The Straits Times, 18 February 1948

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 l.Hill'l PACES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • Article
    CIVIL WAR FEARED IN KOREA
    633 1 "Red Asia" Threat Growing? TOKIO, Tuesday. AMERICAN authorities here today expressed grave concern at yesterday's developments in North Korea which, they predict, may lead to full-scale civil war between North and South Korea within two months. If civil war broke out the American position as
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    62 1 The first Muslim women's trade school was opened last month at the People's Restaurant m Handy Road. Classes are held every day of the week except Fridays and Sundays. The picture shows Miss Zainul. one of the voluntary teachers from the Y.W.C.A., teaching a six-year-old Malay girl to write English.
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    45 Sailors Drowned
    82 1 PARIS. Tuesday. r<ORTY-FIVE sailors of the United States aircraft-carrier Midway were drowned when a launch carrying them back to their ship, anchored off Marseilles, collided with a breakwater and sank last night Fifteen bodies were recovered this morning. Many survivors swam more than a mile to the
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    Lord Listowel In Singapore Today
    204 1 r\ Minister of State for Colonial Affairs (th e Earl of Listowel) is due to arrive m Singapore by air late this afternoon. Lord Listowel, who HI making an official tour ol I the Colonies, will stay m Singapore for two days after which, he
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  • Article
    TEA PRICE RISE MAY BE 2d.
    59 1 TEA PRICE RISE MAY BE 2d. COLOMBO, Tuesday. -Ceylon tea producers have been advised by their representatives m Britain to accept the British Food Ministry's offer of a rise of 2d. a pound m tea on last year's prices, it was officially announced yesterday. The tea producers had demanded a
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    Pope To Read Absolution
    185 1 VATICAN CITY, Tues. pOPE Pius XII will read the absolution for the dead at the funeral service, to be held on Thursday, for Cardinal Granito "•iTnatelli di Belmonte, the 96-year-old Dean of the College of Cardinals, who died yesterday. The Pope will pay this •almost unprecedented
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    22 1 The Comniander-in-Cbief, Far Eastern Land Forces, Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie, who was admitted to Alexandra Military Hospital yesterday suffering from acute rheumatism.
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    Nine Malays Arrested
    109 1 From Oar Own Corresponden t. SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sydney detectives today arrested nine Malays on charges of being prohibited immigrants. They are spending tonight io police cells, and will be placed m the troopship Ranimhla tomorrow for deportation to Singapore via Japan. Two of the men disappeared when ordered
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    Resistance Warning By Arabs
    182 1 CAIRO, Tuesday. A WARNING that any international force sent to supervise partition m Palestine would be resisted by "regular" Arab armies was made m Cairo today by Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-Gene-ral of the Arab League. His warning came a few hours before the United Nations
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    WHITE PAPER ON DEFENCE
    60 1 LONDON. Tuesday. The Press Association parliamentary correspondent states that a White Paper on defence will be published by the Government this week. It will deal with estimates tor the three services for the period 1948-49. The position of each of the services will be the subject
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    FLIERS REPORTED MISSING
    55 1 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Two former Royal Australian Air Force officers, who took off from Perth yesterday for Singapore In an Anson plane which they are believed to have planned to sell there, are reported to be missing in the Port Hedland area, on the
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    WOMAN ON WAR CRIME CHARGES
    67 1 TOKIO, Thursday. The first Japanese woman to be accused of war-time atrocities will be tried m April on charges of helping to murder eight American B-29 fliers m a series of medical experiments. She is Shigako Tsutsui, a former army nurse. The prosecution will contend
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    British Cruiser Will Support Falkland Rights
    299 1 British Cruiser Will Support Falkland Rights LONDON, Tuesday. A BRITISH Foreign Office spokesman said last night that the 8,000- ton cruiser Nigeria was "definitely steaming for the Falkland Islands," where Argentine and Chilean naval forces are operating m British waters. The Minister of State (Mr. Hector McNeil) said m the
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    Naval Story Of Fall Of Singapore
    121 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. NAVAL despatches to be published on Feb. 26, in conjunction with those of the Army and Air Force, dealing with the fall of Singapore, will, lor the first time, pive the full details of the sinking of the
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    ROYAL SKIING TRIP ENDS
    30 1 ROYAL SKIING TRIP ENDS LAUSANNE, Tuesday.— The former Kinp: Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma returned to Lausanne yesteniay from their three-week skiing holiday at Davos. A P.
