The Straits Times, 26 April 1954

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    13 1 The Straits Times. Mat****; l.std. IS4."i SINGAPOKK, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1954 15 CENTS
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    IEATH GRASP ON FORT
    334 1 DEATH GRASP ON FORT mremely grave: Reds tighten their noose HANOI, Sunday. PHE lETMINH rebels today tijrhk-ned their death jjrip on Dien Rien Mm, trrapplinjr in l-to-nian combat with defenders they outnum»cr four to one. In PARIS the Minister of Information s;iid fort's situation was "extremely Rrave." News s tailed
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    WKSrs SWOP MEDALS
    23 1 RESIDENTS SWOP MEDALS I.Mkivi of Finland and md last night exchanged Grai <i cross with Collar nd awarded President ol the White Rose
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    WE REFUSE TO RETURN PETROV, SAYS AUSTRALIA
    276 1 Note rejects Russian charges CANBERRA, Sunday. rHE AI'STRAMAN GOVERNMENT today bluntly refused Russia's demand for the return of Vladimir 'etrov. former secret police boss at the Soviet Fm»assy here. Australia's decision wa.s contained in a note hand■d to the Soviet Ambassador. Mr. N.
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    MCA LEADER WONT FLY TO LONDON
    101 1 MCA LEADER WON'T FLY TO LONDON The president of the Malayan Chinese Association. Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan. who has been asked by the two UMNO-MCA rcpiwntatives now in London to catch the next plane from Singapore to meet the Secretary of State for tile Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton. informally, will
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    Red charge against U.S.
    70 1 LONDON. Sun. R<-a Star. the Soviet Army newspaper, today accused the Unitcti states of annre.ssivp military preparation* in the Aictio." according to Tin the official Soviet news agency. "The character of I lie work being carried out by t lie American Armed Forces on the drifting
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    General dies
    22 1 MOSCOW. Sun MaJ-Ccn Boris Proflrnvli h Salta nov.sk v. acrri 40. of the Russian Air Fnn-e has died- A P.
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    IK? NOT !/ SAY PRIZE NERS
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    U.S. MAY QUIT TALKS
    108 1 U.S. MAY QUIT TALKS EVA, Sun. S Btat« Depart- threatened U.S. Secretary I iter Dulles, go home" If insisting that treat on an he tour bis East West conre omorrow. »ed here last he called a mad< tv Hi said he hophad come themssion." rrival, the nt offi:.:nent on t,
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    Fiance faints— i^irl drowns
    49 1 Fiance faints— girl drowns ■>N Sun. Mr. KenP r, ac< d SI, of LonI -.board with his 21-yi ar-old Miss M ir- rd. .is his 20ft. cabin ank after a collision carg 1 steamer in the Id on to her. then lost He was rescued, tuld not be found.
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    Goode lays a wreath
    32 1 Mr. W QoadC, OHWer A<lnum>terinK the Government of Singapore. la>s a wrrath at a dawn ceremony at the Cenotaph veslerday to commemorate A mac Day. Straits Times picture
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    Malaya honours i ANZAC war dead
    233 1 Malaya honours ANZAC war dead Free beer for the troops MALAYA yesterday remembered the Australians and New Zealanders, who fell in the two world wars. 1 In Singapore service chiefs Government officials and representafves of various organisations laid wreaths at the Cenotaph In Connaught Drive At Kuala Lumpur among those,
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    Estate manager left £7,739
    55 1 LONDON. Sun. Mr Cyril Alexander Gray, manager of the Mentakab Rubber Estate. Pahanc. Malaya, who was killed by Communist terrorists last June left £7.739. it was announced here today. He died intestate and letters of administration have been planted to solicitors acting for his father who
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    Nehru has five point plan to end fighting
    107 1 NEW DELHI. Sunday. "THE INDIAN Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, yester- day proposed a five-point programme for ending the Indo-China war by direct negotiations between France, the three Associated States and ttv Vietminh His peftCC points were: 1. A •climate of peace" for
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    iEYNAUD, 76, GETS A SON
    93 1 REYNAUD, 76, GETS A SON PARIS. Sun. riiilK If-ytat eM Deputy 1 Premier. M. Paul Reynaiid. yesterday announced that his wife had Kiven birth to a 101 b son. President Kene Coty and the whole Cabinet left their seats around the conference table to congratulate the Conservative leader. The boy.
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    43 hurt in train crash
    42 1 CHICAGO. Sun. Fortythree people were injured today when two passenger trains collided at a commuter station. Three of the injured were reported in serious condition. The collision occurred when one train struck the rear of another. -A.P.
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    New envoy
    21 1 MADRID. Sun. Iraq's new Ambassador to Spain. Mr. Ibrahim Al-Khudairy. presented his credentials yesterday to 1 Gen. Franco. A.P.
