Singapore Standard, 6 January 1956

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  • 471 1 Ike Backs The Fight In Asia 'New Red Tactics Must Be Met' WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, (UP) President Eisenhower told Congress Slay that Communist tactics against free nations "have shifted m emphasis from reliance on violence and the threat of violence to reliance on division, entice- ment and
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  • 342 1 Press Renews Attack On Eden LONDON, Jan. 5 (Reuter) British newspapers today returned to the attack on Sir Anthony Eden, the Prime Minister, and his government's policy on disposal of surplus arms. Two newspapers, the mass circulation Daily Mirror and tnc Labour Daily Herald made strong personal attacks en the
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  • 64 1 PARIS, Jan. 5 (Reuter) 11 :inguett, veteran French musk hall star, died today. Mistinguett was one of the most fabulous music hall stars of all times. She never revealed her age. but was certainly more than 80 years old. Her death brings to an end a
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  • 28 1 THE government shortly will declare an emergency state of war m the terrorist- Hen northern section of S unatra a Jakarta newsI per reported UP
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    8 1 President Eisenhower beioare of Red tactics
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  • 208 1 ITS FOR 400 VC'S LONDON, Jan. 5 (Reuter)— Over 400 surviving holders of the British Commonwealth's highest award for valour— the Victoria Cross are being invited to London next June to celebrate the Centenary of its foundation. The Queen will hold a Buckingham Palace garden
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  • 55 1 BONN. Jan. 5 (Reuter) Dr. Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor, received a bottle of wine for each of his 80 years at the birthday celebrations today m his Bonn Chancellery. Pretty Irmgard Mohler, 19--year-old "Queen of Wine" handed over the gift on behalf of
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  • 26 1 SYDNEY harbour patrols, police and fishermen joined yesterday m a search for a 14-foot Killer shark reported m the Sydney Harbour area. UP
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  • 20 1 THE Libyan and Pakistani legations m Tripoli and Karachi have been raised to the status of embassies. Reuter
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  • 181 1 Wife No.2 Willing But JAKARTA, Jan. 5 (UP) President Soekarnos second wife says she is reluctantly willing to replace his first wife as Indonesia's first lady, press reports said today. The Jakarta newspaper Peddman said wife number two Hartini had told friends she has no desire to move into the
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  • 102 1 Grace Is Engaged To Prince MONTE CARLO, Monaco, Jan 5 (AP) Handsome Prince Rainier 111 of Monaco, Europe's most eligible bachelor, announced his engagement today to beautiful American film star Grace Kelly. Both the Prince and the academy award winning actress are currently m the United States. The announcement was
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  • 25 1 THE Taipei government has banned the wearing of tight waist bands by school girls m Formosa because It "hinders their growth." U.P.
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  • 25 1 A GUNMAN brazenly walked into Nicosia General Hospital yesterday and shot a midwife who is believed to have been a police spy. U.P.
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  • 131 1 LONDON. Jan. 5 (Reuter) Dense fog this morning blanketed London and the Southern Counties of England, stopping all flights to and from London Airport for the second day and reducing rail and road traffic m places to a snail's pace. As Londoners went to work, with
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  • 117 1 Turko Is In R.I. —Peking PEKING RADIO yesterday quoting the Indonesian Newspaper Berita Mingguan said that Dutch soldier of fortune Turko Westerling was now m Indonesia and had raised two billion Indonesian rupiahs worth of aid for Indonesian rebels, reports Associated Press. The Red Radio said: "Part of the money
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  • 42 1 MILAN. Jan. 5 (Reuter) A powerful home-made bomb was thrown early today into the palace of Archbishop Gianbattista Montini. formerly a right hand man of Pope Pius XII. Damage was done to the palace but no one was injured.
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  • 91 1 THIS artist's conception was released m Washington recently by the American Aviation Magazine, which said it was an illustration of a possible Soviet atomic aircraft of the future. The drawing, said the magazine, was similar to one which appeared m the Soviet technical press as an illustration
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  • 38 1 FISHERMEN near Pavis, North Italy, threw aside their nets and used shovels to catch thousands of fish stranded m a pool on the bank of the River Po. exceptionally shallow after weeks without heavy rain. Reuter
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  • 203 1 Tin Highest Point In 2½ Years LONDON. Jan. 5 (Reuter) —The Financial Times m its leader today said the recent rise m the price of tin here (if less spectacular than other base metals) is keeping the metal at around its highest point m over two-and-a-half years. The upward trend
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  • 86 1 Sir John The Tunku COLOMBO. Jan. 5 (Reuter) Tunku Abdul Rahman. Chief Minister of Malaya, said here today his party was determined to secure independence for Malaya m a democratic way by August. 1957. The Tunku who arrived here on board the Asia on his way to London for talks
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  • 18 1 JEAN SIMMONS, famous screen star and wife of Stewart Granger, m expecting her first baby. Reuter
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 181 1 Notice Of Removal AS FROM January 4, 1956, the Kuala Lumpur Offices of The Singapore Standard are located at the Bth Floor of the China Insurance Building, No. 174, Batu Read, Kuala Lumpur. The Telephone Numbers are ***** and *****. Cable address: TIGERNEWS, Kuala Lumpur. Post Office Box: No. 249,
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  • 116 2 Provident Fund Aid Granted THE Singapore Government has decided to accept financial responsibility for the employers' contribution to the Central Provident Fund of the Grants-in-Aid Chinese schools for six months ending December last year. This aid to the Chinese schools will be continued for another three months, after which it
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  • 118 2 More Asians For SHB Police Force Standard Shipping Reporter MEMBERS of the Singapore Harbour Board Police Constabulary are awaiting with great interest the outcome of their suggestions presented to the Malayanization Commission m a lengthy memorandum. The memorandum calls for more Asian Inspectors m the S.H.B. Police force, better facilities
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  • 89 2 MR. BEDA LIM first Malayan to study librarianship m Australia sails on the Charon for Fremantle tomorrow. Mr. Lim. who is a probationary library assistant m the University of Malaya, will study at the School of the Public Library of Victoria, Melbourne, for a year under
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  • 213 2 UMNO CRITICIZES DOMINION PLAN KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Singapore Chief Minister Mr. David Marshall's Pan-Malayan dominion plan was today criticized by the Malaya Merdeka, mouthpiece of UMNO extremist opinion, as a I "retrogressive step." "If the ra'ayat want to accept the proposal they will
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  • 38 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Lady Templer Tuber- 1 culosis Hospital Fund m the' Federation has received $4,213,244.50 to date. Latest donations include < $2,123.90 from the flag day< collections by the Malacca < Settlement Appeal Committee.
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  • 164 2 10 Scholars To Study In Australia Standard Shipping Reporter WHEN the Dutch liner Nieuw Holland leaves Singapore for Australia this week, the passengers will include ten scholars from Singapore, Brunei and North Borneo who have been awarded grants by the Australian Government for courses of study under the Colombo Plan.
