The Straits Times, 4 November 1953

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  • 14 1 The Straits Times fa**** Established 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1953. it 15 CENTS
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  • 248 1 Brunei makes loan to aid our jungle war KUALA LUMPUR, TUESDAY. THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI HAS OFFERED L THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA A LOAN OF $40 MILLION AS A GESTURE OF FRIENDSHIP. This was announced in Kuala Lumpur tonight by the Federation Government. In a letter
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  • 231 1 JAKARTA THINKS AGAIN From Our Own (orres. JAKARTA, Tues. Mounting criticism has caused the Indonesian Government to withdraw part of its newly Introduced inducement trade system so that luxury or semi-luxury Roods can no longer be imported on inducement certificates. This means that no foreign currency will be available for
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  • 628 1 THE cost of the new University of Malaya $145 million has surprised most people. One Federation i leader described it as "stupendous" and one Singapore leader as "out of all proportion Federation leaders, less criI tical than Singapore's feel the scheme should continue. But some Singapore
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  • 56 1 THE (O.M.MISSIONER-(.F.M:KAL, Mr. .Malcolm Mac Donald, Crrets (In widow of Major-(ictieral l.im Bo Sent when she attended the laying of the foundation stone of a memorial to her husband at Queen Elizabeth Walk yesterday. The ceremony was performed by Mr. Mac Donald. (Another picture and story
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  • 131 1 Security officer is killed RENGAM. Tues. MR. W. J. Berry, 32, security officer at the Rengam division of Ulu Tiram Estate (Oil Palms of Malaya Limited) in South Johore, was killed by a party of about 10 bandits in an ambush on the estate at 7.30 a.m. yesterday. The bandits
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  • 101 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— A patrol of the 2/10 Gurkha Rifles killed all five communist terrorists it contacted in the Kulai area of Johore today Three ol the terrorists were women. Two pistols, a sten gun and two grenades were recovered The terrorists were on a hillside
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  • 49 1 BONN, Tues. The West German Federal Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, and the French High Commissioner. M. Andre Francois Poncet. will meet here again to attempt to pave the way for a settlement of the Saar dispute, the biggest obstacle in the way of FrancoGerman relations.— Reuter.
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  • 33 1 CAIRO, Tues.— The Egyptian President, Gen. Naguib. said yesterday that the Suez Canal talks with the British had reached a critical stage and called for a new proposal from Britain. U.P.
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  • 94 1 Air raid scattered bandits— 2 gave up The next day, T 'on Niap Boon, a soldier in the 12th independent platoon of the Communist terrorist organisation, surrendered. The surrendered bandits. In a group of four living near i terrorist cultivation plot, scattered when a bomb hit the camp during an
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  • 21 1 SAIGON, Tues— Mr. Richard Nixon, the United States Vice President, today left Saigon for the Laotr.an capital. Reuter.
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  • 29 1 TEHERAN. Tues— Mr. Herbert Hoover, a U.S. Government oil consultant, said before leaving here for London that he was optimistic about settling the Anglo-Persian oil dispute— Reuter.
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  • 140 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. PROM London today the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer. congratulated the Ist Fijian Regiment on reaching the 100 mark in the war against the communist terrorists. The Commanding Officer was r told that General Templer was highly pleased with the
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  • 88 1 PRIVATE Hammond Gillon, now serving eight years' imprisonment in Changi Convict Prison for causing the death of dance hostess Doreen Pereira. has decided not to appeal against the sentence. He was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to n-vrder by a jury of seven,
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  • 165 1 TO HEAD 9-MAN COMMISSION SIR George Rendel. Britain's former ambassador to Belgium, who was appointed in July to head a nine man commission to review the constitution of the Colony, arrived in Singapore by BO AC Comet yesterday. Sir George told the Straits Times
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  • 44 1 NEW YORK. Tues. The United Nations Security Council decided again yesterday for the second time in two weeks to postpone discussion of the Trieste problem while direct talks between the Western powers. Italy and Yugoslavia seek a settlement. Reuter
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  • 145 1 NEW BID FOR BIG 4 TALKS LONDON, Tues. THE BRITISH Government will continue its efforts to bring about an early meeting Detween Russia Britain, the United States and France. This was announced here today by the Queen in the speech from the throne at the State opening of Parliament. The
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  • 45 1 BANGKOK, Tues. Chinese civilians near the Malayan border have pledged to help the Siamese government suppress Malayan Chinese Communists. The pledge was given to the Police General, Phao Sriyanond. during a tour of the southern provinces directing the suppression of local bandits. Reuter.
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  • 19 1 London visit PARIS Tues. -Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, will visit London on Thursday.— Reuter.
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  • 127 1 LONDON. Tues pOMMENTINO on the failure \j of the London rubber conference, the Evening Standard, in an editorial, today urged the British Government to take action against the United States "attack" on the Malayan rubber Industry. The paper said- "The rub- ber policies and programme of
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  • 125 1 FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN HARDING. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, yesterday flew to Kluang in Johore to inspect the 2nd Battalion. 6th Gurkha Rifles, of which he is Colonel. Sir John was accompanied by the General Officer Commanding 17 Gurkha Division, Major-General L. E. C.
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  • 103 1 HARDING VISITS GURKHAS IPOH, Tues THE Chief of the Imperial x General Staff, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, who is also Colonel of the 6th Gurkha Rifles, visited the unit this morning. In Kuala Lumpur. Sir Joan exchanged his red-tabbed Field-Marshal's uniform for a Colonel's pips when he visited his
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  • 237 1 UNION REJECTS OFFER A T THE END of the twoA day talks at GHQ. i'ARELF, between the War Department Civilian Staff Association and the Command Secretary on housing allowances and pay claims, the union rejected the offer of a new scheme. But the War Department has decided to implement the
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  • 32 1 JAG AN TO SEE LYTTELTON LONDON. Tnes. Dr. Cheddi Jaßan and Mr. L. P. S Burnham. deposed British Guiana Ministers to meet Colonial Secretary, Mr. Olivet Lytt.l'.on here today.— Reuter.
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  • 31 1 LONDON. Tues. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburph heard Col. Sir John Hunt describe how Mount Everest was conquered, in a lecture at thr Royal Festival Hall.— U.P.
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  • 380 2 BEER AND BETTING BOYS HERE ON THE SYDNEY In time for big race THE nations twin hobbies beer and betting were uppermost in the minds of the 1,434 officers and men of the Australian aircraft carrier Sydney when she arrived at Singapore Naval Base yesterday. Their main concern was to
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  • 115 2 AN Australian cockatoo, believed to be the only our in the country was stolen from the home of Mrs. B. Basapa in Upper Seranßoon Road, Singapore. All wTiite with a pale long beak, the bird, named Ahmat. was the best pet of the family for almost
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  • 38 2 SRINAGAR, Kashmir, Tues. India was considering the home manufacture of aero engines and tanks to reduce her dependence on foreign countries for armaments, the Indian Minister for Defence Organisations, Mr. Mahavir Tyagi, said here yesterday. Reuter.
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  • 103 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues— Delegates from the Johore Bahru Anti-Tuberculosis Association could not meet Lady Templer at the weekend to discuss simultaneous collection of funds fo r the Federal Tuberculosis Hospital at Kuala Lumpur and a sanatorium for Johore. The meeting was to have taken place
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  • 31 2 PEARL HARBOUR, Tues Gen. Vernon E. Megee is expected to arrive here from Korea about December 7 to take over as Deputy Commander of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific— A.P.
