Malaya Tribune, 1 November 1949

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  • 62 1 MALAYA Tribune >, PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tefc TribwS'por. LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3811/3 Nine Lino Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh a nd Penang. TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE TONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover, uxa
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  • 113 1 Tribune Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Legislation which will set up a 12-man War Damage Commission to carry out policy agreed upon between tlie Federation, Singapore, and United Kingdom Governments will be introduced in the Fedeial Council at its next meeting on November
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  • 37 1 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, who is now visiting; the United State.:, is due to arrive in London on Nov. 8 and to leave for Bombay on Nov. 13 Reuter.
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  • 18 1 The s.s. Tegelberg arrived in Singapore on Sunday with about 2,000 tons of coffee from Brazil.
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  • 472 1 Tribune Staff Reporter JHE top-level conference on British South East Asia which opened this morning at Bukit Serene will hear London reports from the Under Secretery of State for the Colonies, Lt. Col. David Rees-Williams and Foreign Office Assistant Under Secretary
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  • 39 1 Reuter. BERLIN, Mon. Professor Theodor Heuss, President of West Germany, on his :lrst official visit to Berlin today, told a cheering crowd of 100.000 that Berlin would again be the capital of a United Germany someday.— Reuter.
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  • 33 1 Reuter. SY/DNEIf, Mon.—Sir Bertram Stevens, Australia's former representative on the Eastern Group Supply Council at Delhi, left here by air tonight for a month's visit to India and Singapore.— Reuter.
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  • 140 1 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Mon.— 1 Detective* said tonight they were investigating a i murder theory in the my- J stery of attractive 20- year-old blonde Gwenda i MacCallum, who disap- peared from the 28,000- S ton Orient liner Orcades i between Sydney and Mcl- bourne. Alternative
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  • 237 1 U.P. BATAVIA, Monday. THE plenary session of the United Nations Commission and the Indonesian and Dutch delegations tonight signed two separate agreements covering general amnesty, political prisoners and supplies to the Republican army in the field. General amnesty was ex- pected to be announced in
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  • 105 1 Tribune Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Federal Legislative Council at its meeting of Nov. 15 will be asked to sanction legislation which will enable the High Commissioner in Council to control building, p'ant'ng and other operations in the« neighbourhood of aerodromes. The control wi'l also
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  • 84 1 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—The Royal Air Force is keeping its identical twins for a 60.000 mile flight to Singapore and back starting November 1. The twins, Sergeants Albert and Frederick 26, of Plymouth, airmen since 1938, are both members of the Lancaster Bomber Squadron No. 210,, whose
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  • 154 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Termination of Lhc -lability of the Government in respect of civil liability schemes, under legislation dealing with lo forces, and to n.ake provision for ex-gratia payments m cases of hardships, will be sought at t:.e next Fcde-al Legislative Council meeting.
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  • 231 1 Reuter. m.* YOKOHAMA, Monday. yw&N Chinese and six Japanese stood trial hero today in J span's biggest post-war smuggling case involving $200,000 worth of American penicillin and other goods. Capt. Harry Oppcnhcim. American prosecutor brought over from Germany, told Reuter "If everything comes out,
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  • 35 1 Reuter. MANILA, Mon. The request of non-Communist Chinese Nationalists to seek refuge in the Philippines as 0.--dinary immigrants has beeri rejected by the Philippine Go vernmcnt, it was rr hably re ported today.—Reuter.
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  • 148 1 Tribune Reporter The British South Blast Asian rice conference which began at Phoenix Park yesterday is sworn to strict secrecy while the meeting is on, but delegates are understood to be mostly in favour of some sort of allocation within the region even after
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  • 71 1 Tribune Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A Bill seeking to unify ana extend throughout the Federation the law relating to the admissibility in evidence of copies of entries in bankers books, will be introduced at the meeting of the Federal Legislative Council to be held on November
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  • 336 1 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. Jsjlß Basil Neven Spence, Conservative, tonight accused the British Food Ministry of making "exhorbitant profits" from the purchase of sago flour in Singapore. Dr. Edith SummerskiH, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, replying to a question by Sir
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  • 33 1 U.P. ROME, Mon.—ltaly's Communist labour chiets today called a 12-hour strike to protest against a gunfight between police and unemployed 1 armbands in which two person were killed and 13 injured.—U.P.
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  • 41 1 A.P. PRAGUE. Mon. Six persons were killed and 29 injured, most of them seriously, when a motor bus carrying a Czechoslovak actors troupe crashed against a telegraph post in the fog near Clomguc in Moravia early today. A.P.
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  • 37 1 Reuter. ESSEN, Mon Anti-d\> mantling posters, showing a gallows, a question mark ond the names and addresses of German dismantling contractors, appeared today in Essen, Bochum and other Ruhr cities in the British zone.—Reuter.
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  • 189 1 Tribune Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A BILL to unify the law for preventing the importation, distribution or reproduction of undesir able publications from abroad will be introduced in the Federal Legislative Council at its next meeting on Nov. 15. According to the Bill, if
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  • 85 1 STOP PRESS LONDON, Mon.—Diplomatic officials said today India has told Britain in a secret memorandum that France is trying to govern Indo-China against the will of the Indo<hinese people—and is failing According to these infor inants: the memorandum says Communist and Nationalist revolutionaries are holding the French
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  • 33 1 MADRID, Mon.—Spain has offered the Atlantic Powers a guarantee of active aid in any war with Russia in exchange for American financial assistance, If was reliably reported today.—A.P.
