The Singapore Free Press, 17 May 1954

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya. \o. *****. Singapore, Moil., May 17, 1954, Price 15 Cts
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    What's the joke, girls?
    89 1 Ghi It's the funny skater 'RIPPLED children on stretchers, (above), whose dream is to be able to walk "lie day, were .thrilled to see ice-skating at the Happy World, Singapore, yesterday There was ffay and sideplitting laughter, because Woody (right) and Baddy. the clowns, brought out
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    Boy locked in airtight trunk is saved
    95 1 Boy locked in airtight trunk is saved A United States Air Force corporal yesterday rescued m Norfolk, who had locki himself inside an airtight trunk. Corporal James Milbert, 22. the U.S. air base at Scul•rpo, Norfolk, smashed the funk open with an axe to rease crying and frightened -year-old Michael
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    RICE PACT
    37 1 An agreement whereby Burma will supply Mauritius with ice for four years was signed yesterday m Rangoon. Burma will supply 40,000 tons I'Ji.s year and from 30.000 to ■>UOOO tons during each subyear. A. P.
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    HUSBAND: I AM
    22 1 lI EINZ-LOTHAR Walther, 1A 34-year-old construction worker, strangled his 26--year-old wife, then nuns her norn a bedpost, police said
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    Red boss gives up
    21 1 LUIS TARUC, the Huk Communist leader of the Philippines rebels, surrendered to the Government forces last UP.
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    TANK EXPERT DIES
    25 1 Colonel-General Heinz Guderian. Hitler's tank expert and former chief of the German General Staff, died m Schwangau. Germany, during the week-end. AP.
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    WILSON IN SEOUL
    27 1 The U.S. Defence Secretary, Mr. Charles Wilson, arrived m Seoul last night on another leg of his fact-finding tour of the Fur East, AP.
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    Rubber price
    27 1 Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on steady quiet tone with fit f grade, June shipment, at 63 cents a pound- -half-a-cent above Saturday's closing.
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    'Peace' again at Chinese Schools
    197 1 'Peace again at Chinese Schools TIHE two biggest Singapore Chinese Middle schools, whose students were involved m last Thursday's demonstrations against registration ior national service call-up, were back to normal this morning. The principals of the Chung Cheng High School m Goodman Road and the Chinese High School m Bukit
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    SHIPPING HOPES
    32 1 The Journal of Commerce says U.S steamship lines which link the Far East with New York look mr i moderate increase m their freight businebi m the next few months.
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    A MERCY-KILLER
    24 1 at Sontra, Germany, yesterday. He said ho killed his wife to relieve her from the pain.s of a kidney ailment. A. P.
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    REDS POUNDING KEY POST
    217 1 Delta struggle rOMMUNIST Vietminh troops last night pounded the Red River Delta defence post of Phuly, 30 miles south of Hanoi, with heavy mortars and machine-gun fire. The continued harassment of the marketing town situated at crossroads leading directly to Hanoi, and to the rice and
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    OFFICER SHOT DEAD IN ERROR
    89 1 OFFICER SHOT DEAD IN ERROR A BRITISH officer leading an anti-Mau Mau operation was shot dead and twc of his men were injured when ar. army patrol mistook them for terrorists, it was officially announced m Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday. East Africa Command headquarters withheld the name of the officer, who
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    AUDIT CHIEF RETIRES
    21 1 The Director of Audit, Malaya Mr. C.W.S. Seed, will leave for England on retirement by the Canton tomorrow.
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    Jute mill riots now spreading into Dacca
    117 1 PAKISTAN radio said yesterday that bloody rioting which flared m the Adamjee area of East Pakistan over the weekend has reportedly spilled into Dacca, the state capital 20 miles north. The radio said unofficial casualty figures are "alarming" and that thousands of refugees
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    Loewen is promoted
    35 1 The London Gazette ai. nounces the promotion of J.t. Gen. Sir Charles I jewen, C-m-C, Far East Lttnd Forces, to General. General Loeuen returned to Singapore yesterday after a visit to Bangkok.
