The Straits Times, 24 February 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1X45 pWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    466 BANDITS KILLED SO FAR
    373 1 The Toll Of Terror 346 Civilians From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. COUR hundred and sixty six bandits have been killed in the Federation since the beginning of the emergency on Juna 19 and up to yesterday. Sixty seven were wounded and captured, while
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    45 1 4 IROMNE *****, ayed nine, who has hern awarded the T*n Cliwee Boon Scholarship. The top pupil in her standard at the Pasir Panjang English School, Singapore, she irants to be a teacher. The scholarship is worth $500. Story in Page 7. Straits Times picture.
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    33 1 WRAP. INSPECTOR, Gro up Officer Lady Seton, who has left England to investigate food, clothing, and other problems of airwomen in the East. She will arrive in Singapore on March 11. Reuter picture.
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    MALAYA'S "WAR" TO BE FILMED
    135 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Wednesday. fTHROUGH the medium of "This Modern Age" film feature, the Rank Organisation i s to tell the people of Britain the story of the fight against Communist terrorists in Malaya. A production unit ii towing Sjv flying boat for
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    OUT OF TUNE
    48 1 KARACHI. Sun Pakistan Government officials, unable to decide on a choice of and a tune for \h° Dominion*! national anthem ri -spile long listening to the contribution of eager poels Hi musicians, have now h-inded the task to a comim'tpe of memoers of Parliiment. Reuter.
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    First Jet Bombers
    118 1 LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN is rushing to put Urn first jet. bombers in the skies, the Air Minister "Mr. Arthur Henderson said today in a memorandum ac- companylng the air estim- j ates for 1949-50. They will be of exception- ally high performance, and the first of them
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    RUSSIA ON 'SABRE RATTLING'
    182 1 RUSSIA ON 'SABRE RATTLING' MOSCOW, Wed. DRAVDA, the Soviet Com- munist Party newspaper, said today that, in the camp of the "Imperialist instigators of a new war we hear a demonstrative rattling of sabres. "Striving for the forcible establishment of world dominion, the ruling circles or the United States do
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    HE WAS NOT WANTED
    102 1 ADELAIDE. Wed. Fuzil All Khan, described as a former Indian Army officer, said today he was returning i to India after having been imprisoned as an unwanted, alien. He had been released on the understanding that he would leave the country as soon as possible Fuzil
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    DURBAN TENSION
    46 1 DURBAN. Wed.— Additional police were standing by in Durban yesterday to guard against possible fresh riots between Indians and South African natives. Tension remains high and the Police Commandant, has asked all Indians to avoid Incidents which might incite native i South Africans. -U.P.
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    U.S. Will Not Stay Out If Reds Attack
    143 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. OENATOR Joseph O'Mahone said yesterday that it would be impossible for the United States to stay out of a war if any free nations in Europe were attacked by Russia. "We wouldn't be able to stay out any more than
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    Air Ace Killed
    92 1 Air Ace Killed KARACHI, Wed. r APT. Neville Stack, general manager of Orient Airways, a Pakistan company, was killed by a lorry yesterday near Karachi. He was buried with full military honours. He had been detained by the Karachi police in connection with charges against Mr. Adam Smith, former Director
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    RECOGNISED
    13 1 LA PAZ. Bolivia, Wed.— The Bolivian Government today extended recognition to Israel.—U.P.
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    HIRE'S FATHER ORDERS APPEAL
    145 1 BATAVIA, Thurs. JUSTICE Department offlcials said today that they could not confirm nor deny whether Carlton A Hire, Singapore shipbroker. had appealed against the seven-year sentence Imposed on him by a magistrate at Tanjong Pinang. But. they said. It was "almost sure" he had done. i
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    Burma Evacuees Fly To Colony
    191 1 OEVENTY British women and children were today evacuated to Rangoon by air from threatened oilfields in central Burma. Some of them later left hy flying-boat for Singapore. Three British-owned companies the Burmah Oil Co., Indo-Burma Petroleum Co., and the BritishBurma Petroleum were chartering a special
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    Malaya Will Win Cup —Freeman
    89 1 Malaya Will Win Cup —Freeman GLASGOW, Wed. DAVE Freeman, captain of the U.S. team, predicted today that Malaya would defeat Denmark in the Anal of the Thomas Cup at Preston on Friday and Saturday. "On their form, the Malayans are almost certain to win." he said. —A.P. News of Malaya's
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    BAO DAI TO RETURN
    75 1 PARIS, Wed.— Ex-Emperor Bao Dal of Annam will return to Indo-China next month, the French Overseas Minister (M. Paul Coste Floret) told Government Ministers today. He has been absent from his country for three years. Earlier, the Overseas Ministry and Bao Dai had said In a
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    CANADA'S ACTION
    47 1 OTTAWA, Wed. The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. St. Laurent, told Parliament yesterday that the Canadian Charge d'Affaires in Oeechoslovakla had been Instructed to apply for visas for Hungary and Rumania in order to inquire into the "systematic campaign of religious persecution in those countries "-U.P.
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    BRITAIN'S TRADE
    23 1 LONDON, Wed— Britain exported a record £159,200,000 worth of goods during January. Imports were valued at £187,200,000— a150 a new record.—A.P.
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    ANTI-LOCUST
    25 1 LONDON, Wed. Representatives of the British Commonwealth and Belgium today signed a ten year agreement for an International council to combat red locusts.— UP.