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  • 50 1 NEW YORK, Mon. —Pan American World Airways announced today that direct flights from the United States to Singapore would start tomorrow. Passengers will board the plane at San Francisco and fly to Manila via Honolulu, Midway and Guam inlands. Singapore flights will leave from Manila.—Reuter.
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  • 21 1 A.P. THE HAGUE, Mon.—lndonesian delegates decided tonight to relinquish their demand for immediate sovereignty over Dutch Guinea. A.I-.
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  • 108 1 Sir Ralph Stevenson, KCMG, British Ambassador to China will report the state of affairs in China to Mr. Ernest Bcvm. British Foreign Secretary on his arrival in London. "I cannot say anything before I see Bevin". he said when he was asked to
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  • 51 1 The D'ood B?nk is in a very precarious position, the Trihinc learnt this morning, as Group B (blood mainly for Asiatics) has bam < mpty for the last two days. Gro-j O, HM type which ran be u~?d for all persons, has reached a very low
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  • 121 2 SINGAPORE'S 'old 'soldiers' are to load .this year's Remembrance Day parade on Nov. 6. At 7 o'clock in the morning, outside the Shackle Club at Beach Road, the ex-service-men will be 'fallen-in' by the Regimental Sergeant Major, and will march off under the
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  • 78 2 Thirty-eight members of the Batavia 'Philharmonic Oichestra will arrive in Singapore on Sunday in a special ConsteHation plane in time for the Musical Festival which is scheduled to start that night. The advance party of the 66 members, consisting of six, will arrive on Saturday
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    123 2 When the Carthage S sails for England on Thursday, she will carry 168,000 lbs. of Christmas cheer now lying in the i General Post Office. The j Christmas parcels may be loaded on board today. They are in 2,100 sacks. The bulk of them are for the United
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  • 246 2 THE price of petrol is up 12 cents this morning. Price per gallon ex-pump 1 is $1.52. The price of kerosene is also up by cents a gallon. The cause: devaluation of the pound sterling. The decision to raise the price of
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  • 347 2 Tribune Staff Reporter THE British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service station in Thomson Road ended its Singapore, broadcast of English news, and Indonesian and Siamese programmes from Saturday night. During the past few days, the station has repeatedly announced this. These broadcasts are now being
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  • 21 2 Mr. M. Balan, of Singapore, has been successful in the Typewriting Teachers' Diploma Examination held in Singapore in July.
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  • 275 2 tlR. Malcolm MacDonald, British CornmissionerGeneral for South East Asia, last night announced that the 2pth. Liaison Officers' Meeting called for Nov. 10 will be the last one of the series. It is felt that since the international allocations of rice by the P.A.O. is to
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  • 80 2 Mr. Cornelia Balmaceda, chief Filipino delegate to the recently ended ECAFE meetings told Singapore Filipinos: You are putting into practice the cultural integration of the various peoples of Asia by living here harmoniously with the peoples of the various communities." He said this at a
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  • 165 2 A FEDERATION of at least ten Government employees' unions- with a total membership cf nearly 10,000, is expected to be formed before the end of the second week of this month. A meeting of representatives of existing Government employees' unions has been called this week
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  • 24 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The State Veterinary Officer. Inche M.T). Johari, is arranging a programme of poultry inoculation for Kota Bharu Town area.
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  • 133 2 AANTAS Empire Airways showed a profit of £A 104,384 for the nine months ending December 1948. This covers the period the company operated under Commonwealth control. The profit compares with f A 79,900 for the previous 12 months. While the total profit under review was higher,
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  • 46 2 During the week ending October 22, ten cases of scrub typhus were reported in Malaya as against three the previous period. One case of polio was reported in Setangor as against three in Malaya the week before. None of the cases reported was fatal.
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  • 231 2 The Standard Vacuum O.i Co. are defendants in a su«t brought by their former employee. Mr. A.C. Dalziel, a merchant navy officer, in the High Court yesterday for damages for breach of contract for wrongful dismissal Dalziel. who was at one tin.' 1 a Lieutenant/Commander >'»
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  • 108 2 Two women, Tan Kar Chuan 62, and Chua Ah Chak. 52, were charged in the Third Police Court yesterday, with being in possession of dutiable liquor. Chuan was found witn tvvn gallons of samsu V Braddle Road on Oct. 22. She was sentenced to
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  • 27 2 Sir Feroze Khan, chairman of the fifth session Qf OCAFE spoke over Radio Malaya U- t night about the ECAFE conference which ended Saturday.
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  • 243 2 Donation* during the past week to Boys' Town Appeal have brought the total to $40,612.16. It is expected that the work of fjradinjr the three terraces on which Boys" Town will be built, at 9i m.s. Bukit Timah Road, will be completed by mid November.
