The Straits Times, 31 July 1950

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PA(;fs SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1959. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 429 1 Troops Move In After Two-day Bombings AMERICAN H.Q., KOREA, Sunday. AMERICAN troops hitting out after a day of ominous quiet tonight recaptured Chirye, 1 1 miles south of Kumchon, where Conprnunists were concentrating to intensify their fiercest onslaught of the war. Northerners, driving south and eastward yesterday
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  • 180 1 7 STORMED RED BASTION US FRONTLINE IN KOREA. Sun. YEN Americans volun- ti-ered to storm a Red on on a high hill near; H'vanggan yesterday. They killed 18 North! X man s with rirk- tire, disp rsed another score and iptured four heavy machinegun* on wheels, automatic! rive Hrht machinekuim
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  • 25 1 HONG KONG. Sun.—The Chinese authorities in Swatoiv boarded the 2,876-ton British steamer Hanyang *"lien she arrived there recently and disarmed seven Chinese anti-pirate guards.—
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  • 82 1 DENVER, Colarado, Sun /GENERAL Dwight Eisen\J hower said today. '-I have been in touch with the Defence Department several times. I have told them I am ready to go." Gen. Eisenhower said, in an interview, that the situation in Korea "Is not as black as in
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  • 233 1 FORMOSA, Sunday. TpHE United States today reinforced her na*-al, x army and air attaches on Wmosa, island stror»hnld of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist "I Government. headed by Rear-Admiral Harry Jarrett flew into the the Nationalist capital of Taipeh after a seven-day flight from Washington via
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  • 96 1 WASHINGTON. Sun. FE U.S. Army dismissed as "utterly absurd" the claims of the Chinese Communists as to losses In weapons and men by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists over the last four years. The Chinese 'Communists claimed to have captured 54.430 artillery pieces. 419.000 .nachine-guns and
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  • 31 1 'PRAY'- POPE VATICAN CITY, Sun.—The Pope told 30,000 pilgrims, gathered in general audience at St. Peter's Basilica yesterday to pray that Rome and Italy and the world be spared tram war.—A.P.
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    39 1 Tills MAP shows the development of Urn CommcaM threat to the American left flank in the souti;. Black arrows show where the Norh Korean thrusts are taking place and the white arrows the main American point* •t de fence.
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  • 227 1 AND JUST WHEN HE NEEDED IT MOST... FOR li»-y«ar-old Brian Lait it was an "extra special" ynUtrac from mummy yesterday ti special it had to he. jc AUst* Brian who arrived air. from Britain for his seiiiiot holidays in Singapore, was on the verge of tears when he found that
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  • 189 1  - SHOT AT STRANGE VOICES LIONEL HUDSON I H.Q., KOREA. Sun. HILL 400 is a Jagged peak jutting out of a ridge baldin K from erosion two miles south-west ol HwangKan, where American and North Korean dead He jumbled together. a nandful of G.I.'s spoke reverently of the hill, while I
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  • 64 1 LONDON, Sun. 'THE Home Secretary, Mr. X Chuter Ede, today asked •very Briton not needed by the armed forces to volunteer immediately to protect his country against atom bomb attacks. "If atom bombs are dropped we shall have a very dif icult time," he declared. "It is
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  • 33 1 Birthplace VIENNA, Sun. Hitler's birthplace, little tavern on the Austrian side of the River Inn, is to be handed oack to Its original owner, the provincial court in Unz ,:as decided.—Renter.
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  • 137 1 BRUSSELS, Sun. fHE Belgian capital was calm today after last night's rioting on whiiM antiLeopold partisans clashed with the gendarmerie but political observers thought the calm deceptive. M. Paul Henri Spaak, leader of the Socialist Party, leading the opposition to the King's return to
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  • 189 1 SUPERFORTS BLAST RED FACTORIES U.S. AIRBASE IN JAPAN, Sunday AMERICAN B-29s struck at Hunjniam, one of the key industrial centres in North Koi\ today in the third major strategic bomb v •< attack of the war. Almost 50 Superfortresses dropped about 500 tons of bombs on the target area site
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  • 156 1 TOKYO. Sun. AMERICAN B-29s are now Jt\ blastin H North Korean targets at a rate of over 5,000 tons of bombs per month it was revealed today by Maj.Gen. O'Donnell. Commander of the Bomber Command. Far East Air Forces. He said 3,000 tons of
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  • 54 1 THERE will be a 16-page Free Press today. A special eight-page supplement will mark the 1950 trade exhibition at the Happy World. On the sports page. Joe Louis will begin a series of articles in which he takes readers "behind the scenes" in the boxing world and
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  • 55 1 TAIP, t fHE Chineve Nation; vi AtA t Fon:e announc ■>' i plants toua;- sank or i more than 150 Cnine.se Communist Junks thai h. lt. thrfifttftnirjg to mva >- land of Quer.ioy. An air conimuniqu >. '"I the action as "seti measures", but did whether
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  • 23 1 SAIGON. Sun- -Mr. Doimld Heath. U.S. Minister tv IndoCliina, denied today thai im wus planning emergency evacuation of American civilians. —Reuter.
