The Singapore Free Press, 5 January 1956
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Title Section19 1956-01-05 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore, Thursday, January 5, 1956. Price 15 Cts.19 words
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Article, Illustration158 1956-01-05 1 Princess is again in best dressed women list PRINCESS MARGARET and the Duchess of Windsor tied for third place m a list of the world's best -dressed women of 1955, issued yesterday by the New York Dress Institute's couture group. This is the third time Princess Margaret has figured mA.P.; Reuter - 158 words
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Article217 1956-01-05 1 FRENCH CHAOS CONTINUES I^RANCE, feverishly seeking political stability, r is considering ei.^ht middle-of-the-road politicians as candidates for the premiership. It seems likely that a coalition government will be formed to overcome the Impasse caused by chaotic elec- tion results. Eleven parties have painedReuter - 217 words
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Article12 1956-01-05 1 Thick fog clamped down on London last night. A.P.A.P. - 12 words
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Article52 1956-01-05 1 Six more Singapore Chini ese-owned bus companies are expected to apply for i licences to extend their services to Finlayson Green today. The owners' association will later discuss with the City Council ways and means of putting more buses on main routes not covered by52 words
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Article18 1956-01-05 1 More than 1,000 people haw been affected by a i Jaundice epidemic In Delhi j U.P.U.P. - 18 words
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Article12 1956-01-05 1 Greek general elections will be held on Feb. 19.— UP.U.P. - 12 words
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51 1956-01-05 1 3 MASKED MEN TIE UP FAMILY, STEAL $5,360 Three masked Chinese, one with a pistol and an- j other with a dagger, broke into a pintable stall m Changi Road. Singapore. Utfl night and robbed its owner of $5,360. The men tied up the family while the stall VU being51 words
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Article113 1956-01-05 1 BIG WAR DAMAGE PROBE ON I^EDERATION police are F investigating allegations concerning the war damage commission. The probe started two weeks ago after police heard allegations of conspiracy between war damage claimants and some employees of the commission. Money the police are trying to trace runs into hundreds of thousands113 words
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Article81 1956-01-05 1 Air Marshal Sir Dermot Boyle, new British Chief of Air Staff, arrived m Nicosia yesterday from Britain. piloting a Canberra jet bomber on a month's tour of R.A.F. bases m the Middle East and Fax Ea*t. Sir Dermot is due m Singapore on Monday, andReuter - 81 words
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Article318 1956-01-05 1 OPPOSITION benches will take on a new look when the Singapore Legislative Assembly holds its first session of the year on February 8. One member is likely to cross over from the Opposition benches to the (Government side. Tile Progressives and Democrats will assume a318 words
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Article15 1956-01-05 1 The coronation of Nepalese King Machendra will be hfld on May 2. U.P.U.P. - 15 words
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90 1956-01-05 1 LAWYER SUES RITA AND DICK FOR $25,200 ACTRESS Rita Hayworth I and her fourth divorced husband, crooner Dick Haymes, are being sued for $25,200 m Hollywood by Mr. Robert Eaton, a lawyer. He claims they ewe him that amount m fees. Mr. Eaton said he performed services within the lastReuter - 90 words
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Article78 1956-01-05 1 Identity card slip-up NEW regulations to continue the system of identity cards in Singapore will come into force tomorrow. The Ordinance became effective on October 21 last year. A Government spokesman said the regulations should have been made at the same time as the ordinance came into force, but they78 words
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Article33 1956-01-05 1 Lady Black, wife of th« Governor of Singapore, will name a new vessel of the Singapore division of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, H. M. S. Punglima on January 14.33 words
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Article27 1956-01-05 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened steadily this morning with first grade, January shipment, at $1.26-1 a lb., 1' 8 cents above yester-, day's closing price.27 words
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Article162 1956-01-05 1 MR. HUGH GAITSKELL, the Labour Party's new leader, said yesterday that he hoped to see the process of bringing non-self-governing Commonwealth countries into the position of self-government carried considerably forward in his lifetime. He told a Commonwealth Correspondents Association lunch in London that common beliefReuter - 162 words
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Advertisement16 1956-01-05 1 MAKE YOUR AMAH UADDY GIVE HERA mORPHVRICHfIRDS AUTOMATIC CONTROL IRON Sole Agent* SANDILANDS BUTTERY CO. LTD.16 words
