The Straits Times, 8 December 1955

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times Estd. 1843 SINGAPORE, THIRSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955 I 5 CENTS
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  • 170 1 POLICE CLAMP DOWN on THE 'MIDGET ATOM BOMBS' Those sand crackers are killers: Children may be roaming streets carrying them 'Surrender stocks' order goes out throughout the Federation and Singapore yesterday clamped on sand crackers, called "midget atomic bombs," now held to responsible for the series
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  • 167 1 25 KILLED IS GERMAN DISASTER FRANKFURT. Wednesday. t TERRIFIC explosion destroyed a new block of flats in Frankfurt just before dawn today and buried 32 Germans in a 20-foot-high mess of wreckage. Twenty-five people, including seven children, are beUeved dead. It was the worst disaster
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  • 39 1 Th" Malayan Monthly.. $***** Must-Be-Won ConQ" closes at 5 p.m. on Saturday. This leaves you with only three more days in which to submit you r entries. 1 Dint delay. Send in your entries NOW.
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  • 187 1  - Woman in chains rescued by police TRIPLE-LOCKED FOR 3 DAYS, SHE SAYS PATRICK CHEE 4 31-YEAR-OLD ;j mother of four, Lily I Tan. was found by the I police secured with a j dog chain to a pilhtr i in an attap house in j Tiong Bahru Road. Singapore. Police
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    8 1 LILY TAN... ["...three days in chains"
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  • 40 1 PHILADELPHIA, Wed. Joseph Guszonok, a barber who lived in poverty and loneliness in determination to save a fortune, died and left U5533,449. Now. It has gone to Pennsylvania/State because no relative can be traced. Reuttr.
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  • 41 1 LONDON, Wed. Mr. Lim Yew Hock. Singapore's Minister for Labour and Welfare. yesterday began "study talks" at the Labour Ministry and the Colonial Office on questions concerning industrial relations, trade union legislation and trade disputes. Reuter.
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  • 37 1 > COLOMBO. Wed.— Ceylon's Prime Minister. Sir John iKoteiawala. denied In tht House of Representatives last night that he had suueested jan anti-Communist alliance between Ceylon, Malaya and Singapore during his recent visit there.— Reuter.
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  • 69 1 Malayan Railway authori- i ties are still hoping that th( public will make use of the •livp-cents ;i mile" train service which becan more than ;i week apo as a result of the bus strikes in Singapore. A railway spokesman said yesterday that they were not
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  • 154 1 ATTLEE, 72, RETIRES But he may get earldom and go to the Lords LONDON. Wed. MR CLEMENT ATTLEE. ~2. today resigned the leadership of the British Labour Party, which he had held for 20 years. The decision was announced at a Parliamentary Labour Party meeting today. An official statement afterwards
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  • 160 1 MR ATTLEE S resignation will cause a fierce internal party strueiile for the leadership, which will be decided in the next fortnight by a secret postal ballot of the 277 Labour Members of Parliament. Chief contenders art Mr. Much Gaitskell. 49.
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  • 150 1 'Village idiot' Dulles under fire BOMBAY. Wed.— Police today arrested the leaders of a demonstration planned by Goan nationalists to protest against the recent joint AmericanPortuguese statement referring to "Portuguese pro- vinces in the Far East." They were arrested before the demonstrators reached the heavily
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  • 197 1 WE MUST STICK TO PURPOSE: JUMAT Off to London today THE acting Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. will make it a point to see that the Marshall delegation discussing self- government in London "sticks to the purpose of its mission." Inche Jumat leaves this T.ornine to attend
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  • 29 1 lONDON Wed. Singapore's Chief Minister. Mr David Marshall, will have a meeting with the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, at 10 Downing Street or. Wednesday next Reuter.
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  • 217 1 Buses next week: Owners CINGAPORE Chinese bus owners arc (!e--termined to resume their bus services next week, even if they have to start with a skeleton service. The date will be announced later. Mr. Kuek Seah Eng. secretary of the Bus Owners' Association, said the owners were not going to
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    • 98 1 *^f i ,«hhfn I if*' Wmmrl DA H s»N OPTICAL HOUSE, C BLAST: ONE DEAD in TAIPING POH. Wed. A man was killed and another injured in an ex- i -.on at the Sirrpang junction in Taiping tonight. Police found a hole ■1 the road. They believe the explosion was
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    • 114 1 nrrT rnn <v UIEST EllD^e% ALL PRO Of ~yjf| "Sowar Pr/ma' \WW. uIJ j.P.H.deSILV^^ Singapore ipoh kumi iuumb STOP PRESS GAM. STIR KING'S nil 1 i.i 11 1 1 LONDON. Wed— Mrs Margaret Comer, uilr (if London gangster "kin:;" J.i(k Comer, toed EM for plottina to riu evidence to deal
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  • 609 2 NEW DELHI, Wed. ol NGAPOB E'S Chi c f Minister. Mr. David Marshall, said here hist night: "1 have spent here the happiest day simr I have been Chief Minister. I feel I have been among friends." Mr. Marshal! told Rtulor he had spent
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  • 433 2 POUTICAI. O P P O N KNTS of the Chief Minister, Mr. D.uid Mir>li.ill. were happier *w tridav be«UM« Mr. Marshall had dropped what one of them called his <omii' opera performance in India. The leader of the IVople's Action Party, Mr.
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  • 96 2 For Malaya-bound troops, best of everything in new ship BRITISH troops bound for Malaya will have a luxury trip If they travel in the new troopship Nevasa.- which wffj be launched at Glasgow this month. At 20.000 tons, she will be the largest ship ever owned by the
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  • 55 2 THE Singapore City Council will buy 504) air-conditioners for $300.--000 early next year to sell to the public on hire-pur-chase. The units will be either h.p and J h.p. models and will cost S6OO each. Purchasers will have to put $300 down and Pay the
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  • 228 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The place that religion occupies in Malayan society is •pathetic," a Federal Legislative Councillor declared today. Mr. S. O. K. Übaidullah (Indian Chambers of Commerce) asked the Government to spend more money to "put our youth back I on the path to
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  • 183 2 'Synthetic can't match natural yet' WASHINGTON. Wednesday. "THE president of the Natural Rubber Bureau termed A United States' estimates of its rubber consumption during the next five years as "too conservative" and its estimates of synthetic production as. possibly misleading;. His opinions carried in the
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  • 28 2 Holland's modern naval survey ihip, Snellius, arrived in Singapore yesterday for a short visit before going to New Guinea to carry out extensive survey work.
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  • 106 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A delegation from the newlyformed Ex-Security Forces Association met the Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, today to ask that no more foreign troops be allowed into M .laya. But the Tengku, who had a heavy list of appointments this
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  • 71 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. CPL. E. ROWLANDS, of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, was fatally wounded yesterday when seven terrorists ambushed h 1 a three-man patrol in the Tampin area of Negri Scmbilan. Another soldier, Fusilier A. Lawrence, was wounded but his condition is not serious. The terrorists opened
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  • 51 2 NEW DELHI, Wed. The House of the People today passed a citizenship bill which empowers the Government to give or deprive people except Indian nationals by birth —of Indian citizenship. The bill also provides for citizenship rights for people of the Commonwealth on a reciprocal basis.—
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  • 27 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. A boys' club has been built in Senai new village. It is hoped that It will help to reduce juvenile delinquency.
