The Straits Times, 14 May 1951

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  • 21 1 The St raits Ti mes MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAT 14, 1951. -fc PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 488 1 Senator makes new attack on Malaya WASHINGTON, Sunday. DEMOCRATIC Senator Lyndon Johnson yesterday accused tin producers particularly those in Malaya— of trying "to soak" America with exorbitant prices. "We feel", he said, "that the tin producers have been taking advantage of a desperate world
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  • 224 1 Aid backward countries U.N. urged LAKE SUCCESS, Sun. A GROUP of five economic r p experts has advised the United Nations Organisation to consider setting up its own finance corporation to lend money to develop economically backwird countries. This was 'one of a number of recommendations made in a special
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  • 61 1 DUBLIN, Sun. Eire Is In the throes of a general election but the first week of the campaign now ended has failed to create a tipple of excitement anywhere. One reason is the difficulty of finding a real dividing line between the policy of coalition
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  • 282 1 DE LATTRE ARRIVES IN S'PORE pEN. de Lattre de Tasslgny, French High Commissioner and C.-in-C. in IndoChlna, arrived at Tengah airport, Singapore, yesterday, on a short visit to the Commissioner General for South East Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. Mr. Mac Donald. the Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson; «nd
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  • 41 1 HONG KONG, Sun.— The body of Lewis Trevor Anthony, a 19-year-old soldier of Headquarters 19th Infantry Brigade, Castle Peak, was found floating off Kadoorie Beach, Castle Peak, yesterday afternoon. Anthony was believed to have been drowned while swimming.
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  • 238 1 H.K. PLANS ANSWER TO TRADE CHARGES HONG KONG, Sun. HONG KONG Government next week wiU issue statistics intended to prove that its exports to China have dropped by 50 per cent, and its rail shipments by about one-third in the five months since the Chinese Reds entered the Korean war.
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  • 72 1 BRISBANE, Sun.—Australia s Army Minister, Mr. Josiah Francis, declared said today that army reinforcements for Korea would be flown immediately to Japan if needed. He said he had asked lieut-enant-General Sir Horace Robertson, Commander of the Commonwealth forces in Japan, for a report on claims that
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  • 38 1 A Chinese, Chua Tua Char, aged 54, had his left leg crushed when he was knocked down by a bus In Jalan Besar yesterday. He was taken to the General Hospital In 3 serious condition.
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  • 76 1 GENERAL OE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY. French High Commissioner and C.-in-C. In Indo-China. poses for Press photographers on his arrival at Tengah aerodrome Singapore, yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. With him are the Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson.
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  • 172 1 LONDON, Sunday. DKIT AIN is laying down' a strategic stockpile of D more than 100,000 tons of rubber, it was learned authoritatively today. Half of it will come from shipments earmarked for China before the export ban earlier last week. Rubber producers estimated that Britain
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  • 95 1 LONDON. Sun. r.E Economist yesterday said Britain is ready to use force, if necessary, to hold on to its rich oil concession in Iran. "The issues at stake for Britain, the Atlantic powers and. incidentally Persia (Iran) are so great that the Foreign Secretary,
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  • 45 1 About 100 Volunteer Special Constables and Marine police carried out a security check on Pulau Bukom early yesterday. The party, under ASP Minns, O.C. Marine Police, left Clifford Pier at 11 p.m. and returned at 3.30 a.m. No detentions were made.
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  • 41 1 An elderly Chinese woman was stabbed as she shouted for help when her home at the 914 mile Changi Road was robbed by three men armed with knives yesterday. The robbers escaped with two gold rings valued at $62.
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  • 29 1 A military lorry driver. Gramay Singh, was seriously injured In a fight in a house in Chander Road yesterday. Another Sikh, Sandagar Singh, was also Injured.
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  • 136 1 TAIPEH, Sun. BRITAIN'S move in banning rubber exports to Red China has raised hopes here that London would soon break off diplomatic relations with Peking. Britain extended recognition to Red China on Jan. 8 last year, but this has never been reciprocated. The Chung Hwa Jin
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  • 86 1 HONG KONG, Sunday. T*HE winner of the annual "Hong Kong Derby", x held yesterday, was disqualified, costing the holder of the sweeDStake ticket nearly HK5626,877. A woman, who had the ticket, can still collect one of the 84 also-ran prizes of HK57,107. She fainted
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  • 190 1 Phones— the price From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON. Sun. THE Oriental Telephone and Electric Company, whose (telephone system in the Colony will be taken over by the Singapore Government in 1954, states in a circular to shareholders that the company's licence provides that the price payable by the Government on
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  • 368 1 'RUSSIA MIGHT ATTACK AT ANY MOMENT' WASHINGTON, Sunday. RUSSIA might attack Western Europe "at any moment", said United States Secretary of Defence, Mr. George MarshaH, to a Senate committee yesterday. The United States and her allies would declare war immediately, continued Mr. Marshall, if tho Russians occupied Berlin or any
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  • 140 1 Doping of horses: S.R.A. takes action From Our SUIT CcrmponLent. c PENANG. Sun. THE Straits Racing Association issued the following statement today: The Straits Racinr Association Committee, having definite knowledge that dope has been administered to certain horses, decided at a special committee meeting held in Penan; on Sunday. May
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  • 53 1 BANDOENG. Sun. SEVEN persons, inc!ud:r.? three European esfacj men. were killed in a terrorist attack on Gunung Berleud estate south of the West Javi estate centre of Sukabuml. en Friday afternoon. The estate guard of 20 surrendered to the terrorists who were dressed In polled
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  • 2880 2 The marked Improvement in Price Formidable Increase in Production Costs Mr. H. B. EGMOINT HAKE'S Speech. The Ordinary General Meeting •f The Rubber Growers' Association (Incorporated) was held on April SO in the Council Chamber at the association's offices, 19 Penchurch Street, London, E.C.3. Mr. H.