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Article109 1956-01-05 2 ANEW Cambodian Government took office yesterday headed by Mr. Oun Cheang Sun, former Speaker of the National Assembly. The new. government is composed entirely of members of the Popular Socialist Community, the Party founded by the former premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, but none of109 words
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Article34 1956-01-05 2 The Soviet Union yesterday offered technical and economic assistance to Liberia m the first open Communist move to establish a foothold m Africa since the Egyptian arms deal. U.P.U.P. - 34 words
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Article34 1956-01-05 2 The first plenary minis- 1 terial meeting yesterday m. Geneva between Dutch and Indonesian delegations failed to find any solution to the deadlock over future economic relations between the two countries. ReuterReuter - 34 words
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Article21 1956-01-05 2 Tne Council of Ministers of the South East Asian Treaty Organisation will meet m Karachi on March 6- U.P.U.P. - 21 words
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Article235 1956-01-05 2 BRITISH ENVOYS TELL OF SECRET EFFORTS SECRET British efforts to organise peace talks between Israel and the Arab nations were reported bogged down last night. British, Arab and Israeli informants said no important progress had been made since the efforts began last November. The British sourcesA.P. - 235 words
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Article, Illustration47 1956-01-05 2 Twenty year -old Diana Voon, this year's Happy Cabaret Queen by popular vote of the patrons, admires a "fruit and flower basket" sent her m congratulation by last vrar's queen. Diana gave a dinner to friends at the Tai Thong Restaurant m the Happy World last niffht.47 words
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Article, Illustration40 1956-01-05 2 picture. TENGKU MAHMUD, son of the Regent of Jonore, and his English bride-to-be, 21-year-old Josephine Trevorrow, who will be married tonight at the Istana Bukit Stulang. Johore Bahru. Josephine, has taken the name of Che Kalsom binte Abdullah Free PressFree Press - 40 words
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Article78 1956-01-05 2 TEXAS millionaire evangelist Howard Butt says Americans drink and curse to escape boredom. "Why else is there so much drinking: of alcohol? Why else do Americans curse." Butt asked last night at a religious revival meeting m Boston. "They do it because ordinary speech78 words
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Article103 1956-01-05 2 RED BOSSES PLEASED MR. NEHRU DREMIER Nehru has re- iterated that there is only one answer to the Goa question that Portuguese rule there must end and Goa must become free. Referring to suggestion made by "some foreign friends" concerning statements made In India and Burma by the touring Soviet103 words
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Article147 1956-01-05 2 AN UNKNOWN assailant entered Nicosia Government hospital last night and fired shots at a woman patient recovering in one of the wards from gunshot wounds she recently received in Famagusta, according to an official statement. Hospital sources said the masked gunman ran swiftly up theReuter; U.P. - 147 words
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Article42 1956-01-05 2 The Singapore Telephone Board Employees' Union met Board officials again today to discuss annual increment rates to about 90 clerical and drawing office staff. The Board has offered an annual increase of $8. The union Is asking for $10.42 words
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Article17 1956-01-05 2 Lady Churchill (70 next month), has entered a London hospital for an examination. A. P.A.P. - 17 words
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Article249 1956-01-05 2 A COLORADO businessman yesterday published a weird account of how he took a young mother "through the barrier of time itself" by hypnosis I and learned the details of I another life she had lived m Ireland more than 100 years ago. "The SearchU.P. - 249 words
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Article239 1956-01-05 3 Queen names Bishop of Durham THE Queen has approved the nomination of the 51-year-uld Bishop of Durham, the Right Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey, to be Archbishop of Yorknumber two post in the Church of England hierarchy. He succeeds Dr. Cyril Garbett who died aged 80 at the week-end.Reuter - 239 words
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Article37 1956-01-05 3 The Austrian Post Office m Vienna is planning to send telegrams by a photostat system similar to that used for sending pictures to enable telegrams m any language to be transmitted without error.- ReuterReuter - 37 words
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Article23 1956-01-05 3 The West German fishing fleet m 1955 caught about 750.000 tons of fish nearly 100.000 tons more than m 1954.- ReuterReuter - 23 words
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Article, Illustration39 1956-01-05 3 picture. Singapore's Minister of Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas joins the Burmese Consul, I' Pc Than, m drinking a toast to Burma at the ''Independence Day" cocktail party held at the Sea View Hotel last night. Free PressFree Press - 39 words
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222 1956-01-05 3 HE RISKED DEA TH TO SNATCH GUN FROM WIFE SLAYER rpENSE, well-armed police kept m the background m the early hours yesterday while a young: surgeon entered the home of a one-armed house painter m Roanoke, Virginia, and relieved him Of a mm with which he was threatening his children.A.P. - 222 words
