The Singapore Free Press, 14 February 1956

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No 144<)| Sin K aporr. Tuesday, February 14, 1956. Price llCtfl
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  • 198 1 THE judicial committee of the Privy Council yesterday m London rejected a petition from a Malayan motor salesman, Chang Chung Ling, asking for special leave to appeal against his conviction on a charge of murdering a cashier at Kuala Lumpur on February 10. 1955. The
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  • 57 1 Pakistan will receive a further 125.500.000 worth of United States aid foi KaranafuU multl-purp project, m East Pakistan, under an agreement signed m Karachi yesterday. The project, due to be completed In 1959, provides for the building of power generating plants, irrigation facilities, and
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  • 29 1 Representatives of Com-munist-ruled Tibet called on Red china's leader Mao tang m Peking and pave him a ceremonial scarf m honour of the Chinese Now Year. U.P.
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  • 23 1 The Jordan Government has declared todaj a pubhe holiday to celebrate t birth of a daughter to 26--year-old Queen Dina.— Reuter
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  • 81 1 C 'wealth troops quit Japan BRITISH Commonwealth forces are leaving Japan and an official announcement [g expected shortly. Officials m Tokyo yesterday refused confirmation but reliable Tokyo sources reported that the ten-year-old main British base at Kure, Western Japan, was already emptying. Surplus equipment ll being sold and it Lj
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  • 38 1 Dr. Ismail bin Abdul Rahman, and his two Federation Merdeka mission colleagues who arrived m Singapore yesterday from London will leave for Kuaia Lumpur tonight. This afternoon, they will visit the UMNO headquarters m Johore Bahru.
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  • 197 1 After a week-end m Paris 4 ITFK a two-day private visit to Paris, lYngku Abdul Rahman, the Federation Chief .Minister, returned to London yesterday to begin talks on opium control m Malaya with Mr. John Hare, British Minister of State for Colonial Affairs. The talks
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  • 118 1 rE whole <>f Nicosia was put out of bounds to British en men sterday m an attempt to ftop Cypm terrorists assassination v The order followed the tilling ol two British airmen and the wounding of a third by terrorists m a N. I on
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  • 95 1 C.I.D. STOWAWAY BACK TODAY He had 'sudden urge 9 THE Singapore detective, Stephen David William Jones, who disappeared last Monday, was expected to be returned to Singapore by air from Colombo today. Jones, who stowed away aboard the Cambodge which sailed List Tuesday, will be escorted by ;i Singapore senior
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  • 71 1 Malta votes Yes for U.K. link THE result of the Maltese referendum on the question of integrating the island with Britain and sending three members to the British Parliament was announced early today as 67,607 votes m favour; 20,177 against. The vote indicated support for proposed closer political and economic
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  • 28 1 The chief of naval operations of the Netherlands, Vic-Admiral. Alfred de Bony, arrived m Washington yesterday to confer with American naval officials and visit installations, A.P.
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  • 287 1 ANEW water agreement has been reached between the Singapore City Council and the Johore Government. The vice-chairman of the councils public utilities committee, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, told the Free Press today that the new agreement fixed royalties to be paid to the Johore Government and
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  • 28 1 A four-man Cambodian military mission, headed by Cambodian Chief ol 81 Colonel Lon Nol. left Pnom Penh, today for New Delhi tor an eight-d .t. U.P.
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  • 53 1 A mass meeting of 2,000 dockers at Brisbane decided to resume work tomorrow. Other meetings being held today at major Australian ports arc also expected to adopt their union's recommendation to end the na-tion-wide waterfront strike which has crippled Australia's economy for
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  • 35 1 The Malayanisation Commission will submit its report to the Governor early next week. After submitting the report on Government departments, the Commission will take up the Malayanisation problem of the City Council.
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  • 23 1 Western Germany year displaced Britain as Europe's second biggest steel producer after the Soviet Union. Britain now ranks third. Reuter
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  • 16 1 An earthquake hit Tokyo early today but the city apI parently escaped damage.