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  • 79 2 Lee comes back fighting POWER P OLITH IN THE MCA [£UALA Thi Minister tCol. H 8. turned I power in branrh ol tl Chinese A.. He State brand the Bun age sub-brai mination 1 the Sri. in. Then I rules to saj branch can n resldcir Legal opinion Th, referred
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  • 33 2 Eng Kam Chew, 22, a 1 the shop yesti worker in a confectionery c in Liang Seah Street, Singa- He was admttl pore, was found s:abbed in tal In
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  • 155 3 S A DETERRENT TO WAR. COMMONS QUESTIONERS ARE TOLD g;// we are prepared to talk, he says LONDON, Wednesday, ime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, said i\ Briton will not depart from her to make the hydrogen bomb. nment slul regards Britain's manusslon of the bomb
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  • 25 3 (Sierra Anti-tax have burned In the viilk and Brad--0 miles from s which for a spread to n Province. have beer.
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  • 133 3 R RANGOON. Wed USSIAs touring leaders Marshal Nikolai Bulcanin and Mr Nikita Khrushchev H for West Rencal tod;iy. Their plane was accompanied v far a.s the Burmese border by .six Vampire nd ten Spitfires of the Burmese Air Force Before leaving. the RuspreaentN
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  • 87 3 Balance in 1957 JAKARTA. Wed. The Indonesian Government has approved a draft budeet for 1956 allowing for a deficit of 1.000.000.000 rupiahs < about 5250 million at the official rate l Announcine this today, the Minister of Finance. Dr. Sumitro D.'ojohadikv.sumo. said a balanced budnet
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  • 33 3 d. A bid >n unit will bo In Febru--hoot scenes I for a film of -Elephant Bill." It i ptxbable that Humphrey Bogart will star in the film.— U P.
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  • 41 3 FRENCH MANNEQUINS NAME ROMANTICALLY LINKED WITH PRINCE ALY KHAN PRINCE ALY KHAN, w.th Bettina, the leading Pans mannequin Rumours have b«?en linking them romantically. This picture was taken at the premiere of the Marquis de Cuevas's ballet in Paris. A.P. picture.
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  • 127 3 Snowfake storm for Xmas in London LONDON, Wed. (CHRISTMAS has come; to London in a whirl 0l multi-coloured snowSake*, white sleighs j and frost-covered Christmas trees. Regent Street, a smart London shoppir.g centre, which always has a special scheme of Christmas decorations, has this year blossomed out as the centre
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  • 26 3 RICHMOND. Virginia. Wed. A U.S. Navy jet plane crashed into two houses here today. One hoir' was destroyed. The pilot parachuted to safety. A.P.
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  • 118 3 NICOSIA, Wed T)OLICE vans rounded up more than 1.000 men in Leekoniko village yesterday and took them to the police station to pay their share of a SI 6.000 fine imposed on thp village. The money ill be used to rebuild the village post office,
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  • 309 3 Fhrashed over a rhyme Jack and Jill Kent up the hill To Jctch a pail of water. But Juck fell down And broke his THAT minting word in the nursery rhyme brought eight-year-old Paul Francis an "unmerciful thrashing." He could not walk next day and his teacher had to call
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  • 171 3 LONDON. Wrd. British 'supersonic pilots are crashins in incessant numbers because of the "brain barrier." A report issued by the Royal Society of Medicine today said that the mental strain of bursting through the sound Darrier in a jet plane has become so
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  • 395 3 LONDON. Wed. CONDITIONS in Mock niarkeis I today have been much the same as yesterday with the firm i undertone again maintained while business has failed to snow any marked expansion. GilU remained neglected awaiting tomorrow's Liverpool i&sue resul and prices ea--ed slightly. I Interest in industrials was
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  • 96 3 Coloured leader found dead DALLAS. Wed THE beaten and badly burned body of Herbert Johnson. 60, leader of the local National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. was found yesterday beside his burnt-out car The body was found in a pasture 10 miles southeast of Dallas. There were signs
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  • 28 3 WELLINGTON. Wed— The United States Navy expedition "Deep Freeze" will set up an Antarctic "air terminal" for planes which will fly regularly from New Zealand. Reuter.
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  • 195 4 'THING OF BEAUTY' LED MAN TO COURT THE Singapore First District Judge, Mr. J. \V. D. Ambrose, said yesterday that he was not sure if a miniature Japanese sword was an offensive weapon. Mr. Ambrose said thiwben he acquitted Kuah Tian Sang who pleaded not guilty to a charge of
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  • 142 4 MORE THAN 8.300 bags of Christmas mail from overseas will arrive in Singapore within the next 12 days. The Director of posts, Mr. M. L. Durrant. told the Straits Times yesterday that this year's mail would be heavier than last year when more than 170 tons of mail
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  • 247 4 Trap that secret mah-jong this way T\O you suspect your i*^ wife of having an affair with the man next door or wasting her housekeeping money on mah-jong? You do and she won't admit it? Well, stop bitinn your fingernails and ask her to agree to see a private investigator,
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  • 311 4 5,000 ACRES AFFECTED One dish enough for anyone GROWERS: ANTI-TERRORIST MOVE MEANS HARDSHIP FOR THOUSANDS IPOH, Wednesday. fHE Perak Tapioca and Allied Industries Association has denied the Government's claim that terrorists can live on tapioca. It says in a letter to three Federation ministers "The
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  • 18 4 MR. ROBERTS h shown with his lie-detector yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 58 4 Low Seng Chew, 35, and his wife. Lee Ah Poh. 31, pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to a charge of causing hurt to Lai Ah Yem and Chan Tiong Wah. It was alleged that Low and Lee threw a solution of caustic soda at them
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  • 30 4 SEGAMAT, Wed. Nearly $3,700 was collected for Poppy Day In Segamat district this year. Last year's collection was lust under $3,000. Mrs. A. J. Colman organised the collections.
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  • 28 4 Five men, one armed with a dagger, robbed a tailor of SlO and a watch in a backlane off Sam Leong Road. Singapore, on Tuesday night.
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  • 146 4 SINGAPORE'S Blood Bank stocks are very low and an urgent, appeal is made for donors, especially Asians. Last month 227 Europeans gave blood but only 19 of them received transfusions, leaving 208 donations to be given to Asian patients. Asian donors- totalled 388 but 644
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  • 49 4 TAPING, Wed. Old boys of King Edward VII School will hold a fun fair in aid of their golden jubilee scholarship fund, at the school on Jan. 28 and 29. There will be food stalls, a basketball competition, Chinese lion dance and sideshows.