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    COMMITTEE TO PROBECOLONY BOOKMAKING
    314 1 COMMITTEE TO PROBECOLONY BOOKMAKING THE Singapore Government is to set up ft 1 committee under the chairmanship of Mr, C. W. A. Sennett to consider the question at the control of bookmaking in the Colony. The committee will inquire into and report upon the extent of illegal bookmaking and will
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    China Peace Talks In Doldrums
    175 1 NANKING. Wed. rr\HE Peking peace talks be- tween the Communists and the Shanghai non-parti-san peace delegation remained today in the doldrums. Radio telephone message! from Peking said that Dr f Shao Ll-tse who was to go to the Communist centre of Shihchiachung. was still In
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    PALESTINE ARMISTICE
    19 1 RHODES. Wed.— A JewishEgyptian armistice agreement will be signed here tomorrow it was officially announced today. Reuter.
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      Colonial Disgrace, Says Brockway
      143 2 LONDON, Wednesday. THE situation in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies is a disgrace to the British colonial system, Mr. Fenner Brockway, London chairman of the Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism, said yesterday. Speaking of the recall of the Governor, Lord Baldwin, Mr. Brockway said:
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      Confidence
      34 2 PARIS, Wed.— France's reconstruction loan, launched a month ago. has reached its subscription target of 100,000,000.000 francs (about £100,000,000). This success Is regarded as a rebirth of confidence In the nations finances. Reuter.
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      32 2 MR. V. C. BIRD (left) and Mr. R. Bradshaw, two trade union leaders who visited the Colonial Office, London, asking: for Lord Baldwin's return to the Leeward Islands as Governor. Reuter picture.
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      No Lie
      38 2 NEW YORK, Wed.— George Washington was arrested yesterday at San Antonio, Texas, on the birthday anniversary of his famous namesake. This George Washington also told no He. He freely admitted having passed a "Stop" sign.— U.P.
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      Back Again
      46 2 LONDON, Wed. Former American troops have a "Rainbow Corner" to come back to In London. The American Red Cross club, where millions of O. I.s relaxed off duty, is being re-opened as an American-style milk bar. A commemorative plaque has been put up.— U.P.
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      Locust War
      27 2 LONDON, Wed. Britain, Belgium, South Africa and Rhodesia have declared war on locusts. They have set up an international council to fight the menace.— A.P.
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      His Claim
      22 2 MOSCOW, Wed. Sergei IGorbunoy claims to have killed 338 wolves by shooting them by rifle from the air.— I A.P.
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    PLAN OF MICE AND BOY
    70 2 LONDON, Wed. TWO pet mice belonging to a 10-year-old boy dressed up as Mickey Mouse broke up a fancy dress dance at a village near St. Albana. The boy released the mice from a cage during a fancy dress parade to add a little detail
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    U.K. TO CUT ARMY BY 300,000 MEN
    230 3 U.K. TO CUT ARMY BY 300,000 MEN bhinwellAims lo Save £300.000 LONDON, Wednesday. D RITA IN plans to cut the Army by 300,000 men v and reduce costs by £300,000, the War Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shin well, announced yesterday, when he estimated Army costs for the current year. The cut
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    23 3 EISENHOWER RECALLED: The General (right), back temporarily as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has President Truman as attentive listener. A.P. picture.
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    Indian Arrests "Unpleasant"
    171 3 BOMBAY, Wednesday. INDIA'S Deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhat Patel, said in Madras yesterday "It is not a pleasant task to lock people up. We won't even think of doing that unless we have reliable information that their intent is not only to strike but disruption, dislocation and
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    "MIRACLE DRUG" CLAIM
    121 3 NEW YORK, Wed. PLEPHANTIASIS, which has for centuries been the scourge of millions in tropical lands, especially in the Far East, may be stamped out if the early successes of the latest "miracle drug" prove permanent. "Hetrazan" was developed by the Lederle Laboratories and has been extensively
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    Attack On The Pope
    133 3 ROME, Wed. ITALY'S leading Communist, 1 Signor Palmlro Togliattl, has started an attack on the Pope which may mark an Important change in Italian Communist policy. He has written an article in the Communist weekly, Vie Nuove. accusing the Pope of seeking a "holy alliance" against
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    JET LOCOS
    22 3 LONDON, Wed. Jet turjine locomotives are forecast by Mr. E. 8. Waddington, president of the British Society of Engineers. A.P.
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    FRENCH REDS WOULD AID SOVIET INVASION
    148 3 PARIS. Wed. THE secretary-general of the French Communist Party, M. Maurice Thorez. said yesterday that if Russia Invaded France the French Communists would co-operate with the Russian forces. Addressing an emergency meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee M. Thorez said a Russian Army
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    LAND MINE: 3 KILLED
    41 3 SOURABAYA, Wed. A passenger train travelling from Malang to Sourabaya, East Java, struck a land mine which damaged two coaches and the engine, according to an Aneta report today. Three passengers were killed and two Injured. U.P.
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    SMALLPOX: 28 DIE
    35 3 BATAVIA, Wed.— Batavia health authorities announced that 28 have so far died of smallpox. More than 400 cases are at present being isolated in the island of Onrust, in Batavia Bay.— U.P.
