The Straits Times, 9 November 1957

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  • 19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80 jfcjljF The Straits Times Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1957 15 CENTS
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  • 976 1 6 I HAVE SAID THAT I WILL TRY TO END THE EMERGENCY BY 1958. I HOPE SOMETHING WILL COME OF THIS. I ONLY PRAY FOR PEACE 9 Talks offer in letter to Tengku Happy Prime Minister says: 7 will meet him' KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THK Communist
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  • 47 1 THE SCENE at the Baling peace talks in December 1955. Chin Peng is flanked by Abdul Rashid bin Mydin, (left), and Chen Tien, chief M.C.P. propagandist. In rhe foreground, at extreme right, is Tengku Abdul Rahman. Straits Times picture.
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  • 712 1 Estimates indicate $103 m. increase in expenditure 1/-UALA LUMPUR, Fri. —In its first Merdeks Budget, the Federation Government expects to spend a record total of $903-million— an increase of $103--million over the estimated 1957 figure. At the same time, a Treasury memorandum
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  • 103 1 JAKARTA, Fri. Malaya's ambassador to Indonesia, Inche Abdul Rahman, will return to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday for consultations with his government on the question of Indonesia's claim to West Irian. Inch c Zaiton Ibrahim, counsellor at the Malayan embassy, said Malaya is "quite sympathetic with In-
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  • 512 1 Govt. backs new look in trading ITUALA LUMPUR, Fri. —The Government welcomes the principle of entering into fresh trade arrangements with foreign countries on the basis of reciprocity and mutual benefit, a Press conference was told today. With this in view the Gov-' ernment will soon embark on a full-scale
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  • 139 1 FIVE BOAC WHISPERING GIANTS HIT BY DELAYS LONDON, Krl. Five me-dium-range British Overseas Airways Corporation Britannia airliners were delayed at various overseas points last night, a 8.0.A.C. spokesman said here, A Britannia damaged In a taxiing accident at Bombay a week ago was held up indefinitely, he said. Following trouble,
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  • 34 1 HONG KONG. Fri. —China claims that Shanghai now ranks as the fourth largest city in the world behind Tokyo, London and New York, with a population at 7,100,000.— A.P.
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  • 95 1 OEREMBAN, Fri. Four ►J terrorists today stopped a military convoy at the 14th mile Seremban-Jelebu road and gave themselves up. The four including a woman, belonged to the once notorious 3rd Independent Platoon Their surrender marks the end of this dangerous gang. The leader of
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    • 134 1 STOP PRESS NEW BRITISH H-TEST LONDON. Fri.— Britain announced today it had exploded a "nuclear weapon" at high altitude over Central Pacific, as start of new scries of British H-bomb tests in Christmas Island area.— A.P Your first taste of 'Ovaltine 1 Cold i\A V will be a revelation. It's
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  • 10 2 The Straits Times PHOTO NEWS ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF GLOBE-CIRCLING SPUTNIKS
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  • 625 2 SPOTLIGHT ON THAT SPACE DOG -RUSSIANS SHOW HOW TO RECOVER IT ALIVE SMALL OBJECT AHEAD-ft THIS THE START OF SPACE DOG RESCUE? DUESSELDORF, Fridaj A WEST GERMAN newspaper today q Qo tetj Mr. Andrei Smirnov, Soviet Anitas Bonn, as saying
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  • 248 2 AN ERROR CAUSED ATOM LEAK Scientists blamed I ON DON, Fri. —An error of judgment by scientists nursing the atomic pile at Windscale was partly the cause of an accident last month which released radioactive material into the surrounding countryside, a Government report disclosed today. Mr. Harold Macmillan. the Prime
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  • 27 2 JAKARTA, Fri.— lndonesian army troops had killed 87 rebel outlaws and captured 44 in operations in West Java, it was reported here today. Reuter.
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  • 40 2 DAMASCUS. Frl. Syria charged today that a Turkish patrol launched a surprise attack on a northern Syrian village last night. An official communique said heavy shooting by Syrian public resistance forces drove the Turks back.— A.P.
