The Straits Times, 29 May 1948

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IS4S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY S9, IMB PRICE TEN CENTS
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    S. AFRICA INDIANS ALARMED Defeat Of SmutsBlow To Britain
    434 1 S. AFRICA INDIANS ALARMED Defeat Of SmutsBlow To Britain JOHANNESBURG, Friday. INDIANS m South Africa have received the news of Dr. Malan's Nationalist party s victory with trepidation. Share prices tumbled m the mining section of the London Stock Exchange today. The defeat of General Smuts' United Party came as
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    49 1 AIR CHIEF ARRIVES: General P. Bodet, C.-in-C, Frmch A r Force m the Far East, on his arrival at Chan?i from Saigon yesterday. From the left, M. A. !Vr»rand. acting French Consul General. Singapore: Gf". Bodet, and Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, C.-in-C, Air Command, Far Kast.— RAFPRO picture.
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    JOGJA PROTEST TO U.N.
    112 1 JOGJA PROTEST TO U.N. BATAVIA. Friday. INDONESIAN Republican 1 Government protested to U.N. from Jogjakarta today against the "Dutchsponsored" convention of non-Republican Indonesians now being held at Bandoeng m West Java. Thirteen non Republican Indonesian territories are taking part m the convention, which was opened today by the Dutch Lt.-Governor-General
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    THE YANKS ARE COMING
    45 1 COLOMBO. Friday.— The 12.000-ton United States aircraft carrier Rendova. the first United States warship to call here since Ceylon attained independence, arrived today from Istanbul. The carrier is on a 30,000mile world cruise. She will sail for Singapore on Monda}'. Reuter.
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    The Ears Have It
    35 1 TOKIO, Friday.— The position of Emperor Hlrohito's ears may prove that his Imperial ancestors were Indians, according to the findings of Chaman Lai, Indian scholar and journalist now m Tokio. U.P.
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    No Quarters More Cash
    67 1 WHEN the cost of living allowances report is tabled at the Singapore Legislative Council Meeting the Financial Secretary will move an amendment to the report which will double the rates of allowances recommended for Government officers not provided with quarters. He will also move that cost
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    Pulpit Led To Politics
    184 1 DR. Malan. South Africa's new political leader, j exchanged the pulpit for the portfolio. Born at Riebeek West m Cape Colony m 1847. he went as a young man toTne University of Utrecht. He began as a teacher, but soon exchanged the school* room for the
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    FLED IN PANIC
    47 1 LIMA, Peru, Friday. A strong earthquake was felt early today along the west coast of Peru and first reports said serious damage and some casualties were caused. The population of Canete, 40 miles south Lima, fled their homes m panic and huddled m fields.
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    HANGING POLL
    33 1 LONDON, Friday. The Daily Telegraph today published the results of a country-wide poll which purported to show that public opinion m Britain is "overwhelmingly against the suspension of capital punishment." U.P.
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    Polio May Have Passed Peak
    163 1 THE polio epidemic appeared to have passed its peak 1 tlhe Singapore Deputy Municipal President (Mr. W L. Blythe) told the Municipal Commissioners yesterday. "T can assure the public that everything possible to prevent and treat the disease has been and Is still being done,"
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    10,000 FLY FROM FLOODS
    96 1 10,000 FLY FROM FLOODS PORTLAND OREGON, Friday. I)ORTLAND braced itself; I for the worst flood in 50 years today as rivers, fed by mountain snows, forced 10,000 persons from their homes. A number of people have already been drowned. Roads In the flooded areas of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and the
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    Tin: New U.S. Attack
    199 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. BRITAIN was using a "prohibitive export tax! on Malayan tin to hamstring America's Government tin smelter." Mr. J. Croston. member of the National Security Resources Board, told the Senate Armed Services Sub-Commit- tee this yesterday. He claimed that Britain had said she would agree
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    Recalling Legion Officers
    159 1 Recalling Legion Officers LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. BRITAIN will recall from service in Palestine British officers seconded to the Arab Legion, Sir Alexander Cadogan, delegate to the Security Council, announced last night. British subsidies to King Abdullah's army would be reviewed "In the light of decisions taken by the Security Council."
