Singapore Standard, 12 February 1951

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  • 15 1 Singapore Standard VOL. 1 N0 227 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1951. 8 PAGES TEN CENTS
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  • 72 1 Govt. OK Asked For New SHB Storage Charges Standard Staff Reporter jH] ngaporc Harbour Hoard has approached for i>frmi>Moii to increase charges for m -vII.B. godowm. three I bamhera ol Coaunetee have been in-! S.HJI* decioioa to rai«.e the charges. n spare ith I volume esulted m argoes g stacked
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  • 14 1 King Farouk Betrothed To Commoner 10 .UP' Kahas I" nnouncesl and K• g for
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  • 12 1 I Stall Importer ttes of a them of i ttery.
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  • 244 1 Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sun.— H W live alleged ban;!it> were invited to a kampong mosque j and there overpowered alter one of them had addressed the gathering was told m the Johore Assizes today. c five accused pt- are j \h ni Huss
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  • 136 1 Truman Flayed By Taft CHICAGO, Feb. 11 (AP) Republican Senator Robert Taft, one of the leaders of the American opposition party, last night attacked President Truman, accusing him of "thoughtless and reckless""' actions. He continued his campaign against sending U.S. forces to Europe by President Truman's order alone without the
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  • 164 1 3 SOS Calls In 1 Day For Helicopters casualty evacuation heiij copters ot Far East Air Force had a busy day yesterday with (throe S.O.S. calls anci a forced landing, according to an FEAF release Tast night. A policeman suffering fr im gu:.- U was airlifted irom a posl m
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  • 78 1 SYDNEY, Feb. 11, (Reuter VP).— Labour disputes closed all Australian ports over the eek-end and will bring the cou 's eastern coalfields to a ndstill as tin tomorrow second of the coal miners one-day-a-week strikes. Both dockers and miners are protesting against recent wage awards.
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  • 75 1 Standard Staff Reporter A Bghl betv een children oi tw< Chinese families a few days agi waa renewed when an elderp member trom each family met ir a street fiiiht at Chin Chew Street lasl night, with the resull thai o ne ol them was
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  • 84 1 BURGLARS who broke into two houses vi Balmoral Road on Saturday nighl made ofl with a total haul ot over $800 m cash i and lewellery. The two houses were a few doors apart from each other. B"- were occupied by Euroi pe i:1
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  • 28 1 Vasili Petrovich Mosolov, 63, Vice-President ut the Soviet Academy <>f Agricultural Sciences and member of tne j Supreme Soviet, d.ed VO MOSCOW yesterday. U.P
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  • 25 1 Seven identity cards were 'v- m irom the inmates oi a i j O-d Road iast night j by three Chinese.
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  • 40 1 Picture shows a car m an unnatural pose m the monsoon drain at 63 milestone Bukit Timah Road. The crash occurred yesterday afternoon, but the Chinese driver who was alone m the vehicle escaped unhurt.
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  • 184 1 MALTA Feb. 11 (AP) The British Mediterranean Fleel will begin joint exercises with American air and naval units m the Western Mediterranean tomorrow. A Naval Headquarters anI Qouncement issued here today says the British Mediterranean Fleet. operating under the Command of Admiral Sir
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  • 39 1 COLOMBO. Eeb. 11 (Reuter) —The Commonwealth Consultative Committee is to meet here tomorrow to review progress and consider further action under the six-year £1,868,000,000 Colombo Plan for cooperative economic development m South aud South. -East Asia.
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  • 27 1 The term of Lteut.-Gen. Sir John Northcotl as Governor of New South Wales has been extended for another five years from Aug. 1. —Reuter.
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  • 20 1 Persian molorised army units, aircraft and came! corps men are fighting an invasion of locusts froni Pakistan. Reuter.
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  • 184 1 Hongkong Staff Correspondent HONGKONG. Feb. 11. Hongkong soecerdom today paid respects to Mr. Aw Hoe as Kite hee and Royal Air Force teams stood at attention m a one-minute homage before they kicked off m a league game at Hongkong Football Ground. Players
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  • 84 1 TOKYO. Feb. 11, (ReuterAAP): As U.N. columns on the west front sweep northwards, troops manning their right are standing by. ready to take the shock of a possible Chinese counter-blow down the InchonYoiu area. Enemy activity yesterday and last night indicates substantial stiffening of the Chinese-North
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  • 36 1 TOKYO, Feb. 11. (UP). T w enty-two super! ortresses blasted railroad yards at Pyongyang and railroad bridges north and south of the Red capital today. No Red fighter or antiaircraft fire was encountered.
