The Straits Times, 9 October 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 412 1 BANDITS KEPT TWODAYWATCH ON ROAD KUALA LUMPUR, Mon BANDITS kept observation on all traffic travelling along the Fraser's Hill road on Friday and Saturday ending their vigil 21--hours before Sir Henry Gurney, the High Comni^sioner, was killed b> tlieir ambush party. This is assessed from the lor which they discarded
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  • 1404 1 All races watch funeral procession MURDER AND GRIEF UNITE NATION KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. IN the grass covered hills of Cheras. just outside Kuala Lumpur, a man was buried today and five million Malayans mourned his passing. Standing by his graveside were hiwidow and a few personal friends
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  • 55 1 ALONE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL at Cheras Road cemetery looking towards the town of Kuala Lumpur, lies the grave of Sir Henry Gorney. The wreaths that lie on it are those of hit family, close friends. Their Majesties the Kln« and Queen,
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  • 71 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. FEDERAL police officers who have been conducting an exhaustive investigation have not found anything so far which indicates that there was a breach m security leading to the deliberate laving of an ambush for Sir Henry Gurney. This investigation has extended
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  • 79 1 CAIRO, Mon. The Egyptian Premier, Nahas Pasha, today tabled a motion m the Egyptian Parliament declaring Farouk King of Egypt and the Sudan. He formally announced that the Egyptian Government had broken off negotiations with Britain declaring the time had now come to denounce the 1938 treaty and
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  • 350 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. 'THE murder of Sir Henry Gurney has cost the x Colonial Service a talented servant and the peoples of Malaya a staunch friend, says The Times. It Is not clear, whether the Communists were deliberately seeking to strike
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  • 39 1 LONDON, Mon.— A burglar who stole medal* from the home of the war heroine, Mrs Odette Churchill, and her husband, Captain Peter Churchill, sent them back yesterday with a note signed "A bad egg."— AP.
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  • 869 1 'HIS GOODNESS WILL NOT DIE 9 "And when the time came for Mr. Valiant-For-Truth to pass on, he said, death where is thy sting? And as he went down into the waters, he said, grave where is thy victory? And so he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded, for
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  • 72 1 Truce site: Ridgway accepts TOKYO, Mon. GENERAL Ridgway today v accepted a Comntunist proposal to resume the Korean cease-fire talks at Pan Mun Jom. He told the Communist Commanders: "In the belief that a site near Pan Mun Jom will meet the fundamental conditions of equality' of movement and control.
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  • 115 1 A commission of inquiry sits In camera m Singapore Supreme Court today to consider whether disciplinary action should be taken against six police officers Inculpated In the Leach report on the December riots. On the Commission are Mr. Justice T. A. Brown. Sir Han Hoe Llm and Mr.
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  • 35 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. PROPOSALS for single passport, army and postal systems for North Atlantic Treaty. Organisation countries are to be considered by NATO foreign ministers when they meet m Rome next month..— A.P.
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  • 67 1 PRINCESS ARRIVES AT GANDER LONDON. Mon. ♦T»HE aircraft carrying Princeu Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Canada for their royal tour has arrived at- Gander, Newfoundland. British Overseas Airways Corporation announced here. The Princess and the Duke left London airport before dawn today. The King last night called Princess
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  • 316 1 Bullet can't destroy his work SA YS C. G. MR. Malcolm MacDolfl nald, the Commission-;r-General for BouthEast Asia, after a hurried dash from Sarawak, said it Tengah airfield last night: "Sir Henry Ourney achieved things that will last for generations. The bullet that killed him cannot destroy that.' Mr. Mac
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  • 304 2 100,000 TO MEET ROYAL PAIR MONTREAL, Monday. /CANADA starts a giant five-week party today to entertain Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their 10,000- mile tonr. To the Canadians, the arrival of their future queen is the biggest social event since the King and Queen's
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  • 79 2 CANBERRA, Mon. AUSTRALIA should be able to produce atom power to compete In cost with coal, accordkig to her top atomic scientist, Professor Marcus Oliphant. Professor Oliphant commenting on South Australia's olan to develop the Radium Hill uranium deposit to make atomic power available m
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  • 55 2 WASHINGTON, Mon. PFTY-FTVE Republican members of the House of Representatives yesterday joined m urging the Senate to reject President Truman's nomination of Mr. Philip Jessup to be a U.S. delegate to the United Nations. They said Mr. Jessup's record is not one to inspire the confidence
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  • 30 2 LONDON. Mon. Delegates from West Germany and Iraq signed a trade agreement here yesterday designed to develop commerce between the two countries over the next 12 months.— Reuter.
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  • 23 2 WASHINGTON, Mon —General Omar Bradley left by, plane yesterday for Europe to confer with United States and European military leaders.— UP
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  • 16 2 KARACHI, Mon.— Pakistan and the Holy See have agreed to exchange legations— AP.
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  • 31 2 NICOSIA, Mon.— Three men died and two were injured when an Indian Air Force Dakota flying from Malta to Nicosia crashed m Turkey. Two airmen are still missing Reuter.