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    CROWDS AT PALACE BUT QUEEN HAS QUIET DAY WITH FAMILY
    385 2 Only appearance— at church I ENTHUSIASTIC crowds gathered outside the gate of J Buckingham Palace again yesterday though the Queen herself on her first full day In England after her round the world tour spent a quiet Sunday with her
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    Naval battle Damaged Red ships turn tail
    135 2 Naval battle Damaged Red ships turn tail NATIONALIST Chinese warships have damaged four Communist vessels <n action <il Chekiang province, on (he Red Chinese coast, the Defence Ministry announced m Taipeh. A communique slid none of the Nationalist ships was damaged. Five Nationalist teamen were injured slightly The first engagement
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    Air battle Mystery jet planes in border clash
    79 2 Air battle Mystery jet planes in border clash Fill IE Finnish newspaper Uusi J. Suomi yesterday carried additional details of a purported Air battle between jet plane* of unknown nationality Dear the Fiimi.sli-Hus.sian border. The paper said that two jets had Men observed m what appeared to be an air
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    S'pore to have film festival
    66 2 SINGAPORE will be host city for the 1955 South East Asian film festival, Singapore film producers attending tho 1954 festival m Tokyo said yesterday. The 1954 festival opened on May 8 and will end with award ceremonies on Thursday. Film companies of Japan, Nationalist China,
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    U.S.I.S. offensive
    31 2 U.S.I. S. offensive The United States Information Service yesterday announced a "world-wide offensive" m the cold war propaganda fight, aimed at exposing "spurious intellectual and ideological appeals" of Russian Communism. AP
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    Refugees from China flown to freedom
    142 2 Refugees from China flown to freedom VORTY-THBJEI European toffees, mainly. White Russians from Communist China, flew Into Geneva yesterday from Hour KoDf to t»< uui new lives m ten western countries, Their flight resulted from the combined efforts lor their resettlement on the part oj the Inter-Govern-mental Committees for Eurcpefu
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    Weekend R.A.F wedding
    37 2 Weekend R.A.F wedding picture. SKRGEANT JAMES CONYERS DAVIES, of R.A.F Changi and Miss Joyce Blackwell, who were married at St. George's Church, R.A.F. Changi, on Saturday. A reception was later held at the Chalet Club Michael Anchant
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    Seized Chinese crews for trial
    217 2 FACE DEATH UNDER LAW RATIONALIST authorities put 12 Chinese crew 11 members of the Polish tanker S.S. Prezydent Gottwald under arrest yesterday and announced they would be tried by a military tribunal. The Prezydent Gottwald was captured on May 13 by the Chinese Navy after
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    Premier ill
    14 2 The East German Arting Premier. Dr. Walter Ulbricht is m hospital. A.P.
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    Ceylon fears pact may mean war
    250 2 Ceylon fears pact may mean war MR. R. G. Senanayake, Ceylon Minister of Commerce and Trade, said yesterday that if Ceylon offered herself as a military base to either a nonCommunist or a Communist power bloc the country would be inviting attack. In a statement to the Times of Ceylon
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    90-DAY REPRIEVE FOR MAN FROM DEATH CHAMBER
    108 2 CARL CHESSMEN, sex kidnapper spared from the San Quentin gas chamber last Friday by a last minute stay of execution, had his lease of life extended yesterday. Marco County Superior Judge Thomas F. Keating, granted the stay to look into Chessman's petition. Mr.
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    PATINO BABY STAYS WITH FATHER
    380 3 Families agree after runaway heiress' death PARIS, Monday. PHI wealthy I'atino and Goldsmith families hav# 1 agreed that Jimmy Goldsmith will bring up th« baby daughter delivered by a Caesarean operation on her mother's deathbed. Jimmy's father, Mr. Frank Goldsmith, who is a director of
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    U-Boat men remember
    150 3 U-Boat men remember 4LMOST 2,000 survivors of A Germany's wartime submarine fleet honoured the German and Allied victims of the Battle of the Atlantic m a ceremony at Hambure yesterday. Former German Admiral Eberhard Godt, last chief of operations m the German U-Boat Headquarters, spoke at the Hamburg War dead
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    100 scholarships
    20 3 Bulgaria is giving 100 schoit'ships to young Communists >m Albania as part of a new cultural agreement. AP.
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    Trade agreement
    15 3 Communist Poland has con■iudt'd a trade agreement with K<-d Bulgaria for 1954. -AP.
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    A war manoeuvers
    13 3 Sweden will hold large-scale atomic war manoeuvres next •"ltumn. AP.
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    THE WESAK BEGINS WITH PROCESSION
    80 3 Buddhists m Malaya began last night the Wesak festival commemorating the birth of the Lord Buddha about 2.500 years ago. In Singapore the celebrations began with a procession of illuminated floats through the streets which started and ended at the Buddha Gaya Temple m Race
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    2,500-YEAR-OLD MESSAGE
    57 3 Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India, yesterday m a message to the nation, said that the world should give up violence and follow the path of Buddha to peace and understanding. India and the Buddhist world celebrated the 2,500 th anniversary of the birth of Buddha. The day was
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    One extra rip and she's in trouble
    101 3 One extra rip and she s in trouble Colleen Miller can be m rouble m the movie "Shadow v J5J?y" if ncr dress overacts. Fhe dress is a breakaway uown. fashioned carefully to <ome apart at strategic points— md no farther for a scene where she scuffles with Rory yalhoun.