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  • 78 2 RANGOON. Fri. Burmese troops attacked and destroyed the headquarters of the Red Flag (Anarchist) Communist rebels in Pakokku district, 75 miles southwest of Mandalay, reports received herp said today. I the attack launched early this week, the troop s siezed food, medical supplies, wireless equipment
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  • 140 2 DOG 'NO WORSE OFF THAN SATELLITE PEOPLE' LONDON, Fri. tarl Attlee, former Labour Primp Ministtr said last night (h?t the dop in the second Soviet earth satellite mi tin worse off than the members of Russia's other satellite countries.' "It is being fed, kept alive and even has a possibility
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  • 235 2 BALD HEAD TRAPPED A SPEEDING MOTORIST DONN, Fri.— A West D German businessman's bald head contributed to hts conviction on a speeding cham <i.i Wuppertal The man had admit:-: that his car had g° ne tO--fast, but said he could not recall whether he or Ms wife was at the
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  • 218 3 U.S. has mastered the secret of a trip to space and back VEVV YORK, Fri.—President Eisenhower, in a national broadcast after Russia*! earth satellite mm-hing?, last night called for "greater concentration of effort" in U.S. scientific, to hnical and missiles work. To achieve this,
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  • 1476 3 is the text of Mr. •icer's coast-to-coast sion and radio broadI am going to lay k the facts before you the rou^h v..m the smooth. Some Be security facts assuring: Others .not they are Bti rnly demanding. Some require that we ly continue lines of
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  • 173 3 NAIROBI, Fri Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd. the British Colonial Secretary, said here today that the pre. sent Kenya constitution had become unworkable and announced the basis for a new one. He told a Press conference that he would create a Council of State to
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  • 276 3 LONDON, Fri. Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols s ?i Funding V?o £84 1516 War t%% «1 BANKS M'tile (£5 £2'i P.U.) £6 7 i Chartered (£1) 37/9 Hongkong (sl2s> £42 3 INSURANCE Com. Un. tuts.) 66/9 +2/6 Royal 73/9 +1/9
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  • 452 4 Undergrads applaud death of a tradition VEVER again will "freshies" be ragged at the University of Malaya. A meeting of the student body in the Oei Tiong Ham Hall at the university last night voted overwhelmingly to ban the controversial practice, thus breaking a 50-year-old
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  • 146 4 About 180 workers employed at Thornycroft and Co.— one of Singapore's large ship building firms— staged a two-hour sit-down protest strike over their demand for an equal distribution of work in rotation. About 150 of them walked out of the company's shipyard in
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  • 355 4 Raja attacks insurance firms Govt warned: Life will come to a standstill Governim x the political Singapore would a standstill h tl Council did not the domestic service which kept ever. hold running, said .v A. P. Rajah at tho coin' cil budget debate vester day.
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  • 76 4 An exhibition of 300 German books covering many fields of art. science and fiction was yesterday opened at the Convocation Hall of the University of Malaya by Dr. Hans U. Granow. German Consul-General in Singapore and German Ambassador to the Federation of Malaya. The exhibition, organised
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  • 90 4 SINGAPORE police last night appealed to eyewitnesses of the Thursday evening Katong gang killing to contact the Homicide Squad of the CID. Nathaniel Teo, 17, the victim, was buried yesterday. He was the only son of a hairdresser in East Coast Road, half a mile
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  • 163 4 A TOTAL of 1,500 people in Singapore have so far taken part in the Gov-ernment-sponsored civics courses started by the Department of Information Services four months ago. Groups of teachers, students and villagers are taken on a tour of places of interest. They hear
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  • 57 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Nominations for election to the Johore Bahru Town Council of four members to replace those who retire by rotation at the end of the year close tomorrow. So far only the Alliance Party has submitted names. The vacancies are one each in the Nong
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  • 128 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday T<HE Minister for Interior and Justice will be asked at the Federal Council meeting on Wednesday whether Petaling Jaya Authority will be changed into an autonomous body to be governed and controlled by an elected council. This Is a writen question by
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  • 19 4 Singapore police raided a hotel in Oulllemard Road last night and detained four secret society suspects.
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  • 22 4 Mr. Justice Tan Ah T the Singapore Hich yesterday granted a P for the winding-up Indo-Malaya Bteam ency Ltd.
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    • 130 4 RADIO MAT AVA Week-End's Sport. :m -ttAUIU MALAIA American Way, 8.00 SINGAPORE 476 metre, 3.30 Juke Bon 1 KUALA LUMPUR 341 metre, 5100 SaturtaT Medley PENANG 366 metre, stand, 5.5J-6.30 IPOH 330 metre* Hour, 6.30 Prottramm^ MALACCA 297 metres gj*,"^, «SS f."" W? NATIONAL SHORT g^xU,. A 7^ 0 WAVE
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  • 188 5 DRIVE FOR $500,000 TO TURN PALACE INTO GIRLS' COLLEGE YfUSLIM leaders in Johore are planning an all out drive for funds to turn an old palace into a $500,000 college for Muslim girls. The palace, situated in Bukit Sri Lallang, on seven acres of land, has been given by the
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  • 55 5 The water around the beaches of Singapore is polluted, said Mr. Soh Ghee Soon. He is drawing the Government's attention to it at the next Legislative Assembly meeting on Nov. 18. Mr. Soh is asking whether the Government knows why it is polluted and what is
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  • 25 5 KOTA BHARU, Fri. Registration of new voters for the Kota Bharu town council elections will be held from Nov. 16 to Dec. 7.
