The Straits Times, 28 January 1949

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times PKICE TEN CFNTS TWELVE PAGES MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1 845 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949.
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  • 1611 1 Colony Police Evidence In Airabu Trial From Our Special Staff Correspondent TANJONG PINANG, Thursday. J^|R. F. G. Minns, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Singapore, told the arms trial court yesterday that an order had been issued under Emergency Regulations for the detention of arlton Arthur Hire before
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  • 207 1 THE Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force (Air Marshal Sir Leslie Hollinghurst), who i s inspecting R.A.F. units in the Far East, arrived in Singapore yesterday morning by Lancastrian from Ceylon. He was met by the C.-in-C. 1 Air Command Far East (Air Marshal Sir
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  • 171 1 History —By A Man Who Made It IN the autumn of 1946. Winston Churchill, the man who had assumed command of a great nation at the nadir of their fortunes and led them from such depths to the heights of victory, sat down in his study at Chartwell and began
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  • 75 1 LONDON, Thurs.— Reports of an anti-Communist revolt in Soviet-controlled Northern Korea were denied today by Moscow Radio. It alleged that terrorists had been smuggled from American occupied Southern Korea and had fired a school 1 and other" buildings near Hai-Ju. Mr. Lee Buk Sun. the Southern Korean
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  • 71 1 SUNGEI PATANI, Thurs. THE two members of the crew Of the R.A.F. Mosquito, missing since Tuesday morning, landed by para- chute ten miles north-east of Sintok, Siam. They are uninjured, in Singgora, and will return tomorrow in an R.A.F. aircraft to be sent for them.
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  • 108 1 RANGOON. Thursday. BURMESE Government forces will shortly begin large scale military operations against Karen insurgents who have occupied the Britishowned Mawchl tin mines. 70 miles northwest of Rangoon, since last September. An official statement said the insurgents had murdered more than 100 people, including many Government officials.
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  • 222 1 4 BUDDHIST monk attached to Singapore's biggest monastery, who said he had "renounced the world", was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. He was 24-year-old Kee Seng Wong who was found In I
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  • 58 1 ROME, Thurs. A crowd of over 5,000, mostly women, battled with mounted and foot police when film actor Tyrone Power and Linda Christian were married in" the Church of Santa Francesca Romana here today. Power and his 25-year-old red-haired Mexican-born bride drove to the Vatican, where they
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 1 PANDIT NEHRU'S HOMAGE to relics of Buddha's leading disciples, Sariputta and Moggallana Arahans. The relics have been returned to India after about 100 years in English museums.— Govt. of India picture.
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  • 301 1 NANKING, Thursday. -CHINA'S capital was a city of uncertainty tonight as the flight southward reached th« proportions of a panic. Across the Yangtse, where Communist forces are nearing the river bank overlooking Nanking, there were few sign- of ao&vity; but within the city Itself tension rose
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  • 72 1 LONDON. Thurs. A CHINA despatch in today's News Chronicle says that foreign military observers in Nanking believe that Soviet Marshal Zhukov is in Mongolia directing the military campaign against the Nationalist forces. The paper's correspondent. Jack Percival added that these observers also believed that "Soviet technicians were
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  • 50 1 DISSATISFIED, SAYS MP LONDON Thurs Sir Peter MacDonald. Conservative M.P. said today that he was "not satisfied" with th't Colonial Secretary's reply to his question yesterday calling for firmer action to suppress terrorism in Malaya. "I intend to pursue the matter further", he said. I I Report in Pt(e 8]
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  • 136 1 DURBAN, Thurs NATAL, police today reported that the Mtembu— a Zulu tribe had called on their centuries-aid rivals, the Mcv- j nus, to battle. Using four aircraft, the police located several hundred Mtembus 10 miles from Weenen, near the scene of! nnhtlng last month when 22 Zulus
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  • 125 1 ST. PAULS PACKED FOR ITMA LONDON Thurs. POLICE ordered all doors jf St. Paul's Cathedral to be closed a few minutes after the beginning of the memorial service to Tommy Handley. Britain's premier radio comedian. With 3,000 packed inside, thousands of others were shut out. and a police cordon had
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  • 22 1 BOMBAY, Thius.- Bombay Board of Film Censors has banned the film "Loves Of Carmen' 'starring Rita Hay- 1 worth.— Reuter.
