The Straits Times, 6 February 1949

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  • 22 1 FINAL EDITION j THE SUNDAY TIMES LARdt:si Nt:ri sale in .ma lay a No. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 451 1 Only the rich may take in servants Sunday Times Correspondent MELBOURNE, Sat. QNLY real tuan besars, burra sahibs and taipans can bring amahs and ayahs into Australia with them when they come on leave, Mr. A. Calwell. Minister for Immigration, announced today. Henceforth the Immigration Department
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    58 1 MR. A. L. BIRSE. British Adviser of Selangor, who left Kuala Lumpur yesterday on leave prior to retirement. Ha was accompanied by Mr*. Bi'se, who was president of the Women's Service League in Selangor, Mr Birse was the first British Adviser of Sclangor under the now Constitution. He has been
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  • 410 1 THE visiting Overseas Commissioner of the St. |ohn Ambulance Brigade and Association. Sir |ames Sleeman, told a parade of Singapore Municipal Fire Brigade personnel in Hill Street yesterday afternoon that it had attained a high standard of efficiency. The full complement of the Municipal
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  • 170 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Saturday. I AST year's harvests were the best the world has had since the war and millions of people can look forward to increased food supplies, says a United Nations survey. The survey was prepared by the United Nations Economic Department and
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  • 272 1 From LEE SIEW YEE, Sunday Times Staff Reporter with Thomas Cup Team. LONDON, Saturday. £APTAIN L. D. Cammans, will raise in Parliament the question of tax on shuttle cocks which the Malayan Thomas Cup team brought to England. "It is outrageous." said j Captain Gammans today, when
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  • 195 1 TEHERAN, Sat THE Pei s.an Covernment today dissolved the extreme left-wing Tudeh Party, a member of which, Fakhre Ra\ yesterday shot and wounded the Shah. Newa of the Government's decision was d telosed in Parliament a.s an official statement announced the death of the Shah's assailant from
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  • 168 1 STRICKEN with pulmonary tuberculosis. 27-year old 00l Say Hun. patient of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, forgot his trouules for a moment to receive from Sir James Sleeman Overseas Commissioner ol the St John Ambulance Brigade, a certificate! and "warm greetings from I Her Majesty the Queen."
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  • 47 1 More than 1,000 people, mostly businessmen, attended the opening of the Overseas Union Bank, in Raffles Place yestprday. The Bank, described as a "People's Bank," is designed to offer all classes of people and nationalities a uniform service. The paid up capital is $2,000,000.
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  • 28 1 MANILA. Sat. -Fire today whipped through Cotabato, provincial capital in Western Mindanao, burning to death an Irish Catholic priest and leaving possibly 10,000 persons homeless. A.P.
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  • 53 1 ■ATAVIA. la* A DUTCH aircraft will »ak« off from Medin. North Sumatra, early tomorrow to carry Republican President Soekjrno to Banka island, where Republican Premier Mohamcd Hatta and other leaders »rt held by the Dutch. Republican and Federalist representatives arm also to Hy to Banka from
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  • 206 1 RANGOON. Sat. fIIWENTY-SEVEN Britons, including women and children, were today trapped in Insein town. 10 miles north of Rangoon, where heavy fighting has been going on since Monday. The British, Indian and Pakistan Governments are making efforts to aid their nationals. An Indian Embassy spokc-a wan
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  • 284 1 Police flush bandits kill 2 IPOH. Saf. TWO bandits were killed, and one sten gun, two rifles, five hand grenades and a large quantity of ainiu' nition recovered when a police party operating in the Manong area of Kuala Kangsar district last evening, surprised five bandits in a hut at
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  • 104 1 When the Singapore L*gUlative Council meet.s >n Feb. 16. Radio Malaya's observer will btr present. His report on proceed ingy will be broadcast that mm evening over the Blue Nei work from 9.45 p.m. to lf.M p.m. IN THE NEWS YESTERDAY. Above: Mr. G.rald Hawkins. Secretary
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  • 769 2 T HAVE always found that if you srive tne southern Indian a square deal you get a square deal in return and it is just the same with the Chinese. Here are some reminiscences about servants 1 have had in days gone by. Once I
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    382 2  -  KEBUN CWERYONE likes something that will flower all the time and in Malaya we have a number of plants that do. The best which comes to my mind is the Crossandra or, as It is more popularly known, the Singapore Geranium r6ssanara «;ien once established iiu>t keeps
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  • 200 2 Pis always interesting to read about old time Singapore and I am appreciative of "Old Timer's" contributions. However, I should like to correct an item or two. H.M.S. "Waterwitch" was not sunk by a small launch but by the Government yacht "Sea Mew" as she was returning
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  • 581 2 AMONG THE NEW BOOKS fiAPTAiN Roy Farran is essentially a man of action. He Joined the Army while he was very young, he became a member of a unit which operated outside the main theatres of war and he was thus detached from the main body of the
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    • 259 2 tONDON and V| "fiF BIRMINGHAM BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR u^ji, Lvery year, from over 100 countries, trade t buyers gather at the British Industries Pair. Tiir Chambei ot Commerce in Birmingham, «nd manufacturers from every part of Britain, join with the Government of the United Kingdom to welcome them. At Bl
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  • 116 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rIE Singapore Chinese Consul-Oeneral Dr. Wu Paak-shlng, addressing an annlverary gathering at the Chinese V.M.C.A. last night, appealed to overseas Chinese to extend to the Chinese V.M.C.A. every assistance possible. He said: Chinese youths all over the world can find no
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  • 64 3 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices yesterday (Feb. 9) were. In cents per lb.: Buyer Seller No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 36 36% FOB. In bales No. 1 R.S.B. 36 36 K No. 3 R.~9. 34V4 34% No. 3 R.B.S. 33% 33% On reg. tender.
