Singapore Standard, 16 August 1955

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    15 1 Singapore Standard tt It A r^iL- SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16. 1953 11 PAGES 13 CENTS
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    Lock icon UNKNOWN
    22 1 merit benn being tish«ar£. by 200 Inns prior to the tk'. Act.on Party i Forrer --Joy. tM photos by Seng Yip.
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    Lock icon Opium Seized
    24 1 HONGKONG. Aug. 15 (Reuter i Police today seized 480 pounds of opium worth HK5350.000 < about 19.000 > after two airliners arrived from Bangkok.
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    Lock icon CHEAPER FUEL
    28 1 AS from today. Shell Company has reduced the price for Shell Diesoline and Shell diesel fuels by three cents per gallon in Singapore and the Federation.
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    Lock icon GREECE HOLIDAY
    31 1 PRINCESS Alexandra, cousin of tho Queen, left London on Monday for a holiday in Greece. She will join her mother, the Duchess of Kent, who is also vacationing there.
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    Lock icon P.A.P. RALLY MISFIRES
    664 1 4,000 Turned Away Amidst Merdeka Shouts FOUR thousand "Mcrdeka fans" in Singapore who turned up at the People's Action Party rally at Farrer Park yesterday were told that the City Council had refused to grant them a permit to use the park for a political meeting. But
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    Lock icon GOA POLICE FIRE ON MARCHERS
    213 1 3 Satyagrahis Killed, 13 Hurt BOMBAY, Augr. 15, (Reuter)— Portuguese Police opened fire on Indian demonstrators marching across Goa border early today, to demand Portuguese evacuation of her Indian territories. rvi lu^urse auiaoriiir s announcod that one man' was shot dead and three wounded near
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    Lock icon Burma Rice For Ceylon
    54 1 COLOMBO. Aug. 15. (Rcuter>—Ceylon has agreed to a Chinese proposal to accept 180.000 tons of rice from Burma instead of from China, a government spokesman said here today. China is committed to shippins; 120.000 tons of rice to vlon this year under the I Ceylon-China rice
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    Lock icon 5 ATTACK GARRISON GUARDS
    107 1 5 ATTACK GARRISON GUARDS RIIYL. North Wales. Aug. 15 (Reuter) Five men attacked guards at Kinmel Park garrison near here early today-- 48 hours after a large quantity of arms was seized in a raid on an armoury in Berkshire. England. One oi the guards who were watching over transport
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    Lock icon Quake Levels 200 Houses
    62 1 THE HAGUE. Aug. 15 <Reutcr> Earthquakes today destroyed about 200 buildings in Sumodang. West Java, according to Indonesian News Agency reports received here. Sumedang is a town of 12.400 people. 20 miles east of Bandung, site of the AfroAsian Conference earlier this year, and about 90
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    Lock icon Bomb Scare In Commons
    55 1 LONDON. Aug. 15. < Router)— Police made a security check at the Houses of Parliament last night following an anonymous telephone call that a bomb had been planted there, it was learned today. Nothing suspicious was found. The caller, speaking from a public phone bo> to
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    Lock icon McNEICE SNUBBED AFTER COCKTAILS
    319 1 McNEICE SNUBBED AFTER COCKTAILS 1 Mob Chants Long Boos HOSTILE pickets booed and snubbed the Singapore City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice when he left a cocktail party in his honour at the Adelphi Hotel last night. Tht pickets, part of the large crowd that earlier, at Farrer Park,
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    Lock icon Ali To Become Chief Delegate
    40 1 KARACHI. Aug. 15. (Reuter» Mr. Mohammed Ali. who resigned as Prime Minister eight days ago. will lead Pakistan's delegation to the next session of the United Nations General Assembly, a government source told Reuter today.
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    Lock icon Freighter Sinks Off Bermuda
    42 1 HAMILTON. Bermuda. Aug. 15. <Reuter>— The 2.506-ton British freighter Wychwood. sank in shallow water oft Bermuda late last night after being abandoned by her crew when the salvage pumps failed to keep up with the water flowing in.
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    Lock icon TEN YEARS AGO
    29 1 JAPAN yesterday observed the 10th anniversary of its surrender quietly, with prayers for world peace and memorial services lor those who died in the war UP
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    Lock icon Princess Anne Is 5 Years Old
    91 1 BALLATER, Scotland. Aug. IS (Reuter) Princess Anne, is five tomorrow. The youngest member of the British Royal Family will celebrate her birthday at a family tea party complete with a cake with five candles for the Princess to blow out at Balmoral Castle, where
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    Lock icon And At The Airport A Silent Crowd
    196 1 TWO thousand Chinese staged a silent demonstration at Kallang Airport yesterday to greet the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Alan LennoxBoyd, on his arrival from Borneo. Not a hand was raised, nor a voice heard from those who lined the Airport
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    298 1 were even seen waving at the car. Mr. Lennox-Boyd. smiling all the way. had a good iook at some of the banners. The Chinese students carried banners stating "Master Cheng (detained school teacher* is innocent" and "Where is the right of the
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    1394 2 SUE JAPAN -NOT SINGAPORE War Damage Disclaims Any Liability For Compensation Claimants Must Prove 0/7 u| Theirs In Sept. 7945 -De/ Jl MR. KENNETH DIPLOCK, Q.C. counsel for the War Damage Commission, against whom three Dutch oil companies are claiming $6,000,000 submitted to the Compensation Board in the Singapore High
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    323 2 'Only Hearsay Evidence' SINGAPORE Magistrate. Mr. J. M. DcvcreuxColebourn. yesterday set free a Federation amusement park owner, who was produeed on a warrant issued by the Ipoh Supreme Court because the magistrate said, 'the evidence given lacked the ingredients to hand hiur over
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    Lock icon Claims Trial To Hurt Count
    47 2 KUALA LUMPUR Mon 5 Perumal Gopal. of Ampang New Village, today claimed trial before the First Magistrate to a charge of causing hurt to Pragasam with a bayonet at the Hindustan Theatre. Bail of $300 was allowed pending trial on Oct. 4.