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    Spy probe opens in ballroom today
    135 3 HPHE Royal Commission Investigating Soviet espion- age m Australia is holding its first public hearing today m a Canberra (Australian capital territory) dance hall converted into a courtroom. The commission is checking and probing a Red spy ring m Australia which was disclosed by
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    The Pope warns of modern dangers
    104 3 The Pope warns of modern dangers VATICAN CITY Mon. HjlliE POPE appealed yesterday -I for a return to old-time Christianity to meet the modern dangers of rising materialism. "In the right against materialism," the Pontiff said m a radio message to the tenth Catholic Congress at Freiburg. Switzerland, "We must
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    'Heil, our King'
    67 3 Five thousand Bavarians sang 'Heil. Our King, Heil' 9 yesterday at an open air mass meeting m Munich to honour Bavaria's Crown Prince Rupprecht. It was part of a 10-day celebration which will reach a climax tomorrow with the observance of the Prince's 85th birthday. Rupprecht Germany's
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      141 3 HS wu darkening eflWi oi strong sun BL v ijr makes it fairer and more flattering. hw «f 1 tiny skin Haws leaves your skin soft md i <l'!ii;li(lull\ ji.-ilhiiii J. r idL t^^m w i awa y i^ r ust an<^ rl caiw "i* 01 an d f V
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  • The Singapore free Press MODAY. May 17. 1954. OPONION
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      A welcome invitation
      361 4 r|ii ik decision o£ the FedeJ ration Motion Picture Producers Ul South East Asia, meeting In Tokyo, to invite Singapore to stage tlic second Asian film festival m 1955- the first is now being conducted In Tokyo i.s highly welcome. Earlier it had been reported that a
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    A Town Refuses to Pay Rates
    528 4  - A Town Refuses to Pay Rates J. L. HAYS Job for Jerusalem 'strong man' By MIDDLE EAST. HERE is the sad story of Jerusalem's thousands of defaulting Israeli ratepayers -now undergoing "Operation Tax Collection" at the bidding of a no-nonsense gentleman called Mr. Jacob Schreibaum. Jacob Schreibaum has been specially
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    'Royal' vases,
    543 4 (Made m Russia!) PROLETARIAN East Ger- many is producing the King's china for sale to wealthy capitalists! Meissen, the world-famed porcelain perfected m 1710 by rat loving August the Strong. King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, is being shown m East Berlin stores m quantity for the
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    They will fill the need for leaders in Malaya
    204 5 They will fill the need for leaders in Malaya YOUNG men and women m Johore arc answering Malaya's need for effective leaders, and to help them Government has sponsored a Youth Training Course. Three sessions of this course have already been held m Johore. attended by otuhs from all over
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    Keen Jap response to S'pore trade fair
    197 5 Keen Jap response to S'pore trade fair JAPANESE manufacturers are ready to visit Singapore for the proposed trade fair when local arrangements are finalised, the Japanese Con-sul-General, Mr. Ken Ninomiya. told the Free Press today. Mr. Ninomiya flew back from Osaka after he had discussed the project with trade and
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    SICK IN HOSPITALS NEED LITERATURE
    189 5 Red Cross appeal to Spore DON'T throw away those books and magazines. Send them to the Red Cross m Singapore for its hospital library service. The library service is now available to patients m the General and Tan Tock Seng Hospitals, and the Red Cross
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    Sugar men to bypass S'pore
    44 5 /CHINESE merchants m Miri.i \j Sarawak, who buy their, sugar from Singapore will m future buy direct from Formosa. The Miri Chinese Chamber of Cmmerce has decided to bypass Singapore to save costs. Sugar was decontrolled recently m Sarawak.
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    Vicar's gift
    32 5 Instead of the customary Easter ca.sh offering, villagers )f Haughley. Suffolk, presented their vicar, the Rev. W. G. White, 70, with a useful gift, rhis year it was a raincoat.
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    Queen honours 2 Gurkha officers
    136 5 A UNIQUE honour has been conferred by the Queen two Gurkha officers, who l{ *ve been engaged for sevSjaii, on anti-bandit 'Perationi m Malaya. iney have been appointed orderly Officers to Her MaThese are the first appoint■wnti ot their kind, not only since the Gurkhas
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    Hawker
    66 5 THE eighteen Singapore hawker inspectors will soon have a change of uniform. Their present dress consisting of khaki shirts and slacks, will be replaced by a uniform similar to that worn by vehicle inspectors. Shoulder badges bearing the words "Hawker Inspector," and polo helmets and berets with City Council
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    But Mr. Down is not out
    118 5 When a shabby, grey-haired man with a goatee beard walked into a Brighton music shop and sat down at a piano the assistants walked on tiptoe and talked m whispers. He is Thomas Marready Down, aged 83. who, with Hermann Darewski. wrote "Under the
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    inspectors get new uniforms
    26 5 The City Cleansing Superintendent. Mr. J. Ephraim, told the Free Press that the change was necessary to identify the inspectors on duty.
