Malaya Tribune, 31 January 1947

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  • 59 1 The Malaya Tribune B y THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE THE ONLY NATIONAL NEWSPAPER IN MALAYA Now printed simul taneously i n Singapore, Kuala L umpur. Ipoh Penang. 'Phone Numbers: Editor 5813 Editorial. 5811 Advertising 5812 Circulation Accounts 2005! i I* AG Ro I 1 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947
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  • 148 1 Today's Test S n g 1 a d AD ELAI ;l r'h Test p t<-Jay r »n and igethei I and the ihere wi s a r the t >s. ia la the IS the Fr er s n la the r opened tck Both trook wer
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  • 46 1 ENGL AND Ist In n ings 28 27 Extras 3 0 Wkt.) 58 0 M. R. W. 7 2 110 0 21 0 2 16 0 0 7 0 I Corrpton. i ff Ikin Yard- Wright. 1 man, Iforett Miller. rallon. Lindi i ishaek
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  • 24 1 India' S Food Position Bad LATEST 30 Dr. Rao. Indian Emi ite to the gency Food eting of the herself now >rse thna in
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  • 172 1 tTribune Staff Report err Six armed robberies were reported in S'nßaporo ve^te'*aav Four Chinese, three of whom parried pistols, boarded a ton- j kang lying at anchor off Uoanh j Road at 7.30 p.m. yesterday and made off with $3,200 in Straits currency, $3,057 in Burmese
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  • 774 1 "Conservative" Employers Criticised TRADE UNION ADVISER HITS OUT (Tribune Staff Reporter) Slashing at conservative employers and their failure to realize the changing times, Mr. S. P. Garrett, Trade Union Adviser in Singapore, called for a new deal for employees in a stirring address at
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  • 411 1 U.P. Warsaw, Jan. 31. —The Security Police have arrestel Mrs. Maria Malinowska. 50, p/ess translator for the /British Embassy and prewar employee of the United States Embassy on what the Foreign Office spokesman General Wictor Grosz described as a "serious charge" The British press attache,
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  • 91 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Municipal lorry drivers jomed the strikers this morning thus further crippling the Town Cleansing Department As a resulVof this latesCStnke nearly twenty of the lorries used by Japanese PoWs on their rounds have been Immobilised. Only ..ix lorries are on the road,
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  • 142 1 Reuter. LONDON. Jan. 30 Application for baikruDtcv discharge on behalf of Ronald Frankau, radio star, was granted at London Bankruptcy Court today The official receiver said Frankau in 1940 with l*abilit:es of £3,428. which included £778 of debts in previous bankruptcy. A dividend of five shillings
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  • 62 1 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Jan. 30.-Mutiny was reported tonight to have broken out among 200 Netherlands ma.mes on their way to the Netherlands East Indies aboard the 14,134-ton Dutch ship Boissevain. The Netherlands Naval infprmation Service saYs that Lieut.Col. J. J. A. de Bruyn and six other officers
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  • 30 1 PARIS. Jan. 30 .—Persistent reports that General Leclerc wouid replace Admiral D'Argenlieu as French High Commissioner in IndoChina were described tonight In official quarters here as "inaccurate and certainly premature."
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  • 178 1 Judge Warns Of "Wolves, Sheep" Reuter. GLASGOW. Jan 30 —A soldier giving evidence in Glasgow today in the trial ol nine soldiers by a court martial for alleged mutiny by leaving troopship Prince, said that it had not struck him that that by refusing to embark at Southampton
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  • 45 1 Fire broke out in one of the tents in Tanglin Barracks yesterday. The whole tent with eight beds in it. ae Weil a s personal effects of the occupants, were Completely destroyed. Military personnel extinguished the fire before the Fire Brigade arrived.