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  • 121 1 "Java Flare Up Soon" Feared BATAVIA. Thurs. TUERILLA warfare may v flare up in Javn within ft week, forecast a Republican spokesman toda" "Already", he said, "35.000 crack trooos have invaded Dutch-occupied West Java and 'c dug in." The spokesman denied Dutch claims that Republican forces had been scatterPd and
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  • 71 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Thurs. rjIHERE were indications 1 that the Dutch intend to accept major portions of the American-inspired United Nations "peace plan" for Indonesia as the Security Council met to-day to resume the debate and perhaps vote on the four-nation proposal. The Netherlands delegates were believed ready
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  • 71 1 LONDON. Thurs. Thlrt.yI year-old Annette Wheeler, of 'Boscombe. Hampshire. i s to start proceedings for divorce against Tengk:i India Petra of Kelantan. th? Daily Mirror reported yesterday. Annette has not seen her 31-year-old husband since he sailed for Malaya in June 1941. She recalled yesterday that she
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  • 946 3 Left Wing Bid To Force Bevin' s Resignation LONDON, Thursday. THE British Cabinet this morning held an inquest on last night's Palestine debate which at one point looked like bringing down the Foreign Minister, Mr. Bevin and endangering the Government. The Government obtai 283 to 193 votes
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  • 201 3 BERLIN. Thurs. GEN. Lucius D. Clay, the American commander In j Germany, told a Press con- ference yesterday that he had little hope that the Berlin blockade deadlock would be i broken in the near future. "I can see nothing locally to Indicate any change in the
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  • 49 3 "HOOCH" WAS NOT U.S. LONDON. Thurs. British police have completely ex I onerated American airmen of charges that they sold methyl alcohol as liquor to i Britons resulting in a num ber of deaths. U.S. Air Forces Headquarters said methyl alcohol was not available to American airmen in England.—UP.
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  • 35 3 LONDON Thurs.— The Bri1 tish Food Minister (Mr. Strachey) told the House of Commons that Britain had made "very vigorous repre- ssntations" to the Argentine Government regarding delay I in meat shipments. U.P.
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  • 19 3 SAN FRANSCISO, Thurs. —Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, the British author, was 75 years old this w«ek AP.
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  • 211 3 SHOWED A JURY WAY TO LOVE LOS ANGELES, Thurs. NIGHT club artiste Claude Marsan. with the aid of his attractive model, demonstrated love-making scenes for an hour in the municipal court recently. But he failed to impress the Judge and the Jury that his act was not obscen«. He Is
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  • 36 3 MANILA, Thurs. Manila police are puzzled over recurrent thefts of telephone cables. The latest haul, literally made over the heads of police, was a 400foot phone cable, cut down from guarded poles Reut«T
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  • 320 3 I IH^*Fi.JruiBj I LONDON, Thursday. VjUHEN the Women's Auxiliary Air Force becomes TT the Women's Royal Air Force next -month it will be compulsory for airwomen to salute their superiors —men or women. Discipline will be in line with that of airmen. I
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  • 117 3 GREEK GUERILLAS DID $500, 000, 000 DAM A GE ATHENS, Thurs. SINCE the beginning of the Greek civil war in 1945, General Markos's communist guerillas have inflicted more than Straits $500,000,000worth of damage to roads, railways, livestock, crops and public utilities, the Government said last night. General Papagos, Supreme Military
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  • 95 3 AIR BAN: DUTCH MAY ACT THE HAGUE, Thurs. THE Netherlands Minister for Transport (Mr. M. D. Spitzen) told the Dutch Second Chamber yesterday that his Government was considering whether India and Pakistan should be held responsible for any losses caused by their ban on Netherlands aircraft landing in their territories.
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  • 70 3 THE Kuala Lumpur Malay newspaper. Mailis In an editorial on the mounting Communist successes in China, said that a Red China would seriously affect the present situation In Malaya. Saying that there was a "possibility of the British Government recognising a Communist-dominated government in China" the
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  • 40 3 PERTH Thurs. Displaced persons coming to Australia from Europe are generally anxious to become fully "Australlanlsed," said a Commonwealth immigration official. It would be helpful if Australians would regard them not as foreigners but as new settlers. Reuter.
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  • 26 3 FRANKFURT, Thurs. Enlisted men can now serve as members of a U.S. military court. Formerly all court martial members have been officers. AP.
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  • 453 5 WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE Secretary of State (Mr. Dean Acheson) 1 said yesterday that the United States "must marshal new reserves of military and economic might to fight for world freedom from reactionary Communism." In his first news co U.S. foreign policy Mr.
