Singapore Standard, 21 April 1955

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    17 1 Singapore Standard 2» jx m i. UL V-. -'««> SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, ]9.>:> it i»a<;es is cents
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    Lock icon U.S. Will Supply Part Of Aussie Military Needs
    248 1 CANBERRA April 20 (R cute r) _Mr Kobcrt Menzies, the Austrolion Prime Minister aid todoy the United States hod agreed to (ons ,dcr supplying port of Australia's military BC cds on the basis of assessments now being prepared. making a foreign policy
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    Lock icon Lee's Pals Describe His Killers
    119 1 Lee's Pals Describe His Killers THE NOOSE TIGHTENS \PORE Police have descriptions of ra of the 21-year- Lee Tai Lim, mbers of the High School GraArti Association Oil Road companions, at committee meeting. request the Police the killers to book i :ble U policemen attached On-hard Road Police nt all
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    Lock icon FREAK STORM HITS RUINS
    31 1 April 20 (Reuter)— sent a high wall Rome's most fans the Baths of i. nearly 2.000 years rash ing down with a roar during a nn hrre.
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    Lock icon London Presses To Roll Again
    54 1 LONDON, April 20. (Reuter> A mass meeting of London newspaper strikers today endorsed a settlement of the 27-day-old dispute agreed by their leaders last night. Their decision made possible the publication again tomorrow morning of 12 London national newspapers, ending a dispute which has cost
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    20 1 THE Commissioner for Malaya in the United Kingdom. Inche Othman bin Mohamed. left Belfast for Dublin yesterday. Reuter
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    Lock icon Drugs Worth $3,336 Stolen
    204 1 Watchman Gagged And Bound EIGHT men entered the Medical Department store in Silat Road, Singapore, early yesterday morning and got away with $3,336 worth of drugs after tying up the night-watchman. i The watchman. Baboo Lall, was on his night rounds near the perimeter fence when
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    Lock icon $350 M RUBBER PLAN FOR MALAYA
    368 1 $350 M RUBBER PLAN FOR MALAYA Half-A-Million New Acres In 10 Years By K. C. ARUN, Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federation Government is understood to be considering o $350,000,000 fund to ensure estate replanting of at least half-a-million acres over the next ten years, The Standard learnt
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    Lock icon WE WANT PANTIES' RAID BY 2,000
    111 1 WE WANT PANTIES' RAID BY 2,000 CHAPEL HILL. North Carolina, April 20 (AP) A shouting mob of University of North Carolina students, estimated at 2.OUU staged a panty raid on women's dormitories here on Tuesday night. The entire Chapel Hill police force was called out after frightened girls in several
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    Lock icon STATE LABOUR GOVT. TOPPLES
    42 1 MELBOURNE. April 20. ReutoD— The Governor of Victoria State. Sir Dallas Brooks, today dissolved the Victoria Legislative Assembly after the defeat of the Labour Government on a no confidence vote. The date of the election was not fixed.
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    170 1 HAS BEEN WITH POLICE M 38 YRS. MR. MAH MOOD bin Abdul Wahab, (>2-ycar-old Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore, has been appointed Sergeant-at-Arms to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He will take over his new duties today. He told The Standard he was
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    Lock icon Moslem Religious Court Nullifies Runaway Marriage
    201 1 Moslem Religious Court Nullifies Runaway Marriage DAMASCUS. Syria, April 20 (AP) A Moslem religious court has nullified the runaway marriage of an 18-year-old Dutch girl and her Syrian lover but the couple— with a child on the way say they will appeal the ruling. Nicole Poche and Ri d a
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    Lock icon Crash Probe Team Flies To Calcutta
    134 1 BOMBAY, April 20 (ReuteD The Indonesian Commission inquiring into the crash of an Air India Constellation plane in the South China Sea on April 11, left today for Calcutta after collecting evidence here since Sunday. The five-member commission was appointed by the Indonesian Government
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    Lock icon Colony Trio To Slam Down On Leftist Slurs
    525 1  - Colony Trio To Slam Down On Leftist Slurs RAWLE KNOX LABOUR FRONT MEN REACH BANDUNG By Standard Special Corr. BANDUNG. April 20.— Three members of the Singapore Labour Front, led by Mr. C. H. Koh, arrived here this afternoon to observe "their Asian and African colleagues in conference now that
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    Lock icon Students Told They May Hove Union
    284 1 Students Told They May Hove Union SINGAPORES Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swec Kec. has told Chinese Middle School students that they may have a union, provided they keep politics out of it. The students had appealed to the Governor and to the Labour Front again>t the relusal of the Registrar
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    Lock icon Students Fined For Being Late, Claims Lim
    169 2 Students Fined For Being Late, Claims Lim MALACCA, Wed. -Mr. L m Sv^o Siew (Alliance) ged m the Municipal QCi] here today that its of a certain ol in the Tranqucrah were fined and ed for being late >ugh no fault of thenown. Mr. Lim. asking the Council to remedy
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    Lock icon 'Keep The Classes Separate'
    107 2 'Keep The Classes Separate' SEREMBAX. Wed. The ease of second-class women patients being housed in third-class wards was today taken up by Mr. Robert Singam. Town Councillor for Temiang Ward. In a letter to the State Medical and Health Officer. Negri Sembilan. Mr. Singam saM that there was no sec-ond-class
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    535 2 Two Councillors Hit At Emergency tag JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Mr. Chio Chin Koon, member for Segomat, today criticized the application of Emergency Regulation. No. Zl under which Government could move whole yi 0 S 9 p" k f nrdunn b g a
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    122 2 Office Hours For Puasa SEREMBAN. Wed. The Nesn Semhi'.an State Government announced that during the fasting month office hours in the various State departments wW be from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. without a break during weekdays, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Heads of departments may,
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    Lock icon Colony Derides Jakarta Memo On Malaya
    319 2 Colony Derides Jakarta Memo On Malaya OFFICIAL and political concensus in Malaya i;s that the memorandum submitted jointly by the Union of Young Overseas Malays and the Malaya Independent Movement to the AsianAfrican Conference is the •fantastic nonsense 00 pub- licity seekers." The memorandum, calling for the end of colonialism
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    293 2 Orang Melaka Masi Bodoh MALACCA, Wed.— The Municipal President, Mr. H. G. Hammctt, said at today's Municipal Council meeting that he did not think the Settlement Elections Officer, Mr. S. A. Rees, had said: "Chang Melaka masi bodoh." Mr. Roes was alleged to have made
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    36 2 HONGKONG. Apr:. special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange today wore: ?i5.7:i 'to £1 sterling; (5.794 to US$l; 11.834 to Malayan II: $0,133 to one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $231.5 to a tac!.
