Singapore Standard, 18 March 1955

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    17 1 Singapore Standard £6 F^ c+|4 i£ r^ SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955 1 1 v\i,v:s is (IMS
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    Lock icon Aussie Troops For Malaya
    15 1 L Admission tral i I I I I I ■epcr:te Pact
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    Lock icon THE BIG ARUBA SECRET
    369 1 Who Are Her Spore Agents? Tanker Expecfed In Colony Today Standard Shipping Reporter SINGAPORE si. circles ane beeping i cm ly guarded secret cona ing the Finnish Aruba. carrying cai v jot fuel to Communist China. The RecrH Which Colony firm has been appointed i visional
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    Lock icon Court Told Of Attempt To Move A Corpse
    942 1 Court Told Of Attempt To Move A Corpse Cashier Murder Inquiry Opens To Packed Court KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A cor salesman, tentatively accused of murder, was alleged at a preliminary inquiry today, to have tried to hire a car "to carry a corpse," 24 hours after the murdered man was
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    Lock icon Word From London And Lawyer Had To Quit
    139 1 Word From London And Lawyer Had To Quit KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Mr R PS. Rajasooria hid f> withdraw today as insel lor Kwong Kirn On, jointly aecu>ed desman, Chen C rang Linf I the murder ca r Yap Kon Shin, .:i the openpreliminary :ia quietly c court when a mej>senger
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    Lock icon TUNISIA SET ON FREEDOM
    102 1 TUNISIA SET ON FREEDOM PARIS. March 17 «Reuter) Habib Bourguiba. leader of the Tunisian Nationalist Neodestour Party, who is in onforced residence here, said in a Press interview today that Tunisia would win independence "with France or despite France." lie told the evening newspaper Paris Press: "I am convinced that
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    Lock icon Mother Dared Death For Her Daughter's Sake
    108 1 Mother Dared Death For Her Daughter' s Sake VIENNA. Mar. 17 (UP) A Rumanian mother who dodged Iron Curtain police in a desperate flight to freedom did so because her 11-year-oid daughter may have cancer, it was disclosed yesterday. The United States embassy said it had "agreed to help" the
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    Lock icon Eden Is Better
    39 1 LONDON. March 17 «Reutor) Sir Anthony Edon. British Foreign Secretary, is getting better from the attack of influenza which prevented him from visiting Turkey this week, but is staying in bed. an official bulletin said today.
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    Lock icon MAGICIAN CHOO TAKES ON THAT CHALLENGE
    306 1  - MAGICIAN CHOO TAKES ON THAT CHALLENGE CHRISTINE DIEMER Offers To Fly Through Space By Standard Staff Reporter MR. JIMMY CHOO, one of the best amateur magicians in Singapore who has recently been specializing in Houdini tricks, has taken up the challenge offered by Shaw Bros, to pay $5,000 to anyone
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    Lock icon All Agree On The Key Points
    158 1 NANYANG ROW NEARS END THE Nanyang University row is nearly over, with agreement having been reached on the main issues, The Standard reliably understands. A public announcement ot this may be expected today alter a meeting between the Chancellor Dr. Lin Yu-tang and representatives
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    Lock icon Adenauer Recalls Schlitter
    104 1 Adenauer Recalls Schlitter LONDON. Mar. 17 (UP)— Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ordered rebellious West German diplomat Oskar Schlitter to return to Bonn from London yesterday. A government spokesman in Bonn announced that Adenauer, in his capacity as Foreign Minister, instructed the Bonn Republic's ambassador in London. Hans Schlange Schoeningen. to inform
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    Lock icon 'HUMAN BUOY' PCs GET MacG's PRAISE
    197 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Two Malay policemen, who tied themselves into a "human buoy" against a fast rising flood near Segamat to save a family of ten marooned in a New Village last December, were today commended by the Federation High Commissioner for their valour.
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    Lock icon THE BIG DOG WAS A BEAR
    55 1 GRANBY. Quebec. March 17 < Reuter> A man here telephoned police that "a huge black dog a s big as a horse has followed me home." When police arrived on the scene they found the "black dog" was a bear which had escaped from
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    Lock icon These 14 Americans Back Bandung Talks
    168 1 JAKARTA. Mar. 17 (Reuter) —The English language newspaper. Indonesian Observer today published a letter written by 14 prominent Americans to the Indonesian Premier. Dr. Ali Sastroamid.jo.jo. expressing the hope that the Premier's prospective meeting with other Asian and African leaders at Bandung next month
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    Lock icon AGREEMENT IN LAOS
    50 1 PARIS. Mar. 17 <Reutcr> The Royal Laotian Government and Communist -led Pathet Laos movement have agreed to end their struggle in the northern provinces of Laos, according to French press reports from Vietnam. Tne delegates of both sides have signed a cease-fire agreement, the reports said yesterday.
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    Lock icon Princess Dina Off To Marry
    59 1 CAIRO. March 17 <UP> Princess Dina. fiancee of King Hussein of Jordan, flew to Jordan today accompanied by her father and mother as well as a royal Jordanian mission. The wedding between the King and Princes.s Is scheduled for May 23 at the end of
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    Lock icon Bid To Finish Film In Time
    57 1 MACAO. Mar. 17 <UP».— Eurasia Films is rushing to complete the first movie ever made in Macao to be in time to enter the South-east Asia Film Festival to be held in Singapore on May 11. Silver O. Machado. the producer, said the movie
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    Lock icon PHAO ARRIVES IN LONDON
    37 1 LONDON. Mar. 17. (R( uteri Lieutenant General Phao Srivanond Thailand's Deputy Minister of the Interior, arrived here yesterday by air from Bangkok on a short vi.^it on his way to the United States.
