Singapore Standard, 22 January 1955

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  • 12 1 Singapore Standard SINGAPORE, S ATURQAY, JANUARY 22, 195.-, 11 PAGES 13 CENTS.
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  • 297 1 Edendale Was A Familiar Ship To Malayan Travellers AR0 WILLIAMS f^ Sh.pp>n9 Reporter, c Bnt.sh freighter fj,,! major M casualty of the [f vcr" dong the Coast w0S ves U,, fo Malayan filers for the past Bister, < I chunk t a«l" [itv to Sinsa- community. 5 stay !I! R
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  • 655 1 »f f m Nehru Answers Thaver Kl ALA LUMPUR, Fri.-Th c Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, declared today that he could not advise the Malayan Indian Congress delegation, he recently met in Penang, about detailed matters of its link with the UMNO-MCA
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  • 27 1 iiyiji-.i sskj\j\j, Jan. zi (/\f) Bing Crosbv spent a restlul night recuperating from surgery for removal of a kidney stone. Paramount Studio reported on Thursday.
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  • 36 1 JESSELTON, Jan. 21 (Reuten— The sum of $9,300 has been forwarded to the Governments of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore as North Borneo's contribution towards relieving the distress caused by the recent floods.
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  • 150 1 FOUR persons a 16-year old girl, a 61 -year-old woman, a 15-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man were reported missing to the Singapore Police yesterday. The girl, Chan Sow See, of Duxton Road told her mother on Tuesday that she was going to spend the
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  • 342 1 China Cease-Fire Hones Rise NZ_Piemier To Approach Dulles B B —f+ m\ m H m Ma B^ mmmm .^^m m^m Mm^ B M IH m^Mmm a^M mWm wa a a M h a a En t ncp m Mm l^^\ W m^ m M I lf >l*ll/1# 111/ffTIArllll/ffTIArl \>J M
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  • 89 1 SUPER CONNIES TAKE OVER TEN Super Constcllation aircraft, costing (M)$30.000.000. will be used on all Qantas "Kangaroo Route" services between Australia and Britain from next month, Q T A antas Empire Airways announced yesterday. These aircraft will replace tho Constellation 749A-s which have been operating on this route since 1947.
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  • 201 1 A Qantas i-pokcsmaa said: "One of tho. four Super Constellations, delivered to the Company last year, has been on the London route since August, and with the delivery of the rest in the first months tff this year, we will be able to make the changepvy complete.** T,
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  • 45 1 TACHEN ISLAND: An anti-aircraft crew aboard c ship in Tachen harbour waits for more enemy aircraft to open fire. This crew participated in a large air raid that saw 120 Red China planes attack the ships and installations here. U.P. p!:oto.
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  • 86 1 HK Firm Cancels Swatow Run HONGKONG. Jan 21, <Reutcr> The Shun Cheonß Steam Navigation Company announced here today that it has temporarily cancelled the normal run on its 2.171--ton ship Tai Chuns Shan between hore and the Communist Chinese port of Swatow. Swatow was bombed by Nationalist aircraft on Wednesday
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  • 43 1 LONDON. Jan. 21 <Reuten.— The 4.000 lightermen employed in the London docks said today they would strike in three weeks' time if an increased bonus rate is not granted. Such a stoppage would bring the docks to a complete standstill.
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  • 57 1 VIENNA. Jan. 21 (Reutcr). Austrian judges and public prosecutors of courts In Vienna and the provinces have decided to strike if their demands for higher pay are not settled satisfactorily by Jan. 31, legal sources said today. Present pay of a provincial judge ranges from 1.400 to 3,000
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  • 130 1 Air Raids On Invasion Bases TAIPEI, Jan. 21. (Reuter)— The Chinese Nationalist air force today claimed their planes had sunk four Communist ships and damaged nine others in morning attacks against invasion bases along the mainland China coast opposite the Nationalist-held Tachen Islands. Nationalist pilots also
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  • 109 1 TOKYO, Jan. 21 'AP< A former Japanese military police captain has urged the government to make efforts to collect bodies of Japanese war criminals executed at Changi prison in Siner\pore after World War 11, Kyodo News Service reported today. Iwaji Ogami, 40.
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  • 50 1 TAIPKI. Formosa. Jan. .'1 (UP) About 10 Amrriian advisory officers were reported today to have been removed from bomb-batter-rd Tarhen Island. The island has been subjected to merciless aerial Attack by the Reds, and the Imericans were said to have left after Red bombs knocked out (heir installations.
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    • 119 1 HAMD CUT CRYSTALWARE In a wlrtr Hinge alwayn i.ti. here Call and **Hect innr reoitlrrmenta 9 I Th *NOVELTYtTott KM North Mr i. li»- Road. Phone MIM FREE GLASSES Y prnnnw I JILU LlUfl +*J*y~myj4»' I r O r Chinese New Year two I affracftve glasses will tn. QJI sfelfi
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  • 122 2 PLANTERS WARNED: REPLANT OR ELSE... KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. ■••The replanting scheme in Malaya is now at its *'most critical stage'' as Rome smallholders may tend to defer action because of the present high price for rubber, Mr. A. C. Smith, the Federation's Chief Replanting Officer, warned tonight. "To do so
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  • 134 2 7 lr appealed to all Malayans to e every endeavour" c to persuade the smaliholder of the gravity of his economic position and the vital necessity to replant. Government, like the rest of us. can do nothing without money, anrt without rubber, there can be no money to
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  • 149 2 AN AWARD of 30 cents a square foot [or 32 acres 2 roods and 11 poles of land, acquired by the Crown in August 1952, lor housing development, was made by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The land situated o'T Ah Hood Road.
