The Straits Times, 20 July 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1950 4- PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 437 1 One Goes Ashore To Cover Vital Port TOKYO, Wednesday. m\VO new divisions of United States troops have landed in South Korea. One of the divisions the First Cavalry Division landed today at the Korean east- coast port of *ohang, 60 miles north of
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  • 232 1 LANDED BEFORE DAWN Xv LIONEL HUDSON PO IANG BEACHHEAD. Wednesday. AMERICAN coir>bat troops who landed amohibiousI here today slipped into the calm bay before dawn I1I 1 > ldrvris of landing craft reached Americans fresh from Far Kastern bases. Th- operation was earned out under a carrier-based tighter umbrella while
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  • 48 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. PRESIDENT Truman today asked Congress to provide him with $10,000.000.000. unlimited powers of conscription and other sweeping powers in the Korean crisis. In a message to Congress. President Truman asked for all statutory limits on the armed forces to be removed. Reuter
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  • 135 1 TOKYO, Wed. GEN. MacArthur's air communique today detailed an impressive list of air strikes. Superfortresses from the Far East Bomber Command scored hits on an Important bridge at Seoul, the capital overrun early in the campaign. It Is not yet known whether the bridge was
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  • 31 1 QUAKE PANIC AT MESSINA ROME, Wed.—Panic-strick-en inhabitants fled from Messina, Sicily, today as a violent earthquake shook the area i A great earthquake at Messina took 75,000 lives in 1908.— A.P
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  • 178 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE bandit system of "democracy" has been A revealed in documents captured bjr the Security Forces in Pahang. The bandits may vote for their leaders and local committees, but only votes for men approved by the "higher ups" are
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  • 31 1 AMERICAN infantry follow the old military advice and dig foxholes in South Korea to defend a thatched but being used as advanced headquarters. A.P. radio picture.
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  • 144 1 JAKARTA, Wed. »pHE cabinots of the united States of Indonesia and of the Indies' largest state, the Republic of Indonesia, met today to approve unification of the islands under the Republic. Informed quarters raid difference over the new government's form alreadyjiad been settled Informally and the
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  • 34 1 AMPHIBIOUS tanks of the First Division of U.S. Marines i hum through the sea off California on their way to the ship loading military equipment for Korea. A.P. radio picture.
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  • 164 1 BATTLE IN COFFEE SHOP -THREE members of No. 32 gang, a notorious secret society in Singapore, were arrested by Police radio patrol last night while the men were fighting the owner and employees of a coffee shop at Serangoon Road where they had gone to extort
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  • 188 1 CANBERRA, Wed. AUSTRALIA will send a A small team of military observers to Malaya, the acting Prime Minister, Mr. A. W. Fadden, announced today. He said the team's purpose is to study at first hand all aspects of the campaign against the Communist guerillas and acquire
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  • 85 1 COLOMBO. Wed.— All British Dominions except South Africa will send experts to a meeting at Colombo next week to plan Commonwealth aid to South-East Asia. The experts will discuss detailed plans for aid on the lines proposed at the Sydney conference in May. Their re--commendations will
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  • 80 1 RANGOON, Wed.— 'i Armed Forces Day" was observed in Burma yesterday as a prelude to "Martyrs Day" today. "Martyrs Day" is a memorial to the late General Aung San and his assassinated Cabinet colleagues. Burma's Supreme Commander, General Ne Win, took the salute at the parade.
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  • 1003 1 GOVT. BILL ON CITIZENSHIP FOR COUNCIL 3 'Fronts' Against Reds From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. T'HE Federation Government is to introduce a Bill in September to amend the Federation Agreement so as to provide for citizenship on the lines recommended by the Communities Liaison Committee. Announcing this today
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  • 4 1 BANDIT SUPPLIER TO DIE
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  • 232 2 RUSSIA BUILDING FAR EAST BASES LONDON, Wed. OUSSIA has developed at least half a dozen naval bases in her Far Eastern waters and is building up her military and industrial strength in Siberia, British informants said yesterday. These sources, experts on Russian affairs, said the Soviets were believed to have
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  • 59 2 LONDON. Wed. Two I'undred eye specialists from hospitals an over the world today watched the interior of a human eye televised in full cplour on to a screen at a London hospital. The apparatus was devised by a British manufacturer. A highly magnified colour picture of
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    • 277 2 LONDON, Wednesday. A MEMBER of Parliament yesterday proposed the creation of a Ministry of Sports to restore Britain's "national morale and international prestige" in athletics. Mr J. F. Haire (Labour) declared in the House of Commons that recent British flops in soccer, golf, tennis, boxing
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      27 2 WELCOME HOME FIELD MARSHAL Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. welcomed horns by his wif* 1 after an extended Far Rait tour. Reuter picture.