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    124 2  -  Yong Peng Seong THE people of Kuala Lumpur have been asking this question for the past three clays. Some say it's a baby whale, some call it a dolphin, others say it's a sea elephant. A publication on marine life describes it as a "dugong." In
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    Lock icon 6 National Classes In N. Sembilan
    85 2 6 National Classes In N. Sembilan SEREMBAN, Wed. Six national-type classes have been opened in Malay schools In Negri Sembilan during this year, states an official reply to a question raised by Inehe Mohamed Idris in the State Council today. These classes have a total enrolment of 239 pupils. 213
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    Lock icon Beware Of Bogus Notes
    57 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Federal Treasury warned tonight that forged $3 notes bearing generally the prefix C 72. had been found circulating in various parts of Malaya. The public were her.ee asked to exercise •'particular care'" when notes bearing such a prefix were tendered, and hand
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    28 2 A FOUR- EX GIN ED French passenger aircraft with 12 people aboard is missing on a flight from Yaounde. "French Cameroon*), to Douala since Tuesday. Reuter
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    Lock icon $1.5 Mil. More For Council
    36 2 PENANG. Wed— The Settlement Council today patted a motion for an additional allocation of 51. 564. 276 from the Federal Government to cover the excess of the unforeseen revotes for 1955
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    Lock icon DOUBLE CHECK ON STRANGERS IN BATU ANAM
    291 2 DOUBLE CHECK ON STRANGERS IN BATU ANAM Villagers Roused By \y On Murder Of Tapper )N 0 By PERCY JOSEPH Standard Staff „r SEGAMAT, Wed.-Roused by the^ r "^"d* of a woman rubber tapper, Yip Lte v lal mur^ the villagers of Batu Anam are double cL strangers coming into
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    87 2 COMMODITY PRICES few* per H»j ffi? pore yesterday Mrr( n^ No. i ,js s Kaw^^en S P 't I. (HIM u> No. 1 v v No" o M The prire ot tln fc LONDON Xl KBIR No. I JLSS .vtt|, mpnt House rerm«! Wedn«Mla\ S €p^^ prices first session Buyers
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    Lock icon Boys Tried To Steal Rubber
    20 2 KUAI Two Pi B \ve:« Fii>" to steal They v. < passed Daman I tapped i
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    Lock icon An Elaborate Show Planned For Safety First Week
    218 3 An Elaborate Show Planned For Safety First Week ponse foAus S^^dXXS .SISSY'S been very good Ine open-air display wi i held a t St. Andrew's Road which will be dosed to traffic ni 4 p.m. to p.m. that day. I The padang has also been booked and Capt Richardson has
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    Lock icon BOYS AT RAPE RIAL TOLD TO LEAVE COURT
    179 3 Nothing Of Interest To You' PENANG, Wed. Mr. Justice W. Buhag j 3 y ordered the High Court cleared of Rogers before he resumed hearing a rape I number of boys in the public gallery. boys better go to school. The case
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    37 3 ing were elected c Singapore nevo en*. AsaociaÜBUal meeting R Che'iiah. •-S. D, V. in I Urea irer *ant cr committee Tan Chew T r, Ambrose 4cn. F. C Fernando s arajoo.
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    17 3 i M inicipal iv appointed or, Mr. A. W. its representative I the University i
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    40 3 photo. Standard l Viiiuporr gold- •!>'• took time off morning to ><i to the I.l.mml Bank. I•>ntrib ii t i o n •il to one gallon. behind is Mr. < hen. donorn I 9i the olonys lM l<insfusion Serv-
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    142 3 He WILL cross the Equator THIRTY SEVEN years in Urn Royal Navy and ViceAdmiral Sir Frank Mason (above) has yet to cross the Equator lie will do it M t in a Uantas BOAC Constellation today on his way to Sydney Sir Frank is thief of engineering department of Her
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    51 3 THIRTY delegates of nn Indonesian labour movement pass through Singapore en route to Peking, on April 21. The party, accompanied by four others, all members of the Sarikat Organisasi Buruh Scluruh Indonesia (the United Organization of Labourers of Indonesia), are expected la Singapore from Indonesia on
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    Lock icon Cheating Case Appeal Dismissed
    95 3 THE Chief Justice, Sir [Charles Murrny-Aynsley, dismissed an appeal by Carey Cheang in the Singapore High Court yesterday, again.st a conviction imposed by a District Court. Chcang was sentenced in the lower court to 12 months' jail j to he followed by 12 months' police supervision
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    75 3 PENANG, Wed.— The Resident Commissioner, Penang, has agreed to lift the curfew in the Penang controlled area until 11 p.m. from April 2.1 to May 2o inclusive, in the Malay settled parts of Aver Itam, S'ingei Xihong. Sungci Nibong i Kechil and Reiau for the pur-
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    45 3 MISS Ling Siok Ting of Malaya is among the foreign delegates from Korea, Thailand and The Netherlands, who will join American Y.W.C.A. representatives in a flower planting ceremo n y marking the Y.W.C.A.'s centennial year, in New York, next Wednesday.
