The Straits Times, 29 December 1953

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    14 1 The Straits Times Nat***' jit**? Established 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1953. 15 CENTS
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    REBELS STRIKE AGAIN
    584 1 Drive menaces gateway tp Cambodia j^rid Saigon 100,000 PUSH SOUTH SAIGON, Monday. IfHE VIKT.MIMI Reid commander inlndoChina, General Yo Nguyen (Jiap, today hurled "innumerable" columns of victory-flushed Communists southwards in a drive to capture Savannakhot, gateway to Saigon and Cambodia, before French troops massed there can be
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    EXCITED FAMILY GETS A CALL FROM SINGAPORE
    82 1 It's Stanley on the 'phone AFTER WAITING lor nearly three hours at the home of Miss June Locke, fiancee of R VK. man Stanley Kast, the telephone rang for the family to receive a Christmas call from their missing member. Pelore the family
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    JANE REBELS AT 'GLARING' FILM
    277 1 Producer defies movie censors HOLLYWOOD. Monday. LIOWARD HUGHES latest defiance of the film industry's censors today brought open rebellion fnirtj IK> most famous star. Jan*» Russell. In 3t Louis tomorrow RKO vrill premier French Line," a 3-D film which has been refused a seal of
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    681 Xmas deaths
    16 1 CHICAGO. Mon. Chlistma.- holiday deaths in 'he t'nited States totalled 681 A P.
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    WE WILL FIGHT TO STAY FREE, SAYS LAOS PREMIER
    141 1 WE WILL FIGHT TO STAY FREE, SAYS LAOS PREMIER RANC.KOK. Mon. THE I. ans (tovrrnmrnt "with the aid of its friends" will fight with "unshakeahle will" to safeguard the integrity, liberty and independence of Laos, the Premier. I'rmt i- Sovanna Phouma. said in a message relayed to the Laos Legation
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    'It's a HOT war: give us more help'
    230 1 FRENCH PRESS IS CONCERNED PARIS. Monday. THE Virtminh offensive which has cut Indn-China 1 in two was the chief concern of French Press commentators today. The Right -wine Radicai AI'RORK insisted that the news from Indn-China showed that the hot war was
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    Cabinet called
    42 1 LONDON, Mon The Prime I Mini.'-trr, Sir Winston Churchill, today summoned his ministers to a full cabinet meeting tomorrow which is expected to approve a<\ eptancr Of RuMla'a proposal fa a four power conference in Beilin on Jan. 25 -U.P.
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    KANGAROO STEAK?
    240 1 ...or would uo( prefer rat rissole? BOSTON. Mon. A CORNELL University scientist suggested yesterday that rats and kangaroos should be investigated as possible new sources of food for man. Rabbits definitely could be used more widely for food than they now are, said Professor S. A. Asdell. in
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    Three armed men hold up late bus
    116 1 Three armed men hold up late bus IPOH Mon. A BUS. with the driver and girl 'clippie 1 as its only occupants, was stopped by a Malay in a lonely part of Pasir Puteh Road about tw n miles from here on Saturday night Another Malay masked and armed with
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    Grandma is mama, too
    65 1 LONDON, Mon A 45-vear-old woman who became a grandmother for the liist lime eight weeks ago has a baby younger than hhre r first grandchild. Two weeks after Mrs. Catherine Blenkinsopp became a grandmother, another of her three married daughters also had a baby. Today Mrs.
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    Film festival
    31 1 LONDON. Mon The Asian Film Society of Great Britain is planning an Asian film festival in London in 1954. Artist? from Asia will be invited to the festival— Reuter.
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    Malik leaves
    30 1 LONDON. Mon. Mr. Jakob Ma'.ik. Russian Ambassador to Britain, left London fo r Moscow by ai r today accompanied by his wife and their young daughter Vetlana. Reuter
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    Mobilisation aims achieved
    61 1 WASHINGTON. Mon America's partial mobilisation aims were substantially achieved in 1953. the congressional joint committee on defence production said todcy. The chairman. Senator Homer Capehart said expansion of the basic industrial capacity and accumulation of stockpiles of critical material! row makes It possible to l stain military
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    Reds free 1,463
    30 1 BERLIN. Mon. The Russians have released another 1.463 Germans held in Hi" Soviet Union since the war the German Red Cross -n Berlin disclosed today. A P
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    A WORD FROM YOUNG REG
    21 1 A WORD FROM YOUNG REG AND BU is an excited vniini; Keg as he says hello to his brother in Singapore.
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    MAORIS GREET QUEEN
    64 1 WAITANGI (New Zealand.' Mon. About 5.000 Maori tribesmen erected the Queen today with riles of "haka haka," the traditinnal tribal cheer, on the parade ground in front of Treaty House here. Korokn. kiiiß of the Maori*, wa.s prr.srntpd to thr Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh almnst.
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    Dutch grab an island
    64 1 JAKARTA. Mon. The Macassar. Celebes. newspaper Pedoman Rakjat claimed today that the Dutch have occupied the tiny disputed island of Gag and converted it into a defence base. Gajf lies in the Ceram Sea between Halmahrra and We* tern New Guinea. It is part of the
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    To boycott Queen
    33 1 COLOMBO. Mon The Sri Lanka Freedom Party decided unanimously todiy at their annual conference at Kandy to boycott all ceremonies connected with Queen Elizabeth's visit to Ceylon In April. Reuter.
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    Plea for rice
    41 1 COLOMBO. Mon. The Ceylon Government has rcreivrri an urgent appeal from Inriu for a loan of 30.000- tons r>f rice to meet a -temporary thotam in thp Travancore nVt net. India a;>k»-d for hli:h quality Burma nee. -Reuter.
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    NARRIMAN CAN
    99 1 SUE FOR DIVORCE CAIRO. Mon. 4 MUSLIM religious court at Heliopolis decided today that exQueen Narriman has grounds for divorce from ex-King Farouk of Egypt. The 20-year-old former Queen, through her lawyer, rejected a reconciliation move made by her hasband's lawyer and pressed for the court to accept
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    Seriously hurt
    30 1 A cyclist. Au Chin Teck. lying seriously ill in the Singapore General Hospital, following a collision with a lorry last night at Upper Serangoon Road, near Braddell Road.
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    Food riot
    23 1 HONG KONG. Mon Communist Chinese troops killed or wounded more than 80 persons rioting for food in Kuanctunc Province last week
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    Writer shot, gun nearby
    46 1 HENLEY. Mon. Captain F.van John Simpson, wr.ter ot historical novels under the pseudonym "f Evan John, and a leading British intelligence officer in Greece i n World War 11. was found shot dead yes- j terday in woods near his Oxfordshire farm.
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    Floods in 3 States
    282 1 Main oast-west road cut KUALA LUMPUR. Mnn. HEAVY RAIN over thr past few days in Porak. Pahang and Trengganu brought floods today. TIip n>ad between East and West Malaya in>m hpr*» to Kuantun i R:mb and BfnUl has b< c n fit borausr thf ono water
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    STOP PRESS
    37 1 JANET JAG AN FINED £51 <. KOBGKTOWN, (GalaaaV. Mon. Mrs Jasan was today \SI or three monihs umeuv tor !<• I tin* wUhont notice career this ik. Mb* others ti..--Kcd with her were teHi.landed and discharge n-coter.
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    'KEEP RED TRADE'—STASSEN
    40 1 'KEEP RED TRADE'— STASSEN WASHINGTON, Monday. The foreign awl < hief. Mr. H.trold E Stassen. said tonish t that Western nations wnulri increase the rhances of war if they <mnpletely cut off trade with the Soviet Union and Iti satellites.— i'.r.
