Malaya Tribune, 15 February 1950

Microfilm: NL3772
Total Pages: 12
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    64 1 MALAYA Tribune BY TUB PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE left: Tribune "1 LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA 1 Phone 3811/3 Nine Lb. Published simultaneously at 8 inyapore, kual* Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice
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    HOMAGE
    15 1 M. Sisavang Vong. King of Laos _<left) receiving homage from one of his subjects.
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    300 POLICEMEN BATTLE AFRICAN RIOTERS
    237 1 Reuter. JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. JriREE 1 hundred police raided the non-European township of Newclare early today and detained 250 Africans. i The raid followed rioting in the town last night. Newclare is on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Five shops, mainly In-dian-owned, were set on fire and
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    FRENCH SPY
    20 1 A.P. SZCZniCiN, Poland, Tues.— One Pole was sentenced to death and four to prison for jpylng for France.—A.P.
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    JAVANESE STABS DETECTIVE
    123 1 A Chinese detective Lim Twa Tee was stabbed by a Javanese at the Three Hundred Acre" rubber estate at 10 mile. Changi Road, last night. A police party, led by AS.P Mr Cheah T«ne Oheok and Inspector Fong was in the estate when two Javanese appeared.* Ihey
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    AIRMEN HELD BY PAKISTAN AS HOSTAGES
    87 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Tues—Two Englishmen and an Indian airman are being held as •stages" by the Pakistan Government. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru told .iment h.-re today. He said they were members of the crew of a plane b< longing to the Indian civil
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    U.S.I. SEEKS LOAN FROM BRITAIN
    111 1 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. The Indonesian Economics Minister, Dr. Djuanda, was today seeing Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. to sound out the possibility of securing a British loan, according to usually well-informed quarters here. Dr. Djuanda had a talk with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
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    FIST FIGHT IN PARLIAMENT: SIX CASUALTIES
    134 1 Reuter. ROME. Tues. Six deputies were assisted off the floor of Parliament today, blackened and bitten, after a 20-minutc battle provoked by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi himse'f. The melee occurred during a debate preparatory to a vote of confidence in the new government
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    8 REDS HELD
    18 1 Eight Chinese, believed to be members of the Malayan Communist Party, were arrested last night.
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    SINO-SOVIET PACT SIGNED
    362 1 WILL HELP EACH OTHER IN WAR U.P. TOKYO, Tuesday. DADIO Peking announced today the conclusion of a Sino-Soviet alliance aimed at "preventing the revival of Japan as an imperia istic power." The Chinese language broadcast was monitored by the Kyodo news agency in Tokyo. The broadcast said
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    IT'S BUSINESS FIRST IN HK
    90 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. Tues.—The New York Times Hongkong correspondent, declared today that public opinion in Hongkong wanted the Chinese Nationalists to yield to the Communists without further struggle. "Nobody here gives the Nationalists a ghost of a chance for a comeback. Reports of high Nationalist
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    40 VS. 1,000,000,000
    35 1 Reuter. NEW YORK, Tues.—The view that 1,000,000,000 people might be killed by "40 or so" hydrogen bombs in the first phase of an atomic war, was expressed here by Dr. Lihus Pauling.—Reuter.
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    V-2 Ramps Thrown Into Sea
    143 1 NICE, Tues.. Cases containing "special devices" believed .to be VI and V 2 launching ramps, destined tor I n d o-C h i n a were ihrov.n into the sea here today by Com-munist-led strikers after a clash with republican security guards. Manufactured in Cannes,
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    Two Stengahs Cost £125
    77 1 A.P. CAPE TOWN. Tues.— Whisky and caustic potash was served to two passengers in a South African train after they asked for whisky and water, said the South African Auditor General's report for last year. The report showed that the railway administration paid one man £100
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    ANTI-T.B. SCHEME
    24 1 A plea that government give the highest priority to anti-tuberculosis work when lotteries are legalised was made at the council meetin? yesterday.
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    200 Firms Greet You Tomorrow
    36 1 TOMORROW, 200 Singapore firms wish you a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year through a Special Malaya Tribune Chinese New Year Greetings Supplement. Make sum of getting your Malaya Tribune tomorrow.
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    FIVE MAFIA GANGSTERS HELD
    156 1 A.P LOS ANGELES, Tues.— Five associates of Jack Dragna, said by the Caltfornian State Crime Commission to be chief of a branch of the Mafia underworld society, were arrested today. They are htld on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder in wrecking the luxury home of
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    Call For Stronger Anti—Graft Laws
    193 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Mk. Tan ivan, member for the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, will ask Gcvernment to frame scrong anti-corruption laws as the Federation hps done. Mr. Tan will put forward his proposal an a written question at the next meeting of the Legislative Council.