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  • 272 2 Youths Urged To Revolt CALCUTTA, Sunday. gKISK recruitment to the armed forces te going on in Tibet in the face of "huge Communist consolidation along the frontier," according to a despatch in yesterday's Statesman here from its Kalimpong correspondent. The correspondent said: "While the seven-man
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  • 53 2 PARIS, Sun. BRITISH air liner made its first commercial flight from London to Paris in under an hour yesterday. Powered by gas turbine propeller units, the Vickers Viscount took 57 minutes for the 215 miles from London to Le Bourget airport, Paris. There were
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  • 165 2 SAIGON, Sun. TJSUALLY reliably informed French sources here said today that the Chinese Communist General, Cheng Keng, in the neighbouring Chinese province of Yunnan, was training and equipping about 10,000 Vletminh troops for new attacks on Indo-China. They said the Information was contained in top secret
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  • 56 2 MR JOHN J. HANLET, 56- year-old American self -titled the 'Baron of Broadway/ who has offered £1,000,000 for each of the six counties of Northern Ireland, calls at 10 Downing Street, London, to protest to Mr. Attlee against the partition of Ireland. The door was
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  • 188 2 NEW DELHI, Sun. /"VFFICIAL sources In New "Delhi yesterday denied any knowledge of the reasons for the reported recall of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Kashmir plebiscite administrator designate, to United Nations duty. Admiral Nimitz, appointed plebiscite administrator for Kashmir early In 1948, and sent on "Indefinite leave"
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  • 97 2 Fear In HK, Many Sell Cars, Houses HONG KONG, Sun— Many British and other residents of Hong Kong are considering leaving for fear that the Korean war may spread, but there has been only a slight rise In travel bookings. Many Chinese, however, are leaving the overcrowded Colony because of
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  • 41 2 WASHINGTON, Sun.— A limited number of reservists of the W.A.P., women's branch of the United States Air Force, is being called to active duty. The Air Force also announced that It will order 50 reserve chaplains to duty. —Reuter.
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    • 311 2 FLORIDA, Sunday. AI4J TON two-in-one guided rocket fired from Florida yesterday roared eastwards over the Atlantic to reach a height of nine miles in 63 seconds, with a speed of 2,727 miles an hour more than 45 miles a minute. Then the rockets separated,
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  • 30 2 NEW BRITISH anti-submarine aircraft showing the capacious bomb trunk with bomb doors open. The retractable 'radome' aft houses the radar equipment that scans the sea for submarines. Remer.
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  • 267 2 JOHANNESBURG, Sunday. rpHE United Kingdom Information Office, in a stateA ment issued tonight, said that the time had come for Seretse Khama to leave Bechuanaland Protectorate. This was in accordance with the British Government's decision, announced in a White Paper in March, concerning the chieftainship
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  • 27 2 MRS. GUNILLA Eliasson of Stockholm studies her programme on the opening day of the International Horse Show at White City Bt»4iiiiii London. Bevl r
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  • 330 2 Police Reserve For West Germany BONN, W. Germany, Sun. rpHE Western Allies have A approved the creation of a special West German reserve police force to be used under the direct command of the Bonn Government in case of a grave emergency. The force will be dividi d among the
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  • 38 2 KARACHI. Sun.— Railway fni.e have found four shotguns. I rifles and a h.rge quantity of ar.Jmunition in 100 b:-gs booked in m Karachi to arms dealers In Dacci, Chittasong, and R:iishi hi E -l Pakis? in.
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  • 382 3 U.N. EXPECTS 'ROUGH' MEETING OF COUNCIL WASHINGTON, Sunday. WASHINGTON officials predicted today that Tuesday's meeting of the United Nations Security Council under the presidency of the Soviet representative, Mr. Jacob A. Malik, would be "one of the roughest and bitterest" in the I nited Nations history. Britain is expected to
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  • 169 3 Marshall Aid Will Not Be Cut WASHINGTON. Sun. rPHS United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, told Congress today that lii? cost of the Korean camjaign should not be offset, n any reduction in Marshall Plan funds in the coming year. Europe's "mounting economic strength" was of paramount importance"
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  • 50 3 VATICAN CITY, Sun— The Vatican Holy Office today issued a decree banning; from the sacraments all children vho attend Communist youth organisations. Parents allowing children to join Communist youth organisations arc also barred from the sacraments. The de(xcommunicates teachers ucting children in mate--tic Communism. Reu- Irr
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  • 57 3 ATHENS, Sun— Cypriot dele ates led by the Bishop of Kyrenia left Athens today for London. They are campaigning for the union of Cyprus with Greece. They rlalm that in an unofficial plebiscite held In Cyprus on Jan. 15, 96 permit of the Greek population voied
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  • 23 3 11l V I .S. tanks being loaded on railway waggons for the Korean battlefron t. A.P. Radio picture.
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  • 53 3 LONDON, Sun. BRITAIN'S Socialist, doctors scolded the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, yesterday for not having his operations under the socialised medical scheme. Mr. Bevin hat been operated on in the Manor House Hospital and a second operation in the Lonion Clinto. Neither is a Health Service
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  • 97 3 DESIGNS FOR NEW TANKS WASHINGTON. Sun. •TIHE U.S. Army is ready to J- start building new light and medium tanks. Production will begin as soon as Congress grants President Truman's request for new military funds. An official said the Army had no intention of spending money on heavy tanks. The
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  • 27 3 WASHINGTON, Sun— The Japanese Moral Rearmament delegation, which is now visiting America spent yesterday afternoon inspecting Mount Vernon. the colonial-type home of George Washington.
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  • 172 3 NEW YORK, Sunday. C^EDERAL Bureau of Investigation agents yesterday arrested a manufacturer and a woman ex-Gov-ernment employee on a charge of conspiring with Harry Gold, confessed at:)m secrets spy, to give false testimony to a Federal smd jury investigating subversive activities. The Justice
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  • 77 3 CZECH SPY SENTENCES PRAGUE, Sun. A five-man Stale Court yesterday sentenced four former officials of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry and a former VicfcPresident of Parliament Dr. V. Chytll, to terms of hard labour for high treason and espionage. The same court sentenced Dr. Ladislav Pinkas, employee of the British Embassy
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  • 23 3 TROOPERS of the U.S. First Cavalry Division, carrying fail action packs, leave landing craft In South Korea. A.P. Radio picture.
