The Straits Times, 25 January 1949

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times 25 JAN 194° MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 I'WEI.VE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1949 PRICE TEN CFNTS
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  • 493 1 Asia Nations Want Move On Indonesia NEW DELHI, Monday. THE Asian conference demanded last night action by the United Nations to end Dutch rule and military action in Indonesia. Fifteen nations backed the resolution. Four others were represented "by observers who had no vote but
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    50 1 SIR WILLIAM SiUAM., thr new Permanent Under Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs, arrived in Singapore by air last night for talks with tne Com-missioner-General. >l r Malcolm MacDonaifl. Tbe talks will last a v,e»k. Sir William has aheady vi-ited Rangoon ami K.in*k.>k on his tour of the Far East.
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  • 146 1 7 YEARS PRISON FOR B.0. R. A BRITISH soldier. H. J. Gorton was sentenced at Singapore .Assizes yesterday ta seven years' rigorous imprisonment lor housebreakIng and theft. Gorton, a guard at the Base Ordnance Depot, Chua Choo Kang, had assisted eight other people to steal four! bales of cloth from
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  • 37 1 RANGOON, Mon.— Burma's main trunk line between Rangoon and Mandalay haa been disrupted by insurgents who blew up a bridge, near Toimgoo in Central Burma. Insurgents also cut telegraph *ires In the area.— Reuter.
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  • 177 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Mon. A POSSIBILITY that the Indonesian question will be brought before the next United Nations General Assembly was seen here today following action taken by the Asian Conference. The general attitude of proIndonesian spokesmen in the U.N. is tha-. if the Security
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  • 32 1 WASHINGTON. Mon. -The National Negro Council wants I President Truman to appoint a negro to the Inter-state Commerce Commission as a step toward eliminating segregation on railways and buses.— U.P.
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    53 1 MALAY KKIiIMENT'S NE.. SOLDIERS: The G.O.C. Malaya District (MaJ.-Gen. C. H. Boucher) taking the satute at the march-past of the 540 Malay Regiment recruits at their passing-out parade at Port Dickson on Sunday. Four Malay Rulers attended the parade. In the foreground is MaJ. D. Burnett, who commanded the parade.
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  • 384 1 SHANGHAI, Monday. A WOMAN— wife of China's Number Two Commaxx nist, Gen. Chou En-lai was one of the five deleI gates named today by the Chinese Reds for the peace negotiations with the Government, according to I reliable reports. I The names of the Communist delegates were
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  • 123 1 BLOWS, BOOS— THEN A BLESSING NEW YORK, Mon. j DLOWS, boos and bottlethrowing *ndo* +k« n.u.l I,! the an" i re V8 10l's ceremony of caving for the cross" in the Hudson River here. J. he ceremony, commemohtiH 1 C?" st's baptism, was held by the Greek Orthodox Church yesterday.
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  • 36 1 LONDON, Mon. A GOVERNMENT source says that the Cabinet today formally approved recognition of Israel. A similar decision was made in Paris by the French Government. A.P. and Reuter. (Story in P. 3)
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  • 194 1 BATAVIA, Mon. TWO Americans and a Canadian, who set sail from Singapore for Manila but ended up at .Batavia are struggling back to their home ports as best they can. The trio said they started I out looking for adventure in a tiny sailing boat
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  • 223 1 T»HE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday approved the set-up of the trade liaison committee to promote better understanding between Chinese traders, the Secretariat for Economic Affairs md the Netherlands Consulate-General. The Chamber has named its three delegates to sit on the committee. They are:
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  • 88 1 LONDON, Mon.— Sir Peter Mac Donald, M.P. Is to pr°ss r for a Parliamentary debate on terrorism in Malaya if he does I not get a '"satisfactory reply" from the Government to a C question he is to put to the t Colonial Secretary on Wednes-
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  • 78 1 RHODES. Mon.— lt was re- J 1 ported here earlier today ti that armistice negotiations n i between Israel and Egypt w had been broken off. fl But a later report said that the talks will continue "at w least temporarily."- ll Dr. Bunche, the acting p,
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  • 255 1 TOKYO, Monday. JAPAN swung sharply towards conservaJtfm in the first big test at the polls with a clever and strengthened Communist Party organisation. It was a test closely watched by General MacArthur and his headquarters. Communists made decided gains by capitalising on the China
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  • 176 1 The "Job" That Led To Victory WHEN I was called upon to be Prime Minister," Winston Churchill has said, "there were not many applicants for the job." That "Job," as he filled it, was to lead a battered country from near defeat to final victory in total war. Mr. Churchill
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  • 42 1 TOKYO, Mon.- Two bracelets, a necklace and a brooch looted by the Japanese Army from the Sultans of Mampawa and Pontianak during the war, have been returned to the Netherlands Government, Gen. MacAnhur's civil property custodian announced today.— Reuter.
