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Title Section29 1949-04-24 1 LARGEST NETT SALES IK MALAY! THE SUNDAY TIMES Suna > v tdiiion of til* Strait* Ilmea <S. Singapore Fr«. Prott No. 717. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1949. PRICE 111 CENTS29 words
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Article385 1949-04-24 1 CHAOS AS REDS ENTER NANKING Looters wreck shops, offices NANKINC, Saturday. COMMUNIST troops entered Nanking at midday today following the collapse of the Nationalist defence of the Yangtse rivet line and the retreat southwards of thousands of the city's defenders, most of them without arms. With the hurried evacuation ofReuter; AP; UP - 385 words
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Article, Illustration31 1949-04-24 1 SINGAPORE firemen, jtop the roofi. fight a blaxe which destroyed rccli of film in the vaults of the 20th Century Fox Films building in Trafalgar Street yesterday. Story in Page 7.31 words
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Article238 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Saturday. -J"HE 500 Ib. bomb found near Kuala Lumpur railway station blew a crater 20 yards across and 10 yards d.'.-p when it was exploded in a valley four miles from •)v.n this affernoon. Major Thornton. CO of238 words
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Article86 1949-04-24 1 S'inilay Tim«> Staff Reporter NhWS was received in Singapore yesterday, thtt Flyine Officer John To'ie, R.A.F.. aged '\h, son t'i .Mr. and Mis. Tom Mo[ie Sin^apon. was report'•■l nlalßf in an aircraft j «»iT the coast of Yorkshire on Friday and is Relieved b«VC lost his life.86 words
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Article82 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times i oi respondent SINGAPORE Chinese were urged yesterday by Mr Chong Thutt Pitt, an elected Municipal Commissioner, to register as voters when the Municipal electoral rolls artopened again in June. He was speaking at a dinner given in his honour by the Fui82 words
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Article64 1949-04-24 1 PEARL HARBOUR. Sat 'lUIE U.S. destroyers. Fech--1 teler and Leonard F. Mason, collided 50 mlle s southtMsl of Pearl Harbour early o:i Friday. Each reached P* arl Harbour under its own D')wer. A ten-foot hole was ripped In the port side of the Fech-U-ler. The Mason64 words
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Article28 1949-04-24 1 CANTON. Sat. Chine l reports said 11 persons wcie killed and many injured ycsierday In a derailment of a Hankow train bound fur Canton. A.P.AP - 28 words
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Article132 1949-04-24 1 Tears at sailors' burial SHANGHAI. Sat. MEN and women amid a large foreign gathering wept unashamedly toda> as 23 British officers and men killed when Communists shelled British warships in the Yangtse were burif in the International Cemete. As the ceremony progrt cd. a RAF. Sunderland droved overhead on aReuter - 132 words
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Article108 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter |ORD Listowel, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, hao sent to the Commissioner General. Mr. Malcolm MarDonald— Chancellor of the Universih of Malaya congratulations on the founding of the Unit rsity. Thr message reads: "in the Secretary of State's absence. I wish108 words
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Article19 1949-04-24 1 CAIRO, Sat. Informed sources said that Egypt will recognise Col. Zaim'j new Syrian regime tomorrow. U.P.UP - 19 words
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Article123 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. gANDII ytjtetday evening killed a police constable at the Shell depot near Taiping. The constable was a member of a police section which had been sent to the depot from Taiping following a report of an exchange of123 words
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Article35 1949-04-24 1 SAIGON, Sat. CochinChina— ricebowl of IndoChina— will Join the new Republic of Vietnam, tht Cochin-China Territorial A»sembly decided today. The new state will be headed by Bao Dal, exiled ex-Emneror of Annam.— Reuter.Reuter - 35 words
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Article38 1949-04-24 1 NEW YORK. Sat—American motor ca. manufactui- turned out 134.589 cars last week sligrtly more than 934 every hour of the week day ind night, and slightly more I than 15 every minute.— U. P.38 words
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Article161 1949-04-24 1 SHANGHAI. Saturday £HIANG Kai-shek was reported to have arrived in Shanghai today as its forces were being rallied for a supreme effort to halt the Communist march to the south. Gen Chen T«-chin, the Shanghai garrison commander, announced at an emergency meeting of military and civicReuter; UP - 161 words
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Article116 1949-04-24 1 HK MAY HALT MAINLAND REFUGEES HONG KONG. Sat. rE Hong Kong Government U considering restrictions on the immigration of Chinese into the colony as tilt Chinese c:vil war moves south from the Yangtse. according to informed sources. No official confirmation was available. The sources said such a step is definitely116 words
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Article100 1949-04-24 1 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. A TWENTY -MINUTE battle was fought with bandits on Roscote Estate in the Johore Bahru area last night Casualties are not known. Shots were .also fired on Lanadron Estate (Muar), Chan Weng Estate (Segamat), and Benta Estate, Kuala Lipis.100 words
