The Straits Times, 1 February 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 rWELVE PAQES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1949 PKHIS TEN CFNTS
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  • 362 1 General Says "Ready To Be Martyred' 9 CANTON, Monday. CHINA'S four southern provinces plan a last-ditch stand against the Communistswhatever the outcome of the Nationalist peace negotiations in North China. General Hsueh Yuen, recently-appointed Governor of Kwangtung Province, said in an interview today that lie was
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  • 257 1 LONDON. Monday. RECENT Soviet criticism of the Asian conference »n Indonesia, which opened on Jan. 20 at New Delhi, is based on exactly the same fears which are responsible for Soviet opposition to the Western I n ion and the Atlantic Pact, it was said in
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  • 155 1 Dutch Talk Of Early Agreement THK HAGUE. Mon. THE Dut^h Government said j today that it intended to r**ach agreement as soon as' <) >s.siblt j with leading Indonesian Republicans in the setluin up (if a United States of Ind Hiesla. Declaring that no decision on the future state of
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  • 151 1 TOKYO, Mon— Mr. Miles W. Vaughn, 57-year-old Unit|ed Press Vice-President, and four other men were drowned in Tokyo Bay yesterday after a Japanese boat ;n which they were out duck.shooting capsized In a squall. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur sent a message to the United Press office in New
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  • 478 1 LONDON, Monday. AMERICA'^ answer to Mr. Stalin's "peace pact" offer may be discussed this week at the first full meeting between Mr. Dean Arheson, new Secretary of State,- and the five Western Union Ambassadors; diplomatic >bservers in Washington said today. They believed the reply
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  • 100 1 TOKYO, Mon. General Mac Arthur announced today that the controlled Stock Exchange will be reopened in Japan as another measure tO| speed economic recovery. He| did not name the date lor reopening the exchange, which has been closed since the occupation began. The Exchange will be
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  • 218 1 LONDON, Monday. THE British Government is being pressed to take direct action to counter cut-price Japanese competition in overseas textile markets, according to Conservative and Labour members of parliament. I A Labour member, Mr. Er- nest King, said that a committee comprising all political parties
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  • 72 1 DutchPlanes To Land At Mauritius LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN hag granted Holland air base facilities on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius for non-military aircraft en route to Indonesia, a Foreign Office spokesman said today. The spokesman added that Britain agreed to Holland's request on condition that neither military aircraft were
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  • 143 1 NEW YORK. Mon. rpHE United Nation 6 Little Assembly, boycotted oy the six-nation Russian bloc since its establishment met today for the first time this year. The assemDly's first Job was v decide on its own rules >n procedure about how often and
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  • 268 1 2 NA VAL BASE MEN BADLY HURT IN CRASH TWO European officials of the Singapore Naval Base were gravely injured and a Chinese man slightly injured last night when the snuAl car in which they were travelling along the Bukit Timah Road struck a stationary tar, then swerved to the
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  • 62 1 WEYMOUTH. Mon.— Ships of the Home Fleet sailed from rortlanrt harbour today for aprlng eru_e lo Olbral i Lar and imp- \i dltmanetio. The first to leave. In misty i weather, just after 7 a.m. j were the destroyers. They were followed by the battleship
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  • 26 1 LONDON. Monday.— Earl! Mountbatten of Burma will go to India as the guest of Pandit Nehru in about a 1 month.— U.P.
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  • 144 1 SEOUL, M A M tevere battle is beginning in the smal' vllia** near the border separating the B >uth Korean Republic from SoVlet-domlnated N'»rt t Kon a spokesman tor •'> South Korean Government said today The spokesman, said that fighting was going on around Chungdan. two and
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  • 41 1 WASHINGTON. Mon— A White House spokesman said today that President Truman had "no comment" I to make on Stalin's peace pact offer yesterday. t>nt was still willing to meet th# Russian leader any time h» 1 came to Washinston.--Reuter.
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  • 295 2 Fighting 8 Miles From Rangoon RANGOON, Mon. t^IGHTING in Burma's r civil war broke out eight miles north of Rangoon today as Government officials talked peace terms in the capital with leaders of the rebelling Karen tribesmen. A Government spokesman announced the new outburst of violence between the Karens and
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  • 306 2 Cable Flashes t'AKIa, Monday. AN estimated 6,000 tons of gold i s being hoarded by Frenchmen. It is worth 4.548.000 million francs. By contrast, the Government has issued 915,000 i million francs in paper money against only 200 tons oi goia ii nuius.
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  • 51 2 SIR LAURENCE and Lady Olivier (Vivien Lefch) seen in the Anal scene of Sheridan's "School For Scandal," an Old Vie production which has just opened at the New Theatre, in London. It is the first time they have ever appeared together on a London stage. A.P.