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    Formosa will be at film show
    60 1 TAIPEH. Sun.— The Chinese i I Nationalist government has de- 1 cided to participate In the motion picture exhibition of! South-Kaat Asian countries to be held In Japan In May. Two full len-th tilt"- :md one documentary film "Road to Freedom". which concerns forme*
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    Cathedral will rise again
    42 1 COVENTRY. Warwickshire. Sun. The British Government ha.s Kiven permission for a 1 start to be made on the modern steel, glass and concrete cathedral at Coventry to replace that destroyed in the Nazi blitz of 14 years ago.
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    25 feared dead in plane crash
    36 1 BUENOS AIRES. Sun. 1 plane of the Ar^ent.ne Air lines crashed yesterday ovei the province of La Lioja am ,s tea red that it.s 25 occu pants were killed. -JJ-P^
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    Man overboard from ferry is rescued after 15 minutes in water
    132 1 Man overboard from ferry is rescued after 15 minutes in water PENANG. Sun. A cry of •man overboard" stopped the mm- f '""I Butterworth to JjSSS" wJtrlbutW crtctot team fell Into tin- returnlni to Pwjang insungel PatanT „V:,n. Teh ****>™* S-Ilf^nother'nleniSoX team, when the bar slipped its catch. He lost
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    RUSSIA DELAYS VISAS
    218 1 RUSSIA DELAYS VISAS MOSCOW. Sun MR BRIAN HILL. Australian Charge d'AManes low under Soviet orders to cave MOSCOW, was told by a foreign Ministry official today hat there was no information m exis visas lor the Ejnba.v-y taff who had hoped to leave tonight. Two hours before the time ot
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    Elections leaflets by plane
    56 1 Elections leaflets by plane AIRCRAFT will today drop j I\ election leaflets to remote kampongs and new villages in Johop' The leaflets will explain rul>s for voting In the Johore State Council elections to be held soon Auster aircraft from the Royal Navy airfield at Sembawang will deliver the leaflets.
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    Russian puff
    24 1 MOSCOW. Sun.- The Supreme Soviet adjourned las! [night after deputies had heard speeches from three Cabinet ministers describing Sovi- 1 economic achievements
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    Horses killed
    28 1 LONDON. Sun— Two horses j were destroyed at the side of I the course after accidents in the Cowrirav Hunt point-to point races at Cowdrav Park.
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    Winston calls an urgent meeting
    201 1 LONDON. Sun. SIX Winston Churchill today called an rmrrgency Sunday morning mooting of Ministers after his Foreign Becrctary, Mr. Anthony Eden, had suddenly flown back from Paris for consultations with him. Alter meeting at Chequers, the Prim Mini tcr's official country residence a' midnight last
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    WHARF AT LABUANTO BE READY BY JULY
    83 2 WHARF AT LABUAN TO BE READY BY JULY rpHE main part of a new] wharf shaped like a! huge "L" at Victoria Har- i bour in Labuan. is nearing completion and is expected to be in use by July. Work on this project, which la being done in sections, is
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    H-bomb protest
    34 2 NEW DELHI. Sun A shouting jeering crowd of workers from the Red-dominated AllIndia Trade Unions Congress paraded through New Delhi to the U.S. Embassy yesterday in protest against American Hbomb experiments. A.P.
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    CALL-UP SETS OFF A RUSH AT REGISTR V OF BIRTHS
    151 2 CALL-UP SETS OFF A RUSH AT REGISTR OF BIRTHS |>K()PLK who have lost their birth certificates and need them now for National Service re<ri strati on or admission to school, are causing: a big rush at Singapore's Registry of Births and Deaths. The Registrar. Inche Haji Jamil bin Haji Dzaflr,
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    ! EGYPTIAN KILLED IN SKIRMISH
    127 2 EGYPTIAN KILLED IN SKIRMISH JERUSALEM. Israel, Sun. AN Egyptian soldier was killA cri yesterday in an encoun- ter with an Israeli patrol near j the border of the "Gaza strip" I in Southern Israel, according to i an Israeli spokesman. The soldier's body was handied over to the United Nations
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    Civics course for teachers
    39 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.- The' first civics course on r. State level for Indian teachers will begin in Johore Bahru tomorrow. The course has been planned with the help of the Superintendent of Education, Johore. I
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    More rubber used
    66 2 NEW YORK, Sun. Consumption of new rubber in the United States in March totalled 109.342 long tons compared with 95.410 long tons in February and 128.610 tons in March, 1953. Use of natural rubber last month increased to 53.757 long tons. 15.35' r over February, while synthetic
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    Shot on border
    39 2 BERLIN. Sun. East German border police yesterday fired a carbine shot near two West Berlin policemen patrolling the border with the surrounding Soviet zone. West Berlin police headquarters said. The shot did not hit anyone. Reuter.