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  • 208 2 Buses To The City May Mean No More Free Lifts To School THOUSANDS of Singapore school children will have to find their own transport to go to school from Monday the day they return to the classrooms after the Christmas holidays. The Singapore Government will not operate its free lorry
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  • 188 2 Oldest Army Officer Dies In UK THE oldest surviving officer m the British Army, Colonel Hugh Rose, whose daughter, Mrs. Rita Alison, is now residing m Singapore, died recently m St. Thomas' Hospital, London at the age of 95. Commissioned m the Royal Gloucestershire Regiment at the age of 18,
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  • 172 2 Local Jobs For Local People two sakawak students who obtained medical degrees In Singapore under a scholarship scheme are now holdIng senior posts m the Sarawak Medical Department, said a Kuching Information Office release received here yesterday. The two are among the many who, since the *****, have gone for
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  • 81 2 THE Director of Public Works. Mr. A. Wear, yef,erday absolved members ol the Singapore Military Ftrces from blame for the collapse of the 50-foot Bailey bridge at 9th mile Changi Road. Mr. Wear blamed speeding motorists for causing the ground supporting the bridge ends
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  • 147 2 THE Planning Adviser of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. D. H. Komlosy, yesterday paid tribute to Sir George Pepler, the architect of the Master Plan. Mr. Komlosy said that Singaporeans were very fortunate to have secured the services of Sir George who had tremendous
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  • 108 2 MALACCA, Thurs.—Singapore's Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, declared that Methodist youths could play a vital part m solving the industrial disputes m Malaya. He said this at a forum on labour relations held by Malayan Methodists here today. Mr. Lim also
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  • 244 2 Signs Of Betrayal UK Paper THE UNREST n Singapore arises mainly from the British promise of self-govern-ment, says The Economist m its Dec. 31 issue received m Singapore yesterday. In an article analyzing the "Communist undertow m Singapore," the Economist's Singapore correspondentcompares the political situations
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  • 185 2 Students Hold Up Red Giant RED CHINA is a giant with feet of clay where 70 per cent. of the people are anti-Com-munist. Mr. John Caldwell. a well-known American author and lecturer who was born m China, said yesterday. Mr. Caldwell. addressing guests and members of the East-West Society, m
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  • 76 2 OXFORD, Jan. 5 (Reuter) Nearly 100 cars waiting to be driven to the docks for export were burned out or badly damaged at the Nuffield works here last night m the city's worst industrial fire on record. About 200 new cars were parked near a big
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  • 124 2 MIDWIVES intending to continue practising m Singapore must give notice during this month to the City Health Officer, Dr. H.R. Morrison. Dr. Morrison, m a statement issued yesterday, warns that any midwife who fails to do so is liable to a fine not exceeding S2O. The
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  • 261 2 IT ALL STARTED WITH A NEW CAP JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. Seventy indignant nurses of the Johore Bahru General Hospital are threatening to resign. The reason? They do not like the new "toad-shaped" cap which they are re- quired to wear by tomorrow. They prefer the accustomed half-cut
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  • 92 2 Speaker Leaves For Jamaica THE SPEAKER of the S Bgapore Legislative As.sembly, Mr. G. E. N. Ochlers, left for Jamaica by air yesterday morning to attend a meeting of the General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. At the airport to him off was a large numb'"! of Legislative Assemblymen.
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  • 39 2 TAIPEI. Jan. 5 (Reuter Chinese Nationalist gin". day heavily bombarded munist island positi^r both ends of the 150--"vest pocket" war fronl the China mainland coast retaliaton for yest* r< Communist shelling i I Nationalist-held Quemoy land group.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Jan. 4 to 7.30 ajn. Jan. 5. Singapore (73F), Penan* <74F). Kota Bahru (74F) Kuala Lumpur (73F), Ipoh (71F). Kuantan (72F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Jan. 5. Singapore (88F). Penang (not received), Kota Bahru (84F.) Kuala Lumpur (93F). Ipoh
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  • 395 3 And So They Were Married The Tu nku And His Josephine THERE was a bridegroom but no bride when the marriage between Tunku Mahmud, son of. me Regent of Johore, end young English art student, Josephine Ruby Trevorrow, took place m Johore Bahru last night. The ceremony or Akad was
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  • 252 3 Armed Men Raid Home Of Stalls' Boss $4,500 IN COINS TAKEN A MASKED armed gang robbed the proprietor of several stalls m Singapore, Poh Kheng Wah, of $4,500 m silver coins, the day's collections, In his home m Changi Road at midnight yesterday. The gang also relieved the proprietor's relative.
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  • 157 3 US CRUISER TO VISIT SINGAPORE FOR 5 DAYS THE USS Bremerton, a heavy cruiser and flagship of the Commander of Cruiser Division 1 of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, will arrive m Singapore today on a goodwill visit of five days. The Bremerton which is the flagship of Rear-Admiral Howard L.
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  • 352 3 Teenage Girl Was Prey In Vice Deal Tough Guy Forced Me, She Tells The Court LAM AH NEO, 65, was yesterday sentenced to eight months' imprisonment m the Singapore First District Court for assisting another woman m bringing a 14-year-old girl into the Colony under false pretences for the purpose
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  • 316 3 Sequel To Sea Shooting A SHOOTING incident at sea on Wednesday had its sequel m a Singapore Magistrate's Court yesterday when Captain William Tiller Scott of the oil tanker Sydney was charged with causing hurt to a bumboatman, Tan Beng Teck, by discharging a gun negligently. Captain Scott claimed trial.
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  • 80 3 THE HUNGARIAN pianist. Mr. Louis Kentner, who has already given seven concerts m Singapore will return to the Colony to give two more on Jan. 11 and 14 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Mr. Kentner will play a full programme of Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Schumann,
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  • 65 3 INNSBRUCK, Austria, Jan. 5 (AP) An Austrian woman who posted nude photos of her rival on the public square m her home village has been sentenced to five days m jail for-violating public decency. The court was told the woman found the nude photos m her husband's
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  • 145 3 ABOUT 70 accounts clerks employed by The Singapore Telephone Board will get increased wages. The Board yesterday accepted a new wage rate for them submitted by the Telephone Board Employees' Union with slight amendments. They will now get a starting salary of $176
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  • 228 3 Council Move Is Unfair 'Pirates' SINGAPORE "pirate" taxi drivers, who claimed they played a great part m tackling the transport problem during the bus strike m the Colony made strong protests that the City Council's move to seek more powers to crack down on them was "most harsh and unreasonable.*'
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 226 4 $1000 Reward Out For Escapees KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Federation Police today offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two Kuala Lumpur convicts who escaped from the Government Social Hygiene Clinic m Sultan Street, last week. This follows a week long search throughout the country
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  • 91 4 PRINCIPAL of the University College at Cardiff. Dr. A. Steele, arrived m Singapore by air yesterday on a ten-day visit to the University of Malaya. As a representative of the University Council for Higher Education Overseas, Dr. Steele said: "I am visiting this country to keep
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  • 149 4 COMMODITY PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were: Biivws Sellers Spot f.o.b. 1261 1265 Mn 1 R.S.S. Jan. 126} 126? No. 2 Jan. 1241 124 Nov. 3 Jan. 1231 1241 Tone: Steady. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was 5407 per picul. (Down 12} cts.).