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    Lock icon Officer Loses $140 In Mess
    56 2 A BRITISH Army Officer. Major. G. J. S. Cotton, reported the loss of $140 which he left on a dressing table in the Officers' Mess. Nee Soon, before he retired for the nighi last Saturday. A Qantas employee lost £62 from a room in a
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    51 2 COMMON PRICES |(|v|M. !.<-pn fcratf VI porr v i; n -j S'« 1 i; >* vp,.( I M foh 111 N (Mit UN I I Ik trrri.n w < pif ut I r I I OMMIN :< I'"' w |iMN i Ipril .IN |ONW» I! v I .Ml N vp.it
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    44 2 SUAH Ah Keow. an Army j cook, naiired t**iai to a charge of stealing five bananas belonginf to the Army on Aug 13. at the Sc.arang Garrison He was allowed bail of $250 and nis case was postponed to Aug 22 I
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    Lock icon Kelantan Shows Signs Ot Contest At Polls
    313 2 But Alliance Still Gets Eight Seats KOTA BHARU, Mon.— Eight Alliance candidates were returned unopposed when nominations for elections to the Kelantan State Council closed at noon here today. The remaining eight ot the 16 seats are being contested by 18 men. Contesting
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    Lock icon Buddhists To Pray For Him
    44 2 A SPECIAL religious service will be conducted under the dayakaship of the Pali Section of the Singapore Buddhist Association at Sri Lankaramaya. St. Michael's Road. at 7 p.m. tomorrow in memory of its late president. Mr. Lim Kirn Lee.
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    66 2 I FREE THE 12 DETAINED" PEXAXG, Mon —Students nl the Chun, i School, the foremost Chinese school in iM have sent a petition to the I >deration\ Chi f f2 Tunku Abdul Rahman, appealing for Ihe^ their colleagues detained by the police under^ gency Regulations.
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    Lock icon 'Disregard Labour, And We'll Fight'
    190 2 'Disregard Labour, And We'll Fight' RAWANG, Moa— The Ma an trade Union C I^M the UMNO-.Mc Allisnoi Qovernn ent Fe<ieration if it c\c: sttpped Labour i"'. I Mr p p Karayaoai ma'i of the lITUC today Speaking from the n form as ;\v i A iai: ers. incuciine tne Mi:-ister
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    18 2 THE Singapore krishna Mis-ion who r< a Flag Day in lid Home last Saturday. W 58.M41.41.
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    Lock icon GIVE THE WOMEN A CHANCE, SAYS DATO TAN
    173 2 'They're Just As Capable As Men MALACCA, Mon.— No nation or community could make progress in life unless women were given equal opportunity and treatment with men. Dato Sir Chenglock Tan sale! last night. Sir Cheng-lock was addressing 30 YNCA members from
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    Lock icon MaN Hart By RAF Bomb Dies
    82 2 MaN Hart By RAF Bomb Dies KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The death toll in the Bahau bombing incident of Thursday rose to three today when one of the seven injured soldiers died in the Seremban hospital. He was Lance-Corporal J. R. Malsorn An officer and a soldier were killed instantaneously and
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    Lock icon Lee Kuan Yew Tells Them What Merdeka' Means
    56 3 And They Cheer Him With Clenched Fists photo. MR. LEE KUAN YEW, Secretary General of the People's Action Party, gestures emotionally to the crowd when he spoke to them on the importance of "merdeka," at Farrer Park yesterday, and (right) the "merdeka
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    Lock icon Newsman Was Hit With A Box—Witness
    227 3 Newsman Was Hit With A Box— Witness Symonds Murder Trial >t moments of American journalist vmonds, who died in the Hock Lee xandra Road, Singapore, on May 12 :d yesterday at the trial of two men dwrged with his murder. nth Magistrate* Court were Ong Ah Suppiah Subramaniam. i:n- murdering
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    10 3 Fire in the :by the a
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    Lock icon Helicopter Death At Jungle Fort 'Accidental'— Court
    726 3 Helicopter Death At Jungle Fort 'Accidental'— Court SEREMBAN, Mon. A verdict of "accidental death" wus returned today at the inquest into the death of Dr. S. K. Roy, the General Hospital medical officer who was killed by the tail rotor of a helicopter at Fort Langkap on June 10. Dr.
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    Lock icon De Souza Is President
    89 3 THE following have been elected office-bearers of the Eurasian Association in Singapore: President: Mr. P. F. de Souza. vice-president: Mr. T.J. Leijssius; hon. sec. Mr. w. ii. Mosbergen, assist, hon. sec. Mr. N. A. Atria, hon treasurer: Mr. V. O. Galistan: chairman Youth Movement: Mr. A.