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Article, Illustration66 1956-01-05 3 FILM star Grace Kelly might soon announce her engagement to Prince Rainier, 32-year-old ruler of Monaco, according to the New York Journal American, yesterday The Prince, whose tiny state will come under French rule if he dies without an heir, is now in the rReuter - 66 words
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Article26 1956-01-05 3 Paris doctors said tne condition of 82-year-old Ifbtinguett, the dancer with "the world's most beautiful legs," has suddenly worsened. She had a stroke. U.P.U.P. - 26 words
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Article44 1956-01-05 3 Some 45 per cent of West Germans, asked by a public opinion poll, consider Dr. Adenauer, the West German Chancellor who Ls 80 today, the most wonderful man alive." Dr. Albert Schweitzer, i humanist and philosopher, ll ranked second. ReuterReuter - 44 words
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Article23 1956-01-05 3 A prolonged drought m central Peru threatens one of its richest regions with damage to crops and a power shortage. A.P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article53 1956-01-05 3 DRUGS- BY PARACHUTE NARCOTICS from "the Southern Hemisphere' are being parachuted into the United States from aircraft, the warden <> f teville Prison, Illinois, stated yesterday. Warden Joseph R;> alleged an effective smuggling ring which is dropping pack f drugs In remote places m the U.S., where people are waitinflReuter - 53 words
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163 1956-01-05 3 Laundry with Royal arms of Duke: 'its most undignified' TIN: Labour tabloid Daily Mirror commented yesterday that the Royal Family's time-honoured endorsements of various commercial concern! are "undignified and nonsensical. The attack was inspired by publication of a number of royal warrants authorising various concerns to use the phrase "byU.P. - 163 words
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170 1956-01-05 3 'JOHN TOLD BRITAIN OF ROCKET BASE' AN unnamed Bonn citizen ha.s filed .suit alleging World War II treason against former West German intelligence chief Otto John. The complaint alleged that John tipped off the British that the V-l and V-2 rockets that were used to bombard London were being madeA.P. - 170 words
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100 1956-01-05 3 He offered to sell 3 men for research A FARMER tried to sell three men "for experimental purposes" to the East African Virus Research Institute at Entebbe, it was disclosed at Kampala, Uganda, yesterday. He appeared m court on charges of "selling persons as slaves." An African laboratory as- jU.P. - 100 words
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Article, Illustration115 1956-01-05 3 TWO excited young Mala- yans, 18-year-old Tengku A. J. bin Tengku Omar and 16-year-old Ng Wung Khong left Singapore by air this morning to represent Malaya at a meeting m Melbourne of Junior Red Cross delegates from 11 nations. They will spend a week m115 words
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The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 1956. Opinion
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Article121 1956-01-05 4 rE action of the Singapore Government m banning all further importation of gaming machines and of spare parts for them is an overdue step m the right direction. The ban will halt the spread of the corrupting influence of gaming, particularly among our youth. But further action is121 words
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Article64 1956-01-05 4 ARGUMENTS against the temporary taking over of che city routes by the Chinese bus services have not prevailed. As indeed they should not. The public have borne the inconveniences of the S.T.C. employees' strike with remarkable patience. But any further delay m allowing the restricted services the Chinese64 words
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Article410 1956-01-05 4 A LIBRARY that embraces every language of the world, not only m books but every other form of publication, is tucked m the shadow of the 38-story secretariat building of the United Nations. It is the United Nations Headquarters Library. Housed m a six-story building410 words
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Article, Illustration716 1956-01-05 4 Lt.-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks describes the likely effect of the new set-up of Britain s Reserve Forces IT IS now possible to discern In broad outline the role of Britain's reserve forces m the future. What the British Government has really done is to divide the Territorial716 words
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Advertisement21 1956-01-05 4 A HANDSOME GIFT I m the 8 HISTORY OF time measurement| [IrOLEX G.C.DeSILVA&BROS "Jewellers" 3, RAFFLES PLACE Singapore- 1 Tel: *****21 words
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Advertisement49 1956-01-05 4 I HOrAXy RECORDING 1 4 method of ready j/mXm\ With models to suit a!? requirements Rotadcx could make your stock control easier and dieapec to maintain. 1 GEO. WEIIRY CO. (M) LTD. I I UNDERWOOD I BUSINESS MACHINES DEPARTMENT 9 DALMEIDA STREET. SINCAPORC. BRANCHES AT KUALA LUMPUR ANO PENANC49 words