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    Dance girts stage play
    47 5 Singapore Dance Hostesses' Association is staging a play entitled "Tears of a Cabaret Girl" at the Happy World Stadium on June 13. The play is m conjunction with the Association's 16th anniversary. All gate collections will be given to the Association's charity fund.
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    Whose son was Napoleon?
    117 6 WAS Napoleon an illegitimate child? The question seems to be agitating some of the best minds m France these days. Mr. Paul Bartel, a distinguished historian, has raised V m the current issue of "Le Figaro Litteraire," one of the country's serious weeklies An extended discussion
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      198 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis TARZAN by Edgar Rice Burroughs mm TAIZZAH%M ALLY. V TH.S i NgW (JADtfC P^C ALACM Tm£ *»L^i m^np wcvnp H^f- petrol j rwj*v&ztN6 was CuAliq^E fcffiVmi THE SAINT by Leslie Gharteris JANE by Hubbard F&C T into vOuC COS^uME/M^ 27 I MAVGN'T SEEN
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      537 6 VIMIIIIIIIIimUIMIIHtH I I (iM^ I YOUR I LUCKY I STAR I DORN TODAY, you are the I E type for whom duty is al- ways spelled with a capital E "I> What you ought to do i I comes first m your life: then, E if there is any time
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    Husband of girl 16 is not her guardian
    280 7 THE husband of a 16-year-old girl is not her guardi a court has ruled. Police brought the young wife before the Lambeth Juvenile Court, London, believing she was m -noral danger and that her husimd. from whom she was parted, was legally
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    At last— a silent road drill
    184 7 At last— a silent road drill I T Ja.st— they have invented a 1\ near-silent successor to the old ear-splitting pneumatic drill. It is called a "lance" and on a demolition site m London's Haymarket recently it cut through giant reinforced concrete beams with just a hiss and shower of
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    Milk bottles 'should be coloured
    127 7 Milk bottles 'should be coloured AT the Royal Sanitary Institute's Health Congress at Scarborough m the North East of England, the senior dietician to the Ministry of Health, Miss E. Washington, suggested that coloured glass should be used for milk-bottles. "Half an hour's exposure to direct sunlight is sufficient to
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    CAN M.A. SELL WHELKS?
    315 7 WERE you brilliant at a university? If so, can you run a whelk stall successfully? Dr. Garbett, the 79--year-old Archbishop of y ork, posed this problem wncn he appealed for more men and women who can "nnk independently. They must "have both the wisdom, and courage
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    PAUSE AMONG PALMS IN AIR DASH
    37 7 AP. I picture. IJlobeniasters flying troops, to Incio-China land at m RAF airfield at Katunayage, 23 miles from Colombo, Ceylon. The United States has been helping France rush troops and supplies.
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    LLOYD'S HAS RARE CASE OF DROP-OUT
    207 7 Syndicate's liabilities were £140,00 r^OWN m the big, bustling underwriting room of Lloyd's, where they will insure anything from a film star's legs to a mighty ocean liner, it became known that a syndicate had decided to stop business. I Such an event Is
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    EGG MYSTERY
    56 7 A hen has laid on egg 91ns. wide. 121ns. In circumference, j and weighing Bozs., Mrs. Margaret Gray claimed at Garrick Farm, Braco. Perthshire. Said Mr. T. E. Whittle, of the West of Scotland Agricultural College: "The heaviest I have seen weighed 3ozs. It might be somebody playing
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    Adults are shy
    29 7 Adults will have a conflrma- tion service of their own m the Heacham deanery of Norfolk because they seem shy of I being confirmed with children.
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    TV chef will NOT fry fish and chips
    411 7 THE name Philip Harben is distinctly unpopular m Grimsby. The TV chef was to get 126 for a 30-minute cookery demonstration m Grimsby Town Hall. He submitted a programme to be watched by 400 people of Britain's biggest fishing port. But it
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    Wives complain of bullying in homes —by women
    257 8 Wives complain of bullying in homes —by women HOUSEWIVES In Singapore Improvement Trust flats are angry with .some women housing inspectors, who. th(y say. try to bully them. A Kirn Keat Avenue housewife said an inspector went, into her house to And out if any nails-t had been driven into
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    Veteran skipper on last voyage
    209 8 Veteran skipper on last voyage VETERAN seaman Captain Cavendisa H o m or Commodore of the British India Company's fleet of .ships and Master of Santhia has left Singapore on his last voyage before retirement. Captain Hornor began his sea career as a cadet on the Pig ship Conway 44
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    $7 MILLION DRAINAGE
    104 8 JOHOKE BAHHU. Sat. SIX JobOfft west coast drainage schemes are to protect 226 square miles <>f land at an estimated cost of $7 million. The first itagl Ol the Sengganuif scheme protecting an area of 47 IQUire miles, completed m H>. r >2, has since been placed
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    FANNY, 3, WENT OUT FOR WALK-NOW SHE IS MISSING 16 SAYS
    145 8 HOOKED on to a staircase leading up the first floor of 682, Geylang Road, Singapore, is a child s tricycle. Inside a room two toys He on a table. They belong to a chubby three-year-old girl, Fanny Wee, who
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    REDS LECTURE PASSENGERS
    87 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— Four armed terrorists lectured the passengers of a bus, which they stopped at the 25th mile Pagoh-Lenga road m Johore yesterday. They took $30 from the conI rtuctor and allowed the bus to I go. One of the terrorists carried a Thompson submachine gun.
