The Straits Times, 28 December 1954

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times tie***** Kstd. 1845 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1954. 15 CENTS
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  • 1064 1 FREIGHTER STILL BLAZING DEATH OF A SHIP But plates are buckled and she's listing badly JHE 8, 8 25 -ton Danish freighter, l»\i Maersk, which Jit fire on ChristDay, was still in Singapore's "'Her Roads late last tit. she was listing or! and 3.000 v go continued in her holds.
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  • 36 1 LOS ANGELES. Mon. Tho Shah of Persia, Mohammed Rrza Pahlevi, and his wife Hi'iaya. are in Las Angeles for weeks visit. They are or an unofficial tour of thr United States. A. p.
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  • 24 1 The Sincaporr Flood Reilrr < Fund now totals 52R6.874 81 Thr Federation total is $171,116 List of latest donauons Is in P. 7.
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  • 49 1 THKSK pit turev taken from a Sinsaporr Plvine lub aircraft by '■'♦raits Time* staff photographer (hew Boon Chin, show the hlack pall of *mokr over tn« stri« ken Lrxa Marrsk in Sincaporr harbour yesterday. 48 hours after her carso of rubber caught firr.
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  • 188 1 PRESTWICK Scotland, Mon Ken Davidson, roach of the American Thomas Cup badminton team, was one of 28 people killed in the Christmas Day 11.0.A.C Stratoemiser air crash here. Mr. Davidson, 48, was returning lo the I nited ltat«i after managing a Far Kast tour
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  • 560 1 FOUR PRIME MINISTERS DROP IN Asian leaders on way to Colombo Powers conference in Jakarta POI'R tsian Prime Ministers flew into Singapore yesterday Mr. Nehru of India, Mr. Mohammed All of Pakistan, V Nu, of Burma and Sir John Kntelawala of Ceylon. But only Sir John stayed ovrrnight. in Singapore
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  • 650 2 By the Competition Fditor 'TWERE was one ti the biggest entries tf the series for The Malayan Monthly's 520.000 MustBe- Won Word Puzzle Contest, the results of which were announced in The Sunday Times. Competition was again very keen. Here are observations on what the adjudication
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  • 551 3 II ondon. Monday. ,'UEEN on ChristDay broadcast E bute to the ur.--n millions of her monwealth and the aver and women je names will be household fon a microphone. Iringham, her counme in Norfolk, shr hem to
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  • 94 3 He tried to beat a Royal ban SANDRINGHAM, Mon. I i I'QI'NG Khooimstcr who I to beat the ban on i piling the tjuecn I she walked home from church vstrrdav had his i -c\rr<\ ;md the film i led by Dolice. n -police will not give i lie ruvhed
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  • 203 3 HER COST OF LIVING -$12,000 A MONTH GENEVA. Mon. MRS. Joanne Marie OrtizPatino. the beautiful 24--year-old wife of the heir to a Bolivian tin fortune, ap- pea ed today again*;, her al- lowance of $1,500 a month pending divorce. She left her husband, Jaime j Ortiz-Patino, during their honeymoon in
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  • 60 3 ■>n Mon.— A 71-year-ner defeated a "field .'"hiding a 17-year-old ;ho Dlst annual I Lake swim in Lon- 1 le Park at the week- I Winner was William Masgs. who defeated his competitors In the handicap race through the cold waters, by half a length.
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  • 354 3 experts believe airliner landed on soft ground 28 die in crash— inquiry starts PRESTWICK. Scotland. Monday. AHUKAH experts here think the overturning and explosion of a Stratorruiser at the airport on hnstmas Day may have bee,, caused by the Riant the rui°w r S ft
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  • 29 3 SAINT REMY DE PROVENCE. Fiance, Mon—Bertand Dauvin 20. a slider pilot, died today when hLs plider crashed into a hilltop near here during a world record bid—Reuter
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  • 152 3 AUCKLAND, Mon LADY HILLARY, wife of Everest's conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, gave birth to a 71b. Boz. son here yesterday. IN LONDON 1 Mrs. Owen Waterman, 25, in an iron lung; gave birth to a l l!> baby boy on Christinas Day.
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  • 71 3 NEW YORK, Mon. An lnIn American highway death* late on Sunday night dimmed hopes that the Christmas holiday toll would fall below predictions. By 5 a.m. violent deaths of all types across the U.S. had surpassed the record for a 54--hour Christmas holiday. Deaths since 11
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  • 26 3 JOHANNESBURG, Mon Ten people, including a mother and her five children, wen» killed on Christmas Eve when two lorries collided here Reuter.
