Singapore Standard, 20 January 1956

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  • 35 1 Singapore Standard ■XIGES- STANDARD POLICE jfS T*? vj+l FIRE BRICADE GENERAL HOSPITAL j ***** (5 HnesT 2400 l\j JXL 2 811 2414 Vol. VI. No. 197 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 580 1  -  ANDREW ROTH A Key Issue m Merdeka Talks All That's Awaited Is Freedom's Date By Standard London Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. In a traditional British approach to overseas defence, the British Government is expected to pin down if possible a formal defence treaty giving her right of
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  • 302 1 SITUATION WORSENS BOMBAY, Jan. 19.— Thousands of burning, looting rioters surged through the 1 5 square mile orea of Bombay today continuing a bloody fourday outburst of violence and terror m which 37 people have been killed. Sources at the Central Government's Home Ministry m
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  • 142 1 'Return Order' Revoked JAKARTA, Jan. 19 (Reu|cr) The resignation of m cabinet ministers has [orced the Indonesian Government to cancel orders to return to Jakarta previously cabled to their delegation at G neva. J'he delegation is holding W" s with Dutch representai r-.es on outstanding issues, including Irian. I Information
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  • 38 1 \.iR. N. RAGHAVAN, India's ambassador designate to Argentine, and well-known m Malaya whe:e he practised ■a a lawyer up to 1947. is leaving London for Buenos Aires on Saturday to take up h:s new assignment. Reuter
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  • 196 1 HOUSEWIVES GIVE NOTICE LONDON, Jan. 19 (Reuter) A ng r y housewives have given warning that they are about to enter the battle of Smithfield, London's great meat market, where a bitter power struggle is taking place between butchers and meat porters. Mrs. Carrington Woods, chairman
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  • 67 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 19 (Reuter) Exports from Hongkong to neighbouring Communist China fell by more than a half m 1955, official figures revealed today. Communist China boosted her exports to Hongkong and through Hongkong to the rest of the world from HK$69l million m 1954 to
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  • 100 1 UNDERGRADUATES of the University of Malaya Students' Union who were representatives at the recent Pan-Malayan Students' Federation Cultural Festival m Kuala Lumpur, resigned en masse early this morning after a four-hour stormy meeting. Their mass resignation followed a vote at the meeting tantamounting to
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  • 81 1 HONGKONG, Jan. 19 (Reuten Peking Radio alleged today that- United States naval aircraft intruded over the Chinese mainland and Communist-held islands yesterday and carried out "armed provocation." This was the second Chinese charge of intrusion this month. On Jan. 10 the New China News Agency reported that
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  • 135 1 HERE'S TODAY'S STORY PRESS Accreditation Cards, issued to bona fide journalists m Singapore, have a black market value of $500 each, The Standard was told last nightA senior Government official revealed that these cards are very much m demand by racketeers for sale
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  • 274 1 LONDON, Jan. 19, (Reuter) Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the Governor of Cyprus, arrived here by air today for talks with government on the critical negotiations over the future of the troubled island colony. Sir John will confer with Sir Anthony Eden and other ministers
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  • 123 1 C apt ain Shot By Gunman NICOSIA, Jan. 19 (Reuter) A British Army captain was shot dead m broad daylight on a busy Nicosia street today only three weeks after his arrival m Cyprus A terrorist gunman fired five shots at the officer, Capt. P. E. Lame, 31, RAOC, at
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  • 71 1 TWO MORE M.O.R's ARRESTED GUN THEFTS TWO more Malay Other Ranks have been arrested m connection with the theft of; ten pistols from No 5 Base Ordnance Depot m Alexandra Road, Singapore, recently. This brings the total number of Malay soldiers rounded up so far to five. The latest arrests
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  • 48 1 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, recovering from a bout of influenza and a sinus infection m the General Hospital, continued to make 'satisfactory progress" yesterday. Though he was supposed to have complete rest, Mr. Marshall ordered urgent work to be taken to his ward.
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  • 65 1 LONDON. Jan. 19 (Reuter) The chairman of Malayan Kulim Rubber Plantations forecasts a steady increase m overall rates of production on estates m his annual review for shareholders here. He said the Company had nearly 60 per cent of its 4,500-acre estate planted with high-yielding rubber strains.
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  • 19 1 POPE Pius XII received Brazil's President elect Juscelino Kubitschek on Thursday m a half-hour private audience.— A.P.
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  • 116 1 LONDON, Jan. 19 (Reuter) —Eight prominent barristers today called for reform of the English law on murder which they claimed is "out of touch with public opinion." In a booklet entitled "Mur- der," they declared: "Some cases come before the courts where the great majority
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  • 54 1 LONDON, Thurs. The Queen is to receive Federation's Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Dato Panglima Buklt Gantang. of Perak. a representative of the Malay rulers, next Tuesday, it was announced tonight. The Tunku and the Dato are attending the Malayan constitutional confer ence which
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  • 20 1 ACTRESS Ann Rutherford has been sued for $16,680 damages m connection with a traffic accident last April.
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  • 179 1 Samoa Nears Freedom WELLINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuter) Western Samoa, a cluster of coral islands m the Pacific administered by New Zealand, will have its own cabinet by 1960 under plans announced here today. The United Nations Trusteeship Council last July commended New Zealand for its policy of encouraging the 93.000
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  • 27 1 AN explosion ripped through a coal mine near Fukuoka Japan, on Thursday. Seven were known killed and at least five others sprinnsiv injured. A.P.
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  • 106 2 THE ONLY GIRL PREFECT IN BOY'S SCHOOL A POST-School Certificate student was yesterday appointed the only girl prefect m a boy's school Raffles Institution, Singapore. But Miss Leaena Chelliah, 18, above, who is doing arts m Form Upper Six, would only have girl students under her charge, the Principal, Mr.
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  • 56 2 THE Singapore Sixth Magistrate. Mr. D. C. D'Cotta, postponed the case of Capt. William Tiller Scott to Jan. 30. for hearing on the application of defence counsel, Mr. J. E. Lloyd. Capt. Scott Is charged with causing hurt to a bumboat man. Tan Beng Teck. by discharging
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  • 425 2 Mass Protest Move Against Inter-Marriage JOHORE BAHRU, Thursday— A call to 15,000 Malay women members of UMNO to support the move by Johore Malay women to protest against sons of Royalty marrying European women was made today by their president, Che Khadi-Jah Sidik. "I appeal to
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  • 25 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— A survey of the mentally and physically handicapped people m Johore i s beinj conducted by the Social Welfare Department.
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  • 24 2 JAPAN and Australia on Thursday signed a reciprocal aviation agreement which gives each nations commercial airlines oneratine riehts m the other.- A.P.