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    • 732 2 PUBLIC APPOINIMEMTS SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY: —ARCHITECT BUILDING SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT: Asst Architect A Building Surveyor In Class II ($5OO x A3O 590 x 40 630 X A3O 750 x A4O 870 BAR A4O 950 x 50 1,000). Applicants must be Associate Members of the RJ.B.A. preferably between 24 and 30 years of
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    • 333 2 MALAYAN RAILWAY NOTICE The Level Crossing at Telegraph Post No. 408/18-19 M*ln Line at Chamek will be converted into an Open dossing on and from 15. 6. 51. General Manager, Railway LUNAS RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Interim Dividend of
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    • 323 2 tfoticES ~w MALAY REGIMENT TENDEP NOTICE TENDERS are Invited for large quantities of blue shorts gymnasium in various slses. Specimen may be seen hi the Regimental Ordnance Office, The MALAY Regiment, Port Dlckson. All other particulars may be obtained from Q Branch RHQ. The MALAY Regiment, Port Dickson. Tenders will
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    • 262 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITT Making n* %m* •reining of Lw »mm Enfka Aimi turn Oeylang Be*4 to the MsurieiasJ Limit Owners are notified that tha plan, specifications, estimate ana provisional apportionment M connection with Notices served*' under Section 103 of the Muni- 1 cipal Ordinance (Chapter 133) for the making up
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  • 214 3 RED CHINA BAN: TEST CASE FOR INDIES JAKARTA, Sun. fKE Indonesian Trade 1 und Industries Minister, Mr Sujono Hadinoto. the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Achmad Subardjo and economic experts met yesterday to discuss the situation arising from the British and American ban on the export of strategic materials to Red
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  • 43 3 PARIS, Sun. The French Council of Ministers last night fiyd t^° general election for June 17. The Senate passed by 278 votes to 35 the Bill ending the present Parliament on July 4 four months before its full term. Reuter.
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  • 60 3 CALGUT BY THE CAMERA as she gazes skywards at the Festival of Britain is Miss Mary Johns from Colombo. She is standing in the circle which marks the plumb point of a skylon. From this spot she rets a worm's eye view of the skylon, exhibition
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  • 122 3 TAIPEH, Sun. F[E Central Daily News, official newspaper <jf Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Party, yesterday claimed that ?00 Russian submarines are now based at Hainan island. Communist military base south-west of Hong Kong. The newspaper said the news "was officially confirmed" but gave no clue
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  • 73 3 CALCUTTA, Sun. ffiWELVE people were killed X and 21 injured in two railway accidents within a 300-mile radius of Calcutta, it was reported today. Nine people were killed and 11 seriously injured when a passenger train collided with a engine at Darbhanga station In Bihar
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  • 32 3 SEATTLE, Sun. CENATOR Warren Magnuson v (Democrat) said here that he would* propose that Chiang Kai-shek be Invited to address a joint session of Congress.— Reuter.
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  • 48 3 SANTIAGO, Sun. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that Chile Is rejecting the British protest against Chilean bases in the Antarctic where Chile, Britain and Argentina claim sovereign rights. The spokesman said Chile's answer will be handed to the British Ambassador next week. AP.
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  • 57 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. THE Polish Government has 1 told America that Bishop Joseph Padewski, an American citizen, died In a Polish prison after four months' internment. Bishop Padewski. a prelate of the Polish National Catholic Church of the United States, was arrested on Jan. 19 on a
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  • 149 3 NEW DELHI, Sunday. T*HE Indian Parliament is expected to debate next week the freedom-of -speech clause in India's 17-month-old Constitution. Introducing this and 13 other amendments yesterday, the Premier, Mr. Nehru, said the Government seeks to resrtct freedom of speech "In the interests of state
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  • 23 3 TAIPEH, Sun.— Between 80 and 100 Chinese Nationalist naval officers may go to the United States this month for training. Reuter.
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  • 188 3 'A-bombs can now be used in the field 'A LONG WAY SINCE HIROSHIMA' > r V i I SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. DACK from the latest 0 atom-bomb tests in the Pacific Representative H. M. Jackson, said yesterday that the United States had "come a long way since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
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  • 109 3 U.S. arming won't hit living rate NEW YORK, Sunday. AMERICA is rich enough to carry out her defence programme and still be able to maintain a high standard of living, Mr. A. E. House, assistant to the Mobilisation Director, Mr. Charles E. Wihnn, said yesterday The American national income should
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  • 137 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday. DEPRESENTATIVE E. E. Cox (Democrat, Georgia) 1V yesterday accused India of playing Russia against America in an effort to "blackmail" Congress into a free gift of 2,000,000 tons of grain. "Russia is the dominating influence in India right now." I he said. "India
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    • 161 3 Cable Flashes Lana 'Most Glamorous Mother, 1951' I ANA TURNER, who is the >** mother of an eight-year-old daughter, was named "1951's Most Glamorous Mother" yesterday because she is "a perfect example ol streamlined motherhood." The local Businessmen's Association said the actress is an ideal American mother "an* epitome of
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  • 30 3 TEHERAN. Sun.— The Teheran evening paper. Kay h an, said last night that one Persian was kidnapped and another shot and wounded in incidents on the Soviet border.—Reuter.