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      Didn't Miss His Five Lost Toes Till Morning
      150 2 Didn't Miss His Five Lost Toes Till Morning SYDNEY, Tuesday. ERNEST Turner, 38 year-old Tarn worth railwayman, had five toes cut off by a train, walkedhome, slept soundly and discovered only m morning his toes were missing. He told the story to a Workers' Compensation Court m Sydney. The; Judge
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      Jinnah's Health
      33 2 KARACHI, Tuesday. Press reports that Mr. Jimnah is ill, and plans to retire from the post of Pakistan's Gov-ernor-General, were termed "trash" yesterday by Mr. Jmnah's secretary, Syed Mohammei Yusuf. A.P.
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      Gloucesters Return
      36 2 COLOMBO, Tuesday.— The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester will leave Ceylon by air today for Britain. They returned to Colombo on Sunday after a three-day tour of tho ancient ruined ci'.ies of Oeylon. A.P.
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      Chevaliers
      46 2 LONDON. Tuesday.— Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has conferred the decoration of Chevalier of the Order of Orange-Nas-sau on Mr. B H. Russel and Mr. E. W. Lewis, officials of the Cunard White Star Line. In recognition of their services rendered during the war. A.P.
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      Loss To Bow Street
      53 2 LONDON, Tuesday. Sir Bertrand Watson, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, vho sat on the Bow Street Court' bench, collapsed and died yesterday at lunch. He was 69. He was the Magistrate who committed for trial William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), John Amery and Norman BaillieStewart (the "officer m
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      Gandhi's Voice
      62 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday.— :The voice of Mahatma Gandhi speaking m English, was heard at the Washington national archives yesterday. Recordings of an extempore speech by him, and of speeches by other Asiatic leaders at the Inter-Asian Relations Conference m New Delhi last April, were presented to the national archives
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      Jitters
      27 2 Anna Neagle 'tutting; the rug" with neat eclat m a jitterbug scene during filming of the new Herbert Wilcox production "Springtime m Park Lane." A.P. picture.
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      'Alien Communist'
      40 2 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. —Federal agents yesterday arrested Christafer Smith, national secretary of the National Maritime Union (CIO), m New York as an alien Communist. Smith, who *fes born m Jamaica, was removed to Ellis Island for deportation proceedings A.P
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      Anti-Cholera
      27 2 BAGHDAD, Tuesday.— Owing to an outbreak of cholera m Pakistan and India, the Iraqi health authorities yesterday Imposed quarantine restrictions on air and sea passengers— Reuter.
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      Small Beer
      51 2 LONDON, Tuesday.— The War Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell, visited Chelsea pensioners yesterday. They told him they were short of beer. His reply was: "I have to go short myself. You aren't the only ones." Mr. Shinwell met soldiers with service going back to the life of Queen Victoria.
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      Last Link
      38 2 TOKIO, Tuesday. The Kyodo News Agency reports restoration of the Danishowned cable from Nagasaki to the Russian port of Vladivostok. This Is the last link In a cable communication line between Japan and Europe. A. P.
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      Rent Control
      38 2 CANBERRA, Tuesday.— The r.ation-wide referendum to determine whether the Aus- tralian Federal Government should have permanent control over rents and prices will be held on May 29. This decision was made yesterday by ttie Federal Cabinet
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      In Absentia
      75 2 BUDAPEST, Tuesday. A Budapest people's court yesterday sentenced, m his absence, Karoly Peyer, leader of the Hungarian Social Democrats, to eight years' imprisonment on charges of plotting the overthrow of the "democratic regime m Hungary." Robert Gabor, a lieutenant of police charged with high treason, was sentenced to
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      Delayed Sentence
      56 2 MADRID, Tuesday.— Three Spaniards, who have spent most of their time m prison since 1939, were yesterday sentenced to death by a court martial on charges of murdering 12 people early In the Spanish Civil War m 1938. A fourth man was s-.-n-tenced to 20 years' imprisonment. All
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      Tugboat Mined
      40 2 BATAVIA, Tuesday. Reports reaching Batavia yesterday said nine persons were killed on Feb. 22 when a Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company's motor tugboat hit a mine off the east coast of Borneo. The dead included five Chinese. UP.
