The Straits Times, 16 February 1949

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 184S PRICE TEN CENTS* EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1949.
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  • 412 1 Welshing 9 On Defence Pact, Britain Told LONDON, Tuesday. American rejection of any "automatic war" clause in the Atlantic Pact was badly received in Western Europe today. Millions of people were told by their newspapers that the United States was trying to reduce the pact to
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  • 85 1 BATAVIA Taes DR. Louis J. M. Beel, the Dutch Crown's high representative In Batavia. left by plane for the Netherlands yesterday to demand a swift settlement of the fighting in Indonesia. The Indonesian Republican Information Office at Singapore reported that 213 mutinous Dutch soldiers were killed
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  • 139 1 'riJh Governments, of Singa- pi>n and i lie Federation •re setting up a joint comto review the cost of living allowances adopted following the Benham Report ear. This jo.nt committee will review the allowances in the j light of the general level of prices. It i.
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  • 128 1 CANBERRA. Tues. A CONFERENCE of Federal' and State Ministers, yeslerday approved the spending of £148.000,000 on a vast system of hydro-electric power stations feeding huge atom-proof factories deep below the earth. Work is to begin Immediately on the chain of 20 power stations harnessing Ihe waters of the
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  • 45 1 HONG KONG. Tues.-Sin-gapore's RAF Vampire jet fishter took off on a test flight here today after being grounded for nearly a month. It was flown to Hong Kong by Kli»ht Lieut. O. Francis, \.F.C, for a series of demonstration flights. A.P.
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  • 148 1 U.S. Woman Arrested In Moscow LONDON, Tues. 1/fRS. Anna Louise Strong, lil American journalist and mo author of numerous pro- i Soviet articles, who last year spent several months in Communist-held area* of China, has been arrested o> Russian State Security Po- j lice and accused of being a spy.
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Tues— A 100-year-old ban on taking walkIng sticks and umbrellas in to the British Museum has been lifted. Ever since a precious vase was smashed in 1845 by an umbrella carrying vandal, visitors have had to hand tluse "weapons" over to attendants before they were allowed
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  • 236 1 From .LEE SIEW YEE, Straits Times Staff Reporter with the Thorna s Cup team. GLASGOW, Tuesday. L^EN Davidson, manager-coach of the American Thomas Cup team, has banned the Malayan team and Malayan newspapermen from seeing his team play Scotrand in their Cup rehearsal at Dunfermline on
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  • 22 1 BAGHDAD, lues. Two Syrians were hanged in pub- l lie today on charges of con- < spiring to destroy the state
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  • 102 1 RHODES. Tues. THE deadlock in armistice talks between Jews and Egyptians has been broken and agreement is "close at hand, an informed conference source said today. The source said both sides had agreed to make the Is-raeli-held town of Auja In the Negev, near the Egyptian frontier,
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    38 1 DIRECTING OPERATIONS against bandits on the KedahSiam border is Brigadier H. I). Skone, officer commanding North Malaya Sub-District (right). With him here is Mr. 11. B. Shaw, Deputy ('nm lissioner of Police, Federation of Malaya. Straits Times picture.
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  • 156 1 Frorr. Our start Correspondent IPOH, Tues. ALLEGED to have been found hiding under a bed on which three young girls were sleeping, a well-known bandit of the Siputeh area, Chong Yoon, alias Chong \h Pal— "The Cripple"— was today sentenced to death by Mr. Justice
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  • 112 1 Alone On The Ice For 6 Days LONDON. Tues. EXPOSED to 20 degrees of frost and a 40-mile-an-hour north-westerly gale blowing from Greenland, Surgeon Lt.-Commander E. Boyd Martin's morale was excellent today after the first day of his six-dry exposure test for the Royal Navy's Arctic Force. Martin, an Australian,
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  • 45 1 BANGKOK, Tiies. The Siamese Government is to deport 130 Chinese from Siam. It was officially stated today. These Chinese some of them multi millionaires were rounded up last year for alleged secret society activities, illicitly soliciting funds and profiteering. Reuter.