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  • 74 5 PENANG, Fri.— The president of the Penang Indian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. T.N. Sharma, said today the fears of certain people about the future of independent Malaya had proved to be unfounded. "Malaya today Is a country with bright prospects and the enormous resources available here
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  • 86 5 These three World Health Organisation nurses arrived in Singapore by PAA yesterday to take a load off the Government s mind by helping to train more nurses. They have been sent here by the organisation as part of its international training
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  • 213 5 'THE report submitted to the Governor, Sir Robert 1 Black, on Wednesday, on the Corruption Commission's investigation of graft, may go to the Singapore Legislative Assembly as a White Paper. Official quarters could not say yesterday when the report would be published. It is believed
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  • 328 5 Police criticised for taking girls into rooms BROTHEL CHARGE CONVICTIONS QUASHED PENANG, Friday. yHE Penang Appeal Judge, Mr. Justice Rigby, said today it was improper for police authorities to send policemen into hotels to "actively solicit women to enter hotel bedrooms" in order to collect incriminating evidence. He quashed the
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    • 426 5 POLICE BAND: Public concert party fot Ti^er and Anchor at Changi Point 5.30 p.m. to 6.30 Breweries staffs joget modern p.m. and magic show 4 p.m., dinner 7 YMCA (Orchard Road.) Movie p.m., film show 8.15 p.m. at Circle show "Here Comes The Tiger Brewery, 400 Alexandra Groom" 8 p.m.;
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  • 136 6 Govt. plans new school rules ifHE Education Ministry will strictly control the collection of fees by fully aided schools in Singapore in future. Mr. Lee Slow Mong, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry, said yesterday that regulations were being drafted for this purpose. \n future, he
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  • 47 6 Scouts will hold a farewell rally for the Chief Scout of Singapore the Governor, Sir Robert Black, at the Jurong Park Scout Camp today at 5 p.m. During the rally, Sir Robert's footprint will be taken In cement to be kept for posterity.
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  • 30 6 Goh Swee Klat was Jailed for three months In Singapore yesterday for fraudulent possession of 200 sheets of rubber and crepe at Alkaff Quay on Oct. T.
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  • 109 6 Another expat judge quits Mr. Donald H. Chapman, a Singapore criminal district judge, is leaving under the Malayanisation scheme. Today is his last day at the courts. His departure leaves tht Colony district courts— eight In all with only one expatriate. Mr. James F. McWilliam. Mr. Chapman, who was admitted
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  • 192 6 GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES A $200,000 EXPERIMENT JPOH, Fri Public call boxes will be installed soon in kampongs where the inhabitants have never before seen a telephone. The Minister for Works. Posts and Telecommunications, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, announced today that
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  • 41 6 PENANG. Fri— Salary ne nations between the East m Smelting Company and ;ts employees' union reached another deadlock today. Representatives of the ■nanagement and the union met for nearly three hours md again failed to reach agreement.
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  • 33 6 JOHORE BAHRU Frl.— inche Raof bin Sa'at has aeen transferred from Pontlan to be District Officer. Kluang, and Inche Zalnai bin Mohamed, from Kluang has gone to the Secretariat Johore Bahru
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  • 57 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl.— The National Association of Women's Institutes of Malaya will hold the Inter-state finals of the Lady Templer Cup cookery competition at the Buklt Blntang Girls' School here on Nov. 23. The wife ol the Prime Minister Puan Sharlfah Rodziah a patron of N A
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  • 28 6 There are 50.135 cars in Singapore today of which 47.501 are privately owned according to figures given by the Registrar of Vehicles Of flee
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  • 257 6 They can beat 8-year rule CITIZENSHIP AFTER ONLY 2 YEARS pOMMONWEALTH sab. jects who i. resident in Singapore for only two years can become citizens They can "get v the law requiring years' residence h registering as citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. A special registration c ntre for
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  • 155 6 AN acute shortage of Malay language teachers is holding up plans in Singapore to introduce the teaching of Malay In secondary schools. The Director of Education, Mr. D. McLellan. told the Straits Times yesterday that at least 1,000 Malay teachers would be required if
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  • 440 7 ONE MONTH GIVEN IN WHICH TO GET TERRORISTS TO SURRENDER CHIEF POLICE OFFICER WARNS OF POSSIBLE EXPULSION FROM ISLAND JHE chief Police Officer, Mr. P. H. today gave the relatives of 40 remaining terrorists one month in which to get them to surrender— or face possible
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  • 87 7 A relief grant of 52.340 has been paid out by the Singapore Social Welfare Department to 17 Malay fishermen of Ayer Gumuroh. who suffered losses when an unexpected gale last year damaged their boats and fishing gear The fishermen are members of the Singapore East Coast
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  • 206 7 QUEEN'S SCHOLAR URGES SCIENCE RESEARCH FREE OF POLITICS NEW MEMBER OF UNIVERSITY STAFF From lan Mok-ai LONDON, Friday. 11/IR. Arthur Rajaratnam, a Queen's Scholar from iTI Malaya, feels the University of Malaya should form a department of scientific and industrial research "without strings or ties to political shifts Mr. Rajaratnam.
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  • 48 7 KOTA BHARU. Fri. The District Officer here, Inche Yusoff bin Hassan, will open a Chinese art exhibition by Mr. Wang Ay e Yang at the Kelantan Chinese Sports Club tomorrow. The exhibition is in aid of the Kelantan Chinese school teachers union welfare fund.
