The Straits Times, 9 June 1949

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    16 1 MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1949. if PRICE TEN CENTS,
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    MALAYAN BIRTHDAY HONOURS C.M.G.s For Gilmour And Godsall
    643 1 MALAYAN BIRTHDAY HONOURS C.M.G.s For Gilmour And Godsall TWO officials head the Malayan list of King's Birthday Honours published today Mr. Andrew Gilmour, Singapore's Secretary for Economic Affairs and Mr. W. D. Godsall, the Federation's Financial Secretary. They become Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. (Jeorge. Two
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    EISLER PROTEST REJECTED
    145 1 LONDON. Wednesday. TORITAIN today formally rejected the Polish protest note of May 16 against the arrest by British police of the German-born Communist Gerhard Eisler in the 14.287-ton Polish liner Batory. hi a British note delivered ilis morning to the °ollsh E'.iba.N.*>y in London l.he For e;
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    M.M.S. LONDON
    33 1 The orui.s. r. H.M.S. London r< ?»ntly damaged in the Y:ingts»\ is expected v< arriv m Singapore from Hongkong mxt Thursday. She will remain at the Naval Base until July 5.
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    NO CENSURE
    35 1 CANBERRA. Wed. The House of Representatives deny 33 votes to 24 a vote ol r j iiMri iiiovfd by the Opposition leader, Mr. Robert M I'zies atainst Mr. Joseph Chifley's Oovprnment. P tit"!'.
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    Wife And Baby Fell Overboard
    103 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Wed. MR. Roy A. Wilson obtalnei a $1,250 settlement fro»n American President Lines today. He sued for $50,000 after his wife and baby went over the rails on the liner General Gordon en route from Manila on March 10, 1948. Mr. Wilson contended
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    TRIAL ROCKETS
    42 1 CANBERRA, Wed First trials with modern rockets will be held soon at the giant 1.200-mile rocket range In the Central Australian Hesert. Senator John Ignatius Armstrong, Minister lor Public Supply, has informed the Australian Defence Council to this effect.— Router.
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    4 Bandits Killed In Fierce Battle
    156 1 A EUROPEAN sergeant and four bandits were killed in the course of a fierce engagement in the Segamat area of Johore yesterday. Early in the afternoon wo 1 bandits went to a shop i Batu Anam and hot the Chinese shopkeeper In the leg
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    Wounded, He Shot Two Bandits
    157 1 Wounded, He Shot Two Bandits From Our Staff t'orri-kpundrnt KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A WOUNDED kampong Malay in the Kuala Lipis area of Pahang <hot a known bandit leader and a member of his gang in the eartv hours of yesterday morning. The Malay, who lived in Kampong Peruang Benta heard
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    AMBUSHED
    35 1 PARIS, Wed.— Several hnndren Vletmlnh soldiers < In-do-Chinese autonomists) who attacked a French post south of Hanoi rushed into ambush and were flung back with 15 dead and 30 wound 'd. was reported today.— Reuter.
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    GIRL STOWAWAY
    42 1 NEW YORK. Wed.-U S. authorities have ordered Miss Cavin A. Ross, aged 22 of Southampton, to he dtported. When she was a <towaway on a British tanker, three members of the crew were Involved in a fight over her.— A.P
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    WAR CRIMES
    27 1 TOKYO. Wed. -The execution of seven Japanese war criminals in Indonesia recently was reported today to the Japanese Government by SCAP'S legal section. -A P
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    60 SECONDS
    18 1 TOKYO. Wed. -The Allied Council for Japan met and adjourned this morning within one minute. -A.P.
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    Indians Take Over
    27 1 NEW DELHI, Wed.— lndian troops have taken over control of Slkklm. on the border of Tibet. "t(T prevent a possible outbreak of violence."— UP.
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    Big Demand For Rice
    96 1 GENEVA. Wed. niFFICULTIES in meeting demands for rice were specifically referred to in the annual report of the International Labour Office presented at the 32nd session of the ILO here yesterday. It was stated that, in a j period where food supplies were far short of
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    Travancore To Be United With Cochin
    134 1 NEW DELHI. Wednesday. TtRAVANCORE and Cochin states, adjoining Indian 1 states on the south-west coast of India, will be formed into a union from July 1, the Indian States The decision, recommended by their legislatures, has been finalised by the signing of a covenant
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    CHIEFTAINESS EXECUTED
    52 1 MASERU. (Basutolmd) Wed. XTAMAKHABANE Boshoanr Pette, Basuto ttaiefUinrss sentenced t > death for ritual murder by the Basutoland High Court last August, was executed here today. Her appeal to the Privy Council was dismissed last week. She is the first woman to be executed in the territory for
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    Used Food Parcel For Smuggling
    108 1 LONDON. Web. 4 ROYAL Air Force flight lieutenant -vas fined €50 and ordered to pay £10 costs at. Biggleswade. Bedfordshire today for trying to evade customs duty on a parcel of 420 imitation pearl necklaces sent from Singapore. The officer, Ambrose Thomas Vacquler, of R.A.F.