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    • 92 2 LONDON, Wed 'PHE Labour Government had a majority of only nine in the House of Com.mons last night when Conservatives challenged ita running of the £35,000.000 East African Groundnuts Scheme. An Opposition motion to cut money supplies to the Ministry of Food by £s— a
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    • 361 2 NOTICES NOTICE DISPOSAL OF VEHICLES By Order »t The DirecUr MMMN Srrvlce* GHQ FARLEF Surplus W.D. vehicles located at 221 Vehicle Bn, R.A.O.C. 7th Mllntone, Johore Kota Tlr^Bl Road, will shortly be sold by Trnder. Contractors not on the registered )lvt but wishing to become eligible to Tender thould apply
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    • 259 2 NOTICES THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS NOTICE OP APPLICATION FOB I A HAULAGS PERMIT We. SENG TIN CO., of 311,1 Tanjong Pagar Road. Singapore, I for transporting Messrs. Hani Yang Plantations Ltd., general cargoes at Masai, Johore Bahru, hereby give notice of intention to apply for a Haulage Permit
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    • 327 2 NOTICES AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD LEASEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES I To be held at our saleroom, No. 10, Chulia Street lOn Wednesday, 26th July, 1950. at 2-30 p.m. Lot 1. Freehold land with squatters Nos. 96. 98 it 100 Jalan Sempadan off East Coast Road, (near the sea), area 17.149
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    • 352 2 NOTICES THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR VARIATION OF A HAULAGE PERMIT We, THE GOODYEAR RUBBER PLANTATIONS CoZSTjJk?™ of Rcngam. Johore. Federation of Malaya, Holders of Permit No 2105 C under which we ar, autoo^ rised to carry our own goodj only intend to apply to
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    • 340 2 NOTICES ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION, SELANGOR A Nursing Division of the SeAa.igor St. John Ambulance Association is being formed will all ladies wishing to enrol please apply In writing or personally or by telephone to Mrs. E. Clyne or Tengku Malmunah at the School, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, between the
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  • 466 4 STORE TO START MASS LITERACY DRIVE SOON A MASS literacy campaign for adults between the ages of 18-32 is now being planned by the Singapore Education Department and will be started by the end of the year. The campaign will be part of a community development *?heme in which the
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  • 182 4 Terrorists Batter Girl To Death From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. BANDITS battered a Chinese girl to death, murdered a man and abducted another Chinese in PERAK today. Last night two Chinese were arrested following a screening operation in SELANGOR. Yesterday a security force road patrol was fired un
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  • 81 4 THE President of the IndoMalay Pakistani Seaman's Union, Mr.* M. A. Majid, yesterday denied that 130 Pakistani seamen had resigned from his union. He was replying to a statement made 4>y Mr. Asahab Miah in which he said that Pakistani seamen were forming a new union
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  • 90 4 j^O unusual quantities of tin have been bought on the Singapore market to warrant suggestions that Russia has been buying hero secretly. This was stated yesterday by a tin expert who was commenting on the London Daily Express report that such secret buying was believed to have
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  • 51 4 gINGAPORE Telecommunication Department is calling for tenders for laying about 18 miles of underground cable from Singapore to Johore Bahru. Government has voted about $800,000 for the cost of the cables which were ordered in 1947. Cable laying will start soon and take at least six
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    63 4 Chang Ah Lien, a 42-year-old woman, was fined $2 in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for selling ice-cream in Queen Street without a licence. Her apparatus was forfeited. MR. EUGENE FLAHERTY, Vice-President of the American President Lines who arrived in Singapore yesterday on an inspection trip to the
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  • 253 4 "J THINK the sentence of seven days is absurd," said—the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in Singapore Supreme Court yesterday, when he dismissed an appeal by two Malays on a petrol theft charge but altered the sentence by binding over the two accused. Mr. J. C.
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    42 4 NAI CHAI PRATCHPASAN, manager of Siamese Airways Co., who arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon by air from Bangkok. He is on a survey flight to Jakarta. With him is Mr. P. L. Gillespie. of Sime Darby, Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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  • 284 4 COUNCIL QUERIES FOR GOVT. From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. INFORMATION about councillors' allowances, administrate and police officers, Emergency casualties and war damage compensation will be sought by Federal Legislative councillors from the Federal Government at the Council meeting. Tuan Sheik Ahmad wants to know if councillors in re-
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  • 51 4 Parts of the wall running alone Singapore river are to be repaired by the P. W. D. at a cost of 5.412 Some of the gramte blocks are to be replaced along Clifford Pier, at the entrance to Singapore river and higher up along Raffles reclamation
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  • 43 4 ARMOURED CAR IN COLLISION JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Pte. Norman Williams, of Nee Soon Camp was fined $25 in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for driving an armoured car along Kota Tinggi Road without reasonable consideration for ethers and colliding with a taxi.
