The Singapore Free Press, 1 August 1958

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  • 15 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper »iHfft|Mre, FHJ»y. August I, 1958. Price l;>lts.
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  • 180 1 |piwir,{\ and Turkish p Cypriol leaders yesterday remained sullenly impassive to the peace appeal by Mr. Harold Macmil lan, British Prime Minister, while the geath-toll continued to mount in this worst-ever month of riolence on the island The July record oi death. injury and destruction has cost 97 lives,
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  • 104 1 r w"«i Secretory, B» "an LennoxCo mn the ...us, of l.. Ul wtcrdaj ch al h- ready, if need <h BOOd ollhi-s eln Ho»eti of ik. Singapore City Council. lie added: They are not. however, numbers of li.M. Overseas Civil Service and were not appointed by
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  • 31 1 August first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 82 cents a lb., down a quarter ol a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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  • 186 1 /CROWDS ran lereamlag v/ through Bagdad streets yesterday when two explosions occurred in an oil depot. A tank burst into flames at the same spot on Wednesday. Reporters going to the scene yesterday were turned back to prevent trouble with the crowds, some of
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  • 479 1 THE UNITED STATES last night announced agreement with Britain's proposal, announced earlier by Mr. Harold Macmillan in the House of Commons, that the projected summit meeting on the Middle East should start on Aug. 12. The British proposal was sent to Moscow yesterday
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  • 105 1 'Dag's plan to let UK troops quit Jordan' J TVfR. DAG HAMMARJ ITI SKJOELD. the U.N. f Secretary-General, was reported yesterday to be working on a plan to guarantee Jordan's in- <„ dependence so that <► British forces could withdraw. t He has conferred twice this week with the British
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  • 41 1 Cholera epidemic in Nepal A CHOLERA epidemic- has broken out in Nepal-the first this century, reports the World Health Organisation in Geneva. The organisation is sending 25,000 doses of vaccine to Katmandu at the re quest of the Nepaleso Cf overnment.
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  • 20 1 Jakarta papers yesterday reported more heavy rebel attacks on Bukit Tinggi and other towns in West Sumatra Reuter
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  • 114 1 EM YE men, one armed with a revolver, gagged a 69-year-old business man, Mr. Yeo Seovv Inn. in his house in Philip Street last night and took $1,250 in cash. Mr. Yeo told the police that he was talking to b friend when the
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  • 642 2 SUMMIT TALKS AIM— BY DULLES They should deal with perils 0 9 Jf M of indirect aggression Mr. John POSTER dulles, the us. Secretory ol State, said yesterday thai a prime purpose ol a Security Council summit meeting on the Middle Basi should be to deal with the danger oi
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  • 153 2 Iraq Govt. to grab royal properties /GOVERNMENT committee i \l have been form< <i i'» Bagdad to Liquidate ai eta ol the murdered royal family ol Ir;i<|. The Finance Mini ter Sayld Mohammed Hadid, said yesterday that the royal a .sets would be put under the control ol the state
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  • 97 2 MR. Derick Heathcoat Amory. Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, rejected a proposal by top trade union leaders for an Autumn budget. A deputation from the general council of the eight million strong Trades Union Congress told Mr. Heathcoat Amory that the country's economy would be helped
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  • 57 2 'IMIE GOVERNMENTS X promised yesterd»t I recall partial 3 frow Its summer if there was an emer- 5 But the Borne Been. tary. Mr. R. X r told the Hoiise vi CoS nions: "It senns very Ukely, however, and hope virtuaU) r, rtain that
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  • 131 2 De Gaulle taxes the rich rjENERAL de Craulle last I** night Imposed new taxes on the rich of France, making them pay for their yachts, racehorses, chateaux and country houses, His Information "Minister. Mr. Soustelle, announced the new taxes alter a cabinet meeting, saying they would principally affect "the possessors'
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  • 290 2 INDIAN Prime Minister Nehru said in New Delhi yesterday the first question a summit conference, if held, would have to take up would be the withdrawal of foreign forces from the Lebanon and Jordan. He told a public meeting that,
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  • 160 3 Goldfine faces contempt charge koi R< pr< ■< ntnmerce <' !ii mi V ihington yes- tO Cite Bn.s- [hdust alist Bernard Goldftne for contempt oi Con sub-committee of the .M-up had investigated ft ar jf, hat Mr. Qoidflne sought to influence government regulatory agencies thi i his gifts to, and
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  • 194 3 MALTA DOCKS CONVERSION ENSURES WORK t*he Governor ol Malta, Sir 1 Robert Laycock, assured the people or the Island m a broadcast last night from Valletta that ••wild rumours which you have heard about mass unemployment are not true." He was announcing the transfer of the Malta dockyard to a
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  • 94 3 The Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, and Mrs. Lim, last night entertained 13 visiting American students from the University of Oklahoma. The students are on a study tour of South East Asia and their leader and lecturer, Mr. Percy Buchanan, said their next