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    "BIGGEST BATTLE' IS BAGING
    52 1 CAIRO, Friday. rlE "largest field action In the present war" in Palestine i6 still raging around Latrun, Arab-controlled keypoint on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road. A Haganah radio station in Jerusalem said that thousands of soldiers on both sides had been thrown into the Latrun battle. Reuter
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    SHIP SAILED ON FIRE
    74 1 DOVER, Friday. Flxemen from four Kent towns today relieved men who, working throughout the night, had been fighting a fire in the 6,000 tans British steamer Clan Maclaren in the harbour here. .Handicapped by lack of breathing apparatus French firemen were unable to put the fire
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    Worked In Colony
    61 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Friday.— Directors of the American President Lines today accepted the voluntary retirement of Mr. Thomas J. Cokely, vice president of operations, the oldest company staff member m years of service. During his 44 years with the company Mr. Cokely served as manager of the Shanghai
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    Peace Talks Denied
    47 1 NANKING, Friday.— A Soviet Embassy spokesman denied a report today, circulated m Nanking by a local news agency, that the new Russian Ambassador, N. V Roschin, intended to make any effort toward negotiation of peace between the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communists. AJ\
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    POLICE AND SOLDIERS ENTER ESTATE
    284 1 POLICE AND SOLDIERS ENTER ESTATE From Our Special Correspondent TANJONG MALIM, Friday. 1/XAPA Bali oil palm estate is a strongly armed military and police outpost today. About 300 British troops and police are quartered on the estate, ready for trouble if 79 Chinese and Indian labourers resist a court order
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    Protest Strike Today
    91 1 QINGAPORE Rubber 0 Woiikers' Union officials told the Straits T mes last night: "We are confident that all factories will stop work today." The union, which claims 7,800 members in 50 rubber factories has called the strike in protest against the imprisonment of 38 of its members.
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    U.S. ARE PREPARED
    50 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. The U.S. Government may invoice the Taft-Hartley national emergency provisions 10 head off a threatened nationwide maritime strike on June 15. Leading officials say. such action is being discussed, because a shipping hold ip would block aid shipments to Europe and the Far East. A.P.
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      Jet Designer Who Refused To Claim Gets £100,000
      415 2 Frank Whittle for his part m developing jet engines Air Commodore Whittle, had refused to claim a penny from the Crown because he was serving m the R.A.F. while he per fected jet-propulsion and improved auxiliary air compressor designs. The sum was
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      82 Years A Soprano
      56 2 CARDIFF, FrL— A choir of women, the youngest member of which is 65 and the eldest 82, sang for Princess Elizabeth yesterday as she was accorded the freedom of Cardiff. Proudest was the soloist, Mrs. Mary Hulin, who said that she had been a soprano every
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      SHIRLEY'S BABY
      24 2 Now three months old, Shirley Temple's baby, Linda Susan Agar, poses for her first picture with her mother. Shirley is Mrs. John
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      Broken Career
      77 2 CANNES, Friday. Rus-sian-born Mrs. Anna Haniotis, 25, was awarded 25,W# francs damages yesterday as a result of a night club brawl m which broken crockery cut her m three places and, she said, ruined her film career. Mrs. Haniotis said that a slate broken m the scuffle cut
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      599 2 NOTICES TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE No. 22 OF 1939 CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY PROCLAMATION NO. 14 OF 1945 SALE BY TENDER No. 78 The Custodian of Property, Singapore, Invites tenders for the purchase of the fcDowra*: Ready mixed Paint (assorted) 42 too*. Paste Paint 30 torn. NuU Bolts (assorted) 100
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    PEACE THROUGH PACTS
    160 3 'Backed By Us, 9 Say U. S. Senators WASHINGTON, Friday. THE Senate Foreign Relations Committee said yesterday that American-backed regional defence pacts offered the best quick way of preventing another world war. As this statement was being made, the Senate Judiciary Committee, considering anti-Communism, was being told
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    38 3 HANDSHAKE IN THE WILDERNESS: Mr. Alfred Edwards (left) and Mr. John Platts-MUls, the M.P.s who were recently expelled from the Labour Party, meet at the Labour Party Conference which, however, they attended only as visitors. Planet News, picture.
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    U.S. URGED TO BUILDAIRSHIPS
    66 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. ADMIRAL Charles Rosen1 dahl, an airship expert, told the House of Representatives Merchant Marine Committee that Russia is working: on dirigibles, possibly for Arctic use. Russia is the only country besides the United States with a helium supply. Admiral Rosendahl urged the United States
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    Mac Arthur May Make Trip To U.S.
    103 3 Mac Arthur May Make Trip To U.S. WASHINGTON, Friday. /GENERAL Douglas MacVJ Arthur may return to the United States next month, his first trip home since before Pearl Harbour. The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday voted 17-2 to ask G^ MacArthur I to testify at hearings on ap- propriatlons for the
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    Singapore Diary
    235 3 TODAI Exhibition of pictures by Mrs. M. L. Bainbrldge, Mrs. P. A. Roughton and Brigadier A. C. Balllie, Robinsons. 9 ajn. to 1 p.m. Postal and Telecommunications Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, annual general meeting General Post Office. 12.30 p.m. Thirteenth anniversary of Salvation Army in Malaya, anniversary
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    TheCardinal Remembers
    146 3 MANILA, Friday. pARDINAL Spellman and V/ his party of 14 other American Catholic dignitaries arrived at Manila airport today from Hong Kong, to begin a <three-day visit to the only Caitholic country in the Far East. The Cardinal said he "remembered with considerable emotion" his last visit to
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    U.S. Getting More British Goods
    216 3 LONDON, Friday. INCREASED British exports to the United States 1 during the first four months of this year were announced yesterday by the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Harold Wilson). On an annual basis, the In" crease was 60 per cent, higher than
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    BRITON CHIEF OF WORLD FARMERS
    58 3 PARIS, Friday. Mr. J. Turner, president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales was unanimously re-elected president of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers at a plenary session today. Members elected Included Mr. N. G. Renga (India). The Chinese
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    24 3 EViiMNG WEAR: Black silk gown worn with large, ff old -embroidered organdie shawl; shown by Schiaparelli In a Paris summer fashion display. A.P. picture.