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    Three hair styles fight it out
    187 8 Three hair styles fight it out THREE of the latest hairstyles fight for supremacy among Singapore girls. They are the Italian. Roman and Mohican "cuts". According to pretty Miss Cecilia Henderson, a Colony style hair-dresser, the "Italian cut" is winning. But Mis Margaret Lim, another attractive hair-dresser, contends that the
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    MORE AND MORE I-CARDS LOST
    172 8 MORE AND MORE I-CARDS LOST IN the last four months 6.415 identity cards were lost. Mr. Cheng Kirn Whatt Commissioner for Registration, told the Free Press. This is 60 more than m the previous four months. Mr Cheng said that the losses were due mainly to carelessness. Although regulations stipulate
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    War widow's mission is U.S.-Asian friendship
    191 8 DID you walk along Princess Elizabeth Walk, opposite the Esplanade, last week? If you did, you might have been approached by a friendly American woman. Notebook m hand, she would have asked about your impressions of the United States and its people, your social
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    INDONESIA WOOS TOURISTS, BUT THERE IS NO RUSH
    198 8 INDONESIA WOOS TOURISTS, BUT THERE IS NO RUSH MALAYAN tourists are not taking advantage of Indonesia's open door policy announced m March. Indonesia eased visa and currency regulations. But there has been no rush to vi.sit Indonesia. Visas can now be obtained m two or three days from the Singapore
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    That Mussolini look is accidental
    101 9 Problem picture of the open air exhibition organised recently by the London County Council is this painting: "But Men Pri-iVr Darkness" by Leslie Wilson of Surrey. Leslie took a year to paint it. He prices it at £250. He says that the resemblance of the
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    MOTHER HELPS ACROBAT DAUGHTER IN COURT
    215 9 LOOKED LIKE SISTERS BUT REALLY.... T^HE judge looked at 20-year-old Monica O'Neill. A Then he looked at her mother. "Are you," he said, "really Miss O'Neill's mother? You look like sisters." Replied the mother, .35-year- 1 old Mrs. Bridget McEwan: "Monica was born when
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    FIREMEN SAVE TON HORSE AFTER TRACTOR FAILS
    132 9 FIREMEN toiled for three hours to save a farm horse which had sunk neckdeep into marshland at Bramford, Suffolk. The horse, Punch, strayed on to the marshes near his owner's farm— Dairy Farm. He weighed nearly a ton, and by the next morning,
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    Man who wouldn H obey
    133 9 Man who wouldn H obey RONALD FRY, 30-year-old man who refused to clean an officer's personal kit, was cautioned by Mr. D. W. Bates. Glamorganshire fire chief, "for refusing to obey a lawful order." Mr. John Homer, secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, .said: "The union is determined to press
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    Burglar fell 30 feet
    64 9 YOUTH, Hussein bin Mat^ rawi. was sentenced to 19 months' gaol m Singapore on Saturday. Hussein, who entered a flat In Dunearn Road, was .surprised by the tenant. Hussein fell 30 feet from a window and police found him on the ground below. Hussein had a
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    MINE OUTPUT DOUBLED
    50 9 KUALA LUMPUR, May 15.— Selangor's Hong Fatt (Sungei Besi) mine last year produced twice as much as it did the previous year, the general meeting was told. A total dividend of 40 per cent was declared for the year. The interim dividend was 30 j per cent.
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    Why blame Caroline ?
    120 9 Why blame Caroline Two-year-old Caroline Smitr locked herself m the bathroom of her home one night Her father pleaded with her to open the door. And as he spoke he could hear water rushing into the bath nearly boiling water, for Caroline had turned on the hot water tap. But
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    Trapped fox hypnotised by 2 women
    35 9 Trapped fox hypnotised by 2 women TWO women found a fox raiding a chicken run, cornered it and "hypnotised" it with a pockot torch and the "music* of a thimbled finger tapping > a metal washbowl.
