The Straits Times, 20 April 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 SIXTEEN PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    'MOBILISE AND TRAIN LOCAL MEN'
    518 1 Unofficial Call In Debate On Emergency From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. IJNOFFICIAL members of the Federal Legislative Council today unanimously expressed the opinion that the manpower available in the country should be mobilised, trained and properly equipped to shoulder the responsibility of restoring
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    61 1 rii.l NIOX AT KALLANG: Six-year-old Karen greets her father, Mr. H. R. Merchand, representative of a Singapore firm, at Kailang airport, Singapore, after travelling alone by air from Calcutta. She carried the key of her si'itcase round her neck on a ribbon. Mrs. Merchand, who put Karen on the plane
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    MACASSAR REBEL FORCES GIVE IN
    124 1 JAKARTA, Wednesday. INDONESIAN rebel forces in Macassar, capital of 1 East Indonesia, today surrendered unconditionally and gave up their arms, it was announced officially here tonight. They surrendered to the Acting Commander of Nationalist forces In Macassar. Majcr Picters. The communique added tha: the Worang
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    "SHIPS ARE COFFINS"
    50 1 AMSTERDAM Wed SEAMEN throughout the world yesterday declared an Immediate boycott on all ships sailing under the flag of Panama, The seamen, who claim that many Papamanlan-re-gistered ships are "coffin ships" which never see a Panamanian port, took this decision through delegates to a conference here.— Reuter.
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    Panic In Bengal Dies Down
    116 1 Panic In Bengal Dies Down NEW DELHI, Wed. •T*HE Prime Minister, Pandit x Nehru, today reported a sharp drop in the flight of Hindu and Muslim refugees between India and Pakistan since the two countries signed the agreement to combat the persecution of minorities. He made the report In Parliament
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    TREASON TRIAL
    21 1 PRAGUE. Wed.—Six Czechs accused of high treason and espionage went on trial at the Prague state court today —AP
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    U.S.-BANNED REDS CAN LAND AT SINGAPORE
    130 1 From Onr Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wed COMMUNIST officials in Sydney today expressed surprise that Australian Communlsts. who are denied Amerlcan transit visas, are able to pass through Singapore without any restriction. Mr. E. V. Elliott, general secretary of the Australian Seamen's Union and vicepresident
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    HITCH IN HEALTH SCHEME
    108 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wed. rviSAGREEMENT has arisen mJ between the Singapore and Federation Legislative Council committee examining the proposals for a unified Malayan health serrlce. This was revealed in the Federal Legislative Council today by the acting Chl«? Secretary. Mr. M. V. Del
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    Griffiths May Be Here Next Month
    144 1 LONDON, Wednesday. HPHE Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr. James 1 Griffiths, hopes to pay his proposed visit to Malaya "about Whitsuntide." He may also visit Hong Kong. Whitsuntide falls this year at the end of May. Mr. L. D. Gammans had asked
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    MAY WEDDING FOR PRINCESS
    77 1 TOKYO, Wed. PRINCESS Taka, 26-year-old third daughter of Emperor Hirohito, will end a 2,600-year-old tradition of the Japanese imperial dynasty next month when she marries a commoner and becomes one herself. May 20 has been chosen for her wedding to thin, bespectacled Toshiminchi Takatsukasa. aged 26.
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    TREATY MOVE
    27 1 BAGUIO. Wed.—The Instrument of ratification of the treaty of friendship between the Philippines and France was exchanged In simple ceremonies at Mansion House here tonight.—AJ.
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    35 1 NSW FEDERATION FLAG: Inche Mohd Salleh bin Hakim looks at the new Federation flag which was approved by tbe Federal Legislative Council yesterday (Wednesday). The flag was exhibited in the Council chamber. Straits Times picture.
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    Chancellor Faces His Critics
    303 1 LONDON, Wednesday. jiiß. Churchill's Conservative opposition was ex"x pected to open a strong attack today on the Labour Government's economic policies outlined in the 1950-51 budget. Conservative sources said It was unlikely, however, that they would force a vote of The only item which the Opposition
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    £100,000 BECAME £5,000 OVERNIGHT
    72 1 LONDON. Wed. ritWO individuals found X themselves hard hit today by the Chancellor of if. Exchequer's decision to make gift payments by firms liable to surcharge. Sir Stanley Black of Standard Motors and Mr. Leonard Lord of Austin motors who had been given by their firms
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    BURMA REDS' DEFEAT
    73 1 RANGOON, Wed.—Combined Government forces made a surprise dawn attack on Communist headquarters in the Pegu Yomas mountain area of south Burma three days ago, It was announced today. After a fierce three-hour battle the Communists retreated, leaving behind 30 dead. The Government offensive on nearby Prom* was
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    5 R.A.F. TARGETS
    38 1 J'roi.-i Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Royal Air Force bombers and fighters today delivered one of the heaviest attacks yet on fire bandit target! within a selected area In the vicinity of Trlang in Pahang,
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    JAPAN "MUST BE NEUTRAL"
    47 1 NEW YORK. Wed. JAPAN should be the "Switzerland of the Far East" and remain neutral in any future war, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur quoted as saying In an exclusive interview with J. P. McEvoy published in the May issue of the Readers Digest.—A.P.
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    CEYLON PILGRIMS
    20 1 ROME. Wed. Pope Pius XII will receive In audience the first Holy Year pilgrimage from Ceylon this week.—Reuter
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    TEA TREATY
    26 1 COLOMBO. Wed. Ceylon will act Independently of India in negotiating a tea contract with Britain, the Trade Minister. Mr. Henry W. Amarasifriya, said today.—AJ».
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    Thieves Roundup
    27 1 TOKYO. Wed.—The Tokyo Metropolitan police rounded up today a 42-man gang of automobile thieve* who have stolen 30 can and 1,200 tyres since last summer.—Reuter.
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    COUNCIL SALUTES THE FLAG
    157 1 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rE Federal Legislative Council today unanimously accepted the proposed design for a flag for the Federation—"horizontal stripes alternately red and white, with a blue quarter on which a crescent and 11-polnted star in yellow Is superimposed. The motion of
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    Kinloch Gets 18 Months' Gaol
    568 1 Kinloch Gets 18 Months Gaol From Our Special Correspondent KOTA BAHRU, Vved. 008 E R T Kinloch, facing trial charged with the murder of his Malay mistress, Esah binte Ismail, was today found guilty of causing her death by a negligent act and sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment. The
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    Workers & Students Answer Strike Call By Vietminh
    175 2 Workers Students Answer Strike Call By Vietminh POLICE AND TROOPS PREPARE FOR TROUBLE IN SAIGON v SAIGON, Wednesday. VIETNAMESE police and French troops took emergency precautions yesterday as workers and students answered a call by Communistled Vietminh for a general strike and mass demonstration in Saigon. Government Post Office employees
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    NEW LOAN FOR INDIA GRANTED
    130 2 WASHINGTON, Wed. ■TTHE International Bank A announced yesterday it had granted a loan of $18,500,000 to India for further development of the Damodar river valley. The Bank said that the loan would be used to finance part of the cost of the Boka-ro-Konar project which
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    'POOR CARDINAL' SAYS MOTHER
    73 2 VATICAN CITY, Wed. Cardinal Mindszently failed to recognise his mother when she visited him in gaol, according to an article to be published in Sunday's "Osservator Romano." The Hungarian Primate's mother is quoted by a journalist as saying: "Poor Cardinal, he seemed to be a man
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    TRADE TALKS
    49 2 FRANKFURT. Wed. New trade talks between India and West Germany are scheduled to begin in Frankfurt on May 2. Federal Government officials said yesterday. Somo members of the Indian Trade Delegation have already arrived In Germany to visit factories and examine German products before the talks.— A.P.