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  • 51 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed— John Malcolm Peterson, 24, a store manager, was acquitted here today of a charge of negligent driving. He was alleged to have driven his car into a ditch in Klang l?oad. Peterson said that he had to sweive to avoid a collision with an oncoming
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  • 55 4 Industrial workers of the Royal Air Force in Singapore have rejected wage proposals by the Air Ministry. The workers decided this on Tuesday night at a meet- ing of the Industrial Group of the Air Ministry Local Staff Union. The union secretary, Mr Ong Soo Poh,
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  • 118 4 COLONY IS LAVISH SPENDER Drink, nmoke bill up j C INGAPOi:IEAN S drank O more, smoked more and used moie petrol ior the first 11 months of this I year thar. ever before. Revenue from these three items junped by about $5 million over the esti- i mated revenue and
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  • 89 4 LONE VOICE AMONG 80 SINGERS MISS CHRISTINE STIRLING, who will be a soloist at the Christmas concert of th c Singapore .Musical Society at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Dec. 18. She will be accompanied by a 80-strong choir. The organ will be played by a newcomer ti Singapore, Mr
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  • 32 4 PENANG, Wed. Police today warned cyclis'.s to beware of thieves. Five more machines were stolen yesterday, making 17 for the first week of December half the November total already.
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  • 32 4 SEGAMAT. Wed— A public meeting to discuss the formation of a co-operative housing lociety for Segamut will be held at the Government Offices' Board Room at 2.30 p.m on Sunday.
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  • 75 4 230 swot for Monday I EXAM BOYCOfi UNLIhi pANDITA first M. school cla pore will entrance on Monday. Seventy are expected I The MlnUb I Mr. Chew yesterday thai 1 ment wa.s I establish I schools. Places lor all But all rtudi ed Monday would be .Thooi place It is
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  • 187 4 Lady Black tells the Guide*: This is what leadership and loyalty mean I ADY BLACK, wife of the Governor to say about leadership and loyalty al meeting of the Singapore Girl Guich s "A good leader never asks anyone to do anything she would not do or
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  • 72 4 Councillors! named PBNANGt, :ioneer. a mi i journalist ha lated to the Mvi '11. They are M him. the iuci ■nlnated for thi -han Blew T ng director, i fears and Mr E I :het. edit i vho replaci Mr V vho has Fashion show if Teluk Anson TELUK ANrwelve
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  • 74 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. I Abdul Rahman bin Kamisah. of Police Contingent Headquarters, was sentenced in the Sessions Court today to eiht months' jail for causing death by rash driving. The court wu told that on Sept. 14 Rahman drove a lorry carrying several policemen at high
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  • 430 5 One regret of man told to quit home... He —did not defy the law 'GET OUT'— THEN A STRANGER MOVED IN By MICHAEL GOH DOES IT PAY TO BREAK THE LAW? Yes, says Ng Chee Hoe, a 63--year-old stonemason. "If I had ignored the law, I would still have my
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  • 231 5 His greetings to Ridley, 100 SINGAPORE'S oldest inhabitant. Mr. Yong Chao Siang. 119. will take part tomorrow in one of the most ambitious programmes Radio Malaya has ever put on the air to mark the 100 th birthda"y of Mr. H. N. Ridley,
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  • 201 5 'End indirect taxation' call KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Financial Secretary, Mr. C. J Thomas, rejected a suggestion during the Federal Legislative Council budget debate today that indirect taxation should be abolished. Mr. M.P. Rajagopal (Trade Unicnst referring to inland revenue estimates for next year
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  • 129 5 GARRICK: Aar Paar iHlndil 3 15 6 30. 9.15: Tel *****. KING'S: Goh Hee Sut Chay (Cantonese)-115, 3.30. 7, 9.30; Tel *****. CATHAY: Trial— ll, 1.4 d, 4.15. 645 9.30: Tel. ***** ODEON Don Yadn's, Latin Quarter Revue 'Japanese stage show) 1 3 6.30 930; Tel. *****.
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  • 106 5 THEOBOPHK AL SOCIETY: Weekly meeting. Singapore Lodge, j 1 8, Cairnhill Road. 6.30 p.m. EAST-WEST SOCIETY: Weekly meeting British Council. Stamford Road. B^3o p.m. I POLICE BAND: Public concert |at Katong Park. 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 P PI'BLIC RELATIONS: Free shows by Mobile Film Unit at 15th i
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  • 30 5 Mr. Tsai Wang Ching, a Singapore artist, will display an exhibition of his paintings at the Shiang Che night I school in River Valley Road today and tomorrow.
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  • 170 5 PROPER SIGNS BY CYCLISTS -OR FINES fYCLISTS, trishav riders and tricycle riders in Singapore will now have to give special truffle signs or face a fine of up to $100. The new Bicycles Rules. 1955, describe how the s!.gns should be made. TO STOP: Hold out the right arm horizontally
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  • 37 5 The Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of Singapore will hold a public discussion on "The Need for the Bahai Peace Plan" at the Bahai Centre, BaiKrue de LndoChine Building. Raffles Place, at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 39 5 Malaya is one of nine Asian countries invited to attend a wr- 1J conference on the problem of traffir congestion on the roads The conference will be held in London from Sept. 17 to 20 next year.
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  • 71 5 THE SINGAPORE Junior i Chamber of Commerce will I observe the week beginning today as Junior Chamber International Week. It Is in commemoration of the organisation which was founded in Mexico on Dec. 11, K'44. The date has since been honoured annually by Jayc?es everywhere as "JCI Day."
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  • 161 6 After twenty years MY wife and I have been in Singapore for upvards of 20 years, during hich period we have made man* friends among the b ra population and long various Asian We have also devoted a considerable amount of t.me and money to various charitable ailairs. in which
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  • 140 6 'Critics are right' MUCH criticism has been aimed at Radio Malaya but this broadcasting station really deserves it. In a programme Zainal Alam i Malayan comedian) ted "telephone con- Though I am an American and not an Englishman, I resented the fact that Zainal Alam pronounced "Fawang. padang, scarang. Ampang"
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  • 563 6 NURSING: RED TAPE WHICH KEEPS RECRUITING DOWN r Sir.... TO THE EDITOR..,. Dear Sir...J rE only inducement thought of so far to make good the shortage of nurses Is a proposal to increase their emoluments. Granted this is a very important point and one that should have been Implemented a
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  • 667 6 fTHE time is now ripe for A everyone who is interested tc know how the Labour Ftont came to be In favour t-f multi-lingual-ism. abolishing the Emergency powers and Singapore citizenship. At an informal meeting Of the Front, I suggested that we should have a
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  • 320 6 WATING FOH THE GREEN LIGHT I HAVE been and still am waiting on tenterhooks fnr Chin Peng to meet the Federation's Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, and get on with the long-await-ed discussion on the amnesty terms. But perhaps he is not really the M.C.P. boss, as wp are led
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  • 203 6 They're worse off than the teachers MRS. SHIRIN FOZDARS amusing and flattering but distorted comments on the "Intolerable conditions under which students teachers have to work" sound pure bunkum to one who has moved intimately among them. Mrs. Shirin Fozdar will be in for a shock if she learns of
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  • 136 6 THE return of Mr. F. W. Dalley to Mala> a is timely, for Singapore is facing two difficult problems. Firstly: The stiikes and the mingling of politicians in trade unions; secondly, the lock-out by the bus companies. The first problem requires investigation and talks to trade unionists.
