The Straits Times, 8 October 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    TROOPS SEARCH AMBUSH AREA
    1021 1 Two camps found TRAP NOT LAID FOR GURNEY— gray WAITED 45 MIMTES KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. piVE AND A HALF COMPANIES of British and Gurkha troops are spread over a wide area off the Fraser's Hill Road, m northeast Selangor, searching for the party of 38 bandits
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    AMBUSH: OFFICIAL STORY
    526 1 AMBUSH: OFFICIAL STORY SIR Henry and Lady Gurney with the Private Secretary, Mr D. J. Staples, left for Fraser's Hill on Saturday morning on a holiday combined with duty. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Hogan followed m their car. The convoy consisted of a Land Rover, under the command of
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    6 S'PORE GIRLS DROWN IN CREEK
    195 1 SIX young Chinese girls were drowned while looking for shells m a creek off the 12 J mile Chua Chn Kanr Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon. I Two small boys and a girl who were m the party were saved. Police have so far recovered
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    Wife stayed with body for 43 mins.
    534 1 Wife stayed with body for 43 mins. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. LADY Gurney remained with the body of Sir Henry Gurney for 45 minutes lying m a niche of an embankment after the bandits, who had shot him, had retreated, Mr. D J Staples, the Private Secretary of the High Commissioner,
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    THE KING HAS GOOD NIGHT
    45 1 LONDON, Sun.— The King had another good night and 'continues to make satisfactory progress," an official bulletin stated today. Five doctors signed the bulletin— the 18th since the operation on the King on September 23 for a lung ailment.— Reuter.
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    NEW CABINET
    28 1 TEL AVIV, Sun.— The Israel Prime Minister, Mr. David Ben Ourion, today formed a new coalition Cabinet of nine Lftb.our and four Religious Front Ministers.— Reuter.
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    Reds name new site for talks
    223 1 TOKYO. Sun. THE Communists proposed today the immediate reopening of cease-fire talks at Panmunjon on the southern edge of Kaesong's neutral zone. Their message to General Ridgway proposed extending the neutral zone to include Munsan as well as Kaesong and rrfaking both sides responsible
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    Bandits waited 36 hours for him
    741 1 Bandits waited 36 hours for him From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. 'THE bandits, who mur- dered Sir Henry Gurney yesterday afternoon, had waited 36 hours for him— there is little doubt that they knew he was coming. Half an hour before the ambush, the Flag Officer, Malaya, Rear
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    ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
    1516 2 THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD. OF ENGLAND The General Electric Co. Ltd., of England, known throughout the world as the O.E.C. Is represented In Malaya by The General Electric Co., Ltd. of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca and Penang. The consolidated accounts of The General Electric Co., Ltd.
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      1214 2 NOTICES NOTICE TO SINGAPORE IMPORTERS No. 45 CEMENT The attention* of Singapore Importers to drawn to the recent amendments to Open General Import Licences Nos 1 of 1950. 3 of 1950 and 1 of 1951 by the addition of CEMENT to the Schedule of commodities thereto requiring specific import licences:
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      499 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST APPLICATION REGISTER The Singapore Improvement Trust Register of applicants for accommodation will reopen on the llth October. 1951. A new office has been provided at No. 2 Kirn Pong Road on the corner of Kirn Pong Road and Tlonjr Bahru Road opposite the existing Estates Office
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    MOSSADEQ LEAVES FOR U.S.
    541 3 Oil becomes election issue m Britain TEHERAN, Sunday. T)R. Mohammed Mossadcq, Persian Prime Minister, left by air for New York this morning with a party of 17. Four men assisted him into the plane. The Premier is to state Pf rsia's case m the oil dispute
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    US Customs seizing Red goods
    80 3 US Customs seizing Red goods MANILA, Sun US. Customs officers are s?izing goods made !n < mist China since Dec. 'i. the American Pre- c t Lines m Manila was told Line warned travellers t Jong Konst to obtain a: rlti showing the origin (v any uoods they buy there,
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    REST OF THE WORLD NEWS
    140 3 Frau Kla Hess, 85, I i mother of Rudolph Hess, I former deputy to Adolf i Hitler, has died In Hof, 1 h Germany. The gold discovered m I i the Central Eureka Gold I I Mine Jackson, Califor- f iiia, last week is now
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    TURNED DOWN
    176 3 The Philippines Board J i of Immigration has! i turned down the petition i of 10 Canadians for per- I I manent residence m the Philippines because I f Canada has refused i i right of residence to Filipinos. i The Chinese Reds have mobilised 100.000 I men
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    Dewey's 'no' to UK post
    45 3 1 YORK. Run. rOVKRMOR Tho:nas E. Dewey of New York, ccnfirmed y; 'erday that President Trun had tiered him the post ol AmbUSffdl r to Britain. Dewey said he had ti acd down the offer. He V no ration. U.P.