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  • 238 1 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Tuesday. IN the Melbourne High Court late this afternoon, 1 solicitors for Mrs. Annie O'Keefe issued a writ seeking a declaration that she is a British subject and an Australian citizen and that Mr. Calwell, Immigration Minister, has
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  • 1258 1 "IMPROVE THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE" Gimson Tells Council "TT is not only the fight against Communism 1 that renders the improvement of social services important, for one must also recognise the fact that in these post-war years the public conscience is* much alive to the necessity of improving the welfare of
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  • 140 1 DR.SUNFO RESIGNS REPORT SHANGHAI, Tues. 'THE Chinese Premier, Dr. Sun Fo, has submitted his resignation to acting President Li Tsung-Jen, according to unconfirmed Chinese reports current here this afternoon. Dr Sun is said to have declared in a message to President Li that high blood pressure prevents him from taking
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  • 35 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. A power site desciibed as potentially the greatest in North America has been discovered on the Yukon River in the heart of Alaska The project could produce more than 12,000.000.000 kilowatts.
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  • 369 2 MEXICO CITY, Tuesday. PRETTY Conchlta Cintron, 25-year-old bull fighter from Peru, wants a chance to display her talents here. r The powerful Bull Fighters' Union says: "No— the ring is no place for a woman No ring dares contract her until the union approves, for
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  • 209 3 WASHINGTON Tuesday. *THE I'nited States Army ha s turned down a request by (.en.ral Mac Arthur for more troops to be sent to Japan. The Secretary of th e Army. Mr. Kenneth Royall, said today that the Supreme Allied Commander In Japan had been
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  • 48 3 CANBERRA, Tues The Australian Prime Minister (Mr J. B. Chifley told the House of Representatives today: "The Australian Government has not received any official information of any change of intention on the part of the United States Government with regard to the occupation of Japan.' Reuter.
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  • 99 3 Slaves: U.S. Accuses Russians AKK SUCCESS. Tues. rpHE United States yesterday J charged that Russia has B 100.000 to 14.000.000 slave n working inside the Union. The charge was made in the UN Economic and Social [•..uncil by Mr. William L. ihurp Assistant Secretary of Slate. America Is demanding U.N.
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  • 37 3 TOKYO. Tui\s. Emperor to'a eldest daughter. s Teru said today she v ttitfcl to import pigs from England or the United States »ir her farm on the bombed kte 'if hor Tokyo home. R~ i:er-AAP.
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  • 31 3 WAITING at the Singapore Registration Office, Beach Road, to notify changes of addresses and correction of particulars on identity cards. Story in Page Five. Straits Times picture.
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  • 176 3 PLAQUES TO SCOTS SOLDIERS THE Commander-in-Chlef, FARELF (Oen. Sir Neil j Ritchie) will unveil plaques dedicated to the officers and men of the Gordon Highlanders and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on Sunday evening. The plaques are in memory of the men who lost their
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  • 96 3 OLD BOYS' ASSN. Seventy-five Old Boys of the Khee Fatt Chinese School. Cairnhill Road, at a meeting on Monday decided to form an Old Boys' Association. A sub-committee of 15 was appointed to draft the constitution and to seek official approval. Mr. Lam Joon Chong. who presided, said the school
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  • 38 3 HONQ KONG. Tues Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd commanding the British Royal Air Force in the Far East, arrived here thl s afternoon in an RAF Dakota from Singapore. He v on a routine insDectdon.—Reuter.
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  • 150 3 THE first Malay girl to be appointed laboratory assistant at the Canning Research Station in Scudai, Johore, is Che Araph binte Mohaim d. She Is working on a series or experiments to ascertain the best methods of canning Malayan fruit, and of making it
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  • 10 3 LONDON. Tues. Tommy Handley left £63,181.— Reutej.