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    Lock icon THOSE YALTA PAPERS
    276 1 US Version —Says Churchill LONDON. March 17, (Renter) Sir Winston CHurchill told the House of Commons today that the hitherto secret records of the Yalta Conference published in Washington yestciday were "in no sense an agreed official record of the powers concerned." He had been asked why
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    Lock icon $100,000 ROAD SAFETY FUND
    311 2 Traffic Chief Urges KIALA LI MPIK. Thurs.— Kuala Lumpur's Traffic Police Chief Mr. Nelson Freeborn, today urged the creation of a $100,000 'Road Safety Fund" in the Federation to finance a countrywide campaign against the iucreasing accident rate. '■it each motorist contributes Just a dollar, we
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    Lock icon Balloon Caused Police 'Alert'
    185 2 Balloon Caused Police 'Alert' ALL Police (1. visions in Singapore and patrol boa:., in local waters vcrc alerted following a report that a paiachutc vaj seen ballooning over the island yesterday morning. A teleprinter message received at Police Headquarters from RAP". Beletar at 11.06 ■m. slated: "Pilot baled cut ot
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    Lock icon Witness Accuses Britain And U.S.
    167 2 DUTCHMAN'S TRIAL JAKARTA, March 17, (Reuter)— Accusations that British, American and Dutch planes dropped arms and equipment to gangs operating in West Java during 1951 and 1952 were made today by a state witness in the trial of a Dutchman charged with having led subversive
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    Lock icon Faure To Seek Big Three Talks
    106 2 Faure To Seek Big Three Talks PARIS. Mar. 17 (AP>— Premier Edgar Faure implied yesterday that he will seek a Western Big Three conference as soon as France has ratified the Paris accords lor West German rearmament. Such a meeting would be a prelude, he said, to a new Big
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    38 2 HONGKONG March 17 Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Honukong Exchange today were $15.59 to £1 sterling; 55.8325 to US$l; $1,837 to Malayan SI: so. 148 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $253,125 to a tae!
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    Lock icon MALAYANS FIND RARE FISH
    538 2  -  V. T. SAMBANDAM May Be Put On Show In The Van Kleef Aquarium By Standard Staff Reporter THE Singapore van Kleef Aquarium is likely to have one of the rarest fish in the world on show, Supernumerary Officer of the Aquarium, Mr. A. T. Stewart told
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    Lock icon HERE FOR TALKS Two Bank Chiefs Arrive
    191 2 HERE FOR TALKS Two Bank Chiefs Arrive MR. W. G. EDINGTOX. Chief General Manager of the Midland Bank of London, one of the five biggest in Britain today with more than 2.000 subsidiary branches in the U.K. arrived in Singapore yesterday, for a week's visit. Accompanied by Ihe Bank's Overseas
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    40 2 LONDON. Mar. 17 <Rcutor> Mr. Gcorgo Cutlon has be* n appoint Pd British Ambassador to tho Philippines in SUG sion to S;r F Gibbs who Is shortly retiring from the Foroign Service, it was announced hero.
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    Lock icon FULLBACK TOLD TO KEEP PEACE
    217 2 KTALA LUMPIR, Thurs. R Narayanasamy. Selan^or's Malaya Cup fullback, and his cider brother. R. Rajoo, who attacked him with a knife, were today bound over by the First Magistrate to keep the peace for six months. Rajoo. Ml, was charged before Raia Azlan Shah voluntarily
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    Lock icon Fund For Fire Victims
    133 2 Fund For Fire Victims A GROUP of public-spirited residents of Potong Pasir. Singapore, yesterday formed a relief committee to solicit aid for victims who lost their i homes in Tuesday's fire in the area. The organizers hone to raise about $10,000 and have applied for registration to the Registrar of
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    Lock icon But Why Did He Do It? Asks Wife
    107 2 AN odd-job man who threw himself into the Singapore Kivcr one day in December last year leit a note tied to his slippers which were found on Anderson Bridge. The note said: "I went down the river" and asked the finder to
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    14 2 Custom Hi -Jack Opium and d I Thi I *aid 1 thf Cus\ I
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    25 2 THREI a Kir! wren I durinf a I B I The I schoo and woro sen I I N.i v other aitf r v
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    28 2 COMMODITY PRICES CLUSI p i J N,, 1 ■Hi' t Thi. p i, n pne, I M .i.in> 'l'l||. (!«•< hip A Mill Mi. f. j I I 'ip
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    Lock icon RUBBER, TIN CLOSING PRICE
    51 2 Standard London Corrrspond n LONDON, March 17 —The following prices of rubber and tin on the Lm LONDON RUBBER Sp, Spot 2616. £715 mI Apnl/Junr 26.a July/September 25.d bu> I October/December 25 id. i-^ f P 1 J April c.i.f. 25id. Soles Morr.«9 Tone: Very Steady.