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  • 191 2 NO GROUND GIVEN IN BIG TWO SPLIT SIR Anthony Eden the British Prime Minister, told the House o Commons yesterday that the control of trade m strategic materials with Communist China would be reviewed following his recent talks with President Ei ge nh a°dmftted that there had been certain differences
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  • 75 2 Anglo-U.S. A-power plan A United States company headed by General Waltei Bedell Smitn, announced m New York, yesterday that it and a London company had completed plans for the Joint design and construction of nuclear power units m the British Commonwealth and other countries. General Smith, chairman and president of
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  • 35 2 The United States signed an agreement with West Germany yesterday to help build an "atoms for peace" plant for research purposes. The agreement is subject to U.S. congressional approval.A.P.
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  • 244 2 ommontvealtn helps to create more prosperity THE countries of the British Commonwealth have spent $1,350 million under the Colombo Plan since 1951. Mr. R. A. Butler, the new Lord Privy Seal, declared in London last night. In his first public appearance looming his new
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  • 214 2 Reds lied on missing diplomats- Lloyd 'NOW ITS PROPAGANDA MR. SELWYN LLOYD, the British Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons yesterday that the Burgess and Maclean affair brought into clear relief the lack of candour of the Soviet authorities m their statements about these men. Mr Lloyd recalled how
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  • 74 2 U.K. to give £1m. for a new capital BRITAIN yesterday offered £1,000,000 towards the cost of setting up a capital for the nation to be welded out of her scattered Caribbean islands. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, told the 16 delegates this when they assembled yesterday for their third plenary session
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  • 184 2 DR. HERBERT Evatt was yesterday re elected leader of the Australian Labour Party m a vote expected to intensify the factional differences dividing the party. He secured 58 vote* from members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, compared with 20 for Mr. Allan Duncan Fra.str, the
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  • 150 2 INDONESIA TO BREAK LINK WITH HOLLAND <|iIaE Indonesian Cabinet A decided early yesterday to abrogate its union with Holland at once and to consider breaking their financial and economic aj n louts. The Jakarta Cabinet m emergency session to cuss failure of the DutchIndonesian talks m Geneva Information Minister Sjamsuddin
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  • 369 3 Planes fly mercy missions to trapped villagers P II TV -EIOHT Yugoslav* were killed and 19 badly hurt by avalanches Which engulfed a power station, frontier post and villages near Yugoslavia's mountainous border with Albania, Litest reports reaching Belgrade last night said. :ue workers fought
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  • 150 3 RED MONK SAYS TO PREMIER: I'M SORRY FOR WHAT I DID A BUDDHIST monk who has converted several youni; Ceylonese to Communism startled the crowd at a cornerstone-laying ceremony yesterday by announcing he has "chosen freedom." "I have fivefl up Communism because I realise it is against my religion," Kalugalthana
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  • 33 3 Autherlne Lucy, first gro ever admitted to the university ot Alabama, may hire a tutor to help her "keep up" wiih during her forc< d <"•'"«<"«" troin the campus. U.P.
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  • 16 3 Poll from H Cuba. clashi :i the up a illcemcu wore wouuulu A.P.
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  • 14 3 Biitish Guiana la likely to have general elections next year.- Reuter
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  • 169 3 rE Quren and Duke of Edinburgh last night strolled Informally among 1,500 guests at the hist garden party Of their Nigerian tour at government house m Ibadan. It was the lovell I ting ot all parties the Royal couple have attended during their Nigerian
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  • 105 3 LETTERS BURN AS ROCKET IS FIRED INTO POST BOX of letters and other mail covers wire Scorched m a po.-t-box m front of Redhill Market, oil" Tiong Bahru Road, Singapore, last night, when a rocket cracker was fired into the opening. A passerby who saw .smoke and flames coming out
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  • 62 3 A delegation of 60 Nepalese villagers led by a local chieftain has protested to the Nepalese Prime Minister against intrusions by Tibetan raiders who. they said "are threatening life and property In the Mustang area" of NorthWest Nepal. The Premier. Mr. Tanka Prasad, said in Katmandu
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  • 16 3 A cloudburst drowned 10 people in Alegre, in South i Brazil yesterday. A.P.
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  • 15 3 Soviet invention of an amphibious helicopter was reported yesterdav by Moscow Radio A.P.