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  • 111 2 Customs Seize Big Haul Of Opium SINGAPORE Customs Revenue Officers operating from Clifford Pier made their first haul of opium for 1956, by seizing 152 lbs. of opium valued at $45,600 from the Straits Steamship vessel Kampar yesterday. The dope was found m three tins concealed m the oil settling
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  • 39 2 IN a report published m The Standard on Jan. 17, under the heading "Motorist Fined on Hurt Count," the accused should be Koh Poh Hin and "not Ng Boon Ong. The Standard regrets this inadvertent error.
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    87 2 MISS Anne Mathews (above) is one of jour models who will pose jor members of the newly re~ gistered Singapore Art Photographic Academy. Her measurements are: 36—24^ 37. She is five feet and six inches tall. The Academy ichich has more than 200 members to-date also offers its
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  • 54 2 A SMALL fire broke out m a house occupied by about 20 people m Lorong Tai Seng, Singapore, yesterday and was put out before the arrival of the City Fire Brigade. It is believed that some children played with a match box and the clothing m
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  • 247 2 Muslims Hope Law Will End High Rate Of Divorce SINGAPORE Muslim leaders yesterday expressed the hope that the present "alarming rate" of divorces among Muslims m the Colony will be reduced with the introduction of the proposed Muslims Marriages and Divorces Ordinance. Official figures revealed that there were 1.155 divorces
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  • 193 2 THE Shenton Way development scheme which experts hope will eventually become Singapore's "Little New York"— is "too precious a prize" to be wasted on inferior-type buildings, Mr. J. E. Pepper, Commissioner for Lands, told The Standard yesterday. "If such a thing were to
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  • 108 2 Problems Of SIT Residents TWO Assemblymen, m whose divisions are situated two of the biggest SIT housing estates m Singapore, will air the problems of the tenants m the Legislative Assembly when it meets on Feb. 8. In questions directed at the Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing, the
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  • 84 2 SIX delegates from Sarawak and Formosa to the ECAFE conference to be held m Bangalore, India, left Singapore yesterday by Air India International, after a short stay m the Colony. On the plane were also two visiting Tamil professors who were m Malaya for a week m connection
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  • 252 2 HE RETIRES AFTER 37 YEARS OF LOYAL SERVICE THE man who made Singapore Government buildings beautiful and attractive during the Coronation and other ceremonial occasions will retire at the end of this month after 37 years' service with the Public Works Department. j He is Mr. J. A. Dragon, a
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  • 101 2 Guilty But It Was Not Murder THE ttto-day hearing of a case against Chua Hai Lye accused of murdering his foster-brother, ended yesterday when the jury at the Singapore Assizes, returned a 5 2 majority verdict of guilty against him on a charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
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  • 43 2 BANGKOK. Jan. 19 (Reuter) Vice-Admiral Sir Alan K. Scott-Moncrieff, Comman-der-in-chief Far East Station, arrived here today aboard H.M.S. Alert for his first official visit to Thailand's capital. He will stay until Jan. 23 when he will return to Singapore.
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  • 91 2 BANGKOK. Jan, 19 <Bc 3 ten An ambitious sche M to promote a united Souti.-^ east Asian approach to higher learning has been born at the conference, here, of the heads of universities from eight countries, it was learned today. They decided to form ?.n association
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  • 57 2 MESA, Arizona, Jan k (AP)— A 33-year-old itiner:^ W was arrested on Wednesday shortly after seyen-year-oid Carla Hixon, kidnapped on her way home from school, was found battered and bleeding m the desert. Authorities said they planned to charge the man, Wayne Vance Taylor, with the
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  • 62 2 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 19 (AP) U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford. chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. believes that "the Arab-Israel problem is the most acute m the world today." However, Radford told newsmen as he arrived by plane from a tour of the Middle and
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  • 39 2 FARMER Noboru Zuzuki. of Karasuyama, Japan, conic ed to police on Thursday that he beat his 79-year-old father to death "because he had a girl friend my age and kept seeing her on the sly." A.P.
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  • 227 2 Johore Customs Officer Beaten By Gang Of Four JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Four Chinese m a car yesterday "snatched" a Malay Customs preventive officer and later beat him up. The incident occurred m Tampoi, four miles fron Johore Bahru, at about 7.30 a.m. It is believed he wa s hit on
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  • 23 2 BURGLARS with a macabre nature entered a business establishment m Denver early on Wednesday and carried away two 100-pound tombstones. A.P.
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  • 29 2 SIO KOH CHYE was fined $15 m the First Traffic Court yesterday, for using his car horn at New Bridge Road on Oct. 27 last year.
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  • 38 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. Wong Chan, an odd-job labourer, was fined $400. or four months' jail, for moving six katis of rice at Pekan Nanas, without a permit, by the President, Sessions Court, Pontian. today.
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  • 231 3 MARRIED 15 YEARS, COUPLE MAKE THE GRADE By VERITY GILL Standard Staff Reporter MARRIAGE and children are no barriers to a successful teaching career. This was proved by the Emmanuels— Joseph and Mary who, after 15 years of married life and six children, have qualified as
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  • 167 3 'Little Tin Gods To Blame TAIPING, Thurs. Mr. Jol Manecksha, a nominated member of the Larut and Matang Town Council, today criticized the inadequate medical services provided by the District Council here. At the Town Council's first meeting this year. Mr." Manecksha charged that there
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  • 120 3 16-Yr.-Old Terrorist Surrenders KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A terrorist. Chan Ah Kow. has surrendered m the Johore Bahru district. Chan. 16. went into the jungle m October last year. Another Communist terrorist suspect was apprehended by a Malay timber worker m the Kuala Kangsar district of Perak yesterday. He was armed
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  • 162 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A dance hostess, barely 16 years old, had the "physical proportions'' and maturity to pass off as an 18-year-old the First Magistrate's Court was told today. However, m the eyes of the law she was not old enough to be a taxi-dancer at
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  • 74 3 Man's Plea Of Guilty Is Rejected IPOH Thurs. Magistrate Che Abdul Kadir bin Yusof today rejected the guilty plea of Gurbax Singh, 37. on a charge of stabbing a Customs' clerk Harcharan Singh on Nov. 28, last year. Gurbax Singh claimed he was "totally" drunk and did not know what
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  • 109 3 AN organization to be known as the Union of Socialist Youth is being planned by the Singapore Labour Front, Mr. Keng Ban Ec, the Party's secretary general, said yesterday. Plans for the Union were passed on Wednesday by the Labour Front central committee. The proposed Union
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  • 36 3 HONGKONG. Jan. 19. Special Standard Service: Closing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.66 to £1 Sterling; $5.***** to US$l; $1,840 to Malayan $1; $0,147 to one Indonesian Rupiah; GoJd $254,625 to a tael.
