Singapore Standard, 17 September 1950

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  • 22 1 Wff-Am-^MW^^Mmk} W 1 xAJ& XJsLSJ Singapore TIGER Standard V OL 1 NO. 77 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1950. 12 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 364 1 Marines Capture Kimpo Airfield In Powerful Drive TOKYO, Sept. 16: (Reuter-AAP).-United States Marines, shock troops of General Mac Arthur's invasion force, were tonight fighting in the suburbs of Seoul, the Communist-held South Korean capital, unconfirmed reports said here. Spearheading the drive from Inchon, where the
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  • 262 1 LONDON, Stj.L 16— (IP) Russian a«en| s have r troin a < om in form meeting hrkfajj the Iron I »ith inilllllLliaM to sabotage Britain's war I ihe (nnernment is prepared to make mas* ,i all auitaton* in the nation, the House
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  • 76 1 Policeman shot Dead In Penang «;.iff Correspondent 9 A Chinese I ratable was shot x -year-old wounded at tight at Muntri oumown gunman. •>g cause i a stir Within a few ai i i e The ned :T about Le kh Street anc comer, IS 90 far been > tnd
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  • 71 1 Sing qp nre police et collapsed at h Ic the car was .\y the quick b policeman seated in applying the I a tragedy, j S 'rave! ling' R tad and turning Jav i when the [sa collapsed. e was about to cav.al
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  • 45 1 MANILA. Sept. 16— (AP) A tropical storm with a maximum wind of 45 miles per hour in the centre is moving towards the northern tip of Luzon at the rate of seven miles an hour, the Philippines Weather Buroau s^ld.
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  • 71 1 WASHINGTON. Sept. 16 (AP) Congress- overrode stormv Republican protests to approve, by 47 votes to 21. a special law permitting Gen. George C. Marshall to Uike *ver the civilian post of U.S. Secretary of Defence. The Senate agreed to lift the present legal "barriers against
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  • 222 1 Honorary Judges Of Essay Contest AN.NOLiN CEMENT was made yesterday by the Essay Contest Editor that three nationally-known cultural and eivie leaders of the land have accepted the invitation of The Singapore Standard to serve as Honorary Judges. The three Honorary
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  • 36 1 The House of Commons has passed a bill extending military conscripton in Britain from 18 months to two years. The second and third reading were both agreed to without a vote Reuter
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    55 1 Picture by r mmanHft(s c de ts of the Malayan Air Training Corps of the Red Army who to3k Commandos cadets 01 ine j briefed their Adjutant Mr Roland Parks before they struck out by sea in a surprise attack bid to cut off White Army personnel infiltrating to Tanjong
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  • 126 1 Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore Government last night announced the personnel of the Advisory Committee formed under the recent Press Regulations. They are: Mr. Justice T. A. Brown. Chairman, and Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir. Messrs. V Pakirisamy. T. W. Ong and A. C. Simmons
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  • 143 1 Standard Staff Reporter ONG AH KENG. a 112-year-old schoolgirl, was killed and two schoolboys, Ong Ah Poo (14) the girl's brother ana Thong Chee Choye (14). were injured in a road accident at the 9| mile. Jurong Road, barely quarter of a
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  • 210 1 CID Warns Singapore Car Owners Standard Staff Reporter OWNERS of cars in Singapore have to take all possible precautions against pettythieves who appear to be working day and night in the Colony. In the day these petty thieves operate in the town area. During the last six months they stepped
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  • 27 1 BERLIN 1 Sept. 16 (Renter):— Police fired a bail of bullets into the Western se* >rs ul Berlin yesterday. s.:i.»us!y wounding one Weal Berlin policeman.
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  • 172 1 M'Arthur Reveals Strategy WITH MACARTHUR IN KOREA, Sept. 13: (Delayed)— General Douglas MacArthur. United Nations Commander in Korea, disclosed his master strategy today two days before the scheduled landing high up the Korean west coast explaining he had chosen the Seoul-Inchon area for the attack because it was "the very
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  • 197 1 TOKYO. Sept. 16, (AP). Rear-Admiral Raleigh A. Burke Deputy Chief of Staff of U.S. Naval forces in the Far East, j said on Saturday the North j Koreans are "in the helluva bad way and it is about time j they realised it.