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  • 168 3 TEHERAN Sun. DREMIER Mohamed Mossa1 deq fainted and collap<sed in Parliament today after telling Iranian Deputies that his life had been threatened. The ageing premier said he would stay in the sanctuary of the Parliament building eating, sleeping and conducting business there until he
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  • 45 3 A LITTLE KOREAN girl has her face washed by her mother on the south shore of the Han River after they fled with others from the South Korean capital, Seoul, in the face of pressure by Chinese Red forces. A.P. picture.
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  • 77 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. ADMIRAL Chester W. Nimitz, and seven other members of a Presidential commission set up to safeguard America's Internal security against Communism, have resigned. The resignations folkved the refusal of a Senate committee to recommend special legislation exempting the commission members and staff from laws
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  • 152 3 ARIAS MA Y BE TRIED FOR MURDER PANAMA Sun. rORMER President of PanaT ma Arnulfo Arias may be tried for murder and Rross abuse of nower Informed sm££» said Btota balna^M: in a nolice cell on ordws of th« NatSnS Assembly 'an tawsSSIS into ffi •fflnSTto «s\m^ rtW«wfci2. iS. SJ?o^SStown
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  • 307 4 Adjustment policy 'hasty, says London From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. I ONDON estimates of the rubber the British Government may have to buy to implement its undertaking to take over Malayan and other rubber sold to China on forward contracts but not yet shipped
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  • 183 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. HPHE British Adviser in x Pahang, Mr. W. C. S. Corry, praised the part now being played by the Chinese population of Pahang. i n a talk in the "Spotlight on the Emer-> gency" series over Radio Malaya.
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  • 49 4 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Cathay Cinema at Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, has been bought by the Shaw Brothers and renamed the Lido Cinema. The auditorium has been Tenovated ant} new equipment has been installed. The cinema is scheduled to reonen on Tuesday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    29 4 MISS TAN JOO LENG. social secretary of the Singapore Teachers' Training Association speaking at the Association's annual dinner and dance at Raffles Hotel- on Friday night.— Straits Times picture.
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    45 4 TOURING WORL D ATTRACTIVE A«nes Jiaunce. personal assistant to the Fisheries Officer of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, who has just left Bangkok for a round-the-world air trip. Miss Jiannee is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jiannee. of Meyer Road. Singapore.
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  • 37 4 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun M. A. Norman Bhai, partner in a shop at Batu Pahat. was fined $250 at Johore Bahru for attempting to evade $25 duty on goods valued at $127.
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  • 159 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. TWO civilian workers employed at H.Q. Malaya were today awarded the civilian equivalent of a 'Mention in Despatches' by the G.O.C. Malaya. Major General R. E. Urquhart They were Mr. Keong Siew Toi, Personal Assistant to the
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  • 48 4 MALAYAN FOR U.S. CONVENTION ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, Sun. J)ATO Haji Mohammed Eusof, Federal Councillor, will be the only delegate for the Rotary district of Malaya and Siam at the 42nd annual convention of Rotary International from May 27-31. Dato Eusof left Singapore last month for the convention—USlS.
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  • 25 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Lim Ah Hoi, a bean curd seller, of Singapore, was fined $90 at Johore Bahru for speeding In Jalan Scudai.
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  • 262 4 CYLINDRICAL fish with headlights, tiny octopuses and strange crabs are among specimens from 15,000 ft. under the sea in the Danish vessel Galathea, now in Singapore. Galathea, named after another Danish ship which visited Singapore 105 years ago, is on a scientific mission of exploring the
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  • 145 4 3 bandits killed, many wounded From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. by a strong force of the Kajang gang in the jungle south of Kuala Lumpur yesterday, a small patrol of the First Suffolk Regiment fought back killing three of the bandits and wounding "many others." One British soldier
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  • 45 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A Chinese fitter Lok Cheun pleaded guilty before Inche Harun, the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate, today to breaking the curfew at Salak South. The case was postponed to May 18 and bail of $200 was allowed.
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  • 70 4 PAFFLES Museum, Singapore, is to engage an artist to draw Malayan flora and fauna, and the works will be exhibited to help people tell the difference between species. The artist will do line drawings for Museum publications to replace the photo- graphic system used for
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  • 164 4 'PRICED LOWER ON PURPOSE From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. rpHE goods were purposely undervalued, Mr. Mark Morrison said when he argued an appeal before Mr. Justice Storr, for Ah,mad Din, a local trader who had been fined $749 in the Magistrate's Court for undervaluing certain textiles Imported by
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    • 208 4 but I must stop the engine I J& mf c8 Madam, you must shop, \S*^Zj ~~^^x ///iff rl 4 sto P an( start motoring M rt^l, fc\\\ Ml I On-off driving, shopping, paying neighbourly calls, Additives in Shell X-100 Motor Oil not only take g f*^Ml^, /I i C^J Mi
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  • 368 5 CURFEW 'KILLS' THRIVING SUBURB OF KUALA LUMPUI Only police seen in township From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A MPANG, thriving township on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, was a dead place today. Shop shutters were up, houses were closed and the streets were deserted except for patrolling police.