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    2 hanged for death of 18
    59 3 ASMAR Ben. Ths tklpper i i mate of a Arab dhow rnett han^pd here yestsri v for causing the death ol IB M' -fa-bound pilgrims. ipper, Mohamoud i I i. took 22 p afco ird for Mecca tut April I M clr>ncd them jn
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    REPRIMAND FOR U.S. COLONEL
    65 3 DAYTON. Oh-o. Sun. AN Air Force colonel has been reprimanded for accepting a ticket to the Sugar Ray Robinson-Rmdy T'irpin fight on Sept. 12, the U.S. Air Material Command said. The colonel's name was M| revealed "because of his piior record." In recent weeks, a civilian
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    First prize was worth HK$953,467
    90 3 First prize was worth HK$953,467 HONO KONG, Sun. THE first prize m the Kwang--1 tung Handicap sweepstakes—said to be the richest m the world— was HK*****67. (Str. $476,740). The race was run yesterday. Second and third prizes were HK5270,000 (Str. $135.--000) and HK5132.000 (Str. $56,000). There were 84 "consolation" prizes
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    14FLEE'SLAVERY'
    30 3 MUNICH, Sun.— The International Rescue Committee reported yesterday that 14 Czech slave workers have escaped from the Jacsymov uranium mines after travelling for three and a half months. UP.
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    Stalin seeks talks on A-bomb again
    166 3 MOSCOW, Sunday. ILTESTERN circles m Moscow yesterday believet fT that Marshal Stalin's statement on the atom bomb was aimed at re-opening world-wide discus sion on the control of atomic weapons. In his statement, broadcast by Moscow Radio, Stalin said that Russia wanted the atomic
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    WORLD CONGRESS
    22 3 VATICAN CITY, Sun. A world congress of Catholic lay organisation leaders was due to open m Vatican City today. —A.P.
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    Taxi driver assaulted
    66 3 HONG KONG, Sun. rpHREE Europeans m civlliX an clothing were alleged by a taxi driver to have beaten him and drove off with his vehicle. The driver said the Europeans hired his taxi and asked him to drive towards Magazine Gap Road, shortly before midnight Reaching a
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    W. Germany 'will not give up Berlin'
    241 3 W. Germany 'will not give up Berlin 'WE SEEK UNITY AND PEACE' W BERLIN, Sunday. EST Germany's Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, said m Berlin yesterday that his Government would not give up Berlin "under any circumstances either economically or politically." Dr. Adenauer was speaking at the opening of Berlin's second
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    BELGRADE IS 'SURPRISED'
    37 3 BELGRADE, Sun. The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry handed a note to the Italian Legation here yesterday, expressing "surprise" that 52 Italians were being tried for collaboration with >-he Yugoslav National Liberation Army during the war.—Reuter.
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    'U.K. WILL NOT START WORLD WAR' —Churchill
    312 3 'U.K. WILL NOT START WORLD WAR' Churchill LONDON, Sun. MR. Winston Churchill, speaking at an election meeting at nearby Woodford yesterday, denounced as "falsehoods'' Labour Party campaign charges that the Conservatives want another world war. "It will not be the British finger that pulls the trigger for a third world
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    French land troops in 'rice bowl'
    111 3 French land troops in 'rice bowl' HANOI, Sun.— Hundreds of French paratroopers have landed m the strategic "rice bowl" province of Tonklng to reinforce defenders battling with a division of Vietminh troops, it was officially announced today m Hanoi. The paratroops landed m the Nghialo valley, 93 miles north-west of
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    26 killed by avalanche
    32 3 BOGOTA. Colombia, Sun.— Twenty-six persons were killed and 26 injured when an avalanche crushed a passenger car of a moving train near Montenegro, it wa» reported today.— A.P.
