Malaya Tribune, 22 February 1949

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  • 60 1 MALAYA Tribune BY TBM PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tel: "Tribune, Spore." Larger Sales Than Any Afternoon Paper In Malaya Phone: 6811/8 Nine lines Published simultaneously at Si nyapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE: B. c/o
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  • 408 1 qua lifica Hons are outlined THOMAS CUP-MALAYA LEADS 3-1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) VUALA LUMPUR, Monday.—Machinery for the registration of Federal citizens is being established here. A Registrar of Federal citizens has been appointed. He is Mr. E. C. G. Barrett. Each state is to have
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  • 38 1 '.l.»n, I" > ct< d not nnto- Wlll < ll!..l no > <>l Stat.', wlll gotrations es t>,,> >< w,tn the ,.,.-.,!>'!.. < 0l.l > t<"..! l: !> und^l- to > I>.'!.!'!eni l,OPC< !> to Con»!)Ntll .l <I ny a nidlta,V aid W>
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  • 34 1 Reuter. AN Mon. Feelings ot on and lack of security ''nean community ent African-Indian nota in Durban, Mrs. Mary esenttttg the National Council Women, told the Enquiry Commission tew today. Reuter.
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  • 27 1 U.P. HAIFA, Mon.—United Nations officials arrived here from Rhodes and said they understood that Israeli and Egyptian representatives have signed an armistice agreement. U.P.
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  • 27 1 U.P. LONDON, Mon. fwo bandits grabbed US$l6,OOO from a clerk outside a busy London bank and made a speedy getaway through nar row twisting streets.—U.P.
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  • 33 1 A.P. NANKING. Mon. The British, French and United States j Consuls at Mukden have been i held "incommunicado" in their quarters since the Communists captured the city, it was reported today.—A.P.
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  • 63 1 U.P. P A.SADENA, (California). 1 Mon. -Miss Gloria Miller, a 24--year-old waitress, was certain today it doesn't pay to compete with the city's fire department. She icceived a court citation on Saturday, after throwing water on her burning sofa. "Too many people fight
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  • Article, Illustration
    11 1 LEFT: Wong Peng Soon BELOW: Dave Freeman in action.
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  • 170 1 Reuter and A.P. NANKING, Mon.—Chinese Premier Sun Fo, facing a ''resign or return to Nanking" warning by Acting President Li Tsung-jen, will come back to the capital at least temporarily in a few days' time, usually reliable quarters stated tonight. Prosiri*»nt T,i flew
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  • 74 1 Malaya's keen interest in the Thomas Cup match resulted in short tempers for the early morning staff of the Tribune today. From just after dawn untu the presses started to run. the telephone never stopped ringing in the Tribune offices. There was only one question, every time:
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  • 31 1 U.P. LOS ANGELES. Mon. At least 100,000 persons were made homeless in Sonora, Mexico, by four flooded rivers and are "desperately in need of food and blankets." —U.P.
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  • 93 1 U.P. SABESO, JAPAN. Mon. A new version of "The Egg and I" is being told by a Japanese jrirl in this Kyushu town near the atom-bombed Nagasaki. A 14-year-old school girl has reported that her pet hen, whose mother was a victim of the Nagasaki
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  • 61 1 U.P. DETROIT. Mon.—John Rosge attorney for author Agnes Smedley. said Gen. Mac Arthur is the one she wants to sue for naming her as a Soviet spy in the Sorge spy case Mac Arthurs Chief Intelligence Officer Major Gen. Charles Willoughby was reported in Tokyo
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  • 2158 1  -  (By VERNON MORGAN Reuter. KELVIN HALL, Glasgow, Scotland, Monday.— After one of the most thrilling badminton contests of all time Malaya was leading the United States b\ three matches to one at the end of the first day s play in the inter-zone final of
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  • 86 1 FINAL scores in yesterday's Thomas Cup games at Glasgow (Malayan players mentioned first): Wong Peng Soon beat Marten Mendez 15-11, 11-15, 15-10. Ooi Teck Hock lost to Dave Freeman 10-15, 15-10, 5-15. Chan Kon Leong and Yeoh Teck Chye beat Bob Williams and Clint Stephens 15-7,
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  • 210 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Acquisition of Federal citizenship in Malaya may not be a bar to the acquisition of citizenship of India. An amendment to this effect will be considered by the Indian Constituent Assembly at its forthcoming session scheduled for May 16. This was revealed by Mr.
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  • 45 1 The long-awaited meeting of representatives of Johore Malay businessmen has been fixed for March 4 and 5 in Johore Bahru. The meeting, to be opened by Johore's Mentri Besar, is expected to announce the formation of a "'Malay Trade and Commerce Association, Johore".
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  • 36 2 ../»».1. <r '/> l l e» e /"»</ .»'<<.. r.-ad»/ «,/eHtect «re<« "l ,,,..,../s,>.'">/ >d. <e SINEWS OF WAR Baruiit arms, (immvni- < i tion and food captured during a ferret force J operation. i I
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  • 55 2 THE Singapore Amateur Weight-Lifting Federation will hold its first 191'» meet by staging the Op. n Singapore Junior WeightLifting and Mr. Junior Singapore Competitions during April. Those who have never won any prize in cither weightlifting or body-beautiful con tests in the past are eligib'e to
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  • 237 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) PVEN in moments of greatest self-flattery the Malaya L Tribune Staff never reckoned on a world wide readership, even for the new 12 page paper. A letter which arrived in the Ipoh office this week caused a rapid revision of ideas, however.