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    GREECE 'BETTER'
    50 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. Mr. D. Griswold, chief of the American Mission In Greece, reported to President Truman yesterday that conditions in Greece were now better than at any time since he took over the aid programme last July. Mr. Griswold will return to Athens by air on Tuesday. AP.
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    China War Plea To UN
    78 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. IFNITED Nations was asked to mediate in the Chinese civil war before it pushes the world into a third global conflict. The request was addressed to the U.N. SecretaryGeneral (Mr. Ttygre Lie) by Dal Ming Lee, chairman of the Chinese Democratic Constitutionalist
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    Reds Aim To Rule AllNorth
    152 3 The Week In China SHANGHAI, Friday. LESS than a day after threatening to seize the whole of Manchuria, Chinese Communists this week wrested one of Changchun's two vital airfields from the Nationalists. Mukden reports say the Nationalists evacuated Tafanshan airfield on Thursday morning. General Lin
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    600,000 Ruhr Metal Workers May Strike Next Week
    145 3 FRANKFURT. Friday. TEN. Lucius D. Clay, US. Military Governor In Germany, said today that if the 600.000 Ruhr steel and metal workers *arrv out their threat to strike on June 1 and 2. it "would come very close* to anti-Allied action. He
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    Chinese School Told "Lessons Come First"
    207 4 AN official warning has been given to the Singapore Chinese High School against allowing certain of its teachers to engage m political activities during school hours. The school's attention has been drawn to the granting of a holiday, without refering to the Education Department
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    FromPhibun To Malaya
    74 4 FromPhibun To Malaya From Our Own Correspondent KOTA BHARU, Friday. The Siamese Premier (Field Marshal Phibun Songgram) has replied to a message from Kota Bharu asking for a peaceful settlement of the sooth Siam Muslim problem. The message, sent by Gempar Headquarters, also sought the release of the Muslim religious
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    Censure For Two
    316 4 TAIPING, Friday. "VOUR conduct deserves I the most severe censure," the District Judge, Mr. A.M. Webb, told two Europeans in court today. They were A. E. Bartlett, accountant, Austral Malay Tin, Taiplng and EL A. Nunn, manager, Whiteaways, Taiplng. They were acquitted on a charge of committing
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    Singapore Services
    246 4 Tomorrow's services in Singapore churches are as follows: CHURCH OF ENGLAND: St. Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m., 10.30 j a.m., 11.15 a.m., 5.30 p.m.: St. Georges Garrison Church, Tanglln, (open to civilians) 7.15 a.m.. 9 a.m., 9.45 a.m., 6.30 p.m.; Christ Church (Dorset Road) 7 am, 8 a.m., 9.30
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    NEW DUTY SCHEME
    86 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. I OCAL Customs DepartLi ment has adopted a new method of assessing duty on goods imported into the Settlement from the mainland. Under the new system, the ci.f. Penang value shall be accepted at the place of landing on the mainland.
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    250 Vendors To Sell 30,000 Flags
    322 4 By Our Woman Correspondent ON Friday, June 4, over 250 women will sell flags on behalf of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Thirty-thousand flags have been printed for the purpose. The flag day is the latest drive by the Association to increase their funds. Mrs.