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  • 1129 1 Reuter. Capetown, Jan. 30. —Membership of the United Nations Organisation did not allow for principles of racial discrimination and supremacy, declared Senator H. M. Basner, native representative, in the South African Senate today. Senator Basner moved a resolution stating "this House is of the
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  • 345 1 Five Years Ago 1,000 Were Shot, And Yesterday..... (Tribune Staff Reporter) Right on the spot where more than 40 truckloads ot Chinese youths—numbering almost 1,000 —were ruthlessly machine-gunned by the Japanese five years ago, hundreds of Chinese widows and mothers held a fourhour ceremony yesterday afternoon to
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  • 80 1 HONU KONG, Jan. 30.—Radio Vietnam said today that French troops in Hue, halfway Detwcen Hanoi and Saigon, were "tightly surrounded by Vietnam troops who were holding off French ielnforcements from Tourane and Laos." The Radio did not say how many French troops were in volved. The Radio
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  • 144 1 Reuter. MUNICH. Jan. 30 —So intense is Munich's arctic-like weather that the Bavarian Commissioner for Refugees, Wolfgang Wannicke. found his wife with bedclothes frozen to her face today. Grease had to be applied before they could be removed. In England blizzards are sweeping the south
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  • 212 1 MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 30—A tornado struck the edge of the City today. Severaf people Wtr«. killed and at least 15 injured. HAMBURG, Jan. 30.—Thousands of Germans have written asking for the maximum legal penalty for Fritzsche. former Nazi radio chief. TEHERAN, Jan. 30. —Martial law and
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  • 272 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 30.—The Pan Malayan Federation of Trade Unions at its second annual conference here, after over fifteen hours' discussion on the constitutional proposals, favours the calling of a round table conference of all communities and parties to draft a
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  • 105 2 NEW DELHI, Jan. 29.—A general conference of rulers of the Indian Princes States passed the following resolutions here today: 1. While the States are anxious to assist in fraffling the constitution for a free India, the States will retain all their subjects exceut those whom they
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  • 80 2 Reuter. London. Jan. 30.—Generalissimo Stalin's remark that before vhe Anglo-Soviet Treaty could b? extended it should be freed from rertain reservations which in h\± j view at present weaken it "ttf naturally receiving our most careful consideration." said Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Under-Se cretary of Foreign Affairs ih s
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  • 205 3 Tan Chan Hoat (16), in whose possession a dagger was found when he was arrested was sentenced tg six months' imprisonment. Two others. Ong Ah Gong (lg) and Tan Tong Beng (17) were each ordered to execute bonds to be of good behaviour
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  • 87 3 Accompanied by fcho Deputy Commissioner (.Interior) and the Asst. District OAcer, Kuala Lumpur, H. H. the Sultan visited Kampong Pan tai on January. 21, and addrtased a large Crowd of Malaya The inhabitants who were greatly honoured by the visit expressed their gratitude for the keen
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  • 69 3 Two seamen of the s.s. "Dewanhall." Henry Simpson Franks (21) and Henry Green McNiff (23>, pleaded not guilty in the Third Magistrate's Court ye*terday, to charges of theft of beer ffom the Singapore harbour board on Jan. 29 or alternatively with dishonestly retaining stolen
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  • 67 3 Three young Chinese Ong Cheng Kin (23), Tan Ba Kan (21) and Pua Ah Loo (19), were ordered to be remanded in custody for 24 hours after they appeared on a tentative chaige of roobcry before Si cund Magisirai-e L C. Goh yssterday. It was alleged
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  • 30 3 Prospects for a number of good New Zealand schools have been received in the Public Relations Office where they can be consulted at any time during office hours.
