The Straits Times, 25 February 1953

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    13 1 Establidted 18 1>. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1953. if_ 15 emu
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    'VITAL' SINO-MALAY DECISIONS
    196 1 Secret session agrees on liaison committees described as vital towards forming a united Malayan nation, were reached at a secret two-and-half hour meeting in Singapore between 11 leaders of the MCA- I'M NO Alliance. w The Straits Times understands thnt one of the decisions was l«> set
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    VON RUNDSTEDT DIES AGED 77
    194 1 HANOVER. Tuesday. pIELD MARSHAL Gerd von Rundstedt. who'com 1 manded Hitlers last desperate offensive through the Ardennes in the winter of 1944-45. died here today, aced 77. He was one of Germany's most brilliant military commanders. Von Rundstedt was responsible ror the swift tide of
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    FILM TO HAVE PREMIERE IN MALAYA
    138 1 From HAM. ROMNEY LONDON. Tups. THF British film producer David Mai-Donald. who has just finished editing a > documentary film on the Emergency in Malaya, hopes the picture will have its world premier? at Kuala Lumpur early in April. Thp film, which runs for
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    Canada's gift
    23 1 OTTAWA. Tues. Canada agreed today to provide $5,000,000 of .this year's Colombo Plan contribution to Pakistan in the form of wheat.
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    Old lag Bob (100) admits that crime doesn't pay
    279 1 LONDON. Tues. r pHE oldest burglar In Britain, 1- announced in Leeds tcday, at the age of 100. that what people have been telling him for years is true Crime does not pay. Bob Wool bridge has had many years of
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    £6,000 haul by burglars
    69 1 SALISBURY. (Wiltshire). Tues. -The ancestral home of the Earl and Countess of Pembroke where the Queen and the Duke cf Edinburgh spent last weekend, was raided during tho night by thieves who escaped with £6.000 worth of furs and jewellery. The mink coat worn by Lady
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    RUSH FOR 100-SEAT AIRLINER
    69 1 RUSH FOR 100-SEAT AIRLINER LONDON. Tues AMERICAN. Canadian and Mexican airline operators are negotiating with Britain for the purchase of ciant propellor jet planes capable of carrying more than 100 passengers across the Atlantic at 360 m.p.h. The planes are the new Bristol Britanr.ias which combine great ranee with exceptional
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    KOREANSJOIN BRITISH DIV.
    36 1 SEOUL. Tues Korean troops will become part of the British Division next week, it was announced today. They will serve in the same way as Korean troops nowattached to United States units.— U.P.
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    ECAFE KEEPS DOOR CLOSED TO RED CHINA
    176 1 Russian bid turned down MANILA. Tuesday. A UNITED Nations conference to promote the trade of Asian countries, which opened here yestreday. defeated a renewed bid by Russia for participation by Communist China. The conference is sponsored by ECAFE the Economic Commission for Asia
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    She's a vigilante
    58 1 MISS TAX GEOK Hl'A, 25. one of the four women of I nine Bahru, Singapore, who have volunteered for "vijji- j lantes" duty to fight prowlers in the district. The vigilante* I" v in patrolling last night, (ieok Hua owns a dressmaking shop. Another woman volunteer is
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    CHIANG HAS 'RECOVERY CURRENCY'
    63 1 TAIPEH, Tues. NATIONALIST guerillas holding a mountain district in China have issued their own money "recovery currency" the official Central News Agency reported from thp Nationalist-held Quemoy Island today. They have fixed the rate of exchange at one 'Recovery" note to $200 < Communist >. The
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    Three land a giant man-eater
    150 1 Three land a giant man-eater I^HREE CREW members of the liner Chusan yesterday caught and landed a giant man-eating Mako shark one of the biggest ever seen r round Sin*rpore. 'ril Skinner, a ship's hos- *i >';c. i i. KetUi Paae*U steward, and George Handscomo. baker said they bought s;ecial
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    Two crashes —5 die
    42 1 Two crashes 5 die LONDON, Tues— An RAF Bristol Brigand plane crashed today into a ploughed field near Box Wiltshire, killing the crew of four. Another R.A.F. plane, a Chipmunk trainer, crashed on open ground near Thame, Oxfordshire, killing the pilot. —Reuter.
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    BOY DEAD ON CANAL BANK
    31 1 Jona bin Sookim, 11 was yesterday found dead on the bnnk of Rochore Canal. His parents had on Sunday .reported that he was missing from home.
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    THE COST
    21 1 LONDON, Tues— The Coronation will cost the British tax payer nearly a million pounds sterling, the Government estimated today.
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    7 DIE IN FIRE
    28 1 HALIFAX, Novia Scotia, Tues— Five children and two adults were killed in their sleep here today when fire roared through four wooden buildings— Reuter.
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    JAP AIRLINE
    21 1 TOKYO. Tues. The Japanese cabinet today approved the draft of a bill to set up an International airline.— UP.
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    He threw his parents over a cliff
    118 1 BRISTOL. Tues. m/lILF.S C.IFFARD, 26, who threw his mother and father over a cliff, was executed here today. A plea for insanity and a lastminute statement by a French woman on the mur- i der jury that she did not iffree with the
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    SHE SAYS'FRISCO IS MORE CHINESE THAN SINGAPORE
    369 1 SHE SAYS FRISCO IS MORE CHINESE THAN SINGAPORE 'Fifth Daughter' comes East for first time AN American-born Chinese woman, on her first visit to the East, said yesterday that Singapore looks less Chinese than San Francisco's Chinatown. She is the famous ceramics artist. Miss Jade Snow Wong, who distinguished herself
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    FOUR PLANES SABOTAGED
    36 1 COPENHAGEN. Tue*. Tour Danish Air Force Americanbuilt F-84 Thunderjets at Karup air base have been sabotaged, it was announced. The Army said unidentified persons damaged the air speed indicators of the planes— U.P
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    MALAYA HEROES HONOURED
    49 1 LONDON. Tues.— Servicemen commended for bravery in Korea and Malaya were among 260 men ana women who went to Buckingham Palace today to receive awards from the Queen. The Queen presented medals and insignia individually to each recipient in the Palace white and gold ballroom. Reuter.
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    Going home
    35 1 GENEVA. Tues.— The Japanese and Chinese Red Cross societies have reached an agreement for the repatriation of 30.000 Japanese nationals who have been in China sinre the end of the last war. U.P.
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    Hawaii—No. 49
    31 1 Hawaii No. 49 WASHINGTON. Tues— The Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Douglas Mclcay, today urged Congressional action to spepd the admission of Hawaii as the 49th State Of the United States.
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    NEW MISSIONS
    17 1 OTTAWA. Tues— Canada !a to open new diplomatic missions in South and South-East Asia, Reuter.
