The Straits Times, 6 April 1949

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    20 1 The Straits Times MA LAY AS LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED Iff 4s TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    50 DIE IN HOSPITAL BLAZE
    238 1 Patients Jump To Escape: Babies -Perish NEW YORK, Tuesday. piFTY patients, including 20 children many of them newly-born babies, are feared to have lost their lives in a flre which destroyed St. Anthony's Hospital, at Effingham, Illinois, in less than an hour during the night.
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    36 1 MR. HO SEN (HOY, a retiring Municipal Commissioner, in thoughtful iuoihl a- he walks to the Council Chamber yesterday for the la»t meeting of the present Singapore Municipal •Himiission. Report in Pace 7. Straits Tirtte> picture.
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    Stanley In Tel-Aviv, Report
    78 1 Stanley In Tel-Aviv, Report TEL AVIV. Tues EVENING newspapers here report that Sidney Stan- !■> key witness :n the London inquiry Into allegations of corruption in Government urrtal, arrived by private plane at Lydda airport today. The reports pers:sted despi<e official denials. The newspaper Yom decljred that Stanley had been
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    MR J. R. SCOTT
    24 1 LONDON. Tues— Mr. John Pa.'sell Scott, chairman of th» Manchester Guardian, died a' his home at Wilmslow. Cheshire, this morning
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    MOTHER, AGED 19: REPRIEVE
    190 1 LONDON, Tue>. THE King today saved fr>m the gallows a pretty 19-yeai-old mother. Mrs. Renee Duffy. Mrs. Duffy was sentenced on March 17 in Manchester to be hanged for killing her 23-year-old husband with a hammer. She testified at her trial that her husband beat her,
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    SPYING CHARGE
    26 1 BELGRADE, Tues. Six Hungarians and one Yugoslav were charged yesterday with spying on Yugoslavia in th« first trial of alleged Comlnforni agents in Yugoslavia.--U.P.
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    COMMUNISM CAUSES SPLIT
    67 1 LONDON, Tues.— The Haldane Society, British organisation of Socialist lawyers, split wide open today over the Communist question. Members supporting the Government decided to break away and form a new association of lawyers to b« affiliated to the Labour Party. The split followed an •insuccessful attempt to
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    MANCROFT ANSWERS DATO ONN
    139 1 LONDON, Tu^s. I CUD Mancroft, speaking I* today deprecated D.t 3 Om reference to tne £6,000,000 grant by the Brltlsh Government to Malaya "British taxpayers fantao rieaily ov-rpressed "■< mgh they will not regara t.i!h graM as extravagant wtrn they compare it with the POOOOOOOO rhev
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    Terror Situation Is Improving—Mackay
    304 1 Terror Situation Is Improving— Mackay rvNANU, Tuesday. -q^HE emergency has been extremely badly run by x its bandit organisers," said the Penang Chamber of Commerce chairman Mr. D. A Mackay, at today's annual meeting of the Chamber. "The latest information I have had from the most disturbed areas is that
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    Trade Talks Ending Soon
    87 1 TOKYO. Tues. DRITISH officials said today that BCAP and sterling area representatives are continuing their review of an agreement which was made last year for U.S. $250,000,000 worth of trad* on a reciprocal basis between Japan and the sterling countries. Mr. H. H. Thomas. Financial Counsellor
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    Troops Ordered "Don't Attack"
    205 1 NANKING, Tuesday. AUTHORITATIVE sources said here today that formal peace negotiations between the Chinese Communists and the visiting Nationalist delegation began in Communist-held Pekhfef this morning. <* Simultaneously reports were Ived from Chinklang Communist armies all r the north bank of the ;tse River, east of
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    39 1 MR. LIM CHUAN OEOK. captain of the Malayan Thomas Cup badminton team, photographed at the University College Hospital, London, where he has b*en operated on for duodenal ulcer. With him Is his daughter Lillian and his wife.— A.P. picture.
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    'Severe' Viet Minh Defeat
    89 1 HANOI, Tues. FRENCH troops Inflicted a "severe defeat" on two battalion* of Viet Minn nationalists who attacked the French post of Luodien, about 30 miles east of Hanoi, a French military spokesman said yesterday. The clash took place on Sunday morning, the spokesman added. Ht said
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    'UNIONS AT WORK IN ASIA'-TUC
    157 1 LONDON, Tues. pOMMUNIST allegations of trade union suppression In" Malaya are denied in the Trades Union Congress half j yearly report. The report, headed "Unions i at work in Asia", says that the Secretary, of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech I Jones, sent
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    DRAINED IT
    55 1 TOKYO. Tues.— An Ameriian Court today sentenced a Japanese to 18 months' imprisonment for "committing acts prejudicial to the occupation." Twenty-eight-year-old Se4lchi Toda was found guilty of having ordered the water gate of Lake Hibara, a water reservoir which U reserved for summer drought months, to be* opened
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    Prof. Alexander, Mr.F.L. Lane On Commission
    189 1 TWE composition of the new Singapore < unicipal 1 Commission was completed y -ten by the nomination by the Governor of >'i.i«.ipore, Sir Franklin Gimson. of nine member Seven 01 the nine nominated Commissioners Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, Mr.
