Singapore Standard, 7 February 1955

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    Lock icon Father's Frantic Cables did Not Stop Him incoming Monk
    310 1 it MPI K. Sun.— Frantic cables from his r«fland did not stop a 20-year-old ex-British .Erie G. H»ltond, becoming a Buddhist Km traditional bright saffron :ncd at the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields Road. Mr. Holland, who is now employed in a
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    19 1 'te. A> *1 y SINGAPORE, MONO UARY 7, 1955 U.S. Warns Mao: 'Don V Interfere, f i4s^-
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    Lock icon Awbery Takes Up The Issue
    38 1 LONDON. Sun— Mr. Stan Awbery. Labour MP. has taken up with Unilevers' London Office the question of the mass dismissal at the time of the strike at Unilevers* in Kuala Lumpur, last summer.
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    Lock icon This Good Samaritan Must Quit
    110 1 CHATHAM. Ontario, Feb. 6. <UP)-*- A 22-year-old Dutch immigrant, who passed a worthless cheque to provide coal for a needy Dutch immigrant family, faced deportation to Holland today because of his "self-styled Good Samaritan deeds." Magistrate 18. Craig of Chatham sentenced Adrien Vander Steen of
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    Lock icon THREE SEEK A NEW LIFE IN ISRAEL
    78 1 THREE SEEK A NEW LIFE IN ISRAEL THREE Jewish youths, two boys and a girl, will leave Singapore today on the "Chusan" bound for Israel where they will settle down to a new life. They are Raymond and Sally Abdullah aged 14 and 16. of Selegie Road and Ezekiel Rapheal.
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    Lock icon A Queen's Nephew Hanged
    49 1 BENGHAZI. Feb. 6 (Reuter) Sharif! Mohayddin Senussi, a nephew of the Queen of Libya was hanged here today for the murder of the Libyan Palace Affairs Minister. Ibrahim El Shalhi. last October. The sentence imposed last October was carried out after approval of King Idris.
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    Lock icon FIVE INJURED
    33 1 FIVE people, three men and two women, received minor injuries when a bus ran into a drain at the junction of Paya Lebar Road and Bart ley Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon.
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    Lock icon MAN STABBED
    25 1 A MAN, M. Shamugam. was admitted into the Singapore General Hospital yesterday afternoon after he was stabbed in the back, in Tank Road.
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    Lock icon 3 MONKS JAILED FOR SEX MURDER
    207 1 CANEA, Crete. Feb 6. (Reuter) The Abbot of a Cretan monastery, his brother and another monk were sentenced to long prison terms here today on charges arisine from the axe murder of a monk in his cell a year ago. The criminal court jury
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    Lock icon Pull-Out From The Tachens Begins
    435 1 Pull-Out From The Tachens Begins MYSTERY CRAFT SHADOW THE SEVENTH FLEET TAIPEI, Feb. 6, (Reuter)-An Armada of United States and Nationalist Chinese ships sailed from Formosa today to evacuate the Tachen Islands off the Chinese mainland. This action follows the State Department announcement last night that the Nationalist Chinese government
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    Lock icon DID THE MIGs HAVE RUSSIAN PILOTS
    221 1 DID THE MIGs HAVE RUSSIAN PILOTS ..AND NOW A PROBE WASHINGTON. Feb. 6— The US. Government is ''conducting an investigation to determine the nationality of Communist jet fighter planes which clashed with American Sabrejets over" the Yellow Sea, the State Department announced yesterday. At the same time the Department commented
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    Lock icon 'Mercy' Team For I-China
    54 1 MANILA, Feb 6 (AP) A second group of 16 Filipino doctors and nurses left by Philippine air lines today for Saigon to aid refugees from Communist-dominated Northern Vietnam. The relief project known as "Operation Brotherhood," is sponsored by the Junior Chamber International. The first group went
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    Lock icon HAWKER RECEIVES SEVERE BURNS
    51 1 A SINGAPORE hawker, Ng Boon Bong, 25, received severe burns to his face and arms when a rubber smokehouse caught fire at Pa y a Lebar Road yesterday afternoon. Ng was admitted into hospital. The fire, however, was put out before the arrival of the fire
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    Lock icon KENT-HUGHES IN TAIPEI
    42 1 TAIPEI, Fob. 6. <Reuter> Mr. VV. S. Hughe*. Australian Minister of the Interior, who arrived here today denied Peking Radio reports that his visit was connected with a plan for resumption of diplomatic relations between Britain and Nationalist China.
