The Straits Times, 5 April 1949

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IH4S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS,
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    BIG PACT IS SIGNED IN WASHINGTON Ministers Of Twelve Nations Meet To Pledge Mutual Aid
    666 1 BIG PACT IS SIGNED IN WASHINGTON Ministers Of Twelve Nations Meet To Pledge Mutual Aid WASHINGTON, Monday. IN one of the most impressive ceremonies ever to be held in the United States, the North Atlantic Pact was signed today in Washington by 12 nations of Europe and America. The Foreign
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    SINGAPORE HIGH COURT RULING NON-MEMBER CAN'T ENFORCE SWEEP CLAIM
    314 1 SINGAPORE HIGH COURT RULING NON-MEMBER CAN'T ENFORCE SWEEP CLAIM A NON-member cannot enforce a claim an winning Singapore Turf Club sweep ticket, it was held by the Singapore Chief Justice Mr. Justice Murray- Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday. The Chief Justice said that any other sourat would amount to
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    Nationalism As Anti-Red Weapon
    109 1 Nationalism As Anti-Red Weapon WASHINGTON Mon. SOME Government policy' planners are increasingly i hopeful of combating Com* monism in the Far East by fnt ouraging "legitimate" natlve nationalist movements. liand-in-hand with that p>:iry would go the Truman rt itrine foT assisting underdeveloped areas. They believe that nationalists is the best
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    LOST ANOTHER JOB?
    91 1 NEW YORK, Mon- There w:ie strong md.c ations yes- terday that Nikolai Vozene- j *ensky. deposed head of th» Soviet Union's State Plan- j n!ng Commission, has also li.st his job as a member of the Politburo. For the past two day 6 an Associated Press staff
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    Woe Unto Aggressors —Acheson
    258 1 Woe Unto Aggressors Acheson WASHINGTON. Mon. MR. Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State, cuning the Atlant.o Pact cnemonieg here tonlghi. deciaied: "'For those who set their feet on the pa* i of aggusfiion this trea'y h a warning that if it mu&t needs cm that offence come, thm woe
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    Kravchenko Wins
    33 1 PARIS, Mon. A French Court today awarded 2,272 ('..images to Russian refugee tn thor. Victor Kravciu-nlro In h.s libel suit aga^st a French Communist weekly and two of its editors. -UP
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    C-G TO VISIT SARAWAK UP-RIVER CHIEFS
    78 1 THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, left yesterday for 10 days lo Sarawak. From Kuching he will travel up the Rejang and Bullch Rivers far into the interior. He will visit the Iban chiefs and their people and stay in some of their long-houses.
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    FIRE STARTS IN THEATRE
    53 1 MANILA. Mon.— Fire starting in an empty theatre spread through Meycauayan town near Manila today causing damage estimated at U.S. $750,000. Forty buildings were burned and 400 of the town's 21,000 population are homeless. There were no casualties. Another blaze to unknown origin gutted a Roman
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    Burmese Forces Enter Mandalay
    140 1 RANGOON, Monday. DVRMESE Government troops who reoccupied v Mandalay last night inflicted 90 casualties on insurgents but suffered no casualties though the Karens put up ''some resistance". Other Government troops are tonight closing in on the railway town of Maymyo, about 40 miles from Mandat situation
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    CHINA ON RUSSIA'S SIDE-MAO
    220 1 NANKING, Mon. (^EN. Mao T6e-tung and reI presentatives of ten j ailied Chinese parties in a Joint statement Issued ;n Peklne last night, pledged tliat China would fight with Russia if war was provoked by the Atlantic Pact. The statement said that tne pact of alliance
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    Britain Asks Where Is Mr- Stanley?
    180 1 Britain Asks Where Is Mr- Stanley? LONDON. i ALL Britain today as guessing at the answ-i :o the riddle: "Where is Mr. Sydney Stanley. headti le witness in the Lynskey "(■(irruption probe?" Most widespread belief vas that he had flown secretly <o Israel during the weekend But police did not
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    COMPROMISE AT ECAFE
    77 1 BANGKOK, Mon.— lndia today at ECAFE suggested a compromise between the Russian and Western powers' ojans for Asian recovery. Her chief delegate, Mr. B. N. Adarker, called on all nations to recognise there was no ulterior motive In India's synthesising the resolutions of Britain and America for
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    12,000 SIGN
    72 1 LONDON. Mon.— Within a i few minutes of an appeal against the death sentence on i a young mother having been dismissed today, a soil.* tor wai on his way to Whitehall with a petition signed by 12 000 praying for a reprieve. Nationwide sympathy ha» been aroused
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    TEST FLIGHT
    48 1 1 BOMBAY. Mon.— An Indian Overseas Airlines Skymaster left here for Singapore today on a testing flight for a pro- posed Bombay-Sydney service. Owing to the Indonesian situation, the service will operate only as far as Singapore at present, calling at Calcutta I and Bangkok. Reuter.