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    Consul's Party
    22 4 rE French Consul for Singapore (M. A. O. Morand) gave a cocktail party at his home In Gallop Road yester-
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    Singapore Shipping
    115 4 SHIPS m port and ships along the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Katong (31). Cyrus (32-33), Achilles (34-35), Florence Lucaenbach (42-4S), Van Lomond (38-39), Sumatra (31). West Wharf: Welterpreden (1-2), Pulong (3), Ajax (4-5), Marie Kerk (8-9), Marella (11-12), Spendor (13-14), Lombok
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    ROAD ACCIDENTS
    53 4 A Chinese schoolgirl involved m an accident with a car while crossing Telok Ayer Street at 1 p.m. yesterday was admitted to the General Hospital with multiple Injuries. An Indian involved In an accident m front of the Geylang Road Police Station yesterday morning was still unconscious from
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    Penang Concert
    149 4 MISS Jbel Baillie, the celebrated British soprano who drew full houses at the Viet <a Memorial Hall on Tuesday and Thursday, has altered her Malayan itinerary to include a recital at Penang on Sunday night. She made this decision after receiving many letters and signed petitions from mv-
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    Estate Manager Beaten Up
    108 4 From Our Staff Correspondent BATU PAHAT, Friday. T ABOURERS of the Union Estate yesterday attacked the assistant Manager, Mr. Koh Sang,j who was admitted to hospital. Five people were arrested and are now in police custody. Three hundred labourers of the estate had demanded a loan
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    Army-Navy Deadlock Confusion At Narvik
    2175 5  -  The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill THE SECOND WORLD WAR— 3B By Under the divided system of command at Varvik, a deadlock arose between Lord Cork, anxious to carry out the Admiralty instructions, and Major-Gen. Mackesy, who interpreted War Office orders m a more cautious spirit.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    29 6 Mr. Mrs. C. T. Thomas of A.MDG.W R.A.F. Base Seletar. thank all those who attended, and sent presents and messages of congratulation on the occasion of their marriage.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., May 29, 1948. THE ARGYLLS IN MALAYA
    1179 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., May 29, 1948. THE ARGYLLS IN MALAYA For people who know Malaya, if not for the world in genera!, the best book on the Malayan campaign that has yet appeared is one that very few members of the civilian population of this country have yet
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    BOTANISING IN THE DUSUN
    1542 6 A Malayan Countryman's Diary MR. R. E. Holttum, of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, spent a day here lately, botanising. I believe that he was finally satisfied with his collection of plants. He is interested in our local species of bamboo and gingers. One plant he took
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    NOT OPISTHOGLYPHOUS
    350 6 Mr. M. W. F. Tweedie, Director of Raffles Museum writes:"The other day I was reading my Tuan Djek, and deriving as much pleasure as usual from it, when I came across the bit about the Sealing Wax Snake and the correspondent who wrote that it is a backfanged
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    HAWKERS BLOCK TOWN CLEANING
    477 7 Municipal Reply To Mr. Lay cock lIAWKERS m Singapore were the "biggest single retarding factor" m the problem of cleaning up the town, said the Deputy Municipal President (Mr. W. L. Blythe) at a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners yesterday. He was making the first public
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    Move To Combat Lotteries
    299 7 Move To Combat Lotteries AN immediate meeting is to be called of the Executive Committee of the Malayan Christian Council to consider ways and means of fighting the proposal for state lotteries in Singapore and the Federation. A meeting of Singapore Christian leaders and Members of the Council last night
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    ANNIVERSARY OF CHURCH
    101 7 Dr. H. B. Amstutz, a senior memoer of the Methodi6t Mission, said last night that the attitude throughout the world of trying to "make the most, most easily" was causing all professions of service to suffer. Dr. Amstutz was addressing young people of the Salvation Army at
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    Chap Ji Kee Fines
    65 7 Fines totalling $1,400 were imposed by the Eighth Police Court Magistrate Mr. R. Vf. p. Rule yesterday on Ah Chat and three Chinese women, Hui Ah Mooi, Soh Ah Lok and Kok Ah Hee, who pleaded guilty to a charge of assisting in the management of
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    Election Bill Change Proposed
    139 7 Election Bill Change Proposed QUGGESTIONS for two! •J amendments in the Municipal Elections Bill, 1948, raised at yesterday's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners, are to be forwarded to the Colonial; Secretary for his con-j sideration. The first was raised in a letter from Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, who thought they
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    DISMISSAL IS SUPPORTED
    62 7 The Municipal Commissioners yesterday confirmed the President's decision that Mr. A. Joseph— employed In the Registry of Vehicles Dept should be dismissed. It was stated that Mr. Joseph had absented himself to take his wife from his home to the hospital in a taxi. This had happened
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    Death In U.K. Of Dr. Corbet
    74 7 Dr. Alexander Steven Corbet, distinguished entomologist of the natural history section of the British Museum has died in England. Dr. Corbet specialised in butterflies of Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. He wrote, in collaboration with the late Mr. H.M. Pendlebury, a book on
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    WASHING AMAH BOUND OVER
    62 7 A Malay woman who pleaded guilty to stealing Jewellery *to?th $750 from a house where she had been working as a wash amah at $12 a month, was bound over in the sum of $300' yesterday by the Third Police Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers). The
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    Sleeping Girl Wounded
    82 7 A 26-YEAR-OLD Chinese was alleged m the Seventh Singapore Police Court yesterday to have be-;n responsible for wounding a 12-year-old Indian girl m the foot while she slept m an adjoining room m Kee Seng Street on March 21. The man, Lim Hai Seng, of Silat Road,
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    Twins Given Prizes