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    26 3 THE inaugural meeting ol the Indian Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society Kuala Lumpur, will be held at the Federal Canteen. Victory Avenue on Sunday.
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    Lock icon Soldier's Body Had Scratches, Court Told
    189 3 RAPE TRIAL SCRATCHES were found on a Fijian soldier. Wagalabu Apisalome. after he was alleged to have raped a young married Malay woman, the Singapore Assize Court was told at his trial yesterday. Apisalome is on trial before Mr. Justice Whit ton on a
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    31 3 RATXASAMY Maniam was fined So yesterday in the Singapore Sixth Police Court when he pleaded guilty to being drunk and incapable at Race] Cour.se Road on April 19.
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    58 3 KOTA BAHRU, Wed. Alliance captured all three scats at Tumpat Town Council second elections held yesterday. Six candidates contested the three scats and 71 per cent, of the total electorate voted The candidates elected to serve for three years were, Othman bin Mohamcd Udin Mahmood bin Zakaria
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    Lock icon Augmented Income With Chap-Ji-Kee
    82 3 Augmented Income With Chap-Ji-Kee A WASHERWOMAN, Cheons Chuc Wun, who attempted to augment her 5>2 daily income by helping in the management of a chap-ji-kee lottery. was yesterday fined SI. OOO, in default, two months' imprisonment, by the Singapore Fourth Police Court Magistrate. Cheong, who pleaded guilty to a charge
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    Lock icon Six Rotan Strokes For Knife Attack
    145 3 PENANG, Wed.— Toh Bcng Khong, who struck a woman on the head with a chopper, was sentenced in the Magistrate's Court here today to nine months' imprisonment and ordered to be given six strokes of the rotan. in passing sentence, the Magistrate, Group, Capt.
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    266 3 INACCESSIBLE? WHAT RUBBISH -JOHN EDE 'Come Along And See Me Anytime THE Tanglin Member for the Singapore Legislative Assembly, Mr. John Ede, said yesterday that he would welcome anyone in his constituency who wishes to see him on any matter, "whether he voted for or against me or has no
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    Lock icon FAMILY ROBBED
    38 3 A SIKH family living in Paya Lcbar Road. Singapore, who went to bed on Monday night leaving the front door ajar owing to warm weather, was robbod of cash and valuables worth more than j $500.
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    33 3 photo. DR. R. 11. BLAND, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, returned to Singapore yesterday. He had been 6a leave in Britain for the past month. Standard
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    24 3 THIEVES entered a shop in Lorong Morjuki, Singapore, and robbed the shopkeeper of goods and a watch worth $435 on Monday night
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    345 4 So Ungku Doesn't Put Up Motions JOHORE BAIIRU. Wed -Nominated member of the Johorc State Council [Ungku Abdullah bin Omar today told the Council that he asked to withdraw two motions he intended mtioI during because he discovered at the last moment that the
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    55 4 MALACCA. Wed— A concession by the Hawkers Advisory Board to certain categories of hawkers at the South Reclamation Grounds between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. was confirmed by the Municipal Council today. Hawkers plying in Blacksmith Street, under an experiment by the Hawkers Advisory Board, will
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    Lock icon 300 Brickworks Men Down Tools
    230 4 Strike May Be A Long One ABOUT 300 daily-rated workers of the Alexandra Brickworks in Singapore went on strike at 7 a.m. yesterday, for better conditions of service. There appears to be little prospect of a speedy settlement of the dispute. Both parlies had discussion?
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    Lock icon RUNS AWAY FROM HOME TO ESCAPE...
    118 4 ...MARRIAGE WITH A BOY SHE DISLIKES WONG AH PENG. 18--year-old rubber tapper, recently reported missing from Kota Tinggi in Johore, has run away from marriage with a 17-year-old boy she dislikes. "I don't want to marry him." she said in her friend's tailor shop
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    Lock icon 'THE CASE OF THE WALKING TRAFFIC LIGHT'
    103 4 'THE CASE OF THE WALKING TRAFFIC LIGHT' A MAN who stood in the middle of the road opposite the Joo Chiat Police Station one hot afternoon and stopped passing cars, wa s told by the Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr J. M. Devereux-Colebourn, yesterday. "You must be a most courageous
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    201 4 THE Lingijajatti Agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesians in 1947 was thp result of compromises ana. as both parties difTered on the interpretation of the terms, was no agreement at all. Speaking on "Indonesia after Independence". the Lecturer in History at the University of Malaya. Dr
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    143 4 SPECIAL traffic arrangements lor the High Street area on April 22. when Singapore's new Legislative Assembly opens, were announced yesterday. Between 9 a.m. and 11 am. on that day. the lower part of High Street from the lane running behind Supreme Court to
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    30 4 ABOUT 30 employee- of the Singapore Mis-Sino Company submitted a five-point demand for better working conditions and a revision of salaries, to the management yesterday.
