The Singapore Free Press, 11 December 1954

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya v, *****. Singapore, Sat.. Dec. 11, 1954. Price 15 Cts.
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  • 304 1 lather, forgive them for they know not what they do 4 MOTHER stood up m court at Winchester, Kngland, yesterday after her Boy Scout son was found guilty of murdering a 74-year-old woman and shouted: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do/
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  • 126 1 >lIE Soviet Foreign Minister i Mr. V. M. Molotov said yesterday that "Russia and Red China have such power that there Is no force m the world" rong enough to stop the h of Communism. If need be, the Soviet will .show its might and
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  • 120 1 A PROMPT start was after rk all possible this morning the M.C.C.-Victoria match continued m Melbourne Rain, which had left the r -'ld .saturated at an early /:<)1 <r. i-ave wav to sunny con(iiuons and the ground recovered well. Lan Johnson gave Loxton > m d
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  • 33 1 Singapore Rubber Mart opened on a quietly steady this morning with first December shipment, at centa a lb.. < 8 of a cent abov r d a y. g c i Ose
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  • 29 1 Special planes from Rangoon relay brought 48 Bunno.sc merchants and four Burmese Government officials to Bangkok to Siam'.s 12-day Constitution Fair u.'hieh nnennd un Tuesday.- A.P.
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  • 94 1 L^I.M star Ava Gardner likes cheongsums so much she yen of them from Kong. And she hopes to go shop- In Singapore today to 1 "me more. Ava wore a chcongsum at a ■BSt2? f MICe last nignt but emitted she was aavinj; trgu- ble wearing
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  • 71 1 AN important Siamese government official said jresterdav that Britain's recomiition of Communist China ha.s made it harder to combat Red terrorists along the G Malayan border. Udum Bunyaprasob, Governor of the Southern Provinces, said that recognition of Peking had resulted m the relatively free travel of Chln
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  • 241 1 Studen ts protest IJXDERURADrATESof University of Malaya went on strike today. They called it a "day of academic non-co-operation.' 1 When the bell struck at 9 a.m. for the lectures to begin, professors faced empty benches m the lecture rooms. There were only three students on
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  • 86 1 Nehru may call at Singapore rpHK Indian Premier, Mr. 1 Nehru, will spend four days m Jakarta to attend the Colombo powers Prime Minister's conference there, official sources said m New Delhi. Mr. Nehru will leave New Delhi by plan" on Dec. 2\\ and is due m Jakarta three days
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  • 61 1 VfOST of the people from Geylang Serai, who took shelter m Yock Eng School when their homes were flooded on Wednesday, have returned home. The Social Welfare Department is still helping those at St. Andrew's School, from Potong Pasir and Bedok farmers housed at the Bedok
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  • 43 1 FjiAZALUL REHMAN, former Pakistani commerce Minister, was expelled yesterday from Karachi by the Central Government under the Security Act. He was told to leave for East Pakistan and stay there until further orders. He left for Jacca at once. A.P.
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  • 29 1 The Royal Navy yesterday handed to the Singapore police tight Carey floats Mile rafts* to help evacuate flood victims. Each raft can hold 18 I people.
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    • 87 1 Pelandok Specials HUM are Pelandoks special selections for Ipoh races today: ncui nap Sporter. IK) I BIK Robbie Burns, Heremai. fIOU Sporter, Barnfleld, lleremai. Suggested bets on a total outlay of $25; Nap. two wins and place ($10): Double, two win and place ($10): Treble, one win BEST BETS TUBFASBEB:
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  • 204 2 LMil-ATII and Tunisian authorities threatened open war yesterday on feUaffaj (outlaws) who refuse to lay down their arms and surrender by midnight, it was officially announced. More than 2,500 oi the Insurgent "National Army of Liberation" have given up In the
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  • 273 2 U.N. flays Red China gaoling of U.S. airmen ]{V a 4')- 5 vote, with .six abstentions, the UN General Assembly yesterday condemned Red, China for gaoling 11 American fliers M .spies. Tlie Assembly urged the Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammar.skjold. to seek their relea.se and report back by Dec 31. Only
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  • 36 2 The chief of the administrative department m the party headquarters of East Ge r many 'a Communist aligned Liberal Democrat Party, Walter Grande, has fled to West Berlin and asked for political asylum. A.P.
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  • 131 2 DEFENCE experts m Britain are disturbed at the thought that if war was to break out, the Royal Air Force would be unprepared. This is reflected m newspaper heading which are now asking "Where are the RAF fighters?" Deliveries of new jet lighten are months
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  • 23 2 U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen returned by air yesterday to his past m Moscow after talks with President Eisenhower A.P.
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  • 36 2 B-47/s of the U.S. 306 th Bomber WTing will make a non-stop (light luxt month to Morocco from Tampa, Florida, for 45 days oi training The planes will be refuelled In night.- A. P.