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  • 56 3 PENANG. Thurs. Police have found the body of the third seaman who. with three others, were reported to nave jumped overboard from their tongkang alter it was allegedly held up by pirates oft Pulau Jerejak last Thursday. The body, identified as Yaacob. an Indonesian, was seen floating
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  • 72 3 Gangsters Active In Butter worth PENANG, Thurs.— A knifewielding thug raided a home m Cordington Avenue last might and escaped with the maidservant's gold ring and $4.< belonging to her boss At the same time, four gangsters, one armed with a knife, waylaid a second-hand dealer and robbed him of
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  • 51 3 TAIPING, Thurs. Indians here gave a grand welcome tc three educationists frcm their mother country yesterday. The trio are the Principal of Thiagaraja College. Madras, Mr. M. K. Shanmugam, Dr. A. Sittampalam of Annamalai University. South Ir.dia; and the Professor of Indian Culture m Indonesia, Di. Mohd.
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  • 30 3 The Kuala Langat branch of the Malayan Indian Congress will hold a mass meeting m Banting on the evening of Jan. 26 to mark the Indian Republic Day.
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  • 129 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. You can take an elephant, bear, panther or tiger by the Malayan Railway m special wagons at the same rate chargeable for cattle, according to new rates gazetted today. However, special arrangements must be made with tha traffic manager for the
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  • 151 3 THE Democratic Party will hold its final meeting prior to the merger with the Progressive Party— at the e Hoe Hian Club. Singapore, on Feb. 5. This was decided by the Executive Committee of the Party after a three-and-a-half-hour meeting on Wednesday. The meeting discussed
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  • 112 3 'I Swear Mildly' -Student MALACCA. Thurs. A Sixth Form student admitted m the Magistrate's Court here today that it was hi s habit to use mildly abusive language. Tan Oon Eng, son of a midwife, said this after he pleaded guilty to two charges of being: disorderly last Tuesday. The
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  • 124 3 'My Sons Ignore Me' Father PENANG. Thurs. A Government pensioner. Abdul Rahman bin Shaik Mohamad, lold the Magistrate's Couit today that his sons coldshouldered him m the streets at the instigation of his wife. Abdul Rahman was making an application for a variation of the order of $200 a month
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  • 159 3 PENANG. Thurs. A happy reunion between the personnel of the Second Battalion, Royal Australian Army, now on operational duties against Communist terrorists m South Kedah. and their fami]«?s will take place at the Royal Air Force Station, Butterworth. on Sunday when a batch of wives
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  • 111 3 PENANG. Thurs. A woman's indecision cost her life, the Magistrate's Court here was told today. In the dock was bus conductor War Hussein bin Wan Mahmud 30. charged with causing the death of the woman. Kor Se^v Mee. 37, by driving his car rashly at Western
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  • 63 3 RAWANG. Thurs. Wong Cheong. 12-year-old student of the Rawang Chinese School, was drowned while swimming m a "haunted" mining pool nere today. Wong Yee Seng, a student of the Kuala Lumrjur Mahatma Ghandi High School, who saw Wong Cheong m trouble, jumped m and dragged him to the
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  • 311 4 8 CONVICTS ATTACK NEGRI JAIL OFFICIALS SEREMBAN, Thurs. Three officials, including Mr. C. J. Gurney, Negri Sembilan's Superintendent of Prisons, were injured today when eight prisoners of the Seremban jail attacked them with faggots while they were on daily inspection of the jail workshop. Mr. Gurney was hit on his
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  • 179 4 The Credit Squeeze Hits Rubber LONDON. Jan. 19 (Reuter) Referring to factors behind the "considerable liquidation" encountered on the London rubber market at the beginning of the New Year, Messrs. Sanderson and Company, prominent London rubber dealers, say m their monthly market review that it is probable that the saturation
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  • 175 4 SAPPER Michael John Manson of the Royal Engineers who was brought before a General Court Martial at Gillman Barracks, Alexandra Road, Singapore, yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit an unnatural offence. Manson was said to have committed the offence on
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  • 313 4 A Riot Of Colour And Fancy THE Island Players gave a charity performance for S.A.T.A. of ''Princess Chrysanthemum," a Japan es c operetta for children, m the Victoria Memorial Hall, last night. Kitty McGinlay made a charming though rather static Princess, singing with a small but pretty voice. Singing honours
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  • World Newsbriefs
    • 117 4 TORONTO, Jan. 19 (AP)— A 13-year-old girl returning home from a dancing lesson was throttled with her own scarf, raped and dumped on a deserted waterfront street corner on Wednesday night. It was the latest m a rash of sex crimes m Ontario Province.
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    • 36 4 BONN, Jan. 19. (Reuter)— The West German Federal Cabinet yesterday approved a bill to replace the traditional courts martial by disciplinary courts under civilian judges. The Bill will now go before Parliament
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    • 40 4 TWO fire insurance agents went to the Home Furniture Company m Florida to sell the owner a policy. They found the store on fire, helped fight the blaze and reported no sales resistance at all to their arguments.
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    • 26 4 THE French Government is to invite a group of Soviet journalists to visit France next [spring, it was announced m Paris last night.- Reuter
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    • 74 4 TSU, Japan, Jan. 19 (AP)— A giant waterspout engulfed a tugboat and eight dredger boats on Wednesday, sinking three, badly damaging the rest, and killing four men. Dazed survivors said the waterspout was more than a half-mile m diameter and at times sucked water and flying
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    • 45 4 LONDON, Jan. 19, (UP)— The Foreign Press Department said yesterday it had no information on reports that Premier Nikolai Bulganin may be ill. Diplomats were speculating that Bulganin might be ailing since he has not appeared m public since Jan. 4.
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    • 34 4 AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 19 (Reuter) The Jordan Government last night denied reports that Britain had warned the Prime Minister, Mr. Samir Rifai, against accepting Arab financial aid m place of British aid.
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    • 19 4 THE Austrian Cabinet approved "directives for the establishment ot an Austrian army." Details were not disclosed.— AP
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    • 26 4 LOSSES suffered by American installations during the January disturbances m Jordan were estimated by a U.S. Embassy officer on Tuesday at over $250,000.- AP
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  • 226 4 By Firdhouse Sallahudeen Standard Staff Reporter. fOU don't have to know the language Chis was proved yesterday by Renato Rascel better known to the entertainment world as Italy's Chanie Chaplin on his arrival m Singapore. When I met him at the Italian Consulate, he grinned
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  • 159 4 'No Forcible Eviction' THE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union yesterday started negotiations with the Admiralty to end the four-day-old strike by its 9,000 members. Mr. S. Woodhull, the Secretary of the Union, told The Standard last night that the Union would consider to call off
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  • 145 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) m Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot f.o.b. 115 115 i No. 1 R.S.S. Jan 115 115J No. 2 Jan. 113| 1132 No. 3 Jan. 1122 113* Tone: Irregular. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $400£ per picul (Up $21).