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  • 27 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Frl— Mr. R. A. Coles, of Tong Hing Estate, Masai, who has been on a holiday in Britain, has returned to Johore.
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  • 125 7 Three-year wait for land licence A TOTAL of 473 applicants for temporary occupa tion licences of land in the Malay Settlement are still waiting for allocations from the Singapore Government after three years. A Rural Board member. Inche Abdullah bin Masood. representing the Bedok Rural District Committee, told the Straits
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  • 72 7 Hassan bin Zakir yesterday pleaded guilty in a Singapore court to a charge of criminal breach of trust of a Remington typewriter. Insp. Y. L. Fong. prosecuting, said that he bought the machine from Commercial Traders on Oct. 2 on the instalment system and after
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  • 178 7 DOPPIES will be sold in Singapore today to raise funds for the disabled of two world wars and the official Remembrance Day will be observed tomorrow with a ceremony at the Cenotaph at 7.30 a.m. Wreaths will be laid by i the Governor, Sir Robert
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  • 46 7 Tan Eng Seng, of Changl Road, was yesterday fined $20 after he pleaded guilty in a Singapore court to a charge of failing to conform with the traffic sign s at the junction of Geylang and Mountbatten Roads at 10.55 p.m. on April 9.
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  • 173 7 1,000 can fish again at night ABOUT 1,000 SingaA pore fishermen will benefit from a new scheme permitting them to fish at night in the Straits of Johore for the first time in six years. But they will be confined to three areas for the time being. These areas are
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  • 47 7 There are vacancies for 160 pupils in the Balestier Junior Trade School. Singapore, for 1958. Applicants should have completed primary VI in a Government or aided English school, or Chinese junior middle 111 and must be between the ages of 13 and 16 years.
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  • 48 7 Three members of the Singapore Government Printing Office who will be going on retirement will be presented with valedictory letters at the printing office on Nov. 16. They are Mr. T. Mariappan (34 years' service), Mr. S. Mayilvaganam (32) and Mr. Sidari Rai Binder (27).
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  • 68 8 K» WordM $10 (Minimum) TAN GUAN KIAT aged 40 passed away peacefully on 8/11/57 at 131, Moulineln Road Leaving behind his beloved wife and 4 children to mourn his loss Funeral on 10/11/57 at 11.00 a.m. MR. AND MRS. S. C. SAMUEL of Raub received news that Mr. J.
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  • 31 8 20 Word, tin (Minimum). MR. GOH KOON KIAT and Miss Goh Koon Kwee wish to thank all friends and relatives who sent wreaths. condolences »nd attended their beloved father's funeral.
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  • 643 8 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat. Nov. 9, 1957. Letter From Chin Peng There was only one possible answer to the letter whicn the Prime Minister received from Chin Peng. The Prime Minister may be wrong in assuming that the Communists have accepted the necessity of surrender, but there is only
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  • 287 8 Tomorrow and on Monday, the MCA will sponsor two' meetings which are important to the future of the Federation Chinese. The first will discuss, and presumably coordinate, plans for a campaign to encourage Chinese to register or apply for citizenship. The other will explore problems of
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  • 217 8 A congress sponsored by the Penang Malay Patriotic Youths' League is to consider how prostitution by Malay women can be ended. Some 200 Muslim teachers are expected to attend. So are 14 representatives of the oldest profession. At least the conference promises to draw public attention to the
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  • 1053 8  -  cynicijs by IT is an odd thing that 1 the second sputnik should have produced such a red rash of saucer reports from virtually every corner of the free world. Perhaps It is simply a case of a hair of the dog. There was no such
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  • 779 8  -  S. RAJA RATXA3M «y FEEL a little sorry 1 for the unfortunate majority who are classified as Singapore citizens by birth. They are missing the thrill, the fuss and the excitement of becoming a Singapore citizen. Those born in a state of
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  • 56 8 Ktrom the Straits Times of Nov. 7, 1907) Th rfJf e fi e han »cal addition to the resources of nartici Tl IUT! I^i W1 "if. i ""Won" one. as Is the submarine ana doubtless will be served by a highly paid body of men T ZS%SS
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  • 577 9 •pENGKU Abdul Rah--1 man and Chin Peng met two years ago at Baling. Here is the story of that meeting, told in their own words: First Session (Dec. 28, 1955). Risking lives TENGKU ABDUL RAH. MAN: I did not come here as the spokesman
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  • 128 9 pHE Nanyang University plans to make a dramatic bid to get the Singapore Government to recognise i \sity has instrucudvisers to draft a will persuade •nan to table in t iture. Bill, if passed, will < ogntUon. move was decidby the university's council earlier this nincil
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  • 121 9 A SINGAPORE inquest was told yesterday that the caretaker of a Farrer Road club, who was found by members reclining in an arm chair, was dead and had a suicide note in his pocket. The Coroner, Mr. Ahmad] bin Hussein, found that Foo Jeck Choo.