    127 7 iTIWENTY FOUR YEAR 1 OLD twin brothers, Mr. j Teo Tye Hin and Mr. Teo Kha Hin, won second and third prizes in the Youth Fellowship's oratorical contest at the Singapore Wesley Methodist Church last night. Mr. Teo Tye Hin's subject '< was "Random Reflection," his I
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    Unions Oppose Cut In Cargo Rates
    122 7 THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions has set A upa committee from eight waterside unions to oppose reduction m cargo handling charges. The move follows shipowner and merchant proposals for a Singapore Roads Board to re- duce charges. The SFTU said yesterday the committee
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    50 Per Cent Struck Work
    143 7 MORE than 50 per cent of the municipal labourers took part m the one-day strike called on April 23 by the STFU. The strike was m protest i against a police raid on the I premises of the Federation. Telling this to the Munici- I
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    3 Men Chase And Shoot Cyclist
    297 7 lyM I r"t V m*» I i 99 J_l V JmBi. 1 LJ From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Friday. THREE MEN on bicycles followed and wounded a 1 man with a pistol shot at Kota last night. The wounded man, who was also on
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    Repats Screened In Colony
    177 7 Repats Screened In Colony FOUR hundred and ten Strai<ts-born Chinese who became displaced persons during the war were yesterday carefully screened before re-admission to, Malaya. They arrived from China aboard the; Heinrich Jessen. Their repatriation was part of the work of the Preparatory Council of the International Refugee Organisation, a
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    Local Buying Urged
    174 7 'THE Singapore MuniciA pality should buy from i local traders and indusj trialists wherever possible, said Mr. L. Cresson in the Singapore Municipal Commission yesterday. At the same time. Municipal Departments In obtaining their supplies should avoid creating a monopoly for any one concern. His attention had
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    Woman Fined $1,000
    27 7 Ooh Ah Choon. a 35-year-old woman, was fined $1,000 In the Second Police Court yesterday for assisting m the management oi "chap Jl kee."
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    'Supervise The Secret Ballot
    282 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. "QINCE secret ballots strike at 4he very root of trade O unionism and the individual's freedom of cho te, I suggest that until such time as trade unions can be relied upon to carry out that requirement <hemselv<--,, all secret
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    Stolen Property Charge
    153 7 DAVID Wolf dinsoerg, of 138 Kim Seng Road, was yesterday charged in the Singanore Second Police Court with two counts of dishonestly disposing of stolen property. It was alleged that in S.ptember and November last, Ginsberg dishonestly disposed of two diesel generators valued at £1019 8s. 5d.
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    The new look on the same old income
    1386 8  - The new look on the same old income "FEMINA iTV Tflß FEDERAL CAPITAL l£ L. women aren't changing overnight into the new look." They can't afford to. Anyway, it still has not been decided by the feminine mind throughout the world whether the new look will stay with us long
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    More Vegetables
    260 8 From A Market Notebook IN spite of the fact that »nlv mirmr aftinmonU only minor smpmeius of fruits and vegetables arrived m Singapore dur\ntr thp wppk there was no m? tne weeK. mere was no shortage m any local market. Cauliflower from Australia was a speciality as this
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    The Malayan Bachelor
    616 8 UE was an engineer; 11 a Government servant. Physically, he was not very old; mentally it is doubtful if he had ever been young. He was small with a tendency towards paunchiness which caused him forebodings on aesthetic grounds only, as sport held no interest for him.
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    RECIPES For the Malayan climate
    329 8 RECIPES For the Malayan climate From a Singapore Chef rnODAY, we are having a meatless dinner, consisting of: Chilled Fruit Stuffed Tomatoes, Parsley Potatoes, Asparagus, Hot butter sauce. Caramel Cream and to finish, to-day's "special," a cool drink. Chilled Fruit: Use any fruit you desire. Be sure they are well
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      138 8 f The Cuisine of the Catf ay Restaurant i? under the direction of Mr. Cachnang. His career was nurtured m France, Switzerland and Austria countries which spell Gourmet and where only the superlatively good dish is remarkable. TELEPHONE 2776 FOR RESERVATIONS rTjJ MR-CONDITIONED [fIT H B x 'JS§ RESTRURHNT 7
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      276 8 l|g; HERE is where trouble lurks. Dental trouble m many rases is due entirely to personal neglect. The "Guiti-lme" 'He luoction of teeth and gums is particularly vulnerable Infection, once established can only be treated by your dentist Daily Dental Care with Ipana protects the "GurrvLine". StSi Twice daily, clean
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
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      A VISITING JUSTICE ON OPIUM
      663 9 A VISITING JUSTICE ON OPIUM THERE has recently appeared some corres- pondence m an Ipoh contemporary on the subject of opium smoking. I think it is time that people like these correspondents considered opium from the proper perspective. Opium, to begin with, is a deleterious and very dangerous drug. It
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      Six Arms And A Signal
      271 9 Six Arms And A Signal 'THE British Highway 1 Code is very clear on •the subject of traffic signals by drivers. Each signal has one and one meaning only and there can be no confusion between them. The Singapore driver has, however, modified these instructions considerably, with bewildering results. Only
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      POLIO AT A GLANCE
      177 9 CAUSE: A virus (ultramleroscopic and filterable*. NATURAL HOSTS: Men, chimpanzee and sometimes monkeys. MODE OF INFECTION: Old Theory: via olfactory nerves to central nervous system. New theory: via alimentary tract, thence by sympathetic nerves to spinal cord SITE OF LESION: central nervous system. Result: paralysis, atrophy
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      CORRECT COLLEGE DRESS
      314 9 CORRECT COLLEGE DRESS ALLOW me to correct a few wilful mistakes committed by your correspondent "Shirt Longs" with reference to the wearing of ties in Raffles College. I give top marks to "Shirt" for his melodrama, bi*t there is no campaign, and no clique. We want to be correctly dressed.