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  • 142 2 Five families yesterday moved into the recently completed Singapore Improvement Trust Flats at Farrer Park though electricity wiH not be installed till early this week Among the first to move in were the Singapore newly weds—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ang Beng Kirn who
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  • 190 2 Four members of the OeyUm Pioneer* .Corps went on trial before Mr. Justice Cox Evan* in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday for alleged taking part in gang robbery at a Chinese shop at Nth. milestone, Woodlands on the nigth of August 5 last. The four
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  • 358 2 "FERRETS" IN ACTION New Disclosures /Tribune Staff Reporter) l Ari v fh "Ferrets" in the early stages 0 f H it lv New details of last night with publication ol an pais, against t~ Ferret unit. ational report on xm te orls t attacks m In the early days ot
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  • 53 2 Reuter. BATAVIA. Mon. Eight peo- I pie were killed five civilians and three soldiers —when a repair team of the waterworks near Purwokerto, central Java, were ambushed some days ago. Aneta, the Dutch news agency, icported. Among the killed civilians was the head of the Purwokerto
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  • 340 2 The following will be added to i: bary within tin days: NON-FICTION m, the Movies: jea...ir BeiKtick British Angler's Nai tory: E. G. Bculeng,. A th! e tics and Training Guy Bader A Genera' Zoology of the vertcrbrates: G Experimental Mary Collins an ver; Physical Train
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  • 161 2 Kuala Lumpur, Hen. In a combined operation with I ground forces, a strong force of R.A.F. Spitfires strafed a bandit area in Kuantan this morning. For half an hour, Spitfires dived over the tai get and plastered the retreat routes, of the bandits with devastating cannon and
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  • 48 2 The Singapore Bus Workers Union yesterday gave a tea party to Mr. R. P. Bingham. Commissioner for Labour, who will be leaving for England on a six months' leave with his wife this Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham will be sailing on the Carthage,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 334 2 BLUE NETWORK 7 (>r) Malay Music; 7.15 Malay "North to South"; 9.45 ChiCulture; 7.30 Listeners' Post; oese Affairs; 10 News in ENGLISH PROGRAMMES, 81 *> News in Malay; 8.30 Amoy and Cantonese; 10.15 Music Magazine 9 Close Mandarin Request Program--10.55 a.m. to 12 noon Down. me; 11 Close Down. SchoolS
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  • 221 3 n a vfon The Sin Foh was set on fire V* Sletely destroyed by in a iaid last night. Ceo: men sprinkled the kongsi and gj* ab,aze- t)l0 same time the rtefendera at No. 10 re attacked, 'constables engaged and routed them exchanjfe of shots.
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  • 51 3 lt> Chinese MethodI Pulau Samboe. L ..ha- Bed Ok. and GeyMp Spore; Malacca) will ■*SS th"' :innual con ,7 the Pava Lebar February 26 at Chew Hock Superintendant. i "peports'un the work of these .ill he heard and ifl meaiu f©r improving in 1947 Will X
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  • 117 3 General Chuang Seniwongsi, Army Commander Southern Siam, in an interview with a British Military observer at his headquarters at Haadyai. said that the combined Siamese-British operations against the bandits which were carried out during the past week on the Siam Kedah border were of "utmost
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  • 95 3 I Dr. P. T. Nathan. 52. Indej pendent, intends to stand for election in the Ward of MuniI cipal Rochore, Singapore. He promises a square deal -for the people of Singapore iriespective of race or creed. If elected, he will try to secure more
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  • 106 3 Opium in the false bottom of a thermos flask, opium under a quantity of beans, opium in the pockets of her i under-clothes—all these places of concealment did not avail a middle-aged woman, Wortg Ah Mai. when she attempted to enter Singapore with 4} lbs. of
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  • 116 3 Five revolvers and 141 lounds of ammunition wen exhibits in the Singapore As size Court yesterday when former shipping tally clerk Scow Ah Kee. faced twi charges of unlawful possessioc of arms and ammunition. It was alleged that Scow tool the five revolvers and Hi rounds
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  • 95 3 Sixty-six-year-old Jong Tong concealed 2 lbs. of opium in the hollowed*out framework of his camp bed and another 2 lbs. in an earthen jar. but his handwork did not escape the revenue officer's eyes. In the First pistiiot Court yesterday, charged with possession of opium he
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  • 259 3 General's Charge Reuter. LONDON, Monday.—A charge that British Defence Minister A. V. Alexander underrated the achievements of British troops in Malaya and failed to realise what was at st ake there is made in a letter to the Conservative Daily Telegraph today. The writer, Lt.-Gen. H.
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  • 22 3 UMNO's Eleventh General Assembly in tpah has been definitely fixed for April 16, 17 and /8, the Tribune learned yesterday.
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  • 107 3 Van Shang Lin, trading as Tung Tai Co. and Wan Yuan Lung, won their civil action against Lee To Woh for the recovery of a sum of $4,432.14, Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith in the Singapore High Court yesi terday gave judgment for the plaintiffs with costs. The
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  • 56 3 r commemorate the birthday of the late Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, Singapore Scouts will stage a tableau depicting his life in the Victoria Memorial Hall at 6 p.m. on February 22. Through the courtesy of the Public Relations, a film entitled "Knights of Freedom" will precede the
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  • 205 3 Ayah Kanoo Vadivelu (18), messenger employed by Harbour Town Office was accused of removing postage stamps of letters he was supposed to post. Vadivehi admitted having done this when he stood before the First District Judge yesterday. The A.S.P., Mr. Allen, said
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  • 116 3 Two prominent Singapore Chinese Families were united when Mr. George Tan was married to Dolly Wong Quek Chwee yesterday after a civil eeieinony at the Registry Office The mar t rage was Witnessed bw the groom's grandmother. Mrs. Lee Choon Guan and the groom's father, Mr. Tan
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  • 151 3 The Society of Licensed Air craft Engineers (Singapore Branch) is to hold a series of j technical lectures for Its members, the hist of which will be given by Mr. L. Armstrong A.M S.L.A.E. on Wednesday at Kallang Airport. The subject r»f hi* talk will be "Aircraft Electrics."