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    Lock icon PAIN IS THE PENANCE
    134 1 Hindus Honour Deity Mkh Kavadis Spikes MORE than 40 Hindu devotees, with sharp needles pierced in their bodies, braved the hot sun to pay homage to their deity, Lord Subramaniam, at the Chettiars' Temple in Tank Road, Singapore, during the Hindu festival of Thaipusam, yesterday. After
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    Lock icon Princess Off On A Caribbean Cruise
    190 1 SCARBOROUGH, Tobago— Feb. 6, (Reuter)— Princess Margaret sailed from Tobago last night in the Royal Yacht, Britannia after a six-hour visit to this "Robinson Crusoe" island. In the yacht, she will make a cruise of the West Indian islands ending at Nassau in the
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    Lock icon 4 Canberras Leave For Malaya Today
    42 1 4 Canberras Leave For Malaya Today LONDON. Sun.— The Malayan Commissioner. Inche Othman will watch the departure of four Canberra jet bombers for Malaya. tomorrow. He will be at the RAF aerodrome at Binbrook. Lincolnshire to wish them luck when they leave.
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    Lock icon 13 Die In Plane Crash
    48 1 LAGOS, Feb. 6. (ReuteD Thirteen people were killed when a West African Airways Corporation airliner crashed during a flight between Enugu and Calabar In eastern Nigeria, yesterday. Three of the crew and all nine passengers in the plane, a Bristol Wayfarer. were Europeans.
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    Lock icon 2 BRITISH STARS AMONG BEST 5
    125 1 NEW YORK, Feb. 6, <Reuter)—British film stars. Richard Burton and Edmund Purdom, have been voted two of Hollywood's five "Most Promising Actors For 1955 in the annual rankings or Photoplay Magazine. Richard Burton will receive a Certificate of the Award— decided by a readers'
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    Lock icon No One Was Hurt
    70 2 by THIS unmanned Police van parked on a slope below the Federal Police Headquarters in Bluff Road. Kuala Lumpur, crashed into a building used as a canteen, at noon on Saturday. There was no one in the building when the vehicle "bulldozed" its way. Only two
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    Lock icon Patients Blocked Hospital Corridors
    255 2 Says Medical Director KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Hospitals in the Federation had become thoroughly inadequate by the end of 1953 in respect of both beds and outpatient facilities, Dr. R. E- Anderson, Director of Medical Services, declared yesterday. In his foreward to the Department's 1953 report. Dr
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    Lock icon 80 Ketuas Want Govt. Decision
    103 2 80 Ketuas Want Govt. Decision KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— At their annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur. 80 Sclangor Ketuas kampong today decided to press for immediate acceptance of a memorandum on conditions of service sent to the Government early last year. It was a nine-point memorandum which covered matters relating
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    Lock icon Blitz On Dangerous Vehicles
    85 2 Blitz On Dangerous Vehicles BRUNEI. Feb. 6. (Rcuter) Police here have extended the "blitz" on dangerous road vehicles begun in January by the Kuala Belait road licencing authorities at the opposite end of the State. From now on all lorries and all private vehicles over three-years-old must undego a roadworthiness
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    Lock icon Bedok Rural Committee
    68 2 THE following were elected to the Singapore Bedok Rural District Committee. Chairman Mr, Abdul" bin Masood. Secretary Mr. Poh Sing Koon. Treasurer Mr. Toh Sen» Sit. Committee members Messrs. Puah King Seng. Chua Chye Chua. Osman bin Hassan. Abdul Hamid bin Rahamaa Ng Peck Hoai, Ong Tang
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    Lock icon St. Francis' Association
    58 2 MALACCA. Sun.— St. Francis' Association will hold its annual general meeting at its premises No. 53, Koon Cheng Road, Malacca, on Sunday Feb. 13. The Associrtion's finances were satisfactory for the year Income realized was $10,595 87 of which $6,602 came from Kff'y-w, ***** 45 from the
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    Lock icon HOME GUARDS TAKE OVER
    74 2 KOTA BHARU, Sun.— The Kampong defence of Batang Merbau and Nibong in Tanah Merah District of Kelantan was handed over to the local Home Guards by the police at an impressive ceremony in both the villages today. Home Guard posts .totalling 133 in the State will
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    Lock icon TEACHER WEDS
    38 2 KOTA BHARU, Sun Aminah binto Abdul Majid. grand-daughter of Che Zainal, a Government pensioner, was married to Che Noor bin Haji Ismail a teacher at the Sultan Ismai] College. A large gathering witnessed the Bersanding ceremony.
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    Lock icon SERVICES AID BLOOD BANK
    48 2 TWENTY-FIVE medical students and 26 members of the Services donated blood to the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service last week. A total of 131 flasks of blooq were received by the Service from 54 European and 77 Asians. The present blood stock is 99 flasks.
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    Lock icon Tenants Form SIT Assn.