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    KNELL OF COMMUNISM IN SYRIA
    248 3 KNELL OF COMMUNISM IN SYRIA 'I Shall Crush It,' Says New Chief CAIRO, Monday. n OLONEL Husni el Zaim, military leader who v took over the government of Syria by a bloodess coup d'etat last week, said in a policy broadcast last night that his new regime would crush Communism
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    Speeding Pacific Pact—Moscow
    181 3 Speeding Pacific Pact— Moscow MOSCOW, Monday. DRAVDA'S international commentator claimed today that the Pacific powers, under the leadership of "Anglo-American aggressors", are expediting the organisation- of a Pacific Pact. A preliminary step towa \ls i a Taclflc Pact was the rer^nt Fast Asia conference in New D( Ihl. summoned ostensibly
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    Klansmen Whip Seven Negroes
    139 3 Klansmen Whip Seven Negroes CHATTANOOGA (Tennessey), Mon. KU Klux Klansmen took seven negroes from law enforcement officers in North 1 Georgia last night and flogged them. Sheriff Lynch said the Ku Kluxers seized the negroes after he and three deputies had taken them into custody during a raid at a
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    ABDULLAH & ISRAEL AT PEACE
    191 3 ABDULLAH ISRAEL AT PEACE RHODES, Mon. KINO Abdullah of TransJordan, Israel's most powerful foe in the Palestine war. last night signed an armistice with Israel. Valid for a year and renewable, the armistice virtually liquidates the Palestine war. Transjordan, It was announced, was empowered on Mar. 20 to negotiate on
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    TORY HOPES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS
    68 3 LONDON. Mon. Socialists and Conservatives mobilised their total forces this week-end for Thursday's London County Council elections vital phase of an impending nation-wide party >truggle for control of locil Grovernment. Conservatives hope to end me Socialists' 15-year domination of the London County Council and to
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    FORESAW DEATH
    51 3 NEW YORK, Mon.— ln the midst of experiments to build fireproof aircraft engines because he had been haunted for years by fear of death In a burning plane. Dr. Hilard H. Dow has perished in the naming wreckage of his private plane with his w^fe and three others.
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    $2 PER FINGER
    36 3 NEW YORK, Mon.— -This will cost you two dollars a fin- j ger," the judgs told Martin English, of Moorestown, New Jersey, for thumbing his nose at a policeman. He was fined $10.-A.P.
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    Rider Takes A Fall
    30 3 MELBOURNE, Mon.— Reginald Cakebread of Melbourne Is a professional roughrider. The other day he rode t child's rocking horse, fell off and broke his* collarbone.— A.P.
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    TITO ATTACKS "INSOLENT"
    61 3 BELGRADE, Mon Mr. Mosha Piiade. vice-chairman of the Yugoslav Presidium, iddressing a rally of People's I'ront volunteer brigades in Belgrade, said attacks on Marshal Tito were Insolent," especially when they came iiom Russia and the people* democracies. He rejected as "a fantastic i.. and invention" a statement
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    PRISON FULL
    34 3 STOCKHOLM. Mon. -The village of Vaggery, in south Sweden, is depending on its citizens to behave. Because of the acute housing shortage, one of the village policemen is occupying the prison.— A.P.
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    Windsor Visits U.K.
    20 3 PARIS Mon. The Duke el Windsor has left for London to visit his mother, ojueen Mary. U.P,
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    COSTA RICA ARMY REVOLT CRUSHED
    129 3 SAN JOSE (Costa Rica), Mon. COSTA KICA has crushed an army revolt aftpr a nightlotfg air, artillery and Infantry attack on rebel strongholds in central San Jose. Casualties have not been officially totalled, but early estimates indicatp that more than 20 persons were Killed and
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    No Titles— By Order
    73 3 NEW DELHI, Mon. THE Government of India has issued orders that "no reference should be made in official documents to titles against the names of any Indian." The Deputy Prime Mini- ster, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, said: "It is not pro- posed that titles should be surrendered;
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    Cable Flashes Faulty Maps Start Berlin Argument
    212 3 Cable Flashes Faulty Maps Start Berlin Argument BERLIN, Monday. RUSSIANS and Americans argued about inches yesterday in their cold war over Berlin. At issue was the boundary line between their respective 1 zones. Russians maintaining the blockade of Western Berlin tried to arrest several Germans filling in a ditch. American
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    PRIMARY SCHOOLS MUST COME FIRST —Frisby
    256 4 PRIMARY SCHOOLS MUST COME FIRST Frisby THERE would be no purpose in provldtng rural secondary schools without sufficient primary schools to teed them, Singapore's Director of Education, Mr A. W. Frisby, said yesterday in reply to a Utusan Melayu plea for more rural secondary schools so that more Malay children
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    BAIL OF $1,000 ALLOWED
    62 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon.— Ball of $1,000 was allowed an elderly Chinese, Cheah Seah, who appeared in the police court this morning before Inche Abdul Rahman on a charge of abetting an alleged offence of illegal gratification. The charge concerned the alleged offering of
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    Mrs. Tan Hock San
    28 4 It is stated that the widow of Mr. Tan Hock San. Is a teacher in the Singapore Chinese Girls' School, and not the vice-Princi-pal.