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  • 83 3 INDONESIAN GOVT. IS DRAWING UP STATE GRAB LAWS I>REMIER djuanda said yesterday the Indonesian Government was preparing nationalisation Laws, the Antara news agency reported. Antara said the Premier was replying to criticism oi Indonesia's five-year economic plan by some Members of Parliament. The Premier said he thought it a desirable
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  • 145 3 Mixed bathing so rabbi curses pool A RABBIS curse oi excommunication on the builders and users oi Jerusalem's new swimming pool boomed through loudspeakers to a crowd Oi several hundred people in the city Last night. The extremist NetureU Karta religious sect lias condemned mixed bath ini4 at the pool
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  • 86 3 QUEEN Elizabeth had a run of bad luck at the horse-racing meeting at Goodwood, Sussex, yesterday when she made her first public appearance after a three-week bout ol oatarrhal sinusitis. An enthusiatic racehorse owner, she had entered two horses In two races, both fame last. The
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  • 228 4 The Singapore Free Press Friday, Aug. 1, 1958. Opinion Safer now to bluster INVERSELY as signs of a world settling down, again to an uneasy arm c d truce, so Russia is becoming increasingly vociferou s and threatening. And an impression is formed of a Russia emboldened by the knowledge
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  • 395 4 I>RINCESS MARGA--1 RET left Toronto last night after an Official tour ol nearly four hours and giving a begrimed, barechested boy a broadly unrcgal wink. The Princess was decidedly late for all her appointments before leaving lor Stratford, Ontario. aboard a special train.
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  • Article, Illustration
    11 4 Soon, it wont be a Summit they'll need, but a plateau!
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  • 422 4  - Where men die every day in fight for freedom JACK W. FOX By reporting from Zzhnrf, I on the Lebanon border. I Li 7 nei e on wnai is now the Lebanese-Syrian border, a man's life l.s cheap. Men are dying daily. 1 drove here from Beirut to investigate reports
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    • 23 4 DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING FOR YOUR HAPPY DAY P. H. HENDRY Ifanufai turlni Jeweller 78 North BrQfft Koad, j Singapore, 6. A Ku.il.i Lumpur.
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    • 90 4 LOO^rWAW AT THIS FOR HOME CINE VALUE! fl BELL AND HOWELL model 252 8 mm cine comero with f/2 3 lens. 1 Leather carrying case for camera 1 2 ]/2 power telephoto attachmen! COfTtpU with leather case. 1 BELL AND HOWELL "Movielite" bor coi plete with two 375 watt Photo-flood
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  • 255 5 Britain to set up centre tor study of crime WiinMlM't i.\i\iMi>ni i> iv uuvc Diiiams urst institute ot crimin- „v to study the problems of crime and treatment of offenders. Anunc iiifi tins in the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. K. A. Butler, the Secretary, said the institute's functions would
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  • 23 5 Mr, John Poster Dulles le Secretary of State, will aye Washington on Sunay for a two-day visit to razil Reuter
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  • 57 5 RIVIERA ROMANCE-ON-OFF This happy couple. Sydney Chaplin (Char- lie Chaplin's son) and the French dancer. Noelle Adam, are about I to leave the hotel they are staying at. in the beautiful seaside resort I of St. Jean-de-Cop- j Ferral, France. According to rumours I they intend to get married. They,
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  • 60 5 rpilE Singapore City Coun- Cil yesterday refused to allow tree supply of water to the Kwlng Wai BuJ Free Hospital in Serangoon Road The Finance and General Purposes Committee which considered the hospital's request was told that it already enjoyed a concession ol drawing 15 gallons
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  • 55 5 1 A bill lifting the exclu- sion of Chinese and coloured immigrants to San Salvador j was .sent to congress yesterday by the Government. The liberalised immigration bill also makes It easier for qualified aliens to settle in the country and engage Ln industrial,
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  • 42 5 Britain is to build a £50 million nuclear power station in one or its national j parks. It will be at Trawsfyndd. Merioneth. In the mountain area of the Snowdonia National Park in Wales. Reuter
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  • 41 5 Miss Yvonne Arnaud, the stage actress, was yesterday j dangerously ill with heart trouble in a London hospital after collapsing at her I homo at Guikltord. Surrey. j Mi^s Arnaud, born in Bordeaux, is (J2. Reuter
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  • 79 5 IE An entire junior class of the American School E E in Singapore has been E E receiving a weekly E E dancing lesson from E Miss Anne Harrison, E 24-year-old teacher E E from London who re- E E cently arrived in the E
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  • 225 5 rrtfE director of Singapore's free legal aid bureau A has been given power to cut red tape to the minimum and issue emergency certificates to litigants who need immediate assistance. Provision for this has been included in the regulations just published
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  • 138 5 Denial students of th; University of Malaya will hold a Ohe day exhibi fion to arouse public interest in the Importance 01 dental health. The exhibition, "Dental Health and You" will be opened at the General Hospital on Monday from I f > a.m. to 5 p.m.