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  • 410 9 BUDGET MEETING TOLD: OUR OVERALL FINANCIAL POSITION IS SOUND HIGHER CHARGES PLAN MUST BE APPROVED TO SAVE UNDERTAKING, SAYS COUNCIL LEADER gINGAPORE'S electricity undertaking will not be solvent next year unless proposed higher charges are approved, the City Council was warned yesterday. The president, Mr. J. T.
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  • 158 9 222 GET BENEFIT FUND REMINDER THE Singapore Public House Owners' Association has sent notices to its 222 members reminding them to register all waitresses wi£h the Central Provident Fund Board. The reminder follows allegations made in the Straits Times and the Free Press by a number of girls that they
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  • 44 9 Ng Peng Khoon of May 5 Street wa s yesterday acquitted in Singapore of parking his taxi in a prohibited area —30 feet off a bus stop in front of a shop at Bukit Panjang village at 11.40 a.m. en May 31.
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  • 255 9 'GOOD INFENENCE OVER YEARS' T*HE Governor, Sir Robert Black, last night expressA ed his confidence that the Straits Chinese in Singapore would play their part and contribute to the successful working of the new constitution. Sir Robert was speaking at a farewell dinner given by
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  • 142 9 ORGANISERS of "1,000 characters" 1o 1 1 er 1 es should be cautious in assuming that the Singapore High Court's ruling on the subject this week constitutes a "go-ahead" signal. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah held that this 'lottery" was not a lottery within the
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  • 186 9 The out-going Japanese Consul-General in Singapore Mr. Ken Ninomiya. visited the Assembly House yesterday to say farewell to the acting Chief Minister. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat. Mr. Ninomiya. who flies to Japan on Nov. 17, for a holiday before taking up a new
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  • 35 9 Winners of the calligraphy contest sponsored by the Student and Youth Department of the Chinese V.M.C.A. will receive their prizes at the association's Prince Edward Road auditorium on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m.
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  • 36 9 The Singapore branch or the British Red Cross Society will give a farewell tea party to the Governor. Sir Robert Black and Lady Black, on Nov i 9 at the Adelphi Hotej roof garden
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  • 1047 10 v AM AY I have the courtesy of your columns to attempt to clarify a few points that have arisen as a result of the statement submitted to the Council of Ministers criticising certain parts of the Public Security Ordinance No. 25 of 1955?
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  • 114 10 THE Bishop of Singapore. says that "th e quality of sermons given by the clergy is in danger of deterioration." My memory goes back to the early years of this century when I was a young man just starting out in the Christian life. Those were the
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  • 995 11 PENANG'S GREAT RACE FOR LAND vMKS SCOTT, of I'rinco of Wales 1 land. «as a source irritation to ;,,v, rnment. Not only 14 ho control the en- rt trade of the island n(J o wn threequarB of the useful and. but he also reu .ed to pay attention 0 the
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    • 308 11 t»"V^^S^^^B wm\ 1 Makes You a Master ||a^^B in Music! All over r.he world, music lovers choose Grundig radio sets because, with Grundig. they can Mm I '^^m rtlax and listen with complete satisfaction to the /^^BF^ *^m\\\\\\\\\r^ m St perfect muslcal reproduction. \^^ooo*^**'^ m^ This model, 3028 WE, has
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    • 179 11 Cmawmmm A Co. By ,t/#ic The Saint By Leslie Charterls Mmm^^^^rßUT I THOUGHT L^ r/TvvJuDOyOUNOGOOD^M THEP is mq DOUBT CORTES WILL DO\\ k, I T > r^^BT /OU VVERE GOING to UNLESS YOU CAN OPEN n~M WHATyf WAKI. DON INOCENTE. BUT It I rO//PADRC SHOW /ME T "E CELL ?OR
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  • 684 12 By Our Market Correspondent THE same pattern as was observed on Thursday was seen again on the Malayan Rubber and S ThK? 751 cents at the dose which was another low for the present year. The drop in the price again
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  • 114 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were: Copra: November/December $25 buyers, $26 sellers. Tone steady I Coronal oil: bulk $42.50 sellers, drum $45.75 sellers. Tone steadyPepper: no business reported done; Muntok white $106: Sarawak $105- special Sarawak black $65 (all down by $1). Tone: quiet
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  • 80 12 Ships hint alnnesidr thr Slncapore Harbour Board wharves or expected today are: Shinsel Maru 1-2. Oakville 4-5, Ismaila 6A. State of Madras 6-7 Darmstadt 8-9, Itarua 10-11. Benmacohnl IS-14. President Jackson 15-16, Chakdina 18. Nasusan Mam 19-20. Serdang N.Wali 1. Tapah N.Wall 3. Reßlnald Kerr 21-22, Perils 24,
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  • 13 12 Rahman Hydraulir Tin Ltd'i ore output for October was 481 plcula.