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    Birthday Celebrations
    124 1 THE King's Birth*Uy celebrations will open on the Padang at 7.M this morning. From 6.15 until 15 minutes after the Governor leaves, special traffic regulations will be in force and only cars wi*h labels will be allowed in roads leading to the Padang. The Governor, of Singapore Sir
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    MacDONALD POSTPONES HIS RETURN
    155 1 LONDON. fled \|K Malcolm MacOonald iTI Commissioner General in South East Asia, has oost noned his return flight to Slnjapore due for this week-end. Ie is expected to stay at feast ■nother week. Postponement of his return was officially said to be due to pressure of
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    HONG KONG: ALEXANDER IMPRESSED'
    311 1 HONG KON(i, Wednesday. THE British Defence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander, today reiterated Britain's neutrality in China's civil war, and said he was impressed with the keenness and efficicnct of those he contacted in a detailed inspection of the Colony's new (leased) territories bordering China. He
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    POLICE IN H.K. AREA ATTACKED
    76 1 HONG KONG, Wed. THE fourth attack on ihe police within two months in Hong Kong territory was made today when bandits fired on a patrol from an ambush near the Taio police station on the <v;»stern tip of Lantau Island. The patrol was believed to
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    DOCKERS STAGE A PROTEST
    36 1 NEW YORK. Wed.— Nearly 2.000 dockers from Hudson River piers charged a grouo of rival demonstrators at the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association yesterday. Mounted and foot police dispersed them. Reuter.
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    ATOMIC POISON BEING MADE
    37 1 WASHINGTON. Wed— An atomic energy official says the United States is now turning out a product which needs a better name than "deadly poison" to describe it, but he gave no details. U.P.
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      19 Children In Air Disaster
      279 2 FORTY-SEVEN people are now known to have been killed in the airliner which crashed in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico, Central America. There were 19 children aboard. Among the first bodies re-' covered was that of a young girl, who In death still clutched
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      Film Stars To Marry
      108 2 LOUIS CITED—Ex-heavy-weißht champion Joe Louis was named co-respondent ln a divorce suit died by the Rev. Matthew C Falknc against his wife Mattie, aged 27, a New York model. The suit alleeed desertion and adultery.— Reuter NOT IMMLNE The French National Assembly decided, by 211 votes
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      1489 2 NOTICES VICKERS LIMITED A YEAR OF CONSOLIDATION LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR RONALD WEEK'S SPEECH The Eighty-second Annual General Meeting of Vlckers Limited was held ln London, England on May 24th. Lieut. -General Sir Ronald Weeks, K.C.B Ihe Chairman, ln the course of his speech •*id:— In choosing a subject for opening my
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      254 2 NOTICES PROBATIONER TRANSLATORS (MALAY) Applications are Invited for two ports as Probationer Translator (Malay) at Headquarters cf the Department of Education. Kuala Lumpur. Applicants should have the minimum qualifications of a Cambridge School Certificate, Grade II with Credits ln English Language and Malay. Selected probationers will be pad a salary
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    SOVIET'S BERLIN PLAN REJECTED
    341 3 SOVIET'S BERLIN PLAN REJECTED Stranglehold Of Red Control PARIS, Wednesday. T the Big Four meeting Russia made proposals which, in the view of the Western powers, would have given the Russians a political and economic stranglehold on Berlin. The Western powers rejected the proposals. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr.
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    HASTENING JAP PEACE TALKS
    136 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A PACIFIC Peace conference may be hastened by the United States stoppage of farther reparations deliveries from Japan. Some Far Eastern Commission nations now think that the U.S. pronouncement will result in further discussion of the long-delayed reparations issue which can be settled only
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    STEPS AGAINST BANDITS
    44 3 RANGOON. Wed—Representatives of the Slno-Burma regions have decided to takt all-out measures to suppress bandits along the border areas, it was officially announced here. Th«- decision was reached at a conference last week at Monivaw In the northern Shan States. Reuter.
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    Philippine Loan To Indonesia
    131 3 Philippine Loan To Indonesia NEW DELHI. Wed AN Indonesian Office spokesman in New Delhi said last night that the Indone- slan Republican Government had been granted a 2.000.000 pesos (US$l. OOO.OOO loan by the Philippine Government The spokesman said the loan was negotiated by Dr. A. Maramls. Indonesian Republican Foreign
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    GERMAN PROTEST
    28 3 DUESSELDORF. Wed. German workers marched with banners to the North Rhine- Westphalia Parliament to protest against Allied dismantling orders and the ban on some industries. Reut«r.
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    "FORCED TO WORK"
    60 3 GENEVA, Wed Forced labour practices in British, French and Australian colonies were questioned in a report of the International Labour Organisation. The committee found that cases of forced labour "are comparatively few." Varying types of forced labour and compulsory cultivation were reported in Malaya. Tanganyika and Zanzibar,
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    Troops Work On Ship That Caused Strike
    177 3 LONDON, Wednesday. T»ROOPS yesterday began to unload general cargo 1 from th« 7,145-ton Canadian freighter Montreal City, immediate cause of the three-week stoppage of work by between 2,900 and 3,000 Avonmouth dockers. Several times during the dispute the strikers' leader. Mr. Joe Poody,
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    ISRAELI TROOPS MAKE A MOVE
    46 3 JERUSALEM, Wed.— lsraeli troops yesterday advanced about five-eighths of a mile along a l'^-mil* front up to th« fence surrounding the former Government House in Jerusalem <now the United Nations Palestine headquarters). United Nations- headquarters protested to the Israeli authorities— Reuter.