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    U.K. Arming Siamese
    60 1 LONDON, Tues. BRITAIN Is selling suffi-i-ieni arms to the j Siamese Government to complete the equipment of live Infantry battalions stationed in southern Siam, the Foreign Under-Secre-tary, Mr. Mayhew, told Parliament yesterday. The Siamese battalions woulf use these arms to preserve order on the Siamese-Malayan frontier in
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    RUSSIA MAY DENOUNCE PACT IN U.N.
    319 1 MOSCOW, Tuesday. JUPLOMATIC observers in Moscow said today ,that Russia probably will ask the United Nations General Assembly opening today in New York to denounce the Atlantic Treaty as a violation of the United Nations Charter. They believed that Mr. Andrei Gromyko. the Soviet
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    Soviet Army Attack On Iran Border
    124 1 TEHERAN. Tues A RUSSIAN regiment, supported by tanks find armoured cars, has made a new foray into Azerbaijan province and attacked an Iranian Army post. The incident, regarded as the most serious since th« Azerbaijan fighting two year.i ago, is the sixth this year
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    APOLOGY FOR PICTURE
    67 1 LONDON. Tue*. The London Labour Party apologised yesterday for using a picture of a Conservative Party slum clearance achievement in Its own campaign literature. The picture showed a si inn neighbourhood under a head ing: "Before London got Labour leadership." The Conservat4ve claimed the picture was of
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    BRITISH-JEWISH TALKS INDICATED
    189 3 BRITISH-JEWISH TALKS INDICATED Lord Samuel For Palestine LONDON, Tuesday. T ORD Samuel, chairman of the Palestine v Electricity Corporation and a former British High Commissioner in Palestine, will leave London on Thursday for Tel Aviv. Hl s visit is ostensibly to discuss the corporation's affairs but close associates said yesterday
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    25 3 SIR MAUNG GYI (left), Burmese Ambassador in India, presents his credentials to Shri C. Rajagopalacharl, Governor-General of India, at Government House, New Delhi— A.P. picture.
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    Death Rates Fall To Lowest Levels
    220 3 GENEVA, Tuesday. I AJttiE areas of the world are enjoying the lowest death rates ever recorded, the World Health Organisation reported in Geneva yesterday. The report said a partial explanation of the falling death rate might be "that a considerable proportion of the very
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    PEACE IN GREECE 'POSSIBLE'
    110 3 PEACE IN GREECE 'POSSIBLE' ATHENS. Tues. THE Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Tsaldaris, said yesterday that a GreekYugoslav settlement was j "within the realm of possl- bility" but that no nego- tiations had begun. He said in an interview that Greece's principal stipulation In any such settlement would j be that
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    Devotion
    77 3 LONDON, Tues. A CORONER found yesterday that Prof. Vladmir Teheranavin, brilliant Russian refuser scientist, gassed himself after watch- ing the woman to whom he was devoted die of cancer. I Teheranavin, who was 61, was found dead in a West f End fiat. Miss Anna Drew, 45, a 8.8.C.
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    25 3 MISS JOCELTN MAY WOOLLCOMBE. Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service, who has been appointed an honorary Aide de Camp to the King.— A.F. picture.
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    120 REBELS KILLED IN MANDALAY
    108 3 RANGOON, Tues. /GOVERNMENT troops yes- terday mopped up scattered pockets of insurgents in Mandalay, which was recaptured from Karens and Communists on Monday night. The main force of insurgents fled from Mandalay. About 120 Karens and Communists were killed and 30 captured before the town
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      Queen Meets Former Queen In London
      282 3 QUEEN Elizabeth and th e former Queen Rambhai Bari of Siam talked privately for some time at Buckingham Palace on Monday. The London visit was possibly a farewell before .the former Siamese Queen's return to her own country. Widow of King Prajadhipok of Siam,
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    U.K. INDIFFERENT TO JAPAN—M.P.
    58 3 U.K. INDIFFERENT TO JAPAN— M.P. LONDON, Tues— A Conservative M.P.. Mr. L. E. B. Teeling. who recently visited Japan, stated last night chat because of British indifference, United States pressure would result in Japan being granted better terms in all trade agreements. Cheap Japanese goods would soon be' undercutting competitors
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    NEW COMPASS
    52 3 WASHINGTON, Tues— The development of a new nonmagne'.ic compass that can be used for air navigation in Polar regions was announced yesterday by the National Bureau of Standards. The instrument, known as a sky ompass, was worked out by Bureau scientists in co-operation with the Navy* Bureau of
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    SMALLPOX
    45 3 LONDON, Tues— The Ministry of Health revealed yesterday a passenger aboard the liner Moollan who died at sea on Apr. 1 had been suffering from smallpox and stated that further cases might develop among those who left the ship at London and Marseilles. Reuter.
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    SYRIAN GOVT. IN 2 MONTHS
    143 3 DAMASCUS. Tues. COL. Husni Zaim, Syrian Army Chief of Staff who seized power in a bloodless coup last Wednesday, said last night that he hoped to be able to hajid over to a representative Republican Government within two months. Meanwhile, he said, he lni tended
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    EFFORT TO SAVE OLIVIA'S BABY
    38 3 HOLLYWOOD, Tues. Every affort is being made to save the baby expected by film actress Olivia de Havllland In August, her studio announced yesterday. The actress was reported to be seriously ill.— A.P.