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  • 127 5 Japan Won't Yield To Reds—MacA NEW YORK. Thurs. GENERAL Mac Arthur said today that. Japan "will not Yield before the political or social pressure of Communists or any other concept of enslavement." The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Japan made the statement in a message to the Veterans
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  • 58 5 HAMBURG, Thurs.— Three British ambulances have j been sent into the Soviet zone to evacuate victims of a crashed British Dakota. The Dakota crashed in the Soviet zone on Monday. One of the crew and six German j passengers were killed. Two of the crew and
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  • 86 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. 1 GUM-CHEWING German n diplomat, a blonde divorcee, and a sentimental sound engineer today swore that they saw Mildred Gillars playing "Axis Sally" at the microphone of the Nazi wartime radio. They were testifying at the treason trial of the 48-year-old American who
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  • 59 5 MELBOURNE, Thurs. A radio outfit being sold In Melbourne enables the housewife to listen-In to the baby's slumber, summon her husband from other parts of the home, and answer th» door without leaving her work. It Is a radio set or sets combined with a house
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  • 100 5 LONDON, Thurs. SUNSPOTS and Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) yesterday blacked out thoitwave world radio communications and slowed down cable routes In one of the worst hold-ups in the history of communications. News agencies and cable companies were trying desperately to keep their services functioning under
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    • 40 5 Buku Merah entries CLOSING The last dale for receiving copy for STRAITS TIMES DIRECTOR* OF SINGA PORE AND MALAYA is Feb. 15. Will those companies who have not yet ■•"turned forms please do so now? Straits Times Phone 5471 Singapore
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  • 752 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Jan. 28, 1949. WESTMINSTER LISTENS The Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones, apparently is satisfied with the progress being made in the suppression of the terrorists, but it is not a satisfaction that will be generally shared in Malaya. It is a question whether
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  • 325 6 Mr. Bevin and the Labour Government did not come out well from the Palestine debate, yet well enough for the Foreign Secretary's position to be seen to be in no danger. There were whispers last week that Mr. Bevin might be leaving the Foreign Office. He won his
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  • 46 6 MANILA, Thurs. -Filipinos have been told by President Quirino, a widower for four years, that he is married -to his country. He clarified his marital status by saying he would not "discourage any female friend who may think rue worth marrying. Reuter
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  • 960 6 AN expedition to the China war front reveals the amount of enthusiasm for the present war existing among the people and the troops. That there was fighting, no one who sees the trainloads of wounded coming down from the Suchowfu and Nansuchow areas, can doubt
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    • 592 6 I WISH to direct this letter to all progressiveminded Malay Muslim women. 1 am sure 1 was not the only one surprised and disappointed to learn that the Malay women's hockey team of Kuala Lumpur had raised a storm of protest and had
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    • 178 6 VOTHING has done more in two world wars to cause misunderstanding between the English and Dominion forces than the unquestioning English belief that officers are a breed apart not only requiring .to be segregated from the brutal and licentious soldiery but demanding amenities and comforts far in
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  • 757 6  -  George Franks By HOLLAND, while still awaiting final settlement of her dispute with the Indonesian Republicans in the East Indies, is going ahead with her plans for giving complete autonomy to her West Indies within the Netherlands Kingdom. These plans took their newest step forward early
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  • 540 7 Gang Ambush 500 Yards From Guards Post From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. HjR. Kenneth Clarke, 28-year-old open-cast superintendent at Malayan Collieries' coalmine at Batu Arang, was shot dead by bandits this morning as he travelled by jeep to a mine. He
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  • 243 7 HOMELESS SA Y: "NO AID NEEDED" THIRTY people made homeless by fine in Alexandra Road after the disturbance involving 50 Malay L.E.P.'s on Wednesday night, have declined an offer of help by the Social Welfare Department. One of four Malay L.E.P.'s Injured was yesterday stated to be In a serious
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  • 41 7 BUTTERWORTH, Thurs.— For concealing four tahils of ganja (Indian hemp) under his shirt, Vellasamy was fined $100 today. In another case, Tan Chooi Ah was bound over, for three months on a charge of having 35 noons of chandu.