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    • 67 4 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m Jan. 18 to 7.30 a.m. Jan. 19. Singapore (74F), Penang (73F). Kota Bahru (73F). Kuala Lumpur (73F). Ipoh (72F). Kuantan (73F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Jan. 19. Singapore (85F), Penang (88F). Kota Bahru <83F>. Kuala Lumpur <87F),« Ipoh (92F),
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  • 1070 5 Three Asian Inspectors Wages Increased By $150 SMALL MATTER, SAYS FIRM THREE Asian assistant traffic inspectors of the Singapore Traction Company will receive a $150 rise in salary when they return to work after the strike. This resulted from a concession made by the
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  • 56 5 photo by J«UI H. I X-U-IN X CiAK-U L. LI Miss Mabel de Kretser, eighth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.V. de Kretser of Kuala Lumpur cuts her birthday cake at a party held at her home m Perak Road, Kuala Lumpur recently. Looking on are her
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  • 93 5 SHORTAGE of technical stall m the P.W.D. may hold up some of Singapore's building programmes marked for this year, said Mr. A. Wear. Director of the P.W.D. yesterday Mr. Wear said most of the senior officers m the Department will either finish their, contracts or
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  • 40 5 THE Kampon? Bahru branch of Singapore Kerala Bamajam will hold a public meeting to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Indian Republic Day, at the C.V.M.A. Hall. Bukit Teresa, at 6 p.m., on Jan. 26.
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  • 148 5 Madras Smallpox Free Standard Shipping Reporter UNDER a recent World Health Organization report that Madras, India, was declared free of smallpox and other infectious diseases, 454 deck passengers who arrived aboard the Rajula last Tuesday were the first ever to skip a compulsory two-day quarantine
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  • 46 5 THE Victoria Institution Old Boys' Association (Southern Branch) will hold its inaugural buffet dinner and dance at the Alumni Association Medical Centre. College Road. Singapore, on Friday, Feb. 3. Those interested, please contact Mr. Thiagarajan, tel. No. 2403 ext. 143. Standard
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  • 168 5 SUFFERING from tuberculosis for eight years might have driven a rmddle-agad carpenter. Lee Yin, to commit suicide, the wife told j Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday. i The wife, Ec Ah Lan, said t: is at an inquest on Lee who hanged himself
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  • 101 5 He Died Of Cancer In Prison A FIVE-MAN jury m Singapore yesterday returned a unanimous verdict of death by natural causes on Ho Thian Foo. 70. who died of cancer of the stomach m the hospital on Dec. 24 last. Inspector H. P. Woodford. conducting the inquiry, said Ho had
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  • 35 5 E. F MATUS manager of Bata Shoe Company. Singapore was fined S3O m the Second Traffic Magistrate's Court yesterday for negligent driving at the junction ol Hoi How Road on April 10 last year.
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  • 29 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. Mr. Wons Kwan Tan was reelected president of the Kheng Chew Association, Kuantan branch, for the third time m succession, at a recent general meeting.
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  • 95 5 Old Boys Ban Raises Ire GRADUATES of Singapore"s Chinese schools are m an uproar over a, Government ruling debarring some of them from joining old boys' associations. In appeals to several Legislative Assemblymen. 33 Graduates' Associations condemned the ruling, asking that it be revoked. Under the ruling, a graduate joining
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  • 28 5 THE Adult Circle of the Straits Chinese Methodist Church. Kampong Kapor Road, Singapore, will hold its annual meeting, at its social hall, at 3.00 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • Singapore Standard
    • 740 6 "FEDERATION Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman's mission to London seems assured of success. Diplomatic quarters m London have been impressed by the sincerity of his views and the honesty of his purpose. But more than that, they admire the calm and reasoned manner of his approach to the
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    • 209 6 'THE Thai authorities are reported to be most unhappy about the Baling talks which highlighted the Thai side of the frontier as the headquarters of Chin Peng and his gang. Soon after Chin Peng went back to his hide-out inside Thailand, the Thai police authorities were reported
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 749 6  - ANTARCTICA RAISES A HOST OF PROBLEMS Patrick O'Donovan i "y i WASHINGTON TTiE white stillness of A tne Antarctic is being broken m a way that has never happened before. There are eleven nations who now have preliminary expeditions on its six million square miles of ice and mountains and
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    • 143 6 Sir: I am utterly shocked to read about decent men, women and young girls Deing forced to strip naked at the Semenyih New Village, Kuala Lumpur. Such kind of bullish and indecent treatment simply adds more hatred against the Military ana Police, instead of gaining co-operation.
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    • 610 6 Paying for Quality— and Rarity Sir: With reference to the Singapore Chamber Ensemble's forthcoming harpsichord concerts I would like to correct one or two misconceptions that may have arisen in your readers' minds after reading the Saturday article by your music correspondent, "Anacrusis." I think it is a law. In
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    • 169 6 Sir: I have no objection to the principle of slum clearance and decentralization of the population. But as I expect to be paying taxes for a long time to come, I am concerned to know where the money for all this planning is to come from. My
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  • 1794 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA by C.O.S. Can anyone please tell me why this beautiful island-city of Singapore is saddled with the demoralising luxury of a costly Ministry of Education? You may say that if we want to be a self-respecting, selfgoverning country it is essential that
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  • 234 7 Elite Corps Of Saboteurs To Be Slashed WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Reuter) The United States Army is to cut its 2,000-man force of guerillas and -liberation fighters" m Europe by two-thirds to sa ve manpower, a Defence Department spokesman told Reuter yesterday. This secret elite corps, the Tenth Special Forces Group
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  • 207 7 'Better Outlook For Peace' -EISENHOWER WASHINGTON. Jan 19 IReUter) President Eisenliovez told a press conference i aiv that the international 5 tattoo was better and briihtei than it was three years a: but emphasized that there «as r.o cause for complacency. Mr. Eisenhower also expi ssed his complete faith m
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  • 59 7 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Jan. 19 (AP) Iran says the world should adopt a new calendar starting each year on April 1. The U.N. Economic and Social Council, m a session to begin on April 17. is to consider a rival Indian proposal for a
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  • 165 7 White Paper On Middle East LONDON, Jan. 19, (UP)— A White Paper on the export of surplus war materials said today that Britain has tried and will continue trying "to prevent an arms race m the Middle East." The White Paper was issufi
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  • 86 7 PARIS, Jan. 19 (Reuter)— The new National Assembly, third legislature since World War II and elected by 26 million French men and women on Jan. 2, held its inaugural session today under the chairmanship of the 86--year-old Communist deputy, Monsieur Marcel Cachin. Unusual public interest was displayed
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  • 370 7 Nigerian Splendour For First Durbar In 44 Yrs. Queen's Tout To Last 79 Days LONDON, Jan. 19 (Reuter)— The Queen will hold a Durbar a glittering review oi thousands of tribal warriors and horsemen m the predominantly Moslem Northern region of Nigeria which she and the Duke of Edinburgh visit
