Malaya Tribune, 17 January 1949

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  • 62 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper in Malaya. Printed Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh d Penang. Telegrams: Tribune B'pere." Teleplione: 5811 (9 lines). EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: E. Maurice Glover, c/o
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  • 95 1 UP. LONDON. Sun.—The Sunrhiy Express said today the Kir.' ok Oi Egypt may flee loon to his estate in Rhodesia. The flight irom the throne newspaper said, would foe •<-j by the boiling over of the political pot as the resuk Egypt's "cataterophic by Israeli forces,
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  • 78 1 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. British pinion here discounter! ;i sugge.-tion made in the Londo press today that Egypt isk Fintain to send with threat of inlisordcr under the terms Egyptian treaty of that Egypt did not Britain under the ...m.s of the treaty on the occasion of
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  • 75 1 U.P. CAIRO, Sunday.—A reliable source said tonight that Aziz El Masri Pasha, former chief of it itt of the Egyptian army, has been arrested. Ht was arrested, according to reliable sources, in connection with Thursday's explosion outside the Court of Appeal in Cairo. It was understood
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  • 48 1 A.P. 081 A Cyprus, Sun.—The governor of Cyprus, Lord Wrns•r. returned to Cyprus Sunday wind up his personal affairs >re leaving the island for within a fortnight or so. Me was accompanied by J. Ij Martin, Assistant Under- rctary to the British Colonial Oflice.—A P
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  • 84 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) MI'AR, Today.—Two notorious Johore bandit chief n were shot dead by a police and military patroi during a dawn raid on a hut one mile behind Bakri Police Station. Two other bandits were wounded and captured. A double murder is reported from
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  • 39 1 The .I.D. arrested a Hokkien 1 on a warrant from Penang dur- I ing the week-end. The man is I said to be a dangerous secret society member. A Teochew also was arrested on a banishment warrant.
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  • 103 1 U.P. ISTANBUL, Sun. The appointment of the conservative, deeply religious 66-year-old Sansettin Gunalty as the new Turkish Premier was regarded here today as one of the biggest political surprises in Turkey in recent years. Gunalty, a member of the old guard of the Peoples' Republican
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  • 467 1 Solid Anglo-U.S. Front Needed U.P. lON DON, Sun.—United Press was Lolri by a high military authority tor Jay that the British government fears that continued deterioration of the Palestine situation may b-j the steppins-stone to World War 111. This source indicated that this was
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  • 37 1 in a series of security checkups over the week-end. 2,339 person were interrogated. No one was detained. Mobile patrols were used in these checkups which covered Pasir Panjang, Serangoon, Geylang and the Keppel Harbour areas.
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  • 282 1 U.P. DURBAN, Sun.—Police reported thai the worst race rioting in South African hist r> is under control in this city today, but retorts of violence between Zulus and Indians came from other areas, including the gold-rich mining district of the Rand Beatings and murder*,
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  • 91 1 Reuter. BOMBAY. Sun. Commenting on the Durban riots, Sardar Vallabhai Patel. India's Deputy Prime Minister said today it was regrettable that Indians should suffer in a far off land although their country was already free and independent. "Poignancy of the situation is heightened by the fact that India
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  • 31 1 Reuter. DURBAN, Sun.—Mr. C R. Swart, South African Justice Minister, said today before leaving Durban for Capetown. "I have no evidence of any organised movement behind the riots."—Reuter.
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  • 167 1 STOP PRESS For some time, certain leaders of the Chinese community in the Federation have been conslderiJp tin formation of a Malayan Chinese Association. It is understood that as a result of these efforts such an association will shortly be established for the whole of the Federation.
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  • 179 1 U.P. BATAVIA. Sun.—The United Nation. Committee of Good Offices, in a special report to the Security Council, disclosed tonight that hign Republican leaders are virtually imprisoned on Bangka island north of Batavia despite Dutch assurances that they have been given complete freedom of movement.