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  • 802 3 Municipal Commissioners Decide On van Kleef Bequest Tribune Staff Reporter SINGAPORE will use the $360,000-van-Kleef bequest to build an aquarium at King George V Park in River Valley Road. Work on the project will start at once. This decision was taken by Municipal Commissioners yesterday, after
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  • 133 3 I Municipal Commission- ers at yesterday's meeting decided: 1. To use the $360,000 van Kleef bequest to build an aquarium at King George V Park in River Valley Road. 2. That trisha owners need not- insure against third party risks. j 3. That £360,000 should be spent
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  • 112 3 Some landlords were using thi> loopholes in Municipal byeiaws to eject tenantfrom houses on the pica that repairs could not be carried out while people lived in them. Mr. A. P. Rajah (Prog. South t, who made this statement quoted the case of a
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  • 404 3 Mr. P. G. Yap SPEAKING on the adjournment Mr. Yap Pheng Geek urged that the term "nominated" should not bring about disregard and contempt among Commissioners. Mr. Yap referring to loans to Municipal employees for houses said that he hoped the scheme would be
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  • 32 3 More than 300 people, attended the newly-dec-orated Southern Cabaret last Saturday which offered among its many attractions, several largesize Chinese paintings depicting scenes from Chinese mythology and folk ta'es.
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  • 809 3 Tribune Staff Reporter Murine MUNICIPAL Commissioners forgot the city's business for a short while dunng their meeting and lashed one resolutions and statement ma de for election wag spent those who were prol ninent in flinging brickbats apologised to one another The object
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  • 132 3 HER scars healed she took three direct shell hits when leaving Amoy about a fortxugfet ago Butterfield a»d Squire's s.s. Anhui arrived in Singapore Hongk g b u t th e Anhui will enter drydock in Singapore for a day for routine
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  • 49 3 A five member "Appeals Committee" to consider appeals t tom Municipal employees regarding their salary conversions has been set up. The members of the committee are Mr. F. C. Jam«J. Mr. G. H. Kiat, Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers. Professor N. X. Alexander and the Municipal President.
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  • 138 3 Trisha owners will not bo requited to insur- against Third Party Risks. The Municipal Commissioners have abandoned this issue as they felt that no good case had been advanced for the third party risks Insurance. Mr. Yap Phcng Geek said that a human propelled vehicle
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  • 145 3 \0 decision was taken on the question of a five-cent cut in Singapore Traction fares. Municipal Commissioners agreed that the mattershould be referred to a Municipal committee. The S.T.C. will be given the chance to present their views to the committee. Mr. Hasan
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  • 25 3 Mr. F. C. James will sefve on the Selection Committee of the British Cour.ci! Scholarships as a representative of thr Municipal Commissioners.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 306 3 ON YOUR RADIO TODAY 'artm wru/ADV Voice"; 8.0« -Musi* Shop—Half Summary in Tamil with S/T.; rin Selections: *^J§fi[*J?! BLUE NETWORK n hour thft n w i v arrive*! 12.02 Tamil Songs Variety; 12 15 Mandarin, Amov f»pto«*s* KNtiI.ISH PROGRAMMES disfs in Singapore shops: 8.30 Hindustani Talkie Sours; 12.3« t.15 Taocbew
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  • 500 4 When Richard Feeney. 5, met President Truman In a corridor outside the President's o;lice the boy observed that squirrels on the White House grounds were too thin. The President promptly appointed him "Squirrel Feeder" at no pay and Richard also had to furnish the nuts. On the lawn
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  • 95 5 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Mon.—Jobless j Oriyuki Kamimori sought an easy way out when he came face to face with one of his many creditors on a crowded tram plat- 1 form at Shibuya station, in Tokyo, yesterday. The 47-year-old Japan- 1 ese tried to seek refuge i
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  • 175 5 A.P. LONDON, Monday. Defence Ministers of Great Britain, Norway and Denmark meet today to start setting up the defence structure planned by the twelve-nation North Atlantic Alliance. The goal is a defence plan covering the region from North America to the Mediterranean Sea, from
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  • 31 5 A.P. NEW DELHI, Mon. Receipt* *to the Mahatama Gandhi Memorial Fund until the end of September amounted to 104,569,395 rupees. Receipts in September alone amounted to 1,124.375 rupees. —A.P.
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  • 39 5 A.P. RIO DE JANEIRO. Mon. -Traffic accidents in 1048 took 986 lives in Rio and 200 in Sao Paulo. This year the average up to September is 11 month, for a total of 309 in Rio. —A.P.
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  • 355 5 ....TO TIDE OVER POST-FREEDOM ECONOMIC PROBLEMS Reuter-PTT. BOMBAY, Monday.—A campaign of austerity is now in full swing to tfde over the post-freedom economic problems, accentuated by the recent de valuation of the rupee. The Indian Government has drasMcally slashed its routine budget. Essential
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  • 64 5 A.P. ST. LOUIS, Mon. Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley announced last night she and U.S. VicePresident Alben W. Barkley will be married on Nov 18. The 37-year-old widow made the announcement in her appartment as the 71-year-old Vice-President and former Kentucky Senator stood "by her
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  • 84 5 Reuter-AAP. TOKYO, Mon.—Two more powerful Japanese labour unions seceded from the Lettist Nationalist Liaison Council of Labour Unions tZenroren) yesterday. The Electric Workers Union's Central Executive Committee voted 52 to 27 in Tokyo yesterday in favour of secession, to clear the way for application for membership
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  • 45 5 A.P. MYSORE, INDIA, MOn.—A flesh-coloured and blue-eyed elephant has been presented by Cborg to the Princely State of Mysore. It was captured in the Coorg forests six months ago ami is aged eight. Flesh-coloured elephants are very rare animals.— A.P.