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  • 67 7 LONDON, Jan. 19 (Reuter) —Mr. Robin Turton, Britain's Minister of Health, announced here today that a British vaccine giving protection against poliomyelitis has been developed. Limited amounts should be ready for May and June, the right time for vaccination, and it is hoped that it may
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  • 81 7 COLOMBO, Ceylon. Jan. 19 'AP) Ceylon has agreed to take 35.000 tons of flour from Communist China to reduce the Red Chinese trade debt with this British Commonwealth nation. This is the biggest trade deal between the two countries since the 1951 agreement under which Peking
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  • 64 7 CHICAGO. Jan. 19 (UP)— Blonde Lila Leeds, a onetime movie actress, was held today after her arrest on a morals charge. Miss Leeds, mother of two children, was charged with soliciting when she appeared to keep a phone appointment with police. Detective Russell Burton said the
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  • 21 7 COMMUNIST East Germany's Lower House of Parliament voted unanimously yesterday to establish a "peoples'' army" and defence force. AP
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  • 151 7 ALLAHABAD, India, Jan. 19 (UP) India's young and beautiful ''bandit queen" may surrender to Police, it was announced yesterday. She's expecting a baby. Agile Putli, 24. has led Uttar Pradesh Police a merry chase ever since she was kidnapped m 1950 and initiated
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  • 662 7 Britain Not On Way Down, Govt. Not On Its Way Out BRADFORD, Jan. 19, (Reuter)— Sir Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister, told a Conservative Party rally here last night m a strong reply to critics that his country "is not on its way down and this
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  • 434 7 DULLES TOOK THE HEAT OFF S/R ANTHONY WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Reuter)-Yesterday's reaffirmation by the British Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, of the policy of 'deterring" aggression was heartily welcomed m official circles here m view of recent confusion and misunderstanding about the views
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  • 216 7 SIR ANTHONY EDEN became involved m a scuffle with a young: woman on the platform as he was addressing the rally. While the audience was applauding the Prime Minister's declaration that Russia "dragoons and dominates" her satellites, the woman clambered on the
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  • 45 7 LAWR ENCEBURG, Kentucky. Jan. 19 <AP) Sixty-year-old Spencer Peavler accused James Tyra of adding insult to injury yesterday. Police said Peavler told them Tyra bit a chunk out of his left cheek and spat it out m a liquor store cuspidor.
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  • 30 7 AMERICAN and Communist Chinese ambassadors talked for three hours m their 33rd session m Geneva yesterday but emerged only with an agreement to meet again next week.— U.P.
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    • 31 7 EGYPT, Jan. 19. (Reuter)— Egypt and Israel agreed to resume the Egyptian Israel Mixed Armistice Commission meetings which have been suspended since last September, it was learned last night.
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    • 39 7 SANTIAGO. Chile. Jan. 19. (AP) Colonel Benjamin Videla. Minister of Interior. said yesterday the government would continue i'.s state of siege, a modified form of martial law. until subversive elements which threaten the government are overcome.
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    • 37 7 MADRAS. Jan. 19. (Reuter) The Kodaikanal Meteorological Office here announced that a large and active sunspot is now traversing the sun's disc. Magnetic and lonospheric disturbances are likely to result between now and Jan. 26.
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    • 31 7 WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (AP) The United States yesterday set up a US$37 million grant to help South Vietnam resettle political refugees from the Communistheld northern part of the country.
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    • 31 7 GAZA. Jan. 19. (AP)— Egypt has complained to the U.N. sponsored mixed Armistice Commission that an Israeli plane violated Egyptian air space over Gaza yesterday, an Egyptian spokesman reported.
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    • 40 7 NEW DELHI, Jan 19. (UP) A half million units of Gamma Globulin, valued at more than US$l,OOO,OOO. arrived by chartered plane yesterday for inoculation of pregnant women against jaundice, which has reached the epidemic stage In Delhi.
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  • 135 7 SECAUCUS, New Jersey. Jan. 19 (AP) Former pig farmer Henry Krajewski, perennial political candidate, plans to compete with the Republicans' $100-a-plate dinner with one of his own m his latest bid for the Presidency. While the Republican affair is being held m New York's
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  • 211 8 WAS LAM WAH SHOT BY HIS OWN COMRADES? IPOH, Thurs. Mystery surrounds the death of Lam Wah, Red propaganda chief m Perak, whose identity was established today. He was one of the two terrorists found dead by the 2nd. Bn. Malay Regiment operating m the ChemorSungei Siput area three days
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  • 187 8 Lee Rubber Factory Gets A More-Pay Deadline KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The National Union of Factory and General Workers today gave the Lee Rubber Factory m Bukit Mertajam a Jan. 30 deadline to meet its demands for increased wages and better living conditions for the workers. The union asked that every
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  • 16 8 THE Federation Government today extended its Maintenance Orders Ordinance to the State of Brunei.
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  • 72 8 KUALA TRENGGANU. Thurs. The Mentri Besar. Dato Kamaruddin bin Haji Idris, commended 14 members of the Police Volunteer Force on their smartness m a pass-ing-out parade at Kuala Trengganu this morning. The men had completed eight weeks training under an honorary police officer. Rajah Ahmad Shah, son-in-law of
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  • 60 8 THIS picture "Homeward Bound" by Ch'ng Seng Poh, an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, won first prize m the Pictorial section of the All Selangor Photographers Social Gathering photo competition, organised by the Selangor Photographic Society. He also won first and second prizes m the Miscellaneous
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  • 80 8 WORKERS SEE A MINISTER IPOH. Thurs. A fiveman delegation representing building workers m the Federation called on the Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan m Kuala Lumpur and presented him with a petition seeking changes m the Employees' Provident Fund rules. The meeting with the Minister followed a meeting
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  • 22 8 PENANG, Thurs.— The PanMalayan Ketua Kampong Association will hold its rirst general meeting m Kuala Lumpur some time next month.
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  • 250 8 Union Accuses Govt. Of Coercing Workers KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Federation Government was severely criticised today for attempting to influence its 65,000 daily-rated employees while they were engaged m taking a strike ballot over rejection of their demand tor a $4-a-day basic minimum wage. Government's circular yesterday to all daily-rated
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  • 82 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— An inquiry into incidents at Tronoh Mines village last April m which several policemen and striking workers were injured will begin at the Batu Gajah Magistrate's Court on Jan. 30. Mr. Justice Good, appointed commissioner to preside over the inquiry, said today
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  • 61 8 PENANG, Thurs. A sago dealer. Lai Choon" Cheu. 24. was charged m the Magistrate's Court today with unlawfully detaining a woman at the Toh Lodging House, Sitiawan, on Jan. 16. The case was transferred to ihe Magistrate's Court, €eremban. and Lai was ordered to be remanded
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  • 51 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Chan Ling, 50-year-old trishaman. today claimed trial m the Sessions Court to a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Chan Chee Khin at Loke Yew Road here on Christmas Day last year. Bail of $250 was granted. Hearing was postponed to Feb.