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  • 259 6 T"HE report by your special correspondent on the jungle bungle over the Kea Farm terrorist incident provides food for thought on the lethargic attitude taken by the Perak SWEC. Virtually a deaf ear was turned to the advice and repeated pleadings of the Tapah DWEC in asking
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  • 145 7 Chandran quits Labour Front NO AUTHORITY NOW, SAYS THOMAS 4 MEMBER of the policy-making body of the Singapore Labour Front, Mr. Patrick Chandran, has left the party. The vice-president of the Front, Mr. Francis Thomas, announced this yesterday in an advertisement which read: "Take notice that Patrick Chandran has left
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  • 36 7 TAIPING. Wed— The Tai- ping Rotary Club will give a Christmas party for 200 orphans from the convent and the Indian Children's Welfare Home at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan, Kota Road, on Saturday.
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  • 30 7 KAJANG, Wed. The Church of England may start a new primary school in Kajang. A report on the project is awaited from j Archdeacon Robin Woods of Singapore.
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  • 36 7 The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts will hold it* annual art exhibition at the Chinese Chamber of Comi merce. Hill Street, Singapore fro m Friday to Monday, daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 31 7 The Sinpapore Youth Council will hold its quarterly meeting of representatives ot member organisations at the Sims Avenue Community Centre Hall, Sims Avenue, on i Monday at 5.30 p.m.
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  • 28 7 PENANG. Wed— The sergeants' mess of No. 2 Airfield Construction Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force in Butterworth will oe officially declared open on Friday.
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  • 42 7 EIGHT youths were charged in Singapore yesterday with being members of an unlawful assembly which rioted at the Lim Clan Association premises in Nee Soon on Tuesday night. It was alleged that they were among 20 non-members
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  • 89 7 A Sultan's prints for hanging KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. PHOTOGRAPHS taken by a Malay rulor will hang in the fifth Malayan international photographic exhibition, sponsored by the Selangor Camera Club, to be held at the Chinwoo Auditorium from Dec. 23 to 26. He is the Sultan of Trengganu. who submitted prints
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  • 26 7 SEGAMAT. Wed.— The body of a two-year-old Malay girl was recovered from a village well near Kuala Paya. north of Buloh Kasap, yesterday.
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  • 40 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. An area security unit patrol killed a woman terrorist, Nyet Yoon, in the Ipoh area of Perak yesterday. A man with her escaped. A hand grenade was recovered. Councillor rebuked for 'uncalled for' attack
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  • 136 7 Utter nonsense, say two ministers KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. fHE British Red Cross Society was today attacked and called a "snobbish and classy" organisation for trying to separate itself from other voluntary bodies. This attack in the Federal Legislative Council by Mr. Tan Suan Kok (Muar-Selatan)
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  • 99 7 Hoodwink? Never, says Govt. KI'ALA LUMPI'R. Wed. MR. P. P. NARAYANAN Trade I'nions) alleged at today's budget meeting of the Federal Legislative Council that employers and workers were being hoodwinked by the Government's unscientific system of working out cost of living indices. The Member for Economic Affairs, Mr. Oscar Spencer,
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  • 41 7 Fifty-two students from the Technical College. Kuala Lumpur, left Singapore yesterday in the liner Tjiluwah for a sports tour of Hong Kong. They will spend 10 days there as guests of the Hong Kong University.
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  • 120 7 Dr. Ismail added: "We have Dersuaded the society to carry on its valuable work among the rural people until the medical services and Health Department can take over. 'We should not try to discourage people who are helping us." Mr. Cheah Ewe Keat (Kuala Lumpur-Timon also praised the
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  • 36 7 SEGAMAT. Wed—Preparations have been completed to meet the flood menace in Segamat. Vernacular schools will be used to house evacuees from flood areas. Floods us lally occur between late December and early January.
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  • 123 7 So very hush hush... ...that $200,000 tip-off cash KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federal Legislative Council heard a little today f.bout the Customs Department's secret service which has been voted $200,000 as reward money next year. The Financial Secretary, Mr. C. J. Thomas, was reluctant to talk about its work. ■•If;
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  • 70 7 KLANG, Wed. The chairman of the Klang Town Council, Mr. T. J. Mathiiis, said at the councils monthly meeting today that work on the proposed $5 million bric\?e over the Klang River will start in May or June next yea*- A resident engineer to supervise the
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  • 60 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A working party o? the Federation Government is inquiring whether it is possible to lift the duty on goods marufactured in Penang and sent to the mainland. This was stated in the Federal Legislative Council today by the Financial Secretary. Mr. c.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 316 7 *ropical That's the^^^ time to wear 4 Viyella* shirts, pyjamas, stockings whenever cool comfort really counts. v and ILu^^.tS] night "wear Viyella m IF IT SHRINKS WE REPLACE «U« h i ft 'riflU' ma km. A. mm j M ou II he glad you asked for Ovaltine Biscuits'* -ri LJtRF
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    • 339 7 AVILu: ICCADILLY LONDON Agents.- JACKSON CO LTD. Available at all leading stores. FLU-Colds needjhis FAST, DEEP-DOWN RELIEF! t-"#^3^B^. Your blocked nose, sore throat, tight chest and cough ALL get relief when you rub on Vicks Vapoßub. Comfort comes quickly I in two direct ways: W t^k *gJ 1. WORKS IN
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    • 115 7 Club; 10.30—11.00 Music Past and RADIO MALAYA HHHfHHM ■Programme thu« markrd ran br J^J I V *T jl[ I *JJ?Bil received b> listeners in Malaria. I WKttidßSttt^^ r^.i'-TJ^ SINGAPORE PM. *JM Lunchtime Concert. I Short Ye f.£ Mcdl •130 News; M.45 Ladies Only; j p^-p™,*?™*" 600 Prog Summary; 6.02 Sove-
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  • 29 8 :v Words lit (minimum) WALLACE: Archie i Archibald Phillips on 7th December. 1955 at the Bungsar Hospital. Kuala luir.pur, dearly beloved husband :nd father of Gordon i iorle.
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  • 85 8 M HnrdM fin (minimum) MR. MRS. J. E. BENJAMIN of No. 2 Sophia Flats. Singapore. Tuank all friends for attending ti.. ii 25th Wedding Anniversary a:.d for their useful presents. THE FAMILY of the late Master Paul William Brown thank all P'tends for their Condolences, Contrlbui tar.cc and Loan
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  • 29 8 :n Words fu (mimimum). REQUIEM HIGH MASS. Friday St. Joseph's Church. Victoria Street for Dato Dr. Charles J. Paglar. "His better understood. ban words was simply dome eood
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  • 348 8 »..rd, $10 (minimum) FOLLOW PEDANT Every Day In the Malay Mall' if you want k' win that $5,000 word puzzle. IDISITE COLLECTION OP ill evening Dresses at Mulchands. 82-1. Bras Basah Hoad. KLINE'S FASHION NEWS. Cottons imm.icilatoly kO Frederic*. Billy De« enr! Luctnda of California." STRONG COOKING smells go!