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    Lock icon Water For Drought Stricken Villagers
    106 3 THOUSANDS of villagers living in the 12--mile stretch between Pawri Java Village and Semcrah on the Batii Pahat-Muar Road have been struck by a severe drought for the past three months. The Muar (iovernment tame to their aid only a month ago by supply Ing
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    Lock icon Stage Show About Life In Jungle
    52 3 Stage Show About Life In Jungle r«. A (iraol 11 1 tated p tcci a southern :> oi ProE V. performed in 13 ted ami pcop'.e. The \iarcta 1 «>■ icti g lie in rists, narted waverers y their sulTcr- I >n- ntroi how the wiser terrorists the ingle* to
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    Lock icon Room For 25,000 Children In Primary Classes Next Year
    274 3 THE Singapore Education Department estimates that approximate ly 25,000 children will find room in Primary I classes in Government and aided English schools in 1956, a spokesman of the Department said yesterday. This number will represent an increase of about 5.000
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    Lock icon ROW OVER GIRL LED TO 2 a.m. SHOOTING
    125 3 ROW OVER GIRL LED TO 2 a.m. SHOOTING A DISPUTE over a prostitute at 2 a.m. yesteidav led to a shooting incident in one of Singapore's redlight districts in the Scrangoon area. A policeman fired a shot when a man. believed to be a Fi.jinn soldier who was involved in
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    Lock icon A DIAMOND for the 'GOLDEN' girl
    252 3  -  TONI MARSH And a crack at 'Miss Universe' By IF you're pretty enough with plenty of personality, you may win a one and a quarter carat diamond from Gutwirth Trading: Company. The diamond goes with an evening gown from Chotirmall. a cheongsam from Laura's,
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    Lock icon FLAGS HALF-MAST
    35 3 PENANG. Thinrs. As a mark of respect, flags on Government bu Idings .n 'nc Settlement of Pen aq g were flown at half-mast today, the funeral day of the late Kins of Nepal.
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    Lock icon Probe Into Lorry Accidents
    149 3 Probe Into Lorry Accidents I KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs Three separate inquiries began today into the overturning of two estate lorries in South Selanqor en Monday, resulting in the death oi five Indian labourers, including two woj men. and injury 19 another 40 workers. They were started by the 1 Federation's
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    Lock icon ALLEGATION AGAINST GIRL
    64 3 TAN SIEW WAH. a 17-ycar-old s rl, claimed trial in the Singapore Sixtli Police Court yesterday to breaking into a house at Owen Road and .stealing a gold necklace and a jade pendant from a lour-year-old boy. David Chow. The ofTencc was committed on March 1(5 at
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    Lock icon Moved Biscuits, Sweets — $250
    37 3 Moved Biscuits, Sweets $250 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.Mr. N.L. Cohen, in the Sessions Court. Pengerang. yesterday fined Lucy Ng. of Singapore. $250 lor moving without a permit. 10 biscuits and nine packets of sweets in Johore territorial waters.
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    Lock icon DRIVER MOVED FOOD-$500
    67 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.--Too Cheng Cheung. a lorry driver was fined 5500 in the Magistrate's Court today for moving 240 tins of sardines and two sacks of brown sugar without a permit. In pressing for a deterrent sentence. Court Inspector Razak said that a short time ago a
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    Lock icon Calendar For Appeals
    50 3 PEXAXG. Thurs. The Settlement Secretary. Mr. H R. Ellis, has announced that his office will maintain a ra.endar of proposed functions and appeals for charitable purposes by voluntary organizations. The calendar prill be available at all t:mcs in the Secretariat for inspection by representatives of voluntary organizations.
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    Lock icon 700 Book Jackets On Show At Council Hall
    161 3 A MOST attractive as well as interesting exhibition, unique in Singapore, will open today at s<*v p.m.. at British Council Hall, where more than 700 book jackets are being displayed until Mar. 27. The exhibition is sponsored by the Singapore Art Society
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  • ALL THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN NEWS
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      507 4 Front Lists The Evils Of Capitalism 'A Hopeless System' Says Katong Man THE Labour Front makes a stand against exploitation, partly because this is greedy and unjust, and partly because it is oldfashioned and inefficient, said Mr. A. J. Braga in a talk over Radio Malaya last night. Exploitation of
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      Lock icon Traders' Plea Has Been Met Long Ago, — C. C. Tan
      214 4 Traders' Plea Has Been Met Long Ago, C. C. Tan THE Progressive Party candidate for Cairnhill, I Mr. C. C. Tan. claimed yes- j terday that the circular sent to candidates by a certain retailers' association asking them to champion tlie association's cause, had been sent to no purpose. "What
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      100 4 Tip Off On Those Banners CANDIDATES for the Singapore Legislative Assembly elections next month, arc now being put wise on the City Council's advertisement by-laws. The Council is sending out circulars to all candidates informing them of places where posters and banners are prohibited. Candidates are specially told that flying
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      37 4 MR John Laycork. Progressive candidate for Katona Division, will hold an election meeting at Frrnkel Avenue at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Mr. Frnnk C. .Tames, a former City Councillor w.ll be the quest speaker.