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    EMERGENCY IN LIBERIA
    74 1 Reuter MONROVIA, Liberia, Tues. The Libel.t.n Government today proclaimed a state of emergency on the 60,000 f ere American owned Firestone rubber plantations 50 miles .'om here where striking African workers noted 10 days age. A d-taehment i f the Liberian f.ootier force arn.ed w'h rifles *»nd
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    DEATH SENTENCE
    26 1 A.P. PRAGUE, Tues.—Tne Czech press said today that an Albanian court has sentenced an accused Greek spy to death on charges of attempted sabotage.—A.P.
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    Jap Goods Will Cost More This Year
    202 1 Tribune Stuff Reporter WHEN Japanese goods start arriving in Malaya 11 soon, under the trade agreement for this year, many of them will cost about 10 per cent more to the consumer than they ought to. This is because regular importers of Jap
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    Churchill Suggests New Approach On Atom Problems
    216 1 U.P. LONLYDN, Tuesday. WINSTON Churchill will make an important pronouncement on foreign affairs tonight which Conservative political quarters said probably would suggest a ne wapproach to Russia on the atomic and hydrogen bomb problems. Only last night Anthony Aden told a Warwickshire rally
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    TIN UNCHANGED
    33 1 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—Cash tin was unchanged today at £599 —15s. bid, £600 asked. Nineday futures dropped seven shillings and aix-per.ce to £587—55. bid, £587— 15s. asked. Total turnover 100 tons —A.P.
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    Bandits Burn Smokehouse Cut Lines
    110 1 STOP PRESS KOTA TINGG7. Today A gang of 30 armed and ih:.,jwiietl DanaiiS raided Asahi Estate (enemy property) at 2 pm., yesterday and burnt down a smokenouse, two labourers lines, a conductor's house and a shop. Damage is reported to be extensive. Jungle squads from
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    GERM WARFARE
    28 1 Reuter. passed on Japanese convicted of germ charges by the Russian tribunal at Kardarovsk were confirmed today by the Soviet Supreme Court, said Moscow Radio today.-Reuter.
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    CHILI GREETS U.S.I.
    18 1 U.P. SANTIAGO, Tues. The Chilean government nas recognised the United States of Indonesia today.- U.P.
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    SEAMEN HAVE TO BUY JOBS
    198 2  -  Says Mr. George Reed THE Singapore Seamen's Administration Board has failed to prevent graft and corruption—the task for which it was specially formed. This charge has been made by Mr. George fteed, Adviser to the South East Asia Affairs department of the International Transport Workers'
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    20 Sailors Get Three Days Gaol
    89 2 George Bradley, cook on the ship. Tower Grange, who said that he had nine years experience at sea, yesterday told the Third Police Magistrate, that the food on the ship was something "terrible". The meat, he said, was unfit for human consumption. The twenty
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    FATHER AGREES TO PAY IN DOWRY SUIT
    106 2 THE claim in the High Court by Mr. A. E. Moorthy and his Wife against Mr. N. Eliathamby, landowner and insurance agent. to recover RS. 15,000 (about $9,740) promised as dowry under a marriage agreement in March, 1945, was settled amicably yesterday. Mr.
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    DRAUGHTSMAN FOR AUSTRALIA
    45 2 The first Singapore Government officer to go for training to Australia will leave this Sunday. He is Mr. M. N. Menon, Head Draughtsman of the Survey Department, who is going for one year's study on a Government scholarship to Melbourne Technical College.
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    DRUNKEN SEAMEN HIT THE CAPTAIN
    124 2 £APTAIN George Leonard Robson of the Tower Grange told the Third Police Coiirt yesterday that two of his crew burst into his cabin and assaulted him. Captain Robson said that seaman, James Gallbraith, accompanied by Patrick O'Neill came to him with a glass of water
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    HUSBAND LEFT AFTER PETTY TIFF
    81 2 CECILIA faing Yut Chan, who for a dissolution of her marriage With. Raphael VVcng Sek Qui, for deseition. Was granted a decree nisi by the Chief Justice in the High Court yesterday. The deciee nisi is to be made ahsc' t.v in thi. e months.
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    CAME HOME TO FIND WIFE GONE
    145 2 A Chinese school master, Mr. Goh Soo Toon, yesterday told the Chief Justice that when he came home from school one day in March 1939, he found his wife gone. Later in the day when he met her at Canon R. K. Adam's he.:
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    TRADE TALK
    26 2 Mr. Paul Sykes. the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner, will broadcast from Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. today on Trade Relations between Malaya and Canada.
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    'TOURIST TRADE' QUIZ FOR GOVT.