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  • 737 3 TERMS OF REFERENCE The terms of reference the Malayan War Damage Claims Commission were announced last night. The Commission are asked to submit as soon as possible preliminary estimates of the total amount of claims received, and their recommendations as to any small ciaims that might
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  • 105 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) "No news" proved to be bad tfffa yesterday—at least from the newsmen's point of view, —for both officials and unofficial were mum about the current Municipality labourers' strike which today enters its 11th day. At the second Advisory Council meeting of the year
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  • 18 3 Mr. D. G. Hall, Assistant Comptroller of Customs. Kedah and Perils, has gon? on transfer to Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 141 3 Found guilty of voluntary causing hurt to Sepoy Ram Ujagar who was waylaid ir> Veerasamy Road ar.d relieved of $60 on the night of Aug. 6 last year, three Indians Jehal Singh, Nasir Singh and an Indian Army private Jai Deo Were yesterday sentenced
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  • 272 3 At a coroner's inquiry yesterday, into tne death of Suppiah (35). a harbour board labourer, Gulzaman. a policeman, said In evidence uiat whiie on duty watcnuig Ctrgo being unloaded from a ship, he was informed by a mechanic foreman that some coolies were breaking open
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  • 533 3 Defence At Court Martial Continuing: his defence at the court martial trial yesterday of seven Indian sol 'ers of the 7th Coast Regiment, stationed at Christmas Island in March 1942. Naik Allah Bux, accused No. 2, told the court that Subedar Murzaffir Khan was
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  • 486 4 When the Army thinks ot* stopping a project because of the cost, then the situation is serious. But contractors' costs are so high, it seems, that the Army's building programme in Singapore is to be re-examined, with the probability that when the work already in hand has
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  • 1211 4  -  by ROBERT FAHN LONDON—The British Royal Family's tour of the Union of I South Africa has been described I officially as an "austerity trip I but preparations and plans an- nounced to-day disclosed elaborate arrangements for it. When King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses
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  • 124 4 TOKlO—There is little prospect that Japan's budget can be balanced m the nsar future. Currency Inflation is considered a grave problem and S.C.A.P. officials are encouraging the Japanese government to increase taxes and to adopt the "pay-as-you-go" system of income taxation. They also advise a revision of
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  • 174 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Will the city fathers be kind enough to investigate the plight of labour in the S.T.C., which is wholly a public concern although it is a shareholders company. In any case if the employees of the S.T.C. go on strike
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  • 111 4 Sir,—I would like to refer to an item jn your issue of Monday. January 27th. on the front Dage, under the heading "2,000* Jap Personnel Working." In that item it is stated that tour thousand labourers under the Public Works Department are carrying on the work of the
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  • 260 4 Sir,—I have the honour to refer to your leading article of January 28th on the subject of the flour ration. The facts presented in your article are incorrect, as you did not take into account the flour issued to bakers. The correct facts are as follows:— The
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  • 111 4 Sir.—The price of r.ce ii to be increased on Feb. 3rd to 25 cents per Katty. Tnis. oi course, is "justified' by the rosy prospect ol the increase in the rice ration. While the increase in the ration is welcomed one cannot but look askance at
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  • 271 4 Sir,—Sir Edward Gent's sensible appeal to the people of Malaya to avoid any action or word calculated to cause estrangemen, of friendly feelings recalls to my mind the recent speech made b/ a senior Government official when he addressed a meeting of the Teachers' Refresher Course held
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  • 436 4 Sir.—At the last Advisory Council meeting held in December. 1946. Mr. H. S. Lee ably stre-sed the need for revising tne Government salary schemes or non-European employees "so that a contented service may be established which is so necessary if the administration is to be run efficiently." A
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  • 383 4 Washington.—A reorganisation of thi infantry and armoured divisions to take in the lessons learned during World War Two w a recently by Commanding General of the Arm Forces General Jacob L. Devers. Washington—A reorganization of the U.S. Army's infantry and armoured divisions to take into account the