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  • 231 1 U.P. NEW DELHI. Sun.—The Indonesian delegates will ask the Asiatic nations meeting here Thursday for arms and ammunition to blast the Dutch out of the East Indies, if necessary. Republican sources said today. Dr. Soerdarsono. representative to India, said he hoped a peaceful solution
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  • 184 1 Reuter. NANKING, oun.—Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, speaking today at a military ceremony rumoured to be his last public f-ppsarance called on China's armed forces to "stand as one man" and to "wipe out all past humiliations The President who was speaking at the mausoleum
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  • 79 1 U.P. NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. Sun.—Herbert Morrison said tonight that the arrest of Cari dinal Mindszenty in Hungary j signified a Communist campaign to wipe out "every vestige of freedom in the countries under their control." Morrison spoke at a Labour rally here. "The
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  • 111 1 A CIVILIAN concert party from Singapore, invited by the Camp authorities to entertain a Service audience at Selarang Barracks Changi. last night, staged a "walk-out"' a few minutes before the curtain went up as ;< protest against "shabby treatment." Despite advance notice being given about the
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  • 49 1 U.P. DURBAN, Sun.—One European and 84 Africans and Indians were listed as dead tonight and 309 Africans and 249 Indians were listed as in hospitals tonight in a new recapitulation of statistics in the savage rioting which swept this South African city for two days.—U.P.
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  • 17 2 Left:—Frederick IX, King of Denmark. Below:— Prime Minister of Denmark*, Hans Hedstoti.
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  • 355 2 Reuter. COPENHAGEN, Sun.—Denmark's ttet'wm. nation to defend herself if she should be Mtacked was stressed by the Danish Prime Minister, Mr. Hans Hedstoft, in a recent statement in which he "said that although the fouiury was re-arming, she was doing so with a
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  • 150 2 Reuter. LONDON Sunday. Joseph William Toft travelled to and from his suburban home near London for six months not knowing he was a comparatively rich man. A neighbour first told him of it. Mr. Toft rang up his solicitor to check and found he had been left
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  • 140 2 Reuter. OTTAWA, Sunday. For the first time in 62 years. Canadians can coat a slice of bread with margarine without fear of breaking the law. The ban on margarine, imposed during Canada's horse-and-buggy days, was lifted by a 5-2 decision recently by the Supreme Court of Canada.
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  • 324 2 A.P. ROME, Sun.—ltalian economy, primed by millions of American dollar., in Roods and credits—stood, at the end of ?948, well on tne way to recovery. But unemployment, strikes and slow-downs and steady increase in a vast flow of lire still weighed heavily on
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  • 42 2 LAKE SUCCESS Sunday. The United Nations has launched an international drive against syphilis. The U.S. International Children's Emergency Fund, with the World Health Organisation co-operating, has allocated funds for the campaign to five countries Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland.
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  • 215 2 A.P. MEXICO CITY. Sun. -Mexico olans a vast land reclamation programme to halt etjsion and produce more food. Roughly one-seventh of the country's 764,000 square miles is called arable. Of that about one-seventh is productive farmland. The remainder is pasture or forest. Secretary of Agriculture
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  • 529 3 Cost Of Modern Equipment High Reuter. DUBLIN. Sun.—The defence of the ntvv Republic of Eire is the No. 1 headache of Minister responsible, Dr. T F. O'Higgins There is no money to provide for it on an adequate cale and, owing to the abnee
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  • 67 3 U.P. HAVANA. Sun.—A bomb inside the home of a former government minister last night destroying a sict.oii of the house, but causing no injuries. A little girl sleeping in ;l room above that in which the bomb exploded miraculously escaped injury. The home was that
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  • 64 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday: President Truman accepted the stgnaUon of Joseph B. Kee nan, Conner Japanese v;ar erini* prosecutor, as the American member of the United Nations Palestine Conciliation Ccmmission. Kee.ian w as named to the P three weeks ago but tie White House said condition h*d
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  • 355 3 A.P. ROME. Sun.—Scores of lives have been saved at sea by Rome's little known international radio-medical centre (CIRM). Pre*. Guido Guida. director cf the "Medrad" as merchant navy centres call it, says his organization, founded in 1935, has given free medical advice to hundreds
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  • 92 3 A.P. Frankfurt, Sunday. A power famine threatened Ame-rican-occupied Southern Germany tonight as the Russians apparently cut off part of the electricity supply. The big South Germany State of Bavria was already operat>ng on half rations when the current which normally flows from the Russian zone suddenly
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  • 56 3 AP. MADRAS, Eun. An ultimate merger or the Cochin States with the Indian union was hinted at by Cochin's Premier at Madras today. The hint wa s dropped at a press coni ere nee. The Premier remarked future will be as bright as
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  • 267 3 WARWICK, Sunday. The story of a master who ran "crime classes" at a Home Oilice approved (disciplinary) school was unfolded in court here. Clifford Andrew, 34, formerly physical training instructor at Norton Training School, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a clock and other articles
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  • 211 3 U.P. LINCOLN, Neb.. Sun— Correspondence education is **big business, but schools are missing the boat in developing this kind of ttor&iug,'* according to Dr. Walter H Gaumnitz Gaumnjtz, of the U.S. office of education at Washington, addressed the second international conference on correspondence education,
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  • 37 3 Reuter. ATHENS. Sun.—Greek political leaders tonight agreed to form a new coalition government. Then ten leaders, representing all legal political parties, decided to leave the King to choose the Premier of the new Cabinet.—-Reuter.