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    Don't tire the Queen, he pleads
    104 1 Don 't tire the Queen, he pleads ADELAIDE. Tues. AIR Vice Marshal Sir Robert Allinsham George. new Governor of Soi.th Australia. appealed to Australians ve.sterday not to overtax the Queens strength on her tour next year. Sir Robert said the Queen would like to see as many of her subjects
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    Mighty gun is death to tanks
    194 1 Mighty gun is death to tanks LONDON. Tues. ANEW British anti-tank gun which does not recoil is "probably the most powerful used by any infantry in the world today", Mr. Antony Head, the War Secretary, said today. In a memorandum acenmpanyi'.ic the Army financial estimates he said- "It is liehter
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    ROSENBERGS 12-day vigil ends
    51 1 ROSENBERGS 12-day vigil ends WASHINGTON. Tues— Pickr-Ls seeking clemency for atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ended the 12-day White House "vipil' yesterday \'ith prayer meeting which several hundred people attended. Mr. Eisenhower was away from the White House playing solf at the time and was unaware of the demonstration.
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    THEY WAITED FOR DOCTOR —then started their battle
    107 1 DARWIN, Tues. ABORIGINES brandished flaming firestirks and spears in a tribal fight on the seashore at isolated Yirrkalla Mission on the eastern tip of Arnhemland in Australia's northern territory, according to reports reaching here today. They had first delayed th-ir battle until
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      939 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS TECHNICAL Assistants are rei quired by the Sarawak Government for the newly form»>d Broadcastlne Srrvlrp In Kurhlnß. Recruitment will be Into two Grades j Standnrd Time Scale: 72 84 x 6 to 120-bnr $152 x 12 to 120 bnr •192 x 12 to $264 and a higher »cale,
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      666 2 NOTICES NOTICE Singapore. Family Benefit Society 35th Annual General Meeting will be held at Victoria Memorial Hall on Thursday, 26th February 1953 at 5.15 p.m. SPECIAL NOTICE TO IMPORTERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN DIESEL GENERATING SETS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT St POWER. Would they please contact Mr. T. H. Silk, j
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      391 2 ZITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS SECRETARIAT. Making up an trimming of Uniform Clothing fo 1953. Forms from Room 235. Clt Hall. Close NOON— 6.I 53. TENDERS »re Invited for the conversion of a 68 ft. lauvrh (engine.' and nt tines already removed) into a depot ship for the Singapore Sen
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    BRITAIN TELLS RUSSIA: 'THANKS'
    311 3 A big handshake from Churchill for flood aid LONDON, Tuesday. ]y]KMIJKRS cheered last night when Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that he had asked Mr. Gromyko, the Soviet Ambassa-i dor, to call on him to receive thanks for Russia's pift to Britain's flood victims.
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    Coronation – pardon for 13,000 men
    94 3 Coronation pardon for 13,000 men LONDON, Tuos. A "CORONATION" free pardon for Britain's wartime deserters about 13, 000 men from the Army, Navy, and Air Force was announced yesterday. The Primp Minister, Mr. Churchill, told the House of Commons that all these men linn have to do to start a
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    SEALING OFF THE SEA
    31 3 AMSTERDAM. Tues— The flood disaster may advance plans to build a huce sea-dyke closinc off all the Zeelanri and South Holland isr.nds from the tea.— U.P. relief
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    A horse and champagne
    93 3 THIS horse is NOT in race six, or any other race. And the champagne that it is being offered would hardly make it favourite even it did run. No, the horse (Pinto is his name) was brought from his field near Pinewood Studios. Buckinghamshire, to take
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    CHOU TALKS TO RUSSIAN TROOPS—'BIGGER WAR EFFORT
    191 3 CHOU TALKS TO RUSSIAN TROOPS— 'BIGGER WAR EFFORT SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. pHINA'S Premier and Foreign Minister. Mr. Chou En-lai, speaking: before Russian troops in the Port Arthur area of Manchuria, yesterday said that the Communist war effort in Korea "must be further intensified." The Peking Radio, heard in San Francisco,
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    Attack on ship: Court martial
    85 3 Attack on ship: Court martial LONDON. Tues. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. A Eden, said yesterday that those responsible for an attack on the British ship Rosita more than two months aso were being tried by a Chinese Nationalist court martial. Mr. Arthur Henderson. Labour, asked in the Commons for details
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    King goes home to new crisis
    156 3 BRUSSELS. Tuesday. DELGIAN Catholic Deputies met today to try to •"avert a new crisis bringing more trouble to a Government already embarassed by the "Baudouin affair." They will try to clos e a rift I in the party ranks over the Government's proposed five
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    Danger outside the wire
    101 3 Danger outside the wire LONDON. Tues. THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, speaking to students— some coloured—at the London School of Economics last night, was interrupted by a remark about 'barbed wire and concentration camps" in Malaya. He retorted: "The reason for the barbed wire is to protect villages. There
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    DUKE GOES SOLO AGAIN
    70 3 LONDON. Tues —The Duk* of Edinburgh made his seco'-1 solo flight here today— three months after taking his ur*i flying lesson. The Duke, now an Air Marshal of the Royal Air force, is taking a regular service flying course to permit him to wear wings on
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    Troops aid police
    49 3 LONDON, Tues. Nearly 3.000 Servicemen will be drafted into London to help the police to control crowds and traffic during the Coronation on June 2. Two thousand of them will help 12.000 to 15.000 police lining the three-mile route along which the Queen will drive. Reuter.
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    Mayor gaoled
    49 3 BERLIN, Tues. A West Berlin court today sentenced a former East German Mayor to eight years' imprisonment for luring a West Berliner lino East Germany. The mayor, Gustav Thonack, 49, was arrested when he applied for asylum in West Berlin as a political refugee last year.— Reuter.
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    Pact broken
    30 3 TAIPEH. Twos Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalist cabinet has endorsed a plan to repudiate the Sino-Soviet Treaty of friendship and alliance signed in Moscow on August 14, 1945, Reuter.
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    Finns sign
    22 3 HELSINKI, Tues.— Finland and Russia signed a commercial treaty in Moscow today covering the exchange ol goods in 1953.— Reuter.
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    BETTER ARMS FOR NEW 'CHINDITS'
    166 3 NAIROBI, Tuesday. PROMISES of better weapons, more rations and jungle clothing to help in their guerilla fight against Mau Mau were made to Kenya's "CMndit" force today by the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir John Harding, i The "Chindits," also known as "Eyo"
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    SLIM DELAYS JOURNEY
    105 3 To advise Ch v rch ill on Middle East LONDON. Tues. FIELD Marshal Sir William Slim, delaying his departure to Australia, will give his expert advice on crucial Middle East defence problems direct to Mr. Churchill, reliable sources said today. Th e Field Marshal, who was due
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    'Murderer' cry at Vyshinsky
    41 3 NEW YORK, Tues. Eight Russian anti-Communist pickets shouted "murderer" and threw leaflets today when Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet Foreign MinLster, arrived in the Queen Mary. Mr. Vyshinsky is leading his delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.—Reuter.
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    Boat missing
    43 3 TOKYO, Tues.— American and Japanese air and sea rescue units scoured the seas south of Nagoya last night and early today without success In a search for a Japanese fishing boat and its crew of 47, missing since Sunday morning. -U.P.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    301 3 Quiet trading LONDON. Tues. conditions werp gener--1 ally quiet on the London Btock Exchange today. At the start the markets displayed hesitancy, and In some cases an easier appearance. Although there was a little Increase In volume during the afternoon, the tendency occasionally became a little firmer. Oiltedged
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    LONDON TIN
    25 3 LONDON Feh 24 Cash Buyers £957: Sellers e«T,B; Forward Buyers £937; Sellers £338; Settlement «959 (down €4). Turnover a.m. 40 tons; p.m. 15.
