Indian Daily Mail, 2 March 1955

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  • 16 1 Indian Daily Mail VOL XI NO. 19 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1955 FOUR PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 319 1 Choii's Reported Suggestion Burmese PM Informs Dulles I NEW YORK, Mar. 1. Communist China probably would not insist on recognition by the United States Govern ment as a prerequisite for talks between them on the Formosa situation informed United Nations sources said. The disclosure in Rangoon
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  • 129 1 MOSCOW, Mar. 1. Mr P. N. Kaul, the Indian Charge D'affaires, yesterday had further talks with Russian Foreign Minister,' Mr. V. Molotov on th* Formosa situation. The meeting was the latest of several contacts m Moscow during the past four weeks. Mr. Kaul
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  • 154 1 From Our Own Correspondent MADRAS. Mar. 1. There is a strong feeling among the legislators from South Kanara and Malabar Districts that adequate provi sion has not been made m the Madras Budget for their areas. It is learnt that a deputation of
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  • 53 1 MANILA, Mar. I.—Corrcj^idor, bitterly contested island fortress of World War 11, will be opened as a tourist site starting Wednesday, the National Shrines Commission said today. A new landing strip na3 been built, enabling visitors to fly to the island at the entrance
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  • 105 1 Basket Ball Playing Dog CHICAGO, Mar. 1: Anybody notice a dog playing basKettoall. It belongs to circus clown Kudy Docky. Docky, a clown with the visit, nir Pollack Brothers C.rcus, said the Boxer dog, wh.cn also i* teal, disappeared from his house trailer Saturday nlg»rt. He «ud he searched for
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  • 212 1 From Our Own Correspondent MADRAS, Mar. 1. First general elections m Andhra States has been com. pleted without a hitch, despite fears of serious unrest and disorder. Though there were some clashes, these were never i serious enough to prevent smooth polling m every cen. tre, throughout
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  • 92 1 Wind Blew Up Girl's Skirt Five Injured MANILA, Mar. 1: A gentle breeze blew up a girl's skirt in Solana, Cagayan Province, causing a bloody fight that sent five men to a hospital. The Philippne News Service said a» 18-year-old girl, identified only as Denena, was walking to market with
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  • 101 1 U.S. Urged To Cut Off From Russia Co. NEW YORK, Mar. 1.--The New York Times yesterday carried a full page advertisement calling on the United States to withdraw recognition from Russia and ner satellites, wage unremitting psychological warfare" against Communism and give aid only to co-opert^ive allies." The advertisement was
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  • 53 1 LONDON, Mar. I.— Sir iVinston Churchill will make a major speech on ranging over Britain's new Defence Plans for the Hydrogen Age in a twoday House of Commons debate opening today. The British Prime Minister was considering what if anything he can disclose about the nation's
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  • 42 1 PHOTO. lleige-carpetted floor of her I I. ml on borne to practice for the Mar. 3 Marbles Champ; "nKhlp of Ca»tlef«ftrd, Yorkshire, in which she Is to lead a tram of women against a factory girls' side AP
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  • 72 1 BONN, Mar. I.— Herr Franz Blueoher, West German ViceChancellor, offered his resignation to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the Chancellor, in con nection with his vote approving the Franco-German Saar Agreement. Bluecher's offer to resign as the first direct though paradoxical, result of the split in the government coalition
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  • 23 1 Mr. Lee Slow Mong, ot the Singapore Administrative Service, assumed duty from Mar. I as Deputy Public Relations Officer, Singapore.
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  • 435 1 Duty On Coarse Cloth Reduced To Boost Export India's Deficit Budget Due To 5-Yr-Plan Expenditure New Taxation Announced NEW DELHI, Mar. 1: Mr. C. D. Deshraukn, the Indian Finance Minister, yesterday announced new taxation to bring in Rs. 217 million (about £16 million). Presenting his new budget in Parliament Mr.