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  • 269 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday. T>HE United States Air Force gave 200 manufacturers a signal today to go ahead with the production of approximately $4,000,000,000 worth of aeroplane parts. The industry was directed to start work and negotiate contracts later. The United States Embassy in Djakarta and the
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  • 88 3 TOKYO, Sun. ONE of the leading Tokyo newspapers, Jiji Shimpo. yesterday editorially urged the Japanese Government to petition the occupation authorities to allow the new National Police Reserve of 75,000 men to be equipped with armoured cars and even aircraft. Japan's police need not only an
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  • 59 3 HONQ KONG, Sun.— A noncommissioned officer and four privates of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, detained by Chinese Communists after having "inadvertently crossed the Hong Kong border" on Thursday returned to their unit yesterday. Negotiations for their release had been going on since the men crossed the border
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  • 143 3 LONDON. Sun. ABOUT 150 people demonstrated outside the Soviet Embassy at Kensington Palace Gardens, London, last night and several windows of the building were smashed. Bricks were thrown after a deputation of two men and a women had argued with Soviet official* on the Embassy steps.
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  • 157 3 MENZIES ON U.S. LEAD WASHINGTON, Sun. THE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robett Menzies said here last night that the mutual dependence of the American and British peoples on each other had been proved by two wars and "we will forget it at our peril." Addressing a nationwide radio audience, he
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  • 30 3 NEW YORK. Sun. Mr. Laurie Sham. Pakistan's Consul General in New York, today asserted that Pakistan was not preparing to make any change in its currency. Reuter.
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  • 300 3 'We Must Take Risks, Says Attlee LONDON, Sun. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, warned Britain yesterday that world peace could be obtained only by "positive action and willingness to take risks." He told a Labour rally that the United Nations would have gone the way of the League of
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  • 63 3 WASHINGTON. Sun. The North Korean forces are recruitlr^g 50,000 women for the combat area in Korea. Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquarters reported to Washington today. The report did not say whether the recruiting was taking place in North Korea or in occupiea South Korea, nor did it
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  • 180 3 MACASSAR, Sunday. PRESIDENT Soekarno. arriving in Macassar on a six-day visit to East Indonesia yesterday, told some 10,000 cheering people that Indonesians should continue to fight for New Guinea's incorporation into the Indonesian Unitarian state. Speaking about fbrmer oyal Netherlands Indonesian rmy servicemen who
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    16 3 MAJ.-UEN. 11. R. Gay. commander of the U.S. First Cavalry Division. A.P. Radio picture.
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  • 31 3 LONDON, Sun.— Scotland Yard detectives were called in yesterday to investigate reports that the telephone and water systems had been maliciously damaged at the House of Commons. Reutej.
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  • 416 4 POSTAL PLAN: FIRST STAGE COMPLETE Post Office For Bukit Timah T*HE second stage of Singapore's Five-Year Postal Development Plan is expected to start at the end of 1950. when a $86,000 Post Office will be opened at Bukit Timah. The plan has been divided into two stages. The first stage
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  • 214 4 NATURE "BURIES" ELEPHANTS fi.im Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. "U'HURE do eiephin ts go to ti i e? The Federation Game Department Annual K port lor 1949. just issued, hers a theory and 11 is not i I tOOK fabulous burial K mind with a fortune in ivory. Jin-
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  • 121 4 RED CROSS WORKING PARTY. k Hut. Clemrnreau Avenue. 10 m to noon MUNICIPAL COMMISSION. > hi] iiK^.uiR. Board Room. 2 IS I ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION, fi:?t-a!d class. HQ. I -rl R >;id. ,S p. m NGAFOKB ART SOCIETY. >> <•'•■••- Bviiioh Council (ten, d Road. 6 pin
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    25 4 SIX HtNKV tiI'KNEY going nut as sixth batsman for Mr. Foster's XI. He was out without niaUiiiq: a run. Straits Times picture.
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  • 32 4 2 EXCESS COST S $10 From Our Own onrspondrnt SEGAMAT. Sun.— For carrying an excess of two passen sers in his taxi. Tay Teck Leong was fined $10 at Sega- i mat
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    42 4 FLIGHT-MEUT. and Mrs. Leonard Hobbs pictured with their daughter, Melody Ann, after her christening at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, yesterday. Sir Roland Braddell. Melody Ann's grandfather, the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley and Lady Murray-Aynsley also attended the baptism.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 357 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. piVE THOUSAND Roman Catholics walked up the 1 21 steps to the little Church of St. Anne at Bukit Merta.jam today and joined in Province Wellesley's biggest religious festival since the war. Pilgrims came from all parts of
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  • 64 4 FINED- "LITTLE EXPERIENCE" l-nm Our Staff Correspond-ill PENANG. Sun.—A lorry driver, Ang Bah Ooi today wa s nned $75 by the FirstMagistrate, Mr. D. R. Home, for carrying a load of sand on a lorry in excess of the maximum weight allowed. Defence counsel, Mr. T.E. Conaghan, said that Ang
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  • 44 4 MUAR, Sun. A Javanese woman, Lakiam binte Kasno, aged 30, was sentenced by the Muar Magistrate to one week's simple Imprisonment for unlawful possession of a quarter gallon of latex and two katies of scrap rubber at Ledang Estate.
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  • 99 4 Women Judge Koran Reading I From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sat pOR the first time in Johore women were judsres of a Koran reading com petit: on when girls competed for a shield. The competition was held at the Balai of the Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque, Johore Bahru, where
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  • 35 4 'Rope Walking At Woodsville MR. LESLIE RAYNER, President of the Singapore Youth Council, walks across a bridge built by Scouts at a special rally of 300 Chinese Scouts at Woodsville on Saturday Straits Times picture.
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  • 89 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. gLECTRIC fencing to keep wild animals from damaging rubber and other estates is recommended by th« Federation Game Department In Its 1949 report Issued today. The department erected electric fencing round the headquarters compound hi the King George V
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  • 199 4 Students have to study from 'imported' cases SUCH A BIG DROP IN MALARIA T*HE number of malarial cases in the Colony is so small that Singapore medical students have to rely a great deal on "imported" cases to study the disease. This was indicated by Professor D. W. G. Faris.