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    201 4 A PROMOTIONS board for Singapore Harbour Board employees was yesterday agreed on in the fifth day of negotiations between the Board and the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association. In the two-hour talk at the Ministry of Labour yesterday, the Staff Association held that under
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    157 4 A 57-YEAR-OLD labourer, Kathan Ayyakannu, was knocked down by a train at the ninth mile Bukit Timah, on Feb. 18, while at work near the railway track, the Singapore Coroner's Court was told yesterday. George Austin Hay. the locomotive driver, told the rourt
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    269 5 Jhey Helped Put Out Fire !„</ Save Goods On Sunday ouT of gratitude to the Boy Scouts who ie <j fheir hves to help firemen put out the c or h.s tyre store in Geylang last Sunday Ton Chin Kiat, proprietor of Chin Hin
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    39 5 Wed. Q con's a terrorea of n I a ni.trol M a 4 Nc^ri 'tn. the Monday ron- <>n a B- '"a. ion, ent on the in the 1 nut. Ire ret mod terrc
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    44 5 PRESIDENT of the World Ft-llow.ship of Buddhists. Dr. G.P. Malala.srkera. who is now on a tour of South-cast Asian countries to discuss with Buddhi>t leaders the, publication of Ov proposed Buddh^t Encyclopaedia, will arrive in Singapore on Monday frnm Manila.
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    137 5 This Pay -Drop Turned Out A Gin -Drop For The Baby IPOII. Wed. The Anglo-Oriental Mines in Malim Nawar was the scene of a special air drop this morning. A parcel containing a bottle of Bol s gin with a baby's dummy fixed on to it was parachuted down from
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    37 5 IPOH, Wed Tranic light? have now r>ecn installed at the ••blind* 1 corner on the main Ipoh-Penang trunk road, 24 miles north of here. The lights will he in use from tomorrow noon.
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    Lock icon Course For Teachers
    122 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Fifty headmasters and teachers from Chinese Middle and Primary schools In Johore have completed a five-day refresher course organized by the Education Department, Johore. Talks were given by Professors and lecturers from the University of Malaya at the Foon Yew School, Johore Bahru. The
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    259 5 There Is No Such Offence -In Law— Justice Thomson- Sentence On Rice Dealer Quashed IPOH. Wed— Holding that appellant was convicted of "something which is not an offence known to the law," Mr. Justice Thomson today set aside the conviction and sentence imposed on S. P. Abdul Salam. proprietor of
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    191 5 Kampong Folks Want House Rates Reduced KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The people of Kampong Puah in Gombak have petitioned the Kuala Lumpur Municipality for a reduction in the "very high rates of assessment' charged for their homes. Inche Jamil, the Ketua Kampong, said the Kampong was almost as old as Kuala
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    96 5 Bus Dispute Ends In A Deadlock NEGOTIATIONS between the Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company, Singapore, and a section of its employees, broke down yesterday after the management refused the workers' demands. The management maintained that there was no ground for the claims. They were not prepared to continue negotiations. They
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    66 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Choy Kan Chai. 31, yesterday claimed Iriai before the First Magistrate to a charge of cheating a woman. Lim Chui Lan. by posing as the leader of the terrorist 24th Regiment in the SalaX South area. The prosecution objected to bail and Choy
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    52 5 A 17-YEAR-OLD ■ppventiot fitter, POOI KMW Sar cirar.k fans' i odfl Ihr iim'nt he heard hi down the work hop and return to China, iho Singapore Coroner* Court *o 1 d yetterday. Poon eatned 129 montii He fii« H^ two 'lays Liter in Uw Gciicral Hospital.
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    293 5 National Stage Art Essential To Local Youth KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Malayons who looked to the cinema and politics as their main avenues of intellectual exercise today received a gentle ribbing from Mr. David Lyttlc, chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Arts Theatre Group. M We do want a full-fledged Malayan theatre,
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    74 5 Soldier Killed In Road Crash IPOH. Wi A M) O.<* A Wri Mokhtar, W. of the DC R B. in A :i Koart here, die The way to hospital folio an Bccideni a! Kuala Kai Road He l Rover when he was mv« i I in a bead-on '.orry, resulting
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      474 6 r V ular Press gave prominence to the report that certain extremist bodies in Java, purporting to represent Malayan views, had issued in Bandung appealing to the AfroC rence to end the Malayan war through :ul negotiations and to repeal the Emergency Regulations because they said "the
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      354 6 |>:.D CHINAS Premier Chou En-lai was exuding benevolence, kindness and friendliness when he made his speech at the Afro-Asian Conference on Tuesday. The Communist China leader, who scuttled In and out of Singapore in a silently unhappy mood when his plane made an unscheduled stopover at Kallang. had
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    989 6  -  Gordon Maclean Mombasa, I 1 HE settlement of the recent strike of ten thousand East African dockvvorkers and sympathisers, which paralysed the port of Mombasa for nearly a week, has given a strong impetus to the trade union movement among Africans in Kenya. It has
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    278 6 Review of Views 'Colonialism Must Go' JJTUSAN MELAYU beams its editorial spotlight on the Afro-Asian Conference at Bandung. Supporting Soekarno's speech on colonialism, the daily is of the opinion that in an awakening Asia and Africa colonialism must go. The world is already tired of colonialism and there is no
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      153 6 Sir:—The Labour Front in coalition with the UMNO-MCA Alliance too* office some time ago and Singapore had its first elected Government. While presenting his Cabinet to the Public Mr. Marshall made it clear that his main intention in working for this coalition was to see the