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  • Article, Illustration
    63 4 photo. u&Af and uumb teacher Norman C. K. Tan using sign language to convey "good morning." A graduate of the Galladut College for Deaf and Dumb m Washington, D.C., Mr. Tan is now a teacher at the Singapore Chinese School for Deaf m Charlton Road. Himself deaf and
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  • 212 4 PART OF THE MASTER PLAN WORK on Singapore's $3,200,000 district hospital at the Kallang airport site— the first of ten suggested under the Master Plan—will begin this year. This was revealed to The Standard yesterday by the Director of Medical Services and Permanent
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  • 121 4 Ordered Back To Hometown A BATU PAHAT man was ordered to be taken back to his hometown by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate, Mr. J M. Devereux-Colebourn, yesterday to answer a charge of giving false evidence at an inquiry into a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder m Batu
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  • 59 4 BUTTERWORTH, Thurs. An 85-year-old Malay pedestrian. Abdullah, was fatally injured as a result of being involved m a motor car accident at Kepala Batas m front or the Drainage and Irrigation Office today. A passing motorist took Abdullah to the Military Hospital at the Royal
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  • 199 4 A COMBINED British Army and Malay Regiment recruiting team will visit Seremban, Kuala Pilah and iDoh during Jan. 11 and 18 to interview potential candidates. The time table is: Seremban —Jan. 11 and 12 between 8.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. at Police Volunteer Hq.. Temiang Road.
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  • 303 4 A Gain Of $230,000 THE University of Malaya has been offered a total of approximately $230,000 (Malayan) m grants by two foreign countries, Sir Sydney Came, vice-chancellor, said at a Press conference yesterday. The first grant of £12,000 (Australian), or about $80,000 (Malayan), offered by the
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  • 207 4 Inspector To Pay $40 Maintenance For Child SINGAPORE'S Ninth Magistrate, Inche A. W. Ghows, yesterday ordered Police Inspector Ang Chien Choon to pay S4O a month maintenance for the seven-month-o]d baby he had by his mistress, Alice Lim Chiew Har. from Aug. 1. Inche Ghows, however, turned down an application
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  • 36 4 HONGKONG, Jan. 5. Special Standard Service Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were $15.50 to £l Sterling; $5,835 to US$l; $1,835 to Malayan $1; $0,153 lo one Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $254.25 to a tael.
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  • 21 4 SINGAPORE'S Governor. Sir Robert Black, will visit the Master Plan exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall at 10 a.m. today.
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  • 167 4 ALL children m Singapore who were born m 1949 and are registered for admission to Primary I m the Colony's schools next year will be assured places Disclosing this to The Standard yesterday, the acting Deputy Secretary (B), Ministry of Education, Mr. V. Ambiavagar,'said that registration
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Article, Illustration
    72 5 AUSTRALIAN airman, Sergent Jim Glover, played Father Christmas to 60 children from Singapore orphans at the No. 1 Bomber Squadron Aircrew Mess, Tengah, last week. Aircrew NCOs of the Squadron entertained 45 girls from York Hill Homecraft Centre, 15 boys from Perak House. The children— aged from 3to
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  • 1133 5 SPOKESMEN'S RIGHT TO REPRESENT ALL OFFICERS CHALLENGED HAVE the spokesmen for local Singapore Government Staff Associations and Unions the right to speak for all local officers at the Malayanization Commission? This question was raised »t a public session of the Commission at Assembly House lait night, when it continued to
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  • 268 5 IF NEW CESS ON RICE IS IMPOSED... John Public Will Be Asked To Pay KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Federation Government is considering a proposal to impose a cess on imported rice to pay for the estimated $12,000,000 commitment to prop the price of locally-grown padi. This cess, if introduced, would
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  • 65 5 A RIOT m a coffee shop on New Year's day resulted m three men beine charged m the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday for being members of an unlawful assembly which assaulted Mohammed Aslam. Balbir Singh, Atan bin Ahmaa, and Hamzah bin Jan Mohammed claimed trial to
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  • 65 5 Borrowed Pen, Then Vanished PRIVATE Tharumaraja Sundram of the R.A.S.C. pleaded guilty m the Singapore Eight Magistrate's Court yesterday, to a charge of criminal breach of trust of a fountain pen valued at $27.50. The court was told that Tharumaraja borrowed the pen from his friend. John Chong on Jan.
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  • 72 5 P.I. Consul Suffers Heart Attack MR. Alejandros Holigores. the Philippines Consul-General m Singapore, has been admitted to the General Hospital following a heart attack on New Year's Day. Mr. Holigores. although better, has been advised by his doctor to have a complete rest for the next few days. It is
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  • 62 5 Celebrities Join The X-Ray Club THREE celebrities— two Englishmen and an American have joined Singapore's X-Ray Club, which is striving to make people m the Colony more X-ray conscious and thus eradi( ate tuberculosis. They are Benjamin Britten, one of the world's foremost composers, England's leading tenor. Peter Pears, and
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  • 38 5 THE STAFF of Singapore's Public Relations Office will give a New Year party, complete with magic show and other thrilling items, for children at the St. Joseph School ground from 3.30 to 7 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 86 5 EIGHT UMNO branches m Geylang Trade Fair on Thurs^ da A delegation of eight men and two women from the UMNO branches will meet Mr. Marshall on Monday and urge him to persuade the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode. to reply to their protest letter
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  • 82 5 A MISSIONARY carried an army Officer's record book and was subsequently charged m the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday with intending to impersonate a soldier. Edward P. M. Heyzer. claimed trial to the charge and told the Court he was a missionary. He was alleged
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  • 48 5 A MAN, Tan Ngee Cher, claimed trial m the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday to voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Yoo Buan Peng with a knife at Jalan Hock Chye on Jan. 2. He was allowed a bail of $250 till Mar. 22.