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      Lock icon MALAYA FOR ONE PEOPLE
      180 4 MALAYA FOR ONE PEOPLE .\\VV\\VW\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\V\\\\\" I Manifestos <\\\\\\>V *\\\\\\\t INDEPENDENT candidate Mr. C R. Dasaratha Raj. wants the appointment of a commission to review further progress towards the early attainment of complete independence. Mr. Raj, who is contesting: Kampong- Kapor division. in a 10-plank election manifesto, promises also to work
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      Lock icon NO MAN TO EXPLOIT ANOTHER
      139 4 NO MAN TO EXPLOIT ANOTHER THE LABOUR FRONT'S candidate for Changi Division. Mr Wong Sau Sheung. in his manifesto promises to fight for the masses. He says the Front would rally the people round "in an honest attempt to bui'.d a new government which will protect your interests, not just
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      Lock icon Democrats Will Represent All
      204 4  -  K. K. Tan 'Controls Must Co' THE Democratic Party will represent people from every walk of life in Singapore, Mr. Tan Khiang Khoo, the Party's candidate for Cairnhill Division, said yesterday. Speaking to a rally at the Tuan Mong School. Tank Road. Mr. Tan said the
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      Lock icon They'll Make S'pore Part Of Formosa — Rahman
      124 4 They'll Make S'pore Part Of Formosa Rahman PRESIDENT of the United Malays National Organization Tengku Abdul Rahman, last night told more than 2.000 people that the Democratic Party belonged to capitalists who were "trying to make Singapore one of Formosa's territories." The Tungku was speaking in support of the People's
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      Lock icon Loves And Hates Of Action Party
      190 4 No Attempt To Appease THE People's Action Party of Singapore has nothing against Britons individually, the Party's secretary, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said last night. "But" added Mr. Lee. "we are net afraid to say that we are completely for independence and completely against
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      Lock icon Nair Puts Out A Challenge
      117 4 Nair Puts Out A Challenge THE People's Action Party candidate for Farrer Park Mr. Devan Nair yesterday challenged his two opponents. Mr. Eric S. B. Wee (Progressive) and Mr. A. R. Lazarous (Labour Front) to a public debate. '•If they have the ability. knowledge and guis to meet me I
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      Lock icon A Question Brings Dull Roily To Life
      294 4 An otherwise dull lunch- i hour election rally at Empress Place suddenly sprang to life, when a man among the crowd asked the Labour Front's candidate for Cairnhill. Mr. David Marshall, his stand "in the event of a war between the Western powers
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    142 5 FIVE Burmese Government Departmental heads arrived in Singapore yesterday by air for a tuo-ueeks study tour of the Colony sponsored by the Government. They were the Programme Officer, Department of Broadcasting Service. IT Kyau Nvein, the Assistant Secretary for Home Affairs, I' Soo Tin. the Deputy Commissioner of
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    166 5 brtiuWd from his uncle's farm at jmng burner was taken lv.i Koni;. oil Siglap. where ike aMtactmrs with a "dachins" n.n umiess tommitting a certain years' n foi ng Ho on June 29. I Din, pros* Pen in id 4 B live >(- ag in unarms and I that
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    Lock icon Macao Bishop Due In Malacca This Week-End
    88 5 MALACCA. Thurs. Parishioners of the Portuguese Mission hero are preparing a warm welcome for their Bi>hop. Monsgr. D. Pollicarpo da Costa Vas. Bishop of Macao, when he arrives here this week-end on his routine episcopal visit to the Settlement. A reception committee will
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    Lock icon AT HALF-MAST
    24 5 UNION Jacks \vere flown at half-mast in Singapore yesterlay to mark the funeral in i Katmandu of King Tribhuvan j >f Nepal.
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    145 5 nth of May, 1954 lant is the owner I o isc in Tanjong Rhu of h the standard rent in is SI Of) a month. After the premises were y as two ci we! lings. arl was let to Harwood ne 1. 1*53. at $300 per the other to
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    Lock icon Police Break Up Cinema Brawl
    38 5 OX Wednesday n ght a Police party intervened in a fight involving about 50 men outside the Taj Cinema in Geylang Serai and held three men. All three were subsequently released after questioning.
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    Lock icon HARBOUR MEN DEFER STRIKE ACTION
    216 5 HARBOUR MEN DEFER STRIKE ACTION Negotiations With Board Will Start This Morning AB.WI vuu «P nr ;iy-roted employees of the Singapore Harbour Board, last night decided to defer strike action pending negotiation with the Board over their claims tor a wage increase and improved conditions of service. 1 Negotiation will
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    122 5 He's Here To Meet Tourists MR ALWAI S OSMAX. head of the Indonesian Immigration Department who was one cf four Indonesian Government officials who arrived in Singapore by air yesterday to await tonight's arrival of the luxury liner. Caro::ia with 54' wealthy Americans on beard The three others are the
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    Lock icon Judge Praises Man For Initiative
    158 5 Judge Praises Man For Initiative IPOH. Thurs.- Mr. Justice Pretheroe, today commended in open court, a Chinese attendant of the Central Mental Hospital. Ong Kirn Swee. for his public spiritedness in connection with the stabbing incident in Cowan Street on Dec. 17 last. "I congratulate you on the initiative shown.
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    Lock icon ART SOCIETY'S ACTING CHIEF
    44 5 DURIXCJ the absence on six month-' tour abroad of Mr. Ho Kol\ Hoe. artist-architect r.nd President of the Singapore Art Society. Dr C. A. Gibson-Hill. Curator of Zoology. RafTl cs Museum will be the acting President, it was announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon Dies After Short Illness
    41 5 MRS A. van Cuylenburg. wife of Mr. A van Uuylenburg of Donaldson and Burkinshaw. Singapore, died in the General Hospital yesterday alter a short illness. The funeral will take place today at 5 p.m. at Bldadan Cemetery.
