The Singapore Free Press, 18 January 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951. i'kiii: us i \i-
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    Red China's demands
    73 1 In 1 < h i ii p >iU on re plan otia lions be l 1 In- Immn o! withdr iw il ,i trn.ips from the solution of itiona rs of th- Koreans lor ne^otia\r the withI S armed f»>; I .md the .its, ami > oneern
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    Don't do it' savs Nehru
    95 1 PAKIS, Thursday. P Line Minister Sliri Jawaharlal Nehru :t A night that to brand China an in Korea would bolt and bat the door to Bent" in the Far Fast. Prime Minister told a news conferavoid doing this, even Is the United Nations cease-fire the
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    NEW LEADER
    16 1 N EW LEADER Nash. Finance be former New ir 0 tent ider of iiamentary Labou A.P.
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    BRAND CHINA' CALL BY US.
    440 1 BRAND CHINA' CALL BY US. Reaction to Peking's cease-fire snub LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. £)OMMUNIST China yesterday rejected the U.N. appeal for a cease-fire in Korea and proposed instead a seven-nation conference on the Korean War, Formosa, and other Far East problems. The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, immediately
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    Bevan is Minister of Labour
    101 1 Bevan is Minister of Labour LONDON, Thurs. THANGES In the Government. announced in a statement from the Prime Minister's office yesterday, mean the transfer of Mr. Aneurin Bevan from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Labour. The new Minister of Health is Mr. H. A. Marquand. formerly Minister
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    Police Gurkhas to be doubled
    53 1 THE Gurkha contingent of the Singapore Police Force is to be more than doubled, the Free Press learnt yesterday. Thk decision is part of Government polity to strengthen the Singapore Police Force following the recent rioU. Training of the new Gurkhas will take place as
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    Jews condemn Bonn rearming
    85 1 LONDON. Thurs. THE Council" of the British section of the World Jewish Congress has adopted a resolution condemning: the rearmament of Germany. "Jews will not forget," the resolution said, "that those elements from which the German General Staff was drawn played a predominant nart in supporting
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    USAF ready for attack
    88 1 TOKYO. Thurs. AMERICAN Air Forces would likelv be able to strike back quickly against any unheralded air assault on the United Slates, said the Air Chief of Staff. General Hoyt Vandenberg yesterday in Tokyo. He said there probably no an?ft tan Korea it present worth using
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    U.S. CARRIER
    60 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. HOUSE leaders called up for action yesterday the U.S. Navy's proposal to build an aircraft-carrier huge enough to act as a base for planes carrying atomic bombs. This 57.000-ton carrier, which would be the largest in the fleet, is part of the US $2,000,000,000 ship construction
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    IKE IN PORTUGAL
    28 1 General Eisenhower left by air for Rome from Lisbon last night after a rushed day of defence talks with Portuguese government and military leaders.- Reuter
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    Mr. Long Head returns to a crisis-ridden world
    251 1 /CRISIS rides the world. Today news comes of Communist China's rejection of the U.N. cease-fire plan. This is the sort of news one man escaped from for 15 months. This is the real-life story of Burmese fisherman Gaung Shai (Mr. Long Head).
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    Serbia lifts the veil
    49 1 SERBIA yesterday joined the other Republics of Yugoslavia in adopting a law banning the veil for Moslem women. Speeches in the provincial Parliament criticised th* veil as m backward practice and urged that Moslem wom n "H» it»mitt^ t*k* m. full part in building So-
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    The boy courtier
    106 1 PRINCESS Alice Countess of Athlone went to a children's fancy-dress party in London. Three year old Tony Barnby was there with a job to do. He was Boy In Charge of the Handingover of Flower-basket. When it came to the partiitii. he jibbed, ignoring the Princess's outstretched
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    MENZIES 'WOULD DISTRUST JAPAN'
    202 1 LONDON, Thursday. AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister, Mr. R. (i. Menzies, said yesterday that Australia "would distrust deeply any measure of Japanese rearmament which would threaten the security of Australia". "A good deal depends upon the controls that would be instituted in any rearmamen: plan and on the
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    'WHEN I GO BACK' CHIANG
    77 1 TAIPEI, Thursday. PRESIDENT Chiang Kaishek said recently the task of rebuilding China when the Reds are overthrown will be many times harder than it was after Japan's World War II collapse. Chiang foresaw a possible shortage of manpower through what he termed the ruthless Soviet
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    Mother flies to son on trial
    101 1 LONDON, Thurs. \{RS Margaret Stewart, whose 26-vear-old son, bombardier John Stewar held by the civil authorities in Malaya accused of killing; a girl, in Malacca. If flying from London to see him. Mrs. Stewart arrived in London from Motherwell with her husband yesterday and
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    MANPOWER CENSUS
    23 1 The Russian, wen repoi yesterday to be attempting register all men between 1 I and 33 in the Soviet z.;r. Austria.