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    MINISTER GOES
    27 2 LONDON, Wed.— The Soviet Minister for the automobile and tractor Industry, S. A. Apoliv, has been relieved of his duties, Moscow Radio announced on Tuesday.—Reuter.
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    PUT NOSES INTO GANGS AFFAIRS
    69 2 BOMBAY, Wednesday. UISA Manjaria, leader of an outlaw gang which is said to have cut off the. noses of 200 people, was shot dead by police near Junagadh with three of his accomplices. The gang, said to have been encouraged by dispossessed feudal landlords, had
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    MODELS FOR 1950 TENNIS
    50 2 MODELS FOR 1950 TENNIS NEW TENNIS STYLE: Teddy Tinlingr, designer of "Gorgeous Gussie" Moran's tennis clothes, has produced a series of new and striking models, one of which is shown above. Called "Swingtime," it is made of celanese jersey. The ankle socks are flower trimmed in matching shades. A.P. picture.
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      Robbed Robber Tells Police Of His Loss
      180 2 BOMBAY, Wednesday. A DOMESTIC servant of Bombay ran away with Rs. 50,000 and a diamond-studded wrist watch belonging to his master, only to be robbed by a taxidriver in the Punjab. He walked to the nearest police to lodge his complaint. They took
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    TALKS ON ECONOMIC SCHEME FOR ASIA
    121 2 TALKS ON ECONOMIC SCHEME FOR ASIA TOKYO, Wed. pOR eight hours yesterr day delegates to the U.S diplomats conference in Tokyo "hammered away at ways and means of furthering economic development to stimulate inter-regional and international talks", a communique said. The communique stated "interconvertibility of currencies" emerged at the meeting
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    Washington Talks
    85 2 Top officials In Washington meanwhile are giving "serious consideration" to proposals for the establishment of some form of currency and trade clearing arrangement in Asia to stimulate the economy of that area as a whole* The central theme of the proposals under consideration is the necessity to provide
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    U.S. PLANS FOR LIAQUAT
    71 2 WASHINGTON, Wed.— State Department officials said today that they had "virtually completed" the final details in connection with the threeweek visit of the Pakistan Premier, Liaquat Aii Khan. He will fly from England to the United States in President Truman's special aeroplane. He will visit Washington.
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      1035 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS MECHANICAL ENGINEER An officer is required by the crest Department to take charge, under the general direction of the Forest Engineer, of the Department's road making equipment, uhlch c insists of six Bulldozers with al. the normal ancilliary •>lant and transport required for orest road and construction This
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      330 2 NOTICE is hereby given that all creditors and other persons having claims against the estat? of the abovenamed deceased (of whose Will Probate was granted by the Supreme Court of the Colony of Singapore on the 15th day of July, 1946, to Charles Valentine Miles, John Christopher Cobbett and Gilbert
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      357 2 NOTICE In the Matter of KHYE PENG CO., LTD. In Voluntary Liquidation) At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above-named Company duly convened and held at 80/82 Market Street, Singapore on Saturday, H*e 15th of April 1950, the following Special Resolution was duly passed:— "Than KHYE PENG
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      289 2 ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. K. N. Raghavan has taken charge as Divisional Manager South East Asia of the Malayan Divisional Office of the UNITED INDIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED. Kuala Lumpur, as from the 15th April, 1950. SINGAPORE RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION The Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held today in
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    RED THREAT TO HAINAN STILL MOUNTING fi
    266 3 RED THREAT TO HAINAN STILL MOUNTING fi Taipeh Reduces Early Claims HONG KONG, Wednesday. THE Chinese Nationalists today toned down their initial claims of a sweeping victory in crushing the Red invasion of Hainan, while simultaneously the Communist Press here claimed the invaders were moving inland and "mopping up" resistance.
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    STUDENT ATTACK
    47 3 MICHEL MOI'RRE, m former Dominican student, who, just before mass was due to begin in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, on Easter Sunday, leaped into the pulpit and attacked the Roman Catholic Church. Mourre is shown here (1 in the robes of a monk.— A.P. picture.
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    SHAH'S BLESSING FOR PRINCESS
    184 3 KOME, Wednesday. pKINCESS FATIMA of Persia yesterday announced that her brother, the Shah, has approved of her Am 2 rican husband. The beautiful 22-year-old Princess said she and Vincent Lee Hillyer will wed a -rain in a week or 10 days in Paris this time In
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    2 MARSHALS MAY AGREE
    68 3 MADRID, Wea. Former King Peter of Yugoslavia said in an interview that the Soviet Premier, Marshal Stalin, and the Yugoslav Premier, Marshal Tito, would probably putch up their quarrel. Tne West must "use and encourage" the break between Russia and its former Balkan satellite. However, "One
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    Iran Still Hopeful Of U.S. Aid
    131 3 Iran Still Hopeful Of U.S. Aid TEHERAN, Wed. q^HE Premier, Mr. Ali Mansor, told depression striken Iran "not to despair, we have not lost hope for U.S. aid." He was trying to explain Iran's inability to win economic assistance from the U.S. although the Iranian economic situation is more critical
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    GIFT OF DEER
    24 3 TOKYO, Wed.-^Tapan will send three "sacred" deer to the Philippines "to promote mutual friendship" between the two countries, Mainichi said today.—Reuter.
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    Ignored By Russia
    114 3 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. RUSSIA will take no official notice of Chinese Nationalist charges accusing her of supplying military aid to Chinese Communists, M. Jacob Malik, Russian permanent United Nations representative, said yesterday. He told the Secretary General, Mr. Trygve Lie, he would not pass on to Moscow
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    SUDAN PLAN FOR VOTING
    86 3 KHARTOUM. Wed. Sir James Robertson Civil Secretary of the Sudan, has presented a memorandum to the Legislative Assembly suggesting changes in its Executive Council. He suggests that the number of direct-election constituencies should be increased and that the method of elections in the south be changed
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    WATER PROBE
    22 3 RANGOON. Wed. The Burmese Government has appointed a commission to study the administration of Burma's nationalised inland water transport system.—Reuter.
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    TRANSFORMATION
    27 3 COLOMBO. Wed.—Bren gun carriers from surplus British arms dumps are being shipped from Colombo to Slam for agricultural purposes," according to a Ceylon government spokesman today.—A.P.
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    KASHMIR MEDIATOR DELAYED
    100 3 NEW YORK, Wed. in his arrival and that he x-rn Hoflnit.* information re- might not reach Lake Success definite information re b^ Qre tne of j^y, gardine the plans of the According to present mdl United Nations mediator in cations, Sir Owen may not Kashmir, Sir Owen
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    Nazi Anthem Heard Again
    246 3 BERLIN, Wednesday. TED by Mr. Franz Neumann, chairman of the Berlin Social Democratic Party, several socialists left the platform yesterday as Dr. Konrad Adenauer West Germany's Christian Democrat Chancellor' asked a political rally to 3ingr "Deutschland Über Alles". Allied commandants in the balcony remained seated while
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    'WE DON'T KNOW
    37 3 COLOMBO, Wed.—Mr. K. Vaithinathan, permanent secretary of Ceylon External Affairs Ministry, said on Tuesday that the Ceylon Government had no knowledge of any move by Australia to invite non-Commonwealth countries to the Canberra conference.—Reuter.
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    U.S. AIR CHIEF
    32 3 MR. T. K. FINLETTER, who has been appointed Secretary of the United States Air Force. He was formerly chief of the Economic Co operation Administration in London. Reuter picture.
