Singapore Standard, 4 January 1954

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  • 18 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD AFGSAG 3H A Vol. IV. No. 186. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934 TWELVE PAGES 10 CENTS.
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  • 141 1 VIENTIANE, Jan. 3— French High Commissioner m Indc-Chma Maurice an today expressed full confidence m measures being taken for the defence of Laos. Aa h« Itfl v yntiane witt Comn ti ler-ia-Chiel General Henri Navarre ar-er parti;::- 1 P i m top level defence! -t-
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  • 62 1 N'l .V YORK Jan. 3 (Reuterj P '...ire* took c the 1953 list est dressed v. v by ti;e H■ v D "ess Institute. is ol Windsor place, and thus luished her t I c for l.i years, as the r ol fashion, '■V Pa ley, wife
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  • 58 1 NEW YORK. Jan. 3 (AP> IS Secretary of State. J.»hn Foster Dulles, predicted yesterday that Russia's agreement to confer with the W">tem Powers 'may mean a rr»esM On m the horror o/ I atom it warfare". "The unification of Europe became* at long last a possibility he said
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  • 145 1 PRAI. Sun. With the arrival ol the Internationa! Express Special here this evening the direct railway j service between Bangkok and Malaya is being linked again after years of interruption due to the war. General Manager of Thai State Railway, General C. R,* S-^riraengrithi and
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  • 34 1 SEVEX HUNDRED overseas students from Indo-China. Malaya. Hongkong, Macao. Tokyo and other territories were entertained at a tea party in Taipei by Mr. Cheng Yenien. Chairman of the OverSaturday.- AFP
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  • 310 1 LONDON PAPER ATTACKS SPORE BAN ON FILM 'To Please A Few Slimps' LONDON. Jan. 3. (Reuter) Reynolds News, a Sunday newspaper run by the British Co-operative Movement today criticised the banning m Singapore of the British film version of Graham Greene's best-selling novel "The Heart Ol
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  • 447 1  -  RONNIE DUCLOS By Standard Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— The Malayan Communist Party, m a complete overhaul of its 1951 directives, has launched a "Master Plan" to join forces with the Thai Communist Party and a possible tie up with Ho Chi Minh
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  • 15 1 THERE! Better keep an eye on your gamp. lady, you might lose it!"
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  • 70 1 BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 3, (AP) Argentina's quintuplets, the Diligenti children, whose father is Franco Diligenti. a wealthy Italianborn manufacturer. won 1,300.000 pesos (USS100.000) in a Christmas lottery. The father said the children won two-fifths of a third prize of 3,250.000 pesos. The two boys, Ranco and
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  • 264 1 SPLIT RUSSIA RED CHINA: DEAN RHODE ISLAND, Jan 3: (Reuter)— The Providence Journal said today that Mr. Arthur Dean, Chief American negotiator m Korea. was urging Washington officials to review U.S. policy with a view to splitting Communist China away from the j Soviet Union without military action. Frederick Collins.
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  • 29 1 GIFTS and congratulations from a!! over the world were arriving for Mr. Clement Atliee. the Labour ieader and former Prime Minister. who was 71 vestardav. Reuter
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  • 27 1 Photo. THE newly -elected "Miss France 1954," Irene Tune (19) (left), receives her scarf from Sylviane Carpentier. "Miss Europe, 1953," at Evian-Les-Bains, France. UP
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  • 213 1 SYDNEY, Jan. 3:— Two Sydney newspapers, The Sunday Telegraph and the Truth, today urged the Queen's Australian itinerary be pruned down, as she was likely to be utterly exhausted. Pointing out that newspaper I correspondents covering the New Zealand visit had said that the
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  • 48 1 TAIPEr, Jan. 3 (UP).— The Chinese Communists have infiltrated Nationalist-held islands just off the China mainland, a Nationalist dispatch reported here today. Lying just opposite Formosa and within gun range of Communist troops, the islands have been held by dogged Nationalist defenders for four years.
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  • 51 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 3. (AFP) Rice and money to the total value of slightly less than HKSI. OOO.OOO are to be remitted by the Canton Relief Committee this week to the victims of the Christmas night fire which left nearly 60.000 homeless m Kow.uo:), it was reported
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  • 29 1 SHERPA Tensing, one of the two conquerors of Mounl i Everest has been named as J honorary citizen of the city ol Chamonix m the French Alps.