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    FIRST WOMAN
    32 3 BANOKOK, Wed. Siam today has her first woman member of Parliament with the election of Orapin JayaIcarn as representative of the Übon province In the House i of Representatives. A.P.
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    U.K. Ratifies Pact
    20 3 WASHINGTON. Wed— B: tain is the second country complete ratification of ti. North Atlantic pact— A P
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    Muslims In Siam Train As Police
    105 3 Muslims In Siam Train As Police BANGKOK, Wed i SIAMESE Government spokesman said yesterday that four >>olli:e training centres have been set up in the Southern Provinces to recruit, for th» first time. Muslim inhabitant* of the area into the Siamese Police force. The training centres are at Songkhla. Y:ila.
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    Five Die In Hospital Blaze In Japan
    116 3 TOKYO, Wednesday. CiIVE persons were dead today and 10 others were -suffering burns and injuries as the result of a flre which destroyed two buildings and a warehouse of a Government hospital in Ichlkawa, Chiba, Prefecture, last night. The victim* inrludpd a three-year-old
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    SEDITIOUS COMRADE GAOLED
    114 4 SEDITIOUS COMRADE GAOLED From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO. Wed. THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Tan Ah Hool. alias "Comrade Ah La," was today sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment in the Sessions Court for possession of seditious documents. According to the prosecution. Tan was found with five copies of an unlawful publication. "Zhen Bau," at
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    UNION GETS NEW NAME.
    53 4 UNION GETS NEW NAME. Singapore hospital attendants have decided to re-name their union. At the union's second annual general .nee ting recently, it was decided to call the union the Singapore Medical Services Union. Mr. H. E. Klyn« and Mr. S. K. Lin "am were re-elected presi',«rfV and hon. secretary
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    'HIT IN SELF-DEFENCE'
    534 4 Two Acquitted In Mount batten Road Incident gYED Mohamed Mohideen Alsagoff and Syed Ahmad bin Ali Alsagoff, who were charged in the Fourth Police Court with having voluntarily assaulted Mr. L. J. Wood, a former Assistant Executive Controller of the Imports and Exports Department, were acquitted yesterday.
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    81 4 \i!lrl>K.\l. MNOKMNO: Miss Angela Rosemary Jensen of Nantwich, Cheshire, and Lt. Col. Denis White, 0.8. E., Royal Signals, leaving St. Andrew's Cathedral under an arch of swords a fter their wedding yesterday. The bride, who wore white satin and carried a sheaf of lilies, w.is giv<-n a way by her
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    3 MONTHS FOR PICKPOCKET
    45 4 Twenty-year-old Tan Yew Chew, who pleaded guilty In the Third Police Court to having stolen $22 from the pocket of a fell w -passenger in a bus in Neil Read on May 31, was yesterday sentenced to three months' rigorous Imprisonment.
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    SIAMESE BORDER POLICE READY
    129 4 FEDERATION police patrols pursuing wanted 1 men near the Siamese border could send a radio message to Siamese forces to apprehend them, said the deputy chief of the Bangkok C.1.D., Police Lt.-Col. Chamras Mandukananda, who is on holiday in Singapore. Col Chamras told the Straits Times
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    SCHOOL FUND
    21 4 Donations to the Umar Pulavar Tamil School, which Is being built in Singapore, have reached the total of J5.360.3i
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    'Receipt Forged' Says Defendant
    303 4 $40,000 Claim By Woman From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wednesday. 4 DENIAL that he took any money from the plaintiff for safe-keeping was made, by a wellknown miner and planter, Chew Boon Juan, when giving evidence in the civil suit brought against him by a Chinese
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    NewMoveBy Barbers
    42 4 REPRESENTATIVES of barbers and barber shop owners in Singapore hive decided at a joint meeting, to set up an arbitration board to settle disputes and to li\ uniform working hours and charges. A committee has been appointed to draft rules.
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    AMBUSH ROAD NOW MADESAFE
    153 4 AMBUSH ROAD NOW MADE SAFE I From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. HANGS most dangerous K stretch of road, f.ora Benta to Jerantut. Is being made safer today by the removal of squatters In the Damak area Since last September there have been three ambushes on the four-mile stretch
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    Indonesian Socialists
    78 4 BACK from consultations In Batavla, the Republican representative In Singapore Dr. R. Oetoyo. said that 'he Indonesian Socialist Party (PSD was not opposing the return of the Republican Gov *rnment to Jogjakarta Dr. Oetoyo said he met Sutan Sharlr. leader of the Socialist Party, who denied that there
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    CYCLE FOR ONE
    44 4 From Our Own Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Wed. Alleged to have r-arrircl his wife on the pillion of his bicycle. Saw Ten? > > i< > was acquitted and discharged by the Circuit Magistrate. Mr. E. M. Smallv/ood. The wife, 00l Ah Peng, was also acquitted.