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      253 6 HONESTY IS BEST POLICY Sir.— Your leader of 18th April entitled ''Voices of Asia and Africa" prompts me. as an Australian, though resident for the past eight years in Singapore, to observe that an article of th's kind does more harm than all the atom bombs, "right nooks to the
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    205 6 Sir;— Re Mrs. Harding's letter in yours of 13th inst. I believe that the Promotions Boards that are functioning at present in the Federation are doing more harm than good to the moral, mental and even physical health of the Government employees. I know of some
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    246 7 |V MIU>1I»: April >0 (Rcuter) The Mandiin today maintained that there is a f lhv nited states to earn friendship in Asia :,in its 'anxiety' to avoid a clash in JJ2i»m ..s speech to the Bandung Cony in tne wind, this newspaper 1
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    98 7 CHOU HAS LOST THIS BATTLE BANDUNG. April 20 <Reuter> Police, armed Chin; tards and Mr. Chou En-lui. Prime Minister of China, have lost at least one battle in Bandur. Police who have had difficulty in keeping young Indonesians away from Mr. their top priority job while the AMan-Afri-can conference is
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    78 7 BANDUNG. April 20 (Reuter) Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus flew into Bandung today to looby Asian and African conference members for support for his claim for self-determination for the British Colony of Cyprus. The 42-year-old spiritual leader, who has travelled to the conference halls of the world pressing
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    84 7 'Reds Made Nightclubs OfMosques' BANDUNG. April 20 (Reuter) "Soviet Colonialism" was condemned here today by representatives of independence movements in Turkistan and the North Caucasus. The representatives, Rusi Nasal and Sai Schyml, accused the Russian and the Communist Chinese Governments of mass deportations and the destruction of religious institutions in
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    55 7 LONDON. April 20 rßeuter> The British. French. United States and Russian ambassadors are expected to open talks in Vienna soon on a treaty to end the ten-year occupation of Austria. Unofficial reports in Vienna said the meeting would take place next Wednesday to prepare tho way
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    52 7 WASHINGTON. April 20 Router > The United States plans to finance the construction of a 120-mile road linking Phnom-Penh. the capital of Cambodia with a proposed new deep-sea port on the Gulf of Siam, the Foreign Operations Administration announced. France will finance the seaport construction which
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    68 7 SAIGON. April 20. (Router* A civilian was killed and several others wounded in a shooting incident today in Saigon, where a truce between the National Army and troops of two anti-gov-ernment private armies is due to expire tonight. The civilians wore travelling in a motor bus
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    45 7 TAIPEI. APRIL 20 < Router* Chinese Nationalist military sources said today Chinese Communists had moved tremendous air power into the east China seaboard provinces. They claimed the purpose of fast strengthening of airpower at points nearest Formosa was possibly aimed against Formosa itself.
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    214 7 NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuter) Questioned at a Press Conference as to whether the Bandung Conference would strengthen or weaken the United Nations, the Secretary-General Mr. Hammerskjoeld said he regarded it primarily as a potential manifestation of something "for" the Asian world. In that
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    158 7 DURBAN. April 20: (Rcutcr) An "Anti-Re public League was form- ed at. a crowded meeting in i Durban City last night when members agreed to sign a covenant pledging opposition to the catab- lishment of a republic in South Africa, unless a separate referendum
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    190 7 Nothing Will Move Rail Men LONDON. April 20, (Rcutcr) Three hours before the newsp. strike settlement cant the leaders of 70.000 rail workers rejected an peal to call oil a strike timed for midnight i 1 May 1. The ten-man executive ol the Associated Society of Locomotive Fngincc: I sent
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    148 7 Whipped Frenzied Husband LONDON, April 20 (Reutcn A young widow told a London inquest yesterday that she seized a riding whip to drive ofl her husband who was trying to kill her and their baby in a fit of frenzy, at their North London flat. "He went into the pantry
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    96 7 NAIROBI, April 20. (Renter) —The Court of Appeal here yesterday refused to interfere with a sentence of three years' hard .abour for manslaughter imposed at Mem. two months ago. on Robert Mibere. Assistant Supervisor of Schools at the Meru Methodist Mission. Mibere
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    76 7 Purdom Agrees To Suspension Of Divorce Case HOLLYWOOD. April 20. (UP) Actor Edmund Purdom agreed yesterday to suspend h.s divorce proceedings against his w.fe, Titu. for 90 days following a meeting in reconciliation court. The agreement came after a three-hour session between the couple and Superior Judge Louis H. Burke,
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    460 7 NEW YORK. April 20. (UP) In modern Sweden sociology has become a religion in itself, birth control, abortion and promiscuity are being recognized as "inalienable rights," Time magazine said today in a special report on Sweden. Headlined "Sin and Sweden." the special report from Time correspondent
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    212 7 Air Crash Inquiry LONDON, April 20: (Reuter) The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Harold MacMillan, yesterday, pledged Britain's "full co-operation" in the inquiry which the Indonesian Government is holding into the crash of the Kashmir Princess off Sarawak on April 11 on its way to the Afro-Asian Conference.
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    74 7 Standard London Correspondent LONDON, April 20 The following are rhe closing prices of rubber and Tin on the London Market: LONDON RUBBER LONDON TIN Spot 26£ d. Spot £718 buyers. May 261 d. £719 tellers. June 26|d. Three months £719 July September 26»d. buyers, £719 )os.