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  • 65 2 TROOPERS MEET IN S'PORE rpwo French troopships, the x Nantes and Turckeim. though they began their journeys thousands of miles apart, met in Singapore yesterday, Both ships had called here to take on water and Linkers. The 7.176-ton Nantes, with 619 French troops or. board, Ls going from Marseilles to
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  • 45 2 he is sailor AND AUTHOR BEARDED Captain Natale Petri, the new skipper of the Lloyd Triestino liner Aaia, which leaves Singapore today, is also a well-known author, for some of his technical books are now officially used by the Italian Merchant Marine. Straits Times picture.
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  • 184 2 Scheme will cost $200,000 THOUSANDS of Singapore rural residents who are A now relying solely on well water, will get piped water next year. The Rural Boards chairman. Mr E. V G. Day. told the Straits Times yesterday that water mains will be laid at
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  • 172 2 rpWENTY-STONE Aus- 1 tralian Allen Hawken has been housekeeping far 1,249 men for the past five years. Chief retty Officer Hawken, chief victualler of the aircraft carrier Sydney, has been with the ship since she was commissioned in 1948. "The men eat 320 dozen
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  • 31 2 NEW YORK, Tues— The UN. Budgetary Committee yesterday approved appropriations for economic and social affairs and for its three regional economic commissions. It approved U551,123,000 for Asia— U.P.
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  • 125 2 THE Governor, Sir John Nicoll, will open the new holiday camp at Tanah Merah Bcsar, Changi, of the Singapore Youth Council at 4.30 p.m. on Nov. 14 by nailing on the wall of the $19,000-building a teak board describing the occasion. He will
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  • 52 2 Seven Chinese armed with knives broke into a farmers hut in Chua Chu Kang Road. Singapore, yesterday morning and robbed the farmer's family of cash and valuable totalling $429. The robbers herded the BafamLly In a room and while four stood guard, the others ransacked
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  • 141 2 STUDIES WON'T BE HIT THE compulsory traininp which will be introduced when Singapore's big call-up plan begins will not keep people from their work or studies, the Defence Secretary, Mr. r R. Forsyth, told th> Straits Times yesterday. The training, he said, would be similar to what volunteers in the
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  • 75 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Penhulus and village elders met at UMNO headquarters yesterday to plan the Prophet's birthday celebrations on Nov 19.. They agreed to hold a procession of Muslims from the Government offices to the Sultan Abubakar Mosque. The procession will stop at the Supreme
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  • 48 2 TOURS. Tues— All trains between Paris and south-west France ran late ytsterday as a result of a freak storm. A whirlwind lifted the roof off a power station and dropprd it on the railway overhead electric cables. A cloud burst flooded the power station Reuter.
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  • 36 2 NEW DELHI, Tues.— Abo ;t 70 people were killed in a ciash between Abor tribesmen armed with bows and arrows and an Indian Government party, according to reports received here yesterday.— Reutor
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 87 2 Si rails Times Crossword M' W M' W 11' H' W P 8 I' J~ 10 n 20 21 22 IH~ 28 m^'" ACROSS 12. Fortune, proverbially (6) 8. A number of geese (6). 14. A plea for mercy should end 9. The new bowler did (4. 4) in a
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    • 241 2 20. Por tournament entries (3. 5). 33. He carried weight In 1792 (6>. 24. Three's company here (4). 25. He brings girls to ale (101 28. Long odds, colloquially (3. 2, 3). 29. Sounds austere, vinegary In fact (6). DOWN I. Explosive journal <B>. 2 Use your eyes, girls (4).
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  • 197 3 INDO- CHINA PEACE TALKSARE REJECTED SAIGON, Tuesday. THK Vietnam Premier, Nguyen Van Tarn, yesterday ruled out peace negotiations with the Communists until superior French Union strength proved "treason does not pay." He said that such negotiations would only discourage Allied forces. Talks of negotiations would only discourage our soldiers who
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  • 38 3 BTEWABDEBB JAIMTA Alice Rolandi, aged 33, who will be aboard the plane in which thr Qurrn and the Duke of Edinburgh will fly to Bermuda and Jamaira to start thrir Commonwealth tour. Paul Popper picture.
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  • 123 3 NEW YORK. Tues. BRITISH BOXER RAM)* TI'RPIN, recently hratrn in a fight for (he worlds middleweight championship was arrested yesterday on a charge of assaulting a Negress. The woman. pretty .AilHe Danfrls, aged 24. was described a s Turpins girl friend. Turpin pleaded not guilty
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  • 38 3 NEW DELHI Tues. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Sanders flpw here last night from Karachi during a month's tour of Commonwealth countries He is scheduled to leave Calcutta on November 7 for Singapore. -A.P
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  • 24 3 LONDON. Tups— Mr. Koirhiro Asakni. Japan's Minister in London, leaves for Tokyo this month to take up a new appointment. Reuter.
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  • 28 3 SANTA MONICA. California. Toes. Film star Grorgp San- 1 ders yesterday sued Zsa Zsa Oabor for a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. A P.
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  • 23 3 3EIRUT. Tups. President Eisenhower's special envoy in l thr Middle East. M/ Eric j Johnston, arrived here yesterday from Damascus.— A.P
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  • 22 3 LONDON Tues Sixty-flvo delegate* to the third enngress of the World Federation of Tracio Union.s arrived in Mascow today.— Reutrr.
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  • 33 3 J.__ PITTSBURGH, Tuesday. AMES DOLSEN, aarrl 68. a Cnmmunist Party writer, was srntrnrpd to 20 years' imprisonment and fined £3,570 here yesterday for violating the State's sedition law
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  • 130 3 25,000 got the death sentence BERLIN. Tues pONFIDENTIAI files of the vy former Supreme Command of the German Army discovered by East German authorities! j revealed that nearly 25.000 Ger- j man soldiers were sentenced to death in the last war by courts- j martial, the East German; newsagency ADN
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  • 34 3 WASHINGTON. Tues.-Pre-sident Eisenhower has commuted the death sentence on Tomoyoka Kajakita. JapaneseAmerican convicted in 1948 of treason. Kajakitas sentence has been i-hinged to life imprisonment ana a fine of $10.000— U.P
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  • 27 3 BRISBANE. Tues. Donald Tallon, the Australian Test cricketer. was granted a divorce because of his wife';; desertion in Brisbane Supreme Court today— Reuter.
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  • 32 3 SYDNEY, Tues. The Australian Army today offered 500 men to help fight th 6 grasshopper menace in New South Wales where wheat crops valued at about U5511,200,000 are threatened —UP.
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  • 73 3 Seven killed in ship explosion BOSTON. Tues A VIOLENT explosion shook the 4.930-ton Norwegian freighter Black Falcon yesterday, touching off -a fire which trapped a gang of long-shore-men in a hold. At least seven were killed Thirteen others were taken to hospital Earlier reports spoke of 17 feared dead. Firemen
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  • 20 3 BERLIN. Tues. An East German court has sentence.l the leader of a "spy ring" to death.— Reuter.