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    57 3 T II X Singapore Botanic Gardens was a favourite spot visited by Chinese families during their New Year outIng. Parents admired the flowers and rested m the shade while their children played on the grass or fed the monkeys. Here is a group of youngsters caught by a Free Press
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  • 155 3 'YES, BUT' SAY REDS TO U.S. ON VISITS THE Soviet Union has suggested for the first tune that there could be beneflcal results" from .m exchange of unrestrictIsita by private citizens between Russia and the Soviet reply to an an memorandum handed ovei .nber 12 la the time ol the
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  • 198 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Feb. 14, 1956. Opinion A HOPEFUL PRIORITY COME comfort might 1 be drawn from the! fact that Russia has| given such high I priority to preparations for the building of an atom-powered icebreaker. The sprawling EuropeAsia land mass that is Soviet Russia is without a
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    12 4 RIGHT! That II be enough good will messages to Nig«na for today
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  • 610 4  - Where diamonds are a man's best friend FREDERICK ELLIS by TT IS sad to have to kill a fairy story. For years the romantics have told of how you could pick up diamonds by the handful m South-West Africa if you could only penetrate the barbed wire. South West Africa
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  • 141 4  -  Beachcomber •H PARDON me for mentioning it, Sir Henry, but every time you chase a letter of the alphabet round your soup-platt* with your ringers, thy rather nauseating spindrift sprays my corsage." "I mu^t apt lofise, Lady Daggf-tt. but I'm trying to make a word, and only
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    • 15 4 ■n ,s 4: ia PRECISION WATCHES AT MODERATE PRICES (Manufactured by Amida Watch Co., S.A.)
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    • 39 4 make Saturday afternoon a SHOPPING ADVENTURE •re* urv <>p<>ti /lO 2\ ■9 I 3| V W Orchard Roa<1 Shopping Hours M<»n<la\ to Friday: 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Saturday: 7.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. SINCAPORE COLD STORAGE CO. LTD.
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  • 137 5 ipOUR London buses have been taken out of service after being fired at by a hidden marksman. The drivers had narrow escapes. In each case the off.side window next to the driver's cab m the front of the bus was shattered. It all happened m
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  • 70 5 SIX BANGS THAT STARTED NEW MARKET GOSSIP OIK bangs were heard above the market cries m London's Petticoat Lane. A policeman hurried by. Stallholders looked up. A r rowd gathered outside King's flats m Stone? Lane. There was talk of gunshots. Someone had seen a man running away. Someone else
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  • 25 5 RESIDENTS of Holmfield Terrace, Long Buckley, Northamptonshire, are protest iue bec.iu.se Daventry Rural Council have renamed the row Hog Lane.
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  • 234 5 ON to Danbury Common, a National Trust beauty spot m BmCX, rumbled a bulldozer, a tractor, a pests officer, anji si\ other men, all looking for rabbits. The bulldozer tore ?Oft swathes throng th c gorse, leafing UK Common, DIICC a Danish camp, like "a battlefield."
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  • 313 5 Where children let off steam A "COMMANDO" playground, where children are encouraged to toughen-up on jungle gym, a trapeze, iron bars and rings, has sparked on* a row. It is part of a four-acre site at Collier Row, where the children can let off
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  • 137 5 About 80 Collier Row residents have signed a petition asking the council to close the playground or move it. The most fervent supporter of the scheme Ls the Commando's leader a woman. Mrs. Amy Crockford a 43-year-old grandmother, of Romford, Ls the fulltime playground attendant
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  • 91 5 SINCE last Christmas 77-year-old Mis^ Ada Mott has gone without a rir<\ and electric light to save £1 a week tc buy food for stray animals. Now she is m Poplar. London. Hospital after breaking her leg at her home m Elbury Drive. Custom House. So
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  • 192 5 WINKING LIGHTS -FOR, OR AGAINST? IVIIAT do you, motorists, tt pedestrians, cyclists, think of WINKING LIGHTS? That blink, blink, blink from the car m to indicate "I am going to turn. Is it a menace n Or k W the aJiswer to at least one traffic problem f They have