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  • 83 5 Airborn Baby .Mrs. Parinka Parker, Yugoslav wile of U.S. Army Master Sergeant James C. Parker of New York, is seen in Ennls bounty Hospital, Ireland, with the bfcby son born to her 400 mites off Shan nan Airport in an American Oversea* AirilneS' Constellation bound from New York to Frankfnrt,
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  • 238 5 A.P. VENICE. Mon —A 'Gelatine" plague has fallen upon a stretch of the Adriatic Sea from Venice to Trieste So far even scientists haven't been able to determine what has happened. But it is a sad story for the fishermen—and the
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  • 106 5 A.P. SAN FHANCISCO. Mon.— Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived last night and received a boisterous, shouting welcome from a thousand persons, most of them fellow Indians. The smiling Indian dignitary shook hands with California Governor Earl Warren as he stpped from the U.S. Army
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  • 596 6 YESTERDAY this column drew attention to certain portents of the presidential speech made by Dato Tan Cheng Lock to the Malayan Chinese Association at Penang. To-day we invite you to examine other aspects of this address, which is one of the most important the Dato has made
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  • 1217 6  -  By JOHN BONHAM EARLY next year the British Labour Party will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its foundation. Whatever happens before that time, the year 1950 will mark a critical point in the history of the only social democratic party to achieve
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  • 834 6  -  By JOHN KERGAN PRESIDENT Truman, speaking at a ceremony to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the U.N. Charter which marked at the laying* laying of the cornerstone for the new United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City, said that the United
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  • 790 6  -  BY CYNTHIA LOWRY A.P. HISTORY is not repeating itself, but it is certainly drawing some interesting parallels in the case of the seccond Mrs. Simpson. No British king is giving up his throne. No British Government crisis is in prospect because
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  • 1396 7  -  By Vera Ardmore H. H. Tungku Mahkota. the Regent of Joh |c. an 1 his consoit Ungku Aminali entertained over 300 guests to a garden party held in the ground.-, of the lstana Bukit Stulang to celebrate his birthday last Friday. The host and hostess sat at
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • 61 8 A.P. CAIBO, Mon Egypt's moat famous detective a dog—is dead. Baheeb, a seven-year-old Alsatian, solved more than 650 i eases. He led police to the criminals by his sense of smell. Mis final achievement was to Identify the thieves who broke into the office of an
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  • 215 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Mon. A NEW Communist "strong man" is reported graA dually taking over control of Albania from Premier Hoxha. Reports reaching Western diplomats say trrat Lieutenant-General Mehmet Shehu, the Moscowtrained Army Chief-of-Staff, appears to be the actual
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  • 95 8 Monsignor Olcomeody. Bishop of Malacca, yesterday afternoon laid the foundation stone Of the Girl's Home which is to be run b\ tiie nuns of the. Good Shepherd in Thomson Road. In a short speech. the Bishop paid a tribute to Mr. Frank Brewer the
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  • 229 8 A.P. r NEW YORK. Monday. THE United Nations Secretariates new home will be a fresh air and sunshine skyscraper. From the grey squalor of dirty tenements, meat packing "plants, machine shops and run-down warehouses. has emerged this unique, 42-floor structure. Measuring 287 by 72
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  • 152 8 JJALACC A,,Monday: Damage, officially reported as $40,000 was caused by a fire which ravaged the office and store of the Malacca Motor Engineering Works Company, Limited, Wolferstan road, in the early hours of this morning. Property destroyed consisted mostly of motor spare parts. When the
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  • 34 8 Rochester, Minnesota, Mon. —Dramamine, the drug which has good effects on seasickness, is also good for radiation sickness, the*illnes3 fre,quent after X-rays or radium treatments, say Mayo Clinic doctors. They tried Drama-
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  • 35 8 Prince Sakol Varavarn of Thailand, who headed his country's delegation to the FCAFE Conference, will be interviewed by Noni Wright in "Talk of the Town" tonight, from Radio Malaya at 8.30 p.m.
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  • 346 8 200,000 Britons Living In Sin' A.P. LONDON, Monday. 4 leading lawyer who says 100,800 British couples n are living together out of wedlock threatened on Saturday to organize them In a Sgtot for a change in the divorce laws. Robert S. W. Pollard, Chairman of the Marriage
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  • 276 8 U.P. PRAGUE. Tues.—President Klement Gottwald said today in an independence day address that the dispute between the state and the Church has been •'solved" by the new Church law that goes into effect tomorrow. In a radio speech to the country before he reviewed a huge
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  • 207 8 «TWO boys, Heng Soo Thiang, 17, and Sng Chye Yong, 14, who, it was alleged, called themselves members of the Sar Jee Society, pleaded not guilty in the Second District Court yesterday to stealing .$1 from another boy, Lim Yong Koon. Lim said that at
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  • 44 8 Kuala Lumpur. Mon. Kelantan will observe Remembrance "Day on Sunday, November 6. The Sultan of Kelantan will speak at the ceremony at the Cenotaph, Kota Bharu. and will unveil the plaques to the memory of those who died in the 1939-45 War.