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  • 184 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE second meeting of leaders of all religious groups prompted by the Muslim divine Maulana Siddique was held on Friday at the house of Mr. S.I O. Alsagoff and a provisional consultative committee was formed to prepare proposals on the forms of possible
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  • 48 3 Stamford Club, at a committee meeting yesterday, decided to form a joint choir with the Raffles College students. The choir will be under the direction of Mr. Paul Abisheganaden, assistant music master of Singapore Education Department, and is expected to consist of more than 60 voices.
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  • 55 3 Sunday Times Correspondent A 40-year-old Chinese deck passenger was found hanging on board the Dutch vessel De Eerens on Feb. 3, during the ship's voyage from Sourabaya to Singapore. The man was buried at sea the following day. The De Eerens arrived in Singapore yesterday and
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  • 27 3 Sunday Times Correspondent The Singapore Master Attendant has requested all vessels in the harbour to "dress ship" today to commemorate the founding of Singapore.
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  • 1078 3 Gurkha fought with elbow shot away THE Gurkha patrol which showed such splendid devotion to duty on Jan. 13, 1949, consisted of one British officer, one Gurkha officer and 29 Gurkha non-commissioned officers and men, plus a small accompanying force of police. Although their British officer
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  • 210 3 THREE hundred and sixty frozen Australian eggs packed in a wooden box will leave Singapore by a Lancastrian plane this morning for England. It is Singapore's answer to the Malayan Thomas Cup team's appeal for "extra egg rations" which were refused them in
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  • 86 3 ONE curtain that lot* of peoplt in Singapore hay« seen railed and lowered many times it being put out of commission for a time. The asbestos of the 47-year-old safety curtain in the Victoria Theatre is perished in parts and for the safety of the public
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  • 239 3 Sunday Times Correspondent DEALINGS in the Industrial sectior comprised by far the greatest business of the week. Tin and rubber share transactions were meagre, undoubtedly due to the bandit problem and the publicity it is receiving at home. Loans were steady and had small business. The
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  • 1400 4  - RAINS BRING FISH TO 'SAWAHS' C.H.E. DET By LOOKINQ ac the parched and cracked padi fields, bereft of every drop of water during one of those spells of dry weather so frequent in Kedah, it is difficult to believe that these same fields will be teeming with fish as soon
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  • 636 4  -  C.H. ALDRED BY EXTENSIVE research has been and is still being carried out to study the effects of atom bomb rays upon the human body. Recently new plans have been made to study the long-ierm effects of these rays on the Japanese survivors of
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    18 4 THE pretty British film actress Sandra Dome, pictured in Hie ever-popular one-piece swimming suit, .ippliqued to white flowers.
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  • 212 4 IN 1877, the British peopir beg? to perceive that the music of Brahms was not merely the work of an obscure intellectual. His Opus 52. Liebcs Lieder Waltier, gained immediate popularity. Written for piano duet and a mixed vocal quartet, the words are from Polydora
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  • 689 5 ARE you content with the way you speuk and write? Are you sure that you ar« not making mistakes that cause people to underrate you? Never has the importance of good English been more widely recognised than today. If you can express yourself persuasively
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  • 1013 5  -  808 GILMORE by MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. WHILE the External Affairs Minister, Dr. H. V. Evatt, talked in Sydney of world brotherho.od and of Australia's "prominent role at New Delhi, many an Australian viewed with suspicion this week the queer brotherhood into which Australia had been admitted.