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160 1956-01-05 5 BOOKIES PLAN THEIR OWN STOCK MARKET ANEW H.Q. of betting is being fitted out m London. As a result, racecourse bookmakers may become no more than puppets at the end of a telephone wire. The third floor of a big office overlooking Piccadilly Circus is being cleared for action on160 words
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Article, Illustration58 1956-01-05 5 18 couples in S 'pore mass wedding nicture. Eighteen Chinese couples were united at a mas> wedding held at the Nanyang Khek community guild m Singapore. In picture above are seen nine of the couples surrounded by relatives and friends. Below are two of the brides. Miss Ho Vat LinFree Press - 58 words
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Article101 1956-01-05 5 Almost half of Britain's farmers are now making net incomes of over £1.000 a yea r according to the Report on Farm Incomes 1953--54. just published. Last year only 48 farms m every 1.000 were run at a loss, a drop of 24 p< r thousand101 words
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Article, Illustration159 1956-01-05 5 BECAUSE mud on cars may spread a potato pest m the United States, the American Government has made a new law that all cars shipped from Britain and driven to a port for embarkation must be cleaned under a steam-pressure process. Examination of cars belonging159 words
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335 1956-01-05 5 A 16-YEAR-OLD girl before Leicester Juvenile Court had an American Eagle tattooed on her right leg. She had left home after a family quarrel and had gone to London, where for five months she worked as a night club hostess. And it was335 words
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82 1956-01-05 5 British girls' chances are three to two *TIIIF husband seekers m A Britain can take heart. For every two unmarried women between 20 and 34 there are about three men. Says the Registrar-Gen-eral's Review of England and Wales for 1952, published a few days ago: "For females, there is certainly82 words
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Article42 1956-01-05 5 The baton used at the first performance of "Ruddigore" at the Savoy Theatre on January 22, 1887. was used during the recent recording of the fifth programme m the 8.8.C. series "Th e Gilbert and Sullivan Story".42 words
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Advertisement103 1956-01-05 5 Birthday and Wedding Gifts in Sterling Silver, E.P.N.S. Ware, Crystal Ware High Class Watches. LANKA JEWELLERS, (THE HOUSE FOR CEYLON GEMS) 20, BATTERY ROAD, S'PORE-1. PHONE ***** '<■ v^4*^V B M I I 1 £^ml YV VVi5£^^^^^^ oA V I A>mVCBVV#&.*' JN^P vv Vd^^^SBSv^^HK VE^^^atal^^BHaB^nwM! <vC>^ v9996(&9%^w HBSH^HMMHMHHB^*^^ v. '5v^^2^J53SJ5'103 words
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Miscellaneous100 1956-01-05 6 -VIV^M" 1 HHBHHH iiiVXimAKE by Lee Falk and Phil l_^^u^]\«gw)t^k HilSSy(^S lllisrjAI IlisrjA til WHY A /THE ANSWER'S AT THE HIT 'EM THEY HAVE TO 60TTO WKE. A vMI |/«y, THERE// f^L. 'J5 1 S NO URANIUM ROCKSy' j V V f 'fc/^ \^V-Jli' Tf TAHZAX i»? Edtfar Hire Burroui»li«100 words
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Miscellaneous678 1956-01-05 6 im V 4 A /TlJ^ I *\~bJ2>7 M- r>ORN today, your genius for leader- D s nip. both m the held of ideas and action, is one of the gifts from the stars. You are one Ol those who could be said to have inspiration as well as the ability678 words
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Article212 1956-01-05 7 LONDON. Jan. Previous Today I RUBBER No. 1 RSS cli. 3614 buyers 36^ buyers European Ports January 351' geuers 36>* sellers I RUBBER No. 1 ESS ciJ. 3(J', buyers 36 buyers European Ports February 35 < s sellers 36 S, sellers I RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot212 words
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Article103 1956-01-05 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 4. Today Previous TIN Straits spot and nearby 109.50 nom. 109.25 nom. TIN futures January 107 25 bid 107 00 bid 108 00 asked 107.65 asked February 104.75 bid 105.00 bid 106.25 asked 105 75 asked March 103.75 bid 104.00 bid 105.50 asked 104.75103 words
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Article47 1956-01-05 7 I .spot 36, awaiting release 3') 1 afloats 35 to 34.... Jan. 33. Sarawak spot and awaiting rcleaw 32. afloat-s HH, Above prices quoted Jan. 31. Lampong spot 36, fcwmitlng relea.s<> 35' z afloats 35 to 34' 2 Jhu 33. in U.S. cents per Ib.47 words
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Article36 1956-01-05 7 \F\V YORK Jan 4 okr. Jan. 4. Today Today 30 Industrials 485.78 484.00 20 Railroads 162.21 160.91 40 Domestic Bonds 98.13 98.23 |S I tililies 63.73 63.52 (i\ Stocks Composite Average 171.70 170.8636 words
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Article88 1956-01-05 7 Jan. 4. Previous Today COPRA Philippines c.ii. U.K./ North Kuropean delivered might per Ion* ton Jan.,' Feb. $n7 jj,,^ COPRA Philippines f.o.b. Manila 1IU av in bulk per ton Unquote d Unquoted COPRA Straits c.i.f. I K/ North £G6 nom £66 buyers European delivered weight p<r88 words
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Article293 1956-01-05 7 Railway's 6,000 fares in revolt SIX thousand angry American business men have opened guerilla warfare against their local railway. It has been getting them late to work in New York almost every day last year and, much worse, home to the suburbs even later. It all began last summer when293 words