    197 2 MALAYA can help Britain in her battle to close the dollar gap if she encourages more American tourists to visit this Colony, so thinks Mr. Balwant Singh (Ind. Rural West). And to do this. Mr. Balwant Singh suggests that Government launch a fullfc'ooded drive in
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    NO MONEY FOR FINE, GAOLED
    55 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— Eighteen-year-old, Chong Swee Cheong, the gardener ot the rnane.ger of Bukit River Estate at Masai was today t.::cJ $3J in default six weeks gao. for stealing a watch irom Special Constable Jaman bin Alv/i. Swee Cheong could not pay the fine and
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    TIME Can Be Precious
    87 2 TEN minutes n, irly PfK ..Mcs. Eunice Woe* ttt yesterday. Witness in aea ln thn Singapore Assize Court <Z was due to turn up iX m the m*mt v. not and Justice Gordon Smith fined S25C> contemot of court. He then adjourned tho trial oi H.
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    BLACKSMITH WAS DRUNK
    42 2 JOHORE BAHUI', Tu* Tho Magistrate tods 50-year-old Karam Singh local blacksmith, that o'rt man be must learn to have properly Karam Singh was foun, guilty of being drunk arui di orderly in Johou Ba,, r; Town. He was fined $>$.
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      24 2 LAST FOUR SHOWSpA VILIQM 2-4.15-6.30-9.30 p.m.» pmone bqos'N JACK LONDON'S famous classic. "CALL Or THE WILD" Starring: Clarke GABLE Loretta Jack OAKIE. OPENING~TOM()rcKOW THRILLS
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      146 2 Actually filmed in Morocco with the fabulous French Foreign Legion! OUTPOST in MOROCCO' with George Raft Marie Windsor. SEASON starts as from 9.15 p in. TOnTghT most spectacular Roadshow! (or "Miss Quicksilver")—with English Subtitles! j NA,MA AKEF man y Clamorous Egyptian dancing beauties! Our Festive Chinese New Year Morning Shows
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      446 2 On Your Radio Today BLUE NETWORK RED NETWORK INDIAN I'KOGRAMMKs ENGLISH PROGRAMMES 12.00 p.m. Time Signal. Open--10.00 a.m. News from Kuala ing Annrt. X frog. Siimman Lumpur; 10,05 Close Down; 10,50 with Si*. Tune; 12.02 Tamil For the schools: Have Some 12.15 Hindustani Chi.rus tun, Great I'euple of the Past
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    To Japan on business
    86 3 Mr. G. G. Rickwood. Managing Director of Rickwood and Co. Ltd. flew to Japan by Cathay Pacific last night on a business trip. He told the Tribune that Jap exporters of food stuffs like dried abelone. diied muehrooms and canned goods are now cutting pieces heavily
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    FATHERS DECIDE ON LIM TODAY
    74 3 Who will be appointed the Singapore Deputy Water Engineer? Will the post go to an Asian offlccer. Mr. P C. Lim or will it be given to an expatriate officer, Mr. F.S. Wicks. The Municipal Establishments Board will meet this afternoon to decide od this
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    SIMPANG TIGA GETS $5,000 GIFT
    311 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE Central Welfare Council which met today decided to give $5,000 to provide communal amenities in Simpang Tiga. Mr. A. R. Grieve, District Officer, Dindings, had appealed to the Council for some form of aid for the Village, which was recently burned
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    Six Men And Crow To Cross Continent
    181 3 CIX Dutchmen and a crow will make an attempt to cross the South American continent from Buenos Aires to Panama and then to Alaska overland in a jeep. They arrived here in Singapore on Sunday after spending six months in Java entertaining thousands
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    Guard Is Cleared Of Arms Charge
    111 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Tuc^. TALIB bin Ahmad, aged 22, a Kampong Guard at Senggarang, was today cleared of a ehargc of unlawful possession of a .303 Lee Enfield rifle In the High Court by Mr. Justice L.V.J. Laville. Tallb in his defence said that he
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    Lightning Rovers
    54 3 The first investiture ceremony of the 3rd Malay Lightning- Rover Scout Grew will be held next Saturday at the Kota Raia Malay •School at 2 o'clock. The Ceremony to be conducted >v District Scout Com'•nttesioner Ditto S.a. Alsagoff. will be followed by a scouting exhibition, a tea party
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    4 Bandits Kill Owner, Strip Shop
    160 3 JOHORE DAHR1 T Taca. JjHDUR green clad Chinesy enteied a shop in Jenia luang village In the Kotu Tinggi area yesterday shot j ilead the owner and then ranI sacked the shop j In the Bahau area of Ne j grl Sembilan, yesterday, two
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    MR. M.A. GOMES
    21 3 MALACCA. Tues.—Tho tuneral took place yesterday of Mr. M.A Gomes, the wchknown Malacca tattttK man and news agent.
