Singapore Standard, 5 March 1955

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  • 13 1 Singapore Standard vXvT** 243 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1935 Ji PAGES ir> CENTS
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  • 127 1 —A top rankisi in the Chemor among three killi of the Malay Tanah Hitam r noon. DiTicial here toj c terrorist wa.s Hq\. a Branch :nbrr in the his elimina- >••• a "telling terrorist or:n the area. on -vn to be lm•■ries of activlTanah Hitam. rind
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  • 33 1 •nt. Mar 4 Reutaln'i chief war?her, 61 -year-old E :am Hinchley i dead in the > fushing :.r.g:s(iown near •was a 1 MI-5. the, B- > Secret h trap.an spies d World
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  • 20 1 New York. 4 «APi > c today they said Id cripple hammer. TSS3O and crutches to
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  • 69 1 A.P. DR. Helen Keller, world famous blind and deaf author and lecturer, visited New Delhi recently and discussed the problems of the handicapped with the appropriate Indian authorities. Here Premier Nehru nr«lnH^ ll" J round the "option room of the Sld a "sidence during the reception
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  • 104 1 LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4 (AP)— Patty Gardenseed has set sail to "sow a green band around the world to offset the Red band.*' Patty who is really Aloysius Mozier. 49-year-old engineer on a merchant ship, began his campaign of bringing garden seeds to
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  • 24 1 FIELD Marshal Sir John Harding arrived in Hongkong yesterday by Sunderland aircraft from Singapore after an overnight stop in Manila. Reuter
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  • 217 1 Dollar Rubber Is Driving U. S. To Synthetic: Taylor CONCERN OVER RISING PRICE MR. A. F. TAYLOR, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Guthrie tr Co., Ltd., and a leading authority on rubber, said in Singapore last night that natural rubber at Msl a pound had driven American consumers
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  • 94 1 NEW Zealand's Minister for External Affairs and Defence. Mr. T. L. Mac Donald. said on his arrival in Singapore from Saigon last night, that the abdication of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia came as a complete surprise to him. "This move." he stated, "rocked the country. I
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  • 79 1 SEREMBAN. Fri. A Land Rover belonging to the Telecoms. Department here crashed into the pillars of two shophouses at Murray Street at midnight yesterday, sending the entire front portion of the buildings crashing down. The occupants of the two houses escaped serious injuries. The driver
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  • 89 1 U Nu Will Say So Sorry' To Thailand BANGKOK. Mar. 4 <AP)— Burmese Premier U Nu is coming to Thailand next week to "apologize" for his country's misdeeds here nearly 200 years ago. He will arrive on Mar. 7 on a goodwill visit and is to accompany Thai Premier Pibulsonggram
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  • 23 1 AUSTRALIAN Premier R.G Menzies left Rome by plane yesterday for New York on an official visit to the United States. A.P.
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  • 84 1 CASTLEFORD. Yorkshire. Mar. 4 ißeuten.— Lady Norah Docker, blonde spritely socialite wife of a millionaire industrialist, last night became Britain's first woman marbles champion. She won seven of her ten goals, tied in two and lost one. Wearing a gown of peacock blue satin flashing
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  • 51 1 HONGKONG, Mar. 4 (UP) —The British freighter Inchkeith was abandoned on Thursday in the Indian Ocean after striking a reef but the crew escaped in lifeboats, shipping circles reported today. The 4.290-ton freighter was abandoned just outside Port Meadows on South Andaman Island when it struck an unchartered
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  • 30 1 LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) Mary Jerrold. little old lady of the London stage, died here yesterday, a year before her 60th. anniversary on the stage. She was 77.
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  • 134 1 LONDON, March 4 (AP) British Navy captains are going to be divided into two groups seagoing and chairborne because there are not enough ships to go around any more. The First Lord of the Admiralty. J.P.L. Thomas, told the House of Commons about the
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  • 257 1 Vietnam's 3 Armies Settle Dispute SEATCVs Influence Unites Warring Chiefs And Form New AntiRed Front In S-EA SAIGON. Mar- 4. (Rcutcr) South Vietnam's three private armies totalling about 25.000 men announced today they had settled their quarrel's and united to try to form a new anti-Communist Government for their country.
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  • 144 1 BID TO CENSURE REBEL BEVAN LONDON. Mar 4. (Reuter)— Labour Party right-wingers ar c expected to call next week for sharp disciplinary action against Mr. Aneurin Bevan. the left-wing chief, following the latest split in Socialist ranks, political sources said here. They are likely to do this at a special
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  • 284 1 4,196 STUDENTS PASS THE SCHOOL EXAM 75 per cent Success Record For Malaya A TOTAL of 4,196 students the highest number to date passed the Cambridge School Certificate Examination held in secondary schools in Singapore and the Federation last December. The results released yesterday simultaneously in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
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  • 67 1 LONDON. Mar. 4 < Reuter) Dr. Edith Summerskill. former Minister of National Insurance, was last night rejected as prospective Labour Party candidate for the new London constituency of Fulham. The new Fulham Labour Party, faced with a choice between 53-year-old Dr. Summerskill. now a member
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  • 34 1 LONDON. Mar. 4 < Reuten —Britain had another morning of brilliant sunshine and blue sky today after a freezing night. But Scotland was warned of another onslaught of snow.