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    • 156 5 Celebrating Our 84th ANNIVERSARY The Way We Know Best... with a Sale of Sales LADIES' DEPT. Prtd. Filament Silks 3.90 Prtd. All Silk 36" 6.80 Stoffels Novelty Cottons 36" 3.90 Swiss Printed Cottons 36" 1.90 2.90 Ladies Woollen Twinsets $18.50 set Ladies Con Cans $7.50 $11.50 Ladies Sock Blouses 7.50
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 78 5 .Mllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll" I SINCAPORE 1 IHIGH TIDES! TODAY: 12.23 p.m. c and 11.47 p.m. z E TOMORROW: 12.50 E p.m. E E SUNDAY: 0.25 a.m. E and 118 p.m. E MONDAY. 1.01 a.m. E E and 1.45 p.m. E E TUESDAY: 1.42 am. E and 2.15 p.m. E WEDNESDAY: 2.20 a.m.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 221 6 VKFF "IIWvKE by Sydney Jordan I WAS RICHT. "^V" T/\l C- •WS OEP6AT OUO MKSAdI I v/ TWeVWB StUPWNd, WAWK« coioNCL-THEvee spba^ OOvy« rwe oo not sunasNOCS to > I I ill eve them tern mimutcs, I USifcia THIS MAN AS j «EPEAT TMAT I ■ASfTMLIKJCSS -WB W»LL SI V
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    • 512 6 i I k% ft M BORN today, you aiv attract t mo&t I by music and the arts y i more the dmuner than the doer hm I once you get set on a defmit, nath you never give up until you v I reached your goal Original, clever and
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 187 7 Previous Today 1 |{SS r.i.l. ui' l L v o 23 buyers 23 buyers i"" 1^ xu L 3 sel j ers 23 s sellers nt 23% buyers 23- buyers 23% sellers 23 S sellers mm gm We I l^ s s P° l 23 239 buyer..
