Malaya Tribune, 24 October 1949

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    58 1 Malaya Tribune —'PEOPLE* T«fc Tribune* S'ponj LARGER SALES WAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 Ninr. Una Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Olover, Malaya Tribune Office, 143 Fleet
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    HK Awaits The First Move
    76 1 This is a view of Hongkong (foreground) and Kowloon, on the mainland across the water. The picture is made from the Peake area behind the city of Victoria. Kowloon handles large liner traffic, docks for which are seen on the near side of the promontory.
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    AUSTERITY BLITZ TO BE RELEASED TODAY
    211 1 A.P. LONDON, Monday. DRIME Minister Clement Attlee will announce Britain's austerity blitz today in the House of Commons. The Prime Minister is expected to open his austerity bag at 14.30 G.M.T. He will broadcast to the nation in the evening (20.15 GMT) when he
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    BIG GUTS IN BRITISH CAR PRICES
    94 1 A.P. NEW YORK, Sun. The new prices for British made Ford cars are 30 to 34 percent lower as a result of devaluation of the Pound, it was announced today. Two-door Anglias cut from U551,398 to US$947. Four-door Prefects from U551,620 to U551,077. Quarter-ton
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    THE WAY OF ALL FLESH
    71 1 A.P. MELBOURNE, Sun. A baboon walked Into a bar at a Melbourne hotel the other day. A quick-witted drinker gave him two glasses of port wine. He gulped them happily. Then the host quietly slipped a rope round his neck. The baboon, a star turn
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    EGYPTIANS FIRE AT BRITISH, U.S. PLANES
    95 1 TEL AVIV. Sun. Two British aircraft, carrying passengers to Israel, were hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying over Egyptian territory near Gaza yesterday, reliable reports reaching Tel Aviv said today. No passeugers were wounded and both aircraft managed to land safely. The original report
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    ACTOR DIES
    30 1 U.P. HOLLYWOOD, Sun. Film Actor Craig Reynolds. 42, known for his romau::c and comedy roles, died yesterday of injuries received when his motor scooter rollidxi with a motorcycle.—U.P.
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    CASLON LEAVES FOR W. COAST
    50 1 Tribune Reporter Rear Admiral C. Caslon, Fiag Officer Malaya Area, left Singapore this morning for visit to the West coast of Malaya in the H.M.S. Alert. Admira-i Caslon will call at Kedah River, Penang and Malacca. t He is expected to return on Nov. 6.
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    K.L. RACES
    21 1 For selections and form guide on the second day of the Kuala Lumpur races see pages 6 and 7.
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    Greetings to U.N. on Fourth Birthday
    298 1 A.P., Reuters. LONDON. Sun Leaders of the British government and its opposition both voiced cautions hope last night that the United Nations will succeed keeping peace. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Labour, and Winston Churchill, heading the Conservative Party, sent messages to the United Nations
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    RUSSIAN GIFT
    48 1 A.P. MOBCOW, Sun.—The news paper Pravda said today that Russia would continue to support the United Nations' despite the fact that Yugoslavia was elected to the Security Council over Russia's vehement protests. However, Pravda declarea, the Russians will not view Yugoslavia as representative of that area.—A.P.
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    NATIONALISTS HALT DRIVE ON CHUNGKING
    316 1 Chia ng Releases Gold To Carry on the War A.P. and Reuter. CHUNGKING, Sunday. THE Nationalists today claimed successes in small scale localised fighting on the approaches to Szeehwan, the home province of this provisional capital. Official reports said the Reds were driven from their
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    MEICHUNG WAS SAVED BY LOYAL CREW
    114 1 A.P. HONG KONG, Sun.—Half of a 60-man crew of the Nationalist gunboat Meichung plotted mutiny just outside Hong Kong harbour after the fall of Canton, but were overpowered by the other half remaining loyal to the Nationalists, the Central News reports from Formosa. The
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    MR. V. SACKED?
    32 1 U.P. LONDON, Sun. The Daily Graphic alleged today that Soviet Minister Andrei Vishinsky "is likely to be relieved." The comment was made in the paper's "inside information column. —U.P.