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    WIFE-SLAYER BURIED
    66 5 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Wed The funeral took place at Teluk Anson yesterday of Mr. Tan Poh Thiara. a prominent merchant, who was found unconscious in the Ipoh Police Station Jock-up on Sunday afternoon and died without regaining consciousness on Monday morning. Mr. Tan was sentenced
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    M.R.N.V.R. Commission For I Local Man fa lay Appoin ted Acting Su b-L ieut.
    301 5 M.R.N.V.R. Commission For I Local Man fa lay Appoin ted Acting Su b-L ieut. pOR the first time in the history of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, a local man has been granted a Commission. He is Haji Jamil bin Haji Dzafir, 8.E.M., who has been appointed an acting
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    VARSITY FUND COMMITTEE
    161 5 From Our Own Corrrspoudt nt Johore Bahru, Wed:— The following have been appointed members of the Johore State committee to appeal for funds for the University of Malaya: The British Adviser i chairman i. the Deputy Mentrt Besar i vicechairman i. the State Finance Officer i treasurer
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    FOUND AMMO
    23 5 A European tound 38 rounds of ammunition in a house in Malcolm Street, Singapore yesterday, and handrd them over to police.
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    YOUTH CONTEST
    16 5 Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship will hold a talent contest on Friday. July 1.
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    MUNICIPALITY NOT TO CUT CLERKS' PAY
    138 5 JUNIOR employees of the Singapore Municipality were relieved yesterday to learn that no deductions will be made If the difference between the new and old pay scales is against the employee. The only deduction that will be made will be the advance of one
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    C.B.E. For Two Councillors
    710 5 FEDERATION BIRTHDAY HONOURS From Our Start Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday TMIRTY-THREE names figure in the King s Birthday Honours List for the Federation. The highest honour is that of the C.M.G. which goes to Mr. W D Uodsall, the Federation Financial Secretary, "for outstanding service" in
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    BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST
    265 5 (Continued from Page 1) to the following Auxi'.la-v Police Officers: Mr. T. W. T. Bangs, manager of Kuala P-srgau Rubber Plantation*. Kelantan; Mr. M. M. Hembry. manager of Kamuning Bstatf. Sungel Biput. Perak; Mr. D. I. N. Davidson, manager of Mentrl Estate. Pahang: and Mr. J. M.
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    DEATH
    30 6 MADAME YEAP SAW KEE. mother of Dr. Chung Keat Salk, passed away on June 8, at her residence, 114 Malacca Street, Pen me. at the age of 68 years.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    90 6 MR. MRS. FREDDIE NASSIM thank all relatives and friends for their kind attendance, their good wishes and the many useful presents on the occasion of their marriage. DR. MRS. TAN CHONO TAN. thank relatives and friends for their attendance and also for their valuable gifts on the occasion of
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., June 9,1949. COMMONS AND THE COLONIES
    1159 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., June 9, 1949. COMMONS AND THE COLONIES Two weeks ago the House of Commons held what appears to have been the most useful of all recent debates on colonial affairs. It arose out of amendments to the Colonial Loans Bill, which were considered in committee,
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    TESTING TIME FOR NIGERIA
    1422 6 By A Times Correspondent NORTHERN Nigeria is facing a time of test such as it has not known since the British first appeared on the scene. Stable, Islamic, and conservative, it is disturbed by the currents of political passion which sweep up from the ebullient south,
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      Cinemagoers Have To Eat Publicity Pie
      294 6 T»HE publicity marathon of trailers, slides and pamphlets to which the cinemagoer in Singapore is forced to submit before he may see any real entertainment is unjust. Whether he ealises it or not, every time he visits a cinema he sacrifices in the interests
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      SHAGGY DOG STORY
      179 6 I AST Saturday evening I heard over the radio the following question: "Why does a dog turn round and round before lying down?'' The Quiz Master supplied the following answer: "The dog turns round and round because it wishes to find out the direction of the wind."
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      BUSES FOR SCHOLARS
      77 6 BECAUSE of the large number of children attending school these days, it la time, I think, for Government to provide some means of transport for them. The smaller children are dally taking great risks by travelling In crowded buses and trishaws but if special buses could be
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      MALAYAN OR CHINESE?
      146 6 IT was no surprise that in England people thought Malaya was In China when they saw the Malayan Badminton Team was comprised entirely of Chinese. One is tempted to ask if the team was wholly representative of Malaya or of the Malayan Chinese only. Although we in
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      ASSOCIATION & PARTY POLITICS
      81 6 ASSOCIATION PARTY POLITICS REGARDING the letter of Mr. B. Annamalay, secretary of the Indo-Malayan Association, published in the Straits Times, my statement alleging that the Association supported party politics by authorising its president, Mr V. Packtrisamy, to stand as a candidate of the Progressive Party in the recent Municipal election
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    STEP TO END CONTROLS EVASION
    201 7 Officer With Special Powers Appointed THE Singapore Government has appointed a police officer with special powers for the enforcement and detection of evasion of foreign exchange control regulations. The Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, who is also the Controller of Foreign Exchange said
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    LABOUR ASSURES T.U.C.'s
    219 7 LABOUR ASSURES T.U.C.'s rE Singapore Labour Party's secretary. Mr. M. P. D. Nair. said yesterday that the party had no Intention of Interfering with the work of the organisers of the propospd Trade Union Council (sponsored by Mr. Lim Ye* Hock) and the Singapore Worneis' Trade Union Counctl envisaged by
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    KERALA CONTEST
    41 7 Closing date for the Kerala Snmajam literary comuetit.'ons has been extendeo to J.me 25 The impromptu verse-maii-ln.^ contest will be held at the Samajam premises, Buflalo Road. Singapore, on June 25. Short stones submitted should have a Malayan background.