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  • 54 1 COLOMBO, Mon— Air Marsh i Sir Leslie Hollinghurst Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force, will arrive here by air tomorrow on a two-day visit to R.A.F. establishments in Ceylon Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd, Air Commander In the Far East, will also arrive tomorrow from Singapore to
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  • 239 3 London Paris Decisions LONDON, Monday. A GOVERNMENT source said tonight that the British Cabinet, which met today, has formally approved recognition of Israel. Britain has been in consultation with Australia and New Zealand on the question. Their recognition announcements regarded as being certain may follow Britain's by
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  • 137 3 PRAGUE, Monday. THREE nuns, 10 State officials and a Catholic priest are among the 60 persons rounded up by the Czech police for alleged spy activities against the State. The police claimed that they found a radio transmitter, a micro film of "spying orders" and
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  • 29 3 LONDON, Mon. More than 4,000 men and women awarded decorations in the Order of the British Empire in the war and since have failed to claim them Reuter.
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  • 112 3 "Russia Bought For Herself" From Our Own Corre >pondent LONDON, Mon. SUBSTANTIAL buying by Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and Hungary which has been an Important factor In holding spot rubber at over a shilling recently. Indicates that Russian purchases of about 100,000 tons Inst year were for Russia alone and not for
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  • 73 3 KARiiuHI, Mon. Speaking to Kashmir refugees who had crossed into Pakistan, the Prime Minister (Llaqu All Khan) saiu that Pakistan would not tolerate Hindu domination t— the Muslim people of Kashmir, and would not rest until they were free The acceptance oi a ceasefire, he said, had n.
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  • 52 3 -CANBERRA, Mon. Australia will develop her northern territory if Britain will promise to buy beef that the area produces for at least 10 years, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said recently. Mr. Chifley said that 400,000 tons of beef a year could be exported from the northern
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  • 34 3 FRANKFURT, Mon. —The arrest of seven men believed to be top agents of an International smuggling ring was announced yesterday. Among them were a bank onlcial and a woman physician. A.P.
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  • 97 3 DON, Mon.— London's leading designers opened a six t'.ay dress show today with high hopes of outclassing Paris and New York with their spring and summer creations. Britain's "Big Ten" fashion dictators have set their traps to capture fashion-conscious women throughout the world. If women want to
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  • 99 3 WEST AND REDS BOTH IGNORED NEW YORK, Mon. TWO-thlrds of the world's peoples are forging their own political and economic destinies independently of Russia or the West, says a report published today by Columbia universlty Press. The report called "Most of the World." represents the conclusions of noted social scientists,
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  • 108 3 RANGOON, Mon. THE Burmese pilot and en1 gineer of .a Burma Air Force aircraft were killed when rebels shot down the plane, which crashed In flames, it was reported yesterday. The reports stated that the plane was on a reconnaissance flight over the besieged Irrawaddy Delta
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  • 311 3 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Monday. MARSHAL Phibun Songgram, Prime Minister of Siam, announced today that his Government had decided to dismantle the Siam-Burma "death railway." Only a small part of the railway from where the line starts in Kanburi Province will be maintained. The
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  • 583 4 LORDS TOLD MALAYAN NAVY WELL ADVANCED From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. MEMBERS of the House of Lords last week welcomed the news that there would soon be a Malayan Navy to take its part, together with naval forces in other colonies, in defence of the Empire. Lord Listowel told
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    40 4 INE! \N AIR J'OSTFSS MiM Dorothy ("aelho, who has flown thousands of miles since she became i plane hostess for an Indian air line 30 months ago. Miss Caelho's route is the Lon-don-Cairo leg of the Bombay flight.— Reuter picture.