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    LONDON RUBBER
    35 3 LONDON. FPb. 24 —Spot 22 "yd March 22 T vd.. Apr-June 22 T wd Julv-Sopt. 22 -\d.. Oct.-IXv 22\d Mar. c.l.f 22', d, Apr. c.l.t 22 \d May c.l.f. 22Sd Market: Fairly steady
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    No pilot in this plane
    77 3 LONDON. Tues.- A pilotless light aircraft took off and flew by itself over Britain for two hours, the Ministry of Civil Aviation reported yesterday The pilot crawled in the cockpit to take off Then the engine stalled. He cltaibed out. swung the propellor forgetting the
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    $5,000 bail in trust case
    72 4 Mohamed Shariff bin Chedin was charged in the Singapore City Police Court yesterday with criminal breach of trust of $3,800 while in the employ of the Singapore Malay Seamen's Union. The alleged misappropriation was reported to have taken place between April 30 and Dec. 80
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    OPIUM RAIDS, TWO GAOLED
    57 4 Two opium smokers, Seng Eng Ann and Lim Ah Puah, were sentenced by Mr. J. B. Jeyaratnam, the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate, yesterday to one month's simple imprisonment each. A police party found Seng smoking prepared opium in a house In Blanco Court, while Lim was
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    'STARS'-$20,000
    29 4 'STARS'- $20,000 "Rendezvous with the Stars." a variety concert by the Chinese districts of the Singapore St. John Ambulance Brigade, raised $20,000 at the Happy World on Sunday night
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    $150 FINE
    28 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Lee Pun Oar. of Pontian Road, who dealt in price controlled rlzarettes without a licence, was fined $150 in the Police Court today.
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    Cars will be aided by policemen in the floods
    119 4 pOLICEMEN from Orchard Road station will help motorists in floods. Orders for "Operation Bah" (Operation Floods") to be used when floods are reported, have been drawn up by the officer In charge of the station, Mr. G.P.O. Martin. i He said
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    HOW DEEP IS THE WATER...
    46 4 HOW DEEP IS THE WATER STAFF SARGEANT MOHAMED NOOR stands beside some of the notices which will warn motorists of the level of the flood they are going into. These siens will he posted at all flooded areas in (he Orchard Road division. Straits Times picture.
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    RICE: From Siam and Burma 179,000 tons
    117 4 RICE: From Siam and Burma 179,000 tons KUALA LUMPUR. Tucs. THE Federation will set 179.000 tons of rice from Siam and Burma for the first half of the year, the Straits Times was told today. "Taking all things Into consideration, this is not unreasonable" Mr. O. H. R. Beadles, Controller
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    C.P.A. buys a Comet
    47 4 The first British Comet Jet airliner to be purchased by an operating company otner than BOAC will arrive at Kallang rarly next month on its way to Australia The Comet ha^ been bought by Canadian-Pacific Airways and is destined for the SvuncyHonolulu run.
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    DIED AFTER FALL
    21 4 KUANTAN. Tues— A member of No. 14 Federal Jungle Company died after falling off a moving armoured truck.
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    ROW OVER FAMILY PAYTODAY
    93 4 ROW OVER FAMILY PAY TODAY rE question of family allowances for nonexpatriate Singapore Government officers Is expected to be raised during the adjournment in today's Legislative Council. Somp unofficial members oi the council who took part in discussions on the subject with a special delegation from the Federation last week,
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    YOUTH CLUB EXPERT SOUGHT IN BRITAIN
    88 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. THE Federation Government is seeking an exprrt in A Britain to organise youth clubs and help parents with their child problems Mr. L.H.N. Davis, Member for Social and Industrial Relations, said today that "arrangements are in hand to find somebody," but
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    Action for damages dismissed
    172 4 AN action for damages arising out of a motor accident brought by Madam Tan Yin Keow. for the death of her husband. Ng Yin Kow, against j Mr. Lee Yeok Teng, the owner of a car. was dismissed by Mr. Justice Whitton in the Singapore High
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    TRESSPASS TO ANNOY CHARGE
    52 4 Youthful Nagooran appeared in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to answer a tentative charge of trespass by entering the house of Yong Thau Yin. the Singapore racehorse trainer, on Jan. 31 with the intention of annoying him. The case w;ll come up for mention on
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    More Malays pass exam
    71 4 IPOH, Tues. The number of Malay students in Perak who passed the Cambridge examination this year was more than double that of last year, said Mr. E. C. Hicks. Senior Inspector of Schools, Perak. According to yesterday's results, 105 Malays, including 12 girls, passed. Twenty one,
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    Cheap vegs at market
    60 4 The Singapore Consumers Association will open a .stall at the Orchard Read market tomorrow morning, where fresh vegetables will be sold. The aussociations's founder. Mrs. Robert Eu. last night told the Straits Times, that if the sales are good, they hope to sell fish also. A
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    RASC MEETING
    31 4 The Royal Army Service Corps 'Civil < Association will hold Us general meeting at the Tewfiew Lee Clan Mutual Help Association in Grange Road. Singapore, at 10 a.m. on Sunda'
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    ANTI-CANCER DRIVE BY CATHOLIC GUILD
    102 4 THE CATHOLIC Medical Guild of Malaya has formed a Cancer Relief Fund to start an anti-cancer campaign and to set up a well-equipprd cancer clinic The guild wants the Government, the City Council welfare organisations and individuals to help the fund. The 1953 committee of
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    A CRISIS? BLAME THE TEACHERS, SAYS RAJA AYOUB
    151 4 A CRISIS? BLAME THE TEACHERS, SAYS RAJA AYOUB Adult education row KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. RAJA AYOUB BIN RAJA HAJI BOT, secretary, general of the Adult Education Association of Malaya, today gave what he called the "truth" behind the association's $50,000 "financial crisis" in Srlangor. And he blamed the teachers. "They
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    PROMOTION FOR THREE
    50 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Three Inspectors of thp Joh<>:v Police have been promoti-d Assistant Superintendent 'il Police Th'v are Senior Inspector C. M Rrberts. Crimes Officer. Johore Bahru: Senior Inspector Yahaya bin Ahmart of thp Criminal Investigation Department; and Inspector Gurucharan Singh. Inspector of Trade Unions. Johnre South.