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      Surinam Plot
      63 2 PARAMARIBO Tuesday. Simon Sanches, found guilty on Feb. 2 of plotting to overthrow the Surinam (Dutch Guinea) Government and to separate the Colony from the Dutch Empire, was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment and fined 150 guilders at Paramaribo yesterday. The charges were denied by Sanches. He said
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      Prison Walk-Out
      69 2 LONDON, Tuesday. A young woman prisoner on remand m Holloway Prison, London, calmly walked out of the prison during visiting hours and escaped. The girl approached a prison nurse and saicfc "I'm a visitor and I've lost my way. Where is the main gate?" The nurse told her.
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      "Nehru Next"
      63 2 BOMBAY, Tuesday. Posters announcing "Gandhi is dead it is Jawaharlal Nehru's turn next" were found pasted on walls m Princess Street, Bombay, yesterday afternoon. Police tried to remove the posters intact. They were written m Marathi. unsigned, and were believed to emanate from the RSS Hindu Volunteer Corps,
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      Sails With Body
      65 2 MARSEILLES, Tuesday.— The freighter Johny Appleseed has sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, under the command of Captain Mark Wheeler with the body of a negro who, French police claim, was shot by the captain m a hold of the vessel. Captain Wheeler will be responsible for turning himself,
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      Mad Scramble
      78 2 PERTH, Australia, Tuesday. At least six mental patients one of them naked escaped from Claremont Mental Hospital after male and female nurses went on strike. Two others crippled themselves m leaps from windows. Four of the escapees, some of whom have records for violent crime, have been recaptured
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    Evacuation Is Scouted By US Envoy
    186 2 SHANGHAI, Tuesday THE American Ambas1 sador to China, Mr. J Leighton Stuart, today scouted reports that Americans scattered throughout China were preparing for evacuation on account of danger caused by the civil war. "The situation," he said, "is not serious enough even to beein
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    50 2 NEW YORK. Tuesday.— Mrs. Margaret Owen, 25, of Harrogate. England, has arrived m New York from England on the Marine Falcon, en route to Kyushu, where her husband, Capt. Roy Owen, 26, Is stationed with the 24th American Infantry Division. Owen is the second Lexington (Mississippi) man to marry Margaret.
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      731 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF Valuable freehold land and horse No. 76 Wilkie Road. Singapore, area 6.836 sq. ft. To be held at The *al<*room of Messrs. Cheonc Koon Seng Co.. Ltd.. No. 10 Chulia Street. On Wednesday. 18th February. 1948 at 2 30 P M (Full oarticulars, and Diana issued)
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      467 2 NOTICES THE BRITISH ADVISER, SELANGOR, has moved to the Residency. Telephones (Residency) Office 4004. House 2856. NOTICE BOXING— Happy World— SABA. Open Competition for Civilians only. Sun: 2<»th Feb., Mon: Ist Tucs: 2nd March. 1948. Application for entries to reach Mr. B. L. Dunsford, Hon: Secretary, c/o Social Welfare Dept.,
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      194 2 SHIPPING NOTICE JAVA PACIFIC LINE "LIMBURG" from U.S.A. Pacific Coast due Singapore Feb. 20 For Delivery Orders please ajjply to: ICH.V. •'ROTTERDAM*' Shipping Dept. 37 Robinson Road Tel. ***** ROYAL ROTTERDAM LOYD "ZEELAND" from U.S.A. Atlantic Dorts due Singapore Feb. 22 For Delivery Orders please apply to: LC.H.V. "ROTTERDAM Shipping
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    SIAM DENIES K.L. REPORTS
    411 3 t/.A'. Envoy Flies To London BANGKOK, Tuesday. I SIAMESE Army spokesman said yesterday A that he knew nothing about reports from Kuala Lumpur that reinforcements had been rushed to Siam's four southern province— Patani, Yala, Setul and Naradhavas. He added that there was no information to
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    56 3 "Paradogs,* the U.S. Air Force calls its airborne husky-dog teams. Tended by their handlers, these dors sit m a C-4f transport plane on their way to the jump area at Goose Bay, Labrador. The U.S. Air Force is training sled-doc teams to be parachuted from planes for rescue of plane
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    Air Search For Border Bandits
    189 3 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. IN a move to locate bandit hideouts, the Kedah polio* have made extensive reconnaissance flights over thick jungle areas in North Malaya. They used an Auster aircraft borrowed from the R.A.F. m Butterworth. The plane returned from she flights
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    Who Foots The Bill?