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  • NEW SYSTEM FOR STAFF APPOINTMENTS
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      Grovt. men's promotion is now up to heads of departments
      343 2 pHK Singapore Government intends to pass on to heads of departments the responsibility of the Colonial Secretary for a number of staff matters. Under the new procedure, most staff appoint- j ments, promotions and maintenance of establishment records will be
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      BURNED BUT NOT BEATEN
      66 2 A match can't stop Winston HIS LEFT ARM in a sling. Sir Winston Churchill leaves 10 Downing Street for Chartwell, his country home. Sir Winston burned his left hand on December 18, when a box of matches caught fire in his hand. The public's first news
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      THE MAN WITHOUT A WORRY
      182 2 World tour at 80 AN 80- YEAR-OLD Canadian who arrived In Singapore over Christinas on a round-the-world trip said yesterday he is going to make another world tour when he is 100. He is Mr. John James Carrick, who graduated from Toronto University in 1897
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      May prevent disasters
      62 2 AUCKLAND. Mon.—Measuring instruments which New Zealand scientists propose to erect on the summit of Mount Ruapehu may give warning in future of catastrophes like that which caused the Christmas Eve railway disaster, in which 166 people perished. Geologists have begun the establishment of volcanomeasuring instruments on Mt.
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      `FAR TOO MANY GUN ACCIDENT DEATHS'
      138 2 `FAR TOO MANY GUN ACCIDENT DEATHS Loaded carbine left on table KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. ir THERE are far too many accidents in the police force and too many deaths have been caused by allowing rifles to be left unheeded," Mr. B. G. Smith. Deputy Public Prosecutor, told the First Magistrate's
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      War criminals pardoned
      35 2 MANILA. Mon. President Elpldio Quirino pardoned today the 52 Japanese war criminals whose death sentences he commuted to life terms last July and who are now confined in Tokyo's Sugamo prison.— UP.
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      More go by air
      23 2 WASHINGTON. Mon.— The scheduled airlines In the U.S. carried more passengers more miles than ever before during 1953.— A.P.
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      Sydney Chinese accused of immigrant smuggling
      125 2 From Our Correspondent SYDNEY. Mon. rE Commonwealth Investigation Branch, Australia, has sent a report to the Crown Law Officer recommending the prosecution of three leading Sydney Chinese on charges of smuggling In illegal immigrants The b r anch said evidence is insufficient to recommend
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      Pilot of lost plane acts as midwife
      121 2 WINNIPEG. Mon. A BABY was born to a Canadian Indian woman in a stranded aircraft with the pilot acting as midwife, it was learned here today when a searching Canadian Air Force plane found the aircraft 300 miles north-east of here The baby
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      New aid pact
      29 2 KARACHI, Mon. —Pakistan and the United States today signed an agreement by which Pakistan will receive $22,000.--000 (£7.857.0001 economic aid in the current financial year. Reuter.
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      Thousands flock to see baby of the 'miracle' woman
      173 2 SYRACUSE. Sicily. Mon. POLICE reinforcements were called out yesterday at thousands of pilgrims flocked here to the "Weeping Madonna" after the 20-year-old woman, who first saw the statue's tears, gave birth to an "exceptionally beautiful" baby boy on Christina Day. Madam
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      But you're starving the people, too, Govt. told
      75 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rpHOUGH the people are with A the Government in its •Starve the Bandit" campaign, some feel they, too. are u-eing starved in the process. Mr. S. Govindaraj, Pre- 1 sident of the Senangor Branch of the Malayan Indian Con|TMB,
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      Unions not ready for talks with Rendel yet
      171 2 THE first public hearing of evidence by the Rendel Commission, nr- ranged for tomorrow. T may have to be postponed. Four Government employeesunions, invited t* appear i before the Commission tomorrow, want a n extension of time to preparr their case. The
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      Aga Khan moves to Egypt
      70 2 NICE. Mon.— The Aga Khan and his wife, thr Begum, left I hrrr by air yesterday for a months visit in Cairo Since autumn, thoy have been resting at his villa at Cannes. At thr end of January, thr Aga Khan, leader of the Ismallls
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  • GUIANA GETS A NEW GOVT.
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      Only two Britons in interim council of 27
      225 3 Only two Britons in interim council of 27 GEORGETOWN, (British Guiana), Monday. CIH Alfred Savage, the Governor of British Guiana, tonight named 10 members of an Executive Council and 27 members of a Legislative Council which are to constitute an interim government No supporters of the Left-wing Peoples' Progressive Party
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      THEY PROMISE U.S. AID WILL GO ON
      124 3 TAIPEH, Monday. TTNITED States Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. *J Walter S. Robertson and the chairman of the Joint. Chiefs of Staff. Admiral Arthur Radford ended their 43 hour visit here today verbally assuring General Chiang Kai-sheks government that American aid will be
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      They'll stay on strike
      64 3 PARIS. Mon.— Postal workers last nipht decided to carry on their five-day old strike in Paris at least until tomorrow when they will meet again to consider future action. The walkout by sorters and rail post office men called by the Communist-led and independent trade unions
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      West will agree to Berlin meeting
      195 3 West will agree to Berlin meeting LONDON. Mon BRITAIN. Franco and th.> States will accept thp Russian proposal that the rour- power foreign nvnistrrs conference should opm In Berlin on January 25. diplomatic quarters here j*»vi today. Foreign Office- .spokesman indicated Britain's approval nf yesterday's Russian proposal saying that the
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      Unfair, he says
      42 3 CAIRO. Mon. President Neguib yesterday tnlri Mr Richard Crossman. British Labour Me:nber of Parliament, that amone thp things marring Anglo-Egyptian relations and preventing a Suez canal agreement were "unfair campaigns" hy snm" British politicians acainst Egypt and Egyptians.— Renter.
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      Royal carols
      46 3 WEST NEWTON. (Norfolk), Mon The Quern Mother, Princess Marparct and other members of the Royal family who are .spending Christina! at Sandringham drove to villace church hero la.st night tn .mln tenants and workers on thr royal estate in a .special carol .service— Reuter.
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      Invited to US
      44 3 COLO\SRO. MOIL (VyioncM-l Premier Sir Ji>hn Kotelawala has b'-cn Invited to vim: the United states. Informed circles naid today. A formal invitation win b < smt to sir John as soon as he Indicates when he Is free. t« leave Ceylon. A.P.
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      Terry ready for panto
      67 3 A (I(. AIM 1 II HOLDER lhayed like a television aerial rraates a homely ataMiphere tar TV star Terry Thomas as tor gets ready for his BtofJC appearance in the pantomime "Dick Whiltinirtiin" which opened at the R.i 11.1 it.i Theatre. Sutlon (Surrey) on Itoxinc Day.
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      Life will be better in prison
      58 3 CAGLIARI (Sardinia) Mon. A 42-YEAR-OLD swineherd presented himself to the police here tonight, told them tm had shot two other swineherd whom he suspected of theft and added: "Anyway I will be better off in prison than looking after pigs." Police found the bodies
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      Bevan and Jennie to talk with Neguib
      161 3 CAIRO. Monday. MR. Ancurin Bevan, the British Left-wing Labour leader and his wife. Miss Jennie Lee. arrived here late last night. They were met at the airport by Sardar K. M. Panikkar, the Indian Ambassdor, whose guests they will be in Cairo Mr
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      C'WEALTH TALKS ON NEW MENACE
      191 3 Danger from Japs, Germans LONDON, Monday. FINANCE Ministers of the Commonwealth, meeting in Sydney on Jan. 8, will discuss the severe competition to traditional British markets from countries like Japan and West Germany. Japan has been increasing her export drive into Far Eastern. South-East Asian
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      New Minister for Sudan
      56 3 CAIRO. Mon- Colonel Abdel Fattah Hassan, Comman-der-in-Chief of Egyptian armed forces in the Sudan, has been appointed Egyptian Deputy Minister for Sudan AtTairs. This was announced after a Revolutionary Council Command meeting; last night by Major Salah Salem, Minister of National Guidance who is also Minister
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      Reds protest
      29 3 THE HAGUE. Mon.— The Indonesian Communist party has protested to India against her refusal to grant visas fur a detention to attend an In.iian Communist Congress.— Rrutcr.