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    Murder 'may wake Western World'
    310 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday. TTOE murder of Sir Henry Gurney may help to x awaken the western world to the tremendous importance of the struggle m Malaya, Mr. Warren S. Lockwood, director of the Natural Rubber Bureau, stated today. Mr. Lockwood has Just returned from Malaya where
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    Scout heroes get awards
    104 3 HONG KONG, Sun. rpHE Governor of Hong Kong. Sir Alexander Grantham, yesterday pinned one of British Scoutdom's highest awards, the Gilt Crocs for Gallantry, on two teen-age Chinese Scouts. The awards were announced a fortnight ago from London by the Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan for heroic
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    FRENCH VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS
    108 3 PARIS, Sunday. IJALF of France's voters will go to the polls today "m local elections which will show whether the trend to the right m the June general elections and the Gaullists chances of attaining power have increased. Today's elections are to choose new
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    Blast blacks out a city
    47 3 NOUMEA, New Caledonia. Sun. A violent explosion shook Noumea when a nickel company's electric furnace blew up, it was reported today. Six workers were badly burned when the explosion set fire to the building. The city's electricity supply was cut off.— Reuter.
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    'WOMEN AS GOOD AS MEN IN BUSINESS'
    286 4 'WOMEN AS GOOD AS MEN IN BUSINESS' M/OMI^N .tic Ml uuuU II not better than men m business, says 33-year old Miss Pauline Chan, director of W. Hakinu Industries Co.. Ltd. m Hone Kong:, who arrived m Singapore with 13 other Chinese business executives m the TjitjaliMiuka on Saturday Miss
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    CUSTOMS MAN IS CHARGED
    39 4 V\ SANG. Sun. A customs mtdoor officer. Phang Eng Joo was yesterday sentenced to t-ix months' rigorous imI'i^onn^nt for attempting to c a S5O bribe. He gave notice of appeal mul w.i.s allowed $300 bail.
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    RUBBER TRADERS GAMBLE ON DEVALUATION: SALES HELD IN U.S. DOLLARS
    424 4 MALAYAN rubber traders, especially Chinese m Singapore, are gambling on the possibility that Britain may devalue the pound again. Reports of the widening dollar gap m Britain's economy have encouraged this gamble. Last week, estimates of dollar deficits were 1
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    Dickens helped him win
    189 4 Dickens helped him win THARLES DICKENS played v an important part In the Singapore Teachers' Training College Association elections at Cairnhlll Road on Saturday. The lamous English author was responsible for the •lection as president of Mr. Chia Kirn Chwee. Mr. Chia. who is a final year student, defeated five
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    MORE ECAFE ARRIVALS
    379 4 MORE ECAFE ARRIVALS MR. V. P. Migunov, chief Russian delegate to the ECAFE trade promotion conference, which opens tomorrow, arrived m Singapore last night by POAS Dakota. Mr. Migunov, asked If he had a good trip, nodded and said, "we go now." That wai all he said. He was met
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    HAD CHANDU
    25 4 GEMAS. Sun— Choo Swee. aged 47, and Sze Sung, aged 59. were bound over at Gemas for a year for possession of chandu.
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    A silent city pays tribute
    777 4 SINGAPORE last night was a dead city as its citizens paid their respects to the memory of the late Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner in the Federation. Cinemas were closed, and the amusement parks, usually thronging with people, were dark and silent. There was no
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    Powdered milk
    46 4 The latest "fair price" list issued by the Controllei of Supplies is: Powdered Milk: "Cowlac" 12 oz. tin increased to $1.20 per tin; 3 Ib. tin increased to $4.70 per tin; and 28 lb. tin Increased to $35 per tin. Other prices art unchanged.
