Singapore Standard, 16 May 1955

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    14 1 Singapore Standard 1 KOJKLDJKLFD SINGAPORE. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1955 !2 PAC its 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Arbiter Orders All Hock Lee Buses Out
    591 1 ACK TO NORMAL ALL 1 t f tKe H ck Ue Am °'9omatcd Bus Co., Ltd., will pr^ -oaas this morning. c by the sole Charles -i p m. I > v a I Id I rating be s i c were on
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    Lock icon TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
    1015 1  - TWO HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT JOHN BOIS Alliance Aims During First Term Amnesty Offer Revived In Polls Platform By Standard Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.-The UMNO MCA-MIC Alliance, if it is returned to Power at the national polls m July, pledges to establish a two-house Legislature with a fully elected lower
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    Lock icon Re-open The 3 Schools, Says TUC
    334 1 Re-open The 3 Schools, Says TUC THE Governing COuncil of the SiYigspore Trades Union Congress, yesteiday requested 'the Education Minister, Mr. Chew Swec Kee. to permit the three Chinese schools which were ordered to close on Friday, to reopen today. The' Council was ol the opinion that m view ol
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    Lock icon MacDonaid Appointed To India
    589 1 MacDonaid Appointed To India THE Commissioner-General (or South-east Asia, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, has been appointed British High Commissioner m India, it was learnt m Singapore at 10 p.m. last night. Mr. Mac Donald is expected to leave Singapore for his new post m September. The 54-year-old Commis-sioner-General whose term
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    Lock icon Students Pose A New Threat
    251 1 STUDENT unrest may be expected again when 3,000 students of the Chinese High School, and the two Chung Cheng High Schools m Singapore, find their schools still closed. Statements Issued on Saturday by student bodies of all seven Chinese Middle Schools said that, should the
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    Lock icon 'Pop'Mendis Dies In Ceylon
    287 1 'Pop'Mendis Dies In Ceylon Funeral Today THE news was received late last night of the death m Ceylon oi Mr. Victor Mendis, the wellknown Malayan lawyer, and a lounder member of the Singapore Labour Front. "Pop" as he was affectionately known to his intimates was the power behind the Labour
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    Lock icon Injured VSC Recovering
    35 1 VOLUNTEER Special Constable Arthur Simon, injured during the riots, is now reported to be "oft the danger list." but another police casualty. Detective Ho Yee Meng. is still m a critical condition.
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    Lock icon NEW COMET
    25 1 AUCKLAND amateur astronomer R. A. Mclntosh has discovered a new comet very close to and west of Jupiter and south of Uranus. Rev-
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    Lock icon 7 TO DIE FOR RITUAL MURDER
    91 1 MASURUU. Basutoland. May 15 (Reuter) An African tribal chief and six tribesmen were sentenced to death here for the ritual murder of another African to provide the chief with human flesh and blood to make "medicine." Two African women were found guilty of being
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    Lock icon ANTI-BA.O DAI CROWD MARCHES
    137 1 SAIGON, May 15 (Reuter)—A crowd of about, 5,000 Vietnamese marched through the streets of Saigon to Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's palace today and demonstrated m favour of the Premier and against the absent Head of State, Ex-emperor Bao Dai. It was the first demonstration of
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    Lock icon A Free Austria After 17 Years
    222 1 A Free Austria After 17 Years VIENNA. May 15 (Reuter)—Austria today kgaincd hci independence after 17 years ol foreign occupation when foreign ministers of the b;g lour powers signed the long awaited Austrian State Tieaty m Vienna's sumptuous Belevedie palace. Mr. Molotuv. Foreign Minister ol Russia, whose troops liberated Vienna
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    Lock icon BLONDE MOM IS MRS. USA
    45 1 ELLINOR VILLAGL Horida. May 15. (DP)- A bionde, blue-eyed Nebraska moth< r </l Qve childrpn was narhrcl Mrs. America of 1956 today Mrs Ramona Daitemeyar, 35. won the home making crown and US$l5. OOO m prizes over 48 other contestants
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    Lock icon LONE MAM IN THE BUSH Stalks A Jungle Prey
    88 2 ABOUT >.")U members of the K.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) Wing will take part m a ceremonial parade at Changi, Singapore, tomorrow. The Governor. Sir John Nicoll will review the parade. Many of the members com< from the Federation, as far north as
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    Lock icon Hawkers Promised To Help Tidy KL
    212 2 Hawkers Promised To Help Tidy KL KUALA LUMPUR Sun. About a hundred Kuala Lumpur hawkers and petty traders today pledged to co-operate with the Municipal Council m improving the Quality of the foodstuffs they sold and increasing their standard of cleanliness. They gathered m their holiday bes: for Ihe official
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    Lock icon THAI PREMIER VISITS SPAIN
    49 2 MADRID May 15 (Router) Marsha! Pibul Songgram. Prime Minister of Thailand, arrived here today by air from the United States for an official Visit to Spain The Thai Premier was welcomed by the Spanish Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Army and Air and given military honours.