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    'Serious' Thefts In U.K. Army
    86 3 LONDON, Wed. THEFTS have made 1 heavy inroads into the cash and supplies of the British Army, the Audi-tor-General, Sir Frank Tribe, reported yesterday. Sir Frank put total losses at £3,462,513. About one-eighth was attributed to thefts which, he said, were a continuing source of
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    UNITE W. EUROPE AS THIRD WORLD POWER
    175 3 HOME, Wednesday. T»HE Dutch trade union leader M. Evart Kupers, today urged trade union chiefs representing more than 20,000,000 workers i n Marshall Aid countries to fight for a United States of Western Europe as a third world power to offset the struggle
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    NEW JORDAN MOVE
    63 3 LONDON, Wed.— King Abdullah of Jordan will announce the formal incorporation of Arab Palestine into the kingdom of Jordan next Monday at the opening session of the newly-elected Jordan Parliament hi Amman, it was learned from a usually reliable source. The formal announcement is expected to be
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    RAN OFF TRACK
    65 3 AN AERIAL VIEW of the wreckage of a passenger train, bound from Rio de Janeiro to Compos, which plunged into the river near Tangua, Brazil, recently. The bridge, weakened by rains and a rising river, collapsed at one end, causing the train to run off the track.
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    OFFICIAL WARNS SERETSE
    124 3 OFFICIAL WARNS SERETSE SEROWE, Wed. SERETSE Khama, banished chief designate of the Bamangwato tribe, said yesterday that he had been "severely reprimanded" by administration officials for a demonstration of loyalty by his people on Monday. He was threatened with cancellation of the permission granted for his five-day visit to see
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    BRITISH DEMAND
    40 3 LONDON, Wed.—The British Foreign Office has asked Hungary to withdraw Janos Aczel, an attache in the Hungarian Legation from this country. It also requested the Hungarian Minister to discontinue the activities of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in London.—A.P.
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    'GET TOUGH' IN MALAYA SAYS NEW MINISTER
    355 3 'GET TOUGH IN MALAYA SAYS NEW MINISTER SYDNEY, Wednesday. BRITAIN should show more of her ruthless Empire-building spirit in dealing with the Malayan bandits, the Australian Defence Minister, Mr. Eric J. Harrison, said here today. On the eve of his departure for London, where he will be Australia's resident minister,
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    RED AIR ROUTE
    34 3 LONDON, Wed. Moscow Radio said last night new airlines will begin a direct service from Moscow to the Far East as far as the island of Sakhalin, north of Japan A.P.
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    BISHOP'S PROTEST ON CHINA
    71 3 CLEVELAND, Wed. gISHOP Arthur Moore, of Atlanta, protested against America's "abandonment of China" before the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church meetIn; here yesterdayBishop Moore, who recently returned from a South-East Asian tour, said an Asia dominated by Russia would be "as sad a case
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    272 Die Of Cholera In One Week
    79 3 CALCUTTA, Wed. CHOLERA killed 272 people in Calcutta last week, the highest cholera mortality figure in a week during the last 14 years according to statistics released here by the City Corporation. Number of attacks since Jan. 26, when the disease was declared
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    U.S. LEGATION IN DAMASCUS BOMBED
    35 3 DAMASCUS, Wed.—A bomb wag thrown at the United States Legation in Damascus last night, injuring one American employee. Legation bodyguards and Syrian police searched In vain for the bomb-thrower. Reuter.
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    MINES MOVE
    32 3 TOKYO. Wed.—The Liberal Party, following approval nn Apr. 1 by Gen. Mac Arthurs Headquarters, will submit to the Diet a Bill providing for abolition of state control of coal mines.—Reuter-/VA!'
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    QUARRY PROTEST BAN
    257 4 6 Will Raise Price Of Granite 9 Say Contractors THE Singapore Chinese Contractors' Association has protested "strongly" against a resolution of the Singapore Legislative Council to stop all quarrying on Bukit Timah hill by July I. The association yesterday submitted its views to the Select Committee appointed
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    MALAYA TO HAVE A "BORSTAL"
    272 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Federal Legislative Council, meeting in Kuala Lumpur today approved supplementary expenditure for building and maintaining detention camps, improving security measures at prisons —and setting up a Borstal-type approved school for young offenders between 16 and 18. Personnel
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    CARDS DEFACED
    49 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Lee Chai and Low Wah Hock were fined $3 and $4 respectively in the Police Court today for possessing defaced Identity cards. Muniamah. of Tlram. who failed to produce her card for inspection by a police officer, was fined $5.
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    ENGAGED IN SEREMBAN
    39 4 MISS CHOY HUP WAN, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Choy Leong, and Mr. Wong Shue Van, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Wong Chee, who were engaged in Seremban recently. Seremban Photo Studio picture.
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    NO SCHOOLS IN 'BAD AREAS' CLOSED DOWN
    91 4 From Ov Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. MR. Leung Cheung Ling (Selangor unofficial) was told at this morning's Federal Legislative Council meeting that the Federation Government had not closed down any schools in "Dad areas" since the Emergency first began. One such school
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    1 CASE DROPPED
    58 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— When Chelliah appeared in Johore Bahru Police Court today on a charge of housebreaking and theft of rice and milk at the railway lines, Kempas, the prosecution withdrew the housebreaking charge. The theft charge was amended to theft of a
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    PUT IN DOCK
    53 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— When Chia Teck Ming, of Singapore, stood in front of the dock in the Johore Bahru Court to answer a charge of riding a motor cycle after sunset without lights, the Magistrate said he should be in the dock. Chia
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    Tracks To Open Up Jungle To Forces
    189 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TH) open up large areas to the security forces, the 1 Public Works Department is to build two jeep tracks in the Gua Musang and Batu Melintang areas of Kelantan, it was reported to the Federal
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    LOTTERY DRAW POSTPONED
    52 4 From Our Own Correspondent BATU PAHAT, Wed.—Because of Anti-Bandit Month, tickets for the anti-tubercu-losis lottery could not be sold for the draw which was to have been held on Apr. 15. The draw has now been postponed to Monday, May 15, at the Cninese Chamber of Commerce,
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    Cave Too Damp, Dark For Bandits
    33 4 From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. ANOTHER search of the Bukit Mertajam cave in which /a a corpse, believed to be that, of a wanted bandit, was
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    Estates, Mines Defences: $1 Mil.
    194 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rtfO of the largest items of supplementary expenditure arising out of the emergency are $975,360 to cover a re-vote of provision authorised last year for defence measures on estates and mines and $471,000 for emergency services and protective
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    MALAYAN FILM
    31 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The next meeting of the Malayan Film Society will be held at the British Council Centre, Young Road, tomorrow at 8.30. p.m.
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    50 4 BOY SCOUTS INVESTITURE: An Investiture of Boy Scouts took place at the Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday, the new scouts being the children of policemen. Picture shows Scout Master Zainal Mokhtar bin Mohd tying the neckerchief for Baharuddin bin Abdul Hamid, who was one of those invested.— P.R. picture.
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    MALACCA AIRPORT PROPOSAL SOON
    82 4 From Oar Staff. Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Federal Legislative Council will shortly be asked to approve the construction of an airfield at Batu Berendam, Malacca. This proposed Malacca airfield will be of the same standard as the airfields at Ipoh, Taiping, Alor Star and Kuantan.