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  • 27 2 India and Red China yesterday signed an agreement for the supply of 2,200 tons of Indian rice for use m Chinese occupied Tibet. A. P.
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  • 25 2 Consulting engineers and architects have become Canada '45 top money earners. They have replaced lawyers. Physicians and surgeons kept second place- A. P.
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  • 176 2 i niembi n Brit] iter have Bh n jhai Ince U the ship'd captain rday Poxley, com- the 2,000-ton Admiral Hardy, arrived m Kong on Wedn< [rom Kobe. Japan three of his offlo 1. aft< 1 fiLSii.K to take his .ship back U) Shanghai because
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  • 129 2 Mrs. Aiken, wife of the chairman of the Board of Directors, Straits Times uroup, yesterday presented to Straits Times staff photographer, Sam Kai Faye, the certificate of award for his picture of the Constellation crash at Kail. in- m March. The picture won the first prize m
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  • 45 2 A LEADING New York cotton merchant yesterday complained of the increase m Japanese cotton imports into the I U.S. He protested again I i posed State Department tariff reductions which, he would bring disaster to thp ns' i textile industry. A.P.
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  • 86 3 'BLUEBEARD GRANNY'S' HUSBAND POISONED [i al examiner said m ham, Alabama, yestie second nusNannie Doss, Mr. dud of Thi.s coradmisMon by Bluebeard grand- be killed lour of Douses. n. Brooks, said that a nit of arsenic" was [am Ison'a body. -hat reports on two exhumed two- t Lee Higgins, t(
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    46 3 pic 'iirp. Singapore's Inder-Se- iry, Mr. J. I) Hicham, j nlm» nnder umbrella. alks al mi; the bund with v1 C r.m. a LeflsU- < ouncillor (m rain «>n tlicir tour of the 1(l^ rescttlemenf an«;i sterday. With them are "»'»"s of the Rural Board. Free Press
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  • 49 3 ton tanker, British arrived at SunderDurham, yesterday after d 10.160 miles from Australia. The tow longest m history— ship damaged her 200 miles off Cape ■South West AustraIfit and was towed Her owners, dethan send rt to be fitted 'b should be nd Reuter
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  • 148 3 IV HAT cau.ses the common cold should be known .soon, said Professor Sven Gard, Swedish viru.s expert, m Stockholm la.st night at the Nobel Prize presentation. He added that discoveries by thus years winner's for medicine had brought a cure for polio
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  • 49 3 portable radios to keep m touch with a looko ir bold robbers took M 548.000 from I bunk. 1 la: r() iy. The holdup men opened a rhai v "i the Bank of America and cut all cabl< "iciuaing telephi ac and burglar alarms. A.P.
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  • 82 3 Jap girl dies as gun goes off in row A24-YEAR-OLD Japane c i-ui was killed hv the dental discharge <>' an American guard's pistol at Camp Weir yesterday, the U.S. Army ild. The rm v.TTit oil when the guard i al X- nneth Lind- had an arßument With pi. Dennis
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  • 212 3 Water, snow, landslides block U.K. roads thousands of people returned to ti. x and mud-covered houses y. the worst Hoods m Dublin's memory. City official warned of the danger of polluted drinking wat< Falling waters uncovered the flrsl known fatality. «ue workers found the body ol
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  • 100 3 THE REDS VETO AVALANCHE MERCY PLANES Rt -I yesterday ret* plans for lustrian mercy aircraft to rescue victims oi winter a\.i! anches saying the air res- cuv plan irai "incnlv device to permil Aastrian military Activity." American, British and French members of the allied COancil for Austria argued with the
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  • 9 3 Th i day rd n Br >- A.P.
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  • 35 3 The Canadian, Squadron Leader A R. lAndyi MacKenzie, who was recently released from a prison m Red China. returned to Vancouver by air yesterday. He was erected hv his wife, Joyce. A. P.
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  • 115 3 FRANK St. Claire, 47. a key state witness m a murder charge against David Fred Hagler, Jr.. of Fort Worth. Texas, .shot himself to death last night In a garage at his home m Irving. Hauler is charged with murc'eiinn an unknown man
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  • 15 3 'i Duki a >f Windsor left Parl U the A. P.
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  • 247 4 Opinion THE FLOOD VICTIMS lIUNDREDS of hard-. working citizens have spent the last two nights m misery, their homes ruined, their personal little treasures lost, their immediate livelihood gone. Hundreds of others, shopkeepers and motorists among them, face bills for losses and repairs. And the Hood bill could tfo on
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  • 8 4 SATURDAY. D«r. 11, 1954.