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  • 25 3 NEW YORK. Mon Ten children under nine years old were killed in a house last night in Parkin, Arkan.sa.s when a stove exploded—Reuter
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  • 151 3 ATOMIC BLASTS NOT NEEDED- SCIENTIST 'We can get power from the sun' WASHINGTON, Monday. r)R CHARLES G. ABBOTT, one of the United States' best -known scientists, said that the world can Ret atomic power direct from the sun without risking dangerous explosions on earth. He was talkine about ordinary sunshine,
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  • 140 3 MEW YORK. Mon. NEW YORK film critics yesterday listed two British films "Genevirve" and "Knmfo and Juliet' and a Japanese film "Gate of Heli" among: their choices for the best films of 1954. The New York Dally News critics said that "On the Waterfront"
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  • 44 3 BOMBAY, Mon.—Bashirunnisa Begum, eldest daughter of the Ni'.am of Hyderabad, has married Al Pasha, son of Nawab Sajjad Yarrung Bahadur. The Nawab wa.s a noted nobleman of the Hyderabad Royal Court before the state I became a democracy in 1948. A P
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  • 63 3 JAKARTA. Mon.-The Indo- lit s;an Government, on the eve ol the Colombo Powers' conference, was urged at a mass meeting yesterday by the "West New Guinea Liberation Movement" to denounce the Netherlands as an "aggressor" in West New Guinea. An estimated 100.000 persons at the meeting
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  • 25 3 JASPER Texas. Mon— One rancher was killed and three others wounded in a shooting after an argument over a lost dog— A. P.
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  • 28 3 BOMBAY, Mon. Police are hunting for a soldier, who came home to settle a iamlly feud over land, and shot to death five of his neighbours.
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  • 198 3 He once had $90 mil. now he's in debt NEW YORK, Mon. BERNARR MacFadren, octo-gena;-lan physical culture expert and publisher, has asked Jack Dempsey, torn rr world heavyweight boxing ihampion. to h< lp him get over Ls 'worst Christmas In 86 year" 1 by removing the threat of being sent
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  • 320 3 Chou hits out at U.S. and Britain HONG KONG. Mon. THE Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai. has accused the United States of "deliberately creating tension over 13 Americans convicted for spying in China," the New China News Agency reported yesterday. He was making a political report to the Second National
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  • 32 3 NEW YORK. Mnn Film star Rita Hayworth was Riven formal custody oi h'T two daughters yrstrrday by a judge, who declared the children were getting "proper care."- UP.
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  • 31 3 TOKYO. Mon Peking Radii said today Chinese Nationalist troops attempted to raid liphthouse.s on the Fukien coast opposite Formosa on Thursday but were driven oft by Communist forces. U.P.
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  • 117 4 Big hand for orchestra in Malacca MALACCA, Mon. XVI hundred people gave the 511-piere orchestra of the (him- Line High School. Penan*, a big hand when it played at the City Park here last nieht. be tuo-and-a-half-hour performance his in aid of the Nanyans: Iniversity Fund >r most of the
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  • 56 4 TELUK ANSON. Mon. gah bin Kahar. accuseo. of bberv was refused bail and 'tnanded until Dec. 31 when was changed here today. He was alleged to have Chinese fair. Sungei Tiang in the ungkup area of Lower Perak l Dec. 4. The preliminary inquiry ha-s •en provisionally
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  • 36 4 Members of the Telok Ayei Methodist Youth Fellowship Singapore, yesterday brought Christmas gifts for the children of the St. Andrews Orthopaodtc Hospital at Bl I and the Salvation Army Children's Home at Pasir Panjang
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  • 32 4 lONDON. Mon -Technicians the J. Arthur Rank Ortar.ition will visit Malaya next 'ar to shoot scenes for the lm version of Nevil Shute's >st -selling novel, "A Town ke Alice."
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  • 43 4 TELUK ANSON. Mon —Wong Kok. 66. a beggar, was fatally injured at the junction ot Market and Paulln streets here on Saturday when he came in collision with a motor-cycle. He died soon after admission 1 into hospital.
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  • 230 4 LADY TEMPLER HOSPITAL FUND IS STILL SHORT THEY HAVE $2 MIL. NOW AND FIRST BLOCK FOR EIGHTY WILL BE OPENED IN JULY KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ANXIOUS OFFICIALS ARE wondering how to revive interest aj^ain in the fund for the Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital. With only
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  • 245 4 Christmas ronggeng at the Waldorf From HALL ROMNEY LONDON. Mon. lIARD-HEADED English businessmen who frequent London's Waldorf Hotel had something of a shock when they saw members of the Malay Society and their guests dancing the ronggeng in the hotels ballroom. It ua.s a rare spectacle, but none of the
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  • 63 4 KLANO. Mon— The Dravldian leader, Mr t V Rania samy. told labourers on Bukit Raja Estate near here that they should go back to India it they cannot earn enough to uive their children an education in Malaya ■You should go back to
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  • 183 4 From HAI.I. KOMNEY LONDON. Monday. 11. 'HAT A LONDON FILM critic has described as the most honest portrayal yet seen of the war Against the terrorists in Malaya, will be seen by British television viewers on Wednesday. i It Ls part of a
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  • 22 4 The Church of the Qi:een of Peace at Tanjong Katong Road Singapore. held a Christmas party for children on Sunday.