    121 2 Tenants Form SIT Assn. AN association calling itself the Singapore Improvement Trust Tenants Association has been formed to "act as a representative body on behalf of its members In all negotiations." President of the newly formed Association, Mr. See Thoe Hln. told The Standard yesterday he is contacting all Community
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    Lock icon HGs Take Over New Post Duties
    83 2 HGs Take Over New Post Duties KOTA BHARU. Sun. The defence of Batang Merbau and Nibong in the Tanah Merah district of Kelantan was yesterday handed over by the police to the local Home Guards. The ceremony was performed by the District Officer. Tanah Merah. Che Noor bin Zainal. in
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    Lock icon National School Classes Indians To Agree On One Condition
    197 2 National School Classes Indians To Agree On One Condition KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— lndian language schools in the Federation are prepared to accept "national school" type classes, provided they do not disrupt the curriculum. This was the finding of the nine-man Indian education executive committee which met here today to deliberate
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    26 2 SINGAPORE'S Director of Education, Mr. R. M. Young, will open the Science Block of the Hartley Secondary School on Feb. 18 at 9 a.m.
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    Lock icon 'FLYING FIRE BRIGAD BASE IN MALAYA
    202 2 'FLYING FIRE BRIGAD BASE IN MALAYA Insurance Against Aw KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Moloyo will v in greatly increased defence potential from Britain' j Oubt *i two-division "Flying Fire Brigade" in readiness f Or CCl N Africa and the Middle East, The Standard was told T*! 9 I**1 The multi-million dolla-
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    Lock icon $3% M. Govf. Loan For Houses
    133 2 $3% M. Govf. Loan For Houses SINGAPORE Government has allowed loans worth $3,750,000 to about 220 of its employees to build their own homes. Another $250,000 is available for other Government employees who apply to build their own homes. The Deputy Financial Secretary, Mr. H. Shaw, told The Standard yesterday
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    Lock icon The Peking Viewpoint
    219 2 HONGKONG, Feb. f» (Reuter) The N>w China News Agency said yesterday that Britain would set up a "Flying Fire Brigade" to suppress the peoples struggle for independence in Asia. the Middle East and Africa The Agency said the first assignment of troops would be to support ground
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    Lock icon DRIVING TEACHERS FORM AN UNION
    201 2 THE Bureau of Driving: Standards at its annual general meeting yesterday, decided to form itself into a trade association to be registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance. The new name will be the Singapore Driving Instructors Union. New office bearers are: Mr Chang Ching Hui
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    70 2 THE DepiTtatM I Aviati D I Sir.ga; I Gov( res i I promiv I re-engai?^:." I ::am Sec: I Lee Y« r.g Mfc, *m I the y i trary to ih* «BB by "the Cc that Hip r^reiM men wou.c be (JJ ence when vicaal "Overlo.r. J c.aim the
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    147 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A puckish Borneo ape today "beat" a fourmember brains trust of Radio Malaya. Introduced as a su r prise by Mary f hong, a Kuala Lumpur schoolgirl, the grey ape. with a silvery patch on, its head snugly settled before the mike, as the MONKEY BEATS
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    191 3 ,'j Cancel Arm-Bands [HIM>KH> Singapore taxi drivers yesterday I hr Badminton Hall, Guillemard Road to ua>t th»* City Council's decision to confiscate bancK us being unreasonable. c meeting, organized by Taxi Drivers' Union dei to ask the City's Pre- t. Mr. T. P. F. IfcNeke. to intervene in the
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    50 3 hall a Will row Siha- he r the all- -China years narch n on a rea pledge solved the paralysed .n June I that a iid be year, to —all the led tv n?" rtion •-rate. red balopinion bsen i i ilar kin?. Held nh and rnment -China per
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    Lock icon £50,000 In Grants For Scouts
    81 3 LONDON. Ftb. 6 (Renter) The Boy Scouts Association is to receive grants totalling £50,000 from the King George VI Foundation, a memorial fund for the late Kins subscribed from all over the world The Association said today the main object of the grants the expansion
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    Lock icon TAXI DRIVER ASSAULTED
    43 3 A taxi-driver was assaulted :>v a crowd yesterday after- aticr being involved in a <> ision which resulted in the death of a six-year-oid boy. Oh Sin Him. at the Sixth Mile Thomson Road. Singapore. He was later admitted into hospital.