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  • 199 4 Party "Will Fight For Local- born THE Progressive Party of Singapore will fight for all local people to enter the senior public services, but, once they are appointed, they must stand on their own feet, the party's president. Mr. C. C. Tan, says in a statement. The statement Is an
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  • 47 4 A warning to shipping from .he Master Attendant says that there is an obstruction in the position 1 degree, 13' 28" N.. 103 degrees, 47' 14" E. It Is marked by a green spherical wreck buoy and vessels are not to pass close by.
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  • 61 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wed r "encourage better understanding between employers and employees." the Penang Clerical and Administrative Staff Union will hold a dinner on Saturday. The function will start at 8 p.m., but at six there will be a "best physique" and weight lifting contest
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  • 53 4 Remarking that he did not think the sentence was excessive, the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, m the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an appeal by V. Subramaniam against 12 months Imprisonment for cheating. The sentence, Imposed by the Second Police Magistrate. was to De followed by on^
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  • 38 4 Tan Hock Kirn, 37, and Quek Huafl Choo, 38, each claimed trial in the Secoud District Court yesterday to a charge of having opium and chandu smoking apparatus. Ball of $500 in one surety was offered.
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    • 586 4 a 4. y A ▼■'mii7of I 3 Shows Daily— 3, £.15 A 9.15 p.m. Shaw Bro's Malay Drama! 'BAKTI" starring Kasnaa Rooty Slput Berawftk REX JOHORE BAHRU TODAY 5 SHOWS AT 11.00-1.30-4.00-6.45 9.15 "DEWI MURNI" (Malay) ATLANTIC Great Wurld Last 2 Shows at:— 7.oo A I. IS "EAST OF JAVA"
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  • 190 5 Officers To Get Ranks Of Lieutenants 4 PICKED body of 40 men will form the A nucleus of a reorganised and permanent police force in the Singapore Harbour Board. These men have been selected from the 130 year. The full details of the proposed reorganisation of
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  • 152 5 ADVISORY BOARD ATTACKED IMiE interim committee of the proposed Singapore Tenants Association yes-t.-rday condemned the Muslim Advisory Board for having pledged their support tar the proposed amendtnenti to the Rent Control Ordinance. The amendments, if passed by the Legislative Council, will result in an increase of rents. A spokesman of
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  • 48 5 1 rom Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Sheikh Abubakar bin Yahaya. who has returned from 1.-aye in Australia, has been appointetd chairman of the Review Committee v.luch d( \ls with appeals from Johore detainees. He will also be the chanman of the Rent Assessment Bo.i:u.
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  • 52 5 WANTED: 20 P.C.s ALL CHINESE rERK are vacancies for 20 Chinese constables in the Colony's regular police Announcing this yesterday, the Commandant ol the Police Training School, Mr E. V. Smith, said that because of the very large Chinese population in Singapore, it would be an asset to have more
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  • 56 5 A MAN, described by the A police as "a bad character" was yesterday fined $10 in the Singapore First District Court tore failing to change the address on his identity card. He was 37-year-old Lim Kirn Chong, who pleaded aU Lim 'removed to a new address several
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    10 5 Happy World this week— Straits Times picture.
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  • 392 5 DETAINEES WITHDRAW DEMANDS From O«r Stan Correspondent^^ rrHREATS were used by a new batch of detainees Ito force other detainees to goon a hunger strike" Mr P S. C. Power, superintendent of the poh Detention Camp, told the Strait. Times today One thousand three hundred and
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  • 35 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.Mr A. Heywood-Waddington, Secretary for Economic Aifalrs, will ask the Federal Legislative Council next Wednesday to approve in principle the Draft Development Plan for the Federation which was published last Sunday.
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  • 35 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wea. Zainal bin Omar, of Singapore, who took a passenger in his car to Johore Bahru without a Public Service Vehicle permit and a Federation licence, was fined ?i» here today.
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    46 5 DR. G. L. KESTEVEN, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's Regional Fisheries Representative, who arrived in Singapore yesterday to discuss plans under the United Nations technical assistance programme. Before his transfer to Bangkok last September, he bad his headquarters in Singapore.. Straits Times picture.