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    $160,000 for flood relief in Singapore
    150 2 ANTI-FLOOD mea- sures in Singapore, which will cost $160,000 this year, will form part of an extensive drainage and bridge building project involving nearly $28,000,000 by 1959. This year's vote, being shared equally by Government and the City Council, will pay for a pilot
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    Supplies for Indo-China
    52 2 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. Military supplies including aircraft are being loaded on the aircraft carrier Windnam Bay sailing from here on Tuesday for Indo-China. The carrier was diverted from ferrying aircraft to Japan and Korea because of the critical Indo-China situation. Other war supplies have been moving through
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    Fined motorist loses licence
    48 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun Llm Kok Ming, of Roscote Estate. Senai, was fined $70 in the Police Court, for having driven an unlicensed lorry, and for not having been covered by third party insurance. He was disqualified from holding a driving licence for 12 months.
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    U.S. PLANS TO CUT CALL UP SERVICE
    112 2 WASHINGTON, Sunday. FE United States Defence Department proposes to ask Congress to cut conscription service from two years to six months, a senior official said today. The proposal. If accepted would affect about 18.000 men a month at the present rate o: The
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    133 register as blood donors here
    63 2 133 register as blood donors here SINGAPORE Blood Transfusion Service collected 283 donations last week and gave 215 transfusions to patients. Among the donors, who included 118 Asians, were 20 men from R N.A.S. Sembawang, 20 from RAF. Tengah, 16 from Police Training School, and It from R. N Wireless
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    2 newsmen charged
    77 2 CAIRO, Sun. The two wealthy proprietors of the mass circulation pro-Wafdist Arab newspaper Al Misri were last night charged with "working against tnr senility of the State and corrupting the machinery of Government." An official announcement Raid Mahmoud Abul Fath. Egypt's biggest Press magnate and his brother
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    Bikini test will ruin crop, expert says
    150 2 TOKYO. Sun. A JAPANESE weather expert said yesterday U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Bikini area will cause a big climatic change bringing on an unseasonable cold spell ruinous to crops The new Japanese attack at the American H-bomb experiments came at a
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    New officer
    19 2 KOTA TINGGI. Sun- Mr O. C. G. Mole of Kuala Lumpur is now the O.C.P.D. of Mersine.
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    EUaubvthnn hat sit§U>
    45 2 Elizabethan hat style MRS. Eden wore this Eliiabethan-type hat when she flcu with her husband, thr Kom-irm Srrn-tary. Mr. .\nthonv Eden, to Paris where hr had preliminary talks with trench government officials, before eo»"K to Geneva for thr conference on Far Eastern affairs.— A.P picture.
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    Police gaoled
    33 2 BERLIN. Sun— East German courts recently sen*enced seven embers of the Russian traintv. and equipped "Pe^pl.- > Police" t" prison tprms totalling 75 years, a West Berlin tipster service reported yesterday A.P.
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    Traders arrive
    26 2 BERLIN. Sun. Six Bbusinessmen who travelled here for trade talks with CCommunists in the Russia tor arrived at the West B airport yesterday.— A.P.
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    Malaya's pJ|D| chiefs to itt«^ top policy My
    75 2 Malaya's chiefs to top policy RYTON-ON-DUNSMORK Vn t VINETEEN high police off),^ of the Commonwealth indn?" 1 R. Carbonnell (Federation of M Nisei Morris (Singapore), wi|| July for a five-day conference in p I n al Police College. It will be the second confei B 1 r sioners— the first
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    'Stopwatch' prize goes to a clerk
    117 2 IPOH. Sun. A POLICE clerk of Sitiawan C. Kochugovindan. yesterday won $400 worth of prizes for a SI ticket lie bought in a competition organised in aid oi Lady Tempter's T.B. Hospit.ii Fund. A watch fully wound up v x sealed in h box
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    Talks to break the deadlock
    55 2 MANILA. Sun. Philippineacting Foreign Secretary. Mr Ison Guerrero was reported today preparing a new approach to break the prstalemate in the PhilippinfJapan reparations talks. A Foreign Office spokesman said unless Mr. Onermo'a plan is not reeip/oeated by a revised Japanese stand, it would mean collapse
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    pO-CHINA MUST BE GIVEN PLEDGE1 ITS INDEPENDENCE'
    99 3 DO-CHINA MUST BE GIVEN PLEDGE ITS INDEPENDENCE' ih way to defeat 104 KW YORK, Sunday, tmulo of the Philippines; Communism can he de-o-China is guaranteed its is uiven an equivalent of tiilippine representative in' a dinner at the end of a American defenders of I Bataan and Corregidor. He described
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    Cohn at war with Army
    47 3 SHINOTON, Sun. The Secretary, Mr. Robert R. testified yesterday Roy M. Cohn, declared the Army last Oct. 20 said that on that personally denied Cohn ission to a super secret Port Monmouth Cohn exclaimed "this war we will really the Arm] now."
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    Manila^ talks suspended
    29 3 Manila talks suspended Nil A. Sun The Philipktvernment tonight aus- laUona on repa- Japan to save the total col lapse. jrsay adinlntotraled on this to provide .(J period. UP.