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    Lock icon Ministry's Bid To End 4 Strikes
    263 2 THE Singapore Labour Ministry's main iob todayis to attempt to end the four strikes m the Colony involving about 1,800 workmen, a Ministry official told lne Standard yesterday. The strikes concern the Harbour Board, Nanyang Manufacturing Company, Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company and the MisSino
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    Lock icon MARRIED IN K.L.
    65 2 ■Standard photo by Mr. and Mrs. Alan R- "--r P 7';c photographed after their rrtarriage m St. John's Church, K\<ala Lumpur on Saturday. Mr. Pyne is a national serviceman iptth f l Ist Somerset Light Infantry m Beniong. Mrs, Roberts is the former Mi£s Corinne J-'drh Hoioe,
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    717 2 Citizenship Urged For All Whose Home Is Malaya KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The retiring Financial Secretary, Mr. Eric Himsworth, said today that a much bigger advance m solving problems of the Emergency could perhaps be made only through a wider extension of Federal citixenship to those who
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    Lock icon Mint Served 19 Countries
    47 2 MALAYA was one of the 19 countries that had its coinage minted by the Royal Mint m Britain, it was announced by the British Treasury yesterday. In all. during the year the Mint struck 506.266.796 coins of a total weight of 2.470 tons.
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    91 2 Mai Gen. R N Anderson CB.E., DSO who has assumed command of 17 Gurkha Division and has been appointee Major General. Brigade oi Gurkhas. He succeeded Gen Sir Gerald Templer to the po«t m the Pastern Command m England before Sir Gerald came out to Malaya Previously, Gen Anderson was
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    Lock icon THIEF FOILS BUSY POLICE
    45 2 while the entire Singapore Police was busy with I riots that broke out en Thui day. a thiel stol< 1 1 of cash and Jew* U m i house at the ll| mile Woodlands Road m the early hours of Friday.
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    Lock icon Strikers Told To Make Less Noise
    135 2 Strikers Told To Make Less Noise PEOPLE living m the Cantonment Road area of Singapore yesterday complained to Police about noises made at the Harbour Board Staff Association premises where strikers and sympathisers were doing folk dancing. Following this complaint, a police officer and a constable went to the premises
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    Lock icon TOOK POISON IN REMORSE
    47 2 MORIOKA. Japan. May 15 (AP) A bus driver attempted suicide today because 12 were killed and 3J injured when his bus plunged into a river yesterday Police said Shogo Fujimura, remorseful and grieving, swallowed a massive dose of poison. He was reported recovering.
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    Lock icon STRIKES CAUSE $2 M. LOSSES
    296 3 Bus Companies Hit Hardest In 3 -Day Unrest Standard Staff Reporter THE three day 'sympathy" strike by cu r 3 000 workmen employed m different des i« Singapore, cost industries approxif ,!v $2,000,000 and 18,000 man days. by the strike are the private bus comR
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    44 3 haa selc I expected the ten GODPcrak. Two of will be Mr. I of the T h and Mi i -he Zaharie M ncr leading twe .Jates lerati m but cement will positioi) as parties met is c:i-
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    Lock icon MIC Chief Praises Alliance
    53 3 I m .nation of f v. «s pos- National o r m c d 1 1 r ay. ndicated I a ich, ho to be a I hich had d comthe counre elected MIC: Ihirava- x. p. s N a::d 12 COmto the ence to be
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    29 3 from n appli .-:istrate*s the pr-. I theft of I n to be s told thai Urn I ask 1 lof a don to be wed.
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    123 3 THE Secretary and Adviser cf the newly- formed nonmmunal Officers and Mariners Union represented by Captain M Said and Mr. TD Richards presented a m< m randum to Singapore's Chiel Minister Mr. David Marshall, on April 11. Of the 4U-odd suggestions made. Mr. Marshall turned down
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    Lock icon IRAQI OFFER TO PAKISTAN
    62 3 BAGHDAD. May 15 (UP)— An Iraqi offer, of mediation m the frontier dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been accepted by both countries, it was officiaiiv confirmed here today. Th*> Irani Government appointed Its Minister m Karachi. Abdul Qadir El Gallant, and it* Minister m Kabul.