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  • 207 2 PMU Wants To Know Fate Of Malay Leader PENANG, Fri— The Pcninlular Malay Union today suggested that the All-Malaya Muslim Association and the Malayan Muslim Missionary WIWUil I Society should call a public meeting and adopt a resolution calling on the Federation Government to request the Thai Ciovernment to make
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  • 250 2 POLL AGENT FINED $250 ON TWO CHARGES Snatched, Ballot From Woman Voter MALACCA, Fri. Haji Hashim Othman, an Alliance election agent, was fined $50 in the Magistrate's Court here today for wrongfully obtaining possession of a ballot paper belonging to an 80-year-old voter, Antonio Lazarco, at the Ujong Pasir Polling
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  • 61 2 REV Chiu Ban It. the popular pastor of St. Hilda's Church. Katong. .Singapore, and his wife were given a farewell party on the eve of his transfer as Vicar of Sclangor. ABOVE: Rev. Chiu receives a present at the party held in the Graham-White Hall Mrs. Chiu
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  • 166 2 THE Rev Fr. Xavier S. Thani Nayagam. Lecturer la Education in th University of Ceylon, was reported by us in our issue of January 15, in.">.» to hive said that: "Muslim doctors of Malaya invoke the Tamil (It| Siva." We r.ow know that the Kev I'. ihani Nayagam ■ever
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  • 167 2 Hashim said he saw the presiding officer demonstrating how Antonia should mark her voting paper. Hashim added that he then snatched Antonia's paper away and asked the officer why he had shown Anionia how to mark her paper. An argument arose and Hashim noticed the paper in his
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  • 76 2 received an emblem for his 30 years of service. Two of the employees who received the awards from Mr. Palmer ar^ RIGHT: Mr. T. W. Prins who is in charge of Shell's Office Services Department. seen receiving a tie-pin studded with three diamonds for
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  • 48 2 THE following ha\ e been appointed members of the Hospitals Board in the Colony for the year, ■ccordini to yesterday*! Government Gazette. They are Professor D.E.C. Meiko. Professor B.H. Shearos. Mr. Yro Tiam Siew. Dr.. Chit Boon Leong. Mrs Tan Chin Tuan and Mr. Runmo Sliaw.
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  • 63 2 THE following have been appointed members of an Advisory Committee of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 'Singapore Division* this year, according to yesterday's Government Gazette. They are: Chairman. RearAdmiral E. H. Shattock. Members, Mr. C. C. Tan. Capt. F. E. W. Lammert. Mr
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  • Article, Illustration
    61 2 FORTY FOUR long Ml Vlie employers of Shell Company in Singapore with a total of 1,055 years to their credit, were yesterday entertained to a tea party and presented with gold tiepins in recognition of their loyalty to the firm. And the man who made the presentations on behalf
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  • 281 2 ACQIITTEI) by a General Court Mr. charges attempted corrnplion and fnut-tfJ day trial. Warrant Officer Reii.jamin I in u of H.Q., RASC, Singapore Bate Dirtlkt, m rewarded with "a hug and a kiss" by In The first charge alleged that i tempted to obtain From Lee Nah lock Hotel
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    52 2 TWO Australian-domiciled Cklmfft J and his brother, Mr. Teddy Kau. f!» i yesterday by BOAC C— itcilittf t» fusee-friends of ours whom PI IUWt Nrarv l 'I ti Have Coo' I I j AUSTRALIAN Chinese brothers. Mr. Teddy Kaw (left) and Dr. Julian Kaw who are visiting Singapore. Stand
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  • 268 3  -  R. G. PILLAI j/ Botch From s Going To St. ]f) 's Next Month i/c ooium oaaicrb m Singapore nave j to bc amon 9 thc first batch of 20 o t° St Johns Island next month to t09 ,lvcs of the opium habit. 0"\ .oner for Prisons, Major
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  • 133 3 THIS dramatic picture was taken by Standard Cameraman Joseph Wee minutes after a military despatch rider's motor cycle caught fire in Thomson Road. Singapore, during a steady drizzle yesterday morning. Flames shot out from the bike soon after it skidded and threw off its Malay
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  • 66 3 ww* l Li \5erday l,r( m the Iriaif ol S dunnu the Chine* hurt or •l th Sub na damafe irt] .jnutioa* are: 5 iei off crackers 0jK. in roalaed B fjr rehieles )D t throw eraeaeri plode crackers pbcstible m.ittriaN. I ;n kaapoacs jiow children ow crackers ire
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  • 42 3 RECEIVING order was nade by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley the Singapore High Court yesterday against South Sea Company, on a petition by Liaoman Man Luen. to whom the firm owes $40,000 on a judgment debt.
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  • 66 3 I .mil pvcryoM in as they (flt'br.itr Sen Ifear ait rei*/ (be Vokmy'i IssCflMj rln Mn\ a boo I in tod.i > -nd posters the M-.iMirui lifting m Chi- distributed f!> Cit> hv the 'fcklic Relations «tth the greeting "This (hi- .iM»n let us and ro- the Legisflfctions a
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  • 151 3 Gosling Dome To Be Pulled Down THE cracked and fire blackened top section of Gosling building, in Robinson Road. Singapore, is to be pulled down. City Architect. Mr. W I. Watson, told The Standard that notice was served yesterday on the owners of* the buildins to remove the dome and
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  • 163 3 PRIVATE Tevita Somaki Seru (above) of the Fiji Infantry Kegiment, has been awarded the British Empire Medal, for his self-sacrifice and devotion. A medical orderly since the beginning of 1952. Private Seru, has been in the front line of fighting and has
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  • 154 3 dying at the London School of economics as part of their l0 training. iney were taken over the department, of the Gold Coast omce 1 hrough the eourtcsy of fjr. T. M. Kedwe Mercer. fi Coast Commissioner. Coast y mel lhe heads of departments and
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  • 120 3 TAN Eng Giap. of Holland Road, was given an alternative of paying his wife SI HO for maintenance 01 spending two months in jail, by the Singapore Sixth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. J. M. DevcreuxColebourn yesterdcy. Tan \va? produced in the
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  • 54 3 AN engineer. J. A. Griffiths. a recent arrival in the Colony, was fined $15 in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday for failing tc register and obtain an identity card. Griffiths, who pleaded guilty, said he was under the impression that he was allowed 90 days to
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  • 10 3 idilinst In was Singapore •ho 55.000, and in full
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  • 15 3 ri killed I by n the durrdcr jndtwo red a im in Fong Dtstrtct
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  • 310 3 Threats Didn't Stop Him DEFYING the threats of two robbers who raiucd his attap hut in Kampong Pek San Teng, in Singapore on Thursday night, Soon Se Ban, 15 rushed out of his house and ran through the village shouting for help. When they heard
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  • 40 3 A RECEIVING and adjudication order was made in the Singapore High Court yesterday on the petition of Hoa Yu Co., Ltd against Tnn Choon Poh. trading as Chin Bee, textile merchants. whose liabilities amounted to $10.944. 1M.