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  • 36 5 LEE Kirn Kiat was charged m the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday with the murder of Poh Swee Chai at Club Street on Nov. 18. 1955. Lee was remanded till Jan. 12.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 1165 5 cMlmcutac Information at a Glance fnyTiTft^^B'C KLANG The Billy Mayerl Rhythm Engj W Q A P*O<Rt CAP TOIj Penarek Becha 2.30, 6.45 r^Htc'TSSfi SS f^g- Sk and 915 C-30 News Commentary: 645 SHELL CO: Free film show-Wings nf J V «OV I°ls /m 3 C lyer Quay TtilsWk ArM&UJN 930
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  • 941 6 Singapore Standard Colony Politics CINGAPORE'S Labour Front Coalition Government will face stronger and better planned opposition m the Legislative Assembly when it meets for its first session of the New Year on Feb. 8. The announcement of the merger between the Progressives and the Democrats represents a determined move to
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  • 886 6  -  ASTER GUNASEKERA THE news published m THE STANDARD yesterday that Britain has earmarked Labuan as an alternative naval base should Singapore fall into the hands of the Communists has more m it than catches the eye. It has distressed some people m this island
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  • 70 6 TJE who plays politics with A1 peace will lose both Mr. Adlai Stevenson. 4 All governments hate liberty. All governments equate liberty with anarchy —Mr. W. J. Brown. I am not sure that I still don't believe In Father Christmas a little bitCommander Campbell. The impression
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  • 191 6 REVIEW OF VIEWS Looking Ahead 'T'HE Master Plan for Singa- pore has been released after more than three years' study. Although the details of the plan are still subject to modifications as it is carried out. we can have a fair idea of Singapore m 1972. writes Sin Chew Jit
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  • 75 6 Sir: I write on behalf of Katong residents m protest of Singapore City Council's decision to rescind its approval of the new cinema at East Coast Road. We urgently need improved cinema facilities for the neighbourhood and the new cinema will meet a long felt need. The
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  • 892 6 nightmare for Nasser CAIRO £OLONEL NASSER, Egyptian Prime Minister, said to me m his office: "I tell you the Israel threat was a nightmare to me until Russian arms began to arrive. Now Ben Gurion (Premier of Israel) may think twice before starting a war." I must have looked a
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  • We, the PEOPLE
    • 370 6 IN OUR SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS Sir: Could the Minister for Education or the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education explain why various secondary schools under his control differ m their awards m the passing marks. The oldest school, Raffles Institution, requires 54% average on the whole examination as
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    • 137 6 Sir: Now that the talks with Chin Peng have failed miserably it would be a fitting "leaders" gesture for Mr. Marshall and Tunku Rahman to drive Chin Peng out themselves, dispensing with the help of Dominion troops. Mr. Marshall, with his glaring eyes and shouting,
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    • 90 6 Sir: I hope due note has been taken m all quarters of Chin Peng's statement that he considered that "m view of the presence m the area, and the superiority, of the British forces, he considered he was m real danger of his life." Being, presumably, not mentally deficient,
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    • 125 6 Sir: Your Sunday Standard editorial commenting on the New Year ahead must not be allowed to sink into oblivion by readers. We all have passed the "black" year of one thousand nine hundred and fifty■five if not the blackest year after the British reoccupation lor the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 123 7 SFC. HERMAN STERN of Brooklyn N V demonstrates a new flying machine called the ••Aerocycle"— a one-man device designed to give air mobility to the individual ground >oldier. The U.S. Army has bought 12. The Aerocycle i s essentially a hclicoptertvpc J if Ai ng device with a
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  • 187 7 Cyprus 'No Hope Of Peace In 1956- MAKARIOS Half Promises Not Enough NICOSIA, Cyprus, Jan. 5, (UP)— Archbishop Makarios said yesterday that he excluded the "possibility of normality being restored m 1956." But •"either there' is a solution or the situation will deteriorate a great deal," he said. The pro-Greek
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  • 91 7 Jet Bomber Crashes Four Killed ILCHESTER. England, Jan 5 (AP) A British jet lighter bomber crashed into a cluster of residential trailers today and four persons were reported killed, including a woman and her baby. The plane, a Sea Venom used by the Fleet Air Arm. ploughed through two of
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  • 41 7 JOGJAKARTA. Central Java. Jan. 5 (AP)— Merapi. Central Java's "killer" volcano, continued today to rumble and emit .small streams of gaseous lava and clouds of hot ashes. Indonesian volcanologists. fearing a major eruption, are keeping a round-the-clock watch.
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  • 29 7 LIMA. Peru, Jan 5 (AP)— A prolonged drought m Central Peru threatens the region, one of Peru's richest, with daimage to crops and a power shortage
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  • 50 7 TO MARRY AKIHITO pnoio. THIS is the latest photo of Miss Hatsuko Kitashirakawa, 16-year-old daughter of the late Imperial family Princ e Kitashirak.iwa. who is rumoured as one of the most qualified candidates for the bride of Crown Prince Akihito. Hatsuko is now studying ;i a former Imperial school. UP
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    21 7 AN announcement received from Katmandu has said the c nnation of Nepalese King Mahendra will be held on May UP
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  • 144 7 This Custom Is Utter Nonsense, Says Paper LONDON, Jan. 5 (AP) The Daily Mirror yesterday denounced the ancient custom of Royal Warrants and asked if a London laundry was going to get more business because it washes the Duke of Edinburgh's shorts. The complaint was raised after the Duke, husband
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  • 90 7 UK Talks On How To Offset Reds LONDON, Jan. 5 (Reuter)— Western policy for countering the current Russian drive for influence m the Middle-East was critically viewed at a meeting here today between Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, and key British envoys from the troubled area. Representatives of the
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  • 27 7 TEHERAN, Iran, Jan. 5. (UP) A military court yesterday sentenced four Moslem extremists to death for an assassination plot against pro-Western Premier Hussein Ala.
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  • 28 7 TOKYO. Jan. 5, (AP) Peking radio said today Russia and Red China have worked out a broad programme for scientific and technical co-operation m Moscow.
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  • 230 7 ROANOKE, Virginia, Jan. 5, (AP)— Tense, wellarmed police kept m the background m the early hours yesterday while a young surgeon entered the home of a one-armed house painter and relieved him of a gun with which he was threatening his children. The
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  • 23 7 OBERAMMERGAU, Germany, Jan. 5. (AP)— Eugen Papst. internationally known German conductor, died m his home here on Monday. He was 69.
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  • 268 7 'SAVE THE REPUBLIC' BID BY FAURE VNITY IS ONLY ANSWER TO POUJADE AND REDS' PARIS, Jan. 5, (UP)— Ex-Premier Edgar Faure called yesterday for a broad truce between the feuding French middleroad parties "to save the republic" from the Communists and Pierre Poujade's pincer movement. Faure invited his archrival Pierre
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  • 118 7 BOYCOTT THREAT IN ALGERIA ALGIERS, Jan 5 (AP) Sixty-one leading Algerian officials last night made a three-point demand to the newly-elected French National Assembly and threatened to quit m a body if their programme was not met. The group's action came on the heels of a cascade of resignations from
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  • 101 7 RESULTS OF FRENCH ELECTIONS PARIS, Jan. 5 (UP) The Ministry of Information today announced these results for 592 of the 594 seats at stake m the elections for a new French National Assembly. (Some 50 overseas delegates are yet to be named.) Communists 150 Mendes Republican Front 186 Faure Centre
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  • 74 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 5 (AP)— Cartoonist Ham Fisher, creator of the "Joe Palooka" comic strip, left an estimated two million dollar estate to his widow and a 17-year-old daughter. The will contained one cryptic paragraph: "This will and the provisions thereof shall not be either wholly or
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  • 34 7 TOKYO. Jan. 5 (UP) Communist Chinese ruler Mao Tse-tung has sent a message to Liberian President William Tubman expressing hopes for developing friendly relations between the two governments. Radio Pelping said yesterday.