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  • 613 3 British Film News DRITAIN ha* just held a Film Festival at the Odeon Theatre In Leicester Square in which scenes from pictures shown in the ILK. during last year were enacted on the stage, with music accompaniment from the soundtrack of the film. The
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  • 65 3 The Royal Army Service Corps Association < Singapore Branch), is holding its second 1 annua! Dance on Thursday. February 24. at the Victoria 1 Memorial Hall. The Band of the Ist. Batta- 1 lion, The Seafoith Highlanders will play, and there will he novelty dances, spot
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  • 38 3 The Singapore International Press Club is to give a farewell dinner tomorrow to Mr. G. G. Thomson, the Colony Press Relations Officer, at the Club premises. Ftnlayson Green, before Mr. Thomson's departure on leave on Thursday.
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  • 177 3 Maurice Montague Freeland was advised by Third Police Magistrate, Mr. F. B. Oehlers. not to throw his weight about or to have mistaken ideas about himself if he wished to live happily in this country." Freeland appeared in court on a police summons for disorderly
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  • 208 3 What was formerly a child-feeding-centre under the Social Welfare Department in the grounds of the house of Che Fatimah binti Haji Harun J.P. in Arab Street has now developed into a Girl's Club. The Club, whose membership is predominantly Malay, recently started a
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  • 58 4 T nis re<im of British girls between the ages of 14 and 16 years mil yo [°BtOCkMmin Juhi to represent Britain with 54 other nations at the Swedish Lmgiad Gymnastics Festival Chosen from school gymnastic teams over the whole of Great Britam the team comes from
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  • 47 4 U.P. LONDON, Mon. —Londoners may one day be roller-skating, elbow-bending, and seeing the movies in the middle of the Thames. An amphibian version of Leicester Square, half on shore and half afloat, was projected in a plan recently published by the Architectural Review.—U.P.
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  • 266 4 OSLO, Mon. Norway has decided to take the calculated risk of participating in the North Atlantic defence talks, despite Russian wa™^- lucstion of time before me i Norwegians join negotiat'ons DOW being conducted in Washngton. The decisive factor probably will be the American timetable.
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  • 47 4 Reuter. VIENNA, Mon.- Huge fires and violent explosions are reported north of the Sovietcontrolled Zisterdorf oil region 30 miles northeast of Vienna. Natural gas deposits are believed to be alight and damage is believed to be considerable, the Austrian press agency said. —Reuter.
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  • 46 4 U.P. VIENNA, Mon. —Chancellor Leopold Figl said that the Communists have no more chance to take over Austria in 1949 than they did in 1948. Figl told a "Peoples Party rally in the Soviet zone that "Austria is no fertile soil for Communism.—U.P.
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  • 33 4 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. —It was learned from reliable sources today that General Omar Bradley, chief of staff, has postponed his visit to the Far East which was scheduled for April—U.P.
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  • 174 4 U.P. NEW YORK, Mon.—Dmtri Shostakovich, one of Russia's greatest living composers, will visit the United States for the hrst time in March. Dr. Harlow Shapley. chairman of the National Council of Art, Sciences and Professions, announced. Dr. Shapley said that the Soviet Ambassador
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  • 340 4 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. The African" nists have just suffered a jarring defeat on college r.amrm«;p«* in the United States. Ca Their among American youth is quite as imoortant as the reverses recently suffered by the S ists in their efforts to dominate or infiltrate
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  • 68 4 A.P. GENEVA, Mon. —An effort to enforce the right-hand rule of the road throughout the world has failed, because of Swedish anu United Kingdom objections that the change would be too costly, the United Nations Economic Commission announced. The only major areas of the world
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  • 212 4 A.P. l'/XRIL. Mon. Tbe munisb, appear to be declining among »»neb workers. The led General Conre<hration ol however rs still tb« strongest union in Pranc. t nion membership figures ob tairred lrom close to the Interior Ministry ?bow the General Conlede, n tion ot
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  • 84 4 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Mon. The United States Ambassador here. Mr. Myron M. Oowen, i said today •he was officially j authorised to say the United States has no intention of '•shirking the military responsibilities it took in Japan at the end of the war. Addressing the
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  • 66 4 U.P. SOFIA, Bulgaria. Mon. All Sofia newspapers punted the "confession" of another of the 16 Protestant clergymen to he tried here next week in charge of treason, espionage and Ijlack marketing.The statement, attributed to Ivanou. Methodist Church Supervisor, named American legation officials. Methodist educators and a Hollywood
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  • 61 4 U.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. The Air Force has announced the successful completion of the first flights of the futuristic "Flying Triangle" built to fly faster than sound. Speeds attained so far by the U. S. Air Force's newest and queerest looking research plane were kept secrets. Flight
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  • 95 4 Reuter.-AAP. SYDNEY. Mon. Mis. Annie O'Keefe. Indonesian woman who married an Austialian. will have her appeal against a deportation order on herself and children heard by a full court next Monday. When Sir .John Latham. [Chief Justice of tne High Court, gave this decision
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  • 110 4 A.P. KARACHI. Mon.—The Fak*r of Ipi is active again, according to reports reaching Karachi. The Northwest tribal leader who caused so much trouble during the British administration has resumed his hostile activities against Pakistan on the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, it was reported. The Pakistani Air
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  • 82 4 Reuter-AAP. BRISBANE. Mon. Anthony Eden, British Deputy Leader of the Opposition, who is touring Australia, said today he favoured a Pacific pact similar to the proposed North Atlantic Pact a'liance. He told a press conference he was not taking the initiative for the creation of such
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  • 405 4 A.P. LONDON, Mon. An exiled official who worked with Jan Masaryk in until iust before his death, said in a book published today he is certain Masaryk committed suicide and was not "But he was murdered spiritually," wrote Josef Josten 36-year-old war veteran who
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  • 74 4 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon.— President Truman has revived the United Service Organization (the U. 5.0., somewhat equivafeat to the British ENS A) as j the "civilian counterpart of the peacetime military programme." The president said the USO will make a "strong and steady linke" with home for
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  • 212 4 IN what state of tidyncss do you kcip that bureau drawer which you set aside for your make-up? Are you able to anivc home, sit down at your dressing able and make up swiftly and efficiently for your next appointment? Or do you have to
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 4 This print baU modeled in New V detachable skirt whit I the affair premMabh seaside lounging and tails. It it of st i: washable cotton.