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  • 264 2 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF I UAJ. K. Elliot, a Briton, and two other people were electrocuted In I Bangalore when they 1 trod on a high tension wire brought down In a I i road In a rainstorm. jr THE East German Pre- 1 sident, Herr Pieck
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    • 182 2 £700 MIL I ADELAIDE, Mon. THE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Robert G. Menzies, said here yesterday that Australia would spend about £709.000.000 on OR DEFENCE defence m the next three years. Austrn'ia spent 1 133.000.--000 on defence last .year. Expenditure for the current yeai it climated it 1 181.700 000.—
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  • 393 3 Mossadeq 9 s No. 2 says: We plan to get 300 MUNICH, Monday. ]V]R. Hossein Patcmi, the Persian Deputy Premier, who is accompanying: Dr. Mossadeq to 1 ake Success to present Persia's case to the S'M-tirity Council, told reporters here yesterday Ihat his Government was negotiating:
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  • 54 3 TMIKKAV Mon AMERICAN sources m Teheran yesterday said thai President Truman had invited the Persian Premier. Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq. to be his personal guest while m the United States. This was m return for IIM hospitality extended herp to the President's personal representative, Mr. Avrrell
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  • 132 3 WELLINGTON. Mon. THE New Zealand Prime Minister. Mr. Holland, today confirmed that Sir Percy Sillitup. head of Britain's counter espionage service, due to arrive here on Oct. 15, is to advise New Zealand on st'-nnthening iU security service A reorganised and s! lengthened security
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  • 83 3 HONG KONG. Mon J^ syndicate of staff members and their relatives and friends of the Golden Star Company m Kowloon won the third prize of HK5136.210 m the Kwangtung Handicap last Saturday. Employees of the company said last night that several of their friends In Singapore
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  • 56 3 TAIPEH, Mnn --American vomen here will jrin Madame :hiang Kai-shek's Chinese Women's Ant i Aggression' Lra?ue m bearing gifts to w 'Minded soldiers m Taipehs hospitals tomorrow on the eve of the "Double Tenth," Nationalist Independence Day Mrs. Kart L. Rankin. wife of Ihe United States
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  • 48 3 LONDON, Mon— Waves of enemy"- bombers struck at key industrial centres yesterday to end Britain's nine-day defence manoeuvres, "Excerrise Pinnacle." American Thunderjets and triple jet Tornadoes Coined with RAF Vampires m "atom raids" on London, Birmingham and Liverpool. They vcre intercepted by Jet fighters.—Reuter.
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  • 223 3 'ACCEPT RED CHINA OR FACE RUIN SEVAN LIVERPOOL, Monday. \IK. Anenrin Bevan, leader of the Labour Party's Left wing, yesterday warned iTI that the West must accept Communist China as a co-partner m building a peaceful world or face destruction. "Are we going to repeat m China the same folly
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  • 95 3 Father gives bone so girt can walk SYDNEY. Mon. rUELP his 10-year-old daughter walk freely, a man has given a strip of bone from his left shin. Doctors removed the strip 9in. long and lin. wide from the shinbone of 35--year-old Jack Booth, of Griffith. New South Wales. They grafted
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  • 154 3 Paratroops open drive on rebels SAIGON, Mon. FRENCH Army headquarters yesterday said that French paratroopers were counter-at-tacking m mountainous Siamese country, after napalm air attacks checked the Vletminh drive on two major towns of north-west IndoChina. The two-pronged Red thrust had been halted on the approaches to Laichau, capital of
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  • 222 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Morrison, said las 1 night m a recorded address over the Americai radio that the people of the world must recaptun unity of purpose if the basic human needs of p**cc justice and freedom were to be fulfilled "Freedom
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    44 3 -CASTLE IN SPAIN" new hair style conceived and achieved by Riche and displayed m his Hay Hill, Berkeley Square, London, premises. "Hair will be worn short at the back and lonr at the sides and front of the head," says Riche.
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  • 27 3 CAPRI. Mon.— ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini last night attended a cocktail party given m their honour by Mussolini's daughter, Edda Clano— AFP.
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  • 37 3 CALCUTTA, Mon.— The leftwing Krishak Mazdoor Praja group, a splinter movement of the Congress Party, has allied itself with the Communists and five other Leftist organisations to fight the coming elections In West Bengal. —AFP.
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  • 25 3 BAGDAD, Mon. Emir Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, and the Premier, General Nurl Es Said Pasha, returned here by air from London yesterday.
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  • 24 3 CANBERRA. Mon. About 30 per cent of elderly Australians now receive the old age pension. The registration of pensioners numbers 342,922.
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  • 26 3 BELGRADE, Mon— The m-| te [national Bank may shortly <;raut a U*****,000,000 long term loan to Yugoslavia, Informed circles said here yesterday.—APP. I
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  • 113 3 BELGRADE. Mon. MARSHAL Tito yesterday 1 said that the Vatican was a major enemy of Yugoslavia m the Western world. He spoke before a crowd of 50.000 m south Serbia, after laying a wreath on the craves of 5.000 people massacred by the Germans
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  • 227 3 Colonies benefit all, says Attlee LONDON, Mon. MR ATTLEE said today that the transformation of the British Empire Into a Commonwealth was a change from domination to cooperation. He was making tht first speech of his election tour at Romford, Essex. Mr. Attlee said: "We have 3een a great change
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  • 57 3 MUNICH. Mon. A new 10,000 watt Radio Free Europe shortwave transmitter has started operating to pierce the Iron Curtain with 12 hours of daily broadcasts to Communist Hungary. The new transmitter is Radio Free Europe's second station. A transmitter went on the air on May
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  • 33 3 EINDHOVEN, Holland, Mon. —Anton Frederik Philips, builder of the great Philips concern, died ner e yesterday, aged 77. He was the founder of Philips bulb and radio works AP.