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  • 142 7 New Post For Trade Chief THE United Kingdom Trade Commissioner in Malaya (Mr. R. B. Willmot) has been appointed United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner In one of the Dominions. He will take up his new appointment in the middle of April. Pending the appointment of a successor. Miss B. Walnwright
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  • 54 7 One of Britain's leading travel experts and deputy general manager of Thomas Cook and Son Ltd. (Mr. Cecil Garstang) arrived In Singapore yesterday by air from the United Kingdom. Accompanied by the general Manager for the East (Mr. George Brown), he ii visiting all the firm's
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  • 64 7 AT dawn yesterday, Spitfires from an airfield in Singapore again formed the spearhead of an attack by military forces on huts, hidden by thick Jungle, and being used by a large party of bandits, in an isolated area of Central Johore. After heavy bombs were dropped,
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  • 230 7 HOUSE COLLAPSE VERDICT "VTO one is to be Warned for ll the collapse of house number 68 Upper Chin Chew Street, Singapore, on Dec. 29 last. The collapse was due to the age of the premises." This was stated by the Singapore Coroner (Mr. W. Q. Porter) yesterday at the
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  • 146 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. CIX Kuala Lumpur residents a four of them Chinese, received awards today for ervlces rendered to British troops and prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation. They were Messrs. Kok Chong Dat, Kok Chong Loong, Oorbex Singh (who received the
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  • 150 7 TWENTY-four-year--old Ong Hian, of Pasir Panjang Road, was fined $250 by the Second District Judge (Mr. J. L. McFall) yesterday for having made a false declaration in an affidavit in a High Court probate in Septtmber 1948. Ong had declared that he waa the sole beneficiary of
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  • 361 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A FOUR- YEAR old Chinese child and her mother I■*•1 will be flown to Melbourne on Saturday to receive radium treatment for cancer to save the child's only surviving eye and her life The mother and child are being
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  • 62 7 PENANG, Thurs.— After the Municipal President (Mr. W. C. Taylor) had objected to the "backyard slaughtering" of pigs outside town limits, the Penang Rural Board yesterday decided to grant temporary licences for rural abattoirs. Mr. Taylor said that as a safeguard to the public, ail slaughtering should
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  • 160 7 WHEN John Forteath joined the Air Training Corps TT at Edinburgh in 1945 he did not imagine that at th e age of 18 h e would have visited Athens, Aden, Colombo, and Singapore. Ii stepped from a Lancasi yesterday as baggage
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  • 48 7 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Thurs.— Over 43,000 peopls have registered «o far in the Kluang district. Authorities in charge report that the work had gone smoothly. The Registration Office, Kluang, will remain open until further notice for those who have not yet registered.
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  • 31 7 BUTTERWORTH. Thurs.— A trader, Lim Soon, was today convicted of possession of 12 dozen bottles of adulterated ■tout. The Sessions Court President (Mr. Fletcher Roger*) postponed sentence to next Thursday.
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  • 208 7 A new and better order which could give coln lective security for all under a world government was struggling to be born out of the sick world of to-day, Dr. E. Stanley Jones, the American evangelist, told a large crowd in the Victoria Memorial Hall last night.
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  • 97 7 rE wedding took place at the Singapore Registry yesterday of Mr. E.S.P. Kulatllake, son of Mr. A. Kulailake of Colombo, and Miss S. Enid Fernando. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. K. ernando of Singapore. She wore a white embroidered chiffon dress
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  • 34 7 F\R. Jones paid this coin- Plitnent to his audience: "I expected to find you much more shattered. "You don't look like wartorn veterans over whom the tides of war have swept."
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  • 121 7 GOODBYE GIFTS TO BISHOP FAREWELL gifts were pre1 sented to the Bishop of Singapore (the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson) and Mrs. Wilson, yesterday afternoon at an "At Home" in Robinson's Cafe which was attended by 20a people, including the Com-missioner-General (Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald Mr. R. F. W. Leonard,
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  • 21 7 Raffles College will hold a Chinese New Year social and dance at Ooi Tiong Ham Hall on Sunday.
