Singapore Standard, 17 February 1955

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    12 1 Singapore Standar d SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 11 PACES 13 CENTS.
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    Lock icon MASKED MAN RAPES PULAU RANI WIDOW
    195 1 Standard Staff Reporter MIDDIK AGED widow was slashed on the palm! .iv a masked man in her room in Pulau Brani, j o il Mimapore, in the early hours of yesterday! r r/.oyed as a maidservant by an Army age as 38. She was
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    Lock icon BRITAIN SOLVES COMET RIDDLE
    98 1 Feb- 16, John M:ni- >: 1 and told Parthat the d in a nation Britain's ncr to be d made re operates a possible fatigue in afl by S r i ol Br> centre at Hampshire. ititajtt of attractions ■forced p.as- > alumtaium. so formed heavier
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    Lock icon MALAYAN $ IS CURRENCY FOR RIAU
    81 1 MALAYAN IS CURRENCY FOR RIAU JAKARTA. Feb. 16 (UP).— The Indonesian Government today reluctantly certified the Malayan dollar as legal tender in the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia for the calendar year 1955. The Riau island group ta so close to Singapore that inhabitants of the islands use the Malayan dollar
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    Lock icon IT'S REMOTE CONTROLLED
    23 1 IT'S REMOTE CONTROLLED >RD. Connecticut. iter) A remote ropier has been t 1 ;.r.d tested by the f if t Corporation rm announced.
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    Lock icon The Scalded Baby Dies
    36 1 CHAN PENG, a newlyborn baby girl who was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital eleven days ago after she was found scalded in her cot at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, died last night.
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    Lock icon A HOME BECOMES ASHES IN 30 MINS.
    62 1 A HOME BECOMES ASHES IN 30 MINS. photo. ALL that remains after fire struck an attap hut in Plantation Avenue, Singapore, which housed a family of six. Within half an hour it was reduced to charred ruins. The disconsolate family salvage for whatever is left of their personal effects as
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    Lock icon AIRMAN IS KILLED BY VAMPIRES CANNON
    132 1 AIRMAN IS KILLED BY VAMPIRES CANNON BUTTER WORTH, Wed. A senior aircraftsman of No. 60 Squadron, a visiting squadron from Singapore, was shot dead by a 20-mm cannon from a Vampire jet plane at the Royal Air Force Station. Butterworth, yesterday evening. He was W. Leppard. aged 20. He was
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    Lock icon Lake Of Wine Blocks Traffic
    48 1 CHIERI, Italy. Feb. 16 (AP) Traffic was blocked for four hours in a road near here today by a lake of wine. The road was flooded when a truck skidded and overturned, dumping its load of 300 gallons of wine onto the pavement.
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    Lock icon RI Premier To Survey Floods
    255 1 Milk Flown To?*randed Babies JAKARTA, Feb. 16, <t| Premier Dr. Ali Sastroamidjojo today left jVJ ta for Djambi to survey flood stricken areas in Cei* tk v Sumatra. About 350,000 out of j he /^population of 430,000 in the regions of Djanpbi^f^iiAßia and Batanghari have
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    Lock icon QUEEN WILL DANCE AT U.S. ENVOY'S HOME
    82 1 QUEEN WILL DANCE AT U.S. ENVOY'S HOME LONDON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) —Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will attend a private party given by the American Ambassador. Mr. Winthrop Aldrich. and his wife here next Tuesday— the anniversary of George Washington's birthday. The party will be at the Ambassador's
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    Lock icon PINEAU READY TO FORM GOVT.
    45 1 PARIS. Feb. 16 (Reuter)— M. Christian Pincau this morning informed the French President. M. Rene Coty. that he was prepared to undertake forming a new Government and to present himself and his ministers to the National Assembly later this week.
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    Lock icon WORLDS BEST NIGHT AIR DEFENCE
    118 1 LONDON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) —The Government here declared tonight that Britain •has an effective air defence against what any POte^tM enemy is at present able to bring against us" and the world's best night time air defence. The statement was made in an official paper
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    Lock icon CIVILIANS QUIT ANOTHER ISLAND
    110 1 TAIPEI, Feb. 16. (Reuter) -About 900 civilians from Nan Chi Shan Island. 80 miles south of the Tachens, arrived at Formosa's northern port of Keelung today in a Nationalist Chinese, evacuation gj. rf ■evacuees from Formosa's new ■northernmost ■official ■week that lb- taken the lis about
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    43 1 PNOM PENH, Cambodia. Feb. 16 (Reuter) Mr. Richard Casey. Australian External Affairs Minister, was taken ill with dysentery here today. He is expected to have recovered in time for the Bangkok Conference of South-east Asia Defence Pact on Feb. 2S.
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    Lock icon A-TESTS ARE STILL DELAYED
    30 1 LAS VEGAS, Feb. 16 (Reuter).— Unfavourable weather conditions today postponed the start of a new series of United States atomic tests for the second consecutive day.