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  • 84 1 WASHINGTON. Sept. 16 (UP) General Douglas MacArthur has called on Communist Korean troops "to surrender or die," a military spokesman said today. He a J .«ied that three million leaflets had been dropped in all areas of South Korea where Red troops are concentrated,
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  • 143 1 Yanks, South Koreans Gain In Taegu Area ON THE TAEGU FRONT. Sept. L6, (UP).— Troops of the Ist Cavalry Division in their attack on this front, reached a point within three miles of Waegwan tonight. On the right flank of the Ist Cavalry, the South Korean Ist Division ad tranced
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  • 84 1 SAINT MALO. BRITTANY, Sept. 16: (Reuter) A French roasting ship exploded and sank today off Cape Frehel, between Brest and Saint Mala. Out of her crew of 90. 50 were believed missing. The ship, from the French Navy, was to take part in a
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    • 91 1 On Other Pages Page 'Invasion Of Singapore Begins 2 Teachers' Allegations At A Mass Meeting t Rural Committee Awards Another Scholarship S Federation Dealers Warned S Chinese Film Star Arrives v. 3 US Steps Up Synthetic Production 4 Colony Buying Land For International Airport I Johore Bahru Leper Patients Club
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  • 337 3 •a cm Stond ard Staff Reporter tag next year wS anmu^li? e benefit of sch<x>lauguration of the Pasir P a^ a S niV^r y of the inmittee. Panjang Rural District Com- the Slon^ryc"et a o- 0 M 0 r r he
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  • 74 3 Big Thefts Of Petrol rom Army v -rd Staff i MP[ R. Sat. ntdj or galintended M are stolen >■■ vs and .<. |POJ sfat- b? f ore t second Mr. J. if- Tham v, u'a« b -ig in paTTotti o/ I c* duty. tff.32 had :td. *:"d a'so o;
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  • 115 3 The Colonial Secretary. Mr. \V. L. Blythe (standing) replying to a welcoming address by Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha at a tea party at Pasir Panjang yesterday. The reception was to commemorate the third anniversary of the Pasir Panjang Rural District Committee and also to
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  • 561 3 Standard Stall' Reporter CHINA'S famous film star, Pai Kwang-, slipped into Singapore yesterday for a "badly-needed rest." But she did not pass from the airport unnoticed. Her most avid fans, hotel boys at Kallang "spotted her in her beige green chongsum
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  • 56 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— Mr. Mepra Hussain Ebrahim Gani Mohamed Ibrahim Meera Hussain of Penang was admitted as a member of the Federation bar by the acting Chief Justice, Mr. E.O. Pretheroe in the Supreme Court today. The application was made by Mr. P. J.D. Regester while Mr. B.H.
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  • 192 3 Standard Staff Reporter "Z leant to quit films. "The art of acting is dead. i "There is not. time now its rush, rush and rush to get the picture through j and to the. market." So said China's biggest j film box-office draw sliril
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  • 155 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioners will be asked at a special meeting on Wednesday to approve an increase of $35,000 over the total cost originally estimated for making additions and alterations to the Municipal Offices and the
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  • 73 3 KAJANG. Sat— The Malay Students Literary Union, Kaiang branch, recently held a tea party to bid farewell to Inche Shukor bin Ali, the first President of the Union who is leaving soon for London via Geneva on a Welfare Scholarship and will attend a two-year course at
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  • 44 3 A YOUNG Malay, Ahmad bin Elias, was charged in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday with having robbed Koh Ah Hup of a wrist watch, a torchlight and cash $25.50 in Swettenham Road on Sept. 5. He was remanded until Sept 2&
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  • 183 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. For the first time in the Federation, if not in Malaya, the Police offer a reward for information leading to the capture or death of a wanted man. They are looking for two bandits Chung
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  • 53 3 SEREMBAN, Sat. The wedding of Miss Dorothy Evelin Timothy, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Timothy, of Port Dickson and Mr. Jothinayagam Abraham of Klapa Bali Estate, Slim River, Perak. took place at St. Mark's Church. There was a reception at the Negri Sembilan Club after
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  • 129 3 Federation Dealers Warned Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Serf— The Government of the Federation icarns dealers* that if the sale price on the market of any commodity is unjustifiably high, then action will be taken, to control the price at which that commodity can be sold. They are spe< i'ically
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  • 208 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Workers in the Federation are protesting against the' delay on the part of the Federation Government in enforcing the Federation's Weekly Holiday Bill which the Federal Legislature had approved in July this year, The workers are employed in
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  • 28 3 KUALA LUMPUR. SatMails posted at Tanah Mcrah and Ringlet, in the Cameron Highlands. yesterday. have 1 been destroyed' by bandits who set fire to a bus.