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    252 5 COLONY MAY BECOME A VENUE FOR POETS SINGAPORE may become the venue for a meeting of international poets, editors essayists and novelists in 1956 if a resolution to be introduced at the meeting of the International Executive Committee of the P.E.N. Club. next month, is passed. The resolution, made unanimously
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      279 5 The AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED and AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNDERWRITERS LIMITED have pleasure in announcing thai as from March 21st, 1955 their Kuala Lumpur Branch Of lices i I will remove to the lir^t lloor AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL BUILDING 9 Ampang Street Telephone and Postal Box \umbers remain |ji unchanged. iIK
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      618 5 cMlmanac INFORMATION AT A GLANCE S'porc Art s«»ci«'t.v: Exhibition of i nj* r%Tf\ %M AT V/i Book Ja.-ket Design opening 53U RADIO MAL»AXA pm at British Council Hall MAI AVA ;,,,,r ,l): 145 UaiverMtjf <»f Malaya Democratic am Housewives' Choice (Pi; < lult: Talk on "The Plattorm of 03 q
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      Lock icon Drought And Fires
      646 6 has for two months been suffering from a heat wave which has dried up the wells and pad) fields in many parts of the count:y and caused fires in several rubber estates. The western coastal areas are the worst hit and the people there aie paying high
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      Lock icon One World Ideal
      321 6 HEN poet Alfred Tennyson mused over a "Parliament of man. the Federation of the woild ne laid the cornerstone of what the free world is Lruggling to achieve today. The struggle has been going on for many years and the theme of Tennyson's dream has been taken
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    Lock icon Giving The Chinese A More Cooperative Role
    1081 6 Giving The Chinese A More Cooperative Role Emergency In Malaya By A Times Special Correspondent lately in I/,,/, THE Emergency in Malaya is widely known as one of the more intractable wrestling: matches with militant Communism. It is also a crucial passageunfinished and still with unlimited possibilities— in the social
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      141 6 rpilE preparatory committee of the Malay Youth Congress in Kuala Lumpur is <r ticised by (Jtusan Melayu for what it described as "irresponsible action" on the part of the Committee. The Committee had published draft resolutions said to have been submitted by two well known Malay leaders who
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      83 6 rpilE Finnish tanker Aruba is? carrying 13.000 tons of jet fuel to Communist China and is therefore trying tc? give aid to an aggressor. reasons Chung Shing Jit? Pao adding that such an act 2 is positively inexcusable. The decision of Free China? to intercept the tanker is
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      134 6 'FHE daring robbery of b£ JL goldsmith's shop on Tues-? day afternoon was not just*; another crime. Sin Chew «Tits Poh writes. We must dig? deeper into the social back-J gr. und to find out why suehj crimes are committed more;: frequently nowadays. The population of Singapore'
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      110 6 THE present world is one ln| which capitalism is op-£ pc.sed to socialism. Nanyang? Siang Pau writes. 2 The United States is leading^ the capitalist half of the;: world, the journal asserts.? In The L.S. production is£ mostly controlled by eap-£ italista and numerous in-? vectors. The tendency
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    674 6  - Vatican Rebukes French Catholic Movement NORA BELOFF By Paris, IS France approaches what should be the last round in the four-year quarrel over German rearmament, the Vatican has sharply called to order French Catholics who are campaigning hand-in-hand with the Communists, against the ratification of the London and Paris agreements.
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      327 6 Sir; Not so very long ago. there was quite a flutter in the political dovecote, due to infiltration by birds ot passage. The trouble today would appear to be that everybody, who is somebody, wants a slice of the political cake, which is not
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      153 6 Sir; I have been reading with interest the many criticisms expressed in the "Standard" of the row since its exposure of the MCA letter to "vet" the Standard. I am of the opinion that enough have already been written on the subject. Perhaps in his conscience
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      131 6 Sir: I thiiik it tras the Z height of presumption on Z Die part of Mr. Thio Chan 2 Bep to speak the other night over Radio Malaya Z on the aims and aspira- Z twns of the I'arious poll- Z tical parties in this colo- njy.
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    624 7 Fiot Were In Letters jetween Roosevelt n d Stalin Revealed SHINGTON, March I 7 Pouter)— President Roosevelt secretly 0 Marshal Srol.n ot the 1945 conference that Korea should defer the war under the trusteesh.p of the Soviet Union, Chino Ur ,ircd States but not Br.tain, it
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    60 7 1. MAR GOT FONTEYN, 2 the British prisna balle- j rina, accompanied her 2 h v s b a n d. Dr. Don Roberto Arias yesterday C when he presented his credentials to the Queen sat Buckingham Palace as new Panamanian x Ambassador. After the ceremony, 5 Dr. Arias presented
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    225 7 SEOUL, March 17. (AP)Presideni Syngman Rhcc charged yesterday that North Korean widows and farm "iris arc being forced to marry Red Chinese soldiers as part of a programme to reduce the north to a Chinese vassal state. "The Communists are rewarding Chinese soldiers
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    119 7 (Xt liter)— The Archbishop ''irlMtt, said yesterday British «ci l)omb seemed to be "the b« peac-p in the years ahead". Oe^s/on and petitions." Communist States will their chosen paths of remonstrances I ess of human life." ishop said he was influenced by the fact rly all the leaders and
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    554 7 WASHINGTON, March. 17: (Rcuter)-Australia did not quarrel with the United States policy of relying on uncommitted mobile striking power as a deterrent to aggression in Asia, Mr. Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime .Minister, said yesterday in the first public statement of his Washington visit.