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  • 241 3 LONDON, Tuesday. -THE Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, said A today it was possible to conclude that the new Russian rulers were now more interested in their own domestic affairs, than external aggression. He told the House of Com- mons It was wrth this idea in
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  • 49 3 NEW YORK, Tues. Plans for the United Nations General Assembly to give its flna! approval to a full debate on United States' charges of Communist atrocities in Korea were suddenly changed last night. The Assembly itself may now debate the question in plenary session.— Reuter.
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  • 28 3 COLOMBO. Tues— Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, the Ceylonese Finance Minister, will fly to Britain tomorrow for financial talks with Government officials It was announced today. Reuter.
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  • 29 3 LUCKNOW, Tues. Demonstrators set fire to three post offices and two telephone junction boxes when the curfew imposed on Lucknow was relaxed for two hours today. —Reuter.
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  • 14 3 TEL AVIV, Tues— The first oil drilling in Israel started yesterday.— AP.
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  • 28 3 QUEEN ELIZABETH, the Queen Mother, opening Blithfield reservoir, Staffordshire. With her is Maj. A. H. S. Water, chairman of South Staffordshire waterworks. Popper picture.
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  • 185 3 LONDON, Tuesay. \|R. PETER THORNEYCROFT, President of the iTI Board of Trade, told bankers in London last night that Britain had reached a moment of great peril in the export field. Our competitive position, while it is sound, is not so strong that we can
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  • 69 3 I GUATEMALA CITY. Tues. Police fired hundreds of shots here yesterday to quell a riot outside Guatemala's new bullring when thousands were refused admittance to the cheap seats to watch Mexican comedian Cantinflas do a comic bullfight act. Eighteen people, including police were slightly
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  • 17 3 JAKARTA. Tues— The Volcanological Bureau said there were no casualties in the Krakatoa eruptions. Reuter.
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  • 226 3 LONDON, Tuea. iyf ARKETS were «g*ln basically firm here today although mm sections encountered a little profitraking. Closing prices or selected stoclu were LOANS Consols fi3 Funding 4% 100*4 War 3% 84 W BANKS Mercantile (£l2',,p 24. Hongkong ($126) 90 Eastern (£5) 7% Chartered (£1) 40 6 INMRANCK
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  • 30 3 LONDON, Nov. 3. Cash Buyers £617 V 2; Sellers £620; Forward Buyers £605: Sellers £606; Settlement £617 >/ 2 'up £2' 2 Turnover a.m. 20 tons; p.m. 35 tons.
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  • 28 3 LONDON, Nov. 3— Spot 18d. Dec. lfi'.d Jan-Mar, lfi'.d.. Apr June IB '«d.. July-Bept. 16'*d-. Nov elf. IM.. Dec c.t.f. lfid Jan elf. lfid. Tone: Easier.
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  • 142 4 A 'surrender' show by six ex-bandits SEREMBAN. Tues. SIX Seremban ex-bandits last night gave a stape show at Dangi new village in one of the State's danger areas to get all tappers, farmers and mining labourers in the area to carry a surrender message to Sui Cheong, a bandit. Sui
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  • 245 4 'The Democratic Labour Party' MORE than 700 Chinese and Indians cheered loudly in Singapore Victoria Memorial Hall last night after they formed a new political party the Democratic Labour Party. Composed mainly of former members of the Labour Party, the new organisation aims to uphold the
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  • 136 4 ALOR STAR, Tues. A SURRENDERED bandit told the Straits Times today that his main reason for leaving the jungle was to marry his finance in Kulim, South Kedah. Lo Ah Pin, a former member of the Bth Independent platoon of the Malayan Communist Party, who
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  • 56 4 Mrs. Louise Wong, a staff i nurse at Singapore's Middleton Hospital, has applied for a British Council scholarship to study for the State Registered Fever Nurse Certificate, in Britain. She also proposes to study ward administration in a fever hospital. Her application has i the support
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  • 100 4 Rural boards hints on fire prevention rpWENTY-ONE ways on how A to prevent kampong fires are given by the Singapore Rural Board in its latest newsletter. The nre prevention methods, recommended by the City Fire brigade, tell people not to leave cooking fires unattended, make rubbish fires near attap houses,
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  • 80 4 Prompt action by two volunteer special constables at the scene of a Singapore killing one night foiled the escape of V. Vadivelu, of Kuala Lumpur, the alleged murderer, it was stated at a continued preliminary inquiry in the Sixth Police Court yesterday. Vadivelu was charged before
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  • 56 4 Mr. William Mulr, an architect in the War Office, who has served as voluntary warden at Toe H. in Scotts Road. Singapore, for four years, will sail in the Chusan on home leave on Saturday. At a farewell party Toe H last night, Mr. Muir
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  • 43 4 The Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association will consider a resolution at its executive council meeting on Nov. 12, asking members not to vote for Mr. M.P.D. Nair. The resolution states that Mr. Nair had acted against the workers.
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  • 27 4 Office bearers for the Ramakrishna Mission in Pahang are: Dr. S. K. Mukherjee, president; Messrs. S. Mylvaganam and V. Ramanathan, vice-presidents: Mr. A. Chinnathamby, secretary.
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  • 88 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 7.15 Morning Star; 730 News: 7.35 Buzz Ad lam Orchestra: 8 Invitation to Music: 8.30 Malay Housewives' Corner; 8.57 Schools: 845 Close Down; 11.10 Schools: 1 Coroanut Grove Orchestra: 1.30 News; 1 45 Prom: 2 Schools; 3.10 Close Down; 5.01 Children; 5.30 Waltz Time; 6 Composer's Comer:
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  • 80 4 Candidates ror the Singapore City Council! elections in December can hold campaign meetings in public roads and places from today until December 5 The meetings must not cause obstruction in any road or street to the frep passage of persons or traffic They are to be
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    97 4 MR F. 1) GMBGH, (above) director of the Departing nt of Operations, Asia and Middle East, of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and his assistant. Mr. William Fraser. flew into Singapore from Colombo yesterday. He is here fur preliminary talks for a general economic survey with Colony and
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  • 61 4 Twenty-two University of Malaya students are now taking Chinese as their principal subject at the university the Registrar, Mr. W. D. Craig, said yesterday. They are: intermediate course seven, subsidiary (Ist Rroupi five, subsidiary (2nd group i ten. Mr. Craig was reierring to a report in a
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  • 45 4 A bus belonging to the Singapore Green Bus Company caught fire while parked at the Queen Street terminus yesterday morning. The fire, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, was put out within a few minutes by fire brigade.
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  • 39 4 Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, yesterday recorded a misadventure verdict on Yeu Yau who was knocked down by a car at thr junction of South Bridge T/i.d. Neil Road and Tanjong Pagar Road on October 3.
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  • 30 4 Officer Administering the Government of Singapore. Mr. W.A.C. Goode, will attend the Volunteer Special Constabulary shooting competition at the Police Training School, Thomson Road, at 11.30 a.m. tomorrow.
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  • 153 5 VI ORE than 23,000 people have registered in the first month of the Johore Government's intensive campaign to list state nationals. Only 9,000 had registered during the first two weeks. During the three-month campaign, mobile registration teams will visit irrfportant towns, ofToring special facilities
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  • 209 5 RITSON PAY PLAN TALKS CINGAPORE Government officials and representatives of officrrs in Divisions I, II and 111 met yesterday to discuss tho implementation of the Ritson report regarding their divisions They talked about how present salaries and allowances should be converted. The Government officials said that Division II and 111
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  • 47 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Casualies among cyclists have increased this year, said Mr. N. A. Freeborn. Officer-in-Charge of Traffic Police today The said he was alarmed at the figure of 652 casualties in the last ten months. Last year three were only 731 cyclist casulaties.