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  • 142 1 COLOMBO, Mar. 4 (Reuten —Mr. Harold Stassen, Director of the United States Foreign Operation Administration, arrived here today from India for talks on American cooperation in the economic development of Asia. Answering questions on American stockpile policy which a correspondent said had led to the
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  • 12065 2 SCHOOL EXAM RESULTS- FEDERATION THE following are the successful candidates for the Federation released at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. (The names of candidates who took only a part of the examination are not included):PENANG RRAMS FREE SCHOOL Lim Teng Huat ••*>. Lim T>ong San <2». Lo Kok Leong IS>, Low Choon
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  • 118 2 CLOSING rubber prices (rents per lb> in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R S.S Spot l,onsr X.">; 85; No 1 RSS fob. Mar X."»; 8.">; No. 2 81} 81; No .1 HI I 81! Tone: Steady after Irregular Down: I rents. TIN PKICE The prire ot
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  • 88 3 Income Tax Dept. Begins The Big Move THE Income Tax Department. Singapore, will from Monday begin moving its 1.000 Dieces of furniture and 100.000 files to the 4th Floor of Fullen«,n Building. Taxpayer^ should defer calling at the Department except on urgent matters until March 10. The telephone numbers remain
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  • 36 3 HONGKONG. Mar. 4—Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today were: $15.59 to Cl sterling; $5.8725 to US$l; $1,836 to Malayan SI: 10.153 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $255,125 to a tael.
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  • 448 3 South-east Asia Film Festival ASIAN film companies have begun to enter their products to compete in the Film Festival for South-east Asia. The Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Hongkong and a new member, Macao, have already entered various pictures in the endeavour to compete
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  • 190 3 ...And Money Must Be Found SINGAPORE'S new Government which comes info power next* month will have to find extra money to fight growing unemployment among unskilled workers in the Colony. There are several prcposals ready for the ne\V Government's consideration, and evcrv one of them needs
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  • 151 3 Fire Guts 10 Houses In Kota Tinggi $93,000 Damage JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. A row of ten wooden shophouses was gutted by fire at the 3rd mile, Kota Tinggi Road, yesterday at 3 30 am. The Fire Brigade was not informed of the tire until 20 minutes after with the result
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  • 90 3 Malayan's Son Gets US Training SUB. LIEUT. Digby John Lickfold. RN.. son of Mr. and Mrs. RH. Lickfold of Alor Star. Kedah, who has been assigned to the United States Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Whiting Field. Milton in Florida. Thorp he will undergo primary flight training under th r
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  • 241 3 MR. DAVID MARSHALL, Labour Front candidate in the Cairnhill division for the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections, said yesterday that "if the wealthy and privileged groups of people are allowed to administer Government, there will be a mass rebellion within 20 years." Speaking at a lunch-hour
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  • 196 3 He Took A Peep And Yielded To Temptation FOR a month, an unregistered letter from a mother in England to her soldier son in Singapore could not be delivered— the addressee could not be traced. During the course of its journey to and trom th e field records office, the
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  • 149 3 A PAINTER. Toh Chwcc Ho. 24. was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assi?e Court yesterday, when the jury unanimously found him guilty of gang robbery at a house in Yio Chu Kang Road on the night of
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  • 153 3 Standard Shipping Reporter THE two blocks of modern living quarters for the Sin gapore Harbour Board Fire Brigade personnel have been completed at a cost of $240. 000 One of the innovations of the firemen's quarters is that "greasy poles" have been installed to enable
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  • THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS ON
    • 235 4 MALAYA TO HAVE STALL AT 8.I. F. MALAYA Will again have a stall of her own at the 34th British Industries Fair which opens at London and Birmingham on May 9 and ends on May 13. The stall, with a fkor space of abojt 540 square feet, will be in
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    • 67 4 IPOH. Fri. Sx Chinese. a Sikh and an Indian were accepted into the Federation Army at a recruiting interview held here in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday. They will serve in the signals section and m the armoured car squadron. In all 40 persons applied
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    • 145 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Eighteen-year-old former Victori3 institution student. Khoo Teng Chwee. was committed today to stand trial in the Supreme Court on charges of murder and causing grievous hurt. Khoo win answer charges of murdering another schoolboy. Tan Swee Lok. in the lobby of the
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    • 49 4 MR. JOHN LEE KEE FONG and the former Miss Cheong Fooi Yin. both of whom are employed at the Kinta Electrical Distribution Co., Ipoh. cut their wedding: cake at a reception at the Jubilee Cabaret, Ipoh, after their marriage at the St. Michael's Church Ipoh recently.