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    50 3 TOKYO. Aug. 15. (UP)— Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt arrived in Japan today by air from the United States for a one-week visit. She is scheduled to leave on Aug. 21 for Hongkong and Bangkok, where she plans to attend a conference of the United Nations Association.
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    36 3 JERUSALEM. Aug. 15 <Reuter) Mr. Moshe Sharett. Israeli Prime Minister, presented the resignation of his government to President Yitzhac Ben-Zxi today, a lew hours before the newlyelected Kne.vseth (Parliament) met for its first session.
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    Lock icon Secret Talks On Reds In Schools
    292 3 Chew Swee Kee Flies To K.L. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Singapore's Minister for Education, Mr. Chew Swee Kee. flew to Kuala Lumpur today to confer with his Federation counterpart. Dato Abdul Razak. on the growing problem of Chinese school students Mr. Chew's visit was at
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    Lock icon Had Stolen Daggers, Fined $600
    83 4 Had Stolen Daggers, Fined $600 JOIIORE BAHRU. Mon. In the Magistrate's Court to-, day. Tan Ah Khoon was fined $600 for possession of two daggers which wore .stolen from the re>idenee of Mr. H. I C. Lesser, a naval officer, residing in Johore Bahru. The daggers were found hidden under
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    36 4 HONGKONG. Aug 15 Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hong- .Exchange today were: to ttqJi 0 Vi o^ rllng: 55.***** U ft,«-837 to Malayan Rupiah; Gold $252.50 to a i a v l
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    423 4 NEW STAMPS TO BE OUT ON SEPT. 4 Big Rush By Colony Philatelists Expected THE General Post Office have placed orders for more than 100,000,000 issues of the new Singapore pictorial stamps which will be released on Sept. 4. Announccmant of release of these new stamps has attracted such wide
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    270 4 Teachers Seek Public Views Xl ALA LLMPIR, Mon. The I'nitcd Chinese School Teachers' Association tonight decided to ask the M.C.A. Central Committee on Education to call a public meeting "as soon as possible' to assess the community's views on what should be the new schools
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    Lock icon BOOK-KEEPERS INSTITUTE EXAM RESULTS
    111 4 BOOK-KEEPERS INSTITUTE EXAM RESULTS Following are the results of the Institute of Bookkeepers examination held in Singapore in June: Book-keeping-: Follow Stage Mr. M. \V. Too: Associate Stage Messrs M. S. Kang. Mr. V. L. Nair, Tham Boon Liat; Intermediate Stage Messrs. Fong Kit Yin. Haroan bin Mohamed Sultan. Koh
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    Lock icon STC's New Bus Route
    59 4 A new bus service from Singapore's new Paya Lebar Airport into Town has been started by the Singapore Traction Company. The new service, route No. 12. began operating two days ago. Buses run between Raffles Quay and the airport via Collyer Quay. St. Andrews Road. Bras
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    Lock icon Minister Is Angry At RIDA's Delays
    161 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mon -The Federation's Minister for Agriculture. Inch* Abdul Aziz bin Ishak today angrily Jemandeu an explanation from the Rial and Industrial Development Authority for the delays in granting rehabilitation loans to former special constables Inche Abdul Aziz who has re- ocntd many
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    Lock icon Offered PC $2 Bribe And Fags
    90 4 Offered PC $2 Bribe And Fags KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A 25-year-old hawker, Har Kwong of Kampong Loke Yew Road was fined $150, in default a month's imprisonment in the Sessions Court here today for selling ice cream without a permit and trying to bribe a policeman. A.S.P. Sudharshan Singh told
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    Lock icon JUDGE WILL ALWAYS BE RESPECTED
    495 4 JUDGE WILL ALWAYS BE RESPECTED Court Tribute To Chief Justice TRIBUTES were paid to the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, in the Singapore High Court yesterday, when lie took his seat on the bench of this Colony for the last occasion before leaving on retirement on Aug. 20. The tributes
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    88 4 'Dear Tunku Please Sign Here' X I A L A LUMPUR, .Mon. The I'cder at ion's Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Kahmat If already receiving "fan mail" from Malayans. The Tonka today mailed an autograph book to a schoolgirl in Seremban with the words "To Kamariah B a k r i
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    Lock icon Three Girls Missing
    85 4 HAVE you seen or heard about these three young girls —Chan Aii Moi. 16. Tan Swee Kee. 24 and Goh Wee Teng, 20 who are missing from their homes? Chan has not returned to her nome in Owen Road since Aug. 12. Tan is missing from her
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    21 4 SANT Tukadoji. Hindu religious and spiritual loader from Central India, will arrive in Singapore on Aug. 18 from Japan.
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    Lock icon RELIGIOUS TALKS IN MALAYA URGED
    142 4 MALAYA could become a centre for the discussion and understanding of all religions of the world if a conference of World Religionists could be arranged here, Swami Satyananda of Kuala Lumpur Pure Life Society told The Standard yesterday. He arrived here from Tokyo after attending
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    Lock icon Man Charged With Possession Of Grenades
    61 4 Man Charged With Possession Of Grenades ALOR STAR, Mon. A young man, Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Rashid, was today charged in the Magistrate's Court with possession of six hand-grenadcj without authority. He was arrested last Saturday at the sth Mile, Langgar. when tho grenades were allegedly found on his person.
