The Straits Times, 7 December 1953

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  • 15 1 The Straits Times Nat**"" 1 tie***** Established 1845 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 275 1 'Operation Sword 9 knocks out 59 bandits KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. OPERATION "Sword", which began on July 22 in the Bonffsu area of south Kedah and is <till tfoinji on, may prove to be one of the most Micci'ssful drives ever launched against terrorists in Malaya, an
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  • 194 1 yy>l)\Y the Straits X Tim's Ik ins another :E «>f its fast-inatini; wriea r ~of dail\ word puzzles 2 I ii h day this week one of E these puzzles will apprar. E E All jtoh have •<> do is lo Till in the missini;
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  • 86 1 4 JETS CRASH IS TRAINING: PILOTS DIE ATLANTA. Georgia, Sun Four F-86 Thuncierjet fighter bombers crashed in a sparsely .sett lei area near here on their return on a training r.i-h* from Miami. Florida, early todny. The jour pilots were killed The slngle-englm rri without radio warning or other indication
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  • 47 1 TOKYO. Sun. Japan will Import 1,600.000 tons oj rtc« in t.h% 1054 rice period i November ios:i to October 1054. accordlnc i" the Agriculture ;md Foro try Mir Tlv' ministry intends to purchase from Burma 300.000 long and Irom Siatn 50(1.000 tons
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  • 224 1 SEREMBAN. Sunday. rpHREE Special Constables were injured, two serious- ly, when 20 terrorists ambushed two police vehicles near Bahau, Neeri Sembilanyesterday. Four terrorists WCTB woundcd. but were carried away oy the sane. A police GMC. in which were a Police Lieutenant and four Special Constables,
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  • 115 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun FIVE mpre terrorists have been killed A patrol "f the 3rd Ifn The Malay mmment. accounted for three in the Kunlii Krai district <>l Kelantan yesterday afternoon. Two others escaped A Stcn sun rifle arenadc ammunition and clothing were recovered A combined Policc-Hrme
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  • 48 1 ABOARD THE GOTHIC. 1 Sun. The Queen watched the Duke of Edinburgh play decK hockey wWh members of the! I Royal household on the Rames i deck of the Gothic yesterday. The Gothic is now passing through overcast weather in the southern Pacific— Reuter.
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  • 51 1 LONDON. Sun. The government will face a determined Labour challenge in the House of Commons tomorrow on its recent decision to suspend the i constitution of British Guiana The Labour opposition will press a motion asking the Queen to quash the Government action announced on October 9—
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  • 34 1 CELLE Germany. Sun. Thirteen young German Communists w» re sentenced on Saturday to from one month'i to one year's imprisonment for participating: in an under--1 ground movement afatiwi the West German Gnvernment.
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    21 1 THE DRIVER of this car escaped with slight injuries when the vehirlp skidded off a road in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 244 1 Bankrupt says he invented synthetic ITIGHTY-YEAR-OLD Edward Haliord Stranße walked into a bankruptcy court :n England and said: "I am the man who gave the worio synthetic rubber— that is why I am not bowed with shame at having to appear here Edward Strange. MSc. ana lecturer in chemistry at
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  • 263 1 GENEVA, Sunday. A NEW range of minimum and maximum prices for tin to be written into a draft international tin agreement have been sent to governments for study over the weekend. This new range extends the margin between the minimum and maximum
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    57 1 lOIR MEMBERS of the K.A.I 1 Regiment (Malaya) who have received commissions while training in Britain. They are: Ahmad Shah uin Hashim of Telok Bulang P ilium. Ahdul Aziz bin ll.in I- m.ii i of Kuala Lumpur; Wan Sulaiman bin Wan Ibrahim of Parit Jawa. Mv ir ikl
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  • 208 1 McCarthy seeks showdown WASHINGTON Sun. SENATOR Joseph McCarthy O appeared today to be moving towards showdown with President Eisenhower in their fight over foreign Dolicv and the Communists In thp Government His latest call over the President s head to the American Dublic U send letter* and telr-Riams to force
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  • 39 1 KARLSRUHE. Sun. The West German Supreme Federal Court here yesterday confirmed sentences of between six and eight months gaol imposed on six members of the banned Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich party by a Hamburg court last February.— Reuter.
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  • 35 1 1 PORT SAID. Sun. A British I ship yesterday landed 24 police doRS at Port Said. They were taken to British camps without passing the quarantine inspection, the Port authorities said.— A.P.
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  • 29 1 NEW YORK. Sun. Representative Charles Krrsten i Republican- Wisconsin* said •the House Baltic committee may ask the Government to demand Russia qu-it Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia.— A.P.
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  • 150 1 Dozing Arab pirates get 'nipped in the bunk' LONDON. Sun. BRITISH sailors slipped silently aboard an Arabian sailing vrssrl in a midnight swoop on a srerrt piratr hide-out and roundrd up a crew of sra bandits still in thrir hunks, thr British Ad- miraltv announcrl last night. Thr dramatic raid,
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  • 329 1 'Cold-blooded' Killer guilty but insane JOHORK KAHIir, Sunday. A "QUIET MAN" was said in the Supreme Court here today to have committed the most coldblooded murder in the history of Malayan crime. In the dock was William Kung Chin Lowe, a clerk, accused to killine C. Sankaran Nair on September
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  • 143 1 U.N. to put off Korea debate NEW YORK, Sun. THE Political Committee oi the United Nations General Assembly is expected to agree tomorrow on defering a rebate on Korea and thus Dave the way for the present Ajsfmblv session to wind up this week. Tuesday is the tentative target date
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  • 33 1 ROME Sun.— Pamela Martin ot Chicago touched down at Rome's Ciampine airport on scheduled time last night on what she hopes will be a re-cord-breaking trip around the world -U P
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  • 16 1 HONG KONG. faun— S:r Alexander Grantham. Governor of Hong Kong, arrived from Singapore today
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  • 76 1 EXTRA.... EXTRA EXTRA NEW YORK Sunday. NEW YORKERS, who are now without newspapers, becau.se of the strike ran to Kaufman's newsstand at Third Avenue and 42nd Street last night when he .shouted "extra and held up a copy of the New York Times, with a banner headline. The headline read:
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  • 111 2 CLEAN SWEEP FOR UMNO-MCA Alliance wins both seats in K.L. —all 3 in Muar THE UMNO-MCA alliance swept the board in Sat urday's election at Kuala Lumpur and Muar In Penanp, the UMNO-Muslim Party won all three scats. Hiil in Singapore, the alliance took a beating, The
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  • 108 2 THE UMNO-MCA success in Kuala Lumpur raises the elected majority of the Alliance from nine to ten in the Council of 18 members (12 elected and six nominated) excluding the Government-appointed chairman. With this extra seat, the Alliance can vote any of its motions through. Alliance candidates Inche
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  • 193 2 AFTER their resounding victory at the pcVLs last night, the three new UMNO-Muslim Councillors made a triumphal tour of their wards today. The alliance captured all three Radical seats which will fall vacant at thp end of the year. While UMNO-Muslim supporters turned out by the hundred —at one
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  • 117 2 THE UMNO-MCA alliance won all three seats at the second Muar Town Council elections yesterday. Votes were cast by 3.386 people, more than 73 per cent of the 4,587 registered voters. Altogether. 58 ballot papers were rejected. Although there was an overall increase of 132 in this year's electorate,
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  • 117 2 rPHE Labour Party triumphed over the MCA-UMNO alliance for the second successive time in Bukit China ward, only ward to be contested in yesterday's Malacca Municipal Council elections. Mr. J L. D'Cruz, Labour Party president, was returned with 1.155 votes 140 votes more than the twice-defeated l/IWNO-MCA candidate. Haji
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  • 47 2 They were on the wrong rare PENANG. Sun.— Chinese voters failed to turn out in force for the elections here yesterday. The reason: many of them wrre more tntCTMtor! in listening to the raring broadcasts from Ipoh. Trip result: their candidatrs lost the race at thr polls.