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    • 184 4 KOTA BHARU, Fri.— The local agent in charge of the Gong Kedah Airfield project said in an interview yesterday, that farmers and fishermen will not be employed to work on the airfield. "It is not our policy to take away farmers and fishermen who must carry
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    • 365 4 Govt. Aims To Get 300,000 At The Polls IN AN effort to bring the entire 300,000 eligible voters to the polls, the Singapore Public Relations Office is now carrying out an intensive publicity campaign for the coming Legislative Assembly election? on April 2. For this purpose, 42.000 election posters are
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    • 48 4 A RECEIVING and adjudication order was made by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Mur-ray-Aynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday, against Kong Hung. The order was made on a petition oy EL Bowrey and Company, to whom Kong was stated to be owing $8,119.71.
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    • 137 4 PENANG. Fri.— One of the biggest problems of the British Red Cross Society. Penang and Province Wellesley Branch, is the shortage of instructors, the Society's annual report stated. However, it was most encouraging to see the Malay population getting interested in the junior section of
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    • 301 4 WOMAN AND GIRL ADMIT HAVING RED DOCUMENTS Sentence Is Postponed KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A brand new mosquito net, waterproof material of the latest quality, and portable camp beds all in jungle green were yesterday produced before Chief Justice Sir Charles Mathew in the High Court here today as exhibits in
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    • 119 4 IPOH. Fri. Khoo Ah Poh. 24. of Pusing Road, Batu Gajah. was fined $400 by Mag:strate Che Abdullah Ghazalli today. He pleaded guilty to acting as a bookmaker at the Perak Turf Club on Dec. 11. last year. The court was told that A.S.P.
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    • 70 4 KUALA LIPIS. Fri.— Fines totalling $1,980 were imposed on 10 persons yesterday by the Sessions Court President. Mr. J R. Whimster, for opium oflences. The highest fine of $1,000. or six months' imprisonment, was imposed on Chan Sek. 51. for possession of 219 paper packets of
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    • 69 4 MANILA. Mar. 4 (AP)— Air Marshall F. J. Fressanges, Commander of the British Far East Air Force, arrived at U.S. Clarke Air Force base from Singapore yesterday for an unofficial three-day visit. He will be the guest of Brigadier General William L. Lee, Commander of the Philippine-based
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    • 181 4 PENANG. Fri. Proprietress of a hairdressing saloon in Magazine Road, Mooi Sau Kheng. after pleading guilty to employing a girl assistant between the hours of 10 p.m. and sam on Jan 21, said that the two labour officers went to her shop at 10.10
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  • 198 5 Another Briton Turns To Buddha KUALA LI'MPL'R. Fri. Yet another British Serviceman announced his intention today to become an "anagarika" and study the tenets of Buddhism as a pr c novice. Leading Aircraftsman Rotrer Whatley. 29 of K.\F Changi. will take his vows at the Buddhist temple in Kuala Lumpur
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  • 88 5 Widow Tells Of Assault By Four tAen A .14-YEAR-OLD widow. Nf Siok MeOf, yesterday told a preliminary inquiry how four men entered her home at Alexandra Bricks Works on the morning of Jan. 7 and assaulted her. They then gagged her ransacked the house. Two youths. Lam Kirn Lim and
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  • 42 5 PEXAXG. Fri. A sundry shopkeeper. Gan Kee Soo. was found quiltv in the Magistrate's Court today, of assisting in the management of the 100 and character lotteries in Perak Road, on Dec. 12. last year. He was fined $1,200.
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  • 304 5 THEY BROKE A LAW-COURT EIGHTY-TWO employees of the Singapore Paya Lebar Bus Company, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Sixth Police Court yesterday to having "beset the gates of the Company's depot at Yio Chu Kany Rood with the intention of obstructing
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  • 126 5 A SINGAPORE police party found 493 lb. of explosives when they ambushed a car on Oct. 28, last year, at Jalan Kayu. This was stated at a preliminary inquiry held in the Singapore Police Court yesterday Five men who were alleged to
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  • 34 5 OXFORD. March 4 (Reuter> The Oxford Union, after a keen debate last night on the motion 'Sir Winston Churchill Must Go.' decided by 100 to 97 that the Prime Minister should stay.
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  • 200 5 MR. T. P. F. McNEICE, President of the Singapore Family Planning Association, yesterday appealed for tolerance from people who do not wish to apply the knowledge of family planning. Speaking at the annual general meet ng of the association, whose three principal officers were re-elected. Mr.