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Article62 1949-04-24 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A BANDIT who lost the lest of his patrol in the jungle and wandered about on his own for three days was captured by police in the Jasin area of Malacca today. He had no identity card and was unarmed. Two bandits were62 words
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Article96 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A YOUTH, Tan Yok Chen, who changed the age jriven in his identity card from 17 years to 19 told the First District Judge yesterday that he did so because he found it difficult to get employment. "I tried to find work96 words
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Article, Illustration401 1949-04-24 1 Dumb victim of Japs is found at last Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINCAPORE'S 23 year old disappearing dumb man. ex- volunteer Tan Sing Chong, wandered into the C.1.0.. and then into the office of the Sunday Times, today cam* to the end ot his journey. "And, thank Cod, lam happy401 words
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Article211 1949-04-24 1 Sunday Times Stall Krport r niscussiONS have taken place recently among j small "roup of promt! men with the objeu v" launching a Singapore I tionalist Party, which follow a policy to that oi Liberal Party in Briian: A spokesman of ill" said the proposed p would211 words
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Advertisement84 1949-04-24 1 TAILORING Of PISTIMCTIOH I\™W 1 '.i.l^\ J)S) word on Packaging k km M St P e °P lewiil a B r that Rothmans It'] De Luxe are very fine cigarettes indeed. j It i» natural, therefore, that pains should be taken to ensure that their protection is maintained during their84 words
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Article, Illustration1441 1949-04-24 2 M.T. JAIMON - CEYLON, TOO, BUILDS A VARSITY M.T. JAIMON by Old Timer remembers 'Vulture' pEYLON is building a home for its university at a cost of 35 million rupees. It will take ten years to complete. The site is near Veradeniya, 70 niles from Colombo and four miles from Kandy, the iast1,441 words
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Article, Illustration404 1949-04-24 2 KEBUN - KEBUN >i:i.':'I:it-i:mj:i ZINNIA Is an annua' which requires planting about every thre months. It has been found that Imported seed of Zinnias produce much better plants than seed collected locally and used to perpetuate stock. Seed Imported from Australia Is quite satisfactory but if seeds are collected404 words
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Article171 1949-04-24 2 SCHUMANN'S "A" Minor Concerto. Of.. 54, bit most paraanal and bea«ttM work and bit only concerto for tfce piano, hai been beautifully recorded by Dim Lipatti Thoee who know Lipatti's work wiH agree that he hat the right tern perament for Schumann. This concerto demands jk>c171 words
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Advertisement222 1949-04-24 2 Without service f punctuality Making watches and servicing them is a highly specialised occupation in which Swiss experts lead 16 Colly er Quay Singapore aj&alL «Hk t/^ 11 aty E* What a difference it makes flsing Pepsodent, the only tomnpaste that contains Irium. For there's no more effective teeth clcansinj;222 words
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Article278 1949-04-24 3 Few become 2nd offenders Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE establishment of Borstal Institutions will be one of the tasks of the Federation's new Commissioner of Prisons, Mr. 0. V. Carratt. "A great deal depends on the treatment of the young offender" he told278 words
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Article, Illustration31 1949-04-24 3 THE wedding took place at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday or Miss Eleanor Marjory Hsgedorn snd Mr. |ohn Ernest Cogswell, The groom b a director of Dunlop Rubber Purchasing Co. Ltd., Singspore.31 words
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Article69 1949-04-24 3 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's 'noon prices ou Saturday, Apr. 23, [were In cents per lb.: Buyer Seller No. 1 R.S.S. Spot I loose nominal 354 35% 1 F.OB, in bales May No. 1 R.S.S. 35' i 35% No. t R.S.B. 34 34K No. 3 R.S.S. 3269 words
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Article172 1949-04-24 3 MALAY GIRL WILL NOT FORGET FAITH Sunday Times Staff Reporter j JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. rrvHOUGH a Malay girl Is go- < A Ing to a Melbourne Church of England school to matriculate, she will adhere to her Muslim faith. Five t'n,e a daily she will face Mr cc and recite172 words
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Article109 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.: At j the second annual general meetting of the Johore Teachers Union, held at the Buklt Zahrah English School yesterday, tbe following were elected officebearers for tl year 1949-1950: President: Mr. 800 Ho Kum Chin, Killing; Vice-President: Mrs. M. Hodgson, Johore109 words
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Article118 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. IN Singapore, there are 51 men from the sleepy little 1 town of Bukit Mertajam Pointed Mountain Province Wellesley. who played together when they were boys at school. Now, when they meet and chat occasionally, one constant source of surprise to the118 words