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  • 16 5 SEGAMAT, Tues. Caught selling cows milk without a licence. Athimulam, 40. was fined $30.
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  • 169 5 'JAN Bee Keng, 19, who worked for his brother in a motor car repair shop, was stopped by the police while u&ing a motor cycle left for repairs. In the Singapore First Traffic Police Court yesterday, Tan pleaded guilty to using the machine on June
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  • 61 5 A Chinese cook, waylaid by two robbers in Chatsworth Road on Monday evening, delayed removing a gold ring fiom his finger after the robbers demanded it While fingering the ring, the cook saw a car passing and shouted for help. The robbers, who had
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  • 52 5 A ceremonial parade will be held at Kuala Lipis in Pahanc on Sunday to commemorate Remembrance Day. The parade will be held at the Clifford School padang. Police, military units and scouts will take part. Muslim officers will attend a special service at the mosque immediately after
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  • 43 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Sultan of Kelantan, accompanied by the Raja Perempuan, spent today visiting remote villages to the west of the Kelantan river along the T&nah Merah-Jeli Road. It was their first visit to the villaßes bordering the highlands.
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  • 77 5 i After being ill for years, a 54-year-old woman, Lim Khim Joo, the mother of a shop proI prietor. hanged herself in the I shop at Joo Chiat Road, the Singapore Coroners Court was told yesterday. Lim's son, Cheng Hee Bak, told the Assistant Coroner, Mr
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  • 68 5 BISHOP Raymond L. Archer, Methodist Bishop for SouthEast Asia, lays the corner stone of the new $60,000--church building; at Tranquerah, Malacca, on Sunday. Looking 1 on (from left) are: Rev. V. A. Chelliah, Bisbop Clifford Northcott, representative of the Council of Bishops, who
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  • 196 5 Area was a 'black one' SEGAMAT, Tuesday. THE colonisation scheme sponsored by the Tangkak 1 branch of the United Malays National Organisation at the Genuang Malay Reservation near Segamat has failed— at least for the present. The 300 who flocked from Tangkak are today sad and
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  • 182 5 rripletsmay get Queen's Bounty MALACCA, Tues. THE face of Madam Chaw Hong Fah, 27 -year-old Perak-born mother of the first live triplets to be born in Malacca two weeks ago, beamed with joy when told today the triplets might get the Queen's Bounty. The Queen's Bounty, as given in England,
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  • 55 5 Two films The Underwater Story" and "Fish and the Seine Net"— will be shown at the Arts Theatre of the University of Malaya at Cluny Road at 8.30 p.m. on November 10 Professor A. C. Hardy of Oxford University will explain the background and purpose of
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  • 117 5 Eight years for armed robber J^ young ice-water seller, Tan Boon Cheng, was sentenced to eight years' gaol by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assizes yesterday for armed robbery at Dunearn Road on the night of March 12 Tan and another man held up 800 Kiat Chwee with a
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  • 57 5 Mrs. M. Mosse, ulm has been appointed passenger relations officer for QANTAS Empire Airways at Singapore s Kallang Airport. She was with QANTAS in the Colony from 1948 to 1950 as booking clerk and ground hostess. She then left for Britain and recently returned. Mrs. Mosse took
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  • 47 5 A special pooja and prayer serv.ee to mark Deepavali wil; be held at the Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple, Ceylon Road. Katong, at 7 a.m. on Thursday. The service will be repeated on Friday at the same time and place for North Indian Hindus.
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  • 17 5 Gifts totalling $10,750 have so far been received by the Singapore Poppy Day appeal committee.
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  • 148 5 J^OBERT Douglas Gaston told a Singapore court yesterday that he took a wall clock from a restaurant to play a jnkp on the man in charge at the time Ga-ston was accused of .str-ahnc the clock on May 30 from the office of the
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  • 45 5 IPOH, Tues.— An Indian, K. Ragavan, was robbed of $36 oy two Chinese at the Coronation Park last night. Rasavan was cycling home when he was stopped by two men. One was said to be armed with a revolver.
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    • 571 5 'how Qantas links Singapore BANGKOK an alternate route on the Kangaroo Service. c irst rcrvitp lMh November. H 1/ ADATUI .~_#^Br li Irf BANGKOK will be *n alternative port-of-cill for Qantna Constellation* oprratinfr the Kangaroo Sen ire to London in Cl Vilm>^\— paralM partnership with 8.0.A.C. Fast, twice wreklv 'service*
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 288 5 Rotary Club: Weekly luncheon meeting at Capitol Red Room 1 p.m. Speaker: Colonel F.W. Harvey of the Salvation Armv Police Band: Public performance at Farrer Park 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Singapore Hello C.irK (Inn: G.ila ball at Raffles Hotel, Beach Road. 8 30 p.m. Tickets: $5 per couple. SI.
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  • 26 6 20 WordM flO (minimum) WILLIAM JOHN BERRY, becurIty Officer. Ulu Remi* Estate ion Palms or Malaya Ltd.) killed by terrorists Nov. 2nd. 1953. Age 32.
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  • 33 6 20 Wordi tie (minimum) MR. LAM JOON SHU and family thank friends and relatives for help, wreaths, scrolls, night visits and attending the funeral of the late Madam Ng Loy Nionp yesterday.
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  • 232 6 14 Wnri, $10 (minimum) WANTED: Good homes for aaH and dogs. Phone R.S.P.C.A.. *****. SALE AT Mulchand's, 82-1. Bras Basah Road. Your Season's Frocks at reduced price. DORIS GEDDES. E. A O. Hotel, Penang. Suite 212. Open all day Thursday and Friday. BOOK TODAY for this years most thrilling
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  • The Straits Times
    • 687 6 Is Singapore happy about its hospitals? Many of the doctors apparently are not and they are n a better position than the Press— .v'lich is gently criticised in the Proceedings of the Alumni Association (Malaya) vo say what is wrong. In his presidential address to the Association,
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    • 323 6 The evacuation from Burma of 2,000 Chinese Nationalist troops, which is to begin next veek. will still leave 12,000 guerrillas in the frontier regions, but at least it is evidence of Formosa's desire to comply with the Burmese Government's request. While the Nationalist regime h morally responsible for
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    • 244 6 Disappointment at the outcome of the Rubber Study Group conference has attracted in one section of the London Press somewhat bitter comment on the American attitude. American unwillingness to reconsider the price of synthetic certainly is to be regretted, and is difficult to defend. But outright attack on
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  • 805 6  -  ANTONY TERRY ■By MOSCOW'S SECRECY MANIA IS WORTH MILLIONS TO THEM HARRY LIME, the famous black-market and spy king of Vienna's half world will have to look to his laurels. His German cousin, Hans Lime, looks like stealing the limelight from the Third Man
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  • 473 6 Rice riots likely in Japan ■THE Japan Communist A Party is organising a campaign to foment rice riots. According to Informed s ul ;ces the party has ordered Its lower echelons to incite urban dwellers to demand more rice rations while at the same time Its rural ork w»'l urge
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  • 492 6 LETTERS WILL BE FOUND IN PAGE 8 A PURGE has been carried out in the Indonesian Communist Party. The new secre-tary-general is now Aidit, up till now an unimportant figure who. however, considered an obedient cool of Moscow, which he recently visited. And now
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  • 496 6 Jobs needed WE ALL know something, even though the littlp may be garbled and far from thorough, about the work of I Singapore Ant i-Tuberculosis Association and its &?X\ mainly through the Royar Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic. against the most devastatinc of all diseases in these modern times.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 670 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. 20 Words tit (minimum) GARDNER: To Jo. wife of Kenneth Oardner, at Bungsar. on 2.11.53. a daughter, Patricia Margaret. TO Ann Catherine (nee Gla.'s). wife Of C. J. L. Elwell. on Nov. 2nd. at the K.K. Hospital, a (laughter. Sellna Ann. SITUATIONS VACANT 20 KitiK 5j (Min.)—Box 50
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    • 34 6 HOHNER BRINGS HAPPINESS! WHEREVER YOU ARE. Hohner Harmonicas can be purchased from $2.50 each and upwards. Catalogues on application. From all Good Stores, or, T. M. A. LTD., 61 63. High Street, Singapore. 6.