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  • 244 5 Church riddle: Dynamite find near lectern DYNAMITE, detonators and fuse-wire have been found under the lectern of a Cardiff, Glamorgan, church. The explosives were enough to blow the church sky-hish. They were found by the foreman of contractors repairing the church— St. Andrew's, in St. Andrew's CresThey were tied up
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  • 52 5 JOINERS at a Croydon. Surrey, hotel were cold. Women leit the table to collect wraps and capes. I They were guests of the Coal Merchants' Society. The merchant who suppiii\s the hotel was late with hi.s delivery and the furnaces for the central heating could not
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 181 6 MAXDRAiiiE .^...^~...™jj»«.»»»- jj f^.j jjj avis I -JZZZ\\T Hl MAT BBC RACK ill I iM^TKfJf^m^ AFTER THAT Je7^7 ME WfJ 7> i ffi J^M!^^^ %£?titfsnfl WAsTl'O WE DON'T WANT GLAD LOSE X SSSfwSXS $>6&6qQ&, /I BITTER TO LOSE THE BEE^A^BEE. OUTSIDE^^y BiTT tH TAHXxIX by Edgar Hire Burroughs THE SAIXT
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    • 661 6 I 0 ORN today, you have an alert and X O progressive mind which la likely t to put you in the forefront of the I I leaders of your generation. Not 5 evervone may agree with you, but at J least all will respect your opinions and I X
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  • Round the World Marked Prices
    • 207 7 LONDON, Feb. 13. 01 n. Previous Today KUBBER N». 1 RSS eJJ. 3P. S buyers 11% buyers ptiSSP? II S wU February 3 l*i sellers 314 sellers KUBBER No. 1 RSS cU. 30^ buyers 30 buyers Ru£m??K- °T t ls?? h 31 seUers 31 N .seller* RUBBER
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    • 70 7 NEW YORK. Feb. 13 L Previous Today IN Straits spot and nearby 99.50 nom. CLOSED TIN futures February 95.75 bid 99.00 asked March 96.75 bid 98.00 asked April 96.50 bid 97.00 asked CLOSED RUBKKR futures March 37.50 traded v May 35 85 to 35.80 traded No. 1
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    • 7 7 U 5, PEPPER CLOSED f LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY)
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    • 33 7 NEW YORK, Feb. U. Previous Todaj 30 Industrial, 467.66 467.17 24 Railroads 155.38 155.27 40 Domestic Bonds 99.12 99 13 15 Utilities 65.09 65.05 61 Storks Composite Areracte 166.66 166.51
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    • 93 7 Feb. 13. Previous Today COPRA Philippine cJ.f. U.K./ North European delivered weight per lonjf ton Feb./ Mar. $173-* sellers $175 sellers COPRA. Straits c.i.f. IK /North European dWivered weight per lone ton Feb./ March M i^ norn £65 nom. Mar. April 64 i^ norn £65 nom.
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  • 320 7 And she was married to a soldier overseas CALLING m love was the crime that got 42-year-old Captain Henry John Frederick Warnock sacked from the Army after 23 years' service. For he fell m love with the wife of a soldier, fairhaired 38-year-old Mrs.
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  • 261 7 Faces jail— but he'll not destroy pets U<OR every day two Alsatian dogs go on living, Tom Branson, the £8-a-week painter who owns them, has a £2 fine to pay. But Mr. Branson says he will NOT pay the fine "even if I won the pools tomorrow." And he will
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  • 210 7 THE WIVES say bring on THE DRINK and bring in THE MEN WIVES! Would your husbands join you more often for lunch at your favourite fashion salon if its restaurant had a licence? Women shoppers m Birmingham believe theirs would. Several of them backed a drinks-with-lunch application to the citys
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  • 66 7 Oddly enough A MIDDLE-AGED man walked into a Swindon 'Wiltshire, police station and put Us. on the desk. "I think it's radio-active. It's making my leg itch," he told a constable. A civil defence instructor tested the money with a Griper counter. No reaction. The Us. is
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  • 83 7 MISS WEST DECLINES MEMO to the W.R.A.C.: Miss Vivien West, aged 15 months, has received your kind invitation to join the Terriers and is giving it her undivided attention. Vivien, who lives m 1 1 ford, Essex, and is the daughter of the Rev. Peter West/ minister of Clements wood
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    • 47 7 i SINGAPORE j HICH TIDES I TODAY: 12.13 p.m. TOMORROW: 11.5* j a.m. and 12.46 p.m. THURSDAY: 1.16 a.m. and 1.24 p.m. FRIDAY: 144 a.m. and 2.04 p.m. SATURDAY: 2.14 a.m. and 2.51 p.m. SUNDAY: 2 52 a.m.: and 3.50 p.m. MONDAY: 3.37 a.m. and 5.17 p.m.