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  • 154 1 LONDON, Jan. 3, (AP) A choking fog blanket covered most of Southern England yesterday, stalling air and sea traffic and wreaking havoc with the first sports day of the New Year. Many football and rugby matches were cancelled or abandoned after players eraoeA helplessly
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    62 1 IT is "time, said the authoritative journal. "Tailor and Cutter" for the properly dressed gentleman to wear a cummerbund. The modern cummerbund is not wrapped round and round as was its ancient predecessor. It is an artfully shaped piece of cloth which spreads out gorgeously m front, and snaps
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  • 106 1 2 Air Records NEW YORK. .Lan 3, (Beutei Col. WUliard W Millikan, 35-year-old American air toe, flew an FBti Sabrejet from Doasf 10 roast oi 1 1 United States m a re* ord time of lour hours eight minutes an>i Bye se^ond^ Unolliridily. this wag
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  • 52 1 LONDON. Jan 3. (Renter > A British European Airwa/s turboprop airliner yesterday set up an unofficial airiine route speed rerord by flying from London to Madrid m two hours A'. 1 minutes an average of 301.8 miles an hour The plane wa- makiiig :•< bd flight of
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  • 44 1 AIR Marshal Alexander A. Novikov. former Commander-in-Chief ol the Soviet Air Force, is serving a 15-year sentence m the Vorkuta coal m.nes m the Northern Ura's a returning German prisoner of war revealed m Ber iv yesterday A. P.
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  • 23 1 FORMER Governor-Genera! of Korea. General Jiro Minami. 79. a war criminal. was yesterday granted provisional release irom Sugamo prison m A.F.P.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 167 2 AN UNIQUE REQUEST BY ADDICT SINGAPORE City Health Orlv-er every day goes through hundreds of strange applications to slaughter animals, but, one that he received recently was M unique that he considered it dangerous to grant xt. The applica'ion cume from the Lam Yor.g Seng Chew Thian Leng Chung Toh
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  • 132 2 Ail Religions To Meet Next Week rganised meeting or all re igions m Singapore will take! I Jan 16, a r i place to j rack, to ,c ebrate the filth nnmwi W d Religion Day, it was an- 1 Bounced by the National Baha'i a ons have j ready
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  • 131 2 NEW blood donors are needed by the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service to give the "old ones" a rest. Yesterday. 35 people gave their blood at the General Hospital. Among them were 15 members of the Sinagpore Volunteer Constabulary led by Chief Training Officer Asst. Cmdt. S.
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  • 66 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun Rengam, m Johore. elected its rust local Council today. Eighty-four per cent of the voters went to the polls, it was reported. The six elected members .ire N'2 Nai Foo (Chairman) Leong Fotiii Aik, Chan Kwai Nam. N. Lopez. Lim Liang Hoe and
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  • 65 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Public opinion m favour of trial by jury was today mounting here following the circulation of the protest memorandum condemning the proposed modifications to the assessor system as '"a biow to Malaya's progress towards self-govern-ment." Climax of this growing opinion wil] come
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  • 318 2 Hairy Beings Last Of A Dying Race? Experts Make Their Guesses KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Anthropological circles m Malaya believed today that the three strange creatures seen m South Perak since Christmas Day might be "remnants of a dying Polyandrous tribe," driven off their virgin jungle hideouts by bombing, terrorists or
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  • 237 2 MALACCA, Sun.— Three pastors were ordained full elders m the Methodist Church In Kubu, yesterday, when Bishop Raymond Archer opened the 59th Session of the Methodist (Malaya) annual conference. 1 They were the Rev. Ong Chaik Ghee, pastor of the Gey- lang Church. Singapore, Mr. jNg
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  • 180 2 Entries For Exhibition Close Friday SINGAPORE Art Society is reminding Colony photographers that entries for their fifth open exhibition of photographs must reach the organisers, c/o the Raffles Museum, not later than Friday. Mr. Francis Wu. famous Hongkong photographer, who is arriving today by air from Hongkong, will help m
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  • 241 2 Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S first $62,000 School of Building, planned to turn out about 300 skilled workmen each year will start functioning today. The school jvill be officially opened on Jan. 25, but 12 youths between 14 and 18 years of age will start their lessons
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  • 30 2 Suppiah Vallasamy. 37, was found hanging from a rope tied to a beam m his quarters m the labourers' lines, Telok Blangah Road, yesterday morning. He was dead.
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  • 179 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Pan-Malayan Students Federation, which concluded its first annual conference here this week-end, has urged the University of Malaya to create an agricultural faculty immediately. '"Such a faculty is vital to a country like Malaya whose economy is based on agriculture, "a
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  • 88 2 KUALA LUMPUR, SunTwo terrorists— a man and a woman— were killed yesterday m the Slim River area of Perak by the Ninth Platoon of 'C Company. 2nd Battalion, Malay Regiment. A' rifle, a hand grenade, and ammunition were recovered. In the Batu Gajah area of
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  • 124 2 Xmas Fund Helps To Cheer Sick IPOH, Sun. During Christmas week, three very successful parties were held m the Ipoh and Batu Gajah Hospitals for the children and TB patients. These parties were organised by the Perak branch of the British Red Cross Society together with the Women's Service League.