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339 1956-01-05 7 The convict who made 5,000 chairs to keep baby wins freedom < A MUCH convicted burglar has moved S A Paris judges with the extraordinary < story of how he worked day and night < while m jail for his little son whom h«- -> had never even seen. <339 words
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121 1956-01-05 7 Anita to wed her five-day boy friend DRESS-DESIGNER Anif\ Futerman. sloe eyed and 22. boarded a planp at; London Airport to fly 5.000' miles to Brazil. She will marry a man she has known only five days. She took with her an organza wedding dress sh« designed herself. On the121 words
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Article43 1956-01-05 7 Two million worms they have been offered by two Aberdeen men to American fishing bait dealers who recently appealed to' the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce to help get supplies. The firm has asked the two men to send on "sample" worms.43 words
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209 1956-01-05 7 TIME was when children were seen and not heard. But that was before American parents adopted the psychological approach m bringing up their families. America's children have had so much to say m the home this year that a new trend is now209 words
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Article311 1956-01-05 7 THE boss of a chain cf cinemas in Britain haa offered to give them away. "It is not commercially practicable to run them," he told Dartford magistrates. The chain is owned by Wardona Cinemas iSwanscom.be). The company's managing director Mr. Oliver Ward, of Abbey311 words
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Article48 1956-01-05 7 JKMJRTEEN VIAIt-OLD .line Dotchin kicked whit the 1 though! was a stone in :i wood near llevhim. Northumberland—and solved a '^-year-old nnst.rv She kicked a skull— believed bj police to »><-■ that oi Mr-old Vhss Evelyn Maas, who vunislud from lui home ii':ar llcvhum m WSk48 words
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Advertisement6 1956-01-05 7 SINGAPORE BAGGAGE SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY LIMITED.!6 words
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Article, Illustration1436 1956-01-05 8 C.D.T. BAKER- CARR - C.D.T. BAKER-CARR Ten jolly sailormen pushed the 80-ton Logan Rock off its precarious pinnacle by said the Admiralty I THE WORLD'S I I STRANGEST STORIES NOT very far from Land's End, where the "big toe" of Penza nee permanently stubs into the Atlantic Ocean, is one of1,436 words
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Article218 1956-01-05 8 HOW happy are tin G.I. brides th< days'? The answi r Is according to statistics by the R^d Ci and Ennlish Sp- a Union in New York very happy indeed. So much .^o thai all but a few score Ol 150,000 brides Who arrived in218 words
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Article, Illustration141 1956-01-05 9 Arlene shivers for her ermine A RLENE D AIIL, lovely H lV red-head star of E American films, sat up m bed m a London hospital and longed for C her favourite white ermine jacket, locked up at London Airport. Customs officials im--2 pounded it when it was flown m141 words
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307 1956-01-05 9 THE dining-room at Mrs. Margaret Tatham's council house was gay with paper-chains and a Christmas tree twinkled with fairy lights. Seated at the table was Mrs. Tatham with her seven-week-old baoy Christine; her husband Ronald, and their other children Donald, who307 words
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256 1956-01-05 9 He gives up his lilies to foil thieves MR. Kenneth Sanderson has dug up three bulbs from his garden and sent them to Oxford University for safe keeping. They were striped madonna lily bulbs, probably amon£ the last few still existing, and antiquary. Mr. Sanderson believes that people are trying256 words
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471 1956-01-05 9 EDEN WARNS HIS MINISTERS: CHECK ON SPEECHES SEQUEL TO REVERSALS OF GOVERNMENT DECISIONS QJIR ANTHONY EDEN has sent out a secret directive telling all Ministers to consult the Cabinet before making public statements on policy. This follows recent cases In which decisions already announced have had to be reversed. Ministers471 words
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Article170 1956-01-05 9 MAJOR Gazimierz ZuchoWtel and his 17-year-old daughter Sophie met at London Airport for the first time since she was m her cot m war-torn Poland. On his forehead s'j-year-old Major Zuchowicz wore a circle of sticky paix-r m case they did not recognise each170 words
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Article, Illustration104 1956-01-05 9 I. HIIIIIIMIIIIIHIUMIIIIIIIIIHIIIMIHIIIII'IMIIIIIIIIIIIII Lady Duncannon, (left) chairman of the London Ball Committee, discusses some of the features of the ball which will take place on January 16 at the Dorchester Hotel in aid of the funds of the National Association and IiOiulon I'nion of Mixed Clubs and Girls' Clubs. She is104 words
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Advertisement23 1956-01-05 9 M£OF^ 6577 STORAGE LTD. P* 173 CECIL STREET SINGAPORE W I'm v. p 1 VfPWZ,i^- jJB SOLE AGENTS: HAC.EMEYCR TRADING CO., (M) LTD.23 words