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    EUROPEAN SERGEANT CONVICTED OF THEFT
    135 1 JOHORE BAHRTJ. Sun.— Douglas Arthur Connet, a European Police sergeant stationed on Yong Peng Estate, was today found guilty of stealing a piece of gold weighing five chis and valued at $80 from a dentist's shop at Kluang by Mr. W. R Sutherland, President of
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    MACAO'S ONLY WORRY IS FOOD
    303 1 Reuter. MACAO. Sun.—Portugal's six-square-mile China coast colony of Macao, with its garrison doubled in two months, is taking calmly the prospect of Chinese Communists lining the border in the next few weeks. The only worry is that a nationalist blockade would deprive the colony of
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    BIG WELCOME FOR NEHRU IN CANADA
    73 1 A.P. Ottawa, Sun. —Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in Ottawa today for a 3-day visit. He was greeted by the Canadian premier and the ex-pre-mier Mr. Mackenzie King. A guard of honour of 100 men was Inspected by Pandit Nehru and
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    RACER KILLS 11
    40 1 A.P. BUENOS AIRES, Sun. A racing car, driven by Italo Stzio, went out of control in the, 500 mile race in Santa Fe Province today and killed 10 spectators and the driver. Fight others were injured.— A.P,
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    BUT RED ARMIES TAKE TIHUA
    114 1 Reuter. MOSCOW. Sun. Chinese Communist armies have taken Tlhua (Urumchi). capitr." of the Province of stnkiang, according to a iass message. F-arlier this year the province of 4.000.000 broke from Nationalist controt and declared itself autonomous. The Communist troops were welcomed by a delegation headed
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    ARIZONA GAOL BREAK
    71 1 U.P. PHOENIX, ARIZONA, Sun. —Six prisoners tried to shoot their way out of Maricopa County jail early today bat the night watchman killed two before they could get out of the courthouse and two others were captured. Jack L. Tatum of the notorious Tatum gang which once
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    OVER THE MARK
    37 1 WASHINGTON, Sun —The Economic Cooperation Administration announced today that tne money the United States spent for European recovery since the beginning of the Marshal Plan passed the U557,000.000,000 Mark with today's allocations of US$ll,--585.000.
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    Bidault Is Third Premier to be In 18 Days
    125 1 STOP ERSSS U.P. PARIS, Sun.—Georges Bidault, leader of the Catholic Popular Republican Party, tonight took over the job of trying to pull the warring middle line parties Into new coalition Government for France and pot an end to tt* ix-day political
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    African Student Riot
    118 1 Reuter. East London Cape Province, Sun. Mora than 150 African students, mostly women, rioted at St. thews College 60 miles from here. Three of the European staff, including two women, were slightly hurt before police quelled the disturbance and made several arrests. Police found most of the
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    U.N. IS 4-YEARS OLD TODAY
    163 2 Reuter. Today is United Nations Day and nearly all the 59 member countries, including the United States and others of the "Big Five" will observe the fourth birthday of U.N. The United Nations has achieved many successes, while getting under way a number of promising
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    FASTER AIR LINK WITH ENGLAND
    107 2 Reuter. T/YNDON, Sun —The Bom-bnv-Lcndon air journey wi" J be' shortened from 28 to abnut 22 hour? when Air India International takes delivery here on Tuesday of a ntW type of American Constellation now being got ready for the Journey across the Atlantic. Air India
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    EXPERTS DISCUSS LOCUST THREAT
    95 2 Reuter. KARACHI. Sun. Locust breeding his been reported from n'aces as far anart as Arabia. Ind'a and French West Africa, and there is imminent danger of swarms menacing agriculture ever a wide area. Pakistan's T ie->nh Minister Dr. A. Malik, told international exports "hem today. R'irvevs
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    U.S. AIR EXERCISES OVER OKINAWA
    72 2 Reuter. TOKIO, Sun—The United States Fifth Air Force based in Japan with a fighter squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force was pitted against the 20th Air Force based an Okinawa in a 24-hour day and night aerial battle last Thursday Headquarters for the United
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    INDONESIAN POST
    34 2 Reuter. JOGJAKARTA, Sun.—me Indonesian Postal Congress may be held in Jogjakarta in future, says Aneta. the Dutch news agency. This has been decided by the postal unions in Jogjakarta and Batavia.— Reuter.