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  • 81 4 KUAI.A LUMPUR Mon A Special Constabulary Sergeant. Othman bin Raja Shah, aged 25 was charged in the BeMftoSM Court today with attempting to rob a Sikh. Dewa Singh, in the early hours of Dec. 1 at tho T 1 mile, Kuala LumpurRawang Road He was alleged
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    • 252 4 Straits Times Crossword across H hath me out of house mid home" cHenrv IV") (5) 4 Time as pronouncrd <B>. 7. Coin drops out In time T) Si RSUfS/ta and so*, U V U CIC P Ck UP f r the **l 10. Fn^he' Common, .oup U .hort fiTi JffT
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  • 276 5 This invasion does not hamper the troops It gets swallowed up in counter-attack KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 1 A.MPERS full of cold turkey, pudding, nuts, whiske\, brandy and other Christmas delicacies came floating down from the sky for hundreds of British troops on jungle duty over
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  • 131 5 'STUDENT PRINCES' DEFENDED LONDON, Mon. THE allowances of Malayan students in Britain were I mentioned at the annual dinner of the Malaya Society. The president, inche Abdullah bin Dato Abdul Rahman, deprecat- 1 ed recent Malayan references to the .students as 'student' princes." He said the allowances cities- 'ion must
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  • 88 5 The Singapore City Council Water Department Labour Union decided at a meeting on Sunday to give two weeks to the Council to re-consider it., plan to dismiss 300 labourers from the Tehran waterworks camp, A union .spokesman said that the union would not hesitate to take drastic
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  • 21 5 Mr. C. S. Soh. an independent will contest the Havelock division in the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections next year.
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  • 71 5 An army corporal, Abu Bakar i bin Ariffin, and two watchmen, Jagar Singh and Kartar Singh, were charged m the Singapore Emergency Court yrsterday with behaving in a disorderly manner in a bus at Pasir Pan- j 'ang Road, at 11 15 p.m. on
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  • 28 5 The Sincapore Rural Board will hold Iti monthly meeting i .it 10 am on Thursday at the i :onference room of the Co- j onial Secretariat.
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  • 80 5 The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions will extend the work of the Sped*] Plantations Representative operating from Singapore. This wa.s disclosed in a statement n.ade by the Confedera- tion's General Secretary. Mr. J. H Oldenbroek on the fifth i annlveraarr on Dec 7 of
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  • 45 5 MISS CIIOO Ml I YOON and Mr. Tan Wee Nam after their wedding in Singapore. The bridegroom is the son of Mr and Mrs. Tan Chrr Tong. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Choo Sit Fee. Straits limes picture.
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  • 175 5 The Government of Sarawak has started a competition for the design of ten new postage stamps. Any number of desipns for MM .stamp or for the whole 10 can be submitted, and they can be in the form of photographs, drawings or paintings, in
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    • 512 5 RADIO MALAYA mur: v»m -n» mlii On The Floss"; 9: F»?hlon and i fttmmmwmt maikcd can Fn>h<: Cast 10.30— 11.00 In Hav.a- j j W nmM by listener* In Malacca. Mood j slmrt w»vr l» and 62m. Me-dium wave 476 m.. 313., 366 m. and 297 m. I K *^^J
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  • 16 6 mm i /nufn MRS. NORA RODRIGUES and Ik all friends •ended the s.un John I
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  • 964 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues. Dec. 28, 1954. In Search of Peace It is a long time since Singapore was so firmly reminded of its key position in South Asia H it was yesterday. ben four Asian Prime Ministers were brief visitors, journeying to Indonesia and the Bogor once. The
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  • 269 6 The French debate on ratification of the Paris agreements rearming Germany continues in almost the worst possible atmosphere. This does not mean that the Assembly will confirm its Christmas Eve decision. But it is unfortunate that opponents of Western Union, in the form in which it was
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  • 1027 6  - 'Dream of the Red Chamber' is now a nightmare WALTER BRIGGS By HONG KONG. UOW to interpret the classic "Dream of the Red Chamber," one of China's best-known novels, has become a stormy issue unleashing still .another Communist "brainwashing" campaign against the cultural elite. Perhaps it will be the most
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    • 355 6 Study of politics in schools: Short cut to nationhood? \IR B. T. W. Stewart. ifl Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Penans. said: "We have come the stage when everybody is convinced that politics should be taueht in schools. I endorse this view. It has been said that children are the backbone
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    • 257 6 YOUR leading article analysing Mr. Whitfleld's general statement that our education should be controlled by a public body, says that the purpose of education is to create civic-minded citizens a-nd a government cannot hand out. large sums of money to a corporation to rurf schools.