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  • 461 8 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN pieture. pictures. Could that crackling h<> the voice of a Martian? wonders four-year-old Rowley Street (below) as he tunes m his "space" radio. Space boy Rowley is unlikely to be picking up the planets but his radio does transmit both speech and morse to distance of about half
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  • 161 9 Caryl Cheesman, (above) the man who has been under sentence of death for eight years, has prepared a special application to the San Quentin Prison Governor begging for permission to marry the woman he loves. She is a pretty widow. 28-year-old Frances Courturier.
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  • 1982 10  - GUILTY —or not guilty STEPHEN KING-HALL he given tomorrow.- 1 DID IT HAPPEN? Another story to keepj^i_guessin^_J^he^nswe^i^^^^^^^^^^^^ by 11 has been my experience that if one does or has done a certain amount of broadcasting m a regular manner (I broadcast every Friday evening on the Children's Hour on current
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  • 182 12 CHAPTER 2 of 'The Man Who Made The Stars Shine' ITORDA, the master 1V showman, went to Paris to see his friend Sir Carol Reed. He met Gina Lollobrigida and Burt Lancaster. The talk turned to the Paris Metro— the Underground railway. Korda knew Paris well he directed "Marius" there,
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  • 809 12  - FANTASY!— how Harry Lime was born David Lewin Fidited by England the first time from Hollywood I had lost all my savings m the stock markejt crash. So I knew what it was to b e broke. "They threw me out of Hollywood then and I was broken-hearted. You are
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  • 787 13  - Standard is high but there's room for improvement SUNNY GIAM by Singapore photographers are told OINGAPORES entries m the Art Society's 7th Open Photographic Exhibition which closes today at the British Council Hall were of a high standard but still not as good as they could be. This was said
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    31 13 This picture of Mis* Kalherine W<HU "> > lr ■•< K e v Chont; won the first pru«- for the hest pitturc taken :»t the recent picnic held by the Photographic Society of Singapore.
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    93 13 Chua PhungTco. who is the artist of this picture, is aged 9 and is a pupil of the Bandar Hilir English School, Malacca. Delicious Milo, taken regularly, will help you to attain high mental and physical standards. Its concentrated nourishment replaces lost energy and builds body and brain. Make a
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  • 12 13 "Actress" by Mr. Oiir Wah Chunt of Singapore.
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  • 1554 14  -  F. ADDINGTON SYMONDS by •■•>■■••• i i ii l l l ii l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l South Africa has
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  • 375 15  - RAF Changi sports round-up RALPH BLAKEMAN "Pi IE wet'-. i;cKxi on kt i ith station t ami 100 on two i c many efforts at < tearing the aiding fixtures m the InterSection Learue .it last DM ".ith mom success. Only two naln to be played to rnplete the full
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  • 603 15 on seven goals, while conceding tar itvh Hodgson form iuul scored four goals. Bod Ldr Wilson claimed two and Lac. Mannister the other. Tech. 1 Wing's marksmen were Cpl. Amey and Sac Pittman. On Tuesday, the Depot turned out powerful -side
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  • 852 15  -  ARTHUR ELLIS -By (world No l. referee) 'TITS KEEP FOOTBALL CLEAN] Till, world seemed to be astonished because I abandoned a match at Coventry last week. That shook me. Because to me referee it was the only decision that could be made. Here
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  • 111 15 JOSE San Filippo, the San Lorenzo forward who kicked international referee Arthur Ellis in the Argentinian club's soccer match at Coventry recently, has been banned by the argentine fa. from taking part in further matches on his team's European tour. Ban Filippo was
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  • 435 15  - 1 955 was a remarkable year in athletics ARCHIE QUICK -By THE International Amateur Athletic Federation accepted during 1!»V> the remarkable number of 41 track and field performance! which equalled or beat current world records in 29 different events. These were shared among athletes from 11 different nations. That is
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  • 343 16 AFTER battling through seven and a half hours of football m some of the worst pUying conditions for years, Chelsea and Burnley again failed to decide their marathon fourth round Football Association Cup-tie yesterday. Playing m extremely heavy conditions after
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  • 116 16 Wellington go down by innings to W.I. WEST INDIES skittled out Wellington for 84 runs m their second Innings at Wellington yesterday to win the threeday cricket match by an innings %nd 87 runs just before lunch on the iinal day. Wellington were 25 for one at the close on
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  • 33 16 BUDGE Patty (U.S.) defeated Sven Davidson of Sweden to win the men's singles of the French international indoor tennis championship m Paris on Sunday Patty won 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.
