the College ground yesterday. The Collegians, batting first, totalled 118 in 2% hours. Poopathy top-scored with 34, which
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  • 2511 12 EPSOM JEEP New jockey rides two winners By fOCKEY Gordon Lansdown made a successful debut J on the Malayan Turf at Bukit Timah yesterday, when he brought home two winners Hunter's Call and Blackpool for Jack Spencer's stable. Rain fell on and off and the
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