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    Lectures to promote aviation
    173 4 LECTURES on subjects ranging from the uses of the helicopter to the physiolouical u.-pecls of flying are to be given to menvbers of ihe Singapore branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain. At its lirst general meetinf at Shell House. Collyer Quay, Singapore, last
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    Showing the syces how
    57 4 A road safety demonftration will be held fnr 2.000 syces of the Muslim Drivers' Brnt-vHr-n; Association at the Singapore Regis: ry of Vehicles, Middle Road, on Mar. 7 and 8. There will be a car show arid practical demonstr.r ion in the morning and a film
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    FAMILY BENEFIT MEETING
    32 4 The Singapore Family Benefit Society will hold its th annual meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 6.15 p.m. I tomorrow. I Eight hundred members are expected to attend
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    SHE GOES ON DUTYATH.Q. AS THEY WATCH FOR PROWLER
    251 5 A pretty girl says: I'm safer with the corps 9 pRETTY Tan Geok Hua, 25, proprietress of a dress-making shop in Kirn Pong Road, Singapore, last night started duty at the headquarters of the Tiong Bahru Vigilante Corps as men volunteers
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    39 5 i 111 THREE amateur fishermen who caught a 19- foot inikii shark inside the Singapore Harbour Board area yesterday are. from left, Keith Pasrall. Cyril Skinner and George Handscomb, of the crew of the liner Chusan. —Straits Times picture.
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    Arrested on K.L. warrant
    70 5 Stanley Irwin, 33, was arrested by the Singapore police on Monday at Lido Hotel, Middle Road, Singapore, on a warrant issued by the Kuala Lumpur magistrate, on a cheating charge. Yesterday, Mr. J.B. Jeyaratnam, the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. ordered Irwin to be sent back to
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    ON WAY BACK FROM CHINA
    55 5 Two British owned freighters. East Hill and Yamaska, arrived In Singapore yesterday with over 10,000 tons of soya beans in their holds for Europe. Both ships, the Straits Times understands, are from the C nese ports of Tsingtao and Dalren where they loaded their cargo.
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    TRANSFERRED
    16 5 KOTA TINGGI, Tues.-Mr. A. Fryer, Resettlement Officer of Pasir Gogok. has been transferred to Plentong.
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    NEW CUB PACK
    20 5 KOTA TINGGI, Tues.— A Cub Pack ha., been formed in the Government English School of Kota Tinggi.
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    20,000 HAVE VISITED THE NEW MUSEUM
    74 5 KI'ALA UMPUR. Tues. A total of I0.»;~3 people have visited Kuala Lumpur's National .Museum since it was opened 11 days ago. The Director. Mr. P. D. D. Willi.miN Hunt, said today that Chinese New Year was a boom period for the museum there were
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    Police and Army study defence test
    169 5 THE results of "Exercise I Ram" staged in Singapore on Monday are now being studied by Colony police and Army officers. A police spokesman told the j Straits Tlmet yesterday that this test of th* islands internal secur.tv defence seemed, very satisfactory. He said
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    Market plan shelved
    83 5 The Singapore City Council has temperarily shelved the proposal to turn the market at Robinson Road, known to Chinese as Lav Passat." (old Market), into a restaurant. The old market Is now a lunchtlme resort for city worker and has lost favour as a market. More than
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    FOWL THEFT CHARGE
    75 5 Five youths, Chew Chin Wah. Kadir bin Abdullah, Syed Aliragadad, Soh Maideen bin Sayad. and Musoling bin Faraj. were yesterday charged in the Singapore Fifth Police Court with attempted theft of fowls from a house in Green Lane on Feb. 23 this year. Chew and Soh Maideen
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    HARBOUR BOARD MEN TOLD: NO INQUIRY
    169 5 'Unnecessary, says Blythe ■GAPORE Governor. Sir John Nicoll, will not t a commission of inquiry to consider ;he Harbour Board Staff Association's grievi any connection with "opportunities for corruption and fraud." The association asked the Governor to set ud such a commission immediately after
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    TOLD-TO-QUIT STUDENTS BACK AGAIN
    100 5 TOLD-TO-QUIT STUDENTS BACK AGAIN SOME of the 500 literacy classes students, who were recently told to leave Raffles Institution, will again have the use of three classrooms, Mr. B. G. Sahal, the secretary of the People's Education Association, which sponsors the classes, said last night. Students who have received notioes.
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    Wife lost my savings, he tells court
    132 5 Wife lost my savings, he tells court A HUSBAND, who sued for d.vorce on the ground of adultery, told the Chief Justice. Sir Charle s MurrayAynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday that his wife lost $7,000 of his savings, left with her for safe-keeping, in speculation. Lim Soo Guan.
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    $100 BAIL
    42 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Chia Kia Yew claimed trial In the Police Court today on a charge of causing the death of Chin Chock Hong by rashly driving a lorry on the Kota Tinggi Road. He was allowed ball of $100.
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    EXHIBITION
    37 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Malay boys' and girls' schools in Johore have been asked tn exhibit their handicraft at the Malayan Arts and Crafts Exhibition to be held in Kuala Lumpur on April 3. 4 and 5
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    LOTTERY MONEY FOR SQUATTERS
    139 5 Tt|ONEY from th e Malayan Chinese Association lotteries will be used to resettle hundreds of Singapore .squatters on a nun-pruflt-inaKlug basis, the association's president, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tail, told the StralUs Times yesterday. Sir Chenß-lock said that the resettlement scheme drawn up last yiear had been
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    Four-week air blitz on Reds in Johore
    151 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. r-IE BIG air blitz against the Johore terrorist gangs is continuing. Today, Vampire Jet fighters from Tengah attacked targets near Mersing. In the Labis area, where thp lerrorists have been bombed and strafed daily for the past four weeks, Hornets
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    Back from leave
    25 5 KOTA TTNGGI. Tues.-Mr 1 G Scurr. manager of Kot?. Tinggi Estate, and Mrs. Scurr have returned aft^r -ix months" leave in Britain.
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    Labour protest at council omission
    144 5 SEREMBAN. Tuesday. TiHERE were angry protests today against th<> 1 omission of Labour representatives in this year's Negri Sembilan State Council. They came from the Nepri Sembilan Divisional committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council. A statement Issued by Mr T. Mukherjee, secretary of I
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    TRIED TO SHOW GIRL HOW FAST HE COULD GO
    99 5 TRIED TO SHOW GIRL HOW FAST HE COULD GO KUALA LIMPIR. Tues. YAP CHIN FAT. 37, a merchant, was sentenced to three months' iinpri*onment and was disqualified from driving for 12 months when he was found guilty of dangerous driving- by the President of the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today.
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    SEA RESCUE
    20 5 A dockyard worker, Bok Kwee Tee. was rescued from the sea near the Singapore Harbour Board last nijht.
