The Straits Times, 21 November 1956

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    21 1 A V E'«TA CE i n if ill The Straits Times. MaM* Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1956 15 CENTS
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    IS THIS THE EDEN EXIT?
    244 1 HEART SPECIALIST ORDERS REST FOR PREMIER Round-clock schedule takes its toll: All public engagements cancelled Butler to take over Cabinet IONDON, Tues.— Sir Anthony Eden fa suffering from severe overstrain and has cancelled his imudiate public engagements, a stateent from Number 10 Downing Street aid
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    Lock icon STRAIN AND PAIN—THE FIRST DANGER SIGN
    40 1 STRAIN AND PAIN— THE FIRST DANGER SIGN THE first sign of strain since the Suez crisis began: Sir Anthony places a worried hand to his brow as he speaks at the Lord Mayor's banquet. The date: Nov. 9. Rfeuter picture.
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    Lock icon No holiday for a year in spite of doctor's pleas
    419 1 situation is at its most critical stage. Last night's announcement was not altogether unexpected. Three years ago Sir Anthony underwent three operations for a stomach complaint. He has had no holiday for a year, despite his doctor's pleas that he
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    Lock icon Double pay, bonuses for seamen in 'war' area
    130 1 Double pay, bonuses for seamen in 'war area NEW YORK, Tues. The labrandtsen Shipping Co. and States Marine Lines have agreed to pay double waxes and other "war bonuses" to seamen sailing in the Middle East area, the National Maritime Union announced yesterday. The N.M.U. has been negotiating for the
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    Lock icon Petrol and oil rationing
    538 1 Petrol and oil rationing BRITAIN: FROM DECEMBER 17 LONDON, Tues. pETROL rationing will 1 be introduced in Britain on Dec. 17, the Minister of Fuel, Mr. Aubrey Jones, announced today. Rationing will affect motor fuels, motor spirit and dleael oil used in road vehicles, the Minister told the House of
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    Lock icon 'Dumping' bar
    35 1 LONDON, Tues.— The House of Commons last night passed a Government resolution giving It power to impose extra duty on imported goods where it considers the goods have been dumped in Britain.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon Off to India
    36 1 RANGOON, Tues.— Burma's Prime Minister, U Nu, left today by air for India with a delegation to the Indian Government's official celebration of the 2,500 th. anniversary of the founding of Buddhism.— Reuter.
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    Prisoners' blood
    20 1 Thirty-six prisoners from Changl gave blood when the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit visited the prison yesterday.
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    Shots kill boy
    46 1 NICOSIA, Tues. A nine-year-old Greek Cypriot boy was killed and his parents wounded when they were caught in a gun battle that raged last night between an EOKA terror gang and British troops in western Cyprus. Four British soldiers were also wounded. AJ».
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    Oh, what a fuss over 40 shipwreck sailors
    258 1 PRTY seamen survivors of the Shell tanker Nerotopsis, which hit a submerged rock off Palawan Island near the Philippines and sank on Saturday flew into Singapore yesterday. And what a fuss there was at the Colony airport. Reporters tipped off by Shell's
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    TAXES: GOVT. PROPOSALS ACCEPTED
    397 1 TAXES: GOVT. PROPOSALS ACCEPTED 'Stay-as-we-are' amendment is rejected by the Assembly •J HE Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday confirmed the Government's amended income tax rates which will be introduced on Jan. 1, 1957. It did so after defeating an attempt by an independent member, Mr. Lee Choon Eng, supported by the
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    Lightning strikes 3 people
    58 1 Lightning strikes 3 people Two women and a man were struck by lightning at their house in Changi Road, Singapore, yesterday afternx>n. One of the women, Koh Ah Gek, 21, was seriously injured and was admitted to the General Hospital. The other woman, Koh Bah Bee, 28, and Tay Chwee
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    Lock icon Royal visitor
    28 1 CANBERRA. Tues. The Duke of Edinburgh today visited the Royal Military College and the Australian National University in Melbourne. It was his ninth wedding anniversary. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Churchill ill
    18 1 LONDON. Tues.— Sir Win- I ston Churchill has a slight' cold, it was announced today. Reuter.
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    DANGER! TRAWLER ADRIFT
    73 1 Radio messages received in Singapore yesterday said that the Japanese trawler Feizu Maru, which went aground at Natuna Island 350 miles from here, was adrift and a danger to navigation. The 37 crewmen who were picked up by the Blue Funnel ship Phemius, have now been transferred
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    Bride hurt in car crash
    152 1 Bride hurt in car crash A BRIDAL car crashed head-on with a bus in Bukit Timah Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon. Four people were injured —the bride. Khoo Sock Kiow, 21, her sister. Khoo Ah Scan. 18. the matchmaker Madam Tee Ah Kirn. 47. and the car driver. Tan Ah Bah.
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    Lock icon STOP PRESS
    38 1 END TKFATV MOVK BY JORDAN AMMAN. Tups —Jordan Parliament today approved recomnifiidatiiMi by Parliamentary Foreign All'airs Committee to .1 lirou.it lit; ln .lord .1111 1 Treaty and to exchange envoys with Russia and Red China.— A.P.