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    U.S. warship due on Saturday
    76 3 rE American dest rover U.S.S. Agerholm DD-826). commanded by Cmdr. E. G. Gardner, will arrive in Singapore this Saturday, for a fivr day visit, the American Naval Liaison Office announced today. 'The destroyer carries a crew of 12 officeis and 250 men. A U.S. Navy
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    Experts Have Secret 'Scrub Typhus' Drug
    196 3 CCRUB typhus, once dreaded by troops fighting in the tropics is now "no worse than flu," said Major Robert Traub who heads the American Scrub Typhus team, yesterday The team of four arrived in Singapore in their plane yesterday, and took on the samo
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    SATA FUND
    26 3 The Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association has recently received donations amounting to $2,974.07. including $1,900 irom the Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. and $500 from Miss S.Y.Eu.
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    POINT FOUR
    635 4 WflE American Congress will soon be asked to approve U5545,000,000 for the first year's operation of President Truman's Point Four Programme to develop the under-developed countries. The money will be divided among Asia, ivfrica and Latin America, and it does not need much skill in mathematics to realise
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    FRANCE HAS A SPLIT PERSONALITY ABOUT VIETNAM
    823 4  -  by ROBERT WILSON A.P. PARIS. FRANCE'S political iumoling and military halrheartedness are in great part responsible for her present difficult situation in Indo-China. foreign observers here agree. One excuse for this is that France has a split personality about Indo-China. a far-off land
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    Yugoslavs Fear Terror Wave
    566 4  -  by RONALD PRESTON Reuter. BELGRADE. YUGOSLAVS believe that the coming spring and summer may see the start of the third phase in the Cominform's campaign against Marshal Tito. This phase, they think, will consist of active sabotage and acts of terrorism by subversive groups and bands
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    LARGEST POSTAL DISTRICT HAS NO POSTMEN
    568 4  -  By CHARLES LYNCH Reuter. OTTAWA. THE world's largest postal district has no pillar boxes and no postmen —but the mail goes through with surprising regularity. The district is known officially as the "Eastern Arctic Patrol". It comprises the whole of the Eastern Canadian Arctic,
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    TO BE OR NOT TO BE "WHITE CHINESE"
    650 4  -  i b y Fred Hampson A.P. HONGKONG, MILLIONS of Chinese who love China but hate Communism face a tragic question—to be or not to be "White Chinese"—like the Russians who fled their homeland in the 1917 revolution to live In exile.' There
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    SHOPPING FOR THE NEW YEAR
    603 6  -  MR. LIM GOES SHOPPING By K.J. YEO THIRTY TWO YEAR OLD MR. LIM is a kindhearted man with a young wife named Judy, and three school-going children—the eldest Johnny (10), Mary <8) and June (7). Mr. Lim is an average wage-earner. His salary totals between
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    Spore Gets Ready For The Festivities
    152 6 EVER SINCE THE WAR, the Chinese have been gradually changing from brandy to whisky for their celebrations, but this New Year, a great number of the celebrants will have to drink brandy—and like it. Scotch is very scarce. Gloomy prognostications of a few months
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    NEW YEAR OFFERING
    88 6 THE famous Chinese novel. "Spring Winds and Autumn Rain" by Ko Liv which was voted the best novel in South China in 1947. has been made into a film by the Yung Hwa Studios in Hongkong and will be screened in Hongkong, during the Chinese New Year
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    Saying It With Flowers
    218 6 PEKINESE 'exchange flowers during the New Year. inese flowers. CT an?" flowers) are raised by artiPeonies, the favourite, stand everywhere in lovely profusion, while kumquat plants fill the air with their warm fragrance. Others are plum and redpeach blossoms, and jasmines. BEARING a marked resemblance to
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    LET'S TREAT OUR WIVES SETTER
    881 7  -  HERE'S A NEW YEAR RESOLUTION By TAN SIONG HOON SOMEONE said the other day that there ought to be a society for the prevention of misery to poor unfortunate wives. How true indeed! If Singapore needs anything, it is such a soe'ecy. For, where the
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    LUCKY TALISMAN
    57 7 i.v. ky tali-man or kua <h'ien made from pieces of red ww, Cut out in intricate de«i«;ns the? are patted on the front of city gates. ThiH taliwman. one ai.d a q uarter foot tall and one foot wide, contains the four characters meaning, "May there be a
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    ORANGES FROM RED CHINA
    408 7  -  <Rv LUKE ANG and K.J. YEO FOUR MILLION ORANGES from Red China arrived in Singapore over the week-end for the Chinese New Year. They were part of the 2,000--tou cargo carried by the British ship Inchbull (from the Chinese port of Swatow) which included fresh o'ives,
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    A NEW YEAR WITH A 'BANG'
    635 8  -  By S.K. LIM THERE BE A BIG "HANG" IN SINGAPORE THIS WEEK-END. A few hundred thousand dollars will go up in fire and smoke. The whole city will be lit up. Offices and shops will be closed. Even the markets will be deserted It
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    FOR THE DEAR DEPARTED
    216 8 IN connection vlth the forthcoming New Year celebrations, dead ancestors will not b.- forgotten. There will be offerings and prayers in every pious Chinese home on the last day of the old year. Aparc from the burning of candles. joss-Scic.es and silver paper, there will be
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    HERE THEY COME
    53 8 Ligh'ers cluster round the British ship Inchbull, lying in the Inner Roads, and help to hasten the unloading of some four million oranges which arrived in Singapore from Swatow. In r. tetters' s in the CKy, \v,th n, w storks in hand, busijfteftM 11 I ~.5,. >.