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    Lock icon The Big Push-out Goes Off Without A Snag
    94 1 JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 16 (Reuter) Mr. Charles Swart, the Justice Minister, announced last night that the removal of natives from Johannesburg was going so peacefully that he had decided to lift a ban on meetings supposed to last another fortnight. Government resettle- ment
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    Lock icon A SIEGE IN BERNE IS ENDED
    348 1 A SIEGE IN BERNE IS ENDED Envoy Returns To His Legation As... PRIEST ABSOLVES ANTI-REDS FROM AN OATH TO DIE BERNE, Feb. 16 (Reuter) Four armed Rumanian anti-Communists surrendered here without firing a shot this evening after defying troops and Police for more than 36 hours. They had been holding
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    Lock icon Cimpu Will Stay On In Denmark
    160 1 Cimpu Will Stay On In Denmark COPENHAGEN, Feb. 16. i (Reuter) The Danish Minister of Justice, Mr. Hans Haekkerup. said today that Jon Cimpu. chauffeur at the Rumanian Legation who asked for political asylum, would be allowed to remain in Denmark. •'And should we see that Mrs. Maria Cimpu is
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    Lock icon Rubber Takes A 6c. Nose Dive
    146 1 Rubber Takes A 6c. Nose Dive 'Near Panic' Selling And... "NEAR panic"' selling conditions pievailed on the Singapore rubber market yesterday as quotations experienced one of the sharpest single-day drops since the postwar boom yeais. plunging six cents to 99 1/8 cents per lb. for first grade. Largely responsible for
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    Lock icon ...And Down It Goes In London
    51 1 ...And Down It Goes In London LONDON. Feb. 16. (Reuter).—A one-and-a-quarter-to one-and-a-half pence decline in London rubber prires at the opening this morning was a direct result ot the sharp fall at New York and Singapore which followed reports that the United States Government intends to modify the stockpile rotation
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    Lock icon ...Colombo Too
    38 1 COLOMBO. Feb 16 (Reuter) Rubber price on the Colombo market dropped to Rs. 1.28 per pound today for No. 1 ribbed smoked sheets. During the past week the price of the grade had reached Rs. 1.36.
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    Lock icon Councillor Praises Col. Young
    103 2 NAIROBI. Feb. 16 (Reuter). Colonel Arthur Young. City of London Police Commissioner who came ouc to Kenya to reorganise the Police Force was praised in Parliament here yesterday, for his valuable work In transforming the African Police. Mr. Eliud Mathu. Kikuyu leader of the African members
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    Lock icon SIX LAWYERS FAIL TO CONVINCE THE CHIEF JUSTICE
    371 2 SIX LAWYERS FAIL TO CONVINCE THE CHIEF JUSTICE Appeal By 24 Triad Society Men Dismissed THE Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, dismissed in the Singapore High Court yesterday, the appeal against sentence of 24 Chinese convicted in the lower court and each imprisoned for five months for being members of
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    Lock icon Soh Pledges Improved Living Conditions
    132 2 Soh Pledges Improved Living Conditions Mr. Soh Ghee Soon, Progressive Party Candidate for Rochore Division in the April elections to the Singapore Legislative Assembly yesterday told his electorate: "What I have done for the people of West Ward, I promise to do fo»- you." A serving Progressive City Councillor of
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    Lock icon Nanyang Offers 3 Courses In Science College
    271 2 Nanyang Offers 3 Courses In Science College ENGINEERING students of the Nanyang University will be offered the choice of any one of three courses —Pure Science, Applied Science, or Civil Engineering, Professor P. Y. Hu, Dean of the University's College of Science and Technology, said yesterday. Meanwhile, plans for a
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    160 2 He's Never Heard Of Bandits But Court Doesn't Believe Him JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Goh Chong Khin. charged with Sim Cheng Huat, another lorry driver, before Mr. N. L. Cohen, in the Sessions Court here. saJtat he had not heard of ba*^* dits or of people being s l 5y a
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    Lock icon MAN STABBED BY 3 THUGS
    49 2 A MAX was attacked and stabbed by three thugs in the Tampenis area of Singapore at dusk on Tuesday. Earlier in the day. another man was stabbed following an arr-imcnt in Nankin Street. Both men were treated for knife wounds in the General Hospital.
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE RUBBER THEFT
    29 2 FOUR bales of rubber worth $1,000 were stolen from a tongkang off Beach Road in Singapore on Tuesday night The theft was only discovered yesterday morning.