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  • 204 5 T»HE Law Reports of the Colony are being brought U The work is being done by Mr. Bashir A. Mallal, managing editor of the "Malayan Law Journal and Mr. R. L. Eber and Mr. Ahmad Ibrahim, the revising editors. Their work began In September last
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  • 218 5 Holiday Decision Grieves Buddhists BUDDHISTS in Singapore are disappointed that Vesak. Day is not to be made a public holiday In the Colony. The Select Committee appointed to consider the Holidays Ordinance and in part cular the number of public and bank holidays, in a report to the Singapore Legislative
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  • 90 5 When two brothers. P. Allagappan and P. Karuppiah were charged with assault In Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, a witness. Lim Hock Guan. told of a squabble in a laundry on East Coast Road. Lim said Allagappan hit him with a stick and cut his forehead.
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  • 146 5 RURAL BOARD, monthly meeting. Land Office, 10 a.m. RED CROSS OLD PEOPLES CLUB Wesley Hall, Port Canning. 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. POLICE BAND, King George Park, 5.45 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. PRESENTATION OF MEDALS AND DECORATIONS, SVC. Beach Road, 6 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, gymnastics and keep-fit
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  • 126 5 T HK following passengers were 1 among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. J a f s f n&c. r f In transit are not included in the list. Kirn bPvsmmSJ Nadeau; Mr. and Mrs. T., B.
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    • 16 6 MET GROOT LEEDWEZEN 0.-yen Wi.i Kermis Van Het Overlitden Op 51-Jarige Leettijd Van De Heer
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  • 642 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur., July 20, 1950. The Trojan Dove A Communist cease-fire, and the withdrawal of the North Koreans behind the 38th parallel, are the essential conditions for solution of the Korean war. There must be no misunderstanding about that. There will be sober approval throughout the free
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  • 433 6 A delicate problem of policy is raised by recent protests from Indian readers in our correspondence columns against Radio Malaya's broadcasts of Christian religious services on Sunday evenings. The Director of Broadcasting has a good answer with regard to Islam. A religious service is broadcast in the Malay
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  • 38 6 PENANG, Wed.— More than 600 Indian waterfront workers met this afternoon to draft rules and regulations for a trade union. Similar unions, it Is understood, will also be formed by other workers from stevedoring firms.
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  • 671 6 THE COLONY BUDGET A Councillor Explains IN the Straits Times of A July 17 you point out that it is now estimated that the Colony will have a surplus of nearly $2,000,000 from the year's working for 1949. Naturally one Is glad to see that this is the case; but
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  • 662 6 VLTE seldom have new films up here. "Hamlet" arrived last Christmas or thereabouts, "The Third Man" and "The Heiress" about sixweeks ago, I think. In any event, these films, food or bad', arrive unheraldd and unsung In the course of time. "A Connecticut Yankee in the Court
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    • 345 6 DURELY Messrs. Dasaratha Raj and Raghavan are Delng, to say the least, very selfish in writing to suggest that Radio Malaya should cease to broadcast Christian services on Sundays? I agree that one hour and a half is possibly too great a
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    • 144 6 READ with interest the 1 letter signed by Mr. C. R. Dasaratha Raj, published on July 13 under the heading "R a d i o Malaya's Religion," in connection with the Sunday evening broadcasts of religious services. It is quite wrong of Mr. Raj to say that
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    • 53 6 I WAS gratified to read that several shopkeepers who had hoarded sugar were arrested and fined. However, I consider fines an inadequate deterrent to other opportunists and profiteers. Prison sentences (without the option of fines) of. say. two weeks or more would bring the desired result. C.
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    • 87 6 IN the Straits Times of July 8 you gave the following quotation from the annual report of Mr. A. E. S. Mclntosh, acting Director of Agriculture: With reference to the intensification of crop production, and having regard to estate agriculture, the situation with regard to the world production and
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  • 240 6 A Plea. For A Beauty Spot In Singapore I WAS horrified to read in the Straits Times that the Sennett Realty Estate Company proposes to demolish Alkan* Gardens and turn them into flat land for houses and maybe some children's playgrounds. Is Singapore so well stocked with public
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  • 33 6 Correspondents are asked to sign letters with their names or initials unless thefe is good reason for preserving anonymity. To allow as many letters as possible to be published, please keep letters short.