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  • 64 1 TAIPEH, Mar. 1. Mr. John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary, is due to arrive m Formosa on Thursday to witness the exchange of documents ratifying the Mutual Defence Pact between the United States and Nationalist China. American sources said Mr. Dules was also expected to
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  • 98 1 Following further names to the list of "TAMIL IS OUR LIFE and their contributions to the Tamil Library Fund for the purchase of Tamil becks and books on Tamil to be presented to the Library of the University of Malaya, are acknowledged below: 22. Muthu Vail
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  • 214 1 Indonesian Women's 3rd Congress The third Indonesian Women's Congress will be held in Palembang from today Mar. 2 until Mar. 6 and will be attended by 300 members of tie Main Committees of women organizations all over Indonesia. In a Press conference held recently the chairman of the Congress Preparatory
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  • 120 1 CHIANG'S ASSURANCE TO EVACUEES TAIPEI, Formosa, Mar. 1: President Chiang Kaishek yesterday received seven i cpresentatives of the 17,000 or so civilians evacuated from the Tachen area and assured them that the government would djo everything possible to take care of them. The representatives thanked Chaiahg for the protectio/i and
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  • 95 1 BANGKOK Mar. 1: The Australian SEATO Council team headed by the External Affair Minister MT. Richard G. Casey started a flying tour of Thailand on Saturday. As the guests of the Royal Thai Amorce Mr. Caseys party o* ni^e flew to the militaTy air field
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  • 99 1 rHOTO. Mr. George Edward Noel Oehlers, left Speaker-designate of the first Singapore Legislative Assembly, at a press conference at Malaya House London, on Feb. 25 with the High Commissioner, Inche Othman V'n Mohamed Ml*. Oehlers 46, a Singapore lawyer, has been m England since the end of
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  • 155 1 Fed. Elections On July 27: Nomination Day June 15 Official Announcement From Our Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. It is Federal Government's intention that Wednesday, July 27, should be polling day for Federal Elections. Nomination day is expected to be on Wednesday, June 15, says an official Press release issued here
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  • 74 1 RUSSIA HAS NO 'H' BOMB WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. Mr. William Randolph Hearst, Editor m Chief of the Heart Newspaper, said that his recent interview with the new Soviet Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin had conduced him that the Soviet Union was far behind the United States m stock-piling Atomic weapons and
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  • 129 1 A Royal Agricultural aim Food Exhibition is to be jeld at Colombo in January 1956. leylon is organising this Exhibition with a view to educating people in the most recent advances in Agricultural techniques. One feature of the Exhibition willl be a "Trade Fair'' wluch will
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  • 144 1 THEY FAST FOR VANITY NASSAU, BAHAMAS, Mar. 1: Princess Margaret smiled on Monday morning as the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Na.xau, referred m his sermon to ''girlish figures". The Princess went to his serive yesterday morning, the first Sunday m lent, at Christ Church Cathedral here. Taking the
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  • 51 1 Following a recent incident in which three Communist terrorists were killed in the Pasir Puteh district ofKelantan, eight Malays, including three women, in that district have been prosecuted and convicted under the Food Tttsirictlons Orddnancje. Four were fitted $20/- each auo the other (our MB
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  • 92 1 Jews Kill Egyptian Officer 36 Soldiers CAIRO, Mar. 1: One Egyptian Army officer and SB soldiers were killed while more than SO other* were injured In an Israeli attark l n the Gaza bordei area, it was officially announced here this morning. The Talestine Affairs Ofli.v stayed open
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  • 32 1 Third A Blast LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Mar. 1: The th'rd explosion of the Unted States 10W atomic tests series w» set off Just before dawn In thr Yucca flat ar«a today.— Reuter
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  • 484 2 Indian Daily Mail S'pore, Wed. Mar. 2, 1955 New Trend In Colony Politics THE first elections to the Colony's new Legislative Assembly which will be held on April 2 are expected to provide plenty of fhrills and amusements. With all the 25 elected seats being contested and with no fewer
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  • 67 2 BOMBAY: Mr. v. Nanjappa, 1.C.5.. assumed charge of the office of Textile Commissioner and cx-officio Joint Secretary to the Government of India and cx-offlcio Controller of linemy Trading and Enemy Firms and Custodian of Fnomv Property. As Textile Commissioner Mr. Nanjappa will be Chairman of the AH