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    144 7 Drove Car While He Was Dying LIVERPOOL, March 17. (Renter) A Liverpool comt pany director suffering from business worries shot himsell In the head and then drove two miles dying through the City streets, it was stated at an inquest here yesterday. The man. Edward Evans. 27. apparently fired a
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    530 7 NEW YORK, March 17 (UP) —Call firl Pat Ward testified yesterday thai she once had a US$lOO p!ay-for-pay date with a South American millionaire in the bedroom of tiie apartment she shared with Minot F (Mickey) Jeike while he chatted in the living room
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    201 7 LINCOLN. March 17. (Rcu- j tcr) Counsel defending a British officer at a court martial here disclosed yesteri day that he was amen« the British prisoners of war tortured and illtrealed by the Chinese Communists in Korea. Counsel said during his twe and
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    35 7 BIRMINGHAM. March 17. (Rcutcr) Eleven students at Birmingham University who raded a nurses home and tipped girls out of bed. have been suspended for the resi of the term which ends on Friday.
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    34 7 HASTINGS. March 17 .Router) Shop keepers forming themselves into a Postcard Approval Association carefully examined 3.000 comic postcards on sale in the south coast holiday centre. They rejected 105 z> obscene.
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    22 7 The Ciudad TrujiUo City Council voted yesterday to name a street for the late Alexander Fleming discoverer of penicillin.- AP
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    109 7 AFTER three years and four months in Peking prisons, a doctor in Hongkong found Father Albert Sohier (Belgian), spotted with scars and lumps, tubercular spine and lungs in the wreck freed on Nov. 1934. The first 29 days of no- sleep torture, and interrogation failed
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    161 7 RANGOON, March 17. (AP) Burmese troops and Chinese Nationalist guerrillas arc locked in deadly battle around Mong Yawn, 26 miles south of Monghsat, army sources here said yesterday. First reports reaching Ran-. goon indicated that casualties in the Ke-SftW battle, fought in driving rain and mud.
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    181 7 LONDON. March 16. CUPHA Br;ti>ii court dj i tofiny the Lftf Rial b| a British bui nesanaa to H Mi.n Sir: WBO, the Z was later "persf tyrannized" in Mos ow letting a Soviet divorce. John Teeadale 8.ir.0 marred O.ga N.ko^cwi.. I b.mova while he
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    1236 8  -  William Macrae Billy Graham is going to Glasgow Here a Ulasi/<nr yuny buster tells tt hut Billy will be up ayuinst in By Ex'/nspcciot CO Billy Graham, the American evangelist in the lounge suit, is going over to save Glasgow. He i.s going, he says. becau-e Glasgow's' need
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      73 8 Sir;— Alter f! flic at Potong Pasir! A- residents of Potor.q Pasir we must do something to ■> our own fellow resi in this area who have lost their ho;ro belonging? in the third tiro during the tw< month-. Any d< be gratefully v etved Mr. Lee
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      148 8 Sir; The news item captioncd 'MOVE TO UNITE ESTATE UNIONS." appearing in your March 14th (page 2) issue is not quite correct. As far as Ulu Langat Estate Stall Union is concerned. I as the Secretary have no information about any decision to discuss a unification of
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      290 8 LANGUAGE CITIZENS Sir; Mr. Tan Eng Joo in a broadcast over Radio Malaya on Tuesday is reported to have said that the imposition of a language criterion for election to o.Ti in the Legislature w ild oring about the creation l*l two classes of citizens, namely. first class and :>econd
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    123 8 Sir; Mr. Tan Sirw Sin. publicity chief «if the MCA. is reported to have said that future members of the I erieral Legislative oumil mu>t be prepared to to to jail if necessary for thfir stand on what they believe to be richt or wrong. These are indeed
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      421 8 EVERY FRIDAY FOR THE CHILDREN fgjf [NOBOPY'S GCNNaKhOLD IT DUFFY/— LISTEN, YyEAH, COME^ >5 .T? //FAT^^-^.—vrrcr X^Y^C^f'Jt V CALL ME A /EVERYBODY. WHY DON'T/ ON —TH E OPPIOE T^tX C^r C-„ c rWTiri <frl rtf iWl*! sp W E SETTLE THIS WHOLE /SHE2IFP HAS E D^^~^ LJ i/JJyW^f^ V| \BUSIN
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      187 9 Ufti ha 7f of »o:ifj=ed :d«ag o;i ihe job sce.-.e. Put principles, ut;l:ty first. IBJGO— Auc. 23 to Sept 22 j!e dear ones. r>er- > K.ve yoi p!e^>a:e: tor <iee:>ei accord Don t ihuil .-Ks I IKK \-Sent 23 to Oct 22 tentre.s on the doe. place of en- act
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    650 9  -  CHRISTINE DIEMER RAFFLES OF THE EASTERN ISLES, by C.E. Wurtzburg (Hodder Stoughtcn, 42/.) By IT was hifl brief residence Singapore, as well as morici of happy boyhood spent at the London that impelled Charles tzburg to exhaustive arch into the life of Sir rd Rallies, who
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    930 9  -  Harold Nlcolson By T ORD DAVID CECIL, in his studies of Lord Melbourne, has left in our minds an attractive picture of the Devonshire House Circle. These handsome men and women seem to move in an enchanted landscape of faint blues and green? that match
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    892 9  - A 'MALENKOV' NOVEL PHILIP TOYNBEE By The Thaw. By Ilya Ehrenburß. (Harvill Press, 10s. 6d.) I AM about to write an unfavourable review of a Communist novel but before the usual correspondents reach for their pens, acid bottles and noms de guerre let me hasten to give them a kindly