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  • 349 12 *T*HE rubber market this J. week has again reached a new low and with Russia and China having completed their buying programme, at least for the time being, stale bulls have largely reduced their commitments, while shorts seem in no particular hurry to cover report Holiday, Cutler,
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  • 139 12 MELBOURNE, Frl. INVESTMENT shares showed an easier tone on the Stock Exchange here today. Goldsbroußh down Is. and BHP. down 6d were main movements- Drug houses iose Is. Mining stock showed a steady tone. Loans were firm. Loans 3'*^ 1956-59 £98 3 '32. Loans 3S* r r 1956-58
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  • 151 12 November first grade rubber buyers f.0.b., closed in Singapore yesterday at 7b** cents per lb. down I 1 cents on Thursday's closing price. The closing tone was uncertain. Closing prices In cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R S.S. fob buyers 75%, sellers 75 (Norm; Int.
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  • 66 12 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the followlnK changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100) Selllnr T.T. or O.D. ready French francs *****: Italian lirr ***** On the free exchange market In Honr Kong yesterday, the US. dollar was quoted at 5.81'n for cash
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 759 12 NOTICES i i_____^^ J __-—g Royal Interoeean Linea The Blue Funnel Line FOR SALE W«t Australian Srrvice Passenger Fares Increase BRICK BUNGALOW in Th* Royal Interoeean Lines and Malacca, built on an area of 1 Rood 3 Poies-99 yr,. andjrom lea., from 29-7-1939- -ase^wm come tato Price $25,000/- or near
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    • 717 12 NOTICES I SIAMESE TIN SYNDICATE j LIMITED NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS I At a Board Meeting held today, I a second Interim Dividend In respect of the year 31st December. 1957 of Sixpence per stock unit was declared payable on 16th < December to all Stockholders on i the Register at
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    • 446 12 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited r rom Federal Citizens, age 1" but jnder 23, for appointment as Chinese Writer In the Departnent of Education, Kelantan. Salary scale: Probationers $145: nmescale $190 x 15 250/280 x 15 340 per mensem Candidate; must have a good knowledge of written and spoken English
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    • 19 12 OFFICIAL PRICES SINGAPORE. NOV. 8. RUBBER: 75 i cents per lb. (down 11 cents). TIN: $351.50 per picul (unchanged).
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    • 680 12 7Ae ~7<<>/c/s ~/fU-.t y/tHc-uuJ V. AMERICAN MAIL UN, Also accepting eorgo tot transhipment to Central t South i'"*"* Spore P. S'hom "China Moil" l«t Coll 9/11 Dee 11 Dec 2nd Call 14/15 Dec "American Moil' 31 Dec/ 1 Jan 2 j an 2nd Call 5, 6 Jan 1 EVERETT ORIENT
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    • 1387 13 f~~Z»M MANSFIELD tfc CO., LTD. T«i t 2.411 :*>ii incorporates m Singapore) (12 Hnes) 1 1X THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE T^«' 0* 1 to LIvtRKOOL. I.LA4GOW, LONDON 4 CONTINENTAL PORTS H ll1 1 with l'b«*r to proceed via Panama or Capa of Good Hopa) (Vi« w on to proceed vio
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    • 1153 13 m/ m i pmci i i li lj nvrmri v b ii^M EAST ASIATIC LINES OUTWARDS SAILINGS FOR BANGKOK AND/OR PAR EAST Penang P. S'hom S'oore ■•ERRIA" 24/24 Nov JUTLANDIA" 20/22 Nev 23/24 No. 23/24 Nov Bangkok only FALSTRIA" 8/ 4 Dee 7/ 8 Dae 9/10 Dee Calling Saigon, Bangkok.
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    • 1021 13 BuTomG THE REN LINE STEAMERS LTD W 1 SINGAPORE (Incorporated in the United Kingdom) S LINES SAILINGS TO ADEN, U.K. 4 CONTINENTAL PORTS S'pora P. Sham Penang BENMACDHUI for Liverpool, Rotterdam, Hamburg G. 13-14/11 Nov 12/14 Nev IS/14 Nev BENNEVIS for Aden, Jeddah, Port Sudan, Hull 14/19 Nev 13/15 Nay
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    • 1300 13 McALISTER tfc CO., LTD. TEL.: No.: ***** ELU.IMAM LIMES KLAVENESS LIME LONDON. HAVRE ROTTERDAM $AN rRANC|SCO# ono to. U.S.A.. North Attont.c Port. "ATTLE, VANCOUVER 4 PORTLAND ono Conodo vio Colombo Accepting cargo for Central 4 South •CITY OF SWANSEA Spore P.S'ham Penong BOUGAINVILLE 24 Dec/2 Jen 3/ S Jan 4/
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  • 940 14 LAST WEEK HE SCORED A SMART WIN... RACING with EPSOM JEEP iiiiiililllilllillillitliiiiiiliiiiiii F|ON WAYNE has a great chance of making it three-off-the-reel in the Class 2, Div. 1, 6f handicap (Race 4) at Kuala Lumpur today. This five year old has hit a bright
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  • 1061 14 Today's best bets EPSOM JEEP'S best bets at Kuala LH Lumpur today are Cliona (3 e f llm H Studio II (3.30) and Bangkok (4.35). PI BEST outsider on the card.is Ffarwrl CALL BOY'S double for the day are Wonder Kid (4.0) and Noble Essence HEAVY I (Si.