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  • 485 6 The Ceuolaph A letter In this page yesterday called attention to the fact that the Cenotaph on the Singapore waterfront still makes no reference to the second world war. It Is strange— indeed It is shameful that Singapore has not yet followed the example of Kuala Lumpur,
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  • 335 7 Buildings Will Take Five Years To Erect From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. DEFORE the end of the year it is hoped that the whole site for the University of Malaya will be bought, said Dr. G. V. Allen, ViceChancellor of the University, when with
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  • 240 7 »FHE Secretary of State for 1 the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths has written to the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, renewing his assurance of Britain's interest and support of the Colony. The letter, after (hanKing the people of Singapore "for the kindness with which I and
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  • 59 7 "The Syntactic Analysis of Language, East or West" will l-r the subject of Professor Jou Bienming's talk to mem-I'-rs of the East-West Society at 'he British Council Hall at 8.30 tonight. Professor Bienming, a Doctor of Philosophy, is the D an of Arts and the Tan Kan
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  • 84 7 Singapore Improvement Trust has notified about 750 tenants of its post-war flats that their standard rents will be reduced by 15 per cent from Aug. 1. These reductions, recently approved by the Trustees, are based not on the present rentals, but on the standard rentals assessed
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  • 22 7 Chow Ah Hong, 76, was yesterday knocked down by a motor cycle at Bukit Panjang. He was slightly hurt.
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  • 181 7 LAST SHIP TO LEAVE SEOUL IN S'PORE -pHE last ship to leave Inchon, port of the Southern A Korean capital of Seoul, on the same day that it fell to the Red army, anchored in Singapore roads yesterday. She Is the American President Line vessel. Marine Snapper, under the command
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  • 77 7 RADIO 'CUTS' PRICE Of RUBBER AN announcement by Radio Malaya last night that the price of rubber in Singapore yesterday was 82 cents caused consternation on rubber estates in the Federation and the Broadcasting Department was busily answering telephone calls for some time afterwards. The correct price 02'4 cents was
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  • 24 7 Seventy-one tons of ammunition and 222 tons of military vehicles have been delivered at Singapore docks by the R.A.S.C. ship, Maxwell Brander.
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  • 52 7 CONTESTANTS for the "Kebaya Queen of 1950". The winner was Che Supenah. third from right; run.ier-up. Che Norma, extreme left. Winner of the "Best Kabaya Cut" was Che'Tukiah binti Pain?, extreme right. The only non-Malay competitor, Miss Dorothy Choo' is second from the right. Straits
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  • 268 7 $100 Kebaya Didn't Win Dorothy The Prize rREE days before Singapore's "Kebaya Queen" contest was to be held at the Happy World. Miss Dorothy Choo. the only non-Malay competitor, had half a dozen kebayas each costing SlOO flown out from Jakarta, hoping she would win the first prize. But she
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  • 185 7 T^HE Executive Council of the Singapore Army A Civil Service Union met last night to consider a call for a general strike to force a restoration of the former status of the War Department's 1,000 storekeepers as non-industrial workers. Members of the War Department Stores
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  • 48 7 A Malay corporal and constable of the Marine Police were acquitted yesterday in the Singapore Second District Court of a charge of having corruptly accepted a $20 bribe from a boatman. They were Ahmad bin Wahab and Basirun bix» Baba. Mr. Sardon bin Jubir defended.
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  • 138 7 •pHE Indonesian Government's application for the extradition of Capt. "Turko" Westerling to that country, was yesterday adjourned sine die when Westerling made another brief appearance in the Singapore First District Court. Postponing the case, the Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon said that the hearing would have
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  • 58 7 THE Singapore Improvement Trust's Estates Officer, Mr. H. C. Tinsley, told the Straits Times yesterday that more than 700 applications had been received for the Princess Elizabeth flats following a local Press report that the flats had not been allocated. Rents of the flats, which
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  • 83 7 'THIS was the story told in Singapore's Third Police Court yesterday, when a 22-year-old Chinese woman was bound over for attempting to commit suicide. The woman went to the Great World with a man by whom she was being kept. Outside the park, they met her
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  • 35 7 An exhibition of modern business machines and systems, organised by Borneo Sumatra Trading Co. (Malaya), opens at the Capitol Blue Room this morning. The exhibition«vill be open to the public till tomorrow.
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  • 27 7 Major General D. Dunlop will present awards to 16 officers of the Singapore Volunteer-Corps at a ccr.emcny at the S.V.O. headquarters at 6 p.m. today.