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    Lock icon Watch Your Step' Threat To Carpenter Who Didn't Join
    119 2 AN apprentice carpenter recently walked into the CID office in Singapore and reported that he was being forced to join a secret society—Gang 329— by a childhood friend. He said he was working in Upper Serangoon Road one day last December
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    Lock icon GIRL MISSING
    23 2 SIXTEEN-year-old Ta n Giok has been reported missing from her home in Mill Lane, Singapore since 2.30 p.m on Jan. 12
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    Lock icon Case Withdrawn After The Prosecution Closes
    249 2 THE trial of Wong Peng Chong and Lim Ching Poeh in the Singapore Third Criminal District Court for criminal intimidation came to an abrupt end yesterday when Inspector T. S Zain after the close of the prosecution, told the judge. Mr h A Forrer,
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    Lock icon Watchman Fined $70
    81 2 PENANG. Wed. A Telecommunications' watchman, Abdul Karim, 42. who was sentenced to one day's im--1 prisonment and fined S7O for i theft was told in the Sessions Court by the President. Mr. G. H Summerfteld, today that he had stolen the very things he had been ordered
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    Lock icon Two Years' For $500 Demand
    234 2 A MESSING fisherman, Tan Gwee Hing:, 27, who attempted to extort $500 from a shopkeeper in North Bridge Road was sentenced in the Singapore Second District Criminal Court to 18 months' imprisonment yesterday The shopkeeper, Lee Wai Shang. told the court that about noon on
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    Lock icon Walk-Out Students Return
    91 2 Walk- Out Students Return SOME of the 70 Singapore Junior Technical School .students who walked out of their classes on Tuesday morning returned yesterday. Seven of the students had been to Mr. Anderton's office to "apologise for their stupidity." More are expected to attend classes by Friday morning, after which
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    180 2 THE Singopore Grv r~ ment Labour snilf%g%* *J call a general strike by 5s 1 y >< month if the Council "fa led missal notices served on 1 5 W V<' Johore, before Feb 26 orke 'SQtt The retrenchment i s beiu > 1 of redundancy. fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffl letter to
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    Lock icon Ambulance To Help In The Villages
    132 2 Ambulance To Help In The Villages THE Independent Mill hum Movement is to purchase an ambulance to give first ai.i to inhabitants of remote kanv pongs and villages The Movement is therefore appealing for funds to enable them to achie\e their mission. Reverend C A. Davidson, the president, tod The
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    Lock icon Lectures On Basic Use Of Science
    128 2 Lectures On Basic Use Of Science THE Science Society of I University of Malaya, wi:] give a series of 10 public lectures at Raffles Institution during the next few months. The lectures will be at 8 am on Fridays commencing trom Feb. 18. The object of these lectures is to
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    60 2 COMMODITY PRICES porl i$ > ju'H Loose J V H-S.Sf.J v ,ar No J N(J 3 norn Tone; m >i Tl. IN PB 'U P'-ul <| )OUr i lOM.UN m^ Karri. Apl. Junr I July Sept Tone: QuiflhJ OMmi\ fh Wednesdays a*. a ...J 01 i, :fl 5 -.11 sellers
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    77 2 A NUMBER of pore City Couat are ta be bb 1 Their una *Jfl 1 cuiat- a :.r and c **4 depart::. 1 Die Standard*! terday that th^csßal nan 1 I tmua.ly came i "flail j the pub^c 1 course of tr. J Names c: S access to confldftttU
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    18 2 k;ai.Mr. M -1 the B: 1 r.ir. I Off. i year r tisa Trengg
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    Lock icon Remanded For Further Inquiry
    98 3 Remanded For Further Inquiry CH'NG Boon Kiat was tentatively charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with threatening a woman. Lee Lai Meng with injury, if she did not pay him $11,000. It was alleged Ch'ng threatened injury to Lee in December last, at Sims Avenue if she did
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    Lock icon 2 YEARS' FOR BURGLAR
    50 3 JOHORE BAHRU Wed— A. Maniam was today sentenced la the Sessions Court here to two years rigorous imprisonment for breaking into a cotenant's room and stealing his fountain pen. Maniam who had a previous conviction will also undergo two years* police supervision after serving the sentence.
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    Lock icon A Security Chain Scheme To Trap Border Terrorists
    328 3 LIAISON PLAN WITH THAIS KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Communist terrorists now criss crossing the Malaya-Thailand border to elude joint police patrols, may soon find themselves firmly trapped between fortifications planned by a conference ot high-ranking staff officers which ended today. The six Thai
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    Lock icon India Gives Books To University Of Malaya
    142 3 THE Indian Commissioner in Malaya. Mr. R. K. Tandon (left), shakes hands with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya. Sir Sydney Came, after the former had presented 86 maps and 70 books on Indian culture to the University yesterday as token of
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    Lock icon 11 Acquitted For Lack Of Evidence
    231 3 Aftermath Ot Mill Strike THE Singapore Fifth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. R. B. I. Pates, yesterday acquitted eleven persons, including three woman employees of the Malayan Textiles Mills Ltd., produced to show cause why they should not be bound over in the sum of
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    Lock icon City Goes Easy On Quarters
    88 3 A SINGAPORE City Council employee, who has to quit his job because of ill health will be allowed to retain his quarters for six months. This is laid down in the new regulations governing the allocation of council quarters. These regulations also allow workers' families
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    Lock icon MANILA PACT ON THE SCREEN
    84 3 THE United States Information Service in Singapore la giving a series of private and public free film shows relating to the Manila Pact. The shows t the USJ.S theatrette in Rattles Plare at 1 p.m. daily is open to the public. Mr Hamid Salikin. the
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    Lock icon $4,000 BAIL IN THEFT CASE
    56 3 he- YAP Cnwe e Eng. claimed or> aal in the Singapore Fourth w wDlice Court yest'erdav to a „/harge of theft of 385 sarongs worth $2,784 belonging to Shaikh Omar bin Abdullah Ahkhtib on Jan. 12. He was allowed bail of $4,000 and the case
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    49 3 IPOH. Wed— Two new Councillors were among the 38 who were sworn into office today at the first meeting ol the Perak Council of State this year. They are Mr. Lee Swee Lum of the Public Works Department prui Mr. ID. Erwin. the State iVvelopment Officer.