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  • 102 4 FIGHT ON, SAY IRISH OUTLA WS BELFAST, Mon. A MANIFESTO Issued hero last night by the outlawed Irish Republican Army called on Republicans to continue their effort* "to rid Ireland of the last vestiges of foreign rule." Ireland had been forcibly partitioned by England, the statement said, and remained partitioned
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  • 92 4 PARIS'. Mon. rpilE Aga Khan, spiritual 1 leader of 70.000.000 Ismaili Mohammedans, will give his blessing to th» marriage of his son and twice-divorced American film star Rjta Hayworth. The son, Aly Khan, heir to untold millions, castle* and palaces all over the world, fabulous
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  • 112 4 PARIS. Mon. THE French Government yesterday began a drive to borrow from Its citizens the reconstruction funds that It could or would not raise by taxation. The Finance Minister (M. Maurice Petsche) officially launched the national campaign for 100,000,000.000 francs calling upon Frenchmen to subscribe their
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  • 63 4 For cheating F. Sena of the Raffles Hotel of a diamond ring, Peng Hian Wan, was sentenced yesterday by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate (Mr. M. H. MacDougal) to two months' rigorous imprisonment. Peng obtained the ring valued at $375 from Sena on a pretence
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  • 91 4 THE CHINA Society, aimed at promoting goodwill among all communities and the promotion of an interest and appreciation of all things Chinese, was inaugurated at the general meeting of the Society held at Katong on Saturday. Picture shows some of the officers elected at the meeting: Left
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  • 139 4 •yHE Singapore Federation of Asian Seafarers' A Unions is holding a preliminary meeting on Thursday with a view to calling a mass meeting of all Asian seafarers in the Colony soon. The mass meeting will oe the first of It,, kind since the Ghaut Serang
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  • 70 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon MEWLY returned from Slnga- pore as hostess on a B.O.A.C. plane, good-looking Jan Roueier-Watkins was the heroine of a fire which <» out at the Soviet Consulate In London yesterday. Miss Rougler Watkins R :?d Into thf> hous» and rescued a
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  • 112 4 NUMEROUS complaints have been received by the Singapore Master Attendant from masters of vessels berthed at East Wharf about the speed of passing ships which often causes mooring lines to be carried away. The Master Attendant says that all vessels entering and leaving the eastern
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  • 200 4 Johore Religious Leaaer Backs Muslim Academy Plan From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. THE proposal last week to establish in Malaya A an academy for higher studies in Arabic and religious training is strongly supported here by the President of the Religious Affairs Department (Dato Awang bin Omar). Dato
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  • 41 4 A full grown tapir purchased from a Singapore circus for the Cairo Zoological Gardens leave Singapore today in the Glen Line ship Glenerchy for Egypt. A black panther left Singapore by air on Saturday for the same destination.
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  • 82 4 SIX of Singapore's biggest firms are to have their employees X-rayed at the Singapore Anti -Tuberculosis Clinic. One ol the firms has over 1,000 employees, and the number employed by each of the others varies between 100 and 500. Dr G. H. (iarlick. the Clinic
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  • 130 4 PLAIN TO RID MAN OF T.B. 'PHE United Nations World Health Organisation plans to inoculate 50.000,000 tvnpic throughout the world wit li BCG. the antl-tubercul"sis serum, within two years. This, sard the Director nl W.H.O.'s South-East Asia Bureau (Dr. P. N. Kaul) was the first step in a UN cantp&lgn
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  • 393 5 AN eight-man air armaments mission led by 37-year-oM Group Capt. F. C. BereafordPeirse arrived in Singapore by air from Ceylon last night on a 19,600-mile inspection tour of K.A.F. units in Egypt, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden, Ceylon and Singapore The mission,
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  • 135 5 Car Law Is Unjust, Says A.A.M. Prom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. rZ Automobile Association of Malaya Is to make representations to the Singapore and Federal Governments requesting a change in the law regarding confiscation of motor vehicles in which contraband is discovered. Under the present law the trial
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  • 125 5 >'PHE first American President X Lines round-the-world passenger liner to call at Singapore In five months Is expected from San Francisco on Feb. 16. She Is the President Polk, whose arrival has been overdue because of the United States maritime strike. The ship left San Francisco
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  • 318 5 Only one small point kept today's declarer from executing a throw-In play to fulfil his game contract. East, dealer. North-South vulnerable. The bidding: East South West North S hearto 4 spades Double Pass Put Pass West opened Uie heart eight: Bast won with the queen and continued
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  • Article, Illustration
    29 5 MR. JOHN HEDLEY, a robber planter of Bukit Paloh Estate, Johore, after hisweddinc in Singapore to Miss Naomi Da vie, of the British Military Hospital, Alexandra —Straits Times picture.
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  • 167 5 THE extent of help to be given to th e children of Malaya through the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund will be discussed at a meeting today between Dr. M. H. Watt, director of the Fund's Far East Mission, and the Singapore committee.