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  • 93 4 THE Singapore Art Society will hold its first open exhibition of the work of local teachers and students tn the British Council Hall from October 21 to 29. The exhibition if bring organised on behalf of the Singapore Art Society by Dr. C.A. Gibson-Hill, Mr:;. D Alexaider,
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  • 45 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Sun.—lsmail bin Tik was charged in the Muar Magistrate's Court with theft of clothine valued at $36 belonging to Johar bin Abdul Aziz at the Batu Pahat school hostel. The case was transferred to Batu Pahat
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  • 32 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Sun.—A fine of $20, or two weeks' rigorous imprisonment, was imposed on Tan Hai Hye for causing obstruction on the the five-foot-way of his shop
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  • 165 4 'RIDA Will Benefit All Malays' From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. 'pHE Raja Muda of Selangor, who opened the United Malays National Organisation youth meeting at the Sultan Sulaiman Ciub, Kuala Lumpur, today, urged all Malay youths to support tte Rural and Industrial Department. Authority. He said the work
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  • 113 4 'pwo American Hi^h School teachers, who spent yesterday in Singapore, have a plan for world youth friendship by a system knowt- as YOU. They are Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Genung from Mii<r.eapolis, Minnesota ai.d Y.O. U. means Yearbooks Offer Understanding. They have with them copies of annual
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  • 61 4 Two Portuguese teachers. Mr. C. De Silva Vaz and Mr. A. J. Guerra, from ti.e Macao University, arrived at Kallang Airport yesterday by QEA Constellation on their way to Timor where they will be taking French and Poriuguese examinations ai the Lyceum College. Mr. Da Silva Vaz
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  • 53 4 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON, Sur.— Kanniah, aged 28, was .sentenced to a total of aix months' rigorous imprisonment when he was convicted on three counts of causing hurt to Athimoolam, Raj a gopal and Thevani (a woDUtn), by putting poison i'lto their coffee at Blenheim
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  • 53 4 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, SunCelebrations in honour of '.he 53rd birthday of the Sultan of Kelantan on Aug. 9 wi)l include a "feast" to the poor of all nationalities at tiie Istana Sri Chemerlang and m gaiden party at the Residency. A three-day holiday will begin
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  • 30 4 Application for affiliation to the Chartered Insurance Institute from the Insurance Institute of Malaya was approved at the annual conference of the Chartered Institute reld at Bristol recently.
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  • 530 5  -  By Douglas Lackersteen RANGOON. BURMA"S mideastern hillmen, the Chins, want immediate elections so as to replace their present representatives in their Burmese Parliament. They say that tlie men no* in Parliament are not the true representatives of the people because they were not elected by
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  • 425 5 Koreans are called 'Irish of the Orient' WASHINGTON: TTHE divided Koreans, x now in the grip of a Communist-launched war. are an ancient and homogeneous people, differing in many ways from their Chinese and Japanese neighbours. Some 30.000,000 Koreans live in the mountainous peninsula which stretches from the Asiatic mainland
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  • 612 5 By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT UIGH up above the central massif of Spain, guarded by a mountain rampart, remote and mysterious as Lhasa, General Franco is building a forbidden city at a cost of £7,000,000. Few, even in Spain, know that among the Guadarrama peaks
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    • 201 5 "Ring Up the Curtain" (Music for PORE FEHANC Shakespeare) 5.45 "The D3bate 10 a.m. News, followed by 10 a.m.— 2 p.m. As S"pore; 6 continues"- 6 Indonesian; 8.30 Emergency News from KX.; 10.10 "Listeners Calling": 7 As S'pore; w iT Close. 12 Malay: 1 p.m. "Monday 7.15 "Home on the
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  • 60 6 THE FAMILY of the late Mr I -or Kian Heng sincerely thank all relatives and friends. Staff of Fhell Co. (Gen. Mat. Dept.), Spore Cold Storage (H. 0.), Spore Harbour Board, as well as those who rendered assistance, sent wreaths, scrolls, loan of cars etc.. attended the night-visit and
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  • 729 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon.. July 31, 1950. New Crisis Of Battle The anxiety which lurks behind the somewhat confused reports of the critical newbattle on the central Korean front is tempered by two hopeful factors. After four days of hard fighting, the North Koreans have not made any dangerous
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  • 360 6 Washington's decision to increase the Government production of synthetic rubber to a rate of 675,000 tons a year is an obvious precaution in the light of the world crisis and the unsatisfactory position of the stockpile. The amount of the Government owned strategic stock has not
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  • 1073 6  -  TREVOR BLORE By "RANTED 100 pioneers. Exciting prospects." That is a sign which might well be hung outside a line Georgian house at the corner of one of London's loveliest squares. Actually, the board beside the entrance proclaims that this is the H.Q. of
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    • 420 6 Pro-Local-Born Or Anti-European INHERE still appears to be some discontent over the two recent senior appointments in the Singapore Municipality. From the correspondence that has appeared in your columns, it is evident that, in the opinion of a large number of voters the primary object of elected Commissioners should be
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    • 161 6 IDENTITYCARD BROKERS JHERE are too many brokers hanging about at the Registration Office Johore Bahru. Their business is to help the public out of difficulties connected with identity cards. The public, of course, is willing to give some money for the trouble of getting the requirements seen to rather than
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    • 118 6 JALAN KENANGA: TWICE A DAY T»HE constant raids (sometimes twice in one day) carried out recently by the police on hawkers at Jalan Kenanga a cul-de-sac in Kuala Lumpur, have caused much distress among these poor people who are striving to subsist by selling vegetables, etc. The raids are causing
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    • 303 6 AN numerous occasions yj there have been published, in the Straits Times and elsewhere, both in Malaya and England, reports relating to the lack of goodwill apparent between British troops and the Deoples of Malaya. Some time ago, while engaged on operations against bandits which lasted for
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    • 60 6 MATANG was once headquarters of the District of Larut in Perak. Due to the silting up of the Larut River the town suffers from floods even after slight rain. The parts which are badly affected are Mentri Road, China Street and Bangala Street. Cannot something be done