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  • 152 2 SHANGHAI, Monday. A MISSING Chinese airliner carrying 15 passengers A and a crew of three has been found in Com-munist-held Tsinan. Airline officials said they; believed the plane had been seized in mid-air and the pilot forced to land at a Red airfield. A spokesman for the
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  • 41 2 ROME Mon.— Two more Italian municipalities, Lucca i and Pistoia. have taken ovsr strike-bound plants. A country-wide strike 01 private gas company employees began a wsek ago. Strikers demand wage contracts paralleling those of municipal Kas workers. <— A .P
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  • 93 2 ASUNCION, Mon. THE flve-month-old Par- aguayan Government of president J. Natalicio Gonzales was overthrown yester- j day The administration, torn jy strife within the Colorada i Party, which had outlawed all i opposition, fell before i bloodless surplse coup d'etat, i Asuncion, which has been in
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  • 178 2 DUBLIN. Mon. THOUSANDS of Irishmen 1 Doured shillings and pound notes into a special fund today to help antiDartition candidates In the Northern Ireland elections on Thursday week. Collectors stood on streetcorners and met the faithful in vestibules of churches from Cork to Donegal.
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  • 68 2 WASHINGTON Monday. ALMTLD States"B-36 super-heavy stratosphere bomber carried 37$ tons of bombs aloft yesterday— the greatest bomb load ever lifted and dropped them on a Californian bombing range. The aircraft flew 2,900 miles from its Carswell base, in Texas, to a bombing range
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  • 203 2 TEL AVIV, Monday. THE Israeli Labour Party (Mapai), led by the 1 Premier (Mr. David Ben Gurion) polled 152,972 votes in the elections. It became the country's leading party, it was announced last night. The Left Wing Socialist United Workers' Party (Mapam) was second
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  • 138 2 OTTAWA Mon. CANADA will shortly possess one of the great air crossroads of the world her first and she doesn't know exactly what to do about it yet. The Government is at work on the International Droblems arising from the fact that Gander Airport, the large strategic
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  • 256 2 Appeal For Re-trial Of Christ JERUSALEM. Mon. A DUTCHMAN ha* asked the new Israeli Supreme Court to dlsmls* the trial ol Jesu* on grounds of "irregularities"' and ha« asked for a new hearing. The petition for revision was contained In a 15-page memorandum. It was signed by a Dutchman who
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  • 60 2 WASHINGTON. Mon -The Government ~»aid yesterday that it had called two witnesses from Germany tv ify that they acted with "Axis Sally" (Mildred Glllam in a Nazi radio drama aimed at preventing the invasion of Europe. The judge and jury already have listened to recordings of
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  • 34 2 MANILA, Mon Explosion of bombs In a Philippine Air Force ammunition dump set flre to 28 homes In Bauan, Batanga Province. There are 174 persons homeless, but no casualties are reported.—A.P.
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    • 747 2 NOTICES GOVERNMENT OF NORTH BORNEO AMENDED TENDEK NOTICE Closing date for tenders tar the following work* has been extended to 5th March. 1949 in Construction of electrical power line*, wiring bulldln«s. and installing plant etc. Jesselton. Mi) Construction of electrical power lines, wiring buildings, etc. Labu&n. i Tenders should repch
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    • 523 2 NOTICES WARNING ROLEX ETERN A Direct imports of watches from Switzerland are severely restricted and this has caused a shortage of Rolex and Sterna watche*. he two most accurate and dependable timekeepers known In Malaya. Every Rolex and Eteroa §old by us has been specially made for us* in the
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    • 606 2 NOTICES TENDERS wfll be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, Singapore, up to noon at the 21th Feb.. 1949. for the oistrucUon of toe hull and installation of machinery of a Sea-foing Lighthouse Tender for the Marine Department, Singapore. Further details from the Sur-veyor-General of Shtp», 2nd Floor, FuUerton Building.
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  • 271 3 America Reports "Big Advances WASHINGTON, Monday. AMERICA now has super atom bombs, greater in explosive power than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was disclosed today by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which reported "important advances" in atomic weapon deve- lopments. Extensive analysis of new
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  • 367 3 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Monday. THE O'Keefe deportation case is likely to become a cause celebre. All churches except the Anglican are publicly opposing the Government's action. Mrs. O'Keefe, an Indonesian, has been told to leave with her eight children. Her first husband, an Ambonese, was
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  • 48 3 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Mon.— Two Si- *ese students, 43-year-old Mr. Gularb Saipradit and his wife, have been deported In the Charon from Fremantle. The Saipratiits came to Australia in July 1947 on a sixmonth visa which was extended to one year.
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  • 126 3 "ARCH OF LIFE, SAYS POPE VATICAN CITY. Mon. rE Pope said last night! that consolidation of the I Christian family was one of j the most urgent needs of our time. Speaking over the Vatican radio the Pontiff said that the family was the arch on which human existence was
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  • 47 3 MANILA Mon. Globe Wireless today reported hear- Ins a distress signal at 5.50 a.m.. Manila time, from the steamer Hsiang Hsiang. The ship said it had been in collision with the steamer Masbato 10 miles on* Tungyin island in foggy weather.— A.P.