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  • 96 3 Reuter. RANGOON. Sun. -About 150 j Karens (Burma's biggest mini ority group) have been killed by military police in a clash at Thunatchaung, 40 miles north of Rangoon, the independent newspaper. The Nation, reported today. i There were 20 police casualt- c Commenting editorially,
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  • 71 3 U.P. CANNES. Sun.—The first meeting of Bao Dai, former emperor of Annam, and high officials of the French Overseas Ministry took place this afternoon in a friendly atmosphere. Leon Pignon. French High Commissioner of IndoChina, said. The meeting was held in the ex-emperor's Cnateu Thorin.
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  • 231 3 U.P. TTYankfurt. Sunday. The United States army issued near marriage rules tor Americans in Germany today out all it cave the uncounted Hundreds who want to marry fraulems and stay in Germany was 30 exLra day? to get out of the CC The ry 'i:
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  • 43 3 A.P. NEW YORK. Sun —Dollar volume for all 1948 construction in the U.S. was a record U5517,400,000,000. a year-end compilation by Engineering News-Record reported. In physical volume, the construction weekly said, the total was 11 per cent ahead of 1947. —A.P.
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  • 440 4 new magazine called The Malayan Orchid, whose first issue is now circulating among Singapore Medical College and Raffles College students, condemns Malaya as a century behind the times politically, economically and culturally. It calls "for a new outlook among us—an outlook which will form a solid
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  • 1489 4  -  —i MURIEL PENN Reuer's Correspondent CHRISTENDOM. an allembracing Christianity which may include the best elements of Islam, Buddhism and the Byzantine worlds, is destined to be the civilisation of the future, according to Professor Arnold Toynbee, the well-known British historian. Such a Christianity, Protessor Toynbee says in
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  • 643 4 Reuter. SOUTH Africa is looking to the forthcoming session of Parliament, which begins on January 21. and the provincial elections, which take place on March J*. to clarify the political scene. Hut it is the provincial elections rather than Parliament which holds the key
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  • 48 4 UP. A FAMOUS French painter n George Braque. has turned his hand to making atomic pottery. According to Braque, he uses 40 grams of urnaium oxide, more uranium than was reportedly used by chemists to make the first Atomic Bomto to create certain colour effects UP
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  • 131 5 U.P. LONDON, Sun.- Radio sets le from saucepans are bcproduced in Britain for use in African territories. They are part of a drive to develop broadcasting as a means of communications in the African continent. The colonial office has been working for years on the devepment
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  • 73 5 U.P. HONGKONG, Sun.—The ancient steamship Mongolia, known to old timers along the China Coast for decades, is ling for its last scrap heap. The 15.000 ton twin screw to ssel built in 1904 at the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N' J.. for the old
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  • 77 5 A.P. BALTIMORE, Sun. Mac West th<- screen and stage star, played the part of an old n Saturday, overriding ton who wanted to keep her in hospital. S:\ and a half hours after irai rushed to hospital, suffering from abdominal pains. Miss West signed her release
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  • 64 5 AMERICAN 'CA R' TARGET FOR 1949 AP. DrtioH, «v"day: Tlic ar automobile Indus try will aim at a 5.750.000 output in 1949. A..nest without exceptions •-ar maken now art talking at a 10 per cent increase i" assembly line achievement over 1 948. rhe industry has the equipmeatment to build
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  • 70 5 A new, simple and foolproof pressure cooker has just been produced by a British firm of precision engineers. There are two models. The smaller model is ideal for picnics and camping. It packs into a round tin, four and a half by three and a half inches and can be
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  • 212 5 U.P. HONGKONG, Sun—Chinese bureaucracy is a strange and wonderful thing, according to foreigner recently arrived here from hai. The foreigner, a 26-year-old Portuguese national, was born and raised in Shanghai. He had never before been outside the city. Called on to leave Shanghai for Hongkong,
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  • 55 5 U.P. SALT LAKE CITY, Sun. —A. JL Shore hadn't played his broken radio lor five months. Then a thund -r storm hit. Lightning darted into the living room and struck the radio. The family WBf* awakened at 3.30 a.m. by their own "broken" radio playing. The radio
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  • 54 5 U.P. BUCHAREST. Sun. The Cominform Journal said today that all of Lenin's theories and predictions were coming true in eastern European countries ■mich were "successfully fulfilling the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat." The January 15th issue, out today, was devoted almost entirely to the 25th