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    HUSBAND'S IDEA OF CRUELTY
    226 9 A HUSBAND said his wife complained because he caused a draught by disturbing the sheets getting into bed. That, he alleged, was cruelty. And of the husband's allegation divorce judge Mr. Justice Barnard said at Birmingham: "How anyone could seriously and solemnly put that m a
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    WHEN DO YOU LEGALLY BECOMEACUS'
    345 9 WHEN does a person become a customer m the eyes of the law? Is it when he enters the shop? Or looks at the goods? Or hands over his money? 1 Three judges discussed these questions m the High Court when they considered the cases
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    Films Are The Big Red Bait
    481 10 Films Are The Big Red Bait Menace of Italy's Charlie Chaplin tlubs THE most effective Communist organization m Italy for training propagandists is made up of the little-known "Circoli Di Cinema", or movie clubs, where foregather the self-styled "cultural elite" of the would-be •'ltalian Soviet Republic." About 80 sucri clubs
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    12 10 Hotlywod star, Cameron Mitchell expands his chest for Bella Darvi to measure.
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    735 10 EXACTLY nine years rj after the Red Army's "liberation" of eastern Austria there are still 1,460 Austrian men and women ir Russian captivity. Only 560 are prisoners of war, all men. The remainder are civilians of both sexes kidnapped by the NKVD over the years of
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    Cheer up!
    41 10 A PROFESSOR of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge said the other day: "When an H-bomb is exploded, the explosion itself cannot E^ out of control. There is no possibility of the earth, the so a. or the air catching fire.
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    R.N.V.R. IS 50 YEARS OLD
    627 11  -  Lan Curtis QUEEN TO ATTEND REVIEW NEXT MONTH By rHE Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve the R.N.V.R.— was officially founded m 1903, but it really started thirty years before that and, of course, there were always volunteers m Britain's armed forces: they served with Drake and
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    On the Fringe of the Free World
    273 11  -  FRED MANOR Finland, home of rugged individualists By piNNISH politics are such that some of the more notorious Middle East politicians would, m comparison, shine as examples of pure civic virtue. Yet Finland is a land of a natural democracy that springs from
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    A Belle is caged
    61 12 jihulo. Utilc Irene French (left), one or the I oiirth-formers iii "The Bellei of St. TliniftßS", is JUWfwi m an awkward situation at Shepuei ton Studios. London, by hCff friend, Jfiiny Jones who ill visiting the studios. Jenny who was rttenUy gifea a rontract hv British
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    The Queen & the polio vaccine
    765 12  - The Queen the polio vaccine JAMES DOW A news item during the Royal Tour spotlighted a great medical detective story by BRITISH doctors rercntly discussed the important news that the Queen was Kiven an inoculation against polio during the Royal Tour of Australia. An Australian M P/l wife. Mrs Kun
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    Bridge Hand
    388 12 Both sides vulnerable North dealer The bidding Nortb i.isi South West 1 N T Pass Pas* 3N T Pas? 4N T All pass SOUTH shuddered a bit when North passed what he, South had hoped would be read as a Blackwood call for aces. East opened the queen
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      239 12 Daihf Crossword 1 I' I r* 1 r^^Hsflß^BflsT^^nsflsV^^Hßl pi B| BH HH flHf DslsV^ ll l^ CLUES ACROSS: 1 This garden makers'. i.ii (i Home direction her!) makes pie. (7i 7 a little wtth ;l change of direction. (5) n comfort for RoMn? (5) 8 It'l DO A question, luv.
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    Donald, Mitzi —new dance team?
    354 13 Donald, Mitzi new dance team? WHEN Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor paired off briefly for a specialty dance at the widely teeveed Academy awards presentation a few weeks ago, Hollywood suddenly got the notion that here wa* a potentially great new stepping team one that might even make fans forget
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    DATELINE, HOLLYWOOD
    186 13 THEY tried to get MICHAEL WILDING into a screeing room to view rushes of his big death scene In "The Egyptian"— but Mike re-acted as though he'd been poisoned all over again. "I've always had a horror of seeing myself on the .screen," he said. I've never looked
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    Leaded with talent
    42 13 Paramount Is following the Dolioy of loading top pieces with top stars. The lineup for "Angels Cooking" mphrev Bogart. Ray Mil'and, and Gig Young, with irene Dunne as the mother; daughter, Pat Crnwlry :ind •wv ihe marries, Bob Stack.