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  • 94 1 TOKYO, Feb. 11. (ReaterAAP): A British military spokesman announced today that five British prisoners-of-war who returned to the Allied lines on Friday, had reported tha: man;.' oi the soldiers of the IhCa Brigade listed as missing were prisoners-of-war. The returned men had been
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  • 53 1 NEW DELHI. Eeb. 11 < AP) The U.S. Embassy here said Sunday thai its Agricultural Consellor, Dr. Clifford C. Taylor, had flown to Washington at a State Department request lor a first-hand report m India's food situation lr, connection with India's request for
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  • 35 1 BURBANK, CALIFORNIA. Feb. 11 (AP)— The Pacific Airmotive Corporation says it is sending a large shipment of Packard (Rolls Royce) Merlin aircraft engines to Chiang Kaishek"s Nationalist Chinese m Formosa.
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  • 354 1 Gun Duels Slow Up Final UN Push For Seoul TOKYO, Fib. 11 (UP) —The United Nations Army forged a semi-circle of steel around shell-blasted Seoul today and sent a powerful but slow moving force up the rugged spine of central Korea m an attempt to catch and kill the remnant*
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  • 89 1 Hope For Peace Not Abandoned NEW YORK. F. b. 11 (Reuter):— The United Stati has not abandoned hope ol settling the Korean war by peaceful negotiation. Mr Ernest A. Gross, deputy American delegate to the United Nations, declared here last night. This attitude was part of the "strategy of peace*'
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  • 35 1 British and Australian troops m one Korean sector, bored with their recent inactivity, played football on Saturday m a school playground, ankle-deep m snow with more snow falling during the match.- Reuter-AAP
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  • 212 1 TAIPEI. Feh. II (AP) Chinese Nationalist quarters here are convinced that the pullbadu <>{ the Chinese Communists m Korea have been caused i>> extremely heavy casualties, r 1 r» i typhus Reported Some pro-Nationalist reports have assessed these as high as 50 per cent.
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  • 187 1 TOKYO, Feb. 11 iih I nited .Nations pilots reporting that great convoys of Communist vehicles are retreating north on both UK east and west sides of korea totalling 1 .000 vehicles m each case the situation seems the exact reverse of a month ago when
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  • 31 1 YONGDONGPO. Feb. Jl Two South Korean patrols trying to cross the Han River we hurled back yesterday by R using ai i se I p .nr ed guns.
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  • 75 1 Collins: Chinese Reds Getting Sadder Sadder ST MARIE. MICHIGAN. Feb. 11 (AP» (.eneral J. Lawtoa Collins, the I S. Army Chief of Staff said Saturday he is "sure the Chinese Communists are getting sadder and sadder aboul their entry into Korea." The Army Chief added, "and I hope they will
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  • 228 2 Standard Stall Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal "open vote" employees, who do nol hold Senior Cambridge School Certificates may !>** ahle to obtain appointment t clerical posts on the permanent establishment, m future. Service Committee of the Commissioners has recommended that such
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  • 157 2 tor th- first tine perhaps m v years, Rev. Bro. Frederick, ex-Directoi or' si. Albert's High School, Maymyo, Bu:-..i mci his brother, Mr. i. Mitchell, hissister- Mitchell, and 12 of his 15 nieces and nephews aft H Ja I'^1 ..;.<» i;i n I POFC fr> rick, who
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  • 45 2 THE NORDSTJERNAN which called at Singapore, last Sat day irom Japan and Honj ighl 40 (tons f general cargo Hon A--- The cargo include 1,969 Cr a tea of vegetables, salted eggs, gs salted fish, cabbages, ranges, and 9l) drums of sulphuric acid.