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  • 59 5 Four lallang fires broke out In the space of three hours in Singapore yesterday. The first was in Klat Hong, at midday. This was followed by others at Tengah, the Hi mile, Bukit Timah and Sembawang Road Two other small Singapore fires involved a work yard
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  • 131 5 From Oar Stall Correspondent PENANG, Mon. MR. Anthony Eden, who will arrive in Singapore in March, will be invited by the Penang Secession Committee to come to the Settlement to get first-hand information about the secession issue. The Committee decided at its meeting last week to invite
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  • 121 5 AFIRE brigade driver, Abdul Hamid bin Ahmad, pleaded guilty yesterday in the First District Court to having attempted to extort $120 from Yeoh Yew Koon, on Dec. 15. Mr. A. H. Frew, AJ3P., prosecuting, said Abdul Hamid handed Yeoh two letters purporting to have come from the
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  • 134 5 From Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Mr. L. A. Smith, of Donaldson Burfcinshaw, made an application before Mr. Justice Laville for a receiver and manager to be appointed for the estate of Kuok Keng Kang, of Tong Seng Co. The application was opposed by Mr. Richard
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  • 44 5 The Royal Engineers Old Comrades Association are holding their annual general meeting on Thursday Feb 3, at 6.30 p.m. In the Gymnasium, Gillman Barracks All members of the association and members and exmembers of the corps arc invited to attend.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 339 5 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD t "Sf CROSSWORD No. Lents («>. IJ. German BcadM O). U HWUv I It I 'I I I) I I S. Man on a tree- a lowa 2C Means I7>. I I I I I I dignitary, too! 18) 27. Sit atkew in th« disordered |j^ <g^f
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  • 28 6 MRS. I.OW KrM CHUA «s fumily thank all those who rent wreaths A attended the funeral of the late Mr. Low Klrr. Chua on January 23rd. 1949
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  • 984 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Jan. 25, 1949. CHINA WITHOUT CHIANG Amid the rises and falls of generals and factions in China in the last nearly thirty years, Chiang Kai-shek alone has never ceased to count. His influence has been second only to that of the founder of the Republic,
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  • 110 6 WHETHER Gandhi did or didn't coin the wisecrack describing the 1942 British offer of independence to India as "a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank" is something we shall never know. But while Mr. Kalelkar says that the crack was coined by a Parliamentary wag after Gandhi
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  • 1456 6 Ambition And Antagonism In A Land Of Plenty KAY NORTON, a travelling freelance journalist, has just arrived in Singapore from Durban. She hat a firsthand knowledge and experience of the racial problems which today confront South Africa. THE answer to the recent scenes of violence and bloodshed in South Africa
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  • 576 6 BRITAIN'S top radio shows have begun intense competition among themselves this week for the coveted position at the top of the popularity poll left vacant by the death of Tommy Handley, the nation's number one air Jester. Handley. mourned with the headlines and a ceremony reserved
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
    • 408 6 AM indebted to Mr. *M. Abraham for drawing my attention to "the several differences" (n addition to the ones I mentioned in my letter published on Jan. 10 on the subject of India and Indonesia. I am aware that these differences do exist. It would appear, however
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  • 445 7 Two Women Will Contest Election In Singapore TWO women were among the 15 candidates chosen by the Progressive Party last night to contest the first popular election for Singapore Municipal Commissioners on April 2. The two women are Miss Amy Laycock, daughter of Mr. John Laycock, vice-president
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  • Article, Illustration
    56 7 1 US is Loh Kit Sang, alias Ah Kang Pat, for whose arrest the Federation police are offering a $2,500 reward. Loh aged 26 and a former MPAJA section leader, shot dead with another unidentified bandit a school teacher and a contractor who were watching a game of nahjong at
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  • 192 7 BEWARE OF SAND CRACKERS THE Singapore Deputy Police Commissioner (Mr. O. R. Livett) yesterday explained the ban on sand crackers over the Chinese New Year. "These home-made crackers are like bombs and are very dangerous," he said. "People who explode them under cigarette tins might have their fingers blr I
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  • 317 7 Specials In Training Kill Bandit From Oar Staff Correspondent SEOAMAT, Mon. SEQAMAT Police shot dead three bandits yesterdaytwo near Jementah village and the third a mile out of Segamat town. On a cross-country exercise, a batch of special constables under training came across a Chinese in a rubber plantation. The
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  • 61 7 Twenty-year-old Cho n g Kam Fook was yesterday sentenced to six months' hard labour, 10 strokes of the rotan and a years' police supervision by the Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate (Mr. P. B. Oehlers). Chong pleaded guilty to stealing an alarm clock valued at $25
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    113 7 CONFERENCE of chiefs of South-East Asian territories ended on Sunday at Bukit Serene. Left to right, front, are the High Commissioner (Sir Henry Gurney), the Commissiontr- General (Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald) and the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin Gimson). Behind: the Chief Secretary, Sarawak (Mr. E. W. Dawson), the Governor