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  • 106 3 999 Call Got Two Youths Arrested THE Singapore Third Criminal District Court was told yesterday how an early morning telephone call to the Police by a Chinese woman resulted in the arrest of two Chinese youths by a Police radio patrol within a matter of minutes. In the dock were
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  • 103 3 Through a peep-hole, she saw the figure of a Chinese standing in front of her house with a stick in his hand. Another Chinese was with him. She immediately asked her son to phone the Police, the court was told. Koh and Chuah. ran away when they
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  • 67 3 the Chinc.-c committee of the Y.W.C.A. will be hosts on the night of Feb. 9 at a 10--course Chinese New Year dinner, starting at 7. -SO. at the Y.W.C.A. headquarters, in Col'.yer Quay A song and dance programme is being organized by pupils of the
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  • 36 3 A MARRIED woman. Tan Ah Cheng, was adjudicated a bankrupt in the Singapore High Court yesterday, on a petition by Quah Bok Soon, to whom she owed $12,988 on a judgment debt
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  • 152 4 Landed On His Head13 ff. Below A SINGAPORE. Harbour Board labourer. Lee Peng, slipped and plunged about 13 feet to the bottom of a vessel's hold on Dec. 2 last year and died four days later in the hospital from his injuries. This was stated yesterday at the inquest into
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  • 37 4 HONGKONG. Jan. 21 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.70 to £1 sterling; $5.88 to US$l; $1,828 to Malayan $1; $0,170 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257.5 to a tael.
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  • 23 4 MR. H VV. Kelsey, of Tanjong Malim Estates. Tanjong Malim, has been transferred to one of the firm's estates in Pahang.
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  • 71 4 MR. K. KATIIIRAVELU. Manager. Victoria and Koyal I'.nglish Schools, Muar and Bandar High School. Batu Pahat. has been appointed a Town Councillor in Muar. He is a member of the District Welfare Committee. Muar. Visiting Justice of the Muar Pi ison and a Visitor to the Government
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  • 171 4 100,000 CAN BE CALLED UP -DAVIS But That's Only In Theory By M. T. YONG SINGAPORE con muster more than 100/000 men for defence training in a time of emergency, the Colony's Secretary for Defence and Internal Security, Mr. L. H. N. Davis, said yesterday. It could be done, Mr.
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  • 50 4 Covt.'s Red Stripes To Stay RED STRIPES and other markings on the uniforms of Singapore Government's uniformed staff will not be altered. This decision was told to the representatives of Government employees at the joint meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Civil Service Joint Council on Thursday night.
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  • 77 4 The uniformed staff postmen oifice bo3 r s. hospital servants and similar groups of employees have been agitating for the removal of the red stripe and other markings on their uniforms. At the meeting. Government representatives said that these "red stripes were necessary for smartness and recognition." Government does
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  • 173 4 A SLIGHT hardening of the prices of poultry, increased retail prices for fish but no change in vegetable prices are the trends in Singapore consumer markets, a Government release said yesterday In spite of heavy rains there has been very little change iti prices of vegetables.
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  • 135 4 "As the years go by. not only will the strength bf the local forces under active training grow, but there will be a steadily increasing number of trained men on the reserve," he said. The tota! strength of local military forces in Singapore is over .S.OOO. with a
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  • 123 4 A further _00 wfll be drafted into the Singapore militarv forces at the beginning of next month It is proposed that a total of about 2,000 national servicemen should be drafted each year to the Singapore military forces and the local defence forces. There is no intention at
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  • 178 4 Sequel To Pepper Attack TWO youths, Ismail bin Yahaya and Hassan bin Rahmat, were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Brown in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday for attempting to rob Mr. M. K. D. Nair. a Malayan Airways clerk, of
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  • 136 4 Unionists Can Now Be Candidates PENANG. Fri.— Thc rifht to set up political funds by Trade Unions in this country will pave the wav for unions to put up candidates for elections without aftiliating with anv political party. Mr. Ooi Thiam Siew. Hon. Secretary of the j Penang division of
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  • 215 4 AN OPEN verdict was returned bv the Singapore Coroner, Mr. K. T. Alexander, yesterday at tlie inquest into the death of Yvonne Suares, 23, on Nov. 15 last year. In his evidence Dr. Gan Kok Liang, Medical Officer. General Hospital, said when Yvonne was admitted
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  • 115 4 MAN FREED IN RAILWAYS TYRE CASE KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Lim Kim Hoon. 47, was today acquitted and discharged by the First Magistrate on a charge of dishonest retention $1,400 worth of motor car tyres believed to be the property of the Malayan Railway. It was said that as a result
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  • 140 4 Malayan Air Cadets Found Aussies Friendly MALAYAN air cadets who returned to their homes on Tuesday after their 20 days stay in Australia are SS« iy ana want to know mnr*> about Malaya Said Peter Hona t™«~ Australian^a^ oM&eMS The a '™p D ha^° in boe°i V eW instructive Very
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    • 31 4 UMNO YOUTHS MALACCA. Fri. United Malays National Organization youths of the Malacca division at Tranquerah will celebrate their anniversary with a concert at 98, Tranquerah Pantei at 9 p.m. on Monday.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 66 4 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.00 p.m. Jan. 20 to 7.30 a.m. Jan. 21 Singapore (7_F). Penang (75F), Kola Bahru (72F); Kuala Lumpur (73F); Ipoh (74F); Kuantan (73F). Maximum temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Jan. 20 to 7.30 a.m. Jan. 11. Singapore <77F): Penane <88F); KoU Bahru H7BF): Kuala Lumpur (83F)Ipoh
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  • 8 5 X ilance] I IB I very I
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  • 14 5 turn tc tour Cocos i visit in, the 'stive. Qanta.> S:: Ml .lands.