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    Ruth's Flu' Gives Seretse A Reputation
    209 2 A.P. JOHANNESBURG. Bun. THE Bamangwato tribe's white Queen elect" foi■er London typut Ruth Wll Hams has unwittingly givu aer husband SereUe Kham chief-e'ect, a reputation of being the "greatest magician in Bechuanatand." Ruth was in bed for a week or two with an undiagnosed
    A.P.  -  209 words
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    MARCHING ORDERS
    18 2 Reuter. LONDON, Sun.— Czechoslovakia told Yugoslavia today that she was expelling 11 Yugoslavs, from the country.Reuter.
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    Saturday Pride
    55 2 Mr. and Mrs. Jake fan l>n 8 Lock alter their at the Gevlang Straits Chinese M.thodist Chnrch on SattirdayM? Tan works at the Estate and Trust limited and is fioi. the Slang Urn Park Ajaoctotten. The bride waa formerly Miss. Glory Ec ton. Thj reception was held at
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    WORLD BANK MUST GIVE AID TO INDIA
    177 2 NEW YORK, Sunday. MR. Eugene Black. President of the International Bank for Reconstruction iU and Development, said today: "I can think of few more important or challenging tasks for the Bank than that of assisting India." Mr. Black made this statement when he
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    No Nationalisation
    127 2 Reuter "It is ncwoithy that there has been ur.cwed British investment In India recenUy and no attempt has been made by the Indian government to penalise existing British intcicsts by nationalisation or other measures. "On the cc.itrary. the Prime Minister has jiven assurances for the protectioa of all
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    $ 5,000 FIRE AT MALACCA
    97 2 5,000 FIRE AT MALACCA Malacca, Sun.—Five thousand dollars' worth of property was damaged by fire early this morning when a brick kiln was gutted at Lorong Pandan two miles fiom Malacca Town. The fire was noticed by Mrs. K. M. Cansdell, Welfare Officer, Malacca, who summoned the fire brigade. The
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    WHALING EXPEDITION
    22 2 U.P. TOKYO, £jun.— the ftnirtfl Japanese whaling expedition to Antartica since the surrender will sail from Yokosuka on November Ist.—U.P.
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    Founder And Member
    59 2 Mr. Y.S. Tan and the Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at a cocktail party at 87? liv kit Tim ah Road on Saturday night. Mr. Mac Donald was the guest of honour at the party given by Mr. Tan, a founder member of the "Young Mr.
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    SULTAN OPENS RELIGIOUS COUNCIL
    89 2 IPOH, Sun.—The Sultan of Perak declared open the Council of Religion and Malay Custom here today, lie addressed the gathering and told them that the Council should be se f-supporting. Among those who were p:coent at the ceremony were the Acting Mentri Besar, Che Mustapha Aibaitri;
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    Cheap Jap yarns threaten UK markets
    177 2 Reuter. HARROGATE. Yorkshire, Sun. —A delegate to the conference of the British Cotton Board here. Mr. F. S. W i nt c r bo t V\ yesterday described present price level of* Jab o textile stocks as a "frightening" one. being approximately equal to
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    SIR HUGH INSPECTS BOYS BRIGADE
    35 3 Top: Air Marshal sir Hugh Uoyd inspecting the Singapore |-..»,'s Krijrade on Saturday at their annual review and demonstration. Below: Sir Hugh is introduced lo one of the Isrißttil;' officers.