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    25,000 Children Celebrate
    195 4 TWENTY-FIVE thousand Chinese school-children x in Singapore were given a grand treat yesterday to mark Chinese Children's Day. it was a day to be remembered by the little ones, for Instead of attending class, they were taken by their teachers to shows at the Victoria Memorial Hall
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    Sweepstake Claim
    477 4 (Continued from Page 1) find no dispute in the mat- ter. and the committee In contesting the matter in j court were only transferring their own duty to the court. That would amount to recog- < nltlon of the rights of non- members. Mr. Smith had earlier ar-
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    100 BAYONETS
    24 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, M<:r. In the Kuala Trengganu area police have <onnd 100 bayonets and 685 ouods of ammunition.
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    SNAPPED WIFE WANTEDTODIE
    82 4 IPOH, Mon. Pleading guilty to attempting suicide by taking a large quantity of raw opium, Yeow Kwal Chee told the Ipoh Magistrate today that her husband had deserted her and she was heavily in debt. She was a second wife and had a 15-year-old daughter. The day
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    Malaya Could Grow More Beauty Aids
    128 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon. MALAYA, in the Colonial Primary Products Committee's recent report, \s told that she could make% bigger contribution to the manufacture of beauty preparations. She is advised to produce more essential oils, the volatile, aromatic substances obtained from various
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    PAPERMAKERS UNIMPRESSED
    82 4 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon.— The Colo n.ai Primary Products Committee, discussing new raw materials which might bf used for papermaklng. is unenthusiastlc about nlpa palm, bamboo or lallang. II says in a report thu*. further investigations will be made on nlpa palm, results ol which so
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    CAMERA BAN AT INSTALLATION
    53 4 IPOH, Mon.— None of the guests attending the Installation of the Sultan of Perak will be permitted to carry a camera into the Throne Room of the Istana Iskandriah, It was officially stated today. The Press and official photographers in possession of permits will be allowed
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    Court Action Against Old Couple-"A Shame"
    165 4 Court Action Against Old Couple-" A Shame" From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Monday. OELANGOR'S Probation Officer, Major H. King. stated at today's meeting of the Selangor State Welfare Committee that it was "rather a shame" that court action had been taken against an elderly couple who did not have
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    Tie STRAITS BUDGET by AIR
    72 4 Under a new arrangement the weekly issues of the Straits Budget can be sent by Air Mail to any address in the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of $2400 for she months. If yon want the "Budget" while on leave, or wish to make
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    New Centre For Oriental Studies
    123 4 MALAYA'S new University is seen In North America and elsewhere as a great world centre for Oriental studies, according to the ViceChancellor, Dr. G. V. Allen. He spoke at a Presu conference on Sunday given by the Chancellor, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. The University, It
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    CALL FOR BIRTH CONTROL "Will Not Break Up Marriages"
    399 5 CALL FOR BIRTH CONTROL Will Not Break Up Marriages" THE Municipal Lady Health Officer, Dr. Mary Tan, addressing The. International Fortnightly Club yesterday, strongly advocated the introduction of birth control in the Colony. There were many families in Singapore tcday who were infecting their babies with such dreaded diseases as
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    K.L.'s Child Beggars
    123 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rE Selangor Sta> Welfare Committee today appointed a sub-committee to investigate the problem of child beggars in Kuala Lumpur after it had been informed that the question had been left in abeyance with the death of Mr. A. M. Blake,
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    "Spied" For British
    87 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon REPLYING Xo a charge of cheating, a Punjabi, Ishak. stated in the Sessions Court today that he escaped from a Japanese prison camp during the war, and became a British spy. "T was arrested by the Japanese in June 1945 and
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    Surprise Checks On Vehicles
    170 5 SURPRISE checks on numbers and other marks of vehicles under inspection in the Registrar of Vehicles Department and a uniform system of keeping records of stolen vehicles form two of the principal recommendations submitted by the Vehicles Inquiry Committee to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. The Committee
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    THE RING CAME BY LETTER
    189 5 THE RING CAME BY LETTER From Our Woman Correspondent THE bride who was married to a 50-year-old Ceylonese patient at a bed-side ceremony at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore on Friday evening, will receive a I wedding ring the gift of a Singapore Jeweller, Mr. M. H. C.