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    • 124 6 IT appears schools have been Instructed to be very strict in promoting children to higher standards and oven to detain and dismiss, students without rrlercy. In Talping. a girl ftged IS yean obtained sth > following marks; Oral English Ti per cent. English language 53 per "ont.
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    • 163 6 RISKS OF MIXED MARRIAGE A SCIENTIST theorises, experiments and confirms, but It is too ri.^lcy for human bein|s to be guinea pigs in the matrimonial laboratories Marriage ls a serious affair between people of the same net, much more so if the contracting parties belong to different races titled marriage
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  • 26 6 On the margin Holy Night ideal nn A:. Mala-, and Jain! on F i I 1 or. A: Modern speech OOK!\ ous wore the 1 STANLEY
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  • 239 7 VICTIMS BY THE THOUSANDS FLOCK TO RELIEF CENTRES 10,000 MONTHLY RATIONS DISTRIBUTED— ALSO DA Y-OLD CHICKS AND CASH (THOUSANDS of flood victims flocked to relief 1 centres in Singapore yesterday. Adult victims were each Riven 15 katis of rice— a th's ration— and children
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  • 90 7 1,000 AT LABOUR RALLY MORE than 1,000 people \vsv attended a rally of ■our Front at the VieI morial Hall. Singa- mi one of two cutlvea who spoke. I up to the people Colony to .sre that > lf-government came, Id be "for and by the a.ici not by the
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  • 16 7 '■ar-old boy. Ding bin .v found stabbed in In Telok B ngapore, on Boxing
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  • 17 7 N'G. Mon.-sThe Penans; ;pal Services Union hold tal meeting at the Rub- Association tomorrow p.m.
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  • 48 7 M.uhusamy Ramasamy, who -'..ipped traffic along XeKon Koad on Christmas Day. m -rntenced to three days' jail in the Singapore Kmergeiiiv Court yesterday for drunk arid disorderly behaviour. Muthusamy. wearing only underpants, was stated to have be««n sinking a.s he strolled along the road.
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  • 41 7 ALOR STAR. Mon. Mohamed Murad bin Mat. former financial clerk attached to the Alar Star police, station, was today sentenced to eight months' jail for criminal breach of -trust of $7,019 belonging to the Alor Star police co-operative shop.
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  • 46 7 RFXIF.F OF FLOOD victims gained momentum yesterday. Here a woman who lost all her poultry is given a number of day-old chicks at the distributing centre at St. Andrew's School. Now she will be able to start afresh. Straits Times picture.
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  • 236 7 CEVEN boys and a man were injured, one of them seriously, when a home-made cracker exploded on a playing field in Lembu Road, Singapore, on Sunday nfght. The cracker, which had an old cigarette tin for its casing, went off with a bang
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  • 29 7 The Theosophlcal Society. Singapore, gave a Christmas jarty at the Bedok Methodist :hurch hall for poor 'children md orphans of Bedok and he Ramakrishna Mission on Sunday.
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  • 166 7 'Help to end this strike, or... 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. rE FEDERATION TRANSPORT Workers' Union, decided at a meeting here during the Christmas holidays, to ask the Government to intervene in the strike of 300 bus and taxi drivers and conductors of the General Transport
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  • 91 7 PENANG. Mon.— The President of UMNO. Tengku Abdul Rahman, said in Penang today be was satisfied that the Muslim Nationalist leader, Hajl Sulong. was still alive. TVngku Abdul Rahman, who returned last night after a fnur day visit to Slnggora. one of the former Malay provinc
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  • 101 7 KUALA lUMPUR. Mon— O.l Edward, a'ias Eddie, 24, S. Rajoo. 27, and M. Nagalingam, 23, were toc'ay acquitted by the Sessions Court here on a charge of attempting to steal a necklace. The prosecuting officer, Mr. I Sudarshan Singh, said that lie had been instructed to with-
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  • 53 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. I Thieves broke into a Malay teachers' boarding house at Kampong Bahru here early yesterday and took $100 cash and articles valued at $128 belonging to three teachers. From house at Jalan Kolam Ayer, Sentul, cash and jewellery amounting to $324 were stolen
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  • 28 7 The Jubilee Church Songsters, Singapore, will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the church with a sacred music concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 8.45 tonight
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  • 89 7 TELUK ANSON. Mon. I Inspector N. Mahadevan asked lor a deterrent sentence when Lee Chuan, 40, was convicted of theft of two bicycles. The Inspector s>id -There's an average of two cycle thefts a day in Teluk An. c on. Il'a very difficult to catch the thieves
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  • 73 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon— Two doctors were married today |at the Church of the Holy Rosary In Brickfields Road, Kuala Lumpur. The bridegroom was Dr. VlnI cent Fu San Liew, eldest son of I Madam Liew Ah Yin of Batu Pahat. His bride was Dr (Muss) I Gene
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  • 35 7 The Singapore Siglap Girls' Club gave a Christmas party to about 100 under-privileged chili dre.i of the Siglap area on Christmas Day. City Councillor Mr. S. M. Vasagar acted as Father Christmas.