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  • 176 4 CANTON.—Two Chil found themselves married Id tb wrong men here as the resur a free-ror-aU. which onto eoes to show that myth Ing can I 1 pen in China, and generally j The two girls travelled via sedan-chair. Uoing ir. directions, the wedding DirtiCJ had to pass
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    • 137 4 I WELCOME RE-rXH*X After 4 Years of Separation! I, Personal Message to all ISavarozi Devotees I GREETINGS and all good wishes for api ,uS NEW YEAR. This comes from the Spiritual Hea ,pr J of NAVAROZI. During the duration you were ali touch with me; but, thanks to Almighty, we
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    • 41 4 STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By E rnest hT" nteSERL, US. AMg^SAOORS^B^V r^ l <r > AND MINISTERS WAVE NOT WAD A I Sr/CKBALL U/OZLDSE&ES OF THE STREETS/ thousands OF children Play it, using a g£OOM stick Sat and a RU6SER Sall/ —<aj
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  • 215 5 ambas- j v and at the ,7 i ion at n 1 Council I Washing- < yde, told v that j underßno ftc nc f in < fl* pc. I *J l ergency ite emphawill also 1 necessity I 7/ie j remain so i applies 1
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  • 59 5 in l: uni of S2OO was ndered JapanUeno Sadayoshi, inied trial in the c Court yesterday, of dishonestly a case of ci- 100 in a godown mi board on postponed to pleaded guilty to c of theft of of c garettes from the n and was senday's
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  • 867 5 FOOD ADVISER ON NEED FOR MORE PRODUCTION There is still a great deal to be done in the way of South-East Asia's food allocations but the case as it was presented in Washington by Dr. W. M. Clyde. Food Adviser to the Special
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  • 547 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30— The Secretary-General of the International Emergency Food Council. Mr. Denis A. Fitzgerald, stressed today the "continued existence of a world food shortage of great severity— very difficult days lie ahead." He told the delegates of the 30 nations attending the
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  • 133 5 PENANG. Resolutions Urging upon the members of the Consultative Committee to resign and calling upon the members of the Advisory Councils to do likewise were unanimously passed at a mass meeting of Indians held at the Chinese Recreation Club ground Penang. A third resolution appealed
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  • 23 5 Yakarim Dispensary in Station Road. Tapah. has started a weekly clinic. Poor Muslims from Batang Padang District are given free treatment every Friday.
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  • 71 5 Reuter. London, Jan. 30.--Police and officials last night searched Buckingham Palace, the King's residence in London, after receiving a telephone message from a man who shouted: "Clear Buckingham Palace because bombs have been placed there to go off on Saturday."' Nothing suspicious was found, cut extra guards
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  • 197 5 Shanghai. Jan. 30.—1t was authoritatively learned here today that Uie Piper Cup rescue plane had landed on the scene of the CNAC crash. 20 miles from Hankow. It was reported that only one child survived and it was not yet determined it the child
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  • 108 5 U.P. Peiping. Jan 30.—Private First Class Warren Thomas Pritchard who wa c alleged to have been involved in the rape of a Chinese collegian by Corporal William Pierson. pleaded not guilty, as the trial opened in a Marine genedal court martial this morning. Pritchard was charged
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  • 247 5 Tan Cheng Lock's Warning Mr. Tan Cheng Lock in an address to the committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday, called for support for the Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action in its efforts to secure the rejection of the Malayan constitutional proposals which,
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  • 38 5 WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.—The retiring India Charge D'Affaires, Sir Oirja Bajpai, made a faiewell call on President Truman yesterday. He told reporters as he left White House that the President exiiessed the hope that Inula would attain her aspirations.
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  • 409 5 DETAINED SOLDIER DESCENDS 50-FOOT "BLANKET LADDER" For the first time since the new two-storey wing containing lock-up cells on the first floor of the Central Police Station. Singapore, was built about twenty years ago, a prisoner held in custody broke out of the cells
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  • 140 5 Sir Clutha McKenzie of the St Dunstan's Home for the blind has arrived in Singapore from Calcutta On his way to China. He is going to China on the invitation of the Chinese Government to report on blindness in China, and to advise on the
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  • 24 5 The Raja of Perlis (according to the Malayan Union Finance Committee's report) ha s pd the car which he lost during ♦he Japanese occupation.