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  • 118 4 Appeal for Gurney memorial HTHE public of Singapore should give generously to the Independence of Malaya Party's Gurnev memorial fund. Dato Dr. C. J. Paglar Singapore Legislative Councillor, said yesterday. "Though concerned only with the administration of the Federation. Sir Henry has always been a great friend of Singapore." Dr.
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  • 40 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Mrs. Malcolm Mac Donald on Saturday officially opened the exhibition of posters submitted by the pupils of the British Army School, the English College. Sultan Ibrahim's Girls 1 School and Bukit Zahrah School.
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  • 314 4 GETS GOLD MEDAL Only one candidate nominated in 4 wards 13 NAMED FOR SIX CITY SEATS UITH nomination day for the fourth City Council elections on Nov. 5 only 13 candidates five Progressives, four Labour and four Independents have decided to contest the six seats m the elections which fall
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  • 39 4 U.S. COUPLE WILL WORK WITH DYAKS MR. and MRS. THOMAS A. HARRIS. American missionaries, who are now m Singapore on their way to Borneo where they will work amonc the Dyaks. Mr. Harris speaks fluent Mandarin. Straits Times picture.
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  • 122 4 S'pore Govt. plans new pension list THE Singapore Government 1 will introduce a new pension list to supersede the one of 1937, embracing all classes of employees. This was stated by Mr. K. M. Byrne, Asst. Establishment Officer, at a meeting between the representatives of the Post and Telegraph Uniformed
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  • 57 4 SINGAPORE Marine police on Saturday swooped on a ship that arrived from Jakarta and arrested 48 Chinese Thirty-eight are being held for ship trespass and the remainder for contravening Port Regulations. They will be charged In Court today. It Ls alleged that most oT the men boarded
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  • 286 4 OTUDENTS and staff of the University of x assembled at two places yesterday to pay tribute to the University's Pro-Chancellor, Sir Henry Ourney. Before 400 students and staff m the Oel Tlong Lam Hall. Bukit Timah. Prof. R.A. Robinson. Professor of Chemistry, said that Sir Henry
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  • 141 4 EADINO Chinese manufacturers In Hong Kong are keenly interested m starting light industries m Malaya but there is not sufficient encouragement from the Government, says Mr. U Tat Chee. China's "ginger king" and leader of the Hong Kong Chinese trade delegation to Singapore. Other reasons.
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  • 57 4 Large congregations of /Hindus were entertained to excellent Indian vocal and instrument music at the Chettiar temple m Tank Road d ring the past nine days. The music was provided m the evenlngsy between 7 and 9 o'clock, In celebration of the Hindu festival of 'Navaratthiri. 1 The
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  • 45 4 The bodies of the two missing girls, who with four other girls were drowned while looking for shells m a creek off the 12i mile Chua Chu Kang Road. Singapore. on Sunday, were recovered early yesterday about 50 yards from where they disappeared.
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  • 34 4 The Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonaid, is greeted at l'engan Airhviil yesterday by his wife and Mr. W. Addis, the Deputy Cemmissioner-General. on bis return from Sarawak. Straits Times picture.
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  • 166 4 SIR Henry Gurney, the murdered High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya, symbolised Democracy and the people from the humblest rubber tapper to those m authority who had given their services and lives for the cause of freedom m Malaya since the Emergency began three years
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    235 5 AN ANGUbhtJ md.an woman listens to the funeral service m the porch of St. Mary's Church. All communities joined m mourning their murdered leader. THE COFFIN m which lay fhe late Sir Henry Curney is borne into Sf Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpu r, by two sergeant-majors from the
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    • 230 5 I "a just reward" Manners are not idle. They arc the fruit of loyal nature and of noble mind. Millions of Craven C A' smokers preserve their good manners— even when offered other brands of cigarettes. W They feel, pardonably, that their purely t^fcl^^J personal satisfaction m the rare flavour
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  • 55 6 MR CHUA CHENG HOCK aged 03 passed away peacefully at SI Bcoita Road on Bth October 19il, leaving behind hte beloved wife, two sons. Boon Kirn, Boon Chin. two daughters-in-law, two daughters. Hock Tay, Hock Choo. one •OD-ln-law Ong Tlang Guan and 8, grandchildren. Funeral on Friday lath October
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  • 54 6 MR. J. K. WILKINSON of Malayan Airways wishes to thank all friends for their kind sympathy and floral tribute* on hla sad bereavement. MR TAN ONO KENO and family thank all relatives and friends for their sympathy, wreaths, cars and assistance at the funeral of the late Mrs. Tan
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Oct. 9, 1951
    • 584 6 The trade promotion conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East opens m Singapore this morning. Singapore welcomes the delegates warmly. For if there is one thing more than another which this stronghold of materialism understands and enjoys, it is the promotion of trade.