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  • 443 6 On the Margin Europialics l LIKE the idea put forward in our correspondence columns last week that it is high time that Europeans In Malaya followed the post-v;ir fashion and insisted upon being called something else. But the trouble is: What? I think this correspondent's suggested alternative is hoirid, and
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    • 835 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. ANDERSON: On 28th July, at the Maternity Hospital, Penang. to Muriel nee Kinnier Wilson, wife of D E. L. Anderson, a daughter, Susan Bruce THE engagement Is announced Mr. Teo Hock Tang, youngest son of Mr. Teo Chin &ng the late Mrs. Teo Chin Seng, and Miw Sally
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  • 409 7 'Back Pay 9 For Commissioners To Be Debated CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners are expected at their meeting today to have one of their longest and stormiest sessions since the birth control and the Pontian Tunnel issues were debated in the Commission. Among the items on a
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  • 146 7 SHOPMEN CHOOSE HOLIDAY ABOUT 13.500 of the estima ed 20,000 retail -shops In Singapore have so far decided on the day on which liirv will close under the Wokly Holidays Ordinance. Tin- ordinance came into rroion un July 1, but the Labour Department had given shopkeepers until the end of
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  • 93 7 A hi-uncn of ihe Smga- pore Co-operative Stores Society, tu genre Tiong Bahru's 12.000 inhabitants was openi a vesterday In Sen? Pon Road by Mr. A. B. ButllerMadden, Deputy Food Cont roller. Tne first man to join the branch, Mr. Liang Siak Wah, a prize from
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  • 47 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sa' Tlie health report 0* tiie Federation for the w ek ended Juiy 15 ;;ho\vs an IncrCMO in t lie number of 'lea.hs from pi.eumoma over the previous v eek. No fewer than 19 people died of it compared with IS the prevloua week.
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  • 60 7 THE interim committee of Singapore Tenants Association have sent a memorandum to the Municipal President. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, opposing; the motion of Mr. S. I. O. AlsaKofT (Nominated) for rent increases at the Municipal Commissioners' meeting today. At a meeting yesterday, the interim committee discussed
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  • 117 7 fLAMOROUS 20-year-old air hostess of Air Burma Miss Nelly Kathlesn Turner, who saw Singapore for the first time on Friday fell in love with the city even before her plane landed. Miss Turner arrived by Air Burma Dakota on Friday from Jakarta at Kallang Airport where
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  • 346 7 WHEN a musical executant has passed a certain standard in technique the interest of his or her performance lies not so much in the virtuosity, if any, as in the musical understanding and temper brought to the playing. Noreen Stokes, who gave a piano recital in the
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  • 170 7 rE possibilities of providing the Katong district of Singapore with a recreational ground with similar facilities as Farrer Park are now being considered by the Municipal Commissioners. This is wiiat several Municipal Commissioners, as well as officials of the Municipality connected with pailcs and
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  • 217 7 Eight-Point 'Discussion' For ICFTU THE General Council of the Singapore Federation of Services Unions yesterday appointed a sub-committee to draft a memorandum to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions representatives who are due in the Colony soon. The council also appointed a delegation to meet the representatives and to
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  • 90 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun.— Plans for a "University Week" were on the agenda of this morning's meeting of the Perak State Appeal Committee of t'«ie University of Malaya Endowment Funrt, which was presided over by the Mentri Besar in the Secretariat Council Chamber. The report
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  • 41 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. At a Rover Scout rally at Castle Camp, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday the State Commissioner for Scouts, Mr. R. E. Inche, presented Wood Badges to Assistant District Commissioner A. Ramachandram and Rover Scout Leader A. Kandiah.
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  • 226 7 SINGAPORE'S highest police radio station costing $95,000 has just been completed on the summit of Bukit Timah Hill— about 600 feet above sea level. It will provide the Colony with a round-the-clock, island-wide radio patrol service when it functions as a relay radio station
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  • 175 7 A PADRE and the first baby he baptised after being ordained a priest 24 years ago are to meet eacb other in Singapore this week. They are Canon R. K. S. Adams, of St. Andrew's School, Woodsville, and Navigator John Scotland, of the
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  • 84 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A Bill to unify the existing legislation on preservation and registration of literarv. scientific and artistic works in the Federation will be introduced in the Federal Legislative Council. Three copies of all publications, including newspapers, have to be
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  • 49 7 REAR ADMIRAL H. W. Faulkner, Flag Officer, Malaya Area, and his wife pictured above with their 11-year-old son Robert, who arrived last night by 8.0.A.C. Constellation at Kallang, to spend his holidays with his parents. Robert is studying at West Downs School, Winchester. Straits Times picture.
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  • 69 7 They are still very silent NOT one of the five persons who witnessed the shooting of Mr. Li Chi Wah, the Senior Inspector of Chinese Schools, in a bus at Newton on Friday have so far come forward to help the police in their investigations. Meanwhile, Mr.
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  • 83 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. IN Pahang on Thursday. Security Forces engaged two bandits one of whom was wounded. Following up, Security Forces found three camps. In Perak yesterday Security Forces located an unoccupied bandit camp which they destroyed. In Kedah yesterday, bandits broke
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  • 168 7 SCHOOLS STUDY GOVT. 'TERMS' Ttfß. LEE Kong Chian, A chairman of the management committee of the Singapore Chinese High School, told the Straits Times yesterday that the -e-opening of the school was indefinitely postponed pending the result of negotiations with government. Mr. Lee tald this af>ti a joint meeting of
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  • 42 7 PENANG, Sun Penangs newly formed Co-operative housing society will hold its first general meeting at 530 p.m. tomorrow at the Junior Civil Service Association The meeting will consider, and. if approved, adopt the draft bylaws of Ihe society.