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  • 84 5 A STREET fight In Singapore's High Street came to an abrupt end yesterday morning when an elderly worn a n screamed 'Stop fighting I've railed the Police and they'll be coming right now!" The fight, involving four persons, was already over by the
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  • 43 5 CHUA Chan Cher and Tan Keng Peow. partners of the firm. Lee Hak Heng, whose liabilities amounted to $369,208. owing to 16 creditors, were adjudged bankrupts by the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday.
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  • 44 5 MISS MONA FONG one of the guest artistes,' who will sins at the Rotary Golden Anniversary Ball at the Victoria Memorial Hall tonight. Others will be Misses Poon Sow Kens U'u Mci Ling. Yang Lee and Chang Ec Wen
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  • 36 5 KUALA LIPIS. Fri.-Koh Pan. a rubber tapper was sentenced to two months* imprisonment by the Magistrate. Mr. .T. R Whimster, yesterday when h e pleaded guilty to the theft of a bicycle.
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  • 139 5 SHB Men Send An Ultimatum For Talks THE Singapore Harbour Board Stall Association has served an ultimatum to the Chairman of the Board that unless negotiations on demands made by the workers were opened with n three days, it would take appropriate action. The ultimatum, sent yesterday, recalled that the
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  • 45 5 ANG LOW. 43. a clerk, wa:yesterday sentenced to six months' imprisonment when he was convicted in the Sin gapore First Criminal District Court of cheating the Imperial Chemical Manufacturing Company of 1.500 pair.«of rubber shoes and slippers valued at $2,226.50.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 373 5 Standard cJflmanac Information at a Glance lm -r V\|( A: Malay class 230? i m Table PORT DKKSON: 424 a m (7 ft 1 y*^ m> f. :v: us A ;> ;n Chess c!>ib 3 pm i:i) 437 pm 16 ft 9 in 1 ft IfKl/tAD tJ R r Red
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 485 6 r Vllb: statistics furnished in the Singapore Family Planning Association's annual report provide all the answers that are necessary to certain sections of the community who have been shouting themselves hoarse in condemning what they describe as a "criminal and poisonous" practice. The Association has rightly refused to
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    • 469 6 j^JKMBERS of the British House of Commons leaned forward in deep attentiveness as they listened to their 80-year-old Prime Minister tell them that the only deterrent to attack was the dreaded hydrogen bomb, against which there was no defence. The weight of his words and the
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  • Review of Views
    • 128 6 UfTUSAN Me;ayu reminds voters in the Federation that with th c appro- ,*i of elections for the Federal Leg;slativ» Assembly, politicians will be busy making all .sorts of promises to them. The people would do well to take these promises with lots of salt." says L'tusan. They must
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    • 64 6 11HE sharp drop in value ofj the ne.v currency of Com-! munist China in the black! market indicates that people! have vcy little confidence in* it comments Chung Shing i\\' Pho. "We told you so twice before."! the daily adds. The official! ra c for the new currency
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    • 71 6 A LL the races living in Malaya* must co-operate closely in* their fight for independence* waich la what they arc all* longing for, writes Nanyang* Siang Pan. Alter many years of .struggle.; the daily continues, self-rule; n about to be born on the* peninsula. Self-government; wi'l remind us
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    • 97 6 THE late of Qucmoy and; Matsu islands ofT the; Chinese mainland depends; upon the results of 'he peace-; making efforts of Eden and; Nehru to secure a cease-fire; settlement in the Formosan; Straits, declares Sin Chew; Jit Toh Following the Bangkok con-J ference. the Mutual Defence^ Treat) between
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  • 730 6 \Y7ITH the electioneering campaign getting into full stride in Singapore candidates are offering their electorates everything except the moon, and voters wouid do well to bear in mind the words of Sir Roland BraddeU that candidates "have to say lots of things Some of
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  • 2125 6 Andrew Roth tells of the time Eden all but i i called Mussolini a liar. 1 1 1 T7VERYONE has been impressed by the equanimity with which the sensitive and high-strung Sir Anthony Eden has accepted fifteen years of being Sir Winston Churchill's designated heir
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  • 237 7 US. Will Strike With H-Bomb, Says Churchill LONDON, Mor. 4, (Reuter) Sir Winston hurchill said yesterday he supposed the United totes might act at once without further prior onsu |totion with Britain if an "immediate derructivc surprise and treacherous attack by the jroqen bomb" was made
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  • 10 7 |V Alex**** B appointed rcpreNatiooa Tasi an- Reuter
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  • 37 7 JVKST BROMWICH. Eng- The ider of West Brom- 1 r men .said yes- ad now ction to •oyment oi an Indian )r n of the Indian *id the Green, District -t Po^^rful
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  • 147 7 Aid For Asia Plan Studied WASHINGTON. Mar 4 Reuter)— The State Department has received the first inquiries from under-develop-ed Asian nations expected to benefit from President Eisenhower's still secret regional economic development plan, it was learned yesterday. The feelers put out by the Asian nations were said to have been
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  • 90 7 He Had A Third Eye For Beauty MEXICO CITY. Mar. 4: <AP> Film actress Maria Alejandra told police yesterday she was accosted and kissed on a busy downtown street by a man with three eyes. Miss Alejandra said she and her mother were leaving a >tore laden with packages when
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  • 37 7 LONDON. Mar. 4 (Reuter) Sir Winston Churchill was yesterday presented with a cigar box on behalf of Thailand's Prime Minister. Marshal Pibul Songgram. to mark the British Premier's 80 birthday last November.
