The Straits Times, 26 February 1948

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S M<;m pages SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1948 PRICE TEN CSN'Ifl
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  • 329 1 4 Justice Not Done To Our Troops' From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. |U[R. Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime Prime Minister, was "misled" when stating at a secret session m Parliament that "100,000 British surrendered to 30,000 Japanese m Malaya." Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival, former Commander-in-Chief of the British
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  • 308 1 Despatches Tomorrow A COMPREHENSIVE 40,000l\ word condensation of the Percival Despatches on the Malayan Campaign will be published m tomorrow's Straits Times. Lieut. -Gen. A. E. Percival was G.O.C. Malaya during the campaign. His Despatches ere among the most eagerly awaited of World War 11. They tell for the first
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  • 113 1 hi LONDON, Wednesday. "•HE Minister of Defence I (Mr. Shinwell) disi ciosed today that the British Army was developing wholly new types of secret weapons. He made the disclosure m a memorandum accompanying details of the gross army estimate of £340,100,000 for he 1948-49 fiscal year. £166,228,000
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  • Article, Illustration
    78 1 1OP: Mr. Philip Hoalim, chairman of the Malayan Democratic Union, addressing about 200 office workers m Empress Place yesterday afternoon when the MDU opened its campaign against the coming elections. BOTTOM: By pouring the water (the power of the pre-war Legislative Council) from a full glass into an empty glass
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  • 345 1 THE Malayan Democratic Union opened its campaign against the coming Singapore Legislative Council elections with its first meeting held in the presence of over 200 office workers in Empress Place yesterday afternoon. Mr. Philip Hoalirr chairman of the Malayan Democratic Union, standing on a platform draped
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  • 29 1 WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), Wednesday.—Twelve persons were killed and 40 injured today when an express train was I New Zealand's South Island. i derailed near Blenheim, In A.P.
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  • 269 1 LONDON, Wednesday. rE drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserve rose from £48,000,000 m December to £57,500,000 m January, Lord Pakenham disclosed m the House of Lords last night. He added, however, that this was not a "characteristic figure." On the Marshall plan Lord Pakenham
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  • 118 1 BATAVIA, Wednesday.— Mr. Ali Budiarjo, Indonesian Republican observer at the Bandoeng conference considering a constitution for the proposed new state of West Java, is returning to Batavia today at the request of the police, it was stated here A Dutch spokesman said Mr. Budiarjo had been asked
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  • 303 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday THE Jewish Agency henhas accepted a British challenge to produce evidence to prove that Britons were responsible for the, Ben Yehuda Street explo- 1 sum on Sunday. A spokesman of the Agency declared today that all the information about the explo- sim was
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  • 38 1 THE Straits Times Thurs- day Magazine section has not been published as usual today owin? to the need for conserving; news- print for publication to- morrow of our 16 page supplement containing the Pereival Despatches.
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  • 191 1 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. ONE of the most crucial battles m the struggle for Manchuria so far got under way today. Large Communist forces launched ferocious attacks I against the outer perimeter of Sinmin, last Nationalist stronghold guarding the Western approaches to Mukden. The Reds are said to be
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  • 400 1 Czech oslovakia n Reds Seize Power By Force s> PRAGUE, Wedntbdaj. THE Communist Party today seized controi of 1 Czechoslovakia, using its influence with ihe police and labour unions to take over almost every phase of national life. Later it was officially announced that President Benes had accepted the resignations
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  • 129 1 SingaporeN.Z. Talks Criticised From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wed. rE Sydney Morning Herald, m a leading article today, deplores the fact that the Singapore Services mission's defence talks m New Zealand wili be solely a British-New Zealand affair and that Australia will not be represented. The Herald says that on
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    • 126 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday. MRS. LUCILLE SANDERSON of San Francisco, thinks it time the world stopped judging beauty by "Caucasian standards." On this account last November, she opened an "international charm and modelling school for inter- racial beauties." Her students include Eurasian Korean. Mexican,
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    • 51 2 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. Five hundred primary school teachers and students, with their guardians, demonstrated outside the Bhanghal Council Building against high tuition fees and low salaries when the City Councillors yesterday discussed education policy and conditions. They were held off by about 100 policemen armed with rifles and machine-guns.—
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    • 52 2 Horder s Skidded LONDON. Wednesday— Lord Horder, the King's physician, and Lady Horder were taken to hospital yesterday Their car overturned on the Ports-mouth-London road after skidding and •hitting a tree. Lady Horder was detained with bruises and a susDected fracture of the hip. Lord Horder who I* 77 was
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    • 41 2 PERTH, W.A.. Wednesday. A Perth man dreamt he won first priie m a lottery with ticket No. *****. Next day he bought a ticket. He was handed No. *****, half the dream number. It won second prize. R*oter*A.A.P.
