The Straits Times, 5 September 1948

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  • 22 1 FINAL JK I YlCil THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 684. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5| 1948. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 376 1 Armed Reds shot up Swtfiy Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. THE Siamese Air Force has attacked a band of Communist terrorists in the Betong area of the Siam-Malaya frontier. One plane swooped low and machine-gunned the Communists who returned the fire with rifles and machine guns
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  • 71 1 THE seven-ton rotor belonging to the IiKUOU-kiiuwatt turbine at St. James Power Station. Singapore, arrived back on the WHlem Ruys yesterday after reconditioning in England. Here U is on its way to St. James*. It is expected that the turbine will be in operation in two months.
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 1 MANY thousands Hocked to the Air Display at Singapore's Kallang Airport yesterday. Here a small part of the crowd is seen inspecting machines drawn up In front of the hangars. Story Page Three.
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  • 137 1 ATHENS, Saturday. UNKNOWN planes were today reported to be dropping arms and other supplies to rebels in the Peleponese j Peninsula where the Greek; Government has adopted measures to complete a blockade to isolate about 2,500 guerillas. Navigation in the Gulf of j Corinth
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  • 61 1 NAIROBI, Sat. A CONTINGENT of the King's African Rifles was sent to Zanzibar today after African workers had began a general strike, It was reported hfre. Zanzibar police have been reinforced from Tanganyika, and the situation was regarded as serious. This new action followrd a
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  • 155 1 JOGJAKARTA, Saturday. REPUBLICAN Communist leader Musso, who recently arrived from Moscow in Jogjakarta, told the Republican Farmers' Congress today that it was impossible for Indonesia to remain neutral in case of armed conflict between the United States and Russia. Musso, who is a member of the
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  • 96 1 LONDON. Saturday When Princess Margaret flies to Holland tomorrow in a Viking of the King's Flight, a special watch will be ketrt by the Fighter Command to ensure that her aircraft doe* not Ket. mixed up in the R A.F. big mock war. The princess's air
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  • 111 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent rO Malays picking; jungle fruit were kidnapped by armed Chinese at Dusun Kanthan, near Mantin (Negri Sembilan) early this week. Eleven other Malays who formed a search party next day were also kidnapped by the gang. On Wednesday two of the search
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  • 81 1 RANGOON, Sat. THE Government has dispatched Deputy Supreme Commander, Tun Hla Aung, to Moulmein to discuss terms with the rebels, including the possible granting of local autonomy to the Karens. A brief announcement said a band of Karens captured Moulmein and seized a number of government
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  • 73 1 INTERLAKEN (Switzerland) Sat. I AFTER a six -hour debate during which a British I delegate walked out, the European Parliamentary congress here adopted late last night a ten- point plan for a federation of Europe Major Peter Roberts (Conservative) walked out in protest after
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  • 181 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. rpHREE European dredge engineers of Tronoh 1 mine, Kampar section, where Mr. Baden Powell Wills was shot dead by insurgents last month, were involved in three separate shooting incidents while going to their dredges last night. None of them
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  • 96 1 BANGKOK. Saturday. •pEPRESENTATIVES of the IV Indonesian Republic here say they will take legal action immediately in Singapore against parties who had charged them with widespread smuggling of gold and opium from the Republic to Singapore. Izak Mahdi, Republican representative in Slam, and John Coast, former British Foreign
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  • 89 1 AMSTERDAM. Saturday. AT a simple ceremony and with a few quiet words of farewell. Queen Wilhelmina today relinquished her throne to her daughter Juliana, and became just 'ler Royal Highness, the Princess of the Netherlands. The signing jf the instrument of abdication was held in the Queen's
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  • 29 1 PARIS. Sat. M Robert Schumann said today that he had withdrawn his resignation as Pronhi'f -deiifroa'e ?nd would try asaln tn form a new French government. -A.P.
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  • 85 1 BUDE, (Cornwall), Sat. -J noLICE and coastguards L searching the lonely part of North Cornwall coast have found no trace of Mr. Evan F. M. Durbin. 42. Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Works and Labour MP for Edmonton, who was drowned yesterday after rescuing a child
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  • 19 1 WASHINGTON. Sat. The Economic Co-operation Administration has pproved U.S. $30,000,000 in foreien aid for seven countries. A.P.