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  • 623 8 Still Not Settled MALAYA'S share of goods which the Sterling Area will import from Japan under the Japan-Sterling Area Trade Agreement has not been settled yet. This statement was made at a Press conference In Singapore yesterday by the Representative of the Federation Government in
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  • 399 8 ARMY ACCOUNT OF K.L. EVICTION CHALLENGED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A STATEMENT issued yesterday by Lovelace and Hastings, the solicitors of Mr. Yap Pow Sun, who was evicted from his house in Prince's Road by the Army authorities, questions the official Army account of the moves leading
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  • 152 8 MALAY NEWS From Our Malay Correspondent THE Persekutunn Persetiaan- Melayu. Kelantan at a recent meeting opposed the proposed secession of Penang and Malacca from* the Federation. The meeting resolved to write to the Malay Rulers asking them to take joint action for the retrocession of Penan*
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  • 164 8 pEYLONESE in Singapore and the Federation will observe Dominion Day on Friday next week, but celebrations will be less lavish than last year because of the emergency. Th Ceylon Federation of MalavH. at Kuala Lumpur, will organise sports for school children at the T.P.C.A., followed by light
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  • 58 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Thurs.— A Chinese towkay Chew Kong, who turned the Government pork market at Buloh Kasap into a rubber washing shed was yesterday fined $10 by Inche Rauf in the Segamat Court. It was alleged tha: Chew Hong allowed his labourers to
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  • 82 8 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thurs. THE High Commissioner (Sir Henry Gurney) will pay a two-day informal visit to Malacca next week. On Wednesday morning Sir Henry will visit the General Hospital, the Welfare Home, and the Municipal and Education offices. In the afternoon, he will
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  • 77 8 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. NIGHT hunting is permitted in Kedah and Perils but the Chief Police Officer (Mr. R. F. Mallard) warns hunters of the "considerable risk" of encountering security forces with consequences that might prove fatal. Night hunting, the statement adds, should be
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  • 24 8 The Overseas League, Far East Branch, Singapore, will hold a general meeting at the Adelphi Roof Garden on Thursday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 175 8 A RECOMMENDATION that the speed limit of 30 miles an hour for passenger and certain other motor vehicles should be extended to cover the entire Municipal area in Singapore, except where sisnsn s are placed to indicate otherwise, has been made to Government by the
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  • 132 8 The following arc the officers of the Chung H«a Athletic Union for this year: Patron.-;. Messrs. Ng Kirn Seng, Llm Slew Kok, Tan Sye Choon, Llm Beng Teck and Ng Hay Leng; president, Mr. Llm Yev Leng; vice-president, Mr. Chin Kum Chin; Chinese secretary, Mr Llm
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  • 323 9 Colony Students Ban Booing At College Games DAKRACKING at interu College matches between Raffles College and King Edward VII College of Medicine students has been banned in the interests of students amity. The Raffles College Union publication, Underprad, referring to the ban. describes It as "a highly praiseworthy move on
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  • 187 9 CATHAY "GUESTS" MOVING rpHE Commissioner General"* X staff and the personnel of the Far Eastern Defence Secretariat will have vacated Cathay Building by Feb. 15, the Straits Times was told last night. When the move out is completed Cathay Building will be free of all its "guests" except Radio Malaya.
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  • 229 9 'THERE is no reason to expect a water shortage in Singapore, although the amount of rainfall this month has been exceptionally low, the acting Water Engineer (Mr. S. B. W. Williams) told the Straits Times yesterday. Rainfall recorded at the two big reservoirs
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  • 90 9 V-RAY equipment 5,000 A quinine sulphate tablets and 7 Ib. of sulphanol are among gifts from the Australian Government which have arrived in Singapore. Other gifts, which Include 80.000 yards of canvas tarpaulin, are already being distributed by the Sorial Welfare Department. Some canvas cloth has beeD given
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  • 236 9 TNJURED in a rugby game 1 last Monday, Mr. Wee 1 on Wednesday night. He w; He played in the recent Singapore All Blues trials, and turned out regularly for the St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association and the S.C.R.C. The funeral, which was attended by a
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  • 87 9 FNGAL Day, and not Thaipusam, should be a public holiday in Malaya, urges Dravidar Kazhakam, an organisation of the South Indians In Singapore. The Kazhakam has written to the Colon'al Secretary to the Government of Singapore recommending this change. Mr. K. R. Thangavelu, the president of
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  • 68 9 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Kesavan, a Tamil goldsmith, was yesterday ordered to enter into a bond of $500 In one surety for a period of six months when he was convicted by the President of the Sessions Court (Mr. B. V. Rhodes) of committing
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  • 146 9 Twenty-one members have been elected to the board of directors of the Chinese V.M.C.A. President, Mr. Homer Cheng Hu] Ming; vice-presidents, Mr Iv Cheung, Mr. Q. H. Kiat; English secretary, Mr. Chew Peng Yam; Chinese secretary R:v. Paul S. H Hang; treasurer, Mr. William Timothy Kao; assistant
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  • 55 9 V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, movie circle show "Till the Clouds Roll I by." 8.15 p.m. Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship. Chinese New Year cv c social. 4, Fort Canning Road. 7.30 p.m. Dr. E. Stanley Janes on "Can Religious F&ith Bring Moral and Physical Health," Victoria Memorial Hall. 6 p.m.