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Article, Illustration388 1956-01-05 10 WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES Three young Frenchwomen, champion horse rider Michele D'Orgeix, actress France Demand and aestheticist Janine Delbert, have left Paris to tour Africa. They will cover a distance of 12,500 miles visiting Nigeria, Sudan, Tchad and Oubangui and of course, the Sahara. Popper picture shows, from left, France,388 words
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Article291 1956-01-05 12 ADIB ANDREWES - ADIB ANDREWES \'A dead man |j is no good > to anyone 9 m Bv I EGYPT'S most 1 J famous hangI; man has decided F the world should abolish capital punishment. 2 Sergeant Abdullah Sidan reached this con- elusion only after he I had executedA.P. - 291 words
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Article236 1956-01-05 12 T»HE giant Avro Vulcan jet bomber one of Britain's new V-bombers has had its face lifted. It is m super-priority production for the R.A.F. and has been flying, as the Vulcan and m prototype, for six years. It was the first bomber to have delta wings. Now236 words
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Article, Illustration418 1956-01-05 12 Royalty's year of ordeal IN TIME OF STRESS, CONTINUED DIGNITY BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT rrHE past year has not been an easy one for Britain's Royal Family. The glare of publicity that focused on Princess Margaret's poignant problem brought into sharp relief the stresses and demands to which the Royal418 words
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597 1956-01-05 12 'FAMILY COURTS' TRY TO STOP DIVORCES By a Special Correspondent A LTHOUGH it is now something of an old joke to describe divorce as one of America's greatest institutions, there are still plenty of people (foreigners, of course) who think that a happy American marriage is the exception to a597 words
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357 1956-01-05 13 LANCE KEYWORTH - Russian cars are capturing this market LANCE KEYWORTH says UNMISTAK ABLY during these past months oncefamiliar Western cars have been disappearing from the streets of Helsinki, and, indeed, from the whole of Finland. They have been driven off the roads by high pressure politics and economics or, in other words,357 words
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Article, Illustration42 1956-01-05 13 picture. They tall it a "dale Bird' and it certainly l<x>k> like something a storm has blown up "Gale Bird is trying Ita irlngi bi leading from .1 chimney pot during jehearj>ol vi Uic new Loiuloa mttfiCftl "Libtcu iu the Wind.' PopperPopper - 42 words
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Article, Illustration31 1956-01-05 13 picture Girls at HMS Dauntless, the WRNS entry training establishment at Bur^h field, near Reading. Berkshire, gather round his runabout for a that with Chaplain H S. Fry of Oxford ReuterReuter - 31 words
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Article516 1956-01-05 13 Jose Torres - HABITS, NOT CARS are BLAMED HERE Jose Torres by "TRADITIONAL habits of Madrid's people, rather than the number of cars, are giving a headache to the man charged with keeping traffic moving. Lt.-Col. Joaquin Gallego Montero, new chief of Madrid's traffic police, says there are only 25.000 cars m theA.P. - 516 words
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Article111 1956-01-05 13 LOWER Austria, until a few nmnths ago a part of the Russian Zone of Austria, Is planning to build a "Co-Existence University" on the 10.000 Bite ol the DoellerShelm training ground which has been In use for the past ten years for Red Army manoeim Thus, for the111 words
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Article, Illustration1646 1956-01-05 14 JAMES L. HODSON - The man who made things happen JAMES L. HODSON by ic An anticipation of events A gift for being in the right place? There was certainly something strange about the new reporter. JAMES LANSDALE HODSON has spent 40 years writing for and about newspapers. For five years he was news1,646 words
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Advertisement14 1956-01-05 14 DID the story "RIM RATION' by Valentine I > vail actually happen? The answer is:—\14 words
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Article, Illustration576 1956-01-05 15 'Ladylike' where it shows— but where it doesn't... well! M^^**^^^^^^^^^^B^M^^HHHBBlHHB^B BBH^HBBBH^^B^H^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Sales figures m 'The Undies Game' show a big switch to calendar art styles, says JOY MATTHEWS ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦4 '•I)EMURE on top... dynamite underh" was what the woman said m effect She had been explaining to me that m allReuter; Zoltan Glass - 576 words
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Article94 1956-01-05 15 AN authoritative galefl research organisation interviewed (>< women In Britain— hall of them married half sinfle, ages from is to Js— and put th< 1 qii«^tion: i><> you considt i transparent underdothts nnladyllke?' Answers: tfes— No Don't know— 5. 111 women said that the last M-t94 words
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Article, Illustration701 1956-01-05 16 LIFE ON 4 CENTS A DAY! Following up a Catholic outcry againts Convent conditions m Spain, Free Press correspondent JOHN CULMER discovers some of the hardships of- IN convents all over Spain there are hundreds of nuns who are, it appears hungry and ill because the religious orders to whichA.P. - 701 words