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  • 305 2 First Malay Art Display Opens Standard Stati Reporter STILL LIFE paintings proved to be the favourite ior the .'5l Malay artists \Wio submitted their work for th;- firsl animal exhibition of the new Mala\ Societj ol 4rl held at the Singapore Hriti-li Council Hall yesterday. <~ i I any as
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  • 107 2 Mr. W. G. PORTER, rei ired Singapore Coroner was given i a rousing send-off when he left for Australia by the Nieuw Holland yesterday. The present Coroners. Mr Choor Singh and Mr. F Ebert the full staff of the Coroner's Court and a large gathering of
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  • 98 2 2 Stowaways Had A 'Grand Trip' Standard Shipping Reporter it\ i> Indonesian youths, h ho had "a grand trip" from Jakarta, "hated* 1 to leave the IVillem Rnys, when she docked m Singapore last Saturda v. The Chief Purser told The Standard, that the stowaways were found soon a iter
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  • 232 2 Ad vent is ts To Revive Mission In Korea Standard Stall Reporter DEFINITE arrangements will be made for lhe Seventh Day Adventists to «:«> hark to Korea t<> relestablish ii-> wnrk there. This was stated by Mr. V. T. Armstrong, Presid of the Far Eastern Division at the Mission's 13th
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  • 253 2 Standard Staff Reporter MEN who sit m the Legislative Council of Singapore should not be communal ists "who play on narrow, bigoted emotions of a section oi our cosmopolitan population.'' Thia is stated by Mr. C R Dasaratha Raj. Labour Parts candidate for Bochore
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  • 157 2 RAF Training Course Is Extended THE RECI course for nteers B A F. (Malaya) has L tended from six weeks to nths to givo more time the men to al their traj Far East A F :i- a arters anno v n iv. "The R A F. (Malaya) has i
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  • 90 2 Stand. ml Stall Bl port r AN EMINENT leader of Sikhs, Baba Partap Singh .li is expect* I I arrive m Singapore tomorrow evening from Bangkok by j( thay Pacific Airways. I Partap S is 1 spiritual sue I B iba Ram j Singh Ji.
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  • 124 2 Standard Shipping Reporter A "NEW LOOK' among the Indonesian members of her crew icas one of the features ou the Willem Ruys which docked at Singapore last Saturday. The Songkok Batik, which had been the regular lieadgear of all Indonesian '".embers of the crew, on
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    • 129 2 F* P*&r. r r-MCO,V3EAMM c SMA/£ 1 "TH' TE.ST"/?— OH AH £/?-AH GOTTA GO OUT-BUT, IM \AH ISTH' BOV X^-jT U :_&_________> S STAJJPM 'BY- WE IS GONNA HOPES HE FAILS -OR AH'LL DOG PATCH, WHEN A GAL HAS T' FRIEND-SITTER A«jfiJr flst^9 VVE SORPPSUjG SMITH "TH' J HAFTA (s°S.'/?
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  • 301 3 Malayan Students Decide To See Griffiths On Detainees By Andrew Roth, Standard Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sun. A three-man delegation of Malayan students m Britain is to approach the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, to urge an early public trial for the score of people arrested by
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  • 173 3 RA.F. Dakota supplv-drop-pmg aircraft based at Kuala Lumpur have just broken another record: last week they visited 78 areas of the Federation to drop more than 132.000 pounds of supplies to security and other forces m the jungle. This was the highest weekly dr
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  • 185 3 Students Are Warned :Keep Off Polities Standard Si iff Correspondent PENANG, Sun.— Students of the Han Chiang High School were told not to indulge m politics or any other movements which might injure their reputation and also that of the school by Mr. Heah Joo Seang. Chairman of the School
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  • 75 3 Standard Start Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sun.— The Alor Star Fire Brigade was cleared of x chaige of incompetency by a sub-committee ol six persons who were to hold a public inquiry into a recenl fire which resulted m the death oi a Chinese family of
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  • 62 3 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. Mr. Cheah Sim Huat. a former student of the Penang Free School will soon be leaving for Australia where he will take up medicine m the University of Adelaide. His Highness the Sultan nf Trengganu has made rapid progress m health and
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  • 195 3 Federation Nurses Told— Join ICN Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Sun —The musing profession is proud of the fact that it is the first profession to think m lot ins of international ism. Dame Catherine Watt, retired Chief Nursing Adviser, Ministry of Health, London, told local nurses at the Penang General
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  • 110 3 Kochows New Hqrs. Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Malaya is slowly moving forward to the goal of sell-gov-ernment and its people should be prepared, said Mr. H. S. Lee, well-known Kuala Lumpur miner and Federal Legislative Councillor, today, at the opening of the new building of the All-Malaya "Kochow"
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  • 533 3 Settlement sportsmen Mr. P. t G M. G. Mahindasa has once again been elected Chairman of the Central District Boy Scouts Association Other office bearers are: Hon Secretary. M r Vasawa Singh; Hon. Ti.M-nvr. Mr. J. A. Vai niasingham and seven comttee members. Messrs. P. Gomes and