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    FRIENDSHIP HOPE
    23 1 Sir Godfrey Huggins Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, yesterday expressed the hope that relations of his country and Egypt will im-
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    U.N. ready for Red offensive
    148 1 TOKYO. Tttursd T'HE two-day lull in the central Kor.Mii i. expected to be the prelude to f UN •ff?nsive. A United Nations military fit s»id t«> _i> 'The situation is very similar to that <>1 la t November when the enemy launched his i l<
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    Patrols in action
    41 1 TWO Chines patrols penetrated as much as 10 miles behind the last reported United Nai positions yesterday on the Western Korean front. A United Nations armed reconnaissance p-Jirol entered Wonju throuat: scattered opposition and th? town deserted.- U.P.
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    TRADE TALK
    22 1 Mr. Ryuji Takeuchi. Y Trade Administrator «>f Japanese Ifinistl national Trade and In yesterday talked irith o of B A.P.
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    HOME TO WORK
    25 1 Miss Sharman Doug daughter of the form< Ambassador to London take up her ri liritv liaison oil Holly w<» -"i v A.P.
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    Trouble in an Empire Outpost
    758 2 Gerald Hanley was born in 1916 of Irish parents; went to Kenya at the age of 16 to learn farming. At the outbreak of war joined Royal Irish Fusiliers. Served in Africa and Burma. After the war he was in India and Pakistan. Has now
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    The Arabian Nights Never Pall
    719 2 The Arabian Nights Never Pall PETER QUENNELL reviews new books in the U.K. ENGLISH publishers J stem to be holding back. P» thev are red by the headlines; iike a yood many of us. they are merely feeling at^ed and :n. At all events. there has been no rush of
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    SERGEI AND NATASHA
    404 2 CYRIL RAY describes a love story that was praised by a Moscow paper. MOSCOW newspapers devoted an enviable amount of space to criticism, and the Evening Moscow gave two columns the other day to its review of a story by a young writer in the magazine October.
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    Sellers' market
    302 2  -  Jon Hope PEOPLE by HERE are two publishers intent on maintaining the strangest curiosity of the book business. Which is? That when publishers turn authors they get their books issued by lival publishers. When not busy pushing his own wares Jonn Lehmann. champion of the avant garde brigade,
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    Pushkin, poet lover, gambler
    309 2 Robert Ottaway on new books THE lives— and prolific loves of English romantic poets have been exhumed rather too often. Now Henri Troyat turns our attention to the Russian Pushkin who it seems, outByroned Byron in everything including genius. The tally of his love affairs is
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      231 2 New Crossword No. 255 t— j r s~i pfnßpn r r~i p-i P___stp___tT io i FTkpz^ «3 o_J__M maaaam IS n *|I_~™^ w wrw~ CLUES ACROSS 1 In spirit he gets a cold 'M. 4. The famous teaman has to ba<K on a vehicle (5). 7. One \olume out of
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      47 2 Solution To Crossword No. 254 SOLUTION— Across: 1 Slov\ motion. 7. Rogue. 8 Canna. 9 Wind. 10. Eessie. 12. Eclair. 13. Limb. 15. Rowan. 16, Henna. 17 Brown bread. Down: 1. Strawberry. 2. Ovpan-blower. 3. M.'en 4 Ticket. 5. Omniscence. 6. v Board. 11. Minnow. 14. Ah&b
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    Its twentieth year of Singapore business
    736 3  -  PETER HILL A Famous Shoe Company Will Soon be Celebrating By Photographs by THE BIG THREE The most important man in the Bata Shoe business is Mr. Khoo Pak Hing who models patterns for shoes. With him are Mr. P. F. Kinsey and Mr.