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Article, Illustration73 1956-01-05 16 THE presentation of the Nobel prizes by King Gustav of Sweden, took place recently m the Stockholm Town Hall. This Topper picture shows the five happy prize- winners after the presentation. Left to right. Professor Vincent de Vigneaud (Chemistry) of America, Mr. P. Knsch (USA) who shared the Physics priie73 words
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Article177 1956-01-05 16 It DOES seem so rosy GROUP of Ame- rican business leaders have recorded their predictions of what life will be like m the United States m 1975. Their prophecies were sealed m a "time capsule" and buried under the cornerstone of an office building under construction m Elizabeth, New Jersey.177 words
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Article, Illustration445 1956-01-05 16 Both iMn vulnerable Souih dealer I be bidding: Sooth Vest North E ul 1N T. P..s 3NT All p.» H ACCORDING to the 4-3-2-1 point count method, a total of 26 points m the combined hands will usually provide a Rood play for game at no-trump or a445 words
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Miscellaneous242 1956-01-05 16 CLUES ACROSS 7 These are setitcalats (ID 1 Fowls from an Indian city? Industrially source of water? (6. 5) (S) 8 Cover me a new way (8) 12 Rays of a Grecian influence? 9On leaving the gravity (5) man! (4) 14 Ripens a little In our time 10 Every housing242 words
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Article, Illustration334 1956-01-05 17 DAVID LEWIN - DAVID LEWIN \By SIR Laurence Olivier has changed Shakespeare to provide his film of "Richard III" with a dramatic and unexpected love ne. The scene between Olivier and Claire Bloom is one of the most remarkable ever shot. I predict illinium iiminiiniii hilllllllC]334 words
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506 1956-01-05 17 Why busy Rex looks forward to Saturday |)EX HARRISON slumps so deep into un armchair his head la below his knees. Off duty his hair is thin. Behind horn-rims as big as hoops, his white, Teased face looks unexpectedly like an old pantaloon clown. Every now and then he flashes506 words
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467 1956-01-05 17 IT'S SO EXCITING— having a drink in this bar... EWERY night is a memorable night at the jewel-studded bar of Rome's elegant Excelsior Hotel, where the big names gather. They say all roads lead to Rome. Well, for the star-dusted, the rich-as-Midas or the celebrities born to fame, all roads467 words
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Article, Illustration20 1956-01-05 18 Tabori beats Chataway md Hewson in the mile and all three are inside four minutes.20 words
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Article447 1956-01-05 18 JOHN DAVIS - JOHN DAVIS The answer to British soccer's missing millions" By LIGHT is now being thrown on the gloomy subject of soccer's missing millions the dwindling army of spectators without whose support clubs could not carry on. Whether because of the counter attraction of television or the declineReuter - 447 words
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108 1956-01-05 18 HORACE Ashenfelter, who beat a favoured Russian m the 1952 Olympic 3.000--metre steeplechase at Helsinki, said m New York yesterday he probably ictll 7ntss the 1956 Games m Melbourne because he can't spare the time away from his family and his joo. It wouldU.P. - 108 words
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747 1956-01-05 18 PAT COLLINS - No progress last year it was. just 'marking time' PAT COLLINS A REVIEW OF BRITISH SPORT IN 1955 i TjHE MARCH OF TIME? SPORTING 1955 ON THE HOME FRONT WILL MOSTLY BE REMEMBERED AS A YEAR OF MARKING TIME. With other nations surging ahead, that means Britain has fallen behind747 words
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Article58 1956-01-05 18 II UGH STEWART ("USA sained an unexpected fiveset victory over former Wimbhdon champion, Jaroslav Drobny (Egypt), in the international lawn tennLs tournament In Pan yesterday. Stewart won 6-3, 11-13. 9-11. 7-5, 6-3 to reach the semi-final. Defending charrf>ion Budce Patty (U.S.A.) beat Jordan Ulrich (Denmark iReuter - 58 words
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Article, Illustration52 1956-01-05 18 photo. WOLVERHAMPTON captai n and centre-half Billy YYri ght and his goalkeeper Sims, look back m dismay as another Wolves defender makes an unsuccessful effort to stop Arsenal outside-left Tiddv's eaualiser for the Lome team m their Div. 1 mutch at Highbury on Dec.Reuter - 52 words
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Article, Illustration363 1956-01-05 19 GORDON PIRIE - Cordon Pine: Why I attacked Fleet St. on television UNREPENTANT BUT GORDON PIRIE -by- [AM unrepentant. I know I upset Fleet-street sports writers with my remarks on TV the other night. I wanted to make a protest and made it. I am sorry for one thing. I did not mean363 words
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85 1956-01-05 19 Cowdrey to captain team to W. Indies /^ULiiN cowdrey, the K.nt V and England bat pU'd an invitation iptain E. W. Swanton's cricket team which is to ir the West Indies in March and April. Ci)\vdr< y led Oxford in his Univi ind has also C Kent touring has nowReuter - 85 words
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Article101 1956-01-05 19 twere will be eight rt i a day at the IVrak Turf Club January M« ettng on Jan. 14. 18 and 21. The racing schedule is: FIRST DAY: Class 4. Divs. and 2 5f. straight Dlv. 1 8 if. Class 5. Divs 1. 2, 3 and 4101 words