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    66 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun A 22-month-old Indian baby was killed last night on the .100 Sin division of Ulu Tiram Estate. Plentona In the Magistrate's Court today the child's father, a tapper, was tentatively charged with committing murder by causing the death of the girl Pusspathy, by
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    Lock icon 'A True Servant Of Tine People'—Marshall
    405 3 'A True Servant Of Tine People' Marshall Leaders Tributes To Mr. Mendis SINGAPORE Labour Front leaders were deeply shocked at the news of Mr. Victor J. "Pop" Mendis' sudden death m Ceylon yesterday. This is how they took th? news. Mr David Marshall, Chief Minister, and leader of the Labour
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    Lock icon Ministers Get Big Say In Budget
    228 3 KUALA LI'MPI/R, Sun —Ministers of the Federations first diarchal "cabinet" resulting from the July elections will I? responsible for obtaining the Legislative sanction lor the expenditure of their respective portfolios. .Mr. Eric Himsworth, the retiring Financial Secretary, said today that the Federal Treasury had
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    58 3 A MAN called at a flat m Mtyei Mansions m North Bridge Road. Singapore, yesterday afternoon and told the maidservant: "I've sot a letter for your em plover." As the sirl was about to take th»- letter, the man assaulted her The maidservant screamed and the
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    120 3 MR MATTHEW LOBO was elected president ot the management committee of the Bukit Panjang Youth Club, at a recent meeting beld m Singapore. Other office-bearers: Vice presidents— Messrs. Lim Soon Chow and Lim Wee Toh. Hon. Secretary— Mr. Lim Wee Toh. Hon. Treasurer— lnche Ibratim Hamzah,
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    Lock icon Smugglers Caught
    88 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— With a gold bangle pinned to the bottom of her daughter's panties, Chee Hee Lian. wife ot a Singapore goldsmith yesterday attempted to pass through the Johore Customs with a pair of new gold bangles. The other bangle was on her hand. She was detected
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    Lock icon Workers' Lottery
    60 3 THE following are the results of the Workers' Education Association lottery drawn on Sunday night at the Bcatty Secondary School m Singapore. First prize <$1.200> *****. 2nd Prize ($75Q)—*****, 3rd Prize ($400) *****. 4th Prize ($300) *****, sth Prize ($150) *****. Ten consolation prize? of $20 each- *****,
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    171 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Ceylonese m Malaya arc "highly grateful" to the Federal Elections Committee and Government for giving this minority community one reserved seat m the semielected Legislative Council after the July polls, Dato E E. C. Thuraisingham. former Member for Education, said today.
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    Lock icon FIRE LEAVES 100 HOMELESS
    75 3 JESSELTON. North Borneo. May 15. (Reuter)— Men from the Royal Navy frigate 'Dampier' helped evacuate children from the centre of a fire which yesterday destroyed eight houses m the Kampong Ayer section of Jesselton town. The fire started m a kitchen m the centre of a
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    Lock icon 'Ghost On Horse-Back' Gives A Wrong Tip
    133 3 PENANG, Sun.— Pcnang bookmakers gnash£d their teeth while many punters whooped for joy. when "5315" the tip given by "the ghost on horse bark" —failed to be m the last four digits of the first prize of the Penan? Turf Club sweep draw
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    Lock icon DEATH OF CITY WATER DEPARTMENT OFFICER
    244 3 DEATH OF CITY WATER DEPARTMENT OFFICER MR. ARTHUR Talc, one of the senior officers of the Water Department, Singapore City Council, died suddenly at his home m Woodleigh Park early yesterday morning. An Associate of the Institutes ot Mechanical and Marine Engineers, the late Mr. Tate was the Mechanical Engineer.
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    62 3 Varsity Methods KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. j The newly-openect Muslim i College at Klans is to Intro- duce teaching methods now m use m the Malay section ol i the University of Malaya. Five members of the College j stair, led by its secretary, I Inche Dzulkifli bin Mohamcd. S will
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    47 3 IN RESPONSE to a recent appeal over Radio Malaya, 14 members of the Army Civil Service Union «40 Ba^e Workshop REME) and 11 teachers from the Teachers' Training College, went to the Singapore Blood Transfusion Servicg Centre on Saturday to I donate blood.
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      161 3 tyNGAPORE VW< A KATONG fllK: Annual meetmn at nrei-bvtenan Boys School 515 urn Ivt SAIKIV FIRST COUN( II.: Meeting at R.^Tles Institution. •j M) p m. 3'pore Art Society: Drawing c'as* at British Council Hall. 6 pm LS».S: free film show Our Time> No 9, Apprentice Training at Raffles Place.