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  • 65 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun Seven Malay officers from Brunei will visit Johore Bahru on Jan. 7 on an observation course. The Johore Bahru Town Council will hold a special meeting on that day at the Council Chambers m which the seven officers will attend. Johore Government Malay
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  • 57 2 DhotQ. JAPAN'S first Minister to Ceylon, Mr. S. Kimura, (with coat) arrived m Sinrannr* n. Saturday with his family on his way to take up his new appointment H? 8 W S JS at Kalian* Ajrpprt by the Japanese Consul General m Singapore. M,! K«
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 173 2 We request all onr Chinese —H fc**\ frieads to book liieir orders early for their £^"^^l NEW YEAR jdflUM 1 Spotless? New miracle Fabric New Miracle fabric i* N y i on Gabardine See if at Chanrai's Nylon Gabardine Trousers 521.50 Nylon Gabardine Suits $75.40 La Conga (The material that
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    • 277 2 i Special J Announcement *fc We take great pleasure m an- nouncing that we have been T appointed J Sole Agents J for Singapore and Federation of Malaya J For J 1 NIXON CAMERAS NiKKOR LENSES i I NIKKOB LENSES ABE THE BEST for LEECA, CONTAX and KINE-EXAKTA also for
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  • 548 3  -  Capt. D. H. de T. Reade Fresh Triumph For Somersets By THIS is the story of a National Service officer and two men of the Somerset Light Infantry who took part m a hundred per cent successful and dramatic night ambush of Communist terrorists
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  • 154 3 Standard Staff Reporter THE new system introduced for the installation of electrical appliances hired from the Singapore City Council has proved to be satisfactory, Mr. R. A. Waddle, the City Electrical Engineer, told The Standard. H r > .-aid that a lowing the City's electrical
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  • Article, Illustration
    53 3 Ct.NERAL Sir Gerald Tempier is seen here conveying his good wishes to the women la \yer Hunins Soufh New Village which he visited on the last day of his two-day tour of parts of Negri Sembilan on Dec. 30—31, last year. During the tour he travelled several hundred miles by
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  • 105 3 IPOH, Sun. The Upper Perak Division of UMNO has warned its members against attending any meeting that may be called by the National Association of Perak with the object of forming an NAP branch m the area. It has drawn the members' attention to
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  • 40 3 MR. R. A. BUTLER, Britain's Chancellor of Exchequer, who arrived m Singapore on Saturday, will give a Press conference at Mallaig, residence of the CommissionerGeneral of South East Asia, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald. at 10.30 a.m. today.
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  • 57 3 All Smiles After The Fine Job THE Somerset Light Infantry trio, (from left) Pte.Gnham Davey, 2/Lt. Oliver Eley, and Pte. Fred Ballard, who took part m a 100 per cent successful and dramatic night ambush of Communist terrorists m Malaya on the night of Dec. 27, last year, m ichich
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  • 309 3 -SAYS CHAIRMAN Standard Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Anti-Tuberculosis Association intends to extend its activities by taking more free cases and increasing the capacity of its Clinic this year, to meet "a real and great need." And they can certainly do this if they have the means,
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  • 80 3 AUTOMOBILE Association of Singapore, with a membership of nearly 6,000 m the Colony, is launching a courtesy campaign for road-users. In a concerted effort to bring courtesy to the roads, the December issue of A.A. news bulletin contains a coloured "courtesy" transfer. Members are asked to
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  • 112 3 MR. PETER CHONG, sole proprietor of Messrs. Peter Chong and Managing Director of two other firms, Monico Co., and Maynard Co., Ltd., gave a party to his family and relations at the Southern Hotel last Thursday night m celebration of his 53rd. birthday. Front row (seated): Mr. Henry
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  • 95 3 He Carried More Than 90 Cents JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Mohamed AH bin Mohd. Sham, a revenue officer m the Johore I Bahru Customs, was today fined $400 or m default four months' imprisonment by the President of the Sessions Court, Mr. N. L. Cohen, for accepting a bribe of $29.60.