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  • 337 5 Reuter. OBERAMMERGAU, Sun.—This IttUe bavarian community has decided to resume tlit performance of its world-famous Passion nay in 1950. But to put the mechanics of the theatre in order and replenish the wardrobe of the 1,200 local peasant-actors, it will have to appeal
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  • 48 5 AP. MOSCOW, Sunday: Electromobiles are being manu factured for freight transport within the city limits of Moscow. They will run on batteries and varry from one to one and a half tons of gaads fod the city's stores. Among the advantages claimed is asavin..of gasoline.—AP.
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  • 122 5 The case of a Florida j farmer named Howard t Stillman is a strange one. One nighi after a 1 heated argument, Howard went to bed but he just could not dismiss thinking over the subject that had been previously discussed. In the middle of
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  • 24 5 A.P. PEIPING. Sun—Many Government soldiers arc among the shoppers at Peiping's famed open air market these days. They are buying civilian clothes.—A.P.
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  • 104 5 U.P. HONGKONG. Sunday.—More and more trade is being don<* between Hongkong and Com-muMist-occupled Manchuria, ac-munist-occupied Manchuria, according to informed sources here. Most of it goes by way of North Korea, as Manchurian ports arc not yet open to foreign trade. A highly-placed Government official said
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  • 110 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, Sun. The U.S. Government has ordered a complete end to race segregation at the Washington National Airport, which lies on Virginia soil across the Potomac River. The Civil Aeronautics Administration, which operates the huge field, ruled that,henceforth there shall be no "discrimination
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  • 28 5 A.P. LONDON, Sun. Radio Moscow says more than 500 new apartment houses were finished in the Soviet capital in 1948 and 2.000 others are under construction.—A.P.
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  • 234 5 NEW YORK, Sun.—The air of the entire world is getting duller, and the 19 deaths recently in the United States from smog' (sooty fog) at Donoia, Pennsylvania, may be a warning. Much of this extra dirt is invisible, a cnemical fog made up of gases from
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  • 30 5 A.P. TOKtO. Sun.—Tokio iirv potential tin-traps, the Military Government Education OfficiT warned. The officer said: "A typical lire drill consists of children jumping out the windows shrieking in panic"—A.P.
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  • 34 5 A. P. MuSCOW, Sun.—An American play has had its Moscow premiere. The Vakhiangov Theatre recently put on for the first time before the Soviet audiences "All Mv Sons", by Arthur Miller.—A.P.
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  • 350 5 U.P. NEWHAVEN CONNECTICUT, Sun. —A CaJifornian astronomer contends that mysterious radio signals reaching the earth from qpftte may come from stars. The Scientist. Doctor L. Greenstein of the California Institute of Technology, told the eightieth meeting of the American Astionomical Society at Yale University
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous

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  • 128 6 Reuter. CHICAGO, Sun. The American badminton team which meets Malaya in the Thomas Cup tournament on February 21 in Glasgow, Scotland, is an "unknown quantity*', Mr. Warren Wheary, president of the American Badminton Association said here. "They are our best players," he said. "They performed
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  • 231 6 AMERICANS' CLEAN SWEEP Reuter. LOS ANGELES, Sun.—ln a match advertised as for the world singles title, Or. David Frvfii.iai.. American hadminton champion, defeated Devinder Mohan Lai (India) in straight games, 19—14, 15—3, before a crowd of 2,500 at the TanPacific auditorium here. The Americans had
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  • 99 6 ABOUT 100 people, including representatives from several leading local badminton parti. were entertained by the mat agement committee of the United Family Badminton Party a dinner at 714. Upper Setai goon Road, last night. Miss Helen, a member of th Party, who is the Malayan women's singles
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  • 82 6 The following nave I I selected to represent the Singa pore Admiralty Local Stiff Union B.P. in a return gam. badminton against the Bint. Timar B.P. at No. 235 Thomj son Road on Jan. 22 at 5.30 p.m.: SINGLES :—Chan Swee Lam Ab. Aziz bin Ahmad,
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  • 69 6 The following are requested to turn up foi Amateur Athlete Union at Soccer against State Express XI at Farrer Park tomorrow at 5 p.m.: S. Abu Bakar, Charlie Kang, Goh Ah Long, Tan Yew Kian, Tan Teck Chye, Tan Yew Chor, Amat b. Masod, Hamid b. Marzuki.