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  • 166 2 rpHE 1. M. N0. -MCA. alliance, whose candidates suffered a severe defeat in Saturday's Singapore City Council elections, has not abandoned its plans to lake part in Colony politics. "Wo will try again next year with added vigour," thr head of the
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  • 41 2 WASHINGTON, Sun—U.S. Senator Allen J. Ellender, Sr., Democrat, recommended yesterday an end to all foreign economic aid, but a continuing technical assistance programme "confined strictly to making American know-how-available" to underdeveloped areas of the free world.—A.P.
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  • 28 2 LONDON Sun. -Baby Boko, the surviving Siamese twin, was taken out of her oxygen tent yesterday. Doctors reported the sturdy three-month- old is "very lively.—A.P.
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  • 149 2 Aquarium to be top attraction gINGAPORES r.cv Van Kleef aquarium in the Xii? George V Park, which should bo ready by nev' September, will be ono of the attraction! of thr Colony. Mr. W. Irving Watson, thp Cit;. Architect told the Straits Times yp.stcrrtay. He said that emphasis would not
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  • 68 2 KOTA TINGGI. Sun Malay candidates scored a complete success in the Local Council elections yesterday at Kuala Sadili Besar. Over 80 per cent of the electorate went to the polls to vote in the following candidates: Inche Mohamed bin Abdullah. Inche Abdul Mali bin Ahmed. Inche
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  • 65 2 (APT ISMAIL TIIIIK ship his ciuif down but they arc safe and the crew of tli, 250-ton Hin Leone. of Singapore, which sank in a storm in the Lingßa Straits last Wednesday, celebrate with a cup of tea on their return to the Colony. Above
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  • 30 2 MR S. M VASAGAR. winner of thr South Word in Saturday's Singapore City Council elections, is seen here receiving the congratulations of supporters. Straits Times picture.
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  • 138 2 New move to end Yugoslav-Italy row on Trieste HAMILTON, Sunday. rFHE WESTERN POWERS will shortly suggest to Italy x and Yugoslavia that the transfer of administrative posts in the Anglo-American zone of Trieste to Italy should proceed simultaneously with the fivepower technical conference on the territory. Reliable sources said it
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  • 102 2 Tornado hits U.S., kills 15 VICKSBI'RG. (Mississippi), Sun. A BLACK roaring tornado bludgeoned this Mississippi River landmark during the rush hour last night and killed at least 15 persons, many of them children and Christmas shoppers. About 200 people were known to have been injured as the tornado swept through
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  • 26 2 BERLIN. Sun— East German and Swedish trade representatives yesterday signed a barter trade agreement for 1954. the East German news agency ADN reported.— Reuter.
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  • 168 2 TAN JONG RAMBUTAN, Sunday VO POWER on earth could deny the UMNO-MCA 11 Alliance, which represents 90 per cent of the population of Malaya, its* legitimate aspirations, Tuneku Abdul Rahman, president of UMNO, Malaya said today at Tanjong Rambutan. The Tungku was given a great welcome
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  • 296 2 CANDIDATES in Saturday's Singapore City Council elections fear that people are now less enthusiastic about popular elections than they were a few years ago. They told the Straits Times yesterday that the majority of the 22.000 (50 per cent of the
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  • 23 2 CAIRO. Sun.— An Egyptian Air Force training plane crashed at Hanka. near here, yesterday, killing the two men aboard.— A.P.
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  • 74 2 LONDON, Sun— judgment has been reserved by tht Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the case in which Kesarmal and Lakmi Das Chhabra. Kuala Lumpur merchants. ar P appealing against a decision of the Ma layan Court of Appeal in litigation in which N.K.V Vablliappa Chettia r
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  • 125 2 SHUT DOWN THREAT TO INDUSTRY LONDON. Sun. SHIPBUILDING and Englneprlng Union chtefa wtE hold kpy mpptings next wePk to dpcidp whether Britain will plunge into a colossal "shut down" in vital production plants in the new year. This is threatened by a move to stoo overtime and payment by results
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  • 148 3 INDIA WILL BACK US— JAGAN 'Britain was goaded by U.S. CALCUTTA, Sunday. jPHEDDI JAGAN and L. F. S. Burnham, the deposed British (itiiana ministers, said here yesterday that they believed the Government of India is prepared to take the British Guianan issue to the United Nations. .lagan alleged that Britain
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  • 77 3 BERLIN. S'.in. A 14-YEAR-OLD German boy has been sentenced to an eight-year reformatory term for killing a 17-year-old companion, leaving the body in a flaming barn and riding ofl on the victim's new bicycle. Wolfgang Hopper was convicted of beating Reii.i.i-rd Meyer to death.
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  • 149 3 AMMAN. Sunday. MEMBERS of the crew of the American freighter Albion. 7.255 tons, said yesterday that the Egyptian Coast Guard fired nine shells at the Albion from their shore guns. The nearest, they said, landed 15 yards away The Albion was heading fof the
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  • 42 3 HAMILTON. Bermuda, Sun. —President Eisenhower tooay protested about a leakage of information to the Press through the French delegation ,ibont the secret proceedings of the meeting of thr Bic Three, a well-informed source i-evr.iled tonight— Reuter
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  • 74 3 TEHERAN Sun pKK.MIKK Mohammed 1 Mossadeq. standing trial here on anti-state Chanel faced a new challenge yesterday It came from professional wrestlers competing i" the international tournament at Frankfurt Germany. It said: "When you arc free, we ar p prepared to wrestle you any time."
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  • 178 3 No orchids for Miss Sleigh-a day late HOLLYWOOD, Sun DOITQUETS of orchids "and all the ballyhoo of a Hollywood reception planned for 18-year-old Violet Sleigh. "Miss Max Factor of Malaya" went to waste yesterday because her plane was a day late. Her Put-American Air* ays plane VU delayed by bad
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  • 45 3 TOI^YO Sun The l\S. Far East Air Force tested its lone-ranee mobility jeslerday in a non-stop 2.500--milf flight of four Thunrior.iet fighter horn hers from Southern Japan to Bangkok. The F-84s were refueled in mid-air over th r Philippine Inlands.