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    Lock icon HAD COOKED TOWFOO'
    57 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Mr. I. C. C. Rigby. President of ihe Sessions Court today fined 61-year-old Lee Hoo ol Damansara Road. $20 for possession of 250 pieces of cooked "towfoo" and chilli sauce in a prohibited area. The court was told that Lee had the foodstuffs at
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    206 5 Covt. To Consider Setting Up Village For Chinese Muslims Accent Will Be On Farming JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A $3 0 0,0 0 0 scheme to set up a new village in Johore for Chinese Muslims is being considered by the Government. It is proposed to build the village on 100
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    Lock icon Terror Night Pall-Bearers Co On Trial
    250 5 FOUR "pall-bearers" of a 16-year-old Chinese student, Chong Lon Chong shot during Singapore's May 12 "terror night" stood trial in the First Criminal District Court yesterday. Thoy were charged with being members of an unlawful assembly and with the common object of assaulting members
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    Lock icon House Was Empty, So He Went In
    110 5 House Was Empty, So He Went In JOHORE BAHRL*. Mon.— A '< youth Le? Hong Yong, pleaded in the Sessions Court today to entering a building gin^ to Anna Soo and stealing ring, jewellery and a fountain pen valued at (2,131 Lee said he was taken to the place by
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    77 5 A SINGAPORE trisha-rider. On^ M:;k Chwee was yester(iav Found guilty In the Eighth trate's Court ol causing mischief in a bar in Bra^ B.t-.m RiKifl when he tried to force himself into the premises to collect his fare on 1 5. Or.:; was Involved in
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    28 5 THE world-famous pianist. Irene Kohler will give a piano recital in Penan>. at the St George's Girls School hall at 9 p.m. on Au 5 20.
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    Lock icon Took Bread For His Wife
    81 5 A MAN' who took throe 1 !oavc?, <jI bread home to his j expectant wife was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for ineft. The bread belonged to t he army at Selarang Garrison The Magistrate, Mr. J M. Devereux-Colebourn. told On;; Teck Mai. who pleaded
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    Lock icon TAILOR'S ASST. FINED $100
    36 5 PENANG. Mon. A tailors assistant. Yoong Moh Kung. was fined $100 in the Magistrate's Court today on an ammended summons charge ol buying public lottery tickets at Campbell Street on April 4
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    Lock icon Court Dismisses Driver's Appeal
    231 5 Court Dismisses Driver' s Appeal Negligence Caused Death JOHORE BAHRr, Mon.— Mr. Justice Storr in the Hig-h Court, today dismissed the appeal ot Yee Hon Soon who was sentenced by the Sessions Court, Kluang, on June 5, to five months 1 imprisonment and a fine of $1,000, in default a
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    298 5 MALAYA'S FUTURE DIPLOMAT IS BACK A YOUNG Malayan, one of three men who arc being groomed for top posts in new Malaya's proposed diplomatic service, has returned from England after an intensive 12-month course with the British Foreign Office and the United Nations Organization He
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    Lock icon PENANG INDIANS' FAREWELL TO MacD.
    185 5 PENANG, Mon. The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald said today that India has play iCd a great part in tlie history of Malaya and Southj cast Asia. of the Indian cuiv. a farewell lvi honour the Imiian Association. India, he said, hi .-.c<\ position in
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    Lock icon R.I. Big Day Celebration
    43 5 PENANG. lion.— The tonih anniversary ol the H«pubiic of Indonesia will be celebrated h<rr at the residence ol the Indonesian Consul in Vermont Road on Wednesday. The programme Includei Javanese vayant. the art of self-defence, music, Bongi and dan
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      676 5 sStcindard cAlmanac Information at a Glance IS KL>: 713 Prison* Me.! Homes (19.2 m); 3pm Hii Paiade TiliiiMmssss— sswii Exhibitions 1953 <KL> 730 Band U9.72nn>j 33u Theatre Organisi H"t., mm. ff\ r '■■•p R».va! Scots 1- i,.i.p:, il9 72mi; 343 A Word from Mf,AD Cl X r IKL»: Ipm Radio
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    Lock icon Singapore Standard Germ Of Trouble
    856 6 Singapore Standard Germ Of Trouble yy HEM Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Secretary-General ot Party Ncgara, propounded the idea that Indonesians should be imported into Malaya to tan the Malays from bring overwhelmed by the Chinese, he released the germ of racial trouble to ■ndensine the communal harmony that now exists.