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Article124 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Stall Reporter BUTTERWORTH, Sat. "IRRESPECTIVE of race and 1 colour, the laws of this country must be observed by everybody," the Circuit Magistrate, Mr. E. M. Smallwood, told a Negri Sembllan planter, W. W. Gounnan, today. Gourman was fined $75 on each of two124 words
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Article52 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THERE will be a recital of recorded music "Viennese Programme"— at the Rallies Institution School Hall today at 7 p.m. Old Rafflcsians and friends, staff and senior students of schools, members of the Kiwi League and the People's Education Association are52 words
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Article137 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ALTHOUGH there Is no offl- clal censor for books and .nagazines In Singapore, cert;!iij regulations are in force to prevent the wrong type of literature coming Into the Colony. Literature In Chinese Is sent to the Chinese Secre- tariat for scrutiny137 words
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Article286 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. ABOUT 300 men of Vakkom, a tiny village in the princely state of Travancore, South India, are living in Singapore. Some came here as longages as 25 years, and most of them are labourers at the Naval Base and in286 words
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Article94 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat 1 I WAS tired of this counM. try as I hadn't any money and was making my way to Singapore by foot, intending to return to China from there, when I was arrested." said Wong Siew Tin, aged 33, when charged94 words
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Article29 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— Appar Naldu, a rice mill labourer, was fined $25 at Parlt Buntar for possessing one gallon of toddy.29 words
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Article146 1949-04-24 3 Colony leads as air centre Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINCAPORE is still the leading air centre in Far East, outstripping Hong Kong and Bangkok, a Civil Aviation official told the Sunday Times yesterday. Five hundred and twentynine civil aircraft landed or took off at Singapore's two civil aerodromes in March.146 words
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Article124 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Sat. TWENTY TWO YEAR-OLD Indonesian artist, Tonny Saptohoedojo, is "greatly disappointed from the financial point of view" with his oneman art exhibition in Penang but is "happy" that so many people have viewed his pictures. Saptohoedojo has sold 14 of the 55124 words
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Article, Illustration41 1949-04-24 3 MR. and Mrs. Eio Yong Phusng sfter their wedding Issr week. Mrs. Eio was Miss Lea Soo Lan, daughter of Mr. snd Mrs. Le« Wee Nsm. Mr. Eio is the aMest son of Mr. snd Mr*. Eio Ngisn Meng. Raffles photo.41 words
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Article48 1949-04-24 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A meeting to form an AllMalaya Malay Artists' Association will be held at the Kota Raja Club on May 1. Those who wish to join should send their names and addresses to Inche Juraimi bin Shamsuri, c/o, the Botanical Gardens, Singapore.48 words
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Advertisement222 1949-04-24 3 TO-DAY AT 11 A.M.— M-O-M's ♦'ANCHORS AWEIGH" in Technicolor 50c A »1/- TO KLLI —Te-day at 3, 6.15 A 9.15 pjn M-O-M's Musical Paradise! "ON AN ISLAND WITB TOO" starring Either Williams Peter I iwford —to Technicolor GREAT WORLD GLOBE 2.15— 6.15— 9.U "THE SEA-HOUND" Whole Serial NEW WOKI.n LIDO222 words
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Article, Illustration603 1949-04-24 4 808 GILMORE - 808 GILMORE By MELBOURNE, Apr. 17. HIGHER-level talk of Australia's children growing up between ricksha shafts underlines how White Australia might easily become a phoney issue at this year's general election. It would be a phoney issue for the reason that every Australian political party supports603 words
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Article607 1949-04-24 4 MRS. Gaskell started it Jw all. She, with her "Charlotte Bronte," opened the floodgates and started on its tumultuous, unheeding way the river of Bronte biography, commentary and criticism the river from which, for a hundred yea.s, the Bronte legend has drunk deep and grown awesome. The607 words
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Article132 1949-04-24 4 DECENTLY a firm 0/ white ant ex- terminators captured what is believed to be the biggest Queen Ant ever found in Singapore, 2»/ 4 inches long and as thick as a man's thumb. The queen has been preserved as a "show piece" at the firm's premises.132 words
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Article, Illustration637 1949-04-24 4 PETER ROBINSON - PETER ROBINSON STEPS IN PHOTOGRAPHY By In this series of arti- cles for the SUNDAY TIMES a Singapore professional combines his experience as a photographer with his knowledge of the difficulties that beset the amateur, to help you take good pictures. PHOTOGRAPHY Is a pastime637 words
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Article273 1949-04-24 5 Takings drop 30 per cent Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S places of entertainment—cinemas, cabarets and cafes have suffered a general falling off in revenue, in some cases as much as 30 per cent., according to a general survey made by th* Sunday Times. The drop273 words