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    • 24 2 NEW YORK. Wednesday Mr. John Robert Gregg. 80, Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand System, died on Monday. He was an Irishman. A.P.
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    • 34 2 COLOMBO. Wednesday Sir Ivor Jennings. Vice-Chan-cellor of Ceylon University suggests that the best memorial to Mahatma GandhT n* Ceylon might take the form of a cancer hospital or a cultural home. Reuter.
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    • Article, Illustration
      57 2 RESIGNED AFTER DISAGREEMENT: Air Vice* Marshal Sir Conrad Collier, who handed his resignation, from his post as Controller of Technical and Operational Services, to the British Ministry of Civil Aviation on Feb. 19. He had disagreed with other leading officials. He will be able to make a statement when
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    • 66 2 LONDON. Wednesday.— Mr. Will Goldston, founder of the Magicians' -Club and one of the most famous conjurers of his day, died m London yesterday aged 69. Author of 51 books on magic, he retired from the active side of conjuring about SO years ago to enter tho retail
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    • 55 2 SYDNEY, Wednesday Several trade unions have promised support for the Australian Legion of Ex-Service-men and Women's "sponsor a migrant" plan, which is designed to bring British people to Australia. The Legion can find Jobs for all British migrants, it is stated. All that is .required for sponsors is a
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    • 57 2 MANILA. Wednesday— Negotiations are understood to have been concluded by President Roxas of the Philippines with the United States Government for full settlement by Jan. 1. 1952, of the Republic's bonded indebtedness. It amounts to more than U. 5.531,000,000 for bonds floated both m the Philippines and the United
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    • 69 2 MAIDSTONE, Kent, Wednesday.—A 21 -year-old smiled and waved to his parents from the dock m the Maidstone Assize Court yesterday when he was sentenced to death for the murder of his bride of three months after a dance last New Year's Eve. The man, Robert Holman Gorringe, returned to
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    • 26 2 LONDON, Wednesday. The British Government will grant £12,000,000 to encourage the re-€qulpment of the British cotton industry, according to a bill published yesterday.— Reuter.
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    • 34 2 LONDON. Wednesday.— The Duke of Gloucester underwent a minor operation to his foot yesterday m a London nursing home. A medical bulletin Xi, he op t ra «on would "imwe^LA.^ for «veral
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    • 42 2 CANBERRA. Wednesday Reconstruction of the Manus Island naval base at an ultimate cost of £3,000,000 is being considered by the Australian Federal Government On« plan would make the base one of the most imposing and modern m the Pacific— Reu-ter-AAP.
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    • 43 2 RANGOON. Wednesday The Government of Burma will shortly issue 10,000 000 yards of textiles to small retail dealers m Rangoon to be sold to the public at "reasonable prices." The object Is more and cheaper longyis (sarongs) for the Burmese.— Reuter
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    • 41 2 Butane B low-Up POCAHONTAS. Arkansas. Wednesday Five business buildings were levelled yesterday morning m an explosion believed to have been caused by escaping butane sras. The entire business district burned furiously. Butane is an industrial eas used for cookinc or heatine.