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  • 241 6 BATU ARANG STRIKE EXPECTED TO BE SETTLED TODAY (Tribune Staff fteporter) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 30.—A settlement of the BaUl Arang coal strike is likely tomorrow. That is the prevailing belief in official circles. An official source informed me that practically all the demands of
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  • 172 6 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 29.—Reparking that he was perfectly satisfied With the evidence put forward bjr the prosecution the Distriot Judge, Mr. M. Garton. yesterday convicted two British soldiers. Private J. Rtissel and Corporal Stevenson and sentenced them to six months' rigorous imprisonment each on a
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  • 29 6 Reuter. Colombo. Jan. 30.—General Sir Montagu Stopf jrd. who is on a brt-3f farewell visit to the Ceylon garrison, arrived here today in i» York plane from Singapore.— Reuter.
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  • 138 6 Reuter. Loidon. Jan. 30.--More United Slates wheat of flour will be released for expoit because of reduction in United States home consumption of wheat This implication is clear in a statement made by the United States Department cl Agriculture li
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  • 128 6 (Out F!naneial Torresp )-(!cnt> The London c.i.f. prices for rubber weakened considerably on Wednesday due to much cheaper offers from Singapore and was followed by a further drop of a quarter cent in the local price this morning. Buyer-, price is now only about a quarter cent
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  • 177 6 The market in industrials continued to be steady in selective is«ttes yesterday. Fraser Neaves were still in demand at $3.20 or near, while Breweries were again done at $17$ and Traders $16.15. Collieries, however, were a turn easier at $2.12. Hammers now have sellers at $40.
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  • 194 6 NEW YORK. Jan. 29.—Steel shares with gains ranging to more than two points led th? stock mftrket into a new high ground for the year on an active turnover. The demand for steel issues was inspired b y the U.S. Steei Corporation's report for 1945
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  • 138 6 Reuter. BORDEAUX, Jan. 30.—Magda Fontanges, 37-year-old former friend of Mussolini, was sentenced by a military court here early this morning to 15 years' hard labour and Confiscation of property for intelligence with the enemy. She was also sentenced to "national indignity for life," and banned from
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  • 309 6 Prices quoted below are for picul weight except where other wise stated. Foodstuffs: Yesterday's quotwere "Meehoon": &iam No 1 $871. Rice: Siam No. 1 $110; No. 2 $m. Rice milling: Siam $40; OlU' tlnuous rice; Siam $»5. Rock Sugar:—s49. "Gul a" Malacca: —duperlor QV...'ity $4i. White
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  • 159 6 Methodist Bishop W. Angie Smith, of Oaklahoma City, U.S.A., i 3 expected in Singapore or* Sunday evening from India. He is one of the tWo bishops sent by the Methodist Council of Bishops in the United States to tour Iftflia, Malaysia, Philippines, afid China in
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  • 71 7 Bees Leicester in Another Cup Draw J n. 30,-Brent-J i ndon another u\ Association not yet flnish[ess draw witn replay, after today. twn l u m D> r>ill<; and deto the snoweeuHe bait;ed Bg an aggreIng the first uiday of 210 goaL They time at Villa Pane and th,- winners
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  • 186 7 Reuter. NEW IORK, Jan. 30.—Italy. Rumania and Hungary have ->ked to oe allowed to play in thi= year's Davis Cup, it was announced today. But under ruling debarring tx-enemy nations from challenging until they have been reinstated in the International Lawn Tennis Federation, their I
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  • 80 7 Reuter. LEEDS, Jan. 30.—Sir Stanley Jackson and Brian Sellers were reelected, respectively, President and Captain of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club at the annual meeting held in Leeds today. Neither was present at the meeting, Sir Stanley being absent ewing to a chill while Mr.
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  • 115 7 Alleged to have harboured a compatriot »ho had allegedly committed an offence of criminal intimidation, and had ae&seision of a .45 bullet, Yong Kee Yong (37) appeared on tentative charges before Second Magistrate L. C Goh. One of the charges was that he harboured Lee Ah
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  • 44 7 On and from to-day to February 6, Radio Malaya will relay a ball-by-ball commentary of the Test Match from 1400 hours to 1530 hours, Malayan Time. It will be broadcast in the Blue Network on 485 metres and 41 metres.