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  • 51 7 From Our .i :p< indrn < TAIP I N G. Sun-Two women. Rob.ah binti Doerah (19) and Seha bintl Docr.ih (25). were charged before Mie Taiping Magistrate for bein* found in company of persons carrying firearms and explosives in Trong. Case was postponed to Aug 3 and ball
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  • 683 8 We go hunting guns in tricky waters AS INTEREST IN THE EAST SWITCHES FROM TROUBLED LANDS TO DANGEROUS WATERS FRANK OWEN JOINS A SMUGGLING CHECK OFF THE JUNGLE SHORES OF MALAYA STRAITS OF MALACCA: ■THE Hght sampans look like a caravan of camels on a desert skyline as they move
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    10 8 THE Singapore Water front from the Beach Road Landing; Pier
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  • 803 8 By WARREN WHITE JAKARTA, Indonesia: PREY -C LAD patrol have replaced the usual rainbow-paint-ed fishing craft in the waters round the "Isles of Spices" as the forces of the Indonesian Republic close in on Ambon, seat of the Government of the rebel Republic of the
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  • 409 8  -  CYNTHIA LOWRY By THE Soong Dyx nasty of troubled China is coming to grief, even as the fortunes of Nationalist China suddenly seem to be mending. But regardless of the outcome of China's civil war or of the United Nations' intervention in Korea, one of history's most
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  • 303 8  - New U.S. atom weapons FREDERICK COOK Bv By WASHINGTON is buzzing with stories of sensational new American weapons. The people who know are not talking. But here and there hints are being dropped about: 1-New artillery that oan knock out of the air enemy airplanes flying far hißh'-r than any
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    • 96 8 jLor the man who wants J^ifi "^^K 1 INDIVIDUALITY Sin led and powered loi Mnooth. silcni .peed. Wolseley offer a Mandard of luxury thai puti them well 10 iht fore of their cla» Every detail has been Included to. comfort, reliability and economical running, while traditional Wolseley a*!i»m«n>htp en»uf« a
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    • 333 8 RUBBER A Survey by THE FINANCIAL TIMES The worid'i leading business newspaper announces its comprehensive icview of THE FUTURE of NATURAL RUBBER which all Malaya is eagerly awaiting. Acknowledged authorities writing in the Survey are Mr H. ERIC MILLER, Cnairman, British Rubber Producers' Research Association. Mr WARREN S. LOCKWOOD, Director
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    • 157 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD ««om u, fti language It »lw«j» fttOS^WJIR Pfe Mn 1 97 I. BevWw to owk* bk quit parliamentary <"> K (8>. S- A round game 1 (4>. T fTT TJ^T S l^9e I I' I 8 M Headpu tot a crickatar Disgraceful, but nollUnf u» l«l f.
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    • 201 9 Prospects in S'pore Good T^CONOMIC prospects in Singapore are favourable, in the view of Mr. Evelyn J. Bunbury. Chairman "of the Oriental Telephone and Elecvric Company. Mr. Bunbury, in a circulated statement to shareholders. says that satisfactory progress was being made with the installation of a i.ew 5.000 line extension
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    • 132 9 INFLATION IN N.Y. NEW YORK, Sun. j INFLATION gained during the past week as tusiness and industry tackled the problem of supplying military needs while keeping the domestic economy prosperous. The Korean war had no: yet resulted In any large or(iers for military supplies. Bu y it was considered that
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    • 489 9 WAR IN KOREA LOSING POWER TO DEPRESS MARKET From Our Market Correspondent TWE Korean fighting: afforded daily interest to operators but would now appear to have exhausted its power to depress. Turnover during the week was on the low side in a generally weak market. Industrials are a little worse
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    • 147 9 (CONTINUED -eluctance of sel1' rs and scarcity of existing slocks in Singapore again raised the price of white pepper ai the week-end. Muntok white was quoted at $1,060. and Sarawak was unobtainable at even $1,055. No price changes were seen In other sections of the Singapore market,
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    • 257 9 Reports of Company matters this weekend included: The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Limited, which showed a surplus from underwriting during the year ended 31- 3. 50 or $162,971. after charging expenses, or *>ay. 21.7% on the capital. From interest, dividends (less tax) and property, revenue of $102,243 was
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    • 69 9 TJUNGAH Tin Dredgings directors have been officially informed of the provisional award made on the company's property claim in Siam. As, however, certain ot the terms for settlement of claims are still under negotiation with the Siamese Government, companies have been requested not to publish details
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    • 55 9 New York Rubber In US. cents per lb. closing: July 27. July 28. 1 R.S.S. July «.55 1 RJS.S. Aug. 43.55 nora. Market: Strong. London Rubber London. July 28— Spot 35d Aug. 334 d. Sept. 31'sd.. Oct.-Dec 28^id, Jan.-Mar. 26\d, Nominal July-Aug. c.l.f. 32' id. Aug.