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  • 33 7 AT least 40 Soviet soldiers were killed when a military train was derailed in East Germany last Saturday. the west German news agency D. P. A. said yesterday. Reuter
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  • 125 7 TWO Australian flood victims hurtle to their death recently after losing their grip on the rope ladder of the helicopter which had conic to their rescue. The men who were holding on to each other as they fell, dropped onto powerlines and were
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  • 172 7 LONDON, Mar. 4, (Reuter)— The British Home Secretary, Mr. G. Lloyd George, said yesterday he was urgently considering statements in the Soviet Press attributed to Professor Bruno Pontecorvo, Britishnaturalised Italian-born atomic scientist who vanished from Britain in 1950. Professor Pontecorvo disclosed his presence in Russia
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  • 58 7 LONDON. Mar. 4 (Reuter) The Duke of Edinburgh will sail from Villefranche. France, on March 10 to take part in naval exercises in the Mediterranean, it was announced from Buckingham Palace last night. He will go to Villefranche by air and will see the exercises from
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  • 126 7 500 Debs At Royal Presentation LONDON. Mar. 4 (Reuter) More than 500 debutantes were presented to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in the white and gold state ballroom at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Hundreds of parents and relatives sat in the ballroom as the debutantes curtsied before the royal
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  • 29 7 THREE Moroccans accused of trying to assassinate the Pasha of Marrakesh. Si Thami El Glaoui. were sentenced to death in Marrakesh yesterday for acts of terrorism.—Reuter.
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  • 155 7 Girl Who Married Brother Weds Again LONDON. Mar. 4. (Reuter) A 24-year-old English girl who married her brother by mistake— they had been parted since childhoodwas married here yesterday to an army corporal. Margaret Anne Hughes was an orphan who was separated from her brother Geoffrey when he was six.
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  • 157 7 N.Z. OPPOSES RED CHINA'S DEMANDS FOR TAIWAN NEW YORK, Mar. 4, (Reuter)—New Zealand is opposed to the Chinese Communist demand for control of Formosa, Sir Leslie Munro. chief New Zealand delegate to the United Nations, said here yesterday. He told the Overseas Press Club that his country "fully recognises the
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  • 94 7 ...And Talks Go On In Moscow MOSCOW, Mar. 4. (Reuter) —The Indian and British embassies in Moscow are again in contact with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov on steps to settle the Formosa problem, authoritative circles said today. Indo-Soviet contacts have taken place at regular intervals since Feb.
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  • 76 7 BONN, Mar. 4. (UP)— West German authorities disclosed yesterday that one man has been arrested and a warrant issued for another on suspicion of plotting to attempt to assassinate Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran. One Iranian national was arrested in Freibuq. in southwest Germany.
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  • 47 7 NEW YORK. Mar. 4. (AP)— A 10-year old boy. spanked on Wednesday for playing with matches, looked for h:s shoes in a closet with matches Thursday and started a fire that drove 10 families into the street. The family apartment was badly damaged
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  • 288 7 Exclusive Murder Story— By The Murderer GLASGOW, Mar. 4. (Reuten— A free-lance Journalist who offered an exclusive story to a British national Sunday newspaper on how he found the body of a Scots radio star, was yesterday sentenced to death here for the man's murder. The journalist, 24-year-old John William
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  • 4902 8 ONE thousand two hundred and forty Singapore candidates were successful j in the Cambridge School Certificate examination held in December last year. The names published below do not include those j who entered for part of the examination. Their results may be obtained from the Education
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  • 132 8 SINGAPORE may be re- I presented at the first United Nations Congress on the pre- vention of crime and the treatment of offenders, to be held in Geneva from Aug 22 to Sept. 3. The Congress is expected to draw about 400 delegates including
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    • 154 8 i;'-i \Lp hi A gift in perfect taste (l^^^ k i for every l^rii ir' fji gift occasion I P 1 rarker WITH PARKER'S EXCLUSIVE Youll know the joy of giving the wanted E LECTRO- POLI SH ED POINT! gift when you give the Parker "51" Pen! For it's the
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    • 200 9 U vi,T r <^r- <--> yj^ iCtMiV YIN—GODDESS OF MERCY TO women of Buddhist faith. Kuan Yin is the Goddess of Mercy. Timeless centuries have obscured her precise origin, but it is said that her name was first mentioned by Sekyamuni. creator of Buddhism, in his preaching* during his life-span,