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    • 77 2 LINCOLN. Wednesday.— Brigadier G. W. Richards yesterday told troops to be sent to Che Continent: "Be. were of the platimum blonde who Is always just around the corner In Germany. She will have your money and take you for a sucker." He commented also on early marriage: "I didn't
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    • 75 2 VIENNA. Wednesday.—British authorities are trying to get the Russians to release a British newspaper correspondent. .Mr. G. R. Godye. Daily Hera.d, and his bride of five days. The two were arrested m the Russian zone of Austria on Monday night with no reason given. A British spokesman
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    • 58 2 NEW YORK, Wednesday The docks on Kyushu Island. Japan, will witness a lareescale family reunion when an American sergeant greets hiss wife and seven of their 10 children. Mrs. Martin A. Pfundtner and the children, aged from two to 17. await word from the Army to start their Pacific
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  • 185 2 LONDON, Wednesday. PAINTINGS by an American surrealist, of green faces, red horses, and cows holding parasols, have touched off a minor tempest m British art circles The Government subsidised Arts Council is sponsoring the exhibition. It is of modernistic paintings by Marc Chagall, Russian-born. Paris-trained, American
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    • 728 2 NOTICES l»r ORDER OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS. AUCTION SALE OF Kolriis. Trishawls, Bicycles, 2 "Hillman" saloon motor-cars 10 HP. Nos. S-5136 A J-413. and 1 "Ford"' saloon motor-car 10 HP. No. J-629. To Be Held At The Treasury Steps at 11.00 a.m. and also at The birk yard of
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    • 712 2 NOTICES MALAYAN BREWERIES LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a First Interim Dividend (No. 24) of Twenty Cents per share on the Ordinary and Management Shares, less 20 Co Income Tax, has been declared by the Directors on account of the financial year ending 30th June, 1948, payable on the
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    • 362 2 THE OVERSEA-CHINESE BANKING.CORPORATION LTD take pleasure m announcing that the additional Safe Deposit Boxes they ordered last year are arriving soon Those who have made reservations should call at their Head Office to pay a deposit immediately. TENDERS Separate tenders will be received for the supply of the under-mentioned to
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    • 303 2 This ii only one BCllI?*' or many symptoms i£Zi~^im&'\ ot indigestion, which, if not heeded, it f^j likely to lead to mor« 'A Zj distressing bodily '"^*kt« 9^4r •nd nervous disorders. These ill effects are the fermentation of the food m the stomach. Bodily weakness, nervousness, insomnia and a general
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  • 299 3 KOREA ELECTIONS Must Be Held At Once, Says U.S. LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. THE United States yesterday called for an immediate election m South Korea to establish a national government despite the United Nations' Korea Commission's advise against such a step.' The U.S. delegate (Mr. Jessup) submitted a resolution- to the
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  • 74 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA T -UMPUR, Wednesday. i AGRICULTURAL DeApartment investigators •stimate that the 1947-48 season will yield iJlalaya the equivalent of about 325,600 tons of homegrown rice, an increase over the previous year of 68,434.t0n5. Government-subsidised improvements on 120,000 to 150,000 acres of padi-land.
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  • 103 3 Two decrees nisi were j ri -ted at the Singapore High Court yesterday. The Chief Justice, Singa- j 1 pore (Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley) granted Mrs. Kathleen Davies a decree nisi to be made absolute m three months, when she petitioned for a divorce from her hus-
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  • 68 3 OSLO, Wednesday. The Scandinavian Governments l agreed today that a successful Marshall plan "will be of dejcisive Importance for European reconstruction." The four countries, Denmark. Iceland, Norway and Sweden, which concluded a two-day meeting here today, will "take part m the proposed working committee for the promotion of
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 3 FuOM THE ASHES: Flats to house thousands of p Londoners are rising in the blitzed areas of London. The London County Council plans to build dwellings for 5.932 i families during 1948. Above are seen flats in Hilldrop Cresrent. North London, nearing completion. L.N.A. picture.