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    World T.B. Campaign
    95 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. THE aim of the International tuberculosis campaign is to immunise more than 100,000,000 people in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and Latin America, It was stated here yesterday. Work in India began in December, while demonstrations on the use of vaccines would soon
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    FOGBOUND
    19 3 SHANGHAI, Wed.— Not a single plane arrived here yesterday. For the second successive day the city was fogbound.—Reuter.
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    Indian Urges U.S. Aid For Asian Freedom Movement
    139 3 NEW YORK, Wednesday. "IF the United States sincerely desires that Com1 munist infiltration in South -East Asia should be wrecked, then the Western imperialistic nations must be made to give up their imperialist plans and the United States should recognise and support
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    "Colonialism Must Go"
    73 3 NEW YORK, Wed. SENOK Carlos P. Bomulo. chief Filipino dele- gate to the United Nations, said yesterday in a speech prepared for the 8.8.C. on the results of the recent New Delhi conference that the elimination of colonialism was the first condition of Asian strength, and security.
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    NEW GOV.-GEN. FOR CEYLON
    57 3 LONDON, Wed.— Lord Soulbury has been appointed Governor-General of Ceylon In succession to Sir Henry Monck-Mason. Formerly Mr. H. Ramsbotham, he was a Conservative Member of Parliament and held several Ministerial posts before he was created a baron. He was chairman of the Ceylon Commission which
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    RECORD BROKEN
    16 3 BERLIN. Wed. -The AngloAmerican airlift broke records yesterday by flying in 7,514 tons.— U.P.
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    U.K.WILL HELP THE JAPS
    82 3 U.K.WILL HELP THE JAPS LONDON. Wed. DRITAIN will support measure* to raise the living standards of Japanese workers and thus avoid low-prioe competition based on cheao labour Mr. John Edwards. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, told the House of Commons yesterday. He said In reply to a Question
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    PIRATE HUNTING THEIR TASK
    179 4 PIRATE HUNTING THEIR TASK LONDON, Wed. "UNDOUBTEDLY a •J large number of Malayans will be attracted", the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees- Williams, told Parliament yesterday outlining a proposed new colonial naval force. Mr. Rees-Williams was speaking on the British Colonial Naval Defence Bill. No ship would be
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    Mass Rally
    45 4 Mass Rally CATHOLICS PROTEST: Dr. Richard Downey, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool speaking at the mass rally in Albert Hall, London, recently protesting against the arrest of Cardinal Mlndszenty, Primate of Hungary, who was accused of treason, espionage and black market currency dealings.— Reuter picture.
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    NO IMPORT LICENCE
    63 4 Ho Chew Nam, a merchant, pleaded guilty in the Third Police Court yesteTday to having imported penicillin and N.A.B. injections on Feb. 20 without a licence. Ho was found In possession of 20 jars of penicillin (200,000 units) and 70. tubes of N.A.8., (.60 and .45 grams).
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    FINED $50 FOR ASSAULT
    25 4 Wee Teck Seng was fined $50 by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. M. H. MacDougal, yesterday for assaulting a constable.
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    Detective's Escape In Ambush
    114 4 Detective's Escape In Ambush From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Wed. AT the inquest on 21-year-old Basir bin Haji Yunos, an extra police constable who died of gunshot wounds received In an ambush on the main North-South trunk road on Dec. 13 last year, a Chinese detective. Lawrence Chen, described how
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    NO ACCIDENTS
    25 4 Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, on passenger and troop-carrying, flights flew 3,900,000 miles during December without an accident involving death or injury.
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    Twenty Four Months Later
    36 4 CINGAPORE C.I.D. have arrested two Chinese, who are alleged to have held up a Chinese cashier of the Happy World Amusement Park and robbed him of $4,000 on Mar. 5, I 1947.
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    BENHAM ON MALAYAN MISSION TO BRITAIN
    103 4 BENHAM ON MALA YAN MISSION TO BRITAIN rtR. F. C. C. Benham, Economic Adviser to the Commissioner-General, left Singapore by air for London yesterday on a mission on behalf of the Governments of Singapore and the Federation. Dr. Benham will have talks with British Government departments, including the Board of
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    Extortion Charge
    45 4 Three Chinese, Goh lav Bu, Lav Ah Kau and Tan Song Hoal were charged in the First District Court yesterday with attempting to extort $150 from Lim Ti Cheng on Monday. They were ordered to be remanded until tomorrow for further police investigation.
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    U.M.N.O. Reshuffle Likely Soon
    155 4 U.M.N.O. Reshuffle Likely Soon Malay Newt From Oar Malay Correspondent A RESHUFFLE of the UMNO Executive Committee is expected at the eleventh general assembly of the organisation at Ipon In April. The question of classes of membership Is also expected to be raised. At present the UMNO has two categories
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    Ban-Breakers To Get No Jute
    161 4 Ban-Breakers To Get No Jute INDIAN and Chinese firms in Singapore which have helped South Africa to circumvent India's ban on Jute exports there will be refused Indian export quotas. The ban on the export of Jute to South Africa was imposed as a reprisal for the anti-Indian policy of
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    TAMIL EXAM. SUCCESSES
    108 4 TAMIL EXAM. SUCCESSES JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The following Indian teachars who eat for the Tamil seventh standard examination In December haye 1 passed: Mrs. O. B. Stevens iJohore Bahru), Rajagopal and Renganathan, (Batu Pahat), Jambulingam, (Pontian), C. Perumaniar, (Kluang), K. Nagappan, A. Kandlah, P. Kumarasamy, V. P. [Menon, N. Ezekiel,
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    SEQUEL TO FIGHT
    55 4 JOHORE BAHRU, W?d. In the Police Court this morning Lim Ah Huan was formally charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder by causing the death of Ng Chieu Sen after a fight at the Government Rice Store at Tampoi yesterday. Accused was granted $300 bail pending
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    Sessions President
    20 4 KUALA KANQSAR, Wed.— Mr. E A Burton, President of the Sessions Court, has assumed duties at Kuala Kangsar.