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  • 144 7 Reds kill chief of village guard KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. murder- ed two civilians in Johore during the I Christmas holidays. A contractor of Ulu Choh new village. Chin Je, was stabbed to death on Friday. His body was found yesterday on Tong Heng Estate, in the Gelang Patah area. On
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  • 74 7 Three Europeans were admitted to the General Hospital following road accidents on Boxing Day. Two. Mr Johan Van Dijk and Mr. J. Risseeuw. were injured when a car they were travelling in came into collision vith a steam roller in Braddell Road at about 7.30 p.m.
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  • 73 7 JOHORE EAHRU. Mon i The Regent of«Johore, Tungku Mahkova. presided at the last meeting of the Johore Execu.--i tive Council for this year at the Council Chamber at Jo- hore Bahru yesterday. Among the items discussed I was the 1955 budget which will be presented at the State
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  • 44 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon— Two Fijian soldiers were injured on Christmas Eve when the jeep lin which they were travelling 'from Batu Pahat to their camp at Kluang overturned. The soldiers were admitted to the British Military Hospital ai Kluang.
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  • 52 7 KLANG. Mon— Three concerts to raise money for the Nanyang University Fund will oe held at the Kuala Langat irea. The concerts will be at the Banting Chinese School on Jan 1, Tan Jong Sepat new irlllage. on Jan. 5 and Jenjarom new village on
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  • 36 7 Mrs. Thio Chan Bee, wife of the Singapore Progressive Party Legislative Councillor, officially opened the Balestigr Community Centre on Sunday More than 500 me:nbers of the centre and ther friends were present.
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  • 38 7 Saithippan Sathiabama, a middle-aged woman, was cautioned and discharged in the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday when she pleaded guilty to being drunk and incapable at the junction of Ophir Road and Victoria Street on Christmas night.
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  • 1066 7 THE following are the latest donations to the Singapore Flood Relief Fund: Officers and Men, Volunteer Special Constabulary, "F" Division Paya Lebar »131. Employees. .All Depts S.H B Dockyard. Tanjong 1 Pagar $510. Member* of H M Cusloau Stafl Singapore (further donation $555, Collected by Holy
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  • 197 7 DOCTOR,MATRON MAKE AIR DASH TO KUANTAN TO SAVE 'BLUE BOY' A SINGAPORE DOCTOR yesterday took off in chartered Malayan Airways Dakota from Kallang; Airport, Singapore, on a mercy flight to Kuantan and reiurned two and a half hours later with a seriously ill "blue baby aged four months. The baby
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  • 45 7 Chua Lam and Lam Huat were fined $5 each in the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday for gambling in public at Gate 1, Telok Ayer Basin, on Saturday About $23. seized when tl-^y were arrested, went into the court's poor box.
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  • 35 7 Myoon bin Yussoi. a Federation driver, was fined ?75 in the Singapore Emergency Court yesterday for negligent driving. His car collided wllh a motorcycle in Farrer Roar! OB Saturday evening
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  • 124 7 KIAI.A U 'V.l'l K. Mon. IIfHEN chafed in tHe Sec .nd Magistral) <>'.rt hrre today, 50-yrat -'.id Abdul Karim. son <>i Mohamed Ayoub, would not talk for several minutes. Said the prosr. ntinn officer, Inspector K K. Pillay: He seem* to be
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  • 57 7 A 12-year-old boy. Tan Toh Seng, pleado CUnga- sterdav to escaping from the Girruon School for Boys on Boxing Day, and to.d the court: 'I ran away because ■MM boys :-t the .school beat me up." The magistrate. Mr T. Kulasetecam, port) oi < d
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  • 42 7 MAIL ELECTROCUTED AT 'MIKE' JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Mohamed Yacob, 25. was electrocuted while handlnm a microphone at the ParU Negara fun-fair a t Johore Bahru on Christmas Eve. He died before aid could be n." The police are conductI ing an inquiry.
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    • 96 7 Voice Hoarseness Jgl Hacking Coughs W^i Colds jdg|L Bronchitis Ely Catarrh Ps!si Sore throat Colic pain i^Sni 'htCKJJ) INSTANTLY WITH Woods GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE I -jTJ Resistance to cold germs increased when pupplements&-*\ le< hv l^' s correct internal RiV^rVJl^H 'eme<iy Also recommended jfc^Jfr^ v for wind in the stomach.