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      Singapore Dustbin Diary
      180 9 HEREWITH, is a page of my diary, which you may publish if you so desire. MAY 23: 7 a.m. Shocked to see near the junction of Tembeling and Duku Roads, 20 Municipal dustbins without covers each about three feet high filled to overflowing with the filth of
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      Filling The Gap With Engineers
      438 9 READ with interest your recent leader 1 "OPENING NEW DOORS." In it you commented thus on engineering and ended with, "Malayans get ready to fill the gap." This gap, I suppose would be created by the retirement of engineering officers m the Government. Malayans, before
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      Appeal From Patients
      101 9 IN reply to a "Patient's Wife" we, as members of the public and especially as patients of Tan Took Seng Hospital, fervently hope that there will be no strike on June 30, as this "will not only inconvenience the hospital people and the patients, but also the
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      Politicians And Education
      271 9 FIRST THINGS FIRST.... |T is really irritating to read m your columns the article by "Struggling Examplar' m which he criticised the sound warning given by Professor Silcock at the I.S.S. meeting recently. "Struggling Examplar s* action is m itself typical of the "curse of Malaya" which
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      Beware Of The Quack Optician
      193 9 Beware Of The Quack Optician TS it not time thai the public was protected from the "quack" opacians now flourishing m Singapore? One bright gentleman m the busiest part of the town, where he cannot fail to catch the unwary, walks about m a white coat and tells everyone to
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      119 9 Just right! 9 Just right m style because so >«*Y enormous an out-put can employ /^nt*, the best shoe designers. jy' IfflL Just right m quality, thanks \rJM u& to the work of expert traits- OwvwJ fcm men with the most up-to-date Xr//M p* machinery and the vast tV )tr//m
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      205 9 Ihe Stars Turn On H— PARLOPHONE r_JtL GERALDO and his Orchestr. GOLDEN EARRINGS (Film: 'Golden Earrings') Vocal: Carole Carr SOUTH AMERICA. TAKE IT AWAY— Rumba (Prom 'Starlight Roof) With Vocal Ensemble P 2279 OSCAR RABIN AND HIS BAND HIE FLOWER SELLER— WaItz I Vocal: Bob Dale ENLLORO (Voo Doo Moon)—
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      390 9 In today's deal it was not merely bad analysis that made East go astray in his defence common, garden-variety greed also played its part. North, dealer. Both sides vulnp*T»b'e. NORTH AQ 10 9 cj I 10 9 t S 4 7 Z WEST EAST- KJ1O983»»742 f| A 6 2 A
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      209 9 highly competitive bidding. West could have made four spades, and South was justified in sacrificing at five hearts East had a sound penalty double, since five hearts should have been defeated, but be should have been satisfied with a small profit instead of trying for a killing, as he did.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    429 10 LONDON, Friday. SMALL support lifted British Government securities by one-eighth yesterday, but on the drying.up of business the gains were lost. Prices settled down around the previous closing levels, says Reuter's financial correspondent. There were signs of revival interest m the West African Gold market. Leaders were m
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    Dow Jones Averages
    20 10 May 26. May 27. Stocks 70.63 70.44 Industrials 191.06 190.97 Rails 61.48 60.87 Utilities 35.68 35.73 A.P.
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    Malayan Share Market
    462 10 From Oar Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Friday. THE Industrial and Mining sections of the Malayan share market remained 1 firm today. The markets generally, however, were dull. Little business passed. Produce Market Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers 1 Association were: INDUSTRIALS Bay* SeOat Atlas Ice IS. 00
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    524 10 rnHE Singapore rubber X market steadied yesterday on some trade buying for June and July shipments. It eased a trifle later hi the day. Fob. closed an eighth of a cent higher than at Thursday's close. Closing pa-ices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 43% cents per
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    INTEREST REVIVES IN PEPPER SECTION
    221 10 From A Market Correspondent INTEREST returned to the pepper section of the Singapore produce market* yesterday. Quotations improved. The sago flour market was quiet bat steady. Coconut oil continued easier. Yesterday's quotation* were: Rice Unclassified: No. 1 $65: 2 $00: 3 $52: 4 $48. Glntlnoon
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    Connemara: No Div.