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    Will Ask Malaya To Join Health Body
    214 4 R. Budh Singh, President of the Malayan Indian i Congress, will urge the Malayan Governments to join the South-East Asia regional set-up of the World Health Organisation in New Delhi. He told the Straits Times yesterday that he had been requested to do
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    GOVT. TO AUCTION CATTLE AT PALOI
    127 4 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wed. A NUMBER of "unwanted" young cattle at present at the Government Veterinary Livestock Farm at Paloi will be auctioned by the Veterinary Department on Saturday. These animals, which include four cows, seven dairy heifers and eight young bulls,
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    SCHOOL'S HIGH COURT ACTION
    970 5 Revaluation Of Property Sought DUILDING values in Singapore had appreciated v 300 per cent, during the past few years, it was stated by Mr. F. G. Lundon, senior partner of Swan and McLaren, in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mr. Lundon was giving evidence in proceedings
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    M.P.'s 'Message' To The Reds
    157 5 MAJOR W. Wyatt, Labour M.P., had a message for the Communists when he spoke yesterday at the Singapore Rotary Club. He wanted them to know, he said, that Socialism was gained in Britain by democratic methods, not by guns and bayonets. "We hare no desire
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    Visitor For The Guards
    142 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Major General of the Brigade of Guards, Major General J. C. O. Marriott, who Ls visiting the Second Guards Brigade In Malaya today drove to Sungel Besl to see the Third battalion, Grenadier Guards. He was accompanied by
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    PERAK J.P.s TO BE FETED
    83 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. Messrs. Cheong Chee and Ong Chin Seong, who were appointed Justices of the Peace on the occasion of the birthday of the Sultan of Perak, will be feted by members of their community on Saturday at the Chinese Assembly
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    No Great Changes, Says Agent
    197 5 No Great Changes, Says Agent Laboup Conditions From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. mHERE has been no great JL Improvement in living conditions of the estate workers during the past quarter of a century and lt cannot be Improved by collective bargaining through organised unions. This ls the opinion
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    Singapore Diary
    112 5 TODAY Young People's meeting. Mr. a. Boott on "The Art of Forgetting." Bethesda Hall, Bcas Basah Road. 6 p.m. Theosophical Society, Mr. N. Natarajan on "The Place of Physical Culture in Spiritual Life," 8, Calrrtiill Road. 6.30 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, cricket net practice, 5 p.m., choir practice,
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    PENANG'S NEW "MAYOR"
    22 5 THE NEW MUNICIPAL PRESIDENT Mr. A. Hyde, addressing Penan/? Municipal Commissioners at their meeting on Tuesday. Straits Times picture.
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    GAOL FOR LICENCE RACKET
    140 5 PENANU. Wed. "T>OTH of you have evolved a method of blackmailing the business community In this town by stealing what ls an essential part of their stock in trade and then selling it back to them a', your own price," the Sessions Court President, Mr. M.
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  • Obituary
    DEATH
    37 6 DICKSON:— At the General Hospi:al, Johore Bahru. on Tuesday. 22 nd February, 1949, after a long Hires bn v ly borne Kleanor, of Jam's C Dlckson. Deputy r Commnndlng. Royal Naval Police H.M. Naval Base, Singapore.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    32 6 MR ABDULLAH F. W. LIEW. tMM to thank all those who t.or.t congratulatory messages lnc'uding telegrams and letters on the occasion of his embracing the n-lMon on Sunday, Feb. 20. 1949
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur., Feb. 24, 1949 ECAFE AGAIN
    755 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur., Feb. 24, 1949 ECAFE AGAIN The Committee of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East meets in Bangkok, its new headquarters, next month to survey an undistinguished past and to plan for a problematical future. Since the last E.C.A.F.E. conference, held in Australia
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    Malayan Victory
    359 6 The roar in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall was heard throughout Malaya last night, thanks to a broadcast record of how the badminton team of which State, Settlement and Colony are so proud passed into the final of the Thomas Cup. It is a great achievement, although without offence to
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    THEIR FINEST HOUR
    2191 6  -  WINSTON S. CHURCHILL AN ANGLO-FRENCH UNION The Declaration Of Union By The Rt. Hon. JN these days the War Cabinet were in a state of unusual emotion. The fall and the fate of France dominated their minds. Our own plight, and what we should have to face
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      The Municipal Pay Code And Commercial Houses
      379 6 DURING the past few months, the Municipal Commissioners have announced with regret, that several rehabilitation schemes have had to be postponed owing to lack of funds. New sources of revenue* were being explored and taxes increased. The Government was asked to contribute towards
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      MONEY FOR SALARIES
      283 6 I HAVE seen no estimate of the cost of the new salary scheme proposed for Municipal employees, but in proposing the implementation of the Trusted Report in the Advisory Council last year Mr. McKerron stated that toe cost would be $200,000 monthly and it may be that
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      QUESTIONS ON DOGS
      210 6 I SHOULD like to draw your readers' attention !to the following extract from a letter received i from Mr Leo C. Wilson, i F.Z.S who is to Judge at the forthcoming Malayan Kennel Association's Singapore Dog Show. you will be anxious to take full advantage of my
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      NOT ON LEAVE
      126 6 rpHE caption to the AssoI dated Press photograph of troops arriving at Southampton after service in Malaya published on the front page of the Straits Times on Wednesday is misleading. It gives the impression that after a period of service in Malaya Servicemen are eni titled to
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    GIRL DIED DEFYING TERRORISTS
    268 7 More Successes In Anti-Bandit Operations From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A YOUNG Chinese girl who defied bandits at- tempting to force her to accompany them into the jungle was murdered today in a village in Temerloh, Pahang. The girl was shot dead when she
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    500 MORE SAIL TO CHINA
    297 7 500 MORE SAIL TO CHINA KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. SQUATTERS from Hylam. Kang, the notorious Johore bandit area, sailed lrom Port Swettenham this evening on their way back to China. They were among the •econd big batch of detainees to leave the port this week. Today's batch totalled 502 persons, while
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    Caroline (9) Plans Her Future
    125 7 Caroline (9) Plans Her Future MINE-YEAR-OLD Caroline W Ong. who has been awarded the Tan Chwee Boon Scholarship, wants to be a teacher. She Is In Standard II at Pasir Panjang English School. She said she would save up her scholarship money and use it for studying at Raffles College.