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  • 74 3 Standard Staff Correspondent KA.TANG. Sat.— To solve the problem of accommodation lor Malay students, who attend the High School at Kajang. Malays in the Ulu Langat District, have placed the Kajang Arabic School building at the disposal of the boys. Forty boys now find shelter in this
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 186 3 F FEDERATI^^^/y SELANGOR— Today Majestic: Soon Goh Khonfi Tai Chean Kim Chee Par 10.30 a.m. 1. 3.15 7 and 9.15 p.m. Odeon: No Sad Songs For Me 3.15. W6 and 9.15 p.m. Fox Technicolor Cartoon* 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Pavilion: Nine Warriors (Ch.2> Cantonese. 1. 3. 6.30 and 9
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    • 158 3 Sapphire: Fong Sai Yoke Foh Siew Hoong Wan Chee (Cantonese) 7 and 9.30 p.m. Cathay: Riding High 2.30, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Metropole: Lovers Mystery (Cantonese) 2.30, 7 and 9.30 p.m. MALACCA— Today Capitol: Stampede 8, 6.30. 9.15 p.m. Cheap Matinee. Humoresque 12.30 p.m. Lido: Siew Loh Pun Hon (Cantonese)
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    • 163 3 I Grand: Prince Of Foxes 3, 7 and 9 p.m. Soccer: Hongkong XI vs. All Malaya Malays on Chinese Assembly Hall Padang 5 p.m. PENANG— Today Rex: Outside The Wall 3.15, 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. Davy Crockett Indian Scout 12 noon. Caihay: Puthi (Hindi) 3.15. 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. Flamingo
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  • 125 4 Rubber Market 'Eases' Standard Staff Reporter The news that the strike Of plantation workers in| Indonesia was over, eased, the Singapore rubber mar-i ket yesterday. J Quotations opened at $1.50i per Ib. for first grade October i shipment, at which level there* «raa a fairly good inquiry. The turnover of
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  • 88 4 Shipments of prepared latex' Cram Malaya during August* Bin muted to 6,300.33 tons, oft which :i345. 31 tons were fromt Singapore and 2.955.02 tons from the Federation. < The United States of America' waa Malayais bigsest customer' with shipments amounting to' 3.437.5 tons. Other countries which pur-'
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  • 92 4 MOVEMENTS of tln-in-ore, from the Federation o! Malaya to Singapore and Penang rose, frtra 4.830 tons in July to 5459] tor.^ in Aueust. Since the beginning of the year. 39.130 tons of tin-in-ore; had been moved from the Fed-* eration to the two seaports. Of the 5.159 tons
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  • 40 4 NEW YORK. Sept. 16— fAP^— Crude Rubber No. 1 futures, dosed 55 to 100 points hmher, in Xc.v York on Friday. Otters, wore: December 52.75 to 53.00, March 51.00. Spot No. 1. RS.S. 58\ nominal.
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  • 254 4 HONGKONG, Sept. 16. (Reuter-AAP) Several flier rs and men of the 10.000-ton Sanitmth, whose < agents are the American company A.P. Pattison. indi-* cated last evening they would not take a car«;o of 20.000 Lairs of high density cotton to the Chinese
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  • 632 4  -  KEN JALLEH By fHE DEPARTMENT of Civil Aviation is studying certain standards and recommended practices on the facilitation of air transport as proposed by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. These recommendations deal with more efficient handling of customs and immigration, and other such matters relating to the safety,
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  • 110 4 i WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 >(AP) The House Merchant i Marine Committee approved Friday Senate amendments to a passed Bill changing the accounting system for the Panama Canal with the intent of putting the canal on a self--sustaining basis. The measure would separate 'the business operation
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  • 15 4 SINGAPORE, Sat. Sept. 16. The price of tin today was 5395. Down $1,624
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  • 111 4 Produce Market 'Quiet' Standard Staff Reporter Quiet conditions ruled the Singapore produce market yesterday, no transaction being reported for copra and coconut oil. Copra had sellers at $481 and buyers at S47J on a quiet but dull market. Coconut oil sellers v. ere offering at $74$ but no buyers were
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  • 151 4 US Studying Halt Aid To Europe Move WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP)— James Bonbright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, said on Friday that the Senate proposal to halt economic aid for countries selling munitions to the Russian bloc would have a "very damaging effect" on relations with friendly
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  • 207 4 Weekend Shipping Mishaps CAIRO, Sept. 16 (AP) Six were drowned and nine missing, presumed drowned, on Friday when two house- boats on the Nile were torn i from their moorings and i smashed against a nearby I bridge, police said last night. [First reports listed two women missing and two
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  • 180 4 SYDNEY, Sept. 16— (AP)— Australian dopkers on Friday threatened to strike if any of their number is named as a Communist under the government's Communist Party dissolution Bill. The federal conference of the Waterside Workers Federation said it would fight passage of the Bill with "all
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  • 130 4 US To Place Import Duty On Tung Oil WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP) The way has been cleared lor U.S. Congress to place an import duty on tung oil, according to Representative William Colmer, Mississippi Democrat. •The oil, used in paints and varnishes and for other purposes, comes from the nuts