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  • 103 1 Palestine men on S J pore duty Sunday Times Staff Reporter yHE first four of 20 former members of the Pales- tine Police to be attached for duty to the Singapore **olice Forcr arrived by air a few days 1 ago. They are Messrs Bellfield, Hoy. Flynn and Wilmshurst. Mr.
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  • 68 1 BERLIN. Saturday. THE Communist j;ress of Berlin today threatened reprisals against Germans forming a West-German Government at Bonn and accused them of "high treason. Taegliche F.undschau, official organ of the Soviet Military Administration, declared that "every German who helps at Bonn to crsate a separate West
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  • 28 1 More than 15,000 fear-stric-ken Camiguln Islanders are reported to have evacuated the little island In the Mindanao Sea, where the volcanic Mount Hibokhibok is In eruption.
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  • 42 1 BATAVIA. Sat.— All available shipping and a number of planes were today still searching for six persons, who were in a landing craft which sank in the neighbourhood of Morotal between New Guinea and Borneo. Five others were saved.— U.P.
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  • 60 1 rHC Dyaks of Sarawak are indignant with Russian propagandists who alleged that Dyaks now in Malaya > combat terrorists "still go in for headhunting and rating human flesh." "We have never been ianniba!s nnd we are not headhunters. The Dyaks in Malaya are part of a disciplined
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  • 67 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Sat. IT is learned on good authority that negotiations jhave been concluded between U.S. representatives of the Economic Co-operation Administration and the British Government for substantial purchases of rubber. An announcement is expected in a few days. In the city it is
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  • 50 1 SHANGHAI, Sat.— Chinese embassies, legations and consulates abroad have been ordered to cut down on their liquor bills. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in nn announcement through the Central News, said the orders were in line with "austerity measures during the task of Communist suooresslon." A.P.
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  • 59 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A RRESTS In the Federation J\ during the past 24 hours totalled 61— Kedah and Perils, three; Perak. 16; Selangor, 32; Trengganu. six; Jobore, four. Since the Emergency Regulations came Into effect of 4,617 people arrested, 2.792 have
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  • 174 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sat. ONE Indonesian and six Malays who were surprised by the Police while trying to ship over 100 rifles and 18,540 rounds of ammunition from the Tanjong Dewai river, were each sentenced yesterday to three years' rigorous imprisonment. The Indonesian, Ahmad bin
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  • 63 1 PEIPING, Sa.. Abut* 1.100 workers ai the Central Banknote Bureau here have hid nothing to do since t of old national currency w i.s halted. Fearing they migh! late their jobs, they have sent ;< petition to Fu Tso-yi and other North China leaders, urging them
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  • 22 1 Official quarters in Nanking yesterday disclaimed knowledge of an alleged incursion of Soviet troops into western Sinkiang.— Reuter.
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  • 1006 2 MY WILD RIDE TO KA TONG by OLD TIMER who recalls his early days in the Singapore Volunteers just after the turn of the century. Next week -he tells about those hardy souls who used to swim out to the Swimming Club instead of going, as in these days of
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 2 SI /I CRANDALL, KKO Radio starlet, knows how to model a swim suit, even if she does try to nuke herself look taller than she really is.
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  • 544 2 pATHER late In the day, but welcome nevertheless, my spy in London has been lit to send me details oi the first post-war International Cocktail competition held there some months back. Why he has held back I can't think. The judging, I am relieved to be able to
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  • 416 2 Seeking The Average Man THE BASIC chemical pattern of living differs for every human being. That is why men are different. That is why bloodhounds can follow a man by scent. Eventually a sort of 'internal flngerprintlnK" nay be possible that will nave far-reaching implications in treatment of mental diseases,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 141 2 UNWED HIM f WLmuVi7fvyi^!fZ<<lx^l^^^^^m\ W I YOU ARE SO IKRI TABLE TI AM SORRY DEArI I TnBN^TJ A T D rn.n F KBUT P THESE DAYS.NONE OF I BUT YOU KNOW HOW fScAN^WEHAVtANY L? V\ US <*N_H»VE ANY FUnJK TIRED I AM. MY j --^B»a»w SO HE ASKED WE DOCTOR
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  • 414 3 Last-minute Vampire TN the growing dusk thousands of people who had waited for over an hour last night at the end of the Singapore Air Display were rewarded by a breath-taking last-minute display by the R.A.F. Vampire. The pilot, Flight.-Lieut. G. Francis, and his mechanics had
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  • 128 3 RAF Regt recruits on parade Sunday Times Staff Reporter WEARING uniform for the first time, 120 recruits of the newly formed No. 94 Squadron, R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) paraded yesterday before the A.0.C., Malaya, Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Sanderson, at Sembawang R.A.F. Station. Alongside them were the 160 members of No.