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    BROADWAY PARTY
    37 7 T.ie Broadway Musical P. .t y of Singapore, who, on two occasions recently broadcast from Radio Malaya, will give a performance in the Great World Amusement Park tonight on the occasion of the Kind's birthday.
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    Polio Cases Normal
    75 7 THE Singapore Municipal 1 Health Officer, Dr. N. A. Canton, yesterday said that 28 cases of polio since January in Singapore were normal occurrence. This compared with epidemic of 150 cases 'luring the last nine months of last year. The present cases were sporadic, and evenly spread
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    VISITORS' DAY
    30 7 The British cruiser Birmingham will be open to visitors in the Singapore Roads on Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Visitors must provide the'r own sea transport.
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    ROTAN, PRISON FOR GUNMAN
    94 7 A young Singapore gunman, Gow Eng Seng, was ordered fly? years' rigorous imprisonment and ten strokes of the rotan, by Mr. Justice GordonSmith yesterday, in the Slni gapore Assize Court, on a charge of armed robbery. > Ann Kirn Ho, who accompanied Gow on the 'obbery,
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    Hussars On Way To Hong Kong
    218 7 OEVENTY-FIVE travel- weary but cheerful men of the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars arrived In Singapore from Kuala Lumpur yesterday. These troops formed the vanguard of the squadron, about 200 strong, which will [shortly embark to reinforce Hong Kong. Capt. P R. O. Young, of
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    Spore Fowls Inoculated
    119 7 S pore Fowls Inoculated ELIMINATION of tht most prevalent animal disease In Malaya will result in greater poultry production and cheaper market prices of poultry produce, said the acting Chief Veterinary Oifl- j cer, Mr. R. A. WriKht. yesterday. The disease is ranikhet which used to kill thousands of birds
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    Perak Girl Weds In Melbourne
    89 7 I The marriage took place at St. Augustine's Church. Melbourne, on May 28, of Lucy Rita, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Chin, of Perak, and Victor Robert, second son of Mr. and Mr.K. C. Chew, of Batavia. The bride, who is doing
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    HE HAD A PISTOL
    37 7 A trishaw-rider, Lim Ah Chong, who had a serviceable automatic pistol hidden In the locked back compartment of his trishaw, left the Singapore Assize Court yesterday to begin a five-year term of imprisonment.
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    NEGLIGENT
    33 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Ismail bin Hj. Achimato. of Sllat Tebrau, a motor car driver, was fined $20 in the Police Court loday on a charge of negligent driving.
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    Police Medals For Six Officers
    746 7 Singapore Honours List pOLICE officers who were greatly responsible for smashing crime gangs and secret societies in the Colony figure prominently in the King's Birthday Honours List for Singapore. Awards to Singapore Government officials, police officers and civilians include a C.M.G., two 0.8.E.'5, three M.B.E.'s,
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    Bedside Struggle With Intruder
    207 7 T>HE manager of a liquor shop in Tras Street had a pre-dawn bedside struggle with an intruder In his shop yesterday, but was forced to relax his i&frisszrjSL* wm attacked with The manager. Mr. Ooh Chuan Hoo, sustained a slight cut at the back of his
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    'SIX SERVICE WIVES FINED
    71 7 'SIX SERVICE WIVES FINED 81. i European women, wives of Servicemen stationed In Singapore, were fined $10 each in the First District Court yesterday for falling to register and take out identity cards within the prescribed period. On producing an identity pass Issued by the Air Ministry, Miss L. Leigh,
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    'FLYING SALESMEN' ARE OFF
    89 7 THE three "flying sales--1 men" irom Britain who are flying to Australia In a Proctor light plane, left Singapore for Palembang yesterday. They are the Hon. Simon Warrender, a director, and Mr. H. D. Shaw and Mr. C. N. Swlnton, of Sponson Developments Ltd, London. They
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    U.S. STUDENTS MAY STUDY IN MALAYA
    396 7  -  AUen —Dr. 'pHE possibility of some students from Vale University, U.S.A., coming to Singapore to extend their knowledge of this area by working in the University of Malaya was mentioned by Dr. G. V. Allen, Vice-Chancellor of Malaya's University, when he addressed members of
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    PRIZE FOR BEST ESSAY
    138 7 PRIZE FOR BEST ESSAY TWO massive red and silt dictionaries on dtspla/ at last night's dinner of the Singapore Rotary Club will he given as a prize to thr be st essay written dv a deiilorstudent on the University of Malaya. Mr. L. Cresson. R >tary Cluo President, said that
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    WHISKY THIEF GAOLED