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    Travel Documents
    29 7 Persons applying to the Immigration Department for travel documents to assist them in returning from India to Singapore must supply three copies of photographs on velvet-finish paper.
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    Press Club Function
    152 7 THE Government Public Re- latlons Officer. Mr. G. G. Thomson, had succeeded in dispelling whatever suspicions and hostility the public and the Press may have had about the Pit.O. the president of Singapore International Press Club, Mr. Rajaratnam, said yesterday. He was speaking at the first formal
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    CIGARETTES: $1,000 FINE
    57 7 Lim Guan Seng was fined $1,000, or three months' rigorous imprisonment, by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr M. H. MacDougal. for possessing 29,500 sticks of dutiable cigarettes. The cigarettes were found in two sacks in a taxi in Rochore Canal Road on Jan. 24. lim was
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    Johore Bus Operators Make Pledge
    275 7 Johore Bus Operators Make Pledge JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. ALL bus operators in Johore, at a meeting at the Road I Transport Office, agreed unlanimpusly not to pay pro- tection money to lawless eieI merits. As a token of their resolve. I the representatives of the bus companies signed a statutory
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    INDONESIAN TRADE, 1948
    48 7 Singapore's share of Indonesian exports last year was about 150,000 tons worth Glds 15,100,000. Total value of Indonesian exports trebled last year to Glds 1 043,900,000. Chief items were: Oil products, Glds. 260,200,000; rubber Glds. 256,100,000; copra Glds. 155,400,000; and tin and tin-ore Glds. 153,200,000.
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    Colony Man May Go To Russia For Rubber Deal
    189 7 the Baku comes to Singapore this week-end. The Baku is at present in Malacca. She has picked up rubber from Penang and Port Swettenham, it is understood. Another Russian ship for Malayan rubber Is due next r<LOSE on the repprt that
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    'Homes A Risk To 250 Lives'
    267 7 THE Singapore Commissioner of Lands, Mr. C. W. A. Sennett, yesterday said that about 250 people were staying in 14 condemned two-storeyed houses in Palembang Road "at the risk of their lives" in spite of a Government notice to them to quit. Mr. Sennett
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    SOLVING THE RICE PROBLEM
    124 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ONLY mechanical cultivation and harvesting will solve Malaya's problems in making itself self-sufficient in rice cultivation, states an editorial in the Malayan Agricultural Journal. It points out that present production, though the highest on record, is still only a
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    BUDDHISTS TO CELEBRATE
    89 7 After the planting of the Bo saplings in the newlybuilt terrace at the Sri Lanka Ramaya Buddhist temple in St. Michael's Road, Singapore, today, a three-day celebration will follow tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday (New Moon Day). Ceylon troops of the Woodlands Camp R.P.C. (C) will celebrate tomorrow.
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    CRUSHED INSIDE CEMENT MIXER
    59 7 Terrible injuries from which he later died were received by a Singapore labourer who was crushed while cleaning Inside a cement mixer at the Henderson Road works of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Co., Ltd. yesterday. He was a 43-year-old Sikh, Hokuma Singh, whose presence In the,
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    Arms Charge Remand
    39 7 From Our Staff Correspondent TAIPING, Thurs.—Charged with failing to report to the police people known to have unlicensed arms at Sungei *Wang, 52-year-old Lee Seng was remanded by Mr. B. A. Burton In the Sessions Court.
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    PLEA FOR SCHOOLS
    94 7 INCHE Sardon b'n Haji Jubir (Legislative Council member for Rural East) wants the Government to provide a school and a mosque for Malays living at Kampong Ayer Gemuroh. This small village is the result of the moving out of the population formerly living at Tanah Merah Besar
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    Cost Of Petrol Rationing
    51 7 Petrol rationing last year cost the Singapore Government $42,077 against a budget provision of $5,030. Up to June 24, last year the Petrol Rationing Office was operated on behalf of Government by the Municipality. On June 25, a full-time officer Mr. J. A. H. Gauntlett. was
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    INFORMER GETS A THIRD
    49 7 Fifteen women and a man were fined $10 each in the Second Police Court yesterday for gambling. They were found playing "paikow" in a house in Fraser Street. A third of the total fine was ordered to be paid to the informer in the case.