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  • 735 4  -  SIMON MAYNAUI) says Sir Winston's latest revelation only hnnv* once again that the only thing the Russians respect is STRENGTH VLTH^N the smoke oJ controversy has abated, it may be possible t< discern the true significance of Sir Winston Churchill's revelations at Woodford about his telegram
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  • 147 4 Letters from Free Press readers OUR long sighted City Fathers, if I remember rightly, said a couple of months ago that there shall bo "light" for the people living m Frankel Estate. Until this moment, there is no sign of any activity by the Electrical
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  • 79 4 I^HE story about leaking roof.s in S.T.C. buses is /ully endorsed by me. While returning from the office recently at about 5 p.m. m S.T.C. bus No. 118 Route 15, it was raining heavily and the roof of this bus was leaking badly. The D&ttengera had to seek
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  • 94 4 WITH regard to your remarks m your leader "Wrong Way Traffic" concerning our drivers it is my view, recently reinforced by a visit to the United Kingdom. that their standard generally bears favourably with that of drivers elsewhere, and m some cases I would go so far as
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  • 100 4 Mr. Johannes Gerhordus Strijdom 8.A., LL.B., is the Afrikaner Nationalist leader who has been choosen to succeed Dr. Daniel Malan as Prime Minister of South Africa. Mr. Strijdom is <>1 years of ane and the fifth premier of the I nion. In his first speech after taking
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    • 57 4 gjAMDEN RECORDS by RCA Never before, such low prices ■or Records with these great features: Acclaimed performances of popular and classical music by world famous artists. Unsurpassed quality of reproduction, equal to records costing dollars more. Manufactured to highest standards on famous Vinylitc brand plastic. Sole Atfrnts Edward Eu Co.,
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  • 236 5 S 'pore dens desperate for opium iRCOTICS bureaus m seven Asian -ountries are helping the Singapore toms to beat the efforts by smugglers replenish the fast diminishing supply opium In the Colony's black market. No sooner does a suspected ship port than the bureau
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  • 125 5 CHILDREN WILL MODEL CLOTHES AT FAIR SOME of the 18 children who will model attractive clothes sewn by exT.B. patients at SATA's Rehabilitation Centre at a big: food and fun fair at Raffles Institution today. The fair, open all day from 10.30 a.m., h.as been organised by the Family Planning
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  • 106 5 QPI.N-AIR rell rnoetliiKJ will promi)tp better citifenihip, .said the Ifalayan Christian Oouncil. m wklnf the Singapore City Council to allow thr use oi the Eaplanade on Saturday night*. The City Council MM aLso asked 10 reconsjdrr its rejection of the Salvation Army's nppllrntinn for these meeting!
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  • 19 5 The Singapore Police Band will play at Katonp Park from 530 p.m. tu 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 103 5 GLAMOROUS SWIMSUITsI < Creufed to do beautiful t^, things for j^irl I figure. V| Whatever your particular figure type, tlierc is ;i ftkmorouf CAT A UNA swimsuit m;ide just for you- >* There is also n wonderful ranUe of SHORTS fir JEANS for leisure time wear, care- IB fully cut
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 735 5 Ml Kill OF ENGLAND G.30 8 am Sunday School. 2.30 p.m. Service in >ndrew'l Cathedral: 7 8 Church of The Holy Family i Malay Mr. Lim Boon Hoe. mmunlOO, 9.30 a.m (Katong): Mass <Eng.) 5.30 a.m. Pulo Samboe: 11 a.m. Service H)3<) a.m. Matin. 1 6.30 am 7 30 am
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    • 207 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis NOT MUCH f WE'RE ONIYATEWI V POOR MANDRAKE. THINKS S \y^ ~-^^4&^ LIGHT DOWN HUNDAED FEET 'THINGS' ARE DOWN THERE. WH£N \Z^^^^FZ& JM _JM UHOfQMAJfu vr— IT'LL BE PITCH MUO AND SEA WORMS, HE'LL f fc^ WjLtJ^^^dM fy yf^ iw Ar"K n.^ recover
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    • 672 6 I YOUR I LUCKY I STAR ||()RV ttid.iv >(»u I,, l strong. Icarlcai ium a ,,j a chara< t< i which finches t job. once it is bejjun. determination is houmi bring you to an ,-arly mm for you figure out vkCK \<>u E an- going and how u» Ret
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  • Hound the Worid Market Prices