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  • 61 4 U.P. WASHINGTON. Ifol Mildred "Axis Sally' may go on the witness nt today or Tuesday to 1 she willingly sold out try to the Germans. The Maine-born deft being tried on charge* f b son as the result of bi which the prosecution claim were
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  • 47 4 U.P. PALO ALTO. M Bailey Willis. 91 yean world famous geologist and thority on earl died at his home The colourful Stanford pnfessor had conducts! g cal and seismologic ex] in a score of countries where had been widely deooratol honoured for his at ments.—U.P.
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  • 372 4  -  By Adele Brown THE full line, which only last year, upset every ones conception of what the smart woman should wear, has now been adopted and is the established mode. This year novelties from Paris which transform the accepted styles are to be found in detail.
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  • 448 5 A.P. N T ,n Mon. -Acting Pre"V. Tsung-jen has dealt .low yet to Prehtwing Cabilval here yesia control of the t trili'' Government. again has tak- c toward unity ing and Canton the Government's doaces of making peace with tkm communists, n his unexpected
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  • 73 5 A.P. CHICAGO, Mon. AMe thodist Bishop Ralph S. Cush- the Orient, says that "a Commun'st offensive is moving across South East Asia, rest of the continent." •n a letter from Manila to chirch officials here, Bishop Cushman wrote, that the Communist drive "is causing
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  • 48 5 Reuter. DELHI, Mon. Selling' J lor to tudenta of all age: :<••' sons i>elow 25 years SJJ prohibited in Delhi rovir. Cl by the local adminisin accordance with a me of gradual prom the province. Be rtisemenU and publi*y for dunks have been banned -Sntter
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  • 39 5 AP. tait ANILA Mon.—Press rekille SH!,i that 10 Huk were f °V r con tabular y crw UOu n f led in an ene/ on Sunday near the n.i v between Tarlac ;1 K« ij.i ~i..vinrcr
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  • 787 5 A.P. RANGOON, Mon. The Karens are making a last stand behind their tottering defences at Insein, major rail colony ten miles to the North of Rangoon, after a grim bitter light which began as an "incident" on January 31. For nearly three weeks they
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  • 36 5 A.P. ADDIS ABABA Mon n ci The Ethiopian P»?™ Genera; chau demanded ue Graziam be f lB 1 a ii c gcd Ethiopia n F a^ f °^9 n i937. massacre on *co. A.P.
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  • 21 5 A.P. Quirino approved a rec ation ot Amon ca Advisory to y NmlPhilippme Air.torrc w ;>ct limitations A.I
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 5 X ittontttisl W '>r.s «*d ffcefr fumiiics tJWr retreat to South China set nj) "h*»Uekx uinfi" between the rails in the Shanghai raiheuu stoHon. /m f/ir background a en ioA d fro N from Nanking is pnlHug into the station. A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo
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  • 50 5 Reuter. TOKIO. Monday, Fourteen I former Japanese generals have been repatriated from Russia in the last ten days. Soviet authorities revealed. All were brought to Japan by Soviet aii er aft. No reason was given for the return of these high-ranking officers at this time. Reuter.
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  • 202 5 A.P. NEW DELHI. Mon. India's fierce warrior nation of Sikhs. 6,000,000 strong, showed signs Suni day of going on the warpath again. j o or -■r The Indian Government has clamped one of the major Sikh leaders into jail and taken elaborate precautions. The Sikhs had a
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  • 497 5 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon. Can the United States afford not to give aid to China? That is the paramonut cjuestion with which this country is faced, according to Stanley K. Hornbeck, former chief of the U.b. btate Denartfnent's Division of Far Eastern Affairs.
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  • 56 5 Reuter. COLrOMBO. Mon. Chi'ri mar- riagca are prevalent among Muslims of Ceylon. The Recto* i trar of Maruages stated that 12 1 Muslim girls undor 12 years of rgr. were married in 1947. the youngest of whom was aged nine years. Ceylon's oldest bridegroom i| the same year
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  • 505 6 A more formidable foe than the Communists has A been sighted off the shores of Malaya At the moment it is only a blurr on the horizon, but there is no doubt about its identity. jattsmmA Three competent observers, in three different parts of the world,
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  • 571 6 1. Douglas Lackersteen from Burma KAREN fighters at Insein. the railway colony ten miles north of Rangoon, knelt in prayer before the Battle of Insein. A priest- also a Karen—gave them his blessing, then, as their womenfolk sang a chorus of "Abide with Me."