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  • 131 14 I— EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Race -2.311 2. 300BIG HIT Trailer Ffarwel Haf BLACHAN Trailer Ffarwel Haf TRAILER I'ulot Ham Big Hit MONTANA Cliona Southern Crou CLIONA Santa (lavs Great Tradition S. CROSS Cliona Storekeeper Race 3--3-30. FILM STUDIO Honey Bee Satellite HONEY BEE Film Studio II
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    • 577 14 3 fit a a Shaw afiitw it a the SieM »hou> a I/TT^^^T^T^^- PHONE ***** >s*£&*|S2E|3^ 11, 1.45, 4. 6.30 9.30 A CAVALCADE OF THE MOST WfS^ UNUSUAL CIRCUS ACTS P^wl I" EVER SEEN IN SINGAPORE! ¥«O' "CIRCUS ARENA"™ in COLOR Dist. by Shaw Bros. 9b^^MHMFB Today 8.45 ajn.: Tomorrow
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    • 442 14 kkkkkkkkkkk kkkki Phone: *****. C iflit V J I W Vil LAST DAY! JKm n f n lib 415> 61: J* PARAMOUNT PICTIRKS ."KKSIM lii "THE RAINMAKER" t HURT LANCASTER— KATHARINE m it,, .j I IN VISTAVISION TF.CUNK 01 OPENS TOMORROW $j THE GOLDEN HAWK «I STARRING: FRANK LATIMORE— N.\I)I.\
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    • 356 14 27 A sickening sensation (8). *y I 28 Walt, and get black (5) Straits Times Crossword "ssmt.,-"' patlently DOWN 1 A near cricketer? (5) f, 2 l 3 'J A t^^sll6 l' 7 I 2 1 makes a heavenly drink 30/ ln the (9) —«m -*t 7"*- r^ TJW «m
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    • 1541 15 ?y^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B l^^^^^^^^^^^vvfvis^^H^l nnt.nuMl rrom Page 8) HOMK LEAVE |N *»rM Box,UC..xtrm. Wanted May "58 for I bedroom accom- .'"reasonable rent Tel. Chepa 207 or Box p: k February 1958 i house for seaside tllday on Isle of :<•, good Garden. e!p provided. Pitt, 8 iir>ad, Kuala Lumpur. VITIATIONS VACANT ordt
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    • 871 15 HOUSES DAND FOR SALE M Word* $S (Mm.) Box St ct: txtrm. BUILDING SITE, Freehold, 9.344 sq. ft., 9th mUe Bedok. 200 yds. sea- Apply 17 Bedok Avenue. YOUR MONEY WELL Invested in nicely, and carefully built modern Bungalow on 9090 sq.ft. of land. Frankel Estate. Good Material, Good Workmanship
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    • 919 15 REAL ESTATE WANTED Word* U (Mtn.) Box St ct: txtrm. URGENTLY WANTED: Bungalows, two-storey houses, vacant building sites, shop and terrace j houses etc. List your properties with us. we are ready to serve you! Singapore House, Land A' Estate Agency, "Clemenceau House", 32-B Penang Lane. Tel: *****. DOGS. PETS.
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    • 896 15 FOR SALE M Word* U (Ml*.) Box St ct: mxtrm. FOR SALE Different makes of Radios and Radiograms. Prices very cheap. K.R. Sons. 55 58 Serangoon Road. REFRIGERATOR LEC Deluxe Model 3.1 cv. ft. as new, 1350 0.n.0.. View at 53 Chart well Drive. B.G.E. 19. ENGLISH ELECTRIC Refrigerator 3.1
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    • 468 15 NOTICES FOR SALE BY TENDER PURSUANT to the Order of Court dated 15th April, 1957 in Civil Suit 1956 No- 103 the undermentioned property is offered for sale with vacant possession. The lands and hereditaments known as Lots 217 and 218 Town Subdivision 13 situate in the North East District
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    • 341 15 NOTICE Estate of MAS. MARGARET McDOWALL or JAQLES, deceased Notice Is Hereby Olven that all creditors and other persons Interested in or having claims against the estate of the above-named deceased, late of The Orange, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, who died at Kirkcudbright on 6th July 1957. are required to give notice
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  • 363 16 NO SCORE IN THE FIRST HALF AND THEN IT BECOMES... Civilians get into gear after interval SINGAPORE Civilians made a spectacular second half rally to beat Joint Services 7-0 in their annual hockey match for the Poppy Day Cup on the padang yesterday. The men who
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  • 51 16 PERCY PENNE- FATHER, Civilians as centre-forward who scored three of his side's seven goals. failed to beat Mike Clementi with this first half effort in yesterday's hockey match for the Poppy Day Cup. Civilians won 7-0. In the centre is umpire Khoo Ong Lee. Straits Times pic-
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  • 278 16  -  FIRDIE SALAHODW 'But only on Pan -Malayan basis' By THE Varsity Occasional, the Indian cricket team L who want to make a three-week Malayan tour in March next year, have written to the Singapore Cricket Association, said Mr. Ken Gould, the pre- sident. Gould
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  • 59 16 4 MATCHES IN FED. FOR MEDAN KUALA LUMPUR. Frl.— The visiting Medan soccer team, which includes four Indonesian Olympic players, will play four matches In the Federation next week. They will meet Selangor at Princes Road on Tuesday. Malayan Malays at Merdaka Stadium under floodlights on Thursday, Perak. at Ipoh