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    • 95 7 NEW YORK. July 31. Previous Today [N Straits Spol 95.62 nom. 94.37 nom. [X futures raits Contract Sept 93.00 buyers 94.50 buyers 95.87 sellers 95.50 sellers Oct. 94.87 buyers 94.37 buyers 95.87 sellers 95.37 sellers ONE: Dull. SALES: Nil IBBMR: Futures Sept. 27.95 buyers 28.02 buyers 28.05
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    • 28 7 NEW YORK, July SI. Previous Todflv J'^triaN 504.31 502.99 J hailroads 13^0° 1316" g?*«« c Bo 89.80 89.75 79.46 79.58 Stocks Composite Averages 174.13 173.79
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    • 64 7 and awaiting F fir^f ISo U 27'- t0 nrs ialf August shipment m 1 f, La^J )on^' -s l>^; 'waiting release 28, afloat., h 27, arst half August shipment 27. 26 1 cif. Sarawak ""Quoted. Muntok white.<pnt ;uid. awaiting release 43 afloata 42, to 41. and first half-Augusi
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    • 77 7 LONDON. July 31. OHM Philippine* c.i.t. Pwto Toda r North European ports delivered PPBa! S&f^u^Jg SelleiS $2 Pellei> Kuropoari O r(s delivered f ns ton July/ Aug. unquoted unquoted r Uil < frude Straits WJ. hurop^an ports in bulk o JgftonAuf. £106 sellers £106 sellers "i#
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  • 128 7 iIS flrm conditions itock nv ai in the Lon^on W kpts yesterday. ■SSLStt and Bive anuJcL new Projects end of Krir.f] k tp a«ng account cd Sf o d P f c?e ?S tt wert evera fu>tlvo and <>. 'mprovomc,,^ i lf > iong-dat€d but Greek bonds
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  • 346 7 Stormy meeting likely on United Front plan npHE central committee of the Singapore Labour Front will meet on August 13 to discuss the proposal by the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, to form a United Socialist Front. The meeting will be held soon after the adjournment of the Legislative
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  • 122 7 WOMEN OFF TODAY FOR TALKS TWO active members of the Singapore Council of Women, Mrs. Shirin Fozdar and Mrs. George Lee. secretary and president respectively, are due to leave today for Tokyo to attend the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women's conference. The conference will discuss matters relating to children's welfare,
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  • 89 7 Policemen to go gay for visitors AKRONCHONG party of traditional Malay music and dancing will be the highlight of the programme when the second "Little Police Week" is opened at Jurong this evening. It will be provided by the policemen of the Jurong Police Station. The programme organised to welcome
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  • 27 7 The Vietnam press agency said yesterday the "Song On Doc" fisheries co-opera-tive, had exported 338 tons of fish to Singapore this season: Reuter
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  • 34 7 More than 100 workers of the British textile machi-nery-making firm of Thomas Holt Limited have been declared redundant because of the state of trade and shortage of orders.
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  • 35 7 The state opening of Darliament on October 28 vili bo televised for the 'irst time the Prime Milister Mr. Harold Mac■nillan. announced in the Souse of Commons yesterday.—Re v tor.
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  • 84 7 Angeline Cliett, 19- i year-old blonde from Texas, wearing a 10- pound padlocked chain around her neck, yawns and rubs her feet after a long; day at Washington. She tried unsuccess- fully to see President Eisenhower in an at- tempt to win back
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 118 7 Today's radio programme 1.15 p.m. Sweet and I icy; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Pun and Frolic; 2.00 close Down; 5.00 string Serenade; 530 At the Piano; 5.45 Rmlio Ranch; 6.00 Mailban. Barojini Lourdes play.s your requests; 630 Living in the Country, by [an Hope; 6.45 Lights On; <>
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  • Article, Illustration
    155 8 IN THE WAKE OF THE BLOODY REVOLI COME Iraqi soldiers stand amid the desolation of a devastated corridor in the Royal Palace of Bagdad its floor strewn with rubble and debris, in the after- moth of the revolt which eliminated the Monarchy in Iraq. Soldiers prodded away at objects
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  • 302 8 UNKNOWN East flare-up BAGDAD, fabulous city of the "Arabian Nights" was the centre of the recent bloody coup d'etat that overnight turned the Middle East into a powder keg. With the palace sacked, the monarchy overthrown and King Faisal and Crown Prince Abdull Illah brutally slain, Iraq was seized by
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  • 156 8 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Jordai A BOVE is an M view of the m Suva! aircraft cum "H.M.S. Albion." ?m tons, which u*asH route to Malta mtm officers and No. 42 Royal Mm Commandos. B They were beinqm there to rciniorcem tish forces in them die East in neicom latest troubles im
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  • Article, Illustration
    148 9 Marines going ashore U.S. Marines, who landed in Lebanon are seen here establishing a beachhead, following a request for aid by President Chamoun. Apart from a certain desultory sniping, which killed nobody, they encountered no opposition. The ordinary Lebanese displayed curiosity, and gathered on the beach to watch the
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    • 24 9 For reservations, call your helpful and experienced Travel Agent or Phone *****, 13/15 Robinson Road, Singapore. RAJV AMLERECAN m LEADER IN OVERSEAS AIR CARGO
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  • 423 10 I'VE JUST BECOME ENGAGED... THIS IS A FRANK ARTICLE BY 20-YEAK OLD CHRISTINE GARBUTT. IF ALL YOUNG S PEOPLE APPROACHED MARRIAGE LIKE THIS THERE MIGHT BE FAR FEWER BROKEN HOMES 1 AND SHATTERED HOPES. I have just become engaged. Thia milestone In my life lills me with happiness and fear.