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    'SAVE SIGHT' FLIGHT COST SHARED
    134 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. AT yesterday's meeting if the Perak Welfare Committee, it was decided to pay half the travelling expense incurred in rushing a four-year-old Chinese baby girl 5.000 miles by air to Melbourne for an emergency operation In order to save
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    2 Women Start Campaign To Win Election Votes
    280 7 2 Women Start Campaign To Win Election Votes By Our Woman Correspondent SINGAPORE'S only two women candidates for the Municipal elections, Mrs. Robert Eu (Municipal West) and Miss Amy Laycock (Municipal East), have both started a house-to-house campaign to win voters in the forthcoming elections. But they will do no
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    DENIED HE STOLE
    48 7 Tan Cheng Blow pleaded not guilty when charged yesterday in the First District Court with having broken into a shop in Circular Road on Monday and itealing s3 The TudV' Mr'"- E p! ShlnL Se^ball^t 00 in Tan's own surety and $4,000 eachintwo other sureties.
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    LABOUR PARTY MANIFESTO
    63 7 rE Council of the Singapore Labour Party discussed last night at a meeting, which lasted three hours its manifesto to the electors and the selection of candidates for the Municipal elections. A spokesman told the Straits Times last night that the Party would announce the "planks" in
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    MEASURES TO SAVE CROPS
    134 7 MEASURES TO SAVE CROPS A TECHNICAL committee i\ composed of represent* ves ot South-East Asia countries met at the CommissonerOeneral's office In Singapore on Tuesday and again yesteraay to discuss measures to combat the import of plants capable of infecting croos with serious diseases Another meeting may oe neld in
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      77 7 vm p^pr Decuuu These delightful products, famous in the pre-war days of plenty, are again available. Cleansing Cream $1.40 ea The Complexion Milk $1.45 ea MODERN Eye Shadow $0.80 M way t0 Face Powder $2.30 ea Loveliness Skin Food $1 .85 M 111 Skin Tonic $1.25 M Lipstick $3.00 oa
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
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      A TIMELESS EXISTENCE IN NEW BALI
      1472 8 A TIMELESS EXISTENCE IN NEW BALI By The Times Special Correspondent THE litth, island of Bali, long one of the most famous lourist spots in the Far East, is to-day visited by few travellers. There are regular air services linking it with Ilatavia and a firstclass hotel in the little
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      ECAFE IN BANGKOK
      480 8  - ECAFE IN BANGKOK Milton Marmor By A TINY sign in front of o M.l ,hii« m a royal villa on a magnificent, but never flnished, boulevard tells all in Siam who can read Fne-IKh that tho TTnitpri SSfSSi- FPaSit ht. Nations ECAFE has been established in Bangkok. It's quite a
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      133 8 is OUTSTANDINGLY NEW IN DESIGN CONSTRUCTION A FULL-SIZED FAMILY CAR s^* Never lu(s a tight car achieved such beauty WITH E$C WLUW(T NFW FFATURES of line Mich interior roomitii Much big- nc?r rcaiurvcj car qualities! The new Minx Magnificenl is independent from suspension outstandingly different in design and construe- Opncurve
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      208 8 i -i i. Wnews FRouim, m INTERNATIONAL 1 J W GENERAL tf®h ELECTRIC 1 IT ft A Every refrigerator ingeniously designed to give*^^| MS more storage space —as a matter of fact, 83% j^B E^ more storage space ln same kitchen -area I And .^M it freeze* ice 33*% faster
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  • FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF
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      MAGIC OF THE HILLS
      285 9 KINTAIL SCRAPBOOK. By Brenda G. Macrow. (Oliver and Boyd 155.). IF you have ever experienced the magic of the high hills this is a book you will hug to your heart. If you have never been bewitched by the wild glories of mountain scenery you will,
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      New Books At The Library
      352 9 New Books At The Library ruL loucFwmg new douu wiu be added to Raffle* Library, Singapore, within the next few days: Making the Movies (Jeanne Bendlck), British Angler's Natural History (E. O. Boulenger), Athletics and Training (Guy Butler), A General Zoology of the Inverterbratea (O. 8. Carter), Experimental Psychology (Mary
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      Voice From The Past
      585 9 BRITISH MALAYA. By Sir Frank Swettenham. (Allen and Unwin, 215.). TT is four years now since Sir Frank Swettenham intervened, not undramaticaliy, in a correspondence In The Times on the political shape of Malaya. Union was in the air, in fact the correspondence had developed out
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      288 9 WORLD FAMOUS OVER 100 YEARS 1848 1948 Obtainable Everywhere From All Liquor Dealer*^ AN IDEAL TONIC Has been awarded 24 Gold and Silver Medals SERRAVALLOS TONIC (CINCHONA and IRON WINE) STIMULATES THE APPETITE STRENGTHENS THE NERVES REGENERATES THE BLOOD. SERRAVALLO'S TONIC is a most palatable mixture of Cinchona and Iron,
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      604 9 North's direct slam bid In today's heart suit to be con idered, and deil was the best way of reaching on that point North saw every a good contract. reason for optimism. First, there North, dealer was the chance that South might North-Sou'h vn'norrble. hold a singleton heart; second, that
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    GROWING DEMAND FOR FOOD PARCELS
    147 10 THE demand for food parcels to send to Britain is expected to increase gradually following the drop in December when it was no longer possible to send parcels for Christinas and the New Year. The demand during February has reached a high level and compares