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  • 204 6 fhree successive goals scored within five minuses of the second half gave the GHQ Signals a decisive lead to beat the BODCA by six goals to two at soccer at St. George's Road c-n Saturday Only one goal was scored during trie first half in
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    • 234 6 NOTICE DISTRICT COURT SALE Writ of Distress No. 8 of 1919. In The Cause of Fung Poi Fong Landlord Versus West Lake Studio Tenant. Auction Sale of Contents of a Photographer's Studio comprising 3 desks, 2 tables, 4 modern chairs, 2 standard chairs, 1 clock, 1 mirror, 2 glass almeirahs.
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  • 377 7 FINAL ROUNDS IN BRAZIL 16 NATIONS TO COMPETE IN Reuter. nvri D GENEVA, Sun. PNGLAAD, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ire land will form a pool for the 1950 World Soccer Cup competition from which two teams will quality for the
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  • 28 7 tion E ng s P lenu *d combina- forward line JOUIM haol K tlC Unlon beat H.M.S. 52*5. t Geylang stadium PPe- <2) and Salahudin.
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  • 95 7 U.P. SYDNEY, Sun— Ed- j ward Cnrr, New South Hales medical student, who was unable to walk five years ago, has de- j feated world record hoi- d>r 11. McXinlev of Ja- maica in the 440 yard S event. arr suffered from a J >pina! and hip
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  • 42 7 >"«>IA> Ys.« Nlda. Au.zraUan ration at «br l«l«nd flub n« 5>lda !< th»> ind »h..l »t tbe ««lib u, >.,. < »v«»od. during NORMAN Yon Nida, Australian golf professional pictured with his over-size bag which also serves him as a suitcase.
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  • 146 7 Reuter. matc^a^i^^ 118 of the interna*** ?S 7? dff affecte d a number of club sides S XV. m P ayers tx P er 'enee 'he Newport provided four plavnro/ert Wa,CS bUI the depuKs I prove d so successful that the visiting Coventry side were tc a
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  • 78 7 Reuter. London. Sunday.—The following are the Rugby League Results: Barrow 29 Hull Kingston Rovers 5. Bradfoid Northern 2 Salford T. Bramley 2 York 0. Belle Vue Rangers 5 St. Helens 17. Dewsbury 4 Huddersfield 8. Halifax 5 Leigh 3. Hunslet 7 Hull 8. Keighley 5 Batley 7.
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  • 41 7 A.P. LONDON, Sun.—Joan Curry won the British women's squash rackets championship on Saturday for the third year in succession by beating Janet Morgan 2—9, 9—3, 10—8, 9—o. Miss Curry eliminated Miriam de Borman of Belgium in the quarter finals.—A.P
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  • 296 7 I SK S" Y AR LD Barr y M :tch reived ci B ht the sew s^r^ muttion Except for the 50 metres free style event, won by Wigbbe Wolters, Carry won all the other free style events for men in the various meets held
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  • 164 7 LONDON, Sunday. The Marylebone Cricket Club which cancelled an English cricket tour in India hist whiter is inclined to send an English team in three years' time. The recent Asian cricket conference decided to ask the MCC to reconsider its decision and on Saturday
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  • 86 7 STOCKHOLM, Sun.—Swedish amateur soccer centre-forward Gunnar Jordan!, who led the rest of Europe attack against Great Britain in the 1947 match in Glasgow has turned professional. He has signed a 26 monthsprofessional contract to play for the Italian club, Milan AC Contract Terms The terms
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  • 240 7 LOCAL BOXING (By X.0.) Jimmy Newell and Jimmy Bird aro still hundreds of miles apart. Bird should have been here on Saturday, but last night promoter Lim received a cable to the effect that he v b?ing further delayed by passport trouble. i>ews oi som Pong
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  • 143 7 At the request of the local: I Chinese cycling enthusiasts. 1 The Cosmopolitan Cycling- Club i will be organising on Sunday, 1 23rd January. The Singapore'! open 200 laps grass track cyclJ j ing championships and four i other events. They are as follows:—200 laps race, 50 laps
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  • 29 7 The 14th anniversary cele-1 brations of the Marigold Dad- I minton Party was celebrated aO the Hwa Chia Boys School 731' Pasir Panjang Road, 5»4 mile, yesterday.