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    POLICE EMPLOY WOMEN
    217 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A TOTAL of 36 European women secretaries and one European woman stenographer are employed by thu Federation of Malaya Polict In addition, there are 24 European women on cypher duties. The pay scale of qualified women secretaries is $240 to
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    $21,000 CHEAT ALLEGED
    79 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Kenneth Wood, a warrant officer attached to REME, appeared in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on three charges of cheating. He is alleged to have induced Yuen C. Foon to deliver $20,500 in three cheques and $500 in cash on
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    EX-BANDIT STAR
    35 5 \S \III AXNUAR. a Pahang hmdit who surrendered. I holographed on Tuesday white l»ein«r interviewed for i M.iluvan Film Unit ivwsreel which will be tlim in kampongs tlnotiKhout the Federation. Straits Times pic-
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    ILLEGAL PRINTING PRESS
    110 5 ILLEGAL PRINTING PRESS MCE of fuur months x -orous imprisonment is imposed on Siew Sek long of Cross S:reet. in h Singapore First DisCuurt yesterday for iion of a hand-ope-•rintins press and tw blocks lor counterthe tradi' labels of a Factory in Singapore. i a was also sentenced to ir
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    Alleged Debt Of $60,000
    114 5 I rum Out Staff Cnrrrspon.lenl IPOH. Wed. A r-ROMISSORY note for $60,000 executed in Oct.ol;.t 1946 was alleged to have vni forged in a civil suit in he Ipoh Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Hill. The claim was brought by a •ntnetor of Telok Anton, Lim
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    Govt. Says 'No' To Plea For Change In Laws Of Compensation
    396 5 'Abandon Estates At Your Own Risk' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pEDERATION Government is not prepared to amend the Emergency Regulations in regard to compensation for propertj destroyed by the security forces in the anti-bandit campaign, Mr.
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    The Long Arm Of The Law
    74 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Wed. ARRESTED four years after he had absconded with $206 worth of gold, Mah Weng Kin. a goldsmith's assistant, ivas sentenced today to three months' rigorous imprisonment for criminal breach of trust. The Prosecuting Officer, ASP. Latnin. told the
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    Ex-Olympic Suitor For Madam Lee
    123 5 Ex-Olympic Suitor For Madam Lee A HANDSOME 20-year-old former Olympic champion has written to Madam Lee Ah Keng. the 40-year-old Singapore Chinese woman who has asked the Social Welfare Department to find her a husband. This young man. who lives in Pakistan, has listed iiis impressive measurements. He is 5
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    PERMIT OFFENCE
    23 5 MUAR. Wed—For carrying cakes in a car without a oermit at Tanskak. Hiah Kia Teng was fined $15 by Muar Magistrate.
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    ON LEAVE
    32 5 From Our Own Corr-spondent TAPAH. Wed.—Mr A G McKay, manager, of Palas Tea Estate. Cameron Highlands, was entertained- by the Asian staff of the estate before he went on leave.
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    GENERAL BRIGGS SPEAKS
    43 5 GENERAL BRIGGS SPEAKS KUALA LUMPUR PRESS CONFERENCE: A general view of (he Press conferen ce given by the Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harold Briggs, at Kuala Lumpur on Monday. Lieut.- Gen. Briggs is seated in the centre, facing the camera. P.R. picture.
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    PADI PRICE MAY BE REVISED
    311 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. GOVERNMENT is considering the revision of the official purchase price of padi when the present guarantee lapses in June but no decision has yet i been reached. This answer was given to Mr. P. C. Au-Yong (Selangor). In
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    "Port Search Favours Europeans'
    183 5 "Port Search Favours Europeans A SUGGESTION of preferential treatment in the Customs examination of British European arrivals at Singapore is made by Mr. R. Jumabhoy (Indian Chamber of Commerce! in a question for the next meeting of the Legislative Council on April 25. He will ask whether instructions have been
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    ONE DAY LATE
    33 5 MUAR, Wed.—Chin Bak Khim. who carried 20 gunnies of tapioca chips in his lorry the day after his permit expired, was fined $10 or 20 days' hard labour at Muar.
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    9th Oil Fire Victim Is Tanker Engineer
    165 5 ANOTHER of the Pulau Samboe petrol fire 4 casualties died in the Singapore General Hospital yesterday, bringing the death roll to nine. He was the chief engineer of the tanker Lingula, Mr. Roy Thompson. The other three Europeans who have died are Able
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    12 MORE MALAYS FOR U.K. TRAINING
    320 5 12 MORE MALAYS FOR U.K. TRAINING From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rpWENTY-Three officers and other ranks of the Malay Regiment have already received training in the United Kingdom, and another 12 Malay other ranks will attend a course at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst about the middle
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    FOUR ON HURT CHARGE
    48 5 From Oar Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Wed.— Four Punjabi Muslims were jointly charged here with voluntarily causing hurt to Kidar Nath with an iron bar. They claimed trial, and bail of $250 each was granted. The case was postponed to May 1 for mention.
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    FINED AT MUAR
    25 5 From Onr Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed. An Indian. Palaniindy. was fined $5 or three days' hard labour at Muar for disorderly conduct.
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    COLONY DELUGE BUT NO RECORD
    77 5 A TOTAL of 2.98 inches of rain fell in Singapore during a two-hour and 20minute storm yesterday morning. The storm, which began at 3.30 a.m. and stopped at 5.50, caused floods in many parts of the town. But the rainfall registered by the Singapore Government
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    Chamber Meeting
    31 5 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce will be held on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the O. H. Cafe. Mr. Hardial Singh will preside.
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    GEN. BRIGGS WILL NOT LACK POWERS, SAYS GURNEY
    868 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. QENERAL Sir Harold Briggs, Director of AntiBandit Operations, will not lack powers, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, assured Councillors at today's meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. f Sir Henry, who welcomed the appointment
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    KOTA BAHRU CEREMONY
    37 6 THE "BALA" COVERED, with offerings, ready to be carried out to a boat to be dumped into the sea during the Puja Pantai ceremony at Semut Api, Kota Bahru, recently. Nik Mustapha pi cture.
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    INCREASE OF $18 IN PILGRIM PASS FEE
    103 6 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. PILGRIM ships in future I will have to give passen- j gers 20 sauare feet of floor space each, instead of 16. This alteration in the regulations was unanimously approved by the Federal Legislative Council today.
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    "I Have Lot Of Enemies"
    116 6 From Our Own Correspondent BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wed. CHARGED with attempted suicide, Samy Nathan, a police supervisee from Singapore, said in court yesterday that he was afraid he would be sent back to Singapore because "I have a lot of enemies there." Nathan said he was
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    HURRY FOR HOUSE
    32 6 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed.—A woman. Juat Ngoh. was fined $20 at Muar for occupying a new house at Jalan Daud without first obtaining a certificate of occupation.
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    'Ghost' Haunts Malay Girl
    265 6 'Ghost Haunts Malay Girl A "GHOST" in Province Wellesley is at present defying Malay, Siamese, Hindu and Chinese medicine men who for the last four days have been making frantic efforts to drive ii away from a young Malay girl of 14. Utusan Melayu reports. The young girl. Sabarlah. lives
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    OBJECTION BY TEACHERS
    61 6 The Penang Malay Teachers Association has made strong representations to the Government against frequent transfers made by the Education Department of Malay teachers from one school to another. Malay teachers in Singapore have already protested to the Government against the way transfers from one school to another
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    Hawker Inquiry Opens Today
    254 6 THE first public meeting of the Singapore Hawker Inquiry Commission will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall this afternoon, when evidence will be heard from the hawkers, the Municipality, and the police. At todays meeting, which will begin at 2.15 p.m., the Chairman of the
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    SCOUT PROMISE
    48 6 A GROUP OF SCOUTS, the children of policemen, matt the Scout Promise at an investiture at the Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday. Third from right* facing the camera, is the Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts, Federation of Malaya, Mr. E. M. F. Payne. P K.