    142 3 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. npHE "excursion to the! 1 tropics" of two trade onion advisers from the United Kingdom was discussed by the committee of the Settlement ot Penang Association yesterday evening. The secretary of the association (Mr. E. A. Staines) in a letter
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    34 3 Henry Ford 11, grandson of Henry Ford and now head of the Riant Americas motor-car concern, seen on arrival m Kngland m the Queen Mary on Feb. 10. With Mr. Ford is bis wife.
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    Kinstler Case Resumed At Perth Court
    122 3 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tuesday. •THE case against the 1 former Singapore resident. Israel Kinstler. was resumed today at Perth, Western Australia. Kinstler is charged with running gold from Kalgoorlic to Singapore. Mr. Leonard Pratt, inspector for the Department of Trade and Customs,
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    GANG ROBBER SENTENCED
    117 3 Sentence of seven years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan was imposed on a young Chinese, Chua Boon Quee, by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes yesterday for armed gang robbery. Chua, with a gang of men, robbed a Chinese family of $1,000 worth
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    24 3 Five Chinese were each fined $25 or two weeks' simple imprisonment in the Third Police Court yesterday for* hawking without licences In Serangoon Road.
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    14-Year-Old Girl Is Accused Of Murder
    282 3 A 14-YEAR-OLD Chinese girl appeared before the ?T.i£hth Police Court Magistrate (Mr R. W. P. Rule) yesterday, on a tentative charge of murder. It was alleged that she 7 caused the death of a two-year-old girl by adminis- tering to her a dose of
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    Reduction Of API Sentence
    215 3 Reduction Of API Sentence •THE ex-president of the 1 A.P.I. (Angkatan Pemuda Insaf) Geylang branch, Ahmad Baiki Suib, who was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment by the First District Judge m January this year for assisting m the management of an unlawful society, had his sentence reduced to 12
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    Rotan For Attempted Robbery
    226 3 Rotan For Attempted Robbery A Chinese who attempted to rob a provision shopkeeper of $500 was yesterday sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes. He was Wong Ah Meng, and he was convicted on a charge of
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  • Article
    Singapore Diary
    224 3 TODAY: Rotary, Dr. J. Grove- White on "Some Aspects of the Leper Problem" Adelphi, 1 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Katong Group? meeting, St. Hilda's School, 4 p.m. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, annual general meeting, old Council Chamber. S 15 p.m. T.M.C.A., Orchard Road, chess club, 5
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  • Obituary
    DEATHS
    101 4 FORD: At Seremban Hospital on Feb. 15, Ian Angus Ford, beloved husband of Evelyn Ford, Middleton Estate, Rompln. Mrs. Chua Whay Sen* (Poh Bone Nco). Aged 72 on 15!2;48 at 501 Kampong Bahru Rd. She leave* behind six sons Chua Kenc Clionp. Kcng Pak. Keng Swee, Poh Whatt Chye,
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    ACKNOWELDGMENT
    26 4 The family of the late Philip Julifui Low Oek Seng sincerely all kind relatives and friends who attended the funeral. for prayers, and sent wreaths.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 18, 1948. LISTOWEL IN MALAYA
    810 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 18, 1948. LISTOWEL IN MALAYA Lord Listowel, the Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, is expected to arrive in Singapore today. When the creation of this new post was announced in London on January 3 we little thought that we should see its holder
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    Five Hundred Dollars
    337 4 One point in the Nomination Day procedure last Monday which impressed the new voters of Singapore was that every candidate had to put down a deposit of $500, and if he does not get a certain minimum of votes he will lose his money. This provision in
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    FIGHTING IN INDO-CHINA
    36 4 PARIS, Tuesday. Largescale operations, involving the use of French paratroopers, against Vietminh guerillas were reported m an Agence France Presse despatch from Saigon tonight. No precise details about the operations were given, however.—Reuter.