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  • 149 8 J. Gludovatz a boarding-. house owner at Scotts Road, was acquitted by the Fourth Police Magistrate on two summon? charges of allowing his "ferocious dog," "Whiskey,*' to be at lajge without a muzzle "Whiskey," was alleged to have bitten and killed a lap dog belonging to the
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  • 43 8 Kuala Lumpur. Mon. Slightly over $11,000 worth of Malayan arts and crafts were sold at the 19th. M.A.H.A. Exhibition which was held at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur. During the three days of the Exhibition, more than 1,800 people attended.
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  • 193 8 U.P. NEW YORK. Mon. William Foster, acting Economic Co-operation Administrator, s&id Europe must take a definite step in the very near future toward greater economic unity if the Marshall Plan objectives are to be aqhieved. Foster wai addressing ihe National Trade Convention m. i
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  • 813 9 INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 2.50 Ord. 2.15 2.22 ft 8.8. Petrol 34/6 35/6 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Bmelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15/6 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 Est. A Trust Ag. 7.00 8.00 Fed. Dispensary 6.50
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  • 27 9 Singapore, Mon. In the absence of oversea*) »4v icr*. (he thare market opened quietly with only unall bu s int»s pamiina; in. all oeetion*. > t
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  • 50 9 Charon (44); President Polk (42/43); Belaga (41) Tune San*,' (40); Glengarry (38/39); Tegleberg (38/37); Antidochus (33/34): Kamuning (31/32); Benavon (17/18); Bennevis (19/20); Charles McLeod (21/22); Wairaia (23/24); Castleville (25/26); Hm>eville (27/28): Lawak (29/30); Japara (16/16); Tyndareu* <10 11); Fernmoor Morelia (8.9); Rhegus (6/7); Socotra (4/5); Carthage (1/2).
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  • 96 9 Mails are expected from Aden, Afghanistan NSA Europe Afiica. South America Azores West Indies, Canada, Great Britain. Eire. Iceland, India. Pakistan, Tibet Turkey Australia, Pacific Islands, Burma. Ceylon, Batavia, Palembang, Sourabaya, Ipoh, Kota Bahru, Kuala Lumpur, Kuantan, Penang Taipeng and USSR. Mails for Aden, Afghanistan, U.S.A., Europe, Africa.
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  • 41 9 Mails are expected from Federation, Sibu. China. Hoiurkontf. and Java today. times for posting to Pontianak. Mcd an. USA Canada and the Philippines will be noon and tor Federation and Thailand will be 6 p.m. today at the G.P.O.
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  • 49 9 A.P. NEW DELJU, Mon. India imported about 3.400.000 ton* of fond trains between Jan. 1 and Oct. 20 this year A Food Ministry spokesman gave these figures: wheat 1.808.200. flour 111.40n0- rVw 1.808.200; flour 111.400; rice 744.900; milo 356.800; barl. v 32.900: semolina 11.000 and 7.600.- A.P
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  • 131 9 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Monday. World tin concentrates production in August amounted to 13,800 long tons, compared with 12,800 in July, according to the October bulletin of the International Tin Study Group. Malayan production was 4.750. Bolivian (exports) 2,693, Belgian Congo 1,560 and Indonesian 2
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  • 90 9 The copra market in Singapore was firm but quiet yesterday in the absence of overseas advices. Buyers bid $34 3/4 per picul f.o.b. Nov.-Dec. while sellers were indicated at $36 per picul. Coffee was a bit weaker yesterday than on Saturday. With the arrival of the Tegelberg, holders
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  • 131 9 USIS. YEW YORK, Mon.—Natural rubber coming into the United States exceeds prewar volume and excels prewar quality according to Howard E. Bellows, Eastern Division Sales Manager for the General Tyre and Rubber Company. In a meeting of 350 automobile and tyre dealers hela here and
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  • 66 9 The rubber commodity market yesterday was unchanged from Saturday, but lemained fairly steady with small business passing. Closing prices in cents per pound were Buyers Sellers No. 1 Nov. RSS 44 1/8 44 3/8 No. 2 Nov. RSS 42 5/8 42 7/8 No. 3 Nov. RSS 40 1/2
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  • 153 9 RAUB Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited, report to March 31. 1949. covers a year in which rehabilitation proceeded hand in hand with mining production centred in one rehabilitated section of the mine. Nevertheless, interest on the Rehabilitation Loan A£s,--674 and depreciation A£9.554 were charged against
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  • 317 10  -  ALL ROADS LEAD TO FLEMINCTON By ALLAN LEWIS TODAY. Tuesday Nov. 1, Australia's most lmpor--1 that horse race and perhaps the greatest handicap race in the world will be run at famous nemmgt°Tne Melbourne Cup is to the Australian what the Derby is to
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  • 122 10 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Mon. The correct weight signal will have no bearing on determinaiton of wagers made on photo-finish results under the Victoria Racing Club's new rules of bettint:. which were announced in Melbourne recently. Backers who wager on a horse after a race and before
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  • 116 10 ADKSJ. BIPTIQN of, the rua- ing of the Melbourne lup will be broadcast by Kadio Australia today at 12.25 p.m. Malayan time. It w{U be transmitted on four frequencies —152W> Kr/s, 1784« Ic/s 215 M K< s. sad 1532t K« s The la*>t frequency has it*
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  • 204 10 The acceptors for this years ra. c were 38. This number is not the largest to face the starter. In 1890. the mighty Carbine < arrjed 1(J 5 and defeat ed 38 opponents. This was the biggest field to ever contest the Cnn and
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  • 42 10 Mr. K. Murugason. captain of the Malayan Indian Football Association XI which played against the All-India team on Saturday returned with eight players by train io the Federation last night. He was garlanded by an Indian Association official before leaving.