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  • 565 8 The Federal Legislative Council did quite right to turn down a motion by Mr. K. V. Thaver. a nominated member for the trade unions, calling for a committee to inquire into the medical services. To have approved it would have set a bad precedent. Almost any complaint
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  • 335 8 High on the agenda for the coming meeting of Britain's Prime Minister and America's President will be the new Communist propaganda offensive in Asia. Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khruschev have done a better propaganda job than any Communist since Lenin. It would be lunacy not to think otherwise.
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  • 221 8 By a striking coincidence Singapore's Chief Minister met India's Prime Minister the day after Mr. Nehru had spoken in the Indian Parliament on the advantages of Commonwealth membership. Mr. Nehru is frequently attacked by the Indian Communist Party for his attachment to the Commonwealth. The connection is
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  • 922 8 WAS there ever a S more mercurial minister than David Marshall? A few days before he left for London he was so saddened by the op- position of the majority of elected Assemblymen that he reminded one of 5 a scolded spaniel. On the
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  • 880 8 Japan again near the point of 'explosion' IT WOULD BE AN ACT OF STATESMANSHIP TO DISCUSS WITH TOKYO THE POSSIBILITY OF MARKETSHARING, WRITES RICHARD HUGHES. f OMPLACENCY in ignoring Japan or, worse, treating her patronisingly as still a defeated and occupied country— will be rudely shaken next year, when the
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  • 165 8 IT IS wrong for anyone to doubt the capability of Pardlt Nehru. In dealing with the Russians. If he found It so easily possible to bring the Chinese Communists to talk with the Americans, and used his powers of persuasion to make them give up the
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  • 226 8 WHY EDEN WAISTS CABINET CHANGES CIR ANTHO the Pi: is tantah ambitious file Const British p stalling an Shuttle 01 ment from month. Soon after Sir Winston April, It vi cast t.iat a construction ws The mm born pari thlnkln; i chers hope: office wei Prime M the Conserv: null
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 370 8 CLASSIFIED ADS. 20 Wordt 11(1 (minimum) OOH: To Sylvia and Sin Tub. a urn, Austin Oon Hor, on 6th December. Both well. fllMimil and Douglas. daughter, Deirdre Jane, on the 7;!: December Noon, at Penang Hospital. WOOKEY: To Eleanor, wife of \V K. C. Wookey. a second son, on 4th
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    • 25 8 BkChohC 8 RANGE S OF Ot/TSTAND/NG X Zh*&A WOOLLENS X e4A^WORSTEKj AVAILABLE FOR YOUR SELECT/ON AT REASONABLE PR/CES PHONE: 6535 Singapore, Thurs. Dec. 8, 1955.
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    • 156 8 \ii £<S.Ci REFRIGERATOR DE 81 r" 1 FULL WIDTH V CAPACITY FOR *0 WITH X FROZEN FOOD QUICK JB LER DRAWER IN rAIfMtD J LUCENT PLASTIC H7 7. vluu r RATE CCMPA R TMEU j/ MEAT AND FISH HANDLE FITTED LIST PRICE S'pore&Peiu: for CASH $935 Hire Purchase 13 Monthly
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  • 151 9 M recommendations relating to larriagea and divorces among Muslims are n the Muslim Bill which has been ed in the Singapore Legislative AsMil. designed to give effect to the sug- Muslim Advisory Board recomhing a shariah (religious) court nsdiction in disputed cases of
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  • 111 9 TUG-0'-WAR STRIKE 10th day, no hope KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE deputy Commissioner for Labour, Selangor, Mr. R. C. Wilkinson, hinted today that the Government might appoint a public court of inquiry into the dispute between the Fung Keong Rubber Company and its workers. He told the Straits Times that there
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  • 19 9 KAJANG. Wed. St Katherine's Church has been completely renovated from an appeal fund raised by the parishioners.
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  • 43 9 Wed n troops Ita- i and But...v, voted in the elections being >ET UP A DIVORCE COURT TO HEAR CLAIMS FOR ALIMONY Altogether. 1.400 ballot papers were issued to the 2nd Bn., Royal Australian Regiment, based at Minden barracks. Glugor.
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  • 39 9 PENANG, Wed. Delegates to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation international rice commission meeting here will visit padi experiment stations in Kedah. Perak and l Province Wellesley on Friday I and Saturday.
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  • 34 9 PENANG. Wed. Former I members of "D" (Chinese i Coy., 3rd Battalion, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force (Penang and Province Wellesley Volunteer Corps t. will hold their reunion dinner on Saturday, Dec. 17.
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  • 281 9 COUNCIL IS TOLD HOW TO GET MORE DOCTORS 'Make graduates serve 3 years' TXA/>TAno KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. DOCTORS who graduate from the University of Malaya should serve in Government hospitals for at least three years, the Federal Legislative Council was told today. Mr. Lee Thean Hin (Alor Star i said
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  • 32 9 PENANG, Wed. Violin- Clare will Rive his second recital here at 9 p.m on Saturday at St. Xaviers Institution." The concert la sponsored by the Penang Arts Council.
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  • 152 9 KUALALUMPUR, Wed. Three police officers from Pakistan. Saigon and Hong Kong attending a police course in Kuala Lumpur under the Colombo Plan had their rooms burgled in the Embassy Hotel here last night The thief placed long pole against the wall of the hotel
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  • 307 9 Crackers warning: 'A capital offence' WOMAN FINED $500 AFTER RAID I^UALA LUMPUR, Wed. A warning that having sand crackers could be a capital offence under the Emergency Regulations was given by the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. J. G. Adams, in the First Magistrate's Court here today. He was pressing lor
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  • 55 9 Ambush— all safe KUALA LUMPUR. Wed— A patrol of the Ist Queens Regiment escaped without a scratch after it was ambushed by a terrorist gang in the Rengam district of Johore yesterday The bandits fired from 100 to 150 yards. The patr >1 flrci back It is believed that ore
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  • 668 9 From Page One boxes of 300. Each box packs the power of half a pound of high explosive. But because they have also been sold in small quantities at 20 cents for 10 it is feared that hundreds of small boys in the Federation and Singapore
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  • 296 9 An ocean-going liner calls at Malacca MALACCA. Wed. The first ocean-going ship to call at Malacca since the war arrived here yesterday. She was the Norse Oriental Line's cargo passenger ship Hallvard, which brought a big consignment of flour. She is on the AustraliaMalaya
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  • 58 9 IWO PAKISTANI FOLK t. OHICtRs. Mr. M B Ali Khan (left) and Mr. A. T. N. Edwards look on a> Kuala Lumpur police experts check documents for fingerprints of the i hi. i who cot into the room of a brother officer at the
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  • 236 9 Xl ALA 1.1 MPIR, Wednesday. DATIENTS have to lie on the floor at the lohore Bahru General Il'i-pital because there are not enough aeds, the Federal Legislative Council was told today by Mr. K. V. Thaver (trade unions). He added that, (he shortage