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    • 64 6 1 morTP" f HERRINGS FRESX or TOMATO SAUCE AGENTS C& E MORTON (MAUYA) LTD. 1 Singapore Kuala I.umpur Penang FEDERATION AIR SERVICE' SCHEDULED SERVICE: Between Kuala Lumpur, Bentong, Benta, Temerloh. Jenderata. Sitiawan, Ipoh, Kuantan, Trengganu Keta Bharu, Malacca. Batu Pahat, Kluang, Johore Bharu. Dungun. Mersing Segamat. Bidor, Singapore. Charter Rates
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  • 330 7 Colony gets big gift of school equipment from Australia SINGAPORE will soon receive as a gift from Australia equipment for the Junior Technical School worth £8,000, said Mr. C. C. Tan on his return yesterday from the Colombo Plan conference in New Delhi. Although the cost of the equipment is
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  • 91 7 2 were out of harmony —no answer I TWO-MAN sub-Cor-n mittec. which voted in opposite directions, left thp Singapore City Council with a poser whose report should it accept Council decided that thp best way was to have the problem considered all over again by a full committee. The problem
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  • 48 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Rasanayagam, of Kulai. was lined $20 for assaulting Vythinjlam. When the two men were \&ked by the Magistrate to try *nd settle the matter out of Court Vythinglam said 'every iay he is troubling me so J cannot settle the matter."
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  • 68 7 Indonesian Consul-General, Dr. Mohamed Razif, will open an exhibition of paintings of Bali at the British Council Hall in Stamford Road at 5.30 p.m. on Friday. The paintings are by four Chinese artists Liv Kang. Chen Chong Swee, Chen Wen Hsi and Cheong Soo Peing. The
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  • 48 7 Sarawak Government proposes to abolish the post of Shipping; Master from March 2 next year. A Bill will be Introduced in the Council Negri shortly to substitute the Governor-in-Council. in place of Shipping Master, as the authority to make regulations under the law.
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  • 31 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Muar-Parit Sulong Road in Johore was Hooded 16 Inches at the 92nd mile and 13 Inches at the 93rd mile this morning The water was rising.
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  • 390 7 Lim Bo Seng— 'He died for Malaya' MEMORIAL TO GREA T PA TRIOT VINE years ago Major-General Lim Bo Seng, the Singapore businessman who led Chinese guerillas of Force 136 against the Japanese army in Malaya, was betrayed to the Kempeitai. He was tortured until he died in Batu Oajah
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  • 151 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. UNILEVER has great faith in the future of Malaya, said Mr. Sidney Van Den Bergh. director of the firm, who has come from London for a company conference. •We would not invest $12,000,--000 on our Kuala Lumpur factory if we think
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  • 34 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Mrs. Charlotte Ross pleaded not guilty in the Police Court to failing to obtain an identity card within the specified time and was allowed $250 bail until Nov. 25.
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  • 66 7 BIRDS NEST soup is an expensive delicacy in Malaya This may help to explain why. The Sarawak Government has fixed the value of birds nests, for the purpose of levying duties as $86.25 (white) a kati; $539.45 (hlark) a pikul: and $242.45 (Mark unrleaned).
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  • 116 7 FORUM TO DISCUSS POLITICS A FORUM to discuss current and political events has been formed by the 15,000-member j Johore Civil Servants Association. At its first meeting on Sunday, i. will discuss whether the demand for Federal Legislative Council elections in 1954 is reasonable. To .sr.imulate thr interest of Government
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  • 43 7 A 25-year-old labourer. Tan Srnc Moi, wn.s fatally Injured at a store in Bukit Timah Road. Singapore yesterday whilr starkine bacs of cement. Thp stack slipped and fell on him. He died shortly after beinp I admitted into hospital.
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  • 18 7 Chew Ah Hai, a lorry driver i was fined $50 in Sineapore yesterday for attempted suicide.
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  • 129 7 Prayers for war dead by all religions MUSLIM. Buddhist. Hindu, Jewish and Christian prayers for the war dead will be said during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Singapore Cenotaph on Sunday morning. Detachments from the ExServices Association. Royal Navy, Royal Malayan Navy, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Army, Singapore
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  • 87 7 rkNG POH wore three hats at Gate 4, Singapore Harbour Board, on Nov. 2. one over the other. Making a check, the police found two pellets of opium inside the top hat. Ong pleaded guilty to a charcr of having the opium
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  • 58 7 Seventh Singapore Company, the Boys' Brigade, will hold its 12th annual inspection and display in the War Memorial Hall of St. Andrews Cathedral at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Inspecting officer will be the Rev. G. M. R. Bennett. The Archdeacon of Singapore, the Rev. Robin Woods, will
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  • 29 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Found gambling In a coffee shop, Ibrahim bin All, Hassan bin Ahmad and Yee Thlan Seng, were each fined $2 in the Police Court.
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  • 52 7 A burglar broke into a room in New Market Road. Singapore, on Monday night and ransacked a wardrobe while the occupants, Chua Slew Yong and her six children were sleeping. He made off with nine $100 nctes, four wristwatches valued at $552, and a pair
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  • 104 7 A YOUNG Chinese woman escaped from custody at noon yesterday, two hours after she had been charted with vagrancy in the Singapore Fourth Police Court. She slipped away while in the Social Welfare Department in llavelock Road, where she had been sent by the
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  • 168 7 Family control H.Q. here SINGAPORE will be the headquarters of the Western Pacific region of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Dr. Mrs. i R. J. Grove-White, medical director of the Singapore Family Planning Association, said yesterday. Dr. Grove-White has just returned from the fourth international congress of the federation held
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  • 41 7 Loh Tian Kwong was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in Singapore yesterday for stealing a pen belonging to Rangasamy In a bus on Aug. lft The sentence is to be followed by two years' police supervision
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  • 33 7 A length of 300 feet of Rediffusion wire was stolen in Lorong 17. Geylang Road, Singapore, yesterday. This was the third theft of its kind In the area within 10 days.