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  • 274 16 Bousfield delights with two eagles as he beats Rees KJL RACE CARD AND EPSOM JEEP'S BEST BBTS Of PAGE 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. KEN BOUSFIELD beat Dal Rees three and two in their exhibition the match over 18 holes at the Selangor Golf Club course here todny The two British
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  • 123 16 HE WANTS IAAF TO DISCUSS PADDED SHOES PARIS Fri.— M. Paul Mericamp. chairman of the European Athletics Committee, is calling a special meeting of the International Amateur Athletics Federation to consider the question of padded high jump shoes. He has written to Mr. Donald Pain, British Secretary of the 1.A.A.F.,
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  • 163 16 Guillemard rally to beat Tanglin for title pUILLEMARD ROAD vT School staged a splendid second half rally to beat Tanglin Tinggi 3-1 to win the Singapore Malay Inter-school soccer championship at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Trailing 1-0 at the interval Guillemard School hit back strongly, and by the 11th minute
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  • 107 16 SCOTLAND DROP TWO FOR MATCH vs WALES pLASGOW, Fri— Scotland VI have dropped two of the team which beat Switzerland 3-2 on Wednesday for their "home" soccer international against Wales at Fampden Park, here on Wednesday. The left wing pair. Tommy Ring and Archie Robertson both of Clyde, lose their
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  • 30 16 TEHERAN, Fri.— The World Weightllfting Federation congress, meeting here on the eve of the 1957 championships, yesterday decided to hold the 1959 meeting in New Delhi, during December.
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  • 131 16 ACS keep their hopes alive ANGLO Chinese School kept their hopes alive In the inter-school tennis tournament for the Father Ashness Shield when they beat St. Joseph's Institution 4-0 at East Coast Road yesterday. The shield will be decided when A.C.S. meet St. Patrick's, the only unbeaten team In the
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  • 57 16 rONDON, Fri. Results in yesterday's fourth qualifying Round of the Football Association Cup were: Dorchester 3. Wymouth i (Winners at home to Wycombe Wanderers in the First Round proper) Walthamstow Avenue 1 Bedford Town 0; i winners away to Coventry City) Selby Town 2 Scarborough 2 (after extra
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  • 63 16 The Singapore Hockey Association last night named 14 players to travel to Ipoh for matches against the Federation on Saturday and Perak on Sunday next week. They are: D. Blngham. Dollah, R Mosbergen (capt) Baldhlraj Singh, Kerpal Singh. S. Vellupillal (vicecapt). Harbhajan Singh, V Devadas. D.
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  • 32 16 JOHANNESBURG, Frl Transvaal won the toss and were 175 runs for six at the tea interval when they began their match against the Australian touring team here today.
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  • 121 16 SYDNEY, Fri.— A sudden hailstorm this afternoon ended play for the day in the New South Wales lawn tennis championships at White City. At that stage American pair Viv Seixas and Ron Holmberg Vere leading Sydney's Bruce Gulley and Feter Frankland 5-2 In the first
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  • 121 16 Matthew tells of bid to stoy his tour MELBOURNE fc iU Stanley in a radio to Mr. J last night, only an offl the Football would proven posed tour and the Far S Matthews and hT, Blackpool. Matthews was :f Por t M have told Mi presentativv of t Football
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  • 13 16 Victoria School beat the school their annual h at Victoria Bcha
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  • 63 16 RUSSIAN ARMY TEAM COMPLEJI TOUR BY BEATING CHELSEA 4-1 LONDON. Frl.— C.D.S.A, Moscow, the Soviet Army soccer team, beat Chelsea, the English first division side. 4-1 In a friendiy match under floodlights here last night. There was no score I half-time. This was the la.-t of the tour
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    • 649 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. "AT TOUR SERVICE" ?f H n -dt U0 (Minimum). Daily 1 month. 10 WoritUM (Ml».) CHANRAI'S Exclusive Men's Shop High Street for Readymade Suits it Slacks. CACTUS SHOP, 258 Orchard Road for large choice collectors specimens. GOLD/ SILVER Electro Plating. Charges moderate. 656 North Bridge Road. ETHNE BEAUTY
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 192 16 Weekend Diary TODAY S.T.U., St. Georges Rd. W TENNIS SOCCER Singapore Malays championships, Medan PAM.S. v Singapore 3 Selection, Jalan Besar (5.15 gB A ope^XmpEips, S.B.A. p m) Hall. 7.30 p.m. RUGGER S.C.C. v Selangor Club, padang; TOMORROW South Johore v G.H.Q. FARELF, Johore Bahru; S.E.R. v The BOtulr Blacks,
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