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  • 126 9 Phone men to meet over dispute A FIVE-MAN delegation representing 327 striking field employees of the Singr.- pore Telephone Board, will meet members of the S.T.B. I Employees' Union at the Labour Department today to try and solve their union rivalry dispute. The talks were arranged yesterday by the acting
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  • 92 9 TODAY: Singapore 5.43 a.m. 18 tt 1 in.i 6.16 pm. i 7 ft 7 lar. Port Dirkson 1.02 a.m. '7 ft. 5 in.i 1.46 p.m. (5 ft. 9 In i; Penang 7.56 a.m. (5 ft. 6 in.i 9 14 p.m. 1 6 ft. .i in.). TOMORROW: Singapore 5.43
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  • 40 9 A CAR caught fire at the junction of Paeoda Street and New Bridge Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Tht fire, believed to have been causd by a short circuit, was put out before a fire engine arrived.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 120 9 A neon sign m Bias Be Prepared! Insure your sign under a COMMERCIAL UNION Neon Sign Policy vkles indemnity for legal liability for injury damage to third parties or their property, insurance against damage to the sign 90S COMMERCIAL UNION ASSURANCE CO., LTD. and Associated Companies S Cecil Street. Spore
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    • 123 9 ATTENTION MOTORISTS!! Is your engine overheating due to rust and corrosion? Then drop in your radiator Sola-Cell AUTO -CATALYTIC Removes Scales and Rust Reduces Corrosion and Wear Allows Max. Engine Performance Helps Prevent Overheating Cleans Radiators and Ports. SOLE AGENTS LINDETEVES LTD., K. LUMPUR IPOH PENANC SINGAPORE lESSELTON In jour
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  • 891 10 Boys will NEVER obey the ruels There's much to be said for the old ways-more for the new JT wasn't as though we hadn't given enough thought to the problem of a Christmas party. On the contrary J had been scanning books and magazines for weeks beforehand, trying to find
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  • 393 10  - If you want a 'lift' change the colour of your hair HAVE you ever yearned to be a redhead, a ■copper-nob." a glorious chestnut or a pale moonlight blonde and now the newestfashion fad. a sooty black head" 1 All these colours are possible the.^e days, as almost every woman
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  • 412 10 UAVE found the ants ll a real plague in the dry weather. They eat the young beans, swarm over the brinjals and make tea in the garden 5 a doubtful pleasure. 5 Saw Amah vigorously and •5 optimistically sweeping the grass where we were
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 197 10 HEINZ I V BABY FOODS 1 I areafvifeys pure. ..safe 7 and KOUMOI INS.O V j?"t'> T T f i .n z B.iliv Food's /^£Z^^s^^\AJ- are the finest, select I \£~>' C~ y'^Ljtfoods scientifically pre- V •j^ pared to retain maxi- mum nutritive value. Their pure, fresh flavor makes them
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    • 159 10 J^^Lp The f/^y^v Perfect x-^C r^Lfe Sift >:/ IT So simple to give .so lovely to receive I Luxurious I < P ractiral \f --""^-■licS^S. •••precio IffYARDLEY TARDLEY II OLD BONO STREET. LONDON IiKI I AJT^s is Santa Claus!... fICLLU' That's right Tel! me, what is this "MAGNOLIA PLUM PUDDING
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  • 1543 11 I"" mn 1 <Ufe I f l'M^ J W SHi pi :;;i ii ..m..............^ ON DECEMBER 8, 1859, there died at Edinburgh the most wayward, widely read, intensive and undependable writer who ever graced the annals of English literature. His name was
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    • 148 11 I I our food I deliriously FRfcNcn 9 I Seasonings Uft Fr«nch'» OnlM W« ••golo' 101 l you Iry .*ak« onto loll*. t br.co. tpr.od o'd cup FITZPATRICK'S (OODSI)PPLIES(F.E.)LTD. 66 ORCHARD ROAD. SPORE-9 TEL: 5038. I Coming to Britain? over 200 new self-drive cars REDUCED WINTER RATES FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS
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    • 262 11 WOLSELEY Fast car performame with small car economics family car comfort \mh sleek, distinguished lines. I el us show you what I lo\cly c.ir it ii to driwi V^^V"* MALAYAN MOTORS LTD. Wearne Bros. Ltd. FEDERATION REPRESENTATIVES I tORMICA! LAMINATED PLASTIC ft. Eit > Formica is unharnned by alcohol, fruit
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 145 11 Mio.x 3torgan m 3M.D. tPi\ 3taraan calls /"rc.MOK-&N V\OULP^ lIM SOBEY TO BOTHER MXIV rrS <V PLEASURE I^ If I WANTED JO CUEZ* T IT'S SOT ONLY ALL R!<SWT-^\' I LIKE TO SEE WJ FCC^ POCTOC-- BUT THIS IS M^/TO MEET YOU, S'B//j with YOU FIRST. IS BIT it ll
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  • 429 12 LONDON, Wed. T<HE Financial Times said that the balance between supply and demand in world rubber trading came near to being upset this year largely because of increased demands by Russia and America. The newspaper, quoting figures released by the International Rubber Study Group,
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  • 99 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exrhangr: noon prices per picul yes- terd.iy were: Copra: quiet; December $27 buyers. $27 S sellers; January 1 527 buyers. $28 sellers Coconut oil: steady; bulk $40 -'h sellers, irum $43 sellers. Pepper- quiet Muntok white $138. Sarawak $137. special Sarawak black $95 (all I
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  • 79 12 Ships lying alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Banka 12, Warla 45, Katong C P., Sumatra! 67. Charon 11, Canton 13 14 Elizabeth Bakke 15 16. Karlmata 18. Loksang 19 20. Semenylh N. Wall 4. Selangor N. Wall 6, Slrusa N. Wall 8 Benveg 21
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  • 223 12 Applications can now be received for places for children resident in Singapore in the Government Chinese Primary School to be started in January 1956 at Seng Poh School. Ttong Bahru. Later the school will move to its own building. There will be classes at each level
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  • 426 12 By Our Market Correspondent T*HE tin price in Singapore yesterday suffered its first set back in nine days' trading, registering a decline of $1.87J per picul to $393.50. The upward swing from November 26 to Tuesday had improved the price
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  • 476 12 BROKERS' REPORT The Malayan Share Brokers' Association reported: "There was a good volume of business In all sections of the local share market Tins and rubbers continued firm while industrials were .-teady." Stngaporr and Federation brokers reported the followir g business done yssterday: lYaser and Neave ords. 1.72'j. $1.73; Gammon
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  • 148 12 The Malayan Firhince Banks Association has made the following changes in it s rntes to mer- chants at quotations to $100>:— New York: buying airmail; T.T. 32 15 16. O.D. 33 1 16. 90 days 334 credit bills. 33 5 i 0 trade bills Canada: buying airmiil: T.T
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  • 139 12 De' ember flrst grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed in Singapore yesterday at $1.29'^ per lb. down 4\ cent on Tuesday's closing price. The closing tone was uncertain. (losing pri. rs in n nts per lh. were: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob buyers 129-.. (nom.i. sellers 181% (norn); No.
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  • 32 12 The following November tin outputs are announced: Pahang Consolidated 180 tons of tin concentrates; Sungri Knit.. 555 piculs of ore: I poll (No. Dredge) 363 piculs: Rahman Hydraulic 525 piculs.