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  • 162 5 Chusan was delayed three hours Front Oar Staff Correspondent. PENANO, Sun. •FO cope with the record quantity of passengers' baggage, the Chusan deferred her sailing from Penang by three hours today. When she eventually left Swettenham Pier at 3.30 this afternoon, she carried one of the biggest contingents of Malayans
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  • 34 5 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Yeong Tin Lin who attempted to smuggle two pieces of cloth and three bottles of perfume worth $36 was fined $250 at Johore Bahru today
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  • 59 5 PHOTO SHOW AT K.L MR. CHEONG YOKE CHOY (centre), a Kuala Lumpur Chinese leader opening the Free China pbotographie exhibition in the Federal capital. Organised by the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall and other Chinese organisations in Selangor, the exhibition began last Saturday. With Mr. Cheong are Mr. H. S. Lee
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  • 235 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sunday. A PROPOSAL to add a girls' section to the AngloChinese School in Seremban, making room for 600 more pupils and thus help to meet the increasing educational needs of Negri Sembilan was announced today by the headmaster. Rev. C.
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  • 36 5 Y.W.C.A^ Raffles Quay, French conversation class, 10 a.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, judo class, 5.30 pm.. movie circle. 8 p.m. SINGAPORE ART SOCIETY, life class. British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
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  • 93 5 pHILDREN of the Johore Vj Bahru School for the Blind helped the Batu Pahat District "Welfare Week," committee to raise $39,000 last week. At a "Fun Fair." organised by the committee, the blind children sang on two nights. A total of 59,000 people attended the Fair. Among
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  • 33 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— Tasmin bin Hus&ain of the RAOC. was fined $40 in the police court for inconsiderate driving at Johore Bahru when h e knocked down an electric light standard.
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  • 275 5 Seaforths go home after 70 years FOR the first time in over 70 years, the Pipes and Drums of the Ist Battalion, the Seaforth Highlanders will be heard in Scotland next month. They leave Singapore aboard the Empire Fowey on May 27 after three years' operations against the Communist terrorists
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  • 150 5 CAR OWNERS, SYCES FIGHT O VER PARKING THE parking problem in Singapore is so acute that it is leading to an almost outright war between owner-driven and syce-driven cars for the few parking lots available. The congestion Is worst in the Collyer Quay and Raffles Place area. One European firm,
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  • 34 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun During a year the Inspector of Weights and Measures. Johore, examines 16,000 dachings. (Chinese weighing scales) and 200 weighing nachlnes according to a witness in the Police Court today.
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  • 124 5 VTIGHT flying which was ln- troduced by the Royal Singapore Flying Club in March— the first club in Malaya to do so is well on the way to success. And three club members have a&ready made their first night solos. Although night flying Is restricted to within
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    10 6 Photograph by Y. T. Choong. FILLING UP IN PORT DICKSON
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  • 992 6 Singapore's struggles to equip itself for the air age are not over yet. After using the RAF. aerodrome at Tengah for Constellations, after cancelling Gammons' contract at Changi, and after realising that Kallang will be too small for the
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  • 78 6 From Time magazine of April 23: On many subjects, Truman could profitably use British urisdom and experience. But to take British guidance on Asia is like taking guidance on credit and currency problems from Chiang Kai-shek. The proper adviser for President Truman, in Time's opinion, is of course
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  • 37 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Pictures of all aspects of lite In Formosa can be seen at a Free Chtha photographic exhibition which Is being presented by various Chinese public organisations at the fsisaiiiHii rhlllflli Assembly
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    • 439 6 CAN it be that the authorities of North Johore are blind to the fact that Segamat is a main centre of Communist activity and supply? It is difficult not to feel sure that, after bandit incidents within a radius of 15 miles of Segamat, and while
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    • 153 6 are two resettle- ment camps about equidistant from the centre of Kuala Lumpur, one at Jinjang and the other at Ampang. I understand that at Jinjang settlers are provided with posts and a roof erected by and at the cost of the authorities. At Ampang nothing is
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    • 171 6 Fis surprising that, despite the many protests from candidates who sat the recent L.C.C. Shorthand examination, and the walk-outs staged by candidates. Mr. PC. Pillai in his letter of May 5 is still in favour of Indian snorthand dictators whose pronunciation is really un-English. Does Mr. Pillai know
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    • 157 6 Grate ful for 'The Bomb' AM R. Francis Thomas, in his recent letter condemning both the idea of "recompense" from the Japanese and the barbarity of the atom bomb, appears to have forgotten that the 300,000 survivors of P.o.W. camps in Japan, Siam. Malaya and the Philippines owe their very
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    • 42 6 'THE statement from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya that the University Is going to start a course for a Certificate in Education for approved nongraduate teacher? Is most welcome. We hope the course will start soon. STUDENT-TEACHER. Singapore.