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  • 46 3 BERLIN. Sun, A West German spokesman .said here today. Fast On-many had paid the equivalent of $390,000,000,000 reparations to the Soviet Union since 1945. He said this was 59.000.000.--000 more than the Soviet Union had originally claimed from all of Germany Reuter.
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  • 163 3 LONDON. Sun. QUESTIONS about trade with China are to be put to the'Pre.sirient of the Board ol Trade. Mr Peter Thornevcrolt. In the House of Commons on Tuesday. Mr Harold Davies (Labour) will ask Mr. Thorneyeroft il he |s aware thai the
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  • 40 3 GUATEMALA. Sun The General Confederation ol La hour announced today that December 10 will be celebrated here as a "day of Internal Km nl solidarity with the people of Vietnam" in thr.r linht for independence froiu France. Rcuter.
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  • 36 3 SYDNEY, Sun. Postmen have followed up their protest about the lack of flaps on the pockets of their new summer shirts by suggesting they revive .smarter uniforms before the Queen arrives in Australia -Renter.
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  • 43 3 Till: DII'OSI l> Kuhiika (Kini;) or Buganda shakes hands with Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, the Colonial Secretary, after a meeting; with him at the Colonial Office in London. Mr. Lyttelton said later that they had a most friendly talk. A.P. picture.
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  • 306 3 LONDON. Sunday OOYAL NAVY veterans angrily told a Japanese salvage company yesterday to 1V keep their hands off the bomb-blasted hulks of two British warships sunk by Japaneese planes in the Pacific war. London newspapers reported that British sailors i were
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  • 98 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. ADMIRAL William Parsons, 52, who set the trigger for the first atomic bomb used in combat, died of a heart attack yesterday Huddled in the bomb bay of a B-29 bomber, hampered n an oxygen mask and his lingers stiff from subzero
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  • 20 3 SYDNEY. Sun— New South Wales traffic police will ase radar to check speeding during the Christmas-New Year holidays—Reuter.
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  • 114 3 BKK.HTON Sun QtJMUfI frocks ond open necked shirts, ramr out yesterday at this popular South toast resort, when Mazing mid -summer chased winter away for a few glorious hours. By early afternoon the temperature had sorir up to Bfi decrees in the sun —a rise of
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  • 154 3 NEW YORK. Sunday. OKITAIN and Canada yesterday opposed the I'nited States when they upheld the right of the administrative tribunal of the I nited Nations to review the case of 11 discharged American members of the organisation's staff. The two countries also supported the tribunal's
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  • 77 3 Tanker goes aground, blocks Suez PORT SAID. Sun. rAFFIC through the Suei Canal was stopped for 12 hours on Friday night 'vnen Panamanian tanker, Caltex Suez H0.172 tons i ran aground 51 miles south of here. Yesterday the tanker MM able to sail to deeper waters and traffic was resumed.
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  • 183 3 He may be British envoy to Persia TUCKERS TOWN. Sun. BRITAIN'S first Ambassador to Persia following resumption of diplomatic relations may be career diplomat Robert Hankey. according to informed opinion here yesterday. Hankey. who speaks fluent Persian, is due to leave nis present post as Charge d'Aflaires in Egypt soon
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  • 62 3 NEW YORK. Sun. The $47,827,110 United Nations budget for 1954 was today approved by the General Assembly's Budgetary Committee by a vote of 44 to 5. Only the Soviet group opposed it. The Soviet Union had earlier opposed several items in the budget, particularly those intended
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  • 38 3 NEW YORK. Sun— The Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly will discuss on Monday an Indian proposal that it set a definite date February 9when it should reconvene io discuss the Korean question.
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  • 31 3 LONDON. Sun. London's biggest civil defence parade was reviewed in drizzling rain here today by the Home Secretary. Sir David Maxwell Fyfr Over 1 .000 detachments took part. Reuter.
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  • 45 3 THESE THRU Bristol Zoo iH-iiguins take not the slighted hit ol notice of iheir pal i Algernon as he makes a carelul study of the "Kiep off the <;rass" notice and tries to warn them of their error. Keutcr picture.
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  • 28 3 CHICAGO, Sun— Mr. Harold E. Stassen said yesterday that 1953 proving to be the best economic year for the free i nations of the world.
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  • 207 3 Laniel is ill: misses talks TUCKERS TOWN. Sun. DREMIEP Joseph Laniel of Frame was officially reported last night to be running a "high fever" after staying away from a Big-Three discussion on the European Defence Community. A bulletin issued by the French delegation said Lord Moran, personal physician to Sir
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  • 84 3 TOKYO. Sun. Japan has accepted French teims for the return of French fine arts bought by a Japanese but seized by France as enemy assets during the war The French Government asked Japan to pay all freight costs and to establish a special museum to house
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  • 59 3 BARRANQUILLA, Colombia Sun. An oil well fire that shot flames 2SO feet into the air continued unchecked yesterday at the International Petroleum of Colombia concession near Aguachica in northeast Colombia The well had been burning for more than 36 hours Damage to equipment alone
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  • 38 3 TOKYO Sun.- Mr. Herslev Vogt. new Norwegian Minister to Tokyo arrived yesterday aboard the liner Fernfield from Hong Kong. Mr Vogt former Counselor of the Norwegian Embassy In London, was accompanied by his wife.— A P
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  • 56 4 Being fitted with his costume fel h.s part of Auckarsroem" .n Verd. s The Masked Ball "at Covent Carden OP era House, London, is Italian baritone. Tito Gobbi. Ann Davidson, right, in her slooP Felicity, has arrived in New York after her lone crossing of the
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  • 127 4 THE PAIR WATCHES ARE BACK Swiss watchmakers are reviving an old Chinese custom, quite well known in Singapore, by making watches in pairs, as seen above, one watch to be worn by a man, the other by his M sweetheart. .K In ancient Chinese belief, man is counter- balanced by
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  • 48 4 No flashing beacons needed to pinpoint this smart suit in woven wool with pencil skirt. Creator lan Meredith calls it Hie Pimento Line." The cheapest exhibit of its kind at the Earl's Court Motor Show was th« Exccsior Consort motor cycle, left, costing £55.
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  • 567 4 That's what atom plane flying is going to mean LONDON. ATOMIC aircrews of tomorrow will have a career in the skies of only two short months. Fantastic? It would be if any less an authority than Neville Duke were saying it. And when the
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  • 184 5 Bandit couple had to meet in secret ALOR STAR, Sun. Z" 1 RATEFUI. for the treatment which he and his wife had received since their surrender, an ex-bandit, H ing Chin, today pledged to bring up their unborn baby as a useful Federal citizen. Hang, a former section leader of
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  • 152 5 Federal servants get wish: new commission soon KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. T*HE Federation's Public Services Commission will be set up early next year, with four or five members, including a chairman. i It Ls expected, to have an Asian majority." The commission will deal with appointments and promotions in Federal services
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  • 34 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. A woman of 56, Cheong Keow. was fined $10 in the police court for moving some fruit in a restricted area without a pprmit. The fruit was confiscated.