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    LIGHTER TALKS: NO DECISION
    193 6 J^o decision was reached at the meeting of Singapore's three Chambers of Commerce with representatives of the lighter Industry held yesterday at the Economic Secretariat to discuss the proposed uniform lighter charges. The Chinese Chamber was represented by three members, Messrs. Lim Koon Teck. Lim Tock
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    GAOLED FOR LOSING CARD
    71 6 Sho Sen Tock of Vic'o ;i Street pleaded guilty in the Singapore First District Court yesterday for failing to produce his identity card when demanded by a police officer. Sho explained: "I lost n.y card recently. Then soon after. I lost my mother. I was too
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      148 6 SHELL IN MALAY* tz~ ±llp_— l A SHIP noses her way through the crowded f Singapore Roads bound for San Francisco. A PLANE takes off from Tengah for Sydney. TIN is being mined in the Kinta valley. A FACTORY in a South Johore Estate is J preparing rubber for shipment
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    HITCH IN PLAN FOR SUPER BUILDING
    242 7 HITCH IN PLAN FOR SUPER BUILDING a COMMITTEE of Sin- gapore Municipal l .mmissioners has de- ■icl"d to turn down a pro- al made by Mr. Loke W.i n Tho in 1946, to site a multi-million dollar 11 -storey luxury hotel and cinema in the area b winded by North
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    Retiring After 24 Yrs.
    98 7 ti> in Our Stall Correspondent .LA LUMPUR. W>d. MX A ARBUTHNOTT, is earing i < week niter 24 > -us li business. Ar came to in 1926 as a chartered accountant •iior partner of Gibson Anderson and Butler after service in the First World War which
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    PAMELA LOVES CYCLING
    29 7 PAMELA LOVES CYCLING MISS PAMELA SITII. aged 16. who is one of the most promising women cyclists in Singapore. She cycles over 1.000 miles a month Straits Times picture.
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    'Gallant' Men Get Police Medal
    283 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. AX auxiliary police officer Mr. Lan Fitzgerald Campbell, who, nhile a member of a military patrol operating in the Bentong area last year killed three bandits single handed, has been awarded the Colonial Police Med^l for gallantry. The
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    3 CHARGES: $1,000 BAIL
    51 7 Webster Smarten Noordin appeared in th^ Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday on three charges of cheating by obtaining money from three persons on the promise of getting them permits to operate coffee stalls. Trial was fixed for May 3. Bail of $1,000 in two sureties was
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    EARLY BIRDS GET FINED
    85 7 I loin Our Staff Correspondent KAJANG, Wed.-Inspector Abdul Rahman, asked for a deterent sentence when two Malays and a Chinese were charged at Kajang with a breach of the curfew. He referred to a recent incident at Bemenyih when bandits, dressed as rubber tappers, entered the
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    MURDER TRIAL ADJOURNED
    46 7 MUAR. Wed.— Because two prosecution witnesses were not present, the case against a woman charged in the Muar High Court with murder was adjourned till the next assizes. The woman. Ng Koh Chin aged 51, Is alleged to have murdered her adopted daugh-
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    Federal Council Agrees To Priority For Squatter Settlement And Control
    1448 7 Federal Council Agrees To Priority For Squatter Settlement And Control KAMPONG MEN NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Federal Legislative Council, after a two-hour debate in which 19 members spoke, today agreed that the highest priority should be given to the settlement and administrative
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    2 BORs Hurt In Bandit Ambush
    172 7 2 BORs Hurt In Bandit Ambush From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR, Wed. BANDITS attacked a party of first Devons .ravelling in a truck and a Jeep near the 35th mile Sentong-Karak Road yesterday afternoon. Two British soldiers were wounded. An unknown Chinese threw a grenade into a shop in
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    Decision To Form A CPA Branch
    112 7 Decision To Form A CP A Branch From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Federal Legisialive Council is to Torm an affiliated branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association to provide facilities for Parliamentarians from other countries and to share in similar facilities for Federal Councillors visiting other countries. The
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    CASE WITHDRAWN
    32 7 MUAR. Wed.—The prosecu tion withdrew its case against Wee Long for allegedly attempting to cause hurt to Allapa at the Palaniappan Estate at Pagoh He wndischarged by the Muar Magistrate^
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    Singapore Diary
    184 7 Y.W.C.A. TRAINING COURSE. 8. Fort Canning Road, co-ed activities 9am.. music and drama in group work. 10 a.m.. Pioneer counselling and girls' work by Mrs. Khoo and Miss Lynch. 1130 a.m. RURAL BOARD, monthly meeting. Land Office. 2.30 p.m. KKD CROSS. Old People's Club meeting. Wesley Hall. Fort
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    JAP SPENDS NIGHT IN PENANG GAOL
    96 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed. tITHILE waiting for his ship ™to sail, a released war criminal, Kimiyanaki Horoshra, 38.Tyear-oIH former Japanese army officer, is being detained by Penan* police in the Beach Street Police Station. having served his prison term in Rangoon The
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    94 8 \;u .v MM v sahavanalI'ITOO of No. 988. Windsor cod Jpoh thank all friends and \«.lio ali'ndfd the mar*>tt Ihcit daughter, sent prr- d g'-eeiings and to all :in have rendered asMHS MOOER wishes to ex- Mncere appreclal.f skilful and kindly that her late husband he hands of thr
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      The Federal Citizen
      959 8 The statement of the Communities Liaison Committeeissued on Tuesday begins with a reminder that the member.of the committee are "an unofficial group of individuals representing only themselves." In the eyes of the public, however, the committee has a much more representative standing than that, although none of
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      THE FIREMEN AND THE A.P.s
      127 8 IT is with amazement 1 that I read that a recent Government Gazette in the Federation does not include either r,he Federation Fire Services of Malaya or the Auxiliary Police as eligible for The General Services Medai (Army and Royal Air Force) for service in
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    THE LUST FOR POWER IN SOVIET RUSSIA
    1038 8  -  BERTRAND RUSSELL THE INTELLECTUAL ERROR Of COMMUNISM—II By i IJISTORY has known many dogmatic die- tatorships, and their record is not encouraging. The first historical character to found a government composed of men chosen for their adherence to a certain creed was Pythagoras,
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      245 8 SINCE I first arrived in the Colony of Singapore, about 10 years ago, I have been considerably puzzled by the easy and free immigration of Malays and persons of other Malaysian races from Java, Celebes, Bawean, Madura and Sumatra. I have been puzzled also by
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      MARRIAGE BUREAU?
      66 8 IT amuses me to read in the Straits Times that Madam Lee Ah Keng has approached the Social Welfare DepartI ment for a husband and relected 80 proposal*. In the last few days another Chinese woman has also asked for a husband. From the look of it, and
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      DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH KA?
      158 8 AFTER reading an aiticle in the Sunday Times. "I Say Man. Do You Speak English Ka?' I fee! I ought to say something. We hope to have an independent nation before long —a nation rich with its own characteristics. Just as the American nation developed
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      POETRY READING
      34 8 'TtHERE Ls considerable inJL terest in poetry reading in thlg country. I suggest that Radio Malaya should include some poetry reading in Its weekly programmes. It could perhaps be organised on the
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      DOMICILED INDIANS
      161 8 jLIR. S. Shunmugam, in lfl his letter published on Apr. 14 under the heading "An Indian Warning", asks Indians to unite politically in Malaya. I think he misleads the public in certain respects. There is an association called the Malayan Indian Association, which was formed on Aug. 15.