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    CHARLES-A THREE-INONE PICTURE
    50 2 CHARLES-A THREE-IN-ONE PICTURE PRINCE CHARLES in the doorway of on* of the state rooms at Buckingham Palace. The Prince, who celebrated his eighth bid last Wednesday, is wearing *grey flannel shorts, blue shirt and red tie.— Study by Tony Armstrong Jones iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iimiiiii niiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiinniiHiNiiiiiii iiiiiiimimnmiiimiiiiiimi minium nmiiin i iiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi mmm
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    UNDERWATER ROBBERS STEAL SUB'S PERISCOPE
    100 2 PORTSMOUTH, Tues.— 1 Four amateur frogmen pleaded guilty yesterday to burgling a Royal Navy base in the first case of submarine robbery known to British police. Marine police guarding Britain's biggest naval Installation saw them swimming underwater across Portsmouth harbour and stealing equipment from a
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    26 2 SAN FRANSISCO, Tuea Waterfront activity continued to dwindle yesterday as more dock workers went on strike in sympathy with 60,000 East Coast colleague*.— A.P.
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      Now Red China enters perfume business
      45 2 HONG KONG, Tues. Communist China, which disdains mast luxury commodities v capitalistic, is going into the perfume business. An "np-to-date" plant Is under eonatrucUon near Canton In South China to produce about tw« tons of perfume a year. —AT.
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      20 2 BAGHDAD: Large consignment of British military equipment, including tanks and ammunition, for the Iraqi army is being unloaded at Basrah.—U.P.
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      23 2 HONQ KONG: Communist North Vietnam hat offered 50,000 tons of rice, medical supplies and cloth to victims of recent typhoon in South Vietnam.—A.P.
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      27 2 NEW DELHI: Prince Norodom Slhanook, former King and Prime Minister of Cambodia, arrived here to attend celebrations of the 2,500 th annlversery of the death of Buddha.—A.P.
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      28 2 PARIS: den. Alfred M. Gruenther, retiring Allied Supreme Commander, was awarded France's highest military honour —La Medaille Milltaire —at an impressslve ceremony in front of Napoleon's tomb. A.P
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      14 2 NEW YORK: The huge aircraft-carrier Saratoga. America's newest, left Norfolk, Virginia, for training operations.—A.P.
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      Lock icon Boy, 14, accused of murder
      29 2 MELBOURNE: A 14 -year- old schoolboy has been charged with the murder of his 12-year-old sister who was found strangled in their home.— Renter.
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    Lock icon Mrs. LUCE QUITS AS ENVOY
    93 2 Mrs. LUCE QUITS AS ENVOY WASHINGTON. Tues.-Mn Clare Booth I.ihc re>i. yesterday as Dotted Stata Ambassador to Italy. President Eisenhower a cepted her resis with an expression of personal regret and tungratulation on a Jf superbly done.' The effective date of ih resignation was not fixd but Mrs. Lure said
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    DID ALLIES PLOT WITH ISRAELIS?
    232 3 French pilots took part in Sinai offensive-sous correspondent paper cites 'proof/ tells Eden: 'Explain or resign' thf m v MANCHESTER, Tuesday. TOE Manchester Guardian, in an editorialf today called on the British Government to reply to charges of collusion with Israel in the se't^dtEaTt S£
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    MCCARTHY: BOMB ROADS TO SIBERIA'
    163 3 MCCARTHY: BOMB ROADS TO SIBERIA' isWVGTON. Tues. SenaUt Joseph Mcvpstrrday prothat the United >c..'.'"- should provide t ,,n'iK ;.nd bombers for lolunterr pilots to desids from Ilunic Siberia's prison ,in |i> to stop "traffic in human -slavery." ll' said the Communl .i< had admitted the ile deportation of Hungarian freedom
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    Lock icon Eden's flight to France on Oct. 16
    159 3 Eden's flight to France on Oct. 16 of what occurred when Sir Anthony Eden, the British Premier, and his Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, "flew unexpectedly" to Paris on Oct. 16. "They spent some hours in discussion with M. Mollet and M. Pineau, but the whole meeting has been shrouded
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    Lock icon Thousands being sent to slave camps, says US
    282 3 NEW YORK, Tues— The American delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, told the General Assembly yesterday that the U.S. Government had factual information that, up to Not. 14, at least 16,000 people had been deported from Hungary. He said
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    Lock icon 'If this hadn't happened'
    68 3 'If this hadn't happened NEW DELHI, Tues. The Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, today told Parliament "The warfare in Hungary resulting in suppression by Soviet troops would probably have taken a very different turn if there had been no invasion of Egypt. To a demand by members that India should
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    Lock icon THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND...
    42 3 THE odd instrument is a bellows-assisted contra bass tuba. Man at the controls: Gerard Hoffnung, warming up for a London concert. Complicated? Not at all. Just blow and wait for it Ah, sweet music. Renter picture.
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    Lock icon Baby barn during flight dies in crash
    98 3 CALL, Colombia, Tues. Thirty-seven people Including a new-born child died in the crash of a Colombian airliner on Sunday. The Aerovias Pacific plane crashed and burned in the mountains of Call on a flight to the Pacific coast. A post mortem today showed
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    Lock icon Ship sinking
    27 3 QUEBEC, Tues.— The German freighter Volfjung Russ was sinking last night after a collision with the British freighter Asia in the St. Lawronce River. AP.