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    Lock icon NATIONAL POLICY CONDEMNED
    101 3 nn- A noag the organizations partii ipating were the Malacca UMNO Branch. UMNO Pemuda, Kaum Ibu Gurus lation, Malay Chamber of Commerce and the Pengh .us Association The meeting decided to j convene a Federation convention of all Malay organizations to discuss and take a!l neces- sary
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    Lock icon UNITED STATES OF MALAYA IS THE ANSWER
    334 3 UNITED STATES OF MALAYA IS THE ANSWER Lim's Plan For Unity Of Federation With Spore LABOUR Fronter, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, who is also president of the Singapore Trade Union Congress, last night advocated a United States of Malaya, as the future political set-up of this country. KMr. Lim's conception
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    Lock icon PAK. PRESS HAILS ALI'S DECISION
    149 3 PAK. PRESS HAILS ALI'S DECISION KARACHI. Feb. 6 (Reutcr) -The Karachi independent English language newspaper Dawn today welcomed the announcement of the Pakistan Prime Minister. .Mr. Mohammed Ali. that Pakistan will continue its Commonwealth ties after becoming a republic. The newspaper said: "The wisdom and value of our continued membership
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    31 3 CALCUTTA. Feb. 6, <Reutcr>— Fifty miners are reported to have been killed by an underground explosion at The Amlabad Colliery at .Tharia. 150 miles north-west of here, last night.
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    Lock icon THAIPUSAM CROWDS GATHER IN BATU CAVES
    251 3 THAIPUSAM CROWDS GATHER IN BATU CAVES KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Hundreds of Hindu families today wended their way to the historic Batu Caves, seven miles from Kuala Lumpur, to observe Thaipusam, a festival in honour of Lord Subramanyam, the deity of valour. They came by road and rail from estates and
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    Lock icon To Study Science
    29 3 YEONG MUN SIEW of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, who leaves Australia this week on a scholarship awarded under the Colombo Plan. He is to study science.
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    Lock icon Ex-Councillor Buried
    69 3 MALACCA. Sun. A larjje gathering in the Settlement this afternoon attended the funeral of Mr. N K. Bain a former Resident Councillor, at the B v k i t Sercndit Christian cemetery. Among those who attended the service at Christ Chuch were the Resident Commissioner. Mr. H. G.
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    Lock icon RETURNING OFFICER
    31 3 The Governor of Singapore. Sir John Niroll. has appointed Mr. A. A. Williams, Organization Secretary. Colonial Secretariat, to be the Chief Returning Officer for the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections.
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    55 3 JOHORE BAHRU Sun A woman, Siou Chan, of South Malaya Pineapple Plantations, Pckan Xanas. was fined $300. in default two months imprisonment, in the Sessions Court Pontian yesterday for being in possession in a restricted area of four katis of dried fish and two jars of
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    Lock icon Negara Gives Manifesto A Final Check
    104 3 Negara Gives Manifesto A Final Check KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. After a four-hour meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Party Xegara Centra] Executive Committee, today put the final touches to the party's flection manifesto which is to be presented to the National Council at Seremban on Feb 27. All that the party
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    Lock icon WHAT IS HAPPENING TO FASHIONS?
    927 4 HAT are they doing in Rome? What goes on in Paris? And can somebody please tell me what they are thinking about in London. They? The fashion designers of course. In their fever to outdo each other. consider for a moment what they are doing
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    Lock icon THE NEW BELOW THE BELT LOOK
    557 4  -  ROSETTE HARGROVE By pARIS— (NEA)— Brace yourself for a "blow below the belt" for spring from the Paris world of high fashion. It's not from Christian Dior, perennial eyebrowraiser and silhouette-shifter, but from Jean Patou, and "blow below the belt" is just what Raymond
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    465 4 JJOW do you train a husband who should have been trained by his mother? Have a look round the kitchen door at my old man. He slings into the sink the greasy solution he calls the dishwater, hurl the sodden dish towels on top of
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    144 4 Children who have reached the stage in their development that they cons;der naps "babyish" may sometime? be persuaded to submit gracefully to afternoon relaxation if the label is changed. Call it a rest period instead. When your old bridge table begins to buckle and sag. you
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    Lock icon NOW STALIN MADE YALTA FIT RED PLANS
    521 5  -  LEON DENNEN -By This is the second of three dispatches by Leon Dennen, NEA Service roving correspondent, placing Yalta in historical perspective as the 10th anniversary of the controversial conference Feb. 11— draws near. roog fateful ,a st b. n is .hat >-
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    15 5 THE BI(; THREE AT YALTA: Left lo ri-hl. Choir hill. Roosevelt and Stalin.