    • 216 7 LONDON. Dec Id. Previous Today iTBBFR No. 1 ESS cJJ. European 23 ~< buyers 24 buyers ports Dec 24 sellers 24 316 sellers r« HMKR No 1 ss cJLt European 23 buyers 23 T buyers „,,,(s Jan 24 sellers 24 116 sellers itrBBCB No l RSS Spot
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    • 109 7 NEW YORK. I*,. 1.. PreTloos Today TIN StraiU spot and nearby 90.25 nom. 90.00 nom. J IN futures Dec 89.75 bid 89.50 bid 90.25 asked 90.00 asked Jan. 89 75 bid 89.50 bid 90.10 asked 90.00 asked Feb. 89.60 bid 89.37 bid 90.10 asked 90.00 asked TON!:
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    • 27 7 NEW YORK. Dec. 10. Previous Today SI industrials 391.53 390 08 Kailroads 135.20 135.87 Domestic Bonds ***** 101.38 M sio<ks < oniposi'te AVeraVes 143.83 143.87
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    • 119 7 o!MU Philippines ci.f. UK/North. I iiniptiin delivered weight per but ton Dec. Jan. I OPRA, Philippines f.o.b. Manila. ir.i-tt-d weight, per long ton COPEA Mraits c.i.f. UK/North. 1 iropcfti delivered weight per ion Dec. /.lan. Jan. F>b IT OIL, rrude. Straits ci.f. 'opcan Continental ports m
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    • 81 7 pot Malabar was sold at 44 ?>er lb. December shipment at nd January. February and (m equal monthly propor■l 42 cents per lb. ex-dock. tn are at present asking 44';s per lb. for spot Malabar, 44 for afloats, 43 for December shipment, 42 4 for January. 42 for
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  • 146 7 !K Singapore Aftercare Astation Ls planning to rehabilitation centre discharged prisoners they get work. 1 is looking tor a piece of close to town. The chairman of the asso>n, Colonel F W. Harvey of tho Salvation Army, said u!° m c i ecut^e committee
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  • 219 7 jii; l 10 gri rMiigapore ijoveriimriii u> go uu« **v with the controversial Land Acquisition Bill will be made by Mr. M. P. D. Nair m the Legislative Council on Tuesday. Mr. Nair will ask the Council to say that the Government
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  • 94 7 KUAI.A irMl'i R Sa! SAYINCi that the rnaK^trate had i bad mistake, Mr. Justice wllaOO m the HiKh Court here yosLerday quashed a nino- month prison lentenct on an Indian Who W li.^ed of extortion. i Said the judK»' Tbli Ls a peculiar case. The
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  • 36 7 KUALA LUMFUR, Sat Mr w F Grieve, who wum District Officer, Kuaiitan. is to replace Mr. G. W. Rothery as Petalin| Jaya Administrator In thc N«w Year Mr Rothery b> K<>u»tf on long lt-ave.
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  • 63 7 ipoh. Bat. Two Chinese and a Sikh, who oleaded guilty to carrying foodstuff m a food restricted area, near TanJong Rambutan, were fined $200 each m the Sessions Court yesterday. Chong Song 37 and Poon Ah Yew 22 were arrested on Dec. 4 by a patrol
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  • 79 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MR. JUSTICE Wilson, m the Kuala Lumpur High Court, yesterday reduced to one day a six-month prison term on Arul for criminal intimidadation against S. Nadarajan. He warned Arul: "If you do this again, you will not be so lucky next
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  • 60 7 BATU PAH AT, Sat. Johore Information Services will hold a civic luncheon at the Chine.se Chamber of Commerce, Batu Pahat tomorrow. The guest speaker will be the State Secretary, Dato Seth bin Mohamed Said At night, the Information Services will hold an exhibition ot prize
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  • 42 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A British officer wa.s wounded m the shoulder when a patrol of the Royal Welch Fusiliers attacked a ramp m the Bahan district of Negrl Sembilan ay. The five terrorists m the camp cap<
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  • 37 7 Assistant Superintendent of Police. Mr E. H. Sheare.s, of the reports section of the Singapore Traflic Police, has been admitted to ihe General Hospital with a liver ailment He k> reported to be improving
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • 460 8 Producer warns east: Speak up rrifK nuthn-ak of :im.itrur stagi- acting among th<British aristocracy, which \v.i s though! to have cjiccl out with the end of "The FtOg f n has flared up again m London. A new group set its* Jf up m
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  • 27 8 A mammoth 'j tv k estimated to be 300,000 years old haa been found m a gravel pit at King's Dyke, mar Peterborough, Northants.