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  • 344 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. /CHINESE leaders and the planting community told the Straits Times today that they welcomed the new "shout before you shoot" Emergency Regulations, as they made the position clear. General reaction was that the Government, in publishing the regulations, had
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  • 65 7 MR. S.M.H. ALKAFF arrived by air in Singapore from Batavia yesterday on a business trip. Vice-President of the Arab Welfare Association in Batavia, he rendered great help to members of his community soon after the liberation of Jr.va. The picture shows Mr. S.M.H. Alkaff, centre, with
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  • 124 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. PRODUCTION of tin ore concentrates in the Federation during December totalled 5,698 long tons, an increase, compared with the previous month's output, of I 5,543 long tons. The increased production was registered In Perak, Pahang Trengganu, Kedah, Perils and
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  • 70 7 Neither the police nor the five Singapore people who offered Jobs to Tan Sing Choon, a dumb Penang exVolunteer, more than six weeks ago have been able to find him. Tan. who was reported to have spent the last, six years writing for help on the
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  • 61 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Rais bin Mohamed, private in the R.A.O.C. Locally Enlisted Personnel, was sentenced to three months rigorous imprisonment and a fine of $100, In default another month's Imprisonment, by Inche Naslr, for giving false information about his name, address and occupation to
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  • 171 7 DEFENCE WAS THE TOPIC THE defence of British terri- torles in South-East Asia was the topic at yesterday's discussions by administrative chiefs at Buklt Serene. Meeting there were the Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald). the High Commissioner. Federation of Malaya (Sir Henry Gurney). the Governor of Hong Kong (Sir
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  • 34 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Feb. 1 has been declared a public holiday in the State of Johore in honour of the anniversary of the Federation of Malaya.
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  • 51 7 The Shipping and Port Clearance Office, the office of the Registrar of Imports and Exports and the Imports and Exports Control Office (Permit Branch), will open from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. during the Chinese New Year holidays on Sat. Jan. 29, and on Mon. Jan.
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  • 125 7 A .45 REVOLVER loaded with six rounds of ammu- nition was thrown away by three masked Chinese who unsuccessfully tried to rob a house in Everton Road jester day afternoon. The escaping robbers were said to have flung the revolver over a lorry, which
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  • 90 7 /CHANGES of designation in V- the Marine Department Staff are announced by the Singapore Master Attendant. The Senior Certificated Boarding Officer will be known as the Senior Assistant Port Officer and the remaining two officers as Assistant Port Officers. Their office will be known as the
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  • 466 7 How could a man dash off to the Bank of England and tell them to stop payment of a t 5 note which he had lost? Mr. Ong in evidence said that Khoo Boon Soo had asked for Rs. 100,000 but he thought
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  • 76 7 AWELL-dressed Luropean, with a big lighted cigar in his mouth, walked into the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. He went up to the prosecuting officer and was about to make an Inquiry when the Magistrate (Mr. F. B. Oehlers) noticed him. Mr. Oehlers: "Take the cigar
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  • 45 7 The Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union is holding a Chinese New Year social and dance on Sunday, at St. Andrew's School hall, Woodsvlile. Tickets at $2 each are obtainable from the general secretary or from members of the executive council.
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  • 205 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. THE University of Malaya will be established this year if and when the necessary legislation is passed by both the Singapore and Federal Legislative Councils. The public will then be invited to contribute to the
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  • 122 8 50ft. Death Fall In Sago Street A 38-YEAR-OLD woman ru IX ber worker, Lai Ah Foon, fell 50 feet to her death from the second storey of a house in Sago Street at 12.40 a.m. yesterday. People living on the same floor as the woman were not aware of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    67 8 THIS PICTURE was taken at the farewell tea-party gives to the magistrate, Mr. R. W. P. Rule, by the Second Police Court Staff, on the eve of Mr. Rule's departure to Sarawak. From left to right: Mr. Chan Hit Slang, Inspector Noordin bin Talib, and M-ssrs. Othman H. All, R.
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    34 8 THE SULTAN OF PERAK taking a royal salute at the parade of 540 Malay Regtmemt recruits at their passingout ceremony on Sunday at Port Dickson. Three other Malay rulers were present. Straits Times picture.
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  • 277 8 A PLEA that Raffles College graduates be awarded degrees instead of diplomas when they graduate next June, thus enabling them to become the first B.A.s and B.Sc. s et the University of Malaya, is made in the latest issue of Bulletin, official organ of the Raffles
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  • 30 8 Singapore police yesterday recovered 33 rounds of old .303 ammunition, which were found In the garden of a house In Bukit Cherwln, In the Keppel Harbour area.