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    • 1359 9 MANSFIELD 6c CO.. LTD. (incorporated m Singapore) BLOB FUMNIL LJNS Sa'u'nCJ °to "LIVERPOOL* CLASCOW LONDON b CONTINfNTAL PORTS Dim Sn.lf Sham Parana Troil«s tor Liverpoo C. 1 1 Aug 2 Ami 3/4 Aug. S/C Prometheus 'or Holland London Hamburg July 30/31 I-* 28 A-, 10 Aug. 13/14 Aug. 15/16 Autom.dcn
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    • 373 9 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA CEYLON. INDIA. ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Spore P Sham Penang Pres lohnson Cdns. 8/9 Sails I Aug. 4/5 Aug. 2/3 Aug Pres Monroe 11/14 Aug IS Aug. 16/17 Aug Pres Buchanan 22/27 Aur. 28/29 Aug 30 AuR./l Sept Pres Harding 5/10
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  • 586 10 Wins Thrilling Three-set Final From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. rjIVIN(i a champion's display, Ooi Teik Hock today beat his namesake and Thomas Cup tram mate. Law Teik Hock in three sets, 17 14, 12 15, 15 4, to regain the men's singles crown
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  • 149 10 HONG KONG, Sun. I "MVERSITY of Malaya beat the Hong Kong University Alumni by five wickets in a oneinnings cricket match today. Hung Kong went in first and kniM-krd up 97 In 111 minutes. Malaya then scored 102 for the loss of only five wicketi
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  • 315 10 N-Benders Johore Tie From Our Own lnr.f-.iinn imt JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. 'T'HE return cricket match be- wpon the Non-Benders of i Singapore and the Johore Cricket Club which was played on thf JC.C's ground today provided an rxci'ing finish, the result being a tie. each side scoring 132 runs. Johore
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  • 651 10 B.A.M. TITLE MEET From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. PENG SOON, AllEngland and Malayan champion, will play the opening match of the annual Malayan badminton championships which will be held at the Perak Turf Club on August 5, 6 and 7. Both Malayan champions,
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  • 124 10 TWO ocmtui teea, one to Maw the qreaion of inviting nonaflUiates of the Association to participate in their forthcoming Burma tour, and the other draft rules for running a Chines? inter-club soccer league during the close season, were appointed at a council meeting of the Singapore
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    60 10 SGT. CLAY leads the field at the end of the first lap in the 880 yards in the Singapore A.A.A. meet at the University of Malaya ground on Saturday. The winner, P O R. Matthews (No. 15) is fifth in the inside berth, while M. Balasubramanian who was third is
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  • 618 10  -  EPSOM JEEP By PENANG, Sunday. THHE Penan; August Bank Holiday meeting which 1 opens on Saturday is one of the most popular Federation meetings on the calendar and the presence of outstanding horses such as Tara Street, No Regrets, Four O'clock 11, Bright Eyes
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    56 10 SOME OF the Malayan Sports "Oscars" which will be awarded to the winners at the Malayan A.A.A. sports meet to be held in Singapore at the University of Malaya ground on Aug. 4 and 5. These pewter statue ttei are locally made, bfinjr designed and manufactured by the Malayan Pewter
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  • 201 10 Europeans Force Draw At Ipoh From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. rpWO missed catches In the last two overs of the day cost the Rest win over Europeans when the two-day annual match for the Hennessy Trophy ended on the padang today. At close, Europeans, sent In to face two
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  • 194 10 BEST— IST. INNS. I*! EI'ROPEANS— IST. INVS. Wjlsim 0 and k AnaUdisn 7 Palmer b Martins g ■YX/-ICU M "M"t.n. ll lulil* b Amaladax SC Jerrsa c Karlm k Appuni II Po.'ntr-Robrrls k Amaladsta 4 Glb*on not oat 1.1 MirhrH Ikw Appunf Warburtoß Ibw Amaladftu Belling* Ibw Appuni Extra*
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  • 98 10 Army bps»t Tigpvs S.C. by four goals to two in a Division B Water-Polo League gave ytatarday at Oillman Pool. Scorers were H. Rp^ve? fj), M. Reeves <1> and Marsh man U> for Army while Loh Pul Kee scored both goals for Tiger*. The teams were:
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  • 381 10 A GOMEZ (Sportlight B.P.), the schoolboy bad- minton champion of Raffles Institution, was surprisingly defeated by Seah Kim Teck (Mayflower) in the third round of the singles in the Singapore junior badminton championships played at the Clerical Union hall on Saturday night. Kim Teck won
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  • 458 11 SIMPSON FIRST TO REACH 2,000 RUNS Compton Back After 2 Months LONDON, Sunday. REGINALD Simpson, the Nottinghamshire and England batsman, became the first man this season to complete 2,000 runs. He needed 25 when he began his innings against Lancashire yesterday and he scored 48. Simpson was also first to
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  • Article, Illustration
    40 11 r R. MATHEWS who \w>n ihe 440 yards and 880 yards at the Singapore VA.A. championships held at Bukit Timah on Friday and Saturday. He returned the Rood times of ,»J.S sec. ami 2 mm. 6.8 sec. Str;;its Times picture.
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  • 180 11 Easy Win In Final For Kum Soon T^!E-7ENNIS fans were tiea;- MM thrilling game.s r.t World on Saturday tfhere T T.A.s junior and .«enior singles finals and the men's doubles were staged. ?les saw seeded Loh Kum Soon taking v a:id beating Cho Van t-l Kiill norn: 21-23. 21-6. Jl-10.
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  • 230 11 Locke Adds £500 To His Winnings HARROGATE, Yorkshire, Sun. ■ROBBY Locke, South African D holder of the open golf championship yesterday added £500 to his season's winnings when he won first prize in the North British professional tournament here. This makes his prize money £1900 in two months of play
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  • 111 11 Deplored HONG. KONG, Sun. TjONG KONG badminton fans are concerned about the low standard of their singles players today. A local newspaper stated that the ;ames against the Malayan University boys showed the backward state of singles play here. "Wp are indebted to >i_uthiui L.K. Khoo for showing
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  • 484 11  -  GUNN CHIT THYE B> PENANG, Sun. THROUGH the generosity of 1 several local sports patrons in contributing towards the expenses of the team, four schoolgirls have now been added to the Penang contingent to the Malayan A.A.A. championships to be held at the 'University of
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  • 231 11 AUCKLAND, Sun. NEW Zealand won the fourth and last Rugby Union Test here yesterday beating the British Isles touring team by 11 points (goal, dropped goal and try) to eight (goal and a penalty) New Zealand led 8-3 at half-time. The series had already been
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  • 107 11 r PHE opening ceremony of the Malayan A.A.A. Championships at the University of Malaya grounds. Bukit Tlmah, on Friday afternoon will be simple but impressive. Competitors from each State will march past with their captains carrying the flag. Selangor. as last year's Hosts, will head
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  • 399 11 UK County Positions Cricket Averages LONDON. Sunday. pRESENT positions in the co vn ty cricket championship up to ana Including the series of games which ended on Friday are as follows: Hampshire ana (iiourestershire records inc.nde eight points for win on first Inn -Ks in match reduced to one day.