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    THEIR HELP RECOGNISED
    97 10 From Our Own Correspondent BENTONQ, Wed. Four Chinese and a Malay yesterday received certificates awarded to them for assisting men 01 the Allied Armed Forces and prisoners of war during the Japanese campaign and occupation. The presentations were made by the Mentrl Besar of Pahang. Dato Mahmud
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    $16,948 FOR SCHOOLS
    65 10 Of the $16,048.40 collected for the Dryburgh Memorial Fund, Singapore, $11,166.95 has been handed over to the Kuo Chuan Girls' School and $5,781.45 to the Choon Guan English School. Each of these Presbyterian schools urgently requires $10,000. It l* estimated that the Girls' School may require $50,000
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      309 10 «mrisaQi (Pranck) Piano Concerto In BBC Welsh Orchestra; 7.16 swbAriHU o (Mozart); Symphony No. Generally Speaking; 7.45 Cele10 55 Schools' Broadcast- 12 00 3 (So 01 (Mendelssohn); 9.30 brity Recital; 8.15 Our Kind Of Close; 1 00 Radio Orchestra- 1 30 News 9 45 Elephant's Nest; 10.16 Music'; 8.45 'Let's
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
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      London Stocks
      247 11 LONDON, Wed. INTEREST in the London Stock Exchange yesterday was small, but prices generally held steady to firm, •ays Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers and Tins, where changed, changed for the worse. Institutional support for medium-dated stocks helped British Government Funds. Fractional gains were shown. I Trading in Industrials
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      PETALING TIN ACCOUNTS
      153 11 pETALINO Tin's general ma-j nagera state that In the year to Oct. 31. 1948, three; gravel-pump mines were in operation on the Sungei Way north area. They produced 1,585,18 piculs, from which the company recived revenue of »14.253 after deduction of tribute due. The profit and loss
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      IDLENESS STILL RULES SHARE MARKET
      82 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. ONLY meagre business was written In the Malayan share market today. Market conditions were almost completely idle. Price changes announced t by the Malayan Sharebrokertf Association were: Barer McAlister 62.75 Singapore TYactlon Ord. 14/3 BONING Austral AnuU. 11/4 Idris
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      60 11 From A Market Correspondent lIHDESPREAD marking down of Tf prices was the feature In yesterday's Singapore produce markets. DuU conditions ruled practically all sections. Business done w«« negligible. Yesterday's price changes included: Copra: Bun-dried $31.50; mixed $31. Coconut oil: $55.50. Pepper: Muntok white $232; Sarawak whlt« $231; Lamport
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      Tin Industry Problems
      229 11 WORLD tin production forecasts cannot be mad«> with absolute certainty today while the future of the tin industry hangs still so much in the balance, says the magazine Tin. A great deal will depend upon whether an international agreement can be concluded satisfactorily which would assure tne
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      Shipping At The Singapore Wharves
      110 11 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Steel Worker (3132), Trevince (40-41), Benvrackie (42-43). West Wharf: Carthage (1-2), Kertosono (6-7), Talthyblus (8-9). Abbeville (10-11), Tantalus (11), Trevcan (15-16). Empire Dock: Bengal (17-18), Wosang (19-20), Aardijk (23-24),
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      "Plenty Steel This Year"
      66 11 NEW YORK, Wed. rpHE steel Industry's raw X material supply outlook is better than at any time since the war, according to the metal-working trade weekly Iron Age. Commenting on the record half-yearly prospects in steel output, it says: "It is more than a possibility that
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      WILKINSON PROCESS
      260 11 WILKINSON Process Rubber TT Company's position shows every promise of improvement, according to the chairman (Mr. W. B. CruickshSftk) In his stetement for the an- 1 nual meeting In Kuala Lumpur on Mar. 18. Concessionaires in South Africa Increased their orders during the past year. A subsidiary company,
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      Singapore Rubber
      186 11 THE Singapore rubber mar- ket was again quiet yesterday with prices remaining practically unchanged from Tuesday's levels. Little business passed. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f o.b. buyers 35S> cents, sellers 35% cents; spot loose buyers 35% cents, sellers 3" cents per lb. The Singapore Chamber
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      LUMUT RUBBER'S FIVE PER CENT.
      91 11 LUMUT Rubber announces a net profit for the year to Sept. 30 1948. of £19,930, against £9,744 for 1946-47. There is added to the former figure £11,093 reserv&i and provisions brought back, recoveries In the East and profit on investments. Final dividend is 2>4 per
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      Asahan's Flood Loss
      41 11 ASAHAN Rubber Estates' report, referring to flood damage to planted areas caused by dyke breaks and neglected drainage during Japanese occupation and the prrlod before reoccupation of the estates, says the treei on approximately 283 acres have died.
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      5% DIVIDEND FOR SEDENAK RUBBER
      64 11 EAK Rubber Estates' accounts for the year to Oct. 1948, show a profit of £14,661. The directors rend a dividend of five per cent, less tax, payable on Mar. 29. This would be the flrst dividend distribution since the Interim payment of six per cent,
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      Texas Tin Output
      25 11 rFHE Longhorn tin smelter at Texas City in January produced 3.250 long tons of tin. The December figure was 3,158 long tons.