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  • 20 5 JOHORE BAHRU Sun Commander M. O. W. Miller has born appointed secret ary to the British Adviser, Jnhore.
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  • 132 5 MR. V. T. LINGAM, a civil engineering student from Kuala Lumpur, has become the first Asian to be elected president of the students' council at Melbourne Technical College. His election Is seen In Australia as another sign of the increasingly important part Asian students
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  • 96 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Various types of rice to be issued in North Pi-rak from December 1 to 13 are: Talpin«. Kuala Kangsur and Selamu: Siamese 5 per cent. 1952, and Burma Milchar 1952 Krian- Siamese lo per cent. 1953. local white rice 1953. and local parboiled rice 1953
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  • 45 5 MRS 111 i:i:ii WILLIAMS puts the finishing touches to a portrait. Her works are now on display at 18, Syers Road, Kuala Lumpur. Mrs. Williams painted a portrait of Sir Henry Gurney after he was irurdered by the bandits. Straits Times picture.
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  • 132 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. THE PUBLIC will be calling on "hello girls" and radio station workers all over the Federation during the week To mark the anniversary of Operation Service, arrangements have been made in all States and Settlements for telephone exchanges and radio stations to
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  • 173 5 UUNDREDS of men and boys in Singapore will receive technical training in the next few years, if the Colony's first school of building proves a success. The school, costing $(>2,(KM), will t;ikc in its first pupils on Jan. 4. The Chief Employment Officer, Mr. F.
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  • 47 5 KLANG, Sun. The Fourth Klang Senior Scout Troop madp a raft this week as its entry for the District Scout display Thinking it would be more realistic, the scouts left, it In the Klang river. The Judges did not know of the exhibit and overlooked it.
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  • 21 5 LONDON. Sun.— Britain and Switzerland have agreed Jn a proposed convention to a v old double income taxation.— Reuter.
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  • 26 5 IPOH. Sun— Mr. G. Hari Krishnan. telegraph master. Ipoh has retired after 30 years' service. He served in Selancor Kelantan, Pahang and Perak
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  • 19 5 IPOH. Sun— Mr. N. B. Fletcher, comptroller of telecommunications, Perak, is leavin; for New Zealand soon.
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  • 93 5 MALACCA. Sunday. T*HE GOVERNMENT will give full support to the youths of Malacca to further thrir lawful aim. Mr. G. E. C. Wisdom, Resident Commissioner, said yesterday when he opened the two-day youth leadership training course here. Mr. Wisdom said: "If youths are to
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  • 24 5 IPOH. Sun. Mr. Justice Prrthprne. of the Supreme Crurt. Ipoh. left during the wrrk-end lor Britain on long leave
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  • 129 5 i i TONY NATHAN, the hizhBylng toddler son of Singapore airline worker. Mr. i Joseph Nathan, has idolised planes and pilots since Saturday when a two milp high trip nearly cured his j whooping rough. Tony, who is four, had not had a peaceful
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  • 35 5 A Malay looking [or coconuts lin a compound at Lorong 29. Gi flang. Singapore, yesterday I found a rusty hand-grenade. It is believed to have been I left by the Japanese.
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  • 185 6 20 Wor4* tit minimum) KIDDIES' News— Lovely life-like <!!olla (80 cm.) at reduced prices at Vanity. REFRIGERATION or Air Conditioning troubles? Ring Bill Manning about It. At *****. BEAUTIFUL Collection of Cocktall Evening Dresses. Reasonably priced at Mulchand'.s. SPEEDBOAT Servire See Sineapor« Harbour and Wands In a new. 30knot
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  • 1358 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Dec. 7, 1953. After The Elections Leaders of the UMNOMCA Alliance must be pondering heavily today over the difference in the political atmospheres of the Federation and Singapore. In Saturday's local government elections in the Federation the Alliance swept to another victory, chastened only by
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  • 1303 6  -  C. C TOO By formerly Assistant Head. Operations Section, Information Services, Federation. IT is significant that, after more than five years of futile terrorist campaign in the Jungles of Malaya, the hard core of top leaders of the Malayan Communis' Party does not
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    • 309 6 Road taxes— by a Military Government law rpHERE have been many pro■i- tests against the new Federation road taxes on the ground that they are excessive. I would like to protest against the method by which the tax is imposed. The tax is imposed by the Commissioner for Road Transport,
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    • 145 6 rE best news I have heard these few weeks was the announcement that mon< y would be released for various irrigation works. The objectivt is to boost food production A substantial sum Is for Improving padl areas In Kelartan. May I suggest that consideration be given to
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  • 490 6 Artists' good start ALTHOUGH half those whn had been specially invited to the Singapore Arts Club.exhibition at the V.M.C.A. failed to turn up <the notice was very short i the promoters were highly pleased with the start of their seventh annual display of paintings by local :irtist.-v
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    • 733 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. M Wordn flO (minimum) SHANKS TO BETTY wife ol E P. Shanks at XX. Hospital 6 December, a daughter Jane. GOLDIE on December Sth to Eileen <Nee Shedden) wife of Donald Goldle. A.P.C. iSC) Ltd.. Honekonc a daughter. 20 »i,rdn $10 (minimum) THE engagement la announced today between
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    • 10 6 4[fL I *M <4mß '^Be M '11/6 COtCYfM QUAf Af
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    • 159 6 6 RAFFLES PLACE. PHONE ***** I r. v. fnafc/l X^ OPTICIAN^^^ K. E. MEYER FN A 0 0 OPT K. BELL DIP. OPT.. A.S.TC F.A.O.A. Irish Bloodstock Agency, Ltd. a 7. ANGLESEA STREET. DUBLIN a Bloodstock Purchased a B Shipped and Insured a sf<, COMMISSION CHARGED Irish Bloodstock Agency, Ltd.
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    51 7 lln party of United States Congressmen touring the Far East ran Into a little trouble on a narrow road leading to a tin mine at An pang, near Kuala Lumpur Even the leader. Mr Walter Judd (right)', had to get out and push. See story in Col.
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  • 124 7 SINGAPORE Ciiy Council's efforts to boost ils electricity s;ik i s are paying dividends. Daily consumption has jumped by 10.000 kilowatts since January The average daily consumption at present is SS,tM kilowatts. Mr. Chan Kum Chee. chairman of the Special Electricity Committee, told
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  • 37 7 JENNY (111 A .1 niii M in Kuaia Lumpur (icnrral Hospital, models a ImrU dance frock in the Hone Konc fashion p:ir;iriV at thp new (henwu Audilorium in Davidson Koad. Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 119 7 40 cents question solved DONT be alarmed when you enter a Singapore taxi and .see the meter clock up 40 cents before the car has moved. It's all perfectly legal, as Singapore's Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. B. C. J. Buckendee. explained yesterday. When a taxi fitted with a meter is
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  • 72 7 The Hindu staff of the Singapore Medical Department will celebrate Sathurthi festival at the Sri Senpaga Vinavarar Temple. Ceylon Road, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday. The programme will inclr.de the Abishesram ceremony, songs and dances, and a special worship and prayer service. The
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  • 35 7 JOHORE BAHR'.T. Sun Wong Kek Chan and Wong Ter Kia. fishermen, were each fin<-d $25 in court here for fishing in the Johon Strait it 11 30 p.m. yesterday without a curfew permit.