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    • 395 6 The enthusiasm for synthetic rubber production m the minds of the people springs from the belief that we are exploiting them, and they therefore insist that they must be independent of us for their rubber.'' So said Da to Haji Mohamed Eusoff when he returned from a trip
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  • 84 6 BUTTERWORTH, Mon. Mr. F. Hammond, O.CP.D., Buiterworth. was married m the Butterworth Catholic Church on Saturday to Miss Sheila McGovern, formerly of the Perak Education Department. The Rev. Father Ashness, the parish priest, officiated, Mr. J. Mcc, A.SP., of Penang Police headquarters, was best man
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    • 217 6 Esplanade eyesores: how long? EiVERY day a s I pass the reclamation land of the Singapore Esplanade, and see the eyesores In the form of hawkers' stalls and other paraphernalia. I say to myself, "One day these things will not be.'' Judge my surprise when 1 And an afternoon paper
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    • 187 6 TTOE original plans for the development of the Singapore Esplanade did not provide for hawkers or restaurants. But we are now told that, m order to appease the hawkers who have dumped themselves and their goods and chattels on the reclaimed area, the Health Committee of
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    • 127 6 |T Is time the Federation Government changed it* policy of accepting tenders 'on the basis of heredity especially m the case of toddy contracts. Despite the fact that there have been tenders from reliable and reasonable new contractors, with reasonably lower rates, the Customs Department, for reasons best
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    • 710 6 to turn good, law-abiding citizens into Communists the present methods of some of the resettlement and young police officers could not be improved on. The resettlement bug is so rampant m Malaya that the Uttle detail of killing the Communists is of secondary Importance, as Is
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    • 277 6 WE m Malaya, over this week-end, have been Riven the clearest example that the world has recently had of the alms and ideals of world Communism. Your Malayan minions, who claim direct guidance by your master mind, have brutally murdered a man who clearly had the
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    • 299 6 SOME people act first and think afterwards. It is a virtue In certain circumstances. But It Is most emphatically stupid to do so when Indulging m the noble art of criticism. 80 It is with "Ex-ACS Employee." The ACSU's complaint, to put It briefly,
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    • 370 6 Kirkby and 'community bug' LIKE your correspondent "Justice" of Nov. 27, I have reactions to "Kirkby selectors." But my first reaction to the names of the selection committee was that It was a good committee. Who more suitable than a very senior officer of the Malayan Civil Service who has
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  • 416 6 Suffolk House 1 LOVER of Penang was pained last week to find this column repeating the generally accepted theory that Buffolk House was built by Francis Light. It was built several years after Light's death, but m one of his estates where he had a "garden house."
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  • 464 7 High and the humble mourn death of outstanding man CT. ANDREW'S Cathedral, Singapore, was thronged with mourners at the memorial service to Sir Henry Gurney held yesterday at the same time as the funeral service m Kuala i Lumpur. Many City Councillors were present, with I almost
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  • 233 7 Squatters say last goodbye to the 'big man' KIALA LIMPIR. Mon ALONG the last part of the funeral route to I'hrras Road cemetery today, where Sir Henry Gurney was buried, small groups of Thinrse squatters waited for hours m the miii to say thrir last goodbye to the iii mi
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  • 106 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. LADY Gurney, widow of the late High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, saw him for the last time before the lid was placed on the coffin at 11 a.m. yesterday. His body was clothed m his Colonial governor's uniform before it
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  • 36 7 PENANG. Mon. Penanf?'* Magistrate's court was open as usual today. But many had thought that it would be closed, so that a few cases had to be postponed. After them marched the British
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  • 109 7 MALACCA, Mon. |\ATO Tan Cheng Lock, PreW sldent of the Malayan Chinese Association, today called upon the Malayan Chinese to avenge the death of Sir Henry Ourney and exact retribution from "these murderous thugs." Sir Henry's death would spur every Malayan Chinese, worthy of the name,
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  • 91 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon |7«OUR of the seven men F wounded m th,. ambush m which Sir Heirv Gurney met his death on Saturday were discharged from Kuala Lumpur General Hospital to. day Those still m hospital are: Ismail bin Soib. 22-year-old police constable who has a compound
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  • 323 7 Mr. Justice Spenser-Wilkinson directed the Registrar to record the proceedings In the rolls of the court and to forward a copy to Lady Ourney. "The attendance here In' court today Is but a small measure of the depth of feeling which this wanton and senseless
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  • 36 7 MALACCA, Mon.— A Memorial Service for Sir Henry Gurney will be held at the Christ Church tomorrow at 4 pjn. The Resident Commissioner, Mr.. G. E. C. Wisdom, and Mr. Justice Briggs will attend.
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  • 198 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. YESTERDAY morning, when many people heard for the first time about the ambush m which Sir Henry Gurney was murdered, a young schoolboy from ft suburb In Kuala Lumpur cycled several miles up the hill to King's House He was carrying a
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  • 321 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ttIR Henry Gurney rests only a few yards from the f raves of planters, miners, policemen and soldiers, who also died at the hands of Communist terrorism. The last European buried at Cheras Road was Mr. K. D. H. Reader,
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  • 138 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Johore Government offices and many business premises were closed today as a mark of respect to Sir Henry Gurnev. State and Federation flags were at half mast. Officers of the Malay Regiment and all oollce officers m Johore wore a mourning arm
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  • 104 7 IPOH. Mon PEYLONESE mourned the death or a wise valiant administrator ami a courteous and •cconn' «h*»d gentleman who. m spite the Emergency, pushed Me'oya ahead along to rcsn- ruJbJe self-"cvo •n' iii "t This was the text ol a telegram sent today by Pernk Ceylone?f
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  • 69 7 Lady Gurney' s sacrifice KUALA LLMPL'R. Mon. WHEN Lady Gurney consented to the burial of Sir Henry Gurney m Cheras Road cemetery, she showed that she had given her hitsband to the country wh'.rh he had worked an died. The body of Sir Henry could at her request be sent
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    • 27 7 tor your COCKTAIL B£3 A BITTERS BOHLE COCKTAIL SHAKER English Crystal and Sterling Silver Mounted Bitters Bottle. $16.50 tfii.c-u-how Injgß I Silverware Dept ROBINSONS (Incorporated m S'ng.ipo'ol
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  • 386 8 23 countries take part m Spore talks 'pHE Trade Promotion Conference, sponsored by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, which opens m Singapore today, hopes to increase trade among Asian countries, the executive secretary of ECAFE, Dr. P. S. Lokanathan, said yesterday.