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    Gallant Bidault
    55 9 French Premier Georges Bidault kisses the hand of Mmc Vincent Auriol in the old fashioned style of French greeting, durin rresident Aunoi s reception lor members of the French p iriiamem at „,»e rJysee raiace in Paris. President luriol iat reaches out to shake hands with an unidentified
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    $40 MILLION WON'T TEMPT FRANK
    231 9 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. "I WOULD not go through it again for US$4O million" says Frank H. Bigelow. Bigelow, who walks almost as well with his artificial leg as he did with two good ones, picks up a cheque for US$l,l9B today from Daniel F. Cleary,
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    GOLD TOOTHED SHEEP
    49 9 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE, Tues. A housewife in a Victorian country town lifted a sheep's head from the broth and saw 17 glittering teeth. She told the butcher who immediately started head hunting and found dozens of others gold-encrusted. The sheep had been grazing on gold bearing coun-try.—Reuter-AAP.
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    TRUMAN SAYS HE MAY RUN FOR RE-ELECTION
    127 9 U.P. WASHINGTON. Tuesday. One of President Truman's chief California supporters aid aftei a White House con fer*ncv yesterday, that the xeeutive was talking about tunning for re-election in »52 The President chatted briefly with George Luckey of Los Ange'cs Vice Chairman of the
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    ACSU Not 'Communal'
    41 9 Mr. V.K. Nair, President of the Singapore Army Civil Service I'nion. yesterday denied charges that the Union was now a "purely communal body. Mr Nair stressed that the ACS!' was a trade union, of workers of all races.
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    3 FIRES IN TWO HOURS
    54 9 ?wree lallang fires in two hour., kept the Singapore 'up Brigade busy yesterday. Tho fires occurred at Ayer JJaja Road, 9th. Mile. Bukit Timah Road and off Khian "Ofk Road. It also had to fight Maze in a small tongkang on We rivei off Ord
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    Prayers Got Him
    58 9 Reuter-AAP SYDNEY. Tues. Text over the doorway of a recently robbed Sydney suburban Methodist mission:— And be sure your sin will find you out. Within a few hours the thief was arrested. Said the minister: "We prayedtabout it and got everything back. It was a real answer
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    JAP TREATY
    38 9 U.P. LONDON, Tues. Official sources said today lhat Britain would not favour a settlement for Japan without a formal peace treaty but would continue to .seek a formula acceptable to the majority of the countries concerned.-U.P.
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    PLEBISCITE
    27 9 U.P. BRUSSELS, Tues. Belgium's plebiscite to decide whether or not self-exiled King Leopold 111 will return to the throne will be held on March 19.- -U.P.
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    Canada's On Guard Against Spies
    122 9 U.P. OTTAWA, Tues.—Foreign espionage and sabotage are at work in Canada in a plot aginst the security of the nation, Justice Minister Stuart Garion said yesterday. He said steps had been taken to protect Canada, and added that "in several countries, espionage, infiltration, sabotage, the
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    Air Force For Singapore
    131 9 AN Auxiliary Air Force for the defence of Malaya will be formed as soon as the Governor and the Legislative Council decide upon a date. The new Force will be designed to take the place of the pre-war Straits Settlements Volunteer Air Force, and will be
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    BROADCAST BY LABOUR EXPERT
    79 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. —A recorded talk by Mr. Philip B. Sullivan. Labour Adviser to the U.S. Depart-* ment of State, will be broadcast over Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Sullivan, who was in Singapore recently. will tell how the discredited World Federation of Trade
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    VOLUNTEERS TO CLEAR ROADS
    66 9 PAHANG, Tues. THE Anti-Bandit Month Advisory Committee at a meeting held this morning decided to extend the last date for enrolment to Feb. 25 because of the floods. The meeting also decided to employ volunteers to clear roads tracks from Kuala Lipis to Merapoh. Meanwhile in
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    Boy Grows 4" In Six Months