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      A MALAY THANKS A CHINESE
      92 8 4LLOW me the privilege of n your columns to express my humble appreciation of your correspondent "Kumbang Betina" for his excellent piece of writing on the facts about the Communist rebellion now raging In this land. I am sure that, with such unbiassed and frank
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    420 8 On The Margin Sunday Afternoon TN the Straits Times office we work on Sundays, producing Mondays paper so I have been getting out-of-date on what Singapore does with itself on Sundays, and when my wife and I went for a walk at the MacRitchie reservoir last Sunday afternoon- for the
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      291 8 SORCERY The sorcerer was reputed to have the power of converting human beings into strange animals. He turned princesses into frogs men into swine. At the change was almost always for the worst. his magic powers were greatly feared and with good reuson The sorcerer of the present day is
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    729 9 GOVT. "MISTRUST" OF MALAYS IS FLAYED Arm Kampongs Says Hussein From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. gTRONG criticism of the Federation Government's apparent "mistrust" of Malays who were anxious to take up arms in defence of their country was expressed by Capt. Hussein bin Onn in the Federal Legislative
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    GOVT. WORKERS 'DEEP IN DEBT'
    213 9 GOVT. WORKERS 'DEEP IN DEBT' 1 \fcSPITE salary m- rreases and payment of arrears of salaries, mast Singapore Governneni employees were h- tvily in debt last year, ;i ording to the Governjii it Servants' Co-opera-;>vv Thrift Loan Soriety The Sciety last year lent '233 746 to 659 of its 1.167
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    GAOL FOR THREE
    42 9 Tinee Chinese labourers iM'\v Kirn Cilia. Che'\ Tye and Ton Kirn Chuee ere yesterday, in the SingaFourth Police Court. ach sentenced to three onths' imprisonment for ealing three military tyres m the 4th. Sub Depot." 223 0.D.. Jurone Road.
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    New Youth Camp For Singapore
    89 9 ANEW camp for the youth of Singapore, which has been set up by the Singapore Rotary Club on ihe water front at Ayer Biru, Johore, will be officially opened on Apr. 22. Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, a Municipal Commissioner, has provided the site, which is
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    DIVORCE DECREE
    36 9 Mrs. Lucy Kan was granted a decree nisi in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday against her husband. Kan Hoi Peng, on the ground of adultery. The decree will be made absolute in three months.
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    HOUSING LOANS APPEAL
    175 9 HOUSING LOANS APPEAL »T next Tuesday's meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, Mr. Thio Chan Bee 'Nominated) will ask Government to consider granting housing loans to its employees and housing societies at the same rate of interest as is charged on Government loans to the Improvement Trust. Mr. Thio will
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    SIR PATRICK OPENS NEW BOYS CLUB
    225 9 "Vf Y wife said, 'Tell them to behave themselves'," iT1 said the Colonial Secretary, Sir Patrick McKerron, wpeninj; the Mt. Erskine Boys' Club yester- day. "Obviously," Sir Patrick added, "they are already nice, well-behaved. little boys— insofar as little boys are ever well-behaved." Introducing
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    COUNCILLORS
    51 9 Sir Han Hoe Lim has been appointed temporary un- official member of the Ex«cu- tive Council, Singapore, during the absence on leave of Mr. Tan Chin Tuan. Mr. Murray Buttrose has I been appointed temporary official member of the Legislative Council during the ab- sence of Dr. W. J.
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    POLICE STATION SHUT DOWN
    142 9 AS an experiment. Stiig^ pore police have closed down the Wayui:g Satu P; 1 lice Station at the 3>/ 2 mile. Bukit Timah Road, to release its men for "more important" duties. The experiment, for ;.iue. months, is to find out wne- ports of serious crime
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    Big Demand For T.B. Treatment
    273 9 £ITCH1 T CH are the demands being made on the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association's treatment centre that people now being diagnosed as having active T.B. have to be put down on a waiting list before they can receive treatment. The Chairman of SATA, Mr. C. L.
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    NEW LIFE WITH ANTI-T.B. DRUG
    70 9 THE director of the SATA clinic. Dr. G. H. Garlick, said yesterday that the most "startling and rapid" of the cures at the clinic were being achieved by antituberculosis drug, .streptomycin. On e man went to the clinic when he had been told he had
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    Lost Card At Game
    106 9 THE Second Police Court magistrate, Mr. C. F. Seston. yesterday nmd 26-year-old Chan Yu Kong $100 on a charge of theft at a basketball match at the Happy World Stadium on Dec. 26. Sin Kirn Yin said that as he felt some one put his hand
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    GETS HIS BADGE
    28 9 THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, Sir Patrick McKerron. presenting the membership badge of the new Mount Erskine Boys' Club to 10-ye ar-old Fook Onn. Straits Times picture.
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    TOOK SCRAP, FINED $120
    46 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed A European sergeant, patrolline Kelan Estate. Kulai. found Sim Lim with 37 katis of scrap rubber. Sim said that he had pick!ed up the rubber from the I ground. He was fined $120. in default two months' imprison1 ment.
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    FLYING BOAT WAS SUNK BY BOMB FALLING
    272 9 FLYING BOAT WAS SUNK BY BOMB FALLING THE explosion which sank an R.A.F. Suiulerland flying boat at Seletar on March 26, resulting in the loss of two lives, was caused "without doubt by a bomb falling off the aircraft," it was stated yesterday at the adjourned inquiry before the Singapore
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    BUS-DRIVER ACQUITTED
    41 9 A Singapore Traction Company bus driver. Bay Natlj Pandey. was yesterday acquitted on a charge of negligent driving, causing the death of Koh Kai Chwee at Selegie Road, by Mr E. V. A. Peers in the First TrsfTic Court.
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    Mr. T.P.F. McNeice
    27 9 The Deputy Municipal President. Singapore, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice. has been appointed to act as President of the Municipal Commissioners trom Apr. 17.
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    30 9 MR. DIRK AN VLIET. who leaves today in the Carthage f«r the lnited Kin;du n where he will attend the British Industries Fair. Studio de Luxe picture.
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    Hold-up Men Gaoled
    54 9 r»!WO Singapore hold-up m»r were sentenced to foul years' rigorous Imprlsonmei i each in the Singapore Assiz* Court yesterday. They were Loorm s> g Teck, 23. and Wong Kee. 25 who. together with anothri man. waylaid Kuek Kirn Sen§ in Chin Chew Chew Street and robbed him
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    1450 10  - CLIFFORD PIER COMES TO LIFE Gateway to Singapore is well watched DEREK DRABBLE by £HALK WHITE in camouflage of fresh paint so that it resembles a holiday esplanade, with fanlights of new, acqua-rium-green glass, Clifford Pier is Singapore's first line of defence against the intruder. From the Pier flagpole. the
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    Fishermen gave food to the sea
    377 10 I^HE seven day celebration known as "Puja Faiitai' ended last Monday. During the whole seven days offering of food and drink were made to the sea by ilshermen from Kelantan for a plentiful supply of fish. The ceremony opened on the previous Monday in
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    Buddhist Monks 'Resign'
    259 10 AT least 400,000 rt Buddhist monks in Communist China have shed their religious Karments to become laymen again, and the wejlknown Bubbling Well Temple is producing towels and underwear, according to a Buddhist priest who has just Arrived in Hong Kong. He further revealed that of the
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    Malay women of Johore join in an adventure
    1150 11  - Malay women of Johore join in an adventure DENWYN DOBBY &y 1)11) you know v thai M I a y women have their own School of Domestic Science in Johore Dahru? M is a Government jt. iiool but the originator Ofl the idea is Inche A/i/ah binte Jaafar. a v
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    PREPARING
    26 11 INCHE AZIZAH BINTE JAAFAR shows one of her pupils how to prepare Santa Clara Salad. The other pupil is putting jam on a sponge cake
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    R.A.F. in battle against Shiftas
    348 11  -  ERIC GREG By ASMARA. 11HE R.A.F. is to join British troops and police in the hunt for the Shifta. the terrorist gangs of Eritrea who threaten to turn the former Italian colony into a second Malaya. A flight ot Brigands, fast twin-engined. ground attack bombers,
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    ATOM VICTIMS OUT OF DANGER
    89 11 A 'REASONABLY normal life" for the survivors of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima is predicted in a report to the Atomic Energy Commission They appear to be out of danger, now almost five years after the explosions, and few of the dreaded delayed
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    Bubbles In Champagne