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  • 317 7 Rain, a muddy ground and a greasy ball, hampered play in the middle of the first half oi the football match play d on the padang yesterday, when the 3.R.C rtceived a beating at the hands of the R.A.F. Changi, whn emerged with colour c flying.
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  • 34 7 Former members of the Union Sporting Association are asked to send in their new addresses to the Hon. Secretary, No. 54, Chitty Road, with the view to reviving its activities. I
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  • 338 7 (Tribune Soccer Reporter) The FiTst Division Football League will begin on Feb. 18 when the Navy will meet the Singapore Police. The following are the fixtures up to April 3: it will be noted that week-end games have been fa'rly allotted to all the ten competing
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  • 85 7 The following members are requested to represent the party against the T.T.S.H. B.P. on Sunday, at 3 p.m. on their court. Players and supporters are to assemble at the party's court for free transport at 2 p.m. sharp. Lim Cheng Kwee. Tan Cheng Thye, Lim Kirn Jee.
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  • 79 7 Jafar Ahmad (23). an Arab, and Sardar Singh <23). a Sikh, who were jointly charged on two counts of theft of a wrist watch and causing hurt to Hamzah bin Jan Mohamed. claimed trial before Second Magistrate L- C. Goh. yesterday The offences were alleged to have
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  • 71 7 In adopting '999' for Its emergency public calls, Singapore is DUtting itself in line with London. According to an article in the latest Picture Post, "It's the number which sets 50 police cars in the trouble-markers track; <t's the number which meant the arrest of 6,000 wrongdoers last
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  • 142 7 At the 18th annual general meetirg of the Singapore Amateur Sports Union held on January, 26, the following were elected officebearers for the ensuing year: Patrons: Messrs. Yeo Siew Chuan (re-elected i. Lim hong Swee, Wee Kirn Le, nj: and fleet Ttaafc Huat (re-elected). Preside: t:
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  • 232 7 International Badminton IPOH—At the first Council meeting of the Badminton Association of Malaya held at the Perak Clerical Union premises, a resolution was passed by the delegates to the effect that "the Baaminton Association of Malaya is resolved that an additional zone to be
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  • 41 7 The ban on the sweetened condensed milk in coffee shops has been cancelled. The lliting of this order was made possible owing to the present favourable stocks of sweetened condensed milk in tae uolony, states an official announcement
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  • 60 7 IPOH, —O n the occasion of the wedding of Dr. S. Lourdunadin of Sirfgapore and Fruthaya Mary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. John Pillai of Ipoh, a reception was held at the Mayfair Hotel. Among those present were Mr. Falconer. Deputy Commissioner, Kinta, and Mrs. Falconer, and
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  • 69 7 Two hundred and eleven cases of smallpox were reported in the Malayan Union for the week ending Jan. 18 compared with the previous week's total of 215 cases. There were 29 deaths. Biggest outbreak was recorded in Trengganu with 177 cases and 12 deaths, while
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  • 54 7 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 30.—The Foreign Office spokesman today stated it Was naturally a matter for regret that the United States mission of conciliation between the Chinese Government and the Communists had failed. He added there was no occasion to comment on the United States decision to withdraw
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  • 170 8 Reuter. LONDON, Jan. 29—The Earl »1 Kowe sapitrMcd regret in the House of Lords today that trie Ajax mad Achilles, haloed in British naval History for the p?irt they played in the battle of the Rrver Piatt. were to go to India. l)<- .-uggesud that
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  • 40 8 Reuter. THE HAGUE. Jan. 30.—V.K. Krishna Menon, special representative of the Indian Interim Government, yesterday visited the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron Van BoetZelaer Va n Costerhout, for preparatory discussions to establish a diplomatic post in the Netherlands. —Reuter.
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