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  • 198 3 MODERN ¼-MIL. MARKET PLAN Standard Staff Reporter A MODERN quartermillion dollar market is being planned for the residents of the Sennett Reality Estate m Singapore, The Standard learned yes-; terday. Work will start immediately the City Council approves the plan that i s to be submitted as it is felt
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  • 73 3 MISS FREDA GWILLIAM, Assistant Adviser on Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is arriving by air m Singapore today, on an extensive tour of South East Asia. Particularly concerned with girls' education. Miss Gwilliam will be meeting Colony teachers at a Conference on Girls
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  • 35 3 LEX THORNL. at the Kuala Lumpur Radio Malaya s marathon session of the Dollar for Discs" programme which netted over 810,000 for Lady Templer T.B Fund. Standard photo by long Pen? Seoos
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  • 240 3 SINGAPORE last year consumed 57 million cubic feet of gas and 60,000,000 units of electricity more than m 1952, The Standard was told. City Gas Engineer, Mr. M. M. Patterson, said the City consumed 532 million cubic feet of gas m 1953 against 475
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  • Yauth A PAGE FOR THE YOUNG
    • 705 4  -  IRVING DESFOR By CHOW ING home movies is the occasion for more apologie*. excuses and explanations for the average camera fan, probably, than any other phase oi photography. That's becau.se m no other fled of photography is so mucn bad tlm saved
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    • 344 4 YOU happen to be n itzerland on the ri -a *tv<-er.d m July jnd you :.d Like to e-vov the atmosphere of i fes-val probably u.i.oue of :-s kind, then a trip the "3raderie Biennoise" j 3ieT^.- is worthwhile. Tie .vord "braderie" derives the v.d iocai French
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    • 123 4 THE California sea lion uses its own nose for bait, letting it project above the surface of the water to attract sea guils which plunge into the sea lion's mouth as they dive for "fish." THE vole, although no larger than a mouse, caused the defeat of
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    • Article, Illustration
      102 4 IT Ml a special Christmas party— for the unwanted dogs «ho hve at the Marshgate R.S.P.C.A. Dogs' Home at Donfaster. Yorks. The doss at the home, rescued from wanderm? the streets, had a Christmas tree, and each got from it a rubber ball, a new lead or
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    • 60 4 Photo). BILLY, the musical chimp, bashes away at the drums and doesn't care what it sounds like. Billy is a member of the famous Bertram Mills Circus and is delighting Londoners now. While he beats out the rhythm, his companion Jack sets the pace on the miniature
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    • 542 4  -  ELIZABETH TAYLOR By T SUPPOSE there are people A who can remain oblivious to the sound of music, who can put it off easily and reserve it for formal occasions. It is not so with me. To me, music is an essential part of the diet,
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    • 44 4 fr/TIEN Littlest One tod her brother Tirr. ca oe over I always ask. '1; long can you stay 0 One morning Tim "We can stsv as tang as we behave ourse'ves and polite and we wan trying to be poiite'"' Marion HUligoss.
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    • 252 4 I DID not know my cousin's four year old boy very well, when I offered to look after him one afternoon. "Brain is always sc quite." I remarked to bis mother, when I called for him. I thought she looked at me rather curiously, but she
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    • 154 4 F WAS getting acquainted with Melinda Jo, six-year-old member of a very horse-minded family. "Melinda Jo," I queried, "do you like horses as well as the other members of your family?" She gave the matter serious thought, and then said, "No, Aunt Bess, I believe I like the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 73 4 KE£tt^Sß&^ speto op 25 knots. Swe kad 7/—. oojecteo. Ar4D mo fet^l^H jfl '"Si-i BW^^^a^^^^^&i^^y^fcHP^?tHr jy_# "^r^^tm jßm£l&f&£f T t6 SEPAEATE ENGIMES TOTALLING T LIGHT HAS gyee F^rf JSBB v ~J&**Bs&L~^^M £*W^L |yj| l» S^ S^,^/ Y l^r=i7'zJ?'£^!!^ W^A «is famous -it*«/>af»v/^fe' bark seym togctmec a lettec jf&U^fM Xir ji
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  • 4 5 ASDFDS
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  • 696 5 UNOBTRUSIVELY to become history, the year 1953 departed with business generally at rather a low ebb and money scarcer than twelve months ago. The Industrial market closed steady, tins uncertain and both rubbers and loans neglected. During this three and a half day period
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  • 165 5 Industrials: Con solidated Tin Smelter 3 24/-. Fraser Neave Ords. $2.02* to $1.95. Gammons $2.90 to $2.95. Hammers $2.87$ Hong Kong Bank Col. $855. 'Wm Jacks $3.90. j Malayan Cements $1.34 and! $1.35. Overseas Chinese Bank $27.75 Robinson Ord. $1.72*. Singapore Cold Storage $4.10 to $4.15 Straits Times
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  • 32 5 FIRE destroyed the attap roof of a poultry shed at the 14J Mile, Jurong Rjad, Singapore, yesterday morning before a fire-engine arrived to prevent it from doing further damage.