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    Lock icon Black nag boys protest again
    28 3 RANGOON, Tues.— Pro-Communist students today staged more "black flag" demonstrations against a Government order banning student unions in all Burmese High Schools. Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    284 3 LONDON. Tues. Closing middle prices of selected stock not including stamp duty were: TIN LONDON. Tue*.—Cash buywr £850. sellers £8524. forward buyers £827 4. sellers £830. Settlement £852. Turnover am 100 tons, p.m. 45 tons. RUBBER LONDON. Tues—Spot 32'» d.. Dae. 3l\d.. Jan-Mar. 3l\d.. April-June 297»d., July-Sept 29'
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    YUGOSLAV EX-No. 2 IS HELD
    154 3 YUGOSLAV EX-No. 2 IS HELD RELGRADE, Tues. *> Mr. Milovan DJilas, former Yugoslav Communist leader, was arrested here yesterday on a charge of spreading hostile propaganda against the Yugoslav state. Djilas, 45, has been living in retirement since bis dismissal from the posts of vice-president and Politburo member of the
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    Girl, 14, abducted by three armed men
    269 4 4 FIBH TAIL 9 WHIPPING THREAT THREE MEN, one armed with the tail of a ray fish and the others with krises, kidnapped a 14-year-old Indian girl from her house in Lorong Tai Seng, Singapore. The girl's mother and two male relatives were
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    SGT. WHO PLANNED RED ROUT WINS MM
    63 4 A SMALL PATROL led by S*t. Edward John O'SnlHvmn (above) of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, attacked a bandit camp in Malaya on Sept. 16 and killed four terrorists and raptured one. For his v ilfol planning of the assault and leadership,
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    Japanese pianist flies in
    116 4 VOKO KONO, Japan's promislng young pianist, flew into Singapore by BOAC yesterday for a short season at the Victoria Memorial Hall. She has been a "pianist since the age of four," She studied in Paris. In tow was her husband. Mr. K. Tchiba, one of the
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    Crew told: Quit ship
    75 4 Singapore agents for the Swedish East Asia line freighter Kyoto one of the ships trapped In the Suez Canal, were informed yesterday that officers and members of the crew have been forced by the Egyptian authorities to abandon the ship. Sh e was on her first
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    Civic course
    30 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Thirty ketuas of kampongs in the Segamat District arrived In Johore Bahru today for a two-day civic course on the functions of various government departments.
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    POLICE INSPECTOR SENT TO JAIL
    126 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. VOOR bin Mohamed an Inspector of police, was sentenced by the Sessions Court today to 18 months' Jail for criminal breach of trust of $4,275. Noor, who was assistant O.CP.D., Kulal, was entrusted with $21,726 for the August salaries of all the
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    FULL PAY FOR 3,000 'LOYAL' BUSMEN
    166 4 FULL PAY FOR 3,000 'LOYAL' BUSMEN rriHREE thousand Sin- gapore Traction Co. employees are to get full pay although they did not work for four days during the riots last month. This was decided by the company because of the "excellent work" they did on the night of Ot*t. 25,
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    Brigade contest
    38 4 The St. John Ambulance Brigade will hold its annual first aid competition at the Badminton Hall on Nov. 25 at 7.30 p.m. The Governor, Sir Robert Black will attend and Lady Black will present the prizes.
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    Pay talks at banks reach deadlock
    239 4 BIG BONUS AMONG NEW DEMANDS WAGE negotiations between the Singapore Bank Employees' Union and the managements of 11 big Colony banks have reached a deadlock. A spokesman for the em-i ployers told the BtralU Times yesterday: "We have suspended further discussions to allow the
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    Bridal dresses on show
    45 4 The Singapore Canine Welfare Association will hold Its annual ball in the Fraser and Neave Pavilion In River Valley Road on Dec. 1. Feature of the evening will be a display of bridal dresses to pick the "Bride of the Year."
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      329 4 ROTARY CLUB: Luncheon South Side, 3 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. meeting— Ladiea Day programme Y.W.C.A.: International Wowith Mr. OUn Paolo Lang, pre- men's Club meeting— talk by Mrs. sldent of Rotary International, as Holland of Asia Travel Bureau— guest speaker— Cathay Hotel 1 S. Raffles Quay, 10 ajn. PJ SiniAV
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    FLY-AWAY 1,800 COST COLONY OVER $IMIL.
    444 5 Hart promises he'll try to stop people leaving with income tax unpaid JHE Singapore Government is considering amending the law to prevent people from leaving the Colony without having paid their income tax. The Financial Secretary, Mr. T M Hart disclosed this in the
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    JUNGLE AN ALLY
    170 5 —if you get to know it, survival school will teach airmen ITU ALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Royal Air Force is to teach aircrew how to survive if they are stranded in the jungle. a lungk survival demonsI station is being establl the R.A.F. station r< -the base
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    Keep judiciary free, says Sir Charles
    266 5 'JUSTICE MUST BE NON-POLITICAL' KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. T»HE retiring Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew, x said here today that Malaya should always keep her Judiciary independent and free from politics. Sir Charles, who Is leaving the Federation to become Judicial Adviser to the Ethiopian
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    MAN OFFERS TO GO 100 MILES TO HELP
    95 5 MAN OFFERS TO GO 100 MILES TO HELP IPOH. Tues. A European in Kuala Lumpur this morning telephoned the blood bank in Ipoh. 100 miles away, offering to donate blood to save the a izirl lying desperately 111 in the hospital. •> ad an appeal In Straiti Times for the
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    YMCA art display
    38 5 •^nth annual exhibithr V.M.C.A Art Club ■HI Dp held at the V" hall, Rtamford Road, on Friday, I" 7 at 4.30 p.m. The Chief Minister of Slnrapore Mr. Lim Yew Hock. ViU open the show
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    Union plans pay campaign
    52 5 i KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The 1.300-strong Asian Customs Services Union will hold an extraordinary delegates' conference on Sunday to consider what drastic action it will take if the Government refuses to meet its demands I for more pay. The union submitted its demands for increased wages
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    Man dies after fight
    42 5 IPOH. Tues. Tepal Singh. 33. died in the Ipoh Hospital I yesterday afternoon as a re- i suit of a serious head injury sustained in a fight at the Kampar bus station, 24 miles I south of Ipoh.