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  • 184 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. •THE Bishop of Singapore A (the .Rt. Rev. J. L. Wilson) on a farewell visit to Penang, yesterday confirmed 48 candidates at a service at St George's Curcli. He was later entertained at a joint tea-party at the parsonage in
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  • 43 8 The Superintendent of Education, Johore, states that the school in Kluang referred to in a report headed "Bought School Certificate, Postal Clerk Fined $100 p/ In the Straits Times of Jan. 22 was not a Government or Govern-ment-aided school.
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  • 131 8 HE PEEPED AT NURSE IN BATH GAOLED A YOUNG Indian clerk who scaled a ten-foot wall to take a peep at a woman bathing, was sentenced in Singapore yesterday to two months' rigorous imprisonment. The man, M. Raja Doral, 24, formerly employed at the National Registration centre at Beach Road,
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  • 122 8 The Singapore Bu» Workers' Union Ms been registered under the Trade Union Ordinance. Th« following are officers of the Union: President, Mr. Wee Kok Pob; ▼ice-president, Mr. Young Ang Moh; general secretary, Mr. Ong Ohln Gee; asst. secretary, Mr. Woon Leong Cnwee; treasurer, Mr. Tong Hock Ohia;
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  • 101 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Mon. A 22- YEAR-OLD Hokkien woman, Khoo Kirn Hong, who said she found life not worth living, was charged here today with attempted suicide. "My husband is being held by the police in Singapore," she told the court. "I have borrowed
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  • 502 9 TjiVERYONE it seems has a passion in life. Bometimes this is well hidden but Cookie's is easy to see. He loves all animals but his passion 1j the kitchen cat. He is never without at least one and usually there Is a specially favoured animal which
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  • 175 9 HTHE wedding season *has just reached its height in Japan. Japanese brides used to be made up heavily and wore heavy horse-hair wigs for the ceremony. The outfit is too uncomfortable to be worn in spring or summer. Most brides do not go in heavily for the
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  • 191 9 |T will not be an ex- aggeration to say that the meat-eating British are now mainly vegetarians in their diet, as a vegetarian meal Is considered to be adequate in vitamins, calories and other necessary constituents of a healthy diet. This statement was made by Dr.
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  • 1068 9  -  NURSE BRIDGET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA By I Nurse Brigdet is qualified in the care of babies and young children. If you have any problems and need help write to: Nurse Bridget c/o Straits Times, Cecil Street, Singapore. Please give a pseudonym under which .our letter may
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  • 95 9 TODAY'S RECIPE ORANGE CUP SUNDAE Ingredients: 1 cup orange marmalade, 2/3 cup water, few grains salt, 1 quart, vanilla Ice cream, 6 large oranges. Method: Cut a thick slice from the top of each orange and scoop out the orange pulp. (Save the pulp for fruit cup). Chill orange cups
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    • 77 9 Snfi /I Jib, vm jj I*| 7 *JIII JT* M L\ I iaaBBBBBBB^^^^V^BBBBai B£ W J I MaWi'W^B We PJ Here is our young friend (did you see him last week?) -a study in concentrationI 'ui^^jl getting down to real business. How he likes J9 his Lactogen. Did you ever
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    • 321 9 IXfc -'i9° in( .i |o l©^.^* laugh or ill RIHKR HAI'PIKk nib thes* health[iving tablets A Rowing cniio needs Calcium and Phosphorus to assure sturdy bones, -sound teeth, safety from ncket» 01 tic id doubles But the food of <nan> living id ooumne» where (he climate Is difficult la acknowledged
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  • 1937 10 Millions Mourned Death Of 'That Man' OUR LONDON LETTER TELLS HOW... From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 12. (YN Sunday of this week, a man in a Paddington flat was dressing unhurriedly just before mid -day (after taking his sick wife's breakfast to her in bed on a tray) when
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 98 11 Share Market Quiet And Slightly Easier From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Monday. YySALINGS in the Malayan share market today were few and far between. The market was very quiet, with a slightly easier tendency. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer SeUct Frwer Neave Ord. 3.80
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    • 66 11 From A Market Correspondent COPRA prices eased yesterday on the Singapore produce markets as overseas Inquiries poured in for coconut oil. Early business was recorded for Slak sago flour it Saturday's price while black pepper quotattions continued to drop. Changes elsewhere were minor. Yesterdays price changes were: Copra:
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    • 193 11 MANILA, Mon. THE Philippines copra mar- ket, which opened 1949 by registering a 35-per-cent price drop, has steadied in the last few days. Sides, however, remain negligible. Bids of U.S. $23 for 100 kilogram* at the year's start declined rapidly to VS. $15 by Jan. 15. They held
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    • 218 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. REPLACEMENT of smallholders' rubber trees, 90 per cent of which are over-age, Is a matter of urgency, according to a report Just issued by the Rubber Research Institute The report says that the three years' enforced rest of
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    • 149 11 DIVIDEND PAYERS UNITED Temiang (F.M.S.) Rubber Estates, after a lapse of six years, is resuming dividend payments on the £250,000 capital by the distribution of five per cent, for the year to last July 31. The previous payment was six per cent, in respect of 1940-41.