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  • 65 8 Antiques, non-fictton book.s and work* of art may now bt Imported into Britain from ountry m the world The Board ol Trade announced lifting ol restrictions i ntly. .Said one antique dealer "We might now be able to get back .some of the rare pieces
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  • 162 8 UURLY Albert O Hagan, 56-year-old ex -company sergeant major, bought a three-storeyed house with his nga and gratuity And when he m< ye I m he boomed m hi.s best Pjnack.s(;uare voice to the tenants: "I am going to be the bass here." And
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  • 95 8 Tico important pigeons and a famous dog are featured m this Page 8 animal corner Pretty Beryl Bur combe show secretary at the Neic Horticultural Hall, London holds a blue checker cock owned by the Queen and a white hen entered by Ma Tito of Yugoslavia
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  • 143 8 NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Sarah Macdonald, a bride of four months, said she WU being sued for breach of promise by her former fiance. She was giving evidence for her husband, William. 27. He told Inverness Sheriff Court that on the night before the wedding he
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  • 237 8 WOULD YOU DO ALL THIS FOR YOUR CAT? CINCE eight-year-old Whisky the cat became Ul five years ago hl< owner- have spent £200 of their saving* trying to cure him. Buf that is not the half of It, Thirty-year-old Mrs Patricia Swatton, wife of a Bristol aeroplane engineer, told this
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  • 79 8 WyHAT happens when black- haired mice floating 17 miles above the earth m a balloon are bombarded by cosmic particles? Not surprisingly, at least one turned partly "white. The hazards oi being a spaeemouse are dLscu&sed m the British Medical Journal. Turtles and fruit-flies have also been
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  • 217 9 Specialist warns of lung cancer danger II you MIST smoke, cut your cigarrttef Sf jtlMHf do\wi to a minimum. To the point ot privation" m fart, said a llarle> -street cancer specialist. \nd before yoium people begin the habit." DC warned, "they should weigh »P the
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  • 315 9 MRS. MARTHA SMITH is 82 and she loves a cigarette. Food? Sleep? They don't worry Mrs. Smith. She has just gone two days without either. And all because of her cigarettes. Now. every Friday, Mrs. Smith draws her pension and every Friday, she smokes 50
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  • 103 9 ...with husband A MAN twice lost a stone a half m weight while els living with her husaid a fudge. She re--1 d her weight when she Till HUSBAND was "generdi agreeable and gave his thoroughly bad time." nil. WIFE was nervous and 1 '.< She went
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  • 36 9 Mr David Bingham. retin d Wi.sbcch < Lincolnshire i business man. who died m Nov< mber, left £5 <Ms 44» m his will for the purchase of a silk umbrella for hN undertaker
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  • 169 9 PAPER HAT GETS NEW LOOK rpllAT old symbol of 1 eelebrmtian, the pa- per hat. finds here a E fashionable B€W Inter- E E pretation on the head of E Hi year old Margaret llardisty who wore the flitterlni creation at the z Blue and White Ball m Manchester. Royal
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  • 45 9 NETTLED BY NETBALL A WOMEN* net ball Ham has been refused Permission to play a I f n vn f j a -v afternoon match i .ni H lown park at Ila v »'>t Hampshire. Netball X l he Par ks Committee.' Is rather nois>
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  • 49 9 X iv hol< a PP«*ar«d m the road at Ventnor. Isle of ruhhil l Kaster > the council have tried to till it with "»'e and COnerete. But the hole is still 100 ft deep and c*Pm s have been asked to solve the mystery.
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  • 278 9 A-experts told: Build plane to fly six months HARWELL scientists have been told to design an atomic nower unit capable of keeping a fully-armed aircraft m the air for six months without refuelling. The aircraft will be equivalent m size to the Brabazon, built since the war but nowscrapped. It
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  • 135 9 Teen-age spiv is afraid of love Mi >] N thi I have ol Qgui well, but thai quired i I hem. Dr Pet S p |fa I ■•d<m. jihti the i. i md h< Sheph( i d v, h and Bnxlon remand prison, told to the Howard iea i r
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  • 332 9 WHY NOT TRY JAZZ AS A SIDELINE, JUDGE ASKS PIANIST r PHE reason why Ivan Quinnc-11 is unable to maintain his wife is because he is studying to be a concert pianist and has no income. He does, it wa.s said, n ceive 10s. a week pocket-money from his lather
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  • 46 9 A mouse recently gnawed Its way through electricity cables causing v transport cafe at Bilborough, near York, to catch hre. The mouse wa found with singed whiskers on the fire engine when it returned to the tation and wa.s set fn
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  • 33 9 LiO-actlve chlorine wa.s ashed by van 180 miles from 1 Harwell Atomic Centre to a I.eeds (Yorkshire i hospital to' .save the life of a middle-aged married woman The treatliiiClil UUj
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  • 11 10 HERE'S JOLLY OLD SANTA TO COLOUR \»rar (Mastrr Miss) Addrns A*e
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  • 94 10 IF YOU WANT TO WIN SOME POCKET MONEY BOYS and Girls! There is still time for you to win some pocket money for buying those last-minute Christmas presents. Colour this picture with paints, crayons or chalks. The method used together with your age, will he taken into consideration. There are
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  • 305 10 RUPERT'S RIVER RESCUE I STARTS TODAY 1 Rupert Kai been reading one of his Chr:s:rms presents, a book full of stories .ibout Boy Scouts who do a good turn to somebody every day. That's a jo'ly f |nc idea." he murmurs. I haven lone anyone a eood Him today I
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  • 830 10  - The oysters see red KATHLEEN HICKLEY SATURDAY PAGE FOB CHILDREN Farther ad\e,,i, ln ol Mansoor, Fatimah and Hit- Ibgic J ir told by M.insoor and I itmi.ih find a magic jar whi< h turns them into mer-people. King Neptune MCWM them of stealing the jar and Mjri that unless the?