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    • 664 5 mimi^^i M VITAMINS fl| f. Mynor Fruit Cup suppliei valuable n't*' m IWr^^^aß m D> beax b m de frOro ver^ ■kj/^ botu Australian oranges, lemons, pineapples V^^C&f? Ul tn^ P 2 oo l manufactured" and bottled i^L^^^tafvJ under hygienic conditions. Fot purity and |Hk |JLykl.O^ I delicious taste then
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    • 348 5 SPARE Variety; 4.00 In Person; 4.40 runt Episode 1 of 'Murder U Dangsr- BFEBS 9.00 Morning Music; 9.30 ous;" 5.00 "Allot ln WonderLatin America on the Air; 10.00 1 land;" 5.30 Religious Servtos; M 'Strictly Vocal;' 6.90 Solo corner; 10.15 Hit Parade; 6.30 Children's Corner; 7.00 B**»dstand; «00 English Theatre;
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  • 286 6 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1949. 18-YEARS-OLD ENVOY DEOPLE who are inclined to r be critical of life in Singapore should take heart from the reactions of a young man from austerity Britain who has just spent the most enjoyable week of his life here. Those who have seen 18-year-old Sergeant John
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  • 287 6 |N the news pages of tills 1 issue are printed graphs published today by the Federation Police to show the consistent decrease in crimes of violence In the Federation in the past three years. A statement accompanying the graphs points out that for the purposes of j a
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  • 522 6  -  WILLIAM ROWLEY "y SCIENTISTS hope shortly to be able to land an unmanned rocket on the moon. By following the progress of this space plane, astronomers hope to gain a great deal of knowledge concerning the possibility of travel to the stars. Science
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    676 6  -  S.C. GEORGE By "Y"ES, because that monkey looks so much like Uncle Joe", answered a small boy when asked the question that is the title of this article. Incongruity? A malicious delight in lowering Uncle Joe's self-esteem? Something copying the antics of a human being? Bergson In
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  • 681 6  -  K.S. CHIA By THE fishing village of Tanjong Tokong, four miles from Georgetown, Penanp, claims one of the most prosperous Chinese temples on Penang Island—the Temple of the God of Prosperity Tuah Peh Kcng. For one week every year, thousands of Chinese pour along all roads
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  • 642 7 Police Report 3 good years Sunday Times Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. APART from political crimes the Federation Police have all other acts of violence well under control, and figures for the past three years show a remarkable decrease in Malayan crime. Most instances of
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  • 314 7 BRITISH SUBJECT BILL EVERY person who was' born in Singapore, or in j s the territories comprising the former Straits Settlements, can now be called a British subject or a Commonwealth citizen. This privilege is confeired by the British Nationality Act which has just been gazetted In Singapore and came
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  • 57 7 Selected airs and choruses from Handel's Messiah were given at the Paya Lebar Methodist Church yesterday by the Church Choir combined with choristers from St. Paul's and St. Hilda's Churches. The concert was in aid of the Paya Lebar Methodist Church organ and *hoir funds.
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  • 44 7 Two dinner parties were "held in Singapore yesterday to mark the first anniversary of Ceylon Dominion Day The Ceylonese Association had their dinner at the Adelphl and the Sinhalese Association at '.he residence of their President, Mr P. E. Perera.