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    • 55 11 gRAUNSTON (Malay) Rubber' Estates, after seven years Is Paying a dividend. This is three per cent., less tax. against 7H per cent, for 1940-41. "Hie profit for the year to Sept. 30 Is £4,056, after charging rehabilitation expenses of £3.930. but before replanting costs of £908. Taxation Is
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    • 227 11 I NEW type of rubber fuel tank, considered a valuable technical development of great importance to racing cars, Is described In the magazine Autocar. At the 1948 Indianapolis 500mile race, says the magazine, three of the latest and fastest can competing used rubber fuel tAnki to
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    • 96 11 LN 'E HUNDRED pre-war undischarged bankrupts were last week issued with notices from the Singapore Official Assignee's Office calling on them to dec'.ire their earnings during the put two years. Payments of Instalments under appropriate orders will be resumed 1 soon, according to the Official Assignee (Mr.
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    • 35 11 pENGKALEN directors have declared a dividend of 10 per cent. (6d. per share) on the Preferred Ordinary shares less tax on account of profit for the year to sept. 30, 1M».
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    • 106 11 'I "HE Singapore rubber mar- ket yesterday was <iulet and slightly easier on some selling from up-country. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 36% cents, sellers 37 cents; spot loose buyers 36% cents, sellers 37 cents, per lb. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's
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    • 264 11 FAILING considerable absorption of the metal by the United States, the trade journal Metal Bulletin foresees the probability of a topheavy tin market position. It remarks that the first allocations for January-June, 1949, made by the Combined Tin Committee, are on a substantially larger scale than the
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    • 47 11 Wool Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. UNDER the £360,000.000 trade agreement just signed be- tween Britain and Poland, the latter Is to receive 3,000 tons of rubber this year. The quantity will be Increased in subsequent years of the five-year agreement to 6,000 tons.
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    • 101 11 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns tr brackets) were: Main Wharf: Soenstijk (33-34) Breconshire (38-39), Seroel (40) Vlvita (40-41). Trevaninn (42-43). West Wharf: Cornelius Maersk (1-2), Berangan (6-7), Tablan (11-12), Olenorchy (13-14), Padana (1S-16). Empire Dock: Gorgon (17-18), British Prince
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    • 474 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS EAST ASIATIC LINE TO NIW rORK AND BOSTON VIA CCVLON. INOIA, ICVPT ANO ,«».,.w.^ MEOIT»RANCAN PORTS. .A.tINCS ROM SCANOINAVIA/UJt SA UN J SaNOIN^ I NIHT/ Singapor. p. Sllam P^^an, CONT.NINT. »CANpiNAVIA. Pret. IcHerse* lan. 25/26 lan. 27/2t Loading at Singapore. Port Swettenham Marina Snapper Feb. 10/14 Feb.
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  • 347 12  - BYRON GETS TOP WEIGHT IN GOLD CUP EPSOM JEEP LittleNed,D.R.B. Not In The Field By KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ELEVEN top class stayers have been handicapped for the Seiangor Gold Cup, first of the 1949 season's classics, to be run here on Saturday over a mile and a quarter. Byron has
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  • 186 12 MANILA, Mon. NORMAN von Mda, the Australian golfer, commenting on hi* performance In the first Far East jolf championship held at the Wack VVm-k t lub in which hr was placed third, said yesterday: "This tournament convinced me that I am not nearly as fit
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  • 110 12 THE following players qualified for theU94« Qold Medal competition of ihe Island Club, which must be played in conjunction with the the January Monthly Medal: Dr. L. E. C. Davles, D. A. Ferrier-Smith. O. Townsley, R. Nancarrow, A. E. Minns, F. Jones. J. W. Y. EU. D.