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  • 69 3 PRAGUE. Mon.— The execution of Gen. Heliodore Plka sentenced to death last Friday for treason and abuse of his authority, has been deferred pending his appeal. 1J was announced here today Gen. Plka, formerly chief of the Czechoslovak military mission in Russia. was charged with establishing contact
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  • 44 3 PISA (Italy), Mon. A new children's village ha* been established here in an old convent of the minor Franciscan friars. It will be ruled according to principles set in the United States by the late Father Flanagan of Boys' Town. A.P.
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  • 60 3 MANILA Mon. A PLANE which arrived with European refugees from Shanghai has been impound- ed at the Manila airport by the civil aeronautics admlntstrnt\ Major Andres Cruz, civil aeronautics administrator, said that, the plane was permitted to make only three flights to bring refugees
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  • 200 3 NEW YORK, Monday. A BEARDED little man with snaggle teeth and an ascetic air awaits in Northern Indo-China the approach of th e Chinese Communist armies. If they reach him. Communism may close another link in the Red chain apparently aimed at encircling
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  • 28 3 MANILA, Mon. United States Army authorities are tomorrow turning over 16 buildings and other fixed Installations for use in a boy's town east of Manila.— A.P.
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  • 16 3 OTTAWA, Mon. Uult* of the Canadian Army hay» opened courses in cold-wea-ther testing.— A.P.
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  • 176 3 Homage To Gandhi In Many Lands NEW DELHI, Mon. INDIA observed the first an1 niversary of Mahatma Gandhi's death yesterday in a spirit of dedication and penance. Within earshot of the Mahatma's alleged assassins ln the Red Fort awaiting announcement of their fate within a fortnight, thousands wound their way
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  • 39 3 MANILA, Mon. Modesto Farolan. Philippine ConsulGeneral to Honolulu, today testified In the war crimes trial of a former Japanese general. He appeared as a prosecution witness against LieutGeneral Shizue Yokoyama, a wartime commander of Manila.— A.P.
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  • 31 3 GLASGOW. Mon.—Seventysix people were slightly injured when two passenger trains collided today dn one of Glasgow's steam-worked underground railways. Only two passengers were kept ln hospital.— Reuter, AAP.
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  • 269 4 S.I.T. EXPECTS $400,000 RENT RISE $10,000 From This Year 's New Houses DENTS which Singapore Improvement Trust expect to collect this year from its housing estates exceed $1,187,000 an increase of more than $400,000 on last year's figures. These official figures are given in the 1949 estimates of the Trust,
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  • 88 4 Farewell To Federation Prison Chief Kr im Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. AT the farewell dinner to the Commissioner of Prison*, Capt E. S. Lilley, and Mrs. Lilley last night tributes paid by Mr. N. W. Navalttnam. accountant of the rgency detention camps. "In the organisation of detention camps,
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  • 15 4 KUANTAN, Mon.— Kuantan Agricultural Station will start poultry breeding in March or April.
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  • 190 4 ONE hundred and fortyeight children of factory workers and hawkers are receiving primary education five evenings a week at the Y.W.C.A. Industrial School In Havelock Road, Singapore. All the girls are Chinese, ranging from 12 to 18 years In age. Sixty-five of them are doing dhobl
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  • 103 4 From Our Own Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Monday. INCHE Meh, stationmaster at Bagan Serai and his relief, Inche Mohamed, were killed in a motorcycle crash at Bagan Serai on Chinese New Year's Day. The two had been visiting friends at Bagan Serai and were on their
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  • 97 4 THE Bishop of Singapore and Mrs. J. L. Wilson will bid farewell to Singapore this afternoon. They leave with I 200 other Malayans for the United Kingdom in the Dutch liner Oranje. The Oranje arrived in Singapore last night from Batavia. She will berth alongside Oodowns
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  • 83 4 •m*Y adopted parents were forcing me to marry man I did not like," pleaded Lee Git Heng, aged 18, when charged yesterday before the Singapore Eighth Police Magistrate (Mr. R. A. J. Wait), with attempted suicide. She said she tried to jump into Kallang River
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  • 199 4 TNLESS no hospital accom-. modation is available, a Singapore Municipal employee suffering from tuberculosis will In future be required to obtain treatment in a Government hospital if he wishes to be entitled to special leave for tuberculosis. The original rules laid It down that in "exceptional
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  • 233 4 Penang Copra Shortage May Cut Oil Output LEADING OFFICIALS of the All-Malayan Railway Workers' Union seen at a ceremonial meeting in the general manager's office, Malayan Railway, before signing a memorandum of agreement introducing Whitley Council conciliation machinery between the railway administration and the union. The picture shows the general
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  • 66 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon.— At the third annual general meeting of the Sikh Association, Taiping, officers elected were: President, Mr. Matab Singh; vice-president, Mr. Ourdial Singh; secretary, Mr. Kernail Singh; asst. secretary, Mr. Jesw a n t Singh; sports secretary, Mr. Harbahjan Singh: asst. sports
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  • 30 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon. A new Malay school was opened at Kamunting yesterday. A large gathering Including the Inspector of Schools. North Perak attended.