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  • 144 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A CHINESE terrorist pect who escaped <o Honu Konu has been brought back to Malaya to face trial. It i.s believed that he fled from his hide-out in .south Selangor last month p.nri smug gird himself on board a ship at
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  • 126 7 Special road plans for Cugat shows KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. SPECIAL traffic arrangements will be made for the Xavinr Cusat shows to be held at the Chenwu Auditorium here on Monday. From 5.45 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.. the following streets will be open to one-way traffic only: Petaling Street from Its
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  • 46 7 Swaml Vamadrvananda. rr- tiring president nf the Ramakrlshna Mission in Singapore, has decided not to fast to death as a protest against being sent bark to India. He said yesterday that he was now looking forward to returning to India
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  • 156 7 DEBA TE ON BILINGUAL EDUCATION THE Singapore Legislative Council will soon be asked to debate Government proposal to introduce bilingual education in all vernacular schools in the Colony. This, if adopted, will mean an improvement in the educational standards of 92,000 vernacular school pupils. I Of these. 81,000 are now
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  • 132 7 IPOH. Sun. THERE was a spate of burglaries in Ipoh this week, over a dozen cases having been reported to the police. On Wednesday alone eight cases of hoiisehreaking and theft were reported. Two doctors were among the victims, one losing two fountain pens and
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  • 41 7 IPOH. Sun— More than $600 was raised from the fun fair organised by the Police Officers' Wives League in aid of the Police Welfare Fund. la the evening. Police Inspectors held a ball in the Po.ak Library.
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  • 113 7 'Aid' week speakers are chosen KLANG, Sun THREE schoolgirls and two boys have been selected for the speech contest in English to be held at 4 pm. on Saturday at the Anglo- Chinese School here. The contest is being organised by the Social Welfare Department for "Operation Service" week in
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  • 73 7 CICJARKTTE GIRLS, Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Howard find Mr. Lim .100 Tan, disguised as thr paintrr Toulousr Lautret. and a rea; portrait painter, M r. Pam Fitzgerald, ready customers at thr "Moulin Rouge show at the Harlequin Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday. The show was in
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  • 148 7 RAMAIAH. a passing Indian street magician, was invited Into a house in Hartley Orovp Singapore, on Saturday nißht to perform for the dinner guests. He brought In his equipment, went through hl.s routine and then with the applause ringing in his ears, prepared
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  • 276 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A United Btatcs Congress delegation flew ofl to Singapore today after a 21-hour visit to the Federal capital with a top ?ecret memorandum on tin. It was given them during their visit to ihe American-owned Pacific Tin Corporation's mine at
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  • 660 7 The following passengers are expected to arrive in Penang today by the Carthage from Britain. Ist CLASS Mr and Mrs. J Cliatrawav and two cliildrrn. Miss M. B. Davles MIM P Dalglelsh Mr H J. M Davles. Mr C HPnderson. Mr. ano Mrs J Habbertßtr. Mr and
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  • 140 7 THOSE GUILTY POLICEMEN GOT UP AND WALKED AW AY FOl'R policemen sat in the dock in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday charged with armed robbery. The jury unanimously brought in a verdict of guilty against all four. Then the prison warders on cither side of them rose from their seats,
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  • 84 7 Surprise visitor for students IPOH. Sun. PERAK student teachers at their weekly Normal class at the Anderson School yestei day had a surprise visitor *hen Professor Margaret Read, of the London University Institute of Education, looked in. Professor Read, who is on her way to a community development conference at
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  • 49 7 MALACCA, Sun. THE trade recession caused by the fall the prices nf rubber and tin i beginning to hit the smaller co-operative societies. This was stated by Mr. G. E C. Wisdom. Resident Commissioner, at the inaugural meeting of the Rural Cooperative Banking Union. Malacca yesterday.
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  • 146 7 THREE Chinese boys werr killrd In Hincapnrc yrstrrday. Thr first tragedy happenrri at 11.30 a.m. Ng Chong Hoo. 11 flying a kitr on thr ronf top of a srcond-Morcy flat in Tiong Poh Road, failrd to Me th;it be was nrar thr edgr and fell
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  • 28 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun More facilities for education are to be provided at Endau v.herr four extra classroom are to be built at a cost of ♦r,3.945.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 114 7 I Xmas Gift I StWESTIOAS I RADIO S or g RADIOGRAMS l>ri Iro "'s T3 *j RECORD i PLAYERS *J GRAMOPHONE S g .RECORDS w ndard or long IMav s*j 5 IH<\J.w 1 <:iia, M >rll, Danrmann. aj 1 lANOS 1)V Marshall K,,,r, g Moulri« i &StroliiMni»or JK 3 MUSICAL
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    • 202 7 It's time you had a smoothrunning, trouble-free bicycle that will last a lifetime... h't time you had 1 B.S.A. This handsome bicrclc is one of many fine machines in the B.S.A. range. Sturdily built, and finished in gleaming black enamel with smart red and gold lining and decorative transfers, it
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 148 7 THE WEATHER Minimum trmprramrr 1 7.30 pm. on Dpc S to 7.30 am. on D<"\ fi>: Sinsnpnrp 7S drerfM. PenatiT fifi Kn!a Bfthm 72. Kuala Lurrpur 71, Ipoh 65. Kuantan 68. Maximum trmprraturr 1 7 30 »m. to 730 p.m. on Tier fit: Slrigapcr' 87. Pcnanc RB. Kota Bahrti 85.