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Article141 1949-04-24 5 $150,000 drive for YWCA KUALA LUMPUR Sat. A DRIVE to collect $150,000 for a flew club and hostel forthe Y.W.C-A. here will be started on Apr. 20 and will include a flag day, a mannequin parade, two dances and other attractions. The Inauguration of the appeal was held at the141 words
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Article69 1949-04-24 5 nnHE Singapore Clerical and X Administrative Workers' Union has decided to experiment with fortnightly or weekly socials so that members can get together and understand one another better. The first social for this purpose will be held next Saturday in the Union Hall at Rangoon69 words
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Article72 1949-04-24 5 ALL proceeds from the sale of programmes at the Teachers Repertory production of Bernard Shaw's play, "Saint Joan," will go to the fund being launched for the i St. Andrews Mission Hospital i during Hospital Week, May 2 9. Nurses from the hos- pital will72 words
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Article52 1949-04-24 5 The Raja Muda of Per us will leave on May 18 for England, where he Intends to stay for one year. Another Malay to go to England shortly is Inche Hamzah bin .Da to Abu. Samah, assistant private secretary to the Sullan of Pahang. He will52 words
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Article32 1949-04-24 5 SEGAMAT, Sat.— Charged with assaulting a Chinese on Johore Labis Estate, Cha'ah village, with an axe, 18--year-old Tan Ban was produced In the Segamat Court and offered ball in $250.32 words
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Article119 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. INFORMATION centre* and reading rooms maintained 1 by the Public Relations Department in Johore have been closed down because the Federal Cover men t has withdrawn financial support. These centres were serving a growing public, and had become119 words
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Article83 1949-04-24 5 A 22-YEAR-OLD Chinese, Tay Kwee Tiong, also j known as Tay Kwee Hock, claimed trial in the Third Police Court yesterday on a I charge of impersonating a i public servant. He Is alleged to have told i a taxi driver, Tan Boon Leng, i that he83 words
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Article40 1949-04-24 5 •Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat.— For falling to notify his change of address from Pontian to Jementah village, 35-year-old Tan Seng, was fined $25 with the option of three weeks' gaol by the Segamat Magistrate.40 words
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Article31 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Sat.— Mr. Bhagwan Singh of the tutorial staff and Scoutmaster of the Clifford School. Kuala Kangsar, has returned from India with his family.31 words
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Article, Illustration243 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. CADHU Lam Jeevaratnam, who arrived in Singapore from Colombo on Thursday to make a six-day tour of Malaya, is an artist and actor who abandoned that career for evangelism after a voice had spoken to him in kit hotel room in Leeds,243 words
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Article110 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PFTY three new distance and speed records were set up by the new British-made Austin A9O at Indianapolis (U.S.A.), this week. There records were in its own class and another ten records were set up In the unlimited class. Th* model, which110 words
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Article50 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sat r'O Indians. Velayutham and Palanlappan, were each offered ball In $50 by the Segamat Magistrate (Chs Bldln) when charged with failure to carry their identity cards on them. It was alleged that the accused were arrested walking front or the Bekok police station.50 words
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Article30 1949-04-24 5 Dr. Salmah blnti Ismail. Lady Medical Officer, Alor Star, has become engaged tn Inche Abu Bakar bin Ibrahim, a medical student now attached to the General Hospital. Singapore.30 words
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Article83 1949-04-24 5 EXPERIMENTS IN CANNING Sunday Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sat. The Canning Research Sta- tlon, Scudai, if being equippI ed with new machines to enable experiments In new processes for canning local fruit to be carried out. At the beglning of the wek. members of the Raffles College Economics Society83 words
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Article63 1949-04-24 5 Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sat.— In order to parallel the work of the Drainage and Irrigation Dept., who are bunding the west coastal areas of Johore which are planted mostly with coconuts and whl"h have deteriorated owing to salt water Inundation, an agricultural survey63 words
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Article50 1949-04-24 5 THE Sultan of Kedah will unveil the Kedah Volunteers' war memorial at Sungei Patanl on May 4 at noon. The memorial has been erected in front of the old Volunteer Drill Hall. All attending the unveiling ceremony are requested to arrive not later than 11.40 a.m.50 words
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Miscellaneous233 1949-04-24 5 SINCAPOBE KAm W°T^ *&JBrtt 8.00 ajn. Programme Summary; goo am— l 2 00am As B'pore- El: *llah; 8.00 Siamese; 8.30 News 9.02 Morning Music; 9.30 Latin 100-2.00 pjn.' As B'pore; 2.00- < E^ h): 0 8 48 11^. J^ America o. tn. Air; XO.OO News *^™J£from Kuala Lumpur; 10.05 Inter-233 words