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      Gifts for Royal children
      72 3 ILL LF.T THEM fight it out says Princess Margaret as she receives presents for her niece and nephew. Princess Anne and Prince Charles. Making the presentation is Mrs. Pauline Schumann and (centre) her husband, who is her partner in a haute ecole riding act in Tom
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      Greetings from Irish eyes
      32 3 A Ml YKAR smile from Maureen (Ml. 11.1 who is now making the film Malaya' at Shepperton studios. near London. Maureen spent Cln i-.tni.is in her native Dublin.
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      The 22,000 who won't go home
      74 3 The 22,000 who won't go home PANMUNJOM, Mon. r THE Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission told the Allies and Communists today to decide the fate of more than 22.000 PoWs who have refused to go home. An Indian spokesman said that if the two .sides do not get together, the commission
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      New weapons for Ho from China
      54 3 TAIPEH, Mon.— The Chinese Communists have agreed to start "re-equipping" five field infantry divisions of Ho Chi Minh's army in Indo-China next month. Nationalist in- telllgence sources claimed today. The re-equipping w^s to be done with modern Russian weapons under the provisions of the
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      Sunshine in London again
      50 3 LONDON, Mon.— Britain's I fine spell of Christmas ./eather continued yesterday with bright sunshine attracting thousands of people into parks and the countryside. Temperatures rose and hy BOOH reached 44 degrees- two decrees warmer than yesterday. Weather eSMftl predict the' dry period is likely to contn.ue.
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      Pianist dies
      36 3 LAUSANNE, Mon. Jasef Turczynski. Polish concert pianist, died here yesterday after a long illness. He was a close friend of Jan Ignace Paderewski with whom he edited and published the complete works of Chopin.-A.P.
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      LONDON STOCKS
      207 3 LONDON. Mon. Closing prices or setected stocks were LOANS Consols 63 7 4 Funding 4% 101 War 3fe% 84ft BAXKS Mercantile (£l2Vi) 24 Hongkong ($125) 95 Eastern <I 5) 1% Chartered (£1) 41/6 /6 INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 1216 Royal 12 Prudential 37% RAILS Can. Pacific <£5> 42
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      LONDON TIN
      25 3 LONDON. Dec 28. Cash Buyers CMT|; Sellers €650; Forward Buyers £629: Sellers €630; Settlement £645 (unchanged) Turnover am 100 tons; p.m. 25 tons.
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      LONDON RUBBER
      33 3 LONDON, Dec. 28—Spot 17'vd. Feb. 17' 4 d. Mar. 17',d.. Apr-June 17\d., July-Sept. lT^-d.. Oct.-Dec. 17'vd.. Jan. c.i.f. 17d.. Feb. r l.f 17 1/lfifl.. Mar. c.l.f. 17'»<1. Tone: Quirt ly Meaoy.
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    THREE TOP FILM MEN ARRIVE IN S'PORE
    251 4 THREE TOP FILM MEN ARRIVE IN S'PORE ffHE THREE top men A behind the film. "The Seekers." a story of pioneers to be made in New Zealand, arrived in Singapore yesterday by QANTAS-8.0.A.C. Constellation from London. They were Mr. Peter Hennessy, who will be directine exterior photography, Mr. Ken Annakln.
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    Rotary meeting
    28 4 Sincapore Rotary Club will not meet fo r luncheon tomorrow The nomination committee will meet at the Caoitil Blue Room at 5.15 p.m. on January 4
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    Women more intellectually honest than men, says Mrs. Eu
    233 4 'NOT AS PETTY: MORE FITTED TO GOVERN/ SHE SAYS \UOMEN arc intellectually more honest and more highly developed in conscience than men, writes Mrs. Robert Eu, a Singapore City Councillor, in a youth journal. These qualities, she says, are unsuitable for
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    CAR PIERCED BY 15-ft BEAM
    76 4 TWO SOLDIERS of the West Yorkshire Regiment were injured when this car crashed into the wooden railing near the overhead railway bridge in Kuala Kangsar Road, Ipoh. Protruding from the rear of the car Is one of the 15-foot heavy beams from the railings, which
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    Robber gang makes a problem haul
    97 4 Robber gang makes a problem haul 4 GANG early yesterdaybacked a lorry into a lane behind Telok Ayer Street, broke into a store and took 38 bags of black pepper valued at $13,000. Their next problem: How to get rid of it. The manager of the -inre Mr. Ling Hee
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    THIEVES THREW AWAY JOCKEY'S CAMERA
    115 4 Triple burglary at Penang PKNANC. Mon. BIRC.I.ARS broke into three rooms in the Chusan Hotel at Tanjortß Tokonc early this morning hut left a ***** c.innr.i lu-longini: to jockey I.i-n Sawyer. Police recovered the camera They believe the thieves threw it aw.v when Jie> s.i«
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    MYF picks officials
    111 4 Mr. Richard Tay was reelected president of the Telok Ayer Methodist Youth Fellowship, Singapore, for the third year on Sunday. Other office-bearers are: Vice-president, Mr. Yeo Chee Heng (re-elected); secretary. Mr. Peter Lim Hong Teck: trea.s\irer, Mr. Ng Kuan Hua 're-elected i. asst. treasurer, Miss Teo Bee
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    Assizes session
    24 4 The first session of the Singapore Assizes for 1954 wi'.l be held at the Supreme Court at 10 a.m on January 11
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    Soldier 'not negligent'
    89 4 ACQUITTED PRIVATE Duncan Brown, 19. of GHQ, Signal Regiment, was acquitted in the Traffic District Court yesterday on a charge of causing the death of Tan Lav Tua by a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide. Pte Brown was alleged to have driven a military truck
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    IT'S TIME TO BE ON GUARD
    188 4 IT'S TIME TO BE ON GUARD Police crime warning SINGAPORE police yesterday advised the public to he on guard against criminals from now until after Chinese New Year, when robberies and thefts may show a sharp rise. "Crime in the last three days has been on a very much reduced
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    Lawyers pay tribute to Mr. E. A. de Buriatte
    155 4 PENANG, Mon MEMBERS of the Bar and courts paid tribute in the High Court here today to Mr. E. A. de Buriatte, senior partner of Presgrave and Matttitws. who died in England last week. "Hp was a very senior member of
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    RENEW PERMITS OR PAY PENALTY
    191 4 Firms warned of yearly tax KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. BUSINESS firms in the Federation are being warned to renew their licences by the end of February or be penalised. Under the Licensing and Registration of Businesses Ordinance, which became law last February, firms have to be
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    Methodist heads to meet in Malacca
    134 4 Methodist heads to meet in Malacca MALACCA, Mon ]_f ALAYAN Methodist leaders will attend the 59th session of their annual conference here from Jan 2 to 6. A highlight of the conference is the new village hour when highly trained workers In the new villages will be Introduced. A film
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    Police Band
    59 4 Singapore Police Band will play at the following places and dates next month from 5.30 pm to 6.30 p.m.: Jan. 5, Katong Park; Jan. 8. King George V Park; Jan. 11. Farrer Park: Jan. 15, Raton* Park: Jan. 19. King George V Paik; Jan 22, Farrer Park; Jan.