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    Post-war Pattern In The Civil Service
    1312 4  -  DR. E.H.G. DOBBY A BOOK FOR THE MALAYAN ADMINISTRATOR I B y 1 TN 1942 the officials of Burma were cooling their heels m Simla. Their flight from Burma shocked them into asking J. S. Furn i v a 1 1, then thought to
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • Letter
      European Bankers And The Debtor And Creditor Bill
      397 4 THE anxiously awaited 1 "Moratorium Bill" has now been published. It hat disappointed many. It is meant to settle the relationship between creditors and debtors of the pre-war and occupation period. But the settlement it pretends to off'T is one-sided, unjust, and
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    • Letter
      WHO ARE THE DEBTORS?
      266 4 I have read the draft bill of the Debtor and Cred it o r (Occupat ion Period) Ordinance 1943, and paid particular attention to Sections 6 and 7. It seems to me tri it the unfortunate people who were ordered by the Japanese to withdraw 20'o
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      130 4 V 0 J I Ea TNT Tells you tfHatTon/> is *«TONO 1$ not only a delicious drink but also a food of high nutritive and caloric value. It contains all the health-giving and restorative elements of pure rich milk fine chocolate sucrose, and malted grain with a definite addition of
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    POLICE PARTY RESISTED BY LABOURERS
    361 5 Reinforcemen ts Rushed To N.S. Estate Riot From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. njTIFN 5 labourers were arrested by the police t.i Ulu Ara Estate yesterday afternoon, lab> i ers surrounded the two police trucks locked the roads with oil drums and woouen posts. A:
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    Japs In Malaya Repatriated
    341 5 AN Army spokesman yesterday confirmed, m reply to a Straits Times question, that all but "a handful" of Japanese surrendered personnel have been repatriated from Malaya and Singapore to Japan. The spokesman said that the provision of sub-standard Japanese shipping by General Mac Arthur had shortened
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    DRIVER NOT BLAMELESS
    133 5 The Singapore Coroner (Mr. W. G. Porter) yesterday recorded a finding of misadventure at an inquiry into the death of a cyclist who was i killed by a taxi. The collision occurred at the junction of Stevens Road and Bukit Timah Road on Feb. 8. The Coroner,
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  • Malayan Round-Up
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      Burma Junk Master On Arms Charge
      84 5 PENANG, Tuesday. TPHE Penang customs have arrested the taikong of a Burmese junk from Mergui on the allegation that his junk was carrying arms and ammunition. The Junk was intercepted by a customs patrol launch on Sunday, off the Krian river. The customs launch
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      Rubber Exports
      51 5 PENANG, Tuesday.— Rubber exports from Penang rose last month by about 2,000 tons. January trade statistics showed that over 21,000 tons were shipped compared with 19,000 tons exported m December. Total value of the January shipments was $19,365,493. an increase of more than $2,000,000 on the December figure.
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      Entertained
      88 5 IPOH, Tuesday.— The Eura- sian representative of the Perak Council of State (Mr. F. G. H. Parry) was entertained to dinner during the week-end by the Eurasian, community at the Swiss Hotel here. Mr. J. H. D'Oliveiro, presiding, said the choice of Mr. Parry as the community's re- presentative
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      Trade Show
      47 5 k trade exhibition will be opened at the Great World Park, Singapore, on Saturday. The exhibition is sponsored by the Indian Government and about 600 Indian concerns will participate. The exhibition will last for nine days and will be opened by the Governor of Singapore.
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      Gambling
      50 5 MUAR, Tuesday.— Fines of $3 each were imposed on 13 people today by the Muar Magistrate (Inche Hassan bin Abdullah) for gambling. Nine of the men were ar- i rested m the back lane of Jalan Meriam and the others were taken about the same time m at Bakri.