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    Ooi Was Greater Even Than Freeman
    476 12 From LEE SIEW YEE GLASGOW, Wednesday. 1 1 ALAYA'S hero at Glasgow these past two days has been Ooi Teik Hock. More than any other playing member of the team he set u s on the road to Preston. Against Mendec, he endured again
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    Army Boxing Semi-Final Results
    182 12 Army Boxing Semi-Final Results gOXERS from Hong Kong Oaxrison, Ceylon Garrison; Federation and Singapore fought in the semi-finals of the FARELF boxing championship for 1949 1 at Tanglln last ntg.it. The finals will be held at the Happy World tomorrow night at I.M. Doors will be open at ll p.m.
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    2 Runs A Min Not Enough
    167 12 PIETERMARITZBURO. Wed Set to get 270 runs in two hours, i the M.C.C. failed by orrly 10 runs to beat a Natal Eleven at Pieter- marttzburg yesterday, after a thrilling rat:e against the clock. When stumps were drawn the iourirrg team had scored 260
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    W.I. v. SCHOOLS
    61 12 Colombo. Wed The West Indies met the Combined Ceylon Schools in a two-day match, i starting today, and at close the West Indies had scored 481 for seven wickets. Stolmeyer scored 118. Headley 100 and Gomez 84. Reuter. Kew Singh's XI beat H M.S. Concord one-nil i
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    BAD NEWS CLOUDS MALAYA'S GREAT WIN
    453 12 BAD NEWS CLOUDS MALAYA'S GREAT WIN Injured Peng Soon Will Not Play In Final From LEE SIEW YEE, Straits Times Staff Reporter With Thomas Cup Team GLASGOW, Wednesday. WONG P«ng Soon will not play for Malaya in the Thomas Cup final against Denmark on Friday and Saturday. His shoulder is
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    Draw For The Final
    89 12 GLASGOW. Wed. DRAW for the Thomas Cup final between Malaya and Denmark Is: Friday: Law Teik Hock vs. Skaarup: 00l Teik Hock ts Selsby: Chan Ron Leong and Yeo Teck Chye vs Holm and Olesen; Ooi Teik Hock and Teoh Seng Khoon vs Skaarup and Dabelsteen.
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    'Don't Fail Us' Cables The S.B.A.
    234 12 AMONG the hundred* of cabUs aent by relation*, friends and well-wishers to the Malayan Thomas Oup teem was one by the Singapore Badminton Association committee '■Congratulations and best of luck agalnat the Danes," it aaid. -Don't fall u«." At the office of Mr. Chan
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    MAYFLOWER B.P.
    39 12 MAYFLOWER B. P. Members are reminded that th« 17th annual general meeting of the Party will be held at the residence of Mr. La v Pau Song 180-G Moulmein Road Singapore on the Sunday, at 10 a.m.
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    DRAWN GAME
    31 12 THE Tamil Brotherhood Association Juniors were held to a scoreless draw In a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park on Tuesday when they met th" Eagles 9ports Club.
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    R.E. WIN 4-1
    24 12 THE Royal Engineers beat the BOD. Civilian Association by four-one in a gam* of soccer played at Olllman Barracks yes- ;-rday
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    S.C.C.In Top Form, Beat R.A.25-3
    315 12 THE S.C.C. had a very good day yesterday In their match against the Combined; Royal Artillery (Malaya), I crossing over six times to beat I the R.A. hands down by 25 points (two goals, a penalty j goal and fair tries) to three i u>nt-
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    WE WERE LUCKY SAYS LIM
    175 12 WE WERE LUCKY SAYS LIM GLASGOW, Wed. J IM CHUAN GEOK, manager of the Malayan Thomas Cap team, last night, a>t a supper given to the U. S. and Malayan teams after the Cup semi-final, said: "We were very lncky to have won. If there had been a little more
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    Great Roar Greeted Victory
    255 12 From LEE SIEW YEI OLASOOW, Wed. MALAYA errt«T«d the Thbmas Cup final at exactly 9.30 p.m. O.M.T. last night—s a.m. Malayan time when Yeoh smashed down a terrific shot to give his team a five-three lead. A great roar from the Malayan I contingent rose above
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    Golden Grove Is Above Average
    325 12 Golden Grove Is Above A verage By EPSOM JEEP p OLDEN GROVE, pride of Charlie Turley's stable, is a strong possibility with 7.11 in the sevenfurlong handicap for top class horses at Bukit Timah on Saturday. This flve-year-old daughter; of Hall Mark has improved out of recognition and her smashing
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    Wong Beat Mendez With Half An Arm
    318 12 GLASGOW, Wed. From VERNON MORGAN "WONG Peng Soon beat Marten Mendez with haLf an arm." This is what the Scottish masseur witji the Malayan Thomas Cup team told me this morning. Wong was really hardly fit to play against lb« United States, but
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    Peng Soon Is Stubborn Says Wife
    271 12 Peng Soon Is Stubborn Says Wife By KEN .1 W.1. H1 WONG Peng Soon's SUddep injury and inability to play fofr Malaya hi the final of the Thomas Cup competition Ins -hock d ill Singapore but no onp more thin demure, bespectacled Mrs Da a Wong, wife of the Singapore
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