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    Lock icon Jane Magnificent In 'Obsession
    383 3 "MAGNIFICENT Obsession." now showing at the Capitol, had everything that could possibly be wanted to maKC it a great film. The plot* was taken from a best-sel-ling novel by Lloyd Douglas, it had a strong cast led by one of Hollywood's best dramatic actresses. Jane Wyman.
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    Lock icon Max Rostal Flies In For Recitals
    142 3 Max Rostal Flies In For Recitals ONE of the world's leading violinists, Mr. Max Rostal (above), arrived in Singapore yesterday by BOAC Constellation from London for a series of engagements. Mr. Rostal. who was born in Teschen, Austria, in 1905, began playing a quar-ter-size violin at the age of five.
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    Lock icon CIGS Will Accompany Sir Anthony
    104 3 CIGS Will Accompany Sir Anthony LONDON. Feb IG. (Rculcr) FieM Marshal Sir John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will accompany Sir Anthony Eden on his Eastern tour beginning on Saturday, the Foreign Office said yesterday. The British Foreign Secretary, who is attending the Bangkok conference of the South-cast
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    Lock icon $6,750 In Fines On Overdue Books
    184 3 A TOTAL of $6,750 in fines wa? collected by the Singapore Rattles Library last year from members who were charged five cents a day for every overdue book. The Raffles Librarian. Mr. L. IL Harrod. said an average of $20 a day was collected
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    Lock icon I.L.O. EXPERT MAY BE SENT TO MALAYA
    282 4 I.L.O. EXPERT MAY BE SENT TO MALAY A To Introduce Training Plan For Supervisors KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The International Labour Office has offered to send an expert to Malaya to introduce a "training within industry" scheme for supervisors. Inche Mustapha Albakri, Member for Industrial and Social Relations, has sent out
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    Lock icon PUTEH WINS TWO CONTESTS
    76 4 ONE of the many attractions of the UMNO Youth Fun Fair held at Teluk Anson's Ah Cheng Street-Anderson Road junction in aid of the UMNO Youth Fund, BataK Habit Branch, was the Beauty and National Dress contests on Sunday night. Stardard photo shows the winner of
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    Lock icon JUDGMENT STAYED IN $148,597 APPEAL
    243 4 JUDGMENT STAYED IN $148,597 APPEAL A merchant, Teo Siew Jin. who was nn c d $148,597.90 after pleading guilty to three charges under the Singapore Exchange Control Ordinance, appealed before the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mur-ray-Aynsley, in the High Court yesterday, against the sentence. Dr. C. H. Withers-Payne and Mr.
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    Lock icon Two On Trial In Armed Robbery Case
    85 4 Two On Trial In Armed Robbery Case TWO men, Lim Ah Lim and Wong Chin Nam. stood trial before Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday on a charge of armed robbery at a house in Jalan Eunoa on Oct. 7. They were alleged to have robbed a
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    Lock icon Labour Front Candidates Are First To Pay
    67 4 Labour Front Candidates Are First To Pay MR. Mak Pak Shee and Mr. Tan Ewe Chee. both of the Labour Front, were the first two candidates to pay in their $500 deposits yesterday for the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections on April 2. Mr. Mak is contesting in the Geylang division
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    Lock icon 3 Stole Rice From Godown
    67 4 BUTTERWORTH. Wed. Lee Keng Hoe. 31. Long Ghee Teo. 23, and R. V. Boudville, 21, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of four bags of rice from a railway wagon at the wharf godown at Prai. on Feb. 5 and were sentenced to three
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    Lock icon Top Red Gives Up The Fight
    145 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. —The highest ranking terrorist to surrender since 1950 gave himself up to police at a pre-arranged rendezvous in Kuantan last Monday, the Federation Government announced today. He is Ah Tan. 46-year-old State Committee Member for the East Coast— an area that
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    27 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Pipes and Drums of the Gurkha Royal Engineers will beat the Retreat at the Sungel Buloh Settlement at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Lock icon Dies After Rescuing Small Boy
    96 4 Dies After Rescuing Small Boy TAIPING. Wed. The funeral took place at the Christian Cemetery here yesterday of 25-year-old Chan Toh Ping, a night school student of the Hua Lian High School. Chan went to the Coronation Swimming Pool to swim in the afternoon. There he saw a smaller boy
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    Lock icon Thieves Take Gramophone
    31 4 A EUROPEAN woman reported that a gramophone worth $40. a wristwatch worth $35 and jewellery worth $30 were stolen from her home in Chapel Road, Singapore, yesterday afternoon.