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  • 372 4 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. (AP) President Truman has ordered the production of synthetic rubber at government-owned plants to be stepped up to capacity to meet defence needs. Mr. W, Stuart Symington* chairman of the National Security Resources Board, said the order
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  • 88 4 LONDON, Sept. 15: (Router) The Government of Tanganyika has floated a 3A c c loan of £1.750,000 redeemable between 1970 and 1973. the Colonial Office announced here tonight. The loan will be issued at 100%. The prospectus will be advertised next Monday and the cash application lists
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  • 84 4 HONGKONG. Sept. 16 (APVUnconfirmed. but an authoritative report Qua morning said Hongkong revenue officers boarded a British freighter Friday and unloaded a number of rases of airplane parts i scheduled to be delivered in 1 Tientsin, Red China. The report said the officials i worked
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  • 48 4 1 SINGAPORE. SepL 16.— Due to an unexpected eWension of the Indian Trade Delegation's stay in Indonesia, it has been decided to postpone the reception date. Fresh invitations will be issued as soon as the *xact date of the Delegation's visit to Singapore is finalised.- GIIS
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  • 134 4 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP) The U.S. government announced on Friday that a 48,000 ton luxury liner, now under construction at Newport News, with a government subsidy, will be completed as troop transport for carrying over 12,000 troops. The liner was to have been the
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  • 319 5 r Standard Staff Reporter IvALLANG airport may be abandoned for a rw, modern international airport to be built at Lebar. An official anneuaeement issued y Government approved the gazetting under section 3 of Land Acquisition Ordinance, an area of land i\t>a Lebar extending
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  • 62 5 Tl»:s is a sketch map showing the 1,490-acre in Singapore which Garernmeat has requisitioned for the building of a big new ciyil airport. The area comprises 435 big and small lots ranging from less than one acre to 190 acres in the Paya Lebar area. Specialised
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  • 120 5 Ipoh Doctors' donation To Varsity Fund ind Staff Correspondent s<ii.— A sum of $5,236 sen contributed by 15 tors and dental sur--0 have studied at the od VUth College of ::e towards the Univer- .ui::it was collected the "University Forta:. was the result of a e rraae by Dr. A.
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  • 29 5 TWENTY-SEVEN rounds of .38 revolver ammunition which was found in the kitchen of a house in Johore Road y-tier-day was surrendered to trie Police by a Chinese.
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  • 206 5 Motor-Cyclist Was Not Showing Off To His Girl Friend Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat. A motor-cyclist, Loh Kim Teow, told the coroner, Mr. E. M. Smallwood that he was not showing off to his girl friend as to how fast he could travel. He was giving evidence at an inquiry
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  • 445 5 THE IST BATTALION Worcestershire Regiment, who claimed their first two terrorists while undergoing training two months ago was praised by the GOC, Malaya. Major General R.E. Urquhart. The GOC said: "For a unit to kill terrorists while undergoing training is an unprecedented achievement and promises well
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  • 335 5 Standard Staff Reporter THE ELECTORAL Machinery Reforms Committee has, at it s second sitting last Thursday, decided on the boundaries and names of the three new Rural Wards for the Legislative Council elections. The Rural Central Ward will be known as Seletar, Rural
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  • 93 5 PENANG, Sat.— Hari Raya Haji this year will be observed in Penang and Province Wellesley on Saturday. Sept. 23 as a public holiday, the chairman of the Muslim Advisory Board, Penang and Province* Wellesley Dr. Kamal Mohammed Ariff, told The Standard today. Dr. Ariff
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  • 408 5 Standard \S man Correspondent AN OLD Chinese woman, Madam Seali IVgan Hong, a patient in the Johore Leper Camp for 29 years, was given the honour of hoisting the new flag of the Federation of Malaya, at
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  • 39 5 Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR. Sat.— A 33-year-old woman. Chu Ah Moi. was fined $500 or six months' simple impisonment by the president of the Sessions Court, Mr. M. Garton for not having an identity card.
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  • 156 5 j Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat.— Local Chinese residents welcomed the Home Guard regulations. They were of the opinion that if properly carried out it would shorten the emergency. How- ever, they felt thnt a person oi j 55 years of age was too
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  • 315 5 Standard Staff Reporter THE general lay-out of the 150-acre housing estate planned by the Sennett Really Co. Ltd. in the former Alkaff Gardens is now being considered by the Singapore Improvement Trust. A decision is expected soon. The Alkaff Gardens, together with adjacent plots of
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  • 231 5 PROSECUTING officer. ln»peclor I^l Beharf Singh, asked the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. S. E. Teh, yesterday to take a serious view «f the ca*«* in which three South African seamen were charged with trespassing into the Singapore Standard office with intent to cause annoyance.