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    Police seize $40,000 opium
    108 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Johore Bahru Customs officers made a big haul of opium on Saturday when tnev searched two motor cars at a road block about five miles west of Johore Bahru. The black market value of the opium seized is estimated at $40,000 In the
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    HAD NO LICENCE
    23 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Tan Joo Keow, who hawked pig skins without a licence was fined $5 m Johore Bahru today
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    TWO CHARGES
    60 4 Tay Jee Soon, a driver, was charged m the Singapore Second District Court on Saturday with causing the death of Llm Quek Lim through negligent driving m front of the Singapore Harbour Board on Sept. 18. Tay was also chaiged with driving a lorry without lawful authority. He
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    ARMY CHIEFS FLY TODAY TO U.K. TALKS
    96 4 VHE Commander-in-Chief, FARELF, General Sir 1 Charles Keightley, and the General Officer Commanding, Malaya District, Major General R. E. Urquhart, are due to leave Singapore by air today for Britain to attend the annual conference of the Imperial General Staff headed by Field
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    Pirates had good day
    79 4 EIGHT swashbuckling pirates "sacked" Singapore's top night spots on Saturday and added many doubloons and pieces of eight to their "old oak chest." Sporting eye-patches, fake cutlasses and (not so fake) bottles of rum. the seadogs pounced upon unsuspecting patrons and with many a throaty chuckle
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    BISHOP ARCHER FLIES TO BURMA
    40 4 Bishop Raymond L. Archer, head of the Methodist Church m Malaya, flew from Singapore for Rangoon yesterday to preside at the Burma Methodist Annual Conference. The bishop Is expected to be back on Oct. 29.
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    THE NEW VICEPRESIDENT
    28 4 NEWLY ELECTED vice-president of th? Singapore Training College. Mr. Ang Chwee Kirn. stands beside one of th« posters that did the trick. Straits Times picture
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    Big H. K. trade with Malaya
    215 4 Big H. K. trade with Malaya (CHINESE manufacturers m Hong Kong exported $30 millions worth of goods to Malaya every month during the flrat half of this year. Mr U Tat Chee, China's "ginger king", disclosed m an address at a welcome party to the Hong Kong Chinese Manufacturers' Union's
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    Found sleeping in sampan
    61 4 Ng Yong Kiat, 16, was sent on Saturday to the house of detention under the Vagrancy Ordinance by the Si .gapore Fourth Police magistrate, Mr. P. Claque. Ng said he had been driven out of the house by his mother "several months ago." He was found
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    M.AA.F. DANCE
    75 4 More than 500 people attended a dance Riven by Kht Singapore Section of tho Malayan Auxiliary Air Force m the Drill Hall at Volunteer Force Headquarters m Beach Road on Saturday night. This is the first major social function given by the two units of the Singapore Section,
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    100,000 TO THANK A GODDESS
    133 4 MORE than 100,000 Hindus m Malaya will celebrate "Vijayadasami" festival on Wednesday. The day concludes a nine-' day festival to mark the end of the tyrannical rule of demon Mahishasura. Mahlshasura, according to mythology, was a terror to I the world. He was killed on
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    Slips gave him away
    53 4 LIM CHUAN, a 39-year-old bumboat man was fined $1,000 m Singapore on Saturday for assisting m running a chap-ji-ki lottery on Sept. 28. Police found $795 worth of lottery slips and schedules when they arrested Lim. A washer-woman, Leong Yit Chim. was also fined $400 for
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    81 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 9.35 a.m. Schoola; 9.55 Interlude; 10.10 News from K.L.; 10 45-12 Schools; 1 p.m "Monday Matinee": 1.4 C News; 1.45 'Home on the Ransjje"; 2-2.50 Schools: 6.15 Children; 6.35 "Adventures In Music": 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.12 Interlude; 7.30 "Bpot the Favourites"; 8 "World Affairs' (Allington Kennard);
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    Funeral of crash victim
    106 4 Mrs. Ann Wilkinson, wife of a Malayan Airways radio engineer, who was killed m a motor accident on Saturday morning, was buried In Bldadarl cemetery yesterday. The funeral was attended by about 80 people, among them her husband. Mr. J. K. Wilkinson, senior officers of Malayan
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    GAP ROAD TRAGEDY
    157 5 Views of the spot where Sir Henry Gurney died L«ft: a pioture taken from inside the car where Sir Henry was sitting with Lady Curney beside him. Right: some. of the 37 bullet holes m the car. Right: Ibrahim bin Ali, 23-year-old constable m Sir Henry's escort,
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    ANNOUNCEMENT.
    45 6 Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Limited mbsldlary of London Tin Corporation limited, an authorised by the Directors of Rantau Tin Died Ting Company Limited to unnounce that the No. 1 Dredge (10 foot BurkeU Category B) completed trials and commenced commercial production on the lit Fin'prpber. 1951.
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Oct. 8, 1851.