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 121 10 /2a£y>n&&cCo a FEEDRITE The WONDER BABY FEEDER KEEPS flfeiL PREVENTS MILK j|&ii>i^ GRIPE WARM jif^nji right thro j^^y S the feed- =|tiis= wm His these advantages over an ordinary feeding bottl 1 Thcrm.il HEAT-RETAININC PADS ire contained m FEEDRITE case, which ensure that the milk which baby drinks is at
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 225 10 Last week's winners rpHE winneis of last week's colour- 1 m« contest are: Mis.s Lav Boon Hua 13 5, Crowhurst Drive. Singapore 19. Miss Kathleen I.eoru? (11%), 64,, High Btreei Singapore. Ifaater R. Marwad <14>, 110-H.j Sophia Road, Singapore 9. Master Andrew Shepherd (s>. 13, Ewart Park. Singapore 10. A
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  • 397 11 LEONARD MOSLEY charts the chances of a girl at the crossroads rOR a burnished, high candle-power blonde named Hildegarde Neff, Christmas this year is ng to be crisis-time. On two rides of the Atlan- lie most powerful people m the world of entertainnt will
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  • 109 11 ONTTbe long mm before Mar JSJ?" noUce th <' fami >J ol Dew director ">ov,,. credit titles Dan Dmiley. dancing .star disclosed 1(1 hw just slimed I With i film com direct a leriei vi musicals. Is Dan to retire his limber limbs from
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  • 135 11 ELAINE STEWART has become internationally famous, even though but two years auo she was 'the best known unknown oil Broadway."' From the a^e of rive, when she delighted an audience of relatives and neighbours m a school p;<t*eant, Elaine decided to be an actress.
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  • 163 11 His farm was just what they wanted Ahout .so mile From Hollywood we many small Farms. The crops are beans, asparagus artichokes broccoli and cauliflower Thej ■■-■ill them peclalty crops One farmer, Joe m tudlno, had bad summer Hi bean crop was ruined due to heat wave and a biiKht.
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  • 172 12 People may speak through their ears OEOPLE may some day be able to speak, as j well as hear, through their oars, according to the scientists at the Ohio State University Speech and Hearing Clinic. Th<'. c .sciontisUs report that everyone produces earomit' -h m the normal cour c of
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  • 608 12 There s no 'HEAT' in your blood says THE SINCAPORE DOCTOR /\NK often meets people who complain to the d'X'tor that there is .something wrong with their blood. The complaint may be pimples Of some other skin eruptions or even cold hands. In the iir.st instance they believe their blood
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  • 159 12 Once again influenza menaces large areas of Europe and the United States. The bad summer has increased the fear of a large scale epidemic. But today, thanks to the work Of doctors and scientists of many countries, collaborating within the framework of the World Health Organization
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  • 99 12 IN a country crazy about competitions, an annual Parrot Championship is to be organised m Spain with its headquarters m Barcelona. The birds will be judged on their conversational abilities and (no doubt becau.se Spain is one of the few countries where conversation Ls still practised
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  • 37 12 picture. This is UK red Mood cell of a chicken with "flu virus" greutly enlarged. Around the non-transparent nucleus can cle.ti 1\ he seen the small woolly spots which are the virus. Popper
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    • 325 12 It I J 4 HjVM^i^ JS a 3 t 111 R[^BjH^flH B^W HHS |Mr!^B*L^ P^^J^s^BHl By^Ps^W^^l I"^ w< f 1> 1 I 1 ■tftrTl I o*m I J [20 I x-O I ■SBK^flll^P B^Ry junfll 9^~i?' ■Kp BBSs B^Bh *^tJ I ACROSS: 6 One's antecedents have it <4> llt is,
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  • 473 13 S-T-R-E-C-H out in the sun advises Joseph Edmundson MISS ZIPP is busy again on the beach and today she is keeping FIT FUN way with a S-T-R-E-T-C-H routine. Why don't you join her witli the rest of the family? First, two easy jumping ;ses. Do three little -kip jumps, and
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  • 84 13 Dental diseasei are the most common and wide .spread 01 all the ailments that afflict mankind, according to an announcement from WM.O.'u CteneraJ H i«v M over, m Spite of the advance of science and the hug< each year on public health, dental diseases arc still
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  • 318 13 A test of your play of the You are South, playing '"imp contract West leads spades. •id should be played from hand m each of' the folituaUon*! (a) (d) *Q2 4 X 2 NORTH NORTH o o *Wti SOUTH 4AIO 5 4 Q 5 *J24 J 5 3
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    • 68 13 v Exclusive Photo Papers j| (Made by Tellko-Switzerland) for your 0 [»m(iiits m a wide range of special surfaces now obtainable from JACKS PHOTO COMPANY 157, North Bridfce Road. Singapore 6. Phone: ***** V 4 it [RADIO WEEEY INCORPORATING RADIO MALAYA NEWS j\LL TIN: BEST tN BMOADCASTiiSG fff/o future \tts4ts
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  • 616 14  - ALL PLAY MAKES LEW A DULL BOY MAESTRO 1 4i Hi m tf l p <Piit 4 By ii u\s happened at last. Lrwis Hoad, husky Sv-jrear-oid Australian laun tennis player, competing In th«» Victorian championships m Melbourne, has broken the vow of silence with these words: "I'm just tired
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  • 23 14 M Ghost M picture of wi-11-i KiuiHii local rufbj player. Who js he? surr «t »0., i oj colwmn B)
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  • 22 14 The ftfUi poX var ah m. tournamenl vrill held at Kuala Uimpur during, the I ffhlneai Neti Yeai holiday* from
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  • 93 14 CIR ARTHUR PORRITT, chair- man of the British Empire aid Commonwealth Games Federation, .said at a dinner In London last nipht that requests from small countries to stage the games were Increasing. "We have had a request from Uganda, to mention only one, he said. •'And
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  • 126 14 JET BOAT BLUEBIRD ON TRIALS T\ONAI.I) Malcolm Campbell left London yUfday for Ullswa^r and Lake Windeinere with his newest Bluebird, an all-metal craft he bttter«i will travel faster than 200 m.p.h. and return the world speed bout rflCOrd tO Britain. The son of the late great land and water king.