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  • 27 7 Two Chinese and a Malay robbed a Chinese taxi driver in Paya Lebar Road, Singapore, at 3 a.m. yesterday, of a wristwatch and ignition key.
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  • 204 7 Engineer fined $200 for dangerous driving A CASE of bad driving by Ernest Fotheringham, a civilian aviation engineer, resulting In the car being overturned while negotiating a bend, was deycribed in a Singapore court yesterday when Fotheringham pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. Insp. Rahmln bin Embi, prosecuting, told the Becond
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  • 145 7 SIDNEY Galistan. a surveyor in the Singapore Improvement Trust, was yesterday ordered by the Singapore Fifth Police Magistrate to sign a bond to be of good behaviour in the sum or $50 for a period of six months It was stated that Galistan caused
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  • 79 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rE Government today announced that new schemes to settle Southern Indians on suitable non-reserved state or crown land are being considered. The Labour offices in most States and Settlements have been em lowered to help any Southern Indian who wants to settle in
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  • 47 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Mr. H. M. Cantrell, of the Customs Department, has returned from leave. He is now stationed In Prai as Deputy Comptroller of Customs. Mr. Cantrel] while In Johore Bahru before going on leave, organised the Rugby Referees j Board, Singapore.
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  • 306 7 RUBBER PRICE DROP SLOWS UP REPLANTING KIALA LrMPI'R. Tuesday. RUBBER replanting on estates in Malaya has come to a near standstill, Mr. H. A. Campbell, chairman of the Rubber Producers* Council, said today. "This is due to the uneconomic price of the commodity. Unless we have immediate relief, the position
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  • 73 7 U.S. women's leader to tour Malaya Mrs. Roger Low Bacon, wellknown women's leader in the United States, will arrive in Singapore from Saigon tonight for a five-day visit to Malaya. She Will call on the Commis-sioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. for informal talks and will leavp for Kuala Lumpur on
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  • 26 7 IPOH. Tues.— The Catholic Welfare Services have opened a new branch in Alor Star, Kedah. under the charge ol the Rev. Father Mourgue
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 113 7 Q)\\ Mars Unique combination of full-cream milk chocolate, layer of buttery flavoured caramel #nd creamy centre of chocolate malted milk, cream-whipped in white of egg Best selling chocolate coated candy bar in the world! Wonderful for the children! ANOTHER SWEET TREAT BY MARS. THE EASTERN AGENCIES (1946) LTD. Iroodtoood By
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    • 72 7 BALLY SHOES New selection just opened. Morning, Afternoon and Evening Shoes in all the latest styles and colours American sizes to 9£ English sizes 2 to 8 Prices from $35/THE STORE WITH A TO OFFER H RAFFLES HOTEL ?5 FOR EXCLUSIVE CUISINE SERVICE g 55 dine tonight in the air-conditioned
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 146 7 The Weather Minimum temperature (7.30 p.m. on Nov. 2 to 7.30 a in. on Nov. 3>: Singapore 72 degrees, Penang 76. Kota Bahru 74, Kuala Lumpur 71. Ipoh 73, Kuantan 73. Maximum temperature (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Nov. >3k Singapore 85. Penanp, 88. Kota Bahru 88. Kuala Lumpur
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  • Man-in-the Street
    • 831 8 HA VE TWO PAPERS AB USED FREEDOM? I SEE that some of your readers have been shocked by the public demonstration of the United Malay National Organisation in making a funeral I pyre of Qalam and 1 Warta. I see nothing strange in Tungku Abdul Rahman's action. Other political parties
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    • 177 8 liriTH reference to a report VI that three lar^e pieces of land at Kirn Seng Road, Thomson Road (between sth and 6th mile) and Prince of Wales Road have been earmarked as building sites, would the authorities please enlighten the public on the following points: Will
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    • 150 8 TO alleviate the present X shortage of trained teachers, here are some suggestions which in no way would lower the standard of teaching 1 Give a chance to the final year students who are referred in one subject to appear for reexamination after three or six months. 2
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    • 115 8 I^OT "The Deep Blue Sea" for Singapore, please. Even superb acting could not lift that play above the sordid, and the morbid even though written by "French Without Tears" Rattlgan. This may not be Tynan"* opinion, but it was the opinion of many who saw it in
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    • 293 8 'Battle not vital 9 I WAS amazed to read the I story In the Straits Times "Trap that almost lost the war" and I simply cannot believe that U.S. Admiral Leahy said: "We didn't lose the war for that but I don't know why we didn't. I was afraid we
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    • 250 8 Banking idea for Malaya ifHE new bank charges) are too high. Malaya could try one of j the cheapest and most efficient banking systems which can be found in The Netherlands. It is run by the postal services, and is called the "Post cheque and Giro Dienst", Giro for short.
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    • 283 8 \yiTH reference to the vexed question of the derivation of the word Kllng a few remarks which I have gleaned recently from writings in 1821 by J. Crawfurd may be of interest. The writer, who was an authority on the East Indies, called at Penang on his voyage
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    • 196 8 RESPONSIBILITY for the present fly and mosquito "population" rests with the rural board and not with the city. I have had the clearest > evidence that If the City i Council's officers were in charge the nuisance would have long .since ceased. Unfortunately the flies and
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 243 8 A 145, 4,6.30,9.30 £-t ,^m^^^M^^^t'MMMßMm^^Ml^MM^MlMMMMlM^^MMM]^^^KKfr+ SIPUT SARAWAK Tomorrow 9a.m. "THE CORSICAN BROTHERS NEXT CWAISGE BEST -V^.OF ALL THE TARZANS! (V^ftfr Th« $cre«n thunders with 4^t a $tam P e le ACTION! P RAMLEI SIAPA SAIAtF# KUALA LUMPUR JOHORE BAHRU i> Hindustan Theatre Broadway Theatre sth Day Of Full Houses! 7th
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    • 405 8 Ow. CATHAY ORGANISATION -^Hgfr ATTRACTIONS 5 SHOWS "°*tfftXH7lY UAM.-t.45 w w w a r\r\ Hi >*ii Jv H I __jm§ I I I Alt fi 4 S DAILY! &hUh 5. iJjuLJL 930PM GET INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT FROM TODAY FOR FUiN... SONGS.... AND LAUGHTER! ...when M.P.s Bob M V--' v
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  • 1860 9 -TOMORROW— ALFRED BEIT, German who cornered j diamond market 1 lI X w;is born on November 12, 18H<>, in the village of Chovhiing. His father was Sun Tao-cfauan, a middle-aged and respectable fanner, and liis mother a country woman
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 234 9 For every type of toilet brush, say. 'HALEX 9 J o n v \xM V lt d Quy^ yy THE HALEX TOOTHBRISP Th tnotnß in """"dated' ta VV^^^'^aaP^ t\m\* and Irrtk frnm s£& Jr nrrdlrm •mlrhr*. The raaa prolrrt« it ami krrp* it clean. HAI.F.X Tl FTS DOVT COMT '\-l'!f1
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 381 9 Sill AHA HI 1 V 10,11 IS A reign of terror began in the city when the Sultan Parents with young and beautiful Shahriar began to fulfil his terrible oath, marrying a new daughters fled from the city, or hid Hie wife each day and having her beheaded the next
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  • 595 10 The Straits Times Wednesday, November 4, 1953 Around the markets TIN JUMPS, RUBBER FALLS THE Singapore share market yesterday continued very dull and the volume of business written wa; the smallest for any day this year. There was practically no interest shown in any section by
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  • 17 10 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was derlared at $307 a picul. up 54.12J..