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    206 10 PEOPLE FASHIONS AT BUKIT TIMAH Toni Marsh Brings You COOL AND COMFORTABLE *r- Mrs. R. Sohelling in white brodcrie anglaise with navy straw hat and dark red shoes and matching bag. Above: Mrs. James Hale in a smart black cartwheel hat of Panama straw explains the course to Capt. Stewart
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    202 12 $14 MIL. Shell Co. Gas Plant Opened PART of the multi-million dollar Shell gas processiiig plant at Stria ti'liicli 'teas opened by the Sultan of Brunei recently. Altogether nearly $14 million has been spent on this project alone, quite apart from an additional expenditure of SiSi million on the salt
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    115 12 Gammons Are Firm; Traders Up INDUSTRIALS and tin in the Malayan share market were generally steady but dull, though Gammons firmed suddenly in a complete change of sentiment and Straits Traders continued to appreciate. Rubber shares tended to be slightly easier. The overall turnover was still rather small. Prize changes
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    214 12 CERTAIN sections of the I produce market in Singapore were quietly steady but little activity was reported yesterday. Quotations for copra and pepper remained unchanged from Wednesday and no business was recorded in the Chinese Produce Exchange in the morning. Coconut oil steadied slightly in price largely
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    153 12 A BRITISH invention, a dehumidifier which can extract twenty pints of water in 24 hours, has aroused much interest abroad. The machine has a wide range of potential uses. Typical applications in basement areas, cellars or wherever excessive humidity is a problem include storage rooms workshops, kitchens
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    187 12 PRICE DROPS JVgc RUBBER market circles in Singapore reported intentional selling by a section of the trade which weakened prices yesterday afternoon. The market yesterday closed slightly steadier after weak at 872 cents per lb. for first grade rubber for April shipment, a drop of 1/|
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    77 12 THE amounts of sterling notes and foreign currency notes which travellers may take out of the United Kingdom were increased yesterday from £5 and V! 10 to IMO and C2O respectively, the Treasury announced in London. Sterling notes taken abroad are intended to
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    364 12 AGENCY reports received in Singapore yesterday stated that a major upheaval has been caused in commercial circles in Rangoon as a result of Burma's decision to cut down the utilization of import licences by 50 per cent, which was followed within 72 hours by the
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    47 12 THE U.S. Commerce Department reports that personal income during January was almost US$6,OOO million' higher, at an annual rate, than the corresponding month i n 1954. The Department said total personal income for January was equal to an annual rate of US$2Ol,OOO million
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    54 12 SHIBURA Electric Co.. announced in Tokyo that its research team has produced a commercial .synthetic mica. It said the artificial mica and insulators made of it j^tand a maximum heat of 1.100 degrees centigrade. compared with 700 degrees for natural mica, for which Japan is entirely
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    129 12 PAVING WAY FOR BETTER MALAY A^Tn Standard Special Corr. UNDERLINING the importance attached to the entrepot trade of Singapore, the Bank Negara Indonesia, the only state bank of that country, will open its first overseas branch here before the end of June. The Bank Negara Indonesia is incorporated by
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      325 12 Plan For Malay Smallholders KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The rubber processing factory of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority at Grisek is "fast picking up" in production under an intensive "inducement campaign" of the Co-operative Department, Dato Zainal Abidin, Chairman of the Authority, told
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      133 12 Dividend Policy Of C. W. THE dividend policy of Cable and Wireless (Holding) was I announced at a meeting in London earlier this month. Sir Edward Wilshaw. the Governor, slated that the Board intended to reduce the margin between interim and final dividends. The next interim. Other things being eqvial
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    57 12 And there's plenty of cupboard space lejt for food and cooking utensils. It costs £65 and demonstrating it in this pictnre is 21-year-old Marlene Dee. Mirrorpic REFRIGERATOR, clock, cooking timer, radio, an ironing board and a kitchen table they're all contained in this latest kitchen cabinet now on
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    90 12 TROLLEY buses from a British factory have proved so successful in Penang that the Municipality of Georgetown has now placed its third order in four years. Buses from the Wolverhamptoti works of Ciuy Motors Ltd are plying in Kuala Lumpur. Passenger and Roods vehicles
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    99 12 HOXGKON'G. March 17 (AP) Hongkong's February external trade totalled HK5489.600.000 HKfSSJOt.O(jo more than February last year but HKS2B.!>O().O(iO below January this year the Department of Commerce and Industry announced today. Increases m trade were re- corded during the month for Thailand. Indonesia and Belgium. Decreases were
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    200 12 IHI International Rubber Quality and Parking Conference will be held at Essex House, in New York from May 3 to <♦ and will be preceded from April INi onwards by visits to wharves. and attendance at arbiti.t tions. Announcing this tlv I man of the
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    30 12 MAI \V\\ I I It II c c Kank> Association .selling rates It men Hants are: Rivals (IT. or O.I).) 118.: nmijr Other rxrhange rates remain un iltered