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    773 6  -  Aster Gunasekera /jy CUNDAY «M fleM day for 3 Singapore trade unionists. They met in their thousands under the banner of two groups waging a struggle to "rule" the workers. The rally of the Singapore Factory and Shopworkers* Union was marked by ibOUta of
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    217 6 VIEWS REVIEW OF Indian Independence TTTUSAN Melayu in a spe- cial issue commemorating Indian Independence Day exhorts the people of Malaya to look upon India as an inspiring example of free and resurgent Asia. The paper makes special mention of India's contribution to peace and stability in the present international
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    212 6 Sir: The shout of "Merdeka" can be heard everyday and frequently still when election campaigns are in full swing Its simple meaning is FREEDOM. Most of the politicians are working hard to see their dreams materialised that independence must be achieved in a short tune but without bloodshed
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    1010 6  -  Wayland Young by RABAT, Morocco. MGRANDVAL. the new French Resident General in Morocco, has finished his first-aid for the tortured body of this country.: has made his diagnosis, and hns just about made up his mind on the treatment. It now remains to apply
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    Lock icon Military Move in JAPAN
    431 6  -  TOKYO THE recent shift of United States Eighth Army headquarters from Japan to South Korea is not. in itself a major military move. It does not represent any significant shifting of tactical .strength, nor does it indicate that Washington is making any change in emphasis on
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      273 6 Sir: On August 12 it was reported that Mr. Yap Phong deck was cry angry at the '"inequity" of the Land Acquisition Bill. His concern for "private enterprise" and over "discouraging land development by private enterprise" is quite unnecessary. These are trite platitudes The best and the
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      130 6 Sir: Tiie regu I erninf the urtthdra the Employ fund are ii.-, follow the employee (b) the employee hi ed the ase of ftfty-five •< or (c 1 on medical < the employee is no i capable of being, md likely to be as.. I pioyee; or
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    158 7 IK, Aim. 13, (Rcutcr) Mr. Aneurin of the more Icftwiriß policy in the Party, compared Soviet expansion in what he called American intervenwhen he appeared in a filmed teleMJfff last night. lit- sai I United States inter(e: ear i:i the Guatevar durinj which the pro-Conununist
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    36 7 Quern Elizabrth has approved the appointment of Mr Colin Hardwick Thornley. Chief Secretary. Uganda, to be Governor and Comm?nd-er-in-Chief of British Honduras the Colonial Office announced in London today. He >ucceeds Sir Patrick RenUon.
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    99 7 HOULTON Maine. Aug 15, (AP) Houlton matron was shot to death in her sleep yesterday and state police said her 13-year-old son tired the latHi oui eta Slate Trooncr-detectivc Oti> I.a'>rci said he would charge Daniel Miller with the murder of Mrs. Evelyn M
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    48 7 TAIPEL. Aug. 15 (UP) The Nationalist Tatao NewAgency charged the Chinese Communists are preparing tc take over the Portuguesecolony of Macao in South China. Tatao. organ of the Ministry of the Interior, said Red agents have infiltrated into every administrative department in the area.
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    254 7 LONDON, Aug. 15, (Reufrer) A ycung Irishman, speaking of Saturday's bold raid on a British Army barracks when automatic arms and ammunition were seized by armed Irishmen, told a London t meeting yesterday "we agree with what they have done, we
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    76 7 A BRASH cannon which vanished from its place in the Battery cf the famous Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes two day*; ago. reappeared on the verandah of a nearby yacht club. Police are investigating. Reuter The Borough Engineer of the Wes; London district of Chelsea was killed en
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    153 7 cupboard He is believed to have been electrocuted. Renter. Royal Air Force jet fighters and bombers will take part in the annual air display at Farnborough which opens on Sept. 6 it was announced— Renter. More than 20 people were injured, five of them seriously, when a
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    282 7 GRANDVAL APPEALS FOR CALM RABAT, Morocco, Aug. 15, (UP) French Resident General Gilbert Grandval appealed last night to the Moroccan people to maintain calm and order so he can launch an urgent programme to bring peace to the troubled protectorate within one month.
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    88 7 photo. THE Chinese junk "Free China" arrive* at San Fran* isco s (iolden (iate Bridge, la.st week n*ar the end of a trans-Pacific voyage which took 53 days Sails wer»« lowered and the vessel was taken in tow as it entered San Francisco Bay. Aboard iH a six-man crew Ca'vin
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    169 7 LONDON. Aug. 15 (Router) —The President of India. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, said in a message read here today on the eighth anniversary of Indian independence that India was determined to be a true welfare states. The President's message was read at a
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    75 7 ELDORADO. Kansas. Aug. 15. (AP) —The left hand of George Haines 22. didn't know what the right hand was doin?. Haincs stopped tc shoot at crows. As he brushed some dust ofT the end of the barrel jof his pew rirlc with his left
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    44 7 Lke Will Run Again— Nixon SAN DIEu O. California. Aug 15; (Renter) There is "an increasing feeling in Wasiurgton' that President Eisenhower will seek a second term, ar.-ordinp to Vice-Pre-sidcni Rirnard Nixon, who is here to visit his brothet Edward. 20. a mva! recruit
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    22 7 MOST of Rotterdam's 12.000 dockers downed tools yesterday as a protect against the dismissal of several thousand fellow workers.- Reuter
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    384 7 Train Monkeys To Replace Machines Urges Scientist GENEVA. Aug. 15 <UP) One of the world's most distinguished scientists believes the time has come for humanity to seriously consider breeding a strain of monkeys trained to do work too dull for humans and too tricky lor machines. Does he mean it?
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    58 7 LONDON. Aug. 15. (Router) —Union leaders of 70.000 British railway drivers have submitted demands to the management for better working conditions it was announced today. The demands, from the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers "and liremen come two months after the end of the 17-day strike
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    144 7 CALCI TTA, Aug. 15 (UP)— lnruly elements were reported in control of Patna and adjoining cities yesterday following disturbances that started four days ago with demonstrations of a small group of students The deir.oiistrations ijrew into ?tate-wiJc attarks on Police stations and Congress Party
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    210 7 From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Aug. 15 Nothing: like Singa|M>ics rumours of sterling devaluation were expected to come out of today's Cabinet meeting. The mooting is little morethan routine since only those members in London area have been called in. Economics were expected j to play an
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    44 7 CATANIA, Sicily Aug 11, CAP) Volcanic Mt. Etna asai.i burst into .spectacular activiiv \n\c lasi night, hu: tons of molten r° r k hundn of feet into the air El.iji has beer» erupting on and of! since June 1.