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      Estate Affray
      72 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Tuesday.— I The manager of Chersonese Estate, Kuala Kurau, (Mr. G. C. W. Pringle) stood surety for 11 of his labourers today m the Parit Buntar Police Court. The men were bound over for a period of six months m the sum of $50 each for
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      Sultan Entertained
      42 5 KUANTAN, Tuesday. —H. j H. the Sultan of Pahang Wcus the guest of honour at a i Malay curry dinner given by Mi. LJm Hoe Leek at his resie'ence here. After dinner, dancing was i held until a late hour.
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      Revival Meeting
      57 5 MALACCA, Tuesday.— The Malacca branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade is to be revived. The Resident Commissioner. Malacca, has called for a public meeting for this Duroose to be held on Friday. Feb. 20. The meeting will be held at the Malacca police court at 5 p.m.
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      Plane Freed
      71 5 PENANG, Tuesday. The Siamese Airways plane, m which nearly 50 pounds of opium were found last Friday, has now beea released by the Penang customs authorities. It was flown back to Bangkok this morning by a relief crew. The manager of the airways, Major-General Chai Pradhipasen, who is
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      Petrol Grant
      68 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. Information has been received from London that the authorities will grant visitors from overseas bringing cars or motor-cycles to the United Kingdom petrol allowances for touring purposes. In addition, they may be granted an allowance of supplementary petrol coupons to ccver the journey, by direct
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    Grading Criticised
    209 5 YOU must remember that one of the most important things that US rubber manufacturers like about synthetic is its uniformity." This statement was made yesterday to the Straits Times by Mr. Jim C. Roberts, a representative of the U.S. rubber manufacturing industry who is now m Singapore. Mr.
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    Rules Of The Roundabout Explained
    255 5 Rules Of The Roundabout Explained A LETTER in the "Straits i\ Times" last week has resulted in the "right of way" at the town's busiest roundabout being clearly defined. The writer of the letter wanted to know how he sho-ild treat other traffic when he entered a roundabout. The answer
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    Chinese Are Rounded Up
    130 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. CHINESE junks from L/ Hainan island made further attempts at landing illegal immigrants on Malayan soil during the last two days. In Kuantan. 29 Chinese who landed on Sunday were rounded up by police soon afterwards. The second attempt
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    Chinese Film Achievement
    92 5 "TEARS of the Yangtze" at 1 the Cathay Theatre is. In part, a poignant record for East and West of China under the Japanese. It is the simple tale of a husband and wife separated when the Japanese enter Shanghai. Originality and the effective use of symbolism
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    MRS. BROOKE BACK FROM SARAWAK
    136 5 Mrs. Anthony Brooke, wife of the former Raja Muda of Sarawak, on her return to Singapore yesterday, after a six-months visit to Sarawak said that she had toured extensively throughout the country and had met with a warm, hospitable and enthusiastic reception wherever she had
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    GANDHI ASHES FOR MALAYA
    149 5 DART of Mahatma Gandhi's ashes are expected to arrive m Malaya m the first week of March. An official of the Government of India office In Singapore said yesterday the Representative of the Government of India In Malaya, Mr. J. A. Thivy, had cabled a re-
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    Malay Cable Of Protest
    80 5 rpHE Malay Union yesterJ. day cabled to the United Nations Organisation a protest against Australia's deportation of 14 Malay seamen. The Union claims to have a membershiD of 4,000 Malays in Singapore Island. The president of the union (Inche Sardon bin Haji Zubir) said in the
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    Fatal Shot: Major Is Acquitted
    280 5 MAJOR J. R. Warmisi.am. Commanding Office! of the Petroleum Reserve Depot at Woodlands, was yesterday acquitted on a charge of having negl gently caused the death ol a Chinese named Lim Lye Seng. The case was heard by the Singapore Third D Judge (Mr. Farell>.
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    INCOME TAX FIGURES
    323 6 Tax Ranges From $1.50 To $2,830 INCOME taxes payable in Singapore by single 1 men in 1948 range from $1.50 on an income of $3,050 a year to $2,830 on $24,000, according to a table prepared by the Income Tax Department. Tabulated are the amounts payable by
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    S.P.C.A. MEETING
    48 6 The first annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals m Singapore since the occupation will be held In the old Council Chamber at 5.15 p.m. today. Last year the Society Initiated a drive m Singapore to stamp out cruelty to animals.