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      Japan and peace
      187 4 Japan and peace •r ror Uirohito lent the Imperial Ron th. Japan* l v. ill not t by We must". prepai Lnsufferiure durable e .too m half go. Bon ol ambled ;r has I Japa: much the the sa;: tri'-d at Cairo. <nmn eaperi- .be .ted ommuns li ipse inevitr-
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    Why the U.S. is not raising a huge army
    941 4  - Why the U.S. is not raising a huge army O.H. BRANDON By ln m America HOW soon are AmeriE_n troop reinforcements going to land on the European Continent? How last is the United BUtei mobilisThese are two cardinal questions Euroins are wondering about. I .maftlne 1 doubt whether General he
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    In Europe
    160 4 In Europe n ENERAL Eisen- hower, for some years President of Columbia University, donned his old military uniform last week-end and flew to Europe to race the perils of the coming year as Commander-in-C h i e f of the Western European forces. Let us consider the situation he will
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    It Seems To Me..
    837 4  - It Seems To Me POLITICO By ABOUT the fields Wordsworth wandered, "knowing this only, that what I seek I cannot find A wave of fellow-feeling for him swept over me last night when St. James Power Station was overloaded and my neighbours and I suffered the blackout instead. I wasn't
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    WELCOME, IKE! WE DO NEED YOU
    778 4 WELCOME, IKE! WE DO NEED YOU W. J. Brown reviews the immense task facing General Eisenhower in Europe, says Britain must awake and provide the tools it the American C.-in-C. is to "finish the job. We must expect, too, a sharp stepping-up of the murderous so-called "civil wars" in Indo-China,
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    NO MORE CONCESSIONS FOR CHARITY
    166 5 SMC proposes new rules Free Press Staff Reporter 4 RECOMMENDATION that the rules and regulations relating to the use ot Victoria |'lu\itre and Memorial Hall and Jalan Besar ditim should be amended to exclude anvil privileges for charities of all kinds has n made by
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    Trishaw advts annoy K.L City Father
    93 5 F.P. StafT Corn'spoiui-nt KUALA LUMPUR Wed WOULD cot like to sit in .aw a ih a p advertising 'Black and White' in front <»f me" remarked Mr. t. Rajcndra. Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioner, at today's meeting. Mr. Raje.dra was speaking on a new form
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    CONTROL OF MOTOR FISHING VESSELS
    264 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 CONTROL POINT to check all Singapore licensed motor fishing vessels arriving in or leaving the port, will be put uo at Telok Ayer, Godown 2, South Quay, bv the Fisheries Department early next month. Mr. T. W. Burdon. Fisheries Officer,
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    SMOKING IN OFFICES DURING WORK HOURS
    467 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE their vis-a-vis in the Federation are to be allowed to smoke in office, employees of some Government departments in Singapore are still restricted from doing so. The Question mav become a subject for discussion in the near fuiure. Some
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    MAIL
    59 5 Surface mail in expected In ipore today from Norm Indi v Pakistan, Hon? Kong. Chin?.. North Borneo. Labuan. Brunei. Mill Diambi and the Federation. T:.test times for posting surfv.ee mail at the G.P.O. today are: ncor. for Jakarta. Sourabaya, S:bu. Pakistan, (parcels only), Indochina, Philippine Island. Hong I, China
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    MALAY EXAMINATION
    34 5 A Gazette notification issued yesterday states that Mr. A. H. Robson, M.C.S., was successful in passing the Malay Examination, Standard I (including Jawi) which was held in Singapore on Nov. 30 last.