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    FINED $200 ON CUSTOMS CHARGE
    63 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon.— For glv4 ing Incorrect values of imported cloth to the Customs I Department, L. A. Abdul Ha- mid was today lined $200 with the option of two months in prison by the Taiping Magistrate. The Senior Customs Officer, Mr.
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    Diplomat In Spore Would Be 'Luxury'
    198 5 CEYLON'S former High Commissioner in India, Mr. M. W. H. d e Silva, K.C., told the Straits Times yesterday that he thought it was because Ceyion was not a rich country that the Dominion had no diplomatic representation in Malaya At any rate, he
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    OLD VICTORIANS
    21 5 The Old Victorians' Association will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, at 2.00 p.m. at the Victoria School Hall.
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    Indonesian Artist
    51 5 Indonesian Artist SAP TOHOEDOJO, the yo ung Indonesian artist, who is to hold his second one-man exhibition in Penang, seen with one of his paintings in his home at Kuala Lumpur. The exhibition, under the patronage of the British Council, will be held at the Hutchings School. Farquhar Street— Pß.
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    6 Accused In Rice Case
    131 5 SIX Chinese appeared before tne Fourth Police Cojrt Magistrate. Mr. M, H, MacDougal, yesterday on chi r o 'e« 'elating to the wrongful rerroval of 10 bags of rice valued at $499 from a Singapore Harbour Board godown no Sunday. The first three, Koay Pale
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    $10,000 Bail Estreated
    75 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. Bail of $10,000 was estreated and i bench warrant of arrest issued when a Chinese. Tan "bin Loon, failed to appear in the Sessions Court tod*> on four charges of having committed criminal breach of trust in respect of 149 bales
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    DEATH
    42 6 WILKIE. Marie. Lucy, (Nee Corby) wife of Donald Cook Wllkiof 4, Moorfleld Road, Johnsonvllle, Kew Zealand, fell asle p on the 13th June 1948. at 20, Hillside Gardens Highgaf, London, N 6., England. Eh? leaver two daughters and thr<e sons. RIP.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    34 6 MRS TAN HOCK BAN. Mrs. Bo Seng Soon and the family thank all those who helped, loanad cars, paid visits, sent wreaths, tod attended the funeral of the ite Mr. Tan Hock San.
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Apr. 5, 1949.
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      SIGNING OF THE PACT
      716 6 In Washington yesterday the founder members of the Atlantic Pact signed their great instrument of security and peace. The Pact frankly has been concluded as a deterrent to the imperialism of Communist Russia. Its principle is rooted in the Charter of the United Nations and its
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      University Appeal
      362 6 Malaya is ready for her University. Whether Malayans are willing to pay for it will be seen in the next few weeks when the first response to the appeal for funds becomes known. Broadcasting from Radio Malaya on Sunday night, the University's Chancellor, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, entered the
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      GEMS IN COFFIN
      27 6 Five hundred Imitation pearl necklaces hidden in a coffin aboard the Chinese steamfr Changts were seized In a Customs raid, at Melbourne, Victoria.— Reuter.
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    ARE WE READY FOR WAR?
    1187 6  -  SCRUTATOR SINCE Adam Smith's day, there has been a well-recognised oppo «ition between "defence" and "opulence". It arises because If you divert to armies, lavies and air forces money which would otherwise be available for economic 'purposes, your economy must suf fer. Necessity may Justify
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    Closer Sino-Malay Relations
    1025 6  -  VICTOR PURCELL By QJINCE my views on the problem of Malaya have received considerable publicity, I think it important that I should state as precisely as possible how I stand. The British, with the consent of the Rulers of the Malay States, having allowed unrestricted immigration for
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      Malaya And The U.K. Gift
      219 6 'PO me it would appear 1 that the outbursts from Dato Onn bin Ja'afar and Inche Moha mcd bin Mohammed Noor at the Legislative Council meeting In Kuala Lumpur were both narrow-minded and illtimed. Much .criticism has been i levelled recently about the ignorance of
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      THE MATTER OF A LOAN
      71 6 to the report of the Finance and Revenue Committee of 1947 the Federation of [Malaya owed the Colony ,of Singapore over $84 millions, In respect to the Malaya (Unallocated) Account. This debt is still owing and no interest is being paid. Until this matter is
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    CAMPAIGN TO HELP GOVERNMENT
    368 7 New Move By Malayan Chinese Association From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. REPRESENTATIVES of all the branches of the Malayan Chinese Association met here yesterday and decided to start an extensive publicity campaign the object of which would be to advise all Chinese to co-operate
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    'SET FINE ELECTIONS EXAMPLE'
    226 7 WOMAN'S TRIBUTE TO SEVEN MEN rE Supervisor of Elections, Mrs. A. S. M. Hawkins, yesterday paid tribute to the work of Mr W. W. Duncan, the returning officer, and his six assistants. Messrs. H. S. Bull, Chan Bak Hoe, J. G. Aspinall, A. B. Sewell, T.