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    67 8  -  Yong Peng Seong. photo by I I COI< i. K. D. CAIXOWATi Commander of the Kuala Lumpur Harrison, pins the Kong Scitkc and (iood Conduct Medal on W. 0.1. B. R. Masters. R.A.S.C. at presentation parade held at the lI. Q. Malaya Command.
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    86 8 Pageant Of 19 Nations At S pore Bazaar TV. te i r. tries ere re- t y for n S I Bo:h are -cv. rk Vietnam. B I for the first er of to ID. D» nation- and I Viel rerej I jewe time A >- and Xcw Zen.;,:,: wo-
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    33 8 MUAR Wed For stealing mx belonging to a M man, S .n binte Kassan, at Gombang I.< i r, Mersan bin Sariman the Muar Magistrate, Inche Pawan Ahmad.
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    154 8 AX "abnormally high mint- 1 bcr of taxi meter seals in Singapore taxLs are being broken daily, says the Registrar of Vehicles, Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridgc. And as it is an offence to operate a taxi with a broken meter seal, taxi men
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    44 8 SINGAPORE trisha riders will soon :?top haggling over fares. Should there be any argument, they will merely draw your attention to a bright aluminium fare card. These fare cards will be sold to them by the Registrar of Vehicles office.
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    251 8 Youth Who Molested Girl Saved From Prison BENTONG, Wed. A (young estate worker, K. iNagalingam, 19, who used criminal force on a 13--year-old girl, was spared irom imprisonment bei cause of his youth. The president of the West Pahang Sessions Court. Mr. |JR Whimster. told NagahnI ganr "Your conduct was
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    300 8 POLICE MUST BE STRONG IMPARTIAL Johore Af enf l OpensCivksSiul JOHORE, Wed a U l Police force is "on 'absolute Tj J laya progresses towards more d e fT' ty *1 of government the acting M^^J J hOr PPut° tO x Won Mris < SS Ecs l opened the first
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    138 8 MALACCA, Wed. More than 200 delegates attending the institute for South Malayan Methodist Youth Fellowship groups here today prayed that the leaders at the Afro-Asian Conference at Bandung might be so guided that they will bring peace to the world and goodwill among men. The
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    84 8 OXE of the victims of the Air India International Constellation crash oil Sarawak, was cremated in the old Japan- I ese cemetery in Singapore yes- terday. The body is presumed to be that of a Chinese but it has net been established whether he i
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    66 8 THE North German Lloyd passenger vessel He?<enstein will he carrying some prominent Germans when she arrives here on April 22 en route to Tokyo. Among them are Dr. Hans Kroll. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan, and Herr. Bernhard H. Fel linger,
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    31 8 Chettiars Urged To Aid Schoo R, K Kepi tukkottai 1 mun of Fed< ber^. X p con odu a.s The an npp to don fund t( a su T) 1 month.
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    175 8 YOl T may soon find It diflicult to spot your favourite "kuayteow" or "ro.iak" man because the Singapore City Council has decided to intensify its "war" against hawkers. The council has adopted certain "control-the-hawk-er" measures recommended by its Methods and Organization Department. One of these is
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    836 9 CHIANG'S AIR FORCE: BITTER, FURIOUS PILOTS FLY ON FUTILE MISSIONS FRED SPARKS, N.K.A. ComspoMfcat, »riir> anj intimate account of the Nationalist Uiine.-c Air I Force, its r*le and it> airmen. I mur TAINAN AIRFIELD. Southern Formosa |HL water buffalo slowly rubs his mouldy flanks against the steel
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    674 9 A-Bomb Tests May End In Nevada <| ARE the atom bomb tests 1 1 outgrowing the wide < open spaces of Nevada? 1 1 Current tests could be the last conducted in the United X States. Recent findings a* to the extent of radioactive fallout are causing grave concern. They
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    113 9 ITNKXOWN to universities and educational institutions, an open air school of science has sprung up at the National Botanical Gardens at Lucknow for "practical" botanists The students are illiterate gardeners. This open air school was originated by the Director of the Botanical Gardens, Prof. K.N. Kaul,
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    550 9  - CAIRO GOES ALL OUT FOR TOURISTS HAL BOYLE CAIRO. JTGYPT is today a land of tremendous activity and foreign tourists are welcomed. Slightly more than three years ago this gate city to the Orient was smoldering from the torches of antiloreign mobs. Rioting took more than 50 lives. caused millions
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    1310 10 LA BU CHEVIOT RUBBER LIMITED Scrnnd Annual General Meeting to be hold at 19 fenrhurrh Street, London, L.L.3 on 16th May, 19.~>.~, SIR JOHN HAYS STATEMENT n ,954 ,11 three of -hi, Company's ,n October one of our P-ante. was a^.h.d and n,urd,red wh.le engaged ,n his da.ly JJLtethTS.i^««S rH
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    253 10 UK Tax cj -MART AWAITS L M GOVT. STATEMiM Standard Market R. n I THE reduced United KinS"** I rates announced by the Ch Exchequer, Mr. R.A. Butler r^l^ demand for Sterling tin counters 1 yan share market yesterday 1 The few people hold panics
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    66 10 FOIR Burmese trade unionists, headed by Bo Nyein Maung, Member of Parliament for Sibaungwe, arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday on a week's visit lo the Federation. Standard photo shows: Che Abdullah bin Ibrahim, Secretary to the Member for In- dustrial Relations, at the airport welcoming: the Mission comprising (from
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    281 10 a MALAYAN Producers Ltd. are fortunately in a position to compete successfully with synthetic rubber because 75 per cent of the total planted acreage of rubber carries high yielding budded rubber capable of maintaining low production costs. This is revealed by the Chairman.