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      Sir Henry Gurney
      905 6 Sons of England have given much 'to this country. Their names are writ large m our history. None has given more than Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, administrator, statesman, humanitarian and friend. In the shortness of three years, m a critical and testing time, Sir Henry Gurney
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      A Tribute
      253 6 Mr. Michael Hogan, Officer Administering the Federal Government, m a message said Sir Henry was a man who had tndeared himself to persons of all races and creeds m Malaya. He had that great i?ift of understanding and sympathy which enabled him to appreciate the aspirations and difficulties
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    WHERE THE BRITISH WENT WRONG IN PERSIA
    1095 6  - WHERE THE BRITISH WENT WRONG IN PERSIA JOHN FISHER Abadan has been evacuated by the British and other technicians who made that town the oil centre 'of the world that it has been. The Commonwealth wonders -By——. LONDON. QNE day this summer, when I was m Teheran, Sir Francis Shepherd,
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      Typhoid and Towgay: Mr. Yap analyses the position
      861 6 YOUR editorial of Oct. 4, entitled "Typhoid and Towgay", reveals that/even 1 you have missed the main point m this two-year-old controversy I You emphasised that the water of the wells m the Rochore district used for growing towgay had been described
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      SINGAPORE AND CAMBRIDGE
      84 6 IN the Straits Times, the President of the City Council Is reported as having said that Oxford and Cambridge were good examples of cities m the United Kingdom which had Mayors (not Lord Mayors). I feel tribute should be oald to the generosity of one who was
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    On the Margin
    423 6 The Modem Way HERE Is a story of l»s>0 Id Malaya which would h»v« seemed like a product of the imagination of Jules Vernt or H. G. Wells to the surveyors who first explored th« mountain langes of th« Peninsula. Two P.W.D. engineer* were given the Job
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    'GIVE UP' CALL ANSWERED WITH GUN FIRE
    436 7 'GI VE UP' CALL ANSWERED WITH GUN FIRE Gurney's escort asked to surrender EYEWITNESS STORY OF 30-min. BATTLE WITH REDS KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. fHE police party escorting Sir Henry Gurney, who was ambushei and killed by bandits on his way to Fraser's Hill yesterday, wen asked to surrender after 20
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    Hospital Ballet at ball
    53 7 The Hospital Ballet, originated by Maudreen Yap. featuring Jerome Henderson, aged 16, as the doctor, Shirley I.im. as the nurse and seven-year-old Quek Guek Cheng as the patient. This was one of the items m the St. Andrew's Mission Week Hospital Ball at Raffles Hotel, Singapore.
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    LEADERS GIVE $50,000F0R MEMORIAL
    164 7 LEADERS GIVE $50,000F0R MEMORIAL KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Tilt Independence of 1 Malaya Party announced today that it is sponsoring a Gurney memorfal fund The organising committee nt the D.irtv said that nearly 150.100 had been subscribed Tv committee appealed for more donations Contributions should be made to Mr Khoo Teik
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    'Consult us' on successor
    108 7 'Consult us on successor KUALA LUMPUR Sun MALAYA has reached the Mam In Dulitical prois iss irn she has a right to be con.Milifd on the sueMM 10 Sir Hrnrv Gurney. lie D T Waring a Federal Leffitlatlvr Councillor and ln.:ici ol Important tin interests m the Federation said t'
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    IT WAS HIS FIRST AMBUSH
    210 7 IT WAS HIS FIRST AMBUSH KUALA LUMPUR. Sun MOHAMED Din, 52-year-old Malay driver of Sir Henry Gurney, who was wounded m the ambush yesterday afternoon had never been ambushed before. although he has driven Sir Henry and his predecessor. Sir Edward Gent, throughout the length and breadth of Malaya, at
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    Respect for dignity 'more important'
    107 7 Respect for dignity 'more important' RESPECT for human dignity was more important than insistence on human rights. Mr. G. Q. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, Singapore, said yesterday. Mr. Thomson, who was addressing the Workers' Educational Association on the United Nations universal declaration of fundamental human rights, said that a world
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    Doctor appointed
    25 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Dr. E. W. Ottmann has joined the Johore Medical Service and has been posted to the General Hospital. Johore Bahru.