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    LATEX FIRED
    44 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Bandits eet fire to a lorry- loaJ of latex on Rasa Estate. Kual l Kubu, Selangor. yesterday Tnere was shooting on R E M E tate in the Kota Tings: aiea and on Rinl Estate Scudai, Johore, last night.
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    NO CARD: $500
    21 7 KLUANG. Mon.— Lim Siong Peow was fined $500, or six months' rigorous imprisonment, for failing to register himself.
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    WILL CO-OPERATE SAYS JOHNSON
    188 7 \|K. P. J. Johnson, the first and only Labour! ITI member to be returned, to a seat <m the Municipal Commission, said yesterday that he would co-operate with the Progressive Party to achieve common objectives. But, he added, the only point on which there appeared to
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    UPSIDE DOWN
    21 7 K. Abdul Jtadlr who carried a fowl upside down in South Bridge Road on Saturday was yesterday fined $2.
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    Efficiency Medals
    153 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE award of efficiency medals to the following members of the Malayan Volunteer Forces has been approved by the High Commissioner Sergeants: Ahmad Tajuddin t> Mohamed S-lleh FMSVF, John Arumugam Rajaratnam Wellington, SSVP and Gurchar^n Singh Bill SSVF. Corporals; Mahmud b Haji Mohd. Genggam FMSVT
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    Scholarship Offer To Chinese Youths
    215 7 HPHE sub-committee of the Singapore Boys and x Girls Clubs of the Social Welfare Council is offering: two one-year scholarships tenable in a British University for a Chinese boy and a girl for a course in youth leadership The scholarships, the total value of which
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    Rowcroft Players
    90 7 THE Rowcroft Players, comprising members of R E.M.E. Base Workshop*, presented a very humorous p:s»y at their Ayer Rajah camp iasl night entitled "Oh Cleo' or 'No Files on Amber." Oh Cleo" Included su»>h characters as Cleopaxa Queen «f Egypt. Tutankharven, Lucretia Borgia. H^nry VJII. Anne Boleyn. Bo^ecla
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    Party to Oppose Telegraphs Bill
    276 7 REDIFFUSION "THE Progressive Party will oppose the Telegraphs A (Amendment) Bill when it comes up for discussion in the Singapore Legislative Council", said Mr. C. C. Tan, the president of the Party, yesterday. The BiU had its first reading at a recent meeting of the
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    COULD NOT AGREE
    44 7 After two retirements yesterday, the jury failed to agree on a verdict in a case of unlawful possession of ammunition, in the Singapore Assize Court and Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith ordered a retrial. The accused Is a young Chinese, Lee Leng Hong.
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    Nominated Members
    76 7 Nominated Members rpilE names of the line J- Singapore Municipal Commissioners nominated by the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. are expected to be announced to- morrow, The nominated Commissioners, together with tbe 18 Commissioners popularly elected on Saturday and the official President Mr. W. L. Blythe, will complete the new Commission
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    TO DISCUSS TRADE PROBLEMS
    232 7 CINGAPORE Colony-Indone-sia trade problems are to be discussed today by a meeting of the Import sub-com-mittee of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce. Representatives of the Chinese and Indian Chamber of Commerce have been invited to attend. The mating, It is understood, has been called to give
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    One Out Of 9,267
    40 7 WHEN Singapore Police screened 9.267 people in a series of security checks in Orchard Road-Orange Grove Road, Paya Lebar and Radin Mas areas over the last week-end only one man, was found without an identity card.
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    PlanForNew Air Route
    124 7 QANTAS Empire Afrways authorities are hoping to (•pen a new service route to South Africa via Cocofi ls1 iai>ds before the end of ohif year. The Department of Ausva i:<tu Civil Aviation is under stood to be considering a report on the requirement necessary to make the
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    Colony Union Told: Don't Sell Rights To Reds
    319 7 MEMBERS of the Singapore Government m Printing Office Staff Union were told yesterday by the Assistant Trade Union Adviser (Mr. A. Simpson) "not to be like some trade unionists in the Colony who sold their rights for a mass of Communist propaganda."
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    NURSE, 20, GETS 2 MONTHS
    203 7 NURSE, 20, GETS 2 MONTHS rpWENTY YEAR OLD Tan I Seek Hoe. a former Singapore General Hospital :iurse. left the Third Polue Ccurt yesterday to begin two rru-nths" simple Imprisonment tor having cheated another woman of $150. Tan asked for permlss mi to telephone "a friend." The Magistrate. Mr. R.