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    333 4  - World's Largest Atom Smasher Ready By 1961 Michael Goldsmith GENEVA THE bulldozers have iu>t started digging out the foundations lor the largest and most powerful atom-smashing machine m the world. The machine will be the main instrument of the European Nuclear Research Centre— known as CERN, from its French initials—
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    Lock icon BEDS—ALL SHAPES & SIZES- FOR RESTFUL £UA
    665 4  - BEDS— ALL SHAPES SIZES- FOR RESTFUL £UA Lewis Onslow SLUMBER AIDS ALSO AVAILABLE Right Choice Is Important IVTR. NORMAN DINE stood among his beds and sighed a little sadly. His big problem i s SLEEP— he says there's a national shortage of it. "We do a brisk business In sleep."
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    288 4 WASHINGTON. WHERE is a new keeper of the town's most precious commodity. That commodity is President Eisenhower's tune and its new guardian is Bernard M. Shanley. Presidential Appointment Secretary. There are a lot of facets to Shanley' s job which do not meet the
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    Lock icon Tibetans Resist Red Rule STORIES LEAK OUT
    735 4  - Tibetans Resist Red Rule STORIES LEAK OUT EUGENE LEVIN >\\\\v\\\\\v JOY vwwvwww 5 FIGHTING MONKS BANDIT TRIBES KALIMPONG, India gUDDHISM and tradition one sometimes taking the form of "fighting monks," the other erupting m bandit raids are giving the Chinese Communist occupiers of Tibet some anxious moments. Stories of Tibetan
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    314 4  -  UNKNOWN Taipei. i 'THE sister-in-law of Chou En-lai revealed that a trtf love affair led him into the Communist Party and to his present lofty position as Red China's "premier." Madame Chou En-Chu said that Chou En-;ai developed his city? r negotiating ability and pru it on his own
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      173 4 ii i v I 9 I I i DOWN I. I, I l-o 1 Russian way to vote. <4> B<V eo 2 T mix( i m fruit l*i Al K)>> flexible I 1 B■' one doe tn id b< An Insed la mcl aa I return at bridge <10> (5)
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    1001 5  -  Jane Dexter -By -::e ii girls up alih 1 1 "Jin i td tkt il Sit rp i i itifj Type* OLD Meg- aei her no*, a IferI Stood Lor. huh her head fiaking r. se of wasn't A" Uj ii 1 1 a thai
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    13 5 Photo. Gar. ft mcoise the Film Ft li P,.:mcc after a United Press
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    Lock icon A MATTER OF LUCK
    792 5 A MATTER OF LUCK I'VE always known what Marilyn Monroe had that I hadn't What puzzled me was why I couldn't have it. Alter all, we both started oft level, but somehow she forged ahead. Now 1 think I know the answer. It's not just a matter of luck. It's
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    187 5 mother should oc particularly I ods during pregnancy... that want to harm herself or her child. lors have found thai careless rating habits damage both the mother and her baby. n n i Imp babi if [>-<<n e to sufirnni >: iia| Mckness iu;ue uni t tlinii.il shows that
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    30 5 I tote* conference COmU 0* "<*». 9M|qN i( e pending nppning ceremony at Victoria Memorial H ,11 are Jrom icji to right Fujiko Ya Michiko Ai. Asami Kuji. and toko Mihara.
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    356 5  - IT'S SPRING Peggy Briggs ,\\\\\\\\\\\\w 0y vvw\\\\\\w\^ TAKE a hop. skip a A jump it's Spring. Get into the light-heart-ed mood with FLOWERS. They're the surest way to boost your morale and give you that carefree spring feeling. A generous bunch of lily of the valley, gathered m the artificial
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    734 5  -  John Moyes By ALL over the world radical changes m men's fashion come very slowly; sometimes taking years to develop. Not for them the periodic upheavals such as can be created for women's wardrobes through the imaginative ideas of dress designers. But for such innovations as do
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      Lock icon Government By Thugs
      606 6 IN one oi his campaign speeches Mr. David Marshall said that blood would flow m every Singapore street if the Colony's population was deprived of its livelihood, '"and the growing generatton Will revolt if they have to live m the present BOCift] structure. We have to go
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      315 6 [^AST week we published a letter from an upcountry reader praising the Outward Bound School m Lumut after he had witnessed its activities. This school Is to tram boys to be leaders, and the first step Is to stiffen their backbone. They spend their time m the open—climbing
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      Lock icon Some Unfounded Accusations
      295 6 Sir,—On 7/7/55 three members of the Federal Executive Council who are members of the Alliance resigned their seats as the result of the loss of their motion on the subject of the declaration of a holiday during polling day and the success of the motion of Party
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      238 6 Sir;—If one seeks to know the various causes for labour unrest, strikes and demands for better conditions of service by th? workers m Malaya, one has no Deed to look very far. Just compare the gtables where race horses are kept with the homes occupied by the
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      307 6 Sir; Dr. Band's reply thai there is a need for a resident M.O. at the Rehabilitation Centre at St. Johns Island is not convincing. We ai! know Dr. Bland to be a sincere official and one of the best D.M.S. we have had. 1 cannot believe that
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      129 6 Sir:—l endorse the suggestion of Mr. T.R. Fernandez. Speaking from knowledge gained from personal contacts with the residents of Havelock Division. I knowthat many boys and girls wish to go to school and tneir parents want to send thorn but all the schools m the area have no iunner