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  • 57 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rpHE Singapore Government X has forbidden the use of fire crackers except In accordance with a licence issued under the Fire-arm Officers Ordinance. During the continuance of the emergency it Is not Intended to permit the firing of crackers, and persons who
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 3 [flit. AND IVliio. ftAJfeICK 111 STEPHFN POWER. li-v--ing St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, yesterday after their wedding. Mrs. Power uas formerly Miss Daphne Mary Fenton Thomas. The bridegroom is a planter on the Fldred Estate, Beknk, Johore.
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  • 142 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter r PWO of the 80 selected MaX layan candidates for the Medical Faculty of the Hong Kong University leave Singapore to-day on the S.S. Sirdhana. They are Mr. Frederick Ong and. Mr. Charles Yap Kwee Song. Mr. Ong is an old \xm
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  • 99 3 Chee Wah Heng, a 29-year-old Chinese, committed housebreaking and theft at three houses in one hour according to A.S.P. Mr. A. H. Frew prosecuting before the District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks) yesterday. Chee told the Judge that it was he himself who gave the
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  • 108 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S milk stocks will be replenished today w'th the arrival of 10,800 i tses of condensed milk by the Blue Funnel ship Asphallon from Australian ports. During the past few weeks, Singapore has been v short of condensed milk and prices have
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  • 153 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A CLUB to provide facilities for social education and recreation of children of all races in the Singapore Naval Base was opened yesterday at the Base by Rear-Admiral C. Caslon, Flag Officer, Malaya. The name of the club, chosen by the
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  • 21 3 SEREMBAN, Sat.—Govlndan, a Tamil, was yesterday sent for trial at the Assizes on a charge of rr je.
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  • 255 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEVERAL Singapore owner-drivers have recently been the victims of car sabotage. They have found tyres punctured and paintwork scratched. The damage has In all cases been done to expensive cars. And the victims believe that this is being done because they do not
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  • 176 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BORN in Banka Island, educated partly in Singapore and partly in China, Mr. Ling Nan Lung, who has made a name as one of China's outstanding artists, is back in Singapore again on his way to Europe for further study. With him
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  • 81 3 Dr. Ong s Murder KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. IN a message to the Officer Administering the Qov- ernment. Sir Alec Newboult, the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. D. R. Rees- Williams, says: "Please express to relatives of Dr. Ong Chong Keng my deepest sympathy. I
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  • Letter to the Editor
    • 455 3 "M AY I, as chairman of the Graham White Memorial Fund, reply to the letter which appeared in your columns last Sunday over the signature of 'A Friend," writes the Rev. Kinross Nicholson, of St. Andrew's Cathedral. "I am certain that the members of the Com*
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    • 72 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE than 100 guests attended the farewell dinner given Dy the Chinese and Indian merchants of Sin- 1 gapore, to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Handy and family at the Adelphl Hotel last night. Mr. Handy and family will leave for
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    • 52 3 AN A.T.S. officer serving in Singapore was killed while out riding at Nee Soon about 6.30 p.m. last night. The horse she was riding bolted and threw her. She was dead when picked up. Her name will not be divulged until her next-of-kin in England have
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    • 23 3 Mr. K. Brundle has been appointed to be Singapore Registrar of the Board of Arichitects In place of Mr. Dale Cuthberthson.