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    "PACT IS A SHIELD AGAINST AGGRESSION" -TRUMAN
    449 4 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. PRESIDENT Truman last night described the > Atlantic Pact as a "shield against aggression" I nd added that United States ties with Western Vowers did not signify lessening of American concern for the security and welfare of other areas. He said:'
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    36 4 PRINCESS MARGARET, who was staying recently with the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton, Gloucestershire, rode to hounds with the Duke's pack. This is the first time the Princess has joined a fox-hunt. A.P. picture.
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    ONLY THE BEGINNING -BEVIN
    342 4 ONLY THE BEGINNING -BEVIN WASHINGTON. Tues. "TODAY will bring a great feeling of relief to millions of people," said the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, last night before signing the Atlantic Pact. "At last democracy is no longer a series of Isolated units. It has become a cohesive organism
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    LEFT CHILD TO DIE, CAUTIONED
    36 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— Charged with abandoning her infant child, Teo Soo Moi was cautioned and discharged by the Johore Bahru Magistrate. The child, who was three days old, has since died.
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    TOWN BOARDS
    51 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tue3.— Mr. D, J, Forbes, manager of j Nordanal Estate, has been appointed to the Muar Town j Board. Inche Taha bin Shariff and Mr P. V, Kurruppan Chettiar" have replaced Inche Mohamed Yassim bin Shariff and Mr P. N. N. Sockallngam on the Mersing Town
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    Mirror Case Expenses
    79 4 LONDON, Tues. THE Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, said in the House of Commons yesterday he understood that another newspaper had financed the proceedings against the Daily Mirror in the court action connected with the "acid bath murder." The Mirror's editor was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and
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    Philippines Fire
    23 4 MANILA, Tues.— Fire destroyed the business and residential sections of the Bulacan town of Meycauayan causing damage estimated at USs7s,ooo— Reuter.
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    Pact 'Marks End Of An Illusion'
    336 4 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE Dutch Foreign Minister, Dr. D. N. Stikker, in a vigorous speech before signing the Atlantio Pact, said that it marked "the end 'of an illusion— the hope that the United Nations by itself would insure international peace.'' "Together we are determined
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    Australia To Tighten Act
    139 4 CANBERRA, lues. rh Australian Cabinet will meet on Thursday *o conAider legislation proposed by the Immigration Minister Mr. A. Calwell, to tighten toe Immigration Act, it was authoritatively learned here today. The proposed new legislation is expected to orovide for: The deportation of aliens for political
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    Bulgarian Red Leader Held
    206 4 BELGRADE, Tuesday. RADIO Belgrade said yesterday that the purge of Bulgarian Communists is intensifying and that 300, including the Deputy Premier, M. Kostov, have been arrested. M. Kostov Is Bulgaria's leading Communist, next to the Premier, M. Dlmitrov. He directed Communist activities In Bulgaria until M.
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    RITCHIE MAY DISCUSS DEFENCE IN CEYLON
    108 4 COLOMBO, Tuea. GENERAL Sir Neil Ritchie. C.-ln-C, Far East Land Forces, Is now in Ceylon. He was expected to meet the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Senanayake, to discuss Eastern defence problems common to the Dominion and the United Kingdom. Added significance is given
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    24 4 SUZANNE HOWELL, America's 1949 "maid of cotton," who is in London to display British and American cotton fashions at various U.K. centres.— Reuter pictore.
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    $7,000 BRIBE OFFER ALLEGED
    467 5 $7,000 BRIBE OFFER ALLEGED Two Merchants In Dock AN alleged offer of a $7,000 bribe to an Assistant Executive Controller of the Imports and Exports Department, Mr. L. J. Wood, as an inducement for him to pass import declarations without endorsing them for reference to the Customs Office, was described
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    52 5 MKINALIM SAKABIIAI putting the last tout hes to her make up before leading her company of Indian dancers and musicians in the opening of their season at the St. Martin's Theatre. London, recently. The performance brought praise from the audience and critics for its beauty and subtlety of mo vement.—
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    Malayan Scouts Win Praise
    239 5 MALAYAN Boy Scouts who attended the PanPacific Jamboree in Australia earlier this year were a real credit to the people of thi s country, said the Chief Scout of the British Empire, Lord Kowallan, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on his way back to th e
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    5 Years For Youth
    116 5 JOSEPH Tan Kirn Sai, EngJ lish-educated Chinese youth, who pleaded guilty in the Singapore Assizes yesterday to holding up and robbing a taxi driver in Thomson Road, hung his head as he was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment j by Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith. Asked if
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    ADVISORY BODY MEETS
    189 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. IMPORTANT matters connected with the Emergency were discussed today at the first meeting of the Emergency Chinese Advisory Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. E. D. Fleming. Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Federation. The meeting was confidential, but the following communique
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    TWO HANGED
    55 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Two bandits convicted of possession of arms and ammunition were hanged at Taiping Prison this morning. They were Teh Slew Huat and Lee Kirn Yin. Teh was captured near Matang asleep with a sten gun and a pistol beside him. Lee
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    THREE TO DIE
    47 5 ALOR STAR, Tues.— Thre« Chinese caught carrying arms were sentenced to death yesterday by Mr. Justice Callow. The men, Choo Scow Khoon, Kok Loy and Ng Glm Cheng gave notice of appeal. The men were arrested after an ambush. Their leader was shot dead.