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    ARMOUR TO FIGHT BANDITS
    38 5 picture. NEW type armoured cars for the Federation, portion of a large consignment of Jeeps, Land Rovers, and civilian cars pictured at the S ngapore docks soon after their arrival from Britain. Free Press
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    Indian dancers' last performance
    76 5 Indian dancers' last performance Lalitha and Padmlni. the celebrated Indian dancers, nnd their party, will conclude their Singapore engagement at the Happy World with two final performances today. At 6.30 p.m. there will be a performance for school children in addition to the usual programme at 9 p.m. Admission charges
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    Welfare course for Overseas Students
    200 5 Welfare course for Overseas Students CENIOR social welfare workers from Malaya, Japan and the Philippines are among the student, from ten countries who began in London this week a two weeks' course of study on social services in Britain. Visits are being paid to the London Borough of East Ham
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    MORE THAN $350,000 FOR TB PATIENTS
    276 5 MORE THAN $350, 000 FOR TB PATIENTS Free Press Staff Reporter TWE SINGAPORE Social Welfare Department has x been given $350,000 to spend on T.B Treatment Allowances this year. But with a re-vote of money unspert last year, due to the fact that at one period there was no almoner
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    Modified terms in SMC contracts
    129 5 Modified terms in SMC contracts Fre<* Press Staff I.cpoi t< i A^ MODIFICATION of percentage of retention money in building contr; for the Singapore Municipality is cxp» i result u some reduction in future tenders to the Municipal Municipal contract forms are being amended to vide that after the completion
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    AS LONG AGO AS 1928
    112 5 F.P. Staff Correspondent KUALA IX MPLR. Wed THE urgent need for promoting; inter-racial unity in Malaya was publicly recognised as Ion? ago as 1928 when the Rotary Club Kuala Lumpur was formed. Mr. Khoo Teik Ee told fellow Rotarians at the 21st anniversary lunch meeting
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    DUTY TERM COMPLETED
    25 5 I MIJ > DORA V. < the fir»t A ai, < Secretary mi 1 who i- ig hv the I <» r. lan 1 Free Press
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    Sarong cloth popular with European women
    159 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent Kl ALA LI'MPI'R, Weonesd 2AROXG materials have become quite the vo;u* among European housewives, according to Mrs. E. M. MacDonald, Supervisor of the Mate* Art mmmt Handicraft Society. There is such an increasing demand for thi M sarongs, 'that a
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    Vacancies in schools
    48 5 I rnoon i Oan i lon* Rhu I in l There are a. in Special ren lrom Vi be followin A v d Af i I K Jur id, Dunearn R d Including tht there are in all approx. 600 vacai. sts, but rhe number
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    Kinta Indians win at hockey
    22 6 Tree Prt V Reporter GOAI to o j •d and the l d troni dnTicul I the
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    'I COULDN'T CONTROL THE SHUTTLE
    760 6  - 'I COULDN'T CONTROL THE SHUTTLE CRUSADER By Peng, Soon on his defeat COULDN'T control the shuttle. When I hit softly it went into the net, and when I hit hard it went outside the court. I didn't smash as often as usual because I would lose balance whenever I did
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    CRAZY SPORTLINE
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    Bridge Hand
    371 6 Doth sides vulnerable. West dealer t\'E are willing to go to b >> my time to prove thai I scientific eam^ it cannot be called gambling, for the more skilful player musi be retui the winner In the long run. But I of luck plays no part. Without
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      Firmness in Wall Street
      151 6 NEW YORK, Thursday THE New York stock market was firrr yesterday largely as a result of the deteriorating international situation and the prosr>ects of inflationary hiinvaDCv *In active trading in the first ho o\ 820.000 shares were sold Initial well-distributed declines were recorded under an accumulation
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      U.K. RUGGER RESULTS
      35 6 YESTERDAY'S U K R Union resi: County Championship Sussex 11. Ea^ 20 (played at Hoy Other matriies: A Serviees 3. U iiet: Portsmouth S; R A V 8. British Poii Cardiff' Reuter
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      U.S. BASKETBALL PLAYERS CHARGED
      37 6 TWO players on th hattan College York' 1950 b_ and thi arrested on Wedi and charged with bi -piracy h. I losing gan Distrn I Un alleged t» players "trump sames and A.P.
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      MANDARIN SONG
      33 6 Mandarin Song is running on Saturdav. first day of the Perak Turf Club January meeting He is handicapped at 9 0 in the Class 4. D race over the 5%-f. straight.
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      114 6 zGYPTS BIG 3 \>ti <. l IMB ii 1 \-'^< SATURDAY 20;/i JANUARY 1951 M!"NITE PREMIZRE GARPiICK LAST DAY 11 i <n 1.45. LIS, I »"> I I p.m. I I N rERANG BULAN" VUT'I MOB. ,),N i i UOSTOM9RBOW "f T J| I I i I 7 5 Sr.OWS
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      223 6 m2ndrdkB Exclusive to the Singapore Fret Press in Malaya IT LOOKS LIKE II BUT-IT'S ftISINOI lITIS A BAS.BALL. IT FEELS SCUD I BUT BASEBALLS ARE --HEAVY/ 1 .°7™l A BASEBALL! OUT OF THE BOX AND HARD --JUST LIKE A REGULAR! I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE THAT--A V4NOWKE OPM "-"Vi WHAT y
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      112 6 SINGAPORE BFEBS ISftagaporal (B! I I- MTWHKRI 10 am News from Singapore 445 p n 10 45 For the Schools; 12 Fro- 4 47 From tl grammes in Malay; 1 P™ The (EBC 4 s;> Radio Orchestra; 1 30 TimIt N ws- I 45 Dai Account R' bv Ken* Wright—
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    S.R.C. WEETING
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    COASTGUARD, COCKLAW MOST IMPRESSIVE
    748 7 COASTGUARD, COCKLAW MOST IMPRESSIVE Smart gallops at Ipoh today Free Press Racing Correspondent mDil IPOH, Thursday. £L\ __KAL interesting gallops tame under observation on the Ipoh training track this morning, when the majority of Saturday's runners were given their winding up gallops. Belgium, Afoko and Camelia returned the -mart time
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    A champion in two years
    89 7  - A champion in two years CHARLES BRYCE ASIAN GAMES CONTENDERS...2 Hv Wolters, IS-\ear-(»Ul star of the Singapore rig Club. h.i> In the past two vear s deveone of the kesl swimmers in the country. I i of Dutch parents, YYiebe came to Ox. ut four years ago. )ta good swimmer.