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  • 430 10 Charley Coe, who recently won the National Amateur title with a smashing 11 and 10 victory over Rufus King, displayed a most valuables asset to winning golf, a killer instinct. Without this instinct to go all-out a golfer often becomes careless and lets what
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  • 169 10 rjtEMINGTON racecourse is T pear shaped with the top of the pear as the turn out of the straight. The bottom of the pear, or large torn, starts from the seven furlongs post, continuing till the turn into the straight. From the home turn to the
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  • 608 10 THIS year's field will comprise the cream of Aus- tralia's three and four-year-olds. There is also strong representation from New Zealand. The race will be up to its usual high standard. The race will start at 3.05 p.m. Australian Eastern Standard time (approximately
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  • 238 10 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Reports reaching London from the United States suggest that American lawn tennis executives arc far from being amused at the way the leading amateurs turn professional as scon as they have reached the top of the tree. They reckon they spent about £15.000
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  • 25 10 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, Mon.—Kocket Gun and Thraoian 1.., 1 have been scratched from today's Melbourne Cup at mington leaving a probable field of 33.—Reuter-AAP.
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  • 253 11 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—Following are :•>•>'. ball fixtures for Saturday: ENGLISH LEAOI F. First Division A. oa) vs. Fulh.tm. Rii mingham VS. Blackpool. Bolton vs. Newcastle Burnley vs. Aston V. Chelsea vs. Portsmouth Derby vs. Middlesbrough. Liverpool vs. Manchester C. Manchester U. vs. Huddersfield. S oke vs. Wolverhampton.
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  • 175 11 ONLY 36 players took part in yesterday's Singapore Ctrl* lians trial for the H.M.S. Malaya Rugby competition and ihe trial was a pour show except for a few exceptions. In comparison with the game put up by the Combined Services last Saturday the Civilians would not
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  • 17 11 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Today's Rugby Union result are: Redruth 0, St. Bart's Hostal 3. —Reuter.
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  • 270 11 G.H.Q. FARELF scored a narrow win over the V.M.C.A. by two goals to one in a scrappy hockey encounter at Balestier Road yesterday. Both goalkeepers stole the show with their fine anticipation and fearless tackling, and the goals that beat them were difficult to
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  • 114 11 Playing over the week-end. Golden Hind B.P. defeated the Rainbow B.P. by seven games to nil. Results (Golden Hind players mentioned first). Singles: Othman bin Ali beat Chua Hock Choon 15-9. 15-3; Harry Goh beat Kok Teng Foo 15-6. 15-4; Laurie Chan beat Oh Chiap Choon
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  • 57 11 Reuter. DURBAN, Mon. The match between the Australian cricket tourists and Natal ended here today in a draw. The tourists today declared their second innings closed at JSO for 2. They had scored 275 in their first innings, Natal replying with 144. Natal were 218 for five wickets
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  • 165 11 Reuter. LEICESTER, Monday. AN attractive boxing card at the Granby Halls, Leicester, tonight saw Jack Gardner, the British heavyweight hope, Roye Wouters, the Canadian cowboy boxer, and Billy Coloulias ol New Zealand among the winners. Gardner outpointed Stefan CHek of France in an eight rounds heavyweight
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  • 72 11 Reuter. LONDON. Mon.—Mr. J. Chinna Durai, Foreign Secretary of the Indian Lawn Tennis Association, told Reuter today that he understood that Miss Gertrude "Gussie" Moran was to be officially nominated by the United States Lawn Tennis Association for the championships of Asia. He added that the Indian
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  • 66 11 Reuter. PARIS. Mon. World tecords for 50 miles) were set up today by British racing d»iver Geoffrey Crossley in a one and a half litre Alta on the Mbnthlhery nack. Crossley covered 50 miles in 24 mins. 6.84 sees, at an average of 124.40 miles
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  • 40 11 It's one of the wheels *of ace McGartlin's car as lie tight a to keep tile > racer under control dur- ing a race at Jackson- J viUe, Florida. McGartlin was not hurt. A.P. L Photo. I
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  • 96 11 Table-Tennis Reuter. STOCKHOLM. Mon. Johnny Leach, of Biitain. the world champion, tonight won the final of the singles event in a four nations table tennis tournament here. Leach beat Michel Haguenauer, France 21—11. 21—18. 14—21, 21-13 The doubles title went C. Y. Sussnian and E. D.