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    Opium in petrol tank
    94 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— A Changi vegetable gardener. Lee Boon Kway, was sentenced in th<r Sessions Court today to 18 months' imprisonment and fined $1,000. or a further nine months imprisonment. for being in possession of 22 lb of raw opium. I Lee was arrested at Senai
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 25, 1953. Some Colony Problems
    742 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 25, 1953. Some Colony Problems Constitutional problems that were recently raised by the Progressive Party in its Newsletter were brought to the attention of the Singapore legislative Council yesterday in the Governor's address. While Sir John Nicoll disavowed any intention to anticipate the report
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    Singapore Housing
    306 6 Singapore's Legislative Council is being asked today to approve a further loan of $21 million to the Improvement Trust for the financing of more housing schemes. It will be devoted to the lowest cost housing which the Trust can produce. The Council's approval i« certain, hut it is
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    Ceylon's Rubber
    183 6 The Ceylon Government and the Ceylon rubber industry seem to be aggressively cheer- ful over the bargain struck with Communist China. They have now been warned by Dr. H. E. Young, director of the Rubber Research Institute in Colombo, that reliance on this agreement with Peking may be
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    Lee Mend and the trial system
    715 6  -  PATRICK KEITH By KUALA LUMPUR. WHILE the life of a youn* Chinese woman hangs In the balance, one of the main props of Justice in Malaya is being questioned by public opinion. When Lee Meng went on trial for her Ufe last year, two
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    CHINESE: THE WRITTEN & THE SPOKEN
    1493 6  - CHINESE: THE WRITTEN THE SPOKEN Jou Bienming "Chinese is not a hard language." concluded Dr. Ho Yung Chi in an article in this page on February 16. Today the answer is given on By r) begin with, we aro not out to convince anyone that Chinese is easy or difficult.
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      275 6 Procedure in a case of minor assault IN reply to K. O.s most Interesting letter which appeared In your edition of Feb. 21. under tiv heading "The trishaw man sought only to escape." it may be of interest to your readers to know the procedure to be adopted in cases
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    On the Margin
    515 6 Mamiiul AFTER these last several s days, and the dLscusslon there has been on 'Terang Bulan", we have arrived at the stai« wherein this tune haunts us in our waking moments and in our dreams. We comfort ourselves with the knowledge that we might be haunted by
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    NICOLL WARNS OF COUNCILS CLASHING IN RUNNING S'PORE
    490 7 NICOLL WARNS OF COUNCILS CLASHING IN RUNNING S'PORE TIIK Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, yestcrd.«v warned that if more power was given to the legislative and city councils without dealing with riistrihtition of functions, the occasions for clashes hetwern the two were likely to increase, with detri- merit to
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    Flood fund now $80,190
    143 7 Anotlvr $5,213 wa s given to the Singapore British Flood Re'.ief Fund yesterday. The i fund now totals $80,190. Yesterday* donors- Sir John Nlcoll $500: Mr. Ta n Chek Kwang $1,000; Messrs. Guan 1 Soon Transport Co. Ltd. $1,000: Messrs. Thyp Ann Investment Co. Ltd. $859;
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    School as centre
    33 7 A supplementary school built for the Singapore Education Department in the Chor\ Chu Ksnc area, is now heir.;: us^ri as n rehabilitation centre for Communist youths detained in the Colony.
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    Swim suits audience mostly male
    142 7 Swim suits audience mostly male CJINGAPORE got a new slant on svr.m suits last night at Raffles Hotel when Australian bathing costume designer Ray Scott held a mannequin parade of the latest designs. Five Singapore girls, and Mr. Scott's wife, former Australian model, Pat Rae. were among the pirls who
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    ZAP PROPERTY SOLD FOR $352,500
    99 7 ZAP PROPERTY SOLD FOR $352,500 THREE Singapore businessmen paid a total of $352,500 for Japanese property auctioned yesterday. Bidding was brisk. The former Japanese Club in Selesrie Road (present Chinese V.M.C.A. I realised 5230.--500: an old house in Queen's Street fetched $37,000 and another house in Chancery Hill Road went
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    NEGLIGENT DRIVING
    50 7 Llm Ene Tock. a sales representative of thp Singapore Cold Storage Company was fined $50 by a Traffic Magistratp yesterday for negligent drivtnc alone Mountbatten Road on the afternoon of Oct. 23. Llm had earlier been charged with having driven hi? car dangerously, but the charge was rpduced.
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    HURT CHARGE
    48 7 Goh Van Joo appeared in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday on a tpntatlvp charge of causing hurt to Ann Sin J'n with a knife at Jalan Kembangan on jhe night of Feb. 8 this year. Thp casp will come up for mention on Mar. 3.
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    INSTALLATION
    38 7 Thp Installation of the ]9!i3 TPlok Ayer MPthodist Youth Fellowship cabinet officers will be condurtPd by the Rpv Hone Han Krne In thp auditorium of thP Jolok Ayrr Methodist Church. Singapore, at 11 a.m. on March 1.
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    A COSTLY SMOKE
    31 7 Chua KenK On, W ho was found smoking while eoaiveylnj? nassensrers in h.s taxi, was fln*>d $15 by thp Singapore City PoCJce Magstrate. Mr. J. M. Devereaux-CoCebourn yesterday.
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    THE LATEST LOOK IN BEACH WEAR
    33 7 TWO OF THE SWIM SLITS and two sun dresses. Tb? mannequins arc (from left) Josephine West. Lee Lye, Josephine West again, and Gwendoline Day. Straits Times pictures.
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    7 said it under threat' says tapper on murder charge
    208 7 7 said it under threat says tapper on murder charge UNCLE'S NECK 'A MERE TREE TRUNK' Xl ALA LI MPI'R. Tuesday. RIBBKR-TAPPEK Abdul I atiff. 26. who said in statement that he considered the neck of his uncle "a mere tree trunk" and half-severed it with a parang, was charged
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    CAMBRIDGE RESULTS
    97 7 RESULTS of the 1952 Cambridge School Certificate examinations held in the Federation and Singapore were issued to the Preys last night, but they were not for publication until Thursday morning. All the results, however, were posted in the schools yesterday. The Straits Times feel that no useful purpose
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    FOR THE FIRST TIME, NO DEAD FRIENDS
    187 7 BENTONG, Tues. rR the first time since the Emergency began nearly five years ago. members at a meeting of the Incorporated Society of Planters, west and central Pahan^ branch, were not asked to stand in remembrance of a dead colleague. The chairman, Mr.
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    64 7 THK CHIEF JUSTICE and three judges «,f (he Singapore Supreme Court yesterday attended the opening of this year's first meeting of the Colony Legislative Council in full ceremonial robes. This was the first "Masons!" opening they attended sinre the Inception of the elected Council. Straits Times picture shows the Chief
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    Gagged and bound by robbers
    135 7 Gagged and bound by robbers MAN CHARGED A YOUNG Javanese woman was awakened in the early hours of the morning and was bound and gagged by six men. Zesterday, Saat bin Samsurri. alleged to be one of the intruders, was charged in Singapore Third Police Court with armed gang robbery
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    'HIT PARADE'
    23 7 HIT PARADE' Nora Kraal's "Hit Parade. in aid of Boys' Town, will be staged at the Victoria Theatre. Singapore, tomorrow and Friday night.
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    4 TO PLAN ENTERTAINMENT
    49 7 A SPECIAL City Council Coronation Celebrations Committee of four has been appointed to draw up a programme of public entertainment during Coronation Week. Members of the committee are Messrs. Yap Pheng Geek, C. F. Smith, J. M Jumabhoy and Mohamed Sidik bin Haji Abdul Hamid.