    134 9 Reuter. BERKIIAMSTEAD, Hertfordshire. Tues A 12-year-old boy, who climbed a 60-foot railway signal at night, had Rrown four inches in the past six months, his mother told magistrates at a juvenile court here. "He only wanted to show his pluck," she said. "This change
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    THE TOWER IS CREEPING TO THE RIVER
    101 9 Reuter. LONDON. Tuesday. The Tower of London, most famous of* British prisons and one of the nation's historical show-pieces, is gradually sliding towards the Thame? River, it is disclosed by scientists -here. The buildings ate moving about two and a half inches every
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    H.K. FIREWORKS WILL RIVAL FURY OF CIVIL WAR
    352 9 Reuter-AAP. H.ONG KONG, Tuesday, pi annual celebration of the lunar new year, Chinese everywhere this month will discharge a riot of firecrackers rivalling in noise all the fury and thunder of the civil war. This pyrotechnic rite is held to frighten away
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    10 GUNNERS GIVE THEIR BLOOD
    80 9 yESTERDAY afternoon, ten men from the Singapore Anti-aircraft artillery unit on Blakang Mati came over to the General Hospital to give blood transfusions. In all. 150 men from this unit will offer their blood. Yesterday, after the men had made their gifts to the Blood
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    FREE ECONOMY FOR SYNTHETIC
    374 10 U.S. 'RUBBER FIRMS AGREE ON— U.P. TtTEW YORK Tuesday. Leading-rubber companies will at Congres- sional hearings later th s month, concrete proposals for a national synthetic rubbed production programme, to safeguard national security without continufor another 10 v«*rs, as proposed Dy President TnimU Ground-work was Uid
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    Goodyear Make US $20¼ M
    54 10 A.P. AKRON. Tues. The Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company reported yester. day a net income oi Ub520,230,000 for 1949. equal to US$B.4O per share of common stocks. Those figures compare with U5524,095,000 or U5510.25 per share, for 1948. Net sales for 1949 were U*****,505,000 compared
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    Burma Rice For Japan
    45 10 Reuter.—A.A.P TOKIO. Tues. Burma has agreed to send to Japan 170.000 tons of rice by September under an agreement in Tokio yesterday, according to the Yomluri Shimbun. The newspaper claimed that Burma wanted in return Japanese light machinery and sundries. *Reuter.—A.A.P.
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    RUBBER CROPS
    25 10 Ohan Sze Onn-* Co.. announce the following output figures for January. Maraka Ptmla R. Estates Ltd., 9T.960 lbs. New Scudai, Ltd. 53,000 lbs.
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    NO RESPONSE
    30 10 'Inspite of continued good prices 1 for tin and rubber cwnrooditle*, the snare- market failed to respond'because of the imminence* of the Chinese New Year Holidays. F i
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    Share Quotations
    837 10 Singapore. Tues. INDUSTRIALS Atlas Ice 1I."90 12.25 xh., xd Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.40 230 Ord. 2.20 2.25 8.8. Petrol 34/- 35/B.M. Trustees 730 830 Con.'Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 16/3 16/6 E Utd ASSur. 39 25 4055 Est. Trust Fed. Dispensary 630 730 Fraser Neave Pref. 7.00
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    COFFEE HITS NEW HIGH
    249 10 THE coffee market hit new highs yesterday with prices showirtg about 75 per cent rise since the September 19, the date of devaluation of the pound sterling. Prices in Singapore are still very much below present world prices for coffee. The world shortage of coffee is
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    Tin Prices
    49 10 SINGAPORE Feb. 14: Tin price was 5289 3 8. Up 50.50. LONDON FEB. 13: Spot £599 3 4. Unchanged. Three months £586. Up «1 12. Settlement £600 Turnover 55 tons. Second session Spot £599 3 4. Unchanged. Three months £586. Up 1/4. Settlement £«00 Turnover 170 tobs.
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    RUBBER STEADY
    89 10 THE rubber commodity market was very steady throughout yesteiday with a fair amount of business passing. Prices improved a quarter cent from Monday. Closing prices in cents per pound were: Buyers Selleis No. 1 RSS f.o.b. Mar. 53 53* No. 2 RSS f.o.b Mar. 52 52% No. 3
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    U.K. PRICES UP
    46 10 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—Britainwholesale prices climbed 1.5', In January and arc now 6.5'; higher than last July. There has been a steady increase since devaluation of the pound on September 18 last. Compared with 1938 the price index shows an average increase of 141.1'—A.P.