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    82 5  - PUNCHES IN PRINT DENIS DUNN A VISITING American f* shoe manufacturer said in an interview: "These crazy high heels demanded hv women have meant a glittering harvest to our chiropodists." The golden corn. A READER asks: "What /x does the self-employed man without the aid of P.A.Y.E. do when he
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    878 5  - The Yanks Tell A Tall story Of Queensland and Its Flying Saucers LABRY FOLEY By We don't ask you to believe this storybut we feel it will "sure amuse you." *.v w W W S*l NtK -six fly- Unded on 2 Queensland of WC. tordins to a in Ameri*v magazine
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    Lock icon Put Itching Powder Under Husband's Wig
    634 5  - Put Itching Powder Under Husband's Wig MUCH more to be fear--ITA ed than the wife who storms at an unfaithful husband is the one who knows all. says nothing, but plans a secret revenge She usually devises something so humiliating that the errant male rarely strays again A typical case
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      344 5 '^^^MH HHgirtJHlffl^wßhßlWW)WMßttWHtWttWp^^S BV&g f'ißF ?ff[ j^cJ»J?yj jiff T«DA» > I I know ill no way of i JiulKinjr the futii r hut hj the past."— Patrick Henry. MONDAY FOR F\FRYO\h: I here is a tendency to misconceptions or misunderstandings: don! mislay or forge' things or be hasty or irritable during
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    934 6 Opium Cure LARGE slice of recent Malayan history is represented by opium farms and a cuiative centre for opium addicts. For several decades the authorities in the then Straits Settlements and the Malay States had regarded opium as one of their main sources of revenue. Then it was
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    1446 6  - Rival Claims To The Antarctic L. P. Kirwan By (The recent announcement* of British and United States plans for Antarctic expeditions, and the opening of the 1955 Antarctic whaling season, have added a new topicality to the old dispute about sovereignty over the lands round the South Pole.) Director and
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    Lock icon RESETTLING THE KIKUYU
    525 6  -  CYRIL DUNN Byiß •ft 7 HTHERE is an evident feeling i in Kenya that it is time people started thinking i about what is to happen when the emergency is endi cd. This feeling is probably 1 implicit even in the indig- nation meetings which Euro--1 peans
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    Lock icon Holiday Pay for Ships Watchman
    136 6 mmm Sir:— The plight of shipswatchmen employed under local contractors on board ocean-going vessels berthed at Singapore for ant:pilferage and security of ships appears to be paradoxical when one compart •> it to other classes of unskilled labourers. Economic hardships, favouritism. along with many other
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    12 7 BECOME EMBASSY Foreign Garcia pines n in Year. pine P* ador personal
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    38 7 Ifck (Keuter)— Pakistan will become 11 an American-style government by Aug. n^rvirv of Pakistan's independence a ln »rnt ottidal said here yesterday. tan D in a, his re of q» •hat Ws rip
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    36 7 PRESIDENT Celal Bayar of Turkpy is scheduled to arrive here in Lahore, Punjab, on Feb. 23 on a goodwill visit. King Hussein of Jordan is scheduled to visit Lahore on March 8. UP
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    25 7 THE United States on Saturday, officially placed quotas effective immediately on the export of pure copper scrap and copper base alloy scrap. Reuter
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    189 7 WASHINGTON Feb. 6, (AP) A Philippine plan for an international air force for South-east Asia was received with interest here yesterday, but on the basis of l\S. policy declaration, it appeared a matter not contemplated for immediate consideration. Two members of the House of Representatives
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    69 7 LONDON. Feb. 6, (Renter) The beautiful Baroness Elizabeth Beck. London society hostess, was in hospital hrre yesterday after accidentally shooting herself in the neck. The Baroness, 39. wife of [he Austrian-born engineering magnate Baron Beck, was Cleaning a gun when she accidentally fired it. She crawled to
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    67 7 LONDON. Feb. 6. (AP)— The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, mother of the Marquess of Salisbury, leader of the House of Lords, died yesterday She was 87. Lady Salisbury was a member of a family noted for longevity Her youngest sister, Viscountess Hambledon. is 84. A brother
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    59 7 SYDNEY. Fob 6. (UP)— A 12-foot shark killed German migrant Bruno Aloysius Rautenberg today. Rautenberg, 25. was attacked while swimming in Sydney harbour a few yards from she re The shark nearly tore one '.es from his body. He died minutes later. It was the second
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    317 7 DEFINITELY NO POLITICS AT THIS CONFERENCE RANGOON, Feb. 6, (Reuter)—Scholars, thinkers, writers, musicians and artists from 13 Asian countries will meet in Rangoon from Feb. 27 to 30 to consider "urgent questions which face men of thought and culture." This Asian Conference on Cultural Freedom has been called by a
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    63 7 VIENNA. Feb. 6. (Reuter)— The acting Soviet High Commissioner in Austria Mr. V. If. Kraskevitch. in a note to the United States High Commissioner. Mr- Llwellyn E. Thompson yesterday, charged American representatives in Vienna with trying to blackmail a Soviet consul into high treason. The note published
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    73 7 pboto. ser, Egyptian Premier: Prince Feisal. the Saudi Arabian Premier; and Self El Islam El Hassan, tn- v*men Prime Minister. revolve around the proposed treity between Iraq and Turkey. In this picture, three of the ministers pose for photographers left to right are Gamal Abdel Nas- AFTER
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    536 7 Canada India Take The Lead LONDON Feb. 6 (Reuter) The prime ministers of India and Canada spent 90 minutes here yesterday in nighly-secret discussions of the Formosa crisis I with Sir Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secre- tary. So close was the veil of official secrecy over this
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    130 7 PARIS. Feb. 6 (UP)—Russia set off four secret and hitherto unannounced atomic explosions last autumn, a French Government spokesman disclosed yesterday. A spokesman for Henri Longchambon, French Secretary of State for Scientific Research, said the blasts occurred between September and November. Other unofficial reports at
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    100 7 Shots Fired At Egyptian Consulate NEW YORK. Feb. 6 (UP)— An Egyptian Consulate spokesman said yesterday an unidentified man fired bullets through a window of the consulate. No injuries were reported. New York City police sent radio cars immediately to the consulate on fashionable Park Avenue in mid-Manhattan Police said
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    75 7 OSLO, Norway. Feb. 6. (UP) Scandinavian Airlines System has halted preparations for inauguration this year of its planned regular North Pole roue to Tokyo, the generaliy well-informed Norwegian Journal of Commerce and Shipping, said today. The paper said the reason was partly the political situation in
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    54 7 ALBERT LEA, Minnesota, Feb. 6, (Reuter) Richard R. Tenneson, a United States soldier who refused repatriation at the end of the Korean War sent his family a foot long box of Christmas presents which have just arrived here. Tenneson is believed to be working in a
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    24 7 RUSSIA'S Supreme Soviet meeting in Moscow on Saturday heard bitter criticism levelled at several state-owned industries for fall-downs in their expansion plans.