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  • 61 5 ..i i'luiion. an Insnector attached to the Singapore Police, exchanges an engagement ring with Miss Dalip Kaur. sister of Sardar Dewan Singh Dewana, Chief Editor of Navjlel \an. a Punjabi weekly in the Colony This is the first time a member of the Sikh community has openly
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  • 27 5 visiting Australian Air re on a goodwill tour of iya, left today, after spending an by the Acting Resident :-r D. Gray, at "Bel Retiro" on
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  • 101 5 Shops Open On Sunday PENANG, Fri.— With only two more days before the Chinese New Year, a last minute rush is now being made by several housewives to purchase their requirements for this festive occasion. For the first time in Penang all pawn
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  • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. ional Council of the Negara is to meet at on Feb. 26. its icy-making central execuniitee announced toDel« -Mtcs from all branches Party, its Council group li visions, are expected "end this meeting, the iit tee said. The National Council has to finalise the
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  • 98 5 According to the Chinese custom, the Chinese New Year Day is considered to be a "lucky" day to take family pictures. All the photo studios are expected to close for one day Jan 28— to enable their employers to enjoy a holiday. Meanwhile it is also gathered that
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  • 295 5 ALLIANCE AMNESTY IS MERE FOLLY' Planters Protest Move To Pardon Terrorists KUALA LUMPUR, official voice of the the UMNO-MCA Alliance a shameful betraya; of the Communist terrorists/' Fri.— The I ncoroorot*,. <^- European rJbbe d To SS iA'i^ <>f Plantersamnest/^ffe not n„^ i oya T to d y Col^ d
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  • 125 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.After a brief lull, during which a "cease-fire" offer failed to produce any surrenders, the "3-D" attack on terrorists in the south sawmp of Selangor resumed with full force today. Field guns and mortars opened the attack at first light. followed by Royal
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  • 90 5 MR. LEE Choon Eng. elected City Councillor for West has suggested by letter to the City President. Mr. T.P.F McNeice. that the Council should consider the award of "Long Service and Good Conduct Medals' to City employees who have served the public for more than
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  • 58 5 THE Colonial Secretary Singapore. Mr. W.AC Goode has ordered the dissolution of the Sinq Nam Musical Association, a s stated in tha Government Gazette issued yesterday. The reason for the dissolution of the Association is that it is being used for unlawful purposes and for purposes incompatible with
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  • 63 5 PENANG. Fri.— The destroyer H.M.S. Comus commanded by Commander P. E. Newstead. will visit the settlement of Penang early next week She is due to arrive here on Jan. 26. Her visit is operational and for the purpose of M.R.N.V.R. training on Jan. 29 and Jan.
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  • 201 5 SINGAPORE Diary Independent Mitsionary Movement: Free film show at the Red Cross Home for Crippled Children. Tanah Merah Besar. 4 pm St. Andrews Otthopaedic Hospital 7 nm S'pore film Society: Film Show "Th* Last Latißh at British Council Hal! 630 um IfWCAI Lit:!e Women s Club meet at Raffles Quay—
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  • 52 5 DKsr.\T(/H: To Portianak bv Soon Bee: Palembang b> Landak: North Borneo. Labuan and tfirl by Kajang: Kuchins by Belaya: New Guinea by Barumun- i^iambi bv Lamoong: Indo-China by Larui; Bui ma and North Ind a by Warora: Honakone. Ch:na and Jaoan b.v Himbjrg. .\|{Kl\ \l.: From Christmas Island
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  • 242 5 2 Men Jailed For Impersonation TWO men who impersonated a consular official from India House, Singapore, to obtain a quantity of shirts and a fountain pen set were yesterday sentenced to nine months' and two years' imprisonment, respectively, in the First District Criminal Court. The men. Swaminathan Krishnan and Vincent
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  • 43 5 NIBONG TEBAL. Fri. A 28-year-old Mai .y taxi driver. Manab bin Hashim. was found de?d with stab wounds in the Nibong Tebal-Parit Buntar Road in the early hours this morning. Manab lived in Bagan Dato. Butterworth. Police are investigating
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  • 230 5 Seamstress Had Banned Journals SIX copies of two banned vernacular publications, stated by the prosecution to contain a series of articles of a Communistic nature that could cause "unrest and disorder" in the State were found bv Singapore Police in the home of a 23-year-old seamstress. This was stated in
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  • 23 5 PENANG, Fri.— Mr. M. Kuppusamy has resigned the post, of hon. secretary and treasurer of the Penang M.I.C. for personal reasons.
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  • 1002 6 Rice Powder Keg IN many respects those who operate the administrative machinery in the Federation still adopt the system in force some fifty years ago. Then the British Officers sat in their offices and did a lot of paper work. Though some did get into the field to
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  • 604 6 The NEWS as it strike me! 4 GOOD preview of how national matters will be handled in New Malaya was given in the Federal Council on Thursday when a Party Negara motion. Incorporating an amendment by an Alliance member, viewing with great concern the reduction in the price of padi,
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  • 357 6 Review of Views Hub Of Air Defence MALAYA has assumed an important strategic role in the air defence of the South-east Asia with the announcement by the RAF that Britain will spend $14,--000.000 for the enlargement and equipment of three military airfields in the Federation. Nanyang Siang Pau declares. In
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    500 6 The Landon DaUy Mirror in vo stiff a I<>s rpHE London "Daily Mirror" has published the first findings of its inquiry into Britain's defence. The Inquiry reveals these disturbing facts: Britain's defences ere out of date in the age of the hydrogenbomb. The greatest revolution in the history of
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  • 783 6 /^f m "W^ "W Sfr/I #/> J/^ A^/l/j/^ff *<J V VA/ l%Ls\j IKs JL U V 1 1/ Washington, Friday. JHE recent statements of A President Eisenhower {)A American strategic policy have caused as much confusion among defence officials here as in the Allied capitals. The President
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  • 221 7 To Avoid An Eclipse AVADI, India, Jan. 21, (Reuter)— Th e new leader ..I the Indian ruling Congress Party said today the possibility of a "total eclipse of civilisation" compelled India to take an active interest in the settlement of international problems. Mr. U.
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  • 72 7 TAIPEI, Jan. 21 (Reuter)— rican military authorities denied another report ating in Taipei that the d States Seventh Fleet s had clashed this morn•vith the Chinese Com- mist Navy near the Tachen land group off the coast of ina's Chekiang Province. his Is the second time
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  • 45 7 RACINE .v :onsin, Jan. 21 <AP) A 19-year-old Chicago youth who. Sheriff Rudolph Spiekrr said, had put a tomxtonp in his car to weight it down en curv»s died of injuries suffered when he car missed a curve and crashed.
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  • 125 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Reuter) The Columbia Broadcasting Company is to dramatize on radio on Jan. the escape of the young war correspondent Winston Churchill when he was taken prisoner during the Boer War. it was announced here today. The company has selected Gary Montgomery,
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  • 31 7 MORRIS Wright makes an unconventional exit from his truck after it had skidded and overturned at Buffalo, New York, recently. He was shaken, but not hurt. AP photo.