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    • 334 6 Call-up: reply to the Education Member VOTHING has been said about Dato ThuraisingA ham's statement that Malay students in English schools will not be called up under the Manpower Regulations. I, for one, do not like to see such a statement pass unchallenged. He says the Malays havi contributed enough
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    • 332 6 'Pocket Gromyko' trouble in K.L. ACCORDING to tho A Straits Times of May 7 the Joint report on the deadlock in the salary negotiations between Government Clerical Service representatives and the Government should have gone to the High Commissioner on May 9. So I venture to write these few lines.
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    • 210 6 CANDIDATES who fall the v London University Matriculation examination In one subject are usually permitted to complete the examination by sitting the subject In which they failed at a subsequent examination. This year, however, the Singapore Education Department has refused permission to those who failed in
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  • 445 6 Malayan Dane H,TUTTEN on a coW March day in the town of Hareskov. Denmark, a letter Ma reached me from a render of '-he Straits Budget. I am sorry I have been unable to decipher his signature, and all I know is that he was one of
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  • 307 7 MC calls for probe into city contracts CONTRACTORS feel that a ring is cornering the contract works of the Singapore Municipality with the connivance of Municipal officers, says Mr. E. V. Davies (Labour North Ward) in a memorandum to the Municipal Secretary. The letter follows his finding
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  • 192 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Sun. CO that Buddhists all over the world may "meet together in spirit", the Penang Wesak holiday committee has appealed to devotees throughout Malaya to ooserve a two minutes' "Metta Bhavana" (meditation) at 7.29 p.m. on rv'^v 21. This corresponds
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  • 35 7 From Oar Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Lee Chew Lei, a lorry driver, «,as fined $90 here today for negligently driving a lorry which was being towed. The lorry knocked down a stone culvert.
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  • 195 7 3 INDIAN BODIES TO MERGE Fiom Oar Staff Corr«»pendent KUALA LUMPUR Sun. THE three Indian political 1 bodies in Malaya the Malayan Indian Congress, the Malayan Indian Association and the Federation of Indian Organisations today agreed to unite into one body, the Congress of Indian Organisations. This was decided at
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  • 101 7 THE representatives of 26 Singapore trade unions yesterday appointed a threeman committee to tackle the question of trade union representation on the Legislative Council. The meeting was sponsored by the Government and Municipal Labourers' Union. The committee was authorised to pursue the matter by itself or
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  • 118 7 gINGAPORE'S fourth list of fair prices was issued by the Government last night. The price of washing soap has gone down. Victory bars now cost 90 cents each and Electric Iron $1.00; five cents less in each case. Other fair prices areCondensed Milk: 14 oz. tins
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  • 23 7 BEKTHA I.ANGELLIER (nee Bdteman), 77. on May 13th p.m. at 14 Hertford Road. FVineral at Cathedral of Good Shepherd this en ing.
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  • 111 7 From Our Staff Correspondent r^TTiP PENANG, Sunday. "JHE draft constitution of the Malayan Trade Union Council was among several important issues discussed by the central committee- at its 11 meetin X held i n Penang today. The talk lasted four hours. and was held
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  • 78 7 MH. S. A. HORSTET (right), a young Danish scientist with the Galathea deep-sea exploring team a s sailor working in the laboratory of the ship in Singapore. Equipped by public subscription in Denmark. Galathea is in Singapore in the course of a two-year expedition round the
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  • 286 7 I)IKECTORS of the Straits Trading Company v recommend a dividend of $1.50 per $1 stock for 1950. This is twice the dividend paid for 1949. Last year's profit was 51,446,087, after writing off depreciation and providing for income tax and other charges. Mr. E. M. F.
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  • 46 7 From Our Own Correspondent. jJCUALA mMPUR;-Sun; v Ten Chinese bandits stopped i bus in the Kuala Lipis area of Pahang yesterday, drove it on to a timber kongsi track and set it on fire. A man and two women were detained.
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  • 28 7 The first annual general meeting of the Singapore Union of Journalists will be held at the British Council Hall, Stamford Road, at 10 a.m. next Sunday.
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  • 53 7 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG, Sun.— Toong Twa Tow was fined $25 or 10 days' imprisonment by the Circuit Magistrate on each of three charges of having two persons with him in the front seat, carrying passengers when he was not licensed to do so and carrying goods
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  • 180 7 SINGAPORE Municipal Health Department Is fighting a losing battle with hawkers selling illegally slaughtered pork in the city. These racketeers estimated to be more than a hundred are operating in many of the densely populated areas In the Colony, and sometimes even near the Municipal
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  • 122 7 From Our Own orrrspondent. JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. gHUNMUGAN and Veloo. two Tamil boys, who ran away from the State Welfare Home, Johore Banru, on Wednesday, have not been traced yet. The two boys were found by the Senai police standing by the barrier to the
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  • 30 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Kiew Swee who used a car for hire without a public service licence was fined $300, or. two months' imprisonment in the Police Court today.
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  • 224 7 Rabbits, dog soup 'cure' his malaria From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Sun. EATING rabbit daily has proved such an effective cure claims a former malaria patient that h« had started a rabbit farm to have a constant supply of his favourite meat. "I started eating; rabbits during the war while
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  • 44 7 MAJ. Gen. A. O. OCarrefll Scott, newly-appointed G.O.C. Singapore, said farewell on Saturday to the 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, which sailed for Tripoli, after nearly three years of an ti- bandit operations The regiment sailed in the Empire Trooper
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  • 38 7 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Lee Kim Wan was allowed bail In $300 at Johore Bahru today pending trial on a charge of having been found drunk while carrying a firearm.