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  • 57 7 photo. A COUPLE of stouts and a "short" go whizzing: by... but it doesn't m the least surprise regulars at the King's Arms Hotel m Eastbourne, Sussex: Mr. John F. Duck the manager, was a keen roller skater m his youth, and he literally gets the
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  • 179 7 DAYTON. OHIO, Jan. 5, (AP)— A young Chinese woman doctor yesterday looked to U.S. Congress for permission not tc return to Red China. Representative William Hess (Republican-Ohio) introduced a bill m Congress on Tuesday to prevent the deportation of
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  • 48 7 VATICAN CITY. Jan. 5 (AP)— Pope Pius XII. who speaks eight languages fluently and has a smattering of a dozen more, is now studying Russian. His intent. Vatican sources said, is not to master the complicated language, but to achieve a passing acquaintance with it.
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  • 126 7 NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 5 (UP) Police arrested 72 Negro basketball fans last night after a disturbance involving segregation on a public bus. The Negroes removed a sign separating the White and Negro passenger sections on a public bus and hooted at the white
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  • 93 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A nation-wide strike by 65.000 Government and Malayan Railway daily-rated workers looms with the breakdown today of wage negotiations between the official and staff sides of the National Daily-Rated Whitley Council. More than 50 delegates from 23 unions representing the workers are to
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  • 116 8 KUALA* LUMPUR. Thurs Ei*ht men, their ages ranging from 16 to 54. today claimed trial before the First Magistrate to a charge of gambling at Jinjang North, last night. Lee Fook Loong. 27-year-old tenant of the house, also claimed trial to a charge of
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  • 56 8 IPOH. Thurs. A young Indian has been detained by Ipoh Police following a quarrel here last evening when another Inidan was fatally injured. It was learnt that A. Apparajoo. 20, a labourer, was struck on the head with a stick. He was admitted to the District
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  • 129 8 Shooting Of Stray Dogs To Be Stepped Up IPOH, Thurs. The shooting of stray dogs m certain specified areas of Perak is to be intensified from now until the 17th of this month, the acting State Veterinary Officer, Mr. E. L. Spykerman, announced today. After that period, he said, some
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  • 21 8 LEE clansmen m Taining last night feted Mr. Lee Kirn Loon on his election to the Perak State Council.
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  • 61 8 IPOH. Thurs. Chov Vow, 27, who had eight previous convictions, was sentenced by Magistrate Ch e Abdul Kadir bin Yusof today to six months imprisonment for dishonestly retaining a stolen pair of old leather shoes. Choy. who has two more years to serve under
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  • 46 8 TAIPING, Thurs. Mr. Gurmukh Singh, an Old Boy of St. George's Institution, has obtained his degree of MB., 8.5.. from the University of Malaya. Mr. Singh, is the youngest son of Mr. Kehr Singh, retired Punjabi Interpreter of the District Court, here.
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  • 89 8 SINGAPORE detectives yesterday combed the underworld for two men, believed to be implicated m the murder of Jauyah binte Salleh. 19. m Upper Aljunied Road at 4 a.m. on Wednesday. Police are also looking for a green Morris Minor car m
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  • 101 8 Four Nabbed In Chase For Convicts KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— A police patrol today nabbed four youths believed to be members of a Singapore secret society, following a tip that one of the convicts who escaped from a Government Social Hygiene Clinic m Sultan Street last week, was loitering near Weld
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  • 60 8 KOTA BAHRU, Thurs. A 12-man fishing committee, headed-by Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, arrived here yesterday to start a probe on fishing m the State. The committee members will visit fishing districts of Bachok, Perupok and Tumpat. They will study the Kelantan fishing
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  • 82 8 Aussies At Bongsu Are Visited KULIM, Thurs.— The District War Executive Committee led by the chairman, Tuan Syed Shahabuddin, who is currently the District Officer, Kulim, paid a visit to the Royal Australian Regiment at the Bongsu area here today. It was a courtesy visit, Che Salleh. the O.S.P.C, Kulim,
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  • 55 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Lai Kiah Bow, 50. was today fined $500 by the First Magistrate for assisting mi n running 36-character "chee fah" lottery. He was arrested with the stakes by a Police party Jed by Inspector Kassim Ali of the Anti-Vice Branch of the Selangor
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  • 60 8 PENANG, Thurs.—Labourer Teh Peng Beng, 33, of Jelutong Road, was found hanging m a locked room m a hotel at the junction of Mac-' Alister and Rangoon Roads here this afternoon. Teh booked the room yesterday afternoon. Soon afterwards he left and returned with a
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  • 371 8 65,000 RAIL GOVT. WORKERS TO STRIKE The warning came after the staff side rejected its latest offer to raise minimum wage rates from $2.28 to $3.30, with smaller increases m the higher brackets to a maximum of $5.84 a day. $4 Basic Sought The staff side demanded a basic of
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  • 340 8 A.A.M. ON DANGER OF LOWER ACE LIMIT THE December issue of The Highway, official magazine of the Automobile Association of Malaya, presents a gloomy picture of Singapore streets being choked with 'V drivers by 1968. With the lowering of the age
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  • 80 8 MR. Toh Eng Hoe, 57, of Taiping, who was conferred the C.B.E (Honorary) m the Queen's New Year Honours List. A Justice of Peace, Mr. Toh started his public services m 1926. He is remembered for organizing the Chinese Platoon No. 8 of the F.M.S. Volunteer Force
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  • 190 8 A Royal Town To Honour Its Ruler KUALA KANGSAR, Thurs. This royal town will hold celebrations next weekend when the Ruler, Sultan Sir Yusuf Izzuddin Shah celebrates his 66th birthday. This is the first time, since 1953. that Sir Yusuf is celebrating his birthday m the Royal Town. Sir Yusof
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  • 32 8 MR. K. G. G BUCHANAN, Malacca Municipal Water Engineer, was fined $15 m the Magistrate's Court yesterday, for failing to report the birth of his son born on Aug. 6.
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  • 192 8 A MAN who accompanied Dr. Victor Purcell, Ad. viser to the Malayan Chinese Association durin? the latter's fact-finding tour of Malaya m 1952, has been offered one of the top academic jobs m the Dniversgy of Malaya. He is Mr. F. G. Carnell,
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  • 150 8 KUALA TRENGGANU. Thurs. More than 300 people watched the opening of a Police kampong post at Jambu Bongkok, a fishing village m the district of Marang, Kuala Trengganu. by the Raja Muda, yesterday afternoon. The Raja Muda said: "Nowadays the form of Government
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  • 61 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Lady Templer Tuberculosis Hospital Fund today rose to $4,213,244 with further contributions from States and Settlements. Biggest amounts received recently include 52.123 from a Flag Day m Malacca and $2,729 from the Selangor Amateur Radio Society which is m voluntary
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  • 177 8 U.K. Varsity Graduates Reach Burma In Two Cars EIGHT graduates Oxford and Cambi dgg universities, who are cm g expedition to the Far East m two cars, hope to the frontier into Burn* today, a report issued .5. terday by the rear base of the expedition stated. The party has
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  • 77 8 Bandit Killed In Kuala Pilah Ambush SEREMBAN, Thurs. A Combined police /mi'.iisry patrol m the Kuaia Pilah district of Negri Sembilan verierday ambushed and killed cne bandit and wounded two. The wounded terrorist? both women escaped. The dead terrorist, a man, has been identified as Ah Kwan c'.:as Chan Kwang.