    57 10 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday.— Connemara Limited is not declaring a dividend for the past year. This, it was stated at the annual general meeting, was on account of the cost of replanting and rehabilitation. A dividend would not oe declared until a reasonable amount
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      744 10 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS FROM U.K. AND U.S.A. "Trdens" -From OK O. 33 "Adrastus" Due from O.K. and Holland Jane 3 •Nelrus" Doe from U.K June 10 "Mentor** Due f«n U.S.A. June 17 BAILING* rOK LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW AND CONTINENTAL PORTS "Achilles' Sails for Amsterdam
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      137 10 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS PRES. POLK Penang Arr. May 29 MARINE FLIER Singapore Arr. May 39 Penang Arr. Jane 4 SAILING TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES THENCE NEW YORK, BALTIMORE BOSTON VIA PANAMA. DARTMOUTH VICTORY Early Jane Singapore Swettenham Penang
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      164 10 jfiL mj. TREVELYAN m <®SSf@& FOR GENOA, MARSEILLES, HAVRE. LONDON ANTWERP \ND ROTTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM LOADING SINGAPORE 5— 15 JUNE P SWETTENHAM 16— 20 JUNE PENANG 21— 26 JUNE Dates subject t* alteration ISLAY KERR CO, LTD. HARRISONS CROSFIELD SINGAPORE A PENANO PO^^wSrENHAM THEHOHONGSSCO.(i932)LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore 65 Chulia Street.
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      603 10 ELLERMAN KLAVENESS BUCKNA iviHwtntj'j HAVRE, LONDON, PACIFIC miS ANTWERP FRANCISVILLE "CITY OF CARLISLE" h Snore P. Sham .*en;>n« In Port 39 May J""! 9 Jan 39 May 1 June J ne lune A tents: McALISTER CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Bin«Dore> PHONE 5906 BOUSTEAD&CO LTD. LLOYDS AGENTS Agenta for Malaya Railways
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  • SINGAPORE SPORTLIGHT
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      Singapore Should Win Cup Game Today
      2038 11 Singapore Should Win Cup Game Today By Straits Times Sports Reporters nrHEN Singapore meets the fY Nary-Army in her second Malaya Cap match today, the will enter the field confident of a victory that she should not find too hard to take In spite of Army goalkeeQer Wragg and Navy
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      526 11 AMERICAN MAIL LINE FAST SERVICE To Los Angeles, San Francisco Portland Seattle Vancouver Also accepting cargo for Central ami 8. America* ports "ISLAND MAIL" P. Swettenham 29th May "OREGON MAIL" loads Penang 16th Jane P. Swettenham 18th June Singapore 19th Jnc EVERETT ORIENT LINE LOADS For Rajang. H.K. Foocbow. Shanghai
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      235 11 CAPITOL Phone 5159 I ODAI 11— 2— 4.15— «J0— 9.13 Here Bing The Andrew Sisters Sillg "You JJon't Have To Kno» The Language And You Really Don't Have To, flfl r^^"^*~ AND THt BSa> MALAYAN GAZETTE "FACE OF MALAYA" PERFORMANCES II VI A \M PilONfc 11 A.M. 1.45-1.15 I O
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      132 11 RADIO MAMIA ,8i>OH£' 1 p.m. Music: 190 News Market Report; 1.46 Tommy Dorsey Orchestra; 3.00 Light Music; 2.30 Cowboy Songs; 3.00 I Navy Mixture Melodies; 3. 15 Peter Yorke Orchestra: 4.00 Song Time; 4.15 Tea Dance; 5.10 Malaya Cup Football: 6.20 Close. 8.15 News Announcements; 8.20 Sports Round Up; 8.30
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      140 11 Walton; English Lesson Verb Tenses: 7.45 French; 8.00 Siamese; 8.30 Indonesian; 8.45 Dutoh; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9.30 Burmese; 9.45 English: News At Rubber Prices; 10.00 Film Adaptation "When the Sun Shines;" 10.30 Women's Magazine; 11.00 Rhythm on Records from Radio Malaya; 11.30 News Sc News Analysis; 11.45 Dance Music; 12.00 Close.