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    RED SUSPECTS
    12 7 Two suspected Communists were arrested by the Singapore Police yesterday.
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    COLONIES' DEBT TO SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
    341 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Monday. Jtf ALAYA, in common with other colonies, owes much to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which celebrates its jubilee this year, for many of the men and women who brought health to its people
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    Designs For Stage At 17
    184 8 SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD o Derek West has designed the set and painted the backcloth for the forthcoming Stage Club production of Noel Coward's "This Happy Breed" which is coming to tho Victoria Theatre on Apr 1 7 8. 9 and 10. Derek, who has considerable
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    NEARS END OF TASK
    70 8 AfCer three months in Malaya, a young American woman, Miss Helen Panaretos, has nearly completed her job of drawing up a personnel programme for the Eastern Mining and Metal Co., Ltd.. when It takes over Malaya's only iron mine in Dungun. Trengganu. She leaves today on
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    TOO BUSY TO REGISTER
    61 8 From Our SUIT (oi rrspoiident KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— l was very busy making coffins and had no time to get myself registered, said Lai Loh Man. a young Chinese who pleaded guilty before Inche Abdul Rani bin Haji Hussein in the First Magistrate's Court to a
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    Singapore Diary
    74 8 TODAI Lian Li Benevolent Association. Two I .oh Koli practice, 85, Silat Road, 7.30 p.m. C. Y. M. A. (Sacred Heart Church i. members' night clubhouse. Tank Road, 8.30 p.m. TOMORROW St. John Ambulance Brigade, East Coast Corps. First Aid class, Oeylang English School, 9.30 p.m. Ans o
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    DRUGS SEIZED
    57 8 Singapore Police seized 3.090 phials of penicillin and phials of streptomycin on Sunday in a car In West Coast Road. Three men who were In the car were detained. The drugs, believed to have been stolen from a Base Ordnance Depot in Alexandra, are valued at $6,500. and
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    Americans Seek Air Facilities
    173 8 SINCE airfields at Rangoon and Saigon cannot be used as alternative landing strips for Bangkok, four American aeronautical experts two Government men and two belonging to Pan-American Airways will today inspect facilities at Butterworth R.A.F. airfield. The two Civil Aeronautical Administrators. both technical advisers, are Messrs.
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    SHOUTS SAVED CHINESE
    104 8 SHOUTS SAVED CHINESE From Our Own Correspondent KUANTAN, Mon. A CHINESE fishmonger, clutching the stern of his capsized boat, was carried for some distance down the Kuantan river before his shouta attracted the attention of people on the shore. He was returning from Tanjong Lumpur when his boat heeled over
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    Malayan Delegate
    27 8 Mr. R. E. Holttum, director of the Botanical Gardens, Singapore may represent Malaya at the Seventh International Botanical Congress at Stockholm in July next year.
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    RAINY DAY IN RUBBER COUNTRY
    424 9 RAINY DAY IN RUBBER COUNTRY By PLANTER'S WIFE A WET day may be a pain in the A neck to planters but to me it has a charm all its own, particularly if 1 can get out. In our present district there is hilly country not very far away and
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    When Baby Starts Solid Food
    792 9 When Baby Starts Solid Food NURSE ELIZABETH On Mothercraft In Malaya "IijOTHER of One" writes for advice, saying that she is anxious to giv c her six months old baby solid food. She complains that although baby books tell what foods to give they rarely give the amount or say
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    SITTING PREITY
    20 9 Attractive Coleen Gray, youthful and vivacious 20th Century-Fox star appears opposite Victor Mature in "Fury at Furnace Creek."
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    WOULD YOU CALL IT FR USTRA TION?
    944 9  - WOULD YOU CALL IT FR USTRA TION? BEE WICKERSON By I ADY, am I bored? 1-1 I came to Singapore three months ago. What I was not going to do was icy theme. No more washing-up, no more sweeping, cleaning, laundry, cooking, once, I was to be a lady of
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    Well Jumped!