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    62 6 An English class m progress at the Muslim Women's Trade School at the People's Restaurantm Handy Road Children from 6 years of age to women of over 20 are given free tuition at this school, the first of its kind m Singapore. The picture shows Miss <f Davies, one of
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    Candidates Will Not Broadcast
    353 6 QINGAPORE'S election O candidates will not be given broadcasting facilities. This was officially announced by the Director of Broadcasting (Mr. J. Dumeresque) yesterday. Mr. Dumeresque said If one candidate were permitted to broadcast an election appeal all 15 candidates would have to be given similar privileges.
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    The Colony Candidates
    117 6 mHKSK are the 15 candiX dates for the six seats on the Singapore Legislative Council. Their symbols appear m parenthises. Municipal South-West: N. A. Mallal, Progressive Party, (telephone) C. C. Tan, Progressive, (boxers); and M. A. Majid, Independent (violin). Municipal North-East: V. P. Abdullah, Independent (boxers); M.
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    Accused Of Altering 3 Cheques
    289 6 Accused Of Altering 3 Cheques SIM Swee Khoon, a cashier employed at the Social Welfare Department of the Colony Government, appeared m the Seventh Police Court yesterday on tentative charges of having forged three cheques or, alternately, having dishonestly used as genuine the three forged cheques. The offences were said
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    Ships For Far East Service
    173 6 Ships For Far East Service A MERICAN President jY Lines have purchased four freighters from the United States Maritime Commission for use on the Far East service. The first of these vessels, the 10,600-ton President Buchanan, formerly known as the Skldmore Victory, Joined the fleet of American President Lines early
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    41 Labourers In Court
    96 6 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Tuesday. TWENTY six Chinese, 16 1 men and 10 women, appeared before the District Judge (Mr. E. V. Rhodes) this morning on •harges of rioting and of obstructing the police at Ulu Ara Estate, Mambau, yesterday. The accused claimed trial and
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    30 6 A 21-year-old Chinese cylist, Ang Ah Yap, was killed yesterday when he cama into collision with an army truck at the junction of Thomson Road and Yeo Chu Kang Road.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    507 7 LONDON, Tuesday. TNCERTAINTY of the U general situation did not prove very conducive to business on yesterday's London Stock Exchange. In consequence, markets opened rather idle and uninteresting, says Renter's financial correspondent. Friday's closing levels were maintained m most Industrials, with Breweries dull and Guinness losing Is 3d
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    Singapore Share Prices
    845 7 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. WITH a few exceptions, shares have now recovered the losses sustained in the drastic marking-down of prices on the local share market a week ago. Taking the lead from London, they again improved yesterday. Tins and Industrials were firm, with business
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    SMALL DEALINGS IN SAGO & SUGAR
    242 7 SMALL DEALINGS IN SAGO SUGAR Produce Market From A Market Correspondent SMALL dealings m sago flour yesterday contributed the only feature on the Singapore produce markets. Prices, however, were weak on account of the long lull m the market since the beginning of the year. Sugar prices also dropped. Very
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    Rubber Down ¼-Ct. Again
    138 7 RUBBER again eased by quarter of a cent on the local market yesterday. No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers closed last night at 39?. cents per lb. Buyers still showed little Interest. At the same time, eellerr showed no undue eagerness tc part with any of their
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    MINSTREL BOY IS BEST CUP PROSPECT
    1294 8 Gold Caste Will Run Close By EPSOM JEEP MINSTREL BOY, attractively handicapped at 8.9 and probably at his best following three wins off the reel, is the solid favourite and likely winner of the Valentine Cup (worth about $7,000 to the winner) at Bukit
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    Race Programme
    1307 8 DELOW is the race programme at Bukit D Timah today, showing acceptances and order of running. The Double Tote will be on races six and eight, and the Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—1.45: Horses Cl. 2, Div. 5, Abt. 6F. Val, $2,000 04
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    Final Hints For Races
    38 8 riAL hints on today's races by (he Straits Times racing correspondent, "Epsom Jeep," will appear m today's Singapore Free Press. He will give special information from the stables on the day's most fancied runners.