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    Bowls found
    17 3 Xi INO, Sun. Two rcelate bowls i'th century ivered from an Canton, the .money re-
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    Living longer
    23 3 sun. The Mr. Rajkumagald that the mcv In India had from -7 y> ar.^ to 32 mntry became inde- 11 AP.
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    Tensing ill
    23 3 BOMBAY. Sun. Tensing Norkay. Joint conqueror of la ill and was advised in hla arrival :n Bomterday lor a four-day Reuter.
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    N puts off jet age
    44 3 ash puts off jet age previously bad been looked for by 1956 or 1957. may not come now before 1958 or 1959. "It'a only natural that United States air carrier will jo slower in buying jets ".ntil :s better establish- d." he added.— A.P.
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    'RUSSIA IS FOR PEACE'
    497 3 'RUSSIA IS FOR PEACE' WORLD ROUND-UP ON GENEVA I T GENEVA. Sun. HK RISSIAN Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Molotov, said on his arrival here by air last night that Kussm believes that the most important job of the coniereme is to bring about an armistice in ludo-China and establish
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    PRINCE AT PLAY
    53 3 PRINCE CHARLES, like any other little boy, loves to climb trees and was indulging in the sport when a cameraman from Studio Lisa of London visited the Royal lodge at Windsor recently. This picture, released today by Associated Press, shows the young Prince m the branches of
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    Dawn-to-dusk sweep for Nairobi gangs
    253 3 3,400 HELD AS MAU SUSPECTS NAIROBI. Sunday. IN a sweep beginning before dawn 8.000 British and 1 African troops, police and home guards yesterday detained 3.410 Mau Mau suspects in Nairobi's African quarters. The biggest mass round-up of the Kenya emergency, named Operation Anvil." was
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    King leaves
    25 3 KARACHI. Sun.— King Saud of Saudi Arabia left here today in his yacht at the end of his 10-day state visit to Pakistan.'
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    GAOLED EX-GUIANA LEADERS SUE GOVT.
    174 3 GEORGETOWN. Sun. CLAIMS totalling $45,000 iW<>st Indies dollars* about $75,250 Malayan i for alleged wrongful imprisonment were filed today by three leaders of the People's progressive Party. The party was removed from power in British Guiana on Oct. 9 by Britain M an allegedly pro-Communist
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    NUCLEAR AIRLINERS ON THE WAY
    145 3 NUCLEAR AIRLINERS ON THE WAY SANTA MONICA. Sun. Nuclear powered bombers will be flying within lii years. Mr. Hall Ilibbard. Vice President of r.n--,llll'ith- at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, said. And these planes will pave the way for passenger airliners flying three tunes the speed of sound, he added. Mr.
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    Indonesia bans Jap traders
    41 3 TOKYO. Sun. The Indonesian Government has decided against permitting the entry, or extension of stay In Indonesia, of any Japanese resident commercial representatives About 30 Japanese representatives now in Indonesia will have to leave in June.— A.P.
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    YOSHIDA RIDES OUT SHIP SCANDAL STORM AS 14 PROGRESSIVES BOLT
    212 3 TOKYO. Sun. THE Prime Minister. Mr. Yoshida. ia>t night defeated a Socialist no-confldence motion by ttl votes to !08. A split in the Progressive Party the most powerful Conseivutive rival of Mr. Yoshida's rivals, helped the <«.- vear-old pro-American leader
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    Seizures of opium -'source is China'
    167 3 New York, Sun. /COMMUNIST CHINA was the largest suspected source of illicit opium seized last year and reported to the U.N This was shown yesteiday in a memorandum prepared by U N Secretary-General Dag Haminar.skjold lor the 15-na-tion Commission on Narcotic Drugs now in
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    Recovery in America
    81 3 NEW YORK. Sun.— A British industrialist. Sir William Rootes. says no serious depression in prospect in the United States and that a recovery movement is already well started. Sir William, who heads the Rootes motor group and is chairman of Britain's Dollar Export Council, said Britain has
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    Royal romance is fading
    51 3 HELSINKI. Sun. The romance between Piince Arday Ankrah from the Gold Coast and his beautiful Finnish teenuue wife Serekka. whose marriage in London thre.- months aac drew worldwide attention. ll t.ipidlv fading away. Serekka told papers here yesterday she had decided never to return to her
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    Russians hold Britons
    63 3 BONN. Sun American. British and French prisoners are belnu held by the Russians in slave labour camp.s near Workuta iti Siberia, the W«a4 German Socialist Party said. In a special report on campin three areas of Siberia, the j Socialists said a total of 70.--000 prisoners of
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    BRIDEGROOM HELPS BRIDE
    34 4 Mr. Djong Sin Lian helps his bride. Miss Low Cheat Sim. to cut their wedding take. They were m;irriid at the Straits Chinese Methodist Church Kampont; K;ipor. m,i g a pore.