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  • 885 4 IT WOULD SHOCK KIPLING 505 GILMORE reports on BURMA RANGOON, Aug. 30. WHEN all your life you have thought of Rangoon as the most Kiplingesque outpost of Empire, it's strange to stroll through the city's still war-wreck-ed streets for two hours without seeing a European. For the most part you
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  • 458 4 ANSWERING inquiries that range from "What are the correct measurements of a skittle alley?" to "Who won the Derby in 1912?" takes up several hours each week for Mrs. H. Witte. Librarian at Raffles Library, Singapore. It was a man from the Singapore Naval Base who
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  • 552 4 f AM very much in favour of the publication of translations from the Chinese. China has been blessed with a great literature, written out, however, in a script of such difficulty that not one in ten thousand among nonChine ■> can ever hope to read it in the
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  • 190 5 Singapore recovery praised DIRECTOR of the Myer Emporium, largest departmental store ln the Southern Hemisphere, Mr. R. F. Baelieu. who is making a short visit to Singapore, told the Sunday Times yesterday that he waa amazed at the way in which the ordinary way of life seemed to have been
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  • 34 5 NIBONQ TEBAL, Sat.— Two Malay drivers, Mat Noor bin Abdullah and Saad bin Baharl each paid a fine of $75 for using their cars as taxis when they had no licence.
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  • 394 5 TOO ROUGH FOR THE TOURISTS Traffic not up to pre-war Sunday Times Staff Reporter TOURIST traffic to Malaya has suffered since the liberation, as compared with days before the war, for several reasons, an official of Messrs Thomas Cook and Sons Ltd., told the Sunday Times yesterday. The chief reason
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  • 451 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent POLITICAL developments in Europe were mainly responsible for the irregular share markets in London and locally during the past week. Early hopes of a settlement of differences in Germany dwindled and the confident market feeling weakened. Quieter conditions prevailed at the week-end after
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  • 34 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— When two Tamil women, Sagapi, 30 and Suppamah, 35, and a girl Plchai, 11, appeared in court here charged with fighting they claimed trial and the co*^ \vn<; Dostnomd.
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  • 98 5 SEGAMAT, Saturday. AFi'ER waiting four years ft motorists will soon be able to use the direct route from Segamat to Muar again, cutting out the detour through Batu Anara This will be possible when the bridge over the Muar River, seven miles from Segamat. is opened
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  • 74 5 The Singapore Chambt* uf Commerce Rubber Associations noon prices vostirc'ay 'Sept 4) were: i in cens. per lb Buyers Sellers I No. 1 RS.S. SpC loose nominal 45' i 45% P.o.b. In bales Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. ..45 45 Vi !No. 2 RS.S. 43 -43 No. 3 R.SS. 40
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  • 122 5 SEREMBAN, Saturday. ONE of the three Departmental Scholarships awarded by the Federation Education Depart- ment has been won by Che Jemiah binti Yaacob, assistant supervisor of Malay Girls' Schools, Negri Sembilan. The scholarship is for three i years' study La domestic j science at the
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  • 63 5 A CHURCH parade and march past at St. George's Garrison Church, Tanglin, tomorrow at 10 a.m. will mark the tenth anniversary of the i Women's Auxiliary territorial (A.T.S.). The C-ln-C, FARELF, Gen. 3ir Neil Ritchie, will take the salute from No. 200 Company, A.T.S. After
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 474 5 h mm*.!*.**. I^'tnitt.tL l" p 0 i cs' Mail; 10.05 Sui^rs; Close. 6.00 Film Theatre Music; IU w>%i^%»a rw 10.20 Bandstand; 10.30 Austra- 6.30 News; 6.45 Man Born to be 9 a.m. Boston Promenade Orch.; lian News; 10.40 Request*; 11.00 King; 7.45 Yours for the Asking; 9.30 Richard Tauber; 10.00
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  • 1298 6  -  C. A. GIBSON-HILL, M.8.0.U. Try to spot them in your garden by THE Kingfishers constitute an attractive and widely spread group of birds. They are found over the greater part of the world, but are most plentiful in the tropics, and reach their maximum concentration in the
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  • 411 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, SEPT. 5, 1948. PETROL F Singapore and Malaya go on using motor spirit at the present rate, stocks here will be exhausted by the middle of November. The Federation complains that Singapore uses more than her fair share of the amount allocated to the two territories,
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  • 115 6 EXACT figures of the amount Singapore and Malaya pay for the entertainment its inhabitants derive from watching Hollywood films are now available. Seventyfive per cent of income can be remitted freely each month in gold U.S. dollars and in 1947 the two territories remitted U.S. $1,628,162.72. Twenty-five