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  • 75 10 It's That Cigarette Bogey Age ROCUKSTEP N' j Mar 4 'R- uteri Dr Horn. A.-M^^n' D Statistics R< i in* 4 American Ctncfl said here yeMrrd.iy 4 death rate— (n.m i heart disease among n smokers than non He told a n: i doctors that a survey of 200 tween
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  • 23 10 ATHENS. MV I Secondary in Serres. If iced stoned girls trj classes as I teachers' strikr for r. continued
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    • 751 11 TRADING CO., LTD. 19 :J THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE notion Hew York, Baltimore. Philadelphia, Cult Ports pore P. S ham Penang ej* N.Y. 29 Mar/5 Apr 6 Apr 7/8 Apt IS May CS-* 29 Apr/5 May 6 May 7/8 May 15|une l 9/16 |une 17 |une 18
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    • 1118 11 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD Ac CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 O» (Incorporated in Sing j por.) < ltol#$) Shinnin* TraV.l o.pt, THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE o. P t Carriers option to proceed via other port* to load and <*'»«!*■'•£ Jt' 1 SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW. LONDON CONTINENT Singapore Oue Sails P. Sliam
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  • 185 12 Mar.-Apr. Price Differential Reaches 7/8Ct. Standard Market Reporter A FEATURE of the Singapore rubber market yesterday was the wide differential between March and April prices of I cent. Dealers reported that March position is short. Rubber dropped 1| cents, for RSS No. 1 March shipment which closed at &5g cents.
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  • 58 12 The Singapore Chnmbcr of Commerce Rubber Association noon pt;cos 'cents per lb.. 1 yesterday were Buyers Sellers Spot loo>c M 84^ RSS fob Mar. No. I 84\ 85 Apr. No. 1 84 841 Mar No. 2 S3] 84* Mar. No. A 8:5 83) R.\?A on reg tender March
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  • 188 12 Ships In Harbour OI'TFR ROADS Kaiman: Laura Maer>k; Hout--1 man: Trahver PC 52.W: Tjist dane: Batoela: Benlawers: Trawler PC 3237: Hai How: Benjoewangi; Trawler PC 5240; Glenvi He". (ieneral Van Gocns; Benveg; Ternatc. INNKR ROADS New Asia; llosangi; YongAnn: VISUt Kasatri; Soon Bee; Ifarll mau; Pertama; Scramapang Laiwui; Aik Hin;
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  • 62 12 REPORTS from overseas show that the total overseas sales of British cars and commercial vehicles last year were 90,000 more than those of Britain's nearest competitor. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, announcing this, say that a new production record was achieved in January,
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  • 252 12 15 Tons Of Pepper Transacted SOME IS tons of white P'-pper were reported so.d in yesterday. Pepper dropped, lor the th.rd d.iv in mcctnoa, a further $2 a::d SI for whi'e and black v rties. respectively. Oil and copra were quiet. Oil remained unchanged and tnere was a slight drop
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  • 155 12 Executive Welcomes Competition MR. CHARLES Henri Sandoz, (above). Sales Manager of Messrs. Henri Sandoz Fils. Switzerland, is a man who likes competition. He told The Standard yesterday: "The rcatch market in Malaya is highly competitive but I like competition. "Consumers gain by competitioyi among manufaclur- ers because they get better
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  • 86 12 THE Federation Government has decided to extend the competency certificates granted to fishermen attending the RIDA marine course at Penang. to permit expert helmsmen among them to operate throughout the country. The course, conducted by the Marine Department, trains the fishermen in navigation and maintenance of marine engines.
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  • 282 12 Synthetic Makes Little Impact On Natural' HAZARD MEETS RUBBER MEN KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Mr. Leland Hazard, leading Pjttsburjh industrialist now visiting Malaya on a State Department mission told The Standard it had been his observation in the U.S. that synthetic substitutes for natural products, including rubber, "have not had as
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  • 216 12 Drop In Total Tonnage Of Cargo Handled THE total tonnage of general cargo handled by the Penang Harbour Board during the year ended June 30. 1954. fell by 53,632 tons compared with the previous year, a decrease of 58.357 tons in inward cargo being partially offset by an increase of
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  • Article, Illustration
    47 12 MR F. E. RIACH. Manager of Harcroft Ruhb^r I, (left), looks at the "V" notch measuring tank be NlQl first tube well to pass all tests in Malaya measures the amount of water that flows fromth»j On the risht is Mr. P. C. Trubridge. the EaUtr U
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  • 145 12 The Malayan share market yesterday was dull and featureless in all sections. Turnover was almost negligible because of lack of interest on the part of both buyers and sellers. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDI STRIALS Buyers Sellers W. Hammer 3.15 3.2scbcd
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  • 20 12 Total exports of tin to all countries from Singapore and the Federation last month amounted to 5.615 tons.