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    Chain of skyscrapers planned in Federation
    166 4 THE Asia Insurance Company, owners of Singapore's newest 18-storey building under construction at Finlay.son (ireen, proposes to build a chain of skyscrapers in the principal towns in the Federation. Plans for two skyscrapers already have been approved one in Penang and the other In
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    BANDIT KILLED IN KULAI
    160 4 BANDIT KILLED IN KULAI KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A TERRORIST was killed in Johpre. He was one ot two contacted by a patrol of the 2 10 Gurkha* in the Kulai district. The otiier man escaped. A sawn off rifle, ammunition and two packs with lood and clothing were captured. Six
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    $2m pay-out for 20,000 starts today
    116 4 $2 m pay-out for 20,000 starts today MORE than 20.000 Singapore Government ■■mplnyees will receive $2 m;ihon in the next three days as Ritson plan back pay. The pay-out starts today. Employees in Division IV will receive a maximum of $300: those in Division I will get about $1,000. and
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    The Knocker moustache a navy victim
    176 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. MR. G. M. "KNOCKER, newlyelected president of the Royal Naval Association of Malaya, today promised to .shave off his moustache In keeping with naval etiquette. Naval custom demands that a person either be clean-shaven or nave both beard and moustache There
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    Found hanging while on bail
    46 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A young Indian. Vincent, who was arrested on Friday on a chai?e of housebreaking and later released on bail, was yesterday morning found hanging from a tree near his home at Sentul. Police do not suspect foul nlav
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    SINGAPORE MOVE TO FIND YOUTHS 'PERSONALITY' JOBS
    179 4 SINGAPORE MOVE TO FIND YOUTHS 'PERSONALITY' JOBS THE Singapore Vocational Guidance Society will seek the support of commerce and industry for its work among students leaving school. Dr H B. M. Murphy, the secratary, said yesterday the society wanted employers to help m assisting youths into jobs suited to both
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    lV*.v it's it <i<mi!
    73 4 Yes, it's it goal! IT'S A &lt;.o\l shout M.OOO sp«&lt; tutors at JsUn Kcsar Stadium. Singapore. yntefdu is trntrr-forward Awan K liik.n places hradrr well out of the reach of Pakist.ui rwil keeper Siddiqui and another defender to Rive Siimapore the lead in the ninth minute Tingame was hetwecn the
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    Opium raid on house by Customs men
    63 4 ALOR STAR. Sun. OUNGEI Patani Cu»l cers have seized 25 II raw opium and a quantity chandu worth more than in a raid on a house at J Sekerat. Pekan Lama. 8 Patani. The opium was pack' six bundles wrapped up papers. The
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    She had samsu
    36 4 PARIT BUN'TAR. Sun Ah Hung. X',. wai lined 'lie Nlbong Tcbal Mai Court i pleaded to possession of two-thlrdJ a gallon of samsu found In house at Badik M.i: Bakap. on April 20.
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      105 4 Marshall MacDutfie A^Ms r T 1 \ST, a Wcstcrr er returns from behind the Iron Curtain! This re^ C "l^^M» lawyer has made an uncensorcd 6. r -da&gt;- '^H I, throusih the TSSR- inducing I I l&gt;'»ur in« f 1 Russia's Number 2 leader. Nikita khrus I H Now the
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    1778 5 Gaoling ends Red grab for a British colony T/MES j^da/ FEATURE ÜBLE is boiling again in Britain's only South American colony, the steaming outpost of British Guiana, wedged between Venezuela, Brazil and the Dutch and French Guianas. A year ago this month, British i was handed a brand-new Constitution by
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      111 5 iPirii rii4 if An is and radios I f'GO TO 3-D MAOEE AND POP 1 [ir'S ANTITOXIN POP THE BITeI ARE THE KIDO' j AOK"S ■l^^^^^^^^ T~E NIC TO NEGOTIATE 'AfITU m,M. OP THE BLUE -BACK ANT. THE SAM fsO.rueOE YOU ARE -A 2-W£V MflKg W|M TALK ASVOU PERUVIAN CONSUL
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    96 6 H »..rrf. *W .minimum) follow PEDANT Every day in i want to win iliio word puzzle. NOW SHOWING AT Madelines California Sportswear for all purposes snorts, shirts, bra-tops, skirts dins sets or separate*. COTTONS ARE IN VOGUE D c designs A: well cut sare Tommy Thomson', specia- 0 n
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    Singapore, Mon. April 26, 1954. The Outlook is Gloomy
    814 6 The Straits Times. Singapore, Mon. April 26, 1954. The Outlook is Gloomy s Preliminary sparrings at j Geneva, even before the con■j ference begins today, indicate j that peace in Korea and IndoChina will be pushed into a backseat while argument goes on about the admission of China to the
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    Stop The Poison At Its Source
    317 6 Until recently the Communists in Singapore have been keeping very quiet, thanks to I the careful watch kept by the police on any signs of open activity and to their tactics of picking up the leaders before they can start anything dangerous. It is
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    Their Own Fight
    150 6 1 Union leaders and members in the Federation and in Singapore ought to think over the words with which Inche Mustaphn Albakri, the Federal Momber for Industrial and Social Relations, addressed mem- bers of the Selangor Clerical and Administrative Staff Union yesterday. He said: "Industrial relations are
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    HURRY, TONIA, OR YOU'LL LOSE' EM
    48 6 rh€ Mvr* of people* is not decided by organised demoniTreXxoni of emotion but by tnff hard fact* ot life. Fufur* Allegiances ir\ The Pacific u&gt;enr s*Tfled •n 1941 uhffn Ihc British battleships Rt^JU^E and Prince o^ wales u»«rt sunk off Malay peninsula..