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    154 12 THE steadily growing challenge ol Continental ear makers to the United Kingdom producers of small and medium powered models is underlined by the appearance of the Fiat GOO, designed to capture for Italy a share in export markets. The Financial Times reported that like the French Renault and the
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      626 12 NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTAj.MENT: Supply and delivery of (a) one Motor Sampan. Close N00N— 25.3.55: (b) 50 pieces CO2 Fire Extinguishers 5 lbs. Capacity. Close NOON— 1.4.55 and (c) 500 (3-gallon) Electric Water Heaters. Close N00N— 1.4.55 Forms and particulars from Electricity Department (Room 109). ENGINEER'S
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    104 13 u y n hj978b mnguy6 ra va Lu?<>n !;im vs Midrilr^bro X(ll E DIVISION 111 (South) •igh.-im ,n < u1 i v- Brentford Walsal! ic« Millwall Bristol Torquay i Southampton Shi .\-bury Rintera vs Brighton va Reading Leytoa O. ■'j v- Coventry I \i.l I. DIVISION 111 (North)
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    73 13 >\. Mar. 17, Router) results of rej v Uted 2. Huddorsfield Town 0 '.mo. Score after nil-nil. York City in ShefM»r Zfi i I \(.l I DIVISION I City 4, Bolton Wanderers 2 B 1. lnin'on \V;inde"ors 0 I I M.I I DIVISION 111 i 4
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    22 13 ir 17, Renter— A istralia by one in the match be* the two countries at i. car London t night
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    104 13 M KXICO CITY Mar H SI 4 Rtuift r The United I Mates had a substantial S *<;ad in the unofficial 2 championship of nations 2 at the start of the four- day Pan American games 2 nert yesterday. The points tally was i i
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    138 13 Sixteen For S'gor K.O. Cricket KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Sixteen teams will take part in the Selangor Cricket Association's junior competition for the Navaratnam Shield which will start next month. The competition will be on the knock out basis as last year. The first round is expected to be completed by
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    27 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Selangor will play its first representative soccer match of the season on Saturday when they meet Malacca in a friendly match.
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    787 13 SEVEN ASIAN BOXERS IN WORLD'S BEST THAILAND'S HOPE FOR WORLD TITLE 5 Are Orient Champs By A Special Boxing Correspondent. SEVEN Asian boxers are today listed as world beaters among 80 world contenders ranging: from flyweight upwards. Five are Orient Champions, one a Philippine title holder and last is Chamroen
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    158 13 GLASGOW, Mar 17. Re r The Scottish Football I.< gained a dUtTVed victor* by three goals to two against the English League at Hart.pricn Park here yesteiri..v. They played with ski!! and determination and if inclined at times to over elaborate had the English defence
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    78 13 DUBLIN, Mar. 16, Renter— Th c European Featherweight title fight between Ray Fame<'hon the holder and Billy Kelley the British and Empire champion, will take place in a bu s station here on May 27. Mr. Jack Solomons, the London promoter, today met officials of
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    34 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— On a rain sodden pitch, the Chartered Bank Sports Club gave a good display to beat Se'.angor Club 2-0 in a soccer match on the Sclangor Club Padang today.
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    418 14  -  WINDSOR LAD Show Impressive Track Form By ELTURIUS, a Spring Cup prospect and Snow Blaze were very impressive workers at Bukit Timah yesterday, when they were put through their final preparation for their engagements on Saturday. Working with Argyll (D. Jones) as companion, Elturius
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    47 14 30 BX. R.A.O.C. beat BOD. Civilian Association by one goal to nil in the final to win the Tobin Cup hoc-key competition at Alexandra yesterday. Left outside Licw scored the winning goal for the Batta'ion in the 25th minute of the first half.
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    151 14 MARINE Department Sports Club held a tea arty at the Master Attendants Office in Fullcrton Building yesterday during which champions of their various rompetitons received their prizes: Mr. T. B. Low. the Master Attendent. who is the Patron of the MaYirtc Department Sports Club,
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    64 14 y*t\ following will represent iMCA in a friendly cricket match against RAF'Seletar at Balestier Road tomorrow at 2.15 p.m. R. Lyne iCapt>. I. B. Surratta (V. Capt). C. Fernando. C. da Silva. E. N. Pillai. Gurdial Singh, Can Kcc Tian Tan Jake Seng. Wax Norrey, Teo
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    27 14 KOTA Bahru, Thurs.— lslah English School beat the Old Boys by three goals to two for the annual cup presented by Mrs. C.C. Balhatchet.
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    310 14 WESTERN Sports Club took their first defeat in Colony division 3A league soccer yesterday against REME Civilian Association at Farrer Park. Westerns failed to save the game in spite of a penalty awarded to them in the second half. It was REME Civilians' second outing and
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    51 14 RAJAJI BEAT F N EASILY RAJAJI Sports Club beat Frascr Neave 7-1 in a friendly soccer match played at the Fraser Neave ground yesterday. Scorers for Rajaji were: X Sycd Oman <3>. S. Mad ha van <2v M. Mustapha. and G. Doraiappan. C G. Menon scored the only goal lor
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