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      159 11 Hal Kemp; 7.00 Dai« wi'-h tne Stars; 7.30 Radio Reel; 7.45 Tonight We Dance; S.15 World's Great Music; 8.30 News; 8.40 BBC Transcription: 9.05 Talk: 9.10 Moment Musicale; 9.15 Waltz Time; 9.30 Screen Presents; 9.45 Radio Reel; 10.00 News; 10.15 Australians on Record Baritone John Brownlee; 10.30 Close. RADIO 8KAC
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    DOUBLE FIVE AND GAME LAW AGAIN
    971 12 Will Fight Out Big Race Today From EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Friday. WITH King Midas not accepting, Game Law holds a bright chance of making amends for his defeat in the Governor's Cup in the distance race for cracks at Ipoh tomorrow, the first day
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    Ipoh Acceptances
    1212 12 A CCEPTANCES for today's Ipoh races are given n below. The Double Totes will be on races three and four, and six and seven. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.30: Class 2, Div. 6—5 Furs. Str. 101 L. K&lanr (Ellery) 9.00 Mr. H.
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    Title Bout For Mills
    66 12 LONDON, Friday. BRUCE WOODCOCK, British and Empire heavyweight title-holder, who has been nursing a broken jaw suffered m a bout with American Jo e Baksi last year, has been ordered by the British Boxing Board of Control to defend his title. The Board named Freddie Mills,
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    Kedah F.A. Bars Club
    158 12 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Friday. rE Kedah Football Association Council has removed the Alor Star P.W. D. Recreation Club from its list of affiliated clubs. This action, which m effect bars the Club from participation m further games sponsored by the Association, was taken
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    GAME DRAWN
    39 12 Dockyard XI and Seletar Football Club drew two-all in a soccer friendly at Seletar yesterday. Moore and Johan scored for Dockyard XI. Smart was responsible for both the Seletar F.C. goals. The Club led 2-1 at half-time.
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    S.C. C. TEAM
    49 12 Singapore Cricket Club's team against R.A.F. Tengah tomorrow at 11 a.m. will be: c. Milton (capt), R. E. Low, J. Mills, W. J. Harrfey. E. O. Staunton, R. O. Thomas, W. Moreton Moss, P. F. Herbage, K. Graham, E. V. A. Robbing and S. J. Masters.
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    Motor-cycle Owners To Form Club
    112 12 OINGAPORE m o t o r- 1 cyclists are planning ito form a club on the j same lines as those m England. Members of the club will be I Invited to participate m hill climbs, reliability trials and excursions. Singapore's Traffic Police chief (Mr.
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    Straits Times Selections
    165 12 "Epsom Jeep" "Pointer" Race 1: 1. LADY KALANG GLORIFY 2. Warsplte Warspite 3. Glorify Lusan Maid GLORIFY Content Lady Kala*i» Race 2: 1. SCARLET TIGER II 2. Dark Romance 3. Peace Nlfht SCARLET TIGER II Peace Nlfht SUrer Lininr AIR PAL Dark Romance Indian Heather Race 3:
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    Lanes 22 Behind On 1st Innings
    311 12 MANCHESTER, Friday. LANCASHIRE held a good chance of being the first team to head the Australians on the first innings when the match was resumed today, but they finished 22 runs behind. The pitch was much faster than yesterday and, after a brief spell
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    Mrs. Todd Ruled Out
    133 12 PARIS, Friday. MRS. Patricia Todd, United States holder of the French lawn tennis championship title, was finally ruled out of the event today. She left her hotel after failing to contact Mme Nelly Landry by telephone and spent two hours at the Roland Garrot Stadium courts
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    Scoreboard
    158 12 AUSTRALIA Ist INNS. 204. LANCASHIRE Ist. INNS. Washbrook Ibw b Toshack.. 33 Place c Lindwall b Toshack 24 G. A. Edrkh b Johnston.. 55 Ikin b Undwall 7 K. Cranston b LindwaU 14 E. H. Edrich b Johnston... 5 Whartcn c Johnston b Undwall 24 Pollard c Hamence b
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    2 GAMES OFF
    37 12 The cricket match between the Singapore Colts and the 8.0.D.C.A. scheduled for today has been cancelled. Owing to bad grcund conditions, the Colts' game against the Khals ~iaticn tomorrow has also been called off.
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    P.C.F.A. May Meet China XI
    182 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. rE Penang Chinese Football Associat ion, which had four representatives on the Malayan Chinese team that played in the recent China National Meet, may meet the China Olympic team at Singapore next month. The match, if present negotiations materialise,
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    Div. 2 GAME ABANDONED
    42 12 THE S.A.F.A. League Second Division encounter between S.H.B. Auxiliary Police and R.A.F. Tengah at Tengah yesterday was abandoned 15 minutes from the end owing to rain. The S.H.B. Police were leading by 2-0 when the game was stopped.
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    Sports Diary
    52 12 TODAY SOCCER: Malaya CupSingapore v. Army Navy. Jalun Besar stadium. 5.15 p.m.; S.A.F.A. League, Div. Ill— S.H.B. Boys' Club v. Singapore District W. REME. McNair Road, 5.15 p.m. CRICKET: S.C.C. t. C.S.C., padang, 2 p.m.; I. A. r. St. Andrew's School, Wood.sville. 2 p.m.; S.B.C. v. Y.M.C.V. S.R.C..
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