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  • 562 10  - Afghanistan is a prey to propaganda R. A. Duncan By tH)R years now, Soviet citizens of the technical and econo mic -political persua sion have been seeking a toe-hold in a littleknown country which is hemmed-in between Russia, Iran, Pakistan Those citizens of the U.S.S.R. have been working openly to
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    • 299 10 VOW how about YOU. Maybe, like Christine Garbutt, you will become engaged this summer. And perhaps you are wondering how you will make out in your courtship. Here's a quiz to settle your doubts. Answer Yes or No to each question. Then consult the key at the end to know
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  • 724 11  -  THE LENSMAN > m pm j ,tj mm jvr By HONG Ihe CauseA i} t 0 johore lasl Sundaj a group ol spcar-lishing enthu s j S |s were flip-flop-among lhc rocks, complete with Qns and goggles and breathing apparatus. ..flow that/ said my companion, "gives
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  • 206 11 Win prizes with your camera WE MAY not consider ourselves exceptionally good photographers, in fact, most of us are probably the kind who makt snapshots for their recall value because there are people, things, and places we want to remember. Our satisfaction lies chiefly in the subject material. That makes
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  • 145 11 Generally speaking, the composition of a picture is its arrangement. A simple moving of the camera may change the composition completely. A good rule of composition is to have a single or main point of interest This photograph is a perfect example of good compositi on. The diagram
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  • 169 12 PRICE FALL LOSS IN S-EA EXCEEDS COLOMBO AID nOMK backward countries would be driven towards the Communist bloc unless Western countries could organist to pay them remunerative prices for their basic products, Australian Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen said in Perth. Mr. McEwen said that, during a recent ismonth period,
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  • 88 12 'PI leftist morement is strong' A FORMER Soviet /V intelligence officer a who defected to the West four years ago said in Manila that he learned from his talks H with anti-Communist groups in the Philip- pines that there was a g strong leftist move. ment in the Philip. pines.
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  • 65 12 A riveter that is silentnew Red claim a YOUNG Chinese tech- niclan has invented a silent pneumatic riveter, the Peking New China Ncv.s Agency said "The new tOOI v. ill end the Occupational disease bad hearing which has long been prevalent among riveters," the report added. 'i he Inventor i.
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  • 112 12 THE Siamese Prime Minister, General Thanom Kittikachorn, said Siamese troops should be kept in Siam to thwart possible moves by Red China no matter how serious the Middle East situation became. He told reporters: "It is possible that Red China may make .some moves while world
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  • 96 12 (IHINESE Communist Party i j Chairman Mao Tse-tung has warned that "international peace is now seriously threatened by the colonialist aggression" In the Middle East, radio Peking reported. Mao made the statement to the Indian Ambassador to China, Mr. G. Part hasarathi. it was
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  • 14 12 The Burm< r Govern men! h& recogntotd the new "ovrrnmrnt of Irnn Reuter
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  • 162 12 Forecast of heavy new Asfo quakes 4 suvim scientist nas predicted that Central Asia may be jarred again by earth< such as the historic shock thai toppled ains and changed the course ot rivers 1 Mori" goiia on Dec. 4. 1957. Phe prediction was made by Professoi Florenl soy, a
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  • Article, Illustration
    59 12 pictures. "•hi mi ••> 1 1 in i■ ii nun i Neelo {above) Pakistan's famous film dancer and regarded as the 7tiost photogenic girl in the Stale. performs on the occasion of the first Pakistan film awards ceremony held i?i Lahore. Below is Miss Nayyar Sultana with an "Oscar" statuette
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  • 66 12 MISSION TO STUDY JAP COTTAGE INDUSTRIES AlO-MEMBER delegation from the Punjab plans to visit Japan September to Inspect its cottage and small-scale industries. The group, which Is to be led by the Punjab State Finance and Industry Minister, Mr. Mohan Lai. plans to stay in Japan for about two months.
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  • Glimpses
    • 40 12 Back" (Donsanko), a film about a boy's low for a young horse. Said Rude Pravo, "In bright colours the director leads uthrough nature and the world ot animals. The depth and sincerity of the boy's feelings arc really convincing." Reuter
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    • 30 12 The Bangkok Government is reported to have decided to ask the United States to transfer a U553,000,000 aid fund from building of ten airfields to use for irrigation projects. Reuter
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    • 39 12 The Peking New China News Agency said Communist China had increased its lead over the rest of the world in the production of tussah silk and would top Japan Within five years in the production of mulberry silk. U.P.I.