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  • 85 9 LONDON, Thurs. jt|R. Lira Chuan Geok, nonplaying captain and manager of Malaya', Thomas Cup team, will meet the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Arthur Creech Jones) shortly. Mr. Llm lg also president or the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers Union. Yesterday,
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  • 644 10 Govt "Determined To Improve" Colony Welfare LONDON, Thurs. THE recent social survey j conducted in Singapore has defined more precisely the problem facing the Government and is an ear^__ nest sign of the Administration's determination, in spite of the emergency, to improve conditions in the Colony. This was stated In
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  • 33 10 !The Singapore Regional Indian Congress and the Singapore Indian Association will, hold a joint meeting at the New World on Sunday after- noon to commemorate the j death of Mahatma Gandhi.
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  • 147 10 "NOT SO GOOD IN EAST" Fr«m Our Own Corre*pon4e»t LONDON, Thuri. A DVICES from the East A Indicate that disturbances may not be quite so well under control as the Government would wish uj to believe," state Lewis and Peat, Mincing Lane rubber brokers, in their weekly market report. The
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  • 51 10 A piano recital by the younger pupils of Mrs. Luclen Wang will be held on Sunday night at the Singapore" Community Church, 120 Balestler Road. Sixteen pupils. Including 12-year-old Cheung Mun Chit who has given solo recitals in Singapore and Hong Kong, will be taking
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  • 234 10 A FAIR proportion of scrap metal from wrecks salvaged in Hong Kong waters had been turned into reinforced material for the rehabilitation of the Colony's old buildings and the construction of new ones, the Director of Marine. Hong Kong, (Mr. James Jolly) told the Straits
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  • Article, Illustration
    17 10 DR E. STANLEY JONES addressing the audience at the Victoria Memorial Hall last night. Straits Times picture.
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  • 162 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A REQUEST that the Government set up an A employment bureau for Malays was made by Inche Kamaruddin bin Haji Sulaiman at this morning's meeting of the Selangor State Council, but was not approved. He said that the bureau
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  • 21 10 The promotion of Chief Inspectors O. J. Wight and W. Ingham to Assistant Superintendents, Malayan Police Services, has been approved.
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  • 153 10 TRIBUTES TOBRITISH ADVISER KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. IHR. A. L. Birs«, British Adviser. SelanKor. who this morning attended his last meeting of the Selangor Council of State before going home on leave prior to retirement, received an official "thank you" for hi* servlcs. The Mentri Besar (Dato Hamzah bin Abdullah) said:
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  • 104 10 The Buddhist Union officers for 1949 are: President, Mr. Chew Keow Chlm: vice presidents, Messrs. Tan Ken Lock, Tan Beng Chin, Ang Kee Guan. Beng Slak I.ut, Ngeow Nlan Chin and Madam Lee Leng Keow; hon. secretary, Mr. Sim Boon Hwee; hon. treasurer, Mr. Tan Kirn Teck:
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  • 91 10 SEGAMAT, Thurs.— A verdict of "murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned at the end of the Inquest on Mr. G. A. Swanson, senior assistant of Johore Labis Estate yesterday. It was stated that Mr. Swanson, a Malay special constable and an Indian
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  • 80 10 The following office bearers have been elected for the Medical College Union, for the year: President, Wong Poh Lam; vicepresident, Llm Slan Lok; hon. secretary, Oan Kok Leong; aast. treasurer, Seah Cheng Slang; sports secretary, J. S. Mahadevan; women representative, Miss Nalama Navarednam; woman sports secretary.
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 609 11 World Rubber Regulation MANY Dutch rubber industrialists are opposed to the renewal of international regulation of the commodity as pleaded for by Sir Eric Miller. At the least, there appears to be considerable division of opinion on the subject, according to a special Amsterdam correspondent of
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    • 323 11 LONDON, Thurs. MOST sections of the London Stock Exchange were without any decided tendency yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Prices remained steady In quiet trading. Tins, however, dropped in price generally. One item of interest was provided by sharp fluctuations in Scottish Motor Transport shares. Initially, these were
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    • 76 11 NEW YORK, Thurs. ASSORTED Rubbers, Minings, Motors and Oils led an Irregular drop in share prices on the New York exchange yesterday. Selected Steels wer° an exeption. They held, with renewed demand. United Steel was up nearly $i. Shippings were rather soft despite bearings on a House
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    • 57 11 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. PUR major oil companies operating on the American west coast hav e reduced the prices they are paying for heavy fuel oil. cutting it by 25 American cents a barrel. Standard, Shell, Richfield, and Unloo all state that Increased oil production is
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    • 49 11 TOKYO. Thurs. CONDITIONS under which foreign Investmente will b« allowed In Japan will be announced soon by the Japanese aovernment. j The Government's Foreign Trtule and Investment Committee and General McArthur's Foreign Investments Board are now formulating terms governing foreign investment In Japan.— Reuter, AAP.