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Article, Illustration71 1956-01-05 19 AI KIAI. view of the setting for main events at this year's Olympics at Melbourne. Centre foreground is the Melbourne Cricket ground, venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, eight days of ethletics. hockey and football finals and the start and finish of the marathon and 50-kilometre walk events. Between71 words
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Article71 1956-01-05 19 I/KN Norri. Ol B 1 triumphed again In Bao PaulO, Brazil, hust night ever 5,000 metn In the parly hours of New .s Day he won th< miles "Round the Houses race. NorrLs. Britain's 4x-mile champion, pained his .second win with ease clocking 15 mm 4.9Reuter - 71 words
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Article94 1956-01-05 19 HUNGARY won the fifth triangular table tennis "ti.st" in Madras lM( night and the rubber by defeating Singapore by three matches to one. On Tuesday, Hungary, who won the Tests in Calcutta and Lucknow, beat India 3-1 and. after thrilling contests. fcu»t night, won the merits. India, whoReuter - 94 words
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393 1956-01-05 19 Changi and Seletar in scoreless K.O. hockey tie /MIANCiI f B and BeWHtf A' fought out a tough M ore draw m the preliminary round of the RAF. Inter-Unit knockout hockey competition at Chungi yesterdnv. With th< "i.eedle" element only too evident, the game was snippy and on this form,393 words
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Article68 1956-01-05 19 STANISLAV Lorlc. a member of the Rumanian national Rugby Union team which recently toured Britain has been granted political asylum m England. Loric a front row forward, will play for Harlequins on Saturday. Loric walked out of the London hotel where the Rumanian national team was stayingReuter - 68 words
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309 1956-01-05 19 DESMOND HACKETTS reply SiORDON PIXIE, you can't have it both ways. Von \J can't «o out and tell TV and radio millions that the Fleet-street writers are wrecken of British sport, and then put up a gradfinf Well, not everyone is a villain.309 words
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Article192 1956-01-05 19 me run any better. Sometimes I do not even read them. I would as soon run m a club event as an international race. I resent the constant Impression the Press gives that I am difficult, conceited, and a bit of a Bighead. I don't mind what192 words
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Article103 1956-01-05 19 GORDON PIRIE accused Fleet-street sports writers of doing "immeasurable harm to British I sport" on TV recently. In a speech after being presented with the Sporting Record Sportsman of the Year Trophy I I Pirie said:— j 'A few UJikind words will inflict more damage I I103 words
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348 1956-01-05 20 AUSSIE TEAM FOR ENGLAND BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE AUSTRALIA'S cricket team to tour England this year began to take shape yesterday when 22 players were named for the vMalley -Taylor testimonial match which begins In Sydney on Jan. 13. It was generally expected that most if not all. o fReuter - 348 words
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Article, Illustration253 1956-01-05 20 MILLER INJURES BACK; FIGHTING CENTURY BY lAN CRAIG KEITH MILLER in the running for the captaincy of this year's Australian cricket team in England, injured his back and retired hurt during a drawn Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and New South Wales in Sydney dayIan Craig, 20-year-old N.S.W. batsman, virtuallyReuter - 253 words
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182 1956-01-05 20 LEW HOAD the Australian Davis Cup player yesterday confirmed that he would not compete m United States lawn tennis tournaments this year for financial reasons. Hoad who plans to make a private tour with his wife, saidReuter - 182 words
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Article, Illustration32 1956-01-05 20 picture. FIJIAN'S Naidole mm gets going m Tuesday's rugger match m Kuala Lumpur when the Ist. Bn. Fijian Infantry Re- giment traunced Selan- gor United 35-0 at the TPCA stadium. Free PressFree Press - 32 words
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94 1956-01-05 20 Landy loses 880 thriller by inches LON SPURRIER, the American world record holder for the halfmile, defeated John Landy, the world mile champion, by inches m a frantic 880 yd?, race m Melbourne last night. Both were timed at 1:51.8. Landy. who has been m comparative retirement, was so pleased94 words
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361 1956-01-05 20 Latest amendments by Racing Assn. THE following transfers ore contained m the latest classification list of the Strait* Racing Association: From Class 1 to Class 2:— Battle Creek; Sirdhana; Zatopek. Cl. 2 to 3:— Dinna Forget 11. Cl. 3 to 4:— Balkan Chevalier; Cliona: Sporter; Entertainer; Flaxley Green; Alpine Knight,361 words
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Article71 1956-01-05 20 BASE beat R. A. F. Changi by 11 points (goal, two tries) t<, eight (goal, try) at rugger at Naval Ba-e yesterday Changi opened scoring through Anderson with a try. Hughes converted. Na\al Base replied when Hewitt crossed over. Cutts converted. Naval Ba.se went ahead with71 words
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