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    21 BRITISH SUBJECTS DEPORTED
    106 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. SINCE 1 lie beginning of the year. 179 banishment orders have been approved in the Federation, it was officially stated today. There were 37 orders in March. 36 In February, and 106 in January. Approval to deport 526 aliens and 21 British subjects
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    Whitley Councils: 'Johore Far Ahead'
    160 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE, Tuesday. ALL Government departments are operating YYhitley Councils, but Johore is far ahead of other parts of the Federation in th e development of informal negotiating machinery within Government departments, according to Mr. K. Caddick, Assistant Trade Union Adviser, who
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    Car Plunges Into Canal
    45 5 ALOR STAR, Tues. I rpHREE passengers in a 1 motor car near th» first milestone, Alor Star, narrowly escaped being drowned yesterday afternoon when the car plunged Into a canal and was completely submerged. The men escaped through the sliding roof.
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    STRIKE CUT OFF MUTTON
    57 5 An acute shortage of locally-slaughtered mutton in Singapore has resulted from the recent Australian waterside strike which was settled on Monday. Mort than 1.500 sheep, part of the 100,000 current Allocation for Malaya, will arrive about April 12 by the Maetsyucker. Later this month the Charon
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    Seven Years For Grenade
    85 5 NO CHUN HUI found in possession of a hand grenad* at a coffe shop in Tanjong Pagar Road, was sentenced at Singapore Assizes yesterday to seven years' rigorous imprisonment. He was sitting in the coffee shop with Lai Cheng Seong when the police entered and held
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    INTERPRETERS' DINNER
    25 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tues The annual dinner of Federation Chinese Interpreters will take place at Kuala Lumpur on Apr. 15.
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    BIRTH
    16 6 I SHERWOOD: To Joan and Charles, a ton Nigel, oa April 3rd, at Kandang Kertoau,
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Apr. 6, 1949. CHINA'S BATTLE FOR PEACE
    1096 6 If all goes well, fighting along the Yangtze river may cease today and in Peking the Communists and the National- ists may begin in earnest their negotiations to bring the long war in China to an end. But
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  • B.B.C. AND THE "COLD WAR"
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      1. Behind The Iron Curtain
      945 6  -  R. COTTAM NOBLE By DMTAIN is quietly sharpening her major weapon in the "cold war* her broadcasts to countries behind the Iron Curtain. A hint of this was given daring a recent Commons debate on Cominforxn activities In London, when, in reply to Lord Vansittart's
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      2. Saying It In Kuoyu
      439 6 T»HE most surprising request ever received by the B.B.C's Far Eastern service since its inception has Just been revealed in London. A letter from the Chinese community in the Dutch South American colony of Surinam has asked for the Kuoyu new s bulletin to be
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    TAX ON JAP IMPORTS
    175 6 T UNDERSTAND that Malaya hopes to get the sum of £10,000,000 reparations from Jap 11, which will, when received, go into the War Claims pool. May I suggest tha; a be levied on all imports fro 1 Japan at the rate of 25 p r cent,
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  • MAN-IN-THE-STREET
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      A Suggestion For The New Commissioners
      369 6 •pHE greater part of the ■'•time devoted to Singapore Municipal affairs is taken up by Committee work— in fact it is in this work, and not in making speeches at meetings, that the Commissioner best serves the community. Each Commissioner must serve on at
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      MALAY HELP
      69 6 1 QUOTE below a state- ment_ made by Dato Onn bin Ja'afar published in your issue of April 1:— I say in all seriousness that the gift is a mere fleabite in comparison with what the Malay States and Malays as a whole have done lor Britain. I
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      WHEN ARE WE TO ATTACK?
      224 6 JT would serve a useful purpose if the people who have taught themselves to say "there are enough troops in Malaya to deal with the situation" would open a map of the peninsula and make an intelligent computation of the areas that can be regarded
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    SEAMEN'S BOARD SPLIT ALLEGED
    204 7 SEAMEN'S BOARD SPLIT ALLEGED >TOMINATION of Mr. Yacob I bin Abdullah, president of the Malay Seamen's Union, a* a seamen's representative on the Seafarers' Administration Board was crltck*cd yesterday as "a Goverr n.ent move to divide seaircn's board representation." The criticism was made By Mr. M. A. Majid. secretary of
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    ENTRY PERMITS
    59 7 The system of entry permits for newcomers to Malaya from India. Pakistan and Ceylon, which was introduced to meet the special conditions prevailing after the liberation of Malaya, will be discontinued from next Sunday. Persons from These countries, who wish to come to Malaya will, from now on,'
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    16 FATALITIES LAST MONTH
    28 7 Sixteen people, including five children, were killed in 16 of the 639 accidents In Singapore last month. All fatalities were associated with road traffic.