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  • 958 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent THE maximum sentence of ten years for gun running was asked by the Public 1 Prosecutor, Mr. J. W. L. de Creef, at the conclusion of the Carlton A. Hire trial before a Dutch court on Friday at Tanjong
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  • 222 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINGAPORE voters in the forthcoming Municipal elections will go to the polls to record their votes against symbols now being prepared for them by 35--year-old artist Wong Tiet Mm of the Public Relations Office. To this quiet, soft-spoken Chinese has fallen the
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  • 86 7 MEMBERS of the Alumni Association of the King 1 Edward VII College of M<-di-cine, Stamford Club, Hon<i Kong University Alumni Association and other University graduates residing in Malaya will ireet in early March to launch a University Club in Singapore. Mr. Seah Yun Khonp. one of
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  • 198 7 Jobless seamen ask for help Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE Singapore Asian Sea« farers' Federation at m meeting yesterday decided to send a deputation this week to meet the Commis* sioner of Labour on behall of the large number of unemployed seamen. Though registered with th 6 Government Seamen's Registration
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  • 431 8 AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19).— Take full advantage of any opportunity to make beneficial progress for this is a good day for you. Be wary and do not leap to conclusions. A good business day if you seiie chances. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 21). Keep your major objective
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  • 419 8 rIS is a pet-ing party that you can have without a fair companion, providing you're fair in grading your answers to the questions. Getting 12 right is fair, 15 good, 18 or over, excellent. 1. Many a tongue h?--twlsted trying to say. "Peter picked a
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  • 438 8 pEOPLE get funny Ideas on what constitutes a free bid. Two hands of recent vintage come to mind. On the first we got the ax; on the second we were the beneficiaries. On hand one we held the following beauties: S. x H. K Q J x
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    • 161 8 Sunday Times Crossword b^Bbsbi bbbbbbh^^ I I^^ I asal^^ 1 I I I I BSBBBsI I ACROSS DOWN 1. Distorted (4). 4. Affirm (6), 1 Tending to revert to early 10. Obligation (3). U. Beat (6) (»>.*• <«). £J u p m 2S2tum f/^oT 6 ,**>««• (6), 15. Prosecuted t4>
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  • 839 9  -  MARY HEATHCOTT BY LONDON, Jan. 23. I ONDON couturiers have developed their own idiom, not slavishly imitating Paris and yet recklessly deviating from the accepted trends. Their interpretation of the mode is restrained, one would almost say ladylike except that "ladylike" is an old fashioned
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    111 9 NOT since the early '30s have cocktc 1 clothes been so popular, "ketched here are the lates* zocktail ensembles from the world's leading fashion capitals: PARIS: This dress in heavy oyster satin has the new 'picture frame' neckline. The dress has elbow length sleeves with flyaway cuffs buttoned with jet.
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  • 137 9 Here There AN American idea you might think worth r«membering and Copying »OT horn* leave cloth**: A plaid wool top-coat hat its warm lining sipped into it. The sleeves of the coat are full; the lining sleeves end in knitted jersey cuffs to keep out draughts and cold winds. When
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  • 293 9 vlte all know the attractions of stuffed hard boiled eggs among makan ketchil. Variations In flavouring for the yolks are many, but here are some ideas for serving stuffed eggs as a course instead ol fish. They make a pleasant change. YOU need for six people:
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  • 627 9 My husoand falls asleep in the evening when we have friends round. I try to make excuses for him, but there isn't a valid one. He has his normal quota of sleep, done no more than an average day's work, and he's in perfect health. I asked our
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  • 80 10 LONDON, Sat. International Match: Wales 14, England 10. Club Matches: Barrow 13, York 2- Dewsbury 17, Hunslet 16; Hallfax 13. Salford 4; Hull 22, Bramley 9- Rochdale Hornets 7, Leigh 3; Warrington 29. Liverpool Stanley 3; Widnes 6, St. Helens 2; Wlgan 17. Oldham 4; Worklngton Town 14,
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  • 15 10 International Match: Scotland 6. Wales 9. County Championship Semifinal: Middlesex 3, Gloucestershire 3.
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  • 225 10 Six players to make up squad Sunday Times Staff Reporter with the Thomas Cup Team. kJALAYA'S probable Thomas Cup team against m America at Glasgow will be: Singlet, Ooi Teik Hock, Wong Peng Soon, Law Teik Hock. Doubles, Chan Kon Leong and Yeoh Teck Chye,
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    21 10 A STUDY IN EXPRESSIONS: tour conUttantt pulling harj in th« tug-o'-wir event at th« Federation Day iporti held in Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 322 10 Newport, Stoke stay in Cup LONDON, Sat. rpHREE Cup fourth round re--1 plays took much of the Interest away from an almost full League programme today. In these replays Newport County and Stoke City, who were held at home to a draw last Saturday by Huddersfleld Town and Blackpool respectively,
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  • 265 10 THE Singapore hockey veterans taught an S.R.C. XI a 1 thing or two about the game when they beat the Club team by six goals to nil on the Padang yesterday. It was a treat to watch the hockey stars of a decade ago in
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  • 449 10 Badminton Notes By FEATHER I*HE Singapore Malay Badminton Association will open the 1949 badminton season In Singapore with its annual championships on Feb. 12. Ties will take place every Saturday, Sunday and Monday night at the Clerical Union Hall, Rangoon Road, artlng at 7
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  • 282 10 R.A.F. Combined 6; S.C.C 3. THE R.A.F. Combined (Malaya) won the Singapore Rugby Union pentangular tournament (or this season when they beat the Singapore Cricket Club in a hard-fought game at Seletar yesterday. The Airmen scored a dropped goal and a penalty goal and the Club,
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  • 251 10 Bombay, Sat. BATTING on what was described as a "sporting" pitch, the West Indies lost their last five wickets for 51 runs today and were all out for 286 In the first innings of the fifth Test against India. Scores: WEST INDIES— Ist
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  • 32 10 BATH. Sat. E. L. Choong (Malaya) won the men's singles in the Somerset Cl .b badminton championships her** this afternoon, beatIng H. J. Wlngfleld. the England player, 15—13. 15—13. In
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  • 817 11 Yardley replies to Bradman By NORMAN YARDLEY M V old rival, Don Bradman, has had a good innings in the Sunday Times, but some of his attacking shots have been wide of the mark. He criticised the English team selection and the form of
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    20 11 TWENTY FOUR YEAROLD Rinus William van Breukelen. nephew of M. van Breukelen. who has been granted a temporary training licence.