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    They prefer to live in the jungle
    181 7 CITY TOO FAST, SAY SAKAIS AKTKR a three-day look af Singapore, five Sakai women yesterday said that they would not "trade their huts in the jungle for a city life." They were Tiroah bintr Anton. Rakiah hints- Ahmad, Awa hinte Anton. Isah hinte
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    These union demands are just interim
    157 7 rpHE Singapore Teachers A Union will demand that the Government increase its provident fund coutefbuttoiu far above the recommendations of th£ Joy Committees report on retirement benefits. And these demands. the union says, are only interim it will insist on long-term pension rights for
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    NO MORE INFERIOR RUBBER EXPORTS
    293 7 NO MORE INFERIOR RUBBER EXPORTS By Our Market Correspondent FE Malayan Rubber Export rlretst ration Board, which was set up under the Rubbrr Shipping and Packing Control Ordinance to protect Malaya's rubber industry by prevontlnc inferior shipments of rubber abroad, has now issued over 1.000 certificates to shippers and packer*
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    $100 FINE ON GOLD CHARGE
    47 7 Osborne Victor Garland yesterday tileaded euilty in the Singapore Fmirth District Court to failing to ofTer his gold fot sale to authorised dealers at a price which mieht be fixed by the Controller of Finance or his dePly. He was fin^d $100.
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      84 7 The weather MIMMIM TEMPERATIRE: (7.30 p.m. on Frb. 23 to 7.30 a.m on Ffb. 24 i Singapore i 73 dpgrers). Penang <73>. Kota Bahru l7t>, Kuala Lumpur 1 71 Ipoh 1 73 >. Kuantan <72 > MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE: '7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 24 1: Singapore < 87
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    ESPLANADE PARK WILL BE FINISHED BY END OF THE YEAR
    193 8 THE Singapore esplanade, already a popular night resort with its outdoor restaurant and bright lights, will be further improved by the end of the year with a park. Mr W Jrvin? Watson, the City Architect and Building Surveyor, told the
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    Youths may tour U.S. and Europe
    120 8 Youths may tour U.S. and Europe PENANG. Tues. MALAYAN youths have been invited by the World Youth Assembly's Indian national committee to tour Europe and America under an international youth exchange scheme. The tour will last three months between May and June this year. The committee proposes to send 50
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    Third man to be charged
    83 8 Khoo Kee Glap was charged ii» the Singapore City Police Court yesterday with armed robbery a* the Green Bos Company office In Anguilla tfoad, at 1.50 a.m. on Feb. 4. He •wa.s th c third youth to appear on the charge. The two others. Quah
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    BEAN CARGO FOR RUSSIA
    47 8 On her way back to the German port of Stettin, th» Russian freighter Sevastopol Is in Singapore with over 9,000 tens of soya beans. The freighter. which 1« takinp on bunxers, water and provisions, loaded her cargo from t-he Chinese port of Dairon.
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    LAST VISIT
    30 8 RAUB. Tues.— Mr. W.C.S. Corry, British Adviser, Pahang, paid his last official visit to Raub on Friday before hLs retirement after 30 years in the Malayan Civil Service.
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    SCOUT RALLY
    33 8 RAUB. Tues.— The Boy Scouts Association of Pahang held a grand rally on the padang t*i Saturday, the birthday anniversary of the latp Lord Bad?n Powell, founder of the Scout movement.
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    A DOLLAR FINE
    25 8 MERSING, Tues.— Lai Thim, 34, was fined $1 by the Mersing Magistrate for breaking curfew at the 7th mile, Jalan Jemaluang, Mersing.
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    The film unit is showing Malaya to the world
    180 8 The film unit is showing Malaya to the world KL'ALA LUMPUR. Tues. MALAYA is being Increasingly featured on the world's cinema and television screens. Malayan Film Unit productions are particularly popular in Europe and America. Mr. T. Hodge, head of the film unit, said today that a recently-completed production had
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    Poor response to Singapore call for. youth clubs
    228 8 Poor response to Singapore call for. youth clubs AN appeal to youth organisations in Singapore to form boys' or girls' clubs has so far failed. Mr. Carl F. de Souza, assistant secretary for youth welfare in the Social Welfare Department, told the Straits Times yesterday. "The response has been most
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    HE WANTED TO START ON A CLEAN PAGE
    125 8 >TEO BENG HUAT. who, said I a traffic magistrate, "wanted a clean driving licence." was yesterday convicted on a charge of making a false declaration to the traffic poCice. Neo declare^ at the office on Dec. 28 TnaT he had not been
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    Chettiars to celebrate
    73 8 MALACCA. Tues. The Chettiars Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the Masimaeam Festival on Friday and Saturday. On Friday, the God Subramaniam, seated in a silver chariot, will be drawn in procession from the temple in Malacca to the temple at Cheng. On Saturday, prayers wii: be said
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    Helped in lottery
    38 8 Oh Hop. a woman shopkeeper, was fined $250 by the Singaporp Sixth Policr Magistrate. Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday for assisting in the manaepment of a chnp-ii-kPe 1 lottery at a house in Thomson
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    Girl,10. tins in cauldron
    103 8 Girl, 10. tins in cau ld ron "I "Mil I dancing about on »r the concrete rim of a cauldron to amuse her two-year-old sister, Cheah Ab Suay, 10, fell into the cauldron and was scalded, the Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. Climbing out of the cauldron, which was
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    Meeting on pay claims
    82 8 A flve-man delegation of the Singapore Mental Hospital Uniformed Staff Union met representatives of the Government yesterday to negotiate a settlement of the workers' claims. After the three-hour meetIng, the union's officials negotiator. Mr. S. K. Reddi. told the Straits Times that the result of the
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    SEE THAT THE RICE IS GOOD
    167 8 I—Samplei Sample bottles protect you KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. mHE Federation's Supplies 1 Department has made arrangements so the public can be sure that the quality of rice is right for the price paid, the Government said today i The law requires retailers to keep
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    Tetanus due to cut foot
    67 8 While out fishing in the sea, off Ponggol, on Jan. 17, Ng Ah Teo received a deep cut o n his foot. When the wound became worse on Jan. 20, Ng was admitted into the Singapore General Hospital. He died of tetanus two days later.
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    Y.M.C. SOCIAL IN MALACCA
    63 8 MALACCA. Tues. Mls s Iris Lam. dressed as an American "hobo." won the first prize for costumes at the Malacca Young Malayans' Club Chinese New Year social last night. Mr. Wee Chye Ghee and Miss Maria Neo. as a Negro labourer and a "Nonya Malaka." were
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    QUAYSIDE DEPOT FOR SHELL CO.
    39 8 MALACCA. Tues.- Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom. Resident Commissioner, will declare the Shell Company quayside depot open on Thursday at 11.30 a.m. The ceremony will be followed by a party at the Malacca Club.