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  • 445 7 Reuter. LONDON, Sim—Wales and Scotland opened the international Rugby Union season today with fine victories 1 Hales defeated England by nine points to three in Cardin* while in Paris Scotland sprang a surprise by beating the powerful French side by eight points to zero
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  • 44 7 j.uuu saw the Negri Sembl- ian Chinese Recreation club tp n **at the i.P.C.A. by a solitary in a hJfn PP n°l n v, tiD of foot R, l,°\ the TPC A S r n d at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday
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  • 137 8 A.P. LONDON. Sun -A protest demanding the withdrawal of Dutch soldiers from the territory of the Indonesian Republic "in the name of freedom" was organised today in a demonstration in Hyde Park. A deputation then carried the protest to the Netherlands Embassy The protest read: "You who
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  • 67 8 A PUBLIC lecturr was given by Maulana Abdul Aleem Siddiqi at the open space next to the trolley bus terminus, Changi Road, on Saturday under the auspices of the Mohameden Starlight Club. Before the lecture was delivered the President, Mr. V. M. A. Kadir garlanded Maulana
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  • 149 8 IPOH, Sunday. Over eight thousand persons were by th« Polic*» in three operations carried out yesterday In Ipoh and Chemor. Forty-one arrests were effected. Large security forces surrounded Chemor Village and screened the 6.419 population. 24 of whom were arrested. Later in the day.
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  • 81 8 THIRTY-NINE Chinese 1 couples toured Singapore yesterday afternoon after a mass wedding ceremony at the Great World. The couples v/cr? married by Mr. Kit Lin. the Presid?nt of the Sinpapor? Chines"' Chamber of Commerce. After the tour of the city, the brides, all in waite
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  • 20 8 U.P. TEL AVIV. Sun. Israel will elect its first constituent Assembly in 2.000 years on January 25. U.P.
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  • 107 8 U.P. BOMBAY. Sun.—The EconoI mic Co-operation Administration in China is correcting I mistakes that have been neg- lected for over 100 years. In 1840 the Chinese, in an endeavour to stop the British j Navy sailing up the Pearl River to Canton during the Opium
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  • 78 8 DUTCH restrictions on foreign exchange have indirectly reduced Singapore's salt fish imports from the east coast of the Federation, by 75 per cent, of prewar figures. Exports to the Dutch East Indies have virtually come to a standstill. These estimates were given by a
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  • 587 8 GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE' Ml; Malcolm Mac Donald, Commissioner-General for South East Asia declared in a broadenst on "Britain and Asia" over Radio Malaya last night: "We shall support with all our hearts any movement to pssociate the Malays, the Malayan Chinese and
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  • 108 8 MR. L. D. GAMMANS. British Conservative member of Parliament, who is on a short, personal fact-finding tour of Malaya, left Bukit Serene, where he had been staying with Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Commission-er-General, for Kuala Lumpur yesterday morning. Mr. G°mmans, who travelled oy air, intends
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  • 67 8 THESE Indian students were kept away from Bom- bay's Alexandra Dock when they tried to get to the Dutch vessel Streeferk recently. I They were protesting against I Dutch military action in Indonesia and carried ha mors demanding support for In loncsia Mhi n \~otia .is with the
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  • 72 8 A.P. BANGKOK. Sun. Sian will seek to balance its 1945 public budget by increases ir indirect taxes, cuts in allow anccs to government official and by slashing staffs of th two major government r***B handing bureaux in half Preliminary budgets Bhufcrc a deficit gap of 1.600,000.000 ticals (about
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  • 140 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Sunday. Security forces encountered Chinese women bandits when they swept the Sedenak area and destroyed two bandit camps at the 20th mile Ayer Hitam Road yesterday. One of the women was wounded when troops saw a movement in the lailang and opened fire. Two
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  • 44 8 Reuter. KARACHI. Sun. Pakistan and Colon negotiated a trade pact during the week-end. Ceylon has undertaken the supply of 8,000 tons of coconut and coconut oil to Pakistan during this year, while Pakistan has agreed to export food stuffs and dried fish.—Renter.