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    • 87 11 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Franclsrllle (3132). Cyclops (36-37). Wee* Wharf: Canton (1-8), Medon (4-5) Memnon (8-9), Ben- nevls (10-11) Rimau (14), padana (15-10). Empire Deck: Gorgon (17-18), Chaksmng (10-20), Rengam (21), Benarty (23-24),
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    • 250 11 MEWS received from the United States that America was buying to accelerate purchases of materials for stock-piling purposes caused the Singapore rubber market to steady yesterday. Prices were about half a cent above Wednesday's, with sellers rather reserved. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet fob buyers 36%
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    • 89 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Thursday. rrHE Malayan share market was dull and featureless with only a trickle of business passing today. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller Hongkong Bank (H'lcong Reg.) 965.00 985.00 cd Oversea Assur. 10.60 11.36
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    • 56 11 SHANGHAI, Than. SOME anxiety was felt In Shanghai financial circles today over a report that the Central Bank of China might follow the Government to Canton. The report, though unconfirmed, assumed added significance with the departure for Nanking yesterday of Mr. 8. T. Liv, the
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    • 67 11 RUBBER Estates of Krlan accounts show that after expenditure and crediting Interest lnvebtmems, loss for the year IM7 was £22 plus further adjustment in respect of current assets In Malaya £62 (surplus £83 Including profit on sale of Castlefteld Rubber Estates shares). After crediting; £177 sale of smokehouse,
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    • 240 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW rORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON, INDIA. ECYFT AND MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. Singapore P Sham Penang Pros, lefterson i Jn 27/29 Marino Snapper Fab. 10/14 Fob. 15/16 Pres. Polk Feb. I*3/21 Feb. 22/21 Feb. 24/26 Mount Davis Feb. 24/ Mar. 1 Mar. 4/5 Mar. 6/9 TO USA.
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    • 292 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SA.UNCS FROM SCAhOINAVIA/U-K./ "'"^N^rMV l™""' CONTINENT. Loading at Singapore, Port Swettenham m.s MongoUa" duo abt. Feb. 4 Pwwng. El^ 4 1 H Kon »»"«hal "Flonla" duo abt. |an 29 Kobe, Yokohama for Aden. Port Sudan. Port "Tranqucbar" duo abt. Feb. S $*<* Beyrouth. Genoa. Antfar c.i M
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  • 795 12 TURF CLUB WILL OPPOSE TRIPLE TAXATION Record Number Attend Meeting SINGAPORE Turf Club will oppose most strongly the payment of Entertainment Duty in addition to the tax on totalisator and sweep turnover and income tax and is awaiting; the outcome of representations which are being made in the Federation before
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 12 Thirteen-year-old Charles Robins, son of the famous cricketer. R.W.V. Robins, former Middlesex captain and Test selector, is coached at the wicket by Jack Durston. former Middlesex and England bowler, after the re-openiug of the Indoor cricket school at Acton. London, on Jan. 17. Durston reopened the school. Reuterphoto.
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  • 163 12 MADRAS. Thurs. A. Rae and J. Stollmeyer gave the West Indies a good start I on the opening day of the fourth Test against India here today by putting on 239 for the first wicket. At close of play the West Indies w<>re
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  • 26 12 HOCKEY: S.R.C. "A" f KoU Raja Club—S.R.C: G.H.Q. Slg. Regt. Spore tolu —Tanglin; S.C.R.C. v. S.H.A.V.—S.CB.C; Khalsa Assn. v. B.O.D.C.A.—St. (ieorfr's Rd. (KhaUa grnd.)