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  • 615 2 Speaker Disallows Adjournment Motion NEW DELHI: Pandit Pant impressed the Lok Sabha last Tuesday, on his first appearance as Home Minister, with the effective and yet good-humoured manner in which he dealt with a Communist adjournment motion on the Andlira elections, which the speaker later
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  • 72 2 MADRAS: Mr. Sukumar Sen, Election Commissioner, said here that the election to the Municipal Councils and Representative Assemblies of Pondicherry State were likely to be conducted by the end rf April 1955. Mr. Sen left for Pondicherry by air on a brief visit. He will
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  • 167 2 Exports To Japan Exceed Imports By Rs. 100m. MADRAS: India exported goods worth Rs. 23 crores (Rs. 230m.) to Japan in 1953--54, while Imports amounted to Rs 13 crores Mr. D. Hejmadi, the Central Government's Coin, mercial Secretary in Japan, slid at a Press conference here. Among the main items
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  • 46 2 NEW DELHI: Sir An_ tnony Eden, who will visit New Delhi in the first week of March, will address Members of Parliament. This was announ_ ced last week by Mr. Nehru at the meeting of the Congress Parliainen- ary Party.- FOC
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  • 203 2 NEW DELHI: Mr. KlllgSley Martin, Editor of the "Wew Statesman and Nation," made a two-point suggestion to avert a war in tne Far East on the Formosa issue. Firstly, he said, the Big Powers should "tell honestly that Peking was the capital of China,
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  • 43 2 gregation of Rites. The Pope approved further steps for the beatification of 56 martyrs of the Chinese Boxer rebellion of 1896. The Pope (right) talks to Celsro nrOJnaH Coeltanttiu after the meeting held at Vatican (Jity by the Con-
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  • 461 2 LAHORE: A fuJI bench of the Federal Court of Pakistan last week ordered stay of the Issue of the writ of mandamus by the Sind Chief Court to restore Mr. Tamizuddin Khan to office as President of the Pakistani Constituent Assembly. The court also
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  • 644 2 MADRAS: Speaking at a function held in Ethiraj College, Mr. C. Rajagopalachari referred to the greatness of the English language and pointed out that Indian Ian., guages got divorced from life due to the paucity of adequate current literature and break in their development. If they
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  • 135 2 KARACHI: Mr. Abu Hussain Sarkar, Pakistan's Minister of Health, last week claimed that the confidence motion in favour of Mr Fazlul Huq, Leader 01 the United Frcnt in Pakistan was carried by a majority. He said 132 out of tile 196 members present vcted in favour
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  • 119 2 Pak. Import Of Films From India KARACHI: The Government of Pakistan -yvtll announce a new policy with regard to the •mport of Indian films shortly, it is reliably learnt. Mere Indian films may be imported to make up for the shortage of (locally produced films. The last Government announcement on
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  • 74 2 Chiang KaJ Shek, the Chinese Natfona.'isj trader, has lace framed by ivoTy tuskx behind his desk, pictured at a press conference in Taipei by Gecrge Sweers, of the Associateu 1 r t s^ Chiiang said "In no case'' would Quemoy and Matsu isianti be abandoned. Hisi
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  • 86 2 TENiKASI: A committee has been formed in Ambasamndram to observe the first anniversary of the late Rasiknmani T. K. chithambaranatha Mudallar on February 27. The following- are the office-bearers of the Reception Committee: Mr. Maragada Subramania. Pillai, president; Mr. A. Nataraja Mudaliar, Treasurer, Messrs, Kulasai
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  • 152 2 KOTTAYAM: Rajkumari Amni liaur, Union Health M.mster, In a telegram to the Peace league Fremliirnr. who is stated to be on a "fast unto death" at the premises of the Holy Crose Chufrich, »\< ttayuni. expressed her "great disappointment and scotow that the fast was sml
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  • 422 2 Development Of Drama: Prasad's Appeal Awards To Winners In Festival KEW DELHI: President Kajendra l'rasad last Wednesday appealed to people in the country to take interest in and co-operate in the development of the dramatic art. President Prasad who pie-ented awards of the National Drama Festival to winners and aiso
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  • 238 3 IT AMOUNTS TO "Nationalisation" —Minister Guha NEW DELHI: Mr. A run tiumlia Guha, M nisler for Revenue and) Defence Expenditure, said in the Kajya Sabha (Council <i States) last week that the final recommendations of the Kimtvi- Bank n regard to a detailed arrangement ai'