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  • 198 8 LABOUR PARTY TO WIDEN SCOPE THE General Council of the Labour Party will meet on Saturday to consider a new constitution which will allow trade unions and other democratic bodies to affiliate with the Party. The aulion providrs for an annual conference of delegates instead of t» general meeting of
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  • 65 8 THE three uj genera, mcc ing ol the Federation of II Tearhen Associations <'.->\ PeninsJdi was openea at the UMNO brar h lire In Jchore Bahra by iv l i Lewis, uctiii!> Direct -r ot Education Federation. After the mating the 37 deie^'tes a' <■ wers were suest*
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  • 116 8 MR. S. L- Tan, 22, Singapore youth who made good because he it such a -^""i at shorthand, has covered United Nations conferences m Singapore, Bangkok, and India m the past tioo years. He is now back here lor the BCAFB conference. After h
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  • 93 8 Girl saved as she falls from bus A FIVE-YEAR-OLD Chinese firl was saved from almost certain death, by the presence of mind of Sergeant Johnny Low. member of the 4th Company. Singapore Boys' Brigade. The little girl and Sergeant Low were travelling m a fast moving trolley bos, on Geylang
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  • 67 8 CUGOESTIONS for a memo- rial to the late Rev. Fa Fang, Buddhist monk and lecturer on Chinese Buddhism m Ceylon University, will be discussed by the Singapore Buddhist Federation, at a meeting to be held at the Maha Bodhi School on Sunday. Rev. Fang, died on
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  • 56 8 Lul Kok Sun, 45, of Temple Street, claimed trial In the Singapore First Police Court on Saturday o n a charge of allowing hb house to be used for gambling. Lul was also charged with unauthorised possession of 15 tubes of opium on Friday last.
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  • 160 8 MR. John Tyre, delegate to the ECAFK conference arrived m Singapore yesterday and saw hi daughter for the first time m two years. Miss Jean Tyre, of the Commissioner General's office, was at Kallang to sec her father step off a QantasBOAC Constellation from London.
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  • 91 8 T*HE Third Singapore Company of the Boys' Brigade held their 15th annual company inspection and display at the Wesley Hall, Fort Canning. Lt.-Col. O'Dwyer was tbe ln»--p«cting officer. The boys also gar* a display of gymnastics under tb« leadership of S/Sgt. Titus D* Silva The Company's
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  • 43 8 pVE hundred Chinese will r attend a mass meeting tomorrow at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Chinese Nationalist Government. The 12 Chinese delegates to the ECAFE conference have been invited.
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  • 79 8 •TWELVE Asian students, among them Malayans, have been entertained by the Lord Mayor of Hobart, Tasmania, Mr. M.H.A. Park, at a tea-party at Hobart Town Hall. The students, from Singapore, the Federation, India, Ceylon and Fiji, are studying law, dentistry, medicine, geology, engineering and commercial
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  • 200 8 5 THUGS ROB TWO POLICE OF GUNS PENANG, Mon. A SUSPECT has been detained by Penang police after an incident at Tanjong Bungah m which five armed Chinese robbed two Malay policemen of a Sten gun, a pistol and six rounds of ammunition on the main road near the Penang
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  • 88 8 Today's Radio SPORE 9 35 ft m. Schools; 9.56 Interlude: 10-10.10 News from K.L.: 10.45-12 Schools; 1 p.m. jladio Orch.; 1.30 News;. 1.45 Dance Music; 2-2.50 Schools: 6.15 "Pour Stan and a Storiette"; 6 30 "UN. Album"; 6.40 Radio Malaya Trio: 6.55 Announcements; 7 News: 7.12 "Can I Help You?";
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 88 8 £^0101 MORE SHAVES from every Blue Gillette Blade 60 for the very best shaves, razor V or an< ac c must exactly tf^^^^ft\ matched. That is why Blue MT?»y e ltC^\ Gillette blades and Gillette JIM V -*3^^\ razors are made for each «iioT?^\ \B\ other Use lhcm io s
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    • 431 8 To put your best foot forward equip your shoes with the GOODYEAR DIAMOND STUDDED SOLES AND HEELS. They improve the appearance of any shoes because they retain that sharp-edged look after months of hard wear. Available m two colours t^n and black goodAear RUBBER SOLES AND HEELS •YOU.too.may be one
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 138 8 SINGAPORE STAMP CLUB: Meeting. Shackle Club, Beach Road. 5.15 p.m. ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL CIVICS CLUB:: "The Press In Malaya", talk by Mr. Harry Miller, news editor. Straits Times, St. Andrew's School, 3.15 p.m. YMCA: Art Club exhibition. 9 a.m. to 6.30 p m.; Malay class, 5.30 p.m.; Frecnh and commercial
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  • 41 9 The simple cap-like lines of this young girl's hat m slate grey velvet art dramatised with tassels held by niched velvet rosettes. This is one of the autumn and wtnttr hats shown- m London by the UUUnery Information Centre.