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  • 12 12 UK 1 lb. (down TIN: (j PKIII (dowi COPRA P'fUl (d.,,i,
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  • 63 12 Investment with pr:r. Bechance Explore tio: but were I 3d. Other ni again m Loans :< Con. Zinc Bank of NSA\ Mount I N. Brota'i. i Hill BO Mouni U Peko Wester,; Ampol L\ Oil Search Aust. Consol. A.P.M. i new i Bradford B. Hill Pro. Courtauld Dunlop
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  • 17 12 The followii crops ;>re nol .'.m.ilx.ini.ilcl I Malaya 39.700 1b I Bukit Katil Molek, 4.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 360 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS ARE INVITEE for two posts of Chinese Co-oper-r.live Officers on contract on th« I of $280x15-310 plus the usual C.O.L.A. Applicant! .should preferably possess a Senioi Crmbrldce Certificate and should be above the age of 25 years They should be able to speak at 1 vn Chinese
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    • 220 12 i NOTICES RAFFLES HOTEL LIMITED .(Incorporated in the Colony of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN I that at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting of the Company I to be held on the 20th December 1955 the Dirtci&rs -vill recommend I for approval payment of a Final Dividend of 10 per
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    • 449 12 NOTICES PENANG HILL RAILWAY NOTICE Notice Is hereby given that the r Penang Hill Railway will be 1 cloced from 2.00 p.m. on t Saturday, 10th December 1955 to 6.45 a.m. Monday. 12th December, I 1955 for the purpose of changing I haulage cables. The last train i before closing
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    • 637 12 NOTICES TIN OUTPUTS The directors of Austral Malay Tin Limited announce the follow- ing outputs for the month of November 1955:— a THABAWLEIK TIN DREDGING LTD. 208 Piculs S PUNOAH TIN 1 DREDGING LTD. 427 AUSTRAL AMALGAMATED TIN LTD. 1.522 (Puchong No. 1 dredge closed down for 'adder repairs). THE
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    • 97 12 SHU-PING NOTICES OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA s.i. "NANKAI MARU" ARRIVED 27.11.55 Consignees of cargo ex. the j above vessel are notified that the General Survey will be held in S.H.B. Godowns 40 41 at 9 ajn. on Friday. 9.12.55. No other surveys will be held. AGENTS: I I IK-iin SIMONS CO.
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    • 419 12 KNUTSEN LINE orient service fROM CANADA/U.S. PACIFIC PORTS 30 v Sailing Arriving Cjcrtrud Bakkc Cdn. 36 11 Dec 12 Dec 1 Anna Bakke 8 Dec 7 |an 9 Jan 10 |.in Otcka 3akke 10 lan 9 Fcb 1 1 Feb 12 Fcb Elisabeth Bakke 4 Fcb S Mar 7 Mar
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    • 990 13 lel »405 MANSFIELD~«t CO., LTD. Ton -«ii iinc^poroteo m Singopore) ,11 ■■__> THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T S Dv« Soils p <'***.— n 6.33/34 D« -pool Dec 11 L ondon, G 36 Dee 7 Dae i Dae 11 O*' 10 Dae 11 Dec 14/1* Dae 17/U In Port Dec 17
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    • 1119 13 BW^B»T^^Ja^sal Jt^^^^^^M^^M^^^m^^rWSK^^^^^^^^^^^^M EASi AslAlii, LIME SAILINGS TO CONTINENT/SCANDINAVIA Vdtn Pot *<"*. Genoa, Antwerp, Ratteream, Hamburg, Copenhagen Gothenburg ft Oslo Spore P. S'hom Penang -^FALSTRIA" 22/24 Dec 25/25 Dec 24/27 Dec **> "MEONIA" 11 Dee/ 1 J.n BBS) "KAMBODIA" 21/21 Jan 24/24 Jan M/ 24 Jon CaWs London Passengers only) Gdynia
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    • 999 13 BuaDms-Ht BEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. T£ 2 L JI7^ SINGAPORE (Incorporoted in the United Kingdr- I LINES SAILINGS TO U.K. AND CONTINENTAL PORTS Spore P. S'hom Penong BENCLEUCH for Liverpool, Rotterdom, Antwero 12/17 Dae 18/19 Dec 20/21 Dec ■BENREOCH tor London, Rotterdam 2* Dec/ S Jon Direct arrives UMon 27
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    • 1162 13 McALISTER tft CO., LTD. TEL: No ***** BLLERMAN ot BUCKNALL KLAVENESS LINE LONDON HAVRE ROTTERDAM. L£)s nAtia Wt. HAMBURG PORTLAND, SEATTLE ft VANCOUVER °c^ f<^^-Jrtr:« Af Sle^ rt corg^fo, Cent,., ft South S.pore C TV °'p "X™ Penang cmng 10/15 Dec U/17 Dec 18/20 Dec ."g™ P Pc CITY OF
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  • 373 14 Fijians have little to tear from Army Cup finalists yHE Fijians have little 1 to fear on the rugger field from the South Wales Borderers. This seemed obvious after yesterday's match at Johore Bahru in which South Johore beat the Welshmen by
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  • 32 14 ■ocun >.H..\. I.caKue. I«iv. 1: S.K.C. I C.S.t'., padang; I'niversity v S.C.C., |..n.,iri k (.11(1 I \KI I I V I. A., Tanglin. BASKETBALL I niwTMiv I un. Happy World.
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  • 354 14 LONDON, Wed. TV\l DOWEK, of Wales, the British champion, retained his British Empire flyweight boxing title last night by outpointing Jake Tuli, non-European cham pion of South Africa, in a 15-round contest at Harringay. Dower took the Empire title from Tuli in
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  • 95 14 Seventy competitors took part in the Seletar Golf Club gala yesterriay. Results: Women., lonp drive: Mr> P Smith; Men's lone drive: F'.ici Poole; Women's accurate drive: Miss Jackie Bawcutt; Men's accurate drive: LAC Galloway Pitching into bucket: M.istVr Michael Beaton: Pitching onto treen: Master Edwin Bulk;
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  • 303 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pOOD entries have been received for the Selangor Turf Club's Amateur Meeting, to be held on I Saturday, Dec. 17. There will be a programmo ol eieht races including two hurdle events, one over about 9f.. with elnht nights of hurdles, for
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  • 130 14 ii.A.F Seletar 2nd XV beat' Royai Army service Corps in a rugta match at Seleuir yesterday by 13 points (goal. try and penalty i to six (try .m d penalty*. RASC had the better of pla\ in the first half which ended with the scores level
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  • 59 14 No 14 squadron R.N Z.A.F. i beat R. N. Kranji by 15 points i tour tries and a penalty i to three (drop foal) in a rugger ma eh at al B.i.^ yesterday. They led 9-3 at half time R'iscoe c2i. Terlesk and Makutu scored :he
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  • 107 14 CINGAPORE and Formosa are 1 left 10 contest the final of the Pan Asian Basketball Tournament. Last night at the Happy World Stadium when the four section winners met. Singapore beat Bangkok 66-51 and Formosa beat Hong Kong 72-64. In an earlier round the Formosa team, who
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  • 253 14 A I'RY just before the nn.il 1 \wnsue enabled S.C'.C. "A' to bi\i; Naval 13a*e by eiilu points (goal, try; to tnree (penai.yi in a lugger match on tne padang yesterday. vVei coiuution.-, rtsulteci in much lorwaru piay. and tenHßi anu paOUMa were
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  • 175 14 PERCY PENNEFATHER will 1 captain the Singapore Civilian team for their first two matched In the annual S.H A. internal quadrangular over the weekend. Teams for all three matches wil' be: Friday v Arinj J. 05 p.m. at SCC: Bingham; Mosbergen, Fernando; Pennefather. Hay, R.