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  • 100 7 GUATEMALA CITY. Jan. 21 (Reuten— An indefinite state of siege has been declared here following an attack on Guatemala City's main Army base and an air base by followers of former President Jacobo Arbenz. President Castillo Armas, who seized power from Arbenz last year, said that more
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  • 81 7 The First CinemaScope Film In Japan SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 21. (Reuter).— A group of performers and technicians will leave here next Monday on their way to Japan to produce the first film made there in colour Cinemascope. The 20th Century Fox Film Company said the film "The House of Bamboo"
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  • 50 7 GAUHATI Assam. Jan. 21 (Reuter)— The crew of three were killed when their Indian Airlines Dakota freighter crashed near Borjahar Aerodrome. 14 miles from here, early this morning. First reports said the aircraft was a total wreck and that the pilot and co-pilot died instantly.
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  • 70 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (AP) —Americans smoked nearly five per cent fewer cigarettes fast year than in 1953— largely becase of theories linking smoking with cancer of the lung industry sources reported. Total consumption of United States cigarettes was reportedly off about 30 per cent last
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  • 45 7 GROTON. Connecticut. Jan 21 (Rcutcr) The world's first atomic-powered submarine. Nautilus, made its first dive yesterday and remained submerged for one hour, the navy announced here last night. It made the test after 50 hours of surface trials earlier this week.
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  • 155 7 NAIROBI, Jan. 21, (Reuter)— Mr. Tom Mboya. general secretary of the Kenya Federation of Trade Unions, yesterday condemned the protests of European settlers against the Government's surrender and amnesty offer to Mau Mau terrorists. He said their meetings should be banned "for some time." "This sort of
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  • 34 7 THE White House said yesterday Senator and Mrs. Joseph McCarthy. missing from two White House dinners this week, were not invited because of a "decision by the President and Mrs. Eisenhower." AP
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  • 44 7 ORPINGTON. Kent. Jan. 21 (Router) Sir Winston Churchill's Conservatives easily held a parliamentary seat in a by-election polled here yesterday. The result declared today was: Mr. Donald Summer. Conservative. 20,082 votes. Mr. David Vaughan Williams, Labour. 10,426. Conservative majority 9.656.
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  • 148 7 London Crime Wave Begins To Break LONDON. Jan. 21. (Reuter) Police are beginning to break the crime wave which has troubled the city since the war. Scotland Yard, the capital's police headquarters announced yesterday that during 1954, crime figures fell for the first time below those of 1938. Sir John
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  • 131 7 GIRL, 75, ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE NEW YORK. Jan 21. (Reu-ter)—Fifteen-year-old Theresa Gresh. youngest girl ever to stand trial for her life here has escaped the supreme sentence by being convicted of only second degree murder for her part in killing her mother. But her lover William Buyers, aged 18. was
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  • 61 7 BOSTON. Jan. 21 (Reuter) —A Roman Catholic chaplain and a doctor trying to talk four dangerous convicts out of an escape bid reported "some progress" here after their latest visit during the night. The four have threatened to kill the five warders they are holding
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  • 244 7 Stabbed His Girl, Then Saw A Movie LONDON, Jan. 21. (Reuter). A 23-year-old ex-airman Christopher Owden who went to the cinema after stabbing his ex-girl friend 25 times, was yesterday sent to the Broadmoor Criminal Asylum for indefinite detention Medical evidence was given at his trial here that Owden found
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  • 199 7 Breach Of Promise Claim "i*JH FS 'A* g eS Stella Empson, 49, claimed she had idealised' Mr. Cecil Montagu Eales, 45, said to be a fromreT W expectations of thousands of pounds She had 'treated him as her husband" relying on nis promise
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  • 139 7 Rockefeller Grant For Asian Studies NEW YORK. Jan. 21. (Reuter):— The Rockefeller FoundSSO^nnn <• made a grant of f, -iu o° for course dealing with South-east Asia at Cornell University, it was announced yesterday. Professor Lauriston Sharp, director of the South-east Asia programme at the University said its main objectives
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  • 217 7 In March 1952 he produced a typewritten document which said: "A friendship is much better for us than a legal tie. Emotionally we are better suited as friends than as legal partners." Mrs. Empson's financial position at the time was "beginning to be really desperate." In anticipation of
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  • 123 7 Changes In U.K. Defence Likely LONDON, Jan. 21. (Reuter) Sir Winston Churchill's cabinet conferred yesterday on Britain's defence plans for the coming year which are likely to bring wide-scale changes following latest atomic and guided-missile developments. Details of the plans are due to be announced in m!dFebruary in a Government
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  • 101 7 The White Paper will emphasize the need to build up a greater strategic reserve of armed forces in Britain, and it may call for more helicopters to increase troop mobility. The role of civil defence In the hydrogen bomb age a controversial topic here— v ill also be reviewed
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  • 39 7 MADRAS. Jan. 21 (Reutcr) A military coastal battery here fired a 21 -gun salute to President Tito of Yugoslavia who arrived today by sea from Burma to continue his State visit to India.
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    • 125 7 RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICES Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 21— The following ore the closing prices of rubber and tin on the London Market. LONDON RUBBER Spot 291d. LONDON TIN February 29id. Spot £688 buyers, March 29Jd. £689 sellers. April/ June 29 d. Three months £691 10s. July/September 28 Id.
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  • 43 8 MUAR. Fri.— For failing to register his bicycle for 1954 and not displaying a legible licence on Dec. 4 last Ong Swee Seng, of Jalan Payamas. Tangkak. was fined $5 or three days' imprisonment by the Muar Magistrate Inche Pawan Ahmad.
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  • 147 8 'More Efficiency Needed KUALA LUMPIR, Fri.— The Malayan Trade Union Council is to ask for the establishment of special labour courts for more efficient handling of disputes between labourers and employers. A motion to this effect be tabled at the ftftta annual delegates conference of
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  • 92 8 TAN Heng Chua, claimed trial in the Singapore Fifth Police Court yesterday to olTcring a bribe to a police constable in a backlane. oil Keng Cheow Street. It was alleged that Tan ofTered $5 to the constable on Jan. 20 at 10.50 a.m. in an
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  • 225 8 Templer s Brainchild ror Malaya's Young Men IPOH, Fri. Malaya's first outward bound school, brainchild of Gen Sir Gerald Templer, will be ready by c ;cut the middle of this year. The school is now rising on a six-acre site close by the sea
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  • 59 8 MR. B.U TAN who has been re-elected President of the Negri Sembilan See Yap Association for a further period of two years. Mr. Tan is the Chairman of the Negri Sembilan State Welfare Committee, Negri Sembilan AntiTuberculosis Association and Board of Governors. Negri Sembilan Welfare and Children's Homes.