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358 1949-04-24 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1949. NOT-SO-COLD WAR IN ASIA rHE Communists in China, on the flood tide of victory, have launched a great military offensive whose objective can only be to win outright and final domination of the entire country. Battering their way across the Yangste are powerful358 words
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Article184 1949-04-24 6 WHEN trade union leaders from several Asian countries meet in India in the near future to lay the foundation of an Asian Federation of Labour they will be forging yet another weapon for the struggle to contain Communist ambitions. In the past, the trade union movement184 words
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Article, Illustration997 1949-04-24 6 MARIAN WELLS - MARIAN WELLS By WITH the establishment of big industrial concerns in rural areas in Singapore, a new phase is replacing the old humdrum existence led by squatter wives and girls. A routine of work different from that followed for years on their vegetable patches997 words
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Article379 1949-04-24 6 UE has travelled over 15,000 miles within a Month. He has spoken 600,000 words to the highest legal tr 1 unal of the British Empire. Now he Is presiding at the General Assembly of tht United Nations In New York. He left behind In London half379 words
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Article977 1949-04-24 6 C.H.E. DET - Malay— "modern" and standard C.H.E. DET- —by WHEN the Perak branch of the UMNO recently passed a resolution urging the Government to gradually bring about the recognition of the Malay language as the official language of the country, it was giving voice to what has always been foremost in the977 words
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Article290 1949-04-24 6 AMONG the various Indigenous forms of literary arts and dances of South India, "Pathakam" is perhaps the earliest of Its kind. It is the free recitation by a single actor of an epic or mythological story, generally written in Sanskrit in a dignified style known technically as290 words
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Advertisement561 1949-04-24 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. tXMjSWELL-HAGEDORN. On the 23rd April. 1949, at St. Andrews Cathedral. Singapore. John Ernest Cogswell to Eleanor Mariory Hagedorn. > GORDON-BONNET. The wedding of Ivor Craig, elder :on of A C. Gordon of Thornton Heath Surrey New Milton Hampshire and the late Mrs. Oordon to Rise Florence, only daughter561 words
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Article287 1949-04-24 7 500 FILMS DESTROYED IN BLAZE Rooftop fight by firemen Sunday Times Staff Reporter piRE, believed caused by an explosion, destroyed about 500 reels of films stored in three vaults in the offices of American-owned film distributing company, 20th Century Fox, in Trafalgar Street, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Firemen fought the fire287 words
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Article88 1949-04-24 7 ARTIST TO EXHIBIT 200 PAINTINGS Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN exhibition of Chinese a\ p.\.ntlngs by a wellknown artist, Mr. Chen Wenhsi, is to be held at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hill Street irom May 12. The exhibition is being £ponsor?d by the China Society. About 20088 words
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Article58 1949-04-24 7 Miml.iv Times Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Liin Kiam Hee was sentenced lo two mom .s simple imprisonment when he was convicted in the Magistrate's Court today for not being in possession of an identity card. L.m said he was ill during the period of registr.it ion58 words
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Article, Illustration270 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IN a greetings message received yesterday by the Singapore acting Scout Commissioner, Mr. Sandy C. Pill. y. the Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan; said: "Let us take new courage to fight against the evil things abroad in the world today." Singapore270 words
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Article100 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MEMBERS of the public are invited to a debate to be held on Apr. 28 at the British Council Hall at 8.30 p.m., between the East-West Society and the Stamford Ciub. The subject is "That Nationalism is the greatest menace to world100 words
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Article23 1949-04-24 7 The Tanglin Branch ol the Malay Nationalist Party w:ll hold a general meeting at 47 Ehis Road, Singapore, today.23 words
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Article47 1949-04-24 7 a£ p n .Bu Yaacob ibni Sultan Abdul Hamid, younger brother of the Sultan of Kedah and his wife, were among the large number of the people who attended a buffet supper and dance of the Over-Seas League at the Sea View Hotel last night.47 words
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Article77 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter I WAS too drunk to know what I was doing and only realised I was in custody when I awoke this morning,'" said an Indian, Munshi Munsh, in the First District Court yesterday. Munshi added: "I uon't know what happened last night. Prosecuting,77 words