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      120 6 Sir.—May I be permitted to reply to the letter of Mr. E M Mohamed which appeared m your paper on Tuesday May 10th. The policy of the City Council has been for some time and is, that m initial recruitment to Council Service locally domiciled ofFi- i cers are
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      253 6 TRUST SHOULD THANK ITS STARS Sir: By letting out its flats and quarters the Singapore Improvement Trust derives its income from the rents thus acquired and this helps to upkeep its staff. In other words, if all the buildings erected by the Trust were left unoccupied, then It would have
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    206 6 Sayings of The Week A WAVE of spurious genti- lity is sweeping two countries. France and England. Hooks are disappearing from hotel bedrooms. Sir W. Russell Flint. R.A. DOTH the banker and the ±J average delinquent is anxious to make the fullest use possible of other people's money; but of
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    1159 6 \Cone mni COL G. NASSE JF you leave your car for long m the village street of Bai-el-'Arab, m lower Egypt, you are likely to find things scribbled m the dust on the windscreen: a funny face, perhaps; a name or two; an obscure witticism; and "Long
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    39 7 (B I nch i D at her pt the the •:.reen md n to the :r.eeton j Brii\ tra br i L Ddon j cope Irst ar- OP .ng hot md- hi su "a* I O 5 r*°o-
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    17 7 5 I ipersonic defence Ired of sir. nee re- iterday. vho may said the new been
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    37 7 i iwlch at were The manager told him thai i ia right— 7s cents I r 29 cents a dozen cp proti -ted. But the manager pointed he also had tet ad with
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    71 7 55 55 mil .it the next to ■ft] dur--IBf ,i n service European Airways will start between the terminal and the airport next month m London Bis; Ben. surrounded by scaffolding, and the Houses of Parliament, arc m the background. The helicop- ters can carry eight passengers, two crew and
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    107 7 PiUN cE s s Margaret wears the first royal ver>i«n dl the A -line as she takefl part m a folk dance espedall) devised for her and named "Primess Marcaret's Fancy," dnring her visit to the headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society In Regent's Park
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    93 7 A Drop In The Eye Then Death WASHINGTON, May 15, i IP) N i deadly person m I it vry publication disd yesterd. This new clue to th< potency of tl ruction weapon Edn I In .i chemical :are ser. md rye or "G" gas nov. chemical v nal Bi
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    205 7 HONGKONG SHIPYARD ISSUE HONGKONG, May 15, (Renter) Communist China yesterday lodged a 'serious protest" with the British authorities m Hongkong for evicting a Chinese Air Company I m a warehouse at Baileys shipyard m Kivoloon, Hongkong. Last Monday. Hongkong P-uice cordoned off the area and u>ed
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    53 7 SANTIAGO. Cr.:>. May 15 iap P( lice used ;:re bos > to break up :-i >tudent demonstration against the government yeste rday. rhe students protested the government's refusal 10 grant lum to 13 Peruvian students. The latter had been deported from Argentina where they were accused
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    295 7 Britain's Politicians Try To Stir Up More Interest LONDON, May 15 (Reuter). Britain's politicians last night dubbed the general election campaign the dullest m living memory as they tried to smash apathy among the electorate. With only 11 days to go to polling day all party
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    153 7 Ali Makes A Promise To His Two Wives KARACHI. May 15. (UP) The League lor Women's Rights announced yesterday thai Prime Minister Mohammed AH has promised to treat his two wives equally. The League, which promoted a campaign against Aii's second marriage to his former social secretary, said m a
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    154 7 WOODFORD. Essex, May 15 (Reuten— Sir Winston Churchill m an election address to his constituents here yesterday welcomed prospects of high-level talks between the four great powers and declared: "It ought to be possible to reach a position where there is a general sense of easement
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    30 7 THE DAILY ration of rum for ratings m the Royal Canadian Navy should be slopped, the Manitoba Temperance Alliance demanded at Its annual meeting m Winnipeg. Reuter
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    19 7 UNEMPLOYED workers m Britain on April 18. totalled 260.000 including 34.000 whose jobs had been temporarily closed. Reuter
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    82 7 LONDON. May 15, (Reuter)—Representatives of 20,--000 London dock workers of the Transport and General Workers' Union decided yesterday not to come out on strike if other dockers carry out a -strike threat on May 23. The strike was called by the 15,000 strong National Amalgamated
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    185 7 RED-TYPE NATO FORMED WARSAW. May 15 (UP).— The Soviet Union and seven Communist countries of Eastern Europe yesterday signed a 30-year treaty of alliance and pooled armed forces under supreme command of Soviet Marshal Ivan Koniev. Koniev's supreme headquarters will be m Moscow. He will draw his stall from officers
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    65 7 VALDEZ, Alaska, May 15 iAPi A reported uranium find 55 miles up the Richardson highway has set off what hotel owner Thomas Harris describes as "a rat race" reminiscent of the Ilaska gold rush of 1890. It was reported that 40 claims were staked yesterday morning.