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    UNION DANCE
    21 7 MUAR Sun. The Muar Branch of the Johore Teachers's Union held its social ;md dance during the week end
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    Tamils lament Gurney
    157 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. TAMILS m the Federation expressed their sorrow at the death of Sir Henry Gurnev m the traditional way— by singing words specially written for thp occasion to a classical tune Written by S. S Naidu and sung by the well-known Kuala Lumpur singer. S
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    MR. ROSS VISITS WOUNDED
    102 7 MR. ROSS VISITS WOUNDED KUALA LUMPUR, Sun FE British Adviser, Selangor, Mr. A. N. Ross, was one of the first to visit the seven wounded men at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital. Accompanied by the doctor m charge of the ward. Dr. Ismail, ne spoke to each of the injured
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    Gimson flying to funeral
    549 7 riVO planes, belonging to the Naval Commander-in-Chief and the Air Officer Commanding (Malaya), will leave for Kuala Lumpur at 8.30 a.m. today, carrying senior Government officials and prominent Singaporeans who will attend the funeral of Sir Henry Gurney. The Right Rev. H. W. Baines, Blfihop of
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    Funeral of Mr. G. R. Mendis
    52 7 The funeral of Mr. O. R. Mendis. prominent Singapore Buddhist, took place at th e Buddhist cemetery, Bidadar. Singapore, at 4.30 p.m. yesterday. Mr Mendis who left no telatives. was mourned by friends and by the Singapore Sinhalese Association. Bikku M. M. Mahaweera conducted
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    TOOK OUT RICE
    26 7 TEMERLOH, Sun. Stew Chow, alias Slow Choo, 28, was fined $25 at Bentong for removing three katis of rice from a restricted area.
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    Dakota informs Mac D in jungle
    141 7 Dakota informs Mac D in jungle ]L|R. Malcolm MacDo"M nald, the Commission-er-General for Southeast Asia, was -yesterday morning m the interior of Sarawak, from where it will be impossible for him to return m time for Sir Henry Gurney'g funeral. A Dakota aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force, which
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    $3,260 for partners
    114 7 THE highlight of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Ball at Raffles Hotel on Friday niKht was the auctioning ol a three-minute dance with five Singapore girls. Miss Monica Lee and Mrs. Toni Leong were sold" for $2,500 and $500 respectively. The bidding for two EuroDean girls. Miss
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      283 8 BOOK BOX John Hadfield's GB.S. again—irre- pressible and irresponsible as ever! One may question the literary propriety of putting into print, as an introduction to Stephen Winsten's "Salt and His Circle" (Hutchlnson. 165.) the sketchy reminiscences which Shaw ts stated to have written down the night before his fatal accident.
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      King Edurd Vill broadcasting the announcement of ns abdication
      409 8  -  A king's -rory. The Memoirs of H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor, K.C. (Cassell. 255.). By GEORCi: MURRAY f\F the making of royal biographies there is no end. Some are Rood, but the majority are indifferent. Some are authentic, but many are
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      THE MAN WHO ONCE WAS KING
      1650 8 THE MAN WHO ONCE WAS KING The Duke of Windsors own story of his life THE home life of King George V. and Queen Marj- Is brought out m these pages for what it really was —an example and a pattern to the nation. The early years of the family
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      114 8 "What on earth hat happened?" he roared, twistiaf hit head this way and that, trying to seewhat had caused that very peculiar feellnc en his shoulders. "Oh Kurt," riffled KsfcUh. "You've Cot wing*." •WINpR!" bellowed Ezanl, shrnnißf his ihoulden madly. As ht shroffed, the wtafs
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    Tito is nobody's ally, no one's satrap
    1483 9  -  ANEURIN BEVAN, M.P. By 7/ war came, Yugoslavia would contract into a porcupine that would make the invader bleed at a thousand points 9 'The Yugoslavs believe there are a nu mber of reasons why the Soviet Union is not the natural leader
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    LONDON STAGES AN A-BOMB PRACTICE
    462 9 LONDON: UOR the people down r In dingy Camberwell nicknamed London's "Bomb Alley for its hard blitzing— it will soon be 1953 and the first atom bomb of a hot war will have hit right m the middle of the borough. It is all imaginary,
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      313 9 24. The Infant one is very t»lStraits Times Crossword _j^ >- m, h I > 1 I I ig IJU u D o«.. Si§S r --T sKSS 2. Turned up nasally (9) 7 HHI US 8 3. A big one is a person of ££S __i SSS «eat Importance (5).