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  • 167 3 GURKHAS TOFORM NEW RIOT SQUAD ]t| R. R. A. H. Cowan, A.S.P., of the Singapore Police j iTI Communications Division, flew to New Delhi on Sunday. He will bring back 148 Gurkhas who are being recruited in Nepal to replace the Sikh contingent as police riot squad in Singapore. The
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  • 107 3 "Government officers have a special problem In regard to houses," says Mr. A. Williams. President of the Singapore Government Servants' Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society, In a message to the Singapore Government Officers' Co-operative Housing -Society. If the Society could help. even though In a small way!
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  • 54 3 TOKYO. Tues.— The Japanese Labour Farmer Party with seven seats in the House of Representatives, announced today that it would fight on a common front with the Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party, but would not accept a proposal of the Communist Party for a merger of
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  • 159 3 Malays Told To "Get Organised" From Our Malay Correspondent "fIfIALAY labourers should organise themselves Into trade unions to safeguard their Interests." Engku Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Hamid told I members of the United Malays National Organisation In Johore Bahru. Engku Aziz, lecturer in Economics at Raffles College, was giving an
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  • 67 3 Mr. Justice Taylor yesterday sentenced Ah Fung to four years' rigorous imprisonment for attempting to extort $3,500 from a bicycle repairer, Ng Tian Hong. Ng said the attempt came in the form of a letter from the "Red Dragon" Society which he handed to the police. A week
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  • 50 3 Three Malays who fought in front of a Singapore cinema at 11.45 p.m. ware fined $10 each in the Third Police Court yesterday. They were Jam' 1 bin Taib and Yacob bin Mawar, two lorry drivers, and a profes■MM boxer, Mohammed Kassim bin Monammed Khan.
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  • 93 3 i rom Our Own Correspondent Xl ALA LUMPUR. Tues. STOCKS of rubber held by dealers at the principal Federation ports and Singapore at the end of January weoe 55,513 tons, compared with 57,036 tons at the end of December. Stocks held in wharves, lighters and godowns
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  • 155 3 LONDON, Tues. THE three Western Powers 1 yesterday reaffirmed their view- opposed by Russia that Austria should not pay war reparations. Deputies of the "Bi£ Four" Foreign Ministers reached no decision on this point at yesterday's resumed talks here on the Austrian peace treaty. The Soviet
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  • 166 3 More Rice In N. Borneo Planned LONDON, Tues. THE Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. D. ReesWilliams, told Parliament that the Government— to lessen their reiiance on importec foodstuffs wished to increase the production of rice in North Borneo and Sarawak. The Government also desired, to reduce the dependence on rubber
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  • 175 3 A Chinese father unsuccessfully sued his son for the recovery of a $12,000 house yesterday In the Singapore High Court. The father, Seah Koon Teck, a former building contractor, oald he had put the house in his son's name In 1928 when he decided to go
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  • 1013 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 16, 1949 A GOVERNOR'S SPEECH Political advancement is not an end in itself, but a means of ensuring social advancement. In this passage of his splfech to the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday, Sir Franklin Gimson was more an advocate, ready to march with the
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  • 94 4 From the Straits Times of Feb. 16, 1899: Lord Curzon formally assumed the Vice -royalty in the Thcone-room of Government House, Calcutta, in the presence of a large gathering of officials and native Princes. It was a most brilliant function, the fullest ceremonial being observed. Lady Curzon
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  • 2191 4  -  The Rt. Hon. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL By Mr. Churchill had sent Mussolini a message on May 16 appealing to Mm "to stop a river of blood from flowing between the British and Italian peoples." Mussolini replied that "Italian policy to-day and to-mor-row in the face of
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  • 461 4 MAIN-UN -THE-STREET NON ON -MALAYS who urge the secession of Penang and Province Wellesley from the Federation ignore the fact that Penang and Province Wellesley still belong to Kedah and that payment on the lease of these two territories is still being made to the