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    29 7 BRITAIN'S oldest airman Flight Sergeant John Sullivan who has retired on his 62nd birthday, claimed that he had spent 46 years and 115 days m uniform. Reuter
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    106 7 HK Sailors Battle Port Police SAVON A, May 15 < Renter' Ten Chinese bailors, from the 5,692-ton British freighter Inchcastle registered at Hongkong were involved m a brawl with Italian polico m the port quarter here last night. Police said later they intervened when the sailors launched out on a
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    21 7 MORE Soviet troops have left Port Arthur. Manchuria, for home, the New China News Agency reported yesterday. Reuter
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    177 7 WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPi— The bony knees of navy officers are now on view m five overseas bases m accordance with a navy directive permitting the wearing of shorts, the navy said today. The directive permits the optional wear of tropical white long trousers
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    31 7 CONSUMPTION of tobacco m Britain reached a record figure of 21.630.000 lbs. weight last November but fell sharply during the next three months to 16.390,000 lbs. m March. Reuter.
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    21 7 THE White House announced yesterday it will release a voluminous report Monday on the Salk polio vaccine programme. A.P.
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    239 7 LONDON. May 15. (UP) An art dealer who gambled U5517,640 that the experts were wrong about a painting that fooled the British National Gallery for 30 years marked up a potential profit of US$3O,--000 yesterday. The National Gallery announced last night after a lengthy
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    63 7 WASHINGTON. May IS (Renter) Thi aviation magazine Aerodlgest day described a new French "flying barrel" called a coleopter— said to be the tically capable of "speed of sound vertical lake off" and of cruising at twice the speed of sound. It said the aircraft resembling a barrel <>pen
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    188 9 SO that members ol 8.0.A Ca Byin* stall may be kept !:.:>:■ :.e I 01 aircraft developments .and similar v rk. arrar.gemer.ts are made for them to visit from time to such estal tin ents as the Royal Aircraft Establish-! mem at Farnborough and the ictories
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    349 9  - U.S. RUBBER BOOM IS ON IN FULL SWING ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN By Standard Special Correspondent NEW YORK, May 15.— The rubber boom is on m full swing over here. A sparkling example of this situation is reflected m the recent outlook of the U.S. Rubber Company that 1955 will *)rove
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    113 9 Big Rice Crop Is Forecast THE is. Agriculture Department estimates the world would harvest another bis rice crop m the year ending July 31. World yield, not including Communist China, North Korea and the Soviet I'nion, is estimated at '2(J1.7 billion pounds, or Z.l per cent than the record crop
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    85 9 THE state-owned British Eur» pean Airo ays ms le a net profit of just over £50,000 for the year wh h ended on March 3'■ he ftx profit m the Corporation's history Lord Douglas 1 I Kirtleside, the Chairman, announcing this tn London said it
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    135 9 THE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh made a threehour tour of the modern oil refinery at the Isle of Grain recently. The Queen is seen here with officials (foreground); behind is the Duke (left). The refinery, which covers nearly 700 acres, is one of three major
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    30 9 the Internationa] Labour Office hag sent twp French experts from the Agricultural Credit Organization on a mission to Egypt within the framework of the technical assist ance programme.
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    125 9 A LIGHTWEIGHT folding trai 0/ si nple but ingenious design is now being made by an English firm. U;•■ ore '< i '~l [lie trailer p r o)\de< su'< dent accommodation for two adults and two children, to sleep and eai m coi fori When closed. the height
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    47 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks' Association's buying: rates to merchants are: Canada 32 7 16 (T.T.). 32 9 16 (0.D.), 32 13 16 credit bills and 32 7 8 trade bills <f)0 d st): Selling 32 1 8 ready (T.T. 0.D.) Other exchange rates remain unaltered.