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    Medicals Trounce Dentals
    207 8 TpHE Medicals beat the I Dentals by four goals to one yesterday evening m the annual inter-faculty soccer match at the College of Medicine. The Medicals' centre-for-ward, Mun Yong, played a goot game and put m the firs., two goals for his side. The first goal came
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    PROGRESS AT R. S. Y. C.
    208 8 •THE annual report of the Royal 1 Singapore Yacht Club for 1917 records a year of great progress and activity. The clubhouse was rebuilt and re -furnished and sanitation installed. The annexe was restored the grounds cleared and levelled and the lawns replanted. It
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    SELANGOR T.C. GAINS$211,926
    108 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. —The Government benefltted by more than half a million dollars from horse-racing m Kuala Lumpur during the 1&47 season. This was revealed In the annual report of the Selangor Turf Club to be submitted to its annual general meeting to be held at the
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    SING TAO WIN
    27 8 HONG KONG, Tuesday.— Tne Shanghai Chinese interport soccer team, playing here m a challenge game against the Sdng Tao team were beaten 4-I.— A.P.
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    Today's Probable Jockeys
    337 8 Today's Pro bable Jockeys By EPSOM JEEP PROBABLE "jockeys for today' 6 races are: RACE 1: Donnell Abu (Morsillo); Foretold (Bagby); Lady Kalang (Ellery); Gay Prattle (Spencer); Eulogjsm (Robinson); Tin Plate (Jeffers); Graceful Spear (Tait); Port Star (Lansdown); Princess Nuffleld (Turner); Princess Prints (Flannery); Atom Boy (J. Donnelly*; Advantage (Stirling).
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    Straits Times Selections
    173 8 RACE 1 "EPSOM JEEP" '♦TRESPASSER" "POINTFR" 1. DONNELL ABU DONNELL ABU DONNELL ABU 2. Tin Plate Tin Plate Tin Plate 3. Lady Kalang Foretold Lady Kalang RACE X 1. 8MIUNG THROUGH 2. Golden Grove 3. Prattle Ob GOLDEN GROVE Prattle On Smiling Through SMILING THROUGH ll<-iey tomb
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    Robertson Averts Test Defeat
    176 8 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Tuesday. A GRAND fighting century his first Test 100 and his first century of the tour by the opening batsman, Jack Robertson, saved England from defeat m the second Test against the West Indies yesterday. Victory for the West Indies seemed certain
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    DULEEP ON WAY HOME
    57 8 PRINCE K. S. Duleepsinhji, the former India and England cricketer, passed through Singapore last evening on his way back to India from Australia. Prince Duleepsinhji reported the Indian cricket tour of Australia for the world press. Kis criticism of Amarnath's Test tactics m Australia raised a
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    S.C.C. RUGBY XV
    67 8 The Singapore Cricket Club team to play the R.E. at rugby on the padang today at 5.15 p.m. will be: C. M. Quayle; T.A. Roper. C. Milton, J A. O'Brien: G.D. Hargreaves; J. Oates, H.D. Wilson; K.N.R. Wilson. P.M. Pascol. A. H. Hunter. A. V. de Pranck,
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    Sports Diary
    60 8 TODAY RACES: Second day of Sini;.»pore Turf Club Spring Meeting, Buki* Timah, 1 45 p m. RUGBY: S.C.C. XV v. RE. padanr. 5.15 p.m. HOCKEY: CSC. 2nd XI v Sinirapore District Hlf mU S. H. A knockout touriK-vi. S.R.C.. 5 p.m. SOCCER S C. F A. In»erdistrict League
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    ARMY BOXING TOURNEY
    87 8 THE first Far East Army boxing championsnlp tournament will be held at the Happy World stadium. Singapore, on Friday. Feb. 27. There will be about eisht championship fights, with two or three special contests .nd a non-stop inter-unit milling competition. The championships will oe decided on fights
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    MAY FLOWER B.P.
    98 8 At tbe annual general no of the Mayflower 8.P.. Sine; the following were elected bearers for this year: President, Mr. Lav Pau Bona (re-elected); 9tm piiu Messrs. Kang Soon Teck •re elected). Lav Seah Cbuan elected), Kang Soon Hcig ..rd Lim Som Chuan; hon. secretary, Mr. Chan
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