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    K. L. stadium proposal
    124 7 K. L. stadium proposal From Our Start Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wedrn H E K mpmt MunicipaliA has decided to build s sports stadium ns M has funds and site ■It ml) m O thing for Lump have such a Mr K K. B«n--jamin at a meeting of the Com>nrrs to..
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    FOUR STATES IN HOCKEY TOURNEY
    319 7 Kl ALA LIMPI R, Wednesday. TiHE Selangor State team are tra veiling to Penang to take part in their third Quadrangular Hockey Tournament of the 1950-51 season, between Penang, Perak, Pahang; and Selangor. Tire selectors have invited 17 players to make the journey and provided
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    Poh Lim wins his first Colony title
    275 7  -  CONRAD NG By OROBABLY the most unlucky badminton player in the Colony, Ong Poh Lim gained his first Singapore title when he partnered Mrs. L. M. Fennefather to victory in the mixed doubles final nfcainst Lau Teng Siah and Miss Mak Fong Sim
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    U.K. LEAGUE RESULTS
    42 7 YESTERDAYS fixtures in Div. 3 (Southerm of the English Football League resulted as follows: Bristod City 0. Southend United 3: Brighton and Hove "2. Port Vale 2; Gillingham 9. Exeter City 4: Torquav United 1. Bristol Rovers 2. Reuter
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    VETERANS' FINAL
    29 7 SINGAPORE Badminton AsJ sociation veterans' singles between Leow Kim Fatt (Useful) and Koh Keng Sian? (Marigold) scheduled for today, has been postponed to Saturday at the Clerl-
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    S.C.S. SOCCER
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    SCOTS TROUNCE IRISHMEN 7-0
    25 7 SCOTTISH League trounced League of Ireland by seven goals to nil in a soccer match at Celtic Park. Glasgow yesterday. Reuter
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    LAST-MIN. DECIDER ON PADANG
    182 7 LAST-MIN. DECIDER ON PADANG Cricket Clu'\ bv means of a lostmimite try. ran out winners in vesteidav's rugger encounter with R.A.F. Selelar by 11 points <goal. two tries) to six orv and penalty goal.' Despite the watery aspect or ♦he Padang. both teams handled the ball well and some grand
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    ALL BLUES
    27 7 THE Singapore All Blues fifteen to meet Selangor in the All Blues semi-final on Jan. 27 will be selected after a trial game on Monday.