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    NATURAL RUBBER AT CROSSROADS
    848 6  -  W. E. CAKE, PROBABLY everyone associated with the natural rubber industry is now prepared to admit the seriousness of the competition offered by synthetics. In America, synthetic materials are definitely preferred for about 30 per cent of total rubber requirements: in some 20 per cent of
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      252 6 FLYING -BOATS PLEA PLYING-BOATS gave ex- cellent service for years. Then suddenly the powers-that-be told us "that these planes were no longer economical and that land planes were the only answer. How wrong they have been. Look at the result. Enormous new airports have had to be built at tremendous
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      'Hundreds on the list'
      107 6 UNQUALIFIED, who suggestU ed that Steno should try elsewhere for better prospects seems to believe that the Services departments are sort of private institutions for the exclusive enjoyment of the clerks who can find no suitable advertisements In the Press. It Is a good idea that
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      WORKINGS OF THE M.A.P. TB
      302 6 WE would refer to the reports of an address in Kuala Lumpur in which Dr. J. S. Sodhy revealed his abysmal ignorance of the workings of I the M.A.P. TB. He maintained that our funds are frittered away on projects which have no preventive value.
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    OOUR TO BACK CHINA TRADE
    229 7 LABOUR TO BACK CHINA TRADE \f it wins majority in the new Rendel council THE Singapore Labour Party will encourage trade with all countries regardless o f their political leaninp— i( it comes to power under the new Rendel constitution. This is contained in a live-point policy statement t number
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    Troops were sent women's magazines
    102 7 Troops were sent women's magazines V\M»MKNS Volunteer Service unit in Britain MiiiitK sent collection „i may tines to jungle lighters in Malaya. By mistake, they were tvunien'si nn^.i/iiics. I In- foUowißH day a ■pi it up" beauty w;is att.ulicil to every rubber lire ill the area. This slory was related
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    5 7 'II talk they get stengah
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    Bid to settle Naval Base rent dispute
    54 7 1' por&lt; N.iv.U Ba.se 1 I aboui Union housing confei with this week to settle rent 000 workers. asked all [ncial quartten per cent of ent from tie workta "eeonoD fixed. II seek a re- houses and i ible roductton in the proposed
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    This Koran will be THE treasure
    80 7 This Koran will be THE treasure 4 koran. entirely written by hand on tine parchment some 162 years ago. will be the highlight of the "Treasure of the Fortnight" exhibition at Rattles Musei.ni beginning tod.i\ It Ls loanen by Mrs M J Namazle. With the Koran will be a teaxhmlr
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    Party Negara committee
    58 7 JOHORE BAHRU Sun -The johore Bahru branch of Party Negara has appointed the following to its election committee: Dato Syrd Abdul Kaciir bin Mohamed. Incite Samsu bin All. Ha.n Anwar bin Haji Malek. Inche Abdullah bin Mohamed. Mr Lai Kai Joo. Mr. Ali Hassan, Mr. Kael Singh,
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    Nurse marries
    33 7 At the Kuala Lumpur Registry. Miss Doris Harding, a nursing sister at the British Military Hospital. Kinrara. was married to Mr. D M j Browne, an assistant s-.iperin- tendent o! police.
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    UNIONMEN TOLD: DON'T HECKLE
    360 7 UNIONMEN TOLD: DON'T HECKLE KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. INCHE Mustapha Al--1 bakri. Member for Industrial and Social Relations, today faced a barrage of questions at •j. nirrtlnn of tn^ SeianKor Clerical and Administrative Statr Union to whom he was explaining the Governments policy on industrial relations. The meeting was attended by
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    Unofficials in majority
    54 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun— Uno.lnial.s have a majority on the K.i .in- Rent Assessment Board this ytai. Members of the Board are the District Officer, &lt; chairman i the Administrative Officer, Mr. Ttoh Ch/.e Chonj?. J.P.. Mr. C'lieon", Soo Kbenf, and Mr. M. D. Sain in i The
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    TIME STILL—BUT GOODBYE NOW
    229 7 TIME STILL— BUT GOODBYE NOW The contingent of 22 members and officers of the Singapore Battalion of Boys Brigade who will represent the Colony at the 8.8. Centenary 1 camp at Kton. England, in August, were yesterday given a roJilng unw.-u at aiiiirj; held in Toinlin.soii Hall. Oirii.wd Road. Although
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    FOUR BACK FROM KUCNING
    47 7 The 'our Malayan delegates to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Borneo, returned to Singapore yesterday by air from Ku&lt; hint Picture shows (from left) Messrs. R. Dasaratha Kaj. Othman. bin Mohamed. H J. C. Kulasingha. and Toh £ng Hoe Straits Times picture.