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  • 205 11 Argonauts toast Thomas Cup team Sunday Times Malacca Sports Correspondent ONE hundred people toasted to the success of the Thomas Cup team at the third post-war Chinese New Year dinner of the Argonaut Badminton Party, Malacca's lnter-clua champions, held on Friday night. The Party also celebratel their success in the
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  • 151 11 THE following have been selected to represent the three Combined Colleges Chess teams for the Singapore Chess league: TEAM I: Gwee Ah Lerg (captain) (M.C.U.). Chew Wai Nam (M.CU.), Che« Phul Hung (MCU). Lee Yong Klat (M.C.U.>, Abdul Majld (MCU). Henry Oh 'R-CU.h TEAM n: Wong
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  • 63 11 THE Chinese Swimming CluL, 1 Singapore, will be holding a children's party next Sunday, Feb. 13 from 1 to 5 p.m. There will be "fishing ponds lucky dips and pulls, free refreshment and other attraction*. Musical selection* will be glve« by the Liberty MuMcal and Dramatic
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  • 410 11 5-^: m The University team is composed entirely of Malayans and has only one seasoned player, Low Keat Soo of I poh, an ex-Malayan doubles champion, while the Chinese "V" is actually a combined team, with the j majority of their players from the
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  • 162 11 THE standard of football in 1 Muar is high, as Indicated by the inclusion of seven players In the St»te team in last year's I Malaya Cup competition This statement was made by the president of the Muar Football Association, Mr. L. C. Finch, lat the M
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  • 51 11 THE FOLLOWING will represent the Borneo Co, Ltd. Sport* Club in a friendly badminton match against the A.P.O's at a p.m. today at the SVC Head quarters. Beach Road: Tan Guan Hong. Simon Ng, Chan S"K> Gu^ Tan Keng Soo, Eddie Low. CMMM A ng and Claude da
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  • 166 11 Sunday Time.s Penang Sports Reportt-r rpHE Penang Polo Club plans to hold another triangular tournament in April and to organise gymkhanas, showJumping and other events this year. The president. Captain Lindsay Years, Indicated this in his report presented at the Club's annual general meeting on
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  • 307 11 QR. S. H. Al-Junied, honorary secretary and medical officer to the Singapore Boxing Board of Control, in a statement to the Sunday Times yesterday clarified the position of the Board in relation to professional boxing in the Colony. The statement was issued following the publication of
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    • 471 11 ROYAL Command Performance (LONDON, 29th NOV., 1948) fc° t^^Bjr^^^ T? AKTHO* HANK PKiSENTS t|H < r^HE^P|nK *BF M'CHAH BAICON PRODUCTION SJK i Colour by TECHNICOLOR r jfttbr ham «I MM ITWXH GLORIOUS BRITISH PICTURE OF THE MOST GLORIOUS ADVENTURE IN HISTORYI TODAY 11 a.m.. 1.45, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m.
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  • 108 12 Don t take your wife's badge IF you make a mistake and take your wife's badge to th« Singapore Turf Club's meeting this month you may have some trouble before you are allowed into the course. Turf Club badg«t for 1949 hjve been issued under a new system to prevent
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  • 36 12 Gothenburg. Sat. Sweden's neav> weight champion, Olle Tandberg. gained a 12-round decision o\er Stephen Olek of France last night before 6.000 fans at Pair Hall. Tandberg weighed 199 lbs. and Olek 187. U. P.