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  • 153 10 MELBOURNE. Tue.~ OHARE prices were steady in t busier market on the Sydne\ Stock Exchange today. The Melbourne exchange was closed, being Melbourne Cup day. '.nuns were quieter with prices mostly firm. Closing prices of selected stork, today compared with Monday were Loan 3.., 1955-59 £94 2 6d
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  • 133 10 NEW YORK. Tues VITITH inv'stnrs inclined to err-. phnsise favourable factors lif the business picture the Stocfc market yesterday moved to new high ground for the current recovery effort. While the volume was somewhat reduced the list managed to register a predominance of mostly fractional advances. In the
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  • 72 10 Singapnrr Chinese Prnriurr F\rhange: Noon prices per plcul were: Copra: steady: November $37'buyers. $37 i sellers; December $37-.. buyers $37 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: $61 sellers. Pepper: quiet, no business repoiTed: All varieties down $5: Muntnl; white »340. Sarawak $335, Lamponc black $305. Lewis and Peat: Closing prices
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  • 107 10 CHIPS lying alongside the Sines- pore Harbour Boaid wharves or expected today are: Veithav 1/2, Lebak 3. Bali 4/S Fernsea C.P., Benreoch 6/7, Steel Traveller 8/9. Benvenue 11. Calchas 13/14. Olenartney 15/16. Mentor 1R Hal Hlng 19/20. Mawal N. Wall 4. Tung Song N. Wall 6. Beluru 21/22.
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  • 37 10 On trie free exchange market In Hong Kong yesterday the U.S. dollar was quoted at 5.***** for cash and 5.9575 for TT. Sterling was quoted at 15.77 and one tael of gold at i 258.1.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 1017 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS JUNIOR Technical Assistant*. TECHNICAL. Assistants (Civil Telecommunication* Department, and Electrical Engineering i Public Singapore. Salary Scale: Time- Works Department, Singapore, •cale: $60 x 6 72 90 Exam, salary scale $336 12A 444 Bar 96 x 6 x 150 Efflclencv Bar bar 462 18A 552 p.m. plus
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    • 286 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS VACANCIES exist In the Office of the Chief Architect. P.W.D.. Singapore, for eighteen Technicians (Architectural Draughtsmen. Salary Scale: $90 6A 114 B 156 12A 25J B 264 12A 360 with current allowances. Total emoluments at present range from $146.25 p.m. with annual Increments to $570 p.m. In addition
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    • 437 10 NOTICES REWARD A REWARD of $500 will be paid for information leading to the re--1 rovery of the bracelet described i I hereunder. which was lost between 11.00 and 11.30 p.m. on 27th October, 1953: between Pierce Road and West Coronation Road, Singapore. One Platinum Diamond Bracelet containing 135 Diamond
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    • 725 10 NOTICES KLANG RIVER TIN DREDGING COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE is hereby given that the Directors have declared an Interim Dividend. No. 60, of 15 cents per share, leas Malayan Income Tax 30%, In respect of the year end ing 31st March, 1954, such dividend will
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    • 810 10 TENDERS 1 TENDERS for the removal of corpses to the Mortuary for tne period Ist January, 1954. to 31st December. 1954. will be received »t fJie Office of the Colonial Secretary. Slncapor. up to VI noon on tlie 21st November. 1»53. Further details may be obtains at Police Headquarters. Pearl's
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    • 137 10 MITSUI |5} LINE EASTBOUNO ROUND THE WORLD SERVICE Europe Penanf Sinqopore Hong Ken« Japan C.F. SHARP 6c CO., (M) LTD. UNION BUILDING. SINGAPORE TEL: 5396-7-S, ***** THE EASTERN SHIPPING CORPORATION LIMITED Accepting PasM-ncer* and Cargo To: P. Bw«ttenham. Penang. Negapattlnam Madras S.S. "JALAfIOPAL" Singapore Port Swettenham Penang Arming 13 11-53
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 1631 11 T.i 2412 MANSFIELD tic CO., LTD. mm 'rWB? (Irxoinoroted m Singapore) AM BLUB FUNNEL UNB Ot u Carriers' option to proceed vie other ports to lead and discharge cargo SAILINGS te LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON ft CONTINtNTAL PORTS Due Soils P. Shorn Penang *tTSJS "tT^.^ffT. C»/14 N.v. 4 Nov. 5/ 4
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    • 1039 11 Hu B '^B _^V ~^mt flvA *fma x^^mm mmx &^mm Wmma mm k EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/U K /CONTINENT Spore P. S'-hom Penang "Meenie" tor Bangkok 10/11 Nev. 9/ 9 Nev. B Nor. 'Poona" for Melbourne, Sydney, Port Kembla (not loading locol cargo 11/14 Nev. 10/11 Nev. f
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    • 1113 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to 'U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS S'pora P. S'hom Penong Benreoch for Havre. London, Hull, Rotterdam G. 4/7 4/7 Nev. B/ 9 Nev. Benvenue for Liverpool. Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg G. 10 7/ B Nev. 9/10 Nev. lenlomond for Avonmouth, London, Rotterdam, Newcastle 10/14 Nay. 11/14 Nay.
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    • 1316 11 McALISTER 6c CO., LTD. TU: No. 5906 ELLERKAN <Sc BUCKNALL KL.AVENFSS LINE LONDON. HAVRE, ROTTeRDAM, LOS ANGELES. SAN FRANCISCO, HAMBURG ft HULL PORTLAND, SEATTLE ft VANCOUVER ond for U.S.A., North Atlantic Ports Accepting cargo for Central ft South and Canada via Colombo American Parts CITY OF OXFORD ms. CASTLEVILLE S'poia
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      755 12 FOUR Scout* find a treasure map. showing a forgotten city somewhere in Borneo. They journey there and begin the search only to be captured by three man in armour who take them to an underground river. The boat hat just shot into the open. Now read on. Dazzling
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    • 172 12 3 BOOKS ABOUT ARCHIE I WONDER hew many of you listen to the BBC radio md follow the escapades of Archi«< Andrews. To those who don't know, I will explain just who Archie is Once there was a little boy called Peter Brough and he had a favourite toy with
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    • 257 12 Pen pals wanted again I HAVE a long list of boys and girls wanting pen pals. Here are a few names and addresses of those who have been waiting longest. David Tan Ah Seng. 132-B Lavender Street, Singapore. Hobbies; Swimming, badminton, radio and reading. Boy aged 17. Rommel Josef, St.
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    • 381 12 MORE STAMP TALK r\NCE again another very U successful stamp exhibition has just been concluded The Singapore Stamp Club are to be congratulated on their very fine show. It certainly drew the enthusiasts and the curious, and a steadily packed hall was the order of the dry. Congratulations to atl
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    • 439 12 Dear Boys and Girls, There were many excellent entries for the "Painting Contest" > and you will notice that the winners of the first, second and third pr;ies are all girls. Here are the names and addresses of the suecestful entrants. First Priz* Rosaline
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 279 12 It's good to grow up in 'Viyella 9 •■•'•'l v*. K. l1» Viyella' is the fabric for growing families .always soft and light, 'Viyella' positively thrives on washing (note the famous guarantee) day and i >n son^M^i night wear Viyella JF IT SHRINKS WE REPLACE 'OvdrHa' it also made b\
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    • 105 12 A puzzle for you H ERE Pussle for you to fry on your friends Ask them if they can add j eight eight's and make a thousand. Of course they will look very pussled. This is how you do it. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1000 UAVE you
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    • 6 12 WELL, WHY DON'T YOU SAY SOMETHING?