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    Malays lazy? That's a textbook lie, he says
    136 5 A SINGAPORE UMNO branch blames school textbook! for the 'erroneous" impression that the Malays are a "Uiy race." The secretary of the KiunPong Loyini UMNO branch, Inche Mohamed Tahir bin Haji Ahmad, has written to the Singapore and Federation Ministers of Education
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    Beat Retreat
    28 5 IPOH, Tues. The Federation police band, which recently returned from a tour in England .will beat Retreat on the Ipoh Town Council padang on Dec. 3.
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    Journalist assaulted
    81 6 Nellson Frank Modder, a Journalist, told a Singapore court yesterday that after obliging a stranger with a "yam seng" or two. the stranger became truculent and assaulted him till he was almost blinded. Ong Thiam Slew, 32. sales manager for a firm dealing in fireproof paste, was fined
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    Talk on Buddha
    30 6 The Newman Society, Singapore, has arranged for a talk on "Buddhism" by Mr. Ambalungodo Chandrasiri Thera at Kingsmead Hall, Victoria Park at 8.15 p.m. on Nov. 29.
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    Crash victim gets damages
    64 6 Mr. Justice Ta n Ah Tan in the Singapore High Court yesterday awarded Yam Shlng Choy. a fitter, special and general damages of $1,976 in an action for injuries which he suffered in a motor accident in Neil Road on Dec. 18, 1954. The award was
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    Acquitted of raping girl
    33 6 Sundaram Pillai Mummoor thy, 21. an attendant at the Singapore General Hospital, accused of raping a 12--year-old schoolgirl on July 7 last, was acquitted in the Assize Court yesterday.
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    BEHAVE OR BE EXPELLED, SCHOOL WARNS BOYS
    242 6 BEHAVE OR BE EXPELLED, SCHOOL WARNS BOYS BOYS of the Chinese Catholic High School in Singapore who do not behave and receive bad conduct reports will be expelled at the end of the year. This follows the recent trouble in the Chinese middle schools. A spokesman for the school told
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    Sumatra boycotts Malaya's oil ships
    100 6 INDONESIAN workers In Sumatra are refusing to load refined oil into ships bound for Malaya and Singapore M a protest against Anglo-French action In f Th c boycott hits Malaya badly as her kerosene Is mainly Imported from Indonesia. A Standard Vacuum spokesman told the
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    Music festival
    35 6 A festival of music organised by the Singapore Teachers' Training College Music Society will begin this evening at the college hall, Paterson Road, at 7.30 p.m. and will end on Friday, Nov. 23.
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    Village co-op
    26 6 The adviser on co-opera-tives to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. D. J. Surridge, yesterday opened a co-operative store in Punggol village.
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    Social centre
    31 6 The Chief Minister, Mr Lim Yew Hock, will open the Yio Chu Kang Social Centre at the 10th mile Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
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    McNeices return to spend a quiet life in the country they love
    106 6 SIR PERCY McNEICE, former President of tbe Singapore City Council, has returned from London to make Singapore his home. He said yesterday: "I have ■pent more than 30 years here. It would be very difficult to leave this
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    In the news tonight
    43 6 Radio Malaya will broadcast a talk by Edward Ward, on Hungary's fight for freedom at eight o'clock tonight. The programme, which was recorded from the Overseas Service of the 8.8.C., replace* the fortnightly World Affairs forum "In the News."
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    Exit: The king of the Iban head-hunters
    327 6 -RE ONCE TOOK 7 SKULLS IN DAY—^ 1 THOUSANDS of Iban? 1 in the interior or co ate mourning the death of TernS gons Koh anak S ang, paramount cht of the Upper r^JJ River, and a ffi friend of the to?Z Commissioner
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    'No students' rule in this party
    186 6 DECISION Bl YOUNG LIB-SOCS T<HE Singapore Young Liberal-Socialists Guild has 1 embarked on a new policy to keep Singapore students out of politics— to prevent trouble. It will not accept any more i students as members. Those already in the organisation have been asked
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    Library for Chinese is opened
    96 6 fHE first Chinese branch of X Raffles Library was opened yesterday in the Community Centre at Yio Chu Kang village, Singapore. Mr. L. M. Harrod, librarian of the Raffles Library, said, yesterday that this was one of several which would be established soon. The library
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    A royal learning
    58 6 ALOR STAR, Tues. Subversion was more dangerous than terrorism, the Raja Muda of Kedah Tengku HaHrn. told Malay kampon* dwellers during a tour of Muklm Tokai and Padang Terap last weekend. "Although the Communist: now offer their hand instead of their bullets, it does not mean they
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    686 7 COVT. DEFEATS LIB-SOC ONSLAUGHT, BUT... "A CRlME"..."Suicide" "Harakiri" these were some of the descriptions given by Liberal Socialist members in the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday to the Government's proposed new luxury- tax. But the House— with only the Liberal Socialists dissenting—approved
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    Bar Committee protests at powers Tax Bill gives to Customs chief
    285 7 TIE Singapore Bar Committee has protested to the Attorney General against the wide powers which the Luxury Tax Bill gives to the Comptroller of Customs. This was stated at the Legislative Assembly meetIng yesterday by the Financial Secretary. Mr.