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  • 823 6 A.P. ml IE red, white and blue 1 tricolour of Holland flies today over all major Indonesian towns but one: Koetaradlfl capital ol the mystenVndoty of Atjeh in NorUi Sumatru, UuU-h soldiers or foieign newsmen have not penetrated the lugged mountains and thick forests of
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  • 770 6 A.P. BRIGHTLY coloured and gilded paintings on the walls of Bangkok's famous Emerald Buddha temple relate the ancient Hindu epic of the "Ramayana,'' how the Hindu princess Sita, captured by the enemy Prince Ravana, was rescued by her husban.' Rama with the help of monkey
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  • 216 7 Sports Jumble Sale Birthday Parly Club Fund Dance Kb* ladies three-legged race in progress at the Raffles College Sports Meet on Sunday. Ih. winners were Miss binte Vhdullah A Miss Sylvia da Costa (extreme left). The asserted garments stall at the YM('\ Jumble Sale on
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  • 140 7 A.P. SCOTLAND is making its biggest effort ever to attract tourists- American and continental European -in 1949. Heading the drive is the Scottish Council, representative of business, industry and labour, and backed by civil and cultural organisations. The Council, with headquarters in Glasgow and chairmancd by
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    • 70 7 UK AB\FJt "s WON TF IN THE! -IN THE Y/ORLD OF f -AND THE I f CALL ME OLD FASHIONED lESS MEN rr FIELD ALONE 1 THERE'LL BE MILLIONS X PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE 7 >. ANYTHING NEVv/.T NEW 5 W OOD JIN SHMTOSICAL. _V' > SHMOOS THEY THINGS ARE
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  • 187 8 THE Representative of the. Government of India. Mr. J A Thivv. leaves Singapoie by the Straits Steamship Co's Daivel on his way to Sarawak Brunei and North Bonn _*v) tour by India's Number One in Maia>a Mr Thivy will be accompanied by Mrs. Thivy. and {hey will
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  • 168 8 ABLE Seaman Leonard McRitchie, aged 19, refused to obey an order from Second Officer L. O. Martin to "unhand" Chief Steward H. A. Lewington aboard the s.s. Eastwater berthed alongside Singapore wharves. He was sentenced yesterday to three weeks' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. W. fit. Walmsley
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  • 102 8 Reuter. SYDNEY, Mon. —A ship which deliberately invited destruction in wartime by playing a "sheep in wolf's cloth ing" role left Sydney this month with a cargo of food for Britain. She is the Walhiana, 8,129 tons, which during the war posed as the 30,000-ton hattleship
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  • 76 8 IN his book "Geography In The 17th Century". Professor Dimitri Lebedev claims that a Russian sailoi. Kon drati Kurochkin, was the Brat man to explore Ihe Arctic Ocean and not Baron Nile Nordenskjold. usually credited with this feat. According to the Professor, Kurochkin actually sailed
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  • 61 8 THE radio-operator of the American freighter William Phils, who had been rcsposible for sending several false messages of mutiny aboard while suffering from "a nervous breakdown," wa.~ sent to hospital when the I ship returned to Gibraltar. Frantic messages, one of I which said 'they are
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    50 8 Since, her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York this year, the 30,000 ton Caronia (seen here) has appeared frequently in the news. But her most dramatic episode to date was when this weekend she answered the SOS of a freighter in distress in the North Atlantic.
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  • 56 8 Three motor torpedo r-ts-th. ports ami voyage within the Arctic C ircle miles during first time such craft have proceeded ho far extreme cold. This picture taken which the crews will test their equipment whi ch will part in the at the MTU base. HMS HORN
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  • 297 8  -  by by Th e Shipping Editor AFTER having lost more than half its fleet during the war, the Straits Steamship Company is making rapid strides towards recovery. Immediately after the iteration, the company began its rehabilitation and to date practically all wartime shipping losses have been
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  • 157 8 A.P. WAS! tINGTON, Monday. SENATOR Millard Tydings said here today that the k United States Air Force «00 H.p.h. Boeing XB-47 jet bomber could carry a 10,000 pound bomb load from Maine to Moscow in live hours. He also said that I the plane could
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  • 53 8 j The Bank Line motor vessel j Gujarat 4.148 gross tons) j which left Singaoore for Hong- kong on Sunday was forced to retttrn to port yesterday bocausc of faulty steering gear. She returned under her own power. The Gujarat arrived at Singapore from Durban via East African
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  • 109 8 Reuter. SHANGHAI, Mon.—Four representatives of Shanghai merchant shipping interests were arriving in Peiping today to confer with Communist Communications Minister Wang Tseng, according to a radio telephone message from helping The opening of shipping communications between Shanghai and Tientsin is expected to be discussed at the
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  • 161 8 HUNTERS who want whit« polar bear ru< in fiont of their fireplace teed 1 skin for 51 hunt under the midn >; :i of Alaska throug rangcmcnt with can Airways. PAA flics the hunter to Nome and arranges foi connections to Xi 2% miles north on the
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  • 56 8 Three Chinese stowawtjrs found aboard the China gation Co.'s Anhui were handed over to the Singapore Immigration authoritii the ship arrive I froi Soot China poits yesb Two of the apparently boarded at Swatow. while hid aboard at Hoihow. The ship earned ;i lota! of 510
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    • 454 8 SHIPPING MANSFIELD CO. LTD. (Incorporated In Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Carrier's option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo. SAILINGS FROM U.K. U.S.A. "Talthybius"...._ from U.K 23 "Myrmidon" from U.K "Maron" from U.S.A. Feb. 28 "Elpenor" from U.K JPf- "Clvtoncus" from U.K Sailings for LIVERPOOL, GLASGOW CONTINENTAL
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    • 284 8 EDUCATIONAL COMMERCIALISE \OLR CULTCEE! Stenographers Book-Keepers are in increasing demand. Learn: Shorthand. Book-Keep-ing, Typewriting etc., Senior Cambridge: Language. Literature and Mathcmati Apply:- MERCANTILE INSTITUTION, 209, Queen Street, Phone 2370. SAILINGS FROM SCANDINAVIA/TJK/ CONTINENT ms "MANCHURIA" 'T\ for Manila, Hongkong, Shanghai, Kobe Yokonam, *i.s. -MALAYA" t dUC for Saigon Bangkok. a
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  • 316 9 Singapore Cautious On The Report UKITAIN may clamp down on excessive Soviet purchases of machinery and mw materials in the Sterling area according to a United Press cable from London, based on ■■reliable sources." Russia bought last year £25,000,000 worth or raw materials of
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  • 57 9 THE rubber market was quiet throughout yesterday while main interest came from upcountry. Yesterday's closing prices were: Buyers. Sellers. No. 1 Mar. RSS 35'» 35% No. 2 Mar. RSS 34 34 2 No. 3 Mar. RSS 33% 33% On reg. tender: Feb.-Mar. 35% 35% Apr.-June 55% 35% July-Sept.