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    CALL ***** FOR A 'JOB9 SCOUT
    141 7 CALL ***** FOR A 'JOB' SCOUT JOB Week" begins today for about 3.000 Singapore J Scouts. They will ofTer their services from cleaning cars, washing di.she.s. baby-sitting to cooking a simple meal -to ral.se funds for a camp at Jurong. The Deputy Chief Scout Commissioner. Mr. L. A. Woodford said
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    ARRIVALS IN THE CANTON
    603 7 rE following passengers from Britain will disembark from the Canton at Penang today: Mrs. A. i. Cumeion and two children. Mis. K. ErrlnKlon and three children. Mrr S. Hardy and two children. Mr. Harun Hauira. Mrs D. Mortimer and three children. Mrs. P. Sampson. Mr. L.
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    Woman hawker fined $60
    32 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun— For having 36 packets of dutiable cigarettes, See 800 Lay, a woman havsker, wa.s fined $&lt;io in the police court today. The cigarettes were confiscated.
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    City Council accused of trust breach
    95 7 City Council accused of trust breach IMIE Singapore City Council yesterday was accused by one of its labour unions of i breach of trust. The Road Workers' Union, in a letter to the City Engineer, said although the Council had agreed in 1947 to pay double the normal rates of
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    New officials chosen
    60 7 The South Singapore Education As.soi'iation at its annual meeting re-elected Mr. Tan Choon Seng as president. Other officials are: Messrs. Voo Fook Kum &lt; vice-pre.sident i S. Y. Han chairman &gt;, Choy Weng Yaii}? i honorary secretary i Mrs. P. C. Tan i honorary treasurer i. Wee
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    28 7 KOTA BAHRU. Sun The inaugural meeting of the Party Negara. KeTantan. will be held at the residence of the Mentri Be.sar, Tengku Seri Maharaja, on Wednesday.
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    Club dance
    19 7 KOTA TINGGI, Sun— The li.tei national Club of Kota Tir.ggi will hold an informal dance on Thursday.
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    Close watch on schools for Reds
    70 7 Close watch on schools for Reds THE Singapore Education Department is keeping m ClOft personal touch with al'. schools regarding possiblt Communist influence un students. Hie actin* Director. Mr. David McLellan. told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. McLi-llan .-aid he 111 confident that all schools realised the danger and would
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    Stole milk
    44 7 BENTONG, Sun -P. Chinntamby, 21. a waiter in the Royal Hampshire Remmen! mess. Bentong, w.ts bound over in the sum of $100 for a pear for stealing two tias of evaporated milk and six tin.s of .sardines belonging to the regi- ment.
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    GOVT. PLEDGES HELP TO OUR YOUTH
    220 7 GOVT. PLEDGES HELP TO OUR YOUTH Xl \l M'MPI'R. Sunday. INCHE Mustapha Albakri, Member for Social and In--1 dustrial Relations, said last night that the Government is aware of the importance of helping youth and is prepared to give all the encouragement it can. He was speaking at the dinner
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    Sir Donald praises the architects
    163 7 Sir Donald praises the architects KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. MALAYAN architects can be proud of their achievements in recent years in the field 01 domestic architecture and In the planning of towns and villages. The Deputy High Commis.sioiier. Sir Donald MacGillivray said this at the dinner in Kuala Lumpur last night
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      173 7 The weather minimi m ri:MPi:k\Tiitr: 1 7 to pin. on April 24 lv 730 am ..n Apiil L'fH nlimpWt 74 OtgMM. Nasn| IS, Kui a Baton 74. Kuula Lumpur 74, Ipoh 7b. Knuiitan 74 MAXIMIM IKMVKKMI KF: •i 7jo urn to 3o pm on April M) Bin*upore 87 degrees. PenunK
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      234 7 -I\(. AI'OKE ART ■SJGMCTT: Exliil&gt;iMun of photottraph.s of SinpaMTt .md Malaya by Fralirls Wn nf Hoiiij Kong. British Counril Hall, S;«iiifoid Road. 9 am lo fi pm. BINGAMM Ml SICAI. SO( lETV: Kull chotr and orchentra. Rf-l-.eai „ils !or St. Matthew Passion." S: Andrews Cathedral 5.30 p.m, KAMALA CLL'B, Moulmein
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    Industrials easier but lead business TINS HARDEN
    593 8 Industrials easier but lead business TINS HARDEN 31 AL AY AN SHARE MARKET REVIEW By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market did not really start moving again after the Easter Holidays till Friday when the tin metal price started to move upwards. When the price again increased on Saturday
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    Coal in Sarawak
    108 8 INVESTIGATORS consider there may be 19 million tons of low volatile bituminous coal in the Slinatek-Abok area bordering the First and Second Divisions of West Sarawak, but this has yet to be proved. More recent geological and mining investigations indicate 3,500,000 tons of coal in the area.