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    • 40 7 ANNOUNCE 30 DAY EXCURSION RATE ROUND i TRIP SINGAPORE-BANGKOK $336 PHONE ***** PASSAGE ENQUIRIES SIME DARBY 5, MALACCA STREET. SINGAPORE. V^ xvimnWA whole keknei (jcyui flay /<»/• f favour' osiwwAUGHy 0 w •nnchct in Malaya. Sarawak. B N. Borneo tN ffcwUM
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    • 67 7 High tides TODAY: Singapore 1 a.m. (Bft Bin l 12 10 p.m ilOft.); Port Dickson 816 am < Bf.t. 81n.i 8.29 p.m. (8ft..71n.i; Penang 2 04 a.m. (7ft. 7ln i 2. 46 p.m (6ft. 81n.) TOMORROW: Singapore 130 1 8ft Blni 12 48 p.m 1 9ft 9ln>; Port Dick-son 8
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  • 124 8 They went carolling to night clubs in aid of flood victims 4 BOlT 20 members of the A SlnKapore Chamber Ensemble went carollinß on Christmas Eve and collected Mrs. Peck Lens, o' the Chamber Ensemble, came to the Straits Times office yestei'day afternoon with a cheque for that amount. Other
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  • 44 8 The Executive Ei.iiineer. Temerloh. reportrd hat the Triane Road, in P in,' It now open to traffic Thi Yone Penc-Parit Si;;. road, in Johore, la still flooded m in parts to a depth of fachM. The water U falling
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  • 21 8 A M^year-old labourer. Go- E palan Nair. was found han. it the Naval Base. Singaporr i lay aftt-rnoon m
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 573 8 PUBLIC APPOINTMENT VACANCIES WAR DEPARTMENT WATCH REPAIRER CLASS ll— FOR TAIPING. Basic Pay K cents per hour plus Temporary Allowance of 25. Applications Tc O 1 c Det PCLU H" c/o OPO Talplng. THE CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE acknowledges recc.pt of $300 from PENITENT. NOTICE NOTICE is hereby Riven that
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    • 456 8 NOTICES THE MALAYAN EXCHANGE j BANKS ASSOCIATION AM. MEMBERS of the above I Association in the Colony of Singapore will be closed for business on Friday 31st December 19*4 and Saturday Ist January 1955 being Bank and Public Holidays respectively. NOTICE I. S Ayadural. Guard. Malayan Railways, Ipoh hereby notify
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    • 537 8 NOTICES THFDISTRIBUTION OF GERMAN ENEMY PROPERTY (No. 2) ORDER, 1952 It Is notified for general information that under the Distribution of Oerman Enemy Property (No. 2i Order. 1952 (Government Oaiette Notification No. S 549 dated 27th December 1952), the amount to be paid to claimants who have lodged claims arising
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    • 904 8 NOTICES SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST ACCOMMODATION AT QI'EENSTOWX. Persons wishing to" register their Interest in Trwt accommodation at Queenxtowr.. Alexandra Road, should apply for a Homing Survey form at the Trust Offices, Upper Pickering Street. To qualify for registration the applicant must fulfil the following basic conditions: 1. Residence In Singapore,
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    • 237 8 TENDER NOTICE TENDER NO. 195 TtXDKR H)R TH» Mil I INC. IN J\M \RV 19.SS Into White Riir of 1.M6 Ton« of (.o\n nmrnt Padi i Koala Selanfor Crop i Lying in Oe\rrnment (•odottns in Ku.ila l.umpur. Tenders sre lnvi'ed from Lice .'or "he ntllli't of the abo\e and a
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    • 340 8 1 l fy MOST m I KAUTifoi W and AfCURATH 4 BATHROOM I SCALES 3ATHROOM SCALE fmpn PO BOX 142 SINCAPORJ Ti <- ***** b» 5 w kifelthan mV lk Obtlinib .it ii! I. id i"; Book Stores sni Kphid' In Y'ArMWWM fur ill "'.i:)l- KNUTSEN LINE fttt and Regular
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 1038 9 ti »405 MANSFIELD tic CO., LTD. T.«: M ta '<iteo in Singapore] pm THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE VJ^ n to proceed via other norts to innA WTK-POOL, GLASGOW, L^NMN.A 0 CONTINENT O^ PO O Singapore Due Soil, P s'nam Pervo^, "/IB D*. 29/30 Doc 28 Jon 4 i-_ I iverpool
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    • 1153 9 EAST ASIATIC LINES SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA Far Aden, Pert Said, Genoa, Antwerp, Rettereem, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg A Oslo S pore P. Shorn Penong l.'"t AMD| A' B/ 9 Jan 10/10 Jan 11/11 Jen ASIA" 18/20 Jon 21/22 Jen *J Colls London (pa»e»na*rs only). «x, Colls Beyrouth, Gdynio. SAILINGS FROM SCANOINAVIA/U.K.