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  • 232 8 Builders Cant Get Enough Cement KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— The Federation is experiencing an acute shortage of cement, which may hold up several million dollars worth of badly needed housing m tne counrrv. During the past month, contractors with penalty clauses staring them m the face,
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  • 98 8 PENANG. Thurs. To aid the victims of *he recent Kuala Lumour fire disaster, the Sea Hawk Self-drive Outboard Motor-boat Co. m Gurney Drive, under the auspices of the Malayan Chinese Association. Penang branch, will organize pleasure trips from Gurney Drive to the sea off the Chusan
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  • 85 8 TEACHERS OFF TO JAPAN SO SCHOOL TERMS CHANGE BENTONG. Thurs. More than 250 members of the National Union of Teachers will visit Hongkong and Japan during the April vacation this year, a spokesman said today. The Education Department has agreed to alter the opening and closing dates of the second
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  • 58 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Payments to informers giving tips about terrorist movements cost the Federation Government $60,430 m December. Johore, the "hottest state." dominated the lists, claiming $26. 0fi2. Negri Sembilan with a $22,000 pay-out, came second. Malacca, whose almost entire territory is "white." gave $8,316 m efforts
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  • 45 8 IPOH, Thurs. The Lilio Rhythm Boys of Japan now performing with Don Yada'* troupe were victims of a burglary last night. Their room m a hotel was ransacked and cash totalling SI 2O. three watches and three fountain pens were stolen.
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  • 153 8 $1,000,000 Project Launched In Ipoh IPOH, Thurs.— The fir* phase of a million- dollar housing project sponsoicd by the Sathask Realty Co. Ltd., of Singapore was announced here today. Located at Pasir Patch where there Is a buildin° boom, the project, known v the Rose Garden Estate, involves 58 terrace
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  • 79 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Sulaiman bin Abdullah, 29. was sentenced m the First Magistrate's Court here to 18 months 1 imprisonment for breaking irr.o a house at Imbi Road on Dec. 2, last year. The Magistrate. Group Caplain G. V. Howard, commended two schoolboys and a teacher,
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  • 50 8 BEXTONG. Thurs. Members of the Yip Yee Club hc:e raised more than $200 at a meeting this week for 'hs recent Kuala Lumpur fire victims. Club president, Mr. Cho-.g Kwong Chew, left for v.:a Federal capital yesterday ;o hand over the money to W3ifare workers.
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  • 263 8 MINISTER TIPS OFF PADI PLANTERS PENANG, Thurs.— Padi cultivators m the Bayan Lepas area were urged by the Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz bin Ishak, who made his first official visit here yesterday, to turn to double cropping for better yields. Inche Abdul
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  • 45 8 CHEERFUL Malayan scouts are seen on their arrival m Melbourne after a train journey across the Australian continent from Perth. Mr. Gordon Oldham (sixth from left), the Jamboree camp chief and International Commissioner for Australia, was at the station to welcome them.
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  • 79 8 PENAXG. Thurs. The Penang and Province Welles. cy branch of the British He'd Cross Society is calling for volunteers for minor ailments clinics set up mi n various schools m the Settlement. Woman volunteers, who can spare a morning a week for the work,
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  • 32 8 SANDAKAN, Thurs. Maia bin Juldin an attendant m the Bull Sim Sim Mental Hospital wat- on Tuesday sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a patient.
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  • 1295 9 says Our Correspondent m his AMERICAN Ambassadors to India and Egypt have been summoned to Washington for urgent consultations. Ihis sudden visit reflects the anxiety which is felt by the I s.A. over the inroads w huh Russia has success fully made into the Middle fcjst
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  • 758 9  - BOOKD of the Week 'Sorrows' of Satan STEVIE SMITH 6j THE DEVIL. By Giovanni Papini. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 155.) CIGNOR PAPINI'S beliefs about the Devil (he has up to now been chiefly famous over here for his Life of Christ) are quite fascinating and horrible, but useful, too. as they
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  • 518 9 Beauty Queen made jungle trips to save ~~husband RANGOON. J^ FORMER Burmese beauty queen has described here hew she made three jungle journeys to plead with bandits who had kidnapped her husband. She is the former Miss Junerose Bellamy, now married to Dr. Mario Postiglione. Dr. Positiglione,
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  • 242 10 U.K. Chairman Favours 'Jobs For The Local Men' Policy MALAYANIZATION in the commercial field to a fair degree was yesterday advocated by Mr. Frank Travers, chairman of Joseph Travers and Sons Ltd., London, who is on a tour of Malayan branches. There was nothing to keep down the local man
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  • 32 10 TELEVISION is expected to be seen m Ceylon for the first time at the Royal Food and Agricultural Exhibition which will open m Colombo for a month from January.
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  • 134 10 SIR Harry Jephcott, chairman and managing director of Glaxo Laboratories Ltd. of Britain, and Lady Jephcott, are due m Singapore today m the course of a business-cum-pleasure trip of the East and Australia. The chairman will have talks with Mr. J. G. Kidd, Far East
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  • 314 10 WORLD IS STILL SHORT OF WHITE LABEL MR. A. T. STAINTON, a great grandson of the founder of John Dewar and Sons Ltd., was guest of honour at a dealers' dinner given by Sime Darby Cc. Ltd., agents for the whisky firm THE shortage of White Label all over the
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  • 125 10 Cocoa Expert Visits Malaya JESSELTON. Thurs. Mr. R. Rodgers. a member of Borneo Abaca Ltd. staff, specializing m cocoa, is due to leave here tomorrow for Malaya where he will visit the plantations of the Malayan Cocoa Ltd. m Trengganu. a company financed by the Colonial Development Corporation, similar to
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  • 148 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: F. N. ords. $1.81. $180; Gammon $2.57J to $2.i>6: Hammer $2.86. $2.90; Hongkong Bank $923 cd; M. Cement $1.65; M. Colls $1.00. $1.01: Metal Box $1.65 to $1.67*: OTEC 86/- to 88/- ready and 91/3 arrival; Robinson ords. $2.50,
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  • 112 10 MALAYAN industrials shares yesterday were still steady with a fair volume of business passing at slightly higher quotations. But local tin and rubber shares were inclined to be easier. Price alterations yesterday were Buyers Sellers Gammon 2..™ 2.R0 W. Hammer 2.86 2.92 Hongkong Bank (H.K Reg.) 920.00
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  • 123 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Jan. $27 buyers, $27$ sellers, Feb. $27| buyers, $27! sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $39J sellers, coconut oil (drums) $42 h sellers; Muntok white pepper $138 sellers, Sarawak white $137 sellers. Special Sarawak black $97 sellers. Singapore Copra
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  • 41 10 NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (UP) —Dow Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 472.89 20 Rails 156.84 15 Utilities 63.71 65 Stocks 167.53 BONDS: 40 Bonds 98.74 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 151.10.