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    • 220 12 [DO yOU OTHCR fEUQMS LIKCa?] BB\f U T ABOUT you reo... TJ |P^^ SIRVIM6 IT TQHIGH Tf .^%J| 1?% J \jA 0N T J Soo^ OX/NX J Be bright, drink Mllo. morning. noon jnd night. Milo gives o iV'".,« valuable vitamins and nourish- >^"^*if^ 0 T ment to one and
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  • 198 13 ALF RAMSEY DROPPED BY ENGLAND LONDON, Tues. ENGLAND have made four changes, three in personnel and one positional, from the team which drew with the FIFA side last month in choosing the side to meet Ireland at Ooodison Park, (Everton) on Nov. 11. The only new "cap" is Stan Rlckaby.
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  • 71 13 rjiHREE schoolboys are lnX eluded in the Singapore All Blues rugby team to play Singapore Cricket Club "A" on the padang today. They are Robert Urn (Victoria School). Eng Son and Ronald Tan (both St Andrews) The full team is: Hardial Singh; Chin Bin. William Fung.
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  • 383 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. (SINGAPORE and Perak are joint favourites for championship honours in the hockey quadrangular tournament at Kuala Lumpur this week-end between Singapore, Perak, Negri Sembilan and Selangor. Singapore will undoubtedly go all out to retrieve their prestige as champions, a title they
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    40 13 THE first three in the "Mr. Selangor" contest held at the Selangor Chenwu stadium, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday. In the centre is Herman Gob, the winner. On the right ia Leong Slew Hon (second) and Mustapha (third). Straits Times picture.
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  • 53 13 LONDON, Tues. Three Americans are among 15 players entered for the world professional Indoor tennis championships here this month They are former Wimbledon champions Don Budge, Bobby Riggs and Richard Oonzales. Frank Sedgman, of Australia, who turned professional after winning the 1952 Wimbledon singles title, will
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  • 26 13 LONDON. Tues. Chelsea beat West Ham United by one goal to nil in a semi-final tie of the London Challenge Cup yesterday. A.P.
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  • 21 13 LONDON. Tues. Yesterday's rugby union results w*re: Northampton 22, Cardiff 9; University College (Dublin) 2G Ebbw Vale 14.— Reuter.
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  • 25 13 MELBOURNE. Tues. Former Australian bantamweight champion. Young Regan, gained a olear-cut points win in his bout with Rle Padernal over 12 rounds here.
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  • 139 13 SELANGOR H.A. TOUR FUND IS STILL SHORT KUALA LUMPUR Tne*. CELANGOR Hockey Association are still $2,000 short in connection with their share of the rxprnses towards the Indian Hockey Federation visit In February, 1954. The S.H.A. hopes to make np the deficit «t the Inter-State horkey quadrangular this weekend. Mr.
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  • 165 13 MELBOURNE, Tues. HISTORY was made here I today when the first three horses in the £11,200 Melbourne Cup, run over two miles at Flemlngton, repeated their battle of the recent Caulneld Cup, first leg of the "Spring double." Today Wodalla won from Most Regal, with
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  • 296 13 rpHE Singapore Cycle Racing Association's season comes to an end with a "Tour ot Singapore" road race over a 58-mile course on Sunday at 6.30 a.m. It Is 14 years since a race of thus type was held in the Colony. The "Tour of Singapore"—
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  • 608 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By KUALA i.i m pi it. Tuesday. 'THE MAIN training track at Kuala Lumpur was 1 closed this morning following very heavy rain during the night, but the outer strip of the main track was used for strong pace work while slow work
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  • 725 14 Civilians make it three in a row Civilians 4; Services 0. CINGAPORE CIVILIANS scored their third successive victory over Services in the annual hockey match for the Poppy Day Fund played on the Singapore Cricket Club padang yesterday. The score of 4 o was
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  • 208 14 rIE Singapore Hockey Association's league committee has received a protest from a third division team over a disputed goal in a league fixture last WCCIt. The protest— the second so far this season— came from the Singapore Harbour Board police S.C. who want a replay
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  • 38 14 Woodbrtdge Hospital were given a walk-over by Medical Si Health S.C. In a Coronation Cup tie at Parrer Park yesterday. In a friendly match at Farrer Park. Tampenis Rovers beat City Council Water Dept 4-1.
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  • 297 14 FIRST DIVISION MORE SPORT P. 13 tr r* LJ it r p SRC Reds 8 6 2 24 13 12 Indian Assn 9 5 2 2 18 15 12 Ceylon B.C. 8 4 3 1 14 9 11 Police 7 4 1 2 13 8 9 S.C.R.C. 8
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  • 35 14 Singapore Harbour Board Recreation Club and RAF Tengah drew 4-4 in their BHA Dlv. 3 game at Keppel Road yesterday. Scorers for SHB Rets were santok Singh (3) and L. O. Valberg.
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    44 14 A shot at iroal by Lt. Withers, Services centre forward (not in picture) has Pillai stretched out to save. Com in bark to rover up are Banb ridge (nearest carrera), Ajit Singh. Pennefather. and Fernando— an incident in th* second half of yesterday's hockey.
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  • 178 14 BOTH teams in the Poppy Day Fund- match yesterday were not at full strength. Services were without Capt. F. O. Reynolds, who pulled his muscle again when giving himself a try-out on Sunday. Reynolds will not be going up to K.L. for the
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  • 195 14 DENTALs beat Medicals by 13 points (two goals, dropped goal) to all in the annual inter-faculty rugger match played at Sepoy Lines yesterday. This was Dentals' second consecutive victory in this series. All the scoring was done in the last ten minutes. Yap Khin
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  • 39 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. The East Johore Rugby Football Club, whose headquaters are at Kota Tinggl. will play their first Interdistrict match of the season on Thursday, when they travel to Johore Bahru to meet South Johore.
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  • 33 14 Indian Recreation Club beat R.E.M.E. 4-1 in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. IRC. scorers were Nadarjah i 2). M. I. Osman and Loganathan. REME's scorer was Mclvor.
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  • 395 14 Tired, but SaintsXV keep on winning CT. ANDREWS SCHOOL. after their hard-earn-ed win at rugger against. O;d Boys on Monday, werr not the force they were Ufji their match against Raflles Institution XV at Wix>dsville yesterday, but. they did enough to win by 11 points (goal. try. penalty) to six
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    • 134 14 HOCKEY SHA League. Dlv. 1: I nn-rr.itT v RAF hanci. University ground; BCRC v. GHQ. Farelf. Tanclln. Dlt. 2: Iniinsiiv 'A' v. R.M Navy, I'nivrrsitt ground: RAF Chanel B v. REME. Chang!. Friendly: S.R.C. v. Royal Navy S.R.C. psdanc: Indian Assn. v. Medical Services I'nlon. I A ground. RUGGfR RAF
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