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  • 432 7 Red China Move Now Likely As Allied Nutcracker Tightens TOk^O, Sept. 16.— 8,g question. here —as Gen. Mac „vm."*ly unlimited forces swarm ashore and inland on the^ „.a-t« of Korea far behind the Red front lines and thcTenUre >» ,1 fr«"t erupted to spill out more allied iorces in a
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  • 68 7 n> FRONT, Sept lti .p -Tan* warfare in tjH knife oo top Of a .t.rday killed Kor^ns and d;styyu,- b^h.nd U.S. H rty-#r« Reds :l1 > ::>th Division .J s iud been fighting v ,k to *ipe out the i,-ket rwo light tanks JJ; then
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  • 48 7 Sept. l6 (AP) Reds are reportting anti-aircraft nes (WanLjngt.ru Larnma and i •ween Hong- lauglui from V ;i miles from Hongintrol but the east- h to the colony. acementa on those ready shelled nant >hips and neka ago fired on the I Concord.
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  • 42 7 UK Sending Division To Germany Reuter) btf newlyured Divisorcupation my, Rhine announce. do*i not m wi!! q ectcd in the Division ir. accord- Attlee's Qua '.veek ft itish divii oe rated hn? passed be I use two >. the 1i o Cali- AP
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  • 26 7 The U.N. "Little Assembly" has decided to pass on to the full General Assembly, without debate. Nationalist China's charges of Soviet aggression in China.
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  • 111 7 Britons In Allied Big Push TOKYO, Sept. 16 (UP): The British forces on the Naktong front are taking part in the big beachhead offensive southward. Reuter adds that the first Korea casualty list issued by the British War Office showed that one man had been killed. 17 wounded, with one
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  • 143 7 LONDON. Sept. 16 (Reuter) One Russian cartoonist must have a very red face today for having caricatured Gen. MacArthur, his fingers dripping blood, with a caption "noted for hands too short for Korea." Gen. MacArthur is at the moment personally directing the massive
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  • 87 7 PI Volcano Eruption Kills 84 MANILA, Sept. 18 (AP)— The death toll in the sudden eruption of Hibok volcano, on Caciguin Island, is now 84 with 35 injured. Inhabitants of three villages showered by the red hot ashes, still erupting from the volcano, have been evacuated to places of safety
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  • 125 7 LONDON, Sept. 16. (Reuter) The Government has announced an amendment to Conservative leader Winston Churchill's motion objecting to the export of machine tools and raw materials to the Soviet Union, which Parliament will debate on Monday. The amendment asks Parliament to approve its
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  • 90 7 HONGKONG, Sept. 16 (AP): The Hongkong Government has confirmed that 300 cases of arms and ammunition, bought by Chinese Nationalists but in name of the now Communist Kwangtung Provincial Bank, are being held in Hongkong. The Chinese Reds are paying the storage charges. A
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  • News Briefs
    • 286 7 BOMBAY, Sept. 16. (Reuter) —Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru has urged Indian students "not to become pawns in the political game but to acquire knowledge and experience to flt themselves as India s leaders of tomorrow." Pandit Nehru appealed to them not to allow political
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  • 186 7 No Jap Reparations WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (AP)— lf Moscow tries to obstruct America's new efforts to conclude a peace treaty with Japan, Administration officials here believe that the non-Communist nations will agree to a separate peace settlement without Russia. While this would leave
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  • 54 7 JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 16— (Reuter): If the Indians go back to India, the Europeans must go back to Europe, said Dr. J. S. Moroka. opening a conference here of the South African Indian Congress. "I suppose the Africans must go back to the central lakes
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  • 42 7 DIJON, Sept. 16 <AP>:— The death has occurred here of Gen. Charles Charet, 79, credited with organising the "taxicab army" which drove reserves .to the first Battle of the Marne from Paris in World War I.
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  • 28 7 Dr. Hermann Kastner, chairman of the East German Liberal Democratic Party and Deputy Prime Minister in the Sovietsponsored East German Government, has been "purged." A.P.
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  • 89 7 CALCUTTA, Sept 16 (AP)-Mrs. Lydie Hielle, pretty 29-year-old Austrian, has arrived at Kalimpong irom Munich on her way to visit her brother, Heinrich Harrer in Lhasa, Tibet. Heinrich came out to India in 1938 as a member of the German Himalayan expedition. When
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  • 41 7 JOHANNESBURG. Sept. !6 <UP):— The body of Africa's soldier-statesman Gen Jan Christiaan Smuts has been cremated here alter the n-.tion bade him a tearful farewell at a qulitary f uncial in Pretoria witnessed by i.0n0.000 people.