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  • 292 5 Standard Staff Reporter FOOD, shelter and freedom are the birth-right of the working class, and no force on earth can deny them these three essentials, said Mr. G. Mappara, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' representative m South -East Asia, yesterday. Mr. Mappara said
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 305 5 The Stars And You By Hit t Del Mar |t» l> s in x ,i liiA: i v ii t:>»- tiiiii^ it k« i!«. 1n».... ir. !.i<-ti'-ftllf i»; sui'.jinH thy -."!«»r Vll.'l! )>,>.t* M«»MJ H>K I KN i»\h r tiit of rt on joy a »t i Laa ni» RiirrnsMiN
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    • 302 5 Badiol SINGAPORE RADIO MALAYA, S PORK: 716 a.m. Morning Star: 7.30 News; 7.35 Melody Mixture; 8 pm Rhythm m 'ihe Sun; 1.01 p.m Fredd:e Martin Orch; 1.30 News; 145 Ballad Time Gigli; 5.02 Light Music; 5.15 Calling All Children: 6 p.m. Listeners' Choice; 6.55 News; 7.15 Barrell House; 730 Sports
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  • 878 6 WITH the dispatch of identically worded notes to the Kremlin from the United States, Great Britain and France, the Big Four talks will be definitely held m Berlin starting from January 25. The Western Powers have agreed to the postponement of three w-_vks asked by the
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  • 1441 6 Wooing The Chinese Peasant By The Times Hongkong Correspondent SOON after the Communists entered Shanghai m May, 1949, they asked for volunteers to help m the drive to the south. The armies at their disposal were more than enough, but a fresh administration had to be conjured up overnight. The
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 554 6 Stop Exploiting Women Sir; I am surprised to read the letter under the heading 'Sheer Nonsense' by L.C.L. m the Singapore Standard of December 31. A man with a harem or an assortment of concubines is no better than a cock m the roost. The difference between man and beast
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    • 116 6 Sir: The article which appeared m your issue of 31st December, under the heading "Grads' Associations to merge" is misleading m certain respects. I would therefore like to point out that there is no intention of "scrapping" the Alumni Association or "merging" with any other organisation
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    • 256 6 Sir:— The so-called modern thinkers and writers nowadays argue what if women marry more than one husband when men are not entirely prohibited from marrying more than one wife even when the men can afford it m more than one respect. Take for Instance any community having a
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  • 221 6 Sir; There i? nothing to shake the Home Guard on matters of recruiting members here. In this town or ten thousand souls, about 300 Home Guard members have shouldered shot guns for well-nigh three years, and there is not an inkling when they will be discharged and replaced by
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  • 438 6 The Church In Russia Is More Vigorous NEW YORK. (AP) Out of the fog of fact, rumour and fiction comes this authoritative finding: the church m Russia today is more vigorous than for many years despite Communism's scorn for religion. The situation, and how it came about, involves a strange
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  • 172 7 IGNORE INDIA, ARM PAX HE SAYS WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (AP) The Eisenhower Administration was urged yesterday by Senator William F. Know land (RCalifornia) to ignore objections by India and extend military aid to Pakistan. Senator Knowland, Senate Republican leader, said m an interview he believes Pakistan "has the prospect of
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  • 70 7 TEHERAN. Jan. 3. (UPV Tbt Iranian military prosecutor demanded the death pena ty on charges of treason touay for former Foreign Minister Husein Fatemi who disappeared at the height ol the fighting which ousted formei Premier Mohammed Mossao.'i last August. Prosecutor Hussein Azemoudeta said Fa tern
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  • Article, Illustration
    89 7 MICHAEL TAILBY (right), lti. of Derby and John Lewis, 15. from Lewis, Sussex, wonder whether tea is the correct beverage for spacemen. Dressed m "cosmic ray suits" complete with transparent plastic helmets and "beetle" antennae, they are all set for the time-and-space voyage being staged by the Electrical
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  • 31 7 THE 17 persons implicated m the murder of Afchar Touss, Chief of Police under the Mossadeq government, were acquitted by the Iranian Court of Appeal on Saturday. photo. AFP.
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  • 152 7 Frankie Flies Home Without Ava ROME. Jan (AP> I i Sinatra slum y Ben c to Hollywood yesterday, :v- reconci iation with ;ai :::er still incomplete. "Wf UPC *:'yi-°-S 'o work out r» ns. There >'. -ire is," the crooning B m ttai aid A -i fave point U) that
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  • 333 7 PEKING TALKS ON DUAL CITIZENSHIP Rl Chinese Face A Knotty issue By ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN, Standard Special Correspondent JAKARTA, Jan. 3— Red China and Indonesia have opened long-awaited negotiations centering around the delicate and knotty issue of Chinese double citizenship. The talks are being conducted at Peking by Indonesia's first
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  • 41 7 TEHERAN. Jan. 3 (AFP) About 50 persons were killed yesterday when an avalanche destroyed the village of Sitch, near Astara, close to the Soviet border and the Caspian Sea. A large number of persons were reported injured.