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    138 10 Customs Revenue Tops $35M KUALA Ll'MPl'R, Wed Customs revenue collected in the Federation during March totalled 5:>.V 730.4*5, it was announced today. From runnrr exports, excludinu $£214,993 collected under the heading: of "Below the lino account for replanting purposes." the revenue collected for March Wa s fIt,CI4JM The revenue from
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    86 10 Colony AgriHorticultural Exhibition A TWO-DAY agri-horti-cultural show will be held at the Bukit Panjans Community Centre on July 30 and 31. Exhibits will include livestock, fruits, vegetables, flowers and handicrafts. Members of the organizing committee are those members of the Bukit Panjang management committee who will be directed by the
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    73 10 THE U.S. Rubber Producing Federal Facilities Corporation announced recently that the 30-day period for receiving proposals to purchase the Gov-ernment-owned GR-S Copolymer plant at Baytown Texas, and to purchase or lease 477 Government-owned tank cars, would end on April 29 midnight. The sale of Baytown would
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    36 10 THE 10,600— ton Royal Rotterdam Lloyd freighterpassenger vessel Wonosobo which has arrived in Sing- apore on her maiden voyage to the Far East from Continental ports. The ship is tinder the command of Captain B. Blok.
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    78 10 THE Indian Food Research Institute is setting up a plant for production of "milk" from vegetables in Amaraoti in Madhya Pradesh. As a start, the plant Will produce 250 pounds Of "milk" daily. This will be supplied free, as part of the mid' day meal, to schoolchildren.
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    109 10 HU N DREDS of inquiries have been received to date by the auctioneers for the J*6 houses built at Kolam Aver Lane. Singapore, for victims of the Kampong Bugis fire. The auction will take place at the salesrooms of Messrs. Cheong Hock Chye and Co. Ltd.,
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    181 10 LITTLE TRADING IN PRODUCE MARKET THE produce market in Singapore was quiet in all sections with little trading reported, yesterday. Coconut oil remained a dull market at $4.U per pieul sellers (in drums) at Pcnang. COPRA MAY 11 a.m $28i $281 Noon $281 S2B>, 4 p.m $28J $28i 5 p.m
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    39 10 THE Indian Government has decided to release an overall quota of 300 ton> I rice husk meal for export outside India on the principle -first-come first-served to all permissible destinations for the period ending June 1955.
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    171 10 Wonosobo Arrives On First Voyage Standard Shipping Reporter THE 10.600-ton Wonosobo of the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Line berthed alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday on her maiden voyage to the Far East from Continental ports. A sister ship of the Wonogiri. Wonorata, and the -Wonosari. the vessel brought in
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    171 12 STB LEADING BUT WATCH H.K. BANKERS THE Singapore Business Houses Football Association Div. 1 soccer league is now eiffht weeks old, and the Singapore Telephone Board are heading the table with 13 points collected from eight games. But the team to watch is Hongkong Bank. They have now 11 points
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    365 12 si\(i \po k E Telephone Hoard improved on their shkka Divisioa 1 Leaffve leadership whea they had to tight luird lor their tour MAb to one ietory over the Sin^apor r Tmction omMany played at the STC eround ye>ter(iay. The match was overpla>ed for 10
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    126 12 Ford S.C. Humble Borneo M. FORD Snorts Club scored a well deserved 5-1 victory over Borneo Motors Sports Club in a S.B.H.F.A. Div. II league soccer match played at Jalan Bcsar Stadium yesterday. Borneo Motors started of! impressively, but slackened considerably after they had conceded a goal in the tenth
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    568 12 Results, Scorers Positions Division 1 Hongkong Bank 5 Mercantile Bank 1 k:.i» 3 Jona:i. Percy Peters Ying Chye F. N 4 M.P.H. 1 Samad Sulong 3, Hoon Leong Kosnin Shell 2 Sime Darby 0 I Ahmad Bakar, VV'in^ Chong Pulo Bukom 4 Chartered Bank 2 Othman Datad I 1 Hamid
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    444 12 Bukom Surprise Strong Chartered Bank Combination PI LO BI'KOM, playing one of their best games so far. defeated a strong Chartered Bank combination 4—2 in a Division 1 encounter at Keppel Harbour yesterday. A spirited team. Bukorn were a much fitter side. Their victory, though a narrow one. was deserving
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    175 12 AFTER a scoreless first half. Shell Sports Club forwards found their form, to take a 2-0 victory against lowly Sime Darby in a division l match at Paya Lcbar yesterday. Sime Darby who have lost all their matches except when they drew with MPH. fielded some
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    190 12 SUPERIOR in all departments Fraser and Neave beat Malaya Publishing House by lour goals to one in a division 1 encounter at River Valley Road yesterday. Fraser Neave attacked from the start and confined play to the M.P.H. territory for the first five minutes. Against the run
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    121 12 THE MAN HIS RACER CHAN Lye C hoon. uho hol<U s in if layan half-mile standing-start 5,,,,.,, a or iml rars with a time of SSVtcS nY, lal <urcl f«f Cooper 109G re. This ra<er ill h h *T e in his ,lder brother Lye lluat at n lf V
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    556 12  -  EDIN PETTERS By A NUMBER of existing records are. bound to gt at the Singapore Motor Clubs annual climb at the Gap on Sunday morning. The programme «»t events has attracted 89 entries, and this includes three from the Federation— C. <>. Jennings,
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    225 12 KELANTAN 220 RECORD BROKEN BY SCHOOLGIRL KELANTAN Wed —Thirteen reronK ineludir the State 22t yards lor women were smashed at vie Mate w >. dr s schools lourth annual meet Kelantan combined Mala\ Mnoois held at the Sultan Mohamed Stadium vestal*. The Enter-district championship was won by Machm* District with
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    301 13 WORLD TABLE TENNIS CSHIPS sweep las?'SX Jeain^X rl ds April 20 <AP)-Japan made a clean table P tennis champSfL i^fh W^™ 1 llun K" ian opponents in the world 1*~" men 5 SrSS-^ W men a d menS tMmS W'"nin)r- nampions of the SwaythCup, defeated
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    93 13 BRISTOL C. ARE CERTAIN OF PROMOTION LOXDOX, April 20 (Reuter) —Bristol City virtually made certain of winning the Southern Section of the third division Football League honours tonight and promotion to Division Two when they beat Crystal Palace by three goals to zero. With three games to play Britol City
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    33 13 TOXDOX. April 20 (Router) Results of rugby matches played tonight vvere:Rugby League: Dewsbury 0 Huddersfleld 42; York 19 Cast'.eford 7. Rugby Union: Flamouth 3 Ebbw Va'e 28; Bristol n Bath 3.