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  • 42 9 PHILIPPINE A.P. MANILA, Mon.- Philippine gold and base metal mines reported today January production totalled 2,529,860 pesos (U551,264,930). Gold was Valued at 1.298 360 pesos from 68,919 tons of ore milled. Chrome and copper had a value of 1.231.500 pesos.—A.P.
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  • 833 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. INDUSTRIALS opened the week rather steadier and tin shares came in for a slightly better inquiry. Singapore share quotations today as given by the Malayan Shareholders' Association were as follows Buyers Sellers .Atlas Ice \4.00 15.00 v l»x Rr*.e» Pref. 2.87 M. 2.02 ft Ords. 1.97V4
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  • 28 9 The Austral Amalgamated Tin Ltd.. announces that its Puchong Section Dredge at Puchong. Selangor has completed its trials and resumed productive running on February 9. 1949.
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  • 123 9 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon —British cars have a bright future in America if the interest they roused at the recent International Automobile Show in New York can be taken as a pointer. Exhibiting firms are more than satisfied with the results and here is a brief
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  • 76 9 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon.—U.S. consumption of new rubber in 1948 totalled 1,073,250 long tons, the Rubber Manufacturers Association reported. This is about 4.4 per cent, less than the record 1947 consumption of 1,122,327 tons, but far in excess of the 781,259 tons used in record
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  • 63 9 A.P. MADRAS, Mon. —For-eign-trained rubber technologists are to be entrusted to increase India's rubber production in ten years, bringing under cultivation *****00 acres. The plan will costing 200,000,000 rupees, a prominent rubber planter said |Hn, He indicated the Indian rubber industry's future depended upon the price
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  • 112 9 A.P. BUENOS AIRES. Mon. British negotiators who are in Buenos Aires to buy meat for Britain for 1949 hope to sell Argentina in exchange larger quantities of goods than at any time since before the war. For the first time in almost 10 years Britain will
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  • 126 9 PETALING Tin Limited made a profit of $2,000,230.12 for the year, ended Oct. 31. 1948. after making allowances for depreciation and property redemption, and providing for income tax. A net balance of $1,008,289.85 was brought forward from the preceding year, making a total of $3,008,519.97. Interim dividends
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  • 50 9 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. —The Combined Tin Committee announces an additional interim tin allocation totalling 11,634 long tons, including Australia 55, Austria 285, Brazil 180, Canada 460, Czechoslovakia 180. France 1.210, Japan 2,000, Poland 305, Rumania 150, Spain 540, South Africa 55, Sweden 300 and the United States s,2so.—Reuter.
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  • 392 9 DRITISH export trade in 1948, the first nearly normal post-war trading year, was more than three times as large in terms of money than it was in 1938. Exports brought in over £1,600 million compared with just over £500 million ten years earlier. Part of this
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  • 34 9 Reuter. KARACHI, Mon. Pakistan and Yugoslavia have signed a trade agreement. Yugoslavia will supply railway sleepers, cement, asbestos, roofing, maize and chemi°apakistan is to send raw jute cotton and other commodities. —Reuter.
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  • 91 9 THERE were no important price changes in the produce market where conditions were quiet yesterday. There were no arrivals of sago flour. Yesterday's quotations were: SAGO FLOUR: Linpgn $16%. Sarawak $12Siak $13'». SAGO SEED: $18. TAPIOCA FLOUR: Fa r FLAKE TAPIOCA: $30. MEDIUM PEARL: $31. TAPIOCA SEED. $31.
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  • 113 9 U.P. GENEVA. Mon—The United Nations Trade Committee unanimously approved measures to increase trade between Eastern Europe and the West. Twenty four European countries and the United States adopted a resolution asking the UN Economic Commission for Europe and governments concerned to collaborate in exchanging information
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  • 64 9 A.P. WARSAW. Mon. Poland is expected to open talks in London nexl week on the payment of prewar debts to the British government and on compensation for nationalised British properties in Poland. A mission leaving for London this Week includes Edward Drozniak, vice-minister of Finance. British properties nation*
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    • 321 9 Malacca W.E.A.O. No. 24 of 1936. Re Mohamed Ismail bin Haji Taib Notice is hereby given that a second and final dividend is intended to be declared in the above matter. All creditors must prove their claims by the 15th day of March. 1949. otherwise they will be excluded from
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    • 267 9 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD Lloyds Agents in Singapore, Ticket Agents For Malayan Railways GLEN LINE FOR LONDON, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG Due nails BRECONSHIRE (P. Sudan, Tangier, C Blanca) 24 Feb. 1 Ma.r GLENGARRY (Calls Casablanca) 17 Mar. 21 Mar. GLENGYLE (Calls Genoa)- 12 Api. 16 Api. DENBIGHSHIRE 26 Api. 30 Api.
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  • 204 10 It was hard to say 'Good-bye' —but, (From Our Own Correspondent) GLASGOW, Monday. THERE are no "poker faced" Chinese in Malaya not if they like badminton. 1 Mr. Lim Chuan Geok, non-playing captain and manager of the Malayan Thomas Cup team, was all grins,
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  • Article, Illustration
    176 10 THE Badan Cup otherwise a Malaya Cup to Indian footballers, will be competed for again. This was unanimously agreed upon at a meeting held recently in Kuala Lumpur by representatives of hulian Associations from all over Malaya. The Cup was buried during the occupation period by the Kinta
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  • 81 10 KING KONG beat Jeji Goldstein by two falls to one in the main event of the wrestling match at Great World Arena on Saturday night. Kid Masque drew with Arjan Dass in the main supporting bout. Tiger Joginder had little difficulty in disposing of George Zbisko.