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  • 187 3 Ex-servicemen Have Home Buying Plan line he Mohammed Nor j 1 Hamid (above) won the Tuanku Moaammad Club i[ Scholarship this year. I The Scholarship, first of its kind offered by a Malay Social Club of Kuala Pilah is valued at $120 per annum. The i winner is a student
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  • 202 3 Security Forces Kill 3 Bandits Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Bandits operating m Johore suffered reverses during the past 124 hours. Two of three bandits killed m the Federation were m Johore, and two others were wounded. As against this Security Forces suffered two wounded a BOR and Police
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  • 85 3 Standard Staff Correspondent PENANG. Sun.— An appeal to Christian youth not to shirk their duty m the manpower callup. was made at a Methodist Youth Fellowship party last night by Mr. T. Somasundram, president of the Tamil Methodist Youth Fellowship, Penang. He said that
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  • 148 3 UN Helped Me Return Banishee Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Mr. Justice Paul Storr passed sentence of live years' rigorous imprisonment on a Chinese. Yeo Yoo Gee. when he pleaded guilty to a charge of returning to Malaya when a banishment order against him was m force. Police arrested
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  • 115 3 Standard Stair Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. In the Johore assizes today, Mr. Justice Paul Storr postponed the hearing of the case m which a young Chinese woman. Wong Yoke Fong, is charged with carrying arms and consorting with bandits, to the next Sessions. The
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  • 54 3 PENANG, Sat.— While returning home by car from Telok Bahang village this afternoon, two Chinese were stopped and robbed of $2,000. They had collected this money for a Chinese firm m Beach Street. Four men on motor-cycles stopped the car and after robbing the occupants rode
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  • 845 4 Holland 's Defence Dilemma THE HAGUE. GENERAL Eisenhower's visit to the Netherlands brought to light a problem familiar to all Western European countries. It is well known that there is controversy between the Dutch Government and the Atlantic General over the question of whether preparations for the defence of a
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  • We, the People
    • 231 4 Sir: With reference to the great hope expressed by Mr. Shinozaki that he will be more successful with the authorities about his landing m Singapore on his next visit m Mi rch 1951. 1 have no doubt that -Mr. Shinozaki must have hundreds of friends and admirers
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    • 349 4 Sir: At the last meeting of the Legis ative Council m Kuala Lumpur, the High C mmissioner, Sir Henry Gurney announced that a Sp aker will be appointed to I ide at future meetings of Council. This is an innovation so far as this country
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    • 76 4 SIR The T.S.I.S. a' y defended the action taken by an American court m the "Martinsville Negro Tria No one denies the fact that, whoever might have committed it, it was a crime worthy of the heaviest punishment. Bat we would like to put to the
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    • 190 4 Sir: The new slogan "Merdeka" which was recently decided upon at the halfti y meeting of the UMNO Youth Assembly, has brought about a new consciousness among the political mm led young Malays all over the lei »n. It is a forward step further from the presi
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  • 18 4 "110 bo! that's a good nn! Five years later and she's spn uraiin the same hat!'"
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  • 450 4  -  CASSANDRA By T^HE average local British Bench l_ inscrutable It x table because the beaks themselves m reasons which are often completely and utterl The majority of them are there because the* able. Few have ever stolen more than a mouthful they uere knee high to
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  • 428 4  - Last Chance For Arab League Philip Toynbee By idle E<; y RATI IFR hectic I nance*' atmosphere suri nds the present Cairo sessions of the Arab League's Political Committee. In part this is a manifestation of global xiety over the delicacy and perils of the world sit The Arab Stati
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    • 919 4 Singapore **^p Jstfanbarh K. S. CHANG, Editor-in-Chief T_bi._h_d daily including Sunday by the Sm Poh (Star News) amalgamated, Ltd at 128 Robinson Road, Singapore SubscnptiorTrafes 10 cents per copy. $3 per month and $9 00 per thee months mcludmg the Sunday Standard, m Singapore and throughcut the Federation of Malaya,
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  • 100 5 Madam TAN SIEW CHENG age £b. p i ,ssed aayw *y peacefully at 180 G Moulmein Road on 10th mst. leaving behind 2 sons Lav Pau Chuen. Lav Pau Song, 3 daughters and sons-in-law Mr. j and Mrs. Tan Swee Siang. Mr. and Mrs. Tan Kirn Song. Mr. and
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  • 106 5 JAKARTA, Feb. II (AP)— The worst floods m Wo! Java since lhe end of World War II and resulting landslides have killed at leasi '27> persons this week-end. the Antara News Agencj reports. Soviet 'Gift' To Peking Govt. LONDON, Feb. 11 ((UP>—
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  • 143 5 On Super Weapon To Begin SYDNEY, Feb. 11 (UP) Britain is to begin tests on a guided missile which, it is hoped, will be able to seek out and destroy targets thousands of miles away. A British expert, Air Chief Marshal Sir Alex Coryton, Chief Executive Officer of the British-Guided
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  • 27 5 In the week ended Feb. 3, 1.269 Britons died of influenza m urban areas, a rise of -">0 over the previous week. A. P.