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  • 88 11 Steering one past gully is DOUGLAS J. INSOLE 24-year-old amateur captain of Essex. Looked upon as an unorthodox and enterprising batsman and a brilliant fieldsman close to the wicket, Insole failed to get going in the Third Test at Nottingham which West Indies won by 10 wickets.
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  • 417 11 COLONY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP THE holder of the Colony Golf Championship, Dr. S. I. M. Ibrahim, failed to qualify for this year's match play when the two qualifying rounds were completed yesterday. The first round was p] course on Saturday af tern A. Gibb. 1949 Malayan eh:
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  • 66 11 LONDON, Sun.— Mr. H. E. Morriss has sold his Wokingham Stakes winner, Blue Book, to the Maharaja of Rajplpla. Blue Book, a three-year-old colt by Court Martial out of Blue Star II, finished second to the Maharaja of Rajplpla's Frst Consul In last week's Stewards
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  • 34 11 HONG KONG, Sun. rpHE cricket match' between the Hong Kong and Malaya Universities Combined team and Colonel H Oven Hughes Local XI here yesterday was called off because of heavy rain.
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  • 474 11 YORKSHIRE DISMISS W.I. FOR 198 Len Hutton Bats In His Best Form head clean bowled TlMtflH, tht double centurion In West India' match vlth Durham This brouplit one of the "W" partnerships Weekes and Walcott together and they saw 'lie score safely past the *100 .>n<J took it to 120
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  • 118 11 WEST INDIES— 1st *****:110 Marshall b Yardley M Stollmeyer Ibw (oxon it Worrell c Lester b Yardley I Weekes b Coxon 3d Trestrail b TTMtrtlMi 11 Walcott c Lou-on b Whiteheail :iS Gomez c Halliday b (oxon 12 Williams not out :;:< Jones Ibw ('oxon I Pierre Ibw Whitrhead
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  • 530 12 Score Seventh Outright Win By Our Cricket Reporter CINGAPORE Recreation Club, last year's cricket champions, virtually made certain of the senior title for another year when they scored another splendid outright win, their seventh in 12 matches, this time at the expense of
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  • 124 12 NEW YORK, Sun. TOE LOUIS, retired world heavy-weight champion who has announced his return to the ring, will fight Ezzard Charles, reigning champion as recognised by the National Boxing Association, in New York or Chicago in late September. The bout will be staged in New York's
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  • 183 12 Royal Navy defeated the Singapore Cricket Club in a friendly game played at Naval Base yesterday. S.C.C:— K. Stewart b Taylor 22. Cashin c Taylor b Day O, Blight b Berry O, Clarrie c Stuchbury b Day 2, A'Court run out 31, Pearce c Taylor b
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  • 979 12 SRC v Changi 1 t. I. Irnalrd R.A.f l)uu|i bj an inning:, in<l n tun. on the K..\ F. CHANGI— IST. INNS. Sanderson b Kofniiz 0 C3lli^ t Scully b DA.meida Hmchmson b Eb<-rt 23 Copley c Oaiistan b Barker 12 Campbc.) b Rbert 0 Bucklanrt c
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  • 206 12 From O«r Stuff Correspondent wrfmrav Sim XTFORT aSSIAN Mfl^vs AJEORI SBMBILAN Malays scored a convincing vietory here today when they defeated Pahang Malays by three goals to nil in a Silltans' Gold Cup soccer fixture. The standard of the game was mediocre on the whole
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    54 12 LLOYD VALBERG (left). Hanam and Ng Liang Chiang go over the first hurdles together in the 120 yards hurdles final at the Singapore A.A.A. meeting on Saturday. Ng was first to the tape but was disqualified for knocking three hurdles. Valberg who finished second inches behind Ng was declared winner.
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    17 12 Vacob Madari go out to open Indians' innings against S.C.C. on the padang yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 146 12 AS pert of Its third anniversary celebrations, the Singapore Institute of Commerce held its sports on Saturday at Raffles Iiistitution ground. The results of the spor's were: High Jump: 1. A R. Ratty; 1. A. Thomas. i5'i- Lone Jump: I. J. F. Carnegie: 2. A. R. Ratty. (IT
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  • 1350 12 OEGISTRAR of Vehicles increased their lead over £V V.M.C.A. by 11 points at end of yesterday's S.C.A. junior tournament matches, the leaders taking first innings points from Tengah while V.M.C.A. were unexpectedly beaten at Seletar on first innings. Sinhalese also got seven points from Indians
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  • 25 12 CHRISTCHURCH, Sun. ZEALAND beat the British touring Rugby League team In the first of two Tests at Chrlstchurch yesterday by 16-10.— Reuter. AJIP.
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  • 331 12  - 'Must Not Fail This Time —STRICKLAND JOHN MARKS ANOTHER BID TO FORM M.O.C. By SINGAPORE Olympic and Sports Council will give the initial impetus towards the formation of a pan-Malayan Olympic Committee to be affiliated to the International Olympic Committee. Mr. E. Strickland, secretary of S.O.S.C. told the Straits Times
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  • 37 12 r PHE Indian tennis player. x Narendra Nath. will tour Australia under the auspices of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia late this y?ar. He is expected to arrive in Melbourne in December. G. 1.1.5.
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  • 48 12 Tiger Swimming Club will cdebrat" the openiiiK of their nev premise? (former Lido Cafe at Tiger swimming Poo i with a dinner and dunce on Aug. 5 at 7.30 p.m In f t*rt'sted members are reQuested to contact the hon. treasurer ol or before Au<. 1
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  • 384 12 Rovers Keep Runner-up Position Open Rovers 3; C.A Nil. DLAYING their last game In the S.A.F.A. Senior League at Jalan Besar Stadium 5 terday, Rovers scored a wei!earned three-nil victory 0 Chinese Athletes after a stern tussle which was fought every inch of the way. The game, which vta npectcd
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