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  • 431 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Chinese business community has warned the Chief Minister of the Federation that any attempt to slap a cess on rice imports will "rouse the resentment of the people." A proposal to introduce a cess on rice to
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  • 132 10 Market Up On Statement By Lockwoo d THE bullish sentimttit expressed by the former chief of the Natural Rub' ber Bureau, Mr. Warren, S. Lock wood, m Kuala Lumpur contributed largely to the steady improvement m rubber prices m the Singapore market yesterday which closed at 51.15 per lb. for
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  • 44 10 I Tone: Quiet after firm. Buyers Severs Spot loose 114 l:4j R.S.S. f.o.b. Jan. No. 1 114 1141 Feb. No. 1 113* 113* Jan. No. 2 112| 113 Jan. No. 3 112* 112| R.M.A. on reg. tender: January 113| February 113 Ll3f
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  • 38 10 SYRIA Jias asked Britain, U.S.. France, Russia and Czechoslovakia fo r tenders f« the building of an oil refiner? with a yearly capacity of 750.000 tons, it was officially announced m Damascus yes* terday.- Reuter
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 228 10 RUBBER prices should stabilize following the recent sharp declines, a leading commodity brokerage firm m New York predicted yesterday. A statement by Bache Co. noted that the price weakness developed largely over fears that rubber demand would not be maintained m view of the smaller anticipated
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    • 71 10 MALAYAN tin imports last year showed a substantial increase over the quantity received m 1954, according to official statistics. The total imports of 1955 amounted to 15.010 tons compared with 11,718 tons during 1954. Of the total imports last year, 13,406 tons came from Thailand. 1,417
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    • 380 10 NOTICES SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST TENDERS are invited for (a) The supply of 20,000 screw type electric lamp bulbs of 250 volts 25 watts during 1956. (b> Turfing contract for blocks of flats, shops and terrace houses at Princess Estate, Queenstown Separate tender forms, etc. may be obtained on payment of
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  • 47 12 Photo. TOKYO- There's no lack of nmph behind Grand Champion^ Yoshibavama, right, as h.e overpowers and forces Tamanoumi out of the ring for a victory m a mam event on the opening day of the New Year's Grand Sumo Tourney h«re.- United Press
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  • 206 12 Games May Heal Australian And Soviet Breach MOSCOW, Jan. 19 (Reuter) The Australian Olympics Committee has told Russia that the Australian Government has no objection to Soviet participation m this year's Olympic Games at Melbourne despite the fact that the two countries do not have diplomatic relations. This was announced
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  • 113 12 KUALA KANGSAR. Thurs. I n an Inter-District soccer match played on the Town Padan 4 on Monday the Taiping Indians beat the Kuala Kangsar Indians 3-1. Centre forward Baiaknshnan scored all the three goals for Taiping, two m the first half and one after the
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  • 51 12 CHICAGO. Jan. 18 <AP>— The Golf Writer? Association ol America on Tuesday named President Eisenhower winner of the Ben Hogan Trophy for 1955. The trophy is awarded annually to the golfer who has proved an inspiration by overcoming a physical ailment or handicap and continuing to play
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  • 44 12 COPENHAGEN. Jan. 18 (AP) Sven Davidsson of Sweden battled for three hours to defeat Denmark's Kurt Nielsen 8-10. 6-2. 7-9. 12-10. 7-5 and secure the first Swedish victory m the seven-year-old history of the King's Cup tennis tournament here on Tuesday nigbt
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  • 54 12 iPOH. Thurs: Inter-state tennis for the Chua Choon Leong Cup Malaya's equivalent to the Davis Cud competition begins m the first week of next month. Singapore are the defending champions:. Following is the draw North Zone: Perak (bye), Kedah vs. Penang. South Zone: Selangor vs. Johore.
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  • 148 12 Mankad Joins A Select Band BOMBAY. Jan. 19 (Reuter).— Vinoo Mankad, Indian Test all-rounder, has joined the select band of cricketers who have scored over 2,000 runs and taken more than 100 wickets m Test cricket Mankad, who showed good form against New Zealand m the series just completed, has
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  • 73 12 MALACCA. Thurs.— The Malacca Hockey Association has arranged another trial match for the schoolboys at the Padang tomorrow. Colours will be represented by M'ahmood. Kailasapathy. Ren. gasamv Lenus Kong Whye, Herman Sequerah Sivasamboo. Ismail Bakar. Said. Kong On and Kong Chee. The Whites comprise Sta Ma ria
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  • 557 12 Keeps Title After Bloody Battle Before Jeering Crowd SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, (UP)-Sandy Saddier, using his head as well as his fists with telling effect, retained the world featherweight fi«rht by slicing out a 13th round technical knockout over game Flash Elorde of the Philippines
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  • 839 12 -They Are Possible Olympic Finalists By STAN TOMLIN, Editor of "The Modern Athlete," London IT WOULD be most pleasing to Britain if it were possible for her to support the Olympic Games m Australia m November to the extent of sending a track
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  • 50 12 SYDNEY, Jan. 18 (Reuter) Murray Rose. 17-year-old Australian swimmer, bea* the world 880 yards freestyle record here today with a time of 9 minutes 34.3 seconds. This clipped 3.2 seconds off the record of 9 mins. 37.5 seconds, set by Australian John Marshall m July, 1950.
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  • 406 12 Jap Athlete Turns From Miss To Mister TOKYO. Jan. 19 (UP) One of Japan's star school girl athletes of 1953 has undergone surgical operations transforming her into a male, the newspaper Sankei Jiji reported today. Tsurue Nakaune. (he 16--year-old who was regarded as one of Japan's most promising women track
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  • 82 12 VERONA, rtaly, Jan. 19 (AP)— Tennis may return as an Olympic sport for the 1960 Games m Rome, according to Dr Giorgio De Stefani, president of the International Lawn Tennis Federation and member ol the Italian Olympic Committee He told the Italian Tennis Federation on Sunday
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  • 111 12 Badminton For Green Spot Trophy MALACCA, Thurs. Tr.e Government Staff and Commercial Offices will meet jor the annual badminton Green Spot Trophy at the Malacca Badminton Hail tomorrow. The Government Staff team will be selected from Jaai«r Hassan. Yap Thien Chin. Yap Choon Hock, Yap Chu -.:i Choon. Charlie Scow,
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  • 69 12 TAIPIXG. Thurs Playir? their first soccer game of the season on Tuesday. King Edward VII School impressed to beat Taiping Rovers by five go:i!s to nil. Th P schoolboys showed speed and teamwork. In the first ha:f they netted three goals through Abdullah Suleiman and Sattar.