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  • 94 12 MELBOURNE. Saturday. H TURNER a hard hitting It* left-hander who has been regular 12th man for Victoria this sea. o:i, seized his chance today and scored 96 against Western Australia in his first Sheffield Shield game. Victoria carried their overnigh' first innings score from 286
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  • 48 12 Sunday Times Secamat Sport* Correspondent rE AU-Johore P.W.D. Sports Association may organise an athletic meet on an inter -district basis to select competitors from the Stat? to participate in the proposed All-Malayan P.W.D. sports .scheduled to take place at Kuala Lumpur during the Easter Holidays.
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  • 59 12 •THE following have been elecied I office-bearers of the Golden 'Hind B.P. for 1949: president,: Chan Wah Swee; vice-president. I Mohamed bin Abdullah; hon. secretary, Harry Goh; hon. treasi urer, Othman bin Ali; hon. spurts captain, Laurie Chan. Hon. auditor. Willie Tan; committee members: All bin Hajl
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  • 335 12 First day of Ipoh races From EPSOM JEEP. A TOTAL of 1 44 horses have been handicapped in ten races for the first day of the Perak Turf Club February Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 12, constituting a new turf record. Old-timers of the Turf could not recall
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  • 181 12 Kailasapathy scores first century M. C. Kailasapathy, the! Singapore and South I cricketer, scored the first j century of the season when j he made 124 not out for Raffles College against the C V.M.A. at Bukit Tlniah yesterday. Raffles won the match by nine wickets. Kailasapathy and Doralra] scoring
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  • 64 12 rE Tamil Brotherhood Asso- elation, Singapore, have formed a table-tennis team. Indians interested In tabletennis are to contact the honorary Indoor games secretary, co 2. 1 Rambuttan Road, off Joo Chial Place. Slngaport Indians interested in badminton are to send In their names to the
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  • 60 12 THE team to represent tht Customs Sports Club at soccer against Chinese Sports Association on Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. at Geylang Stadium will be chosen from: Ramley bin Ishak Ma n Daud, Sldik. Hoe Thlan S?ng; Aziz, E. J. Se by, Mahmood; Ikjan (Captain). F. A. Rodrlgues. Cheng
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  • 32 12 FE Jollilads drew two-all with the B.M.H. in a game of soccer playel at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were: Baskaran (2) for the Jollilads and Davie; (2) for the B.M.H.
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  • 267 12 Sunday ...us Kuala Lumpur Spuru Correspondent THE Selangor Club "A" won the Selangor Rugby Union seven-a-slde tournament yesterday, beating the Club "B" team 19 points to eight in a fight which saw action all the time and 14 very exhausted players at the end.
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    20 12 THE RAF. Combined XV who beat the S.C.C. six-three at Seletar yesterda>' to win the Singapore Rugby -non pentangular tournament.
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  • 480 12 \jyEICHTS for the first day of the Ipoh races, next Saturday are: i/Ln» iin i— r i n>. sib. Km a 900 Liberty 8.02 Ktmbolton 8 11 Whispering Hartman 8 09 Hope 8.01 O den News 80S Flarepath 7.10 Fiancelene 8.03 Amusement 7.10 Brooking 8
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  • 242 12 lor five races on the second day of the Perak Turf Club meeting. Feb. 16, are: CLASS 1, DIV. 1— FURS. Waveation 900 Merlin 804 Ganymead 0.00 Walt 801 Unicorn 8 10 Tretes 8 01 Avail 8.04 London 8 01 Fine Silver Feathers 8 04 Sequin 8 00
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  • 27 12 THE R.A F. (Tengah) beat the Singapore Harbour Board Rugby Football Club by six points to three in a match played at Tengah yesterday.
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  • 137 12 Sunday Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Correspondent THE Rest scored an easy victory over the Europeans at hockey yesterday, defeating them by four goals to one on the padang. Highlight of the game was the hat-trick scored by Eng Kirn, the Rest inside left. The Rest proved
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  • 96 12 THE cumulative scores aftei yesterday's second qualifying round for the Singapore Chess championship were: Two points: H. Campbell, W. Groom. Chow Wai Nam. One point and a half: Kiang Chin Eng, Wong Poh Lam. One point: A. M. Ismail, J. Matthews, P. R. Vakil, Man Beng Guan,
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  • 201 12 J-JBCORD entries have been received by the Victoria Racing Club for the Newmarket Handicap to be run on March 12, 114 horses having been nominated. Entries for the Australian Cup; (to be run o n March 14) tailed! by one to equ-U the 1947 record.
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