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    • 774 4 < IASSIHhI) ADS. OREENSTREKT: On Feb. 6th. 1MB. at LevUham HoaplUl. London, to Kathleen, wife of C. W. J. Omnitmt, Malayan Police Service, a (laughter. YANTJ8: To Tamara. wife of George Yanus. on 9th M>.. IMt. at Kandang Kerbau Hoipltal. a daughter Margaret. Hongkong. ■hanKhal papers please copy. SITUATIONS VACANT
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    • 133 4 INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS Deccaifrrf) full Ircqutncy nap r*co>di*( IX" RED LABEL RECORDS ALFREDO CAMPOLI (Violin) 1709 (a) La Ronde des Lutlrw (Baixinl) (b) Zephyr, op. 30. No. 5 (Hubay) $3.75 1670/71 La Folia (C^-elll) $5.59 IDA HAENDEL (Violin), will The National Sym. Orch. 1171 Introduction and Rondo Caprlectoso (SaintSaens) $2.75 KATHLEEN
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  • 489 5 Committee To Send Petition To Whitehall From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. THE only method of deciding the secession issue would be by plebiscite, declared the president of the Settlement of Penang Association, Mr. J. P. Souter, last night. Mr Souter told a committee meeting of
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  • 99 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues rE Deputy Chief Police Officer. Selangor Mr W J Debens, pleaded guilty today before Inche Maarof bin Sheik Ahmad in the Second Magistrate's court to a summons charge of negligent driving. He was fined $50 and hds driving licence was
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  • 314 5 THE sum of $300,000 -three- quarters of the target figure of $400,000— has already ha» been raised for the new Anglo-Chine.se Scnool buildings at Barker Road and Coleman Street. The appeal for donations, launched by the Methodist Mission last September, has received such encouraging response that
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  • 103 5 ISSUE OF CARDS GOES ON rE Singapore Registration Office has dealt with 10,000 applications for Identity cards since the official ending of registration last year. The majority concerned persons entering the Colony They comprised Europeans, Chinese and Indians who had been absent from the Colony on visit* or leave. The
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  • 47 5 A European employed by a Singapore shipping firm was waylaid by a gar,g of Chinese in Queen Street oi. Sunday night and robbed of $40 ensh, a watch valued $150 and his identity card. The robbery was reported to the police the next day.
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    30 5 tl iiLT COL E P TownseD <>. commanding the 1/6 Gur- R^es <'<> r epound) and his second-in-command. fV* o^'** 1 1*. the radio during operations in north Kedah. Straits Times picture.
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  • 289 5 From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tuesday. pOR the first time since the combined operations on the Siamese border began, contact was made with bandits late yesterday. Gurkhas approaching a new camp fired at 12 running figures. The Gurkhas followed In pursuit. They fired at the
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  • 189 5 Independent Candidate For Rochore MR. Ahmad Ibrahim, a former Singapore District Judge, announced yesterday that he would contest the Rochorft Ward as an Independent at the forthcoming Municipal elections. Mr. Ibrahim is a member of the Progressive Party. He said he was standing as an independent because "so many organisations
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  • 40 5 'lint: Chinese triplets, born m. at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Singapore, on Jan. 13, have all died. They were the first triplets to be born -live here for more than 13 years. All three died of gastro enteritis.
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  • 103 5 A RECENTLY MARRIED financial clerk who spent money belon^ins; to other employees of his department for his wedding celebrations left the First District Court esterday to begin a 14 month prison term Th? clerk. C. C. Francis a Eurasian. Dleaded guilty before Mr. E.
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  • 298 5 SOLD GIRL FOR $270 -CHARGE EiORTY-four-year-olcl Ng Sol I Keng pleaded not guilty yesterday when charged in the Singapore Second Police Court with having sold a three-year-old girl for $270 The child's father, Wong Seek Kit. a lorry driver of Nankin Street, said he had two wives— one in China
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  • 25 5 me acting Director of Education, Singapore Mr A W. Frisby, yesterday "took tils oath as a new member of the Singapore Legislative Council.