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    • 1010 9 buVl^ngTHE BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD." 1 SINGAPORE (Incorporated m the United Kinodom) J LINES SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. Shorn Penong Benvertlch for Avonmoutti, London, Rotterdom, Antwerp 6.38/19 21 Dec/ 2 )Jaa 2/ 4 Jaa Beaveaae for Liverpool, Glosoow, Rotterdam, Homburg 2/7 Jen 6/ 9 Jan 10/11
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    • 1137 9 MeALISTER tic CO.. LTD. TEL No ***** BLLBBMAN «j( DUCKNAU. KLAVENESS LINE LONDON, HAVRE, ROTTERDAM, LOS ANGELES. SAN FRANCISCO. HAMBURG A HULL PORTLAND, SEATTLE A VANCOUVER ond for USA. North Atlontie Ports «rgo tor Central A South ond Canada vkj Colombo America CITY OF BEDFORD SUNNYVILLE J.r,.. \£Z. city or
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  • 1919 10 STRAITS TIMES SPECIAL FEATURE Wild West poet called himself Byron of the Rockies Ml \OI MM I I It VI TO HM I 1*1"--m>\n «.ivi-:\ BY in rm ssi s i> i o\ i>o\ I I \>IBOV\\TI V Hill SSI II HIS >I\\V lOVi; AFFAIRS AMI Ol TiI A4.IOI S
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    • 268 10 The same I amount I offuel Can take you ul to Karther]/ and j you get Once your cor is equipped with c new set of Chompion Spark Plug-., however, you con depend on gelting up to 10% more mileage and full engine power. For Chompiors ore precijion-mode produce a
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    • 267 10 SHORT cUTsi jTO LOV ELY I.AW:sJ I British i, uvv I 1\ MOWERS* 11 H The Q ja!ca B1 Uwn j II super side-wheel mart, w Crass Box I Ruober tyres for s.lence ar robust tread to ensure a f.r- t l" *81 :nch dimeter (22 cent.me* I wheels. Cutting
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 108 10 StuTtorii f#o#fff«'» PUtyuv rivtints L^'^4 **O!-LENEVES- I'VE SEW BUBONC 'MS IS TME V\AV !T6~^S^H|H l^Sm i* 6^ FBO AT Tw MOUTW- PLAGUE BEFOKE! CTIM6 LOOKED AT (fl L^^B^>J^^' 4^ tfWJM FLESW TURNED SLACK.'. BUT NEVER 6UCM r E k 0F TWE |SbW^^ Tr^Wl ~"OSE ARE THE M£Z<s VIOLENT SYMPTOMS! jitAT
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  • 2279 11  -  ESPOM JEEP Xv THE RESULTS, DIVIDENDS AND SWEEPS ('OLDEN LOTUS, bril- liantly handled by David Jones, got up in the last few strides to snatch a head-win from Broadside in a grand tussle for the Christmas Cup over a mile at Penang yesterday, second
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  • 47 11 TOTAL POOL: $191,000 FIRST: No. *****2 ($57,300) SECOND: No. *****0 ($25,785) THIRD: No. *****4 ($14,325) M.irt.rv ($1,637 rach): No*. *****1. *****2. *****4. *****5. *****1. *****6. *****8. Consolation: ($573 rach): Nos. *****7. *****5. *****3. ZUtU, *****2. *****1. *****4. *****5. *****5. *****4. Treble Tote: One ticket $1,621.
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  • 283 11 W UGH IS for (hr Sharp Look 8.07 I Skyridrr >v rates for to- Oolonf K.U7 Mrlr-oni. morrow, (bird da\ Impala K.11.S Battle ruixr xmi thr muni Christ- Mk unrr *04 Orefon II m««-»w Year Meet- I'na.wsre ROt Hollywood Star 7.H Inc arr lust racr (InenuM-opr X.03 Actor
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 178 11 CRAVEN A' FOR SMOOTH, CLHAN SMOKING Largest-selling :^^l :ork-tipped cigarette >£ in the world. x^^r) '0' Imported from London < NNI N '//,.\\<l//,,\V»r'uV>#l.V>#OV»#O> Usher in the WrW/ NEW YEAR AT I ■_JfSTOBEYi jl lair-conditione d I ■IT HOTEL, BAR cSc Wf^ RESTAURANT ttOCHOKE XI). SPORE Tel: MBI-I NEW YEARS EVE
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    • 491 11 I SALE NOW ON IX'mas, New Year Opportunity LATEST ARRIVALS PERSIA! BOKHARA, INDIAN AND PAKISTAN CARPETS RUGS. AT DRASTICALLY REDUCED PRICES RAFFLES CARPET PALACE 68, RAFFLES PLACE, SINGAPORE 1. Phone: :i:iOO.» <1 2<il«»7. Tim PASSFS QUALITY REMAINS fAVRI-IEUBA /<" I tf%Lj I FAVRE-LEUBA 1 rSjMEJCBJjP |B^^»E IEUBa watch ro l^^T^^^~~
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  • 502 12 DAVIDSON -MASTER OF ALL TRADES i yORKSHIRE-BORN Ken Davidson was that rare man of many parts and a master of aIL He was a first-class County cricketer, a badminton player of international fame, and once a top-of-the-bill star at the London Palladium. "Ken," as everyone called him, was among the
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  • 354 12 BJUH. CONFIRMS PIRUZ SUSPENSION: IT^S Fa^, m FIRST CUP TRIAL ON JAN J fL=S today dismissed the appeal by Abdullah Piruz Selaneor's No 1 nlavp'r IfiahSr fhr six player, against the SIXmonth suspension imposed on him by the <3 plan on
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  • 570 12 Trabert and Seixas take Davis Cup singles to give U.S. 2-0 lead SYDNEY, Monday. UNITED STATES, challenging for the fifth sue- I cessive year, led Australia, holders since 1950. by j two matches to nil on the first day of the Davis Cup j tennis challenge round match here today.