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    SEA MAIL
    52 10 Mails are expected from Federation, Great Britain, N. Ireland, Eire, Europe, North and West Africa, West Indies, Egypt, and Ceylon at Uie G.P.O. today. Mails for Kelantan Burma Northern India *nd Pakistan J wrill close at noon, for the Federation at 5.45 Hongkong, China, Japan, mails will also
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    CURRENCY RATES
    169 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association announces the following currency rales now in force. Free Market Currencies Selling Buying. T.T./O.D. T.T. O.D. 30 &60 d/s 90 d/s. London 2/4 1/32 2/4 5/32 2/4 3/16 2/4 1/4 2/4 Q :r&gt; Australia 2/10 21/32 2/4 5/8 New Zealand 2 4 1
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    Several S'pore Horses Not In K.L. Yet
    276 11  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2000 Winners KUALA LUMPUR, Today. EXCEPT for a slight showeV the weather is keeping fine for Saturday's races. Although the going is very good there was no fast work this morning. Only a few were on the
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    PERHIBORAN Beat WOODLEIGH
    115 11 In c fnendlv nn ot badn.iuton the Peihiboian B.P. beat the Woodleigh B.P. by eight games to tyie. and the reflUtta weie (B.P. players ;irst): IMU Kl.Kv Dinar V Ac Snpaai b**l Yacoh Md. Akh-r li 1. —7; Mahmood Sataa] beal P A- Md. Noor U 9,
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    Arrives In London
    65 11 A.P. LONDON, Tues. Wong Peng Soon. Malayan badminton ham &lt; pion, arrived in London j by air today to compete for the world title next month. Me competed in the 1 international tourna- ment last year, when i the title was won by Donald Freeman ofl America.
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    S.A.F.A. Preparing For Burmese Team
    579 11 COOD CIVILIAN XI POSSIBLE *THE Singapore Amateur Football Association raised the curtain on the football season at Jalan Besar Stadium with every promise of a successful year when in a trial match in preparation for the visit of the Burmese team they routed the Royal
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    Ray Wins
    30 11 U.P. CORAL GABLES. Florida, lues. Welterweight champion "Sugar" Ray Robinson. (153). won a technical knockout over Al Mobley, (150. in the sixth round of a 10-round non-title fight.—U.P.
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    NEW AMATEUR BOXING STARS
    275 11 JJOUGLAS J. Massey, son of the Australian Commissioner, Mr. Claude Massey, won the finals of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Novices Championship last night when he knocked out J. E. Heard (Army) in the first round at the Happy World Stadium. Mr. Massey was present to
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    Moroney Makes History
    107 11 JOHANNESBURG, Tues. A gallant tight wicket stand of 94 by Fullorton and Mann was ehicily responsible for Australia having to bat a second time Ml the fourth Test which was left drawn today, with the scores: Australia 456 for eight dec. and 269 for two; South Africa
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    TRYVANN CUP WON OUTRIGHT
    34 11 A.P. OSLO. Tues.—Johnny Werket, American 1.500 metres speed skating champion, boat European champion Hjalmar Anderson, (Norway), in the 1.500 metres race at the International Speed Skating Meet held in Oslo.—A.P.
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    MCFA RICHER IN EXPERIENCE
    226 11 The M.C.F.A. team which left so hopefully for Hongkong in January with the Inter-Port Trophy returned last night. The manager of the team. Mr. Lim Hock Seng, said: "The tour was a success in that we are richer in experience. Before the tour, only three of
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    Jacinto Arrives For Fight
    125 11 PASCUAL Jacinto. 2« "the tighter" who has never rrrn £j bis carce- arrived tins morniofc from Manila by pen American Airways. Appearing fit end tipping the scales at 148 lbs Pascnai. is to iisjhl Bobby Njoo on Friday Parent) has just completed three weeks of training
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      444 11 GREETINGS A prosperous and happy. New Year to all my Chinese friends —Dr. Oetcyo. "FOR SALE For Sale: Fuelling Launch "M'SHALE', Cargo Capacity 2,300 gallons. Length O.A. 50 ft.. Draft 3" 6". Engine 36 B.H.P. Ruston Hornsby. For further particulars apply Aviation Dept., Shell Mouse. Tenders close 7th March. ttjition"
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    Flying Club To Keep On Flying
    156 12 DROFESSOR J. C. Cooke. newly elected President of the Royal Singapore Flying Club, told the members at their annual general meeting last night that the Club would "fly and continue to fly until there was no money to fly any more.' As to wheie
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    HO STARTS FOR MOSCOW
    347 12 MAY HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH STALIN AND MAO Reuter, A.P.. U.P. LONDON, Tuesday. THE diplomatic correspondent of the News 1 Chronicle said today that Dr. Ho Chi Minn, the Communist leader in Vietnam, is reported to be on his way to Moscow. He said that there is
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    Seretse Is Out To Keep Queen, Throne
    241 12 A.P. SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. CERETSE Khama, chief elect of the Bamangwatos, flew in from Africa today to fight for the right to keep both his throne and his white queen. The 27-year-old Negro brushed past more than 40 would-be interviewers from American, British and
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    TEACHERS MEET