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  • 146 8 4 Months For Acid Throwing IPOH. Fri. A sentence of four months' imprisonment was passed on Choong Chye Yoon. 70 by Magistrate Che Abdullah Ghazalli today atter the accused was found guilty of causing hurt (to Woon Chin Chan) ny throwing hydrochloric acid on him. at the New Town Market,
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  • 125 8 These, it is pointed out. may entail some tests of physical endurance, but will not include any form of military training or any unnecessary risk. The training is severe, but is so balanced that it does not demand more from a bov than he can give. The boy's
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  • 153 8 The school vvill be residential and open to boys and young men from all walks of life races, and religions. The cour#s will normally last between three and four weeks. There will be no minimum educational qualification. Any physically fit boy over fifteen and tip to twenty-five
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  • 63 8 Malacca Kheng Chew Ho a y Kuan will celebrate the Chinese New Year with a tea party at their premises. 115, Jonker Street. on Tuesday. Jan. 25. at 10 a.m. The Hoay Kuan band will play and. after a New Year toast by the President,
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  • 151 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri Methodist Youth Fellowship throughout Malaya would strive lor three goals during 1955. They are: to deepen the spiritual experience of members, to increase membership and to train lor leadership. '"The membership of the Fellowship has increased to about 2.600 and new chapters
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  • 45 8 SEREMBAN. Fri: The Band and Drums of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers will make their first public appearance in the Federation tomorrow when they Beat thc Retreat on thc Station Padang. here at thc conclusion of the Farleigh-Robertson trophy rugby march.
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  • 139 8 Mining Conference At KL KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The first-ever national conference of mining workers which will b c he'd in Kua'.a Lumpur on Jan 25. will consider a resolution asking Government to take step s to prevent unemnloyment in the industry in the event of a tin restriction scheme being
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  • 60 8 PENANG, Fri.— Thirty-five novitiates of the Little Sisters of thc Poor from Singapore patiently waited in the P. O. liner Canton ior morc than half-an-hour when the ship arrived here today. They disembarked only when Rev. Mother Herminie Mother Supervisor of the Little Sisters
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  • 196 8 KUALA LUMPUB, Fri.— Several Estates in the Bahau district, Negri Sembilan, are doing their bit to starve out the bandits in the area by voluntarily introducing communal feeding early this month. since tney started central cooking, these estates have been issued with full rice rations
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  • 58 8 IPOH. Fri.— A Police Constable. Ajii bin Ahmad (24) was sentenced to ghc months' imprisonment by Che Mahmud Hashim in thc Sessions Court todav for accepting a bribe of $2. The offence was committed on Nov. 27, last year, when he stopped an Indian mining
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  • 55 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The Selangor Transport Workers' Union and its General Transport Company section yesterday expressed their gratitude to all who were instrumental in bringing about the end of the GTC 28-day strike. Special mention was made of Inche Mohamed Sopiee and Mr. Tan Tuan Boon
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  • 118 8 Another motion condemns the indirect taxations imposed in September last ycar on daily necessities. This taxation seriously afTccts the living standards of the working classes said thc motion, which seeks an early repeal of UUI form of taxation. The present education po v also comes under lire in
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  • 50 8 MUAR. Fri.— Neck M.i! bin Ahmad, 20, of Sungei Mati. was fined $15 or i^cven days' j imprisonment by the Muar Magistrate. Inche Pawan Ahmad, for allowing his two goats to stray in the vege: garden of one Ang Seng on Oct. 26 last year.
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  • 165 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— By ment is merely the guide and comparison with Britain. Ma- counsellor." layans have taken to co-opera- The number of societies had tives to an astonishing degree doubled to 1.700 since 1047 and within the 22 years of its start working capital
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  • 829 9 next important' musical event after Julius Katchen, who left a few days ago in an aura of Moussorgsky, proidgy picking and press conferences, is a series of concerts by the violinist, Max Rostal, presented by the Musical Society. Mr. Rostal will give a solo recital, Accompanied by Noreen
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  • 497 10 CHRIS Chataway sprinted to victory and smashed local three-mile records in a race against South African and Rhodesian runners in Johannesburg on Jan. 15. But Joh a n nesburg's 6.000 feet altitude had him worried "I feel terrible," he gasped after the race. The
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  • 138 10 Davis Cup European ZoneEntries To Be Cut NEW YORK, Jan. 21 "(Reuter) The challenges of several nations in the European Zone of the 1955 Davis Cup competition would have to be declined, the United States Lawn Tennis Association announced here. It explained that more than 24 nations had challenged in
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  • 39 10 TANJONG MALIM. Fri.— A Tftnjonf Malim XI beat Sul'at 1 Idris Training College by three goals to two at soccer yesterday Scorers for Tg. Malim wete Ani. Jamaludin Abdul Rahman. Wahab and Mansor scored for the College.
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  • 652 10  -  Jack Peart A Ihn 1 1 £*n*WM Ml M Anfu VI IMI m I jfl 1f y t%C|/ljf Tfl f Oftl f"f flflPV W *ww gw 7 .ONDON, Fri.— Footballers are not an overpaid mollycoddled bunch of public entertainers. ?hat is the opinion of Tom Finney, Preston and
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  • 581 10 From Alt Gover DON'T FIDDLE, NOW LEN! Launceston. Tasmanin, Friday. ALL through this tour I have admired and supported the tactics of skipper Len Hutton. Now, for a change, I must disagree with his policy in preparing his speed bowlers for the fourth Test at Adelaide, starting on January 28.
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  • 135 10 Melbourne. Friday. NOW is the testing time for pare bowler Frank Tyson. Unrationed adulation has played havoc with many a gifted young England star. Frank is luckier than most, for he comes from levelheaded stock But the lad i s human He Is enjoying the limelight.
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  • 79 10 BRISBANE. Jan. 21 (Reutcr* —Neil Harvey scored 9."> rrjt of Victoria's first innings total of 220 against Queensland In I Sheffield Shield match beginning here today. His brother Ray made 38 and c'olin McDonald who has riis placed Arthur Morris as Australia's No. 1 for the fourth
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  • 54 10 TOKYO. Jan. 21 (UP)— The Olympic Committee today approved the sending of a Japanese team to the 23rd world table-tennis championships in Holland next April. The approval came as the committee asked the Finance Ministry to allot U558,052 In foreign exchange for the tabletennis team's
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  • 234 10 ADELAIDE, Jan. 21, < South Australia for 185 on here but forfeited some ol both openers Edrich and Gi Chief obstructor to the MCC bowlers was Australian Test reject. Gil Langley who pitased his local crowd by stopping a complete collapse after five wickets had fallen for 80 runs.