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    NUNS JOIN T.B. HOSPITAL
    363 7 By Our Woman Correspondent rVO white-robed Sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of th e Divine Motherhood, a jnew Catholic religious nursing order, have just I joined the Tan Tock Seng T.B. Hospital where they are nursing the sick in a voluntary capacity. They arrived m Singapore
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    Gaol For Woman With 3 Names
    109 7 Gaol For Woman With 3 Names A YOUNG Chinese woman, who was known by three names, left the Third Police Court yesterday to begin a term of two months' simple imprisonment. She was 23-year-old Mrs. i Agatha Chong alias Lily Lee, alias Ec Eng Kiat, convicted on a charge of
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    Gilmour Back From Japan Trade Talks
    137 7 rpHE Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore 1 Mr. Andrew Gihnour, returned here yesterday from Tokye where lie attended a high-level conference relating to trade between the sterling areas of the British Commonwealth and Japan. Mr. Gilmour said last night thiti the talks were still
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    Naval Occasion
    41 7 Oupsts Invited to the official transfer ceremony of M.S. Pelandok to *he Government for use with the Malayan Naval Force on Friday. are requested to be at the Red House, H.M.S. Terror, Naval Base, not later than 10.45 a.m.
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    COMMISSIONERS' TROUBLE: "LACK OF FUNDS"
    436 7 COMMISSIONERS' TROUBLE: "LACK OF FUNDS" 'Nothing New In Election Aims 9 THE Municipal President, Mr, W. L. Rlythe, in his last address to members «f the eld Municipal Commission yesterday, said the fundamental trouble of the Commissioiiers m th e past was lack of fi n an ce. "But", he
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    69 7 MRS. S. LEE SMITH, wUt of the retiring CA As*. Naval Attache far Singapore (Lt. Commanter l*e Smith) shakes hands with Air- Vice Marshal Sanderson. A.O.C. Malaya, as hostess of the cocktail party which she and her husXnd |»ye at the lfloimfbatten Clnb on Monday evening to introduce tbe new
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    FILM STAR POSTER PROTEST
    138 7 FILM STAR POSTER PROTEST POSTERS asking people to 'vote' for Jane Wyman (the Oscar -winning star of the film Johnny Belinda) were criticised at yesterday's meeting ot the Singapore Municipal Commissioners by Mr. A. Corbet, a retlrtog member. He thought action might be taken against either the "distributors or exhibitors"
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    Copra: Dutch Asked 'Why'
    150 7 SINGAPORE businessmen aw annoyed with the Dutch selling copra to Europe tX £12 10s. cheaper per ton than the price at which they are selling It to the Colony. According to a report from London the British Ministry of food bought its March and July shipments
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    University Funds
    29 7 KTTAT,A LUMPUR. Tuex-A **i'W«" meetrnp wfTi be VM *»t f-fcp VWor^ Tnstittit.tp-i W?»T1 on M*y 1 to elect officials to collect funds for the University of Malaya.
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    GRANTS FOR CHILDREN
    58 7 The Handicapped Children's Society has been allocated $20,000 and St. Andrew's Mission Hospital for Children $5,000 out ofi the $25,000 donation made I by Singapore Municipal Commissioners last year to the! United Nations Appeal for Children Fund. This announcement was. made by the Municipal President, Mr. W.
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    35,000th CUSTOMER
    44 7 The 3S,oooth customer to attend Rdblnson's sale yesterday afternoon was a European. He was presented with a sliver cigarette case at £.20 p.m., by the manager. Mr, L, C. Hutchings. The sale, which started on March SO, will continue until April 14.
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    Old Board Holds Last Meeting
    360 7 TOE old constitution of the Singapore Municipal Commission ceased to exist at 5.45 p.m. yesterday, when, after a 75-minute meeting, the President, Mr. W. L. Blythe, declared the business ©f the Aav over. At this last meeting of the olo Commission, which wms attended by
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    TO RECORD WEATHER
    75 7 The Meteorological Department In Singapore has completed arrangements to restart recordings of temperatures and rainfall. Publication of these recordings was temporarily suspended on the outbreak of the war. Details would now be available of rainfall, and maximum and minimum temperatures for the last 24 hours, lt was
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    R.A.A.F. CHIEF AT TENGAH
    81 7 Air Marshal George Jones, Chlel of Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, arrived i at Tengah yesterday afternoon on his way from Sydney to London. The main purpose of his mission to London Is to attend the British Commonwealth Air Conference. The Air Marshal
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    CASE AGAINST – OEHLERS
    45 7 CASE AGAINST OEHLERS Three days, April 27, 28 and 2* were Taservefl lr the Third District Court yesterday for the case against Frederick Bernard Oehlers who \a claiming trial on a charge of giving false Information against Al Rivers. Oehlers is on bail of $2,00(»
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    Award Fop Magician
    76 7 ,11k wellknown Singapore amateur magician, Mr. Tan Hock Chum, has received news from New York hat he lias been given the Sphinx International Magicians' Award for 1949. Vhe dtetinction was made for his art of stage malic and outsU»«nif feats of mafic during the past yeas. Mr.