    217 11 riHAMPAGNE in the 1700s was already famous as the lightest and most easily fermented wine of all But the bubbles were still to come. First to think of them was Dom Ferlgnon. a monk In a local monastery. Blind from birth, he had spent 20 years experimenting
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    58 12 I. 'iKO. London E*M*l r»-in nnth-old elephant, has to keep her strength up these days because she recently (I giving rides around the Zoo to young visitors. Hff kVCrafC dail.v ration is 40 pounds of hay. clover, hi Mil it ni"il. apples, carrots, potatoes, locust lieans. srnn food, oats and
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    In your Garden
    639 12 «Wot:ld you please ad- rise me ax to whether though not very old Franqlpanni would sand pruning to enable me bUmomt from Ik* n shoots u-hen they grow? S^UJTSS^ Ck» has become tall and 1 f«ty as they sometimes do. hard Pruning doo» in a lot of
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    WHITE TIGERS IN PENANG'S TEMPLES They have the power to cure sickness
    1092 12  - WHITE TIGERS IN PEN ANG'S TEMPLES They have the power to cure sickness KATHARINE SIM by ALMOST every x Chinese temple in Penang possesses a White Tiger. He is one of the four divine creatures from the four corners of the heavens: the Black Tortoise of the north: the Vermilion
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    Chefs in S'pore—2
    374 12 Chefs in S'pore— 2 TWO Swts s are responsible for the menu at the Cathay, and both have very firm ideas about food. One is the 25-year-old chef, M. Ernest Meier. The other is the maitre, M. Henri Gachnang. He keeps his a?e to himself. I have M. Meier's permission
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      291 12 STRAITS TIMESCROSSWORD r, i. X Yl,iWe nnent.l p.rceptloo CROSSWORD NO. 38 I. Periods during which things are never d.ll 2S It ma* save one from i 3 I 4 5 a 1 (6. 9> being hard-boiled <3-S> 8 A woman start. «low 27 Whi'e poplan <6t ,r^s SKS ~~ISbI 3SB
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    NEHRU'S INDIA OF TODAY
    1147 13  -  C. R. DASARATHA RAJ By gggg IN an almost prophetic vein. Andrew Roth grants Congress India another 15 years of life. He is more generous tnan many other Journalists and statesmen of his country, who predicted before August, 1947. that India would be a shambles the
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    A Reply To Andrew Roth
    81 13 This is a reply to Andrew Roth's recent articles from India, published in the Straits Times. The writer is mistaken in assuming that Andrew Roth is an Englishman he is an American journalist but he argues convincingly that this observer is expecting too much of
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    Neptune may beat subs
    372 13 A N answer may have found to the U boat menace in a future war, Mr. Churchill declared in his review of defence in Parliament recently. It is the U.S. Neptune airplane. He said that an official U.S. publication gave information of the kind America feels
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    In Olden Times
    198 13 SIR Charles Napier, before leaving India, has issued a farewell General Order to the officers of the army, in which he administers some very salutary, but most unpalatable, advice. The main object of his letter is to warn them against running into debt. According to his account
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    142 13 rpilE above is an old X photograph of the Council Hall. Kuala Kangsar. which was demolished recently. Before its demolition the Council Hall was the oldest building in Perak, being the first of its kind to be built when the British started their administration. The old building housed the various
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    This dog loved scaling Alps
    615 13 By RONALD W. CLARK JUST a century ago there was born on the outskirts of New York a boy who was in later life to become doubly famous in the field of mountaineering. His name was W. A. B. Coolidge. While still a boy in
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      249 13 SINGAPORE As S'pore; 10 Happy Anniversary; Dutch; 0 Kuoyu; 8. 30 Burmese; 10 a m News from K L 10 05 xl Cl° 8e 9*5 Interlude; 10 Radio News cilse? -5- 1 SS£ aa if£ lSS fbkamo SS^yy^Ki? °3" SSS Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance 15 ..I A. Sr. e
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      318 14 LONDON, Wed. THE London Stock Exchange was calm and rather mixed yesterday, Budget Day. Business closed while the Chancellor's proposals were still undivulged. British Government stocks were bright, with widespread grains of up to a quarter per cent, on some safety-first investments. Closing middle prices at selected stocks,
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      STEADY DEMAND IN INDUSTRIALS
      124 14 From Our Market Correspondent 4 REASONABLY steady demand continued for Industrials in the Malayan share market yesterday. William Jacks quotations were included in the Industrials list for the first time. Tin and Rubber shares were quiet, with only small business passinp. Prices changes announced by the
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      RUBBER CROP FIGURES
      110 14 TURQUAND. Youngs; McAuMlt Company announce the following March rubber estate crops, in lb.: Alor Gajah Est. 17,400 Ayer Panas Est. 92,000 Clenealy Plantations 58,700 Kluang 65.000 Pajam 164,50'J Tambalak Est. 24.180 Talisman 39,300 Teluk Anson Est. 57.130 Ulu Beaut Consol. 35.000 EVATT Company announce these March rubber
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      Malayan Collieries
      31 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed COAL production figure of Malayan Collieries for the first quarter of 1950 were: January. 38,099 tons; February, 31,773 tons; March 39,479 tons.
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      SHIPPING AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
      101 14 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Tahoelanang (3132), Machaon (36), TJlbesar (3637)., Tjipondok (38-39), Bllnjoe (40-41), Wakde (41), Cyclops (4243) West Wharf: Nila (3). Tyndareus (4-5), Tonghai (6-7). Talisman (8-9). Glengyle (11), Bennevls (15-16). Empire Dork: Sansola
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      TIN PRICES
      29 14 SINGAPORE, Wed. Apr. 19 5292.87J/2 (down $0.37/*.) LONDON, Wed., Apr. 19. —Spot: £591i— £591). Forward: £592— £592 J. Settlement: £591). Turnover morning:, 125 tons; afternoon 70 tons.
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      Jap Shipping Appeal
      144 14 TOKYO. Wed. TiHE Japanese TransportaX tlon Ministry will appeal informally to the UJS. Far Eastern Economic Conferences (now meeting in Tokyo) for the easing of restrictions on Japanese shipping. The Ministry, says the newspaper Jlji Shimpo, has submitted to the Economic Stabilisation Board, for forwarding to the
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      CARGO TONNAGE
      43 14 CARGO handled at the Singapore wharves and reads In MaTh totalled 487,496 tons. Of this. 309.866 tons was discharged In Singapore and 177, 630 was loaded from Singapore. The total for the first three months of the year was 1,251,488 tons.
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      Rubber At 69 Cents Yesterday
      232 14 WITH the rise in rubber prices In London and N^ew York, Singapore rubber market quotations yesterday improved by about 2l2 l/ 2 cents per lb. over the previous day's close. Business lor May shipment was transacted at 67*4 cents per lb. First-grade spot loose was
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      PRODUCE MARKET
      73 14 From A Market Correspondent LL sections of the Singapore produce market were very quiet yesterday. Prices remained practically unchanged from those prevailing the previous day. Prices (per picul) yesterday were: Copra $38 buyers, $38 '-i sellers: Coconut oil $62H sellers; Sago flour $13^4 for April-May shipment f.o.b Sarawak;
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    WEST INDIANS WILL BE POPULAR
    527 15  -  JIM CHAMBERS By Will Bowl Fast, Score Quickly LONDON, Wednesday. A WEST INDIES cricket team, the seventh in rt 50 years, is now here to tour England this summer. They should prove to be one of the most attractive sides that have evei visited the
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    New Talent In This Year's SABA Bouts
    374 15 A notable absentee In this year's Singapore Amateur Boxing championships to be held at Happy World on April 25. 26. 27 and 28 will be George Prior the featherwei^lit title holder. A crop of promising talent are expected to acquit themselves with credit
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    CEYLONESE WIN FINALS
    61 15 COLOMBO, Wed. jj\ J. cle Saram and Miss Sheila Roberts of Ceylon won the men's and women's singles titles In tne All-Ceylon lawn tennis championships in Nuwara Eliya. They defeated the Australians, lan Occleshaw and Mrs Occleshaw. in the finals. De Saram beat Occleshaw 2-6, 6-3, 6-3,
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    56 15 WEST INDIES' FIRST CRICKET SIDE to visit England since 1939 arrived at Waterloo Station, London, on Easter Monday armed with an assortment of gifts from supporters, including 96 bottles of rum. The captain, John Goddard, has said that this is one of the best balanced sides ever to visit England
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    Dollah Not In Trial
    153 15 From Our Own Currenpuiiuem MUAR, Wed. JOHORE will hold their first soccer trial here tomorrow in preparation for the opening Malaya Cup match against Malacca on April 29. A notable absentee from the Trial will be Dollah Don of Johore Bahru who is being left out,
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    27 15 MALATA CUP SOCCER AT RAUB: Osman, Pahang's goalkeeper, seen jumping high in Saturday's game to punch clear a high shot by Crossley (Combined Services) Pahang won 3—o.