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  • 35 4 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Monday. The Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting called for the restoration of the TampinMalacca railway and for Malacca's return to pre-war status as a free port.
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  • 167 4 From Our Staff (orrr*poml nt SEREMBAN Mon ANEW $23,000 modern-type X-ray plant i s on order for Seremban Hospital The hospital authorities nope it will arrive about, the middle of the year. Negri Sembilan's Medical and Health Officer (Dr. Bearblock) said today that when the
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  • 41 4 From Our Own Cencsa*M ill KUANTAN. Mon.— MOD were one of the major pc to crops, especially in »'il.. i Tiomau, says the Malay h%, cultural Offer in his iv-r Durine the year 3C3 me 1 s were killed.
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    • 208 4 Call For United Front Against Atheism Prom Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Mon. AN appeal for a united front by followers of all religion* against atheism was made by the Muslim divine. Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddique, at a farewell reception held in his honour at the Rest House last night. The
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  • 418 5 'BRITAIN BUYING COCOS' DENIAL DARWIN, Mon. THE British Government is negotiating to buy the privately-owned Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean, according to Sir Henry Newland, Federal President of the British Medical Association. But the Colonial Office denies It. Sir Henry, who arrived here by air from Singapore, said he
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  • 159 5 rpHE Australian seamen's union s boycott on ships carrying cargoes to Dutch -held Indonesian ports early last month resulted in the Royal Interocean Lines ship Nieuw Holland arriving in Singapore yesterday without the 3,000 tons of general cargo previously intended for Macassar and Sourabaya. The
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  • 79 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Sultan of Ttengganu attended the dinner of the Kuala Trengganu Government Club after the annual meeting. Officers elected were: President, Inche Kamaruddin bin Hajl Idrls: vice-president, Tengku Hashlm bin Omar; secretary. Ismail Blnhajl Kasslm; treasurer, Mr. P. Balaslngam;
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  • 51 5 From Oar SUIT Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Mon. The Sultan of Kedah and the i Mentri Besar visited police j and military patients at Alor i Star hospital. They were received by the State Surgeon (Dr. Mustapha bin Osman) and the Sultan gave presents to the
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  • 80 5 TODAY Young People's Group, Bethesda, Katong, 6 pjn. Mr. Cecil Teskey will give a talk. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, gymnastics, 6.30 p.m., gramophone recital. 8 p.m. Y.W.C.A., Business and Professional Women's Club, 5, Raffles Quay, 5.30 pjn. TOMORROW I Y.W.C.A.. Katong Groups' meetings. St. Hilda's School. 4.30 pjn. Singapore
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  • 43 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Mon.— Rubber smallholders in East Pahang have been busy clearing lallang and blukar because of prowling tigers and wild boars, says the Agricultural officer. It is boped to start a rubber budding school at Paloh Ilinai.
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  • 202 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Mon. "fOCONUT growers were much impressed with the visit of the department's moveable copra kiln" says the Malay Agricultural Officer for East Pahanx In his annual report. "As a result" he adds nine copra kilns were erected "In Pekan and one
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  • 73 5 A nine year-old boy appeared hi the Eighth Police Court 1 Singapore, yesterday on a charge of theft. He was alleged to have stolen a propelling pencil from 7 Malabar Street on Jan. 30, in the company of a 15 yearold boy. The case
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  • 96 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Federal capital, 1 parched by the recent drought had its first rain for 10 days and Its first shower of the month this afternoon. The Municipal Fire Brigade heaved a sif h of relief. but the Fire
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  • 495 5 Island Landing Was Made Under Strict Wartime Security Rules From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. TNDER conditions of complete secrecy, combfned security forces made a sea-borne landing on Pulau Ketam, nine miles east of Port Swettenham on Chinese New Year morning to screen its 1,000 male inhabitants. No arrests
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  • 45 5 Vacancies exist in tin- '1115 Hwa Institution (Oovernmi-ni H> glstered English School) ai >6 Short Btreet, Singapore toi 'he Afternoon Classes from Primary to Standard IV No more pupils can be admitted Into the Morning Sc.iool as al] the classes %re full Phone: *****
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Feb. 1, 1949.