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  • 999 8  -  GEORGE FARWELL ■It Killing of Australian patrol officers gives emphasis to a book on New Guinea ADAM WITH ARROWS. By Colin Simpson. lAngus and Robertson, Sydney 25 Ai j.) A FEW weeks after the publication of Colin Simpsons "Adam With Arrows" his picture of Now
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  • 662 8  -  CYRIL CONNOLLY ll.* THE REASON WHY. By Cecil Woodham Smith I Constable. I St.) "THE REASON WHY" is A a biography of the two commanders at Balaclava. Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, by the author of "Florence Nightingale." Mrs. Cecil Woodham-Smith. It is of the greatest interest and
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    306 8  -  KENNETH KONSTAM By THEY are all on my list and so I think that they should be on yours. The partner who always wants to play the hand; if you bid no trumps he will bid his suit and vice versa. The man who insists on teaching you in
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  • 482 8  - THIS BOOK OF BIRDS, A THING OF BEAUTY Lord John 11 Hope. >l IV FINE BIRD BOOKS. 1700-1900. By Sachcvcrcll Sitwell. Handaiyde Buchanan and |amet Fisher. (Collint. £12 I 2«.) THIS book is a thing of beauty. If you have an eye for beauty you will love it whether you
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 231 8 Fly direct to PERTH MAURITIUS AND TO JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA NOW these three import- Australian cities. ant places are nearer by Afcfa k inked b %Jo)iWti QlUll;lS a tast service on the new jjf~\lt^.^\ You can fly from Singapore direct Qantas route via Cocos, y\{ A^Nkjf/ I x Djakarta and
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    • 257 8 v^^aw/ Farh in the mnrnins—thnt'f the time In ensure Inner Cleanliness />r day! Th» ihnSi N fi nt s t() f clf h m y "J Andrewi. Then I tip one or tun ie^ponnfuh nf Andrews K intn a sfa« cold i inter, and stir In a few seenndi there's
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 362 8 24. Happy hunting-ground lor Strait* Times friwsword 25 r S e n v i CM ,7,. —^iSTa S§§3 26 plßCates <7 2. Though not a sailor, might H 9 3 Keen*° th"* word In Ireland (6). ?ssss» r^H *SSSsSI RJSgSj ISssSI t-i^vM lYfivv* Matsistrate's instrument {R. 10 I fc|||| <■
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  • 2092 9 Kolchak, hero who fought to stem the Reds, died by the firing squad F E A T U R E A FIRING squad of tattered Russian soldiers stamped their feet in the snow of the barrack square as dawn broke cold and drear over the Siberian town of Irkutsk on
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    • 142 9 and MatdA fo Ori-fok no m/ne /infold fwu c thr nnr- /M /w rrMl ink clfvi- tfi> City inst mr fm ft IfMturp n I /Mr /iff Pl* t i Cnum fr fgf F.il! P n i n I if /M $1 2S rrdlls IM f cents tm I I
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    • 416 9 For close control of cash in any retailing business »al« slip of a Burronphs g^ uyj j£S Adtling-Cashßesisfetiriß J^ jSJ"/'/ Qi^^sSWfL Machine is sure to win \\J9 J /""^Sassg^^s^ the confidence of your 3 a**?t/^ mSS&e^b/ customers unil impress i f^^^t-zy^caMf/ them with the efficiency bßb^b^7**VV/Y >^-~-» complete protection, too,
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    • 532 9 rut: \H\Hi\\ x turns Inn uriiit; a doc tors robe, and Warning llir x.uni, man that When Prime rrroreshali looked sure that thr fact that his beard Hie merest sicht of a ph>si<iun thniueli the window and saw the had trown diiriii K his travrls thri-w thr Trinress into a
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  • 886 10 "THE following quotations were those of the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Singapore, at the rinse of business on Friday: B«)tr« seller. IM iimk-. rreia t K i/u Ora» 3.70 3 80 Alias Ice •> 8.8 iTtrol 34v6 35/j 0«4 iriwina •jo i» i-un lln .-.mi a PreJ id/-
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  • 123 10 'THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants <>" Saturday: NKW YORK buviiv.' TT. 32 78. :ur mr.il. O.D. 33. 90 <!;ivs 33 1 8 credit bills. 33 3 16 trade bills •selling. TT or O.D ready 32 11 IK CANADA: buying.
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    • 192 10 SHAREHOLDERS must have O been disappointed with thr poor report and statement ol account* of Malayan Collieries for the year ended June. The passing of a dividend Ls understandable but the meagre 1 profit $16,000 -disclosed is disconcerting and very littje Ls ■■aid about future prospects. Now
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    • 202 10 MALAYAN Collieries, which in the years a Her the WV accepted price fixing by Government at rates r*r below imported coal, are learning the hard way that Government give srant consideration to those who have served them well, once !i cheaper alternative appears. That Is, of course, unless the
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    • 123 10 I HAVE been a ohareholder in Malayan Collieries lor msrhy years and the dividends I have received have boen small. Having received my annual report. I find that there will be nothing from this investment for me this year, although it is proposed *,o pay directors $25,000 and
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    • 133 10 I AM a very small sharrholrirr In Malayan CoUlerlea and Sincapor P c«>ld Storage and rrcrivrrl the annual reports of both rnmpanii'.x vrstrrday ('"Micrics reports a profit from the production and» sale of coa] of $16,700 and the dlrecton want $25,000 fn r their fern. CoM Storage
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    • 530 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited for the following vacant post.s In the Public Works Department. Sinja pore (i) Technical Assistants (Engineering Drsifn) (Three) Salary Scale: $336 12A 444 Bar 462 18A 552 pm. plus COL. and Singapore Allowances. Total emoluments at present range Irom $534 p.m. with annual increments to
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    • 330 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA Applications are- invited for the following appointments: (a I (hair of Botany Tho appointee will be required to take up appointment on Ist Octo- 1 ber. 1954, or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates should have I appropriate academic qualifications and considerable University teacnlng experience.
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    • 368 10 NOTICES TRADING COMPANY GUNTZEL AND SCHUMACHER LTD. NOTICE ls hereby given that Mr. LEE CHAY TIAN has ceased to be our Rubber Storekeeper as from tho sth December 1953, and is therefore no longer authorised to transact siny busine'-s in our name or on our behalf. THE BOMBAY MUTUAL LIFE
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    • 721 10 NOTICES SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL WATER DEPARTMENT NOTICE TO CONSUMERS Major operations to be carried oni on the Johorp Singapore Pipeline i between 600 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. on Tuesday. Bth December. 1953. will result in reduced pressure of supply in the following areas:Ideal Home property near Johore Pipeline Dunearn Road
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    • 389 10 TENDERS 1 P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS will be received at the State Engineer's Office, Seremban. i up to NOON on 9th December, 1953, for repairs to Bridges and 1 Culverts in Seremban District dur- I I Ing 1954. Specifications can be seen ana all particulars obtained at the
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    • 687 10 1 TENDERS E POLICE TENDER NOTICE c Separate tenderr which will close j at 12 noon on Tuesday. 15th Dec^mr. ber. 1953, pre Invited by the Comd mlssloner of Police, Federation of 1 Malayu for the undermentioned aervlces: c (a) Supply of all metal rifle raclu ibi Supply of metal
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    • 30 10 MITSUI |5] LINE WIST BOUND ROUND TH£ WORLD StßVlcr JO«« Singapore Port Swcttrnhom Prnong Nr. v..fc C.F. SHARP 6* CO., (M) LTD. UNION IUtIQING. SINGAPOm TIL jA»./ 8 2 iO9J
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    • 1602 11 fcEgf MANSFIELD CO., LTD. gjg Paii.g« I Incorporated in Singapore) AH ofh#| r D t BLUE FUNNEL LINE oH Carrier*' option to proceed vta other ports to load ond discharge cargo SAILINGS ta LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW, LONDON ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Dua Sails P. Sham Penong Brllerophon for Liverpool Dublin A Swamoo
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    • 1056 11 wkf it W^^^^f^^*3ffijjh*fi^F*^^^^^^^^^^^^^F^m^^^^Bi <• Bj^^BtiiWJ*ii»i^M^^Bji^a»3«tef illi* EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIAN/U.K./CONTINENI S'oora P S'bom Panono "Fetstrto" for Bongkok 10/11 Dec. 9/ 9 Dm. 8/ t Dm. "Lolendio" for Bongkok 29/29 Dm. "Panama" for Bongkok, Hongkong 4/5 Jan. "Java" for Bongkok, Saigon, Hongkong, Manilo, Kobt ft Yokohama S/ 7 Jen.