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    17 CHOSEN FOR ASIAN GAMES
    270 7 SINGAPORE champion sprinter Tan Eng Yoo: and swimmer Keith Mitchell have been included in Singapore's contingent to the Asian Games to be held at New Delhi from March 4 to n. The contingent now numbers 17 instead of 14 as originally proposed This was decided
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    Forceful pack gave Navy 14-3 win over Army
    413 7 Forceful pack ga ve Na vy 1 4-3 win over Army Free Press Rugby Reporter pORCEFCL forward play by the K«,\a| Navy resulted in a victory over All-Malaya Armv in the annual rugger encounter at Nee Soon \esterday. The score was 14 points (goal, two tries .md penalty goal) to
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    94 7 The annual Norui v South faculties lugger match, to be p.ay*»d on the Sepo\ hn« id ;n Bukit Timah Road to M be competed fot the shielo mm are NORTH -Ahmad Osmai. Lu» g ret k L:rw Mon, I C Menon. Abdul Hamid. Soong Sze Fook. Ah Abo«
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    FRENCH READY FOR RED DRIVE
    379 8 FRENCH READY FOR RED DRIVE 'Enemy fighting well '—de Lattre HANOI, Thursday. GENERAL de Lattre de Tassigny, French Com-mander-in-Chief and High Commissioner in Indo-China, said last night that all precautions were taken to meet what he described as a very serious drive of 25,000 Vietminh troops in the north-west in
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    ORPHANS TO BE LEFT BEHIND
    258 8 SOI'TH KOREA, Thursday. I ITTLE t hoong-li, round, fat. and filthy, sat in the gutter screaming his head off as Allied tanks rumbled through Seoul. For the third time in six months war had hit his home-town. Smoke and flames willed up from muddy streets,
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    SMALLPOX THREAT TO BRIGHTON
    112 8 SMALLPOX THREAT TO BRIGHTON BRIGHTON. ThUTS. DOCTORS and nurses working 12-hour shifts seven days a wek completed vaccination of 80.000 people in a battle at Brighton town against smallpox. The number of proven I increased yesterday to 32. and doctors began vaccination of the remaining 70.000 in the town In
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    Comfort by rotation
    54 8 A I'nited Nations coni- niander in West Kore i has ordered every company in his division to establish "a warm-up tent to provide some comfort during the cold winter months." Soldiers will take turns at warmin? up in tents which will contain two stoves, hot drinks and
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    KEEP BBC ADVERT-FREE GOVT TOLD
    149 8 LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH radio should not carry advertisements, the Government was told in a report made public yesterday by a:: 11-member committee it appointed 18 months ago to recommend improvements In the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC has a radio monopoly in Britain and is
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    MOROCCAN HOLIDAY
    51 8 MOROCCAN HOLIDAY Mr Winston Churchill and several members of his party ieft by air on Tuesday for a three-day visit to Tinerhlr. a resort some hundred miles east of Marrakesh. Mr. Churchill, who has been on holiday in French Morocco since before Christmas, plans to return on Thursday or Friday.-
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    INDIES TO GET U.S. CREDITS
    39 8 Indonesia and the United States Export-Import Bank have signed a loan agreement covering credits aggregating U5552,245,500. These credits are allocated from US$lOO,OOO,OOO earmarked by the Bank for the Republic of Indonesia last August.- A.P.
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    LHASA 'WILLING TO NEGOTIATE'
    56 8 LHASA 'WILLING TO NEGOTIATE' Pro-Chinese officials ir, Lhasa have radioed Peking that the city is defenceless and willing to negotiate a settlement, a reliable informant said in Kalimpong. The Peking reply told all Tibetan officials to carry on and said that China is planning a peaceful coup d'etat to avoid
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    C-IN-C. GOES
    27 8 The British Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, Sir Douglas Gracey yesterday handed over his charge to the first Pakistani C-in-C. Gen. Mohammad Ayub Khan. A.P.
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    MINISTER RESIGNS
    15 8 The Egyptian Minister of Justice. Abdel Fattah el Tawil Pasha, has resigned. Reuter
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    29 8 MARSHAL Stalin has agreed to offer himself for election to the Supreme Soviet of the f.u<-; a n KeDublir from the Kirov district in Leningrad A.P.
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    PLEVEN TO SEE TRUMAN
    37 8 pRENCH Premier, Rene Pleven, will visit both Washington and Canada at the end of the month, it 1_ announced. President Truman has agreed to his request for talks on January 29 and 30.
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    INDO-CHINA TALKS
    32 8 The Indian Prime Minister. Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, and the French ministers he would see during his stay in Paris, would discuss Indochina, said a French Foreign Office spokesman yesterday Reuter
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    STRIKES STAY
    18 8 All attempts to case deado ks in the Irish rail and aarik strikes have failed. A.P.
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    MAY START NEW AIR ROUTE
    65 8 MAY START NEW AIR ROUTE The first plane ever to fly to Easter Island is leaving La Serena City to-morrow in the first step of what could become an air route between Chile and Australia. Gen. Aurelio Celedon, head of the Chilean Air Force, said in Santiago. The island, a
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    ACTRESS WEDS
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    'URCHIN' STYLE IN PARIS HATS
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    43 8 Kassei. Germany opened a competition for designing a memorial to "victims of Fascism" but six out of the seven persons who volunteered to act as judges were once members of Nazi organisations, the O.S. paper "Neue Zeitune" r«--d !r.e_l A.P.
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