    • 1025 6 The suspicion that Stalin's statement of his willingness to meet President Truman to discuss world peace has no more meaning than previous affirmations of this kind will not deter Washington from closely studying Moscow Radio's announcement, or from seeking clarification through the usual diplomatic channels. The essence
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  • 64 6 From the Straits Times of Feb. 1, 1899 In the Batang Padang district of Perak, there Is a newly opened mine at Rebai. in the direction of Pahang. This is a venture of a local Company, r<nd the land, besides containing a good deal of alluvial tin,
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  • 1287 6  - THE COMMUNIST PATTERN IN BURMA The Times Correspondent In Rangoon WfiEN Burma be- came an independent nation just over a year &go t a certain fragmentation in her political life was only to be expected, for the attainment of independence removed the chief bond uniting a number of mutually antagonistic
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  • 496 6  -  STEFFAN ANDREWS COVIET Russia today is playing a game of "economic strip tease" with its people, always tempting them with promises of better things that never actually come. That is the conclusion of the U.S. Congress's foremost expert on Soviet law after 28 years of study and
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  • 356 6 MAiN-EN-THE-STREET jljß. A. Majid, President of the Indian and Pakistani Seamen's Union and one of the Joint Secretaries of the Singapore Asian Seafarers Federation, states in his letter published in the Straits Times of Jan. 27. that the Seamen's! Registration Bureau is not
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  • 154 6 JT seems to me that Mr. A. Majid has appointed himself the spokesman for all seamen's unions. He has taken matters in his own hands without consulting the other unions. Mr. Majid alleges that there is no co-operation with the unions on the part of the
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  • 779 7 Malayan Leaders Call For Co-operation TN all large towns and villages throughout the Federation today the first anniversary of the Federal Agreement wfll be celebrated by special prayers at mosques, processions and sports meetings. The day will be a public holiday giving people in
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  • 229 7 MINISTER SENDS GREETING Front Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon IfHE Secretary of State for I the Colonies. Mr. Creech Jones, has sent the following message to the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, tn the eve of the first anji.\er.sary of the Federation: 1 should be grateful if you would
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  • 56 7 The Commissioner-General 'Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald) *ill speak at a tea party at Raffles Hotel at 5 p.m. today The party is being organisPd b\- the Muslim community >f Singapore to celebrate the first anniversary of the Feleration of Malaya and also n honour of officers and
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  • 48 7 bir James Sleeman, Overseas Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Association I arrived in Singapore yester- i ciav by the 8.1. ship Sirdhana from Hong Kong. Sir James will speak at 19 meetings during his one j week's stay in Singapore before going to Kuala Lumpur
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  • 48 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon.— The Director of Fisheries, Malaya (Mr D. W. Le Mare) will go on home leave on Feb 27 Mr. T. W. Burdon, who arrived in Penang five months ago from the United Kingdom, will be acting Director of Fisheries.
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  • 51 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon ABOUT 10,000 people, many n from outstations, attended the all-night ria carnival held by the Penang Malay community to celebrate the first anniversary of the Federation. The rla, which Is r. new version of the eld borla, started at 8.30 last night and
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  • 129 7 /'itacivcKS) and dry weather are blamed for Singapore's 28 fires since Chinese New Year's Eve on Friday. Of these, 22 were lallang fires which were put out, without any serious damage to property, by the Singapore Fire Brigade and the Army Fire Service. Eleven lallang
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  • 100 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUANTAN. Mon. in his annual report about food crops and vegetables the Malay Agricultural Officer. East Pahang, said that maize was the most popular crop especially in Pekan and that ragl was unknown in East Pahang. The Chinese market gardeners maintained a steady
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  • 92 7 "FASHIONED A NEW TECHNIQUE" From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Mon. "DV his holy living and D practical life Gandhi fashioned a new technique for overcoming destructive forces In the world said the Rev. V. A. Subramaniam President of the Malacca Indian Congress at a remembrance meeting last night. "Those who
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  • 90 7 not end until dawn. Twenty-one mukims competed. Mukim Dhoby Ghaut won the awards for the best story and the best tukan karang, and Sungei Pinag took first prize comedy. The Pancharangan Bayangam Eandeong was the best musical party. The president of the Pe- nang branch of UMNO (Mr.
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  • 88 7 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon AN application was made before Mr. W. B. Sutherland, Sessions Court President, by the Customs Department, for the case against Chiang Sia to be struck out. Accused was charged on April 21, 1947, with being in possession of chandu and allowed
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  • 77 7 •TELUK ANSON, Mon. Officers I of the Methodist Youth Fellowship for 1949 are: President. Mr. Sam S. ParanJothy; vice-president, Miss Mlnona Perera; hon. sec, Mr. A. Vasudevan; hon. treasurers. Miss Oon Beng Choo and Mr." Chai Tet Hin; Ist. commission chairman, Miss Oon Beng Cheng; 2nd.
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  • 18 7 Kluang, Mon National registration In Mersing district is nearly completed. So far 13,170 people have registered.
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  • 173 7 I IfclX. Gen. Sir Eric Mansergh, new Military *j Secretary to the War Office, arrived in Singapore from London yesterday evening to "hold routine discussions" in Singapore, Malaya and Hong Kong. Gen. Mansergh, was met by LLut. Col. J. C. Church, the assistant Military Secretary, FARELF,
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  • 42 7 SEGAMAT, Mon.— The Johore Education Department has allocated $80,000 for the maintenance of schools in the State this year. Normal classes and training courses for teachers will cost $31,000. This amount Includes provision for evening and commercial classes for adults.