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  • 37 8 MALACCA, Thurs. A Malay Regiment soldier, Yusof Umor, was fined $100 m the Magistrate's Court today, lor driving negligently a tni s. along Bukit Palah on Oct. 11. Yuriof gave notice of appeal.
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  • 259 8 RIDA Loan Takes Sails Out Of Fishing Fleet KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Hong Hwa fishing fleet of Malacca will now get faster to its traditional 'hunting grounds,' thanks to the initiative of the Federation's Rural and Industrial Development Authority. RlDA— now a potential 'Fairy Godmother' to the country's rural folks—
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  • 58 8 MORE than 100 youths of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church from all over Malaya attended a four-day Youth Camp at the Anglo-Chinese School grounds m Klang. The Most Key. Juhanon Mar Thoma, Metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, seated centre, was the dean ol
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  • 969 9  - French Books Art Abroad Raymond Warnier By, PARIS. WHILE art exhibitions and book editions m France offer the amateur constantly renewed aspects, these same facts outside France sometimes acquire from circumstances an even deeper meaning. Curious confirmations of this have recently come from Switzerland. They are worthy of notice at
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    • 216 9 i v ftfl SBS" HhT* H y > I'^ 'I^^^lS' i 10. A golf club (5) PllipC 15. Get a six up and supply a tLULO revolving point (4) t rßn cs 16. Drowsiness (10> < Aunuws l 9 number leaves 23i 4 a 'he main news such as across
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  • 411 10 Sugar Traders Protest Plan To Vary Duty CHANGE AAAY CAUSE SHORTAGE' KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Sugar dealers and importers today submitted a memorandum to the Federation Government strongly protesting against a proposal to varygthe duty on sugar and tie such variation to a rice "cess" under consideration. According to the proposal
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  • 137 10 BIG RUBBER DEMAND BY 1959 IS FORECAST WORLD demand for natural and synthetic rubber, estimated at 2,900,--000 tons last year, is likely to exceed 3,370,--000 tons by 1959, it was estimated at the annual general meeting of the Rubber Manufacturers' Association at New York recently. Production which was estimated at
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  • 150 10 i PHILIPPINE copra" exports during November amounted tc 6J.949 long tons, a decline of almost one fourth from the previous month but 5 per cent above the volume shipped m November 1954. The breakdown of the November copra exports by country of destination is as follows:
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  • 40 10 NEW YORK, Jan. 5. (UP)— Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials (missed) 20 Rails 160.91 15 Utilities 63.52 65 Stocks 170.86 BONDS: 40 Bonds 98.23 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 153.58.
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  • 171 10 MAIN interest m the Malayan share market was centred m industrials yesterday, where price appreciations were reported. Industrials were well supported, while tins were irregular. Rubber shares remained quietly steady. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser Neave: Ords. 1.80
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  • 147 10 Business In Shares MALAYAX sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: Fed. Disp. $3.50: F N ordsl.B3} to $1.77 i; Gammons $2.55; Goodwood Park $1.15 xd: Hammer $2,721. 52.75: M. Cement $1,621: M. Colls SI, 5,1.01: O.C. Bank $375; Robinson ords. $2.45; Sime Darby $1.9.9, §2: Spore Cold Storage $1.62^.
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  • 323 10 THE past year may well prove to be a record one for life assurance business m Malaya, Mr. A. F M. Geddes, actuary and secretary of The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd., Singapore, told The Standard yesterday. Figures for the amount of life assurance
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  • 122 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Copra Jan. $27jj buyers. $273 sellers, Feb. $28 buyers. $28J sellers; coconut oil (bulk> $40J sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43| sellers; Muntok white pepper $142 sellers. Sarawak white $141 sellers. Special Sarawak black $99 sellers. Singapore Copra
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  • 26 10 WORK has been started on a permanent bridge across the Chambal River near Dholpur m Madhya Bharat on the Bombay- Agra national highway.
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  • 123 10 Asian Named Marketing Officer MARKETING Oil ICER at the Australian Trade Commission (is Office m Singapore, is Mr. Moy Pek Chon^. (above), who was select ed for the post from among many applicants Mr. Moy is the first Asian officer at the Australian Trade Commissioner's Office. His appointment is Hrn
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  • 183 10 VBNVB N Standard Shipping Reporter THE forthcoming increase m freight rates on ships operating from Australia to Indonesian and Malayan ports is mainly due to the higher operating costs of vessels postwar, The Standard learnt yesterday. A cabled report from Sydney said freight rates
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  • 151 10 Sellers Reserved: Rubber Up BETTER overseas advices and a reserve of sellers contributed largely :o the improvement m prices m the Singapore rubber market which closed a: $1.26| per lb. for first grace rubber for January shipment yesterday, a rise of II cents on Wednesday The market was comparatively steadier
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  • 67 10 WEST Germany produced 21,300,000 tons of raw steel m 1955, an increase over 1954 of 22.4 per cent. The Federal Bureau of Statistics said m Bonn that the country produced 16,480,000 tons of raw iron last year. The Bureau said that m fhe last year of peacetime production
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  • 15 10 THE crop harvested rtl I Bukit Hitam Estate I December was 52.000 I
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    • 542 10 F.WD. TENDER NOTICE rjiELN'DERS from Class 'EX' -I and above registered P.W.D contractors will be received by the State Engineer. Johore. up to noon of the 16th January, 1956 for: SUPPLY OF THE FOLLOWING FOR USE IN THE P.W D JOHORE FOR PERIOD 1.2.56 TO 31.1.57:— <i> GENERAL STORES (ii)
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    • 506 10 NOTICES TENDER FOR PURCHASE OF 90' 0" M.F.V. rpENDERS will be received 1 up to noon on the Ist February 1956 for the purchase as she lies of the M R N.V.R. Vessel "Panglima" a go- 0" Admiralty Type Motor Fishing vessel complete with one 240 B.H.P. Crossley Type H.R.L./4
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    • 502 10 NATURALISATION TYTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN •L* that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the
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    • 46 10 NOTICE ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD s.s. "FRIESLAND" ARRIVED from Continental Coast ports on Ist January. Damaged packages may be tendered for survey at godowns 40/41 on 16th Instant at 8.30 a.m. No further survey will be held. ROTTERDAM TRADING CO. (M) LTD. Shipping Department. Tel: ***** Agents.