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    COMPANY REPORTS
    225 8 I I I BENUT CONSOLIDATED RUBBER CO. LTD.: Made a net profit of $16,735 (2.9',e&gt; for year ended 31st December 1953 No dividend is recommended. At balancing date net liquid assets equalled $224,904 or 19.6 cents per 50 cent share. Refund of replanting cess totalled $62,928. Cost of
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    Radella earns less profit
    202 8 The crop harvested by Radella Rubber Estate Ltd.. last year, totalled 187.400 lbs., compared with 198.300 lbs. in the previous year and with lower prices prevailing for rubber the realisation of the product is reflected in the profit and loss Account at $119,626. as against $174,587
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    MARCH TIN PRODUCTION
    63 8 MALAYA produced in March 4,977 tons of tin-in-concentrates which was 700 tons more than in February. During March 6,636 tons of tin concentrates were minedMarch's output of tlnIn concentrates was not the highest output for an? month since the war as previously published. The highest production of
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    DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
    167 8 rt following dividends were announced by companies operating in Malaya last week. PETALING TIN LTD.: Second quarterly interim dividend of ln%, less 30% income tax, for yeir ending October 31, 1954, payable on .May 20 to shareholders on register April 2». TELOK KKIIN TIN LTD.: First interim dividend
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    SHARE BUSINESS
    232 8 TPHE following list of business done in the Blnga A Share Market last week was reported by one Brno of brokers for the period April 17 to April 23: INDUSTRIALS:- Fra.ser Neavp Ords $2 00 and $2 02" &gt;.| Oiiiiiinoo.s $3.27&lt; 2 cd and $295 xd. Hammers $3
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    283 8 VOMMOMIY 1/wu 'THE tin price in Sinpa; KJ x and in two days tradii gained $8.12£ cents to closp on Sal I $370.75 a picul. The decline in the price which had been under way since April 13 wa s halted on Friday after the
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    295 10 /CONSIDERING that the V» majority of game-hands Play best in Three No-Trumps, it is not an unreasonable assumption that this contract should be reached in as few bids as passible, in order to give the defence the minimum amount of information. It is surprising, therefore, to find Quite a
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    Jew from Stepney is a general in Chinese army
    1007 10  - Jew from Stepney is a general in Chinese army MILTON SHULMAN TWO-CUN COHEN by Charles Drage. IVJ ORR I S ABRAHAM ITI COHEN sees nothing incongruous about being a Jewish general in the Chinese army. He shrugs off your incredulity with a benign smile. Having spent most of his 66
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    162 10 'Superman now in Indo-China BLAZE OF THE SUN by Jean Hougron (Hurst and Blackerr. 12/6). r PHE current war in Indo- China supplies a violent background to this novel which won for Jean Hougtori a coveted award by the Atautynie FrancaLse; an illicit love-affair, no less violent, between a tough
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      292 10 The Straits Times Crossword "iZtaZHZIZIIMZIZ Z^~^ i Zi|*Z^Z_~ 20 ?&gt; ACROSS 7 To create complex movement 6. Put* the Mohammedan world ln £f b^ a «fs*j "»™k nf a stew (5t Dlsponttion to make much of M. T^e eye. oft*n MM on them l 6 tendered all but th. h«.d
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    jGAPORE HELD AFTER LEADING 2-0
    273 11 SINGAPORE HELD AFTER LEADING 2-0 t c fiances for ar victory I-jjE SPORTS EDITOR 10, of whom H&gt;,S7I paid a re.,v\ the Asian Games teuni of draw 2—2 in a thrilling Stadium yesterday. half-time ana. II they the break and in thi half, they would havi made the game safe
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    24 11 Malayan Sikhs beat Sumatra Mi layan mntcli i hen ttio t [tnder stnch i i 8 ikbdci Singh rtiursda; thi tourtata heat .i-3. i
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    24 11 KASSIM SCORES 2 U Club drew ,ii Radin Mai 2-2 In a SArA im I ami Ismail 1 1 1 agored unad K;i^&gt;:m: Keb.mar.iii
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    Goal that was disallowed
    49 11 KAIII.M OM\|{ haga ov.r ;t d.l, n.l.r :ii»d crashes a header into (Ml, KhinK Sidditiiii no ihancr to move. The goal, however, was disallowed. Rahim was not offside but might have levered himself off the defender (seen falling) as he went up for the header.
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    Seiangor Chinese, beat Johore 5-0
    176 11 Selangor Chinese beat Johore 5-0 KUALA I I MPIR. Sunday. DELANGOB hinese today beat Johore Chinese s—o5 0 in a soccer fri«Midlv on the Princes Road ground before a crowd of "i.OOO. Johore roulci only make occaslona] raids but even then their forward! not match the brilliance of Seiangor fulibaclu
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