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    Lock icon THEFT OF CAR
    28 4 PENANG, Wed.— Theft of a motor car and spare parts valued at $3,605 was reported to have taken olaee in Bagan Luar Road, Butterworth, yesterday.
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    Lock icon K.L.P Pawnshop And Squatter Family Robbed
    200 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Two robberies took place in Kuala Lumpur during the early hours this morning. The victims were a pawnshop and a squatter family both located in Brickfields Road. The Police are unable to say which robbery took place first but they believe
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    86 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Radio Malaya reminded disc enthusiasts tonight that $2,600 of promised donations during its last Christmas programme was still outstanding. The annual "Dollar for Discs" last year was in aid of the Penang home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Of the
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    Lock icon Rubber Licences To Be Renewed
    149 4 Cttee's Plan Rejected MALACCA, Wed.— A Special Committees recommendation that licences for rubber dealers who have their premises in certain unsuitable streets should not be renewed after 1957, was rejected by the Municipal Councillors at their monthly meeting: here today. The concerned l m m^
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    Lock icon Bar Man's Opinion Of Shooting
    188 4 Bar Man's Opinion Of Shooting MALACCA Wed. Low Song Boon, a bar-keeper, said in the Sessions Court today it was his opinion that the action of detective sergeant Mat Nor bin Haji Hassan, charged with causing grievous hurt to Adam Osman was consistent with one who had acted in self-defence.
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      71 4 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 15 to 7.3 C a.m. Feb. 16 Singapore (75F); Penang (68F); Kota Bahru (68F); Kuala Lumpur (72F); Ipoh (7 IF): Kuantan <6»F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 15 to 7.30 a.m. Feb. 16 Singapore (90F>*. Penang OOF); Kota Bahru (85F); Kuala
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    359 5 Chinese Chamber's Fight Against Language Ban |n Dance At Mammoth Election Rally It c n raised with a night to for Chinese amerce aboii•"Knqlish triegislattae >nonChamber at :;an. a amber's Election Sub-Committee told the gathering that Government's refusal to remove the language ban wa.s
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    Lock icon Appeal In Cold Case Dismissed
    60 5 RAUB Wed. The Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mathew. today dismissed the appeal ot Nf Kee Chan, an employee of the Raub Gold Mine, against a sentence of 18 months' ja:l lor possess .m or two packets of raw gold. The gold was found hidden in
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    Lock icon Fire Guts Home In 30 Minutes
    199 5 Iloffter, Four Children Escape 1 ROMAN Lav Choon Moi, was doing some scw'b her attap house in Plantation Avenue, Singa\Herdav afternoon when she saw flames licking mi help she grabbed her four little .sleeping in the house and rushed dazed that she made no
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    38 5 HONGKONG. Feb. 16— Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.6.'* to Cl sterling; $5.8^75 to US$l; $1,833 to Malayan SI; $0,158 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $257 375 to a tael.
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    75 5 THE following were elected officers of the St. Francis Association. Malacca: President—Mr. PG.M.G. Mahinda<a; Vice-Presidents— Mr Wong Thin Hoy and Mr. F.J. Ong Kirn Pong; Hon. Gen. Secret;ir% M r Cheong Koon T;ong; Asst. Hon Gen. Sec— Mr. HO. Sta Maria; Hon TreasurerMr. Cheong Sian Tong; Hon.
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    305 6 Review of View New Axis pHUNG SUING JIT PAO coins the new term "Peking-Moscow Axis" and declares that this is a bloc of aggressive dictators, following the Berlin-Rome Axis, cut to destroy human happiness The Geneva conference was the greatest success for the Peking-Moscow Axis because it won half of
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    625 6  - Polish Security Police Purge JOHN MILES By- London. A WIDESPREAD purge of the Polish Security Police foreshadowed a few weeks ago with the demotion of its chief, General Wladyslaw Radkiewicz, is now in process in Poland. Most of the high-rank ing Polish officers, including three Under-Secre-taries of the former Ministry
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    256 6 LONDON r FHE Kwangming Daily ot A Tientsin, one of the two principal Communis papers, is reported to have urged that the Chine-. characters— so beautiful but so extremely hard to master should be abolished and the Roman alphabet be adopted. Many attempts have
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    54 7 And Sir John James Traders lAP> The tea-producing John Kotela- sterday he Ish traders and ylonese growers in price, at tea costs the consumer twice grower in Ceylon tea grower, he the rise in Ceyout of his own the British tea d every rise in to rai.se the t in
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    86 7 1,500 London Busmen Out On Strike LONDON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) More than 1.500 busmen from four of the London Transport System's 100 odd depots went on strike last night in protest against new work schedules involving cuts in services. Fifteen routes and parts of two more are affected and about
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    20 7 FIRE last night destroyed nearly U553,000,000 worth of wool awaiting shipment on the Wellington waterfront. AP.