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  • 42 7 From Ow SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— A member of a security force patrol was killed by bandits in the Jasin district of Malacca yesterday. In the Dungun area of Trengganu, a special constable corporal was wounded in the leg.
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  • 139 7 From Our Own orreononeVnt JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. WONG Slang Wah, a lorry .driver, was fined $700 In the Police «Court i today for using a three axle lorry whose axle weight at centre exceeded three and a half tons. laden lorries, which were used for
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  • 325 7 T»HE 800-strong Singapore Air Ministry Local L Staff Union, at the fourth anrual general meeting yesterday, decided to take joint action with the other Services unions including, if necessary, a deputation to Britain to present their grievances to the British Government and public.
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    65 7 MR. W. F. SCULLY, a 68-year-old Singapore Eurasian who has been singing in the choir of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd for the last 58 years, will get his Pope's Medal next Sunday from the Bishop of Malacca at a ceremony at Kaiong Catholic Church. The medal has been
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  • 58 7 IBOUT 200 telephones were n put out of action by the "Sumatran" storm and gale which struck Singapore early yesterday. The storm, which broke at about three o'clock was accompanied by sheet and fork lightning and thunder. A shophouse In Robinson Road had its zinc sun
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  • 29 7 Singapore postmen held a dinner and ronggeng party v Maxwell Road last night in honour of Mr. Wong Pen? Swee, Assistant Controller cf Po«ta. who is retiring.
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  • 645 8 THE MALIGNED PINEAPPLE Page 9 Tuaii Djek another view of.... FORTUNES were made by the Chinese, in the days when unrestricted planting of rubber was allowed, by opening up r ubber estates with either (tapioca or pineapples as i catch crop. In the case of pines as a ule only
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  • 55 8 BILLY, the only cat at a tea party in London for 39 dogs is unfavourably impressed by the arrangements. Old Age Pensioners were entertained with their pets at tht Tower of London Restaurant. The party was organised by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for pensioners
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  • 263 8 THE coming parliampntarv elerrinrn in mentary elections in France may decide the fate of a project for one of history's greatest engineering feats— a road tunnel through 15.700-foot Mont Blanc, Only final French Government approval of a contrlbution totalling 20,000,000 Swiss francs one
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  • 430 8 By A Special Corresponden t npHE pulse of the great basin known as the "Dead Heart of Australia is beginning to slacken after two years of vigorous life. Scientists have given their verdict: In another twelve months the region will relapse into the sterility and
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  • 555 9 WITHOUT any fuss, one of the biggest mass migrations of modern times is being stepped up in Britain. Since the war's end, nearly three-quarters of a million men, women and children have slipped out of English ports and airports to settle abroad. Everyone is sorry to see them
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  • 633 9 T»HE new lightweight atomic bomb, the basic method of making which was disclosed last week, has altered American. British, and Western European strategic plans. First news of the bomb was given in the report of the UJS. Atomic Energy Congress Committee on Soviet Atomic Espionage. rhis report
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  • 544 9  -  GRAHAM JENKINS By T»OUGH and fiercely independent Thai tribesmen, newly-or-ganised as guerillas by the French, are meeting the Communist-led Vietminh (nationalist resistance) forces at their own game in Tonkin's rugged Northwest mountains. And they are winning local successes. American tommyguns and carbines have been
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    • 172 9 KIM HOCK'S fc^jjgiliSilfl |bgi&~ KIM HOCK OWNS A FISHING STAKE, WHICH HE OPERATES I WITH THE HELP OF HIS QROWN UP SONS. sy ijkf r* r r tup nflv X PiSH ENCOUNTERING THE s»^^v W'L^ri. 1™ C rljfi fIKC In^Cnf \J \J j 'T I I F UE T >#
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    • 227 9 Straits Times Crossword |T]|a 3 1| 4 fli 5 j7j 7 M is "ss" |H 2I" ACROSS. 6. fart of Somalia by another J^rB, PP tDttoftOtOf a 'TS^and getth* attr^e *4S' (if* 001 **k a hu«" ft**) (•>. 8 Art Is to the vessel for an 10 Material at last
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  • 347 10 From A Market Correspondent UNCERTAINTY was last week's keynote on the Singapore share market. Monday opened on a comparatively optimistic tone, but from Tuesday onward, as the price of rubber declined, the market became considerably easier. 1 More and more sellers came forward
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  • 110 10 NEW YORK, Sun. WALL Street ended the week rather indifferently yesterday. This was not surprising in view of recent performances and the usual week-end hesitancy. Although there was no great amount of selling pressure, the market suffered from buyers' lack of interest. Prices gradually slipped showing losses ranging
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  • 134 10 HARRISONS Crosfleld (Malaya) announce the following April rubber crops, In lb.: Aller.by 34,000 Benta Est. 64,000 Jeram Kuantan Esk 62.000 Kundong Est. 39,000 Mentakab 54.500 Sungei Bagan 115,000 Sandycroft 16,500 Tanjong Pau Est. 47.000 BOUSTEADS announce these April rubber crops, in lb.: Amal. Malay Est. 38.500 Borelll
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  • 47 10 lIITAM Tins April ore output amounted to 63 piculs. The mine was closed down for 10 days during the month. TALAM Mines last month produced 311 piculs of tin-ore- fTAMRA Tin Dredgin? In April covered 188.000 cubic yards In 490 hours to produce 364 piculs
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  • 32 10 LONDON, Pri.. May 11.—Spot 435 d., June 43? id., July-Sept. 43' 4d., Oct.-Dec. 42d.. Jan.-Mar. 41d, May ci.f. 44d. nom. May-June ci.f. 43% d., June-J# y ci.f. 43d. Market: Irregular.