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    Spencer Tracy was fired... ASTAIRE-ROGERS OF TODAY
    358 13 Spencer Tracy was fired... ASTAIRE-ROGERS OF TODAY CPENCER TRACY, doing his first loan-out m 15 years, is happy to be back at the studio where he says he was once fired. "They fired me," grinned the whimsical Irishman. "Those were m the days when I was still drinking, and I
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    4I got drunk now and again9 he recalls
    72 13 4I got drunk now and again 9 he recalls "Some of the players gave the best performances of their lives, that night," he remarked with a smile. "Donna Reed tripped on her way off stage, Bill Holden was unable to say a few words and Audrey Hepburn was overwhelmed. "Now
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    Pakistan tourists have a 'Bradaman' (With cross bat)
    133 14 Pakistan tourists have a 'Bradaman' (With cross bat) tflMlr: Pakistan cricket I tourists are pulling the crowds m I upland They are a young team and their cricket is lively. One of the "veterans," 2.) year-old Maqsood Ahmed, who last year was a professional for Blythe, m Ili t Staffordshire
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      More action, less talk
      299 14 MR Strickland, who managed Singapore's team to the Asian Games, emphasised the need for more training and more facilities for our athletes. Mr. G. H. Kiat stressed the same points on his return three days earlier. If I recall correctly Strickland voiced the same views upon
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    LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMP KOed
    107 14 fITHE Empire lightweight A champion, Ivor Gormaine, of the West Indies, suffered a ninth round defeat on a technical knockout by American Negro, Carl Coates. at the Melbourne Stadium. The bout was programmed for 12 rounds. Germaine was a mere shadow of the boxer who. a few
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    Europeans v. Rest
    23 14 The three-day cricket match, Europeans v The Rest, will be played on the Singapore padang on June 5, 6, 7.
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    Coley Wallace did not impress
    57 14 V"EW YORK fighter Coley Wallace took a giant step towards a crack at the world's heavyweight boxing title last night by outpointing Newark's Bill Gilliam m a tenround bout. Although Wallace, took a split de. cision, he was by no means impresnive. Last September he
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    8 14 'One mun's meat as the saying goes, gent/e{
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    YOUNGEST OF THE FIGHTING SANDS
    199 14 RUSSELL Sands, the youngest of the famous Sands fighting family, won the New South Wales featherweight championship at Leichhardt, Sydney, when Ken Wenman was disqualified m the 12th round of their 15-round fight. i Wenman WU disqualified, after .several warnings, for persistent kidney punches. There
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    ENGLISH SOCCER NEEDS DICTATOR
    386 14  -  DESMOND HACKETT By JJNGLISH football will not be restored to the old J Golden Aft of world mastery until we name a soccer Dictator, a manager who is allowed to manage a complete boss man. And now m London, when the League team chiefs emble for
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    Favourite wins cup
    72 14 rE Italian five-year-old Oise won the 5,570 Milan Gold Cup over two miles two furlongs yesterday from two French challengers Farinello and Radio. Oise starting favourite beat Farinello by one length with Radio ten iengths further behind In third place. The race was run on very heavy
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    N.Z. WRESTLERS LEAVE FOR TOKYO
    57 14 New Zealand's amateur wrestlinn; team of four, accompanied by two officials, has left by air for Sydney on the first stage of their trip to Tokyo for the World Wrestling championships later this month. During the team's visit an invitation will l>e extended to a
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    FASTEST WAITER
    38 14 Robert Fribault, a 30-year-old Parisian, yesterday won the annual waiters' race along the Grands Boulevards, Paris Competitors each carried a bottle and two glasses on a tray and h.ui to finish without upsetting either 1 Reuter.
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    Empire Games to cost more
    47 14 pOST of staging the British Empire Games this summer has jumi>ed from original estimates to $7,518,000 Malayan. Finance chairman P. R. Wilgross caid $1,200,000 increase was caused by rising costs, entry ol countries not expected to compete and incidental unforeseen expenditures. A.P.
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    British coaches are world best
    276 14  -  NOEL JOSEPH By BRITAIN'S team who go to the next Olympic Games at Melbourne m 1956 will be the best she has ever out on track and field. "i But they will not win many gold medals. Perhaps not more I than two. That's one
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    BRAZIL WIN
    21 14 Rra/il J mi t yesterdi\ 1,i.,l Brciiicn 1 :;v Wrrder 4-1. liali Luae mvi c w.to j v Al'.l
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    ABOVE ALL WINS PHOTO FINISH
    110 15 picture. picture. I The Cinderella horse who beat a field of twelve on Saturday to pay 5172 for a win and $44 fora place. The name Ls "'Rh Dawn, the jockey Tait. who came to ride this outsider at the eleventh hour. See report on
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    Chance put Tait on High Dawn
    324 15 HOW THEY RAN Free Press Course Correspondent JOCKEY Jackie Tait landed a three-figure dividend winner on a chance mount at Bukit Timah on Saturday when he steered High Dawn home a head winner from Talkie II m an exciting finish m Race Seven. Tait,
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    Italian takes Grand Prix
    74 15 I, Ir 'I MUSSO m a Maserati 2000 W« won the 70-lap. 246- Grand Prize of Posilippo •'"urs. 23 minutes, 24 ;vouri.e Paolo Marzotto. led 111 his bi<r Ferrari until Mie r he was forced out by üble. I no foreign drivers. elghl M..:-natis. five Oordloto,
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    KINTA NET 5
    20 15 I F «rrer Park Wnt« Hangers "A' oeat J .'laniappan (2) Rama--I«UU Jabber scorttl tor *«<! Murukusamy for
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    VIRGULE WINS
    56 15 Mr. Francois Dupres Virpule won the French 1.000 guineas over one mile at Longchamp yesterday from Mr. Jean Couturies' Tahiti and the Aga Khan's Baghicheh. the 2,000 guineas with Mr. E. Ca.ssuto's San Giusto .second and Baron Geoffrey De Waldner's Damelot third. Ridden by Guy Lequcux. Virpule mm
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    INDIAN WIN 3-0
    28 15 In I SAFA Div. 3B Bfttcfa ai 1 Oeylang itadium jr«t«rd»y, Indian Brotherhood Soccerites beat Windi sor Rovers 3-0. I Marimuthu (2; and Sivadas icorad.