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  • 185 7 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) yesterday proposed to President Eisenhower that the United States join an existing European or ganisation, set up under the United Nations, for pooling atomic information. j Sen. Humphrey said that m this way a start could be made
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  • 133 7 Elephants Frightened By Tiny Dog LONDON, Jan. 3, (Reuter) Three elephants ran amok at a circus at Olympia here yesterday after being frightened by a tiny pomeranian dog as they were making their way to the ring. Milling about, stamping their feet and swinging their trunks they lumbered into a
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  • 64 7 TEHERAN, Jan. 3 (Reuter) Police last night arrested several youths for distributing pamphlets calling on the population to celebrate tomorrow as a day of mourning for the imprisonment of Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq. The pamphlets seized by police m the streets, schools and university rooms declared I
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  • 48 7 HONGKONG, Jan. 3 (AFP) Six hundred taels of gold and 700 watches with a total value of about HK$3OO,OOO were seized by Hongkong revenue officers on board the freighter Chun Sang yesterday shortly before the ship left for Singapore. There were no claimants.
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  • 155 7 LONDON. Jan. 3. (UP)— Maj.Gen. "Mike" West, former Commander of the Commonwealth Division m Korea, surprised Britons yesterday with a disclosure that several British soldiers had been courtmartialed m Korea for cowardice. The much-decorated general appeared on a television programme called "Press Conference" last
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  • 172 7 WHEN WILL CHURCHILL RETIRE? LONDON, Jan. 3. (Reuter) Last week's edition of the influential weekly review Economist said the future of Sir Winston Churchill was the immediate question mark over British politics m the year now beginning. "Will he retire within the next few months and be replaced as head
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  • 48 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 3. (AP).— Composer William C. Handy, 80, who wrote the "St. Louis Blues." has married his Secretary of 16 years. Mrs. Irma Logan. 51. Handy, a widower. is a great-grandfather aD d the bride is a divorcee. Both are Negroes.
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  • 306 7  - BURMA ENTERS SEVENTH FREEDOM YEAR Peter Gruening By SINGAPORE. Jan. 4 (UP) Battle-scorched Burma today enters her seventh year of independence with widespread official confidence that 1954 will see an end to civil strife and the beginning of a golden era of prosperity. Weary but jubilant after six years of
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  • 51 7 NAIROBI. Jan. 3 (Reuter)— Top level discussions on the anti-Mau Mau campaign are to be held here next week between General Sir George Erskine and the Royal Air Force Middle-East Commander-in-Chief, Air Marshal Sir Cedric Peily, a Royal Air Force spokesman announced here last sight.
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  • 157 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 3 (UP)— United Stales experts who have learned Communist methods from firsthand experience said on Saturday that it may be necessary to pay ransom ior the release I 30 Americans held by I Chinese Reds. The National Broadcasl Company
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  • 134 7 Turpin Fined £2 For Having Gun ABERGELE. North Wfl '.i (Reuter). Randolph '1 irpin. British and Emp;n a»eweight boxing cha was fined £2 sterling a1 a Magistrate's: Court here ye*terday for keeping a i.he w;thout a firearn.- oerta> Scale. The Bench ordered the rifle .122 t0 be confiscated. Tarpin, 25.
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  • 110 7 PARIS. Jan. 3, (Reir Leaders of >tr:k;ng rai station posta". workers de ft m principle to go lack I on Monday. The i be ratified by individual members of the unions. The decision which end the holiday tie-up ol < ters and packages tx known after
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    • 790 9 by Peter Mayne (John Murray 155.) Reviewed by HAROLD NICOLSON REELING that he was overcivilised. that he had become an "illiterate intellectual," that he needed a dose of regeneration, Mr. Peter Mayne descended upon Marrakesh He hi~ed a room and a kitchen m the native quarter,
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    • 846 9  -  Marghanita Laski By Moscow. By Theodor Plievier. (Frederick Muller. 12s. 6d.) Most Loving Mere Folly. By Edith Pargeler. (Heinemann. 12 s. 6d.) The Flesh m the Mirror. By Felicien Marc.eau. Vision. < 12s. 6d.) Barcelona Road By Laura Talbot. (Macmillan. 12s. 6d.) Hotel Talleyrand. By Paul Hyde Bonner.