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  • 25 5 Mrs Ann Parish celebrated hei- 106 th birthday on Saturday m Loudon by dancing the "Lambeth Walk" and drinking whisky.— UP.
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  • 72 5 Round-up of Reds In Assam NEW DELHI. Feb. 11 (AP):— The 1,100-square mile district of Assam, bordering on Burma, China and Tibet, is being combed few Communists by the Indian Army and Assam Police. Thirty members of the Communist Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party already have been arrested m
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  • 95 5 RANGOON. Feb. 11 (AP)Communist Far East head quarters has been shiited iron Bangkok to Rangoon due chiefh to pressure upon the Reds by tht thai Government, it is learnec here. The upsurge of Communis' activity here coincided with th( establishment m Rangoon ot
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  • 24 5 One m every 190 persons ir Delhi suffers from tuberculosis but there are only 142 beds foi the 10,000 afflicted.— A.P.
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  • 121 5 SYDNEY, Frh. 11 (UP) The Sunday Sin says that Prime Minister Wenries, on hi> return to Australia, i*. expected to warn thc Cabinet that Australia musl accepl a "massive" new rearmament programme. This would entail heavy sacrifices, including heavier ta\o~. Before leaving Washington, New Zealand
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  • 38 5 Workmen clearing the way for a new street m Valencia 'Spam' uncovered a trunk containing 1.200 silver coins, mostly dated irom the 16th and 17th centuries. They were of Spanish and P.I. origin. U.P.
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  • 71 5 SYDNEY. Feb. 11 <AP>— A young Sydney fisherman fought an 18-foot shark. with a blunt penknife and managed to escape. The shark attacked Albert Pride, 20. of Waterloo, while he was spear-fishing. Pride stabbed it with a knife after it had gashed Ids thigh. Alter
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  • 58 5 HONGKONG. Feb. 11 (AP)— An air-sea search for three Europeans missing on a pleasure sailing trip m Hongkong waters since Wednesday has been called off and the men are presumed drowned. The Admiralty is withholding their names until their next-of-kin are notified. The men
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  • 31 5 Two P.T. soldiers and two civilians have been charged with shooting to death a farmer nnd then beheading him with a bolo to revenge an old wrong. A. P.
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  • 55 5 MANILA. Feb 11 iUP>— Huk bands struck m two Luzon provinces, killing 10 persons, seriously wounding five and causing the disappearance of 11 others, according to press reports received here todaj Army troops, meanwhile, killed 30* Huks and captured fiv< others m operations m
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  • 36 5 Manila police said Miguel Manubay, 24-year-old college student, invited close friends to attend a wake at his home. Manubay then shot himself through' the heart with a pistol. —A. P.
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  • 34 5 Two motor-cyclists Mr. John Lennox Cook, former rugby footballer at Oxford University, and Mr. L. Hamilton Fletcher a Dorsetshire farmer— are leaving London today on a 33.000-mile trip round the world. Reutei'.