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    31 7 ADLAI E Stevenson. 1952 .•andidate for U.S. President, was a guest here yesterday at a lunch for the Shah and Empress of Iran given by Governor Averell Harriman. UP
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    71 7 photo. AT HER hotel in Park Lane on her first visit to London is French film actress Brigi tte Bardot. 20. who is to star opposite Dirk Bogardc in "Doctor at Sea" being made at Pinewood. It is her first British film, but she has made seven French
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    160 7 SAN JOSE. Costa Rica Feb. 6 (AP)— Airborne government troops yesterday wrested the jungle-enclosed town of Los Chiles in Northern Costa Rica from a small rebel group which occupied it on Friday. The government announced that its forces were in absolute control of both
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    47 7 LONDON. Feb. I. (AP)— Hungary's estimate of the si 7« of the average woman's bust has been deflated The Hungarian Embassy's Information Service in London gave out the news yesterday that the average size in that Communist land is 36 1/4 inches and not
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    179 7 Commissars Succumb To The Lute Of Vice VIENNA, Feb. 6 (UP)— Hungarian Communists have admitted failure in their campaign to stamp out vice. "The swamp flower of prostitution blooms unhindered." according to an official Communist publication from Hungary. It even pointed an accusing finger at certain Party officials. "We think
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    112 9 miration o I the >Drri and" th( l*uon •> o W' iß,pro*emfD I :> ,t Rcac I ncurs -fc- 3 jfWtll I >DtK NOTICE. rom II r L\LI>ATION I I j rsor.s I s scs X- applying 1 rted ttffl and 'arts i ft* 4 Sec Hasan I a
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    213 9 Peter Says: 'I Will Fly' A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy, who has been stricken with polio for the past seven years, is now making miraculous recovery because of a determination to fly. He is Peter Wickham of Brighton, Sussex Peter, who once lay completely paralyzed, is now able to walk with the
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    579 9 Less Activity Reported By A Market Correspondent MALAYAN share markets became increasingly affected by the Formosa crisis as the week wore on. It would hare been most odd if it had been otherwise. The effects were les s activity, more caution on the part of buyers and
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    626 9 MALAYA TO BUY MORE RICE IN 1955 MALAYA, including Singapore, and Hongkong Will probably buy more foreign rice this year than their abnormally low purchases during 1954, states the Food and Agriculture Organization in a recent commodity report on rice. There Is a probability that Indonesia will buy some foreign
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    212 9 IT is probable that both production and consumption of natural rubber will increase this year, writes the London financial and economic weekly, The Economist. Higher usage should absorb part of the increase in output and the surplus should not be burdensome. However, The Economist
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    35 9 BRITAIN'S caravan trade one ot the country's new postwar industries —is to stage its first Annual Convention and Exhibition on March 16 17 and 18. at Folkestone, on the South coast of England.
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    65 9 MR. LEE KWOK BAN 0/ Overseas Union Bank Ltd., will leave by air on Wednesday for advanced training at Midland Ltd.. London. His expenses icill be paid from a special fund set up by the Bank. The scheme is initiated to improve and extend the
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    54 9 MR. DAVID A. Hegele, Coca-Cola representative for South-east Asia, who has been in Singapore since 1949, is returning to the United States on Feb. 11. He recently introduced a Coca-Cola plant in Jakarta. Mr. Hegele was feted at a dinner given by the staff of Lion
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    36 9 THE West German industrial turnover was 11% higher this year than in 1953, the Federal Statistics Office announced in Bonn. The turnover was 140.000.000.000 marks M 599.960.000.000 compared with 126.000.000.000 marks (M 589.964.000.000).— AP.