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    Party for club
    17 4 Singapore YM.C.A. gave a Christmas party fcr members of Mt. Erskine Boys' Club yesterday.
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    125 RETURN TO SCHOOL—FOR FOUR DAYS
    44 4 125 RETURN TO SCHOOL— FOR FOUR DAYS BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN. Some of the 125 teachers, sorial welfare workers, police officers, Labour officers and other Government employees from Singapore and the Federation attending a four-day extra-mural course at the University of Malaya. S.T. picture.
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      154 4 SINGAPORE DIARY Shell Company Tea-party in I'.S.I.S.: Free Him show— Chrtet- ACS hall. Barker Road. 8 p.m.: honour of eight lonR-service em- mat In Korea. The Frontier, Voice Students Conference, s.Y.C. Camp, ployees Adelphl Roof Garden. Cole- Of The Choir air-conditioned Tanah Meiah Besar. man Street. 5 p.m. theatret J«
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    His $1 bribe costs him $100 fine
    91 5 SPECIAL Constable S. Chinnasamy was fined $100 or a months gaol in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday fo r taking a $1 bribe from a cyclist. The cyclist. Chung Keng Liani;. nave him the dollar so that ho would not take action
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    Boom in local cigarettes
    87 5 IPOH, Mon.— Local made cigarettes have been .selling fast since the duty on tobacco a.s raised 'ast mouth. Imported cigarettes have become too expensive tor more j and more local people who had changed over to them during the "boom" y*SML Scouts' concert BUKIT MERTAJAM, Mon.
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    THE BOY WHO FINISHED SECOND IS TOLD: NO PLACE FOR YOU
    252 5 K. LUMPUR, Mon. (COMPLAINTS reached the Selangor Parents' Association today that an Indian student who gained second place in a school's final examination this year had been told to leave because there was no place for him in the
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    PATROLS KILL 2 BANDITS
    119 5 PATROLS KILL 2 BANDITS Many skirmishes KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. SECURITY forces killed Communist terrorist in thr Pontian area of Johore yesterday. A woman terrorist contacted at the same time escaped. Another terrorist was killed hv a patrol of the Special Air Service Regiment in the Gua Musang district of X.l.
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    Govt. told: Stop expatriate family pay—or else...
    217 5 Govt. told: Stop expatriate family pay or else... UNIONS THREATEN TO QUIT RITSON TALKS TPHE Council of Action, representing 18.000 GovernA ment employees, last night decided after a fivehour meeting; to warn the Singapore Government that it either stop the payment of non-pensionable expatriation allowances to European officers or face
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    PAY ROBBERY -FIVE GO FREE
    68 5 PAY ROBBERY -FIVE GO FREE tjWl MEN, detained hv the police for questioning in connection with Singapore's 520.0Q0 Cold Storage pepper robbery last work, iiave now been released. A police spokesn an said last niitht that lingcrprinls taken from a Cold Storage Company car. in which two clerks carrying the
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    New Year party
    38 5 RAUB, Mon— R.A.G.M. Ciuo in the gold mining village of Bukit Koman will hold a shipwreck party to welcome the New Year. The party will la>t until the swimming pool or the bar runs dry.
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    They want Malay to be nations language
    190 5 TEACHERS PLAN A DICTIONARY KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. THE literary section of the Federation of Malay Teachers' Unions has decided to develop systematically the Malay language as the common tongue of the peoples of Malaya. To achieve this, it has ap[K)inted a committee to
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    Buffet party
    18 5 RAUB. Mon —Raub Club will hold a New Year buffet and dance on New Year's eve.
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    BOAT CAPSIZES, 2 DROWN
    63 5 KOTA KAIIAKI', Mumlay. Two women were ilrownotl when a Kiist of wind cun*i/.c Hie boat in which they wen- crossing ih, Siincei Piilai M d.ik.i Kiver. They were K-aja Kalsitm binle Snik. Rt and l.imah binte Merih. 2^. Another woman anil a man who were in
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    BOXING DAY MARRIAGE AT KATONG
    29 5 MR. K I. KODKK.I KS and Miss Irsula C'ordeini after their wedding at the Church of the Holy Family, Katong. Singapore, on Boxing Day.
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    PENANG'S TRADE WITH SUMATRA IMPROVES
    112 5 Rise follows new rules PENANG. Mon. TRADE between Atjeh in Sumiitru and Penang has improved since the new trading regulation! came into force two months ago. .said Mr. A. 11. Stoneham. Settlement Economic Officer. Although there are no figures j to show the exact increase,
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    $14,000 church near Raub
    52 5 RAUB, Mon. A Rompn Catholic church canting $14,000 M bciii!- built on four-acre site near the Ul mile, Bukit Komaii Road. The church committee i.v starting a primary cla.<w in English for children from th" Bukit, Kontan new vtUan m .soon a.s the church building u
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    Post offices open on New Year's Day
    89 5 Post offices open on New Year's Day rpHE Singapore General A Post Offlcp will be open from i a.m to noo n on New Year's Day. All other posr oilices and postal agencies in the Colony will be open from 9 a.m to KT.3O a.m. Post offices at TIOBg Bahru
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    Boy, 5, drowns
    33 5 ALOR STAR. Mon— A five-year-old boy, Leong Hoe Pen.:. was found drowned in a well near his house at Sunaei Di:a Aior Jansgus. 12 mile~s from Aior Star, last night.
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    BANK OF CHINA MOVES IN WITHOUT FUSS
    265 5 BANK OF CHINA MOVES IN WITHOUT FUSS Amidst the newness an abacus TAKING advantage of the Christmas holidays, the Bank of China moved into its new 15-storey building in Battery Road, Singapore, ovrr the week-end. Yesterday the doors were opened for business- without fanfare or ceremony. "An opening ceremony was
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    MANAGER AND ARCHITECT
    37 5 ilr. MANAGES «l Urn Hank i I htaa, Mr S l.ti. wrl- meN Mr. C. <). MiddlemiNs, ;i parlnrr of Palmar and Turner, the architects «ho clcsunoil lh«- h;ml s new builclins. Straits Times picture.
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    It's a good life on the Wonogiri
    93 5 f^OR the crew of the Dut.-h freighter Wonogiri me afloat is a happy lot. The ship is airconditioned throughout, and most of the crew have single caoin.s with modern fixtures designeo for comfortable living on lonp voyacrs. Laxtest addition to the RovaJ Rottrrdam
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    151 6 2U H tttti Iff (fntnitftttfftt MR. ,v MRS ONO KOK m' thank relatives and frieni:-. Inr their \.iinah|p presents, congratulations ■nd at on MR. MRS. Roystan Anthony i rda thank all frtenda am Ulives for their assistance, good Irishes, cif's and attcddance oti the o<casion of their mnDR. A;
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    IN MEMORIAM
    25 6 Jn H,,jW. \/ii i minimum} IN FYKTiI AS I INCi men heloied husband i-nonj: who <Me(l <>n thp JPih IVrpmbcr, ]•> but not lorsotfn.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    124 6 M W»rW, fin I minimum) WMI BAI B. ■I'ed DH- Pie, Apply Box AL'JLM PLAN youi ne\: leave throuch a.i.i r I'ln .lie *****, Artelphl Hotel. THE SECONI Oenerai Meetini; of the .i:lrirens Eoclett will be held Council Hall, Stamford Road, at f. p.m. on Wednesday, 30tt> FREE. To
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      Headaches In China
      805 6 Authentic news Eraon China i is scarce, despite the Hong Kong peephole, and an attempt by ECAFE to review the main feature! of economic development there consequently is of special Interest The ECAFE research division appears to have confined itself, however, lo published omnial or semiofficial sources,
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      Malayan Cocoa Trials
      467 6 Malayan Cocoa Trials The published proceedings of the cocoa conference held in London yield additional but not entirely encouraging information of the progress of cocoa planting in Malaya. Until more il known, the policy as regards commercial planting has been to go slow, and there is the further restriction, of
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    POLYGAMY BATTLE
    5 6 Mrs. Sfiiiin Foutur
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    Injustices against women
    336 6 Injustices against women MRS. E. Carmichael, of Kulim, who is against polygamy, but still advocates the freedom for man to indulge in it. appears to be living in the England of Chaucer's days, when the ideal of I wifehood was depicted by him in his characterisation of Gresilda. who was
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    HE SHOULD NOT FALL IN LOVE...