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    135 8 EGYPT'S No. 2 MAN GOES VISITING R.I. 7//E DcpM/y Prime Minister of Egypt. Mr Gamal Salem (above, right) and Hi* Eminence Sheik Al- Islam Abdul Rahman Tag. Director of the famous Al-Aihar University of Cairo. Who pass-d through Singapore yesterday with a party of 14 on
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    164 8 But Some Changes Required .SINGAPORE Police will lift their ban on seven of 13 items in a concert which Chinese students will stage in aid of Nanvang University provided certain alterations are made. i i Deputy Commissioner of Police Mr D X Broad- has asked
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    86 8 MELBOURNE. Aug. 15 (Reuter) Minister lor External Affairs. Mr. Ricard Casey, today officially launched a correspondence trainint; scheme for Asian students under the Colombo Plan. Mr. Casey said 400 scholarships in technical subjects were being offered, but with the help of all Australian major technical
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    20 8 A-17-YEAR-OI.D amah. Ng Chin Pheow. was electrocuted while working In her employer's home in Lock Road in Singapore yesterday.
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    51 8 KUALA LUMPUR lion. The Federations Chief Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman today travel ed to Seremban to a courtesy call on the Negri Ruler, the Yang di-Pcr-tuan Besai Tne Chief Minister who intends to cal'. on all the Malay Ruler> last week called on the Sultan ol
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    83 8 MR. V.K. NAIR. leader of the Labour Front City Councillors, is sern presenting a silver salver to Mr. T.P.F McNeice. President of the City Council at a farewell cocktail party siven him by the Labour Front and its City Councillors at the Adelphi Hotel last night, on the
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    255 8 E WING WARNS BUS USING Help Conductors To Cheat And Fares Will mr n THE people in Singapore would suffer in the lone run if they continued to condone the form of cheating as practised by certain conductors of the Singapore Traction Company, the STC General Manager. Mr. A. A.
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    301 8 Busmen Tell Their Bosses: It's An Insult' THE Singapore Traction Company Employees Union yesterday charged the company with responsibility for the worsening relations between the company and its employees. The union alleged thai the union and warned tha the company had insulted such insults could not be made with impunity.
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    69 8 A .JOCKEY and a punter had their wallets, sweep-tickets and $171 stolen from them at the Singapore Turf Club August Meeting- last Saturday. The jockey. Kitson Leong. lo^t his wallet containing $120 which he left in his trousers pocket in the Jockeys' Room. He discovered the loss
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    127 8 Ministry's All Out Bid To Settle Disputes THE Singapore Lai Minister yesterday wen; all out to end an 18-day-old strike by 1.300 sawmill workers and avert a th: ened strike by 10.000 l Council employees. The Minister for Mr. Lim Vow Hock. 1 cussions with the I Labour Unions Pederatioi
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    431 8 'Mixed Verdict' Causes An Unusual Situation A JURY of five men and i wo women returned a "mixed verdict" in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday at the trial of Robert Kum Choon I Hoe. who appeared on a charge of causing hurt to a coffee shop proprietor. When this verdict
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    84 8 With one hur.drrd Operational S t r ik > against terrorist in th« Federation this Lincoln Bomber crew from N« I Squadron Royal Australian Air Force n ■tuin to their base at RJ I Station. Tengah Their century mission came up when arcralt of the
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    365 9 LONDON CTAN HUME rested his fingers on (he keyboard of the piano at a Soho Club the other night and said: "He's wrong. Oh. he's so very wrong.' He was referring to the decision of George Shearing, the world-famous blind pianist, NOT to have an
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    72 9 pERMAN police dogs have J been trained to detect the scent of < ofTee smuggled across the frontier between East and West. Which give.s them grounds for a prosecution. CTATEMEN'I in police court: "My husband's an excellent cook, a real kitchen cowboy!" At home on the range. DURING
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    78 10 SINGAPORE'S main distributors or Carlsbcrq beer held a dinner at the T<ii Tong Restaurant, Happy World, recently, in honour at Mr. Yea Hock Ttnje. salesnan of the East Asiatic Co., local agents for the beer, and Mrs. Yeo. Mr. Yeo and his family left on the m.s. Falstria
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    338 10 B?MEPPipWB^yPHf7y KUALA LUMPUR. Moa.— A move is being made to get the American government to bung tin produced in America into the category of tungsten and ©the- strategic minerals under the Government A :ance Programme as an incentive to prospecting «rfnewdep« ..J legislation accordingly,
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    64 10 'Good Wishes' Banners For Denmark one each to the E.A.C. and Carlsbery Breweries, on behalf of the distributors. Croup picture taken at the dinner includes Messrs- P. Lind. E.A.C. import manager: B. Santos oj Caldbeck MacCregor Co. Ltd M. Meyer. Naafi manayer in Singapore: Capt. P. Lnrscn of the Falstria
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    32 10 KENT (F.M.S.) T: n DredgUig Ltd.. has declared a first interim dividend of li''< in respect of the year ending Dec. 31, 1955, payable in England on Sept. 14. 1955.
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    21 10 HEAVY Insect damage threatens to curtail this year's Co ombian coffee crop, it was reported in Bogota. A. P.