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  • 67 7 From Our Staff Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Mon.— "l saw the wrist-watch, and thinking that some one might take It, I took it first," said Hashim bin Ajid in the Teluk I Anson Sessions Court, when I he was bound over for three years in two sureties of $200 for
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  • 360 7 Spitfires Go Out From Singapore, Gun Terrorists CINGAPORE-BASED Spitfires yesterday attacked an area in the Segamat district which was bandit infested and from which Ihe terrorists were occupying strategic positions for ambushes. The target was well flushed with cannon and machine gun fire, said an R.A.F. communique last night. i
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  • 96 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Chief Secretary (Sir Alec Newboult) said I that the basis of increasing telephone charges was still under consideration, and when this was settled, rates would b° reviewed. Sir Alec who was soeakine at a Press conference said
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  • 39 7 MALACCA, Mon. Since last October clinics have b< en functioning In two Malay, one Chinese, and onr vernacular schools in Malacca Settlement, the Senior 'inspector of Schools iMr J Young) told the Straits Tim, s.
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  • 37 7 Six Chinese were fined each and another Chinese SI in the Eighth Police Court, Singapore, yesterday for firing crackers on Sunday. Inspector Balakrlshnan said firing crackers was lowed from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Saturday.
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  • 255 8 White Ants Move Johore Council To New Chamber From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. WHITE ants have forced I the Johore State Government to prepare the I council chamber in the Johore Bahru Government offices for its proper use. It has never been used for a council meeting. A
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  • 99 8 150 In Court After Celebrating NINETY-TWO cases, involving more than 150 accused people, were heard in two hours yesterday in the Eighth Police Court, the only Court to sit in Singapore on the Chinese New Year Holiday. Most of the accused were Chinese who, celebrating the New Year, gambled or
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  • 34 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANQ, Mon. The Penang and Province Wellesley Women's Service League will hold its annual general meeting at the Ban Hin Lee Bank Building next Friday. MALAY NEWS
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  • 259 8 Big Scale Deportation Urged From Our Malay Correspondent MAJLIS, the Kuala Lumpur Malay newspaper, In a leading article, urges the wholesale deportation of Chines* labourers and farmers from Malaya as a speedy and cheap means of suppressing the present Communist terrorism. The paper quotes Pandit Nehru's statement that the terrorism
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  • 49 8 A 14 year-old boy who pleaded gi.ilty to housebreaking and stealing cable belonging to the Oriental Telephone Co. at Kallang Road on Jan. 29, was yesterday remanded to the Salvation Army Home until Feb. 4 by the Eighth Police Magistrate (Mr. R. J. C. Walt).
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  • 125 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. pENANG Settlement Council will celebrate its first 1 anniversary on Feb. 10 with a meeting to be held in a new $10,000 chamber. At this meeting, the first this year, the question of Penang's secession from the Federation
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  • 100 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. JOHORE Malay tennis team J which visited Kuala Lumpur during the Chinese New Year holidays to play against the Selangor Malays was entertained to dinner at the Istana, Kuala Lumpur, by the Sultan of Selangor on Friday. Sheik Abu
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  • 68 8 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mr. Hoh Choo Chuan. whose exhibition of paintings is being held at the British Council Centre from Feb. I—s1 5 was born in Kuala Lumpur, educated at the Victoria Institution and began work as a Junior clerk. During
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  • 161 8 From Our Stair Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. rvilE Chinese Association of Johore sent a gift of 700 loaves of bread, four cases of oranges and 12 dozen tins of sardines for distribution among the prisoners, irrespective of race in the local gaol during Chinese
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  • 17 8 Inche Md. Husain bin Haji Alang Shamsuddln, Agricultural Officer, Ipoh, has been transferred to Johore Bahru.
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    • 578 8 According to Culbertson Defeating the three-no trump contract In today's deal required exceptionally keen defense. South, dealer. Both sides vulnerable. NORTH •II 10 4 S 4KQJI K A WEST EAST K 10 7 4 Q 9 8 ll( J K J 8 7 •042 ♦10SS Q 10 8 6 SOUTH
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  • 149 9 house can be as vivid a chronicle of past journeys as any travel diary. Many homes in Singapore tell of trips farther East and to the Indies, but few have the more bar- baric reminders of Africa. Noni Lloyd- Williams, Imperious in a sophis- <■ ticated
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  • 1190 9  -  CYNTHIA NEVILLE By your servants keep a menagerie at the back of your bungalow? Ours do. Luckily I'm fond of animals, and though the situation has its trying moments, often we are supplied with lots of entertainment. The latest addition to the menagerie is a
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  • 587 9  -  PLANTER'S WIFE \yK have been surrounded by packing cases for what seemed like ages and have now moved to another estate so any news for the time being will not be from "the village at the bottom of the hill." The move was not at all
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  • 1677 10 THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK AT HOME AND ABROAD OUR LONDON LETTER SURVEYS.., From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 19. DOLITICS on the world level are rarely men- tioned in these London Letters. But on this occasion there is a little news from behind the scenes that seems too good to omit.