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    12 Frightened Bandits Run Into Police Patrol
    204 7 12 Frightened Bandits Run Into Police Patrol From Our' Staff Correspondent KUALA UTMPUR, Tuesday. JWELVE bandits fleeing from an R.A.F. raid <m a camp in the coastal area of Selangor ran into a police patrol and were cancrht, it was gtated in an Air Command communique. The R.A.F. aircraft "liquidated"
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    WAITRESS SLAPPED -Court Told
    173 7 WAITRESS SLAPPED -Court Told A FORMER detective was alleged in the Fourth Court yesterday to have slapped and fisted a coffeeshop waitress when she "refused to go for a stroll with him." The dttective was Tan York Kwang alias Tham Mul Kia. He was charged with having criminally intimidated the
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    London Sees Malayan Film
    61 7 A Gaumont British newsreel of the war m Malaya between British troops and insurgents, shows the Devonshire Regiment and the Inniskllllng Fusiliers making their way thraugh dense Jungle under fire from snipers, says a Reuter message from London. British aircraft are shown bombing the route ahekd
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    BODY FOUND
    50 7 From Our Own Corresnondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. The remains of a man were 1 found across the railway track north of the Kota Tlnerei overhead railway bridge It is believed that he was run over by one of the night trains The man has rot yet been identified.
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    "PROVOCATION"
    48 7 For voluntarily >:a'.i3ing hurt to a woman Mohamrd Yacob. a Malsy. fm« •entfneed at Singapore Assizes yestorday to a vear'-= rUnrons lmnrisonment The c agreed that the offence wa. done under grave provocation and ordered the sentence to take effect from date of arrest, six months ago.
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    Malaya's 'Worst Rubber Cargoes' Went To Russia
    197 8 Malaya's 'Worst Rubber Cargoes' Went To Russia tFrom Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. SSIA last year receivd "probably the worst shipments of rubber ever to leave the shores of iv, Penang Chamber of Commerce's annual report presented today. Describing Russian buying as the main feature of the local rubber market,
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    57 8 MRS. ANNIE O'KEEFE, her husband and children read congratulatory telegrams after the Australian High Court had ruled that she could stay in Australia. As a result, the Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, proposes tightening of the Immigration Act to provide for deportation of aliens without explanation. The Australian Cabinet will
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    Jap And U.S. Cloth Spoiled The Market
    80 8 I From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. PENANG'S textile market was very strong till the end of last April, and was able to absorb considerable quantities of Government goods and all private imports at extremely satisfactory prices, says the Chamber of Commerce 1948
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    Penang's Rubber Exports
    55 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. EXPORTS of rubber through Penang in 1948 totalled 232,079 tons, or 23.70 per cent: of the entire Malayan .shipments of 979,172 tons, says the Penang Chamber of Commerce an nual report. The Malayan output for 1948 was 696,978 tons, about 50,000
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    TRADE IMPROVED DESPITE TERROR
    144 8 From Our Staff Corres ponded c PEN KS G.Tuesday. DESPITE the emergency and 'too long delayed" action against terrorism, Penan? 's trade last year showed a marked increase, according to the 1948 report of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. Imports rose by 40.83 per cent., exports
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    'Cash Down' Days Over
    83 8 'Cash Down Days Over From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. WITH practically no exception, Penang traders are now not insisting on "cash before delivery," declares the Penang Chamber of Commerce in its annual general report presented today. The majority of import houses giving credit, the Chamber states, are doing so
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    More Siam Tin-Ore Goes To U.S.
    177 8 More Siam Tin-Ore Goes To U.S. From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. MALAYAN smelters have lost a great deal of ore from Slam to the Texas smelter largely because of the American currency's exchange position, says the Penang Chamber of Commerce report foi lait year. The report says this loss
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    TAX RETURNS COULD AID PENANG
    193 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. MUCH could be done with th e $5,000,000 which 1 Penang wa s expected to pay in income tax, said the Federal Legislative Councillor, Mr. D. A. Mackay, last night. "It is a very large sum and would be
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    Rusted Gun Found
    24 8 A Singapore Indian municipal labourer yesterday found a rusted and unserviceable American -type of revolver by a drain in Stamford Road.
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    "Europeans Blind To Writing On The Wall" Says Souter
    551 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. "THE Europeans in Malaya are much too easy-going and blind to the writing on the wall", said Mr. J. P. Souter addressing the annual meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. Describing the
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    41 9 PATRICIA BAND, John Seaton and Pamela Titheradge rehearse a scene from This Happy Breed, Noel Coward's famous play about a London family, to be presented by the Stage Club in Singapore on April 7, 8, 9 and 10. Mobile Photo Service.
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    19 Commissioners Appointed
    622 9 rpHE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, yesterday completed th e membership of the new Singapore Municipal Commission by appointing nine nominated members. I Below are pictures and short sketches of the careers of the nominated Commissioners, who take their seats at today's first meeting of the
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    COURT DELAYS
    30 9 Thtre are 713 cases outstanding in Singapore District and Police Courts. An ofneial announcement yesterday said that there had been a decrease in the number of outstanding cases.