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    491 7 One Would Kill Everybody Within 7,000 Sq. Miles WASHINGTON, Feb 16, (UP)— The United States Government reported yesterday that under the worst possible conditions radioactive tall-out from a giant H-bomb could kill every person in a 7,000-squore mile area downwind from the explosion. This estimate, described as
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    108 7 photo. #\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\w\\\\ x THIS cartoon of Field S 5 Marshal Viscount Mont- i gomery appears in the j current issue of the 2 Soviet satirical magazine 2 J Krokodil with the cap- tion "The Field Marshal J and his Baton." Printed on the back page of the 2 magazine. it
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    242 7 Aid Against Reds To Be Sought BANGKOK, Feb. 16, (Reuter)— The evergrowingapprehension in Thailand of the Communist intentions towards her has been partly allayed, but only partly, by the decision to hold the South-east Asia Treaty Organization Conference here on Feb. 23. As host country. Thailand
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    247 7 WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UP) Defence Secretary Charles E. Wilson told a news conference yesterday that there is no "nuclear stalemate" between the United States and Russia because "we are ahead of them." Wilson added that he thought the Russians knew that the United
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    107 7 WELLINGTON. Feb. 16 (Reuter) A surgeon told the coroner at Invercargill today how a man who "died" on the operating table lived on for two days after his heart had been massaged. Dr. Norman Waddle said that he was operating on Mr. Kira
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    51 7 WAR ON CRIME IN COMICS LOS ANGELES. Feb. 16 (AP)— The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared war on crime the comic book variety. The Board yesterday banned sale of comic books depicting crime and violence. Violations will be punishable by US$5OO fines, six months in jail, or
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    48 7 NICOSIA. Feb. 16 (Reuter) About 2,000 Cyprus employees began a 48-hour strike last night for wage increases. The strike may affect 18 incoming and outgoing air services at Nicosia airport, including several British Overseas Airways Corporation airliners flying between London and the Far East.
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    101 7 Their Souls Will Be In Nirvana TOKYO, Feb. 16 (AP) Buddhist monks who go on a 12 centuries old retreat on Feb. 27 election day warft absentee voting privileges because "our souls will be in Nirvana, although our bodies will be here." The request from 11 monks at Nara's ancient
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    82 7 Russians Are All Set For Talks TOKYO, Feb. 16 (AP).— Soviet Russia told Japan today it is ready to start negotiations for normal relations "at the place the Japanese Government considers most adequate." Japan already has named New York City as her choice. The Soviet note was delivered at noon
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    76 7 LONDON, Feb. 16. (Reuter)— An -'alarming" increase in drunkenness among girls under 21 in Britain, has been accompanied by a rise in the illegitimate birth-rate, the Economic Research Council, an independent social study group, said today. It reported that girls aged 20 bearing illegitimate children in 1952
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    39 7 BRIGADIER General Joseph L. Ready, 55. a retired US Army Officer who commanded the Seventh Infantry Division in the Pacific during closing months of World War II died in a Veterans Hospital in Florida on Monday.— AP.
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    172 7 MARGATE, KENT. Feb. 16. (Reuter)— British frogs are loosening up their leg muscles here to make 20 feet hops and win a free trip to Natal Champion "Leaping Lena' from Natal- who has a n!fty 23 foot leap- has challenged a British frog to
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    95 7 Plane's Wreckage Is Found NORCIA. Central Italy. Feb. 16 (Reuter).— Search planes and helicopters scouring 8.137-foot Mount Vettore, reported today they had pinpointed wreckage believed to be that of the Belgian airliner missing with 29 people since last Sunday. They said it was near Santa Maria in Pantano on the
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    182 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Feb. 16, (AP)-The United States told the United Nations yesterday that Red China has at least 2,000 slave labour camps. This information was in a special U.S. report submitted by chief U.S. delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in response to a
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    182 7 'Subversion Is The Great Danger In Pacific Area' LONDON. Feb. 16, (Reuter)—Mr. T. Clifton Webb, New Zealand High Commissioner in London, declared in an address here last night that the greatest danger in the Pacific today came "not from military aggression but from ideological aggression, infiltration and subversion." He was
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    95 7 Princess Enjoys Gay Music ST JOHNS. Antigua. Feb. 16 < Reuter). Princess Margaret beat time with her hand.^ and feet and led the applause here last night at a gay musical display staged for her on the lawns of Government House. She left for the Royal yacht Britannia to continue
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    67 7 CAIRO. Feb. 16 (Reuter). —Thousands of Egyptians crowded the banks of the Nile today and cheered as the Prime Minister. Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Indian Premier. Mr. Nehru, sailed down the river on board the Egyptian Government yacht Mahassen. The two
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      34 8 PRINCESS Maria Pia of Italy s.gns H watched by her husband, Prince Alexcnde^Vafter their wedding at the smol I, fishinn i -iuJ :">i miles from Lisbon, Portu gal I A.P. photo.