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  • 39 14 At m hi Ml; and Yuji Takayama ol Japan yesterday gained the doubles quarter-final of the Philippine Tennii Association tournamenl vwth i 83. 6-1 oi er cvmni m Qome and Joi 8 Barcelona i>t the Philippines. aj j
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  • 25 14 [nmr Jorgemen, women's slalom ski champion "t Norway, la In N»-w York Bhe plans to <<>mpcte iv s>kl i touinumeuU m Uie Ui>.
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  • 27 14 Four Hnti.sh cycltfta BUn Brlttain. lieslie Gill. Bernard PIHTJ .iiui Ton} Hoar will compete In the tour ot Euypl race uu Jau. 12— if.
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  • 454 14 Clubs are helping F.A. now ENGLISH football ifl on tho way back to the top, J and the secret of the revival is the new "country-first" attitude of the Football League clubs. Two meetings between the club managers, Mr.* Harold Sheptall, the I .A. selection committee chairman, :i\u\ England team
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  • 226 14 Injured manager back in action back in action WEST Bromwich Albion manager Vie Buckinkham out of football through injuries received m a car crash :i month ago, is back m action. Yesterday, this young man. who dislikes paying big fees, made a rirm five-figure offer for C Chester United left-winger
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  • 188 14 "^OW Wales lui\c chosen an Englushman for their .second Rugby trial, at Lla nelly, today. He ll Gordon Morris, son of a Gloucester forward. Morris lives on the English side of the Wye. at Tut.shill. His Welsh qualifications are that he classes the river to
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  • 277 14 TODAY'S UK SOCCER FIXTURES ENGI IMI LI \<.l i DIV. l. knml v hatltun •tut iii^v v ManrhesUi (j < rtlitT V SurnJi i land < helsea V Aston \i!U I t«»" v Sheffield j I «-i( ester v \V«lw> Minchsstif v Tottenham Mew«Mlli V Portsmouth Prestos v lluddrrstirid Sheffield
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  • 10 14 SOLUTION: H. C. PiO*>* S. C. C"/
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  • 443 15  - TABLE TENNIS STARS WILL REMEMBER THE DATO TAN HONG POH By He made this meet possible THE Indian team for the third Asian Table Tennis Championships arrived this morning from The Federation team, four of whom arrived t night, is expected to be complete for the opening ceremony at 4
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  • 180 15 'I DON'T WANT DAVIS CUP MEN'-Kromer JMCK Kramer, the American professional lawn tennli player and promoter, said terday that the U ftdlng Aus tralian and American amateur were not good t-rn ni^ m for placet m his prof, ilotial group. Kramer said m radio teh phone Interview from Los AnKelei
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  • 45 15 i IBST SESSION 5.30 p.m. Ba .-da Tup: Vietnam v. SingaIndla v. Philippines; IndonrKorea. K.unala Kamanujan Cup: FederaX i SECOND SESSION 8.30 p.m. H.-oda Cup: Vietnam v. Ma lava; poree v. Korea; India v. IndoPhilippines v. Malaya h null Ramanujan Cud: Malaya pore.