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  • 145 5 RELIGIOUS EDUCA TION FOR MALAY WOMEN fi y Our Woman Correspondent THE Women's Section of the Muslim Missionary Society is launching a campaign for the religious education of Singapore's Malay women and children The Society also plans to train women by lectures and practical demonstrations »n sewing and cooking, to
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  • 237 5 STORE'S FIRST BLACK-OUT IN 8 WEEKS SINGAPORE'S first electricity blackout in eight h«« C^ S J%* nt dinner b y candleHfht In many homes in different parts of the Colony last nifht. Load shedding for "safety reasons" caused power cuts in various area s between ~80 andTS Co sumers in
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  • 73 5 A comprehensive library worth thousand^ of dollars will be opened soon by the China Society. Among them will be a $50,000 collection of old Chinese and English books given to the Society by Mr. Tan Teok Seong, a Chinese merchant. The library will be housed temporarily
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  • 40 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— It has been decided that the last day for registration in Johore will be February TB. So far, 445,000 attain have registered and, according to official sources, only a few thousand people have yet to register.
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  • 171 5 BAH KIM SWEE and his sort Bah Lian Chong, charged J? tne Se cond Singapore Police Court with voluntarily causing hurt to Ong Song Lim and wrongfully confining him on Oct. 31 last year, were ac« quitted without their defence being called. It was alleged that the
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  • 27 5 Sixty-five American tourists will arrive in Singapore tomorrow in the President Polk on a round-the-world cruise. The tourists will remain in Singapore for five days.
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  • 50 5 Seventeen-year-old Quell Hock Chye, who chased a man, with a chopper following ail argument, was yi sterda f bound over for three month* by the First District Judge, (Mr. E. P. Shanks), after signing a bond of $5 In hIA own recognisance and $25 In his father's surety.
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  • 665 6 Into th« fiscal sysUm of the Colony and I am pleased to state that the t returns recently received are show- r ing that the revtnue from this 1 source U being satisfactorily col- c Honourable Members will not c imagine that I have forgotten one i !of
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    • 263 6 >, AM M»r" r adapted by Annie Chan Light Music; 6.00 Plata English JTPORE from the original Chinese; 9.15 6.15 Report from Britain; 6.0O Stan Dentons Piano Cocktail; News; 6.45 Indonesian; 7.15 10.55 Schools' Broadcast; 12.00 9 45 Evenintf Btar- English: 7.45 Siamese; 8.30 Close; 1.00 Dane* Music; 1.30 9
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  • 330 7 LONDON Tueg. NERVOUSNESS was evident on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Prices. says Reuter*s financial correspondent, were Inclined to slip. There was little selling pressure however. Tin snares continued to decline |In some cases sharply. Rubben were unchanged to lower. I Closing mldcne prices of selected stocks, as
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  • 46 7 JOHAN Tin Dredging's directors, it the annual meeting In lpoh on Feb. 26, will recommend payment of a final dividend of, flve per cent less tax for the year to Jan. 31. 1949. The dividend. If approved, will be paid on Mar. 4.
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  • 151 7 From A Market Correspondent THE Singapore sago flour market continued active and a fair volume of business In the Siak section was done yesterday. Pepper quotations rose again. This was purely speculative. Very limited transaction took place. Yesterdays prices were: Rice: No 1, $45: 2 $43 50;
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  • 825 7 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. npHE Malayan share market continued sluggish A today with London still offering scrip at lower levels. Industrials were again a little easier with only small buying in evidence. Prices quoted by fie Malayan SharebrokerT Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buy«r B«fler Atlw
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  • 173 7 QUI£T conditions again prevailed in the Singapore rubber market yesterday with prices at around Monday's levels. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 35 Vi cents, sellers 35% cents; spot loose 35 W buyers, 35% cents, sellers per In The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's
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  • 98 7 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Hoegh SUverrloud (31-32), Anchises (33-34), Marine Snapper (35-36), Lipscomb (38$9), Saldja (42-43). West Wharf: Rhesus (1-2). Oregon Mall (4-5), Benlomond (6-7), Memnon (9-10), Silverwalnut (11-12), Somali (15-16). Empire Dock: Charon (17-18),
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  • 71 7 ANGLO-ORIENTAL (Malaya) announces the following January jutputs of tin concentrates, In ?lculs: Ampat Dredging 968 Batu Selangor Dredging. 148 Berjuntal Dredging 670 Jelapanp Dredging 631 Kamunting Dredging 3668 Kramat Dredging 822 Kuala Kampar Tin Fields 1.823 Kuchai 445 Larut Tin Fields 915 Lower Perak Dredging... 3,526
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  • 59 7 rCAL tin metal production in Banka and Billlton over the year 1948 amounted to 31,100 tons, a big Increase over that of 1947, which was 16,200 tons. Exports of tin-ore In 1948 were 46.000 tons, compared with 22.000 tons in 1947. The labour force employed
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  • 993 8  - KENTUCKY DERBY NAP SELECTION FOR TODAY EPSOM JEEP Wadsworth May Score Double By IPOH, Tuesday. T TAKE Kentucky Derby as my nap selection at Ipoh tomorrow, the second day of the Perak Turf Club February meeting. This well-bred gelding by the Blandford horse, Berwick, is now vastly improved, and like
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  • 31 8 TODAY HOCKEY: SJt.C. Married v. Single SRC: O.H.Q. Sif Regt. t. H.M.B. -Terror Tanglin Nary y. R.A.F.— Naval Baae; S.C.C. women "A" t. A.T.S.— sec RUGBY: S.C.C. seren-a-slde— S.C.C.