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  • 40 10 The Jollilads Athletic Union football team played 45 matches in 1948, won 23, lost 19 and drew three. The Jollilads wil> play two games during the Easter Holidays: one in Kuala Lumpur and one in Seremban.
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  • 227 10 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. ALTHOUGH without Jack Heat on. their captain Lancashire deservedly beat Warwickshire at Blundellsands on Saturday and qualified for the Rugby County championship final for the successive year. Their opponents on March 12. will be Gloucestershire who defeated Middlesex at Gloucester. Lancashire who
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  • 94 10 The English College Chess /Club beat Raffles Institution by five games to one at chess at Johore Eahru recently. Results (English College players named first): Rudy Lim beat Chia Kirn Hui 1 —0; Thong Yin Foo beat Yogendran 1—0; Stephen Lav beat Poh Soo Chuan
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  • 82 10 A.P. MANILA. Mon. Philippine athletes were told today they may start preparing for an Asian version of Olympic games during next year. Dr. Regino R. Ylanan. secretary-treasurer of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation returned from New Delhi to report on the newly organised Asian
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  • 502 10 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Xl ALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Malayan-Hongkong Inter-Fort Chinese Trophy 1 will replace the Hp Ho Cup in the annual interport soccer competition between Malayan Chinese and Hongkong Chinese when it revived this year. This was decided at the Council meeting of
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  • 55 10 Photo-finish of Race Six -h owing Trufine No. 10 (Healey) winning by a nose from Kentucky Derby No. 9 (Lawler) with Amusement (Spencer) half a length away third. Another very close finish was witnessed in the fourth race Helen The Fifth No. 5 (Tankard) defeated
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  • 323 10 THE 16-year-old record for the 220 yards fat race was smashed by Yeo Beng Poh at the Eleventh Annual Athletic Meet of Rattles College held on the College grounds on Sunday.. Beng Poh who clocked 2.1 6 sec onda, bettered the old record by .2 seconds set
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  • 71 10 THE VICTORS—The R.A.F. Malaya Association Football eleven which beat the Royal Siamese Air Force team at Bangkok on Saturday by 3—2. Back Row left to rieht- Fit Ueut. Syrett (Seletar) (Cap..), F() Bridges (Sembawang), A C Durden (Chantrii Fit Sgt. Currie Cpl. Sharpe (Seletar), A C Jeffries (Tengah). Front Row
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  • 494 10 Reuter. LONDON, Moftdaj FUR top clubs in the premier division of the y b ash League football, Portsmouth. NewciJ Derby and Manchester United, all suffered *2 on Saturday away from home, while the lour rfaL at the foot of the table, Sheffield United,
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  • 41 10 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon. Hanv (Herschcl) Haft claims to speak more languages than any other boxer now operating in America. A native of Poland. Harrycan hear the referee in Polish. German, Hungarian, Russian. Jewish, Czech, Frcncn' ami English. -A.P
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  • 342 10  -  (Fiom Vernon Reuter. LONDON, Mon. It is still not certain what is going to happen to the £30.000 which the XIV Olympiad made is London last summer. It has been taken for gr anted a some circles that the governing bodies of th«> 17 spon?
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  • 55 10 The annual m« etiag <Jf Singapore Chess held on Saturday oi« which the retniw; was re-elected President. M G U Secretary and Treasurer. Tan Luan Kia. Committee: Mr. W. < Mr. Lim Hee &of Choon Keat; Dr. Lim JJ Ann. The customary ning Chess Tournament before the
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    • 244 10 The Motor Vehicles (Commercial Use) Regulations. Notice Of Application For A Haulage Permit. TAKE NOTICE that we. Chop Hong Soon of No. 32 Jalan Shahbandar, Batu Pahat by m-cupatiou Ruober Dealers intend to apply to the Commissioner of Road Transport, Federation of Malaya, for a permit to authorise us to
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    • 11 10 7&ifc»ce j R-i SKELTON in M.G.MS W Soo at i Bflj^j
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  • 1705 11  - CUP GAMES: STROKE -BY STROKE REPORT Malayans Provide Biggest Thrills (From JIMMY GLOVER GLASGOW, Monday. M\(» h\ three games to one at the close of the first day's play, today I I i-> in a strong position in her match against the United States in the semii the Thomas Cup
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  • 189 11 Reuter. Si,- George Thommm form* r British lunnpi'in, and donor of the trophy Which is beina p. ujed tor this gear for th> first time u<is present to watch these two teams who find come from tht other side of the world to do batth in
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  • 135 11 rOLOMBO, Monday. The west Indies beat Ceylon Ibv1 bv an innings and 22 runs in the first test cricket match concluded yesterday at the Colombo OvaL The second and last test match begins next Saturday. SCORES: West Indies first innings 462 for two declared. Ceylon first
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  • 20 11 Owing to pressure on space, Curiey Kayoe is missing today—but be wffl be back tomorrow on thin page.