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  • 122 15 Bannister names 4 'successors' niw.LR BANNISTER, the v rsi man to bnak the fourmile who announced ement on Thursday .d yesterday he saw no why the mile record not be lowered. The English athlete told a conference m London there was no medical or I reason why the hould not
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  • 62 15 A i Hoods m South ■he Singapore Police which was to have met Poll) c m a series of Kuala Lumpur this week- to travel. to have met m boxing Iminton and hockey, but have been postponed •ate polo competition igall. Cup. which was to XI,
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  • 106 15 Free Press Boxing Krporter ALFIE SANDS, No. 1 contender for tne middleweight championship oj Australia, who ?#ai scheduled to fight Ray Rico of Manila at Singapore' Happy World Stadium on December 26, cannot fulfill his engagement. Heavy air bookings from Sydney to Singapore make it impossible
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  • 35 15 The final of the Singapore V.M C.A. four-ball billiardtournament for the Tay Tuan Sian^ challenpe cup between Mr. Yeo Yoon Yam and Mr. Gan Kee Tian will be played at 8.15 p.m. tonight.
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  • 272 15 T*HE most successful thoroughbred bloodstock auction m British history ended at Park Paddocks, Newmarket last night with a final total of 7%9 guineas for 920 lots sold, producing an average of 1.399 guineas. This easily eclipsed the previous record of 882,173 guineas made m 1046
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  • 55 15 O EORGE Tanißuchi. an apprentice Jockey with less than nine months' experience piloted five more winners yesterday at Golden Gate Fields. (California), to increase his victory string to 12 m three days. The American-born Japanese barely missed making it seven straight, twice finishing second I
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  • 128 15 1I 111 v, l».il t\v o rli >-,»•- thc htirs«*s ruiinint; m toil s lp<»h r.t. (I) ho was the lir^t HUM to '•JfJit Jor I -ouiN for his world hr.ivx ufi^ht boxing title? (3> Tlie first Mffal tf five Test matches m Fn^land bftwrrn Fn^Jand and Australia
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  • 26 15 Mr Ronald And. MCretAT] of 'he Miiryli-bone Cri< k« t Clttb, ll dllf In Singapore Umorroi on mis way to Au.striilia Iran l-ondon.
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  • 78 15 pHE Queen's horse. Landau, has been sold to an Australian. Agriculture Ministry i nounred this yesterday m London. I'ne buyer, who paid 2M 51 80,000 for the three- yi»arold rolt, was not idtnlified. Landau was bred by the national stud and huh >153 .1,600 this season. Ku<
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  • 21 15 feaf-muta Italian ined an n aver American Billy Pea. bantamweight fight at la night. lbs, completely outoutpcnrued Peacock. A.P.
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  • 129 15 TtREVOR BAILEY will probJ- ably op^n with Len Hutton m the second Test beginning next Thursday. Although his Innings for the M.C.C. against Victoria yesterday was by no means stylish he beld up the bowling mx\ for 165 minutas defied all efforts to him out. When
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  • 92 15 M.C.C. Ist inns Hut ton Ibw I.oxton 41 Bailey c Maddoiks b I.oxlon GO May c M.tddorks b Johnston 4 Graveney c Power b Johnston IS Cow-drey not out H SimpMin v and b Hill 3 Evans r Madden ks b Hill 1 1 Wunilr b Tower 16 Tys<»n
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  • 153 16 3 safe bets today (F.P. (oursc Correspondent) ttPORTER (Rare 1), Ajit k (Eae« 4) and Robbie Burns (Kace S) should make a sate treble at 1 1 m h today. All three arc In tip top form and will be suited by a v track. The
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  • 236 16 given as a good long-shot. Yutoi II has a formidable task with 9.04 on a hravy track, but this Savani Reldinii won so convincingly over the nine last week with 9 00 that I have confidence he will b» equal to the task of conceding weight
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  • 277 16 FORGET ME HOT (In Race 2) 4. (iular may again be hi.s closest rival. Rubber Parker with Boujiounup, was freely tipped on the course this morning. Punctuality Is fancied by hi.s connections. Samroig and Carpenter are doubtful starters, and Robbie Burns can be backed with confidence. Thi.s speedy
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  • 22 16 ctirling Moil, Britain's motor racing ace has signo cd a one-year contract to drive for the German comj)uny Mercedes BChZ.
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    • 403 16 CARD RACE 1—2.15: CL. 2. DIV. 2 o\F. STK. 1 -09 .lesselton 4y Elliott 9.00 2 512 Astot 4v D. Jones 9.00 3 786 Fujoymmt II 4y Sawyer 8.12 4 537 Percussion 4y Tait 8.12 5 -65 Chrysanthemum 3y J. Jones 8.11 6 016 (iiand Leader 6y Prmklin 8.10 7
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    • 331 16 smith 8.12 RUE 7—5.20: CL. 4 3 157 Little Andy 5y Elliott 8.11 n v 4 122 ChantiH.M-r 3y J.Jones 8.11 'J r -5 161 Robbie Burns 4y J Jg "j« *S Bougoure 810 2 429 (.razie 3y Donnelly 8 12 6 391 Robin Ho«d ly 3 800 Ali Babfl
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