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  • 468 3 Official Finding On Estate Clash From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. FIIRECT provocation by a trade union official caused the Dublin Estate incident last April, when police fire killed one labourer, Low Teck, and injured six others. This is the finding contained m an official report of the incident
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  • 161 3 A SINGAPORE detective on Tuesday night shot dead a Chinese gunman m a fight m Guillemard Road. The dead man is Wong Koot Fon, 26, believed to be a robber. He died m the General Hospital at 3 a.m. yesterday after being wounded m the left armpit
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  • 175 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. i JQUBBER exports dropi ped but production increased m the FederaI tion during last month The fall m exports totalled 6,240 tons, the month's shipments being 60,017 tons, while the increase m production was 3,316 tons December's total being 58,673
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  • 45 4 Tan Soon Leong aged 64. away peacefully at 256 na: Road at noon, 23 2 48 He 1 vnt behind his beloved 3 sons. 3 daughters, 2 ;-!a»-, 1 daughter-in-law d Children. Fun'-ral will take place on Friday, 27tli Dfeply regretted. rs please copy.
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  • 53 4 iy of the late Mrs. i nee Koli nicre thank and members of who paid ni^lu d the funeral, loaned cars; Mrs. M. Suppiah of 59, ad, Singapore wish to to all those the Dinner and i nt valuable and ttlcgrams of con on the occasion of the Ear-boring
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  • 1124 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 26, 1948 THE KINGS OF SINGAPORE Contemporary and topical affairs are the proper meat for the editorial columns of a daily newspaper, but local history is one of the components of the civic spirit, and there are very few citizens of present-day 1 Singapore
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  • 71 4 WASHINGTON. Wednesday. --On White House instructions, the Attorney General (Mr. Tom Clark) today sent Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to 16 leading steel companies to inquire into la.«t week's advance m steel prices. "The purpose of the investigation is to determine whether the recent increase
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  • Article, Illustration
    233 4 In the historical study which is reviewed m our leading article today, Dr. W. Linehan says that this Malay shrine m the old European cemetery on Fort Canning HID is "probably the memorial of the founder of ancient Singapore." Whether this is so or not, it is believed that tWs
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  • 1132 4  - Federal Misgivings In The Straits-Born HEAH JOO SEANG, By A Former President of the Straits Chinese British Association, Penang. AS a member of the Straits-bom Chinese community I wish to voice my protest at the manner m which my community has been treated m the steps leading up to the
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  • Man-in the-Street
    • 129 4 DISRAELI, BELLOC, WINSTEDT IT is hard to believe that ite letter pub the Straiti Tiroes under tiie Bam-de-plume <>f "Lion's Cub At B addressed to the Left v could h;: by a Kirl of tl claims. She also sta was born just herself on ttu r Us, frum which w
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    • 243 4 For her benefit I extracts from this very interesting book written by an unbiased ajthor and a tiJ-h-er at that. Refer to Chap'.cr viii. The Acquisition of Penau.g. Page 173. Light. sanpwi: eager had sto.ked hir. Jv lost: the honour of hi rent employer! now stood r<
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    • 667 4 CLASSIFIED ADS. ANNOINCFMENT ANTHONY HENG YECK HUAT. lately of Borneo and Lucy Tan BonR Nro were married in the Church Of St. Peter St. Paul on 13.1 48. Revorcnd Father E. I a officiated. TH U R TIT E YVONNE CHANKY. Married qurtly, Singa'4th February. 1948. (Ceylon paivr w). SITI
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    • 178 4 DENTAL SURGERY .Dental surgery has made great strides, but advances m professional skill and technique have been enormously assisted by the work of the British chemist and the chemical industry. Whore would the demist be without anesthetics? Cas laughing gas nitrous oxide was .first prepared nearly 170 years ago by
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  • 373 5 'Look ßefore You Leap 'Advice On Hollandia Plan A WARNING to Eurasians m Malaya to "look before they leap" into the project of establishing an Eurasian colony m Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, was given by the Secretary of the Singapore Eurasian Association (Mr. P. J. Johnson) yesterday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    97 5 This is Orchard Road circus as Singapore motorists saw it yesterday, surrounded by a row of white barrels and special traffic signs. The Municipal President (Mr. L. Rayman) and the Oflßcer-in-Charge of Traffic Police (Mr. C. J. R. Bembroke) were among those who studied the effect on traffic of the
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  • 134 5 I'HE Welsh captain of aj locally-owned coastal vessel has telegraphed his its m Singapore to say that the Dutch authorities m Sourabaya have detained the vessel m that port. Mr. C. A. Hire, the went, told the Straits Times that Cant, T. D. Richards. mas:er