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    RICHARDS ON LANDAU
    84 15 SIR Gordon Richards. Britain's champion jockey, has decided to ride Queen Elizabeth's colt. Landau, m the Epsom Derby on June 2. Captain Charles Moore, the Queen's racing manager, announced this at Lingfield Park races. Sir Gordon was pleased with Landau's performance m Friday's Derby trial i takes
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    England lead in Davis Cup
    213 15 England lead in Davis Cup FRANCE, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark and India all won through to the third round of the Davis Cup (European Zone) yesterday. England and Italy are trading m their inn mni'li ltd matches. Winning the doubles at Eastbourne. Tony Mot tram and Geoff Paish gave England a
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    LEAGUE DRAW
    23 15 Wonderlads and Tamil Brotherhood Association drew \i i In their SAFA Div. 2 h'jijjue tie yesterday. Fast gallops at Bukit Timah
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    SUPERIORITY SHOWS FINE FORM FOR WEDNESDAY'S RACE
    496 16 SUPERIORITY SHOWS FINE FORM FOR WEDNESDAY'S RACE free Press Course Correspondent SI'PKRIOKITY. winner of the valuable Sultan's Gold Cup at Ipoh last season, galloped m taking style M the training track at Bukit Timah this morning when he reeled ofT If. m 37 2/5 with Pedometer (McCloud) for company. Superiority,
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    LEW HO AD BEATEN BY PATTY
    107 16 LEW HO AD BEATEN BY PATTY JjHAIfCE, reinforced by Budge Patty ol Los Angeles and Enrique Iforea > f Argentina, defeated Great Britain 13 4 yesterday m u*o annual threeday temii.s match. Patty, who livos m Paris part time, defeated Lewla Hoad 01 Australia 1 6, 6-3. B—6: yesterday and
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    Malayan H.C dissolved
    86 16 l \ELEGA TES from Singapore und various States m the Federation decided m Kuala Lumpur yesterday to dissolve the Malayan Hockey Council Pan-Malayan controlling body for the sport formed 10 1948. An official statement issued alter a meeting said the decision was unanimous." It was agreed at
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    McKean's farewell
    45 16 Bill McKean. former President of the Singapore Business Houses Football Association and a SAFA councillor, was en'ertained to a t irewell party by Mr. Aw Chen.: Chye on behalf of SAFA at tlu Southern Hotel hist night. His rival is ohen of France.
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    FED R.E. WIN
    26 16 ROYAI, feftOMTl (Federation) avenged last year's defeat when they trwroctd RE. Blnga])M!c by :in innings and 17 runs m their annual cricket fixture
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    Songkitrat named for Jimmy's title
    287 16 iimmy Carruthers' mana J last night that France'; land's Chamroen Songkitr for the world title alter th the champion's retirement. Thf* International Boxing Commtmton recently named Cohen as No. 1 contender. McGirr la.st week received an offer of ei2JOO for Carrutlicr.s to dtfend his title
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    Bath Engiaind teams lose to Yugoslaviu
    172 16 Bath Engiaind teams lose to Yugoslaviu YUGOSLAVIA*! national soccer team beat England 1-0 m Belgrade yesterday with a last minute goal that sent a crowd of 60,000 fanatic Yugoslav fans wild. Yugoslavia thus maintained her unbroken record against England, who fought off attack after attack by the faster, more aggressive
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    An Old Crock international
    99 16 AMERICANS and Britons ill meet m Edinburgh In September m an Old Crock Rally. Fi\e American cars BUUmfacl between 1906 and 1916 and fiw newer cars manufactured bf 1916 and 1930 will compete tgair 10 British cars made during th c same periods over an 850
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    Civilians and Services draw
    279 16 COMBINED Services and Singapore Civilians drew their annual two-day cricket match on the padang yesteri day. CIVILIANS— IST. INNS.: 194 [COMBINED SERVICES: IST INNS. I Dunn b Kirkham 97 i Thorns lbw Kirkham 21 Dent lbw Lull Singh 24 Perry run out 28 j Ford c
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