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  • 183 7 NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (Reuter) British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is understood to have made at a meeting of "Big Three" Ministers a forthright declaration of Britain's conviction of the danger of continued Western support for Nationalist China. This danger, he explained, consisted of
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  • 141 7 Towns In Assam Crumble CALCUTTA, Sept. 16 (UP) North-East Assam, devastated a month ago by one of history's greatest earthquakes, is still staggering under shocks which art slowly levelling its towns, say reports from Dibrugarh, the largest town near the epicentre of the Aug. 15 quake. The town's 50,000 inhabitants
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  • 72 7 CAIRO, Sept. 16 (UP) Egypt may try to do business with Russia and her satellites as a result of Britain's decision to end shipments of jet planes and other strategic war materials to Egypt, informed sources said. These sources said that Egypt will seek other sources
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  • 791 8 THE PATIENT LET OUT A YELL -SO DID I FROM town to town I made »J way, alw«y» finding some racing-stoWe* around, and my Ust of "certainties" grew dmiy. Lj Oie *wketa of BrfalftJ, Salisbury ami the .oath country I gave them winners, until I Became quit© EnVooT JL tipper.
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  • 1894 8 I Gotta Horse The Unknown RAS PRINCE MONOLULU After his arrival in England Prince Monolulu decides that the best way to earn a living is to get into the racing business. He travels up and down the country learning the tricks ot his trade the hard way. How Read On
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  • 242 8 He Criod: I've Got Heaven And I Cried: I Gotta Horse XJE began to be quite a nuisance to me, because he would xx tell his story well and always gathered a crowd round him, a crowd that I wanted round me. I stood near him on Epsom Downs on
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    • 732 9  -  Oswald Henry •BY- THE Ca^trf Theatre in Sißgapore has been buzzing with activity Particularly these last two mornings. On its reconstructed lights have been Winking, curtains bave been rising and backdrops falling, and, mingled with shoots and orders the wiags have come
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    • 194 9 TAZZ FANS Here's a cmiJ test just up your sireet; It s all about the musk played by Kirk Douglas (as a jazz trumpeter) in the forthcoming Warner Bros* kit "A Young Man Of Music." Given below are 11 of the song favourites featured
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    • 119 9 Toughening UpThe Tough Wag N»t part of a circus act, but a n| tmn of ?l-y«tr-oli Jannettr Gay being put through her paces. You see, Jannette's a stunt girl working in British a«d her Micrrss depends largely on jost bow maek punishmest skr ran take without batting an eye-lid or
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    • 689 9 "VOUR handwriting is an A index to year character. it can tell mm expat just what sort of a person you are, yonr likes and dislikes, your habits and temperament even your ambitions! The i Singapore Standard" publishes every Sunday a concise free reading by
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    • 330 9 I EVENT OF THE YEAR ■I l^i PAVIUOM WSD. "FAUST a THE ]I r DEfflL" STARRING ITALO TAJO METROPOLITAN OPERA STAR RfEULY 1^ MOST REACTIFUI WB '**2Z^Bm£m STAR w aix Europe mJP- Wm^ I THO s ol^ UK an ■^^^8 it^L ANGEL I GOETHE^S dnm* GOUNOD'S opera BOITO'S Mosi( I
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    • 171 9 I rD^WTFTI wow SHOWING 1 Hi 1 I] Ci 111 I „.,.45 4-630 9.30 1 SAMUEL GOLOWYN presents GRAKGER Charles Biekford B^ Ravmond Masse y K| Richard Basehart HH«l^^^ iV JOAN K\ A"* W^iiTkß America's most taws JT &tHrj Distributed by KKO Kadie Pictures Today 9 o^n. "REVENGE IS SWEET'
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    • 28 9 Morning show today 11 a.m. 2 pictures for one payment! "SENORITA from the WKST" "THE Singing SHERIFF" Today: 5.15-—6.5*— 9.15 p.m. Raj Kapoor Nargis Diljp Kumar *ANDAZ" (Hindustani)
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 506 9 Radio Round-Up RADIO MALAYA gramme with popular st.^rs— Chou Shuen, Chiew Hsia and SINGAPORE Liang Ping: 4.15 Religious Services broadcast from the studio ENGLISH PROGRAMME in the Teochew dialect by the Roman Catholic Church: 4.4d In9am Programme Summary: 902 troducing Western music Jazz; Waltz Tune: 9.30 With a Smile 9
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  • 2158 10  -  LILLIAN trith \A Winning Smile At j The Races From Paris Via Bangkok VNOTHER Frenchwoman, Mme Lucie Mail in, of Paris, has flitted into Singapore for a week's rest. Mme. Martin is an administrative officer with the EangkolK office of the United Nations Division of. Social Activities.