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    • 1114 11 BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. SAILINGS to U.K. and CONTINENTAL PORTS m S'oora P S'hom i»onoyi "♦"wyvti for Genoo. Avonmouth, Liverpool, Hull In Port »/10 Dae. Benattaw for London, Antwerp Rotterdom, Hamburg 10/1* Dm. 17/19 Dec 20/22 Dm. ••neniochon for Liverpool, Dunlin Rotterdam, Hamuurg 14/22 Dm 23/23 Dec I«/2S Dm Benrinnes
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    • 1217 11 McALISTER 6c CO., LTD. ELLERMAN «k BUCKNALL TIL No «.?*f .~> LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM. KLAVEMESS UMI HAMBURG LOS ANGfIES SAN FRANCISCO, md tor USA, North Atlantic Port* PORTLAND. SEATTLE ft VANCOUVER and Conoda via Colombo Accepting carge for Central ft South CITY OF SWANSEA American Ports Spora P. S>orr. Penong
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  • 951 12 Share market review Prices are fractionally lower on week By Our Financial Correspondent JIIE Singapore share market last week was somewhat erratic, caused mainly by the more! violent movements in the tin and rubber prices, combined with disconcerting news from Geneva regarding the
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    • 111 12 MALAYAN COLLIERIES -SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE -ATLAS ICE |X)R the year ended June J Malayan Collieries made a net profit of $16,770. compared with $331,287 in the preceding year, and no dividend is proposed, compared with 10 per cent for the preceding year. War damage compensation received was $773,165. rehabilitation loan
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    • 332 12 The directors have reserved $25,000 for their remuneration and they have transferred $500,000 to general reserve. Development expenditure during the year written -off was $221,859 and $218,487 has been written-off for stores obsolescence. This leaves $227,180 which it is proposed to carry forward. The sale and consumption of coal,
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    • 196 12 AFTER providing undisclosed amounts for bad debts and depreciation the net profit earned by Singapore Cold Storage Co. Ltd.. in the year ended August was $2,298,418. of which $91,048 came from investments. The directors have reserved $955,000 for income tax and $27,000 for their fees.
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    • 134 12 rpHE net profit earned by The 1 Ayer Molek Rubber Co.. Ltd in th P year ended September was $53,572. compared with $64,485 In the preceding year. This is equivalent to 21.8 per cent. A dividend of 8 per cent, is proposed, requiring $11,200 and it is
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    • 100 12 IN the year ended September. The Atlas Ice Co., Ltd made a net profit of $156,057. equivalent U> 20.5 per cent., alter taxation, about 29.3 per cent, before tax A dividend of 10 per <"PiU Is proposed At balancing date net liquid assets were $763,378 or $10
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  • 158 12 rE following dividends were announced last week by companies operating in Malaya: EASTERN UNITED: amount not stated, dividend payable December 19. bonks close December 12 HENRY WAUGH: Interim 10 per tent for year ending December, payanl* January 4. books clos» December 21. JACKSON CO.: Interim V] per cent
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  • 544 12 Tin and rubber markets RUMOURED TIN PRICE-RANGE T*HE feature of the commodity markets last week was the wide daily fluctuations in the price of tin where falls had an immediate effect on tin share prices but rises only slightly influenced those prices These fluctuations were,
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    • 246 12 SHOWING P^ l lil!liM 1 6.30,9.30 3D 3D 3D' 3D t 'M*teL.. T HfIHJkRGi "fCATHiR moM WARNER BROS. 1 pilv MAnt^RN FDAMK inVTinv I *»«m o» -House of wax 1 j bill WAUIoUW rKAHU LUVtJUT Hire of Yicwrrs '!()<■. plus deposit 40c. refundable Slashing through webs 0/ lJx\\\//'lB a ieSWORD
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    • 271 12 C\ CATHAY ORGANISATION J*l ATTRACTIONS Ji^|!l¥^yi7i.|/\ LAST DAYS 4 1 Jlr'l v I I kf nam l:s 4 (i 45 _m.\ I »«Jt \So9 G 0.30 p.m ON PANOKAMK S( Xl I N Till THEIUJNG s\(;\ Of 'in hi sr: \JP% t RIDE THE JJb myL MANDOWJV ROD fOMi;.. M
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  • 152 13 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. YEW ZEALAND'S tounn; A^ cricketers made an encnv ing stan to their match with the ..nnswial on a fa.s'lsh wicket c Ellis Part nere yesterday and scored 111 for the loss of two wickets before a violent, thunderstorm ended the days
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  • 146 13 LONDON. Sun. poo blotted our five of Scotland s x senior games— three in Division "A" and two in Division "B" G!:i cow suffered most and had a blank day in more ways than one. Celtic, who were engaged at Stirling, and Partick. opposed to East
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  • 59 13 MELBOURNE S-m A strong wind robbed Australian John Landv of his chance of running a record mile a* Olympic P.t-Ic vrs'"rday He returned 4rr<in. 9.Bsec which was .six-tenths ot a second slower than hi"; first m ll*> o f th«> s-ason last month and well outMde the
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  • 27 13 The Island Club beat the Royal Singapore Golf Club by 10 t points. '<> K in a team match on the Island Club course yesterday.