    153 6 HE SHOULD NOT FALL IN LOVE... r«OMMONSENSE Adviser J suggests that a married man who has fallen in love with an unattached woman (and she with him) should be allowed to marry. I don't agree. In the flr.st place the man has no business to fall in love with another
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    VOTING IDEA
    112 6 "JACOBUS" proposes «l that voting papers i should hare two columns, j one for and the other against.' j A much more effective and far less complicated t method would be to stipu- J t late that a candklutc must j ih>ll at least one rote more than
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      `THE KID GLOVES MUST COME OFF AGAINST REDS'
      488 6 `THE KID GLOVES MUST COME OFF AGAINST REDS' ipHE recent articles by Mr. C. C. Too were interesting? to Federation residents who can "read between the lines." To paraphrase his opening remarks: "It is significant that after more than five years of futile terrorist campaign the hard core stil) remains
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      'HOST OF EVILS IN SCHOOL'
      301 6 'HOST OF EVILS IN SCHOOL I WAS provided with comic relief when I read Mr. E. |K. Tans unwarrantable out- burst against the Education Department for proposing to launch the bilingual plan in Chinese schools. He censured the plan as being too abrupt. With a ttourLsh of rhetoric he wrote:
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      The wider scope of juries
      363 6 The wider scope of juries I HAVE been reading with I great concern the argu- j ments for and against the Jury and the assessor systems. My concern chiefly arises because we seem to be experimenting with I the life. dignity, and honour of our citizens by convicting or acquitting
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      The wonder boy
      302 6 rIS is the story I read in a Malayalam daily of a boy who shows astonishing talent in arithmetic. The boy. Govindarajan. is 13 I and lives in Coimbatore South India. According to his father. Mr. S. A. Ramasamy. the boy never went to school even though
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      So far from hospitals
      204 6 I AM a kampong dweller. 1 went to the local governiment dispensary to get my grandmother's prescription fo i vitamin taulets but wa.« told that I should go to the hospital 20 miles away. My son had a road accident and sustained some minor injuries. I
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      On the Margin
      520 6 Lord VVavcll I death of Lord Wavell in action at 37 should not 1 feel be called a tragedy, at any rate .or him. The Greeks who were perhaps mure steeped in worldly I wisdom than any people who came ;ifter them held that whom the gods
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      'IT IS IRONICAL'
      128 6 AT thp Singapore Legislative Council the Colonial Secre- tary spoke eloquently and convinrlncly on Mnn-romiminalism and the briiclits that will follow from I'M'hewiiix coin munallMn in any fora in the wolitical lilf oi Iho colony. No one c«n dispute what he said but it la .significant that
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      43 6 Horrf. fin (minimum, THE SBpsssassnl ol Kileen. daughter ol Mi A Mrs Klonc Thlan iioe. and Mr. Eric Mortimer, was announced on 2tith December, l!>s:t BRADLEY-SLBDOE: The engaaement is announced between Richard Oliver Bradley of Wolverhampton. England, and Merci Kathleen Sledge Ol I'en.
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      Representations to Indonesia over 'piracy' in Straits of Malacca
      329 7 Representations to Indonesia over 'piracy' in Straits of Malacca POLICE STA TEMENT KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THK federation Government has made repre■entationfl to Indonesia over last Tuesday's piracy and kidnapping in the Malacca Straits. A pirate vessel manned by four men three of whom were dressed in the uniform of Indonesian
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      THE WINDOW NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT
      197 7 THE WINDOW NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT Now only a colour patch shows where it was •TW/S is the story of an unlovely hole knocked in a lovely wall and a Government department's error hastily rectified. The wall is that of the Treasury building facing Empress Place, reputed to be
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      Dato Tan hopes to end MCA split
      95 7 ITOE president of the Malayan Chinese Association, DatO Bir Cheng-lock Tan, is to try to end the dispute in the Singapore branch committee. He said yesterday he hoped the trouble might be patched HP. Sir Cheng-lock plans to nv-et the four members who
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      Party for T.B. patients
      52 7 KIAI.A LUMPUH Mon.— i Members of the security forces were amnn; those who eo:i--1: ibiiteri to the Christmas Phrty civen to in-patien' me Tuberculosis clinic at Panana Road. Kuala Lumpur, to- day. All the f>o in-patients received small presents. The youngest patient la an 11 -year-old
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      61 STILL WAIT BY THE PHONE
      223 7 But 34 cancel overseas calls AFTER HOURS of waiting by their telephones for the past few days for expected radio phone calls 61 Malayans were still waiting yesterday. Of the 95 people who failed to get their calls through because of bad conditions, 34
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      Twenty new mines opened in Perak: Best in 6 months
      140 7 IPOH. Mon. T\v EN T V fhme.se owned nur.es. ineludins: one gold nme. started production in Perak last month. As acainst these .six mines were cl<»eci. The Labour Depaitmi thii wai the highest number ol mine., opened In the state
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      LOWER THE FLAG, TAXI MEN TOLD
      117 7 Tivo fined $50 TWO Singapore taxi drivers were reminded in the City police Court yesterday that paw ogen cannot be carried with the taximeter flag in tn "lor hire" position. For that offence both Teng Ng Seng and Ho Ker Leng were fined the
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      They'll see how British police work
      116 7 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. THHEE of the six Federation police otteen who will take a six-months' course in Britain left Kuala Lumpur airport for Singapore ihi.s morning. The y are Mr. B. K Cashyap attached to the Special Branch headquarters. Mr M S Naidu. C
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      Certificates for 17
      60 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Seventeen successful candidates of the School of Nursing Kuala Lumpur, today received their certificates from Lady Templer. wife of the High I Commissioner. Yap Poh Choo and Nadir Khan topped the li.st of candidates, getting distinction in medicine and surgery respectively. Nadir Khan i.s
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      Film executive visits S'pore
      52 7 Mr. Murray Silverstone. president of 20th Century Fox International and Inter-America Incorporation*, Hew into Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut from Honu Komk with hi.s wife. Mr Silverstone. who Is on a <hree-month world tour, may stay in the Colony until Satur- I day before flying to
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      Guest preacher
      41 7 The Rev. Dr Hobart B. Amstutz. District Superintendent, will be guest pre;i•her at the Watchnlght service of the Tamil Methodist Church. Slnftapnrc. at 10.45 i i>m. on Thursday. Dr. Ams- i Hit/ will preach on "Gods f euidance." j
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      THEY WANT THIS JOB KEPT FOR A MALAY
      194 7 t KUALA LVMPI'R, Mon. Till Federation of Malay Students' Organisations derided at its annual general meeting in Muar, Johnre. yesterday to urge the Federal Government to reserve the post of "Master of .Methods at the Malay Teacher* Training Colleges in Tanjong Malim
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      Cathedral dinner
      27 7 St Andrews Cathedra; Youth Fellowship. Singapore. will hold a fancy dress rianer and Christmas dinner in :h«' cathedral's War Memorial Hall at 7 p.m tomorrow
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      Flying home
      26 7 After two years' service in Singapore, Mr. Charles F Baldwin, the United States Consul General, will fly home on leave tomorrow, with Mrs. Baldwin.