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Article88 1949-04-24 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Seven members of the committee appointed by the Federal Legislative Council to report on the working of the Welfare Department, arrived here yesterday on a factfinding tour. They were K W. S. Godsail, Financial St ratary, Tua? Haji Mohamed Yusoff, Inche Zainal Abidin,88 words
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Article73 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Keporter SIXTEEN hundred children from the Social Welfare Centres of Singapore were treated to a free cinema show at the Capitol Theatre on Friday. Voluntary helpers, led by Lady Gimson were present, and Lady Gimson saw herself on the screen in a73 words
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Article195 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent M vi W zvi,. BUTTERWORTH, Saturday. pLYINC Officer R. Neil, giving evidence in the Coroner s Court at an inquest held today on two RAF crew members, Pilot Michael Berey and Navigator Harris, who died when their Beaufighter crashed near me195 words
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Article82 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Sat. MR. Tan Cheng Lock, Ire"l sident of the Malayan Chinese Association, was discharged today from the Malacca General Hospital where he had been for five days. He will be attended from time to time at his own house by a82 words
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Article78 1949-04-24 7 a poem by Sing P'o, when aged four, as written down by her mother: FAIRY Lark and Joy, Fairy Lark and |ov! When the fairies whistle so gay To wake each singing flower. Then each glistening flower Turns so bright. Then they change to blossom trees, Blossom trees,78 words
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Article42 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR, Sat.— The Circuit Magistrate, Mr. E. M. Smallwood, warned that he would Impose heavier fines in future when he fined Maratheyee $15 at" Nibong Tebal for failing to obtain an identity card.42 words
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Article34 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Singapore Municipal Advertisement By-laws have been amended to exempt posters exhibited in connection with a Government or local government (Municipal or Rural) elections from paying licence fees.34 words
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Article141 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Correspondent I PENANG, Sat. DECAUSE most of their wigs v were lost or looted during the war and had not been replaced, Penang lawyers were not bound to wear wigs in court at present, the President of the Local Bar Committee Mr.141 words
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Article173 1949-04-24 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. A NOTORIOUS armed bandit was killed and 23 rounds of ammunition recovered when a police squad came across a bandit camp in Kampong Jerlun in the Kuala Kangsar district yesterday. As the police party approached the camp an armed173 words
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Article, Illustration416 1949-04-24 7 By TESSIE CORNELIUS. CINC P o, my name means starry ripples looked at me gravely through her spectacles and confided that she loved reading and had a small library of books, of which her favourite was Alice in Wonderland." With which she opened416 words
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Article38 1949-04-24 7 SEGAMAT, Sat.— Alleged to have caused mischief at Bekok by felling a tree and thereby damaging the telephone wires a 35-year-old Malay, Suleiman bin Mohamed, was produced in the Segamat Court and offered bail in $100.38 words
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Article226 1949-04-24 7 Land to yield padi fish Sunday lime;, Staff Correspondent PENANC, Sat. [JACKYARD fishing may be possible for rural residents in Malaya if an experiment now being carried out in Penang by the Fisheries Department proves successful. The project aims to get two yields from the land padi and fish. The226 words
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Miscellaneous1034 1949-04-24 8 tTHIS WEEK FOR YOIL r-Whatthe Stars Foretell- --v CANCER (Jun. 13-Jufcr LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. S3) CAPRICORN (Dec. 21ARUES (Max. tt-Apr. tt) a fjsn* week Hie tide will -Be original in working oat Jan. »)_A food week for -Good for love »d™- tn^forVoofand you will solutions to old problem., romance; The1,034 words
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Miscellaneous432 1949-04-24 8 II7HXN you hare a partial score. do you open the bidding on a minimum hand, or do you bellere that you need something extra because the opponents are certain to "push" you? Most players will pass a borderline hand when they have a partial score. They reason that if they432 words
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Article668 1949-04-24 9 MARY HEATHCOTT at the LONDON, Apr. 14. THE Easter Pa- rade has been competing for attention with the L.C.C. election results and the dastardly (or smart, according to political faith) attempt by the Socialists to retain their power at County Hall even though the majority of Londoners voted668 words
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Article341 1949-04-24 9 IF you'd like to make some biscuits which are delightfully crisp and pretty tr> out these Ideas. They bake very quickly. COCONUT CRACKERS You need:— one cup ol plain flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a pinch of salt and half a341 words