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    • 110 10 Today's Radio Programmes SINGAPORE 10.55 s* ■iiools" Broadcast: 12.00 Close 100 Radio Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.45 Light Instrumental; 2 Close; 6.00 Listeners' Post: 7.00 News: 7.15 Chinese Newsletter: 7 '>n mn"p Mii'i- i ?o r.Wht Music: 8 Talk by Sir Henry Gurney; 8.15 Federation anniversary; 8 30 Oldtlme D.ince Tunes;
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    • 101 10 Overture "Dl* Freischutz' (Wfber> Serenade from 'Hassan' (Dellui) Caprice Espagnol (Rlmsky-Kor-sakov); 930 News; 9.45 Evening Star: 10.00 Light Music 10.30 Dance Music; 11.00 Close. 8.8.C. 5.30 American Letter:' 6.00 Music while you work; 6-30 The News; 6.45 Continuous Performance; 7.15 Generally Spraking: 7. 45 'Tip-Top Tunes; 8- 15 Accordeon Club;
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    • 107 10 World News: 7.00 Orchestras of the World; 7 30 Radio Australia"* Hit Parade; 8 Featured Pianist: B.SO News; 9 Talk; 9.30 Dane* Band; 10 Australian News; 10.30 Clems from Musical Comedy; 11 News; 11.30 Canberra Report; 11.45 Close. B F.E.BS. Including BBC Relays 5.30 •AH the Latest 1 5- 45
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 313 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. INSECURITY l n the condl1 tions of rubber estates in the BandJar district of Java la explained by the chairman of Bantardawa Rubber Estates (Mr. P. J. Burgess) in his annual statement. At the end of December 1M1. be says,
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    • 75 11 SHANGHAI. Mon. pOR the first time since 1917 the value of the United States dollar Is worth only half a silver dollar in Shanghai Btreet operators art peddling American dollars at 420 gold yuan to one; silver dollar dealers demand 840 foi a silver dollar. One
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    • 78 11 THE Federation of Malaya In December exported 1779 59 tons of copra, 3,623.62 tons of coconut oil and 57 1,500 coconuts, according to the Registrar of Statistics (Mr. H. L. Barnett). In the same period 453.13 tons of copra and 5.27 toes of
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    • 169 11 AVERAGE Import prices of natural rubber (excluding latex) into the United Btate«, published for tne first time by tbe Rubber Study Group, show that for the first nine months of last year the average Import price was £Bt over 18 TJ.S. cents, says The Financial
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    • 26 11 T-EKKA has declared an interim k, dm^nd of 3d per share payable v <» Feb. 14, 1949. on account of the year to March IM9
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    • 571 11 Great Potential Outlet For LatexFoamed Rubber *or Malayan estates generally, he says, great developments were expected after the war In the market for liquid latex. So far, these nave hardly been fulfilled. Latex, rubber in liquid form. OU In well with a large number of manufacturing processes and should have
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    • 83 11 D ANDAR Sumatra Rubber Company's chairman (Mr. C. H. Wright) offer* a solution to the difficulties of rubber and other produce estates in Indonesia. The directors, he says in his annual statement, have considered the issues from all ancles. They conclude that the most practical solution
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    • 271 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. /)N tbe question of extracv tion of oil rubber seeds, the India Rubber Journal quotes a letter from Dr. Ernest Imle of the U.S.D.A. Co-operative Rubber Plant Field Section In Costa Rica. The letter concerns trials made In the United States
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    • 53 11 TOKYO Mon. QENERAL Mac Arthur announced today that permission would be granted to reopen the "controlled" Japanese stock exchange, which would function as an "additional measure In suppctt of the accelerated economic programme now under way." He said the exchange would be In line with the expected International
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    • 67 11 SHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Francisville (3133), Aeneas (33-34), Empire Pwsmore (36), steel Maker (38%l'**? iODi (4 °-»>- Taksang West Wharf: Nieuw Holland (1-2), Medon (4-5), Asphallon (6-7). Memnon (8-9 >, Sirdhana (10-11). Rondo (13-14). Empire
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    • 62 11 FEE total area of tappable rubber estates In the Federation of Malaya last month was 1,828,256 acres. Of this, 1,624.947 acres wag tapped, according to the Registrar of Statistics (Mr. H. L. Barnett). Estates which had entirely ceased tapping during the month covered 24,224 acres, those In
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  • 748 12 NORTHERN BLUES SCORE 27-8 VICTORY South Failed In Tackling rpHE South were overwhelmed by North in A yesterday's AH Blues rugger match on the Singapore padang, losing by 27 points (three goals, three tries and a penalty goal) to eight points (a goal and a try). Tlvs was the first
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  • 240 12 From LEE SIKW YKE. Straits Time s Staff Reporter With Cup Team LONDON, Monday. •VHE Malayan Cup team returned today from Hull j where they beat a Northern Counties team by, eight doubles matches to nothing last night. This was the last of four minor
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  • 75 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. J CHORE is staging a mlnature hookey rarnival on Its own tomorrow morning when Negn Sembilan and Malacca will provide the opposition. The first match begin.; at 8 am. on the Johore Cricket Club padang when the Indo-Ceylonese of Johore will meet
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  • 76 12 MELBOURNE. Mon:— England 1 saved the women's second Test match here today against Australia by playing out time to I sec vi c a draw when, at one time, the game =>eemed lost. Australia. 205 in their first innings, declared their record innings today at 158
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  • 38 12 ADELAIDE. Moh: South Australia beat Western Australia, the holders, by an innings and 86 runs here today in a Sheffield Shield ina'rh, Final scores: South Austra- lla 419: Western Australia 202 and j 131. Reuter.