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  • 147 11 Reuter. CARDIFF, Monday. WALES have made three changes in their team to meet Scotland at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Nov. 16 compared with the side defeated recently by England. Sidlow of Liverpool is replaced in goal by Keith Jones, R. Clarke will be
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  • 51 11 Following have been selected to play Admiralty Local Staff Union at against H.M.S. "Unicorn" on the Sura Ground, Naval Base at 5 p.m. today: Bakar Hassan; Mehar Singh, Darshan Singh: Bakar Sidek. Md. Jamat. Krishnan Kuttv; Khalaff. A. N. Other. Dass. Peter. Tan Seng Tong. Reserves: Ishak, Balwant
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  • 57 11 MALACCA, Mon.—The Malacca Lawn Tennis Association will be running an American mixed doubles tournament on Saturday on the Malacca Club courts, in aid of the Poppy Day. .Games will begin at 3 p.m. Entries. $2 per player, should sent to Mr. G. Beatty (presi dent) or to Mr.
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  • 223 11 THE Singapore Cricket Club's Women team drew one-aIT with the Girls Sports Club in a keenly contested hockey game played on the padang yes- teraay. Except for the last fifteen minutes, the S.C.C. Women were always on the attack, but poor finishing prevented them
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  • 78 11 NEW DELHI, Mon.— The names of the Indian XI for the first unofficial te*t match against the Commonwealth Cricket team to be played at Delhi from Nov. 11 to 15 have been announced. They are Vijay Merchant (Captain), M. K. Mantri, Ru»si Mody, Vijay Haxare, Lala Atnarnath.
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  • 34 11 AFTER making a fine rerecovery in the second half, the Chinese Athletes scored a 3—l victory over Pulau Brani Sports Club in yesterday's Singapore Amateur F.A. cup-tie at Jalan Besar Stadium.
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  • 215 11 SINGAPORE BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS The following ties of the will be played at the Clerical Union Hall this weekend: SATURDAY 2.15 p.m.: Inter-school (Semifinals) St. Andrew's vs. St. Joseph's. Tournament Committee/Umpire: Willie Tan; Official Referee: M. A. LSnge. 7.39 p.m.: Men's singles (Quar-ter-finals): S. A. Durai (Merridale) vs.
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  • 26 11 Entries are now invited for .the inter-club tournament, the last event of the Singapore Badminton Association's championship calendar (losing dato is Nov. 12. k
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  • 73 11 Harry Campbell, Negro middleweight boxer, hears a striking resemblance of former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis in his youth. Campbell's potential opponent in his Colony tight is Brian Robertson. This bout is scheduled tak.-* place on November 11. The Boy Brooks—Som Pong tight will be the main
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  • 64 11 Reuter. PATIALA. Mon. North Zon» were all out for 168 here today in reply to the Commonwealth i ricket team's lirst innings score of 613 for declared. Following on. they had scored 17 for no wirket when stumps were drawn on the third i ay
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  • 145 11 Reuter. AUCKLAND, Monday. MORE than 350 athletes have been entered from Commonwealth countries, excluding New Zealand, for the British Empire Games here from Feb- ruary 4 to 11. When the entry list officially closed today only Hongkong, Ceylon and Trinidad had failed to
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  • 64 11 MILAN, Mon.—ltaly's amateur Flyweight boxer Rino Bettolo, 20, of Saronno died yesterday in a hospital at Milan after having been knocked out in a boxing match on Saturday night. Bettolo was brought to hospital after the i t .teh and died without regaining consciousness early yesterday morning,
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  • 216 11 THK Singapore (ricket (lab A\ yesterday beat St. And rew'n School by 18 point three, goals and a try) to (tree -a try) on the Parang, yesterday. The Club got the upper band in the early stage? and scored two tries through Postlewafte in
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    18 12 GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek celebrated his 6Srd birthday in Taipeh yesterday with a few of his closest friend*.
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  • 195 12 A.P. TOKYO, Monday. COUTH Korea's Defence Minister said today that his 3 agents have reported a North Korean treaty has been signed with Soviet Russia providing for military aid He added his country is just waiting for permission from Amĕrica to invade North Korea
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  • 90 12 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Mon.— The "big five" powers— Britain, Russia, the United States, France and China have agreed to consult each other privately before any important decisions are taken tn the Security Council. This was disclosed today by the President of the Security Council. Mr. Warren Austin
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  • 26 12 A.P. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Mon. Four flyers from the Randolph Air Force Base were killed today when two training planes collided in mid, air.—A.P.
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  • 245 12 Nationalists Plan To Flee To Kunming U.P. HONG KONG, Monday. The Nationalist government now compressed into five southwestern provinces of China by the Communist armies feared today that some warlords in those provinces m:ght desert to the Reds. The five remaining provinces
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  • 43 12 MALAY TROOPS IN HONGKONG Lt. General Sir E. C. Robert Mansergh, new general officer in command of British troops in Hongkong, who replaced Lt. Gen. F. VV. Festing, inspect* defence troops in the crown colony.—A .P. Picture. -A.P. Picture.
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  • 96 12 A.P. DETROIT. Mon. The auto industry's first major shutdown resulting from cite steel strike is set for Friday when Chrysler Corporation plans to close three divisions indefinitely. The move will throw a majority of 35.000 Detroit area Dodge. D e Soto and Chrysler plant employees out
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  • 166 12 A.P. MANILA, Monday. THE prosecution was off to a fast start today in the trial of attractive Esther Del Rocario Murray for murder of her American husband. A Naral testified she saw Mrs. Murray leave the bedroom where George Murray was shot at
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  • 114 12 Reuter. BATAVIA. Mon.— The United Nations Commission for Indonesia tonight issued the text of an agreement between the Dutch authorities and the Indonesian Republic concerning barter trade between Sumatra and Singapore. Under the agreement 70 percent of the Straits wclUr value of Sumatra -roods exported
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  • 19 12 Sir Stevenson, Britain's Ambassador to China, arrived in Singapore this morning on Ihe Carthage from Hongkong.