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  • 456 16 THE final of the Royal Air Force Regiment (Malaya) Inter-Squadron Cup hockey competition, between R.A.F. Regt. (M) Depot, (liatisi. and No. 93 Squadron Kualu Lumpur was played off at Changi yesterday. A thrilling game ended with a win for the f>epot
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  • 162 16 A USTRALIAN test captain lan Johnson and England tour i\ reject Jack Hill put Victoria well on top against Western Australia m Melbourne yesterday m the mutch of this seasons Sheffield Shield competition. Spinners Johnson and Hill were far too cute [or
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  • 116 16 Adcvasting spell by lan Thompson, the Sussex fast-medium bowler, and big hitting by Brian Close and Maurice Tompkin put the M.C.C. m a good position at the end of the first days play against Bahawalpur Cricket Association m Sialkot yesterday. The tourists sent their opponents
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  • 32 16 Ij^MILIO Marconi of Italy <* won the European welterweight boxing crown on Sunday when he Deat French Equatorial African titleholder Idrlssa Dione on points over 15 rounds m Grosseto, Italy. U.P.
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  • 103 16 ENGLAND will rely on the team which beat Ireland 20-0 on Saturday, for their Rugby Union match against France, In Paris, on Feb. 25. Team: D. F. Allison: P. B. Jackson, J. Buttcrfield, picture. L B. Cannoll and P. H. Thompson; M.
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    • 53 16 uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiMimiiiiiiiinii TODAY'S SPORT iimmiiimiHiiiiiiiiiimiimmiiii RUGGER: Seven-a-side (First round): Blakang Mati v The Blacks. (Second round): Pollec "A" v R.E. "A 1 Fijians v Nee Soon Wagoners: S.C.C. D" v RE ME 'A", all games on Padang. SOCCER: Inter-school: Beatty v Victoria, Victoria; Hartley v R.I R.I. HOCKEY: S.H.A. trial: Colours
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  • FREE PRESS RACY DAY Special
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    • 385 1 THE FREE PRESS I THE STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE STANDARD S|A||G pAU ALLAN LEWIS PELANDOK EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER WINDSOR LAD TRUNDLE HILL KWEE LO H Race 1 ABOVE ALL ABOVE ALL NOW SHOWING NATION. TRUST ABOVE ALL ABOVE ALL ABOVE ALL ABOVE ALL 2.30 Now
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    • 810 1 SHAMROCK Slipper who was a doubtful starter yesterday, is now a definite starter m the main race at Kuala Lumpur today and should be very hard to beat He is a last start winner at Singapore for which he is penalised 5-lb.
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    • 21 1 THE going for today's races at Kuala Lumpur will be good. Best bets should bo DISTINK, PRODUCER and Itl'lH.i-.KM.AR.
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    • 21 1 - MY three best bets for today are: ABOVE ALL (Race I), GINSENG (Race 6) and iiANDE BAY (Race 7).
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    • 1021 2 RACE 1-2.30: CLASS I, DIV. 4-6 FURS. 1. 30P NATIONAL TRUST 5y cheg (P.H. T.W. Ong) Hobbs 813 Donnelly 2 NOW SHOWING 4y brag (Shaw Stabl<> Martin Jj.lo VY ce er 3. SARATOGA 6y beg <K.V. Yong) Yong* 8.05 Jonan 4. 300 FESTIVITY 4y beg <Mr.
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    • 1255 3 RACE ONE Cl. 1, Div. 4-6 Furs. NATIONAL TRUST: 11-2--56—Clocked 3F m 39 4 5 with Miss Winni<\ NOW SHOWING: 8-2-56—! Was restricted to half pace MY.r |dl; 11-2-56- Creak d impression when held Rub- I ber Exporter over 3F m 38. I SARATOGA: No track
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    • 939 4 —By Our Racing Correspondent— SCRATCHINGS have reduced the field m the first race to six. Newcomer Now Showing looks really good and m training I think he can beat Above All. Absence of recent form niak^s it a tough race. Now Showing (Late Blerioti had really
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    • 583 4 ONE of the sensations of the new season is the remarkable riding by chain nion jockey Garnet Bougoure. In four successive race days since his return from a short vacation m Australia, he has ridden 12 winners. Bougoure was
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