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  • 139 8 A FURTHER five ties were played yesterday in the Singapore seven-a-slde Rugby tournament. The best match of the day was the Wanderers' victory over the Nomads by 13 points (two goals and a try) to three points (a try). Royal Navy "A" scraped through against the R.E.M.E. by
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  • 39 8 IN an evenly contested hockey match the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club defeated the Singapore Cricket Club by one goal to nil on the padang yesterday. Ten minutes after the resumption H. Fang scored Hie only goal.
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  • 26 8 Today: High Water, 100 am (9ft. lin). 12.44 p.m. 1 10 ft. 4in) Tomorrow: High Water 1.31 a.m. (9ft. lin). 1.29 o;n 10ft. lin).
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  • 1353 8 BELOW are the acceptances for today's Ipoh races. The Double Totes are on races four and five, eight and nine. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race ten. Race 1—2.00: Class 4, Div. 5—5 F. Str. -00 Wlnatfon Little 9.00 Mr. Loke Tal Nam Turley 020
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  • 26 8 VICTORIA School beat the Ceylon Military Police thre -nil a. hocky on the school ground yesterday. Fernandez <2i aj:l Yas- .sim wire the scorers.
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  • 24 8 A combined B O.D. team beat I the H Si S Bank two one at y at St. George's Road >e»terday.
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  • 57 8 Sydney. Tues. New South Wales beat South Australia by eight wickets here today to win the Sheffield Shield South Australia has still two matches to play, but cannot now head New South Wales who have completed their programme. Final scores: New South Wales and 132 for two
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  • 176 8 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER I AIRGALE DECEMBER MTH PrattUn' Alrgale PRATTLIN* RACE 1: 2.00 Jannty Pnttlin* Jaunty December 26th RACE 2: 2. SO MUSKETEER Moonsonstar G centring ALL BOLONEY Geestring Barham MUSKETEER P'Kfy's Choice All Boloney RACE S: S 00 MY BACHELOR Chita Spearlight SLICKNESS Speurllght
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  • 311 8 D. Nourse Saves S. Africa JOHANNESBURG, Tues. A fighting 129 not out by Dudley Nourse, South Africa's captain, not only saved the possibility of his side having to follow on against England today on the third day of the fourth Test but enabled them to declare at lunch. South Africa
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  • 402 8 From LEE SIEW YEE GLASGOW, Tuesday. "IT'S a fifty-fifty chance since we are all— Malayans, 1 Danes, Americans— in the dark about one another" said Ken Davidson, manager-coach of the United States team today when I asked him about lm about Thomas Cup prospects. Dave Freeman,
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  • 210 8 Singapore Cricket Assn. Formed rE Singapore Cricket Association was Inaugurated at a meeting of representatives of Singapore cricket cluhj c~l Sei> vices on Monday night. The objects of the Association are twofold: namely, to encourage. fost?r. control and promote th# game among local cricket club* and services and, secondly, id
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