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  • 53 6 •pAKE a country producing primary necessities and containing a reasonably large and doj»(e population wanting to buy manufactured goods. Encourage primary production. Import all the manufactures ycj a n. Make profits. Let aiiyb dy elsewhere meet the bill for any losses incurred by any means whatever. Keep
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  • 700 6  -  ALAN WOLSTENHOLME by PASHION PARADES r the sort women flock to are rare occasions In Singapore, but another type of fashion parade is featured daily (free of charge) la every road, street and alley of the city. Though really it should be called a hat parade,
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    • 11 6 for better tea-time* Finest Broken Orange Pekoe Price $2.00 per 1b
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    • 77 6 MR. HARRY MILLER'S articla on Kelantan will appear next week. History of Singapore No. 9 On May 22nd. 1 886. Raffles Institution held its first Athletic Sports Meeting 1n, 1883, three years earlier,- Fraser I Neave Ltd., _wast* founded! by two I pioneer families. For 65 years Quality has been
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  • 391 7 FEDERATION LABOUR PARTY IN OFFING Union chiefs meet today Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. POSSIBILITIES of forming the beginnings of a Labour Party in the Federation are to be discussed at a meeting to be held here tomorrow, at which delegates will be trade unionists from all over
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  • 191 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A FEW days ago, a young man left Singapore with the intention of becoming a rubber planter but first, he's going to organise a private 'army' to combat terrorists on his estate. "When the terrorists are licked— then I start learning to become
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  • 103 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. PENSIONABLE and nonpensionable subordinate police officers and constables are treated equally In a new pensions scheme for widows and children and, in some cases, mothers, announced by Government today. The existing rules are also extended to cover officers and
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  • 254 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN air-conditioned sound cinema will be part of the new extensions now being built at the Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, works of Industrial Gases (Malaya) Ltd. In it locally-born staff and employees of customers will see films demonstrating latest techniques in their
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  • 83 7 A Malay cyclist, Nasrom bin Hassan, an employee of the Singapore Turf Club, who was involved in a collision with a military truck at the 6V 2 mile Bukit Timah Road at 11.15 a.m. yesterday, died a few minutes later at the scene of the
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  • 49 7 Sunday Times Correspondent DUNGUN, Saturday. nUNGUN Iron Mines, which I were worked by the Japanese in pre-war days, have now begun operations under an American concern, the Eastern Mining and Metals Company The 700 labourers are nearly I all Malays, under a Malay contractor.
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  • 251 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter DURING the blackest days of the Japanese occupation a small group of Singaporeans got together in Katong to listen to classical music to help them forget the bleak uncertainty of life around them. That was the beginning of the Singapore
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  • 133 7 Sunday Times Staff Repot ter MR. A. W. Frisby, Singapore's new Director of Education, who took up his duties last week, has had a long career in the Malayan education service. He was six years at Penang Free School from 1922 and later became headmaster uf Victoria
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  • 53 7 INCLUDED in this week's Singapore Public Relations free film shows will be a newsreel on some of the Olympic events. Fixtures for the week are: Monday, Katong Boys' Club; Tuesday, Tuas village; Wednesday, Coronation Road, Malay Kampong; Thursday, 15th mile, Jurong; Friday, Municipal Services Union;
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  • 35 7 More than 400 people attended the social and dance held at St. Andrew's School Hall, Woocisvllle, organised by the Pitman Shorthand Writers' Association, last night In aid of the Association's rerehabilitation fund.
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  • 37 7 SEREMBAN. Sat.— A tine of $100 or one month's gaol was yesterday imposed on Chew Chen, 32, a Hakka, for being flcate of admission at Sereman alien without a valid certiban on Aug. 25.
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  • 155 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. A FORMER mayor of Amoy, Mr. H. S. Henry Lisling had a successful exhibition of more than 100 water-colour paintings in "Singapore yester- day Sixty pieces were sold after the exhibition opened in the morning In the Chinese V.M.C.A. The Chinese
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  • 25 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter GEMAS, Sat. An Indian Muslim barber Abdul Hamid bin Abdullah was killed by a goods train at Bekok.
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  • 31 7 'Fourteenth Olympiad The Glory of Sport," the British technicolor film of the Olympic Games in London will leave U.K. by air at the end of this week for Singapore.