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    114 13 Jap Student Wins Boston Marathon BOSTON. Apr.! 20 (Reuter) Hideo Harnamura, a 26-year-old law student from Japan won the 59th annual Boston A A marathon in the record time of two noun 18 minutes seconds— beating by 2!) mds the course mark set •■>y his fellow countryman Keizo Yamaclan in
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    354 13 By OLDTIMER CRICKETERS will strive this week to enhance their chances of representation in the annual Combined Services and Combined Civilians fixture next Saturday. With this in mind, a good Sunday's cricket is anticipated and a few good individual performances should be registered. Notable
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    45 13 P/iolo from London. TABLE Tennis Stars jrom Japan stroll through a street at Utrecht, Holland, on then way to a practice session for the World Table Tennis Championsiiips irhich open at L'frcc/il last xreek. Left to riglit: Kiiko Watanabe, Yoshio Tomita and Fvjie Eguohi. Press
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    215 13 SOMDEZ PUNISHES TATSUMI TOKYO, April 20 (UP) Hard-hitting Somdei Yongtrakit of Thailand won the Far Eastern middleweight title tonight with an 11th round technical knockout victory over defending champion Hachiro Tatsumi in a scheduled 12--round titular fight before 5.000 fans at Tokyo's municipal gymnasium. Tatsumi, wiio had been backpedalling most
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    88 13 SYDNEY. April 20 (AP) Peter Keenan. British Empire bantamweight champion, has offered to post a bond of A£2,000 with Stadiums Limited here for a re ease to go to the United States and fight Raton Madas !or the National Boxing Association's version fif the world
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    100 13 EPSOM, Surrey. April 20 (Reuten— The Stewards of ihe Jockey Club decided at meetinn here today that the Derby, Britain's most famous horse rare, will be rim this year on May 25, as originally arranged. They also announced that there will be no racing on Election
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    67 13 THE following hav e been selected to represent Shell Sports Club against Royal Air Force (T). in a cricket match to bp played on Saturday at Paya Lebar. CD. Harris (capt), I. Cioonasesaram. I E. Fencott, p W. Cottrell, M. Hull. E. Kruseman, T. Stockbndgc. .J. Stokes.
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    119 13 Bowlers Day At Taiping TAIPING, Mon- Very low snoring was seen in the friendly cricket match here yesterday between St. George's Institution and Survey Sports Club which resulted in a win for the i latter team by one wicket and i 19 runs. St. George's Institution 29 runs. Ariaratnam took
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    193 13 U.K. Soccer Fixtures For Saturday LONDON. April 10: (Reuterl The following: are football fixtures for Saturday, 2."» rd April:— LEAGUE DIVISION I Arsenal vs. Man. Utd. Burnley vs. Sunder land. Cardiff vs. Portsmouth. Chelsea vs. Shelf. Wed. Everton vs. Charlton. Leicester vs. Tottenham. Man. City vs. Blackpool. Newcastle vs. Bolton
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    2099 14 HE MAKES IT A PILLAR TO POST AFFAIR By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LIMPIR, Wed— Magic Eve, brilliantly handled by Tom Mortimer, chalked up his fourth success in his recent six starts when he made it a pillar to post race to win the 5\ furlongs sprint event
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    337 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Thundering Smashers en tered the final of the Selanffor Junior Inter-Team Doubles Badminton tournament when they beat Nanyang Sians Pau 4—l at the Selangor Badminton Hall last night. In the other semi-final match Blue Star of Klang eliminated Licw Kwonc Hon
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    70 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The first Bn Royal Hampshires and East Yorks will meet in their Army Caldbeck Cup soccer semi-final match on April 30 at the Army Malaya Command stadium. The Royal Welch Fusiliers of Port Dickson and Royal Scots Fusiliers of Perak will meet in the
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    33 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Selangor Eurasian Association will hold their annual sports meeting on Sunday at 10 a.m. at Pudu Road. Office-bearers for the various games will be elected at the meeting.
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