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    'HIT THE RICH' TAX CAN BACKFIRE, EDE WARNS
    505 7 that the entrepot trade would remain unaffected. Taxes on certain luxury goods, while intended as a levy on the rich, could have a chain reaction resulting in a rise in the cost of living. "Such taxes reduce buying and selling of goods
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    35 8 20 Wordt $10 (minimum). MRS. ROSE DONNELL and family wish to thank most sincerely all those who— by Cable, Letter and Telephone have expressed their Kind Sympathy to them in their sad bereavement. I
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    170 8 70 Wordt U0 (minimum). MR. WONG TIN MENG. 85, passed away peacefully at Youngberg Memorial Hospital on 20.11.56 4.00 p.m. leaving behind his beloved wife. Funeral takes place 256, Middle Rd on Sunday (noon.). MR. TAY KEOK TECK. chief clerk The Shell Company of Singapore Limited. Shell House, passed
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    25 8 Words $10 (minimum). REQUIEM HIGH-MASS of S. M. Nathan will be held at the Church of our Lady of Lourdes. 23-11-56 at 30 a.m.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Nov. 21,1956. A Principle At Stake
    752 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed. Nov. 21, 1956. A Principle At Stake We had thought it would be possible to dismiss the backdoor censorship of newspapers imposed by the Singapore Government last week as merely an unfortunate episode fathered on the elected Government by officials whose fear and zeal had
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    The shameful Dollars
    423 8 The case for the pawnbroking reforms which the Singapore Government proposes is unassailable and the reforms themselves are long overdue. Twenty years ago we were calling, in these columns, for the abolition of tendering for licences. It struck us then as a "disgraceful" device to raise revenue.
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    Tito: The comrade who knows too much
    1073 8 News item from yesterday's Straits Times DAVID COLE who is just back from a visit to Yugoslavia sums up the perils aid the power of Tito's unique influence in the satellite states I^OT long ago Titoism was a dirty word in Soviet circles;
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      635 8 I HAVE just finished reading a book entitled "Russian Holiday" by A. Chappelow (Harrap Co., 1955). It Is an Impartial account of the author's visit to Soviet Russia In 1954 under the BritishSoviet Student Exchange Plan, and among his observations is one which, I believe,
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      BUMPY AVENUE
      57 8 WILL those responsible for the care of roads in Singapore please look at Clemenceau Avenue? Not the bit that Is now being repaired, but the stretch between Government House roundaßout and Newton Circus. Just past Government House gates there Is an unevenness that threatens the springs of any
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    THAT RAINY DAY IS HERE says HART
    143 9 THAT RAINY DAY IS HERE says HART THE liquidation of a SlOO million special reserve fund which the Financial Secretary, Mr. 1 M. Hart, admitted had been set aside three years aco "for a rainy flay" was sanctioned by Sineapore Legislative Assembly yesterday. ••art told the assemrhe time has now
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    5.000 bags of Xmas mail
    27 9 A large consignment of urface mail from Britain, will arrive in m in the Willem Dec. 2. ard will be 5.000 bags
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    Towgay price goes up
    69 9 Singapore housewives will have to pay three cents more t kati for their towgay now the price was offici- y increased yesterday from i tvp to eight cents. This Increase was made by the Singapore Towgay Growers' Association. An association spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday
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    'Shady politics' charge in Assembly
    806 9 NINE NOMINATED COUMOLLOBg TO GOt WO LOCAL KLBCTIOWS FOR A YEAR MARSHALL TOLD: MAKE ACCUSATIONS IN PRESS, DON'T HIDE HERE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS BLATANTLY CYNICAL TO THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE' of the Singapore City Council were yesterday accused of wardfth^e^'ofThe^eT" bUltalltly Mr David Marshall, who made
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    Aussies make a kill
    71 9 IPOH Tues.—A lone ter-1 rorist, cornered by a security force patrol was shot dead! dead early this morning as he tried to throw a hand grenades, The patrol, from the 2nd. Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, contacted the terrorlst in a lungle fringe three miles north-east of
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    Skinning the public? Nonsense say dealers
    217 9 Skinning the public? Nonsense say dealers CM FIIMS AIGERED BY ASSEMILY ATTACK fAR dealers In Singapore yesterday denounced Mr. David Marshall's attack on them In the Legislative Assembly as "irresponsible and unjustified." On Monday, Mr. Marshall told the assembly that the new car tax on the C.I.F. figure would let
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    DEAD BANDIT HOARDED BOAR MEAT
    72 9 DEAD BANDIT HOARDED BOAR MEAT KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— A terrorist killed in the Rengam area of Johore left behind among other things 50 lb of wild boar meat. The man, Ah Foo, fell to a patrol of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles. His rifle, 21 rounds of ammunition, six packs of
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    Censor riddle: 'A lot of fuss' says Chief Secretary
    153 9 Censor riddle: 'A lot of fuss says Chief Secretary EMPRESS PLACE was again silent yesterday on its on-and-off backdoor censorship of Press material and photographs on the Middle East crisis. Failing to obtain satisfactory replies from senior officials for the past six days, the Straits Times yesterday approached the Chief
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    Armed men raid shop in rain
    74 9 Armed men raid shop in rain Three armed men during the heavy rain yesterday afternoon robbed a shopkeeper in Jalan Ishak. off Jalan Eunos, Singapore of $200 and $800 worth of jewellery. One of the men carried a revolver and the others had daggers. The gang tied and gagged the
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    Girl killed
    33 9 KAJANG. Tues.— A schoolgirl, Ng Suet. Ching, 9, died this afternoon after she was knocked down by a lorry at the junction of Jalan Low Ti Kok and Jalan Semenylh here.