    85 9 1 OTS of men have jumped from lots of parachutes. But not one of them, it is safe to say, with a girl in his arms. Which is what Scots- born Gordon Jackson has to do with Sally Ann Howes in "Stop Press Girl." Parachute jumping is no
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    WHEN LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN LONDON WILL BE CHEERIER IT COULD NOT BE IN ENGLAND
    1212 10 WHEN LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN LONDON WILL BE CHEERIER IT COULD NOT BE IN ENGLAND From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, March. r*OOD news for everyone has been the Govern merit's decision to abolish restrictions on using electricity for lighting shop windows and advertising signs and thus to fulfil the hope
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    Less Meat Than In War
    90 10 NOTHING is more talked of here than the cut in the meat ration to Bd. worth a week, or between six and eight ounces. One butcher in Southampton has committed suicide at the thought of less meat than during the worst shipping sinking in the
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    People, Of All Sorts, In The News
    255 10 People, Of All Sorts, In The News MRS. Harriet Carter, out walking at Caterham In Surrey, saw a Guards sergeant seize a recruit and shake him. She advanced on the sergeant with fixed umbrella. Me ignored her, but she got her complaint to the colonel, and the sergeant has been
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      INDONESIAN FACTOR IN RUBBER OUTLOOK
      379 11 From Our Own Correspondent YJUBBER Study Group di the recovery of the rn South-East Asia, particula is likely to play in the cc The Economist. Three vi confront the Group. The first is synthetic production in America, and ihe requirement of United States law that
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      Singapore Rubber
      110 11 WITH some selling mainly from up-country centres, the Singapore rubber market again eased off yesterday. Turn-over was moderate. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 35H cents, sellers 35*4 cents; spot loose buyers 35H cents, .sellers 35% cents per Ib. The Singapore Chamber of Commerce* Rubber
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      "Shuffling" On Claims
      356 11 From Oox Own Correspondent LONDON Mon. /"•RITICISINGr the slowness hi setting up machinery for assessment of claims for war damage compensation hi Malaya, Mr. Walter Fletcher, M.P., says hi his circulated statement as chairman of Hecht, Levis and Kahn that it has always been agreed that the
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      PLANTERS' COURSES
      172 11 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon. I 'I <*us Estate Staff Training Com1 mittee of the Rubber Growers' Association, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, interviews candidates for the Planter's Certiflcaet course at the North of Scotland OoHege of
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      MALAYAN SHARES
      106 11 Prom Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Mon. THE Malayan share market 1 opened the week on a quiet note with a steady undertone. Where changed price* moved upward. The volume of business was very small today. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers 1 Association were: INDUSTRIALS Bayer Seller
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      Shipping At The Singapore Wharves
      92 11 SHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Stentor (35-36), Malaya (33-34), Ste?l Navigator (31-32). East Wharf: Salatiga (44). Empire Dock: St. Jan (19-30), Tydeus (33-34), Okhla (39-30). Weat Wharf: Bougainville (15-16), Trewellard (13-14), Somali (6-7), Santa
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      52 11 From A Market Correspondent fXXX>NTJT oil and copra prices on the Singapore produce market eased yesterday in the face of continued lack of demand from overseas. The pepper market remained steady with prices unchanged. Most sections were practically Inactive. Yesterday's changes were: Copra: Sun-dried $39.50; mixed $29. Coconut
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      "POSITION IS GRAVE"
      145 11 1 Orient Trust View From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. T\ESPITE statements to the 'JJ contrary, the security position In Malaya shows little or no Improvement, according to Mr. A. P. Hamilton, chairman of Orient Trust. The question one must ask, he told the annual meeting, was
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      "Terrorism & Chaos Worse": Chairman
      240 11 "Terrorism Chaos Worse": Chairman BROOME PLANTATIONS From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. TE pleasure we might derive from the fact that the current year's working is producing substantially better results so far as the profit and loss account is concerned is heavily overshadowed by the knowledge that our staff hi
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      289 11 EAST ASIATIC UNE SAIUNCS TO CONTINENT/ SAIUNCS FROM SCANDINAVIA/UJL/ SCANDINAVIA CONTINENT Loading at Singapore. Port Swettenhwn Penang. m* "Meoaia" dv« abt Apr. for Bangkok. ».i "St. |aa" Csdswai 19/20 for Alexandria, Canoa, Mar- j_. t Amr sailles. Antwerp, Rotterdam, iviZ^HXorTaS+X' HSSK£J?^-rrf CC n r r enbljr 1 Kobe Yokohama: Copenhagen
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    SAFA SCOUTS TO WATCH FOR INCIDENTS i Net ball Practice
    597 12 SAFA SCOUTS TO WATCH FOR INCIDENTS i Net ball Practice Drastic Measures Will Be Taken THE Disciplinary Board at the Singapore Amateur Football Association will in future send scouts to Junior League games. These scouts will report on the conduct of players and teams direct to the Board, Mr. T.
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    Recs Are Sliding Down The Ladder
    430 12 R.E. Regt 3; S.R.C 1. THE Singapore Recreation Club are rapidly sliding down the ladder in the S.A.F.A. Senior League, and are beginning to look like one of the weakest teams in the competition. Opening th§ season with a win over Royal Signals, Recs
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    USEFUL B.P. TO MEETDIEHARDS
    129 12 1 FRIENDLY badminton match A between Uie Useful B.P. and Diehard B.P. will be played at I the Clerical Union Hall on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The match will comprise thre« men's single.-, two women's singles, one men's doubles, one women's doubles and one mixed doubles.