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  • 40 8 U.P. LONDON. Sun —The Soviet news agency Taas reported today that Russia's outstanding parachute juniper. Captain Aleksei Bystrov, claimed a new kind of record when he bailed out of a plane flying at 464 miles per hour. -U.P.
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  • 140 8 JHE Army is to finger-print its civilian employees i o avoid taking on persons with criminal records, it waa announced last night. The measure brings the Army into line with present Navy and Royal Air Force practice. Only criminal conviction > since July 1946 will
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  • 162 8 l(OTA TINGGI, Sunday. The Johore Police cantured 40 bandit agents—36 men and 4 women— in a dragnet over a suspected terrorist area today. Assisted by the Military, the Police also brought in valuable information. Seven of the men were idenified as former occupants
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  • 196 8 Reuter. ATHENS. Sun.—One out of every ten Greeks is today a refugee. Some 625.000 peasants from the Northern Provinces have left their villages because they are either under rebe' control or in the field of military operations. About 17,000 peasants from these areas have been carried
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  • 307 8 IN the ranks of the Scots Guards who disembarked from the troopship Dunera yesterday was a young peer who is 12th in the line of succession to the British Throne. This was 19-year-old Lord Carnegie, son and heir of the Earl of Southeak and
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  • 180 8 A.P. New York. Sunday. Dr. Edouard Toboreky. Secretary to the late Dr. Bcnes. the former President of Czechoslovakia, said in New York, yesterday that in one of his last messages Benes stated that "All Communists arc liars, especially the Russian ones." Toboreky. who has arrived in
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  • 60 8 T'N'T MONDAY MORNING MARKET: Presbyterian Church Hall. Orchard Road. ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: Drill for women members, nursing divisions. Raffles Girls' School—5 Y.M.C.A.: Orchard Roa<l; Board of Directors meeting— 3.15 p.m. INTERNATIONAL ARTIST'S ASSOCIATION: Lif< Class. British Council Hall. Stamford Road —6 p m SINGAPORE DISTRICT
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  • 231 8 CATHAY: "Julia Misbehaves," with Grccr Gar.«on. Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford. Elizabeth Taylor and Cesar Romero—1.45, 1.15, 6.15 and 9.30 p.m. ALHAMBRA: "Undersea 'Kingdom" (serial) with Ray "Crash" Corrigan—1.30, 5 30 and 9 p.m. CAPITOL: "Tap Roots" (in technicolour) with Van Heflin and Susan Hayward—1.45. 4. 6.30 and 9.15 p.m.
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  • 33 8 IKK KEY: ll.A.fr. (Malnyi Bpgt, v. n,0 [I.C.A.-isrnilH. wMng; 8R.C 2nd v C.S.C Slid —3.B.C.; KJiaUfi v hie Wireless—SL Georic Road; C.H.Q. 3lg Rcgt. v. In t Slg. Regt.—Tnngllug; 11,91 nockcy pructice—S.lt.C.
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  • 246 8 A.P. SUN-MOON LAKE, Formosa, Sun. Rich Chinese refugees and officials in Chiang Kai-shek's Government are streaming to this island by every steamer and plane as China's crisis deepens. With them is coming the inflation which has virtually wrecked the economy of mainland China. If the Nationalist
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  • 110 8 Reuter. LONDON. Sun. The British Home Secretary. Mr. James Chutcr Ede. quashed today a sentence of three months' mi prisonment passed on William Painter, who c'imbed Eros, the well-known Piccadiily, London statue of the God of Love, on Jan. 3. Payment of £48 (or aaothei month in
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  • 51 8 A.P. LONDON, Sun. Brit small soap ration will b< creased by one-sixth after Jani vary 30. improved supplies of 1 fats and oils from Africa < r responsible. Ec consumer now is rationed to 18 ounces of toilet soap or 24 ounces of hard soap every eight
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  • 29 8 Two Chinese workmen off the first floor of a building in Cecil Street yesterday. One of them died on the way to hospital, the other was badly hurt.
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