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    WORLD COURT TO TRY RED PUPPETS
    196 3 R euter. FLUSHING MEADOWS, Sunday.—The United Nations General Assembly decided today by an overwhelming majority to seek the pinion of the International Court of 'Justice on charges that Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania have violated the human rights provisions in their peace .treaties. The Assembly
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    U.S. CRITICS COMMEND SINGAPOREAN
    65 3 A young Singaporean, Tay j Tian Swe< whose photograph received commendations from critics in America is planing to j make his photography training j the means of visual evangelism when he returns to Malaya. Tay is now studying commercial photography .at trie' Fred Archer School of
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    Bukit Serene Won't Discuss Sino-Red Regime
    130 3 A.P. LONDON. Sunday. A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that the question of recognition of the Chinese Red regime in China is not likely to be raised at the Singapore conference of British military and diplomatic officials in the Far East next week. "Theirs
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    VIETNAM DELEGATES DISAFPCINTED
    198 3 "W- aic a little dtsap£oft*tcd that we cannot he included in the ECAFE meeting now in progress.'* admitted M. Tran Mart, member cf the Vietnam National Assembly, to the Tribune yesterday evening at a farewell tea rjarty at th_- Katong Rest House. "However," he said, "the final
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    SINGAPORE M Y F RE-UNION SUPPER
    65 3 The Singapore District' Methodist Youth Fellowship Will be holding a re-union supper on November 5, at the Methodist Girls* School at 630 p.m. The organisers' hope to bring ex-MYF members in touch wit the programmes of the. MYF-; in Singapore. The programme wil: consist
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    Jap Steel For Australia
    80 3 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Sun. -A ship chartered hy tq« Oceanic; Navigittdn Company of Calcutta has arrived in Kobe to carry 10,000 tons of steel construction matertars to Australia, according to le Kyodo news agency. The materials were ordered by a Scott and English company from a Japanese
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    NAVY, R.A.F. PLANES IN BIG STRIKE
    269 3 SEGAMAT, Sunday. IN the biggefd/ combined operation since the Emergency, planes of the R.A.F. and the Royal Navy today bombarded the sth. Bandit Troop, North Johore, believed to be hiding m thick, hilly jungle. This is the third day of the air .strike. Land
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    RUSSIANS AT HAPPY WORLD
    122 3 Two of Mr. S.S. Nemtchina's advisers wpnt. to Mr. George E. Lee's cocktail-dance party at the Happy World yesterday afternoon, stayed for a few drinks and then walked away. Mi. Nemtchina is Russia's delegate to the E.C.A.F.E. conference now in session in Singapore. His two aides
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    CIGS AT GOVT. HOUSE
    39 3 Field Marshal Sir William STtm and Lieut -General Sit John Haidlng, C in C FARBLF, had lunch with the Governor of Singapore yesterday. After visiting units in Kluang they left by air for Kuala Lumpur.
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    ECAFE AND AFTER . . .
    612 4 ECAFE AND AFTER ECAFE is all over and the various delegates have gone their ways, what impression will be left on Singapore's man-in-the-street If any impression has been made at all (which is doubtful), it will be a confused one. He will be grateful for the cleaning of the Victoria
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    WHAT MAKES A BOOK SELLP
    1267 4  -  By MONK GIBBON HARVEY discovered the secret of the circulation of the blood, but so far no one seems to have discovered the secret of tne circulation of the book. It is a subject of considerable importance to publishers, and even authors, I have noticed,
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    What Is Wrong With Lotteries?
    251 4 jThe People's Postba.l L, JLl Sir, Why all this confab and bickering about Lotteries. Whats wrong with them anyway Those who were in this country during the First World War will remember that lotteries were held in aid of The Red Cross in fact they
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    FIRE OF HATRED
    76 4 Sir, A move has been made by some Jap merchants to aend a monetary relief to the relatives of victims who were slaughtered by them in cold blood during their conquest of Singapore. This gesture Is a bid to pacify the Chinese for their return to Malaya.
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    PROTECT THE WEAK
    126 4 Sir. I am one of those "oldfashioned" believers in the doctrine of retribution, and I am convinced that unless the people of any country cease defrauding and robbing one another then this country is asking for trouble. In fact, the Old Book says, of such people, "Come,
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    HELP THE POOR
    393 4 SU", What is going to become of the poor and the wage-earn-ers since devaluation has resulted in high prices for foodstuffs, tin.goods and other general commodities, besides luxuries? Indeed, this business of devaluation gives us' no prospect of a happy and peaceful living. The news of the
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    TACTICS
    272 4 Sir. I read Mr. Yap Pheng Geek's letter with great interest. It is a pity that he should have used the expression "The poor have had too much consideration" and thus thrown himself to the attacks of certain people who could make so much capital out of it in
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    RONGGENG
    249 4 Sir. When we elect the Legislative Councillors we expect them to do something sensible, but what is happening? School children neglect their studies Modern Ronggeng is to be blamed. Well, do we expect the Ronggeng Girls to starve to death because some school children I a few of the
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    What Will Stalin Do Now? New Biography Offers Some Clues
    787 4  -  By Bruce Biossai WHAT can the world expect from Joseph Stalin now that Russia holds the atom bomb? Is he likely to use it? To find the answers to these questions, we need to know the kind of man he
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    'INCENDIARY MANIAC'
    83 4 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Sun. Six members of the fire-fighting crew in Nakatsugawa v 1 11 a g r northern Japan, beat a 36year old woman to death recently, charging that she was an arsonist who had started several fires in the community. The six men surrendered to local police
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    Amid The Pyramids
    34 5 Mrs. Krishna Kutheesingh, younger sister of Pandit Nehru, Premier of India, and her two Children, Ajip, 12 (standing) and Harsha 14, are seen on a tour of the Pyramids outside Cairo.