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    PERSIA MOVES DEPRESS RUBBER PRICE
    643 10 By A Market Correspondent rpHE Persian debacle cast its shadow over Empire x markets and the fall m Rubber to below $1.50 a Ib. for a brief spell farther contributed to lower Malayan share markets. This state prevailed over most of the week but was
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    Business done
    339 10 BUSINESS reported done On the local share 'market last week included: Industrial*. Alexandra Brick Pref. $2.15, British Malaya Trustee $6 oo ex. Consolidated Tin Smelters ord. 23 3. Praaer etc Nnw Ord. $4.25 to $4 13U c d eb. preference *6 50, Gammon $3 BJH Hammer $40.50 to
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    Melbourne share market
    194 10 MELBOURNE. Sun. CHARES were steady to firmer D at the week's closing e»ll of the Melbourne Stock Exchange. Minor reactions were noted Id some Issue* taken too high ta the recent buying boom, but the orerall market was still well supported A number of secondary stocks are
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    Absenteeism at Raub
    148 10 DAUB gold's lUest progress report states that all Chinese squatters and labourers living away from their jobs— mostly In the Jungle— are being directed to come Into resettlement areas where they have to rebuild their houses behind barbed v/lre fences and close to police posts and stations.
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    MALAYAN TIN SHIPMENTS
    113 10 QTRAITS Traders announce the following September tin shipment*, m tons: Prom Singapore to UJC 615 (470 optional). USA. 20. Continent 1.299. Canada 370. Pacific 77. India 34 Vi. S. America 153 Africa 55. Australasia 145. Middle East nine Total 2,778. Total to date 1951 21.871% tons. From
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    AUSTRALIAN TIN MERGER
    79 10 AUSTRALIAN Government con- sent has been giren to the Issue by Consolidated Tin Dredging Company, at par, of up to 5.505 230 fully paid Ordinary shares of 10s each for the acquisition of the issued shares In the following Melbourne tin dredging companies— Tongkah Compound. T.C. No.
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    BORNEO COMPANY
    35 10 From Our Own Corrrspondrnt LONDON. Sun. BORNEO Company group profits m the year to March 31. 1951. were nearly double previous year's at £1.005.525. the net profits being £519.548 against the previous €284.900.
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    Vase win was Mawi's biggest triumph
    541 11 BEST BET HAD A DREAM RUN By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sunday. SECURING a dream run on the rails close home Best Bet (late Viewflnder), a solidly built three year-old chestnut by Panorama out of Paravane, swrpt past his rivals with a brilliant turn of
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    Tara Street's class told in tight finish
    199 11 IPOH. Sun. "THE class-will-tell principle m racing was again borne out when tip-top stayer Tara Street, with 9.7. won the $14,000 1%-mJle Handicap for Class 1. Div. 1 horses at Ipoh on Saturday. Tara Street is now generally conceded to be the best
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    India name Test team v. England
    170 11 India name Test team v. England BOMBAY, Sun. HPHE Indian team for the first Test against England starting a New Delhi on Nov. 2 was chosen last night as follows: V. S Hazare. V. M Merchant, V Mankad. R 8. Modi, S O. Shlnde. H R. Adhikari. D. Q Phadkar,
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    SERVICES WIN BY 2 WKTS.
    73 11 HONO KONO. Sun— The Singapore Combined* Services cricketers yesterday beat Kowloon Civilians oy two wickets. Batting first Kowloon Civilians scored 144 runs and. m a battle against thft clock, the visitors scored the necessary runs three minutes before stumps were drawn. Flying Officer Cosh was
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    CHANGI, IRC DRAW
    38 11 RAF Changl drew three-all with IRC. In a soccer friendly at Changi. The scores were two-all at half time. Scorers for RAF were Peacock (2) and Halgh. Krishnan (2) and Param got the I.R.C. goals.