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  • 201 5 A CANDIDATE for the Singapore Legislative Council elections yesterday alleged that one of his helpers, a Municipal employee, had been told by an official to t ake no active part m the elections. He is Mr. John Laycock, Progressive candidate for Municipal North-East, and he told
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  • 368 5 T*HE British Commonwealth of Nations was one of the most potent factors m the world today m the maintenance of peace, the Governor (Sir Franklm Gimson) said at a meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. The ideals for which the Commonwealth stood, said Sir Franklin,
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  • 74 5 Sixteen employees of the Indian Bank Ltd. m Singapore held a one-hour token strike yesterday m protest against the management's refusal to increase wages and allowances. A spokesman for the employees said 'they had been pressing for better conditions since 1946. All would now join the
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  • 164 5 ONE hundred Singapore medicos listened with! concentration for two j hours last night to re-: corded heart and breath; sounds at the Genera) 1 Hospital. It was the first recorded clinical demonstration m Malaya. Dr. K. Bal&skigham, Gen- I eral Hospital Pathologist, introduced the demonstration as
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  • 204 5 11 ffR. Justice Thorogood m Singapore High; Court yesterday gave MrJ Yeap Lian Seng and three others possession of a house and premises at| Meyer Road occupied by, the Air C.-in-C. Far East* (Air Marshal Sir Hugh! Lloyd) The possession order stipulated that the premises
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  • 50 5 Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, candidate for Rural East ki the Singapore elections, issued a manifesto yesterday. Inche Sardon states that he supports income tax, but recommends that the taxpayers have a say m the spending of the money, and promises to do all h* can for
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 139 5 SEVENTY -THREE Chinese illegal immigrants from Hainan Island who landed off the coast of Kuantan a fortnight ago have been brought to Singapore by the Straits Steamship vessel Resang. The men are being kept on St. John's Island by the Immigration authorities until they
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    • 83 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday. The Royal Johore International Club, used as the Officers' Club since the liberation, is once again on its own feet. To celebrate its revival a dance has been arranged for Thursday, Feb 26, beginning at 8.45 p.m. The Sultan of Johore and the Sultanah, as
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    • 59 5 IPOH, Wednesday. Perak Muslims will shortly discuss the question of forming a new political Islamic Party, with Islam and Malay nationalism as its guidJr.g principles. Religious, economic and educational matters relating to the Malay people will also be discussed at a conference to be held at Gunong Semanggol m
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    • 27 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday.—A Municipal (Extended Application) Ordinance to enable Kuala Lumpur Municipality to be created was taken through all stages at yesterday's Legislative Council meeting.
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  • 214 5 By Our Woman Correspondent ALTHOUGH entitled to demand special polling i\ stations under the Rules of Election, women voters of Singapore will not be given this privilege. This proviso will not be put into operation because the strict purdah restrictions imposed on some other countries
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  • 244 5 "Gapi" Goes On Journey ANAIU lca\ the Maiv hi liul fuarante i .it and pro] Australia a <.i that tie iS free ol disease. •*c is "Cha-pi, Malav.tn the Melb Malayan i exchange for mental bi swan i Lumpur. Gapi bid fatew«ll to hla Malay keep< r m pore Botanic
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    • 16 5 TODAY'S SAFETY FIRST SLOGAN Safety pays, IS you are careful you pay If you are not*
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  • 226 6 Tried To Throw Hand Grenades From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE death penalty for carrying arms was passed on a 22-year-old Chinese, Wong Hing (alias Wong Hean) m the Selangor Assize Court today. He was found guilty of carrying two handgrenades and attempting to
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  • 360 6 Unionists Again In Court WHEN the trial of three Singapore trade unionists—P. Veerasenan, P. Govindasamy, and Amuthalingam on charges of housebreaking, theft and committing mischief on Nov. last year, was resumed m the Second District Court yesterday, Amuthalingam denied the allegations. With Verasenan, president of the Singapore Harbour Labourers' Union
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  • 43 6 Wali Daa, a young ex-police I constable, was sentenced to 18 weeks' rigorous imprisonment by the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh. yesterday for robbery. It was stated that he robbed Miss Girlie de Mello of her ear-rings, wrist-watch and $5.