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    • 125 10 t.s.s. "STATE OF MADRAS" Voy: 18 Sailing 9th January 1956 12.00 noon EMBARKATION TIME DECK BUNK CLASS Passengers 7.00 o.m. SALOON CLASS Passengers 9.00 All passengers travelling per the above vessel ere notified that they should forward their heavy and excess be". for inspection and loading on January Bth, 1956
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    • 22 10 Charon 35, Anliloch 37. Islander 40. Carthage 42 Benavon 44. SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE H. M. Ships Cheviot. Opossum. Thorough. OUTER ROADS Newcastle.
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  • 602 12  - The Strongest Woman Athlete In The World STERLING SLAPPEY Bv By LONDON— (AP)— By feminine standards Galina Ivanovna Zybina is no beauty. She has too many muscles that bulge where they shouldn't. But golden haired "blondfinka" Galina is a gold mine for Russia when she lets fly m the shot
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  • 660 12  - SPORTSMANSHIP SUFFERED MOST IN PERAK LEONG HEW MENG The Importance Of Winning Led To State's Downfall Says PERAK hare just had one of the leanest years m sport. Paucity of talent, an all toorecurrent disease m the sporting affairs of this State, was the root cause. This is particularly true
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    70 12 picture. OCEAN going yachts starting from Sydney, Australia, sailed out of Sydney on Boxing Day on an annual 630-mi/e race to Hobart, Tasmania. This is the Uth time the race has been run. It is organiied by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia. Picture shows craft getting under way. on
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  • 100 12 IPOH, Thurs. Ipoh "A" wili meet Telok Anson District at Ipoh on Jan. 14. while the "B team will rreet 'Tapah District at Tapah the following day m the Perak Inter-District knockout hockey competition. The Ipoh teams are: Ipoh "A": Mohd. Annuar Beg, Ng York Khuan,
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  • 43 12 SAO PAULO, Brazil. Jan 5, (AP)— Ken Norris o f England, winner of the New Year's Eve Sylvester race, left here by a KLM airliner for home yesterday. Norris also was the winner of a featured 5,000 metre race on Tuesday.
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  • 39 12 HOLYOKE. Massachusetts, Jan. 5, (UP) Sixth ranking welterweight Virgil Akins. 149, of St. Louis, wasted little time m scoring a fifth round technical knockout victory over Rudolph Bent, 148J, British Honduras welterweight champion here on Tuesday.
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  • 170 12 Triangular Tourney Opens At Seremban SEREMBAN, Thurs.— Selangor and Negri Sembilan hockey teams will meet for the third time this season on Sunday— the last day of the triangular hockey tournament which begins here tomorrow between Negri Sembilan, Malacca and I Selangor.
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  • 767 12 Ref erees Can Stop Match In Failing Light Sir Stanley Makes It Clear... A Referee can abandon a football match for failing light irrespective of the score and time to be played from full-time, .said Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of the Football Association. He was replying to a questionnaire by
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  • 26 12 CLEVELAND. Jan. 5 (Reuter) Johnny Sullivan, former British and Empire middleweight champion, beat local boxer Jackie King on points over eignt rounds here tonight.
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  • 210 12 SEREMBAN. Thurs.— A team drawn from HMS Crane, now lying at Port Dickson, visited Seremban yesterday, and engaged the Negri Sembilan Police at rugger. The match ended m a win for the Navy team by 23 points (1 goal, 5 tries, 1 penalty goad)
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  • 523 12 I■" 4 I "n I^^H ill XJ k I^k*t* l a^E SO, once again, sport gets the cold shoulder, the frozen mitt, the brusque brush-off when it comes to a new Honours List. I can never understand it. If Honours were dished
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  • 97 12 AT the sixth annual general meeting of the Union of Canton Sports Club, the following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year: ■President: Mr. Kang Siow Khim; Hon. Secretary: Mr. Tan Eng Seng; Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Wee Cheng Kirn (reeected). Hon. Auditor: Mr. Tan Keng Leong
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  • 67 12 Baseball Insurance CLEVELAND. Jan 5. (AP) —Pitcher Bob Feller a:> r.ounced on Wednesday he would become president of an insurance agency here, with tt dropping his baseball career with the Cleveland Indians. Geo. H. Olmsted Co.. thf oldest agency m the city, which specializes m fire and casualty business, will
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  • 27 12 READING. Berkshire. I fc (Reutcr) Berkshire beat Dorset and Wiltshire I j points to six m a Rugby County championship play o3 match here today.
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  • 212 13 —In 880 Yards Defeat MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 5* (UP)— Lon Spurj er „f Delano, California, the world record holder for he half-mile, defeated John Landy, the world mile jjng, by inches on Tuesday night m a frantic race m •hich the winning time was 1:51.8. who has
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  • 168 13 BILL COX, ex-Ryder Cup golfer tcho recently played one-handed round the Fulwell Course (6,361-yards) m 81, beat Ryder Cup golfer John Jacobs by one hole m a nine-hole match over Moor Park, Herts., on Dec. 22. Bill Cox used his righthand as he did at Fulivell and John
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  • 393 13 JOHNSTON OUT OF AUSSIE TEST TRIAL SYDNEY, Jan. 5 (Reuter)— Australia's cricket team to tour England this year began to take shape last night when 22 players were named for the Mailey Taylor Testimonial match which begins here on January 13. 1 It was generally expected that most, if not
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  • 104 13 COWDREY BOUND FOR W.I. LONDON. Jan. 5. (Reuter).— Colin Cowdrey, the Kent and England batsman, has accepted an invitation to captain E. W. Swanton's cricket team which is to tour the West Indies m March and April. Cowdrey led Oxford m his last >' ear a t the university and
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  • 150 13 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 5— (AP) Rocky Marciano, the most valuable fighting machine m the world, still does not know when or where he will go back into action, or against whom. The heavyweight king is o" a quick trip here to discuss his 1956 plans with
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  • 77 13 IPOH. Thurs.— The following will play for Perak Asians m the All-Blues Cup fixture against Penang Asians here en Sunday, Jan. 8 on the Town Padang:— Lee Kooi Ming. Chan Pens Lum, Yau Seng Yoon. Goh Swee Cheng, Kassim bin Aziz. Hassan, Raja Shaharuddin. Alara Shah,
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  • 358 13 'RUSSIANS ARE OUT TO GET US,' WARNS U.S. CAGER NEW YORK, (UP)— The chairman of the United States Olympic basketball committee recently called on college coaches and players for "co-operation" m lining up a team for the 1956 Games m Australia. Warning that "Russia is out to get us m
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  • 56 13 TAIPEI, Jan. 5. (UPI. Dr. Gungmen Hoh, chairman of the Nationalist Chinese Olympic Committee, will leave ior Hongkong this weekend to recruit a soccer team to represent Nationalist China at the Olympic Games this year. Nationalist China will have to beat Indonesia m a preliminary contest to