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    Son Charged Father Gaoled
    60 9 TttLUK ANSON, Tues. WHEN Lim Boon Chay was charged today in the Sessions Court with illegal possession of chandu, his father, Lim Kong Goh, stepped forward and admitted ownership. Mr. B. G. Smith, president of the Court, accepted the father's admission. The son was acquitted and
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    SAVED FROM GALLOWS BY TWO WEEKS
    135 9 From Our Staff Corresppndent MALACCA, Tues. TWO weeks after the arrest of two youths in company ot armed bandits at Kemendore Jasin, the law was amended to make death the only penalty for that offence. That was pointed out by Mr. Justice Pretheroe today
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    NEW TAX ON CARS URGED
    154 9 NEW TAX ON CARS URGED IF me Municipal Connivesioners taxed private cars ati aociltlonal $2 per hur»rpower, Mr. Sin Man ¥ow estimated that the revenue would be $305,412 on the number of private cars now in the city. This, he suggested at yesterday's meeting of the Commissioners, could be used
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    DROP IN TRISHAWS
    108 9 SINGAPORE'S licensed trishaw riders have decreased from 10,492 to 9,441 in three months since the end of last year. The Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. W. A. M. Watts, yesterday said that the 1,051 exriders were those who had failed to re-llcense themselves. The number of licensed public
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    FORCED THE DOOR OPEN
    80 9 Fellow workers of a hospital assistant employed at Pulau Brani were unable to get lnt-. his room on Mar. 21. Forcing open the door they found the mna, Narayana Menon, aged 33, lying on the bed dying. On a table near the bed was a bottle
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    KOTA TINGGI WEDDING
    39 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— The marriage was celebrated yesterday at Kota Tinggi of Mr. X, Ramu, managing partner of Chandra Co., and Mss Kamalam. daughter of Mr. C, X, Raman, of the Government Printing Office, Johora Bahru.
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    Singapore Diary
    109 9 '4ODAV St. John Ambulance Brigade, East Coast Corps, First Aid class. Oeylang English School. 5.30 p.m. Anson Athletic Association, monthly general meeting, 53-A. Nelson Road, 7.30 p.m. Medical College Ahimnl Association, clinico-pathologlcal meetIng, Department of Pathology, General Hospit? l 8 p.m. T.M.C.A., Orchard Road. Singapore chess club, 5
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    Britain Closes The Gap
    1338 10  -  RICHARD DENMAN Economic Spotlight On The News By of The Economist LONDON, Apr. 1. AMID the weltei- of feet and fiction, estimates and "guestimates," which abound in the Economic Survey for 1949, one point stands out and dominates the scene: it is the achievement of a
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    Rubber: U.S. Uses More
    191 10 From Our Own Carrwpondent LONDON. A STEADY growth In American consumption of natural rubber and a very definite increase la consumption throughout the rest of the world are made plain in a new table setting out the trend of world rubber production and consumption, now published
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    London Stocks
    339 11 LONDON, Tues. A 8 Budget Day (tomorrow) approached,. Interest in the London Stock Exchange began to fade yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Some sections were easier. Rubbers declined and Tins were irregularly lower. Some trading was done in Breweries and Tobaccos In the hope that some taxation relief
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    The Produce Market
    147 11 From A Market Correspondent rpHE Singapore sago flour mar1 ket had a fairly active day yesterday. Prices Improved slightly. Except for continued optimism In pepper, conditions in other sections of the produce markets were quiet and unchanged. Yesterday's quotations wrre: •of Ux' .No 1 $39; 2> $37:
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    INDUSTRIALS A FIRM MARKET
    737 11 From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Tuesday. INDUSTRIALS in the Malayan share market were 1 definitely firmer today. Business was transacted at slightly better levels, with buyers unsatisfied at the close. Tins were quiet, remaining at around Monday's prices. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were:
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    Dow Jones Averages
    20 11 Industrials Rails Domestic Bonds Utilities Apr. 2 176.88 48.72 98.56 35.45 Apr. 4 176.59 48.69 98-53 35-44
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    Singapore Rubber
    177 11 AFTER Monday's weakness the Singapore rubber market recovered yesterday, opening half a cent higher. Turn-over was moderate, with small fluctuations throughout the day. Closing prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers 35% cents, sellers 36 cents; spot loose buyers 35% cents, sellers 30 cents per lb. The
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    SHIPPING IN PORT
    109 11 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Empire Hamble, Nanchang, Benmacdhul (38-39), Stentor (36), Malaya (33-34), Steel Navigator (31-32). Empire Dock: Tydeus t.23-24), Islander (27-28-, Okhla (29-30). We«t Wharf: Trewellard (13-14), Calchas (11-12), Canton (1-2). Dunera (8-9). Today's
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    Takuapa Valley Tin Dredging
    53 11 rpAKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging announces that in March the No. 1 dredge worked 607 hours, covered 120,000 cubic yards and won 256 piculs of ore. The No. 2 dredge worked 471 hours, covered 125.000 cubic yards and won 58 piculs of ore. The No. 2 dredge
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    41 11 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR rues. ■TIN-ORE outputs of companies 1 in the Burma-Malay group in March were: Katu Tin Dredging 87.000 cubic yards dredged, 260 piculs won. Renong Consolidated Tin Dredging—22o,ooo cubic yards dredge?! 766 piculs won.