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  • 157 7 S'pore 'Children's Charter' In Force On Aug. 1 rpHE Singapore Children and Young Persons A Ordinance (1949), which has been described as the Children's Charter, will come into force on Aug. 1. The ordinance gives wider powers to Government for the protection of children and brings in a new measure
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  • 86 7 A letter of termination of employment was found beside a man who hanged himself, it was stated in the Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday. The Assistant Coroner,- Mr. Choor Singh, returned a finding of suicide, at the end of an inquest on a 87-yeaf-old painter, Lew Ah
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  • 33 7 A Chinese motor-cyclist knocked down a six-year-o!d boy at the junction of Bali Lane and Beach Road last night The boy was taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.
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  • 84 7 TWENTY-FOUR D of opium were found hidden in th.» front, doors of a Johorebound car when Singapore Customs officers starched it at the Woodlands yesterday. Black market value of this seizure- is approximately $7,000 The opium va.s wrapped In II small paper packets. There
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  • 75 7 gINGAPORi; Municipal Commission vs will go into private debate at ;i special genera! commi' i c meeting called for tomorrow to select a candidate ro fi l the post of Assi tarv (Welfare). Two candidates no\ in line for the pa I They are Mr. J. L.
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  • 30 7 The third annual mcetin: of the Naval Base Labour Union will be held at the Sultan Theatre. West Hill Road, 13th milestone, Selet^r on Sunday 9 a in.
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    • 168 7 BSaßSfci i 1 1 1 ii a We have just received a new c-.i-.^.i .ient ot MECCANO AND HORNBY TRAIN SETS MECCANO AND HORNBY ACCESSORIES AND ELECTRIC MOTORS MECCANO SETS No. 0 J.TJ ALL SIZES TO No. 9 $85.00 MECCANO ACCESSORIES OUTFIT No. 0A i 1.50 ALL SIZES TO No.
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  • 557 8  -  LIAU NYUK OI r.Lindang Kerbau is the busiest thaternity hospital in the Far East. Last month it broke a record by bringing into the world 1,115 babies. by QNE thousand OQ3 hundred ■nil fifteen Rabies wetc born at the Kand;m<j Kerbau Matcrnilv Hospital in Singapore
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  • 569 8  -  G. T. BOON BANDS THAT PLAY IN SINGAPORE By article takes readers to an unusual musical oasis in Singapore's cultural desert, where I spent an enjoyable Sunday afternoon with an Irish band leader who is fired with the ambition of putting Malaya on the world's
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  • 528 8 Memories of old S'pore OEFORE 1923 one D could reach Katong only via the old Grove Road (now Muuntbatten Road) and Tanjong Katong Road from town. At that time Joo Chiat Road was only a sandy road about half its present width, and the only remains of Grove Road"
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    • 252 8 TODAY'S RADIO SPORE PENANC 10 ajn. News, followed by 10 a.m.— 2 p.m. As S'pore; 8 Emergency News from K.L., 10.05 Children; 0.30 Movie Magazine. 7 Close; 10.60 School*; 12 Malay; As S'pore; 7.15 "Intermezzo"; 1 pjn. Radio Orch.; 1.30 News; 7.30 "If You Ask Me"; 8 Forum 1.45 Light
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  • 466 9 A FEW miles from the village of Ulu I.auyat. near Kajang in fi<'hingor, are the hot springs of Dusun Tua '(old orchard). Dusun Tua. on the way to Kajang. is about 12 miles from Kuala Lumpur, and in thermal region. It is a tmall village,
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  • 894 9 yyHEN the monsoon winds are favourable, a large number of Indonesian trading boats Will be seen in Singapore harbour anchored off the Esplanade. Some come from as far as 2.000 miles away. "Jf there is any romance left in Singa-po-e it is in these boats
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  • 372 9 HOW MALAYS CHASED THE GEDEMBAI By MARK FOENANDER rpHE upper reaches I of the Pahang and Kelantan Rivers pass through magnificent forests and for long stretches lofty tress can be seen leaning over the rivers forming a canopy of thick forest foliage ovor the> banks a very beautiful sight. Meet
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    • 272 9 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD »c«o.i J7 The .b.pt' carpenter CROSSWORD No. 118 1 Cct up early 14. 4. 3. 3). breaks off (5) 8 OncoMhcw,ndow.,7> j^ d^ned' whe» «h« FlTTTTj' l-TITI 11 Open water-course <4>. 33 Familiar phrase* (heard M M >SS iSS SSa 12 l.i>bon stands on il <S> at
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    • 311 10 LONDON, Wed. PRICES showed some quite substantial rise R in many sections as latest news from the Korean battlefront and the usual enthusiasm for advancing quotations at the start of a new account helped London's Stock Exchange today. Closing middle prices u! selectee stocks, as supplied to the
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    • 245 10 'THE Malayan share market yesterday was extreme1 ly quiet in all sections. Buyers remained cautious Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer* Srßtn Frnser Si Ne»ve Ords 2.95 3 00 Gammon 2 20 2 25 H'kong tc S'hai Bank
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    • 50 10 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A YER Hitam Tin Dredging in the quarter to June 30 produced 2,369 piculs of tin-ore. DUKET Tin Dredging in the same period produced 248 piculs of ore (Normal dredging was resumed early in June alter crossing the Government roadK
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    • 29 10 SINGAPORE, Wed., July 1»— 5340.37 >/ a (down $9.87%) LONDON. Wed.. July 19.— Spot: £666 £666}; Forward, £666— £6664 Settlement, £666A. Turnover; Morning. 165 tons, afternoon. 145 tons.