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    • 19 12 Ten members of the Jo- panese Parliament have left Tokyo for visits to South America and Aus- tralia U.P.I.
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    • 26 12 The Chinese head of slate, Mao Tse-tuny, in a statement on the Middle East, followed India's lend by referring to that reaion as West Asia. Reuter
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    • 40 12 iapanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama said in Tokyo he would ask the U.S. Government for compensation when he gets reports of harm caused to crew men of two atomdusted Japanese scientific survey ships operating outside the Bikini danger zone U.P.I.
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  • 128 12 A U.S. Defence Department spokesman reported a slight Increase In the number of cases of foreign courts waiving jurisdiction over America:: servicemen given then: under the Status of Force.Treaty in the year endec November 30. 1957. Mr. Monroe Leigh, assfc tant general counsel of trie
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  • 48 12 The Hong Kong CWjg language newspaper _ttwj Daily claimed that comng mst Chinese had < "large numbers" ot civile in canton as well as to*nand cities along the coast o. Kwangtung Proving 1 The daily said the ed people were sen "forced labour" camps. U.P.I.
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  • 813 13  - NOT JUST QUESTION OF BLACK and WHITE HAROLD BUNTING By INADEQUATE SUMMING-UP LiSlia^iti^ilJ rpHE i rouble with writers on the colour question is that they try to set down everything in Black and White. They see only I iu k Toms and Simon Legrees; only Dr. Livingstones and Emperor Joneses.
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  • 457 13 Singapore before the warand afterl >OK OF THE WEEK- BY A LOCAL AUTHOR: THE WHITE GARLAND. By Anna Softley. Alvin Redman, 155. 'TWERE have been so many books written about Singapore by people who passed through one day or stayed a week at the most that it is cause for
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  • 236 13 Forest of Tigers. By Robert Shaplen. Deutsch. 15s. Saigon in the 1945-.").') period. Intrigue, violence, passion, politics among Chinese Rambling kings, Eurasian beauties, terrorists and American dogooders. Robert Shaplen has knit the whole into ar, cxcit i n g, immaculately written story that vividly raptures
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  • RACING
    • 35 14 Malayan Scholar can take this Class I sprint Irish Pear] 9.00, Malayan Scholar K.lO, Holiday Time 8.09. Monitor 8.07, Holiday Might 8.05, Anna Kuniara 8.03, Grand Chancellor 8.02, ionosphere 7.13, Ked Sunrise 1.11. Malayan Scholar
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    • 1594 14 Consistent horse should win Class 3, Dfv. 1-5' furs. Black Charm 0.00, Bigh Sovereign K.IJ, Traveller's Cheque 8.1 1. Sir Kinder 8.09, Race On 80S, (.rev Elegance 8.07, Princely Gift 8.0« i. White Magic h.oi.. Britannia II 8.0"), Firebird 8.0.1, Night Scmn I X.UI. Periwinkle 7.12, High i Hopes 7.11,
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    • 232 14 BRILLIANT SCHOLAR LOOKS NICELY TREATED ALLAN LEWIS SUMS UP THE PROSPECTS FOR TOMORROW Class 3, Div. 2-7^ J 11. Dragon Seed ffi^JJ Cheers 8.10, Blue Cc jf! KanchU 8.08. Commotion Boy Ciaryth k.ot 8.05, Swanhaven 8.05 7J? worship 712. piREWORSHIP mj selectM for the Class 3 Div event over 7F.
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    • 47 14 These horses won't run tomorrow pROBABLE scratch- A ing s at Penang to. morrow are as follows: I Shangrila, Holiday Flight, Anna Kumara, lonosphere, Jolly Sailor, High Sovereign, Sir Kinder. High Hopes, Hit Parade. Lucky Touch, Commo- j tion. Three Rings and Golden Melody are doubtful starters.