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  • 75 10 AND DON'T FORGET US KIDS Our two little flower girls really were charming, when they attended the wedding of Miss Kathleen A. Doherty, to Polite Officer K. G. F. Irwin. last Friday. They are Judith Hitchman and Ann Lucas. Proud mother and first baby a son. Mrs. Alice Halsema nurses
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    • 30 10 doH.l/0 qeddeo {he IcHle /ohop haiTieo hotel 4 /olnaapo>te I M. FLINTER &S. GRINBERG j DIAMONDS, JEWELLERY and PRE(JOUS STONES SINGAPORE I JOmc^-u^Court Building) 67 Stamford Road Telephone 7923 1
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    • 133 10 Restograi Rr>tor<"s |)ir Vttur I To < 1 r>-> ing H.ur \i i» a> a 1 Prr.niot.-i 1 tu (.r..->ih |{<riii>\ M ll.i i. kull Ket'p-. Si .tip t lr.<n M..p» I .11 i H ii' PerlfrlU M» '■'< l» Not .i It lit l.-.Hine btaMi at Ma-.naM A (o
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  • 275 11 Malaya Needs New Coaching DYSON Standard Staff Reporter MALAYA must introduce a modern system o f rffaletk training if she wants to be in the f)l in ,Mt of the world of sport, said Geoffrey IM»n. Britain s ace athletic coach in Singapore 1 yesterday. On A who a^ived by
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  • 193 11 Arsenal Gets The Goals pt (Reuter) football rei :/is/i League fOSi DIVISION g Huddorsfield 2 \V. Bronv.vich 1 I Fulham 2 1 Liverpool 3 Charlton 0 3 St ike 1 J M'brough 1 j-.d 0 Blackpool 2 2 Tottenham 1 iAD DIVISION 4 Birmingham 1 Coventry 1 1 Brentford 0
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  • 70 11 NEW YORK, Sept. 16. (AP). —Paddy Young, 32, of NewYork, who enters the army in a few days, celebrated his farewell appearance in Madison Square Garden by beating Ernie Durando of Bayonne, New Jersey, on p"oints in a 10--round bout. Young, 1 to 3
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  • 66 11 TOKYO, Sept. 16, < Reuter- AAP) The United States non-profes-sioaal baseball champions, the Fort Wayne "Capeharts," on Friday night became the first world champions by beating Japan's All-Kanebo in a night game in Tokyo on Friday. The score was 6 l. The final game was
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  • 54 11 MELBOURNE. Sept. 16: (Reuter-AAP) Sid Barnes, former Australian Test cricketer, will not play in the forthcoming Tests against England. Instead he will write about the games tor a Melbourne Pa Baraes toured England with the Australian teams of 1938 and 1948 and play in Tests against England ia
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  • 163 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The first state hockey trial was played on the Padang this evening to select a side to meet Negri Sembilan on Oct 7. The standard of play throughout was poor but there were some good individual perj formances by the Colours'
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  • 77 11 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16, (AP). U.S. national tennis champion Art Larsen defeated Felisimo Ampon of the Philippines 6-4. 8-6, 6-3 Friday, setting the stage for a first rate match against Ted Schroeder in the semi-finals of usually sedate Pacific Southwest tournament. In another quarter final match.
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  • 73 11 LONDON. Sept. 16: (Reuter). Fallowing were today's Rugby League results: Barrow 26 Bramley 0 Batley 15 Oldham 7 Belle Vueß. 17 F'stone R. 7 Castleford 14 Keighley 15 Huddersfield 20 Bradford N. 4 HullKtonß 12 Hunslet 11 Leeds 12 Wigan 23 Leigh 10 Whitehaven 4 Liverpool S. 0
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  • 203 11 Ceylon's Plans For Commonwealth Team COLOMBO, Sept. 15: (Reuter). A triangular knockout cricket tournament, with the Commonwealth touring team, India and Ceylon taking part, will hv staged in Colombo if a proposal now under consideralion materialises. 7 Ceylon's Cricket Board secretary, K. Ismail, said today that he had discussed the
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  • 167 11 NS Rugby Trials Start Soon Standard Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sat. According to the fixtures for 1950/51 season arranged by the Negri Sembilan-Malacca Rugby Union at least two State trial matches will be played before the first important match against the Singapore Combined Services on Oct. 14. It is too early
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  • 106 11 EASTBOURNE, Sept. 1G (AP) Ivo Rinkel, the Dutch tennis star, scored an upset in the South of England championships on Friday by defeating To'ny Mottram, Britain's number one, 8-6, 0-6, 6-3. in the semifinal of the men's singles. In the final on Saturday Rinkel will
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  • 459 11 MAYFLOWER'S Mak Fong Sim and Margaret Lim literally smashed their way through a two- set victory over Rosie Foong and Rosalind Koli (Marigold) to win the Singapore women's junior doubles title at the Clerical Union Hall last night. J THE SINGAPORE and
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  • 154 11 Perak Wants Foong Seong Postponed Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH. Sat. The Foong Seong Cup semi-final between Singapore and Perak may be postponed, according to the secretary of the Perak Badminton Association. The match is fixed to take place at Singapore on Oct. 7 and 8 and Perak is now asking
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  • 41 11 SARONNO, ITALY. Sept. 15: (Reuter) A Pakistan team today beat a representative Italian Universities team by 10 goals to zero in the International Hockey Tournament which started here. N Pakistan scored three of the goals before half time.