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  • 163 7 Sunday Times Staff Reprter A YOUNG British ex-Army Chaplain, the Rev. G. E. Charlesworth, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way from Sarawak to England, is a disappointed man. Because of ill health he has had to give up a life-long ambition of becoming a
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  • 81 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. ANDREW Gilmour, Singapore's Secretary of Economic Affairs, attended the Princess Juliana investiture celebrations in Fatavla yesterday. He represented the Com-missioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the acting High Commissioner of the Federation, and the Governors of Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak. He attended the
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  • 202 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ECONOMIC conditions in China have made life sO unbearable for White Russian that several thousands of men, women and children are now seeking new homes in South America. This was revealed to the Sunday Times yesteiv day by a party of 15 White Russians
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  • 73 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter DECAUSE his wife did not give him 10 cents to buy cigarettes on Au«. 31. Teh Kwang Wai tried to end his life by drinking caustic soda solution. Yesterday he ol^adod guilty In the Singapore Second Police Court
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  • 33 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TAPAH, Sat.— Malays in Tapah and Bidor areas have answered the call of U.M.N.O. to form village guards. In some villages the guards are 80 strong.
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  • 56 7 Sunday Times Stall Keporter Woo Chiak and Vfoon Scow, two youths, were each lined $1,000., in default, two weeks' rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore Secr^j Police Magistrate 'Mr. L. C. Goh) yesterday for assisting in the management of Chap Ji Kee. Half of the fines, if
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  • 341 8 I THIS V/EEK FOR YOU VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22). Pour oil on troubled domestic waters by being tactful and kind, and be careful that you do not overdo the week-end excitement either —or look out. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Generally a good week for you, but
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  • 359 8 WINNING CONTRACT BRIDGE fllE artificial two-club response 1 to an opening no-trump bid eliminates guesswork in the choice of final contracts. Here is typical example from a recent rubber game. After an opening no-trump the partner held: 8. J 9 x x; H. x x; D. K J x x
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  • 292 8 HKKE are a few questions about flowers, few of them about varieties in this part of the world, but you should not find any difficulty about most of them, because the answers come more from general than from specialised knowledge. 1. Where was the frangipani
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  • 120 8 I'LL make a gamble with you," said Aye to Bee "Show all the money you have with you, and I'll do likewise. Then the man who has the most money must give it all to the other." "Okeh," said Bee. "It's to my advantage." "How come?' said
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  • 68 8 TRY this on friends, when you want to get conversation stirred up. Only eight English words form their plural by a change of an inside vowel or vowels. Examples: Man, men; louse, lice. Can you names at least five of the other six? •S3J<">BTOT3 SI r«JTITd BY 'MOO*
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    • 364 8 Sunday Timet Crossword ACROSS LOtVN 11. Solemn observacce (4»; 5.1 i .^.rative (7>; 2. Club (4); Wordiness (8); 13. Made a aiu>Uk« 3. Crossbar (7); 4. Slippery fellow I (6); 13. Shelter (3); 14. ocrm of (3); 6. Overjoyed (8); 7. Declined a branch (3); 19. Fuel (4); 16. '7);
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  • 854 9 MARY, HEATHCOTT finds LONDON, Aug. 24. THOUGHTS on 1 returning to London How smart the g rls look, how fashionable and trim how cosmopolitan the crowds (so many dark and alien faces] .•how harassed everyone appears, so intent on getting somewhere in the shortest time possible-•• I
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  • 74 9 FROM Cuba comes an idea for a lovely head scarf for evening. The Bcarf is triangular in shape, of black coarse cotton lace, and sewn all over at irregular intervals with bright pink crocheted cotton rosettes in different sizes. The effect is very Spanish, very beguiling, and the
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  • Article, Illustration
    235 9 Someone in this teighbourhood is maniiiu muscliie] by sending round anonymous letters. The letters themselves are more or leas harmless, but they are naturally causing suspicion and uneasiness. In the absence of any tangible clue we would like to know if there is any one type of person
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  • 116 9 Across: 1. R.ue. 5, Verbiage 12. Erred. 13. Lee. 14. Bud. 15 Coal 16. Waferlng. 18, Inn. 19, Matured 20. Scares 22. Feud. 24. Acorn" 26, Dear. 28, Lamen' 30 Drapes 33, Ears. 35 Eclat. 36. dlap 3». Aerate. 40, Derives. 42, Age. 44 Operated. 46. Stop. 47.