    38 12 A conference is being held in the Malay Women's Training College, Malacca, under the chairmanship of the assistant Director of Education, Girls Section. Miss K.I. BradIcy, to discuss modern methods of teaching at Malay Cirls Schools
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    COURT MARTIAL
    86 12 Above: Lieut. Charles Philip Bowers, Royal Navy, captain of the submarine Truculent, who was found guilty by a court martial of hazarding his ship by negligence or default. The Truculent sank following a collision with the Swedish ship Divina in the Thames estuary with the loss of 64
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    Elections: A Neck To Neck Affair
    392 12 Router. LONDON. Tuesday. WITH 1,864 candidates running for 623 seats in Parliament, two Conservative Ulster unionists have been returned unopposed—the British elections promise to be a close affair. Between the Labour and the Conservative Parties, it i s a straight issue for or against
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    'Johari Not Loyal To Brooke'
    116 12 Sibu Trial SIBU, Tues.—The prosecution at the Sibu assassination conspiracy trial today produced a letter from Johari, one of the accused, to Awang Rambli, another accused, and suggested that it indicated, firstly. Johari was not loyal to Mr. Anthony J3rooke, but was using him as
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    London Stock
    154 12 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. Sentiment brightened on the London stock exchange today and the trading period ended on a cheerful note. British Government fimds and most of the other domestic issues moved higher on Mock market hopes of a Conservative victory at the coining elections. Nationalisation &lt;■■ ndid.ites, in
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    Gave Wife A Dose Of Rat Poison News Briefs
    62 12 U.P. SHELBYVILLE. Indiana. Tues.—Clarence White, 38, told the police «today that his wife was "suffering quite a lotv before he gave her a fatal dose of rat poison. The County authorities said White confessed to pouring two bottles of rat poison
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    SEAMEN RESCUED
    35 12 Reuter. PERTti, Tues.—Tne Norwegian tanker Elsie has picked up 12 Indonesian seamen ship-wrecked in a sailing vessel off the Western Australian coast, according to a radio message from the Elsie received here todav.—Reuter.
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    PROVERBIAL BARBER
    31 12 U.P. LONG BEACH. Calif., Tues. —Julius Madeson, 82, laughed himself to death. Madeson was laughing at barber Bert Lowery's Jokes when he collapsed in the barber chair and died—UP.
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    KELLY TO APPEAL
    29 12 Reuter. LIVERPOOL. Tues.—George Kelly, convicted murderer of the manager of the Cameo cinema. Liverpool, is to appeal against his death sentence, his lawyer announced today. —Reuter.
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    ROB POLICE IT RIFLES
    27 12 U.P. ASMARA. Eritrea. Tues.— A band of 25 Shifts terrorists disarmed a seven-man police post yesterday and made off with the police rifles.—U.P.
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    TALKING IT OVER
    32 12 A.P. LONDON. Tues.—Dr. Dlr Stikker, Dutch Foreign Minister, met Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps today to try to settle differences over the plan for a European payments union.--A.P.
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    QUEEN MARY 'BETTER'
    27 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—Queen Mary who has been suffering from sciatica is "decidedly better." it was stated by Marlborough house. her London home, todnv. Reuter.
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    PEPPER QUIET
    23 12 LONDON. Tues.- The pepper market fpened quietly I today with se'lers offering spot Malabar at 1,170 shillings and February-March at 1,130.
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    KING'S VISIT
    39 12 Reuter. WELLINGTON. Tues King George and Queen Elizabeth are planning to visit New Zealand during the trip they hope to make to Australia in 1952, New Zealand p nm e Minister Sidney Holland announced here today. Reuter.
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    Nationalists Promise People A Comeback
    262 12 U.P.. Reuter. TAIPEI, Tuesday. THE Ministry of National Defence today urged the people left behind the iron curtain on the mainland to"rise against the tyranous rule." "We will march back to the mainland." It was a greeting message to the Chinese in Communistheld areas from
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    I'LL SMASH Ho IN SIX MONTHS WITH U.S. AID
    246 12 PREMIER NGUYEN SAIGON. Tuesdav VIETNAMESE Premier Nguyen Phan Long toch promised to defeat what the French descrihf--as the Communist-led nationalists in six his government gets American military and ecorr! mic aid. Nguyen asked for about US$14G,000 flOO f, economic rehabilitation and
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    COUNCIL URGES LI TO SPEED HIS RETURN
    74 12 TAIPEI. Tues.—Members of the powerful Supreme Council urged Acting President Li Tsung-jen who is recuperating in the United States from an operation, to speed his return to Formosa, the official Central Daily News reported today. The Supreme Council was s?t up last July
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    83 12 «"HARD DE SILVA 15-2-1950 "•M.C.A.: Orchard Road. Siiig a P° re Chess Club 5 P.m., Fr. nch and Malay classes. 5.30 p.m., Art Club, life class. 6pm MK AN U INMIH TK OF MALAYA: Mr. S. H. 1'eek on Insurance and Assurance." G.H Cafe, o.l5 p.m.
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