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  • 284 12 Steel Heads List Of Exports STEEL headed the list of items which made 1954 a record year for Britain's exports, the Board of Trade announced. Exports totalled £2,673 million and re-exports added a further £101 million. Exports accounted for £125 million of [the total. Passenger motor cars and chassis contributed
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  • 195 12 Plant To Raise U.K. Synthetic Fibres Output WILTON. (Yorkshire). Jan. 21: (Reuter).— Output from a new pushbutton factory here will soon increase Britain's exports of synthetic fibres by three million lbs. each year. The factory is Britain's first large scale production plant making terline British fibre which has been described
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  • 34 12 The output for Johan Tin Dredging Ltd. for the month of December was 79.27 piculs tin ore. It sold 79.27 piculs ore. There was no balance in stock. Tribute to company was
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  • 41 12 Standard Shipping Reporter THE 9,800-ton cruiser Shropshire, which the Dutch tug Oadzee took in tow from Australia to Britain, calling at Singapore en route a few months ago, ha s arrived in the Clyde. A cabled message received
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  • 198 12 Keener Rivalry For U.K. Cloth Trade Japanese Threat In S-E Asia Standard Market Reporter MALAYAN textile importers feel that keener competition for Manchester with Japan is ahead in the months to come, particularly in the South-east Asian countries. They are not surprised at an announcement that Manchester cotton textile industry
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  • 190 12 THE produce market in Singapore was quiet in most sections yesterday, with little inclination on the part of dealers to trade. Pepper prices were unchanged for the white varieties but black pepper was slightly lower. Singapore Copra Association prices yesterday were: January buyers $312 and sellers
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  • 76 12 Indian greys are sold even to the United Kingdom at prices cheaper than the English qualities. These are also exported direct to Indonesia under a trade agreement. In the countries in this region Indonesia, Burma, Thai, land and Malaya the tendency appears to be for importers to look to
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  • 60 12 COLOMBO. Jan. 21. (UP) Red China's offer to buy 3.500 tons of coconut oil from Ceylon has been withdrawn because prices quoted by Colombo shippers and millers were considered "too high." The first quotation was R5.1,080 per ton, and later this was reduced to Rs. 1.065
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  • 140 12 INNER ROADS Asha; Chip Lam: Aldegonda. IMIR ROADS Wah Sing: Kasimbar: Tong Hock: Kah Poh; Hua Li; Win Huang; Tg. Pinang; Lc e Sen: Larut: Belaga; Hai Seng Hin; Juliana: Sedili: Sofia: (liang Bee Nanyang; Hero: Henrik; Selangor: King Bay: Tung Song: Labuan Haji; Kajang; Hong Ming.
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  • 40 12 SIME, Darby Co. Ltd. reported forward contract sale of 12 tons No. 1 Ribbed Smoked Sheet for delivery f.o.b. Singapore at the rate of two tons monthly February-July at 95J cents per lb. for Radella Rubber Estate, Ltd.
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  • 178 12 MR. J.W. PLATT, 57, (seen above) managing director of the Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd., chairman and director of the Shell Tankers Ltd.. and a director of many other Shell Group companies, will arrive on Jan. 25 on a short visit to Singapore and the Federation. One
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  • 45 12 RADIO manufacturers in Britain estimate that last year they sold to the trade at home approximately 1.5 million sound radio sets, including radiograms and car radios or approximately twice the number sold at home in 1953, states the Radio Council
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  • 86 12 in Singappj?e yesterday reported frrtat the former flagship arrived in the Clyde on Jan 20 after one of the longest tows in shipping history. The Oadzee had taken four months to tow her from Australia. Five Clyde tugs took over from the Oadzee to push her
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  • 36 12 EAST Germany is readv to do US$2OO million worth of business with Western countries, including Western Germany according to Herr Emil Senttleben leader of an kast German trade delegation now in London.— Reuter.
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  • 70 12 MALAYAN production of tin-in-concentrates was 60.691 tons last year, compared with 56.254 tons in 1953, according to official statistics. Last month's stocks of tin and tin-in-concentrates amounted to 7.392 tons compared with 5,893 tons for November. Production of tin includes those from mines and dulang washers, while
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  • 210 12 TO the few thousand inhabitants of the Assamese village of Nahorkatiya, "oil" until recently meant chiefly kerosine for lighting homes and shops. Today the word, which the Assamese call "tel," is the explanation for a vast engineering operation which goes on. day and night on
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  • 56 12 The Singapore Chambi 1 r Commerce Rubber AssoctJ noon prices < cents per ib > yesterday were Buvers Bttltfl Spot loose 99: iou' RSS fob. Feb. No. 1 inn; ion. Mar. No. 1 Mo. Feb. No. r\om. 992 Feb. No. 8 nom. 9(.j{ 9»;j RMA on reg. tender
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  • 60 12 THE third quarterly crop and sale statement for thr financial year ending March 31. 1955 of Aver Hitam Planting Syndicate Ltd. (Buk.t Hitam Estate) showed crop harvested at 378.500 lb.. sold 372,139 )b. net average price 61.20 per lb. and COtt per lb. 41.84 cent s per
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  • 203 12 ALL sections of the Malayan share market were firm yesterday, with rubbers providing an increased turnover. Despite the approach of the Chinese New Year the total turnover showed no diminution. The Malayan share market will be closed on Monday ind Tuesday for the Chinese NewYear. Price
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  • 66 12 COLOMBO. Jan 21 (Renter) Ceylon yesterday increased her tea export duty from one Rupee to one Rupee 30 cents (about one shilling and six pence to one shilling: and eleven pence). The Minister of Finance. Mr. M. I). H. Jayawardene, told the House of Representatives the increase
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  • 97 12 Standard Market p* SPECULATIVE buying vl u S^ pore rubber market to rise pr^ mark yesterday, but, at the cto? e for February shipment v,^ I;M cent per lb. on Thursday. l|^i Prices opened easier on a a ances and dipped below the $1 i There was little trade