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  • 35 10 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced at the week-end that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buylrw T.T. 351/16. Airmail (Of) 35 3,6 (90 days) 35 7/16; Selling T.T./ O.D. ready 3411/16.
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  • 305 10 KUSINESS done In the Singapore share market last sreek included: Industrials— Alexandra Brtckrorks Pref. $1,874, Fraser leave Ord. $3.42", to $337'^. Jammon $1.85 x.all, W- Hammer 36 to $35. Malayan Breweries 570 and $5.65, Malayan Cement cents paid, 25 cents, Robinson )rd- $3 22£ to $3, Robinson 2nd
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  • 143 10 Alor Gajah Estat e From A Market Correspondent ALOR Gajah Rubber Estate i made a profit of $16,799 I 7*4 per cent) for the year to Sept. 30, 1950, and paid five per i ent on Dec. 28, 1950, against ill previously since the war. f Net liquid assets in
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  • 91 10 JELEBU Tin Dredging directors, in a circular to shareholders, state that, after taking professional advice and having in mind the best interests of the share-holders, they are firmly of the opinion that it is not advisable to recommend a return of capital at the present time, but
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  • 148 10 THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE Company reports that for the year to December 31, 1950, new business figures represent an increase of 60 per cent over the previous year. The assets of the company, including investments $16,645,337 the market value of which is considerably greater in aggregate,
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  • 439 11 OUT SCHOORN HIS 113 v ESSEX Yorkshire 313 in "Roses" game LONDON, Sunday. I ADDIE Outschoorn, former Singapore cricketer, scored his first century of the new season when he made 113 for Worcester in a County cricket championship fame against Essex in the series which started yesterday. Outschoorn's century, which
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    29 11 CHEE SENG, Singapore's roalkeeper punches clear during an Indonesian attack in the first half in yesterday's soccer match at Jalan Besar stadium which Indonesians won 4-1. Straits Times picture.
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  • 250 11 CARDIFF, Mon. T*HE South Africans, with first use of a perfect pitch in brilliantly fine weather, made 275 for five In their first innings against Glamorgan here yesterday. For a long time the tourists batted very stolidly, but towards the end of the
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  • 65 11 BIRKDALE. Sun.— The United Pine.- retained the Walker Cup here yesterday when they scored their fourth win in the singles against Britain. The United States had already gained a lead of two games In the foursomes yesterday. The final tally was s x matches to three
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  • 41 11 KEMPTON PARK, Sun.— Mrs. John Bryce's Roman Way (100-8) won the Great Jubilee handicap run ove 10 furlongs here yesterday. M James Rank's Hyperbole was second and Sir Victor Sassoon's Mlstv Light third. Eleven ran. Reuter.
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  • 211 11 FESTIVAL SOCCER LONDON, Sun. THOUGH the continental 1 teams provided plenty of clever football in yesterday's big programme of Festival Soccer, they gained little success. In the three international matches, Scotland beat Denmark, 3—l,3 1, Wales overcame Portugal 2—l, and France shared four goals with Ireland. Hampden
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  • 613 11  -  EPSOM JEEP SATURDAY'S RACES REVIEWED From PENANG, Sunday. JOCKEY Colin Tulloh, who has firmly established himself as a master in a tight finish, rode one of his finest finishes when he drove Nature's Gentleman past the post a head in front of the hardridden Opera
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  • 221 11 PKNANO, Sun. DIDING five winners at the Penang Summer Meeting which concluded yesterday, Charlie Ellery is back in the race for jockey premiership. At the moment there is practically nothing between Ellery and Tulloh and it look* a keen tussle between these two leading jockeys who
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  • 302 11 LONDON. Sun. Festival of Britain football i*. sulu yecterday are: INTERNATIONALS Ireland 2 France 2 Scotland I Denmark 1 Wale* Portugal 1 OTHER GAMEB Aldershot 3, National (Luxembourg) 1; Blackpool 2, R.S.C. Anderlecht (Belgium) 0; Brighton ft, Have 3, Haniborn (Germany) 2: Carlisle v 2, Shamrock Rovers
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  • 529 12 INDONESIA ROUT COLONY IN 2nd HALF San Liong nets three goals a ohot from close in. i Singapore were now a spent I foroe. The anticipated weak spots in the defence at left- back and wing-half stood out with the clearness of a flare in a night-sky, and the Indonesians
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  • 77 12 SOCCER: Chinese v All-Indone-sia at Stadiant: Dlv. 2; KoU Raja 'A' v I.R.C. -A' at Geylang Dlv. 3A: Marine Dept. v HMS Terror at C.YJH.A. CRICKET: Europeans v Rest (last day); FriendUes: RAF. Seletar v R.E.M.E. at A. Bajah Road; Seletar 2nd XI R.A.M.C. at Seletar; St. Andrew's