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  • 470 12 Weekly Rubber Report THIS week's rubber market has been rather similar to that of the previous week, says the weekly report of Messrs. Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co., Ltd. Fluctuations have been wide, activity considerable, and, on balance, prices have continued to decline. Over the week-end
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  • 98 12 GOES ON LEAVE MR. Ph. TER WOORT. (above). Assistant Manager of Messrs. Geo. Wehry Co., (M) Ltd.. Singapore, leil the Colony yesterday for Holland by Willein Ruys on an eight months' holiday icith his wife. Messrs Geo Wehry, established 90 years ago. is one ot the oldest Dutch jirms ot
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  • 98 12 A BRITISH firm, wellestablished in the production of latex foam for furniture upholstery, bedding and car seating, will show a variety of other uses for latex at this year's British Industries Fair. They include fabrics processed with latex foam for use in carpeting tailored carseat
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  • 14 12 THE crop harvested on Bukit Hitam Estate for February was 47.500 lb.
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  • 212 12 More Malayans Travel By Ships Standard Shipping Reporter MALAYANS are becoming more "sea travel minded,' according to leading shipping agencies which reported heavy bookings last year. They expect more bookings this year. Last year, a record number of sea passage bookings were made for round trips to Hongkong. Japan, and
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  • 117 12 ADDITION of a third weekly flight from the United States' West Coast to New Zealand has been announced by H.F. Miiley. traffic and sales manager for Pan American World Airways' Pacific-Al-aska Division Inauguration of the ne w roundtrip fl ght ii planned for March 10. It
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  • 34 12 A SWEETER. plumper, longer-lasting maize— the first truly new strain in centuriesis promised in the scientific findings of a group headed by Professor John R. Laughnan. botanist of the University oi Illinois.
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  • 245 12 Standard Staff Reporter J THE first tube well to pass all tests in \L M been completed at Harcroft Rubber Estate, \\erlH near Sitiawan, in Perak. Announcing the .successful completion of capacity teMs for a tube well sunk lor the estate.
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  • 34 12 JAPAN will be the "beft outlet" in the Far East for the sale of U.S. wheat. Mr. E. O. Pollock. Far Eastern grain marketing specialist of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, predicts.
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  • 43 12 DURING port> ot ducts (n td< crude oil) 7.7 million I over C§4 n pares with mill on ton JC77 milli Thus there of about L€ the total q oversea- ifl welcome ii side of the trade posit ot
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  • 93 12 NEW PREMIS FOR O.A. FROM MAR. THE Owl— Corporation. Siiuapm move into its premiss in Habca on March 13. thf Assistant General .Mr. Maurice I v standard. The iieu premises < three times larger 2 on on upicd in (hi inn. The offices wir> two floors he added Mr Lm
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    • 408 12 NOTICES ORIENTAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY. LIMITED 2, Jalan Yasin. Singapore. TVOTICE is hereby given that as from Ist March. 1955. contracts, orders, official receipts and indents of all descriptions made by and/ or on behalf of the Company are to be signed only by any i one of the following Directors
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    • 32 12 > BORNEO I 0 announce CHANCE of ADDRESS CROSBY HOUSE Second Floor, (Chartered Bank Build* 71 Robinson Road, Singapore AS FROM sth March, 1955 Phone ***** and P. 0. Box 898 remain wim
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  • 574 13  -  RONNIE DUCLOS Novices Provide 'Slug Feast' And... By THE finals of the Singapore novices Amateur Boxing: Championships held at the Badminton Hall last night provided the big crowd with 39 rounds of fireworks. Twenty-six novices, who battled for the honours, threw caution to the wind. and
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  • 452 13 ONLY 300 GREET SENIOR SOCCER WATCH POLICE WIN Police 2. CA i Sulaiman Hashim 2. Referee Mr. John Ferguson. SULAIMAN Hashim, combining: well with Awang Bakar, netted the first two goals in Singapore's division 1 league soccer yesterday and he scored them for the Police S.A. for their victory by
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  • 163 13 Indian Bros. Trounce Setia Jaya SrPERIOR in all departments. Indian Brotherhood S.C. beat Setia Java S.C. 6-1 in a S.A F.A. division 3 A match on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Early in the first half. Seiia Ja>a were awarded a penalty for a questionable tackle by an Indian defender, and
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  • 49 13 WOODLANDS Sports Club netted three goals without reply in their SAFA division 3A league match against Joliilads at Farrer Park yesterday. Woodlands led 2-0 at the interval through Wahab and Andrew Lim Jollilads rouM do nothing right and Woodlands scored their' third goal through Abu Bakar.