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    • 119 10 CVDREIGN buying inquiries in the Singapore pepper market yesterday brought Mun'olc white up to $1,025 a picul, the highest ever recorded,^ with no sellers in the market. Sarawak whit? was J5 lower at $1,020; Lampong black was offered at $625. Prices (per picul) quoted yesterday In the Singapore
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    • 53 10 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. T ONDON shipbrokers estimate I J that a sum of around U. 400.000 will be involved in the sale of two new ships, the Silverelm and Sllverlaurel. by Silver Line, Ltd.. still with th« builders. The deal, they say, is
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    • 227 10 CHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hal Hsuin. Chong Tong, La Colorado, Troilus, Mar chen Maersk. Tjitjalengka. Steel Executive Union Mariner. Troja. Dalia. Ulysses. Hal Hing, Navigator. Inner Roads: Malim. Hua Heng. Kah
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    • 204 10 Singapore Rubber Market FE Singapore rubber market was fairly steady yesterday, but after some factory buying prices eased away again. In the afternoon the market was easier with better news from Korea. The easy tone was unchanged at the close. Closing prices yesterday were per rt> No 1 RS.S spot
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    • 32 10 TTINTA Kellas Tin Dredging's directors recommend payment of a final dividend of 10 per cent., less tax, payable on Sept. 18. Books will be closed from Sept. 4-17 inclusive.
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    • 447 10 EAST ASIATIC LINE m/s "MonHa d«« sbt. luly 20 tc* Bangkok. Manila Hong Kong Loading at Singapore Port Sw«ttenham Kob* Yokohama Penang. m/s "Sclandia" due abt. Ant 9 tor Bangkok %f% -Danholm" Coal Plant for Oslo. Gothenburg. Copenm/s "Mtoma' dut abt hagen Karlshamn. Cdynia tor Swaon Bangkok. He.smgfors m/» ••K»«.i»aas"
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    • 987 10 McALISTER 6c CO.. LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore, Telephone Mo. 5906 KLLKRMAM «k BUCKNALL KLAVKNKSS LINE LONDON. HAVRE. ROTTERDAM LOS ANCE'.ES. SAN FRANCISCO HAMBUKu PORTLAND SEATTLE ft VANCOUVER S'poSV* P^^m" mant CfeDtin SSReS PoTfV 8 C. 35-36/2,^,^22/2,^ 24/24 .OUCAINVILLE CITY Of LIVERPOOL ,S, S S'rujm Pcnan S Spore P Sham Penang
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  • 297 11 R. Sandosham Takes 12-34 RAFFLES Institution beat 21st I Guard Unit by an Innings and 27 runs in a game of cricket played at the School ground yesterday. Outstanding performance in the frame was R. Sandosham's bowling. He had a match analysis of 12 wickets for 34 runs. GUARD UNIT—
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  • 39 11 MANCHESTER, Wed. Roy Paul, Swansea Town and Welsh International footballer who recently refused to sign for the Colombian Millionaires Club after flying to Bogota, was yesterday transferred to Manchester City for a fee estimated at £39,000.— Reuter.
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  • 163 11 ROYAL ENGINEERS easily beat Royal Signals by three goals to one in their annual Inter Corps soccer game at Tanglin Barracks yesterday. Attacking from the start Engineers soon bad Signals on the defence and had no difficulty In scoring in the eighth minute through centre-forward
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  • 161 11 The following are teams for Saturday's Evan Wong Shield cricket: St. Andrew's Old Beys t Christian Brothers Old Boys at St. Joseph's ground at 2 ptn.: J. Anchant; J. Ducloe, S. Fereira, Hussein Shah, E. Fung (Capt)," I. Singh, C. da Sllva, L. Newman, A.