    52 7 Pleading guilty in the First District Court yesterday to a charge of theft of 188 bottles of whisky valued at $2,058, 19-year-old Chua Sweo Teck was sentenced to eight months' rigorous imprisonment. The whisk/ was stolen from a provision and liquor shop In Boat Quay on May
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES JUNE 9, 1949
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      520 8 Talking of photographs... JI7HES Ronald Monro diet! at the eg* of 37. in 1945, A s'tdliii lost a master of nature photography. }'o m was a highly sin-, i-sfu I M ivspaper (I'n'cXrapht'r. hut his cot intent! vhis in initure iinJ in bird xc'rhbiii.. V. •<
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      PRISONERS WERE OWN WARDERS
      851 8  -  Kenny Kaye By pKNANG'S prison is 100 years old. Built in 1849, Ihis grey structure has seen many prisoners come and go, witnessed many changes. It was also the scene of many hangings, including those of Japanese convicted of war crimes. It counts, among its grim
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      Encounter with a Hamadryad
      248 8 THE Hamadryad or King Cobra, is a thing of terror, and to be feared, for it can travel with amazing rapidity, and beat a horse. In addition to Its speeding powers, it Is most aggressive, and will attack man or beast at sight, the female of
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    Life in Russia with Uncle Joe
    978 9  -  Allington Kennard By- A RUSSIAN JOURNAL. John Steinbeck, photographs by Robert Capa. (Heinemann 215.). STALIN'S RUSSIA. Suzanne Labin. (Gollanz 215.). VOKS, the cultural organisation, had been made responsible for Mr. Steinbeck and Mr. Capa in Russia. There had been a battle about it, and
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    Sermons in the Stones
    185 9 CASTLES AND HISTORIC HOMES OF THE BORDER,- by Alexander Eddington (Oliver and Boyd, 9s. 6d.) THIS Is the second edition of a Scottish book published 23 years ago. There is probably a significance in the fact that Scottish readers in the particular year, 1926, could still
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    Plans for a bookshelf
    132 9 jN our house we all collect books and are constantly faced with the problem of finding somewhere to put them, so last week-end I worked out a design for a unit bookshelf which can grow and keep pace with the books. THE PLINTHS: These are made
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    CROSSWORD
    10 9 The solution to yesterday's crossword will appear on Saturday.
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    According to Culbertson
    392 9 It Is a strange commenuiry on human nature that the average player goes out of his way U. take finesses that are not really necessary, or which can be avoided In one way or another. but shuns those few flnesoes which are. In effect, safety plays, uuserve
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    PERAK HYDRO RAISES OBJECTION
    371 10 Compensa tion Issue In Proposed Bill From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fHE Perak River Hydro-Electric Company, Majaya's largest private company supplying electricity to the public, has made representations against certain parts of the proposed bill to create a Central Electricity Board for the Federation.
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    14 PENANG MEN MADE J.P.s
    346 10 14 PENANG MEN MADE J.P.s From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wed. FOURTEEN Penang residents have been appointed Justices of the Peace on the occasion of the King's Birthday. The> include four Settlement councillors, three commercial leaders, a Municipal official and a retired M.C.S. officer. The Settlement councillors honoured today are
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    DRIVER FINED
    30 10 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Wed.— Ng Yoke War was fined $45 or three weeks' gaol at Segamat for dangerously driving Into the railway ijatr near Buloh Kasap
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    2 Bandits Killed In Upper Perak
    417 10 2 Bandits Killed In Upper Perak From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. TWO bandits were killed, one wounded and one sten gun, one rifle, 128 rounds of ammunition and two handgrenades recovered in an engagement between the First Malay Regiment and bandits at Temengor 20 miles east-south-east of Grik in
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    Bid To Stab Wife Of Ex-Husband
    124 10 Bid To Stab Wife Of Ex-Husband From Our Starf Carrespondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ALLEGED to have attempted to stab the new wife of her divorced husband with a knife, Mahani binte Sunit was today bound over in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for six months by
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    SCISSORS ATTACK
    40 10 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANQ, Wed.— Tan Chan Hin pleaded guilty before the Kluang Magistrate Mr. A. H. Girdler. to hurting Lin Sul Choo with a pair of scissors at the Kluang detention camp. The case was postponed.
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    Phree More Hanged
    47 10 Phree More Hanged CHOO SEOW KHOON. aliaa Tarn Phun (top), Nt; Kirn Cheng (centre) and Chong Hock Leong, alias Chong Ah 800. who were hanged at the Alor Star Prison on June 7 after having been sentenced to death for unlawful possession of arms. P. R. pictures.