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Article279 1949-04-24 9 IT is pleasant to announce the names of two perfume* which for once do not imply the user thinks she is a "femme fatale" revelling in illicit intrigues, a combination of Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and Nell Cwynn these two new scents are called Decision and Vibration.279 words
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Article, Illustration835 1949-04-24 9 J am a trained teacher lately obliged to return to school after ten years' interval. My discipline has suffered badl> I find I have as much patience as ever but I lack energy. Can you sug- aest any means ol getting back that "grip" on things? —WORRIED. YOU835 words
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Miscellaneous103 1949-04-24 9 CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS: 1. Comatose; 7. Acts; 11. Apes; 12. Toil; 13. Almoners; 15. Tiny; 16. Rue; 17. Kneeling; 19. Inns; 20 Nursed; 21. Oat; 23. Acre; 24. Tropes; 27. Elders; 31. Ants; 32. Lap; 33. Glance; 37. Veto; 38. Endeared; 41. Met; 42. Cage; 43. Manifest; 44. User; 45.103 words
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400 1949-04-24 10 D. Don 's lone hand for Johore Sunday Times Muar Sports Correspondent KJECRI Sembilan, like true champions, displayed brilliant team work and combination and scored a six-two victory over Johore in a Malaya Cup Soccer fixture on the Muar Club Padang yesterday. It400 words
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Article, Illustration31 1949-04-24 10 SHARLAND R.A.F.i gathers Hi* ball from Hoi Meng's teet— om of his many fin* saves in yesterday's Malays Cup match at |alan Betar Stadium. Singapore won one nil. Sunday Times picture.31 words
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Article179 1949-04-24 10 Sunday Times Johore Bahru Sports Correspondent PR the first time in the history of Pengerrang. on the Johore mainland oppostie Changl Point, has run a soccer league competition. The comp-vtition began a month agu is now drawing to a close. TtM Initiative- in starting the league waj179 words
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Article85 1949-04-24 10 Sunday Times Johore Bahru Sports Correspondent THE Johore Bahru District Amattur Athletic Association have elected the following office-bearers fo the current year:— President. Mr. J. Cameron, vicepresident. Mr. F. C. Cooke. Hon. s.crctary and Treaturer. Mr. Chua Sen* Kool. asst. ho.v secretary. Inch? A. Majid Nordln.85 words
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Article50 1949-04-24 10 The RAF. Seletar and the Cheerful Lads Athletic Party drew three-all in a game of friendly soccer played at R.A.P. Equipment Wing yesterday. The scorers for the R.A.P. were Simpson 2, and Hunchback 1. For the Cheerful Lads, Bedln. Quee Ec Hoon and Munlyandy scored one each.50 words
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Article459 1949-04-24 10 LONDON, Saturday. y ICTORY at Bolton today assured Portsmouth of winning the League championship in their Jubilee year. Their victory gave them 56 points from 39 matches, while Newcastle, who could only draw at Liverpool, now have 51 points from 40 matches and cannot finish with459 words
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Article85 1949-04-24 10 CSC CHINESE PLAY DRAW pEYLON Sports Club drew with the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at a cricket game played at Hong Lim Green yesterday. Bob Peries, batting for the Ceylonese, scortd 72 runs. R. V. S. Sundram, playing for the same side, was not out with 60 runs. The Ceylonese85 words
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Article84 1949-04-24 10 P LAYING* their first game after the formation of the Sports Club, Borneo Company's Cricket XI defeated St Andrew's School by 3 wickets and 32 runs. Borneo Company's top scorer was Barnett who hit 24 runs and retired. Next highest was Ouan 'long with 19 runs,84 words
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Article472 1949-04-24 10 I N the last of the series of inter-college cricket matches between Raffles College and the Medical College, Raffles were easy winners by eight wickets. Raffles thus tied the inter-college series, each side having won six games Two games were drawn and one abandoned After472 words
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Article439 1949-04-24 10 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. KUALA IUMPUR, Saturday. CELANCOR won their Malaya Cup match against Com bined Services easily enough this evening, but their form did not suggest that they will go far in this year's competition. The score at Malaya District's stadium was 4 l439 words
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Article223 1949-04-24 10 SIX WICKETS MARGIN IN R.I. MATCH INDIAN Association's Cricket XI defeated Raffles Institution yesterday on R.i.'s ground by six wickets and 2 runs. The highest scorer for I. A. was Oili with 49 not out. The RanVslans batted first, scoring a total of 111 runs, all out. Top scorer was223 words
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Article267 1949-04-24 10 Sunday Times Kuala Lipii Sports Correspondent DLAYINC on their home ground yesterday Pahang surprised Perak in their Malaya Cup tie, winning a thrilling match by the odd goal in three. Pahang, going all out for a win, played grandly all through and fully deserved their267 words
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Article31 1949-04-24 10 St. Patrick's School oeat Chai-gi Prisons In a soccer match at Changl yesterday. Augustine Tan scored for the School in the second half. Stephen Mosbergen re f creed31 words