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    TALAM MINES
    14 11 TALAM Mines' output for the month of March, 1949, was 611 piculs.
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    DANES SET ON AVENGING CUP DEFEAT
    412 12 DANES SET ON AVENGING CUP DEFEAT April 11 Match Against Malaya COPENHAGEN, Tuesday. THE all-conquering Malayan badminton team, holders of the Thomas Cup, can be beaten by Denmark if the Danes play the right sort of game in their match her e on Apr. 11, according to Ken Davidson, trainer-manager
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    45 12 MARCEL Cerdan (France), world middleweight champion, knocked out t>ick Turpin (Leamington), British and Empire champion, in the seventh of a scheduled 10round contest at the Empress Hall. Earl's Court, London, on Mar. 29. Here Turpin (left) is seen covering up against an attack by Cerdan.
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    Grand Prix II Is Fit Again
    402 12  - Grand Prix II Is Fit Again EPSOM JEEP By 1P0H, Tuesday. npHE Kaster race s at Ipoh should provide a useful guid e to form students for the five-day meet at Bukit Timah next month. Practically all the horses running at Ipoh will be entered for the Singapore meeting. The
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    Weights For Saturday
    290 12 IFOH, Tues. I WEIGHTS for Saturday, April v the flr»t day of Perak Turf Club Easter Meeting arf: CLASS 1, DIV. 1— Fl'R*. No Regrets 9.04 Bright Kinder Eyw 7 10 Gold 9.04 Liberty Permit* Man 7.10 Dormez 9.02 High Some 8tr«tt 7 08 Cla»« 8.10 Cabaret
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    SECOND DAY
    143 12 \t TEIGHTS for four races on vv Wednesday. April 3, the second day, are: CLASS V...M RS. STR. Haydee 9 00 Kentucky Christmas II 8 00 Knight 8 11 Precious Saldan 8.11 Stream 7.13 Jimmy 8.10 Marcheta Everbright 8.06 Marcheta 7.09 Ramu «.03 Se San 7.07 CLASS 2,
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    C.H.S. SOCCER
    46 12 IN friendly soccer matches played over the week-end, the Commercial High School held the Customs S.C. to a one-all draw. They trounced the Aston S.C. by eight goals to three and went down, to the Blue and White Younßsters by two goals to nil.
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    U.K. SOCCER
    35 12 LONDON, Tues Results in j yesterday's English league soccer games were: Division II: Bradford 2, Southampton 0; Cardiff 2, Bury 1.1 Division .111 .(Northern):; Rochdale 1, M'nsfleld 0: Rotherham 2. Oldham I.— A.P
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    GLENTORAN WIN
    19 12 LONDON, Tues. Olentoran beat Portadown three-nil in the semi-final replay of the Irish Cup soccer* competition yesterday.
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    41 12 LEAGUE SOCCER: SAFA Bnr. I Div., KoU Raja v. Rovers J. Besar; Jnr! A. Grp. 1, Royal Navy "B" v. RAF Tengah— Geylanc; Jnr. B. Grp. I, Jol- j Iliads v. Borneo Motors 8C CYMA grnd.. Si. George's Rd.
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    Rovers Meet Kota Raja Today
    178 12 Rovers Meet Kota Raja Today HOT FAVOURITES in the S.A.F.A. Senior League. Rovers Sports Club and Kota Raja meet at Jalan Besar Stadium this afternoon in the most Important match so far th" season. Rovers top the tables with eight points from four games and a fine coal average of
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    Monaghan Has Big Task Today
    121 12 Monaghan Has Big Task Today LONDON, Tuesday. "THE signing Irishman," Rinty Monaghan, world flyweight champion, faces no easy task In the defence of his title, against Maurice Sandeyron, French holder of. the European crown, when j they meet at King's Hall, Belfast, tomorrow. Both boxers, who are in Belfast doing
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    S.C.S. SOCCER XI
    53 12 THE following will represent the 1 Singapore Cold Storage S.C. in a friendly soccer match against the Borneo S.C. on the Government Printing Office ground at 5.15 p.m. today: Donaldson; Twa Tow, Abdul Kadlr; Hassan. Chwee Eng Calder; Swee Eng. Ah Kow, Murray Shaik Mohd. Sulong. Reserves:
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    TENGAH AIRMEN WIN 4-0
    218 12 TN one of the keenest Junior A Group One B.A.F.A. league games so far this season, R.A.F. Tengah ran out winners over Kota Raja "B" by four goals to nil at Geylaag stadium yesterday. The Airmen fully deserved their win. They combined well and at no
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    CLYDE IN FINAL
    33 12 GLASGOW, Tues. DV beating Dundee in the Scottish Cup semi-flnal replay at Hampden Park yesterday, Clyde qualified to meet Rangers in the final at the same venue on April 23
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    HONG KONG WIN CRICKET FINAL
    432 12  -  MALCOLM USHER By defeating Technical Win* in the cricket of the A.C.F.E. Olympic Week competition Hon* Kony went on to beat Ne*ombo in the final at Seletar yesterday, to win the first event decided to date. Batting first against Tech. Wing, the Hong Kong side
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