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      289 8 Si rails Times Crossword IS l^v; 16 .---< 1 1 I.Vi 1 18 20 121 I y y a""y^w"a y aa j-yi y~!i_p^ KH^n li M i i i i i i i ACROSS 9. Mediterranean Islander (6). 1. It contains monster cranes (13). 13. "Pull many a flower is
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      The Elf Who Lost His Hat
      1039 9 "rOOD Gracious!" ex- claimed Ah Chan. "Do you see what I see?" "What? Where?' asked Lian Soo. "I can't see anything." Ah Chan pointed to the foot of a large tree, growing near the jungle path. "Look there. A little man." Llan Soo's Jaw
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      SOLVE THIS NEW PICTURE CONTEST
      172 9 Dear Boys and Ciris, Here are the winners of our last painting contest. Tan Boon Hock, (Boon Hock's painting was outstandingly good), aged 16. 23 A Seah Im Road. Singapore 4, Arthur Andrews, aged. 8, Brunei Hospital, North Borneo, Irene Loke, aged 10, 32 Van
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      259 9 BABY SHOWj 1 I Conducted by The Chinese V.M.C.A. Open to babies of all races under two t X years of age. j I VfS MAR. 7th I hi i ms close on Marrli 4th. next. t w X Lnquiries can be made at the above Association, 107 Selegie Road.
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      23 9 DLEASE enrol me at a member of the Children's Corner Wise Owls Club, and send me a badge. NAME ADDRESS DATE OF BIRTH
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      108 9 This MATCH TRICK Will Puzzle WHEN you've solved this poser, memorize it as a bra In -teaser to show off to friends. Arrange 17 matches as shown on the right, to form six squares. Then remove five of the sticks so that only throe squares are left. Surprisingly, it stumps
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      60 9 Your Pals Hoto much water is there in a cabbage? Over 90 per cent, by weight Vegetables and fruit are chiefly composed of water. Some varieties of water melon contain as much as 98 per cent., cucumber 96 per cent and potato 75 per cent. HAVE you ever wonderpd how
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      466 9 TALKING ABOUT STAMPS WELL boys and girls, by now all the winners o1 our atamn C«'< will hare recr>vrrl thrir prizes. I was surprised to find that only tiro really answered the questions one hundred V"f cent correctly. They wereCarn'e Robert.* o! Loyang. and Pavitar Sinah. of Katonp Hearty coiigratu'ations
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    STEADY MARKET IN INDUSTRIAL AND TIN SHARES
    310 10 STEADY MARKET IN INDUSTRIAL AND TIN SHARES RUBBER EASIER AND QUIET HTHE Singapore share market yesterday continued A firm in industrials and tins and several stocks recorded rises in prices. Rubber shares were neglected except for some small business in Lunas. pensary were in keen demand and Oamiron were slightly
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    BRITISH TIN INVESTMENT
    138 10 BRITISH Tin Investment Corporation Ltd. earned a profit, before taxation, of 1 I £600,163 in 1952, compared 'with £577,767 in the preceding; year. Income tax requires £271,- 860, profits tax £14.529 and Excess Profits Levy, 106,000. An interim dividend of 5V4 per cent, less tax, was paid
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    165 10 MELBOURNE. Tues. pENERAL investments m<Untaln*»d their small uptrend on the Stock Exchange today on a wider lolume of trading. 8.H.P.. Australia* leading Industrial, regained ground. Other firstrank stocks also enjoyed ktener support. Bonds were quiet and Irresular. Closing prices of selected Australian stocics trday wrre: Loan 3i'> 1545-59
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    RUBBER PRICES
    93 10 Rubber lost one-eighth of a cent in price on the Singapore rubber market yesterday which was still quiet. March first grade closed at 78 7 cents a lb. The market continued with littlf. outside suDport and a noor offtake with no factory buvine. Cosine p'lcps yesterday were in
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    TIN PRICE
    92 10 The price of tin In Singapore yesterday was declared at $472 25 a picul. down 25 cents. PRODUCE PRICES Singapore Chinese Prodore Exchange: Noon prices per plcul were: COPRA: was reported quiet with buyers $39 'j, sellers $40-, fob COCONUT OIL: $61 sellers PEPPER: quietly steady, all varieties
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    STEEL PRIORITIES
    84 10 Applications for priority assistance In obtaining steel for the third quarter of this year should be submitted to *he Pan-Malayan Steel Priority Board before April 6. j Applications .'ho id be made to the Contrciler. Trade Division. The Treasury. Kuala Lumpur or to the I Director. Depar'ment of
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    NEW YORK STOCKS
    15 10 The New York Stock Market ■was closed yesterday, being a public holiday.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    175 10 CHIPS lying alongside the Slngapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Chusan S. President Oarfleld 1 4 5. Braeside 6/7. Benledi 8/9. Arendslcerk 11 Asturlas 13/14. Al- rinous 18, Voko Maru 19 20. Stla N. Wall No 4 Senal N. Wall No. 6. Islander 21/22, Rajah Brooke
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    Exchange Rates
    49 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made no alterations lr its rates to merchants yesWrday. On the free exchange market in Hong Kong yesterday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 6.04 for cash and 6.06 fcr T.T. The pound was quo'M at 15.85 and one taelofgok* at 280.
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    WOOL IN DEMAND
    40 10 MELBOURNE Tues— The market for Merino and croosbred wools was exceptionally firm at the first day of the Oeelong sales this afternoon. Bidding was spirited from nil sections of the trade. Contential buyers were more In evidence.
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    RUBBER CROPS
    51 10 The following rrops of rubber were harvested by the respee'lv* estates in January: Lb. Alor Oai&r. Rubber ***** Aver Piw; Rubber Sfi.oon Olene^lv Plantations 63.500 Kl'l.m? Rubber Compam 50.500 Pa tarn 121.500 TMi'mrri Rubb-r Company 2!> Bf>o Teluk Anson Rubber 43 429 1 T T lu Bent]' Consolidated
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    Nene is back with Kee Chan
    135 11 I wINOAPORE ooxer Llm Kee Chan. who caused a boxing sensa--1 tion in Manila last week when he I refused to fight Flash Elorde unMM he was fully paid before he 1 entered the ring, returned to the Colony yestirday with his manager Little
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    Park soccer results
    60 11 DESULTS of friendly socct matches played at Farrer Park yesterday were: IRC beat GHQ Signals 2-0 Scorers for I.R.C. wore Salahudln and P. K. Samy K P.M Combined XI beat Mercantile Bank 1-0. Meij score*!. YSC Institute beat X.M.L 4-2. Prorers ,'or YSC. were Chong Liang. Maniam.
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    MOTTRAMS TO PLAY IN SINGAPORE
    392 11 Ip also coming SINGAPORE tennis enthusiasts will have the k opportunity of watching first class matches at the Happy World stadium next Monday and Tuesday when British tennis stars Tony and Joy Mottram will play exhibition matches against top-ranking Malayan players. These exhibitions are sponsored
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    CHARLTON WIN
    16 11 LONDON, Tues. Charlton Athletic beat Blackpool 2-n In a Firrt Division match yesterday. Reuter.
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    A.C.S. SOCCER
    47 11 A forcer match will be played between th» Past and Present boys of the ACS. at Barker Road on Friday at 5.15 p.m. The winning team will receive souvenirs presented by Mr. T»y Terk Eng. Mrs. Tay will give away the souvenirs after the march.
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    NETBALL
    15 11 G.S.C. Netball practices will be held every Tuesday and Thursday on the S.R.C. Padang.