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  • 92 11 LONDON. Sept. 16. (AP) Heavy rain prevented any play on Friday in the minor counties challenge match at Kennington Oval where Bedfordshire on Thursday scored 2f>o and Surrey Second XI made 26 for three wickets. Clyde Walcott. the West Int dies wicketkeeper-batsman on i
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  • 376 11  -  'FAIR PLAY' SELANGOR BADMINTON By IN an attempt to improve the standard of singles play in the State, The Selangor Badminton Association has made an interesting innovation in their rules for the current year's singles senior interteam League in that participating teams will meet one
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  • 317 11 Standard Staff Corresponder I SEREMBAN,* Sat. A spectacular goal scor 1 in the last minute of extra time by Awang Dakar, enabled the Singapore Malays to beat their Negri Sembilan compatriots by three goals to two in the semi-final of the
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  • 146 11 Burma Lose 2nd Match RANGOON, Sat.— (AP). Fifteen thousand fool hall fans today saw Singapore beat Burma by two £oal* to one after losing yesterday. It was a dear crisp day for brisk, fast-paced foolbail. Nonetheless the game sagged possibly because Singapore obviously had a tight rein upon their abilities.
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  • 382 11 Standard Staff Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. Three goals in the last live minutes of play gave the 42 Royal Marine (iommandos a well-deserved victory over the PCFF "C" in the final of the Li m Seng Fook cup competition today. Hero of the match was
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  • TARA STREET WINS GOLD CUP
    • 231 12 Liberation Cup LEADING Ituui otar* t o finish, brilliant Bright Eyes won the Liberation Cup race "oy the comfortable margin of lengths at Bukit Timah yesterday. This was 2*ti aged Austra- Han mare's fifteen win since sue made her debut in Penang ■in October. H)4T.
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    • 78 12 NEW YORK. Sept. 16 (Renter 1 Terry Alien of London v. i >>: his world flyweight r Dado Marino ol Manila re •'■>• may have a return CO si in Manila. A en's American representat: N it Rogers said today that BC had received
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    • 122 12 St iid.i rd Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sat— The Li Teik sch >>! won the fifth-post war Pen an g Chinese inter-school sp>;:> held today on the Francis Light School ground. The school won first places in Cl issea two and three with a lot d of
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    • 64 12 Th» following players will represent Khalsa Association in a friendly game of hockey ■guinil Singapore Cricket Club > on Tuesday at the S.C.C. padang. Baker Singh; Sewa Singh. Bajws. Mehar Singh. Manjit; Sin^h Wasan (Capt.> Sohan SiriJh. Kultar Singh. Charanj.it Sin^h. Harbajan Singh. Jerome Sin^h. Mohinder Singh, Darshan
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    • 1042 12  - Raj Mahal's Gallant Try OLLIE DAVIES By LYING HANDY till the home bend, the threey ear-old bay English gelding Tara Street moved up strongly below the distance to beat the leader Raj Mahal by a neck and win the Gold Cup yesterday at Bukit Timah. This was Tara Street's sixth
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    • 102 12 PENANG, Sat —The Penang Senior inter-team badminton championships started this afternoon at the Chung Ling High School hall, Kampong Bahru, when two tingles and one doubles were played off between the Hu Yaw Seah and the Anglo-Chinese School Union. Results were: Singles: Law Teik Hock <HYS) beat Law
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    • 231 12 Selangor Club Services Draw KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Coml with the Selangor Club this even igame on the Padang. each nde scoring Both teams fought bard to the end and there was a last minute gallant effort by the Services in which they forced the Club bark in a strong rally
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    • 40 12 KUALA I.' Young Mei s Sikh beat the V to nil In mated '.< v day <*j AJ bv one goal scored I Singh Thej J with three more A gumption through J< Assa Singh and Mohi 1« >'
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 75 12 TODAY A.M. P.M. Singapore 1.47 1.39 Malacca 10.56 11.02 Port Dickson 9.37 9.43 Port Sham 8.32 8.4? Penang 3.30 3.37 TOMORROW: Singapore ?.4O 2.14 Malacca 11.37 11.39 Port Dickson ...10.18 10.20 Port Sham 836 9.21 Penang 4.00 4.08 TUESDAY: Singapore 3.45 2.58 Malacca 12.36 12 36 Port Dickson 11.17 11.17
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