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  • 138 6 NEGOTIATIONS are m I i an advanced state for premises m the centre of Singapore to accommodate a branch of The United Commercial Bank Ltd.. "ne of the biggest banking concerns m India. The head office of the bank is m Calcutta. The proposal to
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  • 159 6 TODAY: MDU Lecture meeting. Mr. J.R.B. Towner on "British People and the Colonial Struggle," 331. North Bridge Road, 5.15 p.m. V's Men's Club, Directors' meeting, V.M.C.A., Orchard Road. 5.30 p.m. Singapore Lodge Theosophical Society, library evening, 8, Cairnhill Road, 6.30 p.m. Indian Trade Exhibition, Great World Park, 6
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  • Article, Illustration
    39 6 Two Malay princes at the first meeting of the Federal Legislative Council at Koala Lumpur on Tuesday: Tungku Yaacob of Kedah (left) and Tungku Abubakar of Johore, both representing agriculture and animal husbandry on the Council. Straits Times picture.
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  • 353 6 Fwas the definite policy of the Food Control Department not to take action against persons found m possession of Siamese rice, said C. W. Roberts, who was, until June 1947, the officer m charge of the Food Control Inspectorate, at the Third District Court yesterday. He
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  • 282 6 Alleged Murder Of Detective A SHOOTING incident at a coffee stall m Balestier Road on Nov. 15 last year, during which a Chinese detective attached tq the Criminal Investigation Department was shot dead, was discribed at the Singapore Assizes yesterday before Mr. Justice Brown. A young Chinese. Choy Tak, was
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  • 51 6 Bail of $300 was granted to Vadiveloo, a 21-year-old Indian, who was charged In the Fourth Police Court yesterday with kidnapping Mami, a 14-year-old girl. It was alleged that Vadivelloo kidnapped Maml from her lawful guardians at 10.20 on Oct. 8 last year. The case was
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 380 6 ..Plays Films; 8.45 "The SUeet reel; 9.45 Men Books; 10.00 RADIO MALAYA (S'PORE) we Live in" (Life in London week SKAC Theatre; 11.00 Radio 10.55 to 12 noon Schools' Broad- by week); 9 15 Talk: 9.30 Radio Dance; 11.45 Close, cast; 1 Radio Orchestra; i. 4 O Newsreel; 9.45 Scrapbook
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  • 209 7 LONDON, Wednesday. YESTERDAY wms the last X day of the account The opinion is widely held that, barrinr any untoward incidents the markets will ran a quiet but more even course between now and the Budget. With few exceptions, idle conditions m yesterday's London stock markets resulted m
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  • 366 7 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. THE uncertainty of the London market, resulting from 1 the political crisis m Central Europe, continued tP affect the local share market today. Most issues were easier. ■Gammons continued an exception and showed a rise of 17^ cents. Changes m quotation given
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  • 133 7 DUBBER again eased on the local market yesterday. A net loss of five-eighths of a cent was recorded. The drop m price was caused by the lower price In New York and by the appearance of morr sellers on the local market. Closing prices last night
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  • 83 7 BATAVIA, (By Airmail).— The Dutch Government-owned Krumput Rubber Estate near Bandjoeraasin, m Middle Javo, resumed operations on Feb. 15, five months after rebuilding work was started The estate was destroyed on July 31. All machinery was demolished and the buildings tired. With a force of 860 workers
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  • 589 8 Semi-Finals Full Of Thrills CIGHTS which were clean, thrilling and full of hard hitting were seen at Tanglin Barracks last night in the semi-finals of the Far East Army boxing championships. The contests were conducted according to the Imperial Services Boxing Association rules, the last
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  • 61 8 day. OUe Tandberg, the Swedish heavyweight champion, beat Walter Haefer on points in a ten-round contest here last night. This was Tandberg's second fight m the United States, and his first win. In Stockholm last July he won on points against the American Joe Baksi, then considered
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  • 105 8 Latest amendments to classifications of horses have been issued by the Straits Racing Association as follows: TRANSFFRS: Prom Class 1 to class 2— R*x Plash, Votrix, Oak- i law. Run Rabbit Run, Grand Hill, True Security, WiU O' The Wisp, Silver Star, Peace Night; from I
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  • 27 8 GEORGETOWN, Wednesday.— Torrential rain flooded the cricket ground here today: and prevented any play m the return match between British Guiana and the M.C.C.— Reuter.