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  • 137 3 NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Nehru has sent the following meosage on the ii«jw.«in of the first Writers' Conference which the PEN Centre in Pakistan held at Dacca rrora Feb. 24 to 26. "I am glad to learn that the PEN Centre in Pakistan is holding' its
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  • 55 3 BOMBAY: Mr. Jamnadas M. Mehta, a former Finance Minister of the Bombay Govern, ment, died at his Malabar Hill residence here after a protracted illness, Mr. Jamnadas was 70. Born on August 3, 1884, Mr. Jamnadas had his education in Bombay and London where he I
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  • 33 3 TRIVANDRL'M; T h Ivaji>ramukh of Travail-eore-Occhin, accompanied by his Private Secretary and menibeirs of the royal household attended a film j*how of Vijaya's "Missiamma" Git >'e\v Theatres i rivandnim. V&s\ WedneM- tlay.—
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  • 407 3 FOC MADRAS: Tile need for giving Urdu its Droper place in the national life was stressed by f^uazi Abdul Gaftar, President Ar.juman-LTaraqqLl-rrdu, Aligarn, when he presui od over the All-India Urdu Conterence held at the New College grounds. In the coarse of his addre:;^. Quasi Abdul Gaffar
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  • 111 3 HANGAL.ORS. Mr. P. R. ttamaiya (Cong.-Bangaiorc; •jvus informed in the Mysore t, miFlatlve A ssembly last week by the Minister for Edu- cation and information, Mr. AO Kamachandra Rao, that the ttate Government had i'utnished their views on the press Commission report to the Cgovurnment of
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  • 41 3 TECHNICAL COLLEGE LABUtiAiuRY Chemistry students are *no\v*ng even greater keenness U> t at- twis-'iVlionai'iv tine JaUtiraii t\ at tne new xcchnical College- Kuala i.iuiijiiir, (ril^ht) Every posMbln ia« ii i v is available (or vtuuents in .i.u- teuecomrnu-i.u-.ii.. n N laboratory.
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  • 233 3 MADRAS: Mr. E. John Fh.hpose. former Minister ->f Travancore-Oochin, died variy on Wednesday morning at the General Hospital. He was ail ng for the past two months and was admitted in the Hospital a fortnight ago. He was p&ed 52. The funeral took place
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  • 70 3 MADRAS; a seven-year old boy by name Papa, of Tripllcane, was electrocuted on Feb. 22 when he came lnt o contact with a live wire near the lamp post in Peyaivar Koil Street of the same locality while playing. At the inquest held over the body, the panchayatdars
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  • 368 3 CONTRIBUTION TO TAMIL BY MUSLIMS MADRAS: The part played by Muslim poets in the promotion of Tamil was stressed by Mr. A. M. A. Azeez, Principal of the Zahira College and Ceylon Senator, when he presided over the Tamil Poets' Day organised in connection with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of
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  • 616 3 MADRAS: The death occurred of Mr. A. Vaidyanatha Aiyar, veteran Congressman, in a private nursing home in Mylapore at 10.30 on Wednesday night- He was 65. He had been suffering from lenm'a for the last nine months. The body was taken to Madurai, by car where
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  • 540 3 MADRAS: Dr. Zaki r Hussain, Vice-Chancellor, Ahgarh University, declaring open the Pre-Basic section of the Avvai Home, Adyar said that five years ago, when he took up education as life career, he little imagined that he would get so much involved in it. As Vice-Chancellor, he was
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  • 100 3 PHOTO. Princess Margaret rides a 34-foot long bamboo rait on her way to shoot the rapid* on the Rio Grande River at port Antonio Jamica, o n Feb 23. With her Is Lady Foot, wife of Sir Hugh Foot, the Governor of Jamaica. At the
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  • 526 3 Education In India SURVEY OF PROGRESS IN 1950-51 NEW DELHI: According to the education statistics compiled by the Union Education Ministry for the year JDSu-ol in, the whole of the country there were 2,80,217 recognised institutions of all types (from primary and preprunary schools to arts and science colleges and
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  • 73 4 Tho people of Karak Town in Pahang on Sunday held an ("i ction to their Local Council Five out of 20 candidates who contested thp elections were elected. Due to heavy rain only 37 per cent of the electorate voted. The Successful candidates were Tan Jin Hon
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  • 527 4 JUDGES' STRICTURES ON KOTELAWALA GOVT. COLOMBO. Two judges of the Ceylon Supreme Court. Their Lordship* Gratia n and Sansoni, last week criticised the manner in which the Ceylon Government was administering the citizenship law in granting citizenship to Ceylon Indians. They pointed out that
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    150 4 PHOTO. Group photograph taken immediately after the farewell dinner held in honour of Mr u. Ramalmgam, (sitting, garlanded) a prominent member of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Tamils' Reform Association by his colleagues on the axmmittee at No. 22 St. Michael's Road, the residence of the T.R.A. President Mr.