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    187 9 j BRITAIN'S rapidly expandZ '< "'otor industry can claim C another all-lime record proZ ciuciton lor t)ie tirst three Z months of this year. With the rate of manufacture tisZ ing each month, over 300,000 2 COTS and commercial vehicles Z had left British factories
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    154 9 Standard Market Correspondent THE cumulative effects of the local labour disturbances, the air incidents over Korea, the possibilities ot an auto workers' strike m the United States and the dock workers' strike m the United Kingdom, were reflected m the higher Singapore rubber
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      295 9 By A Market Correspondent WITH Singapore's bus strikes extending to practically all services and on Thursday leading to mob attacks on police and civiLans it was inevitable that the market for local industrial* last week should be affected. However, m the knowledge that the
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      280 9 COMPANY REPORTS ISSUED HONGKONG TIN LTD. In the financial year to 30.9.54 dredge worked from Oci iber L 953 to March L9S4 be! re dosing down convers i n of recovery plant and a 1< f £88,24:* was incurred. T< I cost <if conversion, refM and rr placements was £HW
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      126 9 OIL and gas has been detected at a well recently drilled at Ekim. Calabar Province, m South-eastern Nigeria, well, one of eleven drilled by the Shell D'Arcy Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd., since 1 L>s l shows larger indications than previously encountered m that
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    109 9 London Future Copra Mart To Start THE London future copra market will begin functioning shortly, following the Amsterdam future copra market which started last week. Singapore copra dealers hope that the opening of the London terminal market may result m more scope for trading. Locally, there are still no indications
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    82 9 COUNTRIES outside the Soviet b'.oc increa.-ed their gold and foreign exchange holding! by US$l,6OO million Last year to a total of U5549,400 million, the UN International Monetary Fund reports. Gold stocks held by governments jumped US$5OO million. the largest increase of the postwar period, to a
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    47 9 THE 3.500 foreign can which have come to Britain so far this year included 672 French. 652 American and 500 Dutch make.-;. Ten were from Malaya, five from Aden, four from Argentina, three from the Belgian Congo, two fro/n Brazil and one from Iraq. Reuter
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    270 9 Business Done In Shares BUSINESS done m shard from May 7—13 INDUSTRIALS Eraser and Neave Ords. $1.67J to $1.62 i Gammons $25") to 5247A. Hammers (2.65, Hongkong Bank Col. SB2O and $827. Malayan C'cmf-n 51. 49 to $1.40. Malayan Collieries 70 cents. Metal Box $1 S7J, MeAlisters $3.20 to $2.95.
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    468 10 \V E all have our funn.v little habits and fancies, and it is quite common for some people to sufter strons delusions as a mental expert told a man who had come to consult him "And now what is your trouble?' he asked. "1 keep making
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      319 10 SHAW BROTHERS ORGANISATION tnS CAPITOL^ > YU MEIN CHAO t// J J "SHADOW IN HER HEAIH Tin MANDARIN L^K|l J Ir^JP WEDNESDAY i^ (f J 11 a.m. 1.45 4 11 a.m. N TARMINA "—INDONESIA preceded by Tom's Lrtter Tntm f —JAPAN. Personal Appearance o at this performance 145 p.m PRIN(
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      37 10 /r? Q}? 4 i SAID Cheerio, don't do anything 1 wouldn't do' "1 SAW this with George last night. 1 screamed and he said 'Well, that gives me plenty of scope!" three times once at the film."
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    170 11 ZmkQX V. Way l5 (Router) After being credited uc o f g.B seconds outside his own world record Vjtopek, i /echoslovakias triple ?old medallist at r Olympic Games, had his time corrected later put him 38.8 seconds outside the record aking an beat his
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    84 11 3,000 M Record Broken LONDON, May 15 (Reuter) Sandor Iharos. a young Hungarian runner, broke the world record for 3,000 meters m Budapest yesterday according to a Hungarian news agency message. Iharos, from the Budapest Homed Club clocked 7 minutes 55 (> seconds beating the 7 minutes 58.8 seconds set
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    194 11 VIENNA. May i 5. (Reuter) Great Britain took a 2—l load against Austria here yesterday when they won the doubles ol' their second round European zone tie m the Davis Cup competition. Tony Mottram. who won his singles on Friday when Roger Bcacker was beaten, partnered Geoffrey
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    763 11 Thiam Siew's 81 Fail To Save The Chinese WITH the exception of the Royal Ah Force who drew their match against the Ceylonese at Balestier Road, Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament matches reached decisions at close of play yesterday. The A-mv beat tne Chinese
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    789 11 SRC beat the Indians by six wickets on the padang. INDIANS Roy Sharma b Marks 1 Amar Singh b Collings 8 Lai] Sine:! b Collings 1 Harbans Singh b Collings 4 Verity Gill Ibw b Barker 2 S D. Williams c Marks b Collings 25 Harcharan Singh c
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    33 11 YIISS Elizabeth Elaine Yoon. x daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yoon Chek Wai, to Dr. Hor Ah Lam, son of Mr. arid Mrs. Hor Kum Why, of Taiping on 15th May. 1955
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    48 11 LIM GIOK KIM aged 36 of No. 109 Kampong Java Roi.d. Singapore, passed away peacefully on 15.5.55 at Gcncrsi Hospital, Singapore. leaving behind his beloved wife. Mary, and four children to mourn him Cortege leaves General Hospital Mortuary at 5.00 p.m. on 16.5.55 for Bidadan. Deeply regretted.