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  • 61 13 NOT exactly a copy-book i tackle but still very effective. Armitaße, Singapore front-row forward, has rot a determined strangle hold on Services' hooker Whitty who cannot do much about it. Watching: the "trugele are Douglas (left) :ind Watts and Townsley. This was an incident in
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  • 376 13 LONDON, Sunday. T*HE Welsh rugby selectors should have no worries when they meet on Thursday to pick the team to play the All Blacks. The Probables showed fine form at Cardiff yesterday in the final trial, beating the Possibles by 22 points (two goals, penalty goal,
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  • 207 13 All Blacks booed by crowd LONDON. Sun T<HE New Zealand Rugby Inion tourists defeated Midland Counties yesterday by three points lo nil with a penalty taken by Jarden in the sixth minute. It was a hard fought game irom start to finish and both sides had ni'ssr-fl chances before Jarden
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  • 55 13 LONDON. Sun Oxford gained an unexpectedly easy win over Cambridge in the annual Interuniversity Toss-country race held 1 over a seven and half miles cours* at, Roehan.pton yesterday. They were successful by 29 points to 50 winning four of the first six place' with lan Boyd »he individual
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    • 182 13 P W D L F A Pts Wolves 21 14 5 2 54 29 33 West Bwich 21 15 2 4 58 28 32 Huddersfield 2! 12 4 5 38 21 29 Burnley 21 13 0 8 48 38 2S Bolton 20 8 8 4 37 28 24
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    • 180 13 Lelcrstrr 21 11 7 3 53 28 29 Doncaster 2\ 12 3 6 36 24 17 Everton 21 10 7 4 41 34 27 Birmingham 21 in 6 ***** 26 Rotherham 22 12 2 8 42 37 Notts Forest 21 10 5 ***** 25 Luton Town 21 9
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    • 405 13 P W D L F APts Ipswich 22 14 6 2 46 23 34 Southampton 22 14 2 6 45 29 3fl Brighton 21 13 4 4 37 25 30 RfMdinK 22 12 4 6 43 31 28 Northampton 22 9 7 6 46 28 i! 5 Norwich
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    • 275 13 P W D L P A Pts Queen o'South 14 !> 2 3 39 21 20 Hearts 14 7 3 4 34 21 17 Dundee 13 A 4 3 18 IS 16 Crltlr 13 6 3 4 22 IB 15 Mx-rdwn 13 3 4 26 18 15 St
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  • 470 13 LONDON, Sunday. Wanderers yesterday jumped to the top of the first division to oust their Midland rivals, West Bromwich Albion, from the position which they had held since Sept. 2. Wolves gained a 3-2 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on the latter's ground, while West Bromwich were beaten
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  • 307 13 Goal in extra time puts out Wanderers K.O. HOCKEY KohPeownets2 A GOAL in the third minute of extra time by Slnsapore Chinese R.C inside left Kok Peow put Wanderers out of the S.H.A's senlot knorkout tournament veste/day. Chinese won by 4-3 after scores rf 1-1 at half time and 3-3-
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  • 267 13 INDIAN Association cleared the I*■ firs hurdle of the SH As senior knockout competition when they defeated Police by 2-0 at Balestler Road yesterday. In a thrilling game, evenly contested. Police had as many chances as I A but their attack failed to take advantage of
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  • 83 13 LONDON. Sun. Oxford and Cambridge drew a thrilling lntcruniversity soccer match at Wembley .stadium yesterday, each scoring onrr after a goalless firs' naif. Cambridge went ahead in the 53rd minute when Inside right Oeoff Wittelind scored off the upright, only for Oxford to get an equaliser
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  • 82 13 LONDON. Sun. Yesterda Rugby League results were: Dewsbury 5 HunsW 0: Doncsu'er 2 Hull 38; Fervtherstone Rovers 18 Batley 7: Hudder.fleld 26 Wakefleld Trinity 17: Hull Kingston Rovers 12 Whltehnven 14; Leeds 26 Bradford Northern 16: Leigh 22 Halifax Liverpool Cltv 4 Swinton 16; Oldham 8 Barrow 24:
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  • 379 14 Peng Soon Co barred fromB.A.M. tourneys IPOH, Sunday. THE standing committee of the Badminton Association of Malaya, at an emergency meeting here today, decided that world champion Wong Peng Soon and his associates on an unauthorised tour to Formosa and Hong Kong should be barred from all tournaments organised by
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  • 34 14 TOKYO £'in Tan.inrse teatherwei"tn rharrnion Shlcefiaru K nexo knocked mi- Phillpplnn I.irw n.i i:,n ir 'he fourth round to retain the Onerv Peatherweirhl title .-.t Oeaka Western Jap.-m, tonlcht. R»;.ler. I
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  • 302 14 ni VllJANS— already assured of the Magyw Hockey Association quadrangular championship as a result of big wins over Army (4-0) and Royal Air Force (4-1)— swept Royal Navy off their feet at Tanglin yesterday to win 8-0 and retain their title Chiet interest for the
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  • 149 14 SINGAPORE will, after all. he 13 represented at the Asian (■arms in Manila next May. The emergency meeting of thr Asian Games federation which had been railed in Manila on Per. 17 and 18 —to discuss elicihilitv nf competitors and a proposed break with the
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  • 192 14 'T'lIF president of the Singapore U»n Tennis Association, Mr. lvi.i (boon I run. told the Straits Times yrslrrday that in .iiii.iimiis to limit; India's ilavi* (up tennis team of Siimant Misra and I: i in. in. vii in Krishnan to Sinsaporr are twins madr
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  • 80 14 BOMBAY. Si.n INDIA, with eight wickets standing, needed 247 runs u> avert, an innings defeat at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test against the Commonwealth team. COMMONWEALTH— M Inns.— .'."I for *i\ derl. INDIA— Ist lnn».: IS3 Umric;,r 83: Loader 4-53; Worrell 3-3?
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  • 38 14 Combined Schools (southern states will meet a Singapore HA eleven in a friendly hockey match at Jalan Besar stadium on Sa'urriav Dec 19 at 3.45 pm. Admission will be $2 *l and 50 cents (schoolchi'dren oily>.
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  • 379 14  -  EPSOM JEEP SATURDAY'S RACES REVIEWED By I lITLE ANDY (late Andy Seven), one of the batch newcomers to the formidable Spencer stable made an impressive debut on the Malayan Turf when he outsmarted a Cl. 4. Div. 4 field over six furlonrs at Inoh
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  • 420 14 •pHKRE will be N-vrn Tla Juana 8.12 Black Pulot 8«0 races on Wednes. Thr ydarh 8.11 NOTE Rend over day. vcond day of the Maline- II 8.11 transferred from Cl. 3 Perak Turf Club »»er Glory 8.11 to Cl 2. mertinr. Above Board B.HI j_
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  • 133 14 KLUANCV Sun. JOHORE. without three ot their regular players Ma Noor. Chenc Kok and Dollah ITon went ri'iwn 2-0 to Selancor in the F.A.M Cup .semi-final here today Selann"r villl now meet K'lan an in the final. Scl.mcor *rrc ajsa sWMar strength without McDonald and
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  • 283 14 SELANGOR TAKE TITLE IN NORTH QUAD HOCKEY I I HI. MAINTAINING their unbeaten record with a 2-0 win over Perak, Selangor took championship honours in the North Malayan hotkey quadrangular tourney which ended here today. Sclangor fully deserved th Mr victory, and once again it was their attack that proved
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  • 82 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Ban.— Bun Bfiinett, Svlanuor staiia-ofT ha 1. i has been riMM t" pl-'Y at cenr' three for All-Malayan Cn against All-Mal.iv.m S<:\i the annual rugger fixiurc. ai Ip«>u en Dec. in The Civilians XV will be: I'.irker i Spore Breakwell tlYraki. Wiittnglmm (Perak>. arnnett
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  • 37 14 I Singapore Hockey Association will nold thMl annual dum nnrl prize i distribution al t v»«* Atielphi Hdti an rralm<Mjr De< It :»t o pm. Tickets I are now on sale at $2 per head.
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  • 129 14 IJENANO h:id an t-asy virtnry in thp last match of thr North Malayan horkcy quadrancular today uh^n they beat Pahanu 4-0 on the Town Padang. Pahanp felt the absence of ■•lent full hack Chet Bingh but with centra naif Gerald Toft a.^ file mnmstay ol
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  • 43 14 i. 'IN \1 pnvUions in the North Quadrangular were: Srlangnr |Vl..k Prnan* IVili.n i: P W 3 r. I l 3 I) it II a i. r a pi«. 0 fi 2 6 17 3 4 27 5 2 3 11
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