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    244 10 Standard Special Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 15, Rubber is again displaying every sign of booming once again. Rubber on the New York market recently reached its highest level since 1952. the oleak year which marked the collapse of the Korean war boom in that commodity.
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    111 10 Ships In Harbour OUTER ROADS Chong Ma. City <>i Ottawa \\Y: Mmg. Kaimana. Carpentaria In'lia. Duchess <>f Athens, Boncruachan, L'aitcx 93, Japara, Van Outhnorn. Clement Adcr. Tai Po<» Srk. Camphuys. Nui Hens. Hal Hing. Kotu Baroe, Automtdon. INNKK BOADS Hai St'nu Hm. Scudai, Kah Kheng. Kah Wan. Thepamat, Hydra. Indari.
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    235 10 M.A.H.A. SHOW TO OPEN IN K.L ON FRIDAY KUALA LUMPUR Mon More than 5,0W1 products of Malayan manufacture, assembled from every state and Settlement in the Federation *o on show or, Friday in Kua.d Lumpur at the 20th annual exhibition of the Malayan U -Hortuu tural Association. The exhibition which
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    347 10 Product Answer To Catering Problems Standard Market Reporter A NEW butter concentrate meant especially for tropical markets has been successfully developed by the Queensland Butter Board, the Office of the Australian Trade Commission in Singapore, announces. With the simple addition of pure water, milk or evaporated
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    155 10 RUSSIA IN MARKET FOR RUBBER —REPORT Standard Market Reporter THE strike threat of the Singapore City Council labourers, unconfirmed reports of Russian buying and the tightening of Indonesia's export licences, contributed largely to the improvement by cent to $1.44^ per lb. for first grade September rubber yesterday. The market closed
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    98 10 GENERALLY -quiet conditions prevailed in the Singapore share market yesterday. Price changes announced wy the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Gammon 2.C8 2.73 Hongkong Bank «HK Ro£j.> 920.00 9."»0.00 Straits S'ship 13.35 13.50 Union Insur. 530.00 3tiO.OU Austral Amal. 14 (j 15/- xc! Austral
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    136 10 SINGAPORE gharebrokers reported '.he follow-in? bu^incs> done yesterday: F. and N. orda $1.69, $1.70: Gammons $2.70: (2.7 1^: Jackson and Co. c 1.40: M Cement MJS6 overnight: Spore Cold Storage $1.67): Straits Traders $23: Wearne Bros. ?2.72i overnight: William Jacks $.'MO overnight and today. Austral AmaL 15/3
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    161 10 TWO Dutch business executives who arrived in Singapore from Holland by KLM during the weekend consider that the Colony and the Federation are extremely important markets for their products. Mr. A. Cronheim. a director of Verkoopkantoor Van De Heem, N.V.. Holland, who are the manufacturers of
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    174 10 P. RICO EXPERIMENT THREAT BANKA PRODUCT By ARNOLD BRACKMAN Special Standard Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 15: Reports on the experimental growth of black pepper in Puerto Rico continue to filter, into the market here. Thus far, the picture looks very bright, pointing up a singular threat to pepper production at
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    117 10 MR. BASIL Smallpiece. (seen above), who is Deputy Chief Executive and Financial Comptroller of 8.0.A.C. and a Member of the Board. If arriving in Singapore as its representative at the opening of the new Airport at Paya Lebar. He is due in the
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    140 10 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices (per piculi yesterday were: Muntok white pepper $170 sellers. Sarawak white $169. sellers. Special Sarawak black $124. sellers, coconut oil in bulk $40£ sellers, in drums $43 sellers; copra August $26 buyers, $262 idlers, September $271 buyers, $275 sellers. HOLIDAY CTTLER
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    399 12 nPHIRTEEN YEAR OLD John Gibbs. of Aveley, Essex, has earned the praise of the police and magistrates for a wonderful example of detective work and quick thinking. John was playing near his home when he saw three men near a car. "They were acting suspiciously." said John,
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      135 12 FUN AND GAMES I AND your friend a pencil ABli paper and ask: "Can ><mi draw a duchess?" Your chum will make several attempts to draw a fine lady. Then take the pencil and write a letter "S." Then say. 'There you arc It's easy. A DITCH S \a the
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      156 13 Punctuality Gets There In Time To Start Day Of Upsets TRIM* 1 MIIL I"' I ur- i i T url litel f to Bright to I of .st t "*i holarFull i M-rrs M i flAbncr »ct gained a smooth 'ien win from outsider' Montana *nd the well barked liitli.m
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      429 13 ix SMnnaG s*v> IC VAxN BREUKELEN stable's Lime Dust and Acrobat showed winning form on the Bukit iTimah training track yesi terday morning. They are two to follow tomorrow. On a trark made soft by overnight rain Lime Dust <Tait> was full of running at
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      582 13 WEIGHTS for to- morrow's races at Bukit Timah: (I. 2. Div. I— (i Fur. Malayan Scholar 9.00 Undecided 8.13 French's Forest 8.1"! Don Wayne 8.11 Distributor 8.10 First Trick 8.10 Cameleon 8.09 Pink Ticket 8.09 Programme 8.09 Avenger 8 08 Ore 8.07 Jackie's Kudu B.of> River Patrol
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      334 13 MR. J. D. STEEL, a Sydney scientist, has startled the racing world with an announcement that he can estimate a horse's money-winning possibilities. Mr. Steel, who i s a veterinary science lecturer at Sydney University, :akes only a clinical interest in Australia's national pastime. But,
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    67 14 J :'r THE first South-east Asia boxing <^ W Q championships tor the Aw Cheng Chye f £T trophy, have attracted entries from seven countries: Australia, Burma, >* Ir Ceylon, Hongkong, Philippines, Thailand V £j» and Singapore. «£j Until the championships from Aug. «£j 29 to Sept.