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    149 9 THE four Super Constellations which are now on order for KLM. will have a greater fuel capacity than the 12 at present operated by the Dutch Royal Airlines. These new Super Connies will be equipped with two external, streamlined tanks fixed to the tips
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    378 9 Weekly Market Review Standard Market Correspondent THE price of tin was becoming: more sensitive to the political news, sharp rises being recorded in the past week. At the close on Saturday the metal price was $358| per picul (s3^ol on the previous Saturday). Malayan tin
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    38 9 THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the S.C.C. Rubber Association, the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association, the Malayan Exchange Banks Association, the produce market and the Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce will be closed for the Taipusam holiday.
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    89 9 OVERSEAS sales of British bicycles are estimated to have reached 2.1 million machines in 1954, reports the British Cycle and Motor-cycle Manufacturers' Union. This compares with the export of 2.019,685 in 1953. Motor-cycle sales of about 76,000 machines were a near-record. The total paid by overseas
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    22 9 MALAYAN Exchange Banks Association selling rate to merchants on Saturday was: Riyals 116 i (T.T./0.D.). Other exchange rates remained unaltered.
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    62 9 •wwwww MR. R. K. LOVE, (seen above). Sub-Manager of the Mercantile Bank of India Limited, Singapore, who leaves /or Britain today aboard the Chusan on six months' vacation. During his slay in the Colony Mr. Love has taken a keen interest in soccer. His successor is Mr.
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    265 9 WILLIAM JACKS CO (M) LTD Made a very good showing for the year ended 30.9 1954 when, despite difficult trading conditions, the satisfactory profit of $1,802,826 was earned (G0.1%). Recommended final dividend of 20% makes a total of 40% on a capital increased by 50%. compared with 45%
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    269 9 Business Done In The Week BUSINESS done in shares from Jan 29 to Feb. 4: INDUSTRIALS: Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 29/3. Fraser Neave Ord $2.04 to $2.05 to $2.03. Gammons $3.32J and $3.30. Hongkong Bank Colonial $1,115 and $1,110 cd cci Wm. Jacks $3.82J and ?3.60. Malayan Breweries $4 0")
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      35 9 I SHIP BRHGS BICE GIFT thf *> B^4-ton freighter, Anne Reed, which arrived 2 in Sinfapo'r'e'on Saturday with a sift of 150^ tons rice from the Thai Government for Singapore flood vlctimi. 2 YUM Standard photo.
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    301 11 I Win In 17 Outings 1 H sctland Feb. 6, <Reut€r)-Scotland gained an upset victory I* point* to el?ht here today t0 end a I? successive Inter n ion delfts. thing at the interval, Scot ed goal, one penalty goal i 1.*., of w •I
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    118 11 1 CANTERBURY, Kent, Z Feb. 3 (Reuter)— Ye Oldc < 2 Beverlie Inn at Canter- J bury will in future be J 2 able to open on Sundays S 2 because England retained j the cricket "Ashes" with J its victory in the fourth J Test match
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    63 11 NEW YORK, Feb. C, (Rcuter) American Wes Santec saw his Wcrld Indoor Mile record beaten by Gunnar Nielsen (Denmark) here last night after holding it only a week. Nielsen clorked four mintues 03.6 seconds— o.2 seconds better than the American's four mintues 03.8 seconds at boston.
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    341 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Stonor Shield Cricket competition for Senior Clubs in Selangor will be played on the league system this season. This was decided by SCA's Executive Committee at its first meeting at the Selangor Club, last night. I Last season, the competition was
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    430 11 At-A- Glance. New York A Bushnell. Secretary of the L.S. Olympic Association announced today that Detroit! Michigan has been recommended to the International qiymmc Committee as the site for the 1960 Olympics. Squad Valley California, received the U.S. Olympic Committee's reccmmedation as site for the winter games. A final decision
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    137 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The proposed challenge weight-lifting match between Singapore's Miss Violet Ho and Perak's Miss Lee Kwai Chee has been called off Both girls have written to the Selangor Health Culturists Association saying that they are unaole to accept the offer because they
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    35 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— The Se'angor Chinese Athletic Association scored their third victory in a row when they beat Air Headquarters 5-2 in a thrilling Waterpolo match at the Chenwu Pool yesterday.
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    151 11 SPORTS LETTER WOULD like to say a fern words in support of P. Samy who wrote about the selection of the South team in your paper dated Jan. 2*. It's a disgrace that the selectors have allowed favouritism to creep in their selection of the team.