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    Scotland Urged To Make Rio Trip
    595 15  -  C. D. CURRAN By LONDON, Wednesday. ENGLAND'S one goal to nil \ictory over Scotland lj in the last of the season s international series was of momentous significance It deprived Scotsmen of the British championship title —a draw would have been sufficient for them
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    Railway Team Beat Victoria School
    247 15 Railway Team Beat Victoria School PLAYING without the services of three of their star cricketers who visited Peru, with the Singapore Combine Schools, Victoria School lost co the Railway Youngsters in a friendly cricket match played on the school ground yesterday afternoon. Victoria School were all out fo. 40. The
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    NAVAL BASE TO TAKE UP ARCHERY
    71 15 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.—A meeting will be held at tine Naval Base on Friday for the purpose of considering the formation of a club to be known as the "Naval Base Bowmen" for the encouragement of archery. There are many keen
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    JEW OLYMPICS
    53 15 TEL AVIV, Wed.— The organising committee of the AllJewish World Olympics the Third Maccabiah—plan to spend US$2BO,OOO to make foreign visitors to the games comfortable and happy. The Olympic* open in Ramat Oan on Sept. 37 and nearly 3.000 Jewllsh athletes from all parts of the world are
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    DAVE SANDS KEEPS A PROMISE TOMORROW
    630 16 DAVE SANDS KEEPS A PROMISE TOMORROW Risks Position To Give Colony Boxing A Boost Straits Times Boxing Reporter VU HEN Dave Sands enters the Happy World arena to fight Orient triple champion Boy Brooks tomorrow night, the middleweight champion of the British Empire will have everything to lose and little
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    SPOTTING THE WINNERS
    284 16 SPOTTING THE WINNERS By EPSOM JEEP CORM looks a bit contused on paper for the Selangor April meeting which starts on Saturday, but I fancy It will pay to follow the ten horses listed below. Lord Frederick: For the long race on the last day. Gave Lucky Tom too big
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    60 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. CLASS five horses, many earmarked for deletion, will share In an all time record added money pool for the Selangor Turf Club at the forthcoming meeting. This afternoon the big sweep total reached the million dollar mark for the first time in the Club's long
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    Lewis Makes Good With Small String
    510 16 By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. FEW TRAINERS have achieved better results with such little material than George Lewis of Penang. With few exceptions, all the horses in his stable were winners last year, and he ended the season with 28 winners a splendid
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    28 Entries For 2,000 Guineas
    133 16 LONDON. Wed. q^WENTYEIGHT final acX ceptors were announced here today for the 2,000 Guineas, to be run over one mile at Newmarket next Wednesday. Apr. 26. They are: Rising Flame, Cardanil, Eraaeror, Welsh View, Archlduc, Fllttermouse. Retainer, Bllborough. Tramper, Indian Empire, Full Dress, Master Gunner,
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    IRON DUKE WINS
    38 16 EPSOM. Surrey, Wed.—Mr. O. Gibson's Iron Duke won the City and Suburban Handicap here this afternoon after a photo finish with the Comte De Chambures RocJDu Diable. Mr. E. Charles" Jacobite was third. Twelve ran.—Reuter.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    21 16 TODAY: 12.01 a.m. (Bft. 81n.) and 12.55 pjn. (Bft.). TOMORROW: 12.25 am (Bft. Bin.) and 1.29 p.m. (7ft. Bin).
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    54 16 Pahang's Malaya Cap Team that beat the Combined Services three-nil at Raub on Saturday:— From left to right (back row): Tan Slak Slang, Osman, and Fong Fui shoon, (middle row): Wahab. Wong Sui Kion (Capt.), Mansor, (front row): Wong Hock Chow, Tan Chin Wan, Tan Chin Kit, Llm Boon Bok
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    Singapore Cricket XI's For Weekend
    393 16 Singapore Cricket XI's For Weekend rPHE following are weekend crlcA ket teams:— K.A.F. CHANGI Saturday: v RAF. Seletar 2nd XI at Seletar, 2 p.m.: Sgt. Palmer (Capt:), F/Lt. Spencer, F/Lt. Dicks, F/Lt. Donaldson, WO Sheffield, W/O Stevens, Sgt. Fleming, Cpl. Callis, AC. Forde, AC Smith, AC. Ramsey. Umpire: Cpl. Greenfield;
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    COMBINED R.A.F. XI v SINGAPORE
    53 16 THE Singapore Combined Royal Air Force soccer team to meet All-Singa-pore on Saturday in the opening game of Southern section of the H.M.S. Malaya Cap soccer competition will be: Grant; White or Car gill, McMullin (Capt); Robinson, Dover, Shepherd; Bellinger, Williams, Dixie Lee, Duckhouse or
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    Thrilling Draw In Geylang Soccer
    358 16 Kota Raja 'A' 1; Chinese Engineers 1. 4 LARGE crowd present at yesterday's junior divi- sion match were treated tn a very thrilling game between the Chinese Engineering Association and the Kota Raja juniors at Geylang Stadium. The result of one all was a fair
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    50 16 The Agu Khan's Eclat, carrying Jockey C. Smirke, shows high-spirited action as this picture is taken. Trained at Newmarket by Marcus Marsh, Eclat is expected to run in the 2,000 Guineas, the Derby and the St. Leger. At Liverpool recently, Eclat was r nnner-up to the Derby favourite, Masked Light.
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    Indonesians No Match For Tigers
    509 16 Tigers 5; Indonesians Nil. IT was pathetic at times yesterday to watch lowly Indonesian League, most often-defeated side in senior soccer, striving to stave off another complete massacre, this time at the handt of the Tiger Sport- ing Association. At first Tigers merely toyed with
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    Penang Hold Their Last Malaya Cup Trial
    299 16 Penang Hold Their Last Malaya Cup Trial From Our SUIT Correspondent PENANG, Wed. yHE feature of todays x Penang State soccer trial was the successful combination of two youngsters, Poh Beng and Sianp Hock o n the Prooables' right flank. Today's trial, the sixth and last before Penan* meets Kedah
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    MRS. HO WINS AT ISLAND CLUB
    49 16 The Island Clvb —(Ladles Soc tion) April L.G.U. competition played on Sunday resulted in a win for Mrs. S. F. Ho with 97 37=70. Next best were Mrs. A. Weeks with 89—18=71, Mrs. MacGtlchrist with 103—35 TL ad Mrs. R. Lim with 97—23=74.
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    Sport Diary
    33 16 SOCCER: Snr. lge: Royal Navy Indian B.C. at JaHn Besar; Jnr. Al: RAPC Nee Soon v Chinese S.A. at Oevlang; Jnr. Bl: Cheerful Lads t C.YJK.A. at CYMA. TENNIS: V.M.C.A. championships.
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