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    17 8 i' nwa basketball team 01 Seaport huh touring the Netherlands East Indies for a series of matches.
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  • 74 8 COLUMBAS. Ohio, Wednesday.—Arturo Godoy. the South American heavyweieht mons points decision over Pat University student, here last night m a fieht over ten rounds. Godoy, who is makins? a "comeback", had a 16-lb: weight advantage over Richard, an ex-marine who weighed 185 lb. It was Richard's
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  • 20 8 Today: High water. 11.45 a.m. (10.2 ft.). Tomorrow: High water, 0.40 a.m. (9.1 ft.). 12.28 p.m. (10.3 ft.).
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  • 290 8 Willie Pep Keeps World Title MIAMI, Florida, Wednesday. WILLIE PEP retained his world featherweight title, beating Humberto Sierra of Cuba by a technical i knockout m the tenth round of a 15-round contest here last nigm. Jack Dempsey, the referee, stopped the fight while Sierra lay helpless. Pep. who has
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  • 252 8  -  EPSOM JEEP By PENANG, Wednesday. TTHE new batch of grif1 fins and several recent importations entered for the Penang Leap Year Meeting were given barrier practice by Mr Rube Billett, the S.R.A. Starter this morning. All were well behaved and Mr. Billett got them away with
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  • 45 8 L/Cpl. Hood (Malaya District) leads with a straight left to the head m bis featherweight bout against Sfirm. Dale (Ceylon Garrison) at the Far East Army boxing championship semifinals at Tanglin Barracks last night. Hood won on points. Straits Times picture.
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  • 257 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. WEIGHTS for three races to be run on the second day of the Penang Turf Club Leap Year Meeting, March 3, are given below. The handicaps for the Penang griffin race on the first day have been revised. The new
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  • 163 8 A REPRESENTATIVE group of Singapore J motorists met at the |Adelphi Hotel last night and formed a club for I sponsoring events to interest owners of all types of motor vehicles. The new club, which is the first of its kind to be formed m 1 Singapore
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  • 180 8 A GOAL scored five minutes before the end enabled Lorong 17 Geylang, to defeat Finlayson Green two-one m the Singapore Chinese Football Association's inter-dis-trict league game played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The teams were evenly matched, and the Issue was m doubt until the final
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  • 42 8 London, Wednesday. -The organising committee of the Olympic Games have sent invitations to Porto Rico and Syria, it was announced here today. If they accept, the total number of nations likely to comneje will be brought up to M.— Jleuter.
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  • 56 8 TODAY HOCKEY: S.H.A. knockout tourney— Shell Co. XI. v. Police,. Thompson Road, 5 p.m. SOCCEE: S.C.F.A. Inter-dis-trict League "C"— Upper Plckerinc Street t. Colernan Street, Qeyton* Stadium, 5 p.m.; Rocklites t. Indonesian 2nd XI C.V.M.A. Ground, St. George's Road, 5.15 p.m.; No. 2 subdepot (Clothing) 223 8.0.D. r.
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  • 183 8 LONDON, Wednesday. /\NE of the main reasons for Lincoln City's lead la v the Third Division North race for promotion is a part-time player— James A. Hutchinson. An inside forward, "Hutch," as he is known to city supporters, has scored 20 of Lincoln's 51
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