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    ARAB LEAGUE DROPS MERGER PLAN
    195 5 Reuter. CAIRO, Sunday. THE Arab League Political Committee today, decided to drop the controversial plan for the union of Syria and Iraq, at least until there is a constitu-. tional government in Damascus. The Commit.cc, wmcn nas been in inten.se be-hind-the-~jenes activity in tht past
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    220,000 ARE ON STRIKE IN ARGENTINA
    76 5 U.P. BUENOS AIRES. Sun. Nearly 220.000 workers were involved in either total or partial strikes throughout Argentina. The biggest single stoppage is of 90,000 sugar workers who waked out in a general strike a week ago in Tucuman salt and Jujuy provinces. In the
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    RADAR SCREEN TO GUARD U.S. FROM A-RAIDS
    79 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON. Sun. Rapid construction of a $160,--750,000 rada screen to guard the United States against atomic attack is being urged by the Senate Atomic Energy jmnuttf 1 The screen would consist or radar stations strung along the borders of the United Slates
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    AUSTRALIA GETS READY FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA
    129 5 A.P. SYDNEY. Sun.- The Sunday Herald says the Australian army is going to reorganize ami standardize its arms wi*h the United States to "prepare for the inevitable war with Russia." Top level conferences between Australian Cabinet ministers and Army Chief -of Staff Lieutenant
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    TOUCH' ENVOY GOES TO BELGRADE
    139 5 U.P. WASHINGTON, Sum. The United States i 3 sending one of its toughest "cold war" diplomats to Yugoslavia to watch out for American interests in the struggle between the Kremlin and Tito. Informed quarters say that Assistant Secretary of State. George Allen, director of America's
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    TSINAN ENDS RUMOURS OF BOMBING
    67 5 Reuter. HONGKONG. Sun. The 3.000 ton British freighter Tsinan radioed her owners here tonight indicating she was steaming on normal course putting an end to persistent rumours that Nationalist planes had bombed and sunk her. The Tsinan said nothing about an attack by Nationalist aircraft
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    INDIAN R.C. CARDINAL
    52 5 Reuter. VATICAN CITY, Sun. An Indian may be created the first Roman Cathnllr Cardinal from Asia at the next Papal consistory, beginning on December 15, Vatican observers said today. The possibility that Bishop Soegijapranata of Jogjakarta, Indonesia, might shortly become a Cardinal was thought unlikely by church
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    Adaptable Thieves
    44 5 A.P. CAIRO, Sun. Two men stopped pedestrians on the street, explained they were political police, and searched them. A detective passed by, took one look and arrested both men. They were two of Egypt's best known pickpockets trying out a new technique.—A.P.
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    CHINESE JUNK TO RUN BLOCKADE
    111 5 Reuter HONGKONG, Sun.—A Chinese wooden junk towed by a steam launch left Hongkong this morning for Szeku, 65 miles northwest of Hongkong in the Pearl River delta. The towboat carried 15 passengers and a heavy load of general cargo to»be consigned to Canton. The boat
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    U.S. INFLUENCING PANDIT NEHRU
    114 5 Reuter. MOSCOW. Sun. -Red Fleet. Soviet Navy newspaper, said today that the United States I was influencing Pandit Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, at present visiting America, against the "liberation forces" in Asia. "The United States aims at utilising the talks with Pandit Nehru toi ntensify the
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    CONGRESS OF AMERICAN WOMEN IS RED OR GANISATION
    247 5 U.P. WASHINGTON, Sunday. fHE House of Representatives Committee on un-American activities branded 1 today the "Congress of American Women" as a "Communist front organisation specifically designed to ensnare idealistically minded but politically gullible women." The Committee said in a 114 page report
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    THEY WILL GIVE BIBLES AWAY
    54 5 A.P. SEATTLE, Sun.—Two men sailed for Yokohama with 10,000,000 pocket-size bibles which they plan to distribute among the Japanese people. They are Alfred A. Kunz and Edwin L. Frizep, executive director and field representative, respectively, of the Pocket Testament League of New York. The bibles
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    I WILL WAIT SAYS NEHRU
    78 5 A.P. NEW YORK, Sun.—lndia's Premier Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who arrived in New York i yesterday from Boston en route for Canada expressed surprise when asked by a reporter if he will intervene »n the French-Indochina dispute. I "They want me to mediate?"' -3ked Pandit Nehru.