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  • 274 12 From LEE SIEW YEE HULL. Monday. 'rill-: Malayan Thomas Cup team yesterday beat Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cheshire combined at the Hull and East Riding Sports Club by eight doubles matches to nothing. As in the previous games, the Malayans did not drop a single
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  • 97 12 THOUGH showing superiority in 1 every department of the game, the Eag'e Sports Club tailed to beat the Rocklites in a soccer match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Bird, the Rocklites centreforward, wno scored the first goal of the evening, played an aggressive and worthy game.
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  • 75 12 SYDNEY. Mon. BAD light early in the afternoon followed by rairt curtailed play here on the third day of the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria. There was less than three hours play and in that time NSW. took their Saturday second innings score of
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  • 958 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Monday. TO cope with the exceptionally heavy entries reA ceived for the February Meeting on Feb. 12, 16 and 19 the Perak Turf Club committee have decided to run, for the first time, 10 races on each day. In all
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  • 278 12 MALACCA went very close towards registering her initial victory in the inter-State hockey carnival in Singapore yesterday, but were robbed of the honours by a grand second half rally by Negri Sembilan. The result was a two-all draw. In the first two games play- r ed
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  • 37 12 rjLEAN, forceful football was seen at Geylang Stadium on Sunday when the Jollllads Athletic Union beat the H M S. Con- i sort football team by three goals to two in a friendly soccer match.
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  • 171 12 rHE annual regatta of the|) Royal Air Force Changilj v/acht Club will be held at Changi on Sunday, Feb. 6, < when it is expected that over 100 yachts of all classes will compete. The craft will range from 12ft Burling Prams through 141t Royal Naval
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  • 186 12 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur Mon. THE Selangor Golf Club avenged their defeat of last ye*r by beating the Royal Singapore Golf 1 club in their two-day match here. Today, they won the four-ball foursomes by matches to lour, thus clinching yesterday's singles victory of
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  • 40 12 EYE ON the rail, V. N. Pillay, the Singapore goalkeeper, dashes out to kick clear with rare grace and power as a Perak forward threatens in yesterdays inter-state hockey game on the padang.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 24 12 TODAY: High Water, 1.15 a.m. (Bft. Bin), 12.39 pjn. (9ft. 71n.). TOMORROW: High Water, 1.36 a.m. (Bft. 81a.), 1.10 p.m. (9ft. am.).
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  • 426 12 r pHE cooler and more methodical side, Perak beat Singapore one-nil in their inter-state hockey match on the Singapore padang yesterday. Perak thus emerged champions of the holiday carnival in which teams from Negrl Sembilan and Malacca also competed. On Saturday Perak drew with Malacca and on
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  • 212 12 MADRAS Mon. THE West Indies b.'.it India an innings and 193 runs in thp fourth Tbm here todaj were: W. INDUS: :.S! INDIA— M l:inMuthUq All )b\\ Trim 32; R<:«1 b Jones 15; Modi b Ferguson ifl Hii/.irc i- Goddard b Fergi Amarnaili hit arfckrl
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  • 32 12 Adelaide. Mon:— ln i m i upset, Frank Bedgmau Davis Cup player John Brotnwlrl 6—3,6 3, 6—2.6 2. o—2 in th? Au in I Tennis Championship tin 'ls A. P.
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    • 129 12 BEGINNERS' CLASS Explanations In Enylich SINGAPORE CHINESE MANDARIN SCHOOL. 122-126 PriP-^p Street New Class tor late appteanb commencing Feb. 3rd. 1949. Mon. Thurs.— s.3o to 7 p.m. Cia Teacher Mr. Y. C. Yang, B.A. iFee $3 p.m. k\ M3^WfSS WATCHES jJ^iMM PRIX BERNE im Ev////m////////mr///////////////mtw/;'//m ilop track bus bs ioi
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