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    2 Freed On Arms Charge
    80 10 I ram Our Staff f urrrsym Jent MALACCA, Wed. A JURY in the Malacca High Court took two minutes to ecide today that the evidence against Wong Kin Von and Wong Siong was Insufficient to convict them of carrying arms and they were acquitted by
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    Luxury Goods Come In From Hong Kong
    145 10 LIALF a million dollars-worth of American and Japanese goods, practically all of the luxury class, have arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong since the ban on import of hard currency goods from Hong Kong was lifted two weeks ago. They have been bought
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    Deer Meat Cost $150
    71 10 From Our Uwu Correspondent M.(iAMAT, Wed. "lI7E did not know It was TT an offence to kill a deer; we came across one near our working spot and speared it," explained. Cher Kol and Tay Bin, when charged at Segamat with possession of venison at Labis
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      125 10 fc4 fiT i r^^iiilU^^B T^T* I T^^sW J. *T'4J'll i I i T^ "_I »*J««*As*OM*v 9.00 Programme Summary; 9.02 New Mayfair Orchestra; 9.30 Dance Music, 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.01 Piano Playhouse; 10.16 Peter Yorke Orchestra; 11.00 Hawaiian Melodies; 1 1 30 Rene Savard Orchestra 12.00 noon. Programmes In
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      91 10 rici Hartley &*Hi- Music. 10.15 Voicrs in Harmony; 10.30 Dance music; 11 00 Clom 10.00 News: 12.00 Malay Programme As Singapore; 1.00 English Programme As Spore; 2.00 Close; 6.00 Programme Summary; 0.02 Y. A.F.1.; 7.00 News (also at 9.30); 7.10 Indian Pakistan Newsletter; 7.15 Share Market Report; 7.20 Hawaiian Melodies;
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      104 10 i'si-i, S iii.i ■lie iaii. i Id mw» (French. 730 English; 8.00 Siamese; 8.30 News (English); 8.45 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu; 9.30 Burimm; 9.. 45 English; 10.00 Radio Newsreel; 10.15 London Studio Concerts: 10.45 Generally Speaking; 11.00 Dance Music; 11. IS Special Dispatch; 11.30 News; 11.45 Pavilion Players;' 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA
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      65 10 TODAY Klng'k Birthday Parade, Padang. 7 a.m. Presentation or Orders, Medals and Garden Party, Government House, 4 p.m. Theosophlcal Society, discussion 8, Calrnhlll Road, 6.30 p.m. Serangoon BenevoWnt Society, monthly meeting, 281. Lavender Street, 7 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, male voice choir practice. 8 p.m. East-West Society. Mr. Alex Josey
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    The Share Market Was Lifeless
    118 11 From our market correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. rtULL and lifeless conditions prevailed in the v Malayan share market today. The market will >c closed tomorrow, King's Birthday. Price changes announced by be Malayan Sbarebrokers' Assofatlon were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller 18. Petrol 36 8 37 6 xd
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    LONDON STOCKS
    323 11 LONDON, Wed. SPECULATIVE Interest In South African Gold Mining shares continued when trading resumed on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Free State Gold Areas moved iharply higher, touching Sss., says Reuter's financial correspondent. Profit-taking, however, brought a let-line to 375. OH. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, as
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    PRICE WAS TOO LOW
    211 11 Connemara MR. E. N. T. Cummins, chairman of Connemara, told the annual meeting of the company in Kuala Lumpur that the low price of rubber made it Impossible to give shareholders any return on their investment. The company, he said, had Increased the replanted area by
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    TIN COMPANY OUTPUTS
    96 11 KUALA Lumpur tin's No. 1 dredge In May ran 607 hours, xeated 92.085 cubic yards and produced 360 plculs of ore. The So. 2 dredge ran 652 Hours, treated 156,501 cubic yards and produced 357 plculs. c rONGKAH Compound last month ran 635 hours, treated 140,928 cubic
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    73 11 From A Market Correspondent OAGO, copra and cojonu' oil eased in the are of a slight selling pressure on the Singapore produce market yesterday. Business was written, but on a somewhat small scale. Other pr douce sections were oulet and unclvuiged. Yesterday's changes w*re: Sago flour: Llngga
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    Dow Jones Averages
    25 11 June 8. June 7. Industrials 185. IS 165.2) Rails 42.58 42. 8« Domestic Bonds 97,88 97.87 Utilities 34.51 34.39 Straits Times Sexvk-p
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    Singapore Rubber
    180 11 Tnt, Singapore ruDoer market remained steady but quiet throughout yesterday with business passing at prices unchanged from the previous day's close. The market is closed today. Cl-wlng prices yesterday were: No. 1 sheet fob. buyers 31 Vi c.r.ts. tellers 31% cents; spot loose buyers 31V, cent*, sellers 31%
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    RUBBER CROPS
    40 11 jyi n i ruuucr e&uue crop-s are bunounced as follows, in lbs:— Kempag 523.500 Radella Estate 18.200 Bukit KB 13.700 Henrietta Estate 156.700 Sungel Matang Est. 43.800 Kuala Foman Est. 168,100 Ayer Molek 41.647 Bukit KatU Est 37.319
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    Ships At The Singapore Wharves
    89 11 CHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Marine Snapper (33-34), Troilus (36), Benvenue (38-39. Straat Soenda (42-43). West Wharf: Steel Designer (6- -7), Oreystoke Castle (8-9), Rajula til). President Johnson (13-14). Empire Dock: Blankvann (19--30). Kota
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    P.& O. CONSOLIDATED PROFIT £1,558,301
    209 11 .VU.UJUWI anu viicuui meam Aavigauon company s 1948 accounts will show c consolidated profit of' £1,558,301 after charging all taxation. depreciation, transfers to reserves for replacement of fixed assets and the proportion of profit attributable to minority shareholders' interests in subsidiaries. I proportion of the
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    BUKIT KEPONG RUBBER
    91 11 DUKIT KepongS profit and loss v account for toe yoar to Dec. SI, 1948. showed net proceeds of mbb-r sales of 170.069 lbs. •63,574; rubber in stock and since sold. 10.925 lbs., $3,551; gross profit brought down $22,733; Interest on Investments. $1,339; miscellaneous receipts. $1,200; transfer fe
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    BRIGHT EYES MISSES RECORD BY 2/5 SEG.