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  • 35 11 NEWPORT, Wed. J£ H. IP of Hong Kong, the Malayan champion, beat T. J. Davles of Britain 6—4, 6—36 3 in the second round Welsh tennis championships here yesterday.
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  • 245 11 Rovers S.C 1; Tigrer S.A. Nil. ROVERS S.C. fully merited their one-nil victory over Tlser S.A. in a S.A.F.A. Senior League soccer fixture at Jalan Besar yesterday If Rovers were a determined lot, Tigers were equally so, but they Just could not shake off their opponents
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  • 267 11 DESULTS of yesterday's lawn xv tennis ties In the Y.M.OA. tournament were: Novices' singles: Dr. Ong Bwe<Law beat Dr. Tan Ah Chua 8-3, 6-4- W. E. Ta n beat Yong Nyuk Un 6-0, 6-0; Y. F. Chew beat Fong Pin Chee 6-1, 6-3; Llm Ohln
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  • 232 11 RESULTS of the Tanglin Club tennis tournament fixtures played yesterday were: H'cap mixed doubles: Mr. and Mrs. Van Heuven beat Lt. Com. and Mrs. F. W. Hearn 6-4, 7-5. Women's h'cap mixed doubles: Mrs. Daly and Mrs. Gardiner beat Mrs. Notley and Mrs. Bleakley 6-4, 6-3. Open
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  • 22 11 TODAY: 1.26 ajn. (9ft. 9in.) TOMORROW: 3.15 a.m. (9ft. and 2.30 p.m. (Bft. 6in.). 6in.) and 3.06 p.m. (Bft. 61n.).
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    36 11 SGT. E. N. ROSE WELL (Swift A.A.) making the winning throw with the javelin at the Singapore A A A. Triangular Meet at the Parian* on Tuesday. He hurled 111 ft. 9'i ins. Straits Times picture.
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  • 427 11 THIRD TEST MATCH STARTS TODAY LONDON, Wednesday. rvPINION among cricket writers here are divided over the tactics to be adopted in the third Test between England and the West Indies starting tomorrow at Nottingham. Several critics believe that the best policy for both teams would be
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  • 43 11 SOCCER: Bnr. Ige: S.C.C. v Indonesian Lge. at S.C.C. p«dang; Pnlau Branl Utd. v Indian R.C. at Jalan Beaar stadium; Jnr. B 2: 4th Supply R. D. RASC t Town Rangers at Geylang. TENNIS: V.M.C.A. and Tang11 n Club tournaments (eont.).
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  • 2694 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By Empire Rose, Natural Win: Nerolia Upsets T»ARA STREET (Bagby) scored his fifth and greatest win this season when he routed Snowy Owl II and a field of top flight stayers in the $3,000 Singa pore Stakes over a mile and
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  • 56 12 Total Pool $347,425. 1st No. *****8 ($156,341) 2nd No. *****4 78,170) 3rd No. *****7 43.428) Starters ($3,340 each) Nos: *****9. *****2, *****3, *****8. *****9, *****4, *****4, *****9, *****6, *****2. *****9. *****6, *****4. Consolation ($2,605 each) Nos: *****7. *****3, *****7, *****2. *****3, *****0. *****1. *****9, *****7. *****8. DOUBLE TOTE
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  • 430 12 A WELL-BUILT man with slightly battered features scars of 36 fights in America, including one with present world welterweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson rode around Singapore last night reminiscing over his hectic fights here 10 years ago. "I am glad to be back again
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  • 419 12 Straits Times Special Correspondent HONG KONG, Wednesday. ITONG KONG University proved too good for n Malayan University in a five-set tennis fixture today. An unusually loose surface of the clay courts contributed to a five-nil defeat of Malaya, but they would have had little chance
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  • 63 12 NEW YORK, Wed.— -biKar" Ray Robinson has signed to defend his world welterweight title against Charley Fusari next month. The bout which will be In the Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, on Aug. 9 is lor the benefit of the Damon Runyon cancer lund. Robinson will donate
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  • 94 12 LONDON, Wed. REGGIE Thoy. the exSingapore State and Singapore Recreation Club cricketer, hit the headlines recently as a member of the United Banks team in the it*.tch against the M.C.C. side at Beckenham when he hit Denis Compton for iw'o sixes and a four
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  • 209 12 B3AWANIPORE Club. Calcutta's top first division soccer combination are expected to tour Singapore ari the Federation at the end«or this season. It is understood that Singapore Amateur FA. has received a letter from the Calcutta side asking Tor fixtures. Mr. S. R. P. Naidu.
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