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  • 97 5 MANCHESTER. Fib. 11 ter) The African performance m the Gold Coast will determine the future advance towards selfgovernment not uly there but elsewhere m Africa, Mr. James Griffiths, Colonial Secretary said here. He said last week's elections were only the first stage ia the process of representative
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  • 193 5 w est Plans CounterAction As Red War On Yugoslavia Looms WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The United Stales, Britain and 1 ranoe have been holding top-level discussions on the possibility of a Communist offensive m April or May on Yugoslavia, aimed at driving a wed«re between Greece and Turkey. They are understood
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  • 79 5 PARIS, Feb. 11 (TP)— France and Italy. key powers of the Mediterranean, will seek this week to establish a common front against the threat of Communist aggression. French officials said they even may try to lay the foundation oi a Mediterranean De. a.c
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  • 239 5 HOM,kO\(;. Feb. II (\V) Thr indrprndrl Chinese owned Hongkong Standard io«la\ boldh supported the rearmament of japan niter "g— g <»1 a pence treaty. It added: «i Japan constitutes no threat to the free world ami there i> no reason lor un to oppose it.**
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    • 411 5 NOTICE I I* THE HIGH COURT OF THF COLONY OF SINGAPORE i ISLAND OF SINGAPORE Originating Petition No. 2 of 1951 In the Matter oi Nanyang Pre*s Limited And In the Mater of the Companies Ordinance 1940 pJ!',h'{ lCE 1S hereby S lv <*n that a Petition was on the
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    • 368 5 JOHN— on 9th Feb. at Lily Clinic, to Jessie, wife of Sebastian John— a son. SITUATIONS VACANT Mechanical Draughtsman required by Dredging Companv in Taiping area Apply Box No. T. 91 S'pore Standard. W anted by old established merchant firm in Singapore two general clerks. Experience preferred. Superannuation Fund. Free
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    • 369 5 FAR-EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE EFFECTIVE Hi 51 Shippers are berebj Informed thai lhe rate* ot Freight appearing m Section II _4 Ike lar Eaaatia Freight Oaaferenee I ri .gin T.i t ifl No. 4 Irom MMalaa > a are increased ay follows: PAGE 11 P\RCI.I S— 7 (neti p< r cub.c
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  • 313 6 Standard Staff Reporter INDONESIA and, to a lesser degree, Thailand are scrambling to sell considerable quantities of rubber to the United States to earn as much gold dollars as possible before the end of the month. Reason for this surprise move is
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 6 Photo. MAJOB Geaml D. I)i. >Jop. G.O.C. Slr.garpoie District, greeting his wife at Kallinf Airport yesterday on her return to the Colony by BOA£ Constellation from the United Kingdom.- Standard
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  • 894 6 By A Special Correspondent IN WEEK limited I>> the Chinese New Year holidays to four days trading, rubber hit a new post-war high and tin continued its record-break-ins course- closing at 5732 per picuL Throughout thc period there were always
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  • 201 6 Standard Staff Reporter THE E\ECLTIV 7 E Committee <»f ili«* Singapore Municipal Transport Workers Union at a recenl meeting resolved that the Municipal Commissioners should M do the needful to relieve the sufferings of the workers m view of tin* tremendous increase m cost
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  • 168 6 Standard Shipping Reporter WITH a full Singapore quota of 117 passengers for Sydnej and Melbourne, the Royal [nter-Ocean passenger liner. Nieuw Holland. sailed for Australia via Djakarta yesterday. Fori v-se v c n more passengers will embark on the! vessel m Djakarta anci
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  • 42 6 A CHARGE nf gang robbery at the Botanic Gardens on the morning of Feb. 7 was explained to a Hokkien. Yap Ah Hock, m the Singapore Fourth Police Court on Saturday. Yap waa remanded m Police custody until Feb. 17
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  • 170 6 PENANG. Sun.— The price ot rubber .shoes m Penang may be increased m the very ncre r future due to the high price of rubber and the high wages for labourers. The local agent of the Nanyang ••Elephant" shoes has been advised by the Singapore
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  • 159 6 Oil Director Due In S'pore On FE Tour Standard Staff Reporter MR. .1. H. LOUDON, Managing Director of the Royai Dutch/Shell Group of Oil Companies is expected to arrive today by air from Indonesia on a tour of all Far Eastern Oil centres, m Britislb Borneo, Tarakan, Baiik Papan, Djakarta.