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      STILL ON STRIKE sav the workers BUSINESS AS USUAL says the boss
      224 7 STILL ON STRIKE sav the workers BUSINESS AS USUAL says the boss K. LUMPUR. Mon. •THE 70 striking dailyA paid worken at Knrnro Motors here voted today to stay out until their demand for a bonus is met. The branch manager. Mr. A. S. Cannon, has said that no bonuses
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      RAF SERGEANTS ENTERTAIN ORPHANS
      39 7 NO. 1 RAF SERGEANTS' Mess al Ongah «.i> at home in firi Singapore orphans yesterday. After tun hours of games and entertainments the children x;M tl«« n for a Christmas treat. Straits Tin< s pirture.
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      NEW RACKET STARTS AT PROVINCE FERRY
      135 7 Drivers profit from rush IPOH. Monday. iPOH visitors to Prnang during thr Christmas holi- days wore victims of a nrw rarkrt started by Malay and Chinese drivers in Butterworth. Because of the rush for -he ferry and the long queue, some cars had to
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      Camp Chief here
      33 7 Mr. John Thurmond. Camp Chief of the Scoiit Training Centre at Gilwetl. England, arrived in Singapore yesterday He leaves today for Australia where he will conduct training courses for scouters.
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      Man found dead in hotel room
      77 7 Man found dead in hotel room IPOH. Mon. WHEN police broke into a hotel room last nignt they found Khor Lian Chuan. 56. a shop assistant, dead ->n a couch. Khor had stayed the night .it the hotel and when the boy called him in the morn- j Ing there
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      Negligent: $50
      26 7 Chon Kee Tong was fined I $50 In Singapore yesterday I fur negligent driving resulting in a collision with another car :il Kallang Road.
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      'Indian farmers being given every help'
      149 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. INDIANS who want to become farmers are being given every help by the Federation Government. said Mr. F. C. Majmard. Deputy CommisI sinner for Labour, to the Strait* Time* today. He was referring to a statement hist week by Mr. A.
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      New Year's Eve dance
      24 7 Singapore Furasian wo'nation wilj hold a New ypar's Evr d^nrr at the Victoria Memorial Hnll from 3.30 p.m. nn Thursday.
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      New Registrar
      35 7 Mr Tan Thoo n Lip. Pp:istrar °f Singapore HiKh Court, is on short Itavr Mr Eu Chc-Ow Chyp. Deputy Registrar, is acting for Mr. Ta n In addition t o hi* own d'Jtie*
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    Centenary celebration
    41 8 The birthday centenary of Saradamani Devi. <he spiritual consort of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was celebrated at the Ramakrishrvi Mission temple in Bartley Road. Singapore, on Sunday A special worship was held with recital of devotional M|i and feeding children.
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    Ex-Malayan dies
    24 8 Dr. IXnald McNeil Ford. formerly of the Malayan Medical Service, died at Slough England, nn December 17 He was 30 years old.
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    Annual meeting
    28 8 The second annual meeting of the Singapore Children s Society will be held at the British Council Hall in Stamford Road at 5 30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    MALAYAN BOYS AT ADELAIDE COLLEGE
    166 8 STAFF and overseas students of the Kings College, Adelaide. The hoys represent just over 10 per rent of the total enrolment. From left are: FRONT ROW: L. P. Trudinger, D. M. Taylor, D. D. Harris (deputy headmaster and hoarding housemaster), C. C. Shink field (headmaster).
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    Political situation in Malaya has not improved
    261 8 Political situation in Malaya has not improved BACK AFTER 3 YEARS, SIR SYDNEY FINDS- PENANG. Monday. T-HE POLITICAL SITUATION in Malaya has not improved from what it was three and a half years ago, said Sir Sydney Palmer, chairman of the Rubber Development Board, today. But, he added, there had
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    Working day is over for 8 men
    99 8 Working day is over for 8 men THK NEW YEAR will mark the beginning of a happy retirement for eight long service workers of the Shell Company of Singapore. And this afternoon Mr. D H. Palmer, the general manager, will be huM at a tea party in their honour at
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    790 babies born in week
    35 8 Seven hundred and ninety babies were born in Singapore during the week ended December 19 against 158 deaths. Main causes of death were pneumonia 23 enteritis 21 and tuberculosis 18.
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    Organiser in adult education sought
    159 8 FOR EXTRA-MURAL CLASSES THE UNIVERSITY of Malaya is looking for a tutor organiser in adult education to organise extramural classes in the Federation. The post has been advertised |in Malaya and Britain. Professor F. Mason, of the Department of Education. University of Malaya, told the
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    Gaol for driver who stole petrol
    149 8 KOH KIM HO, lorry driver, was sentenced to four months' gaoi in Singapore yesterday for stealing 4.i gallons of petrol from the Motor Transport Section of RAF. Seletar. Sergeant Harold Ryder, who was in charge of the night staff of the Section on Nov.
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    The man 'who didn't know'
    99 8 F. A. Kunz. a British business- i man, told the First Police Court yesterday that he did not know it was an offence to teach his wife to drive without a licence P'or abetting hLs wife in driving a car without a licence, Kunz was
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    66 students start 4-day conference
    79 8 66 students start 4-day conference SOCIAL and moral problems which affect their lives will be discussed by 66 boys and girls from Chine.se schools in Singapore, who began a fourday conference at the Youth Council Camp at Tana Merah Besar yesterday. Students and their relation to society, and religion, will
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      279 8 SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR MALACCA 7.15 Morn»n K Sl»r; 7.30 News; 1 As Spore Pg«L«J»I mLJ£? SSSiz 'tVS^i^ 7.35 Melody Mixture; 8 Musical or ßa 7 K 0 Mu^' b^ Melarhrlno Bre Ne s: 7IS Ri 110 Dortor Uorror. iou mush oy iviciarnrino, Q |j van t,, r ni t* r*
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    Time off for love beat the lovely duchess who fought for throne of France
    2116 9 Time off for love beat the lovely duchess who fought f or throne of France KING LOUIS the Eighteenth of France was an uneasy monarch in 1820. He had been chased from the throne by the resurgent Napoleon and replaced somewhat shakily by a vengeful Duke of Wellington. A firm
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    Tin control scheme opposed
    377 10 OTRONGLY opposing the proposed tin control scheme, the chairman of Sungei Besi and Ayer Itam Tin companies. Mr. G. W. Simms, declares that the long-term outlook for the industry is good. He adds: "If those who have advocated another control agreement, embodying the restriction of production,
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    Exchange rates
    146 10 ■pHE Malayan Exchange Bank* Association made the following changes in Its rates to merchants yesterday: NEW YORK: buying. T.T. 32"i. r.ir mail. O.D 33. 90 days, 33 credit bilLs, 33 316 trade bills; .selling T.T. or OD. 32 ready. CANADA: buying. T.T. 31 15 1«. I air mail.
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    Produce prices
    81 10 Singapore Chinme Produce Exchange: Noon prices per plcul were unchanged on the closing preChnstmas prices: Copra: quirt unchanged; January $39 buyers, $40 i t sellers; February $39\ buyers, $40V» sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; unchanged; *62'_. sellers. Pepper: quiet; unchanged Mun- I tok white $330, Sarawak $325. Lampong black
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    BROKER ON LEAVE
    36 10 Mr. Lee Swee Cheng, a partner In a sharebrokin? firm In Singapore, left last week on a tour of Hong Kong, United States and Europe. He will be away for about six months.