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      134 11 ff?jr/VTAjL ATTRACTIoVs^ ODEON MM^mfl CAPITOL STORI OF SHtXKLV JAPAN •TARMINA" INDONESIA *Z.*AJ£fIH and a Promise" (Documen- m preceded by "Tom's Letter From Japan" Docu- PHILIPPI.NLS mentarv) JAPAN. Ipptarance of Japanese Film Stars at Personal Appearance of Indonesian Film Stars at ;nance this performance. 1.4."> p.m. mv KKFH" civ^tD^ui. PRINCIPE TENOSO"
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    720 12  -  JEFFERY JAMES Joe Company Fly In By Pan American Today! THESE May Still Do The Trick By WHILE the emphasis has been on the prospects <>i Denmark as the probable finalists m the rMfafg round of the 1955 Thomas Cup competition. It t us not underrate the I'nited States,
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    170 12 LONDON. May 15. Router) Cricket close of play scores: At Cambridge, Cambridge University lO.< for tour versus Sussex, Rain curtailed play. At Oxford Warwickshire 149 Hitchcock 53. Allan leftarn: slow four for 24 Oxford University 19 for no wicket. Ram curtailed play At Lords. Middlesex 100
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    412 12 McGLEW GIVES SPRINGBOKS A GOOD START NOTTINGHAM, May 15, (Keuter) The South Africans, playing the third match of their tour, made a promising; start against Nottinghamshire here yesterday, scoring 87 for the loss of one wicket before heavy rain ended the morning play half an hour before lunch. On tiie
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    525 12 Oust Johore In 2nd Half SINGAPORE CHINESE— 2. JOHORE CHINESE-— 0 Kirn Beng and a 'Gift' goal Mr. Charlie Koh of Selanaor refereed KLIJANG, Sun. Singapore Chinese will meet Penang Chinese lor the MCFA Cup at Jalan Besar stadium on May 22 Today, on the Kluang
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    296 12 Aussies In A Strong Position Against W.I. Harvey (74) Leads The Way the Drc TpJ^th'u aY 2f (l cule r > Australia who need only to draw live v frk* dot L S5 f° Wm the series were m a «"»>* osition with SnS&ST e° f play on the first
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    449 12 PENANG, Sun. -The following are the weights for Wednesday, second day of the Penang Turf Club's Summer Meeting: Horses (lass 5 Div. I— sl Furs. Bicardl !).00 Passing; Fair 8.1 I Young Alec 8.11 All Baha 8 0!) Black Pulot 8 ot> Rosalind 8.04 Portmaster 8.03
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    32 12 PARIS May 15 (Router^: France beat England by one coal to nothing m a soccer international here today. Centreforward Kopa scored from a penalty m the first half.
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    85 12 RESULTS of friendly soccer matches played at Fairer Park yesterday were: Rajaji Sports Club beat Western Sports Club by five goals to two. Scorer? ior Rajaji were: G. Nadarajah 2 K. Syco: Osman, P. T. Subramaniam and K. Sundram, Osman and Aziz scored tor the Losers. Arsenal
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    49 12 LINGFIELD Park, SussexMay 15 (Reuter)— Mr. R. D. Pollingsworth's Ark Royal won the Oaks Trial Stakes for three-year-old Allies run over twelve furlongs here yesterday. She beat Sir Humphrey De Trafford's Thunder by eight lengths with the Queen's Belladonna three lengths further away third. Seven ran.
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    28 12 ROUEN, May 15 (Reuter) Chelsea the English First Division champions, beat Rouen by four goals to two m a football match under floodlights here last night.
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    694 12 Rocky s Nose Is Cockell's Only Hope... I MAROANO i ICOCKEILI J By JOHN HEFFERXAX SAX FRANCISCO, Sunday (Reuter)— Don Cockell. British champion, will have to box more superbly than he has done before m the sixteen-and-a-half feet ring at Kezar Stadium tomorrow night if he is to beat Rocky
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      58 12 SOCCER COMMUNITY*— Navy vs. Indians at Jalan Besar at 5.30 p.m. Div I: Rovers Sports Club vs. R.E.M. E af Ja'.an Besar at 7 p.m. Div. 2B: Aston, AC. vs. T. Bahru Rangers at Fairer Pork Dtv 3 A: Junior, A A ys RE M.E. Civ,: at Gevlana FRIENDLY: Kent
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