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  • 466 12  -  BOB FERRIER I'm not keen to leave English Soccer, says former international by LONDON, Thursday. Tommy Lawton, of England, now an Arsenal reserve, has been offered £50 a week to play m Ireland. And Tommy is "not keen." Limerick, the League of Ireland club,
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  • 270 12 LONDON. Jan. 19 t Reuter).— English and Scottish League football fixtures for Saturday, Jan. 21 are as follows: LEAGUE DIVISION I Aston Villa vs Chelsea. Burnley vs West Bromwich. Charlton vs Newcastle. Luton vs Birmingham. Manchester City vs Huddersfield Portsmouth vs Arsenal Preston vs Manchester United. Sheffield
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  • 493 13 PENANG, Thurs.— Kedah emerged Northern Zone finalists of the All Blues Cup rugby competition today when they triumphed over Penang by 12 points (four tries) to 6 points (two penalty goals) m a hard fought rusby match on the Western Road's ground. -iih. who
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  • 53 13 THE Tournament Committee of the Singapore Hockey Association met last night at Singapore Recreation Club and decided on a replay of the Singapore Recreation Club versus University of Malaya senior knockout match which became a friendly when the teams turned up alter scheduled starting time at Bukit Timah
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  • 377 13 IPOH, Thurs. The Ipoh and District Hockey League came to a close today with the unbeaten Kinta Indians creating an all time record by winning this season's title for the sixth year m succession m the Senior division. Ramblers Sports Club, who finished
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  • 34 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs.— PWD Sports Club, unbeaten m the Selangor Women's Hockey Association league, continued their winning way on the Cheras Road ground today when they beat Selangor Chinese Recreation Club 3-0.
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  • 80 13 Perak's 19 For The Last Quad IPOH, Thurs.— The last quadrangular hockey meet before the North and South match will take place at Penang on Saturday and Sunday. The following 19 players have been selected to represent Perak: Mohamed Anwar, Abdul Aziz, Khaw Chobn Ai, Mohamed Azahari, Ng York Khuan,
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    97 13 NINE swimmers of the Penang Chinese Swimming Club, who are seen m the back row, passed the inter-mediate and bronze medallion Royal Life Saving Society examination held m Penang recently. Gan Thean Chye, the instructor of the class also passed his instructor's certificate examination on the same day. Seated from
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  • 262 13 THE second annual Stanvac Economy Ran for motor cars to be held from Butterworth to Singapore at the end of March has attracted entries from Thailand, Indonesia, British North Borneo and Sarawak, as well as Singapore and the Federation. Mr. Percy Corner,
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  • 83 13 ROYAL Army Pay Corps trounced Arsenal Sports Club five nil m a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers were Hyrons, Dowling. Grimshaw 2 and Palmer. IN another soccer friendly at Farrer Park, a hat-trick by Eusoof enabled Metal Box Sports Club to trounce Mansfield Sports
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  • 20 13 SELANGOR Sikhs will meet Negri Sembilan Sikhs m their return hockey match on the Seremban padang this Sunday.
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  • 448 13 Stars Didn't Shine In SHA Trial COLOURS, with ten Colony players m their lineup, could do no better than hold the Whites to a 3 3 draw m a Singapore Hockey Association's trial to pick the team to meet the Pakistan Navy tomorrow at Jaian Besar stadium. Played on the
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  • 80 13 Sonny To Fight Fijian Newcomer SINGAPORE'S hard-hitting Sonny Chia will meet a Fijian newcomer, Puncher'Waisele m the second main event of Promoter Nene's February 3 card at the Happy World Stadium. This will be an eight round contest. The main event will feature Henry Dave of the Philippines and Mike
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  • 84 13 THE Royal Air Force, Malaya and Singapore Novices Boxing Competition will be held at the Royal Air Force, Changi, m the Far East Communication Squadron Hangar on Jan. 24, 25 and 26. Teams from the Royal Air Force Stations, Changi, Seletar and Tengah m Singapore, and Kuala
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  • 60 13 R.A.F. REGIMENT Depot, beat 92 Light Anti-Aircraft Squadron by four goals to one m the second- round of the R.A.F. Regiment Malaya's inter -unit knock-out hockey competition played at Seletar yesterday. Scorers for R.A.F. Regiment were F/O Mclntyre 2 and Jamaluddin 2. R.A.F. Regiment Depot will meet
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  • 74 13 THE Norwegian tanker "Starvik" team defeated the "Glenville" by one goal to nil m a Norwegian League soccer match on the Railway Ground yesterday. This was the second straight success of the "Starvik". Last Saturday, they beat th c "Tagus" by the odd goal m seven at
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  • 38 13 THE Greyhounds, a RAF. Seletar 2nd XV. neld H.M.S. Newcastle to 8-8 draw m a friendly rugger match played at Naval Base yesterday. Each team scored a goal and a try. Mr. W. A. Leatham refereed.
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    • 235 13 SINGAPORE ■■■■M Fd s^ n R-e. ...r.a.f. HOCKFV S r ound; Malaya Command SCC rl RA f Vnnn Hf I♦T' I 4 aW^ H Signals vs. Garrison Wanpore at SCC 9 ■■^^^M^MI derers H Q oround KUALA LUMPUR IWfvPPPI^M PENANG HOCKEY: S.I.A. vs. Police 1 ■*>Ji > IIVMIl l VMl
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  • 999 14 FOLLOWING are the weights and probable starters for all eight races tomorrow, last cay of the Perak Turf Club January Meeting: Horses Class 4, Div. I—6 Furs. 748 Flaxley Green 5y 9.00 Mining Kongsi R. van B'kelen 232 Scholarship 4y 8.13
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  • 300 14  -  WINDSOR LAD By IPOH, Thurs.— MOTION PICTURE U and RICKY, two first day winners, were the most impressive work* crs on the track this morning. Both are engaged ie the top division six-furlong sprint on Saturday. MOTION PICTURE 11, with Jockey Wilson up. proved too
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  • 555 14  - THE COLONY'S FIRST TWO FOR MELBOURNE... BILL FUNK By But They Prefer To Play For Spore Our Basketball Reporter TWO Colony basketball stars, lanky guard Wee Tien Sek, and sharpshooting forward Yee Tit Kwan, became the first Singaporeans to be selected for the coming World Olympics in Melbourne this year,
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  • 74 14 A NEW record score m Army hockey was registered yesterday when GHQ "A" tronnoprt Ro v al Army Service Corps School by 11 goals to nil m the Singapore Base District InterUnit league at Tanglin. Noteworthy feature m the game was a double hattrick by Jimmy Duncan
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  • 437 14  -  VIJAY MARKAR By THE Ceylon Combined Services hockey team will fly into the Colony tonight for three games against Singapore Hockey Association. The Ceylonese wwoh o will be playing m this island for the first time, take on th c Singapore Civilians on Sunday, the Combined
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