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    • 862 9  -  EDWIN MUIR By The Golden Echo. By David Garnett. (Chatta and Windu.s. 215.) TN the last half-century literature seems to have run m families more than it ever did before; writers begetting writers, critics breeding novelists and novelists critics, and learned aunts and uncles encouraging children to
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    • 272 9 FERVOUR: Father Gerald Vann begins his lively and some-what over-fervently written THE WATER AND THE FIRE (Collins, 12s. 6d.) with a very telling analysis of modern life and its distractions. With his first three chapters, indeed, no one with a religious outlook wouid fundamentally disagree. His quotations
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  • Article, Illustration
    41 10 THE "perpetual sprin?** weather of Venezuela is a delight f»r Yankee tourist, Claire Kallen of Elizabeth, New Jers«% And laire is a delight for the other tourists at the nrw Tamaaato Hotel as she basks In the New Year sun.
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 364 10 Sir: With reference to Mr. J. D. Duncanson's opinion m last week's Standard, I am sorry to say that I cannot agree with him. His translation of the 20th Chang of Book XV of Confucian Analects fa A reads: "Confucius said, -The gentleman candidate never questions the
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    • 459 10 Sir; Dato Sir Roland Braddell, senior member of the Malayan Bar, a whitemaned. majestic figure m immaculate morning attire who looks the picture of health m spite of his age and type-cast fo r the legal part, has argued and won more cases civil and criminal—before the
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    • 349 10 Sir; Mr. George Edinger seems to believe that the form of government is irrelevent to the character and nature of trade unionism m a country. In simple language, he seems to imply that even under Hitler's regime, the function of a trade union should be directed only towards
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    • 355 10 Sir— l read with interest Mr. S.K. Foong's "Confucius was no Classicist" which appeared m your "People's Column" on 18th ct last month. I would like to say I hold a different view. Before I come down to brass tacks, I want to make it clear
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    • 57 10 N S THIS is not a Cinemascope shot of actress Terry Moore, but she looks appealing enough m this black and white narrow-lens medium. Terry is appearing currently m "Beneath the 12-mile Reef" and will soon be seen m "King of the Khyber Rifles." They are two
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  • 243 11 More Cycling Honours To John Soh PEXANG, Sun.— The winner of the 50-mile Round the Island Cycling race, John Soh carried off the main honours of the first night of the All Malayan Cycling Carnival yesterday when he not only won the final of the Two Miles cycling race for
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  • 110 11 MELBOURNE. Jan. 3 (AP>— Australia s touted tennis teenag«ra can be beaten and America snould start laying plans immediately for the recapture of the Davis Cup next year, a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association official said today 1 don't go alon. with the theory that Australia has
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  • 196 11 LONDON. Jan. (Reuter)— New Zealand tour: Ulster 3 New Zeaianders 5 paved at Belfasi Final England international trial; England 6 The Rest 8 Club matches: Guys Hospital Old Merchant Taylors 0. L.-r.don ftriHi 9 Lansdo'.vr.e 6: r 9cottish 0 Gloucester 10; ißoss! n Park 0 B:ackheath 9".
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  • 66 11 OFFER TO PIRIE IS CONFIRMED WASHINGTON. Jan. 3, (AP) Georgetown track coach. Frank Sevigne, confirmed Saturday he had written to Gordon Pirie. Britain's 22-year-old ace runner, and said "if we can get him, I'll be more than happy." But he .said a good academic standing is required for all Georgetown
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  • 166 11 Bassett Batters Frenchman PARIS. Jan. 3, (AP).— Percy Bassett, world interim featherweight champion, last night knocked out Jacques Herbillon, French lightweight champion, m the first round of their scheduled 10--round bout m the Paris Palais des Sports. Bassett, a bundle of fighting fury. floored Herbillon three times. The Frenchman, went
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  • 64 11 STOCKHOLM. Jan. 3. (AP) Russia's ice hockey federation confirmed yesterday that it will send a team to the 1954 ice hockey world championships m Stockholm, it was officially reported. It will be the first Russian participation m an ice hockey world championship tournament. The entries are:
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  • 229 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The original Harlem Globetrotters fabulous wizards of basketball literally I "ran riot" at Kuala Lumpur's Chen Wu Stadium last night. While the Trotters "mesmerised" well over 4,000 wildly cheering .fans with their speed and artistry, the interval actors had the spectators roaring
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  • 946 12 JDON, Jan I < Reuter League itandingj aftei Say's matci v« re: KIIKI m\MON p i .1 f a:' W n W 26 > 40 4 39 V. B .-i 26 IT 4 3 rS9 «:i 2ri 7 o 47 32 B 26 12 3 6 48