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    Pallett hints on relay, middle distance races
    172 11 OATON changing and middle disiance running were dealt with by English A.A.A. senior coach George Pallett during the third day of his Singapore course at Victoria School yesterday. On baton changing he said: Faulile&s, llghtnlng-qulck baton changing can be perfected only after weeks
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    MBTC WIN NEE SOON HOCKEY
    87 11 AFTER being held by Malayan Basic Training Centre to a M-oreles* full period, G.H.Q. Field Records scored two snap goals during extra <me to win the Xee Soon Garrison horkrv championship at Nee Soon yesterday. Both sets of forwards kept up a lively attack but
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    SPORTSMANSHIP AND THE FIJIANS
    435 11 Letter to the .Sport* Editor YOU have given much prominence lately to ruggei matches involving the Fijian Regiment in which bad sportsmanship and rough play have occurred. In each case the opponents were civilian teams. Consequently, there Is a feeling abroad amongst certain sections of the
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    Five West Indies wickets go for 35
    188 11 PORT OF SPAIN. Tuesday. INDIA, with seven second innings wickets still to x fall, had a lead of 82 runs over the West Indies at the close of the fourth day of the third Test here yesterday. The West Indies gained a first
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    30 11 IODAV. H:««. o«'.: 17 (i and Ml .7«< Lo» OfO". i 5 8i »na MM <1 6. IOMOKMOYt: Hich 09.20 iIM, IM Oil Uw 0401 li.ll »aa le.'.
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    733 11 STUBBORN S.J.L DEFENCE ALL BUT FOILED R.L Spore schools sorcer JDAFFLES INSTITUTION, one of the three unbeaten 1V schools in this season's Singapore inter-school soccer, scored a well-earned victory over St. Josephs by three goals to two on the R.I. ground yesterday. The other unbeaten teams. Victoria School and Bartley
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      32 11 ATHLETK'B PALKETT'i (oachinif rourar. Victoria School frum 3.30 p.m. to i f. 45 p.m. MOTORINC. SINGAPORE Motor luh* an- nual (enrral meetinc. Aim ahow and social. RACING S.T.C. F>b. imwtinc. nrrond Ha'
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    Short Hairs has easy task today
    283 12 BUNGA DANDE BAY SCRATCHED By EPSOM JEEP WITH BUNGA and Dande Bay not accepting, Short Hairs has a fairly simple task in the Class 2, Div. 1. 6 f. event (Race Five) at Bukit Timah today, second day of the Singapore Turf Club February
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    Straits Times Selections
    181 12 EPSOM JEEP (AM BWt POINTER Race 1 2.00 BADALONA Bobsirorth Kalemaria RADALONA Kalemarla Bobyworth BADALONA Botaworth Kalemaria Rare 2 2.25 HONEYMOON Masterpiece Abbntrford ABBOTSFORD Monlee Honeymoon ABBOTSFORD Honrvmoon Mnnlee Race 3 2.50 Race 4 3J5 RIVER MOON II Talisman Phenomenon FORGET ME NOI Applause Gambar China BHORT
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    50 "A offer to Australians
    116 12 rpHE youths boxing tournament between Singapore A.B.A. and Die Australian A.B.A. Is likely to take place at the Happy World .stadium on Mar. 30. The Singapore ABA. is to offer the Australian team of 20 fifty per cent of the net profit from the torn
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    RECORD ENTRY FOR PENANG
    81 12 REC OR D E NTRY FOR PENANG PENANG. Tuen. A RKCOBD entry I* assured for the ivnang Torf Clvb 1 meeting on Mar. 7. 11 and 14. The meeting wit originally scheduled for Class Three and Four horses, bat the committee 1.11.T decided to ester for Class Five as well.
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    Robin Hood to be on target today
    158 12 Robin Hood to be on target today ROBIN Hood, a Fairey Fulmar three year old gelding, started his racing in Malaya with a fighting second to Hula Hula over 6 f. at Bukit Timah in November. Then, at Penang on Jan. 1. Robin Hood ran second over 6f. to Stormy
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    Caulfield worth another chance
    1005 12 CXM.KIKI I) (Race Nine) had all the bad luck in his race on Saturday. Well behind pacemakers Proctor and Coralita in the early stages, he moved up nicely three furlongs out and was in a challenging position on the rails. However, all the way up to
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    PADI FIELD CAN MOW DOWN HIS RIVALS AGAIN
    162 12 PADI FIELD CAN MOW DOWN HIS RIVALS AGAIN PADI FIELD'S two-length win on Saturday was :-«W comfortably gained that I recommend him with confidence to complete a double today in Race Six. Handily positioned brhind th P pace. Padi Field started his run at the top or tlie straight. In
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    Bassett wins in 5 rounds
    151 12 PARIS. Tues. |>ERCY BASSETT. 24-year-old Nesro who holds the world -interim" featherweight ii;lr btti Auguste Caulet. former French lightweight champion, who retired In the fifth round of their tenround non-title fight here last night. Basset t was up against a more powerful nnd heavier opponent
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    WORLD FIGHT POSTPONED
    51 12 JOHANNESBURG. Tue». Th- world bantamweight championship fight between Johnny Cami-h*:* iof Australia, the holder, and W Toweel of South Africa has be. postponed to Mar. 21. Ii whs I have been held here on Satuid The fight has been postpone because of an Injury to ToweWs nose
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    BOYS TOURNEY
    58 12 The Federation of B Boys Clubs boxing champio- will be held at the Happy Wr. k Stadium on Mar. 5 and 9. nW weigh-in will take place at !iiHiippy World on Mar. 5 »i 5 pmi The dubs tnkini: p Quren Street. Pulsu Brani. Pu! >■ Tokop?. Mount
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    Juniors will take on the Schools XI
    258 12 COLONY CRICKET ['THE Singapore Cricket AssnI A eiatioti s learn to meet Combined Schools in the an- nual fixture will, as from this year, be chosen from the junior Tournament players. This w.is deciclfri at the SC A. committee mceiin.' held last night
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    Otago all out 152
    52 12 IUNEDIN. Tue<=. The South M i ins wi'.i nine first innlngfl l fcetl in hand, were 117 run* f* ■chirm! O'ago. Plunket Shield holdtn, a; the end of the first day of 'hrir match here. Otaco vored IS2. and the Smi'h Africans replied with 39 for
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    SCRC CRICKET
    45 12 A the cricket meetine of 'he Sagaptn Chlf Re. h*id cm.iv Dr. Ong Swee L.iw M elected captain for the year. Chron-,' Thi;'m Slew was elected VtM cnptaln Klioo Ong Lee Is convenor. Nets practice will be held on > I runtfjajn and Thursdays.
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      37 12 r THMCI has iM-fn diil» rain in Singapore nincc laiit Friday and tin- going at Rukit Timah today will be hrary. TODAY S BKST BET: Robin Hood In ihr 515 BKST LONG SHOT: Lwifer In the (.15
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      1401 12 The double tote event will be on Races Six and Nine and the unlimited sweep will be drawn on Race Nine. Race 1—2.00: Class 3, Div. 5—6 Furs. 1 Badalona J Donnelly 9.00 Mr K. fci. Leong rt. Breukelen 2 096 Bramhall Flyer t— 8.11 Mrs. A. Gordon Hobbs 3
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