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  • 878 11  -  Tod av's Track Notes i BY ALLAN LEWIS Fast Times were made this morning at Bukit Timah when the number two grass was opened for fast work. The tracks are in excellent condition at present. The best workers this morning were Token, Merry Miller and Some Brani, Lucky Ace
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  • 103 11 The remaining five tie* will be played off today: 1. Wong Peng Soon v. Dave Freeman. t. Ooi Teik Hock v. Marten Jtendez. 3. Teik Hock v. Car! LoveUay. 4 Yeoh Teck Chye anil Chan Kon 7-eong v. Freeman and Rogers. 3. Ooi Teik Hock and
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  • 222 11 WHILE Malaya's badminton "giants" were battling in Glasgow against the Americans in the Thomas Cup semi-final, the Singapore Malays also battled hard in their respective ties in their championship tournament at the Clerical Union hall last night. In one of the doubles ties. Idris Wahab and M. Saheh
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  • 23 11 A.P. STOCKHOLM, Mon. Czechoslovakia Sunday won the world ice hockey championship by defeating Sweden 3-0 in the final match -A.P.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 288 11 AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Singapore Properties To Be Held At Our Saleroom, Nos. 14 16 Kobinsoii Road, ,)n Tlmrsuav. February 1949, At 2.30 P.M. Ml 999 years' leasehold land and house No. 73 Club sq.ft. Monthly rent $45.00. (Messrs. Donald«Bßrtdnshaw, Solicitors). years' leasehold land and houses No. 693. North Ko*!
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  • 326 12 Reuter. R4NGOON, Monday.—Combined forces of Karen and Communist rebels have <»ceupied the central Burma towns of Fyinmana, Yematin, and Meiktila, it m was officially stated today. Meiktila is the headquarters of the North Burma Army. Using a Dakota plane they had seized from the airfield
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  • 40 12 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon.—Successful manufacture of compost or organic fertilizer on a mass production basis from various kinds of waste is claimed by a Swedish biological chemist, Eric Eweson and Joseph W. Frazer, President of Kaiser Frazer Auto Company.—A.P.
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  • 141 12 U.P. LONDON, Mon. Conservative critics charged today that the policy of the Labour Government's Colonial Office in Malaya, the Gold Coast and elsewhere is "flurried and befuddled". The Financial Times columnist "Observer" referred to Colonial Secretary Creech .Jones' •befuddlement" during the Lords' debate on Gold Coast immigration.
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  • 163 12 Reuter and A.P. LONDON, Mon. Britain's j navy estimates for 1949 50. published today, indicated thai Admiralty chiefs are still await ing guidance from the scientists before building the new kind rf navy needed in the atomic age. Policy during the forthcoming year will be directed to the
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  • 25 12 MANCHESTER, Mon William Fox, former Worcestershire cricketer and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Middlesbrough and Newport j county footballer, died following an operation on Sa-
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  • 196 12 AUSTRALIAN movie-star Chips Rafferty dropped in on Singapore yesterday-a very disappointed man. He had failed to make contact with Britain's No. 1 star .John Mills, although he had spent 10 weeks in the r.K. "It was just my luck,'' he said. "I had been looking forward very
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  • 40 12 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon.-Thc Associated Press index of wholesale commodity prices advanced this week for the first time in eight weeks. At 167.77 it compared with 165.76 a week ago- the largest gain since last May 21.- A.P.
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  • 139 12 U.P. LONDON, Mon. Officials at Dartmoor Prison, the prim home of Britain's hardened criminals, puzzled today over the strangest escape in the prison's 143 years' tvstory Victor Harold James, a 31-year-old burer'ar with the build of a middleweight boxer, squeezed his body through the iron
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  • 40 12 NEW DELHI. Mon. Problems in connection with the Kashmir truce continued to occupy the United Nations Kashmir Commission at today's meeting. Tin- Commission w*-i--eomed J. ICaha Huddle of th«United States who arrived this weekend from talks in Karachi.
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  • 25 12 A.P. NEW YORK, Mon. Financial and commodity exchanges in the United States will be closed on Tuesday, for mer President George Washington's birthday.—A.P.
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  • 37 12 Winner of the 220 yds Ladies' Relay (3rd. years vs untitled at Kaifles College Sports on Sunday. Lett to Right: Misses, Monica Morsingh, Chiu Hui Pin, Leong Vuet Wah and M. \i ma ma hi Rest Team).
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  • 70 12 Reuter. BUITENZORG, Mon.—The International Rice Council of the Food and Agricultural Organisation will be installed at Bangkok on March 7, it was learned here at the Indonesian Agricultural Laboratories Headquarters, according to Aneta, the Dutch news agency. A five-men delegation will represent Indonesia at
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  • 102 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malayan Chettiar Chamber of Commerce is to appeal to His Excellency, Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner of the Federation, for the release of Chettiars arrested in Johore and Malacca recently for allegedly giving protection money. The secretary of the Chamber, Mr. Ramanathan
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  • 44 12 The Cathay Restaurant was the scene of a gay party last night when over 40 guests drank a toast to Dato Dr. C. J. Pagiar and Datin Paglar on the occasion of their wedding anniversary which was celebrated with a dinner and dance.
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  • 50 12 General SINGAPORE STAMP CLIC Social Meeting. Capitol rant —5.15 p.m. Y.W.O.A.: Sports Huh t\> mittee Mooting, Fort r ti: ing Road —5.:$0 p.m. Y.M.C.A., Orchard Uoinl !>. cital of Recorded Music—*pr< SCOUT SHOW: Ccl.M t, of birthday anniversary of tr. late Lord Baden Powell V toria Memorial—ti
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  • 196 12 PAVILION: "The Scar/. Street," with Edward G Rcr'■ son and Joan Bennett—2 415. I 3.30 and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "The Two M-s Carrolls," with Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck aAlexis Smith—11 a.m.. 14' 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. CATHAY: "Song of the Th: Man." with Keenan Wynn-11 a.m. 1.45, 4.15,
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  • 54 12 SOCCER: Tamil V. tr Association Juniors vs Sports Club. Farr.' HOCKEY: S.C.R Assn., S.C.R C.. 5.1> p-m WE1GHTLIFTIXG BODY BUILDING 1 Y. M.C.A., 107. SHegio Ko 7 p.ni• p. TOURNEY: Indoor oa.tournament —7 p .mOrchard Road. r GYMNASTICS: V MOrchard Road —6.o0 pBADMINTON AM» A KETBALL: Chinese 107, Sclegie
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