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    BIG GOLD RUSH TO ALASKA
    194 5 U.P. FAIRBANKS. ALASKA, Sun.—The greatest gold rush since the days of 1898 gained momentum today with prospectors flying by plane into the gold stake area. Gold nuggets the size of peas were discovered in the Yukon River, barely nine miles South of the Arctic Circle
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    THREE GOOD OUTSIDERS FOR TODAY
    52 6  -  From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Today. THE three safest bets for today, the second day of 1 the Selangor Turf Club's October Meeting, Should by WmAtfm, SfAR PERFOfcMEfc and VICTORY. t Ckx)d outsiders should be Judiac, Grand Day and Red Hackly. The going will be
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    109 6 RACE ONE CL 5. JDiv. 2.—7 Furs, t PERAMBULATOR Baroness King's Mace < RACE TWO CL 5 Div. 1—Furs. BULLRING Fountain Lady j Democrat RACE THREE 1 CI. 5, Div, 8—51/2 STAR PERFORMER True Liberty Harlem Princess I RACE FOUR CI. 5, Div. 2—51/ 2 F. WIKATION I Battl
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    EMPIRE XI WIN BY WICKET
    43 6 Reuter. INDORE, CENTRAL IN DTA, Sun.—The Commonwealth cricket touring team beat a Holkar Cricket Asso ciation Eleven by one wicker in their match here tofiav. Final .scores: Holkar 86 and 300 Commonwealth team: 197 and 190 for nine.—Reuter.
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    NO. 13 REARS ITS UGLY HEAD
    426 6 HOME SOCCER Reuter. ■..■!•>. LONDON, Sunday. ITNLUCKY number thirteen lived up to its reputation in no uncertain manner yesterday, several of the leading clubs being beaten in their thirteenth match of the season. Wolverhampton Wanderers, after 12 successive games without defeat, went down for
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    INDIANS DUE TOMORROW
    19 6 The Indian Soccer team is due tt> arrive at Ten gab at H. 30 a.m. tomorrow.
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    Heavy Selling Of Tins By London
    772 6 Share Market Last Week (By A Market Correspondent) THE presentation of the Singapore budget last week attracted little attention in the share market, but the sound state of Colony finances and the assurance that there would be no increase in the rate of income
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    Rubber Last Week
    156 6 THERE is very little to report this week and fluctuations have been negligible, says the rubber market review for, last week issued by Lewis Peat Ltd. Early in the week the market was inclined to sag. but better advices from New York again restored confidence. Low grades
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    sabin Best Man On The Field
    178 6 sa bin Best Man On The Field SUPERIOR in scrum and tactics a well balanced .wi heavily pacned Singapore Engineers XV trounced South johore R.F.C. by 32 pbinM (four g0a1.% four tricsj p three (a try) at Johore B-.hru on Saturday. Sabin opened the scoring foi tne Sappers when he
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    HARRIS BREAKS CYCLE RECORD
    58 6 Reuter. MILAN, Sun.—Rrg Harris, of Manchester, who is world professional sprint cycling champion, today broke, the 1,000 metre* standing start world record wMn a time of one inindte 9-4 5 sees. The previous record was held by an Italian, Fabio Bat tesini, who in 1938 covered
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    JOLLILADS WIN 5-0
    133 6 Scoriae two goals in the first half Jullllads beat the SiOk r aiK>re Harbour Board Recreation Clul, hy five naals to nil in soa-er match played at Keppel Harbour yesterday., In the first five minutes. Matnoor scored the first goal off a penalty. A faw minutes later
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    65 6 Coffee was Arm on Saturday with Rio No. 5 done at $89> 2 per picul. There wer« further buyers, with sellers quoting $90. Rio No. 7 was bid at $88 for forward delivery. Business in Coconut oil whs done at $53 U per picul f.o.b. Oct.-Nov. Copra was
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    FORM GUIDE FOR TODAY'S RACES