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  • 405 12 Sports Editor's verdict... WO alibis, no excuses Singapore were disgraced at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Only Harith, a gallant skipper and Rahim Omar, who scored the best goal of the game, can be exempted from this judgment. Indonesians were quicker, sharper, more accurate and every
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  • 94 12 Negri win OBA soccer MALACCA. Sun. A penalty kick converted by Semanathan soon after resumption enabled Negri Sembilan Christian Brothers' Schools 0.8.A. to beat their Malacca counterparts by one goal to nil at the Malacca Stadium today. Having beaten Singapore 4-2 yesterday, they are now winners of the Ist. Triangular
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  • 68 12 LONDON, Sun. \1 AL Whitfleld of America, 800 metres Olympic champion, won the 880 yards international event in the British Games at the White City Stadium, London, in 1 mln. 53 7 sec. yesterday. De Kroon of Holland finished second and R. Peaxman of America third. Roger Bannister, the
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  • 277 12 From Oar Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. rpHE Malayan Chinese football team which will be travelling to Hong Kong for this year's Ho Ho Cup match against the Colony will play in Manila, Rangoon and Bangkok en route. The itinerary
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  • 58 12 Singapore Combined Schools beat an S.C.C. XI by 109 runs in a friendly match at R.I. ground yesterday. Scores: Schools 164 for 7 dccl. (D. Hay 32 Wong Fong Weng 41, R. Stevens 52, N. Perera n.o. 17, McMillan 3-57, Darke 3-25). S.C.C. 55
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  • 210 12 ALL five fixtures in the S.C.A. Section B tournament yesterday ended in Drst innings results: At Changl K.A.F. Chanft beat C.K.I. (North) by 109 rant first lutings. Changi 166 (Whittles 2(. Buchannan n. Pitzpatnck 24. Dickinson 22; Perelra 4-41. Peace 4-44); C.R.E. (N) ST I Merchant 18;
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  • 548 12 IPOH, Sun. REOOIE Trevor, Malayan motor-cycling ace, won the honours with his daring and clever riding on his Vincent HRD machine to win the main events for motor-cycles at today's Ipoh speed trial at the Ashby Road circuit before a large crowd who braved
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  • 127 12 f'he 220 yards international at went to E. McDonald Bailey Jamaica running for Britain. r .v..-, Bailey clocked 21.2 sec., two mln. 9.2 we. the fastest time he seconds outside his British national has ever clocked for this distance record. in Britain Herb McKenley.
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  • 231 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. OELANGOR won their first inter-State cricket game of the season when they beat Perak by 48 runs in a closer finish than expected on the padang today. Selangor, with a 61 -run lead on the first innings, went for
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  • 294 12 SELANGOR— IST. INNS.: I*l for 9 dccl. PERAK— IST. INNS. A. G. Jnkes h WllhU 12 R. Madley h Wilkle IS W. Bedlay h Scnerlratne IS A S. Tbllalnathan st. Ball h Bin Kent IS E. Tone b Seneriratn* M. H. Jerram c Ball Bin Keng V. Selvarajah h
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  • 86 12 LONDON, Mon. Holland and Ireland and the Philippines and Brasil each won a singles match on the first day of their second round European zone Davis Cup ties yesterday. Results: At The Harae: L. Kruit (Holland) beat J. D. Hackett (Ireland) 6-3, 4-8. 6-4, 6-2. a. P.
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  • 54 12 HONG KONG, Bun The visiting Hendon Football Club yesterday beat a combined Hong Kong side two-nil in a match that was more of a swim than anything else. Hong Kong never even came close yesterday as Hendon scored two clear goals— in the closing 10
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  • 61 12 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRO, Sun— Johore CC. beat Singapore Cricket Club by 26 runs here today. S.C.C. scored 73 (Nelson 27, Margrave 17, Allport 4-37). Johore scored 99 In reply (Rees 23, Van Schoonbeck 21, Vlas, 16, Blowers 14; Bykes three
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  • 80 12 RI.M.E. Base Workshops beat R.A.F. Changl by two wickets In* game of cricket played at Changl yesterday. Scores: Changi 90 (Cosh 25, Hutchinson 18; Heaney 7-31); R.E.M.E. 91 for 8 wkU. (Snelson n.o. 42, Frewer 21; Midgley 2-17 Davencourt 2-18, Buckland 2-24). In a M.OJt. league soccer
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  • 531 12 By Our Cricket Reporter EUROPEANS finished the second day of their annual three-day cricket match against the Rest on the S.C.C. pad an? in a winning position yesterday. After taking a first innings lead of 99 runs, they took six Rest wickets in the
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  • 200 12 REST— IST. INNS.t 83 EUROPEANS— IST. INNS. H. W. Wood b S. K. Saadram 1 G. Hoard c Eag Cheng b VcllnpsMal P. A. Reynolds b S. K. Snndram 13 D. I. Price b do Kretser 8 J Ede c do Kretser bS. K. Saadram R. N. Saeddoa c
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  • 77 12 Results of first round ties in the Ei Tong Sen Cup golf competition held at Island Cub yesterday were: D. L Cowie (12) bt T. L. Thompson (161 3 and 3; R E L. Wlngate <8i bt i K.T. Ong (18) land 1: Lim
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