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  • 137 12 Reuter. BATAVIA, Mon. The Dutca army has captured secret instructions from an Indonesian guerilla confederation in East Java, the Gabungan Pembela Proclamasi. declaring that the United States of Indonesia will be a "puppet state created by imperialist capitalists The Dutch official spokesman, Dr. P. J. Koets, said
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  • 38 12 A.P. MADRAS, Mon. Nearly 70 persons were killed and property estimated at Rs. 2,000,000 (U*****,000) was destroyed by one-hundrcd-mile-an-hcur winds that swept the south east India coast last Thursday, reports reaching here today said.— A.P.
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  • 307 12 Reuter. LAKE SUCCESS, Monday. JJR. Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, today accused the Soviet Union of making Greece a "tool of Soviet Foreign policy with a cynical and an immoral disregard of the sufferings and aspirations of the Greek people." Speaking in the United
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  • 97 12 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Foreign Secretary, announced today that Britain had informed the Greek Government that British troops now stationed in Greece would be withdrawn in the neat future. Mr. George Chetwynd. Labour, had asked in Parliament if in view of the current need
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  • 207 12 U.P. CATRO. Mon.—A Soviet mystery plane carrying a three-man crew crashed into the shark-infested Mediterranean sea near Tobruk on Saturday and radioed an urgent appeal for help, reports reaching: Cairo said today. The Egyptian Government and British military officials are said to have sent planes
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  • 128 12 Reuter. HONGKONG, Mon. Tho j British cruiser Be'fast, one of the ships shel'ed in the j Yangtse. today raced 200 j miles to the relief of 600 passengers on a Chinese landing craft stranded on a coral reef at Pratas Island, southeast of Hongkong. Belfast
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  • 69 12 U.P. OTTAWA, Mon. TradMinister C. D. Howe said last night that Canada planned to continue uranium shipments to the United States despite the difficulties in reaching a new agreement on the sharing of atomic information. riowe, Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Atomic Energy,
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  • 390 12 Reuter. CLEVELAND. Ohio, Monday. AMERICAN Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today that hundreds of millions of people in under-developed areas of the world "are impatient to close the gap between their status as have nots and the status of the haves." "The
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  • 57 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Today.— One police constable was killed when bandits attacked Wellesley Estate in Province Wellesley at 3 a.m. this morning 3 nan. yesterday a police jungle squad in the Sega- ...<». .i recovered one mark three vickers bofors machinegun and one anti-tank rifle with nine magazines
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  • 164 12 Reuter. HONGKONG, Monday. THE British navy announced today for the first time it was assisting British merchant ships to run the Nationalist blockade of the China coast. A naval statement said British warships had met three Shanghai-bound merchantmen from Hongkong off the Yangtse mouth
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  • 26 12 Reuter. BUCHAREST. Mon. Seven persons found guilty by a Rumanian military court at Sibiu of attenVpts at "armed rebellion" were shot early this morning.—Reuter.
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  • 131 12 U.P. NEW YORK. Mon. Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Mauricio Nanbuco told a Foreign Trade Council luncheon today that the United States p? present master of the world does not have the same approach to foreign investments a? did Britain when she was mistress of
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  • 43 12 Reuter. SOURABAYA, Mon. About 200 convicts broxe from Tuban (East Java' gaol last Friday evening, a belated report said, according ti» Aneta,* the Dutch n agency. The convicts oveipowerei three prison guards and napped eight others. The matter is under investigation.—Reuter.
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  • 76 12 CORPORATION OF NN NOTARIES: Prof. Silcoek on Relation of Universities to merce" at British Co,in .1 Hail Stamford Road at 6 p.m. CHINESE YMCA: St. John I Ambulance class 6 p.m.. mercial and English clai Evangelistic meeting' 7.30 p.m. YHTA: Combined Club meet for Clwir and
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  • 146 12 CATHAY: "Heavenh Soul.-* (Mandarin) in technicolour staring- Butterfly Wu. H*anq Tan Fung. Pai Yuen at 11 a (U. 4.15. 6.45 and 9.3" p.m. ALHAMBKA: "Rid US v" Wind" with Tim Ho!' BUpp by Walt Disncv cartoon* a' 1.45. 4.15. 6.45 aiid 9 M p.m. PAVILION: "The Lot-- One •wilh
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  • 25 12 SOCCER: Indian io'• Comb. Services. rwnn** HOCKEY: SCf v Colon Padang. AdmiraHj L-- R v. HMS Unicorn Naval l£| RAF Scictar v. C.HQ -'*> G.H.Q.
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  • 151 12 Reuter. LONDON. Th.-. J*** Government stock* were •>• •"•eady in small trading to"* Here and then- i'"corded ;< fraction il there wa.; no repetii All MCUOM of the Stork Exchange v. under the Influence proarh of the end irrt- t the 1».«» <iav for the pt-riod of tradin-
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