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    575 14 IF the Burmese mean business at the South east Asia boxing championships so does Hong Kong! Their ten-man team comprise an Asian Ganrns champion, and an array of Briti >h servicemen who have a nosi of British titles to their names. There are four
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    404 14 Ceylonese Delight The Crowd EXHIBITION TENNIS RUPERT FERDI- NANDS and Bernard i Pinto, the Ceylonese holders of the Malayan doubles title, together > with the Indonesian doubles combination and our I own champions Ong Chew Bee and Lim Hee Chin gave the crowd their moneys worth at yesterday's' tennis exhibition
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    218 14 SINGAPORE Amateur Boxing Association officials last night struck off six more names from their list of "probables" who might be selected to represent the Colony in the forthcoming South-east Asia boxing championships. Ivan. Scharcnguivcl. Harris Rajram. Sgt. oyed Omar and Cuddihy are
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    38 14 The following will represent Sunbean B P. an alLwomen badminton match against Rex at Kirn Pong Road tod<<>. Ruby Lam. Lim Chan Ping. I.im Chan Suan. Jessie Heng. G«>h Chok Koon, Yang Laew Ping. Molly Tan.
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    26 14 A film show of the 1954 European Games will be shown to Colony athletes at th- St Joseph Istitution Hall tomorrow at 630 p.m.
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    26 14 WESTERN Star Badminton Party be .t Johore Bahru Nongchik Badminton Party 4-3 i n a friendly badminton match playfim «t Johow Bahru on Sunday.
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    285 14 THANKS to three fine goals by former Johore State player Jalil in the second half, Singapore Harbour Board Police eliminated 12 Gurkha Rifles 4-2 in the first round of the Singapore junior cup competition at River Valley Road yesterday. What the Gurkhas lacked in
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    256 14 THE following will represent Combined Schools in the Triangular Athletic Meet against Achilles, Civilians, and Swifts Frld lhe Padan S on 100 Yards: Lim Jit Choon. Lim Jit Imm. 220 Yards: Ganesan, Kosavan Soon. 440 Yards: Tan Chee Chai. Tniagarajan. 880 Yards: Wong Koon Fatt Thiagarajan.
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    417 14 England Arel Runs AheJ total of 151 runs at the o i WSI of the fifth and final Trst ttKla v <n^ J Resuming then "SI of 70 for three. Enjlan I I hour before lunch, losini I England were all oi Tony Lock wreck) three wickets
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    360 14 All -Singapore Too Strong For Visitors All- Singapore 6. Indonesian Universities 2. ALL-SINGAPORE, with five Servicemen in the side trounced Combined Indonesian Universities 6-2 in a friendly soccer match played at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Singapore forwards saw much of the ball and spent much of their time in
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    117 14 Springdale S.C. were eliminated from the S.A.F.A. Junior Cup-tie when they were beaten I—o by Katong S.C. at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The winning goal was scored in the 18th minute. Katong forwards launched a fast attack. resulting in Sanders sending the ball to unmarked Omar who tapped
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    64 14 SRC. were held 1-1 by Star Socccrites' A in a Singapore .Junior Cup-tic on the Padang yesterday. S.R.C. playing with ten men. were the first to score, when in the Mth {minute. Grossc who made use of a D. Rodario pass to beat Kirn Hock with
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    27 14 DOVER. Mon— Abdel Latif Abu Heif. of Egypt, today won the international cross channel swimming race from France to England. defeating 15 other swimmers.
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    235 14 THE following is the draw for the Royal Singapore Golf Clubs Captains Prize on Saturday: First Nine: L R. Wales and R D. I. Scott: H. Thorne-Thorne and C. K. Russell: R. A. Flanagan and H. Fall: D. Bluett and J A. Gibson; B M.
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    254 14 By Our Boxing Reporter HOW WILL Don Razali measure up to Nai Sanong. the Siamese bantamweight champion? It is my guess that this Malay boy from Batu Pahat has taken a bite more than he can chew on Thursday night. Not since Tiger Aman has
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    254 14 PHILDELPHIA, Mon. (Reuter) Ken Koscuall of Australia beat Nicola Pietrangeli of Italy, 8-H. 14, 6-1, 6-4, in the second match to give Australia 2-0 lead at the end of the first day's play of the Davis Cup interzone final. i Earlier. Lewis Hoad beat Fausto Gardeni
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      61 14 SOCCER DIV. 3B: Police "A" vs. Arab Union at Geylang. ARMY M.O.R. LEAGUE— DIV. 2: 32 Coy. R.A.M.C. vs. A. DP.; 443 B.A.D. vs. M.8.T.C.; Singapore Guard Regt. vs. 61 Coy. R.A.S.C; G.H.Q. Sig. Regt. vs. 75 Coy. R.A.S.C. ATHLETICS Malay Schools eha7iipionships at Jalan Besar Stadium. TENKIS Exhibition matches
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