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    ARBITRATOR REBUKES INSURANCE FIRM
    370 9 IPOH, Tues.— The president of the Ipoh Sessions Court. Mr. E. V. A. Peers, yesterday rebuked the China insurance Company for "unlawfully Intruding" in a workman's compensation claim. Mr. Peers, acting as arbitrator, awarded a workman's widowed mother, Besantu Kaur a maximum compensation of $7,200. Besantu
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    JOYCE TOOK A PLEASURE CRUISE—AND NOW IT LEADS HER TO THE ALTAR
    156 9 JOYCE TOOK A PLEASURE CRUISE— AND NOW IT LEADS HER TO THE ALTAR A SHIP'S OFFICER who fell in love with one of his passengers nearly a year ago married her at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, yesterday. The bridegroom was Mr. Alan Arrow-smith, of Yorkshire, England, and the bride Miss
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    Prison rather than squeal on friend
    258 9 CAPT. WON'T NAME OTHER OFFICER JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. A GENERAL court martial today cashiered a British army Captain, who had risen from the ranks, for misappropriating mess funds. Capt. Dennis Patrick Nell son, 34, a short service com mission general list captain who was
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    Cruise to South Pole
    61 9 The first of two Japanese ships bound for the Bouth Polar regions, the Umltaka Maru. a training ship belongto the Tokyo University of Fisheries, arrived in Singapore yesterday. She will be Joined In the Colony tomorrow by the 2,610-ton Soya, which has on board a scientific
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      674 10 Teddy and Golly explore an underground passage leading to Qnomeland. Teddy is rude to the little men and he and Golly are put into prison. Meanwhile Rosemary decides to see what has happened to them. Some gnomes form a rina round her and she says
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      242 10 Just a Stamp curio T have had a letter from Abdul Majid Tahir of Simpang Tlga, Oombak which raises a very interesting point. Abdul writes to ask about the varieties of the B.M.A. period for stamps and encloses a picture of a 25 cent stamp where the overprinting appears to
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      790 10 I IS YOUR NAME HERE I Dear Boys and Cirls, rp^\ A TTft a dollar 8. An Indian king or I There were very many I■II I orince. 1 1 From which metal I I entries for the flower com- J_ 1 W l"\. M ma V be extracted. 12,
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    1467 11 resistance in Hungary //(p opposed co-existence mbettveen church and Mieds W H EN Russian forces 6wept back into Hungary two weeks ago to crush the revolutionaries who sought freedom from Soviet control, the first thoughts of the rebel defenders were for the safety of one man an ageing cleric. The
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      174 11 Rex Morgan. MM. Melissa calls t3SiSgT_fii*l stop NEeovH& 1 i camt «nMO nur womam/ A f "^Ha/fT u»tcs qm*/nt -Bgjj*.' -^^^i M g jM6L S4A I MER INTENTIO*** A«E SO J I TB OUiET UTO£ S#OT \f*W AWP LOV6LV, REX/ fso maple FoaassT >>s^ L. O VIOU tmakb* ty I
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    U.K., CONTINENTAL DEMAND FIRMS PRICE OF RUBBER
    404 12 U.K., CONTINENTAL DEMAND FIRMS PRICE OF RUBBER By Our Market Correspondent RUBBER was very (Steady in Singapore yesterday on good demand from the United Kingdom and Continent and the price at the close was the highest for three months. December first grade closed at $1.04J, up 11 cents on Monday.
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    92 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per plcul yesterday w*re:— Copra: steady: Nov. $26 buyers, $27% sellers; Dec. $27 fc buyers, $28 sellers. Coconut oil: steady: bulk $424 sellers, drum $45 sellers. Pepper: steady: about 40 to 50 tons of business reported done; Muntok white $119. Sarawak $118.
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    Melbourne stocks
    16 12 Owing to the interruption of the cable service, no Melbourne stocks were received yesterday.