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  • 68 6 MEMBERS of the Unive: I of Malaya Student Christian Movement, the Tnmtv Co. eg< SOI and the Junior SCM of the A CS. Singapore held a united prayer service at the Oei Tiong Ham Hail yesterday. The Right Rev. Henry Wolfe Baines, Bishop of Singapore
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  • 429 7  -  Edward Poltak By 61/ I MHH. IVI>. 11 l'lie Sphinx I fa undergoing n.lv and reju\e- nation tti atment. himiau-fac-crouched lion carved (rom -olid rock rail oil a ni i he desert irom the p>ra. t^| h bain <L when, ,j w hy, -till han
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  • 150 7 MALACCA, SL.t:.-'- 'c SesPr si lent, Mr. F A Chua uns shopkeeper, Abdul Samad bin Haji Abu .'.rahman Xli bai g Ke hi) that he had I a deliberate He under ith aid thai he would by forwarding the notes ofthe pro*-! in| s igainst
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  • 387 7 Ireland beat England 3 0 DUBLIN, Feb. 10 (Reuter) —Ireland defeated England m the Rugby Union Inter- national here today by one penalty goal three points to zero m a hard but scrappy game. There was no score at half-time. Territorially Ireland undoubtedly had the advantage ;but even Irishman Kyle
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  • 364 7  - TWO YOUNG FIGHTERS L OCK AHEAD HERMAN RAPPA v v TWO YOUNG BOXERS. both champions, both much Bought after by promoters, are thinking of giving up the game. Having looked over the records of past champions, they are now looking for something le»s glamourous but more secure. lhis pair of
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    • 284 7 M r BOQQV/nßn_l a ijm\Usdt_u\\_} io ENTRIES ior this coniiH'litioii 1 Crete .i .i raergj eIOSC VMlh IDC Kl>l postal ueli\er> Ofl Ihiir-tlay l l>. J j.i. m Singapore. Result* will be S=S d^T publi^tl Ofl Fri. 63— H mma Cetbolle i..t>. a« I ll feasts I -C:__? DOWS S>—
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    • 174 7 YOUR EADIO PROGRAMMES RADIO MALAYA SINGAPORE ENGUSS PROGRAMME IS4 Metre* _nd 11 Metres) I -i 1 the S< hash; t '•'< Interlude, lit .tin News; lui:, r the SciMals; l p m. Moadaj Matinee; I.St News; i »."> Mi m "ii th-- Bange; i p .111. lor the >ih<uiU; i,
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    • 447 7 I MAI AY PROGRAMME 4o:> ai and 40 ru It noon I'rosrainnie Summary 12.98 Malaj Variety; 13.45 New-; p.m. Procraauae Sanunary; 7.65 Arabic Mush u> sport- Boand-ap; 7.45 Children's Programme; 9.15 News; x..".u Art- Corner. I CHINESE PROGRAMME l".">. 49 and 4'2 metres. M.li a in. li noon Sefcaals Hroadeast;
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  • 666 8 Ex -Airborne Lifeboats St ar In A irmen 's Reg a tta IT WAS A GREAT D VY for the airmen in more ways than one at the RAF Seietar Annual Regatta yesterday. Winning three races each out of the "events contested, Chang] and Seietar sailing clubs shared the honours
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  • 66 8 TWO days after its first appeal. the Ipoh Malay Sports Club collected an impressive sum of $400 from its members for the MarjanPoh Lim Fund. Its first president. Che Tahwil Azar. who is also the i president of the Perak Malays Badminton Association, made the
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  • 101 8 I DAVOS SWITZERLAND, Feb. Ill, (AP). Japan made a successful debut in post-war interna- 1 tnal spo ts competition on Saturday when Susummu Naito c arried his country's colours to victory In t e 500-metre race of i the World Speedskating cham- pior. ships.
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  • 244 8 KANPUR, Feb. 11 (Renter) The Commonwealth cricketers declared at lunch loday with nx second iwnfngg wickets down for 266 leaving India to score 410 at just tinder a run a minute if they were to win. They have all of tomorrow to -^^a..^ bak. the
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  • 177 8 IPOH. Sunday: An early start was made m this year's cricket season here yesterday when three matches m the Brander Shield league competition were played ott. Railway Institute scored an easy win over Ipoh ACS. while the YMCA beat the Batu Gajah eleven by 42
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  • 444 8 LONDON, Feb. 10: (Reuter). Arsenal, proud holders of the Football Association Cup, have tailed like so many teams before them to carry off the trophy for the second successive year. After 10 cup ties without defeat they were beaten in no uncertain manner in the
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  • 788 8  -  "Windsor Lad" By A GOOD number of the Kuala Lumpur winners of the recently concluded Selangor Turf Club February meeting were from offspring of the mighty Hyperion, the Derby and St. Leger winner. Hyperion, who headed the list of successful sires m England for five
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