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  • 333 13 AUCKLAND. New Zealand, Jan 5, (UP)— Forty ace drivers with some of the world's fastest cars will burn up the tarmac contesting the New Zealand Grand Prix at Auckland's Ardmore Circuit Jan. 7. Centre of interest for racing fans will be the expected
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    • 218 13 ACCOM. WANTED EUROPEAN doctor wants office Singapore. Previously private practice Ipoh. Above dispensary or otherwise. Apply Box No. T. 2592 S.S FOR SALE YOUR CAR NEEDS a "Masteradio" Car Radio to entertain you as :'O-u drive. $100 only. Short and Medium Wavebands Kee Huat Radio Co. Ltd.. 122-124, Orchard Road,
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    • 769 13 CLASSIFIED ADS DEATH pOLONEL HUGH ROSE, only Vi surviving son of General Hual Rose, died peacefully m St. Thomas' Hospital. London. Leaves one son. Lieut-Col. H V Rose and three daugiuers. Mrs. Rita Alison. Mrs. E.W Waterfield and Mrs. K. M. HorU/a. Cremated at Gouiders Green London on 23rd. December,
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 223 14  - Mr. Hinton Has A 100 Per Cent Record Going Round The World With Horses SCRUTINEER By EACH YEAR thousands of dollars' worth of horse flesh arrive m Singapore without a mishap. The man behind this perfect record is Mr. Arthur Hinton. He accompanied the 10 thoroughbreds which arrived m the
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  • 80 14 SONNEVILLE'S BID FOR DUTCH TITLE HAARLEM. Holland, Jan. 5 (Router) Fred Sonneville of Indonesia, who won the Malayan men's singles title last year, will be among the 48 entered for the Dutch international badminton championships to be held here next Saturday and Sunday. Sonneville, 23. is a student at Amsterdam
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  • 334 14 Indians Take Another Step Nearer Title KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— Selangor Indian Association enhanced their chances of championship honours when they trounced Selangor Sikh Union by 6-2 m a Selangor Hockey Association Div. One League match at Taylor Road, ground here today. Indians thus remain the only unbeaten team m the
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  • 35 14 ARSENAL Sports Club beat Gurkha Police Contingent 4-1 m a friendly soccer match, at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Arsenal were Dererbarrass (2), Tong Santtuary and Toh Chin Hai. Balbahdur scored for Gurkhas.
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  • 117 14 SHELL Sports Club of Singapore defeated the Anglo-Sing Club of Malacca by four games to one m a friendly badminton match played m Malacca. The match between the two statp inter-commercial houses league champions were played during the New Year holidays. The following are the results:
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  • 31 14 R.A.F.. CHANGI were held to a scoreless draw by R.A.F.. Seletar "B" m an inter-unit knockbut hockey match at Changi yesterday. The replay will be on Sunday at Seletar.
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  • 118 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs Lever Brothers Sports Club trounced Selangor Club 7—o m today's hockey match on the Kuala Lumpur padang. Leonard Klassen. leading Lever attack gave a fine performance and crowned his display with three goals. Lever took an early lead through their Selangor
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  • 553 14 Roland's Big Test This Weekend PENANG, Thurs.— Highlight of this weekend's Foong Seong Cup zone final match between Penang and Johore will be the meeting of Penang's No. 1 Ooi Teik Hock and Jo ho re's much-improved Roland Ng. Roland
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  • 40 14 LATIFF Wanderers beat Johore Bahru Malays m the Malay hockey triangular by the odd goal m three. A. Manaf and A. Razack SC u r ed A for Latiff Wanderers while Abdul Rarim socred for Johore Bahru Malays
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  • 29 14 R.A.F.. Seletar became champions m the cross-country race against R.A.F., Changi and R.A.F., Tengah at Seletar yesterday Results were- 1 R.A.F., Seletar, 2, RAF" Changi 3. R.A.F Tengah
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  • 42 14 THE Royal Army Service Corp beat RAF Seletar 'B by three goals to two m the SHA junior hockey knockout tournament at Seletar yesterday. W.O. II Jimmy Ducan scored D a A e^ tt^ ck for the firming RASC side.
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  • 213 14 SINGAPORE Chinese Recreation Club "B" scored their winning goal m the extra 10 minutes of play to beat Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers "B" by three goals to one m the SHA Junior knockout tournament at Serangoon Road yesterday. Chinese, who were short of
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  • 86 14 TAIPING, Thursday— Showing superiority behind the scrum Taiping Tigers beat RASC m a tnendly rugger fixture on the school green yesterday by six poinU (1 try and 1 penalty) 1o nil. The soldiers, who were the heavier pack, attacked from the kick-off, but they were
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    29 14 CELEBRATING the American Consulate team's success m the first American Clubsponsored bowling league championship are Jack Fochs, captain of the champion team, Stan Reber, Danny Altman and a friend.
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  • 30 14 A SOLITARY goal by Aziz m the last minute gave RAF Tengah 'B victory over RAF Changi 'B m the SHA junior nockey knockout tournament at Changi yesterday
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  • 303 14 STRAITS Racing Association has announced the registration of 18 new racehorses m Malaya. Two of these— Now Showing late Bleriot (a n Australian 4-year-old gelding by Channel bwell) and American-bred Tune To Reason (4-year-old gelding b y Pavot)— are m Class One. Among the fiv e
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  • 582 14 SAFA DECIDES... THIS YEAR all Singapore Amateur Football Association'] Division One League and Community League matches will be played 40 minutes each way. This was one of the important decisions reached at the First council meeting of the Association held at SAFA club house at
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  • 179 14 SHA To Send A Team To Indonesia SINGAPORE Hockey Association will send a team to Indonesia m late March for a series of matches lasting about 10 days. Announcing this last night, a SHA spokesman ss d that the association's selection committee had been L to put up a team
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  • 122 14 SELETAR EDGED BY RASC R.A S.C. beat R.A.F., Selctar 2nd XI 3—2 m a Singapore Hockey Association Division Two knockout match at Selctar yesterday. R.A. S.C opened scoring m the 15th minute when a fine forward movement enabled centreforward Duncan to beat goalkeeper Hayes. Five minutes later, Seletar equalized. Anotner
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  • 44 14 RAJAJI Sports C]ub were held 2-2 by Indian Brotherhood Soccerites m the Singapore Tamil Festival knockout soccer match at Farrer Park on Wednesday P. Sundram and S Samad scored for Rajaji while S Sankaran and Muthu replied for Indian Brotherhood Socceriles.
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    • 56 14 ,vcmbn,cvmb.cvm.bmcv HOCKEY: Dir. 1 SCT vs. C.S.C....Balcsticr Road', Triangular Bnnda Ka\ I Malays vs. Latifj Wander, j ...Pcdang. BOXING: Third err: I championships of Singapore Haruour Board Boys' Club, 8.30 p.m., ai club premises. SOCCER: Govindasamy Cup (Semi-Final)— Indian Brotherhood Soccerites vs. Rojaji Sports Club...Farr c r Park. Friendly Malay
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