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    370 12 The Malayan Share Brokers Association reported: "All sections of the local share market were firm with a fair amount of business passing." Singapore and Federation broken reported the following business done yesterday: 8.8. Petrol 535. fd. (arrival); Con. Tin Smelt. ords 28s. Bd.; Fraser and Neave ords $2.20,
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    RUBBER PRICES
    141 12 Deni—ber flrst grade rubber Bayers f.».b. closed in Singapore yesterday at iO4>i up 1% cents on Monday's closing price. The elestag tone way steady. Clesing price* In cents per lb yesterday wen: OFFICIAL: No. 1 R.S.S. Spot f.o.b. buyers 105';, sellers 105\. No. 1 R.B.S. Dec. buyers 104
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    37 12 On the free exchange market in Hon* Keng yesterday, the U.S. eMlar was quoted at 6.41 i for easm and 6.43 for T.T. Merita* was quoted at 16.05 and •na ted of gold at 261.
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    OFFICIAL PRICE
    16 12 Picul (up $2 7:,, >* fj COPRA: O7J, pjcni (up 12' r B nh y
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    S'PORE SHIPPING
    113 12 Ships lyln, alontsiH, rapore Harbour Board expected today d h s Jackson 12. c; C.P., Benavon 6 7 y. 89. Shun Lee 1 g bique 13;i4. otnton 18. Luxmi 19 Wall 6. Pred.r Lars Maersk 24 25 v Gorgon 30, SU-el pwjj Anchlses 33 34. A Kampar 38.
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      468 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL WATER DEPARTMENT: Applications are invited for the vacant post of Electrical Chargeman In Johore. Pay In the ~&nge of $6.40 to $6.95 per day. plus extra for Shift Work. Candidates must possess First Grade Electrical Chargemen's Certificate of Comoetency for A.C. Plant. Entry into Employees
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      519 12 I NOTICES UNITED CHINESE TRADING CO., LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) LOST SHARE CERTIFICATE APPLICATION has been made to the Directors of this Company •o issue to TAY THIAM SENG of 180, Cecil Street, Singapore, a duplicate certificate of ten (10) shares of $100/- each, numbered 359 to 368 (both Inclusive)
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      355 12 NOTICES HONG FATT (SUNGEI MSI) LIMITED NOTICE OF SECOND INTERIM DIVIDEND NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Second Interim Dividend of 5% (less income-tax st 30%) In respect of the year ending 31st December 1956, has been declared and will be paid to the registered shareholders of the Company on
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      862 12 TENDERS POLICE TENDEI NOTICE, Tenders which will close a* 13 noon on Friday, 30th November, 1956. are Invited by the Chief Police Officer. Penang. forthe Supply of rations to No. 1 Police Field Force. Kepala Bates, Province Wellesley, during the period from Ist January, 1967 to 31st December, 1957. Pull
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    Two games for Poh Lim
    146 14 QNo poh LIM, the Singapore singles champion for the last four years, will meet Scan lore Hua t, the reigning junior «**»yipl~i. In the men's singles semi-finals of the S B.A. national champion ships at the S.B.a. hall tonight. Though quietly confident of clearing this
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    Draw for F.A. Cup second round
    164 14 Draw for F.A. Cup second round LONDON, Tues. rpHE draw for the second A round of the English F.A. Cup, to he played on Saturday, Dec. 8, was made here today. The 20 surviving teams in this round will join the 44 First and Second Division clubs in the third
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    420 14 HE'S AGAINST PROS, SEMI-PROS, POINTS SYSTEM MELBOURNE, Tues. AVERY BRUNDAGE, JX the president of the International Olympic Committee, which is now in session, is the most controversial watchdog of the world's amateur sport. Right now he Is down to his last three
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    Lock icon LOCK SPINS MCC TO INNS. WIN OVER RHODESIA
    173 14 BULawayo. Rhodesia Tues DEVASTATING bowling by Surreys Tony Lock, who took five wickets for 12 runs helped the M.C.C. score a great victory over Rhodesia in race against time here yesterday. The M.C.C. won by an innings and 86 runs to maintain
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    An only try enough for Varsity XV
    119 14 TTNIVERSITY of Malaya beat Singapore Cricket Club "A" by an only try on the padang yesterday. university, although playing without stand-off Cheng Peng who was carried off with a twisted ankle in the 14th minute, had slightly the better of exchanges. Both teams
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    Two games off
    35 14 The S.H.A. Dlv. 3 league game between B.R.C. and BODCA on the padang was postponed because of poor ground conditions. The Dlv. 3 (fame between S.H.B. Police and Prisons was also postponed.
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    BANNISTER: I WAS ILL AND WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE
    244 14 BANNISTER: I WAS ILL AND WANTED TO BE LEFT ALONE f\R. ROGER BANNISTER had a little more time for the Press yesterday morning before resuming his Journey to Melbourne by Qantas to report on the Olympic Games. In a ten-minute Interview with the Straits Times, the world's first under-four-minute miler
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    WARM DAY FOR GAMES OPENING FORECAST
    57 14 WARM DAY FOR GAMES OPENING FORECAST MELBOURNE. Tues. SUNNY periods, with temperatures well in the 79's, were officially forecast today for next Thursday .when the Olympic Games win be opened formally. The Weather Bureau said conditions were likely to become unsettled again towards the weekend. Unusually chill weather far an
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    Sadali takes two titles
    66 14 Mohamed Sadall won the singles and doubles titles at the Singapore Malays Badminton Association's championships at the &B.A. h-h last night In the singles final he received a walkover from Hashlm Haron who had earlier beaten Ismail RaM 15—7, 15—10 to qualify for the final. Then
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    Police draw
    35 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Tufts.— Singapore Police and Johore Police drew l-l soccer here yesterday. Singapore scored first in the first half, when Tahlr Abu Tallb converted a penalty. Tan Chong Loy, equalised for Johore.