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  • 93 12 srshS naluraj J* th»t,r rubWrT Hi n» H *m Miid lr> *> f unhff fur J H in yforwas, of B Mlrs .f „J added \j, w at full UWI made to *n the R rubiri in? hi inn* I tndustr final sj|f Spring mu«tk ed bv Ovjj The
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  • 217 12 THE immediate statistical fulurt <J I bright with optimistic forpcasK ol American consumption for the fiN <J weekly rubber report of Messrs ll«l*« Co., Ltd. This has been viewed in some quarters, but the motor cirj* committed to the tubeless tyre. require far more natural rubber P cipated by
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 660 12 KUALA LUMPUR MUNICIPAL COUNCIL TENDER NOTICE are invited for -I. the supply of Emulsified bitumen to the Municipal Engineer's Department, during 1955. It i s anticipated that approximately 150 long tons will be required. The Emulsified bitumen i s required for grouting and surface dressing work, and should be of
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    • 67 12 NOTICE NEDERLAND LINE ROYAL DUTCH MAIL Agents: HoUand East Asia Line NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES m.v. "Arendskerk" arr. 21.1.55 Contrary to our previous announcement on 21.1.55 the m.v. "Arendskerk" i s now berthed at Godowns: 13/14 S.H.B. General survey will be held on the 27th January, 1955 No further survey will
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  • 324 13 rn p 0 h Lim's surprise defeat of C V" rhamoionship, appears to have set t<"". electors, but it need not be so -j CuP 1 j n m the next two Thomas Cup sno surprise to me. When I eC He j Chye in the Foong Seong I;
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  • 451 13 I Deep In 12,000 Brave Rain (Por RNAS Boxing Uhe ?k\n\ 2M0 m. s P^ ciaU}TS half of them drenched tx boxing iks^ th l Wea i her in search of f oo cleal 'Anetnr \u 7& And the y ot wh at they were
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  • 67 13 SHATraining i n The Rain si^tiAFOKE Hockey Asso- Jciation's training of players in for the coming v -visit of .the Pakistanis was J continued yesterday in spite of Jthe rain. Knock out tourna- g -ment games, however, were -postponed due to the waterlog2 ged grounds. J The SHA training will
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  • 210 13  - Indons Chess Champ Meets First Defeat QUEEN'S CASTLE is. HtiAbALUMi, the suffered his first defeat here Hong, the former Malayan round of the international ed at the Dutch Club last After a gruelling contest lasting six hours, Tay snatched the victory from the Indonesian. But Hutagalung still leads in the
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  • 117 13 Football On Aust. Rules Tomorrow ie Indonesian chess campion ire when he met Tay Khenj a champion, in the fourtl tournament now being play niffht i AUSTRALIAN schoolboys now in the Colony on holiday will play an Australian rules football match against thc Royal Australian Air Force or the University
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  • 132 13 Sikhs For Inter-State Games Here SELANGOR Sikh sportsmen are in Singapore for a series of games against Colony Sikhs Today and tomorrow they meet in the inter-state cricket Tina! for the Mahima Cup from 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ceylon Sports Club ground. At hockey Selangor Sikhs take
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  • 246 13 SEREMBAN, Fri.— While me stauon paciang win be the venue of the game between Perak and Negri rugger teams for the Farleigh Robertson trophy tomorrow, the Negri Sembilan Asians will engage their Selangor counterparts in All Blues Cup competition on the Negri Sembilan
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  • 59 13 BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 20. (Reuter) Pascual Perez. Argentinian holder of the world flyweight boxing title, has turned down an offer to meet Dai Dower (Wales) the Empire champion in England. Ismael Pare, the promoter, announced this adding that he had refused similar offers for Perez to fight
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  • 92 13 To Day's Sport RUGBY: Sanderson Cup Final— RAAF vs. RAF Tengah at Tengah; SCC vs. Johore at SCC; RE ME vs. RAF Seletar at Seletar. HOCKEY: Selangor Sikhs vs. RAF Spore «t Seletar; Army S'pore vs. SRC at SRC; Senior KO Tourney— Police vs Khalsa at Khalsa. Junior KO Tourney—
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  • 43 13 PARIT BUNTAR, Fri. A goal scored by Ng Chin Hock in the last minute of play enabled the P.W.D. to beat Anglo Chinese School by the odd goal in three in a friendly soccer match played at the public padang yesterday.
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    • 788 13 SITUATIONS VACANT AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTI.Mi COMMISSION VACANCIES CHINESE LAMiI AGF: STAFF RADIO AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE A PPLICATIONS are Invited from suitably qualified persons for appointment to the following temporary positions with the Overseas Service of the ABC (Radio Australia) which is inaugurating broadcasts to Asia in Chinese (Mandarin). Supervisor-Translator (Male) (British)— actual
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 264 13 Ja/.THASS- 'MV? THASS ANOTHER J I ALL MV W QOINCiLmTTT^B I BUT FiNALLV J GULP'r-V iGOMODENGES BABV 1 COINCIDENCES 1 1 UFE-I A. AFTER M R/E met the )/ah SSrr SOr °/rr LCVES^BOUT THIS TIME. «1 1 AVOiDfD T QU^CDrNCErTI ONtYONE/f INTONE M^ AH/?- Tk POX MINE WOULO OP %1
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  • Article, Illustration
    2051 14 By win vault lau IPOH, Fri.— The first len furlongs race for the new season to be decided a Ipoh today, concluding: day of the Perak Turf Club's January Meeting shouli resolve into a grim tussle between GRADUATE, DANTESQUE, SUPER PIC TURE, LAGOPUS, CONVENTIONAL and BLOODSHOT^the last two namei3
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  • 181 14 AFTER his stylish d:>plav „v. seven furlongs on lhe 9n\ Announcement. I think, can I followed With confidence. T Big Gam 0 gelding scored maiden win in the style oi promising stayer. He came u; with a strong ru n to defca: M'unlce by a neck. Now that he
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1103 14 Standard's Selections Windsor Ud The Pilot Trundle HU! Scruttneci 1"^"" PRIDE OF BURMA IJINEMASCOPE PRIDE OF BURMA AC'IOB ll Allfgiance Pride of Burma Greatest Hour Tia Juana Meteorite Allegiance Young Alec Allegiance 2 VALIANT BOY MAHA RANEE CHRISTINA MAHA RANEE Hydroplane. OrchrMrat.on Maha Ranee Rice Mill Maha Ranee Hydroplane Hydroplane
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