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    856 12 FEDERATION GET A SHOCK Colony Did All But Win saves. Trip last flicker of hope lor the: Federation appeared to nave died when Devendran. after a brillian; solo run into th e pushed thf ball out. Four minutes from time. Dtvtndran featured in another grand solo effort which brought him
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    386 12 BAM TO SPEND $13,000 ON THE STADIUM The Singapore Badminton Stadium, confirmed by the Badminton Association of Malaya's Standing Committee as the venue of the Thomas Cup matches in Singapore three months hence, will be improved to hold about 7,500 spectators. The Committee yesterday decided to spend about $1:1.0*00 on
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    111 12 STILL without Jalan Besar Stadium passes, we didn't cover the soccer match, but a reader signing himself a 'soccer fan' says: "I attach herewith result of the match between Singapore and the Admira Wein, and I thoroughly sympathise irith the predicament the City Council has placed on
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    52 12 Admira Wein. the Austrian soccer tourists, beat Singapore 3 l in their third match in the Colony. In my opinion, they took things too easy, and did not go for goals against the very weak opposition containing only three Colony players Awang Bakar scored the only goal
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    102 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— Selanqor wiii be at full strength with they meet Singapore in a Hockey match for the first, time this season on the Selangor Club padang tomorrow. Selangor's Selection Com nut tee announced the following to represent the State: T. Nadarajah (PWD SC). M.
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    52 12 LONDON. Feb. 6 (AP> Jark Solomons. British boxing promoter, said yesterday he hoped to bring a 308-pound Riant and a 112-pound fighter lor boxing shows. The man mountain is Ewart Potseiter. a South African of Dutch extraction. Solomons Raid Potgeiter is over seven feet and weighs
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    85 12 SAFA Rings Up SAFA's honorary secretary, Mr. Lim Yong Liang, telephoned yesterday, saytng that Singapore will have a 'return' match against the tourists on Wednesday at b p.m. The Singapore team will be selected jroni: Fook Teng, Clarke, Vass. Johan, Kok Cheng, Clark, Kok Seng. Osman Johan. Chant, Boon Khun.
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    205 12 MALACCA, Sun.—Selangor finished the Chua Choon Leong Cup tennis against Malacca with a 4—l victory today. Selangor had decided the match the previous day by taking two singles and doubles. The first singles today found the precision and steadiness of Leone Hoe Yeng. Selangor's number one.
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    79 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Selangor Hockey Association XI were held to a 2 2 draw by H.G.L. Poppitt's XI in a hockey match on the padang yesterday. Bharrudin, spear heading Selangor's attack, gave a good display, and on this performance, may lead the State's attack against Singapore
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    83 12 TAIPING. Sun. The Lower Perak District Football Association invites entries from teams wishing to take part in either Div. 1 or Div. 2 leagues. The competitions are open to all Government departments, commercial firms. schools, estates and teams. Competing teams must pay an affiliation fee of
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    76 12 AT the annual general meeting of the Woodlands Sports Club held recently the following were elected officials for the current year: President Mohamed Noor bin Shamsudin; Vice president Mr. M.K. Mydeen: Hon. secretary Inche Abdullah bin Haji Sudin Hon. treasurer Harith bin Khairan; Hon. auditor Omar bin Abdul
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    117 12 J LONDON, Feb. 5 (Reuter)— E. B. (Eddy) Choong, j winner of more than a hundred important titles in Britain including the All-English championships, took 2 the Middlesex badminton men's singles championship J tonight when he beat E. L. Choong 15 3, 15 7.
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    98 12 PRETTY Betty Cheong. daughter of Mr. S K. Cheong, rccch'cd the Hunter Memorial trophy on behalf of Mandarin Stables, the owners of NEVER A BLANK, winner of Saturday's race six. Making the presentation is Mrs M. F. Culler, wife of the chairman of the Singapore Turf
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    416 12 CHARLTON 'S ON THE WAY TO THE DOUBLE' Of the 17 clubs still interested in the Cvp Aston Villa and Doncaster met in their second reply on Monday. Five lost today. They were Villa and Doncaster, Wolves. Huddersfield and Notts County. Six of the others won and six drew, and
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      383 12 LONDON, Feb. 5, (Reuter)— High scoring marked the return to a full league soccer programme today after the Cup excitement of lost week. Heading the individual performances was Tommy Briggs, former England "B" team International, who commanded three high transfers before settling with Blackburn Rovers- He
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      374 12 LONDON. Feb. 5. (Reutcri— The following are football results for Saturday. Feb. S, lyjj LEAGUE. DIVISION I Arsenal 2 Preston 0 Blackpool 0 Sunderland 0 Bolton 6 Wolves 1 Charlton 6 Aston Villa 1 Everton 1 Chelsea 1 Huddersfield 1 Manchester U. 3 Manchester C. 4 Cardilf
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