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    • 242 14 ftWEET dream certainly »5 appears to stand out in this mediocre Class 1 Div. 2 field over one mile In hi.s last ten starts Sweet Dream has finished 3, 5. 3, 3, 1, 2. 1. 2. 7, 2. For his la.st stiit I BOCOnd tO Great
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    • 155 14 I I 2 5 I4> 5 i 6 7 CLUES ACROSS 4 Begins sudden 4 More ingenicn, butlers UP S^MSmS > 8 Very Cheap cycle (S, 8). JfSt/ISS 10 From one's bttth In South n Africa (5;. J2l All a Hin P« 11 Always in the verbatim re- 13 JjJJ
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  • 90 15 Kim Choon was the stat forward n\\ CHOON, was the star of the Dockaid team yesterday 'hen lie scored two rfendid goals to give lcm a 4 1 victory over Dlice in a S.A.F.A. iv. 1 league fixture at alun Besar Stadium. TOP: Kirn Choon is een weaving his way
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  • 281 15 JOHNNY LI M -THE SPORTING CHAMP A SPORTING gesture by Singapore junior champion Johnny Uni Tian A Soo enabled a 16-year-old Siamese youngster to participate in the Malayan Lawn Tennis Championships yesterday in Kuala Lumpur. Manop Bong Sadadt had come all the way from Bangkok to take part only to
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  • 349 15 COUNTY CRICKET lOHNNY WARDLE, the England left arm spinner who heard that he is to be "sacked" by Yorkshire at the end of this season, gave the northern county a sharp reminder of his bowling talents yesterday. He bowled brilliantly at Sheffield to take five wickets for 38
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  • 122 15 SCOT SETS FIVE SWIM RECORDS LAN BLACK, 17-year-old Scottish swimming star and a gold medallist at last week's British Empire and Commonwealth Games, broke five records including two European in an amazing swim in the British Amateur Swimming Association's national one mile championship last night in New Brighton. His time
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  • 83 15 SIAM, the runners- up to Indonesia In the finals of the Thomas Cup in Singapore, will not be represented in the Indian championships in Bombay next September, it was announced in Bangkok yesterday. Lieutenant Kreetha Yawasuth, manager of the Siam Thomas Cup team, said Charoen Wattanasln
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  • 22 15 Anglo Chinese School'annual swimming carnival will bo held in the Chinese Swimming Club pool today (•ommrnring at 2 15 pm.
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  • 251 16 Struggle will go on, says their leader i ebanon rebel lead*J or Saeb Salem said last night th it "our movement will on" despite the election yesterday of a "compromise" candidate, General Fuad Chehab, as the new President Salem'a announcement was accepted in Beirut as an
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  • 46 16 Twenty-nine battered and dlsembered bodi< s ol victim., ot the UrlI4ylq udb tima ot the July u Iraqi coup arc still being Identified i'» Bagdad, reliable reports reaching Amman Bald yesterday. The victims *^vi' understood to Include many ror- cigners. U.P.I.
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  • 44 16 The Chief Justice of Singapore, Sir John whyatt, yesterday accepted the e^t of a selection of American law books from the U.S Con.sul-Oen.Tal. Mr. Avery Peterson. They included Writings of Pro lessor Goodhart, Master of University College, Oxford.
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  • 207 16 U.K. TO AID OMAN FORCES BUILD-UP: SULTAN TO GET SMALL AIR FORCE T*HE British Government is to help strengthen the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's armed forces, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, told the House of Commons yesterday. Rebels have defied the sultan in Northern Oman lor the last
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  • 229 16 SURPRISE SOVIET OVERTURE TO ISRAELIS The Soviet ambassador to Israel, Mr. Michael Budrov. told lefti.;l, Mapam Parly leaders that "Israel will live forever il It depends on the Soviet Union," party .sources have disclosed In Tel Aviv. These sources said Mr. Budrov made the statement at a dinner held in
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  • 219 16 UN observers: Little arms smuggling' rpilK Ualt«d Nations observer group in 1 the Lebanon reported yesterday that illegal infiltration of arms into that country was "on a limited scale" and was largely confined to small arms and ammunition. In a formal report to the Security Council, the group said that
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  • 117 16 Red story of airdropped Chiang spies of peasants, A militiamen, women ami students helped local .security forces round up three American-trained special agents dropped by parachute on the Chinese mainland on July 3, the Peking New China News Agency said yesterday. The agency said the three men— all Chinese were
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  • 175 16 S'pore, Malaya exports down 1 0 p.c. Lower prices for ruto and tin and smaller tii exports contributed io 10 per cent decrease of« ports from Malaya d Singapore in the S quarter of 1958, the don Board of Tral Journal said today. It said that exports [m the sterling
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