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 278 14 pivh ni Striss Orrhartls V^^^P' FRUIT JAMS Excellent Flavour STRAWBERRY X •.'J" l v-'V A \^^Jis^^ft/ RED CURRANT E BLACKBERRY SWISS PLUM OIETHELM CO., LTD. RED BLACK IS SwiUerl^inai CHERRY imwm. RASPBtRRY j or s" Vigour 'jk L m m H Vr '*ojp, .'::-V-~ KM Dr Mockcnucs n hiood £«2
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    • 122 14 i At reasonable cost, this attractive enables you and your family to j healthful, relaxing comfort, witl I appetites and quiet refreshing sleep Guarantee yourself many years of co buy a Carrier now There are every room size INTERNATIONAL AIR- CONDITIONING COMPANY LIMITED. (Incorporated in Sing 68, MACKENZIE ROAD. SINGAPORE
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 277 14 Straits Times Crossword 23 H»iF** tithesls of sprinc 24. Seedy. In spite of plenty of I i r——— f r"h air (5 3 7) Hl HH 1^^ 3 1^ b M MM' DOWN __f^ 1- Some of the residents in mv i»a j»ia Granada Square ilsi. 2. Eastern morgues can
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    • 246 15 riON VACANT ■h M rls. extra. I rTB Besutied Bungalow ire, Elect. h-nxe 10 ..st offer. 1 'SITTING > :ii annexed. Modem Couple 80 Stevens II furnishlence, four one alrcondl- upatlon i Two Three pa month. house *****. Pamlrtth without running Ai: SurI use of 1 View". ON WANTED rls.
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    • 388 15 KDICATION :oWord,fi (Min.,-Hox SO els. extra accept boys and girls from age 4 in curriculum we Include music A PPIy Kindergarten TUITION 20 Word, fs ,Mln.)-Box St els. txlrm. CITY DRIVING BCHOOLEfficient and safe tuition Buaran£f i. Undel hlghly co mi H-teit Enpllsh speaking Instructors 12 St Gregory Place phone:
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    • 437 15 KtSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 20 Words IS (Min. Box St els. txlra. WANTED FINANCIER with j $500 lor 100' i profitable venture. I Office Accommodation, Telephone facilities within town limit are ad\ antageous. Box A 7278 B.T. WANTED Capitalist to take over I le;uiinn Commercial School. Well patronised by and very popular
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    • 449 15 VEHICLES FOR SALE 2t Words $S (Min.)— Box St ctt. txtrm. j HILLMAN CALIFORNIA, one year old, one Owner. In Tip-Top condition, with or without Radio, what offer. Reply Box A 7248. S.T MORRIS MINOR, First Regist. Sept. 1954. 130C0 miles, perfect j cond., 2 doors, ideal with Children. Tel:
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    • 895 15 FOX SALE to WordtfS (Mm.) Box it els. txlrm. QUICFREZ REFRIGERATOR j Best Condition Cash $400 Box A 7287. S.T. REFRIGERATOR 7.6 cv ft E.M.I. Princess, 20 months use. good condition, very quiet motor $600 0.n.0. Please reply Box A 7301 S.T. 18 FT RUNABOUT HULL 3 months old must
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    • 824 15 TENDERS TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from Class 'D 1 and above registered P.W.D. Contractors will be received by the State Engineer. Johore, up to noon of the 21st December, 1955 for:— SUPPLY OF TRANBPORT TO P.WD. SEOAMAT FOR PERIOD 1.1.56 TO 31.12.1956. Full particulars may be obtained from the Executive Engineer,
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    • 574 15 j BRING THE CHILDREN I j TO MEET I I FATHER CHRISTMAS j ON i SATURDAY MORNING j HE WILL BE VISITING SINGAPORE 1 TOY FAIR I FROM 10 A.M. UNTIL 12.30 P.M. TICKETS AT $1.00 each I may be obtained in advance enabling each child to l receive a
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  • 783 16 HUNGARIANS KEEN TO MEET SPORE ATHLETES ON RETURN TRIP By JOHN MARKS THREE world athletic champions raced around the Singapore padang last night and there were only two people to watch them. The
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  • 231 16 DISTRIBUTOR PAYS WILL IN THE MAIN RACE By EPSOM JEEP IT WAS Alex Baxter again at Ipoh yesterday, second day of the Perak Turf Club December meeting. This sensational apprentice landed a good-priced doubre on La Ronde ($6O) and Brown Eyes (539) to bring his total to seven winners. Distributor,
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  • 42 16 Singapore Rifle Association will hold a Special Rifle Meeting at Bukit Timah Range on Sunday. December 11. Members and affiliated units are reminded that all entries must be forwarded immeriiitely to Mr. C. M. HO P.O. Box. 957 (Tel: *****).
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  • 29 16 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Johore Police Contingent play their first Inter contingent rugby matrh on Sunday against Neurl Sembllan Police on the Civil Service Club ground Johore Bahru.
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  • 2209 16 Race One CLASS i. UlV.4— i<-. HKS. STR. Mr. H. W. Cowluib ..;;u Mr*. J Roagers' (lv. GRL'ET 113 (213—162/ J. Jones 1 Ull loiia 6.0 O32— jioi Mortimer 2, (3) i !.im(. mi in- Wood B.U (440—2461 Wesl i LU Scone .stone 6 M i.nr
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  • 213 16 TWICKENHAM. Wed OXFORD University, the favourites, beat Cam- i bridge in their 74th annual rugby match here yesterday by nine points (a penalty goal and two tries) to five (a goal) to score their first victory ln the series since 1951. Cambridge, wlnnlnu the toss
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  • 253 16 'We're $12,000 in red'— Mmm pHE TOURING Indian football team, n khana, are in no hurry to return hi iot until they have cut their heavy li current tour through Indonesia and "We are about $12 000 in, ;he red," said team manner Mr.
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  • 76 16 Two S'pore boats for Perth race SDfOABORE seated |r Prince Phlllli competition I Cockburn from Jan. 26 Two >,■ Waterhoua Alfred Chu: been enter already in P bara will be end oi thr The Prince p donated by burgh to Queen's event will be for lnt< boats. II will the
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  • 17 16 WEMBLEY V University betl 4-2 in thrir ann here tori ay A bridge lea 3-;
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  • 224 16 FHE Singapore Combined Schools i yesterday named 15 players :o represent Singapore in the 3outhern Malaya Schools hockey neet against Johore, Necrrl, I Malacca and Selangor to be held I >t Seremban next Monday. Tues- I lay and Wednesday. Johore are competing for the
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