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  • 317 9 MY escorts at a Saturday night dance at one of Singapore favourite night, sports were two talkative, non-dancing males, which gave me plenty of time to indulge my favourite hobby— the study of female fashion, peculiar and otherwise. M*t always seems strange to me h
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  • 198 9 pISH is so obviously the ideal choice for a meal at midday that housewives ought TIJ^E Ndf SEASON lfi 1 SIGNS BY MOLYNEUX On l«ft is slightly bustled effect In a dress with a dark bodice, with the waist well defined and interesting skirt treatment. Above is
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  • 494 10 SINGAPORE SOCCER POSITIONS lATEST positions in the S.A. L F.A. leagues are: First Sea.'orths have withdrawn from the first division. S.C.S.A 13 'J I 9 15 36 T"-o trams vrtthdrawr. AMOGW; Changi 3.0 and Ccmd Dc pot i Meuiral Stores Rovers SO. 21 16 1 4 44 23 33 Tiger
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  • 456 10 LONDON, Saturday. PORTSMOUTH continued their successful spell with an only goal away victory over Stoke to keep them at the top of the First Division today with nine out of a possible ten points. They played constructive football and deserved their win. Queen's Park Rangers, promoted
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    26 10 i^DKICH GOES: A remarkable picture showing Bill Edrich who scored 28, clean bowled by Ray Lindwall in the fifth Test match at the Oval. Fox picture.
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  • 79 10 I.an-i'l:irc Cup first round first j Itg:— lelgh 37. Liverpool Stanley 2: Oldham 8. Widnes 7; Rochdale Hornets 5. Bellevue Rangers 13; St. Helen's 9. Wlgan 24; Swinton 26. Lancashire County Amateurs 10; Warrington 30. Barrow 8; Workinpton Town 7. Salford 5. League games: Dewsbury B. Halifax 0:
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  • 77 10 Abertillery 11. crumlin 0; Barnstaple 13, Falmouth 3: Brlslol 8. Stroud 5; Coventry 11. Cardiff 12; Cross Keys 3. Maes' «g 12; Leicester 3, Bedford 21; Neath 28, Glynneath 0; Newport 19. Penar'h 8, Northampton 33, Metropolitan Police 0; Penryn 11, Devonport Servioes 3- Penzance «nd Newlyn 10.
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  • 64 10 SON of Kong and Tiger Joglnd r were both disqualified in the t'.ilrd round in the main event of the wrestling held Happy World Stadium, last night. Bill Verna knockedout Jagindar in the fourth round. Results of the other two bouts were: Ho Wah Peng knocked out Greenwood
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  • 216 10 From Sunday Times Seremban Sports Correspondent /CONFIDENCE reigns supreme in the Negri camp as the final date of the H.M.S. Malaya Cup soccer competition draws near. The Negri Sembilan team which created history by not only defeating Singapore but was unbeaten in a series
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  • 258 10 FINE BOWLING BY LAMPARD, VAN ROYEN p ine bowling by uunpara (three for 21) and van Royen (three for 23) enabled the 223 8.0.D. to beat the Singapore Recreation Club by four wicket* In a game of cricket, on the pad&ng yesterday. The SRC. batted first and knocked up 103
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  • 175 10 fHE following art requtsied to attend Singapore Cr cket Club trial Rugby games to be held on Tuesday on the pad;>ng. kick-oft at 5.15 p.m. COLOL'KS: J V. H. Oi-cks. T. A. Ropjr, J. A O'Brien, I. A. Mclnroy, J. P. nurnttt, J ;Oates, O.
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  • 57 10 A LI Rlza Bey bear Lambong d> two falls to one in three rounds at the Great World last night. Kid Masque knocked out Curly Connors In the second round The fight between Swaran Singh and George ZbLsko ended In a drax Teo Kwang Seng beat
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  • 490 10  -  FEATHER Badminton Notes By 'pHE Ptnang sponsored interSlate match against Perak will take place on Septimber 12. 1948. at the Pennng Frc? Scliool. rhe purpose of this match is to raise funds for the Thomas Cup team. Best players In both states have already signified
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  • 218 10 S.C.C. DEFEAT COLONIALS BY 2 WKTS THE Singapore Cricket Club beat the Colonials by two wickets In a cricket match played on the Padang yesterday. The Colonials declared at 101 for •even wickets. A. Perera top-scored with 48 not out for the Colonials. The SC.C. passed the Colonials' score with
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  • 71 10 FE Rocklites drew with the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club in a cricket match played at Hong Ltm Oreen yesterday. BaUlng first, the Club krrocked up 137 runs (Alex Tan 27, Chaa Boon Ann and Teng Bin 24 each). The Rocklites replied with 109 runs for live wickets when
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  • 360 10 IN a match played at a cracking pace with both players stubbornly contesting every point, Poh Kirn Yam (AAU) and Andrew Tan (Diehard) provided the climax to an afternoon of the most thrilling ties in the Singapore junior championships played at the Clerical
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  • 1309 11 MANNIE SEAMON SAYS They made a clown of him PUBLICITY and ballyhoo seem to go hand in r hand with baxing. Many times publicity has the desired effect, but often it has the opposite result. Primo Camera was a case in point. They called him
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  • 30 11 THE Lawn Tennis Association 1 of Australia yesterday approwd a professional tour of Australia by Jack Kramer. Bobby Riggs, Pancho Segura and Dlnny Pails.