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  • 22 13 X- Country Race ACHILLES Club Cress-coun-try race will bo held at the Macßitchie Reservoir this afternoon at 5. .'J0 pm. Al Copp
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  • 47 13 COSMOS S.C. beat Serangoon M.Y. 1-0 in a S.A.F.A. division 3A match played on the M.F.A ground yesterday. There was no score at the interval. In the 10th minute of the second half. Cosmos obtained the winning goal through Goh Guan Hai
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  • 34 13 MEETING for the first time. Bartlcy Secondary School beat Beatty" Secondary School by three clear goals in an interschool match played at the Bartley ground yesterday. Goalscorers jvere: Jamil 2 and Razali.
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  • 211 13 SINGAPORK Recreation Club 'Greens' entered the final of the S.H.A. junior Knock Out tourney yesterday when they beat 8.0.D. Blues' 2-1 at Alexandra. The Recs, who are the favourites to win the junior title, will now meet Y.M.S.A. BOD. however, were unlucky to lose
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    • 55 13 seethe 1955 /AUXHAUS „w Value-' Egg: c. E hese brilliant new Vauxhalls are now on display at (h( hard Motors MNCAMM A kl ALA 1.1 MPI X SOUTH SEAS HOTEL] J, y.l/.1.V BESAR, SINGAPORE, 8. $61-, $71-, etc. I EMM \IR-CONDITIO\ED ROOM PER DAY Z WITH PRIVATE BATH AND PHONE.
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    • 518 13 Awang Baknr. Phnng Cheow Hock. Cyril d e Witt. C.A.t Yew Chang: Hock Ban. Ton Chin Geok; Lee Wah, Chin i Ng Kok Tong. Wee See Lim; Tan Good Song. Lim Tian Chve. Boon Kok Peow. Maurice Khoo. Neo Hock Lcng. TUITION VI AD A M Chua School of -*1
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    • 484 13 CLASSIFIED ADS ENGAGEMENT ENGAGEMENT Hu Chinf lj In Hongkong engagement is announced between Dr Hu Tsu Cha/ig. 4th son of Dr. Mrs Hu Tsai Kuen. Singapore and Dorothy May Chinf. youngest daughter of Mr. Ai Mrs Henry Thing of Hongkong, on Saturday sth March. 19.VV ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR A: Mrv John
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 227 13 ,il Abner g/ A/ I VO' AH HAINTT NO MAN, I YOU THINK IHE vJUST DOES U '^-^^^^P] WOLVESJT-A^' I GOT <( MAM. AH IS I HE'S TOUGH- J\ t JK t <H I THINGS FOR ME -BUT VK< )ME HANDLES I GUTS ]i MERELY 15^^ IHftfPCH/^ JS£ \£yj ZM
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  • 1330 14 Spencer Has Whip Hand For Kedah Cup Today By WINDSOR LAD .PENANG, Sat.-With his three candidates accepting in the Kedah Cup for Class two horses over U furlongs today. Singapore trainer Jack Spencer holds the whip hand on the concluding day of the Penang Turf
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  • 224 14 Windsor Lad The Pilot Trundle Hill Scrutineer HKKI >l\l lIKKKMAI lIKKKMAI VIKKAM SONG J Mr.-. i m ".imc Colorado II stream Song lleremai HKMtIKI* HKKKIKI) (I.K\IC VISION lIKOtt N BOOTY 2r.- tUmty llniun li«N»ly Brown BiMily Mn-lnrd Mronc uml lrr»« Rosalind strung ami trvr Mrong an<J m I'll
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  • 901 14 RACE 1: 2.30 p.m.— Horses Class 4- Div. J— 6 Furs. 1 78! Colorado II :.v 0.00 Mr. CIM»Q« Thiam Chyc Vong Mortimer 2 007 \ppo.ntment I? I.H Viaw Stable" Spencer Bell 3 8K! Mrr.im son c :*»N 8.1-* Mr. A ShaikAhamed M van B kclcn Mawi
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    6 14 Bell in the 3.40
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  • 80 14 TWENTY FOUR YEAR OLD Neo Chwee Kok. Malaya's champion swimmer, who has represented the Colony in the Asian Games and at the last Olympic Games, will fly to Manila on Tuesday to compete in the Philippines Nation al Swimming championships to be held there from
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  • 21 14 DESPITE a slight shower which fell at Batu Ganton Race course on Thursday night, the going will be good.
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  • 13 14 Every Chance in race five and Theatre II in race six.
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  • 258 14 Why The Aussies Failed AUSTRALIA'S failure against England in the Test series in Australia was due to two factors: firstly, the 'demon' bowling of England's Frank Tyson, and secondly the failure of the Australian batsmen to recognise the basic principles of batsmanship This was the opinion of Denzil Batchelor. sports
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  • 28 14 LONDON. March 4 (Reuter) Liverpool beat Notts County by 3 goals to zero in their rearranged English League Division Two match at Nottingham yesterday.
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