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Article, Illustration1155 1949-04-24 11 Only goal win over Airmen Singapore 1 Royal Air Force 0 SINGAPORE bear Royal Air Force one nil at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, to clear their first hurdle in the southern section of the Malaya Cup competition. A huge crowd, the largest so far, saw a thrilling1,155 words
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Article, Illustration33 1949-04-24 11 *|"HE Singapore team which b«at RAF. yett«rday: Front row (UH to right): Hoi Meng, J— Siwig, I V iiiaratnam. Kimlan. Chr« H«c. Centre: Morton. Van. Haritk. tack row: Leembruggcn. Ounan Angullii Chin Ly«33 words
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238 1949-04-24 11 "THE Malayan Government it giving active support to 1 the Amateur Athletic Association of Malaya in a national drive to find a team which will represent Malaya at the Olympic Games in 1952. In a letter to the Sunday Times. Mr. F. C. Cooke,238 words
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Article118 1949-04-24 11 17 teams for Comm. House League Sunday Times Peaang Sparta Cot icspvtMC&t SEVENTEEN Teams from 18 commercial houses hare entered far the first Inter-Commercial Hwne badminton competition sponsored by the Clerical and Administrative Staff Union. The competition starts on May 1 with the Shell Co. playing the Mercantile Bank. The118 words
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Article77 1949-04-24 11 Sunday Times Kuatin Sports Cm ill !■■!■< VHE East Pahang cricket trial 1 will be held today on the Main Padang. The following are the players: Plllay's team: V. 8. PUlay. K. 7. Yap. Bewick, Suleiman. Hameah Samah. Maldeen. Barker, A. D Bok. Arshad. Zakarta. Thomas' team:77 words
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Article305 1949-04-24 11 SVMlay Times Kuala Lumpur Sports Reporter FINE bowling by C. Labrooy and P. Mayo enabled the Selangor Eurasian Association to defeat thr Selangor Indian Association by eight wick te in a cricket match played at Taylor Road yesterday Tbe Indians batting flr-t, werr all out305 words
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739 1949-04-24 12 EPSOM |££ P - RA-LI TAJ-GA SHOULD KEEP ON WINNING EPSOM |££P By Billy Carol fit after spell RA-LI and Taj-Ga, two recent Ipoh winners should keep on winning »at the forthcoming Bukit Timah races. Both are much fitter at the moment judging by th«ir track showing yesterday morning. Taj-Ga (Lawler) did a winning739 words
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Article, Illustration33 1949-04-24 12 BL'-NT BROWN (M. Beary upi winning Hie Henry VIII stakes by a neck from Bobo W. (right) in a thrilling finish at Hurst Park. Burnt Brown Is owned by Lord Portal. Fox photo.33 words
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Article, Illustration43 1949-04-24 12 BILLr COOK. 39-year old Australian jockey, how in Bi tun, is in great demand by wmmwn. In Australia, he wai .'impion jockey on seven it :uions. He rode four win- -i the first six day* of the t tr-.-jcing season at Liverpool. Rcutrrphoto.43 words
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Article126 1949-04-24 12 ItaKi islurt ii..inu p rt> (i i<>;)'Hldfiit ma i.- .-.ii-iMs :.lly .viie:i hi first li ..■•ib:i!l i on tht Sultan [brahlßi Schocl padane. >ni the rid the Suiter. Ibrahim School a;.'. <. ulted In a ry for the 5.1.0.5. by fiaht to three he first of "in;h bintc Ahmed126 words
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Article213 1949-04-24 12 THE Police beat the Sinhalese Sports Club by seven wickets in a game of cricket played at Thomson Road yesterday. Scores: SINHALKSi: L. Wejeveera run out 28, J. M. Fernando b S. K. Sun drain 9, Mayo Pereira c Omar b J. C. Cooke- 13,213 words
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Article49 1949-04-24 12 Sunday Times Farit Bunlar Sports Correspondent THE Krlan P.W.D. enhance, their chancos for league honMH when they beat the Soon \f- Blues by one goal to nil In a Si cond Division league fixture nl-iyecS at Bagan Serai. I -mail scored late in the first hall.49 words
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Article419 1949-04-24 12 The full lbt of weights for the first day. Saturday Apr. SO, are CLASS I— Div. I—6 Fur. 5 yds. I 314 Kinder <iol<T 91 I 000 Permi/a Dormea ».O 120 Crovdon 812 003 Gold OMta 8.5 j 222 hint Arthur 8.2 100 Billy Carol 8.1 210419 words
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331 1949-04-24 12 and Second Division League tables up to and including Anril 22. Sunday Times Ipoh Sports Correspondent. XA/'TH one match to go for the completion of their first round ties, the Ching Churn are still unbeaten in the First Divtson League. Their closest rivals331 words
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628 1949-04-24 12 KEN JALLEH - KEN JALLEH By I^l ALA Y AN badminton fans, in letters to the Sunday nri Timer are asking for what they claim would be the match of the century the Malayan Thomas Cup team versus the Rest of Malaya. Malayans in this "country,628 words
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Article307 1949-04-24 12 Boxers need better facilities lACK of facilities tor training J boxers-amateurs and professional is an old srou.se. The question has been .aiMd In the Press from time to time but neither the Singapore A.B.A. nor the professional body lias answered the call. Small wonder then that the standard of boxing307 words
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