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    TIN PRICE
    18 10 The price of tin in Singapore yesterday was declared at $315.25 a picul, up 25 cents.
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    New tin areas must be found in Federation
    299 10 MR. Ernest V. Pearcc, chairman of Malayan Tin and Southern Malayan Tin Dredging, criticises the inconsistency of the Federation Government in stressing the necessity for prospecting while at the same time recommending the adoption of a control scheme which would during the
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    INDUSTRIALS FIRM: TINS EASIER RUBBER AND TIN RISE
    365 10 INDUSTRIALS FIRM: TINS EASIER RUBBER AND TIN RISE Around the markets •yHE Singapore share market opened very quietly yesterday after the long week-end holiday. Industrials remained very steady and where prices changed in this section they were nearly all upward. Tin shares were inclined to be irregular and with few
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    RUBBER PRICES
    183 10 Singapore rubber market opened quiet after the holidays but steadied during the ciay with reports of the war in Indo-China and January first grade closed at 57. j cents a pound, one-quarter cent above Thursday's close. The Indo-China reports brought in some outside buying and sellers held oft*.
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    WAR DAMAGE: CRITICISED
    232 10 MR. G. W. Simms, chairman of Sungei Besi Mines Ltd.. seems to have good ground for criticism of the company's treatment by the Malayan War Damage Commission. In his annual statement to shareholders he discloses that the Japanese removed 3.068 tons of tin concentrates worth $3,315,458 from
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    AMERICA'S SURPLUS TIN
    156 10 /COMMENTING on the state\u mrnt made by the American tin delegation to the Geneva conference on tin regarding America's surplus ol between 38,000 and 40.000 t>>ns. S'rauxs and Co. Ltd. London, in their monthly review of the tin market say:---"lncidentlly. the threat of the American spokesman to
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    MORE TIN USED
    88 10 MERICAN Industry used f* 33.54 per cent tin in the first nine months of 1953 than '/.did m January-Soptrmber, Tills year's Industrial consumption to the end of September was 42.440 tons, compared with 31.780 tons in the corresponding period of 1952 Stocks of pig tin in the
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    Devon Estates
    22 10 Devon Elates (Malacca) Ltd., is in voluntary liquidation and a first distribution will be madr to shareholders on January 19.
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    SINGAPORE SHARE PRICES<
    805 10 SINGAPORE SHARE PRICES &lt; •THE following quotations are those of the Malayan Sharpbrokrrs Association (Singapore branch) revised at 4 p.m. yesterday: MhM An Bricks Prefn. 2 10 Ordi. 3 70 A11a.% Irt I:: 1 8.8. Prlrnl 31 n HM iriMrn 6SO C&lt;&gt;&lt;&gt; 1 iii Smrll. Pttf. 1«/Ords J.I n I'n.ied
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      40 10 NOTICES SINGAPORE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY THE Second Annual Oeneral Meeting of the SINOAPORfc CHILDREN'S SOCIETY will be held at Ihe British Council Hall. Stamford Road, at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday. 30th December. 1953. JOHN E. LLOYD, Hon. Secretary, Singapore Children's Society.
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      468 10 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited from British Subjects for the post of Superintendent of the Cleansing Section (Health Branch). Rural Board, Singapore. Salary scale: $510 30A 750 B 780 30A 1.030 with current cost of living and local allowances. The appointment is. In the first instance, for a period of
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      771 10 notice; NOTICE As from 31xt December, 1953. Mr. R. J. W. Brown retire* nnd reuses to be a partner of this firm and Mr. Rrlr Adrroft Cotlcm Is admitted as a partner from Ist January, 1954. KRASER Si CO. NOTICE This Is to notify the public that my wife, Anna
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      THE BUSINESS WORLD
      511 12 ONE OF THE FEW bright spots on the Singapore rubber market before it closed for the Christmas holidays war the comment by Lewis and Peat on the Christmas Eve closing tone: "Jolly Quiet!" V INTERESTING sidelight on the development and increased safety of aircraft in the past
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      Malaya is one of the main supliers of strategic metals for U.S. jet engines
      386 12 MALAYA supplied 35,283 pounds of eolumbite concentrates worth U5596,472 and one of the key alloying materials used in producing steel for jet engines to the United States in the first nine months of this year. I
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      'Encouraging'book market is claimed for Malaya
      277 12 'Encouraging' book market is claimed for Malaya AN increasing exchange of technical infoynation A throughout the world is being aided by expand&lt;/ig distribution of technical publications, according to Mr. W. G. F. Gunstone. overseas sales promotion manager for W. H. Smith and Son Ltd.. booksellers and stationers of Britain. Mr.
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      U.S. urged to continue technical aid
      55 12 The International Development Advisory Board in Washington has recommended that the United States Government continue to support vigorously its technical assistance programmes in the world's less developed areas. The board said such programmes were a symbol of partnership of the free nations and declared
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      World tin mine output up 600 tons
      107 12 WORLD mine production of tin in concentrates in October at 15,500 long tons was 600 tons more than September output, according to the International Tin Study Group report from The Hague. Malayan proCuction .Increased to 4.875 tons, Indonesian output to 3 076 tons
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      'ATOMIC ELECTRICITY FORECAST WITHIN THREE OR FOUR YEARS'
      231 12 'ATOMIC ELECTRICITY FORECAST WITHIN THREE OR FOUR YEARS' PRODUCTION of electric power from atomic enerey 1 —with its promises of progress for all parts of the world— is expected to be an "indisputable reality' within the next three or four years This is the prediction, based upon current British and
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      In times of quantity – quality
      119 12 In times of quantity quality gELIEVING that quality counts in time.s when there are plenty of textiles on the market. Mr. C L. Butticaz, a director of one of Switzerland's largest textile firms. Hausammann and Co. is investigating prospects for expansion of his organisation's link with the Malayan market. Mr.
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      Venetian blinds are back again for Malaya
      99 12 VENETIAN window blinds are coming back into fashion, according to a British firm whch is recelvnig orders for the blinds from Malaya, Hong Kong, Africa and Pakistan. But the new blinds are different from the woodenslatted style which were in favour about 50
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      7% DROP IN R.I. RUBBER EXPORTS
      152 12 Indonesia exported 186,897 tons of rubber to Singapore In the first 10 months of this year, according to the latest figures released in Jakarta. In the same period, other rubber shipments from Indonesia were 32,302 tons to Holland. 4,984 to Belgium. 245,879 to the
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      'Honorable discharge' for rubber belt in U.S.
      149 12 lIONORABLY discharged" after 64 years or service, a grain conveyor belt with the longest known record of service for an industrial rubber belt has finally been retired from active duty by a Minnesota train concern in the United States. Made in 1889, by
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      Britain's higher output is 'end of year' tonic
      131 12 Industrial production generally is forecast to exceed the peak of 1931. EVIDENCE that a years hard work has resulted in higher production, about five per cent, more than last year, has provided a well-earned "end of the year" tonic in Britain. Mines
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      Britain boosts aircraft exports
      46 12 The British aircraft industry's exports to the end of October reached nearly £545 million— an increase of £10.5 million on the total for the whole of 1952. Aviation export for October exceeded the £5 million mark for the sixth time this year.
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      Australian oil company 'in the dark' about discovery announcement
      249 12 Australian oil company 'in the dark' about discovery announcement AUSTRALIA'S Ampol Petroleum Ltd. did not know officially of the value of the discovery of oil at Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia until it received a cable from New York- three days after a San Francisco announcement of the oil discovery.