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    Mulley increases his tally to 36
    281 11 IPOH, Sunday. SHAWS Stable's jockey, Athol Mulley, has an outstanding chance of winning the jockeys' championship m his first season on the Malayan turf. Riding with all the polish and dash of a champion, Mulley again topped the Jockeys' list with six winners at
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    Ooi finds form, in 2 finals
    284 11 Ooi finds form, in 2 finals PENANO, Sun? 001 Teik Hock entered the final of the men's singles In the Penang badminton championships today when he scored an ea«y 15-7, 15-1 win over Teh Kheng Chool. Ooi displayed all-round superiority and played Khpng Chooi to a standstill. Kheng Chool offered
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    Windy City beaten
    141 11 PARIS. Sun. WINDY City. Irish-bred winner o( the Glmcrack Stakes, lost his unbeaten record when he was relegated to second place In a Dhoto-flnish by a 35 to one outsider at Longchamp yesterday. Windy City, who Is owned by Mr. Ray Bellsatnerlcan. forr.-.T rodeo rider, lost three
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    27 11 TOBAV: 0355 (7.1). 0 836 (5 41; 14 45 18. 51. W. 13 (2.01. TOMORROW: 0.807 (S 8) 0 949 (8 1). 16.05 (7.9 i
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    SCC HOCKEY XI
    55 11 The following will represent S.C.C. In a hockey leogue match against the Ceylon Sports Club on the Padang tomorrow. Margrave; Berrill, Kuiper; Wood, Reynolds, Harrison; Keelan, McInroy, Dickinson Von Lidth, Collis. Des: Dennis, B. R. McMullan. Umpire: J. Smith. Players are requested to bring white shirts as
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    RAJA 'A' WIN 2-0
    29 11 Kota Raja 'A' defeated Western Depot Malays XI by two goals to nil at soccer at the Naval Base ground yesterday. Garhan and Arshld scored.
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    NEO EARNS- OLYMPIC TRIP
    605 11  -  IT begins to look as 1 though Malaya will have only two, or at the most three, representatives at the Olympic Games m Helsinki next July— and those will compete m the name of Singapore. I cannot escape this conclusion after the events of the last
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    Hong Kong BA to invite Indians
    78 11 HONG KONO, Sun.— The executive committee of the Hong Kong Badminton Association has decided to cable the Indian Thomas Cup players. now m Australia, asking whether they are able to visit Hong Kong about the same time as the Malayan players and their terms.
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    609 12 Promoted Preston and Rotherham now second LONDON, Sunday. PROMOTED teams Preston and Rotherhar have jumped into second place m League One and Two as a result of home wins yesterda against Arsenal and West Ham respectively. It was a day of few surprises and comparativel few goals as leading teams
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    511 12 JJNOKU Ibrahim Abdullah (YMMA) became champion athlete at the sixth annual Muslim New Year athletic meet at Jalan Bosar Stadium yesterday Twenty three Muslim club* and schools had entered lor the meet but after the heata onrv four teams remained to contest yesterday's finals Young Men's MusJm
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    2 UNBEATEN XVs LOSE RECORDS
    299 12 TWO unbeaten records this season went by the board m yesterday's Rugby Union matches. Weakened by Injuries, Cardiff delighted a home crowd of 40.000 by inflicting a first reverse on Newport by 11 points (one goal and two penalty goals) to three (penalr ty), and
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    Miss Lau wins
    92 12 two SBA titles MISS Lav Hui Huang (Mayflower) won the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior singles and doubles titles at the Clerical Union Hall over the week-end. Miss Lav defeated Miss Rosie Poong (Marigold) 6-11, 11-4, 12-11 In the singles and In the doubles she partnered her sister
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    203 12 BELFAST, Sunday. SCOTLAND beat Ireland by three goals to nil In the international soccer match at Windsor Park here yesterday. The Scots were probably fortunate to lead by two goals to nil at half-time but they were quick to seize their chances and they
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    263 12 BOMBAY, Sun. AN Indian Universities XI gain- ed a first Innings lead of 35 runs against the MCC circket touring team n the three-day match which ended here today m a draw. The UnlvtrslUea tide were dUmlased for 375 m rep.y to the MCC first innings
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    116 12 BRADFORD. Sun. Great Britain were rather fortunate to beat New Zealand by 21 points (five tries and three goals) to 15 (three tries and three goals) »n the International Rugby League match here yesterday. Results of Club matches were: Batley 39, Castleford 3; Belle Vue
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    65 12 At the second annual general meeting of Breweries S.C., the following were elected: President, Mr. H.. Wanschers: vice-president, Mr. J. E. De Rtjke; hon. secretary, Mr. David Lim; hon. asst. secretary sports secretary, Mr. R. KrUhnasamy; boo. treasurer, Mr. R. Nadaisan; hon. sports coach, Mr. J. N orris;
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    1022 12 LONDON. Sun. FOOTBALL league standings alter f yesterday's matches were: URST DIVISION P W D L F A pts Bolton W. 11 7 8 1 30 10 17 Preston NX 12 7 2 3 23 13 16 Manchester Ul2 7 2 3 27 18 1(1 Portsmouth
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