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  • 204 12 RAY RICO STOPPED IN EIGHTH DAY Rico of the Philippines, wi« IV knocked out In the eishth rouno of a scheduled 10-round fight by 1 Orient welterweight champion Somdei Yangtrnlclt at the Happy World arena on Sunday night. The punch that ended the fight was a six -Inch right jolt
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  • 85 12 MELBOURNE. Mon A com- I paratively unknown spin bowler. Alan Dick, took five wickets for 31 1 and helped Victoria to dismiss New Bouth Wales, the Sheffield Shield holders for 206 here today. Victoria, who had scored 352 when the Batch began on Christmas Eve.
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  • 51 12 PENANO. Mon -Oonlkeeper Davp MacLaren. Penanc's Malaya Cup hero, again saved the Settlement and enabled them to beat Singapore Malays, the Community soccer champions. I- 0 on Victoria Green yesterday Penang with four resenes. .scorrd their goal In the lOtli minute through centre forward Aziz
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  • 51 12 IPOH. Mon. Goal average «a\c Perak the honours In the Malays I triangular hockey tourney which ended on the padang today Perak beat Seiangor 1-0 and then held Negrl 3-3 today. Negrt. who I tied with Perak for first place, beat Seiangor 2-1 and drew with
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  • 79 12 IPOH, Mon CUPERIOR play in the back division sion proved a match-winning factor :n yesterday's pada:. fixture when the unbeafrWah defeated the touring University of M.Maya team by eight point* i goal and try) to nil. II wu the Varsltvs third defeat of their present tour.
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  • 328 12 FOLLOWING are thr I.K. soccer remits on hiMm.i. Pay. ENGLISH LEAC.It DIV. I Arsenal I Chelsea Blarkpool Portsmouth Bolton 1 Tottenham Burnley 2 Preston Cardiff 3 West B'wirh > Carlton 3 Sheffield Wed. II Manchester C. 3 \>» asdc 1 Sheffield I. 1 I-eioeslrr 1 Sunderland 1
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  • 25 12 NEWCA D M.C.C a took on and hi Conn- 1 wlrket. first c Top wa s K He Ai.d s:t\ Joh:
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  • 15 12 TAIPING COLTS IN 7-3 ROUT IPOH Mor Ui I "I I I I I ■Mml
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    • 2275 12 REACH 72,000 FAMILIES WITH A CLASSIFIED ADVERT. I i( onlinurd from P«RO 6) SITUATIONS VACANT H H.rrf, M (Vin.)-Box SO tt>. extra JUNIOR VAN SAI MM between 20-24, is required by reput able European firm. Will be based lr to work Negrl Bembllai ints shoulc xpertencc to P.O. Boj CIVII
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    • 398 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. FOR SALE 2t Ward, %i Vim.)— Box St ttt. extra. KEEP YOUR DRAINS free of niasquito larvae, apply Jevcs regularly. SURPLUS FURNITURE Ooing p Drawing and Dining Room suites md o:; er items Must Sell 4^o New Bridge Rond. Singapore. SCANDALLI. the Worlds Finest and Fu.lv Troptcallsed Plaro
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    • 48 12 WORLD FAMOUS jKk SINCE 1848 i_T^ ELECTION Sold by All Watch Dealer* Throughout Malaya. Sole Asents, CHUN CHONG 53, SOUTH BRIDGE ROAD SINGAPORE- I. LET US PLAN YO U R -TItJF TO' CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME Pa/v American World AM* MAI GENERAL AGtNTS p MAMSFIEID&C Olt S,NGAPORE KUALA UN-
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    • 53 12 FBUMQ SOCCER: Pfnanc hinrsr > s m sapor*- M^uys. Victoria (.rern Kl ALA I I MIM R RlC.Cf.P.. R\S( v Srlangor KurasUns, H q. Malaya ground M \l \i HOCKKV Malaria v Banda Kaba Malays t lub, padang. lINGAPOftl IKK'KEY: S.C.C v S.( .R.( padHM RIllGER: Oylon I nivrrsiu i
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