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  • 516 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. HCLIPTIC will probably start a firm favourite In J the Gold Cup over a mile and a quarter at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, the last day of the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup meeting. Hi s record demands it. This Felstead
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  • 356 12 Ll, T t:i(iHTS for all eight races at Kuala Lumpur to- morrow, final day of the Selangor meeting, are: GOLD CUP CLASS 1. DIV. 1—1 4 MILES Byron 9.04 Colbay 8.02 Ecliptic 9.01 High Croydon 9.01 Street 7.18 Natural 8.10 Oame Law7.11 Double Suivl 7.07 Five
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  • 42 12 IN keenly contested game, the Jollllads football XI drew with a Combined Europeans team oneall at Fairer Park yesterday. The Europeans opened the scoring through Jenson In the first tenth minute, while Hussaln equalised for the Jollilads before the Interval.
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  • 137 12 HOLIDAY HOCKEY DATES THE programme for the inI ter-Btate hockey carnival between Negri Sembilan, Pc- rak, Malacca and Singapore 1 to be held in Singapore dur-: ing the Chinese New Year holidays is as follows: Saturday. Jan. 29. 4 p.m. Malacca v. Perak: 5 p.m. Singapore v. Negri Sembilan. Both
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  • 54 12 I -TOMORROWS golf exhibition I 1 by the Australian professional. Norman von Nida. at tht Island Club will be open to the general public. The admission charge will be $5. Von Nida will play over 18 holes and also demonstrate golf shots. The exhibition will
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  • 173 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. rE newly-formed Selangor Malay Women's Hockey Team, at present the centre of a controversy regarding whether or not Muslim girls should take part actively In i sport, has found a supporter In Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, President of the
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    22 12 THE G.S.C. goalkeeper, M. I.aßrooy, rushes out to save from McCaw (S.C.C.) in yesterday's hockey. The S.C.C. won three-nil.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 186 12 EFFORTS to obtain the return of the Anson Road site for a stadium are being "actively pursued," said Mr. W. McG. Watt, president of the Singapore Amateur Football Association yesterday. The prospects of it being returned to the S.A.F.A. are very bright, he added.
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  • 87 12 SEREMBAN, Thurs. i JTIGHT&EN players were selected by the Negri Sembilan Hockey Association last night to travel down .to Singapore to take part in the hockey carnival at Singapore during the Chinese New Year holidays. The 18 players selected are: B. Manuel. Mehar Singh,
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  • 69 12 Perak Hockey XI For Singapore From Oar SUff Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. BATCH of fourteen hockey players left today for Singapore to participate In the Malayan hockey tourney during the Chinese New Year holidays. The 14 players making the trip 'are: Aziz, Mat Noor, Thamby;dural, P. Sankey, Too Joon Loka. Hassan,
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  • 137 12 APPLICATIONS for affiliation with the Singapore Amateur Football Assn. 4or 1949 were received from the following, lt was announced at Wednesday's BAFA Council meeting: Customs Sports Club. Paya Lebar Bus Service Coy. Borneo' Motors, Tuan Mong Old Boys Association. C.V.M.A.. Shall Sports Club. R.A.F.. C.V.M.A. Portuguese
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  • 28 12 TODAY: High Water. 10.05 a.m. (9 ft. 2 to). 11.M pni (8 ft. 7 to.) TOMORROW: High Water, 10 10 a m. (9 ft. 5 In.)
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  • 87 12 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thurs. »pHB FOLLOWING 16 Malacca players will travel to Singapore for the hockey matches durthe Chinese New Year holidays.: Roman, Santa Maria, Dominic Hendroff, Hajl Idria M Portar, O. L. Carson, Herman Sequerah. Robert Poo. Sheriff Said, R. Ro-wu-io. Benjamin Carvalho,
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  • 149 12 Radford Favours Malaya From LEE SIKW VICE. Strait* Times Staff Correspondent LONDON Thurs NOEL Radford. the English Thomas Cup badminton player. believes Malaya will beat Denmark If they meet in the final. He said at Wimbledon yesterday that though the Danish champion. Skaarup. Is very good, the Danes do not
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  • 105 12 THE Singapore team to M Perak, Negri Sembilan and Mala c c a In the inti>r-stau« hockey matches during the Chinese New Year holidays, on Jan. 29 and 31, will be u'lectcd from the following pla/ers vho are a^ked to be prcs»nt before the start of each
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  • 48 12 WITH the Singapore Cricket Club Women's hockey XI improvitnj by leaps and bounds, their "A" eleven proved too good for a strong O.S.C. "A" team and beat them by three goals to nil on the pfdniig yesterday. Scorers for the S.C.C. were 8. Still, McCaw fj).
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