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      38 8 A Special Brew For The Duke photo. THE Duke of Edinburgh samples a rather special glass of ale. It was brewed at the Nuffield, Surrey, Research Foundation of the brewing industry which the Duke visited recently. A. P.
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      52 8 photo. A PIG leans up on the side or its stall- to get a good look at its visitor Sir John Kotelawala, Ceylon's Prime Minister. And Sir John points a finger at the "porker" as a way of greeting! The Premier was visiting a farm at Whiteleaf.
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    1033 9 MADRAS. Feb. 10. *THE up-and-coming man who is widely tipped as Mr. Nehru's successor as India's Premier is Mr. V. K. Krishna Mcnon whom Londoners will long remember as an ardent worker for the St. Pancras Labour Party in the early thirties. He was honoured last week-end with
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    517 9 the field rather late, but this year they hoped to get these markets. No purchase had been made in Burma this year. The rice now coming from that country was the balance of the purchase made last year. Government food reserves are almost at bursting point and
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    114 9 INDIA'S CAPITAL CITY -THE city of seven successive empires, Delhi is, in the words of the late Sarojini Naidii, the "unbroken symbol of proud histories." Adjoining the old city is New Delhi, the superbly laid out capital of India. Formally inaugurated in 1931, the new capital is conspicuous for its
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    219 12 Reports From U.S. Shake The Market Standard Market Reporter RUBBER prices in Singapore yesterday experienced one of the sharpest single-day drops since the boom years down six cents to 99 8 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for March shipment. The market
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    154 12 More Cargo Inducement From Europe To Far East Standard Shipping Reporter THERE is plenty of cargo inducement from Europe for the Far East and it icill riot be long before more prosperous trade conditions exist between Continental and Far East ports, including those in Singapore and the Federation. Luptain W.
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    183 12 Xl ALA LUMPUR, Wed. Information was received here from London today that two of America's biggest chemical corporations bidding for U.S. Government synthetic rubber plants, have offered to sell GRS forward at 23 cents (US) a pound, "if the plants come into our possession." Contracts
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    70 12 THE rate of productivity increase in Britain over the last two years rose by about 4.3 per cent per annum. This is disclosed by Sir Ewart Smith, chairman of the British Productivity Council in the Council's latest bulletin. This rate, he claims, exceeds that of the
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    52 12 BRITAIN'S rayon output last year established a new record. Total production amounted to 447.7 million lbs. a rise of six per cent over the 1953 figure. Compared with 1952. the year of the textile recession, output in 1954 was up by as much as 58
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    44 12 THE Cuban Sugar Institute has announced the sale of 150.000 tons of sugar to Golodetz Co., for consignment to Russia, The firm also took an option on an additional 50.000 tons, which will be purchased if shipping space is available. AP
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    130 12 Warning To Textile Makers LONDON, Feb. 16 (AP). British textile makers were warned today that they must meet increasingly stirf competition from Japan. India and Hongkong by producing high quality goods "fit for Western purposes and Western purses." Mr. C. H. Colton, president of the British Textile Institute, said in
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    55 12 THE Singapore Bank Employees' Union yesterday held the first of its '•cultural" meetings at the Union's premises. Mr. John Wilson of the Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China, spoke to the members on "Banking in the Far East*' touching on the history and working
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    357 12 Weekly Letter From U.S. NKW YORK, Feb. 16.— The interest of many American industrialists is centred on a 350-acre wooded tact at a place called Indian Point, about 40 miles north of here. It was, in years gone by, the site of a busy
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    194 12 U.K. IMPORTED MORE TEA IN 1954 THE monthly statistical summary just issued by the International Tea Committee in London reveals that the UK. imported approximately ten per cent mor c in 1954 than in 1953. Total imports from all sources, including Malaya are i i g M e -J!io a
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    135 12 MR. K. SKAT-ROERDAM (standing). Managing Director of Carlsberg Breweries of Copenhagen, speaking at a dinner in his honour given by East Asiatic Co. Ltd., Singapore, the agents for Carlsberg beer, astonished his predominently Chinese audience by opening his speech in Chinese. He said four words: "Kok
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    76 13 MALACCA. Wed. Renga-<a.-ny. Chen" Watt and Barkar said wil not p.av for Malacca when the Settlement takes on Johore in a friendly hockey match tomorrow, because they will be turning out for the Federation Reserves against Pa «:^tan is at Penang. Another absentee will be Eo-.v
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    51 13 KONG Lin Tet's powerful drive is stopped by the Austrian goalkeeper, but minutes after this picture was taken, the ball slipped past him and went into the net for the Malayan Chinese FA's only goal against the Admira Wein soccer tourist. The Austrians won 3-1 at the TPCA ground on
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    70 13 KUALA LUMPUR WedPoancssing i raster set of for. wards, the Public Works Department Sports Club scored a comfortable 5-1 victory over Selangor Club in a womens hockey match on the Selangor Club Padang today. Centre forward Jeeva Mudaliar and inside right Mrs Law were the outstanding
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    22 13 PARIT BUNTAR, Mon Banda Bahru Youngsters beat A.CS. 1-0 in a friendly soccer match played on the public padang yesterday.