    4304 7 Second Day Of K.L. Races race o.m: Class 5, Div. 2, About 7 Furlongs KING'S MACE 9.02 TENTH 2-4-49 K.L. 8.04. 5) Furs. (J. Donnelly) Div. 1. Won by Axad 1-12. Going Heaw TENTH 22-6-49 Ipoh 8.06, fi Fu (Stirling) Div 2 Won by Alr-n*
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    RACE CARD
    969 7 DELOW is the card for today's races at Kuala Lum pur. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 8, and the Double Totes on Races 3 and 4 and 7 and 8. RACE ONE 2.15 P.M. HORSES CLASS 5. DIV. 2 ABT. 7 FI RS. King* Mace
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    S.J.I. WINS 2 INVITATION RELAYS AT MUSLIM SPORTS
    487 7 GOVERNOR Sir Franklin Cinisnn yesterday Kave away the prises at the Muslim New Year sports held at the Jalan Besar Stadium. More than 3,000 Muslims saw the sports which were mainly lor children of the Colony's Malay schools. The St. Joseph's Institution
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    INNINGS WIN
    38 7 Reuter. ESHOWE, Zululand, Sun Tho Australian cricket team won the opening match nt their South African tour with a victory today over Zululand by an Innings and 280 run*. Scores: Zulus 52 and 69; Tourists 401.—Router.
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    HELEN HENG (16) OUSTS "GRANDMA " PENNEFA THER
    517 8 HELEN HENG (16) OUSTS "GRANDMA PENNEFA THER By SHUTTLE THE Malayan Women Singles Champion, 16-year-old Miss Helen Heng, gave a colourful display to eliminate the Malayan Women Singles runnerup Mrs. L. M. Pennef ather (Diehard) 11—4, 11—1 in the Singapore Badminton Championships played at the Clerical Union Hall, yesterday. Mrs.
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    GARBAGE MEN GIVE CALCUTTA 'BIGGEST STINK'
    112 8 U.P. CALCUTTA. Sun.—A strike of Calcutta's 16.000 garbage collectors confronted the municipal authorities today with "biggest stink" of their careers. Thousands of tons garbage has been left in bins and scattered around unswept streets to sizzle in the burning hot October sun when scavenger
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    RENE MAYER RESIGNS
    63 8 A.P. PARIS, Bun.—Premier-de-signate Rene Mayer resigned early today, prolonging the political crisis which has left France without a cabinet for 16 days. Mayer had been Premierdesignate only two days. He was unable to form a cabinet because the Socialists were unwilling to enter nis Government under conditions
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    'THE END DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE MEANS'
    186 8 Tribune Reporter In a broadcast sermon over Radio Malaya from tne Wesley Church last night, Methodist minister Waldo S. Reinnoel attacked the lottery move in Malaya as "a shortcut, a compromise with evil suggested by unscrupulous persons." In his sermon on "Crumbling Maxims",
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    BELFAST RACES TO HELP THE TAIPEH
    99 8 U.P. MANILA. Fun. -Tho B.Jtish c:ui3er Belfast raced today to the assistance of the distressed steamer Taipeh, 6.903 tons, which reported iis engines disabled near Hainan Island in the South China Sea. The Globe Wireless intercepted an SOS. signal from the Taioeh reporting its
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    TRADE WITH S'HAI RISES
    62 8 Reuter. HONGKONG, Sun.—Trade with Communist-held North China ports is expanding rapidly despite the Nationalist blockade of Shanghai. Department of Commerce and Industry's statistics for September showed the Colony's exports to North China rose from $22,751,799 in August to $30,202,446 in September. Imports from North China in
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    CANTON-HK AVAIL RESUMES
    63 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Sun —Ordinary mail service between Hongkong and Canton resumed yesterday. Five bags of mail left by train for Shumchun. across the BriUsh border where they were handed over to the local Communist authorities. The mail was to be sent on from Shumchun to Sheklung by
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    YUGOSLAVIA OUT
    21 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. Yugoslavia has been expelled from the Communist dominated "World Peace Congress" Moscow Radio said tonight. Reuter.