    2237 12 BRIGHT EYES MISSES RECORD BY 2/5 SEG. McPherson Wins On Raheen By EPSOM JUP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. BRIGHT Eyes (Bagby) chalked up her eighth victory at Kuala Lumpur yesterday when she won the 5| furlong race for top class horses in the brilliant time of 1 mm. 6 4/5 sec.
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    LEAGUETEAMS BORROW BALL
    64 12 LEAGUE TEAMS BORROW BALL gANKA Bllliton 8 C. and Indonesian "B," the S A FA. Junior B, Group 2. league teams, had to borrow a ball from some kids to continue their game on the BOD ground yesterday. The ball provided for the match burst one minute before the Interval.
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    WATER-POLO
    76 12 FO friendly water-polo matches have been arranged between Chinese Tiger Swimming Club and the Singapore Swimming Club to take place In the 8.8. C. pool on Sunday. 10.30 a.m. 5.8.0. teams will be as follows: "A": J. H. Tonklnson; H. O. Riches. A. Kats; T. H. AUen; O. Crelghton.
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    PAGLAR SHIELD
    32 12 DATO C. J. Paglar. President of the Singapore Recreation Club, has presented the Shield for cricket which will be competed for annually between Uia S.C.C. and the SRC. first XI.'S
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    Ooi And Teoh Matched v Teh And Tan
    180 12 Ooi And Teoh Matched v Teh And Tan IPOH. Wed BRILLIANT badminton La anticipated at Monday's exhibition which will feature the Thomas Cup players and leading local exponents at, the Perak Turf Club court, starling at 7 p.m. The singles encounter between 00l Teik Hock and Wong Peu< Soon and
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    RAF TENGAH WIN
    45 12 RAF. Tengah beat the H.M.S Terror by 37 run* in n cricket match played at Tengah yeaterday. B<ore« were. H.M.S. Terror 138 iCag'.e Niplw 33: Morgan for 33 >. R.A.F. Tengah lbl for C w<ts. dccl. (Toweneid 53. Brown Mj Napier two for •>*
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    Worcester Take Lead
    296 12 LONDON. Wed. NEW leaders in the County cricket championship table have come from the WhiUun week end sir!es of games, which ended yesterday. Worcestershire now occupy that elevated position following their victory in two days against E»s»x and the failure to win by Middlesex land Surrey, who
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    Cycle Race On Sunday
    65 12 NEXT Sunday.- big cvcUnfc event*, the Singapore open 100-mlle massed-start race will be held on the Colony's new cycling circuitThomson Road. Lonle Road. Adam Road. Dunearn Road, and WhKeley Road. The "100" which Is -he third event hi the Singapore Best All Rounder open cycling- competition.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    22 12 TODAY: HW, 9.55 a.m. <Bft 41m 9.26 p.m. (Bft. 7lni. TOMORROW: HW. 10.52 am (Bft. 6in>. 10.05 p.m. "Oft. lln).
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    TODAY'S GOLF AT ISLAND CLUB
    460 12 THK Island Club will hoh competition for men ar at 8 a.m. for men and 8.1.' Mr. 8. Q. Woni has presented prizes for The competitions. 8 am S K Wong UB, v A. Ooode ia2• 8.03. F. Hammond <l\> yE Madsen < 18» 606
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    CEYLONESE XI v MALAYS
    69 12 rB Ceylonese XI to play the Malays in a S.A.F.A Community League game today at 5.15 p.m. at Jalan 3esar Stadium will be selected from the following: S. Thevarajah. V. H Sabapathy (capt). K Thambyrapaiv Capt. Halaldqsn, 8. Vellupiilal, G. Ranatunga, A Anandarajan. Samat A Vljlaretnam.
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    157 Entries For Perak Meet
    707 12 IPOH, Wed. A 'IOTAL of 157 horses— 43 from ctess two and 74 from class five— have befn entered for the Perak Turf Club* June MeHlng to be held on June 18, 22 and 25 Tlie full list or entries is: CLASS TWO First run
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    Lawther Among Best In Trial
    272 12 Possibles 3 Probables 3 IN a soccer trial at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday to select Singapore's team to meet Negri Sembilan in the Malaya Cup competition on June 18, Possibles beat Probables three-two. It was a most disappoint ing game. Very few players showed any
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    S.R.C. CRICKET XI
    52 12 Hie following will represent the S.R.C. In a crlckel match against the Non-Benders Cricket Club on the Padang at 11 am. today: E. Le Mercler (capt 1. A. Armstrong. E. Ebert. J. Galistan. W. Galistan. S. Hope. W. Haseldtne J. Ross. J. O. Reutcim, O. <> Slha
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