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  • 238 11 BASE Ordinance Depot (223) swept the board yesterday at the Singapore District swimming championships held at Glllman Barracks. They won eight prizes. The Tiger Swimming Club won the invitation relay race. Singapore Swimming Club came In second. The other teams which took part in the
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  • 463 11 A SINGAPORE Chinese Football Association XI beat the R.A.F. team five-one before a big crowd at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, in a game which served as a trial for the selection of the Singapore team against Malacca in the Malayan' Inter-Chinese Football tournament this
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  • 182 11 AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH AVERAGES LONDON, Sat. FIRST SIX in English batting f averages In the current table are as follows: Denotes not out. First six In English bowling averages: Australian batting averages: Inns NO Runs HS Aye. I Denotes not out. Australian bowling averages: Washbrook 31 4 1900 200 70.37 Hutton
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  • 86 11 LONDON, Sat. JACK PEART, manager of Fulham Football Club for more than 12 years, died In London hospital yestcrdav [aged 58 He was a sick man last season but Kept going until the season ended. Then he had an internal operation. P art began his football
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    • 338 11 LAST 4 SHOWS! IT: 2 p.m.— 4.15— 6.3ft— 9.15 Alexander Knrrin presents Vivien Leigh W *4 Ralph Richardson A Jf with Kieron Moore s^K In ottioy'i Immortal (o»» itory m ANNA IkarenTnal (c£ fi\ TD Ti GfP frT. fk Hit. c °*<kl}<> n *<{_ Pkont 5159 £(AUfy TOMORROW B A
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  • 1816 12 Fairwood wins the big sprint From EPSOM JEEP THE van Breukelen stable landed three more winners at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club's Aug.-Sept. meeting. Gold Stream scored an easy double, while Snaps and Last Double won their races fairly
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  • 208 12 A GOOD fourth-wicket partnership between Kailasapathy and S. D. Williams has placed the Combined Colleges in a strong position against Evan Wong's XI, the Collegians at the close of play yesterday leading by 12 runs with seven wickets after Evan Wong's side were all out
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  • 169 12 EVAN WONG'S Xl—lst Inn. Yogarajah c Ratnam b Umapathy 4 Hock Chye 0 William, b I'mapathy n Ong Lee c Williams b Schubert lft Thiam Slew 0 Rajendra b Schubert 15 Fatal run out 0 Dr. Batnam c Chelvarajasinfam b Schubert 5 Solakan Singh c Williams b Cmpathy 4
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  • 192 12 Spore Cycling Carnival Opens Today 1 PRELUDE to the Singapore open grass track cycling championships to be held in November when entries will be Invited from the Federation and India, the Singapore Cycling Carnival opens today with three road races at Chua Chu Kang road off the 10th mile Buklt
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  • 44 12 Naval Stores beat the R.E M.E. (Base) three-nil in the third division S.A.F.A. match played at Naval Base yesterday. Half-time score was one-nil and Anugraham Paul was responsible for the goal. After the resumption Vivien Robert and Berry scored one each.
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  • 364 12 AAAMEET LOONG Leek Meng set a new mark of 5 ft. 11 Ins. In winning the high Jump In the Selangor A.A.. championships at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. I The new record Is an lnch-and-a-half better than the mark set last year by R. Munro. There were
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  • 89 12 \T a meeting of unils stationed at Nee Soon, it was decided .to form a combined ***** team {for the 1948/49 season to be known as Nee Soon Garrison Rugby Football dub Matches (will be played on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. i Practice has already
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