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      Asian sugar production expected to increase
      114 12 Asian sugar production expected to increase ASIAN production of centrifugal sugar in 1953-54 is estimated at five million tons an increase of three per cent on the 1952-53 crop and nine per cent, more than production in 1951-52. This estimate is given by the United States Department of Agriculture. Indonesia
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      Malaya was biggest contributor to colonies' sterling reserves
      281 12 AM ALAYA made the greatest contribution to the increase of 80 per cent, in trie iTI sterling assets of the British colonies at the end of last year compftvd with the end of 1949. The expansion in the Malayan area was from
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    Those FADING STARS
    681 13  -  GUY AUSTIN BY if Once Mac Marsh was one of Hollywood's brightest stars. The other day she appeared on the screen again in a tiny part in a big film. What has happened to the other once-famous stars? Here is a report from a man who went
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    WHAT'S IN A BAG?
    144 13 number of womrn who go to cndlett trouble and expente to obtain a ftlamorou* evemn s dreis and give Hit imprcttion tfcar hind« ran out af'er that ent big tplath, Hiat a new bag it out •f Hie question. TKey ditplar with pride selection of shapeless
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    For beauty's sake watch your feet
    488 13  -  Menzies H&gt; F*EET play an importr ant part in woman's eternal quest for beauty. Do you realise that the condition of your feet is reflected in your face? How can you look relaxed and poised if your feet are "killing" you? How often have
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    Four Powers agree on hair
    350 13  -  JEAN WISEMAN nays AMERICA, claiming to have launched the short hair cut, says there are now four Influences home, French. Italian and British. The fout powers, however, are all agreed on a short cut which may vary from the extreme shortle (three-quarters of an inch
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    Birth of a baby
    460 13  -  SISTER CURE •By- MOST young wives have only a very hazy idea of what it is like to give birth to a baby. The word "labour" fills them with fear. Their fears are really worse than fact: and fear makes a very uncooperative patient! Married women
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      360 13 Mi ails Times rossword ft V- 9 ASJF m JSmmm (9). ■ill fat^M i 2«. Explained It ceases to exist i |sg II I I 29. Eagle in descent O). i^ i^ fj||f) HsSSal 2. Appropriate wear for a nort S|U them river i5). Bsss^jl I I 3. Advise against
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    MRNVR win triangular badminton
    122 14 p EAR-ADMIRAL E. H. Shattock. Aw 0.8. E., R.N., presented the 'Masters Badminton Trophy' to the victorious team of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at the Headquarters of the MRNVR. Telok Aver Basin, yesterday. The MRNVR won the trophy in the liiv-t annual triangular badminton
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    SCC gain an easy win
    92 14 iMNOAPORE Cricket Club beat k H.M.S. Opossum hv 2S point* (two goals. fl\e tries i to three i penalty i at rugger on the padang yesterday. The sailors provided weak opixisitlon and the Club dominated the «ame. S.CC. led dv three unconverted tries thiough Mouna.
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    Van Lidth in Fed. team
    105 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon H HUMAN de Bousa, jr. president of the Federation of Malaya Hockey Union, announced vc-terdax that the Federation team to meet Singapore in the first-ever "international" on Jan 10 at Kuala Lumpur had been finalised S. Selvahayaeam iPeraki and E. J. van
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    WOMEN'S HOCKEY
    33 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Selaneor Eurasian Association staged cood second half recovery to offset a two-coal deficit and hold Selancor Club to a 2-2 draw In a women's hockey match on the
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    AUSTRALIA & U.S. LEVEL Davis Cup tussle begins
    275 14 AUSTRALIA U.S. LEVEL Davis Cup tussle begins MELBOURNE, Monday. AUSTRALIA, holders of the trophy since 1950, and the United States each won one singles match on the opening day of the Davis Cup challenge round at the Kooyong courts here today before a capacity crowd of 17 500 in the
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    Shell should win for fifth time
    400 14  -  TAN HONG POH SINGAPORE BADMINTON TOURNEY By THE Singapore Badminton Association will ring down the curtain on their 1953 championships tomorrow night with the final of the men's oprn doubles between Marigold B.P.s Ong Poh l.im and Ismail Marjan. the defending champions, and Scan
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    S. Australia in big lead
    149 14 ADEI AIDE Mon A NINTH-WICKET p,i tpership of 112 l-etueen Vie Ravmer and' NMt Bi;rge. a yoimc bat.sman saved Queensland from following on agatnst South Australia on the, third day of the Sheffield shield pame here today. R-&gt;ymer hit hard for 84. and Burce made
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    CHOONGS TO FLY TO CANADA
    51 14 LONDON Mon. The Choong brothers. Eddie and David, are to pa&gt; a flying visit to Canada next month to play in the Strathgowan international badminton tournament .it Toronto. They will return In time for the A -Kncland championships, in whicii they are sure to start
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    SAFA WILL SEND TEAM TO MANILA
    594 14 THE Singapore Amateur Football Association ycsterx day decided to send a team of 15 players and two officials to the Asian Games at Manila next May. jne b.A.r.A. Council also agreed that John Ferguson and Gregory de S:!va. two of the Colony's best referees,
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    Neil Harvey hits century
    186 14 MEIiBOITRNE Mijtl IMCTORIA were in danger of fcllowlnq on In yplte of a century by Test player Nell Harvey on the seronrl day of the Sheffield Shield nmtrh agnin.st New South Wale- here today Victoria. 200 U r six wickets at the riose in reply to
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    MALAYANS DOMINATE U.K BADMINTON
    559 14 MALAYANS DOMINATE U.K BADMINTON From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Mon. WHILE Eddie Choong, Malayan holder of the AllEngland badminton title, Ls busy winning British tournament trophies, (although not to the same extent as in former seasons, becMtise of the claim of his law studies), other lesser known Malayan players have
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    Innings win for C'wealth
    175 14 CALCUTTA. Mon. rE Commonwealth cricket team gained the second win of their tour when they beat a Bengal cricket association XI by an inning*, and 80 runs today. The tourists scored 434 in reply to Bengal's first innings total of 277 and then dismissed Bengal for
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    Air C-in-C comes to the rescue
    233 14  -  SENTINEL 11, SINGAPORE'S youth boxing team which is to defend the Aw Cheng hye Trophy against Uest Australia in Perth next month will, after all, be at full strength. The hon wrrrtarr of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Aftsoriation Brrlie Dunsfnrd, was "tin (ill* notified
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    A trouncing for RNAS Sembawang
    37 14 Ceylon Sports Club trounced R.N.A S. cSembauanci n a friendly hockey match on the C.S.C. around yesterday. Scorers were KulaMngham fl), I-onniah (2i, Pachlappan and Vanderput. Umpires: S. Muthucumaru and G. Wood.
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    Haydee sets up century record
    303 14  - Haydee sets up century record EPSOM JEEP tu •TEN-YEAR-OLD Haydpe srt up a record for v Malayan rarinß when she ran her hundredth race at Penanp on Boxing Day. She wa.s unplaced. In hrr .srven yrars of earnpalgniiM on the Malayan Turf. Haydrr |a rstirrat"d to have covrrrd woll over
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    Krishnan in semi-final
    140 14 CALCUTTA Mob IiAMANATHAN KRISHNAN. 1«--yrar-oln Indian Junior tennis champion, hr.ii Sieflin S'ockrntafg, ol Sweden fi 2. 6 2, 6 3 to en er t.ie men's singles semitin,il in the Indian national championships here yrM'rday. Knshnan. uiio recently played for India's DhvU Cup team and took two sets
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