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  • 711 9  -  I NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA I By pVERY mother asks herself is the a good parent and lg she doing the best she can for the welfare of her child. It is at the age of one to five years that intelligent supervision not only
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  • 542 9 t^LOODS are old news 1 but we (having to be different) had flooda when everyone else did and then an extra dose as well. The kampong people from whence our Malay gardener comes were all very upset and I don't blame them. "Why," said the
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 169 9 Famous non-dry-*^^q^o£^ n g' tmooth- spun texture keeps your Bj?u^^ lips soft and velvety fs |..sifl;ionondon. V v v REOHEADSI jff^Kjy^ co/or blended especially I^l 6^ MAX FACTOR J^Qw^»' Hollywood's make-up genius A wardrobe of 4 Color Harmony Ap^ AA Lipsticks for your individual color type. -pl ls/\>\ A bold
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    • 215 9 •^T n-tfwaer In ft c For man fßcaCfcKytcit VUfp "^«S^^ hmbits ham revelled m its soothing soflntss BABY POWDER T.HI BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED tsi STOP A COLD BEFORE IT STOPS YOU! LISTERINE P^^ ANTISEPTIC 7jJ> jdr a^l BSSSa -7 JO^A ,'<: At v»ry first symptom of a cold, Sft f
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 346 9 Night's Dream") (4). ,25. Plant employing eight Straits limes Crossword hands uo). Jlldllb I lIIICS UU»WUIU 26. Were Intended to hold water (4). iii t. Vy»,>t»t>MM-i^'tiiHft>M ""1 27 doten fl0 >- 2 i i 7 DOWN. T r J>—— rrw I 2. Ditch, legs, or day (4). *S8 lssi 8
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  • The LONDON LETTER
    • 209 10 BUT all the electors have an only too clear understanding of some of the other problems which will have to be tackled by the victors of Oct. 25. Memories of the hardships of the bitter 1947 winter with its fuel shortage art still fresh enough
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    • 258 10 yj^HAT are the differences between the wayg m which the Conservatives and the Socialists are proposing to tackle the problems we have just been looking at? As far as most folk can see, the Socialists are suggesting the mixture as before more controls, possibly more nationalisation,
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    • 280 10 ALL people of goodwill whom I have met m fairly extensive Journeys about the country In the past few months have been m agreement that what this country wants, above all else, is a Government capable of uniting all classes m the land, instead of dividing
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    • 331 10 E VEN ELECTIONS ARE NOT THE SAME From Our London Correspondent LONDON. FAVOURITE saying m these parts just now is "Nothing is as good as it used to be, and certainly not general elections." Here we are, almost within three weeks of polling day and hardly a thing to show
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    • 335 10 I "|TTTERLY tired of U rationing," some branches of the Mldj land Federation of 1 Housewres have passed j resolutions that, m the hope of securing »he j abolition of food rations' ing, they will not collect i ration books at the next i new issue. APADDINGTON.
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    • 225 10 How to make the railways pay? ANOTHER election story is that when Mr. David Eccles. one of the young Tory M.Pj who has specialised m industrial affairs and is expected to be given office m the next Conservative Government, was asked how he thought the railways could be rescued from
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    • 186 10 A JTER the wet and stormy summer, an early autumn has come abruptly, like a sudden night-attack by winter. Heavy white morning fogs have shrouded London and the surrounding countryside until near midday. The first frosts have reddened the leaves and every gust of wind blows
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    • 139 10 Wet feet don't cause colds /THE Government-sponsored Common Cold Research Unit at Salisbury offers some seasonal comfort by announcing that Its experiments have proved that getting your feet wet. or having to sit m a draught, doesn't necessarily start a cold. And. jostling against pictures of the swallows gathering m
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    • 152 10 pERHAPS nothing has so clearly emphasised the coming of winter to Londoners as the end of the Festival.... the South Bank Exhibition, to give It Its proper name. This gigantic toyshop was given a doubtful welcome. But there Is no doubt about the regret with which
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    • 70 10 "Rwkal attn i>nh3)«4 when *tr ira-. te«l th* <-r*«o4. bat then hv Uo iaw the fanny tide of M»t'» little joke, and began to laugh 'Well come along." he uUd at Iml. "Itf» Urn* to go." They aO climbed on to hl» back, and waving
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 265 10 PHONF 4042 fl Wf U m> 1M 4°° (i P> !U0 pm STARTS TODAY From Gold-Coast tO A^S^smmmmW Shi-Coast the law ~A W R they obeyed was Strapped to a SL '..VS&mmmfl Xi man 5 teww// ivSL K^V^l The Big-Gun i*J^**-<«^_FjPsß In Screen JB£nLmw .^H [y^ Adventure From Jr >
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    • 308 10 ON SALE li^jigJlJ (/J(JJ U m MALAY T I *400 AtR-CONOITIOMEC f" THE THEATRE WITH THE LONGEST RUNS •> LAST FEW DATS! DON'T DELAY -SEE IT TODAY! DAILY: 11 a.m. -1.45-4.15-6 45 9.31 pan. L i M(i M's gg^^H Lgaaga^Lr Jfe BOAT starring Kathryn GRAYSON i <.\KI)VKK Howard KEEL Joe
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  • 276 11 LONDON, Mon. THERB are no signs of 1 slackening In the demand for Japanese bonds. Renewed speculative demand lifted prices by between four and six points today with buyers confident of an early settlement of the debt question. Closing middle pnoei of selected •tockg. v supplied by special
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  • 33 11 fHE Malayan share market closed at noon yesterday as a mark of respect to the late Sir Henry Ourney. No share price quotations were Issued by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association.