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  • 217 4 M.I.C. Alliance With UNMO-MCA Defended BANTING, (Selangor): 1954 jias been a record year fcr the Banting District since the ttrst white area stretching for 5 miles was declared, said Mr Daniel Jayaratnam presiding at the 3rd annual general meeting of the Banting Branch of the Malayan Indian Congress held last
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  • 43 4 A party in honour of Mr. C. Kesavan, ex-Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin State who Is now on a three months, visit to Malaya, has been arranged by the Singapore Kerala Samajam Reception Committee to take place st
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  • 64 4 Malayalee Footballers To Note The Sports Secretary of tne Singapore Kerala **ama]am requests all members interested in football to send in their names t c the Samajam Office on or before March 5. All selected players will be supplied with uniforms. Those interested are invited to attend a meeting on
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  • 62 4 She Sawed Through His Wooden Leg PARIS, Mar. 1: Former policeman Ernest Carrere, 52, sued hi-, wife for divorce and accused her of partially sawing through his wooden leg. Carrere «a'd he was walking down the stairs when he noticed the leg seemed to give a bit. He examined it
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  • 537 4 From O»r Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR: Tues. One more Communist terrorist has surrendered and <inothehr has been wounded ov the Security Forces in tne federation, it is no w known that two more terrorists have ri.ed in the jungle says today s Emergency Communique. ABORIGINES TOO A
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  • 619 4 High Commissioner Defends "Intelligence Test" Speech At Opening Of New Technical College In Kuala Lumpur KUALA LUMPUR, Tues: Declaring open this new Federal Teehnical College here, the High Commissioner Sir Donald MacGillivray defended the "Intelligence Test" for children seeking admission to primary classes, and declared that if Malayans were afraid
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  • 165 4 Land For Indian Labourers: NIC Has Not Passed On Application Since December 1953! Ulu Langat D.O. From Our Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. The District Officer, Ulu Langat, Mr. J. L. M. Gorrie, denies statements made in a report which appeared in a number of newspapers that Indians recently applied through
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  • 226 4 The Libcrarian cf Raffles L<:uiary, Mr. L>. M. harrod, yesteiuay told a fress Coniercnce tnat iarger quantities 01 dooks tnan ever uciore are oeiug purcnased by the Library ana mat »tts,Ouo will b c spent on buying fcingLsh and Oriental bocks during 1955. "1 am
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  • 46 4 KATHMANDTJ Earthquake tremors of minor intensity lasting a few seconds early Thursday morning woke the people here whc ran out of their houses in the open for safety in spite of the chilly weather. No damage to life or property was reported. FOC
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  • 44 4 The Annual General Meeting of the Singapore Family Planning Association will be held/ at 5.15 p.m., Friday, Mar. 4, at Y.W.C.A., Collyer Quay. The Director of Medical Services, Dr. Bland will be present af the Meeting and will also speak.
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  • 134 4 R. L WANTS 7,500 ENGINEERS In an interview with "Antara'' Mr. Djuanda, chairman «f the Association oI inn. in -i an Jbngineers »aid, nun according to n.s calculation, Indonesia by th« end oi iy«o is in neea of at least 7,500 engineer*. Including professors, lecturers, and research workers. ihe meinoership
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  • 40 4 There will be a lecture at lac Singapore Lodge Theosophical Society premises at No. 8. Ctdrnhill Road, on Thursday Mar. 3 at 6.30 p.m. On "PEACE" by Blkku Chandrasiri. AM are cordially invited, writes the Hon. secretary.
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  • 142 4 Traffic Arrangements For "Cheng Meng" Trie annual Chinese FtotttvaJ "Chens: Meng" will fall on Sunday, April 5. In past years it wo-i found thut traffic was generally heavy a'.ong Khejim Hock P.o.vi i oO within Eukit Brov/n Chir.>: Cemetei y on account of crow.l j of people visiting the graves
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  • 111 4 CADETS FOR R. M. N. Medlca! and interview board* will take place during April and candidates finally selected will be entered into the Royal Malayan Naval Barracks, Woodlands, Singapore (27) on or about May 29, 1955. QUALIFICATIONS Candidates must be Brltlsn subjects between the ages of 17 i 2l> years
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