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    Civilians v Services On Nay 7
    111 12 Civilians v Services On Nay 7 ON Saturday May 7. the Singapore Amateur Football Association will play a charity match against the Combined Services at Jalan Besar stadium. The entire proceeds of Ihe match will go to St. Andrews Mission Hospital. All free passes will be suspended. Prices of admission
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    S.A.B.A. MEET
    70 12 BOXERS competing in the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association tournament are reminded tliat the weighlng-ln and medical examination will take place atJ the Happy World stadium next' Monday at 10 a.m. The preliminaries will start at 8 p.m. J. V. Kirby, former amateui heavy-weight champion of Ireland will be
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    St. Andrew's Net 5 Goals In 2 Games
    119 12 QT. Andrew's School defeated St. Anthony'! llret and second teams in soccer matches at Woodsville yesterday. In the first team game St. Andrew's won twoone, and three-nil in the second. Five minutes from the start of the first team game, Ross scored
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    Two Referees Failed To Show Up
    88 12 TWO S.A.F.A. Junior League games bad to be postponed yesterday because the referees failed to turn up. The two matches were: Jnr. A. Grp. 1. T. A IX. Nee Soon v. Singapore Chinese Engineering Association which was sechduled to have been played at Geylang
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    W.A. Brown May Not Accept Brisbane. Tues.
    108 12 W.A. Brown May Not Accept Brisbane. Tues. WA. Brown, the Australian Test cricketer, said today that he had not received an official invitation, which he Is unlikely to accept, to captain the Empire team expected to tour India In 1949 50. He was commenting on a London report that he
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    Malayans Win In Paris
    106 12 PARIS, Mon. EWE Leong Choong, of Malaya, won the men's singles title in the French international badminton championships here yester- day, beating his fellowcountryman, Vat Sun Lav, 15—2. 15—2 in the final. lit the semi-finals, Vat beat Yves Baudoin (France) 15—« 15—8. and Ewe defeated Frto
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    29 12 8. A. F.A. LEAGI'E: Seniors, Tigers v Signals, J.B. Stadium: Jnr. A, Gr. I: R.A.F. (T> T K. Raja. Geylang; G.T. Coy R.A.B.C. v 8.0.D.C.A., St. George's.
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    Burton Wins RSGC Spring Cup
    382 12 jrpHE Royal Singapore Gult 1 Club's April Medal Competition wa s played at Buk*t T;mah on Saturday and Sun1 day and resulted in a win for S H. King In "A" Division with a net score of 69 and for R. C. Burton In "B"
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    WILLIAMS, ANDRES IN TOP FORM
    206 12 From Our Own Correspondent PENANO, Mon. IN the principal match on the Victoria Green, on Sunday, the Penang Recreation Club scored a meritorious win over the Chinese Recreation Club by 105 runs. The North and Penang cricketer, A. J. Williams, scored 51 runs before being
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    SEOW YOKE NOT IN PENANG TEAM
    225 12 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. npHE Chinese Swimming Club have selected three A women and 11 men swimmers to represent them at the Easter Inter-C.S.C. aquatic meet in Singapore. The team will leave (or the Colony in a chartered plane on April 14.
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    HONG KONG IN TWO FINALS IN ACFE SPORTS
    414 12  - HONG KONG IN TWO FINALS IN ACFE SPORTS MALCOLM USHEK By UONG KONG won their way to the finals of twd "A.C.FE. Olympic events by beating Kuala Lumpur in th e semi-final ties for soccer and tennis at Changi yesterday. Semi-final results In the matches played at Seletar yesterday were:
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    ACFE Diary Today
    114 12 TO-DAYS fixtures and teams in the A.C.F.E. Olympic meet are: CRICKET (Semi finals) Honir Kong v. Tech. Wln«; Negombo v. Kuala Lumpur. Both games, of 22 six-ball overs, will be played at Selelar, commencing 9 a.m. The final, also at Seletar. start at 2.30 p.m. Teams ffor
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    ACS OLD BOYS' MEETING
    84 12 A meeting of the .sports sec wn of the A.C.S. Old Bo>s Association will be held at the Middle School Hall. Coleman Street, on Thursday at 5.30 p. m The meeting will elect me*bearers for the year. The inter-school Old Boys Associations' relcy for the Cup
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    Nirgal Wins
    37 12 PARIS. Mon Marc"l Bou»sac's six-year-old NirgHl. by Goya out of Castillane. won the Piix Ganay of £943 over our mile tnd two furlongs on the (iprnlng da^ of the Longchamps Hhi racluf season yesterday.— Reuter.
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