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    7 DROWN, 2 ARE LOST IN HOLIDAY OUTING
    155 8 Tribune Reporter SEREMBAN, Sunday. OEVEN persons were drowned and two were lost when a sampan carrying a holiday party capsized yesterday evening about 500 yards from the shore about two miles from Port Dickson Town. The party consisted of three families who
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    Second Trip
    111 8 On the second trip the rescue party picked six more but all were dead. The* body of the sampan man was found later. Two are still missing. Those involved in the tragedy are Nancy Chrisie aged 17, a Senior Cambridge student at the Anglo-Chinese School Seremban, Ruby Chrisie
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    LAST MEN OUT
    52 8 A.P. SEOUL. Sun.—The last two men, Consul Paul E. Paddock and vice-consul C. Gleysteer, who represented the United States in the Russian controlled Manchurian port of Dairen arrived in Korea on Sunday. They said Communist harassment, including their own arrest, forced them to close the Consulate on
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    MEDIATION BY NEHRU IS WELCOME
    111 8 Reuter. SAIGON, Sun —The Vietnam Government headed ov Bao Dai. ex-Emperor of Annam. would welcome any attempt by Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, to bring about peace in Vietnam ny mediation, it was thought in usually well-informed Vietnamese circles here today. Observers here considered,
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    NEW ANCLE ON DOLLAR GAP BY LORD BALFOUR
    101 8 U.P. LONDON, Sun.—Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Parliamen tary Under-Secretary of State vn the last Conservative administration said today that American pressure groups would kill all English attempts to bridge the dollar gap by capturing American markets. "If we ever looked as if
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    Bao Dai's Man Wins
    37 8 Mr Nruven Fhan Long, Foreign Minister of the State of Vietnam, (right) who took his seat at the EC AFE conierence on Saturday after his country's application for associate membership had been approved.
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    4,000,000 AMERICANS ARE JOBLESS TODAY
    225 8 A.P. CHICAGO, Sunday. Nearly four million Americans are out of work and there are indications that coal and steel shortages will send this figure far higher. Only slightly more than one million of the idle are jobless because of strikes. The bulk of those out
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    HEADLESS BODY BAFFLES SCOTLAND YARD
    132 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun.—The discovery of a headless and legless body wrapped in a blanket and found in the lonely East Anglian marshes has got Scotland Yard one of its most gruesome and baffling mysteries. The torso was that of StanIcy Setty, 46 years old, old,
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY General
    45 8 LADIES OF THE DIVKK SIONAL THERAPY I NIT: Annual general meeting at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital—10 a.ni. INTERNATIONAL AKTIisTS ASSOCIATION, life class, British Council Centre, Stamford Road. 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Y M.C.A., Orchard Road, devotional meeting, 8 p.m.
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    Cinema
    179 8 CATHAY: "I've Always Loved You" with Philip Dorn. Catherine McLeod and William Carter —11 a.m., 1.45, 4.15, 6.4o and 9.30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Whiplash" with Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Pcott and Eve Ardt>a 11 a.m.. 1.45 4.00. 6.30 and p.m. PAVILION: "That Dangerous Ace" with My ma Loy. Roger
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    51 8 SOCCEB: Kola Raja vs. Cosmos SC. (SAFA Cuptiej. J. Besar; Parker Cup Final, Tin., lin Barracks. 5 p.m. KI'OBY: S.C.C. 'B vs. drews O.B., padang. R fr Institution vr. St. Andr School. R.I ground. H4KKKY: S.C.C. Women vs. H.M.S. Terror, padang: vs. B.O.D.C.A.. padang; Uni versity vs. I.A., B.
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      157 8 AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES To be held at our saleroom, No. 10 Chnlla Street, On Wednesday. SOth October, 1949, at 2.30 P.M. Lot L Freehold land .and house No. 12-M Chancery Lane, area 14,974 ft. VACANT POSSESSION. 2. Freehold land and house No. 12-N Chancery Lane, area
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      344 8 NOTICES Singapore Improvement Trust Tenders are invited for the erection of eight blocks of Workmen's Flats at Old Race Course (Dorset Road). Tender form. etc. may be obtained on payment of a deposit of $100/- which will be refunded if a bona fide tender is submitted. Sealed tenders are to
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