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  • 94 12 BI I VST J; i Reuter^ c *->. e:ich side 4 a v > a fair re- o' c Nt v Zealand R- 4>7 V i i tc ing teams < > with U -:t: nere yeaterO3' Th€ V. Blacks were faster be-- nd the scrum
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  • 418 12 FOG HITS SOCCER IN ENGLAND SIX MATCHES OFF LONDON, Jan. 3 (Reuter)— Sports worst enemy struck at English soccer today when fog caused three matches to be postponed and three abandoned after they had been started. Those off completely were Oldham versus Everts m Division 11, and Accrington— Rochdale and
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  • 207 12 KINGSTON. Jamaica. Jan. 3. (Reuter) A 6ne ittarkin^ spell which yielded three wickets for 3 runs m eight balls enabled the M.C.C. to hold Jamaica to 891 for >» on the opening day of their match here. Jamaica had appeared to be on t )p with
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  • 96 12 SEREMBAN*. Sun A combined Si^sjiipore Se!ant;or and N:'4i"i Ma i ays hockey team suffered a two nil defeat at the »ndi ■>: a Negri Sensbi'an Hockey Association XI here The M ilayj forward line which included the three Sheikh brothers, Mustapha, Mansoox and Aii. played well
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  • 67 12 MELBOURNE. Jan. 3 (AP) British cycling champion, Reg Harris, crashed over another rider m the third heat of the '■World Series" match ra^e at Essendon (Melbourne) board track last night and suffered a badly gashed knee and an elbow injury. The match, m which Enzo Sacchi, of
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  • 172 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Malayan Sikhs Sports Council which concluded its Quadrangular hockey tourney her c today, will field a combined side to meet a Selangor Mate XI m a friendly encounter on the Malaya District ground tomorrow. The M.S.S.C. team which was announced
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  • 477 12 PROBABLY the biggest upset of the day was the crushing defeat of Leicester, second division leaders who were beaten 7—l at Leeds. Three of Leeds' goals were scored by Harry Iggieden, the insideleft, who had scored only twice before all season. Leicester retain the lead— one
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  • 49 12 Krishnan Beats Arkinstall CALCUTTA, Jan. 3: 0 (Reuter) Ramanathan <• Krislinan, 16-year-old In- 1 dian Davis Cup player, today won the men's sin- gles title at the National < j Lawn Tennis champion- < J ships here, beating Jack i Arkinstall (Australia) 2 6—2. 6—3, 7—5 m the 2 I
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  • 47 12 CALCUTTA. Jan. 2 (Reuter) Jack Arkinstal (Australia) and Iftikhar Ahmed (Pakistan) won the mens doubles title today m the national lawn tennis championships here. Arkinstall and Ahmed beat the Indian Davis players Narendra Nath and Naresh Kumar, 3-6, 5-7, 8-6. 7-5, 6-3 m the final.
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  • 44 12 Hoopla artist Ray Wilbert m an interval act during the Harlem Globetrotters-Boston Whirlwinds basket ball exhibition at Chen Wu stadium m Kuala Lumpur last night, thrilled the spectators present with items like thi s one. (See report o n page 11)
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  • 325 12 LONDON, Jan. 2 (AP)— Emil Zatopek's new year's eve feat m Brazil of running 7,300 metres m 20 minutes and 30.4 seconds had track and field statisticians re-checking their slide rules today. They looked up from their tabulations and proclaimed that Zatopek's clocking indicates the incredible
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  • 42 12 *v 5 Quarter finals draw of the Singapore Hockey Association senior KO competition resulted as follows: Winners of Latiff Wanderers and University v RAF Seletar RAF Changi v SRC; Winners of REME and CSC v SCRCUniversity 2nd v Indian Association.
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  • 76 12 SEREMBAN, Sun.— By defeating Negri Malays by four goals to three, Selangor Malays emerged champions of the Malay Triangular hockey Tournament between Singapore, Selangor and Negri Sembilan which concluded here this morning. The match provided fast and interesting hockey and the issue was m doubt until
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  • 705 12 Six Wickets Victory For Commonwealth INDIA'S ATTACK FAIL CALCUTTA, Jan. 3: (Reuter)— Commonwealth touring cricketers won the third unofficial test against India here today by six wickets and so drew level on the series, India having won the first test at New Delhi with the second at Bombay drawn. Final
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  • 145 12 NEW CAPS IN FRENCH RU TEAM PARIS. Jan. :>,: (Beutei Two new "cans"' Jean B Iquet (centre three quartet Robert Eauion (bade row ward) are included m Frai 'team to play Scotland m I Rugby Union internalioi (match at Murrayhe.c. E i burgh on January 9. Both men earned the.;
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  • 557 12 CAPETOWN, Jan. 3 (Reuter)— New Zealand built up the huge total of MS m their first innings on the second day of the third test against South Africa here today and the home side had scored five runs without loss before stumps wer' drawn.
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