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    FINAL TRIAL FOR ASIANS
    51 14 FINAL TRIAL FOR ASIANS Singapore Asian* will hold their final trial this evening before namlns; their team to meet Selangor in the All Blues competition at Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. They will meet Nee Soon Oarrlson at the Police Depot irround. The match was originally fixed between Police and Nee
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    54 14 COLOMBO. Tues.— Ceylon and the Indian touring cricket team drew their three-day game here yesterday. Final scores: India 253 (N. Contractor 76, V. Manjrekar 77, P. Umrigar 69, Oooneseua 7-6») and 125 for two declared (Contractor 42. P. Roy 42) -Ceylon ISO (Oooneseena 48, 8. Oupte
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    Russia. U.S. agree to meet at athletics
    294 14 Russia. U.S. agree to meet at athletics MELBOURNE. Tues. AMERICAN and RusA sian athletic chiefs have completed tentative plans for a series of home and home dual track meets between the two countries beginning next August in Moscow. The first meet In the United States, possibly in July, 1958, probably
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    Lock icon New dates for Asian t-t meet
    119 14 New dates for Asian t-t meet MANILA. TU««. TtflC FOURTH Asian table tennis crmmrHonßhlps have oeen post, poned tor a month and will now be held from Jan. 22 to 31. The championships were originally fixed to be held from Dec. 22 to 31 but were changed at the request
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    Straits Times SELECTIONS
    133 16 Straits Times SELECTIONS EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race 1 2.15 PERIWINKLE Colombia Davenport PERIWINKLE Davenport Colombia PERIWINKLE Colombia Davenport Race 2.45 ENTER'MENT Tres Men Strong Free TRES BIEN Jara Entertainment TRES BIEN Entertainment Pontican Race 3 3.15 BAHAGIA Fire Power Invincible FIRE POWER Bahagia On Demand BAHAGIA Fire Power
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    INDIAN HEATHER II WON EASILY AND IN BEST TIME
    335 16 INDIAN HEATHER II WON EASILY AND IN BEST TIME TWREE first day winners —Marigold. Malay Film II and Indian Heather ll— have been brought together in the most open race in today's card (Race Seven). Going strictly on time test. Indian Heather II looks the pick. This Court Martial four-year-old
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    ENTERTAINMENT WON OVER STRAIGHT IN ENGLAND
    137 16 CTRICTLY on form there are v only two in this race—Entertainment ill and Tres Blen (Race Two). I prefer Entertainment 111. This Falrwell three-year-old ran a game second with 8.8 to Indian Heather II over 6f on the first day. Tres Blen (8.9) was
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    Pizarro to get his hat-trick
    329 16 MADE ALL THE RUNNING IN SCORING BUKIT TIMAH DOUBLE EASY COURSE AND THE WET GOING WILL SUIT HIM By EPSOM JEEP DIZARRO'S brilliant speed will be a great factor on the easy Ipoh course and I take this useful Fair Trial three-year-old to score his
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    MELBOURNE HOPE WILL BE HARD TO BEAT
    163 16 MELBOURNE HOPE lfl will be hard to beat In a 5f straight race. This six-year-old has regained his best form and he had a splendid workout last week. Earlier in the season Melbourne Hope won over the Kuala Lumpur 5%f In 1 mm.
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    Bahagia to win first. time out
    464 16 Rinus van x Breukelen has been turning out winner after winner with his newcomers this season and he may do it again with Bahagia in Race Three. A well-made five-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Balloch, Bahagia has been showing great heart on the training
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    Humez wins
    26 16 PARIS, Tues. Charles Humes, of France, last night outpointed Ralph "Tiger" Jones of the United Btates. in a 10-round middleweight nght here.— A. P.
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    RACE CARD
    991 16 (Race 1 2.15: Apprentices Race: Class 4, Dlv. 4— 5 Furs. Str. 377 Rog atlon ay 8.00 Mrs. R. Yeap Manning 590 Cedar HOI 5y Ismail 8.13 K.K. Stable Bagby 200 Periwinkle 3y Baxter 8.11 Pil Stable Bagby 635 Davenport 5y S. Khamto 8.09 O.K. Kongst Martin 5
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    BADMINTON BOOM IN THAILAND
    265 16 IPOH. Tues. Badminton has caught on so well with Siamese women that they will be participating in the next international Über Cup competition. Siam will also be sending a badminton team to the next Asian Games, to be held in Tokyo in 1968. Police colonel Vichlt
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    Malayans taste hockey might of Britain, Germany Norman Siebel's OLYMPIC DIARY
    637 16 Malayans taste hockey might of Britain, Germany Norman Siebel's OLYMPIC DIARY MEJjiKJUKNE, Tues. DOTH Singapore and Federation hockey teams today had their first practice matches since their arrival in Melbourne on Saturday and. as far as the scores go, the results were not encouraging. The Federation, taking on Germany, who
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