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  • 26 11 SEPTEMBER rubber crop* are announced as follows, In lb.: Batu Llntang 115,300 Buklt KatU Ist. 29,096 Kuala Reman Est. 171,900 Parit Perak 38,623
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  • 141 11 T<HE pepper section of th« Singapore produce market was quietly steady yesterday although there were reports of a shortage m stocks ot the commodity. No transaction was reported. Prices remained unchanged from Saturday's. Little business was done m the copra or coconut oil sections. These markets, like
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  • 182 11 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Mon. INVESTMENTS were strongly 1 supported, at higher prices with a wider sales range, on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today. Wool sales m Sydney today were well supported and shares moved m line with the firming wool market. The highlight of the
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  • 163 11 One-cent rise m a dull, steady half-day From A Market Correspondent THE Singapore rubber market was dull yesterday. Little trading was done. The market closed at noon as a mark of respect to the late Sir Henry Gurnet At the steady but quiet close October first-grade stood at
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  • 37 11 TIN: $4601 A PICUL SINGAPORE, Mon., Oct. 1—J460.87 K (down $1,124.) London: £1,006 a ton LONDON. Mob. Cash Buyers £1,006, Sellers £1,007; Forward Buyers £946, Sellers £947>4; Settlement £1,005 (up £45) Turnover: a.m. 155, p.m. 95 tons.
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  • 61 11 gEAUPORT Borneo Rubber Company directors recommend a dividend, m respect of the year to Apr. 30, 1951, of 5'A per cent, less tax. payable on Nov. 33. Net profit for tax was £57,283. of which £5,000 la put to reserve and the carry-forward, subject to
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  • 54 11 LABU (F.MS.) and Cheviot Rubber Companies' directorates have, m the case of each company, declared an interim dividend of 15 per cent., less tax, for the year to Dec. 31, 1951, payable to stockholders on the register on Oct. 5. This Interim dividend will be
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  • 186 11 AoistraliaN.Z. Bank merger 'THE Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia, two of the leading banks m Australia and New Zealand, have merged In the Australia and New Zealand Bank. The combined organisation began trading operations on Oct. 1, 1951. after taking over the businesses and undertakings of
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  • 40 11 PAHANG Consolidated In September treated 13,500 tons and produced 240 tons of tin concentrates. CJUNGEI Kinta Tin Dredging last month produced 550 piculs of tin-ore. JPOH Tin Dredging's No. 3 dredge (Puchong Section) last month produced 300 piculs.
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  • 67 11 KAMUNTING Tin Dredging directors have declared a second lnterla dividend of 12% per cent making 25 per cent to date for the year to March 81, 1951. The board will await the turn of events later In the year (affecting the proposed control of dividends) and then,
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  • 35 11 NAWANQ Pet Tin's liquidator! have declared a first distribution of 15 cents per share. This will absorb (178.019 and leave $75,265 to be held by liquidates pending settlement of a pre-war claim.
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  • 35 11 rpHE Malayan Exchange Ban KB Association announced yesterday that control direct rates tor Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34 13/16. Airmail (OJ» 34 15/16, (90 days) 35 3/16; Selling 'O.D. ready 34 7/16.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 979 11 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. I Incorporated m Sirsapore) BULB FUNNEL LINE Carrier's option to -proceed via other ports te load and discharge cargo. •AILINCS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS Oue Sailt P Sham Penang fcryidci tor Marseilles. L'pool Avonmouth C. 11/'« Oct. 9 •eacakon for Marseilles. Havre b
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    • 304 11 SAILINCS to AUSTRALIA Hoi Wens for Ceelong Oct. 21 Idomoiwus for Adelaide, Sydney Melbourne Oct. 20 Corgon for Fsemantle Oct. 27 STRAITS STEAMSHIP CO.. WEST COAST MALATA tor Mu r Weeklr ZV!£ m B Mal c < Twke Weekly Veael for Port Dickson Weekly Tvng Sens for Malacca. P Dickson,
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    • 435 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Caylan. India CgyPt and. Mediterranean Part*. Singapora P. Swattanham Panant »i SCHUYLER OTIS BLAND- la Part 10/11 Oct. ii PRESIDENT VAN BUREN" '1 1 /20 Oct.' 2J J 0 4 «'3J 22L" »i "PRESIDENT ARTHUR- 21/30 Oct. 11 Oet72 Na». »/S
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    • 460 11 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANOINAVIA/U.K. /CONTINENT Spore P. Sham Penang "Seljndia" for So son Bangkok 21-24 Oct. 20-22 Oct. 16-19 Oct. "Panama" for Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kobe b Yokohama 24-27 Oct. "Flonla" for Bangkok 25-25 Oct. "Malaya" for Bangkok b H'Kong 21-25 Nov. 21-22 Nov. 19-20 Nov. SAILINCS FROM
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    • 1044 11 NeAUSTER 6c CO., LTD. lelsphont. No J»O6 BIXBRMAM P.UCKNALL LtaE LONDON HAVRI. ROTTERDAM HAMBURG and for USA North Atlantic Ports and Canada via Colombo m.s. CITY Of POONA Spore P. Sham Penang 14/19 Oct. 20/22 Oct 21/25 Oct ..•'CITY Of OTTAWA due Singapore IS Me* P Shaw: Ham-seas b CrestMe"