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  • 95 12 r.s.g.cTmixed foursomes THE Royal Singapore Oolf Club's January Mixed Foursomes com- petition was played at Bukit: Timah on Sunday afternoon and resulted in a win for Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Tabor wKh a net icore of 35. The following were the best: cards returned: Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
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  • 61 12 THE Singapore Chinese Recreation Club hockey team to play the V MCA. on Hong Llm Green this evening will be: Le*j Ah Chio; Lav Hock Chye, Cheong Thiam Slew; Au Tat Chu. Ooh] Chin Chye. Fam Kirn Hock; Low. Kee Pow. H. Fang. Yeong Slew Khow, Khoo
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  • 30 12 HOCKEY: S.C.R.C. v. Y.M.CA. Hong Mm Green; HOD. (A. V. Hornets St. Oeorce's Rd.; S.H.B. Police t C.S.C. Thomson Rd. SOCCER: Spitfires r. British Military Hospital Geyiang stadium.
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  • 95 12 State Cricket Programme PROVISIONAL dates for Inter- 1 1 State and other representative cricket matches for the forthcom- j i ing season were arranged at a I meeting at the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday. The list is. Singapore vs Seiangor at Slngapor e on April 16. 17 and 18; Europeans
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  • 297 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ;N All Blues North-South match will be held next week !n Singapore. This is the first time such a match has bet., organised since the All Blues started 14 years ago to encourage more Asians to play
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  • 60 12 THE team to represent the Army in a hockey match against the SRC. to be played on the S.R.C. padang at 3 p.m. tomorrow will be: QMS Harratt; Maj. AboU. RSM Charlton; CSM Dyer, Odr. Oxford, i Lt. Cant; Cdr. Lawson, Sgt. Maj. Reynolds, S/Sgt. Wheeler, Capt.
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  • 291 12 THE full list of weights at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, second day of the Seiangor meeting, is: CLASS 1, DIV. I—6 FUSS. Permit* Indian Dormez 9.07 Heather 7.111 No Regrets 9.07 Cabaret 7.11 Kinder Gold 9.01 Minstrel Boy 7.10 Gold Caste 8.13 Snaps 7.10 Some Class 8.05 OameOrlental
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  • 43 12 MADRAS. Monday THE West Indie- beat South Zone by an innings and 200 runs yesterday. West Indies first innings —514 for 7 declared (Stollmayer not out 244). South Zone first Innings 46 (Gomes nine for 24) seconn innings 268 (Gopalan 64).—A.P.
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  • 142 12 North XI To Meet South From Our Staff Corr"<poitl< nt IPOH, Monday. ri following were selected last night to represent the North In the hocksf match against the South to ke played In Kuala Lumpur on February 19: Wong Kam Thong (Seiangor).; Mat Nor (Perak). Dr. W. C. Lees (Penan*);
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  • 286 12 JOHORE sport* enthusiasts, having decided to form a sports council earlier this month, are not allowing the grass to grow under their feet. On Thursday, a meeting will be held at the J.C.S.A., Istana Padang, Johore Bahru, I at 7 p.m. to Initiate State associations for
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  • Article, Illustration
    36 12 TROYDON (Flannery ap) being ltd m by Miss Mary Chna after winning the seven-furlong race for the President's Cup on Saturday, the opening day of the Selangor Turf Club's Gold Cup Meeting. Scoops Amateur Service photo.
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  • 442 12 LETTER TO SPORTS EDITOR THE whole future of Singapore soccer hangs on the decisions taken at the S.A.F.A. council meeting to be held tomorrow at the Singapore Recreation Club. The question of "shamateurism" mast be thrashed out once and for all. No good will be done
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  • 29 12 Cricket and soccer registers are now open at the Singapore Recreation Club and all members inV.nding to play cricket and soccer are asked to register early.
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  • 402 12 By The Sports Editor QUR Correspondent, "Open The Door," has made some interesting point* In his letter which we cannot allow to pass without comment. On the prevalence of "shamateurism" in Singapore soccer, we cannot agree mone with him. We can, in fact, furnish more examples of it.
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  • 46 12 A MEETING; will be convened at the British Council Hall, Stamford Rd.. tomorrow at S p.m. by all cycling clubs and associations in Singapore for the formation of a Singapore Amateur Cyclln? Association. Tn» meeting will be presided over by Mr. M. M. Freeland.
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  • 63 12 IN page one of yesterday's Issue of the Straits Times, the caption to the picture of the Singapore Motor Club's speed trial re feJ/ed to the motor-cyclist as O. D. A. Rlgnall. who was second in his class. It should have been J. Skakke who won the event
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  • 24 12 Today: High Water. «.59 a.m. (8ft. 31n), 9.31 p.m. (7ft. 8in). Tomorrow: High Water. 8.98 a.m. (8ft. 4in), 10.35 p.m. (8ft. 31a).
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  • 462 12 VINE teams have entered for the newly-formed Singapore Cricket Association's first cricket tournament, which will occupy week-ends between April and September. The competition will be run on the league system on the home-and-away basis. Among the entries is the Johore Cricket Club, other teams being
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