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    47 13 JOHORE English College were held to a 3-3 draw when they met the 11th Hussars in a friendly soccer match played on the College grounds yesterday. Scorers for the College were: Benny Lim. Hashim and Alias. Poynton 2. and McDonald netted for the Hussars.
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    290 13 LENNART Bergelin, eight times winner of the Swedish singles title, took only five minutes to dispose of Malayan champion, Ong Chew Bee, in the first set at 6-0 at the concluding night of the international tennis exhibition held at the Singapore Badminton
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    250 13 INDIA PAKISTAN TEST ENDS IN TAME DRAW PESHAWAR, Feb. 15, (Reuter)— lndia (245 and 23 for 1) and Pakistan (188 and 182) drew a fourth successive Test match here today and the rubber of the series must depend on the fifth and final encounter starting at Karachi on February 26.
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    637 14 125 Entries For Pg. Turf Club Spring Meeting PENANG, Wed. A total of 125 class two and four horses have entered for the Penang: Turf Club Spring meeting on Feb. 26, Mar. 2 and Mar. 5. The vn^g^mma^m^m^m^m^m^am M Kirn Kirn :*M VI r.eccafUocs a x X° a v er
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    108 14 PENANG. Weds.— The following is the schedule of racing: First day— Feb. 26. Class two. Div. one six and seven furs. Class four. Div. one. two and three 5i furs. Class four, Div. four— sc\en furs. Second day March 2. Class two. Divs. one and two —.six
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    255 14 NEGRI SHUTTLE STARS CLASH IN MALEK CUP SEREMBAN, Wed.— The final of the Malek Cup inter-team singles championships of the Negri Sembilan Badminton Association will be held at St. Paul's Institution hall, here today. The Cameron Badminton Party wil oppose Sapphire Badminton Party at 7 p.m. The programme opens with
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    145 14 PENANG. Wed— Skipper J of the Pakistan Hockey Federation team. Captain 2 C H. Hamid was admitted to the Penang General Hos- n pital last night with ap- Z pendicitiv 2 Z He was supposed to play Z S for the Pakistan XI this evenin against
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    31 14 NEE SOON Boys Club beat Chartered Bank 2-0 in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterda. D. Barrass and A. Mcintosh, scored for Nee Soon.
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    95 14 TAI PIXG. Wed. King Edward VII School had their colours lowered by the Old Edwardians in a friendly soccer fixture at the school ground yesterday, the Old Boys winning 4-2 The School started well to open accounts through Suleiman. The Old Boys equalised througn a "gift' goal.
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    41 14 HEME Civilian Association beat IRC B' by four goals to one in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. M A. Majeed scored all the goals for the Civilians. P. K. I Samy replied for IRC.
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    47 14 THE Singapore Amateur Boxing Association will hold Jts Open Novices Championships at the Badminton Hall on Mar. 3 and 4. Entries will closp on Feb. 22. Competitors above 17 years of age, and have not fought in the open championships are eligible to enter.
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    39 14 ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL beat Bartley Secondary School 3-2 in an inter-school soccer match played at the Bartley ground yesterday. Goalscorers for ACS were* Ismail 2, and Kirn Liat, whilst Rahman and Razali replied for the losers.
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    62 14 THE following have been selected to represent the Rex Badminton Party, in a friendly badminton match against the Fairwind Badminton Party at No. 226 Thomson Road on Saturday at 7.00 p.m. Quek Keng Chuan, Lim Yew Hock, Lim Seng Kok. Gan Beng Choon, Ang Kiat
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    160 14 THE Royal Air Force Marine Craft Unit at Seletar. commanded by Fl. Lt. E. Bancroft, won the Far East Command Marine Crafty Efficiency Trophy with *846 points out of a possible 1,000. Second was the Marine J raft Unit at Kai Tak. «»ng Kong
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    70 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— The members of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club were entertained to a cocktail party by the President of the Club and Mrs. Yeoh Bok Choon at their residence last night. The party was to celebrate the Club winning the District Governor's Attendance Shield which
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    617 14 Fijians First In SCC 'Sevens' Semi-final THE First Fiji Regiment earned the distinction of being* the first team to enter the semi-final of the Singapore Cricket Club's annual seven-a-side rugger competition played on the S.C.C. ground yesterday when they beat R.A.F. Seletar "A" by 24 points (three goals, three tries)
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