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  • 423 12 LOOK OUT FOR OBSERVATION From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Monday. /\l 85 HORSES entered for Class 3 for the forth coining Penang Autumn Meeting, 14 are down to have their first runs m Malaya. Best of them may be Observation, a three-year-old
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  • 178 12 Tulloh to ride on Saturday PENANG, Mon. JOCKEY Colin Tulloh makes a reappearance on the race track this Saturday opening day of the Penang Autumn meeting, after a three-month lay-off. The fight for the jockey championship has reached an interesting stage as Tulloh and Athol Mulley go into the Penang
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  • 18 12 TODAY: 0.607 (9.8), 0.949 (6.1); 16.05 (7.9). TOMORROW: 0.801 (7.2), 0013 (2.3); 18.10 (7.T) 13.13 (6.0)
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  • 367 12 SAFA told of tour on Sept. 4 SINGAPORE Chinese Football Association at its council neeting yesterday, severely criticised a member of the council, vlr. Son Ohee Soon, for "overlooking the facts" when he moved Singapore Amateur P. A. into opooslng the application of five Chinese players to tour with the
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  • 87 12 HO NO KONG. Mon— Singapore Combined Services yesterday drew with H.K Royal Air Force m a one-day cricket match. Batting first, the visitors scored 148 runs. In reply R.A.P. scored 106 for nine when stumps were drawn Hongkong Qricket Club, m their two-day centenary celebration
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  • 45 12 RAF. Tengan beat GHQ Signals by 23 points (one goal and six tries) to nil In a rugger match at Tengah on Saturday. Tries were scored by Dansle (two), Thompeon (two). Joniec. Bone and Hester. Thompson converted one of his own tries.
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  • 433 12 HOLLOWING are the weights for Saturday, first day of the Penang Turf Club Autumn meeting: CI. i, Dlv. 1-7. Misty Line 8.88 Evergreen 8.13 Picture House 8.13 Glorify 8.88 King Arthur 8.09 Prince Eugene 8.88 Announce 8.08 Tempest 8.87 Winter Lady B.OC Mayfair S.M Ulan Us
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  • 221 12 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Monday. WHERE was no more than a handful of track--1 watchers at this morning's exercise for horses engaged m the Penang race meeting which starts on Saturday. Racegoers must be disappointed at the very poor entry for this meeting. There are
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  • 73 12 Today's charity soccer match between S.A.F.A. league champions Tigers S.A. and Cap champions Royal Navy has been postponed to Friday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Yesterday's Community League are between Singapore District and Malays was postponed as a mark of respect U the Is4e Sir Henry Gurney.
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  • 193 12 CINOAPORE Hockey Associa- tlon will hold their first trial of the season on the Indian Association ground at Balestler at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow. After the game a team will be selected to represent Singapore In the quadrangular hockey tournament to be played In Malacca on Oct. 37,
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  • 319 12 A PROGRAMME of 21 events has been drawn up by the Singapore Motor Club for their second HIU Climb of the year to be held at the Gap on Sunday, Oct. 28. Although there has been no motor sport since the Johore Grand Prix
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  • 205 12 A SUGGESTION that Singapore Chinese Foottn A Association should throw membership open individuals was made by S.C.F.A. president, M T. W. Ong, at a meeting yesterday. "If the suggestion Is car- f ried out, such members will be termed as 'associate' or 'subscribing' members so that
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  • Sentinel's Sportlight
    • 1130 12 iftflTH Malayan boxing at an all-time low, f" several readers have asked what has hapi pened to the crop of Malayan boxers who, with a handful of Servicemen and a few "importa- tions", helped the fight game to flourish hand- somely m the Immediate postwar years.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 853 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. 'Continued from Page 6) SITUATION VACANT WANTED Factory Clerk, fully experienced m manufacture R.S.B. •nd pale crepe. Good salary with CO LA. at M. P. I.E. A. scale for first class man Apply with references to Manager. Cralglelea Kstntp Muar. SITUATIONS W \\lH> ENGLISHMAN (36) desires Post Singapore.
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    • 405 12 CI.ASSIHKI) ADS. cii'iiiiiuro Ins* ureviuu!- Col.) VtCMMJUBi K)R SALE fur SALE. Singer 9 Sports. ;94S Bxcellent condition $3,200 Thorne. c o Guthrte Co. PACKARD CLIPPER 1947 6 Cylinder Offers to Chief Engineer. Singapore Traction Co., Ltd FORD PREFECT 10 months old. Owner Oriven. Contact Ramav.vunv 7 Tank Road. Instalment* \sreeable.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 31 12 LEAGUE HOCKEY: S.C.C. C.S.C.-S.C.C; Univeralty v Sherwood Foresters B. Titnah. HOCKEY: Victoria School S.J.l.— Victoria School. SOCCER: But. Houses Lje. Cap, H.K. Bank v M.P.H.; Chartered Bank f Shell— Shell (round.
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